Bankers, Batten 552,
Call 516,
Cohen 668,
Currie 792 _bis._,
De Sterne 867,
Digges 1059,
Drummond 919,
Garfit 1123,
Gibson 1139,
Gosling 1207,
Grote 1251,
Gurney 1260, 1261, 1262,
Handley 1315,
Hankey 1316,
Heywood 1457, 1458,
Hoare 1485, 1486,
Hodgson 1494.
Banking, bank manager Gilbart 1144,
bank notes, machine for printing 77,
cheque bank founded 1451,
clearing house 576,
joint stock banks established 641.
Bank of England, architect of 664,
doors first marked In and Out 1561,
one pound notes 77,
physician 827,
printing of bank notes 77,
printing machinery 739,
solicitor 1108.
Bankruptcy, country district courts abolished 9,
seventy commissioners 1074.
Banks, Sir Joseph _d._ 1820, naturalist, his collections 437.
Banting, William _d._ 1878, undertaker 155,
his medical man 1368,
banting system introduced 155, 173.
Banwell hill, Somerset, bone caves at 208.
Barbary, captives in 875.
Bark trade, the 1281.
Barnard Castle, Durham, Josephine and John Bowes, museum and park 358.
Barometers, aneroids used in mountain expeditions 1493,
Fitzroy barometer 1064,
mountain barometer, an improved 1560.
Baronetage, assuming an extinct 1136,
baronetage declined 814, 1291,
baronetage not taken up 588,
committee for sustaining rights of 429,
designation taken 152, 666, 1307, 1588,
eldest sons claim and obtain knightage 727, 844,
extinct 733,
first engineer made a baronet 1170,
premier baronet of England 120,
sham baronet presented to William iv. 1588.
Barrister making £22,000 a year 1506.
Bashi Bazouks organised 210, 1577.
Bassoon player, Baumann 195.
Bateman, Thomas _d._ 1861, author 191, 1160.
Bath, Portland chapel 479,
Prior park R.C. coll. 479, 1609,
Sir L. C. L. Brenton’s chapel 390,
W. Hunt mayor 1594.
Batho, Mr. proprietor of a circulating library 1607.
Baths, fumigating established 1225.
Batteries, iron cased floating 914.
Bayeux tapestry, account of 721.
Bayley, Jonathan, Swedenborgian minister 1611.
Beaufoy, Henry B. H. _d._ 1851, F.R.S. 212,
his collection of tokens 482.
Bedford, Britannia foundry 1553.
Bedford level canal 1311.
Bedfordshire, lord lieutenant 218.
Bedouin Arab troops 870.
Beds, air 627.
Beer, method of testing gravities 886.
Beethoven, Ludwig von _d._ 1827, Israel in Egypt performed 1160,
Pastoral symphony performed with illustrations 1160.
Beetroot, spirit distilled from 263.
Belcher, John _b._ 1841, architect, designed Goss memorial 1187.
Belfast hospitals founded 240.
Bell, John, proprietor of a circulating library 1607.
Bellingham, John executed 1812, assassin, his arrest 908.
Bells, chiming hammers 975,
writers on 975.
Belt, Richard Claude, sculptor, Belt _v._ C. Lawes 1565.
Benedictine order, Acton Burnell coll. 439,
St. Gregory’s coll. 439.
Bentham, Jeremy _d._ 1832 philosopher, his amanuensis 732.
Bentinck, Lord George F. C. _d._ 1848 politician, his betting factotum
1470.
Berkeley, Colonel, connection with Maria Foote 1344.
Berkeley, G. C. Grantley F. _d._ 1881, M.P. 254,
his huntsman 561.