G.C.B. 1774–1865_). (_m._ 25 Aug. 1842 John Hubback 1811–85);
author of _The younger sister 3 vols._ 1850; _The wife’s sister 3
vols._ 1851; _Life and its lessons_ _3 vols._ 1851; _Malvern or
the three marriages 3 vols._ 1855; _May and December, a tale 3
vols._ 1855; _The old vicarage 3 vols._ 1856; _Agnes Milbourne 2
vols._ 1856; _The Rival suitors 3 vols. 1857_; _The stage and the
company 3 vols. 1858_; _The mistake of a life 3 vols. 1863_.
HUBBACK, JOHN (_2 son of Joseph Hubback of Berwick-on-Tweed_). _b._
Berwick-on-Tweed 1811; barrister I.T. 12 June 1835; author of _A
treatise on the evidence of succession to real and personal
property and peerages_ 1844. _d._ Brislington, Somerset 24 Feb.
1885.
HUBBARD, JOHN GELLIBRAND, 1 Baron Addington (_1 son of John Hubbard,
Russian merchant d. 1847_). _b._ 21 March 1805; ed. at Bordeaux
1816–20 in his father’s business 1821; Russia merchant 4 St.
Helen’s place, London; director of Bank of England 1838–41;
chairman public works loan commission 1853 to death; M.P.
Buckingham 1859–68; defeated lord Palmerston’s government in
making a motion for an enquiry into the income tax 1861; M.P. city
of London 1874–87; P.C. 6 Aug. 1874; F.R.G.S.; gave much attention
to the income tax, the coinage, ecclesiastical affairs and
education; built and endowed St. Alban’s ch. Holborn, consecrated
26 Feb. 1863; cr. baron Addington of Addington, Bucks. 22 July
1887; author of _Vindication of a fixed duty on corn_ 1842; _The
currency and the country_ 1843; _The church and church rates_
1861, _2 ed._ 1861; _A census of religion. Denominational worship.
The national church. Essays_ 1882; _Gladstone on the income tax_
1885 and 10 other pamphlets. _d._ Addington manor, Winslow, Bucks.
28 Aug. 1889. _I.L.N. lxiv_, 551, 552 (1874), _portrait_;
_Touchstone 5 April 1879 pp._ 1–2, _portrait_.
HUBBARD, THOMAS. _b._ 1789; framework knitter; obtained possession
of some property in Nottinghamshire and under the impression that
he was the heir at law retained the ownership 6 years, a will was
then found giving the property to a person named Holland; Hubbard
under the belief that the will was forged refused to give up the
deeds of the estate, and in July 1856 was imprisoned for contempt
of court; he remained in the debtors’ prison, Nottingham till his
_death_ 23 Jany. 1864. _G.M. April 1864 p._ 534.
HUBBARDE, JAMES DIBDEN. _b._ 1803; proprietor of _Wakefield Journal_
to 1850; connected with and editor of _Hampshire Advertiser_ 1850
to death; president of Ornithological association; author of
_Pencil notes of five days’ tour from Wakefield to Matlock. By J.
D. H._ 1839. _d._ Wick cottage, Avenue road, Southampton 28 Jany.
1870. _Newspaper Press 1 March 1870 p._ 82; _Hampshire Advertiser
29 Jany. 1870 pp._ 4, 5.
HUCKIN, REV. HENRY ROBERT (_son of John Huckin, fishmonger,
Islington_). _b._ 11 Oct. 1841; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ sch.
1850–60, Andrew’s exhib. to St. John’s coll. Ox. 1860; B.A. 1864,
M.A. 1867, D.D. 1874; assist. master at Haileybury 1865–8; a
master at M.T. sch. 1869–74; head master Repton gram. sch. March
1874 to death; Townsend lecturer St. Magnus-the-Martyr, city of
London 1871–3; ed. of _Milton. Comus, Lycidas. With notes_ 1871;
author of _The analogy of religion. Dialogues founded upon
Butler’s Analogy of religion_ 1873. _d._ Repton 30 July 1882.
HUDDART, FANNY (_niece of Mary Amelia Warner the actress, d. 1854_).
A contralto singer, played the chief contralto parts in all the
Italian operas and also in English operas, was the original
Azucena when the English version of Il Trovatore was produced at
Drury Lane May 1855; sang the contralto parts in Handel’s and
Mendelssohn’s oratorios at Sacred harmonic society’s concerts;
played the leading roles in Shakespearean dramas and modern
comedies; (_m._ John Russell of Covent Garden theatre). _d._ 28
June 1880. _Era 4 July 1880 p._ 6.
HUDDLESTON, SIR JOHN WALTER (_1 son of Thomas Huddleston, captain in
merchant service_). _b._ Dublin 8 Sep. 1815; ed. Trin. coll.
Dublin; barrister G.I. 7 May 1839; was with Cockburn in Rugeley
poisoning case 1856; Q.C. June 1857; bencher of his inn 4 Nov.
1857; contested Worcester 1852, Shrewsbury 1857 and Kidderminster
1859 and 1861; M.P. Canterbury 1865–8; contested Norwich 1870,
M.P. 1874–5; counsel to the admiralty and judge advocate of the
Fleet Nov. 1865 to 22 Feb. 1875; serjeant at law and justice of
court of common pleas 22 Feb. 1875, transferred to court of
exchequer 12 May 1875; knighted at Windsor castle 13 May 1875;
created the last baron of the exchequer; judge of queen’s bench
division of high court of justice 26 Feb. 1881; tried the libel
action Belt _v._ Lawes lasting 43 days 1881–2; entertained by the
French bar in Paris 1868. _d._ 43 Ennismore gardens, South
Kensington 5 Dec. 1890, cremated at Woking 12 Dec. _Pump Court, i,
frontispiece and p._ 135 (1884), _portrait_; _Vanity Fair xxxv_,
325 (1886); _I.L.N. lxvi_, 229 (1875), _portrait_; _Graphic 13
Dec. 1890 p._ 667, _portrait_.
HUDSON, ALFRED. _b._ 15 Nov. 1808; ed. Dublin univ., M.B. 1834, M.D.
1861; M.R.C.S. England 1834; F.K.Q.C.P. Ireland 1857, censor
1858–9; M.R.I.A.; physician Adelaide hospital, Dublin; a physician
in ordinary to queen in Ireland 21 Jany. 1878; member of general
council of medical education and registration of U.K. for Ireland
14 May 1877 to death; a contributor to _Dublin medical journal_
and _Dublin quarterly journal_; author of _Lectures on the study
of fever_ 1867, _new ed._ 1872; edited W. Stokes’ _A treatise on
diseases of the chest_ 1882. _d._ Loweville near Dublin 19 Nov.
1880. _Times 23 Nov. 1880 p._ 6; _Medical Times ii_, 660 (1880).
HUDSON, REV. CHARLES. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1851,
M.A. 1854; chaplain in the Crimea 1854–6; C. of St. Mary’s,
Bridgnorth 1856–7; V. of Shillington, Lincs. 1859 to death; the
best Alpine amateur climber of his time, organized the party of 7
who ascended Mont Blanc without guides 14–15 Aug. 1855; author of
_An Ascent of Mont Blanc and two ascents of Monte Rosa_ 1856;
_Narrative of the accident on the Col de Miage in July_ 1861 in
_Peaks and Passes_, _i_, 208–24 (1862); _killed_ by a fall while
descending the Matterhorn 14 July 1865. _bur._ Zermatt. _E.
Whymper’s Ascent of the Matterhorn_ (1880) 273–95; _Times 20, 21,
22 July and 12 Aug. 1865_.
HUDSON, CORRIE. _b._ 1822; clerk in legacy and succession duty
department of inland revenue office 1845–72, a principal clerk
1872 to death; author of _A practical guide to the payment of
legacy and succession duties_ 1867, _7 ed._ 1888. _A practical
guide to making and proving wills and obtaining letters of
administration_ 1876, _2 ed._ 1878. _d._ 67 Bessborough st.
Pimlico, London 6 Nov. 1880.
HUDSON, VERY REV. EDWARD GUSTAVUS. Educated Dublin univ., B.A. 1810,
M.A. 1813; dean of Armagh 1841 to death, patent dated 1 Sep. 1841,
instituted 5 March 1842. _d._ Glenville, co. Cork 14 Aug. 1851.
HUDSON, GEORGE (_son of a farmer and constable, d. 1806_). _b._
Howsham near York, March 1800; apprentice to Bell and Nicholson,
drapers, York 1815, a partner, firm became Nicholson and Hudson;
originator and manager York banking co. 1833; chairman of York and
West riding railway 1837, Newcastle and Darlington 1842, Midland
1843, Eastern counties 1846 and many other lines; known as the
railway king; resided at Albert gate, Knightsbridge, London
1846–52 which he bought with sum of £15000 presented to him 1846;
lord mayor of York 1837 and 1846; M.P. Sunderland 1845–59; many of
his transactions in railway shares were of a questionable nature;
the great fall in railway shares in 1847 ruined him; resided much
abroad from 1852; committed to York castle by sheriff of Yorkshire
for contempt of court of exchequer in not paying £23,989 5s.,
released 7 Oct. 1865; friends raised £4800 and invested it in an
annuity for him 1868; entertained at a banquet in Sunderland 1869.
_d._ 37 Churton st. Belgrave road, London 14 Dec. 1871. _bur._
Scrayingham, Yorks. 21 Dec. _Evans’ Facts, failures and frauds_
(1859) 6–73; _Lennox’s Celebrities I have known_ 2 _Ser. i_,
184–92 (1877); _Fraser’s Mag. Aug. 1847 pp._ 215–22; _Richardson’s
The mysteries of Hudson’s railway frauds_ (1850); _Williams’
Midland railway_ (1877) 99–124, 132; _I.L.N. 6 Sep. 1845 p._ 157,
_portrait_; _Graphic 27 Aug. 1881 pp._ 223, 229, _portrait_;
_Times 16, 22 Dec. 1871_.
HUDSON, JAMES. Assistant sec. to royal society 1829–38; secretary
Royal agricultural society from its foundation 27 June 1838 to
death. _d._ Norton terrace, Longsight near Manchester 28 June 1859
aged 55.
HUDSON, JAMES. _b._ Aungier st. Dublin, March 1811; student R.
Dublin soc. 1821; articled to a portrait painter Dublin; an actor
in the provinces; appeared at Hawkins st. theatre, Dublin 1834;
came out at Drury Lane as Gratiano in _Merchant of Venice_ 1841;
played King Alfourite in _Planché’s Fortunio_ 17 April 1843; acted
Rory O’More in _The Irish Post_ at the Haymarket, expressly
written for him by Planché 28 Feb. 1846; considered the successor
of Tyrone Power (drowned in President 1841); made his American
debut Walnut st. theatre, Philadelphia as Pandeen O’Rafferty in
_Born to good luck_ 15 Oct. 1849; played in New York 1850;
appeared in a drawing room entertainment with Anna Thillon;
retired from the stage 1858. _d._ 6 March 1878. _bur._ Highgate
cemet. 9 March. _Tallis’ Drawing room Scrap book_ (1851) 21–2;
_Theatrical Times ii_, 233 (1847), _portrait_; _Planché’s
Extravaganzas ii_, 179, (1879), _portrait_; _Ireland’s New York
Stage ii_, 549–50; _Era Almanack_ (1879) 39; _Era 10 March 1878
p._ 11.
HUDSON, SIR JAMES (_son of Harrington Hudson of Bessingby hall,
Bridlington, Yorkshire_). _b._ 1810; ed. at Rugby, Westminster,
Paris and Rome; assistant private sec. to Wm. IV. 1830–37;
resident gentleman usher to queen Adelaide 21 Nov. 1831; known as
“Hurry Hudson” from the speed with which he travelled to Italy to
summon Peel home 1834; sec. of legation at Washington 1838, at the
Hague 1843, at Rio de Janeiro 1845; envoy extraord. and min.
plenipo. to Emperor of Brazil 14 May 1850, to Grand Duke of
Tuscany 29 Aug. 1851, but did not proceed there; envoy extraord.
and min. plenipo. to King of Sardinia 19 Jany. 1852 to 20 Oct.
1863 when he retired on a pension of £1300; C.B. 1 March 1851,
K.C.B. 2 May 1855, G.C.B. 11 Aug. 1863. _d._ Strasburg 20 Sep.
1885 in 76 year. _F. Ross’s Celebrities of Yorkshire Wolds_
(1878); _Elliot’s Sir J. Hudson and Earl Russell_ 1886; _Times 24
Sep. 1885 p._ 7, _cols._ 3–5.
HUDSON, JOHN CORRIE (_son of Thomas Hudson of the Stamp office_).
_b._ 1796; ed. St. Paul’s sch. 1804 etc.; an advanced liberal;
chief clerk in legacy duty office, Somerset house?; friend of
Horne Tooke, Godwin, Shelley, Hazlitt, Charles Lamb, T. Hood, and
Hamilton Reynolds; author of _A letter on the cruelty of employing
children in sweeping chimneys_ in _The Pamphleteer xxii_, 407–30
(1823). _d._ April 1879. _Athenæum i_, 506 (1879).
HUDSON, ROBERT. _b._ 1801; F.G.S., F.L.S., F.Z.S., vice president;
F.R.S. 10 April 1834; writer on Fossil shells, _Mag. Nat. Hist.
ix_, 103–5 (1836); resided Clapham common. _d._ Bournemouth 9 Feb.
1883.
HUDSON, WILLIAM ELIOT (_son of a professional man_). An enthusiast
about Irish antiquities and well known in Irish literary circles;
took an active part in the publication of _The Citizen, a monthly
journal_, Dublin 1840–1. _d._ south of Ireland July or Aug. 1853.
HUDSPETH, JOHN. _b._ Manchester 21 Nov. 1806; apprentice in a
mercantile house; an actor at Manchester and in Scotland and
Ireland; first appeared in London at Pavilion theatre 1839; played
at Strand theatre when William Copeland rechristened it Punch’s
playhouse 1851; at Queen’s theatre, Tottenham court road 3 years;
a favourite in David Dump in _The Irish Rebellion_. _d._ 2 Oct.
1866. _Theatrical Times, iii_, 357, 366 (1818), _portrait_; _Era 7
Oct. 1866 p._ 11.
HUE, CLEMENT (_son of John Hue, merchant, St. Heliers, Jersey_).
_b._ St. Heliers 1779; ed. at Abingdon and Pemb. coll. Ox.; B.A.
1801, M.A. 1803, M.B. 1804, M.D. 1807; fellow of his coll.;
candidate of college of physicians 30 Sep. 1807, fellow 30 Sep.
1808, censor 1812, registrar 1815 to 4 Feb. 1824, Harveian orator
1829, elect 13 April 1835, consiliarius 1836; physician to
Foundling hospital 1815–37, governor and vice pres. many years;
physician to St. Bartholomew’s hospital 23 May 1823 to 1861;
registrar of national vaccine establishment 1824 to death. _d._ 9
Bedford sq. London 23 June 1861. _Munk’s College of physicians,
iii_, 66 (1878).
HÜFFER, FRANCIS OR FRANZ (_son of a banker_). _b._ Münster 22 May
1845; ed. at Münster, Leipzig and Berlin; Ph.D. Göttingen, July
1869; came to London 1869; assistant editor of _The Academy_ about
1871; editor of the _New Quarterly Mag._ about 1876; musical
critic to _The Times_, April 1879 to death; naturalised 18 Jany.
1882; edited _The Musical Review_ 1883, _The Musical World_ 1886;
author of _Richard Wagner and the music of the future_ 1874; _The
Troubadours: a history of Provençal life and literature in the
middle ages_ 1878; _Half a century of music in England_ 1889 and
other books; edited a series of biographies of _The Great
Musicians_ 1881–4; wrote the libretti for A. C. Mackenzie’s two
operas produced at Drury Lane, _Colomba_ 1883 and _The Troubadour_
1885. _d._ 90 Brook green, Hammersmith 19 Jany. 1889. _Grove’s
Dict. of music, iv_, 680, 819 (1888); _Times 21, 25 Jany. 1889_.
HUELIN, REV. ELIAS. _b._ 1786; French protestant clergyman; owner of
house property in London; assistant chaplain at Brompton cemetery;
resided 15 Paulton sq. Chelsea; _murdered_ and robbed by Walter
Miller at 25 Wellington square, Chelsea 9 May 1870 and _buried_
there. Walter Miller who had also murdered the housekeeper Ann
Boss at 15 Paulton sq. was executed at the Old Bailey 1 Aug. 1870.
_Annual Register_ (1870) _pp._ 47, 95.
HUGGENS, JOHN. _b._ 29 April 1776; founded Huggens’s college, 40
almshouses and a chapel at Northfleet, Kent which he himself
superintended. _d._ Crown quay, Sittingbourne, Kent 11 Aug. 1865.
_bur._ Northfleet churchyard.
HUGGINS, HASTINGS CHARLES. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; barrister I.T.
26 Jany. 1858; practised in Island of Nevis, Q.C. Nevis, solicitor
general Nevis, speaker of House of Assembly; attorney general
British Honduras 1861; stipendiary mag. British Guiana to death;
author of _The laws of Nevis from 1681 to 1861 inclusive, with
appendices and index_ 1862. _d._ Georgetown, Demerara 27 March
1883.
HUGGINS, HORATIO JAMES (_eld. son of Horatio Nelson Huggins of the
island of St. Vincent_). _b._ 1811; barrister L.I. 1838; acting
attorney general St. Vincent 1857 and 1858; Queen’s advocate at
Sierra Leone 9 May 1863 to 1880, chief justice there 1876 to 1880;
manufacturer of bottle washing machines at Pentonville and Hornsey
1881, bankrupt 18 Feb. 1882. _d._ Staplehay, Hornsey 20 Jany.
1886. _bur._ Bedford cemetery.
HUGGINS, SAMUEL. _b._ Deal, Kent 1811; lived at Liverpool most of
his life; an architect from 1846; member of Liverpool
Architectural Soc. 1849, president 1856–8, read a paper _On
so-called restorations of our cathedral and abbey churches_ 1871
which led to formation of Soc. for protection of ancient buildings
1877; published _Chart of the history of architecture_ 1863;
compiled _Catalogue of the Liverpool free public library_ 1872.
_d._ Christleton near Chester 10 Jany. 1885. _Biograph, i_, 406
(1879).
HUGGINS, WILLIAM (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Liverpool 1820;
member of Liverpool Academy; painter at Chester 1861 to death; his
horses, cattle and poultry pictures were his best work; exhibited
31 pictures at R.A., 8 at B.I. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1842–75;
exhibited many pictures at Liverpool, Manchester, Dublin,
Edinburgh and Glasgow. _d._ Christleton near Chester 25 Feb. 1884.
_Biograph, Feb. 1882 pp._ 217–23; _Liverpool Mercury 28 Feb. 1884
p._ 6.
NOTE.—His sister Sarah Huggins, a painter of flowers and fruit
and then of architectural views in Chester and Liverpool, _d._
Liverpool, May 1869. _The Builder 8 May 1869 p._ 369.
HUGHES, CHRISTOPHER (_youngest son of Henry Hughes of Northampton,
solicitor_). _b._ Northampton 1815; articled to Hughes and Britten
of Northampton, solicitors; admitted Trinity term 1837; clerk of
the peace for borough of Northampton 1858 to death; translated
_The odes, epodes, Carmen seculare, and the first satire of
Horace_ 1867. _d._ 60 Waterloo, Northampton 20 Oct. 1877. _Law
Times, lxiv_, 53 (1877).
HUGHES, REV. DAVID. _b._ Cefn-uchaf, Llanddeiniolen, Carnarvonshire
1813; B.A., M.A.; member of Bethel independent church, Arfon,
began preaching 1832; studied at Hackney coll. and Glasgow univ.;
ordained 14 Sep. 1841, pastor of two small congregations in
Flintshire; pastor at St. Asaph 1845, at Manchester 1846, at
Bangor 1846 and at Tredegar, Monmouthshire 1 Nov. 1855 to death;
author of _Geiriadur Ysgrythyrol o Duwinyddol, i.e. A scriptural
and theological dictionary 2 vols._ 1852–55, _2 ed. 2 vols._
1876–9; contributed to the _Gwyddoniadur or Welsh Cyclopædia_;
edited and enlarged _An English and Welsh dictionary. By T.
Edwards of Caerfallwch_ 1864. _d._ Tredegar 3 June 1872.
HUGHES, EDWARD. _b._ Ireland 1819; second master of lower school,
Greenwich hospital 4 Nov. 1841 and head master of royal naval
school there 1844 to death; A.I.C.E. 1848; F.R.A.S.; F.R.G.S.;
author of _A manual of explanatory arithmetic_ 1849, _2 ed._ 1855;
_Outlines of physical geography_ 1849, _5 ed._ 1855; _Geography
for elementary schools_ 1851, _new ed._ 1873; _Select English
poetry_ 1851, _5 ed._ 1856 and other school books. _d._ Greenwich
hospital 30 July 1859.
NOTE.—His widow Sarah, youngest dau. of James Oliphant Bell,
M.D., granted civil list pension of £100, 18 June 1863, she
_d._ 9 Jany. 1884 aged 68.
HUGHES, EDWIN (_son of a steel toy manufacturer_). _b._ Birmingham 2
Oct. 1813; member of Batty & Sons’ circus; the best polander
performer in England, the first to introduce turning round on his
head without holding; had a company of his own at Donnybrook fair
two years; at Cheltenham established Hughes’ Great mammoth
equestrian circus; appeared before the Queen at Drury Lane under
A. Bunn’s management 22 April 1847; retired after nine seasons
with a handsome fortune 1847; the first to drive thirty-two horses
in hand; the first to introduce camels and elephants in harness.
_d._ Welby house, Lower Norwood, Surrey 7 Dec. 1867. _bur._
Smithdown cemet. Liverpool 12 Dec. _Era 22 Dec. 1867 p._ 6;
_Frost’s Circus life_ (1876) 97, 216.
HUGHES, EDWIN (_eld. son of Edwin Hughes of The Farm, Smithdown
road, Wavertree near Liverpool_). _b._ Dublin 1 Feb. 1837;
articled to Avison and Pritt of Liverpool, solicitors; admitted
Jany. 1858; went to America, joined Federal army in which he
became major; served under Garibaldi in Italy; a solicitor in
Liverpool 1869 to death; captain 1 Lancashire artillery volunteers
21 Jany. 1874 to death; member of council of Financial reform
association. _d._ 13 Elm vale, Fairfield, Liverpool 12 May 1879.
_bur._ Smithdown cemetery, Liverpool. _Law Times, lxvii_, 105
(1879).
HUGHES, FANNY. _b._ 1843; educated for a singer; an actress in
comedies and burlesques at Strand theatre when under Mrs.
Swanborough’s management 1862–72; played Orozembo in L. S.
Buckingham’s burlesque _Pizarro, or the Leotard of Peru_ 24 April
1862; played Anne Boleyn in Wm. Brough’s extravaganza _The field
of the cloth of gold_, produced 11 April 1868; (_m._ Edward
Swanborough of the Strand theatre). _d._ 5 Neville st. Onslow
gardens, London 12 Jany. 1888.
HUGHES, GEORGE EDWARD (_1 son of John Hughes of Uffington, Berks._)
_b._ Uffington 18 Sep. 1821; ed. at Rugby and Oriel coll. Ox.,
B.A. 1845, M.A. 1849, D.C.L. 1850; stroke of Ox. univ. crew of 7
oars which beat Camb. crew of 8 oars 1843; a student of Lincoln’s
inn 1848; member of college of doctors of law 12 Nov. 1850,
practised in the ecclesiastical courts; member of Pen and Pencil
club at Pau; violoncello player. _d._ Hoylake, Cheshire 2 May
1872. _Memoirs of a brother. By Thomas Hughes_ (1873), _portrait_.
HUGHES, GEORGE MARTIN. _b._ Maidstone 1827; a solicitor;
investigated Romano-British topography of the south of England;
author of _A history of Windsor forest, Sunninghill and the Great
park_ 1890. _d._ Kingswick, Sunninghill, Berkshire 9 Sep. 1891.
HUGHES, HENRY GEORGE (_eld. son of James Hughes of Dublin,
solicitor_). _b._ Capel st. Dublin 22 Aug. 1810; ed. at Trin.
coll. Dublin; called to Irish bar, Nov. 1834; Q.C. 2 Nov. 1844;
bencher of King’s Inns 1850; solicitor general for Ireland 26 Sep.
1850 to Feb. 1852 and Feb. 1858 to July 1859; baron of court of
exchequer July 1859 to death; contested Cavan 1855; M.P. for co.
Longford 1856–7; author of _Practice of the Court of chancery,
Ireland_. _Dublin_ 1837. _d._ Bray, Wicklow 22 July 1872. _Irish
law times, vi_, 404 (1872).
HUGHES, HUGH (_son of Thomas Hughes_). _b._ Pwllygwichiad. _bapt._
Llandudno 20 Feb. 1790; apprentice to an engraver in Liverpool;
studied oil painting in London; exhibited 4 landscapes at B.I. and
6 at Suffolk st. 1827–51; spent 3 years at Meddiant working at his
_Beauties of Cambria_ 60 views published Carmarthen 1823, drew 58
of the views and engraved all of them; a printer at Carnarvon
where he published _Y Papur Newydd Cymraeg_; expelled from Welsh
Calvinistic ch. London for signing petition in favor of catholic
emancipation 1828; joined the Independents, then the Plymouth
brethren; had a controversy with Rev. Evan Evans and published
pamphlets under name of Cristion 1832; author of _Hynafion
Cymreig, a work on Welsh antiquities_. _Carmarthen_ 1823 and other
books in Welsh language. _d._ Great Malvern 11 March 1863. _Red
Dragon, May 1887 xi_ 457–66, 576 (1887).
HUGHES, REV. HUGH (_son of Mr. Hughes, deacon of independent church
at Cororion_). _b._ Cilgeraint, Llandegai, Carnarvonshire 1805;
pastor of independent churches at Rhos-y-lan, Tabor, and
Llanystymdwy, at Jackson st. Manchester, at Capelhelyg, Chwilog
and Abererch in Carnarvonshire; set up a printing-press at
Abererch and edited _Yr Arweinydd_ a penny monthly many years;
pastor of the new church at Bethel, Aberdare 1859 to death;
competed frequently and successfully at Eisteddfods; most
voluminous Welsh writer of his day; author of _Rhesymeg_.
_Wrexham_ 1856; _d._ Aberdare 8 Dec. 1864. _J. T. Jones’s
Geiriadur Bywgraffydol, i_, 567–70.
HUGHES, REV. HUGH. Educ. at St. Peter’s coll. Cam., B.D. 1842, D.D.
1847; R. of St John, Clerkenwell, London 13 Dec. 1839 to death;
author of _Female characters of holy writ, in a course of
sermons_. _3 series_ 1845, 6, 7; _The remarkable scenes of the
bible_ 1860, _new ed._ 1879. _d._ 18 Chadwell st. Myddleton sq.
London 1870.
HUGHES, REV. JAMES. _b._ Carlow, March 1810; R.C. priest June 1833;
professor of natural philosophy St. Patrick’s coll. Carlow 1835–6;
in charge of Carlow classical academy; C. of Maryborough; C. of
Kilcock 1837; dean of coll. of St. Patrick’s 1841–55;
administrator of Carlow parish 1855–8; priest in charge of Naas,
Dec. 1858 to death; author of _A practical exposition of the
ceremonies to be observed at solemn mass_. _Dublin_ 1843; _The
ceremonies of low mass_, _4 ed._ 1858; _The ceremonies of high
mass_; _Pontifical ceremonies_. _d._ Naas, May 1876. _M.
Comerford’s Collections of Kildare and Leighlin_ (1883) 229.
HUGHES, JAMES STANNUS. L.R.C.S. Ireland 1838, F.R.C.S. 1844,
examiner in surgery, joint professor of surgery, sec. of council;
M.D. Queen’s univ. 1864; surgeon Jervis st. hospital, Dublin;
surgeon in ordinary to Dublin castle; edited _Sir H. Marsh’s
Clinical lectures_ 1869; author of _On diseases of the prostate
gland_ 1863, _2 ed._ 1870, and of contributions to _Dublin medical
press_ and _Dublin hospital gazette_. _d._ 1 Merrion sq. west,
Dublin 1 June 1884. _Medical Times 7 June 1884 p._ 771.
HUGHES, JOHN (_only child of Rev. Thomas Hughes, canon of St.
Paul’s, d. 6 Jany. 1833 aged 77_). _b._ 2 Jany. 1790; ed. at
Westminster and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1812, M.A. 1815; author of
the macaronic Oriel grace-cup song ‘_Exultet mater Oriel_’; author
of _Pompeii_ 1820, _an ode_; _An Itinerary of Provence and the
Rhone with etchings by the author_ 1822; _Lays of past days_ 1850;
edited _The Boscobel Tracts_ 1830, _2 ed._ 1857; published a song
called _The small coal man_ attacking Lord Durham, long attributed
to Theodore Hook and R. H. Barham; wrote for the magazines under
pseud. of Buller of Brasenose; celebrated in John Wilson’s
_Christopher in the tent_ in the Noctes Ambrosianæ. _d._ 7
Boltons, West Brompton, London 13 Dec. 1857. _G.M. iv_, 225
(1858); _Miss Mitford’s Recollections_ (1859) 462–4.
HUGHES, REV. JOHN (_son of Hugh Hughes of Adwy’r Clawdd near
Wrexham, carpenter_). _b._ Adwy’r Clawdd 11 Feb. 1796; a carpenter
to 1815; began preaching in Calvinistic methodist church at Adwy’r
1813; kept a school at Wrexham to 1835; authorised as a regular
preacher to visit all parts of Wales, Feb. 1821; ordained at Bala
17 June 1829; a flour merchant 1835–8; co-pastor of Welsh
Calvinistic churches of Liverpool 1838 to death; author of
_History of Welsh Calvinistic Methodism 3 vols._ _Wrexham_ 1851–6
and other books in the Welsh language. _d._ Abergele 8 Aug. 1860.
_Sermons of Rev. John Hughes, with memoir and portrait_ (1862).
HUGHES, VEN. JOHN (_son of John Hughes of Llwyn Glas near
Aberystwyth_). _b._ 1787; C. at Llandrillo yn Rhôs near Conway
1811–17; P.C. of Aberystwyth 16 May 1827 to death; V. of
Llanbadern-Fawr 14 June 1834 to death; preb. of Nantgunllo in
Brecon coll. ch. to death; archdeacon of Cardigan 1859 to death;
most popular preacher of Church of England in Wales; author of
_The domestic ruler’s monitor_ 1821; _Ruth and her kindred_ 1839;
_Esther and her people_. _Sermons_ 1842 and other books. _d._ 1
Nov. 1860. _J. Hughes’s Sermons with biography by his son_.
_Liverpool_ (1864).
HUGHES, MOST REV. JOHN (_son of Patrick Hughes, farmer, d. 1837_).
_b._ Annalogham, co. Tyrone 24 June 1797; a gardener and day
labourer in U.S. of America 1817–9; ed. at Mount St. Mary’s coll.
Emmitsburg, Maryland 1819–26; ordained R.C. priest 1825; minister
at St. Augustine’s 1825 and then at St. Joseph’s churches,
Philadelphia, built ch. of St. John there which he served 1832;
coadjutor to bishop John Dubois of New York Jany. 1838 and
succeeded him as bishop 1842; founded St. John’s coll. at Fordham
1841; archbishop of New York 3 Oct. 1850 to death; one of the
founders of the American coll. at Rome 1858; author of
_Controversy between Rev. Messrs. Hughes and Breckenridge on the
subject “Is the protestant religion the religion of Christ?”_
_Philadelphia 3 ed._ 1833; _The church and the world_. _A lecture_
1850, and other theological works. _d._ New York city 3 Jany.
1864; remains removed from old cath. of St. Patrick to crypt
beneath high altar in new cath. 30 Jany. 1883. _Hassard’s Life of
Most Rev. J. Hughes_ (1866), _portrait_; _Clarke’s Lives of
bishops of catholic church in U.S. ii_, 73–125 (1872); _Appleton’s
American Biog. iii_, 303–5 (1887), _portrait_; _Complete works of
J. Hughes_. _Ed. by L. Kehoe 2 vols._ 1866.
HUGHES, JOHN (_youngest son of Thomas Hughes, civil engineer_). _b._
Linlithgow near Edin. 1823; ed. at Marischal coll. Aberdeen;
parliamentary reporter for _Evening Sun_, London 1842, for _Times_
1844, for _Morning Chronicle_, for _Daily News_, and for _Times_
again to 1860; theatrical art critic for the _Era_; purchased the
_West Surrey Times_, Godalming 1860 and removed it to Guildford
where he edited it to his death. _d._ 18 High st. Guildford 2 Nov.
1868. _The Newspaper Press 1 Dec. 1868 p._ 18.
HUGHES, JOHN (_youngest son of William Hughes of Pen y Clawdd,
Denbighshire_). _b._ 1805; ed. at univ. of Edin.; barrister I.T. 3
May 1839; sec. to commission for settlement of claims of
Portuguese government on British legion under Sir De L. Evans
1844–9; twice went to Sweden for Overend, Gurney & Co. and then to
Copenhagen to claim money advanced before Danish-German war; a
Welsh scholar and a writer on Cambrian archæology. _d._ 34
Abingdon villas, Kensington 11 July 1883. _Law Times 28 July 1883
p._ 249.
HUGHES, JOHN, known as Ceiriog (_youngest child of Richard Hughes_).
_b._ Penbryn, Llanarmon-Dyffryn Ceiriog, Denbighshire 25 Sep.
1832; clerk in an office in London road, Manchester 1849–65;
stationmaster on the Cambrian railway at Llanidloes 1865, at Towyn
1870, at Trefeglwys 1871, at Caersws 1871 to death; won many
prizes for poetry at Eisteddfods; the best lyric poet of Wales;
author of _Oriau’r Hwyr (Evening Hours) Ruthyn_ 1860, _2 ed._ 1861
of which 25,000 copies were sold and of 7 other vols. of poetry
1862–88; wrote 50 songs for _Brinley Richards’s Songs of Wales_
1873, among them is ‘God bless the Prince of Wales.’ _d._ Caersws,
Montgomeryshire 23 April 1887. _Memoir of J. C. Hughes. By
Llyfrbryf i.e. Isaac Foulkes._ _Liverpool._
HUGHES, JOHN CHARLES. _b._ Hatton garden, London 23 Dec. 1789;
appeared at Cheltenham 1806; manager Woolwich theatre; acted at
Richmond; at Drury Lane 1818; good in old men and country clowns.
_Theatrical Inquisitor, Oct. 1818 pp._ 251–3, _portrait_.
HUGHES, RIGHT REV. JOSHUA (_son of Caleb Hughes of Newport,
Pembrokeshire_). _b._ Nevern, Pembrokeshire 7 Oct. 1807; ed. at
Ystradmeirig gr. sch. and St. David’s coll. Lampeter; C. of
Aberystwith 1830; C. of St. David’s, Carmarthen; V. of Abergwilly
to 1846; V. of Llandingat 1846–70; D.D. Lambeth; bishop of St.
Asaph 25 March 1870 to death, consecrated 8 May 1870; author of
several charges, sermons and pamphlets, one of the latter on _The
University of Brecknock_. _By Veritas_, was much discussed. _d._
Crieff, Perthshire 21 Jany. 1889. _I.L.N. lvi_, 449 (1870),
_portrait_, _and 2 Feb. 1889 pp._ 135, 158, _portrait_.
HUGHES, JULIO HENRY (_son of Henry Hughes, proprietor of Exeter
theatre, and grandson of Mr. Hughes manager of Sadler’s Wells_).
_b._ in residence attached to Devonport theatre 1810; under scene
painter at Vauxhall gardens; held a share in the Exeter, Devonport
and Guernsey theatres; first appeared in London at Pavilion
theatre under management of Mr. Gladstones; leading actor at the
Surrey 1840–6; played at Princess’s 1847, at Sadler’s Wells. _d._
11 Oct. 1872. _Theatrical Times, ii_, 129, 138, _portrait_.
HUGHES, MARY (_dau. of Mr. Robson_). _m._ 1817 Thomas Hughes of
Dundee; went to U.S. of America 1817; kept a school for young
ladies at Philadelphia 1818–39; with her husband commenced farming
at Doylestown, Bucks county 1839; contributed to the Church Tract
Soc. London 1824; author of _The alchemist, a tale_ 1818; _The
orphan girl_ 1819; _The rebellious school girl_ 1821; _The life of
W. Penn_ 1822, another ed. Philadelphia 1828; _Pleasing and
instructive stories_ 1830; _Sickroom dialogues_, _4 ed._ 1836;
_The twin brothers_ 1839; _Village dialogues_ 1839. _See Hale’s
Woman’s Record_ (1855) 845.
NOTE.—She also wrote Aunt Mary’s tales, Ornaments discovered,
Metamorphosis, Emma Mortimer, The two schools, Julia Ormond,
Buds and Blossoms, The ivy wreath.
HUGHES, PHILIP. Conducted musical choirs in Manchester and the
neighbourhood; gave much time to musical services of R.C. ch.;
composer of music to many hymns such as _The hymn to St. Albans_;
_The green boughs meet_; _O turn to Jesus’ Mother turn_; _Jesus,
dulcis memoria_, and others. _d._ West Gorton, Manchester 10 Feb.
1880. _Gillow’s English catholics, iii_, 469 (1887).
HUGHES, ROBERT BALL (_brother of Julio Henry Hughes 1810–72_). _b._
London 19 Jany. 1806; pupil of E. H. Bailey the sculptor 7 years;
gained gold medal at R.A. 1823 for a bas-relief, ‘Pandora brought
by Mercury to Epimetheus,’ exhibited 4 sculptures at R.A. 1822–8;
went to U.S. of America 1829 where his chief works were statue of
Alexander Hamilton for Merchants’ Exchange, New York, destroyed by
fire 1835; bronze statue of Nathaniel Bowditch now at Mount
Auburn; and monument to bishop Hobart in Trin. ch. New York; sent
a statue of Oliver Twist to Great exhibition in London 1851;
lectured on art and made sketches on wood with a hot iron. _d._
Boston 5 March 1868.
HUGHES, SAMUEL (_5 son of Richard Hughes, barrister_). _b._ 1801;
barrister I.T. 28 Jany. 1831; author with T. Coventry of _An
analytical digested index to the common law reports_ 1827;
furnished an index and notes to _Sir B. Shower’s Reports of cases
in court of king’s bench_ 1836. _d._ Skipper’s hill, Mayfield,
Sussex 29 Nov. 1887.
HUGHES, THOMAS (_brother of Robert Ball Hughes 1806–68_). _b._ 3
Dec. 1808; studied with E. H. Bailey, sculptor; first appeared at
Queen’s theatre, London 1825; at the St. James’s theatre under
Edward Hooper’s management when he appeared in a series of
original parts 1839; broke his leg and was unable to resume his
profession. _d._ London 7 Sep. 1857. _The Era 13 Sep. 1857 p._ 11.
HUGHES, THOMAS. Connected with the turf 40 years; an early patron of
Fred Archer the jockey; won the Chester cup with Our Mary Ann
1870; the Shobden cup twice with Oxonian which he sold for £3000;
retired from the turf 1886. _d._ Aldford near Eaton hall about 25
Feb. 1890.
HUGHES, THOMAS. _b._ Chester 1827; apprentice to a printer;
connected with the press at Plymouth; partner in firm of Minshull
and Hughes, booksellers, Eastgate row, Chester, retired 1880;
sheriff of Chester 1873; F.S.A. 7 June 1866; had great knowledge
of antiquities of Chester and its neighbourhood; edited _D. King’s
The vale royal of England_ 1852; _George Batenham’s Ancient
Chester_ 1880; author of _The stranger’s handbook to Chester_
1856, _2 ed._ 1857. _d._ The Grove, Chester 30 May 1890. _The
Bookseller 6 June 1890 p._ 584.
HUGHES, THOMAS ELLIOTT. _b._ 6 Jany. 1830; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery
8 June 1849; commander of a mountain train battery on N.W.
frontier of India, present at storming of Laloo and capture of
Umbeylah; lieut.-colonel R.A. 16 Jany. 1875, colonel 24 Jany. 1880
to death; M.G. 11 Feb. 1885; A.A.G., R.A. at head quarters
1878–82; director general of ordnance in India 1884–5. _d._ Simla
24 May 1886.
HUGHES, THOMAS FIOTT (_1 son of Rev. Thomas Smart Hughes, V. of
Edgware, d. 1847_). Student attaché at Constantinople 16 May 1845;
instrumental in raising the Bashi-Bazouks during the Crimean war
1854; consul at Erzeroom 29 May 1856; oriental sec. at
Constantinople 6 Feb. 1859; commissioner for the dedicated
monasteries in the United Principalities; retired from public
service on a pension of £700, 12 Nov. 1875; great linguist and
eastern scholar; translated Arabian Nights into Persian but not
printed. _d._ Cheltenham 18 June 1887 aged 62.
HUGHES, SIR WALTER WATSON (_3 son of Thomas Hughes of Pittenweem,
Fife_). _b._ 1803; master in mercantile marine; settled in South
Australia, engaged in mining and pastoral pursuits 1841; shared in
expenses of exploring expeditions and was a promoter of several
new industries; ‘father’ of the Univ. of Adelaide; knighted at
Windsor castle 16 Dec. 1880; purchased Fan Court, Lyne near
Chertsey, Surrey 1883. _d._ Fan Court 1 Jany. 1887.
HUGHES, WILLIAM (_4 son of Rev. Sir Robert Hughes, bart., d. 1814_).
_b._ Maker vicarage, Cornwall 2 March 1803; barrister G.I. 11 June
1833; auditor of poor law union district of Cornwall and Devon;
author of _Practical instructions for drawing wills_ 1833; _The
practical angler_. _By Piscator_ 1842; _The three students of
Gray’s inn, A novel_ 1846; _The practice of conveyancing 2 vols._
1856–7 and other books. _d._ 2 Millbay grove, Plymouth 20 Aug.
1861. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i_, 258.
HUGHES, WILLIAM. _b._ 1817; assistant in library of Br. Museum,
cataloguing the geographical collection 1841, resigned Dec. 1843;
F.R.G.S.; editor of _Maunder’s Treasury of geography_ 1856; author
of _Atlas of constructive geography_ 1841; _A class book of modern
geography_ 1859, _3 ed._ 1885; _A class book of physical
geography_ 1861, _4 ed._ 1886; _A treatise on the construction of
maps_, _3 ed._ 1864, and about 30 other school books. _d._ 198
Adelaide road, Hampstead, London 21 May 1876. _Cowtan’s British
Museum_ (1872) 321–2.
HUGHES, WILLIAM BULKELEY. _b._ 26 July 1797; ed. at Harrow;
barrister L.I. 21 May 1824; M.P. for Carnarvon district of
boroughs 1837–59 and 1865 to death; sheriff of Anglesea 1861. _d._
Plas Coch near Llanfair, Isle of Anglesea 9 March 1882. _Law
Times, lxxii_, 376 (1882).
HUGHES, WILLIAM EDWARD (_2 son of Michael Hughes of Sherdley hall,
Lancs. d. 1825_). _b._ 16 July 1823; ed. at Eton 1838–42; member
of Turf club; a player at whist, picquet and billiards; won a race
with Sophistry; known as Gentleman Hughes and as Little Hughes.
_d._ Brussels 17 Dec. 1885. _Sporting Rev. Aug. 1858 p._ 118–19.
HUGHES, WILLIAM HUGHES (_son of John Hewitt_). _b._ 1792; barrister
L.I. 26 June 1827; contested Oxford 1832 and 1837; M.P. for Oxford
18 March 1833 to 18 July 1837; sheriff of Hants.; assumed name of
Hughes 25 May 1825; alderman of London 1832; contributed preface
and notes to _J. L. De Lolme’s The constitution of England_ 1834.
_d._ Ilkley Wells house, Yorkshire 10 Oct. 1874.
HUGHES, WILLIAM LITTLE (_son of Wm. Hughes of Dublin_). _b._ Dublin
1822; clerk in foreign press department of ministry of the
interior, Paris about 1857, chief clerk to death; a collector of
works on Shakespeare in all languages; translated and published
_Les temps difficiles_. _Par C. Dickens_ 1857; _Devereux_. _Par
Sir E. B. Lytton_ 1859; _Histoire d’ une chandelle_. _Par M.
Faraday_ 1865; _Œuvres choisies d’ Edgar Poe_ 1885; _Les aventures
de Huck Finn_. _Par M. Twain_ 1886 and other works. _d._ Paris 5
Jany. 1887.
HUGO, REV. THOMAS (_eld. son of Charles Hugo, M.D. of Taunton_).
_b._ Taunton 1820; ed. at Worc. coll. Ox., B.A. 1842; C. of
Walton-le-Dale, Lancs. 1842–44; V. of Halliwell, Lancs. 1850–52;
V. of St. Botolph’s, Bishopsgate 1852–58; P.C. of All Saints,
Bishopsgate 1858–68; R. of West Hackney 1868 to death; F.S.A. 24
Feb. 1853; founder of London and Middlesex archæol. soc. 1855;
made collection of works of the Brothers Bewick of Newcastle, and
had many of their wood-blocks; contributed to _Hymns ancient and
modern_ 1860; author of _The charters of Cleeve abbey_ 1856;
_Varus, a tragedy_ 1864; _The Bewick collector. A catalogue of the
works of T. and J. Bewick_ 1866; _The Bewick collector_. _A
supplement_ 1868; _Bewick’s Woodcuts_ 1870 and 15 other books.
_d._ West Hackney rectory 31 Dec. 1876. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 6
Jany. 1877. _Guardian 3 Jany. 1877 p._ 12.
HUISH, MARK. _b._ 1808; sec. and general manager Glasgow and
Greenock railway 1839 or 40, of grand junction railway 1841–45, of
Liverpool and Manchester and Bolton railway 1845–46, and of London
and north western railway 1846 to Nov. 1858; A.I.C.E. 6 April
1852. _d._ Combe Wood, Bonchurch 18 Jany. 1867. _Min. of proc. of
Instit. of C.E. xxvii_, 600–602 (1868); _I.L.N. xxxiii_, 517–8
(1858), _portrait_; _Railway Management_. _Two letters to G. C.
Glyn by J. Whitehead and M. Huish_ 1848.
HULBERT, CHARLES (_son of Thomas Hulbert of Hulbert Green near
Cheadle, Cheshire_). _b._ Manchester 18 Feb. 1778; manager of
print works at Middleton 1800; cotton manufacturer at Swinton near
Manchester, then at Coleham near Shrewsbury 1803–13; bookseller
and printer, Shrewsbury 1813–27 and at Hadnal near Shrewsbury 1827
to death; printed _Salopian Mag._ 1815–7; his house and library
burnt 7 Jany. 1839; author of _The select museum of the world 4
vols._ 1822–5; _The history of Salop_ 1837; _Cheshire Antiquities_
1838; _Memoirs of seventy years of an eventful life_ 1848–52,
_with portrait_, and many other books. _d._ Hadnal near Shrewsbury
7 Oct. 1857. _Obituary of C. Hulbert_. _By C. A. Hulbert_, _2 ed._
(1860); _Shrewsbury Chronicle 6 Nov. 1857_.
HULBERT, REV. CHARLES AUGUSTUS (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._
Coleham near Shrewsbury 31 Dec. 1804 or 1805; ed. at Shrewsbury
and Sid. Sus. coll. Cam., B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; C. of St. Mary’s,
Islington 1834–9; P.C. of Slaithwaite, Yorkshire 1839–67; V. of
Almondbury near Huddersfield 26 Feb. 1867 to death; hon. canon of
Ripon, Oct. 1866 to death; author of _Poetical recreations_ 1828;
_Theotokos, or the song of the Virgin_ 1842; _Annals of the church
in Slaithwaite_ 1864; _Annals of the church and parish of
Almondbury_ 1882, _Supplementary Annals_ 1885, and other books;
(Mary his wife dau. of James Lacy of Islington _d._ 2 May 1884
aged 75). _d._ 5 March 1888. _C. A. Hulbert’s Annals of
Almondbury_ (1883) 96, 592, _portrait_; _Supplementary Annals_
(1885) 62–8, _portrait of his wife_.
HULINE, JAMES. _b._ about 1816; played clown in pantomime of The
Maid and the Magpie, at Princess’s theatre, London, Dec. 1854; in
pantomime of Harlequin and the House that Jack built, at Drury
Lane Dec. 1861; in pantomime of Ladybird or Harlequin Lord
Dundreary, at Astley’s Dec. 1862; father of the well known
brothers Huline clowns. _d._ 31 Jany. 1890. _Illust. sp. and dram.
news 19 Dec. 1874 p._ 268, _portrait_.
HULL, REV. EDWARD. _b._ 1789; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A.
1810, M.A. 1814; minister of St. Mary’s attached to Blind sch.
Liverpool 1819–57; author of _The institution and abuses of
ecclesiastical property_ 1831; _The tractarian and the prayer
book_ 1853. _d._ Waterloo road, Liverpool 6 Jany. 1867.
HULL, ROBERT. _b._ 1795; M.R.C.S. 1816, Ext. L.R.C.P.; M.D. Lambeth;
physician Norfolk and Norwich eye infirmary; author of _Cursory
notes on the morbid eye_ 1840; _Essay on determination of blood to
the head_ 1842; _A few suggestions on consumption_ 1849. _d._ St.
Michael-at-Plea, Norwich 13 April 1856.
HULL, WILLIAM (_son of a small farmer_). _b._ Graffham, Hunts. 6 May
1820; ed. at Moravian settlements, Ockbrook near Derby, Wellhouse,
Yorkshire, and Grace Hill near Ballymena, Ireland 1834–40;
travelled in France, Germany and Holland 1841–4; an artist at
Manchester 1844–70; exhibited at Manchester academy of fine arts,
Royal Manchester Instit. and the Black and white exhibitions held
1877–80; illustrated R. Langton’s _Charles Dickens and Rochester_
1880; settled at Rydal, Westmoreland 1870 and became known as The
painter of Rydal. _d._ Rydal 15 March 1880. _bur._ Grasmere ch.
yard. _Portfolio_, _Jany. 1886 pp._ 15, 21; _Papers of Manchester
Literary Club_ (1880) 308–10; _Catalogue of water colour drawing,
etc. by W. Hull, exhibited at Manchester Lit. Club_ 1886.
HULL, WILLIAM WINSTANLEY (_son of John Hull, M.D., botanist
1761–1843_). _b._ Blackburn 15 March 1794; ed. at Manchester and
Macclesfield gr. schs. and Brasenose coll. Ox., fellow 1816–20;
B.A. 1815, M.A. 1817; barrister L.I. 16 June 1820; practised at
chancery bar to 1846; with his brother Rev. John Hull drew up a
petition praying for revision of the liturgy, presented to House
of Lords 26 May 1840; author of _Occasional papers on church
matters_ 1848; _A collection of prayers for household use, with
some hymns and other poems_ 1852; _A letter concerning the
revision of the book of common prayer_ 1860. _d._ The Knowle,
Hazlewood, Derbyshire 28 Aug. 1873. _Manchester School Register,
iii_, 37, 289.
HULLAH, JOHN PYKE. _b._ Worcester 27 June 1812; studied music under
Wm. Horsley and at royal academy of music 1832; his opera _The
Village Coquette_ produced at St. James’s theatre, London 5 Dec.
1836 ran for 60 nights; organist of Croydon church 1837; his
operas _The Barbers of Bassora_ and _The Outpost_ produced at
Covent Garden 1837 and 1838 were unsuccessful; formed classes at
Exeter Hall for teaching music to large numbers of persons on
Wilhelm’s method 1841, his classes removed to St. Martin’s hall,
Oct. 1849, formally opened 11 Feb. 1850, burnt down 26 Aug. 1860;
organist to the Charterhouse 1858 to death; composed music for
Kingsley’s songs _The Sands of Dee_ and _The Three Fishers_;
conducted concerts of R.A. of music 1870–3; bankrupt Oct. 1860;
musical inspector of training schools for United Kingdom, March
1872; LLD. Edin. 1876; granted civil list pension of £150, 13 Oct.
1880; edited _Part music 2 vols._ 1842–5, _another ed._ 1868; _The
song book_ 1866; author of _Wilhelm’s Method of teaching singing_
1841, _3 ed._ 1854; _A grammar of musical harmony_ 1852; _A
grammar of counterpoint_ 1864 and about 100 pieces of music. _d._
17 Grosvenor mansions, Victoria st. London 21 Feb. 1884. _bur._
Kensal green 26 Feb. _Life of John Hullah_ (1886); _Dublin Univ.
Mag. March 1880 pp._ 323–33, _portrait_; _I.L.N. i_, 69, 76 (1842)
_portrait_, _x_ 405 (1847), _xvi_ 117 (1850); _Graphic xxix_, 229
(1884), _portrait_.
HULLETT, REV. JOHN. _b._ 1815; ed. at St. Cath. hall, Cam., B.A.
1838; P.C. of Allestree, Derby 1849 to death; author of _Sermons
preached for the most part in the church of Allestree_ 1858,
_Second series_ 1859; _The true light and other poems_ 1861. _d._
Toft near Knutsford 25 April 1865.
HULME, FREDERICK WILLIAM (_son of an artist_). _b._ Swinton,
Yorkshire 1816; landscape painter; teacher of drawing and painting
in London; exhibited 36 pictures at R.A., 5 at B.I. and 5 at
Suffolk st. 1845–80; published _A graduated series of drawing
copies on landscape subjects for use of schools 4 parts_ 1850.
_d._ 8 St. Alban’s road, Kensington, London 14 Nov. 1884. _I.L.N.
lxxxv_, 556 (1884), _portrait_; _Athenæum 22 Nov. 1884 p._ 666.
HULME, JOHN WALTER. Barrister M.T. 23 Jany. 1829; chief justice of
Hong Kong 9 Feb. 1844 to Jany. or Feb. 1860. _d._ Brighton 1 March
1861 in 57 year.
HULTON, REV. CAMPBELL BASSET ARTHUR GREY (_4 son of Henry Hulton of
Preston 1765–1831, treasurer of co. of Lancaster_). _b._
Ballalhick, Isle of Man 3 May 1813; ed. at Manchester sch. and
Brasenose coll. Ox., scholar 1831–4; B.A. 1835, M.A. 1838;
Ellerton theological prizeman 1837; C. of St. Mary’s, Manchester
1839–44; Chetham’s librarian at Manchester 1839–45; R. of St.
Paul’s, Manchester 1844–60; R. of Emberton, Bucks. 1860 to death;
author of _A catechetical help to bishop Butler’s Analogy_ 1854,
another ed. 1859. _d._ Emberton rectory 30 April 1878. _Manchester
sch. register, iii_, 176 (1874).
HULTON, WILLIAM ADAM (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Preston 18
Oct. 1802; ed. at Manchester gr. sch.; barrister I.T. 29 June
1827; treasurer of county Lancaster 1831–49; assessor of Lancaster
Sheriff’s Court to 1847; judge of county courts, circuit No. 5
(Bolton, &c.), 13 March 1847; judge of circuit No. 6 (Liverpool),
31 Dec. 1859; judge of circuit No. 4 (Preston, &c.) 1863 to April
1886; edited and printed with his own hands _A Pedigree of the
Hulton family_ about 1847; member of council of Chetham Soc. 1848,
edited for the Soc. _The Coucher book, or chartulary of Whalley
Abbey 4 vols._ 1847–50, _Documents relating to the Priory of
Penwortham_ 1853; author of _A treatise on the law of convictions
with the statutes and forms applicable to summary convictions by
justices of the peace_ 1835. _d._ Hurst Grange near Preston 3
March 1887. _Law Times 19 March 1887 p._ 367.
HUMBER, WILLIAM. _b._ 1821; pupil of G. Watson 1835–39; one of
Thomas Brassey’s staff 1847–52; practised as civil engineer 1852
to death; A.I.C.E. 6 May 1856; author of _A complete treatise on
cast and wrought iron bridge construction 2 vols._ 1857, _3 ed._
1870; _A record of the progress of modern engineering 1863–66_, _4
vols._ 1870; _A handy book for the calculation of strains in
girders_ 1868, _4 ed._ 1885; _A comprehensive treatise on the
water supply of cities and towns_ 1876. _d._ 1 Portland villas,
Brixton hill, Surrey 14 April 1881.
HUMBERSTON, PHILIP STAPLETON (_only son of Philip Humberston of
Chester_). _b._ 1812; ed. at Westminster; M.P. for Chester
1859–65; sheriff of Cheshire 1878; hon. col. of 2 volunteer
battalion of Cheshire regiment 20 May 1876 to death; member of
council of Royal Agricultural Soc., proposed the use of a special
form of Farming agreements 1855. _d._ Glan-y-Wern near Denbigh 16
Jany. 1891.
HUMBERT, ALBERT JENKINS. _b._ 1822; partner with Charles Frederick
Reeks, architect, designed Carlisle parade and Robertson terrace,
Hastings, and rebuilt the church at Bodiam; had premium for
designs for new government offices 1856; rebuilt Whippingham ch.
Isle of Wight 1860; designed mausoleum of duchess of Kent 1861 and
that of Prince Consort 1862, both at Frogmore near Windsor;
designed and superintended rebuilding of Sandringham house for
prince of Wales 1869–71; F.R.I.B.A. _d._ Castle Mona, Douglas,
Isle of Man 24 Dec. 1877.
HUMBLE, REV. HENRY. Ed. at Univ. coll. Durham, B.A. 1837, M.A. 1842;
C. of Newburn, Northumberland 1842–53; canon and precentor of St.
Ninian’s cath. Perth 1853 to death; author of _A letter to the
bishop of St. Andrews on his recent charge_ 1859; _The recent
episcopal decisions. A review of the transactions at the episcopal
synod_ 1858; _Remarks on a debate in convocation in reference to
the Scottish liturgy_ 1862; _The rights of laymen in the church of
Christ_ 1870; _The administration of canon law, a review of
proceedings in the case of Humble and others v. the bishop of St.
Andrews_ 1873. _d._ San Remo, Italy 7 Feb. 1876.
HUMBLE, REV. MICHAEL MAUGHAN. _b._ 1811; ed. at Em. coll. Cam., B.A.
1833, M.A. 1860; C. of Felton, Northumberland 1835–9; R. of Sutton
cum Duckmanton, Derbyshire 2 July 1839 to death; author of
_Methodistic Catholicism_ 1852; _The church of England and the
fathers_ 1854; _Credenda_ 1875; _Family Prayers_ 1879. _d._ Sutton
rectory 3 Feb. 1889.
HUMBLE, WILLIAM. _b._ 1797; M.D.; F.G.S.; author of _A practical
treatise on sea bathing_. _Worthing_ 1838; _Dictionary of geology
and mineralogy_ 1840, _3 ed._ 1860. _d._ Cliff lodge, Ramsgate 23
April 1878.
HUMBY, ANNE (_dau. of Mr. Ayre of London, law stationer_). _b._
London 1800; first appeared on the stage at Hull as Rosina;
appeared at Bath 4 Nov. 1818 as Rosetta in _Love in a village_;
played at Dublin 1821–5; first appeared in London at Haymarket
theatre 18 April 1825 as Cowslip in _The Agreeable Surprise_;
played at Haymarket 1825–30, then at Drury Lane; unrivalled as an
actress of chambermaids, &c.; the original exponent of Polly
Briggs in Douglas Jerrold’s _Rent Day_ 25 Jany. 1832, of Sophy
Hawes in Jerrold’s _Housekeeper_ at the Haymarket 17 July 1833, of
Chicken in Jerrold’s _Time Works Wonders_ at the Haymarket 26
April 1845, and of Lady Clutterbuck in Boucicault’s _Used up_ at
the Haymarket 6 Feb. 1844, and was seen in the same character at
Windsor castle 4 Jany. 1849; made her last appearance on the
stage, at Lyceum theatre as a Damsel in Barbadoes in _Drop the
Curtain_ 28 Nov. 1849; (_m._ (1) about 1817 William Henry Humby
actor in the Hull circuit, subsequently a dentist London 1831 to
1847, _d._ Guernsey 15 June 1850 aged 58; _m._ (2) 3 April 1854 at
Episcopal chapel, St. Peter’s, Hammersmith, Joseph Hammon of
Bridge road, Hammersmith, builder then aged 43); she lived at 198
Piccadilly, London 1848–51, at 3 Castlenau cottages, Barnes
1854–60 or 61 and must be _dead_, but her name cannot be found in
register of deaths at Somerset house between 1866 and 1887. _The
Oddfellow, i_, 81 (1839).
HUME, REV. ABRAHAM (_son of Thomas F. Hume_). _b._ Hillsborough, co.
Down 9 Feb. 1814; ed. at Royal Belfast coll., Glasgow univ., LL.B.
and LLD. 1851, and Trin. coll. Dublin; B.A. Dublin 1843, LLD. Cam.
1856, D.C.L. Ox. 1857; C. of St. Augustines, Everton 1844–47;
prof. of English literature in collegiate institution, Liverpool
1844–7; V. of Vauxhall, Liverpool 1847 to death; surveyed Chili
and Peru for South American Missionary Soc. 1867; chief founder of
Hist. Soc. of Lancs. and Cheshire 1848, pres. 1869–75; sec. of
church congress at Liverpool 1869; sec. of British association at
Liverpool 1870; vice chairman of Liverpool school board 1870–6;
sec. of Liverpool bishopric committee 1873–80; hon. canon of
Chester 1874–80, of Liverpool 1880 to death; F.S.A. 14 March 1844;
author of _The learned societies and printing clubs of the United
Kingdom_ 1847, _new ed._ 1853; _Ancient Meols, or some account of
the antiquities found on the sea-coast of Cheshire 2 parts_
1863–66 with portrait of author; _Remarks on the Irish dialect of
the English language_ 1878, and more than 100 other books. _d._
All Soul’s vicarage, 6 Rupert lane, Liverpool 21 Nov. 1884. _J. C.
Morley’s Memoir of Rev. A. Hume_, _Liverpool_ 1887; _Crockford’s
Clerical Directory_ (1876) 474.
HUME, ALEXANDER (_son of Walter Hume, a retail trader_). _b._ Kelso
1 Feb. 1809; a strolling player in England 1822 or 1823; employed
by London agents of Berwick & Co. brewers, Edinburgh 1827–40;
London agent for Messrs. Lane, brewers, Cork 1841–7; author of
_Scottish songs_ 1835; _English songs and ballads_ 1838; _Songs
and poems, chiefly Scottish_ 1845. _d._ Northampton, May 1851.
_Rogers’s Modern Scottish Minstrel, ii_, 182–94 (1856).
HUME, ALEXANDER. _b._ Edinburgh 17 Feb. 1811; tenor singer in St.
Paul’s episcopal ch. Edin.; chorus master in theatre royal, Edin.;
arranged musical manual for the Glassites; cabinet maker at
Glasgow about 1855; very successful in setting tunes to Scottish
lyrics and songs of his own; edited _The lyric gems of Scotland,
Glasgow_ 1856, to which he made 50 contributions. _d._ Glasgow 4
Feb. 1859.
HUME, ALEXANDER HAMILTON (_son of Andrew Hamilton Hume 1762–1849,
Australian settler_). _b._ Paramatta, New South Wales 18 June
1797; with his brother John Kennedy Hume (shot by bush rangers
Jany. 1840) discovered Bong Bong and Berrima, Aug. 1814;
accompanied surveyor Meehan in the discovery of Goulburn plains
1817, rewarded with grant of 300 acres near Appin; made the first
overland journey from Sydney to Port Philip 2 Oct. to 16 Dec.
1824, discovered the Hume now called Murray river 16 Nov. 1824,
rewarded with grant of 1200 acres of land valued at half a crown
an acre 1825; accompanied Charles Sturt in his Macquarie and
Darling river expedition 1828–9; F.R.G.S. 1860; author of _A brief
statement of an overland expedition from Lake George to Port
Philip_ 1855, _3 ed._ 1874. _d._ Fort George, Yass, N.S.W. 19
April 1873, monumental pillar at Albury on the Murray. _Heaton’s
Australian Dictionary_ (1879) 98; _Bonwick’s Port Philip
Settlement_ (1883) 80–93, _portrait_.
HUME, SIR GUSTAVUS (_2 son of Rev. Robert Hume of Dublin, d. 1849_).
_b._ 25 Feb. 1826; ensign 38 foot 30 May 1843, captain 21 Sep.
1852 to 22 June 1858 when placed on h.p.; served in Crimean war
1854–5 and in Indian mutiny 1857–8; assistant inspector of
volunteers 1860–65; lieut.-col. in the army 17 March 1863; member
of corps of gentlemen-at-arms, Dec. 1872, adjutant 1 Jany. 1876,
lieut. 20 Nov. 1878 to death; a knight of Legion of Honour;
knighted at Windsor Castle 1 Dec. 1880. _d._ 21 Royal York
crescent, Clifton 16 June 1891.
HUME, JOHN ROBERT. _b._ Renfrewshire 1781 or 1782; received medical
education at Glasgow 1795, 98 and 99, and at Edinburgh 1796–97;
entered medical department of army, inspector general 3 Dec. 1818
to 25 April 1821 when placed on h.p.; M.D. St. Andrews 12 Jany.
1816; L.R.C.P. London 22 Dec. 1819, F.R.C.P. 9 July 1836; settled
in London; private physician to duke of Wellington many years;
D.C.L. Ox. 13 June 1834; one of metropolitan comrs. in lunacy 1
Sep. 1836 to death; C.B. 16 Aug. 1850. _d._ 9 Curzon st. London 1
March 1857. _Munk’s Coll. of physicians, iii_, 212 (1878).
HUME, JOSEPH (_son of James Hume of Montrose, shipmaster_). _b._
Montrose 22 Jany. 1777; apprenticed to a surgeon of Montrose 1790;
M.R.C.S. Edin. 1796; M.R.C.S. Lond. 2 Feb. 1797; assistant surgeon
in marine service of East India Co.; Persian interpreter in army
during Mahratta war 1802–1807; commissary general 1807, resigned
and returned to England with £40,000, 1808; M.P. Weymouth, Jany.
1812; M.P. Aberdeen district of burghs 1818–30; M.P. Middlesex
1830–37; M.P. Kilkenny 1837–41; contested Leeds 1841; M.P.
Montrose district of burghs 1842 to death; leader of the radical
party 30 years, he spoke longer and oftener than any other private
member, many of his speeches were printed; lord rector of Univ. of
Aberdeen 1824 and 1828; F.R.S.; F.R.A.S. _d._ Burnley hall,
Norfolk 20 Feb. 1855. _bur._ Kensal Green cemetery. _Joseph Hume a
memorial_ [_a poem_]. _By J. B. Hume_ (1855); _H. Martineau’s
Biographical sketches_, _4 ed._ (1876) 64–70; _Reminiscences of 50
years. By Mark Boyd_ (1871) 281–92; _J. Grant’s Memoir of Sir G.
Sinclair_ (1870) 66–79; _St. Stephens. By Mask_ (1839) 198–210;
_Saunders’s Portraits of reformers_ (1840), 55 _portrait_;
_Fagan’s Reform club_ (1887) 29–31, _portrait_.
HUMFREY, LEBBEUS CHARLES (_eld. son of Rev. Lebbeus Charles Humfrey,
R. of Laughton, Leics. d. 1833_). _b._ about 1798; ed. at Trin.
coll. Cam., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; barrister L.I. 17 June 1823,
bencher 1845; went Midland circuit of which he became leader;
counsel to _Times_ newspaper; Q.C. Feb. 1845; marble bust of him
by E. H. Bailey exhibited at the R.A. 1852. _d._ 11 Great Queen
st. Westminster 11 May 1852. _bur._ beneath chapel of Lincoln’s
inn. _G.M. xxxviii_, 95–6 (1852).
HUMPHERY, JOHN (_eld. son of John Humphery of Shadwell, London_).
_b._ 30 May 1794; a wharfinger and merchant at Hay’s wharf, Tooley
st. Southwark; M.P. for Southwark 1832–52; governor of Irish
Society 1843 to death; alderman of Aldgate ward 1835 to death;
sheriff of London 1832–3, lord mayor 1842–3. _d._ Battersea Rise,
north side of Clapham common 28 Sep. 1863. _I.L.N. ii_, 279
(1843), _portrait_.
HUMPHREY, THOMAS. _b._ Mitcham, Surrey 16 Jany. 1839; one of the
best batsmen of his day, especially good at cutting, made 1000
runs during a season several times; played for Surrey many years;
a first-class fieldsman especially at long-leg and long-on; had a
benefit at Kennington Oval 26–28 July 1876. _d._ the Asylum,
Brookwood, Surrey 3 Sep. 1878. _bur._ Woking cemet. 9 Sep.
_Illust. sp. and dram. news, v_, 401, 402, 430 (1876), _portrait_;
_Bell’s Life in London 7 Sep. 1878 pp._ 3, 4, _and 14 Sep. p._ 4;
_W. G. Grace’s Cricket_ (1891) 329–30.
HUMPHREYS, HENRY NOEL (_son of James Humphreys of Birmingham_). _b._
Birmingham 4 Jany. 1810; resided in Italy about 1828–40;
illustrated _Westwood’s British butterflies_ 1841; _Loudon’s
British Wild Flowers_ 1856 and other books; author of _The Coins
of England_ 1846; _The coin-collector’s manual 2 vols._ 1847; _The
origin and progress of the art of writing_ 1853; _A history of the
art of printing_ 1867 and 20 other books. _d._ 7 Westbourne sq.
London 10 June 1879. _Academy 21 June 1879 p._ 550.
HUMPHREYS, SIR JOHN (_son of John Humphreys of Upper Clapton,
Middlesex_). _b._ Upper Clapton 1814; a solicitor and
parliamentary agent in London 1842–59; coroner for East Middlesex
1859 to death; knighted at Osborne 18 Aug. 1881. _d._ 20
Devonshire st. Portland place, London 20 Nov. 1886.
HUMPHREYS, WILLIAM. _b._ Dublin 1794; learnt engraving from George
Murray at Philadelphia; engraved small plates for annuals, &c.;
returned to England 1822; engraved steel plate head of Queen
Victoria on postage stamps, also head of Washington for U.S.
stamps; engraved Murillo’s Spanish peasant boy 1833, C. R Leslie’s
Sancho and the Duchess 1838, and other large plates. _d._ at
Alfred Novello’s residence, Villa Novella, Genoa 21 Jany. 1865.
_W. S. Baker’s American Engravers_ (1875) 84–86.
HUMPHRY, JOSEPH. _b._ 1795 or 1796; barrister L.I. 6 July 1821; Q.C.
1846 to 28 Nov. 1850; master in chancery 28 Nov. 1850 to 8 Aug.
1860 when he retired. _d._ Brighton 18 Nov. 1861.
NOTE.—He was the last master in chancery appointed, the office
was abolished in 1852 by 15 & 16 Vict. cap. 80 having been in
existence since 1272.
HUMPHRY, REV. WILLIAM GILSON (_eld. son of Wm. Wood Humphry,
barrister_). _b._ Sudbury, Suffolk 30 Jany. 1815; ed. at
Shrewsbury, captain of the school; entered Trin. coll. Cam. 1833,
Pitt scholar 1835, fellow 1839, senior classic and 27th wrangler
1837, B.A. 1837; proctor of Univ. of Cam. 1845–6, Hulsean lecturer
1849–51, Boyle lecturer 1857–9; exam. chaplain to bishop Blomfield
of London 1847–55; V. of Northolt, Middlesex 1852–5; preb. of St.
Paul’s 1852 to death; V. of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London 1855
to death; one of revisers of New Testament 1870; a treasurer of
S.P.C.K. 30 years; author of _A commentary on the Acts of the
Apostles_ 1847, _2 ed._ 1854; _An historical treatise on the book
of common prayer_ 1853, _6 ed._ 1885; _A commentary on the revised
version of the New Testament for English readers_ 1882, _2 ed._
1888 and 20 other books. _d._ 6 St. Martin’s place, Trafalgar sq.
London 10 Jany. 1886.
HUMPIDGE, THOMAS SAMUEL. _b._ Gloucester 23 July 1853; ed. at Royal
school of mines 1874, Jodrell scholar 1875; B. Sc. London 1875;
Ph.D. Heidelberg 1878; science master Fellenberg instit. Hofwyl
near Berne 1878; prof. of natural science Univ. coll. Aberystwyth,
Sep. 1879 to death; made discoveries in the atomic weight of
beryllium, towards the cost of which the Royal Soc. made grants,
all his apparatus burnt in the college July 1885; sent papers to
_Philos. Trans._ and _Proceedings_; translated H. Kolbe’s _A short
text-book of inorganic chemistry_ 1884. _d._ The college,
Aberystwyth 30 Nov. 1887. _Journal Chemical soc._ (1888) 513–18.
HUNGATE, WILLIAM ANNING. _b._ 7 Sep. 1786; entered navy 10 July
1803, lieut. on h.p. 2 March 1815 to death; claimed to be
descended from and to be entitled to estates of the Hungate family
of Yorkshire, brought actions of ejectment to obtain possession of
estates 1831 and 1832 but failed; assumed title of baronet and was
presented to Wm. iv. as Sir W. A. Hungate, by Earl of Denbigh 27
April 1831. _d._ 18 Feb. 1852.
HUNLOKE, SIR HENRY JOHN JOSEPH, 6 Baronet. _b._ 29 Sep. 1812;
succeeded 19 June 1816; formed a menagerie of rare animals at
Wingeworth hall, Derbyshire, which was sold by auction after his
death. _d._ Grafton st. London 8 Feb. 1856.
HUNNUM, ROBERT (_son of Fenwick Hunnum, purveyor to the Lambton
kennel_). _b._ Durham 1795; second horseman to Mr. Ralph John
Lambton of Merton house, Durham 1809 and known by name of ‘Mr.
Ralph’s Great Coat’; second whip 1818; first whipper-in 1829 till
the Lambton hounds were sold to Lord Suffield; a man of great
courage and endurance; huntsman to Sir Matthew White Ridley in
Northumberland 1843, whose hounds were sold by auction in London
30 June 1845 for £773, after which the hunt was kept up by
subscription. _The Book of Sports, ii_, 42–6 (1843), _portrait_;
_New Sporting Mag. v_, 4–5 (1833), _portrait_.
HUNT, ANDREW. _b._ Erdington near Birmingham 1790; pupil of Samuel
Lines the engraver; landscape painter and teacher of drawing at
Liverpool; member of Liverpool Academy and exhibitor there. _d._
31 Oxford st. 22 July 1861.
HUNT, EDWARD (_son of Thomas Hunt_). _b._ Hammersmith, Middlesex 29
Sep. 1829; ed. at Univ. coll. London, B.A. London 1850; assistant
to Crace Calvert, royal institution laboratory, Manchester 1851;
discovered process for distilling resin without decomposition
1857; took out patent for treatment of resin in making soap 1858;
partner with Samuel Barlow and H. D. Pochin as Samuel Barlow & Co.
in bleaching and dyeing works Stakehill near Middleton, Lancs.
1861 to death; F.C.S. Dec. 1851. _d._ Whalley range, Manchester 12
Aug. 1883. _Gillow’s English Catholics, iii_, 476–7 (1887).
HUNT, ELLEN ST. JOHN. _b._ Norwich 27 Nov. 1837; a contributor to
_The Bible class mag._ and to _The Sunday school teachers’ mag._
under pseudonym of Ion; author of _Thoughts of sunshine in sorrow.
By E.S.J.H._ 1862, _Second series_ 1866. _d._ Norwich 11 March
1864. _Memoir pp. v-xlvii in Thoughts of sunshine_ (1866).
HUNT, FREDERICK KNIGHT. _b._ Buckinghamshire, April 1814; employed
in printing office of _Morning Herald_ 1830; clerk to a barrister
in the Temple 1830; sec. to London Anti-Corn-law league 1836;
studied medicine at Middlesex hospital, M.R.C.S. 13 Nov. 1840;
projected the _Medical Times_ which he edited 28 Sep. 1839;
surgeon of a union in Norfolk; sub-editor of _Illustrated London
News_; sub-editor of _Pictorial Times_; edited Hunt’s _London
Journal_ 1844; assistant editor _Daily News_ Jany. 1846, and
editor 1851 to death; author of _The book of art_ 1846; _The
Rhine, its scenery and associations_ 1845; _The fourth estate,
contributions towards a history of newspapers 2 vols._ 1850. _d._
Forest hill, Sydenham 18 Nov. 1854. _John Francis, publisher of
the Athenæum. By J. C. Francis, i_, 224, 226, 410–13 (1888);
_Diprose’s St. Clements, i_, 245 (1868).
HUNT, REV. GEORGE (_son of Nehemiah Augustus Hunt of Plymouth_).
_b._ 1789; ed. at Trin. coll. Ox., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813; V. of Egg
Buckland near Plymouth 26 May 1818 to death; F.R.S.; edited
_Specimens of lithography as applied to eastern literature_ 1819;
translated _The book of Job_ 1825; _Himyaric inscriptions of Hisn
Ghoráb_ 1848. _d._ Egg Buckland 20 Feb. 1861.
HUNT, GEORGE WARD (_eld. son of Rev. George Hunt of Buckhurst,
Berks._) _b._ Buckhurst 30 July 1825; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.,
B.A. 1848, M.A. 1851, D.C.L. 1870; barrister I.T. 21 Nov. 1851,
bencher 23 May 1873; contested Northampton 1852 and 1857; M.P. for
North Northamptonshire 16 Dec. 1857 to death; chairman of quarter
sessions for Northamptonshire, April 1866; financial sec. to
treasury, July 1866 to Feb. 1868; chancellor of the exchequer 29
Feb. to Dec. 1868; P.C. 29 Feb. 1868; first lord of the admiralty
21 Feb. 1874 to death. _d._ Homburg 29 July 1877. _bur._ Homburg
30 July. _C. Brown’s Life of Beaconsfield, ii_, 93, 162 (1882),
_portrait_; _Graphic 4 Aug. 1877 pp._ 99, 113, _portrait_.
HUNT, HENRY. Educ. at St. Bartholomew’s hospital and Paris; M.R.C.P.
1840, F.R.C.P. 1859; fellow of Royal Med. Chir. Soc.; practised at
68 Brook st. Hanover sq. London from 1840; phys. to Dispensary for
Children; author of _On the nature and treatment of
tic-douloureux, sciatica and other neuralgic disorders_ 1844; _On
the severer forms of heartburn and indigestion_ 1854. _d._ 25 May
1877 aged 75.
HUNT, SIR HENRY ARTHUR (_son of James Hunt of Westminster_). _b._
1810; consulting surveyor to H.M. commissioners of works and
buildings 1856–86; receiver-general for dean and chapter of
Westminster to 1886; partner in firm of Hunt, Stephenson and
Jones, surveyors, 45 Parliament st. Westminster; A.I.C.E. 4 March
1851; C.B. 5 Aug. 1871; knighted at Osborne 21 July 1876. _d._ The
Lees, Folkestone 13 Jany. 1889.
HUNT, HOLDSWORTH (_youngest son of Wm. Chollwill Hunt, M.D. of
Dartmouth_). _b._ Dartmouth 1806; ed. at Crediton and in Paris;
barrister I.T. 12 June 1833, bencher 1865 to death, reader 1879,
treasurer 1880; member of council of legal education; member of
French Institute 1851. _d._ 20 Park crescent, Portland place,
London 26 April 1883.
HUNT, JAMES (_son of Thomas Hunt 1802–51_). _b._ Swanage, Dorset
1833; Ph.D. of Giessen 1855 and M.D. 1867; succeeded his father as
a specialist in curing stammering, had a house at Hastings where
he received many patients; member of Ethnological soc. of London
1854, hon. sec. 1859–62, hon. fellow 1862; founded Anthropological
soc. of London 1863, president 1863–8, director 1867; edited
_Anthropological Rev._ 1863; agitated for making Anthropology a
department at British Assoc. meetings which was done in 1883;
F.S.A.; F.R.S.L. 1854; author of _A manual of the philosophy of
voice and speech_ 1859; _Stammering and stuttering, their nature
and treatment_ 1861, _7 ed._ 1870 and 7 other books. _d._ Ore
Court near Hastings 29 Aug. 1869. _Reg. and mag. of biog., ii_,
198–200 (1869).
HUNT, JAMES HENRY LEIGH (_son of Rev. Isaac Hunt, d. 1809 aged 57_).
_b._ Southgate, Middlesex 19 Oct. 1784; ed. at Christ hospital
1792–99; started with his brother John, _The Examiner_ a weekly
paper 1808, editor 1808–21; edited a quarterly mag. called _The
Reflector_ which ran to 4 numbers 1810; tried for a libel in _The
Examiner_ on the prince regent, and imprisoned in Surrey gaol 3
Feb. 1813 to 3 Feb. 1815; great friend of Byron, Shelley, Keats,
C. Lamb, T. Moore, J. Forster and T. Carlyle; edited _The
Indicator_, Oct. 1820 to 1822, 77 numbers; was in Italy 1822–5;
edited _The Liberal_ 1822–3, 2 vols.; _The Literary Examiner_, 27
numbers; _The Companion_ 1828, 28 numbers; _The Chat of the Week_
1830, 13 numbers; _The Tatler_ a daily sheet entirely written by
himself 4 Oct. 1830 to 13 Feb. 1832, 59 numbers; _Leigh Hunt’s
London Journal_ 1834 to 26 Dec. 1835, and _The Monthly Repository_
July 1837 to March 1838; produced _A Legend of Florence_ at Covent
Garden 7 Feb. 1840; civil list pension of £200, 4 Oct. 1847;
published _Leigh Hunt’s Journal_ 1850 to March 1851; author of
_Lord Byron and some of his contemporaries_ 1828; _The Town 2
vols._ 1848; _The autobiography of L. Hunt_ 1850, _3 vols. new
ed._ 1860; _Table talk_ 1851 and very numerous other books. _d._
at res. of Charles W. Reynell, Chatfield house, (now 84) High st.
Putney, Surrey 28 Aug. 1859. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. Sep.,
monument by Joseph Durham, A.R.A. placed on the spot 19 Oct. 1869.
_The Correspondence of Leigh Hunt 2 vols._ (1862); _Leigh Hunt’s
Lord Byron_, _2 ed._ (1828) 55–408, _portrait_; _W. Howitt’s Homes
and haunts of British poets, ii_, 347–67 (1847); _T. H. Ward’s
English poets_, _2 ed._ (1883) _iv_, 340–7; _J. A. Langford’s
Prison books_ (1861) 316–33, _portrait_; _Maclise Portrait
Gallery_ (1883) 242–56, _portrait_; _L. Hutton’s Literary
landmarks of London_, _4 ed._ (1888) 144–9; _F. E. Baines’
Hampstead_ (1890) 358, _portrait_.
NOTE.—He is drawn in _Bleak House_ 1853 as Harold Skimpole and
in A. W. Pinero’s play _Lady Bountiful_ 1891 as Roderick
Heron. His dau. Julia Trelawney Leigh Hunt was granted civil
list pension of £75, 19 April 1861 and _d._ Hammersmith 3 Feb.
1872.
HUNT, REV. JOHN HIGGS. _b._ 1780; ed. at Charterhouse and Trin.
coll. Cam., B.A. 1801, M.A. 1804; edited _The Critical Review_,
reviewed Byron’s _Hours of Idleness_ in it Sep. 1807; V. of Weedon
Beck, Northamptonshire 20 March 1823 to death; published _Tasso’s
Jerusalem delivered, with notes and occasional illustrations 2
vols._ 1818, reprinted in E. Sanford’s _The works of the British
poets_, vols. 48, 49 (1819); said to have written a work upon
Cosmo the Great. _d._ Weedon Beck 17 Nov. 1859.
HUNT, JOSEPH. Kept a tavern in London; a public singer at Naval
Coffee house, St. Martin’s lane, London; William Probert and John
Thurtell murdered William Weare at Gill’s hill lane near Elstree,
Herts. 24 Oct. 1823, Hunt was found guilty as an accessory before
the murder and sentenced to death 7 Jany. 1824 but eventually
transported for life; court keeper of assize court, Bathurst,
N.S.W. 1839–59; living at Bathurst 1859; father of a famous female
singer living in 1864. _Narrative of murder of Mr. W. Weare, the
confession of Hunt and the execution of Thurtell_ (1824),
_portrait_.
NOTE.—John Thurtell was hanged at Hertford 9 Jany. 1824, Wm.
Probert escaped by turning King’s evidence, but was hanged at
the Old Bailey 20 June 1825 for horse-stealing; Thurtell’s gig
used by him in going to Gill’s hill lane, was exhibited in a
piece called _The Gamblers_ produced at the Surrey theatre,
Jany. 1824.
HUNT, ROBERT (_son of Robert Hunt lost in H.M.S. Mocheron 1807_).
_b._ Plymouth Dock (now Devonport) 6 Sep. 1807; studied medicine
in London; chemist and druggist Chapel st. Penzance 1833–4; sec.
of Royal Cornwall Polytechnic soc. 1840–5, pres. 1859; keeper of
the mining records office 1845 till it was abolished 1883;
lecturer on mechanical science in Royal school of mines 1851–3,
lecturer on experimental physics 1853; F.R.S. 1 June 1854; The
Miners’ Assoc. of Cornwall and Devon was instituted at a meeting
called by him 1859 and opened 1861; a comr. on inquiry on quantity
of coal remaining 1866; made researches on solar rays, electrical
phenomena in mineral veins and photography; edited _Ure’s
Dictionary of arts, manufactures and mines_ 1859, 1867 _and_ 1875,
_three editions_; author of _A popular treatise on the art of
photography_ 1841; _Researches on light_ 1844, _2 ed._ 1854;
_Elementary physics_ 1851, _new ed._ 1855; _Popular romances of
West of England 2 vols._ 1865; _British mining_ 1884, _2 ed._
1887; compiler and editor of annual blue books on Mineral
statistics 1855–84. _d._ 26 St. Leonard’s ter. Chelsea 17 Oct.
1887. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub._ 259–60, 1238; _Athenæum
22 Oct. 1887 pp._ 541–2; _Times 20 Oct. 1887 p._ 5.
HUNT, THOMAS. _b._ Dorset 1802; ed. at Winchester and Trin. coll.
Cam.; invented a method of curing stammering, which he practised
at 224 Regent st. London 1827 to death; Sir John Forbes sent him
pupils 1828–51; his pupils subscribed for his bust in marble which
was modelled by Joseph Durham and exhibited in the R.A. 1849. _d._
Godlingstone near Swanage, Dorset 18 Aug. 1851. _James Hunt’s
Treatise on stammering, with memoir of T. Hunt_ (1854) 27–69,
_portrait_; _Fraser’s Mag. July 1859 pp._ 1–14, _By Charles
Kingsley_.
HUNT, THOMAS NEWMAN. _b._ 1806; merchant of firm of Newman, Hunt &
Co. 12 New Broad st. city of London; a director of Bank of England
1856–83, deputy governor 1866–7, governor 1867–9; chairman of
Public works loan commission. _d._ 79 Portland place, London 17
Jany. 1884.
HUNT, THORNTON LEIGH (_eld. son of J. H. Leigh Hunt 1784–1859_).
_b._ London 10 Sep. 1810; studied drawing and painting; sub-editor
of _The Constitutional_, morning paper 15 Sep. 1836 which lasted
to 1 July 1837; edited the _North Cheshire Reformer_ at Chester;
_The Argus_ at Glasgow to 1840; one of chief contributors to
_Spectator_ 1840–60; one of founders of _Leader_ 1850; one of
chief contributors to _Globe_; on the _Daily Telegraph_ as acting
editor 1855–72; author of _The Foster Brother_ 1845; _The
rationale of railway administration_ 1846; _Unity of the iron
network, the argument for the break of gauge_ 1846; edited his
father’s _Autobiography_ 1860, Works 1860, and _Correspondence_
1862. _d._ 41 Victoria road, Kilburn, Middlesex 25 June 1873.
_Athenæum 28 June 1873 p._ 825; _Bourne’s English newspapers, ii_,
98, 235, 241, 267 (1887).
HUNT, VERE DAWSON DE VERE (_son of Vere Hunt_). _b._ 7 July 1829;
captain inland transport corps; author of _The horse and its
master, with hints on breeding, breaking, etc._ 1859; _England’s
horses for peace and war_ 1874. _d._ 9 Dec. 1878.
HUNT, WILLIAM. _b._ 1766; ed. at Rugby and King’s coll. Cam.,
scholar 1784, fellow 1787 to death; B.A. 1789, M.A. 1792;
barrister L.I. 27 June 1794; went Norfolk circuit, leader of it
long time; assessor to the vice chancellor in the university
courts 1805 to death; recorder of Tamworth (the last) 1817–42.
_d._ King’s college, Cambridge 6 Jany. 1852.
HUNT, WILLIAM (_son of Thomas Hunt_). _b._ Bath 1801; in business
with his brother at Bath; a great supporter of Reform 1832; one of
first members of Bath reformed corporation 1836, alderman 1841–7,
1848 to death; mayor of Bath 1840, 47, 54, 67 and 73; presented
with a silver salver and his portrait 16 June 1869; J.P. for Bath
2 Sep. 1847 to death. _d._ 72 Pulteney st. Bath 17 Sep. 1885.
_Keene’s Bath Journal 19 Sep. 1885 p._ 4.
HUNT, VERY REV. WILLIAM. _b._ East Hendred, Berks. 15 June 1803;
ordained priest 1830; professor at St. Edmund’s coll. Ware 1830–2;
missioner at Southampton 1832–41; minister St. James’ chapel,
Spanish place, Manchester sq. London 1842, resigned 1883; provost
of the chapter of Westminster 1865. _d._ 6 Spanish place 9 Jany.
1889.
HUNT, WILLIAM GEORGE LENNON. _b._ 1842; a baritone; before he was 21
he had appeared in 20 different operas in Madrid; musical
composer, dramatist, author; director of Philharmonic soc. of
Madrid; consul at Loanda, South Africa 10 June 1878 to death. _d._
Loanda 30 Aug. 1879. _Illust. sp. and dr. news, xii_, 101, 102
(1879), _portrait_.
HUNT, WILLIAM HENRY (_son of John Hunt, tinplate worker_). _b._ 8
Old Belton st. (now Endell st.), Long Acre, London 28 March 1790;
apprenticed to John Varley, artist 1804–11; painted in oils
1807–24, in water colours 1824–63; associate exhibitor of
Watercolour soc. 1824, member 1826; member of Amsterdam royal
academy 1856; exhibited 14 pictures at R.A., 6 at B.I. and 1 at
Suffolk st. 1807–29; his _Roses in a Jar_ in the Wade collection
1872 sold for five hundred guineas. _d._ 62 Stanhope st. Hampstead
road, London 10 Feb. 1864. _Redgrave’s Century of painters, ii_,
502–9 (1866); _Fraser’s Mag. lxxii_, 525–36 (1865).
HUNTER, ADAM. _b._ Greenock 20 June 1791; ed. at Glasgow and Edin.
univs., M.D. Edin. 1813; physician Edin. 1815 to death; F.R.S.
Edin. 1839; made a report to Scottish national insurance co. on
the lives insured; author of _The fruits of amalgamation exhibited
in the correspondence of a Palladium policy holder with C.
Jellicoe_. _Edin._ 1865. _d._ 18 Abercromby place, Edinburgh 24
June 1870. _Proc. Royal Soc. of Edin. vii_, 240–2 (1872).
HUNTER, SIR CLAUDIUS STEPHEN, 1 Baronet (_younger son of Henry
Hunter of Beech hill, Berks., barrister_ 1739–89). _b._ Beech hill
24 Feb. 1775; student, of the Inner Temple; solicitor in London
1797 to Jany. 1811; alderman of ward of Bassishaw, Sep. 1804 to
1835; alderman of ward of Bridge without 1835 to death; lieut.
col. of Royal east regiment of London militia 1806 and col. of
royal west regt. 10 Jany. 1810 to death; sheriff of London 1808–9,
lord mayor 1811–12 when he revived ancient ceremonies; created
baronet 11 Dec. 1812; hon. D.C.L. Ox. 23 June 1819; president of
London Life association 1835 to death. _d._ Mortimer hill,
Berkshire 20 April 1851. _European Mag. lxii_, 177–84 (1812),
_portrait_; _G.M. xxxvi_, 88–90 (1851); _Thornbury’s London, i_,
116, 329–30, (1872).
HUNTER, SIR CLAUDIUS STEPHEN PAUL, 2 Baronet. _b._ Ghazepore, East
Indies 21 Sep. 1825; ed. at Eton and St. John’s coll. Ox., B.A.
1849, M.A. 1850; student of Inner Temple 1848; succeeded his
grandfather 20 April 1851; captain royal London militia 1846–50;
founder of 1st Berkshire volunteer regt. and capt. commandant 31
March 1860, lieut.-col. 2 Nov. 1872 to Dec. 1885; sheriff of
Berks. 1860. _d._ Mortimer hill near Reading 7 Jany. 1890.
HUNTER, GEORGE. Entered Bengal army 1800; colonel 1 European regt.
of light infantry 1843 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 26 Dec.
1826. _d._ Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire 11 Nov. 1854.
HUNTER, VEN. JAMES (_son of John Hunter_). _b._ Barnstaple 1817;
clerk to Charles Roberts, solicitor, Barnstaple; a master in
Tavistock sch.; ed. at Ch. Miss. coll. Islington to 1843;
archdeacon of Cumberland, Rupert’s Land 1854–67; V. of St.
Matthew, Bayswater, London 1867 to death; M.A. 1855 and D.D. 1876
by Archbishop of Canterbury; author of _The Book of common prayer,
Translated into the language of the Cree Indians_ 1859; _The
gospels of St. Matthew, St. Mark and St. John in Cree_; _The faith
and duty of a Christian in Cree_; with J. Mason and others _The
Bible translated into the language of the Knisteneaux or Cree
North American Indians 2 parts_ 1861–2. _d._ 52 Leinster sq.
London 12 Feb. 1882. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 18 Feb.
HUNTER, JAMES. _b._ Muirkirk, Ayrshire 1818; manager Coltness iron
works 1839 and then a partner (Houldsworth & Co.), retired 1885,
increased the works from 2 to 12 furnaces; the Coltness brand of
iron became known all over the world; D.L. for Ayrshire; A.I.C.E.
4 April 1854. _d._ Newman’s House by Motherwell, Edinburgh 5 Oct.
1886. _Min. of Proc. I.C.E. lxxxix_, 494–5 (1887).
HUNTER, REV. JOHN (_youngest son of Rev. Andrew Hunter, minister of
Tron ch. Edin._, _d._ 1809). _b._ Edin. 1788; presbyterian
minister of Swinton, Berwickshire 1814–32; assistant minister of
Tron ch. Edin. after a contest with the kirk session which was
decided in house of lords Oct. 1832, minister of Tron ch. to
death; D.D. of univ. of Edin. 29 May 1847. _d._ 9 Regent ter.
Edinburgh 21 June 1866. _Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ (1882) 27–8,
_portrait_; _Scott’s Fasti, i part i, p._ 61.
HUNTER, JOHN (_son of professor Andrew Hunter_). In a writer’s
office copying law papers at 3d. a page; a writer to the signet
1826; auditor of court of session to 1866; author of _Miscellanies
in verse. By N.R. i.e. J. Hunter_ 1843. _d._ Craigcrook 3 Dec.
1869. _Journal of jurisprudence, xiv_, 42–5 (1870).
HUNTER, JOHN (_only son of John Hunter, physician_). _b._ Belfast 23
March 1843; ed. at Queen’s coll. Belfast and Queen’s univ., B.A.
1863, M.A. 1864; assistant professor of chemistry Queen’s coll.
1865–70; professor of mathematics and natural philosophy King’s
coll. Windsor, Nova Scotia 1870–1; accompanied the Deep Sea
dredging expedition in H.M.S. Porcupine 1869; made researches on
the absorption of gases by charcoal, the absorption of mixed
vapours, pressure of absorption and the composition of sea water.
_d._ Enniscrone, Mayo 13 Sep. 1872. _Proc. of royal soc. of Edin.
viii_, 322–4 (1875).
HUNTER, JOHN (2 _son of John Hunter_, _d._ _3 Dec. 1869_). Advocate
1857; sheriff substitute of Peebleshire 1868 to death; member of
Speculative soc. _d._ Kingsmuir, Peebles 29 Sep. 1872. _Journal of
Jurisprudence, xvi_, 603–5 (1872).
HUNTER, JOHN CHARLES. _b._ 20 Aug. 1799; L.S.A. 1821; M.R.C.S. 1821;
L.R.C.P. 1863; inspector National Vaccine establishment; author of
63rd vol. of the Family library _Sketches of imposture, deception
and credulity_ 1837. _d._ 30 Wilton place, Belgrave sq. London 19
Dec. 1871.
HUNTER, JOHN KELSO. _b._ Dunkeith, Ayrshire 15 Dec. 1802; a herd
boy; shoemaker at Kilmarnock; removed to Glasgow; painted and
exhibited portrait of himself at R.A. London 1847; author of _The
retrospect of an artist’s life_ 1868; _Life studies of character_
1871, containing facts about Robert Burns; _Memorials of west
country men and manners_. _d._ Pollokshields near Glasgow 3 Feb.
1873. _Times 6 Feb. 1873 p._ 7.
HUNTER, REV. JOSEPH (_son of Michael Hunter of Sheffield, cutler
1759–1831_). _b._ Sheffield 6 Feb. 1783; minister of a
Presbyterian congregation at Bath 1809–33; a sub-comr. of public
records in London 1833, an assistant keeper of the first class
1838 to death; F.S.A., mem. of council and vice pres. 1855; author
of _Hallamshire. The history of the parish of Sheffield_ 1819,
_new ed. by Rev. A. Gatty_ 1869; _South Yorkshire. The history of
the deanery of Doncaster 2 vols._ 1828–31; _The diary of Ralph
Thoresby, F.R.S. 2 vols._ 1830 and 30 other books; his library was
sold at Sothebys, Dec. 1861 for £1105; his MS. collections were
purchased by Br. Museum 1862. _d._ 30 Torrington sq. London 9 May
1861. _bur._ Ecclesfield near Sheffield 15 May. _A brief memoir_
[_by Sylvester Hunter_] 1861, _privately printed_; _Proc. of Soc.
of Antiquaries, ii_, 106–8 (1861).
HUNTER, JOSEPH. _b._ Scarborough 21 Oct. 1857; became known in the
match County Eleven _v._ Surrey at Sheffield 15 July 1878; member
of Yorkshire Eleven 1881; played against Australian team in 1883;
member of Shaw’s English team in Australia 1884; had no superior
as a wicket keeper; wicket keeper to the Yorkshire Eleven to 1889.
_d._ at his residence the Wheat Sheaf hotel, Rotherham 4 Jany.
1891. _Illust. S. and D. News, xxiii_, 661, 662 (1885),
_portrait_.
HUNTER, ROBERT (_only child of an East India merchant_, _d._ 1793).
_b._ near Edinburgh 8 July 1791; ed. at High sch. Edin. to 1804
and at Edin. univ.; member of Scottish bar 1814; sheriff of
Buteshire 1837 to death; sheriff of Dumbartonshire 1853 to death;
author of _A treatise on the law of landlord and tenant_. _Edin._
1833, _4 ed. 2 vols._ 1876. _d._ 67 Northumberland st. Edinburgh
23 Dec. 1871. _Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ (1882) 16, _portrait_;
_Journal of Jurisprudence, xvi_, 93–6 (1872).
HUNTER, ROBERT HOPE ALSTON (_3 son of Rev. William Hunter_). _b._
1805; hospital assistant in army 10 Jany. 1827; surgeon of 57
regt. at Madras 1843–47; surgeon major 30 July 1847; placed on
h.p. 10 Feb. 1852; author of _Statistical review of the climate of
the principal stations for European troops in the Bombay
presidency_; _The medical history of the queen’s royal regiment
during the campaign in Afghanistan_. _d._ Dollar 22 June 1867.
_Medical Times 3 Aug. 1867 pp._ 135–6.
HUNTER, ROWLAND, _b._ 1774; extensive bookseller at 72 St. Paul’s
churchyard (where he succeeded his uncle Joseph Johnson) 1815–36.
_d._ the Charterhouse 18 Jany. 1864.
HUNTER, WALTER. _b._ parish of Newbattle near Edin. 1772; worked as
a millwright under Watt and Rennie; adapted steam power to move
dredging buckets and ladders; partner with Wm. English as
millwrights and engineers at 28 High st. south, Bow, London 1807
or 1808 to death; M.I.C.E. 1827. _d._ Bow 8 Feb. 1852. _Minutes of
proc. of Instit. of C.E. xii_, 161 (1853).
HUNTER, WILLIAM (_son of Andrew Hunter of Bury St. Edmunds_). _b._
Bury St. Edmunds; of 76 Coleman st. City of London; member of ward
of Coleman st. London 1823 and alderman 1843 to death, sheriff
1844–5, lord mayor 1851–52. _d._ 13 Westbourne terrace, Hyde park,
London 22 Sep. 1856 aged 75. _I.L.N. xix_, 605 (1851), _portrait_.
HUNTER, WILLIAM FREDERICK. _b._ 1841; ed. at Edin. univ., M.A.,
LL.B.; at Heidelberg and Berlin univ., D.C.L.; examiner in law,
Edin. univ.; advocate in Scotland 1865; barrister L.I. 30 April
1875; inherited Hafton estate, Argyleshire on death of his
brother; wrote article on _Canon Law_ in Encyclop. Brit. v. 15–22
(1876). _d._ Madeira 28 April 1880. _Journal of Jurisprudence,
xxiv_, 320–1 (1880).
HUNTER-BLAIR, SIR DAVID, 3 Baronet. _b._ Edinburgh 1777; midshipman
H.M.S. Hyacinth; succeeded his brother 24 May 1800; col. of
Ayrshire militia during the war; convener of Ayrshire 1822 to
1855; vice lieut. of Ayrshire 1822 to death. _d._ Blairquhan, Ayr
26 Dec. 1857.
HUNTER-BLAIR, JAMES (_1 son of preceding_). _b._ Milton, Ayrshire 22
March 1817; ensign Scots fusilier guards 24 April 1835, captain 31
March 1848 to death; M.P. Ayrshire 22 July 1852 to death; _killed_
when commanding his battalion at Inkerman 5 Nov. 1854.
HUNTINGDON, FRANCIS POWER PLANTAGENET HASTINGS, 13 Earl of (_eld.
child of 12 Earl of Huntingdon 1808–75_). _b._ Gaultier cottage,
Waterford 4 Dec. 1841; styled Lord Hastings 1841–75; matric. from
Ch. Ch. Ox. 20 Jany. 1860; succeeded 13 Sep. 1875; master of
harriers at Whitechurch, Waterford 1867–8, of fox hounds 1868–71;
master of the Ormond and King’s county hunt 1872–5 and of the
King’s county alone from 1875, the Land League ultimately mobbed
his hounds and he sold the pack to a Canadian; speculated in land
in Florida and visited that country. _d._ Shanavogue, King’s
county 20 May 1885. _Baily’s Mag. xxxi_, 63–4 (1878), _portrait_,
_xliv_, 295 (1885).
HUNTINGFORD, REV. HENRY (_son of Rev. Thomas Huntingford, master of
Warminster school, Wilts._) _b._ Warminster 19 Sep. 1787; ed. at
Winchester and New coll. Ox., fellow 1807–14; fellow of Winchester
5 April 1814 to his death; B.C.L. 1814; prebendary of Colwall in
Hereford cath. Dec. 1817; R. of Hampton Bishop, Herefordshire 1822
to death; canon residentiary of Hereford cath. 1822 to death;
master of Ledbury hospital, Hereford 1867; published _Pindari
Carmina juxta examplar Heynianum...et Lexicon Pindaricum ex
integro Dammii opere etymologico excerptum_ 1814, _another ed._
1821; translated _Romanist Conversations_ [_By B. Pictet_] 1826.
_d._ Goodrest, Great Malvern 2 Nov. 1867. _bur._ Hampton Bishop.
_F. T. Havergal’s Fasti Herefordenses_ (1869) 61.
HUNTLY, GEORGE GORDON, 9 Marquis of (_only son of 4 Earl of Aboyne
1726–94_). _b._ Edinburgh 28 June 1761; ensign 1 foot guards;
lieut. col. 35 foot April 1789 to 15 June 1789; captain Coldstream
guards 15 June 1789 to 1792 when he sold out; col. of
Aberdeenshire militia 1798 to death; succeeded his father as 5
Earl of Aboyne 28 Dec. 1794; a representative peer of Scotland
1796–1815; cr. baron Meldrum of Morven, co. Aberdeen in peerage of
the U.K. 11 Aug. 1815; K.T. 10 May 1827; succeeded as 9 marquis of
Huntly by decision of House of Lords 22 June 1838 on death of his
kinsman the 8 Marquis 28 May 1836. _d._ 24 Chapel st. Grosvenor
sq. London 17 June 1853.
HUNTLY, CHARLES GORDON, 10 Marquis of (_eld. child of the
preceding_). _b._ Orton near Peterborough 11 Jany. 1792; styled
Lord Strathaven 1792–1853; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., M.A.
1812; M.P. East Grinstead 1818–30; M.P. Hunts. 1830–31, contested
Hunts. 1831; lord lieut. of Aberdeenshire 14 Feb. 1861 to death.
_d._ Orton Longueville near Peterborough 17 Sep. 1863.
HUNTLEY, SIR HENRY VERE (_3 son of Rev. Richard Huntley of Boxwell
court, Gloucs. 1776–1831_). _b._ 1795; entered navy 10 March 1809;
accompanied Napoleon to St. Helena in the Northumberland 8 Aug. to
15 Oct. 1815; employed in suppressing slave trade 1826–37;
commander 28 June 1838; lieut. gov. of settlements on river Gambia
23 Dec. 1839; lieut. gov. of Prince Edward’s Island 20 Aug. 1841
to 26 Oct. 1847; knighted by patent 9 Oct. 1841; consul at Loanda,
Aug. 1858; consul at Santos, Brazil, May 1862 to death; author of
_Peregrine scramble, or thirty years’ adventures of a bluejacket 2
vols._ 1849; _Observation on free trade policy in connection with
the Sugar act_ 1846; _Seven years’ service on the Slave coast_ _2
vols._ 1850; _California, its gold and its inhabitants 2 vols._
1856. _d._ Santos, Brazil 7 May 1864.
HUNTLEY, JOHN. _b._ London 25 March 1805; a packer of bale goods;
went to U.S. America 1832; prompter Richmond hill theatre, New
York; acted in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Richmond, Cincinnati and
Pittsburg, when he first undertook old men characters; stage
manager for Ludlow and Smith at St. Louis 1848–53; travelled in
America as an actor, prompter and manager 1853–63. _Brown’s
American stage_ (1870) 190.
HUNTLEY, REV. RICHARD WEBSTER (_brother of Sir H. V. Huntley_). _b._
1793; ed. at Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1819; fellow of All
Souls 1815–31, proctor 1824; V. of Alderbury, Salop 20 Jany. 1829
to death; R. of Boxwell and Leighterton 3 Dec. 1831 to death; one
of the 3 priests who opposed Dr. R. D. Hampden’s election to
bishopric of Hereford, both in Bow ch. 11 Jany. 1848 and in the
queen’s bench 1 Feb.; rural dean of Hawkesbury and Bitton 1840–51;
author of _A letter to the archbishop of Canterbury on the
ecclesiastical commission and the suppression of a bishoprick in
North Wales_ 1843; _A glossary of the Cotswold dialect illustrated
by examples from ancient authors_. _Gloucester_ 1868. _d._ Boxwell
court, Gloucs. 4 April 1857. _The Year of the Church. By R. W.
Huntley_ (1860). _Memoir pp. vii-xviii._
HURDIS, JAMES HENRY (_elder son of James Hurdis, poet 1763–1801_).
_b._ 1800 probably at Bishopston, Berks.; ed. at Southampton;
spent a few years in France; articled to Charles Heath the
engraver; lived at Newick near Lewes; etched many portraits of
local notabilities and views of buildings in Sussex, some of which
are in the Sussex Archæological Society’s collections; a friend of
George Cruikshank. _d._ Southampton 30 Nov. 1857. _M. A. Lower’s
Worthies of Sussex_ (1865) 170.
HURDLE, SIR THOMAS (_son of James Hurdle_). _b._ 1797; 2 lieut. R.M.
24 April 1812, lieut. col. 15 Aug. 1853; served at Navarino 1827,
in Greece 1828, commanded brigade of R.M. in Crimea 1854–6;
aide-de-camp to the queen 1855–7; col. commandant 20 Feb. 1857;
retired on full pay 17 Nov. 1859; hon. major general 2 Dec. 1859;
C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 2 June 1877. _d._ Porchester, Fareham, 7
June 1889.
HURLSTONE, EDWIN TYRRELL. _b._ 1806; barrister I.T. 31 Jany. 1834,
went South-Eastern circuit; a revising barrister to death; author
with John Gordon of _Exchequer Reports 1854–56_, _2 vols._
1855–56; with J. P. Norman of _Reports of cases in the courts of
Exchequer and Exchequer Chamber 1856–62_, _7 vols._ 1857–62; with
F. J. Coltman of _Reports of cases in the Courts of Exchequer and
Exchequer Chamber 1862–65, 3 vols. 1863–66_ and other Reports.
_d._ Thanet place, Temple, London 29 Sep. 1881.
HURLSTONE, FREDERICK YEATES (_1 son of Thomas Yeates Hurlstone a
proprietor of the Morning Chronicle_). _b._ London 1800 or 1801;
pupil of Sir W. Beechey and Sir T. Lawrence; student of the R.A.
1820, silver medallist 1822, gold medallist 1823; exhibited 37
pictures at R.A., 19 at B.I. and 326 at Suffolk st. 1821–70;
member of Society of British artists 1831, president 1835 and 1840
to death; awarded a gold medal at Paris exhibition 1855; 11 of his
best works were re-exhibited at Soc. of British Artists 1870;
author with others of _Protest against the Report from the
committee of the National gallery_ 1855; (_m._ 1836 Jane Coral an
artist, who exhibited 6 pictures at R.A. and 23 at Suffolk st.
1846–56 and _d._ 2 Oct. 1858); he _d._ 9 Chester st. Belgrave sq.
London 10 June 1869.
HURMAN, WILLIAM. Studied at Univ. coll. London; pupil of Robert
Liston; M.R.C.S. 1846; house surgeon Univ. coll. hospital; in
practice at Windsor, Brighton and London; surgeon to 3rd Middlesex
militia 11 Aug. 1865 to death; one of the best known men in the
hunting, coaching and racing world; originator of the Badminton
club, 100 Piccadilly, London 1876. _d._ 83 Grand parade, Brighton,
Dec. 1883. _Baily’s Mag. Jany. 1884 pp._ 429–30.
HURST, REV. BLYTHE. _b._ Winlaton, Durham 6 July 1801; a blacksmith
at Winlaton; ordained by Bishop Maltby at Auckland castle, July
1842; C. of Alston, Cumberland 1844–6; V. of Collierley near
Newcastle 1854 to death; taught himself French, Latin, Greek,
Hebrew, Syriac and Arabic; published _Four sermons, Christianity
no priestcraft_ 1840. _d._ Collierley 24 June 1882. _Newcastle
Weekly Chronicle 1 July 1882 p._ 7 _col._ 5; _I.L.N. lxxxi_, 56
(1882), _portrait_.
HURST, DANIEL, _b._ 1802 or 1803; publisher with Henry Blackett at
13 Great Marlborough st. London 1854 to death. _d._ Mitcham,
Surrey 6 July 1870.
HURST, SAMUEL, _b._ Stalybridge, Lancashire 1832; champion wrestler
of Lancashire; known as “The Stalybridge Infant”; 6 feet 2½ inches
high and 15 stone in weight; matched with J. C. Heenan 1860 but
engagement fell through; fought Tom Paddock for £200 a side near
Aldermaston, Berkshire 5 Nov. 1860 when Hurst won in 5 rounds and
obtained the champion belt; broke his leg by a fall 19 Nov. 1860;
fought James Mace for £200 a side on one of the islands up the
river Medway 18 June 1861 when Mace won in 8 rounds lasting 50
minutes and obtained the belt; kept the Wilton Arms tavern 4 Mayes
st. Manchester about 1861–5, the Glass House tavern, Oldham road,
Manchester about 1865–70. _d._ Mayfield cottage, Manchester 22 May
1882. _Illust. sporting news_ (1862) 249, _portrait_; _F. W. J.
Henning’s Some recollections of the prize ring_ (1888) 140–9.
HURST, REV. THOMAS (_son of Joseph Hurst_). _b._ Lancashire about
1775; ordained a priest at Lisbon; priest in the English coll. at
Lisbon when used for secular education 1807, professor 1813,
procurator of the restored college 1834 to death; a minister in
the British and Portuguese hospitals in Lisbon 1807–14; confessor
to the Bridgettine nuns at Lisbon. _d._ Lisbon 31 March 1855.
_Gillow’s English Catholics iii_, 490–1 (1887).
HUSBAND, WILLIAM (_eld. son of James Husband, surveyor for Lloyd’s
Register at Falmouth d. 1857_). _b._ Mylor near Falmouth 13 Oct.
1822; apprenticed to Harvey & Co. of Hayle, Cornwall, engineers
1839–43; mechanical engineer in charge of steam machinery on
drainage works Haarlem lake, Holland 1845–9, planned and erected
the half-weg engine, the lake when drained added 47,000 acres of
rich soil to Holland; manager of business of firm of Harvey & Co.
in London 1852–4, and at Hayle 1854–63, a partner 1863 to death;
patented balance valve for water-work purposes, four-beat pump
valve, Husband’s oscillating cylinder stamps, &c.; M.I.C.E. 1 May
1866; originated 8th Cornwall artillery volunteers 1860, captain 2
April 1860 to 6 May 1865. _d._ 26 Sion hill, Clifton 10 April
1887. _bur._ St. Erth, Cornwall 16 April. _Min. of proc. of
Instit. of C.E._ (1887) _lxxxix_ 470–3.
HUSENBETH, REV. FREDERICK CHARLES (_son of Frederick Charles
Husenbeth of Bristol, wine-merchant_). _b._ Bristol 30 May 1796;
ed. at Sedgly Park sch. Staffs. and St. Mary’s coll. Oscott;
ordained R.C. priest 25 Feb. 1820; chaplain at Cossey hall,
Norfolk 7 July 1820; missioner of St. Walstan’s chapel, Cossey
1841 to death; grand vicar of the Midland district 1827; created
D.D. by Pius ix. 7 July 1850; provost of the chapter and
vicar-general of diocese of Northampton 24 June 1852; wrote 1305
articles under initials of F.C.H. in _Notes and Queries_ 4 Feb.
1854 to 2 Nov. 1872; published _Breviarium Romanum suis locis
interpositis officiis sanctorum Angliæ 4 vols._ 1830; _The Missal
for the use of the laity_ 1837; _Emblems of Saints by which they
are distinguished in works of art_ 1850, _3 ed._ 1882; _The Holy
Bible translated from the Latin Vulgate 2 vols._ 1853 and 50 other
books. _d._ the presbytery adjoining St. Walstan’s chapel at
Cossey 31 Oct. 1872. _Gillow’s English Catholics_ (1887) _iii_,
492–507.
HUSK, WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ London 4 Nov. 1814; clerk to Manning and
Dalston and their successors, solicitors, London 1833–86; member
of Sacred Harmonic Soc. Oct. 1834, hon. librarian 1853–82 when
society was dissolved, wrote prefaces to word-books of Oratorios
performed at Society’s concerts; author of _Catalogue of library
of Sacred Harmonic Society_ 1862, _new ed._ 1872; _Account of the
musical celebrations on St. Cecilia’s day in the 16th, 17th, and
18th centuries_ 1857; edited _Songs of the Nativity_ [1866]; wrote
many articles in _Grove’s Dictionary of Music_. _d._ 20
Westmoreland place, Pimlico, London 12 Aug. 1887.
HUSKISSON, SAMUEL (_3 son of Wm. Huskisson of Oxley, Staffs_). _b._
1773; cornet 29 light dragoons 17 May 1799; served in Bengal
1799–1803; major 8 foot 4 July 1805; lieut.-col. 1 West India reg.
28 May 1807; lieut.-col. 9 garrison batallion 25 Sep. 1807 to May
1808; lieut.-col. 67 foot 16 June 1808 to 8 July 1824; general 11
Nov. 1851. _d._ 10 Mount st. Grosvenor sq. London 30 Dec. 1854.
HUSSEY, REV. JAMES MC.CONNELL (_5 son of William Hussey of
Glasgow_). _b._ 1819 or 1820; ed. at Exeter coll. Ox., B.A. 1843,
M.A. 1857; C. of Atherstone, Warwickshire 1846–8; P.C. of St.
James, Kennington, London 1848–54; afternoon preacher at the
Foundling hospital 1854–61; V. of Ch. Ch. North Brixton 1855 to
death; hon. canon of Rochester Jany. 1878 to death; rural dean of
Kennington 1879–87 and 1889 to death; D.D. by archbp. of
Canterbury Jany. 1881; author of _Joy for the sorrowful or comfort
in sickness_ 1855, _2 ed._ 1856; _Home. An essay_ 1878; _Scandal
and scandal-mongers_ 1879. _d._ Ch. Ch. vicarage, Cancel road,
Vassal road, Brixton 19 May 1891. _Daily Graphic 22 May 1891 p._
9, _portrait_.
HUSSEY, REV. ROBERT (_4 son of Rev. Wm. Hussey, R. of Sandhurst,
Kent_). _b._ 7 Oct. 1801; ed. at Westminster (King’s scholar 1816)
and Ch. Ch. Ox., student 1821–46; double first class 1824, B.A.
1825, M.A. 1827, B.D. 1837; Greek reader 1832, censor and
librarian 1835, catechist 1836, select preacher 1831 and 1846,
proctor 1836, Whitehall preacher 1841–3; regius prof. of
ecclesiastical history in univ. of Ox. 23 April 1842 to death;
P.C. of Binsey near Oxford 1845 to death; author of _An essay on
the ancient weights and money_ 1836; _An account of the Roman road
from Alchester to Dorchester_ 1841; _Sermons, mostly academical_
1849; edited the histories of _Socrates_ 1844, _Evagrius_ 1844,
_Bæda_ 1846 and _Sozomen_ _3 vols._ 1860 and 15 other works. _d._
Beaumont st. Oxford 2 Dec. 1856. _bur._ Sandford on Thames. _The
Rise of the Papal power. Ed. by Jacob Ley_ (1863), _Memoir pp.
viii-xxvii_.
HUTCHESON, CHARLES. _b._ Scotland 1792; taught music in Glasgow;
published _Christian Vespers_, _Glasgow_ 1832, containing Hymn
tunes harmonised in 3 and 4 parts, and An essay on church music.
_d._ Glasgow 1856.
HUTCHESON, FRANCIS DEANE. _b._ 1800; entered navy 13 Oct. 1813;
captain 23 Nov. 1841; retired admiral 30 July 1875. _d._ 76
Shaftesbury road, West Hammersmith 21 Dec. 1875.
HUTCHESSON, THOMAS. _b._ 1781; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 Dec. 1797; colonel 1
batt. R.A. 23 Nov. 1841 to 30 Aug. 1854; col. commandant 30 Aug.
1854 to death; L.G. 14 June 1856. _d._ Clarence lawn, Dover 28
Aug. 1857.
HUTCHINS, EDWARD JOHN (_eld. son of Edward Hutchins of Briton Ferry,
co. Glamorgan_). _b._ 1809; ed. at Charterhouse and St. John’s
coll. Cam.; M.P. Penryn 23 Jany. 1840 to 23 June 1841; M.P.
Lymington 30 April 1850 to 20 March 1857; contested Southampton 2
July 1841 and Poole 31 July 1847. _d._ Hastings 11 Feb. 1876.
_I.L.N. lxviii_, 215 (1876).
HUTCHINSON, CHARLES HENRY. Second lieut. Madras artillery 13 June
1834 and colonel 9 June 1868 to 5 Feb. 1870 when he retired on
full pay; M.G. 5 Feb. 1870. _d._ 20 Westbourne park, London 27
Oct. 1873.
HUTCHINSON, CHARLES WATERLOO, _b._ 18 June 1824; 2 lieut. Bengal
engineers 9 June 1843; col. R.E. 1 April 1874, col. commandant 17
Dec. 1881 to death; general 28 Nov. 1885; placed on unemployed
supernumerary list 16 Sep. 1886; author of _Specimens of various
vernacular characters passing through the post office in India,
photozincographed_. _Calcutta_ 1877. _d._ 13 Kildare gardens,
Bayswater, London 27 March 1890.
HUTCHINSON, GEORGE ROWAN. Second lieut. R.E. 29 May 1832, captain 13
Dec. 1847 to death; superintendent of new harbour works at
Holyhead, _killed_ by explosion of powder there 25 Feb. 1851
though half a mile from where it took place. _A.R._ (1864) 14.
HUTCHINSON, JOHN. _b._ Newcastle 1811; ed. at London univ.;
assistant phys. to Hospital for consumption, Brompton; author of
_The spirometer and stethoscope and scale-balance, their use in
discriminating diseases of the chest and their value in
life-offices_ 1852. _d._ Fiji, Sandwich islands, July 1861.
HUTCHINSON, JOHN DYSON. _b._ Halifax, Yorkshire 6 July 1822; ed. at
Hipperholme gram. sch.; in business at Halifax, retired 1870;
mayor of Halifax 1868 and 1871; M.P. Halifax 21 Feb. 1877,
accepted the Chiltern hundreds Aug. 1882. _d._ 25 Redcliffe sq.
South Kensington, London 25 Aug. 1882.
HUTCHINSON, WILLIAM EVANS, _b._ 1806; superintendent of Midland
counties line to July 1840; a director of Midland railway 1837 and
chairman 1864–70; presented with a testimonial at a complimentary
dinner 20 Dec. 1870. _d._ Oadby hall, Leicester 6 Dec. 1882. _F.
S. Williams’ Midland railway_ (1888) 181–4, 195, 236, 243.
HUTCHISON, REV. ÆNEAS BARKLY (_eld. son of Robert Hutchison of
London, merchant_). _b._ London 1819; ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam.,
B.D. 1855, B.D. Oxford 1856; P.C. of St. James, Devonport 21 Aug.
1850 to death; author of _Memorials of the abbey of Dundrennan_,
_Galloway_ 1857; _A monograph of the history of St. Mary_,
_Callington_ 1861. _d._ Harrogate 25 Dec. 1866.
HUTCHISON, REV. WILLIAM [ANTONY] (_son of George Hutchison, a
cashier in Bank of England, who d. 1833_). _b._ London 27 Sep.
1822; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam. 1843–5; received into R.C. church at
Birmingham 21 Dec. 1845, confirmed by bishop Walsh, receiving name
of Antony 29 Dec. 1845; ordained priest 15 Aug. 1847; a member of
the Oratory, London, to the institution of which he largely
contributed 1849 to death; established ragged schools and other
charities; author of _Loreto and Nazareth: two lectures containing
the result of personal investigation of the two sanctuaries_ 1863.
_d._ The Oratory, Brompton 12 July 1863. _Gillow’s English
Catholics, iii_, 511–4 (1887).
NOTE.—He left by his will dated 7 July 1860 all his property
to the Brompton oratory, will disputed by his brother in law
Dr. Alfred Smee but its validity affirmed in case of Knox _v._
Smee, Court of Probate 1864. _Annual Register_ (1864) 232–41.
HUTCHISON, REV. WILLIAM CORSTON (_2 son of Robert Hutchison of
Fincham, Norfolk_). Matric. from Worcester coll. Ox. 6 May 1841
aged 19; Curate of St. Mary’s, Devonport 1848–50; Curate of St.
Endellion, Cornwall 1850–1; joined Church of Rome Aug. 1851; lived
chiefly abroad rest of his life; tutor to Prince Imperial of
France; a member of the third order of St. Francis; a chevalier of
Holy Cross of Jerusalem; private chamberlain to Pius ix. and Leo
xiii.; had a great share in production of Dr. Fan di Bruno’s
_Catholic Belief_. _d._ Holly Place, Hampstead 9 Sep. 1883 aged
63. _bur._ Leytonstone cemet. _Gillow’s English Catholics, iii_,
514–5 (1887).
HUTH, FREDERICK. _b._ Hanover 1777; settled at Corunna, landed in
England 1809, naturalized by act 59 Geo. iii. cap. 90 (1819);
founded house of F. Huth and Co. merchants, City of London 1816;
one of most eminent merchants of City of London; had order of
Charles iii. of Spain. _d._ 33 Upper Harley st. London 14 Jany.
1864, personalty sworn under £500,000, 5 March.
HUTH, HENRY (_3 son of the preceding_). _b._ London 1815; ed. at
Rusden’s sch. Leith hill, Surrey to 1833; travelled in Germany,
France and the U.S. of A. 1836–9; joined a firm in Mexico 1840; in
a firm at Hamburg 1844–9; merchant in London 1849 to death;
purchased books at all the important sales, also daily at chief
booksellers; with the single exception of Lord Spencer had finest
private library then known; member of Philobiblon Society 1863, of
Roxburgh club 1866; treasurer and pres. of royal hospital for
incurables 1861; printed _Ancient ballads and broadsides_ 1867;
_Inedited poetical miscellanies 1584–1700._ 1870; _Fugitive Tracts
1493–1700. 2 vols._ 1875 and other books. _d._ 30 Prince’s gate,
London 10 Dec. 1878. _bur._ Bolney ch. yard, Sussex. _Times 14
Dec. 1878 p._ 9; _Athenæum 21 Dec. 1878 p._ 803; _Academy 21 Dec.
1878 p._ 583; _The Huth library. A catalogue of books,
manuscripts, letters and engravings, collected by H. Huth 5 vols._
(1880).
HUTHERSAL, REV. CORT (_son of John Huthersal of Ardwick green,
Manchester, schoolmaster_). Ed. at Manchester school and St.
John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; C. of St. Mary’s,
Manchester; C. of All Saints, Leamington to about 1837, lived at
Leamington rest of his life; author of _Synopsis of the various
administrations for the government of England from the year 1756
to 1842._ _London_ 1842, anon. _d._ Leamington 14 Sep. 1859.
HUTHWAITE, SIR EDWARD (_eld. son of William Huthwaite, draper,
Nottingham_). _bapt._ St. Peter’s, Nottingham 24 June 1793; ed. at
military academy Woolwich; second lieut. Bengal artillery 12 Nov.
1810, lieut.-col. 3 July 1845, col. commandant 23 Jany. 1854 to
death; L.G. 6 March 1868; C.B. 3 April 1846, K.C.B. 2 June 1869;
served in India 1810 to his death, and was present at Sobraon,
Chillianwalla and Goojrat. _d._ Sherwood, Nynee Tal, India 5 April
1873. _I.L.N. lxii_, 475 (1873).
HUTHWAITE, HENRY. _b._ 1769; entered Bengal army 1795; colonel 15
Bengal N.I. 1837–52; colonel 42 Bengal N.I. 1852 to death; L.G. 11
Nov. 1851. _d._ Hoveringham, Notts. 5 Dec. 1853.
HUTT, SIR GEORGE (_son of Richard Hutt of Appley Towers, Ryde, Isle
of Wight_). _b._ 1809; lieut. Bombay artillery 28 Sep. 1827, major
12 Sep. 1855 to 9 Nov. 1858 when he retired; served during Scinde
and Afghan campaigns 1839–44, in Persia 1857, and Indian mutiny
1857–8; M.G. 18 Jany. 1859; sec. to comrs. of Chelsea hospital 6
March 1865 to 13 March 1885; C.B. 26 Feb. 1846, K.C.B. 21 June
1887; edited _Papers illustrative of the history of the royal
hospital at Chelsea_ 1872. _d._ Appley Towers, Ryde, Isle of Wight
27 Sep. 1889. _Times 31 Oct. 1889 p._ 10.
HUTT, RICHARD. _b._ 1803; assistant to George Cawthorne of the
circulating library 24 Cockspur st., London May 1825, managed the
business for the widow 1833–50, and was partner with her son
1850–74 when the latter retired. _d._ 24 Cockspur st. 8 Nov. 1876
aged 73. _Bookseller Dec. 1876 p._ 1143; _Publisher’s Circular
Dec. 1876 p._ 920.
NOTE.—This was the first circulating library in London, it was
commenced at 132 Strand in 1740 by Wright, who was succeeded
by Batho. John Bell next became the proprietor of the business
and was followed by G. Cawthorne who removed to Cockspur st.
in 1807.
HUTT, _Sir William_ (_brother of Sir George Hutt_, 1809–89). _b._ 2
Chester place, Lambeth, Surrey 6 Oct. 1801; ed. at St. Mary’s
hall, Ox. Feb. to Aug. 1820 and at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1827,
M.A. 1831; M.P. Hull 1832–41; M.P. Gateshead 1841–74; V.P. of
board of trade and paymaster general 22 Feb. 1860 to Nov. 1865;
P.C. 22 Feb. 1860; negotiated a treaty of commerce between Great
Britain and Austria 27 Feb. 1865 etc.; member of mixed commission
at Vienna to examine into Austrian Tariff 1 March 1865; K.C.B. 27
Nov. 1865. _d._ Appley Towers, Ryde, Isle of Wight 24 Nov. 1882.
HUTTON, EDWARD. _b._ 1797; L.R.C.S. Ireland 1819, F.R.C.S. 1824,
president 1852, sec. June 1853 to June 1865; M.B. Dublin 1822,
M.D. 1842; president of pathological society of Dublin; M.R.I.A.;
contributed to _Dublin medical journal_ and other periodicals.
_d._ 5 Merrion square south, Dublin 24 Nov. 1865.
HUTTON, FREDERICK. _b._ 1801; entered navy 28 Jany. 1813; captain 3
July 1844; governor of Ascension 12 Nov. 1846; R.A. 1 April 1863.
_d._ Tunbridge Wells 6 March 1866.
HUTTON, GEORGE. Entered Madras army 1811; colonel 22 Madras N.I.
1860 to death; M.G. 4 July 1856. _d._ Vizianagram, Madras 28 Aug.
1861.
HUTTON, HENRY. Called to the bar in Ireland 1822, Q.C. 7 Feb. 1849;
chairman of quarter sessions, co. Roscommon to death. _d._ 1859.
HUTTON, REV. HENRY (_son of lieut. general Henry Hutton, d. 1827_).
_b._ Moate, Westmeath 1808; ed. at Wad. coll. Ox., B.A. 1830, M.A.
1833; C. of Lidlington, Beds. 1832; P.C. of Woburn, Beds. 1834–49;
chaplain to duke of Bedford 1839; R. of St. Paul’s, Covent Garden,
London 1849 to death; author of _Lectures, doctrinal, explanatory
and practical on the English liturgy_. _Woburn_ 1848; _An account
of the charitable institutions in parish of Saint Paul, Covent
Garden_ 1858. _d._ 7 Henrietta st. Covent Garden 23 June 1863.
_Sermons on the Lord’s Prayer. By H. Hutton_ (1863), _Memoir pp.
i-xlviii_.
HUTTON, JAMES FREDERICK (_son of Wm. M. Hutton_). _b._ London 1826;
an African merchant and manufacturer of cotton goods at
Manchester; Belgian consul at Manchester 11 Aug. 1887 to death;
pres. of Manchester chamber of commerce; F.R.G.S.; M.P. for North
division of Manchester 1885 to 1886. _d._ Cairo 1 March 1890.
HUTTON, REV. PETER. _b._ Holbeck near Leeds 29 June 1811; ed. at
Benedictine college, Ampleforth; studied at Univ. of Louvain
1836–9; ordained priest 24 Sep. 1839; pres. of St. Peter’s
college, Prior Park near Bath, and professor of Latin and Greek
there Sep. 1839 to July 1841; entered the Order of Charity at
Loughborough, Leics. 5 July 1841; rector of the college of Order
of Charity near village of Ratcliffe-on-the-Wreak near Leicester
23 Nov. 1844, vice pres. 2 July 1850, pres. 1 Nov. 1851 to death;
translated all the Latin and Greek authors read in the schools at
Ratcliffe. _d._ Ratcliffe college 2 Sep. 1880. _J. Hirst’s Brief
memoir of Father Hutton. Market Weighton_, _St. William’s press_
(1886); _Gillow’s English Catholics, iii_, 517–21 (1887).
HUTTON, ROBERT HOWARD (_son of Robert Hutton_). _b._ Soulby,
Westmoreland 26 July 1840; farmer Milnthorpe 1863–9; bone setter
at 74 Gloucester place, Portman sq. London 1871–9, at 36 Queen
Anne st. Cavendish sq. 1879 to death; had an extensive practice
and made much money; a well known huntsman at Melton Mowbray. _d._
University coll. hospital, London from taking laudanum in error
for a black draught 16 July 1887.
NOTE.—His uncle Richard Hutton was a bone setter at Wyndham
place, Crawford st. London for many years and _d._ Gilling
lodge, Watford 6 Jany. 1871 aged 70. Among his successful
cures were the Hon. Spencer Ponsonby in 1865 and George Moore
the philanthropist in 1869.
HUTTON, REV. WYNDHAM MADDEN (_son of Rev. John Hutton of Granby,
Notts._) Matric. from St. Edmund hall, Ox. 7 July 1849 aged 18; at
St. Bees 1854; V. of St. Paul, Tipton, Staffs. 1861–9; V. of
Kirk-Christ-Lezayre, Isle of Man 1869–77; V. of Twyford with
Hungarton and Thorpe-Satchville, Leics. 1877 to death; author of
_Poems. By A member of the university of Oxford_. _Oxford_ 1851;
_Gottfried’s pilgrimage: an allegory_ 1866, _3 ed._ 1868;
_Bertha’s Dream and other tales. Frome Selwood_ 1868; _The
unconquered island_. _Ramsay_ 1873. _d._ Hungarton vicarage 18
Jany. 1882.
HUY, JOHN. Acting manager of Court theatre, London under Marie
Litton, Jany. 1871 to March 1875 and under John Hare, March 1875
to 19 July 1879; acting manager of St. James’s theatre, London
under John Hare and W. H. Kendall 4 Oct. 1879 to 21 July 1888;
ruptured his liver by falling on the stone stairs at his residence
3 Langham place, Regent st. London 29 Nov. 1891. _d._ 30 Nov. 1891
aged 57. _The Era 5 Dec. 1891 p._ 9 _col._ 4.
HUYSHE, ALFRED (_youngest son of Rev. John Huyshe of Exeter
1772–1851_). _b._ 1811; ed. at Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Bengal
artillery 13 Dec. 1827; col. R.A. 29 April 1861 to 31 Oct. 1867;
inspector general of artillery in India 1867–73; general 1 Oct.
1877; C.B. 2 June 1877. _d._ 46 Onslow sq. London 25 Feb. 1880 in
69 year. _Graphic xxii_, 196 (1880), _portrait_.
HUYSHE, GEORGE (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 1804; ensign 13
Bengal N.I. 22 March 1820; col. Bengal infantry 15 Nov. 1853;
general 19 Feb. 1872; C.B. 27 Sep. 1843. _d._ Guernsey 6 Oct.
1881.
HUYSHE, GEORGE LIGHTFOOT (_2 son of the preceding_). _b._ 1839;
ensign rifle brigade 18 April 1856, capt. 19 Dec. 1862; served
with 83 regt. in Indian mutiny 1857–9, in pursuit of Tantia Topee
1858–9, medal; on Sir G. Wolseley’s staff on Red river expedition
1870; D.A.A.G. on Sir Garnet Wolseley’s staff; author of _The Red
river expedition_ 1871; with H. Brackenbury of _Fanti and Ashanti_
1873. _d._ Prah-su, Ashantee 18 Jany. 1874. _Graphic_, _ix_, 218,
229 (1874), _portrait_.
HYDE, EDGAR (_youngest son of Rev. Henry Woodd Cock Hyde of
Camberwell, Surrey_). _b._ 27 May 1829; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. and
C.C. coll. Ox., junior math. scholar 1847–57, fellow 1857–68; B.A.
1851, M.A. 1854; barrister I.T. 11 June 1862; practised at
Calcutta 1862–71; edited _Reports of cases in Court of judicature
at Fort William_, _Calcutta_ 1864; author of _The Indian
succession act, with introduction and synopsis_ 1865. _d._
Folkestone 27 Jany. 1891.
HYDE, GEORGE HOOTON (_son of Rev. George Hooton Hyde, R. of Wareham,
Dorset_). _b._ 1798; 2 lieut. R.A. 7 July 1817, captain 18 Aug.
1843 to 14 Jany. 1852 when he retired on full pay; general 1 Oct.
1877. _d._ 13 Albert place, Victoria road, Kensington, London 8
March 1879.
HYDE, HENRY (_brother of Edgar Hyde 1829–91_). _b._ St. Giles,
Camberwell 1825; ed. Addiscombe to 1844; 2 lieut. Bengal engineers
7 June 1844; engaged in forming Cis-Sutlej states roads 1847; at
siege of Mooltan and battle of Goojrat 1849; raised the Pathan
companies of the sappers 1858; deputy consulting engineer railway
department, N.W. provinces and Bengal 1859–60; inspector general
of public works accounts, Bengal 1861; master of Calcutta mint
Jany. 1862 to Jany. 1876, superintended paper currency department
1862–70; president Asiatic soc. Calcutta; inspector general of
stores, India office, London 1876 to death; retired from royal
engineers 17 Feb. 1878; hon. major general 17 Feb. 1878. _d._
Burntwood, Caterham, Surrey 23 Oct. 1887. _Min. of Proc. of I.C.E.
xci_, 462–6 (1888).
HYDE, REV. JOHN. _b._ London 26 Feb. 1833; joined the Church of the
Latter day saints 1849, preached Mormonism in France 1852, went to
Salt Lake city 1853, lectured against Mormonism in the Sandwich
islands and the United States of America and England 1855–6;
_bapt._ by Dr. Jonathan Bayley in Argyle sq. ch. London and became
a Swedenborgian 1858; minister at Brightlingsea 1859–61, at Derby
1861–6, and at Manchester 1866 to death; president of the New
Jerusalem Church conference in London three times; author of
_Mormonism, its leaders and designs_. _New York_ 1857;
_Swedenborg, the man of the age_ 1859; _The serpent that beguiled
Eve_ 1862; _The doctrine of substitution_ 1880, _new ed._ 1882;
wrote under pseud. of A Bible Student _Our eternal homes_ 1864,
_several editions_; _Bible Photographs, a contrast between
righteousness and wickedness_ 1865 and other books. _d._ Milford,
Derbyshire 18 Aug. 1875. _Intellectual Repository, Oct. 1875 pp._
468–77; _Publishers’ Circular 1 Sep. 1875 pp._ 635–6; _I.L.N.
lxv_, 229, 230 (1874), _portrait_.
HYDES, JOHN P. Best known actor in New Zealand where he first
appeared as Chizzler in the farce of _But-However_ 23 April 1849;
built Duke of Edinburgh theatre at Hokilika; held every position
in the profession from checktaker to proprietor; great burlesque
actor; appeared at Maguire’s opera house, San Francisco as Pauline
in burlesque of _Lady of Lyons_ 30 April 1859. _d._ Melbourne
early in 1883.
HYETT, WILLIAM HENRY (_eld. son of Rev. Henry Cay Adams of
Shrewsbury, d._ 1808). _b._ 2 Sep. 1795; ed. at Westminster,
matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 21 Oct. 1813; swam across the Hellespont
from Sestos to Abydos in 1 hour and 50 minutes; assumed name of
Hyett upon succeeding to estates of Benjamin Hyett 1815; M.P.
Stroud 13 Dec. 1832 to 30 Dec. 1834; made experiments on growth of
trees by watering with chymical solutions; taught mechanical
drawing in his schools at Painswick; founder of Gloucestershire
eye institution 1866; made translations from Horace, Goethe,
Victor Hugo and Filicaja which he privately printed; F.R.S. _d._
Painswick house, Gloucs. 10 March 1877. _Times 13 March 1877 p._
10.
HYLAND, MOST REV. THOMAS RAYMOND. _b._ Dublin 3 Nov. 1837; entered
Dominican order at Tallaght, Feb. 1856; ordained priest in Rome 22
Dec. 1864; consecrated bishop of Euria, in partibus, in Rome 30
April 1882 and appointed coadjutor archbishop of Trinidad, West
Indies. _d._ Trinidad 9 Oct. 1884.
HYLES, WILLIAM (_eld. son of Georges Hyles of Canute castle hotel,
Southampton_). _b._ 1843; proprietor of the York music hall,
Southampton from its foundation 1873 to death. _d._ Royal York
hotel, above Bar, Southampton 30 Aug. 1878.
HYLTON, WILLIAM GEORGE HYLTON JOLIFFE, 1 Baron (_elder child of Rev.
Wm. John Hylton of Merstham, Surrey d. 31 Jany. 1835_). _b._
Little Argyle st. London 7 Dec. 1800; cornet 15 hussars 10 April
1817; captain 29 foot 22 April 1824 to 24 June 1824 when placed on
h.p.; cr. baronet 20 Aug. 1821; M.P. Petersfield 1830–34, 1841–66;
under sec. of state for home department March 1852 to Dec. 1852;
parliamentary sec. to treasury March 1858 to June 1859; P.C. 18
June 1859; whip to conservative party in house of commons; created
baron Hylton of Hylton, co. Durham and of Petersfield, Hants. 16
July 1866. _d._ Merstham house, Redhill, Surrey 1 June 1876.
_I.L.N. xxxii_ 312 (1858) _portrait_, _li_ 609, 610 (1867)
_portrait_, _lxviii_ 575 (1876).
HYMAN, REV. ORLANDO HAYDON BRIDGMAN (_1 son of Simon Hyman of
Devonport_). _b._ 1814; ed. at Wadham coll. Ox., scholar 1830–5,
senior fellow 1835 to death; B.A. 1834, M.A. 1840; a well known
Greek scholar; had a remarkably tenacious memory, tore up his
books when he had read them. _d._ Porchester place, Oxford sq.,
London 9 Dec. 1878. _Times 18 Dec. 1878 p._ 11; _N. and Q. 5
Series xi_, 201–2 (1879).
HYMERS, REV. JOHN (_son of a farmer_). _b._ Ormsby in Cleveland,
Yorkshire 20 July 1803; a sizar at St. John’s coll. Cam. 1822; 2
wrangler 1826, B.A. 1826, B.D. 1836, D.D. 1841; fellow of his
coll. 1827, assistant tutor 1829, tutor 1832, senior fellow
1838–52, pres. 1848–52; lady Margaret preacher in Univ. of Cam.
1841–52; R. of Brandesburton in Holderness, Yorkshire 1852 to
death; F.R.S. 31 May 1838; author of _The theory of Equations_
1837, _3 ed._ 1858; _The Integral Calculus_ 1844; _A treatise on
spherical trigonometry_ 1841 and other books; left nearly all his
property to found a gram. sch. at Hull, but bequest invalid under
statute of mortmain, his brother Robert Hymers gave £50,000 for
same purpose Jany. 1891. _d._ Brandesburton 7 April 1887. _F.
Ross’s Celebrities of the Yorkshire wolds_ (1878) _p._ 84.
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