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series_ 1876–7. _d._ Glen Andred, Groombridge near Tunbridge Wells 4 Jany. 1880. _I.L.N. xlv_, 173 (1864), _portrait_; _Graphic xxi_, 252 (1880), _portrait_.

COOKE, GEORGE. _b._ Manchester 7 March 1807; first appeared on the stage at Walsall, March 1828; acted at Strand theatre, London 1837, at Drury Lane 1839, at Marylebone 1847; played at Strand theatre 1848, at Olympic theatre to death. (_m._ 1840 Eliza Stuart, she _d._ 13 June 1877 aged 74); committed suicide 4 March 1863. _Theatrical Times iii_, 376, 397 (1848), _portrait_.

COOKE, REV. GEORGE LEIGH (_son of Rev. Samuel Cooke, V. of Great Bookham, Surrey, who d. 30 March 1820_). Matric. from Ball. coll. Ox. 26 Jany. 1797 aged 17; scholar of C.C. coll. 1797, fellow 1800–15, tutor; B.A. 1800, M.A. 1804, B.D. 1812; Sedleian professor of natural philosophy in Univ. of Ox. 1818–26; keeper of the Univ. archives 1818–26; V. of Cubbington, Warws. 1820 to death; V. of Rissington Wick, Gloucs. 1820 to death; P.C. of Hunningham, Warcs. 1820 to death; founded the Literary Dining Club, sec. of it many years; author of _The three first sections and part of the seventh section of Newton’s Principia_ 1850. _d._ Cubbington 29 March 1853 aged 73.

COOKE, GEORGE WINGROVE (_eld. son of T. H. Cooke of Bristol_). _b._ Bristol 1814; ed. at Jesus coll. Ox., B.A. 1834; barrister M.T. 30 Jany. 1835; contested Colchester, Feb. 1860, Marylebone, April 1861; special correspondent of _The Times_ in China 1857–8; copyhold and inclosure comr. Dec. 1862 to death; author of _Memoirs of Lord Bolingbroke_ 1835, _2 ed._ 1836; _The history of party from the rise of the Whig and Tory factions to the passing of the Reform bill 3 vols._ 1836–37; _Act for the enclosure of commons with a treatise on the law of rights of common_ 1846, _4 ed._ 1864; _Treatise on agricultural tenancies_ 1850, _new ed._ 1882; _A treatise on the law and practice of copyhold enfranchisement_ 1853; _Inside Sebastopol_ 1856; _China and Lower Bengal_ 1858; _Conquest and colonisation in North Africa_ 1860. _d._ 25 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea 18 June 1865.

COOKE, REV. HENRY (_youngest child of John Cooke of Grillagh near Maghera, co. Londonderry, farmer_). _b._ in farm house of Grillagh 11 May 1788; matric. at Glasgow college, Nov. 1802; licensed by the presbytery of Ballymena; pastor at Duneane near Randalstown, co. Antrim 1808–10; minister at Donegore, co. Antrim 1811–18; studied at Glasgow and Trin. coll. Dublin 1815–18; pastor of Killyleigh, co. Down 1818–29; moderator of general synod of Ulster, June 1824; pastor of May st. chapel, Belfast 24 Nov. 1829 to Feb. 1868; D.D. Jefferson college, U.S. 21 Oct. 1829; LLD. Dublin 9 Feb. 1837; granted freedom of city of Dublin 6 Feb. 1839; challenged O’Connell to a public discussion in Belfast 6 Jany. 1841, which he declined; moderator of the general assembly 1841; agent for distribution of _Regium Donum_ 29 Nov. 1845 to death; professor of sacred rhetoric, assembly’s college, Belfast, Sep. 1847 to death, pres. of the college 1848 to death; dean of residence for presbyterian church, Queen’s college, Belfast 1849; author of _Translations and paraphrases in verse for the use of the Presbyterian church, Killyleigh_ 1821; edited, _J. Brown’s Self-interpreting Bible_ 1855, _2 ed._ 1873. _d._ Ormean road, Belfast 13 Dec. 1868, statue of him erected at Belfast, Sep. 1875. _J. S. Porter’s Life of Rev. Henry Cooke_ (1871), _portrait_.

COOKE, JAMES (_son of Thomas Taplin Cooke, circus proprietor, who d. 19 March 1866 aged 84_). Leading rider of his father’s company; the only real rival of the great Andrew Ducrow; proprietor of a circus about 1837–49 and 1850–56; resided in Edinburgh 1856 to death. _d._ Portobello, Edin. 5 Sep. 1869 aged 59.

COOKE, SIR JOHN HENRY. _b._ 1791; ensign 43 foot 15 March 1809; captain 25 foot 27 July 1838 to 15 Dec. 1840 when placed on h.p.; conducted Louis xviii from Ghent to Paris, June to July 1815; sub officer of corps of gentlemen at arms 2 Oct. 1844 to 16 Sep. 1862; ensign of Yeomen of the guard 16 Sep. 1862, lieut. 2 Feb. 1866 to death; knighted at Windsor Castle 11 Dec. 1867. _d._ Albion villa, Upper heath, Hampstead 31 Jany. 1870.

COOKE, JOHN P. _b._ Chester 31 Oct. 1820; leader of the orchestras at Adelphi, Strand and Astley’s, London successively; leader at Burton’s theatre, New York 1850; musical director at several New York theatres; composed and arranged music for the _Winter’s Tale_, _Midsummer Night’s Dream_ and other Shakespearean plays; wrote melodies for the _Sea of Ice_. _d._ New York 4 Nov. 1865.

COOKE, RICHARD HARVEY. Ensign 1 Foot Guards 20 Feb. 1798, captain 7 Nov. 1811 to 26 March 1818; C.B. 22 June 1815. _d._ 45 Upper Brook st. London 8 Oct. 1856.

COOKE, REV. ROBERT. _b._ Waterford about 1820; joined the Congregation of Oblates of Mary Immaculate in France, ordained priest; stationed at Grace Dieu, Leics., at Everingham park, Yorkshire 1847–51; founded mission at Howden; restored mission at Pocklington; stationed at Leeds 1851; introduced the Oblates into Ireland, result being establishment of a mission at Inchicore; established a house of his order at Kilburn, London where a new church was erected 1879; founded church of the English Martyrs, Tower Hill, London; author of _Pictures of youthful holiness_ 1872; _Catholic memories of the Tower of London_ 1875, translated into French 1875; _Sketches of the life of Mgr. de Mazenod, bishop of Marseilles and founder of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate 2 vols._ 1879–82. _d._ London 18 June 1882. _Gillow’s English Catholics i_, 557–8 (1885).

COOKE, THOMAS (_son of Mr. Cooke of Allerthorpe in the East Riding of Yorkshire, shoemaker_). _b._ Allerthorpe 8 March 1807; kept a school at Allerthorpe 1823–9; optician at York about 1836 to death; made a telescope of 25 inches aperture 1863–8 which was mounted at Gateshead 1869, it is still the largest and best in the United Kingdom; invented an automatic engine for the graduation of circles, perfected the astronomical clock, and built nearly 100 turret clocks for public institutions and churches; F.R.A.S. 1859. _d._ 19 Oct. 1868.

COOKE, THOMAS POTTER (_son of Mr. Cooke of London, surgeon, who d. 1793_). _b._ Titchfield st. Marylebone 23 April 1786; served in navy 1796–1802, present in battle off Cape St. Vincent 1797; made his début at Royalty theatre, Wellclose sq. Jany. 1804; stage manager of Surrey theatre 1809–16; acted at Lyceum 1820–2, at Covent Garden 1822–5; played Le Monstre (Frankenstein) 80 nights, at Porte Saint Martin theatre, Paris 1825–6; played at Adelphi 1828–9; his best known part was William in Douglas Jerrold’s drama _Black-eyed Susan_, which he acted over 100 nights from 6 June 1829 at Surrey theatre; acted at Covent Garden 1829–34 and 1836, at Drury Lane 1834–6; made his last appearance on the stage 2 May 1861 at Princess’s theatre; he is described by Christopher North in _Noctes Ambrosianæ_ as ‘the best sailor out of all sight and hearing that ever trod the stage.’ _d._ 37 Thurloe sq. London 4 April 1864. _Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography iii_, 109 (1825), _portrait_; _Stirling’s Old Drury Lane ii_, 105–11 (1881); _Tallis’s Illustrated life in London_ (1864) 33, 36, 40, 41, 3 _portraits_; _Actors by daylight 11 Aug. 1838 pp. 185–87_, _portrait_.

NOTE.—He left by his will £2000 to the Dramatic College, the interest of which was to be paid for a prize nautical drama, in compliance with the terms of the grant ‘True to the core, a story of the Armada,’ a drama by Angiolo Robson Slous was produced at Surrey theatre, London 8 Sep. 1866, the prize having been awarded to him at Maybury college, Surrey 23 April 1866.

COOKE, THOMAS TAPLIN. Proprietor of a circus, his company consisted of his 19 sons and daughters; built the first circus in Edinburgh 1835; chartered a vessel and shipped all his circus to the United States 1837, where he performed to 1839 when his circus and all his horses were burnt at Baltimore. _d._ 2 Barossa place, Brompton, London 19 March 1866 aged 84.

COOKE, REV. WILLIAM. _b._ 1806; minister in the Methodist New Connexion body 1827 to death; filled in succession all the important offices of his denomination; author of _Christian theology explained and defended_ 1846, _new ed._ 1879; _Discourses illustrative of sacred truth_ 1871; _Explanations of difficult portions of holy scripture_; _A survey of the unity, harmony and growing evidence of sacred truth_; _The Shekinah, or the presence and manifestation of Jehovah under the several dispensations_, and other works including a number of polemical treatises in connexion with Roman Catholicism. _d._ Burslem house, Forest Hill 25 Dec. 1884.

COOKE, WILLIAM. Lessee and manager of Astley’s Amphitheatre, Westminster bridge road, London 1855–60; took his farewell benefit 30 Jany. 1860. _d._ 149 Acre lane, Brixton 6 May 1886.

COOKE, WILLIAM BERNARD (_brother of George Cooke, engraver 1781–1834_). _b._ London 1778; pupil of Wm. Angus the engraver; published _The Thames_ 1811 for which he engraved nearly all the plates; published with his brother George Cooke _Picturesque views on the Southern coast of England 1814–26_, chiefly from drawings by Turner; illustrated 10 other works 1812–40. _d._ Camberwell, London 2 Aug. 1855.

COOKE, SIR WILLIAM BRYAN, 8 Baronet (_younger son of Sir George Cooke 7 baronet, who d. 2 June 1823_). _b._ 3 March 1782; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1803, M.A. 1806; ensign 1 foot guards 15 Oct. 1803 to 1808 when he sold out; lieut.-col. 3 West York militia 26 Oct. 1811, col. 23 Feb. 1812 to 7 Dec. 1819; contested city of York 1818; banker at Doncaster, Retford and Worksop 1 Jany. 1819; succeeded 2 June 1823; the first mayor of Doncaster 1836, alderman 1837–8; sheriff of Yorkshire 1845; author of _The seize Quartiers of the family of Bryan Cooke_ 1857. _d._ Wheatley hall near Doncaster 24 Dec. 1851. _G.M. xxxvii_, 185–6 (1852).

COOKE, SIR WILLIAM FOTHERGILL (_eld. son of Wm. Cooke, professor of medicine at Durham Univ._) _b._ Ealing near London 1806; ed. at Durham school and Univ. of Edin.; ensign 39 Madras N.I. 8 Jany. 1826, resigned his commission 1836; partner with Charles Wheatstone, Nov. 1837, they patented magnetic needle telegraph 12 June 1837; laid down a telegraph between Paddington and West Drayton 1838–9, and from West Drayton to Slough 1842; invented with Wheatstone the single needle apparatus 1845; one of founders of Electro telegraph company 1846; received with Wheatstone the 4th royal Albert gold medal 1867; A.I.C.E. 21 May 1867; knighted at Windsor Castle 11 Nov. 1869; granted civil list pension of £100, 25 July 1871; author of _Telegraphic Railways_ 1842. (_m._ 1838 Anna Louisa dau. of Joseph Wheatley of Treeton, Yorkshire, she was granted civil list pension of £50, 19 June 1880). _d._ 31 Castle st. Farnham, Surrey 25 June 1879. _W. T. Jeans’s Lives of the electricians i_, 134, 323 (1887); _W. F. Cooke’s The electric telegraph, was it invented by professor Wheatstone?_ _2 vols._ 1857; _Authorship of the practical electric telegraph of Great Britain by Rev. T. F. Cooke_ 1868; _Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lviii_, 358–64 (1879).

NOTE.—The merit of initiating the idea of an international exhibition has been often warmly contested, but there is no doubt that the original proposition was made to the Committee of the Society of Arts in 1844 by Sir W. F. Cooke.

COOKE, WILLIAM JOHN. _b._ Dublin 11 April 1797; pupil of his uncle George Cooke the engraver; received from Society of Arts a gold medal for improvements in engraving upon steel 1826; employed upon the Annuals and other illustrated publications to about 1840 when he left England and settled at Darmstadt; engraved several pictures after Turner, Cox and Landseer. _d._ Darmstadt 6 April 1865.

COOKESLEY, JOHN. Entered navy 29 Jany. 1791; captain 7 Dec. 1818, retired 1 Oct. 1846; retired R.A. 8 July 1851; invented a very simple and efficacious species of raft fully described and illustrated in the _Nautical Mag. iv_, 73–77 (1835). _d._ Rackley, Portishead near Bristol 25 Nov. 1852 aged 78.

COOKESLEY, REV. WILLIAM GIFFORD. _b._ Brasted, Kent 1 Dec. 1802; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; assistant master of Eton 1825–55; V. of Hayton, Yorkshire 1857–60; P.C. of St. Peter’s, Hammersmith 1860–8; R. of Tempsford, Beds. 22 Oct. 1868 to death; published _Selections from Pindar_ 1838; _Pindari Carmina_ 1844 _2 vols._ 1851; _Selecta e Catullo_ 1845; _A revised translation of the New Testament_ 1859, and 13 other works. _d._ Tempsford rectory 16 Aug. 1880.

COOKSON, REV. HENRY WILKINSON (_6 son of Thomas Cookson of Kendal_). _b._ Kendal 10 April 1810; ed. at Kendal, Sedbergh and St. Peter’s coll. Cam., 7 wrangler 1832, B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835, B.D. and D.D. 1848; tutor of his college, Master 3 Nov. 1847 to death; R. of Glaston, Rutland 1847–61; vice-chancellor of Univ. of Cam. 1848, 1863, 1864, 1872, 1873; member of council of the Senate almost continuously from institution of that body 1856; pres. of Cambridge Philosophical Soc. 1865–6; declined bishopric of Lichfield 1867. _d._ St. Peter’s college lodge, Cambridge 30 Sep. 1876.

COOKSON, ISAAC. _b._ 1776; a glass manufacturer at Newcastle to 1845; sheriff of Newcastle 1801, alderman 22 Sep. 1807, mayor 1809–10; bought Meldon park, Northumberland for 56,900 guineas 19 April 1832; sheriff of Northumberland 1838. _d._ Munich 8 Oct. 1851.

COOLEY, WILLIAM DESBOROUGH. F.R.G.S. 1830, hon. free member 1864; granted civil list pension of £100, 4 Oct. 1858; wrote for Lardner’s ‘Cabinet Cyclopædia’ _The history of maritime and inland discovery 3 vols._ 1830–1; published _The world surveyed in the xix century 2 vols._ 1845–8; _Inner Africa laid open_ 1852; _Physical geography, or the terraqueous globe and its phenomena_ 1876 and other works. _d._ 56 Crowndale road, Somers Town, London 1 March 1883. _Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. v_, 232–3 (1883).

COOMBES, ROBERT. _b._ Vauxhall, London 1808; a waterman on river Thames; sculled his first race 4 July 1836; beat J. Kelly 4 Oct. 1838; stroke in the winning four at Liverpool regatta 1840 beating 5 crews; beat H. Clasper on the Tyne 18 Dec. 1844; beat C. Campbell 19 Aug. 1846 when he became champion of the Thames; presented with a champion belt 28 Oct. 1846; raced T. Cole for £200 a side 24 May 1852 when Cole won; won the pairs with Wilson at Thames regatta 1845; with his brother Tom Coombes beat Richard and Harry Clasper on the Thames 1847; trained the Cambridge crew 1852; never surpassed in speed and style during his time; author of _Hints on rowing and training_ 1852. _d._ Kent lunatic asylum, Maidstone 25 Feb. 1860. _bur._ Brompton cemetery, London 7 March. _I.L.N. 29 May 1852 p._ 436, _portrait_.

COOPE, OCTAVIUS EDWARD (_3 son of John Coope of London, sugar refiner_). _b._ Leyspring, Essex 1814; a sugar refiner in London; a partner in brewing firm of Ind, Coope and Co. at Romford, Essex 1846, established a branch brewery at Burton-on-Trent 1856 the third largest brewing firm in Burton; M.P. for Great Yarmouth 29 July 1847 to June 1848 when unseated on petition; contested Tower Hamlets, Nov. 1868; M.P. for Middlesex 14 Feb. 1874 to 18 Nov. 1885, for Brentford division of Middlesex, Dec. 1885 to death; gave £15,000 towards rebuilding Whitechapel church 1875. _d._ 41 Upper Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London 27 Nov. 1886, personalty sworn upwards of £542,000. _Licensed Victuallers’ year book_ (1876) 80–81, _portrait_; _Morning Advertiser 29 Nov. 1886 p. 5 and 3 Dec. p. 2_.

COOPER, ABRAHAM (_son of Mr. Cooper of Red Lion st. Holborn, London, tobacconist_). _b._ Red Lion st. 8 Sep. 1787; member of the Artists’ fund 1812, chairman; awarded premium of 150 guineas by British Institution for his picture of the ‘Battle of Waterloo’ 1816; A.R.A. 1817, R.A. 1820–66; exhibited 332 pictures at R.A. and 74 at British Institution 1812–69; pre-eminent as a painter of battle pieces; furnished the illustrations to _Sporting, by Nimrod_ 1838, and other works. _d._ Woodbine cottage, Woodlands, Greenwich 24 Dec. 1868. _bur._ Highgate cemetery. _J. Sherer’s Gallery of British artists ii_, 4–7; _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_, 131–2 (1869).

COOPER, SIR ASTLEY PASTON, 2 Baronet. _b._ Great Yarmouth 13 Jany. 1797; succeeded 12 Feb. 1841; sheriff of Herts. 1864. _d._ Gadesbridge, Hemel Hempstead 6 Jany. 1866.

COOPER, BRANSBY BLAKE (_eld. son of Rev. Samuel Lovick Cooper 1763–1817, R. of Bacton, Norfolk_). _b._ Great Yarmouth 2 Sep. 1792; midshipman in the navy; second assistant surgeon R.A. 2 Dec. 1811 to 1 April 1816 when placed on permanent h.p.; M.R.C.S. 1823, hon. fellow 1843, member of the council 1848; brought an action against Thomas Wakley editor of _The Lancet_ for defamation of character, and obtained £100 damages 12 Dec. 1828; surgeon of Guy’s hospital, London to death; F.R.S. 18 June 1829; author of _The life of Sir Astley Cooper baronet 2 vols._ 1843; _Lectures on the principles and practice of surgery_ 1851. _d._ Athenæum club, Pall Mall, London 18 Aug. 1853. _J. F. Clarke’s Autobiographical recollections of the medical profession_ (1874) 520–6; _Medical Circular ii_, 511–14 (1853).

COOPER, SIR CHARLES (_3 son of Thomas Cooper of Henley-on-Thames_). _b._ Henley-on-Thames, March 1795; barrister I.T. 9 Feb. 1827; judge of supreme court of South Australia 1839–56, chief justice June 1856 to 1861; knighted at St. James’s palace 18 June 1857; Cooper’s Creek in Queensland was named after him. _d._ 12 Pulteney st. Bath 24 May 1887.

COOPER, CHARLES HENRY (_eld. son of Basil Henry Cooper of Great Marlow, solicitor, who d. 1813_). _b._ Great Marlow 20 March 1808; resided at Cambridge 1826 to death; coroner of borough of Cambridge 1 Jany. 1836; admitted solicitor, Nov. 1840; town clerk of Cambridge 1849 to death; F.S.A. 10 April 1851; author of _A new guide to the university and town of Cambridge_ 1831 _anon._; _The annals of Cambridge 5 vols._ 1842–53; _The memorials of Cambridge 3 vols._ 1858–66; _Memoirs of Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby edited by Rev. J. E. B. Mayor_ 1874; author with his eldest son Thompson Cooper of _Athenæ Cantabrigienses 2 vols._ 1858–61; contributed to _Gent. Mag._, _Notes and Queries_, and other antiquarian publications. _d._ 29 Jesus lane, Cambridge 21 March 1866. _Dict. of Nat. Biog. xii_, 139–40 (1887); _Reliquary vii_, 34–40 (1866).

COOPER, CHARLES PURTON (_son of Charles Cooper of St. Dunstan’s, London_). _b._ 1793; ed. at Wad. coll. Ox., double first class 1814, B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817; barrister L.I. 18 Nov. 1816; obtained leading practice in V.C. Knight-Bruce’s court, quarrelled with him and left the court; Q.C. 1837; bencher of his Inn 1836, treasurer 1855, master of the library 1856 to which he presented _2000 vols._ on civil and foreign law 1843; secretary to Record Commission 12 March 1831 to 20 June 1837 when it lapsed on the king’s death; Queen’s serjeant in Duchy of Lancaster 1834 to death; F.R.S. 6 Dec. 1832; F.S.A.; contested Canterbury 18 Aug. 1854 and 28 March 1857; author of _Notes in French on the Court of Chancery_ 1828, _2 ed._ 1830; _An account of the public records of the United Kingdom 2 vols._ 1832; _Reports of cases decided by Lord Brougham_ 1835; _Reports of cases decided by Lords Cottenham and Langdale and by V. G. Shadwell_ 1841; _Reports of Lord Cottenham’s decisions 2 vols._ 1847; wrote, edited or printed 52 pamphlets on political topics 1850–57. _d._ Boulogne 26 March 1873. _Report from the select committee on record commission_ (1836) 1–275; _Sir Henry Cole’s Fifty years of public work_ (1834) _i_, 7, _ii_, 20, 23.

COOPER, EDWARD JOSHUA (_eld. son of Edward Synge Cooper of Dublin, who d. 1830_). _b._ Stephens Green, Dublin, May 1798; ed. at Armagh, Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; erected an observatory at Markree castle, co. Sligo 1831 where he kept meteorological registers 1833 to death; M.R.I.A. 1832, Cunningham gold medallist 1858; M.P. for co. Sligo 1830–41 and 1857–9; F.R.S. 2 June 1853; author of _Views in Egypt and Nubia_ 1824 privately printed; _Catalogue of Stars near the Ecliptic observed at Markree 4 vols._ 1851–6 printed at Government expense, and _Cometic Orbits_ 1852. _d._ Markree castle 23 April 1863. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xiii_, 1–3 (1864).

COOPER, FREDERICK FOX (_son of Mr. Cooper of London, editor of John Bull_). _b._ 4 Jany. 1806; called Fox after his godfather C. J. Fox, M.P.; articled to Isaac Cooper a stockbroker; managed successively Olympic, Marylebone, Victoria, City of London and Strand theatres; sec. to Duke of Cumberland as grand master of the Orange lodges in England; examined 4 days before House of Commons on subject of Orangeism 1835; proprietor of the _Nelson Examiner_, New Zealand 1841; started with The Chisholm, _The Cerberus_, a newspaper which under 4 heads advocated 4 different lines of politics, No. 1, 17 June 1843, it was published at 164 Strand, London down to 18 Nov. 1843; author of _The sons of Thespis_, produced at Surrey theatre, _Jenny Jones_, _Fleet Prison_, _Master Humphrey’s Clock_, _Black Sentinel_, _Rejected Addresses_, _The deserted village_, and many travesties and dramatic sketches. _d._ 56 Prince’s Road, Lambeth, London 4 Jany. 1879. _Theatrical Times ii_, 177 (1847), _portrait_; _Era 19 Jany. 1879 p. 12, col. 2_.

COOPER, FREDERICK HENRY (_younger son of Rev. Allen Cooper, incumbent of St. Mark’s, North Audley st. London_). Entered Bengal civil service 1847; comr. at Lahore to death; C.B. 18 May 1860; author of _The Crisis in the Punjaub_ 1858; _The handbook for Delhi_ 1863. _d._ Trent rectory near Sherborne 22 April 1869 aged 42.

COOPER, GEORGE (_son of Mr. Cooper, assistant organist at St. Paul’s cathedral, who d. 1843_). _b._ Lambeth 7 July 1820; organist of St. Benet’s, Paul’s wharf, London 1834, of St. Anne and St. Agnes 1836; assistant organist of St. Paul’s cathedral, March 1838 to death; organist of St. Sepulchre’s 1843 to death, of Christ’s hospital 1843, of the Chapel Royal, St. James’s, Sep. 1856 to death; author of _The organist’s assistant_; _The organist’s manual_ 1851, 26 numbers; _Organ arrangements 3 vols._ 1864 etc.; _Classical extracts for the organ_ 1867–69, seven numbers; _Introduction to the organ_; _Maud Irving or the little orphan, An operetta in 5 acts_ 1872. _d._ 2 Oct. 1876. _Musical Standard 7, 14, 21, 28 Oct. 1876, 18, 25 Nov., 9, 23 Dec._

COOPER, HENRY. Ensign 62 foot 26 Feb. 1829; lieut. col. 45 foot 19 July 1848 to 1 May 1861; inspecting field officer 1861–2; col. 79 foot 21 Aug. 1870 to 17 March 1876; col. 45 foot 17 March 1876 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ Bottesham hall, Cambs. 24 Aug. 1878.

COOPER, HENRY CHRISTOPHER, _b._ Bath 1819; solo violinist at Drury Lane theatre 1830; principal violinist at Royal Italian opera; leader at Philharmonic Society; violinist at provincial festivals; conductor at Gaiety theatre, Glasgow to death; one of the foremost of English school of violinists, _d._ 220 Hope st. Glasgow 26 Jany. 1881.

COOPER, JOHN (_son of Mr. Cooper of Bath, locksmith_). _b._ Bath 1790; apprenticed to a brush maker at Bath; first appeared on the stage at Bath theatre 14 March 1811 as Inkle in Colman’s drama _Inkle and Yarico_; first appeared in London at Haymarket theatre 15 May 1811 as Count Montalban in _The honeymoon_ and received £4 a week; played at Liverpool some years as the rival of Vandenhoff; played at Drury Lane theatre 1820–45, stage manager; played at Princess’s theatre to 1859; had studied 200 parts and was ready at very short notice to undertake any of them; the last actor of the Kemble school; lived at 6 Sandringham gardens, Ealing. _d._ Tunbridge Wells 13 July 1870. _Oxberry’s Dramatic biog. v_, 73–86 (1826), _portrait_; _Metropolitan Mag. xviii_, 74–80 (1837); _Jerrold’s Bride of Ludgate_ (_Lucy’s ed._ 1872), _portrait_.

COOPER, JOHN RAMSAY. Chemist and druggist at 17 High st. Canterbury; a prominent promoter of the blue riband movement; invented phonic system of teaching reading, which was adopted in many of the principal elementary schools in England 1885; bankrupt on his own petition, June 1885; died at the police station, Canterbury 5 July 1885 from taking a solution of strychnia and about 15 or 20 grains of the salt; coroner’s jury returned a verdict that he committed suicide while of unsound mind.

COOPER, JOHN WILBYE, always known as Wilbye Cooper. Tenor vocalist to 1870; composed songs entitled _Ah where are now those happy hours_ 1852; _The old cottager_ 1852; author of _The voice, the music of language and the soul of song, a short essay on the art of singing_ 1874; edited _Cramer’s Educational Course_ consisting of _Cramer’s Vocal Tutor 2 parts_ 1867, and _Cramer’s New Singing Method 4 parts_ 1872–74. _d._ 20 Castellain road, Maida hill, London 19 March 1885.

COOPER, JOSEPH THOMAS. _b._ London 25 May 1819; organist of St. Michael’s, Queenhithe 1837, of St. Paul’s, Balls Pond, London 1844, of Ch. Ch. Newgate st. 1866 to death, of Christ’s hospital 1876 to death; musical editor of _Evening Hours_, monthly mag. March 1871; F.R.A.S. 1845. _d._ 113 Grosvenor road, Highbury 17 Nov. 1879.

COOPER, ROBERT. Educ. at Charter house school; went to Canada; edited _British Canadian_ paper at Toronto 1846; edited _Herald_ paper at London, Upper Canada; county judge of united counties of Huron and Bruce 1856; published _Rules and practice of the Court of Chancery of Upper Canada, Toronto_ 1851. _d._ Goderich, Upper Canada 19 June 1866.

COOPER, THOMAS THORNVILLE (_8 son of John J. Cooper of Bishopwearmouth, coalfitter_). _b._ Bishopwearmouth 13 Sep. 1839; made several journeys into interior of Australia; clerk in house of Arbuthnot and Co. at Madras 1859–61; joined Shanghai volunteers and helped to protect that city against Taiping rebels 1863; attempted to penetrate from China through Tibet to India 1868; attempted to enter China from Assam 1869; political agent at Bamo; attached to political department of India office, London; sent to India with despatches and presents to the viceroy in connection with imperial durbar of Delhi 1876; re-appointed political agent at Bamo; author of _Travels of a pioneer of commerce in pigtail and petticoats_ 1871; _Mishmee hills, an account of a journey_ 1873; murdered by a sepoy at Bamo 24 April 1878. _W. Gill’s River of Golden sand_, _new ed._ 1883 _introduction p. 108, portrait and p. 323_.

COOPER, REV. WILLIAM. R. of Wadingham, Lincs. March 1808 to death; R. of West Rasen, Lincs. 1809 to death; chaplain in ord. to the Sovereign 1830 to death. _d._ West Rasen rectory 24 Aug. 1856 aged 86.

COOPER, WILLIAM (_son of Charles Cooper of Norwich, barrister, who d. 21 July 1836_). _b._ 6 Jany. 1810; ed. at Norwich gr. sch. and Linc. coll. Ox., B.A. 1830; barrister L.I. 10 June 1831; comr. of bankruptcy for Norwich 1832–42; a revising barrister for Leics. 1839 to death; standing counsel to Metropolitan police; one of counsel to the Treasury; recorder of Ipswich, Dec. 1874 to death; author of _A sketch of the life of H. Cooper and of C. Cooper_ 1856 and of 3 dramas _The student of Jena_ 1842, _Mokanna_ 1843 and _Zopyrus_ 1856. _d._ 25 Great Russell st. Bedford sq. London 17 Sep. 1877.

COOPER, WILLIAM DURRANT (_eld. son of Thomas Cooper of Lewes, solicitor 1789–1841_). _b._ High st. Lewes 10 Jany. 1812; solicitor at Lewes 1833–7; on parliamentary staff of _Morning Chronicle_ and _Times_ 1837; solicitor to Reform club 1837; solicitor to vestry of St. Pancras 20 Dec. 1858; F.S.A. 11 March 1841; author of _The parliamentary history of the county of Sussex_ 1834; _A glossary of the provincialisms in use in Sussex_, privately printed 1836 which he published 1853; _Seven letters by Sterne and his friends_ 1844; _The history of Winchelsea_ 1850; edited several books for the Camden and Shakespeare Societies; author of many papers in _Sussex Archæological Collections vols. ii, to xxvi._ _d._ 81 Guilford st. Russell sq. London 28 Dec. 1875. _Sussex Archæological Collections xxvii_, 117–32 (1877).

COOPER, WILLIAM RICKETTS. _b._ 1843; a designer of carpet patterns; a London missionary; assistant curator of Sir John Soane’s museum, Lincoln Inn Fields; one of chief founders of Society of biblical archæology 1870, sec. 1870–6; F.R.A.S. Jany. 1875; author of _Serpent myths of Ancient Egypt_ 1873; _The resurrection of Assyria_ 1875; _Heroines of the past_ 1875; _Egypt and the Pentateuch_ 1875; _An Archaic dictionary_ 1876; _The Horus myth and Christianity_ 1877; _A short history of the Egyptian obelisk_ 1877, _2 ed._ 1878; _Christian evidence lectures_ 1880; translated _Lenormant’s Chaldean magic_ 1877. _d._ Ventnor, Isle of Wight 15 Nov. 1878.

COOPER, WILLIAM WHITE (_youngest son of George Fort Cooper_). _b._ Holt, Wiltshire 17 Nov. 1816; ed. at St. Bartholomew’s hospital; M.R.C.S. 1838, F.R.C.S. 1845; one of original staff of North London Eye Infirmary 1841; ophthalmic surgeon to St. Mary’s hospital, Paddington 1851; surgeon oculist in ordinary to the Queen 4 March 1859 to death; it was announced that he was to be knighted 29 May 1886; author of _Invalid’s guide to Madeira_ 1840; _Practical remarks on near sight, aged sight and impaired vision_ 1847, _2 ed._ 1853; _Observations on conical cornea_ 1850; _On wounds and injuries of the eye_ 1859; _Zoological notes and anecdotes by Sestertius Holt_ 1852, pseud. of which a second ed. appeared under the title _Traits and anecdotes of animals_ 1861. _d._ of acute pneumonia at 19 Berkeley sq. London 1 June 1886. _Medical Circular iii_, 383–85 (1853), _portrait_.

COOTE, CHARLES. _b._ Waltham abbey, Essex 1807; sang in English opera at Lyceum theatre; pianist to Duke of Devonshire 30 years, travelling with him abroad and at home; organised the quadrille band 1848 which has become celebrated in aristocratic circles; composed upwards of 150 pieces of music chiefly quadrilles, waltzes, galops, polkas and dances on airs from popular operas. _d._ 42 New Bond st. London 14 March 1879.

COOTE, SIR CHARLES HENRY, 9 Baronet. _b._ 2 Jany. 1792; succeeded 2 March 1802; M.P. for Queen’s county 1821–47 and 1852–59; col. Queen’s co. militia 20 Nov. 1824 to death. _d._ 5 Connaught place, London 5 Oct. 1864.

COOTE, ELIZABETH PHILLIS (_granddau. of Charles Coote 1807–79_). _b._ 19 Oct. 1862; acted in America 1870; sang at Canterbury and Pavilion music halls, London 1871–3; played Hop o’ my Thumb in pantomime at T.R. Brighton, Dec. 1873; played at Adelphi and Princess’s theatres 1877–8; made a great hit at Brighton in pantomime of Little Boy Blue, Dec. 1882. _d._ Ducie st. Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester 18 Feb. 1886. _Illust. sporting and dramatic news viii_, 401, 422 (1878), _portrait_, _xvi_, 569, 574 (1882), _portrait_.

COOTE, HENRY CHARLES (_son of Charles Coote of London 1761–1835, member of college of advocates_). _b._ 1814; admitted proctor in Doctors’ Commons 1840; practised in the Probate court; admitted solicitor 1857; F.S.A. 17 May 1860; a founder of the Folklore Society 1878; author of _Practice of the ecclesiastical courts_ 1846; _The common form practice of the Court of Probate_ 1858, _9 ed._ 1883; _Practice of the high court of Admiralty_ 1860, _2 ed._ 1869; _A neglected fact in English history_ 1864; _The Romans in Britain_ 1878. _d._ 13 Westgate terrace, Redclyffe sq. West Brompton, London 4 Jany. 1885. _Athenæum 17 Jany. 1885 p. 87, col. 3._

COOTE, HOLMES (_2 son of Richard Holmes Coote of London, conveyancer_). _b._ London 10 Nov. 1817; ed. at Westminster; F.R.C.S. 1844; assistant surgeon St. Bartholomew’s 1852, surgeon 1863 to death; civil surgeon in charge of the wounded soldiers at Smyrna 1855; author of _The Homologies of the human skeleton_ 1849; _A report on some of the more important points in the treatment of Syphilis_ 1857; _On diseases of the joints_ 1867. _d._ 22 Dec. 1872. _Medical Circular iii_, 31 (1853); _St. Bartholomew’s hospital reports ix_, _pp. xxxix-xliii_ (1873).

COPE, REV. EDWARD MEREDITH. _b._ Birmingham 28 July 1818; ed. at Ludlow, Shrewsbury and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844; fellow of Trin. coll. 1842 to death, and lecturer on Greek 1845–69; contested professorship of Greek at Cam. 1867; wrote a criticism of Grote’s Dissertation on the sophists in the _Cambridge Journal of classical philology_ 1854–6; author of _Review of Aristotle’s System of ethics, a prelection_ 1867; _The Rhetoric of Aristotle with a commentary by the late E. M. Cope, revised and edited by J. E. Sandys 3 vols._ 1877. _d._ 5 Aug. 1873. _bur._ Birmingham cemetery.

COPE, SIR JOHN, 11 Baronet (_younger son of Wm. Cope of Bridges place, Kent, chapter clerk to dean and chapter of Westminster abbey_). _b._ 22 July 1768; practised as a solicitor to 1806; succeeded his elder brother 12 Dec. 1812; kept a pack of foxhounds to year of his death. _d._ Bramshill park, Hants. 18 Nov. 1851. _G.M. xxxvii_, 184–5 (1852).

COPE, REV. RICHARD. _b._ near Craven chapel, Regent st. London 23 Aug. 1776; kept a boarding school at Launceston 1800–20; Independent minister at Launceston 21 Oct. 1801 to 24 June 1820; minister of Salem chapel, Wakefield 1822–29, of Quebec chapel, Abergavenny 1829–36, of New st. chapel, Penryn, Cornwall 1836 to death; M.A. Marischal coll. Aberdeen 1819; F.S.A. 13 Feb. 1824; author of _Adventures of a religious tract_ 1820 _anon._; _Robert Melville or characters contrasted_ 1827; _Pulpit synopsis, outlines of sermons_ 1837; _Entertaining anecdotes_ 1838; _Pietas privata, family prayers_ 1857. _d._ Penryn 26 Oct. 1856. _Autobiography and select remains of Richard Cope edited by his son R. J. Cope_ 1857.

COPE, THOMAS, _b._ London 1793; apprenticed to Joseph Smith, printer; worked under W. Clowes of Northumberland court, Strand, printer 1818–22; started a newspaper at Southampton 1822; returned to Clowes’s; printer and publisher of _The Representative_ 1826; managed John Wm. Parker’s printing office; publisher of _The Times_ 1848–63. _d._ Salisbury st. Strand, London 13 March 1877.

COPE, THOMAS. _b._ Liverpool; commenced with his brother George Cope the manufacture of cigars in Liverpool 1848 and the manufacture of tobacco 1860, employed about 1300 people at his works Lord Nelson st. Liverpool and was the first person in England to engage women in making cigars; founded with J. R. Jeffery and Robert Gladstone, Financial Reform Association 1848; speaker of Liverpool Parliamentary debating society; aided Hugh Shimmin in founding _The Porcupine_ 1860; _Cope’s Tobacco plant, a monthly periodical, price 1d. No. 1 issued 21 March 1870_, was brought out by Cope Brothers & Co. for about 14 years. _d._ Parkside cottage, Huyton near Liverpool 18 Sep. 1884 in 57 year. _Liverpool Daily Post 19 Sept. 1884 p. 5._

COPE, WILLIAM (_only son of Wm. Henry Cope of Holbeach, Staffs._) _b._ 20 Oct. 1813; ed. at Trin. coll. Ox., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; barrister I.T. 20 Nov. 1840; district registrar of Court of Probate, Shrewsbury 1858 to death; recorder of Bridgnorth 10 March 1871 to death. _d._ Shawbury, Shropshire 8 Jany. 1885.

COPELAND, THOMAS (_son of Rev. Wm. Copeland 1747–87, C. of Byfield, Northamptonshire_). _b._ May 1781; M.R.C.S. 6 July 1804, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; assistant surgeon 1 foot guards 1804–9; surgeon to Westminster general dispensary; F.R.S. 6 Feb. 1834; surgeon extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1837; author of _Observations on some of the principal diseases of the Rectum_ 1810, _3 ed._ 1824; _Observations on the symptoms and treatment of the diseased spine_ 1815, _2 ed._ 1818 which was translated into several European languages. _d._ Brighton 19 Nov. 1855, personalty sworn under £180,000. _Medical Circular iii_, 31 (1853); _Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery iv_, (1840), _portrait_.

COPELAND, REV. WILLIAM JOHN (_son of Wm. Copeland of Chigwell, Essex, surgeon_). _b._ Chigwell 1 Sep. 1804; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. and Trin. coll. Ox., Pauline exhibitioner 1824, scholar, fellow 1830–49; B.A. 1829, M.A. 1831, B.D. 1840; C. of St. Olave, Jewry, London 1829, C. of Hackney 1829–32; R. of Farnham, Essex 1849 to death; rural dean of Newport 1849–81; edited Newman’s _Parochial and plain sermons 8 vols._ 1868; translated the _Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Epistle to the Ephesians_ in vol. 5 of the _Library of the Fathers_. _d._ Farnham rectory 26 Aug. 1885, part of his library is now in the National Liberal Club, Whitehall place, London.

COPELAND, WILLIAM ROBERT, _b._ Deal; apprenticed to a chemist; lessee and manager of T.R. Liverpool and proprietor of royal amphitheatre 1843; manager of Strand theatre, London which he called “Punch’s Playhouse,” May 1851 to May 1852. _d._ New Brighton, Cheshire 29 May 1867 aged 68. _bur._ Smithdown lane cemetery, Liverpool 8 June. _Era 2 June 1867 p. 4, col. 4._

COPELAND, WILLIAM TAYLOR (_only son of Wm. Copeland of the Stoke potteries, porcelain manufacturer, who d. 1826_). _b._ 24 March 1797; manufacturer of porcelain at Stoke upon Trent 1833; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1828–29, alderman for ward of Bishopsgate 1829 to death, lord mayor 1835–36; M.P. for Coleraine 1833–37, for Stoke upon Trent 1837–52 and 1857 to 6 July 1865; pres. of Bridewell and of Bethlehem hospitals many years; bred racehorses and kept a stud. _d._ Russell farm, Watford, Herts. 12 April 1868. _John Ward’s Borough of Stoke upon Trent_ 1843 _pp._ 64, 497–504, 582; _Sporting Review lix_, 309 (1868); _Art Journal_ (1868) _p._ 158; _I.L.N. xxxii_, 561 (1858), _portrait_.

COPLAND, JAMES, _b._ in the Orkneys, Nov. 1791; ed. at Lerwick and Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1 Aug. 1815; Medical officer of the African company on the Gold Coast 1817; practised in London 1820–69; edited _The London medical repository_ 1822–27; L.R.C.P. London 26 June 1820, fellow 3 July 1837, censor 1841, 1842 and 1861, Gulstonian lecturer 1838, Croonian lecturer 1844–46, Lumleian lecturer 1854–55, Harveian orator 1857, Consiliarius 1844, 1849–51, 1861–63; F.R.S. 5 Dec. 1833; pres. of Pathological Soc; author of _A dictionary of practical medicine 3 vols._ 1858 brought out in parts Sep. 1832–1858; _The forms, complications, causes, prevention and treatment of consumption and bronchitis_ 1861. _d._ Hertford house, Brondesbury road, Kilburn near London 12 July 1870. _Physic and physicians ii_, 285–89 (1839); _T. J. Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery i_, 109 (1840), _portrait_; _J. F. Clarke’s Autobiographical recollections of the medical profession_ (1874) 410–20; _Medical Circular iv, 299, 317 and 353_ (1854).

COPLEY, SIR JOSEPH WILLIAM, 4 Baronet, _b._ London 27 July 1804; succeeded 21 May 1838; sheriff of Yorkshire 1843. _d._ Sprotborough hall, Doncaster 4 Jany. 1883.

COPPOCK, JAMES (_eld. son of Wm. Coppock of Stockport, Cheshire, mercer_). _b._ Stockport 2 Sep. 1798; partner in a silk firm in London; admitted attorney 1836; sec. to Liberal Registration Society with a residence in the Society’s rooms 3 Cleveland row, St. James’s 1835; treasurer of county courts, Aug. 1857 to death; sec. of the Reform Club, London, May to June 1836 when he was elected an hon. life member and appointed solicitor to the club; author of _The electors’ manual_ 1835. _d._ 3 Cleveland row, St. James’s, London 19 Dec. 1857.

CORBALLIS, JOHN RICHARD (_2 son of Richard Corballis of Rosemount, Roebuck, co. Dublin_). _b._ Dublin 1796; ed. at the Lay college of Maynooth and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1816, LL.B. and LLD. 1832; barrister King’s Inns, Dublin 1820; Q.C. 17 Aug. 1841; bencher of King’s Inns; comr. of charitable bequests for Ireland 18 Sep. 1845; law adviser to the Crown in Ireland 1853–58 and 1859–64; crown prosecutor on the Home circuit; chairman of quarter sessions for co. Kilkenny to 1862. _d._ Rosemount 13 Feb. 1879 in 83 year.

CORBALLY, MATTHEW ELIAS. _b._ 1797; sheriff of Meath 1838; M.P. Meath 1840–41 and 1842 to death. _d._ Corbalton hall, Tara, co. Meath 25 Nov. 1870.

CORBAUX, MARIE FRANÇOISE CATHERINE DOETTER, usually called Fanny Corbaux (_dau. of François Corbaux, F.R.S. who d. 1 May 1843 aged 74_). _b._ 1812; studied at National Gallery and British Institution; gained gold medal of Society of Arts for a portrait in miniature 1830; hon. mem. of Society of British Artists 1830; mem. of New Soc. of Painters in Water colours; granted civil list pension of £30, 26 Sep. 1871; wrote in the _Athenæum_, _Letters on the physical geography of the Exodus_; wrote in the _Journal of sacred literature_ a series of papers giving the history of a remarkable nation called ‘the Rephaim’ in the Bible; wrote an historical and chronological introduction to _The Exodus Papyri by D. I. Heath_ 1855. _d._ Brighton 1 Feb. 1883. _E. C. Clayton’s English female artists ii_, 68–70.

CORBET, SIR ANDREW VINCENT, 2 Baronet. _b._ Shawbury park, Shropshire 15 June 1800; succeeded 5 June 1835; sheriff of Shropshire 1843. _d._ Brancepeth castle, Durham 13 Sep. 1855.

CORBETT, PANTON (_2 son of Ven. Joseph Plymley, archdeacon of Salop, who took surname of Corbett 1806 and d. 22 June 1838 aged 79_). _b._ Bank house, Longnor, Salop, April 1785; barrister L.I. 21 June 1806; M.P. for Shrewsbury 1820–1830; high steward of borough of Welshpool; sheriff of Shropshire 1849; chairman of Shropshire quarter sessions 1850 to June 1855. _d._ Longnor hall, Shropshire 22 Nov. 1855.

CORBETT, SIR STUART (_son of Ven. Stuart Corbett, archdeacon of York, who d. 25 Aug. 1845 aged 71_). _b._ Tankersley, Yorkshire 1802; entered Bengal army 1814; lieut. col. 25 Bengal N.I. 26 Dec. 1846 to 1854; colonel 16 Bengal N.I. 18 May 1856 to death, M.G. 4 Feb. 1859; commanded Benares division 6 July 1863 to death; C.B. 9 June 1849, K.C.B. 28 Jany. 1862. _d._ Nynee Tal, India 1 Aug. 1865.

CORBETT-WINDER, UVEDALE (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 15 Nov. 1792; ed. at Pemb. coll. Ox.; barrister L.I. 11 Feb. 1815; comr. of bankruptcy in Wolverhampton district; recorder of Bridgnorth 1844–71; recorder of Wenlock to 1871; judge of county courts, circuit 27, Shropshire, March 1847 to Sep. 1865 when he resigned; assumed additional surname of Winder 2 June 1869. _d._ 36 Princes gardens, London 7 Feb. 1871.

CORCORAN, MICHAEL, _b._ Carrowkeal, co. Sligo 21 Sep. 1827; emigrated to United States 1849, clerk in the post office there; colonel of 69 New York militia, Aug. 1859; taken prisoner at battle of Bull Run 21 July 1861, released 15 Aug. 1862; brigadier general 21 July 1861; organised the Corcoran legion which took

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held in check advance of the enemy upon Norfolk, the legion was attached to army of the Potomac, Aug. 1863. _d._ of injuries received by a fall from his horse near Fairfax courthouse, Virginia 22 Dec. 1863. _The captivity of General Corcoran_ 1862; _Bramhall’s Military souvenir_ (1863), _memoir and portrait No. 45_.

CORDER, SUSANNA. Author of _Memorials of deceased members of the Society of Friends_ 1837, _6 ed._ 1845; _A brief outline of the origin, principles and church government of the Society of Friends_ 1841, translated into French 1845; _Life of Elizabeth Fry_ 1853; _Christian instruction in the history, types and prophecies of the Old Testament_ 1854, _2 ed._ 1855; edited _Memoir of Priscilla Gurney_ 1856. _d._ Chelmsford 28 Feb. 1864 aged 76.

CORDNER, WILLIAM JOHN. _b._ Dungannon, co. Tyrone 1826; teacher of music at Armagh; the best tenor singer in north of Ireland; organist of St. Patrick’s church, Sydney 1854–56, of St. Mary’s cathedral, Sydney 1856 to death. _d._ Sydney 15 July 1870.

CORFE, ARTHUR THOMAS (_3 son of Joseph Corfe 1740–1820, organist of Salisbury cathedral_). _b._ Salisbury 9 April 1773; a chorister of Westminster abbey 1783; organist of Salisbury cathedral 1804 to death; organised and undertook a musical festival at Salisbury 19 to 22 Aug. 1828; wrote a service, a few anthems and some pianoforte pieces; author of _A collection of anthems used in cathedral church, Canterbury_ 1830. Found dead at his bedside in his house The Close, Salisbury 28 Jany. 1863. _F. Lear’s Sermon on death of Archdeacon Drury and A. T. Corfe_ 1863.

CORFE, CHARLES WILLIAM (_son of the preceding_). _b._ 13 July 1814; organist of Ch. Ch. cath. Ox. 1846–81; Mus. Bac. Ox. 1847; choragus of univ. of Ox. 1860 to death. _d._ 14 Beaumont st. Oxford 16 Dec. 1883. _bur._ Ch. Ch. cathedral 19 Dec.

CORFE, JOHN DAVIS (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 1804; organist of Bristol cathedral more than 50 years; conductor for many years of the Bristol Madrigal Society one of the most famous choirs in England. _d._ of heart disease at 31 Richmond terrace, Clifton 16 Jany. 1876.

CORFIELD, FREDERICK BROOKE. Ensign 28 Bengal N.I. 3 April 1820; lieut.-col. of 20 Bengal N.I. 3 Sep. 1849, of 49 B.N.I. 1852, of 17 B.N.I. 1853, of 55 B.N.I. 1854, of 2 B.N.I. 1855, of 6 B.N.I. 1857, of 5 B.N.I. 1858; col. 5 European infantry 26 April 1859 to 1869; general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ Knowle house, Upper Norwood 2 Sep. 1884 aged 81. _I.L.N. lxxxv_, 292 (1884), _portrait_.

CORFIELD, WILLIAM ROBERT. Ensign 15 Bengal N.I. 3 Dec. 1821; general on retired list 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ 128 Lexham gardens, London 30 Nov. 1882. _Graphic xxvii_, 225 (1883), _portrait_.

CORK and ORRERY, EDMUND BOYLE, 8 Earl of (_2 son of 7 Earl of Cork and Orrery 1742–98_). _b._ 21 Oct. 1767; ensign 22 foot 13 April 1785; lieut. col. 87 foot 29 March 1794 to 7 Jany. 1795; lieut. col. 11 foot 7 Jany. 1795 to 17 May 1796; captain Coldstream Guards 17 May 1796 to 17 Sep. 1802, commanded first battalion in Egypt 1801; succeeded his father Oct. 1798; col. of 16 battalion of Reserve 9 July 1803 to 1804; general 27 May 1825; K.P. 22 July 1835. _d._ 3 Hamilton place, London 29 June 1856.

CORKRAN, JOHN FRAZER. _b._ Dublin; a dramatic writer in Dublin; wrote many articles in _Dublin Univ. Mag._; Paris correspondent of _Morning Herald_ and _Evening Standard_ about 1836; author of _History of the national constituent assembly 2 vols._ 1849; _An hour ago, or time in dreamland, a mystery_ 1858; _East and West, or once upon a time 3 vols._ 1861; _Bertha’s Repentance_ 1863. _d._ 9 Clairville grove, Old Brompton, London 3 Feb. 1884.

CORMACK, SIR JOHN ROSE (_only son of Rev. John Cormack, minister of Stoke near Edinburgh_). _b._ Edin. 1815; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1837; F.R.C.P. Edin. 1841; phys. to Royal infirmary, Edin.; edited _Edinburgh Monthly Journal_ 1841–46; F.R.S. Edin.; M.D. Paris 1870; surgeon to Ambulance Anglaise during both the sieges of Paris 1870–71; chevalier of Legion of honour 1871; F.R.C.P. London 1872; knighted at Buckingham palace 14 March 1872; author of _Treatise on the properties of Creosote_ 1836; _Pathology of fever in Edinburgh_ 1844; _Clinical studies illustrated by cases 2 vols._ 1876. _d._ 364 Rue st. Honoré, Paris 13 May 1882. _Medical Circular iii_, 109–110 (1853).

CORNER, ARTHUR BLOXHAM (_2 son of Richard Corner of Southwark, London, solicitor, who d. 1820_). _b._ parish of St. Olave’s, Southwark 29 Jany. 1803; clerk in the Crown office, Temple 1822, assistant master, May 1847; Queen’s coroner and attorney 26 April 1859 to death; published with his brother Richard James Corner _The practice of the Crown side of the Court of Queen’s Bench_ 1844. _d._ Laurel cottage, Lee road, Blackheath 17 Jany. 1861.

CORNER, GEORGE RICHARD (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ parish of Ch. Ch. Blackfriar’s road, London 1801; admitted an attorney 1824; vestry clerk of parish of St. Olave, Southwark about 1835; F.S.A. 28 Nov. 1833, contributed papers to the _Archæologia_ 1834–60; an original member of Numismatic Society of London 1836 and of British Archæol. Assoc. 1843; author of _A concise account of the local government of the borough of Southwark_ 1836; _The rental of St. Olave and St. John, Southwark_ 1838, _2 ed._ 1851. _d._ Queen’s Row, Camberwell 31 Oct. 1863. _C. R. Smith’s Collectanea Antiqua vi_, 324–26 (1868); _Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xx_, 181–6 (1864).

CORNER, JULIA (_dau. of John Corner of London, engraver_). _b._ 1798; author of _Historical Library 14 vols._ 1840–48; _Pictorial history of China and India_ 1846; _Children’s own Sunday book_ 1850; _History of the United Kingdom_ 1852; _Little plays for little actors 2 vols._ 1855, _new ed._ 1870; _Calverley Rise, a tale 3 vols._ 1861; _No Relations 3 vols._ 1864, and about 50 other books. _d._ 92 Clarendon road, Notting hill, London 16 Aug. 1875.

CORNER, RICHARD JAMES (_brother of George Richard Corner 1801–63_). _b._ Lambeth 1805; barrister I.T. 1840; chief justice of the Gold Coast 13 March 1858; chief justice of British Honduras 3 July 1862 to 1872 when he resigned; one of the authors of _Reports of cases in all the superior courts of common law_ 1853–55, _3 vols. in 5_, 1853–55. _d._ East Moulsey, Surrey 27 Feb. 1876.

CORNEWALL, SIR VELTERS, 4 Baronet. _b._ Moccas court, Weobly, co. Hereford 20 Feb. 1824; succeeded 27 Dec. 1835; sheriff of co. Hereford 1847; joint master of the Herefordshire hunt; a breeder of hunters. _d._ 14 Oct. 1868.

CORNEY, BOLTON. _b._ Greenwich 28 April 1784; ensign 28 foot 1803; first clerk in Steward’s department at Greenwich hospital 16 April 1834 to Dec. 1844; lived at Barnes, Surrey 1848 to death; a member of council of Shakespeare Soc. and of Camden Soc.; had a long controversy with Isaac D’Israeli respecting statements in his writings; author of _Researches and conjectures on the Bayeux tapestry_ 1836; _Curiosities of literature by I. D’Israeli illustrated_ 1837, _2 ed. to which are added Ideas on controversy, deduced from the practice of a Veteran_ 1838; _The sonnets of William Shakspere, a critical disquisition_ 1862 _privately printed_, and many other works; his library was sold at Sotheby’s in June 1871 for £3539 9s. 6d. _d._ 29 The Terrace, Barnes 30 Aug. 1870. F. _Hitchman’s Eighteenth century studies_ (1881), 254–71; _Notes and Queries 4 series vi_, 206 (1870), _6 series ii_, 123 (1880), _iv_, 291 (1881).

CORNISH, REV. HENRY HUBERT (_2 son of Charles Cornish of Gatcombe house, Totnes_). Matric. from Magd. hall, Ox. 19 Feb. 1835 aged 23, B.A. 1841, M.A. 1842, B.D. and D.D. 1866; chaplain of C.C. coll. 1845–50; tutor of New Inn hall 1858, principal 1866 to death, when the hall ceased to possess an independent existence having been made over to Balliol college by the University Commission. _d._ Oxford 9 June 1887.

CORNWALLIS, JAMES MANN, 5 Earl. _b._ 20 Sep. 1778; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., M.A. 1798; M.P. for Eye, Suffolk 30 Oct. 1799 to 29 April 1807; succeeded 20 Jany. 1824. _d._ Linton place near Maidstone 21 May 1852.

CORNWALLIS, CAROLINE FRANCES (_younger dau. of Rev. Wm. Cornwallis 1751–1827, R. of Elham, Kent_). _b._ 12 July 1786; learnt Latin, Greek, Hebrew and German; shared with Micaiah Hill prize of £200 given by Lady Byron for best essay on ‘Juvenile Delinquency’ 1853; chief projector of a series of 22 vols. entitled _Small books on great subjects edited by some well-wishers to knowledge_ 1841, author of many of the vols. including the first which was entitled _Philosophical theories and philosophical experience by a Pariah_ 1841; published _Pericles, a tale of Athens in the 83rd Olympiad 2 vols._ 1846, _anon._; _An exposition of the vulgar and common errors adapted to the year of grace, MDCCCXLV, by Thomas Brown redivivus_ 1846. _d._ Lidwells near Goudhurst, Kent 8 Jany. 1858. _Selections from the letters of C. F. Cornwallis_ (1864).

CORRI, HAYDN (_son of Domenico Corri, Italian musical composer 1746–1825_). _b._ Edinburgh 1785; teacher of music at Dublin; composed a few glees and songs, one of which his vocal arrangement of _The harmonious blacksmith_ used to be much sung; organist to the cathedral, Great Marlborough st. Dublin; arranged for the organ under Cherubini’s instruction that composer’s famous mass in D (written for coronation of Charles X) and added an additional voice part; wrote the music to _There grows a bonny briar bush_ 1815, _Can you love me, lady fair_ 1820, _Music can guide the soul_ 1821, _O fly to the woods_ 1821; his wife was chief singer at all the great concerts in Dublin many years, and _d._ Leeds 10 April 1867 in 68 year, he _d._ Dublin 19 Feb. 1860. _Era 26 Feb. 1860 p. 11, col. 2._

CORRI, PATRICK ANTHONY (_son of the preceding_). _b._ 1820; chorister in churches in Dublin; first appeared in London at Princess’s theatre about 1845 as a baritone singer; sang at Manchester; sang in operas at Grecian theatre, London 1849; musical director at Weston’s music hall, Holborn, London 1857 to death, the name was changed from Weston’s to The Royal 1868; composed some vocal music. _d._ Bradford 1 June 1876. _bur._ Scholemore cemetery 3 June. _Entr’acte 10 June 1876 p. 8, 17 June p. 7_, _portrait_; _Era 11 June 1876, p. 6_.

CORRIE, ARCHIBALD. _b._ Perthshire 1777; held a horticultural post near Edinburgh about 1797–1807; manager of the estate of Annat near Errol in Perthshire 1807–57; contributed agricultural reports to Scottish papers; contributed many papers on agriculture and horticulture to Loudon’s and other magazines. _d._ Annat cottage near Errol 1857 in 80 year.

CORRIE, REV. GEORGE ELWES (_son of Rev. John Corrie, C. of Colsterworth, co. Lincoln_). _b._ Colsterworth 28 April 1793; entered Catharine hall, Cam., Oct. 1813, 18 wrangler 1817, B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820, B.D. 1831, D.D. 1853; fellow of his college 1818, assistant tutor, dean and steward 1820, tutor 1821–49; Norrisian professor of divinity in Univ. of Cam. 1838–54; exam. chaplain to bishop of Ely 1845–64; master of Jesus coll. Cam. Dec. 1849 to death; vice chancellor 1850; R. of Newton, Isle of Ely 1851 to death; rural dean of Wisbech 1851–78; a founder of Cambridge Antiquarian Soc. 1840; leader of Conservative party in Univ. of Cam.; published _Catalogue of the original library of St. Catharine’s hall_ 1840; _The sermons and remains of Hugh Latimer 2 vols._ 1844; _History of the Reformation by G. Burnet_ 1847; edited _A concise history of the church and state of England during the reign of Henry VIII_ 1874; edited for the University Press _An Historical Vindication of the Church of England by Sir R. Twysden_ 1847; _The Homilies_ 1850; and _A rational illustration of the book of Common Prayer, by C. Wheatley_ 1858. _d._ The lodge, Jesus college, Cambridge 20 Sep. 1885.

CORRIE, WILLIAM. _b._ Wellingborough 1806; practised as solicitor; barrister I.T. 10 June 1836; magistrate at Clerkenwell police court, London 1851–60, at Bow st. 1860–64; remembrancer of city of London 1864 to June 1878; author of _An analysis of the Municipal Boroughs bill_ 1870. _d._ 26 Cleveland sq. London 24 March 1881.

CORRIGAN, SIR DOMINIC JOHN, 1 Baronet (_2 son of John Corrigan of Dublin, merchant, who d. 1838_). _b._ 91 Thomas st. Dublin 1 Dec. 1802; M.D. Edin. 1825, M.D. Dublin 1849; lecturer on medicine in Carmichael school, Dublin 1833; phys. to the House of Industry hospitals 1840–66; M.R.C.S. London 1843; phys. in ord. to Queen in Ireland 23 Nov. 1847; medical comr. under Medical Charities Act 1851; fellow of King and Queen’s college of phys. in Ireland 27 Oct. 1856, pres. 1859–64; created baronet 5 Feb. 1866; M.P. for city of Dublin 1870 to 1874; vice chancellor of Queen’s univ. Dublin, June 1871; author of _On famine and fever in Ireland_ 1846; _Lectures on the nature and treatment of fever_ 1853; _Ten days in Athens with notes by the way_ 1862. _d._ Merrion sq. Dublin 1 Feb. 1880. _Irish Monthly viii_, 160–71 (1880); _I.L.N. xlviii_, 252 (1866), _portrait_.

CORRY, ARMAR LOWRY. Entered navy 1 Aug. 1805, captain 23 July 1821; admiralty superintendent of packet service at Southampton 1850–52; R.A. 8 March 1852; commanded western squadron on the Home and Lisbon stations 1852–54; second in command of English fleet in the Baltic, March to July 1854; named a K.C.B. in London Gazette 10 July 1855. _d._ Paris 2 May 1855 aged 62.

CORRY, HENRY THOMAS LOWRY (_younger son of 2 Earl of Belmore 1774–1841_). _b._ Dublin 9 March 1803; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1829; M.P. for co. Tyrone 20 June 1826 to death; comptroller of the household 29 Dec. 1834 to 1835; P.C. 23 Feb. 1835; a lord of the Admiralty 8 Sep. 1841 to 12 Feb. 1845, sec. to the Admiralty 13 Feb. 1845 to 13 July 1846, and March 1858 to June 1859; vice pres. of committee of privy council for education 12 July 1866 to March 1867, fourth charity comr. 18 July 1866; first lord of the Admiralty, March 1867 to Dec. 1868; author of _Naval promotion and retirement_ 1863; _The Navy, Speeches in House of Commons_ 1872. _d._ Bournemouth 6 March 1873. _I.L.N. lxii_, 259, 280, 282 (1873), _portrait_.

CORSER, REV. THOMAS (_3 son of George Corser of Whitchurch, Salop, banker_). _b._ Whitchurch 1793; ed. at Manchester gr. sch. and Balliol coll. Ox., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; C. of Prestwich, Lancs. 1823–6; R. of Stand near Manchester 8 Sep. 1826 to death; V. of Norton by Daventry, Northamptonshire 1828 to death; rural dean of Prestwich 1852–68; F.S.A. 1850; one of projectors of Chetham Society 1843; edited for the Society _Chester’s Triumph_ 1844, _Iter Lancastrense by R. James_ 1845, _Robinson’s Golden Mirror_ 1850, and _Collectanea Anglopoetica 5 parts_ 1860–80 being a description of the rare books in his own library which realised upwards of £20,000 when sold in London in 7 portions 1868–74. _d._ Stand rectory 24 Aug. 1876. _Manchester school register iii_, 32–36 (1874).

CORYTON, JOHN RAWLINS. Second lieut. R.M. 6 July 1803; col. commandant of Plymouth division 23 Dec. 1851 to 20 June 1855; granted good service pension 5 Sep. 1858; general 8 Sep. 1858. _d._ Woolwich 12 Sep. 1867 aged 77.

COSTA, SIR MICHAEL ANDREW AGNUS (_son of Cavaliere Pasquale Costa, who d. 1845_). _b._ Naples 4 Feb. 1810; accompanist at San Carlo theatre, Naples 1828; sang at Birmingham musical festival, Oct. 1829; director of music at King’s theatre, London 1832–46; the first person in England to conduct with a baton instead of a violin bow 1832; naturalised in England 28 July 1845; director of music at Covent Garden 1846–66; conductor of the Philharmonic concerts 1846–54; conductor of Sacred harmonic society 22 Sep. 1848; directed triennial musical festivals at Birmingham 1849–79 and at Leeds 1874–80; directed Handel festivals at Crystal palace 1857–77; knighted at Windsor castle 14 April 1869; director of Her Majesty’s opera 1871–79; the first master of the art of conducting in England; composed oratorios of _Eli_ and _Naaman_ produced at Birmingham musical festivals 29 Aug. 1855 and 7 Sep. 1864, opera of _Malek Adhel_ produced in Paris 1837 and in London 1838, and opera of _Don Carlos_ produced at Her Majesty’s opera 1844; wrote many songs and other music. _d._ 13 Seafield, West Brighton 29 April 1884. _bur._ Kensal Green cemetery 6 May. _Illust. Review i_, 385–6 (1874), _portrait_; _Touchstone 15 Feb. 1879, p._ 3, _portrait_; _Illust. news of the world iii_, 385 (1859), _portrait_; _I.L.N. i_, 124 (1842), _portrait, iv_, 404 (1844), _portrait_, _xxx_, 13 (1857), _portrait_, _lxxxiv_, 440 (1884), _portrait_.

COSTELLO, DUDLEY (_only son of James Francis Costello, captain 14 foot_). _b._ Sussex 1803; ensign 34 foot 1821–23 when placed on h.p.; ensign 96 foot 1824–28 when placed on h.p.; served on the staff in North America and West Indies; contributed to many periodicals 1835 to death; foreign correspondent of _Morning Herald_ 1838, of _Daily News_ 1846; connected with the _Examiner_ 1845 to death; granted civil list pension of £75 a year 19 April 1861; author of _A tour through the valley of the Meuse_ 1845; _Stories from a screen_ 1855; _The joint-stock bank_ 1856; _The millionaire of Mincing lane_ 1858; _Faint heart never won fair lady_ 1859; _Piedmont and Italy from the Alps to the Tiber 2 vols._ 1859–61; _Holidays with Hobgoblins_ 1861. _d._ 54 Acacia road, St. John’s Wood, London 30 Sep. 1865. _Bentley’s Miscellany lviii_, 543–50 (1865); _The Examiner 7 Oct. 1865 p. 637_.

COSTELLO, LOUISA STUART (_only sister of the preceding_). _b._ 1799; a miniature painter in Paris and London; copied many curious illuminated MSS. in Paris and London; granted civil list pension of £75, 9 Aug. 1852; lived at Boulogne 1865 to death; author of _The maid of the Cyprus Isle and other poems_ 1815; _Songs of a stranger_ 1825; _A summer among the Bocages and the vines_ 1840; _Memoirs of eminent Englishwomen_ 1844; _The falls, lakes and mountains of North Wales_ 1845; _The lay of the stork, a poem_ 1856 and 12 other books. _d._ of cancer in the mouth, at Boulogne 24 April 1870.

COSTELLO, WILLIAM BIRMINGHAM. _b._ Dublin 1800; a surgeon in London about 1832; proprietor of Wyke house asylum, Sion hill, Brentford; edited _Cyclopædia of practical surgery_ 12 _parts_ 1841–3. _d._ Paris 15 Aug. 1867.

COTES, JOHN. _b._ 17 July 1799; sheriff of Shropshire 1826; M.P. for North Shropshire 21 Dec. 1832 to 29 Dec. 1834. _d._ Woodcote hall, Newport, Shropshire 10 Jany. 1874.

COTHER, CHARLES. Ensign 71 foot, Feb. 1800, lieut. col. 13 Oct. 1814; lieut. col. 83 foot 24 Oct. 1816 to 25 Dec. 1818 when placed on h.p.; retired 3 Dec. 1829; C.B. 8 Dec. 1815. _d._ York buildings, Gloucester 24 Jany. 1855.

COTMAN, JOSEPH JOHN (_2 son of John Sell Cotman, landscape painter 1782–1842_). _b._ 1814; a drawing master at Norwich 1836; an artist of much original power; produced a large number of good drawings; underwent an operation for cancer of the tongue, Feb. 1878. _d._ Norfolk and Norwich hospital, Norwich 15 March 1878.

COTMAN, MILES EDMUND (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 5 Jany. 1810; drawing master at Norwich to 1836; assistant drawing master at King’s college, London 1836, drawing master 1843; painted and taught at North Walsham latterly; exhibited 4 landscapes at R.A., 10 at B.I. and 19 at Society of British Artists 1835–56; published _Eleven original etchings, Norwich_ 1846. _d._ Norfolk and Norwich hospital, Norwich 23 Jany. 1858.

COTON, WILLIAM. Pyrotechnic artist at 4 Elizabeth place, Westminster bridge, London; supplied the fireworks for Vauxhall gardens; killed by an explosion of fireworks at his factory 6 March 1854, his widow was killed by an explosion at same place 12 July 1858. _Annual Register_ (1854) 40, (1858) 120–2.

COTTENHAM, CHARLES CHRISTOPHER PEPYS, 1 Earl of (_2 son of Sir Wm. Weller Pepys, 1 baronet 1740–1825, master in chancery_). _b._ Wimpole st. London 29 April 1781; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Cam., LL.B. 1803; barrister L.I. 23 Nov. 1804; practised in court of chancery; K.C. 24 Aug. 1826; solicitor general to Queen Adelaide, Nov. 1830; M.P. for Higham Ferrers 14 July 1831 to Sep. 1831, for Malton 30 Sep. 1831 to Jany. 1836; solicitor general 22 Feb. 1834; knighted at St. James’s Palace 26 Feb. 1834; Master of the Rolls 29 Sep. 1834; P.C. 1 Oct. 1834; first comr. of the Great Seal 23 April 1835; lord chancellor 16 Jany. 1836 to 3 Sep. 1841 and 6 July 1846 to 19 June 1850 when he resigned; created Baron Cottenham of Cottenham, co. Cambridge 20 Jany. 1836; succeeded his brother as 3 baronet 5 Oct. 1845 and his cousin Rev. Sir H. L. Pepys as 4 baronet 9 Dec. 1849; created Viscount Crowhurst and Earl of Cottenham 11 June 1850; the act 10 & 11 Vict. c. 96 whereby trustees are authorised to pay trust moneys into court is known as Lord Cottenham’s act. _d._ Pietra Santa, Duchy of Lucca 29 April 1851. _bur._ Totteridge, Herts. _Doyle’s Official baronage i_, 464 (1886), _portrait_; _Law Mag. xlvi_, 280–8 (1851); _Law Review xiv_, 353–9 (1851); _Law mag. and law review xxvii_, 264–72 (1869); _Lord Cottenham’s Earldom_, _2 ed._ 1850.

COTTER, GEORGE SACKVILLE. Second lieut. Madras artillery 15 June 1827, lieut. col. 1 Sep. 1860 to 15 Nov. 1861 when he retired; commanded at siege and capture of Lucknow, July 1857 to March 1858; C.B. 1 March 1861. _d._ 25 June 1878.

COTTER, SIR LUDLOW (_eld. son of Sir James Laurence Cotter, 4 baronet of Rockforest, Mallow, Cork, b. 1828_). _b._ Dublin 11 June 1853; knighted by the Queen at Windsor castle 12 Dec. 1874 in accordance with a special privilege contained in the patent as the eldest son of a baronet. _d._ Rockforest 24 Nov. 1882.

COTTERILL, RIGHT REV. HENRY (_son of Rev. Joseph Cotterill, R. of Blakeney, Norfolk, who d. 14 Feb. 1858 aged 78_). _b._ Ampton, Suffolk 1812; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., Bell’s scholar, fellow 1835; senior wrangler and first Smith’s prizeman 1835, B.A. 1835, M.A. 1836, D.D. 1857; chaplain at Madras 1836–47; vice principal of Brighton college 1847–51, principal 1851–56; bishop of Grahamstown 4 Nov. 1856 to 26 April 1871 when he was elected co-adjutor bishop of Edinburgh; bishop of Edin. April 1872 to death; author of _The Seven ages of the Church_ 1849; _The Genesis of the Church_ 1872; _Does science aid faith in regard to creation_ 1883 and many other works. _d._ Manor place, Edin. 16 April 1886.

COTTINGHAM, NOCKALLS JOHNSON (_elder son of Lewis Nockalls Cottingham, architect 1787–1847_). _b._ 1823; an architect; assisted his father, especially in restoration of Hereford cathedral where he designed the reredos 1847; a designer for stained glass. Lost in the steamship Arctic which foundered about 50 miles from Cape Race on her way from Liverpool to New York 27 Sep. 1854.

COTTLE, JOSEPH. _b._ 1770; bookseller at Bristol 1791–99; published several of the works of the Lake poets Coleridge, Southey and Wordsworth; author of _Malvern Hills_ 1798, _4 ed._ 1829; _Alfred, an epic poem_ 1800, _2 ed. 2 vols._ 1804; _John the Baptist, a poem_ 1801; _The fall of Cambria, a poem 2 vols._ 1808, _2 ed._ 1811; _Early recollections chiefly relating to Samuel Taylor Coleridge 2 vols._ 1837–39, _2 ed._ 1847. _d._ Fairfield house, Knowle near Bristol 7 June 1853. _Pen and ink sketches_, _2 ed._ (1847) 165–74; _J. Cottle’s Early recollections_ (1837), _portrait_.

COTTON, CORBET. _b._ 10 Aug. 1808; ensign 19 foot 9 April 1825; assistant adjutant general of cavalry at head quarters 21 Aug. 1854 to 4 Oct. 1859; colonel 101 foot 29 Dec. 1873 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ 65 Warwick sq. Belgravia, London 30 April 1885.

COTTON, FRANCIS VERE (_son of Henry Calveley Cotton of Woodcote, Oxfordshire, who d. 15 May 1831 aged 81_). _b._ 16 June 1799; entered navy, May 1814; captain 23 Nov. 1841; placed on retired list 4 June 1855; retired admiral 30 July 1875. _d._ Alport house, Whitchurch, Salop 30 Jany. 1884.

COTTON, RIGHT REV. GEORGE EDWARD LYNCH (_only son of Thomas D’Avenant Cotton, captain 7 fusiliers, who was killed at Nivelle near Bayonne 13 Nov. 1813_). _b._ Chester 29 Oct. 1813; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Cam., fellow 1838, B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839, D.D. 1858; assistant master at Rugby 1837–52, ‘the young master’ of _Tom Brown’s School Days_; master of Marlborough 1852–58 which he completely reorganised; bishop of Calcutta 29 March 1858 to death; consecrated in Westminster abbey 13 May 1858, installed 14 Nov. 1858; established schools in Bengal for educating the middle classes; author of numerous sermons, charges and other works; drowned at Kushtiâ on the Gorai river 6 Oct. 1866, body never found. _Memoir of G. E. L. Cotton edited by Mrs. Cotton_, _new ed._ (1872); _Macmillan’s Mag. xv_, 102–111 (1866); _I.L.N. xxxii_, 525 (1858), _portrait_.

COTTON, VERY REV. HENRY. _b._ Bucks 1790; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch, Ox., reader in Greek 1810, B.A. 1811, M.A. 1813; sub-librarian at the Bodleian library 1814–22; a student of Ch. Ch.; domestic chaplain to archbishop of Cashel 1823; preb. of Killardriffe, Cashel 1 Oct. 1823 to 19 June 1824; archdeacon of Cashel 19 June 1824; treasurer of Ch. Ch. cathedral, Dublin 12 June 1832; dean of Lismore 16 Dec. 1834 to 1850; author of _A list of editions of the Bible in English from 1505 to 1820, with specimens of translations_ 1821, _2 ed._ 1852; _A typographical gazetteer attempted_ 1824, _2 ed._ 1831, _second series_ 1866; _The five books of Maccabees in English_ 1833; _Fasti ecclesiæ Hibernicæ 5 vols._ 1845–78; _The four gospels and the acts of the apostles with short notes_ 1857, and many other works. _d._ Lismore 3 Dec. 1879.

COTTON, VERY REV. JAMES HENRY (_2 son of Very Rev. George Cotton 1742–1805, dean of Chester_). _b._ the deanery, Chester 8 Feb. 1781; ed. at Chester and St. John’s coll. Cam., LL.B. 1804; V. of Bangor 1819–38; precentor of Bangor 31 March 1810 to 31 March 1838; R. of Llanllechyd, Carnarvonshire 1821 to death; dean of Bangor 31 March 1838 to death; author of sermons, pamphlets and addresses. _d._ the deanery, Bangor 28 May 1862.

COTTON, JOHN. Writer Madras civil service 1801; principal magistrate of Tangore 1821–27; annuitant on the fund 1 May 1830; a director of East India Co. 30 April 1833, deputy chairman of Court of directors 1842, chairman 1843–45. _d._ Westbourne terrace, Hyde Park, London 16 July 1860 aged 76.

COTTON, REV. RICHARD LYNCH (_brother of Francis Vere Cotton 1799–1884_). _b._ Woodcote 14 Aug. 1794; ed. at Charterhouse and Worcester coll. Ox., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818, B.D. and D.D. 1839; scholar of Worcester coll. 8 May 1815, fellow 7 May 1816, tutor, dean and bursar, provost Feb. 1839 to death, resided continuously in Worcester coll. 1815 to 1880; V. of Denchworth near Wantage 1823–39; vice chancellor of Univ. of Ox. 1852–57; promoted building of Shippon, Dry Sandford and Headington Quarry churches; author of _Scriptural view of the Lord’s Supper_ 1837; _The way of salvation plainly and practically traced_ 1837; _Lectures on the holy sacrament of the Lord’s Supper_ 1849. _d._ Oxford 8 Dec. 1880. _bur._ Holywell cemetery 14 Dec. _Guardian 29 Dec. 1880 p._ 1, 819.

COTTON, SIR SAINT VINCENT, 6 Baronet (_eld. son of admiral Sir Charles Cotton, 5 baronet 1753–1812_). _b._ Madingley hall, Cambs. 6 Oct. 1801; succeeded 24 Feb. 1812; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox.; cornet 10 light dragoons 13 May 1827, lieut. 13 Dec. 1827 to 19 Nov. 1830 when placed on h.p.; distinguished himself in the hunting, shooting, racing and pugilistic world; played in Marylebone cricket matches 1830–35; a great player at hazard; dissipated all his property; drove the ‘Age’ coach from Brighton to London and back for some years from 1836. _d._ 5 Hyde park terrace, Kensington road, London 25 Jany. 1863. _New sporting mag. xii_, 81, 421 (1837), _portrait_.

COTTON, SIR SYDNEY JOHN (_brother of Rev. Richard Lynch Cotton 1794–1880_). _b._ 2 Dec. 1792; cornet 22 dragoons 19 April 1810; lieut. col. 28 foot 8 Jany. 1843; lieut. col. 22 foot 2 Dec. 1847; lieut. col. 10 foot 14 Dec. 1854 to 26 Oct. 1858; commanded the troops on north west frontier of India during Indian mutiny 1857–58; col. 10 foot 5 Feb. 1863 to death; L.G. 20 April 1866; governor of Chelsea hospital 10 May 1872 to death; K.C.B. 24 March 1858, G.C.B. 24 May 1873; author of _Remarks on drill_ 1857; _Nine years on the north west frontier of India_ 1868; _The Central Asian question, a prophecy fulfilled_ 1869, reprinted 1878. _d._ Chelsea hospital 20 Feb. 1874. _F. Brodigan’s Historical record of 28 Foot_ (1884) 94–9; _Kaye’s Sepoy Mutiny ii_, 453, _et seq._; _I.L.N. xxxii_, 489 (1858), _portrait_; _Graphic ix_, 314, 328 (1874), _portrait_.

COTTON, WILLIAM (_son of Wm. Cotton of the Customs, who d. Balham hill near London 27 Oct. 1816 aged 58_). _b._ 1794; made a special study of Sir Joshua Reynolds’s works; F.S.A.; author of _A graphic and historical sketch of the antiquities of Totnes_ 1850; _Sir Joshua Reynolds’ Gleanings from his diary_ 1856; _Some account of the ancient borough town of Plympton St. Maurice or Plympton Earl_ 1859; gave a fine collection of books, prints and drawings to the Plymouth public library which erected a building for their reception and opened it to the public 1 June 1853. _d._ 8 West Hoe terrace, Plymouth 22 Jany. 1863. _G.M. xiv_, 520–22 (1863).

COTTON, WILLIAM (_3 son of Joseph Cotton of Leyton, Essex 1745–1825, deputy master of the Trinity house_). _b._ Leyton 12 Sep. 1786; partner in firm of Huddart and Co. manufacturers of registered cables at Limehouse, London 1807; one of founders of National Society 1811; a director of Bank of England 1821–66, governor 1843–45, invented automatic weighing machine for gold 1844, still in use and called after him ‘the governor’; member of S.P.C.K. 50 years, treasurer; F.R.S. 21 May 1821; sheriff of Essex 1837; built and endowed St. Thomas’s church, Bethnal Green 1844 and St. Paul’s church, Bow Common 1847. _d._ Walwood house, Leytonstone, Essex 1 Dec. 1866, a painted memorial window to his memory was placed by public subscription in St. Paul’s cathedral. _G.M. iii_, 111–13 (1867); _I.L.N. v_, 20 (1844), _portrait_.

COTTON, SIR WILLOUGHBY (_only son of Rowland Cotton, admiral R.N., who d. 3 Nov. 1794_). _b._ Upper Grosvenor st. London 1783; ed. at Rugby where he was leader of a rebellion Nov. 1797; ensign 3 foot guards 31 Oct. 1798; lieut. col. 47 foot 17 May 1821, lieut. col. 14 foot 13 Oct. 1828 to 22 July 1830; commanded forces in Jamaica 1829–34 where he put down an insurrection of the slaves 1831; commanded first division of Bengal army in Afghan war 1838–39; commander in chief at Bombay 8 April 1847 to 30 Dec. 1850; colonel of 98 foot 1 Aug. 1839 to 17 April 1854, and of 32 foot 17 April 1854 to death; general 20 June 1854; C.B. 26 Dec. 1826, K.C.B. 19 July 1838, G.C.B. 21 Jany. 1840; K.C.H. 1830; knighted at St. James’s palace 17 July 1830. _d._ 15 Lowndes sq. London 4 May 1860.

COUCH, JONATHAN (_only child of Richard Couch of Polperro, Cornwall 1739–1823_). _b._ Polperro 15 March 1789; surgeon at Polperro 1810 to death; F.L.S. 6 April 1824; contributed to T. Bewick’s _British Quadrupeds_ and W. Yarrell’s _British Fishes_; author of _Cornish Fauna 3 parts_ 1838–44; _Illustrations of instinct deduced from the habits of British animals_ 1847; _A history of the fishes of the British islands 4 vols._ 1860–65; translated _Pliny’s Natural history 3 vols._ 1847–50, published by the Wernerian Club. _d._ Polperro 13 April 1870. _The history of Polperro by the late Jonathan Couch, with a short account of his life by T. Q. Couch_ 1871; _Life of a Scotch naturalist Thomas Edward_ (1877) 292, 296, 333–49.

COUCH, RICHARD QUILLER (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ Polperro 14 March 1816; ed. at Guy’s hospital, London; M.R.C.S. 1838, L.S.A. 1839; surgeon at Polperro; practised at Penzance 1843 to death; a sec. and curator of Penzance Natural history and antiquarian soc. 1845 to death; curator of Royal Geol. Soc. of Cornwall 1848 to death; contributed the third part (on the Zoophytes) to his father’s _Cornish Fauna_ 1844, and an account of natural history of West Cornwall to J. S. Courtney’s _Guide to Penzance_ 1845. _d._ Penzance 8 May 1863. _G.M. xv_, 106–8 (1863).

COUCH, THOMAS QUILLER (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Polperro 28 May 1826; L.S.A. and M.R.C.S. 1852; surgeon at Bodmin 1855 to death; F.S.A. 26 March 1870; a constant contributor to _Notes and Queries_, from which two series of his articles _The folklore of a Cornish village_ 1855 and 1857 have been incorporated in his father’s _History of Polperro_ 1871; published in the _Journal of the Royal instit. of Cornwall_ 1864 and 1870 lists of local words afterwards included in a _Glossary of words in use in Cornwall_ issued by the English Dialect Society 1880. _d._ Bodmin 23 Oct. 1884.

COULSON, WALTER (_2 son of Thomas Coulson, master painter in Devonport dockyard, who d. 1845_). _b._ Torpoint, Cornwall 1794; amanuensis to Jeremy Bentham; parliamentary reporter on the _Morning Chronicle_; editor of the _Traveller_ 1822, of the _Globe and Traveller_ 1823; barrister G.I. 26 Nov. 1828, bencher, Nov. 1851; recorder of Penzance 18 July 1836 to Jany. 1838; Q.C. July 1851; parliamentary draughtsman for the home office; member of Political Economy club, June 1821; a registration and conveyancing comr. 1847; member of royal commission for Great Exhibition 1851. _d._ North bank, St. John’s Wood, London 21 Nov. 1860. _Leigh Hunt’s Correspondence i_, 98, 120, 126–34.

COULSON, WILLIAM (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Torpoint, Cornwall 15 Sep. 1801; studied in Berlin 1824–26; M.R.C.S. 1826, F.R.C.S. 1843, member of council 1851, Hunterian orator 1861; a founder of Aldersgate st. school of medicine 1826; surgeon to Aldersgate st. dispensary 1828–32; consulting surgeon to City of London Lying-in hospital 1830; senior surgeon to St. Mary’s hospital, Paddington 1843; sheriff of Cornwall 1863; F.S.A. 19 June 1856; accumulated £200,000, one of the largest fortunes ever made in practice; author of _On deformities of the chest_ 1836, _2 ed._ 1837; _On diseases of the hip joint_ 1837, _2 ed._ 1841; _On diseases of the bladder and prostate gland_ 1838, _6 ed._ 1865; _On lithotrity and lithotomy_ 1853; _Lectures on diseases of the joints_ 1854. _d._ 1 Chester terrace, Regent’s park, London 5 May 1877. _Medical Circular ii_, 329–32, 349–51 (1853), _portrait_; _Beattie’s Life of T. Campbell ii_, 448–52 (1849).

COULTON, DAVID TREVENA. _b._ Devizes 1810; contributed to _Quarterly Review_; founded the _Britannia_, a weekly journal of news, politics and literature 13 April 1839 which he sold 1850; edited the _Press and St. James’s Chronicle_, weekly paper 1854 to death; invented a plan for an atmospheric railway; author of _Fortune, a romance of life 3 vols._ 1853; and of _An inquiry into the authorship of the letters of Junius_. _d._ Brighton 8 May 1857.

COUPER, SIR GEORGE, 1 Baronet (_elder son of Robert Couper, M.D. of Fochabers, Morayshire_). _b._ 21 June 1788; ensign 69 foot 2 Nov. 1797; major 92 foot 30 Dec. 1819 to 20 March 1823 when placed on h.p.; principal equerry and comptroller of the household to Duchess of Kent 1839 to death; K.H. 1831, C.B. 19 July 1838; created baronet 23 June 1841. _d._ Frogmore near Windsor 28 Feb. 1861.

COURTAULD, SAMUEL (_eld. son of George Courtauld the first to introduce silk throwing into Essex_). _b._ Albany in the State of New York 1 June 1793; brought to England in his infancy; developed the business of a silk throwster into that of a manufacturer of crape; head of firm of Courtauld & Co. crape manufacturers, Bocking, Essex; in the Consistory court 8 Nov. 1837 raised question of legality of a church rate in Braintree, case settled in house of lords in his favor 12 Aug. 1853; presented with a testimonial worth 700 guineas at Braintree 25 Sept. 1855; F.R.A.S. 8 Nov. 1867. _d._ Gosfield hall, Essex 21 March 1881, personalty sworn under £700,000, 7 May 1881. _I.L.N. 13 Oct. 1855 pp. 445–46 with view of testimonial_; _Monthly Notices of R.A.S. xlii_, 144 (1882); _The Braintree church rate case, Gosling v. Veley, by W. W. Attree_ 1853.

COURTENAY, FRANCIS BURDETT (_son of Mr. Courtenay of Ryde, Isle of Wight, surgeon_). M.R.C.S. 13 July 1833; settled in London as a specialist in urethral diseases 1833; surgeon to hospital for stricture of the urethra, London; author of _Enlargement of the prostate gland in old people_ 1839; _Pathology and cure of stricture of the urethra_ 1843; _On Spermattorrhea and the professional fallacies which prevail in relation to its nature_ 1858, _13 ed._ 1884; _Revelations of quacks and quackery, by Detector, pseud._ 1865, _11 ed._ 1886. _d._ 2 Chandos st. Cavendish sq. London 15 March 1886 in 76 year. _Medical Circular iii_, 71, 72 (1853).

COURTENAY, GEORGE WILLIAM CONWAY. _b._ Beach hall near Chester 1795; entered navy 26 Sep. 1805; captain 14 April 1828; consul general at Hayti 1832–42; V.A. 29 July 1861. _d._ 1E The Albany, Piccadilly, London 31 March 1863.

COURTHOPE, WILLIAM (_only son of Thomas Courthope of Rotherhithe_). _b._ Rotherhithe 6 May 1808; private clerk to Francis Townsend, Rouge Dragon 1824; clerk to the College of Arms 1833; Rouge Croix pursuivant of arms Feb. 1839; sec. to Garter King of arms 1842; barrister I.T. 31 Jany. 1851; Somerset Herald 31 Jany. 1854; registrar of College of arms, Nov. 1859; author of _Synopsis of extinct baronetage_ 1835; _Memoir of Daniel Chamier_ 1852, privately printed; _A pictorial history of the Earls of Warwick by John Rows_ dated 1845 but not published until 1859; edited Sir N. H. Nicolas’s _Historic peerage of England_ 1853. _d._ Hastings 13 May 1866. _bur._ Wadhurst.

COURTNEY, JOHN SAMPSON (_eld. son of James Courtney of the Excise 1778–1860_). _b._ Ilfracombe 10 Oct. 1803; clerk in Mount’s Bay bank, Penzance 1829, manager 1856 to death; author of _A guide to Penzance and its neighbourhood, including the Islands of Scilly_ 1845; and of several papers in _Transactions of Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society_ 1838–42. _d._ Alverton, Penzance 10 Feb. 1881. _Half a century at Penzance_ (1825–1875) _from notes by J. S. Courtney, written by Louise Courtney_ 1878; _Times 12 Feb. 1881 p. 9, col. 6_.

COUSEN, JOHN. _b._ Mirashay near Bradford 19 Feb. 1804; one of the best landscape engravers, retired from practice about 1864; engraved book plates after Turner for _The Rivers of France_, and after Stansfield for _Heath’s Picturesque Annual_ 1833 and 1834; engraved plates for the Royal, Vernon and Turner galleries issued in the _Art Journal_. _d._ Holmesdale road, South Norwood near London 26 Dec. 1880. _bur._ Croydon cemetery.

COUSINS, SAMUEL. _b._ Exeter 9 May 1801; apprenticed to S. W. Reynolds the engraver, Sep. 1814, assistant to him; a mezzotint engraver at 104 Great Russell st. London 1826; A.R.A. Nov. 1835, associate engraver 1854, the first academician engraver 10 Feb. 1855; presented an almost complete set of his engravings to British Museum 1872; gave £15,000 to R.A. for benefit of poor artists about 1872; T. Agnew and Sons held an exhibition of his works at Manchester 1877; another exhibition took place at the Fine Art Society 148 New Bond st. London 1883 and a third was held at H. Graves and Co.’s, Pall Mall 1887. _d._ 24 Camden sq. London 7 May 1887. _G. Pycroft’s Memoir of S. Cousins_ (1887) _privately printed_; _Artists at home 1 April 1884 pt. ii, p._ 19; _Sandby’s History of Royal Academy ii_, 322–4 (1862).

COVENTRY, THOMAS. Barrister L.I. 1 July 1824; author of _Concise forms in conveyancing_ 1827; _On conveyancers’ evidence_ 1832; _A readable edition of Coke upon Littleton_ 1830; author with Samuel Hughes of _Analytical digested index to the common law reports 2 vols._ 1827. _d._ Nice 19 April 1869 aged 72.

COWAN, CHARLES (_son of Rev. Thomas Conolly Cowan, who d. Reading 1856_). M.D. Edin. and L.R.C.S. Edin. 1833, M.D. Paris 1834; pres. of Hunterian Soc.; an early exponent of the science and art of auscultation; practised at Bath 1835–9, at Reading 1839 to death; senior phys. Royal Berkshire hospital 1839, the best speaker in the profession; author of _A Bedside manual, or a physical diagnosis of the lungs, &c._ 1836; _Phrenology consistent with science and revelation_ 1841, and many other works. _d._ Reading 6 Dec. 1868 aged 62. _Barker’s Photographs (1868), ii_, 9–13, _portrait_.

COWAN, JOHN (_son of Hugh Cowan of Ayr_). _b._ Ayr 1798; ed. at Ayr academy and Univ. of Edin.; called to Scotch bar 1822; sheriff of Kincardineshire 10 Jany. 1848; solicitor general for Scotland 18 April 1851; lord of session and lord of justiciary 23 June 1851 to Jany. 1874 with courtesy title of Lord Cowan. _d._ Elmbank, Edinburgh 1 Aug. 1878.

COWARD, JAMES. _b._ London 25 Jany. 1824; a chorister in Westminster abbey; obtained 13 prizes for glees 1845–67; organist of Lambeth parish church; organist at Crystal palace 1857 to death; conductor of the Western Madrigal Society, Oct. 1864 to March 1872; organist of St. George’s church, Bloomsbury 1866–69, of the Sacred Harmonic Society and of Grand lodge of Freemasons; organist of St. Magnus the Martyr, London Bridge to death; published _O Lord correct me_ an anthem, _Sing unto God_ a canon, _Airy fairy Lilian_ and other part songs. _d._ 38 Lupus st. Pimlico, London 22 Jany. 1880.

COWELL, JOSEPH LEATHLEY. _b._ near Torquay 7 Aug. 1792; midshipman R.N. 1805–8; made his debut 23 Jany. 1812 at Devonport as Belcour in _The West Indian_; first appeared in London at Drury lane theatre 1812 as Samson Rawbold in Colman’s _Iron Chest_, acted there till 1818; composed and acted on the Lincoln circuit a three hours olio called ‘Cowell alone or a trip to London’; played at Adelphi, Drury Lane and Astley’s; first appeared in America at Park theatre, New York, Oct. 1821 in _The foundling of the forest_; left the Park theatre 24 July 1823; opened Philadelphia theatre at Wilmington, Delaware, Sep. 1827; acted at Adelphi and other London theatres; author of _Thirty years passed among the players in England and America 2 vols._ 1845. _d._ Vauxhall, London 14 Nov. 1863. _J. N. Ireland’s Records of New York stage i_, 394–5 (1866); _Era 22 Nov. 1863 p. 10, col. 1_.

COWELL, SAMUEL HOUGHTON (_son of the preceding_). _b._ Craven buildings, Drury lane, London 5 April 1819; first appeared on the stage at Boston, U.S. 1829 as Crack in T. Knight’s _Turnpike Gate_; acted in all chief theatres in the U.S.; played Alessio in _La Sonnambula_ at Surrey theatre, London 15 July 1844; acted at T.R. Edinburgh 4 years, then in London at Olympic, Princess’s and Covent Garden, at Glasgow, Belfast and Dublin; one of the leaders of the Monte Christo row at Drury Lane theatre 12 June 1848; the leading comic singer at chief music halls in London and the provinces 1851–60; sang in United States 1860–62; his best songs were _Billy Barlow_, _Lord Lovel_, _The ratcatcher’s daughter_, _Alonzo the brave and Richard the Third_; sang _The Ratcatcher’s Daughter_ at Canterbury Arms 12 Feb. 1855 and more than 50 nights afterwards; sang _Lord Lovel_ 600 times; composed music to his own ballads _Clara Cline_, _The Yellow Busha-Belle_, _In Westminster_ 1855, _&c._ _d._ Crown hotel, Blandford, Dorset 11 March 1864. _Rambles by Patricius_ Walker [_W. Allingham_] 1873, _pp._ 252–55; _Tallis’s Illustrated life in London_ (1864) 86, 88, 89, _2 portraits_; _Theatrical times iii_, 241–2 (1848), _portrait_; _Illust. sporting news iii_, 92 (1864), _v_, 268 (1866), _portrait_; _Era 20 March 1864 p. 6, col. 2_; _S. Cowell’s New illustrated pocket songster 4 vols._ 1856.

COWELL, WILLIAM. _b._ Dublin 1820; connected with Broadway theatre, New York 1847; travelled with Barry Sullivan the actor as business manager 1858; wrote pamphlets in defence of the stage against attacks of Rev. Dr. Hatfield of Chicago; his pamphlets were considered as able a defence of the profession as ever written. _d._ Philadelphia 24 Feb. 1868.

COWELL-STEPNEY, SIR JOHN STEPNEY, 1 Baronet (_elder son of Andrew Cowell of Coleshill, Bucks., general who commanded brigade of guards in Irish rebellion, and d. 21 Sep. 1821_). _b._ 23 Feb. 1791; ensign Coldstream guards 18 May 1809, captain 15 June 1830 to 22 May 1832 when he sold out; served in 6 campaigns under Duke of Wellington and Lord Lynedoch; assumed additional surname of Stepney 29 Dec. 1857; sheriff of Carmarthen 1862; M.P. for Carmarthen 1868–74; K.H. 1832; created baronet 22 Sep. 1871; author of _Leaves from the diary of an officer of the Guards_ 1854. _d._ 5 St. George’s place, London 15 May 1877. _T. Nicholas’s County families of Wales i_, 282 (1872).

COWEN, SIR JOSEPH (_eld. son of John Cowen of Winlaton, Durham_). _b._ Greenside, Durham, Feb. 1800; a fire brick and clay retort manufacturer; alderman of Newcastle; chairman of Gateshead Board of Guardians; appointed by act of parliament a life member of Tyne improvement commission, chairman of this commission; M.P. for Newcastle upon Tyne, July 1865 to death; knighted at Buckingham palace 14 March 1872. _d._ Stella hall near Blaydon-on-Tyne 19 Dec. 1873. _I.L.N. lxiv_, 22, 36 (1874), _portrait_, _lxviii_, 35 (1876).

COWEN, WILLIAM. _b._ Rotherham, Yorkshire; landscape painter; exhibited at Society of Artists 1811, at British Institution 1823–60, at the R.A. 1824–39; published _Yorkshire scenery from drawings by W. Cowen_ 1826; a series of 12 etchings of Corsica 1843 included in his _Six weeks in Corsica_ 1848; contributed view of Kilchurn castle, Loch Awe to fresco competition in Westminster hall 1844. _d._ about 1860.

COWIE, HUGH (_eld. son of Alexander Cowie of Auchterless, co. Aberdeen_). _b._ June 1829; ed. at King’s coll. London and Trin. coll. Cam., scholar, 26 wrangler 1851; B.A. 1851, M.A. 1860; barrister G.I. 27 Jany. 1862, bencher 26 May 1880; a revising barrister for home circuit 1868; recorder of Maldon and of Saffron Walden 11 Aug. 1873 to death; admitted barrister M.T. 13 April 1875; chancellor of diocese of Durham, Jany. 1876; sec. to Criminal code commission 1878; Q.C. 16 Dec. 1882; reporter in Court of Exchequer for the _Law Journal Reports_ 1864–71. _d._ Ythandale, Wimbledon park near London 20 July 1886.

COWIE, ROBERT. _b._ Lerwick, Shetland Islands 1842; ed. at Univs. of Aberdeen and Edin; M.A. Aberdeen; M.D. Edin. 1866; author of _Shetland descriptive and historical_ 1871, _3 ed._ 1879. _d._ 8 May 1874.

COWLE, WILLIAM. _b._ 6 Feb. 1802; played with success leading characters at various London theatres from 1822; a favourite actor at Birmingham; a founder of Royal general theatrical fund 7 Nov. 1838, one of its annuitants Feb. 1862 to death. _d._ 92 Camden St. London 22 March 1885.

COWLEY, HENRY RICHARD CHARLES WELLESLEY, 1 Earl (_eld. child of Henry Wellesley, 1 baron Cowley 1773–1847_). _b._ Hertford st. London 17 July 1804; attaché of embassy at Vienna 1 Oct. 1824; succeeded 27 April 1847; minister plenipotentiary to Berne 29 Feb. 1848; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. at Frankfort 8 Feb. 1849, to Germanic confederation 7 June 1851; P.C. 2 Feb. 1852; ambassador extraord. and plenipotentiary to French republic 5 Feb. 1852 to July 1867; joint plenipo. with Earl of Clarendon at conference of Paris Feb. to March 1856; signed treaty of peace with Russia 30 March 1856, with Persia 4 March 1857; created Earl Cowley and Viscount Dangan 11 April 1857; employed on a confidential mission to Vienna Feb. to March 1859; signed at Paris, treaty of commerce between England and France 23 Jany. 1860; retired on a pension of £1700 16 July 1867; C.B. 27 April 1848, K.C.B. 1 March 1851, G.C.B. 21 Feb. 1853; K.G. 3 Feb. 1866. _d._ 20 Albemarle st. London 15 July 1884. _bur._ parish church, Draycot near Chippenham 19 July. _Times 16 July 1884 p. 9, col. 5_.

COWLING, JOHN. _b._ 1802; educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., senior wr. and 1st Smith’s prizeman 1824, B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827, fellow of St. John’s coll. 6 April 1824; barrister M.T. 9 Nov. 1827; deputy high steward of Univ. of Cam. 1839 to death; standing counsel to Univ. of Cam. 1845 to death. _d._ 28B Albemarle st. London 12 Dec. 1855.

COWPER, GEORGE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK COWPER, 6 Earl (_eld. son of 5 Earl Cowper 1778–1837_). _b._ George st. Hanover sq. London 26 June 1806; cornet Royal horse guards 28 April 1827, lieut. 1830; lieut. 31 foot 13 Feb. to 6 March 1835; M.P. for Canterbury 31 July 1830 to 29 Dec. 1834; under secretary of state for foreign department 13 Nov. to 17 Dec. 1834; succeeded 21 June 1837; lord lieut. of Kent 21 April 1849 to death. _d._ at house of governor of the gaol, Maidstone 15 April 1856. _Waagen’s Treasures of art in Great Britain iii_, 7–17 (1854).

COWPER, SIR CHARLES (_son of Ven. Wm. Cowper 1780–1858_). _b._ Drypool, Yorkshire 26 April 1807; secretary of Church and school lands corporation at Sydney 1826–33 when corporation was dissolved; sheep breeder on the Murray river 1833; member for co. Cumberland of legislative council 1843–50, for Durham 1851–56, for Sydney 1856–59, for Liverpool Plains 1869–70; colonial sec. N.S.W. 26 Aug. 1856 to 2 Oct. 1856, 7 Sep. 1857 to 26 Oct. 1859, 9 March 1860 to 15 Oct. 1863, 3 Feb. 1865 to 21 Jany. 1866 and 13 Jany. 1870 to 15 Dec. 1870; agent general for N.S.W. in London 6 Dec. 1870 to 31 May 1871; C.M.G. 23 June 1869, K.C.M.G. 23 Feb. 1872. _d._ Eldon road, Kensington, London 19 Oct. 1875. _Heaton’s Australian dictionary of dates_ (1879) 44–7.

COWPER, EBENEZER. Articled to Mr. Lloyd, engineer, Gravel lane, Southwark, London; partner with his brother Edward Cowper; spent his life in putting up printing presses in England, Scotland, Ireland and on the Continent on the Cowper-Applegath model; the first edition of the Waverley novels was printed at Edinburgh off a Cowper machine; erected 12 machines at Imprimerie Royale, Paris 1830; Cowper machines although superseded by the Walter press for printing newspapers are still used for printing books; erected the printing machinery in the Bank of England. _d._ Harbourne road, Edgbaston, Birmingham 14 Sep. 1880 aged 77. _Engineering 24 Sep. 1880 p. 257_; _Iron 24 Sep. 1880 p. 244_.

COWPER, EDWARD (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 1790; ironmonger at St. Mary, Newington Butts 1816; printer in Nelson sq. 1818; partner with his brother-in-law Augustus Applegath; they jointly invented the four-cylinder printing machine and erected it at the Times office 1827; partner with his brother Ebenezer as machine makers, their machines were widely used throughout Europe; invented an ink distributing machine; professor of manufacturing art and machinery at King’s college, London 1846 to death. _d._ 9 Kensington park road, London 17 Oct. 1852. _Wyman’s Bibliography of printing_ (1880), 14, 146.

COWPER, HENRY FREDERICK (_2 son of 6 Earl Cowper 1806–56_). _b._ 18 April 1836; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox.; contested Tamworth, Oct. 1863 and Herts. March 1864; M.P. for Herts. 24 July 1865 to Nov. 1885. _d._ Panshanger, Hertford 10 Nov. 1887. _I.L.N. liv_, 213 (1869), _portrait_.

COWPER, JOHN CURTIS, stage name of John Curtis (_son of David Curtis of Manchester, painter_). _b._ Port st. Piccadilly, Manchester 7 June 1827; first appeared at T.R. Manchester as Romeo; played star engagements with G. V. Brooke; leading tragedian at T.R. Liverpool; first appeared in London at Adelphi theatre, 17 Dec. 1862 as Duke Aranza in _The Honeymoon_; played leading parts at Drury Lane, Princess’s, Holborn and other London theatres. _d._ Barnes, Surrey 30 Jany. 1885. _bur._ Brompton cemetery, London 4 Feb.

COWPER, VEN. WILLIAM. _b._ Whittington, Lancs. 28 Dec. 1780; C. of Rawdon near Leeds; senior assistant colonial chaplain 1 Jany. 1808; arrived in Sydney 18 Aug. 1809; Inc. of St. Philip’s ch. Sydney, Aug. 1809 to death, ch. was consecrated 25 Dec. 1810; organised the Benevolent 1818, Bible and Religious tract societies in N.S.W.; sec. of diocesan committees of the S.P.C.K. and S.P.G.; archdeacon of Cumberland and Camden 1848 to death; special commissary during Bishop Broughton’s absence in Europe 1852. _d._ Sydney 6 July 1858.

COX, DAVID (_only son of Joseph Cox of Birmingham, whitesmith, who d. about 1830_). _b._ Heath mill lane, Deritend, Birmingham 29 April 1783; scene painter at Birmingham theatre 1800–4; came to London 1804; member of Soc. of painters in water colours 1813; drawing master in schools at Hereford 1814–26; exhibited 136 pictures at Pall Mall gallery 1844–54; made his first sketching visit to Bettws-y-coed then nearly unknown 1844, painted sign of the Royal Oak Inn there 1847 which he re-touched and varnished 1849; the greatest English water colour painter except Turner, his picture ‘The Hayfield’ fetched £2950 at the Quilter sale, April 1875, a price unparalleled for any water-colour; the best collections of his works were exhibited in Liverpool, Nov. 1875 numbering 448 pictures insured for about £100,000, and at Manchester Exhibition 1887; illustrated various works; author of _The young artist’s companion_ 1825; _A treatise on landscape painting_ 1841. _d._ Greenfield house, Harborne near Birmingham 7 June 1859. _A biography of D. Cox by W. Hall_ (1881), _portrait_; _Memoirs of D. Cox by N. N. Solly_ (1875); _Sherer’s Gallery of British artists, i_, 124–6; _Redgrave’s Century of painters ii_, 479–86 (1866); _I.L.N. xxxv_, 28, 42 (1859), _portrait_.

COX, DAVID (_only child of the preceding_). _b._ Dulwich Common, summer of 1809; pupil of his father; a water-colour painter; exhibited at the R.A. 1827; associate of Soc. of painters in water-colours 1849. _d._ Chester house, Mount Ephraim road, Streatham, Surrey 4 Dec. 1885.

COX, REV. EDWARD (_son of Edward Cox, who d. 27 Dec. 1849 aged 73_). _b._ about 1806; ed. at Old hall near Ware, Herts.; assistant priest at Chelsea; pres. of St. Edmund’s college at Old hall green, Aug. 1840 to Aug. 1851; missioner at Southampton, Aug. 1851 to death; a member of the Southwark chapter, vicar general; canon of Southwark; published _The history of the church translated from the German of the Rev. J. J. von Döllinger 4 vols._ 1840–2; _A treatise on the church, translated from the German of the Rev. H. Klee_ 1847; _The Our Father, or illustrations of the Lord’s prayer, from the German of J. E. Veith_ 1849. _d._ Southampton 9 Nov. 1856.

COX, EDWARD TOWNSEND (_son of Rev. Thomas Cox, chaplain of St. John’s, Deritend, Birmingham_). _b._ Deritend 1769; surgeon at Stratford-on-Avon, surgeon to the infirmary at Birmingham 40 years; took an active part in founding and conducting Royal school of medicine; a most successful accoucheur; disliked travelling so much that he had never seen the sea. _d._ 26 Nov. 1863. _W. S. Cox’s Annals of Queen’s college, iv_, 149–54 (1873).

COX, EDWARD WILLIAM (_eld. son of Wm. Charles Cox of Taunton, manufacturer_). _b._ Taunton 1809; barrister M.T. 5 May 1843; recorder of Helston and Falmouth, Feb. 1857 to June 1868; serjeant at law 29 May 1868; recorder of Portsmouth, June 1868; M. P. for Taunton 1868–1869 when unseated on petition; chairman of second court of Middlesex sessions, March 1870 to death; founded 22 Feb. 1875 Psychological society of Great Britain, pres. to his death, society was dissolved 31 Dec. 1879; established _Law Times_ 8 April 1843; _County courts chronicle and gazette of bankruptcy_ 1846; _Exchange and Mart_; _The country, a journal of rural pursuits_ 1873; purchased from Benjamin Webster _The Field, a gentleman’s newspaper devoted to sport_; proprietor of _The Queen, a lady’s newspaper_; wrote or edited 1829, _A Poem_ 1829; _Reports of cases in criminal law 13 vols._ 1846–78; _The magistrate_ 1848; _The advocate_ 1852; _The law and practice of joint-stock companies_ 1855, _7 ed._ 1870; _Reports of all the cases relating to the law of joint-stock companies 4 vols._ 1867–71; _What am I?_ 1873; _The mechanism of man_ 1876; _A monograph of sleep and dreams_ 1878. _d._ Moat mount, Mill Hill, Middlesex 24 Nov. 1879. _S. C. Hall’s Retrospect of a long life ii_, 121–6 (1883); _Hatton’s Journalistic London_ (1882) 208–11; _I.L.N. 6 Dec. 1879 pp._ 529, 530, _portrait_.

COX, REV. FRANCIS AUGUSTUS. _b._ Leighton Buzzard 7 March 1783; ed. at the Baptist college, Bristol and Univ. of Edin., M.A. 1802; ordained to ministry of Baptist congregation at Clipstone, Northamptonshire 4 April 1804; pastor of Baptist chapel, Hackney, London 3 Oct. 1811 to death; sec. to general body of dissenting ministers of the three denominations residing in and near London 3 years; a projector and founder of London University 1828, librarian short time; LLD. Glasgow 1824, D.D. Waterville, U.S. 1838; author of _Female scripture biography 2 vols._ 1817; _History of the Baptist missionary society from 1792 to 1842_, _2 vols._ 1842, and many other works. _d._ King Edward’s road, South Hackney, London 5 Sep. 1853.

COX, REV. GEORGE VALENTINE (_son of Charles Cox of St. Martin’s, Oxford_). _b._ Oxford 1786; ed. at Magdalen college sch. and New coll. Ox., B.A. 1806, M.A. 1808; master of New college school 1806 to June 1857; Esquire Bedel in law in Univ. of Ox. March 1806, in medicine and arts 29 Jany. 1815 to 1866, University coroner 1808; chaplain of New coll. 1812–20; author of _Jeannette Isabelle 3 vols._ 1837 a novel; _The Prayer book epistles_ 1846; _Recollections of Oxford_ 1868; translated from the German Dahlmann’s _Life of Herodotus_ 1845, Neander’s _Emperor Julian and his generation_ 1850, and Ullmann’s _Gregory of Nazianzum_ 1851. _d._ Cowley lodge, Oxford 19 March 1875.

COX, HARRY, stage name of Oliver James Bussley. _b._ Bristol 1841; first appeared in London at Prince of Wales’s theatre 15 April 1865 as Alessio in H. J. Byron’s burlesque _La Sonnambula_; acted at Strand theatre, April 1872 to day before his death. _d._ 3 Burfield st. Hammersmith 10 Jany. 1882. _Era 14 Jany. 1882 p. 5, col. 2_; _Entr’ Acte 21 Jany. 1882, portrait_.

COX, HENRY CHAMBERS MURRAY. Entered Bengal army 1805; colonel 58 Bengal N.I. 5 June 1853 to 1869; general 9 Dec. 1871. _d._ St. Ann’s, Burnham, Somerset 22 July 1876.

COX, JOHN. Second lieut. Rifle brigade 16 March 1808, major 19 Aug. 1828 to 17 Feb. 1837 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 18 Dec. 1855; colonel 88 foot 13 Oct. 1860 to death; K.H. 1832. _d._ Cheltenham 7 Feb. 1863.

COX, JOHN HAMILTON (_only son of Wm. Cox, K.H. who d. 13 Jany. 1857_). _b._ 1817; ensign 75 foot 10 Oct. 1834, captain 23 March 1849 to 2 Dec. 1862 when placed on h.p.; brigade major to Highland brigade during Indian mutiny; C.B. 24 May 1873; M.G. retired on full pay 5 July 1873. _d._ 37 Sterndale road, West Kensington, London 10 March 1887.

COX, JOHN LEWIS. Head of the firm of Cox and Sons (afterwards Cox and Wyman) printers to the H.E.I. Co. Great Queen st. London; master of Stationer’s Co. 1849–50. _d._ Ham Common near London 1 Feb. 1856 aged 79.

COX, ROBERT (_3 son of Robert Cox of Georgie Mills, co. Edinburgh, leather-dresser_). _b._ Georgie 25 Feb. 1810; ed. at high sch. and Univ. Edin.; a writer to the signet 1832; sec. of a literary institution at Liverpool 1835–39; edited _Phrenological Journal_, numbers xxxiv to l of the first series and 1841–47; compiled index to the _22 vols._ of _Encyclopædia Britannica_, _7 ed._ 1842; author of _Sabbath laws and Sabbath duties_ 1853; _The literature of the Sabbath question 2 vols._ 1865; bequeathed his collection of books on the Sabbath question to Advocates’ library, Edin. _d._ Edinburgh 3 Feb. 1872.

COX, TALBOT ASHLEY. _b._ 9 July 1836; ensign 3 foot 29 July 1853, lieut. col. 12 July 1871 to death; C.B. 2 June 1877. _d._ Cawnpore 9 Dec. 1877.

COX, WILLIAM. Second lieut. 95 foot 6 June 1805; major 75 foot 20 June 1834 to 1 July 1843 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 20 June 1854; K.H. 1835. _d._ St. Leonard’s on Sea 13 Jany. 1857.

COX, SIR WILLIAM (_3 son of John Cox of Coolcliffe, co. Wexford 1749–93_). _b._ Coolcliffe 5 Dec. 1776; ensign 68 foot 1 Oct. 1794; commanded fortress of Almeida, April 1809 to 27 Aug. 1810 when its magazine having exploded he surrendered; lieut. col. Portugese army 16 Feb. 1809 to 25 Dec. 1816 when placed on h.p.; K.T.S. 28 Aug. 1815; knighted by Prince Regent at Carlton house 13 Aug. 1816; colonel in British army 12 Aug. 1819; sheriff of King’s County 1825. _d._ Longford place, Monkstown, co. Dublin 1 July 1864.

COX, WILLIAM JAMES (_2 son of Philip Cox 1779–1841, proprietor of the Royal tennis court, James st. Haymarket, London_). _b._ 2 Feb. 1806; part proprietor of the Royal tennis court many years; champion of England at game of tennis. _d._ Brantford, Canada West 30 June 1864. _J. Marshall’s Annals of tennis_ (1878) 100–106.

COX, WILLIAM SANDS (_eld. son of Edward Townsend Cox of Birmingham, surgeon 1769–1863_). _b._ 38 Cannon st. Birmingham 1802; L.S.A. 1823; M.R.C.S. 1824, F.R.C.S. 1843; started a medical and surgical class-room at Temple row, Birmingham 1 Dec. 1825; removed to an old chapel in Paradise st. 1830 which he named the School of Medicine, it was incorporated by royal charter as the Queen’s college 1843, principal of the college 1858–9; founded Queen’s hospital, Birmingham 1840–1; F.R.S. 5 May 1836; member of French Institute; hon. member of nearly every important surgical school in Europe; author of _A synopsis of the bones, ligaments and muscles, bloodvessels and nerves of the human body_ 1831; _Annals of Queen’s college 4 vols._ 1873. _d._ Woodside, Kenilworth 23 Dec. 1875. _Barker’s Photographs of eminent medical men i_, 61–6 (1865), _portrait_, _reprinted in Cox’s Annals iv_, 155–60 (1873); _E. Edwards’s Personal recollections of Birmingham_ (1877) 132–39.

COXE, REV. HENRY OCTAVIUS (_8 son of Rev. Richard Coxe, V. of Bucklebury, Berkshire_). _b._ Bucklebury 20 Sep. 1811; ed. at Westminster and Worcester coll. Ox., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; entered manuscript department of British Museum, May 1833; C. of Culham 1839–48, of Tubney 1848–55 both near Oxford; sub-librarian of Bodleian library 16 Nov. 1838, librarian 6 Nov. 1860 to death, catalogue of 723 folio volumes was compiled 1859–80; select preacher to Univ. of Ox. 1842; Whitehall preacher 1868; chaplain of C.C. coll. Ox. 1847–74; lecturer at St. Martin’s, Carfax, Oxford 1852–59; C. of Wytham, Berks. 1861–68; R. of Wytham 1868 to death; presided at annual meeting of Library Association at Oxford 1 to 3 Oct. 1878, pres. of Association 25 Sep. 1879 to death; published _Forms of bidding prayer_ 1840; _Rogeri de Wendover Chronica 5 vols._ (_English Hist. Soc._) 1841–4; _The Black Prince, an historical poem written in French by Chandos Herald (Roxburghe club)_ 1842; _Report on the Greek manuscripts yet remaining in libraries of the Levant_ 1858. _d._ St. Giles’s road, Oxford 8 July 1881. _bur._ at Wytham 12 July.

COXE, SIR JAMES (_4 son of Robert Coxe of Georgie, Midlothian_). _b._ Georgie 1811; ed. at Gottingen, Heidelberg, Paris and Univ. of Edin., M.D. Edin. 1835; L.R.C.S. Edin. 1835; F.R.C.P. Edin. 1837; wrote Report on management of the insane in Scotland 1855; paid comr. in lunacy for Scotland 23 Sep. 1857 to death, wrote first fifteen reports of the Commissioners; knighted by patent 10 Aug. 1863; F.R.S. Edin. _d._ Folkestone on returning from Paris 9 May 1878. _Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. x_, 15 (1880).

COXE, VEN. RICHARD CHARLES (_brother of Rev. Henry Octavius Coxe 1811–81_). Ed. at Reading gr. sch.; matric. from Worcester coll. Ox. 29 Nov. 1817 aged 17, scholar 1818, B. A. 1821, M.A. 1824; fellow of his coll. 1823–26; Inc. of Abp. Tenison’s chapel, Regent St. London 1829–41; V. of Newcastle 1841–53; hon. canon of Durham 1843–58; archdeacon of Lindisfarne, March 1853 to death; V. of Eglingham, Northumberland, March 1853 to death; canon of Durham, Dec. 1857 to death; author of _Lectures on the evidence from miracles_ 1832; _The Mercy at Marsdon rocks_ 1844; _Poems scriptural, classical and miscellaneous_ 1845; _Leda Tanah the martyr’s child, Derwent Bank_ 1851. _d._ Eglingham vicarage 25 Aug. 1865.

COXETER, ELIZABETH. _b._ Witney, Oxon. 1 Feb. 1775. _d._ Newbury, Berkshire 27 Nov. 1876 nearly 102 years of age. _Notes and Queries_ 5 _S. iii_, 144 (1875), _vi_, 460 (1876).

COYNE, FREDERICK. Comic singer at principal music halls in London and the provinces 1867 to death; wrote the music to _Tuner’s Oppertuner-ty, a song_ 1879. _d._ 8 Huntingdon st. Kingsland road, London 23 Feb. 1886 aged 39. _bur._ Abney park cemetery 27 Feb. _Entr’acte 6 March 1886 p. 9_, _portrait_.

COYNE, JOSEPH STIRLING (_son of Denis Coyne, port surveyor of Waterford_). _b._ Birr, King’s county 1803; his first farce called _The Phrenologist_ was produced at T.R. Dublin, June 1835; came to London 1836 where his farce _The queer subject_ was produced at Adelphi theatre, Nov. 1836; author of upwards of 55 dramas, burlesques and farces produced chiefly at Adelphi and Haymarket theatres; his drama called _Everybody’s Friend_ was brought out at the Haymarket 2 April 1859 it was reproduced at St. James’s 16 Oct. 1867 as _The Widow Hunt_; contributed to the first number of _Punch_ 17 July 1841; secretary to Dramatic authors’ society 1856 to death; dramatic critic on _Sunday Times_ newspaper; author of _Scenery and antiquities of Ireland 2 vols._ 1842; _Pippins and pies, or sketches out of school_ 1855; _Sam Spangle or the history of a harlequin_ 1866. _d._ 61 Talbot road, Westbourne park, London 18 July 1868.

CRABB, GEORGE. _b._ Palgrave, Suffolk 8 Dec. 1778; classical master at Thorp-Arch school, Yorkshire; studied German at Bremen 1801–6; gentleman commoner at Magd. hall, Ox. 1814, B.A. 1821, M.A. 1822; barrister I.T. 3 July 1829; author of _English synonyms explained, in alphabetical order_ 1816, _7 ed._ 1844 after which the book was stereotyped; _Universal technological dictionary 2 vols._ 1823; _Universal historical dictionary 2 vols._ 1825; _History of the English law_ 1829; _Precedents in conveyancing 2 vols._ 1835, _5 ed._ 1859; _Digest and index of all the statutes at large 4 vols._ 1841–7; _Law of real property 2 vols._ 1846. _d._ Hammersmith 4 Dec. 1851.

CRABB, REV. JAMES (_3 son of James Crabb of Wilton, Wiltshire, cloth manufacturer_). _b._ Wilton 13 April 1774; joined the Wesleyans, Feb. 1791; kept a school at Romsey, and at Spring hill, Southampton; minister of Zion chapel, Lansdowne hill, Southampton, opened 9 June 1824; founded infant day schools at Kingsland Place, Southampton, the earliest in England; was popularly known as the Gipsy’s friend and was the missionary referred to in Rev. Legh Richmond’s _Dairyman’s Daughter_ as having first brought her to a sense of religion; author of _The Gipsies Advocate_ 1831, _3 ed._ 1832; _An address to Irvingites in which their heresy, modes of worship, etc. are set forth_ 1836. _d._ Springhill house, Southampton 17 Sep. 1851. _Memoir of Rev. James Crabb by John Rudall_ 1854, _portrait_; _G.M. xxxvi_, 659–60 (1851).

CRABBE, EYRE JOHN. Ensign 74 foot 11 June 1807, lieut.-col. 6 Nov. 1841 to 1 May 1846 when placed on retired full pay; col. in the army 28 Nov. 1854; K.H. 1837. _d._ Highfield, Southampton 19 March 1859 aged 68.

CRABBE, REV. GEORGE (_eld. son of George Crabbe the poet 1754–1832_). _b._ Stathern, Leics. 16 Nov. 1785; ed. at Ipswich gr. sch. and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1807; C. of Pucklechurch, Gloucs. 1817–34; V. of Bredfield and Pettistree, Suffolk 1834 to death; author of _Life of George Crabbe_ 1838; _Outlines of a system of natural theology_ 1840. _d._ Bredfield vicarage 16 Sep. 1857.

CRACE, FREDERICK (_son of John Crace of London, architectural decorator 1754–1819_). _b._ 3 June 1779; architectural decorator; employed on work at royal palaces, London, Brighton and Windsor; a comr. of Sewers; began to collect maps and views of London about 1818, his splendid collection was purchased by the British Museum from his son John Gregory Crace 1880, it consists of between five and six thousand prints and drawings arranged in a series of 57 portfolios, it is described in _Catalogues of maps, plans and views of London collected and arranged by F. Crace edited by J. G. Crace_ 1878, a very large number of the illustrations in Thornbury and Walford’s _Old and New_ London are derived from this collection. _d._ Vine cottage, Blyth lane, Hammersmith 18 Sep. 1859. _The Little journal i_, 136–42 (1884).

CRACKANTHORPE, WILLIAM (_son of Christopher Cookson who assumed name of Crackanthorpe, and d. 1800_). _b._ 25 Feb. 1790; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1811, M.A. 1816; had an interview with Napoleon at Elba 25 Feb. 1815 the day before he escaped to France; sheriff of Cumberland 1826; chairman of Westmoreland poor law board 40 years; rebuilt parish church of Newbiggin and the rectory house at his own expense. _d._ Newbiggin hall, Westmoreland 10 Jany. 1888.

CRACKLOW, HENRY. Ensign Bombay army 23 Dec. 1819; colonel 2 Bombay N.I. 1855–69; M.G. 22 Aug. 1855; general 28 March 1874; placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ Castle hill, Inverness 15 May 1886 in 83 year.

CRACROFT, PETER (_2 son of Robert Cracroft of Hackthorne, Lincs. 1783–1862_). _b._ 15 March 1816; entered navy 4 June 1830, lost the Reynard on the Pratas shoal, China 1846; captain 20 Nov. 1854; commodore in charge at Jamaica 31 March 1863 to death; C.B. 7 Oct. 1862. _d._ Admiralty house, Port Royal, Jamaica 2 Aug. 1865. _Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xxxvi, p. cxlviii_, (1866).

CRADOCK, REV. EDWARD HARTOPP (_3 son of Edward Grove of Shenstone park, Staffs._) _b._ 26 April 1810; ed. at Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834, B.D. and D.D. 1854; fellow of Brasenose to 1845, principal 27 Dec. 1853 to death; R. of Tedstone Delamere, Herefordshire 1845–54; canon of Worcester 31 Jany. 1848 to 1854; assumed name of Cradock by r.l. 22 May 1849. _d._ Oxford 27 Jany. 1886.

CRAIG, JAMES THOMSON GIBSON (_2 son of Sir James Gibson Craig, 1 baronet 1765–1850_). _b._ 12 March 1799; ed. at high school and univ. Edin.; a writer to the signet; an original member of the Bannatyne club 1823, for which he edited _Papers relating to the marriage of King James Sixth_ 1828; issued in an edition of 25 copies a series of facsimiles of historic and artistic bookbindings in his collection 1882; issued in 1883 a facsimile reprint of the _Shorte summe of the whole catechism 1583 by John Craig_; a first part of his valuable library was sold in London, June 1887. _d._ Edinburgh 18 July 1886.

CRAIG, RICHARD DAVIS (_eld. son of Rev. Thomas Craig of Bocking, Essex_), _b._ Bocking 2 Nov. 1810; studied at London Univ.; drew Boundary Act which became part of Reform act 1832; private sec. to E. J. Littleton chief sec. for Ireland 1833; barrister L.I. 18 Nov. 1834, bencher 3 Nov. 1851; one of the 2 revising barristers for London and Westminster 1835–40; Q.C. 11 July 1851; retired from practice 1867; published with J. W. Mylne _Reports of cases in Chancery_ 1835–41, _5 vols._ 1837–48; with T. J. Phillips _Reports of cases in Chancery_ 1840–41, _1 vol._ 1842; author of _Legal and equitable rights and liabilities as to trees and woods_ 1866. _d._ Liss, Hampshire 8 May 1884.

CRAIG, WILLIAM. _b._ Dublin 1829; water-colour painter; exhibited at R.A. Dublin 1846; went to United States 1863; an original member of American Society of water-colour painters. Drowned in Lake George, New York 1875.

CRAIG, SIR WILLIAM GIBSON, 2 Baronet (_brother of James Thomson Gibson Craig 1799–1886_). _b._ 2 Aug. 1797; admitted advocate 1820; M.P. for co. Edinburgh 1837–41, for city of Edin. 1841–52; a lord of the treasury 6 July 1846 to Feb. 1852; succeeded his father 6 March 1850; lord clerk register and keeper of signet of Scotland 3 July 1862 to death; P.C. 8 Dec. 1863. _d._ Riccarton near Edin. 12 March 1878. _Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. x_, 24 (1880).

CRAIGIE, DAVID. _b._ Leith near Edinburgh 6 June 1793; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1816; F.R.C.P. Edin. 1832, pres. Dec. 1861; phys. to Edin. Royal infirmary 1833; editor of _Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal_ 1820–32, sole proprietor and editor 1832–55; F.R.S. Edin. 1833; author of _Elements of general and pathological anatomy_ 1828, _2 ed._ 1848; _Elements of anatomy, general, special and comparative_ 1838; _Elements of the practice of physic 2 vols._ 1840, and of 30 separate papers on medical subjects. _d._ 17 May 1866. _Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. vi_, 15–16 (1869).

CRAIGIE, DAVID. Navigating lieutenant R.N. 17 Aug. 1838; staff commander 11 June 1863; retired captain 20 Jany. 1864; C.B. 2 June 1869. _d._ London 8 April 1883.

CRAIGIE, SIR PATRICK EDMONSTONE (_3 son of Laurence Craigie of Glasgow_). _b._ 1794; ed. at Glasgow school and college; ensign 52 foot 3 June 1813; lieut. col. 55 foot 21 Nov. 1834 to 11 Aug. 1844 when placed on h.p.; aide de camp to the Queen 23 Dec. 1842 to 20 June 1854; commanded centre division of Madras army 7 Jany. 1855 to 23 April 1860; col. of 31 foot 20 Feb. 1859, of 55 foot 1 June 1862 to death; general 21 Jany. 1868; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842, K.C.B. 13 March 1867. _d._ Warrior terrace, St. Leonards 13 Dec. 1873.

CRAIGIE, ROBERT. Entered navy 22 March 1811; captain 7 Nov. 1839; admiral on h.p. 1 April 1870. _d._ Dawlish 2 March 1873 in 73 year.

CRAIGIE, WILLIAM. _b._ Belnaboth, Aberdeenshire 11 March 1799; studied for medical profession at Marischal college, Aberdeen and at Univs. of Edin. and Dublin; settled at Ancaster, Canada West 1834, removed to Hamilton 1845; held a high position as a scientific authority on meteorology, botany, horticulture and agriculture; a member of Board of arts and manufactures of Canada West. _d._ Hamilton, Aug. 1863.

CRAIK, GEORGE LILLIE (_eld. son of Rev. Wm. Craik, assistant minister of parish of Kennoway, Fifeshire, who d. 1830_). _b._ Kennoway 1798; ed. at St. Andrew’s Univ.; edited the _Star_ local paper 1817; came to London 1826; professor of English literature and history at Queen’s college, Belfast 1849 to death; examiner for Indian civil service in London 1859 and 1862; author of _The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties 2 vols._ 1830–31; _Sketches of the history of literature and learning in England 6 vols._ 1844–45 expanded into _A Compendious History of English literature and of the English language 2 vols._ 1861; _Spenser and his poetry 3 vols._ 1845; _Bacon, his writings and his philosophy 3 vols._ 1846–7; _Romance of the peerage 4 vols._ 1848–50; author with C. Macfarlane of _The pictorial history of England 4 vols._ 1837–41. _d._ 2 Chlorine place, Belfast 25 June 1866. _Certificates in favour of G. L. Craik for the office of one of the Latin masters in the new Edinburgh Academy._

CRAIK, HENRY (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Prestonpans, East Lothian 8 Aug. 1805; ed. at Univ. of St. Andrews; tutor in family of Anthony Norris Groves of Exeter 1826, in family of John Synge of Buckridge house near Teignmouth 1828–31; pastor of Baptist chapel, Shaldon, Devon 1831–32; laboured in Bristol with George Muller (founder of the New orphan houses, Ashley Down) 1832 to death, founded with him a society at Bristol similar to the Plymouth Brethren 1832; author of _The Hebrew language, its history and characteristics_ 1860; _Principia Hebraica_ 1863. _d._ Hampton park, Redland near Bristol 22 Jany. 1866. _W. E. Tayler’s Passages from the diary and letters of H. Craik_ 1866.

CRAMER, JOHANN BAPTIST (_eld. son of Wilhelm Cramer of London, violinist 1745–99_). _b._ Mannheim 24 Feb. 1771; taken to London 1774; made his first appearance as a pianist 1781; travelled abroad 1788–91, 1798 and 1816–18; a member of board of management of Royal Academy of Music 1822; founded firm of music publishers J. B. Cramer and Co. in Regent st. London 1828 from which he retired 1835; occupied the foremost rank of his day as a pianist; composed, adapted and arranged 250 pieces of music; his _Eighty four Studies_ are still very popular. _d._ Kensington terrace, London 16 April 1858. _The Harmonicon i_, 179–81 (1823), _portrait_.

CRAMP, REV. JOHN MOCKETT (_son of Rev. Thomas Cramp, founder of Baptist church at St. Peter’s, Isle of Thanet, who d. 17 Nov. 1851 aged 82_). _b._ St. Peter’s 25 July 1796; ed. at Stepney college, London; pastor of baptist chapel, Dean st. Southwark 1818; assistant pastor at St. Peter’s 1827–42; pastor of baptist chapel, Hastings 1842–44; pres. of baptist college, Montreal 1844–49; pres. of Acadia college, Nova Scotia 1851–69; edited _The Register_ a Montreal weekly religious journal 1844–49; edited with Rev. W. Taylor _The Colonial Protestant_ a monthly mag. 1848–49; general editor of _The Pilot_ Montreal newspaper 1849–51; author of _A text book of Popery_ 1831; _Baptist history from the foundation of the Christian church to the eighteenth century_ 1868 and many other books. _d._ Wolfville, Nova Scotia 6 Dec. 1881.

CRAMPTON, SIR JOHN FIENNES TWISLETON, 2 Baronet (_elder son of the succeeding_). _b._ Dawson st. Dublin 12 Aug. 1805; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Dublin; attached to mission at Turin 1826, to embassy at St. Petersburg 1828; paid attaché at Brussels 1834, at Vienna 1839; sec. of legation to Confederated states of Swiss Cantons 1844, in the United States 1845, chargé d’Affaires there 1847–49 and 1850–52; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to U.S. 19 Jany. 1852, the pres. of the U.S. discontinued official intercourse with him 28 May 1856 on account of his recruiting soldiers in the U.S. for the British army, when he returned to England but he held the appointment to 20 Jany. 1857; K.C.B. 20 Sep. 1856; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to King of Hanover 2 March 1857, at St. Petersburg 31 March 1858, at Madrid 11 Dec. 1860 to 1 July 1869 when he retired on pension; succeeded his father 10 June 1858. _d._ Bushey park, Enniscorthy, co. Wicklow 5 Dec. 1886.

CRAMPTON, SIR PHILIP, 1 Baronet (_3 son of John Crampton of Merrion sq. Dublin 1732–92_). _b._ Dublin 7 June 1777; assistant surgeon in army; surgeon to Meath hospital, Dublin 1798; M.D. Glasgow 1800; taught anatomy in private lectures and maintained a dissecting room behind his own house; surgeon general to the forces in Ireland to his death, the last who held that appointment; surgeon in ord. to the Queen for Ireland; a member of senate of the Queen’s Univ.; pres. of Royal college of surgeons, Dublin 3 times; F.R.S. 16 April 1812; created baronet 14 March 1839. _d._ Merrion sq. Dublin 10 June 1858. _Dublin Univ. Mag. xv_, 613 (1840), _portrait_; _Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. iii_, 52–53 (1861).

CRAMPTON, PHILIP CECIL (_4 son of Rev. Cecil Crampton 1733–1819, R. of Headford, co. Galway_). _b._ May 1782; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1800, fellow 1807, B.A. 1802, M.A. 1807; LL.B. 1809, LLD. 1810; called to Irish bar 1810; professor of common and feudal law in Univ. of Dublin 1816–34; solicitor general for Ireland 23 Dec. 1830; bencher of King’s Inns, Dublin 1831; justice of Court of Queen’s Bench, Ireland 21 Oct. 1834 to Jany. 1859; M.P. for Milborne, Port, Somerset 15 July 1831 to 3 Dec. 1832; contested Univ. of Dublin, Dec. 1832 and Dungarvan, Feb. 1834; P.C. 1858. _d._ St. Valente, Bray, co. Wicklow 29 Dec. 1862. _Address on Judge Crampton’s retirement with some of his charges to Juries_ 1859; _O. J. Burke’s Anecdotes of Connaught circuit_ (1885) 299–302.

CRAMPTON, THOMAS. _b._ Sheerness 1817; organist at Staines 1840, afterwards at Brentford and Ealing; government lecturer at Kneller Hall training college 1854; composed anthems, glees and instrumental music; purchaser of music to the British Museum 1875; published _The church psalter_ 1854; _The part singer_ 1868; _Twenty-four school songs with lessons on musical notation_ 1873; _Forty school songs_ 1882; _Music for the New Code staff notation_ 1884; composed and printed upwards of 35 pieces of music; some of his duets and trios appeared under the nom de plume of J. Karl Bernhardt. _d._ 2 Devonshire gardens, Chiswick 13 April 1885.

CRANE, LUCY (_dau. of the succeeding._) _b._ Liverpool 22 Sep. 1842; ed. in London; wrote the original verses and rhymed versions of nursery legends for her brother Walter Crane’s Coloured Toybooks 1869–75; delivered lectures in London and the North on Art and the formation of taste; author of _Household stories from the Brothers Grimm, translated_ 1882; _Art and formation of taste, Six lectures_ 1882. _d._ Bolton-le-Moors 31 March 1882.

CRANE, THOMAS (_son of Mr. Crane of Chester, bookseller_). _b._ Chester 1808; artist at Chester 1825; associate of Liverpool Academy 1835, member 1838, treasurer 1841; lived at Torquay 1844–57; his principal works were portraits in oil, water-colour and crayon; exhibited 9 subject pictures at the R.A.; illustrated various books. _d._ Lambton terrace, Bayswater, London 15 July 1859.

CRANWORTH, ROBERT MONSEY ROLFE, 1 Baron (_elder son of Rev. Edmund Rolfe, R. of Cockley Cley, Norfolk, who d. 24 July 1795_). _b._ Cranworth, Norfolk 18 Dec. 1790; ed. at Bury school, Winchester and Trin. coll. Cam., 17 wrangler 1812, B.A. 1812, M.A. 1815; fellow of Downing coll. Cam.; barrister L.I. 21 May 1816, bencher 1832; recorder of Bury St. Edmunds about 1830; K.C. Aug. 1832; M.P. for Penryn 1832–39; solicitor general 6 Nov. to 20 Dec. 1834 and 30 April 1835 to 11 Nov. 1839; baron of Court of Exchequer 11 Nov. 1839 to 2 Nov. 1850; one of comrs. of the Great Seal 19 June to 15 July 1850; vice chancellor 2 Nov. 1850; P.C. 13 Nov. 1850; created Baron Cranworth of Cranworth, co. Norfolk 20 Dec. 1850 being the first and only instance of a vice chancellor receiving dignity of a peer; one of the two lords justices of appeal in chancery 8 Oct. 1851; lord chancellor 28 Dec. 1852 to 26 Feb. 1858 and 7 July 1865 to 6 July 1867. _d._ 40 Upper Brook st. London 26 July 1868. _bur._ Keston churchyard. _Men of the time British statesmen_ (1854) 251–58; _Law mag. and law review xxvi_, 278–84 (1869); _The British cabinet in 1853 pp._ 251–58; _I.L.N. xvii_, 357 (1850), _portrait_, _xxx_, 109 (1857), _portrait_, _liii_, 114, 153 (1868), _portrait_.

CRAUFURD, EDWARD HENRY JOHN (_eld. son of John Craufurd 1780–1867, secretary to senate of Ionian islands_). _b._ 9 Dec. 1816; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., scholar 1840, B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844; barrister I.T. 21 Nov. 1845; admitted barrister M.T. 10 April 1854; edited _The Legal Examiner_ 1852; M.P. for Ayr district 22 July 1852 to 26 Jany. 1874; author of _Advocacy in county courts_. _d._ Portencross, Ayrshire 29 Aug. 1887.

CRAUFURD, JAMES (_eld. son of Archibald Clifford Blackwell Craufurd of Ardmillan, Ayrshire_). _b._ Havant, Hants. 1805; ed. at Ayr academy and at Univs. of Glasgow and Edin.; admitted advocate 1829; sheriff of Perthshire 14 March 1849; solicitor general for Scotland 16 Nov. 1853; lord of session 10 Jany. 1855 to death with courtesy title of Lord Ardmillan; lord of justiciary 16 June 1855 to death. _d._ 18 Charlotte sq. Edinburgh 7 Sep. 1876. _Journal of jurisprudence xx_, 538–9 (1876); _Graphic xiv_, 308 (1876), _portrait_.

CRAVEN, LOUISA, Countess of (_youngest dau. of John Brunton 1750–1832, manager of the Norwich theatre_). _b._ Norwich 21 Jany. 1779; made her first appearance on the stage at Covent Garden 25 Oct. 1803 as Lady Townley in the _Provoked Husband_; made her last appearance at Covent Garden 21 Oct. 1807 as Clara Sedley in _The Rage_. (_m._ 12 Dec. 1807 Wm. Craven 1 Earl of Craven, he was _b._ 1 Sep. 1770 and _d._ 30 July 1825). _d._ Hampstead Marshall, Newbury 27 Aug. 1860. _Mrs. C. B. Wilson’s Our actresses i_, 94–102 (1844), _portrait_; _British Stage ii_, 241 (1818), _portrait_; _Theatrical Inquisitor xiii_, 3 (1818), _portrait_; _Bentley’s Miscellany xviii_, 249–51 (1845).

CRAVEN, WILLIAM CRAVEN, 2 Earl of. _b._ 18 July 1809; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; succeeded 30 July 1825; knight of the griffin at the Eglinton tournament 28 to 31 Aug. 1839; lord lieut. of Warws. 29 March 1854 to 1856; devoted great attention to coursing and held spring and autumn meetings at Ashdown hills on his own property. _d._ Royal hotel, Scarborough 25 Aug. 1866. _Baily’s Mag. viii_, 327–9 (1864), _portrait_; _Nixon and Richardson’s Eglinton tournament_ (1843), _portrait_.

CRAVEN, GEORGE GRIMSTON CRAVEN, 3 Earl of. _b._ Charles st. Berkeley sq. London 16 March 1841; ed. at Harrow; succeeded 25 Aug. 1866; high steward of Newbury, Berkshire 14 Jany. 1869; lord lieut. of Berks. 11 Aug. 1881 to death; master of the old Berkshire hounds, a steeple chaser, continued the Ashdown coursing meeting. _d._ Ashdown park, Berks. 7 Dec. 1883. _bur._ Binley churchyard near Coventry 13 Dec. _Baily’s Mag. xxii_, 187 (1872), _portrait_.

CRAVEN, FULWAR (_elder son of Rev. John Craven of Chilton house, Wiltshire, who d. 19 June 1804_). _b._ 25 June 1782; captain 1 dragoons 1803–1806; owner of race horses; won the Oaks with Deception 1839; one of the most notable and eccentric characters on the turf. _d._ Brockhampton park, Gloucs. 14 April 1860. _H. Corbet’s Tales of sporting life_ (1864) 99–108; _W. Day’s Reminiscences_, _2 ed._ (1886) 138–42.

CRAVEN, KEPPEL RICHARD (_youngest child of 6 Baron Craven 1737–91_). _b._ 1 June 1779; ed. at Harrow; resided with his mother at Naples 1805; chamberlain to Princess of Wales 1814–15; purchased a large convent in the mountains near Salerno, South Italy, and lived there 1834; author of _A tour through the southern provinces of the kingdom of Naples_ 1821; _Excursions in the Abruzzi and northern provinces of Naples 2 vols._ 1838. _d._ Naples 24 June 1851. _Memoirs of the Margravine of Anspach_ (1826), _i_, 72, 85, 364, _ii_, 74, 84, 95, 173, _portrait_; _Madden’s Literary life of Countess of Blessington, ii_, 124–39 (1855).

CRAWFORD and BALCARRES, JAMES LINDSAY, Earl of. _b._ Balcarres, Fifeshire 24 April 1783; succeeded as 7 Earl of Balcarres 27 March 1825; created Baron Wigan in peerage of United Kingdom 5 July 1826; had Earldom of Crawford (dormant since 1808) confirmed to him by House of Lords 1848 and thus became 24 Earl of Crawford and premier Earl on union roll of Scotland; claimed Dukedom of Montrose 1855. _d._ Dunecht house, Aberdeen 15 Dec. 1869.

CRAWFORD and BALCARRES, ALEXANDER WILLIAM CRAWFORD LINDSAY, Earl of (_eld. child of the preceding_). _b._ Muncaster Castle 16 Oct. 1812; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1833; succeeded 15 Dec. 1869; collected from all parts of the world the famous Crawford library consisting of more than 50,000 books and MSS., the first portion of which was sold for £19,000 in 1887, one book the Mazarin Bible fetched £2650; author of _Letters on Egypt, Edom and the Holy Land 2 vols._ 1838; _Lives of the Lindsays 3 vols._ 1840, _3 ed._ 1858; _Ballads, songs and poems translated from the German_ 1841; _Progression by antagonism, a theory_ 1846; _Sketches of the history of Christian art 3 vols._ 1847, _new ed. 2 vols._ 1885; _Scepticism, a retrogressive movement in theology_ 1861; _Etruscan inscriptions analysed_ 1872; _The Earldom of Mar in sunshine and in shade during five hundred years 2 vols._ 1882. _d._ Villa Eualenina, Florence 13 Dec. 1880. _bur._ at Dunecht house, April 1881, personalty sworn under £300,000 April 1881. _Athenæum 25 Dec. 1880 p._ 865; _I.L.N. lxxxi_, 124 (1882).

NOTE.—His body was stolen April 1881 by Charles Soutar a ratcatcher, but the theft was not discovered until Dec. 1881, the body was found on the farm of Dumbreck near Dunecht house 18 July 1882 and buried in family vault under Wigan parish church 26 July 1882. C. Soutar was sentenced to 5 years penal servitude 24 Oct. 1882.

CRAWFORD, ABRAHAM (_youngest son of Rev. Thomas Crawford, V. of Lismore, co. Waterford_). _b._ Lismore, Oct. 1788; entered navy 19 May 1800; captain 5 Jany. 1829; retired captain 5 Jany. 1849; retired admiral 12 Sep. 1865. _d._ Teignmouth, Devon 17 Jany. 1869. _Reminiscences of a naval officer by Capt. A. Crawford, R.N. 2 vols._ 1851.

CRAWFORD, EDMUND THORNTON (_son of Mr. Crawford of Cowden near Dalkeith, land surveyor_). _b._ Cowden 1806; landscape and marine painter; A.R.S.A. 1839, R.S.A. 1848; one of the greatest landscape painters in Scotland; contributed many pictures to Royal Scottish Academy 1831–77; lived at Lasswade near Edinburgh 1858 to death. _d._ Lasswade 27 Sep. 1885. _bur._ in new cemetery at Dalkeith.

CRAWFORD, GEORGE MORLAND. _b._ Chelsfield court lodge, Kent 1816; barrister I.T. 5 May 1837; Paris correspondent of _Daily News_ 1850 to death; a severe censurer of the Imperial government; very intimate with Thiers, Gambetta and Floquet; stung by a wasp in the carotid artery, Oct. 1885. _d._ from blood poisoning in Paris 23 Nov. 1885. _Daily News 26 Nov. 1885 p._ 3, _28 Nov. p._ 3; _Pall Mall Gazette 26 Nov. 1885 p._ 11, _27 Nov. p._ 3, _portrait 9 Dec. p._ 5.

CRAWFORD, JOHN. _b._ Greenock 31 Aug. 1816; a house painter at Alloa 1834 to death; author of _Doric lays, being snatches of song and ballad 2 vols._ 1850–60; committed suicide at Alloa 13 Dec. 1873. _Memorials of the town and parish of Alloa, by the late John Crawford with memoir of the author by Rev. Charles Rogers_ 1874.

CRAWFORD, JOSEPH TUCKER. Consul general in Island of Cuba, April 1842 to death; C.B. 6 Dec. 1859. _d._ Havannah 21 July 1864.

CRAWFORD, REV. THOMAS JACKSON (_son of Wm. Crawford, professor of moral philosophy in United college, St. Andrews_). _b._ St. Andrews; ed. at Univ. of St. Andrews, B.D. 1831, D.D. 1844; minister of parish of Cults 1834, of parish of Glamis 1838, of St. Andrews parish Edin. 1844; professor of theology in Univ. of Edin. 1859 to death, being the last person appointed by the town to any chair in the Univ.; chaplain in ord. to the Queen 1861; a dean of the chapel royal; moderator of general assembly 1867; author of _Reasons of adherence to the Church of Scotland_ 1843; _Presbyterianism defended against the exclusive claims of prelacy as urged by the Romanists and Tractarians_ 1853, _2 ed._ 1867; _The Fatherhood of God_ 1866, _3 ed._ 1870; _The mysteries of Christianity_ 1874. _d._ Genoa 11 Oct. 1875. _Scott’s Fasti iii, pt. 2, p._ 772; _Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. ix_, 17 (1878).

CRAWFORD, WILLIAM (_2 son of Archibald Crawford of Ayr, poet 1779–1843_). _b._ Ayr 1825; teacher of drawing at Royal Institution, Edinburgh; exhibited pictures at Royal Scottish Academy, many of which were bought by Royal Assoc. for Promotion of fine arts in Scotland; his portraits in crayons of children and ladies were much sought after; A.R.S.A. 1860. _d._ Lynedoch place, Edinburgh 1 Aug. 1869. _Reg. and mag. of biog. ii_, 146 (1869).

CRAWFORD, WILLIAM THOMAS. Second lieut. R.A. 21 June 1833, lieut. col. 1 April 1855 to death; C.B. 24 March 1858. _d._ Rome 6 March 1862.

CRAWFURD, ANDREW. _b._ St. John’s hill, Lochwinnoch, Renfrewshire; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow, M.D. 1813; surgeon at Rothesay, Isle of Bute; professor of natural philosophy in the Dollar Institution a short time; author of a voluminous Eik or Supplement to John Jamieson’s _Etymological dictionary of the Scottish language 2 vols._ 1840, and of a supplement of 80 pages dated 1853 to _The Laird of Logan_ 1841; collected 44 quarto manuscript volumes relating to Renfrewshire. _d._ St. John’s hill, Lochwinnoch 27 Dec. 1854 aged 67.

CRAWFURD, JOHN (_son of Mr. Crawfurd of Islay, Hebrides islands, surgeon_). _b._ Islay 13 Aug. 1783; assistant surgeon H.E.I. Co. 1803; filled some of chief civil and political posts in Java 1811–17; envoy to courts of Siam and Cochin China 1821–23; governor of Singapore 1823–26; comr. to Pegu 1826; made a collection of fossil mastodon and other animals which were described by Buckland and Clift; sent on a mission to court of Ava 1827; F.R.S. 7 May 1818; contested Glasgow, Dec. 1832, Paisley, March 1834 and Sterling, Jany. 1835; pres. of Ethnological Soc. 1861, contributed 38 papers to the Journal 1861–68; author of _History of the Indian Archipelago 3 vols._ 1820; _Journal of an embassy to Ava_ 1828; _A grammar and dictionary of the Malay language 2 vols._ 1852; _A descriptive dictionary of the Indian islands and adjacent countries_ 1856. _d._ Elvaston place, South Kensington, London 11 May 1868. _Journal of Royal Geographical Soc. xxxviii, pp. cxlviii-clii_, (1868).

CRAWLEY, GEORGE BADEN (_2 son of George Abraham Crawley of London, solicitor 1795–1862_). _b._ 4 Sep. 1833; ed. at Harrow, was in cricket eleven; one of the best tennis players; a railway contractor; planned and carried out two railways in Belgium, two railways in Spain, a railway from Vera Cruz to Mexico and a railway of nearly 300 miles from Tiflis to Poti; his last work was a railway from Ploesti in Roumania to Cronstadt in Hungary but this was interrupted by the war 1878; accidentally killed on board a steamer off Progreso coast of Mexico 23 Nov. 1879. _bur._ Highgate cemetery, London 1 Jany. 1880.

CRAWLEY, PETER. _b._ Newington Green 5 Dec. 1799; fought Richard Acton for £50 at Blindlow heath 6 May 1823 when Crawley won after 13 rounds; fought James Ward for £200 at Royston heath 2 Jany. 1827 when Crawley won in 26 minutes; landlord of Queen’s head and French horn, Duke st. West Smithfield, London 1827 to death. _d._ at his house 12 March 1865. _Miles’s Pugilistica ii_, 233–47 (1880), _portrait_; _Illust. sporting news iii_, 37 (1864), _portrait_.

CRAWLEY, THOMAS ROBERT. _b._ 30 April 1818; ensign 45 foot 19 Dec. 1834; lieut. col. 15 dragoons 23 Sep. 1859 to 18 Sep. 1860; lieut. col. 6 dragoons 18 Sep. 1860 to 2 Dec. 1868 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 6 Feb. 1870; tried by a court martial at Aldershot 17 Nov. to 23 Dec. 1863 for falsely arresting Sergeant Lilley at Mhow in Hindustan, who died from effects of treatment he suffered after a month’s close confinement, honourably acquitted 23 Dec. 1863, the trial formed subject of several inquiries in House of Commons 1864 it cost the country £18,378 17s. 6d. _d._ 9 York terrace, Regent’s park, London 2 July 1880. _British quarterly Review xxxix_, 389–408 (1864); _Annual Register_ (1863) 312–28; _Illust. Times 28 Nov. 1863 p._ 345, _portrait_.

CRAWSHAY, ROBERT THOMPSON (_youngest son of the succeeding_). _b._ Cyfarthfa ironworks near Merthyr Tydvil 8 March 1817; manager of the ironworks; head of the business 1867; known as the ‘iron king of Wales.’ _d._ Queen’s hotel, Cheltenham 10 May 1879, personalty sworn under £1,200,000, 21 June. _Practical Mag._ (1873) 81–4, _portrait_; _Journal of iron and steel instit._ (1879) 328–30.

CRAWSHAY, WILLIAM (_eld. son of Wm. Crawshay of Stoke Newington, Middlesex_). _b._ 1788; sole proprietor of Cyfarthfa ironworks; had 10 mines in active work turning out iron ore, 9 shafts and collieries, a domain with a railway 6 miles long and large estates in Berks and Gloucestershire; sheriff of Glamorganshire 1822. _d._ Caversham park, Reading 4 Aug. 1867, personalty sworn under £2,000,000, 7 Sep. _Red Dragon v_, 289–92 (1884), _portrait_; _G.M. Sep. 1867 pp._ 393–95.

CREAGH, JAMES. Ensign 86 foot 1 Jany. 1810, lieut. col. 30 April 1852 to 24 Jany. 1860; L.G. 26 Jany. 1874; colonel 34 foot 7 Oct. 1874 to death. _d._ 16 St. Stephen’s road, Westbourne park, London 1 Aug. 1875.

CREAGH, JASPER BYNG. Ensign 81 foot 9 April 1825, captain 5 Oct. 1832 to 5 Sep. 1834; captain 54 foot 20 Sep. 1839 to 12 Dec. 1843 when placed on h.p.; served with British auxiliary legion in north of Spain 1836–37; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ Richmond road, Bayswater, London 9 March 1881 in 68 year.

CREAGH, SIR MICHAEL (_5 son of John Creagh of Limerick_). _b._ 1788; ensign 86 foot 9 May 1802, major 24 Oct. 1821 to 31 Dec. 1830 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. 86 foot 24 Feb. 1832 to 7 Jany. 1842; lieut. col. 11 foot 7 Jany. 1842 to 27 June 1845; M.G. 20 June 1854; col. 73 foot 11 Jany. 1860 to death; knighted at St. James’s palace 1 Aug. 1832; K.H. 1832. _d._ Boulogne 14 Sep. 1860.

CREASY, SIR EDWARD SHEPHERD (_son of Edward Hill Creasy of Bexley, Kent, land agent_). _b._ Bexley 1812; ed. at Eton, Newcastle scholar 1831; scholar of King’s coll. Cam. 1832, fellow 1834, B.A. 1835, M.A. 1838; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1837; professor of ancient and modern history in Univ. coll. London 1840–60; chief justice of Ceylon 19 March 1860 to 1875 when he retired on pension of £1600; knighted at St. James’s palace 28 March 1860; professor of jurisprudence to the four Inns of Court, London; author of _Memoirs of eminent Etonians_ 1850, _2 ed._ 1876; _The fifteen decisive battles of the world from Marathon to Waterloo 2 vols._ 1851, _28 ed._ 1877; _The history of the rise and progress of the English constitution_ 1853, _14 ed._ 1888; _History of the Ottoman Turks 2 vols._ 1854, _new ed._ 1877; _History of England 2 vols._ 1869–70; _The old love and the new 3 vols._ 1870. _d._ 15 Cecil st. Strand, London 27 Jany. 1878. _I.L.N. lxxii_, 133 (1878), _portrait_.

CRESSWELL, ADDISON JOHN BAKER (_son of Francis Easterby of Blackheath, Kent who assumed name of Cresswell and d. 1820_). _b._ 1 Oct. 1788; ed. at C.C. coll. Ox., M.A. 1810; sheriff of Northumberland 1821; M.P. for North Northumberland 12 July 1841 to 23 July 1847. _d._ Cresswell near Morpeth 5 May 1879.

CRESSWELL, SIR CRESSWELL (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Biggmarket, Newcastle 1794; ed. at Charterhouse and Em. coll. Cam., B.A. 1814, M.A. 1818; admitted at M.T. 1810, at I.T. 1815, barrister I.T. 25 June 1819, bencher 1834; went Northern circuit of which he became joint leader with Robert Alexander; recorder of Hull 1830; K.C. 1834; M.P. for Liverpool 26 July 1837 to Jany. 1842; justice of Court of Common Pleas 22 Jany. 1842 to 11 Jany. 1858; serjeant-at-law 27 Jany. 1842; knighted at St. James’s Palace 4 May 1842; judge of Court of Probate and Divorce (established by 20 & 21 Vict. c. 77) 11 Jany. 1858 to death; adjudicated upon 1000 cases in only one of which was his judgment reversed; P.C. 3 Feb. 1858; published with R. V. Barnewall _Reports of cases in the Court of King’s Bench 1822–1830_, _10 vols._ 1823–32; thrown from his horse on Constitution hill and his kneepan fractured 17 July 1863. _d._ from heart disease at 21 Prince’s gate, Hyde park, London 29 July 1863. _Law Mag. and law review xx_, 179–88 (1866); _Law Times xxxviii_, 535–7 (1863).

CRESSWELL, SAMUEL GURNEY (_3 son of Francis Cresswell of Lynn, Norfolk_). Entered navy 1842; lieut. of the Investigator 17 Dec. 1849, searched for Sir John Franklin in the Polar sea 1850–53; explored 170 miles of Banks island in sledges 18 April to 20 May 1851, arrived in London 7 Oct 1853 being the first person who actually effected the North-west passage; presented with an address in the guildhall, Lynn 26 Oct. 1853; captain 17 Sep. 1858; received Baltic and Arctic medals and a portion of the £10,000 awarded to officers and crew of the Investigator for discovery of N.W. passage; published _Eight sketches in colours of voyage of Investigator_ 1854; illustrated _R. J. le M. M’Clure’s Discovery of north west passage_ 1856. _d._ Bank house, King’s Lynn 14 Aug. 1867 aged 39. _I.L.N. xxiii_, 389 (1853).

CRESTADORO, ANDREA. _b._ Genoa 1808; ed. at Univ. of Turin, Ph. Doc., professor of natural philosophy; came to England 1849; patented certain improvements in impulsoria 1852; a model of his metallic balloon was shown at Crystal Palace, June 1868; compiled catalogues for Sampson Low and Co. 1859–61; chief librarian of Manchester free libraries, Dec. 1862 to death; originated index catalogues, generally adopted as models by English municipal libraries; naturalised in England 16 April 1866; received order of Crown of Italy 1878; author of _The art of making catalogues or a method to obtain a most perfect printed catalogue of the British Museum library, by A Reader therein_ 1856; _Du pouvoir temporel et de la souveraineté Pontificale_, _Paris_ 1861; _Catalogue of books in the Manchester free library, Reference department_ 1864; _Taxation reform, or the best way of raising the revenue_ 1878. _d._ 155 Upper Brook st. Manchester 7 April 1879. _Momus 20 March 1879_, _portrait_.

CRESWICK, THOMAS. _b._ Sheffield 5 Feb. 1811; landscape painter in London 1828; exhibited 139 pictures at R.A., 80 at B.I. and 46 at Suffolk st. gallery 1828–70; A.R.A. 1842, R.A. 11 Feb. 1851; largely employed as a designer of book illustrations; 109 of his paintings were collected together at London International Exhibition 1873; many of his pictures were in Manchester Exhibition 1887. _d._ The Limes, Linden grove, Bayswater, London 28 Dec. 1869. _I.L.N. xviii_, 219 (1851), _portrait_, _lvi_, 53 (1870), _portrait_; _A catalogue of the works of T. Creswick by T. O. Barlow_ 1873.

CRESY, EDWARD. _b._ Dartford, Kent 7 May 1792; walked through England to study, measure and draw the cathedrals and most interesting buildings 1816; walked through France, Switzerland, Italy and Greece 1817–20; architect and civil engineer in London 1820 to death; superintending inspector under general board of health; author of _A practical treatise on bridge building_ 1839; _Illustrations of Stone church, Kent_ 1840; _An encyclopædia of civil engineering_ 1847, _2 ed._ 1856; author with George Ledwell Taylor of _The architectural antiquities of Rome 2 vols. folio 1821–2_, _new ed._ 1874; _Architecture of the middle ages in Italy_ 1829. _d._ South Darenth, Kent 12 Nov. 1858. _G. L. Taylor’s Autobiography of an octogenarian architect 2 vols._ 1870–72.

CREWDSON, JANE (_2 dau. of George Fox of Perran-arworthal, Cornwall_). _b._ Perran-arworthal 22 Oct. 1808; author of _Aunt Jane’s Verses for children_ 1851, _3 ed._ 1871; _Lays of the Reformation and other lyrics_ 1860; _A little while and other poems_ 1864, _3 ed._ 1872. (_m._ Oct. 1836 Thomas Dillworth Crewdson of Manchester, manufacturer). _d._ Summerlands, Whalley Range, Manchester 14 Sep. 1863.

CREWE, REV. HENRY ROBERT (_2 son of Sir Henry Harpur, 7 baronet 1763–1818 who assumed name of Crewe 1808_). _b._ Stourfield house 4 Sep. 1801; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1830; R. of Breadsall, Derbyshire 1830 to death; author of _The Church of England, Pro. and Con._ 1843; _Repeal of the corn laws by One who fears God and regards man_ 1846; _The war of Satan and the battle of God, remarks on Turkey and the East_ 1854; _The war of prophecy_ 1854. _d._ Breadsall rectory 29 Sep. 1865.

CREYKE, VEN. STEPHEN (_youngest son of Richard Creyke 1746–1826, commissioner of the Victualling office_). _b._ 24 Sep. 1796; ed. at C.C. coll. Ox., B.A. 1816, M.A. 1820, fellow of his college 1821–23; R. of Wigginton near York 1834–44; V. of Sutton-on-the-Forest near York 1837–44; preb. of York 28 Sep. 1841 to death; R. of Beeford, Yorkshire 1844–65; archdeacon of York 16 Oct. 1845 to 1867; canon res. of York 1857–73; R. of Bolton-Percy, Yorkshire 1865 to death. _d._ Bolton-Percy 11 Dec. 1883.

CRICHTON, SIR ALEXANDER (_2 son of Alexander Crichton of Woodhouselee and Newington, Midlothian_). _b._ Edinburgh 2 Dec. 1763; came to London 1784; M.D. Leyden 29 July 1785; studied at Paris, Stuttgart, Vienna and Halle; member of Corporation of surgeons, May 1789, got himself disfranchised 1 May 1791; L.R.C.P. 25 June 1791; physician to Westminster hosp. 1794; phys. in ord. to Alexander I Emperor of Russia 1804; head of Russian civil medical department; F.R.S. 8 May 1800; F.G.S. 1819; received grand cross of the Red Eagle 27 Dec. 1820, grand cross of St. Anne, Aug. 1830; knighted at the Pavilion, Brighton 1 March 1821; author of _Inquiry into the nature and origin of mental derangement 2 vols._ 1798; _A synoptical table of diseases designed for the use of students_ 1805; _Account of experiments with vapour of tar in cure of pulmonary consumption_ 1817; _On the treatment and cure of pulmonary consumption_ 1823. _d._ The Grove near Sevenoaks, Kent 4 June 1856. _bur._ Norwood cemetery. _Proc. of Royal Soc. viii_, 269–72 (1856); _Quarterly Journal of Geog. Soc. xiii, pp. lxiv-lxvi_ (1857).

CRICHTON, REV. ANDREW. _b._ parish of Kirkmahoe, Dumfriesshire Dec. 1790; engaged in teaching at Edinburgh and North Berwick; edited _North Briton_ 1830–32, _Edinburgh Advertiser_ 1832 to June 1851; member of presbytery of Edin.; elder for burgh of Cullen in general assembly of Church of Scotland 1852 to death; LLD. St. Andrew’s 1837; author of _Converts from infidelity 2 vols._ 1827; _History of Arabia 2 vols._ 1833; with H. Wheaton of _Scandinavia ancient and modern 2 vols._ 1838. _d._ 33 St. Bernard’s crescent, Edinburgh 9 Jany. 1855.

CRICHTON, REV. ANDREW (_son of Rev. David Crichton, English master at Madras college, St. Andrews_). _b._ St. Andrews 22 May 1837; bursar at Univ. of Edin. 1852, B.A. 1857; licensed as a preacher by free presbytery of Arbroath June 1860; co-pastor of New North free church, Edinburgh Dec. 1860 to March 1866; pastor of free church, Chapelshade, Dundee 30 March 1866 to death; most popular preacher in Dundee; contributed many articles to _Family Treasury_, _London Review_ and _Sunday Mag._; author of _The confessions of a wandering soul_. _d._ Liberton, Edinburgh 13 July 1867. _bur._ in Grange cemetery, Edin. where is monument. _Memorials of the late Rev. A. Crichton_, _edited by W. G. Blaikie_ (1868).

CRICHTON, SIR ARCHIBALD WILLIAM (_eld. son of Patrick Crichton, captain 47 foot_). _b._ 1791; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; physician to Emperor of Russia and his family; member of Russian medical council; councillor of state in Russia; received star of legion of honour 1814; D.C.L. Ox. 11 Jany. 1817; knighted by Prince Regent at Carlton house 13 March 1817; received grand cross of Red Eagle of Prussia 1829, of St. Stanislaus 1832, of St. Anne 1834 and of St. Vladimir 1836. _d._ St. Petersburg 27 Feb. 1865.

CRICHTON, JOHN (_7 child of Thomas Crichton of Dundee, merchant who was b. in Queen Anne’s reign_). _b._ Dundee 22 Feb. 1772; ed. at Univs. of St. Andrew’s and Edin.; M.R.C.S. Edin. 1790; surgeon at Dundee 1791; became an eminent lithotomist; performed operation of lithotomy 200 times, being unsuccessful in 14 cases only; surgeon to Royal Infirmary, Dundee 1836, his full-length portrait by John Gibson was placed in the Infirmary 14 June 1841; a reader in the Glasite church, Dundee 60 years; never went out of Scotland. _d._ Tay st. Dundee 3 July 1860. _W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 182–4.

CRICHTON, WILLIAM HINDLEY. Entered Madras army 19 Aug. 1839, lieut. col. Madras staff corps 19 Aug. 1865 to 22 July 1871; hon. M.G. 17 Feb. 1872; C.B. 18 May 1860. _d._ Beaconside, North Devon 7 Dec. 1885 aged 66.

CRINNON, RIGHT REV. PETER FRANCIS. _b._ Cullen, co. Louth 1817 or 1818; went to Canada 1850; studied at St. Sulpice coll. Montreal; ordained in Toronto 1854; priest successively at London, St. Mary’s, Biddulph, and Kintora; priest at Stratford 1858 where he built St. Mary’s church; vicar general of London; R.C. bishop of Hamilton, Canada 1874 to death, during his administration of the diocese the number of Roman Catholics was doubled. _d._ Jacksonville, Florida 25 Nov. 1882. _Dominion Annual Register_ 1883 _p._ 337.

CRIPPS, JOHN MARTEN (_son of John Cripps_). _b._ 1780; Fellow commoner at Jesus coll. Cam. 27 April 1798, M.A. 1803; travelled in the East with Edward Daniel Clarke 3 years; introduced from Russia the Khol-rabi for the use of dairy farms; F.L.S. 1803, F.S.A. 1805; presented part of his large collection of statues, antiques and oriental flora to Univ. of Cam. and other public institutions. _d._ Novington near Lewes 3 Jany. 1853. _Proc. of Linnæan Soc. ii_, 231–2 (1855); _M. A. Lower’s Worthies of Sussex_ (1865) 271–73.

CRITCHETT, GEORGE. _b._ Highgate 25 March 1817; ed. at London hospital; M.R.C.S. 1839, F.R.C.S. 1844, member of council 1870; demonstrator of anatomy at London hospital, assistant surgeon 1846, surgeon Aug. 1861 to 1863; one of the best operators on the eye; pres. of Hunterian Soc. 2 years; pres. of International congress of Ophthalmology held in London 1872; ophthalmic surgeon and lecturer at Middlesex hospital 1876; author of _Lectures on ulcers of the lower extremities_ 1849. _d._ 21 Harley st. London 1 Nov. 1882. _I.L.N. lxxxi_, 497 (1882), _portrait_.

CRIVELLI, DOMENICO FRANCESCO MARIA (_son of Gaetano Crivelli 1774–1836 tenor singer at King’s theatre, London_). _b._ Brescia 1794; came to England with his father 1817; taught singing in London 1817 to death; principal professor of singing at Royal Academy of Music 1823 to death; taught many of the best English singers. _d._ 71 Upper Norton st. Fitzroy sq. London 31 Dec. 1856.

CROCKER, CHARLES. _b._ Chichester 22 June 1797; shoemaker at Chichester 1809–39; employed by W. H. Mason the publisher 1839–45; sexton of Chichester cathedral 1845 to death; author of _The vale of obscurity, the Lavant and other poems_ 1830, _3 ed._ 1841; _A visit to Chichester cathedral_ 1848; _Poetical works of C. Crocker_ 1860. _d._ South st. Chichester 6 Oct. 1861. _M. A. Lower’s Worthies of Sussex_ (1865) 87–8; _Lives of illustrious shoemakers by W. E. Winks_ (1883) 321; _Sketches of obscure poets_ (1833) 102–112.

CROCKETT, JAMES (_son of Mr. Crockett, a showman by Miss Cross of Nottingham who was 6 feet 8 inches in height_). _b._ Prestyn, Radnorshire 9 May 1835; cornet player in circus of Messrs. Sanger, lion tamer with them 1857; performed in chief capitals of Europe; returned to England 1863; went to United States 1864; travelled in western states with Howes and Cushing’s European circus at a salary of £20 a week; fell down dead in the circus at Cincinnati 6 July 1865. _Illust. Sporting news ii_, 377, 437 (1864), _portrait_; _Era 30 July 1865 p. 10, col. 1_, _6 Aug. p. 11, col. 4_; _I.L.N. xxxviii_, 90 (1861).

CROFT, SIR ARCHER DENMAN, 8 Baronet (_2 son of Sir Richard Croft, 6 baronet 1762–1818_). _b._ Old Burlington st. London 7 Dec. 1801; ed. at Westminster; succeeded his brother 29 Oct. 1835; barrister L.I. 30 April 1839; a master of Court of Queen’s Bench 1838 to death. _d._ 1 Sussex place, Hyde park, London 10 Jany. 1865.

CROFT, VEN. JAMES (_eld. son of Rev. Robert Nicholas Croft 1754–1831, canon res. of York cath._) _b._ 2 July 1784; ed. at Eton and Peterhouse Cam.; B.A. 1807, M.A. 1812; R. of Saltwood near Hythe 1812 to death; preb. of Ely 3 Nov. 1815; R. of Cliffe-at-Hoo, Kent 1818 to death; canon of Canterbury 26 April 1822; archdeacon of Canterbury 18 June 1825 to death. _d._ Saltwood rectory 9 May 1869.

CROFT, SIR JOHN, 1 Baronet (_eld. son of John Croft of Oporto, merchant, who d. 11 Feb. 1805_). _b._ 21 March 1778; comr. to distribute parliamentary grant of £100,000 to the Portugese sufferers by Marshal Massena’s invasion 1811–12; chargé d’affaires at Lisbon 1815; F.R.S. 5 March 1818; created baronet 17 Dec. 1818 for services during Peninsular war; K.T.S. 10 Dec. 1821; D.C.L. Ox. 1822. _d._ 53 Queen Anne st. London 5 Feb. 1862.

CROFT, WILLIAM (_2 son of Stephen Croft of Stillington hall, Yorkshire 1744–1813_). _b._ 2 April 1782; entered navy 1 Sep. 1795; captain 13 Oct. 1807; admiral on half pay 28 Nov. 1857. _d._ Stillington 6 May 1872.

CROFTON, EDWARD CROFTON, 2 Baron. _b._ Clarges st. London 1 Aug. 1806; succeeded his father as 4 baronet 8 Jany. 1816, and his grandmother as 2 baron 12 Aug. 1817; a representative peer of Ireland 20 Jany. 1840 to death; a lord in waiting to the Queen, Feb. to Dec. 1852, Feb. 1858 to June 1859 and July 1866 to Dec. 1868. _d._ Mote park, Roscommon 27 Dec. 1869.

CROFTON, EDWARD WALTER. 2 lieut. R.A. 26 July 1831, col. 30 May 1862 to death; C.B. 1 March 1861. _d._ Malta 26 June 1863.

CROFTON, GEORGE ALFRED. _b._ 1785; entered navy March 1798; captain 1 Feb. 1812; V.A. on h.p. 9 July 1855. _d._ Clifton 23 Feb. 1858.

CROFTON, JOHN FFOLLIOTT. _b._ 9 Oct. 1802; ensign 6 foot 18 Dec. 1824, lieut. col. 7 Aug. 1846 to 21 July 1848; col. of 95 foot 25 Aug. 1868, of 6 foot 5 Sep. 1869 to death; general 23 Aug. 1877. _d._ 29 Sussex gardens, Hyde park, London 17 July 1885.

CROGGAN, JOHN WILLIAM. 2 lieut. Madras artillery 18 Dec. 1823, col. commandant 14 Dec. 1868 to death; L.G. 10 April 1876; author of _Miscellaneous exercises on artillery_ 1856; _A treatise on Mortar practice, velocity, time of flight and range_ 1865. _d._ 35 Tregunter road, London 2 May 1877.

CROKAT, WILLIAM. _b._ near Edinburgh 1788; ensign 20 foot 9 April 1807, captain 31 March 1814 to 7 Nov. 1826 when placed on h.p.; witnessed the death of Napoleon at St. Helena 5 May 1821, being the original of the “Officer on guard” in Steuben’s well known engraving; general 25 Oct. 1871. _d._ 52 Inverkeith’s row, Edinburgh 6 Nov. 1879 in 92 year.

CROKER, JOHN WILSON (_son of John Croker, surveyor general of customs and excise in Ireland_). _b._ Galway 20 Dec. 1780; ed. at Portarlington and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1800, LL.B. and LLD. 1809; student at L.I. 1800; called to Irish bar 1802; M.P. for Downpatrick 1807–12, for Athlone 1812–18, for Yarmouth, Isle of Wight 1819–20, for Bodmin 1820–26, for Aldeburgh, Suffolk 1826–27 and 1830–32, for Univ. of Dublin 1827–30; one of chief opponents of the Reform bill; sec. of the Admiralty 9 Oct. 1809 to Nov. 1830 when he retired on a pension of £1500; P.C. 16 June 1828; one of founders of _Quarterly Review_ 1809 in which he wrote about 260 articles 1809–64; F.R.S. 5 July 1810; friend and factotum of 3 Marquis of Hertford (the Marquis of Steyne of _Vanity Fair_) who left him £21,000 and his cellar of wine 1842; author of _Familiar epistles to F. J[one]s, Esq. on the present state of the Irish stage_ 1804 _anon. 5 ed._ 1804; _Talavera_ 1809; _Essays on the early period of the French revolution_ 1857 and other books; edited _The new Whig guide_ 1819; _Boswell’s Life of Dr. Johnson 4 vols._ 1831 and other books. _d._ at house of Sir Wm. Wightman, St. Alban’s Bank, Hampton, Middlesex 10 Aug. 1857. _bur._ at West Moulsey. _Memoirs, diaries and correspondence of J. W. Croker edited by L. J. Jennings_, _2 ed. 3 vols._ 1885, _portrait_; _Quarterly Review cxlii_, 83–126 (1876); _D. O. Madden’s Chiefs of

## parties ii_, 81–112 (1859); _J. Grant’s Memoir of Sir G. Sinclair_

(1870) 213–28; _Mrs. Houston’s A woman’s memories i_, 1–18 (1883); _H. Martineau’s Biographical Sketches_, _4 ed._ (1876) 376–85; _Maclise Portrait gallery_ (1883) 72–4, _portrait_.

NOTE.—D’Israeli ridiculed him very successfully in Coningsby under name of Rigby, also in Vivian Grey under name of Vivida Vis; Lady Morgan depicted him in her novel Florence Macarthy as Councillor Crawley, and Lord Brougham in his novel Albert Lunel us La Croasse.

CROKER, MARIANNE (_dau. of Francis Nicholson of Whitby, Yorkshire, artist 1753–1844_). _b._ Whitby; produced her first drawing upon stone 1816; wrote _The adventures of Barney Mahoney_ 1832, and _My village versus our village_ 1832, both of which have the name of Thomas Crofton Croker on their title pages; (_m._ 1830 T. C. Croker 1798–1854). _d._ 3 Gloucester road, Old Brompton, London 6 Oct. 1854.

CROKER, THOMAS CROFTON (_only son of Thomas Croker, major in the army who d. 22 March 1818_). _b._ Buckingham sq. Cork 15 Jany. 1798; clerk in the Admiralty, London 1818 to Feb. 1850 when he retired as senior clerk of the first class on a pension of £580, introduced lithography into the Admiralty; F.S.A. 1827; M.R.I.A. 1827; founder and pres. of Society of Noviomagus 11 Dec. 1828 to his death; helped to found Camden Soc. 1839, Percy Soc. 1840 and British Archælogical Assoc. 1843; edited _Willis’s Current Notes_ Jany. 1851 to death; author of _Researches in the South of Ireland_ 1834; _Fairy legends and traditions of the South of Ireland 3 parts_ 1825–28, _several editions_; _Legends of the Lakes, or sayings and doings at Killarney 2 vols._ 1829, _new ed._ 1874; _The popular songs of Ireland_ 1839 another ed. in Morley’s Universal Library vol. 40; _The Keen of the South of Ireland illustrative of Irish history, Percy Soc. vol._ 13 (1842); _A walk from London to Fulham_ 1860, and many other works and translations. _d._ 3 Gloucester road, Old Brompton, London 8 Aug. 1854. _Fairy Legends of the South of Ireland by T. C. Croker with a memoir of the author by his son T. F. D. Croker_ 1862; _Dublin Univ. Mag. xxxiv_, 203–16 (1849), _portrait_; _Fraser’s Mag. iii_, 67 (1831), _portrait_; _Mrs. Balmanno’s Pen and pencil_ (1858) 156–71, _portrait_; _C. R. Smith’s Retrospections i_, 251–57 (1883); _Numismatic Chronicle xviii_, 20–1 (1856); _Maclise Portrait Gallery_ (1883) 49–53, _portrait_; _G.M. xlii_, 397–401 (1854).

CROKER, WILLIAM. Ensign 17 foot 27 March 1803, lieut. col. 1 April 1836 to 5 Nov. 1847 when he sold out; C.B. 20 Dec. 1839; colonel in the army 9 Nov. 1846. _d._ Cheltenham 11 Aug. 1852 aged 64.

CROLL, ALEXANDER ANGUS (_youngest son of George Croll of Perth_). _b._ Perth 1811; civil engineer in London; a pioneer in extension of telegraphy; chairman of United Kingdom electric telegraph company; publicly presented with a testimonial of plate worth 1000 guineas 1871; originated and erected the Wool Exchange in city of London; colonel 2 Tower Hamlets volunteers 1869–85; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1853. _d._ Dunblane, Scotland 7 June 1887. _bur._ Woking cemetery, Surrey 11 June. _I.L.N. xxiii_, 195 (1853).

CROLL, FRANCIS. _b._ Musselburgh about 1826; line engraver. _d._ Edinburgh 12 Feb. 1854. _Art Journal_ (1854) 119.

CROLY, REV. GEORGE. _b._ Dublin 17 Aug. 1780; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1798, B.A. 1800, M.A. 1804, hon. LLD. 1831; came to London about 1810; dramatic critic to the _New Times_; took charge of parish of Romford, Essex 1832–35; R. of St. Benet Sherehog with St. Stephen’s, Walbrook, London 1835 to death; afternoon preacher at Foundling hospital 1847–48; wrote poems in the _Literary Gazette_ from 1817; edited _The Graces_ 1824, _The Literary Souvenir_ 1825–34; author of _Paris in 1815_, 1817; _The Beauties of the British poets_ 1828; _Tales of the Saint Bernard_ 1829; _Salathiel, A story of the past, the present and the future_ 1829, _new ed._ 1855; _The life and times of George the Fourth_ 1830, _2 ed. 2 vols._ 1841; _Divine providence, or the three cycles of Revelation_ 1834; _A memoir of Edmund Burke 2 vols._ 1840; _Historical sketches, speeches and characters_ 1842; _Marston, or the soldier and statesman 3 vols._ 1846, _3 ed._ 1861; _Scenes from Scripture with other poems_ 1851; _The book of Job_ 1863, and numerous other books and single sermons. _d._ suddenly whilst walking in Holborn, London 24 Nov. 1860. _bur._ St. Stephen’s, Walbrook where a bust of him was placed. _The book of Job by Rev. G. Croly with a biographical sketch by his son_ 1873; _A few personal recollections of Rev. G. Croly by Richard Herring_ 1861; _James Grant’s Metropolitan pulpit i_, 239–56; _G. Gilfillan’s A second gallery of literary portraits_ (1850) 145–59; _G.M. x_, 104–7 (1861); _I.L.N. iv_, 248 (1844), _portrait_, _xxiv_, 401 (1854), _portrait_.

CROMBIE, THOMAS. Ensign 79 foot 12 Aug. 1824; major Rifle corps 16 Nov. 1841 to 20 Oct. 1848 when placed on h.p.; captain Coldstream guards 22 June 1849 to 9 Feb. 1855 when placed on h.p.; col. 96 foot 10 May 1872 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ 33 Half Moon st, Piccadilly, London 14 Oct. 1877.

CROMMELIN, THOMAS LAKE. _b._ 1805; executed commissions for gentlemen on the chief public races 1835–52; a butcher in Melbourne, Australia 1853; police magistrate Victoria gold fields 1854; commissioner of crown lands Riverina district, New South Wales 1860, resigned 1869; sec. to Union club, Sydney for one month only 1869. _d._ in house of his friend hon. John Bowie Wilson at Sydney 7 April 1877. _Sporting Times 2 May 1885 pp._ 2–3.

CROMMELIN, WILLIAM ARDEN (_son of Charles Barker Crommelin of Garruckpore_). _b._ 1823; second lieut. Bengal engineers 10 Dec. 1841, colonel 1 Jany. 1870 to 31 Dec. 1878 when he retired with hon. rank of L.G.; C.B. 26 July 1858; inspector general of military works 2 Aug. 1865 to 1877, granted service reward 12 Jany. 1875. _d._ Brightlands, Barnes, Surrey 30 Oct. 1886.

CROMPTON, SIR CHARLES JOHN (_3 son of Peter Crompton, M.D. of Derby_). _b._ Derby 12 June 1797; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; barrister I.T. 23 Nov. 1821, bencher 1851; tubman in Court of Exchequer, postman; contested Preston, Dec. 1832 and Newport, Isle of Wight, July 1847; assessor of Court of Passage, Liverpool 1836–52; a comr. of inquiry into Court of Chancery, Dec. 1850; justice of Court of Queen’s Bench, Feb. 1852 to death; serjeant-at-law Feb. 1852; knighted at St. James’s palace 26 Feb. 1852; author with John Jervis of _Reports in the Court of Exchequer_ 1830–32, _2 vols._ 1832–33; with Roger Meeson of _Reports in the Court of Exchequer 1832–34, 2 vols._ 1834–35; with R. Meeson and Henry Roscoe of _Reports in the Court of Exchequer 1834–36_, _2 vols._ 1834–36. _d._ 22 Hyde park sq. London 30 Oct. 1865. _Law mag. and law review xxiii_, 1–30 (1867); _I.L.N. xxi_, 356 (1852), _portrait_.

CROMPTON, JOSHUA SAMUEL (_son of Joshua Crompton of York, who d. 1832_). _b._ 17 Sep. 1799; M.P. for Ripon 1832 to 1834. _d._ Azerley hall, Ripon 17 June 1881.

CROMPTON, THOMAS BONSOR (_youngest son of John Crompton of Farnworth mills, Lancashire, paper maker_). _b._ Farnworth 20 May 1792; partner with his brother John Crompton in Farnworth Mills, sole proprietor 1835 to death; contrived several mechanical appliances for utilising fibres hitherto considered unsuitable for being made into paper; became an extensive newspaper proprietor; proprietor of the _Morning Post_; erected very large cotton mill at Prestolee near Farnworth about 1833. _d._ the Hassels, Sandy, Beds. 3 Sep. 1858.

CROMPTON-STANSFIELD, WILLIAM ROOKES (_brother of Joshua Samuel Crompton 1799–1881_). _b._ 3 Aug. 1790; ed. at Harrow and Jesus coll. Cam., B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816; barrister I.T. 22 May 1819; M.P. for Huddersfield 1837 to 1853; took additional name of Stansfield 1819. _d._ Frimley park, Surrey 5 Dec. 1871.

CROMWELL, REV. THOMAS. _b._ 14 Dec. 1792; entered Literary department of Longman & Co. of London, publishers; minister of Unitarian chapel, Stoke Newington Green 1839–64; minister of old presbyterian chapel at Canterbury 1865 to death; F.S.A. Dec. 1838; author of _The school boy with other poems_ 1816; _Honour, or arrivals from college, privately printed_ 1820, a comedy played at Drury Lane 17 and 18 April 1819; _Oliver Cromwell and his times_ 1821, _2 ed._ 1822; _History of the town and borough of Colchester 2 vols._ 1825; _History description of the parish of Clerkenwell_ 1828; _The Druid, a tragedy_ 1832; _Walks through Islington_ 1835; _The soul and the future life_ 1859. _d._ Canterbury 22 Dec. 1870. _Notes and Queries 4th series, ix_, 198, 267, 347 (1872).

CRONYN, RIGHT REV. BENJAMIN (_son of Thomas Cronyn, mayor of Kilkenny_). _b._ Kilkenny 1802; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825, B.D. and D.D. 1855; held curacies in Ireland 1826–32; R. of St. Paul’s, London, Canada West 1832–57; bishop of Huron 14 Oct. 1857 to death, consecrated at Lambeth 28 Oct. 1857. _d._ London, Ontario 21 Sep. 1871. _I.L.N. xli_, 576, 587 (1862), _portrait_.

CROOK, JOSEPH (_eld. son of Joshua Crook of Whitebank, Bolton_). _b._ 1809; cotton manufacturer at Bolton; M.P. for Bolton 9 July 1852 to Jany. or Feb. 1861. _d._ Oakfield, Heaton, Bolton 8 Dec. 1884 in 76 year.

CROOKS, JAMES. _b._ Kilmarnock, Scotland 1778; one of earliest settlers in Upper Canada, lived at Niagara 1794; established first paper mill in and sent first load of wheat and flour from Upper Canada to Montreal; served with distinction during war of 1812; member of Canadian legislative assembly and council. _d._ West Flamborough, Ontario 1860.

CROOKSHANK, ALEXANDER CROWDER. Deputy controller Dublin district 11 Dec. 1872 to death; C.B. 24 May 1873. _d._ 20 Upper Mount st. Dublin 14 April 1877. _Graphic xv_, 408 (1877), _portrait_.

CROPPER, JOSEPH ALMOND. _b._ Loughborough; barrister G.I. 11 Feb. 1823; devised property to Westminster hospital worth £800 per annum, to St. George’s hospital worth £700, and to Middlesex hospital property worth £600 per annum and the sum of £4000, these 3 hospitals are enabled by special acts of parliament to receive lands notwithstanding the Statute of Mortmain. _d._ Fulwood house, Gray’s Inn London 27 Sep. 1862 aged 79.

CROSBY, ALLAN JAMES (_only son of James Crosby of Streatham_). Matric. from Worcester coll. Ox. 9 Nov. 1854 aged 18, B.A. 1858, M.A. 1873; barrister I.T. 1 May 1865; employed in the public record office about 1860 to death; edited _Accounts and papers relating to Mary Queen of Scots, Camden Soc._ 1867; _Calendar of foreign state papers of the reign of Queen Elizabeth 4 vols._ 1871–80. _d._ Holmbush, Ide near Exeter 5 Dec. 1881. _Antiquarian Mag. i_, 152 (1882).

CROSBY, JAMES. _b._ 1806; ed. at Greenwich and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1826; barrister M.T. 25 June 1830; police magistrate at Kingston, St. Vincent, May 1844; member of house of assembly St. Vincent many years, speaker 1853; stipendiary magistrate British Guiana, March 1857, immigration agent general British Guiana 1 Oct. 1862 to death. _d._ Georgetown, Demerara 30 Aug. 1880.

CROSKERY, REV. THOMAS (_son of Mr. Croskery of co. Down, tradesman_). _b._ Carrowdore near Belfast 26 May 1830; licensed to preach by presbytery of Down 6 May 1851; a reporter and subsequently editor of the _Banner of Ulster_; ordained minister of Creggan, co. Armagh 17 July 1860, translated to Clonakilty, co. Cork 24 March 1863; minister of chapel at Waterside, city of Londonderry 1866–75; professor of logic and belles lettres in Magee college, Londonderry 1875–79, professor of theology 1879 to death; author of _A catechism on the doctrines of the Plymouth brethren_; _Plymouth brethrenism, a refutation of its principles and doctrines_ 1879; _Irish Presbyterianism, its history, character, influence and present position_ 1884. _d._ 3 Oct. 1886.

CROSLAND, THOMAS PEARSON. _b._ Crosland near Huddersfield 29 Dec. 1815; a merchant at Huddersfield; M.P. for Huddersfield 14 July 1865 to death. _d._ Gledholt near Huddersfield 8 March 1868.

CROSLEY, ALEXANDER. _b._ Camberwell 1827; a solicitor in London 1850 to death; common councilman for Langbourn ward 1857–61; under sheriff for London and Middlesex 8 times. _d._ 76 Camberwell grove, London 14 Jany. 1876 in 49 year.

CROSLEY, SIR CHARLES DECIMUS (_son of Henry Crosley_). _b._ the Grove, Camberwell, Surrey 21 Feb. 1820; ed. at Camberwell; a stock and share broker in city of London 1846 to death; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1854–55; knighted at Buckingham palace 1 May 1855 after visit of Emperor of the French; chevalier of legion of honour; a comr. of inland revenue for Middlesex. _d._ Eastbourne 12 Oct. 1882.

CROSMOND, ROSA, stage name of Helen Turner (_dau. of Sarah Rachael Leverson known as Madame Rachel of 47 New Bond st. London, enameller of ladies faces, who d. 12 Oct. 1880 aged 60_). Member of Carter’s choir at Albert hall, London about 1873; studied at Royal Academy of Music; sang at Her Majesty’s theatre 1878–79 and with Mapleson’s company in the United States; secured a high position at Milan particularly for her representation of Aida about 1881. (_m._ Edmund Turner of London, silk merchant who _d._ about 1879). _d._ St. George’s hospital, London 27 April 1888, having shot herself in a cab in Piccadilly Circus the night before.

CROSS, EDWARD. Superintendent of the Royal Menagerie, Exeter Change, Strand, London 1794 to 1814, Chunee the elephant shot there 9 March 1826, proprietor 1814 to 16 June 1829 when it was taken down and he removed his menagerie to the King’s Mews, Charing Cross; originated the Surrey Zoological gardens comprising 15 acres at Walworth, opened 12 Aug. 1831, proprietor 1831–44, the conservatory 300 feet in circumference was the largest in England; exhibited the Indian one-horned rhinoceros which cost £800, 1834, three giraffes 1836, picture of Mount Vesuvius painted by Danson 1837 reproduced 1846, Iceland and its volcanoes 1839, Jullien conducted promenade concerts here 1849–51. _d._ 48 Newington place, Kennington road, London 26 Sep. 1854 aged 80. _Hone’s Every-day book ii_, 321–36 (1838); _Brayley’s Surrey iii_, 409–11 (1850).

CROSS, JOHN. _b._ Tiverton, May 1819; studied painting at St. Quentin and Paris; exhibited a cartoon of ‘The death of Thomas à Becket’ at Westminster Hall 1844, and a large oil painting called ‘The clemency of Richard Cœur-de-Lion towards Bertrand de Gourdon’ 1847 which gained a first premium of £300 and was purchased by the comrs. for £1000; an exhibition of his principal works was held at Society of Arts, Adelphi 1861; his widow Mary Cross was granted civil list pension of £100, 19 June 1862. He _d._ 38 Gloucester road, Regent’s Park, London 27 Feb. 1861.

CROSS, JOHN (_2 son of James Cross of Mortfield near Bolton, Lancs. solicitor and banker, who d. 1 Nov. 1850 aged 79_). _b._ Mortfield 18 Jany. 1807; ed. at Bolton gr. school; articled to his father; solicitor at Bolton 1829–33; barrister G.I. and M.T. 8 June 1836; serjeant at law 17 May 1858; chairman of board of directors of Londonderry and Coleraine railway; author of _A treatise on the law of lien and stoppage in transitu_ 1840. _d._ 2 Avenue road, Regent’s park, London 1 June 1861.

CROSS, JOHN HENRY. _b._ London; connected with the Religious tract society more than 40 years; wrote for it 609 separate publications (majority being small books for children), total circulation of which amounted to nearly 80,000,000 copies, selections from them have been translated into 30 languages; edited the _Child’s Companion_ 33 years, the _Tract magazine_ 6 years. _d._ Lougborough road, Brixton 5 Feb. 1876 aged 72.

CROSS, JOHN KYNASTON (_son of John Cross of Gartside house, Bolton_). _b._ 13 Oct. 1832; a merchant at Manchester and a cotton spinner at Bolton; M.P. for Bolton 4 Feb. 1874 to 18 Nov. 1885; under sec. of state for India, Jany. 1883 to July 1885; author of _Imports, exports and the French treaty_ 1881 in Cobden Club Papers; hanged himself at Fernclough, Heaton, Bolton 20 March 1887.

CROSS, MARY ANN (_youngest child of Robert Evans 1773–1849, surveyor to Sir Roger Newdigate of Arbury hall, Warws._) _b._ Arbury farm, parish of Chilvers Coton, Warws. 22 Nov. 1819; ed. at Nuneaton and Coventry; removed with her father to Foleshill road, Coventry, March 1841; lived at 142 Strand, London as assistant editor of _Westminster Review_ Sep. 1851 to Oct. 1853; lived with George Henry Lewes at Holly lodge, Wandsworth 1859–60, at 16 Blandford sq. Regent’s park 1860–63, and at The Priory 21 North bank, St. John’s Wood 1863–78, G. H. Lewes _d._ 28 Nov. 1878, she proved his will 16 Dec. 1878; founded George Henry Lewes studentship worth nearly £200 a year to be held for 3 years by some student occupied in physiological investigation 1879; published _The life of Jesus critically examined by D. F. Strauss, translated from the fourth German edition 3 vols._ 1846 anon.; _The essence of Christianity by Ludwig Feuerbach translated from the second German edition by Marian Evans_ 1854; author of the following works under pseudonym of George Eliot: _Scenes of clerical life 2 vols._ 1858, _Adam Bede 3 vols._ 1859, _The mill on the Floss 3 vols._ 1860, _Silas Marner the weaver of Raveloe_ 1861, _Romola 3 vols._ 1863, _Felix Holt the Radical 3 vols._ 1866, _The Spanish Gypsy, a poem_ 1868, _Agatha, a poem_ 1869, _Middlemarch a study of provincial life 4 vols._ 1871–72, _The legend of Jubal and other poems_ 1874, _Daniel Deronda 4 vols._ 1876, _Impressions of Theophrastus Such_ 1879, _How Lisa loved the King_ 1883, _Essays and leaves from a Note-Book_ 1884. (_m._ 6 May 1880 under name of Mary Ann Evans Lewes, John Walter Cross of Weybridge, Surrey). _d._ 4 Cheyne walk, Chelsea 22 Dec. 1880. _bur._ by side of G. H. Lewes in Highgate cemetery 29 Dec. portrait of her by Sir Frederick Burton in National portrait gallery. _The life of George Eliot by J. W. Cross 3 vols._ 1884, 2 _portraits_; _George Eliot by Mathilde Blind_ 1883; _G. W. Cooke’s George Eliot, critical story of her life_ 1883; _Our living poets by H. B. Forman_ (1871) 467–500; _Biographical sketches by C. K. Paul_ (1883) 141–70; _Westminster Review, Jany. 1882 pp._ 65–71.

CROSS, PHILIP HENRY EUSTACE. L.R.C.S. Ireland 1848; assistant surgeon 1 West India regiment 3 April 1849; surgeon 97 foot 7 Sep. 1855; surgeon 13 foot 16 June 1857 to 19 Nov. 1858; staff surgeon 19 Nov. 1858; served in the Crimean war; surgeon major 27 Feb. 1872 to 14 April 1875 when he retired; slowly murdered his first wife Mary Lawson Cross by giving her doses of arsenic and strychnine, she _d._ at Shandy hall, Cork 2 June 1887, (_m._ (2) 17 June 1887 his governess Miss Skinner); found guilty of murder 17 Dec. 1887, hanged in Cork gaol 10 Jany. 1888. _Pall Mall Gazette 10 Jany. 1888 p. 7, col. 2._

CROSSE, ANDREW (_elder son of Richard Crosse of Fyne court, Broomfield, Somerset_). _b._ Fyne court 17 June 1784; ed. at Rev. Mr. Seyer’s school, The Fort, Bristol 1793–1802, caned on an average 3 times a day for 7 years; gentleman commoner at Brasenose coll. Ox. 1802, B.A. 1806; experimented on electro-crystallisation; observed appearance of insect life in metallic solutions supposed to be destructive to organic life 1837, the publication of this discovery gained him great notoriety. _d._ in the room in which he was born at Fyne Court 6 July 1855. _Memorials scientific and literary of Andrew Crosse the electrician by C. A. H. Crosse_ 1857; _H. M. Noad’s Manual of Electricity_, _4 ed._ (1855) 173–77, 256, 378–83, 390, 401; _Letters of H. G. Atkinson to Harriet Martineau_ (1851) 361–67.

CROSSE, THOMAS BRIGHT (_only son of Thomas Ikin_). _b._ 1796; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1817; assumed surname of Crosse 8 Sep. 1828; sheriff of Lancashire 1837; M.P. for Wigan 1 July 1841 to April 1842 when unseated on petition. _d._ 75 Cambridge terrace, Hyde park, London 21 March 1886.

CROSSLEY, SIR FRANCIS, 1 Baronet (_youngest son of John Crossley of Halifax, carpet manufacturer, who d. 17 Jany. 1837_). _b._ Halifax 26 Oct. 1817; carpet manufacturer at Dean Clough mills, Halifax, the largest concern of the kind in the world; M.P. for Halifax 1852–59, for west riding of Yorkshire 1859–65, for north west riding 1865–68, for north division of west riding 1868 to death; mayor of Halifax 1849 and 1850; founded 21 almshouses at Halifax 1855; donor of the People’s park, Halifax at cost of £41,300, opened 14 Aug. 1857, where a statue of him was erected 14 Aug. 1860; created baronet 23 Jany. 1863; author of _Canada and United States_ 1856. _d._ Belle Vue, Halifax 5 Jany. 1872, personalty sworn under £800,000, 27 May 1872. _Thrift by S. Smiles_ (1875) 205–17; _Enoch Mellor’s A true life_ 1872; _Illust. news of the world iii_ (1859), _portrait_; _Family Friend 1 March 1870 pp._ 39–43, _portrait_; _I.L.N. lx_, 55, 57, 587 (1872), _portrait_.

CROSSLEY, JAMES (_son of James Crossley of Halifax, clothing merchant 1767–1831_). _b._ The Mount, Halifax 31 March 1800; articled to Thomas Ainsworth of Manchester, attorney 1817; partner in firm of Ainsworth, Crossley and Sudlow at Manchester 1823–24 when Ainsworth died, partner in firm of Crossley and Sudlow 1824–60 when he retired; pres. of Incorporated Law Assoc. of Manchester 1840 and 1857; pres. of Manchester Athenæum 1847–50; pres. of Chetham Soc. Dec. 1847 to death, this society was mooted at his house in Booth st. Piccadilly early in 1843 and founded at the Chetham library 23 March 1843; F.S.A. 16 Dec. 1852; member of Surtees Soc. 1858, vice pres. 1861; pres. of Spencer Soc. 1866; the first pres. of Record Soc. 1878; one of chief contributors to _Retrospective Review_ 1820; collected a library of 100,000 volumes, part of which was sold at Manchester, May 1884, and the remainder in London, July 1884 and June 1885; edited for the Chetham Soc. _Potts’s Discovery of witches in the county of Lancaster_ 1845; _The diary and correspondence of Dr. John Worthington 2 vols._ 1847–55; author of _Vade-Mecum to Hatton_ 1867 privately printed. _d._ the Stocks house, Cheetham hill road, Manchester 1 Aug. 1883. _bur._ Kersal church 6 Aug. _Palatine note

## book iii_, 221–29 (1883), _portrait_; _J. Evans’s Lancashire

authors and orators_ (1850) 67–72; _W. Smith’s Old Yorkshire iii_, 49, _portrait_; _Antiquarian Mag. iv_, 198–202 (1883); _Bibliographer, Sep. 1883, pp._ 97–9; _Manchester Guardian 2 Aug. 1883, p. 6, cols. 1–5_; _Momus 11 March 1880_, _portrait_.

NOTE.—He is described under the initial C in an article called The Theatre in W. H. Ainsworth’s “December Tales” 1823 pp. 165–79, the article was written by J. P. Aston author of Sir John Chiverton.

CROSSLEY, JOHN (_brother of Sir Francis Crossley 1817–72_). _b._ Halifax 16 May 1812; mayor of Halifax 1849, 1850, 1861 and 1862; M.P. for Halifax 3 Feb. 1874 to Feb. 1877; built with his brothers Sir F. Crossley and Joseph Crossley (who _d._ 14 Sep. 1868) the Crossley Orphan house and school on Skircoat Moor about 1861. _d._ Broomfield, Halifax 16 April 1879. _Weekly Welcome_ (1879) 357–8, _portrait_.

CROSSLEY, JOHN SYDNEY. _b._ Loughborough 25 Dec. 1812; engineer to Leicester Canal company 1832; resident engineer to Midland Railway company 1857, engineer in chief 1858 to April 1875; M.I.C.E. 1 March 1859. _d._ Barrow upon Soar 10 June 1879. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lviii_, 341–43 (1879).

CROWDER, SIR RICHARD BUDDEN (_eld. son of Wm. Henry Crowder of Montagu place, London_). _b._ London 1796; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.; barrister L.I. 25 May 1821; went Western circuit; Q.C. 1837; recorder of Bristol, Aug. 1846 to April 1854; counsel of the Admiralty and judge advocate of the Fleet, Aug. 1849 to March 1854; M.P. for Liskeard 3 Jany. 1849 to March 1854; justice of Court of Common Pleas, March 1854 to death; serjeant at law, March 1854; knighted at St. James’s palace 3 May 1854. _d._ 17 Carlton house terrace, London 5 Dec. 1859. _Traits of character by a contemporary i_, 251–82 (1860); _Eton portrait gallery_ (1876) 445–47.

CROWDY, CHARLES (_3 son of James Crowdy of Highworth, Wilts. solicitor_). _b._ Highworth, March 1786; entered navy 7 Sep. 1799; captain 13 Jany. 1834; placed on retired list 1 July 1851; retired admiral 18 Oct. 1867. _d._ Pittville lawn, Cheltenham 17 May 1870.

CROWDY, JOHN. _b._ Lewknor, Oxon. 6 Jany. 1834; foreign editor of the _Guardian_ 1854 to death; editor successively of _The Choirmaster_, _The Musician_, _The Musical Standard_, and _The Artist_ from its commencement 15 Jany. 1880; published _The church choirmaster_ 1864; _A free chant service_ 1865; _A recitative service_ 1865; _A short commentary on Handel’s The Messiah_ 1875; author of a system of recitative for psalms and canticles in Congregational worship called ‘Free Chant’, designed to provide for an undisturbed delivery of the words with suitable musical chords or cadences without necessity of signs. _d._ Addlestone, Surrey 12 Jany. 1883. _The Artist 1 Feb. 1883 pp._ 45, 48.

CROWE, CATHERINE ANN (_dau. of John Stevens of Clarges street, Piccadilly, London_). _b._ Englefield Green, Kent 1790; lived in Edinburgh many years; a disciple of George Combe; one of the persons to whom authorship of _The Vestiges of Creation_ was attributed 1841; author of _Aristodemus, a tragedy_ 1838, _anon._; _The adventures of Susan Hopley 3 vols._ 1841, a dramatic version of this novel entitled _Susan Hopley or the vicissitudes of a servant girl_ by Dibdin Pitt was produced at the Victoria theatre, London 31 May 1841 and played more than 300 nights; _Men and women, or manorial rights 3 vols._ 1843; _The Seerest of Prevorst, translated from Kerner_ 1845; _The story of Lilly Dawson 2 vols._ 1847; _The night side of nature, or Ghosts and ghost seers 2 vols._ 1848, _several eds._; _Light and darkness or mysteries of life 3 vols._ 1850; _The adventures of a beauty, a novel 3 vols._ 1852; _The cruel kindness, a drama in 5 acts performed at Haymarket theatre, June 6, 1853_; _Linny Lockwood 2 vols._ 1853; _Spiritualism and the age we live in_ 1859; _Adventures of a monkey_ 1861 and many books for children. (_m._ Oct. 1822 in London, lieut.-col. John Crowe who _d._ 7 March 1860). Resided at 22 Sandgate road, Folkestone, where she became bedridden and _died_ of natural decay on 14 June 1872; Her son and only child Capt. John William Crowe is resident Leonard lodge, Dover road, Folkestone 1888. _Victoria Mag. xxxiii_, 35–44 (1879); _Colburn’s New monthly mag. xcvi_, 439–45 (1852).

CROWE, EYRE EVANS (_son of David Crowe, captain in H.E.I.Co.’s army_). _b._ Redbridge, Southampton 20 March 1799; ed. at Carlow and Trin. coll. Dublin; Paris correspondent of _Morning Chronicle_ 1832–44, joined staff of _Daily News_ 1846, editor 1849–51; author of _The pleasures of Melancholy, and a Saxon tale_ 1819; _To-day in Ireland_ 1825; _Yesterday in Ireland_ 1829; _The History of France 3 vols._ 1830–31 and _Lives of Foreign Statesmen_ 1833 both in Lardner’s Cabinet Cyclopædia; _Connemara_ 1843; _Charles Delmer, a story of the day_ 1853; _The Greek and the Turk or powers and prospects in the Levant_ 1853; _History of the reigns of Louis xviii and Charles x 2 vols._ 1854; _The History of France 5 vols._ 1858–68. _d._ 56 Beaumont st. Marylebone, London 25 Feb. 1868.

CROWE, JOHN. Ensign 32 foot 7 Aug. 1800, captain 30 May 1805 to 4 May 1826; major on h.p. 4 May 1826; served in Peninsula, July 1811 to end of the war 1814; lieut.-col. 10 Jany. 1837; retired 1846; K.H. 1837. _d._ Fairlea villa near Bideford 7 March 1860 aged 77.

CROWE, SIR JOHN RICE. Served in the Russian navy 6 years; British vice-consul at Hamerfest in Norway, May 1824, consul there 14 March 1837; consul general in Norway 16 Aug. 1843 to 2 April 1875 when he retired on a pension; C.B. 5 Dec. 1859; knighted at Windsor Castle 7 July 1874. _d._ near Christiania 10 Jany. 1877 aged 84. _Times 24 Jany. 1877 p. 6, col. 4._

CROWFOOT, REV. JOHN RUSTAT (_son of Wm. Henchman Crowfoot of Beccles, Suffolk, surgeon_). _b._ Beccles, 21 Feb. 1817; ed. at Eton and Caius coll. Cam., 12 wrangler 1839, B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842, B.D. 1849, fellow of his college 1840–52; C. of Eynesbury, Hunts. 1840–47; C. of St. Mary the Great, Cam. 1852–54; P.C. of Southwold, Suffolk 1854–60; V. of Wangfordcum-Reydon, Suffolk 1860 to death; published _Remarks on the University of Cambridge_ 1848; _Academic notes on Holy Scripture 1st series_ 1850; _Plea for a colonial college at Cambridge_ 1854; _Fragmenta Evangelica_ 1870; _Observations on the collation in Greek of Cureton’s Syriac Fragments of the Gospels_ 1872. _d._ Wangford vicarage 18 March 1875.

CROWLEY, ABRAHAM. Head of brewing firm of A. Crowley and Co. at Alton, Hants.; many refreshment houses were established in London and other places which especially supplied Crowley’s ales; built and supported a British school for 150 girls at Alton 1845. _d._ Alton 6 May 1864 aged 70. _Hampshire Chronicle 14 May 1864 p. 5._

CROWLEY, NICHOLAS JOSEPH (_3 son of Peter Crowley of Dublin_). _b._ Dublin 6 Dec. 1819; a pupil of Royal Dublin Society; exhibited 46 pictures at the R.A. 1835–57; member of Royal Hibernian academy 1838; painted several portraits of Daniel O’Connell 1844; painted ‘Taking the Veil’ for St. Vincent’s hospital, Dublin 1845, in the background of this picture there is a portrait of himself; many of his pictures were engraved and lithographed. _d._ 13 Upper Fitzroy st. London 4 Nov. 1857.

CROWLEY, PETER O’NEILL (_son of Mr. Crowley of Ballymacoda, co. Cork, tenant farmer_). _b._ Ballymacoda 23 May 1832; a farmer; joined the Fenian movement; one of the party who attacked Knockadoon coastguard station 5 March 1867; mortally wounded in a fight with the constabulary in Kilclooney wood, co. Cork 31 March 1867. _d._ Mitchelstown 31 March 1867. _bur._ at Ballymacoda 2 April. _John Savage’s Fenian heroes and martyrs_ (1868) 262–66, 273–80.

CROWTHER, REV. JONATHAN (_son of Rev. Timothy Crowther of St. Austell, Cornwall, methodist minister 1757–1829_). _b._ St. Austell 31 July 1794; ed. at Kingswood school, Gloucs.; head master Woodhouse Grove school near Bradford 1814–16; head master of Kingswood sch. 1823; general superintendent of Wesleyan missions in India 1837–43; classical tutor in Wesleyan Theological Institution at Didsbury, Lancs. 1849; edited _London Quarterly Review_; author of _The Methodist manual_ 1810, _2 ed._ 1811; _A defence of the Wesleyan Theological institution_, _3 ed._ 1834; _Sermons_ 1839. _d._ at house of Rev. Wm. Williams at Leeds 16 Jany. 1856. _The Pulpit iv_, (1825), _portrait_; _Slugg’s Woodhouse Grove school_ (1885) 92–6.

CROZIER, RICHARD (_eld. son of Rawson Bodham Crozier of West hill, Freshwater, Isle of Wight 1775–1849_). _b._ 26 Aug. 1803; entered navy 1 Nov. 1813; captain 20 March 1839; admiral on h.p. 1 April 1870; K.T.S. May 1824. _d._ Westhill 3 Feb. 1880.

CROZIER, WILLIAM. Studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital; M.R.C.S. 1839, F.R.C.S. 1862; assistant surgeon H.E.I. Co. 1842; professor of anatomy and physiology at the Medical college, Calcutta 1855 to death. _d._ on board P. and O. steamer Simla on his way to England 19 Nov. 1862 aged 45.

CRUCHLEY, GEORGE FREDERICK. Publisher, mapseller, engraver and printer at 38 Ludgate st. London to 1833, at 81 Fleet st. 1833–76; sold his entire stock at Hodgsons 16 Jany. 1877. _d._ 65 Grand parade, Brighton 16 June 1880 in 84 year.

CRUICKSHANK, BRODIE. Author of _Eighteen years on the gold coast of Africa 2 vols._ 1853. _d._ Lisbon 17 Nov. 1854.

CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE (_younger son of Isaac Cruikshank of London, caricaturist, who d. 1810 or 1811_). _b._ Duke st. Bloomsbury, London 27 Sep. 1792; employed to complete the plates left unfinished by Gillray 1811; illustrated the political pamphlets of Wm. Hone 1819–21; published _Illustrations of phrenology_ 1826; _Illustrations of time_ 1827; illustrated Fielding, Smollett and Goldsmith for _Roscoe’s Novelist’s Library 17 vols._ 1831–2; illustrated the _Comic Almanac_ 1835–53; _Bentley’s Miscellany 14 vols._ 1837–41; _Ainsworth’s Magazine_ 1842–45; published _The Bottle_ 8 plates 1847 and _The Drunkard’s Children_ 8 plates 1848 many thousands of which were sold in a few days, the subject was represented at 8 London theatres at once; a student at the R.A. 22 April 1853; produced the Worship of Bacchus 1862, presented to National gallery by public subscription 1869; granted civil list pension of £95, 19 June 1867; many of his works were purchased by the Westminster Aquarium for £2500 July 1876. _d._ 263 Hampstead road, London 1 Feb. 1878. _bur._ Kensal Green cemetery 9 Feb., removed to St. Paul’s cathedral 29 Nov. 1878. _Life by W. B. Jerrold, 2 ed._ 1883; _George Cruikshank the artist by W. Bates_, _2 ed._ 1879; _G. W. Reid’s Descriptive catalogue of the works of G. Cruikshank 3 vols._ 1871; _W. Thornbury’s British Artists ii_, 55–69 (1861); _W. M. Rossetti’s Fine Art_ (1867) 277–82; _P. G. Hamerton’s Etching and etchers_ (1876) 316–23; _James Grant’s Public characters ii_, 236–51 (1841); _G. Cruikshank’s Omnibus_ (1842) 1–8, _portrait_; _Temple Bar lii_, 499–516 (1878); _Illustrated Review iii_, 385–91 (1873), _portrait_.

CRUIKSHANK, ISAAC ROBERT (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Duke st. Bloomsbury, London 27 Sep. 1789; a midshipman in H.E.I. Co.’s service; made water colour drawings for private patrons; caricaturist and miniature painter; insolvent Dec. 1826; illustrated Pierce Egan’s _Life in London_ 1821 (the 3 chief characters in which Tom, Jerry and Logic he designed from himself, his brother George and Pierce Egan) and _The Finish_ 1831; Westmacott’s _English Spy_ 1825; Cumberland’s _British theatre 39 vols._ 1823–31 and many other books. _d._ of bronchitis at 206 Pentonville road, Islington, London 13 March 1856. _George Daniel’s Love’s last labour not lost_ (1863) 173–76.

CRUM, WALTER (_2 son of Alexander Crum of Thornliebank near Glasgow, merchant manufacturer_). _b._ Glasgow 1796; scientific chemist and manufacturer at Glasgow; member of Philosophical Soc. of Glasgow 1834, pres. 1852; F.R.S. 29 Feb. 1844; pres. of Anderson’s Univ. Glasgow; best known for his successful efforts to place the arts of dyeing and calico printing on a scientific basis; the first person to give the true formula for gun cotton. _d._ The Ronken, Thornliebank near Glasgow 5 May 1867. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xvi_, 8–10 (1868).

CRUMMER, JAMES HENRY. _b._ Birr, King’s county; ensign 28 foot July 1805, captain 20 July 1815 to 1 March 1839 when placed on h.p.; served in Peninsular war 1809–14; commandant of Island of Calamo 1822–27; police magistrate and superintendent of convicts at Newcastle, N.S.W. 1837–49; police magistrate of Maitland 1849–58 and of Port Macquarie 1858–64. _d._ Port Macquarie 29 Dec. 1867.

CUBBON, SIR MARK (_son of Rev. Thomas Cubbon_). _b._ 1785; lieut. 15 Madras N.I. 20 July 1801; joint comr. of Mysore 1831–34, sole comr. 17 May 1834 to Feb. 1861; col. of 15 Madras N.I. 8 Oct. 1839 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856, K.C.B. 26 May 1856. _d._ at Suez on his way home 23 April 1861 in 77 year, there is a fine equestrian statue of him at Bangalore where the Cubbon park is named after him. _Rice’s Mysore and Coorg 1877 passim_; _J. F. Higginbotham’s Men whom India has known_, _2 ed._ (1874) 96–7.

CUBITT, JOSEPH (_only son of Sir Wm. Cubitt 1785–1861_). _b._ Horning, Norfolk 24 Nov. 1811; assistant to his father 1832–43; constructed great part of London and South Western railway 1838–41, Great Northern railway 1846–50 and London, Chatham and Dover railway 1855–64; built new Blackfriars bridge, London 1865–69 opened by the Queen 6 Nov. 1869; M.I.C.E. 1840, vice pres. 1865. _d._ 7 Dec. 1872. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxix_, 249–51 (1875).

CUBITT, THOMAS (_son of Jonathan Cubitt of Buxton near Norwich, who d. 1807_). _b._ Buxton 25 Feb. 1788; a master carpenter in London 1809; built London Institution, Finsbury Circus 1815–19; built over large portion of the Five Fields, Chelsea 1824–29; covered with mansions, district between Eaton sq. and the Thames since known as Pimlico; built over Clapham park about 250 acres 1824; constructed about 1000 yards of embankment above Vauxhall bridge at his own expense; built large factory at Thames Bank, burnt down 17 Aug. 1854; church of St. Barnabas, Ranmore near Dorking was built at his cost 1859; A.I.C.E. 1839. _d._ Denbies near Dorking 20 Dec. 1855. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xvi_, 158–62 (1857); _J. S. Bright’s Dorking_ (1884) 133–6; _G.M. xlv_, 202–205 (1856).

NOTE.—His will the longest on record extended to 386 Chancery folios of 90 words each and covered 30 skins of parchment; the personalty exceeding £1,000,000 the probate duty was £15,000.

CUBITT, SIR WILLIAM (_son of Joseph Cubitt of Bacton Wood near Dilham, Norfolk, miller_). _b._ Dilham 1785; a millwright at Horning, Norfolk; invented and patented self regulating windmill sails 1807; employed by Ransome and Son of Ipswich, agricultural implement makers 1812–21, a partner 1821–26; invented the treadmill 1817, at once adopted in chief gaols of the U.K.; a civil engineer in London 1826–58; designed the Oxford canal and Liverpool junction canal; constructed South Eastern railway 1836–46, blew down face of the Round Down Cliff with a monster charge of 18,000 pounds of gunpowder which he exploded by galvanism 26 Jany. 1843; superintended construction of Great Exhibition 1851 for which he was knighted at Windsor Castle 23 Oct. 1851; M.I.C.E. 1823, member of council 1831, vice pres. 1836, pres. 1850–52; F.R.S. 1 April 1830. _d._ Clapham Common, London 13 Oct. 1861 in 77 year. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxi_, 554–58 (1862); _Our iron roads by F. S. Williams_, 2 ed. (1883) 123–26; _I.L.N. ii_, 76–7 (1843).

CUBITT, WILLIAM (_brother of Thomas Cubitt 1788–1855_). _b._ Buxton near Norwich 1791; served in the navy 4 years; builder in Gray’s Inn road, London to 1851; M.P. for Andover 29 July 1847 to July 1861 and 17 Dec. 1862 to death; contested City of London 29 July 1861; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1847–49; alderman of Langbourn ward 1851–63, lord mayor 1860–62; pres. of St. Bartholomew’s hospital; prime warden of Fishmongers’ Company; A.I.C.E. 22 Jany. 1833, member of council 1842–43. _d._ Penton lodge, Andover 28 Oct. 1863. _G.M. xvi_, 120–2 (1864); _I.L.N. xxxvii_, 435 (1860), _portrait_.

CUFF, JAMES DODSLEY (_son of Mr. Cuff of Corsley near Warminster, Wilts. yeoman_). Clerk in Bank of England about 1805 to death, clerk in bullion office there 1825 to death; an original member of Numismatic Society of London 1836; collected coins for 40 years which were sold for £7054, 29 June 1854; F.S.A.; contributed descriptions of coins to a supplement to Ainslie’s _Illustrations of the Anglo-French coinage_ 1830. _d._ Prescott lodge, Clapham new park, London 28 Sep. 1853 in 73 year. _Numismatic Chronicle xvii_, 15 (1855); _Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. x_, 122 (1855).

CUFFE, SIR JONAH DENNY WHEELER, 1 Baronet (_elder son of Sir Richard Wheeler, knight, who took name of Cuffe_). _b._ 1765 or 1766; student at Lincoln’s Inn 17 May 1790; created a baronet of Ireland 1 Oct. 1799. _d._ Leyrath, co. Kilkenny 9 May 1853.

CUITT, GEORGE (_only son of George Cuitt of Richmond, Yorkshire, painter 1743–1818_). _b._ Richmond, Oct. 1779; a landscape painter; a drawing master at Chester 1804; resided at Masham, Yorkshire 1820 to death; published _Etchings of ancient buildings in Chester, castles in North Wales etc._ 1816; _Wanderings and pencillings amongst the ruins of the olden time, a series of 23 etchings_ 1848, reissued 1855 and many other etchings. _d._ Belle Vue, Masham 15 July 1854. _G.M. xlii_, 311 (1854).

CULLEN, HIS EMINENCE CARDINAL PAUL (_son of Hugh Cullen of Prospect near Ballytore, co. Kildare, farmer_). _b._ Prospect 29 April 1803; ed. at Ballytore and Carlow college; entered Urban college of the Propaganda at Rome 29 Nov. 1820; ordained priest 1829; vice rector of the Irish college in Rome 1829, rector 1832–48; rector of the Propaganda college, May 1848 to Jany. 1849; archbishop of Armagh 19 Dec. 1849; consecrated in church of St. Agatha of the Goths, Rome 24 Feb. 1850; presided over national synod held in the college at Thurles, Aug. 1850 being first held in Ireland since convention of Kilkenny 1642; translated from Armagh to Dublin 3 May 1852; created a cardinal priest with title of San Pietro in Montorio 22 June 1866 being first Irishman raised to that rank; founded Catholic University of Ireland at Drumcondra 20 July 1862; presided at synod of Maynooth Sep. 1875; author of _Pastoral Letters 1852–56_. _d._ 59 Eccles st. Dublin 24 Oct. 1878. _bur._ beneath high altar in chapel of Clonville college 29 Oct. _P. J. O’Byrne’s Lives of the Cardinals_ (1879) 13–28, _portrait_; _Sir C. G. Duffy’s League of North and South_ (1886) 136, 171–75, 301–81; _M. Comerford’s Collections_ (1883) 188–91; _J. E. Cairnes’s Political Essays_ (1873) 263 _etc._; _I.L.N. lxxiii_, 421 (1878), _portrait_.

CULLEN, WILLIAM. Second lieut. Madras artillery 1804, colonel 1 Oct. 1842 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. _d._ Alleppey, Madras 1 Oct. 1862.

CULLENFORD, WILLIAM. _b._ Halesworth, Suffolk, Jany. 1797; acted in the provinces; first appeared in London at Adelphi theatre 30 Sep. 1836 as Wharton in _The Christening_; acted chiefly at Adelphi and Haymarket to July 1864 when he retired; a founder of Royal general theatrical fund 16 Feb. 1839, sec. of the fund 16 Feb. 1839 to death. _d._ Jasmine cottage, New Maiden, Surrey 6 Sep. 1874.

CULLIMORE, ISAAC. _b._ Ireland 1791; an original member of Numismatic Society 1836; he devoted his whole life to study of Egyptian antiquities, one of the first Orientalists who made use of astronomy to fix important dates in ancient history; published 174 plates of oriental cylinders or seals from collections in British Museum, in parts 1842–52; author of _Pharoah and his Princes_ in _Syro-Egyptian Soc. Papers vol. 1, 1845_. _d._ Clapham, London 8 or 12 April 1852. _Numismatic Chronicle xv_, 22 (1853); _W. H. Ward’s article on Babylonian seals in Scribner’s Mag. Jany. 1887_.

CULSHA, REV. EDWARD WIDT (_only son of Edward Culsha of Islington, London_). Matric. from Magd. hall, Ox. 20 May 1846 aged 19, B.A. 1850, M.A. 1854; C. of Little Malvern, and Head Master of Colwall gram. sch. Herefordshire 1855 to death; author of _Antar and other poems_ 1852; _Eastern lands and Eastern people_ 1861. _d._ Colwall 11 Jany. 1863.

CULVERWELL, ROBERT JAMES. _b._ 13 July 1802; L.S.A. 1824, M.R.C.S. 1827, M.D. Giessen 1841; edited a monthly periodical entitled _Leisure Moments_ from April 1850 to 1852, 3 vols.; had a museum of 1000 specimens of morbid pathology; proprietor of The Argyll Baths, 10 Argyll place and 5 New Broad st. London; author of _A practical treatise on bathing_ 1829; _On consumption_ 1834, _2 ed._ 1842; _The Confessional_ 1841; _Guide to health and long life_ 1844, _2 ed._ 1852; _The enjoyment of life_ 1850; _Fragments from the mountains 2 vols._ 1855; _What to eat, drink and avoid_, and many other medical books. _d._ 10 Argyll place, Regent st. London 9 Dec. 1852. _The life of Dr. Culverwell written by himself_ (1852), _portrait_.

CUMBERBATCH, ABRAHAM CARLTON. Attached to consulate at Paris 1825–28; vice consul at Constantinople 24 Aug. 1830, consul general there 3 May 1845 to 30 Nov. 1864 when he retired; C.B. 7 April 1866. _d._ Heron court, Richmond, Surrey 25 Oct. 1875.

CUMBERLAND, CHARLES BROWNLOW. _b._ 1801; ensign 35 foot 21 Dec. 1820; lieut.-col. 96 foot 22 July 1842 to 8 July 1856 when he retired on full pay with hon. rank of M.G. _d._ 21 Milverton crescent, Leamington 27 Nov. 1882.

CUMBERLAND, FREDERIC WILLIAM. _b._ London 1820; ed. at collegiate school, Dublin and King’s college, London; appointed to engineering department of the Admiralty 1844; architect at Toronto, Canada 1847 to death; constructed Ontario, Simcoe, and Huron railway 1852–54; designed University of Toronto 1859 said to be finest specimen of Norman Gothic architecture in America; organized in Toronto a regiment afterwards called Royal Grenadiers 1861, colonel 1861–64; represented Algoma district in legislature of Ontario 1867 and in Dominion parliament 1871. _d._ Toronto 5 Aug. 1881.

CUMBERLAND, JOHN. Publisher in London; published _Cumberland’s British Theatre, printed from the acting copies as performed at the Theatres Royal, London_, _39 vols._ 1823–31; _Cumberland’s Minor Theatre 14 vols._ 1831–32, these two series were republished in 64 or _65 vols._ 1838; foreman of the jury at coroner’s inquest on body of Colonel Fawcett killed by Lieut. Munroe in a duel 1 July 1843. _d._ 185 Camden road, London 13 June 1866 in 79 year.

CUMBERLAND, OCTAVIUS. _b._ 1810; entered navy 16 April 1825; captain 29 Sept. 1855; retired R.A. 25 Aug. 1873; C.B. 2 June 1869. _d._ New hall, Penicuik, Edinburgh 6 Aug. 1877.

CUMBERLAND, RICHARD FRANCIS (_son of Richard Cumberland, officer in 3 foot guards_). _b._ 1792; a page of honour; ensign 3 foot guards 27 Jany. 1809, lieut. 25 Dec. 1813 to 1825 when he sold out; aide-de-camp to Duke of Wellington in principal actions in Peninsular war 1812–14; wounded at repulse of French sortie from Bayonne. _d._ Royal Mint, London 9 March 1870.

CUMBERLEGE, EDWARD ALTHAM. Colonel Bengal infantry 4 Feb. 1861; L.G. 17 Sep. 1871. _d._ 23 Burlington road, Westbourne park, London 28 Dec. 1873 aged 70.

CUMING, HUGH. _b._ West Alvington, Kingsbridge, Devon 14 Feb. 1791; apprenticed to a sail maker; went to South America 1819; in business at Valparaiso 1819–26; cruised in the South Pacific and along Western coast of America collecting plants and shells 1826–29; cruised among islands of Philippine group where he collected 130,000 specimens of dried plants 1835–39; his collection of shells the largest and most valuable private one in existence contained 30,000 species and varieties; G. B. Sowerby named a genus of bivalved shells Cumingia after him 1833; F.L.S. _d._ 13 Gower st. London 10 Aug. 1865. _Athenæum 19 Aug. 1865 pp._ 247–8; _Proc. of Royal Linnæan Soc._ (1865–6) 57–9.

CUMING, RICHARD. _b._ London 20 March 1777; one of first members of Aurelian Soc. 1801 afterwards known as Entomological Soc. of London; member of Lambeth Chemical Soc. established 1801; invented the Phantasmagoria 1801 which was shown by Philipstal at Lyceum theatre 1802; made purchases from all celebrated collections of curiosities and natural history which were sold 1806–70; Assoc. British Archæol. Soc. 1858; translated greater part of Cuvier’s Règne Animal to which Edward Pidgeon’s name is attached. _d._ 63 Kennington park road, London 15 Feb. 1870. _bur._ Norwood cemetery 22 Feb. _Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxvii_, 542–4 (1871).

CUMMING, SIR HENRY JOHN. _b._ 1772; cornet 11 light dragoons 12 May 1790, lieut.-col. 17 Feb. 1803 to 20 Jany. 1837; present at every engagement in the Peninsula except siege of Badajoz; col. 12 lancers 20 Jany. 1837 to death; general 9 Nov. 1846; K.C.H. 13 March 1833. _d._ 15 Upper Grosvenor st. London 28 Nov. 1856.

CUMMING, REV. JAMES. _b._ St. James’s, Westminster 23 Oct. 1777; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., 10 wrangler 1801, B.A. 1801, M.A. 1804, fellow of his college 1803–15; professor of chemistry in Univ. of Cam. 1815 to death; made important modifications and simplifications of electric methods; pres. of Cambridge Philosophical Soc.; F.R.S. 4 Jany. 1816, F.G.S. 1816; R. of North Runcton, Norfolk 1819 to death; author of _A manual of Electro-Dynamics_ 1827. _d._ North Runcton 10 Nov. 1861.

CUMMING, REV. JOHN. _b._ parish of Fintray, Aberdeenshire 10 Nov. 1807; ed. at Aberdeen gr. sch. and univ.; M.A. 1827; licensed to preach by Aberdeen presbytery 3 May 1832; minister of National Scottish church, Crown court, Covent Garden, London 18 Aug. 1832 to 21 July 1879, church was rebuilt at cost of £5000, 1847–8; a prominent controversialist; opposed the Free church of Scotland in many pamphlets and lectures; took part in the Maynooth controversy 1845; became widely known by his writings on the interpretations of prophecy; lectured against Bishop Colenso 1863; his letters to the _Times_ signed a ‘Beemaster’ attracted much notice and were the basis of a work called _Beekeeping_ 1864; his admirers raised a sum of £3000 for him 1879 which bought an annuity of £300; author of _Lectures for the times, or an exposition of Tridentine and Tractarian Popery_ 1844; _Is Christianity from God? a manual of Christian evidence_ 1847, _11 ed._ 1871; _Apocalyptic Sketches 3 series_ 1848–50; _Prophetic studies, or lectures on the book of Daniel_ 1850; _Signs of the times, or present, past and future_ 1854; _The great tribulation, or things coming on the earth_ 1859; _Popular lectures on the Essays and Reviews_ 1861; _The Millenial rest, or the world as it will be_ 1862; _Moses right and Bishop Colenso wrong_ 1863; _Driftwood, seawood and fallen leaves 2 vols._ 1863, and more than 90 other books. _d._ Chiswick 5 July 1881. _In memoriam Rev. John Cumming, D.D, printed for private distribution n.d._; _Rev. C. M. Davies’s Unorthodox London_ (1873) 201–17; _Westminster Review n.s. viii_, 436–62 (1855); _Essays by George Eliot_ (1884) 145–99; _Illust. news of the world iii_ (1859), _portrait_; _Graphic xxiv_, 149 (1881), _portrait_.

CUMMING, REV. JOSEPH GEORGE (_2 son of Joseph Notsall Cumming of Mattock_). _b._ Matlock 15 Feb. 1812; ed. at Oakham gr. sch. and Em. coll. Cam., B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; C. of North Runcton, Norfolk 1835–38; vice principal of King William’s college, Isle of Man 1841–55; master of Lichfield gr. sch. 1855–58; warden and professor of classical literature and geology in Queen’s college, Birmingham 1858–62; R. of Mellis, Suffolk 1862–67; V. of St. John’s, Bethnal Green, London 1867 to death; F.G.S. 1846; author of _The Isle of Man, its history, physical, ecclesiastical, civil and legendary_ 1848; _A chronology of ancient, sacred and profane history_ 1853; _The great Stanley, or James VIIth Earl of Derby_ 1867. _d._ St. John’s vicarage, Bethnal Green 21 Sep. 1868. _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_, 219–20 (1869).

CUMMING, WILLIAM. _b._ about 1822; M.R.C.S. 1844, L.S.A. 1847; a surgeon in London; the pioneer of modern ophthalmology; the first to demonstrate that rays of light falling on the human retina might be reflected back to the eye of an observer, this important fact was communicated by him to the Medico-Chirurgical Soc. of London, June 1846 in a paper _On a luminous appearance of the human eye_. _d._ 15 Warkworth terrace, Commercial road, London 5 June 1855 aged 33.

CUMMING-BRUCE, CHARLES LENNOX (_2 son of Sir Alexander Penrose Cumming-Gordon 1 baronet, who d. 10 Feb. 1806_). _b._ 20 Feb. 1790; ed. at Winchester and C.C. coll. Ox., M.A. 1810; M.P. for Inverness district of burghs 17 May 1833 to 17 July 1837, for Elgin and Nairnshire 25 April 1840 to 11 Nov. 1868; joint sec. of board of control Feb. to Dec. 1852; assumed additional surname of Bruce on his marriage 1820. _d._ Broom hall near Dunfermline 1 Jany. 1875.

CUMMING-GORDON, ROUALEYN GEORGE GORDON (_2 son of the succeeding_). _b._ Altyre, co. Elgin 15 March 1820; ed. at Eton; cornet Madras cavalry 1838–40; ensign royal Newfoundland companies 3 Nov. 1843; ensign Cape Mounted rifles 23 Feb. 1844 to 22 July 1845 when he sold out; hunted in interior of South Africa 1845–50; exhibited his trophies at Great Exhibition 1851; lectured in London and the provinces 1855–58; kept a museum of his trophies at Fort Augustus on the Caledonian canal 1858 to death; author of _Five years of a hunter’s life in the far interior of South Africa 2 vols._ 1850 which had an immense success; _The lion hunter of South Africa_ 1856. _d._ Fort Augustus 24 March 1866. _I.L.N. xx_, 512 (1852), _portrait_.

CUMMING-GORDON, SIR WILLIAM GORDON, 2 Baronet. _b._ Altyre 20 July 1787; succeeded his father 10 Feb. 1806; M.P. for Elgin district of burghs 23 May 1831 to 3 Dec. 1832. _d._ Altyre 23 Nov. 1854.

CUNARD, SIR EDWARD, 2 Baronet (_son of the succeeding_). _b._ Halifax, Nova Scotia 1 Jany. 1816; agent of Cunard line of steamers at New York 1835–65; head of firm of Cunard, Burns and Mac Iver 1865 to death. _d._ suddenly at New York 6 April 1869, personalty sworn under £300,000, 5 June 1869.

CUNARD, SIR SAMUEL, 1 Baronet (_son of Abraham Cunard of Philadelphia, mechanic_). _b._ Halifax, Nova Scotia 21 Nov. 1787; a merchant at Halifax; established with George Burns of Glasgow and David Mac Iver of Liverpool the British and North American Royal mail steam packet company 1838; contracted with the government 4 May 1839 for conveyance of the mails between Liverpool and Halifax, Boston and Quebec for 7 years at £60,000 per annum, the first voyage across the Atlantic was made by the Britannia 4–18 July 1840; F.R.G.S. 1846; created baronet 9 March 1859. _d._ 26 Prince’s gardens, Kensington, London 28 April 1865, personalty sworn under £350,000, 27 May. _W. S. Lindsay’s Merchant Shipping iv_, 178–86, 217–20, 226–50 (1876); _Fortunes made in business ii_, 325–71 (1884); _London Society xxxviii_, 33–47 (1880).

CUNDY, THOMAS (_eld. son of Thomas Cundy of London, architect 1765–1825_). _b._ 1790; an architect in London; surveyor to Earl Grosvenor’s London estates Dec. 1825 to death; erected Holy Trinity, Paddington, St. Paul’s, Knightsbridge, and other churches in west end of London. _d._ Bromley, Kent 15 July 1867.

CUNINGHAM, ALEXANDER (_2 son of Charles Cuningham of Newholm, Lanarkshire_). _b._ Edinburgh 1805; ed. at high school and univ. of Edin.; a writer to the signet 1827; joint sec. with his father to comrs. of northern lighthouses 1842, sec. 1846–75; fellow of royal Scottish society of arts before whom he read many papers on subjects connected with lighthouse service. _d._ Palmerston place, Edinburgh 16 June 1883.

CUNINGHAM, DAVID. Entered Bombay army 1816; brigadier in command at Aden 18 Sep. 1848 to 9 Jany. 1851; col. 1 Bombay light cavalry 19 Oct. 1849 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. _d._ Cluny house near Dunkeld 4 Sep. 1861 aged 59.

CUNINGHAM, JOHN (_eld. son of John Cuningham of Port Glasgow, merchant_). _b._ Port Glasgow 1782; admitted advocate at Scotch bar 1807; deputy to Lord Advocate Jeffery, Dec. 1830; sheriff of Morayshire 1831; solicitor general for Scotland 22 April 1835; judge of supreme court with courtesy title of Lord Cuningham 9 Feb. 1837 to May 1853 when he resigned. _d._ 23 Moray place, Edinburgh 26 Oct. 1854. _Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ (1882), 47–48, _portrait_.

CUNLIFFE, SIR ROBERT HENRY, 4 Baronet (_2 son of Sir Foster Cunliffe, 2 baronet 1755–1834_). _b._ Chester 22 April 1785; entered Bengal army 1798; major 1 Bengal N.I. 17 Oct. 1818; col. 4 Bengal N.I. 30 May 1828 to death; knighted by patent 16 Sep. 1829; succeeded 15 June 1834; C.B. 28 July 1838; general 13 Oct. 1857. _d._ Acton park near Wrexham, Denbighshire 10 Sep. 1859.

CUNNINGHAM, FRANCIS (_youngest son of Allan Cunningham the poet 1784–1842_). _b._ 1820; ensign 23 Madras light infantry 1838; field engineer at defence of Jellalabad; Mysore comr. at Bangalore 1850–61; retired with rank of lieut.-col. 31 Dec. 1861; published an edition of Marlowe 1870, of Massinger 1871, and of Ben. Jonson 1871; a frequent contributor to _Saturday Review_. _d._ 18 Clarendon road, South Kensington, London 3 Dec. 1875.

CUNNINGHAM, REV. JOHN WILLIAM. _b._ London 3 Jany. 1780; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., 5 wrangler 1802, B.A. 1802, M.A. 1805, fellow of his college; C. of Ripley, Surrey 1802; C. of Clapham to 1811; a prominent member of the evangelical party; edited _Christian Observer_ 1850–58; V. of Harrow 1811 to death; author of _World without souls_ 1805, _6 ed._ 1816; _The Velvet Cushion_ 1814, _10 ed._ 1816; _Sancho or the Proverbialist_ 1817, anon. and other books. _d._ Harrow 30 Sep. 1861.

CUNNINGHAM, JOSEPH DAVEY (_eld. son of Allan Cunningham the poet 1784–1842_). _b._ Lambeth 9 June 1812; ed. at Addiscombe and Chatham; sailed for India, Feb. 1834; 2 lieut. Bengal engineers, captain 13 Nov. 1849 to death; lived among the Sikhs as political assistant to col. Wade and other officers 1837–45; political agent at Bhopal 7 March 1846 to 26 Oct. 1849; author of _History of the Sikhs_ 1849. _d._ suddenly near Umballa, Punjab 28 Feb. 1851. _J. D. Cunningham’s History of the Sikhs_ (1849), _preface_.

CUNNINGHAM, PETER (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Pimlico, London 7 April 1816; ed. at Christ’s hospital; clerk in Audit office 1834, chief clerk 1854–60; art critic of _Pictorial Times_; treasurer of Shakespeare Society; author of _Songs of England and Scotland_ 1835; _The handbook of Westminster Abbey_ 1842; _The life of Inigo Jones_ 1848; _The handbook of London 2 vols._ 1849, _2 ed._ 1850; _The story of Nell Gwynn_ 1852; edited many books. _d._ Ureulam road, St. Albans 18 May 1869. _G. Hodder’s Memories of my time_ (1870) 384–93; _I.L.N. xxviii_, 205, 206 (1856), _portrait_.

CUNNINGHAM, PETER MILLER (_5 son of John Cunningham of Dalswinton near Dumfries, farmer_). _b._ Dalswinton, Nov. 1789; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; assistant surgeon in royal navy 10 Dec. 1810, surgeon 28 Jany. 1814; surgeon superintendent of convict ships, left the sea May 1841; published _Two years in New South Wales 2 vols._ 1827; _On the motions of the earth and on the conceptions, growth and decay of man_ 1834; _Hints for Australian emigrants_ 1841. _d._ Greenwich 6 March 1864. _Rev. D. Hogg’s Life of Allan Cunningham_ (1875) 12–14, 360–8.

CUNNINGHAM, REV. WILLIAM (_eld. son of Charles Cunningham of Hamilton, Lanarkshire, merchant, who d. 1811_). _b._ Hamilton 2 Oct. 1805; ed. at Dunse and Univ. of Edin. 1820–28; assistant minister of Middle church, Greenock 15 Oct. 1830; minister of Trinity college church, Edin. Jany. 1834; D.D. Princeton college, New Jersey 1842; professor of theology in New college, Edin. 1843, professor of church history there 1845 to death, principal June 1847 to death; the ablest defender of Calvinism of his time; edited _British and Foreign Evangelical Review_ Oct. 1855 to Oct. 1860; moderator of general assembly 19 May 1859 to death; the sum of £7000 was presented to him 1859; author of _The reformers and the theology of the Reformation_ 1862; _Historical theology, a review of the principal doctrinal discussions in the Christian church from the Apostolic age_ 1863, _2 ed._ 1864; _Discussion on church principles, Popish, Erastian, Presbyterian_ 1863. _d._ Edinburgh 14 Dec. 1861. _Life of W. Cunningham by R. Rainy and J. Mackenzie_ 1871, _portrait_; _Wylie’s Disruption Worthies_ (1881) 193–200, _portrait_; _Sermons from 1828 to 1860 by the late W. Cunningham, edited by Rev. J. J. Bonar_ 1872.

CUNYNGHAME, SIR ARTHUR AUGUSTUS THURLOW (_3 son of Sir David Cunynghame, 5 baronet 1769–1854_). _b._ 2 Aug. 1812; 2 lieut. royal rifles 2 Nov. 1830; lieut.-col. 13 foot 3 Nov. 1846; captain Grenadier guards 1 Dec. 1846; lieut.-col. 20 foot 27 April 1849; lieut.-col. 27 foot 2 April 1852 to 16 Dec. 1853 when placed on h.p.; assistant quartermaster general of first division in the Crimea 1854–55; commanded a division of Turkish contingent May 1855; col. of 36 foot 2 Dec. 1868 to 2 Feb. 1876; commanded forces in South Africa 5 Nov. 1873 to 1 March 1878; col. commandant of first battalion royal rifles 2 Feb. 1876 to death; lieut. governor of Cape of Good Hope 5 March 1877 to 1878; general 1 Oct. 1877, placed on retired list 1 July 1881; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 2 June 1869, G.C.B. 13 June 1878; author of _An Aide-de-camp’s recollections of service in China 2 vols._ 1844; _A glimpse at the Great Western republic_ 1851; _Travels in the Eastern Caucasus_ 1872; _My command in South Africa_ 1879. _d._ on board ship at Aden on his way home from India 10 March 1884. _I.L.N. lxxii_, 273 (1878), _portrait_.

CUPPAGE, SIR BURKE (_son of lieut. gen. Wm. Cuppage, who d. 7 Jany. 1848 aged 87_). _b._ Charlton, Kent 1794; 2 lieut. R.A. 17 Dec. 1812; commanded R.A. in south western district 1857–63; col. commandant 2 Feb. 1868 to death; governor of Jersey 23 Oct. 1863 to 1 Oct. 1868; K.C.B. 29 May 1875. _d._ 4 Cranley place, Onslow sq. London 19 April 1877.

CURETON, REV. WILLIAM (_2 son of Wm. Cureton of Westbury, Shropshire_). _b._ Westbury 1808; ed. at Newport and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833, B.D. and D.D. 1858; chaplain of his college 1831–38; C. of Oddington, Oxon. 1831; sub librarian of Bodleian library, Oxford 1834–37; assistant keeper of MSS. in British Museum 1837–50; F.R.S. 25 Jany. 1838; select preacher at Ox. 1840; chaplain in ord. to the Queen 18 June 1847; canon of Westminster and R. of St. Margaret’s, Westminster 5 Dec. 1849 to death; corresponding member of French Institute 1855, foreign associate 1860; crown trustee of British Museum 1859; chairman of committee of Oriental translation fund 1863; author of _Vindiciæ Ignatianæ, the writings of St. Ignatius vindicated from heresy_ 1846; _Corpus Ignatianum_ 1849; _Spicilegium Syriacum with an English translation_ 1855; _Remains of an ancient recension of the Gospels in Syriac_ 1858. _d._ Westbury 17 June 1864. _The church of England photographic portrait gallery_, _part 21_ (1859), _portrait_; _G.M. xvii_, 520–23 (1864); _I.L.N. xxiv_, 400 (1854) _portrait_.

CURIE, PAUL FRANCIS. M.D. Aberdeen 1815; member of Gallican Society; co-editor of _Archives de la médecine homœopathique 1836–37_; author of _Principles of Homœopathy_ 1837; _Annals of the London homœopathic dispensary_ 1844; _A treatise on cholera, English and Asiatic_ 1849; _Domestic practice of homœopathy_ 1850. _d._ 17 Hanover sq. London 5 Oct. 1853.

CURLING, HENRY. Ensign 25 foot 25 Oct. 1827 to 20 Aug. 1829 when placed on h.p.; lieut. 91 foot 6 Jany. 1832 to 30 Dec. 1834 when placed on h.p.; retired 1854; author of _The soldier of fortune 3 vols._ 1843; _John of England, a romance 3 vols._ 1846; _Shakespeare the poet, the lover, the actor 3 vols._ 1848; _Nonpareil House 3 vols._ 1855; _Recollections of the mess table and the stage_ 1855; _Camp club in the Crimea_ 1856; _Edith Frankheart or the baronet’s daughter 3 vols._ 1857; _The Self divorced or the school for wives 2 vols._ 1861; _Geraldine Maynard 3 vols._ 1864 and 12 other books. _d._ Weardale villas, Earl’s court terrace, Kensington, London 10 Feb. 1864.

CURLING, THOMAS BLIZARD (_3 son of Daniel Curling, F.S.A. who d. 1824_). _b._ London, Jany. 1811; M.R.C.S. 1832, F.R.C.S. 1843, mem. of council 1864, pres. 1873; assistant surgeon to London hospital 1834, lecturer on surgery 1846, surgeon 1849 to Aug. 1869; F.R.S. 6 June 1850; pres. of Royal Med. and Chir. Soc. 1871; retired from practice 1879; author of _Treatise on Tetanus_ 1836; _Observations on diseases of the Rectum_ 1851, _4 ed._ 1876; _Treatise on diseases of the Testis_ 1873, _4 ed._ 1878. _d._ Cannes 4 March 1888. _Medical Circular iii_, 439 (1853), _portrait_; _Barker’s Photographs_ (1865) _pp._ 131–32, _portrait_.

CURRAN, WILLIAM HENRY (_son of John Philpot Curran 1750–1817, master of the Rolls in Ireland_). Called to bar in Ireland 1816; insolvency comr. in Ireland; bencher of King’s Inns, Dublin 1848; author of _Life of John Philpot Curran 2 vols._ 1819; _Sketches of the Irish bar, with essays 2 vols._ 1855. _d._ 9 Fitzwilliam place, Dublin 25 Aug. 1858 in 69 year.

CURRER, FRANCES MARY RICHARDSON (_only child of Rev. Henry Richardson 1758–84, R. of Thornton in Craven, who took name of Currer, June 1784_). _b._ Eshton hall near Skipton on Craven 3 March 1785; the greatest female book collector in Europe, principal part of her library of 20,000 vols. was sold at Sotheby’s for nearly £6000, Aug. 1862; privately printed _Catalogue of the library of Miss Currer at Eshton hall by Robert Triphook_ 1820, _2 ed. by C. J. Stewart_ 1833; _Extracts from the literary and scientific correspondence of Richard Richardson, M.D., F.R.S. of Bierley, Yorkshire_ 1835. _d._ Eshton hall 28 April 1861. _Nichols’s Illustrations i_, 225–52 (1817); _T. F. Dibdin’s Reminiscences of a literary life ii_, 949–57 (1836); _T. F. Dibdin’s Bibliographical tour ii_, 1081–90 (1838).

CURREY, FREDERICK (_son of Benjamin Currey, clerk of the Parliaments_). _b._ Norwood, Surrey 19 Aug. 1819; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844; barrister L.I. 7 May 1844; F.L.S., sec. 1860–80, vice pres. and treasurer 1880 to death; F.R.S. 3 June 1858, member of council; his collection of fungi is now in the Kew Herbarium, the genus of fungi, Curreya, was founded by Saccardo as a momento of Currey; edited _The natural history review_ 1861 _etc._; translated Hofmeister’s _On the germination of the higher Cryptogamia_ 1862; edited C. D. Badham’s _Esculent funguses_ 1863. _d._ 2 Vanbrugh park road, Blackheath 8 Sep. 1881. _Journal of botany n.s. x_, 310–12 (1881).

CURREY, REV. GEORGE (_son of Rev. James Currey, preacher of the Charterhouse, London_). _b._ Charterhouse sq. London 7 April 1816; ed. at Charterhouse and St. John’s coll. Cam., scholar 1834, Bell’s Univ. scholar 1835, 14 wrangler 1838, B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841, B.D. 1850, D.D. 1864; fellow of his college 1839, lecturer 1840, tutor 1844, Hulsean lecturer 1851 and 1852; preacher of the Charterhouse 1849–71, master 17 Jany. 1871 to death; preb. of St. Paul’s 1872; published _Hulsean Lectures_ 1851–52; edited _Tertulliani libri tres De Spectaculis_ 1854; author of _An English grammar_ 1856; a commentary on Ezekiel in the Speaker’s Commentary and Commentaries on Ecclesiastes and Revelations in the S.P.C.K. Commentary. _d._ The master’s lodge, Charterhouse 30 April 1885. _I.L.N. lxxxvi_, 583 (1885), _portrait_.

CURRIE, AUGUSTUS ARTHUR (_4 son of John Currie 1797–1873_). _b._ 21 Jany. 1831; ensign 45 Bengal N.I. 20 Oct. 1849; major Bengal staff corps 1869, lieut.-col. 2 March 1875 to 31 Dec. 1880 when he retired on full pay with hon. rank of M.G.; C.B. 19 Nov. 1879. _d._ St. Leonard’s 23 May 1884.

CURRIE, CLAUD. Entered medical service of Madras army 1806; inspector general of hospitals 31 Jany. 1846, phys. general 19 Aug. 1846 to 31 Jany. 1851. _d._ 3 Westbourne terrace, London 8 Aug. 1854 aged 65.

CURRIE, SIR FREDERICK, 1 Baronet (_3 son of Mark Currie of Cobham, Surrey_). _b._ 3 Feb. 1799; ed. at Charterhouse and Haileybury; entered Bengal civil service 1817; judge of court of Sudder Adawlut of the north western provinces 1840–42; one of secs. of government of India 1842–49; chief sec. to Lord Hardinge during campaign of 1845–46; created baronet 11 Jany. 1847; a member of supreme council of India 1 April 1847 to 14 Jany. 1848, an ordinary member of council 12 March 1849 to 1853 when he retired on the annuity fund; a director of East India Co. April 1854, chairman 1857–58 being the last chairman; one of the 6 members of first council of sec. of state for India elected by the E.I. company; vice pres. of council of India 21 Sep. 1858. _d._ St. Leonard’s 10 Sep. 1875. _I.L.N. lxviii_, 295, 434 (1875).

CURRIE, HENRY. _b._ Westminster 1798; ed. at Eton; member of firm of Glyn and Co. bankers, London; M.P. for Guildford 29 July 1847 to 1 July 1852. _d._ West Horsley place near Guildford 26 May 1873.

CURRIE, JOHN. _b._ 28 May 1797; M.P. for Hertford 30 April 1831 to 3 Dec. 1832. _d._ Queen’s sq. Bath 19 May 1873.

CURRIE, MARK JOHN. _b._ London 21 June 1795; entered navy 29 April 1808; captain 23 Nov. 1841; V.A. on half pay 24 May 1867. _d._ Collington house, Thicket road, Anerley 1 May 1874.

CURRIE, RAIKES. _b._ 15 April 1801; member of firm of Glyn and Co. bankers, London; M.P. for Northampton 26 July 1837 to 21 March 1857. _d._ Minley manor, Farnborough, Hants. 16 Oct. 1881, personalty sworn under £280,000, 17 Dec. 1881.

CURRIE, SIR WALTER. _b._ 1819; commandant of armed mounted police at Cape of Good Hope 1855 to death; knighted by patent 24 May 1860. _d._ 7 June 1872.

CURRY, RICHARD (_son of Thomas Curry of Gosport, Hants._) _b._ 1772; entered navy 22 March 1780; captain 7 Jany. 1802, R.A. 10 Jany. 1837, V.A. 9 Nov. 1846; admiral on h.p. 1 July 1851; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831. _d._ Stoke, Devonport 27 Dec. 1855.

CURSETJEE, ARDASEER. _b._ Bombay 6 Oct. 1808; in charge of shipbuilding yard at Mazagon 1828, assistant builder there 1833; introduced gas lighting into Bombay 1835, sewing machines, photography and electroplating; chief engineer at Bombay steam factory, July 1840 to July 1858 being the first Indian native placed over Europeans; A.I.C.E. 24 March 1840; F.R.S. 27 May 1841. _d._ Lowjee house, Marsh Gate, Richmond, Surrey 16 Nov. 1877. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. li_, 271–4 (1878).

CURSHAM, MARY ANN. Resided at Sutton, Notts; author of _Emanuel Swedenborg and other poems by M. A. C._; _Martin Luther a poem by M. A. C._ 1828; _Norman Abbey a tale of Sherwood forest, by a Lady_ 1832; _Poems, sacred, dramatic and lyric_ 1833; _The infant’s decalogue or a metrical version of the ten commandments by M. A. C._ 1836. _d._ 1 North bank, Derby 17 Dec. 1881.

CURTEIS, SIR THOMAS ISAAC HORSLEY (_son of John Curteis of Norfolk_). _b._ 1780; Exon of Yeomen of the Guard 31 May 1805 to May 1839; knighted at St. James’s palace 27 June 1833. _d._ Twyford, Norfolk 26 Dec. 1858.

CURTIS, CHARLES BERWICK (_youngest son of Sir Wm. Curtis, 1 baronet 1752–1829_). _b._ Culland’s grove, Southgate 18 March 1795; ed. at Harrow; gunpowder manufacturer with Thomas Curtis and W. G. Harvey near Hounslow 1820–69; at time of his death the firm owned six factories in Middlesex, Kent, South Wales and Argyleshire; A.I.C.E. 1 March 1842; invented a self acting signal for railways 1842 which was used for some time. _d._ 105 Eaton sq. London 26 Oct. 1876.

CURTIS, JAMES GRAY WILLIAM. Entered Bengal army 1826; captain 37 Bengal N.I. 13 Jany. 1842 to 8 Dec. 1850; deputy assistant commissary general 27 March 1849 to 8 Dec. 1850; C.B. 9 June 1849; retired colonel 28 Nov. 1854. _d._ Oaklands, Shepherd’s Bush, London 16 Nov. 1870.

CURTIS, JOHN. _b._ Norwich 3 Dec. 1791; F.L.S. 1822; made entomological tours in Scotland 1825, France 1829, Italy 1843, 1850 and 1851; entomological editor of _Gardener’s Mag._ 1841–47; granted civil list pension of £100, 25 Nov. 1842 and another of £50, 19 April 1861; published _British entomology illustrated with 770 plates_, _16 vols._ which came out in numbers 1 Jany. 1824 to 1 Dec. 1839; _A guide to an arrangement of British insects_ 1829, _2 ed._ 1837. _d._ Belitha villas, Barnsbury park, London 6 Oct. 1862. _Proc. of Linnæan Soc._ (1863) 35–41.

CURTIS, JOHN CHARLES. Principal of the British and Foreign School society’s training college, Borough road, London many years before his death; author of _A School and college history of England_ 1860; _Chronological and genealogical tables of English history_ 1863; _An English grammar for schools_ 1876 and many other school books. _d._ 24 Villa road, Brixton 10 May 1888 aged 61.

CURTIS, JOHN HARRISON. A dispenser in the navy and at Haslar hospital; lived at 18 Soho sq. London and advertised himself in the newspapers and by pamphlets as an aural surgeon 1815; founded Royal dispensary for diseases of the Ear, Carlisle st. Soho 1816; employed Hume Weatherhead and other persons to write his books; made £5000 a year for many years; had a tube from his consulting room to his waiting room by which he could hear what the patients said of themselves; always received his patients in full dress of time of George iv; gambled away his earnings at Junior United Service Club; retired to Isle of Man 1848 where he became insane; published _A treatise on the physiology and diseases of the ear_ 1817, _5 ed._ 1831; _An essay on the deaf and dumb_ 1829; _A treatise on the physiology and diseases of the eye_ 1833; _Observations on the preservation of hearing and on hearing trumpets_ 1834, _11 ed._ 1839; _On the Cephaloscope and its uses_ 1842; _Advice to the deaf_ 1841, _5 ed._ 1845 and other works. _d._ in an asylum in the Isle of Man about 1860. _J. F. Clarke’s Autobiographical recollections of the medical profession_ (1874) 358–73.

CURTIS, SIR LUCIUS, 2 Baronet (_son of admiral Sir Roger Curtis, K.C.B. 1 baronet 1746–1816_). _b._ 3 June 1786; entered navy 2 June 1795; captain 22 Jany. 1806; R.A. 28 June 1838; admiral superintendent at Malta 8 March 1843 to 8 March 1848, admiral 9 July 1855; succeeded 14 Nov. 1816; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862. _d._ Portsdown hill near Portsmouth 14 Jany. 1869. _Reg. and Mag. of Biog. i_, 201, 355 (1869).

CURTIS, MATTHEW. Machine maker at Manchester, employing 1000 persons, his cotton machinery was sent all over the world; elected a member of the first town council of Manchester after the charter was granted in 1839; mayor of Manchester 1860–1 and 1875–6. _d._ Manchester 9 June 1887.

CURTIS, SAMUEL. _b._ Walworth, London 1779; nurseryman in Essex; proprietor of _Botanical Mag._ 1801–46; F.L.S. 20 Nov. 1810; built a house called La Chaise at Rozel in Jersey, where he _d._ 6 Jany. 1860. _Proc. of Linnæan Soc._ (1860) _p._ 22.

CURTIS, REV. THOMAS. _b._ England about 1780; publisher in London; published the Encyclopædia Metropolitana 59 parts 1817–45; went to the United States 1829; pastor of Baptist church in Wentworth st. Charleston some years; established a young ladies school at Limestone Spring; a very powerful preacher. _d._ in a burning steamer on the Potomac river 1858.

CURTIS, REV. THOMAS F. (_son of the preceding_). _b._ England 26 Sep. 1815; pastor of a baptist church near Boston, U.S.; professor of theology in Lewisbury Univ. Panama to 1865; lived at Cambridge, Mass. 1867 to death; author of _Progress of Baptist principles in the last hundred years_ 1857; _The human element in the inspiration of the Sacred Scriptures_ 1867 in which he repudiated inspiration and authenticity of much of the Old Testament and part of the New. _d._ Cambridge 9 Aug. 1872.

CURTIS, WILLIAM FREDERICK (_eld. child of Timothy Abraham Curtis 1786–1857, governor of Bank of England 1838_). _b._ 4 May 1810; cornet 1 Bombay light cavalry 26 July 1833; deputy judge advocate general 17 July 1851 to 12 Jany. 1857; lieut.-col. 21 hussars 4 April 1860 to 4 March 1868 when placed on h.p.; placed on retired list 4 May 1880; L.G. 8 May 1881. _d._ Upper Norwood, Surrey 2 Sep. 1882.

CURWEN, REV. JOHN (_eld. son of Rev. Spedding Curwen 1790–1856, Independent minister_). _b._ Hurst house, Heckmondwike, Yorkshire 14 Nov. 1816; assistant pastor independent chapel, Basingstoke 1838; co-pastor at Stowmarket, Suffolk 1841; pastor at Plaistow, Essex 1844–64; invented the ‘Look and say’ method of learning to read 1839; advocated Tonic Sol-fa system of teaching music in a series of articles in _Independent Mag._ 1842, lectured on the system 1853–56; started _The Tonic Sol-fa Reporter_ 1853; sided ardently with the North on outbreak of American civil war 1861, published various tracts on the subject and organised the first Freed slaves aid society in England; Euing lecturer at Anderson’s college, Glasgow 1866–1867; member of West Ham school board 1871–73; founded Tonic Sol-fa college at Forest Gate, Essex, incorporated 1875, opened 1879 where there is a portrait of him; author of _Singing for schools and congregations, a grammar of vocal music_ 1848; _Pupils’ manual of the Tonic Sol-fa method of singing_ 1852; _Peoples service of song_ 1863. _d._ Heaton house, Heaton Mersey, Lancs. 26 May 1880. _bur._ Ilford cemetery 3 June. _Memorials of John Curwen_ (1882), _portrait_; _Grove’s Dict. of Music iv_, 144–50 (1884).

CURZON, EDWARD. _b._ 9 Dec. 1789; entered navy 7 Nov. 1804; captain 8 Feb. 1823; captain of the Asia 84 guns 1826–28; retired V.A. 5 Jany. 1858; C.B. 18 Nov. 1827. _d._ St. Anne’s, Derby 7 March 1862.

CURZON, EDWARD CECIL (_younger son of the succeeding_). _b._ 8 Nov. 1812; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1834, M.A. 1840; barrister L.I. 7 May 1840; registrar of copyright of designs 1842–63; registrar of joint stock companies 1863–76. _d._ Scarsdale house, Wright’s lane, Kensington, London 12 Feb. 1885.

CURZON, ROBERT (_2 son of 1 Viscount Curzon 1733–1820_). _b._ 13 Feb. 1774; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1795; M.P. for Clitheroe, Lancs. 1 June 1796 to 23 April 1831. _d._ Parham park near Steyning, Sussex 14 May 1863.

CUSACK, JAMES WILLIAM (_3 son of Athanasius Cusack of Laragh house, co. Kildare 1749–1813_). _b._ 1788; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; M.R.C.S. 1812; resident surgeon in Steevens’ hospital, Dublin 1812, visiting surgeon to 1857; surgeon to Swift’s hospital for the insane; an original projector of Park st. school of medicine; M.D. Dublin 1850; professor of surgery in Univ. of Dublin 1852 to death; surgeon in ord. to Queen in Ireland, July 1858 to death; sec. to Royal college of surgeons Ireland long time, pres. 3 times; famous as a lithotomist. _d._ 7 Merrion sq. north Dublin 25 Sep. 1861 in 74 year. _Dublin Quarterly Journal of medical science xxxiii_, 255–58 (1862).

CUSHMAN, SUSAN WEBB (_dau. of Elkanah Cushman of Boston, U.S. merchant_). _b._ Boston 17 March 1822; made her début 8 June 1839 at Park theatre, New York as Laura Castelli in Epes Sargent’s play _The Genoese_; made a remarkable success in _Satan in Paris_; came to England 1846; played Ophelia and Juliet (200 nights) at Haymarket theatre, London with great success 1846; retired from the stage 1847. (_m._ 22 March 1848 James Sheridan Muspratt of Liverpool, chemist 1821–71). _d._ Liverpool 10 May 1859. _Tallis’s Drawing room table book, part 8_, _portrait_; _Ireland’s New York Stage ii_, 271 (1867).

CUST, CHARLES HENRY (_2 son of 1 Earl Brownlow 1779–1853_). _b._ 27 Sep. 1813; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1836; cornet royal horse guards 14 March 1834, captain 4 July 1845 to 1847 when he sold out; sheriff of Northamptonshire 1859; M.P. for North Shropshire 13 July 1865 to Aug. 1866. _d._ 19 May 1875.

CUST, SIR EDWARD, 1 Baronet (_youngest son of 1 Baron Brownlow 1744–1807_). _b._ 30 Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 17 March 1794; ed. at Eton and Sandhurst; cornet 16 dragoons 15 March 1810; major 55 foot 24 Oct. 1821 to 27 July 1822 when placed on h.p.; M.P. for Grantham 1818–26, for Lostwithiel 1826–32; equerry to Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg for many years from 1816, master of his household to 1865; knighted at St. James’s palace 3 Aug. 1831; K.C.H. 1831; assistant master of ceremonies to the Queen 18 Dec. 1845, master 1 Jany. 1847 to Feb. 1876; colonel 16 lancers 9 April 1859 to death; general 12 Jany. 1866; created baronet 23 Feb. 1876; author of _Noctes Dominicæ, or Sunday night readings_ 1848; _Family reading, The New Testament narrative_ 1850; _Annals of the wars of the eighteenth century 5 vols._ 1857, _3 ed._ 1862; _Annals of the wars of the nineteenth century 4 vols._ 1862–63; _Warriors of the thirty years war 2 vols._ 1865; _Warriors of the civil wars of France and England 3 vols._ 1867–69. _d._ 8 Jermyn st. Piccadilly, London 14 Jany. 1878. _bur._ at Belton near Grantham.

CUST, HENRY FRANCIS COCKAYNE (_eld. son of hon. and Rev. Henry Cockayne Cust 1780–1861, canon of Windsor_). _b._ Cockayne, Hatley, Beds. 15 Sep. 1819; ed. at Eton; ensign 25 foot 30 March 1838; captain 8 hussars 19 Feb. 1847 to 24 Feb. 1854 when he sold out; private sec. to Earl of Eglinton while lord lieut. of Ireland 1852; assumed additional name of Cockayne 14 Dec. 1861; sheriff of Beds. 1869; M.P. for Grantham 1874–80. _d._ 5 April 1884.

CUST, PEREGRINE FRANCIS (_5 son of 1 Baron Brownlow 1744–1807_). _b._ 13 Aug. 1791; M.P. for Honiton 1818–26; M.P. for Clitheroe 1826–32. _d._ 15 Sep. 1873.

CUSTANCE, WILLIAM NEVILLE (_2 son of Hambleton Thomas Custance of Weston house near Norwich 1779–1845_). _b._ 24 Oct. 1811; ensign 95 foot 11 Oct. 1831; lieut.-col. 6 dragoon guards 1 Aug. 1856 to 27 July 1861 when placed on h.p.; commandant cavalry depot, Canterbury 1 Oct. 1862 to 9 July 1866 when placed on h.p.; col. 11 Hussars 8 March 1875 to death; general 7 Sep. 1880; placed on retired list 1 July 1881; C.B. 21 Jany. 1858. _d._ Brookheath, Salisbury 7 Feb. 1886.

CUTTS, MARIA. _b._ Loughborough, Leics. 1811; entered novitiate of Society of the Sacred Heart in Paris 1828; a professed nun 1836; superior of the convent at Grand Coteau, St. Landry parish, Mississippi; superior of all the convents of her order in the west of the United States. _d._ Grand Coteau 1853.

CUYLER, JACOB GLEN. Ensign 69 foot 26 Oct. 1799; major Cape Regiment 26 Jany. 1806 to 25 May 1817 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. _d._ 14 April 1854.

CYPLES, WILLIAM. _b._ Longton, Staffs. 31 Aug. 1831; edited several provincial newspapers; contributed to many leading periodicals; lived at Nottingham long time, lived in London 1877 to death; author of _Pottery Poems_; _Satan restored, a poem_ 1859; _Philip the Dreamer 3 vols._ 1866; _An inquiry into the process of human experience_ 1880; _Hearts of gold_ 1883. _d._ Hammersmith 24 Aug. 1882. _Church quarterly review xiii_, 107–28 (1881); _Mind v_, 273, 390 (1880), _viii_, 150 (1882).

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DACRE, THOMAS BRAND, 20 Baron. _b._ The Hoo, Kimpton, Herts. 15 March 1774; barrister L.I. 25 June 1800; M.P. for Herts. 11 May 1807 to 3 Oct. 1819 when he succeeded his mother. _d._ The Hoo 21 March 1851.

DACRE, BARBARINA BRAND, Baroness (_3 dau. of Admiral Sir Chaloner Ogle, who d. 27 Aug. 1816 aged 89_). _b._ 9 May 1767; one of the most accomplished women of her time; an excellent amateur painter and sculptor; Ugo Foscolo dedicated to her his _Essays on Petrarch_ 1823 the last 45 pages of which contain her translations from Petrarch; her tragedy in 5 acts entitled _Ina_ was produced at Drury Lane theatre 22 April 1815; privately printed _Dramas, translations and occasional poems 2 vols._ 1821; _Translations from the Italian_ 1836; edited _Recollections of a Chaperon_ 1833 and _Tales of the peerage and the peasantry_ 1835, both by her only dau. Mrs. Arabella Jane Sullivan who _d._ 27 Jany. 1839 aged 42. (_m._ (1) Valentine Henry Wilmot of Farnborough, Hants. _m._ (2) 4 Dec. 1819 Thomas Brand, baron Dacre 1774–1851). _d._ 2 Chesterfield st. May Fair, London 17 May 1854. _G.M. xlii_, 296–97 (1854).

DACRE, HENRY OTWAY BRAND-TREVOR, 21 Baron (_brother of 20 Baron Dacre 1774–1851_). _b._ 17 July 1777; ensign Coldstream guards 27 April 1793, lieut.-col. 25 July 1814 to 19 July 1821; served in Flanders 1793–95; assumed additional name of Trevor 18 Nov. 1824; colonel 31 Foot 12 July 1847 to death; general 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 4 June 1815; succeeded 21 March 1851. _d._ Great Cumberland place, London 2 June 1853.

DACRES, JAMES RICHARD (_son of Vice admiral James Richard Dacres 1749–1810_). _b._ Lowestoft 22 Aug. 1788; entered navy 1796; captain 14 Jany. 1806; commander in chief at Cape of Good Hope 9 Aug. 1845 to 3 Aug. 1848; V.A. 20 March 1848. _d._ Catesfield lodge near Fareham, Hants. 3 Dec. 1853. _bur._ in family vault at Tetbury, Gloucs.

DACRES, SIR RICHARD JAMES (_son of Vice admiral Sir Richard Dacres 1761–1837_). _b._ 1799; ed. at R.M.A. Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 15 Dec. 1817, lieut.-col. 23 Feb. 1852; served in Crimean war 1854–5; col. commandant 28 July 1864; commandant at Woolwich, May 1859 to 1865; general 2 Feb. 1868; placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877; constable of Tower of London 2 July 1881 to death; K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 2 June 1869. _d._ Palmeira sq. Brighton 6 Dec. 1886. _I.L.N. lxxix_, 181 (1881), _portrait_.

DACRES, SIR SIDNEY COLPOYS (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Totnes, Devon 9 Jany. 1805; entered navy 8 Feb. 1817; captain 1 Aug. 1840; captain of the Sans Pareil 70 guns, 3 June 1852 to Nov. 1855; embarked the sick and wounded after battles of Alma and Inkerman; took charge of the port of Balaklava 27 Oct. 1854; superintendent of packet service at Southampton, Feb. to July 1856; superintendent of Royal Clarence victualling yard and Royal hospital, Haslar 7 July 1856 to 25 June 1858; granted good service pension 7 Feb. 1856; captain of the fleet in Mediterranean 25 Aug. 1859, second in command Dec. 1861 to April 1863; commanded channel fleet April 1863 to 17 Nov. 1865; a lord of the admiralty July 1865, first sea lord Dec. 1868 to Nov. 1872; admiral 1 April 1870; visitor and governor of Greenwich hospital 30 Nov. 1872 to death; K.L.H. 1828, K.T.S. 1865; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 28 March 1865, G.C.B. 20 May 1871. _d._ 47 Brunswick sq. Brighton 8 March 1884. _I.L.N. lxii_, 319, 321 (1873), _portrait_.

D’AETH, GEORGE WILLIAM (_only son of Wm. Hughes of Betshanger, Kent, who d. April 1786_). _b._ April 1786; entered navy June 1799; assumed name of D’Aeth 4 June 1808; captain 13 June 1815; retired captain 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 4 Oct. 1862. _d._ Knowlton court, Kent 28 April 1873.

DAFFORNE, JAMES. Contributed to the _Art Journal_ 1845 to death; wrote 7 books 1872–77 on the pictures by C. R. Leslie, C. Stanfield, J. Phillip, Sir A. W. Callcott, Sir E. Landseer, W. Mulready and J. M. W. Turner; author of _The pictorial table book_ 1873; _The Albert memorial Hyde Park, its history and description_ 1877; _The life and works of E. M. Ward, R.A._ 1879. _d._ Brodrick road, Upper Tooting 8 June 1880.

DAFT, THOMAS BARNABAS. _b._ Birmingham 1816; an iron founder and manufacturer of metallic hot houses 1835; maker of philosophical apparatus 1839; manager of india rubber works of Charles Mackintosh and Co. at Manchester many years; took out 28 patents 1839–77; A.I.C.E. 7 Feb. 1860. _d._ 95 Clapham road, London 4 Dec. 1878.

DAGLISH, ROBERT. _b._ 21 Dec. 1779; engineer to Lord Balcarres at Wigan 1804; manager of Orrell colliery near Wigan; projected Bolton and Leigh railway 1825 which has no embankments or cuttings but undulates with natural surface of the land; invented best form of parallel rail and pedestals which gained premium of £100 given by London and Birmingham railway 1834 for which there were 72 competitors, this invention was generally adopted; projector of and partner in St. Helen’s foundry; M.I.C.E. 30 March 1830. _d._ Orrell near Wigan 28 Dec. 1865. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxvi_, 561–63 (1867).

DAGLISH, ROBERT (_3 son of the preceding_). _b._ Wigan 1809; partner in firm of Lee, Watson & Co. iron founders, St. Helens 1830; with John Smith worked the traffic of the St. Helen’s and Runcorn Gap railway 1839–48; erected his first cotton mill at Wigan 1845; built many railway bridges in Lancashire and Yorkshire 1846–49; constructed Preston extension of East Lancashire railway 1850; sole proprietor of the foundry from 1851 until 1869 when joined by his nephew George H. Daglish, M.I.C.E.; erected coal drops at Garston near Liverpool 1852; extended his foundry works so that they covered an area of 22,400 square yards in 1882; assoc. of Instit. of C.E. 1852 and member 1874. _d._ 6 May 1883. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxiv_, 283–5 (1883).

D’AGUILAR, SIR GEORGE CHARLES (_son of Joseph D’Aguilar, captain 2 dragoon guards_). _b._ Winchester, Jany. 1784; ensign 86 foot 24 Sep. 1799; major 1 Greek light infantry 1 April 1813 to 24 Feb. 1816 when regiment was disbanded and he was placed on h.p.; major Rifle brigade 6 March 1817 to 25 Dec. 1818 when placed on h.p.; major 3 foot 22 June 1820 to 13 Sep. 1821 when placed on h.p.; deputy adjutant general in Ireland 22 July 1830 to 23 Nov. 1841; commanded troops in China 1843–48; col. of 58 foot 5 Feb. 1848, col. of 23 foot 31 Jany. 1851 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 19 July 1838, K.C.B. 6 April 1852; author of _The practice and forms of Courts Martial_ 1843, _5 ed._ 1867. _d._ Lower Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London 21 May 1855. _United Service Mag. Aug. 1847 pp. 622–27._

DAINTREE, RICHARD. _b._ Hemingford Abbotts, Hunts. Dec. 1831; ed. at Bedford gr. sch. and Ch. coll. Cam.; went to Melbourne 1852; assistant geologist of colony of Victoria 1854–56; field geologist on geological survey of Victoria 1858–64; government geologist for North Queensland 1869–72; entrusted with collection sent to Exhibition at South Kensington 1871 but steamer “Queen of the Thames” containing collection was wrecked near Cape Agulhas about 200 miles from Cape Town 18 March 1871; agent general in London for colony of Queensland, March 1872 to 1876; C.M.G. 1875. _d._ Holyrood house, Beckenham, Kent 20 June 1878. _Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxxv_, 51–3 (1879); _Geol. Mag. v_, 336, 429–32 (1878).

D’ALBERT, CHARLES (_son of a captain of cavalry in French army_). _b._ Nienstellen near Hamburg 1808 or 1809; pupil in London of F. W. M. Kalkbrenner the pianist; studied music and dancing at Académie Royale, Paris; maître de ballet and first dancer at Covent Garden theatre; teacher of music in London; wrote various musical albums 1848–53; an exceedingly popular composer of innumerable waltzes, polkas and galops. _d._ 14 Alexander sq. South Kensington, London 26 May 1886 in 78 year. _Illust. news of the world viii_ (1861), _portrait_.

DALE, JAMES. _b._ Brancepeth near Durham; succeeded his father as head gardener to 6 Viscount Boyne at Brancepeth Castle 1854; a great judge of fruit and flowers; kept a splendid stock of plants and fruit but never exhibited; known as “The King of Pine growers”; a clever naturalist and ornithologist; it is stated in Loudon’s _Natural History_ that Mr. Dale was the only man in England who ever took a siskin’s nest, which he did in a pine tree; left a valuable collection of stuffed animals and preserved fish. _d._ Brancepeth 1 April 1882 aged 66.

DALE, JAMES MURRAY (_son of Very Rev. T. Dale_ 1797–1870). _b._ 20 July 1822; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school; a solicitor in London 1843–73; author of _Clergyman’s Legal handbook_ 1858, _6 ed._ 1881; _Church extension law 1864_; _Legal ritual, Judgments of privy council and dean of arches_ 1871. _d._ Cromer 2 March 1877.

DALE, JOHN. _b._ Settle, Yorkshire 1 March 1803; articled to Reay and Collison, surgeons, Liverpool; played under Samuel Russell’s management in the provinces 1823; first appeared in London at Haymarket theatre as Rob Roy 5 Oct. 1825; went to Paris with the Kean, Macready, Kemble company 1827; the original Adrastus in Talfourd’s tragedy _Ion_ at Covent Garden, May 1836; played Cromwell to Macready’s Wolsey at Covent Garden; acted at Surrey and Victoria theatres; one of his best characters was Creve Cœur in _The Bohemians_. _d._ Manchester 25 Oct. 1872. _Theatrical Times iii_, 137, 146 (1848), _portrait_.

DALE, JOSEPH. Gardener to Society of the Middle Temple, London 1843 to decease, where he arranged annual exhibitions of chrysanthemums in November; greatly assisted and encouraged the plantation of trees in various parts of London; presented with a testimonial at the Salutation tavern, Newgate st. London 31 Jany. 1878; author of _On the cultivation of the chrysanthemum_ 1856. _d._ Vicarage road, Leyton 31 Dec. 1878 aged 65. _Gardener’s Magazine xxi_, 59 (1878), _xxii_, 7, 80 (1879).

DALE, VERY REV. THOMAS (_son of William Dale of Pentonville, London_). _b._ Pentonville 22 Aug. 1797; ed. at Christ hospital 1805–17 and C.C. coll. Cam., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, D.D. 1870; C. of St. Michael’s, Cornhill, London 1822–26; professor of English language and literature at London Univ. 1828–30, at King’s coll. London 1836–39; minister of St. Matthew’s chapel, Denmark hill 1830–35; V. of St. Bride’s, Fleet st. London 3 Jany. 1835 to 1846; Golden lecturer at St. Margaret’s, Lothbury 1840–1849; preb. of St. Paul’s, March 1843 to Feb. 1846; canon of St. Paul’s 20 Oct. 1843 to 1870; V. of St. Pancras, July 1846 to March 1861 when that parish was subdivided into 20 incumbencies; R. of Therfield, Herts. 26 March 1861 to 1870; declined deanery of Ely 1869; dean of Rochester 23 Feb. 1870 to death, installed April 1870; author of _The widow of Nain and other poems_ 1817; _The outlaw of Taurus_ 1818; _The tragedies of Sophocles translated into English verse 2 vols._ 1824; _Poetical works_ 1836; _The sabbath companion being essays on first principles of Christian faith and practice_ 1844, _3 ed._ 1853 and about 70 other books. _d._ 2 Amen corner, St. Paul’s, London 14 May 1870. _Palmer’s St. Pancras_ (1870) 43, 142, 159–61; _Drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages, fourth series_ (1860), _portrait_; _Church of England photographic portrait gallery_ 1859, _portrait_ 24; _I.L.N. xxxv_, 647 (1859), _portrait_, _lvi_, 563, 643 (1870).

DALGAIRNS, REV. JOHN DOBREE (_son of Wm. Dalgairns_). _b._ Guernsey 21 Oct. 1818; ed. at Elizabeth coll. Guernsey and Ex. coll. Ox., scholar 27 May 1837; B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842; joined J. H. Newman’s band of disciples at Littlemore; received into R.C. church 29 Sep. 1845, ordained at Langres in France 1846; a preacher and confessor at the London Oratory King William st. Strand 1849 to 1853 and 1856 to 1863, at Birmingham Oratory 1853–56; superior of London Oratory, Brompton 1863–65; wrote some of the lives in J. H. Newman’s _Lives of the English saints_; author of _The devotion to the heart of Jesus with an introduction on the history of Jansenism_ 1853, _2 ed._ 1854; _The German mystics of the fourteenth century_ 1858; _The Holy Communion, its philosophy, theology and practice_ 1861 frequently reprinted, and of many articles in the _British Critic_, _Dublin Review_ and _Contemporary Review_. _d._ in monastery of the Cistercians at Burgess hill, near Brighton 6 April 1876. _bur._ in private cemetery of the Fathers of the Brompton oratory at Sydenham. _Gillow’s English Catholics ii_, 3–5 (1885).

DALGLISH, ROBERT (_son of Robert Dalglish, provost of Glasgow_). _b._ Glasgow 1808; a calico printer at Glasgow; M.P. for Glasgow 1 April 1857 to 26 Jany. 1874. _d._ Lennox-mill cottage, Lennoxtown near Glasgow 20 June 1880.

DALHOUSIE, JAMES ANDREW BROWN-RAMSAY, 1 Marquis of (_youngest child of 9 Earl of Dalhousie 1770–1838_). _b._ Dalhousie castle, co. Edinburgh 22 April 1812; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1838; contested city of Edin. Jany. 1835; M.P. for East Lothian 1837–38; succeeded as 10 Earl of Dalhousie 21 March 1838; P.C. 10 June 1843; vice pres. of Board of Trade 10 June 1843, pres. 5 Feb. 1845 to 6 July 1846; lord clerk register of Scotland 12 Dec. 1845; an elder brother of Trinity house 1846; governor general of India 4 Aug. 1847, arrived at Calcutta 19 Jany. 1848, left there 6 March 1856; annexed the Punjaub 1849, Pegu 1852, Nagpore 1853 and Oudh 1856; K.T. 12 May 1848; created Marquis of Dalhousie of Dalhousie castle and of the Punjaub 25 Aug. 1849; constable of Dover castle and lord warden of the Cinque Ports 13 Jany. 1853. _d._ Dalhousie Castle 19 Dec. 1860. _Sir C. Jackson’s Vindication of the policy of Dalhousie’s Indian administration_; _J. J. Higginbotham’s Men whom India has known_ (1874) 98–104; _I.L.N. xiv_, 36 (1849), _portrait_, _xxii_, 61 (1853), _portrait_.

DALHOUSIE, FOX MAULE-RAMSAY, 11 Earl of (_eld. son of 1 Baron Panmure 1771–1852_). _b._ Brechin castle, Forfarshire 22 April 1801; ed. at the Charterhouse; ensign 79 foot 3 June 1819, captain 31 Oct. 1826, sold out 1831; M.P. for Perthshire 1835–37, for Elgin district of burghs 1838–41, for Perth 1841–52; under sec. of state for home department 18 April 1835 to 15 June 1841; vice pres. of board of trade 28 June to 3 Sep. 1841; P.C. 28 June 1841; sec. of state for war 6 July 1846 to Feb. 1852 and 8 Feb. 1855 to Feb. 1858; lord rector of Univ. of Glasgow, Nov. 1842; lord lieut. of Forfarshire 16 June 1849; keeper of privy seal of Scotland 25 May 1853; K.T. 28 Oct. 1853; G.C.B. 29 Oct. 1855; succeeded as 2 baron Panmure 13 April 1852 and as 11 Earl of Dalhousie 19 Dec. 1860. _d._ Brechin castle, Forfarshire 6 July 1874. _The statesmen of England_ (1862), _portrait_; _Illust. news of the world, i_, (1858), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xvi_, 245 (1850), _portrait_, _xxvi_, 152 (1855), _portrait_, _lxv_, 61, 67, 115, 523 (1871), _portrait_.

DALHOUSIE, GEORGE MAULE-RAMSAY, 12 Earl of (_2 son of hon. John Ramsay 1775–1842, col. of 79 foot_). _b._ 26 April 1806; entered navy Dec. 1820; captain 20 March 1843; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856; superintendent of Pembroke dockyard 27 July 1857 to 1 Sep. 1862; commander in chief on South American station 7 May 1866 to 17 March 1869; succeeded as 12 Earl 6 July 1874; created Baron Ramsay of Glenmark, co. Forfar in peerage of the U.K. 12 June 1875; retired admiral 30 July 1875. _d._ Dalhousie castle 20 July 1880.

DALHOUSIE, JOHN WILLIAM RAMSAY, 13 Earl of (_son of the preceding_). _b._ 29 Jany. 1847; naval cadet Jany. 1861; commander 4 March 1874, commanded the Britannia 1877–79, retired 26 July 1884; contested Liverpool 6 Feb. 1880; M.P. for Liverpool, March 1880 to 20 July 1880 when he succeeded his father; a lord in waiting to the Queen, Sep. 1880 to June 1885; K.T. Nov. 1881; P.C. 3 April 1886; sec. of state for Scotland 5 April 1886 to 26 June 1886. _d._ Havre 25 Nov. 1887. _bur._ parish church of Cockpen, co. Edinburgh 1 Dec. 1887. _London Figaro 3 Dec. 1887 p. 5, col. 2_, _portrait_.

DALLAS, REV. ALEXANDER ROBERT CHARLES (_2 son of Robert Charles Dallas, miscellaneous writer 1754–1824_). _b._ Colchester 29 March 1791; clerk in commissariat office of Treasury 1805–10, deputy assistant commissary general 5 June 1810 to 1 July 1814 when placed on h.p., retired 1820; gentleman commoner of Worcester coll. Ox. 29 Feb. 1820; C. of Radley, Berks. 17 June 1821, of Highclere Hants. 1821, of Woburn 1824, of Burford, Oxon. 1826; V. of Yardley, Herts. 22 Sep. 1827; R. of Wonston, Hants. 14 Sep. 1828 to death; chaplain to bishop of Winchester 1828 to death; founded Society for Irish church missions to the Roman Catholics 1848, hon. sec. 1848 to death; author of _Cottager’s guide to the New Testament 6 vols._ 1837–43; _A Guide to the Acts of the Apostles by A. D._ 1847; _Revelation readings 3 vols._ 1848 and upwards of 50 other books. _d._ in house of Mr. Annesley, Blackheath, Kent 12 Dec. 1869. _bur._ Wonston churchyard 17 Dec. _Incidents in the life and ministry of Rev. A. R. C. Dallas by his widow_ (1871), _portrait_.

DALLAS, CHARLES. Ensign 32 foot 23 March 1815; governor of St. Helena 14 Feb. 1828 to 1836. _d._ Trefusis house, Exmouth 26 April 1855 in 88 year.

DALLAS, ELMSLIE WILLIAM (_2 son of Wm. Dallas of ‘Lloyds,’ London_). _b._ London 27 June 1809; studied at the R.A. London 1831–34; painted a series of views of Scotland for garden pavilion at Buckingham palace; exhibited at Royal Scottish Academy; F.R.S. Edin. 1851; author of _The Elements of plane practical geometry_ 1855. _d._ 26 Jany. 1879. _Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. x_, 340 (1880).

DALLAS, ENEAS SWEETLAND (_elder son of John Dallas of Jamaica, physician_). _b._ Jamaica 1828; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; a journalist on the _Times_ many years, special correspondent at Paris 1867 and 1870; contributed to _Daily News_, _Saturday Review_, _Pall Mall Gazette_ and _The World_; edited _Once a Week_ 1868; author of _Poetics, an essay on poetry_ 1852; _The gay science 2 vols._ 1866; edited an abridgment of Richardson’s _Clarissa Harlowe_ 1868; published _Kettner’s Book of the table, a manual of cookery_ 1877 _anon._ (_m._ in Scotland, Dec. 1853 and in London 12 July 1855 the well-known actress Isabella Glyn (widow of Edward Wills), marriage was dissolved in the divorce court, London on her petition 10 May 1874). _d._ 88 Newman st. Oxford st. London 17 Jany. 1879. _I.L.N. 8 Feb. 1879 pp._ 78, 129, 131, _portrait_; _Law Journal Reports xlvi, pt. 1_, _pp._ 51–3 (1876).

DALLIN, THOMAS FRANCIS (_eld. son of Thomas James Dallin of Plumstead, Kent_). Matric. from Merton coll. Ox. 10 June 1858 aged 17, B.A. 1863, M.A. 1865; student at L.I. 23 Nov. 1861; fellow of Queen’s coll. Ox. 1864–71, tutor 1866; professor of rhetoric at Gresham college, London, Aug. 1875; public orator Univ. of Ox. 8 May 1877 to death; one of secs. of Oxford Univ. commission 1880 to death; author with J. Y. Sargent of _Materials and models for Greek and Latin prose composition_ 1870, _2 ed._ 1875; _Materials for Greek prose composition_ 1878. _d._ Brighton 11 Nov. 1880. _bur._ in Holywell cemetery, Oxford 16 Nov. _Times 13 Nov. 1880 p. 5, col. 6_, _15 Nov. p. 9, col. 4_, _17 Nov. p. 9, col. 6_.

DALLING and BULWER, WILLIAM HENRY LYTTON EAKLE BULWER, Baron (_2 son of Wm. Earle Bulwer 1757–1807, col. 106 foot_). _b._ 31 Baker st. Portman sq. London 13 Feb. 1801; ed. at Sunbury and Harrow; entered Trin. coll. Cam. 1819, migrated to Downing coll.; went to the Morea as agent of the Greek committee in London 1824; attaché at Berlin 1827, at Vienna 1829, at the Hague 1830; M.P. for Wilton, Wilts. 1830–31, for Coventry 1831–34, for Marylebone 1835; chargé d’affaires at Brussels 1835–36; sec. of embassy at Constantinople 1837–39, at Paris 1839–43; ambassador at Madrid 14 Nov. 1843, arbitrator between Spain and Morocco 1844; P.C. 30 June 1845; K.C.B. 27 April 1848, G.C.B. 1 March 1851; ambassador at Washington 27 April 1849; minister plenipotentiary at Florence 19 Jany. 1852 to 26 Jany. 1855; granted a pension 25 April 1855; ambassador at Constantinople 10 May 1858 to Aug. 1865; M.P. for Tamworth 17 Nov. 1868 to 21 March 1871 when created baron Dalling and Bulwer of Dalling in the county of Norfolk; said to be the original of George Sand’s ‘Mauprat’ 1836; author of _An autumn in Greece_ 1826; _France, social, literary and political 2 vols._ 1834, being the first half of a work called _The monarchy of the middle classes_ 1836; _Historical characters 3 vols._ 1867–73; _Life of Viscount Palmerston 3 vols._ 1870–74. _d._ Naples 23 May 1872. _A. Hayward’s Biographical essays ii_, 320–40 (1870); _Madden’s Life of Countess of Blessington iii_, 63–74 (1855); _Illust. Review iv_, 97–103 (1872), _portrait_; _I.L.N. ix_, 245 (1846), _portrait_, _lxi_, 168 (1872).

DALLMEYER, JOHANN HEINRICK (_2 son of Wm. Dallmeyer of Loxten near Versmold, Westphalia_). _b._ Loxten 6 Sep. 1830; apprenticed to an optician at Osnabruck 3 years; came to England 1851; a manufacturer of telescopes in London 1859; naturalised 17 Sep. 1859; F.R.A.S. 1861; supplied photographic lenses to photographers in all parts of the world; patented a single wide-angle lens 1864 largely used for photographing landscapes; received highest awards at Dublin, Berlin, Paris and Philadelphia exhibitions; author of _On the choice and use of photographic lenses_, _6 editions_. _d._ on board ship off coast of New Zealand 30 Dec. 1883. _Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xlv_, 190–91 (1885).

DALMER, THOMAS. Second lieut. 23 foot 22 May 1797, major 10 Dec. 1807 to 24 July 1817 when placed on h.p.; col. 47 foot 16 April 1847 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 4 June 1815. _d._ Hawkhurst, Kent 26 Aug. 1854.

DALRYMPLE, SIR ADOLPHUS JOHN, 2 Baronet (_elder son of Sir Hew Whiteford Dalrymple, 1 baronet, who d. 9 April 1830 in 80 year_). _b._ parish of Marylebone, London, Feb. 1784; ed. at Harrow; ensign 37 foot 25 Oct. 1799; major 19 light dragoons 17 Nov. 1808 to Dec. 1814 when placed on h.p.; aide-de-camp to the Sovereign 1830–41; general 11 April 1860; M.P. for Weymouth 1817–18, for Appleby 1819–26, for Haddington district of burghs 1826–31, for Brighton 1837–41. _d._ Delrowe house near Watford, Herts. 3 March 1866.

DALRYMPLE, DONALD (_4 son of Wm. Dalrymple of Norwich, surgeon 1772–1847_). _b._ Norwich 1814; ed. at Norwich gr. sch. and Guy’s hospital; F.R.C.S. 1854; M.R.C.P. 1859; a surgeon at Norwich 1835–62; sheriff of Norwich 1860–61; M.P. for Bath 17 Nov. 1868 to death; author of _Meteorological observations on the climate of Egypt_ 1861. _d._ Coldecot near Southampton 19 Sep. 1873.

DALRYMPLE, JOHN (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Norwich 1803; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; a surgeon at 8 New Broad st. City of London 1827–39 when he moved to 6 Holles st. Cavendish sq.; assistant surgeon to Royal London Ophthalmic hospital 1832, surgeon 1843, consulting surgeon 1849; a founder of Royal college of Chemistry 1845; F.R.S. 7 June 1849; author of _The anatomy of the human eye_ 1834; _The pathology of the human eye_ 1852. _d._ 60 Grosvenor st. London 2 May 1852 in 49 year. _Proc. of Royal Soc. vi_, 250 (1852).

DALTON, CHARLES JAMES (_youngest son of Rev. James Dalton, R. of Croft, Yorkshire_). _b._ 13 May 1812; Second lieut. R.A. 18 Dec. 1829, col. 25 Sep. 1859 to 23 April 1868, col. commandant 20 April 1877 to death; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ Percy house, Twickenham park, Twickenham 7 Nov. 1880.

DALTON, JOHN (_son of Wm. Dalton of Bessville, co. Westmeath_). _b._ Bessville 29 June 1792; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; called to Irish bar 1813; comr. of Irish loan fund board 1835; granted a civil list pension of £50, 4 March 1856; gained prize of £80 and Cunningham gold medal of Royal Irish Academy for best essay on social and political state of Irish people 1827; author of _History of the county of Dublin 2 vols._ 1838; _The history of Drogheda 2 vols._ 1844; _History of Ireland to the year 1245_, _2 vols._ 1845 and other books. _d._ 48 Summer hill, Dublin 20 Jany. 1867.

DALTON, REV. JOHN. Educ. at Oscott college; engaged in R.C. missions at Northampton, Norwich and Lynn; elected a member of the chapter of see of Northampton; published _Christianity in Europe by Novalis translated from the German_ 1844; _The art of dying well, translated from the Latin of Bellarmine_ 1846 and many other translations from German, Latin and Spanish. _d._ St. John’s, Maddermarket, Norwich 15 Feb. 1874 in 60 year.

DALTON, JOHN STUART. Librarian of free public library, William Brown st. Liverpool 1852 to death; author of many poems. _d._ Low hill, Liverpool 2 Aug. 1868 aged 72.

DALTON, WILLIAM HENRY. Bookseller in Cockspur st. London about 1833–63; founded Booksellers Protection Association about 1851; member of Metropolitan Board of Works for parish of St. Martin in the Fields 1855 to death, being the last survivor of the original members. _d._ 30 Coleherne road, South Kensington, London 23 June 1884.

DALY, CUTHBERT FEATHERSTONE. Entered navy 17 Feb. 1794; captain 18 Aug. 1808; R.A. on h.p. 9 Nov. 1846; C.B. 20 July 1838. _d._ Hayes place, Lisson grove, London 6 Dec. 1851.

DALY, SIR DOMINIC (_3 son of Dominic Daly of Benmore, co. Galway, who d. 1841_). _b._ Ardfry, co. Galway 11 Aug. 1798; went to Canada as private sec. to Sir Francis Burton 1822; assistant sec. to province of Lower Canada 1825–27, sec. 1827–40, sec. of province of Canada on union of the two provinces 1840–48; lieut. governor of Tobago 16 Sep. 1851, of Prince Edward’s Island 8 May 1854 to 1859; knighted by patent 2 July 1856; governor and commander in chief of South Australia 28 Oct. 1861 to death, assumed office March 1862. (_m._ 20 May 1826 Caroline Maria 2 dau. of Ralph Gore of Barrowmount, co. Kilkenny, she was granted a civil list pension of £100, 17 Nov. 1868 and _d._ 1872), he _d._ Government house, Adelaide 19 Feb. 1868. _J. P. Stow’s South Australia_ (1883) 37–42.

DALY, ELLEN. _b._ Kidderminster 1806; acted in melodrama at Adelphi theatre, London 1820–21; acted at Covent Garden and Haymarket, at Surrey theatre 14 years, at Standard theatre 1848–49; at Princess’s theatre under Charles Kean 1850–59. _d._ Notting hill, London 18 Jany. 1883. _Actors by daylight i_, 89 (1838), _portrait_; _Dramatic Mirror_ (1847) _p._ 37, _portrait_; _Theatrical Times iv_, 1–2 (1849), _portrait_.

DALY, RIGHT REV. ROBERT (_younger son of Denis Daly of Dunsandle, co. Galway 1747–91, P.C._) _b._ Dunsandle 8 June 1783; fellow commoner at Trin. coll. Dublin 1799, gold medallist 1803, B.A. 1803, M.A. 1832, B.D. and D.D. 1843; preb. of Holy Trinity, Cork 1809–43; preb. of Stagonill, Dublin 1809–43; R. of Powerscourt 1809–43; dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin, elected 8 Dec. 1840, declared dean 1842 by court of delegates appointed to try validity of the election; bishop of united dioceses of Cashel, Emly, Waterford and Lismore 12 Jany. 1843 to death; an eminent leader of the Evangelical party; edited O’Brien’s _Focaloir Gaoidhilge-Sags-Bhéarla, or an Irish-English dictionary_ 1832; _Letters and papers of Viscountess Powerscourt_ 1838, _9 ed._ 1874. _d._ See house, Waterford 16 Feb. 1872. _Personal recollections of Right Rev. Robert Daly by An old parishioner i.e. Mrs. H. Madden_ 1872.

DALYELL, SIR JOHN GRAHAM, 6 Baronet (_2 son of Sir Robert Dalyell, 4 baronet, who d. 1791_). _b._ Binns, Linlithgowshire, Aug. 1775; lamed for life when an infant; ed. at Univs. of St. Andrews and Edin.; advocate at Scottish bar 1796; knighted by patent 22 Aug. 1836; pres. of Society of Arts for Scotland 1839–40; succeeded his elder brother as 6 baronet 1 Feb. 1841; author of _Fragments of Scottish history_ 1798; _Scottish poems of the sixteenth century_ 1801; _Journal of Richard Bannatyne_ 1806; _Darker superstitions of Scotland_ 1834; _Musical memoirs of Scotland_ 1849. _d._ 14 Great King st. Edinburgh 7 June 1851. _Sir J. G. Dalyell’s The powers of the creator displayed in the creation to which is prefixed a memoir of the author, vol. iii_, 1858.

DALYELL, SIR ROBERT ALEXANDER OSBORNE, 8 Baronet (_eld. son of the succeeding_). _b._ 1821; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1847; barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1849; employed in the consulate at Bucharest 1855–57; consul at Erzeroum 1859–65; consul for the Vilayet of the Danube 17 Oct. 1865 to 1 July 1874 when he retired on a pension. _d._ The Binns, Linlithgow 21 Jany. 1886.

DALYELL, SIR WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM CAVENDISH, 7 Baronet. _b._ 27 April 1784; entered navy 1793; a prisoner in France 1805–14; commander of Greenwich hospital 27 Aug. 1840 to death; retired captain 1 July 1864; succeeded 7 June 1851. _d._ Royal hospital, Greenwich 16 Feb. 1865.

DALZELL, NICOL ALEXANDER. _b._ Edinburgh 21 April 1817; ed. at high sch. and Univ. of Edin., M.A. 1837; assistant comr. of customs, Bombay 1841; forest ranger of Scinde; conservator of forests Bombay, retired on a pension 1870; F.R.S. Edin.; author of _A review of Plowden’s Report on salt revenue of Bombay_ 1855; _The Bombay Flora_ 1861. _d._ Edinburgh, Jany. 1878.

DAMES, WILLIAM LONGWORTH. Ensign 66 foot 26 July 1826, major 12 Oct. 1841 to 6 Nov. 1846 when placed on h.p.; col. 5 foot 12 Jany. 1865 to death; L.G. 4 Feb. 1867. _d._ 23 East Cliff, Dover 20 Feb. 1868 aged 61.

DAMPIER, JOHN LUCIUS (_2 son of Sir Henry Dampier 1758–1816, justice of Court of King’s Bench_). _b._ 19 Bloomsbury sq. London 23 Dec. 1792; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1816, M.A. 1819; fellow of his coll.; barrister L.I. 22 May 1819; recorder of Portsmouth 1837–38; a comr. to enquire into rights and claims connected with New Forest and Waltham forest 1849; a comr. for investigating state of Univ. of Ox. 1850; vice warden of Stannaries in county of Devon 16 Dec. 1850 to death. _d._ 33 Pulteney st. Bath 24 May 1853. _G.M. xl_, 94–5 (1853).

DANBY, FRANCIS (_3 son of James Danby of Common near Wexford, farmer_). _b._ Common 16 Nov. 1793; landscape painter especially of sunsets; exhibited 48 pictures at R.A., 17 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. gallery 1820–60; A.R.A. 7 Nov. 1825; lived in Paris and on the lake of Geneva 1829–41, at Lewisham, Kent 1841–47, and at Exmouth 1847 to death; his picture ‘The Deluge’ exhibited in London 1840 was chief artistic feature of Dublin Exhibition 1853. _d._ Shell house, Exmouth 17 Feb. 1861. _Sandby’s History of the royal academy ii_, 68–71 (1862); _Redgrave’s Century of painters ii_, 437–49 (1866); _W. Stokes’s Life of George Petrie_ (1869) 7–10.

DANBY, JAMES FRANCIS (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ Bristol 1816; member of Soc. of British Artists; exhibited 35 landscapes at R.A., 42 at B.I. and 46 at Suffolk st. gallery 1842–76. _d._ 54 Park road, Haverstock hill, London 22 Oct. 1875. _Graphic xii_, 518 (1875), _portrait_.

DANBY, THOMAS (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ about 1817; copied pictures at the Louvre, Paris for his living 1830–41; exhibited 30 pictures at R.A. and 42 at B.I. 1842–76; associate of Soc. of Painters in Water-colours 1867, member 1870, his landscapes were among the chief ornaments of the Society’s exhibitions. _d._ 11 Park road, Haverstock hill, London 25 March 1886.

DANCE, CHARLES (_son of George Dance of London, architect 1740–1825_). _b._ about 1794; clerk in Court for relief of Insolvent Debtors, London, registrar and auditor 1851, taxing officer 1853, chief clerk May 1858 to Oct. 1861 when he retired on pension of £800 a year; wrote many extravaganzas alone and with J. R. Planché; called the founder of modern burlesque; of his 30 dramatic pieces the _Bengal Tiger_, _Delicate Ground_, _A morning call_, _Who speaks first_, and _Naval Engagements_ are still sometimes played. _d._ Lowestoft 5 Jany. 1863. _Planche’s Extravaganzas ii_, (1879), _portrait_.

DANCER, JOHN BENJAMIN. _b._ London 1812; optician at Manchester 1835 to death; suggested application of photography in connexion with the magic lantern; constructed the optical chromatic fountain since further developed at South Kensington exhibitions; constructed the first perfectly accurate thermometer in England; produced the first cheap good microscopes; member of Manchester literary and philosophical society; F.R.A.S. _d._ Manchester about 6 Dec. 1887.

DANELL, RIGHT REV. JAMES (_son of Mr. Danell of London_). _b._ Fitzroy st. Fitzroy sq. London 14 July 1821; ed. at St. Edmund’s college near Ware and St. Sulpice, Paris; ordained priest 6 June 1846; served mission at St. George’s, Southwark 1846–70; canon of Southwark 27 Jany. 1857, vicar general 16 May 1862, vicar capitular 2 June 1870; bishop of Southwark 10 Jany. 1871 to death, consecrated by Abp. Manning at St. George’s cathedral 25 March 1871. _d._ The Bishop’s house, St. George’s cathedral, Southwark 14 June 1881. _The Tablet 18 and 25 June 1881._

DANIEL, GEORGE. _b._ City of London 16 Sep. 1789; clerk to a stockbroker in Tokenhouse yard; contributed many poems to _Ackerman’s Poetical Magazine_ 1808–11; author of _The Times, a prophecy_ 1811 anon.; _Miscellaneous poems_ 1812; _Dick Distich 3 vols._ 1812 anon.; published several squibs on royal scandals under pseud. of P—— P——, poet laureate; author of _The modern Dunciad a satire with notes, biographical and critical_ 1814, _2 ed._ 1816; edited _Chef d’Œuvres from French authors 2 vols._ 1821; his interlude _Doctor Bolus_ was acted at English opera house 21 July 1818, and his musical farce _The disagreeable surprise_ at Drury lane 1 Dec. 1819; edited _Cumberland’s British Theatre with remarks, biographical and critical 39 vols._ 1823–31, for each of the plays (nearly 300) he wrote a preface under the initials D—— G——; edited _Cumberland’s Minor Theatre 14 vols._ 1831–32; author of _Remarks on Miss Mitford’s tragedy of Rienzi_ 1828; _Ophelia Kean, a dramatic legendary tale_ 1829 anon., a scurrilous attack on Edmund Kean; _Garrick in the green room_ 1829; _Merrie England in the olden time 2 vols._ 1842, reprinted 1874; _The Missionary_ 1847 a religious poem; _Democritus in London, to which are added Notes festivous and the Stranger Guest_ 1852; _Love’s last labour not lost_ 1863. _d._ at his son’s house, The Grove, Stoke Newington, London 30 March 1864. _Memoir of D—— G—— prefixed to Colman’s Blue Devils in Cumberland’s British theatre vol. xxxix_ (1838), _pp._ 3–8, _portrait_; _G.M. 1864 pt. 2_, _pp._ 450–5.

DANIEL, WILLIAM SHAND. Educated at Univ. of Glasgow; contributed poetical pieces to Glasgow college Albums; wrote part of a drama which appeared in _Collections of miscellaneous poetical pieces Edin._ 1843–44; sheriff clerk depute of Dumbarton 1844 to death; edited _History of the abbey and palace of Holyrood by Duncan Anderson_ 1852. _d._ 2 Dec. 1858. _R. Inglis’s Dramatic writers of Scotland 1868 p._ 130.

DANIELL, EDMUND ROBERT (_son of George Daniell of London, barrister, who d. 1833_). Barrister M.T. 22 Nov. 1816; joint comr. with John Balguy of Birmingham court of bankruptcy 21 Oct. 1842 to death; F.R.S. 5 June 1828 to 1850; author of _Reports of cases argued on the equity side of the Court of Exchequer_ 1824; _The practice of the high Court of Chancery 3 vols._ 1837–41, _6 ed._, _3 vols._ 1882–84; _Practical observations on the new Chancery orders_ 1841, _2 ed._ 1842. _d._ Meriden hall near Coventry 21 March 1854.

DANIELL, WILLIAM FREEMAN. _b._ Liverpool 1818; M.R.C.S. 1841; assistant surgeon in the army 26 Nov. 1847; served on coast of West Africa; staff surgeon 11 March 1853; wrote a paper on the frankincense tree of West Africa which led to establishment of genus _Daniellia_, Benn. called after him; author of _Medical topography and native diseases of the Gulf of Guinea_ 1849; _On the Cascarilla plants of the West Indies_ 1862. _d._ Southampton 26 June 1865. _bur._ Kensal Green cemetery, London 3 July.

DANSEY, CHARLES CORNWALLIS. Second lieut. R.A. 19 July 1803, col. 9 Nov. 1846 to death; C.B. 19 July 1838. _d._ London 21 July 1853.

DANSEY, REV. WILLIAM (_son of John Dansey of Blandford, Dorset_). _b._ Blandford 1792; ed. at Ex. coll. Ox., Stapledon scholar 1811–12; B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817, M.B. 1818; R. of Donhead, St. Andrew, Wilts. 1820 to death; preb. of Salisbury 10 Aug. 1841 to death; translated _Arrian on Coursing_ 1831; edited _A brief account of the office of Dean Rural by J. Priaulx_ 1832; author of _Horæ Decanicæ Rurales being an attempt to illustrate the name, title and functions of rural deans with remarks on the rise and fall of rural bishops 2 vols._ 1835, _2 ed._ 1844. _d._ Weymouth 7 June 1856.

DANSON, GEORGE. _b._ Lancaster 4 June 1799; scene painter at theatres in London many years; exhibited 4 landscapes at R.A., 1 at B.I. and 6 at Suffolk st. gallery 1823–48; the following pictures by him were shown at Surrey Zoological gardens, Mount Vesuvius 1837–8 reproduced 1846, Iceland and its volcanoes 1839, the City of Rome occupying 5 acres 1841 reproduced 1848, Temple of Ellora 1843, London and the great fire of 1666, 1844, Edinburgh 1845, storming of Badajoz 1849, Napoleon’s passage of the Alps 1850. _d._ 711 Wandsworth road, London 23 Jany. 1881. _Daily Telegraph 1 Feb. 1881 p. 5, col. 3._

DARBY, GEORGE (_4 son of John Darby of Markly, Sussex, who d. 1834_). _b._ 1798; ed. at Westminster and St. Cath. coll. Cam., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1821; M.P. for East Sussex 1 Aug. 1837 to Jany. 1846; an inclosure comr. for England and Wales 21 Aug. 1846 to 1852; a copyhold inclosure and tithe comr. 1852 to death. _d._ Down st. Piccadilly, London 16 Nov. 1877. _bur._ Markley 21 Nov.

DARBY, REV. JOHN NELSON (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ London 18 Nov. 1800; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Dublin, gold medallist 1819, B.A. 1819; called to Irish bar about 1825; C. in Wicklow 1826–27; joined the ‘Brethren’ at Dublin 1827; worked in Switzerland 1838–40, many congregations of Darbyites were founded in cantons Vaud, Geneva and Bern; started a separate assembly at Plymouth 28 Dec. 1845, this division spread to Bristol, London and other places and Darbyism became established in England; travelled in America, New Zealand and West Indies; a most voluminous writer under his own name, his initials J. N. D., and anonymously. _d._ Bournemouth 29 April 1882. _Collected writings of J. N. Darby ed. by W. Kelly 32 vols._ 1867–83; _Herzog’s Religious Encyclopædia iii_, 1856–9, 2592–3 (1884); _Estéoule’s Le Plymouthisme d’autrefois et le Darbyisme d’aujoud’hui_ 1858; _A. N. Grove’s Darbyism, its rise and development_ 1866; _The close of 28 years association with J. N. D. by W. H. D._ 1866.

DARBY, JONATHAN GEORGE NORTON (_eld. son of George Darby 1798–1877_). _b._ 1829; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1851, M.A. 1854; barrister L.I. 9 June 1854; author with F. A. Bosanquet of _A practical treatise on the statutes of limitations in England and Ireland_ 1867. _d._ 29 Westbourne park road, London 17 March 1870 in 41 year.

DARBY, JOSEPH. Second lieut. R.A. 1 July 1802, lieut.-col. 10 Jany. 1837 to 1 April 1844 when placed on retired full pay; general 1 Jany. 1868. _d._ Clifton 21 May 1869 aged 83.

DARBY-GRIFFITH, CHRISTOPHER. _b._ 1805; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1826; M.P. for Devizes 1857–68. _d._ Padworth house near Reading 19 March 1885.

D’ARCY, GEORGE ABBAS KOOLI. Ensign 94 foot 21 April 1837, adjutant 3 Aug. 1838 to 5 Jany. 1841, captain 9 Nov. 1846 to 6 July 1852; major 3 West India regiment 6 July 1852, lieut. col. 7 July 1854 to 7 May 1858 when he sold out; aide-de-camp to 5 successive governors of Bombay; governor and commander in chief of the Gambia, June 1859 to Jany. 1867 when presented with a sword of honour value £120; governor of the Falkland Islands 24 Feb. 1870 to 1876. _d._ 9 Leigham villas, Plymouth 22 Oct. 1885 aged 67.

DARELL, SIR HARRY FRANCIS COLVILLE, 3 Baronet. _b._ Lucknow 17 Nov. 1814; succeeded 13 April 1828; ensign 18 foot 1 June 1832; major 7 dragoon guards 3 Sep. 1847 to 27 June 1851 when placed on h.p. _d._ Cagliari, Sardinia 6 Jany. 1853.

DARGAN, WILLIAM (_son of Mr. Dargan of co. Carlow, farmer_). _b._ co. Carlow 28 Feb. 1799; employed by Thomas Telford in constructing Holyhead road 1820; contractor of the first railway in Ireland, from Dublin to Kingstown 1831, of the Ulster canal, of the Dublin and Drogheda railway, of the Great southern and western, and the Midland Great western; found the capital nearly £100,000 for the Irish exhibition 1853 and bore the deficit of £20,000; declined a baronetcy offered him at close of exhibition; the Irish national gallery on Leinster Lawn was erected as a monument to Dargan with a fine bronze statue of him. _d._ 2 Fitzwilliam sq. east, Dublin 7 Feb. 1867. _The Irish industrial exhibition of 1853 by J. Sproule_ (1854) _ix-xiv_, _portrait_; _Irish tourist’s illustrated handbook_ (1853) _pp._ 12, 41, 148, _portrait_.

DARK, JAMES HENRY. _b._ Edgware road, London 24 May 1795; professional at Lord’s cricket ground, Marylebone 1809–36; umpire in many great matches; purchased remainder of lease of the ground from Wm. Ward 1836, proprietor and manager of the ground 1836 to 1864 when he sold the 29½ years remainder of the lease to Marylebone club for £12,500; built a house 31 St. John’s Wood road, overlooking the ground, and _d._ there 17 Oct. 1871. _bur._ Kensal Green 21 Oct. _Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores i_, 350–51 (1862), _v_, _pp. xiii, xxii_, (1876).

DARLEY, EDWARD. Ensign 49 foot 29 Nov. 1791; major 58 foot 18 Sep. 1817 to 5 July 1831 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. 61 foot 24 Aug. 1832 to 28 June 1838; granted distinguished service reward 1 Jany. 1843; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. _d._ 24 North bank, Regent’s park, London 24 March 1854 aged 78.

DARLEY, RIGHT REV. JOHN RICHARD (_2 son of Richard Darley of Fairfield, co. Monaghan_). _b._ Fairfield, Nov. 1799; ed. at Dungannon and Trin. coll. Dublin, foundation scholar 1819, B.A. 1820, M.A. 1827, B.D. and D.D. 1875; master of Dundalk gr. sch. 1826, of royal school of Dungannon 1831; R. of Drumgoon 1850; R. of Templemichael 1866; archdeacon of Ardagh 7 Nov. 1866; bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh 23 Sep. 1874 to death; consecrated in Armagh cathedral 25 Oct. 1874; author of _The Grecian drama, a treatise on the dramatic literature of the Greeks_ 1840; _A treatise on Homer with questions_ 1848. _d._ The Palace, Kilmore 20 Jany. 1884.

DARLEY, WILLIAM WALLACE. Second lieut. R.A. 16 Dec. 1816, lieut. col. 4 April 1851 to 22 April 1853 when retired on full pay; L.G. 7 Feb. 1870. _d._ Ventnor, Isle of Wight 23 Nov. 1874.

DARLING, SIR CHARLES HENRY (_eld. son of Henry Charles Darling, governor of Barbados, who d. 1845_). _b._ Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia 1809; ensign 57 foot 27 April 1827, lieut. 29 Sep. 1830 to 30 Oct. 1838 when placed on h.p., retired 1841; lieut. governor of island of St. Lucia 21 Dec. 1847, of Cape of Good Hope 1851, of Newfoundland, May 1855; captain general and governor in chief of Jamaica, Feb. 1857; governor of Victoria 11 Sep. 1863 to April 1866; K.C.B. 23 July 1862. _d._ 7 Lansdowne terrace, Cheltenham 25 Jany. 1870.

DARLING, GEORGE. _b._ Stow near Galashiels; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; M.D. Aberdeen 1 April 1815; L.R.C.P. 22 Dec. 1819; practised at Russell square, London 1820 to death; much employed by artists; author of _An essay on medical economy_ 1814 anon.; _Instructions for making unfermented bread_ 1846 anon. _17 ed._ 1851. _d._ Russell sq. London 30 April 1862 in 80 year.

DARLING, JAMES. _b._ Edinburgh 1797; apprenticed to Adam Black the publisher 1809–18; bookseller at 22 Little Queen st. Holborn, London 1825 to death, and at 81 Great Queen st. 1854 to death; commenced a library for use of theological students Jany. 1840 named at first the Clerical library, afterwards the Metropolitan library; compiled and published _Bibliotheca Clericalis_ 1843; _Cyclopædia Bibliographica or library of theological and general literature 2 vols._ 1854–59. _d._ Fortess terrace west, Kentish Town, London 2 March 1862.

DARLING, JOHN (_younger son of George Darling, M.D. of Russell sq. London_). _b._ 16 Aug. 1821; ed. at Univ. coll. London, Charterhouse and Ch. Ch. Ox.; barrister I.T. 1 May 1846; author of _An examination of the scriptural grounds on which the prohibition against marriage with a deceased wife’s sister is based_ 1849; _A treatise on the administration of trust funds under the Trustee Relief Act_ 1855. _d._ Thornbury house, Ryde, Isle of Wight 27 Sep. 1858.

DARLING, SIR RALPH (_son of Christopher Darling, adjutant 45 foot_). _b._ 1775; ensign 45 foot 15 May 1793; lieut.-col. 69 foot 17 July 1801 to 8 May 1806; lieut.-col. 51 foot 8 May 1806 to 4 June 1813; deputy adjutant general at the Horse Guards 1814–18; commanded troops in Mauritius 1818–23; col. 90 foot 9 Oct. 1823 to 26 Sep. 1837; governor in chief of New South Wales 19 Dec. 1825 to 21 Oct. 1831; col. 41 foot 26 Sep. 1837 to 5 Feb. 1848; general 23 Nov. 1841; col. 69 foot 5 Feb. 1848 to death; G.C.H. 2 Sep. 1835. _d._ Brunswick sq. Brighton 2 April 1858. _Braim’s History of New South Wales i_, 53–74 (1876).

DARLING, WILLIAM. _b._ Belford 7 Feb. 1786; lighthouse keeper at the Longstone or Outer Farn or Faroe island 1815 to Dec. 1860 when he retired on full pay; went out to the wreck of the steamboat Forfarshire (with his daughter Grace Darling 1815–43) and rescued the 9 survivors of the crew 7 Sep. 1838, the boat in which they went out was on view during the summer of 1883 at the Fisheries Exhibition, South Kensington, and on 9 Nov. it was carried through the streets of London in the Lord Mayor’s show. _d._ The Wynding house, Bamburgh 28 May 1865. _Journal of W. Darling_ 1795–1860, (1886); _I.L.N. xlvi_, 553 (1865).

DARLING, WILLIAM. _b._ Demse, Scotland; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; studied and taught anatomy in New York 1830–42; M.D. New York 1842; M.R.C.S. 1856, F.R.C.S. 1866; studied in London and Paris 1856–66; professor of anatomy in Univ. of New York 1867; censor of New York college of Veterinary surgeons 1868; professor of anatomy in Univ. of Vermont 1873; author of _Anatomography or graphic anatomy_ 1879; author with A. L. Renney of _Essentials of anatomy_ 1880. _d._ Univ. of New York 25 Dec. 1884 aged 82.

DARLING, WILLIAM LINDSAY. Ensign 99 foot 13 Dec. 1801; captain 51 foot 18 April 1811 to 1814; col. 98 foot 17 April 1854 to death; general 15 Dec. 1861. _d._ Strote house near Chepstow 8 Oct. 1863.

DARNELL, GEORGE. Established and conducted a large day school at Islington, London; started _Darnell’s Copybooks_ about 1840 when he introduced plan of giving a line of copy in pale ink to be first written over by the pupil then to be imitated by him in the next line, the copy being thus always under his eye; author of _Short and certain road to reading_ 1845; _Grammar made intelligible to children_ 1846; _Reading lessons 6 numbers_ 1855; _Arithmetic made intelligible to children_ 1855, all of which had a great sale. _d._ 70 Gibson sq. Islington 26 Feb. 1857 aged 58.

DARNELL, REV. WILLIAM NICHOLAS (_son of Wm. Darnell of Newcastle, wine merchant_). _b._ Newcastle 14 March 1776; ed. at Newcastle gr. sch. and C.C. coll. Ox., Durham scholar, fellow, tutor; B.A. 1796, M.A. 1800, B.D. 1808; R. of St. Mary-le-bow, Durham 1809–15; V. of Stockton 1815–20; V. of Lastingham, Yorkshire 1815–28; preb. of ninth stall in Durham cath. 12 Jany. 1816, of sixth stall 12 Oct. 1820 to 1831; Inc. of St. Margaret’s, Durham 1820–27; V. of Norham, co. Durham 1827–31; R. of Stanhope, co. Durham 1831 to death, a living worth £6000 a year; author of _Sermons_ 1816; _The correspondence of Isaac Basire with a memoir_ 1831; _An arrangement and classification of the Psalms, with a view to render them more useful for private devotion_ 1839, and of sermons, charges and other works. _d._ Stanhope rectory 19 June 1865. _bur._ Durham cathedral churchyard 24 June.

DART, JOSEPH. Deputy sec. H.E.I. Co. 1814, sec. 1818–29. _d._ Budleigh Salterton, Devon 29 Nov. 1866 aged 93.

DART, JOSEPH HENRY (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ India house, Leadenhall st. London 1817; ed. at Ex. coll. Ox., Newdigate prizeman for his poem _The Exile of St. Helena_ 1838; B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; barrister L.I. 28 Jany. 1841, bencher Feb. 1885; one of the six conveyancing counsel to Court of Chancery 1860; senior conveyancing counsel to high court of justice 1875–86; a verderer of New Forest 1877; author of _A compendium of the law and practice of vendors and purchasers of real estate_ 1851, _6 ed. 2 vols._ 1888; _The Iliad of Homer in English hexameter verse_ 1862. _d._ Beech house, Ringwood, Hants. 27 June 1887. _Law Journal xxii_, 373, 381 (1887).

DARTMOUTH, WILLIAM LEGGE, 4 Earl of (_eld. son of 3 Earl of Dartmouth 1755–1810_). _b._ in parish of St. George, Hanover sq. London 29 Nov. 1784; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1805, D.C.L. 1834; succeeded his father 1 Nov. 1810; colonel of Staffordshire militia 15 April 1812 to death; F.R.S. 7 Nov. 1822. _d._ Patshull near Wolverhampton 22 Nov. 1853.

DARUSMONT, FRANCES, known as Fanny Wright (_dau. of Mr. Wright of Dundee, merchant, who d. 1798_). _b._ Miln’s buildings, Nethergate, Dundee 6 Sep. 1795; brought up in England by her aunt; spent two years in the U.S. 1818–20; produced a tragedy ‘Altorf’ in New York 19 Feb. 1819; lived in Paris 1821–24; purchased 2000 acres of land on the river Nashoba in Tennessee and settled negro slaves upon it 1824, this experiment failed and the slaves were liberated and sent to Hayti; joined Robert D. Owen in his socialistic scheme at New Harmony, Indiana and edited the _New Harmony Gazette_; lectured in chief cities of U.S. on social questions 1829–30 and 1833–36, these lectures led to the formation of Fanny Wright Societies; one of the first advocates of female suffrage; author of _Views of society and manners in America_ 1821; _A few days in Athens_ 1822. (_m._ 1838 Phiquepal-Darusmont a French reformer, from whom she separated). _d._ Cincinnati, Ohio 14 Dec. 1852. _R. D. Owen’s Threading my way_ (1873) 264–72; _Mrs. Trollope’s Domestic manners of the Americans_ (1831) _i_, 96–100, _ii_, 76–77; _S. J. Hale’s Woman’s Record_, _2 ed._ (1855) _p._ 842.

DARVALL, EDWARD. Ensign 57 Bengal N.I. 1 May 1823; lieut. col. Bengal staff corps 12 Sep. 1866 to 1 Oct. 1877 when placed on retired list; general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ Acton place, Suffolk 20 Oct. 1885 in 80 year.

DARVALL, SIR JOHN BAYLEY (_son of Edward Darvall, captain 9 dragoons_). Ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1837; barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1838, admitted to bar of N.S.W. 16 Sep. 1839; practised at Sydney, N.S.W. 1839–67; Q.C. 1853, member of senate of Univ. of Sydney 1850–67; solicitor general N.S.W. 1856–7, attorney general 1857–67; C.M.G. 23 June 1869, K.C.M.G. 30 May 1877. _d._ 23 Upper Wimpole st. Cavendish sq. London 28 Dec. 1883.

DARVILL, SIR HENRY (_eld. son of John Darvill_). _b._ 1812; solicitor at Windsor 1834 to death; mayor of Windsor 1853, town clerk 1854 to death; registrar of Windsor county court; knighted at Osborne 20 April 1883. _d._ Chirbury, Shropshire 30 Sep. 1883. _bur._ Windsor cemetery 5 Oct.

DARWIN, CHARLES ROBERT (_5 child of Robert Waring Darwin of Shrewsbury, physician 1766–1848_). _b._ The Mount, Shrewsbury 12 Feb. 1809; ed. at Shrewsbury, Univ. of Edin. and Christ’s coll. Cam.; B.A. Cam. 1832, M.A. 1837, hon. LLD. 1877; naturalist to the Beagle on her surveying voyage round the world Dec. 1831 to Oct. 1836; F.G.S., sec. 1838–41; lived at 12 Gower st. London 1839–42, at Down near Beckenham, Kent 1842 to death; F.R.S. 24 Jany. 1839, royal medallist 1853, Copley medallist 1864; author of _Narrative of the surveying voyages of H.M.S. Adventure and Beagle, vol. 3, entitled Journal and Remarks_; _Geology of the voyage of the Beagle_ 3 _parts 1842–46_; _On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life_ 1859; _The descent of man and selection in relation to sex_ 1871, and other books. _d._ Down 19 April 1882. _bur._ Westminster Abbey 26 April, statue of him by J. Boehm, R.A. placed in Natural history museum, South Kensington 1885. _Life and letters of C. Darwin edited by his son F. Darwin 3 vols._ 1887, _portrait_; _Charles Darwin, Nature series_ 1882; _Illust. Review ii_, 289–91 (1871), _portrait_; _Nature x_, 79 (1874), _portrait_; _The Examiner 11 Oct. and 12 Nov. 1879_, 2 _portraits_.

DARWIN, SIR FRANCIS SACHEVERELL (_2 son of Erasmus Darwin of Derby, M.D., F.R.S. 1731–1802_). _b._ parish of All Saints, Derby 17 June 1786; ed. at Repton and Emm. coll. Cam.; M.D. Edin.; physician at Lichfield; knighted by George iv at Carlton house 10 May 1820 on presenting an address from city of Lichfield. _d._ Breadsall priory near Derby 6 Nov. 1859. _Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. iii_, 195 (1861).

DASENT, JOHN BURY (_eld. son of John Roche Dasent, attorney general of St. Vincent_). _b._ 22 Dec. 1806; ed. at Westminster school and Trin. hall, Cam., LL.B. 1830; barrister M.T. 19 April 1833; judge of Bow and Shoreditch county courts (circuit No. 40) 2 Oct. 1858 to Jany. 1884 when he retired on a pension. _d._ 15 Warwick road, Maida hill, London 7 April 1888.

DASHWOOD, REV. GEORGE HENRY (_son of Rev. James Dashwood, R. of Doddington, Isle of Ely_). _b._ Downham Market, Norfolk 21 Oct. 1801; ed. at Linc. coll. Ox., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1825; C. of Stow Bardolph, Norfolk 1840, Vicar 1852 to death; F.S.A. 6 June 1844; printed at his private press _Vice-Comites Norfolciæ, or sheriffs of Norfolk from the first year of Henry the Second to the fourth of Queen Victoria_ 1844; author of _Sigilla Antiqua_ 1847, and of many papers in the Norfolk and Norwich Archæological Society’s _Norfolk Archæology vols._ 1–5. _d._ Quebec house, East Dereham, Norfolk 9 Feb. 1869. _Register and mag. of biog. i_, 310–12 (1869).

DASHWOOD, WILLIAM BATEMAN. _b._ 1 Sep. 1790; entered navy 3 Aug. 1799; lost his right arm in action 29 Nov. 1811; granted pension for wounds 4 April 1816; captain 21 Oct. 1818, retired 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 22 April 1862. _d._ suddenly at Geneva 9 May 1869.

DAUBENY, CHARLES GILES BRIDLE (_3 son of Rev. James Daubeny, R. of Stratton, Gloucs. who d. 9 Feb. 1817_). _b._ Stratton 11 Feb. 1795; ed. at Winchester and Magd. coll. Ox., demy 1810, lay fellow 1815 to death, bursar 1828, vice pres. 1830; B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817, B.M. 1818, M.D. 1821; M.D. Dublin 1835; Aldrichian professor of chemistry at Oxford, Oct. 1822–1855, professor of botany there 1834 to death, professor of rural economy 1840 to death; physician to Radcliffe infirmary 1826–30; pres. of British Association at Cheltenham 1856; F.R.S. 19 Dec. 1822; author of _A description of

## active and extinct volcanoes_ 1826, _2 ed._ 1848; _An introduction

to the atomic theory_ 1831, _2 ed._ 1850; _Lectures on Roman husbandry_ 1857; _Lectures on Climate_ 1863; _Miscellanies on scientific and literary subjects 2 vols._ 1867. _d._ Botanic gardens, Oxford at 12.5 a._m._ 13 Dec. 1867. _Proc. of Royal Society xvii_, 74–80 (1869); _Quarterly Journal of Geological society xxiv_, 33–36 (1868).

DAUBENY, HENRY. Ensign 84 foot 8 July 1795, lieut. col. 11 Dec. 1813 to 21 Nov. 1822 when placed on h.p.; col. 80 foot 31 Jany. 1850 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; K.H. 1832; edited C. Daubeny’s _Guide to the Church_ 1830. _d._ Rome 10 April 1853.

DAUBENY, HENRY. _b._ 1820; M.R.C.S. 1843; M.D. St. Andrews 1845; L.S.A. 1846; surgeon in London 1843–61, at San Remo, Italy 1861 to death; author of _The climate of San Remo as adapted to invalids_ 1865. _d._ Hôtel des Iles Britanniques, San Remo 26 Jany. 1887.

DAUGARS, JOHN WILLIAM GUSTAVUS LEO (_only son of Rev. Guillaume Gustavus Daugars, pastor of French protestant church, St. Martin’s le Grand, London_). _b._ Thurlow sq. Brompton, London 1849; ed. at Harrow and Brasenose coll. Ox., migrated to St. Alban hall, B.A. 1873; barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1875; contributed to _Temple Bar_, _The Graphic_ and other publications under nom de plume of Claude Templar. _d._ Hastings 20 Feb. 1885 in 36 year.

DAUGLISH, JOHN (_son of Wm. Dauglish of Bethnal Green, London, clerk in a large East India house_). _b._ Bethnal Green 10 Feb. 1824; ed. at Hackney; studied medicine at Univ. of Edin. 1852–55, bracketed gold medallist for his M.D. degree 1855; took out a patent for “An improved method of making bread” 1 Oct. 1856 and 4 other patents on same subject 1857–65, this unfermented bread which he called aerated was first made in factory of Messrs. Carr of Carlisle 1856; erected a model bakery at Islington 1859; silver medallist of Society of Arts 1860; bread sold in special shops in London and the provinces. _d._ Furze bank, Great Malvern 14 Jany. 1866. _On the healthy manufacture of bread by B. W. Richardson_ 1884, _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxxvi_, 259–60 (1860).

DAUNT, VERY REV. ACHILLES (_eld. son of Achilles Daunt of Tracton abbey, co. Cork, who d. 28 Aug. 1871_). _b._ Rincurran near Kinsale 23 Aug. 1832; ed. at Kinsale and Univ. of Dublin, scholar 1852, B.A. 1854, M.A. 1866; V. of Rincurran 26 March 1856 to 11 Jany. 1867; R. of Ballymoney, co. Cork 1867; R. of Stackallen, co. Meath 1867; V. of St. Matthias, Dublin, Aug. 1867; dean of Cork and R. of St. Finbar, Cork 1875 to death; author of _The Church a lesson book for angels_ 1872; _The person and offices of the Holy Ghost_ 1879; _The morning of life and other gleanings from the manuscripts of the late A. Daunt_ 1881. _d._ St. Anne’s, Blarney near Cork 17 June 1878. _Spent in the service, a memoir of the Very Rev. Achilles Daunt by Rev. F. R. Wynne_ 1879, _portrait_; _Some account of the family of Daunt by John Daunt_ (1881) 25–28, _portrait_.

DAVENPORT, EDWARD GERSHOM. _b._ 1838; M.P. for St. Ives, Cornwall 5 Feb. 1874 to death. _d._ 28 Lancaster gate, Hyde park, London 4 Dec. 1874.

DAVENPORT, JOHN MARRIOTT. _b._ Shirburn, Oxon, Sep. 1809; solicitor at Oxford 1831 to death; clerk of the peace for co. Oxon 1831–81, undersheriff 1853–75; F.S.A. 9 March 1854; privilegiatus Univ. of Ox. 3 Nov. 1866; author of _Lords lieutenant and high sheriffs of Oxfordshire 1086–1868_, 1868; _Oxfordshire Annals_ 1869; _Lord lieutenant and high sheriff, correspondence upon the question of precedence_ 1871; _Notes upon the jurisdiction of the county justices within the city of Oxford_ 1872; _Notes as to Oxford Castle_ 1877. _d._ 62 St. Giles’s, Oxford 31 Jany. 1882.

DAVENPORT, RICHARD ALFRED. _b._ about 1777; author of _New elegant extracts_, _2nd series 12 vols._ 1823–7; wrote some of the biographical notices and critical prefaces to Whittingham’s _British poets 100 vols._ 1822; edited more than _100 vols._ of miscellaneous works including the _Poetical Register 8 vols._ 1802–11. _d._ from inadvertently taking an overdose of opium at Brunswick cottage, Park st. Camberwell, London 25 Jany. 1852.

DAVENPORT, SAMUEL (_son of Mr. Davenport of Bedford, architect_). _b._ Bedford 10 Dec. 1783; articled to Charles Warren of London, line engraver; engraved in outline a large number of portraits for biographical works; engraved _The works of W. Hogarth_ 1821; his best plates are in the _Forget-me-not_ 1828–42; one of the earliest engravers on steel. _d._ 15 July 1867.

DAVEY, RICHARD (_youngest son of Wm. Davey of Redruth, Cornwall, solicitor, who d. 16 April 1849_). _b._ Redruth 11 Dec. 1799; ed. at Tiverton and Univ. of Edin.; M.P. for West Cornwall 1857–68. _d._ Bochym near Helston 24 June 1884. _I.L.N. xxxiii_, 92, 94 (1858), _portrait_.

DAVIDS, REV. THOMAS WILLIAM (_only child of William Saunders Davids of Swansea, Congregational minister, who d. Dec. 1816_). _b._ Swansea 11 Sep. 1816; minister of Congregational church, Lion walk, Colchester 3 Feb. 1841 to 1874; secretary of Essex congregational union 20 years; author of _Annals of Evangelical Nonconformity in the county of Essex from the time of Wycliffe to the restoration_ 1863, and of a number of historical articles and reviews. (_m._ 1841 Louisa eld. dau. of Robert Winter of Clapham Common, London, solicitor, she was widely known by her _Essay on Sunday schools_ 1847 and _Sunday school hymn book_, she _d._ Colchester 18 Nov. 1853 aged 37), he _d._ Forest Gate, Essex 11 April 1884. _Congregational year book_ (1885) 187–8.

DAVIDSON, REV. ALEXANDER DYCE. _b._ Aberdeen 8 May 1807; ed. at Aberdeen Univ.; minister of the South ch. Aberdeen 3 Aug. 1832, of the West ch. 5 May 1836, of Free ch. Belmont st. 28 Jany. 1844, of a new Free ch. in Union st. 14 Feb. 1869 to death; author of _Lectures on the book of Esther_ 1859; _Lectures and sermons edited by F. Edmond_ 1872. _d._ Aberdeen 27 April 1872. _Wylies’ Disruption Worthies_ (1881) 211–14.

DAVIDSON, ARCHIBALD (_son of Rev. T. Davidson of the Tolbooth church, Edinburgh_). _b._ 1805; ed. at high sch. Edin. and Univs. of Glasgow and St. Andrews; called to Scotch bar 1827; senior advocate depute 1846; sheriff of Kincardine 1847, of Aberdeen 10 Jany. 1848, of Edinburgh 10 Oct. 1865, of the Lothians and Peebles to Feb. 1886; arranged for publication Lord Cockburn’s _Memorials of his time_ 1856. _d._ Edinburgh 27 March 1886.

DAVIDSON, CUTHBERT. Entered Bengal army 1827; lieut. col. 49 Bengal N.I. 31 May 1857 to 1860; lieut. col. 51 Bengal N.I. 1860 to death; C.B. 18 May 1860. _d._ 2 Aug. 1862.

DAVIDSON, DUNCAN. _b._ 1800; M.P. for co. Cromarty 30 June 1826 to 24 July 1830 and 20 May 1831 to 3 Dec. 1832; lord lieutenant of co. Ross 18 Feb. 1879 to death; married five times. _d._ Edinburgh 18 Sep. 1881.

DAVIDSON, ELLIS A. Author of _Linear Drawing_ 1868; _Drawing and design without instruments_ 1869; _Elements of practical perspective_ 1870; _Model drawing from solid forms_ 1871; _Boy joiner and model maker_ 1874; _House painting and graining_ 1875, _3 ed._ 1880; _Amateur house carpenter_ 1875 and many other books. _d._ 29 Clarendon gardens, Maida hill, London 9 March 1878.

DAVIDSON, GEORGE HENRY. Music publisher at 19 Peters hill, Doctors Commons, London; published _Universal Melodist 2 vols._ 1847–9; _Instrumental Gems 4 vols._ 1851; _Davidson’s Recitations and Comic songs_ 1854; sold his business to the Music publishing company limited for £20,000, 1860; author of _The Thames and Thanet Guide_ 1838, _6 ed._ 1850. _d._ 26 Clifton road, Peckham 4 July 1875 in 75 year.

DAVIDSON, HARRIET (_2 child of Hugh Miller the geologist 1802–56_). _b._ Cromarty, Scotland 25 Nov. 1839; ed. at Edin. and London; author of _Isabel Jardine’s History_ 1867; _Christian Osborne’s Friends_ 1869; contributed poems and stories to the Adelaide newspapers and to _Chambers’s Journal_. (_m._ 1863 Rev. John Davidson, minister of Chalmer’s church, Adelaide, who _d._ 1881). _d._ Adelaide 23 Dec. 1883.

DAVIDSON, JAMES (_eld. son of James Davidson of Tower Hill, London, stationer_). _b._ Tower Hill 15 Aug. 1793; lived at Secktor near Axminster, Devon 1822 to death; author of _The British and Roman remains in the vicinity of Axminster_ 1833; _History of Axminster church_ 1835; _History of Newenham Abbey, Devon_ 1843; _Axminster during the civil war_ 1851; _A glossary to the obsolete and unused words and phrases of the Holy Scriptures in the authorised English version_ 1850; _Bibliotheca Devoniensis, a catalogue of printed books relating to the county of Devon_ 1852 _and Supplement_ 1862; _Notes on the antiquities of Devonshire_ 1861. _d._ Secktor house, Axminster 29 Feb. 1864. _G. P. R. Pulman’s book of the Axe_ (1875) 12, 47, 677.

DAVIDSON, JOHN. _b._ Old Meldrum, Aberdeenshire 29 March 1804; ed. at Marischal coll. Aberdeen; transcriber for the Spalding Club 20 years; arranged the Burgh records of Dundee 1865; wrote a number of pamphlets on various political subjects; a small vol. containing many poems and prose pieces by him was published at Aberdeen 1872. _d._ 28 Sep. 1871.

DAVIDSON, JOHN. L.R.C.S. Edin. 1838; surgeon in the navy 29 July 1839; M.D. St. Andrews 1845; M.R.C.P. 1860; inspector general of hospitals 4 July 1866 to 26 Oct. 1874 when he retired; C.B. 13 March 1867. _d._ Bosworth lodge, Willesden lane, London 31 Jany. 1881 aged 63.

DAVIDSON, THOMAS (_son of Jonah Davidson of Oxnam Row farm near Jedburgh, shepherd_). _b._ Oxnam Row 7 July 1838; entered Univ. of Edin. 1855; schoolmaster at Forres 1860–61, in Edinburgh 1861; licensed as a preacher in united presbyterian church 2 Feb. 1864; obtained second prize in rhetoric class for a poem on ‘Ariadne at Naxos’ 1859, one of his friends sent this poem to Thackeray who inserted it in _Cornhill Mag._ Dec. 1860; sent songs and short poems to the ‘_Scotsman_.’ _d._ Bankend, Jedburgh 29 April 1870. _The life of a Scottish probationer, being a memoir of Thomas Davidson by James Brown_ (1878), _portrait_.

DAVIDSON, THOMAS. _b._ Nottingham 28 Aug. 1828; went to Philadelphia 1832, ship builder there 1850–61; quartermaster in Philadelphia navy yard 1861, assistant naval constructor 1863, naval constructor 1866 to death; his greatest feat was the building in 70 days of the “Juanita” (1240 tons 7 guns) from the frame of a Florida frigate; executed the models and drawings for first large torpedo boats built in New York. _d._ Philadelphia 18 Feb. 1874.

DAVIDSON, THOMAS. _b._ Edinburgh 17 May 1817; ed. in France, Italy and Switzerland; pupil of P. Delaroche and H. Vernet; matric. at Univ. of Edin. 1835; hon. sec. of Geol. Soc. 1858, Wollaston gold medallist 1865, Silurian medallist 1868; F.R.S. 11 June 1857, royal medallist 1870; author of _British Fossil Brachiopoda 6 vols._ and of the article ‘Brachiopoda’ in 9th ed. of Encyclopædia Britannica. _d._ 16 Oct. 1885. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxix_, 8–11 (1886).

DAVIE, JAMES. Violinist and composer at Aberdeen; published _The music of the church of Scotland_ 1841; _Caledonian Repository 6 vols._; established the Aberdeen Choral Society which held a Musical Festival 1834; choir master in St. Andrew’s ch. Aberdeen about 1835. _d._ Aberdeen 19 Nov. 1857 aged 74. _W. Anderson’s Precentors and musical professors_ (1876) 85–94.

DAVIES, REV. BENJAMIN. _b._ Werne near St. Clears, Carmarthenshire 26 Feb. 1814; ed. at Baptist college, Bristol, Univ. of Glasgow, Trin. coll. Dublin and Leipzig; Ph.D. Leipzig 1838; pres. of Baptist coll. Stepney 1844–7; a professor in Mac Gill coll. Montreal 1847–57; professor of oriental and classical languages in Baptist coll. Regents park, London 1857; one of the revisers of the Old Testament; published translations of Gesenius’s Hebrew Grammar and Lexicon; the Paragraph Bible issued by Religious Tract Society was chiefly his work. _d._ Frome, Somerset 19 July 1875.

DAVIES, DAVID. Ensign 62 foot 4 June 1812, lieut. 13 Feb. 1814 to 25 June 1816 when placed on h.p.; fired a pistol loaded with ball at Lord Palmerston (the sec. of state for war) at the War Office, London 8 April 1818, tried at the Old Bailey 1 May 1818 when acquitted on ground of insanity; confined in Bethlehem hospital, May 1818 to death. _d._ of apoplexy in Bethlehem hospital 30 Dec. 1861 aged 67.

DAVIES, SIR DAVID (_only son of Robert Davies of Llwyn, Cardiganshire_). _b._ 1793; physician at Hampton; domestic phys. to William iv, 1830 to 1837, and to Queen Adelaide 1837 to 1849; K.C.H. June 1837; knighted by Queen Victoria at St. James’s palace 19 July 1837. _d._ Lucca 1 May 1865.

DAVIES, DAVID ARTHUR SAUNDERS. _b._ 9 June 1792; M.P. for Carmarthenshire 27 Dec. 1842 to death; chairman of Cardiganshire quarter sessions. _d._ United University club, 4 Pall Mall, East London 22 May 1857.

DAVIES, DAVID CHRISTOPHER. _b._ Oswestry 1827; a mining engineer 1852; visited Norway on business 9 times; F.G.S. 1872; contributed numerous papers to _Geological Mag._; author of _Christ for all the ages and other lay sermons_ 1871; _Treatise on slate and slate quarrying_ 1878, _2 ed._ 1880; _Metalliferous minerals and mining_, _2 ed._ 1880; _Treatise on earthy and other minerals and mining_ 1884. _d._ suddenly on board the steamer Angelo while returning from Norway to Hull 19 Sep. 1885. _Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xlii_, 43 (1886).

DAVIES, REV. EVAN. _b._ Hengwm, Lledrod, county of Cardiganshire 1805; ordained at Wycliffe Congregational chapel, London as a missionary to the Chinese 1835; sent to Penang by London Missionary Soc. 1835, returned home 1839; superintendent of Boys’ Mission school at Walthamstow 1842–44; pastor at Richmond, Surrey 1844–57; author of _China and her spiritual claims_ 1845; _Memoirs of the Rev. Samuel Dyer_ 1846; _Revivals in Wales_ 1859. _d._ Llanstephan near Carmarthen 18 June 1864.

DAVIES, EVAN. Watchmaker at Pontypridd; known as Myfyr Morganwg, Arch-Druid of Wales, recognized head of the Druids who meet periodically around famous rocking stone at Pontypridd; published several works on Druidism which he argued was the true religion, and several others on Celtic mythology. _d._ Pontypridd 23 Feb. 1888 in 89 year.

DAVIES, FRANCIS JOHN (_youngest son of Thomas Davies of New house, co. Hereford 1751–92, advocate general Calcutta_). _b._ 1 May 1791; ensign 52 foot 3 Feb. 1808; captain Grenadier guards 30 April 1827 to 18 May 1841 when placed on h.p.; col. of 67 foot 15 Jany. 1858 to death; general 14 Jany. 1866. _d._ 8 Eaton place, London 4 Dec. 1874.

DAVIES, GEORGE. _b._ Wells 15 Dec. 1800; entered navy 23 June 1813; inspecting commander in coast guard of Banff district, July 1843, of Penzance district 3 July 1848 to 1 Jany. 1851; captain 1 Jany. 1851; saved the lives of more than 200 persons at shipwrecks; retired V.A. 29 May 1873; chief constable of Cambridgeshire, Nov. 1851 to death, and of Hunts. April 1857 to death. _d._ 10 Scrope terrace, Cambridge 24 Nov. 1876. _O’Byrne’s Naval biog. dict._ (1861) 281–2; _I.L.N. xviii_, 61–2 (1851).

DAVIES, GRIFFITH (_son of Owen Davies, farmer, who d. 21 March 1854 aged 93_). _b._ parish of Llandwrog, Carnarvon 28 Dec. 1788; kept a school in London 1811; actuary to Guardian Assurance Co. 1823 to death; constructed many tables for the Reversionary Interest Soc. 1823; F.R.S. 16 June 1831; wrote 20 reports on the various Indian funds for the H.E.I.Co.; author of _Key to Bonnycastle’s Trigonometry_ 1814; _Tables of life contingencies containing the rates of mortality among the members of the Equitable Society_ 1825. _d._ 25 Duncan terrace, Islington, London 21 March 1855. _Assurance Mag. July 1855 pp._ 337–48; _C. Walford’s Insurance Cyclopædia ii_, 172–4; _Pink’s Clerkenwell_ (1881) 705–8.

DAVIES, HENRY. _b._ London 1782; M.R.C.S. 1803; served in army medical service; M.D. Aberdeen 26 Sep. 1823; L.R.C.P. 22 Dec. 1823; phys. to British Lying-in hospital; lecturer on midwifery at St. George’s hospital; edited M. Underwood’s _Treatise on the diseases of children_ 1846; author of _The young wife’s guide_ 1852. _d._ London 9 Jany. 1862.

DAVIES, HENRY THOMAS. Entered navy 3 March 1794; captain 19 Feb. 1814; retired captain 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 11 Feb. 1861. _d._ Bath 21 Feb. 1869 aged 91.

DAVIES, HERBERT (_son of Thomas Davies of London, physician 1792–1839_). _b._ London 30 Sep. 1818; scholar of Gonville and Caius coll. Cam. 1838, migrated to Queen’s coll.; 31 wrangler 1842; B.A. 1842, M.B. 1843, M.D. 1848; fellow of Queen’s coll. 1844; assistant phys. to London hospital 5 Aug. 1845, phys. 1854–74; F.R.C.P. 1850; phys. to Bank of England; author of _Lectures on the physical diagnosis of the diseases of the lungs and heart_ 1851, _2 ed._ 1854, translated into German and Dutch; _On the treatment of rheumatic fever in its acute stage exclusively by free blistering_ 1864. _d._ Hampstead 4 Jany. 1885. _Medical Circular iii_, 439 (1853), _portrait_.

DAVIES, REV. JAMES (_2 son of Richard Banks of Kington, Herefordshire_). _b._ Kington 20 May 1820; ed. at Repton and Lincoln coll. Ox., scholar; B.A. 1844, M.A. 1846; Inc. of Ch. Ch. Forest of Dean 1847–52; head master of Ludlow gr. sch. 1852–57; took name of Davies in lieu of Banks 1858; wrote majority of classical articles in _Saturday Review_ many years; author of a remarkable essay on ‘Epigrams’ in _Quarterly Review_ Jany. 1865; translated Hesiod, Theognis and Callimachus into prose for Bohn’s Classical library; wrote vols. on Hesiod and Theognis and on Catullus, Tibullus and Propertius for Collins’s Ancient Classics for English readers; revised several of Murray’s Guides for the press; author of a vol. of original verse entitled _Nugæ_ 1854. _d._ Moor Court, Kington 11 March 1883.

DAVIES, REV. JOHN. Educ. at Queen’s coll. Cam., B.D. 1831, D.D. 1844; R. of Gateshead 1840 to death; hon. canon of Durham, Feb. 1853 to death; author of _An estimate of the human mind, a philosophical inquiry into the legitimate application and extent of its leading faculties_ 1828; _The ordinances of religion practically illustrated and applied_ 1832, and about 20 other works. _d._ Ilkley Wells, Yorkshire 21 Oct. 1861.

DAVIES, LUCY CLEMENTINA (_youngest child of Leon Maurice called by courtesy Lord Leon Maurice Drummond de Melfort 1761–1826_). _b._ Château of St. Germain near Paris 21 Nov. 1795; granted precedency of an Earl’s daughter by r.l. 30 Sep. 1853; author of _Recollections of society in France and England 2 vols._ 1872, a work which contains much of her family history. (_m._ 8 Sep. 1823 Francis Henry Davies a registrar of Court of Chancery, who _d._ 22 Oct. 1863 aged 72). _d._ 22 Palace gardens terrace, Kensington, London 27 April 1879.

DAVIES, VENERABLE RICHARD. V. of St. John’s, Brecknock 1804 to death; archdeacon of Brecknock 15 Feb. 1805 to death; canon of St. Davids 1805 to death. _d._ Residentiary house, St. David’s cathedral, Brecon 14 May 1859 aged 82.

DAVIES, ROBERT (_eld. son of Peter Davies of York_). _b._ York 19 Aug. 1793; solicitor at York 1814, town clerk 1827–48; F.S.A. 22 Dec. 1842; author or editor of _The freeman’s roll of the city of York_ 1835; _The Fawkes’s of York in the sixteenth century_ 1850; _Notices of the mints and coinages at York_ 1854; _The life of M. Rawdon, Camden Soc._ 1863; _A memoir of the York press_ 1868; _Walks through the city of York_ 1880. _d._ The Mount, York 23 Aug. 1875.

DAVIES, VENERABLE ROLAND ROBERT. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1827; archdeacon of Hobart Town, Tasmania 1855 to death. _d._ Ferndean, Hobart Town 13 Nov. 1880 aged 75.

DAVIES, SCROPE BERDMORE. Educ. at Eton 1796–99 and King’s coll. Cam., fellow 1805, senior fellow 1822 to death; B.A. 1806, M.A. 1809; remarkable for his dexterity at all athletic games especially cricket and tennis, competed with Lord Byron in swimming; intimate friend of Tom Moore and Lord Byron who when on his death bed sent him a ring; Lord Byron’s _Parisina_ is dedicated to him; lived at Ostend 1836; a well known talker and diner out. _d._ 2 Rue Miromenil, Paris 24 May 1852. _T. C. Grattan’s Beaten Paths_ (1862) _ii_, 146–70.

DAVIES, VENERABLE THOMAS HART FRANCIS PENROSE. Educ. at Trin. hall, Cam., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1841; C. of Holbrooke, Suffolk 1837–39; C. of Knaresborough 1839–41; P.C. of Trinity, Nottingham 1841–51; archdeacon of Melbourne, Australia 1851–53; V. of Ch. Ch. Ramsgate 1853 to death. _d._ Ramsgate 5 Jany. 1873 aged 76. _Kent Coast Times 9 Jany. 1873 pp._ 2, 3.

DAVIES, THOMAS STEPHENS. _b._ 1794; F.R.S. Edin. 1831; F.S.A. 19 March 1840; professor of mathematics at R.M.A. Woolwich 1834 to death; edited many mathematical works. _d._ Broomhall cottage, Shooter’s hill, Kent 6 Jany. 1851. _Westminster Review lv_, 70–83 (1851); _Mechanics’ Mag. 11 Jany. 1851 pp._ 33–5; _The Expositor i_, 284 (1851), _portrait_.

DAVIES, WILLIAM EDMUND. _b._ King’s Cross, London 1819; employed by Cubitt and Co. as a carpenter; originated the betting list system 1846, hung up first of his betting lists at Salisbury Arms, Durham st. Strand, betting lists were declared illegal by act of parliament 20 Aug. 1853; lost £100,000 over the Derby 1852 when Daniel O’Rourke won, and £48,000 over the Derby 1853 when West Australian won; became known as the Leviathan; retired at end of racing season 1857. _d._ at 18 Gloucester place, Brighton 4 Oct. 1879. _Rice’s History of the Turf ii_, 271–80 (1879); _Sporting Review, Jany. 1859 pp._ 39–42; _Sporting Times 30 May 1885 p._ 2.

NOTE.—By his will he left property in railway shares valued at £60,000 to the Brighton corporation subject to the payment of certain annuities. His widow gave notice to dispute the will, but on 21 Jany. 1880 an arrangement was made by which the greater part of the property came to the corporation on her death. Preston park, Brighton which cost £50,000 was purchased with this money and opened 8 Nov. 1884.

DAVIS, CHARLES. _b._ near Hertford 15 Jany. 1788; whipper-in to his father who hunted the King’s harriers 1800 and Pistol boy to George iii; whipper-in to Mr. Sharpe’s staghounds 1812; huntsman to the Queen 1821–66; presented with a testimonial in London 5 Feb. 1859, which testimonial he left to the Queen. _d._ Royal Kennels, Ascot 26 Oct. 1866. _bur._ Sunninghill churchyard 2 Nov. His horse Comus, a gift from the Prince of Wales, was shot by his last wish and one ear of the horse in a small box was placed in his grave. _Lord W. P. Lennox’s Celebrities I have known, second series ii_, 284–305; _J. N. Fitt’s Covert side sketches_ (1878) 274–78; _Sporting Review lx_, 418–20 (1866), _lvi_, 402–8 (1866); _Baily’s Mag. xii_, 254, 326–36 (1867); _The Sportsman n.s. ii_, 277 (1837), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxxiv_, 164, 165 (1859), _portrait_.

DAVIS, RIGHT REV. CHARLES HENRY. _b._ Usk, co. Monmouth 18 May 1815; professed at St. Gregory’s, Downside near Bath 1834; a member of Benedictine order 1833; ordained priest Nov. 1840; pastor of Downside 1844–48; the first R.C. bishop of Maitland, Australia 1848 to death, consecrated 25 Feb. 1848; coadjutor of the archbishop of the diocese. _d._ Sydney 17 May 1854.

DAVIS, RIGHT REV. DANIEL GATEWARD (_son of Rev. Wm. Davis_). _b._ Island of St. Christopher, West Indies 1788; ed. at Reading and Pemb. coll. Ox.; B.A. 1814, M.A. 1823, D.D. 1842; went to the West Indies; R. of St. Paul’s, Charleston, Nevis; R. of St. George’s, Basseterre, St. Christophers; rural dean; archdeacon of Antigua 1837; visited England 1842; bishop of Antigua 21 Aug. 1842 to death, consecrated in Westminster Abbey 24 Aug. _d._ 3 Bryanston st. Portman sq. London 25 Oct. 1857.

DAVIS, EDWARD DEAN. _b._ near Bath 1806; manager of Taunton theatre 1835; travelled the Devonshire circuit with a company 1843–46; lessee of T.R. Newcastle 1846–70; lessee of Lyceum theatre, Sunderland 1854, theatre was entirely destroyed by fire 23 Dec. 1855, theatre was reopened 29 Sep. 1856 when Henry Irving made his first appearance on the stage, lessee of the theatre again 1870–76. _d._ Eldon square, Newcastle 19 Feb. 1887.

DAVIS, GEORGE LENOX. Ensign 9 foot 15 Sep. 1808, lieut. col. 19 Dec. 1845 to 2 April 1852; inspecting field officer of Liverpool recruiting district 2 April 1852 to death; C.B. 27 June 1846. _d._ Galway 14 April 1852.

DAVIS, HART. Commissioner of Excise 11 Aug. 1824, deputy chairman Sep. 1837 to 6 Jany. 1849; F.R.S. 20 May 1841. _d._ Bere hill house, Whitchurch 17 June 1854.

DAVIS, HENRY GEORGE (_son of Mr. Davis, master of St. Paul’s parochial schools, Knightsbridge, London_). _b._ 4 Mills Buildings, Knightsbridge 14 Aug. 1830; clerk in a circulating library; contributed a series of articles on ‘Our local associations’ to _West Middlesex Advertiser_; prepared for the press _Memorials of the hamlet of Knightsbridge with notices of its immediate neighbourhood_, _ed. by his brother C. Davis_ 1859; left in manuscript two unfinished works ‘Pimlico’ and ‘Recollections of Piccadilly’; wrote many antiquarian papers in _Notes and Queries_. _d._ St. Paul’s parochial school, Wilton place, Belgravia 30 Dec. 1857.

DAVIS, JAMES EDWARD (_son of Aaron Wall Davis, M.D. of Presteign, Radnorshire_). _b._ 1817; barrister M.T. 25 Nov. 1842; revising barrister 1854; reporter for Law Journal Reports in Court of Exchequer 1855–64; stipendiary magistrate for Stoke-upon-Trent 1864–70, for Sheffield 1870–74; legal adviser to comrs. of Metropolitan Police 1874 to death; author of _Prize essay on the laws for the protection of women_ 1854; _Practice and evidence in the county courts_ 1855, _6 ed._ 1887; _The Criminal law consolidation statutes_ 1861; _A manual of the law of registration and election_ 1868, _2 ed._ 1879. _d._ suddenly at 4 Whitehall place, London 12 July 1887 in 70 year. _Law Journal xxii_, 397, 406, 426 (1887).

DAVIS, JOHN EDWARD (_son of Henry Davis, commander R.N._) _b._ 9 Aug. 1815; entered navy 5 July 1828; Second master in the Terror in Antarctic expedition 1839–43; surveyor to North Atlantic telegraph expedition in the Fox 1862; retired captain 9 Aug. 1870; naval assistant to the Hydrographer; author with his son of the _Azimuth Tables_; invented an improved sextant; drew the charts for Antarctic expedition 1839–43; the illustrations in _Narrative of Sir James Clark Ross_ 1847 are from his drawings; F.R.G.S. _d._ Douglas house, Maze hill, Greenwich 30 Jany. 1877.

DAVIS, JOHN FORD. _b._ Bath 1773; ed. in London and Edin.; M.D. Edin. 24 June 1797; L.R.C.P. 30 Sep. 1808; phys. to general hospital, Bath 1817–34; author of _An inquiry into the symptoms and treatment of Carditis, or inflammation of the heart_ 1808. _d._ Bath 1 Jany. 1864.

DAVIS, JOHN PHILIP, called Pope Davis. Exhibited 33 pictures at the R.A., 17 at B.I. and 59 at Suffolk st. gallery 1811–57; painted at Rome 1824 a large picture of the ‘Talbot family receiving the benediction of the Pope’ (hence his cognomen ‘Pope Davis’); awarded a premium of £50 by directors of British Institution 1825; author of _Facts of vital importance relative to the embellishment of the Houses of Parliament_ 1843; _The Royal Academy and the National Gallery, What is the state of these institutions?_ 1858; _Thoughts on great painters_ 1866. _d._ 67 Great Russell st. Bloomsbury, London 28 Sep. 1862 in 79 year.

DAVIS, JOSEPH BARNARD. _b._ York 13 June 1801; went as a surgeon in a whaling ship to the Arctic seas 1820; L.S.A. 1823, M.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon at Shelton Hanley, Staffs. to death; M.D. St. Andrews 1862; collected a museum of skulls and skeletons of various races, larger than all the collections in British public museums, which he sold to Royal college of Surgeons 1880; F.S.A. 21 Dec. 1854; F.R.S. 4 June 1868; author of _Popular manual of the art of preserving health_ 1836; _Thesaurus Craniorum 2 vols._ 1867–75; published with John Thurnam, M.D., _Crania Britannica, or delineations of the skulls of the early inhabitants of the British Islands_ 1856–65. _d._ Hanley 19 May 1881. _Nature 26 May 1881._

DAVIS, NATHAN. Lived in an old Moorish palace 10 miles from Tunis many years; edited the _Hebrew Christian Magazine_ 1852; became a Nonconformist minister; engaged excavating at Carthage and Utica for the British Museum 1856–58, chief antiquities he discovered were Roman mosaic pavements; author of _Tunis, or selections from a journal during a residence in that Regency_ 1841; _Evenings in my tent 2 vols._ 1854; _Carthage and her remains_ 1861; _Ruined cities within Numidian and Carthaginian territories_ 1862. _d._ Florence 6 Jany. 1882. _Antiquarian Mag. i_, 152 (1882); _Edwards’s Lives of the founders of the British Museum_ (1870) 666–8.

DAVIS, RICHARD BARRETT (_son of Mr. Davis, huntsman to the royal harriers_). _b._ Watford, Herts. 1782; animal painter; exhibited 70 pictures at R.A., 57 at B.I. and 141 at Suffolk st. gallery 1802–53; animal painter to William iv, 1831. _d._ 9 Bedford place, Kensington, London 13 March 1854.

DAVIS, WILLIAM. Founded a free school at Gower’s walk, Whitechapel, London 1807; one of founders of National Society 1811 and of Society for promoting enlargement, building and repairing of churches and chapels 1818. _d._ 19 Nov. 1854 aged 88.

DAVIS, WILLIAM. _b._ Dublin 1812; portrait painter at Liverpool; professor of painting at Liverpool academy; exhibited 16 landscapes at the R.A. 1851–72. _d._ London 22 April 1873.

DAVISON, REV. EDWARD (_son of Rev. Edward Davison 1760–1839, Inc. of St. Nicholas, Durham_). Matric. from C.C. coll. Ox. 25 Nov. 1803 aged 15, B.A. 1807, M.A. 1810; fellow of Univ. coll. 1807–16; R. of Harlington, Middlesex 1822–56; P.C. of St. Nicholas, Durham 1825–56; author of _Tentamen Theologicum, or an attempt to assist the young clergyman of the Church of England in the choice of a subject for his sermon on any Sunday throughout the year by E. D._ 1850, and of several sets of lectures and sermons. _d._ Durham 22 May 1863.

DAVISON, SIR HENRY (_4 son of Thomas Davison of St. Bride’s, Fleet st. London_). Matric. from Trin. coll. Ox. 23 Oct. 1823 aged 18, scholar 1824, B.A. 1829, M.A. 1834; barrister I.T. 6 May 1834; puisne judge of supreme court of Madras 16 March 1857, chief justice 11 March 1859 to death; knighted by the Queen at Windsor castle 28 Nov. 1856; published with H. Merivale _Reports in the Queen’s Bench and upon Writs of Error_ 1844. _d._ Ootacamund on the Neilgherry hills, Madras 3 Nov. 1860.

DAVISON, JAMES WILLIAM. _b._ London 5 Oct. 1813; ed. at Univ. coll. sch. and Royal Acad. of Music; wrote pianoforte music for _Bohn’s Harmonist_; edited the _Musical World_ to death; musical critic of the _Times_ 1850–78; wrote for the _Saturday Review_ and _Graphic_; contributed to _Grove’s Dictionary of music and musicians_; author of _An essay on the works of Frederic Chopin_ 1849. (_m._ 1860 Arabella Goddard the pianist). _d._ York hotel, Margate 24 March 1885. _bur._ Brompton cemetery, London 28 March. _Theatre v_, 230–4, 247–9 (1885); _Musical Standard 4 April 1885 pp._ 212–3; _London Figaro 4 April 1885 p. 11_, _portrait_.

DAVISON, JOHN ROBERT (_2 son of Rev. Edward Davison, R. of Harlington, Middlesex, who d. 1863_). _b._ Church st. Durham 15 April 1826; ed. at Houghton and Durham gr. schs. and C.C. coll. Ox., B.A. 1845, M.A. 1847; barrister M.T. 2 Nov. 1849; Q.C. 9 Jany. 1866; chairman of Durham quarter sessions 1868; M.P. for city of Durham, Nov. 1868 to death; advocate general 28 Dec. 1870 to death; P.C. 8 Feb. 1871. _d._ The Auberies near Sudbury 15 April 1871. _Law Journal vi_, 282–3, 287–8 (1871); _I.L.N. lviii_, 427, 444 (1871), _portrait_, _lix_, 98 (1871).

DAVISON, JOSEPH (_son of Thomas Davison of Sedgefield, Durham_). Solicitor at Durham 1831; deputy registrar in Episcopal registry for wills Durham 1835–57; district registrar of Court of Probate 1857 to death; clerk and deputy steward of the Halmote Court at Durham (through which all transfers of copyhold property in co. Durham pass) 25 Nov. 1850 to death; held the office of Cursitor in the Palatinate Chancery Court 25 Jany. 1836 to death when office was abolished and documents were transferred to Record Office, London; principal proprietor of Bedlington colliery on the Tyne. _d._ Greencroft hall, Durham 20 Dec. 1868.

DAVISON, MARIA REBECCA (_dau. of Mr. Duncan of Liverpool, actor_). _b._ Liverpool 1783; acted in England, Scotland and Ireland; first appeared in London at Drury Lane 8 Oct. 1804 as Lady Teazle; created the rôle of Juliana in _The Honeymoon_ 31 Jany. 1805; acted at Drury Lane 1804–19 and 1825–29 and at Covent Garden 1819–21; her best parts were Maria in _The Citizen_ and Miss Hardcastle in _She stoops to conquer_. (_m._ 31 Oct. 1812 James Davison, who _d._ March 1858). _d._ Brompton, London 30 May 1858. _Mrs. C. Baron Wilson’s Our actresses i_, 167–88 (1844); _Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography i_, 51–7 (1825), _portrait_; _J. H. Leigh Hunt’s Critical essays on the performers of the London theatres_ (1807) 170–79; _The London Stage vol. 3_, _portrait_.

DAVISON, ROBERT. _b._ Belford, Northumberland 10 May 1804; resident engineer to Truman and Co. brewers, London 1831–45; patented a process for drying wood and other substances by currents of hot air which was worked by Patent Desiccating Co. 1845 and received gold medal of Soc. of Arts; erected Findlater’s brewery, Dublin 1852; designed Allsopp’s new brewery at Burton; invented machinery for raising and conveying malt; patented machinery for cleansing casks by a double rotatory motion; A.I.C.E. 1834, M.I.C.E. 1840; prime warden of Blacksmiths’ Co. 1857–58. _d._ Finchley 14 March 1886. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. ii_, 192 (1842), _iii_, 57 (1843), _lxxxiv_, 442–44 (1886).

DAVISON, SIR WILLIAM (_son of Alexander Davison of St. James’s sq. London, government contractor 1750–1829_). _b._ 1788; ed. at Eton; captain Northumberland militia 7 July 1807; equerry to 1 Duke of Cambridge 1813–50; equerry to 2 Duke of Cambridge 1850 to death; captain on half pay of 2 Foot 25 Dec. 1813; lieut. col. in the army 10 Jany. 1837; K.H. 1824; knighted at the King’s lodge, Windsor 3 Sep. 1824. _d._ London 14 Jany. 1873.

DAVY, DAVID ELISHA (_son of Mr. Davy of Rumburgh, Suffolk, farmer, who d. 1799 aged 90_). _b._ 1769; F.L.S. 17 Dec. 1793; receiver general for Suffolk 1795; collected for nearly 50 years, materials for history of Suffolk which were bought by British Museum 1852; communicated a series of notices of sepulchral monuments existing in parish churches of Suffolk to the _Topographer and Genealogist_; wrote many articles on genealogical matters to _Gent. Mag._ under initials D. A. Y.; author of _A short account of Leiston Abbey by D. E. D. edited by J. Bird_ 1823. _d._ Ufford near Woodbridge, Suffolk 15 Aug. 1851.

DAVY, EDMUND (_2 son of William Davy of Penzance_). _b._ Penzance 1785; assistant in laboratory of Royal Institution, London 1804–13; professor of chemistry in Royal Cork Institution 1813–26 and in Royal Dublin Society 1826–1854 when he retired on full salary; gave upwards of 30 courses of lectures on chemical subjects; F.R.S. 19 Jany. 1826; author of _An essay on the use of peat or turf as a means of promoting the public health and the agriculture of the United Kingdom_ 1850, and of 33 papers 1812–57. _d._ Kimmage lodge, co. Dublin 5 Nov. 1857. _H. B. Jones’s Royal Institution_ (1871) _pp._ 280, 360, 366.

DAVY, EDWARD (_eld. son of Thomas Davy of Ottery St. Mary, Devon, surgeon_). _b._ Ottery St. Mary 16 June 1806; ed. at St. Bartholomew’s hospital; L.S.A. 1828, M.R.C.S. 1829; operative chemist at 390 Strand, under title of Davy and Co. 1830; invented and patented Davy’s Diamond Cement 1835; laid down a mile of copper wire around inner circle of Regent’s Park 1837 where he made many experiments in electricity; opened an exhibition of his telegraphic apparatus at Exeter hall 29 Dec. 1837; patented his electro-chemical recording telegraph 4 July 1838 which was bought by the Electric Telegraph Company for £600; sailed for Australia as medical superintendent of an emigrant ship 15 April 1839; edited the _Adelaide Examiner_ 1843–5; manager of copper smelting works at Yatala 1848–51; head of Government Assay office at Adelaide 1852–3 and at Melbourne, July 1853 to Dec. 1854; surgeon at Malmesbury, Victoria 1855 to death; author of _An experimental guide to chemistry_ 1836; _Outline of a new plan of telegraphic communication_ 1836. _d._ Malmesbury 27 Jany. 1885. _Memoir of E. Davy by his nephew H. Davy_ 1883; _J. J. Fahie’s Edward Davy and the electric telegraph 1836 to 1839_ (1883).

DAVY, JOHN (_2 son of Robert Davy of Penzance, wood-carver, who d. 1794_). _b._ Penzance 24 May 1790; studied medicine at Edin., M.D. 1814; F.R.S. 17 Feb. 1814; hospital assistant in the army 19 May 1815; inspector general of army hospitals 22 Dec. 1848 to 3 Feb. 1849 when placed on h.p.; author of _An account of the interior of Ceylon_ 1821; _Researches, physiological and anatomical_ 1839; _Notes and observations on the Ionian islands 2 vols._ 1842; _Lectures on chemistry_ 1849; _Discourses on agriculture_ 1849; _On some of the more important diseases of the army_ 1862; _The angler and his friends or piscatory colloquies and fishing excursions_ 1855. _d._ Lesketh-how near Ambleside 24 Jany. 1868. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xvi_, 79–81 (1868); _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i_, 111 (1874), _iii_, 1152 (1882).

DAVY, SIR WILLIAM GABRIEL (_eld. son of Major Davy, Persian secretary to Warren Hastings_). _b._ King’s Holme near Gloucester 1779; ensign 61 foot March 1797; major 60 foot 5 Feb. 1807; lieut.-col. 7 garrison battalion 28 Dec. 1809 to 1810 when placed on h.p.; C.B. 4 June 1815; K.C.H. 1836; knighted at St. James’s palace 23 March 1836; col. commandant 60 foot 2 Nov. 1842 to death; general 20 June 1854. _d._ Tracy park near Bath 25 Jany. 1856 aged 77.

DAVYS, RIGHT REV. GEORGE (_son of John Davys of Rempstone, Notts._) _b._ Loughborough, Leics. 1 Oct. 1780; a sizar at Ch. coll. Cam. 1799, fellow 14 Jany. 1806–1814; tenth wrangler 1803; B.A. 1803, M.A. 1806; V. of Willoughby in the Wolds, Lincs. 1811–29; educated the Princess Victoria at Kensington Palace 1827–37; R. of Allhallows on the Wall, city of London 1829–39; dean of Chester 10 Jany. 1831 to May 1839, instituted 21 Feb. 1831; bishop of Peterborough, May 1839 to death, consecrated 16 June; author of _Village conversations on the Liturgy of the Church of England_ 1820, _8 ed._ 1829; _Village conversations on the principal offices of the Church_ 1824, _2 ed._ 1849; _Letters between a father and his son on Roman history and other subjects_ 1848, and of various educational works which appeared anonymously in _The cottagers’ monthly visitor and National School Mag._ _d._ The palace, Peterborough 18 April 1864.

DAVYS, VENERABLE OWEN. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820; V. of Cranwell, Lincs. 1834–46; archdeacon of Northampton 15 Sep. 1842 to death; canon of Peterborough 15 Sep. 1842 to death; R. of Fiskerton, Lincs. 1846 to death. _d._ 8 Feb. 1875.

DAWES, GEORGE (_youngest son of Thomas Dawes, who d. 3 Jany. 1871_). _b._ Angel court, Throgmorton st. London 23 Nov. 1810; solicitor at Angel court 1835 to death; solicitor to Associated fire offices and Fire office committee; settled form of fire policy generally used by insurance offices; conducted most of the leading insurance cases. _d._ Barlow, Florida, U.S. 9 Dec. 1887.

DAWES, VERY REV. RICHARD (_son of James Dawes of Hawes in Wensleydale, Yorkshire_). Baptised at Hawes 13 April 1793; entered Trin. coll. Cam. Oct. 1813; 4 wrangler 1817; B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820; fellow and tutor of Downing college 1818; V. of Tadlow, Cambs. 1819–36; R. of Kings Somborne, Hants. 1836, founded a school there opened Oct. 1842; dean of Hereford 15 May 1850 to death, installed 13 June 1850; restored the cathedral and re-opened it 1863; master of St. Catherine’s hospital, Ledbury 1861; vice pres. of British association at Bath 1864; author of _Suggestive hints towards improved secular instruction making it bear upon practical life_ 1849 and ten other small books. _d._ The deanery, Hereford 10 March 1867. _A biographical notice of the late Very Rev. R. Dawes by W. C. Henry, privately printed_ 1867; _G.M. May 1867 pp._ 674–75.

DAWES, THOMAS. Attorney in City of London 1795 to death. _d._ Tunbridge Wells. 3 Jany. 1871 aged 98 being oldest attorney on the rolls.

DAWES, WILLIAM RUTTER (_son of Mr. Dawes, mathematical master at Christ’s hospital, London_). _b._ Christ’s hospital 19 March 1799; ed. at Charterhouse sch.; surgeon at Haddenham, Bucks., at Liverpool 1826; took charge of a small independent congregation at Ormskirk, Lancs. to 1839; had charge of the observatory at South villa, Regent’s park, London belonging to George Bishop 1839–1844; fitted up an observatory at Camden lodge near Cranbrook, Kent 1844; invented several valuable improvements in practical astronomy; F.R.A.S. 14 May 1830, gold medallist 1855; F.R.S. 1865. _d._ Hopefield, Haddenham 15 Feb. 1868. _Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xxix_, 116.

DAWKINS, HENRY. _b._ 1765; comr. of woods and forests 31 July 1810 to 1832 when he retired on pension of £800; M.P. for Aldborough, Yorkshire 12 Oct. 1812 to Aug. 1814. _d._ Encombe house near Sandgate, Kent 2 Nov. 1852 in 88 year.

DAWKINS, HENRY. _b._ 28 Nov. 1788; ed. at Harrow and Marlow; ensign Coldstream guards 10 March 1804, captain 25 July 1814 to 31 Aug. 1826 when placed on h.p.; served through Peninsular war and at Waterloo; retired from army 1846; M.P. for Boroughbridge, Yorkshire 10 March 1820 to 24 July 1830. _d._ Over Norton, Oxfordshire 13 Nov. 1864.

DAWSON, GEORGE (_son of Jonathan Dawson of London, schoolmaster_). _b._ 36 Hunter st. Brunswick sq. London 24 Feb. 1821; ed. at Glasgow Univ., B.A., M.A.; minister of baptist chapel at Rickmansworth, Herts. 1843; min. of Mount Zion chapel, Birmingham, 6 Oct. 1844 to Dec. 1845; min. of “The Church of the Saviour,” Birmingham 8 Aug. 1847; lectured in all chief towns of the Kingdom 30 years; lectured in the U.S. 1874; edited _Birmingham Morning News_ from 2 Jany. 1871; mem. of Birmingham sch. board 28 Nov. 1871; took an active part in English and foreign politics; friend of Mazzini and Kossuth; author of _Prayers with a discourse on prayer_ 1877, _9 ed._ 1884; _Sermons on daily life and duty_ 1878; _Three books of God, Nature, history and scripture_ 1882; _Shakespeare and other lectures_ 1878. (_m._ 27 Aug. 1846 Susan Frances youngest dau. of J. W. Crompton of Edgbaston, merchant, she was _b._ Edgbaston 23 June 1820 and _d._ Malvern 9 Nov. 1878). _d._ Kingsnorton near Birmingham 30 Nov. 1876. _Crosskey’s Memoir of G. Dawson_ 1876; _Ireland’s Recollections of G. Dawson_ 1882; _Manchester Quarterly i_, 181–204 (1882); _Gilfillan’s Second gallery of literary portraits_ (1850) 196–213; _The lamps of the temple, 3 ed._ (1856) 449–65; _Edgbastonia i_, 94–7, 114 (1881) _portrait of Mrs. Dawson_, _ii_, 140–43 (1882), _portrait of G. Dawson_; _Nineteenth Century ii_, 44–61 (1877); _Illust. news of the world, ix_ (1862), _portrait_.

DAWSON, GEORGE. _b._ Falkirk, Stirlingshire 14 March 1813; taken to America 1818; foreman in office of _Evening Journal_ at Albany, New York 1830–36; edited Rochester _Daily Democrat_ 1836–39 and 1842–46; edited Detroit _Advertiser_ 1839–42; associate editor of Albany _Evening Journal_ 1846, editor 1862–77; postmaster of Albany 1861–67; author of _The pleasures of angling_ 1876. _d._ Albany, New York 17 Feb. 1883.

DAWSON, GEORGE ROBERT (_elder son of Arthur Dawson of Castledawson 1745–1822_). _b._ Rutland sq. Dublin 24 Dec. 1790; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1811; M.P. for co. Londonderry 1815–30, for Harwich 1830–32; under sec. of state for home department 17 Jany. 1822 to 30 April 1827; sec. of the Treasury 28 Jany. 1828 to 26 Nov. 1830; P.C. 22 Nov. 1830; sec. of the Admiralty 24 Dec. 1834 to 27 April 1835; comr. of the Customs 29 Dec. 1841, deputy chairman 1846 to death. _d._ Upper Grosvenor st. London 3 April 1856.

DAWSON, HENRY. _b._ Water st. Hull 3 April 1811; employed in a lace factory at Nottingham to 1835; landscape painter at Nottingham 1835, at Liverpool 1844–50, at Croydon 1850; competed for decoration of Houses of Parliament 1847; one of his best pictures ‘The wooden walls of old England’ which sold for £75 in 1853, brought £1400 at Christie’s 1876; 57 of his pictures were at Nottingham exhibition 1878 and several of his large pictures at Jubilee exhibition, Manchester 1887. _d._ The Cedars, Chiswick 13 Dec. 1878. _C. Brown’s Lives of Nottinghamshire Worthies_ (1882) 360–66, _portrait_.

DAWSON, PUDSEY (_son of Pudsey Dawson of Langcliff hall, Yorkshire 1752–1816_). _b._ 2 Oct. 1778; sheriff of West Riding, Yorkshire 1845; assoc. of Archæol. assoc. 1851; Hornby castle devised to him by Admiral Tatham who _d._ 24 Jany. 1840, was visited by British Archæological Soc. 2 Aug. 1850. _d._ Hornby Castle, Lancaster 12 April 1859. _Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xvi_, 170–71 (1860).

DAWSON, ROBERT. Assistant draughtsman on the ordnance survey of Great Britain 1794; a first-class draughtsman in corps of royal military surveyors and draughtsmen 1802; contributed much to bring sketching and shading of ordnance plans to degree of perfection afterwards attained; instructor in topographical drawing at Royal military college, also at H.E.I. Co.’s military seminary, Addiscombe 1810; pensioned by Board of Ordnance. _d._ Woodleigh rectory, South Devon 22 June 1860.

DAWSON, ROBERT KEARSLEY (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ 1798; second lieut. R.E. 1 March 1816, captain 18 Aug. 1837 to 1 Dec. 1853 when he retired on full pay as lieut.-col.; employed on the Scotch and Irish surveys; assistant comr. under the Tithe Act 1836; member of the first Metropolitan sewers commission 1849; A.I.C.E. 28 March 1838; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856; compiled _Plans of the cities and boroughs of England and Wales_ 1832. _d._ Blackheath, Kent 28 March 1861. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxi_, 582–4 (1862).

DAWSON, ROBERT PEEL (_eld. son of George Robert Dawson 1790–1856_). _b._ London 2 June 1818; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox.; ensign Grenadier guards 8 Aug. 1837; captain 11 Hussars 9 June 1846 to 13 July 1847 when he sold out; sheriff of Londonderry 1850; M.P. for Londonderry 1859–74; lord lieut. of Londonderry 23 June 1870 to death; col. of Londonderry militia 12 April 1871 to death. _d._ Dover 2 Sep. 1877.

DAWSON, THOMAS VESEY (_2 son of 2 Baron Cremorne 1788–1877_). Ensign Coldstream guards 11 Aug. 1837, captain 22 Aug. 1851 to death; M.P. for co. Louth 1841–1847, for co. Monaghan 1847–1852; killed at battle of Inkerman 5 Nov. 1854.

DAWSON-DAMER, GEORGE LIONEL (_3 son of 1 Earl of Portarlington 1744–98_). _b._ Queen’s county 28 Oct. 1788; cornet 1 dragoon guards 4 Dec. 1806, captain 31 Dec. 1812; captain 22 light dragoons 22 Jany. 1818 to 17 Aug. 1820 when placed on h.p.; captain 65 foot 8 June 1826; major 89 foot 13 Dec. to 24 Dec. 1833 when he sold out; assumed additional surname of Damer by r.l. 14 March 1829; M.P. for Portarlington 9 Jany. 1835 to 23 July 1847, for Dorchester 28 July 1847 to 1 July 1852; comptroller of H.M.’s household, Sep. 1841 to July 1846; C.B. 26 Nov. 1816; P.C. 14 Sep. 1841. _d._ 23 Wilton crescent, Belgravia, London 14 April 1856.

DAY, ALFRED (_son of John B. Day, horse trainer, who d. 21 March 1860_). _b._ Danebury 3 Nov. 1830; rode in the Cesarewitch race 1843; won the One thousand guineas on Flea 1849 and on Kate 1852; won the Two thousand guineas on Pitsford 1850, Hermit 1854 and The Promised Land 1859; won the Derby on Andover 1854. _d._ Chilbolton near Stockbridge 4 Jany. 1868. _Sporting Review xliv_, 198–203 (1860), _portrait_, _lix_, 78 (1868); _Baily’s Mag., May 1860_, _portrait_.

DAY, EDWARD DERRY. _b._ Kerry 1801; served in 46 foot 1820–34; police magistrate of Maitland, N.S.W. 1836–50 and at Maitland, Muswell-brook and Port Macquarie 1853–69; captured the ‘Jew Boy’s gang of bushrangers’ at Doughboy Hollow near Murrurundi, N.S.W. 20 Dec. 1840. _d._ Maitland 5 May 1876.

DAY, GEORGE EDWARD (_son of George Day of Manorabon house, Swansea_). _b._ Tenby 4 Aug. 1815; entered Trin. coll. Cam. 1833; scholar of Pemb. coll. 1833 or 1834, 29 wrangler 1837; B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840; physician in London 1843; M.R.C.P. 1844, F.R.C.P. 1847; phys. to Western general dispensary; lecturer on materia medica at Middlesex hospital; Chandos professor of anatomy and medicine at St. Andrews 1849–63; M.D. Giessen 1849; F.R.S. 6 June 1850; translated J. F. Simon’s _Animal chemistry 2 vols._ 1845; J. Vogel’s _Pathological anatomy of the human body_ 1847; author of _A practical treatise on the domestic management and most important diseases of advanced life_ 1849; _Chemistry in its relations to physiology and medicine_ 1860, and of many articles in medical papers and _Chambers’s Encyclopædia_. _d._ Andersey, Torquay 31 Jany. 1872. _Medical Circular iii_, 241 (1853), _portrait_; _Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. vii_, 45–7 (1875).

DAY, GEORGE FIOTT. _b._ June 1820; entered navy Aug. 1833; captain 20 Aug. 1861; retired captain 14 Feb. 1867; C.B. 29 May 1875; V.C. 24 Feb. 1857. _d._ Weston-super-Mare 18 Dec. 1876. _O’Byrne’s Naval biog. dict._ (1861) 289–90; _I.L.N. lxx_, 21 (1877), _portrait_.

DAY, REV. HENRY THOMAS. Ed. at Clare coll. Cam., LL.B. 1836, LLD. 1841; V. of Mendlesham, Suffolk 1835 to death; author of _Sermons at Mendlesham_ 1838; _Algarsife and other poems_ 1848; _An ode on the liberation of Abd-el-Kader_, and letters and pamphlets in favour of the revision of the authorised version of the Scriptures. _d._ 27 Sep. 1861 aged 62.

DAY, JOHN (_son of the succeeding_). Trainer of horses at Danebury; entered an action for libel against Admiral Rous which did not come into court; trained horses for Duke of Beaufort, Lord Hastings and many others. _d._ Danebury 3 Dec. 1882 aged 68. _Baily’s Mag. xl_, 64–72, 121–2 (1883); _Illust. sp. and dr. news xviii_, 345 (1882).

DAY, JOHN BARHAM. _b._ Houghton Down 1794; won the Oaks on Turquoise 1828, Oxygen 1831, Pussy 1834, Deception 1839 and Crucifix 1840; trainer for Lord George Bentinck many years; trained many celebrated horses for Henry Padwick and John Gully, among them were Hermit winner of the Two thousand guineas, Andover winner of the Derby, and Virago who won 12 races out of 13 as a 3 year old; earned sobriquet of the “Lyndhurst of the Turf” by his habit of talking sound sense. _d._ Woodyates 21 March 1860. _Rice’s British turf i_, 274–8 (1879); _Corbet’s Tales of sporting life_ (1864) 55–67; _Baily’s Mag. i_, 228–34 (1860).

DAY, SAMUEL (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 1801; won the Derby on Gustavus 1821, on Priam 1830, on Mendicant 1846; won the Oaks on Pyrrhus the First 1846; kept livery stables in London. _d._ London 17 Feb. 1866. _Bell’s Life in London 24 Feb. 1866 p. 4._

DAYMAN, REV. JOHN (_eld. son of John Dayman of Padstow, Cornwall 1778–1859_). _b._ St. Columb, Cornwall 1802; ed. at Tiverton and C.C. coll. Ox., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826; scholar of his coll. 1819, fellow 1825–31; R. of Skelton, Cumberland 1831 to death; author of _An essay concerning the nature of man_ 1837; _The Inferno of Dante Alighieri translated in the terza rima of the original_ 1843; _The divine comedy of Dante Alighieri translated in terza rima_ 1865. _d._ London 8 July 1871.

DEACON, HENRY COLINS. Entered navy 3 Nov. 1800; captain 2 April 1817, retired 1 Oct. 1846, retired admiral 10 Nov. 1862. _d._ 12 Leonard place, Kensington 9 Nov. 1869.

DEAKIN, JAMES HENRY. _b._ near Manchester, Feb. 1851; M.P. for Launceston 1874–77; barrister M.T. 1875. _d._ Werrington park near Launceston 8 Nov. 1881.

DEALTRY, RIGHT REV. THOMAS (_son of James Dealtry of Knottingley near Pontefract_). _b._ Knottingley 1795; usher in a school at Doncaster; ed. at Cath. hall, Cam., LL.B. 1829; C. of St. Peter’s, Cam. 1828; chaplain in Bengal army 1829; hon. sec. to Church Missionary Soc. Calcutta; archdeacon of Calcutta 1835–48; Inc. of St. John’s, Bedford row, London 1848–49; bishop of Madras 9 Nov. 1849 to death, installed 2 Feb. 1850; author of _The divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ proved from his own discourse_ 1830. _d._ Madras 4 March 1861. _Higginbotham’s Men whom India has known_, _2 ed._ (1874) 106–7; _I.L.N. xv_, 376 (1849), _portrait_.

DEALTRY, VENERABLE THOMAS (_only son of the preceding_). _b._ 1825; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850; assistant chaplain Madras army 1850–71; archdeacon of Madras 1861–71; R. of Swillington, Yorkshire 1872–78; V. of Maidstone 1878 to death. _d._ Maidstone 29 Nov. 1882.

DEANE, BONAR MILLETT. _b._ 30 Sep. 1834; ensign 96 foot 12 March 1853; lieut.-col. 19 foot 14 April 1875 to 15 Jany. 1879 when placed on h.p.; D.A.G. and Q.M.G. Cape of Good Hope 2 Aug. 1880 to death; killed by the Boers at Laing’s Neck, Natal 28 Jany. 1881. _I.L.N. lxxviii_, 149 (1881), _portrait_.

DEANE, CHARLES (_elder son of Charles Meredith Deane, captain 24 light dragoons_). _b._ Southampton 6 June 1791; cornet 24 light dragoons 5 Sep. 1805, captain 5 Dec. 1818 to 25 July 1819 when regiment was disbanded; captain 1 foot 14 Nov. 1822, major 19 June 1835 to death; K.H. 1836. _d._ Newport, co. Monmouth 18 March 1853.

DEANE, REV. JOHN BATHURST (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Cape of Good Hope 27 Aug. 1797; ed. at Merchant Taylors; Parkin’s exhibitioner to Pemb. coll. Cam. 1816, B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; second classical and head mathematical master at Merchant Taylors 1836–55; V. of St. Helen, Bishopsgate 1855 to death; R. of St. Martin, Outwich 1855 to death; author of _The worship of the Serpent traced throughout the world and its traditions referred to the events in Paradise_ 1830; _The life of Richard Deane general at sea in the service of the Commonwealth_ 1870. _d._ Sion hill, Bath 12 July 1887.

DEANE, JOHN CONNELLAN (_eld. son of the succeeding_). _b._ 1816; called to Irish bar; poor law inspector 1846; associated with Wm. Dargan, Sir Joseph Paxton and others in the Great Exhibitions at Cork 1852, Dublin 1853, and the Crystal palace and Alexandra palace, London; originator of Great Exhibition at Manchester; closely associated with early promoters of submarine telegraphy. _d._ Naples 24 Feb. 1887.

DEANE, SIR THOMAS (_eld. son of Alexander Dean of Cork, builder_). _b._ Cork 1792; a builder at Cork to 1830, an architect there 1830 to death; designed Commercial buildings, old and new Savings’ banks, Bank of Ireland and Queen’s college, Cork; joint designer of The University Museum at Oxford 1855; mayor of Cork 1830; knighted by Duke of Northumberland at Cork 1830; pres. of Institute of Irish architects many years. _d._ 26 Longford terrace, Monkstown, Dublin 2 Oct. 1871. _I.L.N. lix_, 338 (1871).

DEANE, WILLIAM WOOD (_3 son of John Wood Deane, cashier in Bank of England, who. d. 5 Dec. 1854 aged 68_). _b._ Liverpool road, Islington, London 22 March 1825; assoc. R.I.B.A. 1848; acted at Miss Kelly’s theatre, London which he subsequently decorated; architect in London 1853; made designs and perspectives for architects; assoc. of Instit. of painters in water colours 1862, member 1867; assoc. of Society of painters in water colours 1870; exhibited 23 pictures at R.A., 4 at B.I. and 13 at Suffolk st. gallery 1844–72. _d._ of cancer of the liver at 64 King Henry’s road, Hampstead 18 Jany. 1873.

DEARDEN, THOMAS FERRAND. Solicitor at Rochdale 1823 to death; coroner for co. of Lancaster, March 1835 to death. _d._ The Elms, Rochdale 1 Jany. 1870 aged 68.

DEAS, SIR DAVID (_son of Francis Deas, provost of Falkland, who d. 1857_). _b._ Falkland, Sep. 1807; assistant surgeon R.N. 7 June 1828; chief medical officer of naval forces engaged during Russian war, and Chinese war up to peace of Tientsin 1859; inspector general of hospitals and fleets 1 March 1855 to March 1872 when placed on retired list; granted good service pension 11 April 1869; C.B. 5 Feb. 1856, K.C.B. 13 March 1867. _d._ 32 Heriot row, Edinburgh 15 Jany. 1876.

DEAS, SIR GEORGE (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 7 Jany. 1804; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.A. 1826; called to Scotch bar 1828; advocate depute 1840–41 and 1846–50; sheriff of Ross and Cromarty 1850–51; solicitor general 1851–52; lord ordinary of court of session with courtesy title of Lord Deas and a judge of Exchequer 25 May 1853; a lord comr. of justiciary April 1854 to Feb. 1885; knighted at St. James’s palace 18 Feb. 1858; edited _The Scottish Jurist_ 1829; edited with James Anderson, _Cases in the Court of Session, Jury Court, and the High Court of Justiciary_ 1829–33, _4 vols._ _d._ 32 Heriot row, Edinburgh 7 Feb. 1887.

DEASE, MATTHEW O’REILLY (_son of Richard Dease, M.D. of Dublin, who d. 1819_). _b._ 1819; ed. at Univ. of Paris; sheriff of Louth 1857 and of Cavan 1861; contested co. Cavan 1867; M.P. for co. Louth 1868–74; gave by his will remainder of his real and personal property (equal to £40,000) to be applied towards extinguishing National Debt. _d._ 17 Aug. 1887.

DEASY, RICKARD (_2 son of Richard Deasy of Clonakilty, Cork_). _b._ Clonakilty 1812; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; called to Irish bar 1835; Q.C. 13 Feb. 1849; bencher of King’s Inns 1858; third serjeant at law 1858–59; M.P. for co. Cork 1855–61; solicitor general for Ireland, June 1859 to Feb. 1860; attorney general Feb. 1860 to Jany. 1861; P.C. 1860; baron of court of Exchequer, Jany. 1861; a judge of Court of Appeal 1 Jany. 1878 to death. _d._ 41 Merrion sq. east, Dublin 6 May 1883. _O’Flanagan’s Munster circuit_ (1880) 254, 376–80.

DE BAR, BENEDICT. _b._ London 5 Nov. 1812; made his début at T.R. Margate 1832; went to United States 1834; opened old National theatre, New York 1837; played in London 1840; proprietor of Chatham theatre, N.Y. 1849–52, of St. Charles’ theatre, New Orleans 1853, of St. Louis theatre 1855; the best Falstaff in America 1872 to death. _d._ St. Louis 14 Aug. 1877. _Era 14 Oct. 1877 p. 4._

DE-BEAUVOIR, SIR JOHN EDMOND, 2 Baronet (_eld. son of Sir John Edmond Browne, 1 baronet 1748–1835_). _b._ 10 Dec. 1794; ed. at Westminster; assumed name of De-Beauvoir in lieu of Browne 1825; claimed as eldest son of a baronet, honour of knighthood which was conferred on him 1827; contested Windsor, Dec. 1832, July 1837 and June 1841; M.P. for Windsor 7 Jany. 1835 to 6 April 1835 when unseated on petition; presented coat of arms over doorway of Westminster school to replace the former escutcheon which he helped to destroy when at school; author of _Miscellaneous poetry and scraps written for ladies’ albums_ 1837. _d._ Upper Gloucester st. Dorset sq. London 29 April 1869.

DE BEAUVOISIN, AUGUSTE MARIOT. Professor of French in King William st. city of London 1844 to death; also taught French at St. George’s and St. James’s halls, London; chevalier de la Toison d’Or; author of _How to read and translate French_ 1847; _French acquired in four months_ 1852; _Confabulateur Français_ 1855; _French reading for self instruction_ 1861; _Anecdotes in French_ 1866; _French verbs at a glance_ 1873. _d._ 53 Carlton hill, St. John’s Wood, London 30 Oct. 1879.

DE BERG, ALEXANDER. Russian attaché chamberlain and consul general in London 16 April 1862 to death. _d._ London 14 March 1884.

DE BERGUE, CHARLES LOUIS AIMÉ. _b._ Kensington, London 24 Sep. 1807; went to Paris 1819, returned to England 1834; civil engineer at Manchester 1850, at Cardiff 1861; invented several valuable machine tools; invented a new iron permanent way for the Barcelona and Tarragona line which he constructed; invented a new construction of lattice bridge uniting lightness with great strength; A.I.C.E. 6 March 1849. _d._ 17 Kensington palace gardens, London 10 April 1873.

DE BLAQUIÈRE, WILLIAM DE BLAQUIÈRE, 3 Baron (_2 son of 1 Baron De Blaquière 1735–1822_). _b._ 27 Jany. 1778; ensign 56 foot 31 Aug. 1791; major 25 light dragoons 1 Feb. 1798 to 22 Jany. 1801; lieut.-col. 22 light dragoons 22 Jany. 1801 to 22 Aug. 1805; lieut.-col. 2 dragoon guards 22 Aug. 1805 to 30 July 1807; lieut.-col. 71 foot 30 July 1807 to 1808; general 23 Nov. 1841; succeeded his brother as 3 Baron 7 April 1844; great alnager of Ireland; F.R.S. 21 Feb. 1805; shot himself at Beulah hill, Norwood 12 Nov. 1851.

DE BLAQUIÈRE, PETER BOYLE (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Dublin 27 April 1784; served as a midshipman at battle of Camperdown; emigrated to Canada 1837; a member of Canadian legislative council 1838 to death; chancellor of Toronto University; a member of the Anglican synod. _d._ Yorkville (now part of Toronto) 23 Oct. 1860.

DE BURGH, ULICK CANNING (_elder son of 1 Marquis of Clanricarde 1802–74_). _b._ St. James’s sq. London 12 July 1827; ed. at Eton; ensign Coldstream guards 27 March 1846, captain 3 Nov. 1854 to 1860; aide-de-camp to lord lieut. of Ireland 1846–52, state steward of his household Jany. 1853; served in Crimean war, taken prisoner by the Russians 22 Oct. 1854; military sec. to Lord Canning governor general of India 1856–57; M.P. for Galway 1857–65, for co. Galway 1865 to death. _d._ 17 Stratton st. Piccadilly, London 16 Aug. 1867.

DE BURGH, REV. WILLIAM (_3 son of Thomas Burgh of Oldtown, co. Kildare, who d. 1832_). Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1821, M.A. 1847, B.D. 1851, D.D. 1857; Incumbent of St. John’s, Sandymount, Dublin 1852–65; R. of Ardboe, Armagh 1865 to death; author of _Lectures on the Second Advent_, _3 ed._ 1841; _Discourses on the life of Christ_ 1849; _The Christian Sabbath_ 1856; _An exposition of the Book of Revelations_, _5 ed._ 1857; _Commentary on Book of Psalms_, _2 vols._ 1860. _d._ Ardboe 15 Oct. 1866.

DE BUTTS, SIR AUGUSTUS (_son of Elias De Butts of Wicklow_). _b._ 1770; second lieut. R.E. 22 Aug. 1787, col. 30 Dec. 1814, col. commandant 20 March 1827 to death; general 11 Nov. 1851; K.C.H. 1837; knighted by Wm. iv at St. James’s palace 1 March 1837. _d._ 14 Cambridge sq. London 27 Nov. 1853.

DE CETTO, BARON. Bavarian minister in London to 1872. _d._ 6 Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 7 Aug. 1879 aged 84.

DE CHABOT, SIR LOUIS WILLIAM DE ROHAN CHABOT, Viscount (_eld. son of Comte de Jarnac_). _b._ 1780; cornet 18 light dragoons 30 April 1793; major 9 light dragoons 16 March 1809; deputy adjutant general in Canada 1807–8; served in expedition to Walcheren and in Portugal 1809–10; M.G. 19 July 1821; K.C.H. 1822. _d._ 10 July 1875.

DE CHAUMONT, FRANCIS STEPHEN BENNETT FRANÇOIS. _b._ Edinburgh 1833; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1853; L.R.C.S. Edin. 1853, F.R.C.S. Edin. 1804; assistant surgeon in the army 28 April 1854; served with Rifle brigade in Crimean war; surgeon 20 June 1865; surgeon major on h.p. 11 Oct. 1876; assistant professor of hygiene at army medical school Netley hospital 1863–76, professor 1876 to death; F.R.S. 12 June 1879; author of _Different families of the human race_ 1865; _Hygiene in civil and military life_, _5 ed._ 1878. _d._ Woolston Lawn, Southampton 18 April 1888.

DE CLIFFORD, EDWARD SOUTHWELL RUSSELL, 23 Baron. _b._ Upton Warws. 30 April 1824; M.P. for Tavistock 2 Aug. 1847 to 1 July 1852; succeeded 3 Jany. 1874. _d._ Kirkby Mallory, Leics. 1877.

DE COLQUHOUN, JAMES (_only son of Patrick Colquhoun, lord provost of Glasgow_). _b._ Kelvin grove, Lanarkshire 7 June 1780; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; consul general in London for Saxony 1827 to death; chargé d’affaires in London for grand duke of Oldenburg 1848 to death; assumed designation of Chevalier; fellow of univ. of Glasgow. _d._ Stratford place, London 23 July 1855.

DE COURCY, MICHAEL (_eld. child of Nevinson De Courcy, captain R.N. 1789–1844_). _b._ 8 May 1811; entered navy 1 Feb. 1824; captain 6 Sep. 1852; R.A. 18 Oct. 1867; retired admiral 15 June 1879; C.B. 13 March 1867. _d._ Milburn, Newton Abbot, Devon 22 Oct. 1881.

DE COURCY, NEVINSON WILLOUGHBY (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 27 Sep. 1823; 2 lieut. R.M. 17 Aug. 1841; captain 24 Feb. 1854; lieut. col. 30 Oct. 1872 to 8 Oct. 1877 when he retired on full-pay; C.B. 2 June 1877. _d._ Clapham near London 30 March 1885.

DEEDES, JOHN (_5 son of Wm. Deedes of Sandling park, Kent, M.P. for Hythe_). _b._ 1803; ed. at Winchester and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1826; barrister I.T. 20 Nov. 1829, bencher 1863, treasurer 1877; a revising barrister many years; recorder of Queenborough 1834, of Deal, Sandwich, and Canterbury 1845–72; assessor to the liberty of Romney, March 1858. _d._ 26 Chapel st. Belgrave sq. London 11 Jany. 1885.

DEEDES, WILLIAM (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Sandling park, Kent 17 Oct. 1796; ed. at Winchester and C.C. coll. Ox., B.A. 1818; Fellow of All Souls coll. 1818–33; M.P. for East Kent 1845–57 and Dec. 1857 to death; a comr. of church estates 30 April 1858 to death; chairman of Kent general sessions; major commandant of East Kent yeomanry cavalry. _d._ Eaton terrace, London 30 Nov. 1862.

DEEDES, WILLIAM (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ 11 Oct. 1834; ed. at Harrow; second lieut. Rifle brigade 1852; served in Crimean war and Indian mutiny; lieut.-col. commandant of East Kent militia 1865–69; M.P. for East Kent 1876–80. _d._ Saltwood Castle, Hythe, Kent 27 May 1887.

DE FOULON, JAMES FOULON, MARQUIS. _b._ England 1795; ed. under his godfather John Nash the architect; lived some time at Hastings where he taught the Princess Victoria perspective drawing; architect to sir Henry Meux of Oxford st. London, brewer 1831–41; his only son was killed at Lucknow during the Indian mutiny. _d._ Fulham road, London 22 Jany. 1887. _London Figaro 5 Feb. 1887_, _portrait_.

DE FREYNE, ARTHUR FRENCH, 1 Baron (_eld. son of Arthur French, M.P. for co. Roscommon, who d. 24 Nov. 1820_). _b._ 1795; called to Irish bar 1825; M.P. for co. Roscommon 1821–32; created baron de Freyne of Artagh 16 May 1839, and baron De Freyne of Coolavin 5 April 1851. _d._ 71 Connaught terrace, Hyde park, London 29 Sep. 1856.

DE GEX, SIR JOHN PETER (_eld. son of John De Gex of Leicester place, Leicester sq. London_). _b._ 1809; ed. at Jesus coll. Cam., fellow, hon. fellow; B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; barrister L.I. 30 Jany. 1835; published with Basil Montagu and Edward Deacon _Cases in bankruptcy argued in the Court of Review and on appeal before the lord chancellor 3 vols._ 1842–5, with John Smale _Reports of cases decided in Chancery by Knight-Bruce, V.C. and Parker, V.C. 5 vols._ 1849–53, with Macnaghten and Gordon _Cases in the Court of appeal in Chancery 8 vols._ 1851–7; Q.C. 28 March 1865; bencher of his inn 19 April 1865, treasurer 1882; knighted at Windsor Castle 7 Dec. 1882 on occasion of opening new law courts in the Strand; author with R. H. Smith of _Arrangements between debtors and creditors under the bankruptcy act_ 1861, _and 2 supplements 3 vols_. 1867–69. _d._ 20 Hyde park sq. London 14 May 1887. _I.L.N. lxxxi_, 656 (1882), _portrait_.

DE GREY, THOMAS PHILIP DE GREY, 2 Earl (_eld. son of Thomas Robinson, 2 baron Grantham 1738–86_). _b._ Whitehall, London 8 Dec. 1781; succeeded as 3 baron Grantham 20 July 1786; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., M.A. 1801; assumed surname of Weddell 7 May 1803; lord lieut. of Bedford 13 Feb. 1818; succeeded as 2 Earl De Grey 4 May 1833; assumed surname of De Grey in lieu of Weddell 24 June 1833; first lord of the admiralty 22 Dec. 1834 to 25 April 1835; P.C. 29 Dec. 1834; lord lieut. of Ireland 3 Sep. 1841 to 2 July 1844; grand master of order of St. Patrick 1841–44; K.G. 12 Dec. 1844; pres. of Instit. of British Architects 1834 to death; F.R.S. 29 April 1841; author of _Memoir of the life of Sir C. Lucas_ 1845; _Characteristics of the Duke of Wellington apart from his military talents_ 1853. _d._ 4 St. James’s sq. London 14 Nov. 1859. _I.L.N. 25 Feb. 1842 p. 146_, _portrait_, _13 Jany. 1844_, 22, 24, _portrait_.

DE HAMEL, FELIX JOHN (_son of Comte Jean Baptiste Augustin Bruno de Hamel_). _b._ Tamworth 1808; ed. at Repton; admitted solicitor 1835; assistant solicitor for the Customs 1845, chief solicitor for the Customs and Board of Trade 1848–78; consolidated the Acts relating to the Customs 1854 and 1876; facilitated Customs business by introducing a simpler form of bond. _d._ 70 Avenue road, Regent’s park, London 31 July 1885 in 78 year.

DE HAVILLAND, THOMAS FIOTH (_eld. son of Sir Peter De Havilland of Havilland hall, Guernsey, who d. 1821_). _b._ Havilland 10 April 1775; entered Madras army 1791; superintending engineer and architect of Madras presidency 1814; constructed Madras bulwark and pier 1822; retired lieut. col. 20 April 1825; lived in Guernsey 1823 to death. _d._ De Beauvoir, Guernsey 23 Feb. 1866. _Vibart’s Madras Engineers ii_, 1–35 (1883).

DE JARNAC, PHILIPPE FERDINAND AUGUSTE DE ROHAN CHABOT, Comte (_eld. son of Viscount De Chabot 1780–1875_). _b._ 2 June 1821; chief sec. of French embassy in London; lived in Kilkenny 20 years; French ambassador in London 28 Nov. 1874 to death; author of _Rockingham or the younger brother_ 1849, anon.; _Love and ambition 3 vols._ 1851, anon.; _Cécile or the pervert By Sir Charles Rockingham_ 1851; _Electra, a story of modern times 3 vols._ 1853, anon. _d._ French embassy, Albert Gate house, London 22 March 1875. _I.L.N. lxvi_, 321, 331 (1875), _portrait_.

DE JERSEY, HENRY. _b._ 1804; solicitor in City of London 1826 to death; vestry clerk of parishes of St. Anne, St. Agnes and St. Mary Staining; common councilman for Aldersgate ward 1840–71; chairman of Commission of Sewers 1862–71; master of the Loriners’ Company 1871; secondary of City of London 1871 to Nov. 1884; under sheriff of London and Middlesex twice. _d._ 32 St. James’s road, Brixton, London 1 Dec. 1884 in 81 year.

DE LA BECHE, SIR HENRY THOMAS (_son of Thomas De La Beche of Halse hall, Clarendon, Jamaica, a colonel in the army_). _b._ London 10 Feb. 1796; ed. at Ottery St. Mary, Devon and Great Marlow; F.G.S. 1817; studied geology in Dorset, Devon, Pembroke, Switzerland and France; conducted the Geological Survey under the Ordnance in Cornwall and Devon 1832, director general of Ordnance Survey 1840 to death; sec. to Geological Society 1831, foreign Sec. 1835–46, Pres. 1847 and 1848, Wollaston medallist 1855; F.R.S. 23 Dec. 1819; F.L.S. 1821; Geological museum in Jermyn st. London founded on his recommendation 1851; received order of Leopold of Belgium; created a Knight of Danish order of Dannebrog; knighted at St. James’s palace 13 April 1842; C.B. 27 April 1848; author of _Researches in theoretical geology_ 1834; _How to observe geology_ 1835; _Report on the geology of Cornwall, Devon and West Somerset_ 1839 and other books. _d._ London 13 April 1855. _Quarterly Journal of geological society xii_, _pp. xxxiv-viii_ (1856); _Proceedings of royal society vii_, 582–86 (1855); _I.L.N. xviii_, 422 (1851), _portrait_.

DELACOMB, HENRY ISATT. Second lieut. R.M. 21 Oct. 1805; col. commandant 22 June 1855 to 1 April 1870; general 23 Aug. 1866; C.B. 2 June 1869. _d._ 19 Albion st. Hyde park, London 15 Nov. 1878 aged 89.

DELAGARDE, PHILIP CHILWELL (_son of a clergyman at Jersey_). _b._ 1797; ed. at Exeter gr. sch.; apprenticed to Peppin and Barnes, surgeons, Exeter; house surgeon St. Bartholomew’s hospital, London 25 Sep. 1818; M.R.C.S. Aug. 1819, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon Eye infirmary, Exeter 1836; surgeon Devon and Exeter hospital, Exeter 1841, afterwards senior surgeon; ophthalmic surgeon and after the retirement of Barnes, the most popular operator in the West of England; mayor of Exeter, Nov. 1834 to 1 Jany. 1836; sheriff of Exeter 1832–33; author of _A treatise on Cataract_ 1821; _A supplement to the account of the church of St. Andrew, Cullompton and its mural paintings_ in Spreate’s _Sketches of churches in Devon_ 1842; _A brief commentary on the construction of hospitals_ 1870, and _Nursing Sisterhoods_, a pamphlet. _d._ 23 Southernhay, Exeter 17 Nov. 1871 in 74 year. _Medical Times and Gazette 2 Dec. 1871 p. 694_; _Lancet 16 Dec. 1871 p. 868_.

DELAMAINE, CHARLES HENRY. Entered Bombay army 1820; retired colonel 24 April 1854; C.B. 4 July 1843. _d._ Dinan, France 19 June 1870.

DELAMERE, THOMAS CHOLMONDELEY, 1 Baron (_eld. son of Thomas Cholmondeley of Vale Royal, Northwich, Cheshire 1726–79, M.P. for Cheshire_). _b._ Beckenham, Kent 9 Aug. 1767; high sheriff of Cheshire 1792; M.P. for Cheshire 11 June 1796 to 29 Sep. 1812; created Baron Delamere on coronation of King George 4th, by patent dated 17 July 1821. _d._ 12 Hereford st. London 30 Sep. 1855.

DELAMERE, HUGH CHOLMONDELEY, 2 Baron (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ Vale Royal 3 Oct. 1812; ed. at Eton; M.P. for Denbighshire 1840–41 and for Montgomery 1841–47; col. 1 Royal Cheshire militia 28 Aug. 1840 to death. _d._ Vale Royal 1 Aug. 1887.

DE LA MOTTE, FREEMAN GAGE (_son of Wm. De La Motte 1775–1863_). Author of _Examples of modern alphabets_ 1859; _Embroiderer’s book of design_ 1860; _Primer of the art of illumination_ 1860; _Mediæval alphabets and initials for illuminators_ 1861; _Book of ornamental alphabets 9th to 19th century_ 1858, _5 ed._ 1863. _d._ of apoplexy 15 Beaufort buildings, Strand, London 16 July 1862 aged 48.

DE LA MOTTE, PETER. Entered Bombay army 1797; col. 3 Bombay light cavalry 27 April 1826 to death; general 16 June 1860; C.B. 28 July 1838. _d._ 15 Craven hill gardens, London 5 Feb. 1861 aged 79.

DE LA MOTTE, WILLIAM ALFRED (_eld. son of Peter De La Motte of Weymouth, postal agent_). _b._ Weymouth 2 Aug. 1775; pupil of Benjamin West, R.A.; drawing master at royal military colleges, Great Marlow and Sandhurst 1803–43; published _Thirty etchings of rural subjects_ 1816; exhibited 53 pictures at R.A., 13 at B.I. and 7 at Suffolk st. gallery 1793–1850; author of _Smoking and Smokers_ 1845, anon.; _Historical sketch of priory and hospital of St. Bartholomew_ 1846. _d._ The lawn, St. Giles’s fields, Oxford 13 Feb. 1863.

DELANE, JOHN THADEUS (_2 son of the succeeding_). _b._ South Molton st. London 11 Oct. 1817; ed. at King’s college, London and Magd. hall, Ox., B.A. 1839; barrister M.T. 28 May 1847; engaged upon the _Times_ 1839, editor May 1841 to Nov. 1877; organised with aid of Lieut. Thomas Waghorn a special _Times_ express from Alexandria to London 1845; exposed and stopped the railway mania 1845, at an immense cost by loss of advertisements. _d._ Ascot Heath house near Ascot 22 Nov. 1879. _Macmillan’s Mag., Jany. 1880 pp._ 267–72; _Kinglake’s Crimean war_, _6 ed. vol. vii_, _chapter ix, pp. 214–72_; _Hatton’s Journalistic London 1882 p._ 81, _portrait_; _Times 25 Nov. 1879 p. 7, cols. 3–5_; _I.L.N. lxxv_, 548 (1879), _portrait_.

DELANE, WILLIAM FREDERICK AUGUSTUS. Financial manager of _Times_ newspaper; barrister G.I. 26 Jany. 1831; manager of _Morning Chronicle_ to 1847; treasurer of county courts of Kent and part of Surrey (circuits 47, 48, 49 and 50), March 1847 to death; author of _A collection of decisions in the courts for revising the lists of electors for the counties of Berks_ [_and other counties, cities and boroughs_] 1834, _2 ed._ 1836; _The present laws for regulating highways_ 1835. _d._ Hellesdon, Norwich 29 July 1857 aged 64.

DELANY, MOST REV. WILLIAM. _b._ Bandon 25 Dec. 1803; ed. at Dunboyne; parish priest of Bandon 1845; R.C. bishop of Cork 1847 to death, during which period there was a great revival of church architecture and multiplication of religious institutions. _d._ Blackrock near Cork 14 Nov. 1886.

DE LA RUE, THOMAS. _b._ Guernsey 24 March 1793; printer there 1815; manufacturer of straw hats in London; invented bonnets of embossed paper; founded house of De La Rue and Sons, card and ornamental paper makers; introduced several new printing inks; invented embossing of bookbinder’s cloths; patented fixing of iridescent films on paper; Chevalier of Legion of Honour 1855. _d._ 84 Westbourne terrace, Hyde park, London 7 June 1866.

DE LA SAUSSAYE, SIR RICHARD (_son of Richard Sausse of Carrick-on-Suir, co. Tipperary_). _b._ 1807; ed. at Stonyhurst and Trin. coll. Dublin; ensign in Spanish royal foot guards 1827; served with distinction during civil war 1833–40 attaining rank of brigadier general; sent on a special mission to Great Britain 1854; commanded a division in campaign to Africa against the Moors 1859–60 where he was made major general; chamberlain to Queen of Spain; military governor of fortress of Carthagena and of province of Murcia; knighted at Windsor Castle 21 Aug. 1841 for services performed while in command of British auxiliary brigade in north of Spain; received Grand Cross of order of Isabel the Catholic. _d._ Paris 27 Oct. 1872.

DE LASAUX, THOMAS THORPE. _b._ Canterbury 1797; solicitor there 1820 to death; coroner for East Kent 1820 to death being the oldest coroner in England; coroner for Canterbury many years; said to have held 4000 inquests. _d._ Canterbury 21 May 1884 in 87 year.

DELAWARR, GEORGE JOHN SACKVILLE WEST, 5 Earl (_only son of 4 Earl Delawarr 1758–95_). _b._ Savile row, London 26 Oct. 1791; succeeded 28 July 1795; ed. at Harrow and Brasenose coll. Ox.; chief friend of Lord Byron at Harrow; B.A. 1812, M.A. 1819; hon. D.C.L. Cam. 1828, hon. D.C.L. Ox. 1834; lord chamberlain 8 Sep. 1841 to 8 July 1846, and 26 Feb. 1858 to 18 June 1859; P.C. 14 Sep. 1841; took name of Sackville before West 6 Nov. 1843. _d._ Buckhurst park, Tunbridge Wells 23 Feb. 1869. _Portraits of eminent conservatives, second series_ (1846), _portrait_.

DELAWARR, CHARLES RICHARD SACKVILLE-WEST, 6 Earl (_2 son of the preceding_). _b._ Upper Grosvenor st. London 13 Nov. 1815; ensign 43 foot 26 July 1833; lieut.-col. 21 foot 9 March 1855 to 15 Aug. 1856 when placed on h.p.; commanded a brigade in expedition to Kinburn 1855 and a brigade at Shorncliffe 1856; M.G. 29 Oct. 1864; C.B. 5 July 1855; knight of the Medjidie 2 March 1858; K.C.B. 20 May 1871; a comr. for abolition of army purchase 30 Sep. 1871; drowned himself in the river Cam at Cambridge 22 April 1873. _United Service Mag._ 1873 _part_ 3, 39–49; _I.L.N. lx_, 157, 158 (1872), _portrait_.

DELEPIERRE, JOSEPH OCTAVE (_son of Joseph Delepierre, receveur-général of province of West Flanders_). _b._ Bruges, Belgium 12 March 1802; ed. at Univ. of Ghent; an avocat; archiviste de la Flandre Occidentale, Bruges; came to London 1843; sec. of Belgian legation, Aug. 1849 to 1874; Belgian consul in London 1 Oct. 1849 to 14 April 1875; hon. sec. of the Philobiblon Society 1853, contributed 22 papers to its privately printed Miscellanies; hon. F.S.A. 1 May 1845; author of _Heures de loisir, essais poétiques_ 1829; _Old Flanders, traditions and legends of Belgium 2 vols._ 1845, and of 53 other books. _d._ 29 Upper Hamilton terrace, London 18 Aug. 1879. _J. O. Delepierre In memoriam, by N. Trubner_ 1880, _portrait_; _Le Livre, Paris, Jany. 1880 pp._ 22–28, 291–92; _R. Blakey’s Memoirs_ (1879) 208–12, 230, 239.

DELEVANTI, GEORGE, assumed name of George Crippin. _b._ London 29 July 1848; pupil of John Delevanti the clown 1854; entered the profession as an acrobat; champion somersault rider of the world at one time; performed in nearly every part of the globe; leading equestrian at Renz’s circus, Berlin. _d._ 34 Headland park, Plymouth 3 May 1887.

DELF, THOMAS. _b._ London; a bookseller in Bow lane, afterwards at 168 New Bond st. 1853 to death; partner with Nicholas Trubner 1851–2; projected _The Artist_, _The Children’s Journal_ 1863, _The photographic art Journal_ 1862, _The royal cook_ 1858; author under pseudonym of Charles Martel of _The principles of colouring in painting_ 1855; _The principles of form in ornamental art_ 1856; _Love letters of eminent persons_ 1859; _On the materials used in painting with remarks on varnishing and cleaning pictures_ 1859; _The principles of harmony and contrast of colours by M. E. Chevreul, translated by C. Martel_ 1854, _3 ed._ 1859. _d._ 23 July 1865 aged 55.

DE LIEFDE, JACOB. _b._ Holland; _Daily News_ war correspondent outside Paris 1870–71; author of _Six months among the charities of Europe 2 vols._ 1865, _new ed._ 1872; _Romance of charity_ 1867; _Truth in Tales_ 1870; _The great Dutch admirals_ 1873, _new ed._ 1880. _d._ Twickenham 6 Feb. 1878 aged 31.

DE L’ISLE and DUDLEY, PHILIP CHARLES SIDNEY, 1 Baron (_only son of Sir John Shelley Sidney, 1 baronet 1771–1849_). _b._ 11 March 1800; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox.; member of Sidney Sussex coll. Cam., D.C.L. Cam. 1835; M.P. for Eye, Suffolk 19 Oct. 1829 to Feb. 1831; K.C.H. 1830, G.C.H. 1831; surveyor general of Duchy of Cornwall, March 1832 to March 1849; created Baron De L’Isle and Dudley by patent dated 13 Jany. 1835; succeeded as 2 baronet 14 March 1849. (_m._ 13 Aug. 1825 Sophia eld. child of King Wm. iv, by Mrs. Jordan the actress, she _d._ 10 April 1837). _d._ Penshurst, Kent 4 March 1851.

DE LISLE, AMBROSE LISLE MARCH PHILLIPPS (_eld. son of Charles March Phillipps of Garendon park, Leics. 1779–1862_). _b._ Garendon 17 March 1809; received into R.C. church 1824; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam. 1826–28; gave 230 acres of land in Charnwood Forest for re-establishment of Cistercian order 1835, exactly 3 centuries after its suppression; received the habit of third order of St. Dominic at Rome 1837; built R.C. church at Sheepshed 1842; a principal founder of Association for the promotion of the unity of Christendon 1857; assumed name of De Lisle 1862; sheriff of Leics. 1868; translated from the Italian _The lamentations of England by Father Dominic, Passionist_ 1831; _A vindication of Catholic morality by Count Alexander Manzoni_ 1836 and other books. _d._ Garendon 5 March 1878. _Two sermons preached on the death of A. L. M. P. De Lisle, March 1878, preceded by a short sketch of his life, privately printed_ 1878; _Gillow’s English Catholics ii_, 38–47 (1885).

DE LISLE, RUDOLPH EDWARD LISLE MARCH PHILLIPPS (_son of the preceding_). _b._ Gracedieu manor 23 Nov. 1853; midshipman R.N. 28 July 1868; lieut. 24 May 1877; lieut. Alexandra 12 guns 9 Jany. 1883; served in naval brigade attached to the Upper Nile expedition, Aug. 1884 to death; killed at battle of Abu Klea 17 Jany. 1885. _Memoir of Lieut. Rudolph De Lisle by Rev. H. N. Oxenham_ (1886), _portrait_.

DELLAGANA, BARTOLOMEO. _b._ Annigino canton Ticino, Switzerland; stereotyper at 61 Red Lion st. Clerkenwell, London 1855, moved to Shoe Lane 1857; effected great improvements in stereotyping by using papier mâché; stereotyped the Illustrated London News, Times, Daily Telegraph and other papers; naturalised in England 7 Jany. 1867. _d._ The Terrace, Kennington park, London 26 May 1882 in 50 year.

DEMAINBRAY, REV. STEPHEN GEORGE FRANCIS TRIBOUDET (_only son of Stephen Charles Triboudet Demainbray 1710–82, astronomer to royal observatory at Kew_). _b._ Ealing, Middlesex 7 Aug. 1759; ed. at Harrow and Ex. coll. Ox., B.A. 1781, M.A. 1782, B.D. 1793; fell. of his coll. 30 June 1778 to 4 Feb. 1799; astronomer at Kew observatory 1782–1840 when it was given up; Whitehall preacher 1794; V. of Long Wittenham, Berks 9 Aug. 1794 to 4 Feb. 1799; R. of Broad Somerford, Wilts. 4 Feb. 1799 to death; one of His Majesty’s chaplains at Kew 1801; chaplain in ord. at St. James’s palace 1802; author of _The poor man’s best friend_ 1831. _d._ Broad Somerford rectory 6 July 1854. _G.M. xlii_, 193–94 (1854).

DE MAULEY, WILLIAM FRANCIS SPENCER PONSONBY, 1 Baron (_3 son of 3 Earl of Bessborough 1758–1844_). _b._ Cavendish sq. London 31 July 1787; M.P. for Poole 1826–31, for Knaresborough 1831–32 and for Dorset 1832–37; created baron De Mauley of Canford, Dorset 10 July 1838; chairman of Submarine electric telegraph company. _d._ 21 St. James’s place, London 16 May 1855.

DEMAUS, REV. ROBERT. Educ. at Univ. of Edin., signet medallist, M.A. 1851; chaplain to bishop of Aberdeen 1860–65; C. of St. Luke, Chelsea 1865–72; principal of Whiteland’s training college, Chelsea 1872 to death; author of _Class book of scripture history_ 1863; _English literature and composition_ 1866; _William Tyndale, a contribution to history of English Bible_ 1871; _The Jesuits, a historical sketch_ 1873. _d._ of apoplexy 11 St. Leonard’s terrace, Chelsea 15 March 1874 aged 45.

DE MORGAN, AUGUSTUS (_5 child of John De Morgan, col. in Madras army, who d. 1816_). _b._ Madura, Madras 27 June 1806; lost his right eye soon afterwards; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; scholar 1825, fourth wrangler 1827, B.A. 1827; student at Lincoln’s Inn 1827; professor of mathematics in London University 23 Feb. 1828 to 24 July 1831; fellow of Astronomical Soc. May 1828, member of council 1830–61, hon. sec. 1831–38 and 1848–54; professor of mathematics in University college, London, Oct. 1836 to 10 Nov. 1866; pres. of Mathematical Soc. 7 Nov. 1864; granted civil list pension of £100, 21 Jany. 1870; author of _Elements of arithmetic_ 1830, _6 ed._ 1876; _Formal Logic_ 1847; _Trigonometry and double algebra_ 1849; _Book of almanacs_ 1851, _2 ed._ 1871; _Budget of Paradoxes_ 1872, and nearly one sixth of articles in _Penny Cyclopædia_ 1833–58. (_m._ 1837 Sophia Elizabeth dau. of Wm. Frend of London, she was granted civil list pension of £50, 25 July 1871). _d._ Merton road, Regent’s park, London 18 March 1871. _Memoir of A. De Morgan by S. E. De Morgan_ 1882, _portrait_, _with list of his writings at pp. 401–17_; _Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xxx_, 11, 112–18 (1872).

DE MORGAN, CAMPBELL GREIG (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Clovelly, Devon 1811; ed. at Univ. coll. London; M.R.C.S. 1835, F.R.C.S. 1843; assistant surgeon Middlesex hospital 1842, surgeon 1848 to death; lectured on forensic medicine there 1841, afterwards on physiology and surgery to death; professor of anatomy 1845; F.R.S. 6 June 1861; author of _The origin of Cancer_ 1872, and of the article Erysipelas in Holmes’s _System of surgery_ 1860. _d._ 29 Seymour st. Portman sq. London 12 April 1876. _Medical Circular iv_, 67 (1854); _Medical Times and Gazette i_, 483–5 (1876).

DEMPSTER, WILLIAM RICHARDSON. _b._ Keith, Scotland 1809; went to the United States when young, and became naturalised; a successful composer and public singer; set Tennyson’s _May Queen_ to music; composed music for most of the songs found in Tennyson’s longer poems. _d._ London 7 March 1871.

DENBIGH, WILLIAM BASIL PERCY FIELDING, 7 Earl of. _b._ Berwick house, Salop 25 March 1796; succeeded his grandfather as 7 Earl 14 July 1800; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.; lord chamberlain to Queen Adelaide, Jany. 1833; P.C. 4 Feb. 1833; G.C.H. 1833; master of the Horse to Queen Adelaide 15 Dec. 1834 to 2 Dec. 1849 when she died. _d._ Hampstead 25 June 1865.

DENDY, WALTER COOPER. _b._ at or near Horsham, Sussex 1794; M.R.C.S. 1814; practised in City of London; fellow of Medical Soc. of London, president; senior surgeon to Royal infirmary for children, Waterloo Road; author of _Practical remarks on the diseases of the skin_ 1837, _2 ed._ 1854; _The philosophy of mystery_ 1841; _Psyche, a discourse on the birth and pilgrimage of thought_ 1853; _The beautiful islets of Britaine_ 1857, _2 ed._ 1860, and other books. _d._ 25 Suffolk st. Haymarket, London 10 Dec. 1871. _J. F. Clarke’s Autobiographical recollections_ (1874) 441–9; _Medical Circular iv_, 155–6 (1854).

DE NEMOURS, VICTOIRE AUGUSTE ANTOINETTE, Duchesse (_only dau. of Ferdinand George Augustus, Duke of Saxe Coburg 1785–1851_). _b._ Vienna 16 Feb. 1822; lived at Claremont, Surrey 1848 to death. (_m._ 27 April 1840 Duc de Nemours 2 son of Louis Phillippe King of the French, he was _b._ 25 Oct. 1814). _d._ Claremont 10 Nov. 1857. _bur._ in the Taylor vault under R.C. church of St. Charles Borromeo, Weybridge, Nov.; body removed to a mortuary chapel adjoining above church 5 Oct. 1883.

DENHAM, SIR HENRY MANGLES (_son of Henry Denham of Sherborne, Dorset_). _b._ 28 Aug. 1800; entered navy April 1809; captain 17 Aug. 1846; F.R.S. 28 Feb. 1839; a younger brother of Trinity House 1841 to death; employed in the construction of charts 1822–52; inspector of steam-boat accidents; invented a valuable contrivance for steering a ship when disabled called Denham’s Jury Tiller, also Denham’s Rowlocks for rowing boats; knighted at Windsor Castle 26 March 1867; retired admiral 1 Aug. 1877; A.I.C.E. 4 March 1851; author of _Sailing directions for the British Channel_ 1839 and other works. _d._ 21 Carlton road, Maida vale, London 3 July 1887. _Min. Proc. I.C.E. xci_, 460–62 (1888).

DENHAM, REV. JOSHUA FREDERICK. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; lecturer of St. Bride’s, Fleet st. London 1828; R. of St. Mary-le Strand, London 1839 to death; F.R.S. 20 May 1841; author of _Natural theology_ 1828; _History of the old St. Dunstan’s church_ 1832; _Letters on education_ 1832 and other books. _d._ 8 New Inn, Strand, London 26 Jany. 1861 aged 60.

DENHAM, MICHAEL AISLABIE. _b._ near Bowes, Yorkshire; in business at Hull; general merchant at Piercebridge, Durham; printed _Folk Lore or a collection of local rhymes, proverbs, sayings, prophecies, slogans, &c. relating to Northumberland, Newcastle-on-Tyne and Berwick-upon-Tweed_ 1858, and other books on folk lore. _d._ Piercebridge 10 Sep. 1859.

DENIEHY, DANIEL HENRY. _b._ Kent st. Sydney 1828; attorney in Sydney and Goulburn; mem. for Argyle in Representative Assembly 1856–58, for East Macquarie 1858–59; published a series of obituary notices in the _Southern Cross_ 1859–60; edited _The Victorian_ Melbourne weekly paper 1862–64. _d._ in the hospital, Bathurst 22 Oct. 1865 in 37 year. _G. B. Barton’s Poets and prose writers of New South Wales_ (1866) 94–148.

DENING, EMMA GERALDINE HENRIETTA HAMILTON (_dau. of Thomas Clarence Hooper_). _b._ Paris 30 March 1841, ed. at Bath; converted by Rev. Wm. Haslam; commenced a prayer meeting at Avon st. Bath 1861; preached in Temperance hall, Widcombe, Bath to large congregations 1862; popular preacher in country districts and in tent services; preached about 4500 sermons. (_m._ 2 Oct. 1868 T. Henry Dening of Ottery St. Mary, Devon, farmer). Mr. and Mrs. Dening by their efforts built St. James’s hall, Bath 1871 where they preached, hall burnt down 1878. _d._ Green park, Bath 12 Aug. 1872. _bur._ Locksbrook cemetery 16 Aug. when 6000 people were present. _Mrs. G. Guinness’ She spake of Him_ (1873), _portrait_; _S. D. Major’s Notabilia of Bath_ (1879) 90, 194.

DENISON, CHRISTOPHER BECKETT (_2 son of Sir Edmund Beckett, 4 baronet 1787–1874_). _b._ 9 May 1825; in Bengal C.S. 1845–65; M.P. eastern division of West Riding of Yorkshire 25 Nov. 1868 to 24 March 1880; deputy chairman Great Northern railway, Jany. 1880 to death. _d._ Ireland 30 Oct. 1884. _Catalogue of collection of pictures, &c. of C. B. Denison_ (1885).

DENISON, RIGHT REV. EDWARD (_2 son of John Wilkinson, who took name of Denison, of Ossington, co. Nottingham, M.P. for Chichester, who d. 6 May 1820_). _b._ 34 Harley st. London 13 March 1801; ed. at Esher, Eton and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1826, D.D. 1837; fell. of Merton coll. 1826; V. of St. Peters in the East, Oxford to 1837; select preacher before Univ. of Ox. 1834; bishop of Salisbury 13 March 1837 to death, consecrated at Lambeth 16 April 1837; author of Sermons and charges. _d._ The Close, Salisbury 6 March 1854. _The Eton portrait gallery_ (1876) 157–62; _G.M. April 1854 pp._ 418–20.

DENISON, EDWARD (_eld. child of the preceding_). _b._ The Palace, Salisbury 8 Sep. 1840; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; read law 1862–66; lived in Philpot st. Mile end road, London where he built and endowed a school 1867–68; barrister L.I. 27 Jany. 1868; M.P. for Newark 18 Nov. 1868 to death; left England for Australia, Oct. 1869. _d._ Melbourne 26 Jany. 1870. _Letters and other writings of the late Edward Denison, edited by Sir Baldwyn Leighton_ 1872; _Stray studies by J. R. Green_ (1876) 3–28.

DENISON, SIR WILLIAM THOMAS (_brother of Right Rev. Edward Denison 1801–54_). _b._ Portland place, London 3 May 1804; ed. at Eton and R.M.A. Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.E. 15 March 1826; lieut. governor of Tasmania 26 Jany. 1847 to 8 Jany. 1855; governor of New South Wales with title of governor general of Australia 20 Jany. 1855 to 22 Jany. 1861; col. R.E. 20 Sep. 1860 to 7 Nov. 1868; governor of Madras, March 1861 to March 1866; acted as governor general of India 20 Nov. 1863 to Jany. 1864; chairman of commission to inquire into best means of preventing pollution of rivers 6 April 1868 to death; L.G. 23 Nov. 1870; knighted at Buckingham palace 1 Aug. 1846; K.C.B. 19 July 1856; F.R.A.S. 1834; A.I.C.E. 14 March 1837, Telford medallist; F.R.S. 22 Feb. 1838; author of _Varieties of viceregal life 2 vols._ 1870, and many other works. _d._ The Observatory, East Sheen 19 Jany. 1871. _Papers on subjects connected with duties of Corps of Royal Engineers n.s. xx, pp. ix-xlii_, (1872); _Therry’s Reminiscences, 2 ed._ (1863) 449–69; _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxiii_, 251–59 (1872); _Dunkin’s Obituary notices of Astronomers_ (1879) 32–34.

DENMAN, THOMAS DENMAN, 1 Baron (_only son of Thomas Denman of London, physician 1733–1815_). _b._ Queen st. Golden sq. London 23 Feb. 1779; ed. at Eton and St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1800, M.A. 1803; a special pleader 1803; barrister L.I. 9 May 1806, bencher 1820; M.P. for Wareham, Dorset 1818; M.P. for Nottingham 1820–26 and 1830–32; solicitor general to Queen Caroline 8 Feb. 1820 to her death 7 Aug. 1821; received freedom of city of London 7 June 1821; common serjeant of city of London 26 April 1822 to Nov. 1830; K.C. Nov. 1828; attorney general 19 Nov. 1830 to 4 Nov. 1832; knighted by Wm. 4 at St. James’s palace 24 Nov. 1830; lord chief justice of King’s Bench 4 Nov. 1832 to 28 Feb. 1850; P.C. 9 Nov. 1832; created Baron Denman of Dovedale, Derbyshire 22 March 1834; the first chief justice of England who sat in House of Lords without his judicial robes. _d._ Stoke Albany near Rockingham, Northamptonshire 22 Sep. 1854. _Arnould’s Memoir of Lord Denman 2 vols._ 1873, _portrait_; _The Eton portrait gallery_ (1876) 436–45; _J. Whiteside’s Early sketches of eminent persons_ (1870) 21–45; _H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches_, _4 ed._ (1876) 238–46.

DENMAN, JOSEPH (_3 son of the preceding_). _b._ 23 June 1810; entered navy 7 April 1823; captain 23 Aug. 1841; captain of H.M.’s yacht Victoria and Albert 19 Oct. 1853 to 15 Jany. 1862; naval aide-de-camp to the Queen 20 March 1858; R.A. 15 Jany. 1862; commander in chief in the Pacific 10 May 1864 to 21 Nov. 1866; V.A. 20 Nov. 1866; granted Greenwich hospital pension 9 Jany. 1869; contested Manchester 2 May 1859; author of _The African squadron and Mr. Hutt’s committee_ 1850. _d._ 17 Eaton terrace, London 26 Nov. 1874.

DENNETT, JOHN. _b._ 1790; invented Dennett’s life-saving rocket apparatus for conveying a rope from the shore to a shipwrecked crew 1832, these rockets were sent to all parts of the world, they were superseded by Boxer’s rocket 1865; custodian of Carisbrook Castle, Newport, Isle of Wight to death; contributed to _Journal of British Archeol. Assoc. vols._ 1–5 accounts of various antiquities in England. _d._ Carisbrook Castle 10 July 1852.

DENNIS, SIR JAMES (_son of John Dennis, an attorney_). _b._ 1778; midshipman in navy; ensign 49 foot 2 Sep. 1796, major 25 April 1828 to 4 June 1833; lieut. col. 3 foot 4 June 1833 to 11 Nov. 1851; commanded a division of infantry at battle of Maharajpore 29 Dec. 1843; K.C.B. 30 Oct. 1844; M.G. 11 Nov. 1851. _d._ Pall Mall, London 14 Jany. 1855.

DENNIS, REV. JAMES BLATCH PIGGOT (_son of Philip Piggot Dennis_). Matric. from Queen’s coll. Ox. 28 May 1835 aged 19, B.A. 1839; C. of Maxey, Northants. 1842–54; C. of St. James, Bury St. Edmunds; F.G.S., an authority on fossil bones; his collection of hawks and owls is in Bury St. Edmunds’ museum; author of _An answer to the parishioners of Lawshall, telling them why he became a Catholic_ 1859. _d._ Garland st. Bury St. Edmunds 12 Jany. 1861. _Bury and Norwich Post 15 Jany. 1861 p. 2._

DENNIS, JAMES SAMUEL AKED. _b._ 1809; entered navy 24 Oct. 1822; captain 18 July 1857; retired V.A. 2 Aug. 1879. _d._ rectory cottage, Hanwell 9 Feb. 1881.

DENNISTOUN, ALEXANDER. _b._ Glasgow 1790; a merchant at Glasgow; M.P. for co. Dunbarton 1835 to 1837. _d._ Lagarie row, Dennistoun, Glasgow 15 July 1874.

DENNISTOUN, JAMES (_eld. son of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun, co. Dumbarton, who d. 1 June 1834_). _b._ Dumbartonshire 17 March 1803; ed. at Univs. of Edin. and Glasgow; mem. of faculty of advocates 1824; edited several publications for the Bannatyne and Maitland clubs; contributed many articles chiefly on Art to _Edinburgh_ and _Quarterly Reviews_; published _Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino 3 vols._ 1851, and _Memoirs of Sir Robert Strange, knt., engraver, and of his brother in law Andrew Lumisden, private secretary to the Stuart Princes 2 vols._ 1855. _d._ 119 George st. Edinburgh 13 Feb. 1855. _G.M. xliii_, 647–8 (1855); _Fraser’s Mag. li_, 643–4 (1855).

DENNISTOUN, JOHN. _b._ 1803; M.P. for Glasgow 1837 to 1847. _d._ Armadale Row, Dumbartonshire 9 Sep. 1870.

DENNY, HENRY. Curator of museum of Literary and Philosophical Society, Leeds 1826 to death; author of _Monographia Pselaphidarum et Scydmænidarum Britanniæ, or an essay on the British species of the genera Pselaphus of Herbst and Scydmænus of Latreille_ 1825, _er_; _Monographia Anoplurorum Britanniæ, or an essay on the British species of parasite insects belonging to the order Anoplura of Leach_ 1842. _d._ Leeds 7 March 1871 aged 68.

DENNY, WILLIAM. _b._ Dumbarton 25 May 1847; educ. Edinburgh high school; Apprentice to his father a shipbuilder at Dumbarton 1864 and partner 1868; partner in engineering firm of Denny & Co., Leven shipyard on the Clyde, increased size of works from 19 to 42 acres in 1881; made great improvements in the construction and building of steam ships 1869–82; founded an Award scheme for inventions and improvements made by his workmen 1880; read papers on ships, etc. before Lit. and Philos. Soc. of Dumbarton, Instit. of Civil engineers, Instit. of Naval Architects and other Societies 1869–82; served on the Load Line Committee 1884–5; M.I.C.E. 7 March 1876; his-residence Bellfield with a valuable library burnt down 1882. _d._ Buenos Ayres 17 March 1887. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxix_, 457–66 (1887).

DENT, CHARLES CALMADY. _b._ 26 Sep. 1793; entered navy 9 Aug. 1810; captain 16 Feb. 1852; retired R.A. 1 April 1870. _d._ 37 Nelson road, Great Yarmouth 3 Jany. 1872.

DENT, EDWARD JOHN. _b._ London 19 Aug. 1790; employed by Vulliamy and son, and Barrauds and son, chronometer makers 1815–29; partner with John Roger Arnold at 84 Strand 1830–40; kept a shop at 82 Strand 1840; opened branch depôts at 33 Cockspur st. and 34 Royal Exchange; began manufacture of turret clocks 1843; A.I.C.E. 1833; received order for great clock at Westminster 1852, lived only to see commencement of it; author of _On the construction and management of chronometers, watches and clocks_ 1846, and other works. _d._ The Mall, Kensington Gravel Pits, London 8 March 1853. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xiii_, 156–61 (1854); _Sir E. Beckett’s Clocks, watches and bells_ (1883) _pp._ 181, 238, 266–68, 300, 310, 313.

DENT, JOHN (_eld. son of John Dent of Worcester, glover 1751–1811_). _b._ 1777; glove manufacturer at Worcester with his brother Wm. Dent, who _d._ 11 Oct. 1854 aged 70; they purchased from Duke of Buckingham the ruined site of Sudeley castle and chapel, Gloucestershire which they restored; sheriff of Worcs. 1849. _d._ Sudeley Castle 8 Oct. 1855.

DENTON, REV. WILLIAM (_eld. son of James Denton of Newport, Isle of Wight_). Matric. from Worcester coll. Ox. 28 May 1841 aged 26, B.A. 1844, M.A. 1848; C. of Shoreditch, London 1847–50; V. of St. Bartholomew, Cripplegate, London 1850 to death; author of _A commentary on Gospels for the Sundays and other Holy Days 3 vols._ 1861–63, _3 ed._ 1875; _A commentary on the Epistles_ 1869; _Servia and the Servians_ 1862; _Records of St. Giles’ Cripplegate_ 1882 and many other books. _d._ 22 Westbourne sq. Paddington, London 2 Jany. 1888.

DENYS, SIR GEORGE WILLIAM, 1 Baronet (_only son of Peter Denys of Hans place, Chelsea, who d. 27 June 1816_). _b._ Easton Neston, Northamptonshire 20 May 1788; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1814; equerry to Duke of Sussex; M.P. for Hull 6 Oct. 1812 to 10 June 1818; created Bart. 23 Nov. 1813. _d._ 42 Onslow sq. Brompton, London 26 April 1857.

DE PORQUET, LOUIS PHILIPPE R. FENWICK (_son of Capt. Fenwick_). _b._ Paris 1796; taught English in France; adopted his mother’s name; came to England about 1823; author of educational works in the English, French, Italian and Spanish languages, upwards of 40 in number 1823 to death. _d._ 17 Camden st. Camden Town, London 26 Aug. 1873.

DE QUINCEY, THOMAS (_4 child of Thomas Quincey of Manchester, merchant, who d. 18 July 1793 aged 38_). _b._ Manchester 15 Aug. 1785; ed. at Bath and Manchester gr. schs.; matric. from Worcester coll. Ox. 17 Dec. 1803 where his name remained on the books till Dec. 1810; student of Middle Temple about 1808; edited Westmoreland Gazette 1819–20; wrote in the _London Mag._ 1821–24, _Blackwood’s Mag._ 1826–49 and _Tait’s Mag._ 1834–51; published _Klosterheim, or the masque by the English opium eater_ 1832 which was dramatised for two of the London theatres; eat opium 1804–16, 1817–18, 1824–25 and 1841–44, in 1813 his dose had risen to 340 grains of opium or 8000 drops of laudanum per diem, about half what Coleridge was taking at that time; he is described in J. H. Burton’s _The Book Hunter_ as Papaverius; author of _Confessions of an English opium eater_ 1822 first published in the _London Mag._ 1821; _The logic of political economy_ 1844; the first English edition of his collected works was published in 1853–60 as _Selections grave and gay 14 vols._, _4 ed. 16 vols._ 1875–80, the most complete edition of his works is the American in _20 vols._ 1852–55. _d._ 42 Lothian st. Edinburgh 8 Dec. 1859. _T. De Quincey by H. A. Page 2 vols._ (1877), _portrait_; _D. Masson’s De Quincey_ (1881); _S. Hodgson’s Outcast Essays_ (1881) 1–98; _F. Espinasse’s Lancashire Worthies, second series_ (1877) 378–461; _C. Mackay’s Forty years recollections_ (1877) _i_, 314–26; _H. Martineau’s Biographical Sketches_, _4 ed._ (1876) 409–17; _John Bull Mag. July 1824 pp._ 21–24.

DE RAMSEY, EDWARD FELLOWES, 1 Baron (_2 son of Wm. Henry Fellowes of Ramsey abbey, Hunts. 1769–1837_). _b._ 14 April 1809; ed. at the Charterhouse; M.P. for Hunts. 10 Aug. 1837 to 24 March 1880; chairman of the Middle Level commission; created Baron De Ramsey 5 July 1887. _d._ 3 Belgrave sq. London 9 Aug. 1887.

DERBY, EDWARD SMITH STANLEY, 13 Earl of (_only son of 12 Earl of Derby 1752–1834_). _b._ 21 April 1775; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1795; M.P. for Preston 1796–1812 and for Lancashire 1812–32; colonel 2 Lancashire militia 1 March 1797; created Baron Stanley of Bickerstaffe, co. palatine of Lancaster 22 Dec. 1832; succeeded his father 21 Oct. 1834; K.G. 2 April 1839; F.L.S. 1807, pres. 1828–34; pres. of Zoological Soc. 1831 to death; formed at Knowsley hall collections of living animals and birds, which far surpassed any menagerie or aviary previously attempted by a private person in this country, these collections were sold 6–11 Oct. 1851 for £7000; privately printed _Gleanings from the menagerie and aviary at Knowsley hall 2 parts with 76 plates_ 1846–50. _d._ Knowsley hall 30 June 1851. _P. Draper’s House of Stanley_ (1864) 275–82; _Law Review xvi_, 1–32 (1852); _I.L.N. xix_, 14, 405, 449 (1851).

DERBY, EDWARD GEOFFREY SMITH STANLEY, 14 Earl of (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ Knowsley 29 March 1799; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; M.P. for Stockbridge 1822–26, for Preston 1826–30, for Windsor 1830–32, for North Lancashire 1832–44; under sec. of state for Colonies, April 1827 to Jany. 1828; chief sec. to lord lieut. of Ireland 26 Nov. 1830 to March 1833; P.C. 22 Nov. 1830, P.C. Ireland 10 Jany. 1831; sec. of state for Colonies 28 March 1833 to 5 June 1834; lord rector of Univ. of Glasgow 1834–36; sec. of state for Colonies 3 Sep. 1841 to Dec. 1845; created Baron Stanley of Bickerstaffe 4 Nov. 1844; succeeded 30 June 1851; first lord of the Treasury 27 Feb. to 28 Dec. 1852, 1 March 1858 to 18 June 1859 and 13 June 1866 to 25 Feb. 1868; chancellor of Univ. of Oxford 12 Oct. 1852; K.G. 28 June 1859; won the One thousand guineas with Canezou 1848, Goodwood Cup with Canezou 1849 and 1850, the Oaks with Iris 1851, and the Two thousand guineas with Fazzolette 1856; sold greater part of his racing stud 1858 for over £5000; privately printed _Translations of poems ancient and modern_ 1862; published _The Iliad of Homer rendered into English blank verse 2 vols._ 1864, _10 ed._ 1876. _d._ Knowsley 23 Oct. 1869, personalty sworn under £250,000, 9 April 1870. _P. Draper’s House of Stanley_ (1864) 282–97; _The Eton portrait gallery_ (1876) 291–99; _W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery iv_, 51 (1848), _portrait_; _G. H. Francis’s Orators of the age_ (1847) 101–23; _Baily’s Mag. i_, 1–6 (1861), _portrait_, _xvii_, 227–37 (1870).

DERBY, ALFRED THOMAS (_eld. son of William Derby, water-colour painter 1786–1847_). _b._ London 21 Jany. 1821; painted portraits and scenes from Sir Walter Scott’s novels; produced many drawings from paintings of well-known masters; exhibited 22 pictures at R.A. 8 at B.I. and 6 at Suffolk st. gallery 1839–72. _d._ of jaundice 11 Hammersmith terrace, Hammersmith 19 April 1873.

DERINZY, BARTHOLOMEW VIGORS. Ensign 81 foot 26 May 1806; lieut. col. 86 foot 7 Jany. 1842 to 30 April 1852; inspecting field officer 30 April 1852 to 7 Sep. 1855 when he retired on full pay; M.G. 7 Sep. 1855; K.H. 1834. _d._ 4 Beaufort villas, Cheltenham 22 Nov. 1861 aged 73.

DE ROBECK, JOHN MICHAEL HENRY FOCK, Swedish Baron. _b._ 14 July 1790; cornet 7 Hussars, July 1808, retired 1814; sheriff of co. Kildare 1834, of co. Dublin 1838, of co. Wicklow 1839; well known for his scientific attainments; found drowned in the fall of the salmon leap in the Liffey near Dublin 11 Oct. 1856. _Annual Register 1856 p. 165._

DE ROS, WILLIAM LENNOX LASCELLES FITZGERALD-DE-ROS, 23 Baron (_3 son of hon. Henry Fitzgerald 1761–1829_). _b._ Thames Ditton, Surrey 1 Sep. 1797 or 7 Sep. 1795, according to his memorial tablet in chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula in Tower of London; cornet 1 Life guards 1819, captain 1825–27 when placed on h.p.; succeeded his brother 29 March 1839; deputy lieut. of Tower of London 13 Feb. 1852 to death when the office was abolished; captain of Yeomen of the Guard 17 March 1852 to Dec. 1852 and March 1858 to June 1859; P.C. 27 Feb. 1852; Q.M.G. to army in Turkey 1854–55; col. 4 Hussars 6 Feb. 1865 to death; general 10 Nov. 1868; author of _Field movements for a division of cavalry_ 1844; _Memorials of the Tower of London_ 1866; edited _The young officer’s companion_ 1857. _d._ Old Court, Strangford, co. Down 6 Jany. 1874.

DE ROS, JOHN FREDERICK FITZGERALD. _b._ Boyle farm, co. Surrey 6 March 1804; entered navy 20 March 1818; captain 7 Feb. 1834; R.A. on half pay 14 Feb. 1857; F.R.S. 9 June 1831; author of _Narrative of travels in the United States and Canada_ 1827. _d._ 122 Piccadilly, London 19 June 1861.

DE ROSAS, JUAN MANUEL. _b._ Buenos Ayres 30 March 1793; captain general of Buenos Ayres 1831; united all the Plate River States into the Argentine Confederation 1835; his government was overthrown Feb. 1852 when he came to England; lived in Rockstone place, Carlton crescent, Southampton several years, then at Burgess street farm, Swathling near Southampton to death; corresponded with Lord Palmerston many years. _d._ Burgess st. farm, Swathling 14 March 1877.

DE ROSAZ, LE CHEVALIER FRANÇOIS. _b._ Savoy; a great supporter of the Orleans dynasty; settled in England after the revolution 1848; F.R.A.S. 8 May 1874; bequeathed his astronomical instruments to the Museum at Brighton. _d._ Upper Bedford place, Russell sq. London 21 Sep. 1876 in 76 year.

DERRY, RIGHT REV. JOHN. Roman Catholic bishop of Clonfert, Ireland 9 July 1847 to death; consecrated 21 Sep. 1847. _d._ Cams, Fuerty, co. Roscommon 28 June 1870 aged 59.

DERVILLE, ADOLPHUS. Entered Madras army 1816; col. 34 Madras light infantry 20 Aug. 1853 to 1860; col. 42 light infantry 1860 to 12 Dec. 1862; col. 31 light infantry 12 Dec. 1862 to death; general 25 June 1870. _d._ 8 The Terrace, Kensington gardens sq. Bayswater 27 March 1874 aged 72.

DERWENTWATER, AMELIA MATILDA MARY TUDOR RADCLIFFE, calling herself Countess of (_dau. of John James Radcliffe 1764–1833 by Amelia Anna Charlotte, Princess Sobieski_). Came over to England and commenced to agitate for her rights 1865; resided at Blaydon, Northumberland 1865; took possession of the old ruined castle of Dilston 29 Sep. 1868 and suspended portraits of her family on walls of the principal hall; ejected by the agent of the Lords of the Admiralty 1 Oct. 1868 who recovered £500 damages against her; adjudicated bankrupt 24 March 1871; confined in Newcastle gaol 25 Nov. 1872 to July 1873 for contempt of court. _d._ of bronchitis at 53, Cutler’s hall road, Benfieldside, Lanchester near Durham 26 Feb. 1880 aged 49. _The heirs of Dilston and Derwentwater by S. S. Jones_ 1869; _Gillow’s English Catholics ii_, 49–50 (1885); Monthly chronicle of north country lore and legend, _April 1888 pp. 165–70_, _May 1888 pp. 205–212_, _portrait_; _Saturday Review 17 Oct. 1868 pp. 520–21_; _Celebrated Claimants_ (1873) 246–55.

DE SALIS, RODOLPH. _b._ May 1811; cornet 8 Dragoons 17 Dec. 1830, lieut.-col. 2 Oct. 1856 to 21 Feb. 1865; C.B. 1 March 1861; col. 8 Hussars 22 Sep. 1875 to death; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ 27 Ashley place, Westminster 13 March 1880.

DESANGES, SIR FRANCIS (_son of Wm. Desanges_). Sheriff of London 1817–18; knighted by Prince Regent at Carlton house 17 April 1818; sheriff of Oxon 1825. _d._ in the Queen’s Bench prison, London where he had been confined 4 years 20 Sep. 1860.

DESART, OTWAY O’CONNOR CUFFE, 3 Earl of (_only son of 2 Earl of Desart 1788–1820_). _b._ Desart house, Kilkenny 12 Oct. 1818; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox.; elected M.P. for Ipswich 3 June 1842 but unseated on petition Aug. 1842; a representative peer of Ireland 19 Jany. 1847 to death; under sec. of state for the Colonies March to Dec. 1852. _d._ Eaton sq. London 1 April 1865. _I.L.N. xx_, 321 (1852), _portrait_.

DESBOROUGH, LAURENCE. Solicitor in City of London 1818 to 1884; member of the Law Association 1823, president 1881 to death. _d._ 46 Gloucester gardens, Hyde park, London 10 Sep. 1888 aged 92.

DE SLANE, WILLIAM MACGUCKIN, French Baron. _b._ Belfast 12 Aug. 1801; went to Paris 1830; on missions at Constantinople and in Algeria for French government 1843–45; interpreter to the army of Africa; professor of modern Arabic at Ecole de langues Orientales, Paris to death; member of French institute 1862. _d._ Passy, Paris 4 Aug. 1878.

DE SOLA, REV. ABRAHAM (_son of the succeeding_). _b._ London 18 Sep. 1825; minister of Portuguese synagogue in Montreal 1847 to death; professor of Hebrew and Oriental literature at McGill Univ. 1848; LLD. 1858; pres. of Natural history soc. of Montreal; author of _Scripture Zoology_; _The sanitary institutions of the Hebrews_; _Mosaic Cosmogony_, and other books. _d._ New York 5 June 1882. _H. J. Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis_ (1867) 103–4.

DE SOLA, REV. DAVID AARON. _b._ Amsterdam 26 Dec. 1796; student in the Medrash 1807–16; arrived in London and became Second Hazan or minister of the Sephardi congregation London 1817; preacher in English in the Spanish and Portuguese congregation, Bevis Marks, March 1831 and senior minister; instrumental in organising an Association for the promotion of Jewish Literature 1842; author with M. J. Raphall of _A new edition of the sacred scriptures_ 1844, only vol. 1 completed; author of _Eighteen treatises from the Mishna_ 1845; _Ancient melodies of the liturgy of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews_ and other works; Revised the Jewish library a work issued at the expense of Mrs. Charlotte Montifiore. _d._ London 29 Oct. 1860. _Biography of Rev. D. A. De Sola by Rev. A. De Sola_ (1865); _J. Picciotto’s Sketches of Anglo Jewish history_ (1875) 327, 359–61.

DESPARD, HENRY. Ensign 17 foot 25 Oct. 1799, lieut. col. 13 Aug. 1829 to 23 June 1838; lieut. col. 99 foot 27 Sep. 1842 to 20 June 1854; C.B. 2 July 1846; M.G. 20 June 1854. _d._ Baring Crescent, Heavitree, Exeter 30 April 1859 aged 74.

DE STERN, HERMAN STERN, Baron. _b._ Frankfort 1815; established with his brother Viscount de Stern a foreign banking business in London about 1848; launched many foreign loans; created a Baron by King of Portugal 1864 having been much connected with Portuguese finance. _d._ 4 Hyde park gate, London 20 Oct. 1887, personalty in England sworn over £3,540,000, Jany. 1888.

DE TABLEY, GEORGE WARREN, 2 Baron (_son of 1 Baron De Tabley 1762–1827_). _b._ Tabley house, Knutsford, Cheshire 28 Oct. 1811; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; lieut.-col. commandant Cheshire yeomanry cavalry 1847–69; a lord in waiting to the Queen, Jany. 1853 to Feb. 1858 and June 1859 to July 1866; treasurer of the Queen’s household, Dec. 1868 to March 1872. _d._ Tabley house 19 Feb. 1887.

DE TRAFFORD, SIR THOMAS JOSEPH, 1 Baronet (_son of John Trafford of Croston and Trafford, who d. 29 Oct. 1815_). _b._ 22 March 1778; sheriff of Lancashire 1834; created Baronet by patent dated 7 Sep. 1841; received royal license to alter his name to De Trafford 2 Oct. 1841. _d._ Trafford park, Manchester 10 Nov. 1852.

DEUTSCH, EMANUEL OSCAR MENAHEM. _b._ Neisse, Prussian Silesia 28 Oct. 1829; assistant librarian British Museum 1855 to death; author of an essay on the Talmud in _Quarterly Review_ Oct. 1867, pp. 417–64 and of many articles in Smith’s _Dictionary of the Bible, Chambers’s Cyclopædia_ and other books. _d._ of cancer of the kidneys and bladder, Prussian Deaconesses hospital, Alexandria 12 May 1873. _Literary remains of the late Emanuel Deutsch with memoir_ [_by Lady Strangford_] 1874; _Contemporary Review xxiii_, 779–98 (1874); _Macmillan’s Mag. xxviii_, 382–84 (1873).

DE VESCI, JOHN VESEY, 2 Viscount (_eld. child of 1 Viscount de Vesci, who d. 13 Oct. 1804_). _b._ 15 Feb. 1771; M.P. for Maryborough in Irish parliament 1796–97; succeeded 13 Oct. 1804; a representative peer for Ireland 19 Jany. 1839 to death; lord lieut. of Queen’s county 1831 to death. _d._ Portaferry, co. Down 19 Oct. 1855.

DE VESCI, THOMAS VESEY, 3 Viscount (_son of the preceding_). _b._ Merrion sq. Dublin 21 Sep. 1803; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1825; sheriff of Queen’s county 1827; M.P. for Queen’s county 1835–37 and 1841–52; a representative peer for Ireland 10 Jany. 1857 to death; an ecclesiastical comr. for Ireland 1868. _d._ 4 Carlton house terrace, London 23 Dec. 1875. _I.L.N. lxviii_, 43, 431 (1876).

DEVEY, GEORGE. _b._ London 1820; architect in London; exhibited 6 designs at the R.A. 1841–48; F.R.I.B.A. 1856; produced large number of sketches; added to and altered many fine old English mansions, including those of the Duke of Argyll, Lord Granville, Lord Rosebery, Lord Wolverton and others. _d._ Hastings 5 Nov. 1886.

DE VINNE, REV. DANIEL. _b._ Londonderry 1 Feb. 1793; a minister of Methodist Episcopal church 1819; minister in Louisiana and Mississippi 1819–25, in state of New York 1825 to death; author of _The Methodist Episcopal church and slavery_ 1844; _Recollections of fifty years in the Ministry_ 1869; _History of the Irish primitive church_ 1870. _d._ Morrisania, New York 10 Feb. 1883.

DEVLIN, ANNE (_niece of Michael Dwyer, Irish insurgent leader 1771–1815_). _b._ about 1780; servant of Robert Emmett at his residence in Butterfield lane, Rathfarnham; messenger between him and his friends in Dublin when he was hiding in the Dublin mountains 1803; suffered more than two years imprisonment in Kilmainham gaol; a washerwoman in Dublin. _d._ Dublin 18 Sep. 1851 aged 70. _bur._ Glasnevin cemetery where there is a monument.

DEVON, WILLIAM COURTENAY, 10 Earl of (_eld. son of Right Rev. Henry Reginald Courtenay 1741–1803, bishop of Exeter_). _b._ Lower Grosvenor st. London 19 June 1777; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox.; B.A. 1798, M.A. 1801, D.C.L. 1837; barrister L.I. 11 June 1799; patentee of the Subpœna office 1800–52 when office was abolished; M.P. for Exeter 1812–26; a master in Chancery 30 July 1817 to 23 March 1826; clerk assistant of the Parliaments 6 Feb. 1826 to 26 May 1835 when he succeeded his cousin as 10 Earl; high steward of Univ. of Ox. Feb. 1838 to death; an ecclesiastical comr. for England 21 Jany. 1842 to Aug. 1850. _d._ Shrivenham, Berkshire 19 March 1859. _Doyle’s Official baronage i_, 583 (1886), _portrait_; _Portraits of eminent conservatives and statesmen_, _second series_ (1846), _portrait_.

DEVONSHIRE, WILLIAM GEORGE SPENCER CAVENDISH, 6 Duke of (_only son of 5 Duke of Devonshire 1748–1811_). _b._ Paris 21 May 1790; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1810, LLD. 1811; succeeded 29 July 1811; lord lieut. of Derbyshire 19 Aug. 1811 to death; bought library of Thomas Dampier, bishop of Ely for £10,000, 1812, and John Kemble’s collection of plays for £2000, 1821; ambassador extraordinary to Russia for coronation of Emperor Nicholas 25 April 1826; received Russian orders of St. Andrew and St. Alexander Newski and St. Anne 18 Aug. 1828 for magnificence of his embassy which cost him £50,000 beyond allowance for it made by Government; P.C. 30 April 1827; K.G. 10 May 1827; lord chamberlain of the household 5 May 1827 to 18 Feb. 1828 and 22 Nov. 1830 to 15 Dec. 1834; entertained Emperor of Russia, King of Saxony and Prince Albert at Chiswick 8 June 1844. _d._ Hardwick hall, Derbyshire 18 Jany. 1858. _G.M. iv_, 209–10 (1858); _I.L.N. 15 June 1844 pp._ 384–5, _23 Jany. 1858 p._ 75; _Waagen’s Treasures of art in Great Britain ii_, 88–96 (1854), _iii_, 344–70 (1854); _Catalogue of the library at Chatsworth 4 vols._ 1879.

DE WALDEN, THOMAS BLAIDES. _b._ London 1811; made his début on the stage at Haymarket theatre 1841; first appeared in America at Park theatre, New York 1844 as Belmour in _Is he jealous?_; engaged in mercantile pursuits 1857; a chaplain in volunteer army of United States during the civil war; author of _The upper ten and the lower twenty_ played at Burton’s theatre, New York; _The Seven Sisters_; _The Jesuit_ played at Bowery theatre, New York 1854; _The Hypochondriac_; wrote more than 100 plays. _d._ New York 26 Sep. 1873.

DEWAR, FREDERICK CHARLES (_son of James Dewar 1793–1846, musical director of theatre royal, Edinburgh_). Made his first appearance in London at St. James’s theatre 29 Oct. 1860 as Tunstall in _Up at the hills_; made his first success at same house as Dr. Bland in _Friends or Foes_ the English version of Sardou’s _Nos Intimes_ 8 March 1862; played Tom Stylus in Robertson’s comedy _Society_, at Prince of Wales’s theatre 11 Nov. 1865 to Sep. 1866; played Captain Crosstree in Burnand’s burlesque _The latest edition of Black-eyed Susan, or the little Bill that was taken up_, at New Royalty theatre 400 times from 29 Nov. 1866 to 20 March 1868; played Bishopriggs in Wilkie Collins’s drama _Man and Wife_, at Prince of Wales’s 22 Feb. 1873; played Angus McAlister in Gilbert’s comedy _Engaged_, at Haymarket 3 Oct. 1877 to 4 Jany. 1878. _d._ Chelsea workhouse, London 8 Jany. 1878 aged 46. _bur._ Brompton cemetery. _The Universal Review 15 Oct. 1888 pp._ 162, 169, 177, _portrait_; _The Entr’ Acte 19 Jany. 1878 pp._ 6, 9, _portrait_; _The Era 13 Jany. 1878 pp._ 6, 12.

DE WILDE, GEORGE JAMES (_son of Samuel De Wilde, portrait painter 1748–1832_). _b._ London 1804 or 1805; contributed many articles to various periodicals; edited the _Northampton Mercury_ 1830 to death; author of _Rambles round about, and Poems, edited by E. Dicey_ 1872; his portrait by J. E. Williams was presented by his friends to the Northampton Museum 1871. _d._ The Parade, Northampton 16 Sep. 1871 in 67 year. _bur._ Highgate cemetery 22 Sep. _Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxviii_, 311 (1872); _The Northampton Mercury 23 Sep. 1871 pp._ 3, 5, 8.

DIAMOND, HUGH WELCH (_eld. son of Wm. Batchelor Diamond, surgeon H.E.I.Co.’s service_). _b._ 1809; ed. at Norwich gr. sch.; studied at St. Bartholomew’s and Bethlehem hospitals; L.S.A. 1829; M.R.C.S. 1834; practised in Soho, London; resident superintendent of female patients at Surrey county lunatic asylum 1848–58; kept a private asylum for female patients at Twickenham 1858 to death; invented the paper or cardboard photographic _portrait_; sec. of London Photographic Soc. 1883, edited its Journal vols. 5–8 (1859–64); contributed papers to first series of _Notes and Queries_ on photography; F.S.A. 15 May 1834. _d._ Twickenham house, Twickenham 21 June 1886.

DIAVOLO, JOEL IL, otherwise known as Joel Benedict. Wire walker, pantomimist and ballet master; one of the original troupe of Bedouin Arabs at Surrey theatre 1839; created a great sensation under name of Joel il Diavolo at Vauxhall Gardens 1845 by descending a single wire stretched across the gardens from a platform 120 feet high to the ground at opposite end of the gardens; adopted stage name of Joel Benedict about 1850; acting manager to Charles Dillon several years from 1852 sustaining part of clown in his pantomimes; travelled with Charles Harrison’s company in the provinces 1862. _d._ 3 Feb. 1887. _I.L.N. vi_, 396 (1845), _with view_.

NOTE.—There were about half a dozen performers who successively bore the name of Joel il Diavolo at Vauxhall Gardens; the last one in 1849 was John Delany who had been a miner in the Dudley coal mines.

DIBB, JOHN EDWARD. _b._ Beeston near Leeds 24 May 1812; deputy registrar of deeds and wills in West Riding of Yorkshire 1840 to death; barrister G.I. 1869; author of _A practical guide to registration of deeds and wills in the West Riding of Yorkshire_ 1846; _Registries of deeds, suggestions for the improvement of the Yorkshire offices_ 1851. _d._ Wakefield 17 Sep. 1872.

DIBDIN, HENRY EDWARD (_youngest son of Charles Isaac Mungo Pitt known as Charles Dibdin, dramatist 1768–1833_). _b._ Sadler’s Wells, London 8 Sep. 1813; pupil of Bochsa the harpist; made his first appearance 3 Aug. 1832 at Covent Garden theatre when he played the harp at Paganini’s last concert; organist of Trinity chapel, Edinburgh 1833 to death; published _The Standard Psalm tune book_ 1851, and about 40 songs, piano and harp pieces and hymn tunes. _d._ Edinburgh 6 May 1866.

DICEY, THOMAS EDWARD (_only son of Thomas Dicey of Claybrook hall, Leicestershire 1742–1807_). _b._ Claybrook hall, Leics. 11 Oct. 1789; matric. at Oriel coll. Ox. 17 Oct. 1806; migrated to Trin. coll. Cam.; senior wrangler and first Smith’s prizeman 1811; B.A. 1811, M.A. 1814; chairman of Midland counties railway; a director of North Staffordshire railway from its foundation 1846 to his death; proprietor of _Northampton Mercury_. _d._ Princes terrace, Hyde park, London 20 Feb. 1858.

DICK, ALEXANDER. Entered Bengal army 1803; col. 71 Bengal N.I. 8 Feb. 1843 to 1869; general 3 May 1866. _d._ Deyrah, North West provinces of India 25 Nov. 1875 aged 86.

DICK, HOPE. Ensign 23 Bengal N.I. 28 Sep. 1808; major 56 Bengal N.I. 1839–45; colonel Bengal infantry 16 Jany. 1855; general 28 April 1875. _d._ Cheltenham 24 May 1885 aged 93.

DICK, JOHN (_son of James Dick of Rochester_). _b._ Rochester; entered navy Sep. 1785; captain 28 April 1802; admiral 19 Jany. 1852; a knight of the Crescent (Turkish order) 8 Oct. 1801. _d._ Southampton 10 Sep. 1854.

DICK, ROBERT (_elder son of Thomas Dick, Excise officer, who d. May 1846_). _b._ Tullibody, Clackmannanshire, Jany. 1810 or 1811; apprenticed to Aikman of Tullibody, baker 1824–28; journeyman baker at Leith, Glasgow and Greenock 1828–30; baker at Thurso 1830 to death; accumulated an almost perfect collection of the British flora and of fossil fishes; assisted Hugh Miller in his _Old red sandstone_ 1841 and _Footprints of the Creator_ 1849; helped Sir Roderick Murchison and other scientific men in their researches. _d._ Thurso 24 Dec. 1866. _Robert Dick, baker of Thurso, geologist and botanist by Samuel Smiles_ 1878, _portrait_; _H. A. Page’s Leaders of men_ (1830) 94–139; _J. Copner’s Sketches of celibate worthies_, _2 ed._ (1886), 351–72.

DICK, REV. THOMAS (_son of Mungo Dick of Dundee, linen manufacturer_). _b._ the Hilltown, Dundee 24 Nov. 1774; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; licensed to preach in the Secession church 1801; teacher of Secession school at Methven 1807–17, taught at Perth 1817–27; lived at Broughty Ferry, Dundee 1827 to death; LLD. Union college, Schenectady, State of New York 1832; F.R.A.S. 14 Jany. 1853; granted civil list pension of £50, 21 July 1855; author of _The Christian philosopher or the connexion of science and philosophy with religion_ 1823, _8 ed._ 1842; _Philosophy of a future state_ 1828; _The mental illumination and moral improvement of mankind_ 1836; _Celestial scenery or the wonders of the heavens displayed_ 1837. _d._ Broughty Ferry 29 July 1857, monument in churchyard of Chapel of Ease, Broughty Ferry, erected Jany. 1860. _W. Norrie’s Dundee celebrities_ (1873) 167–72; _The sidereal heavens by Rev. Thomas Dick, New York_ (1844), _portrait_.

DICK, WILLIAM (_2 child of John Dick of Edinburgh, blacksmith, who d. 1844_). _b._ White Horse Close, Canongate, Edin. May 1793; ed. at Univ. of Edinburgh and Veterinary coll. London, obtained his diploma 27 Jany. 1818; practised as Vet. surgeon in Edin. 1818 to death; founded Edinburgh Veterinary College 1818; professor of veterinary surgery to Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland; vet. surgeon to the Queen for Scotland; Head inspector of cattle for co. of Edin. 1865; published _Manual of veterinary science_ 1862. _d._ Veterinary College, Clyde st. Edinburgh 4 April 1866. _Occasional papers on veterinary subjects by W. Dick with a memoir by R. O. Pringle_ (1869).

DICKENS, CHARLES JOHN HUFFAM (_2 child of the succeeding_). _b._ 387 Mile End terrace, Commercial road, Landport, Portsea 7 Feb. 1812; a reporter in Doctors Commons 1829–31, in the House of Commons 1831–36; lived at No. 13 Furnival’s Inn 1835, at No. 15, 1836 to 1837, at 48 Doughty st. 1837–39, at 1 Devonshire terrace, Regent’s park 1839–51, at 1 Tavistock villas, Tavistock sq. 1851–60 and at Gad’s hill place near Rochester 1860 to death; edited _Bentley’s Miscellany_, Jany. 1837 to Jany. 1839; student at Middle Temple 1839; received freedom of Edinburgh 1841; visited U.S. of America 1842 and 1867–8; edited _Daily News_ 21 Jany. to 9 Feb. 1846; started _Household Words_ 30 March 1850, edited it to 28 May 1859 when he merged it into _All the year round_ which he edited 30 April 1859 to his death; gave 4 series of public readings of his own works 1858–9, 1861–3, 1866–7 and 1868–70 gave his last reading 5 March 1870 in St. James’s Hall, London; author of _Sketches by Boz 2 vols._ 1835, _2nd series 1 vol._ 1836; _The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club_ 1837, and 32 other works. (_m._ at St. Luke’s, Chelsea 2 April 1836 Catherine Thomson eld. dau. of George Hogarth, musical and dramatic critic of the _Morning Chronicle_, from whom he separated April or May 1858, she _d._ 70 Gloucester crescent, Regent’s park, London 22 Nov. 1879 aged 64). _d._ Gad’s Hill Place 9 June 1870. _bur._ in Westminster abbey 14 June. _J. Forster’s Life of C. Dickens 3 vols._ 1872–74, _portrait_; _Letters of C. Dickens 3 vols._ 1880–82; _Charles Dickens as I knew him by G. Dolby_ 1885; _J. T. Fields’s In and out of doors with Charles Dickens_ 1876; _Charles Dickens by G. A. Sala_ 1870; _P. Fitzgerald’s Recreations of a literary man, i_, 48–171 (1882); _C. Dickens as a reader by C. Kent_ 1872; _E. Yates’s Recollections ii_, 91–128 (1884); _J. H. Friswell’s Modern men of letters_ (1870) 1–48; _J. C. Jeaffreson’s Novels and novelists ii_, 303–34 (1858), _portrait_; _R. H. Horne’s A new spirit of the age i_, 1–76 (1844), _portrait_; _Bookseller, July 1870 pp._ 573–78, _and Christmas number 1879 pp._ 15–21; _Illust. News of the world vol. ii_ (1858), _portrait_; _Graphic xx_, 556 (1879), _portrait of Mrs. Dickens_.

NOTE.—He is drawn by Anthony Trollope in his novel _The Warden_ under the name of Mr. Popular Sentiment. The portrait of him painted by Ary Scheffer 1855 exhibited at the R.A. 1856 was purchased by trustees of National portrait gallery, July 1870.

DICKENS, JOHN. Clerk in the navy pay office at Portsmouth and Chatham dockyards to 1822, at Somerset House 1822 to 9 March 1825 when he left the service; compounded with his creditors 1823; confined in King’s Bench or Marshalsea prison 1824; became insolvent, applied to be discharged 15 Dec. 1831; reporter to the _Morning Chronicle_ to 1839; lived at Exeter; is drawn by Charles Dickens in _David Copperfield_ as Micawber. _d._ Malvern 31 March 1851 aged 66. _bur._ in Highgate cemetery 5 April, where also lie the remains of his wife Elizabeth Dickens who _d._ 12 Sep. 1863 aged 73.

DICKENSON, HENRY. Writer Madras civil service 1806; member of council and chief judge of the Sudder Dewannee and Sudder Foujdarry Adawlut 1846 to 16 Feb. 1850 when he resigned the service. _d._ Schweizenhof, Lucerne, Switzerland 29 Nov. 1859.

DICKEY, EDWARD JOHN. Entered Bengal army 1822; superintendent of Stud department 9 May 1853; lieut.-col. 57 N.I. 15 April 1854; M.G. 31 Dec. 1861. _d._ Parklands, Guildford 19 Sep. 1883 aged 79.

DICKIE, GEORGE. _b._ Aberdeen 23 Nov. 1813; ed. at Marischal coll. Aberdeen and Univs. of Aberdeen and Edinburgh; A.M. Aberdeen 1830, M.D. 1842; M.R.C.S. Lond. 1834; lecturer on botany at King’s college, Aberdeen 1839–49; professor of natural history at Belfast 1849–60 and of botany in Univ. of Aberdeen 1860–77; F.L.S. 1863; F.R.S. 1881; author of _Flora Abredonensis_ 1838; _The Botanists guide to Aberdeen, Banff and Kincardine_ 1860; _A Flora of Ulster_ 1864; author with James Mc Cosh of _Typical forms and special ends in creation_ 1856. _d._ 16 Albyn terrace, Aberdeen 16 July 1882. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxiv, pp. xii-xiii_ (1883).

DICKINSON, SIR DRURY JONES (_2 son of Edgar Dickinson of Dublin_). _b._ Dawson st. Dublin 1804; a wine merchant in Dublin; high sheriff of city of Dublin 1833–34; knighted by Marquess Wellesley the lord lieut. of Ireland 1833. _d._ 10 Mountjoy place, Dublin 8 May 1869.

DICKINSON, JOHN (_eld. son of Thomas Dickinson, superintendent of shipping to Board of Ordnance 44 years, who d. 24 May 1828 aged 74_). _b._ 29 March 1782; paper manufacturer at Apsley hill, Hemel Hempstead to 1857; F.R.S. 6 March 1845; master of the Stationers’ Company 1857 and 1858. _d._ 39 Upper Brook st. London 11 Jany. 1869.

DICKINSON, JOHN (_son of the preceding_). _b._ 28 Dec. 1815; chief founder of the India Reform Society 12 March 1853, hon. sec. 1853–61, chairman 1861; author of _Letters on the cotton and roads of Western India_ 1851; _India, its government under a Bureaucracy_ 1853; _Dhar not restored_ 1864 and other books chiefly pamphlets on subject of India; found dead in his study at 1 Upper Grosvenor st. London 23 Nov. 1876. _J. Dickinson’s Last counsels of an unknown counsellor, edited by Evans Bell_ (1883), _portrait_.

DICKINSON, SIR JOHN NODES (_son of Nodes Dickinson, F.R.C.S., staff surgeon to H.M.’s forces_). _b._ Island of Grenada 1806; ed. at Caius coll. Cam., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; barrister I.T. 20 Nov. 1840; judge in supreme court of New South Wales 23 April 1844, chief justice there 1860 to 18 Feb. 1861 when he retired on pension of £1050 per annum; knighted by patent 19 June 1860; author of _A letter to the lord chancellor on law consolidation_ 1861. _d._ Rome 16 March 1882 in 76 year. _Heads of the people ii_, 41 (1848), _portrait_.

DICKINSON, JOSEPH. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin; M.B. 1837, M.A. and M.D. 1843; physician to Royal infirmary, Liverpool about 1839 and subsequently to the Fever hospital, workhouse and South Dispensary, Liverpool; lectured on medicine and botany at Liverpool school of medicine; pres. of Liverpool Lit. and Phil. Soc.; L.R.C.P. 1844, F.R.C.P. 1859; F.L.S.; M.R.I.A.; F.R.S. 1 June 1854; author of _The Flora of Liverpool 1851 and Supplement_ 1855. _d._ 92 Bedford st. south, Liverpool 21 July 1865.

DICKINSON, SEBASTIAN STEWART. _b._ Bombay 25 March 1815; ed. at Eton; barrister I.T. 7 June 1839; M.P. for Stroud 19 Nov. 1868 to 26 Jany. 1874, re-elected 5 Feb. 1874 but election declared void April 1874. _d._ Brown’s hill, Stroud 23 Aug. 1878.

DICKINSON, THOMAS. _b._ Hampshire; entered navy Feb. 1796; captain 29 Nov. 1832; received gold Vulcan medal of Society of Arts 1825 for his mode of applying percussion powder to the discharge of ships guns; author of _A narrative of the operation for the recovery of the public stores and treasure sunk in H.M.S. Thetis_ 1836. _d._ Greenwich hospital 30 July 1854 aged 68.

DICKINSON, THOMAS. Entered Bengal army 1805; col. 10 Bengal N.I. 10 May 1853 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. _d._ Teignmouth 24 Oct. 1859.

DICKSON, ALEXANDER. _b._ Edinburgh 21 Feb. 1836; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1860; professor of botany in Univ. of Dublin 1866, in Univ. of Glasgow 1868–79; professor of botany in Univ. of Edin. and regius keeper of Royal botanic garden 1 April 1879 to death; pres. of Botanical Soc. of Edin. twice; F.R.S. Edin.; author of numerous papers on botany. _d._ suddenly of heart disease at Thriepland pond near Hartree, Peebleshire 30 Dec. 1887.

DICKSON, ELIZABETH (_dau. of Archibald Dalzel, governor of Cape Coast Castle_). _b._ probably at Cape Coast Castle 1793; wrote to the English press about 1809 to entreat that immediate steps might be taken to relieve the British captives in Barbary, the matter roused public feeling and resulted in the despatch of an expedition under Lord Exmouth 1816; received a gold medal from the Anti-Piratical Society of Knights and Noble Ladies; resided in Africa, chiefly at Tripoli. (_m._ John Dickson, surgeon to Lord Nelson at battle of Copenhagen). _d._ Tripoli 30 April 1862 aged about 70.

DICKSON, ELLEN (_3 dau. of general Sir Alexander Dickson_). _b._ Woolwich 1819; an invalid from her youth; resided chiefly at Lyndhurst, New Forest; composed under pseudonym of Dolores upwards of 50 drawing-room songs which were very popular and some of which are still sung, the best known of them are _As I lay a thynkinge_ 1857; _The Brook_ 1857; _The Fairies_; _Clear and cool_; _The land of long ago_; _O my lost love_; _The racing river_; _Tell her not when I am gone_. _d._ Lyndhurst 4 July 1878.

DICKSON, JAMES A. _b._ London 1774; made his first appearance on the stage in Boston, United States 1794 as Saville in _The Belle’s Stratagem_; became eminent as an actor of comic old men; manager of Boston theatre for some years from 1806; retired from the stage 14 April 1817. _d._ Boston 1 April 1853.

DICKSON, JOHN BOURMASTER. _b._ 29 April 1815; entered navy 1834; captain 17 May 1854; retired R.A. 1 April 1870; C.B. 20 May 1871. _d._ Thornborough, Ryde 11 Feb. 1876.

DICKSON, JOHN ROBINSON. _b._ Dungannon, co. Tyrone 15 Nov. 1819; went to Canada 1838; graduated at Univ. of New York 1842; visiting physician to general hospital at Kingston, Canada 1846–54, visiting surgeon 1854–56, clinical lecturer 1856–60; dean of the medical faculty and professor of surgery in Univ. of Queen’s college, Kingston 1854, the name was altered in 1866 to Royal College of physicians and surgeons, of which he was pres. 1866 to death. _d._ Wolfe island, St. Lawrence river, Canada 23 Nov. 1882.

DICKSON, SIR JOSEPH RITCHIE LYON (_2 son of Elizabeth Dickson 1793–1862_). _b._ 1820; physician to British legation at Teheran, Persia 11 Sep. 1847 to death; attended the Shah for typhus fever 1849 for which he received the Commander’s Star of the Lion and Sun; accompanied the Shah to England 1873; knighted at Windsor Castle 30 June 1873. _d._ St. Juliens, Malta on his way home from Persia 7 Aug. 1887.

DICKSON, ROBERT. _b._ Dumfries 1804; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edin., M.D. 1826; a physician in London to 1866; L.R.C.P. 1831, F.R.C.P. 1855; lectured on botany at medical school in Webb st. London and afterwards at St. George’s hospital; author of _A lecture on the dry rot_ 1837; wrote all the articles on Materia Medica in the _Penny Cyclopædia_ 1833–58 and several articles on popular science in _Church of England Mag._ _d._ Cambridge lodge, Harmondsworth near Slough 13 Oct. 1875. _Medical times and gazette ii_, 509–10, 669 (1875); _Proc. of Royal Med. and Chir. Soc. viii_, 73 (1875).

DICKSON, SAMUEL. Educ. at Univ. of Edin. and in Paris; M.R.C.S. Edin. 1825; M.D. Glasgow 1833; assistant surgeon in army in India 1828–33; practised at Cheltenham 1833, then in London to his death; started _The Chrono-thermalist, or People’s Medical Inquirer_ 1850 all of which he wrote himself, it ceased 1852; the Penn Medical College of Philadelphia was founded to teach his doctrines; he is drawn from life by Charles Reade in his novel _Hard Cash_ 1863 as Dr. Sampson; author of _The fallacy of the art of physic as taught in the schools_ 1836; _Fallacies of the faculty being the spirit of the Chrono-thermal system_ 1839; _What killed Mr. Drummond, the lead or the lancet?_ 1843, and 6 other books. _d._ 12 Bolton st. Piccadilly, London 12 Oct. 1869 aged 67. _S. Dickson’s Memorable events in the life of a London physician_ (1863).

DICKSON, THOMAS, _b._ Lauder, Berwickshire 26 March 1822; went to Canada 1835; established the Dickson Manufacturing Co. for building steam engines 1856 which became one of most important locomotive works in United States; general superintendent of Delaware and Hudson Canal Co. 1864, pres. 1869 to death; organised a company for purchase of a large tract of iron land on shores of Lake Champlain 1873; a director in 20 other companies, _d._ Morristown, New Jersey 31 July 1884.

DICKSON, WILLIAM GILLESPIE (_2 son of Henry Gordon Dickson of Edinburgh, writer to the signet_). _b._ Edinburgh 9 April 1823; ed. at academy and univ. of Edin.; member of Faculty of Advocates 9 March 1847; procureur and advocate general of Mauritius, July 1856 to March 1868; senior sheriff substitute at Glasgow, March 1868; sheriff of Lanarkshire 21 Jany. 1874 to death; LLD. Edin. 22 April 1874; published _A treatise on the law of evidence in Scotland 2 vols._ 1855, _2 ed._ 1864. _d._ Glasgow 19 Oct. 1876.

DIGBY, GEORGE STEPHEN, _b._ 7 July 1821; second lieut. R.M.A. 16 Aug. 1842, col. 23 March 1865, col. commandant 3 May 1876 to death; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857. _d._ London 19 March 1877.

DIGBY, JANE ELIZABETH (_only dau. of Admiral Sir Henry Digby, G.C.B. 1770–1842_). _b._ 3 April 1807. _m._ (1) 15 Sep. 1824 Edward Law 1 Earl of Ellenborough, they separated 22 May 1829, he obtained a divorce in Consistory Court of Bishop of London 20 Feb. 1830 for her adultery with Felix, Prince Swartzenburgh, marriage was dissolved by private act of parliament 11 Geo. iv, cap. 51, 8 April 1830; _m._ (2) 10 Nov. 1832 Charles Theodore Herbert, Baron Venningen of Bavaria; _m._ (3) Hadji-Petros a general in the Greek army; _m._ (4) a Bedouin Arab called Midjouel. She is sketched by About under the name of Ianthe, in his _Grèce Contemporaine_ (1854) _pp._ 99–111. _d._ Damascus 11 Aug. 1881.

DIGBY, JOSEPH. _b._ 15 July 1786; entered navy 12 June 1800; captain 8 Sep. 1815; retired V.A. 9 July 1857. _d._ 5 March 1860.

DIGBY, KENELM HENRY (_younger son of Very Rev. Wm. Digby 1730–1812, dean of Clonfert_). _b._ 1800; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1823; joined Church of Rome 1823; author of _The broad stone of honour, or rules for the gentlemen of England_ 1822 anon., which he rewrote and published in _4 vols._ 1826–27 omitting the second title, an edition de luxe _5 vols._ 1876–7; _Mores Catholici or ages of faith 11 vols._ 1831–40, and 16 other books. _d._ 7 The Terrace Kensington 22 March 1880. _Gillow’s English Catholics_, _ii_, 81–3 (1885).

DIGGLE, CHARLES. Ensign 52 foot 31 Aug. 1804; captain of companies of gentlemen cadets at Royal military college 10 Aug. 1820 to 23 June 1843 when placed on h.p. with rank of major; M.G. 31 Aug. 1855; K.H. 1831. _d._ Cheltenham 18 Sep. 1862 aged 74.

DILKE, ASHTON WENTWORTH (_younger son of Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke 1810–69_). _b._ London 11 Aug. 1850; ed. at Trin. hall, Cam., scholar; bought _Weekly Dispatch_ for £14,000 Jany. 1875, edited it to his death; M.P. for Newcastle, April 1880 to Feb. 1883; author of _I. S. Turgenev’s Virgin Soil translated by A. W. Dilke_ 1878. _d._ Algiers 12 March 1883. _Graphic xxvii_, 469 (1883), _portrait_.

DILKE, CHARLES WENTWORTH (_eld. son of Charles Wentworth Dilke 1742–1826, clerk in the Civil Service_). _b._ 8 Dec. 1789; in the Navy Pay Office to 1836 when office was abolished and he retired on a pension; edited the _London Mag._; edited the _Athenæum_ 5 June 1830 to 23 May 1846; managed the _Daily News_, April 1846 to April 1849. _d._ Alice Holt near Farnham, Hants. 10 Aug. 1864. _bur._ Kensal Green cemetery 16 Aug. _The Papers of a Critic edited by Sir C. W. Dilke_ (1875) _i_, 1–91.

DILKE, SIR CHARLES WENTWORTH (_only son of the preceding_). _b._ London 18 Feb. 1810; ed. at Westminster and Trin. hall, Cam., LLB. 1834, LLM. 1860; founded with John Lindley the _Gardener’s Chronicle_ 1841; chairman of council of Society of Arts several years; commissioner of Exhibitions of 1851 and 1862; unpaid comr. to New York exhibition 1853 and Paris Exposition 1855; created a baronet for services as comr. 22 Jany. 1862; M.P. for Wallingford 13 July 1865 to 11 Nov. 1868; F.S.A.; F.R.G.S. _d._ Hotel de France, St. Petersburgh 10 May 1869. _The Queen, vol._ 1 (1862), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xix_, 487, 509 (1851), _xl_, 215, 225 (1862), _portrait_.

DILLON, CHARLES. _b._ Diss, Norfolk 24 May 1819; wrote magazine articles and melodramas 1836–38; acted Hamlet at City of London theatre 1840; stage manager, leading actor and dramatic author at Marylebone theatre 1842; starred in every city and important town in Great Britain and Ireland 1845–56; played at Sadlers Wells, April to Sep. 1856; lessee and manager of Lyceum, Sep. 1856 to 2 April 1857 and 20 Jany. to 22 March 1858; played at Drury Lane 1860, in the United States 1861–63 and 1866–68, in Australia 1863–66, at Sadler’s Wells 1868 and Drury Lane 1869; last appeared in London at Drury Lane, when he played Belphegor for his benefit 7 Dec. 1878; last appeared on the stage at Hawick town hall as Othello 23 June 1881; dropped dead in High st. Hawick 24 June 1881. _bur._ Brompton cemetery, London 29 June. _Time, Feb. 1883 pp._ 213–17; _C. E. Pascoe’s Dramatic List_ (1880) 119–26; _The Players i_, 161 (1860), _portrait_; _Touchstone 28 Sep. 1878_, _portrait_; _The Era 25 June 1881 p. 5 col. 4_, _2 July p. 9 col. 4_, _and 9 July p. 14 col. 1_.

DILLON, JOHN BLAKE (_3 son of Luke Dillon_). _b._ Ballyhadenan, co. Mayo 1814; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; called to Irish bar 1841; agitated for the repeal of the Union; one of founders and proprietors of the _Nation_ newspaper 1842; attached himself to political fortunes of Smith O’Brien 1848; escaped to France 1848; went to the United States where he practised in the New York courts 1848; returned to Ireland 1855; a leader of the National party; M.P. for co. Tipperary 24 July 1865 to death; alderman of city of Dublin; one of founders of National Association 1865 and secretary; author of _The history of Indiana 1 vol._ 1843, no more published. _d._ Druid lodge, Killiney 15 Sep. 1866. _O. J. Burke’s Anecdotes of Connaught circuit_ (1885) 323–5; _Sullivan’s New Ireland_ (1877) _i_, 148–53; _Nation 6 Oct. 1866_, _portrait_.

DILLON, MR. _b._ about 1830; clerk in general post office, London; went to France about 1850; on the staff of Paris paper _Le Sport_; killed by Duc de Gramont-Caderousse in a duel with swords in Forest of St. Germain near Paris 21 Oct. 1862; his widow obtained an order in the Court of Versailles, Nov. 1862 obliging the Duke to pay her an annuity of 3600 francs. _Larouse’s Grand Dictionaire_ (1870) _vi_, 855–56.

DILLON, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (_son of Sir John Talbot Dillon, a baron of the Holy Roman empire_). _b._ Birmingham 8 Aug. 1779; entered navy May 1790; a prisoner in France 1803–6; captain 21 March 1808; naval equerry to Duke of Sussex; K.C.H. 13 Jany. 1835; knighted at St. James’s palace 24 June 1835; V.A. 5 March 1853. _d._ Monaco 9 Sep. 1857. _Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xiv_, 191 (1858).

DILLWYN, LEWIS WESTON (_son of Wm. Dillwyn of Higham Lodge, Walthamstow, minister of Society of Friends, who d. Sep. 1824 aged 81_). _b._ Ipswich 21 Aug. 1778; head of the Cambrian pottery, Swansea 1802; published _Natural history of British Confervæ_ in parts 1802–1809, and other works on natural history; wrote with Dawson Turner _The Botanists Guide 2 vols._ 1805; pres. of Royal Institution of South Wales from its foundation 1835 to his death; sheriff of Glamorganshire 1818; alderman of Swansea 1835–40, mayor 1839; M.P. for Glamorganshire 17 Dec. 1832 to July 1837; F.L.S. 1800, F.R.S. 1804. _d._ Sketty hall near Swansea 31 Aug. 1855. _Proc. of Linnæan society_ (1856) 36–39.

DIMOCK, REV. JAMES FRANCIS. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., Bell’s scholar 1830; 29 wrangler 1833; B.A. 1833, M.A. 1837; minor canon of Southwell 1846–63; R. of Barnborough, Yorkshire 1863 to death; preb. of Lincoln 1869 to death; author of _Explanation of the Thirty-nine articles 2 vols._ 1845; _Southwell church, views with architectural description_ 1854; edited _A metrical life of St. Hugh of Lincoln_ 1860; _Magna vita S. Hugonis_ 1864; _Giraldi Cambrensis Opera_, _vols. 5 and 6_, 1867–69. _d._ Barnborough 21 April 1876 aged 65.

DINNEFORD, WILLIAM. _b._ London; first appeared in America at Chestnut st. theatre, Philadelphia 1823, leading actor there; made his début in New York at Lafayette theatre 1826; became manager of the Bowery theatre and of the Franklin theatre, New York; travelled with strolling companies all over the United States from Maine to California; an actor, author, manager, auctioneer, broker and merchant; opened a lodging and eating house at 157 Broadway, New York called the Byron 1845. _d._ Panama 8 Dec. 1852. _Ireland’s Records of the New York stage i_, 405 (1866).

DINORBEN, WILLIAM LEWIS HUGHES, 1 Baron (_eld. son of Rev. Edward Hughes of Kinmel park near St. Asaph, who d. 1815_). _b._ 10 Nov. 1767; M.P. for Wallingford 5 July 1802 to 10 Sep. 1831 when created Baron Dinorben of Kinmel park, co. Denbigh; militia aide-de-camp to the Queen 7 Feb. 1840 to death. _d._ Kinmel park 10 Feb. 1852.

DINSDALE, FREDERICK. Educ. at Chr. coll. Cam., LLB. 1829, LLD. 1835; barrister M.T. 23 May 1834; judge of Court of Requests at Oldham 1843 to March 1847; judge of county courts, circuit No. 22 (Warwickshire), March 1847 to death; changed his name from Trotter to Dinsdale 1847; author of _A glossary of provincial words used in Teesdale_ 1849, anon. _d._ Tachbrooke house, Leamington 8 July 1872.

DIPROSE, JOHN (_eld. son of John Diprose of London, bookbinder_). _b._ Bell Alley, Temple Bar, London 1814; bookseller at Newington Butts 1837, at 312 Strand 1841, at 16 Portugal st. Lincoln’s Inn Fields, at 9 Sheffield st. 1876 to death; began his career as a publisher by issuing _The royal song book_ 1840; wrote or edited upwards of 30 minor works which he styled books for the non-reading public; author of _Some account of the parish of St. Clement Danes past and present 2 vols._ 1868–76, vol. 2 has the date 1876 on the title page but was not published till 1880. _d._ 131 Kennington park road, London 20 June 1879. _Diprose’s St. Clements ii, v-xxiii_ (1876).

DIRCKS, HENRY. _b._ Liverpool 26 Aug. 1806; a practical engineer conducting railway canal and mining works to 1842, a consulting engineer 1842–58; patented several inventions 1840–57; invented optical delusion exhibited at Polytechnic, London under name of Pepper’s Ghost, July 1863; author of _Jordantype, otherwise called Electrotype_ 1852; _Perpetuum mobile or search for self-motive power_ 1861, _second series_ 1870; _Joseph Anstey or the patron and protégé_ 1863, a novel published under pseud. of D. S. Henry; _The life of the Second Marquis of Worcester_ 1865 and other books. _d._ Brighton 17 Sep. 1873. _H. Dircks’s Inventors and Inventions_ 1867, _portrait_; _H. Dircks’s Nature-Study_ 1869, _portrait_; _H. Dircks’s Naturalistic poetry_ 1872, _portrait_; _Notes and Queries 6 S. xii_, 309, 477 (1885).

DISBROWE, SIR EDWARD CROMWELL (_son of Col. Edward Disbrowe of Walton, Derbyshire, who d. 30 Nov. 1818_). Educ. at Eton; matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 21 Oct. 1808 aged 18; M.P. for Windsor 11 Feb. 1823 to 2 June 1826; entered diplomatic service 1826; envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at the Hague 28 Oct. 1835 to death; G.C.H. 1831. _d._ The Hague 29 Oct. 1851. _The Eton portrait gallery_ (1876) 406–8.

DISNEY, JOHN (_eld. son of Rev. John Disney, Unitarian clergyman 1746–1816_). _b._ Flintham hall, Notts. 29 May 1779; inherited from his father the collection of antiquities formed by Hollis and Brand in Italy 1748–53 to which he made additions; barrister I.T. 13 May 1803; recorder of Bridport 14 Sep. 1807 to Oct. 1823; contested Harwich, Dec. 1832 and North Essex, May 1835; F.R.S. 7 June 1832; F.S.A.; presented to Univ. of Cam. a collection of 83 ancient marbles 16 April 1850; founded Disney professorship of archæology in Univ. of Cam. 1851, endowed it with sum of £1000 which he increased to £3250 by a bequest in his will 1857; published _A collection of acts of parliament relative to elections_ 1811; _Outlines of a penal code_ 1826; _Museum Disneianum 3 parts_ 1846–9. _d._ The Hyde, Ingatestone, Essex 6 May 1857.

DISSTON, HENRY. _b._ Tewkesbury 21 May 1819; went to United States 1833; manufacturer of saws in Philadelphia about 1840 to death, employed 400 workmen; invented more than 20 improvements in saw manufacture, among them the movable or inserted teeth; inventor and manufacturer of the Disston saw. _d._ Philadelphia 16 March 1878.

DISTIN, JOHN. _b._ 1793; trumpet player in Her Majesty’s theatre, London; bandmaster to Marquis of Breadalbane; formed a Quintet band of wind instruments, composed of himself and his sons 1833, travelled with it in England 1833–36 and abroad 1836–44; made an improvement in the sax horn 1844; first played at Jullien’s concerts, Covent Garden 3 Nov. 1844. _d._ Great Newport st. St. Martin’s lane, London 8 July 1863. _I.L.N. v_, 384 (1844), _portraits of John Distin and his 4 sons_.

DITCHER, REV. JOSEPH. Educ. at Queen’s coll. Cam.; P.C. of Holy Trinity, Bitton, Gloucs. 1821–35; M.A. by Abp. of Canterbury 3 Feb. 1837; judge of consistorial episcopal court of Bath and Wells 1836–41; V. of South Brent, Somerset 1841 to death; prosecuted Archdeacon G. A. Denison for his sermons on the doctrine of the Real Presence 1856; author of _A statement of the proceedings in the case of Ditcher v. Denison_ 1858. _d._ South Brent 28 Nov. 1875. _S. Ditcher’s Memorials of Rev. J. Ditcher_ 1876.

DIVETT, EDWARD. _b._ 1797; ed. at Eton; M.P. for Exeter 12 Dec. 1832 to death. _d._ Bystock near Exmouth 25 July 1864.

DIXON, GEORGE (_3 son of John Dixon of Gledhow hall, Yorkshire 1753–1825_). _b._ 5 Aug. 1801; ensign 3 Foot guards 20 Jany. 1820, major 25 March 1853 to 20 June 1854; col. 104 Foot 2 Feb. 1867 to death; general 1 April 1870. _d._ 97 Mount st. London 15 May 1874.

DIXON, HENRY HALL (_2 son of Peter Dixon of Warwick bridge, Carlisle, cotton manufacturer_). _b._ Carlisle 16 May 1822; ed. at Rugby and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1846; articled to a solicitor at Doncaster; contributed to the _Sporting Review_ about 1850–60; barrister M.T. 7 May 1852; wrote _The herds of Great Britain_ in the _Mark Lane Express_ 1859–60; wrote the article entitled _The Farm_ in the _Illustrated London News_ some years; author of _The law of the farm_ 1858, _4 ed._ 1879; _Field and Fern 2 vols._ 1865; published under pseudonym of The Druid _Post and Paddock_ 1856; _Silk and Scarlet_ 1859; _Scott and Sebright_ 1862; _Saddle and Sirloin_ 1870. _d._ Warwick gardens, Kensington, London 16 March 1870. _Sporting Review lxiii_, 294–97 (1870); _Illust. sporting and dramatic news i_, 65–6 (1874), _portrait_; _Sporting Times 6 Feb. 1886 pp._ 2–3.

DIXON, REV. JAMES. _b._ King’s Mills near Castle Donington, Leics. 29 Oct. 1788; joined Methodist Society 1808, licensed at quarter sessions to preach 14 Jany. 1812; appointed to Cardiff circuit 1816; pres. of the Conference 1841; D.D. of Univ. of Pennsylvania, July 1843; appointed to South London circuit 1844; pres. of Conference of Upper Canada 1848; retired from full ministry 1862; a great preacher and orator; author of _Methodism in its origin, economy and present position_ 1841; _Methodism in America_ 1849 and other books. _d._ Bradford 28 Dec. 1871. _R. W. Dixon’s Life of James Dixon, D.D._ 1874; _Methodist Quarterly ix_, 9, (1849), _portrait_.

DIXON, HIS GRACE THE MOST REV. JOSEPH. _b._ Cole Island near Dungannon, co. Tyrone 2 Feb. 1806; entered Royal college of St. Patrick, Maynooth 1822, dean there 5 years, professor of Sacred Scripture and Hebrew 1828; R.C. archbishop of Armagh and primate of all Ireland 28 Sep. 1852 to death, consecrated 21 Nov.; author of _A general introduction to the Sacred Scriptures in a series of dissertations 2 vols._ 1852; _The blessed Cornelius, or some tidings of an archbishop of Armagh who went to Rome in the twelfth century_ 1855. _d._ Armagh 29 April 1866. _Catholic Directory_, _Dublin_ 1867 _pp._ 421–28.

DIXON, MANLEY HALL. _b._ Stoke Damarel, Devon 8 June 1786; entered navy June 1794; captain 28 June 1811; R.A. 27 Dec. 1847; V.A. 7 Feb. 1855; pensioned 28 Dec. 1855; admiral on half pay 1 Nov. 1860. _d._ Stoke, Devonport 3 March 1864.

DIXON, REV. RICHARD (_son of Joshua Dixon of Whitehaven_). Matric. from Queen’s coll. Ox. 3 May 1796 aged 16; B.A. 1799, M.A. 1803; fellow of his college to 1829, tutor 1822; F.R.S. 21 March 1811; R. of Niton, Isle of Wight 1828 to death. _d._ Niton rectory 13 May 1858.

DIXON, VENERABLE ROBERT VICKERS. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin; B.A. 1833, M.A. 1840, B.D. and D.D. 1862, fellow 1839; R. of Clogherney, co. Tyrone 1853 to death; archdeacon of Armagh 1883 to death. _d._ Clogherney rectory 14 May 1885.

DIXON, REV. WILLIAM HENRY (_son of Rev. Henry Dixon, V. of Wadworth near Doncaster_). _b._ Wadworth 2 Nov. 1783; ed. at Pemb. coll. Cam., B.A. 1805, M.A. 1809; V. of Bishopthorpe near York 1824 to death; chaplain to Abp. of York to death; preb. of York 1825–31, canon residentiary 1831 to death; canon of Ripon 1836; R. of Etton near Beverley, Yorkshire 1837 to death; F.S.A. 31 May 1821; author of _Synodus Eboracensis, or a short account of the convocation of the province of York_ 1848. _d._ Minster yard, York 17 Feb. 1854. _Memoir of Rev. W. H. Dixon by Rev. C. B. Norcliffe, privately printed_ 1860; _Rev. W. H. Dixon’s Fasti Eboracenses_, _edited by Rev. James Raine vol. 1_, 1863, _preface_.

DIXON, WILLIAM HEPWORTH (_son of Abner Dixon of Holmfirth, Yorkshire_). _b._ Newton st. Ancoats, Manchester 30 June 1821; wrote a series of articles on the literature of the lower classes and on London prisons in the _Daily News_ 1846; barrister I.T. 1 May 1854; contributed to the _Athenæum_ 1846, editor Jany. 1853 to Aug. 1869; F.S.A. 15 Jany. 1852; helped to found Palestine exploration fund 1865, chairman of executive committee; knight commander of German order of the Crown 4 Oct. 1872; member for Marylebone of London school board 29 Nov. 1870 to Nov. 1873; author of _William Penn, an historical biography_ 1851; _The Holy Land 2 vols._ 1865; _New America 2 vols._ 1867 of which there were 8 editions in England, 3 in America and several in France, Russia, Holland, Italy and Germany, and about 20 other books. _d._ 6 St. James’s terrace, Regent’s park, London 27 Dec. 1879. _In Memoriam Hepworth Dixon_ 1880; _Illustrated Review vi_, 225–28 (1873), _portrait_; _Cartoon Portraits_ (1873) 227–38, _portrait_; _Graphic xxi_, 69 (1880), _portrait_.

DIXON, WILLIAM JERROLD (_elder son of the preceding_). _b._ 1848; ed. at Westminster and Trin. hall, Cam., B.A. 1871; in saving lives in the skating accident in Regent’s Park 15 Jany. 1867 caught a cold which rendered him an invalid and cripple for life; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1870; hon. sec. of the Savage club, London; sec. to Dublin sanitary commission 1879; author of articles in periodicals; adapted Molière’s _Le Médecin malgré lui_ under title of _The Doctor in spite of himself_, comedy in 3 acts produced at Globe theatre 23 June 1877; wrote _Married another_, a comedietta; wrote in _The Theatre_ and _London Society_, in Belgravia under name of Gerald Dixon. _d._ Dublin 20 Oct. 1879 in 31 year. _Belgravia xl_, 193–97 (1880); _Theatre iii_, 277–79 (1879).

DIXON, WILLIAM MANLEY HALL. _b._ 1817; second lieut. R.A. 18 June 1835, col. 27 Feb. 1866 to 23 Dec. 1871 when he retired on full pay; prepared plans for attack on Bomarsund and other places during Russian war; superintendent of Royal small arms factories at Enfield 1855 to 1871; C.B. 20 May 1871; M.G. 23 Dec. 1871. _d._ Tharp lodge, Hornchurch, Essex 19 March 1888.

DOBBS, CONWAY RICHARD. _b._ 1796; ed. at Eton; entered navy 4 Sep. 1810; fought at battle of Algiers 27 Aug. 1816; lieut. 16 Oct. 1821; placed on reserved list July 1851; retired commander 1 July 1864; M.P. for Carrickfergus 19 Dec. 1832 to March 1833 when unseated on petition; sheriff of Antrim 1841. _d._ 28 Feb. 1886.

DOBBS, WILLIAM CARY (_only son of Rev. Robert Conway Dobbs, who d. 9 Dec. 1809 aged 38_). _b._ 1806; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; called to bar in Ireland 1833; crown prosecutor on North East circuit 1851–59; Q.C. 26 May 1858; a judge of Landed Estates Court, April 1859 to death; M.P. for Carrickfergus 2 April 1857 to 23 April 1859. _d._ Wimpole st, London 17 April 1869.

DOBELL, SYDNEY THOMPSON (_eld. son of John Dobell of Cranbrook, Kent, hide merchant_). _b._ Cranbrook 5 April 1824; a wine merchant at Cheltenham 1848 to death; author of _The Roman, a dramatic poem by Sydney Yendys_ 1850; _Balder, part the first, By the author of the Roman_ 1854; _England in time of war_ 1856; a complete edition of his works was published in 3 vols. 1875–6. _d._ Barton end house, Nailsworth near Stroud 22 Aug. 1874. _The life of Sydney Dobell edited by E. J. [Miss E. Jolly] 2 vols._ 1878; _The golden decade of a favored town, by Contem Ignotus_ (1884) 154–93; _T. H. Ward’s English poets_, _2 ed. iv_, 615–20 (1883); _Temple Bar lvi_, 80–91 (1879); _Graphic x_, 264 (1874), _portrait_.

DOBSON, GEORGE (_son of John Dobson of Mortimer, Berkshire_). _b._ 1795; entered navy 14 Dec. 1807; captain 5 Jany. 1844; admiral on h.p. 11 Dec. 1875. _d._ 52 Pulteney st. Bath 13 June 1877.

DOBSON, JOHN. _b._ Chirton, North Shields 1788; executed designs for damasks 1800; pupil of David Stephenson, architect, Newcastle 1803–10; architect at Newcastle 1811 to death; became most noted architect in North of England; said to be real author of modern Gothic revival in actual practice; restored many churches; designed or erected greatest part of the public buildings and finest new streets in Newcastle; pres. of Northern Architectural Assoc. 1859. _d._ New Bridge st. Newcastle 8 Jany. 1865 in 77 year. _Memoirs of John Dobson_ (1885), _portrait_.

DOBSON, THOMAS. Assistant sec. of Excise, Somerset House, London 1856–60; joint sec. to Board of inland revenue 1860–63 when his services were acknowledged in a special treasury minute laid before Parliament; granted a pension of £1010 a year 1863; presented with a service of plate by 2489 officers of excise surveying department 1863; discovered with Mr. Phillips the method of testing gravities of beer, and substitution of duty free malt in distilleries in room of malt drawback; invented method of levying duties on spirits. _d._ Yarrow lodge, Sydenham 19 June 1885 in 88 year. _I.L.N. 17 Oct. 1863 p. 401._

DOBSON, REV. WILLIAM. _b._ 1809; ed. at Charterhouse and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; fellow of his coll. 1834–41; V. of Tuxford, Notts 1840–48; principal of Cheltenham college 1841–61. _d._ Cheltenham 31 Dec. 1867. _Rev. T. Mozley’s Reminiscences i_, 170–74 (1882).

DOBSON, WILLIAM (_son of Lawrence Dobson of Preston, stationer_). _b._ Preston 1820; stationer at Preston; edited the _Preston Chronicle_ to March 1868; member of Preston town council 1862–72 and 1874–83; member of Chetham Society; author of _History of the parliamentary representation of Preston during the last hundred years_ 1856, _2 ed._ 1868; _Rambles by the Ribble 3 series_ 1864–83 and other books. _d._ Churton road, Chester 8 Aug. 1884.

DOBSON, WILLIAM BURDETT. Entered navy 11 Dec. 1806; inspecting commander in coast guard 5 May 1834 to July 1837; captain on half pay 23 Nov. 1841; V.A. on half pay 24 May 1867. _d._ Lyde house, Bath 22 March 1872 aged 79.

DOCHARTY, JAMES _b._ Bonhill, Dumbartonshire 1829; a pattern designer in Glasgow to about 1862; a landscape painter about 1862 to death; A.R.S.A. 14 Nov. 1877; exhibited many pictures in Glasgow and Edinburgh; exhibited 13 landscapes at the R.A. 1865–77. _d._ Pollokshields, Glasgow 5 April 1878.

DOCKRAY, ROBERT BENSON. _b._ 13 Nov. 1811; resident engineer at Birmingham of the London and Birmingham railway 7 March 1838, engineer for the entire line 12 June 1840 to 18 Sep. 1852; M.I.C.E. 13 June 1834, Telford medallist 1849. _d._ Dalton square, Lancaster 8 Sep. 1871. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxiii_, 213–15 (1872).

DOD, CHARLES ROGER PHIPPS (_only son of Rev. Roger Dodd, V. of Drumlease, Leitrim_). _b._ Drumlease 8 May 1793; entered King’s Inns, Dublin 30 July 1816; settled in London 1818; compiled summary of parliamentary debates for the _Times_ and wrote nearly all the memoirs of deceased celebrities; changed spelling of his name from Dodd to Dod 1847; published _Parliamentary pocket companion_ 1833–42; _Parliamentary Companion_ 1843–55; _Peerage, baronetage and knightage_ 1841–55; _A manual of dignities, privileges and precedents_ 1842; _The annual biography_ 1843; _Electoral facts from 1832 to 1852 impartially stated_, 1852, _2 ed._ 1853. _d._ 5 Foxley road, North Brixton, London 21 Feb. 1855.

DOD, ROBERT PHIPPS (_only son of the preceding_). Educ. at King’s coll. London; captain in Shropshire militia 26 Jany. 1858 to death; privately printed _Birth and worth, an enquiry into the practical use of a pedigree_ 1849; published _Parliamentary Companion_ 1856 to death; _Peerage, baronetage and knightage_ 1856 to death. _d._ Nant Issa hall near Oswestry 9 Jany. 1865.

DODD, GEORGE. _b._ 1808; miscellaneous writer of books chiefly for the publishers Charles Knight and Messrs. Chambers; edited and wrote in _Cyclopædia of the industry of all nations_ 1851; some of his papers were collected and published under titles of _Days at the factories_ 1843 and _Curiosities of industry_ 1852; author of _The textile manufactures of Great Britain 6 vols._ 1844–6; _The food of London_ 1856 and many other books; contributed papers to the _Companion to the British Almanac_ 30 years; found dead at Torriano avenue, Kentish Town, London 21 Jany. 1881.

DODD, REV. PHILIP STANHOPE (_son of Rev. Richard Dodd, R. of Cowley, Middlesex, who d. 17 June 1811 aged 73_). Educ. at Tunbridge and Magd. coll. Cam., B.A. 1796, M.A. 1799; fellow of his college; minister of Lambeth chapel, London 1803–7; R. of St. Mary at Hill, London 1807–12; R. of Aldrington, Sussex 1812 to death; R. of Penshurst, Kent 1819 to death; author of _Hints to Freshmen at the University of Cambridge_ 1798, _3 ed._ 1807 both anon.; _A view of the evidence afforded by the life and ministry of St. Peter to the truth of the Christian revelation_ 1837. _d._ Penshurst rectory 22 March 1852 aged 77. _G.M. xxxvii_, 626–27 (1852).

DODDS, REV. GEORGE THEOPHILUS (_son of Rev. Mr. Dodds, minister of free church of Lochee, a suburb of Dundee_). _b._ Lochee 2 June 1850; ed. at Univ. of St. Andrews and New coll. Edin.; settled at Paris as a missionary of the McAll Protestant mission, Nov. 1877; went to the United States with Mr. Réveilland as a missionary 1880. _d._ Buisson Luzas, Salbrio near Orleans, France 9 Sep. 1882. _bur._ Passy cemetery near Paris 14 Sep. _Life and work of Rev. G. T. Dodds, missionary, by H. Bonar, D.D._ 1884, _portrait_.

DODDS, ISAAC (_2 son of Thomas Dodds, viewer of the Felling colliery, killed 21 Oct. 1805_). _b._ Felling hall, Heworth, Durham 9 July 1801; apprenticed to George Stephenson at Newcastle; invented double action air pump 1830 and machine for weighing coals in carts 1832; engineer to the Horseley iron works, Staffordshire 1832–36; built the Star locomotive for the Liverpool and Manchester railway 1833; first maker of a locomotive to ascend an incline; inventor of plan of prevention of boiler explosions by using a plug of fusible metal, now in general use; locomotive superintendent North Midland railway 1835; invented the turn table, self-acting switches and spring buffers; took his son T. W. Dodds into partnership and recommenced the Holmes engine and railway works, Rotherham 1850, works closed 1866; introducer of steel rails. _d._ 13 Townend st. Nether Hallam near Sheffield 1 Nov. 1882. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxv_, 308–14 (1884).

DODDS, JAMES. _b._ Softlaw near Kelso 6 Feb. 1813; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; schoolmaster at Sandyknowe; articled to a lawyer at Melrose 1836–40; writer to the Signet; a solicitor in London 1846; lectured in London and Scotland; published _The fifty years struggle of the Covenanters_ 1860; _Thomas Chalmers, a biographical study_ 1870. _d._ Lochee, Dundee 12 Sep. 1874. _Lays of the Covenanters by James Dodds, edited by Rev. James Dodds_ (1880) _pp._ 1–140.

DODDS, REV. JAMES. _b._ Annan, Dumfriesshire 1812; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; minister of the parish of Humbie, East Lothian 1841–43; minister of free church, Dunbar 1843 to death; author of _A century of Scottish church history_ 1846; _A memoir of Rev. Thomas Rosie_ 1862 and other books. _d._ Free church manse, Dunbar 3 Sep. 1885.

DODGSON, VENERABLE CHARLES (_eld. son of Charles Dodgson of Hamilton, Lanarkshire_). Matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 5 May 1818 aged 17, student 1818–28; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1824; P.C. of Daresbury, Cheshire 1827–43; R. of Croft near Darlington 20 Jany. 1843 to death; canon res. of Ripon cathedral 1852 to death; archdeacon of Richmond 1854 to death; chaplain to Abp. of Canterbury 1862 to death; published 12 charges, sermons and letters 1837–68. _d._ Croft rectory 21 June 1868.

DODGSON, GEORGE HAYDOCK. _b._ Liverpool 16 Aug. 1811; apprenticed to George Stephenson the engineer; prepared plans for Whitby and Pickering railway; settled in London 1835 where he made drawings for architects; assoc. of New Soc. of Painters in water-colours 1842, member 1844–47; assoc. of Soc. of Painters in water-colours 1848, member 1852; exhibited 1 landscape at B.I. and 9 at Suffolk st. gallery 1835–41. _d._ 28 Clifton hill, St. John’s Wood, London 4 June 1880. _I.L.N. lxxvi_, 612 (1880), _portrait_.

DODSON, SIR JOHN (_eld. son of Rev. John Dodson, R. of Hurstpierpoint, Sussex, who d. July 1807_). _b._ Hurstpierpoint 19 Jany. 1780; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ sch. and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1801, M.A. 1804, D.C.L. 1808; advocate of college of Doctors of law 3 Nov. 1808; commissary to dean and chapter of Westminster; M.P. for Rye, July 1819 to March 1823; advocate to Admiralty Court 11 March 1829; advocate general 18 Oct. 1834; knighted at St. James’s palace 29 Oct. 1834; barrister M.T. 8 Nov. 1834, bencher 1835; master of the Faculties, Nov. 1841; Vicar-general to the lord primate 1849; judge of Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Feb. 1852 to 9 Dec. 1857 when court was abolished; dean of the Arches court, Feb. 1852 to 9 Dec. 1857; P.C. 5 April 1852; published _Reports of cases in the high court of admiralty_ 1811–22, _2 vols._ 1815–28. _d._ 6 Seamore place, Mayfair, London 27 April 1858.

DODSWORTH, REV. WILLIAM (_3 son of John Dodsworth of Carlton hall, Yorkshire_). _b._ 1798; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; minister of Margaret st. chapel, Cavendish sq. London to 1837; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Regent’s park, London 1837 to Jany. 1851 when he joined Church of Rome; author of _Discourses on the Lord’s Supper_ 1835; _The Priest’s Companion in the visitation of the Sick_ 1843; _Sermons in Advent_ 1849; _Clarendon, a tale 3 vols._ 1850, and about 25 other books. _d._ York terrace, Regent’s park 10 Dec. 1861.

DODWORTH, THOMAS. _b._ Sheffield 1790; went to New York 1826; organised the “City Band” which became the National brass band and was first independent military band in New York. _d._ Morrisania, New York 30 April 1876.

DOHERTY, HENRY EDWARD. _b._ 20 April 1817; cornet 14 light dragoons 31 Dec. 1833, lieut.-col. 23 Nov. 1848 to 25 Aug. 1857 when placed on h.p.; general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 9 June 1849. _d._ Vernon house, Weston park, Bath 15 Sep. 1885.

DOHERTY, SIR RICHARD (_son of Leonard O’Dogherty of Coolmoyne, co. Tipperary_). _b._ Garculea house near Golden, co. Tipperary 1785; lieut. 90 foot 22 Nov. 1804; major 21 foot 16 Sep. 1824; lieut.-col. 1 West India regt. 6 Dec. 1827 to 4 Sep. 1835; lieut.-col. 89 foot 4 Sep. 1835 to 10 Aug. 1838; lieut.-col. royal African colonial corps 10 Aug. 1838 to Oct. 1840; lieut.-col. 3 West India regt. Oct. 1840 to 1 Aug. 1845 when placed on h.p.; knighted by patent 27 Nov. 1841; inspecting field officer 1 Jany. 1847 to 11 Nov. 1851; col. 11 foot 5 Sep. 1857 to death; L.G. 26 Oct. 1858; governor of Sierra Leone 27 March 1837 to 1840; commander in chief at Jamaica 1853–55. _d._ Charles st. St. James’s, London 2 Sep. 1862.

DOLBY, ANASTASIA MARICE. Embroideress to the Queen; author of _Church embroidery, ancient and modern_ 1867; _Church vestments, their origin, use and ornament_ 1868. (_m._ Edwin Thomas Dolby of London, artist). _d._ 12 Southwood terrace, Highgate 18 Feb. 1873 aged 49.

DOLBY, THOMAS (_son of Thomas Dolby of Sawtry, Hunts., ploughman_). _b._ Sawtry 6 July 1782; a woodcutter and thatcher; attendant on Brigadier General Charles William Este, April 1804 to 1808; bookseller at 34 Wardour st. London 1808, at 299 Strand 1819, and at 17 Catharine st. Strand 1824–25 when he became bankrupt; edited _Dolby’s Parliamentary Register_, 67 numbers Jany. to June 1819; imprisoned for selling _Sherwin’s Register_ 1819; tried 21 Oct. 1822 for publishing _Political Dictionary_, required to enter into recognizances, Nov. 1823; published _Dolby’s British Theatre_ 84 numbers, which became _Cumberland’s British Theatre_ in 1823; author of _A letter to the friends of liberty_ 1819; _The Shaksperian Dictionary_ 1832; _The literary cyclopædia_ 1834; _The school of reform in church and state_ 1835; _Floreston, or the new Lord of the manor, a tale of humanity_ 1839, anon. _d._ Edward st. Portman sq. London 24 June 1856. _Memoirs of T. Dolby 5 parts_ 1827.

DOLLOND, GEORGE. _b._ London 25 Jany. 1774; apprenticed to his uncle Peter Dollond of St. Paul’s churchyard, optician 1788, partner with him Nov. 1804 to 1819, carried business on alone 1819 to death; assumed by royal permission surname of Dollond instead of Huggins 1804; F.R.S. 23 Dec. 1819; an active founder of Astronomical Soc. 1820; F.R.G.S. 1830; invented the Atmospheric recorder for which he received council medal of Great Exhibition 1851. _d._ Camberwell terrace north, London 13 May 1852.

DOLMAN, CHARLES (_only son of Charles Dolman of Monmouth, who d. 1807_). _b._ Monmouth 20 Sep. 1807; R.C. publisher at 61 New Bond st. London 1837–58 when he formed his business into the Catholic Bookselling and publishing company which failed; published the _Catholic Mag._ April 1838 to June 1844; _Dolman’s Mag._, March 1845 to 1849; _Lingard’s History of England_, _5 ed. 10 vols._ 1849 and other books. _d._ 64 Rue du Faubourg, St. Honoré, Paris 31 Dec. 1863. _Gillow’s English Catholics ii_, 87–90 (1885).

DOMBRAIN, SIR JAMES (_son of Abraham Dombrain of Canterbury_). _b._ Canterbury 1793; entered navy 1808; deputy comptroller general of coast guard in England 1816; comptroller general of coast guard in Ireland 1819–49, introduced and organised that force; knighted by Earl De Grey, lord lieut. of Ireland at Kingstown, Dublin 1844 after an inspection of the Irish squadron of revenue cruisers. _d._ Woodstock, Sandford near Dublin 24 Sep. 1871.

DOMETT, ALFRED (_son of Nathaniel Domett of Camberwell Grove, Surrey_). _b._ Camberwell Grove 20 May 1811; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; barrister M.T. 19 Nov. 1841; went to New Zealand 1842; colonial sec. for New Munster (the Middle island of New Zealand) 1848; sec. for New Zealand 1851; comr. of crown lands, and resident magistrate of Hawke’s Bay 1853–6; M.P. for Nelson 1855; prime minister 1862–3; registrar general of lands 1865; administrator of confiscated lands 1870–71; author of _Venice_ 1839 a poem; _Narrative of the Wairoan massacre_ 1843; _Ordinances of New Zealand classified_ 1850; _Ranolf and Amohia, a South Sea day dream_ 1872, _2 ed._ 1883; _Flotsam and Jetsam, rhymes old and new_ 1877. _d._ 32 St. Charles sq. North Kensington, London 2 Nov. 1887. _W. Gisborne’s New Zealand Rulers_ (1886) 134, _portrait_.

DOMVILE, SIR JOHN COMPTON, 1 Baronet (_eld. son of Charles Pocklington, M.P. for co. Dublin, who assumed surname of Domvile and d. April 1810_). Ensign 6 foot 23 May 1800; captain 5 garrison battalion 8 Oct. 1807; captain 68 foot 1 Dec. 1808 to 1809 or 1810; assumed name of Domvile by r.l. 25 March 1815; created baronet 22 May 1815; M.P. for Bossiney, Cornwall 18 June 1818 to 2 June 1826, for Oakhampton 10 June 1826 to 24 July 1830, for Plympton 23 Dec. 1830 to 3 Dec. 1832; custos rotulorum of co. Dublin 1823 to death. _d._ 5 Grosvenor sq. London 23 Feb. 1857.

DOMVILLE, HENRY JONES (_3 son of James Domville, M.D. of Greenwich, who d. 28 June 1846_). Assistant surgeon R.N. 18 May 1839; surgeon 9 Nov. 1846; M.R.C.S. 1844; M.D. St. Andrews 1862; deputy inspector general of hospitals 1864, inspector general 13 Feb. 1875 to 17 Dec. 1878; C.B. 13 March 1867; granted good service pension 7 Oct. 1882. _d._ South Hill, Paignton, Devon 8 July 1888.

DOMVILLE, WILLIAM THOMAS (_brother of the preceding_). Assistant surgeon R.N. 3 May 1842; surgeon 7 Feb. 1852; served in Resolute in Arctic regions in search of Sir John Franklin 1852–54; inspector general of hospitals and fleets 18 Feb. 1875; in chief control of Haslar hospital 13 Nov. 1877 to death; C.B. 2 June 1877. _d._ royal naval hospital, Haslar 21 Oct. 1879.

DON, EMILY ELIZA (_eld. dau. of John Saunders of Adelphi theatre, London, actor_). Acted in comedy and farce at Adelphi, Haymarket, Surrey and other theatres. (_m._ at Marylebone 17 Oct. 1857 Sir Wm. Henry Don 1825–62). acted in Australia 1861–2, in England 1862–7, in New York 1867; lessee of T.R. Nottingham short time; sang at music halls latterly. _d._ Edinburgh 20 Sep. 1875.

DON, GEORGE (_eld. son of George Don, curator of royal botanic garden, Edinburgh_). _b._ Doo Hillock, Forfarshire 17 May 1798; assistant in Botanic garden, Chelsea 1818–21; travelled as collector of Horticultural Society in Brazil, West Indies and Sierra Leone, Dec. 1821 to Feb. 1823; F.L.S. 1831; published _A general system of gardening and botany 4 vols._ 1832–38. _d._ Bedford place, Kensington, London 25 Feb. 1856. _Proc. of Linnæan Soc._ (1856) 39–41.

DON, SIR WILLIAM HENRY, 7 Baronet (_only son of Sir Alexander Don, 6 bart. of Newtondon, Berwickshire, who d. 11 April 1826 aged 47_). _b._ 4 May 1825; ed. at Eton 1838–41; page to Lady Montgomerie at Eglinton tournament 28–30 Aug. 1839; cornet 5 dragoon guards 3 June 1842, lieut. 14 March 1845 to 28 Nov. 1845 when he sold out; owner of steeple chase horses; sold Newtondon for £85,000; acted in America 1850–55, in Great Britain 1855–61, in Australia 1861 to death; played Queen Elizabeth in burlesque of _Kenilworth_ at Hobart Town 15 March 1862. _d._ Webb’s hotel, Hobart Town 19 March 1862. _N. P. Willis’s Hurry-graphs_, _2 ed._ (1851) 230–33.

DONALDSON, JOHN. Called to Scottish bar 1826; a teacher of music in Edinburgh; Reid professor of music in Univ. of Edin. 1845 to death; contributed largely to means of carrying out concerts by erection of music room and organ 1860; got rights of the professor established by process at law 1855 after 5 years litigation; granted civil list pension of £75, 19 April 1861. _d._ Marchfield near Edin. 12 Aug. 1865. _Sir A. Grant’s Story of the Univ. of Edinburgh ii_, 232–3, 459–61 (1884).

DONALDSON, REV. JOHN WILLIAM (_2 son of Stuart Donaldson of London, merchant_). _b._ London 7 June 1811; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837, B.D. 1844, D.D. 1849; fellow of his college 1835–40; head master of Bury St. Edmunds school 1841–55; a tutor at Cambridge 1855 to death; author of _The New Cratylus, or contributions towards a more accurate knowledge of the Greek language_ 1839, _3 ed._ 1859; _Complete Greek grammar_ 1848; _Complete Latin grammar_ 1852; _Jashar, fragmenta archetypa carminum Hebraicorum_ 1854, _2 ed._ 1860; _Christian orthodoxy reconciled with the conclusions of modern Biblical learning_ 1857 and about 20 other books. _d._ 21 Craven hill, Hyde park, London 10 Feb. 1861.

DONALDSON, SIR STUART ALEXANDER (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ London 26 Dec. 1815; partner in mercantile firm of Donaldson and Co. of Sydney, N.S.W. 1836–56; a territorial magistrate 1838–59; member of council and assembly 1848–59; colonial sec. 6 June to 25 Aug. 1856; colonial treasurer 3 Oct. 1856 to 7 Sep. 1857; fought a duel with Sir Thomas Mitchell 27 Sep. 1851; returned to England 1859; contested Harwich 24 April 1860; knighted by patent 23 Aug. 1860. _d._ Carleton hall, Cumberland 11 Jany. 1867.

DONALDSON, THOMAS LEVERTON (_eld. son of James Donaldson of London, architect_). _b._ 8 Bloomsbury sq. London 19 Oct. 1795; studied architecture in Italy and Greece; member of Academy of St. Luke at Rome 1822; architect in London; an active founder of Royal Institute of British Architects 1834, gold medallist 1851, pres. 1864; professor of architecture at Univ. coll. London 1841–65, emeritus professor July 1865 to death; district surveyor for South Kensington; exhibited 27 works at R.A. 1816–54; author of _Pompeii 2 vols._ 1827; _A collection of the most approved examples of doorways from ancient buildings in Greece and Italy_ 1833 and 10 other books. _d._ 21 Upper Bedford place, Bloomsbury, London 1 Aug. 1885. _Builder 24 July 1869 p. 586_, _portrait_, _8 Aug. 1885 p. 179_.

DONALDSON, WALTER ALEXANDER. Actor at Dublin; in Scotland; first appeared in London at Royal Coburg theatre 11 May 1818 as Second Smuggler in _Trial by Battle_; appeared at Bristol 1826; retired about 1852; author of _Recollections of an actor_ 1865; reprinted under title of _Fifty years of green-room gossip_ 1881, _Theatrical portraits or the days of Shakespeare, Betterton, Garrick and Kemble_ 1870 _with portrait of Donaldson_. _d._ Putney near London 19 Dec. 1877 aged 84.

DONEGALL, GEORGE HAMILTON CHICHESTER, 3 Marquis of (_eld. child of 2 Marquis of Donegall 1769–1844_). _b._ Great Cumberland place, London 10 Feb. 1797; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; lieut. 7 hussars 4 Oct. 1821 to 16 April 1823 when placed on h.p.; M.P. for Carrickfergus 1818–20, for Belfast 1820–30, for Antrim 1830–37, for Belfast again 1837–38; vice chamberlain of the household 1830–34; P.C. 19 July 1830; G.C.H. 1831; lord lieut. of co. Antrim 24 April 1841 to death; col. of Antrim militia 3 April 1841 to 17 Aug. 1881; created a peer of the U.K. by titles of baron Ennishowen of Ennishowen, co. Donegal and Carrickfergus of Carrickfergus, co. Antrim 18 Aug. 1841; succeeded 5 Oct. 1844; militia aide de camp to the Queen 15 April 1847 to death; captain of yeomen of the guard 16 Feb. 1848 to 1852; K.P. 1857; lieut. col. commandant of London Irish volunteers 15 May 1860 to death; col. of 4 battalion Royal Irish rifles 17 Aug. 1881 to death. _d._ Brighton 20 Oct. 1883.

DONERAILE, HAYES ST. Leger, 3 Viscount (_elder son of 2 Viscount Doneraile 1755–1819_). _b._ Doneraile house, co. Cork 9 May 1786; succeeded 8 Nov. 1819; a representative peer of Ireland 15 March 1830 to death; colonel of South Cork militia to death. _d._ Doneraile, co. Cork 27 March 1854.

DONKIN, BRYAN. _b._ Sandoe, Northumberland 22 March 1768; apprenticed to Mr. Hall of Dartford, Kent, paper maker; practically developed paper making machines of which he constructed 191, 1802–51; introduced improvements in printing machinery; invented and first used the composition printing roller 1816; a civil engineer in London 1815 to death; received 2 gold medals from Society of Arts; a founder of Institution of Civil Engineers 1818; F.R.S. 18 Jany. 1838. _d._ 6 The Paragon, New Kent road, London 27 Feb. 1855. _W. Walker’s Memoirs of distinguished men of science of Great Britain_ (1862) 75–7, _portrait_; _Proc. of Royal Soc. vii_, 586–89 (1855).

DONKIN, WILLIAM FISHBURN. _b._ Bishop Burton, Yorkshire 15 Feb. 1814; ed. at St. Peter’s sch. York and St. Edmund hall, Ox.; classical scholar Univ. coll. 1834, fellow 1836; double first class 1836; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; Savilian professor of astronomy in Univ. of Ox. 1842 to death; F.R.S. 13 Jany. 1842; F.R.A.S.; author of _A defence of voting against propositions to be submitted to convocation_ 1845; _Acoustics_ 1866. _d._ from phthisis 34 Broad st. Oxford 15 Nov. 1869.

DONKIN, WILLIAM FREDERICK (_eld. son of the preceding_). Educ. at Eton; matric. from Magd. coll. Ox. 17 Oct. 1864 aged 18, demy 1864; B.A. 1868, M.A. 1872; lecturer on natural science at Keble coll. 1875–77, tutor 1877–80; professor of practical chemistry at St. George’s hospital, London 1880 to death; sec. of the Alpine Club, London to death; sec. of Photographic Soc. of Great Britain to death; his photographs of the higher Alps were quite unique in their character; went to the Caucasus on an exploring expedition, July 1888, started from Balkar in the vale of the Terch with Mr. Harry Fox and two Swiss guides 30 Aug.; all the party probably lost their lives by an accident on the mountain known as Shkara about 1 Sep. 1888.

DONNADIEU, ALEXANDER. _b._ France; served in Napoleon Bonaparte’s army; decorated with the legion of honour; came to England about 1829; gained his living as a talented musician and singer; collected autographs which he sold; lived for many years in chambers at 8 Duke st. Piccadilly where he _d._ 8 Jany. 1861 aged about 70.

DONNE, WILLIAM BODHAM (_only son of Edward Charles Donne of Mattishall, East Dereham, Norfolk, who d. 1819_). _b._ 29 July 1807; ed. at Bury St. Edmunds’ gr. sch. and Caius coll. Cam.; lived at Mattishall to 1846 and at Bury St. Edmunds 1846–52; declined editorship of _Edinburgh Review_ 1852; librarian of the London library, London 1852–57; deputy examiner of stage plays, Aug. 1849, examiner 27 March 1857 to June or July 1874; author of _Old roads and new roads_ 1852; _Essays on the Drama_ 1858, _2 ed._ 1863; edited _The correspondence of George III with Lord North_ 1867; contributed the _Euripides_ and _Tacitus_ to Lucas Collins’s _Classics for English readers_. _d._ 25 Weymouth st. Portland place, London 20 June 1882.

DONNELLY, THOMAS LESTER. _b._ London 31 Dec. 1832; became an actor 1854; appeared at Wood’s theatre, Cincinnati 1855 under stage name of Thomas Lester; managed a company in the Western States; lessee of Brooklyn Olympic, New York 1867–75; joint lessee with John F. Poole of the Grand Opera house, New York 1876 to death; one of best actors of Irish characters in America. _d._ 224 West Twenty-fourth st. New York 5 July 1880.

DONNELLY, WILLIAM. _b._ 1804; called to Irish bar 1833; registrar general of marriages in Ireland 1844, of births, deaths and marriages to 1876; superintendent of agricultural and emigration statistics 1851–1876; C.B. 13 June 1857. _d._ Auburn, Malahide, co. Dublin 25 Oct. 1879.

DONOUGHMORE, JOHN HELY-HUTCHINSON, 3 Earl of (_eld. son of Francis Hely-Hutchinson 1759–1824, collector of customs, Dublin_). _b._ 1787; ensign Grenadier guards 25 Sep. 1807, lieut. 19 Nov. 1812 to 27 May 1819 when placed on h.p.; assisted in the escape of Comte Antoine de Lavalette (who had been sentenced to death as an accomplice of Napoleon Bonaparte) by secreting him in his rooms in Paris during the night of 20 Dec. 1815; tried 22 April 1816 and sentenced to 3 months imprisonment, struck off British army list but afterwards restored; M.P. for co. Tipperary 1826–30 and 1831–32; succeeded his uncle as 3 Earl 29 June 1832; lord lieut. of Tipperary 14 Aug. 1832 to death; K.P. 8 April 1834; P.C. Ireland 17 Nov. 1834; a comr. of charitable donations and bequests in Ireland 18 Dec. 1844 to 17 Feb. 1851; known by the sobriquet of Lavalette Hutchinson. _d._ Palmerston house near Dublin 12 Sep. 1851. _P. Burke’s Celebrated naval and military trials_ (1866) 376–99; _G.M. xxxvi_, 539–40 (1851); _The trial of Sir R. T. Wilson and captain J. H. Hutchinson for aiding the escape of general Lavalette_ 1816.

DONOUGHMORE, RICHARD JOHN HELY-HUTCHINSON, 4 Earl of (_only son of the preceding_). _b._ Dublin 4 April 1823; ed. at Harrow; ensign 98 foot 18 June 1841, lieut. 1843–45; lieut. col. South Tipperary artillery 24 July 1849 to death; paymaster general and vice pres. of Board of Trade 6 April 1858, pres. 3 March 1859 to 18 June 1859; P.C. 6 April 1858. _d._ 52 South Audley st. London 22 Feb. 1856. _bur._ Knocklofty near Clonmel 2 March. _I.L.N. xxi_, 402 (1852), _portrait_, _xxxii_, 385 (1858), _portrait_.

DONOVAN, SIR HENRY (_son of John Donovan of Tralee, co. Kerry_). _b._ 1822; sheriff of Kerry 1873–4; knighted by Earl Spencer lord lieutenant of Ireland, at Dublin Castle 25 Feb. 1874; chairman of Tralee town commission. _d._ Seafield, Tralee 16 July 1886.

DONOVAN, MICHAEL. Chemist; invented Donovan’s Solution the liquor arsenici et hydrargyri hydriodalis of the Dublin pharmacopœia 1839; author of _Observations and experiments concerning Mr. Davy’s hypothesis of Electrochemical affinity_ 1811; _A treatise on chemistry_ 1832 (Cabinet cyclop. vol. 106); _On the extemporaneous preparation of hydrocyanic acid from cyanide of potassium, in Pharmaceutical Journal, March 1843 pp._ 573–83. _d._ April 1876. _Pharmaceutical Journal 29 April 1876 p._ 879.

DOO, GEORGE THOMAS. _b._ 6 Jany. 1800; produced his first published engraving “The Duke of York” 1824; opened an academy for study of the antique, and of the life in the Savoy, London 1826; historical engraver in ordinary to William iv 1836–37, to Queen Victoria 1842; a member of many foreign academies; A.R.A. 1855, R.A. 1856; published many plates; pres. of Artists’ Annuity fund 1861; chairman of committee of class 40 (engravings and etchings) at International Exhibition 1862; F.R.S. 5 June 1851 to 1860; granted civil list pension of £70, 19 June 1868. _d._ Sutton, Surrey 13 Nov. 1886. _Sandby’s History of Royal Academy ii_, 324 (1862).

DORAN, JOHN (_only son of John Doran of London, contractor, who d. 1824_). _b._ London 11 March 1807; writer on the _Literary Chronicle_ 1826–28; author of _The Wandering Jew_ produced at Surrey theatre 2 Sep. 1832; Ph.D. Univ. of Marburg, Prussia; literary editor of _The Church and State Gazette_ 1841–52; wrote for the _Athenæum_ 1854 to death, edited it several times during Hepworth Dixon’s absence; edited _Notes and Queries_ 1 Oct. 1872 to death; F.S.A. 19 May 1859; author of _Lives of the Queens of England of the house of Hanover 2 vols._ 1855, _4 ed._ 1874; _Monarchs retired from business 2 vols._ 1857; _“Their Majesties Servants,” Annals of the English stage from T. Betterton to E. Kean 2 vols._ 1864, _2 ed._ 1865, _new ed. by R. W. Lowe 3 vols._ 1888 and 15 other works. _d._ 33 Lansdowne road, Notting hill, London 25 Jany. 1878. _J. Doran’s New pictures and old panels_ 1849, _portrait_; _London Society xlii_, 29–37 (1882), _portrait_; _Temple Bar lii_, 460–94 (1878); _I.L.N. lxxii_, 133 (1878), _portrait_.

DORATT, SIR JOHN. _b._ about 1779; ed. at Westminster school and Univ. of Leyden, M.D. 1805; physician to British embassy at St. Petersburgh 1835–37; physician to Earl of Durham, governor general of British North America 1838–40; knighted at St. James’s palace 14 Feb. 1838. _d._ 9 North terrace, Alexander sq. Brompton, London 4 Sep. 1863.

DORIN, JOSEPH ALEXANDER. _b._ Edmonton near London 15 Sep. 1802; assistant to accountant general at Calcutta 1821; secretary to Bank of Bengal; deputy accountant general; first financial sec. Jany. 1843; a member of supreme council of India 1853 to May 1858. _d._ St. Lawrence, Isle of Wight 22 Dec. 1862.

DORNFORD, REV. JOSEPH (_only son of Josiah Dornford of Deptford, Kent_). _b._ Deptford 9 Jany. 1794; ed. at Wadham coll. Ox., commoner 4 Dec. 1813, scholar; B.A. 1816, M.A. 1820; Michel fellow of Queen’s coll. 1817–19; fellow of Oriel 1819–36, tutor 1823, dean 1828, classical examiner in the schools 1826–28; proctor 1830 when nicknamed the University Corporal; ascended Mont Blanc with Dr. Joseph Von Hamel 18–20 Aug. 1820 when three of the guides were lost in a crevasse and he narrowly escaped same fate; R. of Plymtree, Devon 1832 to death; hon. canon in Exeter cath. 1844 to death. _d._ Plymtree 18 Jany. 1868. _Mozley’s Reminiscences ii_, 55–77 (1882); _G.M. Sep. 1820 p._ 365.

DORNIN, THOMAS ALOYSIUS. _b._ Ireland about 1800; midshipman United States navy 2 May 1815; sailed round the world 1829–30; commanded the “Portsmouth” 1851; prevented invasion of Nicaragua by Wm. Walker the filibuster 1851; captain 1855; commodore on the retired list 16 July 1862; in charge of the fifth light house district 1865 to death. _d._ Norfolk, Virginia 22 April 1874.

DORRIAN, MOST REV. PATRICK. _b._ Downpatrick, co. Down 29 March 1814; ed. at Downpatrick; entered Maynooth college 23 Aug. 1833; ordained priest 23 Sep. 1837; C. at Belfast 1837–47; parish priest of Loughlin island 1847–60; coadjutor bishop of Down and Connor 4 June 1860, bishop 1865 to death; consecrated in St. Malachy’s ch. Belfast 19 Aug. 1860. _d._ Dublin 3 Nov. 1885.

D’ORSAY, GILLION GASPARD ALFRED DE GRIMAUD, Comte (_younger son of Albert D’Orsay, Comte D’Orsay, general in French army_). _b._ Paris 4 Sep. 1798; in the Garde du corps of Charles x, 1815–23; became acquainted with the Earl and Countess of Blessington 1822, travelled with them in South of Europe. _m._ at Naples 1 Dec. 1827 Harriett Anne Frances dau. of 1 Earl of Blessington, they separated 1829, she was _b._ 5 Aug. 1812, _m._ (2) 1 Sep. 1852 hon. Charles Spencer Cowper and _d._ 17 Dec. 1869; the leader of fashion in London 1830–49; lived at 22 Curzon st. Mayfair 1833–36, at 4 Upper Gore, Kensington 1836–45; most intimately associated with Lady Blessington, they fled to Paris to escape imprisonment for debt April 1849, where she _d._ 4 June 1849 aged 60; 120 profile sketches by him of celebrities of the day were lithographed by R. J. Lane and published by Mitchell of Bond st; the handsomest man of his time. _d._ at house of his sister Duchesse de Gramont in Paris 4 Aug. 1852. _bur._ at Chambourcy near Paris 7 Aug. next to Lady Blessington. _R. R. Madden’s Literary life of the Countess of Blessington i_, 318–72 (1855), _portrait_, _ii_, 406–72; _J. Grant’s Portraits of public characters ii_, 191–204 (1841); _Lord W. P. Lennox’s Celebrities I have known_, _second series ii_, 198–224; _W. Bates’s Maclise portrait gallery_ (1883) 284–90, _portrait_; _Gore House, Bentley’s New Monthly Mag. June 1849 pp._ 135–51; _H. Melton’s Hints on hats_ (1875) 33–8, _portrait_; _Baily’s Mag. xli_, 153–55 (1883); _Colburn’s New Monthly Mag. xcvi_, 112–26 (1852); _Grantley Berkeley’s My Life_ (1866) _iii_, 201–31; _S. Sidney’s Book of the horse_ 1886 _p._ 257, _portrait_.

NOTE.—A satire on him with a portrait was published in 1844 entitled D’Horsay or the follies of the day, By A Man of Fashion. Disraeli dedicated to him Henrietta Temple 1837, which contains a flattering portrait of him as Count Mirabel. His character and peculiarities furnished Eugene Sue with the idea of the hero of his novel Le Marquis de Létorière ou L’Art de plaire 1845. He was much satirized by Gilbert A’Beckett in Figaro in London 1832–34.

DOTTIN, ABEL ROUSE (_son of Abel Dottin of Granada hall, Barbados, who d. 1782_). Matric. from Queen’s coll. Ox. 24 May 1786 aged 17; M.P. for Gatton, Surrey 17 June 1818 to 29 June 1820; M.P. for Southampton 9 June 1826 to 23 April 1831, and 9 Jany. 1835 to 23 June 1841. _d._ 31 Argyll st. Oxford st. London 7 June 1852. _Portraits of eminent conservatives_, _first series_ (1836), _portrait_.

DOUBLEDAY, HENRY (_elder son of Benjamin Doubleday of Epping, Essex, tradesman, who d. 1848_). _b._ Epping 1 July 1808; grocer at Epping 1848–70; introduced the now familiar plan of ‘sugaring’ for moths 1842; an original member of Entomological Soc. of London 1833; published _A nomenclature of British birds_ 1838, _4 ed._ 1845; _The Zoologists’ Synonymic list of British butterflies and moths_ 1847, _2 ed._ 1859, _2 supplements_ 1865 _and_ 1873; in a lunatic asylum 1871; the chief lepidopterist England has produced, his collections of lepidoptera have been at Bethnal Green museum since Feb. 1876. _d._ Epping 29 June 1875. _Entomologist x_, 53–61 (1877), _portrait_.

DOUBLEDAY, THOMAS (_son of George Doubleday of Newcastle, soap manufacturer_). _b._ Newcastle, Feb. 1790; helped forward reform agitation 1832; sec. to Northern political union; junior partner in firm of Doubleday and Easterby, soapmakers, Newcastle; became insolvent; registrar of births, marriages and deaths in St. Andrew’s parish, Newcastle; secretary to the Coal trade to death; author of _The true law of population shewn to be connected with the food of the people_ 1842, _3 ed._ 1853; _The eve of St. Mark, a romance of Venice 2 vols._ 1857; _A Financial, monetary and statistical history of England_ 1847; _On mundane moral government_ 1852, and 10 other books. _d._ Bulman village (now Gosforth) near Newcastle 18 Dec. 1870. _Monthly Chronicle of north country lore, Nov. 1888 pp._ 485–88, _portrait_.

DOUDNEY, REV. GEORGE DAVID. _b._ 1811; a tailor at 97 Fleet st. London, retired 13 Nov. 1847; preached his first sermon at Clapham Asylum 21 Jany. 1848; matric. Corpus coll. Camb. 3 Feb. 1848; went to Ireland as a missionary and studied the Irish language; ordained by Bp. of Derry 23 Dec. 1848; Incumbent of Dunlewey, Donegal where he preached his first sermon in Irish 25 April 1849; Incumbent of Charles church, Plymouth 26 Jany. 1852 to death; preached 245 sermons 1852; author of _Sermons preached in Charles’ Chapel_, _Plymouth_ 1866–67, _2 vols._ _d._ Mannamead, Plymouth 19 May 1865. _Recollections of Rev. G. D. Doudney_ 1866, _portrait_.

DOUGAL, NEIL. _b._ Greenock 9 Dec. 1776; a sailor 1792 to 14 June 1794 when he lost his eyesight by an accident; kept a tavern in Greenock 1824 and then a boarding house; teacher of singing in Greenock 1799; composed about 100 psalm and hymn tunes of which ‘Kilmarnock’ is one of the standard melodies in Presbyterian church service; author of _Poems and Songs_ 1854. _d._ Greenock 1 Dec. 1862.

DOUGLAS, ANDREW SNAPE. Secretary of legation at Court of Palermo 1809; sec. of embassy at the Hague 1 Oct. 1824, minister plenipotentiary 6 Nov. to 6 Dec. 1824 and 22 Jany. to 25 April 1825; retired from the service 5 Jany. 1829, granted a pension 15 Sep. 1829. _d._ 7 Onslow sq. Brompton 19 Nov. 1869.

DOUGLAS, SIR CHARLES EURWICKE (_natural son of Right Hon. Charles Philip Yorke 1764–1834_). _b._ 12 May 1806; ed. at Harrow and St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831, private sec. to Viscount Goderich at Colonial office, Nov. 1830 to March 1833; king-at-arms of order of St. Michael and St. George 1832–59; M.P. for Warwick 1837–1852, for Banbury 1859–1865; contested Durham city 1853; comr. of Greenwich hospital 8 Aug. 1845 to July 1846; knighted at St. James’s palace 12 Oct. 1832; K.C.M.G. 1859. _d._ 27 Wilton crescent, London 21 Feb. 1887.

DOUGLAS, CLAUDE. Ensign 10 Bengal N.I. 16 Aug. 1819; major 14 N.I. 10 June 1842; col. 56 N.I. 1 May 1858, col. 65 N.I. 1859–70; general on retired list 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ Bognor 11 April 1883 in 84 year.

DOUGLAS, FRANCIS WILLIAM BOUVERIE (_2 son of 7 Marquis of Queensberry 1818–58_). _b._ Harleyford near Marlow 8 Feb. 1847; ed. at Eton; came out first in examination for direct commissions in the army 1865; killed by a fall whilst descending the Matterhorn, Switzerland 14 July 1865. _E. Whymper’s Ascent of the Matterhorn_ (1880) 273–95.

DOUGLAS, RIGHT REV. HENRY ALEXANDER (_5 son of Henry Alexander Douglas of Dryfesdale, co. Dumfries 1781–1857_). _b._ Lockaby house 22 Feb. 1821; ed. at Glasgow Univ. and Balliol coll. Ox., B.A. 1845, M.A. 1848, D.D. 1868; C. of Alverstoke, Hants. 1846–48; minister of Abp. Tenison’s chapel, Regent st. London 1848–49; V. of Abbotsley, Hunts. 1849–52; dean of Capetown 1852–68; bishop of Bombay, Sep. 1868 to death; consecrated in chapel royal, Whitehall 3 Jany. 1869; author of _Sermons_ 1862; _Missions in India_ 1877. _d._ Clifton lodge, Clifton gardens, Maida Vale, London 13 Dec. 1875.

DOUGLAS, SIR HOWARD, 3 Baronet (_3 son of Sir Charles Douglas, 1 Baronet, who d. Feb. 1789_). _b._ Gosport, Hants. 23 Jany. 1776; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 Jany. 1794; commandant of Military college senior department at High Wycombe 1804–8 and 1809, inspector general of instructions to 1820; succeeded his brother 23 May 1809; patented the reflecting circle or semicircle known by his name 2 July 1811; governor of New Brunswick 5 Sep. 1823 to 1831 where he founded University of Frederickton; lord high comr. of Ionian islands 13 March 1835 to 2 Dec. 1840; col. of 99 foot 15 March 1841, of 15 foot 6 Oct. 1851 to death; general 11 Nov. 1851; M.P. for Liverpool 1842–46; F.R.S. 25 Jany. 1816; C.B. 3 Feb. 1817, K.C.B. 18 July 1840, G.C.B. 27 Aug. 1841; G.C.M.G. 18 March 1835; author of _An Essay on the principles and construction of military bridges_ 1816, _3 ed._ 1853; _A Treatise on naval gunnery_ 1820, _5 ed._ 1860; _On naval warfare with steam_ 1858, _2 ed._ 1860 and 9 other books. _d._ Tunbridge Wells 9 Nov. 1861. _Life of Sir Howard Douglas by S. W. Fullom_ (1863), _portrait_.

DOUGLAS, SIR JAMES (_eld. son of John Douglas of Glasgow_). _b._ Demerara 14 Aug. 1803; chief factor of the Hudson Bay company, chief agent for region west of the Rocky Mountains 1833; governor of Vancouver’s island 9 May 1851 to 1863, of British Columbia 3 Sep. 1858 to 1863 when he retired on a pension of £500; C.B. 30 Nov. 1858, K.C.B. 11 Aug. 1863. _d._ Victoria, Vancouver’s island 2 Aug. 1877.

DOUGLAS, JAMES. _b._ Brechin 20 May 1800; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; M.R.C.S. Edin. 1820; M.R.C.S. London; went to New York 1824; practised in Quebec 1826–51; one of founders of lunatic asylum at Beauport near Quebec 1845, also manager; an enthusiastic traveller and antiquarian. _d._ New York 14 April 1886.

DOUGLAS, SIR JAMES DAWES (_elder son of James Sholto Douglas 1757–1830, major in the army_). _b._ 14 Jany. 1785; D.A.Q.G. in South America 1806 and in Portugal 1807; lieut. col. 8th Portuguese regiment 1809–11; commanded 7th Portuguese brigade 1813–14; lost his leg at battle of Toulouse 10 April 1814; commanded south west district of Ireland 1825–30; governor of Guernsey 1830–38; col. of 93 foot 15 June 1840, of 42 foot 10 April 1850 to death; general 20 June 1854; K.T.S.; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 18 May 1860. _d._ Clifton 6 March 1862.

DOUGLAS, JOHN. _b._ 1811; ensign 79 foot 25 June 1829; lieut. col. 11 Hussars 13 Aug. 1854 to 8 March 1859 when placed on h.p.; C.B. 5 July 1855; M.G. 6 March 1868. _d._ Aldershot 10 May 1871.

DOUGLAS, JOHN. One of a family of 24 children; _b._ Lambeth Walk, Lambeth, London 17 March 1814; played in pantomime at Covent Garden theatre 1825; manager of Gravesend and other theatres 1833–45; manager of Douglas troupe at Sans Souci theatre, Leicester sq. London; lessee of Westminster theatre; lessee of Marylebone theatre; manager of Standard theatre, Shoreditch 1845, proprietor 1852, theatre burnt down 21 Oct. 1866, reopened it 18 Dec. 1867; manager of Pavilion theatre, Whitechapel 1857–71. _d._ Castle villa, Dalston, London 31 Jany. 1874. _Theatrical Times iii_, 399, 424 (1848), _portrait_.

DOUGLAS, SIR JOHN (_son of Sir James Dawes Douglas 1785–1862_). _b._ 5 Dec. 1836; ed. at Rugby, Cheltenham and Univ. coll. Ox., B.A. 1864; clerk in audit office, Mauritius, Feb. 1859, sec. to council 1867; poor law comr. June 1868; auditor general Ceylon, Dec. 1869 to 1876; colonial sec. Straits Settlements 1876–78; lieut. governor and colonial sec. Ceylon, July 1878 to death; K.C.M.G. 24 May 1883. _d._ Lyndhurst, Watford 23 Aug. 1885.

DOUGLAS, SIR JOHN (_son of Sir Neil Douglas 1780–1853_). _b._ 7 July 1817; ensign 79 foot 6 Sep. 1833, lieut. col. 13 Aug. 1854 to 16 March 1860 when placed on h.p.; A.A.G. in Scotland 1860–65; commanded the forces in Scotland 1 Oct. 1870 to 30 Sep. 1875; col. 79 foot 1 Jany. 1879 to death; general 30 Jany. 1880; placed on retired list 1 July 1881; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 14 May 1859, G.C.B. 2 June 1877. _d._ Glenfinart, Argyllshire 8 Sep. 1887.

DOUGLAS, SIR JOSEPH ABRAHAM (_son of Joseph Douglas of Whitehaven, Cumberland_). _b._ Chepstow 17 Jany. 1799; master in the navy 30 May 1823, retired 1851; knighted at St. James’s palace 24 March 1841 for having armed his ship the Cambridge and assisted the British in Hong Kong bay in June 1839 losing £10,000 for which the government would not compensate him. _d._ of epilepsy at 2 Apsley cottage, Moor terrace, Lower park road, Peckham, London 3 April 1866. _A case of individual sacrifice and of national gratitude_ 1847.

DOUGLAS, SIR NEIL (_5 son of John Douglas of Glasgow, merchant_). _b._ Glasgow 1780; 2 lieut. 21 foot 28 Jany. 1801; captain 79 foot 19 April 1804, lieut. col. 3 Dec. 1812 to 16 Aug. 1833 when placed on h.p.; aide-de-camp to George iv and William iv 27 May 1825 to 10 Jany. 1837; governor of Edinburgh Castle 1 April 1842 to 1 Jany. 1847; col. of 81 foot 11 July 1845, of 72 foot 12 July 1847, of 78 foot 29 Dec. 1851 to death; L.G. 9 Nov. 1846; C.B. 22 June 1815, K.C.B. 19 July 1838; knighted at St. James’s palace 13 Sep. 1831. _d._ Brussels 1 Sep. 1853 in 74 year. _W. B. Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ (1882), _portrait_; _My adventures by Col. Montgomery Maxwell i_, _pp. v-vi_ (1845), _portrait_.

DOUGLAS, ROBERT. Second lieut. R.A. 1 Nov. 1796, lieut. col. 31 Dec. 1827 to 6 May 1835 when placed on retired full pay; general 25 Sep. 1859; C.B. 4 June 1815. _d._ Claygate near Esher 10 Feb. 1871 aged 93.

DOUGLAS, WILLIAM. Second lieut. R.E. 1 July 1801, lieut. col. 23 March 1825 to 27 Jany. 1829 when placed on half pay; lieut. col. on full pay 11 Nov. 1851 to death; general 3 April 1862. _d._ Hastings 10 Feb. 1864 aged 77.

DOUGLAS, WILLIAM SCOTT. _b._ Hawick 10 Jany. 1815; ed. in Heriot’s hospital, Edinburgh; sec. of Edinburgh Burns club 1877 to death; edited _The Complete poetical works of Robert Burns_ 1871, _revised ed._ 1876; _Picture of the county of Ayr_ 1874; _The works of Robert Burns 6 vols._ 1877–79; supplied letterpress for _Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ 1882; found drowned near end of the East pier, Leith 23 June 1883.

DOULTON, FREDERICK (_3 son of John Doulton of Lambeth_). _b._ Lambeth 1824; manufacturer of earthenware goods; member of Metropolitan board of works for Lambeth 1856 to death; contested Reigate 6 Feb. 1858; M.P. for Lambeth 5 May 1862 to 11 Nov. 1868. _d._ of apoplexy at Summerhill house, Tunbridge Wells 21 May 1872. _Affaire Doulton Bruxelles_ 1868.

DOVASTON, JOHN FREEMAN MILWARD (_only son of John Dovaston of Westfelton near Oswestry 1740–1808_). _b._ 30 Dec. 1782; ed. at Oswestry, Shrewsbury and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807; barrister M.T. 12 June 1807; author of _Fitz Gwarine with other rhymes_ 1812, _3 ed._ called _Poems, legendary, incidental and humorous_ 1825; _A selection of British melodies_ 1817; _The Dove_ 1822 a selection of old poems; _Lectures on natural history and national melody_ 1839. _d._ Nursery villa, Westfelton 8 Aug. 1854. _G.M. xlii_, 395–6 (1854).

DOVE, PATRICK EDWARD (_son of Henry Dove, lieutenant R.N._) _b._ Lasswade near Edinburgh 31 July 1815, lived at the Craig near Ballantrae, Ayrshire 1841–48 when he lost most of his fortune; captain of Midlothian rifle club April 1853; edited the _Witness_ for 6 months in 1854; edited the _Commonwealth_ newspaper at Glasgow 1858; edited first 20 numbers of _Imperial dictionary of biography_ 1857; edited with M. Rankine _Imperial Journal of the arts and sciences_; invented a rifled cannon with ratchet grooves which had great range and accuracy; commanded 91st Lanarkshire rifle volunteers 1859; won several prizes at Wimbledon 1860; author of _The theory of human progression and natural probability of a reign of justice_ 1850, anon.; _The Elements of political science_ 1854; _Romanism, Rationalism and Protestantism_ 1855; _The logic of the Christian faith_ 1856; _The Revolver, its description and use_ 1858. _d._ Edinburgh 28 April 1873.

DOVE, THOMAS. A house painter; a marine artist of great ability; his best pictures were produced at Liverpool. _d._ in the Whitby workhouse 27 Dec. 1886.

DOVE, WILLIAM (_son of Mr. Dove of Leeds, leather manufacturer, who d. 24 Dec. 1854_). A farmer at Bramham near Tadcaster to 1855; poisoned his wife Harriet by strychnia 1 March 1856, tried at the Assizes at York 16–18 July 1856, hanged at York 9 Aug. 1856 aged 30. _G. L. Browne and C. G. Stewart’s Trials for poisoning_ (1883) 233–68; _Sir J. F. Stephen’s History of the criminal law of England iii_, 426–37 (1883); _Observations on the trials of J. Hill and W. Dove_ 1856.

DOVETON, FREDERICK LARKINS. Entered Madras army 1806; col. 8 Madras light cavalry 18 Feb. 1845 to death; L.G. 13 March 1859. _d._ Cheltenham 20 Dec. 1859 aged 68.

DOVETON, SIR JOHN (_son of Sir Wm. Webber Doveton, knt., of the H.E.I.Co.’s civil service, who d. 13 Oct. 1843 in 90 year_). _b._ St. Helena 1783; cavalry cadet in H.E.I.Co.’s army, 31 Oct. 1798; aide-de-camp to Marquis Wellesley; commanded a division of the Nizam’s army; commanded centre division of Madras army; lieut. col. 4 Madras Native Cavalry 19 Aug. 1813, col. 9 Nov. 1821; col. 5 Madras light cavalry 1847 to death; general 20 June 1854; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831, K.C.B. 20 July 1838. _d._ Vichy, France 23 Sep. 1857.

DOW, REV. WILLIAM (_youngest son of Rev. Anthony Dow, D.D., minister of Kirkpatrick, Irongray, Perthshire, who d. 17 July 1834_). Educ. at Univ. of Edin., M.A. 17 April 1839; licensed by Presbytery of Dumfries 6 Nov. 1821; presented by George iv to Tongland, Kirkcudbright 13 June and ordained 21 Sep. 1826; withdrew his adherence to the confession of faith, deposed by the General Assembly 23 May 1832; called to be an Apostle of the Catholic Apostolic church when at Kirkcudbright, June 1835; made a tour of the continent 1839 as the Apostle to Russia; a writer in the _Morning Watch_; author of _A series of discourses on practical and doctrinal subjects_ 1847, _second series_ 1850; _Sermons and Homilies_ 1856; _First principles of the doctrine of Christ_ 1856. _d._ Albury, Surrey 3 Nov. 1855 aged 56. _Miller’s Irvingism i_, 157, 166, 181, 271 (1878); _Scott’s Fasti, vol. 1, pt. 2, p. 725_.

NOTE.—His elder brother Rev. David Dow, assistant minister of Kirkpatrick, Irongray, was called to be an Apostle of the Catholic Apostolic church when at Irongray, June 1835 but declined to accept the call; he went to the Cape of Good Hope and became a farmer.

DOWBIGGIN, MONTAGU HAMILTON (_son of Wm. Henry Dowbiggin 1780–1849, lieut. 12 Lancers, by Georgina 5 dau. of 1 Baron Panmure_). _b._ 15 Jany. 1832; ensign 71 foot 30 June 1848; major 99 foot 22 July 1859, lieut. col. 3 March 1863 to 10 Dec. 1863 when placed on h.p.; served in Crimean war 1854–55; the object of Lord Panmure’s celebrated telegram to Lord Raglan “Take care of Dowb”; retired from army June 1865; knight of the Legion of Honour 1856. _d._ Portland place, Brighton 3 Feb. 1866. _bur._ Haversham, Bucks.

DOWDESWELL, GEORGE (_youngest son of George Dowdeswell, M.D. of Gloucester, who d. 1776_). Writer Bengal civil service 7 Aug. 1783; sec. to Board of Revenue 25 Aug. 1794; sec. in judicial and revenue departments 16 March 1801; superintendent general of police 1805; chief sec. to Government 30 Oct. 1812; member of supreme council 28 Dec. 1814 to 1823 when he resigned. _d._ Down house, Redmarley, Worcs. 6 Feb. 1852 aged 86.

DOWDESWELL, JOHN EDMUND (_youngest child of Wm. Dowdeswell, M.P. for Worcs. who d. 1775_). _b._ 3 March 1772; ed. at Westminster 1779–89 and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1793, M.A. 1795; pupil of Sir Samuel Romilly; barrister I.T. 6 May 1796, bencher 1834, reader 1841, treasurer 1842; recorder for Tewkesbury 1798–1833; M.P. for Tewkesbury 1812–1832; comr. of bankrupts 1806–1820; master in Chancery 8 Feb. 1820 to 1851. _d._ Pull court near Tewkesbury 11 Nov. 1851.

DOWDESWELL, WILLIAM (_elder son of the preceding_). _b._ Oct. 1804; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; contested Tewkesbury 12 Dec. 1832; M.P. for Tewkesbury 1835 to 1847; sheriff of Worcs. 1855. _d._ Pull court 6 Feb. 1887.

DOWKER, HOWARD. Entered Madras army 1813; col. 40 Madras N.I. 3 March 1848 to 1853, col. 2 Madras N.I. 1853–1869; L.G. 21 April 1863. _d._ 5 Feb. 1870.

DOWLING, ALFRED SEPTIMUS (_son of Vincent Dowling of 30 Lincolns Inn Fields, London, bookseller_). Barrister G.I. 18 June 1828; serjeant at law 12 Nov. 1842; judge of county courts circuit No. 15 Yorkshire 9 Nov. 1849 to death; a comr. for inquiring into state of county courts 20 Aug. 1853; author of _A collection of statutes passed 1830–2_, _2 vols._ 1832; _A collection of statutes passed 2 Wm. iv and 3 Wm. iv_, 1833; _Reports of cases in King’s Bench practice courts with the points of pleading and practice decided in the Courts of Common Pleas and Exchequer 1830–41_, _7 vols._ 1833–42, _new series (with Vincent Dowling) 1841–43_, _2 vols._ 1843–44; _Reports of cases in continuation of the above (with J. J. Lowndes) 1844–49_, _7 vols._ 1845–51; _The practice of the superior courts_ 1848. _d._ 34 Acacia road, St. John’s Wood, London 3 March 1868 aged 63.

DOWLING, FRANK LEWIS (_son of Vincent George Dowling 1785–1852_). _b._ 18 Oct. 1823; barrister M.T. 24 Nov. 1848; edited _Bell’s Life in London_ 1852 to death; edited and published annual issues of _Fistiana, or the Oracle of the Ring_ 1853–64, prepared another ed. published 1868; managed the fight between Heenan and Sayers at Farnborough, Hants. 17 April 1860. _d._ Norfolk st. Strand, London 10 Oct. 1867. _Illustrated Sporting News 19 Oct. 1867 p._ 657, _portrait_.

DOWLING, REV. JOHN. _b._ Pevensey, Sussex 12 May 1807; kept a boarding school near Oxford 1829–32; ordained Baptist minister in Catskill, New York 1832; minister at Newport, Rhode Island 1834–36, in New York 1836; preached in Providence, Philadelphia, Newark and other places; D.D. Transylvania University; author of _Exposition of the prophecies_ 1840; _Defence of the Protestant Scriptures_ 1843; _The History of Romanism_ 1845 and other books. _d._ Middletown, New York 4 July 1878. _M. H. Smith’s Sunshine and shadow in New York_ (1868) 589–92.

DOWLING, VINCENT GEORGE (_brother of Alfred Septimus Dowling, who d. 1868_). _b._ London 1785; contributed to the _Observer_ from 1804; employed on the _Day_ newspaper 1809; edited _Bell’s Life in London_, Aug. 1824 to death, a service of plate value 100 guineas voted him 18 July 1833; one of the first persons to seize Bellingham when he shot Spencer Perceval in lobby of House of Commons 11 May 1812; claimed to be the author of the plan on which new police system was organised; edited and published _Fistiana or the Oracle of the Ring_, 14 editions 1840–52. _d._ Stanmore lodge, Kilburn, London 25 Oct. 1852. _I.L.N. 13 Nov. 1852 pp._ 406, 408, _portrait_.

DOWN, JAMES SOMERS. Entered Bombay army 1819; col. 1 Bombay N.I. 13 July 1858 to 1869; L.G. 25 June 1870. _d._ Kilburn, London 25 Sep. 1871.

DOWNALL, VENERABLE JOHN (_only son of James Downall of Liverpool_). Matric. from Magd. hall, Ox. 3 July 1822 aged 19, B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; P.C. of St. George’s, Kidderminster 1843–49; V. of Okehampton, Devon 1850 to death; preb. of Exeter cath. 1855 to death; archdeacon of Totnes, April 1859 to death; author of _Laying on of hands or Letters on confirmation_ 1848; _An address after confirmation_ 1848, _5 ed._ 1858 and 7 charges and sermons. _d._ Bournemouth 7 April 1872.

DOWNE, WILLIAM HENRY DAWNAY, 7 Viscount. _b._ 15 May 1812; M.P. for Rutland 12 July 1841 to Jany. 1846; succeeded 23 May 1846. _d._ Torquay 26 Jany. 1857.

DOWNES, ULYSSES DE BURGH, 2 Baron (_only son of Thomas Burgh of Bert house, Athy, co. Kildare, who d. 1810_). _b._ Dublin 15 Aug. 1788; ensign 54 foot 31 March 1804; captain 92 foot 25 Nov. 1808; captain Grenadier guards 25 July 1814 to 5 July 1827 when placed on h.p.; surveyor general of the ordnance 18 March 1820 to 14 May 1827, clerk of the ordnance 1828–30; aide-de-camp to the Sovereign 27 May 1825 to 10 Jany. 1837; col. of 54 foot 4 April 1845, of 29 foot 15 Aug. 1850 to death; general 20 June 1854; succeeded his cousin 2 March 1826; Irish representative peer 4 April 1833 to death; reassumed ancient name of De Burgh 1848; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 18 May 1860. _d._ Bert house, Athy 26 July 1863.

DOWNIE, SIR ALEXANDER MACKENZIE (_youngest son of Rev. Alexander Downie, minister of Lochalsh, Rosshire_). _b._ 1811; physician to Princess Elizabeth, landgravine of Hesse Homburg; knighted at St. James’s palace 1 July 1840 for his attention to the Princess; phys. to British legation at Frankfort 1834–49; phys. in ordinary to Duke of Cambridge 30 Nov. 1840; phys. extraordinary in household of Duchess of Kent 1846; author of _A short description of Kissingen_ 1841; _A practical treatise on mineral waters in the cure of chronic disease_ 1841. _d._ Frankfort 3 Feb. 1852.

DOWNING, DAVID. Ensign 6 Bengal N.I. 16 Aug. 1819; colonel Bengal infantry 7 May 1855; general 23 Aug. 1875. _d._ The Grange, Plaxtole, Kent 18 Dec. 1888 aged 88.

DOWNING, M’CARTHY (_2 son of Eugene Downing of Kenmare, co. Kerry_). _b._ 11 May 1814; took an active part in formation of Irish parliamentary party of 1852; M.P. for county Cork 30 Nov. 1868 to death. _d._ Prospect house, Skibbereen, co. Cork 9 Jany. 1879.

DOWNING, SAMUEL (_son of Rev. Samuel Downing, R. of Fenagh, Leighlin_). _b._ Bagenalstown, Carlow 19 June 1811; ed. at Kilkenny coll. and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1834; educ. in engineering at Edin.; employed in construction of viaduct from Portland island to mainland, and on the Coed-re-Coed curved viaduct on Taff Vale railway; assistant professor of engineering Trinity coll. 1847, professor 1852 to death; Assoc. I.C.E. 2 March 1852; author of _The elements of practical hydraulics for the use of students_ 1855, _3 ed._ 1875; _Elements of practical construction in engineering and architecture_ 1875; _Selections and specifications of public works_. _d._ 21 April 1882. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxii_, 310–11 (1883).

DOWNMAN, HUGH. _b._ Plymouth 29 Oct. 1765; entered navy 10 Oct. 1776; captain 26 Dec. 1798; admiral 24 April 1847; awarded pension 1 July 1851. _d._ Hambledon, Hants. 4 Jany. 1858.

DOWNMAN, SIR THOMAS CHARLES FRANCIS (_eld. son of Col. Francis Downman, Royal artillery_). _b._ St. Neots, Hunts. 1776; 2 lieut. R.A. 24 April 1793; lieut. col. R.H.A. 20 Dec. 1814, col. commandant 28 Sep. 1843 to death; commanded Woolwich district and garrison 1848 to death; aide-de-camp to the Sovereign 27 May 1825 to 10 Jany. 1837; L.G. 9 Nov. 1846; C.B. 8 Dec. 1815; K.C.B. 6 April 1852; K.C.H. 1831; knighted at St. James’s palace 13 Sep. 1831. _d._ Royal arsenal, Woolwich 11 Aug. 1852.

DOWNSHIRE, ARTHUR WILLS BLUNDELL SANDYS TRUMBULL WINDSOR HILL, 4 Marquis of (_eld. child of 3 Marquis of Downshire 1788–1845_). _b._ Hillsborough castle, co. Down 6 Aug. 1812; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; ensign Royal South Down militia 4 June 1833, col. 30 July 1845 to death; M.P. for co. Down 30 Aug. 1836 to 12 April 1845 when he succeeded; K.P. 24 May 1859. _d._ Dolphin hotel, Herne Bay 6 Aug. 1868.

DOWTON, JOHN. _b._ Uxbridge 1820; tutor at Haileybury; professor of Hindustani at University college, London and at Staff college, Sandhurst 1855–77; author of _Grammar of the Urdu or Hindustani language_ 1862; _Classical dictionary of Hindu mythology and religion, history and literature_ 1879; edited from the papers of Sir H. M. Elliott _History of India as told by its own historians 8 vols._ 1867–77. _d._ Sandhurst lodge, East Worthing 23 Aug. 1881.

DOWTON, WILLIAM (_son of Mr. Dowton of Exeter, Innkeeper_). _b._ Exeter 25 April 1764; joined a company of strolling players at Ashburton 1781; acted with Mrs. Baker’s company in Kent 1791–96; made his first appearance in London at Drury Lane as Sheva in _The Jew_ 11 Oct. 1796, continued at Drury Lane 36 years playing at the Haymarket in the summer; manager of theatres at Canterbury and Maidstone; acted in New York, June to Nov. 1836; one of the most versatile actors of his time. _d._ Brighton terrace, Brixton 19 April 1851. _Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography iv_, 253–62 (1826), _portrait_; _Bentley’s Miscellany xli_, 318–30 (1857); _Cumberland’s British Theatre xxvii_, 7–8, _portrait_; _British Stage, Nov. 1819 pp._ 25–6, _portrait_; _Tallis’s Dramatic Mag. June 1851 pp._ 235–6, _portrait_; _Illust. sporting and dramatic news 30 Oct. 1880 pp._ 160, 162, _portrait_.

DOWTON, WILLIAM (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ 1793; manager of the Kent circuit 1815–35; made his first appearance in London at Drury Lane theatre 3 Dec. 1832 as Tangent; a brother of the Charterhouse 1846 to death. _d._ the Charterhouse, London 19 Sep. 1883.

DOXAT, LEWIS. _b._ British West Indies 1773; employed on the _Morning Chronicle_ in London 25 years; manager of the _Observer_ 1804–57; manager of the _Morning Chronicle_ 1821–34. _d._ 13 Queen’s crescent, Haverstock hill, London 4 March 1871 aged 98.

DOYLE, ANDREW (_3 son of Andrew Doyle of Dublin, merchant_). _b._ 1809; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; barrister L.I. 10 June 1842; inspector of poor law board, Feb. 1848 to 1871, of local government board 1871–76, his district included nearly all Wales; prepared elaborate reports on vagrancy 1849 and 1865, on pauper education 1850 and 1862, and a detailed report on sanitary state of his district on passing of first Public Health act 1872; assistant comr. on agricultural depression in England for Western district 1879–80. _d._ Pendarren, Crickhowell, Breconshire 14 Dec. 1888.

DOYLE, SIR CHARLES HASTINGS (_eld. son of Sir Charles Wm. Doyle, C.B. 1770–1842_). _b._ 10 April 1803; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign 87 foot 23 Dec. 1819; A.A.G. in Ireland 1847; inspector general of militia in Ireland 1856–61; commanded the troops in Nova Scotia 1861–68; lieut. governor of New Brunswick Oct. 1866 to Oct. 1867; lieut. governor of Nova Scotia, Oct. 1867 to May 1873; col. of 70 foot May 1868, of 87 foot 10 Oct. 1870 to death; commanded forces in British North America 1870–74, and Southern district of England 1874–77; general 15 March 1877, placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877; K.C.M.G. 23 June 1869. _d._ at his lodgings 18 Bolton st. Piccadilly, London 19 March 1883.

DOYLE, SIR FRANCIS HASTINGS CHARLES, 2 Baronet (_only son of Sir Francis Hastings Doyle, 1 baronet 1783–1839_). _b._ Nun Appleton, Yorkshire 22 Aug. 1810; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1832, B.C.L. 1843, hon. D.C.L. 1877; fellow of All Souls’ coll. 1835–45 and 1872–77; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1837; assistant solicitor of the Excise 1845–46; receiver general of Customs 1846 to Nov. 1869; comr. of Customs, Nov. 1869 to 1883; professor of poetry at Oxford 20 June 1867 to June 1877; author of _Miscellaneous Verses_ 1834; _Two Destinies, a poem_ 1844; _Return of the guards and other poems_ 1866; _Lectures delivered before the University of Oxford_ 1868, _second series_ 1877; _Reminiscences and opinions_ 1886. _d._ 46 Davies st. Berkeley sq. London 8 Feb. 1888.

DOYLE, JOHN. _b._ Dublin 1797; portrait painter in London 1821; published 6 plates entitled _The life of a racehorse_ 1822; issued under initials of H. B. a series of lithographed caricatures entitled _Political sketches of H. B., Nos. 1–917 a series of coloured lithographic prints 9 vols._ 1829–51, there was a key to them entitled _A Key to the political sketches Nos. 1–600 of H. B. 11 vols._ 1831–43; paid £300 by the War Office for an improved Tent 1856. _d._ 54 Clifton gardens, Maida Vale, London 2 Jany. 1868. _Everitt’s English caricaturists_ (1886) 238–86; _J. Paget’s Paradoxes and puzzles_ (1874) 461–3; _The Month viii_, 392–411 (1868).

DOYLE, SIR JOHN MILLEY (_2 son of Rev. Nicholas Milley Doyle, R. of Newcastle, co. Tipperary_). _b._ 1781; ensign 107 foot 31 May 1794; lieut. col. Portuguese army March 1809; commanded sixth Portuguese brigade 1813–14; lieut. col. on half pay 11 May 1820; retired from service as col. 27 May 1825; M.P. for co. Carlow 1831–32; served in Portuguese army 1832 to May 1834; military knight of Windsor, July 1853; serjeant at arms to the Queen, June 1854 to death; nominated K.T.S. 12 Oct. 1812, gazetted 20 March 1813; knighted by Prince Regent at Carlton house 28 July 1814; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815; published pamphlets and petitions 1829–46 by which he got the mixed commission appointed to liquidate claims of English officers who served in Portuguese army. _d._ Lower ward, Windsor castle 9 Aug. 1856.

DOYLE, PERCY WILLIAM (_brother of Sir Charles Hastings Doyle 1803–83_). _b._ 1806; attached to British mission at Washington 2 June 1825; sec. of legation to Mexican republic 6 Dec. 1842, minister plenipotentiary 24 Dec. 1851 to 19 Feb. 1858 when he retired on pension; C.B. 4 March 1858. _d._ 5 Half Moon st. Piccadilly, London 21 Feb. 1888.

DOYLE, RICHARD (_2 son of John Doyle 1797–1868_). _b._ London, Sep. 1824; published _The Eglinton Tournament or the days of chivalry revived_ 1839; kept a manuscript ‘Journal’ 1840, issued in facsimile 1885; contributed sketches and cartoons to _Punch_ 1843–50; designed the cover for _Punch_ now used; his _Manners and customs of ye Englyshe_ appeared in _Punch_ 1849; published _The foreign tour of Brown, Jones and Robinson_ 1854; illustrated _The Newcomes_ by Thackeray 1854 and other books; contributed _Birds’-eye views of society_ to _Cornhill Mag._ 1861–63; many water-colours by him were exhibited at Grosvenor gallery, London 1885; drawn by Leech in his cartoon entitled “Mr. Punch’s fancy ball” in _Punch vol. xii, p._ 14, Jany. 1847, as the clarionet player in the orchestra. _d._ 7 Finborough road, South Kensington, London 11 Dec. 1883. _Everitt’s English caricaturists_ (1886) 381–94; _Gillow’s English Catholics ii_, 101–3 (1885); _W. M. Rossetti’s Fine Art_ (1867) 289–91; _Blackwood’s Mag. April 1885 pp._ 485–91; _Graphic xxviii_, 608 (1883), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxxiv_, 13 (1884), _portrait_.

DOYLE, REV. THOMAS. _b._ 21 Dec. 1793; ed. at St. Edmund’s college, Ware, ordained priest 1819; priest at Royal Belgian chapel, London road, Southwark 1820, senior priest there 1829; St. George’s R.C. cathedral in St. George’s Fields was built owing to his exertions, consecrated 4 July 1848; Provost of cathedral chapter of Southwark 1850 to death; wrote letters in _The Tablet_ and other periodicals under signature of ‘Father Thomas.’ _d._ St. George’s Cathedral, London 6 June 1879. _Gillow’s English Catholics ii_, 103–5 (1885).

DOYLE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (_son of Edward Doyle_). _b._ Nassau, Bahamas 1823; barrister M.T. 8 May 1846; registrar of court of bankruptcy for Bahamas 1847–58; assistant justice of general court of Bahamas 1858, chief justice and pres. of legislative council 14 Sep. 1865 to 31 March 1875; knighted at Windsor Castle 12 Dec. 1873; chief justice of Leeward Islands 31 March 1875; chief justice of Gibraltar, judge of vice admiralty court and court of requests 14 May 1877 to death. _d._ 8 Montpellier villas, Cheltenham 27 April 1879.

DOYLEY, HENRY (_youngest son of Ven. Matthias Doyley, archdeacon of Lewes, who d. 13 Nov. 1815 aged 71_). _b._ 21 April 1780; ensign Grenadier guards 2 Aug. 1797, lieut. col. 10 Jany. 1837 to 28 June 1838; col. 33 foot 28 Sep. 1847 to death; general 30 Jany. 1855. _d._ Nevill park, Tunbridge Wells 26 Sep. 1855.

DOYLEY, THOMAS (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ London 16 Nov. 1774; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1795, B.C.L. 1800, D.C.L. 1804; fellow of All Souls’ college 1800–20; barrister M.T. 9 Nov. 1798; serjeant at law 9 Feb. 1819, received patent of precedence 1834; chairman of quarter sessions, West Sussex; edited with E. V. Williams _Burn’s Justice of the Peace 5 vols._ 1836. _d._ Rottingdean near Brighton 14 Jany. 1855.

DOYNE, WILLIAM THOMAS (_2 son of Rev. J. Doyne, P.C. of Old Leighlin, co. Carlow_). _b._ April 1823; articled to Edward Dixon, C.E. 1840; resident engineer of Rugby and Leamington railway 1847–50; in charge of the Army works corps consisting of about 2400 navvies and artificers, at Balaclava 1855–56; practised at Melbourne 1866 to death; consulting engineer to government of Western Australia 1869; A.I.C.E. 6 March 1849, M.I.C.E. 9 Nov. 1852; author of _The causes which have retarded the construction of railways in India_ 1860; _Report upon the plains and rivers of Canterbury, New Zealand_ 1864. _d._ Melbourne 29 Sep. 1877. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. li_, 270–73 (1878).

DRAKARD, JOHN. Printer and bookseller at Stamford; started a weekly paper called _The Stamford News_ 15 Sep. 1809; sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment in Lincoln Castle and fined £200 at Lincoln 13 March 1811 for a seditious libel, an article in his paper of 24 Aug. 1810 entitled ‘One thousand lashes’; started a weekly paper called _The Champion of the East_ 5 Jany. 1830, the name was changed to the _Stamford Champion_; both his papers ceased 1834; published _Drakard’s Edition of the public and private life of Colonel Wardle, Stamford n.d._; author of _The history of Stamford_ 1822. _d._ Ripon 25 Jany. 1854 aged 79. _Howell’s State Trials xxxi_, 495–544 (1823).

DRAKE, CHARLES FREDERICK TYRWHITT (_younger son of Col. Wm. Tyrwhitt Drake of the Royal horse guards, who d. 21 Dec. 1848_). _b._ Amersham, Bucks. 2 Jany. 1846; ed. at Rugby, Wellington coll. and Trin. coll. Cam. but took no degree; spent winters of 1866 and 1867 in Morocco; visited Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Greece and Turkey 1868–70; engaged on survey of Palestine for Palestine exploration fund society 1870 to death; F.R.G.S.; author of _Modern Jerusalem_ 1875; author with Sir R. F. Burton of _Unexplored Syria 2 vols._ 1872. _d._ Jerusalem 23 June 1874. _Literary remains of C. F. T. Drake by W. Besant_ 1877; _Modern Jerusalem by the late C. F. T. Drake with a memoir_ 1875; _Palestine Fund Reports_ (1874) _pp._ 131–4.

DRAKE, JOHN POAD (_son of Thomas Drake of Stoke Damerel, Devon, who d. 20 May 1835_). Baptised at Stoke Damerel 20 July 1794; painted a picture of Napoleon on board the Bellerophon at Plymouth 1815 which he exhibited in New York; occupied with schemes for breechloading guns 1829–37; laid proposals before government for ironcased floating batteries and steam rams 1832–40; patented his diagonal system of shipbuilding and a screw trenail fastening 1837; failed to obtain adoption of any of his inventions. _d._ Fowey, Cornwall 26 Feb. 1883. _Dict. of Nat. Biog. xv_, 447 (1888).

DRAKE, SAMUEL, stage name of Samuel Bryant. _b._ England 15 Nov. 1768; apprenticed to a printer; ran away and became an actor; managed a theatre in West of England; acted at Boston theatre, U.S. 1809–13, and at Albany, New York 1813–15; managed theatres at Frankfort, Lexington and Louisville all in Kentucky 1815 to about 1827, afterwards managed theatres in Ohio, Tennessee, Missouri and Indiana; may properly be called the pioneer of the drama in the West. _d._ Oldham county, Kentucky 16 Oct. 1854.

DRAKE, SIR THOMAS TRAYTON FULLER-ELIOTT, 1 Baronet (_3 son of John Trayton Fuller of Ashdown house, Sussex, who d. 1812_). _b._ Heathfield park, Sussex 8 Feb. 1785; lieut. 52 foot 5 Oct. 1804, major 26 May 1814 to 25 May 1815 when placed on h.p.; assumed additional surnames of Eliott and Drake by r.l. 31 March 1813; created baronet 22 Aug. 1821; sheriff of Devon 1822; edited _Life of Sir F. Drake_ 1828. _d._ Nutwell court near Exeter 6 June 1870.

DRAKE, THOMAS TYRWHITT (_eld. son of Thomas Drake of Shardeloes, Bucks., who d. 1810_). _b._ 16 March 1783; M.P. for Amersham, Bucks. 31 Jany. 1805 to 3 Dec. 1832; sheriff of Bucks. 1836; master of hounds in the Bicester country many years. _d._ Bucknell, Oxfordshire 23 March 1852.

DRAKE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (_son of John Drake, deputy commissary general, who d. 24 June 1867 aged 84_). _b._ 1812; deputy assistant commissary general 16 April 1835, commissary general 21 June 1859; controller in Ireland 1867, in Great Britain 1869; director of supplies and transports 3 Sep. 1871 to 29 Sep. 1872; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856, K.C.B. 20 May 1871. _d._ 10 Clanricarde gardens, Bayswater, London 28 Jany. 1882.

DRAPER, REV. DANIEL JAMES. _b._ parish of Wickham, Hants. 28 Aug. 1810; became a Wesleyan Methodist 1830; minister of Chatteris circuit 1834; minister at Sydney, N.S.W. 1836–37, 1842–46, at Melbourne 1846–47 and 1855 to 1865, at Adelaide 1847–55; president of the Conference 1859; drowned with 244 other passengers in the wreck of the “London” steamship in the Bay of Biscay 11 Jany. 1866. _F. J. Jobson’s Memorial tribute to D. J. Draper_ 1866, _portrait_.

DRAPER, JOHN WILLIAM (_son of John C. Draper, Wesleyan minister, who d. 1829_). _b._ St. Helen’s near Liverpool 5 May 1811; ed. at Woodhouse grove school, London Univ. and Univ. of Pennsylvania, M.D. 1836; professor of chemistry and natural philosophy in Hampden Sidney college, Virginia 1836–39; professor of medical department in Univ. of New York 1839, of chemistry 1840–81; pres. of New York medical college 1850–73; made first photographic portrait from life 1839 and first photograph of moon’s surface 1840; LLD. Princeton 1860; first pres. of American Chemical Soc. 1876; author of _Text book of chemistry_ 1846; _Text book of human physiology_ 1856; _History of the intellectual development of Europe 2 vols._ 1864; _History of the American civil war 3 vols._ 1871; _History of the conflict between religion and science_ 1874, translated into 9 languages. _d._ Hastings on river Hudson 20 miles north of New York 4 Jany. 1882. _Barker’s Memoir of J. W. Draper_ 1882, _portrait_; _Appleton’s American Biog. ii_, 226–27 (1887), _portrait_; _Graphic xxv_, 68, (1882), _portrait_.

DRAPER, WILLIAM HENRY (_son of Rev. Henry Draper, lecturer of St. George’s ch. Southwark_). _b._ near London 11 March 1801; arrived in Cobourg, Canada 4 June 1820; called to bar in Canada 16 June 1828; reporter to the King’s Bench 18 Nov. 1829 to March 1837; solicitor general of Upper Canada 23 March 1837, member of executive council, Dec. 1837, the first attorney general for Upper Canada 13 Feb. 1841 to 28 May 1847; Q.C. 1842; a legislative councillor of Canada 10 April 1843 to Jany. 1845; member of legislative assembly Jany. 1845 to 28 May 1847; a puisne judge of Queen’s Bench 12 June 1847; chief justice of Common Pleas 5 Feb. 1856; chief justice of Upper Canada 22 July 1863 to 20 Oct. 1868; C.B. 23 June 1854; pres. of court of error and appeal Ontario 20 Oct. 1868; author of _Upper Canada King’s Bench Reports_ 1729–31, _2 vols._ 1861–62. _d._ Yorkville, Toronto 3 Nov. 1877. _Law Magazine and law review xxvii_, 362 (1869).

DRAYTON, HENRI. _b._ Philadelphia 1822; ed. at Paris Conservatoire; primo basso in Italian opera in France and Belgium 1848–50; sang in English opera in London 1850–59; gave parlor opera entertainments with his wife in the United States 1859–61 when he returned to England; sang with Riching’s English Opera company in America 1867–70; author of dramas and operas. _d._ 57 East ninth st. New York 11 Aug. 1872. _I.L.N. xxx_, 411 (1856), _portrait_.

DREW, ANDREW. _b._ 27 Nov. 1792; entered navy 4 May 1806; commodore of provincial marine of Upper Canada 1838–39; captain on h.p. 10 June 1843; agent victualler at Cape of Good Hope 16 Dec. 1850 to 30 Jany. 1863; admiral on h.p. 30 July 1875; discovered a dangerous shoal between Trinidad and Tobago 1842, afterwards called Drew’s Rock. _d._ Glenwood house, Peckham Rye, Surrey 19 Dec. 1878. _A narrative of the capture of the Caroline_ 1844.

NOTE.—He successfully defended Cape Coast castle in 1824 with 160 sailors against an attack by 50,000 Ashantees. During the Canadian rebellion in 1838 with only about 35 men he captured the rebel steamer Caroline and sent it burning over the falls of Niagara, one of the most daring exploits recorded in naval history.

DREW, REV. GEORGE SMITH (_son of George Drew of 11 Tottenham court road, London, tea dealer_). _b._ Louth, Lincs. 1819; sizar at St. John’s coll. Cam. 22 Jany. 1839; 27 wrangler 1843; Inc. of St. John the Evangelist, St. Pancras, London 1850–54; V. of Pulloxhill, Beds. 1854–58; V. of St. Barnabas, South Kensington, London 1858–70; select preacher to Univ. of Cam. 1869–70; R. of Avington, Hants. 1870–72; Hulsean lecturer at Cam. 1877; V. of Holy Trinity, Lambeth, London 18 Sep. 1872 to death; F.R.G.S.; author of _Scripture studies or readings in the Old Testament_ 1855, _2 ed._ 1869; _Scripture lands in connection with their history_ 1860, _2 ed._ 1862; _Reasons of faith or the Christian argument developed_ 1862, _2 ed._ 1869 and 11 other books. _d._ Holy Trinity vicarage, Lambeth 21 Jany. 1880.

DREW, JOHN. _b._ Bower Chalk, Wiltshire 1809; kept a school at Southampton 1826–42; built a small observatory there 1847; supplied the correct time to ships leaving Southampton many years; Ph.D. Univ. of Basle; F.R.A.S. 9 Jany. 1846; a founder of Meteorological Soc. 1850; author of _A manual of Astronomy_ 1845, _2 ed._ 1853; _Practical meteorology_ 1855, re-edited by his son 1860 and other books and many papers. _d._ Surbiton, Surrey 17 Dec. 1857.

DREW, JOHN. _b._ Dublin 3 Sep. 1825; appeared at Bowery theatre, New York 1845 as Dr. O’Toole in _The Irish Tutor_; lessee with Wm. Wheatley of Arch st. theatre, Philadelphia 20 Aug. 1853 to 1855; acted in England 1855, California 1858 and Australia 1859; returned to New York from England 9 Jany. 1862; best Irish comedian on American stage; played for last time 9 May 1862. _d._ Philadelphia 21 May 1862. _T. A. Brown’s History of the American stage_ (1870) p. 105, _portrait_.

DREW, REV. WILLIAM HENRY. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., 8 wrangler 1849; B.A. 1849, M.A. 1856; mathematical master at Blackheath proprietary school 1856–73; C. of Crockenhill near Dartford 1866–73; professor of mathematics at King’s college, London June 1869 to death; author of _A geometrical treatise on conic sections_ 1857, _6 ed._ 1880. _d._ Park house, Maida hill west, London 14 July 1882 aged 55.

DRISCOLL, HENRY. _b._ Dublin 1792; ensign 67 foot 13 June 1811; lieut. 100 foot 3 March 1814; lieut. 99 foot 1815 to 1817 when removed from the army; studied for the bar at Montreal; edited the _Herald_ newspaper; edited the _Courant_ newspaper; called to Canadian bar May 1823; Q.C.; police magistrate 1840. _d._ Montreal 28 Oct. 1869.

DROOP, HENRY RICHMOND (_son of John Abraham Droop of Stamford Hill, Middlesex_). _b._ about 1831; ed. at Marlborough and Trin. coll. Cam., scholar 1853, 3 wrangler 1854; fellow of his coll. 1855, mathematical lecturer; B.A. 1854, M.A. 1857; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1859; author of _North side of the table, a criticism_ 1866; _Proportional representation as applied to election of local governing bodies_ 1871; _Relations between an invading army and the inhabitants_ 1871; _The Edwardian vestments an investigation_ 1875. _d._ 11 Cleveland gardens, London 21 March 1884.

DROUGHT, THOMAS ARMSTRONG. _b._ 1798; Ensign 15 Foot 11 Nov. 1813, lieut. col. 21 March 1845 to 1 Oct. 1854; inspecting field officer 1 Oct. 1854 to 11 Jany. 1860; col. 45 Foot 25 June 1866 to 21 April 1868; col. 15 Foot 21 April 1868 to death; general 29 May 1875. _d._ Hill house, Winchester 22 Aug. 1877.

DRUCE, CHARLES CLARIDGE (_one of the 24 children of Charles Druce of city of London, solicitor 1791–1881_). _b._ Billiter sq. London 1819; solicitor in Billiter sq. 1843 to death; vice pres. of Incorporated Law Society 1880–81, pres. 1881–82. _d._ Brighton 10 June 1885 in 66 year.

DRUCE, GEORGE (_brother of the preceding_). Educ. at Shrewsbury and St. Peter’s coll. Cam., senior classic 1843, 2 chancellor’s medallist 1843; B.A. 1843, M.A. 1846; fellow of his college 1846; barrister L.I. 19 Nov. 1846; Q.C. 13 Dec. 1866; one of standing counsel to univ. of Cam. Nov. 1867 to death. _d._ Denmark hill, Camberwell, London 15 April 1869 aged 48 in consequence of an accident while riding the day before. _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_, 470–71 (1869).

DRUITT, ROBERT. _b._ Wimborne, Dorset, Dec. 1814; studied at King’s college and Middlesex hospital; L.S.A. 1836; M.R.C.S. 1837, F.R.C.S. 1845; F.R.C.P. 1874; M.D. Lambeth, Sep. 1878; practised in London from 1837; on his retirement 370 subscribers presented him with a cheque for £1215 in a silver cup; edited _The Medical Times and Gazette_ 1862–72; a medical officer of health for St. George’s, Hanover sq. 1856–67; pres. of Metropolitan Association of medical officers of health 1864–72; author of _The Surgeon’s Vade Mecum_ 1839, _11 ed._ 1878; _Report on the cheap wines, their quality, wholesomeness and price_ 1865, _2 ed._ 1873. _d._ 8 Strathmore gardens, Kensington, London 15 May 1883. _W. T. Robertson’s Photographs of medical men_ (1868) _ii_, 109–13, _portrait_.

DRUMMOND, BERKELEY. _b._ 27 May 1796; ensign 3 Foot guards 5 March 1812, lieut. col. 31 Dec. 1844 to 28 June 1850 when placed on h.p.; col. 3 Foot 12 Dec. 1857 to death; L.G. 9 April 1859. _d._ Eaglehurst, Hants. 3 May 1860.

DRUMMOND, GEORGE HARLEY. _b._ 23 Nov. 1783; M.P. for Kincardineshire 26 Feb. 1812 to 29 Feb. 1820. _d._ 23 July 1853.

DRUMMOND, SIR GORDON (_4 son of Colin Drummond, paymaster general of the forces at Quebec_). _b._ Quebec 27 Sep. 1772; ensign 1 foot 21 Sep. 1789; lieut. col. 8 foot 22 April 1794 to 28 July 1804; commanded a division in Jamaica 1805–1807; won battle of Niagara 25 July 1814; commanded forces in Canada 1814–16; col. of 97 foot 8 Feb. 1814 to 24 Nov. 1818 when regiment was disbanded; col. of 88 foot 10 March 1819, of 71 foot 16 Jany. 1824, of 49 foot 21 Sep. 1829, of 8 foot 24 April 1846 to death; general 27 May 1825; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 7 Jany. 1817. _d._ 25 Norfolk st. Park lane, London 10 Oct. 1854. _Historical record of King’s Liverpool regiment of foot_, _2 ed._ (1883) 270–71.

DRUMMOND, HENRY (_eld. son of Henry Drummond of the Grange, Hants. 1762–94_). _b._ 5 Dec. 1786; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox.; partner in Drummond’s bank, London; M.P. for Plympton Earle, Devon 1810–13; M.P. for West Surrey 1847 to death; founded professorship of political economy at Oxford 1825; F.R.S. 19 Dec. 1839; seceded from Church of England and was immersed by Rev. James Harrington Evans about 1817, for whom he built a chapel in John st. Bedford Row, London 1818; one of founders of Catholic Apostolic or Irvingite church 1832, pastor at Albury near Guildford 20 Oct. 1832, apostle at Albury 25 Sep. 1833; took charge of Scotland and Switzerland 1833 to death, built the C.A. church at Albury 1835 at cost of £16,000; erected new parish church of SS. Peter and Paul at Albury 1841; author of _Dialogues on prophecy 3 vols._ 1828–29; _Social Duties_ 1830; _Condition of Agricultural classes 2 vols._ 1842; _On Tracts for the Times 24 parts_ 1843; _Histories of British families 8 parts_ 1844–49 and about 90 other books and pamphlets. _d._ Albury Park near Guildford 20 Feb. 1860. _Miller’s History of Irvingism 2 vols._ 1878; _London quarterly review Oct. 1860 pp._ 255–84; _Speeches of Henry Drummond edited by Lord Lovaine 2 vols._ 1860.

DRUMMOND, HENRY. Second lieut. Bengal engineers 2 Dec. 1843, col. 23 July 1874 to 1 June 1878 when he retired on full pay with hon. rank of M.G.; sec. of government of India public works department 1874–78. _d._ at his residence near Bedford 28 March 1883.

DRUMMOND, HENRY HOME. _b._ 28 July 1783; M.P. for co. Stirling 1820–1831, for Perthshire 1840–1852. _d._ Blair Drummond near Stirling 12 Sep. 1867. _Proc. of R. S. of Edin. vi_, 191 (1869).

DRUMMOND, JAMES. Botanical collector; in charge of Cork botanic garden to 1829; A.L.S. 1810; went to Swan River, Western Australia 1829; Lindley’s _Sketch of the vegetation of the Swan River_ 1839 was drawn up from his collections; _Drummondita_ a genus of Diosmeæ was founded by Dr. Harvey 1855. _d._ Western Australia 27 March 1863 aged 79.

DRUMMOND, JAMES (_son of Mr. Drummond of Edinburgh, merchant_). _b._ 1810; studied in School of Design, Edin.; subject and history painter; A.R.S.A. 1846, R.S.A. 1852, librarian 1857; curator of National gallery, Edin. 1868; member of council of Royal Scottish Soc. of Antiquaries and curator of the museum; exhibited 11 pictures at R.A., 5 at B.I. and 5 at Suffolk st. gallery 1839–72; author of _Catalogue of national gallery of Scotland_ 1869 many editions. _d._ Edinburgh 12 Aug. 1877.

DRUMMOND, JAMES LAWSON (_son of William Drummond, surgeon R.N._) _b._ Larne, co. Antrim 1783; surgeon in the navy 1807 to 21 May 1813; M.D. Edin. 24 June 1814; practised in Belfast from 1814; professor of anatomy Belfast Academical Institution 15 Dec. 1818 to Nov. 1849 when collegiate part of the Instit. was merged in Queen’s College; chief founder of Belfast natural history society 5 June 1821; author of _Thoughts on the study of natural history_ 1820, anon.; _First steps to botany_ 1823; _Letters to a young naturalist_ 1831; _First steps to anatomy_ 1845. _d._ 8 College sq. north, Belfast 17 May 1853. _bur._ Ahoghill, co. Antrim 19 May. _Proc. of Belfast Nat. Hist. and Philos. Soc._ (1882) 13.

DRUMMOND, JOHN (_only son of John Drummond of The Boyce Court near Ledbury, who d. 13 May 1835 aged 81_). _b._ 5 Oct. 1793; ed. at Harrow; ensign Coldstream guards 22 Nov. 1810, captain 22 June 1826 to 13 April 1832 when placed on h.p.; general 10 Feb. 1865. _d._ The Boyce court 15 April 1875.

DRUMMOND, JOHN GAVIN. Entered Bengal army 1807; lieut. col. 30 Bengal N.I. 1847 to death; quartermaster general Bengal army 8 Feb. 1850 to death; C.B. 30 Oct. 1844. _d._ Ghelum, Bengal 11 Jany. 1852.

DRUMMOND, PETER ROBERT. _b._ parish of Madderty, Perthshire 1802; kept a circulating library at 15 High st. Perth 1832; a bookseller at 32 High st. Perth and then at 46 George st.; built the Exchange hotel, Perth; a farmer at Balmblair, Perthshire; gained a medal for a churn at Great Exhibition 1851; author of _The tenants and landlords versus the free traders, By Powdavie_ 1850; _Perthshire in bygone days, one hundred biographical essays_ 1879; _The life of Robert Nicoll poet, edited by James Drummond_ 1884. _d._ Ellengowen, Almond Bank near Perth 4 Sep. 1879 in 77 year.

DRUMMOND, REV. WILLIAM HAMILTON (_brother of James Lawson Drummond 1783–1853_). _b._ Larne, co. Antrim, Aug. 1778; ed. at Belfast academy and Glasgow college; licensed by Unitarian presbytery of Antrim 9 April 1800; second minister of Belfast 26 Aug. 1800 to 1815; kept a boarding school at Mount college, Belfast; D.D. Marischal college, Aberdeen 29 Jany. 1810; minister at Strand st. Dublin from 15 Oct. 1815; M.R.I.A. librarian, retired 1861; author of _Juvenile poems, By a Student of the University of Glasgow_ [1795]; _The Man of Age_ 1797, _2 ed._ 1798; _The doctrine of the Trinity_ 1827, _3 ed._ 1831; _The life of Michael Servetus_ 1848 and 20 other books. _d._ Lower Gardiner st. Dublin 16 Oct. 1865. _Sermons of Rev. W. H. Drummond with memoir by J. S. Porter_ 1867, 2 _portraits_.

DRURY, BYRON (_son of Rev. Henry Drury of Harrow school_). _b._ 1815; entered navy 13 Aug. 1830; surveyed coast of New Zealand 1850–56; captain 8 Aug. 1857; retired 31 March 1866; retired admiral 7 April 1885; F.R.G.S. _d._ 4 Cambridge villas, Cheltenham 6 Nov. 1888.

DRURY, VENERABLE HENRY (_eld. son of Henry Joseph Thomas Drury 1778–1841_). _b._ Harrow 11 May 1812; ed. at Harrow and Caius coll. Cam., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840; R. of Alderley, Gloucs. 1843; V. of Bremhill, Wilts. Jany. 1845 to death; exam. chaplain to bishop of Salisbury 1850 to death; preb. of Salisbury cath. 1855 to death; chaplain of House of Commons, Sep. 1857 to death; archdeacon of Wilts, July 1862 to death; published with some friends a collection of translations into Latin and Greek by Cambridge men entitled _Arundines Cami_ 1841, 6 ed. 1865. _d._ Bremhill vicarage 25 Jany. 1863. _G.M. xiv_, 660–61 (1863).

DRURY, WILLIAM BARKER (_eld. son of Rev. Richard Drury of Dublin_). _b._ Dublin 1812; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; called to Irish bar 1835; registrar of Irish Court of Chancery 1859 to death; published _Reports of cases in the Court of Chancery tempore Sugden 1843–4_, _Dublin_ 1851; _Select cases in the Court of Chancery tempore Napier 1858–9_, _Dublin_ 1860; published with F. W. Walsh _Reports of cases in the Court of Chancery tempore Plunket 1837–40_, _2 vols._ _Dublin_ 1839–42; with R. Warren _Reports of cases in the Court of Chancery tempore Sugden 1841–43_, _4 vols. Dublin_ 1843–46. _d._ Harcourt st. Dublin 9 Jany. 1885 in 73 year.

DRY, SIR RICHARD. _b._ Elphin near Launceston, Tasmania 15 June 1815; member of council of Tasmania, Feb. 1844; member for Launceston of legislative council 1851–62, for Tamar 1862 to death; speaker of council 30 Dec. 1851 to 1855; knighted by patent 12 March 1858; colonial secretary and premier 24 Nov. 1866 to death. _d._ Hobart Town 1 Aug. 1869. _Fenton’s History of Tasmania_ (1884) 74, 338, 459.

DUANE, WILLIAM JOHN (_son of William Duane of Philadelphia, journalist 1760–1835_). _b._ Clonmel, Ireland 1780; a printer, afterwards a paper dealer; admitted to the bar 1815; represented Philadelphia in the legislature; assistant editor of the _Aurora_, Philadelphia paper to 1822; sec. of the U.S. treasury 1833, removed by Jackson 23 Sep. 1833, for declining to remove the deposits from the United States bank; author of _The law of nations investigated_ 1809; _Letters to the people of Pennsylvania, on internal improvements_ 1811; _Narrative and correspondence concerning the removal of the deposits_ 1838. _d._ Philadelphia 27 Sep. 1865.

DUBOURG, GEORGE (_grandson of Matthew Dubourg, violinist 1703–1767_). _b._ 1799; contributed to various newspapers especially at Brighton; author of the words of many songs, best known of which is John Parry’s ‘Wanted a Governess’; published _The Violin, being an account of that leading instrument and its most eminent professors_ 1836, _5 ed._ 1856. _d._ Maidenhead 17 April 1882.

DUCIE, HENRY GEORGE FRANCIS REYNOLDS-MORETON, 2 Earl of (_eld. son of 1 Earl of Ducie 1775–1840_). _b._ Conduit st. London 8 May 1802; M.P. for Gloucs. 1831–32, for East Gloucs. 1832–1834; succeeded as 2 Earl 22 June 1840; a lord in waiting to the Queen 1846–1852; a charity estates comr. 1849; pres. of Royal Agricultural Society; invented the Ducie cultivator and many other agricultural implements; master of Vale of White Horse hounds 1830–42. _d._ Tortworth court, Gloucs. 2 June 1853. _Sporting Review xxviii_, 64 (1852), _portrait_, _xxx_, 140 (1853); _I.L.N. xxi_, 41 (1852), _portrait_; _Cecil’s Records of the Chase_ (1877) 199–201.

DUCKETT, SIR GEORGE (_younger son of Sir George Jackson, 1 baronet, who took name of Duckett 1797 and d. 15 Dec. 1822 aged 97_). _b._ Old palace yard, Westminster 17 July 1777; M.P. for Lymington 1807–1812; F.R.S. 8 Dec. 1808. _d._ Gloucester gardens, Hyde park, London 15 June 1856.

DUCKWORTH, SIR JOHN THOMAS BULLER, 2 Baronet. _b._ Downes, Crediton, Devon 17 March 1809; succeeded his father 31 Aug. 1817; ed. at Eton and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1829; M.P. for Exeter 1845–1857; sheriff of Devon 1861; one of referees of House of Commons for private bills 1868. _d._ Wear house near Exeter 29 Nov. 1887.

DUDLEY, WILLIAM WARD, 1 Earl of. _b._ 27 March 1817; ed. at Trin. coll. Ox.; succeeded his father as 11 Baron Ward 6 Dec. 1835; created Viscount Ednam of Ednam and Earl of Dudley 17 Feb. 1860; chairman of Worcestershire quarter sessions 1858 to 28 June 1880; gave £900,000 for the Foley estate Worcs. largest sum ever paid for purchase of an estate; his life was insured for £300,000. _d._ Dudley house, Park lane, London 7 May 1885, personalty sworn upwards of £1,026,000 18 July. _Waagen’s Treasures of Art ii_, 229–38 (1854); _I.L.N. xlii_, 181 (1862), _portrait_.

DUDLEY, HOWARD (_only son of George Dudley of Tipperary, who d. at Ghent 1827_). Engraver on wood in Edinburgh 1845–52, in London 1852 to death; printed _Juvenile researches, or a description of some of the principal towns in the west of Sussex and the borders of Hants._ 1835, _2 ed._ 1835; _The history and antiquities of Horsham_ 1836; _The history and antiquities of Midhurst_ 1836. _d._ Holford square, Pentonville, London 4 July 1864 aged 44.

DUDLEY, REV. JOHN (_eld. son of Rev. John Dudley, V. of Humberstone, Leics., who d. 17 May 1794 aged 74_). _b._ 1762; ed. at Uppingham sch. and Clare hall, Cam., 2 wrangler 1785; B.A. 1785, M.A. 1788; Fellow of his coll. 1787–94, tutor 1788–94; V. of Humberstone 1794 to death; V. of Sileby, Leics. 1795 to death; author of _The metamorphosis of Sona, a Hindu tale in verse_ 1810, and 4 other books. _d._ Sileby 7 Jany. 1856. _G.M. xlv_, 197–98 (1856).

DUDLEY, WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ Roscrea, Tipperary, Ireland 7 Oct. 1811; M.R.C.S. Ireland 1833; practised in Jamaica 1834–1841 in Brooklyn, New York 1841 to death; curator of New York Medical college 1851; a founder of Long Island college hospital, treasurer, president; a member of New York Academy of Medicine 1848, of King’s county Medical and other societies. _d._ Brooklyn 9 Oct. 1886.

DUFF, SIR ALEXANDER (_second son of 3 Earl of Fife 1731–1811_). Ensign 66 foot 23 May 1793; lieut. col. 88 foot 14 April 1798 to 1809 when placed on h.p.; col. 92 foot 6 Sep. 1823 to 20 July 1831; col. 37 foot 20 July 1831 to death; G.C.H. 27 May 1834; general 28 June 1838; M.P. for Elginburghs 1826–1831; lord lieut. of Elginshire 17 Feb. 1848 to death. _d._ Percy cross, Walham Green, Middlesex 21 March 1851 aged 77. _bur._ in family vault, Banff.

DUFF, REV. ALEXANDER. _b._ Auchnahyle farm, parish of Moulin, Perthshire 26 April 1806; ed. at Univ. of St. Andrews, D.D. 1837; ordained Aug. 1829; sent by general assembly of Church of Scotland as their first missionary to India, reached Calcutta 27 May 1830 where he opened an English school 1830; edited the _Calcutta Review_ 1845–49; moderator or pres. general assembly of Free church of Scotland 1851 and 1873; LLD. New York 1854; the virtual governor of Univ. of Calcutta 1857–63 where 4 Duff scholarships were instituted; convener of the foreign missions committee 1864; missionary professor in New college, Edin. 1867; author of _India and India missions_ 1840; _The Jesuits_ 1845 and 12 other books. _d._ Sidmouth, Devon 12 Feb. 1878. _Life of A. Duff by George Smith 2 vols._ (1879), _2 portraits_; _Wylie’s Disruption Worthies_ (1881) 215–22, _portrait_; _Hogg’s Instructor viii_, 369 (1852), _portrait_; _Graphic xvii_, 320 (1878), _portrait_.

DUFF, ARCHIBALD. Entered navy 29 June 1788; captain 22 Jany. 1806; R.A. 17 Aug. 1840, V.A. 3 March 1849, admiral on half pay 4 July 1855. _d._ Braemoriston 9 Feb. 1858 aged 83.

DUFF, HENRIETTA ANNE (_dau. of Norwich Duff, V.A._) Author of _Virginia, a Roman sketch_ 1877; _Fragments of verse_ 1880; _Honor Carmichael, a study 2 vols._ 1880; _My imperialist neighbour and other tales_ 1880. _d._ of heart disease at 9 Holland road, Hove, Brighton 14 Nov. 1879 aged 37.

DUFF, JAMES. _b._ Innes house, Elgin 29 July 1831; ed. at Rugby; 2 lieut. 23 foot 15 May 1851, captain 29 Dec. 1854 to 4 Nov. 1859 when he sold out; taken prisoner at battle of Inkerman; M.P. for North Norfolk 21 April 1876 to death. _d._ 36 Upper Brook st. London 22 Dec. 1878.

DUFF, JAMES CUNINGHAME GRANT (_eld. son of John Grant of Kincardine, who d. about 1799_). _b._ Banff 8 July 1789; ed. at Marischal coll. Aberdeen; entered Bombay army 1805; fought against the Mahrattas 1817–18; resident of Sattara 1818–1823; lived at Eden near Banff 1825 to death; author of _History of the Mahrattas_ 1826. _d._ Eden 23 Sep. 1858.

DUFF, MARY ANN (_dau. of Mr. Dyke of Kilkenny_). _b._ London 1795; learnt dancing from D’Egville; first appeared as an actress at Boston theatre U.S. Nov. 1810; first appeared in London at Drury Lane 3 March 1828 as Isabella in _The fatal marriage_; played leading Shakesperean parts with Edmund Kean in the United States 1821; retired from the stage at New York 1835. (_m._ (1) 1810 John Duff of Dublin, actor 1787–1831, _m._ (2) 1833 Charles Young, marriage dissolved 1833, _m._ (3) Joel G. Seaver of New Orleans, lawyer). _d._ New York 5 Sep. 1857. _Ireland’s Mrs. Duff_ 1883, _2 portraits_; _Ireland’s Records of the New York stage i_, 419–21 (1866).

DUFF, NORWICH. _b._ about 1793; entered navy June 1805; captain 23 April 1822; naval aide-de-camp to the Queen, May 1849 to 7 Oct. 1852; V.A. on half pay 28 Nov. 1857. _d._ Bath 20 April 1862 aged 68.

DUFFY, EDWARD. _b._ Ballaghadareen, co. Mayo 1840; devoted himself to spreading Fenian principles in Connaught 1863; arrested at Fairfield house, Sandymount 11 Nov. 1865, sentenced to a term of imprisonment, liberated on bail in consequence of ill health Jany. 1866; again applied himself to the organisation; re-arrested at Boyle 11 March 1867, tried 21 May 1867 and sentenced to 15 years penal servitude; found dead in his cell at Millbank prison, London 17 Jany. 1868. _T. D. Sullivan’s Speeches from the Dock_, _23 ed.

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