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ASHBURNHAM, REV. SIR JOHN, 7 Baronet. _b._ Scotland Yard Westminster 26 Dec. 1770; ed. at Clare hall Cam.; B.D. 1815; R. of Guestling, Sussex 1795 to death; Preb. of Chichester 2 May 1796 to death; Chancellor of Chichester 4 May 1796 to death; V. of Pevensey, Sussex 1816 to death; succeeded his brother the 6 Bart. 22 March 1843. _d._ Guestling rectory 1 Sep. 1854.

ASHBURNHAM, THOMAS (_4 son of George Ashburnham, 3 Earl of Ashburnham 1760–1830._) ensign Coldstream guards 30 Jany. 1823; lieut. col. 62 foot 7 Jan. 1842 to 21 Sep. 1847; commanded a brigade in Sutlej campaign 1845–46; aide de camp to the Queen 3 April 1846 to 20 June 1854; lieut. col. 29 foot 22 Nov. 1849 to 20 June 1854; col. 82 foot 13 Dec. 1859 to death; general 19 April 1868; C.B. 3 April 1846. _d._ 104 Park st. Grosvenor sq., London 3 March 1872.

ASHBURTON, WILLIAM BINGHAM BARING, 2 Baron. (_eld. son of Alexander Baring, 1 Baron Ashburton 1774–1848._) _b._ June 1799; ed. at Oriel coll. Ox.; B.A. 1821, M.A. 1836, hon. D.C.L. 1856; M.P. for Thetford 1826–30, for Callington 1830–31, for Winchester 1832–37, for North Staffs. 1837–41, and again for Thetford 1841–48; sec. of board of control 8 Sep. 1841 to 17 Feb. 1845; paymaster general of the forces and treasurer of the navy 25 Feb. 1845 to 12 July 1846; P.C. 30 June 1845; succeeded his father 13 May 1848; F.R.S. 27 April 1854; Commander of Legion of Honour 1855; pres. of geographical society 1860–62, vice pres. 1862 to death. _d._ the Grange, Alresford Hants 23 March 1864. _Monographs by Lord Houghton_ (1873) 225–55; _Waagen’s Treasures of art in Great Britain ii_, 97–112 (1854).

ASHBURTON, FRANCIS BARING, 3 Baron. _b._ 20 May 1800; M.P. for Thetford 1832–41 and 1848–57; succeeded 23 March 1864. _d._ Hazlewood near Watford 6 Sep. 1868.

ASHBURY, JOHN. _b._ 31 Jany. 1806; a wheelwright at Manchester; began the large works at Openshaw near Manchester for building railway carriages and wagons 1847; constructed a railway wagon in 13 hours for the great exhibition of 1862; sold his works to a limited liability company 1862. _d._ 9 Sussex place, Hyde Park, London 2 Sep. 1866. Personalty sworn under £400,000 27 Oct. 1866.

ASHBY, REV. JOHN EYRE. _b._ 22 Jany. 1820; ed. at Univ. coll. school London, B.A. London 1840; a congregational minister in Arundel, Brighton and London; lectured on the higher mathematics in same places; kept a school at Enfield 1856 to death; F.R.A.S. 1843, LLD. Jena 1858. _d._ 22 Dec. 1863.

ASHER, ADOLPHUS. _b._ Stettin 3 Sep. 1801; spent 5 years in England 1820–25; diamond merchant at St. Petersburgh; bookseller in Russia 1827–30, at Berlin 1830 to death; introduced the English annuals into Germany and Russia; foreign bookseller to British museum 1841 to death; published _Travels of Benjamin of Tudela, Berlin_ 1840. _d._ Venice 2 Oct. 1853.

ASHLEY, ANTHONY JOHN (_4 son of Cropley Ashley, 6 Earl of Shaftesbury_). _b._ 24 Grosvenor square, London 21 Dec. 1808; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1829; barrister I.T. 10 June 1836; Q.C. 9 Jany. 1866. (_m._ 17 March 1840 Julia eld. dau. of Henry John Conyers of Copt hall, Essex). _d._ Upper Brook st. London 1 Jany. 1867.

ASHLEY, ANTHONY WILLIAM (_brother of preceding_). _b._ 24 Grosvenor square 4 Oct. 1803; attaché to embassy at Vienna 31 March 1830; treasurer and vice chamberlain to Queen Adelaide 28 Oct. 1834 to her death 2 Dec. 1849; master governor and keeper of royal hospital of St. Katherine in the Regents’ Park, London 23 May 1859 to death. (_m._ 8 March 1831 Maria Anne eld. dau. of Col. Hugh Duncan Baillie, M.P. of Tarradaile). _d._ Mentone 18 April 1877.

ASHLEY, HENRY. _b._ 1790; an attorney in London 1816 to death; one of the 4 privileged attorneys of Lord Mayor’s court to 1853 when he received compensation on abolition of the privilege; erected independent chapel afterwards called Maberly chapel in Ball’s Pond road, Islington 1826; author of _Doctrine and practice of attachment in Mayor’s court_ 1818. _d._ Greenhithe, Kent 20 May 1867.

ASHMORE, CHARLES. Lieut. col. 36 foot 22 May 1845 to 15 May 1857 when placed on h. p.; col. 30 foot 6 Jany. 1867 to death; general 19 Oct. 1875. _d._ 10 Granville place, Portman sq. 2 March 1881 in 88 year.

ASHPITEL, ARTHUR (_eld. son of the succeeding_). _b._ Hackney 15 Dec. 1807; ed. at Homerton; commenced practice as an architect in Crown Court Old Broad st. 1842; built church of St. Barnabas at Homerton 1845; partner with John Whichcord 1850; elected F.S.A. 7 Jan. 1847; F.R.I.B.A. 1841, Vice Pres. 1862; published with John Whichcord “_Observations on baths and wash-houses with an account of their history_” 1855; _Town dwellings an essay on the erection of fire proof houses in flats_ 1855. _d._ 2 Poet’s Corner, Westminster Abbey 18 Jany. 1869. _Reg. and Mag. of Biog. i_, 212–15 (1869); _Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. 2 series iv_, 299–301.

ASHPITEL, WILLIAM HURST. _b._ 1776; pupil of Daniel Asher Alexander the architect of prisons at Dartmoor and Maidstone; assisted him in designs for the London docks; a pupil of John Rennie; largely concerned in Kenneth and Avon canal; partner with James Savage; J.P. for Middlesex; designed the first new church and extensive schools at South Hackney and many other buildings, besides several large engineering works. _d._ Clapton sq. London 23 April 1852 in 76 year.

ASHTON, HENRY. _b._ London 1801; employed by Sir Jeffrey Wyattville to 1840; erected stables at Windsor and kennels at Frogmore; erected summer palace at the Hague for king of Holland; architect for Victoria st. improvements in London, and designed Victoria st. opened 6 Aug. 1851. _d._ 18 March 1872.

ASHTOWN, FREDERICK MASON TRENCH, 2 Baron. _b._ 25 Dec. 1804; succeeded 1 May 1840; his claim to the peerage was allowed 12 July 1855. _d._ Clonodfoy, co. Limerick 12 Sep. 1880. Personalty sworn under £350,000 April 1881.

ASHURST, WILLIAM (_son of the succeeding_). _b._ 1819; admitted solicitor Jany. 1843; partner with his father; partner with John Morris about 1855–62; solicitor to the Post Office 1862 to death; a great friend of Garibaldi and Mazzini. _d._ 7 Prince of Wales’s Terrace, Kensington, London 14 July 1879 in 60 year.

ASHURST, WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ London 11 Feb. 1792; a solicitor in London; belonged to a small sect called ‘Freethinking Christians’; member of common council of city of London; undersheriff; a founder of the society of the ‘Friends of Italy,’ 1851 and of the ‘Peoples International League,’ 1852; took an active part in agitation against church rates; author of _The Corporation Register_ 1832, which advocated reforms in the city. _d._ Wimbledon Park, Surrey 13 Oct. 1855.

ASHWELL, REV. ARTHUR RAWSON. _b._ Cheyne Walk Chelsea 9 Dec. 1824; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; scholar of Caius coll. 1846; 15 Wr. 1847, B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850; C. of Speldhurst Kent 1848–49; C. of St. Mary the less, Cam. 1849–50; vice principal of St. Mark’s college Chelsea Jany. 1851 to Nov. 1852; principal of Oxford diocesan training college at Culham Nov. 1852 to 1862; minister of Holy Trinity church Hanover square London 1862–64; principal of Durham training college 1865–70; canon res. of Chichester and principal of Chichester theological college 1870; R. of St. Andrew’s Chichester 1871–75; R. of St. Martin’s Chichester 1872–75; chancellor of Chichester cath. 1879 to death, installed 19 June 1879; edited the _Literary Churchman_ 1864–76 and Sep. 1879 to death, and the _Church quarterly review_ 1876. (_m._ 20 April 1854 Elizabeth eld. dau. of J. F. Fixsen of Blackheath.) _d._ Chichester 23 Oct. 1879. _Literary Churchman xxv_, 443–45, 501 (1879).

ASHWELL, JAMES. _b._ Nottingham 1799. One of the six founders of the society afterwards known as the Institution of Civil engineers 2 Jany. 1818, it obtained a royal charter 3 June 1828; a fellow commoner at Jesus coll. Cam.; managing director and engineer in chief of the Great Luxembourg railway company 1847–52. _d._ Mildmay lodge, Weston-super-Mare 2 July 1881. _Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxvi_, 372–75 (1881.)

ASHWELL, SAMUEL. _b._ Nottingham 1798; studied at Guy’s Hospital, London 1817–20; general practitioner in Lime st. square 1821–30; obstetric asst. to Guy’s Hosp. 1820; obstetric physician and lecturer May 1834 to 1846; M.R.C.P. 1835; removed to the West end 1840; author of _Practical treatise on parturition_ 1828; _A practical treatise on the diseases peculiar to women_ 1848. _d._ 30 Brook st. Grosvenor sq. 21 Dec. 1857. _Medical Circular i_, 109–111 (1852), _portrait_.

ASHWORTH, EDMUND. _b._ Birtwhistle near Bolton; partner with his brother Henry as spinners at Egerton Mill near Bolton; member of Anti-Corn-Law League 1839; member of Manchester chamber of commerce, a director 1868–78, pres. 1874–77; said to be original of Mr. Millbank in ‘_Coningsby_’; a magistrate for Bolton April 1847 to death; one of founders of Cotton supply association 1857; the first pres. of Bolton British school union. _d._ Southport 21 March 1881 in 81 year. _Manchester Guardian 22 March 1881 p._ 5, _col._ 4, and _26 March p._ 11, _col._ 4.

ASHWORTH, SIR FREDERICK (_2 son of Robert Ashworth of Dublin_). _b._ Dublin 1783; ensign 58 foot 6 July 1799; major 22 Nov. 1810 to 20 Feb. 1817 when placed on h.p.; knighted by lord lieut. 1850; lieut. general 20 June 1854; colonel of 44 foot 8 Feb. 1855 to death. (_m._ 29 Oct. 1833 Harriet eld. dau. of Sir Bellingham Reginald Graham, 7 Bart., she was _b._ 1815 and _m._ (2) 26 Feb. 1862 George Hamilton Chichester, 3 Marquess of Donegal). _d._ 5 St. George’s place, Hyde park corner, London 1 Aug. 1858.

ASHWORTH, HENRY. _b._ Birtwhistle near Bolton 4 Sep. 1794; ed. at Ackworth school; partner with his brother Edmund; a founder of “Anti-Corn Law Association” 10 Jany. 1839, afterwards called “The National Anti-Corn-Law League”; great friend of Bright and Cobden, the three were known as the A, B, C of the League, the final meeting of which was held in Manchester town hall 2 July 1846; author of _Statistical illustrations of Lancashire_ 1842; _A tour in the United States, Cuba and Canada_ 1861. _d._ Florence 17 May 1880. _Recollections of Richard Cobden, by H. Ashworth, 2 ed._ 1878, _portrait_.

ASHWORTH, JOHN. Preached his trial sermon 8 Oct. 1837; founded a chapel for the destitute in Baillie st. Rochdale 4 Oct. 1858; representative of United Methodist Free churches at the Conference of Evangelical Christians held in New York Oct. 1873; author of _Strange tales from humble life_, 5 series 1863–74, these 61 tales were also published singly, upwards of 3,000,000 copies have been circulated. _Simple Records, 2 series_ 1871–72. _d._ Broadfield, Rochdale 26 Jany. 1875. _Life and labours of John Ashworth, by A. L. Calman_ 1875, _portrait_.

ASHWORTH, REV. JOHN HARVEY (_younger son of John Ashworth_). _b._ Elland, Yorkshire 1795; ed. at Manchester gr. sch. and Univ. coll. Ox., scholar 1815, B.A. 1819, M.A. 1825; R. of Hethe, Oxon 1820–21; C. of St. Mary’s, Rochdale 1821; bought old castle of Craggan, co. Clare which he restored; V. of St. Mary’s, Staveley-in-Cartmel 1874 to death; author of _Hurstwood, a tale 3 vols._ 1823; _Scenes and thoughts from secluded life 2 vols._ 1827; _The Saxon in Ireland_ 1851; _The young curate or the quicksands of life [anon.]_ 1859, and _Rathlynn [anon.] 3 vols._ 1864. _d._ 4 Aug. 1882.

ASKEW, RICHARD CRASTER (_5 son of John Askew of Pallinsburn, Northumberland who d. 28 Oct. 1794_). _b._ 5 Sep. 1778; barrister L.I. 13 June 1807; recorder of Newcastle upon Tyne 1833–34. _d._ Pallinsburn 30 July 1851.

ASKEY, JAMES ROBERT ROPER. Chief clerk of the divorce registry 1858 to death. _d._ 14 Park village West, Gloucester gate, Regents’ park, London 30 Jany. 1866.

ASLETT, THOMPSON. 2 Lieut. R.M. 1 June 1796; col. commandant 9 Nov. 1846 to 17 Aug. 1848 when he retired on full pay. _d._ 27 Aug. 1851 aged 75.

ASLETT, WILLIAM STRATTON. 2 Lieut. R.M. 26 July 1837; brigade major in Crimean war; col. commandant 13 Feb. 1867 to death; M.G. 6 March 1868. _d._ Cury road, Gosport 28 July 1876.

ASPINALL, BUTLER COLE (_son of Rev. James Aspinall, R. of Althorpe, Lincs._) _b._ Liverpool 7 Nov. 1830; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s; connected with _Morning Chronicle_; barrister M.T. 17 Nov. 1853; arrived in Victoria 1854; law reporter to the _Argus_ paper 1854; practised at Melbourne 1854; M.L.A. for Talbot 1856; M.L.A. for Portland to 1870; member of the Heales government 1861, of the Macpherson government 1869; defended the Eureka stockade rioters 1855; defended H. J. O’Farrell who was tried 30–31 March 1868 for shooting Prince Alfred (Duke of Edinburgh) at Clontarf 12 March 1868; became insane 1871. _d._ England 4 April 1875.

ASPINALL, REV. JAMES (_son of J. B. Aspinall of Cleongar hall, Cheshire_). _b._ Liverpool; ed. at St. Mary hall Ox., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; C. of Rochdale 5 years; P.C. of St. Luke’s, Liverpool 1830 where he preached 5 June 1831 a remarkable sermon called _The Crisis or the signs of the times with regard to the Church of England_; R. of Althorpe, Lincs. 2 June 1839 to death; author of _Roscoe’s library or old books and old times_ 1853; _Parish sermons 2 series_ 1854–59. _d._ Althorpe rectory 15 Feb. 1861 aged 65.

ASPLAND, ALFRED (_son of Rev. Robert Aspland 1782–1845, pastor of the Unitarians at Hackney 40 years_). _b._ 1815; ed. at King’s college, London; studied at Guy’s hospital; L.S.A. 1837, M.R.C.S. 1838, F.R.C.S. 1859; practised at Dukinfield, Cheshire till about 1870; editor of the Holbein Society publications; pres. of Manchester statistical society 1863–65; his large collection of books and drawings was sold at Sotheby’s Jany. 1885; author of _Crime in Manchester_ 1868; edited for Holbein Society _H. Burgmair’s Triumph of the Emperor Maximilian_ 1875; and _The golden legend_ 1878. _d._ St. Helen’s Field, Dukinfield 24 Oct. 1880. _Book-lore March_ 1885 _p._ 119.

ASPLAND, REV. ROBERT BROOK (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Newport, Isle of Wight 19 Jany. 1805; Unitarian pastor of Crook’s lane chapel, Chester Aug. 1826; co-pastor with Lant Carpenter of Lewin’s Mead chapel, Bristol 1833; kept a boarding school at Bristol 1833–36; pastor at Dukinfield 1 Jany. 1837 and at Hackney 1858 to death; edited the _Christian Reformer_ Jany. 1845 to Dec. 1863 when it ceased; one of secretaries of Manchester college 1846–57, which was moved from Manchester to London 1853; secretary to British and Foreign Unitarian Association 1859 to death. (_m._ 21 Oct. 1833 Jane dau. of Robert Hibbert of Brookside Godley, Cheshire). _d._ Well st. Hackney 21 June 1869. _John Evans’s Lancashire authors_ (1850) 4–8; _The Inquirer 3 July 1869_ 427–28.

ASPULL, WILLIAM. _b._ Nottingham 1798; tenor singer; composed many vocal pieces. _d._ 192 Clapham road, London 16 Jany. 1875.

ASTLEY, SIR FRANCIS DUGDALE, 2 Baronet (_only son of Sir John Dugdale Astley, 1 Baronet 1778–1842_). _b._ 5 Nov. 1805; succeeded 19 Jany. 1842. _d._ Eastleigh lodge, Warminster 23 July 1873.

ASTLEY, REV. RICHARD. _b._ Chesterfield 12 March 1785; Unitarian minister at Rochdale 1810, at Halifax 1812–26, at Gloucester 1826–31 and at Shrewsbury 1831–53; author of _A selection of 500 hymns for public and private worship_. _d._ Stourbridge 19 March 1855. _The Christian Reformer xi_, 265–73 (1855).

ASTON, SIR ARTHUR INGRAM (_younger son of Henry Hervey Aston of Aston, Cheshire, who d. Madras 23 Dec. 1798 aged 37 from a wound received in a duel with major Allen_). _b._ London 23 Dec. 1798; ed. at Brasen. coll. Ox., created M.A. 18 June 1817; sec. of embassy at Paris 11 Jany. 1833; min. plenipo. there for short periods 9 times between 19 April 1833 and 14 Sep. 1838; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. at Madrid 13 Feb. 1840 to 13 Nov. 1843; G.C.B. 10 Nov. 1843; pensioned 8 March 1846; sheriff of Cheshire 1850. _d._ Aston hall, near Runcorn 5 May 1859.

ASTON, JAMES JONES (_2 son of Benjamin Richard Aston of 71 Banner st. Finsbury, coal merchant_). _b._ 71 Banner st. 12 Dec. 1822; barrister M.T. 6 Nov. 1846; went Northern circuit; Q.C. for county palatine of Lancaster 1867; Q.C. 24 March 1880; author of _Chancery practice of the county palatine of Lancaster_ 1852. (_m._ 7 Sep. 1854 Sarah Margaret eld. dau. of Thomas Eccles of Walton-le-dale, Lancs.) _d._ 13 Pembroke gardens, Kensington 17 Jany. 1885.

ASTON, JOHN PARTINGTON (_son of John Aston of Manchester, liquor merchant_.) _b._ Manchester 9 Nov. 1805; ed. at Manchester gr. sch.; solicitor at Manchester 1829 to death; one of leading conveyancing and patent lawyers; solicitor and sec. of Owens college, Manchester; contributed prose and verse to periodicals; author with W. H. Ainsworth of _Sir John Chiverton_ 1826. _d._ Higher Broughton, Manchester 11 May 1882. _Admission register of Manchester school iii_, 112 (1874).

ATHERLEY, MARK KER (_2 son of Arthur Atherley M.P. for Southampton who d. 21 Oct. 1844 aged 74_). Ensign 15 foot 28 Aug. 1823; lieut. col. 92 foot 23 Nov. 1849 to 5 June 1863 when placed on h.p.; commanded a brigade in the Crimea 4 Nov. 1855 to 13 March 1856; brigadier general Malta 1863–68; col. of 109 foot 14 Feb. 1873, of 93 foot 30 Jany. 1880 and of 92 foot 5 April 1880 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ 11 March 1884 in 80 year.

ATHERSTONE, EDWIN. _b._ Nottingham 17 April 1788; author of _The fall of Nineveh, a poem_, _2 vols._ 1828–68; _The Sea Kings in England, an historical romance_, _3 vols._ 1830; _The handwriting on the wall, a story 3 vols._ 1858; _Israel in Egypt_ 1861 a poem of nearly 20,000 lines; granted civil list pension of £75 Oct. 4 1858 and another of £25 Jany. 16 1860. _d._ 19 Macaulay buildings, Bath 29 Jany. 1872.

ATHERTON, CHARLES (_3 son of Nathan Atherton of Calne, Wilts attorney_). _b._ Calne 1805; ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam.; 33 wrangler 1828, B.A. 1828; resident engineer of river Clyde 1832–34; manager of business of Claud Girdwood and Co. of Glasgow, ironfounders 1834–37; chief engineer at Woolwich dockyard 6 April 1847 to 31 Dec. 1848 and 8 Sep. 1851 to 26 July 1862; at Devonport dockyard 1 Jany. 1849 to 7 Sep. 1851; consulting engineer in London 1862–70; M.I.C.E. 19 Feb. 1828. _d._ Sandown, Isle of Wight 24 May 1875. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xlii_, 252–55 (1875).

ATHERTON, SIR WILLIAM (_only son of Rev. Wm. Atherton of Battle Bridge Middlesex, Wesleyan minister 1775–1850_). _b._ Glasgow October 1806; special pleader 1832–39; barrister I.T. 22 Nov. 1839, bencher 1851; went northern circuit of which he became leader; Q.C. July 1851; Q.C. for duchy of Lancaster 1851–60; M.P. for Durham 9 July 1852 to death; judge advocate of the fleet and counsel to the Admiralty 1854 to 16 Dec. 1859; solicitor general 16 Dec. 1859 and attorney general 4 July 1861 to Sep. 1863; knighted by the Queen at St. James’s palace 23 Feb. 1860. (_m._ 15 April, 1843 Agnes Mary younger dau. of Thomas James Hall, chief magistrate at Bow st. London, she _d._ 26 March 1866). _d._ 13 Westbourne terrace, Hyde Park 22 Jany. 1864.

ATHLUMNEY, WILLIAM MEREDYTH SOMERVILLE, 1 Baron. _b._ 1802; ed. at Harrow; paid attaché at Berlin 1829–32; M.P. for Drogheda 1837–52 and for Canterbury 1854–65; under sec. of state for Home department 5 July 1846 to 22 July 1847; chief sec. for Ireland 22 July 1847 to Feb. 1852; P.C. 22 July 1847; raised to peerage of Ireland as Baron Athlumney 14 Dec. 1863 and to peerage of United Kingdom as Baron Meredyth 3 May 1866. _d._ Dover 7 Dec. 1873.

ATHOLE, GEORGE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK JOHN MURRAY, 6 Duke of. _b._ Great Cumberland place, London 20 Sep. 1814; took part in the Eglinton tournament 28–30 Aug. 1839; grand master mason of Scotland 1843–63; succeeded his uncle as 6 Duke of Athole 14 Sep. 1846; K.T. 28 Oct. 1853; pres. of Highland and Agricultural Societies 1858–62; kept Otter hounds at Dunkeld. _d._ Blair castle, Perthshire 16 Jany. 1864.

ATKINS, EDWARD. _b._ 1818; played at T.R. Birmingham 1851–61; made his début in London at Drury Lane 28 Oct. 1861; played Jem Dalton in Tom Taylor’s drama _The Ticket of leave man_ at Olympic theatre 27 May 1863 to 16 Sep. 1864 406 times, and more than 600 times afterwards in different theatres; played Autolycus in _A winter’s tale_ at Drury Lane 28 Sep. 1878. _d._ 5 Carlton road west, Peckham 8 April 1883. _Tallis’s Drawing room table book part_ 16, _portrait_.

ATKINS, EDWIN. Manager with his brother John Atkins of Zoological gardens situated between Farnworth st. and Butler st. Liverpool which were established in 1832 by Thomas Atkins, keeper of a travelling menagerie, the gardens were eventually turned into a limited liability company, and in 1863 the place was dismantled and the land sold; started for interior of Africa 1852. _d._ on a small island of the White river, a branch of the Nile Jany. 1854.

ATKINS, EDWIN MARTIN (_eld. son of Atkins Edwin Martin-Atkins of Walcot in Bath_). _b._ 1808; ed. at Rugby; matric. Magd. coll. Ox. 26 July 1825 aged 17, B.A. 1829; sheriff of Berkshire 1844; F.S.A. 10 Dec. 1857; the original of the Squire depicted by Tom Hughes in _The scouring of the White Horse_ 1859. _d._ Weston super Mare 5 May 1859.

ATKINSON, CHARLES CALEB (_eld. son of Caleb Atkinson of Hillingdon, Middlesex_), _b._ 1793; barrister M.T. 6 June 1834; sec. of University college London 1835 to July 1867; sub editor of _The Sphinx_; owner of _The Athenæum_ for short time. (_m._ 1831 Harriet dau. of George Swimley of Henley on Thames). _d._ Alexandra road, Kilburn, London 11 Jany. 1869.

ATKINSON, FENTON ROBINSON. _b._ Leeds 12 Nov. 1784; admitted attorney May 1810; practised at Manchester; a leading bankruptcy lawyer; sold his library Dec. 1817 and his other library of 13,000 volumes May 1858 a ten days sale; member of Chetham, Camden, Hakluyt, Shakspere and Percy Societies and Warton club; contributed to _Bibliographiana_, originally published in the _Manchester Exchange Herald_ 1815–16 and afterwards as a small vol. of which only 24 copies were issued 1817. _d._ The Grove, Withington, Lancs. 9 June 1859. _Law Times xxxiii_, 212, 257 (1859).

ATKINSON, SIR HENRY ESCH (_3 son of Henry Wm. Atkinson 1753–1834 provost of Company of moneyers_). _b._ 1792; entered navy 2 Feb. 1807; commander 30 April 1827; employed in the Coast Guard 1835–38; retired captain 1 April 1856; knighted by lord lieutenant of Ireland 1836; superintendent of convicts in Van Diemen’s Land 1846. (_m._ 1819 Sarah dau. of John Randall of the Isle of Wight, she _d._ 1873). _d._ Hobart Town 1857.

ATKINSON, JAMES. _b._ county of Durham 9 March 1780; assistant assay master at Calcutta mint 1813–28; superintendent of the government Gazette 1817–28; surgeon to 55 Bengal N.I. 1833; superintending surgeon to the army of the Indus 1838–41; a member of Bengal medical board 1845–47; author of _The Shâh Nâmah translated and abridged_ 1832, which won gold medal of Oriental translation fund; _The expedition into Afghanistan_ 1842; _Sketches in Afghanistan_ 1842. _d._ 18 Dorset sq. London 7 Aug. 1852. _Journal of Royal Asiatic Society xv, vi-ix_, (1855).

ATKINSON, JAMES. Perfumer in Old Bond st. London; lived at Village park, Ealing. _d._ 27 June 1853 aged 71.

ATKINSON, JAMES CHARLES. _b._ Middlesex 1 May 1783; served in merchant service 1796–1803; joined R.N. as a volunteer 1803; master 29 Jany. 1814; staff commander on h.p. 11 June 1863. _d._ Southampton 27 Oct. 1882 aged 99 years and six months.

ATKINSON, SIR JASPER (_son of Henry Wm. Atkinson 1753–1834, provost of Company of moneyers_). _b._ Dulwich 1790; employed in the Mint 1804–51; provost of Company of moneyers 1 April 1848 to July 1851 when it was dissolved; knighted by patent 28 Nov. 1842 for services rendered to Ottoman, Russian and French governments. (_m._ 12 May 1819 Louisa Jane Grace only dau. of Wm. Gyll of Wyrardisbury house, Bucks, she was _b._ 21 July 1800 and _m._ (2) 1863 Percy Honey of Exchequer Office, Lincolns Inn). _d._ North Frith Haddow near Tonbridge Wells 6 Oct. 1856.

ATKINSON, RICHARD. _b._ Dublin 1796; a poplin manufacturer there 1820 to death; alderman of Dublin 1857 to death; mayor 1856 and 1861; gave a grand ball to Prince of Wales 11 Sep. 1861; a great philanthropist. _d._ 1867. _I.L.N. xxxviii_, 83 (1861) _portrait_.

ATKINSON, SOLOMON. _b._ Cumberland; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; senior wrangler and 2 Smith’s prizeman 1821; B.A. 1821; barrister L.I. 21 May 1827; author of _County court extension act_, 1850; _Law and practice of county courts_ 1853. _d._ Mornington crescent, Hampstead road 12 Feb. 1865.

ATKINSON, THOMAS WITLAM. _b._ Cawthorne, Yorkshire 6 March 1799; employed in rebuilding St. Mary’s church Barnsley 1819 where he carved some very fine work; architect in London 1827–42 when he went to Hamburg; engaged in reconstruction of St. Nicholas church Hamburg 1845; went to Russia 1846; granted by Emperor of Russia rare privilege of a blank pass throughout his Asiatic dominions; travelled in Siberia and Mongolia; F.R.G.S. 1858, F.G.S. 1859; author of _Explorations in Oriental and West Siberia_ 1857; _Travels in the regions of the Upper and Lower Amoor_ 1860; (_m._ 1847 Lucy authoress of _Recollections of Tartar Steppes_ 1863, she was granted a civil list pension of £100 18 June 1863). _d._ Lower Walmer, Kent 13 Aug. 1861.

ATKINSON, WILLIAM GREENE. _b._ Darlington 1810; barrister M.T. 19 Nov. 1841; librarian of the Great seal patent office, London Jany. 1854 to death; prepared manuscript of catalogue of the library which was printed in 2 vols. 4º. 1882–83; edited the Commissioners of patents journal Jany. 1854 to death, _d._ 59 Rowan road, Hammersmith 18 Sep. 1881.

ATKINSON, WILLIAM STEPHEN (_eld. son of Rev. T. D. Atkinson Rector of Rugeley, Staffs._) director of public instruction for Bengal. _d._ Rome 15 Jany. 1876 aged 55.

ATTHILL, REV. WILLIAM LOMBE. _b._ 11 July 1807; scholar of Caius coll. Cam. 1825; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1851; sub-dean, canon and commissary of collegiate church of Middleham, Yorkshire 1839–51; P.C. of Horsham Norfolk 1851–63; V. of Horsford, Norfolk 1851–63; married 4 times; author of _The way of Catechising_ 1840; _History and antiquities of the collegiate church at Middleham_ 1847 and of articles in Burke’s _Historic Lands of England_ 1849. _d._ Brandiston hall, Alderford, Norfolk 11 Dec. 1884.

ATTREE, WILLIAM WAKEFORD. _b._ 1805; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; barrister M.T. 7 June 1833; assistant tithe comr.; recorder of Hastings and of Seaford about 1842 to death; author of _Report of Braintree church rate case_ 1853. _d._ Queen’s Park, Brighton 28 Jany. 1862.

ATTWOOD, BENJAMIN (_son of Matthias Attwood of Hales Owen, founder of bank of Attwoods in London and Birmingham_). a manufacturer at Birmingham; came into a large fortune from his nephew Matthias Attwood; gave with greatest secrecy for many years sums of £1000 each to all manner of charities to amount of £375,000. _d._ Pengelly house, Cheshunt 22 Nov. 1874. _I.L.N. lxvi_ 57 (1875) _portrait_; _Graphic xi_ 67 (1875) _portrait_.

ATTWOOD MATTHIAS (_brother of the preceding_). partner in bank of Attwoods; chairman of General steam navigation co.; M.P. for Callington 14 March 1820, for Boroughbridge 2 Aug 1830, and for Whitehaven 15 Dec. 1832 to 23 July 1847. _d._ Dulwich hill 11 Nov. 1851. _G.M. xxxvii_ 192–93 (1852).

ATTWOOD, THOMAS (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Howe house, Hales Owen, 6 Oct. 1783; a banker and manufacturer at Birmingham and London; opposed orders in council of 1807 and 1809 prohibiting all trade between England and the ports occupied by the French, the orders were partly revoked June 1812; originated abolition of East India monopoly 1813; one of the 3 founders of Birmingham Political Union 1829 which contributed largely towards passing of the Reform bill; presented with freedom of city of London 23 May 1832; M.P. for Birmingham 12 Dec. 1832 to Jany. 1840; presented to House of Commons the Chartist petition signed by 1280000 people, 14 June 1839; author of _Letters of a Scotch banker_, first published anonymously in _The Globe_ 1828. _d._ Great Malvern 6 March 1856. _Dents Old and new Birmingham, section_ 2, (1880) 349–52.

NOTE.—There is a statue of him in Stephenson place New st. Birmingham, which was unveiled 7 June 1858. He is the “King Tom” of Cobbett’s Weekly Register.

ATWOOD, REV. HENRY ADAMS SERGISON. _b._ St. Margaret’s Westminster 13 Jany. 1800; ed. at Queen’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1824; F.R.A.S. 1827; R. of Ashelworth, Gloucs. 1839 to death; author of _A new version of the Book of Psalms in verse by H. A. S. A._ 1834. _d._ Ashelworth rectory 22 June 1877.

AUBIN, JOHN. One of the 11 judges of the Royal Court in Jersey 17 May 1862 to death. _d._ 27 Midvale road, St. Heliers 28 Jany. 1874 aged 78.

AUBREY, THOMAS. _b._ Cefn-coed-y-cymer near Merthyr-Tydvil 13 May 1808; Wesleyan minister 1826 to death; chairman of North Wales district 1854–65. _d._ Rhyl 15 Nov. 1867. _Wesl. Meth. Mag. xci, pt._ 2 _p._ 845 (1868).

AUBREY, SIR THOMAS DIGBY, 7 Baronet. _b._ Llanblythian, Glamorganshire 2 Dec. 1782; barrister L.I. 11 Feb. 1811; sheriff of Bucks 1815; succeeded 1 March 1826; chairman of Bucks quarter sessions some years, _d._ Oving house near Aylesbury 2 Sep. 1856.

AUCHMUTY, SIR SAMUEL BENJAMIN (_2 son of Samuel Auchmuty of Bryanstown_). _b._ Ireland 1781; major 7 foot 28 Oct. 1813 to 1 Aug. 1822 when placed on h.p.; aide de camp to the Sovereign 1831–41; granted service reward 3 Aug. 1845; col. of 65 foot 31 Jany. 1851 and of 7 foot 18 Jany. 1855 to death; general 19 June 1860; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1857, G.C.B. 28 June 1861. (_m._ 1817 Mary Anne Buchanan, she _d._ 2 Jany. 1869 aged 69). _d._ Pau 30 April 1868.

AUCKLAND, RIGHT REV. ROBERT JOHN EDEN, 3 Baron. _b._ Eden farm Beckenham, Kent 10 July 1799; ed. at Eton and Magd. coll. Cam., M.A. 1819, D.D. 1847; R. of Eyam 1823; R. of Huntingfordbury 1825; V. of Battersea 1835; chaplain to William iv 1831–37 and to Victoria 1837–47; Bishop of Sodor and Man 7 May 1847; consecrated 23 May 1847; installed at Castletown 29 June 1847; translated to see of Bath and Wells 2 June 1854; resigned his episcopal functions Oct. or Nov. 1869; succeeded his brother as 3 Baron 1 Jany. 1849. _d._ The palace, Wells 25 April 1870. _I.L.N. lvi_, 489, 490 (1870), _portrait_.

AUDLEY, GEORGE EDWARD THICKNESSE-TOUCHET, 20 Baron. _b._ 26 Jany. 1817; succeeded 14 Jany. 1837. _d._ Homburg 18 April 1872. _Burke’s Portrait gallery ii_, 41 (1833).

AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, _b._ New Orleans 4 May 1780; arrived at Liverpool 20 July 1826; lived in England 1826–29, 1830–31, 1834–36 and 1838–39; author of _Birds of America_ published in 87 parts, elephant folio at price of 1000 dollars; F.L.S. 1828, F.R.S. 18 March 1830. _d._ New York Island 27 Jany. 1851. _R. Buchanan’s Life of J. J. Audubon_ 1868, 2 _portraits_.

AUDUS, JAMES (_only son of John Audus of Selby, Yorkshire, merchant 1752–1809_). _b._ 28 July 1781; captain in York city militia 1808–33; began a coasting trade between Selby and London 1826, had 18 schooners so employed 1830; chairman of Yorkshire banking company 1843; erected and endowed St. James’s church Selby at cost of about £14000, laid the foundation stone 6 May 1866. _d._ Selby 14 May 1867. _W. W. Morrell’s History of Selby_ (1867) 186, 254–58.

NOTE.—He was the oldest railway director in England, having been one of original board of Leeds and Selby railway which obtained its act 1830.

AULDJO, JOHN. Ascended Mont Blanc 8 Aug. 1827, being the 14th ascent ever made; F.R.G.S. 1832; F.R.S. 7 May 1840; author of _Ascent of Mont Blanc_ 1827; _Sketches of Vesuvius_ 1832; _Journal of a visit to Constantinople_ 1835. _d._ 1857.

AULSEBROOK, RICHARD. M.R.C.S. 1834, L.S.A. 1835; surgeon to Lambeth workhouse; resident medical officer of Hanwell lunatic asylum; author of _An inquiry into the physical condition of the working classes in the parish of St. James’s Westminster_. _d._ 50 King sq., Goswell road London 1855.

AURIOL, REV. EDWARD. Ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1832; R. of Newton Valence, Hants 1838; R. of St. Dunstan in the West, London 1841 to death; Preb. of St. Paul’s April 1865 to death; commissary for Bishop of Nelson 1866. _d._ 35 Mecklenbergh sq. London 10 Aug. 1880 aged 75.

AUSTEN, CHARLES JOHN. _b._ 1779; captain R.N. 10 May 1810; captain of Bellerophon 80 guns 1838–40; awarded good service pension 1840; R.A. 9 Nov. 1846; commander in chief in East Indies 14 Jany. 1850 to death; C.B. 18 Dec. 1840; _d._ Prome, Burmah 8 Oct. 1852.

AUSTEN, SIR FRANCIS WILLIAM (_4 son of Rev. George Austen R. of Steventon, Hants_). _b._ Steventon 23 April 1774; captain R.N. 13 May 1800; served in action off St. Domingo 1805, for which he received thanks of houses of parliament; colonel R.M. 27 May 1825; commander in chief on north American and West Indian station 27 Dec. 1844 to 12 Jany. 1848; admiral 1 Aug. 1848; R.A. of United Kingdom 5 June 1862; V.A. of U.K. 11 Dec. 1862; admiral of the fleet 27 April 1863 to death; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 28 Feb. 1837, G.C.B. 18 May 1860. _d._ Portsdown lodge, Portsmouth 10 Aug. 1865.

AUSTEN, SIR HENRY EDMUND (_only son of Robert Austen of Shalford, Surrey who d. 3 Nov. 1797_). _b._ Shalford 20 May 1785; ed. at Harrow and Oriel coll. Ox., M.A. 1807; sheriff of Surrey 1810; a gentleman of the Privy Chamber 26 Jany. 1832 to death; knighted by the king at St. James’s Palace 22 Feb. 1832. _d._ 2 Suffolk place Cheltenham 1 Dec. 1871.

AUSTEN, REV. JOHN THOMAS. Ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; senior Wr. and senior Smith’s prizeman 1817; B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820, B.D. 1827; fellow of his college 1817; V. of Aldworth, Berks 1832–48; R. of West Wickham, Kent 1848 to death; hon. canon of Canterbury cathedral 1873. _d._ West Wickham rectory 10 June 1876 aged 82.

AUSTEN, REV. ROBERT (_only son of Venerable Robert Austen 1723–92, archdeacon of Cork_). Treasurer of Cloyne 24 July 1810 to 10 June 1833 when he resigned. _d._ Southsea, Hants 4 Nov. 1854 in 83 year.

AUSTEN, THOMAS. Lieut. col. of 60 regiment of foot 20 June 1805 to 1817; M.P. for West Kent 1845–47. _d._ Kippington, Sevenoaks 23 July 1859 aged 84.

AUSTIN, ALFRED. _b._ 1805; assistant poor law comr. 1843–1854; sec. to Office of Works 1854–1868; C.B. 11 Oct. 1869. _d._ 67 Queen’s gardens, Bayswater 19 May 1884 in 79 year.

AUSTIN, CHARLES (_2 son of Jonathan Austin of Creeting Mill, Suffolk, government contractor_). _b._ 26 March 1799; ed. at Bury St. Edmund’s gr. sch. and Jesus coll. Cam., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; pupil of Sir Wm. Follett; barrister M.T. 25 May 1827; bencher 1841; Q.C. 1841; practised chiefly before committees of Houses of Parliament where he was the leading counsel; retired with a large fortune 1848; high steward of Ipswich; chairman of quarter sessions for East Suffolk. (_m._ 10 June 1856 Harriet Jane elder dau. of Ralph Mitford Preston Ingilby). _d._ Brandeston hall, Wickham Market 21 Dec. 1874. Personalty sworn under £140,000 19 Feb. 1875. _J. S. Mill’s Autobiography_ (1873) 76–79; _Fortnightly Review xxiii_, 321–38 (1875); _Public men of Ipswich_ (1875) 90–96.

AUSTIN, SIR HORATIO THOMAS. Entered navy 8 April 1813; took part in Parry’s second Arctic expedition 1824–1825; commanded Salamander one of first steamers in the navy 1832–34; captain 28 June 1838; served in the Syrian war 1839–1843; commanded a squadron in search of Sir John Franklin 1850–1851; superintendent of Deptford dockyard 18 Oct. 1854 to 28 Nov. 1857; admiral superintendent of Malta dockyard 6 April 1863 to 26 Nov. 1864; V.A. 20 Oct. 1864; C.B. 18 Dec. 1840, K.C.B. 28 March 1865. (_m._ 8 Nov. 1831 Anne Eliza only dau. of Thomas Hawkins of Pennance, Creed, Cornwall and widow of Rev. J. Rawlinson, she _d._ 7 July 1876). _d._ Leinster gardens, London 16 Nov. 1865 in 65 year. _O’Byrne’s Naval biography_ (1861) 30.

NOTE.—Austin channel between Byam Martin and Bathurst Isles and Cape Austin on the west coast of Cornwallis Isle are named after him.

AUSTIN, JOHN (_eld son of Jonathan Austin of Creeting Mill, Suffolk_). _b._ 3 March 1790; in the army 1806–11 when he sold out; served in Sicily; barrister I.T. 5 June 1818; gave up practice 1825; professor of jurisprudence in Univ. of London 1826, lectured there 1828 to June 1832; member of Criminal law commission 1833; delivered a course of lectures on jurisprudence at Inner Temple 1834; went to Malta as Royal Comr. to inquire into grievances of which the natives complained 1836; lived in Paris 1844–48 and at Weybridge, Surrey 1849 to death; corresponding member of moral and political class of French Institute; author of _The province of jurisprudence determined_ 1832, _2 ed._ 1861; _A plea for the Constitution_ 1859. (_m._ 1820 Sarah Taylor.) _d._ Weybridge 17 Dec. 1859. _Dict. of national biography ii_, 265–68 (1885).

AUSTIN, SARAH (_youngest child of John Taylor of Norwich, yarn maker_). _b._ Norwich 1793; translated _The story without an end_ by Carové 1834; _Ranke’s History of the Popes of Rome_, _2 vols._ 1840, _4 ed._ _3 vols._ 1866; author of _Germany from 1760 to 1814, or sketches of German life_ 1854; granted civil list pension of £100 13 Oct. 1849. (_m._ 1820 John Austin). _d._ Weybridge, Surrey 8 Aug. 1867.

AVELAND, GILBERT JOHN HEATHCOTE, 1 Baron. _b._ Normanton park, Stamford 16 Jany. 1795; ed. at Westminster, Edinburgh and Trin. coll. Cam.; M.P. for Boston 1820–30 and 1831–32, for Lincolnshire 1832–41 and for Rutlandshire 1841–56; created Baron Aveland of Aveland, county Lincoln 26 Feb. 1856; lord lieutenant of Lincolnshire 12 March 1862. _d._ 12 Belgrave sq. London 6 Sep. 1867; Personalty sworn under £400,000 26 Oct. 1867.

AVELING, THOMAS. _b._ Elm, near Wisbech 11 Sep. 1824; a farmer at Ruckinge in Romney Marsh; agricultural implement maker at Rochester; an engine builder there 1860 to death; the first to build a traction engine with a single cylinder; invented steam road rollers, now to be found in nearly every town in the kingdom; A.I.C.E. 1871; M.I.C.E. 1877; M.I.M.E. 1869; member of Iron and Steel institute; chevalier of Legion of Honour; knight of order of Francis Joseph. _d._ Boley hill house Rochester 7 March 1882. _Graphic xxv_ 289 (1882) _portrait_; _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxiii_ 350–55 (1883).

AVELING, REV. THOMAS WILLIAM BAXTER. _b._ Castletown, Isle of Man 11 May 1815; usher in a school at Wisbech; studied at Highbury college 1834–38; Congregational minister at Kingsland 10 June 1838 to death; hon. sec. to Asylum for fatherless children at Reedham, Surrey 1847–83, the chapel there is called after him, the “Aveling Memorial Chapel”; chairman of Congregational Board 1873 and of Congregational Union of England and Wales 1874; author of _Naaman or Life’s shadows and sunshine_ 1853; _Memorials of the Clayton family_ 1867; edited _the Jewish Herald 5 years_. _d._ Reedham orphanage asylum 3 July 1884. _Congregational year book_ (1885) 176–79.

AVERY, JOHN. M.R.C.S. 1829, F.R.C.S. 1843; M.D. Paris 1831; surgeon in chief to the 5th Polish ambulance in Polish army; a prisoner many months; a consulting surgeon in London; surgeon to Charing Cross hospital; invented an apparatus for exploring internal cavities of the body which gained large silver medal of Society of Arts; a successful operator in cases of cleft palate. _d._ 3 Queen st. Mayfair 5 March 1855. _Medical directory_ 1856, 722–24.

AVONMORE, BARRY JOHN YELVERTON, 3 Viscount. _b._ 21 Feb. 1790; succeeded 28 Nov. 1814; principal registrar of court of chancery in Ireland to 1826 when granted pension of £4,200 on abolition of office. _d._ Raglan road, Dublin 24 Oct. 1870.

AVONMORE, WILLIAM CHARLES YELVERTON, 4 Viscount (_elder son of the preceding_). _b._ 27 Sep. 1824; ed. at Woolwich; captain R.A. 16 July 1850 to 1 April 1861 when placed on h.p.; suspended from all military duties March 1861. (_m._ 26 July 1858 Emily Marianne youngest dau. of Sir Charles Ashworth, K.C.B. and widow of Edward Forbes, F.R.S.) _d._ Biarritz 1 April 1883. _The Yelverton correspondence by the Hon. Theresa Yelverton_ 1863, _portrait_; _J. J. Macqueen’s Reports in House of Lords iv_, 743–912 (1866).

NOTE.—He went through marriage ceremonies with Maria Theresa eld. dau. of Thomas Longworth of Manchester, manufacturer (1) at 1 St. Vincent st. Edinburgh on 12 April 1857 and (2) in chapel of Kilbroney near Rostrevor, Ireland on 15 Aug. 1857. A great deal of litigation took place between them to settle the point whether they were married or not, the end of which was that on 28 July 1864, House of Lords decided in favour of Lord Avonmore and against the marriage, thus reversing the judgment of the Court of Session in Edinburgh which had decided in her favour.

AVONMORE, BARRY NUGENT YELVERTON, 5 Viscount. _b._ 1 Randolph cliff, Edinburgh 11 Feb. 1859; 2 lieut. 37 foot 30 Jany. 1878; lieut. 20 Feb. 1879 to death; succeeded 1 April 1883. _d._ of enteric fever at Kerbekan in the Soudan 13 Feb. 1885. _I.L.N. lxxxvi_, 431 (1885) _portrait_.

AVORY, HENRY. _b._ 1826; articled to John Clark of London, solicitor; clerk of indictments home circuit 1845; admitted a solicitor Nov. 1857; deputy clerk of assize home circuit 1858 to death; clerk of arraigns at central criminal court May 1860 to death. _d._ 26 Ladbroke gardens, London 5 April 1881.

NOTE.—He figures in W. P. Frith’s series The race for wealth in the 4th picture “Judgment.”

AWDRY, SIR JOHN WITHER (_2 son of John Awdry of Notton house, Chippenham 1766–1844_). _b._ Swindon 21 Oct. 1795; ed. at Winchester and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820, D.C.L. 1844; fellow of Oriel coll. 1820–1830; barrister M.T. 22 Nov. 1822; puisne judge and comr. of insolvent debtor’s court Bombay 1830–1839; knighted by patent 18 June 1830; chief justice of supreme court of Bombay 1839–1841 when he resigned; chairman of Wilts quarter sessions 1848 to 1866. _d._ Notton house 31 May 1878.

AYCKBOURN, HUBERT (_youngest son of Thomas Harman Ayckbourn, barrister who d. 31 Dec. 1870 aged 94_). author of _The practice of the high court of Chancery_ 1844, _9 ed._ 1870; _The jurisdiction and practice of the supreme court of judicature_ 1874 _2 ed._ 1876; committed suicide 2 or 3 May 1880 aged 56.

AYLEN, JONATHAN (_son of John Aylen of Portsea_). _b._ Portsmouth 22 May 1798; entered navy 13 Feb. 1813; master 5 Sep. 1823; master attendant at Sheerness dockyard 25 May 1849 to March 1856; examiner in navigation and seamanship at Hull May 1856; retired captain 25 May 1858; made several important inventions in anchors, his improvement on the Admiralty anchor was successfully tested at trial of anchors of all nations 1852. _d._ Welton near Brough, Yorkshire 9 Oct. 1874. _O’Byrne_ (1861) 31–32.

AYLES, JOHN GEORGE AUGUSTUS. _b._ 1808; 2 lieut. R.M. 13 May 1828; col. commandant 16 May 1862 to 4 Nov. 1864; M.G. 4 Nov. 1864; _d._ Clevelands Basset, Southampton 25 Nov. 1883.

AYLESFORD, HENEAGE FINCH, 5 Earl of, (_eld. son of Heneage Finch 4 Earl of Aylesford 1751–1812_). _b._ 24 April 1786; succeeded 20 Oct. 1812. _d._ Packington hall, Coventry 3 Jany. 1859.

AYLESFORD, HENEAGE FINCH, 6 Earl of. _b._ Packington hall, 24 Dec. 1824; M.P. for south Warwickshire 7 June 1849 to 21 March 1857. _d._ Grosvenor st. London 10 Jany. 1871.

AYLESFORD, HENEAGE FINCH, 7 Earl of. _b._ Upper Brook st. London 21 Feb. 1849; entertained Prince of Wales at Packington hall Nov. 1874; a prize fight and a cock fight took place there in 1876; effected 56 policies of insurance on his life to amount £204,830. _d._ the Big Springs cattle ranch, Texas 13 Jany. 1885.

AYLMER, FREDERICK WHITWORTH AYLMER, 6 Baron. _b._ Twyford near Southampton 12 Oct. 1777; captain R.N. 18 May 1805; commanded Severn 50 guns at battle of Algiers 27 Aug. 1816; naval aide-de-camp to Wm. iv 1830–37; V.A. 9 Nov. 1846, pensioned 1 July 1851; admiral on half pay 11 Sep. 1854; C.B. 19 Sep. 1816, K.C.B. 5 July 1855, K.F.M.; succeeded as 6 Baron 23 Feb. 1850. _d._ 20 Dawson place, Westbourne grove 5 March 1858. _O’Byrne_ (1861) p. 32.

AYLMER, SIR GERALD GEORGE, 9 Baronet. _b._ Carnarvon 15 Sep. 1798; succeeded 23 May 1816. _d._ Donadea castle Kilcock, co. Kildare 8 Feb. 1878.

AYLMER, SIR GERALD GEORGE, 10 Baronet. _b._ Dublin 26 May 1830. _d._ 25 June 1883.

AYLMER, SIR JUSTIN GERALD, 11 Baronet. _b._ 17 Nov. 1863; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Cambridge. _d._ Trinity college 15 March 1885 the result of a fall from a bicycle 3 days before.

AYLMER, SIR ARTHUR PERCY, 12 Baronet. _b._ 31 Aug. 1801; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826; student L.I. _d._ Cork 7 May 1885.

AYLMER, THOMAS BRABAZON. Ensign 20 foot 9 Aug. 1797; major 9 foot 4 Sep. 1807 to 25 Feb. 1816 when placed on h.p.; general 25 Sep. 1856; colonel 45 foot 25 Sep. 1856 to death. _d._ Worthing 19 July 1858 aged 76.

AYLWARD, WILLIAM. A student at R.A. of Music, gained a King’s scholarship; professor of violoncello there; member of Philharmonic society and of Royal Italian opera band; taught music at Slough. _d._ 12 March 1878.

AYRE, REV. JOHN. _b._ Feb. 1801; ed. at Caius coll. Cam., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1827; Incumbent of St. John’s chapel, Downshire hill Hampstead; dom. chap. to Earl of Roden; general secretary and librarian of Parker Society 1840–53; edited for Parker Society _Sermons of Edwin Sandys, archbishop of York_ 1841; _Works of Thomas Becon 3 vols._ 1843–44; _Works of John Jewel, bishop of Salisbury 4 vols._ 1845–50; _Works of John Whitgift, archbishop of Canterbury 3 vols._ 1851–53; author of _Treasury of Bible knowledge_ 1866. _d._ Church row, Hampstead 20 May 1869.

AYRE, JOSEPH. _b._ Lynn, Norfolk 1781; sent to sea 1800; studied medicine at Guy’s hospital and Univ. of Edin.; M.D. 24 June 1807; practised at Hull 1808–24, in London 1824–31, and at Hull again 1831 to death; L.R.C.P. 1824, F.R.C.P. 1859; author of _Practical observations on bilious complaint_ 1821; _Researches into the nature and treatment of dropsy_ 1825. _d._ Hull 15 Jany. 1860.

AYRES, JOHN. _b._ 1807; clerk of the Royal Society of Literature more than 30 years. _d._ 4 St. Martin’s place, London 9 July 1881.

AYRES, PHILIP BURNARD. _b._ Thame, Oxon 12 Dec. 1813; entered Univ. college London Oct. 1833; L.S.A. 1836, M.R.C.S. 25 April 1836; M.D. London 9 Dec. 1841 where he won 7 medals; practised nearly 10 years at Thame; lecturer on chemistry at Charing Cross hospital; phys. to Islington dispensary 1851; edited _Pharmaceutical Times_; patented a method of utilising sewage as manure 1847; superintendent of quarantine in Mauritius 5 Jany. 1856 to death. _d._ Champ de Mars, Port Louis, Mauritius 30 April 1863.

NOTE.—His widow presented his herbarium of Mauritius plants to royal gardens at Kew.

AYRIS, HENRY. _b._ 12 Dec. 1805; whipper-in to the Berkeley hounds 1826; huntsman of same pack down to Dec. 1865, when presented with a purse of 500 guineas, and granted an annuity of £100 by Lord Fitzhardinge; the best huntsman of his day. _d._ Ham near Berkeley 28 April 1874.

AYRTON, EDWARD NUGENT. _b._ Richmond, Surrey 1815; ed. at Ealing and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1840; barrister L.I. 20 Nov. 1845; wrote in the Law Times. _d._ Bexhill, Sussex 28 Nov. 1873.

AYRTON, FREDERICK (_elder brother of preceding_.) _b._ London 20 March 1812; ed. at Ealing and Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Bombay artillery 1828; captain June 1843 to 11 Sep. 1843, when he retired on a pension; barrister M.T. 30 Jany. 1846; sec. to Abbas Pasha viceroy of Egypt 1851 to 13 July 1854 when he died, educated Ilhami Pasha his only son, sec. to him 1854 to his death 1861; A.I.C.E. 9 June 1835; received title of Bey from the Khedive. _d._ Arundel gardens, Notting hill London 20 June 1873. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxviii_, 306–308 (1874).

NOTE.—He formed a magnificent collection of Arabic calligraphs and MSS. which he bequeathed to the nation, but unfortunately the conditions with which the bequest was accompanied, prevented the Trustees of the British Museum accepting it.

AYRTON, MATILDA (_dau. of Mr. Chaplin._) _b._ Honfleur 1846; passed preliminary examination at the Apothecaries’ Hall 1869 but was refused admission to the later examination on ground of her sex; matriculated at Univ. of Edin.; completed her education at Paris; lived in Japan 1873–77; taught midwifery to a class of Japanese women; M.D. Paris Dec. 1879; a licentiate of the King and Queen’s College of Physicians in Ireland, when she came out first in the examination; author of _Child life in Japan_ 1879; contributed many articles to periodicals. (_m._ 1872 Wm. Edward Ayrton professor in Imperial college of engineering, Japan). _d._ Sloane st. London 19 July 1883. _The Englishwoman’s Review 15 Aug. 1883._

AYRTON, WILLIAM (_younger son of Edmund Ayrton 1734–1808, Master of the chapel royal to George iii_). _b._ London 22 Feb. 1777; Captain in Queen’s royal volunteers Westminster; musical and literary critic of the _Morning Chronicle_ 1813–1826; chief originator of Philharmonic society 1813; manager of Opera house London 1817 and 1821; produced Mozart’s Don Giovanni for first time in England 12 April 1817; edited and wrote much in the _Harmonicon_ 1823–33; wrote the musical articles in the _Penny Cyclopædia_ 1833–44; edited the _Sacred Minstrelsy_ 1834–35 and the _Musical library_ 1834–36; one of the original members of Royal institution and of the Athenæum club; F.R.S. 1 June 1837; _d._ 9 Bridge st. Westminster 8 May 1858.

AYRTON, WILLIAM SCROPE (_only son of the preceding_). _b._ 28 April 1804; ed. at Loughborough house school; barrister M.T. 26 Nov. 1830; a registrar of Court of Bankruptcy Aug. 1838 to July 1847; comr. of Leeds district Court of Bankruptcy 5 July 1847 to 31 Dec. 1869 when granted sum of £1800 on abolition of his office; F.S.A. 21 May 1840; author with Basil Montagu of _Reports of cases in Bankruptcy 3 vols._ 1834–39 and of _The law and practice in Bankruptcy 2 vols._ 1837. _d._ Cliffden, Saltburn-by-the-Sea 3 May 1885.

AYSCOUGH, JOHN (_son of John Ayscough, Capt. R.N._) _b._ on board H.M.S. “Swan” during an action on the way from North America 1775; captain R.N. 18 April 1806; protected Sicily against invasion of Joachim Murat 1810; superintended the ordinary at Plymouth 1822–25; Comr. of dockyards at Jamaica and Bermuda; admiral 3 Oct. 1855; awarded good service pension, _d._ Norwood, Surrey 2 Dec. 1863. _O’Byrne_ (1861) 33–34.

AYTOUN, ROBERT. _b._ Edinburgh 1799; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; a writer to the Signet; member of Royal Scottish society of arts 1826; read many papers; A.I.C.E. 1839; invented a safety cage for mines exhibited at great exhibition 1862. _d._ 9 Sep. 1876.

AYTOUN, WILLIAM EDMONDSTOUNE. _b._ 21 Abercromby place, Edin. 21 June 1813; ed. at academy and univ. of Edin.; M.A. 1849; a writer to the Signet 1835; an advocate 1840; on the staff of Blackwood’s magazine 1839 to death, contributed more than 120 articles; professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in Univ. of Edin. 22 Oct. 1845 to 1864, during which time he raised number of students from 30 to 1850; sheriff of Orkney and Zetland 29 May 1852; delivered 6 lectures on poetry and dramatic literature at Willis’s Rooms, London 1853; presided at Burns centenary festival at Ayr 25 Jany. 1859; hon. pres. of associated societies of Univ. of Edin. 1860; author of _Poland, Homer and other poems_ [_anon._] 1832; _Lays of the Scottish cavaliers and other poems_ 1848, _29 ed._ 1883; _Firmilian or the student of Badajoz, a spasmodic tragedy by T. Percy Jones_ [_pseud._] 1854; _Bon Gaultier ballads_ (with T. Martin) 1855, _13 ed._ 1877; _Bothwell, a poem in six parts_ 1856; edited _The ballads of Scotland 2 vols._ 1858, 4 ed. 1870. _d._ Blackhills near Elgin 4 Aug. 1865. _Theodore Martin’s Memoir of W. E. Aytoun_ 1867, _portrait_; _Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ 1882, _portrait_.

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BABBAGE, BENJAMIN HERSCHELL (_eld. son of the succeeding_). Geologist of colony of South Australia; examined the country north and east of Adelaide for gold 1856; commanded an exploring party sent by Parliament of South Australia to Lake Torrens Feb. 1858 to 5 Nov. 1858. _d._ Adelaide 22 Oct. 1878 aged 63. _W. Howitt’s History of discovery ii_, 311–24 (1865); _Rev. J. E. T. Wood’s History of discovery ii_, 260–79 (1865).

BABBAGE, CHARLES (_son of Benjamin Babbage of London, banker_). _b._ near Teignmouth, Devon 26 Dec. 1792; ed. at Enfield and Trinity and Peterhouse colleges Cam., B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817; F.R.S. 14 March 1816; a founder of Royal Astronomical Society 1820, one of its secs. 1820–24, vice pres., foreign sec and member of council successively; began his calculating machine 1823, suspended its construction 1833, after spending on it about £6,000 besides £17,000 granted him by Government; Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge 1828–39 but delivered no lectures; a founder of British Association 1831, a trustee 1832–38, originated the statistical section at Cambridge meeting 1833; contested Finsbury as a radical Dec. 1832 and June 1834; chief founder of Statistical Society 15 March 1834, chairman 1835; author of _Table of logarithms of the natural numbers from 1 to 108,000_, 1827; _The decline of science in England_ 1830; _On the economy of manufactures_ 1832, _4 ed._ 1835; _The ninth Bridgewater treatise_ 1837, _2 ed._ 1838. _d._ 1 Dorset st. Portman sq. 18 Oct. 1871. _Babbage’s Passages from the life of a philosopher_ 1864; _Monthly notices of R. Astronom. soc. xxxii_, 101–109 (1872); _C. R. Weld’s History of royal society ii_, 369–91 (1848); _Edinburgh Review lix_, 263–327 (1834); _Journal of statistical soc. xxxiv_, 411–15 (1871); _I.L.N. lix_, 423 (1871), _portrait_; _Graphic iv_, 495 (1871), _portrait_.

BABER, REV. HENRY HERVEY (_son of Thomas Baber of London, barrister_). _b._ 22 Aug. 1775; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. and All Soul’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1799, M.A. 1805; sub librarian of the Bodleian 1796; assistant librarian at British Museum 1807 and keeper of Printed books 1812–37; vice principal of St. Mary’s hall Ox. 1805; C. of St. Mary the Virgin Ox. 1805; R. of Stretham with Thetford, Cambridge 1827; F.R.S. 23 May 1816; one of founders of Royal society of literature 2 June 1823 which received a charter 13 Sep. 1826; editor of _Vetus testamentum Græcum e codice MS. Alexandrino_, _4 vols._ 1816–28. _d._ Stretham rectory 28 March 1868.

BABINGTON, BENJAMIN GUY (_son of Wm. Babington of London, physician 1756–1833_). _b._ Guy’s Hospital 1794; ed. at the Charterhouse 1803–1807; midshipman R.N., served at Walcheren and Copenhagen 1809; in the Madras medical service 1812–19; studied at Guy’s Hospital and Pemb. coll. Cam., M.B. 1825, M.L. 1827, M.D. 1830, F.R.C.P. 1831; delivered Croonian and Lumleian lectures; F.R.S. 13 March 1828, on the council 1861–63; assistant phys. to Guy’s Hospital 1837 and phys. 1840–55; a founder of Sydenham Society 1843, treasurer 1843–58 when society was dissolved; chief founder of Epidemiological society Aug. 1850, pres. 1850–64; pres. of Royal Medical and Chirurgical society 1861; invented the Laryngoscope, made for him by an optician called Elsworthy and exhibited at Hunterian Society 18 March 1829; took out patents for pens 1843, and for preventing incrustation of boilers 1850; author of _Passing thoughts in sonnet_ [_anon._] 1855. _d._ 31 George st. Hanover sq. 8 April 1866 in 73 year. _Trans. of Epidemiological Society ii_, 160–67 _and_ 471–76 (1865–67).

BABINGTON, CORNELIUS METCALFE STUART. _b._ India 1816; M.R.C.S. 1838, M.R.C.P. 1849, F.R.C.P. 1857; surgeon accoucheur to St. George’s and St. James’s dispensary London; phys. to Queen Charlotte’s Lying-in-hospital 1850 to death; a founder of Obstetrical Society 16 Dec. 1858, vice pres. 2 Jany. 1861. _d._ Hertford st. London 25 Jany. 1862. _Proc. of Royal Med. and Chir. society iv_, 86–88 (1864).

BABINGTON, DAVID. Entered Madras army 1820; brigadier general in command of Malabar and Canara 17 Jany. 1862 to 3 Feb. 1865; L.G. 16 May 1872. _d._ Clifton 12 Aug. 1874.

BABINGTON, GEORGE GISBORNE. _b._ 22 Jany. 1794; M.R.C.S. 1816, F.R.C.S. 1843; practised at Golden sq. London; surgeon to St. George’s hospital; delivered Hunterian oration at Royal college of surgeons 14 Feb. 1842. _d._ 13 Queen’s gardens, Hyde park 1 Jany. 1856.

BABINGTON, WILLIAM KNOX. Brigadier general commanding northern district of Madras 29 Nov. 1867 to 1 Dec. 1868; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ 48 Oxford terrace, Hyde Park 31 July 1878.

BABY, DANIEL. Ensign 24 foot 9 Nov. 1797; captain 6 Aug. 1806 to 1 June 1826 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 31 Aug. 1855. _d._ 15 April 1858.

BACHE, FRANCIS EDWARD (_eld. child of the succeeding_). _b._ Birmingham 14 Sep. 1833; pupil of Alfred Mellon; played violin in orchestra at Birmingham festivals 1846 and 1847; organist at All Saint’s Church Gordon sq. London Oct. 1850 to Oct. 1853; his first Overture was performed at Adelphi theatre Nov. 1850; composed many pianoforte pieces and songs; designed the organ in Hope st. church, Liverpool. _d._ Frederick st. Edgbaston, Birmingham 24 Aug. 1858. _The Christian Reformer xiv_, 713–19 (1858).

BACHE, REV. SAMUEL. _b._ Bridgnorth 24 Dec. 1804; assistant in school of Rev. Lant Carpenter at Bristol; ed. at Manchester college, York 1826–29; unitarian minister at the old meeting Dudley 1829–32 and at the new meeting Moor st. Birmingham 1832–62 when it was sold and congregation moved to Church of the Messiah, Broad st. where he was minister 1862–68; kept a school at Birmingham many years; author of _Harmony of science and revelation_ 1839; _Exposition of Unitarian views of Christianity_ 1854; _Miracles the credentials of the Christ_ 1863 and 19 other publications, none of which are mentioned in _The English catalogue of books_, or _Allibone’s Dictionary_. _d._ Gloucester 7 Jany. 1876. _Beale’s Memorials of old meeting house Birmingham_ 1882.

BACHHOFFNER, GEORGE HENRY. _b._ London 13 April 1810; originated and suggested scheme of Royal Polytechnic Institution, which was opened 6 Aug. 1838, principal in department of natural and experimental philosophy there, Aug. 1838 to Aug. 1855; one of district registrars of Marylebone parish 1837, and superintendent registrar 1853 to death; lessee and manager of Royal Colosseum, Dec. 1856 to 16 Feb. 1864, when it closed for ever; professor of natural philosophy at Elizabeth college, Guernsey; invented the Polytechnic gas fire 1850; author of _Chemistry as applied to the fine arts_ 1837. _d._ 78 The Grove, Hammersmith 22 July 1879.

BACK, SIR GEORGE (_son of John Back of Stockport, Cheshire_). _b._ Stockport 6 Nov. 1796; midshipman R.N. Sep. 1808; a prisoner at Verdun in France 1809–14; went with Franklin to the Spitzbergen seas 1818, along Arctic coast of America 1819–22, and to Mackenzie river 1825–27; conducted overland Arctic expedition 1833–35, when he travelled 7500 miles, and discovered the Back or Great Fish river; captain by order in council 30 Sep. 1835, an honour which no other officer in the navy had received except William iv; commanded the Terror in expedition to the frigid zone 1836–37; knighted by the Queen at St. James’s palace 6 March 1839; F.R.G.S. 1836, Founder’s gold medallist 1836; F.R.S. 7 Jany. 1847; gold medallist of Geographical Society of Paris; pres. of the Raleigh club 1844; awarded good service pension 21 Jany. 1854; D.C.L. Oxford 28 June 1854; admiral on h.p. 18 Oct. 1867; author of _Narrative of the Arctic land expedition to the mouth of the Great Fish river_ 1836; _Narrative of an expedition in H.M.S. Terror_ 1838. (_m._ 13 Oct. 1846 Theodosia Elizabeth, widow of Anthony Hammond of Savile row, London, she _d._ 6 Jany. 1861). _d._ 109 Gloucester place, Portman sq. 23 June 1878. _Geographical mag. v_, 179–81 (1878); _I.L.N. lxxii_, 4 (1878) _portrait_; _Graphic xviii_, 116 (1878) _portrait_.

BACK, WILLIAM. _b._ Surrey; ed. at Guy’s hosp. and Univ. of Edin.; M.D. 24 June 1808; L.C.P. 22 Dec. 1814; Physician to Guy’s hosp. 17 March 1819 to 1840. _d._ New Park road, Clapham park 6 Nov. 1856 aged 74.

BACKHOUSE, EDWARD (_son of Edward Backhouse of Darlington_). _b._ Darlington 1808; a banker at Sunderland, and a partner in colleries; an Elder of Society of Friends 1854 to death; erected a large mission hall at Sunderland; author of _The religious society of Friends_ 1870. _d._ Hastings 22 May 1879. _Early church history compiled by the late E. Backhouse, edited by C. Tylor_ 1884, _portrait_.

BACKHOUSE, GEORGE CANNING. Clerk in the Foreign Office 5 April 1838; commissary judge at Havannah 16 Dec. 1852 to death; murdered at Havannah 30 Aug. 1856 aged 37; a civil list pension of £100 granted his widow 15 Nov. 1856.

BACKHOUSE, JAMES. _b._ 8 July 1794; ed. at Leeds; minister of Society of Friends 1824; missionary to Australia and South Africa 1831–41; author of _A narrative of a visit to the Australian colonies_ 1843; _A narrative of a visit to the Mauritius and South Africa_ 1844 and many small books. _d._ Holdgate house, York 20 Jany. 1869. _Memoir of James Backhouse by his sister_ 1870; _Smith’s Friends’ Books i_, 152–56 (1867).

BACON, ANTHONY. Cornet 16 Lancers 13 Aug. 1812; lieut. 13 Dragoons 1818–1821 when placed on h.p.; commanded the whole cavalry of Queen Dona Maria of Portugal 1832–34; created General on field of battle at Loures by Emperor Don Pedro in person 12 Oct. 1833; K.T.S. _d._ Crondall near Farnham 2 July 1864 aged 68. _Sketches in Portugal by J. E. Alexander_ (1835) 120, 245.

BACON, CHARLOTTE MARY (_2 dau. of Edward Harley, 5 Earl of Oxford 1773–1848_). _b._ Harley st. London 12 Dec. 1801; Lord Byron dedicated his _Childe Harold_ to her under name of Ianthe 1812. (_m._ 1823 general Anthony Bacon). _d._ 13 Stanhope place, Hyde park 9 March 1880. _Finden’s Illustrations of Lord Byron vol. ii_, (1833), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxvi_, 292 (1880), _portrait_.

BACON, SIR EDMUND, 9 Baronet of Redgrave and 10 Baronet of Mildenhall. _b._ Raveningham, Beccles, Norfolk 16 July 1779; succeeded his father as Premier Baronet of England 5 Sep. 1820. _d._ Raveningham 30 May 1864.

BACON, GEORGE PETER (_younger son of R. M. Bacon of Norwich, editor of the Norwich Mercury_). Bought the Sussex Advertiser 1843, wrote all the leading articles and edited the paper to his death; sec. of Hop excise duty repeal association 1858 to April 1862 when duty which yielded £750,000 a year was taken off. _d._ 64 High st. Lewes 15 March 1878 in 72 year. _I.L.N. xlii_, 641 (1863).

BACON, SIR HENRY HICKMAN, 10 and 11 Baronet. _b._ Blundeston near Lowestoft 5 April 1820; succeeded 30 May 1864; sheriff of Lincoln 1867. _d._ Thonock hall, Gainsborough 14 Nov. 1872.

BACON, JOHN (_2 son of John Bacon, R.A. sculptor 1740–99_). _b._ Newman st. Oxford st. London March 1777; completed his father’s works; exhibited 64 sculptures at the R.A. 1792–1824; executed statue of Wm. iii in St. James’s sq. 1808; 6 monuments in St. Paul’s and 11 monuments in Westminster Abbey. _d._ Bathwick hill near Bath 14 July 1859.

BACON, REV. ROBERT. ed. at Univ. of Glasgow LLD. 1800, and Em. coll. Cam. LL.B. 1806; C. of Hunstanton 1802–42; C. of Sedgeford 1809–32; P.C. of Fring, Norfolk 16 Feb. 1809 to death; R. of Wolverton, Norfolk 1836 to death; author of _Poems_, 1790; _Treatise on Baptism_ 1827; _Theological essays_ 1829. _d._ 1861.

BACOT, JOHN. _b._ 29 May 1781; M.R.C.S. 1801, F.R.C.S. 1843; assistant surgeon Grenadier Guards 1803–20; practised in London 1820; edited with Roderick Mc Cleod _Medical and Physical journal_; chairman of Court of examiners of Society of Apothecaries 1832–38, master of the company 1845–46; member of General board of Health 1854; author of _Observations on the use and abuse of friction_ 1822 and _A treatise on Syphilis_ 1829. _d._ 4 Portugal st. Park lane 4 Sep. 1870. _Medical Circular i_, 130 (1852).

BADDELEY, JOHN. _b._ at sea in Bay of Bengal 22 Jany. 1846; taken to England 1851; ed. at Bonn and Univ. of Edin.; M.B. 1867; founded Athletic club of Univ. of Edin. May 1867, pres. 1867–68; fellow of Botanical society of Edin. 14 Dec. 1865; member of Royal Medical Society 23 Nov. 1866. _d._ Royal Infirmary Edin. 29 Feb. 1868. _Transactions of Botanical Society ix_, 304–12 (1868).

BADDELEY, WILLIAM. Civil engineer; made many improvements in manual fire engines 1820–62; invented portable cistern used by London Fire Brigade. _d._ March 1867 aged 61.

BADELEY, EDWARD LOWTH (_son of John Badeley M.D. of Leighs hall, near Chelmsford 1742–1831_). _b._ 1803; ed. at Brasen. coll. Ox.; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1828; barrister I.T. 29 Jany. 1841; counsel for Bishop of Exeter in Gorham case before judicial committee of P.C. 17–18 Dec. 1849; joined Church of Rome 1850; author of _The privilege of religious confessions in English courts of justice_ 1865. _d._ 29 March 1868. _Memoir of J. R. Hope Scott 2 vols._ 1884.

BADELEY, JOHN CARR (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 1794; ed. at the Charterhouse and Caius coll. Cam.; M.B. 1817, M.D. 1822; F.R.C.P.; phys. to Asylum for health Lisson Grove, London; phys. to Chelmsford dispensary 20 years; inspecting phys. to lunatic asylums of Essex; Harveian orator 1849; poisoned himself accidentally at Guy Harlings, Chelmsford 22 Sep. 1851.

BADEN, MAUDIT OR MARDIT. _b._ Pewsey, Wilts Feb. 1763 or 1773. _d._ Oare, parish of Wilcot, Wilts 11 May 1869. _Human longevity by W. J. Thoms_ (1873) 129–31.

BADGER-EASTWOOD, Thomas Smith (_eld son of Thomas Badger of Rotherham, solicitor 1793–1862_). _b._ 1823; ed. at Doncaster gr. sch. and Trin. hall Cam., B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849; barrister M.T. 29 Jany. 1847; reader on real property law to 4 Inns of Court 1856 to death; assumed surname of Eastwood 1863; edited _Concise forms of wills by W. Hayes and T. Jarman 5 ed._ 1860. _d._ 28 Gloucester place, Hyde park gardens 30 May 1866.

BADGLEY, FRANCIS. L.R.C.S. Edin. 1827, M.D. Edin. 1829, L.S.A. 1830; M.R.C.P. London 1860; a phys. at Kensington 1829–42, at Montreal 1842–59 and at Malvern 1860 to death; fellow of Royal medical and chirurgical society 1838; M.D. Univ. of Toronto 1851; professor of medical jurisprudence in Mc Gill college; professor of medicine in medical school of Montreal; professor of medicine in Univ. of Toronto 1851; founded _Montreal Medical Gazette_ 1844, edited it 1844–45. _d._ Holyrood house, Great Malvern 24 Dec. 1863 aged 56.

BADGLEY, W. _b._ Montreal 1801; called to Canadian bar 1823; sec. of Constitutional Association of Montreal district 1836–38; one of three delegates of this Association to England 1837–38; comr. of bankrupts for district of Montreal 1840 to April 1847; circuit judge July 1844 to April 1847; attorney general for Lower Canada April 1847; member of the provincial parliament May 1847 to 1855; puisne judge Lower Canada Jany. 1855 to 1876; Grand master of Freemasons for Montreal. _d._ 1876. _H. J. Morgan’s Sketches of eminent Canadians_ (1862) 492–97.

BADHAM, REV. CHARLES. ed. at Em. coll. Cam., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1846; V. of All Saints Sudbury, Suffolk 1847 to death; author of _Selections from Robert Hall_ 1840; _Aids to devotion_ 1843; _History of All Saints, Sudbury_ 1852. _d._ All Saints vicarage, Sudbury 15 April 1874.

BADHAM, REV. CHARLES (_son of Charles Badham 1780–1845, Regius professor of physics in Univ. of Glasgow_). _b._ Ludlow 18 July 1813; ed. by Jean Henri Pestalozzi; at Eton 1826; scholar of Wadham coll. Ox. 1830, B.A. 1837, M.A. 1839; studied in Germany and Italy 7 years; incorporated M.A. at Cam. as member of St. Peter’s college 1847, D.D. Cam. 1852; headmaster of Birmingham proprietary school 1854–67; professor of classics and logic in Univ. of Sydney 1867 to death; one of greatest scholars of his time; author of _Criticism applied to Shakespeare_ 1846; published editions with notes of the _Ion of Euripides_ 1851, 1853 and 1861; and of the _Philebus of Plato_ 1855 and 1878. _d._ Sydney 26 Feb. 1884. _Saturday Review lvii_, 540 (1884).

BADHAM, REV. CHARLES DAVID (_brother of preceding_). _b._ London 1806; ed. at Eton and Em. coll. Cam., B.A. 1826; incorporated B.A. at Ox. as mem. of Pemb. coll. 1829, M.A. 1829, M.B. 1830, M.D. 1833; travelling fellow of Univ. of Ox. 1829; M.R.C.P., F.R.C.P.; practised at Rome and Paris long time; returned to England 1845; ordained deacon at Norwich by Bishop Stanley; C. of East Bergholt, Suffolk 1849–55; author of _Insect life_ 1845; _The esculent funguses of England_ 1847; _Prose Halieutics or ancient and modern fish tattle_ 1854; contributed much to _Blackwood_ and _Fraser_. _d._ East Bergholt 14 July 1857 in 52 year. _Fraser’s Mag. lvi_, 162–63 (1857).

BAGEHOT, WALTER (_only son of Thomas Watson Bagehot of Herds Bill Langport, Somerset 1796–1881_). _b._ Langport 3 Feb. 1826; ed. at Bristol and Univ. coll. London, B.A. 1846, M.A. 1848, mathematical scholar 1846, gold medallist 1848; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1852; edited the _National Review_ with R. H. Hutton July 1855 to Nov. 1864; edited the _Economist_ 1860 to death; examiner in political economy in Univ. of London; author of _Estimates of some Englishmen and Scotchmen_ 1858; _The English constitution_ 1867; _Physics and Politics_ 1872. (_m._ 21 April 1858 Eliza eld. dau. of James Wilson, M.P.) _d._ Herds Hill 24 March 1877. _Literary studies by the late W. Bagehot, edited by R. H. Hutton, 3 ed. i, ix-lxvii_ (1884), _portrait_; _Dictionary of Nat. Biog. ii_, 393–96 (1885).

BAGG, WILLIAM. Surgical artist; illustrated many medical books. _d._ 20 Dec. 1869 in his 66 year.

BAGGE, REV. HENRY THEODORE JAMES (_only son of the succeeding_). _b._ 28 Feb. 1824; ed. at Rugby and Downing coll. Cam., B.A. 1851; C. of Weyhill, Hants 1851–54; author of _Toleratio intolerabilis or the free development of the Romish system_ 1851; _St. Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians, the text revised and illustrated_ 1856. _d._ Munich 19 Nov. 1861.

BAGGE, REV. JAMES. ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; B.A. 1814, M.A. 1818; R. of Crux-Easton near Newbury 1843 to death; author of _Twelve sermons_ 1835; _The Gawthorne correspondence and the Rev. W. B. Barter_ 1852, and other Sermons and Pamphlets. _d._ 1877.

BAGGE, SIR WILLIAM, 1 Baronet (_eld. son of Thomas Philip Bagge of Stradsett hall, Norfolk 1771–1827_). _b._ Stradsett hall 17 June 1810; ed. at the Charterhouse and Ball. coll. Ox.; M.P. for West Norfolk 1837–57 and 1865 to death; created baronet 13 April 1867. _d._ Stradsett hall 12 Feb. 1880.

BAGGE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY ERNEST, 2 Baronet. _b._ Stradsett hall 9 Aug. 1840. _d._ Heatherside, Woking 23 Oct. 1881.

BAGLEY, JAMES. _b._ Ireland 1822; went to the U.S.; commanded 69th Regiment 1862–66; alderman of New York; Sachem of the Tammany society to death. _d._ New York 21 Dec. 1876.

BAGLEY, JOHN WOODHOUSE. Made many important improvements in the bobbin net machine for which he took out patents 1844, 1850 and 1851; his productions were shewn in the London exhibition of 1851 and the Paris exhibition of 1855. _d._ 1859 aged about 50. _W. Felkin’s History of hosiery_ (1867) 371–75.

BAGNALL, CHARLES. _b._ West Bromwich, Staffs. 1827; an ironmaster; M.P. for Whitby 1865–68. _d._ Brighton 25 Feb. 1884.

BAGNALL, JOHN NOCK. _b._ Hateley Heath, West Bromwich 30 May 1826; member of firm of John Bagnall and Sons of the Gold’s Hill Iron works (where most of the rails used on foreign lines were made) 1844–61; captain of Bilston rifle corps which he raised 26 Jany. 1860, commanded Wolverhampton battalion 9 Nov. 1868 to March 1884; pres. of South Staffordshire branch of the English Church Union; licensed by Bishop Selwyn as a lay deacon in diocese of Lichfield 1872, took charge of St. Mary’s, Hateley Heath; sheriff of Staffs. 1875–76; author of _A history of Wednesbury in the county of Stafford [anon.]_ 1854. _d._ The Moss Shenstone, Staffs. 18 Oct. 1884. _John Nock Bagnall A memoir by his daughter Mary Willett_ 1885, _portrait_.

BAGNOLD, MICHAEL. Entered Bombay army 1803; colonel 29 Bombay N.I. 21 Jany. 1846 to death; M.G. 20 June 1854. _d._ Upper Hamilton terrace, St. John’s Wood, London 1 Dec. 1857 aged 71.

BAGOT, WILLIAM BAGOT, 2 Baron (_3 son of Wm. Bagot, 1 Baron Bagot 1728–98_). _b._ Bruton st. London 11 Sep. 1773; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox.; succeeded 22 Oct. 1798; author of _Memorials of the Bagot family_ 1823. _d._ Blithfield near Stafford 12 Feb. 1856. _Memorials of the Bagot family_ 1823, _portrait_.

BAGOT, ALAN (_2 son of the succeeding_). _b._ 1 June 1856; M.I.M.E., F.C.S., F.S.A.; invented several apparatus for saving life and preventing accidents in mines; author of _Accidents in mines_ 1878; _The principles and practice of colliery ventilation_ 1879, _2 ed._ 1882; _Principles of civil engineering_ 1885. _d._ Bournemouth April 1885.

BAGOT, CHARLES. _b._ 20 May 1808; captain grenadier guards 15 May 1840; lieut. col. 3 Stafford militia 5 April 1853 and col. 27 March 1858 to death; assistant master of ceremonies in Royal household 1861 to death. _d._ 49 Cadogan place, London 20 Feb. 1881.

BAGOT, REV. CHARLES WALTER (_3 son of Right Rev. Richard Bagot 1782–1854_). _b._ 11 Feb. 1812; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1834, M.A. 1842; fellow of All Souls college 1842–46; R. of Castle-Rising, Norfolk 1846 to death; chancellor of diocese of Bath and Wells 1851 to death. _d._ 10 Sep. 1884.

BAGOT, HENRY. _b._ 12 July 1810; entered navy 13 May 1823; admiral on h.p. 22 Jany. 1877. _d._ Brewood hall, Stafford 30 Nov. 1877.

BAGOT, RIGHT REV. RICHARD (_6 son of Wm. Bagot, 1 Baron Bagot 1728–98_). _b._ Daventry 22 Nov. 1782; ed. at Rugby and Ch. Ch. Ox. B.A. 1803, M.A. 1806, D.D. by diploma 30 Nov. 1829; fellow of All Souls college 1804–1806; R. of Leigh, Staffs. 1806; R. of Blithfield 1807; canon of Worcester 16 July 1817; canon of Windsor 25 March 1822; dean of Canterbury 2 Sep. 1827 to Nov. 1845; elected Bishop of Oxford 13 July 1829, confirmed 22 and consecrated 23 Aug.; Bishop of Bath and Wells 6 Nov. 1845 to death; his see was administered for a time by Right Rev. James Henry Monk, bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. _d._ Brighton 15 May 1854. _Rev. W. Palmer’s Events connected with publication of Tracts for the times_ 1883.

BAGSHAW, HENRY RIDGARD (_2 son of Sir Wm. Chambers Darling afterwards Bagshaw of Sheffield, physician 1771–1832_). _b._ 1 Nov. 1799; ed. at Oakham and Richmond gr. schs. and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1822; barrister M.T. 25 Nov. 1825, bencher Dec. 1854, treasurer 1864–65; Q.C. Dec. 1854; judge of county courts of Cardigan, Carmarthen and Pembroke (circuit 31) 30 Oct. 1861 and of Clerkenwell district (circuit 41) June 1868 to death. _d._ 21 Fellow’s road, Eton park south Hampstead 16 May 1870.

BAGSHAW, JOHN. _b._ 1784; ed. at Rugby; a banker and merchant at Calcutta; M.P. for Sudbury 1835 to 1837 and for Harwich 1847 to 1852 and 1853 to 1859; high steward of Harwich, _d._ Norwood 20 Dec. 1861.

BAGSHAW, ROBERT JOHN. _b._ 1803; a merchant at Calcutta; M.P. for Harwich 9 Dec. 1857 to 23 April 1859; sheriff of Essex 1873 _d._ 42 Gloucester square, London 11 Aug. 1878.

BAGSHAWE, WILLIAM LEONARD GILL. _b._ 18 Oct. 1828; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1851; rowed No. 5 in Cambridge boat against Oxford 29 March 1849 and 15 Dec. 1849; the best oarsman on the river Cam.; killed by poachers at Wormhill hall, near Tideswell 20 July 1854. _Annual Register_ (1854) 430–34.

BAGSTER, SAMUEL (_2 son of George Bagster of Beaufort buildings, Strand, London_). _b._ 26 Dec. 1772; bookseller in the Strand 1794–1816, in Paternoster Row 1816 to death; published _The English version of the polyglott Bible_ 1816; _Biblia sacra polyglotta Bagsteriana_, 4 vols. 1817–28; _The English Hexapla_ 1841 giving six most important English versions of New Testament; and many Bibles and Prayer Books in foreign languages. (_m._ 19 Dec. 1797 Eunice Birch, she was _b._ 23 Aug. 1777 and _d._ 22 Aug. 1877). _d._ Old Windsor 28 March 1851.

BAGWELL, JOHN (_eld son of Very Rev. Richard Bagwell, dean of Clogher who d. 25 Dec. 1825_). _b._ Clogher, co. Tyrone 3 April 1811; ed. at Winchester; sheriff of Tipperary 1834; M.P. for Clonmel 30 March 1857 to 26 Jany. 1874; a lord of the treasury June 1859 to July 1861. _d._ Marlfield, Clonmel 2 March 1883.

BAIGRIE, ROBERT (_son of John Baigrie of Fearn, Rossshire_). Entered Bombay army 3 Feb. 1848; major staff corps 3 Feb. 1868; quartermaster general Bombay army to 1874; commandant 28 N.I. 20 May 1876 to death; C.B. 24 May 1873. _d._ Poona 25 Sep. 1877. _I.L.N. lxxi_, 481, 482 (1877), _portrait_.

BAIKIE, WILLIAM BALFOUR (_eld son of John Baikie captain R.N._). _b._ Kirkwall, Orkney 27 Aug. 1825; ed. at Kirkwall gr. sch. and Univ. of Edin., M.D.; assistant surgeon R.N. 1848; surgeon and naturalist to expedition to the river Niger 1854; commanded expedition to river Niger 1 April 1857; author of _Narrative of an exploring voyage up the river Niger_ 1856. _d._ at house of Charles Heddle, Sierra Leone 12 Dec. 1864. _Journal of royal geographical society xxxv_, 123 (1865); _I.L.N. xlvi_, 88 (1865), _portrait_.

BAILES, WILLIAM HAIGH. _b._ 1821; solicitor at Boston 1843 to death; member of Boston town council 1863–72, alderman 1872, mayor 1873. _d._ 14 April 1885.

BAILEY, REV. BENJAMIN. V. of Dallington, Northampton 1819; senior chaplain in Ceylon; archdeacon of Colombo 1852 to death. _d._ Nottingham place, Marylebone 25 June 1853 aged 62.

BAILEY, CRAWSHAY. _b._ Wenham, Suffolk 24 Oct. 1789; an ironmaster in South Wales; sheriff of Brecon 1835, of Monmouth 1850; took out a patent for railway rails 1843; M.P. for Monmouth 1852–68. _d._ Llanfoist near Abergavenny 9 Jany. 1872.

BAILEY, FANNY (_dau. of John Mitchell of Ferring, Sussex, farmer_). _b._ Ferring 7 Aug. 1777. _d._ Christchurch schools, Worthing 6 April 1881 aged 103 years and 8 months. _I.L.N. lxxviii_ 440 (1881), _portrait_; _N. and Q. 5 S. viii_, 265 (1877), _xii_, 407 (1879), 6 _S. iii_, 485 (1881).

BAILEY, JAMES. Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1814, M.A. 1823; head master of Perse’s Free school Cam.; granted a Civil list pension of £100, 30 Oct. 1850; edited _Forcellini’s Latin dictionary 2 vols._ 1826; author of _Comicorum Græcorum fragmenta_ 1840. _d._ London 13 Feb. 1864.

BAILEY, SIR JOSEPH, 1 Baronet (_elder son of Joseph Bailey of Wakefield 1747–1813_). _b._ Great Wenham priory, Suffolk 21 Jany. 1783; an ironmaster in Brecknock and Monmouth; chairman of Birkenhead docks company; sheriff of Monmouth 1823; M.P. for Worcester 1835–47 and for Brecknockshire 1847 to death; created a baronet 5 July 1852. _d._ Glanusk park, Brecknockshire 20 Nov. 1858.

BAILEY, SAMUEL. _b._ Sheffield 1791; one of the trustees of Sheffield 1828; a founder of Sheffield Banking company 1831, and chairman; contested Sheffield 14 Dec. 1832 and 12 Jany. 1835; his supporters founded a Bailey club; pres. of Sheffield Literary and Philosophical society several times; author of _Essays on the formation and publication of opinions_ 1821, _3 ed._ 1831; _Critical dissertation on the nature, measure, and causes of Value_ 1825; _Maro or poetic irritability in four cantos [anon.]_ 1845; _The theory of reasoning_ 1851, _2 ed._ 1852; _Letters on the philosophy of the human mind_, _3 series_, 1855–1863. _d._ Norbury near Sheffield 18 Jany. 1870, left about £90,000 for benefit of that town. _English psychology translated from the French of T. Ribot_ (1873) 315–22; _British Controversialist July 1868 pp._ 1–25; _N. and Q. 5 S. ix_ 182–85, 216 (1878).

BAILEY, THOMAS. _b._ Nottingham 31 July 1785; a silk hosier there, then a wine merchant; contested Nottingham July 1830; member of town council 26 Dec. 1835 to 1843; proprietor and editor of _Nottingham Mercury_ 1846–52; author of _What is life, and other poems_ 1820; _Recreations in retirement_ 1836; _Annals of Nottinghamshire 4 vols._ 1852–55, originally published in 32 shilling parts; _Records of Longevity_ 1857, and 9 other books. _d._ Old Bassford near Nottingham 23 Oct. 1856. _C. Brown’s Nottinghamshire Worthies_ (1882) 341–50.

NOTE.—While connected with the Independents, he was one of three individuals chosen to take part in a public disputation arranged to be held in Nottingham between the friends of Christianity and Richard Carlisle, the champion of infidelity who _d._ 10 Feb. 1843 aged 52.

BAILHACHE, REV. CLEMENT. _b._ St. Heliers Jersey 11 Dec. 1830; ed. at Stepney college 1851; minister of Baptist chapel, South parade, Leeds 1855; minister at Watford 1859, at Cross st. Islington 1864; association sec. of Baptist mission Oct. 1870; sec. of Baptist missionary society 1876 to death. _d._ 6, Leigh road, Highbury 13 Dec. 1878. _Baptist handbook_ (1879) 296–98.

BAILLIE, ALFRED. _b._ London 22 June 1830; hon. sec. of Marylebone cricket club May 1858 to 12 Feb. 1863. _d._ May or June 1867.

BAILLIE, AGNES (_elder sister of Joanna Baillie_). _b._ 24 Sep. 1760. _d._ Hollybush hill, Hampstead 27 April 1861 aged 100 years and 7 months.

BAILLIE, EDWARD. _b._ Gateshead; a glass painter; exhibited at Great Exhibition of 1851 “Shakespeare reading a play to Queen Elizabeth.” _d._ London 21 Sep. 1856 aged 43.

BAILLIE, GEORGE ALEXANDER. _b._ 1804; ensign 15 Madras N.I. 6 April 1820; lieut. col. of 52 N.I. 9 June 1853, of 14 N.I. 15 Sep. 1855, and of 26 N.I. 1857–64; col. 15 N.I. 9 June 1865 to 1 Oct. 1877; general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ 92 Westbourne park road, London 3 March 1882.

BAILLIE, HUGH DUNCAN. _b._ 1777; M.P. for Rye 1830–31 and for Honiton 1835–47; Lieutenant and sheriff principal of Rossshire 22 March 1843 to death. _d._ 65 Rutland gate, London 21 June 1866.

BAILLIE, JOANNA (_youngest child of Rev. James Baillie, minister of Bothwell, Lanarkshire_). _b._ Manse of Bothwell 11 Sep. 1762; lived with her only brother Matthew Baillie in London 1783–91; lived at Hampstead 1802 to death; published anonymously _A Series of plays in which it is attempted to delineate the stronger passions of the mind_, _3 vols._ 1798–1812, of these plays _De Montford, a tragedy on hatred_ was produced at Drury Lane theatre 29 April 1800 and ran 11 nights, _The Election, a comedy_ was produced as an opera at English Opera house June 1817, _Constantine Paleologus, a tragedy_ produced at Surrey theatre as a melodrama under title of _Constantine and Valeria The Family legend, a tragedy_ produced at T.R. Edin. 1810 and at Drury Lane 29 May 1815, _The Separation_ and _Henriquez_ have been also acted; author of _Miscellaneous Plays_, _3 vols._ 1836. _d._ Hollybush hill, Hampstead 23 Feb. 1851. _The songstresses of Scotland by Tytler & Watson ii_, 180–334 (1871); _Chambers Biog. dict. of eminent Scotsmen i_, 53 (1868), _portrait_; _W. Howitt’s Homes and haunts of the most eminent British poets ii_, 248–56 (1847); _T. H. Ward’s English poets_, _2 ed. iv_, 221–26 (1883); _The living and the dead by a country curate, i.e. Rev. Erskine Neale_ (1827) 177–91.

BAILLIE, SIR WILLIAM, 1 Baronet. _b._ Edinburgh July 1784; created Baronet by patent dated 14 Nov. 1823. _d._ Perth 28 Jany. 1854.

BAILLIE-HAMILTON, CHARLES (_2 son of George Baillie-Hamilton, M.P. of Mellerstain, Berwickshire 1763–1841_). _b._ Mellerstain 3 Nov. 1804; admitted advocate at Scottish bar 1830; advocate depute 1844 to 1846 and 1852; sheriff of Stirlingshire 2 March 1853; solicitor general for Scotland 17 March 1858; Lord advocate for Scotland 10 July 1858; raised to rank of an Earl’s son 5 July 1859; M.P. for Linlithgowshire 7 Feb. 1859 to 15 April 1859; a judge of Court of Session 15 April 1859 to April 1874; assumed courtesy title of Lord Jerviswood 1859; assessor of Univ. of St. Andrew’s 1861; a lord of justiciary 17 June 1862 to April 1874. _d._ Dryburgh house, St. Boswell’s 23 July 1879.

BAILLIE-HAMILTON, CHARLES JOHN. _b._ 4 Jany. 1800; M.P. for Aylesbury 31 July 1839 to 23 July 1847. _d._ Ronco near Genoa 25 Aug. 1865.

BAILLIÈRE, HIPPOLYTE. Came to London about 1827; opened first shop in London for sale of French medical works at 219 Regent st. 1830; collected books for royal college of surgeons; publisher. _d._ 219 Regent st. 11 May 1867 aged 58.

BAILY, CHARLES. _b._ 10 April 1815; assistant to the City Architect, London; built St. John’s church East Dulwich; restored Barnard’s Inn Hall and Leigh church Kent; F.S.A. 1844; master of the Ironmongers Company 1874–75; author with G. R. French of _Catalogue of the Antiquities and works of art exhibited at Ironmongers hall London in 1861_, _2 vols._ 1869. _d._ Reigate 2 Oct. 1878.

BAILY, EDWARD HODGES. _b._ Bristol 10 March 1788; pupil of Flaxman in London 1807–14; student of R.A. 1809, gained silver and gold medals 1809 and 1811, A.R.A. 1817, R.A. 1821, retired 1863; executed the bassi-relievi on the south or park side of the Marble Arch 1821; executed sculptures of Apollo 1815, Eve at the fountain 1818, Eve listening to the voice 1841, The Graces seated 1849 and statues of Sir Richard Fletcher and Thomas Telford in Westminster Abbey. _d._ 99 Devonshire road, Holloway 22 May 1867. _Scott’s British school of sculpture_ (1871) 123–28; _Sandby’s History of Royal Academy ii_, 57–59 (1862); _Walford’s Photographic portraits of living celebrities_ (1859), _portrait_.

BAILY, JOHN (_eld. son of John Baily of Blandford sq. Marylebone_). _b._ London April 1805; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s sch. and St. John’s coll. Cam., 2 wrangler and junior Smith’s prizeman 1828; fellow of his college 29 March 1830; barrister L.I. 10 May 1832, bencher 3 Nov. 1851; Q.C. 11 July 1851; leader in V.C. Kindersley’s Court to 1867; counsel to Univ. of Cam. _d._ Stoney Hills, Esher Surrey 19 June 1877.

BAILY, JOHN WALKER. _b._ Kent road, London 9 Jany. 1809; head of firm of Wm. Baily and Sons, ironmongers 71 Gracechurch st.; master of the Ironmongers company 1862–63; member of British Archæological Association 6 Dec. 1865, on the council May 1869; formed an important collection of Romano-British and mediæval remains found in London 1862–72, this collection was purchased by Corporation of London 1881; his collection of arms and armour was bought by Baron de Cosson of Chertsey 1881. _d._ 4 March 1873. _Journal of British Archæological Association xxx_, 349–51 (1874).

BAIN, ALEXANDER. _b._ Thurso 1810; a journeyman clockmaker in London 1837; made electrical experiments on the Serpentine; invented electrical clocks, patented 11 Jany. 1841 and exhibited at Royal Polytechnic 28 March 1841; constructed the earth battery 1843; patented apparatus for registering progress of ships 1844, and electro-chemical telegraph 1846; invented automatic method of transmitting signals; devised electrical methods of playing keyed instruments at a distance. _d._ in the Home for incurables Kirkintilloch near Glasgow 2 Jany. 1877. _J. Finlaison’s An account of some remarkable applications of the electric fluid to the useful arts by Mr. Alexander Bain_ 1843.

BAIN, DONALD. _b._ Fordyce, Banffshire; author of _The patriot or Wallace, a historical tragedy_ 1806; _Olden times, a comedy_ 1841, _2 ed._ 1845. _d._ April 1865.

BAIN, EDWIN SANDYS (_eld. son of Lieut. Col. William Bain of Livelands near Stirling_). _b._ 1804; barrister M.T. 19 June 1829; went northern circuit; serjeant at law 12 Nov. 1845. _d._ Livelands 30 Dec. 1874.

BAIN, HENDERSON. Entered navy 4 Sep. 1793; captain 6 April 1813; retired admiral 11 Feb. 1861. _d._ Esher, Surrey 18 Jany. 1862 aged 86.

BAIN, JAMES. A bookseller at the Mews Gate, Charing Cross, London 1819; at 1 Haymarket 1831 to death, _d._ Highgate 10 Dec. 1866 aged 72.

BAIN, SIR WILLIAM. _b._ Culross, Perthshire 1771; Master R.N. 1811; commanded steamers for general steam navigation company; harbour master of Granton on the Firth of Forth 10 years; knighted by the Queen at St. James’s palace 20 March 1844; author of _An essay on the variation of the compass_ 1817. _d._ The Grange, Romford 11 Sep. 1853.

BAINBRIDGE, EDWARD THOMAS. _b._ 1798; a banker in London; M.P. for Taunton 6 Aug. 1830 to Feb. 1842. _d._ 30 Medina villas Brighton 30 Sep. 1872.

BAINBRIDGE, JOHN NATHAN. Studied at St. Thomas’ and Guy’s hospitals; M.R.C.S. 1820, F.R.C.S. 1852, L.S.A. 1821; bought a practice in St. Martin’s lane 1824; medical officer of St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields workhouse 1835; M.D. St. Andrew’s 1842; prescribed for 1669 cases with only 27 deaths during prevalence of cholera 1849 for which, Board of Guardians gave him £200; surgeon to London Friendly Institution. _d._ 86 St. Martin’s lane 16 April 1863 aged 63. _Medical Circular i_ 131, 169 (1852) _portrait_.

BAINBRIDGE, WILLIAM (_only son of Wm. Bainbridge of Alston, Northumberland, solicitor_). Barrister I.T. 23 Nov. 1838; author of _A treatise on the law of mines and minerals_ 1841, _4 ed._ 1878; _Lionel Merval a novel [anon.] 3 vols._ 1866. _d._ Cliffe house, Cullercoats 13 Dec. 1869 aged about 60.

BAINBRIGGE, JOHN HANKEY (_2 son of Philip Bainbrigge of Ashbourne, Derbyshire 1756–99_). _b._ 1791; ensign 20 foot 25 March 1808; lieut. 9 March 1809 to 25 Dec. 1814; town major Guernsey 29 Nov. 1839 to 30 May 1861; general 1 Oct. 1877; _d._ Robais manor, Guernsey 15 March 1881.

BAINBRIGGE, SIR PHILIP (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ London 1786; entered navy 1799; ensign 20 foot 30 June 1800; permanent assistant quartermaster general 15 Oct. 1812 to 23 Nov. 1841; deputy quartermaster general Ireland 23 Nov. 1841 to 9 Nov. 1846; commanded the forces in Ceylon 1852–54; col. of 26 foot 31 March 1854 to death; general 24 Aug. 1861; granted service reward 15 Nov. 1848; C.B. 19 July 1838, K.C.B. 18 May 1860; invented a protracting pocket sextant 1809. _d._ St. Margaret’s Litchfield, Hants 20 Dec. 1862. _G.M. xiv._ 236–37 (1863); _Annual Register_ (1850) 323–31.

BAINES, REV. EDWARD. _b._ Cainham vicarage, Shropshire 1 Aug. 1801; ed. at Shrewsbury head præpositor; at Christ’s coll. Cam., Bell Univ. scholar, and Browne medallist for Latin and Greek epigrams 1821, B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; fellow classical lecturer and tutor of his college; R. of Clipston 1840–43; R. of Bluntisham, Hants 1843–59; V. of Yalding, Kent 1859 to death; author of _First form Latin grammar_ 1855; _Visit to the Vaudois of Piedmont_ 1855. _d._ San Remo 20 April 1882. _Sermons by the late Rev. Edward Baines edited with memoir by Alfred Barry, D.D._ 1883.

BAINES, REV. JOHN. Ed. at St. John’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1843; V. of Little Marlow, Bucks 1859 to death; author of _Tales of the Empire_ 1851; _Life of Archbishop Laud_ 1855; _Twenty sermons_ 1857; _Hints for harvest services_ 1866. _d._ 63 Abingdon villas Kensington, London 20 May 1880 aged 58.

BAINES, MATTHEW TALBOT (_eld. child of Edward Baines 1774–1848, M.P. for Leeds_). _b._ Leeds 17 Feb. 1799; ed. at Richmond gr. sch. and Trin. coll. Cam. scholar, B.A. 1820; barrister I.T. 6 May 1825, bencher 1841, reader 1854, treasurer 1855; recorder of Hull 1837–47; Q.C. 1841; M.P. for Hull 1847–1852 and for Leeds 1852–1859; pres. of Poor law board 1 Jany. 1849 to 2 March 1852 and 1 Jany. 1853 to 13 Aug. 1855; P.C. 30 July 1849; mem. of committee of council on education 10 March 1855; chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster with a seat in the cabinet 7 Dec. 1855 to 26 Feb. 1858. _d._ 13 Queen’s square, Westminster 22 Jany. 1860. _Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis_ (1865) 482–86; _Illust. News of the World 24 Nov. 1860_, _portrait_.

NOTE.—He was the first dissenter admitted to a seat in the Cabinet.

BAINES, THOMAS. _b._ Kings Lynn 1822; went to Cape Colony 1842; painted pictures and taught drawing; went through Kafir wars 1846–54; explored North West Australia under Augustus Gregory 1855–56; artist and store keeper to the Livingstone Zambesi Expedition 1858, his series of pictures of scenes on the Zambesi has been exhibited at the Crystal palace, Dublin exhibition and Alexandra palace; lectured in England 1864–68; F.R.G.S. 1857; author of _Explorations in South Western Africa_ 1864. _d._ D’ Urban, Port Natal 8 April 1875. _The gold regions of South Eastern Africa, by the late Thomas Baines_ 1877, _portrait_; _Illust. News of the World i_, 64 (1858), _portrait_.

BAINES, THOMAS (_3 son of Edward Baines 1774–1848 M.P. for Leeds_). _b._ Leeds 1806; edited _Liverpool Times_ 1829–59; a parliamentary agent in London 1859; author of _History of commerce and town of Liverpool_ 1852; _Lancashire and Cheshire past and present_ 1867; _Yorkshire past and present_ 1875. _d._ Seaforth hall near Liverpool 31 Oct. 1881.

BAIRD, ANDREW WOOD. _b._ Colchester; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1823; L.R.C.S. Edin. 1821, M.R.C.P. 1827; a phys. at Ipswich 1824–52, at Dover 1852 to death; phys. to Dover hospital. _d._ 7 Camden Crescent, Dover 10 Jany. 1882.

BAIRD, SIR DAVID, 2 Baronet. _b._ 1795; succeeded 18 Aug. 1829. _d._ 9 Jany. 1852.

BAIRD, FRANCIS (_2 son of Charles Baird, founder of the ‘Baird Works’ at St. Petersburg who d. 10 Dec. 1843 in his 77 year_). _b._ 16 Feb. 1802; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; joined his father’s Works 1819; sole proprietor 1843 to death; M.I.C.E. 25 Feb. 1823; executed the 4 bas-reliefs, eagles and candelabra, and colossal figure of the angel on the Alexander column in the Winter Palace St. Petersburg, also the St. Nicholas bridge, first permanent bridge across the Neva. _d._ St. Petersburg 25 March 1864; _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxx_ 428 (1870).

BAIRD, JAMES (_4 son of Alexander Baird of Kirkwood, Lanarkshire farmer 1765–1833_). _b._ Kirkwood 5 Dec. 1802; an ironmaster at Gartsherrie works near Airdrie 1829 which became largest iron works in the world except those at Dowlais; largely assisted J. B. Neilson in perfecting his invention of the hot blast; M.P. for Falkirk burghs 1851–57; bought estate of Muirkirk Ayrshire 1863 for £135,000; founded Baird lectures for defence of orthodoxy 1871, and Baird Trust in connection with Church of Scotland at cost of £500,000 July 1873. _d._ Cambusdoon near Ayr 20 June 1876. Personalty sworn under £1,190,000 Aug. 1876. _Practical Mag. i_, 241–48 (1873) _portrait_; _Burke’s Vicissitudes of families_ _2 ed._ 1859, _pp._ 40–46; _Graphic xiv_, 12 (1876), _portrait_.

BAIRD, REV. JOHN (_eld. son of Rev. James Baird, minister of Swinton, Berwickshire who d. 11 Feb. 1814_). _b._ Manse of Eccles 17 Feb. 1799; ed. at Whitsome and Kelso and Univ. of Edin.; founded the Plinian Society at Edin. 1823, which was eventually incorporated with Botanical Society of Edin.; minister of Yetholm near Kelso June 1829 to death; established a school at Yetholm for Gipsies 1843, this was the first ragged school in Scotland; a founder of Berwickshire Naturalists’ Club 22 Sep. 1831, pres. 1837; author of _Scottish Gipsies Advocate_ 1839; _Account of the parish of Yetholm_ in the _New Statistical account of Scotland iii_, 159–76 (1845). _d._ Yetholm 29 Nov. 1861. _Memoir of the late Rev. John Baird by W. Baird M.D._ 1862.

BAIRD, ROBERT. _b._ 1806; an ironmaster at Glasgow; lord dean of guild Glasgow 1855. _d._ Cawdor house, Glasgow 7 Aug. 1856.

BAIRD, THOMAS. Wrote much in _Western Times_ Exeter newspaper under pseudonym of Nathan Hogg; author of _Letters in the Devonshire dialect in verse by Nathan Hogg_ 1847. _d._ St. Thomas’s hospital London May 1881.

BAIRD, WILLIAM (_elder brother of James Baird_). _b._ 1796; senior partner in Gartsherrie iron works; M.P. for Falkirk 1841–45; bought estate of Elie, Fifeshire for £145,000. _d._ Edinburgh 8 March 1864, leaving a fortune of £2,000,000 sterling.

BAIRD, WILLIAM (_younger brother of Rev. John Baird_). _b._ the Manse of Eccles Berwickshire 1803; ed. at Edin. Dublin and Paris; surgeon H.E.I. Co’s. navy 1823–33; practised in London 1833–41; assistant in Zoological department of the British Museum Sep. 1841 to death; F.R.S. 6 June 1867; author of _The natural history of the British Entomostraca_ published by Ray Society 1850; _Cyclopædia of natural sciences_ 1858. _d._ 38 Burlington road, Westbourne park 27 Jany. 1872.

BAIRD, REV. WILLIAM. Ed. at Linc. coll. Ox., B.A. 1859, M.A. 1861; V. of St. Barnabas, Homerton 1870 to death; author of _Hallowing of our common life, sermons_ 1867, _3 ed._ 1874; _Inheritance of our fathers, the book of common prayer_ 1868; _Days that are past, early church history_ 1870. _d._ Coleshill st. Eaton sq. London 5 Dec. 1875.

BAKER, ANNE ELIZABETH. _b._ 16 June 1786; wrote the geological and botanical part of her brother George Baker’s _History and antiquities of Northamptonshire_; author of _Glossary of Northamptonshire words and phrases 2 vols._ 1854. _d._ Gold st. Northampton 22 April 1861.

BAKER, ANTHONY ST. JOHN. Consul general in the U.S. of America 6 Jany. 1816 to 5 Jany. 1832 when office abolished. _d._ Mount Calverley lodge, Tunbridge Wells 16 May 1854.

BAKER, B. B. Director of the college at Corfu; professor of English literature in the Ionian University. _d._ Malta 20 Feb. 1868.

BAKER, REV. DAVID BRISTOW. Ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; Inc. of Claygate, Surrey 1841–52; author of _A treatise on the nature of doubt in religious questions [by D.B.B.]_ 1831; _Discourses and Sacramental addresses to a village congregation_ 1832. _d._ Parliament st. Westminster 24 July 1852 aged 49.

BAKER, D. S. Deaf and dumb heraldic artist; drew for many years the arms for the obituary notices in the Illustrated London News; painted heraldic paintings on panels and doors of state carriage of Lord Mayor of London. _d._ 1 Sep. 1877 aged 53.

BAKER, SIR EDWARD BAKER, 2 Baronet. _b._ Dublin 4 Nov. 1806; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox.; succeeded 4 March 1825. _d._ 51 Upper Brook st. London 29 March 1877.

BAKER, REV. FRANKLIN. _b._ Birmingham 1801; M.A. Univ. of Glasgow; minister of Presbyterian chapel Bolton 14 Dec. 1823; ordained 23 Sep. 1824; author of _The rise and progress of Nonconformity in Bolton_ 1854. _d._ Birmingham 25 May 1867.

BAKER, GEORGE. _b._ Northampton; mayor 1837; issued proposals for a history of Northamptonshire 1815; published the first part 1822, the second 1826, the third completing the first volume 1830, the fourth part 1836 and about one third of the fifth part 1841, the manuscripts were eventually purchased by Sir Thomas Phillipps. _d._ May Fair, Northampton 12 Oct. 1851 aged 70. _G.M. xxxvi_, 551–52, 629 (1851).

BAKER, GEORGE. _b._ 8 Jany. 1794; cornet 16 light dragoons 6 July 1809; captain 19 Oct. 1820 to 18 July 1826, when placed on h.p.; English comr. for defining boundary frontier between Turkey and Greece 1830; F.R.G.S. 1830. _d._ Grosvenor place, Bath 22 Dec. 1859. _Journal of Royal Geographical society xxx, c-cii_ (1860).

BAKER, GEORGE. _b._ Cobham near Gravesend 31 May 1838; a bowler at Lord’s cricket ground, London 1862–64; started the United north and south of England Eleven 1866, sec. to that body which soon became extinct; kept a cricket and newspaper shop at Stratford, Essex about 1864 to death; a left handed bowler and batsman. _d._ Lydd, Kent 2 June 1870.

BAKER, SIR HENRY LORAINE, 2 Baronet. _b._ Nancy in Lorraine 3 Jany. 1787; captain R.N. 13 June 1815; retired V.A. 9 July 1857; succeeded as 2 Bart. 4 Feb. 1826; C.B. 4 June 1815. _d._ Dunstable house, Richmond 2 Nov. 1859.

BAKER, REV. SIR HENRY WILLIAMS, 3 Baronet (_elder son of the preceding_). _b._ London 27 May 1821; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1844, M.A. 1854; C. of Great Horkesley Essex 1842–51; V. of Monkland, Hereford 1851 to death; originated the most popular hymn book ever compiled, _Hymns ancient and modern_ 1860, of which 20 million copies have been sold, author of several of these hymns. _d._ Horkesley house, Monkland 12 Feb. 1877.

BAKER, REV. JAMES. _b._ Lincoln; ed. at Winchester; fellow of New college Ox. 1807–18, B.A. 1811. M.A. 1815; chancellor of diocese of Durham 1818 to death; R. of Nuneham Courtenay, Oxon 1825 to death. _d._ Nuneham Courtenay 6 Sep. 1854 aged 66.

BAKER, JAMES. _b._ York 4 Oct. 1851; the first editor of a periodical entitled _Bachelors’ Papers_ Liverpool 1870; studied at Univ. of Edin. 1872; M.B. 1876; resident phys. Royal infirmary Edin. 1876; pres. of Royal medical society. _d._ Royal infirmary Edin. 17 April 1877. _The annual monitor for 1878 pp._ 15–29.

BAKER, JAMES VASHON. _b._ 1798; entered navy 1811; captain 10 July 1843; admiral on h.p. 30 July 1875. _d._ Neen-Sollars rectory, Shropshire 14 Oct. 1875.

BAKER, JOHN. One of the pioneers of South Australia; one of its foremost public men; member of Legislative Council. _d._ Morialta, South Australia 18 May 1872 aged 59.

BAKER, JOSEPH. _b._ Great new st. Fetter lane London about 1766; map engraver; employed by the Board of Ordnance; a liveryman of company of stationers 1787, one of the court of assistants 1825, master of the company 1832 and 1833, a stockkeeper for management of business concerns of the company 1840 to death. _d._ Warren st. Pentonville, London 2 March 1853.

BAKER, SIR RICHARD (_eld. son of John Baker of Cott house, New Totnes, Devon_). _b._ Cott house 1782; army and navy clothier Dublin; sheriff of Dublin 1833; knighted by Marquess Wellesley 1833; alderman of Dublin 1838–41. _d._ Mount Errol, Donnybrook, co. Dublin 1 June 1853.

BAKER, ROBERT. _b._ Terling, Essex Nov 1793; a tenant farmer at Writtle; founded Society for protection of agriculture 17 Feb. 1844; author of _A lecture on the economy of farming_ 1852; edited J. S. Bayldon’s _Art of valuing rents and tillages_ 1856. _d._ 24 Dec. 1859.

BAKER, ROBERT. Member of medical profession; sub-inspector of factories 1834; inspector 18 June 1858; C.B. 27 Oct. 1877. _d._ Leamington 6 Feb. 1880 in 77 year.

BAKER, REV. ROBERT GEORGE. Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813; V. of Fulham 1834–71; Preb. of St. Paul’s 1846 to death; rural dean 1851–71; author of _Account of benefactions and charities of Fulham_; _The olden characters of Fulham_ 1847. _d._ Ivy cottage, Fulham 21 Feb. 1878 in 90 year.

BAKER, THOMAS. _b._ 8 Oct. 1809; landscape painter in Midland counties; known as Baker of Leamington; exhibited at the R.A. 1831. _d._ 10 Aug. 1869.

BAKER, THOMAS (_son of a farmer at Old Park, Durham_). A civil engineer; invented method of laying down railway curves; laid out Stockton and Darlington railway the first line in the kingdom, opened 27 Sep. 1825; laid out atmospheric line from Dublin to Kingstown, opened 17 Dec. 1834; author of _Rudimentary treatise on mensuration_ 1850; _Principles and practice of statics and dynamics_ 1851; _The mathematical theory of the steam engine_ 1862. _d._ Charter house hospital London Sep. or Oct. 1871.

BAKER, THOMAS ELD. _b._ Margate 1791; M.R.C.S. 1813; surgeon Bengal army 1814 to 23 Aug. 1838 when he retired; treasurer of Royal humane society; author of _The art of preserving health in India_ 1829; _An appeal to the common sense of the people of England in favour of anatomy_ 1832. _d._ 76 Porchester Terrace, London 23 July 1868.

BAKER, THOMAS PALMER. Chief engineer Chatham dockyard 11 Nov. 1856 to Dec. 1868 when office abolished; chief inspector of machinery afloat 6 July 1866; C.B. 2 June 1869. _d._ 170, Lewisham high road, Newcross 6 Oct. 1876 in 69 year.

BAKER, WILLIAM (_son of Mr. Baker of Eastover, Bridgwater, butcher_). _b._ Eastover 3 March 1787; apprenticed to Mr. Tuthill of Bridgwater, currier Sep. 1800; worked in London and Glasgow 1807–1809; a currier in Fore st. Bridgwater 1809; alderman; F.G.S. Nov. 1842; sec. to Somersetshire Archæological and natural history society. _d._ Bridgwater 8 Oct. 1853. _A brief memoir of Wm. Baker by John Bowen_ 1854.

BAKER, WILLIAM (_elder son of George Wingfield of Cotham who d. 1774_). Barrister L.I. 23 Nov. 1797, bencher 1818 to death; M.P. for Bodmin 1 Nov. 1806 to 29 April 1807; chief justice of Brecon circuit; a comr. of bankrupts; K.C. 1818; master in Chancery 19 March 1819 to March 1849; assumed surname of Baker in lieu of Wingfield by R.L. 29 Dec. 1849. _d._ Sherborne castle, Dorset 21 March 1858.

BAKER, WILLIAM. _b._ 1784; an attorney in London; coroner for east division of Middlesex; author of _A practical compendium of the recent statutes, cases and decisions affecting the office of coroner_ 1851. _d._ 12 Chester terrace, Regent’s Park 22 Feb. 1859.

BAKER, WILLIAM. _b._ 19 May 1817; articled to G. W. Buck, C.E. 1834–39; engineer upon southern division of London and north western railway 1852–59, chief engineer of that line Oct. 1859–1878, during which time he carried out a great extent of railway works; M.I.C.E. 7 May 1848; member of council 1877 to death. _d._ 7 March 1878. _Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lv_, 315–17 (1879).

BAKER, SIR WILLIAM ERSKINE (_son of Joseph Baker, capt. R.N._) _b._ Leith 1808; 2 lieut. Bengal engineers 15 Dec. 1826, col. commandant 10 March 1857; military sec. at India office 1858; member of council of India 1861–1875; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 29 Nov. 1878; K.C.B. 1 Feb. 1870. (_m._ 1837 Frances Gertrude 3 dau. of major general A. Duncan). _d._ the Castle, Banwell 16 Dec. 1881.

BAKER, REV. WILLIAM RICHARD. _b._ Waltham abbey, Essex 3 Sep. 1798; agent of Home missionary society at Ramsey, Isle of Man 1822–28; minister of independent chapel at Shepton Mallet, Somerset 1828–38; sec. of New British and Foreign Temperance Society 1838–41; minister of Portland chapel St. John’s Wood, London 1841–51; a founder of United Kingdom temperance and general provident Institution 1840, resident director 1852; author of _The curse of Britain_ 1838; _The idolatry of Britain_ 1840; _Our state church_ 1850; _Anti-mysticism_ 1855. _d._ Down house near Sutton, Surrey 28 Sep. 1861. _Life of the late Rev. W. R. Baker, edited by his sister Mrs. E. L. Edmunds_ 1865.

BALD, ROBERT. _b._ Culross, Perthshire 1776; engaged in the Mar collieries; a mining engineer at Edin. about 1820; much employed in Scotland, England and Wales; reported on coalfields of Sweden for the Swedish government; F.R.S. Edin. 1817; author of _A general view of the coal trade of Scotland_ 1812; of the article _Mine_ in the _Edinburgh Encyclopædia_ and of many papers. _d._ Alloa 28 Dec. 1861.

BALD, WILLIAM, _b._ Burnt Island, Fifeshire; a civil engineer 1803; made a territorial survey of co. Mayo about 1810, his map on a scale of 4 inches to a mile was one of the finest maps ever constructed; a draftsman at the Admiralty; resident engineer to trustees of the river Clyde 1839–45; examined the river Seine 1845. _d._ 1857. _Quarterly journal of Geological Society xiv_, 42–43 (1858).

BALDERS, CHARLES WILLIAM MORELY (_eld. son of Charles Morely Balders of West Barsham, Norfolk_). _b._ Sunderland 4 Feb. 1804; cornet 3 dragoons 10 Nov. 1825, and major 1845–48; major 5 dragoon guards 1848–54; lieut. col. 12 lancers 8 Jany. 1858 to 31 Aug. 1860; col. 17 lancers 4 Feb. 1867 to death; L.G. 28 Oct. 1869; C.B. 24 May 1847. _d._ 11 Adelaide crescent, Brighton 21 Sep. 1875.

BALDERSON, ABRAHAM THOMAS. _b._ 1804; ed. at Guy’s hospital; L.S.A. 1826; assistant to Sir Astley Cooper 1825–41; examiner of lunatics, parish of St. James, Westminster. _d._ 37 Woburn sq. London 3 Feb. 1872

BALDOCK, EDWARD HOLMES. _b._ 1812; M.P. for Shrewsbury 30 July 1847 to 21 March 1857. _d._ 8 Grosvenor place, London 15 Aug. 1875 from effect of walking through a plate glass window in Alexander Collie’s house, 12 Kensington palace gardens.

BALDOCK, ROBERT (_youngest son of Thomas Baldock of Burwash Sussex, surgeon_). _b._ Burwash July 1789; bookseller at 85 High Holborn, London 1814 to death. _d._ 85 High Holborn 5 Nov. 1861.

BALDOCK, THOMAS. Midshipman R.N. 25 Oct. 1806; superintended packet service at Dover 19 Aug. 1846 to Sep. 1852; captain on h.p. 9 Jany. 1854; retired R.A. 10 Sep. 1869; K.T.S. 1 May 1837. _d._ Hastings 11 March 1871 aged 81.

BALDWIN, AUGUSTUS. Entered navy May 1794: captain 1 Jany. 1817; retired admiral 10 Nov. 1862. _d._ Toronto 5 Jany. 1866.

BALDWIN, CHARLES (_3 son of Henry Baldwin of London, printer, who founded the St. James’s Chronicle 1761_). _b._ 1774; sole proprietor of _St. James’s Chronicle_ and _Morning Herald_; founded the _Standard_ evening paper 21 May 1827, published in it the news of the surrender of Varna 11 Oct. 1828 a fortnight before arrival of the Government couriers; contested Lambeth Aug. 1837 and July 1841; master of the Stationers’ company 1842 and 1843; retired from business 1844; probably oldest volunteer in the kingdom. _d._ 27 Sussex gardens, Hyde park, London 18 Feb. 1869 in 95 year. _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_, 313–15 (1869).

BALDWIN, CHARLES BARRY (_eld. son of Charles Baldwin, lieut. col. of Kings county militia_). _b._ 1789; barrister I.T. 26 Nov 1824; secretary to comrs. for claims on France, sole comr. to 1830; M.P. for Totnes 1830–32 and 1839–52. _d._ Paris 13 April 1859.

BALDWIN, CONNELL JAMES (_son of James Baldwin of Clohina, co. Cork_). _b._ Clohina; ensign 87 foot 23 July 1807; captain 50 foot 10 Feb. 1820 to 22 Feb. 1827 when placed on h.p.; served in the Peninsula for which he received a medal and 10 clasps; raised a regiment at Cork for Emperor of Brazil but brought the men back again on being ordered to the interior of Brazil as settlers; went to Canada about 1828; raised a regiment of Militia for defence of the frontier in troubles of 1837–38. _d._ Toronto 14 Dec. 1861. _H. J. Morgan’s Sketches of eminent Canadians_ (1862) 733–35.

BALDWIN, EDWARD. _b._ Waterford; a pugilist 6 feet 5 inches in height; beaten by Andrew Marsden 21 Oct. 1863; beat George Iles 19 Feb. 1866; beat A. Marsden 25 Sep. 1866; matched to fight Joseph Wormald for Championship 29 April 1867 but forfeited his stakes; matched to fight James Mace for Championship 15 Oct. 1867 but Mace was arrested; fought J. Wormald at Lynnfield Massachusetts 1868 for Championship and 2,500 dollars when police interfered, he was awarded the stakes as Wormald declined to renew the fight; shot dead in the United States Sep. 1875. _Modern Boxing by Pendragon_ (1879) 83–89; _Illust. Sporting News v_, 97 (1866), _portrait_.

BALDWIN, GEORGE WALTER. Major 31 foot 1863–64; major 20 foot 1864 to death; murdered by Japanese at Kamahura, about 17 miles from Yokohama 21 Nov. 1864. _R. Lindau’s Erzählungen und Novellen i_, 15–54. (1871); _F. O. Adams’s History of Japan i_, 485–98 (1874), _ii_, 1–5 (1875).

BALDWIN, HENRY. Called to bar in Ireland 1826; Q.C. 17 Aug. 1841; law adviser of the Castle during state trials 1848–49; comr. of insolvent court 1850 to death. _d._ Dublin 24 May 1854.

BALDWIN, MARTIN. _b._ Coalbrookdale Shropshire 22 Nov. 1788; an engine factor at Bradley near Bilston 1809; carried on the Lower Bovereux colliery; invented many improvements in the construction of engines and machinery. _d._ Newbridge crescent, Wolverhampton 16 Feb. 1872.

BALDWIN, ROBERT (_only son of Benjamin Baldwin of Faringdon, Berkshire surgeon_). Printer and bookseller in Bridge st. Blackfriars 1806–10, and in Paternoster row 1810; united his business with that of another firm under name of Baldwin, Cradock and Joy; started the _London Magazine_ Jany. 1820, in opposition to _Blackwood’s Mag._ transferred it to Messrs. Taylor and Hessey 1821; became insolvent; a stock keeper of Company of Stationers 1834 to death. _d._ Cumberland place, Westbourne grove north, 29 Jany. 1858 aged 78.

BALDWIN, ROBERT (_son of Wm. Warren Baldwin of Toronto, lawyer who d. 8 Jany. 1844_). _b._ Toronto 1804; partner with his father 1825–48; member of Assembly of Upper Canada 1829; executive councillor 18 Feb. 1836 for short time; solicitor general 1840; attorney general for Upper Canada Sep. 1842 and Feb. 1848 to July 1851; C.B. 23 June 1854. _d._ Spadina near Toronto 9 Dec. 1858. _H. J. Morgan’s Sketches of eminent Canadians_ (1862) 397–405.

BALDY, JOHN PATEY. M.R.C.S. 1814; private teacher of anatomy and surgery. _d._ 23 Pembroke st. Devonport 6 Sep. 1861 aged 67.

BALE, CHARLES SACKVILLE. Made a splendid collection of pictures at 71 Cambridge terrace, Edgeware road, London. _d._ 71 Cambridge terrace 28 Nov. 1880 aged 89. _Waagen’s Treasures of art ii_, 329–32 (1854); _Waagen’s Galleries of art_ (1857) 116–21.

BALFE, MICHAEL WILLIAM (_only son of Balfe of Dublin, violinist 1783–1823_). _b._ 10 Pitt st. Dublin 15 May 1808; played the violin at a concert in Royal Exchange, Dublin, May 1816; first violinist in Drury Lane orchestra 1823; chief baritone at Italian opera, Paris 1827–29; sang in Italy 1829–35; lessee of English opera house Lyceum 9 March 1841 to 13 May 1841; conductor at Her Majesty’s theatre 3 March 1846 to 1852 when house closed; went to St. Petersburg 1852; purchased Rowney Abbey, Ware, Herts and turned gentleman farmer 1864; chevalier of Legion of honour 22 March 1870; composed _Rivals_ 1829, _Siege of Rochelle_ 1835, _Bohemian Girl_ 1843 (produced at Drury Lane 27 Nov. 1843, performed in almost every European country), _Rose of Castille_ 1857, _Puritan’s daughter_ 1861, _Il Talismano_ produced at Her Majesty’s theatre 1874; arranged _Moore’s Irish Melodies_ as duets and quartets. (_m._ Lina Rozer a Hungarian prima donna). _d._ Rowney Abbey 20 Oct. 1870. _Balfe, his life and work by W. A. Barrett_ 1882, _portrait_; _A memoir of M. W. Balfe by C. L. Kenny_ 1875; _Illust. Review v_, 671–77, _portrait_; _Recollections of J. R. Planché i_, 241 (1872), _portrait by Thackeray_.

NOTE.—A statue of him was placed in the vestibule of Drury Lane theatre 24 Sep. 1874, his memorial window in St. Patrick’s cathedral, Dublin, was uncovered 14 April 1879, and his memorial tablet in Westminster Abbey was unveiled 20 Oct. 1882.

BALFE, VICTOIRE (_2 dau. of the preceding_). _b._ Rue de la Victoire, Paris 1 Sep. 1837; made her first appearance in London at Lyceum Theatre 28 May 1857 as Amina in opera of _La Sonnambula_; sang with great success in England, Italy and at St. Petersburg 1857–59. (_m._ (1) 31 March 1860 Sir John Fiennes Twisleton Crampton 2 Baronet, marriage was annulled on her petition 20 Nov. 1863, she _m._ (2) 1864 Duc de Frias and _d._ Madrid 22 Jany. 1871.) _bur._ Burgos cathedral. _Illust. news of the world iii_, 328 (1859), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxxi_, 116 (1857), _portrait, lviii_, 115 (1871).

BALFOUR, BLAYNEY TOWNLEY. _b._ 28 May 1769; sheriff of Louth 1792; M.P. for Belturbet in Irish parliament 1797–98. _d._ Townley hall near Drogheda 22 Dec. 1856.

BALFOUR, BLAYNEY TOWNLEY (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ 1799; lieutenant governor of the Bahamas 1833 to 1834; sheriff of co. Louth 1841. _d._ Townley hall 5 Sep. 1882.

BALFOUR, CLARA LUCAS (_dau. of Mr. Liddell_). _b._ in the New Forest 21 Dec. 1808; signed the pledge at a chapel in St. George’s road, Pimlico 16 Oct. 1837 being the 9th person to do so in Chelsea district; edited _Temperance Beacon_ and _Teetotal Magazine_; a public lecturer 1841–70; author of _Women of Scripture_ 1850; _Happy evenings_ 1851, _3 ed._ 1877; _Sketches of English literature_ 1852; _Moral heroism_ 1854, _new ed._ 1877; _Family Honour_ 1880; wrote in many periodicals. (_m._ 1828 James Balfour). _d._ London road, Croydon 3 July 1878. _Home makers by the late Mrs. C. L. Balfour with a biographical sketch of the author by the Rev. C. Bullock_ 1878, _portrait_.

BALFOUR, FRANCIS MAITLAND (_3 son of James Maitland Balfour of Whittingham, East Lothian 1820–56_). _b._ Queen st. Edinburgh 11 Nov. 1851; ed. at Harrow 1865–70 and Trin. coll. Cam.; natural science scholar 1871; B.A. 1873, M.A. 1877; studied at Professor Dohrn’s Zoological station, Naples; fellow of his college Oct. 1874 and lecturer on natural science 1875; F.R.S. 1878, member of council 1881 to death, royal medallist 1881; pres. of Cambridge Philosophical society Nov. 1881; professor of Animal Morphology in Univ. of Cam. 31 May 1882 to death; LLD. Glasgow 1880; edited with E. R. Lankester _The quarterly journal of Microscopical science_; author of _Monograph on the development of Elasmobranch fishes_ 1878; _Treatise on Comparative Embryology_ _2 vols._ 1880–81; left Courmayeur 18 July 1882 to ascend Aiguille Blanche a peak of Mont Blanc his body was found 23 July on Fresnay glacier at foot of the Penteret. _bur._ at Whittingham 5 Aug. 1882. _Fortnightly Review xxxii_, 568–80 (1882); I.L.N. lxxxi, 197 (1882), _portrait_; _Report of British Assoc. 1882 meeting pp._ 555–58.

BALFOUR, JAMES. _b._ Russell st. Covent Garden 16 Oct. 1796; served in the navy 5 years; a temperance advocate in London many years; employed in the Ways and Means office of House of Commons 1853. (_m._ 1828 Clara Lucas Liddell). _d._ London road, Croydon 22 Dec. 1884.

BALFOUR, JAMES MELVILLE (_youngest son of Rev. Lewis Balfour, minister of Colinton near Edin. who d. 24 April 1860 aged 82._) _b._ Manse of Colinton 2 June 1831; ed. at high school and Univ. of Edin; marine engineer to province of Otago, New Zealand 1863–65 and to government of N.Z. 1865 to death; invented the Refraction Protractor for lighthouses; designed many lighthouses in N.Z., also the dry dock at Port Chalmers; M.I.C.E. 15 May 1866; drowned off Timaru N.Z. 18 Dec. 1869. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxi_, 200–202 (1871.)

BALFOUR, JOHN HUTTON. _b._ 15 Buccleuch place, Edin. 15 Sep. 1808; ed. at high school and Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1832, M.A., LLD.; apprenticed to Sir George Ballingall; a pres. of Royal Medical Society 1831–33; LLD. Glasgow and St. Andrew’s; M.R.C.S. Edin. 1833, F.R.C.S. 1835; practised at Edin. 1834–41; Botanical Society of Edin. was founded at his house 15 Dundas st. 8 Feb. 1836; a lecturer on botany in Surgeon sq. 1840; professor of botany in Univ. of Glasgow 1841, and in Univ. of Edin. 22 Oct. 1845 to Feb. 1879; regius keeper of Royal botanic garden, and Queen’s botanist for Scotland 1845–79; F.R.S. Edinburgh 1835, F.L.S. 1844, F.R.S. 5 June 1856; dean of the Medical faculty; an editor of _Annals of natural history_ 1842–57 and of _Edinburgh New philosophical journal_ 1855–66; author of _Class book of botany_ 1854, _5 ed._ 1875; _Introduction to study of Palæontological botany_ 1872. _d._ Inverleith house, Edin. 11 Feb. 1884. _The Biograph i_, 430–38 (1882).

BALFOUR, LOWRY VESEY TOWNLEY. _b._ 1819; secretary of the order of St. Patrick 1853 to death. _d._ Dublin 12 Feb. 1878.

BALFOUR, ROBERT FREDERICK. _b._ Balbirnie Fifeshire 30 April 1846; ensign Grenadier guards 9 Aug. 1865; major 1 April 1882 to death; served in Egypt 1882; wounded at battle of Tel-el-Kebir 9 Sep. 1882. _d._ 24 Belgrave sq. London 23 Oct. 1882. _I.L.N. lxxxi_, 497 (1882), _portrait_; _Graphic xxvi_, 605 (1882), _portrait_.

BALGUY, JOHN (_eld. son of John Balguy of Darwent hall, Derbyshire, recorder of Derby who d. 14 Sep. 1833_). _b._ 14 Sep. 1782; barrister M.T. 14 June 1805, bencher 1833; recorder of Derby 1830 to death; Q.C. 1833; chairman of Derbyshire quarter sessions 1837; bankruptcy comr. at Birmingham 21 Oct. 1842 to death. _d._ Duffield hall near Derby 16 Dec. 1858.

BALL, CHARLES ASHBY. _b._ Albury, Surrey 1809; entered the paper business 1826; purchased with his father the Guerres works near Dieppe 1829; founded the Doullens works 1836; purchased the Valvernes works near Dieppe; manufactured paper from esparto and bleached straw; founded the Fort Andemer works 1844; sold his business to La Compagnie des Establishments de la Risle 1869; perfected many important improvements in manufacture of paper. _d._ Sainte Addresse near Havre 27 March 1885.

BALL, FRANCES (_6 and youngest child of John Ball of Dublin, merchant who d. 1808_). _b._ Eccles st. Dublin 9 Jany. 1794; joined the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Mickle Bar convent York 11 June 1814; introduced this Institution into Ireland 1821; assumed name of Sister Mary Theresa 8 Sep. 1814; founded in various parts of the world 37 convents tenanted by about 800 nuns. _d._ Rathfarnham Abbey near Dublin 19 May 1861. _Life by H. J. Coleridge_ 1881, _portrait_; _Life by Wm. Hutch, D.D._ 1879.

BALL, NICHOLAS (_son of John Ball of Dublin, silk mercer_). _b._ Dublin 1791; ed. at Stonyhurst and Trin. coll. Dub., B.A. 1812; called to Irish bar 1814; K.C. 1830; bencher of King’s Inns 1836; M.P. for Clonmel 1836–39; third Serjeant at law 10 Nov. 1836 to 11 July 1838; attorney general 11 July 1838 to 23 Feb. 1839; P.C. Ireland 1838; justice of Irish Court of Common Pleas 23 Feb. 1839 to death. _d._ 85 Stephens Green, Dublin 15 Jany. 1865.

BALL, RICHARD. Lived at Bridgewater, Bristol and Taunton successively; a Friend; joined the Plymouth Brethren; author of _Holy Scripture the test of truth_ 1835; _Christianity in China_ 1850; _Horæ Sabbaticæ or the Sabbatic cycle the divine chronometer_ 1853. _d._ Aberdeen terrace, Clifton 10 May 1862 aged 68. _Smith’s Friends’ Books i_, 161–63 (1867).

BALL, ROBERT (_son of Bob Stawel Ball_). _b._ Cove of Cork 1 April 1802; clerk in under secretary’s office in Dublin 1827–52; F.R.S. Dublin 1834; M.R.I.A. 23 Feb. 1835, treasurer 1845 to death; member of Geol. soc. of Ireland 1835, pres. 1852; sec. to Zoological society of Dub. 1837 to death; director of museum of Trinity college Dub. 1844, presented his valuable private collection to the college; hon. LLD. Dub. 1850; sec. to Queen’s Univ. in Ireland 1851; founded University zoological and botanical association 1853. (_m._ 21 Sep. 1837 Amelia Gresley dau. of Thomas Hellicar of Bristol, merchant, she was granted a civil list pension of £100 4 Oct. 1858). _d._ Dublin 30 March 1857. _Natural history review v_, 1–34 (1858), _portrait_.

BALL, SAMUEL. Member of East India Company’s establishment at Canton 1804–26; author of _Observations on expediency of opening a second port in China_ 1817; _An account of the cultivation and manufacture of tea in China_ 1848. _d._ Sion house, Wolverley 5 March 1874 in 94 year.

BALL, THOMAS GERRARD (_son of Abraham Ball of Chester_). _b._ Chester 24 Jany. 1791; served in navy 1801–1807; ensign 34 foot 17 Sep. 1807; lieut. col. 8 foot 2 Oct. 1835 to 25 Oct. 1842 when placed on h.p.; col. 46 foot 24 April 1860 and of 8 foot 17 June 1861 to death; general 10 Jany. 1870. _d._ 7 Stanley place, Chester 18 Dec. 1881.

BALL, WILLIAM (_son of Richard Ball of Bridgwater who d. 1834_). _b._ Bridgwater 1 Jany. 1801; solicitor at Bristol 1828–35; a minister of Society of Friends 1846 to death. (_m._ 1834 Anne Dale, she _d._ 1861). Author of _Nugæ Sacræ or psalms and hymns and spiritual songs_ [_anon._] 1825; _The Transcript and other poems_ 1855; _Hymns or lyrics_ 1864; _Verses composed since 1870_, 1875. _d._ at an hotel in Aberdeen 30 July 1878. _Annual Monitor for 1879 pp._ 8–54.

BALL, WILLIAM. _b._ 1785; composed hundreds of comic and sentimental songs, his song _Jack’s lament for the loss of his tail_ was one of the most popular songs of the day ever written; his Drawing room concerts in 1829 were very successful; adapted to English words librettos of Masses of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, Mozart’s _Requiem_, Spohr’s _God thou art great_, Rossini’s _Stabat Mater_ and Mendelssohn’s _St. Paul_ and _Lobgesang_; edited with N. Mori _The musical gem_, _2 vols._ 1831–32; edited _The London Spring annual lyrical and pictorial_ 1834. _d._ London 14 May 1869.

BALL, SIR WILLIAM KEITH, 2 Baronet (_only child of Sir Alexander John Ball, 1 Baronet_). _b._ Greenwich 27 Oct. 1791; succeeded 25 Oct. 1809. _d._ Spernall hall, Warwickshire 9 March 1874.

BALL-HUGHES, EDWARD HUGHES (_said to be son of a slop seller in Ratcliffe highway, London_). _b._ 1799. Ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.; cornet 7 hussars 28 Aug. 1817 to 11 Feb. 1819 when placed on h.p.; took additional name of Hughes by royal license 7 Aug. 1819 on coming into a fortune of £40,000 per annum from his uncle Admiral Sir Edward Hughes; one of the leading dandies of his day, known as the Golden Ball; lost £45,000 in one night at Wattier’s club, Piccadilly 1819, lost three quarters of his fortune at play, the greatest gambler of his day; bought Oatlands near Weybridge 1827, which he sold to Lord Francis Egerton; lived at St. Germain near Paris for some years before his death. (_m._ 22 March 1823 Mercandotti the opera dancer, natural dau. or protégée of 4 Earl of Fife, she was then aged 16). _d._ St. Germain 13 March 1863. _R. H. Gronow’s Celebrities_ (1865) 112–17.

BALLANTINE, JAMES. _b._ The West Port, Edinburgh 11 June 1808; a house painter at Edin. 1830; one of the first to revive the art of glass painting; executed the 12 stained glass windows in the House of Lords, Westminster, representing kings and queens both regnant and consort of the U.K.; sec. of committee of Burns centenary 1859; grand bard of Scottish Grand lodge of Freemasons about 1862 to death; contributed about 50 songs to _Whistle-Binkie or the piper of the party_ 1832; author of _The Gaberlunzie’s wallet_ 1843; _A treatise on painted glass_ 1845; _Poems_ 1856; _Chronicle of the hundredth birthday of Robert Burns_ 1859, which contains reports of 872 Burns’ centenary meetings held all over the world 25 Jany. 1859; _The Provost’s daughter_, a musical farce in 2 acts performed at T.R. Edin. 1855; _The Gaberlunzie_, a drama in 3 acts 1858. _d._ Warrender lodge, Edinburgh 18 Dec. 1877. _Whistle-Binkie ii, xiv-xxvii_ (1878); _History of the lodge of Edinburgh by D. M. Lyons_ (1873) 50, 363, _portrait_.

BALLANTINE, WILLIAM. Barrister I.T. 5 Feb. 1813; magistrate at Thames police court 1821–48. _d._ 89 Cadogan place, Chelsea 14 Dec. 1852 in 74 year. _I.L.N. ix_, 317 (1846), _portrait_.

BALLANTYNE, JAMES ROBERT. _b._ Kelso 13 Dec. 1813; ed. at Edinburgh new academy and college; teacher of Hindi and Sanskrit at Naval and military academy Edin. 1839; principal of College of Benares 1845–61; librarian of India office library Cannon row, Westminster 1861 to death; author of _Lectures on the sub-divisions of knowledge, Sanskrit and English_ 1848; _The Mahabhashya or great commentary on the aphorisms of Panini_ 1856; _Christianity contrasted with Hindu philosophy_ 1859 and 14 other works. _d._ 16 Feb. 1864. _Journal of Royal Asiatic Society i, v-vii_ (1865).

BALLANTYNE, ROBERT MICHAEL. _b._ Edinburgh 24 April 1825; in the Hudson Bay Company’s service 1841–47; author of _Hudson’s Bay or every day life in the wilds of North America_ 1848, 3 ed. 1859; _Coral island, a tale of the Pacific ocean_ 1857; _Deep down, a tale of the Cornish mines_ 1868, and many other tales. _d._ 1871.

BALLANTYNE, THOMAS. _b._ Paisley 1806, a weaver there; edited _Bolton Free Press_; edited _Manchester Guardian_; printer, publisher and one of the 4 original proprietors of _Manchester Examiner_; editor of _Liverpool Journal_ and _Liverpool Mercury_; edited the _Leader_ in London; started the _Statesman_, edited it till its close; edited _St. James’s Chronicle_; author of _Passages selected from writings of T. Carlyle_ 1855; _Essays in mosaic_ 1870. _d._ Tufnell park, Holloway 30 Aug. 1871.

BALLARD, EDWARD GEORGE (_only child of Edward Bollard, alderman of Salisbury who d. 6 March 1827_). _b._ Salisbury 29 April 1791; clerk in the Stamp and Excise offices London 1809–17; wrote most of the poetry and critiques for the _Weekly Review_; author of _A new series of original poems_ [_anon._] 1825; _Microscopic amusements_ 1829; wrote part of a continuation of _Strype’s Ecclesiastical annals_ in _The Surplice_ weekly paper 1848. _d._ Compton terrace, Islington 14 Feb. 1860.

BALLARD, JOHN ARCHIBALD. _b._ 1829; 2 lieut. Bombay Engineers 8 Dec. 1848 and lieut. col. 10 Nov. 1869 to 31 Dec. 1878; lieut. col. Turkish army 1854; served in campaigns on the Danube 1854–55, in Crimea 1855, and in Mingrelia 1855–56; assistant quartermaster general of Persian expeditionary force 1856–57, and of Rajpootana field force and Malwa division in Indian mutiny 1858–59; C.B. 10 May 1856; mint master Bombay 1862–78; general 31 Dec. 1878. _d._ Pass of Thermopylæ near Livadia Greece 1 April 1880.

BALLARD, THOMAS. _b._ Mayfair London; studied at St. George’s hospital; fellow of Royal Med. and Chir. society 1849; author of _New and rational explanation of the diseases peculiar to infants and mothers_ 1860; _On the convulsive diseases of infants_ 1863; _An enquiry into constitutional syphilis in the infant_ 1874. _d._ 10 Southwick place, Hyde park 11 Sep. 1874 aged 56.

BALLINGALL, DAVID JAMES. Midshipman R.N.; served at Copenhagen 1801; 2 lieut. R.M. 1 July 1803; col. commandant 19 Nov. 1851 to 10 Jany. 1852 when he retired on full pay. _d._ Southsea 31 March 1854.

BALLINGALL, SIR GEORGE (_son of Rev. Robert Ballingall, minister of Forglen, Banffshire_). _b._ in the manse of Forglen 2 May 1780; ed. at Univs. of St. Andrews and Edin.; M.D. Edin. 1803, M.R.C.S. Edin. 15 Aug. 1820; assistant surgeon 1 foot 10 July 1806; surgeon of 33 foot 1815–18 when placed on h.p., retired 1831; professor of military surgery in Univ. of Edin. 18 Jany. 1823 to death; knighted by Wm. iv at St. James’s palace 4 Aug. 1830; F.R.S.; author of _Introductory lectures to a course of military surgery_ 1830; _Outlines of military surgery, 5 ed._ 1855. _d._ Altamont near Blairgowrie 4 Dec. 1855.

BALNEAVIS, HENRY. Ensign 16 foot 3 Jany. 1797; captain 27 foot 1805–24 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 20 June 1854; colonel 65 foot 18 Jany. 1855 to death; C.M.G. 17 July 1833; K.H. 1836. _d._ Malta 17 July 1857 aged 77.

BALVAIRD, WILLIAM. Major Rifle brigade 1814–18; major 99 foot 1824–26, retired from the army 27 Aug. 1841; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831. _d._ Edinburgh 7 Sep. 1853.

BALY, WILLIAM. _b._ Lynn, Norfolk 1814; L.S.A. 1834, M.R.C.S. 1834; studied in Paris, Heidelberg and Berlin; M.D. Berlin 1836; practised in London 1836; L.R.C.P. 1841, F.R.C.P. 1846, a censor 1858; phys. to Milbank penitentiary 1841–60; lecturer on forensic medicine at St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1841–54, assistant phys. there 1854 and lecturer on medicine 1855; Gulstonian lecturer Feb. 1847; F.R.S. 15 April 1847; phys. extraordinary to the Queen 18 April 1859; member of general council of medical education and registration 1 Aug. 1860 to death; author with W. S. Kirke of _Advances in physiology of motion_ 1848, and with W. G. Gull of _Reports on epidemic cholera_ 1854; killed in the train on the South Western railway about 7 miles from London at the junction with the Epsom line 28 Jany. 1861. _Medical Critic ii_, 334–40 (1861); _I.L.N. xxxviii_, 111, 122 (1861), _portrait_.

BAMFORD, SAMUEL. _b._ Middleton 28 Feb. 1788; ed. at Manchester gr. sch.; a handloom weaver at Middleton; secretary to the Hampden club at Middleton 1816; examined before Privy Council on a charge of high treason April 1817 when set free with a warning; took part in reform meeting at Peterloo 16 Aug. 1819, tried at York assizes March 1820 when found guilty of a seditious misdemeanour, sentenced in Court of King’s Bench, London 15 May 1820 to 1 year’s imprisonment in Lincoln gaol; employed in Inland Revenue Office London 1849–58; author of _Miscellaneous poetry_ 1821; _Passages in the life of a Radical 2 vols._ 1840–44; _Early days_ 1849 _2 ed._ 1859; _Walks in South Lancashire 2 vols._; _Talk o Seawth Lankeshur by Samhul Beamfort_ 1850, in this volume he professes to correct the dialect in Tim Bobbin; _Life of Amos Ogden of Middleton_ 1853. _d._ Moston, Harpurhey near Manchester 13 April 1872; monument in Middleton cemetery, unveiled 6 Oct. 1877. _F. Espinasse’s Lancashire Worthies 2 series_ 1877, _pp._ 462–91; _Procter’s Memorials of bygone Manchester_ (1881) 220–25.

BAMFORD, WILLIAM. Surgeon at Rugely Staffs 1803 to death; one of principal witnesses at trial of Wm. Palmer the poisoner 1856. _d._ Rugely 17 April 1859 in 84 year.

BAMPTON, AUGUSTUS HAMILTON. _b._ London 13 March 1823; civil engineer at Plymouth 1844; chief surveyor to the corporation 1849–54; engineer to South Devon and Tavistock railway 1852 to death; M.I.C.E. 1849; author of _The drainage of towns_ 1849. _d._ North hill Devon 4 March 1857. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xvii_, 92–94 (1858).

BANCALARI, PETER. _b._ 1806; a noted cricket, umpire at Oxford many years. _d._ Oxford 31 Oct. 1869.

BANDINEL, REV. BULKELEY (_eld. son of Rev. James Bandinel V. of Netherbury Dorset who d. 25 Nov. 1804 aged 92_). _b._ Oxford 21 Feb. 1781; ed. at Reading and Winchester; scholar of New college Ox. 1800, fellow, B.A. 1805, M.A. 1807, B.D. and D.D. 1823; chaplain in the Victory 1808; under librarian Bodleian library Ox. 1810, librarian 25 Aug. 1813 to Sep. 1860; published Catalogue of the printed books _4 vols._ 1843–50; proctor Univ. of Ox. 1814; R. of Haughton-le-Skerne, Durham 1823–60; author of _Catalogue of books relating to British topography and Saxon and Norman literature bequeathed to the Bodleian library by Richard Gough_ 1814; author with John Caley and Henry Ellis of new editions of _Dugdale’s Monasticon Anglicanum_ 1817–30 crown folio 6 vols. in 8, and 1846, folio, _8 vols;_ edited _Clarendon’s History of the rebellion_ 1826. _d._ Oxford 6 Feb. 1861.

BANDON, JAMES BERNARD, 2 Earl of (_eld. son of Francis Bernard 1 Earl of Bandon 1755–1830_). _b._ Castle Bernard, Bandon co. Cork 14 June 1785; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; M.A. 1806; M.P. for Bandon 1820–26 and 1830; succeeded as 2 Earl 26 Nov. 1830; recorder of Bandon; a representative peer of Ireland 31 July 1835; lord lieutenant of Cork 1842; F.R.S. 5 June 1845. _d._ Castle Bernard 31 Oct. 1856.

BANDON, FRANCIS BERNARD, 3 Earl of (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ Grosvenor st. London 3 Jany. 1810; ed. at Eton and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1834; M.P. for Bandon 1831–32 and 1842–56; a representative peer of Ireland 21 Aug. 1858; lord lieutenant of Cork 2 Nov. 1874. _d._ Castle Bernard 17 Feb. 1877.

BANGOR, EDWARD WARD, 4 Viscount. _b._ London 23 Feb. 1827; succeeded 1 Aug. 1837; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1848; representative peer for Ireland 9 Jany. 1855. _d._ Brighton 14 Sep. 1881.

BANIM, MICHAEL (_eld. son of Michael Banim of Kilkenny, shopkeeper_). _b._ Kilkenny 5 Aug. 1796, postmaster there 1852–73; contributed _Crohoore_, _The Croppy_, _The ghost hunter_, _The mayor of Windgap_, _Father Connell_ and other tales to _The tales by the O’Hara family 24 vols._ _d._ Booterstown, co. Dublin 30 Aug. 1874. _P. J. Murray’s Life of John Banim_ 1857.

BANKES, GEORGE (_3 son of Henry Bankes of Kingston hall, Dorset 1757–1834_). _b._ 1788. Ed. at Westminster and Trin. hall, Cam.; fellow; LL.B. 1812; bankruptcy comr. 1822; recorder of Weymouth 25 Aug. 1823; cursitor Baron of the Exchequer 6 July 1824 to death when office abolished; M.P. for Corfe Castle 1816–23 and 1826–32 and for Dorset 1841 to death; sec. to Board of control 2 May 1829 to 16 Feb. 1830 and comr. of same board 24 Feb. 1830 to 6 Dec. 1830; a junior lord of the Treasury 24 April to 24 Nov. 1830; P.C. 27 Feb. 1852; judge advocate general 28 Feb. to Dec. 1852; author of _The story of Corfe Castle and of many who have lived there_ 1853. _d._ 5 Old palace yard Westminster 6 July 1856. _Waagen’s Galleries of art_ (1857) 374–83; _I.L.N. xxiv_, 97 (1854).

BANKES, WILLIAM JOHN (_elder brother of the preceding_). Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811; M.P. for Truro 1810–12, for Cambridge Univ. 1821–25, for Marlborough 1829–32 and for Dorset 1833–34; a great friend of Lord Byron; travelled in the East with Giovanni Finati whose life he translated from the Italian _2 vols._ 1830. _d._ Venice 15 April 1855. _A.R._ 1826 49–56.

BANKHEAD, CHARLES. _b._ Antrim; ed. at Londonderry and Univ. of Edin., M.D. 24 June 1790; surgeon to the Londonderry militia; L.C.P. 25 June 1807; practised at Brighton; physician extraordinary to Prince Regent 24 Feb. 1816, removed to London; physician extraordinary to George 4th 30 March 1821; practised many years at Florence. _d._ Florence 26 Nov. 1859 in 92 year.

BANKHEAD, CHARLES. Minister plenipotentiary to Mexican republic 24 Nov. 1843 to 6 April 1851. _d._ 8 St. James’s st. London 11 March 1870.

BANKS, GEORGE LINNÆUS (_4 son of John Banks of Birmingham, horticulturist_). _b._ Bull Ring, Birmingham 2 March 1821; began lecturing 29 Dec. 1846; promoted Mechanics’ Institutes in Yorkshire and Durham; edited the Advertiser at Harrogate 1848, Mercury at Birmingham, Daily Express at Dublin, Chronicle at Durham, Royal Standard at Windsor, and the Sussex Mercury 1864; wrote the popular negro melody _Dandy Jim of Caroline_; author of _Blossoms of poesy_ 1841; _Staves for the human ladder, poems_ 1850; _All about Shakspere_ 1864; _The Swiss father_ a drama produced at T.R. Liverpool 1846 and _Better late than never_ a comedy produced at Durham theatre 1858. _d._ Dalston, London 3 May 1881. _Illustrated Review vi_, 261–63, _portrait_.

BANKS, JOHN. _b._ 1 Sep. 1752 at 11.30 p._m._, a period marked by the change of style which conducted him 11 days onward in his journey half an hour after his birth. _d._ Easingwold 24 Nov. 1852.

BANKS, JOHN SHERBROOKE. _b._ 1811; ensign 33 Bengal N.I. 1829, major 1857 to death; succeeded Sir Henry Lawrence as chief comr. of Lucknow; shot through the head while examining an outpost at Lucknow 21 July or 1 Aug. 1857.

BANKS, THOMAS CHRISTOPHER (_eld. child of Thomas Banks one of the gentlemen pensioners_). Genealogist at 5 Lyons Inn London 1813–20, at the dormant peerage office John st. Pall Mall 1820; sent to North America by Alexander Humphrys to publish his rights as Earl of Stirling and to search for evidence 1826, returned 1828, sent to Ireland 1828–29, created baronet by Humphrys 1831 but resigned the rank about 1834; knight of holy order of St. John of Jerusalem; author of _Dormant and extinct baronage of England 3 vols._ 1807–1809; _History of the ancient noble family of Marmyun_ 1817; _Stemmata Anglicana_ 1825. _d._ Greenwich 30 Sep. 1854 in 90 year. _T. C. Banks’s Baronia Anglica vol. i_, (1844), _preface_; _S. Warren’s Miscellanies ii_, 169–291 (1855); _G.M. xliii_, 206–208 (1855).

BANKS, WILLIAM STOTT. _b._ Wakefield, March 1820; admitted solicitor Jany. 1851; partner with J. M. Ianson at Wakefield 1853; clerk to the borough justices March 1870 to death; author of _List of provincial words in use at Wakefield_ 1865; _Walks in Yorkshire 2 vols._ 1866–72. _d._ Northgate, Wakefield 25 Dec. 1872. _Yorkshire Archæol. and Topog. Journal ii_, 459–60 (1873).

BANNAN, JOSEPH. A schoolmaster at Plymouth down to 1832 when his school was ruined by the cholera; edited the _South Devon Monthly Museum_ 7 vols., Plymouth 1833–36; cashier and chief accountant of the _Western Times_ newspaper at Exeter 1836 to death. _d._ Exeter 28 May 1865 aged 60.

BANNATYNE, ANDREW (_eld. son of Dugald Bannatyne of Glasgow, merchant_). _b._ 1798; ed. at Univs. of Glasgow and Heidelberg; member of faculty of procurators in Glasgow; dean of the faculty; member of University court Glasgow. _d._ 1871.

BANNATYNE, REV. ARCHIBALD. _b._ Rothesay; licensed by presbytery of Ayr 1835; minister at Oban 1842–53 and at John Knox’s Free church Glasgow 1853 to death. _d._ 18 May 1863. _Truth in love, a few memorials of the Rev. Archibald Bannatyne_ 1864.

BANNER, REV. BENJAMIN HOLFORD. _b._ 26 Nov. 1798; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s and St. John’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824; precentor of Cashel 26 Aug. 1826 to death; chancellor of Emly, Tipperary 2 April 1835 to death. _d._ 1874.

BANNERMAN, SIR ALEXANDER (_son of Thomas Bannerman of Aberdeen, wine merchant who d. Jany. 1820 aged 77_). _b._ Aberdeen 7 Oct. 1788, shipowner, merchant and banker there; M.P. for Aberdeen 1832–47; dean of faculty in Marischal college Aberdeen 1837; a comr. of Greenwich hospital 1841; governor of Prince Edward island 3 Feb. 1851, of the Bahamas 8 May 1854 and of Newfoundland 9 Feb. 1857 to 1863; knighted by the Queen at Buckingham palace 3 Feb. 1851. _d._ Louth cottage, Chorley 30 Dec. 1864. _I.L.N. xix_, 236 (1851), _portrait_.

BANNERMAN, SIR ALEXANDER, 9 Baronet. _b._ Aberdeen 6 April 1823; succeeded 18 June 1851. _d._ 46 Grosvenor place, London 21 April 1877.

BANNERMAN, SIR CHARLES, 8 Baronet. _b._ 18 Aug. 1782; succeeded 31 May 1840. _d._ Clarges st. Piccadilly, London 18 June 1851.

BANNERMAN, REV. JAMES (_son of Rev. James Patrick Bannerman, minister of Cargill, Perthshire_). _b._ manse of Cargill 9 April 1807; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.A. 1826; minister of Ormiston, Midlothian 1833–43 when he left the Established for the Free church; professor of apologetics and pastoral theology in New college Edin. 1849 to death; took a leading part in Free church movement; D.D. Princeton college New Jersey 1850; author of _The prevalent forms of unbelief_ 1849; _Apologetical theology_ 1851; _Inspiration_ 1865; _The Church 2 vols._ 1868. _d._ Edinburgh 27 March 1868.

BANNISTER, CHARLES WILLIAM (_son of Charles George Bannister of London, solicitor 1796–1858_). _b._ 1826; ed. at Charterhouse; captain 2 Bombay light cavalry 24 April 1854 to 10 April 1861; governor of Maidstone gaol. _d._ 20 April 1874.

BANNISTER, REV. JOHN (_son of David Bannister of York 1788–1854_). _b._ York 25 Feb. 1816; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub., B.A. 1844, M.A. 1853, LL.B. and LLD. 1866; P.C. of Bridgehill, Derbyshire 1846–57; P.C. of St. Day, Cornwall 13 Dec. 1857 to death; author of _A glossary of Cornish names, 20,000 Celtic and other names now or formerly in use in Cornwall with derivations and significations_ (1871). _d._ St. Day 30 Aug. 1873. _Bibl. Cornub. i_, 9 (1874), _iii_, 1047 (1882).

BANNISTER, SAXE. _b._ Bidlington house Steyning, Sussex 27 June 1790; ed. at Lewes, Tunbridge and Queen’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1813, M.A. 1815; raised a company and volunteered for the army 1813; captain on h.p. 25 Dec. 1813; barrister L.I. 25 Nov. 1819; attorney general of New South Wales 5 April 1824 to April 1826 when removed from office; printed a statement of his ‘claims’ 1853 after presenting many petitions to the Government; gentleman bedel of Royal College of Physicians London 1849–50; author of _Records of British enterprise beyond sea vol. 1_ 1849; _William Paterson, his life and trials_ 1858; _The writings of Wm. Paterson 3 vols._ 1859; _Classical and prehistoric influences upon British history, 2 ed._ 1871. _d._ Thornton lodge, Thornton Heath 16 Sep. 1877. _Dict. of Nat. Biog. iii_, 142 (1885).

BANON, AWLY PATRICK. F.R.C.S. Ireland 1844, vice president June 1866 to death; M.D. St. Andrew’s 1851; F.R.C.P. Edin. 1852; author of _Observations on hermaphroditism illustrated by a remarkable case_ 1852. _d._ 37 Fitzwilliam sq. Dublin 28 May 1867.

BANTING, WILLIAM. _b._ 1797; an undertaker at 27 St. James’s st. Piccadilly, London 1820–70; made Duke of Wellington’s funeral car Oct. 1852; reduced his weight from 202 lbs. to 156 lbs. in 12 months Aug. 1862 to Aug. 1863 by abstaining from bread, butter, milk, sugar, beer, and potatoes; author of _Letter on corpulence addressed to the public_ 1863 _4 ed._ 1869; Thousands of people adopted the course he advised, which became known as “banting.” _d._ 4 The Terrace, Kensington 16 March 1878. _Blackwood’s Mag. xcvi_, 607–17 (1864); _Tanner’s Practice of medicine i_, 148 (1875).

BANTRY, RICHARD WHITE, 1 Earl of (_eld. son of Simon White of Bantry_). _b._ 6 Aug. 1767; created a peer of Ireland as Baron Bantry 31 March 1797 on account of exertions in repelling the French invasion at Bantry bay 27 Jany. 1797, Viscount Bantry 29 Dec. 1800 and Viscount Berehaven and Earl of Bantry 22 Jany. 1816. _d._ Glengariffe lodge, co. Cork 2 May 1851.

BANTRY, RICHARD WHITE, 2 Earl of. _b._ St. Finbar, Cork 16 Nov. 1800; a representative peer for Ireland 1 July 1854. _d._ Exbury house, Hants 16 July 1868.

BANTRY, WILLIAM HENRY HARE WHITE, 3 Earl of. _b._ Dublin 16 Nov. 1801; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., M.A. 1823; sheriff of Cork 1848; lieut. col. commandant West Cork artillery militia 1854–73; a representative peer for Ireland 6 July 1869. _d._ Bantry house, Cork 15 Jany. 1884.

BAPTIST, JOHN THOMAS. A well known florist at Sydney N.S.W. _d._ The Gardens, Surrey hills, Sydney 15 Sep. 1873 aged 69.

BARBER, CHARLES. _b._ Birmingham; teacher of drawing in Royal Institution, Liverpool; assisted to found the Architectural and Archæological association; a landscape painter; exhibited 3 pictures at the R.A. and many pictures at local exhibitions; pres. of the Liverpool Academy. _d._ Liverpool Jany. 1854.

BARBER, CHARLES CHAPMAN. ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., 9 wrangler 1833, B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; pupil of Lewis Duval the conveyancer; barrister L.I. 3 May 1833; member of chancery procedure commission 1853; junior counsel for defendant in ejectment action of Tichborne _v._ Lushington 11 May 1871 to 6 March 1872; junior counsel for the Crown in prosecution of Roger Tichborne for perjury 23 April 1873 to 28 Feb. 1874; engaged in court 103 days in the ejectment case, and 188 days in the perjury case; judge of county courts for circuit No. 6 East Riding of Yorkshire Feb. 1874 to March 1874 when he resigned and resumed practice. _d._ 71 Cornwall gardens London 5 Feb. 1882.

BARBER, FAIRLESS (_2 son of Joseph Barber of Brighouse, solicitor_). _b._ Castle hill, Rastrick 11 Jany. 1835; ed. at St. Peter’s school York; admitted a solicitor 1859; practised at Brighouse; member of Huddersfield Archæological and Topographical Association 1866, sec. Sep. 1866, it became mainly through him in 1870 the Yorkshire Archæological and Topographical Association; F.S.A. 26 May 1870; edited _The Yorkshire Archæological and Topographical journal_ _6 vols._ 1876–81. _d._ Pinner 3 March 1881. _Yorkshire Arch. and Topog. journal vii_, 1–5 (1882).

BARBER, JAMES. A very extensive proprietor of coaches between London and Edinburgh; senior partner in firm of Barber and Co. of York, wholesale jewellers; sheriff of York 1826; lord mayor 1833, elected again 1844 but paid the fine to be excused serving. _d._ Tang hall near York 10 March 1857 aged 73.

BARBER, JAMES (_son of a cutlery manufacturer at Sheffield_). Made a large sum of money by cards and billiards at Manchester; went to Paris, where he purchased famous race horse Chanticleer which won the Northumberland plate, Goodwood stakes, and Doncaster cup 1848; in partnership with Joseph Saxon as racing men; won Great Northern handicap at York with Ben Webster 1860, and the Oaks with Brown Duchess 1861; at one period one of richest men on the turf. _d._ Sheffield 18 April 1885 in 69 year.

BARBER, JOHN. _b._ West Runham, Norfolk; drayman in firm of Truman and Co., London 8 years; purveyor of pigeons and sparrows at 27 Sclater st. Bethnal Green 1821 to death; attended all the chief shooting matches in England for 40 years; his blue rock pigeons well known all over the world. _d._ 27 Sclater st. 18 June 1860 aged 71.

BARBER, JONATHAN. Frame work knitter at Nottingham; leader of the infidels there, held public discussions with Rev. J. W. Brooks of Nottingham. _d._ Nottingham 17 Jany. 1859. _The apology for renouncing infidel opinions of Jonathan Barber_ 1859.

BARBER, JONATHAN. _b._ England 1784; M.R.C.S.; practised in Scarborough and London; went to United States about 1820; taught elocution in Yale and Harvard Univs., became the best teacher in America; lectured on phrenology; went to Montreal 1836; resumed medical practice as a homœopath about 1845; professor of oratory in McGill univ. Montreal down to 1862; author of _The Elocutionist_ 1829; _A grammar of elocution_ 1830. _d._ near Montreal 11 May 1864.

BARBER, MARY ANN SERRETT (_daughter of Thomas Barber_). Wrote many articles in the _Church of England Magazine_ and _Charlotte Elizabeth’s Christian lady’s magazine_; edited _Children’s Missionary magazine_ afterwards called _The Coral Missionary mag._ 1847 to death; author of _Redemption in Israel or narratives of conversions among the Jews_ 1844, _The sorrows of the streets_ 1855, _Castle Rag and its dependencies or the sins and sorrows of the poor_ 1858, _Du Bourg or the Mercuriale_ 1851 and many other books. _d._ 9 Sussex sq. Brighton 9 March 1864 aged 63. _Bread-winning or the Ledger and the Lute an Autobiography by M. A. S. Barber_ 1865.

BARBER, WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ about 1807; clerk to Messrs. Scoones of Tonbridge, Kent, solicitors 1819–36; established Literary and Scientific institution there 1837; solicitor in London 1837; partner with Merrick Bircham; founded The legal discussion society, sec. and treasurer; founded with Lord Brougham and George Birkbeck, Adult instruction society; tried at Central Criminal Court April 1844 for uttering a will of one Anne Slack knowing same to be a forgery when sentenced to be transported for life; arrived at Norfolk Island 9 Nov. 1844; moved to Tasman’s Peninsula March 1847 on breaking up of Norfolk Island establishment; granted conditional pardon by royal warrant dated 12 Nov. 1846 and a free pardon 3 Nov. 1848; arrived in Paris May 1848 and in London Nov. 1848; applied for his annual certificate as a solicitor 31 Jany. 1849, certificate refused him 6 July 1850; petition for inquiry and redress presented to House of Commons 5 April 1852; granted a certificate 21 Nov. 1855; practised in London, ceased to practice 1862. _The case of Mr. W. H. Barber_, _8 ed._ 1853; _Central criminal court, minutes of evidence by H. Buckler xix_, 778–850 (1844); _I.L.N. iv_, 80, 249 (1844), 2 _portraits_.

BARBOUR, ROBERT. _b._ Renfrewshire 1797; one of the merchant princes of Manchester down to about 1864 when he retired; member of the first Synod of English Presbyterian church about 1834; endowed at cost of £12,000 a chair which bears his name in Presbyterian college; purchased Bolesworth castle near Chester 1857; sheriff of Cheshire 1866. _d._ Bolesworth castle 17 Jany. 1885, will proved at Chester 14 April 1885, value of personalty upwards of £472,000.

BARCLAY, ANDREW WHYTE (_son of John Barclay, captain R.N._) _b._ Dysart, Fifeshire 17 July 1817; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edin.; M.D. 1839; studied at Caius coll. Cam. 1843, and St. George’s hospital, London; M.B. 1847, M.D. 1852; medical registrar at St. George’s many years; F.R.C.P. 1851, examiner, councillor and censor, Lumleian lecturer 1864, Harveian orator 1881, treasurer 1884; fellow of Royal Med. and Chir. soc, pres.; assistant phys. at St. George’s 1857, phys. 1862–82; the first medical officer of health at Chelsea 1856; author of _Manual of medical diagnosis_ 1857 _3 ed._ 1870. _d._ Whitney Wood, Stevenage, Herts 28 April 1884. _British Medical Journal i_, 932 (1884).

BARCLAY, ARTHUR KETT (_eld. son of Charles Barclay of Bury hill near Dorking, Surrey 1780–1855_). _b._ 20 June 1806; ed. at Harrow; head of firm of Barclay, Perkins and Co., brewers; built an observatory at Bury hill 1848; F.R.G.S. 1840, F.R.S. 3 June 1852; paralysed 1855. (_m._ 20 Dec. 1836 Maria Octavia dau. of Ichabod Wright of Mapperley, Notts). _d._ 20 Nov. 1869.

BARCLAY, CHARLES. _b._ 26 Dec. 1780; M.P. for Southwark 1815–1818, for Dundalk 1826–1830 and for west Surrey 1835–1837; head of firm of Barclay, Perkins and Co.; pres. of Guy’s hospital; sheriff of Surrey 1842; F.R.G.S., F.S.A. _d._ Bury hill, Surrey 5 Dec. 1855.

BARCLAY, HUGH _b._ Glasgow 18 Jany. 1799; member of Glasgow faculty of procurators 1820; sheriff substitute of West Perthshire 1829, and of Perthshire 1833; sheriff of Perthshire 1883 to death; author of _A digest of the law of Scotland_ 2 vols. 1852–53 _4 ed._ 1880; _Thoughts on Sabbath schools_ 1855; _The Sinaitic inscriptions_ 1866. _d._ Early bank Craigie near Perth 1 Feb. 1884.

BARCLAY, RIGHT REV. JOSEPH (_only son of John Barclay of Strabane, co. Donegal who d. 9 Dec. 1845_). _b._ Strabane 12 Aug. 1831; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin 16 Oct. 1849 to 1854, B.A. 1854, M.A. 1857, LLD. 1865, D.D. 1880; C. of Bagnalstown 1854–58; missionary at Constantinople 1858–61; incumbent of Ch. Jerusalem 1861–70; R. of Stapleford, Herts 29 March 1873; bishop of Jerusalem June 1879 to death, consecrated in St. Paul’s 25 July 1879, installed 24 Feb. 1880; held 2 ordinations and 5 confirmations; author of _Talmud, Selection of treatises translated from the Mishna_ 1878. _d._ the bishop’s palace, Jerusalem 23 Oct. 1881. _Joseph Barclay a missionary biography_ 1883, _portrait_.

BARCLAY, LYDIA ANN (_dau. of Robert Barclay of Clapham_). Edited _Selections from the writings of Patrick Livingstone_ 1847; _Memoirs and letters of Richard and Elizabeth Shackleton_ 1849; _A journal of the life and gospel labours of John Conran_ 1850. _d._ Cockermouth 31 Jany. 1855 aged 55. _A short memoir of L. A. Barclay by Wm. Hodgson, junior_ 1855; _A selection from the letters of L. A. Barclay_ 1862.

BARCLAY, SIR ROBERT, 9 Baronet. _b._ Dungannon 1819; succeeded 14 Aug. 1839. _d._ Dungannon 19 May 1859.

BARCLAY, ROBERT (_younger son of John Barclay, a minister in Society of Friends who d. 11 May 1838 aged 41_). _b._ Croydon 4 Aug. 1833; a manufacturing stationer in London 1855; patented March 1860 an indelible writing paper for prevention of forgery; author of _The inner life of the religious societies of the Commonwealth_ 1876, reissued 1877 and 1878. _d._ Hillside, Reigate 11 Nov. 1876. _Sermons by Robert Barclay with a brief memoir edited by his widow_ 1878, _portrait_.

BARCLAY, VERY REV. THOMAS (_son of Rev. James Barclay, minister of Unst, Shetland_). _b._ Unst June 1792; ed. at King’s coll. Aberdeen, M.A. 1812; taught elocution at Aberdeen; a parliamentary reporter for the _Times_ 1818–22; licensed by presbytery of Lerwick 27 June 1821; ordained 12 Sep. 1822 to parish of Dunrossness, Shetland; minister of Lerwick 13 Dec. 1827; clerk of the synod of Shetland 27 Apl. 1831; minister of Peterculter Sep. 1843, and of Currie July 1844; principal of Univ. of Glasgow 13 Feb. 1858 to death; one of the best Scandinavian scholars. _d._ the college, Gillmore hill, Glasgow 23 Feb. 1873. _Scott’s Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ pt. v_, 422, 426.

BARCLAY, WILLIAM. _b._ London 1797; miniature painter; made many copies from works of Italian masters in the Louvre Paris; exhibited portraits and copies in water-colours at the Salon 1831–59 and at Royal Academy 1832–56. _d._ 1859.

BARDELIN, AUGUSTE DE. _b._ Aix in Provence; member of the Garde-du-Corps of Louis xvi; emigrated to Italy, Germany and Belgium; taught French and Italian at Norwich about 1792–1814; accompanied Louis xviii to Paris 1814; lived there till 1848 when he went to Provence. (_m._ 1815 or 1816 Miss Sutton). _d._ Nice 8 May 1852 in 85 year.

BARDIN, GEORGE GREGORY. Chief inspector of machinery afloat 6 Aug. 1870; C.B. 15 Aug. 1868. _d._ about May 1875.

BARDSLEY, SIR JAMES LOMAX (_2 son of Edward Bardsley of Nottingham_). _b._ Nottingham 7 July 1801; ed. at Univs. of Glasgow and Edin.; M.D. Edin. 1823; physician at Manchester 1823 to death; physician to Manchester royal infirmary 1824–43; member of Manchester medical society 1834, pres. 1838–42 and 1845–47; knighted by the Queen at Buckingham palace 8 Aug. 1853; F.R.C.P. 1859; lecturer on principles and practice of physic at Royal school of medicine Manchester 1825–43; author of _Hospital facts and observations_ 1830 and of the articles Diabetes and Hydrophobia in the _Cyclopædia of practical medicine_ 1833. _d._ The Orchard Greenheys, Manchester 10 July 1876. _Photographs of eminent medical men ii_, 95–98 (1868), _portrait_.

BARDSLEY, SAMUEL ARGENT. _b._ Kelvedon, Essex 27 April 1764; apprenticed to a surgeon at Nottingham; studied at Leyden Univ. 1786–89; M.D. 1789; physician at Manchester 1790; phys. to Manchester infirmary 1790 to Aug. 1823; author of _Critical remarks on the tragedy of Pizarro_ 1800; _Medical reports of cases and experiments_ 1807. _d._ near Hastings 25 May 1851.

BAREZ, REV. HENRY. Minister of the French protestant episcopal church of St. Martin Orgars formerly in Cannon st. London; granted civil list pension of £100 23 July 1840 in consideration of having taught Queen Victoria German. _d._ Leicester square, London 26 Dec. 1867 aged 79.

BARFF, SAMUEL. _b._ England? about 1793; lived at Zante 1816 to death, an eminent merchant and banker there; took an active part in the struggle for independence carried on by the Greek nation 1823–24. _d._ Zante 1 Sep. 1880 aged 87. _Moore’s Life of Lord Byron_; _Trikoupes’_ Ἰστορια τῆς Ἐλληνικῆς Ἐπαναστασεως _4 vols._ 1853–57.

BARHAM, CHARLES FOSTER (_4 son of Thomas Foster Barham of Penzance, Cornwall 1766–1844_). _b._ Truro 9 March 1804; ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam.; foundation scholar May 1823; studied in Paris and Italy 1825–28; M.B. Cam. 1827, M.D. 1860; physician Tavistock dispensary 1832–35; phys. at Truro Aug. 1837 to death; senior phys. Royal Cornwall infirmary 1838–73; pres. Royal Instit. of Cornwall 1859–61; mayor of Truro 1862; author of _Report on the sanitary state of the labouring classes in the town of Truro_ 1842 and of many papers on meteorology and other subjects in _Reports_ and _Journal of Royal Instit. of Cornwall_ and other publications. _d._ 11 Strangways terrace, Truro 20 Oct. 1884. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i_, 10 (1874), _iii_, 1048 (1882).

BARHAM, REV. CHARLES HENRY (_youngest son of Joseph Foster Barham, M.P._) _b._ London 1808; ed. at Charterhouse and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; M.P. for Appleby 24 May 1832 to 3 Dec. 1832; R. of Barming, Kent about 1838–47; R. of Kirkby Thore, Westmoreland 1847–52. _d._ Trecwn, Pembrokeshire 15 Aug. 1878.

BARHAM, FRANCIS FOSTER (_5 son of Thomas Foster Barham, of Penzance_). _b._ Leskinnick, Penzance 31 May 1808; solicitor in London 1831; joint proprietor and editor with J. A. Heraud of _The new monthly Magazine and humorist_ 1 July 1839 to 26 May 1840; lived at Clifton 1844–54, and at Bath 1854 to death; member of Anglo Biblical Instit. 1852; a vegetarian many years; author of _The Adamus Exul of Grotius or the prototype of Paradise lost, now first translated from the Latin_ 1839; _The ecclesiastical history of Great Britain by Jeremy Collier, new ed. with a life of the author 9 vols._ 1840; _The Alist or divine, a message to our times_ 1840; _The political works of Cicero translated 2 vols._ 1841–42; _Socrates, a tragedy in 5 acts_ 1842; _The life and times of John Reuchlin or Capnion_ 1843; _The new Bristol guide, a poem_ 1850 and many other books. _d._ 8 St. Mark’s place, Bath 9 Feb. 1871. _A memorial of Francis Barham, edited by Isaac Pitman_ 1873 _pp. lv._ and 495 printed in the phonetic character; _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i_, 11, _iii_, 1048.

NOTE.—He advocated at one period the formation of a religious association to be called Alists or Godists, some of his works on this subject have A. F. Barham or Alist Francis Barham on the title page.

BARHAM, THOMAS FOSTER (_eld. son of Thomas Foster Barham of Penzance_). _b._ Hendon, Middlesex 10 Sep. 1794; ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam., M.B. 1820; phys. at Penzance 1820 and at Exeter about 1830–49; lived at Newton Abbot, Devon 1849 to death; author of _Introduction to Greek grammar_ 1829; _Greek roots in English rhymes_ 1837; _Philadelphia or claims of humanity_ 1858; contributed to transactions of Cornish scientific societies. _d._ Castle Dyke, Highweek, Newton Abbot 3 March 1869. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i_, 13, _iii_, 1050.

BARING, RIGHT REV. CHARLES THOMAS (_youngest son of Sir Thomas Baring, 2 Baronet 1772–1848_). _b._ 11 Jany. 1807; ed. privately and at Ch. Ch. Ox.; double first class 1829, B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; student of his college; C. of St. Ebbe Ox. 1830–44; select preacher before Univ. of Ox. 1846 and 1855; R. of All Souls Marylebone 28 Sep. 1847; chaplain in ord. to the Queen 7 Feb. 1851; R. of Lympsfield Surrey 1855–56; Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol July 1856, consecrated at Lambeth 10 Aug. 1856, translated to Durham 6 Nov. 1861, resigned 2 Feb. 1879; 102 new parishes were formed and 119 new churches built in diocese of Durham 1861–78. _d._ Cecil house, Wimbledon 14 Sep. 1879. _Durham Diocesan calendar_ 1880 _pp._ 184–89.

BARING, HENRY BINGHAM. _b._ York place, London 4 March 1804; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1825; M.P. for Callington 31 July 1830 to 3 Dec. 1832, and for Marlborough 11 Dec. 1832 to 11 Nov. 1868; a lord of the treasury 6 Sep. 1841 to 6 July 1846. _d._ Nice 25 April 1869.

BARING, THOMAS (_2 son of Sir Thomas Baring 2 Baronet 1772–1848_). _b._ 7 Sep. 1800; ed. at Winchester; joined banking house of Hope and Co. at Amsterdam; entered house of Baring Brothers and Co. merchants 8 Bishopgate st. London 1828, head of the firm to 1871; chairman of Lloyds 1830 to March 1868; pres. of London institution 1835 to death; M.P. for great Yarmouth 1835–37 and for Huntingdon 1844 to death; a director of Bank of England 1848–67; declined Chancellorship of the Exchequer offered him by Earl of Derby 1852 and 1858; one of the 5 comrs. of Great Exhibition 1862. _d._ Fontmell lodge, Bournemouth 18 Nov. 1873, personalty sworn under £1,500,000 Dec. 1873. _I.L.N. iii_, 265 (1843), _portrait, xl_, 215 (1862), _portrait, lxiii_, 501, 639 (1873); _Waagen’s Treasures of art ii_, 174–92, _iv_, 93–100.

BARKER, ALEXANDER. Lived at 103 Piccadilly, London; made a fine collection of pictures chiefly by great painters of 15th century which was sold at Christie’s 6 June 1874 for sum of £38,591, his library was sold 24–25 June 1874 for £4,019. _d._ Hatfield near Doncaster 24 Oct. 1873. _Waagen’s Treasures of art ii_, 125–29, _iv_, 71–79.

BARKER, BERNARD. Editor of literary portion of _The Bazaar_; author of a novel called _Elliot the younger 3 vols_. 1878. _d._ 13 Sep. 1882.

BARKER, FRANCIS. _b._ Waterford; ed. at Univs. of Dublin and Edinburgh, B.A. Dublin 1793, M.B. and M.D. 1810; practised at Waterford 5 years, where he opened the first fever hospital in Ireland; professor of chemistry Univ. of Dublin 1808; started first medical paper in Ireland with Dr. Todd; sec. of Irish board of health 1820–52; published with Dr. Cheyne a treatise on _Epidemic fevers in Ireland 2 vols._ 1821; edited the _Dublin Pharmacopœia_ 1826. _d._ Wellington road, Dublin 8 Oct. 1859 aged 86.

BARKER, RIGHT REV. FREDERIC (_5 son of Rev. John Barker, V. of Baslow, Derbyshire who d. 6 June 1824_). _b._ Baslow 17 March 1808; ed. at Grantham and Jesus coll. Cam., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1839, D.D. 1854; P.C. of Upton, Cheshire 24 April 1831 to 28 Sep. 1834; P.C. of St. Mary’s Edge hill, Liverpool 1835–54; V. of Baslow Jany. 1854; bishop of Sydney Aug. 1854 to death; created Metropolitan of Australia 19 Oct. 1854, consecrated at Lambeth 30 Nov. 1854, arrived in Sydney May 1855; pres. of the Synod of the diocese of Sydney which first met 5 Dec. 1866; author of _Thirty-six psalms with commentary_ 1854. _d._ San Remo, Italy 6 April 1882. _bur._ Baslow 18 April. _I.L.N. lxxx_, 452, (1882), _portrait_; _Graphic xxv_, 448 (1882), _portrait_.

BARKER, GEORGE. Entered navy 1 June 1771; captain 8 June 1799; admiral on h.p. 27 Dec. 1847. _d._ Spring Vale, Isle of Wight 25 Dec. 1851 in 92 year.

BARKER, GEORGE ARTHUR. _b._ 1812; Tenor singer and vocal composer; his song “The White Squall” 1835 has passed through many editions and is still frequently sung. _d._ Aylestone near Leicester 2 March 1876.

BARKER, SIR GEORGE ROBERT (_youngest son of John Barker, deputy storekeeper general_). _b._ London 1817; ed. at Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 21 June 1834; lieut. col. 1 June 1855 to death; served in Crimean war and Indian mutiny; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 16 May 1859 for capturing stronghold of Birwah. _d._ Simla, India 27 July 1861.

BARKER, HENRY ASTON (_younger son of Robert Barker of Leicester square, London, reputed inventor of panoramas 1739–1806_). _b._ Glasgow 1774; pupil at Royal Academy; assisted his father in his panoramas 1789–1806; carried on the business in Leicester square 1806–20; opened a building occupying site of present Strand theatre as Reinagle and Barker’s New Panorama 1820; exhibited a series of panoramas here with his pupil John Burford to 1826; realised £10,000 by his panorama of battle of Waterloo 1842. (_m._ 1802 Harriet Maria eld. dau. of Wm. Bligh, admiral R.N., she _d._ 26 Feb. 1856). _d._ Bitton near Bristol 19 July 1856. _G.M. i_, 515–18 (1856); _Art Journal ix_, 47 (1857).

BARKER, JOHN. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, M.B. 1846, M.D. 1863; L.R.C.S. Ireland 1846, M.R.C.S. 1863; demonstrator of anatomy Univ. of Dublin; curator of museum of Royal college of surgeons Dublin; M.R.I.A. and F.R.S. Dublin; author of Cryptogamic part of Steele’s _Handbook of field botany_ 1847. _d._ 83 Waterloo road, Dublin 2 Feb. 1879 aged 63.

BARKER, JOHN HENRY. _b._ Ashford hall, Derbyshire 1806; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1834; barrister L.I. 3 May 1836; magistrate at Worship st. police court, London July 1860 and at Clerkenwell police court Jany. 1863 to 3 Aug. 1874. _d._ East lodge, Bakewell Derbyshire 28 Jany. 1876.

BARKER, JOSEPH. _b._ Bramley near Leeds 11 May 1806; a travelling preacher of Methodist new connexion at Hanley 1829; stationed on Sheffield and Mossley circuits successively; edited _Evangelical Reformer_ a weekly periodical 1837–40; expelled from the above Society 1841 on ground that he had denied divine appointment of baptism; pastor of a congregation of Barkerites at Newcastle; edited _The Christian Investigator 2 vols._ 1842–43; became a Unitarian 1845; presented with a steam press at Wortley, Leeds 6 July 1846; issued a library of 300 volumes being cheapest books then ever issued; edited _The People_ 1846, 20,000 copies of which were sold weekly; a town councillor at Leeds 1848; tried as a Chartist but acquitted 1848; emigrated to Central Ohio 1851; a leading abolitionist; lectured in United States 1857–59; sailed for England 11 Jany. 1860; edited _Barker’s Review_ _3 vols._ 1862–63; joined the Primitive Methodists at Tunstall; a local preacher to 1868 when he went to America; author of many books. _d._ Omaha, Nebraska 15 Sep. 1875. _Life of Joseph Barker 1880_, _portrait_; _Methodist new connexion mag. July 1842, Sep. 1843 and Dec. 1875_.

BARKER, PETER. _b._ 10 July 1808; lost his sight 1812; a skilful performer on the violin; a carpenter at Hampsthwaite, Yorkshire; sang in the church choir; one of the bell ringers, curfew bell is rung at Hampsthwaite at 8 every evening. _d._ in his cottage near churchyard gate, Hampsthwaite 18 Feb. 1873. _Life of Peter Barker, Pately Bridge_ 1873; _S. Baring-Gould’s Yorkshire Oddities i_, 177–82 (1874).

BARKER, REV. RALPH. Ed. at St. Peter’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1821; V. of Pagham near Chichester 1850 to death; rural dean of Chichester 1858 to death; co-editor of _The Protestant Guardian_ 1827–29, and of _The Quarterly educational magazine 2 vols._ 1847–49; author of sermons, pamphlets and reviews. _d._ 1871.

BARKER, THOMAS. _b._ Carlton near Nottingham 15 Nov. 1798; a lace maker there; professional cricketer at Cambridge 1822 and 1841–45; a practice bowler at Lord’s cricket ground, London about 1835–41; an umpire at Cambridge 1846 and in London 1856. _d._ Nottingham 2 March 1877.

BARKER, THOMAS HERBERT. _b._ Dunstable 31 Oct. 1814; studied at Univ. coll. London 1834–35; L.S.A. 1837, M.R.C.S. 1842, F.R.C.S. 1851; M.B. London 1845, M.D. 1847; practised at Bedford; one of the very best general practitioners in England; recorded for many years a series of meteorological observations which were incorporated in reports of the Registrar General; F.R.S. Edin.; author of _Practical observations on the diet of infancy and childhood_ 1850; _On the hygienic management of infants and children_ 1859. _d._ Harpur place, Bedford 24 Oct. 1865. _Photographs of eminent medical men i_, 117–23 (1866), _portrait_; _British Medical Journal ii_, 481–84 (1865).

BARKER, THOMAS JONES (_eld. son of Thomas Barker of Bath, painter 1769–1847_). _b._ Bath 1815; pupil of Horace Vernet in Paris; exhibited many pictures at the Salon where he gained 3 gold medals; painted several pictures for Louis Philippe; returned to England 1845; gained appellation of the ‘English Horace Vernet’; exhibited 29 pictures at the R.A., 34 at British Institution and 15 at Suffolk st. gallery 1844–76; painted many pictures in France during the German war 1870. _d._ Avon house, Steele’s road, Haverstock hill, London 27 March 1882. _Times 29 March 1882, p._ 10, _col._ 1.

BARKER, THOMAS RAWSON. _b._ Bakewell, Derbyshire 9 April 1812; a lead merchant at Sheffield; mayor of Sheffield 1848; played in many great cricket matches; a right-handed batsman but a left round-armed bowler. _d._ The Edge, Sheffield 26 April 1873.

BARKER, THOMAS RICHARD. _b._ London 30 Nov. 1799; ed. at Christ’s Hospital 1807–16; entered Homerton old college 1821; independent minister at Alresford Hants 1822, at Harpenden Herts 1824 and at Uxbridge 1833–38; tutor in classics at Spring Hill college Birmingham 1838 to death. _d._ near the College 12 Nov. 1870. _Congregational year book_ 1871 _pp._ 302–304.

BARKER, WILLIAM (_only son of Francis Barker, M.D., professor of chemistry in Univ. of Dublin_). Assistant to his father many years; prof. of natural philosophy to Royal Society of Dublin 1848; prof. of chemistry R.C.S. Ireland 1850 to death; edited _Parkes’s Chemical Catechism_ 1837 and 1854; M.R.I.A. 25 Jany. 1836. _d._ Hatch st. Dublin 11 Sep. 1873 aged 63.

BARKER, WILLIAM BURCKHARDT (_son of John Barker 1771–1849, British consul general in Egypt_). _b._ Aleppo about 1810; taken to England 1819; resided at Tarsus in an official capacity many years; professor of the Arabic Turkish, Persian and Hindustani languages at Eton; chief superintendent of British land transport depot at Sinope 1855 to death; author of _Lares and Penates or Cilicia and its governors_ 1853; _Odessa and its inhabitants_ 1855; _A short historical account of the Crimea_ 1855. _d._ Sinope 28 Jany. 1856 aged 45. _E. B. Barker’s Syria and Egypt 2 vols._ 1876.

BARKER, WILLIAM GIDEON MICHAEL JONES. _b._ 27 Aug. 1817; author of _The three days of Wensleydale, the valley of the Yore_ 1854. _d._ Leeds 10 April 1855.

BARKLEY, JOHN TREVOR. _b._ Yetminster, Dorset 12 Oct. 1826; resident engineer on Whitehaven and Furness railway; manager of coalfields of Heraclea in Turkey 1850–55; constructed Danube and Black Sea railway 40 miles long (which was sold to Roumanian government Nov. 1882) and several other lines in east of Europe, also upwards of 20 bridges chiefly on the Bucharest and Varna line; returned to England about 1869; member of Iron and Steel Institute 1873. _d._ 8 Jany. 1882. _Journal of Iron and Steel institute No._ 2, 1882 651–53.

BARLEE, SIR FREDERICK PALGRAVE (_son of Rev. Edward Barlee 1788–1853, R. of Worlingworth, Suffolk_). _b._ 1827; served in ordnance department 1844–55; colonial sec. of Western Australia 1855–77; member of legislative council to Nov. 1875; lieut. governor of British Honduras 1877–1883; left England to administer the government of Trinidad 2 June 1884; C.M.G. 30 May 1877, K.C.M.G. 24 May 1883. (_m._ 2 April 1851 Jane youngest dau. of Edward Oseland of Coleraine). _d._ Trinidad 8 Aug. 1884.

BARLING, JOHN. _b._ Weymouth 11 Aug. 1804; congregationalist minister at Square Chapel, Halifax 1829–34; Unitarian minister at Northgate end, Halifax Jany. 1854 to Jany. 1858; author of _A review of Trinitarianism_ 1847; _Leaves from my writing desk by an old student_ 1872. _d._ Leeds 20 Aug. 1883.

BARLOW, CHARLES ANSTRUTHER. _b._ 5 Feb. 1800; entered navy 1812; commanded the Nimrod 20 guns 1839–41; captain 8 June 1841; C.B. 14 Oct. 1841. _d._ Hammersmith 31 Dec. 1855.

BARLOW, REV. EDWARD WILLIAM (_only son of Dr. Barlow, M.D. of New Sydney Place, Bath_). ed. at Ex. Coll. Ox., B.A. 1834, M.A. 1836, D.D. 1865; C. of Rochford, Essex; author of _A brief manual on writing Latin_ 1834; _A treatise on the state of the soul_ 1843; _The Apocrypha, its use and abuse_ 1850; _Clerical manual 2 parts_ 1852; _A compilation on Dilapidations_ 1853. _d._ Cleveland villa, Bath 13 Feb. 1869 aged 57.

BARLOW, GEORGE HILARO (_4 son of Rev. Thomas Wm. Barlow 1760–1821 preb. of Bristol_). _b._ 2 May 1806; midshipman R.N.; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832, M.D. 1841; studied at Univ. of Edin. and Guy’s hospital; M.R.C.P. 1834, F.R.C.P. 1842; assistant phys. to Guy’s hospital 1840, phys. 1843; one of editors of _Guy’s hospital reports_; chairman of New Equitable life assurance company 1856, and of the Briton medical and general life association 1862. _d._ Longton lodge, Sydenham 13 Oct. 1866. _Lancet ii_, 454–55 (1866).

BARLOW, HENRY CLARK (_only child of Henry Barlow of Newington Butts, London 1783–1858_). _b._ 6, Churchyard row, Newington Butts 12 May 1806; studied at Royal Academy and Univ. of Edin., M.D. 3 Aug. 1837; spent 5 years in Italy 1841–45; F.G.S. 1864; took a prominent part in Dante festival at Florence 14–16 May 1865; Cavalier of order of the Saints Maurice and Lazarus June 1865; author of _Industry on Christian principles_ 1851; _Francesca da Rimini her lament and vindication_ 1859 _2 ed._ 1875; _Essays on Symbolism_ 1866. _d._ Salzburg 8 Nov. 1876. _A brief memoir of H. C. Barlow, privately printed_ 1868; _Quarterly journal of Geological society xxxiii_, 60–62 (1877).

NOTE.—He left by will £1,000 consols to University College London for the endowment of an annual course of lectures on the ‘Divina Commedia’ as well as all the books and prints in his library which related to Dante and Italian history and literature; he also left £500 consols to the Geological Society for the furtherance of geological science.

BARLOW, JOHN. _b._ the Oak farm, Chorley, Cheshire 20 Sep. 1815; studied at Veterinary college Edin. 1842; assistant professor and lecturer on Zootomy at same college 1845 to death; member of Physiological Society. _d._ 1 Pilrig st. Edin. 29 Jany. 1856. _A memoir of John Barlow_ 1858.

BARLOW, REV. JOHN. Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; F.R.S. 18 Dec. 1834; sec. of Royal Institution 1842–60; chaplain in ordinary at Kensington palace 12 Oct. 1854 to Sep. 1867. _d._ 5 Berkeley st. Piccadilly 8 July 1869 aged 70.

BARLOW, MAURICE. Ensign 85 foot 21 July 1814; lieut. col. 14 foot 25 Dec. 1847 to 27 Jany. 1857 when placed on h.p.; brigadier general in the Crimea 30 July 1855; col. of 3 West India regiment 8 June 1863 and of 14 foot 9 Aug. 1870 to death; general 21 March 1874. _d._ Florence 12 April 1875.

BARLOW, PETER. _b._ parish of St. Simon, Norwich 13 Oct. 1776; mathematical master at Royal military academy Woolwich 1801; mathematical professor there to 1847 when he retired on full pay; gold medallist of Society of Arts 1821; F.R.S. 29 May 1823, Copley medallist 1825 for his discoveries in magnetism; F.S.A. 1829, F.R.A.S. 1829; a corresponding member of Academies of Brussells and Paris; one of Irish railway comrs. 19 Oct. 1836; invented method of compensating compass errors in ships whereby difficulty of navigation was in a great measure overcome, for which he received from board of longitude a grant of £500; contributed largely to _Encyclopædia Metropolitana_ and _Rees’s Encyclopædia_; author of _A new mathematical and philosophical dictionary_ 1814; _Essay on the strength of timber and other materials_ 1817, _6 ed._ 1867; _Essay on magnetic attractions_ 1820, _2 ed._ 1823. _d._ Old Charlton, Kent 1 March 1862. _Proc. of Royal Society xii_, 33–34 (1863); _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxii_, 615–18 (1863).

BARLOW, PETER WILLIAM (_elder son of the preceding_). _b._ 1800; A.I.C.E. 1826, M.I.C.E. 1845, Telford medallist 1845; engaged upon construction of Liverpool and Birmingham canal and the New London docks; resident engineer on London and Dover since called South Eastern railway; planned and executed Reading and Reigate and Tonbridge and Hastings branches 1841–46; designed and constructed Lambeth bridge opened 11 Nov. 1862, cheapest bridge in London, cost only £30,000; planned the Tower Subway opened Feb. 1870; F.R.S. 20 Nov. 1845. _d._ 56 Lansdowne road, Notting hill, London 20 May 1885.

BARLOW, SIR ROBERT, 2 Baronet. _b._ Calcutta 24 Sep. 1797; in the Bengal civil service 1817 to death; succeeded 18 Dec. 1846. _d._ Hanover square, London 21 Jany. 1857.

BARLOW, THOMAS WORTHINGTON (_only son of Wm. Worthington Barlow of Cranage, Cheshire_). barrister G.I. 14 June 1848; practised at Manchester; Queen’s advocate at Sierra Leone April 1856 to death; F.L.S. April 1848; author of _The mystic number, a glance at the system of nature_ 1852; _Memoir of W. Broome_ 1855; edited _The Cheshire and Lancashire historical collector 2 vols._ 1853–55. _d._ Freetown, Sierra Leone 10 Aug. 1856 aged 33.

BARLOW, SIR WILLIAM OWEN, 8 Baronet (_only son of Wm. Owen, a brigadier general_). _b._ 11 April 1775; barrister M.T. 22 Nov. 1799, bencher 1838; tubman of Court of Exchequer 1809, postman 1815–1837; succeeded his uncle 4 Jany. 1817; attorney general for Carmarthen circuit many years; took name of Barlow 1844; lived in Fig tree court Temple 1799 to death. _d._ 5 Fig tree court 25 Feb. 1851. _G.M. xxxv_, 433 (1851).

BARMBY, JOHN GOODWYN. _b._ Yoxford, Suffolk 1820; associated with revolutionists in London 1837; went to Paris 1840; founded the Communist Propaganda Society 1841, afterwards known as the Universal Communitarian Association; a practical preacher of Christian Socialism; Unitarian minister at Southampton, Topsham and Lancaster successively and at Wakefield 1858–79; edited a periodical called _The Promethean_ 1842; author of _The poetry of home and childhood_ 1853; _The return of the swallow and other poems_ 1864; _Aids to devotion_ 1865; wrote many tracts and hymns and articles in periodicals. _d._ The Vines, Yoxford 18 Oct. 1881. _Frost’s forty years recollections_ (1880) 54–75; _Unitarian Herald xxi_, 358 (1881).

BARNARD, SIR ANDREW FRANCIS (_son of Rev. Dr. Henry Barnard of Bovagh, co. Londonderry_). _b._ Fahan, co. Donegal 1773; ensign 90 foot 26 Aug. 1794; lieut. col. Rifle brigade 29 March 1810; commanded 2 brigade of light division in the Peninsula 16 Feb. 1814; commanded British division in Paris 1815; col. of 1 battalion Rifle Brigade 25 Aug. 1822 to death; clerk marshal of the King’s household 1830–37, of the Queen Dowager’s household 1837–49; lieut. governor of Chelsea hospital 26 Nov. 1849 to death; general 11 Nov. 1851; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 20 June 1840, G.C.H. 1834. _d._ Royal hospital Chelsea 17 Jany. 1855. _Cope’s History of the rifle brigade_ 1877; _Lord W. P. Lennox’s Celebrities I have known, 2 series i_, 250–79.

BARNARD, CHARLOTTE ALINGTON. _b._ 23 Dec. 1830; composed about 100 popular ballads under pseudonym of Claribel 1858–69 two of the best known are “Come back to Erin” and “We’d better bide a wee”; author of _Thoughts, verses and songs_. (_m._ 18 May 1854 Rev. Charles Cary Barnard, R. of Brocklesby, Lincs.) _d._ Dover 30 Jany. 1869. _The Choirmaster March 1869._

BARNARD, EDWARD. _b._ 14 March 1786; ed. at Eton; in the colonial office 1804 to death; agent general for Crown colonies 1825 to death; F.L.S. 17 Feb. 1818. _d._ 13 Dec. 1861.

BARNARD, EDWARD. Entered navy 12 May 1797; captain 4 July 1817; retired admiral 22 Nov. 1862. (_m._ Aug. 1811 Mary Parkins). _d._ Hipswell lodge, Richmond, Yorkshire 5 Oct. 1863 aged 82. _O’Byrne_ 1861 _p._ 48.

BARNARD, EDWARD GEORGE. A shipbuilder at Deptford; M.P. for Greenwich 14 Dec. 1832 to death; purchased Gosfield hall, Essex from the Marquess of Buckingham. _d._ Gosfield hall 14 June 1851 aged 73. _Wright’s Essex ii_, 1 (1836).

BARNARD, FREDERICK LAMPORT. _b._ 20 Feb. 1813; entered navy 3 June 1827; captain 10 Oct. 1855; captain of the Mœander 10 guns 23 Feb. 1861 to 14 June 1864; retired V.A. 30 Jany. 1879. _d._ 28 July 1880.

BARNARD, SIR HENRY WILLIAM (_son of Rev. Wm. Barnard of Water Stratford, Bucks_). _b._ Westbury, Bucks 1799; ed. at Westminster and Sandhurst; ensign 1 foot guards 9 June 1814, captain 1831–49 when placed on h.p.; commanded South Wales district 1852–54 and one of the brigades in Crimea 1854–55; chief of the staff in Crimea 28 June 1855; commanded 2nd division of British army in Crimea; commanded troops before Delhi June 1857 to death; C.B. 27 July 1855, K.C.B. 3 May 1856. (_m._ 17 Jany. 1828 Isabella Letitia 2 dau. of James Catlin Craufurd, brigadier general, she was granted a civil list pension of £200 15 Feb. 1858). _d._ of cholera before Delhi 5 July 1857. _Kaye’s Sepoy war in India ii_, 513–70, 678 (1870).

BARNARD, JOHN. Fellow of King’s coll. Cam. 1818 to death; F.S.A. 3 May 1855. _d._ King’s coll. Cam. 16 Nov. 1878 aged 84.

BARNE, GEORGE HUXLEY (_2 son of John Barne of Tiverton_). ed. at Magd. coll. Ox; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1866; attorney general of Jamaica March 1874 to death. _d._ Kingston, Jamaica 8 March 1876.

BARNES, CHRISTOPHER HEWETSON. _b._ 7 Feb. 1833; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery 9 Dec. 1852; lieut. col. R.A. 31 Dec. 1878 to death; commanded R. A. in Egypt to death, _d._ Cairo 28 Sep. 1884. _I.L.N. lxxxv_, 373 (1881), _portrait_.

BARNES, GEORGE CARNAC (_eld. son of Ven. George Barnes 1784–1847, archdeacon of Barnstaple_). ed. at Westminster 1833–35; comr. of the Cis-Sutlej States; foreign sec. at Calcutta 1861 to death; C.B. 18 May 1860. _d._ Hazareebagh, Bengal 13 May 1861.

BARNES, JAMES. Lieutenant Royal horse guards 29 Aug. 1811 to 3 Nov. 1814 when he retired; major in command of Radnor Militia 15 Feb. 1828 to 21 March 1846. _d._ Portishead near Bristol June 1853 aged 64.

BARNES, JAMES HINDMARSH. ed. at Charing Cross and Westminster Ophthalmic hospitals; M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1857; L.R.C.P. Edin. 1860; practised in London; visiting surgeon to the workhouse hospital, Liverpool 1874; superintendent registrar 1874 to death; author of _Notes on surgical nursing_. _d._ 57 Pembroke place, Liverpool 19 March 1880 aged 47. _Medical Times and gazette i_, 387 (1880).

BARNES, JOHN (_son of Thomas Barnes of Newcastle, coal viewer, who d. 1801_). _b._ Walker colliery near Newcastle 12 Aug. 1798; in the Soho works of Boulton and Watt 1813–15; studied at univ. of Edin. 1815–17; manufacturing engineer with Joseph Miller in London 1822–35, made many engines for French steamers; constructed the Sophia Jane the first steam vessel ever employed in Australia 1831; manager of the works at La Ciotat near Marseilles 1845 to death; much improved the French steam navy; M.I.C.E. 1823. _d._ La Ciotat 24 Sep. 1852. _bur._ Long Benton near Newcastle. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xii_, 140–48 (1853).

BARNES, MARY (_dau. of Mr. Greenhill_). _b._ London; acted in the provinces as Miss Simpson; acted at Haymarket and Drury Lane; made her first appearance in America at the Park theatre New York 17 April 1816 as Juliet; a great actress in tragedy, melodrama and pantomime; took farewell of the stage 2 Nov. 1841. (_m._ John Barnes a comedian who _d._ 28 Aug. 1841 aged 60). _d._ Vandam st. New York 26 Aug. 1864 in 84 year.

BARNES, RALPH (_4 son of Rev. Ralph Barnes, archdeacon of Totnes, Devon who d. 20 May 1820 aged 87_). _b._ 14 July 1781; ed. at Exeter gr. school; admitted attorney 25 Nov. 1802; practised at Exeter 1802 to death; chapter clerk there 15 Sep. 1810; sec. to bishops of Exeter April 1830 to death; author of _An inquiry into equity practice_ 1827; _The papal brief considered with reference to the laws of England_ 1850; edited _Bishop Lacy’s Liber pontificalis_ 1847. _d._ Bellairs, Topsham road, Exeter 22 Feb. 1869. _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_, 306–308 (1869); _Law Journal iv_, 140–42 (1869).

BARNES, REV. RICHARD WILLIAM. _b._ Comercolly, Bengal; matric. from Edmund hall Ox. 27 June 1829, B.A. of Queen’s coll. 1834, M.A. 1841; R. of Dunchideock, Devon 1841–45; P.C. of East and West Looe, Cornwall 1845–49; V. of Probus, Cornwall 1849 to death; Preb. of Exeter Nov. 1853 to death; author of _Public opinion considered in letters between one of his friends and R. W. Barnes_ 1855; _Let well alone or removal of blemishes from church and state, by Alazon_ 1860 and many sermons. _d._ The Sanctuary, Probus 27 May 1885 aged 74.

BARNES, ROBERT. _b._ Manchester 1800; cotton spinner there with his brother Thomas Barnes; mayor 1851; gave £10,000 to Royal infirmary Sep. 1869; founded Convalescent hospital at Cheadle at cost of £40,000, and a certified industrial school at Heaton Mersey at cost of £20,000. _d._ Oakley, Fallowfield Manchester 25 Dec. 1871.

BARNES, SAMUEL C. _b._ Ireland; went to the United States 1830; principal of a school at Brooklyn 1830–67; originator and secretary of East Brooklyn savings bank. _d._ Brooklyn 18 Feb. 1873 aged 60.

BARNES, THOMAS. _b._ Wigton, Cumberland 1793; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1817; M.R.C.S. 1815; physician at Carlisle 1817; leading phys. in north of England down to 1850; founded Cumberland infirmary and Carlisle fever hospital; F.R.S. Edin. 1830. _d._ Bunker’s hill near Carlisle 31 March 1872.

BARNES, THOMAS WILSON. The best chess player in London for a short period; an original whist player; reduced his weight from 16 stone to 7 stone 8 lbs. in 10 months Aug. 1873 to June 1874 by banting. _d._ Cambridge st. Eccleston sq. London 20 Aug. 1874 aged 49. _Westminster Papers vii_, 99–100 (1874), _portrait_.

BARNES, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS. Pantomimist in London; made his first appearance in America at Philadelphia 4 Dec. 1846 as Grimaldi in pantomime of Magic Pills; played clown in pantomime of William the Conqueror at Olympic theatre London 26 Dec. 1848; pantaloon at Drury Lane theatre; photographer at 6 North st. Smith sq. Westminster; committed suicide at 6 North st. by taking cyanide of potassium 17 May 1868 in 59 year.

BARNETT, CHARLES (_only son of major general Charles Barnett 1758–1804_). _b._ Stratton, Beds. 31 Oct. 1796; ed. at Putney and Em. coll. Cam., fellow commoner 1815; sheriff of Beds. 1821; master of Cambridgeshire hounds many years from 1829; a great short horn breeder. _d._ Stratton park, Beds. 20 June 1876. _Baily’s Mag. xi_, 55–58 (1866), _portrait_.

BARNETT, CHARLES JAMES. M.P. for Maidstone 1832–1835. _d._ 12 Chichester terrace, Brighton 31 Dec. 1882 in 85 year.

BARNETT, CHARLES JOHN. Captain 3 Foot Guards 26 Oct. 1820 to 26 Oct. 1826; consul at Warsaw 31 May 1833; consul general in Egypt May 1841 to 17 Aug. 1846. _d._ Round Oak, Englefield 4 Aug. 1856 aged 66.

BARNETT, EDWARD. _b._ 1799; entered navy 3 Feb. 1811; captain 20 June 1846; admiral on h.p. 1 Aug. 1877. _d._ 14 Woburn square, London 7 Sep. 1879.

BARNETT, HENRY N. Dramatist and critic; edited _Sunday Times_ 13 years; occupied at one time the pulpit in South place vacated by J. W. Fox, M.P. _d._ Hammersmith 6 Jany. 1872 aged 42.

BARNETT, HUMPHREY. Acting manager at Lyceum theatre London 1862;

## acting manager for J. C. M. Bellew at St. George’s hall, Regent’s

st. _d._ 24 Loudoun road, St. John’s Wood 30 April 1874.

BARNETT, JOHN. Ensign 71 foot 25 Nov. 1813; lieut. 23 foot 1819–22; lieut. col. of 3 West York militia 28 Feb. 1846 to death. _d._ the Linen hall barracks Dublin 24 Feb. 1855.

BARNETT, MORRIS. _b._ London 16 Aug. 1799; lived in Paris; acted at Brighton and Bath; made his first appearance in London at Drury Lane 1833 as Captain O’Cutter; wrote and performed title rôle in _Monsieur Jacques_, a musical piece which created a furore at St. James’s theatre 1837; played at Princess’s theatre; musical critic of _Morning Post_ and _The Era_ nearly 7 years; gave a series of farewell performances at Adelphi theatre 1854; wrote many dramas best known being _The Serious family_, _Lilian Gervais_ and _Married and unmarried_. _d._ Montreal, Canada 18 March 1856. _Actors by gaslight_ (1838) _p._ 137, _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxv_, 305 (1854), _portrait_.

BARNETT, ROBERT. _b._ Macclesfield 1818; an industrious arranger of instrumental music. _d._ Windsor Oct. 1875.

BARNHAM, HILDEBRAND BARRY. Ensign 15 foot 19 Nov. 1807; captain 28 Dec. 1832 to 1839 when he retired. _d._ 13 Camberwell park, London 12 July 1885 in 95 year.

BARNINGHAM, WILLIAM. _b._ Arkingarthdale near Richmond, Yorkshire 1826; a blacksmith; employed on Paris and Rouen railway 1843; began a foundry at Manchester with 3 of his brothers which failed; a manufacturer of railway switches and crossings at Middlesborough; founded ironworks at Pendleton and Albert hill, Darlington; the latter were transferred to a limited liability company 1873. _d._ Pendleton 3 Nov. 1881. _Journal of iron and steel institute, No._ 2, 1882 657–58.

BARNSTON, JAMES. M.D. Edin.; professor of botany in McGill college Montreal. _d._ Montreal 28 May 1858 aged 28.

BARON, JAMES. _b._ Blackburn 1817; ed. at Stonyhurst; held professorships at Prior Park Bath and the Luso-British college Lisbon; kept a school at Lytham in the Fylde, Lancashire for many years from 1849. _d._ St. Helens 23 Feb. 1883.

BARON, JOHN. _b._ St. Andrews 26 May 1786; ed. at Univs. of St. Andrews and Edin., M.D. Edin. July 1805; physician at Gloucester 1807–33; phys. of Gloucester infirmary 1809 to 21 Feb. 1833; lived at Cheltenham 1833 to death; F.R.S. 13 Feb. 1823; author of _Enquiry illustrating the nature of tuberculated accretions of serous membranes_ 1819 and 2 other books on Tubercle _Life of Edward Jenner, M.D. 2 vols._ 1838. _d._ 1 St. Margaret’s terrace, Cheltenham 2 Oct. 1851. _Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery vol. 2_ (1840) _12 pages, portrait_; _Taylor’s National portrait gallery iii_, 43–44 (1847), _portrait_.

BARON, JOHN. _b._ Blackpool 2 Sep. 1807; entered the Society of Jesus at Hodder 21 Sep. 1827, master of the school in London 1831–32 and 1833–35; ordained priest at Stonyhurst 19 Sep. 1841; vice rector of Mount St. Mary’s college 17 Oct. 1848 and rector 17 Oct. 1851–1854; missioner at Wakefield 1854–70. _d._ Holywell 11 July 1878.

BARR, DAVID. Entered Bombay army 1803; col. 24 Bombay N.I. 4 July 1844 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. _d._ Cheltenham 21 Nov. 1862 aged 78.

BARR, HENRY JAMES. _b._ 8 April 1815; ensign 8 Bombay N.I. 22 May 1834; lieut. col. Bombay staff corps 18 Feb. 1861 to death; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ Apsleytown, East Grinstead 17 May 1881.

BARR, REV. HUGH. _b._ Bridge of Weir, Renfrewshire 2 April 1825; an apprentice tailor; studied at Univ. of Glasgow; an agent of Glasgow city mission; minister of United Presbyterian church at Kingskettle 28 Sep. 1854 to death. _d._ Kingskettle 9 Nov. 1873. _Too late for martyrdom Memorials of the Rev. Hugh Barr by Rev. T. Dunlop_ 1875, _portrait_.

BARR, JAMES. _b._ Kilbarchan near Paisley 1779; a friend of Robert Tannahill the poet who has immortalized him as “Blithe Jamie Barr”; harmonized a few airs as glees; well known at various glee clubs in Glasgow; went to America 1834; living at Govan near Glasgow 1859.

BARR, ROBERT. _b._ 3 Sep. 1794; attorney at Leeds 1823; coroner of Leeds 1824; clerk to the Leeds borough magistrates 3 Dec. 1836 to death. _d._ Mount Pleasant, Leeds 18 Oct. 1871.

BARR, SAMUEL. _b._ Glasgow 1807; a self taught musician of strong native genius; his song “Naebody kens ye” possesses much merit; author of _Art of singing at first sight simplified_ 1847. _d._ Glasgow 16 May 1866.

BARRALLIER, FRANCIS LOUIS. Ensign in New South Wales corps (afterwards 102nd foot) 14 Aug. 1800; surveyed Bass’s Straits in the Lady Nelson schooner 1801–1803; attempted to cross the Blue Mountains 1802; captain 101 foot 6 July 1809 to 7 Jany. 1817 when placed on h.p.; made an elaborate survey of island of Barbadoes 1812–17; captain 73 foot 4 Oct. 1831 to 9 Aug. 1833 when placed on h.p.; brevet lieut. col. 9 Nov. 1846. _d._ 24 Bedford square, Commercial road, London 11 June 1853 aged 80. _New South Wales general orders 1791–1806_; _Sydney 1802–1806 the first book printed in Australia_; _United Service Mag._ 1853 _part_ 2, _p._ 632.

BARRATT, ALFRED (_eld. son of James Barratt of Manchester, solicitor_). _b._ Heald Grove near Manchester 12 July 1844; ed. at Sandbach and Rugby where he gained 29 prizes; a commoner of Balliol college Ox. 1862; won the first Balliol scholarship 1862; gained unprecedented distinction of 5 first classes 2 classical, 2 mathematical and 1 law and modern history; fellow of Brasenose coll. 1867; Eldon law scholar 1870; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1872; sec. to the Oxford university commission 1880; author of _Physical Ethics or the science of action_ 1869. _d._ 18 May 1881. _Physical Metempiric by the late A. Barratt_ 1883, _portrait_.

BARRAUD, HENRY. _b._ 1811; painted many portraits with horses and dogs, also subject pictures such as ‘The Pope blessing the animals’ 1842; exhibited at British Institution and Society of British Artists 1831–68 and at R.A. 1833–59; his pictures ‘We praise thee O God’; ‘The London Season’; ‘Lord’s cricket ground’; and ‘The lobby of the House of Commons’ have all been engraved or autotyped. _d._ London 17 June 1874.

BARRELL, JUSTINIAN. Entered navy Aug. 1791; commander 21 March 1815; captain 19 March 1852; the last surviving officer of Lord Howe’s victory of 1 June 1794. _d._ Holloway 23 Nov. 1869 aged 87. _O’Byrne_ (1861) _p._ 52.

BARRETT, APOLLON MARIE ROSE. _b._ South of France 1804; pupil of Vogt at Conservatoire, Paris 1823; solo oboe player at the Odéon, and at Opéra Comique 1827, and at Italian Opera in London 1829–74; professor of the oboe at R.A. of music; author of _A complete method for the Oboe_. _d._ Paris 8 March 1879.

BARRETT, REV. BASIL RICHARD (_7 child of John Briant Barrett of Milton house near Abingdon_). _b._ Milton house 11 May 1781; sent to St. Omer’s college Aug. 1790; joined the refugees from Douay college at Crook hall, Durham June 1795; ordained priest about July 1806; lived at Froidemont in Belgium an establishment for the care of invalid priests; author of _Pretensions to a final analysis of the nature and origin of sublimity, style, beauty, genius and taste_ 1812; _The life of Cardinal Ximenes_ 1813 and of a work in manuscript entitled _A mathematical treatise showing how the circle can be squared_. _d._ Froidemont 3 May 1858. _Gillow’s English Catholics i_, 144 (1885).

BARRETT, GEORGE. _b._ Exeter 9 June 1794; made his début on the stage at Park theatre New York as one of the children in Dunlap’s version of The Stranger 10 Dec. 1798; stage manager of Bowery theatre N.Y. 1828; acting manager of Broadway theatre N.Y. 1847; the best light comedian in America, known as “Gentleman George”; took farewell of the stage at Academy of Music N.Y. 20 Nov. 1855. _d._ New York 5 Sep. 1860.

BARRETT, HENRY MICHAEL. Member of company of T.R. Liverpool; made his début in London at Drury Lane theatre as Falstaff in Henry the Fourth 31 Dec. 1850; played at Sadlers Wells, Drury Lane and Princess’s theatres; played Polonius in Hamlet at the Princess’s 15 June 1871. _d._ in a cab on his way home from the theatre 15 June 1871 aged 68.

BARRETT, JAMES WILLIAM (_brother of Rev. Basil Richard Barrett_). The first Roman catholic admitted a solicitor after passing of the act by which Roman catholics were enabled to practise as solicitors in England; one if not the last of the survivors of the English college at Douay. _d._ Speen hill near Newbury, Berks. 20 Feb. 1864 in 88 year.

BARRETT, REV. JOHN CASEBOW. Ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox.; B.A. 1833, M.A. 1837; P.C. of St. Mary’s district parish, Birmingham 1837 to death; author of _God’s claims upon youth’s obedience_ 1838; _Minister’s trials_ 1846; _Papal aggression_ 1850; _Psalms and hymns for the church service_ 1853. _d._ St. Mary’s vicarage, Birmingham 26 Feb. 1881 aged 70.

BARRETT, LUCAS (_eld. son of George Barrett, of London, ironfounder_). _b._ London 14 Nov. 1837; ed. at Royston, Univ. college school, Ebersdorf in Germany and Trin. coll. Cam.; curator of Woodwardian museum Cam. 1855; delivered many lectures for Professor Sedgwick at Cam. 1856–58; director of geological survey of Jamaica March 1859 to death; comr. for Jamaica at International Exhibition 1862; F.G.S. 1855 when only 18; F.L.S. 5 April 1860; author of 11 papers on natural history and geology; drowned while diving at the Caps outside Port Royal harbour, Jamaica 19 Dec. 1862. _Proc. of Linnæan Society_ (1863) 31–34; _I.L.N. xlii_, 188 (1863), _portrait_.

BARRETT, MICHAEL. A stevedore; lived in Glasgow; member of Fenian brotherhood; fired a barrel of gunpowder close to the wall of the Clerkenwell House of Detention, London 13 Dec. 1867 which killed 4 persons and injured about 40; arrested at Glasgow 14 Jany. 1868; tried at Central Criminal Court 20–25 April 1868 for murder of Sarah Ann Hodgkinson at Clerkenwell, when found guilty and sentenced to death; hanged at Newgate by Calcraft 26 May 1868 aged 27, being last person publicly executed in England. _Central Criminal Court, Minutes of evidence by Barnett and Buckler lxvii_, 486–542 (1868).

BARRETT, RICHARD. A brewer in Ireland; journalist in Dublin; established the _Pilot_ daily evening newspaper 1827 which became principal organ of Daniel O’Connell; it was suppressed by Government, but Barrett continued it by changing the title to _The Morning Register, the Pilot having been suppressed_; sentenced to six months imprisonment 1833 for publishing a letter of O’Connell’s; prosecuted frequently and imprisoned 3 times. _d._ Dublin 19 Oct. 1854.

BARRETT-LENNARD, SIR THOMAS, 1 Baronet (_natural son of Thomas Barrett-Lennard, 17 Baron Dacre who d. 12 Jany. 1786_). _b._ 6 Jany. 1761; assumed by r.l. surname of Barrett-Lennard instead of Thomas 13 March 1786; created baronet 30 June 1801. _d._ 40 Bryanston sq. London 25 June 1857.

BARRINGTON, WILLIAM KEPPEL BARRINGTON, 6 Viscount. _b._ London 1 Oct. 1793; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1814; succeeded his father 5 March 1829; M.P. for Berkshire 1837–57. _d._ Beckett house, Faringdon Berks 9 Feb. 1867. _Burke’s Portrait gallery ii_, 61 (1833).

BARRINGTON, LADY CAROLINE (_3 dau. of Charles Grey, 2 Earl Grey 1764–1845_). _b._ 30 Aug. 1799. (_m._ 15 Jany. 1827 Hon. George Barrington, captain R.N. he was _b._ 20 Nov. 1794 and _d._ 2 June 1835); governess to children of Queen Victoria Jany. 1851 to death. _d._ 28 April 1875.

BARRINGTON, SIR MATTHEW, 2 Baronet. _b._ Limerick 21 May 1788; crown solicitor for province of Munster 1832 to death; succeeded 10 Jany. 1846. _d._ Dublin 1 April 1861.

BARRINGTON, SIR WILLIAM HARTIGAN, 3 Baronet. _b._ Dublin 6 Oct. 1815; sheriff of Limerick 1846; succeeded 1 April 1861. _d._ Glenstal, Limerick 14 July 1872.

BARRITT, JAMES LITTLER. Formerly senior partner of firm of Barritt & Co. wholesale bible warehouse 173 Fleet st. _d._ St. Margaret’s Rochester 18 Aug. 1863 aged 62.

BARRON, ARTHUR. ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; fellow of his college; barrister I.T. 24 Nov. 1826; author with Alfred Austin of _Reports of cases of controverted elections in the 14th Parliament of the United Kingdom_ 1844. _d._ 13 June 1856 aged 55.

BARRON, RIGHT REV. EDWARD. _b._ Ireland 1801; studied at college of the Propaganda, Rome, D.D.; pastor of St. Mary’s church, Philadelphia; pres. of theological seminary of St. Charles Borromeo; vicar general of diocese of Philadelphia; missionary to Liberia, Africa; embarked from Baltimore 21 Dec. 1841; bishop of Constantine and vicar apostolic of the two Guineas 1843–45; missionary priest at Philadelphia, St. Louis and in Florida. _d._ Savannah 12 Sep. 1854. _R. H. Clarke’s Lives of deceased bishops ii_, 595–60 (1872).

BARRON, EDWARD ENFIELD _b._ Norwich; L.S.A. 1832; F.R.C.S. 1844; M.D. London 1850, M.R.C.P. 1851; assistant demonstrator at Grainger’s school Southwark, then the largest in London, Oct. 1834, and demonstrator May 1836 to date when school was transferred to St. Thomas’s hospital; Post-mortem demonstrator at St. Thomas’s; a medical and surgical tutor. _d._ St. John’s, Woking 25 Dec. 1878 aged 67.

BARRON, SIR HENRY WINSTON, 1 Baronet (_eld. son of Pierse Barron of Ballyneal co. Waterford 1752–1811_). _b._ Ballyneal 15 Oct. 1795; ed. at Trinity coll. Dublin; M.P. for city of Waterford 1832–47, 1848–52, 1865–68 and 22 Nov. 1869 to 20 Jany. 1870, when his election was declared void; created baronet 23 Aug. 1841; sheriff of Waterford 1857; author of _Notes on education in Holland and Germany_. _d._ 2, Halkin st., Belgrave sq., London 19 April 1872. _O’Malley and Hardcastle’s Reports of election petitions ii_, 1–5 (1875).

BARRON, WILLIAM. Formerly of the Strand; master of Stationers company 1837 and 1841. _d._ Highgate 5 April 1851 aged 82.

BARROW, REV. ANDREW. _b._ Manchester 27 Jany. 1804; entered Society of Jesus at Rome 2 Nov. 1821; prefect of studies at Stonyhurst 1831; ordained priest 20 Dec. 1834; rector of Stonyhurst college 14 July 1842; chaplain at Broughton hall, Yorkshire 17 July 1845 to death; rector of the Yorkshire district 14 April 1860. _d._ Broughton hall 20 Oct. 1865.

BARROW, SIR GEORGE, 2 Baronet (_eld. son of Sir John Barrow, 1 Baronet 1764–1848_). _b._ London 22 Oct. 1806; ed. at the Charterhouse; clerk in the colonial office July 1825; chief clerk and sec. of order of St. Michael and St. George July 1870 to 29 Sep. 1872; C.M.G. 28 May 1874; author of _Ceylon past and present_ 1857. _d._ 24 Addison road, Kensington 27 Feb. 1876. _I.L.N. lxviii_, 263, 407 (1876), _portrait_.

BARROW, JOHN HENRY. Edited the _Mirror of Parliament_; author of _Characteristic sketches of animals principally from the Zoological gardens, Regent’s Park_ 1832; _Emir Malek, prince of the assassins an historical novel of the thirteenth century_ [_anon._] _3 vols._ 1837. _d._ Newington, Surrey 30 March 1858.

BARROW, LOUSADA. Lieutenant col. Madras staff corps 18 Feb. 1863 to death; chief comr. of Oude 1869–74; M.G. 26 March 1870. _d._ Southlands, Ryde, Isle of Wight 1 Oct. 1877 aged 61.

BARROW, RICHARD (_3 son of Rev. Richard Barrow, 64 years vicar choral of collegiate church of Southwell who d. 23 Feb. 1838 aged 90_). _b._ 20 July 1787; a merchant trading with Spain and Portugal; took over the Staveley coal and iron works 1840 which he greatly extended; sold the collieries and works to a limited liability company for £600,000 in 1864; chairman of board of directors of this company 1864 to death; made greater part of iron work for Great Exhibition of 1862 and iron tubes for London Pneumatic despatch company 1862. _d._ London 10 Jany. 1865. _I.L.N. xxxvi_, 596, 610 (1860), _portrait_.

BARROW, WILLIAM HODGSON (_elder brother of the preceding_). _b._ 1 Sep. 1784; ed. at collegiate school Southwell; practised as an attorney 1806–33; sheriff of Notts 1845; M.P. for South Notts 17 Feb. 1851 to 26 Jany. 1874. _d._ Southwell 29 Jany. 1876.

BARRY, SIR CHARLES (_4 son of Walter Edward Barry of Westminster, stationer who d. 1805_). _b._ Bridge st. Westminster 23 May 1795; travelled in France, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, and Sicily 1817–20; architect in Ely place, Holborn Aug. 1820, removed to 27 Foley place, Cavendish sq. 1827 and to 32 Great George st. 1841; erected Traveller’s club 1829–31, Reform club 1837–39 and Bridgwater house 1847; awarded the prize for design of Houses of Parliament 29 Feb. 1836, first stone laid 27 April 1840 opened by the Queen 3 Feb. 1852; A.R.A. 1840, R.A. 1842; F.R.S. 7 June 1849; knighted at Windsor Castle 11 Feb. 1852. (_m._ 7 Dec. 1822 Sarah dau. of Samuel Rowsell, stationer, she _d._ 7 April 1882 in 83 year). _d._ Elm house, Clapham Common 12 May 1860. _bur._ nave of Westminster Abbey 22 May. _Memoir by Alfred Barry, D.D., 2 ed._ 1870, _portrait_; _Sandby’s History of Royal Academy ii_, 203–209 (1862).

BARRY, EDWARD MIDDLETON (_3 son of Sir Charles Barry_). _b._ 27 Foley place, London 7 June 1830; ed. at King’s college school; pupil of Thomas Henry Wyatt; student at the R.A. 1848; assisted his father to 1860; reconstructed Covent Garden theatre in short space of 8 months, opened 15 May 1858; designed the Floral hall opened 7 March 1860; architect to Houses of Parliament 1860 to death; A.R.A. 29 Jany. 1861, R.A. July 1869; professor of architecture at the R.A. 16 May 1873 to death and treasurer March 1874 to death. _d._ at council table of Royal Academy 27 Jany. 1880. _Lectures on architecture with memoir_ 1881, _portrait_; _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxiii_, 322–26 (1881); _I.L.N. xxxviii_, 178 (1861), _portrait_.

BARRY, GEORGE. _b._ Cork 1825; a merchant; M.P. for co. Cork 29 July 1865 to death. _d._ St. Leonards on Sea 31 Jany. 1867.

BARRY, JAMES. A woman; ed. Univ. of Edin.; M.D. 1812; entered army dressed like a man as a hospital assistant at Plymouth 5 July 1813; served at Malta many years and at Cape of Good Hope where she fought a duel with another officer; inspector general of hospitals 7 Dec. 1858 to 19 July 1859 when placed on h.p.; maintained assumption of manhood down to her death. _d._ 14 Margaret St., London 25 July 1865 aged 73. _Medical times and gazette ii_, 227, 293, 350 (1865).

BARRY, JAMES (_brother of Sir Charles Barry, R.A._) Head of firm of Barry and Hayward of Queenhithe wholesale stationers about 1830 to death. _d._ Eliot Bank, Forest Hill 3 Jany. 1885 in 93 year.

BARRY, JAMES HUGH SMITH. _b._ 1816; sheriff of Cheshire 1846; formed a fine collection of antique sculpture and more than 300 pictures at Marbury hall near Northwich. _d._ Dec, 1857. _Waagen’s Galleries of art_ (1857) 406–13.

BARRY, JAMES REDMOND. _b._ 1789; one of foremost of southern Irish leaders in struggle for Catholic emancipation; inspector general of Irish fisheries; a comr. of Irish fisheries about 1830–75; claimed ancient title of Viscount Buttevant 1825. _d._ Glandore co. Cork 18 June 1879.

BARRY, RIGHT REV. JOHN. _b._ Barony of Forth, co. Wexford about 1799; studied at Charleston; ordained in cathedral of St. Finbar 24 Sep. 1825; pastor of church of the Holy Trinity at Augusta, Georgia 1826–54; vicar general of diocese of Charleston and superior of the theological seminary 1844; vicar general of diocese of Savannah 1853; bishop of Savannah 1857 to death; consecrated in Baltimore cathedral 2 Aug. 1857; sailed from New York 2 July 1859. _d._ Convent of the Brothers’ Hospitalers of St. John of God at Paris 19 Nov. 1859. _R. H. Clarke’s Lives of deceased bishops ii_, 551–54 (1872).

BARRY, JOHN O’BRIEN MILNER. _b._ 1815; B.L. Univ. of Paris 1834; M.D. Edin. 1837; L.R.C.S. Edin. 1838; M.R.C.P. 1859, F.R.C.P. 1876; physician at Laugharne, at Totnes and at Tunbridge Wells 1852 to death; author of essays on ‘Cystine’ and ‘Leucocythemia’ in the _Medical Archives_ 1858–60. _d._ Tunbridge Wells 15 Sep. 1881.

BARRY, JOHN THOMAS. _b._ 1789; entered house of Allen Hanbury and Barry of Plough court, Lombard st., chemists and druggists about 1804, one of the managers; introduced method of evaporation in vacuo for preparation of medicinal extracts; an original member of Pharmaceutical Society 15 April 1841. _d._ Hornsey March 1864.

BARRY, MARTIN (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Fratton, Hants 28 March 1802; studied medicine in Univs. of Edin. Paris, Erlanger, Heidelberg and Berlin; M.R.C.S. Edin.; M.D. Edin. 1833; F.R.S. Edin.; F.R.C.P. Edin.; ascended Mont Blanc 16 Sep. 1834 being 16th ascent then made; F.R.S. 13 Feb. 1840; royal medallist 30 Nov. 1839; made important discovery of presence of Spermatozoa within the ovum 1843; house surgeon Royal maternity hospital Edinburgh 1844; lived abroad 1849–53; author of _Ascent to the summit of Mont Blanc_ 1836; _Researches in embryology 3 series_ 1839–40. _d._ Beccles, Suffolk 27 April 1855. _Edinburgh Medical journal i_, 81–91 (1856); _Proc. of Royal Society viii_, 577–82 (1855); _Annual Monitor for 1856, pp._ 13–18.

BARRY, PHILIP. _b._ 1789; 2nd lieut. R.E. 10 Feb. 1809; col. R.E. 17 Feb. 1854 to 13 Jan. 1855; M.G. 13 Jany. 1855. _d._ Guernsey 17 April 1869.

BARRY, SIR REDMOND (_3 son of major general Henry Green Barry of Ballyclough, co. Cork who d. 14 May 1838 aged 68_). _b._ Air hill, co. Cork 1813; ed. at Hall place Kent and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1837, LLD. 1876; called to Irish bar 1838; went to Sydney 1839; comr. of court of requests at Melbourne 1842; solicitor general of Victoria 1850; judge of supreme court of Victoria 25 Aug. 1851; chancellor of univ. of Melbourne 7 May 1853; pres. of trustees of Melbourne public library 1856; knighted by patent 24 May 1860; represented colony of Victoria at great exhibitions in London 1862 and in Philadelphia 1876; LL.B. and M.A. univ. of Melbourne 1863; administered government of Victoria 3 Jany. 1875 to 10 Jany. 1875; K.C.M.G. 30 May 1877. _d._ Melbourne 23 Nov. 1880. _Men of the time in Australia_ (1878) 10–11.

BARRY, THOMAS. _b._ Ireland; performed with Samwell’s circus 1842; clown to the ring at Astley’s amphitheatre London 1843–48 and 1851–56; kept the Clown tavern 40 Bridge road, Lambeth 1848–50 and March 1856 to 1857. (_m._ Mrs. Campbell of City of London theatre). _d._ 26 March 1857 aged 47. _bur._ Norwood cemetery. _Autobiography of Baron Nicholson_ (1860) 348–52; _H. Valentine’s Behind the curtain_ (1848) 76–78; _I.L.N. v_, 193 (1844), _portrait, xxiii_, 460 (1853), _portrait_.

BARRY, WILLIAM WHITTAKER (_3 son of Rev. Henry Barry, R. of Draycott Cerne, Wilts who d. 10 Aug. 1850 aged 60_). Gained first law studentship awarded by the Inns of Court Jany. 1853; barrister L.I. 30 April 1853; author of _A treatise on the statutory jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery_ 1861; _A walking tour round Ireland in 1865 by an Englishman_ 1867; _A walking tour in Normandy_ [_anon._] 1868. _d._ on the Krimmler Tavern pass in the Tyrol 1 Oct. 1875.

BARRY, WILLIAM WIGRAM (_brother of Sir Redmond Barry_). _b._ 28 May 1827; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 May 1846; col. 1 Oct. 1877 to death; brigadier general Bombay 23 July 1877 to 4 April 1879; M.G. 1 May 1880; granted service reward 1 Oct. 1882; C.B. 28 Feb. 1861. _d._ Hotel Royal, Naples 19 April 1883.

BARRYMORE, MRS. (_dau. of Mr. Adams_). _b._ 1783; dancer at the old Royal Circus now Surrey Theatre, London 1803; the most graceful dancer in London for some years; her power of pantomimic expression as the dumb girl Finella contributed much to success of Auber’s opera Massaniello when first produced at Drury Lane 4 May 1829; made her début in America at the Park Theatre, New York 21 Aug. 1831; taught dancing at Boston to 1846. (_m._ William Barrymore of London, dramatist who _d._ Boston 16 Feb. 1845). _d._ London 6 Jany. 1863.

BARSTOW, JAMES PULTENEY (_eld son of Nathaniel Barstow, of Wetherby, Yorkshire_). Barrister G.I. 18 Nov. 1824; bencher 1 May 1854; treasurer 30 Jan. 1856. _d._ Sandgate, Folkestone 8 Sep. 1873.

BARTER, CHARLES. Worked in Royal botanic gardens, Kew 1849–51; foreman of Royal botanic society Regents Park 1851–57; botanist to Niger expedition under W. B. Baikie 1857 to death; author of _The Dorp and the Veld or six months in Natal_ 1852. _d._ Rabba on the Niger 15 July 1859.

BARTER, RICHARD. _b._ Cooldaniel, co. Cork 1802; M.R.C.S. 1828; Physician of Dispensary Inniscana, Cork; opened St. Anne’s water cure establishment at Blarney; set up the first hot-air baths in Ireland, also the first hot-air baths without vapour—the so-called Turkish bath. _d._ Blarney 3 Oct. 1870. _Recollections of the late Dr. Barter, Dublin_ 1875.

BARTER, REV. ROBERT SPECCOTT (_youngest son of Rev. Charles Barter V. of Cornworthy near Totnes, Devon, 71 years who d. 26 April 1846 aged 97_). _b._ Cornworthy 3 July 1790; ed. at Tiverton gr. sch. Winchester and New coll. Ox.; B.C.L. 1815; commoner tutor at Winchester to Dec. 1814; tutor of New college 1815–30 when he resigned; Bursar 1817, Poser 1817, Sub-warden 1820; Warden of Winchester 18 May 1822 to death. _d._ College st. Winchester 8 Feb. 1861. _Rev. H. C. Adams’s History of Winchester college_ (1878) _pp._ 322–42.

BARTER, REV. WILLIAM BRUDENELL (_elder brother of the preceding_). _b._ Jany. 1788; ed. at Tiverton, Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1809, M.A. 1813; Fellow of Oriel coll. 1811; tutor in family of Lord Carnarvon; R. of Highclere, Hants 1825 to death; R. of Burghclere, Hants 1825 to death; published many letters and pamphlets on the topics of the day. _d._ Burghclere 16 Nov. 1858.

BARTH, HEINRICH. _b._ Hamburg 16 Feb. 1821; ed. at Univ. of Berlin; a lecturer in the Univ.; went with James Richardson to Central Africa 1849, returned 1855; C.B. 17 Nov. 1858; foreign associate of Royal Geographical Society; pres. of Geographical society of Berlin; professor extraordinary at Univ. of Berlin; author of _Travels in North and Central Africa_ 1857. _d._ Berlin 25 Nov. 1865. _Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xxxvi_, 134–36 (1866); _Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie ii_, 96–99 (1875).

BARTHELÉMY, EMANUEL. Shot a gensdarme in Paris; condemned to the galleys for life, set free 1830; greatly distinguished himself in revolution of June 1848; fled to England 1848; shot Cournet a French political exile in a duel at Englefield Green near Egham 19 Oct. 1852; murdered George Moore and Charles Collard at 73 Warren st. Fitzroy square, London 8 Dec. 1854; tried at Central criminal court 4 Jany. 1855, found guilty and sentenced to death; executed at Newgate 22 Jany. 1855. _A.R._ (1852) 170, (1854) 206–212, (1855) 14–16; _Central criminal court trials xli_, 298–307 (1855).

BARTHOLOMEW, ANNE CHARLOTTE (_dau. of Arnol Fayerman_) _b._ Loddon, Norfolk 28 March 1800; member of Society of Female artists and of Society of Water colour painters; exhibited 29 pictures at the R.A. and 39 at Suffolk St. gallery 1841–62; author of _Its only my aunt_, a farce 1825, first acted at Marylebone theatre May 1849; _Songs of Azrael_ 1840 and _The ring or the farmer’s daughter_, a drama 1845. (_m._ (1) 1827 Walter Turnbull, musical composer, he _d._ 1838. _m._ (2) 30 July 1840 Valentine Bartholomew). _d._ 23 Charlotte st. Rathbone place 18 Aug. 1862. _E. C. Clayton’s English female artists i_, 398–400 (1876).

BARTHOLOMEW, VEN. JOHN (_son of Rev. John Bartholomew, head master of Exeter Gr. Sch._) _b._ Exeter Oct. 1790; ed. at Exeter Gr. Sch., Winchester and C. C. Coll. Ox.; Scholar, B.A. 1813, M.A. 1820; P.C, of Withycombe Rawleigh, Devon 1817; P.C. of Sowton 1819; R. of Lympstone 1820; R. of Morchard Bishop, Devon 1831; Preb. of Exeter Cath. 9 May 1831; Canon Res. of Exeter Cath. Sep. 1840 to death; Archdeacon of Barnstaple 3 Aug. 1847 to death. _d._ Morchard Bishop Rectory 24 Sep. 1865.

BARTHOLOMEW, VALENTINE (_son of Josiah Bartholomew of Clerkenwell, watchmaker 1766–1847_). _b._ 18 Jany. 1799; flower painter; member of Water Colour Society 1835 to death; exhibited 20 pictures at the R.A. and 27 at Suffolk st. gallery 1826–56; flower painter in ordinary to Duchess of Kent and to Queen Victoria, (_m._ (1) 1827 Evelina Charlotte Adelaide only dau. of Joseph Nicholas Hullmandel, musician, she _d._ 1 Jany. 1839. _m._ (2) 30 July 1840 A. C. Turnbull). _d._ 23 Charlotte st. Rathbone place 21 March 1879.

BARTHOLOMEW, WILLIAM. _b._ London 1793; chemist, violin player and flower painter; translated or adapted the words of most of Mendelssohn’s vocal works; received gold medal of merit from king of Prussia for the Antigone; wrote English words for Méhul’s Joseph, Spohr’s Jessonda, and Costa’s Eli, Naaman, and The Dream, (_m._ 1853 Ann Sheppard Mounsey, vocal composer). _d._ London 18 Aug. 1867.

BARTLETT, JOHN SHERREN. _b._ Dorset; surgeon R.N. 1812; a prisoner of war at Boston U.S. 1812–13; surgeon at Boston 1813; removed to New York; founded _The Albion_ weekly paper 1822; edited it 1822–47; founded _The Anglo-Saxon_ weekly paper at Boston 1847; published _The European_ at Liverpool; British consul at Baltimore 1857. _d._ New Jersey 24 Aug. 1863 aged 73.

BARTLETT, LAVINIA STRICKLAND. _b._ Preston Andover 27 Nov. 1806; a baptist 26 Oct. 1828; a teacher of the New Park st. chapel Sunday schools London 1859 to death. _d._ 2 Aug. 1875. _Mrs. Bartlett and her class by her son E. H. Bartlett_ 1877, _portrait_.

BARTLETT, ROBERT. _b._ Patcham near Brighton 1782; huntsman to the Brookside harriers, to Duke of Dorset’s hounds at Knowle in Kent, on the Duke’s death in 1815 they were sold to Charles Shard of Winkfield, Berks where Bartlett was huntsman several seasons; huntsman to Colonel Wyndham at Singleton, Sussex to 1825; whip to the Royal hounds 1825–53. _d._ near the royal kennels, Ascot Heath 12 Nov. 1856.

BARTLETT, REV. SYMEON TAYLOR. Ed. at Clare coll. Cam., LL.B. 1840, LLD. 1846; R. of Everley, Wilts 1857 to death; edited _Cicero’s Letters to his friends, Xenophon’s Anabasis, Horace’s Satires, Cicero de Oratore_ and _Cicero de Senectute_. _d._ 1877.

BARTLETT, THOMAS. _b._ 7 July 1818; worked under Thomas Brassey the railway contractor; constructed the Victor Emmanuel railway between France and Italy; executed works on Bilboa railway, Spain; invented an automatic tunnel boring machine, preceding in date that used in the Mont Cenis tunnel; A.I.C.E. 1845, M.I.C.E. 1852. _d._ Lisbon 23 July 1864.

BARTLETT, REV. THOMAS. _b._ 1789; ed. at St. Edmund’s hall Ox.; B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816; R. of Kingstone, Kent 1816–51; R. of Chevening, Kent 1851–54; V. of Luton, Beds. 1854–57; R. of Burton Latimer 1857 to death; author of _Memoir of Bishop Butler_ 1839; _An index to Butler’s Analogy_ 1842, and of many pamphlets, letters and sermons maintaining evangelical tenets. _d._ Burton Latimer 28 May 1872.

BARTLETT, WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ Kentish town, London 26 March 1809; articled to John Britton the architect 1822–29; made 6 journeys to the East 1834–54, and 4 journeys to America 1836–52; edited _Sharpe’s London Magazine_ March 1849 to June 1852; author of _Forty days in the desert on the track of the Israelites_ 1848 _3 ed._ 1849; _The Nile boat, or glimpses of the land of Egypt_ 1849 _2 ed._ 1850; _Gleanings pictorial and antiquarian on the overland route_ 1851. (_m._ 6 July 1831 Susanna Moon, she was granted a civil list pension of £75 4 Oct. 1858). _d._ on board French steamer Egyptus off Malta 13 Sep. 1854. _bur._ in the sea 14 Sep. _Brief memoir by Wm. Beattie M.D._ 1855, _portrait_; _Notice by J. Britton in Art journal_ 1855, _pp._ 24–26, _reprinted privately_ 1855.

BARTLEY, GEORGE (_younger son of Mr. Bartley, box-keeper of the Bath theatre_). _b._ Bath 1782; a strolling player; made his début in London at Drury Lane as Orlando in As you like it 18 Dec. 1802; joined Incledon in his entertainment at the Lyceum theatre called A voyage to India 24 April 1807; manager at Glasgow theatre 1809–11, also at Dundee and Perth; made his début in New York as Falstaff 18 Nov. 1818; played at Covent Garden and Lyceum; stage manager of former house about 1830–40; took his farewell of the stage at Princess’s theatre 18 Dec. 1852. _d._ 11 Woburn sq., London 22 July 1858. _bur._ in St Mary’s churchyard Oxford 30 July. _Metropolitan Mag. xvii_, 366–69 (1836); _I.L.N. i_, 405 (1842), _portrait xxii_, 141 (1853), _portrait_.

BARTON, CHARLES JAMES. 2 Lieut. Bombay artillery 12 Dec. 1845; lieut. col. 26 April 1866 to 1 Aug. 1872; M.G. 1 Aug. 1872. _d._ Norfolk, Virginia, U.S. 19 Nov. 1879 aged 52.

BARTON, EZEKIEL. Entered Bengal army 1799; col. 71 N.I. 11 March 1841 to 8 Feb. 1843; col. 46 N.I. 8 Feb. 1843 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. _d._ Irthlingborough house near Higham Ferrers 4 June 1855 aged 73.

BARTON, RALPH. Entered navy 2 March 1812; captain 9 Nov. 1846; retired admiral 1 Aug. 1877. _d._ South hill cottage, Southport 14 Jany, 1881 aged 83.

BARTON, RICHARD BOLTON (_eld. son of John Barton of Dublin_). _b._ 1819; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1844, LLD. 1868; barrister G.I. 30 Jany. 1850; went to India about 1855; chief magistrate, coroner and chief comr. of insolvency at Bombay. _d._ Stour lodge, Bradfield Essex 27 Dec. 1882.

BARTON, SIR ROBERT (_5 son of Wm. Barton of Grove, co. Tipperary_). _b._ Fethard, co. Tipperary 1770; volunteer in French national guard 1790; major 2 life guards 14 June 1805 to 28 April 1814; major 60 foot 28 April 1814 to 25 March 1816 when placed on h.p.; general 11 Nov. 1851; K.C.H. 1 March 1837. _d._ 2 Montague place, Montague sq. London 17 March 1853.

BARTON, SAMUEL. _b._ 23 April 1789; pupil of Abernethy at St. Bartholomew’s hospital; surgeon at Manchester 1811; surgeon to the Eye hospital 1815; made a splendid collection of pictures and engravings. _d._ Whalley Range near Manchester 18 April 1871. Personalty sworn under £100,000 May 1871.

BARTON, WILLIAM HENRY (_eld son of Sir John Barton, treasurer to Queen Adelaide, he d. 25 Aug. 1834 aged 63_). _b._ 1802; connected with the Mint 38 years; deputy master and comptroller 1851 to death. _d._ the Cottage, Bushey park, Teddington 25 Aug. 1868.

BARTON, WILLIAM WHITTLE. _b._ Liverpool; pastor of Methodist new connexion at Rochdale, the chapel in Zachary Rochdale was opened 2 June 1822; town surveyor of Rochdale 1818–58. _d._ 1859.

BARWELL, LOUISA MARY (_dau. of Richard Mackenzie Bacon of Norwich, journalist 1775–1844_). _b._ parish of St. Peter, Mancroft, Norwich 4 March 1800; assisted her father to edit _Quarterly Musical Magazine_ 1818; contributed frequently to _Quarterly journal of Education_ from about 1831; great friend of Lady Noel Byron; author of _Little lessons for little learners_ 1833 (in monosyllables) and 14 subsequent editions; _The value of time_ 1834 and 14 other books. (_m._ John Barwell of Norwich, wine merchant 1798–1876.) _d._ Norwich 2 Feb. 1885.

BASDEN, JAMES LEWIS. Ensign Scotch brigade 12 Jany. 1800; lieut. col. 89th foot 6 July 1838 to 16 June 1843 when he retired on full pay; C.B. 26 Dec. 1818. _d._ Newton villa, Westbourne grove, London 22 May 1856.

BASEVI, JAMES PALLADIO (_son of George Basevi of London, architect 1794–1845_). _b._ 23 Feb. 1832; ed. at Rugby, Cheltenham and Addiscombe; 2 lieut. R.E. 12 Dec. 1851, captain 15 Feb. 1861; assistant in great trigonometrical survey of India 18 Jany. 1856, surveyor 1st grade 1 April 1866 to death. (_m._ Charlotte Louisa, she was granted a civil list pension of £100 29 April 1874). _d._ at east end of Changchenmo valley in the Himalayas 17 July 1871. _Journal of Royal Geog. soc. xlii_, 163–67 (1872); _Monthly notices of Royal astron. soc. xxxii_, 109–11 (1872).

BASHAM, WILLIAM RICHARD. _b._ Diss, Norfolk 1804; clerk in a bank; studied at Westminster hospital; M.D. Edin. 1834; M.R.C.P. 1838, F.R.C.P. 1850, Censor 1864–66 and 1873 and Croonian lecturer 1864; phys. to Westminster hospital 1843, and lecturer on medicine 1849–71; author of _On dropsy connected with disease of the kidneys_ 1858, _2 ed._ 1862; _Renal diseases_ 1870; _Aids to the diagnosis of diseases of the kidneys_ 1872. _d._ 17 Chester st. Belgrave sq. 16 Oct. 1877.

BASIRE, JAMES. _b._ 1796; engraver; engraved some pretty plates of Sussex country houses. _d._ London 17 May 1869.

BASS, CHARLES (_first cousin to Wm. Evans Burton the comedian_). _b._ London 5 March 1803; manager of Caledonian theatre Edinburgh about 1829; acted at the old Park theatre New York 1844–45; director of the American Dramatic fund; resided at Hamilton, Upper Canada; published _Lectures on Canada_ 1863. _d._ Hamilton 5 May 1863. _Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis_ (1867) 20–21.

BASS, MICHAEL THOMAS (_eld. son of Michael Thomas Bass of Burton-on-Trent, brewer 1760–1827_). _b._ Burton-on-Trent 6 July 1799; brewer at Burton; M.P. for Derby 1848–83; introduced and carried a bill by which house-holders might require street musicians to quit neighbourhood of their houses; built and endowed church of St. Paul at Burton; gave to town of Derby a large recreation ground, public swimming baths, a free library opened 28 June 1879 and an art gallery. _d._ Rangemoor Burton-on-Trent 29 April 1884. _Fortunes made in business ii_, 407–50 (1884); _Graphic xxix_, 457 (1884), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxxiv_, 440 (1884), _portrait_.

BASSANO, ALFRED. _b._ 25 June 1826; ensign 32 foot 3 April 1846; commanded the troops in China 28 July 1877 to 3 June 1878; M.G. 12 Dec. 1877; C.B. 24 May 1873. _d._ 2 Inverness place, Bayswater 12 Sep. 1882.

BASSET, FRANCES BASSET, Baroness. _b._ 30 April 1781; succeeded 5 Feb. 1835. _d._ Tehidy park, Redruth, Cornwall 22 Jany. 1855.

BASTARD, JAMES STOKES. 2 Lieut. R.A. 15 Nov. 1800; col. 9 Nov. 1846 to 20 June 1854; L.G. 24 Jany. 1857. _d._ Charlton 10 June 1871 aged 87.

BATCHELDOR, THOMAS (_2 son of Robert Batcheldor of Cholesbury, Bucks, farmer_). _b._ 23 July 1796; student of Gray’s Inn 14 Nov. 1827; practised as a conveyancer; registrar of Eton College 1827 to death; chapter clerk to dean and canons of Windsor 1843 to death; steward of the courts of Eton College; F.S.A. 21 June 1855. _d._ The Cloisters, Windsor Castle 24 July 1866.

BATE, WILLIAM THORNTON (_son of Wm. Bate, governor of Ascension island_). _b._ 1820; ed. at royal naval college Portsmouth 1833–35; midshipman R.N. 1835; mate of the Blenheim 74 guns 19 March 1841; captain of the Actæon surveying vessel 6 Feb. 1857 to death; F.R.A.S. 9 March 1849; killed at storming of Canton 29 Dec. 1857. _Memoir by Rev. John Baillie, 3 ed._ 1862, _portrait_.

BATEMAN, CHARLES PHILIP BUTLER (_son of Nathaniel Bateman, Captain R.N._) _b._ Wormley Herts 1776; Captain R.N. 25 Sep. 1806; Admiral on h.p. 18 June 1857. _d._ Corston near Bath 23 Nov. 1857.

BATEMAN, COLTHURST. _b._ 2 Oct. 1780; sheriff of co. Kerry 1832–40. _d._ Sherborne 2 Aug. 1859.

BATEMAN, HEZEKIAH LINTHICUM. _b._ Baltimore 6 Dec. 1812; an actor 1832; played in the leading juvenile business; manager of the St. Louis theatre 1855–59; first appeared in England at Adelphi theatre, London 12 June 1865 as David of Ruthin in _Geraldine_; lessee of Lyceum theatre, London 11 Sep. 1871 to death; produced _The Bells_ a version by Leopold Lewis of Erckmann-Chatrian’s Le Juif Polonais 25 Nov. 1871, and Hamlet 30 Oct. 1874 which ran till 29 June 1875, the longest run on record. (_m._ 10 Nov. 1839 Sidney Frances Cowell). _d._ Rutland lodge, South place, Knightsbridge, London 22 March 1875.

BATEMAN, JAMES. _b._ Lancaster 9 Oct. 1805; entered Society of Jesus at Mont-Rouge, France 7 Sep. 1826; ordained priest 24 Sep. 1836; a Spiritual Coadjutor 2 Feb. 1845; rector of St. Aloysius’ college Lancs. 13 March 1858 to Nov. 1861; missioner at Blackpool 1865, at Bournemouth 1874 and at Newhall 1877 to death. _d._ Newhall 17 June 1879.

BATEMAN, JOHN. _b._ 1792; Sheriff of Kerry 1820; M.P. for Tralee 7 Aug. 1837 to 12 March 1838. _d._ 1863.

BATEMAN, JOSEPH (_son of William Bateman of Selby, sailor_). _b._ Selby 4 March 1797; clerk in Board of Excise, London 1829–46; assistant solicitor to the Excise 4 July 1846 to 6 Jany. 1849 when department of stamps and taxes was amalgamated with the Excise; barrister L.I. 27 Jany. 1847; author of _The general turnpike acts_ 1828, _4 ed._ 1852; _Precedents of private acts of Parliament_ 1829; _A practical treatise on the law of auctions_ 1838, _6 ed._ 1882; _The laws of Excise_ 1843, _3 ed._ 1865. _d._ Walthamstow, Essex 10 Nov. 1863.

BATEMAN, SIDNEY FRANCES (_dau. of Joseph Cowell of New York, comedian 1792–1863_). _b._ New York 29 March 1823; author of a drama called ‘_Self_’ produced at People’s Theatre St. Louis 6 April 1857; _Geraldine or the master passion_ produced at Philadelphia 1859, afterwards at Adelphi theatre London 12 June 1865; lessee of Lyceum theatre 22 March 1875 to Aug. 1878, of Sadlers Wells theatre 1879 to death, rebuilt the interior and opened it 9 Oct. 1879. (_m._ 10 Nov. 1839 Hezekiah Linthicum Bateman). _d._ Taviton st. Gordon sq. London 13 Jany. 1881.

BATEMAN, THOMAS (_only child of Wm. Bateman of Middleton by Youlgreave, Derbyshire 1787–1835_). _b._ Rowsley 8 Nov. 1821; made an extensive series of excavations in the tumuli of Yorkshire, Staffordshire and Derbyshire; fellow of Ethnological society; author of _Vestiges of the antiquities of Derbyshire_ 1848; _Ten years diggings in Celtic and Saxon grave-hills_ 1861; contributed largely to antiquarian periodicals. _d._ Lomberdale house near Bakewell 28 Aug. 1861. _Reliquary ii_, 87–97 (1862), _portrait_; _Journal Brit. Archæol. Assoc. xviii_, 362–7 (1862).

BATEMAN, THOMAS HUDSON. Barrister M.T. 24 Nov. 1815; comr. of bankrupts for Halifax; judge of borough court, Lancaster. _d._ 1881.

BATEMAN, THOMAS OSBORNE (_4 son of Richard Bateman, sheriff of Derbyshire who d. 1821_). _b._ Foston hall, Derbyshire 1 March 1809; ed. at Newark gr. sch., Harrow and St. John’s coll. Cam.; B.A. 1834; student at Lincoln’s Inn; restored ancient stained glass windows in Morley church 1847; bought Hartington hall Derbyshire from Duke of Devonshire 1857; built mansion of Breadsall Mount 1864; author of many pamphlets and letters. _d._ 14 Jany. 1874. _Reliquary xv_, 97–101 (1875).

BATES, REV. JOHN ELLISON. Ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox.; student of Ch. Ch.; rowed No. 3 in Oxford boat against Cambridge 1829; B.A. 1831, M.A. 1833; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Litherland Jany. 1842; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Hougham in Dover 1844 to death. _d._ Priory Gate 17 Feb. 1856.

BATES, JOSHUA (_only son of Colonel Joshua Bates of Weymouth near Boston U.S._) _b._ Weymouth 1788; merchant at Boston 1809–12; sent to London 1812 by W. R. Gray of Boston, largest shipowner in America; banker with John Baring in London 1826–28 when they became partners in bank of Baring brothers; naturalised by private act of parliament 5 and 6 Vict. c. 49.; gave sum of 50,000 dollars to Boston public library 1852, also nearly 27,000 books, library was opened 1854 and the large hall named after him, the Bates hall. _d._ New lodge, Windsor Forest 24 Sep. 1864. Personalty sworn under £600,000 Jany. 1865.

BATES, THOMAS. _b._ 1810; ed. at Jesus coll. Cam., 8 Wrangler 1834; fellow of his college; barrister L.I. 3 May 1839. _d._ Heddon, Northumberland 30 Jany. 1882.

BATES, REV. WILLIAM (_4 son of John Moore Bates of Heddon, Northumberland_). Ed. at Ch. coll. Cam., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839, B.D. 1847, D.D. 1858; fellow, dean, lecturer and tutor of his college; R. of Burnham Westgate, Norfolk 1849 to death; author of _College lectures on ecclesiastical history_ 1844, _2 ed._ 1848; _College lectures on Christian antiquities and the ritual of the English church_ 1845, _2 ed._ 1852. _d._ Burnham rectory 22 Nov. 1877.

BATES, WILLIAM. B.A. London 1857; a teacher of languages; professor of classics in Sydenham medical college Birmingham; professor of classics in Queen’s college Birmingham to death; M.R.C.S. 1874; medical officer to Birmingham borough fever hospital 1875–84; author of _George Cruikshank the artist_ 1878; _The Maclise portrait gallery of illustrious literary characters with memoirs_ 1873, _new ed._ 1883. _d._ 19 The Crescent, Birmingham 24 Sep. 1884 aged about 60. _Edgbastonia Oct. 1884, portrait_.

BATESON, SIR ROBERT, 1 Baronet (_only son of Thomas Bateson 1752–1811_). _b._ 13 March 1780; sheriff of county Down 1809; created a baronet 18 Dec. 1818; M.P. for Londonderry 16 Aug. 1830 to May 1842. _d._ Belvoir park, Belfast 21 April 1863.

BATESON, SIR ROBERT HARVEY, 2 Baronet. _b._ 1787; succeeded his uncle 1825. _d._ Castruse, co. Donegal 15 April 1870.

BATESON, REV. WILLIAM HENRY (_son of Richard Bateson of Liverpool, merchant_). _b._ Liverpool 3 June 1812; ed. at Shrewsbury and St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839, B.D. 1846, D.D. 1857; fellow of his college Feb. 1837, senior bursar 1846 to 2 Feb. 1857, master 2 Feb. 1857 to death; V. of Madingley, Cambs. 1843–47; public orator 26 Oct. 1848 to 2 Feb. 1857; sec. of a commission to inquire into state of Univ. of Cam. 1850; vice chancellor 1858. _d._ St. John’s college lodge, Cambridge 27 March 1881. _The Eagle, No. lxv_, (1881); _Cambridge Review ii_, 258 (1881).

BATHER, LUCY ELIZABETH (_dau. of Right Rev. Charles James Blomfield 1786–1857 bishop of London_). _b._ Fulham 31 March 1836; author of _Footprints on the sands of time, Biographies for young people_ 1860 and a number of stories for children under pseudonym of Aunt Lucy. (_m._ 29 Aug. 1861 Arthur Henry Bather of Meole Brace, Shropshire). _d._ The hall Meole Brace 5 Sep. 1864.

BATHGATE, REV. WILLIAM (_youngest son of Wm. Bathgate of Buckholmside, Galashiels, engineer_). _b._ Buckholmside 28 Sep. 1820; studied at Glasgow Univ. and Theological academy 1840–44; expelled from the academy May 1844 for opinions supposed to be heretical; minister of Independent church at Stair 6 Dec. 1844, of Bridgeton church Glasgow 1846, of church at Ayr 1847, of church at Forres 1849, of Evangelical Union church Clerk’s lane, Kilmarnock Aug. 1847 to Nov. 1860 and of Winton place ch. Kilmarnock 11 Nov. 1860 to death; author of _The moral character of God_ 1849; _Æternitas_ 1851; _The Soul’s Arena_ 1852; _Essays on a superior popular literature_ 1854; _Christ and man_ 1865. _d._ Kilmarnock 28 Dec. 1879. _Progressive religion, Sermons and selections from the manuscripts of Wm. Bathgate, D.D._ 1884.

BATHURST, HENRY GEORGE BATHURST, 4 Earl (_eld. child of Henry Bathurst, 3 Earl Bathurst 1762–1834_). _b._ Apsley house, Piccadilly 24 Feb. 1790; comr. of the India board 1812–18; M.P. for Weobley 15 Jany. 1812 to 29 Sep. 1812 and for Cirencester 12 Oct. 1812 to 27 July 1834, when he succeeded as 4 Earl. _d._ Cirencester 25 May 1866.

BATHURST, WILLIAM LENNOX BATHURST, 5 Earl. _b._ George st. Westminster 14 Feb. 1791; ed. at Eton and All Souls coll. Ox., B.A. 1812, M.A. 1817; fellow of All Souls college 1812; M.P. for Weobley 1812–16; barrister L.I. 6 Feb. 1821; joint sec. to Privy Council 1827–60; succeeded his brother as 5 Earl 25 May 1866. _d._ 38 Half Moon st. Piccadilly 24 Feb. 1878. _I.L.N. lxxii_, 245 (1878), _portrait_.

BATHURST, REV. WILLIAM HILEY. _b._ 28 Aug. 1796; author of _Roman antiquities found at Lydney park, Gloucestershire_ 1879. _d._ Lydney park 25 Nov. 1877.

BATTERSBY, GEORGE (_eld. son of Thomas Battersby of Newcastle, co. Meath 1767–1839_). _b._ 8 Sep. 1802; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1824, LL.B. and LLD. 1832; called to Irish bar 1826; Q.C. 2 Nov. 1844, bencher of King’s Inns 1861; judge of Consistorial court of Dublin 1862–67, and of Provincial court of Dublin 1867–71; chancellor of archdiocese of Dublin 1871 to death, _d._ 20 Lower Leeson st. Dublin 9 June 1880.

BATTHYANY, GUSTAVUS THEODORE ANTHONY, Count. _b._ Hungary 8 Dec. 1803; naturalised in England by private act of parliament 1 and 2 Vict. cap. 48 (1838); won the Derby with Galopin 1875. _d._ in the grand stand at Newmarket 25 April 1883. _bur._ Highland road cemetery Portsmouth 2 May. _Graphic xxvii_, 477 (1883), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxxii_, 432 (1883), _portrait_; _Baily’s Mag. xl_, 371–72 (1883).

BATTINE, WILLIAM. Lieut. col. Bengal artillery 1 Dec. 1834, colonel 6 July 1843 to death; M.G. 23 Nov. 1841; commander at Barrackpore 26 April 1850 to death; C.B. 20 July 1838. _d._ Lahore 21 July 1851 aged 63.

BATTLEY, RICHARD (_2 son of John Battley of Wakefield, architect_). _b._ Wakefield about 1770; studied at St. Thomas’s and Guy’s hospitals; assist. surgeon in the Navy; apothecary in St. Paul’s churchyard, London; assisted in founding the London Infirmary for curing diseases of the Eye 1804; Pharmaceutical chemist in Fore st. Cripplegate about 1812; introduced many important improvements in pharmaceutical operations. _d._ Reigate 4 March 1856. _G.M. xlv_, 534 (1856).

BATTY, GEORGE. Proprietor of a menagerie, retired about 1859; lived in Jersey. _d._ Raune, France 5 June 1867 aged 64.

BATTY, WILLIAM (_only brother of the preceding_). Proprietor of a large circus with which he travelled all over Great Britain and Ireland; converted Lambeth baths, London, into a circus which he opened Nov. 1841 as the Olympic Arena; opened the Surrey theatre Whitsuntide 1842; rebuilt Astley’s and opened it 17 April 1843, lessee 1843–55 and 1861–62. _d._ Neville lodge, Grove end road, St. John’s Wood 7 Feb. 1868 in 68 year. _H. Valentine’s Behind the curtain_ (1848) 73–76; _I.L.N. ii_, 222 (1843).

BATTYE, JAMES. _b._ Huddersfield 1803; composer of glees and anthems; published a set of _Twelve glees_ 1854. _d._ Huddersfield 10 Oct. 1858.

BATTYE, WIGRAM (_8 son of George Wyngard Battye of Bengal civil service_). _b._ Kensington, London 13 May 1842; ensign 6 Bengal European regiment 1859; wing officer, adjutant and commandant of cavalry of the Corps of Guides successively 1863 to death; accompanied as a noncombatant the army led by Crown prince of Germany against the French 1870; killed at Futtehabad, Afghanistan when leading the Guides against the Kugiani Afghans 31 March 1879. _S. H. Shadbolt’s Afghan campaigns_ (1882) 12–14, _portrait_.

BAUDERET, FRANCIS HENRY ABRAM. Master of Brooks’s club London 50 years. _d._ Brooks’s club 31 Jany. 1880 in 83 year.

BAUGH, THOMAS FOLLIOT. Entered navy 1784; captain 21 Oct. 1810, retired R.A. 1 Oct. 1846. _d._ 3 Higher Mount Radford terrace, Exeter 19 Aug. 1857 aged 84.

BAUMANN, JEAN FRANÇOIS, _b._ Belgium; lived in London for 25 years before his death; the best player on the bassoon. _d._ Albert st. Regent’s park, London 25 Aug. 1856 aged 52. _I.L.N. iv_, 29 (1844), _portrait_.

BAUME, PIERRE HENRI JOSEPH. _b._ Marseilles 1797; private secretary to Ferdinand I, king of the two Sicilies 1815; went to London about 1825; naturalised 1832; a preacher of doctrine of reforming optimism; a theatrical manager; proprietor of some model experimental gardens near Holloway, and a promoter in Manchester of public houses without intoxicating drinks about 1850; bought a large estate at Colney Hatch valued at £40,000; organised Sunday lectures in Manchester; lived at Douglas Isle of Man 1857 to death. _d._ Duke st. Douglas 28 Oct. 1875. Left all his property in trust for philanthropic purposes in Isle of Man. _G. J. Holyoakes History of co-operation i_, 349–51 (1875), _ii_, 400–405 (1879).

BAUMGARDT, JOHN GREGORY. Ensign 91 foot 1 Aug. 1798; lieut. col. of 31 foot 12 Jany. 1826 and of 2 foot 24 Dec. 1829 to 1 Jany. 1847; inspecting field officer of Bristol recruiting district 1 Jany. 1847 to 11 Nov. 1851; M.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 6 June 1840. _d._ Rue de L’Oratoire, Champs Elysées, Paris 7 May 1855 aged 72.

BAXENDALE, JOSEPH (_eld. son of Josiah Baxendale of Lancaster, surgeon who d. 1834_). _b._ Lancaster Sep. 1785; partner in firm of Pickford & Co. carriers 1817 to death; chairman of South eastern railway to 1844; A.I.C.E. 8 Feb. 1839. _d._ Woodside, Whetstone, Middlesex 24 March 1872.

BAXTER, CHARLES. _b._ Little Britain, London March 1809; a painter chiefly of miniatures and portraits; exhibited 45 pictures at the R.A, 1834–72; member of Society of British Artists 1842, exhibited 127 pictures there 1842–79. _d._ Lewisham 10 Jany. 1879. _Art Journal_ (1864) 145–7, (1879) 73; _I.L.N. lxxiv_, 72 (1879), _portrait_.

BAXTER, CRICHTON M. Poet, painter and chess problem composer; lived at Dundee. _d._ Feb. 1881. _Chess problems by the late C. M. Baxter_ 1883, _portrait_.

BAXTER, SIR DAVID (_2 son of Wm. Baxter of Balgavies, Forfarshire, export merchant_). _b._ Dundee 13 Feb. 1793; partner in linen manufacturing firm of Baxter brothers 1825 which became one of largest houses in the world; purchased estates of Kilmaron 1856 and Balgavies 1863; created baronet 1 Jany. 1863; founded 4 scholarships in the Univ. of Edin. and a chair of engineering which he endowed with sum of £6,000; gave with his sisters Eleanor and Mary Ann the Baxter park to Dundee opened 9 Sep. 1863. _d._ Kilmaron castle 13 Oct. 1872. Personalty sworn under £1,098,000 Dec. 1872. _W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 400–407; _J. Thomson’s History of Dundee_ (1874) 385–90.

BAXTER, EDWARD. Merchant at Manchester; took a prominent part in every movement in favour of popular rights; brought up the great Manchester address on the Reform bill to Lord Grey; offered the first seat in Parliament for new borough of Manchester but declined; retired from business about 1834. _d._ 27 July 1856 aged 77.

BAXTER, EDWARD (_eld. son of Wm. Baxter of Balgavies, export merchant_). _b._ 3 April 1791; partner with his father about 1813–26; export merchant at Dundee 1826 to death; vice consul for the U.S. at Dundee 9 Oct. 1818; dean of guild 1831; one of the merchant princes of Dundee. _d._ Kincaldrum, Forfarshire 26 July 1870. _W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 368–74.

BAXTER, EVAN BUCHANAN (_son of James Baxter, director of the English school at St. Petersburg_). _b._ St. Petersburg 1844; ed. at King’s college London; gained an open scholarship at Lincoln coll. Ox. 1862; became a positivist; entered medical department of King’s college London Oct. 1864; L.S.A. 1868, M.R.C.S. 1869; house phys. King’s college hospital 1868–69, and Sambrooke medical registrar 1870–71; B.A. London 1865, M.B. 1869, M.D. 1870; medical tutor at King’s college 1871–74, and professor of materia medica and therapeutics 1874–84; M.R.C.P. 1872, F.R.C.P. 1877; phys. to Royal free hospital 1881; translated for the New Sydenham Society, _Rindfleisch’s Pathological histology 2 vols._ 1872–73; edited _Garrod’s Essentials of materia medica_ _4 ed._ 1874. _d._ 28 Weymouth st. Portland place, London 14 Jany, 1885. _Lancet 24 Jany. 1885 p._ 181.

BAXTER, FRANCIS WILLOUGHBY (_younger son of Wm. Edward Baxter of Dundee, merchant_). _b._ Dundee; partner in mercantile firm of Guthrie and Baxter; contributed to _Tait’s Magazine_ and other periodicals; edited the _Dundee Advertiser_; author of _Percy Lockhart or the hidden will 2 vols._ 1872. _d._ Broughty Ferry, near Dundee June 1870 aged 64. _W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 358–60.

BAXTER, GEORGE (_2 son of John Baxter of Lewes 1781–1858_). A wood engraver in London; invented oil colour picture printing 1836, employed 20 different blocks in some of the illustrations to the “Pictorial Album” 1836. _d._ The Retreat Sydenham 11 Jany. 1867 aged 62.

BAXTER, GEORGE R. WYTHEN. Author of _Modern refinement_ 1834; _Humour and pathos_ 1838; _The book of the Bastiles_ 1841; edited _Don Juan Junior, a poem by Byron’s Ghost_ 1839. _d._ Bryn, Montgomeryshire 17 Jany. 1854.

BAXTER, JOHN. _b._ Rickhurst Surrey 21 Oct. 1781; printer and publisher at Lewes down to Jany. 1858; the first printer in England who used the inking roller; made paper from the common nettle; published _Library of practical agriculture_ 1846, _4 ed. 2 vols._ 1851; wrote first book laying down rules of cricket published as _Lambert’s Cricketer’s Guide_; established _Sussex Agricultural Express_ 1837. _d._ Lewes 12 Nov. 1858. _M. A. Lower’s Worthies of Sussex_ (1865) 283–84, _portrait_.

BAXTER, JOHN BOYD (_son of Wm. Baxter of Balgavies, merchant_). _b._ 1796; pres. of general council of procurators for Scotland several times; dean of faculty of procurators and solicitors at Dundee 1825 to death. _d._ Craig Tay, Dundee 4 Aug. 1882.

BAXTER, MARY ANN. Gave with the preceding in 1881 sum of £130,000 for founding a college in Dundee which was opened 5 Oct. 1883. _d._ Ellangowan, Dundee 19 Dec. 1884. Personalty amounted to upwards of £283,000.

BAXTER, ROBERT DUDLEY (_eld. son of Robert Baxter of Westminster, solicitor_). _b._ Doncaster 3 Feb. 1827; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1849, M.A. 1852; admitted a solicitor 1852; partner in firm of Baxter, Rose and Norton, Westminster; A.I.C.E. 4 Dec. 1866; author of _The national income_ 1868; _The taxation of the United Kingdom_ 1869; _English parties and conservatism_ 1870; _The national debts of the various states of the world_ 1871. _d._ 13 Oak hill, Frognal, Hampstead 20 May 1875. _Min. of Proc. of instit. of C.E. xlii_, 259–61 (1875); _I.L.N. lxvi_, 547 (1875), _portrait_.

BAXTER, WILLIAM. Curator of botanic garden at Oxford 1813–54; established a library for the use of Oxford gardeners; F.L.S. 1817; author of _British phænogamous botany, or figures and descriptions of the genera of British flowering plants 6 vols._ 1834–43. _d._ Oxford 1 Nov. 1871 in 84 year.

BAXTER, WILLIAM RALEIGH. L.R.C.S. 1840, LLD. Aberdeen 1843; senior surgeon Osmanli horse artillery 1854; volunteer surgeon major in French army at Constantinople; author of _A treatise on certain abnormal sounds of the heart; A handbook of chemistry_ 1851; edited _Medical Record_. _d._ Emsworth, Hants 26 Oct. 1875 aged 63.

BAYES, CORDELIA (_dau. of Thomas Williams of Cambridge_). _b._ Cambridge 1797; admitted into membership with Society of Friends 1825; a Minister 1837; laboured amongst the very poor in the lowest parts of London 1840–45; visited United States and Canada 1851–53. (_m._ 1820 James Kirbell Bayes he _d._ 1842). _d._ Stoke Newington, London 11 April 1865. _Annual Monitor for 1866 pp._ 8–34.

BAYLEE, REV. JOSEPH. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; B.A. 1834, M.A. 1848, B.D. and D.D. 1852; P.C. of Holy Trinity, Birkenhead, Liverpool 1842–64; founder of St. Aidan’s theological college Birkenhead 1846, and principal 1846–69, present college building opened 1856; V. of Shepscombe, Gloucs. 1871 to death; author of _The institutions of the Church of England are of divine origin_, _3 ed._ 1838; _Unitarianism a rejection of the word of God_ 1852; _The intermediate state of the blessed dead_ 1864; _Introduction to the study of the Bible 2 ed. 3 vols._ 1870; _The Apocalypse with an exegetical commentary_ 1876. _d._ Shepscombe vicarage 7 July 1883 in 76 year.

BAYLEY, CHARLES JOHN. Ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.; scholar 1839, B.A. 1839, M.A. 1844; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1844; colonial sec. of Mauritius 1849; governor of Bahama islands Feb. 1857 to 1864; C.B. 23 July 1862. _d._ 6 July 1873.

BAYLEY, SIR EDWARD CLIVE (_son of Edward Clive Bayley of St. Petersburg_). _b._ St. Petersburg 17 Oct. 1821; entered Bengal civil service 1841; barrister M.T. 12 June 1857; sec. to government of India, home department March 1862 to 1872; vice chancellor of Univ. of Calcutta 1869–74; member of council of Governor general of India 19 April 1873 to April 1878 when he retired upon the annuity fund; pres. of Bengal Asiatic Society 5 times, and of Royal Asiatic Society 3 years; K.C.S.I. 1 Jany. 1877. (_m._ 6 March 1850 Emily Anne Theophila, eld. dau. of Sir Theophilus Metcalfe, Baronet). _d._ Wilmington lodge, Keymer Sussex 30 April 1884. _Annual report of Royal Asiatic Society_ 1884.

BAYLEY, FREDERICK WILLIAM NAYLOR. _b._ Ireland; went to Barbadoes 1825, returned 1829; literary dramatic and musical critic on the _Morning Post_ about 1831; started and edited the _National Omnibus_, a penny weekly paper; edited the _Illustrated London News_ May 1842 to 1848; author of _Four years residence in the West Indies_ 1830; _Scenes and stories by a clergyman in debt 3 vols._ 1835; _Tales of the late revolutions_ 1831; issued a series of songs set to music under the title of _The Nosegay_ 1832; wrote many popular songs including _The Newfoundland dog_; author of _New tale of a tub_ 1841; _Comic nursery rhymes_ 1842; _The model of the earth_ 1851. _d._ from delirium tremens New Bull’s Head Inn, Digbeth, Birmingham 1 Dec. 1852 aged 40. _Rev. J. Richardson’s Recollections of the last half century ii_, 197–203 (1855).

BAYLEY, HENRY VINCENT (_eld. son of Wm. Butterworth Bayley, who d. 29 May 1860 aged 78_). _b._ 1815; ed. at Eton; entered Bengal civil service 1834; judge of high court of judicature at Calcutta 13 May 1862 to death. _d._ Calcutta 2 Feb. 1873.

BAYLEY, JOHN. _b._ Upper Green, Mitcham, Surrey 17 May 1794; a tailor there; a practice bowler at Lord’s cricket ground London 1823–54; played in many great matches; a slow round-armed bowler; lived at Mitcham all his life. _d._ Upper Green, Mitcham 7 Nov. 1874.

BAYLEY, SIR JOHN EDWARD GEORGE, 2 Baronet. _b._ London 23 Dec. 1793; barrister M.T. 6 May 1835; clerk of assize northern circuit 1836 to death; succeeded 10 Oct. 1841. _d._ Stanhope lodge, Kensington Gore, London 23 Dec. 1871.

BAYLEY, JOHN WHITCOMB (_2 son of John Bayley of Hempstead, Gloucs., farmer_). A junior clerk in Record office, Tower of London, chief clerk 1819; sub-commissioner on the public records to May 1834; edited _Calendars of the proceedings in Chancery in the reign of Queen Elizabeth 3 vols. fol. 1827–32_, for which he received £2,739; student of Inner Temple Aug. 1815; author of _History and antiquities of the Tower of London 2 parts_ 1821–25; F.S.A. 1819, F.R.S. 1823. _d._ Paris 25 March 1869.

BAYLEY, ROBERT. Ed. at Highbury theological college; independent minister at Howard st. chapel Sheffield 1835–45, at Ratcliff Highway, London 1845–57 and at Hereford 1857 to death; started a monthly periodical called _The people’s college journal_ 1846; author of _A history of Louth_; _Nature considered as a revelation_ 1836; _Lectures on the early history of the Christian church_; _A new concordance to the Hebrew Bible juxta editionem Hooghtianam_. _d._ Hereford 14 Nov. 1859.

BAYLEY, WILLIAM. _b._ 1810; vicar choral at St. Paul’s and organist of St. John’s Southwark; composed some beautiful cavatinas including _Softly ring ye gay bluebells_ and _Come sister come_. _d._ London Nov. 1858.

BAYLEY, WILLIAM BUTTERWORTH (_6 son of Thomas Butterworth Bayley of Hope hall, Eccles 1744–1802_). _b._ 1782; ed. at Eton, and the college Fort William, Calcutta; sec. in revenue and judicial department 1814; chief sec. to supreme government of India 1819–25; member of the council 1825 to 11 Nov. 1830; governor general of India 13 March to 4 July 1828; a director of East India company 23 July 1833, deputy chairman 1839, chairman 1840. _d._ St. Leonard’s on Sea 29 May 1860.

BAYLIS, ALEXANDER JOHN. _b._ 1812; undersheriff of London 1846 and 1869; solicitor to Comrs. of Sewers Dec. 1862 to death, _d._ at an hotel near Redhill railway station 16 May 1882.

BAYLIS, CHARLES OLIVES. _b._ Jany. 1815; M.R.C.S. Edin. 1837, F.S.A. 1839, M.R.C.S. England 1843; practised at Birkenhead; medical officer of health there 1866–73; medical officer for new combined district of West Kent 1873–83. _d._ 62 Windsor road, Southport, Lancs. 12 Dec. 1884.

BAYLIS, EDWARD. Clerk in Alliance insurance office; founded between 1838 and 1854 a series of life offices all of which have disappeared except the English and Scottish Law office; went to Cape of Good Hope about 1859; author of _The arithmetic of annuities and life assurances or compound interest simplified_ 1844. _d._ Cape of Good Hope 12 Sep. 1861 aged about 70.

BAYLIS, THOMAS HUTCHINSON (_son of the preceding_). Manager of the Trafalgar life insurance office 1850; founded Unity general life insurance office and the Unity bank about 1852, manager of them both to Oct. 1856; founded British foreign and colonial insurance association 1857 and the Consols life association 1858; invented the Positive life assurance, an ingenious form of life policy 1869. _d._ 17 Vere St. Cavendish sq. 17 Nov. 1876 aged 53.

BAYLY, SIR HENRY (_2 son of Zachary Bayly of Bideford_). _b._ Bath 1790; ensign 51 foot 30 April 1807; captain 24 April 1817 to 15 Aug. 1826 when placed on h.p.; K.H. 1835; knighted by the Queen at St. James’s palace 18 July 1838. _d._ Burly, Lyme Regis, Dorset 31 Jany. 1867.

BAYLY, THOMAS DAVIS (_4 son of Charles Bayly of Frome Selwood, Somerset, solicitor_). _b._ 1805; barrister G.I. 27 Jany. 1836; comr. in Court of bankruptcy Dorset and Somerset 1838–43; bencher of his inn 1 March 1875. _d._ 20 Aug. 1879.

BAYNES, SIR EDWARD STUART. Deputy assistant commissary general 16 Dec. 1813; secretary general of Ionian islands April 1828–1838; Consul at St. Petersburgh 24 April 1838 to Sep. 1849; British agent and consul general in regency of Tunis 25 Oct. 1849 to death; C.M.G. 9 Feb. 1833, K.C.M.G. 26 June 1833. _d._ Tunis 23 July 1855 aged 64.

BAYNES, EDWIN DONALD. _b._ 1828; colonial sec. and treasurer of Montserrat 1850–54; colonial sec. of Antigua 1863; acting lieut. governor of Dominica 1871; colonial sec. of Leeward islands, and pres. of Antigua 1872; lieut. governor of Leeward islands 1876–84; C.M.G. 1877. _d._ St. John’s, Antigua 1 Nov. 1884 in 57 year.

BAYNES, SIR ROBERT LAMBERT (_youngest son of Thomas Baynes, commander R.N. who d. 1818_). _b._ 1796; entered navy 19 April 1810; captain 8 July 1828; commander in chief on Pacific station 8 July 1857 to 5 May 1860; admiral 5 May 1865; C.B. 13 Nov. 1827, K.C.B. 18 May 1860. (_m._ 8 July 1846 Frances 4 dau. of Thomas Denman 1 Baron Denman she was _b._ 17 Sep. 1812). _d._ Upper Norwood 7 Sep. 1869.

BAYNES, SIMCOE. Midshipman R.N. 1810; ensign royal Corsican rangers 24 June 1812; lieut. col. royal Malta fencible regiment 23 July 1852 to 26 Oct. 1858; colonel 35 foot 27 March 1863 to death; general 14 Dec. 1873. _d._ Tarxien Malta 10 Sep. 1875 aged 77.

BAYNES, SIR WILLIAM, 2 Baronet. _b._ 28 Nov. 1789; succeeded 16 March 1837. _d._ 25 Portland place London 1 Jany. 1866.

BAYNING, REV. HENRY WILLIAM POWLETT, 3 Baron. _b._ London 8 June 1797; ed. at Eton and St. John’s coll. Cam.; succeeded 2 Aug. 1823. _d._ Honingham hall near Norwich 5 Aug. 1866.

BAYS, PETER PAYNE. _b._ Cambridge; a sailing master in the merchant service; a schoolmaster at Cambridge; auditor of Cambridge Union; author of _A narrative of the wreck of the Minerva whaler of Port Jackson_ 1831. _d._ New York 7 Feb. 1864 aged 80.

BAZLEY, SIR THOMAS (_eld. son of Thomas Bazley of Gilnow near Bolton, Lancs. 1773–1845_). _b._ Gilnow 27 May 1797; ed. at Bolton gr. sch.; cotton spinner and merchant at Bolton 1818–26 when he removed to Manchester, retired from business 1862; member of the Anti-Corn Law Assoc. and of the Council of the League; director of Manchester Chamber of Commerce, vice pres., pres. 1845–59; one of Royal comrs. of Great Exhibition 1851; M.P. for Manchester 17 Nov. 1858 to 24 March 1880; created Baronet 7 Oct. 1869. _d._ Riversleigh Lytham, Lancs. 18 March 1885. _I.L.N. xix_, 487, 508, 523 (1851), _portrait_; _Touchstone 19 April 1879_, _portrait_.

BEACH, SIR MICHAEL HICKS, 8 Baronet, _b._ Netheravon house, Wilts 25 Oct. 1809; succeeded 23 Oct. 1834; lieut. col. of North Gloucester militia 10 Feb. 1844 to death; M.P. for East Gloucs. 9 Jany. 1854 to death. _d._ Williamstrip park, Gloucs. 29 Nov. 1854.

BEACH, WILLIAM. _b._ 24 July 1783; M.P. for Malmesbury 13 Oct. 1812 to Feb. 1817. _d._ Oakley hall near Basingstoke 22 Nov. 1856.

BEACONSFIELD, BENJAMIN DISRAELI, 1 Earl of (_eld. son of Isaac Disraeli of London 1766–1848_). _b._ London 21 Dec. 1804; baptised in parish church of St. Andrew, Holborn 31 July 1817; articled to Wm. Stevens of 6 Frederick’s place Old Jewry, solicitor 10 Nov. 1821; student of Lincoln’s Inn 18 Nov. 1824 to 25 Nov. 1831; M.P. for Maidstone 1837–1841, for Shrewsbury 1841–1847 and for Bucks. 1847–1876; chancellor of the exchequer Feb. 1852 to Dec. 1852, Feb. 1858 to June 1859 and July 1866 to Feb. 1868; P.C. March 1852; introduced and carried Representation of the people act 1867; first lord of the Treasury 29 Feb. 1868 to 2 Dec. 1868 and 21 Feb. 1874 to 27 April 1880; lord rector of Glasgow University 1871–1875, installed 19 Nov. 1873; F.R.S. 10 Feb. 1876; lord privy seal 12 Aug. 1876 to Feb. 1878; created Earl of Beaconsfield and Viscount Hughenden of Hughenden Manor, Bucks. 21 Aug. 1876; first British plenipotentiary at Berlin congress 13 June to 13 July 1878; K.G. 22 July 1878; admitted to freedom of City of London 3 Aug. 1878; author of _Vivian Grey 4 vols._ 1827; _The young duke 3 vols._ 1831; _Alroy 3 vols._ 1833; _Contarini Fleming_ 1833; _The Revolutionary Epick, a poem_ 1834; _Henrietta Temple 3 vols._ 1836; _Venetia 3 vols._ 1837; _Alarcos a tragedy_ 1839 which was produced on the stage at Astley’s; _Coningsby or the new generation 3 vols._ 1844; _Sybil or the two nations 3 vols._ 1845; _Tancred or the new crusade 3 vols._ 1847; _Political biography of Lord George Bentinck_ 1851; _Lothair 3 vols._ 1870; _Endymion 3 vols._ 1880. _d._ 19 Curzon st. Mayfair London 19 April 1881. _bur._ Hughenden churchyard 26 April. _Maclise Portrait gallery by W. Bates_ (1883) 164–72, _portrait_; _Lord Beaconsfield, a biography by T. P. O’Connor_, _6 ed._ 1884; _The public life of Lord Beaconsfield by F. Hitchman, 3 ed._ 1884; _An appreciative life of Lord Beaconsfield, edited by C. Brown, 2 vols._ 1882, _portrait_.

NOTE.—He is the hero of ‘Vivian Grey’ the first edition of which novel has whole chapters not found in subsequent editions; he figures almost by name in Lady Bulwer Lytton’s novel “Behind the Scenes” 3 vols. 1854. His statue in Parliament sq. was unveiled 19 April 1883, Primrose day.

BEACONSFIELD, MARY ANNE DISRAELI, Viscountess (_only dau. of John Viney Evans, Captain R.N. of Branceford park, Devon_). _b._ 1795. (_m._ (1) 1811 Wyndham Lewis, M.P. for Maidstone who _d._ 14 March 1838, _m._ (2) 28 Aug. 1839 Benjamin Disraeli, 1 Earl of Beaconsfield). Created Viscountess Beaconsfield of Beaconsfield 30 Nov. 1868. _d._ Hughenden, Bucks 15 Dec. 1872. _Heath’s Book of beauty_ 1841 _p._ 236, _portrait_.

BEADON, SIR CECIL (_youngest son of Richard Beadon who d. 6 April 1858 aged 76_). _b._ Wells 1816; ed. at Eton and Shrewsbury; under secretary to government of Bengal 1843 and secretary 1852; secretary to government of India home department 1854 and foreign department 1859; member of Governor general’s council 1860; lieutenant governor of Bengal 1862–1866; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1866. _d._ Latton, Wilts 18 July 1880. _Fortnightly Review viii_, 180–91 (1867).

BEADON, REV. FREDERICK (_3 son of Rev. Edward Beadon, R. of North Stoneham, Hants who d. 17 Dec. 1810_). _b._ London 6 Dec. 1777; ed. at Charter house and Trin. coll. Ox., B.A. 1800, M.A. 1804; R. of Weston-super-Mare 1801–11; preb. of Wells cathedral 26 May 1809, canon residentiary 1812–1875 and chancellor 13 Aug. 1823 to death; V. of Titley near Hereford 1811–1876; R. of Sulham, Berks 1814–1823; R. of North Stoneham Jany. 1811 to death. _d._ North Stoneham rectory 10 June 1879 aged 101 years and 6 months. _Norman’s Memoir privately printed_ 1879; _Graphic xx_, 108 (1879), _portrait_.

BEADON, WILLIAM FREDERICK (_eld. son of Richard Beadon who d. 6 April 1858_). _b._ 1808; ed. at Eton and St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1833; barrister I.T. 1 May 1835; police magistrate at Wandsworth and Hammersmith 1847, and at Marlborough st. police court 1856 to death. _d._ Stratford place, Cavendish sq. 30 March 1862.

BEAGLEY, THOMAS. _b._ Farringdon near Alton, Hants 5 Oct. 1789; a builder there to Nov. 1850; professional cricketer; a splendid bat and long-stop; played for his county many years. _d._ 27 Alfred road, Harrow road, London 21 Feb. 1858.

BEAL, ABRAHAM. _b._ Chatham about 1803; a great advocate of total abstinence; acquired title of “the Prisoner’s friend”; emigrated to the United States 1848; general agent of New York prison association 1863 to death; more than 10000 prisoners were released or pardoned through his active agency. _d._ Brooklyn New York 25 Feb. 1872. _American Annual Cyclopædia xii_, 59–60 (1873).

BEAL, REV. WILLIAM. _b._ Devonport 4 May 1785; Wesleyan minister 1808 to death; at Liskeard, Cornwall 1857 to death; the first Sunday school teacher in Cornwall; author of _The fathers of the Wesley family and references to their times_ 1833, _2 ed._ 1862; _Britain and the Gael_ 1855 _2 ed._ 1860. _d._ Liskeard 18 June 1872.

BEAL, REV. WILLIAM (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ Sheffield 9 Dec. 1815; ed. at King’s coll. London and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1841, LLD. Aberdeen 1845, F.S.A. 1850; head master of Tavistock gr. sch. 1837–47; V. of Brooke Norfolk 1847 to death; originated at Brooke the Parochial harvest home 1854; diocesan inspector of schools 1855 to death; edited the _West of England magazine_ 1840–47; author of _First book in chronology_ 1840; _Church Unions_ 1848; _Peoples Colleges_ 1851. _d._ Aigle, canton Vaud Switzerland 20 April 1870.

BEALE, LIONEL JOHN. _b._ Falmouth Oct. 1796; M.R.C.S. 1815; practised in London about 1831 to death; medical officer of health to parish of St. Martin-in-the-Fields 1856 to death; author of _On spinal diseases_ 1830; _The laws of health in relation to mind and body_ 1851; _Health and longevity_ 1854; _On personal and domestic hygiene_ 1855. _d._ 108 Long Acre London 23 June 1871. _Medical Times and gazette ii_, 24 (1871).

BEALE, SAMUEL (_son of William Beale of Camphill, Birmingham_). _b._ Birmingham 1803; an iron master; M.P. for Derby 28 March 1857 to 6 July 1865; chairman of Midland railway 1858–1864. _d._ Warfield grove, Bracknell Berkshire 11 Sep. 1874. Personalty sworn under £350,000 Oct. 1874.

BEALE, THOMAS WILLIAM. Clerk in office of Board of Revenue at Agra many years; author of _Miftahu-t-Tawarikh or Key of history_ lithographed at Agra 1849; _The Oriental biographical dictionary edited by the Asiatic Society of Bengal_ 1881. _d._ summer of 1875 very old. _Sir H. M. Elliott’s History of India viii_, 441–44 (1877).

BEALE, WILLIAM. _b._ Landrake Cornwall 1 Jany. 1784; a chorister of Westminster Abbey; Midshipman R.N.; member of Royal Society of Musicians 1 Dec. 1811; gained by his madrigal _Awake sweet muse_ prize cup given by Madrigal Society 12 Jany. 1813; one of gentlemen of Chapel Royal 30 Jany. 1816 to 13 Dec. 1820; organist at Trinity college Cambridge 1 Nov. 1820 to Dec. 1821; organist of Wandsworth parish church 1822, afterwards of St. John’s church Clapham Rise; published _A first book of madrigals, glees, &c. for 3, 4, and 5 voices_ 1815; _Collection of glees and madrigals_ 1820. _d._ Paradise Row, Stockwell, London 3 May 1854.

BEALE, WILLIAM JOHN (_son of Wm. Beale of Camphill, Birmingham_). Solicitor at Birmingham; legal adviser to Midland railway; chairman of orchestral committee of musical festivals 1870–76. _d._ Bryntirion near Dolgelly 21 May 1883 in 76 year.

BEALES, EDMOND (_son of Samuel Pickering Beales of Newnham, Cambridge, merchant_). _b._ Newnham 3 July 1803; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., scholar, B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; barrister M.T. 25 June 1830; revising barrister for Middlesex 1862–66; president of National league for independence of Poland 1863; chairman of the Circassian committee; pres. of Reform league 1865 to 10 March 1869, league was dissolved 13 March 1869; contested Tower Hamlets Nov. 1868; judge of county courts for Beds. and Cambs. 17 Sep. 1870 to death. _d._ Osborne house Bolton gardens south, Brompton 26 June 1881. _Annual Register_ (1866) 98–102.

BEAMAN, GEORGE. _b._ near London 1803; apprenticed to Mr. Holland of Knutsford, surgeon; L.S.A. and M.R.C.S. 1822, F.R.C.S. 1852; M.D. St. Andrews 1854; partner with Mr. Hewson, apothecary in James street, Covent Garden 1824; founded with Thomas Wakley, the new Equitable life assurance office; medical officer of London and South Western railway about 1840 to death; a leading general practitioner. _d._ 3 Caversham, road, Kentish Town 15 Jany. 1874. _Medical times and gazette i_, 142 (1874).

BEAMES, JOHN. Barrister L.I. 25 May 1811, bencher 1832; comr. of lunatics 1821–23; comr. of bankrupts 1823–30; K.C. Nov. 1832; author of _The elements of pleas in equity_ 1818; _A brief view of the writ Ne exeat regno as an equitable process, 2 ed._ 1824; _A summary of the doctrine of the Court of Equity with respect to costs_ 1822, _2 ed._ 1840; _Sketch of the doctrine relative to commitments in bankruptcy_ 1827. _d._ 17 Oct. 1853 aged 72.

BEAMES, REV. THOMAS. Educ. at Lincoln coll. Oxf., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1838; C. of St. Bride’s Fleet st. London 1844–46; C. of St. James’s Westminster 1846 to death; author of _Rookeries of London_ 1850, _2 ed._ 1852; _Plea for educational reform_ 1856. _d._ Godolphin road, Shepherds Bush 6 Aug. 1864.

BEAMISH, FRANCIS BERNARD (_6 son of Wm. Beamish of Cork, porter brewer 1760–1828_). _b._ Beaumont near Cork 5 April 1802; ed. at Rugby; M.P. for Cork 1837–1841, and 1853 to 1865; mayor of Cork 1843, sheriff of co. Cork 1852; chairman of Reform club London to death. _d._ Totnes, Devon 1 Feb. 1868.

BEAMISH, REV. HENRY HAMILTON. Minister of Holy Trinity chapel, Conduit st. London 1832–62; V. of Old Cleeve, Somerset 1862–65; V. of Wimbish 1865–69; R. of Lillingstone Dayrell, Bucks 1869 to death; author of _Romanism and Tractarianism refuted_ 1853; _Lectures, Who is Antichrist_ 1854. _d._ Lillingstone Dayrell rectory 23 Feb. 1872.

BEAMISH, NORTH LUDLOW (_brother of Francis Bernard Beamish_). _b._ 31 Dec. 1797; ed. at Sandhurst; cornet 4 dragoon guards 7 Nov. 1816, captain 1823–26 when placed on h.p.; F.R.S. 15 Nov. 1827; K.H. 1837; lieut. colonel in Hanoverian service 1852; sheriff of city of Cork 1855; author of _Peace campaigns of a cornet [anon.] 3 vols._ 1829; _History of the King’s German legion 2 vols._ 1832–37; _The discovery of America by the Northmen in the tenth century_ 1841; _On the uses and application of cavalry in war_ 1855. _d._ Ann Mount near Glanmire, Cork 27 April 1872.

BEAMISH, RICHARD (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 16 July 1798; ensign Coldstream Guards 1814–18 when placed on h.p.; assistant engineer on the Thames tunnel Aug. 1826 and resident engineer Dec. 1834 to Aug. 1836; engineer for Cork and other counties in Ireland 1828–34; resident engineer of Gloucester and forest of Dean railway to 1850; M.I.C.E. 27 Jany. 1829; F.R.S. 24 March 1836; author of _Popular instruction on the calculation of probabilities translated from the French of A. Quetelet_ 1839; _A treatise on elocution_ 1854; _A memoir of the life of Sir Marc Isambard Brunel_ 1866; _The Psychonomy of the hand, 2 ed._ 1865. _d._ Bournemouth 20 Nov. 1873. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xl_, 246–51 (1875).

BEAMONT, REV. WILLIAM JOHN (_only son of Wm. Beamont of Warrington, solicitor_). _b._ Warrington 16 Jany. 1828; ed. at Warrington, Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.; chancellor’s medallist 1850, B.A. 1850, M.A. 1853; fellow of his college 1852 to death; C. of St. John’s the Evangelist, Drury lane, London 1855; P.C. of St. Michael’s Cambridge 1857 to death; chief founder of Cambridge School of art 1858 and the Church Defence Association 1859; originator of the Church Congress 1861; author of _Catherine the Egyptian slave_ 1852; _Concise grammar of the Arabic language_ 1861; author with Rev. W. M. Campion of _The prayer-book interleaved_ 1868, _7 ed._ 1880. _d._ Trinity college, Cambridge 6 Aug. 1868.

BEAN, WILLIAM. Began riding with the Queen’s stag hounds 1792; a great steeplechase rider; rode 24 steeplechases and won 17 of them. _d._ Notting hill London about 31 March 1867 aged about 86. _Scott and Sebright by the Druid_ (1885) 282–89; _Illust. sporting news vi_, 241 (1867), _portrait_.

BEARD, REV. JOHN RELLY. _b._ Southsea, Portsmouth 4 Aug. 1800; ed. at Unitarian college, York; minister at Salford, Manchester 1825; kept a school at Salford 1826; D.D. Univ. of Giessen 1838; minister at Strangeways, Manchester 1848–64; started a scheme for educating young men for home missions, which originated Unitarian home missionary board or college, of which he was the first principal; minister at Sale near Ashton-on-Mersey 1865–73; the first editor of the _Christian Teacher_ 1835; started the _Unitarian Herald_; author of _Voices of the church in reply to Dr. Strauss_ 1845; _Historical and Artistic illustrations of the Trinity_ 1846; _Illustrations of the divine in Christianity_ 1849; _Latin dictionary_ 1854; _Christ the interpreter of scripture_ 1865; _Christian evidence, an antidote to materialism_ 1868; _Autobiography of Satan_ 1872. _d._ Ashton upon Mersey 21 Nov. 1876. _J. Evans’s Lancashire authors_ (1850) 13–17.

BEARD, WILLIAM (_son of a farmer at Banwell, Somerset_). _b._ Banwell 24 April 1772; a small farmer; dug out a cavern in Banwell hill and found many bones of the bear, buffalo, reindeer and wolf about 1826; let his land and spent all his time searching for bones; his collection of bones was bought by the Somersetshire Archæological and natural history society and is now in the museum at Taunton Castle. _d._ Banwell 9 Jany. 1868. _J. Rutter’s Delineations of north western division of Somerset_ (1829) 147–60, _portrait_.

BEARDMORE, NATHANIEL (_2 son of Joshua Beardmore of Nottingham_). _b._ Nottingham 19 March 1816; partner with James Meadows Rendel C.E. in London and Plymouth to 1848; took out a patent for piers and breakwaters 1848; one of the first hydraulic engineers; engineer to Public works loan comrs. and River Thames Conservancy board; M.I.C.E. 3 May 1842; F.R.A.S. 8 Jany. 1858; F.M.S. pres. 1861 and 1862; F.R.G.S. 1852; author of _Manual of hydrology_ 1852, _new ed._ 1867, which became the text book of the profession for hydraulic engineering. _d._ Broxbourne, Herts. 24 Aug. 1872; _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxvi_, 256–64 (1873).

BEARDMORE, WILLIAM. _b._ Greenwich 6 May 1824; partner with Wm. Rigby in the Parkhead rolling mill and forge near Glasgow 1861–71, and partner with his brother 1871 to death, these works became largest of their kind in Scotland and achieved an European reputation; A.I.C.E. 6 March 1860; inventor and patentee. _d._ Brighton 11 Oct. 1877. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. li_, 268–70 (1878).

BEASLEY, JOSEPH NOBLE. _b._ 30 March 1832; lieut. col. Royal Irish Fusiliers 21 June 1880 to death. _d._ Ismaila, Egypt 20 Sep. 1882.

BEATRICE, MADEMOISELLE, stage name of Marie Beatrice Binda (_dau. of Chevalier Binda, British consul at Florence_). _b._ Lucca, Italy 5 Aug. 1839; acted at Theatres de l’Odéon and Vaudeville, Paris; made her début in London under name of Lucchesini at Haymarket theatre 3 Oct. 1864; played at Lyceum theatre 1865 and in the provinces 1866–68; organised a company 1870 with which she travelled to her death; played in London summers of 1872, 74, 75 and 78; produced and acted chief parts in _Our Friends_, _The Sphinx_, _Frou-Frou_ and other translations from the French. _d._ 102 Earl’s Court road, London 22 Dec. 1878. _bur._ Père Lachaise cemetery Paris 2 Jany. 1879. _The Stage i_, 61, 63 (1874), _portrait_; _Pascoe’s Dramatic list_ (1880) 388–90.

BEATSON, REV. BENJAMIN WRIGGLESWORTH (_son of Anby Beatson_). _b._ 24 Jany. 1803; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school and Pemb. coll. Cam., 16 wrangler 1825, B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; fellow of his college 1827 to death; author of _Progressive exercises on the composition of Greek Iambic verse_ 1836, _10 ed._ 1871; _Exercises on Latin prose composition_ 1840; _Lessons in ancient history_ 1853; edited _Demosthenes’ Oration against Leptines_ 1864. _d._ Charles st. City road, London 20 July 1874.

BEATSON, GEORGE STEWART (_3 son of Henry Duncan Beatson of Campbelltown, Argyleshire_). _b._ Greenock May 1814; ed. at Glasgow Univ., M.D. 1836; L.R.C.S. Edin. 1836; assistant surgeon army medical department 1838; surgeon general 1 May 1863; principal medical officer of British troops in India 1863–68 and 1871 to death; in charge of Royal Victoria hospital Netley 1868–71; honorary phys. to the Queen 13 March 1866; C.B. 2 June 1869. _d._ Knollswood, Simla 7 June 1874. _I.L.N. lxv_, 229 (1874), _portrait_.

BEATSON, WILLIAM FERGUSON. _b._ about 1804; entered Bengal army 1820; served with British legion in Spain 1835–36; commander of the 10 regiment in Spain 13 July 1836; commanded the Nizam of Hyderabad’s division of cavalry to March 1851; organised a corps of 4000 Bashi Bazouks in Crimean war 1854–55, resigned command of the corps Sep. 1855; served in Indian mutiny 1857–58 when he raised and organised two regiments of cavalry in 6 months; M.G. 3 Oct. 1866; created a knight of San Fernando by Queen Regent of Spain. _d._ The vicarage New Swindon 4 Feb. 1872. _Nolan’s Russian war ii_, 753 (1857), _portrait_; _The war department and the Bashi Bazouks by W. F. Beatson_ 1856, _privately printed_.

BEATTIE, JAMES. _b._ parish of Rayne, Scotland 27 Jany. 1781; a shoemaker at Gordonstown in Auchterless; conducted a school of from 30 to 40 pupils for 60 years for which he would never take any payment; known as “the Auchterless John Pounds” after the Portsmouth cobbler of that name who founded ragged schools and died 1839. _d._ Gordonstown July 1867.

BEATTIE, JOSEPH HAMILTON (_son of George Beattie of North of Ireland, architect_). _b._ 12 May 1808; assistant engineer on London and Southampton railway 1837; assistant engineer and locomotive superintendent of London and south western railway 1851 to death; took out many patents for improvements in railway rolling stock and effected great saving in consumption of fuel in working locomotives; M.I.C.E. 1 Dec. 1857. _d._ South Bank, Surbiton, Surrey 18 Oct. 1871. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxiii_, 204–206 (1872).

BEATTIE, WILLIAM (_son of James Beattie of Dalton, Annandale who d. 1809_). _b._ Dalton 1793; ed. at Clarencefield academy 1807–13 and Univ. of Edin. 1813–20, M.D. 1818; studied in France, Italy and Germany 1823–26; physician to Duke of Clarence 8 years and private secretary to him 3 years; L.R.C.P. 1827; practised at Hampstead 1827–45; foreign sec. to British Archæological Society; lost £7,000 in Albert Assurance Office Aug. 1869; author of _Journal of a residence in Germany 2 vols._ 1831; _Scotland illustrated 2 vols._ 1838; _The Waldenses illustrated 2 vols._ 1838; _The Danube_ 1844; _Life of Thomas Campbell 3 vols._ 1848. _d._ 13 Upper Berkeley st. London 17 March 1875. _Madden’s Literary life of Countess of Blessington iii_, 255–76 (1855).

BEATTY, GEORGE. Second lieutenant R.M. 16 May 1795, colonel commandant 12 Feb. 1842 to 9 Nov. 1846; general 20 June 1855. _d._ Dublin 27 June 1857 aged 79.

BEATTY, THOMAS EDWARD (_son of John Beatty, M.D._) Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; M.D. Edin. 1820, M.R.C.S. Ireland 1821, F.R.C.S. 1824; master of South-Eastern Lying-in hospital, Dublin; professor of medical jurisprudence at Royal college of surgeons Dublin, pres. 1850; helped to found City of Dublin hospital 1832; pres. of Dublin Pathological Society 1859; fellow of King and Queen’s college of physicians 2 May 1862, pres. 1864–65; M.D. Dublin 1863. _d._ 3 May 1872.

BEAUCHAMP, JOHN REGINALD PYNDAR, 3 Earl (_2 son of Wm. Lygon, 1 Earl Beauchamp 1747–1816_). Assumed name of Pyndar 22 Oct. 1813; succeeded 12 May 1823. _d._ 37 Portman sq. London 22 Jany. 1853 in 71 year.

BEAUCHAMP, HENRY BEAUCHAMP LYGON, 4 Earl (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 5 Jany. 1784; cornet 13 Dragoons 9 July 1803; lieut. col. 1 Life Guards 17 July 1821 to 10 Jany. 1837; colonel 10 Hussars 23 June 1843 to death; general 20 June 1854; M.P. for Worcestershire 1816–1831 and for West Worcestershire 1832–1853; succeeded 22 Jany. 1853. _d._ Madresfield Court, Great Malvern 8 Sep. 1863.

BEAUCLERK, AUBREY WILLIAM. _b._ 20 Feb. 1801; M.P. for East Surrey 15 Dec. 1832 to 17 July 1837. _d._ Ardglass castle, co. Down 1 Feb. 1854.

BEAUFORT, JOHN HENRY SOMERSET, 7 Duke of (_eld. child of Henry Charles Somerset, 6 Duke of Beaufort 1766–1835_). _b._ 5 Feb. 1792; cornet 10 Hussars 1811; aide de camp to Duke of Wellington in the Peninsula; captain 37 Foot 2 Dec. 1819 to 25 Oct. 1821 when placed on h.p.; M.P. for Monmouth 30 Dec. 1813 to 3 Dec. 1832 and for West Gloucs. 12 Jany. 1835 to 23 Nov. 1835 when he succeeded as 7 Duke; junior lord of the Admiralty 1816–1819; lieut. colonel commandant of Gloucestershire yeomanry April 1834 to death; K.G. 1842; master of the Badminton fox hounds 1835 to death. _d._ Badminton, Gloucs. 17 Nov. 1853. _Lord W. P. Lennox’s Celebrities I have known 2 series i_, 118–30 (1877); _Sporting Review xxxi_, 69–70 (1854); _I.L.N. xxiii_, 448, 476 (1853), _portrait_.

BEAUFORT, SIR FRANCIS (_younger son of Rev. Daniel Augustus Beaufort 1739–1831, V. of Collon, co. Louth_). _b._ Collon 1774; entered navy 21 June 1787; engaged in the action off Brest 1 June 1794; constructed with R. L. Edgeworth a telegraph from Dublin to Galway 1804; captain R.N. 30 May 1810; conducted survey of coast of Asia Minor 1810–12; granted pension for wounds 2 Dec. 1815, retired R.A. 1 Oct. 1846; F.R.S. 30 June 1814; one of founders of Royal Astronomical Society 1820 and of Royal Geographical Society 1830; corresponding member of Institute of France; hydrographer of the Admiralty July 1832 to 30 Jany. 1855; K.C.B. 27 April 1848; author of _Karamania or a brief description of the south coast of Asia Minor_ 1817 which was the chief book of travels of its day. _d._ Hove near Brighton 17 Dec. 1857 in 84 year. _H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches_, _4 ed._ (1876) 213–30; _Quarterly Journal of Geological Soc. xiv_, 47–54 (1858); _Proc. of Royal Soc. ix_, 524–27 (1858).

BEAUFORT, FRANCIS LESTOCK (_son of the preceding_). _b._ 1815; in Bengal civil service 1837–76 when he retired upon the annuity fund; judge of the 24 Purgunnahs beyond the suburbs of Calcutta 1863–76; author of _Digest of the criminal law procedure in Bengal_ 1850. _d._ 1879.

BEAUFOY, HENRY BENJAMIN HANBURY (_eld. son of Mark Beaufoy of London, astronomer 1764–1827_). Established 4 scholarships at Univ. of Cam.; gave city of London school £10,000; erected at cost of £10,000 Lambeth Ragged schools opened 5 March 1851, and invested £4,000 in perpetual trust for their maintenance; formed a library of 25000 volumes; privately printed his father’s _Nautical and hydraulic experiments_ 1834; F.R.S. 14 Dec. 1815, F.L.S. _d._ South Lambeth 12 July 1851 in 66 year. _H. Mayhew’s Shops of London i_, 7–12 (1865).

BEAULIE, BARON A. DE. Belgian envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary in London 1 March 1869 to death, _d._ 43 Upper Brook st. Grosvenor sq. 11 Oct. 1872 aged 66.

BEAUMONT, MILES THOMAS STAPLETON, 8 Baron (_eld. son of Thomas Stapleton of Carlton hall, Yorkshire 1778–1839_). _b._ Richmond, Yorkshire 4 June 1805; fought a duel with major general Lorenzo Moore on Wimbledon Common 13 Feb. 1832 when he received a bullet in his breast which was never extracted; summoned to House of Lords by writ as one of the coheirs of barony of Beaumont 16 Oct. 1840; col. commandant of 4 West York Militia 18 May 1853 to death; author of _Austria and Central Italy_ 1849; _The late edict of Court of Rome_; _Lord Beaumont’s letter to Lord Zetland_ 1850, _7 ed._ 1850. _d._ 17 Bruton St. Berkeley sq. London 16 Aug. 1854.

BEAUMONT, EDWARD BLACKETT. _b._ 1802; F.R.S. 4 June 1835, F.R.A.S. _d._ 33 Norland sq. Notting hill, London 7 June 1878.

BEAUMONT, SIR GEORGE HOWLAND, 9 Baronet. _b._ Addington park, Surrey 12 Sep. 1828; succeeded 7 June 1845; sheriff of Leicestershire 1852. _d._ Cole Orton hall, Ashby-de-la-Zouch 8 June 1882.

BEAUMONT, REV. JOSEPH. _b._ Castle Donington, Leics. 19 March 1794; Wesleyan minister 1813 to death; minister in Edinburgh 1821–23 and 1833–35, in London 1831–32, 1836–38 and 1845–50, in Liverpool 1839–44; M.D. Edin. 1836; an eloquent and popular preacher; author of _Memoir of Mrs. Mary Tatham_ 1838. _d._ in the pulpit of Waltham chapel, Hull 21 Jany. 1855. _Life by his son Joseph Beaumont_ 1856, _portrait_; _The lamps of the temple_, _3 ed._ 1856, 381–403.

BEAUMONT, THOMAS (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 1 July 1795; L.S.A. 1822; surgeon at Bradford 1822 to death; pres. of Bradford Medical Association; alderman of Bradford; one of the founders of Bradford Temperance Society the first in England 2 Feb. 1830; author of _An essay on the nature and properties of alcoholic liquors_ 1837. _d._ Bradford 16 Oct. 1859.

BEAUMONT, WILLIAM RAWLINGS. _b._ London 1803; studied at St. Bartholomews hospital and in Paris; M.R.C.S. 1826, F.R.C.S. 1844; surgeon to Islington dispensary; went to Toronto 1841; professor of surgery in Toronto Univ. 1843; surgeon to general hospital; M.D. Toronto 1850; emeritus professor of surgery in Trinity college; invented many surgical instruments, especially one for the making of deep sutures 1837, which suggested invention of the Singer sewing machine. _d._ 12 Oct. 1875. _Canadian Lancet 1 Nov. 1875._

BEAUREGARD, ELIZABETH, Countess de (_dau. of Joseph Hargett_). Known as Miss Howard; remarkable for her beauty; mistress of Louis Napoleon to 1853 when he created her Countess de Beauregard. (_m._ 16 May 1854 Clarence Trelawney, Hussar officer in the Austrian army, he was _b._ 20 Dec. 1826 and obtained a divorce in Court of appeal Paris Feb. 1865). _d._ Chateau of Beauregard near Versailles 20 Aug. 1865 aged 42.

BEAVAN, CHARLES (_son of Hugh Beavan of Llowes, Radnorshire_). _b._ March 1805; ed. at Aldenham and Caius coll. Cam., 22 wrangler 1829; B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; barrister M.T. 25 June 1830, bencher 6 May 1873; practised in Chancery courts; an official examiner of Court of Chancery June 1866 to Jany. 1884 when office abolished; author of _Reports of cases in Chancery argued and determined in the Rolls Court 36 vols._ 1840–69, being the longest series of authorized reports ever published. _d._ 91 St. George’s road, Pimlico, London 18 June 1884. _Solicitor’s Journal xxviii_, 173, 592, 601 (1884).

BEAVAN, EDWARD (_younger brother of the preceding_). _b._ 1814; ed. at Hounslow; practised as special pleader; barrister M.T. 3 May 1844; recorder of Chester 1864–66. _d._ 15 Feb. 1870.

BEAZLEY, SAMUEL (_son of Samuel Beazley of Whitehall, London, army accoutrement maker_). _b._ Whitehall 1786; served as a volunteer in the Peninsula; designed St. James’s, Lyceum and City of London theatres, also 2 theatres in Dublin, 2 in Belgium, 2 in India and 1 in Brazil; erected London Bridge railway station, most of the stations on North Kent line and Lord Warden hotel at Dover; wrote and arranged more than 100 dramatic pieces chiefly farces and short comedies; author of _The Roué [anon.] 3 vols._ 1828; _The Oxonians, a glance at society 3 vols._ 1830. _d._ Tunbridge Castle 12 Oct. 1851 in 66 year. _Lord W. P. Lennox’s Celebrities, I have known, 2 series ii_, 70–90 (1877); _Lord W. P. Lennox’s Percy Hamilton_ 1851 in which he is drawn to the life.

BECHER, ALEXANDER BRIDPORT (_eld. son of Alexander Becher, captain R.N. who d. 1827_). _b._ 12 June 1796; midshipman R.N. 28 Nov. 1812; captain on h.p. 20 March 1856, retired R.A. 11 June 1874; assistant in Hydrographic office 12 May 1823 to 1865, arranged and methodised all documents preserved there 1823–26; sec. to board of visitors of royal observatory; F.R.A.S. 1830, member of council; edited the _Nautical magazine_ from its commencement in 1832 to 1871; author of _The landfall of Columbus on his first voyage to America_ 1856. _d._ 46 Upper Gloucester place, London 15 Feb. 1876. _Dunkin’s Obituary notices of astronomers_ (1879) 1–6.

BECHER, LADY ELIZA (_eld. dau. of John O’Neill, stage manager of the Drogheda theatre_). _b._ Drogheda 1791; made her début in Dublin at Crow street theatre as The widow Cheerly in the _Soldier’s daughter_ 1811 and in London at Covent Garden theatre as Juliet 6 Oct. 1814; the favourite actress in London both in comedy and tragedy 1814–19; said to have made £12,000 a year; acted for the last time 13 July 1819. (_m._ 18 Dec. 1819 Wm. Wrixon, M.P. for Mallow, he was _b._ 31 July 1780, assumed name of Becher, was created a baronet 1831 and _d._ 23 Oct. 1850). _d._ Ballygiblin near Mallow 29 Oct. 1872. _Mrs. C. B. Wilson’s Our actresses i_, 33–74 (1844), _portrait_; _Theatrical inquisitor vi_, 243 (1815), _portrait_.

BECHER, JOHN REID. _b._ 3 July 1819; 2 lieut. Bengal Engineers 6 March 1838; colonel 13 Oct. 1863; colonel commandant 15 Sep. 1881 to death; served in Afghan campaign 1842 and Sutlej campaign 1846; general 29 July 1878; C.B. 18 May 1860. _d._ Southampton 9 July 1884.

BECHER, MARTIN WILLIAM (_son of Wm. Becher of Norfolk, farmer who d. 1816_). _b._ Norfolk; served in the Store-keeper general’s department; an officer in Buckinghamshire yeomanry cavalry 1821; won the Northampton steeple chase 4 April 1834; beat the Marquis of Waterford in a match for 1000 guineas a side 1834; won the St. Albans steeple chase 1835 and 1836 and many other races; the best steeple chase rider in England. _d._ 21 Maida hill, St. John’s Wood, London 11 Oct. 1864 aged 67. _Sporting Review lii_, 400–404 (1864); _Scott and Sebright by the Druid_ (1885) 292–303, _portrait_.

BECK, BARONESS VON, assumed name of Wilhelmina Racidula; passed herself off as a Hungarian exile who had rendered good service to the cause of independence; came to Birmingham with her secretary Constant Derra July 1851, where she was assisted by many of the Liberal leaders; arrested as an impostor and confined in Moor st. police court 29 Aug.; author of _Personal adventures during the late war of independence in Hungary 2 vols._ 1850. _d._ in the ante-room of the Court at Moor st. Birmingham 30 Aug. 1851 aged about 54. _The persecution and death of the Baroness Von Beck at Birmingham in August_ 1851, 8º. 1852; _Athenæum_ (1852) 578, 629, 653, 701, 846 _and_ 869; _The facts of the case as to the pretended Baroness Von Beck by J. T. Smith_ 1852.

BECK, EDWARD. Commanded a merchant ship; a slate merchant at Isleworth, Middlesex; constructed the great waterworks at Hampton; one of most successful growers of Pelargoniums in the kingdom, long unrivalled as an exhibitor; author of _A treatise on the cultivation of the Pelargonium_ 1847; edited _The florist and garden miscellany 4 vols._ 1848–61. _d._ Worton cottage, Isleworth 15 Jany. 1861 aged 57. _The Florist Feb. 1861, pp._ 36–38.

BECK, RICHARD. Manufacturing optician at 31 Cornhill, London; author of _A treatise on the construction, proper use and capabilities of Smith, Beck and Beck’s achromatic microscopes_ 1865 and of 9 papers read before the Microscopical Society 1859–66. _d._ Stamford hill, London 30 Sep. 1866 aged nearly 39.

BECK, THOMAS SNOW. _b._ Newcastle-upon-Tyne; ed. at gr. school there, and in Cumberland; apprenticed to a surgeon at Newcastle; student at Univ. college London 1836; M.R.C.S. 1839, F.R.C.S. 1847; walked the Paris hospitals 1839–40; visited universities of Switzerland, Italy and Germany 1840–41; M.D. London 1849; M.R.C.P. 1852; practised in London 1841; phys. to Farringdon general dispensary 1850; F.R.S. 5 June 1851, royal medallist 1845. _d._ 7 Portland place, London 6 Jany. 1877 aged 63. _Medical Circular i_, 209–211 (1852).

BECKER, CARL LUDWIG CHRISTIAN. _b._ Ratzeburg in Mecklenberg Strelitz 16 July 1821; manager for Elliott brothers of London electrical engineers 1858; member of the firm 1873 to death; F.R.A.S. Jany. 1874. _d._ 55 St. Paul’s Road Canonbury 3 April 1875.

BECKET, THOMAS. M.R.C.S. 1794, F.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon 1 Foot Guards 8 July 1795 to 1809; surgeon to the Savoy 28 Sep. 1809. _d._ 5 Russell place, Fitzroy sq. London 21 July 1856 aged 82.

BECKETT, SIR EDMUND, 4 Baronet, _b._ Gledhow hall, Leeds 29 Jany 1787; M.P. for west riding Yorkshire 12 July 1841 to 23 July 1847, and 11 Dec. 1848 to 23 April 1859; succeeded 17 Nov. 1872. _d._ Doncaster 24 May 1874. Personalty sworn under £300,000 Aug. 1874. _I.L.N. lxiv_, 547 (1874) _lxv_, 236 (1874).

BECKETT, JOHN STANIFORTH (_son of Joseph Beckett, of Barnsley 1751–1840_). Presented a dispensary to Barnsley, to which he also left sum of £5000. _d._ Wombwell near Barnsley 9 Nov. 1868 in 75 year. Personalty sworn under £350,000 Jany. 1869.

BECKETT, SIR THOMAS, 3 Baronet. _b._ Leeds 1 Jany. 1779; succeeded 31 May 1847. _d._ Somerby park near Gainsborough 17 Nov. 1872. Personalty sworn under £350,000 March 1873.

BECKETT, WILLIAM (_5 son of Sir John Beckett, 1 Baronet 1743–1826_). _b._ Leeds 3 March 1784; principal partner in the eminent banking firm of Beckett and Co. of the Leeds “Old Bank”; M.P. for Leeds 1841 to 1852 and for Ripon 1852 to 1857. _d._ Brighton 26 Jany. 1863. _Rev. R. V. Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis_ (1865) 506–509.

BECKWITH, JOHN CHARLES (_eld. child of John Beckwith of Halifax, Nova Scotia_). _b._ Halifax 2 Oct. 1789; ensign 50 Foot 1803, exchanged into 95 Foot 1804, captain 1808 to 20 Jany. 1820 when placed on h.p.; served in Hanover, Denmark and Sweden, and in the Peninsula 1809–14; lost his left leg at Waterloo where 4 horses were killed under him 18 June 1815; C.B. 22 June 1815, M.G. 9 Nov. 1846; visited the Vaudois valleys Piedmont Oct. 1827 and 5 succeeding years, lived at St. Jean 1834–39 and at La Tour 1841–51, established 120 schools in the Vaudois valleys all of which he frequently inspected; knight of Sardinian order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus 15 Dec. 1848. (_m._ 20 June 1850 Caroline Volle of the Vaudois). _d._ La Tour 19 July 1862. _bur._ in the cemetery of Tour Pellice. _General Beckwith, his life and labours among the Waldenses of Piedmont by J. P. Meille_ 1873.

BECKWITH, JOSEPH. An early member of the Corresponding Society which was founded 1791; a contemporary of Hardy and Thelwall; lived in Clerkenwell nearly 60 years. _d._ 3 Dec. 1860 aged 84.

BECKWITH, WILLIAM (_eld. son of Wm. Beckwith of Trimdon, co. Durham 1772–1847_). _b._ 20 Aug. 1795; cornet 16 Dragoons 7 Jany. 1813; major 14 Dragoons 14 Feb. 1828 to 6 Dec. 1833 when placed on h.p.; colonel 15 Hussars 17 July 1859 to death; general 9 April 1868; K.H. 1832; sheriff of Durham 1858. _d._ Silkworth near Sunderland 23 Feb. 1871.

BEDDOME, JOHN REYNOLDS. M.R.C.S. 1811; M.D. Erlangen; surgeon at Romsey 1811 to death; mayor of Romsey 6 times, _d._ Romsey 26 Dec. 1859. _I.L.N. xxxiv_, 385 (1859), _portrait_.

BEDFORD, FRANCIS RUSSELL, 7 Duke of (_eld. child of John Russell 6 Duke of Bedford 1766–1839_). _b._ 13 May 1788; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1808; M.P. for Beds. 1812 to 1832; summoned to House of Lords as Baron Howland 15 Jany. 1833; succeeded as 7 Duke 20 Oct. 1839; P.C. 6 July 1846; K.G. 26 March 1847; lord lieutenant of Beds. 29 Nov. 1859; high steward of Cambridge 1860; master of the Oakley hounds to 1828 when he sold the pack to Lord Southampton for £2,000, master again 1836–39. _d._ Woburn Abbey, Beds. 14 May 1861. _Baily’s Mag. i_, 57–59 (1860), _portrait_; _Waagen’s Treasures of Art ii_, 283–86, _iii_, 463–74 _and iv_. 331–37.

BEDFORD, WILLIAM RUSSELL, 8 Duke of. _b._ Grosvenor square London 1 July 1809; M.P. for Tavistock 10 Dec. 1832 to 23 June 1841; succeeded 14 May 1861. _d._ 6 Belgrave sq. London 26 May 1872. Personalty sworn under £600,000 June 1872. _I.L.N. lx_, 555. 592, 623 (1872), _portrait_.

BEDFORD, FRANCIS. _b._ 1799; apprenticed to Finlay a bookbinder 1814; worked under Charles Lewis, foremost of English bookbinders; carried on business for benefit of Lewis’s widow; partner with John Clarke who was unrivalled in tree marbled calf; afterwards in business alone at 91 York st. Westminster; the best binder in England or perhaps Europe. _d._ 12 Coningham road, Shepherd’s Bush 8 June 1883. His library was sold by Sothebys 21, 22, 24 and 25 March 1884 for £4,876 16s. 6d.

BEDFORD, GEORGE AUGUSTUS. _b._ 8 Feb. 1809; entered navy 23 Dec. 1823; Captain 2 Jan. 1854; retired V.A. 22 March 1876; F.R.G.S. 1859. _d._ The Elms, Sydenham hill 11 Feb. 1879.

BEDFORD, REV. JOHN (_son of John Bedford of Wakefield_). _b._ Wakefield 27 July 1810; Wesleyan minister at Glasgow 1831; at Manchester 1855 to death; sec. to general chapel committee 1860–72; pres. of conference 1867; author of _Correspondence with the Rev. Wm. Sutcliffe relative to the doctrines, ministry and system of the Wesleyan Methodists_ 1842. _d._ Chorlton-cum-Hardy near Manchester 20 Nov. 1879. _I.L.N. li_, 232 (1867), _portrait_.

BEDFORD, PAUL JOHN. _b._ Bath 24 Jany. 1792; made his début on the stage at Bath 1815; acted in Ireland and Scotland; made his début in London at Drury Lane 2 Nov. 1824 as Hawthorn in opera of _Love in a village_; played at Adelphi theatre 1838–67; had one of the deepest and richest bass voices ever heard, his best parts were Blueskin in _Jack Sheppard_ 1839, Jack Gong in _The green bushes_ 1845 and the Kinchin cove in _The flowers of the forest_ 1847; took his farewell of the stage at the Queen’s theatre 16 May 1868; sang at Weston’s Music hall London and The hall by the sea Margate 1869; author of _Recollections and wanderings_ 1864; _Drawing room dramas_ 1874. (_m._ (1) Miss Green of Dublin, an actress who _d._ April 1833 aged 32). (_m._ (2) Miss Verinder, a pianist and harpist, she _d._ 1864). _d._ Lindsey place, Chelsea 11 Jany. 1871. _Theatrical times i_, 129 (1847), _portrait_; _Illust. sporting news ii_, 180 (1863), _portrait, v_. 133 (1866), _portrait_.

BEDINGFELD, FELIX WILLIAM GEORGE RICHARD (_youngest son of Sir Richard Bedingfeld, 5 Baronet 1767–1829_). _b._ 12 Aug. 1808; crown comr. of Turk’s Island in the Bahamas 1842–49; barrister L.I. 26 April 1849; master of supreme court of Trinidad 1849–54; colonial sec. for and member of council of Mauritius 1860–68; C.M.G. 1869. _d._ Pilgrim, Lymington, Hants. 7 Dec. 1884.

BEDINGFELD, SIR HENRY RICHARD PASTON, 6 Baronet. _b._ Oxburgh, Norfolk 10 May 1800; succeeded 22 Nov. 1829. _d._ Oxburgh 4 Feb. 1862.

BEDSON, GEORGE. _b._ Sutton Coldfield, Warwick 3 Nov. 1820; manager of business of Messrs. Johnson of Manchester 1851; manager of Bradford iron works 1858 to death; initiated and perfected many inventions in the iron and wire trades; propounded theory of continuous brakes for railway trains about 1864; lived at Bradford 1858–72 and 1882 to death, and at Marple, Cheshire 1872–82. _d._ Bradford house, Manchester 12 Dec. 1884.

BEECH, REV. HUGH. _b._ Chesterton, Staffs. 3 June 1787; Wesleyan minister 1811 to death, _d._ Cheedle, Staffs. 22 Feb. 1856. _The good soldier, a memoir of Rev. Hugh Beech_ 1856.

BEECHAM, REV. JOHN. _b._ Barnoldby-le-Beck near Great Grimsby 1787; became a Wesleyan preacher 1815; general secretary of Wesleyan Missionary Society 1831 to death; pres. of Wesleyan conference 1850; author of _An essay on the constitution of Wesleyan Methodism_ 1829, _3 ed._ 1851; _Ashantee and the Gold Coast_ 1841. _d._ Canonbury, London 22 April 1856. _Wesleyan Meth. Mag. lxxix, pt. 2_, 577–605 (1856).

BEECHEY, FREDERICK WILLIAM (_2 son of Sir Wm. Beechey R.A. 1753–1839_). _b._ 17 Feb. 1796; entered the navy 7 July 1806; went with Sir John Franklin to Spitzbergen on his first expedition 1818; with Edward Parry in the Hecla 1819; helped to survey north coast of Africa Nov. 1821 to July 1822; commanded the Blossom in the Pacific 1825–28; captain 8 May 1827; surveyed coast of Ireland 1837–47; superintendent marine department of Board of Trade 1850 to death; aide de camp to the Queen 18 July 1851 to 11 Sep. 1854; R.A. 11 Sep. 1854; F.R.G.S. 1833, pres. 1855 to death; F.R.S. 23 Dec. 1824, vice pres. 1854; author of _Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Behring’s Strait 2 vols._ 1831; _A voyage of discovery towards the north_ pole 1843. _d._ 8 Westbourne crescent, Hyde Park, London 29 Nov. 1856. _Proceedings of Royal Society viii_, 283–87 (1856).

BEECHEY, GEORGE D. (_brother of the preceding_). Portrait painter; exhibited 24 portraits at the R.A. 1817 to 1832; went to Calcutta about 1830; court painter and controller of the household to King of Oudh. (_m._ an Indian Lady called Hinda, whose _portrait_ he sent to the R.A. 1822). Supposed to have died in India 1856.

BEECHEY, HENRY WILLIAM (_brother of the preceding_). travelled with Belzoni in Egypt 1816–17; examined and reported on antiquities of the Cyrenaica for Colonial Office 1821–22; F.S.A. 1825; exhibited a picture at the R.A. 1829, and another at British Institution 1838; emigrated to New Zealand 1855; wrote a memoir of Sir Joshua Reynolds prefixed to his Literary works published in 2 vols. 1835 and reprinted 1852. Supposed to have died in New Zealand in or about 1870.

BEECHING, JAMES. _b._ Bexhill near Hastings 1788; apprenticed to a boat builder; boat builder at Great Yarmouth; introduced the handsome build of fishing vessel now used there; invented the self righting lifeboat for which he gained the prize of £105, 13 Aug. 1851 when 280 models were sent in from all parts of the world, his boat slightly modified has served as the model for all the boats of the Royal National Lifeboat institution. _d._ 7 June 1858. _Rev. John Gilmore’s Storm warriors_ (1874) 32–47.

BEECROFT, GEORGE SKIRROW. _b._ Outwood house, Horsforth near Leeds 16 Nov. 1809; proprietor of Kirkstall forge near Leeds; M.P. for Leeds 5 June 1857 to 11 Nov. 1868; seconded address of House of Commons in reply to speech from the throne 3 Feb. 1859. _d._ 4 Gloucester terrace, Regent’s park, London 18 March 1869. _I.L.N. xxxiv_, 189 (1859), _portrait_.

BEECROFT, JOHN. Explored the Niger and other rivers falling into the Gulf of Guinea 1832 to death; governor of Fernando Po; consul general for West Africa 1850. _d._ Clarence, West coast of Africa 10 June 1854.

BEER, JOHN (_eld. son of John Beer of Devonport, coal merchant_), _b._ Devonport about Dec. 1806; solicitor at Devonport 1827 to death; clerk to the Devonport comrs. 1838–82; an able advocate, engaged in all the chief local trials; member of Devonport town council many years and mayor 1849 and 1850; recorder of Saltash 1871 to death, _d._ 2 Albemarle villas, Stoke 14 April 1883.

BEER, JULIUS. _b._ Frankfort 1836; proprietor of _The Observer_ London weekly paper 1870 to death; F.R.G.S. 1870. _d._ Mentone 29 Feb. 1880 in 44 year. _bur._ Highgate cemetery 8 March. Personalty sworn under £400,000 March 1880.

BEETE, ROBERT CROSBY. First puisne judge British Guiana 1853 to Jany. 1869 when he retired on a pension. _d._ Charing Cross hospital London 2 Nov. 1878 aged 68.

BEETON, SAMUEL ORCHART. Bookseller and publisher at 148 Fleet st. London; published the first English edition of _Uncle Tom’s Cabin_ 1852; went a voyage to America to present Mrs. Stowe with a voluntary payment of £500; published _Beeton’s Christmas Annuals_ 1860–65; sold his stock and copyrights for £1,900 to Ward, Lock and Tyler Sep. 1866; a publisher again 1877 to death; author with Doughty and Emerson of _The coming K._ 1872; _The Siliad_ 1873 _and Jon Duan_ 1874. _d._ Sudbrook park, Richmond, Surrey 6 June 1877 aged 46. _The law reports Equity cases xix_, 207–22 (1875).

BEEVOR, SIR THOMAS BRANTHWAYT, 3 Baronet, _b._ Old Buckenham, Norfolk 7 April 1798; succeeded 10 Dec. 1820. _d._ Yarmouth 6 April 1879.

BEEVOR, SIR THOMAS, 4 Baronet. _b._ Hargham Norfolk 23 Aug. 1823; ed. at Univ. coll. London; barrister L.I. 29 Jany. 1850; chairman of Norwich Union life assurance society; succeeded 6 April 1879. _d._ Hingham, Attleborough, Norfolk 18 Aug. 1885.

BEGBIE, JAMES, _b._ Edinburgh 18 Dec. 1799; ed. at high school and Univ. of Edin.; M.D. 1821; F.R.C.S. Edin. 1822; F.R.C.P. Edin. 1847, pres. 1854–50; pres. of Medico Chirurgical Society 1850–52; one of Her Majesty’s physicians in ordinary in Scotland 6 June 1853; author of _Contributions to practical medicine_ 1862, and of many papers in medical journals. _d._ 10 Charlotte sq. Edinburgh 26 Aug. 1869. _Proc. of Royal Society of Edin. vii_, 2–6 (1872).

BEGBIE, JAMES WARBURTON (_2 son of the preceding_). _b._ 19 Nov. 1826; ed. at Edinburgh academy and univ., M.D. 1847, LLD. Aug. 1875; pres. of Royal Medical Society 1847–49; practised at Edinburgh 1852; F.R.C.P. Edin. 1852; phys. to the Cholera hospital 1854; phys. to Royal Infirmary 1855–65, lectured on practice of physic there 10 winter sessions 1855–65; had the largest consulting physician’s practice in Scotland 1869 to death; author of _A handy book of medical information and advice by a physician_ 1860, _2 ed._ 1872; wrote 13 articles in _J. R. Reynolds’s System of medicine 3 vols._ 1871 and many reviews and notices in _Edinburgh Medical Journal_. _d._ 16 Great Stuart st. Edinburgh 25 Feb. 1876. _Selections from the works of the late J. W. Begbie, edited by Dyce Duckworth, The New Sydenham Society London_ 1882, _portrait_.

BEGG, REV. JAMES. _b._ Manse of New Monkland, Lanarkshire 31 Oct. 1808; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow, M.A.; licensed as a preacher June 1829; minister at Maxwelltown, Dumfries 18 May 1830; minister of Middle parish church Paisley 1831, and of Liberton near Edin. 25 June 1835 to 5 July 1843 when he was declared no longer a minister having joined in the Free Secession; minister of Newington Free church near Edin. 1843 to death; sent by his church to Canada on public duty 1844–45; moderator of Free general assembly 18 May 1865; a sum of £4,600 was presented to him by his friends 1875; author of _Are you prepared to die_ 1845; _How to promote and preserve the beauty of Edinburgh_ 1849; _A handbook of Popery_ 1852; _The art of preaching_ 1863. _d._ George sq. Edinburgh 29 Sep. 1883. _Memoirs by Professor Thomas Smith_ (1885); _John Smith’s Our Scottish clergy, 3 series_ (1851) 127–33.

BEHAN, THOMAS LAWRENCE. Connected with the _Hampshire Independent_; on the staff of the _Observer_ and other London newspapers; editor, manager, and publisher of the _London Gazette_ 1 Oct 1854 to death, _d._ Southampton 27 Aug. 1860 aged 66.

BEHNES, WILLIAM. _b._ London 1794; learnt drawing in Dublin; gained 3 silver medals at Royal Academy; a _portrait_ draughtsman in London, afterwards a sculptor; executed busts of many of the most eminent men of his time; executed statues of Lady Godiva 1844, Europa 1848 and The startled nymph 1849; exhibited 215 sculptures at the R.A. 1815–63; bankrupt on his own petition 25 Nov. 1861. _d._ Middlesex hospital London 8 Jany. 1864. _Cornhill Mag. ix_, 688–701 (1864); _Lectures on art by Henry Weeks_ (1880) 294–317; _W. B. Scott’s British school of sculpture_ (1871) 99–102.

BEHRENS, LOUIS. _b._ Hamburg 1801; joined his brother Jacob in business as merchants at Bradford 1836; founded a business in Manchester 1840; established it as a separate concern 1870. _d._ Southport 1 June 1884.

BEKE, CHARLES TILSTONE (_son of James Beck, of Hackney, London, commissioner of sewers_). _b._ Stepney, London 10 Oct. 1800; student at Lincoln’s Inn; changed spelling of his name from Beck to Beke 1834; acting consul at Leipzig 1837–38; Ph. Doc. Univ. of Tubingen 6 Aug. 1837; travelled in Abyssinia 1840–43 and 1865–66; received gold medals of Royal Geographical Societies of London and Paris 1845 and 1846; sec. to National Association for protection of industry and capital throughout British empire 1849–53, when association was dissolved; granted a civil list pension of £100 14 Dec. 1870; went to Palestine to determine position of Mount Sinai Dec. 1873; F.S.A. 1835; author of _Origines Biblicæ_ 1834; _The sources of the Nile_ 1860; _The British captives in Abyssinia_ 1865; _The idol in Horeb_ 1871 and other books. _d._ Bromley, Kent 31 July 1874. _Summary of the late Dr. Beke’s published works and of his inadequately requited public services By his widow_ 1876; _Dictionary of national biography iv_, 138–41 (1885); _I.L.N. lxv_, 140 (1874), _portrait_; _Graphic x_, 174 (1874), _portrait_.

BELCHER, SIR EDWARD (_2 son of Andrew Belcher, of Clarence lodge, Roehampton, Surrey_). _b._ Nova Scotia 1799; entered navy 9 April 1812; one of original fellows of Royal Geog. Soc. 1830; sailed round the world in H.M.S. Sulphur 1836–42; captain 6 May 1841; engaged surveying in East Indies 1842–47; C.B. 14 Oct. 1841, K.C.B. 13 March 1867; knighted by patent for his services in China 21 Jany. 1843; granted pension for wounds 13 March 1847; commanded expedition in search of Sir John Franklin 10 Feb. 1852 to Oct. 1854; admiral 20 Oct. 1872; F.R.A.S. Dec. 1837; claimed to be the inventor of water-tight bulkheads and compartments; granted a Greenwich hospital pension of £150 per annum 7 Dec. 1874; author of _A treatise on nautical surveying_ 1835; _Narrative of a voyage round the world 2 vols._ 1843; _Narrative of the voyage of H.M.S. Samarang 2 vols._ 1848; _Horatio Howard Brenton a naval novel 3 vols._ 1856; _The last of the Arctic voyages 2 vols._ 1855. (_m._ 11 Sep. 1830 Diana dau. of George Jolliffe, captain H.E.I.C.S.) _d._ 6 Melcombe place, Dorset sq. London 18 March 1877. _Army and Navy mag. iv_, 1–5 (1882), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxi_, 321 (1852), _portrait, lxx_, 299 (1878), _portrait_; _Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xlvii_, 136–42 (1877); _Monthly notices of Royal Astron. Soc. xxxviii_, 141–43 (1878); _Transactions of Instit. of naval architects xi_, 12–19, 197–211 (1870).

BELCHER, REV. JOSEPH. _b._ Birmingham 5 April 1794; Baptist divine; went to United States 1844; author of _Pastoral recollections_ 1837; _The clergy of America_ 1849; _George Whitfield, a biography_ 1860; said to have written more religious works than any other author of the century. _d._ Philadelphia 10 July 1859.

BELCHER, THOMAS. _b._ St. James’s churchyard Bristol 14 April 1783; went to London 1803; fought and beat Jack Ware in Tothill Fields, Westminster 26 June 1804; beaten by Wm. Ryan at Willesden Green 30 Nov. 1804, but beat him near Chertsey 4 June 1805; beat Jack O’Donnell at Shepperton 27 April 1805; fought Dutch Sam (Elias Samuels) for 100 guineas at Moulsey Hurst 8 Feb. 1806, when beaten; fought him again 20 July 1807, when fight was declared drawn; beaten by him 21 Aug. 1807; beat Dogherty 14 April 1808, Cropley 25 Oct. 1808, Farnborough 1 Feb. 1809, Silverthorne 6 June 1811; fought Dogherty again for 100 guineas on the Curragh of Kildare 23 April 1813, when he won again; landlord of the Castle Tavern Holborn 1814–28; one of the 18 pugilists selected by Jackson to act with him as pages at coronation of George IV. in Westminster Abbey 19 July 1821, one gold coronation medal was given to the boxers which they raffled for, when Belcher won it and held the trophy until his death. _d._ Peckham, _d._ of apoplexy at 19 Trafalgar sq. Peckham, Surrey 9 Dec. 1854. _Pugilistica by H. D. Miles i_, 153–66 (1880), _portrait_; _The Fancy by An Operator i_, 297–300 (1826), _portrait_; _Every night book_ (1827) 37–44; _Boxiana by P. Egan ii_, 28–45 (1818).

BELDAM, JOSEPH (_3 son of Wm. Beldam of Royston, Herts who d. 20 June 1827 aged 64_). _b._ 26 Dec. 1795; ed. at St Peter’s coll. Cam.; barrister M.T. 12 May 1825; standing counsel for Anti slavery party; F.S.A. 1 May 1856; author of _Il pastore incantato, a drama_; _Pompeii and other poems by a student of the Middle Temple_ 1823; _A summary of the laws peculiarly affecting Protestant dissenters_ 1827; _Recollections of scenes and institutions in Italy and the East 2 vols._ 1851. _d._ Royston 6 June 1866.

BELDHAM, WILLIAM. _b._ Wrecclesham near Farnham, Surrey 5 Feb. 1766; professional cricketer; the “crack” batsman of England many years, excelled also in bowling, fielding, wicket keeping and single wicket playing; played in the Gentlemen versus Players match 1787 to 1821; the last surviving member of the once far famed Hambledon cricket club; had 39 children, 28 by his first wife, all of whom died young leaving no issue. _d._ Tilford near Farnham 20 Feb. 1862. _Nyren’s Cricketer’s Tutor_ (1833) 93–96.

BELFORD, WILLIAM ROWLES. _b._ Easton near Bristol Dec. 1824; made his début in London at Sadler’s Wells theatre 22 Dec. 1851 as Sir Charles Cropland in _The poor Gentleman_; played prominent parts in 32 Shakespearian revivals at same house 1852–63; acted with S. Phelps in Germany 1859; played at Strand theatre about 1863–69; created leading role in W.S. Gilbert’s comedy _Randall’s Thumb_ at Court theatre 25 Jany. 1871; played Henry the 8th in the provinces 1876; last appeared on the stage at Imperial theatre London April 1879 in comic drama of _A rough diamond_; acted at nearly every west-end theatre in London; sum of £1,100 was raised for him Dec. 1879. _d._ 43 Grand parade, Brighton 3 June 1881. _Pascoe’s Dramatic list_ (1880) 42.

BELFOUR, EDMUND. Secretary of Royal college of surgeons 1814 to death, _d._ 37 Lincoln’s Inn Fields 30 Jany. 1865 in 76 year.

BELHAVEN AND STENTON, ROBERT MONTGOMERY HAMILTON, 8 Baron (_eld. child of Wm. Hamilton, 7 Baron Belhaven and Stenton 1765–1814._) _b._ Wishaw house, Lanarkshire 1793; succeeded 29 Oct. 1814; created Baron Hamilton of Wishaw in peerage of U.K. 10 Sep. 1831; lord high comr. to general assembly of Church of Scotland 1831–41, 1847–51, 1853–57 and 1860–66; lieut. col. commandant 1 Lanarkshire militia 21 Nov. 1833 to death; lord lieut. of Lanarkshire 10 Aug. 1863 to death. _d._ Wishaw house 22 Dec. 1868.

BELL, ALEXANDER. _b._ Cupar Fife 1775; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; pupil of Sir Astley Cooper in London, M.R.C.S.; served in Ireland as surgeon of 1st Regiment of Dundee Volunteers (Loyal Tay Fencibles) during rebellion of 1798 until May 1802 when regiment was disbanded; practised in village of Errol 1802–1807, and at Dundee 1807–50 surgeon to Dundee infirmary 30 years; performed operation of lithotomy many times with great success. _d._ Dundee 28 March 1852.

BELL, ALEXANDER. Professor of elocution in London; author of Practical elocutionist 1835; _The tongue, a poem_ 1846; _The Bride, a play_ 1847; _Stammering and other impediments of speech_ 1849. _d._ Harrington sq. London 23 April 1865.

BELL, ALEXANDER MONTGOMERIE (_son of John Bell of Paisley, manufacturer_). _b._ Paisley 4 Dec. 1809; ed. at Paisley gr. sch. and Univ. of Glasgow; a writer to the Signet 1835; partner of Messrs. Dundas and Wilson; professor of conveyancing in the Univ. of Edin. 1856 to death; author of _Lectures on conveyancing_ 1867, _3 ed. 2 vols._ 1882. _d._ East Morningside house, Edinburgh 19 Jany. 1866.

BELL, ARCHIBALD. _b._ 1775; member of faculty of advocates 1798; sheriff depute of Ayrshire 18 Feb. 1815; author of _The Cabinet, a series of essays moral and literary [anon.] 2 vols._ 1835; _Count Clermont, a tragedy, Caius Toranius, a tragedy with other poems_ 1841; _Melodies of Scotland_ 1849. _d._ Edinburgh 6 Oct. 1854.

BELL, BENJAMIN (_son of Joseph Bell of Edinburgh, surgeon 1786–1848_). _b._ Edinburgh 13 April 1810; ed. in Edin. and London; L.R.C.S. Edin. 1832, F.R.C.S. 1835, pres. 1864; M.R.C.S. 1833; founded with Robert Hamilton the Eye infirmary Edin. 1834; vice pres. of Medico-Chirurgical society of Edin. 1856, pres. 1859–61; author of _A probationary essay on injuries of the male urethra_ 1835; _The life of Benjamin Bell by his grandson_ 1868. _d._ Coates crescent, Edinburgh 13 June 1883. _Edinburgh Medical Journal xxix_, 91–95 (1884).

BELL, CATHERINE DOUGLAS. Author of _Arnold Lee, or rich children and poor children by cousin Kate_ 1852; _Help in time of need_ 1856, _2 ed._ 1866; _Self mastery_ 1857; _Home sunshine_ 1859, _2 ed._ 1866; _Hope Campbell, or know thyself_ 1866 and other books for children. _d._ Edinburgh 15 Nov. 1861. _Last hours with cousin Kate_ [_C. D. Bell_] 1862, _portrait_.

BELL, CHARLES. _b._ London 1805; partner in firm of Thomson, Bonar & Co. of London and St. Petersburg, merchants; M.P. for City of London 16 Nov. 1868 to death. _d._ Terrace house, Richmond, Surrey 9 Feb. 1869. Personalty sworn under £300,000 April 1869.

BELL, CHRISTOPHER. Entered navy June 1796; captain 7 Feb. 1812, retired R.A. 1 Oct. 1846; C.B. 4 July 1840. _d._ Aigburth Ash near Liverpool 16 Oct. 1853 aged 70.

BELL, EDWARD WELLS. Lieutenant 7 Foot 16 May 1811; major 19 Dec. 1826 to 29 June 1830 when placed on h.p.; colonel 66 Foot 26 Dec. 1859 to death; general 12 July 1868. _d._ Kempsey, Worcester 9 Oct. 1870.

BELL, EDWARD WILLIAM DERRINGTON. _b._ 1824; 2 lieut. 23 Foot 15 April 1842; lieut. col. 8 Jany. 1858 to 1 Sep. 1869; served in Russian war 1854–55 and in Sepoy mutiny 1857–58; personally captured and secured the first gun taken at battle of the Alma; M.G. 6 March 1868; commanded Belfast district 28 Feb. 1875 to death; C.B. 13 March 1867; V.C. 26 June 1856. _d._ Fort William park, Belfast 10 Nov. 1879.

BELL, SIR GEORGE (_son of George Bell of Belle Vue on Lough Erin Fermanagh_). _b._ Belle Vue 17 March 1794; ed. at Dublin; ensign 34 Foot 11 March 1811; served in the Peninsula 1811–14; lieut. col. 1 Foot 5 Dec. 1843 to 1 May 1855; commanded 1 brigade of third division in Crimean war 1854–55; inspecting field officer at Liverpool 1 May 1855 to 4 April 1859; colonel 104 Foot 23 Oct. 1863, of 32 Foot 2 Feb. 1867 and of 1 Foot 3 Aug. 1868 to death; general 8 March 1875; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 13 March 1867. _d._ 156 Westbourne terrace, London 10 July 1877. _Rough notes by an old soldier Sir G. Bell 2 vols._ 1867, _portrait_.

BELL, HENRY GLASSFORD (_eld. son of James Bell, Town clerk of Greenock_). _b._ Glasgow 8 Nov. 1805; ed. at Glasgow high school and Univ. of Edin.; admitted advocate 20 Nov. 1832; sheriff substitute of Lanarkshire 1 July 1838; sheriff principal 8 June 1867 to death; started _Edinburgh Literary Journal_ 1828, edited it to 14 Jany. 1832 when it was merged in _Edinburgh Weekly Chronicle_; he is sketched under name of Tallboys in _Noctes Ambrosianæ_; author of _Life of Mary Queen of Scots 2 vols._ 1828; _Summer and winter hours_ 1831; _Romances and minor poems_ 1866. _d._ Glasgow 7 Jany. 1874. _Journal of jurisprudence xviii_, 92–103 (1874).

BELL, JACOB (_son of John Bell of 338 Oxford st. London, chemist who d. 14 Jany. 1849 aged 74_). _b._ 338 Oxford St. 5 March 1810; apprenticed to his father 1827–32; chemist in Oxford st. 1832 to death, his drugs earned a European reputation; founder of Pharmaceutical Society 1841, on which he spent a large sum; edited _Pharmaceutical Journal_ July 1841 to death; M.P. for St. Albans 24 Dec. 1850 to 1 July 1852; contested Great Malvern 1852 and Marylebone 1854; collected at his house 15 Langham place, London a gallery of pictures many by Sir Edwin Landseer, the 13 best of which he bequeathed to the nation; F.L.S. 6 March 1832; author of _Chemical and pharmaceutical processes and products_ 1852. _d._ Tunbridge Wells 12 June 1859. _J. Bell and T. Redwood’s Historical sketch of progress of pharmacy_ (1880) 280–92; _I.L.N. xviii_, 299 (1851), _portrait, xxxi_, 4, 24 (1859), _portrait_.

BELL, JAMES SPENCER. _b._ 1818; M.P. for Guildford 7 July 1852 to 21 March 1857. _d._ 1 Devonshire place, Portland place, London 22 Feb. 1872.

BELL, JOHN (_only son of John Bell of Thirsk_). _b._ 1809; M.P. for Thirsk 1 July 1841 to death; declared insane by a commission July 1849. _d._ Thirsk 5 March 1851.

BELL, REV. JOHN. _b._ Snaith, Yorkshire; ed. at Douay, France; ordained priest at Crook hall, co. Durham 23 Dec. 1794; prefect general of Douay college Durham and professor of rhetoric and poetry 1794–1817, the college was moved from Crook hall to Ushaw 1808; appointed to mission of Samlesbury near Preston 1817 and to Kippax park Yorkshire 1828; author of _The wanderings of the human intellect, or a new dictionary of sects_ 1814, _2 ed._ 1838. _d._ Selby 31 May 1854 aged 87.

BELL, JOHN. Lived in Abyssinia 1842 to death; general in army of Ras Ali the ruler of Abyssinia 1848 who gave him the province of Diddim; taken prisoner by Kasai 1853 who deposed Ali and took title of Theodorus; minister and general in chief to Theodorus 1853 to death; killed in a battle fought against Garred at Waldabba near the western bank of the Taccazy river 31 Oct. 1860 after he had himself killed Garred.

BELL, JOHN. _b._ Newcastle 1782; Bookseller at Newcastle; land surveyor at Gateshead; one of founders of Society of antiquaries of Newcastle on Tyne, treasurer 6 Feb. 1813; author of _Rhymes of northern bards_ 1812; contributed to _Gent. Mag._ _d._ Bentinck crescent, Newcastle 30 Oct. 1864.

BELL, JOHN. _b._ Ireland 1796; went to the United States 1810; author of _On baths and mineral waters_ 1831; _Practical dictionary of materia medica_ 1841; _On regimen and longevity_ 1842; _Dietetical and medical hydrology_ 1850. _d._ Philadelphia 1872.

BELL, SIR JOHN (_son of David Bell of Bonytoun, Fifeshire_). _b._ Bonytoun 1 Jany. 1782; ensign 52 Foot 15 Aug. 1805; served in Peninsular war; permanent assistant quartermaster general to 10 Nov. 1814; chief sec. of government at Cape of Good Hope 1828–41; aide de camp to the sovereign 6 May 1831 to 23 Nov. 1841; lieut. governor of Guernsey 24 Jany. 1848 to 30 June 1854; col. of 95 Foot 25 June 1850 and of 4 Foot 26 Dec. 1853 to death; general 15 June 1860; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 6 April 1852, G.C.B. 18 May 1860. _d._ 55 Cadogan place, London 20 Nov. 1876. _I.L.N. lxix_, 541 (1876), _portrait_.

BELL, JOHN DAVID (_youngest son of George Joseph Bell, professor of law at Univ. of Aberdeen_). _b._ 1823 or 1824; barrister M.T. 12 May 1848; practised at Calcutta 1850–58; founder and chairman of Positive Life Assurance Company 1870; standing counsel to government of India at Calcutta 1878 to death. _d._ Calcutta 15 Aug. 1880 in 57 year.

BELL, JOHN GRAY (_son of Thomas Bell of Newcastle 1785–1860_). _b._ Newcastle 21 Sep. 1823; a bookseller in London 1848–54 and in Manchester 1854 to death; published a valuable series of _Tracts on the topography history and dialects of the counties of Great Britain_ 1850; author of _A descriptive and critical catalogue of works illustrated by Thomas and John Bell_ 1851; privately printed _A genealogical account of the descendants of John of Gaunt_ 1855. _d._ Manchester 21 Feb. 1866.

BELL, JOHN MONTGOMERIE. _b._ Paisley 1804; advocate in Edinburgh 1825; advocate depute 1847; sheriff of Kincardine 7 May 1851 to death; author of _Treatise on law of arbitration in Scotland_ 1861; _The martyr of liberty, a poem_ 1863. _d._ Linnhouse 16 Oct. 1862.

BELL, JONATHAN ANDERSON (_2 son of James Bell, advocate_). _b._ Glasgow 1809; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; spent some years with Messrs. Rickman and Hutcheson of Birmingham, architects; an architect in Edinburgh 1838 to death; sec. to Royal Association for the promotion of the fine arts in Scotland May 1839 to death; author of _Poems_. _Privately printed_ 1865. _d._ Edinburgh 28 Feb. 1865. _Poems by J. A. Bell_ (1865) _v-xi_.

BELL, SIR JOSHUA PETER. _b._ co. Kildare 1826; owner with his father and brothers of a splendid station called Jimbour near Dalby, Queensland where they became great wool growers; M.P. for Dalby in Queensland parliament 1863 to March 1879; colonial treasurer 1871–74; pres. of legislative council March 1879 to death; K.C.M.G. 24 Nov. 1881. _d._ Brisbane 20 Dec. 1881. _Illust. sporting and dramatic news xvi_, 405 (1882), _portrait_.

BELL, LADY MARION (_2 dau. of Charles Shaw of Ayr_). _b._ Edinburgh 1787. (_m._ 3 June 1811 Sir Charles Bell, F.R.S., celebrated physiologist _b._ Nov. 1774 _d._ 28 April 1842). Granted a civil list pension of £100 for her husband’s services to science 14 Sep. 1843; published _The letters of Sir Charles Bell_ 1870. _d._ 47 Albany st. Regent’s park, London 9 Nov. 1876.

BELL, MATTHEW. _b._ 18 April 1793; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; sheriff of Northumberland 1816; M.P. for Northumberland 1826–31 and for South Northumberland 1832–52; lieut. col. of Northumberland and Newcastle yeomanry cavalry 1826–63. _d._ Woolsington near Newcastle 28 Oct. 1871.

BELL, OSWALD HOME. M.R.C.S. Edin. 3 Feb. 1863; professor of medicine in Univ. of St. Andrews 1863 to death; dean of the medical faculty. _d._ The Scores, St. Andrews 24 June 1875 in 39 year.

BELL, REV. PATRICK (_son of George Bell of Mid Leoch farm, parish of Auchterhouse near Dundee_). _b._ Mid Leoch farm April 1799; ed. at Univ. of St. Andrews, LLD. 1867; ordained 1843; minister of Carmyllie, Arbroath Dec. 1843 to death; invented a reaping machine 1826 being 7 or 8 years before the earliest American inventors; presented by Highland Society with sum of £1000 1868. _d._ The manse of Carmyllie 22 April 1869. _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_, 473 (1869); _I.L.N. lii_, 225 (1868), _portrait_.

BELL, ROBERT (_son of Benjamin Bell, surgeon_). _b._ 1782; ed. at high school Edinburgh; advocate 1809; sheriff of Berwickshire 1842–60; procurator to Church of Scotland 1842 to death; member of Bannatyne club; made a fine collection of Rembrandt etchings. _d._ 15 Great Stuart st. Edinburgh 27 April 1861. _Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ (1882), _portrait_.

BELL, ROBERT (_youngest son of John Bell of Cork_). _b._ Cork 16 Jany. 1800; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin where he originated the Dublin Historical Society; settled in London 1828; edited the _Atlas_ weekly paper many years, the _Monthly Chronicle_ and the _Home News_ a monthly journal; author of _History of Russia 3 vols._ 1838; _Lives of the English poets 2 vols._ 1839; _Wayside pictures through France, Belgium and Holland_ 1849, _2 ed._ 1858; _Hearts and altars 3 vols._ 1852; _The ladder of gold 3 vols._ 1856; _The annotated edition of the English poets 24 vols._ 1854–57, and of 3 five-act comedies, _Marriage_ 1842; _Mothers and daughters_ 1843, _2 ed._ 1845 and _Temper_ 1847. _d._ 14 York st., Portman sq. London 12 April 1867.

BELL, VENERABLE ROBERT. Ordained 1831; Inc. of Tipperary 1866 to death; archdeacon of Cashel 1872 to death; canon of St. Patrick’s cathedral, Dublin. _d._ rectory Tipperary 10 Jany. 1883 in 75 year.

BELL, ROBERT CHARLES. _b._ Edinburgh 1806; Engraved a series of Scottish views and a number of vignette portraits, also many plates for the Royal Scottish Association; his largest and most important work was an engraving of Sir William Allan’s Battle of Preston Pans which he completed in 1872; several of his best plates appeared in the _Art Journal_ 1850–72. _d._ Edinburgh 5 Sep. 1872. _Art Journal_ (1872) 284.

BELL, SIR SYDNEY SMITH (_9 son of Wm. Bell, of London, banker_). _b._ 1805; ed. at Univs. of Edin. and Glasgow; barrister I.T. 3 May 1839; puisne judge at Cape of Good Hope 7 Feb. 1851, and first puisne judge May 1858; chief justice of supreme court and pres. of legislative council of Cape of Good Hope 16 Dec. 1868 to 1879; knighted by patent 9 Oct. 1869; author of _Cases decided in the House of Lords on appeal from the courts of Scotland 7 vols._ 1843–52; _Colonial administration of Great Britain_ 1859. _d._ 42 Kensington park road, London 13 Sep. 1879.

BELL, THOMAS (_son of Richard Bell of Newcastle_). _b._ Newcastle 16 Dec. 1785; land valuer and surveyor; an antiquary, assisted the local topographical authors in their works especially Rev. John Hodgson in his _History of Northumberland 6 vols._ 1827–40; one of the founders of Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society and of Society of antiquaries of Newcastle 1813. _d._ Newcastle 30 April 1860.

BELL, THOMAS (_only son of Thomas Bell of Poole, Dorset, surgeon_). _b._ Poole 11 Oct. 1792; studied at Guys and St. Thomas’s hospitals; M.R.C.S. 1815, F.R.C.S. 1844, F.L.S. 1815, pres. 1853–61; dental surgeon to Guy’s hospital 1817–61 where he lectured on comparative anatomy; F.R.S. 10 Jany. 1828, junior secretary 1848–53; professor of Zoology at King’s college London 1836 to death; pres. of the Ray Society 1843–59; purchased in 1866 from the grandnieces of Gilbert White The Wakes, Selborne where he lived to his death; author of _Monograph of Testudinata, parts 1–8, 1832–37, folio_; _History of British quadrupeds_ 1837, _2 ed._ 1874; _History of British reptiles_ 1839; _History of British Stalk-eyed Crustacea_ 1853; edited _White’s Natural history of Selborne 2 vols._ 1877. _d._ The Wakes, Selborne 13 March 1880. _Nature xxi_, 473, 499 (1880).

BELL, SIR WILLIAM (_son of Wm. Bell of Ripon, Yorkshire_). _b._ 1788; ed. at Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 23 Nov. 1804; served through Peninsular war; colonel R.A. 18 March 1852, colonel commandant 26 Dec. 1865 to death; general 31 Jany. 1872; K.C.B. 13 March 1867. _d._ South lodge, Ripon 28 March 1873.

BELLAIRS, REV. HENRY (_3 son of Abel Walford Bellairs of Uffington, Lincolnshire 1755–1839_). _b._ 29 Aug. 1790; midshipman on board H.M.S. Spartiate; wounded twice at Trafalgar; cornet 15 Hussars 25 Nov. 1808; lieut. 26 May 1809 to 1811; ed. at St. Mary hall Ox., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; R. of Bedworth, Warws 1830; V. of Hunsingore, Yorkshire 1832 to death; hon. canon of Worcester Sep. 1853 to death. _d._ Paignton near Torquay 17 April 1872.

BELLAIRS, SIR WILLIAM (_younger brother of the preceding_). _b._ Uffington 1793; cornet 15 Hussars 2 May 1811; captain 10 April 1817 to 10 Feb. 1820 when he sold out; exon of Yeomen of the Guard 19 Sep. 1837 to Dec. 1848; knighted by the Queen at St. James’s Palace 17 May 1848. (_m._ 1822 Cassandra dau. of Edmund Hooke of Mulbarton lodge, Norfolk, she _d._ 1876). _d._ London 2 Oct. 1863.

BELLAMY, GEORGE. _b._ Plymouth 15 Nov. 1773; surgeon’s mate R.N. Feb. 1793; surgeon 19 May 1795; surgeon to the Bellerophon 74 guns 1796–1800; served at battle of the Nile; placed on retired list 1817; M.R.C.P.; mayor of Plymouth 1811–12. _d._ Plymouth 10 Oct. 1863.

BELLAMY, REV. JAMES WILLIAM (_son of John Bellamy_). _b._ 25 Nov. 1788; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school and Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1811, M.A. 1816; Norrisian and Seatonian prizeman 1815; incorporated at St. John’s coll. Ox. 1820, B.D. 1821; head master of Merchant Taylors’ school 6 April 1819 to 23 July 1845; V. of Sellinge, Kent 1822 to death; preb. of St. Paul’s cathedral 10 March 1843 to death; F.R.S. 18 Dec. 1834; edited _A concordance to the Holy Bible_ 1818. _d._ Sellinge 2 March 1874.

BELLAMY, JOHN CREMER. _b._ Plymouth 7 Dec. 1812; L.S.A. 1833, M.R.C.S. 1834; Curator of Plymouth Institute and Devon and Cornwall Nat. Hist. Society; author of _The natural history of South Devon_ 1839; _The housekeeper’s guide to the fish market for each month of the year_ 1843, _new ed._ 1862; _A thousand facts in the histories of Devon and Cornwall_ 1850. _d._ George st. Plymouth 12 May 1854.

BELLAMY, WILLIAM HOARE. _b._ Cork 5 Aug. 1800; made his début at Elmsworth 1825 as Sir Simon Rochdale in _John Bull_; went to the United States; made his début in New York 1838. (_m._ Mrs. A. W. Penson, she was _b._ Scotland and acted in the United States 1838 to her death May 1857). _d._ Greenpoint, Long Island 15 April 1866.

BELLARS, HENRY JOHN. _b._ Chester; a schoolmaster; sec. and curator of Chester Natural History Society; photographic artist in London 1862 to death; the best facsimilist in England; author of _Illustrated catalogue of British land and freshwater shells_ 1858; _The historical numismatic atlas of the Roman emperors_. _d._ 12 Bedford court, Covent Garden 22 June 1868 aged 44.

BELLASIS, EDWARD (_only son of Rev. George Bellasis, V. of Basildon, Berkshire who d. 1814_). _b._ Basildon vicarage 14 Oct. 1800; ed. at Christ’s Hospital 1808–15; barrister I.T. 2 July 1824; employed in parliamentary practice 1836–66, counsel in 342 important cases; serjeant at law 10 July 1844; received into Roman Catholic Church 28 Sep. 1850; trustee with J. R. Hope-Scott Q.C. of Earl of Shrewsbury 1853–56; steward of manors of Duke of Norfolk in Norfolk and Suffolk 1863; one of the 3 comrs. who reported on College of Arms 1870; author of several anonymous pamphlets. _d._ Hyères, France 24 Jany. 1873. _The Tablet 1 Feb. 1873 p._ 138.

BELLEW, PATRICK, 1 Baron (_elder son of Sir Edward Bellew, 6 baronet who d. 15 March 1827_). _b._ London 29 Jany 1798; succeeded 15 March 1827; lord lieut. of co. Louth 1832 to death; col. of Louth militia 17 Nov. 1843 to death; M.P. for Louth 1831–1832 and 1834–1837; P.C. Ireland 1838; created a peer of Ireland by title of Baron Bellew of Barmeath co. Louth 17 July 1848. _d._ Barmeath 10 Dec. 1866.

BELLEW, REV. SIR CHRISTOPHER, 2 Baronet. _b._ 1818; succeeded 26 June 1855. _d._ at house of the Jesuit Fathers, Gardiner st. Dublin 18 March 1867.

BELLEW, JOHN CHIPPENDALL MONTESQUIEU (_only child of Robert Higgin, lieutenant 12 Foot who d. 24 Jany. 1853_). _b._ Lancaster 3 Aug. 1823; ed. at Lancaster gr. sch. and St. Mary hall Ox.; assumed his mother’s name of Bellew Aug. 1844; C. of St. Andrew’s Worcester 1849; C. of Prescot Lancs. 1850; assistant chaplain in Bengal 1851; chaplain of St. John’s cathedral Calcutta Dec. 1852 to 1855; edited the _Bengal Hurkaru_; assistant minister of St. Philip’s Regent’s st. London 1855–57; P.C. of St. Mark’s St. John’s Wood 1857–62; minister of Bedford chapel Bloomsbury 26 Oct. 1862 to 1868; one of the most popular preachers in London; received into Church of Rome Oct. 1869; executed deed of relinquishment of holy orders 13 Aug. 1870; very successful as a public reader in England and the United States; author of _Shakespeare’s house at New Place_ 1863; _Blount Tempest a novel 3 vols._ 1866; _Poets Corner, a manual for students_ 1868. _d._ 16 Circus road, St. John’s Wood 19 June 1874. _Bentley’s Quarterly Review i_, 476–92 (1859); _Traits of character by a contemporary i_, 285–312 (1860); _Cartoon portraits_ (1873) 50–51, _portrait_; _Graphic x_, 15 (1874), _portrait_; _E. Yates’s Recollections ii_, 66–69 (1884).

BELLEW, SIR MICHAEL DILLON, 1 Baronet (_son of Christopher Dillon Bellew of Mount Bellew, co. Galway 1763–1826_). _b._ 29 Sep. 1796; created a baronet 15 Aug. 1838. _d._ Greenville lodge, Rathmines near Dublin 26 June 1855.

BELLEW, RICHARD MONTESQUIEU (_younger son of Sir Edward Bellew 6 baronet who d. 1827_). _b._ 12 Feb. 1803; M.P. for co. Louth 21 Dec. 1832 to 1 July 1852 and 16 May 1859 to 6 July 1865; a lord of the treasury 6 Aug. 1847 to 1852; member of Local government board, Ireland. _d._ Dublin 8 Jany. 1880.

BELLEW, THOMAS ARTHUR GRATTAN. _b._ 1824; M.P. for co. Galway 26 July 1852 to 21 March 1857; assumed additional surname of Grattan by r.l. 19 March 1859. _d._ Mount Bellew, Duleek, co. Galway 24 July 1863.

BELLHOUSE, EDWARD TAYLOR (_eld. son of David Bellhouse of Manchester_). _b._ Manchester 10 Oct. 1816; started firm of E. T. Bellhouse and Co., engineers, Eagle foundry, Hunt st. Manchester 1 July 1842; erected the Gas works for Buenos Ayres, Pernambuco and Athens; erected many large bridges for various railways and many iron buildings; pres. of Manchester Mechanics’ Institute; M.I.M.E. 1857. _d._ Southport 13 Oct. 1881. _Proc. of Instit. of M.E._ (1882) 1–2.

BELLINGHAM, O’BRYEN (_3 son of Sir Alan Bellingham, 2 baronet 1776–1827_). _b._ 12 Dec. 1805; ed. at Feinagle’s school; M.D. Univ. of Edin. and L.R.C.S. Edin. 1830; professor of botany, Royal college of surgeons Ireland to 1850, a surgical examiner 1850, chairman of the court 1856; sec. of Surgical society of Ireland to death; surgeon to St. Vincent’s hospital 1835 to death; author of _Observations on aneurism and its treatment by compression_ 1847; _Treatise on diseases of the heart_ 1857. _d._ The Castle, Castle Bellingham, co. Louth 11 Oct. 1857. _Dublin Journal of medical science lxiv_, 469–75 (1877).

BELLOC, ANNE LOUISE (_dau. of Colonel James Swanton, commandant of Rocroi, France who was b. Ireland_). _b._ La Rochelle 1 Oct. 1796; assisted Lafayette in establishing public libraries; founded a choice circulating library; translated many English books into French. (_m._ 1823 Jean Hilaire Belloc, Director of Royal School of Design, Paris who _d._ 1866). _d._ Paris 6 Nov. 1881. _S. J. Hale’s Woman’s record, 2 ed._ 1855 _p._ 583, _portrait_.

BELLOT, JOSEPH RENÉ. _b._ Paris 18 March 1826: served in French navy 1843–50; went as a volunteer with captain Kennedy in the Prince Albert in search of Sir John Franklin 1851–52; sailed in the Phœnix for the Arctic regions 10 May 1853; left the ship to carry dispatches to Sir Edward Belcher 12 Aug. 1853; author of _Journal d’un voyage aux Mers Polaires_ 1854; fell into a crack in the ice near Cape Bowden and drowned 18 Aug. 1853; an obelisk was erected to his memory by public subscription in front of Greenwich hospital 1857. _Memoirs of J. R. Bellot 2 vols._ 1855, _portrait_.

BELLOT, THOMAS (_elder son of Thomas Bellot of Manchester, surgeon_). _b._ Manchester 16 March 1806; ed. at Manchester gr. sch.; pupil of Joseph Jordan, surgeon; M.R.C.S. 15 Feb. 1828, F.R.C.S. 6 Aug. 1844; assistant surgeon H.M. sloop Harrier 1831; surgeon R.N. 1835; surgeon H.M. flag ship Britannia Nov. 1854; author of translations of the _Aphorisms of Hippocrates and of Galen On the hand_ 1850; _Sanskrit derivation of English words_ 1856; arranged two collections of Chinese coins, one of which he presented to the Natural history society of Manchester; collected many ancient Chinese bronzes and a library of Chinese works. _d._ 37 Greek st. Stockport 25 June 1857. _Manchester school register iii_, 118 (1874); _Medical directory_ (1858) 849–50.

BELMORE, GEORGE, stage name of George Belmore Garstin. Made his début in London at Marylebone theatre 26 Dec. 1856 as Bokes in _The Creole_; acted at Princess’s and Drury Lane theatres; played Nat Gosling in Boucicault’s drama _Flying Scud_ at Holborn theatre more than 200 nights from 6 Oct. 1866; acted in the provinces and at Adelphi theatre where he played Newman Noggs in _Nicholas Nickleby_ 20 March 1875 to July 1875; acted in New York Aug. to Oct. 1875. (_m._ 16 April 1862 Alice Maude dau. of Wm. Cooke proprietor of Astley’s Amphitheatre). _d._ New York 15 Nov. 1875 aged 47. _Entr’acte 27 Nov. 1875, portrait._

BELOE, CHARLES (_2 son of Rev. Wm. Beloe 1756–1817, Prebendary of St. Paul’s_). A clerk in the London Twopenny post office; sec. to the Alfred club. _d._ Reading 23 Oct. 1855 aged 69.

BELPER, EDWARD STRUTT, 1 Baron (_only son of Wm. Strutt of St. Helen’s house Derby, manufacturer 1756–1830_). _b._ Derby 26 Oct. 1801; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, L.L.D. 1862; M.P. for Derby 1830–1848 when unseated for bribery; M.P. for Arundel 1851–1852 and for Nottingham 1852–1856; chief comr. of railways 29 Aug. 1846 to March 1848; P.C. 30 Oct. 1846; sheriff of Notts. 1850; chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster 30 Dec. 1852 to 21 June 1854; chairman of Notts. quarter sessions 1855; created Baron Belper of Belper, county Derby 29 Aug. 1856; lord lieutenant of Notts. 6 Dec. 1864; pres. of Univ. coll. London 29 July 1871. _d._ 75 Eaton square, London 30 June 1880.

BELSHES, JOHN MURRAY. Captain 59 Foot 4 Sep 1812 to 25 May 1816 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 12 Nov. 1862. _d._ Inverary 12 Jany. 1863. _P.R. Drummond’s Perthshire in bygone days_ (1879) 81–85.

BELSON, GEORGE JOHN. Second lieutenant R.A. 29 Sep. 1804; lieut. col. 23 Nov. 1841 to 7 April 1842 when he retired on full pay; L.G. 27 Feb. 1866. _d._ Woolwich 22 April 1868 aged 80.

BELT, THOMAS (_son of Mr. Belt of Newcastle, seedsman_). _b._ Newcastle 1832; member of Natural history society of Northumberland June 1850; went to Australia 1852; a mining engineer in London 1860; travelled all over Asia and America; superintendent of Nova Scotian gold company’s mines in Nova Scotia 1863–65; examined the quartz rocks of North Wales; superintendent of the Chontales Gold mining company in Nicaragua 1868–72; travelled in Russia 1873–76; F.G.S.; author of _Mineral veins, an enquiry into their origin_ 1861; _The naturalist in Nicaragua_ 1874; _The glacial period in North America_. _d._ Denver, Colorado 21 Sep. 1878 in 46 year. _Natural history transactions of Northumberland vii_, 235–40 (1880).

BELZONI, SARAH. Remarkable for her size and strength; married in London about 1804 Giovanni Baptista Belzoni, acrobat, engineer and traveller who was _b._ Padua 1778 and _d._ at Gato, Benin, Africa 3 Dec. 1823; performed feats of strength with her husband in the streets, at fairs and at Astley’s Amphitheatre; travelled in Egypt with him 1815–19; granted civil list pension of £100 6 Feb. 1851; author of _Account of the women of Egypt, Nubia and Syria_. _d._ Belozanne valley, Jersey 12 Jany. 1870 aged 87.

BENBEY, SADI OMBARK. Came to England with Mungo Park whom he taught Arabic language. _d._ 11 Feb. 1854 aged more than 80.

BENBOW, JOHN. Solicitor in London; M.P. for Dudley 8 Aug. 1844 to death. _d._ Hastings 24 Feb. 1855 aged 86.

BENDIGO, cognomen of WILLIAM THOMPSON (_son of Mr. Thompson of Nottingham, cabinet maker_). _b._ Nottingham 11 Oct. 1811, being one of 3 children at a birth; fought and beat Ben. Caunt 1 July 1835; beat Brassey (John Leechman) 24 May 1836; beat young Langan 24 Jany. 1837; beat Looney 13 June 1837; beaten by Ben. Caunt 3 April 1838; beat Deaf Burke at Heather, Leicestershire 12 Feb. 1839 in presence of 15000 persons; presented with a “Champion’s belt” by James Ward at Queen’s theatre, Liverpool; beat Ben. Caunt near Sutfield Green Oxon, 9 Sep. 1845 when they fought for £200 a side and the championship; fought Tom Paddock for £200 a side at Mildenhall 5 June 1850 when he won again; a preacher and leader of revivalist services at the Cabmen’s Mission hall, King’s Cross, London. _d._ Beeston, Notts. 23 Aug. 1880. _H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica iii_, 1–46 (1880), _portrait_; _J. Greenwoods Low life deeps_ (1876) 86–94, _portrait_; _Rev. C. M. Davies’s Unorthodox London 2 series_ 156–64.

NOTE.—His curious name Bendigo was a contraction of Abednego, his first challenge in Bell’s Life in London in 1835 is signed Abednego of Nottingham; the town of Bendigo in Victoria, Australia (since called Sandhurst) was named after him.

BENEDICT, SIR JULIUS (_2 son of M. Benedict of Stuttgart, banker_). _b._ Stuttgart 27 Nov. or 24 Dec. 1804; pupil of Hummel at Weimar and of Weber at Dresden; conductor at the Kärnthnerthor theatre Vienna 1823–25 and at the San Carlo and Fondo theatres Naples 1825–35; went to London 1835; conducted a series of Italian comic operas at Lyceum theatre 1836; conductor of English opera at Drury Lane 1838, where he produced _The gipsy’s warning_ 19 April 1838; _The brides of Venice_ 22 April 1844, and _The Crusaders_ 1846; travelled with Jenny Lind in the United States and Havannah and directed all her 122 concerts 1850–52; formed a choral society called The vocal association; conductor of Italian opera at Drury Lane and Her Majesty’s theatres 1859–60; conducted the Norwich Musical Festivals 1845–78 where he produced _Undine_ 1860, _Richard Cœur de Lion_ 1863 and _St. Cecilia_ 1866; conducted the Monday Popular Concerts; his best known opera _The Lily of Killarney_ was produced at Covent Garden 8 Feb. 1862; conductor of Liverpool Philharmonic society 9 April 1867 to Feb. 1879; wrote for Birmingham musical festivals _St. Peter_ 1870 and _Graziella_ 1873; knighted at Windsor Castle 24 March 1871. _d._ 2 Manchester sq. London 5 June 1885. _I.L.N. lviii_, 377 (1871), _portrait, lxvi_, 494 (1875), _portrait_; _Scribner’s Monthly xiii_, 480–84 (1877); _Graphic xxix_, 184 (1884), _portrait_.

BENETT, JOHN (_2 son of Thomas Benett of Pyt house Tisbury, Wilts. who d. 16 May 1797 aged 68_). _b._ 20 May 1773; sheriff of Wilts. 1798; M.P. for Wilts. 19 July 1819 to 3 Dec. 1832 and for South Wilts. 17 Dec. 1832 to 1 July 1852; author of some essays on agricultural subjects. _d._ Pyt house 1 Oct. 1852. _G.M. xxxviii_, 636–37 (1852).

BENHAM, JAMES ERLE. Ed. at St. Mary hall Ox.; student Middle Temple 20 Nov. 1875; author of _The student’s guide to the preliminary examination for attorneys and solicitors_ 1868; edited _The preliminary examination Journal_ 1871. _d._ Abercorn house, Baron’s court, Kensington, London 11 July 1885 aged 34.

BENHAM, WILLIAM. Author of _English ballads for school reading_ 1862; _St. Matthew, authorised version_ 1862; _Epistles for the Christian year, with notes_ 1864; _Companion to the Lectionary_ 1873. _d._ 14 Arley hill, Bristol 16 Sep. 1885 aged 69.

BENIOWSKI, BARTHOLOMEW. Educ. at Ecole d’etat major of Paris 1832–33; major in Polish army; attempted to revolutionise art of printing by use of short words cast into one such as, and, but, the; teacher of memory at the Royal Adelaide gallery, Strand, London 1842; took out patents for machinery for printing and composing type 1846, 47 and 49; author of _Phrenotypics_ 1842; _A French vocabulary_ 1843; _The Anti-absurd or phrenotypic alphabet and orthography_ 1844. _d._ 8 Bow st. Covent Garden 29 March 1867 aged 66.

BENISCH, ABRAHAM. _b._ Drosan, Bohemia 1811; ed. at Univ. of Vienna; settled in England 1841; edited the _Jewish Chronicle_ 1854 to death; one of chief founders of Society of Hebrew Literature 1870, and of the Anglo Jewish Association 1871; author of _A translation of the Old Testament_ 1851; _An essay on Colenso’s criticism of the Pentateuch and Joshua_ 1863; _Judaism surveyed_ 1874. _d._ 13 Brownswood park, Green Lanes, London 31 July 1878.

BENJAMIN, GEORGE. _b._ Sussex 15 April 1799; went to Canada; founded the _Intelligencer_ at Belleville 1834, edited it to 1848; member of legislative assembly Canada 1856–61; grand master of the Orangemen of British North America 1848; author of _Short lessons for members of Parliament compiled from English and other publications_ 1862. _d._ Belleville 6 July or 7 Sep. 1864.

BENJAMIN, JUDAH PHILIP. _b._ St. Croix, West Indies 1811; ed. at Yale college, Connecticut 1825–28; called to the bar in New Orleans 16 Dec. 1832; member of firm of Slidell, Benjamin and Conrad 1840; counsellor of the supreme court New Orleans Dec. 1848; practised chiefly in Washington; a senator for Louisiana to the Senate 1852 to 4 Feb. 1861 when he withdrew, expelled the Senate 14 March 1861; attorney general of the Southern Confederacy Feb. 1861; acting secretary of war Aug. 1861 to Feb. 1862; sec. of state Feb. 1862 to April 1865 when the members of the cabinet left Richmond; a student L.I. 13 Jany. 1866, called to bar at L.I. 6 June 1866, bencher 15 April 1875; Q.C. for county palatine of Lancaster July 1869; Q.C. with patent of precedence 29 July 1872; made £15,000 a year for several years; entertained on his retirement, at a banquet in hall of Inner Temple 30 June 1883; author of _Digest of decisions of supreme court of New Orleans_ 1834; _Treatise of the law of sale of personal property_ 1868, _3 ed._ 1883. _d._ Avenue de Jena, Paris 6 May 1884. _J. Davis’s Rise and Fall of the Confederate government i_, 242 (1881), _portrait_; _Law Journal_ (1883) 100–103; _I.L.N. lxxx_ 465 (1884), _portrait_; _Graphic xxix_, 484 (1884), _portrait_.

BENN, ANTHONY. _b._ 1814; 2 lieut. R.A. 20 Dec. 1832; col. 27 June 1864 to 6 March 1868; M.G. 6 March 1868. _d._ Plumstead 22 Dec. 1875.

BENN, EDWARD (_son of John Benn of Belfast, brewer 1767–1853_). _b._ 1798; purchased with his brother George, an estate at Glenravel near Ballymena where they tried to create a new industry by manufacture of potato spirit; formed a fine archæological collection now in the Belfast Museum; contributed papers to Irish antiquarian journals; founded 3 hospitals in Belfast, the Eye Ear and Throat, the Samaritan and the Skin Diseases. _d._ 1874.

BENN, GEORGE (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Tanderagee co. Armagh 1 Jany. 1801; entered Belfast Academical institution 1816; took gold medals in logic 1817 and moral philosophy 1818; author of _The history of the town of Belfast_ [_anon._] 1823; _A history of the town of Belfast 2 vols._ 1877–80. _d._ 8 Jany. 1882.

BENN, PIERCY. _b._ 1800; 2 lieut. R.A. 3 Feb. 1821; col. 7 June 1856 to 16 July 1862; M.G. 16 July 1862. _d._ Farringdon, Hants. 17 June 1876.

BENNETT, CHARLES FOX, formerly of Clifton, Bristol; late premier of Newfoundland. _d._ St. John’s, Newfoundland 5 Dec. 1883.

BENNETT, CHARLES HENRY. Draughtsman on wood; contributed sketches signed in the corner with the figure of an owl to _Diogenes_ comic weekly paper 1853 and portraits of members of Parliament to _Illustrated Times_; contributed sketches to _Fun_ down to 1866 and to _Punch_ 1866 to death; published _Fables of Æsop and others translated into human nature_ 1858; _Proverbs with pictures_ 1858; _London people sketched from life_ 1863; _Adventures of Young Munchausen_ 1864. _d._ Caversham road, Kentish Town 2 April 1867 in 38 year. _Punch 13 April 1867 p._ 151.

BENNETT, GEORGE (_2 son of John Bennett, Judge of Irish court of King’s Bench who d. 25 Dec. 1791_). _b._ Cork 20 Sep. 1777; called to Irish bar 1800; went Munster circuit; K.C. 18 Feb. 1822; crown prosecutor for Munster circuit Feb. 1832; bencher of King’s Inns Dublin 1836, retired about 1849. _d._ Sodylt hall, Shropshire 26 May 1856. _Dublin univ. mag. xxxiv_, 526–32 (1849), _portrait_.

BENNETT, GEORGE JOHN (_son of George Bennett of Norwich, comedian_). _b._ Ripon 9 March 1800; served in the navy 1813–17; first appeared on the stage at Lynn 1818, and in London at Covent Garden 27 Jany. 1823 as Richard iii; acted at Covent Garden 1830–38, at Drury Lane 1841–43 and at Sadler’s Wells 27 May 1844 to 15 March 1862 when he left the stage, his best parts were Bossola in the _Duchess of Malfi_, and Caliban in _The Tempest_; author of a five act play called _Retribution or love’s trials_ produced at Sadlers Wells 11 Feb. 1850, and of a drama called _The Justice_ produced at Birmingham. _d._ Edmonton 21 Sep. 1879. _Theatrical times i_, 241 (1847), _portrait_; _Tallis’s Drawing room table book, parts 8, 10, 17 and 21_, _4 portraits_; _The Players iv_, 17 (1861), _portrait_.

BENNETT, JAMES. _b._ Falfield, Thornbury, Gloucs. 10 May 1785; apprenticed to George Robbins of Bath, printer; printer and bookseller in Tewkesbury 1810–52; published _History of Tewkesbury_ 1830; _Tewkesbury Register and Magazine_ 1830–49. _d._ Tewkesbury 29 Jany. 1856.

BENNETT, REV. JAMES. _b._ London 22 May 1774; preached his first sermon 24 Dec. 1792; Congregational minister at Romsey Feb. 1796; ordained 5 April 1797; theological tutor and pastor at Rotherham 22 Aug. 1813; pastor of Silver st. church, London Nov. 1828, and of Falcon sq. church, London 1843 to Nov. 1860; one of foreign secs. to London Missionary society May 1830 to 1832; chairman of Congregational Board 1840; author of _Lectures on preaching of Christ_ 1836; _Lectures on Acts of the Apostles_ 1846; author with Rev. David Bogue of _History of dissenters from the Revolution in 1688 to the year 1808 4 vols._ 1808, _2 ed. 3 vols._ 1833; wrote much in the _Eclectic Review_ and _Evangelical Mag._ _d._ 49 Gibson sq. Islington 4 Dec. 1862. _Memorials of the late Rev. James Bennett_ 1863.

BENNETT, JAMES. Member of company of T.R. Birmingham many years; made his début in London at Lyceum theatre 18 March 1859 as Iago in _Othello_; acted in the provinces. _d._ London 9 March 1885. _Tallis’s Drawing room table book_ (1851) 41, _portrait_.

BENNETT, JAMES GORDON. _b._ New Mill, Keith, Banffshire 1 Sep. 1800; went to Halifax, Nova Scotia 1819; a printer’s reader, bookseller’s clerk and assistant in a newspaper office at Boston; went to New York about 1822; started the _New York Globe_ Oct. 1832 a two cent paper which lived only 30 days; partner with Messrs. Anderson and Smith of New York, printers 1835; founded the _New York Herald_ a one cent daily paper 6 May 1835 all of which he wrote; in 1841 the circulation was 20,000 and the receipts 100,000 dollars, during the civil war its circulation doubled; sent Henry M. Stanley to Central Africa in search of Dr. Livingstone at cost of £10,000 in 1871. (_m._ 6 June 1840 Henrietta Agnes Crean, she _d._ 31 March 1873). _d._ New York 1 June 1872. _Memoir of J. G. Bennett by a Journalist_ 1855, _portrait_; _F. Hudson’s Journalism in the United States_ 1873; _J. Parton’s Famous Americans of recent times_ (1867) 259–305; _Democratic Review xxxi_, 409–19 1853, _portrait_; _C. F. Wingate’s Views and interviews_ (1875) 275–86; _Graphic v_, 600, 611 (1872), _portrait_.

BENNETT, JOHN HUGHES. _b._ London 31 Aug. 1812; ed. at Exeter gr. sch. and Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1837, LLD. Aug. 1875; founded in Paris the Parisian Medical Society 1837, pres. 1837; pathologist to Royal infirmary Edin. 1843; discovered a remarkable disease of the blood which he called Leucocythemia or white cell blood 1845; editor of _Edinburgh Monthly Journal of medical science_ 1846; professor of Institutes of medicine in Univ. of Edin. July 1848 to July 1874; F.R.S. Edin. 1842, F.R.C.P. Edin. 1842; author of _An introduction to clinical medicine_ 1849, _4 ed._ 1862; _The pathology and treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis_ 1853, _2 ed._ 1859; _Clinical lectures on principles and practice of medicine_ 1852, _5 ed._ 1868 which was translated into French, Russian and Hindoo. _d._ The Wilderness, Bracondale, Norwich 25 Sep. 1875. _bur._ Dean cemetery Edin. 30 Sep. _Edinburgh Medical Journal xxi_, 466–74 (1875); _British Medical Journal ii_, 473–78 (1875).

BENNETT, JOHN JOSEPH. _b._ Tottenham 8 Jany. 1801; ed. at Enfield and at Middlesex hospital; assistant keeper of the Banksian herbarium and library British Museum Nov. 1827, keeper 1828–70; F.L.S. 1828, sec. 1840–60; F.R.S. 16 Dec. 1841; wrote part of T. Horsfield’s _Plantæ Javanicæ Rariores_ 1852–53. _d._ Maresfield, Sussex 29 Feb. 1876; bust by Weekes in botanical department British Museum. _Journal of botany British and Foreign v_, 97–105 (1876), _portrait_.

BENNETT, SAMUEL. _b._ Cornwall 20 March 1815; went to Sydney 1841; superintendent of a printing office there 1842–59; purchased with Wm. Hanson the _Empire_ newspaper 1859, conducted it as a daily and weekly paper; started the _Evening News_ 29 July 1867, the _Australian town and country journal_ 8 Jany. 1870; author of _The history of Australian discovery and colonisation_ 1867. _d._ Mundarrah towers, Little Coogee, Sydney 2 June 1878.

BENNETT, SAMUEL JAMES. Founder of the Mercantile Association; founded the _Commercial Gazette_ weekly paper 1853. _d._ The Firs, Staplecross, Sussex 23 May 1881.

BENNETT, THOMAS. _b._ Hereford 22 Feb. 1785; captain R.N. 16 Sep. 1828; commodore on North America and West India station 7 Feb. 1848 to 29 April 1851; granted a service pension 2 Nov. 1863; admiral on h.p. 12 Sep. 1865; mayor of Hereford 1842. _d._ Broomy hill, Hereford 12 June 1870.

BENNETT, THOMAS RANDLE (_youngest son of John Bennett of Manchester, timber merchant_). _b._ Manchester 1821; ed. at the gr. sch. and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1846, special pleader 1848; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1855; lectured on law and history at London Working men’s college Bloomsbury; an original member of English Church Union 1859, one of its central council; examiner to the Inns of Court 1877–78; author of _A popular manual of the constitutional history of England_ 1862 and of several political pamphlets. _d._ Shrewbridge hall, Nantwich 23 Feb. 1885. _Law Times lxxviii_, 343 (1885).

BENNETT, WILLIAM. _b._ Newmarket; enlisted into Cambridge militia 10 Oct. 1797 aged 20; enlisted into 46 Foot 18 March 1799, and into 32 Foot 15 June 1803, discharged 18 Aug. 1814; assisted at burial of Sir John Moore Jany. 1809. _d._ Inchicore, Ireland 23 Jany. 1872 aged 95, but generally reputed to be 105. _W. J. Thoms’s Human longevity_ (1873) 235–36.

BENNETT, WILLIAM. _b._ 1798; made his début in London at Haymarket theatre as Jack Junk in _The birthday_ 15 May 1812; member of English opera company; played old men at Drury Lane about 1829; secretary to Drury Lane theatrical fund. _d._ Bellevue cottage, Walthamstow 8 Aug. 1875. _The Oddfellow i_, 77 (1839), _portrait_.

BENNETT, WILLIAM. _b._ 1796; solicitor at Chapel en le Frith, Derbyshire 1819 to death; clerk to county magistrates 1834 to death; author under pseudonym of Lee Gibbons of _The Cavalier 3 vols._ 1821; _Malpas 3 vols._ 1822; _The King of the Peak 3 vols._ 1823; _Owain Goch a tale of the Revolution 3 vols._ 1827; these books are also attributed to Thomas Roscoe jun.; contributed to the _Reliquary_ many papers on archæology of Derbyshire 1862–72. _d._ Chapel en le Frith 20 April 1879.

BENNETT, WILLIAM MINEARD. _b._ Exeter 1778; pupil of Sir Thomas Lawrence; a painter of portraits and miniatures; exhibited at the R.A. 1812–16 and 1834–35; lived many years in Paris; lived at Exeter 1844 to death; composed many glees and songs which were popular in Paris and Naples. _d._ Hill’s buildings, St. Sidwell’s, Exeter 17 Oct. 1858.

BENNETT, SIR WILLIAM STERNDALE (_youngest child of Robert Bennett of Sheffield, organist of the parish church who d. 3 Nov. 1819_). _b._ 8 Norfolk Row, Sheffield 13 April 1816; ed. at Royal Academy of Music, London 1826–36, and at Leipsic 1836–37; member of Royal Society of Musicians 1838; taught music in London; founded the Bach Society 1849; professor of music at Univ. of Cam. 4 March 1856; Mus. Doc. Cam. 1856, M.A. 1867; D.C.L. Ox. 1870; a life member of St. John’s coll. Cam. 26 Sep. 1856; conductor of Philharmonic Society concerts 1856–68, Beethoven gold medallist 7 July 1867; principal of Royal Academy of Music 22 June 1866 to death; knighted at Windsor Castle 24 March 1871; composed _The Naiads_, overture produced at Society of British Musicians 25 Jany. 1837; _The wood nymphs_, overture produced at the Gewandhaus concerts Leipzig 24 Jany. 1839; _The May Queen_, pastoral produced at Leeds musical festival 8 Sep. 1858; _The woman of Samaria_, oratorio produced at Birmingham musical festival 27 Aug. 1867. (_m._ 9 April 1844 Mary Anne only dau. of James Wood, commander R.N., she _d._ 17 Oct. 1862 aged 37.) _d._ 66 St. John’s Wood road London 1 Feb. 1875. _bur._ north aisle of choir Westminster Abbey 6 Feb. _Grove’s Dictionary of music i_, 224–29 (1879); _W. A. Barrett’s English Church composers_ (1882) 163–65; _Academy vii_, 154, 179, 388, 466 (1875); _I.L.N. xl_, 551 (1862), _portrait, lxvi_, 152, 326 (1875), _portrait_.

BENNIS, GEORGE GEARY. _b._ Corkamore, Limerick 1790 or 1793; a grocer at Limerick; settled at Liverpool where he became a Quaker; went to Paris 1823; director of a libraire des étrangers in Paris 1830–36; an insurance agent and librarian to the British embassy, Paris; edited _Galignani’s Messenger_; chevalier of the Légion d’honneur 1854; author of _The principles of the one faith professed by all Christians, Liverpool_ 1816, _3 ed. Paris_ 1826; _Traveller’s pocket diary and Student’s journal_; _Treatise on life assurance_. _d._ Paris 1 Jany. 1866, left over 10,000 volumes to found a free library at Limerick. _J. Smith’s A descriptive catalogue of Friends books i_, 246 (1867).

BENSON, CHARLES. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1818, B.A. 1819, M.A. and M.B. 1822, M.D. 1840; L.R.C.S. Ireland 1821, F.R.C.S. 1825, pres. 1854; professor of practice of medicine in school attached to the college; M.R.I.A. 30 Nov. 1825; physician to City of Dublin hospital; contributed 4 articles to _Todd’s Cyclopædia of anatomy_ and a course of lectures on the Diseases of the digestive organs to _Dublin Medical Press_ 1840–42. _d._ 42 Fitzwilliam sq. Dublin 21 Jany. 1880 in 83 year.

BENSON, REV. CHRISTOPHER (_son of Thomas Benson of Cockermouth, solicitor_). _b._ Cockermouth 1788; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., scholar, B.A. 1809, M.A. 1815; select preacher 1817; Hulsean lecturer (the first) 1820–22; fellow of Magd. coll. Cam. 1820; preb. of Worcester cathedral 27 Dec. 1825 to death; R. of St. Giles’s-in-the-Fields, London 1824–26; V. of Cropthorne, Worcs. 1826–40; master of the Temple London 1827–45; author of _Discourses on powers of the clergy_ 1841; _Baptism and baptismal regeneration_ 1843. _d._ Woodfield, Ross, Hereford 25 March 1868. _The living and the dead by a country curate_ (_Rev. E. Neale_) 1827 _pp._ 81–98; _E. M. Roose’s Ecclesiastica_ (1842) 413–15.

BENSON, SIR JOHN (_only son of John Benson of Collooney, co. Sligo_). _b._ Collooney 1812; architect and civil engineer; county surveyor to east riding of co. Cork 8 April 1846; surveyor of city of Cork 29 Jany. 1851; architect and builder of Dublin exhibition 12 Aug. 1852 which was opened 12 May 1853, knighted by Earl of St. Germans at the opening; engineer of Cork waterworks which cost £80,000; built 48 bridges in co. Cork; M.I.C.E. 4 March 1862. _d._ 15 Alexander sq. Brompton London 17 Oct. 1874. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xl_, 251–53 (1875).

BENSON, RICHARD. Entered Bengal army 1805; colonel 11 Bengal N.I. 16 July 1849 to death; C.B. 3 April 1846; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. _d._ at his residence on lake of Buttermere, Cumberland 26 Aug. 1858.

BENSON, REV. SAMUEL. Ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826; lecturer at St. John’s Horsleydown 1823–33; chaplain of Horsemonger lane gaol 1833–43; V. of St. Saviour’s Southwark 1868 to death; author of several sermons and tracts. _d._ 34 Borough high st. London 22 Feb. 1881 aged 82. _I.L.N. xxiv_, 401 (1851), _portrait_.

BENT, JEFFERY HART (_eld. son of Robert Bent of Lancashire_). Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807; barrister M.T. 7 Feb. 1806; chief justice of New South Wales 1814, of Grenada 1820 to 1833, of St. Lucia 1833 to 1836 and of British Guiana 1836 to death. _d._ George Town Demerara 29 June 1852 aged 72. _I.L.N. xxi_, 155 (1852).

BENT, SIR JOHN (_eld. son of Wm. Bent of Stoneyfield near Newcastle under Lyne_). _b._ Newcastle under Lyne 1793; ed. at Newcastle gr. sch.; a large brewer at Liverpool; alderman of Liverpool, mayor 1850–51; knighted by the Queen at Liverpool 9 Oct. 1851. _d._ Edge hill near Liverpool 13 Aug. 1857.

BENT, JOHN. Assistant surgeon in the army 11 Sep. 1838; served in the Crimea 30 April 1855 to end of the war; deputy surgeon general 28 Jany. 1862; surgeon general 11 July 1874 to death. _d._ The Camp Aldershot 23 Nov. 1874 aged 57.

BENT, ROBERT (_son of Wm. Bent who founded Bent’s Literary Advertiser 1802_). Edited _The London Catalogue of books_ 1839. _d._ 6 Dec. 1859.

BENTHAM, GEORGE. _b._ June 1787; entered navy 1795; captain 16 Sep. 1816; retired V.A. 9 July 1857; knight of Sardinian order of St. Maurice and St. Lazare. _d._ Barton fields, Canterbury 24 Feb. 1862.

BENTHAM, GEORGE (_2 son of Sir Samuel Bentham, naval architect 1757–1831_). _b._ Stoke near Plymouth 22 Sep. 1800; lived in France 1814–26; managed his father’s estate of 2000 acres near Montpellier; student at Lincoln’s Inn; worked for his uncle Jeremy Bentham 1826–32; F.L.S. 1828, vice pres. 1858, pres. 1861–74; hon. sec. of Horticultural Society 1829–40 which he raised to a flourishing condition; presented his collections and books valued at £6,000 to Kew Gardens 1854; F.R.S. 5 June 1862, royal medallist 1859; LLD. Cambridge 4 June 1874; C.M.G. 1878; author of _Outlines of a new system of logic_ 1827 which set forth for the first time doctrine of quantification of the predicate, the most fruitful discovery in abstract logical science since Aristotle; _Handbook of the British flora_ 1858, _2 vols._ 1865; _Flora Hong-Kongensis_ 1861; _Flora Australiensis 7 vols._ 1863–78; author with Sir Joseph Hooker of _Genera Plantarum_, _6 parts in 3 vols._ 1862–83 which marks an epoch in botany. _d._ 25 Wilton place, London 10 Sep. 1884. _Nature xxx_, 539–43 (1884); _G. C. Wallich’s Eminent men of the day_ (1870), _portrait_.

BENTINCK, ADOLPHE BARON VON. Secretary of legation for the Netherlands at Copenhagen, Stockholm, Berlin and Vienna successively; councillor of the legation in London 7 years; envoy extraord. and minister plenipo. in London 25 Aug. 1851 to death. _d._ 26 Eaton sq. London 2 March 1868 aged 70.

BENTINCK, ARTHUR CAVENDISH. _b._ 9 May 1819; ensign 84 Foot 2 Nov. 1838; lieut. col. 7 Dragoon guards 8 Dec. 1854 and 4 Dragoon guards 30 Aug. 1859 to 30 May 1862 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ Thomas’s hotel, 25 Berkely sq. London 11 Dec. 1877.

BENTINCK, CHARLES ANTHONY FERDINAND. _b._ 4 March 1792; ensign Coldstream guards 16 Nov. 1808, lieut. col. 9 Nov. 1846 to 25 April 1848 when placed on h.p.; colonel 12 Foot 14 April 1857 to death; L.G. 15 Jany. 1858. _d._ Bergheim in principality of Waldeck 28 Oct. 1864.

BENTINCK, SIR HENRY JOHN WILLIAM (_youngest son of Major general John Charles Bentinck 1763–1833_). _b._ 8 Sep. 1796; ensign Coldstream guards 25 March 1813, lieut. col. 22 Aug. 1851 to 20 June 1854; aide de camp to the Queen 23 Nov. 1841 to 20 June 1854; commanded the brigade of Guards in the Crimea 22 Feb. to 8 Nov. 1854 and the fourth division 1 June to 10 Oct. 1855; colonel 28 Foot 11 Oct. 1854 to death; K.C.B. 5 July 1855; groom in waiting to the Queen Nov. 1859 to June 1867; general 8 Dec. 1867. _d._ 35 Grosvenor st. London 29 Sep. 1878.

BENTINCK, HENRY WILLIAM CAVENDISH (_youngest son of 4 Duke of Portland 1768–1854_). _b._ 9 June 1804; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox.; M.P. for North Notts. 6 March 1846 to 21 March 1857; invented the call for trumps at whist, known as Blue Peter, at Graham’s club house 87 St. James’s st. about 1836, an explanation of which first appeared in print in _The laws and practice of whist by Cælebs, M.A. [E. A, Carlyon], 2 ed._ 1856; master of the Rufford hounds 1835–36, of the Burton hounds 1842–64, when he sold the pack for £3,500, had over 100 horses in his stable at one time. _d._ Tathwell hall near Louth 31 Dec. 1870. _Baily’s Mag. xix_, 288–93 (1871).

BENTINCK, VENERABLE WILLIAM HARRY EDWARD. (_elder son of Lord Edward Charles Bentinck 1744–1819_). _b._ 2 Feb. 1784; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox.; B.A. 1805, M.A. 1808; R. of Sigglesthorne near Hull 1808 to death; Canon of Westminster 7 Oct. 1809 to 1864 and Archdeacon 1854–64; rural dean 1842 to death; built at his own expense church of Holy Trinity, Vauxhall bridge 1852. _d._ Sigglesthorne rectory 29 Sep. 1868. _I.L.N. xxiv_, 401 (1854), _portrait_.

BENTLEY, CHARLES. Member of the old water-color Society 1844; painted many pictures chiefly of coast and river scenery, four of which are in the South Kensington Museum. _d._ of cholera at Mornington place London 4 Sep. 1854 aged 48.

BENTLEY, EDWARD (_eld. son of John Bentley 1786–1860_). _b._ 31 Dec. 1817; an operative chemist; gained credit for his method of obtaining the more powerful vegetable preparations for medical use; studied at Guy’s Hospital; L.R.C.P. 1845; M.D. St. Andrews 1845; very instrumental in founding City of London hospital for diseases of the chest 1848; hon. sec. to Pathological Society of London. _d._ 8 St. Thomas sq. Hackney 2 Feb. 1861.

BENTLEY, JAMES. _b._ 1785; purchased Wood Green park, Cheshunt, Herts 1839 and the manor of the rectory of Cheshunt 1855; sheriff of Herts 1860; treasurer of St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1841–55. _d._ Wood Green park 26 Oct. 1880 in 96 year.

BENTLEY, JOHN (_son of Edward Bentley, principal of accountants office bank of England who d. 24 July 1838 aged 85_). _b._ 12 Nov. 1786; ed. at St. Paul’s school; secretary to Bank of England 1850–60. _d._ Park crescent, Brighton 20 Dec. 1860.

BENTLEY, JOSEPH. Lecturer and writer on education; promoted two assurance companies 1855–56; author of _Manual of life insurance_ 1862; _Financial position of life offices_ 1865. _d._ Feb. 1872 aged 67.

BENTLEY, JOSEPH CLAYTON. _b._ Bradford, Yorkshire 1809; a landscape painter; went to London 1832; exhibited landscapes chiefly views in Yorkshire at Royal Academy and other exhibitions; a line engraver; executed many plates for publications of Messrs. Fisher and Messrs. Virtue especially for the _Gems of European Art 2 vols._ 1847; some of his best works are in the Vernon Gallery at the National Gallery. _d._ Sydenham, Kent 9 Oct. 1851.

BENTLEY, RICHARD (BROTHER OF JOHN BENTLEY 1786–1860). _b._ Oct. 1794; ed. at St. Paul’s sch.; publisher with his brother Samuel in Salisbury st. Fleet st. Jany. 1819 to 1829; publisher with Henry Colburn 1829–32; started _Bentley’s Miscellany_ 1837; founded with George Smythe and the Young England party a newspaper called _Young England_ Jany. 1845 which collapsed April 1845; started with John Douglas Cook _Bentley’s Quarterly Review_ 1859 of which only 4 numbers appeared; published _Standard Novels_ 127 volumes the copyright and stock of which he sold 27 Feb. 1856 for £11,000; publisher in ordinary to the Queen 1838 to death. _d._ Ramsgate 10 Sep. 1871. _Graphic iv_, 375, 381 (1871), _portrait_.

BENTLEY, SAMUEL (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 10 May 1785; ed. at St. Paul’s school; apprenticed to John Nichols, printer and publisher; partner in firm of Nichols, Son and Bentley April 1812 to Dec. 1818; publisher with his brother Richard Jany. 1819 to 1829; carried on business at Bangor house, Shoe lane under firm of Samuel and John Bentley, Wilson and Fley 1829 to April 1853 when he retired; an antiquary, musician and artist; edited the _Concio de puero Jesu of Erasmus_ 1816; author of _Excerpta Historica_ 1831; indexed _Nichols’s Literary anecdotes_ and _Surtees’s History of Durham_. _d._ Croydon 13 April 1868. _G.M. i_, 127 (1868).

BENTLEY, WILLIAM (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 1788; ed. at St. Paul’s school; principal of the Bank stock office, Bank of England; master of the Leathersellers Company 1857–58. _d._ Colfe lodge, Lewisham 28 Jany. 1877.

BENTON, MARY (_dau. of Ralph Lodge_). _b._ Raby Moor house near Keverstone, Durham 12 Feb. 1751. (_m._ John Benton of Longnewton, butcher). Lived at hamlet of Elton near Stockton on Tees many years. _d._ Elton 7 Jany. 1853, aged 102. _I.L.N. xviii_, 324 (1851), _portrait_.

BEOR, HENRY ROGERS (_4 son of Richard White Beor of Swansea_). Barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1870; admitted to Queensland bar 7 Dec. 1875; member of Queensland parliament for Bowen; attorney general for Queensland 1880. _d._ on his voyage from Sydney to Auckland 25 Dec. 1880.

BERE, MONTAGU BAKER. _b._ 15 July 1798; barrister L.I. 21 June 1825; commissioner of Court of bankruptcy at Leeds 21 Oct. 1842 to 1844 and at Exeter 1844 to death. _d._ Barley near Exeter 13 Dec. 1858.

BERENS, VENERABLE EDWARD (_son of Joseph Berens of Hextable, Kent_). Matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 17 Jany. 1794 aged 17; B.A. 1798, M.A. 1801; fellow of Oriel coll.; V. of Shrivenham, Berks. 1804 to death; R. of Englefield, Berks. 1818–55; Preb. of Salisbury 23 Oct. 1829 to death; archdeacon of Berks. 7 Sep. 1832 to 1855; author of _A discourse on parochial psalmody_ 1825; _Advice to a young man upon first going to Oxford_ 1832, _6 ed._ 1853; _The history of the Prayer Book of the Church of England_ 1839, _2 ed._ 1854; _A memoir of the life of Bishop Mant_ 1849; _Lectures on the Liturgy_ 1850 and other books. _d._ Shrivenham vicarage 7 April 1859.

BERENS, HENRY HULSE (_son of Joseph Berens of Kevington, Kent_). _b._ 1804; deputy chairman of Public works loan office 1849–52; a director of Bank of England many years. _d._ Sidcup, Kent 23 Aug. 1883 aged 78.

BERENS, OTTO ALEXANDER. Linen draper in St. Paul’s churchyard, London; originated the fancy trade; moved to Cannon st. 1854. _d._ Raleigh hall, Brixton-rise London 15 April 1860 aged 63.

BERESFORD, WILLIAM CARR BERESFORD, 1 Viscount (_natural son of George de la Poer Beresford, 1 Marquis of Waterford 1735–1800_). _b._ Ireland 2 Oct. 1768; ed. at Strassburg; ensign 6 Foot 27 Aug. 1785; lieut. col. of 124 or Waterford Foot (a regiment raised by his father) 11 Aug. 1794; lieut. col. 88 Foot 1 Sep. 1795 to 9 Feb. 1807; commanded first brigade in Egypt June 1801 to 1802 and first brigade at Cape of Good Hope 1806; captured Buenos Ayres 27 June 1806 but lost it 12 Aug.; colonel 88 Foot 9 Feb. 1807 to 11 March 1819; governor of Madeira 24 Dec. 1807 to July 1808; marshal commanding Portugese army 1 March 1809 to 1819; captain general of Spain 1811; commander in chief at battle of Albuera 16 May 1811; voted the thanks of Parliament 7 June 1811; received a cross with 7 clasps for 12 actions July 1815; governor of Jersey 29 Jany. 1820 to death; col. 69 Foot 11 March 1819 to 15 March 1823; col. 16 Foot 15 March 1823 to death; lieutenant general of the ordnance 8 Feb. 1823 to 3 May 1824, master general 29 Jany. 1828 to 22 Nov. 1830; general 27 May 1825; col. in chief 60 Rifles 23 Sep. 1852 to death; K.C.B. 18 Oct. 1810, G.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815; knighted at Whitehall 23 Oct. 1810; Conde de Trancoso in peerage of Portugal 1810; Duke of Elvas in peerage of Spain; M.P. for co. Waterford 28 June 1811 to 17 May 1814 but never took his seat; created Baron Beresford of Albuera and Dungarvan, co. Waterford 17 May 1814; G.C.H. 1818; P.C. 6 Feb. 1821; created Viscount Beresford of Beresford, co. Stafford 22 April 1823. _d._ Bedgebury park, Goudhurst Kent 8 Jany. 1854. _J. W. Cole’s Memoirs of British generals i_, 165–217 (1856); _W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery iv_, 96 (1848), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxi_, 545 (1852), _portrait, xxiv_ 38, 58 (1854), _portrait_; _Napier’s Peninsular War vol. iii_.

BERESFORD, DENIS WILLIAM PACK. _b._ London 7 July 1810; M.P. for co. Carlow 7 Aug. 1862 to 11 Nov. 1868. _d._ 28 Dec. 1881.

BERESFORD, SIR GEORGE DE LA POER, 2 Baronet. _b._ 1 March 1811; M.P. for Athlone 8 July 1841 to 13 June 1842; succeeded 2 Oct. 1844. _d._ Glasgow 11 Feb. 1873.

BERESFORD, MOST REV. JOHN GEORGE (_2 son of George Beresford, 1 Marquis of Waterford 1735–1800_). _b._ Tyrone house, Dublin 22 Nov. 1773; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1793, M.A. 1796, D.D. 1805; ordained deacon 1795, priest 1797; R. of Clonegam and Newtown Lenan; dean of Clogher 23 Dec. 1799; R. of Termonmaguirk 1801; bishop of Cork and Ross 20 Feb. 1805; consecrated 24 March 1805; translated to Raphoe 10 Aug. 1807; translated to Clogher 25 Sep. 1819; created Archbishop of Dublin 21 April 1820; enthroned 6 May 1820; P.C. Ireland 23 May 1820; archbishop of Armagh and primate of all Ireland 17 June 1822; vice chancellor of Univ. of Dublin 1829, chancellor 19 Nov. 1851; founded the chair of Ecclesiastical history 1853; gave £6000 to college of St. Columba; restored Armagh cathedral at expense of nearly £30,000. _d._ Woburn near Donaghadee 18 July 1862. _bur._ in crypt of Armagh cathedral 30 July. _Creasy’s Memoirs of eminent Etonians new ed._ 1876, 568–89; _I.L.N. xli_, 128, 138 (1862), _portrait_; _Dublin Univ. Mag. xvi_, 86–89 (1840), _portrait_.

NOTE.—He presided over the church in Ireland for 40 years, a longer period than any primate for nearly 1000 years; on completing the 50th year of his episcopate, 29 March 1855 he received an address of congratulation signed by all the Irish bishops and by 1980 out of the entire body of 2100 Irish clergy.

BERESFORD, MARCUS (_2 son of Hon. George Beresford 1776–1842_). _b._ 28 July 1800; 2 lieut. 21 Foot 4 Sep. 1817; lieut. col. 3 Foot 25 Dec. 1835 to 13 May 1842 when placed on h.p.; colonel 20 Foot 22 Sep. 1858 to death; general 4 March 1866. _d._ Leamington 16 March 1876.

BERESFORD, WILLIAM (_younger son of Marcus Beresford 1764–97, M.P. for Dungarvan_). _b._ 17 April 1797; ed. at Eton and St. Mary’s hall Ox., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1824; captain 12 Lancers 6 April 1826 to 16 July 1830 when placed on h.p.; served in Portugal 1827; master of the Tennis Court, Hampton Court 1823 to death; contested Waterford 1837; M.P. for Harwich 1841–1847 and for North Essex 1847–65; secretary at war 28 Feb. 1852 to Dec. 1852; P.C. 27 Feb. 1852. _d._ Eccleston sq. London 6 Oct. 1883. _I.L.N. xx_, 267 (1852), _portrait_.

BERGENROTH, GUSTAVE ADOLPH. _b._ Oletzko, East Prussia 26 Feb. 1813; ed. at Univ. of Königsberg 1833–36; assessor to the high court at Berlin 1843 and 1846–49; studied English history in London 1857–60; examined the Spanish Archives at Simancas, Spain Aug. 1860 to death, deciphering more than 12 ciphers of exceeding difficulty; author of _Calendar of letters, despatches and state papers relating to the negotiations between England and Spain 1485–1525, 3 vols._ 1862–68. _d._ Fonda de los Principes, Puerta del Sol, Madrid 13 Feb. 1869. _W. C. Cartwright’s G. Bergenroth a memorial sketch_ 1870.

BERGER, GEORGE. _b._ London; a journeyman compositor; wholesale newsagent and bookseller in Holywell st. Strand 1834; the largest retailer of papers and periodicals in London; publisher in Newcastle st. Strand 1864 to death. _d._ Friern house, Finchley 1 Feb. 1868 aged 72.

BERGNE, JOHN BRODRIBB. _b._ Kensington, London 1800; clerk in the Foreign Office 1815 to death; superintendent of treaty department 1 July 1854 to 1 Dec. 1870 when foreign office agencies were abolished; member of commission to revise Slave trade instructions 1865; an original member of Numismatic Society 1837, treasurer July 1843 to 1857; contributed 16 papers to _Numismatic Chronicle_; F.S.A. 1844; made a fine collection of coins which was sold at Sotheby’s in an 11 day sale May 1873 for above £6000. _d._ 21 Thurloe sq. London 16 Jany. 1873. _Numismatic Chronicle xiii_, 13–15, 304–308 (1873).

BERKELEY, THOMAS MORETON FITZHARDINGE BERKELEY, 6 Earl of. _b._ 19 Oct. 1796; ed. at C. C. coll. Ox.; succeeded 8 Aug. 1810, but never assumed the title or took his seat in House of Lords though he received usual summons to do so. _d._ Hartington lane, Cranford, Hounslow 27 Aug. 1882.

BERKELEY, CHARLES ASSHETON FITZHARDINGE. _b._ 10 Oct. 1818; ensign 11 Foot 27 May 1836; lieut. col. 32 Foot 24 July 1857 to death; C.B. 24 March 1858. _d._ on board the “Simla” off the island of Socotra 25 Sep. 1858.

BERKELEY, CRAVEN FITZHARDINGE (_brother of 6 Earl of Berkeley_). _b._ Berkeley house, Spring Gardens London 28 July 1805; ensign 85 Foot 13 Feb. 1823; captain 2 Life Guards 22 March 1831 to 25 Aug. 1837 when placed on h.p.; M.P. for Cheltenham 10 Dec. 1832 to 23 July 1847, 28 July 1848 to 24 Aug. 1848, when election declared void and 8 July 1852 to death; fought a duel with Henry George Boldero M.P. for Chippenham, in Osterly park 15 July 1842. _d._ Frankfort upon Main 1 July 1855. _Godings History of Cheltenham_ (1863) 85–94, 365–8.

BERKELEY, FRANCIS HENRY FITZHARDINGE (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 7 Dec. 1794; gentleman commoner at Ch. Ch. Ox. 1814; M.P. for Bristol 22 July 1837 to death; leader in House of Commons of the ballot question 8 Aug. 1848 to death, the ballot bill was passed 13 July 1872; chief opponent of the Temperance cause in House of Commons, presented by the licensed victuallers with a testimonial of £1,050 at Bristol 24 Sep. 1856. _d._ 1 Victoria sq. Pimlico London 10 March 1870. _Burn’s Temperance dictionary_ (1861) 300–303; _Illust. News of the world iii_, 84 (1859), _portrait_.

BERKELEY, GEORGE CHARLES GRANTLEY FITZHARDINGE (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Cranford house, Hounslow 10 Feb. 1800; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign Coldstream Guards 1821–23 when placed on h.p.; heir presumptive to Earldom of Berkeley 1810 to death; kept a pack of stag hounds at Cranford 1824–29 and at Harrold hall Beds. from 1829; M.P. for West Gloucs. 24 Dec. 1832 to 1 July 1852; fought a duel with Wm. Maginn editor of _Fraser’s Mag._ in a field near the Harrow road 5 Aug. 1836 when Maginn was slightly wounded; author of _Berkeley Castle an historical romance 3 vols._ 1836; _Sandron Hall or the days of Queen Anne 3 vols._ 1840; _Reminiscences of a huntsman_ 1854; _Love and the lion, a poem_ 1857; _The English sportsman in the western prairies_ 1861; he is depicted in C. J. Collins’s novel _Sackville Chase 3 vols._ 1863; he was the last person who wore the flat cocked hat known as the chapeau bras. _d._ Longfleet, Poole 23 Feb. 1881. _My life and recollections by G. C. G. F. Berkeley 4 vols._ 1865–66, _portrait_; _Fraser’s Mag. xiv_, 242–7 (1836), _xv_, 100–143 (1837); _I.L.N. lxxviii_, 253 (1881), _portrait_.

BERKELEY, SIR GEORGE HENRY FREDERICK (_elder son of Admiral Sir George Cranfield Berkeley, G.C.B. 1753–1818_). _b._ 9 July 1785; cornet Royal horse guards 21 Jany. 1802; captain 3 Foot guards 22 Feb. 1821 to 16 Nov. 1826 when placed on h.p.; col. 81 Foot 15 Jany. 1844 and of 35 Foot 11 July 1845 to death; surveyor general of the ordnance 28 June to Dec. 1852; general 20 June 1854; M.P. for Devonport 7 July 1852 to death; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815. _d._ Richmond, Surrey 25 Sep. 1857.

BERKELEY, ROBERT JAMES. Called to bar in Ireland 1830; Q.C. 9 Nov. 1852. _d._ 6 Trafalgar terrace, Monkstown, Ireland 31 Oct. 1873.

BERKELEY, SACKVILLE HAMILTON. Ensign 16 Foot 1 May 1800, captain 25 Dec. 1804 to 26 Feb. 1824 when placed on h.p.; deputy adjutant general in West Indies 20 June 1811 to 15 March 1827; col. of 75 Foot 16 Sep. 1845 and of 16 Foot 22 March 1858 to death; general 20 June 1854. _d._ 4 York terrace, Regent’s Park, London 12 Feb. 1863.

BERKLY, JAMES JOHN. _b._ Holloway near London 21 Oct. 1819; pupil of Robert Stephenson 1839; chief resident engineer of Great Indian Peninsula railway 1850–58; first 20 miles of the line from Bombay to Tanna were opened 16 April 1853 thus initiating the Indian railway system; comr. of Bombay municipal board 1857; member of senate of Bombay Univ. 1858; M.I.C.E. 4 Dec. 1855, Telford medallist 1860. _d._ Sydenham, Kent 25 Aug. 1862. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxii_, 618–24 (1863).

BERNAL, RALPH (_only son of Jacob Bernal of 7 Fitzroy square, London who d. 10 Nov. 1811_). ed. at Christ’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1806, M.A. 1809; student L.I. 13 June 1804, barrister 8 Feb. 1810; M.P. for Lincoln 1818–20, for Rochester 1820–41 and 1847–52 and for Weymouth 1841–47; spent sum of £66,000 in election contests; chairman of committees of House of Commons 1830–50; pres. of British Archæological association 1853 to death; made a splendid collection of works of art from the Byzantine period to that of Louis Seize and of furniture and plate which was sold for £63,000 in a 32 day sale 1855. _d._ 93 Eaton sq. London 26 Aug. 1854. _Annual Register_ (1855) 41–44; _G.M. xlii_, 628 (1854).

BERNAL OSBORNE, Ralph (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ 26 March 1808; ed. at the Charterhouse; matric. from Trin. coll. Cam. Oct. 1829; ensign 71 Foot 8 June 1830; captain 7 Foot 27 July 1838 to 1841 when he sold out; M.P. for Chipping Wycombe 1841–47, for Middlesex 1847–57, for Dover 1857–59, for Liskeard 1859–65, for Nottingham 1866–68 and for Waterford city 1870–74; took surname of Osborne in lieu of Bernal 19 Aug. 1844 but always known as R. Bernal Osborne; presided at banquet given to Lord Palmerston at Reform club 20 July 1850; secretary of the Admiralty Dec. 1852 to Feb. 1858; author of 2 poems called _The chaunt of Achilles_ 1838 and _A voice from Palace yard_. _d._ Bestwood lodge near Nottingham 4 Jany. 1882. _Bagenal’s Life of R. Bernal Osborne privately printed_ 1884; _Temple Bar, lxxii_, 34–49 (1884); _Fortnightly Review xxxvi_, 535–44 (1884); _I.L.N. xiv_, 397 (1849), _portrait, lxxx_, 61 (1882), _portrait_; _Graphic xxv_, 45 (1882), _portrait_.

BERNARD, HERMANN. _b._ Uman or Human Poland 1785; a banker; went to England 1825; Hebrew teacher in Univ. of Cambridge 1830 to death; author of _The creed and ethics of the Jews_ 1832; edited _Guide of the Hebrew student_ 1839; author with Rev. P. H. Mason of _An easy practical Hebrew grammar_; in the title pages of all his works the name of Hedwig being that of a departed sister whom he wished to commemorate is joined to his own. _d._ Cambridge 15 Nov. 1857. _The book of Job as expounded to his Cambridge pupils by the late H. H. Bernard edited by Frank Chance vol. i_, (1864) _lxxvii-ciii_, (1864), _portrait_.

BERNARD, MOUNTAGUE (_3 son of Charles Bernard of Eden, Jamaica_). _b._ Tibberton Court, Gloucs. 28 Jany. 1820; ed. at Sherborne and Trin. coll. Ox., B.A. 1842, B.C.L. 1845, D.C.L. 1871; Vinerian scholar and fellow of his college; barrister L.I. 1 May 1846; Chichele professor of international law and diplomacy in Univ. of Oxford 1859 to 9 May 1874; assessor of the Chancellor’s Court, Oxford 1859 to Nov. 1871; sec. to royal commission on Cattle plague 1866; member of royal commissions on Naturalisation 1868, Fugitive slaves 1876 and Univ. of Ox. 1877; fellow of All Souls coll. Ox. 1870; curator of Taylor institution at Ox. 9 Feb. 1871; one of high comrs. for treating with the United States of America 16 Feb. 1871, signed treaty of Washington 8 May 1871; P.C. 29 June 1871, member of its Judicial committee 24 Nov. 1871; an original member of the Institut de droit international 1873, pres. at the Oxford meeting 1880; one of founders of _Guardian_ newspaper 1846, wrote the weekly summary of events in it for some years. _d._ Overross, Ross, Herefordshire 2 Sep. 1882.

BERNARD, THOMAS. _b._ Sep. 1816; sheriff of King’s county 1837 and lord lieutenant 5 Dec. 1867 to death; colonel of King’s county militia 23 March 1871 to death. _d._ Castle Bernard, Kinnetty, King’s county 13 Dec. 1882.

BERNARD, SIR THOMAS TYRINGHAM, 6 Baronet. _b._ Bolton st. Piccadilly London 15 Sep. 1791; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; sheriff of Bucks. 1816; M.P. for Aylesbury 28 March 1857 to 6 July 1865; succeeded 22 Jany. 1876. _d._ Cadogan lodge, Carlyle sq. London 8 May 1883. _I.L.N. lxxxii_, 525 (1883), _portrait_.

BERNARD, WILLIAM BAYLE (_son of John Bernard, English comedian 1756–1828_). _b._ Pleasant st. Boston U.S. 27 Nov. 1809; came to England 1820; clerk in Army accounts office 1826–30 when office was abolished; wrote much dramatic and other criticism for the press; author of _The freebooter’s bride 5 vols._ 1828; _Life of Samuel Lover 2 vols._ 1874 and of 114 plays, best known being _Rip Van Winkle_ 1832; _The nervous man_ 1833; _The man about town_ 1836; _Marie Ducange_ 1837; _His last legs_ 1839; _The boarding school_ 1841; _The round of wrong_ 1846. _d._ Brighton 5 Aug. 1875. _The Era Almanac_ (1868) 17–18.

BERNARD, WILLIAM SMYTH (_4 son of 1 Earl of Bandon 1755–1830_). _b._ Castle Bernard, King’s County 14 Nov. 1792; sheriff of Cork 1820; M.P. for Bandon 15 Dec. 1832 to death. _d._ Queenstown 6 Feb. 1863.

BERNAYS, ADOLPHUS. Professor of German language and literature at King’s College London 1831–63; F.R.G.S. 1858; author of _German poetry for beginners_ 1836; _German poetical anthology_ 1843; _German historical anthology_ 1846 and 6 other school books. _d._ The rectory, Great Stanmore 22 Dec. 1864.

BERNAYS, REV. LEOPOLD JOHN (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ 28 Dec. 1820; ed. at Merchant Taylors and St. John’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1846, fellow of his college; head master of Elstree school 1847–60; R. of Great Stanmore, Middlesex 1860 to death; author of _Translation of Goethe’s Faust,