captain 21 Feb. 1798; captain 69 foot 5 Dec. 1802, lieut. col.
10 Aug. 1815, placed on h.p. 25 Nov. 1816; lieut. col. 69 foot
again 3 July 1817, retired 3 Oct. 1826; C.B. 22 June 1815. _d._
Maida hill, London 11 Jany. 1854.
MYBURGH, PHILIP ALBERT (5 son of François Gerard Myburgh of
Cape of Good Hope civil service, _d._ 21 Jany. 1868). _b._ 24
Feb. 1841; educ. South African college; matric. univ. of London
1858, B.A. 1860; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1862, bencher Jany. 1886
to death; Q.C. 18 Jany. 1882; her majesty’s standing counsel
in supreme court, China and Japan; practised in the admiralty
court, London. _d._ 31 Queen’s gate gardens, London 4 July 1892.
MYCROFT, WILLIAM. _b._ Brimington, near Chesterfield 1 Feb.
1841; a miner at Brimington; professional cricketer; engaged at
Birkenhead 1871, at Derby by the South Derbyshire club 1872–3;
first played at Lord’s in All England _v._ the United South
22–3 May 1876, when he put out 9 of the latter and hit W. G.
Grace for three 4’s in one over; a fast left hand bowler; in
the Players _v._ Gentlemen at Lord’s and at Prince’s 1877;
engaged by lord Sheffield to help Alfred Shaw in training Sussex
players; on ground staff at Lord’s 1876–93. _d._ Derby 19 June
1894. _Marylebone Club cricket scores xiii_ 823 (1880).
MYERS, ARTHUR THOMAS (eld. son of rev. Frederick Myers of
Keswick, Cumberland). _b._ 1841; educ. at Trin. coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1873, M.A. 1876, M.D. 1881; L.S.A. 1879; M.R.C.P. Lond.
1882; house physician St. George’s hospital 1879–80, medical
registrar 1880–4; physician Belgrave hospital for children 1887
to death; contributed to Clinical society transactions. _d._
from effects of a dose of some narcotic at 2 Manchester sq.
London 10 Jany. 1894.
MYERS, FREDERICK (son of Thomas Myers 1774–1834, professor
of mathematics at royal military academy, Woolwich.) _b._
Blackheath 20 Sept. 1811; scholar of Clare hall, Camb. 1829,
Crosse scholar 1833, fellow 1833; B.A. 1833; Tyrwhitt Hebrew
scholar 1836; C. of Ancaster, Lincs. 1835; P.C. of St. John’s,
Keswick 1838 to death; author of Catholic Thoughts, privately
printed, in 4 books 1834–48, published 1873 in the series of
Present-day papers, edited by Bishop Ewing, issued again in
1883; Four sermons preached before the university of Cambridge,
Keswick 1846; Six lectures on great men 1848. _d._ Clifton 20
July 1851. _bur._ Keswick churchyard 26 July. _The life of Wm.
Whewell_, _By Mrs. Stair Douglas_ (1881) _passim_.
MYERS, JAMES WASHINGTON. _b._ Providence, Rhode island, U.S. of
America 1823; an equestrian apprentice to Aaron Turner and Sons
1832; the first person who did a double somersault over horses;
proprietor of a circus and menagerie 1844, travelled in United
States 7 years, sold his establishment to James Nixon and P. T.
Barnum 1851; came to England and performed before the queen at
Windsor Castle 1851; travelled with Howes and Cushing’s circus
17 months; circus proprietor performing in the English provinces
and on the Continent; had a very large establishment in Paris;
his circus was at Crystal palace, Sydenham, summer of 1876;
opened at the Agricultural hall, Islington 12 Jany. 1879; sold
his circus, horses, lions, and elephants for about £5,000 at
North Woolwich gardens 18 Oct. 1882; travelled with Hengler’s
circus to death. _d._ Bristol 1 Dec. 1892. _Era 21 Oct. 1882 p._
7, _cols._ 3–4; _Graphic xxvi_ 501 (1882); _Illust. Sp. and Dr.
news xviii_ 145 (1882).
MYERS, WILLIAM. Apprenticed to a land surveyor; acted under
Mr. Thornhill at Bilston, then at Birmingham; played under
Charles Kean’s management; acted Buckingham in Richard iii, and
Appius Claudius in Virginius; played Quasimodo in Notre Dame in
Jersey and was complimented by Victor Hugo; acted with W. C.
Macready; last appeared as the Baillie in Rob Roy at Jersey;
was the successor to T. P. Cooke in the character of William
in Black-eyed Susan; correspondent of The Era in Guernsey.
_d._ Guernsey 31 Dec. 1891, left a daughter Katherine Myers,
professionally known as Kate Maynard.
MYERS, WILLIAM. _b._ Norwich 5 March 1836; at Shrewsbury walked
300 miles in 6 days 1853; jumped 500 hurdles, 10 yards apart, in
30 minutes at Huntingdon 30 Dec. 1856; won a gold cup over 500
hurdles at Aldershot 1858; won a silver cup in a distance of 34
miles at Brompton; walked Bailey of Oxford st. London for £10
a side at Brompton; won a 3 mile handicap at Holloway grounds;
beat W. Priestly for the championship £25 a side on Good Friday
1861; beat T. Beeston 7 miles £25 a side at Chalk farm, Primrose
hill, London. _Illust. sporting news_ (1862) 45 _portrait_.
MYLES, JAMES. _b._ parish of Liff, Scotland 1819; worked as a
mason several years; a public speaker on the people’s rights;
bookseller in the Overgate, Dundee to death; published A Feast
of literary crumbs, By Foo Foozle and friends; author of
Chapters in the life of a Dundee factory boy, reprinted from
Northern Warder newspaper; Rambles in Forfarshire, or sketches
in town and country 1850, mostly reprinted from Dundee Courier;
issued prospectus of a periodical entitled Myles’s Forfarshire
telegraph and monthly advertiser, shortly before his death. _d._
Dundee 26 Feb. 1851. _W. Norries’ Dundee Celebrities_ (1873)
132–3.
MYLES, PERCY WATKINS (son of rev. T. P. Myles, rector of
Kilmore, co. Cork). _b._ Kilmore Feb. 1849; educ. Trin.
coll. Dublin, B.A. 1872; C. of St. John, Wednesbury, Staffs.
1871–4; Senior C. of Holy Trinity, Upper Chelsea 1874–8; C. of
Hillingdon, Middlesex 1878–82; C. of St. George, Old Brentford
1882–4; C. of St. Stephen, Ealing 1884 to death; agent of
Additional curates aid soc.; F.L.S.; his lecture before Rudy
institute, Paris on Contemporary English literature Jany. 1890,
printed as a pamphlet March 1890; a writer in The Academy;
edited for the Selbourne Society, its monthly magazine Nature
notes 1890 to death. _d._ 1 Argyll road, Castle Hill, Ealing 7
Oct. 1891. _Academy 10 Oct. 1891 p._ 335.
MYLNE, ROBERT WILLIAM (son of the succeeding). _b._ 14 June
1817; assisted his father for about 20 years; engineer to
Limerick water company some years; obtained a supply of water
from a sunk fort in the sea off Portsmouth; surveyor to the
Stationers’ company 1861 to death; F.R.I.B.A. 1849–89; F.G.S.
1848, member of council 1854–68; F.S.A. 8 Feb. 1849; author of
On the supply of water from Artesian wells in the London basin
1840; Account of the ancient basilica of San Clemente at Rome
1845; Sections of the London strata with a block plan of the
metropolis 1850; Topographical map of London and its environs
1851 and 1855; Map of the geology and contours of London and
its environs 1856; Map of London shewing the districts supplied
by the waterworks 1856. _d._ Home lodge, Great Amwell, Herts.
2 July 1890. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xlviii pp. xx–xxi_ (1891);
_Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xiii_ 317 (1890).
MYLNE, WILLIAM CHADWELL (2 son of Robert Mylne, architect
and engineer 1734–1811). _b._ London 6 April 1781; assistant
engineer to the New River company 1804, engineer 1811–61;
designed and executed water works for Lichfield 1821, and for
Stamford 1836; laid out 50 acres of land for building purposes
near Islington, and designed St. Mark’s ch. Myddelton sq.
1826–8; constructed many settling reservoirs at Stoke Newington
1828; surveyor to the Stationers’ company 1811–61; F.R.A.S.
1821; F.R.S. 16 March 1826; F.R.I.B.A. 1834; M.I.C.E. 1842,
member of council 1844–8; treasurer to Smeatonian society of
engineers 41 years. _d._ Amwell, Herts. 25 Dec. 1863. _R. S.
Mylne’s Master masons to the crown of Scotland_ (1893) 284–98
_portrait_; _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxx_ 448–51 (1870).
MYNN, ALFRED (4 son of Wm. Mynn, farmer). _b._ Twisdon lodge,
Goudhurst, Kent 19 Jany. 1807; a hop merchant with his brother
at 12 Counter st. Borough, London 1833; played with lord Sondes’
club at Leeds court from 1825; first appeared at Lord’s in
Gentlemen _v._ Players 27 Aug. 1832; served with the Gentlemen
20 times; played for county of Kent regularly till 1854; in
1836 he scored 283 runs in 4 consecutive innings, besides being
twice not out; on an average he made about 30 runs in an hour;
member of All England eleven 1846–54; a second Kent and England
match was played in his honor at Lord’s 1847, when he got most
runs, most wickets, and also hit the winning ball; the champion
single wicket player of England, and beat, twice each, Thomas
Hills in 1832, James Dearman in 1838, and N. Felix in 1846,
all of whom had challenged him; a fast and ripping round armed
bowler; resided at Harrietsham from 1825, removed to Thurnham
and then to London. _d._ Merrick sq. Borough, London 1 Nov.
1861. _Denison’s Cricket_ (1846) 3–11 _and_ 74–6; _Lillywhite’s
Cricket Scores ii_ 200–1 (1862); _R. Daft’s Kings of cricket_
(1893) 28–32, 203, 3 _portraits_; _W. G. Grace’s Cricket_ (1891)
29 _portrait_; _Illust. sporting news_ (1862) 137 _portrait_.
MYNN, WALTER PARKER (brother of preceding). _b._ 24 Nov. 1805;
member of the Kent eleven, a steady bat, generally going in
first; played at Lord’s first time in Sixteen gentlemen _v._
Eleven players 8 July 1833; long stop to his younger brother, A.
Mynn’s tremendous bowling, and was much hurt about his hands in
consequence; height upwards of six feet. _d._ 19 South Grove,
Peckham, London 17 Oct. 1878. _bur._ Forest Hill. _Lillywhite’s
Cricket scores ii_ 221 (1862).
MYTTON, RICHARD HERBERT (only son of rev. Richard Mytton of
Garth, near Welshpool, Montgomeryshire, _d._ 21 Feb. 1828). _b._
2 Dec. 1808; ed. at Eton and Haileybury; judge of the Sudder,
or high court of appeal at Calcutta, retired 1853; sheriff of
Montgomeryshire 1856; chairman of quarter sessions. _d._ Garth
12 May 1869.
N
NADEN, CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL (only child of Thomas Naden,
architect). _b._ 15 Francis road, Edgbaston, Birmingham 24
Jany. 1858; lived with Mrs. Woodhill at Edgbaston till 1 June
1887, from whom she inherited a handsome fortune; a disciple of
Robert Lewins, M.D. from 1876, the doctrine he taught is called
hylo-idealism, and is monistic positivism; studied physics,
chemistry, botany, flower painting, German, French, Latin, and
Greek under private tutors, and at the Midland institute, and
at Mason’s coll. Birmingham 1879–1887; lectured at Mason’s
coll. 1889; edited the Mason college magazine; a member of the
Aristotelian society; travelled in the East 1887–8; purchased
114 Park st. Grosvenor sq. London Nov. 1888; endeavoured to
form a Spencer society 1819; wrote scientific papers with the
signatures of C. N., Constance Arden, and C. A.; author of Songs
and sonnets of spring time 1881; A modern apostle, the elixir of
life, and other poems 1887; Further reliques of C. Naden, ed.
by George M. McCrie 1891; Selections from the works of C. C. W.
Naden 1893. _d._ from an internal complaint 114 Park st. London
23 Dec. 1889. _bur._ in Old cemet. Warstone lane, Birmingham;
Dr. Lewin founded a Naden gold medal at Mason college, and gave
her bust in marble to the library 1890. _Induction and deduction
by C. C. W. Naden_ (1890) _memoir pp. vii–xvii portrait_; _W.
R. Hughes’ C. Naden_ (1890) _portrait_; _Mason coll. mag. Feb.
1890 pp._ 47–55; _Midland Institute mag. Feb. 1890 p._ 223,
_March p._ 240; _Edgbastonia Feb. 1890 pp._ 17–23 _portrait_;
_A. H. Miles’ Poets of the century_, _viii_ 571–8 (1893);
_E. C. Brewer’s Constance Naden and hydro-idealism_ (1891);
_Contemporary review April 1891 pp._ 508–22; _The Speaker No. 2
Jany. 11 1890 p._ 35, _by W. E. Gladstone, where he praises her
Pantheistic song of immortality_.
NAFTEL, MAUD (only dau. of the succeeding). _b._ 1 June 1856;
studied at Slade school of art in London, and in Paris under
Carolus Duran; exhibited 8 drawings at the Dudley gallery
1877–82, and at the Dudley Gallery art soc. 2 drawings 1883–5;
was noted for her paintings of flowers; associate of the Old
Society of painters in water-colours March 1887, where she
exhibited 16 drawings; exhibited 2 flower pieces at R.A. 1875–8;
author of Flowers and how to paint them 1886. _d._ 76 Elm park
road, Chelsea 18 Feb. 1890. _J. L. Roget’s Old water colour
society ii_ 352, 428–9 (1891).
NAFTEL, PAUL JACOB (son of Paul Naftel of Guernsey). _b._
Guernsey 10 Sept. 1817; professor of drawing at Elizabeth
college, Guernsey; associate of the Old Society of Painters in
water-colours 11 Feb. 1856, member 13 June 1859, exhibited 550
works; a landscape drawing-master in water-colours, London 1870
to death; resided at 4 St. Stephen’s sq. Westminster 1870–83,
and then at 76 Elm park road; designed the illustrations for
Ansted and Latham’s The Channel Islands 1862. _d._ 1 Walpole
gardens, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham 13 Sept. 1891. _J. L.
Roget’s Old water colour society ii_ 352–4 (1891).
NOTE.--His wife exhibited 6 pictures at R.A., and 9 at Suffolk st.
1857–79.
NAGHTEN, ARTHUR ROBERT (son of Thomas Naghten of Crofton house,
Titchfield, Hants). _b._ 23 April 1829; educ. Eton and Worcester
coll. Oxf., B.A. 1852, M.A. 1853; M.P. Winchester 3 Feb. 1874 to
24 March 1880; captain Hampshire artillery 3 Aug. 1859, major
1872–5; a director of Southampton dock co. _d._ Blightmont,
Southampton 7 Aug. 1881.
NAGLE, JAMES. _b._ co. Cork; sessional crown prosecutor in
East Riding of co. Cork 1836–53; master of the crown office in
Ireland, queen’s coroner and attorney and clerk of the crown
1853 to death. _d._ 90 Pembroke road, Dublin 11 Sept. 1875.
_Irish Law Times ix_ 470, 535 (1875).
NAIRN, WILLIAM EDWARD (1 son of Wm. Nairn, major 46 foot).
_b._ Lynecombe, Somerset 1812; matric. from Queen’s coll.
Oxf. 21 Jany. 1830; scholar of Lincoln coll. 1830–4; B.A.
1833; went with sir John Franklin to Van Diemen’s Land 1837;
secretary to board of education 1839; clerk to the executive and
legislative councils 1841; assistant colonial secretary 1842;
deputy controller general of convicts 1843, controller general
1855; sheriff of Van Diemen’s Land 1855; member for Meander of
legislative council 1856–69; president of the council Sept. 1859
to Aug. 1868. _d._ Hobart Town 9 July 1869.
NAIRNE, CHARLES MURRAY. _b._ Perth 15 April 1808; graduated
at Univ. of St. Andrews 1830, and afterwards at Edinburgh;
assistant to Dr. Thomas Chalmers at Glasgow; taught at College
Hill, Poughkeepsie, New York 1847; established a private school
in New York; professor of moral and intellectual philosophy and
literature in Columbia college 1857–81, emeritus professor 1881
to death; received degree of L.H.D. from the regents of New York
1865; author of Two lectures of the annual psychological course
in Columbia college, New York 1866, and of many pamphlets. _d._
Warrenton, Virginia 28 May 1882.
NAIRNE, ROBERT. Educ. Edinb. and at Trin. coll. Camb., M.B.
1832, M.L. 1836, M.D. 1837; F.R.C.P. Lond. 1838; physician to
St. George’s hospital 1839, then senior physician and lecturer
on medicine; a comr. in lunacy April 1857 to July 1883, hon.
comr. 1883 to death. _d._ Mossley, Beckenham 5 Nov. 1886. _The
Lancet 13 Nov. 1886 p._ 955, _20 Nov. p._ 1005.
NAISH, JOHN (2 son of Carrol Naish of Ballycullen, co.
Limerick). _b._ 1841; ed. at Jesuit school of Clongowes Wood in
Kildare, and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar in science 1861, B.A.
1863; won the studentship given by inns of court, London; called
to Irish bar 1865; Q.C. 28 Feb. 1880; bencher of King’s Inns
1883; law adviser to Dublin castle 1880–3; solicitor general
for Ireland 9 Jany. 1883, attorney general 19 Dec. 1884 to 21
May 1885; contested Mallow 25 June 1883; P.C. Ireland Jany.
1885; lord chancellor of Ireland 21 May to 1 July 1885, being
the second Roman Catholic chancellor since the reformation;
lord justice of appeal Aug. 1885 to Feb. 1886, and June 1886 to
death; lord chancellor again Feb. to July 1886. _d._ Ems 17 Aug.
1890. _bur._ at Ems. _Our judges_, _By Rhadamanthus_ (1890) 45–9
_portrait_; _Irish law times xxiv_ 446–7 (1890); _Law Journal 23
Aug. 1890 p._ 514.
NAISH, WILLIAM (son of Francis Naish, silversmith). _b._ High
st. Bath 9 March 1785; haberdasher at 37 Gracechurch st. London
1823–34; published many tracts and pamphlets in favour of the
anti-slavery movement which he sold at his shop 1829–30; resided
sometime at Maidstone; author of The negroe’s remembrancer, 13
numbers; The negroe’s friend, 26 numbers; Reasons for using East
Indian sugar 1828; The negro slave, a tale 1830; Sketches from
the history of Pennsylvania 1845; The fulfilment of the prophecy
of Isaiah 1853, and of a number of 4 page Quaker tracts. _d._
Bath 4 March 1860. _bur._ Friends burial ground at Widcombe Hill
near Bath. _J. Smith’s Catalogue ii_ 210–14 (1867).
NOTE.--His son Arthur John Naish, _b._ 1816, founded with Paul Bevan
the valuable Bevan-Naish library of Friend’s books, now deposited in
the library, Dr. Johnson passage, Birmingham, he _d._ 1889.
NALLY, PATRICK W. _b._ co. Mayo 1857; tried Dec. 1883 and again
in 1884 at Cork, and sentenced to 10 years penal servitude for
being concerned in the Crossmolins conspiracy to murder case;
detained in Mountjoy prison, Dublin from 1882–6, in Downpatrick
gaol and 1886, again at Mountjoy; preparation had been made
for a Nally testimonial on his expected release from prison
on 27 Nov. 1891. _d._ Mountjoy prison, Dublin 9 Nov. 1891.
_bur._ Glasnevin cemet. 14 Nov., when a large number of people
attended. _The Freeman’s Journal 10 Nov. 1891 p._ 5, _16 Nov.
p._ 5.
NAPIER OF MAGDALA, _Robert Cornelis Napier_, 1 Baron (son of
Charles Frederick Napier, major R.A. _d._ 1812). _b._ Colombo,
Ceylon 6 Dec. 1810; ed. at Addiscombe 1824–6; 2 lieut. Bengal
engineers 15 Dec. 1826; laid out the new settlement of Dargiling
1838–42; served at battles of Ferozeshah 21 Dec. 1845, and
Sobraon 10 Feb. 1846; served in the second Sikh war 1848–9;
civil engineer to board of administration of the Punjab 1849–56
where he carried out important public works; officiating chief
engineer of Bengal 1857; military secretary and chief of the
adjutant general’s department in Oudh, and at relief of Lucknow
1857, severely wounded at second relief of Lucknow 17 Nov. 1857,
commanded a brigade of engineers at siege of Lucknow 21 March
1858; commanded the Central India force May 1858, defeated
Tantia Topee in June, commanded the Gwalior division 29 June,
captured the rebel leaders Man Singh and Tantia Topee 7 April
1859; commanded the second division in the expedition to China
Jany. 1860, took the Peiho forts 21 Aug. 1860; military member
of council of governor general of India Jany. 1861 to Jany.
1865; commander-in-chief of the Bombay army Jany 1865; commanded
the expedition to Abyssinia which landed at Zoulah 2 Jany.
1868, defeated the troops of King Theodore 10 April and stormed
Magdala 13 April; C.B. 24 March 1858, K.C.B. 27 July 1858,
G.C.B. 27 April 1868; G.C.S.I. 16 Sept. 1867; created baron
Napier of Magdala in Abyssinia and of Caryngton in the county
palatine of Cheshire 14 July 1868; received freedom of cities
of London 21 July 1868 and of Edinburgh 15 Sept. 1868; hon.
colonel of 3rd London rifle corps 22 July 1868 to death; F.R.S.
16 Dec. 1869; commander-in-chief in India Jany. 1870 to 10 April
1876; col. commandant of the R.E. 1 April 1874 to death; general
1 April 1874; governor of Gibraltar 30 June 1876 to 1 Jany.
1883; field marshal 1 Jany. 1883; constable of Tower of London
6 Jany. 1887 to death. _d._ 63 Eaton sq. London 14 Jany. 1890.
_bur._ St. Paul’s cathedral 21 Jany. equestrian statue by Boehm
erected in Calcutta 1876, a replica of which was unveiled in
Waterloo place, London 8 July 1891. _C. R. Low’s Soldiers of the
Victorian age_ (1870) 308–71; _T. H. S. Escott’s Pillars of the
empire_ (1879) 228–35; _C. R. Markham’s History of Abyssinian
expedition_ (1869) 140 _et seq._; _E. H. Nolan’s Indian mutiny
iii_ 71 _portrait_; _I.L.N. li_ 349, 350 (1867) _portrait_, _18
July 1891 p._ 67 _view of statue_; _Graphic xvii_ 293 (1878)
_portrait_.
NOTE.--He is depicted under the name of general Sutton in the novel
called Chronicles of Dustypore, a tale of modern Anglo-Indian society.
By the author of Wheat and Tares (H. S. Cunningham). 2 vols. 1875.
NAPIER, ALEXANDER (6 son of Macvey Napier 1776–1847, editor
of the Edinburgh Review 1829–47). _b._ Edinburgh 1814; ed. at
Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1847; V. of Holkham, Norfolk
1847 to death; chaplain and librarian to earl of Leicester; R.
of Egmere with Waterden 1847 to death; edited Isaac Barrow’s
Theological Works, 9 vols. Camb. 1859; Life of Samuel Johnson,
by J. Boswell, 5 vols. 1884, 2 ed. 6 vols. 1884; translated
and edited J. A. W. Neander’s The epistle to the Philippians
and the general epistle of James 1851; Karl Elze’s Lord Byron
1872; Julius Payer’s New lands within the Arctic circle, 2 vols.
1876; A. T. F. Michaelis’ The Holkham bust of Thucydides 1878;
his wife Robina Napier translated Memoirs of prince Metternich
1773–1815, edited by prince Richard Metternich, 5 vols. 1880–4;
he _d._ Holkham vicarage 24 Aug. 1887. _Quarterly Review Oct.
1869 pp._ 353–81.
NAPIER, Sir Charles (eld. son of Charles Napier of Merchiston
hall, Stirlingshire, captain in the navy 1731–1807). _b._
Merchiston hall 6 March 1786; entered navy 1 Nov. 1799, captain
22 May 1809; lost his fortune in an attempt to promote iron
steamers on the Seine 1819–27; vice-admiral, major general of
the Portuguese navy and commander-in-chief of the fleet in the
cause of Donna Maria and Dom Pedro 8 June to 15 Oct. 1833;
defeated the squadron of Dom Miguel off Cape St. Vincent 3 July
1833; promoted to rank of admiral and created viscount Cape St.
Vincent in peerage of Portugal July 1833; granted grand cross of
order of the Tower and Sword and created count Cape St. Vincent
by Dom Pedro; captain H.M.S. Powerful, 84 guns, 1 Jany. 1839;
commanded a squadron off Syria June 1840, took Beyrout from
the Egyptians 10 Oct. 1840, and Acre 3 Nov.; C.B. 4 June 1815,
K.C.B. 2 Dec. 1840, received orders of Maria Theresa of Austria,
of St. George of Russia, of the Red Eagle of Prussia, and the
first class of the Medjidie; presented with freedom of city of
London 23 Sept. 1841; captain on h.p. 1841; naval A.D.C. to the
queen 30 Nov. 1841 to 9 Nov. 1846; R.A. 9 Nov. 1846; commanded
the channel fleet May 1847 to April 1849; V.A. 28 May 1853;
commanded the fleet in the Baltic sea 25 Feb. 1854 to 19 Feb.
1855, where he blockaded all the Russian ports; admiral 6 March
1858; contested Portsmouth 14 Dec. 1832 and Greenwich 1837; M.P.
Marylebone 1841–7; M.P. Southwark 1855–60; author of An account
of the war in Portugal between Don Pedro and Don Miguel, 2 vols.
1836; The life of sir C. Napier, chiefly by himself, 3 ed. 1841
portrait; The war in Syria, 2 vols, 1842; The history of the
Baltic campaign 1857. _d._ Merchiston hall, Horndean, Hants.
6 Nov. 1860. _bur._ at Catherington; portrait by T. M. Joy in
painted hall at Greenwich, and another portrait by John Simpson
in National portrait gallery, Edinburgh. _E. D. H. E. Napier’s
Life of sir C. Napier_, 2 _vols._ (1862) _portrait_; _Men of
the time_ (1857) 558–64; _G.M. x_ 209–16 (1861); _E. H. Nolan’s
Russian war i_ 310 (1855) _portrait_; _Sporting Review xxxii_
205–7 (1854) _portrait_; _Fagan’s Reform club_ (1887) 93–101,
121 _portrait_; _I.L.N. ii_ 175 (1843) _portrait_, _xxiv_ 207,
208 (1854) _portrait_.