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HILL, DAVID OCTAVIUS (_son of Thomas Hill, bookseller, Perth_). _b._ Perth 1802; studied under Andrew Wilson, Edin.; landscape painter; sec. Soc. of Arts, Edin. 1830, which became R. Scottish academy, sec. 1838–70; R.S.A.; the first to apply photography to portraiture and to use calotype; a commissioner of the board of manufacturers 1850; originated Art Union of Edin. 183-, the first institution of the kind; exhibited 4 pictures at R.A., 1 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1832–68 and many at R.S.A.; commenced in 1843 his picture, Signing the deed of demission, which contains 500 portraits, finished 1865, now in Free Ch. assembly hall, Edin.; published 60 pictures of the Scenery of the Land of Burns 1841. _d._ Edinburgh 17 May 1870. _Redgrave’s Dictionary of Artists_ (1878) 211; _Edinburgh Evening Courant 18 May 1870 p._ 8.
HILL, SIR DUDLEY ST. Leger (_eld. son of Dudley Hill_). _b._ co. Carlow 1790; ensign 82 foot 27 Aug. 1804; captain royal West India rangers 1810–14; major attached to Portuguese and Spanish army 1814 to 25 Dec. 1816 when placed on h.p.; major 95 foot 1823 to 19 Jany. 1826 when placed on h.p.; served in South America 1806–8 and in the Peninsula 1808–14, being wounded 7 times; K.T.S. 20 Nov. 1816; knighted 25 Nov. 1816; governor of St. Lucia 15 April 1834 to 21 Dec. 1847; general on staff in Bengal 10 April 1848 to death; colonel of 50 regt. 28 March 1849 to death; M.G. 23 Nov. 1841; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 2 March 1848. _d._ Umballa, Bengal 21 Feb. 1851. _I.L.N. xviii_, 329 (1851).
HILL, EDWARD ROWLEY (_2 son of Hugh Hill 1770–1850, colonel battle axe guards, Dublin castle_). _b._ 29 Dec. 1795; ensign 43 foot 23 Feb. 1813; lieut. col. 1 West India regiment 1 Jany. 1847 to 7 Sep. 1855; lieut. col. 68 foot 7 Sep. 1855 to 10 Sep. 1858 when placed on h.p.; col. 5 foot 21 Feb. 1868 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ Brighton 10 Sep. 1878.
HILL, EDWIN (_2 child of Thomas Wright Hill of Birmingham 1763–1851_). _b._ Birmingham 25 Nov. 1793; manager Fazeley st. rolling mills, Birmingham to 1827; with his bro. Sir Rowland Hill kept a school at Bruce castle, Tottenham 1827; supervisor of the stamps department, Somerset house 1840, remodelled the machinery in use, thus effecting a saving of many thousands a year; with W. De la Rue invented machine for folding envelopes 1840; author of _Principles of currency. Means of ensuring uniformity of value and adequacy of supply_ 1856; _Criminal capitalists, pamphlets_ 1870–2. _d._ 1 St. Mark’s sq. Regent’s park, London 6 Nov. 1876. _G. B. Hill’s Life of Sir Rowland Hill_ (1880) _i_, 37, ii, 99, 503.
HILL, ELLEN (_dau. of Mr. Shaw_). _b._ 1803; an actress of some note at the minor theatres; played leading business at the Royalty, the Marylebone and the City of London theatres; acted in a drama with the young Roscius, W. H. Betty and Charles Kean; retired from stage 1840. (_m._ William John Hill, leader and composer _d._ Dublin, Jany. 1851). _d._ London 9 Dec. 1866 aged 63. _Era 23 Dec. 1866 p._ 12.
HILL, GEORGE. _b._ co. Wexford 1809; printer; contributed articles on the scenery and antiquities of Wexford and Kilkenny to _Dublin Penny Journal_, illustrated by his own drawings; reporter to the _Waterford Mail_, _Wexford Independent_, _Drogheda Conservative_, _Liverpool Herald_, _Rochdale Pilot_ and the _Bacup and Rossendale News_. _d._ Bacup, Lancs. 8 July 1869. _Newspaper Press 2 Aug. 1869 p._ 181.
HILL, GEORGE AUGUSTA (_5 son of 2 marquis of Downshire 1753–1801_). _b._ 9 Dec. 1801; lieut. royal horse guards 20 July 1820; captain 8 hussars 1825 to 6 July 1830 when placed on h.p.; M.P. for Carrickfergus 1831–2; sheriff of Donegal 1845; author of _Facts from Gweedore with useful hints to Donegal tourists_. _Dublin 2 parts_ 1845, _3 ed._ 1854. _d._ Ballyane house near Ramelton, co. Donegal 6 April 1879.
HILL, HENRY. _b._ Manchester 1807; first betted at Newmarket 1829; in partnership with John Gully; factotum for Lord George Bentinck for many years; cleared some thousands on Bloomsbury winning the Derby 1839; discovered the Running Rein fraud 1844; kept race horses; won heavily on Pyrrhus the First, winner of Derby 1846; won the Two Thousand with Pitsford 1850; with Rogerthorpe won Goodwood cup 1856; the largest better on the Derby except W. E. Davies the Leviathan; lost £40,000 in one year on the Stock Exchange; purchased Ackworth near Pomfret from John Gully. _d._ 52 Queen’s gate ter. Kensington 1 Feb. 1881 aged 74. _Sporting Rev., April 1858 pp._ 295–8; _W. Day’s Reminiscences_ (1886) 63–76.
HILL, REV. HENRY THOMAS. _b._ 1815; ed. at C.C. coll. Cam., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840; P.C. of Lye, Worcs. 1839–43; C. of Wolverley 1843–51; R. of Felton 1851 to death; V. of Preston Wynne, Hereford 1858–76; diocesan inspector of schools 1870–72; preb. of Nonnington in Hereford cath. 1870 to death; author of _Church restoration, What is it? Whence is it?_ 1864; _Thoughts on churches and church yards_ 1856, _3 ed._ 1862. _d._ Felton 11 Jany. 1882.
HILL, SIR HUGH (_2 son of James Hill of Graig, co. Cork 1771–1850_). _b._ Graig 1802; entered Trin. coll. Dublin, Nov. 1816, B.A. 1821; at King’s Inns, Dublin; practised in London as a special pleader below the bar 1827–41; barrister M.T. 29 Jany. 1841, bencher Dec. 1851; Q.C. July 1851; serjeant at law May 1858; judge of court of Queen’s Bench 29 May 1858 to 3 Dec. 1861; knighted at Buckingham palace 18 April 1859. _d._ Royal crescent hotel, Brighton 12 Oct. 1871.
HILL, SIR JAMES (_eld. son of James Haylock Hill of Newbold Firs, Leamington_). _bapt._ at St. Thomas, Winchester 6 Feb. 1814; ed. at Winchester and New coll. Ox., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1840; fellow of his coll.; barrister I.T. 3 May 1839; second charity estate comr. 24 Oct. 1853, chief charity estate comr. 7 Dec. 1872 to death; knighted at Windsor castle 5 May 1873; published _A practical treatise on the law relating to trustees, their powers, duties, privileges and abilities_ 1845. _d._ Folkestone 23 Oct. 1875. _Law Times, lx_, 60 (1875); _I.L.N. lxvii_, 447 (1875), _lxviii_, 22 (1876).
HILL, JAMES FREDERICK. _b._ Norwich 1817; conductor; composer of _Old Friends met together, part song_, printed in J. P. Hullah’s _The Singer’s Library_ 1859. _d._ St. Giles ter. Bethel st. Norwich 9 March 1877.
HILL, JAMES JOHN (_son of Daniel Hill of Birmingham_). _b._ Broad st. Birmingham 1810; ed. at Hazlewood sch.; pupil of John Vincent Barber of Birmingham, artist; a portrait painter in Birmingham to 1839; moved to London 1839; member of Society of British artists 1842; exhibited 10 pictures at R.A., 5 at B.I. and 109 at Suffolk st. 1842–80. _d._ Sutton house, West Hill, Highgate 27 Jany. 1882. _Birmingham Weekly Post 4 Feb. 1882._
HILL, SIR JOHN. _b._ 1774; entered navy 25 Sep. 1781, present in battle of the Nile; an agent for transports 24 March 1813–1819; captain 28 Oct. 1815; captain superintendent of victualling yard at Deptford 1820–1838; superintendent of dockyard at Sheerness 9 March 1838–41, at Deptford 11 Dec. 1841 to 16 April 1851; rear admiral 2 April 1851; knighted at St. James’s palace 31 Aug. 1831. _d._ Walmer lodge, Deal 20 Jany. 1855 aged 81.
HILL, REV. JOHN (_son of John Hill of London_). _b._ 1787; ed. at St. Edmund hall, Ox., B.A. 1809, M.A. 1812, B.D. 1844; vice principal of his hall 1812–51; city lecturer at Oxford 1851; R. of Wyke Regis, Dorset 1851 to death; editor of _Artis Logicæ Rudimenta by H. Aldrich_. _With observations_ 1849; author of a few sermons. _d._ Wyke Regis 22 Feb. 1855. _bur._ St. Peter’s in the East, Oxford.
HILL, REV. JOHN HARWOOD (_son of Robert Hill of Leamington_). _b._ Louth, Lincs. 1809; pensioner Peter house, Cam. 30 June 1830, B.A. 1834; R. of Cranoe, Leics. 1837 to death, and V. of Welham 1841 to death; F.S.A. 12 Jany. 1871; local sec. Leicestershire Architect, and Archæol. Soc. and a contributor to its transactions; author of _The chronicle of the christian ages or records of events ecclesiastical, civil and military_. _Uppingham 2 vols._ 1859; _The history of the parish of Langton. Leicester_ 1867; _The history of Market Harborough. Leicester_ 1875. _d._ Cranoe rectory 3 Dec. 1886. _Proc. Soc. of Antiquaries, xi_, 371 (1885–7); _Academy 18 Dec. 1886 p._ 411.
HILL, VEN. JUSTLY (_youngest son of colonel William Hill of St. Boniface, Isle of Wight_). _bapt._ Bonchurch, I. of W. 16 Dec. 1781; ed. at Winchester and New coll. Ox., scholar, B.A. 1805, M.A. 1808; fellow of his coll. 1802–20; R. of Shanklin and Bonchurch, Isle of Wight 1809 to death; R. of Tingewick, Bucks. 1818 to death; archdeacon and commissary of Buckingham 1825; author of _Two charges delivered to the clergy and churchwardens of the archdeaconry of Buckingham_. _Eton, 2 ed._ 1847, and other charges and sermons. _d._ Shanklin 18 March 1853.
HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (_eld. child of Thomas Wright Hill of Birmingham 1763–1851_). _b._ Suffolk st. Birmingham 6 Aug. 1792; ed. at Wolverhampton and in his father’s school, Birmingham; assisted in his father’s school to 1815; barrister L.I. 18 Nov. 1819, went Midland circuit, quitted it 1846; defended wife of Richard Carlile on charge of selling a libel 1820; leading counsel for Nottingham rioters 1831, for Canadian prisoners 1839, for Rebecca rioters 1843, and for D. O’Connell 1844; for the plaintiffs in Braintree ch. rate case 1848, for the crown in Dr. Hampden’s case 1848; for many years in parliament and in the courts engaged in Baron de Bode’s case; established with Bentham and Brougham the Soc. for Diffusion of useful knowledge, Jany. 1827; M.P. for Hull 1832–35; Q.C. 7 July 1834; recorder of Birmingham, April 1839, resigned Jany. 1866; one of commissioners of court of bankruptcy for Bristol district 24 March 1851 to 31 Dec. 1869 when office was abolished, granted sum of £1800; author of _Suggestions for repression of crime_ 1857; _Our exemplars. Biographical sketches_ 1861. _d._ Heath house, Stapleton, Gloucs. 7 June 1872. _The Recorder of Birmingham, a memoir of M. D. Hill, By R. and F. D. Hill_ (1878), _portrait_; _Law mag. and review, July 1872 pp._ 515–29.
HILL, REV. PASCOE GRENFELL (_son of major Thomas Hill_). _b._ Marazion, Cornwall 15 May 1804; ed. at Mill Hill sch. Middlesex and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1836; chaplain R.N. 1836–45; chaplain Westminster hospital 1852–7; R. of St. Edmund the King and martyr with St. Nicholas Acons, Lombard st. London 26 Jany. 1863 to death; the first to introduce a surpliced choir into a city ch.; author of _Fifty days on board a slave ship_ 1843, _3 ed._ 1853; _A voyage to the slave coasts_ 1849; _A journey through Palestine_ 1852; _Life of Napoleon 3 vols._ 1869. _d._ the rectory house 32 Finsbury sq. London 28 Aug. 1882. _bur._ Ilford cemetery. _City Press 2 Sep. 1882 p._ 5; _Boase & Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i_, 240.
HILL, PERCY. _b._ 24 Dec. 1817; ensign 68 foot 26 June 1835; lieut. colonel rifle brigade 22 June 1855 to 6 March 1868; served in Russian war 1854–6 and in Indian mutiny 1857–8; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; colonel 85 foot 27 Sep. 1879 to death; C.B. 26 July 1858. _d._ 24 April 1880.
HILL, REV. RICHARD HUMPHRY (_2 son of Rev. Richard Hill of Wolverton, Somerset_). _b._ Wolverton 21 Oct. 1824; chorister Magd. coll. Ox. 1834–42, demy 1842–51, matric. from Ex. coll. 2 June 1842; B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849, D.C.L. 1854; head master of Beaumaris gr. sch. 1850–64 and of Magd. coll. sch. Ox. Jany. 1865 to 23 July 1876 which he raised to the level of a first-rate public school; precentor and canon of Bangor 31 Dec. 1864 to death; R. of Stanway near Colchester 22 Dec. 1874 to death. _d._ Stanway rectory 26 Feb. 1891. _J. R. Bloxam’s Register of Magdalen College, i_ 219, _vii_ 353–6.
HILL, SIR ROBERT CHAMBRE (_4 son of Sir John Hill of Hawkstone, Salop, 3 bart. 1740–1824_). _b._ 25 March 1778; ed. at Rugby; cornet royal horse guards 11 June 1794, lieut. colonel 13 May 1813 to 24 July 1823; knighted by the prince regent at Carlton house 29 May 1812; served in the Peninsula and at Waterloo; C.B. 22 June 1815. _d._ Prees hall, Salop 5 March 1860. _The case of J. Jebb with charges against Sir R. Hill_ (1830).
HILL, ROBERT GARDINER (_son of Robert Hill of Leamington_). _b._ Louth, Lincs. 26 Feb. 1811; M.R.C.S. 1834; L.C.P. Edin. 1859; resident house surgeon of Lincoln lunatic asylum July 1835; proprietor with Richard Sutton Harvey of Eastgate House private asylum, Lincoln 1840–63; presented with a testimonial at Lincoln 29 Oct. 1851 as the author and originator of the non-restraint system in lunacy; mayor of Lincoln 1852–3; F.S.A. 17 Feb. 1853; resident medical proprietor of Earl’s Court house, Old Brompton, London, Oct. 1863 to death; author of _A concise history of the entire abolition of medical restraint in the treatment of the insane_ 1857; _Lunacy, its past and its present_ 1870. _d._ Earl’s Court House, London 30 May 1878. _Robertson’s Photographs of eminent medical men_ (1868) _ii_, 65–8, _portrait_; _Medical Circular 7 Sep. 1853 pp._ 187–9, _portrait_, _and 23 Nov. pp._ 522–3; _I.L.N. 3 Jany. 1852 pp._ 13–14, _view of testimonial_.
HILL, SIR ROWLAND (_3 son of Thomas Wright Hill 1763–1851_). _b._ Kidderminster 3 Dec. 1795; a teacher in his father’s schools at Birmingham and Tottenham 1808–28; established the Hazelwood system of school management 1812; undertook the management of his father’s money affairs from 1812; invented a rotatory printing press; sec. to the South Australian commission 1835–9; published _Post office reform, its importance and practicability_ 1836; described his adhesive postage stamp 13 Feb. 1837; attached to the Treasury to introduce cheap postage 1839–42, dismissed by Sir R. Peel, Sep. 1842, penny postage established 10 Jany. 1840; director of London and Brighton railway 1843, chairman 1845–6, introduced system of express and excursion trains; presented by public subscription with £13,000, 17 June 1846; sec. to post-master-general Nov. 1846; permanent sec. of post office, April 1854 to 4 March 1864; had a grant from parliament of £20,000, 1864; F.R.S. 11 June 1857, member of council 1867; D.C.L. of Ox. 9 June 1864; K.C.B. 10 Feb. 1860; F.R.A.S.; presented with freedom of city of London 6 June 1879; author of _Home colonies, plan for extinction of pauperism_ 1832; _Post office reform_ 1837, _3 ed._ 1837; _The state and prospects of penny postage_ 1844; _Results of postal reform_ 1864. _d._ Bertram house, Hampstead 27 Aug. 1879. _bur._ St. Paul’s chapel, Westminster abbey 4 Sep. _G. B. Hill’s Life of Sir R. Hill 2 vols._ 1880, _portrait_; _W. Lewin’s Her Majesty’s Mails_ (_2 ed._ 1865) 168–97, _portrait_; _Walford’s Photographic portraits, No. 12, April 1857_, _portrait_; _H. J. Nichol’s Great movements_ (1881) 189–220, _portrait_.
NOTE.—Sir R. Hill’s statue at corner of Royal exchange, London, was unveiled 17 June 1882.—Other statues have been erected at Kidderminster and Birmingham.
HILL, RIGHT REV. ROWLEY (_3 son of Sir George Hill, 3 bart. 1804–45_). _b._ 22 Feb. 1836; ed. at Christ’s hospital, Lond. and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1859, M.A. 1863; C. of Ch. Ch. Dover 1860–61; C. of St. Mary, Marylebone 1861–63; P.C. of St. Luke’s, Marylebone 1863–68; R. of Frant, Sussex 1868–71; V. of St. Michael’s, Chester sq. London 1871–73; V. of Sheffield 1873–77; preb. of York cath. 1876–77; bishop of Sodor and Man 17 July 1877 to death, consecrated in York Minster 24 Aug.; author of _Sunday school lessons: the collects_ 1866, _2 ed._ 1867; _Sunday school lessons: the gospels_ 1866; _The titles of our Lord_ 1870. _d._ 10 Hereford sq. Old Brompton, London 27 May 1887. _Church Portrait Journal ii_, 25 (1878), _portrait_.
HILL, THOMAS. _b._ 1794; at Royalty theatre; clown at Drury Lane, especially known in the pantomime of _Jack of Spades_ under R. W. Elliston’s management. _d._ 26 May 1851 aged 57. _bur._ St. Peter’s ch. Walworth road. _Era 8 June 1851 p._ 11.
HILL, REV. THOMAS. _b._ 1808; ed. at Clare coll. Cam., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833; assist. classical master of Mercer’s sch. London 1832–50; P.C. of Holy Trin. Minories, London 1850 to death; author of _The harmony of the Latin and Greek languages_ 1842; _The history of the parish of Holy Trinity Minories_ 1851. _d._ 30 Little Trinity lane, London 13 Feb. 1865.
HILL, VEN. THOMAS. Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813, B.D. 1822; V. of Badgeworth, Gloucs. 1821; V. of Chesterfield, Derby 1822–46; archdeacon of Derby 4 Jany. 1847 to 1873; canon res. with prebendal stalls of Offley and Flixton annexed, in Lichfield cath. 1851–63; P.C. of Hasland, Derby 1851–63; author of _The doctrine of the Trinity_ 1820; _Letters and memoirs of W. A. Shirley, bishop of Sodor and Man_ 1849; _The life of L. Saunders_ 1858. _d._ Harrogate 14 Sep. 1875.
HILL, THOMAS WRIGHT (_son of James Hill, baker and dealer in horse corn_). _b._ Kidderminster 24 April 1763; ed. at Kidderminster gram. sch.; apprentice to a brass founder; discovered the distinction between vocal and whisper letters; said to have edited the _Hazelwood Magazine_ 1824–30; invented a system of philosophic short-hand; devised scheme for representation of minorities; a manufacturer of woollen stuffs; founded a school at Hill Top, Birmingham 1803, with his sons removed it to Hazelwood near Birmingham 1819 and to Bruce castle, Tottenham, Middlesex 1827; F.R. Astronom. Soc.; a volume of _Selections from his papers_ was printed in 1860. _d._ Bruce terrace, Tottenham 13 June 1851. _M. D. Hill’s Remains of T. W. Hill_ (1859); _Edin. Rev. xli_, 315–35 (1825); _Monthly Notices R. Astronom. Soc._ 1852 _pp._ 90–93; _Life of Sir R. Hill_ (1880) _i_, 2 _et seq._, _portrait_.
HILL, WILLIAM. _b._ 1806; salesman and book keeper with Daniel Lee & Co., calico printers, Manchester; mnemonicalist; author of _Fifteen lessons on the analogy and syntax of the language_ 1833; _The rational school grammar and entertaining class book_; _The complete English exposition and comprehensive spelling book_; _The educational monitor, which will enable the student to fix knowledge rapidly in the mind_ 1847; _How to teach the alphabet in a few hours_ 1865; _Memories for the million_ 1875. _d._ Rose Bank, Patricroft near Salford 2 April 1881. _Gillow’s English catholics, iii_, 310–11 (1887).
HILL, SIR WILLIAM (_son of Daniel Hill, member of council, Antigua_). _b._ 1805; entered military service of E.I.C. 1821; commanded garrison of 500 men at Pegu Pagoda, which he held against 6000 men 1852; commanded the Gwalior contingent 1853; commanded the Nizam’s contingent during the Indian mutiny 1857; col. in the army 1859; retired with rank of M.G. 31 Dec. 1861; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1867. _d._ Southsea 20 Aug. 1886.
HILL, WILLIAM JOHN. Composer of _Our Saviour’s farewell. A devotional canzonette_ 1839. (_m._ Ellen Shaw _d._ 9 Dec. 1866 aged 63). _d._ Dublin, Jany. 1851.
HILL, WILLIAM JONES, stage name of William Hill Jones. _b._ 14 Jany. 1834; a musician; appeared as an actor at Court theatre, London 25 Jany. 1871 as Nicodemus Nobbs in _Turn him out_, as John Brodie in _Dotheboys’ Hall_, as the manager in _Vesta’s Temple_ 14 Nov. 1872, in _The Happy Land_ made up as Robert Lowe 3 March 1873, as Uncle Bopeddy in _The Wedding March_ 15 Nov. 1873, in _Peacock’s Holiday_ 16 April 1874; at the Criterion in _Betsy_ 6 Aug. 1879; as Mr. Cattermole in _Private Secretary_ at Prince’s theatre 29 March 1884; as the Baillie in _Les cloches de Corneville_ at Folly theatre Feb. 1878 to 1879; acted Irascible Fizzleton in _Nita’s First_ at Novelty up to 11 April 1888. _d._ Birchmore villa, 29 Ampthill sq. London 13 April 1888. _bur._ Highgate cemet. _Illust. Sport. and Dram. News, xiv_, 397 (1881), _portrait_; _Theatre, v_, 95 (1885), _portrait_, _xi_, 281 (1888); _Saturday Programme 25 Nov. 1876 pp._ 10–11, _portrait_; _Era 14 April 1888 p._ 8, _21 April p._ 9.
HILLIER, GEORGE (_eld. son of William Hillier, commander R.N._) _b._ Kennington 1815; made collections for the _History and antiquities of the Isle of Wight_, engraved the plates himself and printed part of it in his own house; discovered the Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Chessel Down and excavated the graves; author of _The topography of the Isle of Wight_ 1850; _A narrative of the attempted escape of Charles I. from Carisbrook_ 1852; _The sieges of Arundel castle_ 1854; _The stranger’s guide to Reading_ 1859. _d._ Ryde, Isle of Wight 1 April 1866.
HILLIER, THOMAS. _b._ 1831; ed. at Univ. coll. London, M.B. Lond. 1845, B.A. 1849, M.D. 1855; M.R.C.S. 1852; F.R.C.P. 1867; resident medical officer Univ. coll. hospital; medical officer of health St. Pancras 12 years; physician hospital for sick children, Great Ormond st.; lectured on diseases of skin at University coll.; author of _Hand-book of skin diseases_ 1865; _Diseases of children_ 1868 and other books. _d._ 32 Queen Anne st. London 7 Nov. 1868. _Medical Times 14 Nov. 1868 p._ 573; _Proc. Med. and Chir. Soc. vi_, 154 (1871).
HILLMAN, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS (_eld. son of William Hillman, surgeon R.N., d. 1865_). _b._ 1819; ed. at London univ.; M.R.C.S. 1841, F.R.C.S. 1845, student in human and comparative anatomy there 1841–4; assist. surgeon Westminster hospital and lecturer on physiology and general anatomy there 10 years; surgeon Westminster hospital 1869–71; author of _The study of physic and surgery_ 1846. _d._ 2 Argyle st. Regent st. London 11 Dec. 1873. _Medical Times 20 Dec. 1873 p._ 705.
HILLS, JAMES. _b._ 1800; whip of the old Surrey hounds 7 seasons; first whip of Lord Ducie’s hounds; huntsman of the Heythrop hounds at Heythrop near Didcot many years from 1835. _Scott and Sebright, By The Druid_ (1862) 359–72, _portrait_; _Cecil’s Records of the Chase_ (1877) 163–7.
HILLS, TOM. _b._ 1793; huntsman of the Old Surrey hounds 1812–62; landlord of the Plough at Bletchingly. _d._ Feb. 1873. _Sporting Rev. June 1859 pp._ 394–7; _Baily’s Mag. March 1873 pp._ 161–4.
HILLYAR, SIR CHARLES FARRELL (_2 son of Sir James Hillyar 1769–1843, rear admiral_). _b._ 1818; cadet R.N. 24 July 1828; served in South America 1837; severely wounded at Lagos 1851; captain 20 Feb. 1852; served at blockade of Sebastopol 1854–5; commander in chief in China 31 Aug. 1877 to 26 Sep. 1878; C.B. 2 June 1869, K.C.B. 21 June 1887; admiral 26 Sep. 1878, retired 9 June 1882. _d._ Torre house, Torpoint, Cornwall 14 Dec. 1888.
HILLYAR, ROBERT PURKIS. Inspector of hospitals and fleets 23 Nov. 1841; K.H. 1 Jany. 1837; C.B. 17 Aug. 1850. _d._ Little Green near Gosport 23 March 1855.
HILLYER, WILLIAM RICHARD (_son of an innkeeper_). _b._ Leybourne, Kent 5 March 1813; played with Town Malling club from 1830; first round armed bowler of his time, known as ‘the best of all bowlers’; his balls took a curl and uprooted the middle stump; the finest short-slip ever seen; first played at Lord’s 27 July 1835; practice bowler to Marylebone club to 1851; in his last match 7 June 1855 broke his thumb; had a benefit at the Oval 1858 which produced £300. _d._ Wheeler st. Maidstone 8 Jany. 1861. _bur._ Leybourne. _Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores, ii_, 334 (1862), _vol. v, page xv_ (1876).
HILLYERD, REV. SAMUEL JOHN (_son of Nicholas John Hillyerd_). _b._ 20 Feb. 1784; National schoolmaster Farnley Tyas, Yorks. to 1819; raised himself by education and was ordained as a literate 1819; C. of Denby Penistone, Yorks. 1819, C. of Farnley Tyas 1821, C. of Primrose hill, Great Horton, Bradford 1823; P.C. of Tattersall, Lincs. 1823–46; V. of Semperingham, Lincs. 1846 to death; a brilliant preacher. _d._ Semperingham 29 June 1861. _Hulbert’s Suppl. Annals of Almondbury_ (1885) 16; _Correspondence between C. G. Selleck and S. J. Hillyerd on universal salvation_ (1835).
HILTON, HILDA. _b._ 1853; actress and vocalist; played with success in the provinces; acted at Criterion as Little Loo in _Orange Blossom_ 1877; at Globe as Mrs. Honeyton in _The Happy Pair_; at the Strand as Ruth in _Ruth’s Romance_; at the Gaiety as Juliana in The _Honeymoon_ 1880; at the Princess’ as Martha Gibbs in _All that glitters is not gold_; at Sadler’s Wells 1881; at the Globe as Frou Frou; lessee of Opera Comique 1883 when she produced _Bondage_ 31 March; she wrote _Princess Carlo’s plot_ drama in 3 acts adapted from Ouida’s _Afternoon_, brought out at Novelty theatre 31 Jany. 1887. _d._ Florence 13 June 1888 aged 35. _The Theatre 1 Aug. 1881 p._ 125, _portrait_; _Illust. Sport. and Dram. News 8 Jany. 1881 pp._ 401, 419, _portrait_.
HILTON, JOHN. _b._ Sible Hedingham, Essex 22 Sep. 1807; ed. at Chelmsford gr. sch. and Boulogne-sur-Mer; studied at Guy’s 1824, M.R.C.S. 1827, F.R.C.S. 1843; demonstrator of anatomy at Guy’s 1828, made dissections of the body which were reproduced in wax for Guy’s museum, assist. surgeon 1844, full surgeon 1849; professor of surgery at R.C.S. 14 July 1859, president 1867; in practice at New Broad st., city of London; surgeon extraordinary to the queen 14 Oct. 1867; F.R.S. 10 Jany. 1839; author of _On rest and pain, a course of lectures_ 1863, _3 ed._ 1880; _Notes on the functional relations of portions of the cranium_ 1855; _The Hunterian Oration_ 1867. _d._ Hedingham house, Clapham common 14 Sep. 1878. _Proc. of Med. Chir. Soc. viii_, 388–90 (1875); _Medical Times, ii_, 422 (1878); _The Medical profession in all countries, i, No._ 17 (1873).
HIME, BENJAMIN. Musical publisher; vocal composer; wrote _I see them on their winding ways, song_ 1830; _Let us hope for the best, song_ 1835; _O the Forester’s life is the life for me_ 1855 and 20 other pieces. _d._ 30 Victoria st. Manchester 1871.
HINCHLIFF, JOHN ELY. _b._ 1777; chief assistant in studio of John Flaxman 1806–26; completed some of Flaxman’s unfinished works 1826; exhibited 36 works at R.A. and 9 at B.I. 1814–49; among his sculptures were Christian and Apollyon 1815, Leonidas, Menelaus and Paris, and Theseus and Hippodamia; made many mural tablets and sepulchral monuments. _d._ Mornington place, 185 Hampstead road, London 23 Nov. 1867.
HINCHLIFF, JOHN JAMES (_son of the preceding_). _b._ 1805; in hydrographic department of admiralty; executed engravings for _Beattie’s Castles and abbeys of England_ 1842, and _Gastineau’s Picturesque scenery of Wales_ 1860. _d._ Walton-by-Clevedon, Somerset 16 Dec. 1875.
HINCHLIFF, THOMAS WOODBINE (_eld. son of Chamberlain Hinchliff_). _b._ 1826; president of Alpine club; F.R.G.S.; author of _Summer months among the Alps_ 1857; _South American sketches_ 1863; _Over the sea and far away, wanderings round the world_ 1876. _d._ Aix les Bains, Savoy 8 May 1882. _Proc. of R. Geog. Soc. iv_, 424 (1882).
HINCKS, REV. EDWARD (_eld. son of Rev. Thomas Dix Hincks 1767–1857_). _b._ Cork 19 Aug. 1792; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1810, B.A. 1812, M.A. 1817, B.D. 1823, D.D. 1829, fellow 1813–9; R. of Ardtrea 1819–26; R. of Killeleagh, co. Down 1826 to death; a pioneer in deciphering cuneiform inscriptions; studied Assyrian monuments 1846 and discovered the names of Sennacherib and Nebuchadnezzar; discovered conjointly with Sir H. C. Rawlinson the Persian cuneiform vowel system; the results of his investigations were printed in Trans. Royal Irish Acad. 1833–65; author of _Report to Trustees of British museum on cylinders and terra cotta tablets_ 1854; _Letter on the Polyphony of Assyrio-Babylonian writings_ 1863 and 25 other works; granted civil list pension of £100, 20 April 1854. _d._ Killeleagh 3 Dec. 1866. _Webb’s Irish Biography_ (1878) 251; _G.M. iii_, 122 (1867).
HINCKS, SIR FRANCIS (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Cork 9 May 1807; ed. at Royal Belfast Institution; clerk to a shipowner, Belfast; went to Canada 1830, opened a warehouse in Toronto; founded and edited the _Toronto Examiner_ 1838; member for county of Oxford in Canadian legislature, March 1841 to Nov. 1855; inspector general of public accounts 1842–3 and 1848–54; started the _Montreal Pilot_ 1844; prime minister of Canada 1851–5; governor of Windward Islands 1855–62; governor of British Guiana 1862–9; C.B. 23 July 1862; K.C.M.G. 23 June 1869; finance minister for Dominion of Canada 1869–73; president of City Bank of Montreal 1874 which failed; editor of _Journal of Commerce_, _Montreal_; author of 5 pamphlets and of _Reminiscenses of my public life_ 1884. _d._ Montreal 18 Aug. 1885. _Dublin Univ. Mag. vol._ 88, _p._ 534, _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxvii_, 413–14 (1855), _portrait_; _Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis_ (1867) _p._ 186.
HINCKS, VEN. THOMAS (_son of the succeding_). _b._ 1796; R. of Finvoy, Connor to 1865; R. of Billy, Connor 1865 to death; archdeacon of Connor 1865 to death. _d._ the archdeaconry, Bushmills, co. Antrim 28 March 1882.
HINCKS, REV. THOMAS DIX (_son of Edward Hincks, d. 1772_). _b._ Bachelor’s quay, Dublin 24 June 1767; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin 1784–8 and at Hackney New coll. 1788–90; presbyterian minister Cork 1790; kept a school at Cork 1791–1803; lecturer on chemistry and natural philosophy, Royal Cork institution 1810–13; tutor Fermoy academy 1815–21; classical head master Belfast Academical Instit. 1821–36 and professor of Hebrew there 1822–49; LLD. of Glasgow univ. 1834; author of _Letters occasioned by the circulation of Paine’s Age of Reason_ 1795, _2 ed._ 1796; _An introduction to ancient geography_ 1825, _7 ed._ 1855; _Rudiments of Greek grammar_ 1825 and other books. _d._ Murray’s ter. Belfast 24 Feb. 1857. _bur._ Killeleagh.
HINCKS, REV. WILLIAM (_son of the preceding_). _b._ Cork, May 1794; presbyterian minister Cork 1815, at Exeter 1816–22 and at Renshaw st. Liverpool 1822–7; professor of natural philosophy at Manchester coll. York 1827–39; editor of _The Enquirer_ 1842–9; professor of natural history, Queen’s coll. Cork 1849–53 and at University coll. Toronto 1853–71; contributed to _Canadian Journal_ 1854–65. _d._ Toronto 10 Sep. 1871. _Morgan’s Bibl. Canad._ (1867) 186–7.
HIND, REV. JOHN. _b._ Cumberland 1796; sizar St. John’s coll. Cam. 1813, scholar 1815, B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; fellow of Sid. Suss. coll.; moderator 1822, 1823, 1826, examiner 1824, 1827; granted civil list pension of £100, 4 Oct. 1858; author of _The principles of the differential and integral calculus_ 1827; _The elements of plane and spherical trigonometry 5 ed._ 1855; _The principles and practice of arithmetic_ 1832, _8 ed._ 1856. _d._ 22 Trumpington st. Cambridge 17 Dec. 1866. _Light Blue, ii_, 120 (1867).
HINDLEY, CHARLES. _b._ Fairfield 1800; classical and mathematical tutor Moravian establishment, Gracehill, Ireland to 1819; a cotton spinner 1819; a founder of the Aston and Dukinfield mechanics’ instit. 1825; president of Peace soc.; contested Ashton-under-Lyne 14 Dec. 1832; contested Warrington 7 Jany. 1835; M.P. Ashton 9 Jany. 1835 to death. _d._ Dartmouth house, Queen st. Westminster 1 Dec. 1857. _Dr. Todd and the late member for Ashton. Fatal effects of the stimulating treatment of disease. By A. B. Granville_ 1860.
HINDLIP, HENRY ALLSOPP, 1 Baron (_3 son of Samuel Allsopp of Burton on Trent, brewer 1780–1838_). _b._ 19 Feb. 1811; head of firm of Allsopp and Sons, brewers, Burton; M.P. for East Worcestershire 1874–80, contested it 1880; cr. a baronet 7 May 1880; cr. baron Hindlip of Hindlip in the co. of Worcester and of Alsop-en-le-Dale in the co. of Derby 15 Feb. 1886. _d._ Hindlip hall near Worcester 3 April 1887. _London Figaro 9 April 1887 p._ 4 _portrait_.
HINDMARCH, WILLIAM MATHEWSON (_son of Wm. Hindmarch of Sunderland, brewer_). _b._ Fan quay near Sunderland 10 June 1803; articled to Thomas Collin of Sunderland, attorney; barrister G.I. 30 Jany. 1832, bencher 12 April 1862; Q.C. 5 Feb. 1862; attorney general of county palatine of Durham 7 Dec. 1861; recorder of York, Oct. 1865 to death; author of _A treatise on the law relating to patent privileges for the sole use of inventions_ 1846; _Observations on the defects of the patent laws, with suggestions for reform_ 1851. _d._ Aix la Chapelle 27 Aug. 1866. _Journal of B.A. Assoc. xxiii_, 307 (1867).
HINDMARSH, SIR JOHN. _b._ 1786; entered navy May 1793; served in Lord Howe’s action and in battle of the Nile when though but a Midshipman he was in temporary command of the Bellerophon; captain 3 Sep. 1831; K.H. 4 May 1836; founded the colony of South Australia 28 Dec. 1836 and was governor to 16 July 1838; lieut. governor of Heligoland 28 Sep. 1840 to 7 March 1857; knighted at Buckingham palace 7 Aug. 1851; R.A. on half pay 31 Jany. 1856. _d._ Denbigh place, Belgravia, London 29 July 1860. _Heaton’s Australian Dict. of Dates_ (1879) 91.
HINDS, RIGHT REV. SAMUEL (_son of Abel Hinds of Barbadoes_). _b._ Barbadoes 1795; ed. at Charterhouse and Queen’s coll. Ox.; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818, B.D. and D.D. 1831; missionary to the Negroes of Barbadoes; principal of Codrington college Barbadoes; vice-principal of St. Alban hall Ox. 1827–31; domestic chaplain to archbishop Whately in Dublin 1831–3 and 1843; V. of Ardeley, Herts. 5 Feb. 1835 to March 1843; prebendary of St. Patrick’s cathedral Dublin 1843; V. of united parishes of Castlenock, Clonsilla and Mullahidart 1843–8; dean of Carlisle 27 Sep. 1848; bishop of Norwich 26 Sep. 1849, consecrated at Lambeth 2 Dec. 1849, resigned 1857; author of _The history of the rise and progress of Christianity 2 vols._ 1828, _2 ed._ 1846; _Sonnets and other poems_ 1834; _The three temples of the one true God contrasted_ 1830, _3 ed._ 1857 and 25 other books. _d._ 40 Clarendon road, Notting hill, London 7 Feb. 1872. _I.L.N. xv_, 376 (1849), _portrait_, _lx_, 163, (1872).
HINGSTON, EDWARD PERON. _b._ about 1823; attended lectures at King’s coll. Lond.; contributed to periodicals 1841–42; manager for professor Anderson the wizard of the north, acting manager for him at Covent Garden, Dec. 1855 to 5 March 1856 when house burnt; went with Anderson to America and Australia 1856–64; manager for Artemus Ward, American humorist in America and England 1864 to Jany. 1867; managed “the Hall by the sea,” Margate; stage manager at St. James’s theatre 1870; lessee and manager of Opera Comique theatre, Oct. 1872 to Dec. 1873; manager at Criterion theatre 21 March 1874; edited many works by R. H. Newell, Mark Twain and Artemus Ward 1865–76; author of _The Siddons of Modern Italy, Adelaide Ristori_ 1856; _The Genial Showman, Being reminiscences of Artemus Ward_ 1870. _d._ Crowndale road, Camden town, London 9 June 1876. _Era 18 June 1876 p._ 10; _Illust. Sporting news, vi_, 473 (1867), _portrait_.
HINTON, JAMES (_3 child of Rev. John Howard Hinton 1791–1873_). _b._ Reading 1822; ed. at Harpenden; cashier at a woollen draper’s shop in Whitechapel 1838–9; clerk in an insurance office in the city; M.R.C.S. 1848; assist. surgeon at Newport, Essex 1847; in the West Indies 1848–50; partner with Mr. Fisher in Bartholomew Close, London 1850–3; in practice at 18 Savile row, London 1853 to 1874; aural surgeon to Guy’s hospital 1863; the chief aurist in London from date of Toynbee’s death to March 1874 when he retired; author of _Man and his dwelling place_ 1859, _3 ed._ 1872; _Life in nature_ 1862; _The mystery of pain_ 1866, _3 ed._ 1879; _Thoughts on health_ 1871; _The question of aural surgery_ 1874. _d._ St. Michael’s, Madeira 16 Dec. 1875. _bur._ at Ponta Delgada in the island of Sao Miguel. _Life and letters of James Hinton, edited by Ellice Hopkins_ (1878), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xiii_, 99, 101 (1876), _portrait_; _Good Words_ (1878) 784–90, _portrait_.
HINTON, REV. JOHN HOWARD (_son of Rev. James Hinton, congregational minister 1761–1823_). _b._ Oxford 24 March 1791; ed. at Bristol coll. 1811–13 and at Edin. univ., M.A. 1816; baptist minister at Haverfordwest 1816–20, at Hosier st. chapel, Reading 1820–37, at Devonshire sq. chapel, London 1837–63, at Reading 1863–8; resided at Bristol 1868 to death; sec. of the Baptist Union many years; author of _The work of the Holy Spirit in conversion considered_ 1830, _3 ed._ 1841; _The epistle to the Hebrews freely rendered_ 1843; _Athanasius, or Four books on immortality_ 1849; _An exposition of the epistle to the Romans_ 1863; author with his brother Rev. Isaac Taylor Hinton _d._ 1847 of _The history and topography of the United States 2 vols._ _Boston_ 1834, _2 ed._ New York 1853. _d._ 1 Redland terrace, Clifton, Bristol 17 Dec. 1873. _Baptist Handbook_ (1875) 277–80; _I.L.N. 10 Jany. 1874 pp._ 35–6, _portrait_; _S. A. Swaine’s Faithful Baptist men of Bristol coll._ (1884) 238.
HIRST, WILLIAM. _b._ near Huddersfield 1777; a cloth dresser and manufacturer at Leeds 1810; commenced finishing his goods by machinery 1813; introduced spinning mules, Lewis’ machine and hydraulic presses into his works 1813–25; made a large fortune which he lost in 1825; freely communicated his improved process to the public and was called the father of the Yorkshire woollen trade; _d._ in poverty at Leeds 29 Aug. 1858. _Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis_ (1865) 472–4.
HISLOP, REV. STEPHEN (_son of Stephen Hislop, mason_). _b._ Duns, Berwickshire 8 Sep. 1817; ed. at Edinburgh and Glasgow universities 1834–9; a tutor; sec. to Ladies’ soc. for female education in India 1843; Free church of Scotland minister 1844; missionary to Nagpoor, Central India 1844–58 and 1861 to death; opened a school at Nagpoor 1846 which grew into Hislop coll.; studied the languages of the aboriginal tribes; made discoveries in geology and natural history; contributed papers to Royal Asiatic Soc. Journal 1835 etc. and to Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. 1854–61; author of _Papers relating to the Aboriginal tribes of the central provinces_ 1866; _drowned_, in attempting to cross a stream 20 miles south of Nagpoor 4 Sep. 1863. _R. Hunter’s Hist of Mission of Free Ch. to India_ (1873) _pp._ 24, 384; _Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc._ 1864 _pp. xxxix-xl_; _G. Smith’s Life of S. Hislop_ (1889), _portrait_.
HITCHCOCK, RICHARD (_son of Rodney Hitchcock of Springvale, co. Cork, farmer, d. Aug. 1853_). _b._ Blennerville near Tralee, March 1825; devoted himself to the study of archæology of his native country, using his pen and pencil in their description; assistant librarian Trinity coll. Dublin; assistant to geological society of Ireland; contributed papers to proc. of Kilkenny Archæol. Soc.; _d._ Roundtown near Dublin 3 Dec. 1856.
HITCHIN, GEORGE. _b._ 1785; editor of the _Hampshire Chronicle_ 1814 to death. _d._ High st. Winchester 2 May 1858. _Hampshire Chronicle 8 May 1858 pp._ 4, 5.
HITCHINS, BENJAMIN ROBERTSON. _b._ 1792; entered Madras army 1806; lieut. colonel 47 N.I. 12 May 1842 to 2 Jany. 1854; colonel 1 European regiment 2 Jany. 1854 to death; L.G. 26 Aug. 1866. _d._ Upper Norwood, Surrey 13 July 1867 aged 75.
HITCHMAN, FRANCIS. _b._ 1839; connected with _Western Morning News_, Plymouth; editor of _Manchester Courier_; assist. editor _Standard_, London; wrote for the reviews and magazines, London; an active member of the Primrose League; author of _Pius the ninth. A biography_ 1878; _The public life of the earl of Beaconsfield 2 vols._ 1879, _2 ed._ 1881; _Eighteenth century studies. Essays_ 1881; _Richard F. Burton, his life, travels and explorations 2 vols._ 1888. _d._ London, Dec. 1890.
HOARE, CHARLES (_2 son of Sir Richard Hoare of Barn Elms, Surrey, 1 bart. 1735–87_). _b._ 25 Aug. 1767; partner in banking house of Hoare & Co. 37 Fleet st. London, afterwards senior partner to death; F.S.A. Jany. 1792; built Luscombe house near Dawlish, Devon 179-; F.R.S. 1809. _d._ Luscombe house 16 Nov. 1851.
HOARE, CHARLES HUGH (_3 son of George Matthew Hoare, brewer, London_). _b._ 24 Oct. 1819; ed. at Rugby and Ex. coll. Ox, B.A. 1841; manager of his father’s brewery and ultimately sole acting partner; member of All England Eleven; president and treasurer of Surrey cricket club; member of committee of Lord’s. _d._ Romsey, Hants. 4 April 1869.
HOARE, VEN. CHARLES JAMES (_3 son of Henry Hoare, banker 1750–1828_). _b._ London 14 July 1781; admitted a pensioner at St. John’s coll. Cam. 7 May 1799, 2 wr. and 2 Smith’s pr. 1803, B.A. 1803, M.A. 1806; Lady Margaret fellow of his coll. 24 March 1806 to 4 July 1811; V. of Blandford Forum, Dorset 1807 to March 1821; V. of Godstone, Surrey, March 1821 to death; archdeacon of Winchester 10 Nov. 1829; canon residentiary of Winchester cath. 2 Dec. 1831; archdeacon of Surrey 14 Nov. 1847, resigned 1860; author of _The shipwreck of St. Paul. A Seatonian prize poem_ 1808, _2 ed._ 1860; _Sermons on the Christian character_ 1821; _The holy scriptures, their nature, authority and use_ 1845, _2 ed._ 1857 and other books. _d._ Godstone 18 Jany. 1865.
HOARE, VERY REV. EDWARD NEWENHAM (_4 son of Rev. John Hoare, chancellor of St. Mary’s and Vicar general of diocese of Limerick, d. 9 March 1813 aged 47_). _b._ 11 April 1802; archdeacon of Ardfert 23 Dec. 1836 to 1839; dean of Achonry 14 June 1839 to 1850; dean of Waterford 26 Nov. 1850 to death; edited _The Christian Herald, Dublin 5 vols._ 1830–5; author of _The tendency of the principles advocated in the Tracts for the Times considered_ 1841; _Remarks on mis-statements as to scriptural education in Ireland_ 1850; _Practical suggestions with view to removal of objections to the working of the national education system of education in Ireland_ 1854. _d._ Lauranah villa, Hamlet road, Upper Norwood 1 Feb. 1877.
HOARE, EDWARD WALLIS (_2 son of Sir Edward Hoare, bart. 1745–1814_). _b._ Cork 4 May 1779; entered navy May 1790; when signal lieut. of the London condemned to death by the delegates of the mutineers at Spithead 1797; served in Egypt 1801, at Isle of France 1811; landed on island of Java and routed the enemy 5 June 1811; on half pay 13 Aug. 1812; captain 13 May 1847; admiral on half pay 9 June 1860. _d._ Upton near Ryde, Isle of Wight 6 Jany. 1870.
HOARE, REV. GEORGE TOOKER (_2 son of Ven. Charles James Hoare 1781–1865_). _b._ 27 July 1820; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1847; P.C. of Tandridge, Surrey 1853–65; V. of Godstone, Surrey 1865 to death; edited _Dare and endure_ 1868; author of _The village museum, or how we gather profit with pleasure_ 1858; _A letter written for the people, hints on letter writing_ 1860; _True stories of brave deeds_ 1870. _d._ Aix la Chapelle 9 Aug. 1881.
HOARE, JOHN GURNEY (_2 son of Samuel Hoare, banker 1783–1847_). _b._ 7 May 1810; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; banker Fleet st. London; president of Guy’s hospital, Dec. 1867 to death. _d._ Biarritz, France 17 Feb. 1875. _I.L.N. lxvi_, 211, 259 (1875).
HOARE, JOSEPH (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 21 March 1814; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; banker of firm of Hoare & Co. Fleet st.; M.P. Hull 30 April 1859 but unseated on petition Aug. 1859; contested Manchester 18 Nov. 1868; president Hampstead conservative assoc. _d._ Child’s Hill house, Hampstead 21 Jany. 1886. _Times 25 Jany. 1886 p._ 7.
HOARE, REV. WILLIAM HENRY (_2 son of William Henry Hoare 1776–1819_). _b._ Penzance 31 Oct. 1809; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; 31 wr. 1831, B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834, fellow of his coll. 25 March 1833 to 1835; C. of All Saints, Southampton 1841; commissary to bishop of Newcastle, N.S.W. Australia; diocesan inspector of diocese of Chichester; founder and sec. of Worth clerical association; author of _Harmony of the Apocalypse with the prophecies of holy scriptures_ 1848; _Outlines of ecclesiastical history before the Reformation_ 1852, _2 ed._ 1857; _The veracity of the book of Genesis, with the life of the inspired historian_ 1860 and other books. _d._ Oakfield, Crawley, Sussex 22 Feb. 1888. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i_, 244.
HOBART, AUGUSTUS CHARLES (_3 son of 6 earl of Buckinghamshire 1793–1885_). _b._ Walton-on-the-Wolds, Leics. 1 April 1822; ed. at Cheam; entered navy March 1835; employed in suppressing slave trade 1835–43; present during Russian war 1854–5; commanded mortar boats at attack on Sveaborg; attached to coast guard at Dingle, co. Kerry 1855–61; captain 23 May 1863 when he retired on h.p.; ran the blockade and carried cargoes into Wilmington and Charleston, U.S. America 1863–5; naval adviser to Sultan of Turkey 1867; suppressed the Cretan rebellion 1867; full admiral with title of Pasha 1869; reorganised Turkish fleet and manœuvred against the Russian ships in Black sea 1877; mushir or marshal of Turkish empire 8 Jany. 1881, first christian who ever held that dignity; name struck off British navy list 1867, 1877, restored 1874 and 1884 when he became retired V.A. 30 Oct. 1884; president of Turkish admiralty board; author of _Never caught, By Captain Roberts_ 1867; _The torpedo scare_ 1885. _d._ Milan, Italy 19 June 1886. _Sketches of my life, By Hobart Pasha_ 1887, _portrait_; _Biographical Mag., No. 1, June 1877 pp._ 35–45; _I.L.N. lxx_, 433, 435 (1877), _portrait_.
HOBART, VERE HENRY (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Welbourn, Lincs. 8 Dec. 1818; ed. at Cheam and Trin. coll. Ox., scholar 1836–42, B.A. 1840; clerk in board of trade 1842 to 1 Oct. 1863; known as lord Hobart from 1849; private sec. to Sir George Grey; sec. of states for colonies 1854–55; a writer in the press on Irish questions from 1850; with Mr. Foster, paymaster general, investigated and advised on Turkish finance 1861; director general of Ottoman bank to 1871; governor of presidency of Madras 14 March 1872 to death; author of _Essay on the Alabama claims_ 1870; _Political essays_ 1866, _Reprinted_ 1877. _d._ of typhoid fever at Madras 27 April 1875. _Essays. With Biographical sketch by his widow 2 vols._ 1885, 2 _portraits_.
HOBBS, JOHN WILLIAM. _b._ Henley on Thames 1 Aug. 1799; chorister Canterbury cath.; tenor singer; sang at Norwich musical festival 1813; singer at King’s and St. John’s coll. Cam. and St. George’s chapel Windsor; gentleman of the chapel royal, London 1827; lay vicar Westminster abbey 1836; well known glee singer; composer of Wake, Lady, Wake 1845; Phillis is my only joy 1848; For these and all Thy mercies, A grace 1851; When Delia sings 1862; The captive Greek girl and 70 other pieces. _d._ 20 Duppas Hill ter. Croydon 12 Jany. 1877.
HOBBS, THOMAS FRANCIS (_1 son of Capt. Hobbs of Barnaby house, King’s county_). Second lieut. 21 foot 15 Jany. 1847, which regiment he commanded at the attack on the Redan 18 June 1855; lieut. colonel 14 depot battalion 8 March 1859; lieut. col. 6 foot 6 Feb. 1863 to death; connected with the suppression of the outbreak in Jamaica, became of unsound mind 1866; author of _The subaltern’s hand-book and guide to the military examination_. _Belfast_ 1859; _threw himself overboard_ from the ‘Tyne’ off the coast of Hayti 25 April 1866.
HOBBS, WILLIAM FISHER (_son of a yeoman_). _b._ White Colne, Essex 1809; farmer at Marks hall, Coggeshall 1831; grew improved and more productive wheat; famous for his pigs known as the Fisher Hobbs pigs; V.P. of Royal agricultural society to death; member of council of Smithfield club to death; a scientific farmer, using the best machinery. _d._ Boxted lodge near Colchester 11 Oct. 1866. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxvi_, 577–79 (1867).
HOBHOUSE, HENRY (_only son of Henry Hobhouse of Hadspen house, Somerset 1742–92_). _b._ Clifton 12 April 1776; ed. at Eton and Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1797, M.A. 1799, D.C.L. 1827; barrister M.T. 23 Jany. 1801; solicitor to H.M. customs 1806–12; solicitor to the Treasury 1812–17; under sec. of state for home department 28 June 1817 to July 1827 when he resigned on a pension of £1000; keeper of the state papers 23 May 1826 to death; P.C. 28 June 1828; chairman of Somerset quarter sessions, resigned 1845; one of Ecclesiastical comrs. for England 1838 to death; commissioner of the records 10 June 1852 when he commenced a new system for their arrangement. _d._ Hadspen house, Somerset 13 April 1854. _G.M. xlii_, 79–80 (1854); _Times 18 April 1854 p._ 9.
HOBHOUSE, THOMAS BENJAMIN (_5 son of Sir Benjamin Hobhouse, bart. 1757–1831_). _b._ 19 June 1807; ed. at Ball. coll. Ox., B.A. 1828; contested Aylesbury 1835; M.P. Rochester 1837–41; contested Newark 1841; M.P. Lincoln 1848–52; contested Ipswich 1852. _d._ 31 Dec. 1876.
HOBLER, FRANCIS (_son of Francis Hobler, clerk to the lord mayor 1803–43 who d. 21 Jany. 1844 aged 78_). Solicitor in City of London 1817–60; solicitor to Licensed Victuallers Soc. 1837–60; solicitor for the Crown in trial of F. B. Courvoisier 18–20 June 1840; sec. of Numismatic Soc. of London; author of _Familiar exercises between an attorney and his articled clerk on the principles of the laws of real property_ 1831, _2 ed._ 1838; _Liber mercatoris or the merchant’s manual, being a concise treatise on bills of exchange_ 1838; _Records of Roman history as exhibited on the Roman coins 2 vols._ 1860.
HOBLYN, RICHARD DENNIS (_1 son of Rev. Richard Hoblyn 1771–1827, R. of All Saints, Colchester_). _b._ Colchester 9 April 1803; ed. at Tiverton gram. sch. and Ball. coll. Ox., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1828; ordained 1832, resigned clerical life; devoted himself to teaching and writing on education; author of _A dictionary of terms used in medicine and the collateral sciences_ 1835, _11 ed._ 1887; _A manual of the steam engine_ 1842; _A dictionary of scientific terms_ 1849. _d._ 22 Aug. 1886.
HOBLYN, THOMAS (_eld. son of Edward Hoblyn_). _b._ Liskeard 1778; chief clerk in H.M. treasury 1820–34; F.R.S. 27 June 1811; F.L.S. 4 March 1823; author of _Precepts for the use of Hoblyn’s equalizer, the value in imperial measure equivalent to any value in wine measure_ 1826; _Description of a method of founding a lighthouse on the Goodwin sands_ 1851. _d._ White Barns, Herts. 6 Aug. 1860. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i_, 246, _iii_, 1232; _Boase’s Collect. Cornub._ 370.
HOBSON, FREDERICK. _b._ 1800; proprietor of _The Leeds Times_ 1833 to death, and manager of the commercial department; joined by his son William Hobson. _d._ Woodhouse, Leeds 18 Feb. 1863. _Leeds Times 21 Feb. 1863 p._ 4.
HOBSON, JOHN. _b._ Leeds; musical director of the Christy (afterwards the Moore and Burgess) minstrels London for 12 years before his death; composer of The flight of the birds 1870; The man with the appetite 1880. _d._ 8 Appach road, Brixton 31 Jany. 1887.
HOBSON, MARTIN. _b._ 1833; chorus master at Alhambra palace, London; musical conductor to Bernard’s opera company; composed many popular songs, among others The boys of merry England 1865; A norrible tale of the suicidal family 1865; Give me the man of honest heart 1867; O sing the song you used to sing 1872; I likes a drop of good beer 1875; Popular hymns, carols and sacred songs, arranged for pianoforte, 40 numbers 1875; Popular favourites arranged for the pianoforte, 153 numbers 1876–9, and 30 other pieces besides arranging many songs, etc. _d._ 3 Dec. 1880.
HOBSON, RICHARD. _b._ Whitehaven, Cumberland 1795; studied at St. George’s hospital, London; at Queen’s coll. Cam., M.B. 1825, M.D. 1830; settled in Leeds 1831; physician Leeds infirmary 1833–43; kept a pack of harriers; was intimate with C. Waterton from 1836; published _Charles Waterton, his home, habits and handiwork_ 1866. _d._ 10 Park place, Leeds 29 Nov. 1868.
HOBSON, WILLIAM ROBERT (_only son of Capt. William Hobson, governor of New Zealand, d. 1842_). _b._ 1831; entered R.N. 1845; mate of the Rattlesnake in her expedition to Behring Straits as relieving ship to the Enterprise and Investigator 1853; lieut. 20 April 1855, served in Baltic campaign 1854–5; accompanied Capt. Francis L. M’Clintock in the Fox in search of Sir John Franklin 1857–9, in the sledge party April to June 1859, discovered 6 May 1859 in the cairn built by the crews of the Erebus and Terror the tin case containing the record that Sir John Franklin died 11 June 1847; captain 11 April 1866, retired 12 Aug. 1872. _d._ Pitminster near Taunton 11 Oct. 1880. _I.L.N. 15 Oct. 1859 p._ 362–3, _portrait_.
HOBY, REV. JAMES (_son of George Hoby, boot maker to George III., St. James’ st. Piccadilly_). _b._ London 1788; ed. at Bristol Baptist coll. 1812; assist. minister at Maze Pond chapel to 1823; minister at Birmingham, Weymouth and Twickenham; visited United States as one of a deputation from the Baptist Union 1836; author of _Narrative of a visit to christian brethren in Hamburg, Copenhagen, etc._ 1844; _Memoir of William Yates, D.D. of Calcutta 1847_; _Anti-popery. A lecture_ 1851. _d._ Caterham 20 Nov. 1871. _S. A. Swaine’s Faithful Baptist men_ (1884) 242–3; _Baptist Handbook 1872 p._ 226.
HOCHSCHILD, BARON CHARLES. Ambassador and minister plenipotentiary from Sweden in London 6 Nov. 1854 to death. _d._ 8 Sep. 1857.
HODDER, GEORGE. _b._ 1819; ed. at Christ’s hospital; connected with Henry Mayhew in the initiation of _Punch_ or the _London Charivari_ 17 July 1841; connected with _Morning Post_; author of _Memories of my time, including personal reminiscences of eminent men_ 1870; upset in a four-horse drag in Richmond park on 28 May 1870 when his skull was fractured, _d._ Richmond infirmary 31 July 1870. _Newspaper Press, iv_, 175, 215 (1870); _Times 4 Aug. 1870 p._ 9.
HODGE, JOHN. _b._ Scotland 10 April 1787; wholesale stationer and paper maker, firm being Spalding and Hodge, 145–7 Drury lane, London from 1810; largest house in England, probably in the world. _d._ 18 Gilston road, West Brompton, 15 Dec. 1865.
HODGES, EDWARD. _b._ Bristol 20 July 1796; organist of Clifton church, of St. James’s ch. Bristol 1819, of St. Nicholas’s ch. Bristol 1821–35; Mus. Bac. and Mus. Doc. Cam. 1825; went to Toronto, Canada 1835; went to U.S. of A. 1838; organist of Trinity ch. New York 1846–63; composed a morning and evening service and two anthems for reopening of St. James’s organ Bristol 2 May 1824, published 1825; published _An apology for church music and musical festivals, Bristol_ 1834; _Canticles of the Church, New York_ 1864. _d._ Clifton 1 Sep. 1876.
HODGES, REV. EDWARD RICHMOND. _b._ 1826; scripture reader in London; sent by Soc. for promoting Christianity among the Jews, as a missionary to Palestine; missionary in Algeria to 1856; minister of reformed episcopal church; author of _Ancient Egypt_ 1851; edited Craik’s _Principia Hebraica_ 1863; Cory’s _Ancient fragments of the Phœnician and other authors_ 1876 and other books. _d._ Tollington park, Holloway, London 9 May 1881. _Academy 18 June 1881 p._ 454.
HODGES, SIR GEORGE FLOYD (_son of George Thomas Hodges of Limerick_). _b._ Old Abbey, Limerick 1792; ensign 61 foot 28 Aug. 1806; served in the Peninsula and at Waterloo 1810–15; adjutant recruiting district 5 May 1825 to 31 Dec. 1830 when placed on h.p.; commanded British and foreign legion in Portugal under Dom Pedro 1832; chargé d’ affaires and consul general to Hanse Towns 31 July 1841 to 1860 when he retired on a pension; C.B. 1 March 1851, K.C.B. 6 Aug. 1860; author of _Narrative of the expedition to Portugal in 1832 under the orders of Dom Pedro 2 vols._ 1833; contributed many articles to periodicals. _d._ 60 Lansdowne place, Brighton 14 Dec. 1862.
HODGES, JAMES. _b._ Queenborough, Kent 6 April 1814; engineer, worked under contractor for Greenwich railway 1834; superintended construction of Shakespeare tunnel, Dover and blasting of Round cliff, Down 1842–3; resident engineer on Norfolk railway; contracted for 50 miles of Great Northern railway; superintended construction of Victoria bridge over the St. Lawrence 1853–60; engaged in manufacturing peat fuel in Canada 1862; constructed the Callao docks 1870–5; a great benefactor to Bagshot; author of _Construction of the great Victoria bridge in Canada_ 1860. _d._ Perry hill, Bagshot, June 1879. _I.L.N. 22 Sep. 1860 p._ 266, _portrait_; _Engineering 25 June 1879 p._ 78.
HODGES, THOMAS LAW (_son of Thomas Hallett Hodges, d. 1801_). _b._ 3 June 1776; major West Kent regiment of militia; M.P. for Kent 1830–32; for West Kent 1832–41 and 1847–52; author of _Minutes of evidence before house of commons on emigration, and on state of the poor laws_ 1833; _The use of Pearson’s drain plough_ 1833. _d._ Hemsted, Kent 14 May 1857.
HODGES, SIR WILLIAM (_eld. son of Wm. Hodges of Weymouth_). _b._ Melcombe Regis, Dorset 29 Sep. 1808; ed. at Salisbury and London Univ.; barrister I.T. 3 May 1833; a revising barrister for Devon and Cornwall 1837–57; recorder of Poole, Dorset Nov. 1846 to Nov. 1857; drafted the Public health act 1848; chief justice of the Cape colony, judge of vice admiralty court, and president of legislative council 9 Feb. 1858 to death; knighted at Buckingham palace 3 Feb. 1858; author of _Report of the case of the Queen v. Lumsdaine_ 1839; _The law relating to the assessment of railways_ 1842; _The statute law relating to railways_ 1845; _A treatise on the law of railways_ 1855, _7 ed. 2 vols._ 1888; with G. Williams and F. L. Wollaston _Reports of cases in court of queen’s bench 1840 continued as Term Reports to 1841_. _d._ Sea point house, Cape town 17 Aug. 1868.
HODGETTS, FOLEY JOHN HODGETTS. _b._ Prestwood near Stourbridge 17 July 1797; took name of Hodgetts before that of Foley by r.l. 4 April 1821; M.P. for Droitwich 1822–34; contested Droitwich 1835; M.P. for East Worcestershire 1847 to death. _d._ Prestwood house, Stafford 13 Nov. 1861.
HODGKIN, JOHN (_2 son of John Hodgkin of Tottenham, Middlesex, grammarian 1766–1845_). _b._ Pentonville, London 11 March 1800; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1825; practised as a conveyancer 1825–43; had numerous pupils; aimed at conciseness and brevity in documents; a preacher among the Friends, and a visitor to Ireland, France and America 1861; helped to prepare the Encumbered Estates
## act 1849; author of _Observations on the establishment of a
General Register of titles_ 1827. _d._ Bournemouth 3 July 1875. _bur._ Friends’ ground, Winchmore hill, Middlesex.
HODGKIN, THOMAS (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Tottenham, Middlesex 17 Aug. 1798; studied at Guy’s hospital, in Paris and in Edin., M.D. Edin. 1823; settled in London; L.R.C.P.; curator of museum and professor of morbid anatomy, Guy’s hospital; on senate of Univ. of London 1837 to death; a founder of Aborigines protection soc. 1838; F.R.G.S.; Hodgkin’s disease is the name given to an enlargement of the lymphatic glands; author of _An essay on medical education_ 1828; _Hints relative to the cholera in London_ 1832; _Lectures on the morbid anatomy of the serous and mucous membranes 2 vols._ 1836–40; _Lectures on the means of promoting and preserving health_ 1835, _2 ed._ 1841; _Narrative of a journey to Morocco in 1863, with portrait of author_ 1866 and 14 other works. _d._ while on a visit to Jaffa, Palestine 4 April 1866, Sir M. Montefiore erected an obelisk to his memory there. _Medical Times, i_, 403 (1866); _Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. v_, 250 (1867); _Barker’s Photographs of Medical Men, ii_, 73–6 (1868), _portrait_.
HODGKINSON, EATON (_son of Mr. Hodgkinson of Anderton, parish of Great Budworth, Cheshire, farmer, d. 1795_). _b._ Anderton 26 Feb. 1789; ed. at Northwich gram. sch.; pawn broker, Salford, Manchester 1811; pupil of Dr. John Dalton of Manchester 1811; member of Manchester Lit. and Philos. society 1826, president 1848–50; F.R.S. 1841; professor of mechanical principles of engineering in Univ. coll. London 1847; hon. M.I.C.E. 1851; F.G.S.; experimented on strength and forms of iron beams and invented Hodgkinson’s beam; his paper on Strength of pillars of cast iron in Philos. Trans. obtained for him Royal soc. royal medal 1841; edited _Practical essay on strength of cast iron, By T. Tredgold 5 ed._ 1860. _d._ Eaglesfield house, Higher Broughton near Manchester 18 June 1861. _Life of E. Hodgkinson in Memoirs Manchester Lit. and Philos. Soc. ii_, 145 (1861); _Proceedings of royal society, xii_, 11–13 (1862); _Minutes of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxi_, 542–45 (1862).
HODGKINSON, REV. GEORGE CHRISTOPHER. _b._ 1816; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., 14 wrangler and B.A. 1837, M.A. 1842; principal R. Agric. coll. Cirencester; principal of York and Ripon Diocesan training institution to 1854; head master Louth gram. sch. 1854–76; sec. of National soc.; R. of Screveton, Notts. 1876 to death; an alpine climber; recommended use of aneroids in mountain expeditions; made astronomical observations on the summit of Mont Blanc; experimented on registering amount and intensity of sunshine; author of _The doctrine of the church. And the statement of G. C. Hodgkinson of the Training school, York in his defence_ 1854; _Drops for the cup of uniformity, unity and peace_ 1845. _d._ Car Colston, Notts. 25 April 1880.
HODGKINSON, SIR GEORGE EDMUND (_only son of George Hodgkinson_). _b._ Southwell, Notts. 1817; ship owner, ship and insurance agent, 74 Cornhill, London; at one time in partnership with Sir John Pirie, bart.; sheriff of London 1850–51, after the Queen’s visit to the city 9 July 1851 was knighted at Buckingham palace 17 July 1851. _d._ Bournemouth 26 March 1886.
HODGKINSON, GROSVENOR. _b._ Newark upon Trent 12 Feb. 1818; solicitor at Newark 1839–70; M.P. for Newark 1859–74. _d._ Newark 14 Feb. 1881.
HODGSON, ANTHONY. _b._ Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1780; ed. at Crook hall coll. and at Ushaw; hatter Newcastle, and bookseller dealing chiefly in R.C. books; a great student of English R.C. history; contributed many articles to _Catholic Miscellany_, _Catholic Mag._, _Weekly Orthodox journal_, and _London and Dublin orthodox journal_. _d._ Newcastle 10 Feb. 1869. _Gillow’s English Catholics iii_, 315–18 (1887).
HODGSON, BRIAN (_son of Brian Hodgson, innkeeper, Buxton, d. 1827_). _bapt._ Buxton 15 March 1767; partner in banking house of Hawkins, Mills & Co., Macclesfield 1787, the bank failed but paid 20s. in the pound; superintendent of Martello towers on coast of Essex, office abolished 1820; barrack master of the troops at Canterbury 1820–50. _d._ in Holland 31 Jany. 1858.
HODGSON, CHRISTOPHER (_eld. son of John Hodgson of Bishop Auckland, Durham_). _b._ Bartlett’s buildings Holborn, London 1784; attorney and notary in Westminster 1805–71; chapter clerk to dean and chapter of St. Paul’s 1806; sec. to Abp. of Canterbury 1809; sec. to Bp. of London 1813; M.A. by Abp. of Canterbury 22 July 1820; sec. to governors of queen Anne’s bounty 15 Feb. 1822, resigned Jany. 1871; sec. to Abp. of York 1826; treasurer to queen Anne’s bounty 1839 to Jany. 1871; author of _Instructions for the use of candidates for holy orders_ 1817, _9 ed._ 1870; _An account of the augmentation of small livings by the Governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne 2 parts_ 1826–35, _2 ed._ 1845–56. _d._ Spring grove, Isleworth, Middlesex 7 Aug. 1874. _bur._ Norwood cemetery.
HODGSON, CHRISTOPHER PEMBERTON. _b._ 1821; resided in New South Wales 1840–45 and accompanied several exploring expeditions; vice consul at Pau, France 1851–5; vice consul at Caen 1857–9; consul at Nagasaki, Japan 1859, and at Hakodadi 1859–61; author of _Reminiscences of Australia_ 1846; _El Ydaivur_ 1849; _Pyrenaica, a history of the viscounts of Bèarn_ 1855; _The Wanderer and other poems_ 1849; _A residence at Nagasaki and Hakodadi_ 1861. _d._ Pau 11 Oct. 1865.
HODGSON, EDMUND (_son of a bookseller in Wimpole st. London_). _b._ 1794; publisher with Robert Saunders at 39 Fleet st. London 1825–8; publisher at 192 Fleet st. 1829–55, at 2 Chancery lane 1856 to about 1867; pres. of Booksellers’ Provident Institution. _d._ 102 Lower Tulse hill, Brixton 3 May 1875. _Publisher’s Circular_ (1875) 383–4.
HODGSON, REV. FRANCIS (_2 son of Rev. James Hodgson, R. of Humber, co. Hereford, d. Oct. 1810_). _b._ Croydon 16 Nov. 1781; ed. at Eton 1794–99, scholar King’s coll. Cam. 1799; B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807, B.D. 1840; fellow and tutor of his college 1808–14; friend of lord Byron whom he visited at Newstead 1808, corresponded with lady Byron about her separation; C. of Bradden, Northamptonshire 1815–16; V. of Bakewell, Derbyshire 1816–40; archdeacon of Derby 9 Sep. 1836 to 30 Dec. 1840; P.C. of Edensor in Chatsworth park 1838–40; provost of Eton college 5 May 1840 to death; R. of Cottesford, Oxon. 1842 to death; published _The satires of Juvenal, A translation_ 1807; _The Friends, a poem_ 1818; _Mythology for versification_ 1831; _Select portions of sacred history conveyed in sense for Latin verses_ 1828, _2 ed._ 1833; _Sacred lyrics adapted to Latin versification in the principal metres of Horace_ 1842; made considerable contributions in Latin to the _Arundines Cami_. _d._ The Lodge, Eton college 29 Dec. 1852. _bur._ in college chapel 4 Jany. 1853. _Memoir of Rev. F. Hodgson by his son 2 vols._ 1878, _portrait_; _H. C. M. Lyte’s History of Eton college_ (1875) 413–73.
HODGSON, REV. FRANCIS. _b._ Duffield 13 Feb. 1805; settled at West Chester, Pa., U.S. America; minister of Methodist Episcopal ch. at Dauphin, Pa. 1828, at Philadelphia, New York, Hartford and New Haven; author of _Examination into the new system of divinity_ 1829; _The ecclesiastical polity of Methodism defended_; _The Calvinistic doctrine of predestination examined and refuted_ 1855. _d._ 16 April 1877. _Appleton’s American biography, iii_, 225 (1887).
HODGSON, FREDERICK. _b._ 1795; a brewer and merchant at Barnstaple; M.P. for Barnstaple 1824–30, 1831–2 and 1837–47. _d._ Paris 30 March 1854. _E. Yates’s Recollections, i_, 12 (1884).
HODGSON, HENRY (_son of Robert Hodgson_). _b._ Congleton, Cheshire 24 Feb. 1781; entered Bengal army 1798; col. 51 Bengal N.I. 5 June 1829 to 1841; col. 12 Bengal N.I. 1841 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. _d._ Passy, Paris 8 March 1855.
HODGSON, ISAAC. _b._ Bradford 15 Nov. 1828; a cricketer 1847; first played at Lord’s 16 July 1860; with C. Lawrence at Glasgow put the England Eleven out for 20 runs 20 Sep. 1860; bowler to Manchester Broughton club 1862; right hand batsman, but bowled left, round armed, slow with a twist; a good player at Knurr and Spell; had a benefit at Bradford 29 Aug. 1867; landlord of West End tavern, Lister hills, Bradford. _d._ Bradford 24 Nov. 1867. _Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores vi_, 437–8 (1876).
HODGSON, JOHN STUDHOLME (_2 son of John Hodgson 1757–1846, general in the army_). _b._ Blake st. York May 1805; ed. at Woolwich; ensign 23 Bengal N.I. 3 Feb. 1822; served in campaign of 1845–6 and was wounded at Sobraon; raised first Sikh regt. embodied in British service which he commanded in second Sikh war 1848–9; as brigadier, organised Punjab irregular force 1850; in command of Peshawur frontier; lieut.-col. 12 Bengal N.I. 15 April 1858 to 1862; M.G. 23 July 1861; retired 1865. _d._ 10 Stanhope terrace, Hyde park, London 14 Jany. 1870.
HODGSON, JOSEPH (_son of John Hodgson of Birmingham, merchant_). _b._ Penrith, Cumberland 1788; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital; M.R.C.S. 1811, member of council 1849, examiner in surgery 1856–66, president 1864; in practice at King st. Cheapside 1811–18; edited _London Medical Rev._; removed to Birmingham 1818; surgeon to general dispensary and general hospital to 1848; a founder of Birmingham eye infirmary 1824; returned to London 1849; examiner in surgery London univ.; president Medico-Chirur. Soc. 1851; very successful as a lithotomist; F.R.S. 14 April 1831; attended Sir Robert Peel on his death 2 July 1850; author of _A treatise on the diseases of arteries and veins_ 1815 which was translated into German and Italian. _d._ 60 Westbourne ter. London 7 Feb. 1869. _Reg. and Mag. of Biog. March 1869 pp._ 211–2; _J. F. Clarke’s Biog. Recollections_ (1874) 331–5.
HODGSON, REV. JOSEPH LOWTHER (_3 son of William Hodgson of Houghton house, Cumberland_). _b._ 27 Sep. 1818; ed. at Pet. coll. Cam., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1844; P.C. of Wetheral with Warwick 1848 to death; hon. canon of Carlisle cath. 1858 to death; author of _A simple catechism of the Lord’s prayer_ 1851; _The village schools of Cumberland_ 1857. _d._ Harber Grange near Carlisle 29 March 1861.
HODGSON, REV. JOSEPH STORDY (_2 son of Joseph Hodgson_). _b._ 1806; ed. at Caius coll. Cam., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1834; R. of Brinklow near Coventry 1840–58; R. of Aikton, Cumberland 1858–70; hon. canon of Carlisle cath. 1872, canon residentiary 1872 to death; author of _Considerations in phrenology_ 1839; _The duty of private judgment_ 1844. _d._ The Abbey, Carlisle 24 Jany. 1879.
HODGSON, KIRKMAN DANIEL (_eld son of John Hodgson of the Elms, Hampstead, d. 1858_). _b._ London 1814; ed. at the Charterhouse 1826 etc.; partner in firm of Baring Brothers and Co. merchants; a director of Bank of England 1849–78, deputy governor 1862, governor 1863–4; M.P. for Bridport 1857–68, contested Penryn 1868; M.P. Bristol 1870 to 1878. _d._ Ash Grove, Sevenoaks 11 Sep. 1879, personalty sworn under £400,000 Nov. 1879.
HODGSON, MARY (_dau. of Thomas Hodgson 1800–69_). _b._ Bentham, Yorkshire 1835; ed. at Ackworth sch. near Pontefract 1846–50; student of Manchester sch. of Art 1874, and at Manchester Academy of art 1876; lady exhibitor 1882, associate 1884; landscape painter in oil and water colours; made studies of animals, especially of cats; author of _A plea for the Alliance, in verse_ 1864; _Vegetarian receipts for Christmas time_ 1883; illustrated H. Thompson’s _History of Ackworth School_ 1879 with 12 drawings. _d._ York 13 Sep. 1886. _J. H. Nodal’s Bibliography of Ackworth school_ (1889) 15, _portrait_.
HODGSON, RICHARD. _b._ Wimpole st. London 1804; partner in firm of Hodgson and Graves of Pall Mall, London, publishers to 1841; introduced many improvements in daguerreo type; built an observatory at Claybury in Essex 1852, removed it to Hawkwood near Chingford, Essex; F.R.A.S. 14 April 1848, mem. of council 12 Feb. 1858, hon. sec. 1863–67. _d._ Hawkwood 4 May 1872.
HODGSON, SIR ROBERT (_son of Robert Hodgson, speaker of house of assembly, Prince Edward island_). _b._ Charlotte town, Prince Edward island 1798; ed. at Collegiate sch. Windsor, Nova Scotia; admitted to bar of Nova Scotia and of Prince Edward island 1819; surrogate and judge of probate for P.E. island 1828, attorney general and advocate general 1828, president of legislative council 1840, and acting chief justice 1841; resigned all offices except surrogate and judge 1851; chief justice 1852, judge of vice admiralty court 1853; acting governor of P.E. island 1865, 1868 and 1873–4; lieut.-governor July 1874 to July 1879; knighted by patent 1 March 1869. _d._ Charlotte town 16 Sep. 1880.
HODGSON, STUDHOLME JOHN (_son of general John Hodgson 1757–1846_). _b._ 1 April 1805; ensign 50 regt. 30 Dec. 1819; served in 45, 39 and 19 regiments in Ceylon, India and the first Burmese war; commander of the forces in Ceylon 1865–69; commander of troops in Straits Settlement; administrator of civil government of Ceylon; colonel 54 regt. 13 March 1868; colonel 4 regt. 21 Nov. 1876 to death; general 2 Feb. 1876; retired 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ Argyll hall, Torquay 31 Aug. 1890.
HODGSON, THOMAS. _b._ Lancaster, Jany. 1800; land surveyor, Lancaster 1821; made a survey of the county of Westmoreland 1823–5, concerning which he had a paper war with G. & J. Greenwood, map publishers; author of _Plan of the county of Westmoreland_ 1828, another issue with the geological strata coloured by Adam Sedgwick is dated 1841. _d._ Lancaster 1869.
HODGSON, THOMAS. Master Badsworth hounds for 3 seasons, of Holderness hounds 16 seasons and of Quorn hounds 2 seasons; registrar of deeds, West Riding of Yorkshire. _d._ Snydale hall, May 1863 aged 70. _Sporting Rev., June 1863 pp._ 461–3.
HODGSON, WILLIAM. _b._ 1745; studied medicine and botany in Holland; M.D.; tried at Old Bailey 9 Dec. 1793 for proposing toast of The French Republic and comparing the king to a German hog butcher, imprisoned in Newgate 2 years; author of _The picture of the Times_ 1795; _The commonwealth of reason_ 1795; _The case of W. Hodgson now confined in Newgate_ 1795; _A critical grammar of the French and English language_ 1819; _Flora’s cabinet in which the relation of chemistry to the flower garden is elucidated_ 1835; _The life of Napoleon Bonaparte_ 1841. _d._ Hemingford ter. Islington 2 March 1851 aged 106. _G.M. xxxv_, 560 (1851); _N. & Q. 14 June 1884 p._ 475.
HODGSON, WILLIAM BALLANTYNE (_son of William Hodgson a working printer_). _b._ Edinburgh 6 Oct. 1815; matric. at Edin. univ. Nov. 1829; a lecturer on literature, education and phrenology in Fifeshire; sec. Mechanics’ instit. Liverpool 1 June 1839; principal of Liverpool institute 1844; LLD. of Glasgow univ. 11 March 1846; principal Chorlton high sch. Manchester 1847–51; lectured on economic science R. Instit. London 1854; assist. comr. of inquiry into primary education 1858; professor of commercial law Edin. univ. 17 July 1871; author of _Lectures on education_ 1837; _The education of girls_ 1864–6, _2 ed._ 1869; _The true scope of economic science_ 1870; _Turgot, his life, times and opinions_ 1870 and other works. _d._ at Brussels while attending educational congress 24 Aug. 1880. _Meiklejohn’s Life and letters of W. B. Hodgson_ (1885), _portrait_; _Grant’s University of Edinburgh, ii_, 466–9 (1884).
HODGSON, WILLIAM NICHOLSON (_eld. son of Joseph Hodgson_). _b._ Carlisle 14 Aug. 1801; M.P. Carlisle 1847–52, 1857–9 and 1865–8; M.P. East Cumberland 1868 to death; sheriff of Cumberland 1863. _d._ 33 Duke st. St. James’s, London 2 April 1876.
HODSON, VEN. GEORGE (_youngest son of Mr. Hodson of Carlisle_). _b._ 1787; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1810, of Magd. coll., M.A. 1813; Taxor of the university 1813; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Birmingham, Oct. 1824; archdeacon of Stafford, April 1829 to death; second residentiary canon and chancellor of Lichfield cath. 28 June 1833 to death; V. of St. Mary, Lichfield 1851 to death; author of _Twelve sermons on Christian temper and experience_ 1825; _Morning discourses at Christ Church_, _Birmingham_ 1832; _The church of Rome’s traffic in pardons_ 1838; _The finished course_ 1855. _d._ Riva on the Lago di Garda 13 Aug. 1855.
HODSON, GEORGE A. (_son of George A. Hodson, musical composer of numerous pieces_). _b._ Dublin 1822; first appeared on stage at Bath about 1839; actor of Irish characters; played _Teddy the Tiler_ at Covent Garden 1841; lessee of Cheltenham theatre; lessee of theatre royal, Gloucester to his death. _d._ Bath 27 June 1869. _Era 4 July 1869 p._ 11 _col._ 4.
HODSON, JAMES. _b._ Streat Place near Ditchling, Sussex 30 Oct. 1808; miller at Brighton; first played at Lord’s 10 June 1839 when he was no-balled for being too high; round armed bowler; resided at Hunston near Chichester from 1856. _d._ 17 March 1880. _Lillywhite’s Cricket scores, ii_, 495 (1862).
HODSON, MARGARET (_eld. dau. of Allen Holford of Davenham, by Margaret Wrench of Chester, authoress_). _b._ 1778; author of _Wallace or the fight of Falkirk, a romance_ 1809, _2 ed._ 1810; _Poems_ 1811; _Margaret of Anjou_ 1816; _Warbeck of Wolfstein_ 1820. (_m._ 16 Oct. 1820 Septimus Hodson, rector of Thrapston, Northamptonshire _d._ 12 Dec. 1833); a friend of Southey, Coleridge and Landor; also published _The lives of Vasco Nunez de Balboa and Francisco Pizarro from the Spanish of Don Manuel Josef Quintana_ 1832. _d._ Sharrow cottage, Dawlish, Devon 11 Sep. 1852. _N. & Q. 2 S. i 113_, _4 S. ix 534, x 94, xi 411_.
HODSON, WILLIAM STEPHEN RAIKES (_3 son of Ven. George Hodson 1787–1855, archdeacon of Stafford_). _b._ Maisemore court near Gloucester 19 March 1821; ed. at Rugby and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1844; entered H.E.I.C. service Sep. 1845; with the 2nd grenadiers engaged in Sikh war; adjutant of corps of guides 1847; assist. commissary at Umritsur in the Punjab 1849; commander of corps of guides Sep. 1852, removed 1855; two inquiries made as to his conduct, the last being favourable 1856; raised and commanded a regiment of irregular horse known throughout the mutiny of 1857 as Hodson’s horse; managed the intelligence department 1857; pursued and captured the king of Delhi 21 Sep. 1857; captured and shot with his own hands the 3 princes of Delhi 22 Sep. 1857; shot by a native in the begum’s palace at Lucknow 11 March 1858. _d._ Lucknow 12 March 1858. _Twelve years of a soldier’s life in India, By W. R. Hodson_ 1859; _Rev. G. H. Hodson’s Hodson of Hodson’s Horse_ (1883); _R. B. Smith’s Life of Lord Lawrence, i_ 309, _ii_ 14, 538; _Kaye and Malleson’s Indian mutiny, vols. i-iv_ (1888–89).
HOFFMEISTER, SIR WILLIAM CARTER (_son of Charles William Hoffmeister, collector of customs, Belfast_). _b._ Portsmouth 6 July 1817; ed. at Glasgow univ., M.D. 1840; M.R.C.S. 1840, F.R.C.S. 1855; L.R.C.P. 1861; surgeon apothecary to the Queen at Osborne; surgeon Royal yacht squadron; knighted at Osborne 26 Aug. 1884. _d._ Clifton house, Cowes, Isle of Wight 29 July 1890.
HOGAN, JOHN (_son of a builder_). _b._ Tallow, co. Waterford, Oct. 1800; with Sir Thomas Deane, architect Cork 1815–22; decorated R.C. chapel, Cork with 44 wooden figures of saints 1822; studied in Rome 1823–9; first works in marble, _A shepherd boy_ 1824 and a _Drunken Faun_; retired to Ireland 1829; his ‘Dead Christ’ forms altar piece of R.C. chapel, Clarendon st. Dublin; patronised by R.C. clergy; made statues of D. O’Connell and others, and busts of Father Mathew, &c.; exhibited 4 sculptures at R.A. London 1833–50. _d._ Dublin 20 March 1858. His widow Cornelia granted civil list pension of £100, 4 Oct. 1858. _Dublin Univ. Mag. xxxv_, 72 (1850), _portrait_; _Art Journal, ii_, 376 (1850), _portrait_.
HOGAN, JOHN SHERIDAN. _b._ near Dublin 1815; sent to Toronto, Canada 1826; newsboy for _Canadian Wesleyan_ 1826, foreman, then on staff of writers; studied law, attorney 1844 in practice at Hamilton; sent articles on Canadian politics to _Blackwood’s Edin. Mag._ 1850; established _United Empire_ newspaper at Toronto; accused of complicity in burning steamer Caroline, but discharged, brought a claim for indemnity which was not entertained; first prize for an essay on _Canada and her resources_, at Paris exhibition 1855; editor _Toronto Daily Colonist_ 1856 and for some years; member for county of Grey in Canadian parliament 1857; _murdered_ near Toronto, Dec. 1859. _Morgan’s Bibl. Canad._ (1867) 192; _Appleton’s American Biog. iii_, 229 (1887).
HOGARTH, GEORGE, _b._ Edinburgh 1783; a writer to the signet; a violinist and composer; a contributor to _Edinburgh Courant_; a writer on _Morning Chronicle_, London 1831, afterwards editor; musical critic to _Daily News_ 1846–66 and also to _Illust. London News_; sec. to Philharmonic soc. 1850–64; compiled the _Houseland Narrative_ 1850–61; author of _Musical history, biography and criticism_ 1835; _Memoirs of the opera in Italy, France, Germany and England 2 vols._ 1851; his musical publications were _The musical herald 2 vols._ 1846; _School music arranged for three voices_ 1852. _d._ at res. of his dau. Mrs. R. C. Roney, 10 Gloucester crescent, Regent’s park, London 12 Feb. 1870. _Newspaper Press, iv_, 81 (1870).
HOGARTH, MOST REV. WILLIAM. _b._ Dodding Green, Kendal, Westmoreland 25 March 1786; entered catholic college at Crook hall near Consett 29 Aug. 1796, this college was subsequently removed to Ushaw; received tonsure and four minor orders at Durham 19 March 1807, ordained sub-deacon 2 April 1808, deacon 14 Dec. 1808, priest 20 Dec. 1809; a professor and general prefect at Ushaw college; chaplain at Cliffe hall 31 Oct. 1816 to 9 Nov. 1824; transferred to the mission at Darlington 9 Nov. 1824 where he remained to death; vicar general to bishops Briggs, Mostyn and Riddell; vicar apostolic of the northern district, and bishop of Samosata _in
## partibus_ 28 July 1848, consecrated in St. Cuthbert’s chapel,
Ushaw 24 Aug. 1848; bishop of Hexham and Newcastle 29 Sep. 1850 to death. _d._ Paradise row, Darlington 29 Jany. 1866. _bur._ St. Cuthbert’s coll. Ushaw 6 Feb. _Brady’s Episcopal succession, iii_, 346, 357, 410–13 (1877); _Gillow’s English Catholics, iii_, 321–23 (1887).
HOGG, HENRY (_son of a manufacturer of hosiery_). _b._ Nottingham 1831; solicitor at Nottingham to death; wrote a number of short poems in the _Christian Miscellany_, also wrote hymns and carols some of which he set to music; published _Poems_, _Nottingham_ 1852; _Songs for the Times_ 1856. _d._ Nottingham 1874. _Wylie’s Old and New Nottingham_ (1853) 247.
HOGG, JAMES. _b._ Leitrim, Ireland; contributed to _Dublin University Mag._ and _New York Albion_; editor and proprietor of _New Brunswick Reporter_ at Fredericton to death; author of _Poems_. _St. John, N.B._ 1825; _Poems, religious, moral and sentimental_. _d._ Fredericton, New Brunswick 12 June 1866. _Morgan’s Bibl. Canad._ (1867) 192.
HOGG, JAMES (_son of James Hogg_). _b._ near Edinburgh 26 March 1806; apprenticed to James Muirhead, printer, Edin. 1818; printer and publisher in Edin. 1837–58; edited _Hogg’s Weekly Instructor_, first number 1 March 1845, title changed to _The Instructor_ 1849, afterwards to _Titan_, last number Dec. 1859 altogether 29 vols.; publisher in London 1858 to July 1867; published De Quincey’s _Collected Works 14 vols._ 1857, _new ed. 15 vols._ 1862; _Churchman’s Family Mag._ and _London Society_ projected by his son Feb. 1862. _d._ The Acacia, Crescent road, St. John’s, Kent 14 March 1888. _H. A. Page’s [i.e. A. H. Japp’s] Life of T. de Quincey_ (1877) _i_ 396, _ii_ 1–33, 339; _Nicoll’s Landmarks of English literature_ (1883) 454–5.
HOGG, SIR JAMES WEIR, 1 Baronet (_eld. son of William Hogg of Lisburn, co. Antrim 1754–1824_). _b._ Stoneyford, co. Antrim 7 Sep. 1790; scholar of Trinity coll. Dublin 1808, B.A. 1810; student of Gray’s inn, London 20 May 1811; went to Calcutta 1814, practised at the bar to 1822; registrar in supreme court, Calcutta 1822–33; returned to England, June 1833 with a large fortune; M.P. Beverley 1835–47; M.P. Honiton 1847–57; director of H.E.I.C. 11 Sep. 1839, deputy chairman 1845–6, 1850–1 and 1851–2, chairman 1846–7 and 1852–3; cr. baronet 20 July 1846; member of council of India 21 Sep. 1858 to 1872, vice president 1860; P.C. 5 Feb. 1872. _d._ 11 Grosvenor crescent, London 27 May 1876, personalty sworn under £350,000, 8 July 1876. _I.L.N. iv_, 268 (1844), _portrait_; _Times 29 May 1876 p._ 12.
HOGG, JOHN (_2 son of John Hogg of Norton house near Stockton on Tees, barrister, d. 1840_). _b._ 21 March 1800; ed. at Durham gr. sch. and St. Peter’s coll. Cam., scholar 1820, B.A. 1822, M.A. 1827, fellow 1827; barrister I.T. 27 Jany. 1832; F.L.S. 1823; F.R.S. 20 June 1839; mem. of Royal Soc. of Lit. 1843, foreign sec. and vice pres. 1866; F.R.G.S., sec. 1849–50; author of _A catalogue of Sicilian plants_ 1842; _Letters from abroad to a friend at Cambridge_ 1844, and 40 articles in periodical publications. _d._ Norton house 16 Sep. 1869. _Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. xiv_, 298–9.
HOGG, MARGARET (_dau. of Mr. Phillips of Langbridgemoor, Annandale, farmer_). (_m._ 28 April 1820 James Hogg 1770–1835 the Eltrick shepherd); friend of Sir Walter Scott; received a present of £130 from Cincinnati 1853; civil list pension of £50, 3 Jany. 1854. _d._ Bellevue place, Linlithgow 15 Nov. 1870 aged about 80. _C. Rogers’ Leaves from my autobiography_ (1876) 256, 265–78.
HOGG, THOMAS JEFFERSON (_brother of John Hogg 1800–69_). _b._ Norton 24 May 1792; ed. at Durham gr. sch. and Univ. coll. Ox. from which he was expelled 25 March 1811 for declining to disavow a publication entitled _The necessity of Atheism_ by Shelley; made acquaintance of Shelley at Oxford 1810, which he kept to his death 1822; barrister M.T. 28 Nov. 1817; a municipal corporation comr. for England and Wales 1833–34; revising barrister for Northumberland and Berwick 20 years; came into £2000 under Shelley’s will in 1844; author of _Memoirs of Prince Alesy Haimatoff, Translated by John Brown, esq. [i.e. T. J. Hogg], A novel_ 1813; _Two hundred and nine days, or the Journal of a traveller on the continent 2 vols._ 1827; _Life of P. B. Shelley 2 vols_ 1858, never completed. _d._ 33 Clifton road, St. John’s Wood, London 27 Aug. 1862. _Durham County Advertiser 5 Sept. 1862 p._ 5; _G.M. xiii_, 506, 643 (1862).
HOGGAN, JOHN (_4 son of major George Hoggan of Waterside, Dumfries_). _b._ 1790; entered Bengal army 1807; colonel 45 Bengal N.I. 11 July 1853 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854; C.B. 9 June 1849. _d._ Delna, Bengal 13 Nov. 1861.
HOGGE, CHARLES. _b._ 1814; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery 11 Dec. 1829; colonel R.A. 20 Feb. 1860 to death; C.B. 17 June 1858. _d._ Erith 18 Sep. 1865.
HOGGINS, CHRISTOPHER ARGYLE. _b._ 1793; barrister M.T. 12 Feb. 1830; went northern circuit; Q.C. March 1850; bencher of his inn 1850. _d._ 3 Plowden buildings, Temple 19 June 1871.
HOLBERTON, VEN. ROBERT (_son of Robert Holberton of Torr house, Devon_). _b._ 1800; ed. at Ex. coll. Ox., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1825; R. of St. John, Antigua 1827–50; archdeacon of Antigua 1843–50; V. of Norbiton, Surrey 1850–75; C. of Walton-on-the-Hill 1876–8. _d._ Devon lodge, Kew 14 June 1886.
HOLCROFT, THOMAS (_son of Thomas Holcroft, dramatist 1745–1809_). Journalist in London 1822 to death; Paris correspondent for the _Morning Herald_; sec. to the Asiatic Society; edited an East Indian paper in India some years. _d._ 37 Woburn place, London 6 Feb. 1852. _G.M. xxxvii_, 425 (1852).
HOLDEN, GEORGE. _b._ 1800; professor of music; organist St. George’s ch. Liverpool to death; composer of anthems, songs, etc.; wrote _Smiling Mirth_. _d._ 22 Rodney st. Liverpool 5 Dec. 1856.
HOLDEN, REV. GEORGE (_son of Rev. George Holden, master of Horton-in-Ribblesdale gram. sch._) _b._ Horton 1783; ed. at univ. of Glasgow, B.A.; P.C. of Maghull near Liverpool 1811 to death; V. of Horton, 1821–5; author of _An attempt towards an improved version of the Proverbs_ 1819; _The christian expositor or guide to the New Testament_ 1830; _An essay on the angels of the church_ 1862; and 13 other books. _d._ Maghull 19 March 1865; his library and half his property left to clergy of Ripon, library kept in palace at Ripon. _G.M. xviii_, 657 (1865).
HOLDEN, GEORGE. _b._ Walsall, Staffs. 29 Nov. 1821; beat C. Davis at Sutton Coldfield 24 Jany. 1843 in 73 rounds; beaten by Paddy Gill on Warwickshire Moor 29 Oct. 1844 in 21 rounds for £50; beat Bill Stevens at Calf Heath near Wolverhampton 14 July 1845 in 56 rounds for £25; beat Bob Smith at the Clock, Bickenhall 1 April 1846 in 84 rounds for £50; one of the gamest men who ever lived; licensed victualler, Wolverhampton; landlord of the Malt shovel inn, Walsall. _d._ Wood’s Fold, New st. Walsall 4 Feb. 1889. _Sporting Life 9 Feb. 1889 p._ 7.
NOTE.—He had 3 brothers Jem, Ted and John all pugilists, his son George Holden, junior, also was well known, he fought Charley Linch, Jack Lead and Peter Morris in London.
HOLDEN, GEORGE KENYON. _b._ Worcester 1806; attorney and solicitor; emigrated to Sydney, Australia 1831; private sec. to Sir Richard Bourke 1831–7; crown prosecutor 1837; solicitor in practice at Sydney from 1838; member of legislative council 1861; examiner of titles 1862. _d._ Rockton, Sydney 16 April 1874. _Heaton’s Australian Dict. of Dates_ (1879) 94.
HOLDEN, REV. JOHN. _b._ Bonds, Garstang, Lancs. 6 May 1797; ed. at Stonyhurst and Oscott colleges 1812–25; priest 6 Oct. 1825; missioner at Thetford, Norfolk 1825–39; member of Soc. of Jesus 21 Feb. 1840; missioner at Spinkhill, Derbyshire 1842, at Lowergate, Clitheroe, Lancs. 1843 and at Lincoln 1847–59; procurator at St. Bruno’s coll. St. Asaph 1859–61; author of _A discharge of grape shot against “Authorities to prove that Church of Rome prohibits reading of the Scriptures.” By the Rev. T. D. Atkinson_ 1826. _d._ Mount St. Mary coll. Spinkhill, Derbyshire 30 June 1861. _Gillow’s English Catholics, iii_, 339–40 (1887).
HOLDEN, MOSES. _b._ Bolton 21 Nov. 1777; a landscape gardener, then a weaver; constructed an orrery and a magic lantern 1814–5; gave astronomical lectures in north of England from 1815; assisted in establishing Preston Institution; freedom of the borough given him 1834; published _A small celestial atlas or maps of the visible heavens in the latitude of Britain_ 1818, _4 ed._ 1840; _An almanac 1835, &c._ _d._ Preston 3 June 1864.
HOLDEN, HENRY. _b._ 1810; a butcher at Birmingham; landlord of the Rodney inn, Coleshill st. Birmingham about 1840; built a small music hall there, which became the leading one in the Midlands, built a large music hall there, and a brewery 1857, managed his hall down to 1863 or 1864. _d._ Lansdowne house, Malvern 27 Jany. 1880. _Era 1 Feb. 1880 p._ 4.
HOLDFORTH, JAMES (_son of Joseph Holdforth, silk manufacturer Leeds_). _b._ Leeds 14 June 1778; J.P. for Leeds 1836; mayor of Leeds Nov. 1838, first Roman catholic mayor since the Reformation; president of Leeds Catholic institute; supported a ragged school in Leeds. _d._ Burley hill, Leeds 13 July 1861. _Gillow’s English Catholics iii_, 346–7 (1887); _Taylor’s Biog. Leodiensis_ (1865) 498.
HOLDING, FREDERICK (_son of Henry Holding, painter_). _b._ 1817; painter at Manchester; illustrated Southey’s _Battle of Blenheim_ 1864 and other books; scene painter Theatre royal and Prince’s theatre, Manchester. _d._ 1874. _Manchester City News 3 May 1890._
HOLDING, HENRY JAMES (_brother of preceding_). _b._ Salford, Lancs., Nov. 1833; a calico printer’s pattern designer; a painter of marine and torrent scenery in oil and water colours; exhibited in Manchester, Liverpool and London; his chief works were, Finding the body of Rufus by the charcoal burners 1862 and Bettwys-y-Coed 1872. _d._ Paris 2 Aug. 1872.
HOLE, LEWIS (_son of Rev. Wm. Hole, archdeacon of Barnstaple, d. 26 Oct. 1791 aged 82_). _b._ Strodeley, Devon 16 Jany. 1779; entered R.N. 1793, first lieut. of the Revenge at Trafalgar; captain 4 Dec. 1813; retired R.A. 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 11 Feb. 1861. _d._ Newport near Barnstaple 16 July 1870. _I.L.N. lvii_, 131 (1870); _O’Byrne_ (1849) 529.
HOLKER, SIR JOHN (_son of Samuel Holker of Bury, Lancs._) _b._ Bury 24 March 1828; ed. at Bury gr. sch.; barrister G.I. 9 June 1854, bencher 15 April 1868, treasurer 1875; practised at Manchester 1854–64; removed to London 1864; Q.C. 21 Feb. 1868; much engaged in patent cases; M.P. Preston 1872–82; solicitor general 20 April 1874; knighted at Windsor Castle 12 Dec. 1874; attorney general 25 Nov. 1875 to May 1880, his income during 1875–77 was £22,000 a year; lord justice of court of appeal 14 Jany. 1882, resigned 19 May 1882. _d._ 46 Devonshire st. Portland place, London 24 May 1882. _bur._ St. Cuthbert’s church, Lytham 30 May. _A generation of Judges, By Their Reporter_ (1886) 119–27; _I.L.N. lxiv_, 493 (1874), _portrait_; _Times 25 May 1882 p._ 9, _cols._ 3–4.
HOLL, CHARLTON. _b._ 1805; entered Madras army 1820; colonel 15 Madras N.I. 11 July 1861 to 1864; general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ 39 Royal crescent, Notting hill, London 4 Dec. 1878.
HOLL, FRANCIS (_4 son of William Holl, engraver 1771–1838_). _b._ Bayham st. Camden Town, London 23 March 1815; pupil of his father; engaged 25 years engraving pictures belonging to the Queen; exhibited 17 engravings at R.A. 1856–79; A.R.A. Jany. 1883; his principal works were, The Stocking Loom by A. Elmore, and The coming of age in the olden time, and The railway station, both by W. P. Frith; portraits of him by his son Frank Holl were exhibited at the R.A. 1868 and 1884. _d._ Elm house, Milford near Godalming 14 Jany. 1884. _bur._ Highgate cemetery 19 Jany.
HOLL, FRANCIS MONTAGUE, known as Frank Holl (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ 7 St. James’s terrace, Kentish Town, London 4 July 1845; studied at R.A. schools, silver medallist 1862–3, gold medallist 1863, travelling student of R.A. 1868–9; worked for _The Graphic_ 1874–6; portrait painter 1876 to death, painted 198 portraits including nearly all celebrated men of the day 1879–88; A.R.A. 19 June 1878, R.A. 29 March 1883; associate of Royal Soc. of painters in water-colours 26 March 1883. _d._ The Three Gables, 6 Fitzjohn’s Avenue, London 31 July 1888. _Universal Review 15 Aug. 1888 pp._ 478–93, _portrait_; _Graphic 3 May 1879_, _portrait_, _and 11 Aug. 1888_, _portrait_.
HOLL, HENRY (_brother of Francis Holl 1815–84_). _b._ July 1811; first appeared on stage as prince Arthur in _King John_ at Drury Lane 1828; acted in the provinces; for many years a member of Haymarket Co.; wrote for the stage _Grace Huntley_, Adelphi 1833, _Wapping Old Stairs_, Haymarket 18 Nov. 1837, _Louise or the White Scarf_, Victoria 1838, _The Forest keeper_, Drury Lane 15 Feb. 1860, and _Caught in a trap_, Princess’s 8 Feb. 1860; a reader at Hanover square rooms about 1874; author of _The King’s mail 3 vols._ 1863; _The Old house in Crosby square 2 vols._ 1863; _More secrets than one 3 vols._ 1864. _d._ 1 Horbury crescent, Notting hill, London 20 Nov. 1884. _Theatrical Times, iii_, 17, 50 (1848), _portrait_; _N. & Q. 6 S. x_ 487 (1884).
HOLL, WILLIAM (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Plaistow, Essex, Feb. 1807; pupil of his father; engraved many portraits for Lodge’s Portraits 1834, Knight’s Gallery of Portraits 1833–36, &c.; engraved W. P. Frith’s An English Merrymaking, The village pastor, &c.; engraved pictures after J. Absolom, A. Elmore, B. West and others; F.G.S.; exhibited 22 engravings at R.A. 1860–71. _d._ 174 Adelaide road, Haverstock hill, London 30 Jany. 1871.
HOLLAND, HENRY EDWARD VASSALL, 4 Baron (_only son of 3 Baron Holland 1773–1840_). _b._ 7 March 1802; sec. of legation at Turin 24 July 1832, at Vienna 3 July 1835; minister plenipotentiary to Germanic confederation 17 April 1838, and to Florence 6 Dec. 1838 to 8 June 1846; succeeded 22 Oct. 1840; edited _Foreign reminiscences of Henry Richard 3 Baron Holland_ 1850; _Memoirs of the Whig party, By H. R. 3 Baron Holland_ 1852. _d._ Naples 18 Dec. 1859. _Saunders’s Portraits of reformers_ (1840) 191, _portrait_.
HOLLAND, CHARLES. _b._ 1802; M.D. Edin. 1824; L.R.C.S. Lond. 1828; F.R.S. 19 Jany. 1837; president Roy. Med. Soc. Edin. _d._ St. Chads, Lichfield 21 March 1876.
HOLLAND, EDWARD (_eld. son of Samuel Holland, merchant, London_). _b._ 1806; M.P. East Worcestershire 1835–7, contested E. Worcs. 4 Aug. 1837; contested East Gloucestershire 9 Jany. 1854; M.P. Evesham 1855–68. _d._ Dumbleton hall near Evesham 5 Jany. 1875.
HOLLAND, REV. FREDERICK WHITMORE. _b._ Dumbleton near Evesham 1837; ed. at Eton and Trin coll. Cam., B.A. 1860, M.A. 1864; V. of All Saints with St. Lawrence, Evesham 1872 to death; revisited the peninsula of Sinai in 1861 and 1865; joint hon. sec. of Palestine exploration fund 1866 to death; a founder of the Sinai survey fund, and accompanied Sir C. W. Wilson’s expedition to Sinai 1868; again went to Sinai 1878; F.R. Geog. Soc. 1867, wrote many papers on Palestine in its Journal; author of _Sinai and Jerusalem, or scenes from Bible lands_ 1870. _d._ on the Nissen, near Thun, Switzerland 27 Aug. 1880. _Proc. R. Geographical Soc. iii_, 670–1 (1881).
HOLLAND, GEORGE. _b._ Lambeth, London 6 Dec. 1791; clerk in a silk warehouse, London; appeared at Drury Lane in a small part 1817; first appeared at Bowery theatre, New York 12 Sep. 1827 as Jerry in _The Day after the Fair_; treasurer of the St. Charles theatre, New Orleans 1834; connected with Mitchell’s Olympic theatre, New York 1843–9; with Wood and Christy’s negro minstrels under an assumed name 1849–52; member of Wallack’s Co. 1852–7; made his last appearance at Daly’s Fifth Avenue theatre 15 May 1870; in his performances he brought in numerous eccentricities, ventriloquial diversions and imitations of men and animals. _d._ New York city 20 Dec. 1871; 15,000 dollars subscribed for his wife and family. _Thos. H. Morrell’s Life of G. Holland_ 1871; _Ireland’s New York Stage, i_ 560, _ii_ 421, 620 (1866–7).
HOLLAND, GEORGE CALVERT. _b._ Pitsmoor, Sheffield 28 Feb. 1801; apprentice to a hairdresser; ed. at Edinburgh univ., M.D. 1827; in practice at Manchester 1829, removed to Sheffield; became a director of railways and banks and was ruined; resided in London 1849–51; returned to Sheffield as a homœopathic practitioner 1851; alderman of Sheffield 1862 to death; author of _The physiology of the fœtus, liver and spleen_ 1831; _The vital statistics of Sheffield_ 1843; _The nature and cure of consumption_ 1850; _The domestic practice of homœopathy_ 1859 and 15 other books; conducted _The Sheffield Homœopathic Lancet_ 1853. _d._ Sheffield 7 March 1865. _G.M. xviii_, 653 (1865).
HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, 1 Baronet (_son of Peter Holland of Knutsford, Cheshire, surgeon_). _b._ Knutsford 27 Oct. 1788; ed. at Newcastle upon Tyne 1799–1803, at Bristol 1804, and at Glasgow univ. 1804–6; studied medicine at Edin. Univ., M.D. 12 Sep. 1811; domestic physician to Caroline, princess of Wales 1814; L.R.C.P. 1816, F.R.C.P. 1828 and V.P., Gulstonian lecturer 1830, censor 1832, 1836 and 1842, consiliarius 1836, 1839, 1844–46, 1850–52 and 1869; physician extraordinary to William iv. 16 April 1835; one of H.M.’s physicians extraordinary 8 Aug. 1837; one of prince Albert’s physicians extraordinary 1840; one of H.M.’s physicians in ordinary 22 Dec. 1852; cr. baronet 10 May 1853; F.G.S. 1809, F.R.S. 19 Jany. 1815; D.C.L. Ox. 1856; a manager of Royal Institution 4 Feb. 1861, president; author of _Travels in the Ionian islands, Albania, Thessaly, Macedonia_ 1815, _2 ed._ _2 vols._ 1819; _Medical notes and reflections_ 1839, _3 ed._ 1855; _Recollections of past life_ 1872, _2 ed._ 1872 and 6 other books. _d._ 25 Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London 27 Oct. 1873. _Munk’s Roll of Physicians, iii_, 144–9 (1878); _Barker’s Photographs of Medical men_ (1865) 65–8, _portrait_; _J. F. Clarke’s Autobiographical Recollections_ (1874) 458–95; _Graphic_, _viii_, 460, 466 (1873), _portrait_.
NOTE.—His 2 wife Saba whom he _m._ 20 March 1834, _d._ 2 Nov. 1866, she wrote A memoir of her father the Rev. Sydney Smith _2 vols._ 1855, 4 ed. 1855.
HOLLAND, JAMES (_son of a potter_). _b._ Burslem 17 Oct. 1800; painter of flowers on pottery and porcelain; went to London 1819; painter in water colours and oil; exhibited 32 pictures at R.A., 91 at B.I. and 108 at Suffolk st. 1815–67; Assoc. Soc. Painters in water colours 1835–43; member of Soc. of British Artists 1843–8; member Water Colour Soc. 1856; paid many visits abroad from 1830; drew for the _Landscape_ and other annuals 1839 etc.; one of the finest colourists of the English school; his views in Venice fetch large prices; several of his pictures are at South Kensington. _d._ London 12 Feb. or Dec. 1870. _Redgrave’s Dict. of Artists_ (1878) 219; _Bryan’s Dict. of painters, i_, 671 (1886).
HOLLAND, JOHN (_son of John Holland of Richmond hill, Handsworth, Yorkshire, optical instrument maker_). _b._ in Sheffield Park 14 March 1794; edited the _Sheffield Iris_ 1825–32, the _Newcastle Courant_ 1832–3; joint editor of _Sheffield Mercury_ 1835–48; presented by ten gentlemen of Sheffield with an annuity of £100, 1870; author of _Sheffield Park, a descriptive poem_. _Sheffield_ 1820; _The history of the town and parish of Worksop, Nottingham_ 1826; _The Psalmists of Britain_ 1843, and 15 other books; author with James Everett of _Memoirs of the life and writings of James Montgomery 7 vols._ 1854–6. _d._ in Sheffield Park 28 Dec. 1872. _W. Hudson’s Life of John Holland_ (1874), _portrait_; _Reliquary_, _xv_, 145.
HOLLAND, JOHN (_son of a house painter and picture dealer_). _b._ 15 Vernon st. Nottingham 14 Dec. 1829; a self taught artist; resided in Todmorden district, Lancs., then in London, afterwards at Trebray lodge, Tintagel, Cornwall; sent 3 pictures _The Storm_, _After the Storm_, and _The Wreckers_ to the exhibition at the Nottingham Castle Art museum 1868; a most rapid painter, only excelled in speed by Smith the painter of waterfalls. _d._ Trebray lodge, Feb. 1886.
HOLLAND, REV. SAMUEL (_son of Nicholas Holland of Greenwich, Kent_). _b._ Greenwich 1772; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. and at Worc. coll. Ox., B.A. 1792, M.A. 1795, M.B. 1796, M.D. 1799; candidate of college of physicians 30 Sep. 1799, fellow 30 Sep. 1800, censor 1803; physician to the Middlesex hospital 15 Jany. 1801 to 1806 when he quitted the profession; ordained deacon and priest 1806; R. of Poynings, Sussex 1806–46; R. of Beaudesert, Warcs. 1806 to death; preb. of Thorney, Chichester cath. 1817; precentor of Chicester cath. and preb. of Oving 1825 to death; author of _The preaching of the regular clergy, illustrated and defended_ 1813, _6 ed._ 1817 and of several sermons. _d._ 33 Regency square, Brighton 16 April 1857 aged 85. _Munk’s Roll of Physicians, ii_, 470 (1878).
HOLLAND, REV. THOMAS AGAR (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ 16 Jany. 1803; ed. at Westminster sch. and Worcester coll. Ox., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; V. of Oving, Sussex 1827–38; R. of Greatham, Hants. 1838–46; R. of Poynings, Sussex 1846 to death; author of _Dryburgh Abbey and other poems_ 1826, _4 ed._ 1884 and of a _History of Poynings_ in the Trans. of Sussex Archæological Society for 1863. _d._ Poynings Rectory 18 Oct. 1888.
HOLLAND, THOMAS SEWARD. _b._ 1827; M.D. Edin. 1850; M.R.C.S. England 1850; assist. physician Renkioi hospital in the Dardanelles 1855–6; author of _Pathological anatomy considered in its relations to medical science_ 1852, and papers in medical journals. _d._ at his lodgings, Lambeth 16 June 1856.
HOLLINGS, JAMES FRANCIS. _b._ 1806; second master proprietary sch. Leicester 1837; proprietor and editor of _Leicestershire Mercury_ 7 years; member of town council Leicester, and Mayor; one of the founders of Leicester Literary and Philos. Soc., president several times; barrister M.T. 21 Nov. 1851; author of _The life of Gustavus Adolphus_ 1838; _The life of Marcus Tullius Cicero_ 1839; _The history of Leicester during the civil war_ 1840; _Roman Leicester_ 1855; _Lord Macaulay_ 1860; _hanged himself_ at Stonygate, Leicester 15 Sep. 1862. _Leicestershire Mercury 20 Sep. 1862 p._ 5.
HOLLINGWORTH, VEN. JOHN BANKS. _b._ 1779; ed. at Peterhouse, Cam., B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807, B.D. 1814; fellow of his coll. 1804; assistant preacher at Lincoln’s Inn 1806; R. of St. Margaret, Lothbury and St. Christopher le Stocks, London 1814 to death; Norrisian professor of Div. at Cam. 1824–38; archdeacon of Huntingdon 25 Feb. 1828 to death; author of _Heads of lectures on divinity delivered in the university of Cambridge_ 1825, _3 ed._ 1835, and charges and sermons. _d._ Rectory house, St. Margaret’s, Lothbury 9 Feb. 1856. _G.M. xlv_, 430–1 (1856).
HOLLINS, JOHN (_son of Thomas Hollins, a painter on glass_). _b._ Birmingham 1 June 1798; exhibited 101 pictures at R.A., 35 at B.I. and 6 at Suffolk st. 1819–55; removed to London 1822; studied in Italy 1825–7; A.R.A. 1842; historical, figure, and landscape painter, introduced portraits into some of his historical pictures. _d._ 47 Berners st., London 7 March 1855. _Redgrave’s Dict. of Artists_ (1878) 220; _Literary Gazette 17 March 1855 p._ 170.
HOLLINS, PETER (_eld. son of William Hollins, architect and sculptor 1754–1843_). _b._ Birmingham 1800; ed. as a sculptor and assisted his father; in Chantrey’s studio; exhibited 44 pieces of sculpture at R.A. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1822–71; resided Old Bond st. London 1828–43, then returned to Birmingham where he erected statues of Sir R. Peel and Sir Rowland Hill; V.P. of Soc. of Arts, Birmingham. _d._ 17 Great Hampton st. Birmingham 16 Aug. 1886, portrait in Birmingham Art gallery.
HOLLINWORTH, JOHN IBBETSON. Entered navy June 1795; retired captain 3 April 1811; retired admiral 9 June 1860. _d._ Southsea 28 Dec. 1861 aged 79.
HOLLOND, REV. EDMUND (_eld. son of William Hollond of H.E.I.C._) Ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; succeeded his uncle 1845; lord of manor of Middleton Austin; resided at Benhall lodge, Saxmundham, Suffolk; a great Evangelical; author of _Israel’s pre-millenial future or the testimony of scripture as to Israel’s return and what awaits him in his own land_ 1875; patron of 8 livings. _d._ 33 Hyde park gardens, London 18 March 1884 in 83 year.
HOLLOND, ELLEN JULIA (_dau. of Thomas Teed of Stanmore hall, Middlesex_). _b._ Madras 1822. (_m._ 18 March 1840 Robert Hollond, M.P. for Hastings, _d._ 1877); her salon in Paris frequented by the leading liberals 1840–77; started the first crèche in London 1844; founded an English nurses’ home in Paris with a branch at Nice; sat for the head of Monica in Ary Scheffer’s picture of St. Augustine and his mother 1846; her portrait by Scheffer painted 1852 is in National gallery; author of _Channing, sa vie and ses œuvres_ 1857; _La vie de village en Angleterre_ 1862; _Les Quakers, études sur les premiers Amis et leur société_ 1870. _d._ Stanmore hall 29 Nov. 1884. _Journal des Débats 6 Dec. 1884._
HOLLOND, ROBERT (_youngest son of William Hollond of Grosvenor place, London, and Bengal civil service, d. 14 Feb. 1836_). _b._ 5 Jany. 1808; ed. at C.C. coll. Cam., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; barrister L.I. 24 Nov. 1834; M.P. for Hastings 1837–52; in company with Charles Green and Monck Mason made at his own expense a voyage in the Nassau balloon from London to Weilburg, Nassau 7–8 Nov. 1836; John Hollins painted a picture of the 3 persons with the balloon in the back ground 1836. _d._ Paris 26 Dec. 1877, personalty sworn under £350,000, 16 Feb. 1878. _Hatton Turnor’s Astra Castra_ (1865) 139–58; _Monck Mason’s Aeronautica_ (1838) 1–98, _portrait_.
HOLLOWAY, JAMES LEWIS (_son of Benjamin Holloway of Lee place, Charlbury, Oxon._) _b._ 2 July 1824; M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1847; assistant surgeon 17 March 1848; principal medical officer at Cape of Good Hope; surgeon general 12 March 1882 to death; C.B. 27 Nov. 1879. _d._ Netley 19 April 1883.
HOLLOWAY, SIR THOMAS (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 1810; 2 lieut. R.M. 17 March 1825; at siege of Sebastopol 1854–5; served in China 1857 when he was wounded; A.D.C. to the Queen 27 Feb. 1857 to 1 July 1863; colonel 2nd commandant R.M. 25 Feb. 1858, colonel commandant 21 Nov. 1859 to death; general 1 April 1870; C.B. 18 June 1858, K.C.B. 13 March 1867. _d._ Farlington near Portsmouth 21 July 1875.
HOLLOWAY, THOMAS (_son of Mr. Holloway, baker and publican_). _b._ Devonport 22 Sep. 1800; ed. at Camborne and Penzance; removed to London 1828; merchant and foreign agent 1836; commenced advertising his pills and ointment 15 Oct. 1837, was spending £50,000 a year in advertising 1883; directions for use of his medicines were printed in almost all known languages; at 244 Strand, London 1838, removed to 533 New Oxford st. 1867; employed 100 people; made a large fortune; built and endowed at cost of £700,000 Holloway coll. for ladies at Mount Lee, Egham hill, Surrey, opened 30 June 1866; erected a sanatorium for mentally afflicted of lower middle class, opened 15 June 1885. _d._ Tittenhurst, Sunninghill, Berks. 26 Dec. 1883. _I.L.N. 5 Jany. 1884 p._ 24, _portrait_; _Graphic 5 Jany. 1884 p._ 5, _portrait_; _Some memories as to the origin of Holloway coll._ (1886).
HOLM, JOHN DIEDERICK. A well known phrenologist; executor of J. G. Spurzheim the German phrenologist (_b._ 1776, _d._ 1832). _d._ High st. Highgate 24 Oct. 1856 aged 84.
HOLMAN, MRS. (_dau. of Mr. Lattimer_). _b._ England 1798; appeared at Charleston theatre 1817. (_m._ (1) 22 Aug. 1817 Joseph George Holman, actor, who _d._ 24 Aug. 1817, the writer of numerous plays); appeared in New York singing The soldier tired of war’s alarms, and Bishop’s Echo song 8 July 1817; (_m._ (2) March 1819 Isaac Star Clawson); (_m._ (3) in 1824 Charles W. Sandford, lawyer and general of militia); appeared at her husband’s house, the Lafayette theatre, Oct. 1826; last played in Park theatre, New York as Maria in _Of age to-morrow_, June 1832. _d._ New York city 1 Sep. 1859. _T. A. Brown’s American stage_ (1870) 181; _Ireland’s New York stage, i_, 290 336 (1866).
HOLMAN, JAMES (_son of Mr. Holman of Fore st. Exeter, chemist and druggist_). _b._ Exeter 15 Oct. 1786; entered navy 7 Dec. 1798, lieut. 27 April 1807, served till Nov. 1810 when he was invalided and became totally blind; a naval knight of Windsor 29 Sep. 1812; travelled over greater part of Europe 1819–24 and round the world 1827–32; F.R.S.; author of _A narrative of a journey through France, Italy, Savoy, &c._ 1822, with _portrait_; _Travels through Russia, Siberia, Poland, Austria, &c._ _2 vols._ 1825, with portrait, 4 ed. _2 vols._ 1834. _d._ at his lodgings near the Minories, London 28 July 1857. _Reynolds’ Miscellany, x_, 9 (1853), _portrait_; _Proc. of Linnæan Soc._ (1858) 26–30; _People’s Journal, iv_, 213, _portrait_.
HOLMAN, JOHN. Steeple chaser; won royal birthday steeple chase at Worcester on The Page 1843; bred a large number of successful steeple chasers. _d._ Cheltenham, Jany. 1888. _Baily’s Mag., Feb. 1888 pp._ 488–9.
HOLME, BRYAN (_son of Wm. Holme of Thurland castle, Lancs._) _baptised_ at Tunstal, Lancs. 29 Dec. 1776; articled to John Baldwin of Lancaster, solicitor; admitted solicitor Jany. 1800; a managing clerk in office of Bleasdale and Alexander of Hatton court, London about 1803, a partner in the firm at Hatton court and New Inn 1806–16; partner with Alexander at New Inn 1816–21, with Frampton and Loftus 1821–36, with Loftus and Young 1836 to death; projected “The Law Institution,” Chancery Lane 2 June 1825, which became “The Incorporated Law Society” by a new charter granted 5 June 1845; a whole length portrait of him by H. W. Pickersgill, R.A. was placed in the Society’s hall about 1836. _d._ 13 Brunswick sq. London 15 July 1856. _Legal Observer 23 Aug. 1856 pp._ 281–5.
HOLME, THOMAS WINN (_son of Thomas Holme_). _b._ Kendal 3 March 1828; ed. at Ackworth sch. 1841–3, and at Manchester art sch.; managed a woollen mill near Kendal, and then powder mills at Sedgwick, near Leven’s Park; a painter; author of _Poems and prose_ 1874. _d._ Kendal 20 May 1876. _Nodal’s Bibliog. of Ackworth sch._ (1889) 16.
HOLMES, ALFRED (_son of Thomas Holmes of Lincoln_). _b._ London 9 Nov. 1837; learnt the violin from his father; with his brother Henry Holmes made a series of concert tours in Belgium 1855, Germany 1856, Austria 1857, Sweden 1857–9, Denmark 1860, Holland 1861; settled in Paris 1864, where he established a quartet party; produced at St. Petersburg his symphony _Jeanne d’ Arc_ April 1868, which was performed in 1870 at Théâtre Italien, Paris, and at Crystal Palace, Sydenham 27 Feb. 1875; composed symphonies _The Youth of Shakespeare_, _The siege of Paris_ 1870, _Robin Hood_, _Charles XII_, and _Romeo and Juliet_; an opera in 5 acts called _Inez de Castro_ 1869; overtures _The Cid_ and _The Muses_; _Two nocturnes for the violin and piano_, _Leipzig_ 1857. _d._ Paris 4 March 1876. _I.L.N. lxviii_, 315 (1876), _portrait_.
HOLMES, REV. ARTHUR. Ed. at Shrewsbury and St. John’s coll. Cam., Bell sch. 1856, Craven sch. 1856, B.A. 1859, M.A. 1862; fellow of his coll. 1860–62; C. of All Saint’s, Cam. 1860–61; lecturer of St. John’s coll. 1860–73 and of Clare coll. 1864–73; senior fellow and dean of Clare coll. 1873 to death; deputy public orator of Cam. 1867, Lady Margaret preacher 1868, select preacher 1868–69; Cambridge preacher at chapel royal 1869–71; general editor of the _Catena Classicorum series_ 1867 etc.; published _The Midias of Demosthenes with notes_ 1862; _Demosthenes De Corona_ 1867; _The Nemeian odes of Pindar_ 1867; cut his throat at Clare coll. Cambridge 17 April 1875. _Cambridge Chronicle 24 April 1875 p._ 6.
HOLMES, EDWARD. _b._ 1797; ed. at Enfield; apprenticed to R. B. Seeley, bookseller; studied music under Vincent Novello; taught the piano in schools; wrote musical criticisms for _The Atlas_ from 1829 and later for _The Spectator_; wrote articles in _Fraser’s Mag._ and _Musical Times_; author of _A ramble among the musicians of Germany_ 1828, _3 ed._ 18 ; _The life of Mozart_ 1845; _Analytical and thematic index of Mozart’s pianoforte works_ 1852; _A critical essay on the Requiem of Mozart_ 1854; _Life of H. Purcell_. _d._ 4 Sep. 1859.
HOLMES, JAMES. _b._ 1777; apprenticed to an engraver; member of Soc. of Painters in Water-colours 1813–22; assisted to establish Soc. of British Artists, member 1829–50; also a miniature painter; 2 of his portraits of Lord Byron were engraved; a personal friend of George iv. _d._ Shropshire 24 Feb. 1860. _Redgrave’s Dict. of Artists_ (1878) 221.
HOLMES, JAMES. _b._ Exeter 1789 or 1790; ed. at Exeter gr. sch.; apprenticed to Thomas Besley of Exeter, printer 16 Sep. 1806; printer at 4 Took’s court, Chancery lane, London, March 1825 to 1869; started the _Court Journal_ with Henry Colburn 25 April 1829; bought _The Athenæum_ for £200, 7 Jany. 1830, joint proprietor with C. W. Dilkie 20 Sep. 1831, printed it 1829–69. _d._ 4 July 1873. _bur._ Kensal green cemetery 11 July.
HOLMES, JOHN (_son of Nathaniel Holmes d. Derby 18 Dec. 1840_). _b._ Deptford, Kent 17 July 1800; bookseller Derby; temporary assistant MSS. department Br. Museum 15 Jany. 1830, senior assistant April 1837, assistant keeper 6 May 1850 to death; adviser of 4 earl of Ashburnham in formation of his collection of MSS. which was sold 1883–4; author of _A catalogue of manuscripts, maps, charts in the British Museum_ 1844. _d._ 4 Park ter. Highgate, London 1 April 1854, his library sold 15 June 1854. _G.M. ii_, 87–8 (1854).
HOLMES, JOHN. _b._ Rossshire, Scotland, March 1789; emigrated to Nova Scotia 1803; sat in Nova Scotia assembly 1836–47, 1851–8, in legislative council 1858–67; senator in Dominion parliament 1867. _d._ 1870. _Appleton’s American Biography iii_, 242 (1887).
HOLMES, REV. JOSEPH. _b._ 1789; ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam., 3 wrangler 1812, B.A. 1812, M.A. 1815, B.D. 1840, fellow and tutor of his coll. to 1819; head master Leeds gram. sch. 1830–53; C. of Trinity ch. Leeds 1830–45; author of _The duty of a Christian state to support a national church establishment_ 1834. _d._ Leeds 14 June 1854. _Taylor’s Biog. Leodiensis_ (1865) 454–5.
HOLMES, REV. PETER (_1 son of Walter Holmes of Bickleigh, Plymouth_). _b._ Bickleigh 1815; ed. at Plymouth gram. sch. and at Magd. hall Ox., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1844, D.D. 1859; C. of Sheepstor, Devon 1840–3; head master Plymouth gram. sch. 1840–54; diocesan inspector of schools, deanery of Plympton 7 years; kept a private school at Plymouth; F.R.A.S. Dec. 1841; author of _Observations on the standard of doctrine in the Church of England_ 1848; _Bishop Bull’s Defensio fidei Nicænæ_. _A translation 2 vols._ 1851–2; contributed to Anglo-Catholic library, Christian Remembrancer, Kitto’s Biblical Cyclopædia, Clark’s Ante-Nicene Christian library. _d._ Wellington villa, Mannamead, Plymouth 11 Oct. 1878; left a valuable library. _Academy ii_, 428 (1878).
HOLMES, ROBERT (_son of Mr. Holmes of Belfast_). _b._ Dublin 1765; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1787; called to bar in Ireland 1795; imprisoned some months, being suspected of complicity with his brother-in-law, Robert Emmet’s rising 1803; had the largest practice in the Irish courts, made upwards of £100,000; refused offices of crown prosecutor, King’s counsel, and solicitor general; author of _A demonstration of the necessity of the legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland_ 1799; _The case of Ireland stated_ 1847. _d._ 37 Eaton place, Belgrave sq. London 30 Nov. 1859. _Dublin Univ. Mag., Jany. 1848 pp._ 122–33, _portrait_; _O’Flanagan’s Irish Bar_ (1879) 273–87.
HOLMES, REV. SAMUEL (_son of John Holmes of Feversham, Kent_). _b._ 1826; ed. at Magd. hall, Ox., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1845; P.C. of Sidcup 1844–50; R. of North Cray 1850–5; V. of Huddersfield 1855–66; canon residentiary of Ripon cath. 1863 to death; V. of St. Paul, Dorking 1866–81; author of sermons. _d._ 18 Park parade, Harrogate 9 Nov. 1890.
HOLMES, WILLIAM (_5 son of Thomas Holmes of co. Sligo, brewer_). _b._ co. Sligo 1779; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1795; D.C.L. of Oxford univ. 5 July 1810; military sec. to Sir Thomas Hislop in West Indies; M.P. for Grampound 1808–12, for Tregony 1812–18, for Totnes 1819–20, for Bishop’s Castle 1820–30, for Haslemere 1830–2; contested Ipswich 1835; M.P. Berwick on Tweed 1837–41; contested Stafford 1841; whipper-in to the Tory party 30 years; treasurer of the ordnance 1820–30; was close to Spencer Perceval when he was assassinated 1812 and near to Wm. Huskisson when he was killed 1830. _d._ Grafton st. Bond st. London 26 Jany. 1851. _Portraits of eminent conservatives 2nd series_ (1846), _portrait_.
HOLMES, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (_3 son of Alexander Holmes of Athgarven, co. Kildare_). _b._ 1817; private sec. to Sir Henry Light when governor of Guiana 1838–47; provost marshal of Guiana 1847, adjutant general of militia there; comr. from Guiana to Paris exhibition 1855; knighted at Buckingham palace 4 April 1856; author of _Report of an expedition to explore a route to the gold fields of Caratal_ 1857; _Free cotton, how and where to grow it_ 1862. _d._ 5 Osborne villas, Stoke, Devonport 9 Aug. 1868.
HOLMES, WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ Sudbury, Derbyshire 8 Jany. 1812; student at R.A. of music 1822, sub-professor of pianoforte 1826, afterwards professor; the teacher of W. S. Bennett, J. W. Davison, G. A. and W. Macfarren; appeared as a pianist at Philharmonic Soc. concert 24 March 1851; composer of _The Elfin of the Lake, an opera_ 1850, of very numerous pieces left in MS. and of 130 printed pieces for the piano 1835–81. _d._ 23 April 1885. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 27 April. _Cazalet’s Hist. of R. Acad. of music_ (1854) 295; _Grove’s Dict. of music, i_, 744 (1879).
HOLMES, SIR WILLIAM RICHARD (_son of William Henry Holmes of Kilrea, co. Londonderry_). _b._ London 1821; entered consular service at Erzeroum, Oct. 1841; vice consul at Batoom, Asia Minor 17 March 1846; consul at Diarbekir 23 Nov. 1852; consul in Bosnia 12 Jany. 1860; British delegate to commission for pacification of Herzegovina 1861; knighted at Osborne 13 Aug. 1877; retired from the service 1 Sep. 1877 on a pension; author of _Sketches on the shores of the Caspian_ 1845. _d._ Yewhurst, Belvedere, Kent 19 Jany. 1882.
HOLMS, JOHN (_son of James Holms of Saucel Bank, Paisley_). _b._ Saucel Bank 21 Sep. 1830; partner in firm of W. Holms and Brothers, spinners, Glasgow; M.P. Hackney, London 1868–85; a lord of the treasury April 1880 to May 1882; parliamentary sec. of board of trade 1882–5; author of _The British army in 1875, its administration and organization_ 1875; _Our military difficulty_. _d._ 16 Cornwall gardens, Queen’s gate, London 31 March 1891. _I.L.N. lxvi_, 199, 200 (1875), _portrait_, _11 April 1891 p._ 467, _portrait_.
HOLROYD, EDWARD (_3 son of Sir George Sowley Holroyd 1758–1831, justice of court of Queen’s Bench_). _b._ 24 July 1794; ed. at Charterhouse and Trin. coll. Cam.; admitted at Gray’s inn 26 Nov. 1812; special pleader under the bar 7 years; barrister G.I. 26 April 1826; a comr. of bankrupts Nov. 1828; a comr. of bankruptcy court Oct. 1831 to 31 Dec. 1869 when granted sum of £2000 on abolition of office; author of _Observations upon the case of A. Thornton tried for the murder of Mary Ashford_ 1819. _d._ Elland lodge, Wimbledon 29 Jany. 1881.
HOLT, ALFRED HENRY (_son of Henry Josiah Holt, pugilist 1792–1844_). Reported prize fights for _The Era_, _Morning Advertiser_, _Bell’s Life in London_ and _Sportsman_. _d._ 20 Nov. 1865 aged 39. _bur._ Nunhead cemetery.
HOLT, DAVID. _b._ Chorlton upon Medlock, Manchester 13 Nov. 1828; assistant sec. of Lancashire and Yorkshire railway co. to death; author of _Poems, rural and miscellaneous_ 1846; _Lays of hero worship and other poems_ 1850; _Janus, Lake sonnets and other poems_ 1853; _Poems_ 1868. _d._ Altrincham, Cheshire 15 March 1880.
HOLT, ELISE. _b._ London 11 July 1847; appeared as a comic singer, Surrey gardens, London 1863; pupil of Mdlle. Louise, danseuse 1863, and came out at the Victoria theatre as a dancer, and then as Cupid 26 Dec. 1864; played in burlesques at the Strand theatre 1865–8; appeared at Olympic theatre, Boston, U.S. America in burlesque of _Lucretia Borgia_ 21 Dec. 1868 and at Waverly theatre, New York 18 Feb. 1869; visited California; (_m._ Henry Palmer). _d._ about 1873. _T. A. Brown’s American stage_ (1870) 182, _portrait_.
HOLT, THOMAS (_son of a wool merchant, Leeds_). _b._ Horbury, Yorkshire 1811; with his father at Leeds 1825–8, partner 1832; a wool buyer in London 1828–31; a wool buyer in Australia 1842–55; purchased large estates in Queensland and New South Wales; member for Stanley boroughs in legislative assembly, N.S.W. 1856 and for Newtown to 1866; colonial treasurer 6 June to 25 Aug. 1856; member of legislative council 1868; member of council on education 1873; author of _Two speeches on the subject of education in New South Wales_ 1857. _d._ Halcot, Bexley, Kent 5 Sep. 1888. _Heaton’s Australian Dict. of dates_ (1879) 95.
HOLT, THOMAS LITTLETON. _b._ 1794 or 1795; known as Raggedy Holt; projected _Weekly Chronicle_; proprietor of _Iron Times_ started during the railway mania 1845; edited _Morning Chronicle_; started many papers in London with G. A. A’Beckett; projected _The Novel_ newspaper; started _Ryland’s Iron trade circular_ at Birmingham; edited a weekly paper called _Chat_ 1846; took an active part in popularising cheap literature and in the abolition of the paper duty; advertisement duty repealed partly owing to him 1853; edited _The Sixpenny magazine_ 1863; _John Horsleydown or the confessions of a thief_ 1860. _d._ The Burrows, Hendon 14 Sep. 1879. _Reminiscences of an old Bohemian, ii_, 35–46 (1882).
HOLYOAKE-GOODRICKE, SIR FRANCIS LYTTELTON, 1 Baronet (_eld. son of Francis Holyoake of Tettenhall, Staffs. 1766–1835_). _b._ Tettenhall 13 Nov. 1797; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1819; assumed name of Goodricke by r.l. 12 Dec. 1833; sheriff of Warwickshire 1834; M.P. for Stafford, Feb. to May 1835, for South Stafford, May 1835 to 1837; created baronet 31 March 1835; master of Quorn hounds in Leicestershire 1834–5; one of the very best riders after hounds of his time. _d._ Sherborne house, Malvern Wells 29 Dec. 1865. _Burke’s Vicissitudes of families, ii_, 398–9 (1869).
HOMAN, SIR WILLIAM JACKSON, 1 Baronet (_2 son of Rev. Philip Homan_). _b._ 1771; cr. baronet 1 Aug. 1801. _d._ Dromeroe, Cappoquin, co. Waterford 2 March 1852 aged 80. _G.M. xxxvii_, 406 (1852).
HOME, COSPATRICK ALEXANDER RAMEY HOME, 11 Earl of (_eld. son of 10 Earl 1769–1841_). _b._ Dalkeith house, N.B. 27 Oct. 1799; attaché to embassy at St. Petersburgh 1822–3; précis writer in foreign office 1824–7; under sec. of state for foreign affairs 9 June 1828 to 25 Nov. 1830; succeeded 12 Oct. 1841; a Scotch representative peer 1842–74; keeper of great seal of Scotland May 1853; cr. baron Douglas of Douglas co. Lanark in peerage of the U.K. 11 June 1875. _d._ near the Hirsel, Coldstream, Berwick 4 July 1881. _bur._ in church of St. Brides at Douglas 12 July. _F.O. list 1882 p._ 213.
HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (_son of William Home of the family of the earl of Home_). _b._ near Edinburgh 20 March 1833; taken by his aunt to Greenville, Connecticut about 1842 where he became famous for his mysterious raps, guitar playing without hands, etc.; came to London April 1855 where he held private spiritual séances; held séances before emperor of the French, King of Prussia, and Queen of Holland 1857–8; expelled from Rome as a sorcerer Jany. 1864; gave a series of public readings in America 1864; founded in London with John Elliotson and S. C. Hall the Spiritual Athenæum, a society for the propagation of spiritualism 1866, lived as sec. at the Society’s rooms 22 Sloane st.; assumed name of Lyon-Home on being adopted as her son by a widow named Jane Lyon, who gave him £30,000 and assigned to him a mortgage security of £30,000, both sums were restored to her by the Court of Chancery 22 May 1868; gave public readings in the provinces 1869–70; author of _Incidents in my life_ 1863, _2nd series_ 1872; _Lights and Shadows of Spiritualism_ 1877. _d._ Auteuil, near Paris 21 June 1886. _bur._ at St. Germain-en-Laye. _Annual register_ (1868) 187–206; _The Mask_ (1868) 141–6, _portrait_; _T. A. Trollope’s What I remember, i_, 376–81; _Nineteenth century, April 1890 pp._ 577–81.
NOTE.—Robert Browning’s poem Mr. Sludge the medium is understood to be a study of Home.
HOME, DAVID MILNE (_1 son of admiral Sir David Milne, d. 1845_). _b._ 1804; ed. at Edin. univ., B.A. 1829, LLD. 1870; called to Scotch bar 1831; advocate depute 1841; succeeded to the family estate and took name of Home 1845; F.R.G.S.; tried to prevent appointment of Dr. Robert Wallace of the Old Greyfriars to the professorship of church history 1873, one of the last “heresy hunts” in the Church of Scotland; author of _Our Social reforms needed in Scotland_ 1867; _Scotch poor houses and English work houses_ 1873; _The salmon Fisheries of Scotland_ 1882. _d._ Milne Graden, Coldstream 19 Sep. 1890. _Times 23 Sep. 1890._
HOME, FRANCIS (_eld. son of James Home, professor of materia medica in Univ. of Edin._) _b._ Edin. 1800; ed. at high school and univ. of Edin.; advocate 1825; sheriff substitute of co. Kinross 1838 and of co. Linlithgow 1838 to death. _d._ Main’s house near Linlithgow 20 Jany. 1882.
HOME, SIR JAMES EVERARD, 2 Baronet (_elder son of Sir Everard Home, 1 bart., serjeant surgeon to George III._) _b._ 25 Oct. 1798; entered navy 10 April 1810; succeeded 31 Aug. 1832; captain 5 Dec. 1837; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842; captain of the “Calliope” 26 guns 28 Nov. 1850 to death; F.R.S. _d._ Sydney 2 Nov. 1853. _bur._ Camperdown cemetery, Sydney 4 Nov.
HOME, JOHN. Entered Bengal army 1803; colonel 57 Bengal native infantry 1854 to death; M.G. 20 June 1854. _d._ Weston, Bath 12 April 1860.
HOME, JOHN HOME (_son of John Home of Bassenleau, co. Berwick_). _b._ 1797; ensign 1 foot guards 19 Jany. 1813, lieut. col. 15 April 1845 to 1 April 1849 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 22 Sep. 1858; colonel 56 foot 17 Oct. 1859 to death. _d._ Pall Mall, London 22 April 1860.
HOME, NORTH DALRYMPLE. _b._ Long Ashton, Aug. 1856; ed. at Bristol gram. sch. at Montreux and Paris; engaged in London and Westminster bank 2 years; student R. Acad. of music; tenor singer in German Reed’s Co.; played in W. S. Gilbert’s _Ages Ago_, and in _The Friar_ operetta by Comyns Carr 15 Dec. 1886. _d._ Clifton 3 July 1887. _The Era, July 1887 p._
HOME, RICHARD. _b._ 1789; entered Bengal army 1804; colonel 43 Bengal N.I. 7 April 1851 to 1861; colonel 6 Bengal N.I. 1861 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. _d._ Brighton 19 April 1862 aged 73.
HOME, ROBERT (_eld. son of James Home, captain 30 foot_). _b._ Antigua 29 Dec. 1837; 1 lieut. R.E. 7 April 1856, major 25 Aug. 1873 to death; deputy assistant Q.M.G. at Aldershot 1865–70; commander of R.E. on the Ashantee expedition 1873; C.B. 31 March 1874; assistant Q.M.G. at head quarters 1 April 1876; sent to Turkey to report on defence of Constantinople 1876; British comr. for delimitation of boundaries of Bulgaria 1877; contributed to _Quarterly Rev._ and _Macmillan’s Mag._; translated Baron Stoffel’s _Military Reports_ 1872; author of _The law of recruiting_ 1872 and _A précis of modern tactics_ 1873 the best English book on the subject. _d._ 21 Regent’s park terrace, London 29 Jany. 1879; Anne Josephine his widow (_dau. of J. Hunt_) granted civil list pension of £300, 21 April 1879. _Graphic xix_, 372 (1879), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxiv_, 185 (1879), _portrait_.
HOMER, JOHN JAMES. _b._ Wandsworth 1809; educated for a solicitor; proprietor of Dolphin tavern, Mare st. Hackney; was the means of abolishing a brewers’ impost known as butt-money 1836; hon. treasurer of the London Licensed Victuallers’ Protection Soc. 1838 to death; governor of Incorporated Soc. of Licensed victuallers 1850; doubled the size of the _Morning Advertiser_ 1850; common councilman for ward of Cornhill 1866; contested Hackney 18 Nov. 1868; wine and spirit merchant 2 Royal Exchange buildings, London 1852 to death; author of _A summary of the laws relating to licensed victuallers_ 1839; _Monarch fire and life insurance co., Scenes at the election for a director_ 1852. _d._ at res. of his son-in-law Dr. William Slimon 4 York place, Bow road, London 3 March 1888. _Licensed Victuallers’ Almanack_ (1862) 95–9, _portrait_; _Licensed Victuallers’ Year book_ (1875) 70–1, _portrait_.
HONE, VEN. RICHARD BRINDLEY (_2 son of Joseph Terry Hone of Faringdon, Berks._) _b._ 1805; ed. at Brasen. coll. Ox., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1831; R. of Halesowen, Worcs. 1836 to death; hon. canon of Worcester 10 Nov. 1845 to death, archdeacon 7 Nov. 1849 to death; author of _Lives of eminent Christians 4 vols._ 1834–43, 19 charges and 41 New Year’s addresses. _d._ Halesowen rectory 5 May 1881.
HONEY, GEORGE ALFRED (_mother Mrs. Down d. 27 Nov. 1881 aged 90_). _b._ 25 May 1823; call-boy Adelphi theatre 1841; made debut in London at Princess’s theatre Nov. 1848 as Pan in _Midas_; member of Pyne and Harrison company at Covent Garden 1858 etc.; played in Macfarren’s opera _Robin Hood_ at Her Majesty’s 1860; played Eccles in _Caste_ at Prince of Wales’s 1867, 1871 and 1879; Graves in _Money_ at Holborn 1869 and at Prince of Wales’s 1872, 1875 and 1879; Our Mr. Jenkins in _The Two Roses_ at Vaudeville 1870; visited U.S. of America 1878; seized with a fit of paralysis while performing at Prince of Wales’s 1879. _d._ 127 Camden road, London 28 May 1880. _Pascoe’s Dramatic List_ (1880) 183–4; _Illust. Sport, and Dram. News, x_ 468–9 (1879) _portrait_, _xiii_ 281 (1880), _portrait_, _xvii_ 125 (1882), _view of tomb_; _The Era 30 May 1880 p._ 6, _6 June p._ 7; _Mr. and Mrs. Bancroft On and off the stage 7th ed._ (1889) 107, 156, 274, 281–3.
HONNER, MARIA (_dau. of Eugene Macarthy, actor, d. Dramatic coll. 1886 aged 78_). _b._ Enniskillen Ireland 21 Dec. 1812; played with Kean and Macready in Ireland; chief star at Pavilion theatre, London 1831–2; at Coburg theatre 1833, at Sadler’s Wells 1838–43, at Surrey theatre 1845, at City of London theatre 1845; excellent in Shakespearean parts, in Julia, in the Hunchback, and other roles; (_m._ (1) 21 May 1836 Robert W. Honner 1809–52; _m._ (2) Frederick Morton, stage manager); she _d._ 4 Jany. 1870. _Actors by gaslight 4 Aug. 1838 pp._ 121–2, _portrait_; _Theatrical Times 10 Oct. 1846 pp._ 137–8, _portrait_.
HONNER, ROBERT WILLIAM (_youngest son of John Honner of Soho, London, solicitor, d. about 1817_). _b._ 24 Percy st. Tottenham court road, London 18 Jany. 1809; apprenticed to Charles Leclercq, ballet master 1817–20; made his debut at Sans Pareil theatre in a ballet 1818; actor at Coburg 1825; stage manager at Surrey 1835–38, manager 1842–46; lessee of Sadler’s Wells 1838–41 and of City of London theatre 1846; stage manager of Standard theatre 1848 to death, _d._ Nichols sq. Hackney road, London 31 Dec. 1852. _Theatrical Times 27 March 1847 pp._ 89–90, _portrait_.
HONNER, SIR ROBERT WILLIAM. Entered Bombay army 1820; lieut. 4 Bombay N.I. 1 May 1824, lieut. col. 15 Sep. 1855 to 1861; commander of Nussurabad 6 March 1858 to 24 Oct. 1862; commander of Scinde division 28 March 1863 to 26 May 1866, C.B. 21 Jany. 1858, K.C.B. 28 March 1865; M.G. 17 Sep. 1861. _d._ Lower Berkeley st., Portman sq., London 8 Nov. 1868.
HONY, VEN. WILLIAM EDWARD (_2 son of Rev. Wm. Hony, V. of Liskeard, Cornwall 1778–95_). _b._ Liskeard 7 Feb. 1788; fellow of Ex. coll. Ox. 30 June 1808 to 3 July 1827, B.A. 1811, M.A. 1812, B.D. 1823; V. of South Newington, Oxon. 24 Oct. 1818 to 1827; R. of Baverstock 4 June 1827 to death; preb. of Salisbury 29 July 1841; archdeacon of Salisbury 3 Aug. 1846 to death, and canon residentiary 1857 to death; F.G.S. 1831; author of _Church Rates_ 1859. _d._ The Canonry, Salisbury 7 Jany. 1875. _I.L.N. lxvi_ 403 (1875).
HORNYGOLD, WILLIAM, _b._ 1797; an artist; lived in parish of St. Clement Danes, London; known for his drawings of theatrical characters for the toy theatre, to which he added sketches of the scenery incidental to the pieces performed; his portrait of C. Kemble as Hen. viii. is No. 55 in Skelt’s portraits: drew the illustrations for comic songs; fell down intoxicated outside the ‘Fountain,’ 4 Clare Market, London, taken to the Strand union workhouse, where he _d._ 12 Feb. 1867 aged 69. _J. Diprose’s Some account of parish of St. Clement Danes i_, 165–6 (1868).
HONYMAN, SIR GEORGE ESSEX, 4 Baronet (_eld. son of Sir Ord Honyman, 3 Bart. 1794–1863_). _b._ Strawberry hill, Middlesex 22 Jany. 1819; pupil of Martineau, Malton and Trollope, solicitors, London 1838–40; pupil of Sir Fitzroy Kelly and David O. Gibbons, the special pleader 1840, etc.; practised as a pleader 1842–9; barrister M.T. 8 June 1849, bencher Nov. 1866; best commercial lawyer of his day; Q.C. 23 July 1866; sergeant at law 23 Jany. 1873; judge of court of common pleas 23 Jany. 1873, resigned 21 Feb. 1875. _d._ Tunbridge Wells 16 Sep. 1875. _Law mag. and law review i_, 122–27 (1875); _I.L.N. lxvii_, 319, 333, 566, (1875), _portrait_.
HONYWOOD, REV. PHILIP JAMES (_3 son of William Honywood of Siston, Kent_). _b._ 1809; matric. from Trin. coll. Ox. 29 May 1827 aged 18, B.A. 1831; R. of Markshall, Essex 23 Dec. 1838 to 1866; R. of Bradwell next Coggeshall, Essex 27 March 1840 to 1845; R. of Colne-Wake, Essex 1866 to death; kept beagles at Markshall 1851–3 which were always followed on foot, sold his hounds 1853; injured himself hunting on foot three days a week _d._ Colne-Wake 19 Nov. 1874 aged 65. _Baily’s Mag. xxix_, 150–5 (1877).
HOOD, SIR ALEXANDER, 2 Baronet (_only son of Alexander Hood, capt. R.N., slain on board his ship the ‘Mars’ 1798_). _b._ Wootton, Somerset 5 July 1793; ed. at Ex. coll. Ox., M.A. 1814; K.C.B. 22 May 1812 as proxy for his uncle Sir S. Hood; succeeded as 2 baronet 24 Dec. 1814; M.P. West Somerset 1847 to death. _d._ 43 Wimpole st. London 7 March 1851.
HOOD, CHARLES. _b._ 18 Sep. 1825; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign 3 foot 26 June 1844, captain 1851 to 8 Jany. 1856; led the ladder party in the attack on the Redan 8 Oct. 1855; major 58 foot 28 Jany. 1859, lieut. col. 23 Nov. 1860 to 23 May 1874 when placed on h.p.; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 July 1881. _d._ 8 Feb. 1883.
HOOD, CHARLES (_son of William Hood, an ironmaster 18 Earl st. Blackfriars_). _b._ 1805; ironmaster with his brother in London; made researches into chemistry of combustion of coal, silver medal of Soc. of Arts; F.R.S. 7 Dec. 1843; F.R.A.S.; F.S.S.; chairman of British home for incurables 1861–6; author of _A practical treatise on warming buildings by hot water, to which are added Remarks on ventilation_ 1837, _5 ed._ 1879. _d._ 10 Leinster gardens, Bayswater, London 10 Dec. 1889.
HOOD, REV. EDWIN PAXTON (_son of a sailor in the navy_). _b._ at house of bishop Porteous 34 Half Moon st. Piccadilly, London 24 Oct. 1820; began to lecture on temperance and peace about 1840; Congregational minister at North Nibley, Gloucs. 1852–7, at Offord road, Islington 1857–62 and 1873, at Queen sq. church, Brighton 1862–73, at Cavendish st. Manchester 1877 to 1880, at Falcon sq. Aldersgate st. London 1882 to death; editor of the _Eclectic and Congregational Review_, of the _Argonaut_ and _The Preacher’s Lantern_; author of _Old England_ 1851; _William Wordsworth, a biography_ 1856; _The Peerage of Poverty 1 series_ 1859, _3 ed._ 1859, _2 series_ 1861, _5 ed._ 1870 and 50 other books. _d._ suddenly at Paris 12 June 1885. _Congregational Year-Book_ (1886) 178–82.
HOOD, FRANCIS GROSVENOR (_2 son of lieut. col. Francis Wheler Rood, killed in action 2 March 1814_). _b._ 4 March 1809; ensign grenadier guards 30 April 1827, captain 31 Dec. 1841, major of 3 battalion 20 June 1854 to death; leading his battalion gallantly contributed to defeat of the enemy at battle of the Alma 20 Sep. 1854; _killed_ in the trenches before Sebastopol 18 Oct. 1854. _Kinglake’s Invasion of the Crimea 6 ed. iii_ 220–2, 239 _et seq. iv_ 442.
HOOD, PETER. _b._ Gateshead 1808; ed. at St. George’s hospital; L.S.A. 1831, M.D. St. Andrews 1863; practised in London among the upper classes; discouraged the practice of blood letting; a keen sportsman, fly fisher and whist player; treasurer of Fisheries’ preservation soc.; president West Herts. medical assoc.; author of _Practical observations on diseases fatal to children_ 1845; _The successful treatment of scarlet fever_ 1857; _A treatise on gout, rheumatism and the allied affections_ 1871, _3 ed._ 1885. _d._ Watford, Herts. 18 Sep. 1890. _Lancet 27 Sep. 1890 p._ 699.
HOOD, REV. SAMUEL. _b._ Devizes 27 Dec. 1782; received episcopal ordination at Stirling, May 1826; minister of congregation in Trinity house, Dundee 1826–37; restored episcopacy at Rothesay and was minister there 1838, helped to establish seven churches in his district; dean of diocese of Argyle and the Isles 1847 to death; D.D. by archbishop of Canterbury 1870. _d._ Rothesay 30 May 1872. _Norrie’s Dundee celebrities_ (1873) 392.
HOOD, SAMUEL. _b._ Moyle, co. Donegal 1800; emigrated to Philadelphia 1826, a member of the bar there; author of _Practical treatise on the laws relating to registers, registers’ courts, guardians and trustees in Pennsylvania_ 1847; _A practical treatise on the law of decedents in Pennsylvania_ 1847; _A brief account of the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick_ 1844. _d._ Philadelphia 1875.
HOOD, THOMAS (_only son of Thomas Hood the poet 1798–1845_). _b._ Lake house, Wanstead, Essex 19 Jany. 1835; granted a civil list pension of £50, 4 Oct. 1847; commoner at Pemb. coll. Ox. 1853; edited the _Liskeard Gazette_ 1858–59; clerk in the war office 11 July 1860 to May 1865; edited a periodical called _Saturday Night_ 1862; edited _Fun_, May 1865 to death; _Tom Hood’s Comic Annual_ first issued 1867; author of _Captain Master’s children 3 vols._ 1865; _A golden heart 3 vols._ 1868; _Rules of rhyme, a guide to English versification_ 1869 and many other books. _d._ Gloucester cottage, Peckham Rye, Surrey 20 Nov. 1874. _Poems by Thomas Hood the younger, with a memoir by his sister Frances Freeling Broderip_ 1877; _Cartoon portraits_ (1873) 64–65, _portrait_; _Illust. sporting news, iv_, 357 (1865), _portrait_.
HOOD, THOMAS H. COCKBURN. _b._ 1820; in Australia and New Zealand to 1877; inherited Walton hall, Kelso from a relative; author of _The Rutherfords of that ilk_ 188-; _The house of Cockburn, with anecdotes of the times in which many of them played a part_, _Edin._ 1888, and of many scientific papers. _d._ Edinburgh 16 Jany. 1889. _The Bookseller 6 March 1889 p._ 228.
HOOD, SIR WILLIAM CHARLES (_only son of Dr. William Chamberlayne Hood, d. Berners st. hotel, London 16 Dec. 1879 aged 89_). _b._ South Lambeth 1824; ed. at Brighton and Trin. coll. Dublin; M.D. St. Andrews 1846; F.R.C.P. Edin. 1850; F.R.C.P. London 1863; treasurer of Bridewell and Bethlehem hospital July 1868 to death; lord chancellor’s visitor in lunacy to death; knighted at Windsor castle 7 July 1868. _d._ Bridewell royal hospital, London 4 Jany. 1870.
HOOF, WILLIAM. _b._ 1788; a railway contractor. _d._ Madeley house, Kensington 11 Aug. 1855, leaving property exceeding half a million.
HOOK, ANNA DELICIA (_dau. of John Johnson, physician, Birmingham_). _b._ 1812; author of _Some Meditations for every day in the year_ 1864; _The Cross of Christ_ 1855 which was edited by her husband; (_m._ June 1829 Rev. Walter Farquhar Hook 1798–1875). _d._ 5 May 1871 aged 59 _bur._ churchyard of Mid Lavant near Chichester 11 May.
HOOK, VERY REV. WALTER FARQUHAR (_eld. child of Very Rev. James Hook 1771–1828, dean of Worcester_). _b._ Conduit st. London 13 March 1798; ed. at Hertford, Tiverton, Winchester, and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824, B.D. and D.D. 1837, student of Ch. Ch. 1817; C. of Whippingham, Isle of Wight 1821–25; P.C. of Moseley near Birmingham 1826–31; chaplain in ord. to the sovereign 1827 to death; V. of Holy Trin. Coventry 1828 to 1837; preb. of Linc. cath. 1832 to 1859; select preacher univ. of Ox. 1833–34 and 1858–59; V. of Leeds 1837 to 1859; preached his famous sermon _Hear the Church_ before the Queen 17 June 1838, 31 ed. 1841, circulated 100,000 copies; dean of Chichester 24 Feb. 1859 to death, installed 19 March 1859; F.R.S. 5 June 1862; author of _A Church Dictionary_ 1842, _14 ed._ 1887; _An ecclesiastical biography 8 vols._ 1845–52; _Lives of the archbishops of Canterbury 12 vols._ 1860–76 and about 70 other books. _d._ the deanery, Chichester 20 Oct. 1875, memorial church at Leeds consecrated 29 Jany. 1880. _Life and letters of W. F. Hook By W. R. W. Stephens 2 vols._ 1878; _Illust. news of the world, iii_, (1859), _portrait_; _Dent’s Birmingham_ (1880) 427, _portrait_; _Graphic xii_, 447, 448 (1875), _portrait_.
HOOKER, SIR WILLIAM JACKSON (_son of Joseph Hooker of Exeter_). _b._ Norwich 6 July 1785; ed. at Norwich gram. sch.; travelled for scientific purposes 1806–14; F.L.S. 1806; F.R.S. 9 Jany. 1812; lived at Halesworth, Suffolk 1815–20; regius prof. of botany Glasgow 1820–41; K.H. 1836; knighted at St. James’ palace 20 April 1836; director of royal gardens, Kew 1841 to death, chief agent in building the palm house and the temperate house, and a founder of the museum of economic botany; LLD. of Glasgow; D.C.L. of Ox. 1845; author of _Exotic flora_, _3 vols._ 1823–7; _Icones plantarum 10 vols._ 1827–54; _The Botanical Mag. 38 vols._ 1827–65; _British flora 2 vols._ 1830–1, many editions; _Species filicum 5 vols._ 1846–64 and 35 other books and many papers. _d._ Kew 12 Aug. 1865. _Proc. of R. Soc. xv_, 25–30 (1867); _Proc. Med. and Chir. Soc. v_, 150, 162 (1867); _Jerdan’s National Portrait gallery_ (1834) _v_, _portrait_; _Taylor’s National Portrait gallery ii_, 95, _portrait_.
HOOLE, ELIJAH (_son of Holland Hoole, shoe maker_). _b._ Manchester 3 Feb. 1798; ed. at Manchester gr. sch. 1809–13; Wesleyan methodist missionary in Madras 1820–8 during which time he published a number of translations in Tamil; a superintendent of schools in Ireland 1829–34; assistant sec. in London of Wesleyan Missionary Soc. 1834, one of the general secretaries 1836 to death; author of _Personal narrative of a mission to the south of India from 1820–8_, 1829, _2 ed._ 1844; _The year-book of missions_ 1847. _d._ 30 Russell sq. London 17 June 1872. _T. F. Smith’s Manchester School Reg. iii, pt._ 1, _pp._ 45, 290.
HOOPER, EDWARD. _b._ 1795; officer in navy; first appeared at Drury Lane as Colonel Briton, Sep. 1826; acting manager at Olympic 1832; lessee of St. James’s 1839; manager of Strand 1848; proprietor of Cambridge theatre to death. (_m._ Miss Brothers, she was _b._ 1800, first appeared at Drury Lane as Mrs. Haller 19 Feb. 1827 and was a well-known actress at St. James’s theatre). _d._ Cambridge 27 Jany. 1865 aged 70.
HOOPER, EDWARD. _b._ London 24 May 1829; ed. in London; member of firm of Bobbett and Hooper, wood engravers 1850 to death; an originator of the American water colour soc.; exhibited water colours at the Academy of design; engraved illustrations for _Festivals of song, By F. Saunders_ 1866. _d._ Brooklyn, New York 13 Dec. 1870.
HOOPER, FREDERIC EDWARD EDEN. _b._ 1842; clerk in the Admiralty, London; wrote many verses on Christmas and other cards; author of _The Indian revolt. A poem, part i_, 1858. _d._ 12 Feb. 1886.
HOOPER, GEORGE. _b._ Oxford 1824; a journalist in London 1848–86; helped to start _The Leader_ weekly paper 1850; wrote for _The Globe_ and _The Spectator_; edited _Bombay Gazette_ at Bombay 1868–71; on staff of _Daily Telegraph_, London 1872–86; author of _The Italian campaigns of general Bonaparte_ 1859; _Waterloo, the downfall of the first Napoleon_ 1862, _new ed._ 1890; _The campaign of Sedan_ 1887; _Wellington, a memoir_ 1889. _d._ Southsea 15 May 1890. _I.L.N. 31 May 1890 p._ 680, _portrait_; _Pictorial World 29 May 1890 p._ 697, _portrait_.
HOOPER, JOHN. _b._ Oxford 1802; went to U.S. of America 1839 and devoted himself to natural science; made collection of marine algæ which he left to Long island historical soc. _d._ Brooklyn, New York 26 April 1869. _Appleton’s American Biog. iii_, 252 (1887).
HOOPER, JOHN KINNERSLEY (_3 son of Richard Hooper of Queenhithe and Limpsfield, Surrey_). _b._ 1791; wine merchant as Richard Hooper and Sons, 20 Queenhithe, London to death; alderman of Queenhithe ward 1840 to death, sheriff 1842–43, lord mayor 1847–48; received the French national guard at the mansion house 23 Oct. 1848; pres. of St. Bartholomew’s hospital. _d._ St. Leonards-on-Sea 17 April 1854. _I.L.N. xi_, 309 (1847), _portrait_.
HOOPER, WILLIAM. _b._ 1819; a chemist; manufacturer of india-rubber goods 7 Pall Mall East, London and at Mitcham, Surrey 1857–78; inventor and manufacturer of india rubber insulated telegraph cables which he patented 19 March 1868; founder of Hooper’s Telegraph Co. in London 1870. _d._ Beechwood, Clapham common, Surrey 25 Sep. 1878. _Journal Soc. of Arts 1 Nov. 1878 p._ 964.
HOOPER, WILLIAM HULME. _b._ 1827; mate of the Plover, R.N. Nov. 1847 and lieut. 12 May 1849, in the expedition to search for Sir John Franklin, sailed from Plymouth 30 Jany. 1848, reached Port Providence 16 Oct. 1848, led a party along the coast as far as Cape Atcheen, learned the language of the natives, returned to England Oct. 1851; author of _Ten months among the tents of the Tuski, with incidents of an Arctic boat expedition in search of Sir John Franklin_ 1853. _d._ Brompton, London 19 May 1854.
HOPE, ADRIAN (_6 son of 4 Earl of Hopetown 1765–1823_). _b._ Hopetown house, Linlithgowshire 3 March 1821; 2 lieut. 60 rifles 23 Nov. 1838, served in Kafir war 1851–3; major 1855; lieut. col. 93 Highlanders 25 Jany. 1856 to death; commanded brigade in Crimea 1854–5; C.B. 24 March 1858; _killed_ in attack on fort at Rowas 14 April 1858. _Martin’s Indian empire, ii_, 493 (1876), _portrait_.
HOPE, ALEXANDER JAMES BERESFORD BERESFORD- (_youngest son of Thomas Hope of Deepdene, Surrey 1770–1831_). _b._ 25 Jany. 1820; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844, D.C.L. 1848, hon. LLD. 1864; LLD. Washington and Tennessee 1879, LLD. Dublin 1881; M.P. for Maidstone 1841–52 and 1857–65; contested Univ. of Cam. 1859 and Stoke-upon-Trent 1862; M.P. for Stoke 1865–8, M.P. for Univ. of Cam. 1868 to death; bought St. Augustine’s abbey, Canterbury as a college for missionary clergy 1844; built All Saints’ church, Margaret st. London 1849; joint owner of _Saturday Review_ with John Douglas Cook 1855; took additional surname of Beresford 30 May 1854; P.C. 20 April 1880; possessed a collection of pictures and objects of art at 1 Connaught place, London; author of _Poems_ 1843; _Essays_ 1844; _The English cathedral of the nineteenth century_ 1861; _A popular view of the American civil war_ 1861, _3 ed._ 1861; _Worship in the Church of England_ 1874, _2 ed._ 1875; _Strictly tied up 3 vols._ 1880, a novel, anon. 3 ed. 1881; _The Brandreths 3 vols._ 1882, a novel, and 24 other books. _d._ Bedgebury park, Cranbrook, Kent 20 Oct. 1887. _C. Brown’s Life of Beaconsfield_ (1882) _i_, 194, _portrait_; _Waagen’s Galleries of art_ (1857) 189–92; _I.L.N. 16 May 1857 pp._ 477, 479, _portrait_.
HOPE, ANNE (_2 dau. of John Williamson Fulton of Calcutta, merchant_). _b._ Calcutta 1809. (_m._ 10 March 1831 James Hope, physician 1801–41); joined Church of Rome, Nov. 1850; author of _The acts of the early martyrs_ 1855; _The lives of the early martyrs_ 1857; _Life of St. Philip Neri_ 1859; _Conversion of the Teutonic race 2 vols._ 1872; _Franciscan martyrs in England_ 1878; wrote many articles in _Dublin Review_ 1872–9. _d._ St. Marychurch, Torquay 2 Feb. 1887. _Gillow’s English Catholics iii_, 375.
HOPE, CHARLES, Lord Granton (_eld. son of John Hope of London, merchant 1739–85_). _b._ 29 June 1763; admitted advocate 11 Dec. 1784; a depute advocate 1786; sheriff of Orkney 5 June 1792; lord advocate June 1801 to Nov. 1804; M.P. for Dumfries district 1802–3, for city of Edin. 1803–4; a lord of session and lord justice clerk 20 Nov. 1804, assumed title of lord Granton; lord pres. of court of session 12 Nov. 1811 to 1841; P.C. Scotland 17 Aug. 1822, lord justice general Dec. 1836 to 1841; lieut. general of royal archers of Scotland; author of _Notes by the lord president on the subject of hearing counsel in the Inner House_ 1826. _d._ Moray place, Edinburgh 30 Oct. 1851. _Omond’s Lord Advocates of Scotland ii_, 205–23; _Kay’s Original Portraits ii_, 246–55 (1885), 3 _portraits_; _Lockhart’s Peter’s Letters to his kinsfolk, ii_, 102–8 (1819).
HOPE, CHARLES WEBLEY. _b._ 21 April 1829; entered navy 1842; captain 15 May 1861; A.D.C. to the Queen 12 Feb. 1873 to 1 Aug. 1877; R.A. 1 Aug. 1877; superintendent of Devonport dockyard 1 Feb. 1879 to death; F.R.G.S.; author of _The education and training of naval officers_ 1869. _d._ Devonport dockyard 13 Feb. 1880.
HOPE, REV. FREDERICK WILLIAM (_2 son of John Thomas Hope of Netley, Salop 1761–1854_). _b._ 37 Upper Seymour st. Portman sq. London 3 Jany. 1797; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823, hon. D.C.L. 1855; C. of Frodesley, Salop 1823; F.R.S. to 1851 when he withdrew; F.L.S. 5 March 1822; one of founders of Zoological Soc. 1826, of Entomological Soc. 1833, president 1835–37; resided at Naples and Nice 1840–62; executed in 1849 a deed of gift giving his collection of fishes, crustacea, birds, shells, books and 230,000 engravings to Univ. of Oxford, his fishes, etc. were removed to the New Museum and his engravings to Radcliffe library 1861; founded and endowed a professorship of zoology in the Univ. of Ox. 1861; author of _Buprestidae_ 1835; _The Coleopterist’s Manual 3 parts_ 1837–40 and of about 60 papers on entomological subjects. _d._ 37 Upper Seymour st. London 15 April 1862. _Journal British Archæol. Assoc. xix_, 157–62 (1863); _Proc. Linnæan society_ (1862) 90–93; _J. O. Westwood’s Thesaurus Entomologicus Oxon._ (1874) _pp. xvii-xxiv_.
HOPE, GEORGE (_2 son of Robert Hope, tenant farmer_). _b._ Fenton, East Lothian 2 Jany. 1811; farmer at Fenton Barns to 1875; did much to improve the agriculture of East Lothian, his farm was well-known in America and on the continent; gained a prize of £30 offered by the Anti-Corn-law league for an essay on _Agriculture and the corn laws_ 1842; contributed _Hindrances to agriculture from a tenant farmer’s point of view to Recess Studies, Edited by Sir A. Grant, Edinburgh_ 1870; contested Haddingtonshire 1865 and East Aberdeenshire 1875. _d._ Broadlands, Berwickshire 1 Dec. 1876. _Memoir of George Hope, By His Daughter_ (1881).
HOPE, GEORGE WILLIAM (_2 son of general the hon. Sir Alexander Hope 1769–1837_). _b._ Blackheath 4 July 1808; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1830; barrister L.I. 28 Jany. 1831; M.P. for Weymouth 1837 to 1841 when unseated on petition; M.P. for Southampton 1842–6; M.P. for New Windsor 1859 to death; under sec. of state for the colonies 8 Sep. 1841 to 8 Jany. 1846. _d._ Luffness, Haddingtonshire 18 Oct. 1863. _I.L.N. vi_, 184 (1845), _portrait_.
HOPE, SIR HENRY (_eld. child of Charles Hope, captain R.N., d. 10 Sep. 1808_). _b._ 1787; entered navy 2 April 1798, captain 24 May 1808, captain of the Endymion May 1813, captured the American frigate President 15 Jany. 1815; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 5 July 1855; A.D.C. to the sovereign 1831–46; admiral 20 Jany. 1858. _d._ Holly hill, Hants. 23 Sep. 1863.
HOPE, HENRY THOMAS (_eldest bro. of Alexander J. B. Hope 1820–87_). _b._ 1808; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1829; M.P. East Looe 1830–2; M.P. Gloucester 1833–41 and 1847–52; a great patron of architectural art; erected a residence 116 Piccadilly, now known as the Junior Athenæum club; sold Trenant park, Cornwall and purchased Castle Blaney, Ireland; possessed a collection of marble statues, vases and Italian and Dutch pictures. _d._ 116 Piccadilly, London 4 Dec. 1862, personalty sworn under £300,000, 17 Jany. 1863. _Waagen’s Treasures of Art, ii_, 112–24 (1854); _I.L.N. xxxii_, 352 (1858).
HOPE, SIR JAMES (_only son of Sir George Hope, K.C.B. 1767–1818_). _b._ 3 March 1808; entered royal naval college 1 Aug. 1820; captain 28 June 1838; commander in chief East Indies 25 Jany. 1859 to 8 Feb. 1862, in North America and West Indies 7 Jany. 1864 to 10 Jany. 1867, and at Portsmouth 25 Feb. 1869 to 1 March 1872; admiral 21 Jany. 1870, retired March 1878, admiral of the fleet 15 June 1879; principal naval A.D.C. to the Queen 8 Feb. 1873; C.B. 3 April 1846, K.C.B. 9 Nov. 1860, G.C.B. 28 March 1865; grand cross of legion of honour 1861. _d._ Carriden house, Bowness, Linlithgowshire 9 June 1881, portrait by Sydney Hodges in painted hall at Greenwich. _D. C. Boulger’s History of China, vol. iii_, _passim_ (1884).
HOPE, JAMES. _b._ 28 May 1803; writer to the signet 1828; deputy keeper of the signet 1828 to death. _d._ Avenel, Edinburgh 14 Feb. 1882. _Law Times, lxxii_, 305 (1882).
HOPE, SIR JAMES ARCHIBALD (_son of lieut.-col. Erskine Hope_). _b._ 1785; ensign 26 foot 12 Jany. 1800, captain 1805–14; captain 3 foot guards 25 July 1814, major 10 Jany. 1837 to 1 Nov. 1839, when placed on h.p.; M.G. on the staff in Lower Canada 1841–7; colonel 9 foot 18 Feb. 1848 to death; general 12 June 1859; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 28 June 1861. _d._ Balgowan house, Cheltenham 30 Dec. 1871.
HOPE, SIR JOHN, 11 Baronet. _b._ Pinkie house, Midlothian 13 April 1781; succeeded 26 June 1801; M.P. for Midlothian 1845 to death. _d._ 104 Gloucester terrace, Hyde park, London 5 June 1853. _bur._ Inveresk churchyard 11 June.
HOPE, JOHN (_eld. son of Charles Hope of Granton 1763–1851_). _b._ Edinburgh 26 May 1794; admitted advocate 23 Nov. 1816; solicitor general for Scotland Nov. 1822 to 1830; dean of faculty of advocates 17 Dec. 1830 to 1841; lord justice clerk 1841 to death; P.C. 17 April 1844; author of _A letter to Francis Jeffery, Esq., editor of the Edinburgh Review, By an Anti-Reformist_ 1811 and two other letters. _d._ 20 Moray place, Edinburgh 15 June 1858, _bur._ at Ormiston near Tranent; portraits in national gallery of Scotland, in the Parliament house and in Scottish national portrait gallery. _Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ (1882) 73–4, _portrait_.
HOPE, SACKETT. Entered navy 2 Nov. 1814; present at bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre 1840; captain 4 Nov. 1840; V.A. on half pay 2 April 1866; granted pension for wounds 7 Nov. 1843. _d._ 9 Widcomb crescent, Bath 25 May 1868.
HOPE, WILLIAM WILLIAMS (_youngest child of John Williams Hope of Amsterdam, banker 1757–1813_). _b._ 1802; reassumed name of Williams before that of Hope by r.l. 14 July 1826; purchased Rushton hall near Kettering for £140,000 in 1828, sold it for £165,000 Sep. 1854; sheriff of Northamptonshire 1832; lived latterly in Paris, built a large house at 131 Rue St. Dominique, Faubourg St. Germain, played a prominent part in Parisian society, noted for his eccentricity and his collection of diamonds; _found dead_ in his bed at 131 Rue St. Dominique, Paris 21 Jany. 1855. _Gronow’s Last Recollections_ (1866) 129–33; _Boase’s Collect. Cornub._ (1890) 1262–4.
HOPE-JOHNSTONE, JOHN JAMES (_1 son of Sir William Hope-Johnstone, G.C.B. 1766–1831_). _b._ 29 Nov. 1796; M.P. for co. Dumfries 1830–47, and 1857–65; keeper of Lockmaben; claimed dormant earldom of Annandale. _d._ Raehills, Dumfriesshire 11 July 1876.
HOPE-SCOTT, JAMES ROBERT (_3 son of general the hon. Sir Alexander Hope, G.C.B. 1769–1837_). _b._ Great Marlow, Bucks. 15 July 1812; ed. at Eton 1825–28 and at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1832, B.C.L. 1838, D.C.L. 1842; fellow of Merton 13 April 1833; commenced a friendship with W. E. Gladstone 1837 and corresponded with him on “The State in its relation with the Church” 1838; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1838, reader 1862; a promoter of Glenalmond college, Perthshire 1841; chancellor of diocese of Salisbury 1840 to 10 Feb. 1845; Q.C. April 1849; paid fees of £20,000 by London and north western railway for 25 bills 1860; received into R.C. church at Farm st. London 6 April 1851; lived at Abbotsford 1853 to death; assumed additional name of Scott 1853; spent winters of 1863–70 at the Villa Madonna Hyères which he bought 1859; visited by Queen Victoria at Abbotsford 22 Aug. 1867; built church of Our Lady and St. Andrew at Galashiels at cost of £10,000, opened 2 Feb. 1858; purchased estate of Lochshiel for £24,000, 1855; author of _The bishopric of the United Church of England and Ireland at Jerusalem_ 1841, _2 ed._ 1842. _d._ 7 Hyde park place, London 29 April 1873. _bur._ in the vaults of St. Margaret’s convent, Bruntsfield, Edin. 7 May. _Memoirs of J. R. Hope-Scott, By Robert Ornsby 2 vols._ 1884.
HOPETOUN, JOHN ALEXANDER HOPE, 6 Earl of (_only son of 5 earl of Hopetoun 1803–43_). _b._ Edinburgh 22 March 1831; ed. at Harrow; cornet and sub-lieut. 1 life guards 1851–2; succeeded 8 April 1843; lord lieut. of Linlithgowshire 30 Sep. 1863 to death. _d._ Florence 1 April 1873. _Baily’s Mag. xvi_, 159–61 (1869), _portrait_.
HOPKINS, SIR FRANCIS, 2 Baronet (_only son of Sir F. J. Hopkins, M.P._) _b._ Athboy, co. Meath 28 May 1813; succeeded 19 Sep. 1814; ed. at Eton, matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 27 June 1830; knight of the Burning Tower at the Eglinton tournament 28–30 Aug. 1839; sheriff of Westmeath 1855. _d._ Madeira 11 May 1860. _J. H. Nixon’s Eglinton tournament p. 6 and plate xiv_ (1843).
HOPKINS, REV. GERARD MANLEY (_1 son of Manley Hopkins of Stratford, Essex_). _b._ Essex 1845; ed. at Ball. coll. Ox., exhibitioner 1863–8, B.A. 1868; fellow of royal univ. of Ireland 1885 (which was created by letters patent 22 April 1880), professor of classical literature there 1885 to death; member of Society of Jesus about 1868. _d._ of typhoid fever at University college, Stephen’s Green, Dublin 8 June 1889. _bur._ Glasnevin cemet. 11 June. _Freeman’s Journal 10 June 1889 p._ 5.
HOPKINS, JOHN BAKER. _b._ London 10 April 1830; began his career as a journalist 1858; editor of _Atlas_ paper; joint editor with Henry Hotze of _The Index_, English organ of Confederate States, No. i. 1 May 1862, at the end of the war the paper ceased; London correspondent to _Paris Correspondence Havas_ 1864–8; on _Standard_ paper Sep. 1865 to 1868; on _Law Journal_ 1867; contributed to _Morning Post_ and _Vanity Fair_ under pseudonym of Esse quam videri; chief leader writer on _London Figaro_, July 1870; author of _The Yogi’s daughter, a tragedy_ 1854; _Elviré, a reminiscence of Paris_ 1855; _Not at all nervous, a farce_ 1860; _Making the worst of it, a novel 2 vols._ 1874; _Jack Oakum, a play_ 1877; _The true history of Nihilism, a novel_ 1880. _d._ 14 Russell road, Holloway 20 Dec. 1888. _Cartoon portraits_ (1873) 140–43, _portrait_.
HOPKINS, RIGHT REV. JOHN HENRY. _b._ Dublin 30 Jany. 1792; emigrated to U.S. of A. 1801, an iron manufacturer in Pennsylvania 1810–17 when he failed; admitted to Pittsburgh bar 1817, practised to 1823; R. of Trinity ch. Pittsburgh 1824–31; assistant minister Trinity ch. Boston 1831; professor of divinity in theol. seminary of Massachusetts 1831; first bishop of Vermont 31 Oct. 1832; R. of St. Paul’s, Burlington 1832–56; seventh presiding bishop of ch. in U.S. 1865, attended Lambeth conference 1867; D.C.L. Ox. 3 Dec. 1867; author of _Christianity vindicated_ 1833; _Essay on Gothic architecture_ 1836; _Twelve canzonets, words and music_ 1839; _The history of the confessional_ 1850, and 30 other books. _d._ Rock Point, Vermont 9 Jany. 1868. _A sketch book of American episcopate. By K. G. Batterson_ (1878) 104–106; _Appleton’s American Biog. iii_, 254–6 (1887).
HOPKINS, JOHN LARKIN. _b._ Westminster 25 Nov. 1819; chorister boy in the abbey; organist of Rochester cathedral 1841–56; Mus. Bac. Cam. 1842, Mus. Doc. 1857; organist of Trin. coll. Cam. 1856 to death; composed _Five glees and a madrigal_ 1842, and _Cathedral Services in C flat and E flat_ 1857; author of _A new vocal tutor_ 1855. _d._ Ventnor, Isle of Wight 25 April 1873.
HOPKINS, SIR JOHN PAUL (_eld. son of Capt. John Hopkins, killed on board the “Bellerophon” in the battle of the Nile_). Ensign 43 foot 1804; served in the Peninsula and in campaign of 1815; major 98 foot 25 June 1829, retired 18 Oct. 1831; K.H. 1836; governor of military knights of Windsor 1865 to death; knighted at Windsor castle 11 Dec. 1867. _d._ Windsor 9 March 1875.
HOPKINS, WILLIAM (_only son of William Hopkins of Kingston, Derbyshire, farmer_). _b._ Kingston 2 Feb. 1793; farmed, without success near Bury St. Edmunds; entered at Peterhouse, Cam. 1822, 7 wrangler 1827, B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; a private tutor at Cam. from 1827 and known as the senior wrangler maker; esquire bedel of Univ. of Cam. 1827 to death; F.G.S. 18—, Wollaston medallist 1850, president 1851–3; pres. of British Assoc. at Hull 1853; F.R.S. 1 June 1837; author of _Elements of trigonometry_ 1833; _An abstract of a memoir on physical geology_ 1836. _d._ Parker’s Piece, Cambridge 13 Oct. 1866, portrait in hall of Peterhouse. _Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxiii, pp. xxix-xxxii_ (1867); _I.L.N. xxiii_, 225 (1853), _portrait_.
HOPKINS, REV. WILLIAM BONNER. Ed. at Gonville and Caius coll. Cam., second wrangler, second Smith’s prizeman and B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847, B.D. 1854; fellow and tutor of St. Cath. hall 1848–54; V. of St. Peter, Wisbech 1854–66; V. of Littleport near Ely 1866 to death; hon. canon of Ely 1865 to death, rural dean 1868; Dean Stanley said he was “the incarnation of sound common sense”; author of _Apostolic missions. Five sermons preached before the university_ 1853; _The words spoken by Christ upon the Cross. Seven sermons_ 1866; _The position and duty of non-abstainers_ 1874, _2 ed._ 1875. _d._ Littleport vicarage 24 March 1890.
HOPKINSON, SIR CHARLES (_son of B. Hopkinson of Highbury park, Middlesex_). _b._ Grantham 1784; ed. at Woolwich; lieut. R.A. 1799; served in Mahratta war 1803; commanded the artillery against the Poligars and at Hyderabad; lieut.-col. 1824; commanded Madras artillery; served in war in Ava 1825; retired through deafness 1829; C.B. 1826; knighted by Wm. iv. at St. James’s palace 26 April 1837; author of _Hints to cadets and others proceeding to India_ 1850. _d._ 2a King st. St. James’s sq. London 17 Dec. 1864.
HOPKINSON, WILLIAM (_son of Rev. Samuel Edmund Hopkinson, R. of Morton-cum-Haconby_). _b._ 1784; coroner for the Soke of Peterborough; solicitor at Bourn and Stamford; purchased Little Gidding manor, Hunts. 700 acres 1853 and restored the church to the Caroline style in which it had been left by Nicholas Ferrar in 1637. _d._ Stamford 1 Sep. 1865. _Rivington’s Ecclesiastical Year-book_ (1866) 334.
HOPLEY, EDWARD WILLIAM JOHN. _b._ 1816; painter of domestic subjects and portraits; exhibited 15 pictures at R.A., 26 at B.I. and 7 at Suffolk st. 1844–69; his picture, The birth of a pyramid, shown 1859; invented a trigonometrical system of facial measurement for the use of artists. _d._ 14 South Bank, Regent’s Park, London 30 April 1869.
HOPPER, VEN. AUGUSTUS MACDONALD (_son of Walter Carles Hopper of Walworth, co. Durham_). _b._ 11 Aug. 1816; ed. at Shrewsbury and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842, fellow of St. John’s 1841–5; R. of Starston, Norfolk 1845 to death; hon. canon of Norwich 1854–72; archdeacon of Norwich 1868 to death; author of _Two Charges_ 1869 and 1870. _d._ Starston rectory 7 Jany. 1878.
HOPPER, CLARENCE (_son of Thomas Hopper of Reading, surgeon d. 1856_). _b._ Granthan, Wilts 17 May 1817; ed. at Reading gram. sch.; palæographer of British Archæol. Assoc. 1862; an expert in deciphering ancient writings; employed in Record office; edited _London Chronicle of Hen. VII. and Hen. VIII._ 1859, and _Sir F. Drake’s service against the Spaniards_ 1863, in _vols._ 4 and 5 of Camden Miscellany; author of _A descriptive account of churchwardens’ presentments Stratford-on-Avon_ 1867; _A catalogue of books illustrative of Shakespeare_ 1868. _d._ Brighton 10 June 1868. _Journal of B.A. Assoc. xxv_, 316 (1869).
HOPPER, THOMAS (_son of Mr. Hopper of Rochester, surveyor_). _b._ Rochester 6 July 1776; architect and surveyor 40 Connaught ter. London; made alterations at Carlton House, London 1807; surveyor of Essex 40 years; built Arthur’s club, St. James’s st., Atlas fire office, Cheapside and St. Mary’s hospital, Paddington 1843; competed for erection of General Post Office 1820, for rebuilding of Royal Exchange 1839, and for Houses of parliament 1840; published _A letter to viscount Duncannon on competitors for building houses of parliament_ 1837; _Designs for the houses of parliament_ 1842. _d._ 1 Bayswater Hill, London 11 Aug. 1856.
HOPPUS, REV. JOHN (_only son of Rev. John Hoppus, independent minister, Yardley, Hastings_). _b._ London 1789; ed. at Rotherham and Univs. of Edin. and Glasgow, M.A. Glasgow 1823, LLD. 1839; minister of independent chapel, Carter lane, London 1823–5; professor of the philosophy of mind and logic in London Univ. 1829–66; F.R.S. 20 May 1841; author of _An account of Lord Bacon’s Novum Organum Scientiarum_ 1827; _Sketches on the Continent in 1835 2 vols._ 1836; _The crisis of popular education_ 1847 and 12 other books. _d._ 26 Camden st. Camden town, London 29 Jany. 1875. _Congregational Year-book_ (1876) 341–3.
HORAN, EDWARD JOHN. _b._ Quebec, Canada 1817; ed. in the Seminary of Quebec, priest 1842, a director of the Seminary; principal of the normal sch. Quebec; bishop of Kingston 1858, resigned; assistant of the pontifical throne; present at Vatican council 1870. _d._ Canada 16 Feb. 1875. _Appleton’s American Biog. iii_, 262 (1887).
HORAN, MARY AUSTIN. _b._ Ireland 1820; entered the Convent of Mercy, Dublin; assisted in founding the Institution of Mercy, New York 1846; first mistress of novices in St. Catherine’s convent, New York and trainer of the early members; built St. Joseph’s Industrial institute for children. _d._ New York city 14 June 1874. _Appleton’s American Biog. iii_, 262 (1887).
HORDERN, REV. JOSEPH (_son of Rev. Joseph Hordern of Prestwich, Lancs._) _b._ 1794; ed. at Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1816, M.A. 1820; V. of Rostherne, Cheshire 1821–54; R. of Burton Agnes with Harpham, Yorks. 1854 to death; author of _Plain directions for reading to the sick_ 1826, _4 ed._ 1830; _Sermons_ 1830; _The armour of light, sermons_ 1851. _d._ Knutsford, Cheshire 12 Aug. 1876. _F. Ross’ Celebrities of the Wolds_ (1878) 76.
HORMAN, GEORGE HELIER (_son of Philip Horman of St. Saviour’s, Jersey_). _b._ 1817; practised as a solicitor in Jersey, one of the six advocates of the royal court there 1848; Her Majesty’s advocate general for Jersey 23 July 1866 to death; chairman of the Channel islands bank 1858–74. _d._ The Terrace, St. Heliers, Jersey 29 May 1879.
HORN, HENRY (_son of Frederick Jacob Horn of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire_). _b._ 23 Sep. 1806; ed. at M.T. school and St. John’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; fellow of Magdalen coll. 1831–4; barrister M.T. 11 Jany. 1833; recorder of Hereford 1847 to death; edited _Woodfall’s Practical treatise on law of landlord and tenant_, _7 ed._ 1856; with E. T. Hurlstone published _Reports in court of exchequer upon writs of error to exchequer chamber 2 vols._ 1840; while attending the corpse of his father in law J. S. Gowland _shot himself in the head_ at Cagebrook near Hereford 29 Nov. 1857. _Hereford Journal 2 Dec. 1857 p._ 5.
HORN, MARION (_dau. of Mr. Horton, manufacturer of silver plate ware_). _b._ Birmingham 1811; sang small parts in English operas and served as a substitute for Emma Romer; studied under Marco Bordogni in Paris; had a mezzo soprano voice; appeared as Cinderella at Old Park theatre, New York 16 Sep. 1836 and then as Rosina, Amina, and Susanna; sang in operas throughout United States; (_m._ 1839 Charles Edward Horn 1786–1849, the writer of Cherry Ripe 1825, and I know a bank 1830); taught in New York many of best known American singers. _d._ Morrisania co. Winchester, New York, Jany. 1887. _Ireland’s New York Stage, ii_, 176 (1867).
HORN, ROBERT (_youngest son of William Horn, farmer_). _b._ Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire 24 May 1810; ed. at Glasgow univ.; passed at Scotch bar 1834; hon. memb. Speculative Soc. Edin.; a commissioner of the board of manufacturers 1866; vice dean of Faculty of Advocates 1874 and dean 1876; helped in preparing _Catalogue of Faculty of Advocate’s Library_ 1873. _d._ 7 Randolph crescent, Edinburgh 2 Jany. 1878. _Journ. of Jurisprudence, xxii_, 93–7 (1878).
HORNBLOWER, JANE ELIZABETH (_dau. of William Roscoe 1753–1831 historian_). _b._ Liverpool 1797; (_m._ Francis Hornblower); author of _Poems_ 1820; _Poems_ 1821; _Poems_ 1843. _d._ Liverpool 2 Aug. 1853.
HORNBY, EDMUND (_eld. son of Rev. Geoffry Hornby, R. of Winwick, Lancs. d. 1812_). _b._ 16 June 1773; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1794, M.A. 1797; barrister I.T. 22 June 1798; chairman of Lancaster court of quarter sessions many years; M.P. for Preston 1812–26; sheriff of Westmoreland 1828. _d._ Dalton hall near Burton, Westmoreland 18 Nov. 1857.
HORNBY, EDMUND GEORGE (_son of the preceding_). _b._ 6 Nov. 1799; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1820; M.P. for Warrington 1832–5; constable of Lancaster castle. _d._ Dalton hall 26 or 27 Feb. 1865.
HORNBY, LOUISA (_sister of Edmund Hornby 1773–1857_). _b._ Winwick 5 April 1788; author of _Bible Stories_; _Universal Reform_; _The Full Loom_ and other books. _d._ Winwick 6 Jany. 1873.
HORNBY, SIR PHIPPS (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Winwick 27 April 1785; ed. at Sunbury; entered navy 19 May 1797, captain 16 Feb. 1810; as commander of the Volage took part in action off Lissa 1811, gold medal; superintendent of royal naval hospital and victualling yard at Plymouth 1832 to 6 Jany. 1838; superintendent of Woolwich dockyard 6 Jany. 1838 to 16 Dec. 1841; controller general of the coastguard 16 Dec. 1841 to Nov. 1846; commander in chief in the Pacific 1847–50; a lord of the admiralty 28 Feb. to 30 Dec. 1852; admiral 25 June 1858; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 6 April 1852, G.C.B. 28 June 1861. _d._ Little Green near Petersfield 19 March 1867.
HORNBY, ROBERT VERNON ATHERTON. _b._ Atherton 6 Nov. 1805; author of _Statistical account of Winwick_ 1837; _Vale: a poem_ 1854. _d._ Wansfell, Windermere 25 Aug. 1857.
HORNBY, WILLIAM HENRY (_3 son of John Hornby of Blackburn_). _b._ Blackburn 2 July 1805; founded the Brookhouse cotton mills, Blackburn 1828; first mayor of Blackburn 1851; M.P. Blackburn 1857–69 when he was unseated. _d._ Pool hall, Nantwich, Cheshire 5 Sep. 1884. _Puseley’s Commercial Companion_ (1858) 114–5.
HORNCASTLE, JAMES HENRY. _b._ London 26 May 1801; appeared as first witch in Macbeth at Drury Lane 1820; first appeared at Chestnut street theatre, Philadelphia 28 Jany. 1839; at National theatre, New York with Louisa Pyne’s troupe 1854 and at Broadway theatre 1855; attached to Princess’ theatre, London; musician, actor, author and composer; an annuitant on General theatrical fund. _d._ West Malvern 6 May 1869. _Ireland’s New York stage, ii_, 231, 629 (1867).
HORNE, JAMES. _b._ 1790; experimented on steam locomotives on roads; F.R.S. 6 Feb. 1834; A.I.C.E. 20 Feb. 1835, auditor 1840; applied warming and ventilating apparatus to halls of the City companies. _d._ London 26 Oct. 1856. _Min. of Proc. Instit. of C.E. xvii_, 102 (1858).
HORNE, LENOX (_younger brother of the succeeding_). Baritone singer at Surrey theatre under name of Mr. Lennox 1849–51; lecturer at the Polytechnic Institution London; wrote _Two heads are better than one, A farce_, produced at Lyceum theatre Dec. 1854; _The baronet abroad_; _The tale of a comet_. _d._ Clapham road, Kennington 20 Nov. 1874.
HORNE, RICHARD HENRY or HENGIST. _b._ London 31 Dec. 1802; ed. at Sandhurst; midshipman in Mexican navy, served in war against Spain 1829; edited the _Monthly Repository_ July 1836 to June 1837; sub.-comr. to report on employment of children in mines 1843; went with Wm. Howitt to Australia 1852; commander of the gold escort between Ballarat and Melbourne 1852; comr. of crown lands for the gold fields 1853–4; territorial magistrate 1855 &c.; took name of Hengist instead of Henry 1864; returned to England 1869; granted civil list pension of £50, 19 June 1874, and another of £50, 28 April 1880; author of _Cosmo de Medici_ 1837, _a tragedy_; _The death of Marlowe_ 1837, _a tragedy_; _The history of Napoleon 2 vols._ 1841, _new ed._ 1879; _Orion, an epic poem_ 1843, _10 ed._ 1874, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd eds. were issued at a farthing; _A new spirit of the age 2 vols._ 1844; _The poor artist_ 1850, _2 ed._ 1871; _Sithron the Star-stricken_ 1883, and 15 other books. _d._ Margate 13 March 1884. _R. H. Horne’s Australian facts and prospects_ (1859) 1–44; _H. B. Forman’s Our living poets_ (1871) 427–46; _Athenæum 22 March 1884 pp._ 374–5; _I.L.N. lxxxiv_, 301 (1884), _portrait_.
HORNE, REV. THOMAS HARTWELL (_son of William Horne of London, barrister’s clerk_). _b._ Chancery lane, London 20 Oct. 1780; ed. at Christ’s hospital 1789–95; barrister’s clerk 1796–1806; sec. to Joseph Butterworth, M.P. 1806–9; sub-librarian to Surrey institution 1809–23; C. of Ch. Ch. Newgate st. London 1819–25; senior assist. librarian British museum 1824–60; assist. minister at Welbeck chapel, London 1825–33; F.S.A. 1828; F.R.S.L.; B.D. Cambridge 1829, D.D. Univ. of Pennsylvania; preb. of St. Paul’s 1831 to death; R. of St. Edmund the King with St. Nicholas Acons, Lombard st. 25 Nov. 1833 to death; author of _An introduction to the critical study and knowledge of the Holy Scriptures 3 vols._ 1818, _11 ed._ 1860; _Outlines for the classification of a library submitted to the trustees of the British museum_ 1825; _A compendious introduction to the study of the Bible_ 1827, _10 ed._ 1862; _Manual of parochial psalmody_ 1829, _41 ed._ 1861 and about 50 other books. _d._ 47 Bloomsbury sq. London 27 Jany. 1862. _G. M. Turpin’s The Rev. T. H. Horne_ (1862), _portrait_; _Reminiscences of T. H. Horne, by his daughter S. A. Cheyne_ (1862); _Cowtan’s Memories of British Museum_ (1872) 105–9.
HORNE, SIR WILLIAM (_2 son of Rev. Thomas Horne, schoolmaster at Chiswick_). _b._ 1774; barrister L.I. 23 June 1798, bencher 6 Nov. 1818; comr. of bankrupts 1806–18; K.C. Nov. 1818; attorney general to queen Adelaide 24 July 1830; solicitor general 26 Nov. 1830 to 23 Nov. 1832, attorney general 26 Nov. 1832 to Feb. 1834; appointed a baron of the Exchequer but declined the office 1834; master in chancery 23 July 1839, resigned 1853; M.P. for Helston 1812–18, for Bletchingley 1831, for Newton, Isle of Wight 1831–2, for Marylebone 12 Dec. 1832 to 29 Dec. 1834; knighted by Wm. IV. at St. James’s palace 24 Nov. 1830. _d._ 49 Upper Harley st. London 13 July 1860. _Mrs. Hardcastle’s Life of Lord Campbell_ (1881) _ii_, 18–41; _Lord Brougham’s Life and times, iii_, 341–54, 426–9.
HORNEGOLD or HORNIGOLD, WILLIAM 1797–1867, artist. _See_ Hornygold, W. _ante col._ 1523.
HORNER, LEONARD (_youngest son of John Horner of Edinburgh, linen merchant_). _b._ Edinburgh 17 Jany. 1785; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edin.; partner in a branch of his father’s business in London 1804–17; F.G.S. 1808, sec. 1810, pres. 1846 and 1860; F.R.S. 1813, vice pres. 1857; warden of London Univ. 1827–31; inspector under the Factories act 1833–60; published _Works of Francis Horner_ 1843; _Memoirs of Francis Horner_ 1848, _2 ed. 2 vols._ 1853; a translation of Villari’s _History of Savonarola_ 1863. _d._ 60 Montague sq. London 5 March 1864. _Quarterly Journal of Geol. soc. xxi_, 30–40 (1865); _Proc. of Royal soc. xiv_, 5–10 (1865); _Macmillan’s Mag. x_, 319–26 (1864).
HORRABIN, REV. RICHARD. _b._ Garstang near Preston; ed. at Old Hall Green coll.; chaplain Virginia st. chapel, Ratcliffe highway, London 1815–39, and 1841–54; chaplain St. Mary, Moor fields 1839–41; gave evidence before house of commons on education of lower orders 1816; published _The New Testament, ed. by Marlow J. F. Sidney and revised by the Rev. R. Horrabin_ 1818. _d._ Houndsditch, London 13 Dec. 1859. _Gillow’s English Catholics iii_, 403–4 (1887).
HORSBURGH, JOHN. _b._ Prestonpans near Edinburgh 1791; apprenticed to Robert Scott the engraver 1805; engraved several plates after J. M. W. Turner for _Scott’s Poetical_ and _Prose Works_ and other publications; engraved several single plates including Prince Charlie reading a despatch and 2 portraits of Sir Walter Scott; undertook gratuitously duties of pastor in Scottish Baptist church. _d._ 16 Buccleuch place, Edinburgh 24 Sep. 1869. _Pastoral addresses of J. Horsburgh with memoir_ 1869.
HORSEY, GEORGE (_4 son of Charles Horsey of St. John st., London_). _b._ 29 Sep. 1819; barrister G.I. 22 May 1850; equity draughtsman and conveyancer; author of _A practical analysis of the Trustees Act_ 1850; _The probate and administration act_ 1858; _The court of Probate acts 3 ed._ 1859; _Law of property and trustees relief act_ 1860. _d._ Colne villa, New Southgate, Middlesex 16 Sep. 1889.
HORSFALL, THOMAS BERRY. _b._ Liverpool 1805; a merchant in Liverpool, mayor of Liverpool 1847–48; M.P. Derby 8 July 1852, unseated 9 March 1853; M.P. Liverpool 9 July 1853 to Nov. 1868; president Liverpool chamber of commerce on its foundation 1849. _d._ Torquay 22 Dec. 1878.
HORSFIELD, THOMAS. _b._ Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 12 May 1773; ed. Univ. of Pennsylvania, M.D. 1798; studied natural history in Java 1799–1819; in service of Dutch government in Java and Sumatra to 1811 and of H.E.I.Co. 1811–20; keeper of museum, India House, London 1820 to death; F.L.S. 1820; F.R.S. 1828; author of _Zoological Researches in Java_ 1824; _Descriptive catalogue of Lepidoptera in the H.E.I.C. museum, 2 parts_ 1828–9 and other books. _d._ Chalcott villas, Camden town, London 24 July 1859. _Proc. of Royal Society x_, 19–21 (1860); _Proc. Linnean Soc._ (1859–60) 25–6.
HORSFORD, SIR ALFRED HASTINGS (_son of general George Horsford, d. 1840_). _b._ Bath 3 April 1818; 2 lieut. rifle brigade 12 July 1833, lieut.-col. 9 March 1855 to 1 Jany. 1868, col. commandant 2 battalion 21 Nov. 1880 to death; served in Kaffir wars 1847–8 and 1852–3, Crimean war 1854–5 and Indian mutiny 1857–8; D.A.G. at horse guards 1860–6; brigadier general at Aldershot 1866–9; military sec. at Horse Guards 1874–80; col. 79 foot 17 March 1876, col. 14 foot 1 Jany. 1879 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 3 April 1883; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 8 May 1860, G.C.B. 29 May 1875. _d._ Munlochy near Inverness 13 Sep. 1885. _bur._ Kensal Green cemetery 19 Sep.
HORSFORD, SIR ROBERT MARSH (_eld. son of Paul Horsford, chief justice of Antigua, d. 1850_). _b._ Boswell court, Lincoln’s inn, London 1798; ed. at Winchester; matric. from Ex. coll. Ox. 7 Dec. 1816; barrister M.T. 17 May 1822; settled in island of Antigua, solicitor general there 1825–46, attorney general 1846 to Nov. 1847, chief justice 19 Nov. 1847, retired Aug. 1856; knighted at Buckingham palace 25 Jany. 1841; C.B. 15 Nov. 1852. _d._ 11 Delamere terrace, Westbourne park, London 23 May 1875.
HORSLEY, CHARLES EDWARD (_son of the succeeding_). _b._ 24 Queen’s buildings, Knightsbridge, London 16 Dec. 1822; pupil of Moscheles, Hauptmann, Spohr and Mendelssohn; teacher of music in London 1846; organist of St. John’s, Notting hill 19 Sep. 1853 to June 1857; went to Melbourne 1868, then to New York 1872, choir master St. John’s chapel 1872 to death; composed for Liverpool Philharmonic Soc. two oratorios _David_ 1849 and _Joseph_ 1852; wrote the cantata _Comus_ 1854; produced oratorio _Gideon_ at Glasgow musical festival 1860; wrote an ode _Euterpe_ for opening of Melbourne town hall 1870, and about 35 other pieces; author of _A text book of harmony_ 1876. _d._ New York city 28 Feb. 1876.
HORSLEY, WILLIAM H. _b._ London 15 Nov. 1774; articled to Theodore Smith, pianist 1790–4; organist of Ely chapel, Holborn 1794–8; member of Royal Soc. of Musicians 15 June 1797; founded with J. W. Callcott the Concentores Sodales a club for encouragement of glee and canon writing, June 1798 which existed till 1847; assistant organist Asylum for female orphans about 1798, organist 1802–54; Mus. Bac. Oxford 18 June 1800; organist at Belgrave chapel, Halkin st. 1812–37 and at the Charterhouse 1838; had few equals as a composer of glees; published _Five collections of glees_ 1801–27; _An introduction to the study of practical harmony and modulation_ 1847; _The musical treasury_ 1853 and about 60 pieces of music; his best known glees were _By Celia’s Arbour_ 1807 and _Mine be a cot._ _d._ 1 High row, Kensington, London 12 June 1858. _G.M. lxxxiii_, 82, 565 (1813); _Grove’s Dictionary of music, i_, 753–4 (1879).
HORSMAN, CHARLOTTE (_dau. of Mr. Gardiner_). _b._ Dublin 1827; (_m._ 1847 Charles Horsman, actor _b._ Welchpool, Montgomeryshire 21 Oct. 1825); a prominent actress at Lyceum, Strand, Sadler’s Wells and Holborn theatres; a member of the Pygmalion and Galatea co.; her last appearance was at Bradford as Meg Merrilies 14 May 1877. _d._ 2 William st. Bradford 4 June 1878. _bur._ Undercliffe cemet. 7 June. _The Era 9 June 1878 p._ 12.
HORSMAN, EDWARD (_son of William Horsman d. 22 March 1845 aged 86_). _b._ 8 Feb. 1807; ed. at Rugby and Trin. coll. Cam.; admitted advocate at Scottish bar 1832; M.P. Cockermouth Feb. 1836 to 1 July 1852; M.P. Stroud 29 June 1853 to Nov. 1868; M.P. Liskeard 11 May 1869 to death; fought a duel at Wormwood Scrubbs with James Bradshaw, M.P. 1840; comr. of Church Inquiry in Scotland; a lord of the Treasury June to Sep. 1841; chief sec. of state for Ireland March 1855, resigned May 1857; P.C. 10 March 1855; on 13 March 1866 Bright described Horsman as retiring “into his political cave of Adullam,” hence his party became known as “the cave”; author of _Five speeches on ecclesiastical affairs_ 1849. _d._ Biarritz 30 Nov. 1876. _H. D. Traill’s The new Lucian_ (1884) 183–401; _I.L.N. xxx_, 478 (1857), _portrait_; _Graphic xiv_, 592, 595 (1876), _portrait_.
HORT, SIR JOSIAH WILLIAM, 2 Baronet (_1 son of Sir John Hort d. 1807_). _b._ 6 July 1791; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1812; succeeded 23 Oct. 1807; M.P. co. Kildare 1831–2. _d._ Ebury st. Eaton square, London 24 Aug. 1876.
HORT, SIR JOHN JOSIAH, 3 Baronet (_1 son of the preceding_). _b._ Dublin 14 Jany. 1824; ensign 61 foot 20 Nov. 1840; captain 4 foot 27 May 1847, lieut.-col. 1 Feb. 1856 to 10 Nov. 1856 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. 36 foot 15 May 1857 to 28 Dec. 1866; lieut.-col. 44 foot 28 Dec. 1866 to 10 Nov. 1869 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. brigade depot 1 April 1873; L.G. 10 Aug. 1878; C.B. 24 May 1873; knight of Malta. _d._ 35 Merrion sq. east, Dublin 5 Jany. 1882. _The case of maltreatment by Capt. Hort, fourth King’s own regiment, of lieut. A. V. D. Harris._ _Plymouth_ 1851.
HORT, SIR WILLIAM FITZMAURICE JOSIAH, 4 Baronet (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Boulogne-sur-mer 28 Jany. 1827; ed. at R.M.A. Woolwich; called to bar in Ireland 1852; paid resident magistrate at Kilkenny 1858, at Tuam co. Galway 1858–83. _d._ St. Canice’s cottage, Kilkenny 18 Sep. 1887.
HORWITZ, BERNARD. _b._ Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg 1807; learnt chess from Mendheim at Berlin; one of the 7 great Berlin players known as the Pleiades; spent sometime at Hamburg; lived in England about 1845 to death; took part in nearly all the tournaments held in England before 1862; author of _Chess studies and end-games systematically arranged_ 1884; author with J. Kling of _Chess Studies_ 1851 three editions, and of a periodical called _The Chess Player 4 vols._ 1851–3. _d._ 27 Parkhurst road, Bowes Park, London 29 Aug. 1885. _I.L.N. viii_, 100 (1846), _portrait_; _Chess Monthly, vii_, 8; _Fortnightly Review, Dec. 1886 p._ 754.
HORWOOD, ALFRED JOHN (_younger son of Thomas Horwood of the Middle Temple, London, conveyancer_). _b._ Camberwell, Surrey 1821; barrister M.T. 22 Nov. 1844; inspector under royal commission on historical manuscripts 1869 to death; edited _Year books of the reign of Edward the First. Rolls Series_ 1858; _A catalogue of the manuscripts belonging to Gray’s inn_ 1869; _A common place book of John Milton_ 1876. _d._ 1 New Court, Temple, London 7 July 1881. _Law Times, lxxi_, 255 (1881).
HOSACK, JOHN (_3 son of John R. Hosack of Glenaher, Dumfriesshire_). _b._ Glenaher 1809; barrister M.T. 29 Jany. 1841, bencher 22 April 1875; magistrate at Clerkenwell police court 5 June 1877 to death; author of _A treatise on the conflict of laws of England and Scotland_ 1847; _The rights of British and neutral commerce as affected by recent royal declarations and orders in council_ 1854; _Mary Queen of Scots and her accusers_, _London_ 1869, _2 ed._ 2 _vols. Edin._ 1870–4 and other books. _d._ 172 Finborough road, West Brompton, London 3 Nov. 1887. _bur._ Lytham, Lancs. 8 Nov.
HOSKEN, JAMES (_son of James Hosken, gunner in navy, d. Penryn 20 June 1848 aged 92_). _b._ Plymouth 6 Dec. 1798; midshipman R.N. 1810, lieut. 1828; captain of the Great Western specially built for ocean steam navigation 1837, she left Bristol 8 April 1838 and reached New York 23 April, made 64 voyages in Great Western; captain of the Great Britain 1844, made 3 or 4 trips to New York in her, she was stranded in Dundrum bay 22 Sep. 1846; harbour master, postmaster and chief magistrate at Labuan 1848–9; commanded the Belle-Isle hospital ship in the Baltic 1854–5; captain R.N. 15 June 1857, retired 8 Jany. 1868, retired V.A. 2 Aug. 1879. _d._ 32 Highfield road, Ilfracombe 2 Jany. 1885. _Autobiographical Sketch. Edited by his widow. Privately printed_ 1889.
HOSKING, WILLIAM (_eld. son of John Hosking, woollen manufacturer_). _b._ Buckfastleigh, Devon 26 Nov. 1800; apprenticed to a builder and surveyor in New South Wales; articled to W. Jenkins of Red Lion square, London, architect 1820–23; exhibited 1 drawing at R.A. and 9 at Suffolk st. 1825–9; F.S.A. 11 Feb. 1830; F.I.B.A. 16 Jany. 1835, member of council 1842–3; engineer of Birmingham, Bristol and Thames Junction railway 1834; superintended formation of Abney Park cemetery, Stoke Newington, London 30 acres 1839–40; professor of Art of construction in King’s coll. London 1840, and of Principles and practice of architecture 1841 to death; an official referee under Metropolitan building act 3 Sep. 1844 to 1855; published _Preliminary essay on bridges_ 1841, _2 ed._ 1842; _Theory, practice and architecture of bridges_ 1842; _Some observations upon the recent addition of a reading room to the British museum_ 1858, he claimed to have suggested the Circular reading room for which Panizzi has the credit. _d._ 23 Woburn sq. London 2 Aug. 1861. _G. Pycroft’s Art in Devonshire_ (1883) 70; _The Builder 17 Aug. 1861 p._ 560.
HOSKINS, SAMUEL ELLIOTT (_son of Samuel Hoskins of Guernsey_). _b._ Guernsey Feb. 1799; ed. at Guy’s and St. Thomas’s hospitals 1818–20; L.S.A. 1821; M.R.C.S. 1822; L.R.C.P. 1834, F.R.C.P. 1859; physician in Guernsey 1827–59; F.R.S. 25 May 1843; author of _A Stethoscopic Chart_. _Guernsey_ 1830; _Home resorts for invalids in the climate of Guernsey_ 1852; _Louis le Grand or Fontainebleau and Versailles, a comedy in three acts_ 1852; _Charles the Second in the Channel Islands 2 vols._ 1854; and other books. _d._ York place, Candie road, Guernsey 12 Oct. 1888. _Lancet 20 Oct. 1888 p._ 797, _27 Oct. p._ 845.
HOSKINS, WILLIAM (_3 son of Abraham Hoskins of Newton park, Derbyshire_). _b._ Norton, Derbyshire 1816; ed. at Camb. univ.; an actor in the provinces 1834; member of Phelps’s company at Sadler’s Wells 1844; then at Olympic; went to Australia 1856, played at Queen’s theatre, Melbourne; manager Ballarat theatre 1858, of Theatre royal, Melbourne 1863, and of Haymarket, Melbourne; rebuilt Theatre Royal, Christ Church, New Zealand; teacher of elocution, Melbourne 1884 to death; (_m._ (1) 1850 Julia Harland, actress _d._ New Zealand; _m._ (2) Florence Colville, actress, she _d._ about 1881; _m._ (3) Miss Bowman). _d._ Melbourne 28 Sep. 1886. _Tallis’ Drawingroom Table book_, _Parts 8 and 12_, _two portraits_; _Theatrical Times ii_, 297 (1847), _portrait_; _Era 13 Oct. 1886 p._ 9.
HOSKYNS, CHANDOS WREN (_2 son of Sir Hungerford Hoskyns, 7 baronet 1776–1862_). _b._ Hereford 15 Feb. 1812; ed. at Shrewsbury and Balliol coll. Ox., B.A. 1834; barrister I.T. 4 May 1838; assumed additional surname of Wren by royal license 15 April 1837; a co.-editor of Journal of R. Agricultural Soc.; M.P. for Hereford 1869–74; contributed _Anomalies of Agriculture_ and many other papers to _Agricultural Gazette_ 1844, &c.; author of _Talpa, or the chronicles of a clay farm_ 1852, _4 ed._ 1857; _Occasional Essays_ 1866; _Systems of land tenure in various countries_ 1870. _d._ 41 Eccleston sq. London 28 Nov. 1876. _Journal of the Royal Agricultural Soc. 1877 p. xli_; _Agricultural Gazette 4 Dec. 1876 p._ 544.
HOTHAM, BEAUMONT HOTHAM, 3 Baron (_elder son of Beaumont Hotham 1768–99, captain Coldstream guards_). _b._ Lullingstone castle, Dartford, Kent 9 Aug. 1794; ed. at Westminster; ensign Coldstream guards 27 June 1810, lieut. 25 Dec. 1813 to 14 Oct. 1819 when placed on h.p.; succeeded his grandfather 4 March 1814; served in the Peninsula 1812–14; general 12 Jany. 1865; M.P. Leominster 1820–41; M.P. East Yorkshire 1841–68. _d._ Sand Hutton near York 13 Dec. 1870. _bur._ in family vault at South Dalton 20 Dec., personalty sworn under £500,000, 21 Jany. 1871.
HOTHAM, SIR CHARLES (_1 son of Hon. and Rev. Frederick Hotham 1774–1854, R. of Dennington, Suffolk_). _b._ Dennington 14 Jany. 1806; entered navy 6 Nov. 1818, captain 28 June 1833; served in South America 1845–6; K.C.B. 9 March 1846; commander in chief West coast of Africa 1846–9; min. plenipo. to Argentine Confederation 17 April 1852; lieut. governor of colony of Victoria 6 Dec. 1853, governor in chief there 1 Feb. 1855 to death. _d._ Toorak, Melbourne 31 Dec. 1855.
HOTHAM, WILLIAM (_eld. child of lieut.-col. George Hotham 1770–1823_). _b._ 30 July 1794; entered navy June 1803, commanded a flotilla in the river Po 1813–14; captain 4 April 1825; K.H. 25 Jany. 1836; retired on half pay 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 30 Nov. 1863. _d._ Clifton, York 22 Feb. 1873.
HOTTEN, JOHN CAMDEN, originally named John William Hotten (_son of Wm. Hotten of Clerkenwell, London, carpenter_). _b._ 45 St. John’s sq. Clerkenwell 12 Sep. 1832; placed with John Petheram, bookseller 71 Chancery lane 1846; in the United States 1848–56; a bookseller and publisher at 151B Piccadilly, London 1856 to death, and at 74–5 Piccadilly 1863 to death; published _Dictionary of modern slang, cant and vulgar words_ 1859; A. C. Swinburne’s _Poems and ballads_ 1866 which Moxon had withdrawn from circulation; the first to introduce into England the works of J. R. Lowell, Artemus Ward, O. W. Holmes, C. G. Leland and Bret Harte 1864 &c. _d._ 4 Maitland park villas, Haverstock hill, Hampstead 14 June 1873. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 21 June. _Bookseller 31 Aug. 1873 pp._ 491–3; _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub._ 255, 1237.
HOUGH, REV. GEORGE. _b._ London 1797; ordained 1824; studied Hebrew under Dr. Wolff 1836; C. of Earl’s Heaton, Dewsbury 1827–8; V. of South Crosland near Huddersfield 1829 to death; originator and sec. of the Almondbury clerical soc. 1828–78; gave considerable sums to church works and charities; author of _Annual new year addresses to the parishioners of Almondbury_ 1840–79; _A brief exposition of the book of Revelation_. _Huddersfield_ 1878. _d._ South Crosland 6 June 1879. _Hulbert’s Annals of Almondbury_ (1882) 76, 306–12, 506–7.
HOUGH, WILLIAM. Entered Bengal army 1805; captain 48 Bengal N.I. to 1 Oct. 1840 when invalided; lieut. col. July 1864; author of _Case book of European and native courts martial_. _Calcutta_ 1821; _On the E.I.Co.’s mutiny acts_ 1838; _Chronological exposition of opinions of writers on military law_ 1839; _A narrative of the army of the Indies in the expedition to Afghanistan_ 1841; _Political and military events in British India 2 vols._ 1853. _d._ Tenterden st. Hanover sq. London 3 Jany. 1865 aged 75.
HOUGHTON, RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES, 1 Baron (_only son of Robert Pemberton Milnes, M.P. 1784–1858_). _b._ London 19 June 1809; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1831, hon. fellow of his coll. April 1876; M.P. Pontefract 1837–63; D.C.L. Ox. 1854; cr. Baron Houghton of Great Houghton, Yorks. 20 Aug. 1863; F.R.S. 10 Dec. 1868; president Social Science congress, Aug. 1873; hon. LLD. Edin. 23 April 1878; a trustee of British museum 1881; author of _Memorials of a tour in Greece_ 1834; _Memorials of many scenes_ 1840; _Poems legendary and historical_ 1844; _Palm leaves_ 1844; _Monographs, personal and social_ 1873. _d._ Vichy, France 11 Aug. 1885. _Reid’s Life and letters of lord Houghton 2 vols._ 1890, 2 _portraits_; _Poetical works of lord Houghton 2 vols._ 1876, _portrait_.
HOUGHTON, ARTHUR BOYD (_4 son of Capt. M. Houghton of H.E.I.C. service_). _b._ 1836; illustrator of the _Graphic_ and _Fun_; exhibited 10 pictures at R.A., 4 at B.I., and 3 at Suffolk st. 1861–72; associate of Soc. of painters in water colours 1871; illustrated _Dalziel’s Arabian Nights_ 1864–5; _Adventures of Don Quixote_ 1866 and many other works; author of _The gods on peace and war, as applicable to the eastern struggle_ 1877. _d._ 162 King Henry’s road, South Hampstead, London 23 Nov. 1875. _Redgrave’s Dictionary of artists_ (1878) 225; _Art Journal_ 1876 _p._ 47.
HOUGHTON, REV. HENRY HALL (_3 son of Jeremiah Houghton_). _b._ Dublin 10 Dec. 1823; ed. at Sherborne and at Pemb. coll. Ox., scholar 1841–5, B.A. 1845, M.A. 1848; clerk of Magdalen coll. 1847–68; C. of St. Peter’s, Cheltenham 1849–52; with his uncle rev. John Hall, canon of Bristol, founded at Oxford the Canon Hall and Hall-Houghton prizes for knowledge of Greek Testament, Septuagint and Syriac versions 1868–71 at cost of £11,000; on death of his uncle took name of Hall 1871; gave Church Missionary soc. £4,500 for instruction of native young men in the scriptures; gave hospital for sick Jews at Jerusalem £3,000. _d._ Melmerby hall, Cumberland 4 Sep. 1889. _Record 20 Sept. 1889 p._ 922.
HOUGHTON, REV. WILLIAM (_son of Thomas Houghton, governor of Preston house of correction_). _b._ Preston 17 May 1812; C. of St. Sennen and St. Levan, Cornwall 1848–65; V. of Manaccan, Cornwall 1865 to death; author of _Calvinism scripturally examined_ 1836; _Rationalism in the church of England_ 1863 and 4 other books. _d._ Manaccan Vicarage 25 Dec. 1870. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i_, 256.
HOULDSWORTH, JOHN. _b._ Whitehall, Glasgow 12 April 1807; one of the founders of the Coltness and Dalmellington iron works in Lanarkshire and Ayrshire about 1835; senior partner of various establishments for machine making, iron founding, cotton spinning and weaving; the last provost of burgh of Anderston before it was incorporated with Glasgow; A.I.C.E. 1844. _d._ Bath st. Glasgow 18 Oct. 1859. _Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E., xix_, 189 (1860).
HOULDSWORTH, THOMAS (_2 son of Henry Houldsworth of Gonalston, Notts._) _b._ 13 Sep. 1771; a merchant and cotton spinner at Manchester and Pontefract; M.P. Pontefract 1818–30; M.P. Newton, Lancs. 1830–2; M.P. North Notts. 1832–52. _d._ Portland place, Manchester 1 Sep. 1852.
HOULSTON, THOMAS (_son of Edward Houlston of Wellington, Salop, printer_). _b._ 1804; traveller for his father 1821–35; bookseller at 154 Strand, London 1835–44; partner with John Stoneman at 65 Paternoster row 1844 to 5 April 1856 when the latter died aged 64; partner with Henry Wright at 65 Paternoster row 1857 to death. _d._ Ryde, Isle of Wight 28 Aug. 1869. _Bookseller, Nov. 1869 p._ 938; _Reg. and Mag. of Biog. Oct. 1869 p._ 204.
HOULTON, SIR GEORGE (_youngest son of Joseph Houlton of Farley castle near Bath, d. 1806_). _b._ Carmarthen 1791; ensign 43 foot 20 Nov. 1806, captain 2 Nov. 1815 to 25 March 1817 when placed on h.p.; received war medal and 10 clasps for service in Peninsular war 1808–14; ensign of yeomen of the guard 25 Sep. 1835 to death; knighted 1835 or 1838, but name never in _London Gazette_. _d._ Farley castle 16 Sep. 1862.
HOULTON, JOSEPH. _b._ 1789; M.R.C.S. 1811, M.D. Erlangen 1840; surgeon East Norfolk militia; practised at Saffron Walden 1817, at Lisson grove, London 1823; professor of botany to Medical botanical society; with J. Davies edited _The London medical and surgical journal_ 1828; translated F. Magendie’s _Formulary for preparation of new remedies_ 1828. _d._ 12 Blomfield st. Westbourne terrace, London 14 Jany. 1861.
HOUSMAN, FRANCIS (_son of William Housman of St. John’s Wood, London_). _b._ London 3 Jany. 1829; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s sch. 1838 &c.; barrister L.I. 7 June 1852; recorder of Rangoon 1871 to death; author of _A selection of precedents in conveyancing_ 1861. _d._ Calcutta 19 July 1873.
HOUSTON, JOHN ADAM. _b._ Gwydir castle near Llanwrst, Wales 25 Dec. 1812; ed. at Edin. sch. of design; studied in Paris and Germany; a portrait painter in London some years; exhibited 45 pictures at R.A., 21 at B.I. and 3 at Suffolk st. 1840–8; resided in Edin. from 1841 to 1858 when he began contributing to the Scottish academy; returned to London 1858; exhibited _Gallantry_, _London_ 1859; _Lights and shadows of the wayside_ 1861; _Prospero and Miranda_, _Edin._ 1865. _d._ 10 Upper Phillimore place, Kensington 2 Dec. 1884. _Art Journal_ (1869) 69–71, 127.
HOUSTON, REV. THOMAS. _b._ Donegore 1803; teacher in a sch. at Leyhmore near Ballymena 1818; ed. at Academical instit. Belfast 1819; reformed presbyterian minister Knockbraken 8 April 1828 to death; took part in the Arian separation from the synod of Ulster; professor of theology in Reformed presbyterian Theological hall, Belfast 1855 to death; went to U.S. America 1856 where he took a D.D. degree; edited _The Covenanter_ 1830; author of _A practical treatise on christian baptism_, _Paisley_ 1853; _The dominion and glory of the Redeemer. Discourses_ 1880 and 7 other books. _d._ Royal hospital, Belfast 27 March 1882. _bur._ Knockbraken 30 March. _Belfast News-Letter 28 March 1882 p._ 5.
HOUSTOUN, SIR ROBERT (_5 son of colonel Andrew Houstoun_). _b._ Jordan hill, co. Renfrew 1780; entered Bengal army 1794 and served 25 years; col. 9 regiment light cavalry 1 May 1824 to 1858; col. 4 European light cavalry 1858 to death; governor of Addiscombe coll. 10 years; general 20 June 1854; K.C.B. 10 March 1837. _d._ Torquay 5 April 1862.
HOUSTOUN, WALLACE (_son of the preceding_). _b._ 1811; entered navy 2 Dec. 1824; captain 23 July 1847; R.A. 5 May 1865, retired 1 April 1870; retired admiral 1 Aug. 1877. _d._ 42 Eaton sq. London 17 May 1891.
HOVELL, WILLIAM HILTON. _b._ Yarmouth 26 April 1786; a marine trader on coasts of Australia and New Zealand 1813–19; farmer at Narellan 1819; accompanied Hamilton Hume in his overland journey from Sydney to Port Philip 1824–5; one of the first settlers at Western Port 1826; resided at Goulburn from 1829; author of _Reply to “A brief statement in connection with an expedition from Lake George to Port Philip. By Hamilton Hume.”_ _Sydney_ 1855. _d._ Sydney 1876. _Heaton’s Australian Dict. of Dates_ (1879) 97.
HOWARD DE-WALDEN, CHARLES AUGUSTUS ELLIS, 6 Baron (_elder son of C. Rose Ellis, 1 Baron Seaford 1771–1845_). _b._ London 5 June 1799; ed. at Eton 1811–14; succeeded his maternal great grandfather as 6 Baron 8 July 1803, claim admitted 1806; under sec. of state for foreign affairs 5 July 1824; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. at Stockholm 2 Oct. 1832, at Lisbon 22 Nov. 1833 and at Brussels 10 Dec. 1846 to death; G.C.B. 19 July 1838; K.T.S. 1841; succeeded as 2 Baron Seaford 1 July 1845. _d._ Lesve chateau, Namur, Belgium 29 Aug. 1868.
HOWARD, OF GLOSSOP, EDWARD GEORGE FITZALAN HOWARD, 1 Baron (_2 son of 16 Duke of Norfolk 1791–1856_). _b._ 21 St. James’s sq. London 20 Jany. 1818; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; M.P. Horsham, Sep. 1848 to 1 July 1852; M.P. Arundel, July 1852 to Dec. 1868 when the borough was disfranchised; P.C. 8 July 1846; vice chamberlain 8 July 1846 to Feb. 1852; had charge of the Norfolk estates as trustee of his nephew 1861–8 and acted as deputy earl marshal of England 4 Feb. 1861 to Dec. 1868; cr. baron Howard of Glossop 9 Dec. 1869; chairman of Catholic poor school committee 1869–77. _d._ 19 Rutland gate, London 1 Dec. 1883. _bur._ in R.C. church of St. Charles of Borromeo at Hadfield near Glossop 11 Dec. _Gillow’s English Catholics_, _iii_, 422–6 (1887).
HOWARD, CHARLES WENTWORTH GEORGE (_5 son of 6 Earl of Carlisle 1773–1848_). _b._ Chiswick, Middlesex 27 March 1814; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1836; M.P. for East Cumberland, July 1840 to death. _d._ Holker house, Lancs. 11 April 1879.
HOWARD, EDWARD HENRY (_3 son of Very Rev. H. E. J. Howard 1795–1868_). _b._ 7 June 1832; ed. at Eton 1844; entered navy 21 June 1845; served in the Baltic 1855; captain 16 Feb. 1864; naval attaché at maritime courts of Europe, Sep. 1874 to Dec. 1876; A.D.C. to the queen 1878–9; V.P. Ordnance committee 1881–4; V.A. 26 Nov. 1885, retired 29 Nov. 1889. _d._ 16 Granville park, Lewisham, Kent 18 Jany. 1890. _Pictorial World_, _xvi_, 147, 165 (1890), _portrait_.
HOWARD, FRANK (_son of Henry Howard 1769–1847, R.A., professor of painting to R.A._) _b._ Poland st. London 1805; ed. at Ely; pupil and assistant to Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A.; consulting designer and modellist to Storr and Mortimer of London, silversmiths; exhibited 43 paintings at R.A., 26 at B.I. and 9 at Suffolk st. 1824–46; obtained prize for “Una coming to seek the assistance of Gloriana,” Westminster hall competition 1843; removed to Liverpool about 1847; published _The spirit of the plays of Shakspeare, a series of outline plates 5 vols._ 1827–33; author of _The sketcher’s manual_ 1837, _7 ed._ 1860; _The science of drawing_ 1839–40. _d._ Liverpool 29 June 1866.
HOWARD, GREVILLE THEOPHILUS (_2 son of 17 Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire 1804–76_). _b._ 22 Dec. 1836; matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 30 May 1855; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1863; commissioner in lunacy 17 June 1873 to 1877. _d._ Castle Rising near Lynn, Norfolk 28 July 1880.
HOWARD, HENRY. _b._ 25 July 1802; ed. at Harrow; M.P. Steyning 1824–6; M.P. Shoreham 1826–32; sheriff of Cumberland 1834. _d._ Thornbury castle, Gloucester 7 Jany. 1875.
HOWARD, VERY REV. HENRY EDWARD JOHN (_youngest child of 5 Earl of Carlisle 1748–1825_). _b._ Castle Howard, Yorkshire 14 Dec. 1795; ed. Eton 1805–11 and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1822, B.D. 1834, D.D. 1838; V. of Stainton, Yorks. 5 July 1820; succentor of York cath. with stall of Holme annexed 27 Nov. 1822; R. of Slingsby 1823–33; V. of Sutton in the Forest 1824–33; dean of Lichfield with R. of Tattenhill, Staffs, annexed 27 Nov. 1833 to death; R. of Donington, Salop 11 Feb. 1834 to death; author of _Translations from Claudian_ 1823; _The books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy according to the lxx, translated with notes 3 vols._ 1855–7 and 5 other books. _d._ Donington rectory 8 Oct. 1868. _Guardian 14 Oct. 1868 p._ 1148; _Burke’s Portrait gallery, ii_, 99 (1833), _portrait_.
HOWARD, HENRY THOMAS (_2 son of 16 earl of Suffolk 1776–1851_). _b._ 16 Jany. 1808; M.P. Cricklade, Wilts. 1841–7. _d._ Beauchamp near Gloucester 29 Jany. 1851.
HOWARD, JAMES (_2 son of John Howard 1790–1878_). _b._ Bedford 16 Oct. 1821; head of firm of James and Frederick Howard, makers of agricultural instruments at Britannia works, Bedford 1851; member of R. Agric. Soc., on council; member of Farmers’ club; an originator and first president of Farmers’ Alliance 1879; a promoter and director of Agricultural hall, London 1861; M.P. Bedford 1868–74; M.P. Bedfordshire 1880–5; mayor of Bedford 1863 and 1864; sheriff of Bedfordshire 1878; champion of Tenant’s rights 1873; farmed Clapham farm estate, Bedford 1862; took out upwards of 60 patents for agricultural machinery; author of _Steam cultivation, its history_ 1862; _Agricultural implement manufacture, its rise and progress_ 1879 and 20 other works. _d._ Midland hotel, St. Pancras, London 25 Jany. 1889. _bur._ Clapham, Beds. 30 Jany. _Agricultural Gazette 28 Jany._, _4 Feb. 1889_; _London Figaro 2 Feb. 1889 p._ 10, _portrait_; _Farmers’ Mag. xviii_, 1–7 (1860), _portrait_.
HOWARD, JAMES KENNETH (_4 son of 16 earl of Suffolk 1776–1851_). _b._ 5 March 1814; précis writer to viscount Palmerston 1835–40 and private sec. to him 6 Jany. 1840 to 2 Sep. 1841; M.P. Malmesbury 1841–52; commissioner of woods and forests March 1855 to death. _d._ Hajelby near Newbury 7 Jany. 1882.
HOWARD, JOHN (_son of John Moore Howard, farmer_). _b._ Bedford 1790; builder and land speculator; erected the Britannia foundry for manufacture of agricultural implements about 1838; invented an improved plough 1839; made over his business to his sons 1851; mayor of Bedford 1858–61, 1863–4 and 1871. _d._ Caldwell priory 23 Dec. 1878. _Times 24 Dec. 1878 p._ 7, _col_ 6.
HOWARD, JOHN. _b._ Burnley Wood, Lancs. 24 June 1824; champion long distance jumper using dumb bells, jumped 28 feet 6 inches Chester race course 1854; jumped 29 feet 7 inches at Lancaster and leaped over a billiard table lengthwise for a wager 1854; the greatest pedestrian of his time, beat Bob Coates 120 yards, Hyde park, Sheffield 1839; beat John Flockton of Leeds 120 yards at Garrick Corner; beat John Walker the Delemere forest stag 120 yards for £25 at Bellevue, Manchester, when 25,000 paid for admission; beat Robert Low of Heywood 100 yards for £25 at Bellevue, time 9–3/4 seconds up hill; beat the Demon, J. Whitehead alias Clark of Oldham 110 yards for £50 at Bellevue. _d._ suddenly, Dublin hotel, Bradford 14 Oct. 1875. _Bell’s Life 16 Oct. 1875 p._ 8; _Illust. Sporting News_ (1862) 68, 76–7, 116, 3 _portraits_.
HOWARD, JOHN ELIOT (_son of Luke Howard, F.R.S. 1772–1864_). _b._ Plaistow, Essex 11 Dec. 1807; manufacturing chemist with his father at Stratford; studied history of febrifuge alkaloids; purchased a collection of specimens of Peruvian bark at Madrid 1858; mem. Pharmaceutical soc. 1853; F.L.S. 1857; F.R.S. 4 June 1874; V.P. Victoria institute; received thanks of government for his aid in cinchona cultivation in India 1876; author of _Eight lectures on the scriptural truths most opposed to Puseyism_, 1845, _2 ed._ 1847; _Illustrations of the Nueva Quinologia of Pavon_ 1859–62; _The Quinology of the East India plantations 3 parts_ 1869–76; _The Epistle to the Hebrews. A translation_ 1872 and 9 other books. _d._ Lord’s Mead, Tottenham, Middlesex 22 Nov. 1883. _Graphic 29 Dec. 1883 pp._ 634, 637, _portrait_; _Trans. Essex Field club, iv_, 8–11, _portrait_.
HOWARD, JOHN MORGAN (_eld. son of John J. Howard of Swansea_). _b._ Nov. 1837; barrister M.T. 30 April 1858, bencher 16 Nov. 1877; Q.C. 6 July 1874; an editor of the _New Reports_ 1862 to 1865; contested Lambeth 1868, 1874 and 1880; M.P. for Camberwell, Dulwich division 1885–7; recorder of Guildford 15 March 1875 to death; judge of circuit No. 59 (Cornwall), Nov. 1887 to death. _d._ Chelston Dene, Torquay 10 April 1891. _I.L.N._ 18 April 1891 _p._ 499, _portrait_; _Graphic x_, 223, 224 (1874), _portrait_.
HOWARD, LUKE (_son of Robert Howard, introducer of the Argand lamp, d. Jany. 1812_). _b._ London 28 Nov. 1772; apprentice to a chemist at Stockport 1786; chemist in London 1793, partner with William Allen 1796–1803; chemist at Stratford 1805; made observations on the clouds 1802 and first used the terms cirrus, cumulus and stratus and nimbus or rain cloud; kept a meteorological register from 1806; F.R.S. 1821; corresponded with Goethe 1822 who sent him a poem entitled _Howard’s Ehrengedächtniss_; author of _A few notes on a letter to the Archbishops and on a charge relative to Joseph Lancaster’s plan for education_. _By Eccletus_ 1806; _The climate of London 2 vols._ 1818–20, _2 ed. 3 vols._ 1833; _Essay on the modification of clouds_ 1830, _3 ed._ 1865; _Cowper’s English version of the Odyssey with a commentary_. _By Outis_ 1843; _Barometrographia, twenty years’ variation of the barometer_ 1847 and 10 other books. _d._ at res. of his son R. Howard, Bruce grove, Tottenham 21 March 1864. _Proc. Royal Soc. xiv_, 10–12 (1865); _J. Bell and T. Redwood’s Pharmacy_ (1880) 331.
HOWARD, PHILIP HENRY (_eld. son of Henry Howard of Corby castle near Carlisle 1757–1842_). _b._ Edinburgh 22 April 1801; ed. at Oscott coll. and Stonyhurst; M.P. for Carlisle 1830–47 and 1848–52 being the second Roman Catholic returned to parliament; F.S.A. 8 Dec. 1842; sheriff of Cumberland 1860; wrote miscellaneous poems and other articles in _Edinburgh Catholic Mag._ and other periodicals. _d._ Ventnor, Isle of Wight 1 Jany. 1883. _Gillow’s English Catholics, iii_, 441–2 (1888).
HOWARD, SIR RALPH, 1 Baronet (_elder son of Hugh Howard, comr. of stamp office, d. 3 Nov. 1840 aged 80_). _b._ 1801; M.P. co. Wicklow 1829–47 and 1848–52; contested Evesham 1847; colonel of Wicklow militia 1 Oct. 1834 to 11 Dec. 1871; created baronet 26 July 1838. _d._ 15 Aug. 1873.
HOWARTH, REV. HENRY (_son of Wm. Howarth, of Manchester, bath-keeper_). _b._ Manchester 12 Jany. 1801; ed. at Manchester sch. and St. John’s coll. Cam., fellow 1823–33; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, B.D. 1833; Hulsean lecturer 1835–36; R. of Meppershall, Beds. 1833–45; R. of St. George’s, Hanover sq. London 1845 to death; chaplain in ord. to the Queen 14 May 1855 to death; author of _The truth and obligation of revealed religion. Discourses_ 1836; _Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ of God. Discourses_ 1837; _The liturgy as it is. Sermons_ 1843 and 11 other books. _d._ Tunbridge Wells 25 Aug. 1876. _I.L.N. xxiv_, 400 (1854), _portrait_.
HOWDEN, JOHN HOBART CARADOC 2 Baron (_only child of 1st Baron Howden 1762–1839_). _b._ Dublin 16 Oct. 1799; ensign Grenadier Guards 13 July 1815; A.D.C. to Duke of Wellington in Paris, to Viscount Beresford in Portugal, and to Sir Thomas Maitland in the Mediterranean; major on half pay 9 June 1825; L.G. 26 Dec. 1859; sold out 29 Oct. 1861; M.P. for Dundalk 1830–31; succeeded his father as 2 Baron July 1839; attaché at Berlin 1824, at Paris 1825; wounded in battle of Navarino; military commissioner with French army at siege of Antwerp 1832, and with Spanish Army in Portugal 1834; envoy extraord. and minister plenipo. to Brazil 25 Jany. 1847 to 1850; minister plenipo. to Spain 14 May 1850 to March 1858; K.C.B. 23 Feb. 1852, G.C.B. 5 March 1858; K.H. 1830; equerry to Duchess of Kent 1841 to 1861. _d._ Caradoc near Bayonne 9 Oct. 1873. _Foreign office list July_ 1873 _p._ 117.
HOWDEN, JAMES ADAM. _b._ 1803; entered Madras army 1819, M.G. 28 Nov. 1854; colonel 52 Madras N.I. 28 June 1855 to death. _d._ Devonshire place, Portland place, London 22 March 1869.
HOWE, RICHARD WILLIAM PENN CURZON-HOWE 1 Earl (_only son of the hon. Penn Assheton Curzon 1757–97_). _b._ Gopsall house, Leics. 11 Dec. 1796; capt. Leics. regt. of yeomanry 21 May 1818, lieut.-col. 1831–60; succeeded his grandfather as 2 viscount and baron Curzon 21 March 1820; took name of Howe 7 July 1821; cr. Earl Howe 15 July 1821; G.C.H. 1830; lord chamberlain to queen Adelaide 1830–31, when he was dismissed by earl Grey the prime minister, again lord chamberlain 1834–49; P.C. 31 Jany. 1831; succeeded his mother as 2 baron Howe 3 Dec. 1835; vice lieut. co. Leicester 27 Oct. 1863. _d._ Curzon house, South Audley st., London 12 May 1870. _Portraits of eminent conservatives_ (1836) 1 _Series_, _portrait_ 23.
HOWE, GEORGE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK LOUIS CURZON HOWE, 2 Earl (_1 son of the preceding_). _b._ Brook st. London 16 Jany. 1821; styled viscount Curzon 1821–70; ed. at Eton; matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 30 May 1838; cornet Leics. regt. of yeomanry 1838, lieut.-col. 15 Nov. 1860, lieut.-col. commandant 15 March 1870 to death; M.P. South Leics. 1857–70; master of the Atherstone hounds some years; succeeded as 2 earl Howe 12 May 1870. _d._ Gopsall hall, Leics. 4 Feb. 1876, personalty sworn under £250,000, 13 May 1876. _I.L.N. lxviii_, 167, 479 (1876); _Baily’s Mag. xii_, 217–8 (1867), _portrait_.
HOWE, JOSEPH (_son of John Howe 1752–1835, King’s printer at Halifax, Nova Scotia_). _b._ in a cottage on banks of North-west Arm, Halifax 13 Dec. 1804; a printer 1817–27; editor and proprietor of a paper called the _Nova Scotian_ 1828; M.P. for co. of Halifax, Nov. 1836; member of the executive council 1840; speaker of house of assembly 1840; provincial sec. 4 years; sec. of state for lower provinces in Dominion of Canada 1870–3; governor of Nova Scotia, May 1873; author of _Speech on the importance to Great Britain of her North American colonies_ 1851; _Confederation considered in relation to the interests of the empire_ 1866; _The organization of the empire_ 1866 and 4 other books. _d._ Halifax 1 June 1873. _W. Annand’s Speeches and letters of Joseph Howe 2 vols._ (1858).
HOWE, WILLIAM. _b._ West Auckland, co. Durham 3 March 1814; a mechanic with R. Stephenson & Co., Newcastle; perfected Williams’ valve gear known as the link motion, in the form in which it has been universally applied to locomotives, Aug. 1842; invented the three-cylinder locomotive engine 1846; engineer at Stephenson’s Clay Cross collieries and iron works Nov. 1846 to death; designed the self-acting fence now universally used at top of colliery winding shafts; M.I.M.E. 1860. _d._ Clay Cross, Chesterfield 16 Jany. 1879. _N. P. Burgh’s Link motion_ (1870) _pp. i-xvi_; _D. K. Clark’s Railway machinery_ (1855) 26; _Engineer_, _xlvii_, 67 (1879).
HOWELL, ARTHUR (_eld. son of James Howell 1811–79, contra-bassist_). _b._ London 1836; contra-bassist and bass singer; stage manager Carl Rosa opera co.; went on an Australian tour with his wife 1879; (_m._ 1874 Rose Hersee, soprano opera and concert singer). _d._ 32 Lawford road, Kentish Town, London 16 April 1885.
HOWELL, FRANCIS (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ London 1834; wrote 2 oratorios _The Captivity_ 1860, _The Land of Promise_ 1870 and many songs and ballads. _d._ 1882.
HOWELL, JAMES, _b._ Plymouth 1811; student R. Acad. of music, June 1825 to Dec. 1830; learnt double-bass under signor Anfossi; professor of double-bass at R. Acad. of music 1830; M.R.A.M.; double-bass player at the Ancient and Philharmonic concerts and R. Italian opera; the successor of Domenico Dragonetti as the best double-bass player 1846. _d._ London 5 Aug. 1879. _Cazalet’s R. Acad. of Music_ (1854) 296–7; _Grove’s Dict. of Music, i_, 754 (1879).
HOWELL, JOHN. _b._ Old Lauriston, Edinburgh 1788; bookbinder in Thistle st. Edin., invented the ‘plough’ for cutting edges of books; polyartist, curiosity dealer and china and picture repairer at 22 Frederick st., then at 110 Rose st. Edin.; broke one of his legs while using a flying machine in Edin.; introduced manufacture of Pompeian plates for dentists; author of _An essay on the war-galleys of the ancients_. _Edin._ 1826; _The life and adventures of Alexander Selkirk. Edin._ 1829; edited _The life of Alexander Alexander_. _Edin._ 1830; wrote several of Wilson’s _Tales of the Borders_. _d._ 110 Rose st. Edinburgh 4 April 1863. _Notes and Queries, 3rd ser. ii_ 491, _iii_ 19, 78, 379, _4th ser. ii_ 393, 500.
HOWELL, JOHN (_son of Mr. Howell, army packer, Mark Lane_). _b._ London 1807; apprentice to his father; chief clerk to Ellis and Everington, haberdashers, hosiers and silk mercers, 3 St. Paul’s ch. yard, London 1835, admitted a partner 1841, firm became Ellis, Howell & Co. 1857 and in 1871 John Howell & Co. limited, with J. Howell as chairman to his death; gave evidence before three parliamentary committees on laws of limited liability 1851 etc.; author of _Partnership-law legislation and limited liability reviewed_ 1869. _d._ Rutland house, Kingston on Thames 3 Nov. 1888. _Warehouseman and Drapers’ Trade Journal_ (1888) 345–6, _portrait_, _and_ 1049–50.
HOWELL, MATTHEW. _b._ 14 Feb. 1796; appeared as the child in _Pizarro_ with George Frederick Cooke at Liverpool; made first appearance in London at Sadler’s Wells 1810; played at the Coburg; came out at Drury Lane as harlequin in pantomime of _The Flying Chest_, Dec. 1823 and was for more than 20 years the recognised harlequin there; last appeared as harlequin at the Marylebone in 1847; played pantaloon some years. _d._ 1 Dec. 1873.
HOWELL, SIR THOMAS (_son of Thomas Howell of Clapham common, Surrey_). _b._ London 1802; ed. at Charterhouse 1815–16; in business in London to 1855; director of contracts at War Office 1855–74; knighted at Windsor castle 27 June 1876; author of _A day of business in the port of London_ 1850; _A few stray thoughts upon Shakspeare_ 1867. _d._ 2 Uplands, St. Leonards-on-Sea 23 April 1883.
HOWELL, THOMAS JONES (_son of Thomas Bayly Howell 1768–1815, editor of the State Trials_). _b._ 24 Dec. 1793; edited a _Complete collection of State Trials vols._ 22–33, 1815–26; barrister L.I. 17 May 1822; judge advocate and judge of vice-admiralty court at Gibraltar 1822; sec. to comrs. of colonial inquiry 1830; comr. for West India Islands relief 1832; inspector of factories 1833. _d._ 6 Eaton place west, London 4 June 1858.
HOWELLS, REV. JOHN. _b._ 21 Sep. 1777; C. of Tipton, Staffs. 1803–37; P.C. of Holy Trinity, Coventry 1837 to death; author of _A selection of psalms, hymns, anthems and choruses for public and private use_. _Tipton_ 1831. _d._ Coventry 31 Dec. 1856. _monu._ in Holy Trinity ch. which says _d._ 1 Jany. 1857. _I.L.N._ _xxxiv_, 260 (1859), _view of monu._
HOWES, EDWARD (_2 son of Rev. George Howes, R. of Spixworth, Norfolk_). _b._ Spixworth 7 July 1813; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. and Trin. coll. Cam., fellow 1836–42; B.A. 1835, M.A. 1838; barrister L.I. 7 June 1839; chairman of Norfolk quarter sessions 1848; M.P. East Norfolk 1859–68; M.P. South Norfolk 1868 to death; a church estates comr. 4 Aug. 1866; author of _King Richard II, Act 3 Sc. 2 with Greek version_ in _Prolusiones Academicæ_. _Cantab._ 1834 _pp._ 25–29. _d._ Morningthorpe, Norfolk 26 March 1871.
HOWES, JOSEPH. Landlord of the Blue Boar and Wellington castle inns, Leicester; on his retirement lived at Evington lodge near Leicester. _d._ at residence of Mr. Read, Morledge st. Leicester 13 Dec. 1853 in 102 year. _Willis’ Current Notes_ (1856) 27.
HOWIE, VERY REV. JAMES. Dean of Cloyne 17 Jany. 1851 to death; R. of Farriley 23 Oct. 1851. _d._ Barnabrow house, Cloyne 6 Dec. 1884.
HOWITT, GEORGE. _b._ Old Lenton, Notts. 14 March 1843; fast left-hand, round-arm bowler; went to London 1860; played for Middlesex and then for Notts.; bowled W. G. Grace for a brace of ducks at Neath in 1868; a member of the ground staff at Lord’s 1870; went a voyage to Australia for his health 1880. _d._ Nottingham 19 Dec. 1881. _W. G. Grace’s Cricket_ (1891) 329.
HOWITT, HERBERT CHARLTON (_younger son of William Howitt_). _b._ Esher, Feb. 1838; visited Australia with his father 1852–4; went to Canterbury, New Zealand, Nov. 1860; employed in an expedition to discover gold 1862 and then in cutting a horse track over the mountains between Christchurch and the western coast 1 Jany. 1863 to death; _drowned_ in crossing the Brunner Lake 27 June 1863, his body was not found. _W. Howitt’s History of discovery in Australia, ii_, 443–58 (1865); _M. Howitt, an autobiography, i_, 277, _ii_, 133–6 (1889).
HOWITT, MARY (_dau. of Samuel Botham_). _b._ Coleford, Gloucs. 12 March 1799; wrote verse at an early age; (_m._ 16 April 1821 William Howitt 1792–1879); wrote many books with her husband 1827–64; civil list pension of £100, 21 April 1879; joined R.C. ch., received by the Pope 10 Jany. 1888; edited _The drawing room scrap book_ 1832–54, and _Pictorial calendar of the seasons_ 1854; translated _Frederika Bremer’s Novels 18 vols._ 1842–63, works she then made known to English readers; author of _Sketches of natural history_ 1834; _Little coin, much care_ 1842; _The Heir of West Waylen_ 1847; _A popular history of the United States 2 vols._ 1859; _M. Howitt’s Illustrated library for the young_ 1861, _two series_; _The cost of Caergwyn 3 vols._ 1864; _Tales for all seasons_ 1881; her name is attached to upwards of 110 volumes. _d._ 38 Via Gregoriana, Rome 30 Jany. 1888. _M. Howitt’s Life of Mary Howitt_ (1889), _two portraits_; _Alaric Watts’ Life, ii_, 1–15 (1884); _Graphic 18 Feb. 1888 p._ 168, _portrait_.
HOWITT, RICHARD (_son of Thomas Howitt of Heanor, Derbyshire, farmer_). _b._ Heanor 1799; chemist and druggist at Parliament st. Nottingham 1823–39; farming in Australia 1839–44; farmer near Southwell 1846 to death; author of _Antediluvian Sketches and other poems_ 1830; _The Gipsy King and other poems_ 1840; _Impressions of Australia Felix, notes of a voyage round the world, Australian poems, &c._ 1845; _Wasps’ Honey, or poetic gold and gems of poetic thought_ 1868. _d._ at his farm Edingley, Notts. 5 Feb. 1869. _bur._ in Friends’ cemetery, Mansfield. _The Reliquary_, _x_ 209–16, _xi_ 17–22, 103–8, 141–4 (1869–71); _S. T. Hall’s Biographical Sketches_ (1873) 308–11.
HOWITT, WILLIAM (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Heanor, Derbyshire 18 Dec. 1792; ed. at Ackworth sch. 1802–6; chemist and druggist Nottingham 1823–36; alderman of Nottingham 1833; resided at Esher 1836–9, at Heidelberg 1840–3, at Clapton 1843–8, St. John’s Wood, London 1848–52, in Australia 1852–4, at Highgate 1854–66, at Esher again 1866–70, at Rome 1870 to death; a spiritualist, friend of D. D. Home, and contributor to _Spiritual Mag._; civil list pension of £140, 19 June 1865; (_m._ 1821 Mary Botham 1799–1888); celebrated his golden wedding 16 April 1871; part proprietor of _People’s Journal_ 1847, edited _Howitt’s Journal_ 1847–8; translated _Peter Schlemihl’s Wundersame Geschichte_ 1843 and other works; in conjunction with his wife he wrote _The literature and romances of Northern Europe_ 1852; _Stories of English and foreign life_ 1853; _Ruined abbeys and castles of Great Britain_ 1862–4; his own chief works were _The book of the seasons_ 1831 which after being refused by 4 publishing houses ran to 7 editions; _The rural life of England 2 vols._ 1838; _Visits to remarkable places_ 1840, second series 1842; _Rural and domestic life of Germany_ 1842; _Land, labour and gold, or two years in Victoria_ _2 vols._ 1855; _Popular history of England_ _5 vols._ 1856–62, seven editions; _The northern heights of London_ 1869. _d._ 55 Via Sistina, Rome 3 March 1879. _R. H. Horne’s New spirit of the age_, _i_ 177–98 (1844), _portrait_; _S. C. Hall’s Retrospect of a long life_, _ii_, 126–31 (1883); _The Naturalist_, _iv_ 366–73 (1839), _portrait_; _I.L.N. 29 March 1879 pp._ 297, 298, _portrait_.
HOWLETT, REV. JOHN HENRY (_son of John Howlett_). _b._ 10 June 1781; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ sch. 1796–1800 when he became Parkin’s exhibitioner to Pemb. coll. Cam.; 14 wrangler and B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807; fellow of his coll. 1806–7; V. of Hollington, Sussex 25 Nov. 1812 to 1834; morning reader at chapel royal, Whitehall 1809 to death; R. of Foston, Leics. 30 April 1834 to death; founder and sec. of Kensington gram. sch. 1831; author of _Metrical chronology_ 1824, _6 ed._ 1865; _Instruction in reading the liturgy of the United church of England and Ireland_ 1826, _3 ed._ 1866. _d._ 9 Young st. Kensington, London 10 Oct. 1867.
HOWLETT, SAMUEL BURT (_only son of Samuel Howlett of Gracechurch st. London_). _b._ 10 July 1794; cadet and officer in corps of royal military surveyors and draughtsmen 1808 to 1817 when corps was reduced; assistant surveyor and draughtsman to board of ordnance 1824, chief military surveyor 1830, draughtsman in charge of plans, &c. in inspector general of fortifications office 1838–56; made improvements in mountain barometer and in the stadiometer used in school of musketry; invented an anemometer; author of _A treatise on perspective_ 1828; _Tables for determining altitude with the mountain barometer_ 1844; _Description of a barometer that requires no correction either for zero or for temperature_ 1844. _d._ 46 Palace grove, New Bromley, Kent 24 Jany. 1874.
NOTE.—The words “In” and “Out” which are now seen on the doors of every public office were suggested by him; they were first used at the Bank of England in consequence of a written communication made by him to the authorities.
HOWLEY, SIR JOHN (_1 son of John Howley of Rich Hill, co. Limerick_). _b._ Rich Hill 1789; ed. at Oscott coll. and Trin. coll. Dublin; called to the Irish bar 1815; chairman of quarter sessions for co. Tipperary 1835–65; K.C. 13 July 1835, third serjeant Sept. 1843, second serjeant July 1848; queen’s first serjeant in Ireland June 1851 to death; bencher of King’s Inns 1843; knighted by lord lieut. at Dublin Castle 14 Aug. 1865. _d._ 32 Upper Fitzwilliam st. Dublin 13 Feb. 1866.
HOWLISON, ROBERT (_2 son of a miller at Channelkirk, Berwickshire_). Said to have been _b._ Channelkirk on Handsel Monday (Jany.) 1769, but no proof of this; ploughman, and then a shepherd. _d._ West Linton, Peebleshire 30 Oct. 1871 said to be 103. _W. J. Thoms’ Longevity of Man_ (1879) 186–92.
HOWORTH, REV. WILLIAM (_2 son of Rev. Wm. Howorth_). _b._ 1806; ed. at Caius coll. Cam., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; R. of Whitton with Thurleston, Suffolk 3 Nov. 1835 to death; hon. canon of Norwich cath. 1863 to death; author of _Sermons doctrinal and practical_ 1839; _The Redeemer, a poem_ 1840; _Life and the issue of it_ 1869. _d._ Whitton rectory 13 Dec. 1875.
HOWS, JOHN WILLIAM STANHOPE. _b._ London 1797; appeared as Shylock, Park theatre, New York 16 Feb. 1834; professor of elocution, Columbia, Carolina 1843–57; dramatic critic _New York Albion_ 7 years; author of _The practical elocutionist_ 1849, _6 ed._ 1856; _The Shakspearian reader_ 1850, _3 ed._ 1870; _Golden leaves from the British and American dramatic poets_ 1865; _Golden leaves from the American poets_ 1866; _The ladies’ book of reading and recitations_ 1870. _d._ New York city 27 July 1871. _Appleton’s American Biog. iii_, 288 (1887).
HOWSON, FRANK. _b._ London 1817; in a lancer regt. fought in Carlist war in Spain 1836; an artist in Australia 1842; the father of opera in the colonies; manager and stage director for Anna Bishop when appearing in operas in Australia 1854–6; with his sons and daus. produced plays and operas at San Francisco 1866. _d._ Omaha, Nebraska 16 Sep. 1869.
HOWSON, JOHN (_2 son of the preceding_). _b._ Hobart Town, Tasmania 17 Nov. 1844; first appeared on the stage at Royal Victoria theatre, Sydney; left Australia with his family for San Francisco 1866, played there 1866–9; first appeared in New York at Wood’s Museum, Nov. 1869; played in the U.S. of A. 1869–77; first appeared in England at Brighton 3 Sep. 1877 as Commodore Patatras in _La Créole_, played same part at Folly theatre, London 15 Sep.; acted the Marquis in _Les Cloches de Corneville_ at same house 23 Feb. 1878 and at the Globe July 1879. _d._ 16 Dec. 1888. _C. E. Pascoe’s Dramatic List_ (1880) 189–90.
HOWSON, REV. JOHN. _b._ Giggleswick, Yorkshire 1787; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1811, M.A. 1813; second master Giggleswick gr. school 1814 to death; F.L.S. 1822; author of _The gain of Godliness_ 1840. _d._ Giggleswick 23 Jany. 1859.
HOWSON, VERY REV. JOHN SAUL (_son of the preceding_). _b._ Giggleswick 5 May 1816; ed. at Giggleswick gr. sch. and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840, D.D. 1862; senior classical master Liverpool collegiate institute 1845 and principal 1849–65; exam. chaplain to bishop of Ely 1866–73; V. of St. Peter’s, Wisbech 1866–7; dean of Chester 12 June 1867 to death, continued the repairing of the cath. and reopened it 25 Jany. 1872; instrumental in building and endowing the King’s sch., the Queen’s sch. and the museum, Chester; a contributor to the _Quarterly Review_, _The Speaker’s Commentary_, etc.; author of _Sunday evenings_. _Short sermons_ 1849; _Sermons to schoolboys_ 1858–66, _2 series_; _The character of St. Paul_ 1862, _4 ed._ 1884; _The companions of St. Paul_ 1871 and about 35 other works; with the Rev. J. Conybeare, _The life and epistles of St. Paul_ _2 vols._ 1852, many editions. _d._ Bournemouth 15 Dec. 1885. _bur._ the cloister garden, Chester 19 Dec. _I.L.N. lxxxvii_ 667 (1885), _portrait_; _Guardian_, _Dec. 1885 pp._ 1892, 1951; _Times, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 23, 31 Dec. 1885_.
HOWTH, THOMAS ST. LAWRENCE, 3 Earl of. _b._ 16 Aug. 1803; succeeded his father 4 April 1822; vice admiral of province of Leinster; K.P. 22 July 1835; lord lieut. of co. Dublin 1851 to death; trained his horses with W. Day at Danebury, won the Chester cup with Peep o’ Day Boy in 1848; a flat race rider 1830–50. _d._ Cannes 4 Feb. 1874. _W. Day’s Reminiscences_ (1886) 236–8; _Sporting Times 12 Sep. 1885 pp._ 2–3.
HOYLE, WILLIAM. _b._ valley of Rossendale, Lancs. 1831; a cotton spinner with his father at Brooksbottom near Bury, Lancs. 1851–9; cotton spinner at Tollington near Bury 1859 to death; a temperance reformer, a Good Templar and a vegetarian; contested Dewsbury 1880; wrote an annual letter to _The Times_ on the “national drink bill of successive years”; built a residence at Claremont near, Bury; author of _Hoyle’s Hymns and songs for temperance societies and bands of hope_ 1869; _Our national resources and how they are wasted_ 1871, four editions; _Crime in England and Wales in the nineteenth century_ 1876 and of 13 other books. _d._ Southport, Lancs. 26 Feb. 1886. _Manchester Guardian 1 March 1886 p._ 8.
HOYLES, SIR HUGH WILLIAM (_son of Newman Wright Hoyles, colonial treasurer of Newfoundland_). _b._ St. John’s, Newfoundland, Jany. 1814; called to bar in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland 1837; member of assembly there 1848; acting solicitor general of Newfoundland 1854, attorney general and leader of the government 1861; chief justice of Newfoundland 4 March 1865 to 1880; knighted by patent 13 Feb. 1869. _d._ 18 Morris st. Halifax, Nova Scotia 1 Feb. 1888.
HUARD, LOUIS. _b._ in South of France 1813; studied at Antwerp; came to London 1854 and was connected with Illust. London news till his death; exhibited 2 figure paintings at British institution 1857; illustrated _Souvenirs de la fête donnée aux artistes exposants_ 1849; _Sir S. W. Baker’s Cast up by the sea_ 1869; _A. and E. Keary’s The heroes of Asgard_ 1871 and other books. _d._ 37 Onslow sq. London 19 Sep. 1874. _I.L.N. 10 Oct. 1874 p._ 345, _portrait_.
HUBBACK, CATHERINE ANNE (_dau. of admiral Sir Francis Wm. Austen, 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
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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