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ABBEY, John. b. Whilton, Northants 22 Dec. 1785; employed by James David and then by Hugh Russell organ-builders London; worked for Sebastian Erard in Paris 1826; an organ-builder in Paris; built choir organs for cathedrals of Rheims, Nantes, Versailles, and Evreux, large organs for cathedrals of Rochelle, Rennes, Viviers, Tulle, Bayeux and Amiens, many organs for South America, and an organ for the opera-house in Rue Lepelletier, Paris, destroyed by fire with the house, 28 Nov. 1873; introduced into French organs English mechanism, and the bellows invented by Alexander Cumming. d. Versailles 19 Feb. 1859.

ABBISS, James. b. Wallsworth near Hitchin in Herts 3 June 1812; tea-dealer in Gracechurch st. London 1835; chairman of City of London Union 1857 to death; alderman for ward of Bridge 1859–67; sheriff of London 1860–61. d. The Shrubbery, Chase Side, Enfield 7 July 1882. bur. Edmonton ch. yard 11 July.

ABBISS, Rev. John (son of John Abbiss of Wandsworth, Surrey). b. 12 July 1789; matric. Trin. Coll. Ox. 10 Oct. 1810, B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817; R. of St. Bartholomew the Great, city of London 1819 to death. d. 41 Myddelton sq. Clerkenwell 8 July 1883. bur. Stoke d’Abernon near Leatherhead 13 July.

ABBOTT, Augustus (eld. son of Henry Alexius Abbott, of Calcutta, merchant). b. London 7 Jan. 1804; ed. at Warfield in Berks, Winchester, and Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Bengal 2artillery 16 April 1819; commanded the artillery in defence of Jellalabad, Nov. 1841 to April 1842; Col. 14 Nov. 1858 to death; served in Afghan war 1838–42; principal commissary of ordnance 12 Dec. 1847 to 9 Feb. 1855; inspector-general of ordnance and magazines Bengal 9 Feb. 1855–18 Jan. 1858; commander at Meerut 27 Jan. 1858; M.G. 13 April 1860; Douranee order conferred on him Nov. 1840, but he never wore it; C.B. 11 Oct. 1842; one of the finest artillery officers of his time. d. 4 Paragon buildings, Cheltenham 25 Feb. 1867. The Afghan War, 1838–1842, from the Journal of the late Augustus Abbott. By C. R. Low. 1879.

ABBOTT, Rev. Edward Singleton. Preb. of St. Michael’s in Ch. Ch. cathedral, Dublin 13 Aug. 1844; preb. of St. John’s 11 Mch. 1845; preb. of St. Michan’s 12 Feb. 1854–55; R. of St. Mary’s, Dublin 1855 to death; sub.-dean of chapel royal Dublin 1858 to death; committed suicide by shooting himself at 7 North Frederick st. Dublin 12 June 1865 aged 63.

ABBOTT, Edwin. b. London 12 May 1808; principal of Philological school 248 Marylebone road, London 1827–72; and secretary 1872 to death; one of the first to advocate a more thorough English training in schools; author of A second Latin book 1858; Greek tragic iambics 1864; Complete concordance to works of Alexander Pope 1875. d. 18 Palace sq. Upper Norwood 27 May 1882. bur. Kensal Green 31 May.

3ABBOTT, John (son of Robert Abbott of Halifax, carpet manufacturer, who founded the carpet trade in Halifax with Mr. Crossley, and d. 1825). b. Halifax 20 July 1796; a woolstapler there; took a leading part in all matters of social improvement and left charitable bequests of £61,500. d. Halifax 13 May 1870.

ABBOTT, Rev. Joseph. b. Cumberland 1789; ed. at Bampton sch. and Marischal coll. Aberdeen; Missionary of the S.P.G. at St. Andrew’s, Grenville, Lower Canada 1818–47, when he retired; wrote The Emigrant to North America from memoranda of a settler in Canada, first published in the Quebec Mercury 1842, republished in many leading Canadian papers and in several English papers, including Emigration Gazette, and in pamphlet form by the Emigration agent. 2nd ed. 1843, it was also pub. in a more extended form by John Murray in the Home and Colonial library, under the title of Philip Musgrave or the adventures of a Missionary in Canada; contributed many tales to Canadian periodicals. d. Montreal, Jany. 1863. Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis (1867) pp. 3–4.

ABBOTT, Thomas Eastoe. b. East Dereham, Norfolk 1779; author of Peace; a lyric poem 1814; The triumph of Christianity 1819; The soldier’s friend 1828. d. Darlington 18 Feb. 1854.

ABDY, Maria. b. London; wrote in the New Monthly, The Metropolitan and the Annuals; privately printed Poems 8 series, 8 vols. 1830–62; An appeal on behalf of governesses, her longest poem gained first prize offered for literary productions on that subject, (m. Rev. John Channing Abdy, R. of St. John’s Southwark who d. 27 Jany. 1845 aged 52.) d. 7 Upper Marine terrace, Margate 19 July 1867 aged 70. bur. St. Peter’s church yard Isle of Thanet.

ABDY, Sir Thomas Neville, 1 Baronet (only son of Anthony Thomas Abdy, captain R.N. who d. 9 June 1838, by Grace dau. of admiral Sir Thomas Rich). b. 21 Dec. 1810; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1833; M.P. for Lyme Regis, (lib.) 30 July 1847–1 July 1852; cr. baronet 8 Jan. 1850; sheriff of Essex 1875. (m. 19 Oct. 1841 Harriet 2nd dau. of Rowland Alston, M.P. of Pishiobury, Herts, she d. 8 July 1877.) d. 6 Grosvenor place, London 20 July 1877.

ABDY, Sir William, 7 Baronet. b. 1779; succeeded 21 July 1803. d. 20b. Hill st. London 15 Apl. 1868.

4A’BECKETT, Arthur Martin (youngest son of Wm. A’Beckett of Golden square, London, long known as the Reform solicitor, who d. 23 Feb. 1855 aged 77, by his 1 wife Sarah who d. 25 Aug. 1817). b. Golden square, London 1812; ed. at London univ. 1834 and at Paris; M.R.C.S. 9 March 1838, F.R.C.S. 13 Dec. 1855, M.D.; Staff surgeon to British legion in Spain; on staff of Sir De Lacy Evans 1835–37; arrived in Sydney 1838; practised there 1838–58; member of legislative council of N.S.W. to 1858; knight of San Ferdinand; F.R.G.S. 1860. (m. 15 May 1838 Emma Louisa 1 dau. of Marsham Elwin of Thirning, Norfolk, she was b. 26 Aug. 1814). d. Sydney 23 May 1871. Medical Times and Gazette, ii, 263 (1871); Heads of the people, ii, 83 (1848) pt.

A’BECKETT, Gilbert Abbot (2 son of Wm. A’Beckett of Golden sq.) b. The Grange, Haverstock hill, London 9 Jany. 1811. ed. at Westminster school; sole proprietor of following periodicals, The terrific penny magazine, The Ghost, The Lover, The gallery of terrors, The Figaro monthly newspaper, and The Figaro caricature gallery; proprietor with Thomas Littleton Holt of following periodicals, The evangelical penny magazine, Dibdin’s penny trumpet, The thief, Poor Richard’s journal, and The people’s penny pictures; student at Gray’s Inn 25 Apl. 1828; dramatic critic of the Weekly Despatch; edited Figaro in London comic weekly paper, 160 numbers 1 Dec. 1831 to 27 Dec. 1834; joint manager with Edward Mayhew of the Fitzroy theatre, Fitzroy st. Tottenham court road, London 1834 where he produced his first burlesque Glaucus and Scylla; edited The Wag 1837, and The Squib 1842, comic weekly papers; one of the original staff of Punch or the London Charivari, which appeared 17 July 1841, wrote in it from number 4 to his death; wrote leading articles in The Times one year, and in Morning Herald; wrote humorous articles in Pictorial Times; barrister G.I. 27 Jany 1841; poor Law comr. to inquire into iniquities practised in Andover union, March 1846; magistrate at Greenwich and Woolwich police court, Feb. 1849, and at Southwark, Dec. 1849 to death; went to Boulogne 17 July 1856; author of Scenes from the rejected comedies, a series of parodies upon living dramatists 1844; The quizziology of the British drama 1846; The comic Blackstone 1846; The comic history of England, 2 vols. 1847–8; The comic history of Rome 1852; wrote more than 50 plays; dramatised with Mark Lemon, Dickens’s novel “The Chimes,” produced at Adelphi theatre 19 Dec. 1844. (m. about 1836 Mary Anne eld. dau. of Joseph Glossop, she 5was granted a civil list pension of £100, 23 Oct. 1856. She m. (2) George Jones, barrister, and d. 11 Dec. 1863 aged 46). d. of typhus fever at Rue Neuve Chaussée, Boulogne 30 Aug. 1856, body removed to Highgate cemetery. The Critic, xv. 436 (1856); Mr. Punch, his origin and career 1870; Alfred Bunn’s A word with Punch 1847, pp. 5–7 pt.; I.L.N. xxx, 570 (1857), view of his tomb in Highgate cemetery.

Note.—There is a portrait of him by Leech in his two page cartoon, called “Mr. Punch’s fancy ball” in Punch 9 Jany. 1847, where he is represented as playing the violin in the orchestra between the double bass and the clarionet. His first contribution to Punch, entitled “The above bridge navy,” appeared in No. 4, 7 Aug. 1841 with John Leech’s earliest cartoon, “Foreign Affairs.”

A’BECKETT, Sir William (eld. son of Wm. A’Beckett of Golden square). b. London 28 July 1806; ed. at Westminster; barrister L.I. 30 June 1829; went to Sydney 1837; solicitor general of New South Wales 1841; a judge of court of N.S.W. 24 Nov. 1845; resident judge at Port Philip 3 Feb. 1846; chief justice and judge of admiralty court of Victoria 25 Aug. 1851; knighted by patent 19 Nov. 1852; returned to England 1858; author of great part of The Georgian Era 4 vols. 1832–34; of Universal biography 3 vols. 1840; and of The Earl’s choice and other poems 1863. (m. (1) 1832 Emily dau. of E. Hayley, she d. 1 June 1841. m. (2) 1849 Matilda dau. of E. Hayley, she d. 8 Aug. 1879 aged 64). d. Abbotsville, Upper Norwood, Surrey 27 June 1869.

Note.—He edited at Sydney from 1837–38 a periodical called the Literary News, of which no copies are supposed to be now in existence.

ABELL, Lucia Elizabeth (2 dau. of Wm. Balcombe, navy agent, purveyor to Napoleon Bonaparte at St. Helena, and afterwards the colonial treasurer of N.S.W. who d. 19 March 1829). Author of Recollections of the Emperor Napoleon during the first three years of his captivity on the island of St. Helena 1848, including the time of his residence at her father’s house, “the Briars.” (m. Edward Abell). d. 18 Chester terrace, Eaton sq. London 29 June 1871. Recollections of the Emperor Napoleon 3rd ed. 1873, pt. Of Mrs. Abell.

ABERCROMBY, George Ralph Abercromby, 3 Baron. b. Edinburgh 30 May 1800; M.P. for Clackmannan, (whig) 13 July 1824–2 June 1826, 10 Aug. 1830–23 April 1831, and 6 July 1841–18 Feb. 1842; M.P. for Stirlingshire 30 April 1838–23 June 1841; major 3 6dragoon guards 22 June 1826–21 Nov. 1828; succeeded 14 Feb. 1843; lord lieutenant of Clackmannan 1843 to death; was blind. d. Airthney castle, Stirling 25 June 1852.

ABERCROMBY, The Honble. Alexander, b. 4 March 1784; ensign 52 foot 16 Aug. 1799; lieut. col. 28 foot 8 Dec. 1808–25 July 1814; commanded a brigade at battle of Albuera 16 May 1811; captain Coldstream guards 25 July 1814–25 Oct. 1821, when placed on half pay on reduction of regiment; C.B. 4 June 1815; K.M.T.; K.T.S.; K.S.G.; M.P. for co. Clackmannan 11 April 1817–10 June 1818. d. at his country seat in Scotland 27 Aug. 1853. Napier’s Peninsular War, book xii, chapters 6 and 7.

ABERCROMBY, Sir George Samuel, 6 baronet. b. Edinburgh 22 May 1824; succeeded 6 July 1855. d. Forglen house, Turriff Banffshire 15 Nov. 1872.

ABERCROMBY, Sir Robert, 5 baronet. b. Forglen house, Banffshire 4 Feb. 1784; M.P. for Banffshire 2 Nov. 1812–10 June 1818; succeeded 18 July 1831. d. Forglen house 6 July 1855.

ABERDEEN, George Hamilton Gordon, 4 Earl of (1 son of George Gordon, styled Lord Haddo 1764–91, by Charlotte, youngest dau. of Wm. Baird of Newbyth, co. Haddington, she d. 8 Oct. 1795). b. Edinburgh 28 Jany. 1784; ed. at Harrow, and St. John’s coll. Cam., M.A. 1804; succeeded his grandfather 13 Aug. 1801; visited Greece, Turkey and Russia; founded Athenian society 1804, of which no one might be a member who had not visited Athens; rep. peer Scotland 15 Dec. 1806–1 June 1814; K.T. 16 March 1808; ambassador to Vienna 29 July 1813–April 1814, when he prevailed with the Emperor to join the allied sovereigns against Napoleon by treaty of Toplitz 9 Sep. 1813; present at battles of Dresden and Leipsic; signed treaty of peace at Paris 1 June 1814; created a peer of the U.K. as Viscount Gordon of Aberdeen, co. Aberdeen 1 June 1814; P.C. 23 July 1814; took name of Hamilton before that of Gordon by royal license 13 Nov. 1818; chancellor of univ. of Aberdeen 1827; chancellor of duchy of Lancaster 26 Jan. 1828–2 June 1828; sec. of state for foreign affairs 2 June 1828–2 Nov. 1830 and 2 Sep. 1841–5 July 1846; sec. of state for the colonies 5 June 1834–18 April 1835; ranger of Greenwich park 1 Feb. 1845; lord lieut. of Aberdeenshire 23 April 1846; first lord of the treasury 28 Dec. 1852–1 Feb. 1855; an elder brother of Trinity house 7Nov. 1853–54; a comr. for executing office of treasurer of exchequer of Great Britain, and lord high treasurer of Ireland 6 Mch. 1854; president of Society of Antiquaries 1812–46; F.R.S. 28 April 1808, F.R.G.S. 1830, K.G. 7 Feb. 1855; visited by the Queen at Haddo house, 15 Oct. 1857; author of Inquiry into principles of beauty in Grecian architecture, 1822. (m. (1) 28 July 1805 Catherine Elizabeth, 3 dau. of John James Hamilton, 1 Marquess of Abercorn, she was b. 10 Jan. 1784, and d. 29 Feb. 1812. m. (2) 8 July 1815 Harriet, 2 dau. of honble. John Douglas and widow of James Hamilton, eld. son of 1 Marquess of Abercorn, she was b. 8 June 1792, and d. 26 Aug. 1833). d. 7 Argyll st. Regent st. London 14 Dec. 1860. bur. in family vault at Stanmore 21 Dec. Correspondence of Earl of Aberdeen 1850–53, privately printed 1880; Edinburgh Review, clviii, 547–77 (1883); Thirty years of foreign policy 1854; Proc. of Royal Society of Edin. iv, 477–83 (1862); The British cabinet in 1853, pp. 7–43, pt.; Jerdan’s National portrait gallery, vol. 3, pt.; I.L.N. i, 461 (1842), xx, 1, (1853) xxxvii, 635 (1860) pts.; A.R. (1860) 376–83.

Note.—Lord Byron in his “English bards and Scotch reviewers,” refers to him as “The travelled Thane, Athenian Aberdeen.” He was allowed the very rare distinction of being permitted to retain the order of the Thistle, together with that of the Garter. Exclusive of royalty, 12 Knights of the Thistle (since the re-establishment of the order in 1687), have been elected to the Garter, of these 12 only 4 have retained both orders.

ABERDEEN, George John James Hamilton-Gordon, 5 Earl of. b. Bentley priory, Stanmore 28 Sep. 1816; ed. privately, and at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1837; attaché at Constantinople 1837; M.P. Aberdeenshire (lib.) 22 Aug. 1854–14 Dec. 1860, when he succeeded; went to Egypt, Sep. 1854, and June 1860; went to Madrid, May 1863 to petition Queen of Spain for a remission of sentence on Manuel Matamoros, (who was sentenced to 9 years penal servitude for preaching Protestantism, he was eventually exiled from Spain, he was b. Malaga, Oct. 1834 and d. Lausanne, 31 July 1866.) d. Haddo house, Aberdeenshire 22 March 1864. bur. Methlie churchyard 29 March. Memoir of Lord Haddo by Rev. E. B. Elliott, 6 ed. 1873; The true nobility by Alexander Duff 1868; I.L.N. xxiv, 265 (1854) pt.

ABERDEEN, George Hamilton-Gordon, 6 Earl of. b. 10 Dec. 1841; succeeded 22 March 1864; one of the Scotch 8 in rifle competition at Wimbledon for Elcho challenge shield 1864 and 1865; dropped his title and adopted 8name of George H. Osborne about 22 May 1866; sailor in American merchant service June 1866 to death; sailed from Boston for Melbourne in the ship “Hera” 21 Jany. 1870, washed overboard and drowned in latitude 40˝10´, longitude 58˝14´, 27 Jany. 1870. Memoir of Lord Haddo, by Rev. E. B. Elliott, 6 ed. 1873, 315–28; Sir Bernard Burke’s Reminiscences (1882) 201–26.

ABERGAVENNY, Rev. William Nevill, 4 Earl of. b. 28 June 1792; succeeded 12 April 1845. d. Birling manor near Maidstone 17 Aug. 1868.

Note.—His personalty was sworn under £300,000 Oct. 1868.

ABINGDON, Montagu Bertie, 5 Earl of. b. 30 April 1784; succeeded 26 Sept. 1799; cupbearer at coronation of George iv 19 July 1821; lord lieut. of Berkshire 1828 to death. d. Wytham abbey, Berkshire 16 Oct. 1854. bur. at Rycote 24 Oct.

ABINGDON, Montagu Bertie, 6 earl of. b. Dover st. Piccadilly 19 June 1808; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1829, D.C.L. Ox. 1834; M.P. Oxfordshire (tory) 5 Aug. 1830–23 April 1831, and 17 Dec. 1832–1 July 1852, for Abingdon 3 Dec. 1852–16 Oct. 1854, when he succeeded; lord lieut. of Berkshire 13 Feb. 1855–1881. d. 18 Grosvenor st. London 8 Feb. 1884. bur. Wytham abbey 13 Feb.

ABINGER, Robert Campbell Scarlett, 2 Baron. b. London 5 Sep. 1794; barrister I.T. 27 Nov. 1818; M.P. Norwich (conserv.) 7 Jany. 1835–17 July 1837, for Horsham 28 June 1841–7 April 1844, when he succeeded; envoy ex. and min. plen. to Tuscany 13 Dec. 1859–22 March 1860, when mission was abolished on annexation of Tuscany to Sardinia. d. Abinger hall near Dorking 24 June 1861.

ABINGTON, Leonard James. b. London 27 Nov. 1785; edited The Pottery Mercury at Hanley Staffordshire 1824; pastor of New st. baptist chapel, Hanley 1836–63. d. Northwood, Hanley 7 Aug. 1867. Personal recollections of late L. J. Abington 1868, pt.

ABRAHALL, Theophilus Bennett Hoskyns (2 son of Rev. John Hoskyns Abrahall, C. of Badgworth, Somerset). Barrister I.T. 25 June 1830; went western circuit; sec. of commissions of the peace to lord chancellor; revising barrister S. Lancashire and Northumberland; deputy registrar of London court of bankruptcy 1844–54, registrar 1854–14 Dec. 1861; 9comr. of Newcastle district court of bankruptcy 14 Dec. 1861–31 Dec. 1869, when country district courts were abolished, d. Wonford house lunatic asylum, Heavitree, Exeter 2 Aug. 1874 aged 72.

ABRAHAM, George Frederick, admitted solicitor Nov. 1805; practised in London to death; originated with Thomas Thompson of the Stock Exchange the Home Missionary Society 11 Aug. 1819, the Congregational Union was merged in it 1827. d. 3 Mansfield st. Portland place, London 3 Jany. 1870 aged 88.

ABRAHAM, Robert, b. Cumberland; ed. for medical profession at Univ. of Edin.; served on the press in Cumberland; edited a leading Liverpool journal; went to Canada about 1843; Proprietor of the Montreal Gazette, editor to Dec. 1848, when it was sold; admitted an advocate of Lower Canada; edited the Transcript 1849 to death; edited the Lower Canada Agricultural Journal to death. d. Montreal 10 Nov. 1854. Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis (1867) pp. 4–5.

ABRAHAM, Thomas, b. Bampton, Devon 1807; ed. at Blundell’s gr. sch. Tiverton; apprenticed to Edward Acton at Grundisburgh, Suffolk; studied at Guy’s hospital, London; L.S.A. Dec. 1833, M.R.C.S. April 1834; began practise in Old Broad st. 1834; surgeon to parish of Allhallows on the Wall for 3 years from Jany. 1835; surgeon to London infirmary for diseases of the skin 1836 to its close in 1837; member of Health of London association 1847; a comr. of sewers to his death; M.D. Erlangen 1851; M.D. Edin. 1859; a governor of Dulwich college 1861 to death and of Bridewell and Bethlehem hospitals; one of a sub committee of 4 who drew up “Report of health of London association on sanitary condition of Metropolis”; member of council of Hunterian society; helped to found Ragged school in Foster st. city of London; treasurer of London philanthropic society, d. Marsden villa, Haverstock hill 16 July 1864 in 57 year. bur. Kensal Green 21 July. Medical Circular i, 10, 25 (1852) pt.

ABYSSINIA, Alam-ayahu, Prince of. (son of Theodore King of Abyssinia 1818–68). b. Debra Tabor 23 April 1861; arrived in England 14 July 1868; ed. at Cheltenham, Rugby and Sandhurst, d. Headingley, Leeds 14 Nov. 1879.

10ACKERLEY, Charles Henry (younger son of John Hawksey Ackerley, barrister, who d. 18 May 1842 aged 73, by Elizabeth dau. of Rev. John Chamberlayne of Maugersbury house, Gloucester). Entered navy 1 Feb. 1810; lieut. 20 Nov. 1822; commander on half pay 1 July 1864; presented with large silver medal of Society of arts for his safety rods for ships’ boats 2 June 1828; invented a lamp which he called the lamp of life; tried at Swansea 27 Feb. 1851 for causing death of a miner named Dingle by the use of this lamp, and found not guilty; author of A plan for the better security of vessels navigating the river Thames 1834. d. at residence of his sister Mrs. Peter Brown at Dover 22 Nov. 1865.

ACKERS, George Holland, b. 10 Aug. 1812; commodore of royal Victoria yacht club 1850–62, this club was founded at Ryde, Isle of Wight 24 May 1845, its admiralty warrant is dated 29 July 1845; sheriff of Cheshire 1852; author of Universal yacht signals 1847, of which he gave the copyright to Robert Henry Hunt who at his suggestion started Hunt’s Yachting Magazine Aug. 1852. d. 15 Hyde park terrace, London 20 Jan. 1872.

ACKERS, James, b. 1811; M.P. for Ludlow (conserv.) 3 July 1841–23 July 1847; purchased estate of Prinknash, Gloucestershire 1847. d. 27 Sep. 1868.

ACLAND, James (son of Mr. Acland of London, Government contractor). b. city of London 21 March 1799; ed. at Alfred house academy, Camberwell; joined Phillimore’s theatrical company at Chew Magna; clerk in office of Hullett Brothers & Company, South American merchants, Austin Friars; leading tragedian of Royalty theatre, Wellclose square; taught English at Calais; a penny a liner in London; sub editor of the British Traveller; took lodgings in Queen st. Hull 1831; started a publication called The Portfolio, or memoirs and correspondence of an editor, Aug. 1831; printed it himself at 23 Queen st.; erected a stall in the market place and refused to pay usual fee for it; ran a packet called the “Magna Charta” from Hull to Barton on Humber, charging less than half fares; ran a light cart over all bridges in the town and refused to pay bridge toll, great alarm being created, the Mayor swore in 800 special constables, corporation began action against him in court of King’s Bench, Jany. 1832; tried at York 31 March 1832 for infringement of Barton ferry, when verdict went against him with damages one farthing, his costs amounting to £270, he barricaded his house for several 11months to prevent anyone entering to arrest him, his Portfolio being sold through a crevice in the window; elected churchwarden of Holy Trinity, Hull, Easter Monday 1832; taken to gaol for not paying his costs; a candidate for office of chamberlain of Hull, Sep. 1832; a grocer at 23 Queen st., to which house he gave name of “Anti-corporate castle;” confined in the King’s Bench prison, Nov. 1832; sentenced to 18 months imprisonment in gaol of Bury St. Edmunds for libel; served the full term; contested Hull as a liberal 13 Dec. 1832, polled only 433 votes; last number of the Portfolio issued 13 July 1833, a few sheets followed, which he styled Prison Proverbs. Proprietor with Richard and Anthony Dugdale of Paris Sun, “the largest continental journal and the only English paper in the world, published daily throughout the year,” was director and editor of it at 7 Rue Vivienne, Paris 1 Jany. 1837; only number of it in British Museum library is headed “Vol. 2, No. 54, Thursday morning, Feb. 23, 1837, 10 sous,” the proprietors were condemned by the president of 6th chamber of correctional police to a fine to government of 2000 francs, and to payment of 1000 francs to proprietors of an opposition paper for libel 22 Feb. 1837; lecturer of Anti-corn law league 1838–46; convened and addressed farm labourers of every village in Devon and Cornwall; an election and parliamentary agent 1846 to death; a very good speaker on nearly any subject; author of True patriotism, a poem 1817, The Imperial poll book of all elections from 1832 to 1864, Second ed. 1869. d. 14 Ellerslie terrace, Clapham, London 21 June 1876. The Bristolian Nos. 1–7, 23 Feb.–11 May 1872; W. A. Gunnell’s Sketches of Hull celebrities 1876, 460–64.

ACLAND, Sir Peregrine Fuller Palmer, 2 Baronet, b. 10 Nov. 1789; succeeded 23 Feb. 1831. d. Fairfield, Bridgwater 25 Oct. 1871.

ACLAND, Sir Thomas Dyke, 10 Baronet (1 son of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 9 baronet, who d. 17 May 1794, by Henrietta Anne only dau. of Sir Richard Hoare, baronet, she d. 2 Sep. 1841). b. London 29 March 1787; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1808, M.A. 1814, D.C.L. 1831; one of the founders of Grillion’s club 1812, which met at Grillion’s hotel, 7 Albemarle st. London; M.P. Devon (tory) 17 Oct. 1812–10 June 1818 and 18 March 1820–23 April 1831; M.P. for North Devon 29 July 1837–21 March 1857; head of religious party in House of Commons; F.G.S. 1818, F.R.G.S. 1830, F.R.S. 20 June 121839. (m. 7 April 1808 Lydia Elizabeth only dau. of Henry Hoare of Fleet st. London, banker, she d. 23 June 1856 aged 69). d. Killerton, Broad Clyst, Devon 22 July 1871. J. B. Sweet’s Life of Henry Hoare 1870; I.L.N. lix, 99, 116, 121, 362 (1871) pt. Grillion’s Club by P. G. E. privately printed 1880 pt.

Note.—His personalty was sworn under £70,000; a statue of him by E. B. Stephens, A.R.A., was erected on Northernhay, Exeter 1861.

ACTON, Eliza (eld. dau. of John Acton of Hastings, brewer). b. Battle, Sussex 17 April 1799; published Poems 500 copies 1826, 2 ed. 1827; lived some time in France; at Tunbridge 1837; at Hampstead; author of The voice of the North, a poem 1842; Modern Cookery in all its branches 1845, 6 ed. 1855; The English bread book 1857. d. Snowdon house, John st. Hampstead 13 Feb. 1859.

ACTON, Marianne Lady Acton (elder dau. of general Joseph Edward Acton). b. 1782. m. 1796 by dispensation of the Pope, her uncle Sir John Francis Edward Acton, 6 baronet, prime minister of Naples several years, he was b. 1736 and d. 12 Aug. 1811. d. Buckland 18 March 1873.

ACTON, William. b. 1789; sheriff of Wicklow 1820; M.P. for co. Wicklow (conserv.) 17 July 1841–27 April 1848. d. Westaston Rathdrum, co. Wicklow 10 April 1854.

ACTON, William, b. Shillingstone rectory 15 Sep. 1814; placed under care of Dr. Mant in London 1830; articled pupil of Charles Wheeler, (Apothecary to St. Bartholomew’s hospital) 1830–35; Externe at female venereal hospital Paris; Secretary of the Parisian medical society 1839; returned to London Oct. 1840; M.R.C.S. June 1840; practised in George st. Hanover square 1840–43; removed to 46 Queen Anne st. Cavendish square March 1843; surgeon to Islington dispensary; author of A practical treatise on diseases of the urinary and generative organs 1841, 3 ed. 1860; Prostitution considered in its moral, social and sanitary aspects in London and other large cities 1857, 2 ed. 1870. d. 17 Harley st. London 7 Dec. 1875. Medical Circular i, 11–12 (1852).

ADAIR, Sir Robert (son of Robert Adair, sergeant surgeon to George III, who d. 16 March 1790, by Caroline Keppel, 1737–69 elder dau. of Wm. Anne 3 Earl of Albemarle). b. London 24 May 1763; ed. at Westminster and Univ. of Gottingen; called to the bar at L.I. 27 April 1785; M.P. Appleby, (whig) 18 June 1799–29 June 1802, for Camelford 137 July 1802–29 Sep. 1812; minister to court of Vienna 7 May 1806–14 May 1807; minister to Constantinople 5 July 1808, and ambassador 14 April 1809; sent on a special mission to the Low Countries 1831–35; P.C. 23 July 1828; G.C.B. 3 Aug. 1831 for negotiating peace between Great Britain and Ottoman Porte in 1809; author of Historical memoir of a mission to court of Vienna in 1806 with a selection from despatches, 1844; The negotiations for the peace of the Dardanelles in 1808–1809, 2 vols. 1845. (m. 1805 Angélique Gabrielle dau. of Marquess d’Hazincourt). d. 11 Chesterfield st. Mayfair, London 3 Oct. 1855. G.M., xliv, 535 (1855); Lord John Russell’s Memorials of C. J. Fox, vol. ii, appendix.

Note.—At his death he was the senior knight of the order of the Bath, and the last survivor of those who were knights before its enlargement in 1814.

ADAIR, Sir Robert Shafto, 1 Baronet (eld. son of W. Adair of Ballymena, co. Antrim 1754–1844, by Camilla dau. of Robert Shafto of Benwell, Northumberland, she d. 18 Nov. 1787). b. 26 June 1786; created Baronet 2 Aug. 1838; sheriff of Suffolk 1846; F.S.A. 16 May 1861. (m. (1) 17 Sep. 1810 Elizabeth Maria dau. of Rev. James Strode of Berkhampstead, Herts, she d. 1 Sep. 1853. m. (2) 3 Oct. 1854 Jane Anne eld dau. of Rev. Townley Clarkson, V. of Hinxton, Cambs, she d. 18 March 1873). d. Flixton hall, Suffolk 24 Feb. 1869.

ADAM, Sir Charles (eld. son of Wm. Adam 1751–1839, lord chief comr. of jury court of Scotland by Eleanora Elphinstone 1749–1800 2 dau. of Charles, 10 baron Elphinstone). b. Brighton 6 Oct. 1780; entered navy 15 Dec. 1790; captain 12 June 1799; captain of Invincible, 74 guns 1811–1813; of Royal Sovereign yacht 15 Dec. 1814–7 Feb. 1816, and 20 July 1821–27 May 1825; R.A. 27 May 1825, V.A. 10 Jany. 1837; commander in chief, North America and West Indies 17 Aug. 1841–May 1845, when placed on half pay; admiral 8 June 1848; M.P. Kinrossshire (lib.) 20 May 1831–3 Dec. 1832; M.P. for Clackmannan and Kinross 24 Dec. 1832–23 June 1841; Lord Lieut. of Kinross 1 April 1839 to death; 1st naval Lord of Admiralty 25 April 1835–8 Sep. 1841, and 24 July 1846–20 July 1847; one of elder brethren of Trinity House 1839–41; Governor of Greenwich hospital 10 July 1847 to death; K.C.B. 10 Aug. 1835. (m. 4 Oct. 1822 Elizabeth dau. of Patrick Brydone of Lennell, F.R.S., she d. 1871). d. Greenwich hospital 16 Sep. 1853, bur. there 21 Sep.

14ADAM, Sir Frederick (younger son of above named Wm. Adam 1751–1839). b. 1781; ed. at Woolwich; ensign 26 foot 4 Nov. 1795; lieut. col. 5 garrison battalion Aug. 1804 to 5 Jany 1805; lieut. col. 21 foot 5 Jany 1805 to 4 June 1814; served in Sicily 1806–11; Aide de camp to Prince Regent 8 Feb. 1811; commanded a brigade in Spain 1813; the third British brigade at Waterloo 1815; and a division at Malta 1817–22; K.C.B. 22 June 1815; G.C.B. 20 June 1840; G.C.M.G. 27 Dec. 1821; invested at Corfu 15 Jany. 1822; grand master; lord high commissioner of Ionian islands 7 April 1824–8 Sep. 1832; P.C. 29 June 1831; governor of Madras 25 Oct. 1832–4 March 1837. (m. (1) at Corfu 23 June 1820 Diamantino Pallatiano, she d. at Rome 1 June 1844. m. (2) at Kensington 24 July 1851, Ann Lindsay dau. of John Maberly). d. at Greenwich railway station 17 Aug. 1853. Siborne’s War in France and Belgium 1848; Napier’s Peninsular War, book xx, chapter 4 and book xxi, chapter 2.

ADAM, James, b. Paisley 1809; worked at the loom; went to London 1834; edited the Aberdeen Herald 1834 to death; author of The knowledge qualification: a plan for the reciprocal extension of education and the franchise 1837. d. Old Aberdeen 10 Nov. 1862.

ADAM, William Patrick (elder son of Admiral Sir Charles Adam, Governor of Greenwich Hospital). b. 14 Sep. 1823; ed. at Rugby and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1846; called to bar at Inner Temple 4 May 1849; went home circuit; Sec. to Baron Elphinstone, Governor of Bombay Dec. 1853–Sep. 1858; M.P. for Clackmannanshire and Kinrossshire (lib.) 2 May 1859–Oct. 1880; a Lord of the Treasury April 1865–July 1866, and Dec. 1868–Aug. 1873; first Commissioner of Works and Buildings, and Paymaster General 11 Aug. 1873–Feb. 1874, and April 1880–Nov. 1880; P.C. 9 Aug. 1873; governor of Madras 11 Oct. 1880 to death; whip of liberal party April 1874–April 1880; left for India 27 Nov. 1880. (m. 23 Feb. 1856 Emily Eliza dau. of Sir Wm. Wyllie, K.C.B., she was raised to rank of a baronet’s wife 22 May 1882). d. Ootacamund, Madras 24 May 1881. bur. there 26 May. Fraser’s Mag. civ, 113–22 (1881); Graphic xxiii, 589 (1881) pt.; I.L.N. lxxvii, 564 (1880) pt.

ADAMS, Alexander Maxwell, L.R.C.S. Edin. 1835, F.F.P.S. Glasgow 1840; M.D. King’s college Aberdeen 1849; professor of Institutes of medicine in Anderson’s university Glasgow; senior surgeon Lock hospital Glasgow; went to Lanark about 1852; provost 15of Lanark 1860 to death; author of Essay on Scarlet Fever. d. Bloomgate st. Lanark 24 July 1867 aged 50.

ADAMS, Andrew Leith (2 son of Francis Adams of Belfield house, Banchory, co. Aberdeen). Assistant surgeon 64 foot 22 Dec. 1848; surgeon major 20 Oct. 1868–23 Jany. 1875, when he retired with honorary rank of deputy surgeon general; professor of zoology, Royal college of science, Dublin 1873–78; professor of natural history, Queen’s college, Cork, Nov. 1878 to death; F.G.S. 1870, LLD. Aberdeen 1871, F.R.S. 6 June 1872; author of Wanderings of a naturalist 1867; Notes of a Naturalist 1870. (m. 26 Oct. 1859 Bertha Jane, eld. dau. of Frederick Grundy of The Avenue, Hardwick). d. Queenstown 29 July 1882.

ADAMS, Arthur. Assistant surgeon R.N. 13 Oct. 1841; surgeon 14 April 1853; employed in the Actæon on surveying service, on coast of China and Tartary, Aug. 1856; fleet surgeon 27 May 1865; retired 27 July 1871; M.R.C.S. 1848; author of The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Samarang 1850; Travels of a naturalist in Japan and Manchuria 1870. d. Stoke villa, Honor Oak Kent 16 Oct. 1878 aged 58.

ADAMS, Arthur Robarts (fourth son of Henry Cadwallader Adams of Anstey Hall, Warwickshire 1779–1842 by Emma eld. dau. of Sir Wm. Curtis, Lord mayor of London, 1st Bart., she d. 22 June 1857 aged 76). b. 16 Aug. 1812; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ sch. 1822–30, and at St. John’s coll. Ox. 1830–35; B.C.L. 1835, D.C.L. 1840; Fell. of his coll. 1835 to death; called to bar at Mid. Temple 11 Jan. 1839; went Midland circuit; Recorder of Birmingham 20 Jan. 1866 to death; Q.C. 22 June 1869, Bencher of his Inn 27 Jan. 1870; Assessor of Chancellor’s court, Oxford, Nov. 1871–1876. d. suddenly while out shooting in Bagley Wood near Oxford 13 Dec. 1877. bur. Anstey near Coventry 20 Dec. 1877.

ADAMS, Edward Moore. Practised as a surgeon; Sec. to proprietors of Cremorne gardens, London for 30 years before 5 Oct. 1877, when they closed; d. Bristol 2 June 1881 in 78 year. bur. Arno’s Vale cemetery 6 June.

ADAMS, Frances Matilda. Exhibited pictures of flowers at the Royal Academy from 1816; water colour painter extraordinary to Queen Adelaide. d. 24 Oct. 1863 aged 79.

16ADAMS, Francis, b. Lumphanan, co. Aberdeen 13 March 1796; ed. at Aberdeen; M.R.C.S. 1 Dec. 1815; practised at Banchory-Ternan 1816 to death; translated Paulus Ægineta, 3 vols. 1844–47, being the only English translation; Hippocrates 2 vols. 1849, and Aretæus 1856; author of Arundines Devœ, or poetical translations on a new principle 1853. d. Banchory-Ternan 26 Feb. 1861. Scotsman 27 Feb. and 9 March 1861.

ADAMS, Frank. b. 1809; ensign 28 foot 30 Dec. 1826; lieut. col. 28 foot 16 July 1852–4 March 1866; commanded Mhow division of Bombay army 9 Jan. 1866–1869; C.B. 5 July 1855. d. at sea, on board the Tanjore, on his way home from India 19 Sep. 1869.

ADAMS, George, physician general Madras army 6 Feb. 1841–31 Jan. 1846. d. 148 New Bond st. London 11 July 1852.

ADAMS, Sir George Pownoll (younger son of Wm. Adams 1752–1811, of Bowdon near Totnes, Devon, M.P. for Totnes, by Anna Maria dau. of Richard Dacres of Leatherhead, Surrey, she d. Bowdon 19 April 1830). b. Bowdon 1778; Cornet 2nd dragoon guards 5 Oct. 1795; lieut. col. 25th dragoons 8 Dec. 1804–25 Dec. 1818; commanded the troops at Bangalore 1810–1814; Colonel of 6th dragoons 26 Oct. 1840 to death; General 11 Nov. 1851; K.C.H. 1831; knighted by the king at St. James’s palace 28 Sep. 1831. (m. (1) at Totnes, Devon 28 Nov. 1804 Elizabeth Lovelace. m. (2) 23 July 1821 Elizabeth 2 dau. of Sir Wm. Elford, Bart., she d. 28 Feb. 1857). d. Temple hill, East Budleigh, Devon 10 June 1856.

ADAMS, Henry William b. 31 Jan. 1805; ensign 12th foot 31 July 1823; Lieut. col. 18th foot 13 March 1840–12 April 1844; Lieut. col. 49th foot 12 April 1844 to death; Brigadier general 21 Feb. 1854 to death; C.B. 14 Oct. 1841. (m. 28 Nov. 1843 his cousin Katherine 2 dau. of Rev. Thomas Coker Adams, V. of Anstey, Warwickshire, she was raised by royal warrant to the rank of the wife of a K.C.B. for which honour her husband was named in the London gazette 10 July 1855). d. Scutari 19 Dec. 1854.

ADAMS, John (3 and youngest son of Simon Adams of East Haddon, Northamptonshire, Recorder of Daventry who d. 10 March 1801, by Sarah dau. of Cadwallader Coker of Bicester, she d. 17 July 1833 aged 80). b. 1786; barrister M.T. 27 Nov. 1812; went the Midland circuit; Sergeant at law 5 July 1824, patent of precedence 24 April 1834; J.P. 14 Jan. 1836, 17steward of Coventry; Chairman of Middlesex magistrates March 1836; Assistant judge of Middlesex sessions 17 Aug. 1844 to death; author of A treatise on the principles and practice of the action of Ejectment and the remitting action of mesne profits 1812, 4 ed. 1846. (m. (1) 1811 Eliza only dau. of Wm. Nation of Exeter, she d. 12 Aug. 1814. m. (2) 1817 Jane dau. of Thomas Martin of Nottingham, she d. 19 June 1825. m. (3) 28 Dec. 1826 his cousin Charlotte Priscilla only dau. of John Coker of Bicester, Oxon). d. 9 Hyde park st. London 10 Jany. 1856 in his 70th year.

Note.—He had two sons by his 1 wife, namely John Adams, author of the Doctrine of equity who d. 18 Sep. 1848, and Rev, Wm. Adams, author of the Shadow of the cross who d. 17 Jan. 1848.

ADAMS, John, apprenticed to J. G. Andrews of London, surgeon; studied at the London hospital, M.R.C.S. 3 Oct. 1828, F.R.C.S. 11 Dec. 1843; assistant surgeon London hospital 1828; and lecturer there with James Luke on anatomy and physiology 1833; afterwards sole lecturer; senior surgeon, and ultimately consulting surgeon; known as “honest Jack Adams”; author of The anatomy and diseases of the prostate gland 1851. d. 2 Vanbrugh park road west, Blackheath 18 Jany. 1877 in his 72nd year.

ADAMS, Robert, b. Ireland about 1791; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1814, M.A. 1832, M.D. 1842; apprenticed to Wm. Hartigan, surgeon; L.R.C.S.I. 1815, F.R.C.S.I. 1818; surgeon to Jervis st. hospital, Dublin; surgeon to Richmond hospital, Dublin 1835–73; founded with R. Carmichael and E. Mac Dowel, the Richmond school of medicine, afterwards called the Carmichael school; where he was professor of surgery; surgeon to Richmond lunatic asylum; pres. of royal college of surgeons Ireland 3 times; surgeon to the Queen in Ireland 15 Nov. 1861; Regius professor of surgery in univ. of Dublin 1861; member of senate of Queen’s univ.; member of Society of surgery Paris; author of A treatise on rheumatic gout 1857, which became the work on the subject; Illustrations of the effects of rheumatic gout 1857. d. 22 Stephen’s Green north, Dublin 13 Jany. 1875. bur. Mount Jerome cemetery 19 Jany.

ADAMS, Very Rev. Samuel (3 son of rev. Benjamin Adams 1756–1840, R. of Kellinick, co. Cavan by Elizabeth dau. of John Clark, she d. 28 Feb. 1833 aged 77). b. 15 Feb. 1788; preb. of Tirbrien in Elphin cathedral 20 March 1813; dean of Cashel 10 Aug. 1829 to 18death; instituted and installed dean 29 Aug.; author of A comparative view of the Anglican and Roman Churches 1836. (m. 4 Jany. 1809 Frances youngest dau. of Capt. John Hervey of Killiam castle, co. Wexford). d. Northlands, co. Cavan 7 Dec. 1856.

ADAMS, Thomas. b. 5 Sep. 1785; studied music under Thomas Busby 1796; organist of Carlisle chapel, Lambeth 1802–14; of St. Paul’s, Deptford 22 March 1814–1824; and of St. George’s, Camberwell 1824 to death; St. George’s was opened 26 March 1824, when an anthem by him, for 5 voices was performed; organist of St. Dunstan in the West, Fleet st. 1833 to death; published many organ pieces, fugues and voluntaries, besides 90 interludes, several variations, and many vocal pieces. d. Addington place, Camberwell, London 15 Sep. 1858.

ADAMS, Thomas. b. Worksop 5 Feb. 1807; apprenticed to a draper at Newark 1821–28; entered house of Messrs. Boden; a lace merchant in Stoney st. Nottingham 1830; built new warehouse in Stoney st., to which he removed, 10 July 1855; converted his business into company of “Thomas Adams & Co., limited” 1862; chairman and managing director 1862 to death; lived at Lenton Firs 1844 to death. d. there 16 May 1873. bur. in cemetery, Nottingham 24 May; Memorials of T. Adams, by Rev. W. Milton 1874 portrait.

ADAMS, William (youngest son of Patience Thomas Adams of Bushey Grove, Herts, Filazer of Court of King’s Bench, who d. 2 May 1793, in his 57th year, by Martha only child of Thomas Marsh of London, she d. 19 Feb. 1795 in her 54th year). b. 39 Hatton Garden, London 13 Jany. 1772; ed. at Tunbridge school; matriculated at Trinity Hall, Cam. 17 Dec. 1788; Fell. of his hall to 1803; contested the mastership, Dec. 1815; admitted to college of Advocates 4 Nov. 1799, lived there 1799–1811; one of the Comrs. to prepare tables of fees, and regulate practice of Vice Admiralty Courts abroad 14 Nov. 1811; Comr. to negociate and conclude a treaty of peace with United States 30 July 1814; Comr. of Inquiry into duties of Courts of Justice in England 9 Feb. 1815–1824; one of the Plenipotentiaries to treat of, and conclude a convention of commerce between Great Britain and United States, June 1815; one of Counsel for Queen Caroline’s divorce bill 6 July 1820; retired from practice, Sep. 1825; resided at Thorpe in Surrey 1836 to death. (m. (1) at Kensworth, Herts 31 Aug. 1803 Sarah dau. 19of Rev. Thomas Scott, R. of King’s Stanley, Gloucs, she d. 3 Feb. 1806. m. (2) at Marylebone church 6 April 1811 Mary Anne 3 dau. of Hon. W. Cockayne of Rushton hall, Northamptonshire, she was raised by patent to the rank of a Viscount’s daughter 4 September 1831, she died 16 June 1873). d. Thorpe, Surrey 11 June 1851. bur. Thorpe churchyard 17 June. G.M. xxxvi, 197–200 (1851).

ADAMS, William. Member of firm of Hamilton, Adams & Co. publishers. d. The Limes, Clapham road 23 Feb. 1872 aged 75.

ADAMS, William Bridges. b. London 1797; a carriage builder in Long Acre; travelled over great part of Europe and America; pupil of John Farey civil engineer; invented the fish-joint for railway rails 1847, this joint is still universally used on railways; made many valuable improvements in rolling stock; manufactured railway plant at works at Bow, London but failed; patented improvements in carriages, in ship propulsion, guns and wood carving; took out no less than 32 patents; author of English pleasure carriages 1837; Railways and permanest way 1854; Roads and Rails 1862, and of very many articles in scientific and technical periodicals; wrote several political pamphlets under the pseudonym of Junius Redivivus. (m. 1834 Sarah dau. of Benjamin Flower of Great Harlow, Essex, she was b. 22 Feb. 1805, wrote many poems and hymns, and d. Aug. 1848). d. Broadstairs 23 July 1872. bur. at St. Peters. Engineering 26 July 1872 p. 63.

ADAMS, William Dacres. b. 16 Dec. 1775; confidential sec. to William Pitt during his last administration May 1804 to Feb. 1806; a comr. of woods and forests 31 July 1810 to 23 Aug. 1834. d. Sydenham 8 June 1862.

ADAMS, William Henry (second son of Thomas Adams of Norman Cross, Hunts, by Anna Maria dau. of W. Fair of Romsey, Hants). b. Norman Cross 1809; compositor in a printing office in London; manager of Lincolnshire Herald at Boston 1834; law reporter for the Morning Herald; barrister M.T. 24 Nov. 1843; went northern circuit; Auditor of the Poor law accounts for Lincoln, Nottingham and Rutland districts 1856; M.P. for Boston (lib. conserv.) 27 March 1857 to 23 April 1859; mayor of Boston twice; Recorder of Derby 10 Jan. 1859; Attorney General for colony of Hong Kong 19 April 1859; Mem. of legislative council there 2 Feb. 1860 and 20Chief Justice 5 July 1860. (m. (1) 1832 Anne dau. of Thomas Walford. m. (2) 1 June 1864 Ellen Williams eld. dau. of Edward Cobb of Kensington). d. Plas Llyssyn, Carno, Montgomeryshire 29 Aug. 1865. bur. Carno 6 Sep. I.L.N. xxxvii, 467 (1860) portrait.

ADAMS, William Henry. b. Malta; captain 36 foot 3 July 1840 to 7 June 1844, when placed on half pay; professor of fortification at R.M. college, Sandhurst 1845–70. d. Athenæum st. Plymouth 20 Dec. 1883 aged 79.

ADAMS, William James. b. London 1809; articled to a solicitor; London agent for Bradshaw’s railway map about 1838; published Bradshaw’s railway guide for the proprietors at 170 Fleet St. 1841–43 and at 59 Fleet st. 1843 to death; the 1st number is dated Dec. 1841, and consisted of about 38 pages; the continental Bradshaw was started 1847. d. 59 Fleet st. London 21 Dec. 1873. Athenæum 27 Dec. 1873; 17 Jany 1874, and 24 Jany 1874.

ADAMS, William Pitt. b. 11 Dec. 1804; chargé d’affaires and consul general to republic of Peru 30 Nov. 1842 to death. d. Lima 1 Sep. 1852.

ADAMSON, Rev. Henry Thomas; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.D. 1864; V. of Benthall Salop 1871–77; chaplain at Turin 1877–78; at Nervi 1880; author of The analogy of the faith 1869; The truth as it is in Jesus 1878; The three sevens 1880; The Millenium 1882. d. Lyons 29 May 1882 in 66 year.

ADAMSON, John (3 son of Cuthbert Adamson, lieut. R.N. by his 2 wife Mary dau. of John Huthwaite of Seaton Delaval near Newcastle). b. High st. Gateshead 13 Sep. 1787; ed. at Newcastle gr. sch.; articled to Thomas Davidson of Newcastle, attorney; practised at Newcastle 1808 to death; undersheriff there 1811–36; sec. to Newcastle and Carlisle railway company 1829 to death; member of Literary and philosophical society of Newcastle 1811, one of its secretaries 1825 to death; treasurer and sec. of “The Antiquarian society of Newcastle” 11 Feb. 1813 to death; one of the 4 founders of Typographical society of Newcastle; K.C. and K.T.S. of Portugal; F.L.S. 1823, F.S.A., F.R.G.S. 1830; author of Memoirs of life and writings of Luis de Camoens 1820, 2 vols; Lusitania illustrata notices of the history of Portugal, 2 parts 1842–46. (m. 3 Dec. 1812 Elizabeth dau. of Samuel Huthwaite of Seaton Delaval, she d. 5 July 1855). 21d. 9 Victoria terrace Jesmond road, Newcastle 27 Sep. 1855. bur. Jesmond cemetery 1 Oct. Dibdin’s Northern tour i, 369–91 (1838); Martin’s Catalogue of privately printed books 1834, 419–40.

Note.—His library which contained a probably unrivalled collection of books relating to Portugal was nearly entirely destroyed by fire 16 April 1849, the remainder was sold at Sotheby’s in London 22 May 1856.

ADCOCK, James. b. Eton 1778; chorister in St. George’s chapel Windsor and Eton college chapel 1786; lay clerk in St. George’s chapel 1797 and in Eton college chapel 1799; member of choirs of Trinity, St John’s and King’s colleges Cambridge; master of the choristers of King’s college; published several of his glees and The rudiments of singing, with about 30 solfeggi to assist persons wishing to sing at sight. d. Union road, Cambridge 30 April 1860.

ADDAMS, Jesse (son of Richard Addams of Rotherhithe, shipbuilder). b. 1 Jany. 1786; ed. Merchant Taylor’s sch. 1793; at St. John’s coll. Ox. 1804; B.C.L. 1810, D.C.L. 1814; admitted a proctor at Doctors Commons 3 Nov. 1814; Q.C. Jany. 1858; author of “Reports of cases argued and determined in the ecclesiastical courts at Doctors Commons and in the high court of delegates,” 3 vols. 1823–26. d. 224 Marylebone road, London 25 May 1871.

ADDERLEY, Arden, entered navy 4 June 1796; Captain 19 July 1814; went on half pay 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 16 June 1862. d. Hams lodge, Ryde, Isle of Wight 15 Jany 1864.

ADDINGTON, Henry Unwin (2 son of John Hiley Addington, M.P., P.C. who d. 11 June 1818, by Mary dau. of Henry Unwin, she d. 3 Sep. 1833). b. Blount’s Court near Henley on Thames 24 March 1790; ed. at Winchester; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. at Madrid 10 Oct. 1829 to 2 Nov. 1833; permanent under secretary of state for foreign affairs 4 March 1842 to 9 April 1854; P.C. 15 April 1854; F.R.G.S. 1861 and member of council 1861–70. (m. 17 Nov. 1836 Eleanor Anne Bucknall eld. dau. of Thomas Grimston Bucknall Estcourt of Estcourt Gloucs, she d. 17 Oct. 1877). d. 78 Eaton place London 6 March 1870.

ADDIS, Bernard. b. London 28 Feb. 1791; entered Society of Jesus at Hodder 14 Oct. 1817; ordained priest at Maynooth college 1 June 1822; procurator at Mount St. Mary’s college, Derbyshire 1852–59; assistant missioner at Skipton, Yorkshire 1863–73. d. the Novitiate, Manresa house, Roehampton, Surrey 1 Oct. 1879.

22ADDISON, Rev. Berkeley (son of Rev. Joseph Addison of Weymouth); ed. at Reading gr. sch. and St. Peter’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842; R. of Collyhurst, Manchester 1855–60; domestic chaplain to Earl Caithness 1856 to death; surrogate 1861; V. of Jesmond, Northumberland 1861 to death; member of Newcastle upon Tyne school board 25 Jan. 1871 and vice chairman; hon. canon of Durham 1877 to death. d. Jesmond vicarage 13 Jany. 1882 in 67 year.

ADDISON, Charles Greenstreet (youngest son of Wm. Dering Addison of Newark house, Maidstone); barrister Inner Temple 10 June 1842; went home circuit; revising barrister for East Kent; author of The history of the knights templars, the Temple church and the Temple 1842, 3 ed. 1852; A treatise on the law of contracts, 2 vols. 1845–47, 8 ed. 1883; Wrongs and their remedies 1860, 5 ed. 1879. (m. 19 Nov. 1848 Frances Octavia 8 dau. of James Wolfe Murray, Lord Cringletie). d. 29 Alfred place west, Thurloe square London 19 Feb. 1866.

ADDISON, Edward Phillips, stage name of Edward Philip Haddy. b. Plymouth Dock (name changed to Devonport 1 Jany. 1824) 24 Feb. 1809; acted in the provinces; first appeared in London at Lyceum theatre 1 April 1839 in “Dark Events”; acted at Drury Lane, Olympic, Prince of Wales’s and Lyceum theatres; played Pickwick in Albery’s dramatic version of it at Lyceum theatre 23 Oct. 1871 to Nov. 1871; lessee of Doncaster theatre many years. d. Plymouth 16 April 1874. bur. there 19 April.

ADDISON, Henry Robert. b. Calcutta; cornet 2 dragoon guards 12 July 1827; lieut. 15 March 1831 to 21 June 1833 when placed on half pay; began writing for the stage 1830; author of about 60 dramas and farces; lessee of Queen’s theatre London Aug. 1836–1837; wrote many songs and articles in monthly magazines; edited Who’s Who 1849–50; special correspondent of a morning paper at Paris exhibition 1867; deputy chairman of London steamboat company; author of about 12 novels and stories. d. Albion st. Hyde park, London 24 June 1876 aged 71. Dublin Univ. Mag. xviii, 505 (1841) portrait.

ADDISON, John (son of John Addison of Preston, recorder of Clitheroe who d. 1837 in his 83 year, by Agnes dau. of Thomas Batty of Avenham house, Preston). b. Fishergate, Preston 21 April 1791; ed. at Blanchard’s school, Nottingham; articled with Aspden and Shuttleworth of Preston, solicitors; barrister Inner 23Temple 6 Feb. 1818; went northern circuit; recorder of Clitheroe 1837 to death; judge of county court number 4 circuit, Lancashire March 1847 to death; his first court was held at Blackburn 7 June 1847; presented with valuable piece of plate by registrars of his circuit 1857; alderman of Preston 25 Sep. 1832, again 27 Feb. 1846; mayor 1833 and 1843; councillor for St. John’s ward 1842. d. Winckley sq. Preston 14 July 1859. bur. St. Leonard’s ch. Balderston 20 July.

ADDISON, Joseph (youngest son of Rev. Wm. Addison, R. of Dinsdale, Durham). b. 1789; ed. at gr. sch. Richmond, Yorkshire and Lincoln coll. Ox., B.A. 1811, M.A. 1813; barrister Inner Temple 28 Jany. 1831; went northern circuit; bencher of his inn 1857. (m. 28 Dec. 1824 Jane 1 dau. of Thomas Beckett of Thornton le Moor near Northallerton). d. 7 Dean’s yard, Westminster 10 April 1858.

ADDISON, Laura, stage name of Laura Wilmshurst (dau. of Thomas Wilmshurst of Colchester, grocer). b. Colchester 15 Nov. 1822; first appeared on stage at Worcester theatre, Nov. 1843, as Lady Townley in The provoked husband; played at Glasgow, Dublin and Edinburgh; at Sadlers Wells theatre, London 26 Aug. 1846 to 1848; at Drury lane 26 Dec. 1849 to 1850; at the Haymarket 6 March 1851 to 31 July 1851; made her first appearance in New York, at the Broadway theatre 29 Sep. 1851, as Lady Teazle in The school for scandal. d. from congestion of the brain, on board the steamer Oregon, between Albany and New York 3 Sep. 1852, bur. in Second Avenue burying-ground, New York. Theatrical Times, i, 185 (1847) portrait; Tallis’s Drawing room table book (1851) 23–24, portrait.

ADDISON, Thomas (younger son of Joseph Addison of Long Benton, near Newcastle, grocer, who d. 1823 aged 67, by Sarah dau. of Mr. Shaw of Newcastle, grocer, she d. 1841 aged 80). b. Long Benton, April 1793; ed. at Newcastle gr. school, and Univ. of Edin.; M.D. 1 Aug. 1815; pres. of royal medical society of Edin. 1814; house surgeon to Lock hospital, London; L.R.C.P. 22 Dec. 1819 and F.R.C.P. 4 July 1838; a medical officer of general dispensary 8 years; assistant phys. at Guy’s hospital 1824 and phys. 1837–60; lecturer on Materia Medica there 1827–37; and on practice of medicine 1837–60; pres. of royal medico-chirurgical society 1849 and 1850; discovered disease of the supra renal capsules, called after him “Addison’s disease.” Author of The elements of the practice of medicine, 24vol. 1 only 1839; On the constitutional and local effects of disease of the supra renal capsules 1855. (m. 14 Sep. 1847 Elizabeth Catherine, widow of W. W. Hanxwell, she d. 30 May 1872 aged 72); placed under medical care, May 1860; attempted to destroy himself several times. d. 29 June 1860 at 15 Wellington villas, Brighton, from injuries caused by jumping down the area there, 27 June, buried near north eastern corner of Lanercost abbey churchyard 5 July; A collection of the published writings of the late Thomas Addison, M.D. 1868; H. Lonsdale’s Worthies of Cumberland, iv, 239–72 (1873) portrait; Munk’s Roll of physicians, 2 ed. iii, 205–211 (1878).

Note.—A bust of him by Joseph Towne, is in the pathological museum of “Guys,” one of the medical wards in new portion of the hospital is named after him, and in the chapel there is a marble tablet to his memory.

ADDISON, Thomas Batty (eld. son of John Addison of Preston, barrister who d. Nov. 1837 in 83 year, by Agnes dau. of Thomas Batty of Avenham house, Preston). b. Fishergate, Preston 17 June 1787; ed. at Charter house; barrister Inner Temple 1 July 1808; went northern circuit; recorder of Preston 1819 to death; a magistrate for Lancashire 1821; chairman of Preston quarter sessions 1821 to March 1874; commissioner of Bankrupts for Preston district. d. 23 Winckley square, Preston 6 June 1874.

ADDISON, William, L.S.A. 1824, M.R.C.S. 1825, F.R.S. 29 Jany. 1846, F.R.C.P. 1858; Gulstonian lecturer 1859; physician Brighton and Hove dispensary; author of A dissertation on the Malvern water 1828; Cell therapeutics 1856. d. 10 Albert road, Brighton 26 Sep. 1881 in 80 year.

ADEANE, Henry John. b. Babraham, Cambs. 9 June 1833; M.P. for Cambs. (lib.) 6 April 1857 to 6 July 1865. d. 8 Seamore place, London 17 Feb. 1870.

ADEY, Reverend John. b. Painswick, Gloucs. 15 May 1793; in business at Winslow, Bucks; began first voluntary Sunday school in Gloucester; founded a Sunday school at Great Horwood; ordained congregational minister there 1820; moved to Cranbrook, Kent then to Ramsgate; minister at Horselydown, Surrey 1836–58; at Bexley Heath, Kent 1858–68 when he retired; author of The eleventh hour 1835; The convert from popery 1851. d. Bexley Heath 16 Dec. 1869. bur. Abney Park cemetery.

25ADIE, Alexander James. b. Edinburgh 1775; an optician there; much employed by all kinds of inventors to give their schemes a practical form; erected on his house in Merchant court an observatory, long before any public observatory existed in Edin.; invented the sympiesometer 1818 which contributed much to the safety of shipping; F.R.S. Edin. d. Canaan near Edinburgh 4 Dec. 1858.

ADIE, Alexander James (son of the preceding). b. Edinburgh 1808; ed. at the high school and univ.; apprenticed to James Jardine, C.E.; resident engineer of Bolton Chorley and Preston railway 1836; engineer and manager of Edinburgh and Glasgow railway to about 1863; made a series of important experiments on the expansion of stone by heat; M.R.S. Edin. 1846. d. Rockville near Linlithgow 1879.

ADOLPHUS, John Leycester (only son of John Adolphus 1768–1845, barrister, F.S.A., by Martha Elizabeth only dau. of Rev. Ralph Leycester of White place, Berks). b. 11 May 1795; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s school 1802–11, head monitor, elected to fellowship at St. John’s coll. Ox. 1811; Newdigate English verse prizeman 1814; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1819; visited Sir Walter Scott at Abbotsford; barrister Inner Temple 21 June 1822; went northern circuit; Bencher of his inn 1851; reported in Court of King’s Bench, first with Richard Vaughan Barnewall 1831–35, then with Thomas Flower Ellis 1835–52; solicitor general of county palatine of Durham; judge of county courts circuit 44 Marylebone, Oct. 1852 to death; sat for the first time 14 Oct. 1852; author of Letters to Richard Heber, Esq., containing critical remarks on the series of novels, beginning with “Waverley,” and an attempt to ascertain their author; author with Richard Vaughan Barnewall, of Reports in court of King’s Bench 1830–34, 5 vols. 1831–35; with Thomas Flower Ellis, of Reports in court of King’s Bench and Queen’s Bench 1834–41, 12 vols. 1835–42 and Queen’s Bench reports, new series 1841–52, 18 vols., 1842–56; Letters from Spain 1858, and of many metrical jeux d’esprit. (m. 10 Sep. 1822 Clara dau. of Rowland Richardson of Streatham, Surrey). d. 12 Hyde park sq. London 24 Dec. 1862. G.M. xiv, 246 (1863).

ADY, Joseph (son of John Ady of London, recording clerk of the Society of Friends, who d. 17 Nov. 1812 aged 68). b. London 1775 or 1776; a hatter and hosier at 6 Charlotte st. Wapping; hatter at 11 Circus, Minories 1831–33; 26accountant at same address 1833; was accustomed to examine lists of unclaimed dividends, estates and bequests, and to send letters always unstamped to all persons he could find who were called by any of the names mentioned in the lists, stating to each person that on his remitting a fee of 20/- he would be informed of something to his advantage. The Lord Mayor, Sir Peter Laurie, in 1833, publicly advertised people to be cautious of him, and the Court of Aldermen the same year directed measures to be taken against him. His lucrative trade was at last stifled by a new section in the Post Office Act, which made the writers of letters that were refused, liable for the postage; he then resorted to a new device, this was to post his letters really unstamped, but bearing marks on them as of stamps removed, so as to furnish ground for his asseveration that stamps had really been put on them. In the year 1835 he was indicted by the Rev. Francis Tebbutt for a misdemeanour, under statute 7 & 8, George iv, cap. 29 sec. 53, for obtaining a sovereign by various false pretences, he was tried at the Central criminal court 7 Feb. 1835, found guilty and sentenced to 7 years transportation, which was commuted to 1 year’s imprisonment in the House of Correction. He was sent to prison again in the year 1851 for a similar offence, but was released early in 1852 by order of the Home Secretary in consequence of his declining health. d. 89 Fenchurch st. London 17 July 1852 aged 77. bur. Friend’s burial ground, Whitechapel 22 July. Central criminal court minutes of evidence, by Henry Buckler, i, 646–52 (1835); De Quincey’s Works, vi, 258, 327 (1862). The epistle of which the following is an exact copy, was received by the Duke of Wellington 5 Dec. 1833, and sent by him to the Lord Mayor the next day:

The undersigned is able to inform you of something considerably to your advantage on receipt of 20 shillings, by post office order or otherwise for his trouble.

The annexed is copied from a letter of his, which was received by a gentleman in the country.

“The undersigned is able to inform you of something considerably to your advantage (value £100 and 27upwards), on receipt of 20/- by order on Whitechapel post office as an equivalent for his trouble and costs generally.

Personally known to each of the Aldermen of London, having been a Freeman and Housekeeper 50 years.

Should you find any difficulty in getting the money, the Rt. Hon. Sir Peter Laurie, Deputy Lord Mayor, will frank you from all Expenses except Postage, which you must pay both ways. In your reply be pleased to copy the Marks of Reference, F. 1847, Page 6.”

ADY, Venerable William Brice (son of Wm. Ady, comr. of the Gun Wharf, Devonport). b. 1816; ed. at Eton; entered Ex. coll. Ox. 29 Oct. 1834, B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; V. of Little Baddow, Essex 1842–57 and Rector 1857 to death; archdeacon of Colchester Dec. 1864 to death. (m. 10 April 1844 Emilia 3 and youngest dau. of Rev. Brook Henry Bridges, R. of Danbury, Essex). d. Little Baddow 21 April 1882. bur. Little Baddow churchyard 27 April. Statute 29 & 30 Vict. cap. 111, sections 15 and 16.

AFFLECK, Sir Gilbert, 5 Baronet. b. 9 June 1804; succeeded 7 May 1851. d. Calverley park, Tunbridge Wells 18 Nov. 1854.

AFFLECK, Rev. Sir Robert, 4 Baronet. b. 27 Jany. 1765; ed. at Westminster, captain of the school 1782; and at Ch. Ch. Ox.; B.A. 1787, M.A. 1790; Preb. of York cathedral 8 May 1802 to death; V. of Doncaster 1807–17; V. of Silkstone near Barnsley 1817–37; succeeded 10 Aug. 1833. d. Dalham hall near Newmarket 7 May 1851.

AFFLECK, Sir Robert, 6 Baronet. b. Retford Notts 28 July 1805; succeeded 18 Nov. 1854; sheriff of Suffolk 1875. d. Dalham hall 9 Oct. 1882.

AGAR, Sir Emanuel Felix, lieutenant 1 life guards 15 Nov. 1804; major 2 life guards 28 April 1814 to April 1815; M.P. for Sudbury (lib.) 5 May 1807 to 29 Sep. 1812; knighted by the Prince Regent at Carlton house 18 July 1812. (m. 21 Aug. 1811 Margaret youngest dau. of Edward George Lind of Stratford place, London, she d. 10 Aug. 1863). d. 6 Langham st. Marylebone, London 28 Aug. 1866 aged 85.

AGAR, Honorable George Charles (2 son of Most Rev. Charles Agar 1736–1809, 1 Earl of Normanton Abp. of Dublin, by Jane eld. 28dau. of Wm. Benson of Downpatrick, she d. 25 Oct. 1826). b. 1 Aug. 1780; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., M.A. 1807; ensign 3 foot guards 21 Jany. 1804; lieut. 1 June 1809 to 5 Nov. 1811 when he retired; F.R.S. 7 June 1832. d. Ropley house Alresford, Hants 24 Jany. 1856.

AGAR, Honourable and Venerable James (3 son of Most Rev. Charles Agar, 1 Earl of Normanton). b. 10 July 1781; ed. at Westminster and at Ch. Ch. Ox.; preb. of Timothan in St. Patrick’s cathedral, Dublin 16 Nov. 1805; R. of St. Nicholas without, Dublin 1806; R. of Caningallen, Leitrim 1809; archdeacon of Kilmore 1810 to death. (m. 7 July 1829 Louisa youngest dau. of Samuel Thompson of Greenmount, co. Antrim). d. 6 Sep. 1866.

AGER, Joseph (son of Joseph Ager of London, apothecary). b. London; entered at Pembroke coll. Ox. 1 April 1800 aged 18, Ossulston scholar; B.A. 1803, M.A. 1807, M.B. 1807, M.D. 1810; fellow of his college; F.R.C.P. 30 Sep. 1811, Gulstonian lecturer 1812, and Censor 1815, 1825 and 1835; delivered the Materia Medica lectures 1827–28: F.R. Med. and Chir. soc. 1814; assistant phys. to Marylebone infirmary many years; greatly assisted Robert Hooper, M.D. in the formation of his pathological museum. d. 85 Great Portland st. London 17 July 1857 in 77 year.

AGLIO, Agostino. b. Cremona 15 Dec. 1777; painter at Rome 1797; went to England, Dec. 1803; painted scenery at the Opera house, London 1804, and at Drury Lane theatre 1806; largely employed in decoration of country mansions in England and Ireland; decorated Pantheon in Oxford st. 1811; ceiling of R.C. chapel in Moorfields 1819 where he also executed the altarpiece; produced many easel pictures about 1820; exhibited 22 pictures at British Institution, 8 at the Suffolk st. gallery 1825–56, and 13 at the R.A. 1830–46; painted 2 portraits of the Queen; decorated the Olympic theatre, which was reopened 26 Dec. 1849; published Mexican Antiquities 9 vols. 1830–48; drew many works in lithography. d. 87 Beresford st. Walworth 30 Jany. 1857. bur. Highgate cemetery.

AGLIONBY, Henry Aglionby. b. 28 Dec. 1790; M.P. for Cockermouth (lib.) 12 Dec. 1832 to death. d. The manor house, Caterham, Surrey 31 July 1854. I.L.N. vi, 184 (1845) portrait.

29AGNESI, Louis Ferdinand Leopold, stage name of L. F. L. Agniez. b. Erpent, Belgium 17 July 1833; ed. at the Conservatoire, Brussels; a baritone singer of the first rank; member of Italian opera company at Drury Lane; sang at the fifth triennial Handel festival at Crystal palace 19–26 June 1874. d. 56 Loudoun road, Hampstead 2 Feb. 1875.

AGNEW, Thomas. b. Liverpool Dec. 1794; fellow student with John Gibson the sculptor; partner with Vittoria Zannetti of Market st. lane, Manchester 1816, who was then the only art dealer in the north of England except Burland of Liverpool; carried on business in Exchange st. Manchester 1826 to Oct. 1861 when he retired; published many works of art and not less than 1000 engravings; alderman of Salford from its incorporation 16 April 1844 and mayor 1850; gave many pictures and prints to the free museum and library at Peel park, Salford. d. Fair Hope, Eccles. Manchester 24 March 1871. bur. churchyard of St. Mark’s Worsley 29 March.

AHMUTY, James, 2 Lieut. Bengal artillery 7 Sep. 1791; colonel commandant 29 Aug. 1824 to death; general 15 Sep. 1855. d. 14 Chesham place, Belgrave sq. London 12 Jany. 1864 aged 89.

AIKENHEAD, Mary (eld. child of David Aikenhead of Cork, physician who d. 28 Dec. 1801, by Mary eld. dau. of Mr. Stacpole of Cork, merchant, she m. (2) Mr. Bernard of Palace Anne and d. 1809). b. Cork 19 Jany. 1787; received into R. C. church 6 June 1802 and confirmed 2 July 1802; took name of Sister Mary Augustine, June 1812; superior of the first convent of sisters of charity William st. Dublin Aug. 1815 to 1827; made her perpetual vows 9 Dec. 1816; superior of convent at Sandymount 16 Aug. 1831; superior general of the Irish foundation of Sisters of charity 1843; lived at convent of Our Lady’s Mount, Harold’s Cross, Dublin Sep. 1845 to death. d. Our Lady’s Mount, 22 July 1858. Mary Aikenhead by S.A. 2 ed. revised 1882, portrait.

AIKIN, Arthur (1 son of John Aikin, M.D. of Warrington, Lancs. 1747–1822 by Martha dau. of Arthur Jennings of Harlington, Bedford, she d. 1830 aged 83). b. Warrington 19 May 1773; ed. there and at Palgrave in Norfolk; studied classics under Gilbert Wakefield, and chemistry under Dr. Priestley; settled in London 1796; one of the founders of Geological Society of London 1807, which was incorporated 23 Apl. 1823; one of the secretaries and a member of council; lecturer on chemistry 30at Guy’s hospital 1816–52; secretary of Society for encouragement of arts, manufactures and commerce 1817–40, where he read more than 40 lectures; chairman of its committee of chemistry 1840; the first treasurer of Chemical Society 30 March 1841; F.L.S. 1818; the first hon. sec. of Institution of Civil Engineers 2 Jany. 1818; one of specially selected members of the Athenæum club; much employed in drawing specifications of patents for improvements in chemical manufactures, in which Lord Lyndhurst held him to excel all other persons; made many chemical analyses for patentees and public companies; lived at 19 John st. Adelphi 1817–40; at 7 Bloomsbury sq. 1840 to death; edited The annual review 1802–1806; author of Journal of a tour through north Wales, and part of Shropshire 1797; Manual of mineralogy 1814, 2 ed. 1815. d. 7 Bloomsbury sq. London 15 April 1854. J. Kendrick’s Profiles of Warrington worthies, 2 ed. 1854, portrait; European Mag. lxxv, 387 (1819) portrait; Proc. of Linnæan society, ii, 304–306 (1855); Minutes of proceedings of institution of civil engineers, xiv, 120–23 (1855).

AIKIN, Lucy (only dau. of John Aikin, M.D. of Harrington 1747–1822). b. Warrington 6 Nov. 1781; author of Epistles on women, a poem 1810, Lorimer, a tale 1814, Memoirs of the court of Queen Elizabeth, 2 vols. 1818; Memoirs of the court of King James I, 2 vols. 1822; Memoirs of the court of King Charles I, 2 vols. 1833; Life of Addison 1843; lived at Church row, Hampstead, June 1822 to 1830; at 18 Church row 1830–44; in London 1844–45; at Wimbledon 1845–50; at John st. Hampstead 1850 to death. d. Milford house, Hampstead 29 Jany. 1864. bur. near east end of old churchyard of Hampstead. Memoirs, miscellanies and letters of the late Lucy Aikin, edited by P. H. Le Breton 1864; J. Kendrick’s Profiles of Warrington worthies, 2 ed. 1854, portrait.

AIKMAN, James. A bookseller in Edinburgh; author of Poems, chiefly lyrical 1816; An account of the tournament at Eglinton 1839; The animal kingdom 1861; editor and proprietor of a weekly paper called The Star. d. Edinburgh 21 May 1860 aged 81.

AILESBURY, Charles Brudenell-Bruce, 1 Marquess of (3 and youngest son of Thomas Bruce 1 earl of Ailesbury 1729–1814, by his 1 wife Susanna dau. of Henry Hoare of Stourhead, Wilts and widow of honble. Charles Boyle, she d. 4 Feb. 1783). b. Seamore place Mayfair, 31London 12 Feb. 1773; M.P. for Marlborough (tory) as Charles B. B. Bruce commonly called Lord Bruce 30 May 1796 to 19 April 1814, when he succeeded; col. of Wiltshire yeomanry 1798–1811; col. commandant of Wiltshire militia 25 July 1811 to 1827; K.T. 20 May 1819; created Viscount Savernake of Savernake Forest co. Wilts, Earl Bruce of Whorlton co. York, and Marquess of Ailesbury co. Buckingham 17 July 1821. (m. (1) 10 April 1793 Henrietta Maria 1 dau. of Noel Hill, 1 baron Berwick, she d. 2 Jany. 1831. m. (2) 20 Aug. 1833 Maria Elizabeth youngest dau. of honble. Charles Tollemache and widow of Charles John Clarke, she was b. 27 Oct. 1809). d. Tottenham park near Marlborough 4 Jany. 1856. bur. in family vault in parish church of Great Bedwyn, Wilts 12 Jany.

AILESBURY, George Wm. Frederick Brudenell-Bruce, 2 Marquess of (elder son of the preceding). b. Lower Grosvenor st. London 20 Nov. 1804; ed. at Ch. Ch Ox.; lieut. col. commandant Wilts yeomanry cavalry 30 June 1837 and col. 1 April 1876 to death; summoned to house of Lords in his father’s barony of Bruce 10 July 1838; kept a racing stud 1840 to death; won the St. Leger with St. Albans 12 Sep. 1860; succeeded his father 4 Jany. 1856; aide de camp to the Queen with rank of colonel 13 March 1857 to death; P.C. 18 June 1859; master of the horse to the Queen 24 June 1859 to July 1866 and 16 Dec. 1868 to Feb. 1874; lord lieut. of Wilts 25 March 1863 to death; K.G. 23 May 1864; succeeded his cousin as 8 Earl of Cardigan 28 March 1868. (m. 11 May 1837 Mary Caroline 2 dau. of George Augustus Herbert, 11 Earl of Pembroke, she was b. 22 March 1813). d. Savernake park, Marlborough 6 Jany. 1878. Baily’s Mag. iv, 217–20 (1862) portrait.

AILSA, Archibald Kennedy, 2 Marquess of (1 son of Archibald Kennedy, styled Earl of Cassilis 1794–1832, by Eleanor only dau. of Alexander Allardyce of Dunottar, co. Kincardine, she d. 16 Nov. 1832). b. Dunottar, Aug. 1816; succeeded his grandfather 8 Sep. 1846; K.T. 7 March 1859; Lord. lieut. of Ayrshire 7 Dec. 1861 to death. (m. 10 Nov. 1846 Julia 2 dau. of Sir Richard Mounteney Jephson, 1 baronet). d. Culzean castle, Maybole, N.B. 20 March 1870 from injuries received in the hunting field.

AINGER, Rev. Thomas (youngest son of William Ainger of Whittlesea, Cambs.) b. Whittlesea 1 32Aug. 1799; ed. at Norwich gr. school and St. John’s Coll. Cam.; B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824; C. of St. Giles ch. Reading 1 Sep. 1822; Asst. minister of St. Mary’s, Greenwich 1825; P.C. of Hampstead 28 March 1841 to death; founded in Hampstead, the Parochial Association in aid of the Society for the propagation of Gospel 1845; founded the Church Extension Association 1858; Preb. of St. Paul’s Cath., Aug. 1859; preached his last sermon Easter day 5 April 1863. (m. 4 Aug. 1828 Frances only dau. of Wm. Barnard of Deptford Green). d. the Parsonage, Hampstead 15 Nov. 1863. bur. in churchyard of parish church 20 Nov. The last sermons of the Rev. Thomas Ainger, M.A., with a memoir of the author prefixed 1864.

AINSLIE, Frederick George. 2 lieut. 21 foot 24 April 1828; lieut. col. 23 April 1852 to death. d. on board the “Andes” in Scutari harbour 14 Nov. 1854 aged 45, of wounds received at battle of Inkerman 5 Nov.

AINSLIE, Rev. Gilbert (youngest son of Henry Ainslie, M.D. of Hall Garth Lancashire, he was senior wrangler 1781 and d. 1834, by Agnes dau. of Wm. Ford of Coniston Water Head). b. 1793; ed. at Charterhouse and Pemb. coll. Cam. 8 wrangler and B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; foundation fellow of his college 1816; treasurer, tutor, bursar and lecturer; laid first stones of university library at Cam. Sep. 1837, and of the Fitzwilliam museum 2 Nov. 1837; Master of his college 15 Aug. 1828 to death; Vice Chancellor of the Univ. 1828 and 1836. (m. 2 Dec. 1829 Emily 2 dau. of Wm. Coxhead Marsh of Park hall, Essex). d. Pembroke college lodge 9 Jany. 1870. bur. at Over Kellet, Lancs. 14 Jany.

AINSLIE, Hugh. b. Bargeny Mains, parish of Dailly, Ayrshire 5 April 1792; emigrated to New York 1822; established several breweries, mills and factories in the western States; author of A pilgrimaqe to the land of Burns 1822; Scottish songs, ballads and poems 1855. d. Louisville Kentucky 11 March 1878.

AINSLIE, Sir Robert Sharp, 2 Baronet. b. 1777; M.P. for Mitchell, Cornwall 6 July 1802 to 24 Oct. 1806; succeeded 22 July 1812. d. Chingford, Essex 14 March 1858.

AINSWORTH, James (son of Jeremiah Ainsworth of Manchester). b. Manchester 5 March 1783; ed. at Manchester free gr. sch. and by Rev. Joshua Brookes; apprenticed at the infirmary Manchester 1798; studied at Univ. of Edin.; surgeon to the infirmary Manchester 1806; the first to commence anatomical 33lectures in Manchester; one of the ablest operators of his day, and the first who tied the internal iliac artery successfully; one of the founders of Natural history society, and of Botanical and horticultural society; member of Manchester literary and philosophical society Jany. 1805 to death; hon. F.R.C.S. 1843. d. Cliff point, Higher Broughton near Manchester 28 Oct. 1853. Admission Register of Manchester school ii, 202–204 (1868).

AINSWORTH, Peter, b. 24 Nov. 1790; M.P. for Bolton, (radical) 9 Jany. 1835 to 23 July 1847. d. Smithills hall, Bolton 18 Jany. 1870.

AINSWORTH, William Harrison (elder son of Thomas Ainsworth of Manchester, solicitor 1778–1824, by Ann Harrison 1778–1842 eld. dau. of Rev. Ralph Harrison of Manchester, Presbyterian minister). b. King st. Manchester 4 Feb. 1805; ed. at the free gr. sch. 1817–22; articled 1821 to Alexander Kay of Manchester, solicitor; a publisher in London 1826–27; edited Bentley’s Miscellany, March 1839 to Dec. 1841; author of Jack Sheppard, 3 vols. 1839 which was produced in dramatic form simultaneously, at Adelphi, Queen’s, Sadler’s Wells, Victoria and Pavilion theatres in London, Oct. 1839; received £1000 from the ‘Sunday Times’ for ‘Old St. Paul’s’ 1841, and another £1000 for the ‘Lancashire Witches’ 1848; edited Ainsworth’s Magazine, Feb. 1842 to 1854; purchased New monthly magazine from Henry Colburn 1845; purchased Bentley’s Miscellany 1854 and combined with it Ainsworth’s Magazine, Jany. 1855; gave the flitch of bacon at Dunmow in Essex 19 July 1855 and 25 July 1857; granted a civil list pension of £100 a year 10 Dec. 1868; entertained at a banquet in the town hall, Manchester by the mayor, Thomas Baker 15 Sep. 1881; lived at the Elms, Kilburn; at Kensal manor house; at Brighton; at Tunbridge Wells; at Reigate. (m. 11 Oct. 1826 Anne Frances younger dau. of John Ebers of John st. London, publisher, she d. 6 March 1838). d. St. Mary’s road, Reigate 3 Jany. 1882. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 9 Jany. Manchester quarterly, i, 136–55 (1882) portrait; Maclise portrait gallery (1883) 256–62, portrait; J. H. Friswell’s Modern men of letters (1870) 257–72; Illustrated Review, ii, 321–23 (1872) portrait; Horne’s New spirit of the age, ii, 215–22 (1844).

Note.—His novel Mervyn Clitheroe is autobiographical; in March 1878 he presented a life size portrait of himself, painted by H. W. Pickersgill, about 1841 to the Chetham Library Manchester; the best 34portrait of him is the figure in the vignette by Cruikshank, which forms the standing title to monthly editorial gossip in early numbers of Ainsworth’s magazine. He was caricatured unmercifully by Thackeray in Punch. His books and the MSS. of 18 of his novels were sold by Sotheby in London for £463, 21–22 Aug. 1882. He was the author of upwards of 40 works of fiction.

AIRD, David Mitchell. Compositor at The Sun newspaper office, London; started a bimonthly magazine called The Student which lasted 6 months; edited The Mirror 1843; printed for the Countess de Brunetiere Tallien the first daily French paper published in England 1851 which failed; barrister M.T. 11 June 1867; wrote several books under pseudonym of Pamphilius. d. 2 Sussex gardens, Hyde park, London 15 June 1876. Head and Heart legacy by Pamphilius 1861, portrait.

AIRD, Thomas (2 child of James Aird of Bowden, Roxburghshire, portioner or farmer who d. aged 86, by Isabella Paisley, she d. aged 86) b. Bowden 28 Aug. 1802; ed. there, at Melrose and at Univ. of Edinburgh; edited Edinburgh Weekly Journal 1833; Dumfriesshire and Galloway herald at Dumfries 1835–63; presided at Scott centenary at Dumfries 9 Aug. 1871; author of The old bachelor in the Scottish village 1845; Poetical works 1848, 5 ed. 1878; contributed poetry and prose to Blackwood’s Magazine, d. Dumfries 25 April 1876. bur. near Robert Burns in St. Michael’s churchyard 1 May. Poetical works of T. Aird with a memoir by Rev. J. Wallace, 5 ed. 1878, portrait.

AIREY, Richard Airey, 1 Baron, b. Newcastle April 1803; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign 34 foot 15 March 1821; lieut. col. 10 Feb. 1838 to 12 Feb. 1847 when placed on half pay; military sec. to commander in chief 1 Oct. 1852 to 17 April 1854; quartermaster general in the Crimea 1 Sep. 1854 to Nov. 1855; quartermaster general of the forces 26 Dec. 1855 to 31 Oct. 1865; governor and commander in chief at Gibraltar 10 Nov. 1856 to 4 Sep. 1870; col. 17 foot 20 July 1860 to 1 May 1868; col. 7 foot 1 May 1868 to death; adjutant general 1 Oct. 1870 to 31 Oct. 1876; general 9 April 1871; pres. of commission of inquiry into results of new short service system 1879; K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 13 March 1867; created Baron Airey of Killingworth, Northumberland 29 Nov. 1876. d. the Grange, Leatherhead 13 Sep. 1881. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 17 Sep. A. W. Kinglake’s History of the war in the Crimea (1863–75); Sir A. M. Tulloch’s The Crimean commission 1881; I.L.N. lxix, 500, (1876), portrait.

35AIRLIE, David Graham Drummond, 5 or 7 Earl of. b. London 4 May 1826; succeeded 20 Aug. 1849; a representative peer for Scotland 18 March 1850 to death; F.R.G.S. 1859; K.T. 12 March 1862; high comr. to general assembly of Church of Scotland 1872–73. d. at an hotel in Denver city, Colorado 25 Sep. 1881. bur. Cortachy, Forfarshire 3 Nov.

AITCHISON, George. b. Leyton, Essex 21 Dec. 1792; student at Royal academy; clerk of the works to St. Katherine’s dock company 1827, docks were opened 25 Oct. 1828; A.I.C.E. 1828; district surveyor of Woolwich 1844. d. Muscovy court, Trinity square, London 12 June 1861. Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxi, 569–71 (1862).

AITCHISON, Sir John (3 son of Wm. Aitchison of Drummore, East Lothian, by Jane eld. dau. of James Mylne of Langridge, East Lothian). b. 1789; ensign Scots fusilier guards 25 Oct. 1805; lieut. col. 11 Aug. 1837 to 23 Nov. 1841; commanded Mysore division of Madras army 2 June 1845 to 1851; col. 72 foot 29 Dec. 1851 to 27 Aug. 1870; general 30 July 1860; col. Scots fusilier guards 27 Aug. 1870 to death; K.C.B. 21 June 1859; G.C.B. 13 March 1867. (m. 31 Oct. 1857 Ellen Elizabeth youngest dau. of Thomas Mayhew of Fairfield house, Suffolk). d. 4 Devonshire place, London 13 May 1875.

AITKEN, David. Educ. high school and univ. of Edinburgh; D.D. 8 July 1843; licensed by presbytery of Edin. 28 March 1821; minister of parish of Minto 14 Sep. 1827 to 16 Nov. 1864; lived in Edin. 1866 to death; corresponded with Georg Hegel the German philosopher; offered chair of church history in univ. of Edin. 1843; wrote an article on German literature in Edinb. Review, xlvi, 304–51 (1827); F.R.S. Edin. 1868. d. Charlotte square, Edin. 27 March 1875.

AITKEN, John. Member of Manchester geological society 1863, pres. twice; author of part of Thomas Newbigging’s History of the forest of Rossendale 1868, and of many papers in geological periodicals. d. Clifton villas, Urmston 29 July 1884 aged 64.

AITKEN, Rev. Robert (son of Robert Aitken). b. Crailing near Jedburgh 22 Jany. 1800; a schoolmaster in Sunderland; ordained deacon by Bishop Van Mildert 1823; minister of Wesleyan Zion chapel, Waterloo road, Liverpool to 20 Dec. 1840; C. of Perranuthnoe, Cornwall 1842–44; domestic chaplain to Earl of Caithness 1844–64; minister of Episcopalian church, Coatbridge about Oct. 1847 to 361848 or 1849; V. of Pendeen, Cornwall 1849 to death; the church, of which he was the architect, was built for him by his parishioners 1854; domestic chaplain to Earl of Seafield 1864 to death; well known throughout England as a preacher of almost unrivalled fervour; author of many sermons and pamphlets. d. on platform of Great Western railway station, Paddington 11 July 1873. bur. Pendeen 18 July. Boase and Courtney’s Bibliotheca Cornubiensis i, 2 and iii, 1025; John Smith’s Our Scottish clergy 2 Series 80–87 (1849); Church Times 6 Aug. to 24 Sep. 1875.

AITKEN, Robert Dickson. b. Hawick, Roxburghshire 8 May 1801; a gardener, then a horsebreaker; left Hawick 1857; purchased estate of Reston Mains, Berwickshire, worth many thousands; tried in the sheriff court at Greenlaw 31 May 1860, for making people of Dunse believe he was heir to a large estate, when found guilty and sentenced to 6 months imprisonment with hard labour; his career was dramatised by George Duckenfield, theatrical manager; he played the chief part in this drama at Berwick and other border towns; delivered a lecture in Hawick 31 May 1864 entitled “How I did the Dunse dunces.” d. the poor house, Hawick 30 April 1879.

AITKEN, William. b. Dunbar 1814; kept a school at Ashton-under-Lyne; went to the United States 1842; grand master of the Odd-fellows there 1846; author of A journey up the Mississipi river; and of articles in the Quarterly magazine of Odd-fellows; committed suicide at Ashton 27 Sep. 1869. Quarterly magazine of Odd-fellows i, 129–32 (1858) portrait.

AITKEN, William Costen. b. Dumfries 3 March 1817; worked for R. W. Winfield of Birmingham, brassfounder 1844–64; took out a patent for ornamenting cornice poles, &c. with porcelain or glass which was much used; manager at Skidmore’s Art manufacturing company, Coventry, retired 1872; chief organiser of Industrial Exhibition at Bingley house, Birmingham 1849, from which Prince Albert took the idea of Exhibition of 1851; contributed descriptive notes signed W.C.A. to Illustrated catalogue of Great Exhibition 1851; wrote about a third of Birmingham and the Midland hardware district 1865; wrote in the Art Journal. d. Birmingham 23 March 1875. Birmingham Daily Post 24 March 1875.

AITON, John (youngest son of Wm. Aiton 1760–1848, sheriff substitute of Lanarkshire). b. 37Strathaven, June 1797; studied theology at univ. of Edinburgh; licensed by presbytery of Hamilton 30 Nov. 1819; minister of parish of Dolphington 14 April 1825 to death; D.D. Glasgow, March 1836; author of Life and times of Alexander Henderson 1836; Clerical Economics 1842, 2 ed. 1846; The lands of the Messiah, Mahomet, and the Pope 1852; Manual of domestic economy 1857. d. Pyrgo park, Havering, Essex 15 May 1863.

AITON, John Townsend. Gardener at Kensington palace 1831 to death. d. Kensington palace 4 July 1851 aged 74.

AKERMAN, John Yonge (son of John Akerman of St. Mary Newington, Surrey who d. 2 Nov. 1835 aged 50). b. London 12 June 1806; F.S.A. 16 Jany. 1834; started the Numismatic Journal June 1836, the first English periodical devoted to the illustration of coins; one of the secretaries of Numismatic society 1836–60, the first regular meeting was held 22 Dec. 1836; edited Journal of Numismatic Society 1837–60; and Numismatic Chronicle 1838–60; gold medallist of French Institute; joint sec. with Sir Henry Ellis of Society of Antiquaries 2 May 1848 and sole sec. 1853–24 June 1860; lived at Abingdon 1860 to death; author of Numismatic Manual 1832; Descriptive catalogue of rare Roman coins, 2 vols. 1834; Legends of old London 1853 and 18 other books; author of many papers in the Archæologia and Numismatic Journal. d. Abingdon 18 Nov. 1873. Numismatic Chronicle xiv, 13–19 (1874).

AKHURST, William. b. Hammersmith 29 Dec. 1822; went to Australia 1850; sub-editor and musical critic on the Argus daily paper in Melbourne; wrote 14 pantomimes; wrote The siege of Troy burlesque which was performed 60 nights, a run without precedent in Australia; returned to England 1870; wrote pantomimes for Astley’s, Pavilion, and Elephant and Castle theatres. d. on board the “Patriarch” on his voyage to Sydney 7 June 1878.

ALABASTER, Harry. Interpreter in consulate Bangkok Siam 30 Nov. 1864 to 31 Dec. 1871; author of The modern Buddhist, translated by H.A. 1870; The wheel of the law, Buddhism, illustrated from Siamese sources 1871. d. Bangkok Siam 8 Aug. 1884.

ALBANO, Benedetto. b. in kingdom of Naples about 1796; fled to England at the Bourbon restoration 1815; employed by Messrs. Rennie in London; naturalised by 1 & 2 Vict. cap. 3842, 9 May 1838; converted Covent garden theatre into an opera house at a cost of nearly £30,000, 1846; A.I.C.E. 1831, M.I.C.E. 1840. d. 75 Welbeck st. Cavendish sq. 7 Nov. 1881.

ALBANY, Leopold George Duncan Albert, 1 Duke of (8 child and 4 son of Queen Victoria). b. Buckingham palace 7 April 1853. K.G. 24 May 1869, K.T. 24 May 1871; matric. at Univ. of Ox. (Ch. Ch.) 1872; D.C.L. 1876; P.C. 1874; admitted by patrimony to freedom of city of London 25 Oct. 1875; a younger brother of the Trinity House 1875; an elder brother 1878; G.C.S.I. 25 Jany. 1877; a bencher of Lincoln’s Inn 18 June 1877; G.C.M.G. 24 May 1880; created Duke of Albany, Earl of Clarence, and Baron Arklow 24 May 1881. d. Villa Nevada, Cannes at 2 a.m. 28 March 1884. bur. royal tomb, St. George’s chapel, Windsor 5 April. Graphic, xxix, 317–22 and 341–61 (1884) 2 portraits; I.L.N. lxxxiv, 313–29 (1884), 4 portraits.

ALBEMARLE, Augustus Frederick Keppel, 5 Earl of. b. 2 June 1794; M.P. for Arundel (whig) as Viscount Bury 8 March 1820 to 2 June 1826; succeeded as 5 Earl 30 Oct. 1849, but never took his seat in House of Lords; declared to be of unsound mind on an inquisition Dec. 1849. d. Blacklands house asylum, King’s Road, Chelsea 15 March 1851.

ALBERT, Prince Consort of Queen Victoria. b. the Rosenau near Coburg 26 Aug. 1819; baptised in the Marble hall at the Rosenau 19 Sep. 1819 when he received the following names in the order in which they are given, Franz Karl August Albrecht Immanuel; ed. at Brussels and Bonn 1836–38; invested with the order of the Garter at Gotha 23 Jany. 1840; received the title of Royal Highness by patent 6 Feb. 1840; naturalized by act of parliament 3 and 4 Vict. cap. 2, 7 Feb. 1840; Field Marshal 8 Feb. 1840. m. at the chapel royal, St. James’s Palace, London 10 Feb. 1840 Queen Victoria; G.C.B. 6 March 1840, acting great master 31 May 1843; Colonel 11 Hussars 30 April 1840 to 25 April 1842; appointed Regent 4 Aug. 1840; admitted to the freedom of city of London 28 Aug. 1840; P.C. 11 Sep. 1840; ranger of Windsor park 6 April 1841; pres. of fine arts commission 22 Nov. 1841; lord warden of the Stannaries, and chief steward of the Duchy in Cornwall and Devon 16 April 1842; colonel Scots Fusilier guards 25 April 1842 to 25 Sep. 1852; governor and constable of Windsor castle 18 May 1843 to death; captain general and colonel of the 39Artillery company 20 Sep. 1843; elected chancellor of Univ. of Cam. 27 Feb. 1847, by a majority of 112 over Earl Powis, installed chancellor 6 July 1847; organised the Great Exhibition of 1851; colonel in chief of 60th or King’s Royal rifle corps 15 Aug. 1850 to 23 Sep. 1852; of the Rifle brigade 23 Sep. 1852 to death; master of the Trinity house 19 Oct. 1852 to death; colonel of Grenadier guards 23 Sep. 1852 to death; created Prince Consort by patent 25 June 1857; pres. of British Association at Aberdeen 14 Sep. 1859; G.C.S.I. 25 June 1861; composed many songs and chorales; the “Athalie” and “Œdipus” of Mendelssohn were first performed in this country at Windsor castle by his command. d. at Windsor castle at 10.50 p.m. 14 Dec. 1861. The life of The Prince Consort by Theodore Martin 5 vols. 1874–80, 5 portraits; The early homes of Prince Albert by Alfred Rimmer 1883; Medical Times and Gazette ii, 638–42 (1861).

ALCHIN, William Turner. b. St. Mary-at-Hill Billingsgate, London 1790; a solicitor at Winchester; compiled indexes to ecclesiastical registers of Winchester and Salisbury; librarian of Guildhall library, London 1845 to death; compiled indexes to the ancient records of the corporation of London; and calendar of the wills enrolled in the court of Hustings of London. d. Chelsea 3 Feb. 1865.

ALCOCK, Thomas Saint Leger. Major 95 foot 2 Feb. 1844 to 21 April 1846 when placed on half pay; lieut. colonel 1 or royal East Middlesex militia 30 Jany. 1851 to 21 July 1871; colonel 21 July 1871 to death. d. 22 Somerset st. Portman sq. 7 Aug. 1882.

ALDBOROUGH, Benjamin O’Neale Stratford, 6 Earl of. b. Dublin 10 June 1808; succeeded 4 Oct. 1849; took out 5 patents for Improvements in aerial navigation 1854–57. d. Alicante, Spain 19 Dec. 1875.

ALDER, Joshua (son of Mr. Alder of Newcastle, provision merchant who d. Nov. 1808). b. Dean st. Newcastle 7 April 1792; ed. at Tanfield school; member of Literary and Philosophical society of Newcastle Feb. 1815; a provision merchant at Newcastle to 1840; collected the large museum of shells and zoophytes which with his library was presented by Sir Wm. Armstrong to Natural history society of Northumberland and Durham; this society founded in 1839 and the Tyneside Naturalists Field Club founded in 1846 owed very much to Alder, pres. of this 40club 1849; granted a civil list pension of £70 18 June 1863; author with Albany Hancock of the great monograph On the British Nudibranchiate Mollusca 1845–55 (Ray, Society); wrote more than 50 papers all zoological in the chief natural history periodicals. d. Newcastle 21 Jany. 1867. Natural history trans. of Northumberland and Durham i, 324–37 (1867), portrait.

ALDERSON, Sir Edward Hall (eld. son of Robert Alderson, recorder of Norwich who d. 4 Dec. 1833 aged 80, by a dau. of Samuel Hurry of Yarmouth, she d. 1791). b. Yarmouth 11 Sep. 1787; ed. at Scarning Norfolk, the Charterhouse, and Caius coll. Cam.; Browne’s medallist 1807; senior wrangler, first Smith’s prizeman and first chancellor’s medallist Jany. 1809; B.A. 1809, M.A. 1812; fellow of his college 1809–23; barrister I. T. 28 June 1811; a comr. for amendment of the law 1828; sergeant at law 11 Nov. 1830; justice of court of Common Pleas 12 Nov. 1830; knighted by William iv at St. James’s palace 17 Nov. 1830; baron of court of Exchequer 29 April 1834 to death; published with R. V. Barnewall Reports of cases in court of King’s Bench, 5 vols. 1818–22. (m. 1823 Georgina 3 dau. of Rev. Edward Drewe of the Grange near Honiton, Devon, she d. 1871). d. Beechwood park Hemel Hempstead, Herts 27 Jany. 1857. bur. churchyard of Risby near Bury, Suffolk. Selections from the charges of Baron Alderson by C. Alderson 1858.

ALDERSON, Sir James (son of John Alderson, M.D. of Hull 1758–1829 by Sarah dau. of Christopher Scott). b. Hull 1800; ed. at Hull and Pembroke coll. Cam.; 6 wrangler 1822; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; fellow of his college 1823; incorporated M.A. at Magdalen hall, Ox. 1826; B.M. 1826, D.M. 1829, D.C.L. 1870; inceptor candidate college of physicians 26 June 1826; candidate 30 Sep. 1829; fellow 30 Sep. 1830; senior censor 1848 and 1856; treasurer 1854–67; pres. 1867–70; physician at Hull 1829–45; in London 1845 to death; F.R.S. 17 June 1841; senior physician of St. Mary’s hospital, Paddington 1851–67; consulting physician 1867; representative of Royal college of physicians at the general medical council 27 Jany. 1864 to 13 May 1867; knighted by the Queen at Windsor castle 11 Nov. 1869; one of Her Majesty’s physicians extraordinary 30 Aug. 1875; Lumleian lecturer 1852 and 1853; delivered Harveian oration 1854 and 1867; author of Diseases of the Stomach and alimentary canal 1847. (m. 24 June 1828 Mary Anne dau. of Peter Berthon 41of Glenadda, Carnarvon, she d. 5 March 1877). d. 17 Berkeley sq. London 13 Sep. 1882. Medical Circular i, 27 (1852) portrait.

ALDHAM, William Cornwallis. b. 21 Sep. 1809; Captain R.N. 9 May 1853; captain Greenwich hospital 12 Jan. 1863 to 1 Oct. 1865; retired V.A. 30 July 1875; C.B. 22 Sep. 1858. d. Assoint Upper Nile 27 Feb. 1878.

ALDIS, Sir Charles (7 son and one of 22 children of Daniel Aldis of Hoxne, Suffolk, surgeon). b. Dickleborough, Norfolk 1776; apprenticed to his father 1789; studied at Guy’s and Bartholomew’s hospitals; surgeon to the sick and wounded at the depôt for prisoners of war at Norman Cross, Hunts 1797–99; practised at Hertford 1800–1802; in London 1802; M.R.C.S. 1803; senior surgeon New Finsbury dispensary 1831; founded Glandular institution for the cure of cancer and scrofula in Clifford st. about 1820, surgeon there. d. 13 Old Burlington st. London 28 March 1863. Biographical memoirs of Sir Charles Aldis and Dr. Aldis, privately printed 1852, portrait.

ALDIS, Charles James Berridge (eldest son and survivor of 14 infants of the preceding). b. London 16 Jany. 1808; admitted into St. Paul’s school 9 May 1815; exhibitioner to Trinity coll. Cam. July 1827; B.A. 1831, M.B. 1832, M.A. and L.M. 1834, M.D. 1837; studied at St. George’s hospital, London; F.R.C.P. 1838, member of council, delivered Harveian oration 1859; physician to London dispensary 1839; lectured at Charlotte st. school of medicine 1841; phys. to Surrey dispensary 1843; physician to St. Paul and St. Barnabas dispensary which was founded 1848; medical officer of health for St. George’s Hanover square 1855 to death; superintended Hunterian school of medicine several years; invented an instrument for examination of the chest. (m. 9 Nov. 1835 Emily Arabella dau. of Rev. John Brome of Trinity college Cambridge). d. 45b Chester sq. London 26 July 1872. Biographical memoirs of Sir C. Aldis 1852, portrait.

ALDRIDGE, Ira Frederick, known as the African Roscius (son of Rev. Daniel Aldridge, minister of Calvinistic chapel, Green st. New York who d. Sep. 1840). b. Bell Air, Harford, Maryland 1804; ed. at Schenectady college near New York and the Univ. of Glasgow; made his first appearance on the stage at the Royalty theatre London as Othello 1826; played 7 weeks at the Coburg theatre London 42in 1826, then in the provinces Scotland and Ireland; acted Othello at Covent garden 10 April 1833; acted Aaron in Titus Andronicus at Britannia theatre 15 March 1852, first time acted since 1721; played with great success in Germany 1852–55; received large gold medal of Art and Science from the King of Prussia 25 Jany. 1853, the only other persons who had been so distinguished being Humboldt, Spontini and Liszt; played in Sweden 1857, made several tours in Russia; naturalised in England 7 Nov. 1863. d. Lodez, Poland 7 Aug. 1867. Theatrical times iii, 121–23 (1848), portrait; Tallis’s Drawing room table book (1851) 15–16, 2 portraits; N. and Q. 4 series x, 132, 373 (1872).

ALEX, Ephraim. b. Cheltenham Dec. 1800; a dentist at 35 Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London; founded Jewish board of guardians for the relief of Jewish poor 1859; the first pres. of it 1859–69, this board was really the pioneer of charitable organisation societies in England; warden of the great synagogue. d. 5 Chichester st. Harrow road, London 13 Nov. 1882. bur. Willesden cemetery 16 Nov.

ALEXANDER, Alexander (only son of Wm. Humphrys of Birmingham, merchant, who d. 1 May 1807, by Hannah youngest child of Rev. John Alexander of Dublin, presbyterian clergyman, she d. 12 Sep. 1814). b. 21 June 1783; went abroad with his father 1802; detained prisoner in France till 1814; kept a school called Netherton house academy near Worcester 1815; assumed name of Alexander by royal license 8 March 1824; took title of Earl of Stirling and Dovan 7 Feb. 1826; tried at Edinburgh 29 April to 4 May 1839 for forging documents to prove his title, when acquitted. (m. 4 Jany. 1812 Fortunata Maria Gertrude only dau. of Giovanni Bartoletti of Naples). d. 1859. W. C. Townsend’s Modern state trials i, 403–68 (1859).

ALEXANDER, Andrew. Professor of Greek in the University of St. Andrews 1820 to death; M.A. St. Andrews 1846. d. St. Andrews 5 June 1859.

ALEXANDER, Charles Carson. 2nd lieut. R.E. 20 July 1813; superintended exhuming body of Napoleon at St. Helena 15 Oct. 1840; lieut. col. R.E. 2 Feb. 1848 to death; commanded the R.E. in the Crimea 22 Sep. 1854 to death. d. of apoplexy in his tent before Sebastopol 19 Oct. 1854.

ALEXANDER, Charles Revans, Educ. at Eton; M.R.C.S. 1840; constructed many chess problems. d. 6 Cork st. London 9 Sep. 1871.

43ALEXANDER, Henry. M.R.C.S. 1805, F.R.C.S. 1844; F.R. Med. and Chir. soc. 1813; surgeon to the Eye infirmary Cork st. London; surgeon oculist to Queen Victoria 1838 to death; F.R.S. 22 April 1847. d. 6 Cork st. London 17 Jany. 1859 aged 76.

ALEXANDER, Henry. b. 9 April 1787; a director of the H.E.I.Co. 8 March 1826; M.P. for Barnstaple (tory) 10 June 1826 to 24 July 1830. d. Belmont, Herts 14 Jany. 1861.

ALEXANDER, Rev. John (son of Rev. Wm. Alexander). b. Lancaster 19 Dec. 1792; entered Hoxton academy 13 Aug. 1814; a chapel was built for him at Norwich which was opened 1 Dec. 1819; ordained 31 May 1820; pastor of this chapel to April 1866; chairman of Congregational Union of England and Wales 1853; author of sermons entitled The preacher from the press, 2 vols. 1838. d. Norwich 31 July 1868. bur. the Rosary cemetery, Norwich 4 Aug. The Congregational year book 1869, pp. 234–36.

Note.—He was to Norwich what John Angell James was to Birmingham and Thomas Raffles to Liverpool.

ALEXANDER, John Henry. b. Dunbar, July 1796; actor at Queen’s theatre, Glasgow 1810; member of Murray’s company in Edinburgh 1816; managed the Caledonian theatre, Edinburgh; Lessee of Dumfries and Carlisle theatres; stage manager at Newcastle; manager of Dunlop st. theatre, Glasgow and of theatres at Carlisle and Dumfries, and Adelphi theatre, Edin. 1822–29; proprietor of Dunlop st. theatre, Glasgow, the most elegant in Scotland (which he built) 1829–1851; the best actor of Scottish characters, except Charles Mackay. d. Glasgow 15 Dec. 1851.

Note.—On 17 Feb. 1849, 65 persons were killed in attempting to escape from the gallery of his theatre, an alarm having spread that it was on fire.

ALEXANDER, John Hobhouse Inglis. b. 1832; captain R.N. 16 Aug. 1863; naval aide-de-camp to the Queen 21 April 1875 to death; C.B. 30 Nov. 1864. d. Mentone 22 Nov. 1875.

ALEXANDER, Nathaniel. b. Hillsborough, co. Down, Aug. 1815; M.P. for co. Antrim (conserv.) 14 April 1841 to 1 July 1852. d. Ardimersey cottage, Islay 5 Jany. 1853.

ALEXANDER, Robert. b. Paisley; ed. at Paisley gr. sch.; conducted Clydesdale journal at Hamilton and at Glasgow; conducted the Western luminary at Exeter, about 2 years; edited the Watchman in London; managed the Morning journal to 1830, when he was 44prosecuted for libel, and condemned to one year’s imprisonment in Newgate, and fined £300, 10 Feb. 1830; edited the Liverpool Standard; founded the Liverpool Mail 1836, edited it 1836 to death. d. Great Crosby near Liverpool 9 Feb. 1854 in his 59 year. G.M. xli, 429–30 (1854).

ALEXANDER, Sir Robert, 2 Baronet. b. 16 Dec. 1769; succeeded 1809. d. 35 St. James’s place, London 1 Dec. 1859.

ALEXANDER, Robert. In the navy 1810–19; ensign Madras army 12 June 1819; adjutant general 24 Sep. 1839 to 15 Aug. 1849; col. 24 N.I. 16 Aug. 1851 to 1869; general 25 June 1870, retired 31 Dec. 1877. d. 6 Marloes road South Kensington 16 May 1879 in his 81 year.

ALEXANDER, Robert. b. 2 July 1813; in the Bengal civil service 1832–61; C.B. 18 May 1860. d. Schuls, Lower Engadine 16 Aug. 1882.

ALEXANDER, Thomas. b. Preston-pans near Edinburgh; entered army medical service 10 Oct. 1834; served in the west Indies, Nova Scotia, Canada, Cape of Good Hope, Turkey, the Crimea and Canada; had charge of the light division throughout the Crimean war; inspector general (local rank) 21 July 1856; director general of army medical department 22 June 1858 to death; hon. surgeon to the Queen 16 Aug. 1859 to death; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856. (m. Mary Alice eld. sister of T. Heath Haviland, lieutenant governor of Prince Edward island, she d. 12 April 1881). d. 26 Norfolk square Hyde Park, London 1 Feb. 1860.

Note.—A statue of him by Wm. Brodie was unveiled at Preston-pans by Lord Elcho Sep. 1862.

ALEXANDER, William. Lieut. col. 2 Bengal light cavalry 21 Aug. 1849 to death; C.B. 9 June 1849. d. Dorundah, Bengal 2 Oct. 1851.

ALEXANDER, Rev. William. b. Chapel Rosan, parish of Stoneykirk, Wigtonshire 21 Feb. 1763; a carpenter in Lancaster 1783–1802; pastor of Independent ch. at Prescot near Liverpool 1802–10; ordained 23 Oct. 1805; pastor at Leigh 20 Jany. 1811; pastor at Church Town 1 May 1825 to death. d. Southport 23 Jany. 1855. Memoir of Rev. W. Alexander, by Rev. John Alexander 1856; Evangelical mag. March 1823, portrait.

ALEXANDER, William. b. 1794; a writer to the signet in Edin. 1819; principal clerk and 45registrar of Commissary Court of Edin. 21 Dec. 1849 to death; author of Abridgment of acts of Sederunt 1838; An abridgment of acts of parliament of Scotland 1841; Plan and description of the original electro-magnetic telegraph by the inventor 1851. d. 21 Dec. 1859.

ALEXANDER, William. In Nelson’s fleet 1805; surveyor of shipping to the underwriters and Mersey dock and harbour board, Liverpool nearly 50 years. d. 4 Mount Vernon Green, Liverpool 11 Feb. 1884, in 97 year.

ALEXANDER, Sir William John, 3 Baronet b. 1 April 1797; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub. and Trin. coll. Cam.; B.A. Dub. 1817, incorp. B.A. Cam. 1825, M.A. 1825; barrister M.T. 8 Feb. 1825; went Oxford circuit; Q.C. 10 July 1844; Bencher of his inn 1844; attorney general to Prince of Wales 24 June 1853; succeeded as 3 baronet 1 Dec. 1859; one of council of Prince of Wales 27 Jany. 1864. d. 22 St. James’s place, London 31 March 1873. I.L.N. xlii, 400 (1863) portrait.

ALEXANDER, Rev. William Lindsay. b. Edinburgh 24 Aug. 1808; ed. at univs. of Edin. and St. Andrew’s; classical tutor in Lancashire college 1828; minister of Newington chapel, Liverpool 2 years; pastor of Augustine church, Edin.; principal of theological hall of Scottish congregational churches; member of Old Testament revision company 1870; author of the 3 articles Moral philosophy, Scripture, and Theology in 8 ed. of Encyclopedia Britannica; F.R.S. Edin. d. Pinkieburn near Edin. 20 Dec. 1884. Our Scottish clergy, 2 series 1849, pp. 199–204.

ALFORD, Rev. Henry (3 son of Rev. Samuel Alford, Dean of St. Burian, Cornwall, who d. 15 Aug. 1799). b. Curry Rivell Vicarage 3 Dec. 1782; ed. at Crewkerne, Bridgwater and Tiverton schools; entered Wad. Coll. Ox. 1800; B.A. 1804, M.A. 1811; Fellow of his college; barrister I.T. 22 Nov. 1811; ordained at Quebec chapel, Lon. to curacy of Steeple Ashton, Wilts 13 June 1813; R. of Ampton, Suffolk 1826–42; R. of Winkfield 1833–35; R. of Aston Sandford, Bucks July 1836 to 1850. (m. (1) 20 Dec. 1809 Sarah Eliza 3 dau. of Thomas Bradley Paget of Tamworth, Staffs. banker. m. (2) 11 Aug. 1831 Susanna eld. dau. of Thomas Barber of Stukeley, Hunts). d. Tunbridge 22 Sep. 1852. Memorial of Rev. Henry Alford by Henry Alford, B.D. 1855.

46ALFORD, Very Rev. Henry (only child of the preceding by his first wife). b. 25 Alfred place Bedford sq. London 7 Oct. 1810; ed. at Charmouth in Dorset and Ilminster gr. school; matric. from Trin. coll. Cam. 13 Nov. 1828; scholar 1830, Bell scholar March 1831; 34 wrangler and 8 classic 1832; B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835, B.D. 1849, D.D. 1859; ordained at Exeter Cathedral to curacy of Ampton, Suffolk 27 Oct. 1833; fellow of his college 1 Oct. 1834; ordained priest at St. Margaret’s, Westminster 6 Nov. 1834; V. of Wymeswold Leics. 11 March 1835; Hulsean lecturer in Univ. of Cam. 1841–42; examiner in logic and moral philosophy in Univ. of London 1841–57; minister of Quebec chapel Portman sq. 1853; lived at 6 Upper Hamilton terrace, St. John’s Wood 26 Sep. 1853 to 19 June 1857; dean of Canterbury 18 March 1857 to death; one of the revisers of the New Testament; edited Contemporary Review Dec. 1866; author of Poems and poetical fragments 1831; Chapters on the poets of Greece 1841; Greek Testament 5 vols. 1849–61, and 40 more volumes besides 104 articles in reviews. (m. 10 March 1835 Frances Oke dau. of Rev. Samuel Alford, P.C. of Muchelney, Somerset, she d. 18 Nov. 1878 aged 67). d. The Deanery, Canterbury 12 Jany. 1871. bur. churchyard of St. Martin’s, Canterbury 17 Jany. Life of Henry Alford edited by his widow 1873, portrait; Illustrated Review i, 295–98, portrait; I.L.N. xxvi, 269 (1855), lviii, 67 (1871), portrait.

Note.—The statue erected to his memory in a niche of the west front of Canterbury Cathedral was unveiled 17 Oct. 1871.

ALFORD, Stephen Shute. M.R.C.S. 1843, F.R.C.S. 1858, L.S.A. 1844; hon. sec. to Society for promoting legislation for control and cure of habitual drunkards; author of A few words on drink craving; Dipsomania its prevalence, causes and treatment. d. 61 Haverstock hill, London 5 July 1881 aged 60.

ALICE Maud Mary, Princess of the United kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (3 child and 2 dau. of Queen Victoria). b. Buckingham palace 25 April 1843. m. at Osborne 1 July 1862 Frederick Wm. Louis Charles afterwards Louis iv grand duke of Hesse-Darmstadt, he was b. 12 Sep. 1837; founded the Women’s Union for nursing the sick and wounded in war called after her name. d. the palace Darmstadt 14 Dec. 1878. bur. in the mausoleum at Rosenhohe near Darmstadt 18 Dec. Alice grand duchess of Hesse, biographical sketch of 1884, 2 portraits; Martin’s Life of the Prince Consort v, 252 (1880), portrait.

47ALISON, Sir Archibald, 1 Baronet (younger son of Rev. Archibald Alison 1757–1839 prebendary of Sarum). b. Kenley, Salop 29 Dec. 1792; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; advocate 8 Dec. 1814; advocate depute 1823–30; wrote his History of Europe 1 Jany. 1829 to 7 June 1842; sheriff of Lanarkshire Dec. 1834 to death; lived at Possil house near Glasgow 1835 to death; lord rector of Marischal college, Aberdeen March 1845, beating Macaulay by 48 votes; lord rector of Univ. of Glasgow 15 Jany. 1852; created baronet 25 June 1852; D.C.L. at Oxford July 1852; author of History of Europe during the French revolution, 10 vols. 1833–42, 7 ed. 20 vols. 1847–48; in 1853 the book was stereotyped; The military life of John Duke of Marlborough 1848, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1852. d. Possil house at 11.30 p.m. 23 May 1867. bur. Dean cemetery, Edinburgh 30 May. Some account of my life and writings by Sir A. Alison, edited by Lady Alison, 2 vols. 1883, 2 portraits.

Note.—He is drawn by Disraeli in Coningsby as Mr. Wordy.

ALISON, Charles. Envoy extraord. and minister plenipo. at Tehran, Persia 7 April 1860; C.B. 28 Nov. 1860. d. Tehran 29 April 1872.

ALISON, Somerville Scott. b. Edin. 1812; M.D. Edin. 1833; M.R.C.P. 1844, F.R.C.P. 1859; practised at Tranent 1833–40, in London 1840 to death; author of Inquiry into propagation of contagious poisons 1839; Medication of the larynx and trachea 1853; Morbid throat and pulmonary consumption 1869. d. 85 Park st. Grosvenor sq. 11 June 1877.

ALISON, William Pulteney (elder son of Rev. Archibald Alison 1757–1839). b. Boroughmuirhead near Edin. 1790; M.D. Edin. 1811; ascended Mont Blanc 1814; professor of medical jurisprudence in Univ. of Edin. 1820–22, of institutes of medicine 1822–42; and of practice of physic 1842–56; physician to the Queen in Scotland 3 Feb. 1847; hon. D.C.L. Oxford 1850; granted civil list pension of £100, 10 Nov. 1856; presided over meeting of British Medical Association at Edin. Aug. 1858; author of Outlines of physiology 1831; Outlines of pathology 1833; Observations on the management of the poor in Scotland 1840, this book caused the appointment of the Board of Supervision under the act of 1845. (m. 11 Aug. 1832 Margaret dau. of James Gregory, M.D. of Edinburgh). d. Woodville, Colington, Edinburgh 22 Sep. 1859. Edin. Medical Journal v, 469–86 and 597–603 (1860).

48ALLAN, Alexander Stewart. b. 1822; employed in financial department, Bengal 1859–73; supplied many of the notes to the publications of the Grampian club; wrote many articles in Notes and Queries, signed A.S.A. d. Kincardine, Richmond, Surrey 20 Dec. 1881.

ALLAN, Bryce. b. Greenock; founded at Liverpool a branch of the Allan shipping company with his brothers Alexander and James (who d. Skelmorlie 1 Sep. 1880 aged 71). d. 16 Holly road Fairfield, Liverpool 24 May 1874.

Note.—His personalty was sworn under £250,000 Sept. 1874.

ALLAN, Sir Hugh (2 son of Alexander Allan, commander of ships trading between the Clyde and Montreal). b. Saltcoats, Ayrshire 29 Sep. 1810; clerk in house of Wm. Kerr and Co. Montreal 1826–29; partner in firm of Millar and Edmonstone of Montreal, shipowners 1835; partner with Edmonstone 1 May 1839; established April 1856 a line of steamers from Montreal to Liverpool, called the Montreal Ocean steamship company, afterwards the Allan line; knighted by patent 24 July 1871. (m. 13 Sep. 1844 Matilda Caroline 2 dau. of John Smith of Montreal, she d. 11 June 1881 aged 63). d. 27 St. Andrew sq. Edinburgh 9 Dec. 1882. bur. Montreal 27 Dec. H. J. Morgan’s Sketches of celebrated Canadians 1862, pp. 669–74; W. S. Lindsay’s History of merchant shipping iv, 260–64 (1876).

ALLAN, James. Major 94 foot 20 July 1809 to 25 Dec. 1818, when placed on h. p. regiment being disbanded; served in Peninsular war 1810–14; lieut. col. 57 foot 20 March 1828 to 9 Nov. 1846; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846; col. 50 foot 11 Oct. 1852 to death; C.B. 19 July 1838. d. Cheltenham 17 Feb. 1853.

ALLAN, James. b. Aberdeen; sec. to Peninsular steam navigation company when first formed 1837; this was first company which ran steamers to distant foreign ports, the Iberia first steamer despatched with Peninsular mails in Sep. 1837; the first sec. of Peninsular and Oriental company 1840; one of the 3 managing directors 1848 to death; A.I.C.E. 4 Dec. 1849. d. Camp’s hill, Lewisham near London 15 Sep. 1874 aged 63. Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxix, 283–85 (1875).

ALLARDICE, Robert Bridges Barclay, known as Captain Barclay (eld. son of Robert Barclay of Ury, Kincardineshire 1731–97, founder of town of Stonehaven, who assumed name of Allardice 1776). b. Ury 25 Aug. 491779; kept a pack of fox hounds at Ury 1807; walked from London to Birmingham viâ Cambridge 150 miles in 2 days Dec. 1799; walked 100 miles in 19 hours Dec. 1801; captain 71 foot 13 March 1806; major 20 Jany. 1814 to 31 March 1814 when he resigned; lieut. col. Kincardineshire militia; walked 1000 miles in 1000 successive hours at the rate of a mile in each and every hour at Newmarket 1 June to 12 July 1809, when about £100,000 changed hands on the result; trained Tom Cribb at Ury July-Aug. 1811 for his great fight with Tom Molineaux the Black, which Cribb won 28 Sep. 1811; a great agriculturist and cattle breeder; claimed the Earldom of Airth 1839 and the Earldoms of Strathern and Monteith 1840. (m. 19 July 1819 Mary dau. of Alexander Dalgarno of Wales st. Aberdeen, she d. 30 Aug. 1820 aged 23). Found dead in his bed at Ury 1 May 1854. bur. in family burying ground called the Houff, which contains an account of the family from year 1110. H. H. Dixon’s Field and fern (North) 1865 pp. 196–210; Pugilistica by H. D. Miles i, 435–39 (1880), portrait; Pedestrianism [by Walter Thom] Aberdeen 1813, portrait; The eccentric mag. i, 133–50 (1812), portrait.

Note.—The coach called the Defiance (of which he was one of the 5 proprietors) ran from Edinburgh to Aberdeen and was the fastest and best conducted coach in the United Kingdom, it performed the journey 126 miles in 12 hours; it ran its first journey 1 July 1829 and its last Oct. 1849. The 1000 mile feat has never been performed by any other man, although many persons are stated to have done it.

ALLASON, Thomas. b. London 31 July 1790; architect in London 1817; employed in landscape gardening; a comr. of Board of Metropolitan Sewers; author of Picturesque views of the antiquities of Pola in Istria 1819. d. 9 April 1852.

ALLCROFT, Jeremiah Macklin. b. 1791; partner in firm of Dent, Allcroft and Co. of Wood st. London and Worcester, glovers; chamberlain of Worcester 1832–33. d. Worcester 6 July 1867.

ALLEN, Charles, calling himself Charles Edward Lewis Casimir Stuart, Count d’Albanie (only son of Charles Manning Allen 1799–1880). Col. in the Austrian army. (m. 15 May 1874 Alice Mary Emily 3 and youngest dau. of the 17 Earl of Errol, she was b. 7 July 1835 and d. 7 June 1881.) d. 8 May 1882 aged 57, thus ending this dynasty of modern pretenders.

50ALLEN, Charles. b. 1808; a member of Financial council, Calcutta; alderman of Tenby; mayor 2 or 3 times; sheriff of co. Pembroke 1876. d. Tenby 5 Nov. 1884.

ALLEN, Charles Manning, calling himself Charles Edward Stuart, Count d’Albanie (younger son of Thomas Gatehouse Allen 1772–1851, by Katharine Matilda dau. of Rev. Owen Manning, V. of Godalming, Surrey. T. G. Allen called himself James Stuart, Count d’Albanie and affirmed that he was son of Charles Stuart the young Pretender by the Princess Louisa of Stolberg-Gädern). b. Versailles 4 June 1799; served in advanced guard of Napoleon’s army at Waterloo; assumed Christian name of Stuart 1822; changed his name to Allan-Hay; changed again to Stuart; lived with his brother John at Edin. then at Glasgow then at Eile-an-Aigais near Inverness; author with his brother John of The costume of the clans 1845; Tales of the century 1847; Lays of the deer forest, 2 vols. 1848. (m. 9 Oct. 1822 Anne dau. of John Beresford, M.P. for co. Waterford, and widow of Charles Gardiner). d. on board the Rainbow steamer at Pauillac near Bordeaux 25 Dec. 1880. J. H. Ingram’s Claimants to royalty (1882) 252–59; Quarterly Review lxxxi, 57–85 (1847); Edinburgh Review cxiv, 145–82 (1861); Western Antiquary Sep. 1884, 67–72; Doran’s London in Jacobite times ii, 390–412 (1877).

ALLEN, George. b. London Nov. 1800; attorney and solicitor of supreme court at Sydney 1822; mayor of Sydney 1844; member of legislative council N.S.W. 1845 and 1856 to death; chairman of committees 1856–73. d. Toxteth park, Glebe, N.S.W. 3 Nov. 1877.

ALLEN, George John (eld. son of Right Rev. Joseph Allen, bishop of Ely who d. 20 March 1845 aged 75). b. 1810; warden of the college of God’s Gift in Dulwich 1843 to 31 Dec. 1857 when that Corporation was dissolved by 20 and 21 Vict. c. 84, and he was granted an annuity of £1015. d. The Mount, Budleigh Salterton, Devon 19 July 1883.

ALLEN, Henry Robinson. b. Cork 1809; ed. at R.A. of Music; made his début at the English Opera as Elvino in La Sonnambula; A.R.A.M.; tenor vocalist and ballad composer, his song “Maid of Athens” was much sung. d. Shepherd’s Bush, London 27 Nov. 1876.

ALLEN, Rev. Hugh. b. Cork July 1806; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub.; scholar 1834, B.A. 1835, M.A., B.D. and D.D. 1861; minister 51of an episcopal chapel at Douglas, Isle of Man, Aug. 1835; C. of St. John’s ch. Bury, Lancs. 1838–48; Inc. of St. Jude’s Whitechapel 1848–59; lecturer of St. Olave’s, Old Jewry 1856–59; R. of St. George the Martyr Southwark 1859 to death; edited the London Messenger 1862. d. 231 New Kent road, London 20 June 1877.

Note.—He was the Sunday afternoon lecturer at church of St. George-in-the-East, London where disturbances began 21 Aug. 1859 in consequence of the Rector the Rev. Bryan King adopting an elaborate ritual and refusing to allow time for the lecture, the riots lasted till 25 June 1860.

ALLEN, James Baylis. b. Birmingham 18 April 1803; employed by W. and E. Finden, engravers in London 1824; engraved many of Turner’s water colour drawings 1830–45, and many large views for the Art Journal. d. Camden Town, London 11 Jany. 1876.

ALLEN, James Mountford (son of Rev. John Allen, V. of Bleddington, Gloucs.) b. Crewkerne, Somerset 14 Aug. 1809; an architect in London to 1856, at Crewkerne 1856 to death; built many churches, rectory houses and schools. d. 27 Feb. 1883.

ALLEN, James Pearce. Spent 5 years in India 1836–41; a publisher in London 1855 to death. d. Grove lodge, Clapham Common 2 Nov. 1878 in 61 year.

ALLEN, John (elder son of Admiral John Carter Allen who d. 2 Oct. 1800). b. 1774; captain R.N. 29 April 1802; admiral on h. p. 30 July 1852. d. Torpoint near Plymouth 4 June 1853.

ALLEN, John. b. Dublin; a woollen draper at 36 College green; committed to Tower of London on a charge of high treason 6 March 1798, tried at Maidstone 21 and 22 May 1798 when acquitted; an associate of Robert Emmett in the insurrection of 23 July 1803; fled to France and became sous-lieutenant in the army Dec. 1803; led the storming party at capture of Ciudad Rodrigo in Spain 10 July 1810; chef de bataillon March 1814; retired on half pay after the Irish regiment was disbanded Sep. 1815; lived at Tours then at Caen. d. Caen 10 Feb. 1855. R. R. Madden’s The united Irishmen, 3rd series iii, 135–39 (1846); Howell’s State Trials xxvi, 1193–1432 (1819), and xxvii, 1–142 (1820).

ALLEN, John. b. Liskeard, Cornwall 26 Sep. 1790; author of State churches and the kingdom of Christ 1853; History of the borough of Liskeard and its vicinity 1856. d. Liskeard 15 Feb. 1859. Annual Monitor for 1860 pp. 3–26.

52ALLEN, John Carter Hay, calling himself John Sobieski Stolberg Stuart (elder son of Thomas Gatehouse Allen 1772–1851). Said to have received cross of the Légion d’honneur from hands of Napoleon for bravery on field of Waterloo; lived with his brother Charles at Edinburgh, at Glasgow, at Eile-an-Aigais near Inverness; author of Poems 1822; edited the Vestiarium Scoticum 1842. (m. 29 Oct. 1845 Georgiana eld. dau. of Edward Kendall of Cheltenham). d. 52 Stanley st. St. George’s Hanover sq. 13 Feb. 1872.

ALLEN, John Roy (elder son of John Allen of Lyngford, Somerset). b. 1799; ed. at Pemb. coll. Cam.; B.A. 1821, M.A. 1825; barrister I.T. 10 Feb. 1826; recorder of Taunton, Andover and Bridgwater. d. Weston super Mare 10 March 1875.

ALLEN, Joseph. Chairman of Brighton bench of magistrates many years; one of the gentlemen of H.M. privy chamber 1838 to death. d. Podstream house Wivelsfield, Sussex 9 Dec. 1851 aged 78.

ALLEN, Joseph. Military superintendent of halls, &c. at Greenwich hospital 1 Sep. 1833 to death; edited Allen’s “New Navy List”; newspaper writer on professional topics. d. Greenwich Hospital 21 Oct. 1864 aged 54.

ALLEN, Joseph William. b. Paradise row, Lambeth 1803; usher at a school at Taunton; theatrical scene painter in London; a founder of “The Society of British Artist” 1823; professor of drawing at city of London school from its opening 2 Feb. 1837 to death. d. Hammersmith 26 Aug. 1852.

ALLEN, Peter. b. Dec. 1826; M.D. Aberdeen 1849; L.S.A. and M.R.C.S. Eng. 1849; F.R.C.S. Edin. 1868; surgeon at Yealand Conyers 1856–68, and in London 1868 to death; aural surgeon to St. Mary’s hospital; author of Practical observations on deafness 1853; Aural Catarrh 1870. d. 117 Harley st. Cavendish sq. London 18 Jany. 1874.

ALLEN, Robert (3 son of Samuel Allen of Rue St. Honoré, Paris). An actor; a schoolmaster; barrister G.I. 18 Nov. 1835; went Oxford circuit; serjeant at law 3 July 1845, received patent of precedence. d. Bessborough st. London 17 Feb. 1854.

ALLEN, Rev. Samuel James. b. near Tower of London 16 June 1798; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s school 1808–16 and Pemb. coll. Cam.; B.A. 1820, M.A. 1824; University preacher at Cam.; V. of Easingwold, Yorkshire 1838 to death; completed Whitaker’s History of 53Richmondshire 1823 in which some of the chapters were entirely written by him; author of Lectures in defence of the church of England. d. Easingwold vicarage 29 April 1856.

ALLEN, William. b. Weymouth Nov. 1792; entered navy 2 Oct. 1805; accompanied Richard Lander’s expedition up the river Niger 1832; returned to England April 1834 being one of the nine survivors; commanded steamer Wilberforce in expedition to Niger 1840–42; captain 31 Jany. 1842, retired R.A. 12 April 1862; F.R.G.S. 1835, F.R.S. 18 April 1844; author of The narrative of expedition sent to river Niger 1848; The Dead Sea, a new route to India 1855; exhibited landscape paintings at the R.A. 1828–47. d. Bank house, Weymouth 23 Jany. 1864.

ALLEN, William Ferneley (son of Wm. Houghton Allen of London, publisher who d. 22 Jany. 1855 aged 67). b. 31 Oct. 1816; a publisher in London 1855 to death; sheriff 1857–58; alderman for ward of Cheap 1858 to death, and Lord Mayor 1867–68. d. 13 Waterloo place, London 22 May 1877. bur. in family vault at Sevenoaks, Kent 26 May. I.L.N. li, 517 (1867), portrait.

ALLEN, William Henry. Solicitor in London 1826 to death; principal of Clifford’s Inn 13 May 1833 to death. d. 20 Oct. 1854 aged 71.

ALLEN, William Philip. b. near town of Tipperary April 1848; a carpenter in Cork, Dublin and Chester; helped to rescue Colonel Kelly the Fenian from a prison van at Manchester 18 Sep. 1867; in the mêlée, a police sergeant named Brett was killed; executed at the old prison Manchester 23 Nov. 1867. Speeches from the dock. Dublin 1868.

ALLEYNE, Sir Reynold Abel, 2 Baronet. b. 10 June 1789; ed. at Eton; succeeded his father 1801; member of council in Barbados 30 years; col. of 2 regiment of militia there. d. Burton under Needwood 14 Feb. 1870.

ALLEYNE, Sarah Frances. b. Clifton 15 Oct. 1836; organised courses of lectures for women; member of council of Clifton high school for girls; sec. of Oxford local examination at Clifton; translated E. Zeller’s Plato and the older Academy 1876 and M. Duncker’s History of Greece 1883. d. London 16 Aug. 1884. bur. Redland Green churchyard 21 Aug.

ALLIES, Jabez (2 son of Wm. Allies of Alfrick in Lusley co. Worcester). b. Alfrick 22 Oct. 1787; a solicitor in London; author of The causes of planetary motion 1838; The antiquities 54and folk lore of Worcestershire 2 ed. 1852, the best work on local field names ever published. d. Tivoli house, Cheltenham 29 Jany. 1856.

ALLIOTT, Rev. Richard (son of Rev. Richard Alliott, pastor of congregational church in Castle Gate, Nottingham). b. 1 Sep 1804; ed. at Homerton college and Glasgow univ.; LLD. 1840; assistant minister to his father 1828; co-pastor with him 1830–40; ordained Jany. 1830; pastor of same church 1840; of church in York road, Lambeth, London 1843–49; pres. of Western college, Plymouth 1849–57; pres. of Cheshunt college 1857; chairman of Congregational union of England and Wales 1858; professor of dogmatic and general theology and philosophy at Spring Hill college, Birmingham, Sep. 1860 to death; pastor of church at Acock’s Green near Birmingham 1860 to death; author of Psychology and Theology 1854. d. Acock’s Green 20 Dec. 1863.

ALLMAN, Thomas. Bookseller in Princes st. Hanover sq. 1817; at Holborn hill 1830–59, when he retired. d. 2 Clifton villas, Maida hill, London 3 Dec. 1870 aged 78.

ALLOCK, Jon Junim. b. China; brought to England by Andrew Ducrow the equestrian about 1819; a great attraction at Astley’s, London as a Chinese juggler; travelled with Ducrow all over Europe and America; fell from a horse and broke his thigh about 1841; lived at Glasgow about 1845 to death. d. Glasgow 9 Aug. 1859 aged nearly 80.

ALLOM, Thomas. b. London 13 March 1804; articled to Francis Goodwin, architect; furnished the drawings for many illustrated works published by Virtue & Co. and Heath and Co.; exhibited drawings at the R.A.; made for Sir Charles Barry the drawings of new Houses of Parliament which were presented to Nicholas Czar of Russia. d. 1 Lonsdale road, Barnes, Surrey 21 Oct. 1872.

ALLSOP, Thomas. b. Stainsborough hall near Wirksworth, Derbyshire 10 April 1795; a stockbroker in London; the favourite disciple of Samuel Taylor Coleridge; great friend of Charles Lamb, Robert Owen and other eminent men; author of Letters, conversations and recollections of S. T. Coleridge, 2 vols. 1836; California and its gold mines in 1852–3. d. Exmouth, Devon 12 April 1880. bur. Woking cemetery 17 April. Dictionary of national biography i, 337–39 (1885).

ALMOND, Emma (dau. of Mr. Romer). b. 1814; first appeared on stage at Covent Garden 16 Oct. 1830 as Donna Clara in The Duenna; 55the original Zerlina in Auber’s opera Fra Diavolo at C.G. 3 Nov. 1831; original singer of title parts in Barnett’s Mountain Sylph and Fair Rosamond; chief singer at English opera house; sang at Westminster Abbey festival 1834; sang at Drury Lane 1836; manager of the Surrey theatre 1852, where she brought out a series of operas in English. (m. 1836 George Almond of Bond st. hatter, he d. Nov. 1863). d. Clifton terrace, Margate 14 April 1868. bur. Brompton cemetery 21 April. Actors by daylight ii, 57 (1839), portrait.

ALSBURY, George. Stipendiary magistrate and pres. of island of Anguilla, Caribbee islands 26 Nov. 1863 to 28 Jany. 1868. d. St. Heliers, Jersey 10 Nov. 1879.

ALSTON, Edward Graham. Ed. at St. Paul’s sch. and Trin. coll. Cam.; B.A. 1855; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1857; registrar general of Vancouver island Feb. 1861, of British Columbia 1 June 1870; attorney general of Sierra Leone 13 May 1871 to death, and Queen’s advocate July 1871 to death. d. Sierra Leone 12 Sep. 1872 in 40 year.

ALSTON, Edward Richard. b. Stockbriggs near Lesmahagow 1 Dec. 1845; zoological sec. of Linnæan society 1880 to death; contributed to the Proceedings of Zoological society 1874–80; author of the division Mammalia in Salvin and Godman’s Biologia Centrali-Americana 1879. d. 14 Maddox st. London 7 March 1881.

ALTHANS, John (son of Henry Althans the friend of popular education). Connected with Religious tract society 47 years and trade manager the last 6 years. d. West lodge, White Hart lane, Tottenham 15 Dec. 1882 aged 66.

ALVANLEY, Richard Pepper Arden, 3 Baron. b. the Rolls house, Chancery lane, 8 Dec. 1792; major 84 foot 26 Sep. 1822 to 30 Oct. 1823 when placed on h.p.; succeeded his brother 9 Nov. 1849. d. 12 Bruton st. London 24 June 1857.

Note.—His library was sold by Sotheby 15–20 Feb. 1858.

ALVES, John. b. Elgin 1787; captain 74 foot 2 Nov. 1830 to 17 Aug. 1841 when placed on half pay; granted a service reward 27 Jany. 1854; M.G. 5 Dec. 1856; sergeant at arms to the Queen 1855 to death. d. 14 King st. St. James’s, London 18 Sep. 1860.

AMBROSE, George James. Lieut. col. 3 Foot 31 Dec. 1857 to death; C.B. 1 March 1861. d. Brislington 19 July 1862 aged 38.

56AMCOTTS, Weston Cracroft. b. 9 March 1815; ed. at Eton; sheriff of Lincolnshire 1861; M.P. for Mid-Lincolnshire (Lib.) 1868–74. d. Harrogate 14 July 1883.

AMESBURY, Joseph (youngest child of Joseph Amesbury of Huntspill, Somerset who d. about 1802). b. Huntspill 15 Oct. 1795; M.R.C.S. 4 Aug. 1820; a surgeon in London 1820–58; opened a private spinal establishment at 59 Burton crescent 1838; lived at 26 Fitzroy sq. 1847–58; invented apparatus for cure of stiff joints, spinal curvature, and other deformities for which he took out 3 patents; author of Practical remarks on nature and treatment of fractures of the trunk and extremities 2 vols. 1831. d. 93 Lansdowne place, Brighton 27 March 1864.

AMEUNEY, Antonius George (son of Georgius Ameuney of Latakia). b. Latakia 1821; went to England 1840; studied at King’s college; went with J. B. Thompson, M.D. on a mission to Damascus 1844; surveyed the Jordan and Dead Sea with captain Lynch of the U.S. navy 1848; worked for the London Arabic literary fund 1859; professor of Arabic at King’s college, London Jany. 1865 to death; author of Notes from the life of a Syrian, with an appeal on behalf of 80,000,000 of the human family 1860. d. 87 Seymour st. London 16 Sep. 1881.

AMHERST, William Pitt Amherst, 1 Earl of (only son of Wm. Amherst 1732–81, governor of Newfoundland). b. Bath 14 Jany. 1773; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox.; B.A. 1793, M.A. 1797; succeeded his uncle as 2 Baron Amherst 3 Aug. 1797; envoy to Naples 1809–11; P.C. 30 Dec. 1815; ambassador extraordinary to China 8 Feb. 1816 to 30 July 1817; visited Napoleon at St. Helena 1817; governor general of India 23 Oct. 1822 to 10 March 1828; declared war against Burmah 24 Feb. 1824; created Viscount Holmesdale and Earl Amherst of Arracan in the East Indies 19 Dec. 1826; appointed governor general of Canada but never took office; granted a pension of £3,000 a year; G.C.H. 1834. d. Knole house near Sevenoaks 13 March 1857. bur. in Sevenoaks church. Jerdan’s National portrait gallery vol. 1 (1830), portrait; Waagen’s Galleries of art (1857) 337–41; Ellis’s Journal of the proceedings of the late embassy to China 1817; Mill’s History of British India, by H. H. Wilson, vol. iii, 1848.

AMHERST, Right Rev. Francis Kerril (eld. son of Wm. Kerril Amherst of Parndon, Essex, by Mary Louisa youngest dau. of Francis Fortescue 57Turvile of Bosworth hall co. Leicester). b. London 21 March 1819; ed. at Oscott; ordained priest by bishop Wiseman 6 June 1846; professor at Oscott, Nov. 1855 to Oct. 1856; served the mission of Stafford, Oct. 1856 to May 1858; bishop of Northampton 14 May 1858 to 1879; consecrated 4 July 1858; assistant at pontifical throne 8 June 1862; preconised to titular see of Sozusa 1880; author of Lenten thoughts 1873, 4 ed. 1880. d. Fieldgate house, Kenilworth 21 Aug. 1883. bur. R.C. cathedral, Northampton 28 Aug.

AMHERST, G. A. b. London 1776; first appeared on the stage 14 July 1817 in The blue devils at Haymarket theatre; visited United states as director of Cooke’s Equestrian company 1838; made his début in Philadelphia as the Castillian in Mazeppa 2 April 1838; author of many plays. d. in the Philadelphia Almshouse 12 Aug. 1851.

AMOS, Andrew (son of James Amos of Devonshire sq. London, Russian merchant). b. India 1791; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.; 5 wrangler 1813, B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816; fellow of his college 1815–23; barrister L.I. 24 Nov. 1818; went Midland circuit 1818–37; professor of English law in Univ. of London 1829–37; recorder of Banbury, Nottingham and Oxford; member of first criminal law commission 1834–43; 4th ordinary member of supreme council of India 11 Oct. 1837 to 15 Feb. 1843; judge of county courts for Brentford, Brompton and Marylebone, circuit 44, March 1847 to Sep. 1852; Downing professor of laws of England in Univ. of Cam. 1848 to death; author of A treatise on the law of fixtures 1827, 3 ed. 1883; The English constitution in the reign of Charles ii, 1857; Martial and the Moderns 1858. (m. 1 Aug. 1826 Margaret eld. dau. of Rev. Wm. Lax Lowndes professor of astronomy at Cambridge, she d. 13 April 1882). d. Downing college, Cambridge 18 April 1860. Law Times xxxv, 117–18 (1860).

Note.—There is a marble bust of him in University college, London.

AMOS, Charles Edwards. b. March, Cambs. 27 Nov. 1805; a millwright at Wandsworth, Surrey 1835–66; patented several inventions in manufacture of paper; invented dynamometer brought out and designed for Atlantic cable 1857; M.I.C.E. 22 May 1855. d. Cedars road, Clapham common 12 Aug. 1882. Minutes of proc. of instit. of C.E. lxxi, 387–95 (1883).

AMOTT, John. Organist at Gloucester cathedral 1832 to death. d. College Green, Gloucester 3 Feb. 1865 in 67 year.

58AMPHLETT, Sir Richard Paul (eld. son of Rev. Richard Holmden Amphlett, R. of Hadsor, Worcs., who d. 8 March 1842 in 60 year). b. Salop 24 May 1809; ed. at Brewood gr. sch. and St. Peter’s coll. Cam.; 6 wrangler 1831, B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; fellow of his college 1832–40; hon. fellow 6 Nov. 1882; student of L.I. 5 Feb. 1831, barrister 6 June 1834, bencher, Jany. 1858; Q.C. Jany. 1858; M.P. for East Worcester (Conserv.) 24 Nov. 1868 to Jany. 1874; pres. of Legal education association, Oct. 1872; serjeant at law, and baron of Court of Exchequer 24 Jany. 1874; knighted by the Queen at Osborne 27 Jany. 1874; judge of court of appeal 27 Oct. 1876 to Nov. 1877; P.C. 28 Nov. 1876; struck with paralysis 3 April 1877. d. 32 Wimpole st. London 7 Dec. 1883. bur. at Hadsor 13 Dec. I.L.N. lxiv, 120, 129 (1874) portrait.

Note.—His was the first instance of nomination of an equity practitioner to a common law judgeship since the appointment of Sir Robert Rolfe in Nov. 1839.

AMPTHILL, Odo William Leopold Russell, 1 Baron (youngest son of Lord George Wm. Russell, G.C.B.) b. Florence 20 Feb. 1829; ed. at Westminster; attaché at Vienna 15 March 1849; employed on special service at Rome, Nov. 1860 to 9 Aug. 1870; ambassador extraord. and plenipo. at Berlin 16 Oct. 1871 to death; P.C. 5 Feb. 1872, G.C.B. 21 Feb. 1874, G.C.M.G. 24 May 1879; created Baron Ampthill of Ampthill, Beds. 7 March 1881. d. Potsdam 25 Aug. 1884. bur. in family vault in parish church of St. Michael, Chenies, Bucks 3 Sep. I.L.N. lxxxv, 220 (1884) portrait.

AMSINCK, Henry. b. 1798; served in navy 1811–44; retired commander 22 March 1876; sec. to the Railway commission 1844; went to Melbourne 1853; M.P. for West Bourke. d. Hawthorne, Victoria 17 Dec 1878.

ANCELL, Henry (son of Mr. Ancell of Carshalton, Surrey, cotton miller). b. Croydon 23 Jany. 1802; walked through the United States 1823–25; L.S.A. 1828, M.R.C.S. 1831; surgeon to Metropolitan police; lectured at Lane’s school next St. George’s hospital 1837; sec. to National association of general practitioners 1845–47; author of A treatise on Tuberculosis 1852; Lectures on the blood and Commentaries on Liebig. d. 3 Norfolk crescent Hyde Park 19 Nov. 1863.

ANDERDON, James Hughes. b. 1790; collected many pictures of British School; bought Hogarth’s Sigismunda for £56 (which he bequeathed to National Gallery), and his portrait of Sarah Malcolm the murderess. d. 23 Upper Grosvenor st. London 24 Jany. 1879.

59ANDERDON, John Lavicount (3 son of John Proctor Anderdon). b. Bristol 5 April 1792; ed. at Ealing and Harrow; a West India merchant in London 1816–54; contested Penryn 1818; author of The river Dove 1847; The life of bishop Ken, by a Layman 2 vols. 1851; The Messiah 1861. (m. 4 March 1816 Anna Maria 2 dau. of Wm. Manning, M.P., she d. 1 May 1880 in 84 year). d. Brighton 8 March 1874. Geron, the old man in search of paradise, by J. L. Anderdon with a biographical notice, by Rev. G. Williams 1877.

ANDERDON, Thomas Oliver. Barrister L.I. 20 Nov. 1822; equity draftsman; Q.C. 1841; bencher of his inn 1841. d. Horsendon house Bucks 31 July 1856 aged 70.

ANDERSON, Adam, Lord Anderson (2 son of Samuel Anderson of Moredun, co. Edinburgh). b. Edin. 1797; ed. at Univ. of Edin; advocate 1818; solicitor general Nov. 1834 to April 1835; sheriff of Perthshire 1835–1842; solicitor general for Scotland 8 Nov. 1842 to 1846; Dean of Faculty of Advocates 28 Feb. 1852; Advocate for Scotland 28 Feb. 1852; one of Lords of Session and of Justiciary 18 May 1852 to death. d. 55 Upper Brook st. London 28 Sep. 1853. bur. under St. John’s episcopal chapel Edin. B. W. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 112, portrait.

ANDERSON, Alexander. b. near Stirling 1762; assistant surgeon R.N. 1784; served in North America and West Indies; surgeon 15 Oct. 1790; retired on h.p. 1803; practised at Knightsbridge, London 1803–35; the last medical officer who belonged to Lord Nelson’s fleet. d. Clarence terrace, New Hampton, Middlesex 6 Sep. 1859.

ANDERSON, Alexander. b. 7 May 1807; 2 Lieut. R.M. 13 May 1823; col. commandant 21 Nov. 1859 to death; general 1 April 1870; C.B. 2 June 1869. d. St. Alban’s place, St. James’s London 21 Nov. 1877.

ANDERSON, Rev. Alexander. b. Peterhead 1808; ed. at St. Andrew’s; founder and head of Chanonry house school (the Gymnasium) Old Aberdeen. d. Aboyne 25 Oct. 1884.

ANDERSON, Alexander Dunlop (son of Andrew Anderson of Greenock, merchant). b. Greenock 1794; M.R.C.S. 1816, M.D. Edin. 1819; asst. surgeon 49 foot 22 June 1815 to 25 Dec. 1818, when placed on half pay; practised in Glasgow; surgeon to royal infirmary 1822 and phys. 1837; pres. of faculty of phys. and surgeons 1852–55; pres. of Med. Chir. society of Glasgow. d. 159 St. Vincent st. Glasgow 13 May 1871.

60ANDERSON, Alfred. Celebrated Australian pianist. m. at Sydney 29 Dec. 1875 Ilma de Murska, the “Hungarian nightingale.” d. Melbourne 22 March 1876 aged 28.

ANDERSON, Andrew. A stocking weaver. Champion draught player of Scotland; author of The Game of Draughts 1848, 2 ed. 1852, 3 ed. 1878. d. Braidwood near Carluke, Lanarkshire 1 March 1861.

ANDERSON, Arthur (eld. son of Robert Anderson of Grimaster, Shetland). b. Grimaster, Feb. 1792; midshipman R.N. 1810; a merchant in London 1823; superintended naval portion of expedition to Portugal under Don Pedro 1831–32; started a line of steamers to the Peninsula 1836; formed fishery establishment in Orkney and Shetland 1838; member of Anti-corn law league formed at Manchester 18 Sep. 1838, took an active part in it; a founder of Peninsular and Oriental steam navigation company incorporated 1840; their first boat the Hindostan was started Sep. 1842; chairman of the company; chairman of Union steamship company and of Crystal palace company; M.P. for Orkney (lib.) 1 Sep. 1847 to 1 July 1852; F.S.A.; author of Communication with India, China, &c. 1843; National defence 1852. d. Norwood, Surrey 28 Feb. 1868. I.L.N. xviii, 232 (1851), portrait.

ANDERSON, Charles Abercromby. Inspector general of hospitals and fleets 12 April 1869 to death; C.B. 17 June 1871. d. London 25 Feb. 1872.

ANDERSON, Christopher (youngest son of William Anderson of Edin. ironmonger 1744–1804). b. West Bow, Edin. 19 Feb. 1782; clerk in the Friendly Insurance Office 1800–1804; ordained pastor of English baptists in Edin. 21 Jany. 1808; originated the Edinburgh Bible Society Oct. 1810, the Gaelic School Society Nov. 1810; author of The annals of the English bible, 2 vols. 1845, 2 ed. 1862. d. Edinburgh 18 Feb. 1852. The life and letters of Christopher Anderson, by his nephew Hugh Anderson 1854, portrait.

ANDERSON, Sir George Campbell (son of John Anderson). b. 1804 or 1805; admitted attorney in Bahama 1827; speaker of House of Assembly, Bahama 1831 to 1868; attorney general 1837; knighted by patent 16 Sep. 1874; chief justice 11 Oct. 1875; president of legislative council 1875; acting chief justice, Ceylon 1875–77; chief justice of Leeward islands 27 March 1877–1880. d. Kingston, Jamaica 1 March 1884.

61ANDERSON, George Frederick. b. Carlton palace, London 1793; member of royal private band 1819, conductor 1847–48; master of the Music 1848–70; band changed by Prince Albert from a mere wind band to a full orchestra 24 Dec. 1840; treasurer of Philharmonic society, and of Royal Society of musicians. (m. 1820 Lucy Philpot). d. 34 Nottingham place, London 14 Dec. 1876. bur. Kensal Green 20 Dec.

ANDERSON, Sir George William (son of Robert Anderson of London, merchant). b. London 1791; ed. at Haileybury; entered Bombay civil service 1806; senior judge of the Sudder Dewanee 1833; member of council 8 March 1838; governor of Bombay 27 April 1841 to 28 July 1842, of the Mauritius 9 Feb. 1849 to Oct. 1850, of Ceylon Oct. 1850 to Feb. 1855; knighted by the Queen at St. James’s palace 22 Feb. 1849; C.B. 22 March 1849, K.C.B. 22 Nov. 1850. (m. (1) 1813 Caroline 2 dau. of John Proby Kensington of Lime Grove, Putney. m. (2) 1833 Jane dau. of Archibald Wight of Ormiston, East Lothian). d. 99 Westbourne terrace, London 17 March 1857. G. M. ii, 493–94 (1857).

ANDERSON, Sir Henry Lacon (eld. son of the preceding). b. Surat, East Indies 1817; ed. at St. Paul’s, at St. John’s coll. Ox. and Haileybury; entered Bombay civil service 1840; judge of Kandeish 1853; sec. to government of Bombay in political and judicial departments 1854; chief sec. to government 1860; mem. of council of India for making laws and regulations 1863–1865, when he retired; sec. to India Board in judicial, public and sanitary departments 1866; K.C.S.I. for long service in Bombay 24 May 1867. (m. 1841 Anne Grace 4 dau. of Hope Stewart of Ballechin, Perthshire, she d. 19 Feb. 1885). d. 46 Leinster gardens, London 7 April 1879 aged 62.

ANDERSON, Rev. James. b. Newburgh; ed. at St. Andrew’s Univ.; B.D., D.D.; author of The Course of creation 1846; Dura Den, a monograph 1859. d. Nice 16 March 1864 aged 65.

ANDERSON, Sir James (son of John Anderson of Stirling, merchant). b. Stirling 1800; a manufacturer at Glasgow; lord provost 1848–49; knighted by the Queen at Glasgow 14 Aug. 1849; M.P. for Stirling (lib.) 13 July 1852 to 23 April 1859. (m. 1831 Janet only dau. of Robert Hood of Glasgow). d. Blairvadick, Dumbartonshire 8 May 1864.

62ANDERSON, James. b. Cumberland; went to Rome before 1839; became well known there as a photographer under name of Isaac Atkinson. d. Rome 28 Feb. 1877. Law Reports xxi Chancery division 100–104 (1882).

ANDERSON, James. b. 1797; entered navy 17 Sep. 1808; captain 1 Nov. 1849; retired admiral 21 March 1878. d. Teignmouth, Devon 7 March 1882 in 85 year.

ANDERSON, Rev. James. ed. at Univ. of Aberdeen; lived at Morpeth 1844 to death; the first moderator of Presbyterian church of England; D.D. St. Andrew’s 12 Feb. 1878. d. The Manse, Morpeth 17 May 1882 in 87 year.

ANDERSON, Sir James Caleb, 1 Baronet (elder son of John Anderson of Fermoy co. Cork, merchant, by his 2 wife Elizabeth only dau. of James Semple, of Waterford, she d. 3 April 1830). b. Waterford 21 July 1792; created a baronet 22 March 1813 as a mark of approbation of the services rendered to Ireland by his father, who advanced the civilization of Ireland fully 50 years; improved steam locomotion. (m. 1815 Caroline 4 dau. of Robert Shaw of Dublin, she d. 1859). d. London 4 April 1861. D. O. Madden’s Revelations of Ireland (1848) 268–85.

ANDERSON, Sir James Eglinton (eld. son of W. Anderson of Glasgow, merchant, by a dau. of James Eglinton). b. 1788; ed. Univ. of Glasgow; M.D. Edin. and Dublin; entered medical department of the navy 1808; surgeon 19 Aug. 1811; Surgeon to one of royal yachts 1827 to Nov. 1833, when he retired from the service; M.R.C.P.; Physician in ord. to Lord Lieut. of Ireland; knighted by him 1829; M.R.I.A. (m. 1819 Jane 3 dau. of Rev. W. Learmont of Luce Abbey, she d. 20 Sep. 1857). d. 7 Harley st. London 29 Feb. 1856.

ANDERSON, Rev. James Stuart Murray. ed. at Ball. coll. Ox.; B.A. 1821, M.A. 1823; P.C. of St. George’s, Brighton 1831–51; chaplain in ord. to the Queen 1844; preacher of Lincoln’s Inn 1844–1859; R. of Tormarton, Gloucs. 1851; hon. canon of Bristol 1856; British chaplain at Bonn 1859; author of The history of the church of England in the colonies and foreign dependencies of the British empire, 3 vols. 1845–56, 2 ed. 1856; Addresses on miscellaneous subjects 1849, 2 ed. 1858, and many sermons. d. Bonn 22 Sep. 1869. I.L.N. xxvi, 269 (1855) portrait.

63ANDERSON, Rev. John. b. Craig farm, parish of Kilpatrick-Durham, Galloway 23 May 1805; ed. at Univ. of Edin; ordained a minister of church of Scotland 13 July 1836; sent out to Madras as a missionary 1836; baptised his first converts 20 June 1841; joined the Free Church at the disruption 1 July 1843; the mission was then carried on in connection with that church; established many schools both for boys and girls; published the Native Herald, a bimonthly periodical 2 Oct. 1841. d. Madras 25 March 1855. Rev. John Braidwood’s True Yoke-fellows in the mission field 1862, portrait.

ANDERSON, John. Col. 43 Madras N.I. 7 Jan. 1843 to 7 Feb. 1848; col. 37 Madras N.I. 7 Feb. 1848 to death; L.G. 23 Sep. 1857. d. Folkestone 22 July 1858.

ANDERSON, John (son of Wm. Anderson of Green st. London, horse dealer). Partner with his father many years; the first man to direct attention to the value of action in horses; Anderson’s Steppers were known all over Europe; kept steppers in Green st., hacks in Bryanston st. and hunters at Mapesbury farm, Willesden lane, which is minutely described in Edmund Yates’s first novel; Broken to harness 1865. d. Jany. 1864 aged 55. Sporting Gazette 11 Feb. 1865, p. 113.

Note.—His horses were sold 7–9 Feb. 1865 for sum of £20898 average £205 each horse, which exceeded in value any previous sale of horses in this country.

ANDERSON, John. Col. 61 Bengal N.I. 7 July 1842 to death; General 14 Jan. 1864. d. Norwood, Surrey 25 April 1866 aged 84.

ANDERSON, Rev. John Henry. b. Oakham 4 July 1841; Wesleyan Methodist minister 1862 to death. d. on board the “Lorraine” in latitude 28°31 S. longitude 61°46 E. in the Indian ocean 3 Jany. 1880. Memorials of Rev. J. H. Anderson 1882, portrait.

ANDERSON, John Henry, known as Professor Anderson the Wizard of the North (eld. child of Mr. Anderson of Aberdeen, mason). b. estate of Craigmyle parish of Kincardine, Aberdeenshire 14 July 1814; call boy in Ryder’s theatrical company in Scotland 1824; first performed as a conjuror in small towns of north of Scotland 1831; performed in Waterloo rooms, Edinburgh 100 nights in 1837; erected a building called The Temple of Magic at Glasgow, seated for 2000 spectators, and performed in it 200 nights in 1838 and 1839; first appeared in London at Strand theatre 1840, when he displayed finest collection 64of apparatus that had ever been seen in London, performed there 4 months; converted St. James’s bazaar in St. James’s street, into a Temple of Magic 1840; performed in Ireland 1840; built theatre at Glasgow which was burnt; performed at Alexandrisky theatre, St. Petersburg, and in all chief cities of central Europe; at Covent Garden 1846, at the Strand 1848; in America 1851–53; before the Queen at Balmoral 1853; lessee of Lyceum theatre, London, Sep. 1855; of Covent Garden 24 Dec. 1855 where he produced a pantomime and the drama of Rob Roy in which he acted Rob Roy; the theatre was burnt down 5 March 1856; performed at Sadler’s Wells 1856; abroad 1856–64, at St. James’s hall, London 1864–65; went to India and Australia. d. Fleece hotel, Darlington 3 Feb. 1874. bur. St. Nicholas churchyard, Aberdeen 7 Feb. Frost’s Lives of the conjurors (1876) 228–60; The Era 8 Feb. 1874, p. 4, col. 1; 15 Feb. p. 4, col. 3.

ANDERSON, Joseph Jocelyn. b. 1789; ensign 78 foot 27 June 1805; served in Peninsula 1809–12; lieut. col. 50 foot 1 April 1841 to 19 Sep. 1848 when he sold out; military commander and civil superintendent of convicts Norfolk Island; commanded a brigade in Gwalior campaign 1843; a squatter on the Goulburn Victoria; member of legislative council 1852; K.H. 1837, C.B. 2 May 1844. d. Fairlie house, South Yarra 18 July 1877. bur. St. Kilda cemetery 21 July. I.L.N. lxxi, 347, 348 (1877), portrait.

ANDERSON, Lucy (dau. of John Philpot of Bath). b. Bath Dec. 1790; made her début at Philharmonic Society’s concerts 1822; Pianist to Queen Adelaide 1832; Pianist to Queen Victoria 1837; gave her last concert 30 May 1862 in Her Majesty’s theatre; granted a civil list pension of £100 23 July 1840. (m. 1820 George Frederick Anderson). d. 34 Nottingham place, London 24 Dec. 1878. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 31 Dec. I.L.N. xli, 77 (1862), portrait.

ANDERSON, Paul (2 son of James Anderson of Grace Dieu, co. Waterford, by Susanna youngest dau. of Christmas Paul). b. 29 March 1767; ensign 51 foot 31 March 1788; lieut. col. 60 foot 14 Jany. 1808 to 25 Feb. 1817 when placed on h.p.; commander of Gravesend and Tilbury forts 1 Dec. 1827, of Pendennis castle 23 July 1832; col. 78 foot 9 Feb. 1837 to death; general 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C. d. Bath 17 Dec. 1851.

65ANDERSON, Rev. Philip (son of Mr. Anderson, captain H.E.I.Co.) Entered St. Paul’s school 7 Oct. 1824 aged 8; Pauline exhibitioner C.C. coll. Cam. 1834; B.A. 1838, M.A. 1849; chaplain at Colaba, Bombay Nov. 1849 to death; began Bombay quarterly magazine 1850; edited Bombay quarterly review Jany. 1855; author of The English in Western India 1854. d. Malabar hill, Bombay 13 Dec. 1857.

ANDERSON, Rev. Richard. b. 16 Jany. 1792; ed. at Linc. coll Ox., B.A. 1815; V. of Burreston, Yorkshire 1834–54; P.C. of Leeming, Yorkshire 1868–79; chairman of Leeming school board to 1879. d. Aisken house near Bedale 24 Oct. 1884.

Note.—He was the survivor of the celebrated trio of hardriding Yorkshire clergymen mentioned by “Nimrod” in his Sporting Tour as hunting with the Earl of Darlington’s hounds.

ANDERSON, Robert. b. Fettercairn, Aberdeenshire; assistant surgeon R.N. 1838; surgeon of the Investigator and Enterprise in the Arctic seas 1848–55; made a large collection illustrative of natural history of Arctic regions, zoological specimens were sent to British Museum, dried plants to Kew, and fossil remains to Geological society. d. June 1856 aged 38.

Note.—Anderson bay on Victoria land is named after him.

ANDERSON, Robert Sterling Hore. b. near Coleraine; ed. at Belfast academy and Dublin Univ.; solicitor in Dublin 1846, in Melbourne, Victoria 1854; M.P. for Emerald Hill 1855; comr. of customs 1860–61, 1862–63 and 1875–77; repres. of Eastern province in legislative council; minister for justice. d. Melbourne 26 Oct. 1883 aged 62.

ANDERSON, Samuel. b. London 15 Nov. 1839; secretary to American land boundary commission 1869; chief astronomer to North American boundary commission 14 June 1872; returned to England 30 June 1875; comr. for demarcation of frontier of Servia 1 April 1879; major R.E. 13 Sep. 1879 to death; C.M.G. 30 May 1877. d. Dalhousie grange, Bonnyrigg, Midlothian 11 Sep. 1881.

ANDERSON, Thomas. Colonel 3 Madras light cavalry 21 Dec. 1859 to death; M.G. 21 April 1863. d. 9 Thurloe square, London 27 May 1864.

ANDERSON, Thomas (eld. son of Thomas Anderson, sec. to National bank of Scotland). b. Edin. 26 Feb. 1832; M.D. Edin. 1853; in Bengal medical service 1854 to death; surgeon 20 May 1866; had medical charge of 66Hodson’s Horse during the mutiny; superintendent of forest department 1864–66; director of Calcutta botanic garden 1869 to death; worked out the flora of India; author of Florula Adenensis 1860 and more than 20 other papers in journal of Linnæan society, &c. d. Edin. 26 Oct. 1870. Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. ii, 41–45 (1873).

ANDERSON, Thomas. b. 2 July 1819; M.D. Edin. 1841; F.R.S. Edin. 1845, Keith medallist 1855; chemist to Highland and Agricultural society of Scotland 1848–73; regius professor of chemistry in Univ. of Glasgow 1852; pres. of Glasgow philosophical society 1859; pres. of chemical section of British Association at Dundee 1867; royal medallist of Royal Society 1872. d. Chiswick near London 2 Nov. 1874. Journal of chemical society of London (1875) 1309–13.

ANDERSON, Thomas. Ensign 78 foot 1845, served with it 18 years chiefly in India; captain 17 Aug. 1857 to 24 March 1863 when he sold out; Persian interpreter to Sir Willoughby Cotton and Sir John Grey commanders in chief at Bombay; adjutant general of militia in New Brunswick; commanded the frontier field force there during threatened Fenian invasion 1866. d. Westward Ho, Devonshire 11 Feb. 1876 aged 48.

ANDERSON, William (son of James Anderson of Oban, Argyleshire, supervisor of excise who d. 1812.) b. Edin. 10 Dec. 1805; joined Aberdeen Journal 1831; edited Aberdeen Advertiser 1835; The Western Watchman a weekly journal at Ayr 1842; sub edited The Witness newspaper at Edin. 1844; chief sub editor of North British Daily Mail 14 April 1847 to 1849, this was first daily paper in Scotland; author of Poetical Aspirations 1830, 2 ed. 1833; Landscape Lyrics 1839, 2 ed. 1854; The Scottish nation 3 vols. 1860–62. d. London 2 Aug. 1866. J. G. Wilson’s Poets and poetry of Scotland ii, 269–72 (1877).

ANDERSON, William. Lieut. col. Bengal artillery 6 March 1854 to 20 Feb. 1855; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842. d. Albury hall, Ware, Herts 22 Sep. 1869 aged 64.

ANDERSON, Rev. William (2 son of Rev. John Anderson, Relief minister at Kilsyth near Glasgow). b. Kilsyth 6 Jany. 1799; licensed by Relief presbytery Glasgow 5 Sep. 1820; minister of John st. church Glasgow 6 March 1821 to 24 Dec. 1871, the church was pulled down in 1858 and a new church opened by him 1 Jany. 1860; LLD. Glasgow April 1850; 67author of An apology for the organ 1829; Discourses 1st series 1844, 2nd series 1859; Regeneration 1850, 3 ed. 1875. d. Prospect house, Uddingstone near Glasgow 15 Sep. 1872. Rev. G. Gilfillan’s Life of Rev. W. Anderson 1873, portrait; Reunion in the heavenly kingdom by the Rev. Wm. Anderson 1876, portrait.

ANDERSON, William Acland Douglas (son of Joseph Jocelyn Anderson, C.B.) b. 1829; captain 65 foot 1852–54; a comr. of gold fields in Victoria; col. commandant of all the volunteer corps in Victoria 1862; C.M.G. 25 May 1878. d. South Yarra 23 Jany. 1882.

ANDERSON, William Cochrane. b. East Lothian 1792; col. R.A. 20 June 1854 to 26 Oct. 1858; M.G. 26 Oct. 1858. d. Edge hill near Edin. 30 Aug. 1865 aged 73.

ANDERSSEN, Adolf. b. Breslau 6 July 1818; gained 1st prize at London chess tournaments 1851 and 1862; 2nd prize at Manchester 1857; 1st prize at Baden 1870; 3rd prize at Vienna 1873; beaten by Paul Morphy at Paris Dec. 1858, losing 7 out of 9 games; an unrivalled player in the beauty of his combinations. d. Breslau 14 March 1879. Westminster chess club papers x, 39 (1878), portrait; Chess players chronicle iii, 73–75 (1879).

ANDERTON, James. b. near Lincoln 1782; solicitor in London 1811; common councilman for ward of Farringdon Without 1836–66; undersheriff several times; projected Law life assurance society 1823; founded Solicitors benevolent institution 1858. d. Cypress lodge, Dulwich 23 Jany. 1868.

ANDRÉE, Richard Collier. Colonel 7 Bengal N.I. 20 June 1836 to 28 Sep. 1850; colonel 69 Bengal N.I. 28 Sep. 1850 to death; general 2 Nov. 1861. d. Stuttgart 27 March 1865 aged 70.

ANDREW, James (son of Rev. James Andrew, the first principal of East India college at Addiscombe, Surrey who d. 13 June 1833 in 60 year). b. Addiscombe college 1811; ed. at Caius coll. Cam.; studied medicine at Edin. while he kept his terms at Cam.; M.D. Cam. 1839; practised at Edin.; phys to Royal infirmary 1846–56; F.R.C.P. Edin., member of council; F.R.S. Edin. d. 15 Queen st. Edin. 1 Dec. 1859.

ANDREW, John William, Captain R.N. 26 Sep. 1812; C.B. 4 June 1815; retired R.A. 1 Oct. 1846. d. Chudleigh 5 Jany. 1854.

68ANDREW, William. b. Glasgow 1804; ed. at Marischal coll. Aberdeen; professor of mathematics in Mc Gill coll. Quebec; rector of the high school Quebec; edited the Daily Chronicle Quebec. d. Aberdeen 1862.

ANDREWS, Alexander. Author of The eighteenth century 1856; The history of British journalism, 2 vols. 1859. d. Albion grove, Stoke Newington 9 Nov. 1873 aged 50.

ANDREWS, Augustus. Entered Madras army 1793; col. of 27 N.I. 5 June 1829, of 42 N.I. 21 Feb. 1834, of 1 N.I. 5 Jany. 1837, of 8 N.I. 2 Oct. 1848, and of 39 N.I. 4 July 1856 to death; general 16 March 1855; C.B. 23 July 1823. d. Vellore, Bath 3 March 1858 aged 78.

ANDREWS, Biggs. b. 1794; barrister M.T. 12 Nov. 1819; bencher 21 April 1837, treasurer 1846; K.C. 24 Feb. 1837; comr. of bankrupts for Exeter district 16 Dec. 1858 to 31 Dec. 1869 when granted £1,800 on abolition of his office. d. Heavitree house near Exeter 28 April 1880 in 86 year.

ANDREWS, George. b. London 1798; made his début as Lothair in Adelgitha at Manchester 1819; first appeared in America Oct. 1827 as Bob Acres in The Rivals at Federal st. theatre Boston; acted in New York 1838, in Philadelphia 1842; left the stage and managed old Chinese Buildings, New York as a ball room. d. New York 7 April 1866.

ANDREWS, Harry. b. Monmouthshire 28 May 1831; a pedestrian; won the Four Miles champion cup at Bow; defeated the American Deer, Whitmore, Deerfoot, and many others; managed running grounds at Lillie Bridge and Surbiton. d. Cottage grove, Surbiton 7 March 1885.

ANDREWS, Henry Ogden (youngest son of Charles Savery Andrews, captain 24 foot). b. St. John’s, Newfoundland 28 April 1808; ed. at Stratford on Avon, and in Canada; called to Canadian bar; Q.C. d. 37 Lansdowne crescent, Leamington 25 March 1884.

ANDREWS, Jane (dau. of Mr. Constant). b. 1817; vocal composer and teacher. (m. John Holman Andrews). d. 60 Baker st. Portman sq. London 29 March 1878.

ANDREWS, Richard (son of Thomas Andrews of Bramdean, Hants, wheelwright). b. Bishop Sutton near Alresford 18 Dec 1798; a coachmaker at Southampton 1 Oct. 1832 to death; sold more than 300 carriages for £22,000 in 1845; built state carriages for Mehemet Ali 69and the Sultan; one of first members of Anti-Corn-law league; sheriff of Southampton 1848, mayor 1849, 1850, 1851 and 31 May 1856 to Dec. 1856; contested Southampton Dec. 1856; gave a great banquet to Louis Kossuth on his arrival in England 25 Oct. 1851. d. Portland st. Southampton 28 March 1859. I.L.N. xix, 549 (1851), xx, 12 (1852), portrait.

ANDREWS, Robert. Colonel R.A. 20 June 1854 to 7 June 1856; M.G. 7 June 1856. d. Sunderland terrace, Westbourne park, London 1 Nov. 1863.

ANDREWS, Robert. Called to Irish bar 1825; Q.C. 7 Feb. 1849. d. 1865.

ANDREWS, William. b. Chichester 1802; made many valuable additions to the flora and fauna of south west of Ireland; his name will be perpetuated in names of Trichomanes Andrewsii, and Galathea Andrewsii; a founder and subsequently sec. and pres. of Natural history society of Dublin; chairman of Natural history committee of Royal society of Dublin many years; M.R.I.A. 10 Jany. 1842. d. Dublin 11 March 1880. Journal of botany (1880) 256–86.

ANGAS, Caleb. b. 1782; a farmer at Brancepeth and at Neswick farm, East Yorkshire about 1815 to death; the best authority on farming in the East Riding; wrote letters in the Sun newspaper on Free Trade which excited much attention and were of great service. d. Driffield, Yorkshire 6 Feb. 1860.

ANGAS, George Fife. b. Newcastle 1 May 1789; senior partner of G. F. Angas & Co. shipowners and merchants 2 Jeffrey sq. London 1824–33 when he retired to Devonshire; originated National and Provincial bank of England 1833; one of the first comrs. for formation of colony of South Australia 1834; established South Australian company 1836, Union bank of Australia 1837, and Bank of South Australia 1841; chairman of London boards of direction of these 3 companies down to 1850; arrived in Adelaide 15 Jany. 1851; M.P. for district of Barossa in 1st legislative council July 1851–1871; leading spirit in colonizing South Australia. d. Lindsey park Angaston, South Australia 15 May 1879.

ANGELL, Alfred. Organist of Exeter cathedral 34 years. d. The Close, Exeter 24 May 1876 aged 60.

70ANGELL, Helen Cordelia (5 dau. of Wm. Thomas Coleman, M.D. of Horsham, Sussex). b. Horsham Jany. 1847; exhibited drawings of flowers at Dudley Gallery 1864, afterwards called The general water colour society, and 6 flower pictures at the R.A. 1876–78; the only successor of Wm. Hunt. (m. Oct. 1875 Thomas Wm. Angell, Postmaster of the S.W. district of London). d. 55 Holland road, Kensington 8 March 1884. Clayton’s English female artists ii, 261–63 (1876).

ANGELL, John Benedict. ed. at Eton and Magd. coll. Ox.; won first Grand national hunt steeplechase at Farndon village with Bridegroom 1860 and second with Queensferry 1861; won Liverpool Grand national with Alcibiade 1865; one of chief revivers of coaching; commonly known as “Cherry” Angell; the hero of C. Clarke’s novel A box for the season. d. 36 Curzon st. London 12 May 1874. Illust. sporting and dramatic news i, 400 (1874), portrait.

ANGELO, Edward Anthony. Captain 30 foot 9 Aug. 1831 to 12 Dec. 1834 when placed on h.p.; K.H. 1827; a military knight of Windsor 1854 to death. d. Windsor Castle 26 Aug. 1869.

ANGELO, Henry. Superintendent of sword exercise to the army 1833 to death. d. Brighton 14 Oct. 1852 aged 72. G. M. xxxviii, 543 (1852).

ANGERSTEIN, John. M.P. for Greenwich 10 Jany. 1835 to 17 July 1837. d. the Woodlands, Blackheath 10 April 1858 aged 85.

ANGERSTEIN, John Julius William. b. 1800; major Grenadier guards 27 Dec. 1850 to 20 June 1854; L.G. 2 Feb. 1862; col. 4 West India regiment 14 Jany. 1866 to death. d. Weeting hall near Brandon, Norfolk 23 April 1866.

ANGLESEY, Henry William Paget, 1 Marquess of (eld. child of Henry Bayly, 1 Earl of Uxbridge 1744–1812). b. 17 May 1768; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., M.A. 1786; M.P. for Carnarvon 1790–96 and 1806–10; M.P. for Milbourn Port 1796–1804; raised among his father’s tenantry 80th regiment of foot or Staffordshire volunteers; lieut. col. commandant of it 12 Sep. 1793 to 16 June 1795; lieut. col. 16 light dragoons 16 June 1795; lieut. col. 7 light dragoons 6 April 1797 and col. 16 May 1801 to 20 Dec. 1842; succeeded 13 March 1812; lord lieut. of Anglesey 21 April 1812 to death; G.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815; created Marquess of Anglesey 4 July 1815; G.C.H. 1816; K.G. 19 Feb. 711818; general 12 Aug. 1819; lord high steward at coronation of George iv, 19 July 1821; master general of the ordnance 1827–28 and 1846–52; P.C. 30 April 1827; lord lieut. of Ireland 1828–29 and 1830–33; col. of royal horse guards 20 Dec. 1842 to death; field marshal 9 Nov. 1846; lord lieut. of Staffs. 31 Jany. 1849 to death. d. 1 Old Burlington st. London 29 April 1854. bur. in Lichfield cathedral 6 May. J. W. Cole’s British generals i, 109–44 (1856), portrait; N. and Q. 3rd series ii, 249, 320, 339; H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches, 4 ed. 1876 57–63.

Note.—In a garden close to the church at Waterloo is a monument to his right leg lost in the battle; he refused a pension of £1,200 per annum granted him for this loss, thus saving his country nearly £47,000.

ANGLESEY, Henry Paget, 2 Marquess of (eld. son of preceding). b. 6 July 1797; M.P. for Anglesey 1820–32; summoned to House of Lords as Baron Paget of Beaudesert 15 Jany. 1833; col. in the army 28 June 1838, retired 1843; lord chamberlain of the Queen’s household 6 May 1839 to 14 Sep. 1841; P.C. 22 May 1839; succeeded 29 April 1854; lord lieut. of Anglesey 18 May 1854 to death; kept a racing stud 1831–35 and 1854 to death; made on the high ground above Beaudesert near Lichfield one of best cricket grounds in England. d. Beaudesert 6 Feb. 1869. Baily’s Mag. v, 51–54 (1863), portrait.

ANGLESEY, Henry William George Paget, 3 Marquess of. b. 9 Dec. 1821; lieut. col. 2 Staffordshire militia 5 Jany. 1853 to 29 Sep. 1855; M.P. for south Staffs 1854–57; succeeded 6 Feb. 1869. d. 10 Albert mansions, Victoria st. London 30 Jany. 1880.

ANGUS, George. Surgeon Bengal medical service 1836; sec. to medical board at Calcutta; superintending surgeon at Benares, and at Cawnpore; retired 1854; pres. of Medical society of Aberdeen 2 years; manager of royal infirmary and general dispensary, Aberdeen. d. 13 Golden sq. Aberdeen 7 April 1872 in 78 year.

ANGUS, Rev. Henry. b. Inverkeithing, Fifeshire 18 Oct. 1794; minister of St. Nicholas’ lane united presbyterian church, Aberdeen 1813; author of Works of fiction, their use and abuse 1853. d. Aberdeen 28 June 1860. Sermons by the late Rev. Henry Angus, edited with a memoir by his son Rev. Robert Angus 1861.

ANNESLEY, William Richard Annesley, 4 Earl (eld. son of 3 Earl Annesley 1772–1838). b. Rutland sq. Dublin 21 Feb. 1830; 72succeeded 25 Aug. 1838; M.P. for Grimsby 1852–57; established his claim as a peer 24 July 1855; representative peer for Ireland 15 Oct. 1867. d. Cowes, Isle of Wight 10 Aug. 1874. I.L.N. lxv, 188 (1874), portrait.

ANSELL, Charles (eld. son of Thomas Ansell of Lewisham, Kent). b. 1794; actuary of Atlas insurance office 1823–64; published A treatise on friendly societies 1835, when a large professional practice at once fell to his share; completed the Bonus investigation of National provident office; F.R.S. 10 April 1834; F.S.A. 21 June 1828. d. 7 Eastern terrace, Brighton 14 Dec. 1881.

ANSELL, George Frederick. b. Carshalton, Surrey 4 March 1826; assistant to A. W. Hofman at Royal School of mines; scientific director at Royal Panopticon, Leicester sq. London 1854; employed at Royal mint 12 Nov. 1856 to 31 Dec. 1868; an analyst in London 1869 to death; patented the firedamp indicator 9 March 1865, which was adopted in many foreign collieries. d. 6 Hartham road, London 21 Dec. 1880. The royal mint by G. F. Ansell, 3 ed. 1871.

ANSELL, Thomas. M.R.C.S. Eng. and L.S.A. 1820; M.D. St. Andrews 1843; surgeon at Bow, London; chairman of Society of Apothecaries 1861 to death; officer of health for Bow; F.L.S. d. of cholera at Harley place, Bow road 24 July 1866 in his 68 year.

ANSON, Augustus Henry Archibald. b. 5 March 1835; captain 84 foot 1855–58; aide de camp to general Grant in Indian mutiny 1857–58; received Victoria cross for bravery at Bolundshawm and Lucknow 24 Dec. 1858; M.P. for Lichfield 1859–68, and for Bewdley 1869–74. d. Cannes 17 Nov. 1877. Mrs. Farlie’s Portraits of the children of the nobility, 3rd series 1841, portrait.

ANSON, Very Rev. Frederic (youngest son of George Adams of Orgrave, Staffs. 1731–89 who assumed name of Anson). b. 23 March 1779; ed. at Eton, Rugby and Ch. Ch. Ox.; student 1796, B.A. 1801, M.A. 1804, B.D. and D.D. 1839; fellow of All soul’s coll. 1799–1803; R. of Sudbury, Derbyshire 1803–36; canon of Southwell, Notts. 7 Oct. 1826; dean of Chester 9 May 1839 to death; R. of Doddleston, Cheshire 1843 to death. (m. 2 May 1807 Mary Anne only dau. of Rev. Richard Levett of Milford, Staffs., she d. 15 Oct. 1862). d. The deanery, Chester 8 May 1867. bur. Chester cemetery.

73ANSON, George (2 son of Thomas Anson, 1 Viscount Anson 1767–1818). b. Shugborough near Stafford 13 Oct. 1797; captain 14 dragoons 1823–25 when placed on h.p.; clerk of the Ordnance 1846–52; M.G. 11 Nov. 1851; commanded a division in Bengal 1853 and the Madras army 1854; commander in chief in India 20 Nov. 1855 to death; col. 55 foot 19 Dec. 1856 to death; M.P. for Great Yarmouth 1818–34, for Stoke upon Trent 1836–37, and for South Staffs. 1837–53; a great friend of Duke of York; crack shot of Red House Club, Battersea when pigeon shooting mania was at its height 1828; was never excelled as a judge of racing. d. of cholera at Karnál during the mutiny 27 May 1857. Fortnightly Review xxxix, 541–44 (1883).

ANSON, John William. b. Marylebone, London 31 July 1817; made his début at T.R. Bath as Lissardo in The Wonder 1842; acted in north of England and Ireland 1843–49; manager of Scotch theatres 1849–53; acted at Astley’s 1853–59; founded Dramatic, equestrian and musical sick fund 4 July 1855, Dramatic burial ground at Woking 1856, Dramatic college at Woking 1859, (opened by Prince of Wales 5 June 1865) and the G. V. Brooke lifeboat fund 1866; treasurer and acting manager of Adelphi theatre 1858–78; published Dramatic almanac 1857–72. d. 50a Lincoln’s Inn Fields 6 Feb. 1881. The Players i, 185 (1860), portrait; Anson’s dramatic almanac 1872, portrait.

ANSON, Sir John William Hamilton, 2 Baronet. b. London 26 Dec. 1816; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.; succeeded 13 Jany. 1847. d. Royal hotel Wigan 2 Aug. 1873 2 hours after accident at Wigan junction station of London and North Western railway. I.L.N. lxiii, 134, 135 (1873).

ANSTEAD, Thomas. b. Twickenham 9 Aug. 1840; a fast round-armed bowler; engaged at the Oval, London 1866; and at Oatlands park club, Weybridge 1869 to death. d. Weybridge 21 July 1875.

ANSTED, David Thomas (son of Wm. Ansted). b. London 5 Feb. 1814; ed. at Jesus coll. Cam. 32 wrangler 1836; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; Ley fellow of his college 1840–1851; professor of geology in King’s college London April 1840–1853; professor of geology at college of Civil Engineers Putney 1845; consulting geologist and mining engineer 1850 to death; F.G.S. 1838, Sec. 1844–1847; F.R.S. 11 Jany. 1844; edited Quarterly Journal of Geological Society; author of An elementary course of geology 1850, 2 ed. 1856; Physical 74geography 1867, 5 ed. 1871 and many other books. (m. 24 June 1848 Augusta Dorothea Hackett youngest dau. of Alexander Baillie of Green st. Grosvenor sq.) d. Melton near Woodbridge 20 May 1880. Proc. of Royal society xxxi, 1 (1881).

ANSTER, John (eld. son of John Anster of Charleville, Cork). b. Charleville 1793; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; scholar 1814, B.A. 1816, LL.B. and LLD. 1825; barrister 1824; registrar of high court of admiralty Ireland 1837 to death; granted civil list pension of £150 30 Aug. 1841; regius professor of civil law Trin. coll. Dub. 1850 to death; M.R.I.A. 12 Feb. 1838; vice pres. 1849–52; author of Faustus from the German of Goethe, 2 parts 1835–64 the first English translation and thrice reprinted in Germany. Xeniola, poems including translations from Schiller and De la Motte Fouqué 1837. (m. 1832 Elizabeth eld. dau. of Wm. Blacker Bennett of Castle Crea, co. Limerick, she was granted a civil list pension of £50 3 Aug. 1870). d. Dublin 9 June 1867. Dublin Univ. Mag. xiv, 544–46 (1839), portrait.

ANSTEY, Thomas Chisholm (2 son of Thomas Anstey of Anstey Barton, Tasmania, sheep farmer and member of legislative council who d. 23 May 1851 aged 73). b. London 1816; ed. at Wellington Somerset, and Univ. college London; articled to J. A. Frampton of 10 New Inn, London, solicitor; one of the first affected by the Oxford tractarian movement who went over to Rome; barrister Middle Temple 25 Jany. 1839; equity draftsman; professor of law and jurisprudence at colleges of St. Peter and St. Paul. Prior park, Bath, some years; comr. for insolvent debtors in Van Diemen’s Land a short time; member of the Irish confederation which first met 13 Jany. 1847; M.P. for Youghal (lib.) 7 Aug. 1847 to 1 July 1852; contested Bedford 9 July 1852; signalized himself as the special adversary of Lord Palmerston, moved a kind of general impeachment of him in a speech of 5 hours length during which he never referred to a note for a date, figure or fact 8 Feb. 1848; introduced bills for repeal of Roman catholic penal laws 1848 and 1849; a comr. to revise the statutes March 1853; attorney general at Hong Kong Oct. 1855 to 30 Jany. 1859; poisoned by Ah-lum the Chinese baker there 15 Jany. 1857 but recovered; joined the Bombay bar 1860, became leader of it 1862; acting judge of high court of Bombay as deputy for Sir Joseph Arnould 1865 to 30 Dec. 1865; went 75to England 1866; revising barrister in England 1868; rejoined the Bombay bar 1869; author of A guide to the laws of England affecting Roman Catholics 1842; Guide to the history of the laws and constitutions of England 1845. (m. 1840 Harriet 2 dau. of Gerard Edward Strickland of Loughlin house, co. Roscommon). d. Bombay 12 Aug. 1873. Law mag. and law review xxi, 136–40 (1866), xxiii, 145–55 (1867), xxvi, 121–40 (1868); Law Times lv, 316–17 and 352–54 (1873); I.L.N. xvi, 85 (1849), portrait; Hansard’s Debates xcvi, 291–311 (1848).

ANSTICE, William Reynolds. b. Shropshire 1807; a solicitor at Iron Bridge; partner in Madeley Wood iron company 1858; manager of the works 1867 to death; devoted much attention to manufacture of cold-blast pig iron; member of Iron and steel institute 1869. d. Madeley 28 July 1881.

ANSTIE, Francis Edmund (youngest child of Paul Anstie of Devizes, manufacturer). b. Devizes 11 Dec. 1833; M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1856, M.B. London 1857, M.D. 1859; M.R.C.P. 1859, F.R.C.P 1865; assistant phys. Westminster hospital 1860–73, phys. 1873 to death; edited the Practitioner 1868 to death, wrote a great deal of it; originated with Ernest Hart inquiry into workhouse system, which resulted in Gathorne Hardy’s Metropolitan poor act 1867; author of Stimulants and narcotics 1864; Notes on epidemics 1866; Neuralgia and the diseases which resemble it 1871. d. 16 Wimpole st. Cavendish square, 12 Sep. 1874. Graphic x, 298, 309 (1874), portrait; Practitioner xiii, 241, 305 (1874), xvi, 1–43 (1876), portrait.

ANSTIE, George Washington. b. 1800; admitted attorney 1822; practiced at Devizes; worked energetically for parliamentary reform, negro emancipation, corn law repeal and the temperance movement. d. Park dale, Devizes 17 July 1882.

ANSTRUTHER, Philip. b. 12 Sep. 1807; served in China 1841; a prisoner there 6 months; served in Punjab and Kaffir wars; major Madras artillery 1853–58; M.G. 4 Nov. 1858; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842. d. Pitcorthie near Fife 18 Feb. 1884.

ANSTRUTHER, Philip Robert. b. 30 June 1841; ensign 94 foot 31 Dec. 1858; lieut. col. 7 Aug. 1880 to death. d. Transvaal of wounds received in action 26 Dec. 1880. I.L.N. lxxviii, 205 (1881) portrait.

76ANSTRUTHER, Sir Ralph Abercrombie, 4 baronet. b. Grosvenor place, London 1 March 1804; succeeded 2 Aug. 1818; rector of univ. of St. Andrews 1859. d. Balcaskie, Fifeshire 18 Oct. 1863.

ANSTRUTHER, Sir Wyndham Carmichael, 4 Baronet. b. Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London 6 March 1793; succeeded Nov. 1831. d. Boulogne 10 Sep. 1869.

ANTHONY, Charles. Founded the Hereford Times 1832; mayor of Hereford 6 times. d. The Elms, Hereford 5 Feb. 1885 in 82 year.

ANTRIM, Hugh Seymour MacDonnell, 4 Earl of. b. Portman square, London 7 Aug. 1812; succeeded 26 Oct. 1835. d. Glenarm castle, Larne, co. Antrim 18 July 1855.

ANTRIM, Mark MacDonnell, 5 Earl of. b. Portman square, London 3 April 1814; established his claim as an Irish peer 15 July 1858; captain R.N. 1 July 1864. d. Glenarm castle 19 Dec. 1869.

ANTROBUS, Sir Edmund, 2 Baronet. b. St. Martin’s in the Fields London 17 May 1792; succeeded 6 Feb. 1826. d. 146 Piccadilly 4 May 1870.

Note.—His personalty was sworn under £300,000 25 June 1870.

ANTROBUS, Gibbs Crawfurd. b. 27 May 1793; sec. of legation to the United States of America 18 June 1816, at Turin 8 Feb. 1823, and at court of the two Sicilies 1 Oct. 1824 to May 1826; M.P. for Aldborough, Yorkshire 1820–26 and for Plympton, Devon 1826–32. d. Eaton hall, Congleton 21 May 1861.

APLIN, John Guise Rogers. b. 7 Nov. 1819; ensign 28 foot 7 Oct. 1837; lieut. col. 48 foot 23 Nov. 1860 to 12 Nov. 1870 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 1 July 1881. d. 10 Edith road, West Kensington, London 10 April 1883.

APPERLEY, William Wynne (son of Charles James Apperley 1778–1843, author of sporting works under pseudonym of Nimrod). Cornet Bengal cavalry 1823; in charge of Poosah stud in Behar 1840–43 and 1845–52; superintended central division of stud department in Bengal 1854–55; major 3 European light cavalry 1854–61; remount agent at Cape of Good Hope 1857–60; left the service Dec. 1861. d. Morben near Machynlleth, Montgomeryshire 25 April 1870 aged 62. Baily’s Mag. xviii, 253–55 (1870).

77APPLEBY, John Frederick (son of John Appleby of Soberton, Hants, farmer). b. 18 Nov. 1795; captain R.N. 29 Jany. 1838; retired admiral 10 Sep. 1869. d. Blackbrook lodge, Fareham 3 Feb. 1878.

APPLEGATH, Augustus (son of Augustus Joseph Applegath, captain of H.E.I. Co.’s ship Europa). b. parish of St. Dunstan, Stepney 17 June 1788; a printer in Nelson sq. Blackfriars road; constructed machines for printing bank notes 1818; erected a printing office in Duke st. Stamford st.; invented the composition ball and roller, and the steam printing press; the first book printed by steam was Waterton’s Wanderings; invented with Edward Cowper the four-cylinder machine, and erected it at the Times office 1827; patented vertical machine 1846; erected one at Times office, May 1848, which produced 10,000 impressions per hour; invented a machine for printing 6 colours at once; took out 18 patents for improvements in letterpress and silk printing; established large silk and print works at Crayford, and printing works at Dartford. d. Dartford 9 Feb. 1871. Bohn’s Pictorial handbook of London (1854) 76–86; N. and Q. 4 series iii, 485 (1869) vii, 153 (1871); Dartford Chronicle 25 Feb. 1871, p. 3, col. 1.

Note.—In the year 1818 Messrs. Applegath and Cowper constructed machines for the Bank of England to print in several colours in perfect register designs for the prevention of forgery; some millions of £1 notes were printed by them in the Bank, but were never issued, in consequence of the resumption of cash payment 1 May 1821.

APPLETON, Charles Edward Cutts Birchall (son of Rev. Robert Appleton, Head master of Reading school who d. 5 Feb. 1875 aged 73). b. Reading 16 March 1841; Tunbridge fellow of St. John’s coll. Ox. 1864 to death; B.A. 1863, D.C.L. 1871; studied at Heidelberg and Berlin; lecturer in philosophy at his college Oct. 1867; lived at Hampstead 1872–77; founded The Academy monthly literary paper 9 Oct. 1869, edited it to his death; took an active share in agitation that resulted in passing of Universities act 1877; wrote in the Theological, Fortnightly and Contemporary Reviews; edited Essays on the endowment of research 1876. d. Luxor, Upper Egypt 1 Feb. 1879. Dr. Appleton his life and literary relics, by J. H. Appleton and A. H. Sayce 1881, portrait.

APPLEYARD, George. Of Westbourne place, Eaton square, London; many years secretary and librarian to the Earls Spencer. d. Walmer 30 Aug. 1855.

78APPOLD, John George (son of Christian Appold of Wilson st. Finsbury, London, fur skin dyer, who was naturalized by 45 George iii, cap. 83). b. Wilson st. 14 April 1800; a fur skin dyer there 1822; a manager of the London Institution 1844; invented Centrifugal rotary pump which was a prominent feature in International Exhibitions of 1851 and 1862; invented a break used in laying first Atlantic cable 1857; A.I.C.E. May 1850; F.R.S. 2 June 1853. d. Clifton Down hotel, Clifton 31 Aug. 1865. Proc. of Royal society xv, 1–6 (1867); Minutes of proc. of instit. of C.E. xxv, 523–25 (1866).

APTHORP, East. Entered Madras army 1820; commandant at Hyderabad 18 March 1859 to 18 April 1860; retired M.G. 31 Dec. 1861; C.B. 16 Nov. 1858. d. Amherst lodge, Tunbridge Wells 3 March 1875 aged 69.

ARBUCKLE, Benjamin Hutcheson Vaughan. b. 1788; captain R.A. 1825–46; L.G. 24 Aug. 1866. d. Little Heath, Old Charlton 11 Oct. 1874.

ARBUTHNOT, Sir Alexander Dundas Young (only son of Robert Arbuthnot, lieut. col. 31 foot, who d. 10 July 1796). b. 1796; captain R.N. 1824–46 when he retired on h.p.; gentleman of Privy Chamber 2 Nov. 1824 to death; col. commandant of depôt at Santander, Spain 26 Oct. 1835; led forlorn hope at storming of Irun; brigadier general in service of Queen of Spain 1838; knighted by Queen Victoria at St. James’s palace 25 June 1859; retired admiral 30 Nov. 1863; lord prior of English language of Knights of Malta 16 July 1860 to death. (m. 25 May 1827 Catherine Maria 3 dau. of Rev. Charles Eustace of Robertstown co. Kildare). d. Shenton hall, Nuneaton, Leics. 8 May 1871.

ARBUTHNOT, Charles George James (eld. son of Right Hon. Charles Arbuthnot of Woodford house, Thrapstone, who d. 18 Aug. 1850 aged 82). b. 1801; ed. at Westminster; ensign grenadier guards 26 Dec. 1816; lieut. col. of 72 foot 25 Sep. 1826; of 90 foot 17 May 1831, and of 72 foot 23 Feb. 1838 to 14 April 1843, when placed on h.p.; col. of 89 foot 9 July 1857, and of 91 foot 4 July 1864 to death; general 25 Nov. 1864; M.P. for Tregony 1831–32. d. Folkestone 21 Oct. 1870.

ARBUTHNOT, George. b. 1802; clerk in the Treasury 1820 to death; private secretary to 6 successive secretaries of the Treasury; private sec. to Sir Robert Peel when prime minister Feb. 1843; and to Sir Charles Wood when chancellor of the exchequer July 1846; 79auditor of the civil list 1850 to death. d. Surbiton, Surrey 28 July 1865. Dictionary of national biography ii, 61 (1885).

ARBUTHNOT, George Bingham. Lieut. col. 8 Madras light cavalry 1 Feb. 1856 to 31 Dec. 1861; retired M.G. 31 Dec. 1861. d. Bath 30 May 1867 aged 63.

ARBUTHNOT, Sir Robert (4 son of John Arbuthnot of Rockfleet castle co. Mayo). b. 1773; captain Coldstream guards 25 July 1814 to 19 July 1821, when placed on h.p.; L.G. 23 Nov. 1841; col. 76 foot 31 May 1843 to death; K.C.B. 2 Jan. 1815, K.T.S. (m. Harriot only child of Wm. Vesey of Farmill, Ireland, she d. 5 Dec. 1861). d. Bonchurch, Isle of Wight 6 May 1853. Household Words v, 519 (1852).

ARBUTHNOT, Sir Robert Keith, 2 Baronet. b. Edinburgh 9 Sep. 1801; in Bombay civil service 1819–47; succeeded 18 Sep. 1829. d. Florence 4 March 1873.

ARBUTHNOT, William Urquhart (5 son of Sir Wm. Arbuthnot, 1 Bart. 1766–1829). b. 24 March 1807; ed. at high sch. Edin. and Haileybury college; in the Madras civil service 1826–46; member of firm of Arbuthnot and Co. Madras 1846; returned to England 1858; member of Indian council 21 Sep. 1858 to death; chairman of its finance committee. (m. 2 June 1834 Eliza only dau. of Gen. Sir Henry George Andrew Taylor, G.C.B.) d. Eaton place, London 11 Dec. 1874. Graphic xi, 68 (1875), portrait.

ARBUTHNOTT, John, 8 Viscount Arbuthnott (eld. son of John Arbuthnott, 7 Viscount Arbuthnott, who d. 27 Feb. 1800). b. 16 Jany. 1778; Rep. Peer Scotland 1818–47; lord rector of Univ. of Aberdeen; lord lieut. of Kincardineshire to 1847. d. Berlin 10 Jany. 1860.

ARBUTHNOTT, Sir Hugh (2 son of 7 Viscount Arbuthnott). b. 1780; lieut. col. 52 foot 9 May 1811 to 8 April 1813, when placed on h.p.; col. 38 foot 4 April 1843 to 14 March 1862; col. 79 foot 14 March 1862 to death; general 20 June 1854; M.P. for co. Kincardine 1826–65; C.B. 8 Dec. 1815; K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862. d. 11 July 1868.

ARBUTHNOTT, William. b. 1786; lieut col. R.A. 23 Nov. 1841 to 1 April 1844 when retired on full pay; general 29 March 1873. d. 20 Gloucester road, London 14 Dec. 1876.

80ARCEDECKNE, Andrew (only son of Andrew Arcedeckne of Glevering hall, Suffolk 1780–1849). b. 1822; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox.; sent out a cargo of tobacco pipes to our soldiers in the Crimea; sheriff of Suffolk 1856, paid fine of £100 for not having javelin men; commodore of royal London yacht club 18 years. (m. 1870 Jane Elsworthy, an actress, she d. 5 Oct. 1879 aged 54). d. 45 Marlborough hill, St. John’s Wood, London 31 May 1871 in 49 year.

Note.—Thackeray depicted him in language, manner and gesture as Harry Foker in Pendennis, where there is also an exact woodcut portrait of him.

ARCH, John (son of William Arch of 163 Fenchurch st. London, linen shirt maker). Apprenticed to George Robinson of 25 Paternoster row, the great publisher of his day; bookseller at corner of Lombard st. and Gracechurch st. 1792, with his brother Arthur Portsmouth Arch who d. 9 April 1839; at 61 Cornhill 1810–38; collected the Henry Perkins library, the George Hibbert library, also the London institution library; published many valuable books. d. Vassal road, Kennington 1853 aged 87.

ARCHBOLD, John Frederick. Barrister L.I. 5 May 1814; author of The practice of the court of King’s Bench in personal actions and ejectment, 2 vols. 1819, 14 ed. 1885; A summary of the law relating to pleading and evidence in criminal cases, 19 ed. 1878; The parish officer 1852, 6 ed. 1881, and many other legal works. d. 15 Gloucester st. Regent’s park, London 28 Nov. 1870 aged 85. J. G. Marvin’s Legal bibliography (1847) 66–70.

ARCHBOLD, Robert. M.P. for co. Kildare (radical) 11 Aug. 1837 to 23 July 1847. d. Davidstown house near Castle Dermot, co. Kildare 9 March 1855.

ARCHDALL-GRATWICKE, Rev. George. b. Derbyshire 21 April 1787; ed. at Em. coll. Cam.; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818, B.D. 1825, D.D. 1835; fellow of his college; dean, bursar, prelector and steward; master May 1835 to death; vice chancellor of Cambridge 1835 and 1841; canon of Norwich 1842–67; took additional surname of Gratwicke by royal license 28 April 1863. (m. 1835 Jemima Elizabeth eld. dau. of Rev. Wm. Kinleside of Angmering, Sussex). d. the Lodge, Em. coll. Cambridge 16 Sep. 1871.

Note.—His personalty was sworn under £180,000 Oct. 1871, he left £6000 to his college.

81ARCHER, Frederick Scott (2 son of Mr. Archer, of Bishop Stortford, butcher). b. 1813; assistant to Massey of Leadenhall st. London, silversmith; a sculptor; applied collodion to photography successfully 1850, first account of this process was in the Chemist, March 1851, it was in general use for 30 years till the gelatine process was discovered; photographer at 105 Great Russell st. Bloomsbury 1852 to death; invented a camera and a liquid lens; the first to use a triplet lens. d. 105 Great Russell st. 1 May 1857. Report of the jurors on class xiv (photography) of the International Exhibition 1862; N. and Q. 1 series vi, 277, 396, 426 (1852), vii, 92, 218 (1853).

ARCHER, Georgina (sister of James Archer). Went to Berlin 1859; Victoria Lyceum there was founded in 1867, mainly through her efforts. d. Montreux, Switzerland 22 Nov. 1882.

ARCHER, Henry. Invented and patented machine for perforating postage stamps 1848. d. Pau, France 2 April 1863.

ARCHER, John Wykeham. b. Newcastle 1808; apprenticed to John Scott of Coppice row, London, animal engraver; Engraver in London 1831 to death; Associate of New Society of Painters in Watercolours; author of Vestiges of old London 1851; Posthumous Poems 1873. d. Kentish town, London 25 May 1864. Pinks’s Clerkenwell (1865) 639–41.

ARCHER, Thomas Croxen. Clerk in Customs at Liverpool; collected, arranged and named the specimens of the imports into Liverpool for the Great Exhibition of 1851; a professor in the Liverpool institution; superintendent of Technological museum Edin. 26 June 1860, and director Jany. 1866 to death; joint executive comr. from Great Britain to American Centennial Exhibition 1876; F.R.S. Edin. d. London 19 Feb. 1885. Athenæum 28 Feb. 1885, p. 283. Graphic xiii, 542, 552 (1876), portrait.

ARCHIBALD, Charles Dickson (eld. son of Samuel George Wm. Archibald, Speaker of Assembly, Nova Scotia). b. Truro, Nova Scotia 31 Oct. 1802; author of A look towards the future of the British colonies 1854; F.R.S. 26 Nov. 1840. (m. 16 Sep. 1832 Bridget only child of Myles Walker of Rusland hall, Lancashire). d. 1868.

ARCHIBALD, Sir Edward Mortimer (brother of the preceding). b. 10 May 1810; chief clerk and registrar of supreme court of Newfoundland 8 Nov. 1832; attorney general 5 Nov. 1846; advocate general 15 April 1847 to May 1855; consul in state of New York 1 Oct. 1857; judge in mixed court New York 82for suppression of African slave trade 14 Oct. 1862 to 1 Oct. 1870; consul general for states of New York, &c. 9 Feb. 1871 to 1 Jany. 1883; C.B. 17 March 1865; K.C.M.G. 12 Aug. 1882. (m. 1834 Katherine dau. of A. Richardson of Halifax, Nova Scotia). d. 11 St. John’s terrace, Brighton 8 Feb. 1884.

ARCHIBALD, Sir Thomas Dickson (brother of the preceding). b. Truro, Nova Scotia 1817; attorney and barrister province of Nova Scotia 1837; a special pleader in London 1844–52; student of M.T. 11 Nov. 1840, barrister 30 Nov. 1852; drew Petition of Right act usually called Bovill’s act 1860; junior counsel to Treasury otherwise called Attorney general’s Devil Feb. 1868 to Nov. 1872; serjeant at law 20 Nov. 1872; judge of Court of Queen’s Bench 22 Nov. 1872 to Feb. 1875; knighted by the Queen at Osborne 5 Feb. 1873; judge of Court of Common Pleas Feb. 1875 to death. (m. 1841 Sarah only dau. of Richard Smith of The Priory Dudley). d. 7 Porchester gate, Hyde Park 18 Oct. 1876 in 60 year. Law magazine and law review ii, 177–88 (1877); I.L.N. lxii, 11, 13 (1873), portrait.

ARDEN, Henry Thomas, the assumed name of Henry Thomas Arnold; author of Princess Charming, The belle of the Barley-mow, The armourer’s daughter, The right-fall heir and many other burlesques and extravaganzas. d. 25 Nov. 1876 aged 36.

ARDEN, Joseph (eld. son of Joseph Arden of Islington). b. 10 May 1799; ed. at Merchant Taylors; barrister G.I. 18 Nov. 1840, bencher 1 March 1875; principal of Cliffords Inn 5 Feb. 1855 to death; F.S.A. 10 June 1847; author of The orations of Hyperides for Lycophron and Euxenippus now first printed in facsimile with a short account of the discovery of the original manuscript at Western Thebes in Upper Egypt in 1847. Cambridge 1853. d. 1 Cliffords Inn 30 Jany. 1879.

ARGUIMBAU, Lawrence. Captain 1 foot 1809–16 when placed on h.p.; Col. 80 foot 30 April 1853 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854; C.B. 22 June 1815. d. Mahon, Minorca 18 Aug. 1854.

ARKWRIGHT, George. b. 20 Aug. 1807; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1833; M.P. for Leominster 1842 to death. d. 2D The Albany Piccadilly, London 5 Feb. 1856.

ARKWRIGHT, Henry. b. 16 Dec. 1837; captain 84 foot 18 April 1865 to death; killed by fall of an avalanche when ascending Mont Blanc 13 Oct. 1866.

83ARKWRIGHT, Rev. Joseph. b. 9 Aug. 1791; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1812; master of Essex foxhounds 1861 to death; built new kennels at Harlow; a celebrated horseman; one of largest farmers in Essex. d. 29 Feb. 1864. Personalty sworn under £400,000 April 1864.

ARKWRIGHT, Peter. b. 17 April 1784; sheriff of Derbyshire 1855. d. Willersley, Derbyshire 19 Sep. 1866. Personalty sworn under £800,000 Nov. 1866.

ARMENI, Sir Peter Braila. Greek envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. in London 24 April 1882 to death; G.C.M.G. 1882. d. 18 Queen’s gate terrace, South Kensington 15 Sep. 1884.

ARMISTEAD, Wilson. Author of A tribute for the Negro 1848; Select Miscellanies, 2 vols. 1851; The Anti-slavery pilot, 22 numbers 1855; Tales and legends of the English lakes and mountains, by Lorenzo Tuvar 1855. d. Virginia house, Leeds 18 Feb. 1868 aged 49. Joseph Smith’s Friends books i, 124–31 (1867); Annual Monitor for 1869 pp. 2–8.

ARMITAGE, Sir Elkanah (3 son of Elkanah Armitage of Newton, Lancs.) b. Failsworth Sep. 1794; a handloom weaver; founded firm of Armitage and Co. of London and Manchester, cotton spinners 1827, retired 1873; member of the first town council Manchester 1838; alderman 1841–65; mayor 1846–48; knighted by the Queen at Buckingham Palace 31 Jany. 1849 for his services during Chartist riots 1848; contested Salford March 1857; sheriff of county palatine of Lancaster 1866. d. Hope hall, Pendleton near Manchester 26 Nov. 1876. Graphic xiv, 592, 595 (1876), portrait.

ARMITAGE, George. Took a point net machine to Antwerp 1801, introducing manufacture of point net lace into Belgium; went to Paris where he effected many alterations in the stocking frame; invented the circular hose frame; went to Prussia then to Cambray; sent or took lace machines to Moscow; went to Australia about 1850. d. Australia 1857 aged 89.

ARMITAGE, Rev. Robert. R. of Easthope, Salop 1843 to death; published anonymously Doctor Hookwell or the Anglo-Catholic family, 3 vols. 1842; The Penscellwood papers comprising essays on the souls and future life of animals, 2 vols. 1846; Ernest Singleton 1848; Dr. Johnson his religious life and his death 1850. d. Easthope 2 Feb. 1852 aged 47.

84ARMSTRONG, Alexander. 2 Lieutenant Royal Irish Artillery 7 July 1783; major 24 July 1800 to 1 April 1801 when he retired on full pay; general 30 June 1854. d. Green park, Bath 2 Dec. 1861 aged 94.

ARMSTRONG, Sir Andrew, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Edmund Armstrong of Gallen, King’s county 1754–1827). b. Gallen Priory 19 Oct. 1786; sheriff of King’s county 1811 and 1836; receiver general of stamps in Ireland 1831–41; M.P. for King’s county 1841–52; created baronet 18 Sep. 1841. d. Chester 27 Jany. 1863.

ARMSTRONG, Edmund John. b. Mornington house, Upper Merrion st. Dublin 23 July 1841; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; took 1st prize in Latin and Greek verse; pres. of the Undergraduate philosophical society; received gold medal of Royal historical society Nov. 1864; author of Poems 1865, new ed. 1877. d. Kingstown near Dublin 24 Feb. 1865. Life and letters of E. J. Armstrong, edited by G. F. Armstrong 1877, portrait.

ARMSTRONG, James Wells. Lieut, col. 4 depôt battalion 2 Oct. 1855 to 16 Oct. 1860 when placed on h.p.; deputy adjutant general 1 Nov. 1871 to 25 Nov. 1876; deputy adjutant general for auxiliary forces 25 Nov. 1876 to death; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857. d. 98 St. George’s sq. Westminster 12 April 1880.

ARMSTRONG, John. b. Ingram, Northumberland 13 Oct. 1775; a millwright and engineer at Bristol, city surveyor there 1831 to death; A.I.C.E. 1828. d. 17 March 1854.

ARMSTRONG, Right Rev. John (eld. son of John Armstrong of London, M.D.) b. Bishopwearmouth 22 Aug. 1813; ed. at Charterhouse 1827; Crewe exhibitioner at Linc. coll. Oxf. 1832; B.A. 1836; M.A. 1850; C. of Clifton 1838–41; priest vicar of Exeter cathedral 1841; R. of St. Paul’s, Exeter 1843; V. of Tidenham, Gloucs. 1845; originated female penitentiary which was opened at Clewer 1849; founded National Miscellany a monthly religious periodical 1853, it was united with the Illustrated London magazine 1855; bishop of Grahamstown, South Africa 25 October 1853; consecrated in St. Mary’s, Lambeth 30 Nov. 1853; suffragan to bishop of Cape Town 6 Dec. 1853; arrived at Grahamstown 26 Oct. 1854; author of Sermons on the festivals 1845; Parochial sermons 1854; wrote many and edited all the Tracts for the Christian seasons, 2 series 1848–50. (m. 22 Feb. 1843 Frances eld. dau. of Edward Whitmore). d. Grahamstown 16 May 1856. A memoir of John Armstrong, 85D.D. by Rev. T. T. Carter 1857, portrait; G. M. i, 376–82 (1856); Guardian 20 Dec. 1882 p. 1809.

ARMSTRONG, Very Rev. John (brother of Sir Andrew Armstrong). b. June 1791; archdeacon of Clonfert 24 June 1845; dean of Kilfenora Jany. 1847 to death. d. 16 June 1856.

ARMSTRONG, John. Provisional ensign Cape mounted rifles 19 March 1835; formed and commanded a corps of irregular horse known as “Armstrong’s Horse” during Kaffir war 1852–53; C.B. 13 March 1867, M.G. 6 July 1867. d. Stoulgrove house, near Chepstow 28 June 1874 aged 55.

ARMSTRONG, John Warneford. b. King’s county 28 Aug. 1770; captain King’s county militia 19 Jany. 1798; betrayed Henry and John Sheares barristers of Dublin to the Government 1798; they were hung for high treason 14 July 1798; received pension of £500 per annum 1798 to death. d. 1858. Howell’s State trials xxvii, 255–398 (1820).

ARMSTRONG, Joseph. b. Bewcastle Cumberland 21 Sep. 1816; engine driver on Liverpool and Manchester railway 1836–40; superintendent of locomotive carriage and wagon departments of Great Western Railway June 1864 to death; M.I.M.E. 1857, M.I.C.E. 1877. d. Matlock Bath 5 June 1877. Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xlix, 255–58 (1877).

ARMSTRONG, Rev. Nicholas. Rector of St. James’s, Dublin; an agent of the Reformation society 1831; the most powerful of Irish declaimers; an Irvingite apostle 18 Jany. 1834; apostle to Ireland and Greece 1838; author of Two letters to a friend in answer to the inquiry What is the use of the gifts of the spirit 1832; Sermons preached in the Catholic Apostolic church Gordon Square 1857; Homilies on the Epistles and Gospels 1870; Sermons on various subjects, 1870–79. d. Albury heath, Surrey 9 Oct. 1879 in 78 year. Rev. Edward Miller’s History and doctrines of Irvingism, vol. i; R. S. Brooke’s Recollections of the Irish church (1877) 25–27.

ARMSTRONG, Sir Richard (only son of lieut. col. Richard Armstrong of Lincoln.) b. 1782; ensign 24 foot 23 June 1796; served in Peninsula 1808–14; lieut. col. 1 foot 18 Oct. 1821, and of 26 foot 24 Jany 1829 to 13 Feb. 1835 when placed on h.p.; colonel 95 foot 29 March 1848 and of 32 foot 25 June 1850 to death; commander in chief at Madras 29 Sep. 1851 to 27 Oct. 1853; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 7 86April 1852, K.T.S.; Knighted by Wm. IV. at St. James’s palace 28 Sept. 1831. d. on board the ship Barham on his voyage home from Madras 3 March 1854.

ARMSTRONG, Richard (eld. son of Wm. Armstrong, of Roxborough, co. Armagh, engineer.) b. Armagh 1815; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; called to Irish bar 1839, went Leinster circuit; Q.C. 28 Jany. 1854, bencher of King’s Inns 1861; third sergeant at law 1861–65, second 1865, and first 1866 to death; M.P. for Sligo 1865–68. (m. 1847 Elizabeth dau. of Edward Meurant.) d. 32 Stephen’s Green, Dublin 26 Aug. 1880. Irish law times xiv, 452 (1880.)

ARMSTRONG, Robert Archibald (eld. son of Robert Archibald of Kenmore, Perthshire). b. Kenmore 1788; ed at Univs. of Edin. and St. Andrews; Gaelic lexicographer in ordinary to George iv 1826; head master of South Lambeth gr. sch. 1830–52; author of A Gaelic dictionary 1825, which was the first ever published; wrote many scientific papers in the Arcana of science and art 1837 et seq. d. Choumert road, Peckham Rye 25 May 1867.

ARMSTRONG, Robert Baynes (eld. son of John Armstrong of Lancaster, merchant). b. Lancaster 1785; ed. at Clitheroe and Sedbergh schools and St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1807, M.A. 1810, fellow of his college; barrister I.T. 23 June 1814, bencher 1840, reader 1851; treasurer 1852; Q.C. 1840; recorder of Hull 1836–37, of Leeds 1837–39 and of Manchester and Bolton May 1848 to May 1865; M.P for Lancaster 1848–53. (m. Dec. 1842 Frances youngest dau. of Richmond Blamire of Thackwood, Cumberland, she d. 19 March 1862). d. 29 Chester sq. Pimlico, London 15 Jany. 1869.

ARMSTRONG, Thomas William De Butts. b. 1826; resident engineer on several important works in Mayo 1848–53; one of the first engineers sent to India in government service 1855; chief engineer of Central Provinces 1869 to death; M.I.C.E. 10 April 1866. d. on board P. and O. steamer Travancore off the Malabar coast 1 May 1877. Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. li, 261–65 (1878).

ARMSTRONG, William. Called to Irish bar 1819; Q.C. 17 Aug. 1841; chairman of quarter sessions co. Londonderry. d. 1866.

ARNEY, Sir George Alfred (6 son of Wm. Arney of The Close, Salisbury). b. Salisbury 3 Jany. 1806; ed. at Winchester and Brasn. coll. Ox., B.A. 1832; barrister L.I. 5 May 871837; recorder of Winchester Dec. 1856–1857; chief justice of New Zealand 1858–75; knighted by patent 18 July 1862. (m. 13 June 1833 Harriet dau. of Thomas Parr, captain R.N., she d. 18 April 1844). d. 17 Devonshire place, Portland place, London 7 April 1883.

ARNOLD, Rev. Charles Thomas. b. 26 Oct. 1817; ed. at Rugby and Magd. hall, Ox., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843; Assistant master at Rugby 1841–78. d. Rome 13 May 1878.

ARNOLD, Rev. Edward Penrose (3 son of Rev. Thomas Arnold 1795–1842, head master of Rugby). b. 28 Oct. 1826; ed. at Rugby and Ball. coll. Ox., B.A. 1848, M.A. 1851; Fellow of All Soul’s coll. Ox. 1852; assistant inspector of schools 15 April 1854; inspector 1866–77. d. Fox How, Ambleside 6 April 1878.

ARNOLD, James Robertson (2 son of general Benedict Arnold 1741–1801). b. New York 28 Aug. 1781; 2 Lieut. R.E. 29 Aug. 1798; served in the wars against France 1800–15; aide de camp to the Sovereign 1830–41; col. R.E. 1837–41; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; K.H. 1831; K.C. (m. 21 March 1807 Virginia 4 dau. of Bartlett Goodrich of Saling Grove, Isle of Wight). d. Onslow sq. London 27 Dec. 1854. I. N. Arnold’s Life of Benedict Arnold (1880) 407–17.

ARNOLD, Rev. John Müehleisen. b. Zell, Würtemberg 1817; C.M.S. missionary in Abyssinia and India; Chap. to Bishop of Gibraltar; Chap. to St. Mary’s hospital, Paddington 1852–61; founded Moslem mission society in England 1859, hon. sec. 1860–65; C. of East Ham, Essex 1861–65; Consular Chap. at Batavia 28 Oct. 1865, resigned 6 Aug. 1870 but continued his services till 30 June 1871; R. of St. Mary’s, Papendorf, Capetown, March 1876. d. Papendorf 9 Dec. 1881. Guardian 29 March 1882 p. 448, vol. 3.

ARNOLD, Samuel James (only son of Samuel Arnold 1740–1802, organist and composer to George 3). b. 1774; exhibited portraits at the R.A. 1800–1806; brought out a musical play called Auld Robin Gray at Haymarket theatre 1794; exhibited a panorama in Spring gardens; member of “Sublime society of beefsteaks” 15 April 1809; opened Lyceum theatre as an English opera house 26 June 1809; built new theatre on same site and opened it as the English opera house 15 June 1816, it was burnt down 16 Feb. 1830, he rebuilt it and opened it 14 July 1834; manager of Drury 88Lane theatre 1812–15; author of The Creole or haunted island 3 vols. 1796; The shipwreck, a comic opera in 2 acts 1796; Man and wife, comedy in 5 acts 1809, 8 ed. 1809. (m. 18 May 1802 Matilda Catherine younger dau. of Henry James Pye, poet laureate). d. Walton upon Thames 16 Aug. 1852 in 78 year. G.M. xxxviii, 538 (1852).

ARNOLD, Thomas James (eld. son of the preceding). b. Downing st. Westminster 1803; ed. at St. Paul’s school and univ. of Gottingen; barrister L.I. 24 Nov. 1829; commissioner of bankruptcy at Liverpool; stipendiary magistrate at Worship st. police court 27 Jany. 1847 and at Westminster police court Aug. 1851 to death; member of Numismatic Society 1862; F.S.A. 1869; author of A treatise on the law relating to municipal corporations 1852, 3 ed. 1883; Anacreon in English 1869; Faust, a tragedy translated in the original metres 1877. d. 1 Greville place, Kilburn priory 20 May 1877. Numismatic Chronicle xvii, 13–15 (1877).

ARNOLD, Rev. Thomas Kerchever (eld. son of Thomas George Arnold of Stamford, M.D.) b. 1800; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb.; B.A. 1821; M.A. 1824; fellow of his college; R. of Lyndon, Rutland 1830 to death; projected and edited Churchman’s Quarterly magazine 1837, Churchman’s Monthly Companion 1844 and Theological Critic 1851; author of Henry’s first Latin book 1839, 26 ed. 1883; The first Greek book 1849, new ed. 1883; The first Hebrew book 1851, 7 ed. 1883; Anticleptic gradus ad Parnassum 1852 and many other educational books. d. Lyndon rectory 9 March 1853. Fraser’s Mag. xlvii, 173–83 (1853); G.M. xxxix, 667 (1853).

ARNOLD, William Delafield (2 son of Rev. Thomas Arnold, D.D. 1795–1842, head master of Rugby). b. Laleham 7 April 1828; ed. at Rugby; student of Ch. Ch. Ox. 1847; ensign 58 Bengal N.I. 2 Dec. 1848; principal director of public education in the Punjab 1857 to death, where his name is perpetuated by an annual distribution of medals, bearing his likeness, to the best pupils in schools which he founded; author of a novel entitled Oakfield or fellowship in the East, by Punjabee, 2 vols. 1853; translated Wiese’s Letters on English education 1854. d. Gibraltar 9 April 1859. Prospective Review x, 274–303 (1854).

ARNOLD, William Munnings (2 son of Rev. Richard Arnold.) b. Ellough, Suffolk 1820; arrived in New South Wales 1839; settled near Maitland on the Paterson river; member 89of legislative assembly 1856; chairman of committees 1858; minister for public works 1860–63; speaker of the assembly 3 Oct. 1865 to death; drowned in the floods at Stradbroke, his estate on the Paterson river 2 March 1875.

ARNOT, Rev. William (7 and youngest child of Robert Arnot of Scone, farmer.) b. New Mains farm near Scone 6 Nov. 1808; matric. at Univ. of Glasgow 10 Oct. 1829; licensed as a preacher by presbytery of Glasgow 4 Oct. 1837; minister of Free Saint Peter’s Church, Glasgow 1 Jany. 1839 to 6 Oct. 1864; ejected from his church by a decision of the Court of Session Feb. 1849; opened a new church in Main st. Glasgow 26 May 1850; minister of Free high church Edinburgh 11 Oct. 1864 to death; author of Illustrations of the Book of Proverbs, 2 series 1856; Roots and fruits of Christian life 1860. 2 ed., 1864; This present world 1873. d. Edinburgh 3 June 1875; Autobiography of Rev. W. Arnot 1877, portrait.

ARNOT, William. b. Falkirk; a chemist; employed purifying the river North Esk 1868; opened large chemical works at Kirkintilloch 1873; delivered a course of 6 Cantor lectures on The technology of the paper trade at the Society of Arts 1877. d. Bridge of Allan 9 Feb. 1881 aged 38.

ARNOTT, Archibald. b. Kirkconnell hall, Ecclefechan, co. Dumfries 1771; surgeon 20 foot 23 Aug. 1799 to 25 Dec. 1826, when placed on h.p.; medical attendant of Napoleon at St. Helena 1 April 1821 to 5 May 1821, when he died at 5.49 p.m. with his right hand in that of Dr. Arnott; author of An account of the last illness decease and post mortem appearances of Napoleon Bonaparte 1822. d. Kirkconnell hall, 6 July 1855.

ARNOTT, Francis Short. b. 1805; surgeon Bombay army 5 June 1845; hon. surgeon to the Queen 1861 to death; C.B. 21 March 1859. d. Kirkconnell hall 16 Oct. 1879.

ARNOTT, George Arnott Walker (son of David Walker Arnott of Arlary near Kinross who d. 1822). b. Edinburgh 6 Feb. 1799; ed. at the High school and Univ. of Edin., M.A. 1818, LLD. Aberdeen 1837; advocate 1821; visited France, Spain and Russia; F.R.S Edin. 1822, F.L.S. 1825; worked with William Hooker the botanist at Glasgow 1830–40; member of Botanical society of Edin. 1836; professor of botany in Univ. of Glasgow 1845 to death; published descriptions of many new 90plants from Asia and America in various periodicals 1830–40; author of the article Botany in the Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 ed. vol. 5. d. Glasgow 17 June 1868. Trans. Botanic Society of Edin. ix, 414–26 (1868).

ARNOTT, Neil. b. Arbroath, Angusshire 15 May 1788; surgeon in H.E.I. Co’s. naval service 1807–11; practised in London 1811–55 when he retired; M.R.C.S. 1813; M.D. Aberdeen 15 Sep. 1814; L.R.C.P. 31 March 1817; invented his hydrostatic or water bed 1832; and Arnott stove and the ventilator; one of senate of Univ. of London 1836; founded an exhibition there for experimental physics 1875; phys. extraordinary to Queen Victoria 8 Aug. 1837; F.R.S. 25 Jany. 1838, Rumford medallist 1854; F.G.S. 1847; founded scholarships of natural philosophy at the 4 Scottish universities 1869; author of Elements of physics 1827, 7 ed. 1876; A survey of human progress 1861. d. Cumberland terrace, London 2 March 1874. Proc. of Royal Society xxv, 14–18 (1877); Medical Circular i, 92, 149 (1852), portrait; Graphic ix, 314, 328 (1874), portrait.

ARNTZ, Robert Richard. b. Erefeldt, Prussia 1815; taken to England 1819; articled to W. Herbert of London, builder 1831; naturalised 15 May 1848; surveyor to Westminster district board of works; A.I.C.E. 1856; F.S.A. 18 Dec. 1862. d. 17 Feb. 1882.

ARRAN, Philip Yorke Gore, 6 Earl of. b. Dublin castle 23 Nov. 1801; chargé d’Affaires at Buenos Ayres 17 Oct. 1832 to 18 Oct. 1834; succeeded his uncle 20 Jany. 1837; K.P. 6 May 1841. d. 27 Chesham st. London 25 June 1884.

ARRINDELL, Sir William. b. in one of the Virgin islands 1796; ed. in England; attorney general British Guiana 10 May 1845 to 1852; chief justice of Demerara 1852 to death; C.B. 30 Nov. 1858; knighted by patent 13 Dec. 1858. d. Demerara 27 Dec. 1862.

ARROW, Sir Frederick (2 son of Wm. Arrow, captain Indian Navy.) b. Calcutta 1818; ed. at Bath gr. sch.; in mercantile marine service June 1834 to Feb. 1859; an elder brother of Trinity House Feb. 1859, and deputy master June 1865 to death; knighted by patent 29 Aug. 1868; F.R.G.S. 1871; (m. 1850 Harriet 5 dau. of R. Stileman of the Friars, Winchelsea.) d. Pilgrims hall, South Weald, near Brentwood 17 July 1875; I.L.N. lxvi 95, 100 (1875) portrait.

91ARROWSMITH, John. b. Winston near Barnard Castle, Durham 23 April 1790; joined his uncle Aaron Arrowsmith of Soho Square London, geographer 14 Feb. 1810; one of founders of Royal geographical society 1830, gold medallist 1862; produced London atlas of universal geography 1834, 3 ed. 1858; illustrated with maps Leichhardt’s journal of an overland expedition in Australia 1847, and many other books; bought 10 Soho Square 1839, carried on business there down to 1861 when he retired; F.R.A.S. d. 35 Hereford sq. Old Brompton 2 May 1873. Journal of geographical society xliii, 161–63 (1873.)

ARTHINGTON, Maria. Author of The little scholar’s first grammar 1828; Rhymes for Harry and his nursemaid 1851; Poetry of bye-gone days and other selected pieces not published 1861. d. 5 Oct. 1863.

ARTHUR, Sir Frederick Leopold, 2 Baronet. b. West Indies 20 Dec. 1816; captain 4 foot 8 June 1838 to 13 Dec. 1850, when placed on h.p.; retired from the army 1863; succeeded 19 Sep. 1854. d. United Service club Pall Mall London 1 June 1878.

ARTHUR, Sir George, 1 Baronet (3 and youngest son of John Arthur of Plymouth 1733–88.) b. 21 June 1784; governor of Honduras 1814–1822; lieut. col. 7 West India foot 1 June 1815; lieut. col. 5 West India foot 29 Aug. 1816, and lieut. col. York Chasseurs 8 May 1817 to 25 Oct. 1819, when placed on h.p.; governor of Van Diemen’s Land 14 May 1824 to 30 Oct 1836; lieut. governor of Upper Canada 23 March 1838 to April 1841; suppressed the rebellion Nov. 1838; governor of Bombay 27 April 1841 to 6 Aug. 1846; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846; col. 50 foot 28 Feb. 1853 to death; K.C.H. 1837; knighted by the Queen at St. James’s palace 19 July 1837; created baronet 5 June 1841; P.C. 17 June 1847; hon. D.C.L. Ox. 5 July 1848. d. Gloucester square, Hyde Park, London 19 Sep. 1854. J. Mac Mullen’s History of Canada 2 ed. 1868, pp. 461–94.

ARTHUR, Rev. John. b. Houston, Renfrewshire 1794; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow; Congregational minister at Helensburgh 1824 to 1866, this district was the scene of several movements that attracted much attention, such as “The Speaking with Tongues,” “Miraculous healing,” and the “Row Heresy case.” d. 17 May 1884.

ARTHUR, Richard. b. 10 Jany. 1779; captain R.N. 11 Jany. 1810; superintendent of Sheerness dockyard 23 Sep. 1844 to 9 Nov. 1846; V.A. 17 Sep. 1853; C.B. 28 July 1838. d. Plymouth 26 Oct. 1854.

92ARTLETT, Richard Austin. b. 9 Nov. 1807; pupil of Robert Cooper and James Thomson; engraved in the dotted manner a few figure subjects and several portraits; distinguished as an engraver of sculpture, his plates of which in the Art Journal are executed with great taste and delicacy. d. 1 Sep. 1873.

ARTOIS, The Flying Wonder, stage name of John Lilley. b. Liverpool 12 July 1848; a performer on the flying trapeze 1866 to death; held a foremost rank in his profession; fell from his trapeze at the Star music hall Dublin 21 March 1882 and fractured his skull. d. Mercer’s hospital Dublin 21 March 1882. bur. Mount Jerome cemetery 24 March.

ARTOM, Rev. Benjamin. b. Asti near Pimont, Genoa 1835; minister of Jewish synagogues at Saluzzo, Genoa and Naples; Haham of Spanish and Portugese congregation of London 9 Aug. 1866 to death; inducted 16 Dec. 1866. (m. 10 Feb. 1875 Henrietta Hahaba widow of Solomon David of Bombay). d. 3 Marine parade Brighton 6 Jany. 1879. Jewish Chronicle 10 Jany. 1879 9–12; Graphic xix, 52 (1879), portrait.

ARUNDALE, Francis. b. London 9 Aug. 1807; articled to A. Pugin the elder; spent nine years in the East 1831–40; author of Edifices of Palladio 1832; Illustrations of Jerusalem and Mount Sinai 1837. d. Brighton 9 Sep. 1853.

ARUNDELL, Henry Benedict, 11 Baron Arundell of Wardour. b. Irnham hall, co. Lincoln 12 Nov. 1804; the only R.C. peer who voted against the Reform bill 1832; succeeded 21 June 1834; a count of the Holy Roman Empire. d. Wardour castle. Wilts 19 Oct. 1862.

ARUNDELL, Rev. Thomas, formerly called Thomas Arundell Tagg. Ed. at Merchant Taylor’s, St. Bees and St. John’s coll. Cam., B.D. 1868; C. of Ch. Ch. Blackfriars 1853–54; C. of All Saint’s Gordon square and Reader of Ch. Ch. Newgate st. Lond. 1854–56; P.C. of St. Peter Hammersmith 1856–60; V. of Hayton with Bielby, Yorks 1860; V. of St. John’s, Whetstone, Finchley Feb. 1876; author of Historical reminiscences of the City of London 1869; and of sermons and articles in periodicals. d. the vicarage Whetstone 5 Nov. 1880 in his 64 year.

ASBURY, Jacob Vale (son of Mr. Asbury of Stone, Staffs.) Surgeon at Enfield 1820 to death; invented a surgical instrument for puncture of the tympanum; took out patents for railway buffers 1853 and 1855. (m. 1820 93Dorothy 3 dau. of Charles Jacomb of Guildford st. Russell square). d. Enfield 21 June 1871 in his 80 year. Medical times and gazette ii, 87 (1871).

Note.—Charles Lamb his friend and patient bore witness to his successful treatment of cholera in a witty acrostic on his name.

ASCHER, Joseph. b. London 1831; pupil of Ignaz Moscheles; court pianist to Empress Eugénie in Paris; composed above 100 mazurkas, gallops, nocturnes, études, and transcriptions. d. London 3 June 1869.

ASH, Edward. A minister of Society of Friends; M.D.; lived at Bristol; author of An inquiry into some parts of Christian doctrine and practice 1841; Four lectures on the Apocalypse 1848; Explanatory notes and comments on the New Testament, 3 vols. 1849–50. d. Cotham, Bristol 23 Dec. 1873 aged 76.

ASHBROOK, Henry Flower, 5 Viscount. b. 17 June 1806; succeeded his father 4 May 1847. d. Castle Durrow, co. Kilkenny 3 Aug. 1871.

ASHBROOK, Henry Jeffery Flower, 6 Viscount. b. 26 March 1829; ed. at Eton; sheriff of Queen’s county 1856; succeeded 3 Aug. 1871. d. Castle Durrow 14 Dec. 1882.

ASHBURNER, John (son of Mr. Ashburner of Bombay 1769–98, member of supreme council). b. Bombay 10 Jany. 1793; ed. at Dublin, Glasgow and Edin.; M.D. Edin. 1 Aug. 1816; physician in London 1816; L.R.C.P. 1818; physician to Small pox hospital 1818–24, when he went to India; lecturer on Midwifery at St. Thomas’s hospital; a great believer in Mesmerism; author of Dentition 1834; Notes and studies on the philosophy of animal magnetism and spiritualism 1867. d. 59 Cambridge place, London 13 Nov. 1878. Munk’s Roll iii, 181 (1878); Medical Circular i, 93 (1852).

ASHBURNHAM, Bertram Ashburnham, 4 Earl of (eld. son of George Ashburnham, 3 Earl of Ashburnham 1760–1830). b. 23 Nov. 1797; succeeded his father 27 Oct. 1830; sold his pictures at Christie’s 20 July 1850. d. Ashburnham place near Battle 22 June 1878.

Note.—He was the collector of an extensive library of early and rare books and of a vast assemblage of MSS. which comprised 4 divisions, the Libri collection, the Barrois collection, the Stowe collection and a portion known as The Appendix comprising his miscellaneous collections. In July 1883 the Government purchased the Stowe collection for £45,000; and in May 1884 the Italian Government bought for the Laurenzian library at Florence the larger portion of the 94Libri collection and the Dante MSS. from the Appendix for the sum of £23,000. A very full account of the contents of the whole of the Ashburnham MSS. will be found in the 8th Report of the Historical Manuscript Commission (1881) Appendix part 3 pp. 127.

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

ASHBURNHAM, Thomas (4 son of George Ashburnham, 3 Earl of Ashburnham 1760–1830.) ensign Coldstream guards 30 Jany. 1823; lieut. col. 62 foot 7 Jan. 1842 to 21 Sep. 1847; commanded a brigade in Sutlej campaign 1845–46; aide de camp to the Queen 3 April 1846 to 20 June 1854; lieut. col. 29 foot 22 Nov. 1849 to 20 June 1854; col. 82 foot 13 Dec. 1859 to death; general 19 April 1868; C.B. 3 April 1846. d. 104 Park st. Grosvenor sq., London 3 March 1872.

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

ASHBURTON, Francis Baring, 3 Baron. b. 20 May 1800; M.P. for Thetford 1832–41 and 1848–57; succeeded 23 March 1864. d. Hazlewood near Watford 6 Sep. 1868.

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

95ASHBY, Rev. John Eyre. b. 22 Jany. 1820; ed. at Univ. coll. school London, B.A. London 1840; a congregational minister in Arundel, Brighton and London; lectured on the higher mathematics in same places; kept a school at Enfield 1856 to death; F.R.A.S. 1843, LLD. Jena 1858. d. 22 Dec. 1863.

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

ASHLEY, Anthony John (4 son of Cropley Ashley, 6 Earl of Shaftesbury). b. 24 Grosvenor square, London 21 Dec. 1808; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1829; barrister I.T. 10 June 1836; Q.C. 9 Jany. 1866. (m. 17 March 1840 Julia eld. dau. of Henry John Conyers of Copt hall, Essex). d. Upper Brook st. London 1 Jany. 1867.

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

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

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

ASHPITEL, Arthur (eld. son of the succeeding). b. Hackney 15 Dec. 1807; ed. at Homerton; commenced practice as an architect in Crown Court Old Broad st. 1842; built church of St. Barnabas at Homerton 1845; partner with John Whichcord 1850; elected F.S.A. 7 Jan. 1847; F.R.I.B.A. 1841, Vice Pres. 1862; 96published with John Whichcord “Observations on baths and wash-houses with an account of their history” 1855; Town dwellings an essay on the erection of fire proof houses in flats 1855. d. 2 Poet’s Corner, Westminster Abbey 18 Jany. 1869. Reg. and Mag. of Biog. i, 212–15 (1869); Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. 2 series iv, 299–301.

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

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

ASHTOWN, Frederick Mason Trench, 2 Baron. b. 25 Dec. 1804; succeeded 1 May 1840; his claim to the peerage was allowed 12 July 1855. d. Clonodfoy, co. Limerick 12 Sep. 1880. Personalty sworn under £350,000 April 1881.

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

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

ASHWELL, Rev. Arthur Rawson. b. Cheyne Walk Chelsea 9 Dec. 1824; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; scholar of Caius coll. 1846; 15 Wr. 1847, B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850; C. of Speldhurst Kent 1848–49; C. of St. Mary 97the less, Cam. 1849–50; vice principal of St. Mark’s college Chelsea Jany. 1851 to Nov. 1852; principal of Oxford diocesan training college at Culham Nov. 1852 to 1862; minister of Holy Trinity church Hanover square London 1862–64; principal of Durham training college 1865–70; canon res. of Chichester and principal of Chichester theological college 1870; R. of St. Andrew’s Chichester 1871–75; R. of St. Martin’s Chichester 1872–75; chancellor of Chichester cath. 1879 to death, installed 19 June 1879; edited the Literary Churchman 1864–76 and Sep. 1879 to death, and the Church quarterly review 1876. (m. 20 April 1854 Elizabeth eld. dau. of J. F. Fixsen of Blackheath.) d. Chichester 23 Oct. 1879. Literary Churchman xxv, 443–45, 501 (1879).

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

ASHWELL, Samuel. b. Nottingham 1798; studied at Guy’s Hospital, London 1817–20; general practitioner in Lime st. square 1821–30; obstetric asst. to Guy’s Hosp. 1820; obstetric physician and lecturer May 1834 to 1846; M.R.C.P. 1835; removed to the West end 1840; author of Practical treatise on parturition 1828; A practical treatise on the diseases peculiar to women 1848. d. 30 Brook st. Grosvenor sq. 21 Dec. 1857. Medical Circular i, 109–111 (1852), portrait.

ASHWORTH, Edmund. b. Birtwhistle near Bolton; partner with his brother Henry as spinners at Egerton Mill near Bolton; member of Anti-Corn-Law League 1839; member of Manchester chamber of commerce, a director 1868–78, pres. 1874–77; said to be original of Mr. Millbank in ‘Coningsby’; a magistrate for Bolton April 1847 to death; one of founders of Cotton supply association 1857; the first pres. of Bolton British school union. d. Southport 21 March 1881 in 81 year. Manchester Guardian 22 March 1881 p. 5, col. 4, and 26 March p. 11, col. 4.

ASHWORTH, Sir Frederick (2 son of Robert Ashworth of Dublin). b. Dublin 1783; ensign 58 foot 6 July 1799; major 22 Nov. 1810 to 20 Feb. 1817 when placed on h.p.; knighted by lord lieut. 1850; lieut. general 9820 June 1854; colonel of 44 foot 8 Feb. 1855 to death. (m. 29 Oct. 1833 Harriet eld. dau. of Sir Bellingham Reginald Graham, 7 Bart., she was b. 1815 and m. (2) 26 Feb. 1862 George Hamilton Chichester, 3 Marquess of Donegal). d. 5 St. George’s place, Hyde park corner, London 1 Aug. 1858.

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

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

ASHWORTH, Rev. John Harvey (younger son of John Ashworth). b. Elland, Yorkshire 1795; ed. at Manchester gr. sch. and Univ. coll. Ox., scholar 1815, B.A. 1819, M.A. 1825; R. of Hethe, Oxon 1820–21; C. of St. Mary’s, Rochdale 1821; bought old castle of Craggan, co. Clare which he restored; V. of St. Mary’s, Staveley-in-Cartmel 1874 to death; author of Hurstwood, a tale 3 vols. 1823; Scenes and thoughts from secluded life 2 vols. 1827; The Saxon in Ireland 1851; The young curate or the quicksands of life [anon.] 1859, and Rathlynn [anon.] 3 vols. 1864. d. 4 Aug. 1882.

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

ASKEY, James Robert Roper. Chief clerk of the divorce registry 1858 to death. d. 14 Park village West, Gloucester gate, Regents’ park, London 30 Jany. 1866.

99ASLETT, Thompson. 2 Lieut. R.M. 1 June 1796; col. commandant 9 Nov. 1846 to 17 Aug. 1848 when he retired on full pay. d. 27 Aug. 1851 aged 75.

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

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

ASPINALL, Rev. James (son of J. B. Aspinall of Cleongar hall, Cheshire). b. Liverpool; ed. at St. Mary hall Ox., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; C. of Rochdale 5 years; P.C. of St. Luke’s, Liverpool 1830 where he preached 5 June 1831 a remarkable sermon called The Crisis or the signs of the times with regard to the Church of England; R. of Althorpe, Lincs. 2 June 1839 to death; author of Roscoe’s library or old books and old times 1853; Parish sermons 2 series 1854–59. d. Althorpe rectory 15 Feb. 1861 aged 65.

ASPLAND, Alfred (son of Rev. Robert Aspland 1782–1845, pastor of the Unitarians at Hackney 40 years). b. 1815; ed. at King’s college, London; studied at Guy’s hospital; L.S.A. 1837, M.R.C.S. 1838, F.R.C.S. 1859; practised at Dukinfield, Cheshire till about 1870; editor of the Holbein Society publications; pres. of Manchester statistical society 1863–65; his large collection of books and drawings was sold at Sotheby’s Jany. 1885; author of Crime in Manchester 1868; edited for Holbein Society H. Burgmair’s Triumph of the Emperor Maximilian 1875; and The golden legend 1878. d. St. Helen’s Field, Dukinfield 24 Oct. 1880. Book-lore March 1885 p. 119.

ASPLAND, Rev. Robert Brook (brother of the preceding). b. Newport, Isle of Wight 19 Jany. 1805; Unitarian pastor of Crook’s lane chapel, Chester Aug. 1826; co-pastor with Lant Carpenter of Lewin’s Mead chapel, Bristol 1833; kept a boarding school at 100Bristol 1833–36; pastor at Dukinfield 1 Jany. 1837 and at Hackney 1858 to death; edited the Christian Reformer Jany. 1845 to Dec. 1863 when it ceased; one of secretaries of Manchester college 1846–57, which was moved from Manchester to London 1853; secretary to British and Foreign Unitarian Association 1859 to death. (m. 21 Oct. 1833 Jane dau. of Robert Hibbert of Brookside Godley, Cheshire). d. Well st. Hackney 21 June 1869. John Evans’s Lancashire authors (1850) 4–8; The Inquirer 3 July 1869 427–28.

ASPULL, William. b. Nottingham 1798; tenor singer; composed many vocal pieces. d. 192 Clapham road, London 16 Jany. 1875.

ASTLEY, Sir Francis Dugdale, 2 Baronet (only son of Sir John Dugdale Astley, 1 Baronet 1778–1842). b. 5 Nov. 1805; succeeded 19 Jany. 1842. d. Eastleigh lodge, Warminster 23 July 1873.

ASTLEY, Rev. Richard. b. Chesterfield 12 March 1785; Unitarian minister at Rochdale 1810, at Halifax 1812–26, at Gloucester 1826–31 and at Shrewsbury 1831–53; author of A selection of 500 hymns for public and private worship. d. Stourbridge 19 March 1855. The Christian Reformer xi, 265–73 (1855).

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

ASTON, James Jones (2 son of Benjamin Richard Aston of 71 Banner st. Finsbury, coal merchant). b. 71 Banner st. 12 Dec. 1822; barrister M.T. 6 Nov. 1846; went Northern circuit; Q.C. for county palatine of Lancaster 1867; Q.C. 24 March 1880; author of Chancery practice of the county palatine of Lancaster 1852. (m. 7 Sep. 1854 Sarah Margaret eld. dau. of Thomas Eccles of Walton-le-dale, Lancs.) d. 13 Pembroke gardens, Kensington 17 Jany. 1885.

ASTON, John Partington (son of John Aston of Manchester, liquor merchant.) b. Manchester 9 Nov. 1805; ed. at Manchester gr. sch.; solicitor at Manchester 1829 to death; one 101of leading conveyancing and patent lawyers; solicitor and sec. of Owens college, Manchester; contributed prose and verse to periodicals; author with W. H. Ainsworth of Sir John Chiverton 1826. d. Higher Broughton, Manchester 11 May 1882. Admission register of Manchester school iii, 112 (1874).

ATHERLEY, Mark Ker (2 son of Arthur Atherley M.P. for Southampton who d. 21 Oct. 1844 aged 74). Ensign 15 foot 28 Aug. 1823; lieut. col. 92 foot 23 Nov. 1849 to 5 June 1863 when placed on h.p.; commanded a brigade in the Crimea 4 Nov. 1855 to 13 March 1856; brigadier general Malta 1863–68; col. of 109 foot 14 Feb. 1873, of 93 foot 30 Jany. 1880 and of 92 foot 5 April 1880 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. 11 March 1884 in 80 year.

ATHERSTONE, Edwin. b. Nottingham 17 April 1788; author of The fall of Nineveh, a poem, 2 vols. 1828–68; The Sea Kings in England, an historical romance, 3 vols. 1830; The handwriting on the wall, a story 3 vols. 1858; Israel in Egypt 1861 a poem of nearly 20,000 lines; granted civil list pension of £75 Oct. 4 1858 and another of £25 Jany. 16 1860. d. 19 Macaulay buildings, Bath 29 Jany. 1872.

ATHERTON, Charles (3 son of Nathan Atherton of Calne, Wilts attorney). b. Calne 1805; ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam.; 33 wrangler 1828, B.A. 1828; resident engineer of river Clyde 1832–34; manager of business of Claud Girdwood and Co. of Glasgow, ironfounders 1834–37; chief engineer at Woolwich dockyard 6 April 1847 to 31 Dec. 1848 and 8 Sep. 1851 to 26 July 1862; at Devonport dockyard 1 Jany. 1849 to 7 Sep. 1851; consulting engineer in London 1862–70; M.I.C.E. 19 Feb. 1828. d. Sandown, Isle of Wight 24 May 1875. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xlii, 252–55 (1875).

ATHERTON, Sir William (only son of Rev. Wm. Atherton of Battle Bridge Middlesex, Wesleyan minister 1775–1850). b. Glasgow October 1806; special pleader 1832–39; barrister I.T. 22 Nov. 1839, bencher 1851; went northern circuit of which he became leader; Q.C. July 1851; Q.C. for duchy of Lancaster 1851–60; M.P. for Durham 9 July 1852 to death; judge advocate of the fleet and counsel to the Admiralty 1854 to 16 Dec. 1859; solicitor general 16 Dec. 1859 and attorney general 4 July 1861 to Sep. 1863; knighted by the Queen at St. James’s palace 23 Feb. 1860. (m. 15 April, 1843 Agnes 102Mary younger dau. of Thomas James Hall, chief magistrate at Bow st. London, she d. 26 March 1866). d. 13 Westbourne terrace, Hyde Park 22 Jany. 1864.

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

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

ATKINS, Edward. b. 1818; played at T.R. Birmingham 1851–61; made his début in London at Drury Lane 28 Oct. 1861; played Jem Dalton in Tom Taylor’s drama The Ticket of leave man at Olympic theatre 27 May 1863 to 16 Sep. 1864 406 times, and more than 600 times afterwards in different theatres; played Autolycus in A winter’s tale at Drury Lane 28 Sep. 1878. d. 5 Carlton road west, Peckham 8 April 1883. Tallis’s Drawing room table book part 16, portrait.

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

ATKINS, Edwin Martin (eld. son of Atkins Edwin Martin-Atkins of Walcot in Bath). b. 1808; ed. at Rugby; matric. Magd. coll. Ox. 26 July 1825 aged 17, B.A. 1829; sheriff of Berkshire 1844; F.S.A. 10 Dec. 1857; the original of the Squire depicted by Tom Hughes in The scouring of the White Horse 1859. d. Weston super Mare 5 May 1859.

103ATKINSON, Charles Caleb (eld. son of Caleb Atkinson of Hillingdon, Middlesex), b. 1793; barrister M.T. 6 June 1834; sec. of University college London 1835 to July 1867; sub editor of The Sphinx; owner of The Athenæum for short time. (m. 1831 Harriet dau. of George Swimley of Henley on Thames). d. Alexandra road, Kilburn, London 11 Jany. 1869.

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

ATKINSON, Sir Henry Esch (3 son of Henry Wm. Atkinson 1753–1834 provost of Company of moneyers). b. 1792; entered navy 2 Feb. 1807; commander 30 April 1827; employed in the Coast Guard 1835–38; retired captain 1 April 1856; knighted by lord lieutenant of Ireland 1836; superintendent of convicts in Van Diemen’s Land 1846. (m. 1819 Sarah dau. of John Randall of the Isle of Wight, she d. 1873). d. Hobart Town 1857.

ATKINSON, James. b. county of Durham 9 March 1780; assistant assay master at Calcutta mint 1813–28; superintendent of the government Gazette 1817–28; surgeon to 55 Bengal N.I. 1833; superintending surgeon to the army of the Indus 1838–41; a member of Bengal medical board 1845–47; author of The Shâh Nâmah translated and abridged 1832, which won gold medal of Oriental translation fund; The expedition into Afghanistan 1842; Sketches in Afghanistan 1842. d. 18 Dorset sq. London 7 Aug. 1852. Journal of Royal Asiatic Society xv, vi-ix, (1855).

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

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

104ATKINSON, Sir Jasper (son of Henry Wm. Atkinson 1753–1834, provost of Company of moneyers). b. Dulwich 1790; employed in the Mint 1804–51; provost of Company of moneyers 1 April 1848 to July 1851 when it was dissolved; knighted by patent 28 Nov. 1842 for services rendered to Ottoman, Russian and French governments. (m. 12 May 1819 Louisa Jane Grace only dau. of Wm. Gyll of Wyrardisbury house, Bucks, she was b. 21 July 1800 and m. (2) 1863 Percy Honey of Exchequer Office, Lincolns Inn). d. North Frith Haddow near Tonbridge Wells 6 Oct. 1856.

ATKINSON, Richard. b. Dublin 1796; a poplin manufacturer there 1820 to death; alderman of Dublin 1857 to death; mayor 1856 and 1861; gave a grand ball to Prince of Wales 11 Sep. 1861; a great philanthropist. d. 1867. I.L.N. xxxviii, 83 (1861) portrait.

ATKINSON, Solomon. b. Cumberland; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; senior wrangler and 2 Smith’s prizeman 1821; B.A. 1821; barrister L.I. 21 May 1827; author of County court extension act, 1850; Law and practice of county courts 1853. d. Mornington crescent, Hampstead road 12 Feb. 1865.

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

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

ATKINSON, William Stephen (eld. son of Rev. T. D. Atkinson Rector of Rugeley, Staffs.) director of public instruction for Bengal. d. Rome 15 Jany. 1876 aged 55.

105ATTHILL, Rev. William Lombe. b. 11 July 1807; scholar of Caius coll. Cam. 1825; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1851; sub-dean, canon and commissary of collegiate church of Middleham, Yorkshire 1839–51; P.C. of Horsham Norfolk 1851–63; V. of Horsford, Norfolk 1851–63; married 4 times; author of The way of Catechising 1840; History and antiquities of the collegiate church at Middleham 1847 and of articles in Burke’s Historic Lands of England 1849. d. Brandiston hall, Alderford, Norfolk 11 Dec. 1884.

ATTREE, William Wakeford. b. 1805; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; barrister M.T. 7 June 1833; assistant tithe comr.; recorder of Hastings and of Seaford about 1842 to death; author of Report of Braintree church rate case 1853. d. Queen’s Park, Brighton 28 Jany. 1862.

ATTWOOD, Benjamin (son of Matthias Attwood of Hales Owen, founder of bank of Attwoods in London and Birmingham). a manufacturer at Birmingham; came into a large fortune from his nephew Matthias Attwood; gave with greatest secrecy for many years sums of £1000 each to all manner of charities to amount of £375,000. d. Pengelly house, Cheshunt 22 Nov. 1874. I.L.N. lxvi 57 (1875) portrait; Graphic xi 67 (1875) portrait.

ATTWOOD Matthias (brother of the preceding). partner in bank of Attwoods; chairman of General steam navigation co.; M.P. for Callington 14 March 1820, for Boroughbridge 2 Aug 1830, and for Whitehaven 15 Dec. 1832 to 23 July 1847. d. Dulwich hill 11 Nov. 1851. G.M. xxxvii 192–93 (1852).

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

106Note.—There is a statue of him in Stephenson place New st. Birmingham, which was unveiled 7 June 1858. He is the “King Tom” of Cobbett’s Weekly Register.

ATWOOD, Rev. Henry Adams Sergison. b. St. Margaret’s Westminster 13 Jany. 1800; ed. at Queen’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1824; F.R.A.S. 1827; R. of Ashelworth, Gloucs. 1839 to death; author of A new version of the Book of Psalms in verse by H. A. S. A. 1834. d. Ashelworth rectory 22 June 1877.

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

AUBREY, Thomas. b. Cefn-coed-y-cymer near Merthyr-Tydvil 13 May 1808; Wesleyan minister 1826 to death; chairman of North Wales district 1854–65. d. Rhyl 15 Nov. 1867. Wesl. Meth. Mag. xci, pt. 2 p. 845 (1868).

AUBREY, Sir Thomas Digby, 7 Baronet. b. Llanblythian, Glamorganshire 2 Dec. 1782; barrister L.I. 11 Feb. 1811; sheriff of Bucks 1815; succeeded 1 March 1826; chairman of Bucks quarter sessions some years, d. Oving house near Aylesbury 2 Sep. 1856.

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

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

AUDLEY, George Edward Thicknesse-Touchet, 20 Baron. b. 26 Jany. 1817; succeeded 14 Jany. 1837. d. Homburg 18 April 1872. Burke’s Portrait gallery ii, 41 (1833).

107AUDUBON, John James, b. New Orleans 4 May 1780; arrived at Liverpool 20 July 1826; lived in England 1826–29, 1830–31, 1834–36 and 1838–39; author of Birds of America published in 87 parts, elephant folio at price of 1000 dollars; F.L.S. 1828, F.R.S. 18 March 1830. d. New York Island 27 Jany. 1851. R. Buchanan’s Life of J. J. Audubon 1868, 2 portraits.

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

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

AULDJO, John. Ascended Mont Blanc 8 Aug. 1827, being the 14th ascent ever made; F.R.G.S. 1832; F.R.S. 7 May 1840; author of Ascent of Mont Blanc 1827; Sketches of Vesuvius 1832; Journal of a visit to Constantinople 1835. d. 1857.

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

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

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

AUSTEN, Sir Francis William (4 son of Rev. George Austen R. of Steventon, Hants). b. Steventon 23 April 1774; captain R.N. 13 May 1800; served in action off St. Domingo 1805, for which he received thanks of houses of parliament; colonel R.M. 27 108May 1825; commander in chief on north American and West Indian station 27 Dec. 1844 to 12 Jany. 1848; admiral 1 Aug. 1848; R.A. of United Kingdom 5 June 1862; V.A. of U.K. 11 Dec. 1862; admiral of the fleet 27 April 1863 to death; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 28 Feb. 1837, G.C.B. 18 May 1860. d. Portsdown lodge, Portsmouth 10 Aug. 1865.

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

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

AUSTEN, Rev. Robert (only son of Venerable Robert Austen 1723–92, archdeacon of Cork). Treasurer of Cloyne 24 July 1810 to 10 June 1833 when he resigned. d. Southsea, Hants 4 Nov. 1854 in 83 year.

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

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

AUSTIN, Charles (2 son of Jonathan Austin of Creeting Mill, Suffolk, government contractor). b. 26 March 1799; ed. at Bury St. Edmund’s gr. sch. and Jesus coll. Cam., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; pupil of Sir Wm. Follett; barrister M.T. 25 May 1827; bencher 1841; Q.C. 1841; practised chiefly before committees of Houses of Parliament where he was the leading counsel; retired with a large fortune 1848; high steward of Ipswich; chairman of quarter sessions for East Suffolk. (m. 10 June 1856 Harriet Jane elder dau. of Ralph Mitford Preston Ingilby). d. Brandeston hall, Wickham Market 21 Dec. 1874. Personalty sworn under £140,000 19 Feb. 1875. J. S. Mill’s Autobiography (1873) 76–79; Fortnightly Review xxiii, 321–38 (1875); Public men of Ipswich (1875) 90–96.

109AUSTIN, Sir Horatio Thomas. Entered navy 8 April 1813; took part in Parry’s second Arctic expedition 1824–1825; commanded Salamander one of first steamers in the navy 1832–34; captain 28 June 1838; served in the Syrian war 1839–1843; commanded a squadron in search of Sir John Franklin 1850–1851; superintendent of Deptford dockyard 18 Oct. 1854 to 28 Nov. 1857; admiral superintendent of Malta dockyard 6 April 1863 to 26 Nov. 1864; V.A. 20 Oct. 1864; C.B. 18 Dec. 1840, K.C.B. 28 March 1865. (m. 8 Nov. 1831 Anne Eliza only dau. of Thomas Hawkins of Pennance, Creed, Cornwall and widow of Rev. J. Rawlinson, she d. 7 July 1876). d. Leinster gardens, London 16 Nov. 1865 in 65 year. O’Byrne’s Naval biography (1861) 30.

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

AUSTIN, John (eld son of Jonathan Austin of Creeting Mill, Suffolk). b. 3 March 1790; in the army 1806–11 when he sold out; served in Sicily; barrister I.T. 5 June 1818; gave up practice 1825; professor of jurisprudence in Univ. of London 1826, lectured there 1828 to June 1832; member of Criminal law commission 1833; delivered a course of lectures on jurisprudence at Inner Temple 1834; went to Malta as Royal Comr. to inquire into grievances of which the natives complained 1836; lived in Paris 1844–48 and at Weybridge, Surrey 1849 to death; corresponding member of moral and political class of French Institute; author of The province of jurisprudence determined 1832, 2 ed. 1861; A plea for the Constitution 1859. (m. 1820 Sarah Taylor.) d. Weybridge 17 Dec. 1859. Dict. of national biography ii, 265–68 (1885).

AUSTIN, Sarah (youngest child of John Taylor of Norwich, yarn maker). b. Norwich 1793; translated The story without an end by Carové 1834; Ranke’s History of the Popes of Rome, 2 vols. 1840, 4 ed. 3 vols. 1866; author of Germany from 1760 to 1814, or sketches of German life 1854; granted civil list pension of £100 13 Oct. 1849. (m. 1820 John Austin). d. Weybridge, Surrey 8 Aug. 1867.

AVELAND, Gilbert John Heathcote, 1 Baron. b. Normanton park, Stamford 16 Jany. 1795; ed. at Westminster, Edinburgh and Trin. coll. Cam.; M.P. for Boston 1820–30 and 1831–32, for Lincolnshire 1832–41 and for Rutlandshire 1841–56; created Baron Aveland of Aveland, county Lincoln 26 Feb. 1856; lord lieutenant of Lincolnshire 12 110March 1862. d. 12 Belgrave sq. London 6 Sep. 1867; Personalty sworn under £400,000 26 Oct. 1867.

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

AVELING, Rev. Thomas William Baxter. b. Castletown, Isle of Man 11 May 1815; usher in a school at Wisbech; studied at Highbury college 1834–38; Congregational minister at Kingsland 10 June 1838 to death; hon. sec. to Asylum for fatherless children at Reedham, Surrey 1847–83, the chapel there is called after him, the “Aveling Memorial Chapel”; chairman of Congregational Board 1873 and of Congregational Union of England and Wales 1874; author of Naaman or Life’s shadows and sunshine 1853; Memorials of the Clayton family 1867; edited the Jewish Herald 5 years. d. Reedham orphanage asylum 3 July 1884. Congregational year book (1885) 176–79.

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

AVONMORE, Barry John Yelverton, 3 Viscount. b. 21 Feb. 1790; succeeded 28 Nov. 1814; principal registrar of court of chancery in Ireland to 1826 when granted pension of £4,200 on abolition of office. d. Raglan road, Dublin 24 Oct. 1870.

AVONMORE, William Charles Yelverton, 4 Viscount (elder son of the preceding). b. 27 Sep. 1824; ed. at Woolwich; captain R.A. 16 July 1850 to 1 April 1861 when placed on h.p.; suspended from all military duties March 1861. (m. 26 July 1858 Emily Marianne 111youngest dau. of Sir Charles Ashworth, K.C.B. and widow of Edward Forbes, F.R.S.) d. Biarritz 1 April 1883. The Yelverton correspondence by the Hon. Theresa Yelverton 1863, portrait; J. J. Macqueen’s Reports in House of Lords iv, 743–912 (1866).

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

AVONMORE, Barry Nugent Yelverton, 5 Viscount. b. 1 Randolph cliff, Edinburgh 11 Feb. 1859; 2 lieut. 37 foot 30 Jany. 1878; lieut. 20 Feb. 1879 to death; succeeded 1 April 1883. d. of enteric fever at Kerbekan in the Soudan 13 Feb. 1885. I.L.N. lxxxvi, 431 (1885) portrait.

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

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

AWDRY, Sir John Wither (2 son of John Awdry of Notton house, Chippenham 1766–1844). b. Swindon 21 Oct. 1795; ed. at Winchester and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820, D.C.L. 1844; fellow of Oriel coll. 1820–1830; barrister M.T. 22 Nov. 1822; puisne judge and comr. of insolvent debtor’s court Bombay 1830–1839; knighted by patent 18 June 1830; chief justice of supreme court of Bombay 1839–1841 when he resigned; chairman of Wilts quarter sessions 1848 to 1866. d. Notton house 31 May 1878.

AYCKBOURN, Hubert (youngest son of Thomas Harman Ayckbourn, barrister who d. 31 Dec. 1870 aged 94). author of The practice of the high court of Chancery 1844, 9 ed. 1870; The jurisdiction and practice of the supreme court of judicature 1874 2 ed. 1876; committed suicide 2 or 3 May 1880 aged 56.

AYLEN, Jonathan (son of John Aylen of Portsea). b. Portsmouth 22 May 1798; entered navy 13 Feb. 1813; master 5 Sep. 1823; master attendant at Sheerness dockyard 11225 May 1849 to March 1856; examiner in navigation and seamanship at Hull May 1856; retired captain 25 May 1858; made several important inventions in anchors, his improvement on the Admiralty anchor was successfully tested at trial of anchors of all nations 1852. d. Welton near Brough, Yorkshire 9 Oct. 1874. O’Byrne (1861) 31–32.

AYLES, John George Augustus. b. 1808; 2 lieut. R.M. 13 May 1828; col. commandant 16 May 1862 to 4 Nov. 1864; M.G. 4 Nov. 1864; d. Clevelands Basset, Southampton 25 Nov. 1883.

AYLESFORD, Heneage Finch, 5 Earl of, (eld. son of Heneage Finch 4 Earl of Aylesford 1751–1812). b. 24 April 1786; succeeded 20 Oct. 1812. d. Packington hall, Coventry 3 Jany. 1859.

AYLESFORD, Heneage Finch, 6 Earl of. b. Packington hall, 24 Dec. 1824; M.P. for south Warwickshire 7 June 1849 to 21 March 1857. d. Grosvenor st. London 10 Jany. 1871.

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

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

AYLMER, Sir Gerald George, 9 Baronet. b. Carnarvon 15 Sep. 1798; succeeded 23 May 1816. d. Donadea castle Kilcock, co. Kildare 8 Feb. 1878.

AYLMER, Sir Gerald George, 10 Baronet. b. Dublin 26 May 1830. d. 25 June 1883.

AYLMER, Sir Justin Gerald, 11 Baronet. b. 17 Nov. 1863; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Cambridge. d. Trinity college 15 March 1885 the result of a fall from a bicycle 3 days before.

113AYLMER, Sir Arthur Percy, 12 Baronet. b. 31 Aug. 1801; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826; student L.I. d. Cork 7 May 1885.

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

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

AYRE, Rev. John. b. Feb. 1801; ed. at Caius coll. Cam., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1827; Incumbent of St. John’s chapel, Downshire hill Hampstead; dom. chap. to Earl of Roden; general secretary and librarian of Parker Society 1840–53; edited for Parker Society Sermons of Edwin Sandys, archbishop of York 1841; Works of Thomas Becon 3 vols. 1843–44; Works of John Jewel, bishop of Salisbury 4 vols. 1845–50; Works of John Whitgift, archbishop of Canterbury 3 vols. 1851–53; author of Treasury of Bible knowledge 1866. d. Church row, Hampstead 20 May 1869.

AYRE, Joseph. b. Lynn, Norfolk 1781; sent to sea 1800; studied medicine at Guy’s hospital and Univ. of Edin.; M.D. 24 June 1807; practised at Hull 1808–24, in London 1824–31, and at Hull again 1831 to death; L.R.C.P. 1824, F.R.C.P. 1859; author of Practical observations on bilious complaint 1821; Researches into the nature and treatment of dropsy 1825. d. Hull 15 Jany. 1860.

AYRES, John. b. 1807; clerk of the Royal Society of Literature more than 30 years. d. 4 St. Martin’s place, London 9 July 1881.

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

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

114AYRIS, Henry. b. 12 Dec. 1805; whipper-in to the Berkeley hounds 1826; huntsman of same pack down to Dec. 1865, when presented with a purse of 500 guineas, and granted an annuity of £100 by Lord Fitzhardinge; the best huntsman of his day. d. Ham near Berkeley 28 April 1874.

AYRTON, Edward Nugent. b. Richmond, Surrey 1815; ed. at Ealing and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1840; barrister L.I. 20 Nov. 1845; wrote in the Law Times. d. Bexhill, Sussex 28 Nov. 1873.

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

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

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

AYRTON, William (younger son of Edmund Ayrton 1734–1808, Master of the chapel royal to George iii). b. London 22 Feb. 1777; Captain in Queen’s royal volunteers Westminster; musical and literary critic of the Morning Chronicle 1813–1826; chief originator of Philharmonic society 1813; manager of Opera house London 1817 and 1821; produced Mozart’s Don Giovanni for first time in 115England 12 April 1817; edited and wrote much in the Harmonicon 1823–33; wrote the musical articles in the Penny Cyclopædia 1833–44; edited the Sacred Minstrelsy 1834–35 and the Musical library 1834–36; one of the original members of Royal institution and of the Athenæum club; F.R.S. 1 June 1837; d. 9 Bridge st. Westminster 8 May 1858.

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

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

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

AYTOUN, William Edmondstoune. b. 21 Abercromby place, Edin. 21 June 1813; ed. at academy and univ. of Edin.; M.A. 1849; a writer to the Signet 1835; an advocate 1840; on the staff of Blackwood’s magazine 1839 to death, contributed more than 120 articles; professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in Univ. of Edin. 22 Oct. 1845 to 1864, during which time he raised number of students from 30 to 1850; sheriff of Orkney and Zetland 29 May 1852; delivered 6 lectures on poetry and dramatic literature at Willis’s Rooms, London 1853; presided at Burns centenary festival at Ayr 25 Jany. 1859; hon. pres. of associated societies of Univ. of Edin. 1860; author of Poland, Homer and other poems [anon.] 1832; Lays of the Scottish cavaliers and other poems 1848, 29 ed. 1161883; Firmilian or the student of Badajoz, a spasmodic tragedy by T. Percy Jones [pseud.] 1854; Bon Gaultier ballads (with T. Martin) 1855, 13 ed. 1877; Bothwell, a poem in six parts 1856; edited The ballads of Scotland 2 vols. 1858, 4 ed. 1870. d. Blackhills near Elgin 4 Aug. 1865. Theodore Martin’s Memoir of W. E. Aytoun 1867, portrait; Crombie’s Modern Athenians 1882, portrait.