Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 6), A-H (part 2 of 8)

Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 6), A-H (part 2 of 8)

BELLOT, JOSEPH RENÉ. b. Paris 18 March 1826: served in French navy 1843–50; went as a volunteer with captain Kennedy in the Prince Albert in search of Sir John Franklin 1851–52; sailed in the Phœnix for the Arctic regions 10 May 1853; left the ship to carry dispatches to Sir Edward Belcher 12 Aug. 1853; author of Journal d’un voyage aux Mers Polaires 1854; fell into a crack in the ice near Cape Bowden and drowned 18 Aug. 1853; an obelisk was erected to his memory by public subscription in front of Greenwich hospital 1857. Memoirs of J. R. Bellot 2 vols. 1855, portrait.

BELLOT, THOMAS (elder son of Thomas Bellot of Manchester, surgeon). b. Manchester 16 March 1806; ed. at Manchester gr. sch.; pupil of Joseph Jordan, surgeon; M.R.C.S. 15 Feb. 1828, F.R.C.S. 6 Aug. 1844; assistant surgeon H.M. sloop Harrier 1831; surgeon R.N. 1835; surgeon H.M. flag ship Britannia Nov. 1854; author of translations of the Aphorisms of Hippocrates and of Galen On the hand 1850; Sanskrit derivation of English words 1856; arranged two collections of Chinese coins, one of which he presented to the Natural history society of Manchester; collected many ancient Chinese bronzes and a library of Chinese works. d. 37 Greek st. Stockport 25 June 1857. Manchester school register iii, 118 (1874); Medical directory (1858) 849–50.

BELMORE, GEORGE, stage name of George Belmore Garstin. Made his début in London at Marylebone theatre 26 Dec. 1856 as Bokes in The Creole; acted at Princess’s and Drury Lane theatres; played Nat Gosling in Boucicault’s drama Flying Scud at Holborn theatre more than 200 nights from 6 Oct. 1866; acted in the provinces and at Adelphi theatre where he played Newman Noggs in Nicholas Nickleby 20 March 1875 to July 1875; acted in New York Aug. to Oct. 1875. (m. 16 April 1862 Alice Maude dau. of Wm. Cooke proprietor of Astley’s Amphitheatre). d. New York 15 Nov. 1875 aged 47. Entr’acte 27 Nov. 1875, portrait.

BELOE, CHARLES (2 son of Rev. Wm. Beloe 1756–1817, Prebendary of St. Paul’s). A clerk in the London Twopenny post office; sec. to the Alfred club. d. Reading 23 Oct. 1855 aged 69.

BELPER, EDWARD STRUTT, 1 Baron (only son of Wm. Strutt of St. Helen’s house Derby, manufacturer 1756–1830). b. Derby 26 Oct. 1801; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, L.L.D. 1862; M.P. for Derby 1830–1848 when unseated for bribery; M.P. for Arundel 1851–1852 and for Nottingham 1852–1856; chief comr. of railways 29 Aug. 1846 to March 1848; P.C. 30 Oct. 1846; sheriff of Notts. 1850; chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster 30 Dec. 1852 to 21 June 1854; chairman of Notts. quarter sessions 1855; created Baron Belper of Belper, county Derby 29 Aug. 1856; lord lieutenant of Notts. 6 Dec. 1864; pres. of Univ. coll. London 29 July 1871. d. 75 Eaton square, London 30 June 1880.

BELSHES, JOHN MURRAY. Captain 59 Foot 4 Sep 1812 to 25 May 1816 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 12 Nov. 1862. d. Inverary 12 Jany. 1863. P.R. Drummond’s Perthshire in bygone days (1879) 81–85.

BELSON, GEORGE JOHN. Second lieutenant R.A. 29 Sep. 1804; lieut. col. 23 Nov. 1841 to 7 April 1842 when he retired on full pay; L.G. 27 Feb. 1866. d. Woolwich 22 April 1868 aged 80.

BELT, THOMAS (son of Mr. Belt of Newcastle, seedsman). b. Newcastle 1832; member of Natural history society of Northumberland June 1850; went to Australia 1852; a mining engineer in London 1860; travelled all over Asia and America; superintendent of Nova Scotian gold company’s mines in Nova Scotia 1863–65; examined the quartz rocks of North Wales; superintendent of the Chontales Gold mining company in Nicaragua 1868–72; travelled in Russia 1873–76; F.G.S.; author of Mineral veins, an enquiry into their origin 1861; The naturalist in Nicaragua 1874; The glacial period in North America. d. Denver, Colorado 21 Sep. 1878 in 46 year. Natural history transactions of Northumberland vii, 235–40 (1880).

BELZONI, SARAH. Remarkable for her size and strength; married in London about 1804 Giovanni Baptista Belzoni, acrobat, engineer and traveller who was b. Padua 1778 and d. at Gato, Benin, Africa 3 Dec. 1823; performed feats of strength with her husband in the streets, at fairs and at Astley’s Amphitheatre; travelled in Egypt with him 1815–19; granted civil list pension of £100 6 Feb. 1851; author of Account of the women of Egypt, Nubia and Syria. d. Belozanne valley, Jersey 12 Jany. 1870 aged 87.

BENBEY, SADI OMBARK. Came to England with Mungo Park whom he taught Arabic language. d. 11 Feb. 1854 aged more than 80.

BENBOW, JOHN. Solicitor in London; M.P. for Dudley 8 Aug. 1844 to death. d. Hastings 24 Feb. 1855 aged 86.

BENDIGO, cognomen of WILLIAM THOMPSON (son of Mr. Thompson of Nottingham, cabinet maker). b. Nottingham 11 Oct. 1811, being one of 3 children at a birth; fought and beat Ben. Caunt 1 July 1835; beat Brassey (John Leechman) 24 May 1836; beat young Langan 24 Jany. 1837; beat Looney 13 June 1837; beaten by Ben. Caunt 3 April 1838; beat Deaf Burke at Heather, Leicestershire 12 Feb. 1839 in presence of 15000 persons; presented with a “Champion’s belt” by James Ward at Queen’s theatre, Liverpool; beat Ben. Caunt near Sutfield Green Oxon, 9 Sep. 1845 when they fought for £200 a side and the championship; fought Tom Paddock for £200 a side at Mildenhall 5 June 1850 when he won again; a preacher and leader of revivalist services at the Cabmen’s Mission hall, King’s Cross, London. d. Beeston, Notts. 23 Aug. 1880. H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica iii, 1–46 (1880), portrait; J. Greenwoods Low life deeps (1876) 86–94, portrait; Rev. C. M. Davies’s Unorthodox London 2 series 156–64.

NOTE.—His curious name Bendigo was a contraction of Abednego, his first challenge in Bell’s Life in London in 1835 is signed Abednego of Nottingham; the town of Bendigo in Victoria, Australia (since called Sandhurst) was named after him.

BENEDICT, SIR JULIUS (2 son of M. Benedict of Stuttgart, banker). b. Stuttgart 27 Nov. or 24 Dec. 1804; pupil of Hummel at Weimar and of Weber at Dresden; conductor at the Kärnthnerthor theatre Vienna 1823–25 and at the San Carlo and Fondo theatres Naples 1825–35; went to London 1835; conducted a series of Italian comic operas at Lyceum theatre 1836; conductor of English opera at Drury Lane 1838, where he produced The gipsy’s warning 19 April 1838; The brides of Venice 22 April 1844, and The Crusaders 1846; travelled with Jenny Lind in the United States and Havannah and directed all her 122 concerts 1850–52; formed a choral society called The vocal association; conductor of Italian opera at Drury Lane and Her Majesty’s theatres 1859–60; conducted the Norwich Musical Festivals 1845–78 where he produced Undine 1860, Richard Cœur de Lion 1863 and St. Cecilia 1866; conducted the Monday Popular Concerts; his best known opera The Lily of Killarney was produced at Covent Garden 8 Feb. 1862; conductor of Liverpool Philharmonic society 9 April 1867 to Feb. 1879; wrote for Birmingham musical festivals St. Peter 1870 and Graziella 1873; knighted at Windsor Castle 24 March 1871. d. 2 Manchester sq. London 5 June 1885. I.L.N. lviii, 377 (1871), portrait, lxvi, 494 (1875), portrait; Scribner’s Monthly xiii, 480–84 (1877); Graphic xxix, 184 (1884), portrait.

BENETT, JOHN (2 son of Thomas Benett of Pyt house Tisbury, Wilts. who d. 16 May 1797 aged 68). b. 20 May 1773; sheriff of Wilts. 1798; M.P. for Wilts. 19 July 1819 to 3 Dec. 1832 and for South Wilts. 17 Dec. 1832 to 1 July 1852; author of some essays on agricultural subjects. d. Pyt house 1 Oct. 1852. G.M. xxxviii, 636–37 (1852).

BENHAM, JAMES ERLE. Ed. at St. Mary hall Ox.; student Middle Temple 20 Nov. 1875; author of The student’s guide to the preliminary examination for attorneys and solicitors 1868; edited The preliminary examination Journal 1871. d. Abercorn house, Baron’s court, Kensington, London 11 July 1885 aged 34.

BENHAM, WILLIAM. Author of English ballads for school reading 1862; St. Matthew, authorised version 1862; Epistles for the Christian year, with notes 1864; Companion to the Lectionary 1873. d. 14 Arley hill, Bristol 16 Sep. 1885 aged 69.

BENIOWSKI, BARTHOLOMEW. Educ. at Ecole d’etat major of Paris 1832–33; major in Polish army; attempted to revolutionise art of printing by use of short words cast into one such as, and, but, the; teacher of memory at the Royal Adelaide gallery, Strand, London 1842; took out patents for machinery for printing and composing type 1846, 47 and 49; author of Phrenotypics 1842; A French vocabulary 1843; The Anti-absurd or phrenotypic alphabet and orthography 1844. d. 8 Bow st. Covent Garden 29 March 1867 aged 66.

BENISCH, ABRAHAM. b. Drosan, Bohemia 1811; ed. at Univ. of Vienna; settled in England 1841; edited the Jewish Chronicle 1854 to death; one of chief founders of Society of Hebrew Literature 1870, and of the Anglo Jewish Association 1871; author of A translation of the Old Testament 1851; An essay on Colenso’s criticism of the Pentateuch and Joshua 1863; Judaism surveyed 1874. d. 13 Brownswood park, Green Lanes, London 31 July 1878.

BENJAMIN, GEORGE. b. Sussex 15 April 1799; went to Canada; founded the Intelligencer at Belleville 1834, edited it to 1848; member of legislative assembly Canada 1856–61; grand master of the Orangemen of British North America 1848; author of Short lessons for members of Parliament compiled from English and other publications 1862. d. Belleville 6 July or 7 Sep. 1864.

BENJAMIN, JUDAH PHILIP. b. St. Croix, West Indies 1811; ed. at Yale college, Connecticut 1825–28; called to the bar in New Orleans 16 Dec. 1832; member of firm of Slidell, Benjamin and Conrad 1840; counsellor of the supreme court New Orleans Dec. 1848; practised chiefly in Washington; a senator for Louisiana to the Senate 1852 to 4 Feb. 1861 when he withdrew, expelled the Senate 14 March 1861; attorney general of the Southern Confederacy Feb. 1861; acting secretary of war Aug. 1861 to Feb. 1862; sec. of state Feb. 1862 to April 1865 when the members of the cabinet left Richmond; a student L.I. 13 Jany. 1866, called to bar at L.I. 6 June 1866, bencher 15 April 1875; Q.C. for county palatine of Lancaster July 1869; Q.C. with patent of precedence 29 July 1872; made £15,000 a year for several years; entertained on his retirement, at a banquet in hall of Inner Temple 30 June 1883; author of Digest of decisions of supreme court of New Orleans 1834; Treatise of the law of sale of personal property 1868, 3 ed. 1883. d. Avenue de Jena, Paris 6 May 1884. J. Davis’s Rise and Fall of the Confederate government i, 242 (1881), portrait; Law Journal (1883) 100–103; I.L.N. lxxx 465 (1884), portrait; Graphic xxix, 484 (1884), portrait.

BENN, ANTHONY. b. 1814; 2 lieut. R.A. 20 Dec. 1832; col. 27 June 1864 to 6 March 1868; M.G. 6 March 1868. d. Plumstead 22 Dec. 1875.

BENN, EDWARD (son of John Benn of Belfast, brewer 1767–1853). b. 1798; purchased with his brother George, an estate at Glenravel near Ballymena where they tried to create a new industry by manufacture of potato spirit; formed a fine archæological collection now in the Belfast Museum; contributed papers to Irish antiquarian journals; founded 3 hospitals in Belfast, the Eye Ear and Throat, the Samaritan and the Skin Diseases. d. 1874.

BENN, GEORGE (brother of the preceding). b. Tanderagee co. Armagh 1 Jany. 1801; entered Belfast Academical institution 1816; took gold medals in logic 1817 and moral philosophy 1818; author of The history of the town of Belfast [anon.] 1823; A history of the town of Belfast 2 vols. 1877–80. d. 8 Jany. 1882.

BENN, PIERCY. b. 1800; 2 lieut. R.A. 3 Feb. 1821; col. 7 June 1856 to 16 July 1862; M.G. 16 July 1862. d. Farringdon, Hants. 17 June 1876.

BENNETT, CHARLES FOX, formerly of Clifton, Bristol; late premier of Newfoundland. d. St. John’s, Newfoundland 5 Dec. 1883.

BENNETT, CHARLES HENRY. Draughtsman on wood; contributed sketches signed in the corner with the figure of an owl to Diogenes comic weekly paper 1853 and portraits of members of Parliament to Illustrated Times; contributed sketches to Fun down to 1866 and to Punch 1866 to death; published Fables of Æsop and others translated into human nature 1858; Proverbs with pictures 1858; London people sketched from life 1863; Adventures of Young Munchausen 1864. d. Caversham road, Kentish Town 2 April 1867 in 38 year. Punch 13 April 1867 p. 151.

BENNETT, GEORGE (2 son of John Bennett, Judge of Irish court of King’s Bench who d. 25 Dec. 1791). b. Cork 20 Sep. 1777; called to Irish bar 1800; went Munster circuit; K.C. 18 Feb. 1822; crown prosecutor for Munster circuit Feb. 1832; bencher of King’s Inns Dublin 1836, retired about 1849. d. Sodylt hall, Shropshire 26 May 1856. Dublin univ. mag. xxxiv, 526–32 (1849), portrait.

BENNETT, GEORGE JOHN (son of George Bennett of Norwich, comedian). b. Ripon 9 March 1800; served in the navy 1813–17; first appeared on the stage at Lynn 1818, and in London at Covent Garden 27 Jany. 1823 as Richard iii; acted at Covent Garden 1830–38, at Drury Lane 1841–43 and at Sadler’s Wells 27 May 1844 to 15 March 1862 when he left the stage, his best parts were Bossola in the Duchess of Malfi, and Caliban in The Tempest; author of a five act play called Retribution or love’s trials produced at Sadlers Wells 11 Feb. 1850, and of a drama called The Justice produced at Birmingham. d. Edmonton 21 Sep. 1879. Theatrical times i, 241 (1847), portrait; Tallis’s Drawing room table book, parts 8, 10, 17 and 21, 4 portraits; The Players iv, 17 (1861), portrait.

BENNETT, JAMES. b. Falfield, Thornbury, Gloucs. 10 May 1785; apprenticed to George Robbins of Bath, printer; printer and bookseller in Tewkesbury 1810–52; published History of Tewkesbury 1830; Tewkesbury Register and Magazine 1830–49. d. Tewkesbury 29 Jany. 1856.

BENNETT, REV. JAMES. b. London 22 May 1774; preached his first sermon 24 Dec. 1792; Congregational minister at Romsey Feb. 1796; ordained 5 April 1797; theological tutor and pastor at Rotherham 22 Aug. 1813; pastor of Silver st. church, London Nov. 1828, and of Falcon sq. church, London 1843 to Nov. 1860; one of foreign secs. to London Missionary society May 1830 to 1832; chairman of Congregational Board 1840; author of Lectures on preaching of Christ 1836; Lectures on Acts of the Apostles 1846; author with Rev. David Bogue of History of dissenters from the Revolution in 1688 to the year 1808 4 vols. 1808, 2 ed. 3 vols. 1833; wrote much in the Eclectic Review and Evangelical Mag. d. 49 Gibson sq. Islington 4 Dec. 1862. Memorials of the late Rev. James Bennett 1863.

BENNETT, JAMES. Member of company of T.R. Birmingham many years; made his début in London at Lyceum theatre 18 March 1859 as Iago in Othello; acted in the provinces. d. London 9 March 1885. Tallis’s Drawing room table book (1851) 41, portrait.

BENNETT, JAMES GORDON. b. New Mill, Keith, Banffshire 1 Sep. 1800; went to Halifax, Nova Scotia 1819; a printer’s reader, bookseller’s clerk and assistant in a newspaper office at Boston; went to New York about 1822; started the New York Globe Oct. 1832 a two cent paper which lived only 30 days; partner with Messrs. Anderson and Smith of New York, printers 1835; founded the New York Herald a one cent daily paper 6 May 1835 all of which he wrote; in 1841 the circulation was 20,000 and the receipts 100,000 dollars, during the civil war its circulation doubled; sent Henry M. Stanley to Central Africa in search of Dr. Livingstone at cost of £10,000 in 1871. (m. 6 June 1840 Henrietta Agnes Crean, she d. 31 March 1873). d. New York 1 June 1872. Memoir of J. G. Bennett by a Journalist 1855, portrait; F. Hudson’s Journalism in the United States 1873; J. Parton’s Famous Americans of recent times (1867) 259–305; Democratic Review xxxi, 409–19 1853, portrait; C. F. Wingate’s Views and interviews (1875) 275–86; Graphic v, 600, 611 (1872), portrait.

BENNETT, JOHN HUGHES. b. London 31 Aug. 1812; ed. at Exeter gr. sch. and Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1837, LLD. Aug. 1875; founded in Paris the Parisian Medical Society 1837, pres. 1837; pathologist to Royal infirmary Edin. 1843; discovered a remarkable disease of the blood which he called Leucocythemia or white cell blood 1845; editor of Edinburgh Monthly Journal of medical science 1846; professor of Institutes of medicine in Univ. of Edin. July 1848 to July 1874; F.R.S. Edin. 1842, F.R.C.P. Edin. 1842; author of An introduction to clinical medicine 1849, 4 ed. 1862; The pathology and treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis 1853, 2 ed. 1859; Clinical lectures on principles and practice of medicine 1852, 5 ed. 1868 which was translated into French, Russian and Hindoo. d. The Wilderness, Bracondale, Norwich 25 Sep. 1875. bur. Dean cemetery Edin. 30 Sep. Edinburgh Medical Journal xxi, 466–74 (1875); British Medical Journal ii, 473–78 (1875).

BENNETT, JOHN JOSEPH. b. Tottenham 8 Jany. 1801; ed. at Enfield and at Middlesex hospital; assistant keeper of the Banksian herbarium and library British Museum Nov. 1827, keeper 1828–70; F.L.S. 1828, sec. 1840–60; F.R.S. 16 Dec. 1841; wrote part of T. Horsfield’s Plantæ Javanicæ Rariores 1852–53. d. Maresfield, Sussex 29 Feb. 1876; bust by Weekes in botanical department British Museum. Journal of botany British and Foreign v, 97–105 (1876), portrait.

BENNETT, SAMUEL. b. Cornwall 20 March 1815; went to Sydney 1841; superintendent of a printing office there 1842–59; purchased with Wm. Hanson the Empire newspaper 1859, conducted it as a daily and weekly paper; started the Evening News 29 July 1867, the Australian town and country journal 8 Jany. 1870; author of The history of Australian discovery and colonisation 1867. d. Mundarrah towers, Little Coogee, Sydney 2 June 1878.

BENNETT, SAMUEL JAMES. Founder of the Mercantile Association; founded the Commercial Gazette weekly paper 1853. d. The Firs, Staplecross, Sussex 23 May 1881.

BENNETT, THOMAS. b. Hereford 22 Feb. 1785; captain R.N. 16 Sep. 1828; commodore on North America and West India station 7 Feb. 1848 to 29 April 1851; granted a service pension 2 Nov. 1863; admiral on h.p. 12 Sep. 1865; mayor of Hereford 1842. d. Broomy hill, Hereford 12 June 1870.

BENNETT, THOMAS RANDLE (youngest son of John Bennett of Manchester, timber merchant). b. Manchester 1821; ed. at the gr. sch. and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1846, special pleader 1848; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1855; lectured on law and history at London Working men’s college Bloomsbury; an original member of English Church Union 1859, one of its central council; examiner to the Inns of Court 1877–78; author of A popular manual of the constitutional history of England 1862 and of several political pamphlets. d. Shrewbridge hall, Nantwich 23 Feb. 1885. Law Times lxxviii, 343 (1885).

BENNETT, WILLIAM. b. Newmarket; enlisted into Cambridge militia 10 Oct. 1797 aged 20; enlisted into 46 Foot 18 March 1799, and into 32 Foot 15 June 1803, discharged 18 Aug. 1814; assisted at burial of Sir John Moore Jany. 1809. d. Inchicore, Ireland 23 Jany. 1872 aged 95, but generally reputed to be 105. W. J. Thoms’s Human longevity (1873) 235–36.

BENNETT, WILLIAM. b. 1798; made his début in London at Haymarket theatre as Jack Junk in The birthday 15 May 1812; member of English opera company; played old men at Drury Lane about 1829; secretary to Drury Lane theatrical fund. d. Bellevue cottage, Walthamstow 8 Aug. 1875. The Oddfellow i, 77 (1839), portrait.

BENNETT, WILLIAM. b. 1796; solicitor at Chapel en le Frith, Derbyshire 1819 to death; clerk to county magistrates 1834 to death; author under pseudonym of Lee Gibbons of The Cavalier 3 vols. 1821; Malpas 3 vols. 1822; The King of the Peak 3 vols. 1823; Owain Goch a tale of the Revolution 3 vols. 1827; these books are also attributed to Thomas Roscoe jun.; contributed to the Reliquary many papers on archæology of Derbyshire 1862–72. d. Chapel en le Frith 20 April 1879.

BENNETT, WILLIAM MINEARD. b. Exeter 1778; pupil of Sir Thomas Lawrence; a painter of portraits and miniatures; exhibited at the R.A. 1812–16 and 1834–35; lived many years in Paris; lived at Exeter 1844 to death; composed many glees and songs which were popular in Paris and Naples. d. Hill’s buildings, St. Sidwell’s, Exeter 17 Oct. 1858.

BENNETT, SIR WILLIAM STERNDALE (youngest child of Robert Bennett of Sheffield, organist of the parish church who d. 3 Nov. 1819). b. 8 Norfolk Row, Sheffield 13 April 1816; ed. at Royal Academy of Music, London 1826–36, and at Leipsic 1836–37; member of Royal Society of Musicians 1838; taught music in London; founded the Bach Society 1849; professor of music at Univ. of Cam. 4 March 1856; Mus. Doc. Cam. 1856, M.A. 1867; D.C.L. Ox. 1870; a life member of St. John’s coll. Cam. 26 Sep. 1856; conductor of Philharmonic Society concerts 1856–68, Beethoven gold medallist 7 July 1867; principal of Royal Academy of Music 22 June 1866 to death; knighted at Windsor Castle 24 March 1871; composed The Naiads, overture produced at Society of British Musicians 25 Jany. 1837; The wood nymphs, overture produced at the Gewandhaus concerts Leipzig 24 Jany. 1839; The May Queen, pastoral produced at Leeds musical festival 8 Sep. 1858; The woman of Samaria, oratorio produced at Birmingham musical festival 27 Aug. 1867. (m. 9 April 1844 Mary Anne only dau. of James Wood, commander R.N., she d. 17 Oct. 1862 aged 37.) d. 66 St. John’s Wood road London 1 Feb. 1875. bur. north aisle of choir Westminster Abbey 6 Feb. Grove’s Dictionary of music i, 224–29 (1879); W. A. Barrett’s English Church composers (1882) 163–65; Academy vii, 154, 179, 388, 466 (1875); I.L.N. xl, 551 (1862), portrait, lxvi, 152, 326 (1875), portrait.

BENNIS, GEORGE GEARY. b. Corkamore, Limerick 1790 or 1793; a grocer at Limerick; settled at Liverpool where he became a Quaker; went to Paris 1823; director of a libraire des étrangers in Paris 1830–36; an insurance agent and librarian to the British embassy, Paris; edited Galignani’s Messenger; chevalier of the Légion d’honneur 1854; author of The principles of the one faith professed by all Christians, Liverpool 1816, 3 ed. Paris 1826; Traveller’s pocket diary and Student’s journal; Treatise on life assurance. d. Paris 1 Jany. 1866, left over 10,000 volumes to found a free library at Limerick. J. Smith’s A descriptive catalogue of Friends books i, 246 (1867).

BENSON, CHARLES. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1818, B.A. 1819, M.A. and M.B. 1822, M.D. 1840; L.R.C.S. Ireland 1821, F.R.C.S. 1825, pres. 1854; professor of practice of medicine in school attached to the college; M.R.I.A. 30 Nov. 1825; physician to City of Dublin hospital; contributed 4 articles to Todd’s Cyclopædia of anatomy and a course of lectures on the Diseases of the digestive organs to Dublin Medical Press 1840–42. d. 42 Fitzwilliam sq. Dublin 21 Jany. 1880 in 83 year.

BENSON, REV. CHRISTOPHER (son of Thomas Benson of Cockermouth, solicitor). b. Cockermouth 1788; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., scholar, B.A. 1809, M.A. 1815; select preacher 1817; Hulsean lecturer (the first) 1820–22; fellow of Magd. coll. Cam. 1820; preb. of Worcester cathedral 27 Dec. 1825 to death; R. of St. Giles’s-in-the-Fields, London 1824–26; V. of Cropthorne, Worcs. 1826–40; master of the Temple London 1827–45; author of Discourses on powers of the clergy 1841; Baptism and baptismal regeneration 1843. d. Woodfield, Ross, Hereford 25 March 1868. The living and the dead by a country curate (Rev. E. Neale) 1827 pp. 81–98; E. M. Roose’s Ecclesiastica (1842) 413–15.

BENSON, SIR JOHN (only son of John Benson of Collooney, co. Sligo). b. Collooney 1812; architect and civil engineer; county surveyor to east riding of co. Cork 8 April 1846; surveyor of city of Cork 29 Jany. 1851; architect and builder of Dublin exhibition 12 Aug. 1852 which was opened 12 May 1853, knighted by Earl of St. Germans at the opening; engineer of Cork waterworks which cost £80,000; built 48 bridges in co. Cork; M.I.C.E. 4 March 1862. d. 15 Alexander sq. Brompton London 17 Oct. 1874. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xl, 251–53 (1875).

BENSON, RICHARD. Entered Bengal army 1805; colonel 11 Bengal N.I. 16 July 1849 to death; C.B. 3 April 1846; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. d. at his residence on lake of Buttermere, Cumberland 26 Aug. 1858.

BENSON, REV. SAMUEL. Ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826; lecturer at St. John’s Horsleydown 1823–33; chaplain of Horsemonger lane gaol 1833–43; V. of St. Saviour’s Southwark 1868 to death; author of several sermons and tracts. d. 34 Borough high st. London 22 Feb. 1881 aged 82. I.L.N. xxiv, 401 (1851), portrait.

BENT, JEFFERY HART (eld. son of Robert Bent of Lancashire). Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807; barrister M.T. 7 Feb. 1806; chief justice of New South Wales 1814, of Grenada 1820 to 1833, of St. Lucia 1833 to 1836 and of British Guiana 1836 to death. d. George Town Demerara 29 June 1852 aged 72. I.L.N. xxi, 155 (1852).

BENT, SIR JOHN (eld. son of Wm. Bent of Stoneyfield near Newcastle under Lyne). b. Newcastle under Lyne 1793; ed. at Newcastle gr. sch.; a large brewer at Liverpool; alderman of Liverpool, mayor 1850–51; knighted by the Queen at Liverpool 9 Oct. 1851. d. Edge hill near Liverpool 13 Aug. 1857.

BENT, JOHN. Assistant surgeon in the army 11 Sep. 1838; served in the Crimea 30 April 1855 to end of the war; deputy surgeon general 28 Jany. 1862; surgeon general 11 July 1874 to death. d. The Camp Aldershot 23 Nov. 1874 aged 57.

BENT, ROBERT (son of Wm. Bent who founded Bent’s Literary Advertiser 1802). Edited The London Catalogue of books 1839. d. 6 Dec. 1859.

BENTHAM, GEORGE. b. June 1787; entered navy 1795; captain 16 Sep. 1816; retired V.A. 9 July 1857; knight of Sardinian order of St. Maurice and St. Lazare. d. Barton fields, Canterbury 24 Feb. 1862.

BENTHAM, GEORGE (2 son of Sir Samuel Bentham, naval architect 1757–1831). b. Stoke near Plymouth 22 Sep. 1800; lived in France 1814–26; managed his father’s estate of 2000 acres near Montpellier; student at Lincoln’s Inn; worked for his uncle Jeremy Bentham 1826–32; F.L.S. 1828, vice pres. 1858, pres. 1861–74; hon. sec. of Horticultural Society 1829–40 which he raised to a flourishing condition; presented his collections and books valued at £6,000 to Kew Gardens 1854; F.R.S. 5 June 1862, royal medallist 1859; LLD. Cambridge 4 June 1874; C.M.G. 1878; author of Outlines of a new system of logic 1827 which set forth for the first time doctrine of quantification of the predicate, the most fruitful discovery in abstract logical science since Aristotle; Handbook of the British flora 1858, 2 vols. 1865; Flora Hong-Kongensis 1861; Flora Australiensis 7 vols. 1863–78; author with Sir Joseph Hooker of Genera Plantarum, 6 parts in 3 vols. 1862–83 which marks an epoch in botany. d. 25 Wilton place, London 10 Sep. 1884. Nature xxx, 539–43 (1884); G. C. Wallich’s Eminent men of the day (1870), portrait.

BENTINCK, ADOLPHE BARON VON. Secretary of legation for the Netherlands at Copenhagen, Stockholm, Berlin and Vienna successively; councillor of the legation in London 7 years; envoy extraord. and minister plenipo. in London 25 Aug. 1851 to death. d. 26 Eaton sq. London 2 March 1868 aged 70.

BENTINCK, ARTHUR CAVENDISH. b. 9 May 1819; ensign 84 Foot 2 Nov. 1838; lieut. col. 7 Dragoon guards 8 Dec. 1854 and 4 Dragoon guards 30 Aug. 1859 to 30 May 1862 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. d. Thomas’s hotel, 25 Berkely sq. London 11 Dec. 1877.

BENTINCK, CHARLES ANTHONY FERDINAND. b. 4 March 1792; ensign Coldstream guards 16 Nov. 1808, lieut. col. 9 Nov. 1846 to 25 April 1848 when placed on h.p.; colonel 12 Foot 14 April 1857 to death; L.G. 15 Jany. 1858. d. Bergheim in principality of Waldeck 28 Oct. 1864.

BENTINCK, SIR HENRY JOHN WILLIAM (youngest son of Major general John Charles Bentinck 1763–1833). b. 8 Sep. 1796; ensign Coldstream guards 25 March 1813, lieut. col. 22 Aug. 1851 to 20 June 1854; aide de camp to the Queen 23 Nov. 1841 to 20 June 1854; commanded the brigade of Guards in the Crimea 22 Feb. to 8 Nov. 1854 and the fourth division 1 June to 10 Oct. 1855; colonel 28 Foot 11 Oct. 1854 to death; K.C.B. 5 July 1855; groom in waiting to the Queen Nov. 1859 to June 1867; general 8 Dec. 1867. d. 35 Grosvenor st. London 29 Sep. 1878.

BENTINCK, HENRY WILLIAM CAVENDISH (youngest son of 4 Duke of Portland 1768–1854). b. 9 June 1804; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox.; M.P. for North Notts. 6 March 1846 to 21 March 1857; invented the call for trumps at whist, known as Blue Peter, at Graham’s club house 87 St. James’s st. about 1836, an explanation of which first appeared in print in The laws and practice of whist by Cælebs, M.A. [E. A, Carlyon], 2 ed. 1856; master of the Rufford hounds 1835–36, of the Burton hounds 1842–64, when he sold the pack for £3,500, had over 100 horses in his stable at one time. d. Tathwell hall near Louth 31 Dec. 1870. Baily’s Mag. xix, 288–93 (1871).

BENTINCK, VENERABLE WILLIAM HARRY EDWARD. (elder son of Lord Edward Charles Bentinck 1744–1819). b. 2 Feb. 1784; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox.; B.A. 1805, M.A. 1808; R. of Sigglesthorne near Hull 1808 to death; Canon of Westminster 7 Oct. 1809 to 1864 and Archdeacon 1854–64; rural dean 1842 to death; built at his own expense church of Holy Trinity, Vauxhall bridge 1852. d. Sigglesthorne rectory 29 Sep. 1868. I.L.N. xxiv, 401 (1854), portrait.

BENTLEY, CHARLES. Member of the old water-color Society 1844; painted many pictures chiefly of coast and river scenery, four of which are in the South Kensington Museum. d. of cholera at Mornington place London 4 Sep. 1854 aged 48.

BENTLEY, EDWARD (eld. son of John Bentley 1786–1860). b. 31 Dec. 1817; an operative chemist; gained credit for his method of obtaining the more powerful vegetable preparations for medical use; studied at Guy’s Hospital; L.R.C.P. 1845; M.D. St. Andrews 1845; very instrumental in founding City of London hospital for diseases of the chest 1848; hon. sec. to Pathological Society of London. d. 8 St. Thomas sq. Hackney 2 Feb. 1861.

BENTLEY, JAMES. b. 1785; purchased Wood Green park, Cheshunt, Herts 1839 and the manor of the rectory of Cheshunt 1855; sheriff of Herts 1860; treasurer of St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1841–55. d. Wood Green park 26 Oct. 1880 in 96 year.

BENTLEY, JOHN (son of Edward Bentley, principal of accountants office bank of England who d. 24 July 1838 aged 85). b. 12 Nov. 1786; ed. at St. Paul’s school; secretary to Bank of England 1850–60. d. Park crescent, Brighton 20 Dec. 1860.

BENTLEY, JOSEPH. Lecturer and writer on education; promoted two assurance companies 1855–56; author of Manual of life insurance 1862; Financial position of life offices 1865. d. Feb. 1872 aged 67.

BENTLEY, JOSEPH CLAYTON. b. Bradford, Yorkshire 1809; a landscape painter; went to London 1832; exhibited landscapes chiefly views in Yorkshire at Royal Academy and other exhibitions; a line engraver; executed many plates for publications of Messrs. Fisher and Messrs. Virtue especially for the Gems of European Art 2 vols. 1847; some of his best works are in the Vernon Gallery at the National Gallery. d. Sydenham, Kent 9 Oct. 1851.

BENTLEY, RICHARD (BROTHER OF JOHN BENTLEY 1786–1860). b. Oct. 1794; ed. at St. Paul’s sch.; publisher with his brother Samuel in Salisbury st. Fleet st. Jany. 1819 to 1829; publisher with Henry Colburn 1829–32; started Bentley’s Miscellany 1837; founded with George Smythe and the Young England party a newspaper called Young England Jany. 1845 which collapsed April 1845; started with John Douglas Cook Bentley’s Quarterly Review 1859 of which only 4 numbers appeared; published Standard Novels 127 volumes the copyright and stock of which he sold 27 Feb. 1856 for £11,000; publisher in ordinary to the Queen 1838 to death. d. Ramsgate 10 Sep. 1871. Graphic iv, 375, 381 (1871), portrait.

BENTLEY, SAMUEL (brother of the preceding). b. 10 May 1785; ed. at St. Paul’s school; apprenticed to John Nichols, printer and publisher; partner in firm of Nichols, Son and Bentley April 1812 to Dec. 1818; publisher with his brother Richard Jany. 1819 to 1829; carried on business at Bangor house, Shoe lane under firm of Samuel and John Bentley, Wilson and Fley 1829 to April 1853 when he retired; an antiquary, musician and artist; edited the Concio de puero Jesu of Erasmus 1816; author of Excerpta Historica 1831; indexed Nichols’s Literary anecdotes and Surtees’s History of Durham. d. Croydon 13 April 1868. G.M. i, 127 (1868).

BENTLEY, WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). b. 1788; ed. at St. Paul’s school; principal of the Bank stock office, Bank of England; master of the Leathersellers Company 1857–58. d. Colfe lodge, Lewisham 28 Jany. 1877.

BENTON, MARY (dau. of Ralph Lodge). b. Raby Moor house near Keverstone, Durham 12 Feb. 1751. (m. John Benton of Longnewton, butcher). Lived at hamlet of Elton near Stockton on Tees many years. d. Elton 7 Jany. 1853, aged 102. I.L.N. xviii, 324 (1851), portrait.

BEOR, HENRY ROGERS (4 son of Richard White Beor of Swansea). Barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1870; admitted to Queensland bar 7 Dec. 1875; member of Queensland parliament for Bowen; attorney general for Queensland 1880. d. on his voyage from Sydney to Auckland 25 Dec. 1880.

BERE, MONTAGU BAKER. b. 15 July 1798; barrister L.I. 21 June 1825; commissioner of Court of bankruptcy at Leeds 21 Oct. 1842 to 1844 and at Exeter 1844 to death. d. Barley near Exeter 13 Dec. 1858.

BERENS, VENERABLE EDWARD (son of Joseph Berens of Hextable, Kent). Matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 17 Jany. 1794 aged 17; B.A. 1798, M.A. 1801; fellow of Oriel coll.; V. of Shrivenham, Berks. 1804 to death; R. of Englefield, Berks. 1818–55; Preb. of Salisbury 23 Oct. 1829 to death; archdeacon of Berks. 7 Sep. 1832 to 1855; author of A discourse on parochial psalmody 1825; Advice to a young man upon first going to Oxford 1832, 6 ed. 1853; The history of the Prayer Book of the Church of England 1839, 2 ed. 1854; A memoir of the life of Bishop Mant 1849; Lectures on the Liturgy 1850 and other books. d. Shrivenham vicarage 7 April 1859.

BERENS, HENRY HULSE (son of Joseph Berens of Kevington, Kent). b. 1804; deputy chairman of Public works loan office 1849–52; a director of Bank of England many years. d. Sidcup, Kent 23 Aug. 1883 aged 78.

BERENS, OTTO ALEXANDER. Linen draper in St. Paul’s churchyard, London; originated the fancy trade; moved to Cannon st. 1854. d. Raleigh hall, Brixton-rise London 15 April 1860 aged 63.

BERESFORD, WILLIAM CARR BERESFORD, 1 Viscount (natural son of George de la Poer Beresford, 1 Marquis of Waterford 1735–1800). b. Ireland 2 Oct. 1768; ed. at Strassburg; ensign 6 Foot 27 Aug. 1785; lieut. col. of 124 or Waterford Foot (a regiment raised by his father) 11 Aug. 1794; lieut. col. 88 Foot 1 Sep. 1795 to 9 Feb. 1807; commanded first brigade in Egypt June 1801 to 1802 and first brigade at Cape of Good Hope 1806; captured Buenos Ayres 27 June 1806 but lost it 12 Aug.; colonel 88 Foot 9 Feb. 1807 to 11 March 1819; governor of Madeira 24 Dec. 1807 to July 1808; marshal commanding Portugese army 1 March 1809 to 1819; captain general of Spain 1811; commander in chief at battle of Albuera 16 May 1811; voted the thanks of Parliament 7 June 1811; received a cross with 7 clasps for 12 actions July 1815; governor of Jersey 29 Jany. 1820 to death; col. 69 Foot 11 March 1819 to 15 March 1823; col. 16 Foot 15 March 1823 to death; lieutenant general of the ordnance 8 Feb. 1823 to 3 May 1824, master general 29 Jany. 1828 to 22 Nov. 1830; general 27 May 1825; col. in chief 60 Rifles 23 Sep. 1852 to death; K.C.B. 18 Oct. 1810, G.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815; knighted at Whitehall 23 Oct. 1810; Conde de Trancoso in peerage of Portugal 1810; Duke of Elvas in peerage of Spain; M.P. for co. Waterford 28 June 1811 to 17 May 1814 but never took his seat; created Baron Beresford of Albuera and Dungarvan, co. Waterford 17 May 1814; G.C.H. 1818; P.C. 6 Feb. 1821; created Viscount Beresford of Beresford, co. Stafford 22 April 1823. d. Bedgebury park, Goudhurst Kent 8 Jany. 1854. J. W. Cole’s Memoirs of British generals i, 165–217 (1856); W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery iv, 96 (1848), portrait; I.L.N. xxi, 545 (1852), portrait, xxiv 38, 58 (1854), portrait; Napier’s Peninsular War vol. iii.

BERESFORD, DENIS WILLIAM PACK. b. London 7 July 1810; M.P. for co. Carlow 7 Aug. 1862 to 11 Nov. 1868. d. 28 Dec. 1881.

BERESFORD, SIR GEORGE DE LA POER, 2 Baronet. b. 1 March 1811; M.P. for Athlone 8 July 1841 to 13 June 1842; succeeded 2 Oct. 1844. d. Glasgow 11 Feb. 1873.

BERESFORD, MOST REV. JOHN GEORGE (2 son of George Beresford, 1 Marquis of Waterford 1735–1800). b. Tyrone house, Dublin 22 Nov. 1773; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1793, M.A. 1796, D.D. 1805; ordained deacon 1795, priest 1797; R. of Clonegam and Newtown Lenan; dean of Clogher 23 Dec. 1799; R. of Termonmaguirk 1801; bishop of Cork and Ross 20 Feb. 1805; consecrated 24 March 1805; translated to Raphoe 10 Aug. 1807; translated to Clogher 25 Sep. 1819; created Archbishop of Dublin 21 April 1820; enthroned 6 May 1820; P.C. Ireland 23 May 1820; archbishop of Armagh and primate of all Ireland 17 June 1822; vice chancellor of Univ. of Dublin 1829, chancellor 19 Nov. 1851; founded the chair of Ecclesiastical history 1853; gave £6000 to college of St. Columba; restored Armagh cathedral at expense of nearly £30,000. d. Woburn near Donaghadee 18 July 1862. bur. in crypt of Armagh cathedral 30 July. Creasy’s Memoirs of eminent Etonians new ed. 1876, 568–89; I.L.N. xli, 128, 138 (1862), portrait; Dublin Univ. Mag. xvi, 86–89 (1840), portrait.

NOTE.—He presided over the church in Ireland for 40 years, a longer period than any primate for nearly 1000 years; on completing the 50th year of his episcopate, 29 March 1855 he received an address of congratulation signed by all the Irish bishops and by 1980 out of the entire body of 2100 Irish clergy.

BERESFORD, MARCUS (2 son of Hon. George Beresford 1776–1842). b. 28 July 1800; 2 lieut. 21 Foot 4 Sep. 1817; lieut. col. 3 Foot 25 Dec. 1835 to 13 May 1842 when placed on h.p.; colonel 20 Foot 22 Sep. 1858 to death; general 4 March 1866. d. Leamington 16 March 1876.

BERESFORD, WILLIAM (younger son of Marcus Beresford 1764–97, M.P. for Dungarvan). b. 17 April 1797; ed. at Eton and St. Mary’s hall Ox., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1824; captain 12 Lancers 6 April 1826 to 16 July 1830 when placed on h.p.; served in Portugal 1827; master of the Tennis Court, Hampton Court 1823 to death; contested Waterford 1837; M.P. for Harwich 1841–1847 and for North Essex 1847–65; secretary at war 28 Feb. 1852 to Dec. 1852; P.C. 27 Feb. 1852. d. Eccleston sq. London 6 Oct. 1883. I.L.N. xx, 267 (1852), portrait.

BERGENROTH, GUSTAVE ADOLPH. b. Oletzko, East Prussia 26 Feb. 1813; ed. at Univ. of Königsberg 1833–36; assessor to the high court at Berlin 1843 and 1846–49; studied English history in London 1857–60; examined the Spanish Archives at Simancas, Spain Aug. 1860 to death, deciphering more than 12 ciphers of exceeding difficulty; author of Calendar of letters, despatches and state papers relating to the negotiations between England and Spain 1485–1525, 3 vols. 1862–68. d. Fonda de los Principes, Puerta del Sol, Madrid 13 Feb. 1869. W. C. Cartwright’s G. Bergenroth a memorial sketch 1870.

BERGER, GEORGE. b. London; a journeyman compositor; wholesale newsagent and bookseller in Holywell st. Strand 1834; the largest retailer of papers and periodicals in London; publisher in Newcastle st. Strand 1864 to death. d. Friern house, Finchley 1 Feb. 1868 aged 72.

BERGNE, JOHN BRODRIBB. b. Kensington, London 1800; clerk in the Foreign Office 1815 to death; superintendent of treaty department 1 July 1854 to 1 Dec. 1870 when foreign office agencies were abolished; member of commission to revise Slave trade instructions 1865; an original member of Numismatic Society 1837, treasurer July 1843 to 1857; contributed 16 papers to Numismatic Chronicle; F.S.A. 1844; made a fine collection of coins which was sold at Sotheby’s in an 11 day sale May 1873 for above £6000. d. 21 Thurloe sq. London 16 Jany. 1873. Numismatic Chronicle xiii, 13–15, 304–308 (1873).

BERKELEY, THOMAS MORETON FITZHARDINGE BERKELEY, 6 Earl of. b. 19 Oct. 1796; ed. at C. C. coll. Ox.; succeeded 8 Aug. 1810, but never assumed the title or took his seat in House of Lords though he received usual summons to do so. d. Hartington lane, Cranford, Hounslow 27 Aug. 1882.

BERKELEY, CHARLES ASSHETON FITZHARDINGE. b. 10 Oct. 1818; ensign 11 Foot 27 May 1836; lieut. col. 32 Foot 24 July 1857 to death; C.B. 24 March 1858. d. on board the “Simla” off the island of Socotra 25 Sep. 1858.

BERKELEY, CRAVEN FITZHARDINGE (brother of 6 Earl of Berkeley). b. Berkeley house, Spring Gardens London 28 July 1805; ensign 85 Foot 13 Feb. 1823; captain 2 Life Guards 22 March 1831 to 25 Aug. 1837 when placed on h.p.; M.P. for Cheltenham 10 Dec. 1832 to 23 July 1847, 28 July 1848 to 24 Aug. 1848, when election declared void and 8 July 1852 to death; fought a duel with Henry George Boldero M.P. for Chippenham, in Osterly park 15 July 1842. d. Frankfort upon Main 1 July 1855. Godings History of Cheltenham (1863) 85–94, 365–8.

BERKELEY, FRANCIS HENRY FITZHARDINGE (brother of the preceding). b. 7 Dec. 1794; gentleman commoner at Ch. Ch. Ox. 1814; M.P. for Bristol 22 July 1837 to death; leader in House of Commons of the ballot question 8 Aug. 1848 to death, the ballot bill was passed 13 July 1872; chief opponent of the Temperance cause in House of Commons, presented by the licensed victuallers with a testimonial of £1,050 at Bristol 24 Sep. 1856. d. 1 Victoria sq. Pimlico London 10 March 1870. Burn’s Temperance dictionary (1861) 300–303; Illust. News of the world iii, 84 (1859), portrait.

BERKELEY, GEORGE CHARLES GRANTLEY FITZHARDINGE (brother of the preceding). b. Cranford house, Hounslow 10 Feb. 1800; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign Coldstream Guards 1821–23 when placed on h.p.; heir presumptive to Earldom of Berkeley 1810 to death; kept a pack of stag hounds at Cranford 1824–29 and at Harrold hall Beds. from 1829; M.P. for West Gloucs. 24 Dec. 1832 to 1 July 1852; fought a duel with Wm. Maginn editor of Fraser’s Mag. in a field near the Harrow road 5 Aug. 1836 when Maginn was slightly wounded; author of Berkeley Castle an historical romance 3 vols. 1836; Sandron Hall or the days of Queen Anne 3 vols. 1840; Reminiscences of a huntsman 1854; Love and the lion, a poem 1857; The English sportsman in the western prairies 1861; he is depicted in C. J. Collins’s novel Sackville Chase 3 vols. 1863; he was the last person who wore the flat cocked hat known as the chapeau bras. d. Longfleet, Poole 23 Feb. 1881. My life and recollections by G. C. G. F. Berkeley 4 vols. 1865–66, portrait; Fraser’s Mag. xiv, 242–7 (1836), xv, 100–143 (1837); I.L.N. lxxviii, 253 (1881), portrait.

BERKELEY, SIR GEORGE HENRY FREDERICK (elder son of Admiral Sir George Cranfield Berkeley, G.C.B. 1753–1818). b. 9 July 1785; cornet Royal horse guards 21 Jany. 1802; captain 3 Foot guards 22 Feb. 1821 to 16 Nov. 1826 when placed on h.p.; col. 81 Foot 15 Jany. 1844 and of 35 Foot 11 July 1845 to death; surveyor general of the ordnance 28 June to Dec. 1852; general 20 June 1854; M.P. for Devonport 7 July 1852 to death; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815. d. Richmond, Surrey 25 Sep. 1857.

BERKELEY, ROBERT JAMES. Called to bar in Ireland 1830; Q.C. 9 Nov. 1852. d. 6 Trafalgar terrace, Monkstown, Ireland 31 Oct. 1873.

BERKELEY, SACKVILLE HAMILTON. Ensign 16 Foot 1 May 1800, captain 25 Dec. 1804 to 26 Feb. 1824 when placed on h.p.; deputy adjutant general in West Indies 20 June 1811 to 15 March 1827; col. of 75 Foot 16 Sep. 1845 and of 16 Foot 22 March 1858 to death; general 20 June 1854. d. 4 York terrace, Regent’s Park, London 12 Feb. 1863.

BERKLY, JAMES JOHN. b. Holloway near London 21 Oct. 1819; pupil of Robert Stephenson 1839; chief resident engineer of Great Indian Peninsula railway 1850–58; first 20 miles of the line from Bombay to Tanna were opened 16 April 1853 thus initiating the Indian railway system; comr. of Bombay municipal board 1857; member of senate of Bombay Univ. 1858; M.I.C.E. 4 Dec. 1855, Telford medallist 1860. d. Sydenham, Kent 25 Aug. 1862. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxii, 618–24 (1863).

BERNAL, RALPH (only son of Jacob Bernal of 7 Fitzroy square, London who d. 10 Nov. 1811). ed. at Christ’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1806, M.A. 1809; student L.I. 13 June 1804, barrister 8 Feb. 1810; M.P. for Lincoln 1818–20, for Rochester 1820–41 and 1847–52 and for Weymouth 1841–47; spent sum of £66,000 in election contests; chairman of committees of House of Commons 1830–50; pres. of British Archæological association 1853 to death; made a splendid collection of works of art from the Byzantine period to that of Louis Seize and of furniture and plate which was sold for £63,000 in a 32 day sale 1855. d. 93 Eaton sq. London 26 Aug. 1854. Annual Register (1855) 41–44; G.M. xlii, 628 (1854).

BERNAL OSBORNE, Ralph (eld. son of the preceding). b. 26 March 1808; ed. at the Charterhouse; matric. from Trin. coll. Cam. Oct. 1829; ensign 71 Foot 8 June 1830; captain 7 Foot 27 July 1838 to 1841 when he sold out; M.P. for Chipping Wycombe 1841–47, for Middlesex 1847–57, for Dover 1857–59, for Liskeard 1859–65, for Nottingham 1866–68 and for Waterford city 1870–74; took surname of Osborne in lieu of Bernal 19 Aug. 1844 but always known as R. Bernal Osborne; presided at banquet given to Lord Palmerston at Reform club 20 July 1850; secretary of the Admiralty Dec. 1852 to Feb. 1858; author of 2 poems called The chaunt of Achilles 1838 and A voice from Palace yard. d. Bestwood lodge near Nottingham 4 Jany. 1882. Bagenal’s Life of R. Bernal Osborne privately printed 1884; Temple Bar, lxxii, 34–49 (1884); Fortnightly Review xxxvi, 535–44 (1884); I.L.N. xiv, 397 (1849), portrait, lxxx, 61 (1882), portrait; Graphic xxv, 45 (1882), portrait.

BERNARD, HERMANN. b. Uman or Human Poland 1785; a banker; went to England 1825; Hebrew teacher in Univ. of Cambridge 1830 to death; author of The creed and ethics of the Jews 1832; edited Guide of the Hebrew student 1839; author with Rev. P. H. Mason of An easy practical Hebrew grammar; in the title pages of all his works the name of Hedwig being that of a departed sister whom he wished to commemorate is joined to his own. d. Cambridge 15 Nov. 1857. The book of Job as expounded to his Cambridge pupils by the late H. H. Bernard edited by Frank Chance vol. i, (1864) lxxvii-ciii, (1864), portrait.

BERNARD, MOUNTAGUE (3 son of Charles Bernard of Eden, Jamaica). b. Tibberton Court, Gloucs. 28 Jany. 1820; ed. at Sherborne and Trin. coll. Ox., B.A. 1842, B.C.L. 1845, D.C.L. 1871; Vinerian scholar and fellow of his college; barrister L.I. 1 May 1846; Chichele professor of international law and diplomacy in Univ. of Oxford 1859 to 9 May 1874; assessor of the Chancellor’s Court, Oxford 1859 to Nov. 1871; sec. to royal commission on Cattle plague 1866; member of royal commissions on Naturalisation 1868, Fugitive slaves 1876 and Univ. of Ox. 1877; fellow of All Souls coll. Ox. 1870; curator of Taylor institution at Ox. 9 Feb. 1871; one of high comrs. for treating with the United States of America 16 Feb. 1871, signed treaty of Washington 8 May 1871; P.C. 29 June 1871, member of its Judicial committee 24 Nov. 1871; an original member of the Institut de droit international 1873, pres. at the Oxford meeting 1880; one of founders of Guardian newspaper 1846, wrote the weekly summary of events in it for some years. d. Overross, Ross, Herefordshire 2 Sep. 1882.

BERNARD, THOMAS. b. Sep. 1816; sheriff of King’s county 1837 and lord lieutenant 5 Dec. 1867 to death; colonel of King’s county militia 23 March 1871 to death. d. Castle Bernard, Kinnetty, King’s county 13 Dec. 1882.

BERNARD, SIR THOMAS TYRINGHAM, 6 Baronet. b. Bolton st. Piccadilly London 15 Sep. 1791; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; sheriff of Bucks. 1816; M.P. for Aylesbury 28 March 1857 to 6 July 1865; succeeded 22 Jany. 1876. d. Cadogan lodge, Carlyle sq. London 8 May 1883. I.L.N. lxxxii, 525 (1883), portrait.

BERNARD, WILLIAM BAYLE (son of John Bernard, English comedian 1756–1828). b. Pleasant st. Boston U.S. 27 Nov. 1809; came to England 1820; clerk in Army accounts office 1826–30 when office was abolished; wrote much dramatic and other criticism for the press; author of The freebooter’s bride 5 vols. 1828; Life of Samuel Lover 2 vols. 1874 and of 114 plays, best known being Rip Van Winkle 1832; The nervous man 1833; The man about town 1836; Marie Ducange 1837; His last legs 1839; The boarding school 1841; The round of wrong 1846. d. Brighton 5 Aug. 1875. The Era Almanac (1868) 17–18.

BERNARD, WILLIAM SMYTH (4 son of 1 Earl of Bandon 1755–1830). b. Castle Bernard, King’s County 14 Nov. 1792; sheriff of Cork 1820; M.P. for Bandon 15 Dec. 1832 to death. d. Queenstown 6 Feb. 1863.

BERNAYS, ADOLPHUS. Professor of German language and literature at King’s College London 1831–63; F.R.G.S. 1858; author of German poetry for beginners 1836; German poetical anthology 1843; German historical anthology 1846 and 6 other school books. d. The rectory, Great Stanmore 22 Dec. 1864.

BERNAYS, REV. LEOPOLD JOHN (eld. son of the preceding). b. 28 Dec. 1820; ed. at Merchant Taylors and St. John’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1846, fellow of his college; head master of Elstree school 1847–60; R. of Great Stanmore, Middlesex 1860 to death; author of Translation of Goethe’s Faust, part 2 and other poems 1839; Manual of family prayers and meditations 1845; The church in the schoolroom, 1851. d. The rectory, Great Stanmore 25 Oct. 1882.

BERNCASTLE, JULIUS. Educ. at Univ. of Paris and Guy’s hospital London; assistant colonial surgeon Van Diemen’s Land 1841–42; surgeon at Croydon, Surrey 1842–48; surgeon to Croydon union and infirmary 1842–48 when presented by medical profession with a purse of gold; practised in London 1851–54; an oculist and aurist at Sydney 1854 and at Melbourne 1867 to death; author of A voyage to China 2 vols. 1850; The revolt of the Bengal Sepoys 1857; The defenceless state of Sydney 1865; Australian snake bites; The use and abuse of tobacco [Two lectures] 1868. d. Greville place, Prahran, Victoria 30 June 1870 in 51 year.

BERNERS, REV. HENRY WILSON, 5 Baron. b. 1 Oct. 1762; R. of Alexton, Leics. 1814 to death; R. of Kirby-Cane, Norfolk 1820 to 1845; succeeded 25 March 1838. d. Kirby-Cane 26 Feb. 1851.

BERNERS, HENRY WILLIAM WILSON, 6 Baron. b. Kirby-Cane hall, Norfolk 23 Feb. 1797; ed. at Eton and Em. coll. Cam.; built Keythorpe hall, co. Leicester 1842; succeeded 26 Feb. 1851; pres. of Royal agricultural society 1859 and of Smithfield club 1860 and 1861; a successful breeder of sheep and shorthorns; a great hawker and hunter. d. Keythorpe hall 27 June 1871. Illust. news of the world ii, (1858), portrait; I.L.N. xxviii, 74 (1858), portrait.

BERNERS, VENERABLE HENRY DENNY (2 son of Charles Berners of Woolverstone park, Suffolk 1740–1815). b. 18 Sep. 1769; ed. at St. Mary hall Ox., B.C.L. 1794; R. of Erwarton, Suffolk 1801–35; archdeacon of Suffolk 27 Feb. 1819 to 12 Jany. 1846. d. Woolverstone park, 24 Jany. 1852.

BERNEY, SIR HANSON, 8 Baronet. b. Kirby-Bedon, Norfolk 3 Dec. 1780; succeeded 4 Oct. 1825. d. 7 Sep. 1870.

BERNSTORFF, ALBRECHT GRAF VON, BARON. b. Dreilükow, Mecklenburg 22 March 1809; Prussian minister in London 1 May 1854; minister for foreign affairs at Berlin July 1861 to Oct. 1862; Prussian ambassador in London Oct. 1862; ambassador of North German confederation Feb. 1867 and of German empire 24 Feb. 1871 to death. d. 9 Carlton house terrace, London 26 March 1873. Illust. news of the world i, 10 (1858), portrait.

BERRI, AMY D’ARTOIS, Duchesse de (dau. of Rev. Joseph Brown of Maidstone, Kent who d. 8 April 1824 aged 77 by Mary Anne Deacon who d. 10 March 1806 aged 59). b. Maidstone 8 April 1783 m. at the Catholic church King st. Portman sq. London 1806, Charles Ferdinand d’Artois Duc de Berri son of Comte d’Artois afterwards Charles x, he was b. 24 Jany. 1778 and was assassinated by Louvel on the steps of the Opera house Paris 13 Feb. 1820, the marriage was annulled by Louis xviii in 1815. d. Château de la Contrie, commune de Couffé, Loire-Inférieure France 7 May 1876. Les secrets des Bourbons par C. Nauroy (1882) 5–62; Bingham’s Marriages of the Bonapartes ii, 198–200 (1881).

BERRIDGE, JAMES SAMUEL. b. 1806; Educ. at the Charter House and Trin. hall Cam.; pres. of legislative council St. Christopher 1846, puisne judge Court of Queen’s Bench and Common Pleas 1847, chairman of Board of Health 1860, postmaster 1860, pres. of legislative assembly 1870; pres. of St. Christopher April 1872 to death; member of executive council of Leeward Islands 1872. d. Limekiln, St. Kitts 5 Nov. 1885.

BERRY, JAMES MIDDLETON. Librarian to the Queen 1839 to death. d. Manchester 25 Oct. 1875 aged 72.

BERRY, AGNES (younger dau. of Robert Berry of London, merchant who d. 18 May 1817). b. Kirkbridge, Yorkshire 29 May 1764; travelled on the Continent with her sister Mary 1783–85 and 1802. d. 8 Curzon st. London 29 Jany. 1852. Extracts from the Journals of Miss Berry, edited by Lady T. Lewis, 2 ed. vol. 1 (1866), portrait.

BERRY, ALEXANDER. b. Fifeshire 30 Nov. 1781; member of legislative council of New South Wales 1829; member of the upper house 1856–61. d. Sydney 17 Sep. 1873.

BERRY, REV. CHARLES (3 son of Rev. John Berry, Independent minister at Romsey, Hants who d. about 1821). b. Romsey 10 Nov. 1783; ed. at Homerton college; Unitarian minister of the Great meeting Leicester 1803–59; kept a school at Leicester 1808–38, had many distinguished pupils; one of founders of Leicester literary and philosophical society and of Leicester town museum; author of The duty of national thanksgiving 1812; Funeral sermon for Queen Caroline 1821; Remarks on Popery 1851. d. Olive Mount, Wavertree, Liverpool 4 May 1877. Remembrance of Rev. C. Berry by J. C. (James Clephan) 1877.

BERRY, REV. CORNELIUS (brother of the preceding). b. Romsey 23 July 1788; ed. at Homerton college; Independent minister at Ware, Herts 1 Oct. 1809 to 30 Sep. 1810, at Hatfield Heath, Essex 31 March 1811 to death; ordained 9 Oct. 1811. d. 5 Mathon place, Richmond road, Barnsbury, London 8 Sep. 1864. Biographical sketch of the Rev. C. Berry by John Hayden 1865.

BERRY, MARY (sister of Agnes Berry). b. Kirkbridge, Yorkshire 16 March 1763; travelled on the Continent 1783–85 and 1802; became acquainted with Horace Walpole 1788 who left her at his death 2 March 1797 sum of £4000 and house called Little Strawberry Hill; engaged to General O’Hara 1796; edited The works of Horace Walpole 5 vols. 1798 on which her father’s name appears as editor; author of Fashionable Friends, a comedy in 5 acts produced at Drury Lane theatre 22 April 1802; A comparative view of the social condition of England and France 1828; Social life in England and France from the French revolution in 1789 to that of July 1830 [anon.] 1831. d. 8 Curzon st. London at midnight 20 Nov. 1852. H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches, 4 ed. (1876) 293–98; Extracts from the Journals of Miss Berry, edited by Lady T. Lewis, 2 ed. 3 vols. 1866, 3 portraits; I.L.N. xxi, 517 (1852), portrait.

BERRY, WILLIAM. Writing clerk to Registrar of College of arms 1793–1809; lived in Guernsey some years then at Doddington place, Kennington, Surrey; author of Introduction to heraldry 1810; History of the island of Guernsey 1815; Genealogica antiqua or mythological and classical fables 1816; Encyclopædia heraldica 4 vols. 1828; Pedigrees of the families in the County of Kent 1830, Sussex 1830, Hampshire 1833, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Surrey 1837, Essex 1839, Hertfordshire 1842, the 3 last of these books were produced by means of lithography. d. Spencer place, Brixton 2 July 1851 in 77 year. G.M. xcix; pt. 2, 99–101 (1829), c, pt. 2, 409–16 (1830), xxxviii, 101 (1852).

BERTINI, HENRI JÉRÔME. b. London 28 Oct. 1798; celebrated pianist, excelled in phrasing and execution; gave concerts in the Netherlands 1811; made a professional tour through England and Scotland; settled in Paris 1821, retired about 1855; composed nearly 200 pieces of music. d. Meylan near Grenoble 1 Oct. 1876.

BERWICK, RICHARD NOEL NOEL HILL, 5 Baron. b. Betton, Shropshire 21 Nov. 1800; succeeded 28 Sep. 1848. d. Cronkhill near Shrewsbury 12 April 1861.

BERWICK, WILLIAM NOEL NOEL HILL, 6 Baron. b. 6 July 1802; ensign 3 Foot 13 Nov. 1817; major 69 Foot 4 Dec. 1835 to 30 Oct. 1840 when placed on h.p.; colonel 20 June 1854; succeeded 12 April 1861. d. Attingham hall near Shrewsbury 24 Nov. 1882.

BERWICK, EDWARD. Called to Irish bar 1832; pres. of Queen’s college Galway 1845 to death. d. Queen’s college, Galway 7 March 1877.

BERWICK, WALTER (son of Rev. Edward Berwick, R. of Esker Lucan, co. Dublin). Called to Irish bar 1826; chairman of quarter sessions for Waterford 1835–47, for east riding of co. Cork 1847–59; Q.C. 6 Feb. 1840, bencher of King’s Inns 1856; serjeant at law 1855; judge of Irish Bankruptcy court 1859 to death; burned alive in the train at Abergele, Denbighshire 20 Aug. 1868 the most terrible railway accident that ever happened in this country. The Berwick Art Club was established in Dublin to perpetuate his memory Oct. 1868. Irish law times ii, 477 (1868); I.L.N. liii, 205, 234 (1868).

BESEMERES, JOHN (eld. son of Mr. Besemeres of City of London). Merchant at Calcutta; author of following plays, all written under pseudonym of John Daly, Broken Toys, produced at Sadlers Wells 1850; Young husbands comedy, at same house Aug. 1852; The Times drama, at Olympic July 1853; Old Salt drama, at Strand 12 Jany. 1868; Dotheboys Hall drama, at Court 26 Dec. 1871; Marriage lines drama, at Court 17 March 1873 and Forget and Forgive comedy, at Charing Cross 5 Jany. 1874. d. Islington infirmary London 19 Nov. 1879 aged 57.

BESLEY, ROBERT. b. Exeter 14 Oct. 1794; member of firm of Messrs. Thorogood of city of London, type founders 1829; member for Aldersgate ward of Court of common council 1852, alderman of the ward 1861 to death; sheriff 1864–65, lord mayor 1869–70. d. Victoria road, Wimbledon park 18 Dec. 1876. I.L.N. lv, 461 (1869), portrait.

BESLY, REV. JOHN. Ed. at Balliol coll. Ox., fellow 1823, B.A. 1821, M.A. 1826, D.C.L. 1835; tutor in Rugby school 1823–28; sub librarian Bodleian library 1828–31; V. of Long Benton near Newcastle 1830 to death; R. of Aston-sub-edge, Gloucs. 1831 to death; proctor in Convocation of York 1836–45 and 1855–64; author of A translation of Aristotle’s Rhetoric with analysis by Hobbes 1833; Desultory notices of the church and vicarage of Long Benton 1843 and of Sermons. d. Long Benton 17 April 1868 aged 68.

BESSBOROUGH, JOHN GEORGE BRABAZON PONSONBY, 5 Earl of (eld. son of John Wm. Ponsonby, 4 Earl of Bessborough 1781–1847). b. London 4 Oct. 1809; ed. at the Charterhouse; attaché to embassy at St. Petersburgh 3 July 1832; M.P. for Bletchingley 5 May 1831 to July 1831, for Higham Ferrers 6 Oct. 1831 to 3 Dec. 1832 and for Derby 8 Jany. 1835 to 16 May 1847 when he succeeded; lord lieutenant of co. Carlow 5 Sep. 1838 to death; master of the buckhounds 16 May 1848 to Feb. 1852, 30 Dec. 1852 to 26 Feb. 1858 and 18 June 1859 to 20 Jany. 1866; P.C. 30 June 1848; lord steward of the household 20 Jany. 1866 to July 1866 and 9 Dec. 1868 to 2 March 1874. d. Bessborough house near Piltown, co. Kilkenny 28 Jany. 1880. Baily’s Mag. vi, 163–64 (1863), portrait.

BESSONET, JAMES. Called to Irish bar 1807; K.C. 13 July 1830; chairman of sessions for county Waterford. d. 21 Lower Leeson st. Dublin 3 Oct. 1859 aged 76.

BEST, SAMUEL. Second lieut. Madras Engineers 16 Dec. 1825; captain 9 May 1842 to death; planned fortifications of Singapore; superintendent of roads in Madras, Presidency 1845 to death; his principal works are the Southern Trunk road and the Goolcheroo pass; contributed many papers to Madras Literary transactions and Madras Engineering papers. d. of jungle fever at Chittoor 5 Oct. 1851.

BEST, REV. SAMUEL (3 son of 1 Baron Wynford 1767–1845). b. 2 Dec. 1802; ed. at King’s college Cam., fellow, B.A. 1826, M.A. 1830; R. of Abbots-Anne, Andover 1831 to death; rural dean of Andover; author of Parochial sermons 1836; Manual of parochial institutions 1849; Catechism on collects 1850; Discourses on collects, epistles and gospels 1853. d. The rectory, Abbots-Anne 20 Jany. 1873.

BEST, THOMAS (brother of the preceding). b. 12 Aug. 1799; entered navy 3 Nov. 1812; captain 22 July 1830; V.A. on h.p. 10 Nov. 1862. d. 19 Hyde park sq. London 4 Sep. 1864.

BEST, WILLIAM MAWDESLEY (eld. son of Thomas Best, captain 26 Foot who d. 8 Oct. 1813). b. 24 Dec. 1809; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub., B.A. 1831, LL.B. 1832, M.A. 1834; barrister G.I. 11 June 1834, bencher 16 Jany. 1867; author of Right to begin and right to reply in law courts 1837; Treatise on circumstantial proof in criminal cases 1844; Principles of the law of evidence 1849, 7 ed. 1883. d. 17 Nov. 1869.

BESTOW, WILLIAM (son of Wm. Bestow of 124 Wood st. Cheapside, London, web manufacturer). b. 14 Feb. 1789; partly founded several papers; founded Theatrical Journal, a weekly record of the English drama 1840, edited it to Nov. 1872, 33 vols., it ceased 16 April 1873; wrote several political pamphlets. d. 20 Frederick st. King’s Cross, London 30 April 1873.

BETHAM, MARY MATILDA (eld. dau. of Rev. Wm. Betham 1749–1839, master of endowed school at Stonham Aspal, Suffolk 1784–1833). b. 1776 or 1777; gave Shakespearian readings in London about 1803; author of Elegies 1797; Biographical dictionary of celebrated women 1804; Poems 1808; The lay of Marie, a poem 1816. d. 36 Burton st. Burton crescent, London 30 Sep. 1852 aged 76. Six life studies of famous women by M. Betham-Edwards (1880) 231–303, portrait; Fraser’s Mag. July 1878, 73–84.

BETHAM, SIR WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). b. Stradbroke, Suffolk 22 May 1779; clerk to Sir Chichester Fortescue, Ulster king of arms 1805; genealogist attendant on order of St. Patrick 15 July 1812; knighted by Lord lieutenant of Ireland 15 July 1812; Ulster king of arms 1820; keeper of parliamentary records of Ireland 1830; F.S.A. 6 May 1824; M.R.I.A. 22 Jany. 1827, foreign sec. to March 1840; author of Irish antiquarian researches 1827; Dignities feudal and parliamentary 1830, reissued as The origin and history of the constitution of England 1834; Etruria Celtica 2 vols. 1832; The Gael and Cimbri 1834; made an index of 40 folio volumes to the names of all persons mentioned in the wills at the Prerogative office in Dublin; his manuscripts were sold at Sotheby’s in London 1860. d. Rochford house, Blackrock near Dublin 26 Oct. 1853. G.M. xl, 632–35 (1853), xlii, 145 (1854).

BETHELL, RIGHT REV. CHRISTOPHER (2 son of Rev. Richard Bethell, R of St. Peter’s, Wallingford who d. 12 Jany. 1806). b. Isleworth, Surrey 21 April 1773; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1796, M.A. 1799, D.D. 1817, fellow of his college; R. of Kirby Wiske, Yorkshire 1808–30; dean of Chichester 5 April 1814 to March 1824; bishop of Gloucester 24 March 1824, consecrated 11 April 1824; bishop of Exeter 8 April 1830; preb. of Exeter 22 June 1830; bishop of Bangor 28 Oct. 1830 to death; author of A general view of the doctrine of regeneration in baptism 1821, 4 ed. 1845. d. The palace, Bangor 19 April 1859. bur. Llandegai church yard 27 April.

BETHELL, REV. GEORGE. Educ. at Eton; assistant at Eton 1802; fellow of Eton 21 Sep. 1818 to death; R. of Worplesdon, Surrey 1833 to death. d. Eton college 16 March 1857 aged 78.

BETHELL, JOHN (son of Richard Bethell M.D. of Bristol). b. 1804; solicitor in London 1825–54; patented a complete system of diving apparatus 1835; patented a process for preserving timber from decay by impregnating it with creosote oil 11 July 1838, this invention has been adopted on a large scale, in marine works it is almost indispensable, the idea was taken from the embalming of mummies; patented many other inventions; carried on a distillery of beetroot spirit in Berkshire; A.I.C.E. 20 March 1838. d. Cleveland sq. Hyde Park London 22 Feb. 1867. Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxvii, 597–99 (1868).

BETHELL, RICHARD. b. 10 May 1772; ed. at King’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1795, fellow of his college; owner of large estates in Yorkshire 1799; M.P. for Yorkshire 5 Aug. 1830 to 23 April 1831, and for the East Riding 18 Dec. 1832 to 23 June 1841; chairman of East Riding quarter sessions many years; author of 2 Latin poems in second series of Musæ Etonenses 2 vols. 1797. d. Rise near Hull 25 Dec. 1864.

BETHUNE, CHARLES RAMSAY DRINKWATER (2 son of John Drinkwater of Thorncroft, Surrey, C.B., F.S.A. 1762–1844). b. 27 Dec. 1802; entered navy 2 Aug. 1815; captain 22 July 1830; served in Chinese war 1840–41; V.A. 10 Nov. 1862, admiral 2 April 1866; retired 1 April 1870; assumed additional name of Bethune 1837; C.B. 29 June 1841, F.R.G.S. 1842. d. 4, Queensbury place South Kensington 21 Feb. 1884. M. F. Conolly’s Biog. dict. of eminent men of Fife (1866) 56.

BETHUNE, SIR HENRY LINDESAY (eld. child of Martin Eccles Lindesay Bethune, commissary general in Scotland who d. 1813). b. Hilton near Perth 12 April 1787; lieut. Madras Horse artillery 18 July 1804; captain 3 Sep. 1813 to 1 Sep. 1822 when he retired; drilled and disciplined the Persian army 1811–21, his lofty stature, 6 feet 7 inches, and great personal strength gained for him in Persia the epithet of “Rustum” the Hercules of ancient Persian story; knighted at St. James’s Palace 20 July 1832; sent to Persia as British agent 1834; commanded advanced guard of the Shah’s army 1834–35; returned home Sep. 1835; created baronet 7 March 1836. d. Tabreez, Persia 19 Feb. 1851. M. F. Conolly’s Biog. dict. of eminent men of Fife (1866) 57.

BETHUNE, JOHN ELLIOT DRINKWATER (brother of C. R. D. Bethune). Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1823; barrister M.T. 4 May 1827; one of municipal corporation comrs.; counsel to the Home Office 1833–47; drew the Municipal reform, Tithe commutation and County courts bills; legislative member of Supreme council of India 11 April 1848 to death; pres. of council of education at Calcutta 1848; established a school for native females of the higher classes at Calcutta which he endowed by his will with property in Calcutta. d. Calcutta 12 Aug. 1851 aged 50. G.M. xxxvii, 94–96, 434 (1852).

BETTINGTON, CLAUDE (_2 son of Albemarle Bettington of Halsey house, Cheltenham_). Commanded Bettington’s Horse in Zulu war 1879–80; C.M.G. 30 Oct. 1880. d. Elmina, Gold Coast 29 Dec. 1880.

BETTRIDGE, REV. WILLIAM CRADDOCK. b. 30 Aug. 1791; ensign 81 Foot 7 April 1813; lieutenant 31 Aug. 1815 to 25 Feb. 1816 when placed on h.p.; town major of Brussels 1815; entered Univ. of Jena Saxony 1818; walked from Jena to Naples; entered Neapolitan army 1822; aide-de-camp to Sir Richard Church 1822; accorded by Government a continuance for life of his half pay by a special mandamus; studied at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.D. 1837; ordained deacon 1824; C. of Elvington near York 1824; C. of Ecclesfield 1828; Inc. of St. Paul’s, Southampton 1828–34; R. of Woodstock, Ontario, Upper Canada 1834 to death; obtained a grant of 400 acres of land for each of the 57 rectories of Upper Canada; canon of Huron; declined bishopric of Huron 1857; author of A brief history of the church in Upper Canada 1838. d. Woodstock 21 Nov. 1879.

BETTS, EDWARD LADD (eld. son of Wm. Betts of Sandown, Kent). b. Buckland near Dover 5 June 1815; constructed Midland railway from Rugby to Leicester and many other lines; partner with Sir S. M. Peto; constructed the line from Balaclava to English camp before Sebastopol; constructed with Brassey the grand trunk railway of Canada including Victoria tubular bridge, and with Crampton the London, Chatham and Dover railway; chairman of Eastern counties railway co. 1851 and 1852; sheriff of Kent 1858; contested Maidstone 1865; A.I.C.E. 26 June 1849. d. Assouan, Upper Egypt 21 Jany. 1872. bur. at Aylesford, Kent. Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxvi, 285–88 (1873); I.L.N. lx, 187, 207, 611 (1872)

BETTY, WILLIAM HENRY WEST (only child of William Henry Betty, M.D. of Lisburn, Ireland who d. 1811). b. Shrewsbury 13 Sep. 1791; made his début at Belfast theatre 16 Aug. 1803 as Osman in tragedy of Zara, and at Crow st. theatre Dublin 29 Nov. 1803 as Douglas; engaged at Covent Garden for 12 nights at £50 per night and a clear benefit, and at Drury Lane on intervening nights on same terms 1 Dec. 1804, after 3 nights his salary was raised to £100 per night; known as the young Roscius; fellow commoner of Christ’s college, Cambridge July 1808 to 1811; returned to the stage 1812 when he failed to draw; made his last appearance in London June 1813; took his farewell benefit at Southampton 9 Aug, 1824. d. 37, Ampthill sq. London 24 Aug. 1874. Roscius in London Biographical Memoirs of W. H. W. Betty 1805, portrait; Tinsley’s Mag. xv, 415–23 (1874); Temple Bar xlii, 346–61 (1874); Theatrical Inquisitor xii, 227 (1818), portrait; Graphic x, 227 (1874), portrait; The dawn of the 19th century in England by J. Ashton ii, 118–29 (1886), portrait.

BEVAN, CHARLES DACRES (son of Charles Bevan, Lieut. col. 4 Foot who d. 12 July 1811). b. 7 Nov. 1805; ed. at Charterhouse and Ball. coll. Ox., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1829; barrister M.T. 21 May 1830; recorder of Dartmouth 1845–55, of Truro 1848–49, of Falmouth 1850–56, of Helston 1850–56 and of Penzance Dec. 1855 to Jany. 1857; judge of county courts for Cornwall (circuit 59) 22 Jany. 1857 to death. d. near Fowey, Cornwall 24 June 1872.

BEVAN, EDWARD. b. London 8 July 1770; apprenticed to a surgeon at Hereford; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital; M.D. St. Andrews 1818; physician at Mortlake 5 years, at Stoke-upon-Trent, at Congleton 12 years and at Mortlake again 2 years; lived at Bridstow near Ross, then at Hereford 1849 to death; one of founders of Entomological Society 1833; author of The Honey-Bee, its natural history, physiology and management 1827, 3 ed. 1870, which was the best book on the subject; Hints on the history and management of the Honey-Bee 1851. d. Hereford 31 Jany. 1860. The Naturalist, ed. by Neville Wood iv, 142–46 (1838), portrait.

BEVAN, HANNAH MARISHALL (dau. of Wm. Bevan of London, tea merchant). b. London 1 Feb. 1798; joined the Newgate prison committee; worked with Elizabeth Fry and others; a minister of Society of Friends 1828. (m. 1827 Thomas Bevan, M.D. who d. 1847 aged 43). d. Penge 8 Nov. 1874. Annual Monitor for 1876 pp. 3–19.

BEVAN, PHILIP. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dub., M.A. and M.B. 1843, M.D. 1845; F.R.C.S. Ireland 1837; lecturer on anatomy Dublin School of medicine; surgeon to Mercers hospital to about 1870; M.R.I.A. 13 April 1846; professor of practical anatomy Royal college of surgeons to death. d. 33 Pembroke road, Dublin 6 Dec. 1881.

BEVAN, VENERABLE THOMAS. Ed. at Jesus coll. Ox., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1828; V. of St. Peter’s, Carmarthen 1833 to death; archdeacon of St. David’s 11 June 1833 to death; preb. of Brecon 1853 to death. d. 28 Dec. 1863 aged 63.

BEVERIDGE, THOMAS. b. Dunfermline 7 Oct. 1775; deputy clerk in the court of session, Edinburgh; author of A practical treatise on the forms of process containing the new regulation before the Court of Session ... 2 vols. 1826; A guide to the judicial records of the court of session 1852. d. near Edinburgh 27 May 1858.

BEVERLEY, CHARLES JAMES. b. Fort Augustus, Scotland Aug. 1788; assistant surgeon R.N. 1810; served in Sir Edward Parry’s first Arctic expedition 1819–20; went with him to Spitzbergen as surgeon and naturalist 1827; practised in London; F.R.S. 5 May 1831. d. Derman Terrace, Great Yarmouth 16 Sep. 1868.

BEVERLEY, EDWARD, stage name of Edward Dickenson. b. Beverley, Yorkshire; a chorister in choir of York minster; sang at Weston’s music hall London; principal tenor of Madame Bodda-Pyne’s opera company, and of John Russell’s opera bouffe company; played at Gaiety and Opera Comique theatres London; in the United States, leading tenor at St. Mark’s church New York May 1880 to death. d. Flushing, Long island, New York Aug. 1880.

BEVERLEY, HENRY, stage name of Henry Roxby. b. 1797; made his début at West London theatre; chief low comedian at Adelphi theatre Oct. 1838; lessee of Victoria theatre 16 Sep. 1839 to 1840; manager of Sunderland and other theatres in north of England. d. 26, Russell sq. London 1 Feb. 1863.

BEWES, THOMAS. M.P. for Plymouth 11 Dec. 1832 to 23 June 1841. d. Beaumont, Plymouth 18 Nov. 1857 aged 79.

BEWICK, JANE (eld. child of Thomas Bewick, painter in water colours 1753–1828). b. 29 April 1797; edited Memoir of Thomas Bewick written by himself 1862. d. 19, West st. Gateshead 7 April 1881.

BEWICK, WILLIAM (3 son of Wm. Bewick of Darlington, upholsterer). b. Darlington 20 Oct. 1795; pupil of B. R. Haydon in London 1817–20; portrait painter at Darlington 1824; copied pictures in Rome 1826–29; exhibited 4 pictures at the R.A., 8 at the B.I. and 9 at Suffolk st. exhibition 1822–48; competed for decorations of Houses of Parliament 1843; a skilful copyist especially of Rembrandt. d. Haughton house near Darlington 8 June 1866. Life and letters by T. Landseer 2 vols. 1871, portrait.

BEXFIELD, WILLIAM RICHARD. b. Norwich 27 April 1824; chorister at Norwich cathedral 1832–39; organist to parish church of Boston 1846; Mus. Bac. Ox. 1846; Mus. Doc. Cam. 1849; organist at St. Helens, Bishopsgate, London Feb. 1848; composed oratorio of Israel restored, performed by Norwich choral society Oct. 1851 and at Norwich musical festival 22 Sep. 1852. d. 12 Monmouth road, Bayswater, London 28 Oct. 1853. W. A. Barrett’s English church composers (1882) 162–63.

BEXLEY, NICHOLAS VANSITTART, 1 Baron (younger son of Henry Vansittart 1732–70, governor of Bengal). b. 29 April 1766; ed. at Cheam, Surrey and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1787, M.A. 1791, D.C.L. 1841; barrister L.I. 26 May 1791, bencher 12 Nov. 1812; M.P. for Hastings 1796–1802, for Old Sarum 1802–12 and for Harwich 1812–23; joint sec. of the Treasury 1801–1804 and 1806–1808; lord of the Treasury in Ireland 1804; P.C. 14 Jany. 1805; chief sec. for Ireland 23 March 1805 to Sep. 1805; chancellor of the Exchequer 9 June 1812 to Jany. 1823; created Baron Bexley of Bexley, Kent 1 March 1823; chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster 31 Jany. 1823 to Jany. 1828; author of many political and financial pamphlets 1793–1818. d. Footscray place, Kent 8 Feb. 1851. W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery i, 91 (1846), portrait; G.M. xxxv, 431–32 (1851); S. Walpole’s History of England, 2 ed. vols. 1 and 2 (1879).

BEYER, CHARLES FREDERICK. b. Plauen, Saxony 14 May 1813; head of the mechanical works of Messrs. Sharp, Roberts & Co. of Manchester, engineers 1843–53; naturalised in England 5 Nov. 1852; established with Richard Peacock locomotive works of Beyer, Peacock & Co., Gorton foundry Manchester 1854; designed and adapted many special tools for making locomotive engines; one of founders of Institution of Mechanical engineers 1847; M.I.C.E. 7 March 1854; left a large bequest for foundation and endowment of professorships of science at Owen’s college Manchester. d. Llantysilio hall, Denbighshire 2 June 1876. Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xlvii, 290–97 (1877).

BIANCONI, CARLO (2 son of Pietro Bianconi of Tregolo, Lombardy, farmer who d. 1833). b. Tregolo 24 Sep. 1786; went to Ireland as a picture seller 1802; opened a carver and gilder’s shop at Carrick-on-Suir 1806, removed to Waterford and then to Clonmel; started a one-horse two-wheeled car for conveyance of passengers from Clonmel to Cahir 6 July 1815; started cars all over Ireland where they were known as “Bians”; in 1864 his passenger traffic realised £27,700 and his mail contracts £12,000; gave up his shop at Clonmel 1826 and his car business 1865; received letters of Naturalisation from Irish Privy Council 31 Aug. 1831; mayor of Clonmel 1844–46; purchased Longfield, Tipperary for £22,000 23 March 1846, where he lived 16 Sep. 1846 to death; D.L. for Tipperary June 1863. (m. 14 Feb. 1827 Eliza, dau. of Patrick Hayes of Dublin, stockbroker). d. Longfield 22 Sep. 1875. Charles Bianconi, a biography 1786–1875 by his daughter Mrs. Morgan John O’Connell 1878, portrait; Dublin univ. mag. lxxxv 16–24 (1875), portrait.

BIBBY, THOMAS. b. Kilkenny 1799; ed. at Kilkenny gr. sch. and Trin. coll. Dublin scholar 1814, B.A. 1816; one of the best Greek scholars of his day; author of two dramatic poems, Gerald of Kildare 1854 and a sequel to it called Silken Thomas 1859; confined by his relations in a private lunatic asylum in Dublin but released by his literary friends. d. St. Canice’s Steps, Kilkenny 7 Jany. 1863.

BIBER, REV. GEORGE EDWARD. b. Ludwigsburg, Würtemberg 4 Sep. 1801; ed. at Univs. of Tubingen and Gottingen; Ph. Doc. Tubingen 1839; LLD. Gottingen 1839; settled in England 1826; head of a classical school at Hampstead, afterwards at Coombe Wood; naturalised by private act of parliament 2 and 3 Vict., cap. 51 June 1839; ordained to curacy of Ham, Surrey July 1839; V. of Roehampton, Surrey 1842–72; R. of West Allington Lincs. 1872 to death; edited John Bull weekly paper 1848–56; author of Henry Pestalozzi and his plan of education 1831; The Standard of Catholicity 1840, 2 ed. 1844; Vindication of the Church 1844; The life of St. Paul 1849; Bishop Blomfield and his times 1857. d. West Allington 19 Jany. 1874.

BICHENO, JAMES EBENEZER (son of Rev. James Bicheno of Newbury, Berks, baptist minister who d. 9 April 1831 aged 80). b. Newbury 1785; F.L.S. 7 April 1812, secretary 1825–32; barrister M.T. 17 May 1822; comr. to inquire into expediency of introducing Poor Law into Ireland 1833–36; colonial sec. in Van Diemen’s Land Sep. 1842 to death, arrived out there 10 April 1843; a founder of Royal Society of Van Diemen’s Land 1844; author of An inquiry into the nature of benevolence 1817; Observations on the philosophy of criminal jurisprudence 1819; Ireland and its economy 1830. d. Hobart Town 25 Feb. 1851. Proc. of Linnæan Soc. ii, 180 (1855).

BICKERS, HENRY. b. near Leicester square, London; bookseller in Noel st. Soho, in Leicester square 1833 to death; partner with H. J. Bush 1847–63; published many standard works 1863 to death. d. 83 Cumberland road, London 6 Aug. 1875 aged 69.

BICKERS, HENRY (son of the preceding). Head of firm of Bickers and Son, publishers Leicester square, London 1875 to death. d. Dulwich 1 Dec. 1884 aged 49. His copyrights were sold at Hodgson’s Chancery lane for £8,500 March 1885.

BICKERSTETH, ROBERT (youngest son of Henry Bickersteth of Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmoreland, surgeon). b. Kirkby Lonsdale 1787; M.R.C.S. 1806, F.R.C.S. 1843; practised at Liverpool 1807 to death; surgeon to Liverpool infirmary 1810–50. d. 2 Rodney st. Liverpool 17 April 1857. Lancet i, 441 (1857).

BICKERSTETH, RIGHT REV. ROBERT (4 son of Rev. John Bickersteth, R. of Sapcote. co. Leicester who d. 2 Sep. 1855 aged 74). b. Acton, Suffolk 24 Aug. 1816; ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1848, D.D. 1857; ordained deacon 1841, priest 1842; C. of Sapcote 1841–43; C. of St. Giles’s Reading 1843–45; Inc. of St. John’s church Clapham 1845–51; R. of St. Giles’s in the Fields, London 1851–56; canon residentiary of Salisbury April 1854–56; bishop of Ripon 30 Nov. 1856 to death, consecrated in Ripon Minster 18 June 1857; pres. of Church Congress at Leeds 8 Oct. 1872; edited The weekly visitor 1851; author of Bible landmarks 1850; Means of grace 1851 and many charges and sermons. d. the palace Ripon 15 April 1884. bur. in south end of Cathedral churchyard 19 April. Our bishops and deans by Rev. F. Arnold ii, 103–16 (1875); Orthodox London by Rev. C. M. Davies, 2 series (1875) 135–42, 394–95; Illust. news of the world iii, (1859), portrait; I.L.N. xxx, 43 (1857), portrait, lxxxiv, 401 (1881), portrait; Graphic xxix, 400 (1884), portrait.

BICKERTON, THOMAS. Educ. at Andersonian Univ. of Glasgow; L.R.C.S. Edin. 1851, L.S.A. 1851; house surgeon to Warrington dispensary; surgeon to the Emigration service; practised at Liverpool 1854 to death; surgeon to the Eye and Ear infirmary; consulting surgeon to London and North Western railway company; a skilful operator in ophthalmic surgery. d. Mount Pleasant, Liverpool 13 April 1872 aged 45. British Medical journal i, 459 (1872).

BICKMORE, REV. CHARLES. Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843; ad eund. Ox. 1853; Incorp. at Trin. coll. Ox. 1857, B.D. and D.D. 1857; C. of Bebbington, Cheshire 1840–43; asst. Min. at Temple Church Balsall, Warwick 1848–54; Min. of Christ Church Leamington 1856–70; author of A course of historical and chronological instruction; A series of questions and answers on Dr. Smith’s History of Greece. d. Highlands, Leamington 12 May 1880 aged 73.

BICKNELL, ELHANAN (son of Wm. Bicknell of London, serge manufacturer who d. 21 Nov. 1825 aged 77). b. Blackman st. London 21 Dec. 1788; joined a firm at Newington Butts engaged in the sperm whale fishery 1809 retired from business 1859; lived at Herne hill, Surrey 1819 to death where he formed a splendid collection of pictures by Gainsborough, Turner, Roberts and other modern British painters, this collection was sold at Christie’s 25–29 April 1863 for sum of £74,380. d. Herne hill 27 Nov. 1861. Waagen’s Treasures of art ii, 349–54 (1854).

BICKNELL, HENRY EDGEWORTH (younger son of John Bicknell of Lincoln’s Inn, barrister). b. 1787; ed. at Greenwich; clerk to the registrars of high court of Chancery June 1809; senior registrar to 11 July 1859 when he retired on a superannuation allowance of £2,250; served under 14 Lord Chancellors. d. 28 Upper Bedford place, Russell sq. London 20 Feb. 1879 in 92 year.

BICKNELL, HERMAN (3 son of Elhanan Bicknell 1788–1861). b. Herne hill 2 April 1830; ed. at Paris, Hanover, Univ. coll. London and St. Bartholomew’s hospital; M.R.C.S. 1854; assistant surgeon of 81 Foot 16 May 1855 and of 84 Foot 15 Feb. 1861; served during Indian mutiny; explored parts of Java, Thibet and the Himalayas; went to Cairo 1862; joined the annual pilgrimage to the shrine of Mohammed at Mecca May 1862, a dangerous exploit which no other Englishman had achieved without disguise of person or nationality; climbed nearly all the chief mountains in Switzerland; travelled over nearly the whole globe; author of Hafiz of Shiraz, selections from his poems translated from the Persian by H. Bicknell 1875. d. 48 Seymour st. Portman sq. London 14 March 1875. bur. at Ramsgate. H. Bicknell’s Hafiz of Shiraz (1875) ix-xii, 365–68.

BIDDER, GEORGE PARKER (son of Mr. Bidder of Moreton Hampstead, Devon, stonemason). b. Moreton Hampstead 14 June 1806; was exhibited about England as the ‘calculating phenomenon’; ed. at Camberwell gr. sch. 1818–19 and Univ. of Edin. 1819–24; engaged on the ordnance survey 1824–25; civil engineer in London 1825–77; A.I.C.E. 1825, M.I.C.E. 1837, member of council 1847 to death, vice pres. 1854, pres. 1860 and 1861; a founder of Electric Telegraph company 1846; constructed Victoria docks. London 100 acres for less than £870,000 in 1853; engineer of Royal Danish railway opened 1855; originator of railway swing bridge, the first of which was erected at Reedham in Norfolk; lieut. col. commandant of Engineer and railway volunteer staff corps 1865. d. Ravensbury, Dartmouth 20 Sep. 1878. I.L.N. xxviii, 267–68 (1856), portrait; Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xv, 251–80 (1856), lvii, 294–309 (1879), his contributions to these proceedings embrace the whole range of engineering and require no less than 16 columns of the general indexes for citation.

BIDDER, SAMUEL PARKER. b. 10 Nov. 1843; assistant manager to Victoria Docks graving company; took out 2 patents for apparatus for breaking down coal, shale, stone and other minerals 1868; took out a patent for safety lamps 1869, which have come into very general use in South Wales; A.I.C.E. 1 Dec. 1868. d. Southsea 10 Jany. 1878.

BIDDLE, RICHARD JUNIUS (3 son of Richard Biddle, of Wooton under Edge, co. Gloucester). b. 9 Nov. 1832; a marine artist; exhibited 6 sea pieces at Suffolk st. exhibition, and Royal Academy 1877–80. d. 30 Nov. 1882.

BIDDLECOMBE, SIR GEORGE (son of Thomas Biddlecombe of Sheerness dockyard, who d. 12 Sep. 1844). b. Portsea 5 Nov. 1807; officer in H.E.I. Co’s. navy 1825–28; second master R.N. May 1828; master of 6 different ships 1836–50; master of the Baltic fleet on board Duke of Wellington 14 March to 27 Dec. 1854; assistant master attendant in Keyham yard, Devonport 26 Feb. 1855 to 5 Nov. 1864; master attendant of Woolwich yard 5 Nov. 1864 to Jany. 1868; C.B. 13 March 1867; staff captain 1 July 1867; knighted at Windsor Castle 26 June 1873; granted a Greenwich hospital pension 29 May 1874; author of Art of rigging 1848; Remarks on the English Channel 1850, 6 ed. 1863; Naval tactics and trials of sailing 1850; Steam fleet tactics 5 Nov. 1857. d. 68 Granville park, Lewisham 22 July 1878. Autobiography of Sir George Biddlecombe 1878.

BIDDULPH, EDWARD. Second lieutenant Bengal artillery 1806; lieut. col. 6 Dec. 1839 to 6 Oct. 1846; C.B. 22 May 1843. d. Fitzroy terrace, Regent’s park, London 3 Dec. 1858 aged 70.

BIDDULPH, ROBERT. b. 1801; ed. at Harrow and Brasenose coll. Ox.; M.P. for city of Hereford 12 Dec. 1832 to 17 July 1837; sheriff of Hereford 1857. d. 31 Eaton place, London 28 Feb. 1864.

BIDDULPH, ROBERT MYDDELTON. b. Manchester sq. London 20 June 1805; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; M.P. for Denbigh 1830–32, for Denbighshire 1832–34 and 1852–68; colonel of Denbigh militia 3 March 1840 to death; lord lieut. of Denbighshire 1841 to death; aide-de-camp to the Queen 1869 to death, d. 35 Grosvenor place, London 21 March 1872.

BIDDULPH, SAMUEL. b. Hyson Green near Nottingham 23 Dec. 1840; a lace maker; professional cricketer; a good batsman and bowler and a first-rate wicket keeper; employed by the Marylebone Club at Lord’s cricket ground, London 1863 to death, d. Mornington st. Nottingham 7 March 1876.

BIDDULPH, SIR THEOPHILUS, 6 Baronet. b. East Barnet, Herts 25 March 1785; succeeded 30 July 1841; sheriff of Warwickshire 1849. d. Birdingbury hall, Rugby 15 July 1854.

BIDDULPH, SIR THEOPHILUS WILLIAM, 7 Baronet. b. Nursling, Hants 18 Jany. 1830; succeeded 15 July 1854. d. Mentone 1 March 1883.

BIDDULPH, SIR THOMAS MYDDELTON (2 son of Robert Biddulph of Ledbury, Herefordshire who assumed name of Myddelton and d. 1843). b. 29 July 1809; ed. at Eton; cornet 1 Life Guards 7 Oct. 1826; captain 16 May 1834 to 31 Oct. 1851 when placed on h.p.; Master of the Queen’s household 16 July 1851 to 3 March 1866 and 16 July 1878 to death; one of joint keepers of Queen’s privy purse 3 March 1866, sole keeper 30 April 1867; receiver general of Duchy of Cornwall 31 March 1866; general 1 Oct. 1877; K.C.B. 27 March 1863; P.C. 22 Dec. 1877. d. Abergeldie Mains near Balmoral 28 Sep. 1878. bur. churchyard of Clewer near Windsor 7 Oct. Queen Victoria’s More leaves from the journal of a life in the Highlands (1884) 375–78; Graphic xviii, 392 (1878), portrait.

BIDWELL, JOHN. Superintendent of consular department in Foreign Office 15 Jany. 1826 to 30 Sep. 1851 when he retired on pension. d. Park place, St. James’s st. London 31 Oct. 1853 aged 70.

BIDWELL, JOHN CARNE (eld. child of Joseph Bidwell of Exeter, merchant). b. Exeter 1815; a merchant at Sydney N.S.W. 1838; made an exploring voyage to New Zealand 1839; comr. of crown lands and chairman of bench of magistrates for district of Wide Bay N.S.W.; discovered the Bunya Bunya tree (afterwards-named after him Araucaria Bidwelli) and the Nymphæa gigantea; author of Rambles in New Zealand 1841. d. Tinana, Maryborough, Australia March 1853.

BIGG, HENRY HEATHER (son of Mr. Bigg of London, surgical instrument maker). b. Dean st. Southwark 23 July 1826; studied at St. George’s hospital; a surgical instrument maker in London; made the substitutes for lost limbs of our soldiers wounded in Crimean war; A.I.C.E. 4 March 1862; author of On artificial limbs 1855; Orthopraxy the mechanical treatment of deformities 1865, 3 ed. 1877; The gentle treatment of spinal curvature 1875. d. 56 Wimpole st. Cavendish sq. London 30 April 1881. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxviii, 317–20 (1882).

BIGG, JOHN STANYAN. b. Ulverston, Lancashire 14 July 1828; editor of the Ulverston Advertiser 1848 to about 1854 and 1860 to death, and proprietor 1863 to death; editor of the Downshire Protestant about 1854–60; author of The sea King, a metrical romance in 6 cantos 1848; Night and the Soul, a dramatic poem 1854; Alfred Staunton, a novel 1860; Shifting scenes and other poems 1862. d. 7 Hoad terrace, Ulverston 19 May 1865. Ulverston Advertiser 25 May 1865 p. 4, col. 5.

BIGGAR, WILLIAM. Editor and proprietor of The railway times weekly paper. d. Thorpe banks, Willow vale, Shepherd’s Bush 27 Dec. 1872 in 64 year.

BIGGE, ARTHUR (7 son of Charles Wm. Bigge of Linden, Northumberland). b. 18 May 1818; ed. at Rugby and Univ. coll. Ox., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843; fellow of All Soul’s college, bursar 1848–58; barrister I.T. 7 June 1844; stipendiary magistrate for Brighton (the first) 3 Feb. 1855 to 3 May 1884; started the plan of presenting to the deserving aged poor of Brighton on St. Thomas’s day annually sum of 10/- each. d. 23 Cambridge road Hove, Brighton 28 Aug. 1885.

BIGGE, REV. JOHN FREDERIC. Educ. at Univ. coll. Durham, B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843; V. of Ovingham 1841–47; V. of Stamfordham 1847 to death; author of many articles in Transactions of Tyneside Naturalists field club. d. Newcastle 28 Feb. 1885 in 71 year.

BIGGS, JAMES. b. Canterbury; bookseller at 18 Strand, London, removed to 421 Strand; started 13 May 1843 The Family Herald or useful information and amusement for the million in weekly numbers and monthly parts, this paper in a few years attained a circulation of 260,000 copies per week; founded Biggs’s Charity 1863 for granting pensions of £10 a year to printers and their widows over 55 years of age. d. 421 Strand, London 22 May 1859 aged 64, leaving nearly £50,000 in legacies to about 300 charities and individuals.

BIGGS, JOHN. b. Leicester 1801; manufacturer at Leicester; mayor 1840, 1847 and 1855; M.P. for Leicester 1856–1862; took out a patent for lacemaking 1844. d. Leicester 4 June 1871.

BIGGS, WILLIAM. b. Leicester 1805; mayor of Leicester 1842 and 1849; M.P. for Newport, Isle of Wight 9 July 1852 to 21 March 1857. d. Upper Parliament st. Liverpool 3 Oct. 1881 in 77 year.

BIGLAND, WILSON BRADDYLL. b. Bigland hall, Holker, Lancashire 20 July 1788; entered navy 21 Oct. 1801; captain 6 March 1821; retired V.A. 2 Oct. 1857; K.H. 25 Jany. 1836. d. Lansdowne place, Leamington 19 Nov. 1858.

BIGNOLD, SIR SAMUEL (youngest son of Thomas Bignold of Norwich, banker). b. Norwich 13 Oct. 1791; secretary of Norwich Union Fire insurance company 1814 and of Norwich Union Life insurance company 1818; sheriff of Norwich 1830 and mayor 1833, 1848, 1853 and 1873; knighted by the Queen at St. James’s Palace 3 May 1854; M.P. for Norwich 1854–1857. (m. 1815 Elizabeth only child of Wm. Atkins of Ridlington, Norfolk, she d. 30 March 1860). d. Surrey st. Norwich 2 Jany. 1875. I.L.N. lx, 181, 189 (1872), portrait.

BIGSBY, JOHN JEREMIAH (eld. son of John Bigsby of Nottingham, physician 1760–1844). b. Nottingham; baptised at St. Peter’s church 14 Aug. 1792; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1814; assistant surgeon in the army 14 March 1816; physician at Newark 1827–46; lived in London 1846 to death; F.G.S. 1823, Murchison medallist 1874, founded Bigsby gold medal 1877; F.R.G.S. 1850; F.R.S. 3 June 1869; author of The shoe and canoe, or pictures of travel in the Canadas 2 vols. 1850; Thesaurus Siluricus the flora and fauna of the Silurian period 1868; Thesaurus Devonico-Carboniferus the flora and fauna of the Devonian and Carboniferous periods 1878. d. 89 Gloucester place, Portman sq. London 10 Feb. 1881. Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxxvii, 39–41 (1881).

BIGSBY, ROBERT (only son of Robert Bigsby 1764–1825, registrar of archdeaconry of Nottingham). b. Castle gate, Nottingham 11 April 1806; ed. at Repton school; a virtuoso or collector of relics and memorials of illustrious characters; author of The triumph of Drake, a poem 1839; Miscellaneous poems and essays 1842; Visions of the times of old, or the antiquarian enthusiast 3 vols. 1848; Ombo, a dramatic romance in 12 acts 1853; Historical and topographical description of Repton 1854; Irminsula, or the great pillar, a mythological research 1864; Memoir of the order of St. John of Jerusalem 1869 and 10 other books; granted civil list pension of £100 16 Jany. 1860; member of order of St. John of Jerusalem; F.S.A., F.R.S.; a knight of St. James of Portugal. d. 4 Beaufort terrace, Peckham Rye, London 27 Sep. 1873. The Freemason 18 Oct. 1873 p. 677.

BILBY, THOMAS. b. Southampton 1794; musical composer; best known as composer of the hymn tune called “Joyful.” d. Islington, London 24 Sep. 1872.

BILLER, GEORGE. b. 20 Nov. 1811; solicitor in London; wrote many letters to The Church Advocate and other papers on Priestly Absolution; author of Rhymes, reasons and recollections from the common-place books of a Sexagenarian 1876; A few suggestions on Prayer book reform 1878. d. 43 Agate road, Hammersmith 24 April 1885.

BILLING, ARCHIBALD (son of Theodore Billing of Cromlyn, co. Dublin). b. Cromlyn 10 Jany. 1791; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub., B.A. 1811, M.B. 1814, M.A. and M.D. 1818; incorporated M.D. at Oxford 22 Oct. 1818; physician in London 1818 to death; F.R.C.P. 22 Dec. 1819, Censor 1823, Consiliarius 1852 and 1855–57; the first in London to organise a system of practical teaching at the bedside and to give it full effect by regular clinical lectures; physician to London Hospital 2 July 1822 to 4 June 1845; member of senate of Univ. of London 1836 to death; F.R.S. 6 June 1844; author of First principles of medicine 1831, 6 ed. 1868; On the treatment of Asiatic cholera 1848; Practical observations on diseases of the lungs and heart 1852; The science of gems, jewels, coins and medals 1867. d. 34 Park lane, London 2 Sep. 1881. Medical Circular i, 243–45 (1852), portrait; I.L.N. lxxix, 272 (1881), portrait; Graphic xxiv, 389 (1881), portrait.

BILLING, RICHARD ANNESLEY. b. 1814; called to bar in Ireland Nov. 1839; practised at Dublin; admitted to bar at Melbourne 23 Oct. 1856; lecturer in law at Melbourne Univ.; Q.C. 1878; county court judge for western division of Victoria April 1882 to death. d. Melbourne 21 June 1882.

BILLINGE, MARY (dau. of Charles Billinge of Eccleston near Prescot). b. Eccleston 6 Nov. 1772. d. Edge lane, Liverpool 20 Dec. 1863 aged 91, but generally reputed to be 112 and so recorded in the 26th report of the Registrar General. W. J. Thoms’s Human longevity (1873) 34–37, 105–13.

BILLINGS, ELKANAH (2 son of Bradish Billings, of Gloucester near Ottawa, then called Bytown, farmer). b. Gloucester 5 May 1820; ed. at Ottawa and Potsdam in state of New York; admitted attorney at Toronto 1844; called to bar at Toronto 1845; practised at Ottawa 1845–48, and at Renfrew 1849–52; edited the Citizen paper at Ottawa 1852–55; palæontologist to Geological survey of Canada at Montreal 1 Aug. 1856 to death; visited Europe 1858; F.G.S. April 1858; published the Canadian Naturalist Feb. 1856, edited the first vol. and wrote 55 out of the 63 papers in it; contributed to Silliman’s Journal; presented his fine collection of Star fishes, Cystideans and Crinoids to museum of Geological survey of Canada. d. Montreal 14 June 1876. Canadian Naturalist viii, 251–61 (1878); Quarterly journal of Geol. Soc. xxxiii, 48–50 (1877).

BILLINGS, ROBERT WILLIAM. b. London 1813; pupil of John Britton, topographical draughtsman 1813–20; illustrated Godwin’s History of St. Paul’s Cathedral 1837; Illustrations of the Temple Church, London, 1838; Baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland 240 illustrations 4 vols. 1845–52; restored the chapel of Edinburgh Castle; built Castle Wemyss, Renfrewshire. d. The Moulinère, Putney, Surrey 14 Nov. 1874. Builder xxxii, 982, 1035 (1874).

BILLINGTON, WILLIAM (son of a contractor for road making). b. the Yew Trees, Samlesbury near Blackburn 1827; worked in cotton mills at Blackburn 1839; a beerseller at Blackburn; wrote a ballad called Th’ Shurat Weyvur 14,000 copies of which were sold at time of Lancashire cotton famine; author of Sheen and shade 1861; Lancashire poems with other sketches 1883, some copies of which have a portrait of him. d. 2 Bradshaw st. Blackburn 3 Jany. 1884 aged 56.

BINDLEY, CHARLES. b. 1796; author of following books all written under pseudonym of Harry Hieover; Stable talk and table talk, 2 vols. 1845–46, portrait; The pocket and the stud 1848, portrait; The stud for practical purposes and practical men 1849; Practical horsemanship 1850; The hunting field 1850; Bipeds and quadrupeds 1853; Sporting facts and sporting fancies 1853; The world how to square it 1854; Hints to horsemen 1856; Precept and practice 1857; The sportsman’s friend in a frost 1857; The sporting world 1858 and Things worth knowing about horses 1859. d. at house of Sir Thomas Barrett-Lennard, 7 Lewes crescent, Brighton 12 Feb. 1859.

BINDON, SAMUEL HENRY. b. Ireland 1812; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1835; called to Irish bar Nov. 1838; practised at Dublin; went out to Victoria 1855; called to bar at Melbourne 22 May 1855; member of legislative assembly of Victoria 1864–69; minister of justice 1866–1869; county court judge at Sale, Victoria 1869 to death except a short time, during which the Berry ministry took all the judges of county courts off the bench, the day when this was done 9 Jany. 1878 was known as Black Wednesday; had a prominent share in establishment of technological classes in large places. d. Melbourne 1 Aug. 1879 in 67 year.

BINFIELD, JOHN BILSON (son of Mr. Binfield of Reading, organist who d. 1839). b. Reading 1805; organist of St. Giles’s church Reading many years; author of The choral service of the Church 1846; editor and compiler of The Reading psalmody 1847; set Dean Milman’s Martyr of Antioch to music. d. Devizes 28 June 1875.

BINGE, JOHN BULL (son of a Sheffield cutler). First appeared in London May 1839 at Strand theatre in Lee’s adaptation of Auber’s opera The fairy lake; sang at Covent Garden theatre 1840–42; known as The singing mouse from his small voice; kept a toyshop in the Lowther Arcade; sec. to Covent Garden theatrical fund 1869 to death. d. New Malden, Surrey 21 Nov. 1878 aged about 63.

BINGHAM, CHARLES. b. 1 June 1815; 2 lieut. R.A. 20 June 1832; brigade major at Woolwich 1849–54; deputy adjutant general to R.A. 1 April 1858 to death; colonel R.A. 20 Jany. 1863 to death. (m. 13 March 1841 Williamina Henrietta dau. of John Mackintosh, M.D. of Edinburgh, she was granted a civil list pension of £150, 19 June 1865). d. Brighton 6 April 1864.

BINGHAM, REV. CHARLES WILLIAM (youngest son of Rev. Wm. Bingham 1771–1810, R. of Cameley, Somerset). b. 28 Sep. 1810; ed. at New coll. Ox., fellow, B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; V. of Sydling St. Nicholas Dorset 1838–46; R. of Melcombe Horsey, Dorset 23 Feb. 1842 to death; preb. of Salisbury 1876 to death; author of Commentaries on the four last books of the Pentateuch translated from the Latin of John Calvin 4 vols. 1852–55; a frequent contributor to Notes and Queries 1850 to death. d. Bingham’s Melcombe 1 Dec. 1881.

BINGHAM, HENRY. Second lieut. 60 Rifles 30 April 1827, lieut. col. 19 June 1857 to 1865; inspecting field officer 1865–70; M.G. 6 March 1868. d. Wolverton house, co. Dublin 1 Oct. 1878.

BINGHAM, PEREGRINE (elder son of Rev. Peregrine Bingham 1754–1826, R. of Edmundesham, Dorset). b. 1788; ed. at Winchester and Magd. coll. Ox., B.A. 1810; barrister M.T. 27 Nov. 1818; recorder of Southampton 5 Nov. 1830 to July 1840; contested Southampton 9 Jany. 1835; police magistrate at Worship st. London 1841, at Great Marlborough st. 1846–60; lived at 35 Gordon square, London 1842 to death; author of The law and practice of judgments and executions 1815; The law of infancy and coverture 1816; A system of shorthand 1821; Reports of cases in Court of Common Pleas and other courts 10 vols. 1824–34; New cases in the Court of Common Pleas and other courts 6 vols. 1835–41; one of chief contributors to Westminster Review, wrote 5 articles in the first number Jany. 1824. d. 35 Gordon sq. London 1 Nov. 1864.

BINGHAM, REV. RICHARD (son of Rev. Isaac Moody Bingham, R. of Runwell, Essex who d. 1807). b. 1 April 1765; ed. at Winchester and New coll. Ox., fellow, B.A. 1787, B.C.L. 1801; P.C. of Trinity church, Gosport 1790 to death; V. of Great Hale, Lincs. 1796 to death; preb. of Chichester cathedral 22 July 1807 to death; sentenced to 6 months imprisonment in county gaol at Winchester 26 Nov. 1813 for having illegally obtained a license for a public house when no such house was in existence; published by subscription third ed. of Joseph Bingham’s Origines Ecclesiasticæ 1829. d. Newhouse, Gosport 18 July 1858. Proceedings in a trial, the King against Rev. Richard Bingham 1814.

BINGHAM, REV. RICHARD (eld. son of the preceding). b. 1798; ed. at Magd. hall Ox., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1827; C. of Trinity church, Gosport 1821–43; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Harwood, Bolton 1844–52; C. of St. Mary’s Marylebone 1853–56; P.C. of Queenborough, Kent 1856–70; edited The works of the Rev. Joseph Bingham 10 vols., Clarendon Press Oxford 1855; author of Liturgia Recusa or suggestions for revising the services of the United church of England and Ireland 1860; Liturgiæ recusæ exemplar, The Prayer book as it might be 1863; The Gospel according to Isaiah 1870; Hymnologia Christiana Latina 1871. d. Sutton, Surrey 22 Jany. 1872.

BINGHAM, RICHARD CAMDEN. b. 2 May 1801; chargé d´affaires at Venezuela 23 Nov. 1852 to 31 Aug. 1858. d. 23 Jany. 1872.

BINNEY, EDWARD WILLIAM. b. Morton, Notts. 1812; solicitor at Manchester 1836; conducted the case for the Claimant in the great Chadwick law suit Nov. 1847; a paraffin oil manufacturer in Scotland; chief founder and sec. of Manchester geological society Oct. 1838, pres. 1857–59 and 1865–67, contributed 33 papers to the Transactions 1839–72; member of Manchester literary and philosophical society Jan. 1842, president to death; F.G.S. 1853, F.R.S. 5 June 1856; possessed the most exact knowledge of coal fields of Lancashire and Cheshire and of the geology of the whole district. d. Cheetham hill, Manchester 19 Dec. 1881. Trans. of Geol. Soc. of Manchester xvi, 256–59 (1882); Proc. of Manchester Lit. and Philos. Soc. xxi, 142–48 (1882).

BINNEY, REV. THOMAS. b. Newcastle-on-Tyne April 1798; apprenticed to Mr. Angas of Newcastle, bookseller 1813–20; ed. at Wymondley college Herts 1820–23; minister of the New meeting, Bedford 1823; minister of St. James’s st. chapel Newport, Isle of Wight Aug. 1824 to July 1829; ordained 29 Dec. 1824; minister of King’s Weighhouse Chapel Eastcheap, London July 1829 to 4 July 1869, where foundation stone of new chapel was laid 16 Oct. 1833; went to the United States and Canada 1845 and to Australia 1857; LLD. Univ. of Aberdeen 1852; chairman of Congregational Union of England and Wales 1848; founded the Colonial Missionary Society 1836; author of Illustrations of the practical power of faith 1830, 3 ed. 1856; Conscientious clerical nonconformity 1839, 5 ed. 1860; Is it possible to make the best of both worlds, a book for young men 1853, this book sold at the rate of 100 a day for many months, it was translated into several languages; St. Paul his life and ministry 1866; author of three Letters under pseud. of Fiat Justitia 1831, and of The Great Gorham case 1850, and several other pamphlets under pseud. of John Search; author of a pamphlet called Leicester Gaol by A. Balance, Esq. of the Middle Temple 1841. d. Doric lodge, High road, Upper Clapton 24 Feb. 1874. Sermons by T. Binney second series, edited by Henry Allon (1875) xiii-lxvi, portrait; A memorial of the late Rev. T. Binney, edited by Rev. J. Stoughton 1874; T. Binney, his mind, life and opinions by Rev. E. P. Hood 1874; The lamps of the temple 3 ed. (1865) 146–87; Contemporary Review xxiii, 884–97 (1874); Graphic ix, 218 (1874), portrait. He is introduced as Canon Burney into the novels called The master of Marton 1864 and Diary of a novelist 1870 by Eliza Tabor.

BINNS, EDWARD. M.D.; author of The anatomy of sleep or the art of procuring sound and refreshing slumber at will 1842; Prodromus towards a philosophical inquiry into the intellectual powers of the negro 1844. d. Lucca, Jamaica 10 Feb. 1851.

BINNS, JOHN (son of Mr. Binns of Dublin, ironmonger who d. 1774). b. Dublin 22 Dec. 1772; apprenticed to a soapboiler 1786; a member of the London Corresponding Society 1794 which became the greatest political association in Great Britain, chairman of its general committee 6 months in 1795; connected with the United Irishmen; left London for France 21 Feb. 1798 but arrested at Margate 27 Feb. and after an examination by the Privy Council committed to Tower of London; tried for high treason at Maidstone May 1798 when acquitted; confined in Clerkenwell prison, then in Gloucester prison till March 1801; sailed for America July 1801; started a newspaper called The Republican Argus at Northumberland, Pennsylvania March 1802; edited at Philadelphia March 1807 to 1829 Democratic Press which soon became leading paper in the state; alderman of Philadelphia Dec. 1822 to 1844. d. Philadelphia 16 June 1860. Recollections of the life of John Binns 1854, portrait.

BINNS, THOMAS. Head master of the Friends’ school, Grove house, Tottenham 1828; member of Committee of British and Foreign Bible Society 1852–68, chairman of the Editorial Sub-Committee. d. Rockley near Bristol 2 Dec. 1872 aged 74. Annual Monitor for 1874 6–10.

BINSTEAD, CHEESMAN HENRY. b. 1797; entered navy 10 June 1810; agent for transports afloat 1828–34; captain 7 March 1853; retired V.A. 30 July 1875. d. South parade, Wakefield 26 Nov. 1876.

BINYON, EDWARD. b. Manchester 1828; landscape painter both in oil and water colours; contributed to exhibitions of Royal Academy and Dudley Gallery 1857–76; his picture ‘The bay of Mentone’ has frequently been reproduced; lived in island of Capri many years. d. 5 Via Piazza, Capri 18 July 1876.

BIRCH, REV. HENRY MILDRED (eld. son of Rev. Wm. Henry Rous Birch, R. of Southwold, Suffolk). b. Bedfield rectory, Suffolk 1820; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Cam., scholar 1839, Craven scholar 1841, B.A. 1843, M.A. 1846; fellow of his college 1843, members prizeman 1844; assistant master at Eton; tutor to Prince of Wales 6 Aug. 1848 to 1851; R. of Prestwich, Lancs. 1852–84; chaplain in ordinary to the Queen 27 Feb. 1852; B.D. Lambeth 1862; hon. chaplain to Prince of Wales 16 Feb. 1863; canon of Ripon 29 June 1868 to death; proctor in convocation 1868, 1874 and 1880 to death, d. St. Leonard’s lodge, Windsor 29 June 1884. I.L.N. xlii, 456 (1863), portrait.

BIRCH, JAMES WHEELER WOODFORD (eld. son of Rev. James Wheeler Birch, V. of All Saint’s, Hertford). member of Ceylon civil service 1846–70; colonial sec. of the Straits Settlements May 1870; British resident in Malay state of Perak Nov. 1874 to death; assassinated by the Malays at Perak 2 Nov. 1875.

BIRCH, JOHN FRANCIS. Second lieut. R.A. 18 Sep. 1793; second lieut. R.E. 1 Jany. 1794, colonel R.E. 29 July 1825, colonel commandant 19 Oct. 1847 to death; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831; general 20 June 1854; served in Flanders, Holland, Egypt and Spain. d. Folkestone 29 May 1856 aged 79.

BIRCH, SIR RICHARD JAMES HOLWELL (son of Richard Comyns Birch, of Bengal civil service). b. Calcutta 1803; entered Bengal army 1821; studied at Trin. coll. Cam. 1823–24; judge advocate general to the forces in Bengal 1841–52; military secretary to government of India 1854 to 31 Dec. 1861 when he retired; M.G. 4 May 1858; C.B. 5 June 1849, K.C.B. 18 May 1860. d. Venice 25 Feb. 1875. I.L.N. lxvi, 259 (1875).

BIRCH, ROBERT HENRY. b. 1771; second lieut. R.A. 9 March 1795; colonel 10 Jany. 1837 to 9 Nov. 1846, col. commandant 12 Aug. 1849 to death; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846. d. Dublin 29 June 1851.

BIRCH, SAMUEL (eld. son of Rev. Samuel Birch, R. of St. Mary Woolnoth, City of London who d. 1848). b. London 3 Nov. 1813; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school 1826–31; employed in Public record office 1834; assistant in department of Antiquities of British Museum Jany. 1836, assistant keeper 1844; keeper of the Oriental Mediæval and British antiquities and Ethnographical collections 1861 to death; corresponding member of Archæological Institute of Rome 1839, of Berlin Academy 1851, of Academy of inscriptions of French Institute 1861; LLD. St. Andrews 1862; determined the ancient Cypriote to be a Greek language 1872; presided over Congress of Orientalists held in London 14 Sep. 1874; received German order of the Crown Nov. 1874; Rede lecturer Univ. of Cam. for 1876; LLD. Cam. 1875; hon. fellow of Queen’s coll. Ox. 1875; D.C.L. Ox. 1876; author of Gallery of antiquities 1842; Introduction to the study of hieroglyphics 1857; History of ancient pottery 1857, 2 ed. 1873; edited Records of the past 12 vols. 1873–77; The manners and customs of the ancient Egyptians by Sir J. G. Wilkinson, new ed. 3 vols. 1878. d. 64 Caversham road, Kentish Town, London 27 Dec. 1885. Times 29 Dec. 1885 p. 8, col. 3; Athenæum 2 Jany. 1886 pp. 34–35; Dublin Univ. Mag. xc, 53–60 (1877), portrait; I.L.N. lxxxviii, 64 (1886), portrait.

BIRCH, SYLVESTER DOUGLAS. A writer in Madras civil service 1830; secretary and treasurer of Bank of Madras 1843; accountant general at Bombay, pres. of the mint committee and government director of Bank of Bombay 1859 to 28 Feb. 1865 when he retired on an annuity. d. San Remo, Italy 4 Feb. 1881.

BIRCH, SIR THOMAS BERNARD, 2 Baronet. b. 18 March 1791; succeeded 22 Aug. 1833; sheriff of Lancs. 1841; M.P. for Liverpool 30 July 1847 to 1 July 1852. d. The Hazles Prescot near Liverpool 3 March 1880.

BIRCH, THOMAS JACOB (2 son of Wyrley Birch of Wretham hall near Thetford, Norfolk 1781–1866). b. 15 Oct. 1806; ed. at Eton and Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; barrister I.T. 18 Nov. 1831; recorder of Thetford March 1839 to Dec. 1866; judge of Norfolk county courts (circuit 32) March 1847 to death. d. Ballycroy, Mayo 26 April 1868.

BIRCHALL, REV. JOSEPH (son of John Birchall of Prescot, watchmaker). b. Prescot 1805; ed. at Manchester school and Brasn. Coll. Ox., Somerset scholar 1825, B.A. 1828, M.A. 1830; C. of Newbury, Berks. 1831–38; R. of Church, Lancashire 1840 to death; proctor in Convocation for Archd. of Manchester; author of Occasional Sermons 1840; Ecclesiastical Synods 1868. d. Church rectory 27 Oct. 1878.

BIRCHAM, FRANCIS THOMAS (youngest son of Samuel Bircham of Booton hall, Norfolk). b. Booton hall 1810; admitted solicitor 1833; practised in London to 1882; solicitor to London and South Western railway 1834–82; pres. of Incorporated law society 1874–75. d. Burhill near Walton-on-Thames 25 Nov. 1883. Personalty sworn upward of £161,000 3 March 1884; his correct name was Thomas Francis Bircham, but he always called himself Francis Thomas Bircham.

BIRD, REV. CHARLES SMITH (5 child of William Bird of Liverpool, West Indian Merchant, who d. 1814). b. Union st. Liverpool 28 May 1795; articled to Stanistreet and Eden of Liverpool, solicitors Feb. 1812, released from articles 1814; entered Trin. coll. Cam. 1816, scholar 1818, 3 Wr. and 2 Smith’s prizeman 1820, Fell. of his coll. Sep. 1820; C. of Burghfield, Berks. 1823–44; took pupils 1823–44; F.L.S. 4 March 1828; C. of Sulhamstead 1840; V. of Gainsborough 1843–59; preb. of Lincoln 16 June 1843; chancellor of Lincoln June 1859 to death, instituted and installed 16 July 1859; edited a monthly periodical called The Reading church guardian 1839–40; author of For ever and other devotional poems 1833; Transubstantiation tried by Scripture and reason 1839; The baptismal privileges, the baptismal vow, and the means of grace considered in 6 Lent lectures 1841, 2 ed. 1843; The eve of the Crucifixion 1858. d. The Chancery, Lincoln 9 Nov. 1862. Sketches from the life of Rev. Charles S. Bird by Rev. Claude S. Bird (1864), portrait.

BIRD, EDWARD JOSEPH (son of Rev. Godfrey Bird, R. of Little Waltham, Essex). Entered navy 9 Sep. 1812; attempted to reach North Pole from Spitzbergen in the Hecla 1825, penetrated a little beyond 82° 45´ a latitude more northern than had ever been attained; 1 lieut. of the Erebus in Antarctic expedition 1839–43; captain of the Investigator 1848–49; admiral on h.p. 11 Dec. 1875. d. The Wilderness, Witham 3 Dec. 1881 in 83 year.

BIRD, FREDERIC. b. Colchester 23 Jany. 1818; ed. at Guy’s Hospital; surgeon in Craven st. Strand 1841; performed operation of ovariotomy for ovarian dropsy 26 June 1843, being one of the pioneers of that treatment; lectured on forensic medicine at Westminster Hospital, obstetric physician there 1861; phys. to the Maternity Charity; edited Provincial (now British) Medical Journal. d. 13 Grosvenor st. London 28 April 1874. Medical Circular i, 229 (1852); Medical times and gazette i, 519 (1874).

BIRD, GEORGE. Writer Madras civil service 1821; judge and criminal judge of Canara 1835–38 and 1839–42; civil and session judge Coimbatore 1844–47 and 1850–51; resigned the service 25 Feb. 1851. d. England 20 July 1880.

BIRD, GOLDING. b. Downham, Norfolk 9 Dec. 1814; studied at Guy’s hospital London 1832; lecturer on natural philosophy there 1836–43; L.S.A. 21 Jany. 1836, M.D. St. Andrews 24 April 1838 being only place where a degree could be obtained without residing, M.A. 18 April 1840; physician to Finsbury dispensary 1838–43; L.R.C.P. 1840, F.R.C.P. 1845; assistant phys. at Guy’s hospital and lecturer on materia medica 1843 to 4 Aug. 1853; F.L.S. 1836, F.R.S. 22 Jany. 1846; author of The elements of natural philosophy 1839, 6 ed. 1867; Urinary deposits their diagnosis pathology and therapeutical indications 1844, 5 ed. 1857. d. Camden park, Tunbridge Wells 27 Oct. 1854. Biographical sketch by J. H. Balfour 1855; Medical Circular iii, 129 (1853), portrait.

BIRD, JAMES. Ed. at King’s college Aberdeen 1810, M.A. 1814; apprenticed to his maternal uncle Dr. Scott of Elgin 1812–15; studied at Guy’s and St. Thomas’s hospitals; M.R.C.S. Sep. 1816; assistant surgeon H.E.I. Co’s. Bombay service 2 Aug. 1818; residency surgeon at Sattara 1826–32; superintending surgeon of Belgaum division of the army 1840–43 and of Presidency division 1843–44; physician general to Bombay medical board 1844 to 1 Dec. 1847 when he retired. d. Fern acre lodge, Gerrards Cross, Bucks. 10 July 1864 aged 67.

BIRD, JAMES. Solicitor in London; coroner for West Middlesex 9 July 1862 to death. d. Phœnix lodge, Brook Green, Hammersmith 7 Jany. 1868.

BIRD, JAMES. b. Cardiff Feb. 1802; ed. at St. Bartholomew’s hospital; L.S.A. 1821, M.R.C.S. 1825; surgeon at Cardiff 1825–32; surgeon in London 1832 to 1856; joint sec. with Henry Ancell to the British medical association; author of Private devotions for girls 1874. d. 80 Seymour st. Portman sq. London 4 June 1874. Medical Circular i, 263 (1852).

BIRD, REV. JOHN. b. Betchworth, Surrey 14 Sep. 1783; ed. at Stonyhurst college; ordained priest 10 Dec. 1808; professed of the 4 vows 2 Feb. 1819; rector of St. Aloysius’ college 26 June 1832 to 18 May 1839 and 15 Sep. 1841; missioner at Pontefract 1842–48; superior of St. George’s Residence, Worcester Nov. 1850 to death. d. 8 June 1853.

BIRD, LOUIS SAUNDERS. Ensign Bengal Infantry 26 Nov. 1808; col. 23 Bengal N.I. 17 April 1856–1869; L.G. 22 Feb. 1870. d. Clevedon, Somerset 17 April 1874 aged 81.

BIRD, ROBERT MERTTINS. b. 1788; Bengal civil servant; assistant to registrar of Court of Sadr Diwàni Adàlat at Calcutta 9 Nov. 1808; comr. of revenue and circuit for the Gorakhpur division 1829; member of board of revenue at Allahabad 1832; revised settlement of land revenue of North western provinces 1833–41, the most complete settlement that had yet been made in India; retired to England 1842; active member of committee of the Church Missionary Society. d. Torquay 22 Aug. 1853. Dict. of nat. biog. v, 78 (1886).

BIRD, ROBERT NICHOLAS. Ensign 20 Foot 30 Aug. 1859; lieut. 2 Dec. 1862 to death; murdered by Japanese at Kamahura about 17 miles from Yokohama 21 Nov. 1864. R. Lindau’s Erzählungen und Novellen i, 15–54 (1871); F. O. Adams’s History of Japan i, 485–98 (1874), ii, 1–5 (1875).

BIRD, WILLIAM WILBERFORCE (eld. son of Wm. Wilberforce Bird of the Spring, Kenilworth, M.P. for Coventry). b. 1784; ed. at Warwick and Geneva; writer in H.E.I. Co.’s civil service at Calcutta 11 July 1803; third ordinary member of council of India 21 March 1838; senior member of board of customs salt and opium and of the marine board 17 Sep. 1838; deputy governor of Bengal 4 times; pres. of the council 1840–44; governor general of India 15 June 1844 to 23 July 1844; very instrumental in abolition of suttee and suppression of slavery; retired to England 1844. d. 22 Sussex sq. Hyde Park, London 1 June 1857.

BIRDWOOD, CHRISTOPHER. b. 1806; ensign 3 Bombay N.I. 3 May 1825; commissariat officer of Malwa field force 1839–41; colonel Bombay staff corps 9 Nov. 1868; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. Pucklechurch near Bristol 4 July 1882 in 76 year. Graphic xxvi, 221 (1882), portrait.

BIRKETT, REV. GEORGE WILLIAM. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., scholar, B.A. 1823, M.A. 1827; V. of St. Florence near Tenby 1829 to death; author of The trial of creation and other poems 1848. d. Tenby 26 Nov. 1877 aged 78.

BIRKIN, RICHARD (eld. son of Richard Birkin of Belper, calico weaver). b. Belper 6 July 1805; lace manufacturer at New Basford, Nottingham with Mr. Biddle 1826–47; juror on behalf of Nottingham for lace goods in International Exhibitions 1851 and 1862; mayor of Nottingham 1850, 55, 62 and 63; used mohair as a material for lace being the first to do so either in England or France. d. Aspley hall, Radford, Nottingham 10 Oct. 1870. J. B. Robinson’s Derbyshire gatherings (1866) 70–72, portrait; W. Felkin’s History of hosiery (1867) 368–71.

BIRKINSHAW, JOHN CASS. b. Bedlington iron works Durham 1811; the first articled pupil of Robert Stephenson at Newcastle; engineer of London end of London and Birmingham railway 1835; engineer of Birmingham and Derby railway 1837–42; engineer of many railways projected but not made; engineer of Danish land company 1865; M.I.C.E. 2 March 1847; took out a patent 1820 for wrought or malleable iron rails instead of cast iron as used up to that time. d. March 1867 in 56 year. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxi, 202–207 (1871).

BIRKS, REV. THOMAS RAWSON (younger son of Mr. Birks of Staveley, Derbyshire, farmer). b. Staveley 28 Sep. 1810; ed. at Chesterfield, Mill Hill and Trin. coll. Cam., scholar, fellow 1834–44, 2 wrangler and 2 Smith’s prizemen Jany. 1834; R. of Kelshall, Herts 1844 to 1864; hon. sec. to Evangelical Alliance 1850–71; P.C. of Holy Trinity Cam. 1865–77; hon. canon of Ely cathedral 1871 to death; professor of moral theology, casuistical divinity and moral philosophy at Cambridge 30 April 1872 to death; published an edition of Paley’s Horæ Paulinæ with notes and a supplementary treatise entitled Horæ Apostolicæ 1850; author of Horæ Evangelicæ 1852; The Bible and modern thought 1861; Commentary on the book of Isaiah 1871, 2 ed. 1878; First principles of moral science 1873; Modern Utilitarianism 1874; Supernatural revelation 1879 and many other books. d. 6 Salisbury villas, Cambridge 19 July 1883. Record 27 July 1883 p. 741.

BIRLEY, HUGH. b. Blackburn 21 Oct. 1817; ed. at Winchester; a partner in firm of Macintosh and Co. india-rubber manufacturers; chairman of National educational union; M. P. for Manchester 1868 to death. d. Moorland, Withington, Manchester 9 Sep. 1883.

BIRMINGHAM, JOHN. b. 1816; lived at Millbrook near Tuam; discovered a remarkable new star in Corona Borealis 12 May 1866; author of Catalogue of red stars in Transactions of Royal Irish Academy xxvi, 249 (1879); Cunningham medallist of the Academy 1884; discovered 22 May 1881 a deep red star in Cygnus which proved strikingly variable and became known by his name; author of a small poetical work entitled Anglicania or England’s mission to the Celt 1863. d. Millbrook 7 Sep. 1884.

BIRMINGHAM, VERY REV. PATRICK. Dean of the lay college and professor of humanity Carlow college 1851 to July 1854 when he went to Australia; vice pres. and professor of theology at Carlow college Sep. 1864 to July 1871 when he went again to Australia. d. Fitzroy sq. London 9 Sep. 1883.

BIRNIE, ALEXANDER. b. Morayshire 1826; a baptist minister at Preston; walked to Falkirk 1860; a painter at the Carron works Falkirk; wrote articles in Falkirk Advertiser under signature of Cock of the Steeple; started the Falkirk Liberal a penny weekly paper 1861 which soon collapsed; having been without food or drink for a fortnight, he entered the workhouse Morpeth where he d. March 1862.

BIRRELL, DAVID. b. 15 Sep. 1800; entered Bengal army 1817; commanded a brigade at battle of Sobraon 10 Feb. 1846; lieut. col. 51 N.I. 1851, of 52 N.I. 1852 and of 72 N.I. 1857 to 1858; M.G. 25 April 1858; general 23 July 1876. d. 28 Oct. 1878.

BIRT, WILLIAM RADCLIFF. b. 15 July 1804; employed by Sir John Herschel in the reduction and arrangement of his barometric observations; investigated subject of atmospheric waves for the British Association; reduced and discussed electrical observations made at Kew 1848; F.R.A.S. 14 Jany. 1859; the first pres. of the Selenographical society 1877 or 1878 to death; author of Hurricane and Sailor’s guide 1850; Handbook of the law of storms 1854, new ed. 1878. d. Leytonstone, Essex 14 Dec. 1881. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xlii, 142–43 (1882).

BIRTWHISTLE, JOHN. Ensign 32 Foot 14 April 1813; major 19 Jany. 1839 to 12 March 1841 when placed on h.p; M.G. 28 Aug. 1865. d. Cheltenham 6 Oct. 1867 aged 75.

BISHOP, ANNE (dau. of Daniel Riviére of London, artist). b. London 1814; student at Royal academy of music June 1824 to June 1828; a singer at Philharmonic concerts 1831; one of chief singers at Vauxhall gardens, the Oratorio concerts and country festivals; went abroad with R. N. C. Bochsa the harpist 1839; sang at 260 concerts in chief cities of Europe Sept. 1839 to May 1843; sang with great success at St. Petersburg 1840–41 and in Italy 1843–46; appeared in 20 operas at the San Carlo, Naples; went to America 1846 where she appeared at Park theatre New York 4 Aug. 1847 as Linda; went to Australia 1855; sang at the Crystal palace London 1858; gave her farewell concert at Surrey music hall 17 Aug. 1859; sang in Canada, Mexico and Havana 1859–65; went to California 1865; wrecked on her way from Honolulu to China Feb. 1866; arrived in India 1867; sang in Australia 1868; re-appeared at Steinway hall New York Jany. 1881. (m. (1) 1832 Sir Henry Rowley Bishop 1786–1855. m. (2) at New York 30 April 1858, Martin Schultz). d. New York 18 March 1884. Drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages, third series 1860, portrait; N. P. Willis’s Hurry-graphs, 2 ed. (1851) 200–203.

BISHOP, REV. DANIEL GODFREY. Head master of Buntingford gr. sch. Herts. 1841–74; V. of Tibshelf near Alfreton, Derbyshire 1874 to death; author of numerous articles upon biblical criticism, classical literature, and general biography in Penny Cyclopædia. d. Briston vicarage, Norfolk 14 April 1880 in 86 year.

BISHOP, REV. FRANCIS. b. Dorchester 27 July 1813; Unitarian minister at Cheltenham 1840, at Warrington 1841, at George’s meeting Exeter 1844–47, at Liverpool 1847–56, at Manchester 1856–58 and at Chesterfield 1858 to death; edited The Christian Investigator; author of The atonement, or God’s way of speaking and man’s way of speaking 1843. d. Chesterfield 5 Aug. 1869. The Inquirer (1869) 533.

BISHOP, GEORGE. b. Leicester 21 Aug. 1785; a maker of British wines in London, being the largest maker in England; erected an observatory at South Villa, Regent’s Park 1836 where 11 planets were discovered 1847–54, after his death the dome and the instruments were removed by his son George Bishop to his house at Twickenham; F.R.A.S. 1830, sec. 1833–39, treasurer 1840–57, pres. 1857–59; F.R.S. 9 June 1848; published in 1852 Astronomical observations during the years 1839–51. d. South villa, Regent’s Park, London 14 June 1861. Monthly notices of Royal Astronomical Soc. xxii, 104–106 (1862).

BISHOP, SIR HENRY ROWLEY (son of Mr. Bishop of London, Watchmaker). b. Great Portland st. London 18 Nov. 1786; pupil of Francesco Bianchi the composer; composer of ballet music at Italian opera house 1806; produced his opera of The Circassian bride at Drury Lane theatre 23 Feb. 1809, theatre was burnt down the next night; musical director and composer at Covent Garden theatre 1810–23, where he produced 50 musical dramas; director of music at King’s theatre, Haymarket 1816–17; received freedom of city of Dublin 2 Aug. 1820; composer at Drury Lane theatre 1825–28; musical director of Vauxhall gardens 1830–33; director of Her Majesty’s concerts of ancient music 1840–48; Reid professor of Music in Univ. of Edin. Nov. 1841 to Dec. 1843; knighted at St. James’s palace 1 June 1842, being the first musician who ever received that honour; professor of music in Univ. of Ox. Jany. 1848 to death; Mus. Bac. Ox. 1848, Mus. Doc. 1853; author of many songs and glees, best known being Bid me discourse, Should he upbraid, The winds whistle cold, My pretty Jane, Mynheer Van Dunck and of the trio and chorus The chough and crow. d. 13 Cambridge st. Edgware road, London 30 April 1855. I.L.N. xix, 669–70 (1851), portrait; Charles Mackay’s Forty years recollections ii, 165–217 (1877); Illust. news of the world iv, 381 (1859), portrait.

BISHOP, JAMES. b. Trowbridge, Wiltshire 1793; a cloth worker 1813; partner with Atkins and Gillman, proprietors of a menagery which became a formidable opponent to George Wombwell’s menagery; attended all the great fairs in England; proprietor of various exhibitions; father of 20 children; the oldest showman in England. d. Plymouth 19 Feb. 1881.

BISHOP, JOHN (4 son of Samuel Bishop of Pimperne, Dorset). b. 15 Sep. 1797; studied at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; M.R.C.S. 1824, F.R.C.S. 1843, member of council 1851, Hunterian orator 1859; member of Medical society of London 1839, councillor, trustee, orator and Lettsomian lecturer successively, and pres. 1852; F.R.S. 9 May 1844; very successful in treatment of impediments of speech; author of On articulate sounds and on the causes and cure of impediments of speech 1851; Researches into the pathology and treatment of deformities in the human body 1852; The Lettsomian lectures on Bones 1855; On the construction of hearing and speaking instruments 1856. d. Strangeways-Marshall, Dorset 29 Sep. 1873. Proc. of royal society xxi, 5–6 (1873); British medical journal ii, 450 (1873).

BISHOP, WILLIAM. Agent at 170 New Bond st. London for Westley Richards the gunmaker 1820 to death; brought into public notice by Vincent Dowling, who rarely wrote a report of a prize fight without bringing him on the scene; got the Dog Stealers act passed which is known as Bishop’s act; well known in London as “the Bishop of Bond st.” d. 170 New Bond st. 16 March 1871 in 74 year. Illust. sporting news ii, 164 (1863), portrait.

BISSET, REV. JAMES (2 son of George Bisset of Udny, Aberdeenshire, schoolmaster who d. 1812). b. Udny 20 April 1795; ed. at Marischal coll. and Univ. of Aberdeen; kept a school at Udny 1812–25 which became celebrated; licensed by presbytery of Ellon 31 March 1819; minister of parish of Bourtie, Aberdeenshire June 1825 to death; ordained 19 April 1826; D.D. Aberdeen 23 Feb. 1850; moderator of general assembly 22 May 1862. d. Bourtie 8 Sep. 1872.

BISSET, SIR JOHN. b. Perth 1777; commissary general 31 July 1811 to 1819 when placed on h.p.; served through Peninsular war; K.C.H. 1832; knighted at St. James’s Palace 6 Nov. 1832; K.C.B. 16 Aug. 1850; granted pension of £550; author of Memoranda regarding the duties of the Commissariat on field service abroad 1846. d. Perth 3 April 1854.

BISSHOPP, CECIL (son of Harry Bisshopp, colonel in the army). Cornet 14 Dragoons 10 Dec. 1799; major 11 Foot 6 Sep. 1834 to 17 May 1844 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 11 Nov. 1851; colonel 16 Foot 16 May 1857 to death; C.B. 26 Dec. 1818. d. Stoke, Plymouth 21 March 1858.

BISSHOPP, SIR EDWARD CECIL, 11 Baronet. b. 23 Feb. 1826; succeeded 15 Dec. 1865. d. 27 Jany. 1870.

BISSHOPP, SIR GEORGE CURZON, 10 Baronet. b. 10 April 1823; succeeded 23 Jany. 1849. d. Parham park near Hastings 15 Dec. 1865.

BISSON, EDWARD LEONARD (son of Rev. Amias Bisson, R. of St. Laurens, Jersey). b. St. Laurens 1797; jurat or judge of the royal court Jersey 1832 to death; lieutenant bailiff 1839 to death. d. St. Heliers, Jersey 1 April 1884 in 88 year.

BLAAUW, WILLIAM HENRY (only son of Wm. Blaauw of Beechland, Newick, Sussex 1748–1808). b. Queen Anne st. London 25 May 1793; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; chief founder of Sussex Archæological Society 18 June 1846, sec. 1846–58, edited Society’s Collections 1846–56; elected F.S.A. 30 May 1850, admitted 27 Feb. 1851; member of council of Camden Society 1848–65, treasurer 1861–65; sheriff of Sussex 1859; author of The barons’ war, including the battles of Lewes and Evesham 1844, 2 ed. 1871. d. Beechland 26 April 1870. Sussex Archæological Collections xxii, 9–11 (1870), portrait.

BLACHFORD, AUGUSTUS GEORGE. Ensign 24 Foot 12 Nov. 1825; lieut. col. 30 March 1858 to 9 March 1860 when he retired on full pay with hon. rank of major general. d. Sheringham near Cromer 13 Nov. 1884 aged 78.

BLACHFORD, JOHN. b. 1790; solicitor in City of London 1818 to death; head of firm of Blachford, Riches and Wood of 25 Abchurch lane to death; vestry clerk of parish of St. James Aldgate 40 years. d. 4 Jany. 1886.

BLACHLEY, HENRY. 2 Lieutenant R.A. 10 Aug. 1804; lieut. col. 23 Nov. 1841 to 4 April 1843 when he retired on full pay; L.G. 27 Feb. 1866. d. Banwell, Somerset 13 Aug. 1868.

BLACK, ADAM (son of Charles Black of Edinburgh, builder). b. Charles st. Edin. 20 Feb. 1784; ed. at high sch. Edin.; opened a bookseller’s shop at 57 North bridge, Edin. 1808; published Edinburgh Review 1827 to death, and Encyclopædia Britannica, 7 ed. 22 vols. 1830–42, 8 ed. 22 vols. 1853–61, wrote many articles in it; master of the Merchant Company Edin. 1831; a member of the town council 1832; lord provost 1843–48; pres. of Philosophical Institution 1845; bought works of Sir Walter Scott on behalf of an association of 60 persons for £27,000 March 1851; M.P. for Edinburgh 9 Feb. 1856 to 6 July 1865; retired from business 1865. d. 38 Drummond place, Edin. 24 Jany. 1874. A bronze memorial statue of him in East Prince’s st. gardens was unveiled 3 Nov. 1877. A fine portrait of him by Sir J. W. Gordon is in the council room Edinburgh. Life of A. Black by A. Nicolson 1885; Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 179–83, portrait; Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. viii, 467 (1865).

BLACK, REV. ALEXANDER (son of John Black of Aberdeen, gardener). b. Aberdeen 1789; ed. at Aberdeen gr. sch. and Marischal college, B.A. 1807, D.D. May 1824; licensed by presbytery of Aberdeen 9 Feb. 1814; minister of Tarves Nov. 1817 to 27 June 1832; ordained 1 April 1818; professor of divinity in Marischal college Aberdeen April 1832 to 1843 when he joined the Free church at the Disruption; sent to the East to make enquiries as to expediency of beginning a mission to the Jews 1839; professor of exegetical theology in New college Edinburgh about 1844–1856. d. Edinburgh 24 or 27 Jany. 1864 in 75 year.

BLACK, JAMES. b. Scotland 1787; L.R.C.S. Edin. 1808; assistant surgeon R.N. 1809; practised at Bolton to 1839 and 1848–56, at Manchester 1839–48, and at Edin. 1856 to death; M.D. Glasgow 1820, L.R.C.S. Eng. 1823, F.R.C.P. 1860; an original member of British Association 1831; pres. of British medical association 1842; pres. of Provincial medical association 1853; pres. of Manchester Geological Society; F.G.S. 1838, F.G.S. of France 1848; F.R.S. Edin. 1857; author of An inquiry into the capillary circulation of the blood 1825; A comparative view of the more intimate nature of fever 1826; A manual of the bowels 1840; A medico-topographical, geological and statistical sketch of Bolton and its neighbourhood, a paper of 100 pages in the Transactions of Provincial medical and surgical association. d. 2 George sq. Edin. 30 April 1867 in 80 year. Proc. of Royal Society of Edin. vi, 188 (1869).

BLACK, JOHN (only son of Ebenezer Black of Burnhouses near Dunse, Berwickshire, farm labourer). b. Burnhouses 1783; articled to a writer at Dunse 1796–1800; clerk in an accountant’s office Edinburgh; engaged on the Morning Chronicle daily paper in London 1810, principal editor 1819–44; fought a harmless duel with John Arthur Roebuck, M.P. 19 Nov. 1835; sold his library of 30,000 volumes 1844; translated Humboldt’s Political essay on the kingdom of New Spain 4 vols. 1811–12 and other books. d. Birling, Kent 15 June 1855. C. Mackay’s Forty years’ recollections i, 70–95, ii, 177–78; I.L.N. xxvii, 13–14 (1855), portrait.

BLACK, JOHN. b. Glenrinnes, Upper Banff 1834; professor of humanity in University of Aberdeen 1868 to death. d. at his college residence Old Aberdeen 17 Nov. 1881.

BLACK, NEIL (son of Archibald Black of Cowal Argyleshire, sheep farmer). b. Cowal 1804; sailed for Adelaide April 1839; bought a station near Glenormiston, Victoria; bought the Sisters station; his annual sales of cattle attracted buyers from all parts of Australia; member of legislative council of Victoria for the Western province 1856 to death. d. Mount Noorat, Victoria 15 May 1880. Men of the time in Australia, Victorian series (1878) p. 16.

BLACK, PATRICK (2 son of colonel Patrick Black of the Bengal cavalry who d. about 1819). b. Aberdeen 1813; ed. at Eton 1828–30 and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1834, M.D. 1836; F.R.C.P. 1845, censor 3 times, Croonian lecturer 1855: assistant phys. to St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1842, warden of the medical school 1851–56, physician and clinical lecturer 1860–78, lecturer on medicine 1861–78; author of Chloroform how shall we ensure, safety in its administration 1855; Essay on the Spleen 1876; revised the Latin part of the Nomenclature of diseases for Royal College of Phys. 1867. d. 11 Queen Anne st. Cavendish sq. London 12 Oct. 1879. St. Bartholomew’s hospital reports xv, pp. xxix-xl (1879).

BLACK, THOMAS. b. Wemyss 1819; surgeon at Anstruther 1839 to death; his body was found floating in the harbour of Anstruther 29 Feb. 1864. Conolly’s Biog. dict. of eminent men of Fife (1866) 64.

BLACK, WILLIAM. b. Anstruther 1770; entered navy 13 April 1793; captain 7 June 1814; retired R.A. 9 Oct. 1846. d. Ormsby, Norfolk 6 Nov. 1852 in 82 year. Conolly’s Biog. dict. of eminent men of Fife (1866) 62.

BLACK, REV. WILLIAM. b. Auchinairn parish of Cadder 1801; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow; licensed by presbytery of Hamilton Aug. 1824; minister of Shettleston April 1826; minister of Barony church Glasgow Sep. 1828 to death; D.D. Glasgow April 1834. d. Florence 15 Jany. 1851 in 50 year. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy, 2 series (1849) 17–26.

BLACK, WILLIAM HENRY (eld. son of John Black of Kintore, Aberdeenshire). b. 7 May 1808; a tutor among families residing at and near Tulse Hill, Surrey 1825; clerk in the Public Record Office, assistant keeper; founder and sec. of Chronological institute of London Dec. 1850, registrar 21 Dec. 1853; founded Palestine archæological association 13 Sep. 1853 and Anglo-biblical institute; F.S.A. 9 Dec. 1858; pastor of the Seventh Day Baptists (one of smallest sects in England) in Mill yard, Leman st. Whitechapel 1840 to death; prepared an edition of the British part of the Itinerary of Antoninus (never issued); contributed to Samuel Bentley’s Excerpta Historica 1831; catalogued the manuscripts of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, the Arundel MSS. in the library of the Heralds’ College, and Colfe’s library at Lewisham. d. 15 Mill yard, Whitechapel 12 April 1872. Rev. C. M. Davies’s Unorthodox London (1872) 227–37; J. E. Ritchie’s Religious life of London (1870) 159–66.

BLACKADDER, ROBERT BARNES. b. Scotland; came to London 1834, employed by Roake and Varty and other booksellers; edited and published Chronological Bible 1867 and Chronological New Testament 1867. d. Booksellers’ provident retreat Abbot’s Langley 26 June 1883 aged 71.

BLACKALL, JOHN (6th son of Rev. Theophilus Blackall, Preb. of Exeter cath. who d. 4 Aug. 1781). b. St. Paul’s st. Exeter 24 Dec. 1771; ed. at Exeter gr. sch. and Balliol coll. Ox.; B.A. 1793, M.A. 1796, M.B. 1797, M.D. 1801; studied medicine at St. Bartholomew’s hosp. London; practised at Exeter 1797–1801 and 1807–52; physician to Devon and Exeter hosp. 1 June 1797–1801 when he resigned, and June 1807; practised at Totnes 1801–1807; physician to St. Thomas’s lunatic asylum Exeter 1812; candidate of R.C.P. 22 Dec. 1814; fellow 22 Dec. 1815; the chief physician in the West of England 1822–52; author of Observations on the nature and cure of dropsies 1813 4 ed. 1818 which at once placed him in the rank of the first physicians of his day and acquired for him an European reputation. d. Southernhay Exeter 10 Jany. 1860. Munk’s Roll of royal college of physicians iii, 138–41 (1878), abridged from British Medical Journal i, 75–76 (1860).

BLACKALL, ROBERT. Entered Bengal army 1805; colonel of 43 N.I. 18 July 1848, of 2 European Fusiliers 7 April 1851, and of 13 N.I. 19 Aug. 1859 to death; L.G. 18 Dec. 1860. d. 20 April 1863.

BLACKALL, SAMUEL WENSLEY (eld. son of Robert Blackall of Colamber manor, co. Longford who d. 1855). b. 1809; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; ensign 85 Foot 26 June 1827, lieut. 17 Feb. 1832 to 1 Feb. 1833 when he sold out; sheriff of co. Longford 1833, of co. Tyrone 1862; M.P. for co. Longford 13 Aug. 1847 to April 1851; lieutenant governor of Dominica 1 April 1851 to 1857; governor of Sierra Leone 1862; governor of West African Settlements 23 Feb. 1866; governor of Queensland 4 May 1868 to death. d. Brisbane 21 Jany. 1871.

BLACKBOURN, JOHN (son of James Blackbourn of Billingsgate, London, fish salesman). One of the singing boys of St. Paul’s cathedral 1800–1808, apprenticed to John Sale the master of the boys 1811; organist of Wandsworth parish church 1818–21 and of Clapham parish church 1821 to death; member of Royal Society of Musicians 1818, of the Madrigal Society 1819, of the Glee Club 1819, and secretary to 1825. d. Clapham 18 Dec. 1854 aged 62.

BLACKBURN, REV. JOHN. b. the Minories, London 1791; ed. at Stepney and Hoxton; a missionary in the Irish Evangelical society; pastor of Church of Christ at Finchingfield, Essex 25 Sep. 1815 to 1822; pastor of Claremont chapel Pentonville, London 1822 to death; editor of Congregational Magazine; originated and edited Congregational Calendar, afterwards merged in the Congregational year book; a projector and sec. of Congregational Union of England and Wales 1831; originator of the Christian Instruction society 1825; edited The Biblical educator. d. 17 Holford sq. Pentonville 16 June 1855. Congregational year book (1856) 208–10; J. Waddington’s Congregational history v, 198–202 (1870).

BLACKBURN, PETER (eld. son of John Blackburn of Killearn near Glasgow). b. Levenside, Dumbartonshire 1811; ed. at Eton; cornet 2 Life Guards 29 Jany. 1830, lieut. 4 May 1832 to 1836; M.P. for Stirlingshire 5 March 1855 to 6 July 1865; a lord of the Treasury 15 March 1859 to June 1859; chairman of Edinburgh and Glasgow railway Sep. 1846 to death. d. Killearn house, Killearn 20 May 1870.

BLACKBURNE, FRANCIS (eld. son of Richard Blackburne of Great Footstown, co. Meath who d. 1798). b. Great Footstown 11 Nov. 1782; entered Trinity college Dublin July 1798, scholar 1801, B.A. 1803, LL.B. and LLD. 1852; called to bar in Ireland Jany. 1805; went the Home circuit; K.C. 1822; administered the Insurrection act in Limerick and Clare 1822–24; serjeant at law July 1826, king’s second serjeant at law 19 April 1830 to Jany. 1831; attorney general in Ireland 11 Jany. 1831 to April 1835 and 23 Sep. 1841 to Oct. 1842; P.C. Ireland 1831; master of the Rolls 1 Nov. 1842 to 23 Jany. 1846; chief justice of Queen’s Bench 23 Jany. 1846 to Feb. 1852; lord chancellor of Ireland Feb. 1852 to Dec. 1852 and 24 July 1866 to March 1867; vice chancellor of Univ. of Dub. Dec. 1851; one of Commissioners of National education 1852–53; lord justice of Appeal in Ireland Oct. 1856 to July 1866; offered the Lord Chancellorship by Earl of Derby 24 Feb. 1858 but declined; refused a Baronetcy May 1867. d. Rathfarnham Castle near Dublin 17 Sep. 1867. Life of the Right Hon. Francis Blackburne by his son Edward Blackburne 1874, portrait; O. J. Burke’s History of lord chancellors of Ireland (1879) 277–93; Dublin univ. mag. xxiv, 470–78 (1844), portrait; I.L.N. xii, 323 (1848), portrait.

BLACKBURNE, JOHN GEORGE. b. London 4 June 1815; articled to Wm. Dunn of Oldham, surveyor 31 May 1828, partner with him 5 June 1835 to 27 June 1840 when he died; practised at Oldham 1835 to death; M.I.C.E. 1 May 1855; F.G.S. 1835; pres. of Manchester district society of surveyors and valuers 1866. d. Dryclough, Oldham 30 Sep. 1871. Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxiii, 206–209 (1872).

BLACKBURNE, JOHN IRELAND. b. 26 May 1783; M.P. for Newton, Lancashire 8 May 1807 to 10 June 1818 and for Warrington 7 Jany. 1835 to 23 July 1847. d. Hale hall near Warrington 27 Jany. 1874.

BLACKER, REV. GEORGE (elder son of James Blacker of Dublin, police magistrate). b. 1791; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; scholar 1809, B.A. 1811, M.A. 1858; C. of St. Andrew’s, Dublin 1811–38; V. of Maynooth 1838 to death; Preb. of St. Patrick’s cathedral 28 Dec. 1840 to death; author of Castle of Maynooth 1853, 2 ed. 1860; Castle of Kilkea 1860; A record of the history of Maynooth church 1867, all privately printed. d. the Rectory, Maynooth 23 May 1871 in 80 year. Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette xiii, 131 (1871).

BLACKER, WILLIAM. Ensign 60 Foot 3 July 1801; lieut. col. Armagh militia 5 Nov. 1812 to 6 May 1846; vice treasurer of Ireland 1817–1829. d. Carrick house, Armagh 25 Nov. 1855 aged 80.

BLACKETT, SIR EDWARD, 6 Baronet. b. London 23 Feb. 1805; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; succeeded 27 Oct. 1816; sheriff of Northumberland 1833; married 4 times. d. Matfen hall, Northumberland 23 Nov. 1885.

BLACKETT, HENRY. Publisher in London with Daniel Hurst (who d. 6 July 1870 aged 67). d. The Green, Ealing 7 March 1871 in 45 year.

BLACKIE, JOHN (son of John Blackie of Glasgow, publisher who d. 17 June 1874 aged 92). b. Glasgow 29 Sep. 1805; ed. at the high school; head of the publishing firm of Blackie and Son in Glasgow and London, with branches in every important town in Scotland; member of Glasgow town council 1857; lord provost 1863; originated the City Improvement scheme. d. Hillhead, Lillybank, Glasgow 11 Feb. 1873. Bookseller 1873 p. 205.

BLACKLEY, REV. WILLIAM. Ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; B.A. 1835, M.A. 1852; chaplain to Viscount Hill 1837 to death; V. of Stanton-upon-Hine-Heath, Salop 1855–72; author of Expository lectures on the first four chapters of St. Matthew’s Gospel 1842; Diplomatic correspondence of the Right Hon. Richard Hill 2 vols. 1845; Scriptural teaching 1847; The Gospel history between the death of Christ and the day of Pentecost 1855. d. Garforth house, Upper Sydenham 29 March 1885 aged 87.

BLACKLOCK, AMBROSE. b. Dumfries 1816; Assistant surgeon Madras 8 Feb. 1840; professor of surgery and surgeon of the General hospital Madras 1851, and professor of medicine and physician 1858 to 28 April 1867; went to England on sick leave 29 Aug. 1865; returned to Madras 1868; deputy inspector general of Presidency, Circle and Northern, divisions 4 Aug. 1870 to death; author of A treatise on sheep 1838, 12 ed. 1853. d. of enteritis at Chittoor, Madras 11 Feb. 1873.

BLACKLOCK, WILLIAM JAMES. b. Cumwhitton near Carlisle about 1815; landscape painter; exhibited pictures at Royal Academy, British Institution and Society of British Artists 1836–55. d. Dumfries 12 March 1858 aged 42. Carlisle Journal 19 March 1858.

BLACKMAN, WILLIAM. b. Arundel 27 Nov. 1862; ed. at Ardingley college, captain of the cricket eleven 1880, an assistant master 1880; in the Sussex county eleven 17 July 1881 to 1884; one of the best all-round cricketers in South of England. d. 4 Royal terrace, Fitzroy, Melbourne 2 June 1885. Cricket 28 Jany. 1886 p. 1, portrait.

BLACKMORE, REV. RICHARD WHITE. Educ. at Merton coll. Ox., B.A. 1813; chaplain to the Russia company 1819–47; R. of Donhead St. Mary near Salisbury 1847 to death; author of History of the church of Russia 1842; The doctrine of the Russian church 1845. d. Donhead St. Mary rectory 28 June 1882 in 91 year.

BLACKMORE, WILLIAM. b. Salisbury; admitted solicitor 1849; practised at Liverpool 1856–69; presented his very valuable collection of stone implements and other objects of art of aboriginal inhabitants of America to city of Salisbury 1863 which formed nucleus of the Blackmore museum, Salisbury; member of Ethnological society of London 1866; member of council of Anthropological society 21 Jany. 1871 on its amalgamation with Ethnological society, and vice pres. 1872. d. Belgrave mansions, Grosvenor gardens, London 12 April 1878.

BLACKSTONE, WILLIAM SEYMOUR. b. 30 Oct. 1809; M.P. for Wallingford, Berkshire 11 Dec. 1832 to July 1852. d. 6 Jany. 1881.

BLACKWALL, JOHN (son of Mr. Blackwall of Manchester, importer of Irish linen). b. St. Anne’s square, Manchester 20 Jany. 1790; partner with his father to 1833; lived at Llanrwst, North Wales 1842 to death; member of Manchester literary and philosophical society; F.L.S. April 1827; author of Researches in Zoology 1834, 2 ed. 1873; A history of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland, 2 parts 1861–64, published by the Ray Society; wrote 82 papers in natural history periodicals 1821–71. d. Hendre house, Llanrwst 11 May 1881. Entomologist xiv, 145–50, 190 (1881).

BLACKWELL, THOMAS. Partner with E. Crosse as oilmen at 11 King st. Soho, London 1829, this was oldest house of the kind in London having been founded 1706; moved to Soho square 1840; began manufacture of jams 1841 and of table jellies 1850. d. Brookshill, Harrow Weald 16 Dec. 1879. Will proved 6 March 1880, Personalty sworn under £160,000. H. Mayhew’s Shops of London i, 174–88 (1865).

BLACKWELL, THOMAS EVANS (son of John Blackwell, civil engineer who d. 1840). b. Devizes 28 July 1819; engineer to Kennet & Avon canal co. 1840; engineer to Bristol docks 1852–57; vice pres. and general manager of grand trunk railway 1857–62; F.G.S., F.R.G.S.; A.I.C.E. 1843, M.I.C.E. 1849. d. 25 June 1863.

BLACKWOOD, ARTHUR JOHNSTONE (2 son of Sir Henry Blackwood, admiral R.N., 1 Baronet 1770–1832). b. 25 April 1808; clerk in Colonial office April 1824 to May 1867; groom of the privy chamber 1836 to death. d. Oakham, Rutland 2 Jany. 1874.

BLACKWOOD, FRANCIS PRICE (brother of the preceding). b. 25 May 1809; entered navy 6 Dec. 1821; captain 28 June 1838; commanded the Fly surveying vessel on East India station 17 Nov. 1841 to 1846; F.R.A.S. d. of cancer in the throat at Richmond 22 March 1854. Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xxiv, 80–81 (1854).

BLACKWOOD, GEORGE FREDERICK (2 son of Wm. Blackwood, major in Bengal army). b. Moradabad, Bengal 1838; ed. at Edinburgh academy and Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery 11 Dec. 1857; commanded the artillery in the Lushai expedition Nov. 1871; major 10 Feb. 1875; commanded E. battery B. brigade of Royal Horse Artillery in the Afghan campaign 1879 to death; killed at battle of Maiwand 27 July 1880, being one of the 11 officers and men who fought till they were all killed. Shadbolt’s Afghan campaign (1882) 20–22, portrait.

BLACKWOOD, SIR HENRY, 3 Baronet. b. 7 May 1828; succeeded 7 Jany. 1851. d. Athens 26 May 1854.

BLACKWOOD, SIR HENRY MARTIN, 2 Baronet (only son of Sir Henry Blackwood, 1 baronet 1770–1832). b. 11 June 1801; entered navy 22 July 1814; captain 28 April 1827; succeeded his father 14 Dec. 1832; commodore on East India station 29 June 1844; captain of the Fox 14 Oct. 1843 to 5 Aug. 1848. d. Portsmouth 7 Jany. 1851. I.L.N. xviii, 37 (1851).

BLACKWOOD, JOHN (6 son of William Blackwood of Edinburgh, publisher 1776–1834). b. Edinburgh 7 Dec. 1818; ed. at high school and Univ. Edin.; superintended London branch of his brother Robert’s publishing business 1840–45; partner in the firm 1845; head of the firm 1852 to death; editor of Blackwood’s Mag. 1845 to death; published in it George Eliot’s Scenes of clerical life, published all her books except Romola. d. Strathtyrum, St. Andrews 29 Oct. 1879. The Critic xxi, 6, 38, 102, 128, 192 and 225 (1860); George Eliot’s Life by J. W. Cross 3 vols. 1885; I.L.N. lxxii, 461 (1879), portrait; Graphic xx, 525 (1879), portrait.

BLAGDEN, ISA JANE. Lived at Florence 1849 to death; great friend of Mrs. Theodosia Trollope and of Mrs. E. B. Browning both of whom she nursed in their last illnesses; author of Agnes Tremorne 2 vols. 1861; The cost of a secret 3 vols. 1863; The woman I loved and the woman who loved me 1865; The crown of a life 1869. d. Florence 26 Jany. 1873. Poems by the late Isa Blagden with a memoir 1873.

BLAGDEN, RICHARD (youngest son of Richard Bragg Blagden of Petworlh, Sussex, surgeon). M.R.C.S. 1811, F.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon in London 1814–54; surgeon to Duchess of Kent 1828 to death; surgeon accoucheur to Queen Victoria 1840 to death; F.R. Med. and Chir. Soc. 1839, served on the council 1847–48. d. Percy place, Bath 31 March 1861 aged 72.

BLAGDEN-HALE, EDWARD. b. 14 Aug. 1814; ensign 82 Foot 2 Aug. 1833, lieut. col. 7 Sep. 1855 to 10 Nov. 1856 and 6 Feb. 1857 to 1 June 1861 when placed on h.p.; brigadier general Bengal 16 Oct. 1858 to 14 Feb. 1859; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 24 March 1858. d. Alderley, Wotton under Edge 17 May 1881.

BLAGROVE, HENRY GAMBLE (eld. son of Mr. Blaqrove of Nottingham, professor of music). b. Nottingham 20 Oct. 1811; appeared as a violinist at Drury Lane theatre in an entertainment called The Lilliputians 1817; played at concerts at Exhibition rooms in Spring Gardens 1817; studied at Royal Academy of Music 1823; solo violinist in royal private band 1830–37; pupil of Spohr at Cassel 1832–34; played at Vienna and elsewhere with great success; leader of a string quartet party which gave a series of concerts at the Hanover square rooms 1836; led the State band at the Coronation of Queen Victoria; principal violin in Jullien’s band, at both opera houses, at most of the provincial festivals, the Handel festivals at Crystal Palace, and leading musical societies in London; taught the violin at R.A. of music; published some valuable exercises for the violin, and a few solos. (m. 17 Aug. 1841 Etheldred dau. of Henry Combe, she d. 8 Jany. 1869). d. 224 Marylebone road, London 15 Dec. 1872. Rev. W. W. Cazalet’s History of royal academy of Music (1854) 285–87; I.L.N. lxi, 633 (1872), portrait.

BLAIKIE, FRANCIS (son of Andrew Blaikie, tenant of Holydean, Scotland). Went to England about 1789; agent to Earl of Chesterfield, and then to Earl of Leicester; introduced the turnip drill and other improvements in agriculture; author of papers on science of agriculture; retired about 1832. d. St. Helens Sep. 1857.

BLAIKIE, SIR THOMAS (4 son of John Blaikie, of Aberdeen). b. Aberdeen 1802; ed. at gr. sch. and Marischal coll.; merchant at Aberdeen; lord provost 5 times; knighted at St. James’s palace 20 Feb. 1856. d. Bonacord terrace, Aberdeen 25 Sep. 1861.

BLAINE, DELABERE ROBERTON. b. Woodbridge, Suffolk; solicitor in Lincoln’s Inn Fields London; barrister M.T. 8 May 1846; revising barrister for Essex 1866–71; judge of Northumberland county court (circuit No. 1) April 1871; transferred to London (circuit No. 43) Nov. 1871; F.R.G.S. 1854; author of Laws of Artistic copyright and their defects 1853; Suggestions on the copyright bill 1861; d. Southwick place, Hyde park sq. London 13 Dec. 1871 aged 64.

BLAIR, CHARLES EDWARD. L.S.A. 1836, M.R.C.S. 1836; army surgeon in a Portugese regiment during war between Dom Miguel and Dom Pedro 1833–34; reported in the Lancet the first cases of cholera in London 1832; author of Lectures on the anatomy and physiology of the teeth; K.C., K.T.S. d. East hill, Colchester 28 Aug. 1855 aged 45.

BLAIR, JAMES KENNEDY (eld. son of James Blair of Weatfield, Belfast). b. Weatfield 9 Dec. 1807; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; barrister L.I. 27 Jany. 1835; judge of Court of record for hundred of Salford, Lancashire; joint judge of county courts for circuit No. 6 comprising Liverpool, Ormskirk and St. Helens 22 Oct. 1857 to 28 Feb. 1872 when he resigned. d. New Brighton, Cheshire 1 Oct. 1879.

BLAIR, STEPHEN. b. Bolton 1804; Merchant and bleacher at Bolton; M.P. for Bolton 12 Sep. 1848 to 1 July 1852. d. 5 July 1870.

BLAKE, BARNETT. Edited Exeter and Plymouth Gazette 1843–52; secretary of Exeter Literary and Scientific Institution 5 years; editor and manager of Liverpool Standard; secretary of Yorkshire Union of Mechanics’ Institutes 1856 to death. d. of typhus fever at Beeston near Leeds 14 March 1866 aged 54.

BLAKE, EDWARD SAMUEL. Colonel in Bombay artillery 29 May 1861 to death; C.B. 21 March 1859. d. 18 Princes sq. Bayswater, London 26 June 1862 aged 51.

BLAKE, SIR FRANCIS, 3 Baronet. b. Heston, Middlesex 1774; succeeded 22 May 1818; M.P. for Berwick 29 March 1827 to 29 Dec. 1834. d. 10 Sep. 1860.

BLAKE, FREDERICK RODOLPH (son of Wm. Blake of Danesbury who d. 24 Nov. 1852). b. 15 Aug. 1808; ensign 85 Foot 30 June 1825; lieut. col. 33 Foot 3 Oct. 1848 to death; served at battle of the Alma and before Sebastopol; C.B. 5 July 1855. d. Rottingdean, Sussex 23 Aug. 1855.

BLAKE, REV. GEORGE BANNERMAN. b. Aberdeen; ed. at Marischal college Aberdeen; studied theology at New college Edinburgh; M.A. 1854; licensed by Presbytery of Edin. 1855; assistant pastor of St. George’s presbyterian church Sunderland July 1856, junior minister 9 July 1857 to death, ordained 9 July 1857; founded Ropery lane mission, Sunderland March 1859. d. Sunderland 29 Aug. 1863 aged 32. A memorial sketch of the late Rev. G. B. Blake with a selection from his sermons 1864, portrait.

BLAKE, GEORGE CHARLES. Entered navy 2 July 1799; inspecting commander in Coast Guard 1832–35; captain 28 June 1838; gentleman usher to Prince Albert 1841; retired captain 15 Oct. 1852; retired admiral 10 Sep. 1869. d. Bury near Gosport 14 Nov. 1872 aged 84.

BLAKE, SIR HENRY CHARLES, 4 Baronet. b. 23 Nov. 1794; succeeded 21 April 1832. d. Ashfield lodge, Great Ickworth, Suffolk 22 Jany. 1880.

BLAKE, MARTIN JOSEPH (elder son of Walter Blake of Ballyglunin park, Athenry, co. Galway). b. 1790; M.P. for co. Galway 1833–57. d. Ballyglunin park March 1861.

BLAKE, PATRICK JOHN (2 son of Sir James Henry Blake, 3 baronet who d. 21 April, 1832). b. 1797; entered navy April 1813; captain 6 May 1841; commanded the Juno 26 guns in the Pacific 3 Sep. 1845 to 14 Feb. 1849; admiral on h.p. 20 Oct. 1872. d. Thurston, Bury St. Edmunds 29 Sep. 1884.

BLAKE, SIR THOMAS EDWARD, 13 Baronet. b. Killagh, co. Galway 25 May 1805; succeeded Jany. 1847. d. 2 Jany. 1875.

BLAKE, WILLIAM. Bought estate of Danesbury near Welwyn Herts. 1820; sheriff of Herts. 1836; formed a valuable collection of modern water colour paintings; F.R.S. 14 May 1807. d. Danesbury 24 Nov. 1852 aged 78.

BLAKE, WILLIAM HUME (son of Rev. Dominick Edward Blake, R. of Kiltegan, co. Wicklow). b. Kiltegan 10 March 1809; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; emigrated to Canada and settled in township of Adelaide 1832; called to Canadian bar 1835; a bencher of Canadian law society Nov. 1845; solicitor general 1848; chancellor of Upper Canada 30 Sep. 1849 to 1862; judge of court of appeal; chancellor of Univ. of Toronto; professor of law in Univ. of Toronto. d. Toronto 15 Nov. 1870. Law Journal vi, 23–24 (1871).

BLAKE, WILLIAM JOHN (eld. son of Wm. Blake of Danesbury, Herts, who d. 24 Nov. 1852). b. 12 May 1805; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox.; double first class 1826, B.A. 1827, M.A. 1829; barrister L.I. 10 June 1831; M.P. for Newport, Isle of Wight 26 July 1837 to 23 June 1841, defeated by one vote only 31 July 1847; F.R.S. 20 Jany. 1831. d. Danesbury 15 Sep. 1875.

BLAKE, WILLIAM WILLIAMS. Cornet 20 Dragoons 26 April 1797; major 21 March 1805 to Dec. 1818 when placed on h.p.; C.B. 4 June 1815. d. Brighton 21 Feb. 1863 aged 83.

BLAKELY, REV. FLETCHER (youngest son of Joseph Bleakly of Ballyroney, co. Down, farmer). b. Ballyroney 13 May 1783; ed. at Glasgow college; Presbyterian minister of Moneyrea, co. Down 19 Sep. 1809; the first avowed humanitarian preacher in Ulster from which arose the proverb ‘Moneyrea, where there is one God and no devil’; joined with his whole congregation the remonstrant secession from the Synod of Ulster 1829; assisted Henry Montgomery leader of the New Light party in forming remonstrant synod; joint editor of the Bible Christian 1830–33; resigned ministry of Moneyrea 22 Sep. 1857; author of several tracts and sermons, d. Cradley, Worcestershire 25 Feb. 1862. bur. at Moneyrea. Inquirer 15 March 1862; Christian Unitarian (1862), p. 123.

BLAKELY, VERY REV. THEOPHILUS. Educ. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1794; alternate morning preacher at Berkeley and Fitzroy chapels London; dean of Connor 4 May 1811 to 6 Dec. 1824; dean of Achonry 6 Dec. 1824 to 11 May 1839; dean of Down 11 May 1839 to death; one of the first advocates of the Irish National system of education. d. Clare st. Dublin 1 Dec. 1855 aged 85. G.M. xlv, 309 (1856).

BLAKENEY, SIR EDWARD (4 son of colonel Wm. Blakeney M.P. for Athenry in Irish parliament). b. Newcastle 1778; Cornet 8 Light dragoons 28 Feb. 1794; lieut. col. 7 Foot 20 June 1811 to 2 June 1825; served in the Peninsula 1811–14; commanded first brigade in army sent to Portugal 1825; colonel 7 Foot 20 Sep. 1832 to 21 Dec. 1854; commanded troops in Ireland 1838–55; general 20 June 1854; colonel 1 Foot 21 Dec. 1854 to death; lieutenant governor of Chelsea hospital 6 Feb. 1855, governor 25 Sep. 1856 to death; field marshal 9 Nov. 1862; colonel in chief of Rifle brigade 28 Aug. 1865 to death; K.T.S. 1812, K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 7 May 1849; G.C.H. 7 May 1836; P.C. Ireland 7 May 1836. d. Chelsea hospital 2 Aug. 1868.

BLAKENEY, REV. RICHARD PAUL. b. Roscommon 2 June 1820; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1842, LL.B. and LLD. 1852, D.D. Edin. 1868; C. of St. Paul’s, Nottingham 1843–44; P.C. of Hyson Green, Notts. 1844–52; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Claughton, Cheshire Jany. 1852 to 1874; V. of Bridlington 1874 to death; rural dean of Bridlington 1876 to death; canon of York 1882 to death; author of Translation of the Moral theology of Alphonsus Liguori 1845, 2 ed. 1852; A manual of Romish controversy 1851; Protestant Catechism 1854; History and interpretation of the Book of common prayer 1865, 3 ed. 1878. d. Bridlington 31 Dec. 1884. Church portrait journal May 1880, portrait.

BLAKESLEY, VERY REV. JOSEPH WILLIAMS (son of Jeremiah George Blakesley of City of London, factor who d. 1817 or 1818). b. 38 Coleman st. city of London 6 March 1808; ed. at St. Paul’s school 1819–27 (captain 1826–27) and C. C. coll. Cam., migrated to Trinity college 1830, foundation scholar 1830, 21 wrangler and 3 classic 1831, B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834, B.D. 1850; fellow of Trinity 1831, assistant tutor 1834, tutor 1839–45; member of the celebrated Apostles club at Cambridge; select preacher 1840 and 1843; V. of Ware, Herts. 30 May 1845 to 1872; canon of Canterbury 27 June 1863 to 4 July 1872; dean of Lincoln 4 July 1872 to death; master of the Mercers Company 1864; an active member of the committee for revision of translation of New Testament; author of Thoughts on the recommendations of the Ecclesiastical commission 1837; Life of Aristotle 1839; Conciones Academicæ 1843; Herodotus with a commentary 2 vols. 1852–54; Four months in Algeria, with a visit to Carthage 1859; wrote under signature of “A Hertfordshire Incumbent” many letters on social questions to The Times which attracted general attention. d. The deanery, Lincoln 18 April 1885. Saturday Review lix, 533 (1885); Guardian 22 April 1885, p. 596.

BLAKEY, ROBERT (son of Robert Blakey of Morpeth, Northumberland, mechanic who d. Feb. 1796 aged 22). b. Manchester lane, Morpeth 18 May 1795; wrote for the Black Dwarf a London paper 1817–21 and for the Newcastle Mag., Durham Chronicle and Cobbett’s Register 1822–32; mayor of Morpeth 1836–37; purchased the Newcastle Liberator 1 Jany. 1838 which was amalgamated with the Champion a London weekly paper 1840; started the Politician a London weekly paper of which only 6 numbers were issued; professor of logic and metaphysics in Queen’s college Belfast Aug. 1849 to 1851; a great proficient in the art of angling; granted civil list pension of £100, 20 Jany. 1860; author of An essay towards an easy and useful system of logic 1834, 2 ed. 1848; Hints on angling by Hackle Palmer 1846; History of the philosophy of the mind 4 vols. 1848; The anglers complete guide to the rivers and lakes of England 1854; The history of political literature from the earliest times 2 vols. 1854, and of a number of minor works. d. 20 Blomfield road, Shepherds Bush, London 26 Oct. 1878. Memoirs of R. Blakey edited by Rev. H. Miller 1879.

BLAKISTON, ANNE (elder dau. of John Rochfort of Clogrenane, co. Carlow). m. Sep. 1782 Sir Matthew Blakiston, 2 baronet, who was b. 1760 and d. 20 Sep. 1806, she d. Lymington, Hants, 27 Nov. 1862 in 102 year.

BLAKISTON, SIR MATTHEW, 3 Baronet. b. Athlone 13 May 1783; succeeded 20 Sep, 1806. d. Sandybrooke hall, Ashbourne, Derbyshire 23 Dec. 1862.

BLAKISTON, SIR MATTHEW, 4 Baronet. b. Bath 15 Jany. 1811; ed. at the Charterhouse and Trin. coll. Dub.; succeeded 23 Dec. 1862. d. Sandybrooke hall 3 Dec. 1883.

BLAKISTON, PEYTON (youngest child of Sir Matthew Blakiston, 2 baronet 1760–1806). b. 6 Sep. 1801; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.; migrated to Em. coll., a Dixie fellow; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1827, M.L. 1837, M.D. 1841; C. of Bilton, co. Warwick; V. of Lymington, Hants. 1830–33; studied medicine at Cambridge and Paris; practised at Birmingham, phys. to general hospital 1841; F.R.S. 21 Jany. 1840; F.R.C.P. 1843; practised at St. Leonard’s on Sea 1848–71; author of On diseases of the Chest 1848; Clinical observations on diseases of the heart 1865; Clinical reminiscences 1878. d. 140 Harley st. London 17 Dec. 1878. Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. viii, 397–99 (1880); Proc. of Royal Soc. xxix, 1–2 (1879).

BLAMIRE, GEORGE. Barrister L.I. 25 June 1819; owner of large estates in Cumberland and Glamorganshire; occupied 3 rooms on first floor of 1 Adam st. Adelphi, London 1847 to death; slept in an arm chair last 16 years of his life; found dead in his chair at 1 Adam st. 17 Sep. 1863, having probably died 13 or 14 Sep. aged 75.

BLAMIRE, JANE CHRISTIAN (2 dau. of Wm. Blamire of The Oaks near Dalston, Cumberland, surgeon who d. 29 Jany. 1814). b. The Oaks 20 March 1788; housekeeper to her brother at Thackwood, Cumberland 1813 to 1831; a great philanthropist. d. Thackwood 20 Sep. 1857. H. Lonsdale’s Worthies of Cumberland iv, 117–39 (1873).

BLAMIRE, WILLIAM (only brother of the preceding). b. The Oaks 13 April 1790; ed. at Carlisle and Westminster; entered Ch. Ch. Ox. Oct. 1808, B.A. 1811; a great stock breeder, went to all the fairs in Scotland and North England; sheriff of Cumberland 1828; M.P. for Cumberland 9 May 1831 to 3 Dec. 1832, for East Cumberland 17 Dec. 1832 to Aug. 1836; made a great speech in House of Commons on Tithe Commutation bill 25 March 1836; Tithe comr. for England and Wales 22 Aug. 1836 to 8 Aug. 1851 when the commission expired after having converted tithes into rent charges amounting to more than £4,000,000 per annum; Copyhold and Tithe comr. 22 June 1841; Inclosure comr. 21 Aug. 1845 to 1860. d. Thackwood near Carlisle 12 Jany. 1862. A biographical sketch of the late W. Blamire by H. Lonsdale, M.D. 1862.

BLANC, JEAN JOSEPH LOUIS. b. Madrid 28 Oct. 1813; clerk in a lawyer’s office in Paris 1830; edited a journal called Le Bon Sens 1836–38; founded La revue du progrès 1838 in which he advocated socialistic ideas; published The organisation of labour 1841; Histoire des dix ans 1841 which helped to precipitate the revolution of 1848; a member of the Provisional government 1848; pres. of the Labour commission; declined the Dictatorship; a member of the National Assembly; proscribed by the Assembly; lived in exile in England 1849–70; correspondent to several French journals; published Letters on England, 2 series 2 vols. 1867; a member of French National Assembly Feb. 1871 to death. d. Cannes 6 Dec. 1882. Louis Blanc, sa vie, ses œuvres, par C. Robin 1851, portrait; Louis Blanc, par C. Edmond 1882, portrait; I.L.N. xii, 182 (1848), portrait, xiii, 189 (1848), portrait, lxxxi, 629 (1882), portrait.

NOTE.—When an attempt was made to assassinate him in Paris 15 Aug. 1839 his brother Charles Blanc had a vivid presentiment of the scene, an incident on which Dumas founded the play of the Corsican Brothers.

BLANCHARD, EDMUND FORSTER (youngest son of Samuel Laman Blanchard of London, author 1804–45). contributed to many periodicals; connected with Lloyd’s Newspaper some time; author with Edward Wilberforce of Poems 1857; published The poetical works of Oliver Goldsmith with a notice of his life and genius 1867. d. 20 Air st. Piccadilly, London 25 July 1870 aged 38.

BLANCHARD, SIDNEY LAMAN (elder brother of the preceding). Author of The Ganges and the Seine 2 vols. 1862; Yesterday and to-day in India 1867; Riddles of love or the knave of hearts 3 vols. 1871. d. Brighton 9 Nov. 1883.

BLANCHARD, THOMAS. Pantaloon at Covent Garden theatre 26 Dec. 1827; acquired considerable repute as a broadswordsman; obtained great fame at the old Coburg theatre London for the celebrated drunken combat with Thomas Bradley in The Maid of Genoa 1828; said to be original inventor of the “one two three and under” style of using the broadsword; last appeared as pantaloon at Victoria theatre 1845; built some cottages at back of Victoria theatre which still bear his name; d. London 20 Aug. 1859 aged 72.

BLAND, VENERABLE GEORGE (2 son of Michael Bland F.R.S. who d. 19 April 1851 aged 74). b. 1804; ed. at Caius coll. Cam., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; R. of Slinfold Sussex 1836–44; archdeacon of Lindisfarne 7 May 1844 to 1853; archdeacon of Northumberland 1853 to death; R. of St. Mary-le-Bow Durham 1856–59. d. The college, Durham 17 Feb. 1880.

BLAND, HUMPHREY. b. England 1812; an actor at Surrey theatre London 1834; went to America 1844; made his début at Park theatre New York 1 Sep. 1845 as Lewson in The Gamester; first appeared in Philadelphia 4 March 1850 at the Arch st. theatre as Joseph Surface in The school for scandal. d. New York 17 Jany. 1869.

BLAND, JAMES (2 son of George Bland of London, actor by Maria Theresa Romanzini of London, vocalist 1769–1838). b. 5 March 1798; made his first appearance in London at English opera house 1 July 1822 in an operetta called Love among the roses; comedian at Drury Lane and Haymarket, at Olympic 1831, at Covent Garden 1839, at Lyceum and Adelphi, and at Strand theatre down to his death. d. at stage door of Strand theatre, Surrey st. London 17 July 1861.

BLAND, LOFTUS HENRY (3 son of John Bland of Blandsfort, Queen’s county who d. 11 Nov. 1810). b. Blandsfort Aug. 1805; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; called to Irish bar 1829; M.P. for King’s county 26 July 1852 to 23 April 1859; Q.C. 28 Jany. 1854; chairman of quarter sessions co. Cavan 1862. d. 33 Merrion sq. Dublin 21 Jany. 1872.

BLAND, MICHAEL (only child of Thomas Bland of Norwich, merchant who d. 28 Aug. 1818 in 79 year). Partner in firm of Whitbread and Co. of London, brewers; F.R.S. 8 Feb. 1816, F.S.A., F.G.S. d. 65 Cambridge terrace, Hyde park, London 19 April 1851 aged 74.

BLAND, REV. MILES (son of Thomas Bland). b. Sedbergh 11 Oct. 1786; ed. at Sedbergh sch. and St. John’s coll. Cam., 2 wrangler and Smith’s prizeman 1808, B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811, B.D. 1818, D.D. 1826, fellow of his college 5 April 1808, assistant tutor 1809, tutor to 1823; R. of Lilley, Herts. 16 May 1823 to death; preb. of Wells cathedral 18 April 1826 to death; F.R.S. 12 April 1821, F.R.A.S., F.S.A.; author of Algebraical problems 1812, 9 ed. 1849; Geometrical problems 1819, 3 ed. 1827; Annotations on the historical books of the New Testament 2 vols. 1828–29; Mechanical and philosophical problems 1830. d. 5 Royal crescent, Ramsgate 27 Dec. 1867.

BLAND, WILLIAM (younger son of Robert Bland of London, physician who d. 29 June 1816 aged 76). b. London 5 Nov. 1789; surgeon’s mate on board a man-of-war; fought a duel with the purser of his ship in the Persian gulf when he shot his opponent dead; fought another duel with Lieut. Wm. Randall, tried at Calcutta and sentenced to 7 years transportation 1814, exiled to Sydney 1814, obtained a free pardon; surgeon at Sydney 1815 to death; fined £50 with 12 months in Paramatta gaol for libelling Governor Macquarie; a naval surgeon 7 July 1826; member for Sydney to first elective legislature of New South Wales 15 June 1843 to 1848; presented with a testimonial of £1000 by people of Sydney 14 Sep. 1858. d. 28 College st. Sydney 21 July 1868. Carlisle’s History of family of Bland (1826) 235–47; Illust. news of the world iv, 68 (1859), portrait; Heads of the people ii, 67 (1848), portrait.

BLANE, ARCHIBALD WILLIAM. b. 29 March 1788; member of council Mauritius; discovered the wealth of the Peel river district Australia; deputy governor of Australian Agricultural company 1845 to death. d. Booral, Port Stephens 6 Nov. 1852.

BLANE, DAVID ANDERSON. b. 1801; entered Bombay civil service 1819; member of council at Bombay 1 March 1849 to 1854 when he retired on annuity. d. 21 Prince’s gardens, South Kensington, London 17 June 1879.

BLANE, SIR HUGH SEYMOUR, 2 Baronet. b. 29 July 1795; ed. at the Charterhouse 1803–7; ensign 3 Foot guards 31 March 1814, captain 30 Aug. 1831 to 1835; succeeded 27 June 1834. d. The Pastures near Derby 14 April 1869.

BLANE, ROBERT. Cornet 2 Life Guards 1 Nov. 1831; assistant adjutant general and military sec. 1854–55; military attaché at St. Petersburgh 21 July 1866 to death; colonel 11 April 1860; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857. d. 11 Eaton terrace, Eaton sq. London 30 May 1871.

BLANSHARD, THOMAS. Second lieut. R.E. 28 Sep. 1807, colonel 5 July 1851 to 16 Dec. 1854, M.G. 16 Dec. 1854; C.B. 19 July 1838. d. Grove house, Hampton, Middlesex 19 June 1859 aged 70.

BLANSHARD, WILLIAM (eld. son of Richard Blanshard of Northallerton). b. 29 June 1802; served in East India company’s navy 1817–19; barrister I.T. 16 May 1828; recorder of Ripon 1830–35; revising barrister 1832–63; advocate in all the Courts of Archbishop of Canterbury, who created him M.A. 18 Feb. 1839; recorder of Doncaster June 1857 to July 1870; judge of Northumberland county court (circuit No. 1.) 10 Jany. 1863 to Oct. 1871; author of A treatise on the statutes of limitations 1826. d. Scarborough 28 Nov. 1872.

BLANTYRE, LADY EVELYN (2 dau. of 2 Duke of Sutherland 1786–1861). b. 2 Hamilton place, Piccadilly, London 8 Aug. 1825. (m. 4 Oct. 1843 Charles Stuart, 12 Baron Blantyre who was b. 21 Dec. 1818). d. Nice 24 Nov. 1869. Sir. H. Nicolas’s Court of Queen Victoria (1845) 13–18, portrait; Illust. News of the world ix, (1862), portrait.

BLASIS, CARLO (son of Francesco Antonio Blasis of Naples, ballet composer). b. Naples 4 Dec. 1803; a principal dancer at Marseilles, Bordeaux, Paris and Milan 1816–26; dancer and ballet composer at the King’s theatre London 1826; finishing master of the Imperial Academy of dancing at Milan 1 Dec. 1837; ballet composer at Royal Italian opera Covent Garden 1846; composed the Spanish dances which were performed at the public breakfasts given by the Duchess of St. Albans; wrote more than 50 ballets; wrote the chapters upon private dancing in The young lady’s book 1828–29; author of The code of Terpsichore 1830. d. Cernolio near lake of Como Jany. 1878. Notes upon dancing by C. Blasis (1847) 36–148, portrait.

BLAXLAND, GREGORY. b. Kent 1771; emigrated to Sydney 1806; crossed the Blue Mountains with W. C. Wentworth May 1813 after several unsuccessful attempts had been made to do so; introduced cultivation of oaten hay into colony of New South Wales. d. 3 Jany. 1853.

BLAYNEY, CADWALLADER DAVIS BLAYNEY, 12 Baron. b. Dover st. Piccadilly, London 19 Dec. 1802; M.P. for Monaghan 18 Aug. 1830 to 8 April 1834, when he succeeded; an Irish representative peer 12 June 1841 to death. d. 18 Jany. 1874.

BLECKLEY, THOMAS MACDOUGALL (son of Rev. John Bleckley). b. 13 Dec. 1828; assistant surgeon in the army 6 Jany. 1854; surgeon major 1 March 1873 to 24 Jany. 1880; C.B. 31 March 1874. d. Lorne house, Central hill, Upper Norwood 23 Nov. 1882.

BLEECK, ARTHUR HENRY. b. about 1829; employed in the British Museum; held a post in connection with the land transport corps at Sinope during Crimean war; author with W. B. Barker of A practical grammar of the Turkish language 1854; author of A concise grammar of the Persian language 1857; Catalogue of the Napoleon library in the possession of Mr. Joshua Bates privately printed 1858; Avesta, the religious books of the Parsees, from Spiegel’s German translation of the original manuscripts 3 vols. 1864. d. 56 Bevington road, Kensington 27 Jany. 1877 aged 47.

BLEEK, WILHELM HEINRICH IMMANUEL (son of Friedrich Bleek of Berlin, biblical critic 1793–1859). b. Berlin 8 March 1827; ed. at Bonn and Berlin; studied habits and language of the Kaffirs in Natal 1855–57; interpreter to Sir George Grey at Cape Town 1857; librarian of the valuable collection of rare books presented by Sir G. Grey to the colony at Cape Town 1 Feb. 1862 to death; granted civil list pension of £150, 18 June 1870. (m. Jemima Charlotte, she was granted a civil list pension of £100, 13 June 1877); author of The languages of Mozambique 1856; The library of Sir George Grey 2 vols. 1858–59; Comparative grammar of South African languages, 2 parts 1862–69; Reynard the Fox in South Africa, or Hottentot tales and fables 1864; Bushman folklore 1875. d. Cape Town 17 Aug. 1875. Cape Monthly Mag. xi, 167–69 (1875).

BLENKINS, WILLIAM BAZETT GOODWIN. Captain 6 Bombay native infantry 26 April 1842 to death; C.B. 4 July 1843. d. Bombay 12 June 1852.

BLENKIRON, WILLIAM (son of Mr. Blenkiron of Marrick near Richmond, Yorkshire, farmer). b. Marrick 1807; a general agent at 78½ Wood st. Cheapside, London 1834–48; a breeder of race horses at Dalston 1848, at Middle park near Eltham 1852 to death; his breeding stud gradually became the largest in England; held his first sale of blood stock at Middle park June 1856, held two annual sales there 1867 to death; bred Hermit winner of the Derby 1867, and Gamos winner of the Oaks 1870; gave 5000 guineas for Blink Bonny, 5000 guineas for Blair Athol, and 5800 guineas for Gladiateur; founded the great two year old race at Newmarket, namely The Middle Park Plate 1866. d. Middle Park 25 Sep. 1871 in 64 year. Rice’s History of the British turf ii, 338–44 (1879); Gent. Mag. iii, 451–62 (1869); I.L.N. lix, 377 (1871), portrait; Illust. sporting and dramatic news i, 181 (1874), portrait; Sporting life 27 Sep. 1871, p. 2, cols. 1, 5, 4 Oct. p. 2, col. 6.

BLEWITT, JONATHAN (son of Jonas Blewitt of London, organist who d. 1805). b. about 1781; organist in London, at Haverhill and at Brecon; organist of St. Andrew’s Dublin; composer and director of music at T. R. Dublin; grand organist to Freemasons of Ireland; wrote pantomime music for most of the London theatres 1826–52; director of music at Sadler’s Wells Theatre 1828–29, at Vauxhall gardens 1838 and at Tivoli gardens Margate; wrote a few light operas and upwards of 2000 pieces of vocal music, most of them comic songs, the best known are Barney Brallaghan’s Courtship and The merry little fat grey man 1845, which he used to sing inimitably; composed the tune of The Perfect Cure 1844 which was associated with a now forgotten song called The monkey and the nuts, 20 years afterwards it was utilised by James Hurst Stead who became known as The Perfect Cure, and cleared more than £2000 by linking the tune with other words. d. London 4 Sep. 1853 in 73 year.

BLEWITT, OCTAVIAN (son of John Edwards Blewitt of London, merchant 1784–1860). b. St. Helen’s place, Bishopsgate, London 3 Oct. 1810; ed. at Plymouth gr. sch.; travelled in Italy, Egypt, Greece, Turkey and other countries 1837–39; secretary of Royal literary fund in London 13 March 1839 to death; elected a member of the Athenæum club 1848 by a majority of 112 votes to 2; F.G.S. 1835; a knight of order of Leopold of Belgium 1872; edited the newspaper portion of the Gardener’s Chronicle 1840–69; author of A panorama of Torquay 1830; A sketch of the district comprised between the Dart and the Teign 1832; Treatise on the happiness arising from the exercise of the Christian faith 1832; Handbook for travellers in Central Italy 1843 (anon.) 2 ed. (with the author’s name) 1850; Handbook for travellers in Southern Italy 1853. d. 133 Elgin crescent, London 4 Nov. 1884. Biograph v, 170–85 (1881).

BLEWITT, REGINALD JAMES (2 son of Edward Blewitt of Llantarnam abbey, Monmouthshire who d. 8 March 1832 in 70 year). b. 26 May 1799; ed. at Rugby; solicitor at 8 New square Lincoln’s Inn London 1821–27; M.P. for borough of Monmouth 24 July 1837 to March 1852; established the Monmouthshire Merlin a liberal paper 1829, edited it 1829–32; manager of Monmouthshire bank which failed for a very large sum. d. The Priory, Putney 11 Sep. 1878. Law Times lxv, 405 (1878).

BLIGH, SIR JOHN DUNCAN (2 son of John Bligh, 4 Earl of Darnley 1767–1831). b. London 11 Oct. 1798; ed. at Eton, and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1821, B.C.L. 1828, D.C.L. 1836; paid attaché in Paris 9 May 1828; sec. of legation at Florence 30 July 1829; sec. of embassy at The Hague 1 Nov. 1830; Min. plenipo. at The Hague 3 July 1832, at St. Petersburg 7 Sep. 1832, at Stockholm 28 Oct. 1835, and at Hanover 17 April 1838 to 14 June 1856 when he retired; C.B. 1 March 1851, K.C.B. 30 Sep. 1856. d. Sandgate, Kent 8 May 1872.

BLIGHT, WILLIAM. Entered navy 9 May 1793; captain 22 July 1830; retired R.A. 27 Sep. 1855. d. Stonehouse, Plymouth 22 July 1862 aged 77.

BLISS, HENRY (4 son of Jonathan Bliss of New Brunswick). b. New Brunswick; barrister I.T. 9 Feb. 1827, bencher 1850, reader 1863, treasurer 1864; Q.C. 1850; agent in England for Nova Scotia many years; author of On colonial intercourse 1830; Statistics of the trade, industry and resources of Canada 1833; State trials, specimen of a new edition by N. T. Moile, pseud. 1838; Cicero, a drama by N. T. Moile, 1847; Robespierre, a tragedy 1854. d. Folkestone 31 July 1873 aged 76.

BLISS, REV. PHILIP (son of Rev. Philip Bliss 1742–1803 R. of Frampton Cotterell, Gloucs). b. Chipping Sodbury, Gloucs. 21 Dec. 1787; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ 1797–1806 and St. John’s coll. Ox., scholar 1806, law fellow 1809, B.C.L. 1815, D.C.L. 1820; assistant librarian Bodleian library 1810, under librarian July 1822 to Dec. 1828; prepared the first 136 pages of the catalogue issued 1814; C. of Newington, Oxon. 1817 to Feb. 1830; registrar of the University 1824 to April 1853; chaplain at Studley Priory 1830–55; registrar of the University Court 1831; principal of St. Mary hall Ox. April 1848 to death; edited Bishop Earle’s Microcosmography 1811; Anthony à Wood’s Athenæ Oxonienses and Fasti 4 vols. 1813–20; Reliquiæ Hearnianæ the remains of Thomas Hearne 2 vols. 1857, 2 ed. 1869 and many other books. d. the Lodgings St. Mary Hall, Oxford 18 Nov. 1857. Dict. of Nat. Biog. v, 221–22 (1886).

BLITZ, ANTONIO. b. Deal, Kent 21 June 1810; made his first appearance on the stage as a ventriloquist and conjurer at Hamburg Sep. 1823; performed in all the cities of North Europe; first appeared in England at Dover Dec. 1825, and in London at Coburg theatre, Lent 1828; sailed for New York 1 Aug. 1834; in 1870 there were 13 conjurers travelling in America under assumed name of Blitz. d. Philadelphia 28 Jany. 1877. Fifty years in the magic circle by Signor Blitz (1871), portrait.

BLOCHMANN, HENRY. b. Dresden 7 Jany. 1838; landed at Calcutta Sep. 1858; professor of mathematics at the Doveton college Calcutta 1862–65; M.A. Calcutta Univ. 1865; assistant professor of the Calcutta Madrassa 1865, principal 1875 to death; member of Asiatic Society of Bengal 6 April 1864, sec. 1868 to death; author of The Prosody of the Persians 1872; School geography of India 1873; English and Urdu school dictionary Romanized, 8 ed. 1877; The first geography, 17 ed. 1879. d. Calcutta 13 July 1878. Proc. of Asiatic Society of Bengal (1878) 164–67.

BLOCKLEY, JOHN. b. 1801; Music publisher at 3 Argyll st. Regent st. London; composed many ballads, several of which were very popular namely the duet List tis music stealing and the songs Love not and The Englishman. d. 6 Park road, Haverstock hill, London 24 Dec. 1882.

BLOIS, SIR CHARLES, 7 Baronet. b. Sway, Hants. 1794; lieut. col. East Suffolk militia 1844 to 1853; succeeded 20 Aug. 1850. d. Cockfield hall, Suffolk 12 June 1855.

BLOMEFIELD, REV. SIR THOMAS EARDLEY WILMOT, 3 Baronet. b. Peamore near Exeter 3 Aug. 1820; succeeded 30 June 1858, V. of All Saint’s Pontefract 1859–72; master of Archbishop Holgate’s hospital near Hemsworth 1872 to death. d. Holgate lodge, Pontefract 21 Nov. 1878.

BLOMEFIELD, SIR THOMAS WILLIAM, 2 Baronet. b. Arlington st. Piccadilly, London 24 March 1791; succeeded 24 Aug. 1822. d. Egremont lodge, Brighton 30 June 1858.

BLOMFIELD, RIGHT REV. CHARLES JAMES (eld. son of Charles Blomfield of Bury St. Edmunds, school master who d. 28 Sep. 1831 in 69 year). b. Bury St. Edmunds 29 May 1786; ed. at Bury gr. sch. and Trin. coll. Cam.; scholar 1805, fellow Oct. 1809, Craven Univ. scholar 1806, 3 wrangler and Chancellor’s classical medallist 1808; B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811, B.D. 1818, D.D. 1820; R. of Dunton, Bucks. Dec. 1811; V. and R. of Great and Little Chesterford July 1817; R. of Tuddenham, Suffolk 1817; R. of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate May 1820; archdeacon of Colchester 15 Jany. 1822 to 4 June 1824; bishop of Chester 8 June 1824, consecrated in Whitehall chapel 20 June; bishop of London 15 Aug. 1828 to 30 Sep. 1856 when he resigned on a pension of £6000; P.C. 31 July 1828; admitted dean of chapels royal 12 Dec. 1828, enthroned in St. Paul’s cathedral 16 Jany. 1829; member of Ecclesiastical commission 1836 of which he was the moving spirit; published editions of Prometheus Vinctus 1810, Septem contra Thebas 1812, Persæ 1814, Choephoræ 1821; an edition of Callimachus 1815 and of Euripides 1821; wrote on classical subjects for Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews, and for the Museum Criticum a journal established by himself and James Henry Monk 1813. d. Fulham palace 5 Aug. 1857. A memoir of C. J. Blomfield edited by his son Alfred Blomfield, 2 ed. 1864; Rev. G. E. Biber’s Bishop Blomfield and his times 1857; H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches, 4 ed. (1876) 167–74; I.L.N. xxiv, 401 (1854), portrait.

BLOOD, BINDON. b. Cranacher, Ireland; lived at 22 Queen st. Edinburgh 1829–42; an original member of the Abbotsford Club 20 March 1833; a great collector of books which were piled in great heaps in his garrets, cellars and warerooms like unsorted goods; known as The Vampire and The Dragon. d. Ireland 1855. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 11–14, portrait; J. H. Burton’s The bookhunter, new ed. (1882) 55–58.

BLOOD, CLEMENTS. Lieutenant Bombay artillery 10 June 1821; major Bombay artillery 10 Nov. 1854; brigadier in command at Ahmednuggur 12 March 1855 to 18 Feb. 1858, and at Hyderabad 18 Feb. 1858 to 12 May 1859 when he retired with rank of M.G. d. Chiswick, Middlesex 10 April 1869 aged 63.

BLOOD, RICHARD. Lieutenant 6 Bombay N.I. 20 April 1819, lieut. col. 1 European regiment 1 Nov. 1852 to 18 May 1858; M.G. 1 Dec. 1858. d. 6 Circus road, St. John’s Wood, London 8 July 1877 aged 74.

BLOOMFIELD, JOHN ARTHUR DOUGLAS BLOOMFIELD, 2 Baron (eld. child of Benjamin Bloomfield, 1 Baron Bloomfield 1768–1846). b. 12 Nov. 1802; attaché at Vienna 16 Feb. 1818; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. at St. Petersburgh 3 April 1844, at Berlin 28 April 1851, at Vienna 22 Nov. 1860 to 28 Oct. 1871 when he retired on a pension; succeeded 15 Aug. 1846; C.B. 27 April 1848, K.C.B. 1 March 1851, G.C.B. 3 Sep. 1858, P.C. 17 Dec. 1860; created Baron Bloomfield of Ciamhaltha in the United Kingdom 7 Aug. 1871. (m. 4 Sep. 1845 Georgiana 16 and youngest child of 1 Baron Ravensworth, she was b. 13 April 1822). d. Ciamhaltha, Newport, Tipperary 17 Aug. 1879. Reminiscences of court and diplomatic life by Georgiana Baroness Bloomfield ii, 310 (1883), portrait.

BLOOMFIELD, HENRY KEANE. Ensign 59 Foot 30 Sep. 1813; lieut. col. 11 Foot 27 June 1845 to 1 April 1859 when placed on h.p.; colonel 64 Foot 20 Jany. 1867 to death; L.G. 13 Aug. 1868. d. 108 Jermyn st. Piccadilly, London 11 Feb. 1870 aged 72.

BLOOMFIELD, SIR JOHN (son of Patrick Bloomfield of Sligo). b. 1793; ed. at Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 28 April 1810, colonel 28 Nov. 1854, colonel commandant 5 April 1866 to death; aide-de-camp to the Queen 20 June 1854 to 25 Sep. 1859; inspector general of artillery 1 May 1859 to 30 June 1864; general 26 Nov. 1876; K.C.B. 13 March 1867, G.C.B. 24 May 1873. d. 108 Jermyn st. London 1 Aug. 1880.

BLOOMFIELD, REV. SAMUEL THOMAS. Educ. at Sid. Sus. coll. Cam., B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811, D.D. 1829; V. of Bisbrooke, Rutland 1814 to death; hon. canon of Peterborough cath. 1854 to death; granted civil list pension of £200, 30 June 1846; author of Recensio synoptica annotationis sacræ, being a critical digest of the most important annotations on the New Testament 8 vols. 1826–28; Translation of Thucydides 3 vols. 1829; The Greek Testament with English notes 2 vols. 1832, 12 ed. 1870; A Greek and English lexicon to the New Testament 1840, 2 ed. 1845. d. Hone house, Wandsworth common near London 28 Sep. 1869 aged 85.

BLORE, EDWARD (eld. son of Thomas Blore of Derby, topographer 1764–1818). b. Derby 13 Sep. 1787; architect and artist; designed exterior of Abbotsford for Sir Walter Scott 1816; designed organ-screen and choir fittings of Peterborough cathedral; restored Glasgow cathedral and Merton college chapel; special architect to Wm. iv and Victoria; completed erection of Buckingham Palace for £100,000, 1837; architect at Westminster Abbey; declined honour of knighthood; F.S.A. 27 Nov. 1823; D.C.L. Oxford 1834; F.R.S. 10 June 1841; a founder of Royal Archæological Institute Dec. 1843; author of The monumental remains of noble and eminent persons comprising the sepulchral antiquities of Great Britain 1825. d. 4 Manchester sq. London 4 Sep. 1879. Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. viii, 347–52 (1881); I.L.N. lxxv, 280 (1879), portrait.

BLORE, REV. EDWARD WILLIAM (elder son of the preceding). b. London 24 Jany. 1828; ed. at Eton 1842–47, member of the cricket eleven; began residence at Trin. coll. Cam. Oct. 1847, scholar 1849, fellow Oct. 1853; in the Cambridge eleven 1848–51; 37 wrangler 1851, B.A. 1851; assistant tutor of his college 1857, tutor 1862, senior tutor 1868–75, senior dean 1860–66; prime mover in restoration of Trin. coll. chapel, only important building in England founded by Queen Mary. d. Trinity college, Cambridge 24 June 1885. The little journal i, 77–88 (1884).

BLORE, ROBERT. Manufacturer of small porcelain biscuit figures in Bridge gate, Derby 1830; very clever in making pastes and glazes; an assistant at Mason’s factory at Lane Delph; superintended a pot-works at Middlesbrough until his death. d. about 1866.

BLOUNT, SIR EDWARD, 8 Baronet. b. Mawley hall, Cleobury Mortimer, Salop 3 March 1795; succeeded 31 Oct. 1803; sheriff of Worcestershire 1835. d. Mawley hall 28 April 1881.

BLOXAM, REV. ANDREW (4 son of Rev. Richard Rouse Bloxam, assistant master of Rugby school 38 years who d. 28 March 1840). b. Rugby 22 Sep. 1801; ed. at Rugby 1808–20 and Worcester coll. Ox., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; fellow of his college; naturalist on board the Blonde frigate (which conveyed bodies of King and Queen of Sandwich Islands to their native land) 1824–26; P.C. of Twycross, Leics. 1839–71; R. of Harborough Magna 1871 to death; wrote on conchology, ornithology and plants; author of A guide to Bradgate park with natural history of Charnwood Forest 1829. d. Harborough Magna 2 Feb. 1878. Midland Naturalist, April 1878 pp. 88–90.

NOTE.—A water-colour drawing by Turner in the National Gallery represents A. Bloxam and his five brothers attending the funeral of their uncle Sir T. Lawrence, R.A.

BLOXAM, CHARLES JOHN. Admitted solicitor Trinity term 1821; practised in London to death, probably oldest solicitor in practice on the rolls; senior member of court of Clothworkers’ Company, served as master when the new hall was opened by Prince Albert 27 March 1860. d. 16 Bedford place, Russell sq. London 25 Feb. 1885 in 85 year.

BLOXAM, REV. RICHARD ROWLAND (elder brother of Rev. A. Bloxam). b. Jany. 1798; ed. at Rugby and Worcester coll. Ox., B.A. 1819; master of Guilsborough gr. sch. 1821–24; chaplain of Pembroke dockyard 1845; domestic chaplain to Earl Ferrers 1848; R. of Harlaston, Tamworth 1850 to death; author of A voyage to the Sandwich Islands in H.M.S. Blonde. d. Leamington 23 Jany. 1877.

BLOXAM, THOMAS. b. London 1836; ed. at city of London school and King’s college; chemist to Industrial museum of Scotland 1860 to date when office was abolished; lecturer on chemistry at St. George’s hospital London; lecturer in experimental and natural science at Cheltenham college 1862 to death; F.C.S. 1859, F.G.S. 1869. d. London July 1872. Cheltenham College Mag. iii, 258–59 (1872).

BLUNDELL, FREDERICK. Second lieutenant Madras artillery 1813, colonel 4 May 1858 to death; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. d. Cheltenham 5 July 1860 aged 62.

BLUNDELL, JAMES. b. London 27 Dec. 1790; ed. at United Borough hospitals and Univ. of Edin., M.D. 24 June 1813; physician in London 1813 to death; L.R.C.P. 25 June 1818, F.R.C.P. 6 Aug. 1838; lecturer at Guy’s hospital 1819 to 1836; his class on Midwifery was largest in London; author of Researches, physiological and pathological 1825; Principles and practice of Obstetricy 1834; Observations on some of the more important diseases of women 1837; d. 80 Piccadilly, London 15 Jany. 1878. Personalty sworn under £350,000, 9 Feb. 1878. Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery vol. 1 (1840), portrait; W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery ii, 59 (1846), portrait; Medical Circular i, 283 (1852).

BLUNT, JOHN ELIJAH. Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; barrister L.I. 24 June 1822; a comr. in lunacy 1833–42; master in chancery 26 Nov. 1849 to death; author of A history of the establishment and residence of the Jews in England with an enquiry into their civil disabilities 1830. d. 45 Dover st. Piccadilly, London 28 June 1856 aged 59.

BLUNT, REV. JOHN HENRY. b. Chelsea 25 Aug. 1823; a manufacturing chemist in London; entered Univ. coll. Durham 1850, L. Th. 1852, hon. M.A. 1855, hon. D.D. June 1882; C. of Tynemouth, Northumberland 1853–54; C. of Breamore, Hants. 1867–68; V. of Kennington near Oxford 1868–73; R. of Beverstone, Gloucs. 20 Jany. 1873 to death; F.S.A. 7 June 1866; author of The Atonement 1855; Three essays on the Reformation 1860; Key to the Bible 1865; Annotated book of Common Prayer 1866, new ed. 1884; History of the Reformation 1868; Dictionary of theology 1870, 2 ed. 1872; The book of church law 1872; Dictionary of sects and heresies 1874; Annotated Bible 1878 and many other books. d. London 11 April 1884. Church Times 18 April 1884 p. 303.

BLUNT, REV. JOHN JAMES (_son of Rev. John Blunt V. of Lilleshall, Shropshire who d. 14 June 1843 aged 77_). b. Newcastle-under-Lyme 1794; entered St. John’s coll. Cam. 1812, first Bell scholar 1813, 15 wrangler 1816, B.A. 1816, M.A. 1819, B.D. 1826, fellow of his college 1816; travelling bachelor 1818, travelled in Italy and Sicily; C. of Hodnet, Shropshire 1823; C. of Chetwynd, Shropshire; Hulsean lecturer at Cam. 1831–32; R. of Great Oakley, Essex 1834–39; Lady Margaret professor of divinity at Cambridge 9 May 1839; offered the bishopric of Salisbury 1854; author of _Vestiges of ancient manners and customs discoverable in modern Italy and Sicily_ 1823; Sketch of the Reformation in England 1832, 29 ed. 1875; _The acquirements and principal obligations and duties of the parish priest_ 1856, 6 ed. 1872; _A history of the Christian church during the first three centuries_ 1856, 4 ed. 1869; _On the right use of the early fathers, two series of lectures_ 1857, 2 ed. 1858. d. Cambridge 17 June 1855. _Rev. J. J. Blunt’s Two introductory lectures on the study of the early Fathers, 2 ed._ 1856 v-xii; _Quarterly Review civ_, 151–70 (1858); Guardian 10 May 1882 pp. 665–66; Cambridge Chronicle 23 June 1855.

BLUNT, RICHARD. Ensign 3 Foot 31 Jany. 1787; lieut. col. 23 Aug. 1799 to 1814; colonel 66 Foot 25 March 1835 to death; general 23 Nov. 1841. d. Barnfield house, Southampton 25 Dec. 1859 aged 90.

BLYTH, BENJAMIN HALL (son of Robert Brittain Blyth of Edinburgh, iron merchant). b. Edinburgh 14 July 1819; civil engineer at Edin. 1850 to death; engineer in chief to Great North of Scotland railway 1852; acted as adviser and engineer at various times to most of the principal railway companies in Scotland; constructed many important lines; extensively employed as a parliamentary engineer; A.I.C.E. 1844, M.I.C.E. 1851. d. North Berwick near Edin. 21 or 22 Aug. 1866. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxvi, 556–60 (1867).

BLYTH, EDWARD, b. London 23 Dec. 1810; a druggist at Tooting 1832; contributed to Magazine of natural history from 1833; curator of museum of Asiatic Society of Bengal at Calcutta Sep. 1841 to 1862; contributed to the Indian Field, India sporting review and Calcutta Review; contributed to Land and Water and the Field under nom de plume of Zoophilus; one of the first zoologists of his time, and founder of the study of that science in India, d. 27 Dec. 1873. Memoir prefixed to Catalogue of mammals and birds of Burma by E. Blyth in Journal of Asiatic Society of Bengal extra number Aug. 1875, portrait.

BLYTHE, DAVID (son of Charles Blythe of Yetholm, Roxburghshire, king of the gipsies who d. 1861). b. Wooler, Northumberland 1795; king of the gipsies at Yetholm 1861 to death. d. 17 Feb. 1883. bur. in Chirnside churchyard. David Blythe the gipsy king, a character sketch by Charles Stuart, M.D. 1883, portrait; All the year round vi, 69–72 (1861).

BLYTHE, JOHN DEAN (son of Peter Dean Blythe of Ashton-under-Lyne). b. Ashton-under-Lyne 12 April 1842; worked in a factory; reporter on a local paper; learned Latin, French and Spanish; edited a manuscript magazine circulated amongst members of a self-improvement society at Manchester; killed by accidental discharge of a revolver 5 Feb. 1869. A sketch of the life and a selection from the writings of J. D. Blythe 1870.

BOAG, JOHN. b. Highgate in parish of Beith, Ayrshire 7 Jany. 1775; matric. at Univ. of Glasgow 1797; joined the body of independents or congregationalists who in 1812 formed themselves into Congregational Union of Scotland; held small charges in Isle of Man and Helensburgh; pastor in village of Blackburn, Linlithgowshire; author of A popular and complete English dictionary 2 vols. 1848; The imperial lexicon of the English language 2 vols. 1853, and of a number of pamphlets on questions of the day. d. Craigton house, Linlithgowshire 15 Sep. 1863.

BOAG, SIR ROBERT (son of the preceding). b. 22 Aug. 1809; alderman of Belfast; knighted at Dublin Castle 30 Jany. 1877. (m. 1834 Violet only dau. of John Stevens of Glasgow). d. Glenorchy house, Newington, Edinburgh 7 Nov. 1877.

BOASE, CHARLES WILLIAM (3 son of Henry Boase 1763–1827, managing partner in banking house of Ransom, Morland and Co. Pall Mall, London). b. 6 Knightsbridge, London 8 June 1804; ed. at Helston gr. sch.; entered Dundee New Bank 1821, manager 1828; cashier of Dundee Banking company 13 March 1838, manager 1840 to 20 Feb. 1864 when it was merged in Royal bank of Scotland, managed the branch to 21 Dec. 1867 when he retired on a pension; secretary and treasurer of Watt Institution Dundee 1824–36, founded the museum to which he largely contributed; received freedom of Dundee 1 Sep. 1831 for his exertions in aiding to procure it a liberal constitution; one of the trustees elected by the creditors when town of Dundee became bankrupt 1842; a member of the Catholic Apostolic or Irvingite church 1836, erected a little chapel in Bell st. Dundee which the congregation used until 30 Nov. 1867 when church in Constitution road was opened; ordained to the priesthood Oct. 1836 and to the Episcopate Aug. 1851; had charge of the Evangelistic work throughout Scotland Dec. 1867 to death; author of Tithes and Offerings 1865; A century of banking in Dundee 1867; The Elijah ministry 1868; Notes on doctrine and ecclesiastical facts 1868; Physical a part of theological science, 2 ed. 1874. d. Albury, Surrey 7 June 1872. W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 397–99; An account of the families of Boase or Bowes privately printed (1876) 13–14.

BOASE, GEORGE CLEMENT (brother of the preceding). b. 127 Sloane St. Chelsea 25 Aug. 1810; ed. at Exeter gr. sch. and Queen’s coll. Cam. 1828–29; cashier of Dundee Banking company April 1840 to Feb. 1864; sub-manager of Dundee branch of Royal Bank of Scotland Feb. 1864 to 21 Dec. 1867 when he retired on a pension; a member of the Catholic Apostolic church 1836, ordained to the priesthood Oct. 1836, had charge of the church at Brighton 1868 to death; author of To husbands, fathers and brothers specially those of the labouring classes being a warning against prevailing delusions by a Brother [G. C. Boase] 1848; The restoration of Apostles 1867; Thoughts and memories in verse by G. C. B[oase] 1876. d. Fairlie house, Bridge of Allan near Stirling 23 July 1880. An account of the families of Boase 15–16.

BOASE, HENRY SAMUEL (brother of the preceding). b. 6 Knightsbridge, London 2 Sep. 1799; ed. at Tiverton gr. sch.; studied chemistry in Dublin 1815–17 and medicine in Univ. of Edin. 1817–21, M.D. 1821; sec. to Royal Geological Society of Cornwall at Penzance 1822 to 1829; collected from every part of Cornwall specimens of the rocks 1829–31 which were deposited in Geological Museum at Penzance; a partner in the Penzance Union Bank 1823 to April 1838 when bank was dissolved; lived in Burton crescent, London 1837–38; F.R.S. 4 May 1837; managing partner in firm of Turnbull Brothers of the Claverhouse Bleachfield, Dundee June 1838, this firm became Boase & Co.; took out a patent for ‘improvements in the process of drying organic substances’ 17 July 1855; author of A treatise on primary geology 1834; The philosophy of nature 1860; An essay on human nature 1865; The second Adam, the seed of the woman. Anon. 1876; A few words on evolution and creation 1883; wrote a minute geological account of each parish in The parochial history of Cornwall by D. Gilbert 4 vols. 1837. d. 5 Magdalen place, Dundee 5 May 1883. Dict. of Nat. Biog. v, 282–3 (1886); An account of the families of Boase 8–10.

BOATE, EDWARD WELLINGTON (eld. son of George Boate of Waterford). Edited the Waterford Chronicle and Wexford Guardian; a reporter for the Times in the House of Commons; went to New York; worked on the Irish American, Evening Express, and other journals; joined the 42nd New York Volunteers 1863; taken prisoner at battle of Bristo station and sent to Belle Island; comr. and chairman of delegation of 95,000 men to negotiate with Abraham Lincoln for an exchange of prisoners; a reporter on the Sunday Mercury to Sep. 1871. d. King’s county hospital, Flatbush, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia 4 Oct. 1871 aged 49.

BOAZ, THOMAS (eld. son of Richard Boaz of Scarborough, ship-carpenter). b. Scarborough 10 Aug. 1806; studied at Theological seminary Newport Pagnel 1829–33; ordained at Manchester 18 June 1834; Congregational minister of Union chapel Calcutta Dec. 1834 to Dec. 1858; LLD. King’s college Aberdeen 1849; sole editor and proprietor of Calcutta Christian Advocate, May 1839 to 1853; one of editors of Calcutta Christian Observer 1835–47. d. 6 Priory grove, West Brompton, London 13 Oct. 1861. The Mission pastor, memorials of Rev. T. Boaz by his widow (1862), portrait.

BOCHSA, ROBERT NICOLAS CHARLES. b. Montmédi, France 9 Aug. 1789; harpist to Emperor Napoleon 1813; may fairly be said to have revolutionised harp playing; fled to London having been detected in extensive forgeries 1817; tried in his absence and condemned to 12 years imprisonment; joint manager with Sir G. Smart of the Lent Oratorios 1822, sole manager 1823; professor of the harp and general sec. at R.A. of Music 24 March 1824 to 1827; conductor at the King’s theatre 1826–32; ran away with Sir H. R. Bishop’s wife 1839; visited every country in Europe except France; went to United States 1847; appeared at Prince of Wales’s theatre Sydney 22 Dec. 1855; wrote an oratorio called Le déluge universel, 8 operas, a Method and many solo pieces, d. Sydney 7 Jany. 1856.

BODDAM, EDWARD TUDOR. Entered Madras army 11 Dec. 1841; lieut. col. staff corps 11 Dec. 1867; M.G. 16 June 1876. d. 12 Feb. 1880 aged 55.

BODDINGTON, HENRY JOHN (2 son of Edward Williams of London, artist), b. London 1811; exhibited pictures at the R.A. 1837 to death; member of Society of British artists 1842, exhibited about 10 pictures every year at their gallery in Suffolk st. 1842 to death, his paintings are mostly taken from quiet English country life. (m. 1832 Clara Boddington whose name he adopted). d. Barnes, Surrey 11 April 1865.

BODE, REV. JOHN ERNEST (son of Wm. Bode of the General Post Office, London). b. 1816; ed. at Eton, the Charterhouse and Ch. Ch. Ox., Hertford scholar (the first) 1835, B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840; student and tutor of his college 1841–47, censor 1844; R. of Westwell Oxon. 1847–60; select preacher 1848; surrogate 1850–60; Bampton lecturer 1855; contested chair of poetry in Univ. of Ox. 1857; R. of Castle Camps, Cambridge 1860 to death; author of Ballads from Herodotus 1853, 2 ed. 1854; Lecture on the English formularies 1855; Short occasional poems 1858; Hymns from the Gospel of the day 1860. d. Castle Camps rectory 6 Oct. 1874.

BODEN, GEORGE (youngest son of John Boden of Edmonton lodge, Derbyshire). b. 22 Jany. 1816; ed. at Rugby and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1845; barrister I.T. 30 April 1841, bencher 30 April 1862, treasurer 1876; recorder of Stamford Feb. 1855; recorder of Derby 7 May 1859 to death; Q.C. 6 Feb. 1862. d. 7 Queen’s gardens, Hyde park, London 16 Feb. 1880.

BODEN, SAMUEL STANDIGE. b. Hull 11 April 1826; clerk in South Eastern railway office at Nine Elms, London 1849; edited British Chess review 1854–55, contributing a large portion of its contents; conducted chess department of The Field 24 April 1858 to Jany. 1869; exhibited 5 landscapes at Suffolk st. gallery 1865–73. d. Tavistock st. Bedford sq. London 13 Jany. 1882. Westminster Papers ix, 89 (1876), portrait; Illust. news of the world viii, 164 (1861), portrait.

BODENHAM, CHARLES THOMAS (only son of Charles Bodenham of Rotherwas park, near Hereford 1758–1826). b. 15 Feb. 1783; a member of the Roman Catholic board; chief supporter with Rev. Thomas Weld, afterwards Cardinal, of Dr. Milner in opposing the concessions which it was proposed to make in regard to the oath. (m. 25 Nov. 1810 Elizabeth Mary 5 dau. of Thomas Weld of Lulworth Castle, Dorset, she was b. 2 July 1789, and was author of Mrs. Herbert and the villagers or familiar conversations on the principal duties of Christianity 2 vols. 1853, 10 ed. 1878). d. 5 Dec. 1865.

BODINGTON, GEORGE. Ed. at Magdalen coll. sch. Oxford; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital; L.S.A. 1825; surgeon at Erdington near Birmingham to 1843; proprietor of Driffold house asylum, Sutton Coldfield, Warws. 1836–68; warden of Sutton Coldfield 1852–54; author of A letter on a case of Asiatic cholera addressed to Central board of health, London 1831; Essay on the treatment and cure of pulmonary consumption 1840, in which he anticipated by many years the modern views on the treatment of Phthisis. d. Sutton Coldfield 5 Feb. 1882 in 83 year. Medical times and gazette i, 241 (1882).

BODKIN, JOHN JAMES (eld. son of Thomas Bodkin of Kilcloony, co. Galway). b. 1801; M.P. for town of Galway 6 May 1831 to Dec. 1832, and for co. Galway 15 Jany. 1835 to 23 July 1847. d. Calais Jany. 1882.

BODKIN, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (only son of Peter Bodkin of Northampton sq. London, auctioneer). b. Islington, London 5 Aug. 1791; ed. at Islington academy; hon. sec. to Society for suppression of mendicity 1821; barrister G.I. 15 Nov. 1826, bencher 2 July 1857, treasurer 30 Jany. 1858; counsel to the Treasury; recorder of Dover 1834 to Jany. 1874; M.P. for Rochester 1841–47; carried a bill making relief of irremovable poor, chargeable on common fund of unions, which is foundation of present system; assistant judge of Middlesex sessions court 6 June 1859 to Jany. 1874; chairman of Metropolitan assessment sessions; knighted at Osborne 3 Aug. 1867; member of Society of Arts 1823 on the council till 1874; author of Brief observations on the bill now pending in Parliament to amend the laws relative to the relief of the poor in England 1821. d. West hill, Highgate 26 March 1874. I.L.N. xxxv, 82 (1859), portrait, lxiv, 331 (1874), portrait.

BODMER, JOHN GEORGE. b. Zurich 6 Dec. 1786; partner with Baron d’Eichtal in a cotton mill at St. Blasien, Black forest 1806–21; director general of iron works of Grand Duke of Baden to 1822; lived in England 1824–28 and 1833–48, established a factory for machines and machine tools at Manchester; made great improvements in cotton-spinning machines; invented what is now called the travelling crane about 1826; took out 13 patents in England for his inventions; lived at Vienna 1848–60 and at Zurich 1860 to death; M.I.C.E. 15 Feb. 1835. d. Zurich 29 May 1864. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxviii, 573–608 (1869).

BOGLE, SIR ARCHIBALD (son of J. A. Bogle). b. 1805; ed. at Harrow; entered Bengal army 1823; superintendent of Arracan 1827, and comr. 1837; comr. Tenasserim province 20 April 1849 to 1859; M.G. 2 Aug. 1862; knighted by patent 9 Dec. 1853. d. 90 Westbourne terrace, London 12 June 1870.

BOGUE, DAVID. Assistant to Thomas Ireland of Edinburgh bookseller to 1836; assistant to Charles Tilt of London publisher 1836–40, partner with him 1840–43; bookseller and publisher at 86 Fleet st. London 1843 to death; wrote several children’s books anonymously; one of principal proprietors of Illustrated Times. d. 76 Camden road villas, Camden town, London 17 Nov. 1856 aged 44.

BOHLER, JOHN. b. South Wingfield near Alfreton, Derbyshire 31 Dec. 1797; a stocking weaver; collector of medicinal plants for the doctors; an expert field botanist and microscopist; explored Snowdon and adjacent mountains about 1860; a great collector of rare fungi and other curious plants; published Lichenes Britannici or specimens of the Lichens of Britain 16 monthly parts 1835–7; author of A Flora of Roche Abbey in Aveling’s Roche Abbey Yorkshire 1870; The Flora of Sherwood Forest in R. White’s Worksop, the Dukeries and Sherwood Forest 1875. d. Sheffield 24 Sep. 1872. Reliquary xi, 212–13 (1871); R. White’s Worksop (1875) 303–26.

BOHN, HENRY GEORGE (eld. son of John Henry Martin Bohn of Soho, London, bookbinder 1758–1843). b. 4 Jany. 1796; assisted his father; bookseller at 4 York st. Covent Garden 1831; brought out A Catalogue of books 1841 containing 1948 pages and 23208 articles; built up a trade in remainder books in which he had no rival; published Standard library 1845, Scientific and antiquarian 1847, Classical 1848, Illustrated 1849, Shilling series 1850, Ecclesiastical 1851, Philological 1852 and British classics 1853, the whole numbering 617 volumes some of which he compiled and edited; author of A dictionary of quotations from the English poets 1882; published The bibliographer’s manual of English literature by W. T. Lowndes, new ed. revised, corrected and enlarged by H. G. Bohn 4 vols. 1864; sold his Libraries to Bell and Daldy in 1864 for about £40,000 and his copyrights and plates to Chatto and Windus in Dec. 1874 for £20,000; his art collections were sold for £45,000 1875–78 and March 1885. d. North end house, Twickenham 22 Aug. 1884. Bookseller Sep. 1884 pp. 907–909.

BOHN, JAMES GEORGE STUART BURGES (brother of the preceding). b. London 20 Dec. 1803; ed. at Winchester and Gottingen; assisted his father some years; bookseller at 12 King William st. Strand, London Feb. 1834, and at 66 St. James’s st. 1845–47; published a catalogue of 792 pages 1840; republished Dugdale’s Monasticon 8 vols., folio 1846; contributed to Family Herald; assistant editor of the Reader; prepared a catalogue of theological books of 704 pages for David Nutt 1857; compiled catalogues of foreign books for Nicholas Trubner for many years before his death. d. Peckham 4 Jany. 1880. Bookseller Feb. 1880, pp. 105–106.

BOILEAU, ALEXANDER HENRY EDMONSTONE. b. 3 Feb. 1807; colonel Bengal engineers 8 June 1856 to death; M.G. 18 Oct. 1861. d. Cawnpore 30 June 1862.

BOILEAU, SIR JOHN PETER, 1 Baronet (eld. son of John Peter Boileau of Tacolnestone hall, Norfolk 1747–1837). b. Hertford st. Mayfair, London 2 Sep. 1794; 2 lieut. Rifle corps 6 Sep. 1813, lieut. 1816–17 when placed on h.p.; bought estate of Ketteringham, Norfolk 1839 and Burgh Castle, Suffolk the ancient Gariononum most remarkable example of Roman masonry in England; created baronet on coronation of Queen Victoria 24 July 1838; F.R.S. 1 June 1843; sheriff of Norfolk 1844; Vice pres. of Norfolk and Norwich Archæological Society from its formation Dec. 1845, pres. 1849; F.S.A. 9 Dec. 1852, vice pres. 1858–62, 1863–67 and 1868 to death. d. Torquay 9 March 1869. bur. at Ketteringham. Reg. and Mag. of Biog. i, 292–4 (1869).

BOILEAU, SAMUEL BRANDRAM. b. 15 June 1801; ensign 31 Foot 18 Sep. 1823; lieut. col. 22 Foot 18 Dec. 1840 to 25 Sep. 1857 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 26 Oct. 1858. d. Hillsborough, Monkstown co. Dublin 23 Dec. 1860.

BOILEAU, THOMAS EBENEZER JOHN. Writer in Madras civil service 1815; civil and session judge at Masulipatam 1844; at Chingleput 1847–51 and at Guntoor 1851 to 15 April 1851 when he resigned on an annuity. d. Brighton 8 Feb. 1853 aged 56.

BOISRAGON, THEODORE WALTER ROSS. b. 19 May 1830; ensign 36 Bengal N.I. 20 July 1847; lieut col. Bengal staff corps 2 Sep. 1872 to 2 Sep. 1881 when he retired with hon. rank of M.G.; C.B. 22 Feb. 1881. d. 4 Albert terrace, Bedford 21 Sep. 1882. Graphic xxvi, 536 (1882), portrait.

BOISSIER, REV. GEORGE RICHARD. Educ. at Magd. coll. Cam., B.A. 1828; lived at Oakfield, Penshurst Kent; published anonymously Notes on the Cambridgeshire churches 1827. d. 23 June 1858 aged 67.

BOLCKOW, HENRY WILLIAM FERDINAND (eld. son of Heinrich Bolckow of Varchow in grand duchy of Mecklenburg). b. Sulten, Mecklenburg 8 Dec. 1806; came to England 1827; naturalised by acts of parliament 4 and 5 Vict. c. 48 and 31 and 32 Vict. c. 10; partner with John Vaughan as iron makers at Middlesbrough 1841; a Tees conservancy comr. 1851; took the oath of allegiance 27 Feb. 1853; mayor of Middlesbrough (the first) 1853; donor of the Albert park at a cost of £20,000 opened 11 Aug. 1868; erected the St. Hilda’s schools opened 22 Sep. 1869; A.I.C.E. 14 April 1863; M.P. for Middlesbrough 16 Nov. 1868 to death; chairman of Bolckow, Vaughan and Co., limited (with a capital of £3,500,000) 1871 to death; collected a fine gallery of pictures by modern French and English artists. d. Ramsgate 18 June 1878. Practical Mag. i, 81–90 (1873), portrait; Athenæum 22 Nov. 1873 pp. 664–6.

BOLD-HOGHTON, SIR HENRY, 8 Baronet. b. Walton hall near Preston 3 Jany. 1799; sheriff of Lancashire 1829; succeeded 27 Nov. 1835. d. Anglesey near Gosport 19 July 1862. G.M. xiii, 360–62 (1862).

BOLDEN, SAMUEL EDWARD (younger son of John Bolden of Hyning near Lancaster, breeder of shorthorn cattle 1776–1855). b. 1812; one of promoters of Lancaster and Carlisle railway opened 1846; one of the most successful breeders and soundest judges of shorthorn cattle; the first breeder to realise £1,000 for one animal; sold his herd 1862. d. Derby 22 March 1880. Saddle and Sirloin by the Druid (1885) 384–9.

BOLDERO, HENRY GEORGE (son of Rev. John Boldero, R. of Ampton, Suffolk). b. 1797; captain 10 Foot 1828–30 when placed on h.p.; M.P. for Chippenham 1831–32 and 1835–59; clerk of the ordnance 9 Sep. 1841 to 1846; fought a duel in Osterley park with Craven Fitzhardinge Berkeley, M.P. for Cheltenham, 15 July 1842. d. Charles st. St. James’s sq. London 9 April 1873.

BOLENO, HARRY, stage name of Henry Boleno Mason (son of S. Mason, a clerk in the Victualling office, Somerset house, London). b. April 1821; learnt from Andrew Ducrow the Grecian Statues; played in the first pantomimes produced at Lyceum, Strand, Standard and City of London theatres; a dancer at White Conduit house and Eagle tavern; clown at T.R. Dublin 10 years; landlord of The Clown tavern in Williamson sq. Liverpool and of The Catherine Wheel, Great Windmill st. London; kept the Opera Stores Covent Garden; clown at Drury Lane theatre 1860–70 and at Surrey theatre 1874–75; landlord of the Swan tavern Windsor; author of several burlesques and ballets. (m. about 1849 Emma dau. of Thomas Davie of Hoddesdon, Herts. maltster, she was b. 27 Jany. 1832 and d. 18 Oct. 1867, as a columbine she has never been excelled). d. The Swan tavern, Windsor 25 Jany. 1875. The Players ii, 287 (1860), portrait; Illust. Sp. and Dr. News ii, 268 (1874), portrait.

BOLINGBROKE, HENRY ST. John, 4 Viscount. b. 6 March 1786; succeeded 18 Dec. 1824. d. North college, Elgin 1 Oct. 1851. I.L.N. xix, 450, 663 (1851).

BOLINGBROKE, HENRY (son of Nathaniel Bolingbroke of Norwich). b. Norwich 25 Feb. 1785; sailed for Demerara 28 Nov. 1798, returned to England 21 Oct. 1805; deputy vendue master at Surinam in Guiana 1807–13; in business at Norwich; published A voyage to the Demerary 1807. d. Norwich 11 Feb. 1855.

BOLLAERT, WILLIAM. b. 1807; chemical assistant at Royal Institution, London; assayer and chemist in survey of silver mines in Peru; made a survey of province of Tarapaca 1827; one of the first white men who crossed the desert of Atacama; served as a volunteer under Sir J. M. Doyle in Portugese war 1832–33; created a knight of Order of the Tower and Sword of Portugal; explored Texas, New Granada, Ecuador, Peru and Chili; author of Antiquarian and other researches in New Granada 1860; Wars of succession of Portugal and Spain 2 vols. 1870. d. 15 Nov. 1876 in 69 year. Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xlvii, 148–50 (1877).

BOLLAND, WILLIAM PROCTOR (2 son of Sir Wm. Bolland 1772–1840, Baron of Court of Exchequer). Educ. at Eton; barrister I.T. 6 May 1842; the original of Fred. Bayham in Thackeray’s The Newcomes, and of Wm. Bowker in Yates’s Land at last. d. Clifton 10 June 1863 aged 47.

BOLOGNA, SIR NICHOLA, Count Delle Catene (son of Baron Paolo Sceberras). C.M.G. 1833, K.C.M.G. 4 Dec. 1868. d. Valetta, Malta 1875.

BOLTON, DANIEL. Second lieut. R.E. 14 Dec. 1811, colonel 13 Dec. 1854 to 20 June 1859; M.G. 20 June 1859. d. Capetown, Cape of Good Hope 16 May 1860 aged 66.

BOLTON, GEORGE (son of Mr. Bolton of Piccadilly, London, tailor). b. 9 May 1824; Manager of Olympic theatre 1846–47, of Marylebone and Queen’s theatres, and of Drury Lane theatre 1852; brought out about 1846 a comic weekly paper called Nonsuch a farrago of something, nothing, everything and many things besides; author of Nothing, in rhyme and prose 1845; All about love and jealousy, an original comedy in 5 acts produced at Olympic theatre 13 April 1846. d. 13 Philadelphia terrace, Mount gardens, Lambeth 25 May 1868.

BOLTON, REV. JAMES JAY (5 son of Rev. Robert Bolton of Henley on Thames, dissenting minister). b. Southdown college near Weymouth 11 Feb. 1824; went to the United States 1836; ed. at College Point New York and C. C. coll. Cam., scholar, B.A. 1848; C. of Saffron Walden, Essex 1849–51; C. of St. Michael’s, Chester sq. Pimlico, London 1851–52; Minister of St. Paul’s chapel, Kilburn 1852 to death; chaplain to Earl Ducie 1852; has never been surpassed as a childrens’ preacher; author of Fragments of the great diamond set for young people, being a variety of addresses for children 1856, 3 ed. 1861; Life lessons, scripture truths for the young 1862. d. Kilburn parsonage 8 April 1863. Selected sermons of Rev. James Bolton 1863, portrait.

BOLTON, JASPER. b. Ballykisteen, co. Tipperary; land agent to Earl of Derby’s estates in Ireland 1862 to death. d. Limerick 19 Nov. 1871 aged 30. Quickly ripened or recollections of the late Jasper Bolton (1872), portrait.

BOLTON, JOHN HENRY. b. Dec. 1795; in the commissariat department; solicitor at 1 New sq. Lincoln’s Inn, London 1828 to death; president of Incorporated law society 1868–69. d. Lee terrace, Blackheath, Kent 13 Oct. 1873.

BOLTON, REV. WILLIAM JAY. Educ. at Caius coll. Cam., Hulsean prizeman 1852, B.A. 1853, M. A. 1857; V. of St. John’s Stratford, Essex 1866–81; V. of St. James’s, Bath 1881 to death; author of Evidences of Christianity from the early Fathers 1853; Fireside preaching 1856; Footsteps of the flock 1860; The great Anti-Christ 1870. d. Pelham, Oldfield park, Bath 28 May 1884 in 68 year.

BONAPARTE, JEROME NAPOLEON (elder son of Jerome Bonaparte 1784–1860, king of Westphalia). b. Camberwell, London 7 July 1805. d. Baltimore 17 June 1870. Bingham’s Marriages of the Bonapartes ii, 191–94 (1881).

BONAPARTE, NAPOLEON EUGÈNE LOUIS JEAN JOSEPH (only child of Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte 1808–73, Napoleon iii Emperor of France). b. Palace of the Tuileries, Paris 16 March 1856; went with his father to the seat of war 1870, present at capture of Saarbrück 2 Aug. 1870; landed at Dover 8 Sep. 1870; lived at Camden house, Chislehurst, Kent 10 Dec. 1870 to 12 Oct. 1871 and 1874–79; a cadet at Royal military college Woolwich 12 Oct. 1871 to 1874 where a statue of him by Count Gleichen was unveiled 13 Jany 1883; left Southampton 27 Feb. 1879; killed by Zulus in valley of Ityolyozi, Zululand 1 June 1879, buried in St. Mary’s church Chislehurst 12 July 1879. Life of the Prince Imperial of France by Ellen Barlee 1880, portrait; Graphic xix, 633, 637, 644 (1879), 3 portraits, xxvii, 53 (1883); I.L.N. 16 July 1879, portrait; The life of Napoleon iii by Blanchard Jerrold iv, 427 (1882), 2 portraits.

BONAR, REV. JOHN (son of Rev. Archibald Bonar of Cramond, Midlothian). b. Cramond; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; licensed by presbytery of Edin. 30 April 1823; ordained 11 July 1826; minister of Larbert and Dunipace March 1826 to 24 May 1843 when he joined in the free secession; Convener of committee for colonial and continental missions in the Free church 1846; minister at Aberdeen Dec. 1846 and at the Renfield st. church, Glasgow 1848–54; D.D. Edin. 1857; author of The established church of Scotland as it was and as it is 1845. d. Edinburgh 20 Dec. 1863 in 63 year. Our Scottish Clergy, second series (1849) 149–55.

BONAR, WILLIAM (3 son of Andrew Bonar of Edinburgh, banker). b. Edin. 3 Jany. 1798; ed. at high school and Univ. Edin.; a partner in bank of Ramsay, Bonar and Co. 1817 to date when bank was merged in Bank of Scotland; employed a missionary to look after the ignorant and neglected poor in Edin.; F.R.S. Edin. 1822; author of several religious tracts. d. Chatsworth house, Malvern 9 Nov. 1866.

BOND, HENRY JOHN HAYLES (son of Rev. Wm. Bond, R. of Whitacre, Norfolk). b. Whitacre Dec. 1801; ed. at Norwich gr. sch.; studied medicine at Cambridge, London, Edinburgh and Paris; M.B. Cam. 1825, M.D. 1831; F.R.C.P. 1835; practised at Cam.; Regius professor of physic in Univ. of Cam. 27 Jany. 1851 to Jany. 1872; a member of General medical council 29 Oct. 1858 to 29 Oct. 1863; author of Analysis of an elementary course of lectures on Pathology 1866. d. Regent st. Cambridge 3 Sep. 1883.

BOND, JOHN JAMES (son of Andrew Bond of Ashford, Kent). b. 9 Dec. 1819; Clerk in public record office at Royal riding school, Carlton House 1841, senior assistant keeper to death; author of Handy book of rules and tables for verifying dates with the Christian Era 1866, new ed. 1874. d. 96 Philbeach gardens, Earl’s Court, London 9 Dec. 1883.

BOND, R. SEBASTIAN. b. Liverpool 1808; landscape painter; exhibited 7 pictures at Royal Academy, 13 at British Institution, and 5 at Suffolk st. gallery 1846–72. d. Jany. 1886.

BOND, STEPHEN. b. St. Columb, Cornwall 24 March 1826; ed. at Stonyhurst; entered Society of Jesus at Hodder 7 Sep. 1843; Matric. at Univ. of London July 1846, B.A. 1848; superior of the seminary adjoining Stonyhurst college Aug. 1861; professed of the four vows 2 Feb. 1862; vicar general to Bishop Etheridge in Demerara 1864–69. d. Wigan 10 Jany. 1871.

BONE, HENRY PIERCE (eld. son of Henry Bone of London, enamellist 1755–1834). b. Islington, London 6 Nov. 1779; exhibited 210 pictures, miniatures and enamels at the R.A. 1799–1855; painted classical subjects 1806–33, and enamels 1833–55; enamel painter to Duchess of Kent 1831, to Queen Victoria 1837, to Prince Albert 1841; his collection of 172 enamels was sold at Christies 13–14 March 1856. d. 22 Percy st. Bedford sq. London 21 Oct. 1855. Notice of H. Bone R.A. and his works together with those of his son H. P. Bone by J. Jope Rogers 1880.

BONE, HUGH. b. Ayrshire 1777; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow, M.D. 26 April 1815; L.R.C.P. London 26 June 1815; inspector general of hospitals 2 Oct. 1843 to 24 Nov. 1845 when placed on h.p. d. Picardy place, Edin. 13 Feb. 1858.

BONER, CHARLES (only son of Charles Boner of Bath, who d. 14 Aug. 1833 aged 74). b. Weston near Bath 29 April 1815; ed. at Bath and Tiverton; lived with John Constable the painter as tutor to his sons 1831–37; lived with Prince Thurn und Taxis at St. Emeran, Ratisbon as tutor 1840–60; settled at Munich, March 1860; corresponded with Mary Russell Mitford 1845–55; special correspondent to Daily News at Vienna Aug. 1865 to Aug. 1866; author of Chamois hunting 1853, new ed. 1860; The new dance of death and other poems 1857; Transylvania its products and its people 1865 and other books. d. 5 Louisen Strasse, Munich 7 April 1870. Memoirs and letters of C. Boner, edited by R. M. Kettle 2 vols. 1871.

BONHAM, EDWARD WALTER (2 son of Henry Bonham of Titness park, Berkshire, M.P. for Rye who d. 9 April 1830). b. 24 Nov. 1809; consul at Tabreez, Persia 11 May 1837; transferred to Calais 2 Feb. 1846, and to Naples 14 Jany. 1859; consul general at Naples 5 May 1862 to 5 April 1872 when he retired on a compensation allowance; C.B. 13 Oct. 1865. d. the British consulate Boulogne 15 March 1886.

BONHAM, HENRY FREDERIC (brother of the preceding). b. 2 June 1808; ed. at the Charterhouse; Cornet 10 Hussars 22 May 1829, lieut. col. 28 April 1846 to 27 Feb. 1852 when placed on h.p.; appointed to the Brighton and Canterbury cavalry depôt June 1854. d. 28 Brunswick sq. Hove, Brighton 16 Feb. 1856.

BONHAM, PINSON (eld. son of Samuel Bonham of Great Warley place, Essex who d. 25 Jany. 1821). Clerk in Court of Chancery 10 years; ensign 60 Foot 24 April 1789; served in West Indies 22 years; deputy quartermaster general 10 years; governor of Surinam or Dutch Guiana to 1814 when colony was surrendered to the Dutch; major 69 Foot 30 March 1797 to 1814, general 10 Jany. 1837. d. Great Warley, Essex 19 April 1855 aged 92.

BONHAM, SIR SAMUEL GEORGE, 1 Baronet (only son of George Bonham, captain H.E.I. Co.’s navy who d. 1810). b. Faversham, Kent 7 Sep. 1803; governor of Prince of Wales Island, Singapore and Malacca 1837–47; chief superintendent of British trade in China, and governor and commander in chief of Hong Kong 27 Nov. 1847 to 24 Dec. 1853; C.B. 27 April 1848, K.C.B. 22 Nov. 1850; created baronet 27 Nov. 1852. d. Paddington, London 8 Oct. 1863. The Chinese Repository vols. xvii-xx.

BONHAM-CARTER JOHN (son of John Carter of Petersfield, M.P. for Portsmouth who assumed additional name of Bonham). b. 13 Oct. 1817; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; M.P. for Winchester 1847–74; a lord of the Treasury 1866–68; chairman of committees of House of Commons 1872–74. d. Adhurst St. Mary’s, Petersfield 26 Nov. 1884. I.L.N. lx, 601, 607 (1872), portrait.

BONNAR, WILLIAM (son of Mr. Bonnar of Edinburgh, house-painter). b. Edin. June 1800; foreman at a leading decorative painters; member of Royal Scottish Academy; painted many pictures which became popular when engraved; very successful in rural scenes and pictures of child life; painted portraits latterly, many of which were engraved by his sons. d. London st. Edin. 27 Jany. 1853.

BONNER, JOHN GEORGE. Major Madras artillery 9 June 1825 to 4 July 1829; M.G. 4 July 1829; inspector general of military stores for India; F.R.S. 18 June 1840. d. 17a Great Cumberland st. Hyde park, London 3 March 1867 aged 79.

BONNEY, FRANCIS AUGUSTUS BURDETT (son of John Augustus Bonney of London, solicitor who d. 30 Dec. 1813). b. 1804; ed. at Ealing; made many contributions chiefly in verse to literary journals especially European Magazine; studied medicine in Edin. and Paris; L.R.C.S. Edin. 1829, L.S.A. 1833; practised at Brentford 1833, Chichester and London; author of Nugæ or poetic trifles 1821, and of some valuable papers in medical journals. (m. Miss Elliott, proprietress of Elm house lunatic asylum, Queen’s Elm, Brompton, London). d. Elm house 13 Oct. 1877. Medical Circular i, 303 (1852).

BONNEY, VENERABLE HENRY KAYE (son of Rev. Henry Kaye Bonney, R. of King’s Cliffe, Northamptonshire who d. 20 March 1810). b. Tansor, Northamptonshire 22 May 1780; ed. at the Charterhouse and Em. coll. Cam.; migrated to Christ’s coll., B.A. 1802, M.A. 1805, D.D. 1824; Preb. of Lincoln cathedral 8 Jany. 1807; R. of King’s Cliffe March 1810 to death; V. of Nassington 1810–29; archdeacon of Bedford 10 Dec. 1821, installed 2 Feb. 1822; archdeacon of Lincoln 22 Feb. 1845 to death; canon residentiary of Lincoln 1845 to death; author of The life of the Right Rev. Father in God, Jeremy Taylor 1815; Historic notices in reference to Fotheringay 1821; The life and remains of Bishop Middleton 1824. d. King’s Cliffe rectory 24 Dec. 1862.

BONNEY, VENERABLE THOMAS KAYE (brother of the preceding). b. Tansor, Northamptonshire 20 June 1782; ed. at Clare coll. Cam., B.A. 1803, M.A. 1806; R. of Coningsby Lincs. 1814 to death; R. of Normanton, Rutland 1814 to death; Preb. of Lincoln 17 Oct. 1823 to death; archdeacon of Leicester 22 Jany. 1831 to death. d. Normanton rectory 7 April 1863.

BONOMI, JOSEPH (son of Giuseppe Bonomi of London, architect 1739–1808). b. 76 Great Titchfield st. London 9 Oct. 1796; ed. at Carshalton, Surrey; studied drawing at Royal Academy and sculpture under Nollekens; fellow Student with John Gibson in Rome; lived in Egypt and Syria 1824–32 and 1842–44; went to the Holy Land 1833; illustrated the Egyptological works of Wilkinson and Birch and nearly all those of Samuel Sharpe; curator of Sir John Soane’s Museum, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London 1861 to death; F.R.A.S, 8 Feb. 1861; author of Nineveh and its palaces 1852, new ed. 1869. d. The Camels, Wimbledon park, Surrey 3 March 1878. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xxx, 216–19 (1879); The Proportions of the human figure by J. Bonomi, 5 ed. 1880, portrait; I.L.N. lxxii, 245 (1878), portrait.

BONTEIN, JAMES (younger son of John Pitt Bontein, captain 1 Life guards). Groom of the privy chamber 1874 to death. d. Ambassadors’ court, St. James’s palace 16 Oct. 1884 aged 63.

BOOKER, THOMAS (son of Thomas Booker of 56 New Bond st. London, publisher who d. 26 Feb. 1826). Printer at 37 Ranelagh st. Liverpool 1840; printer and publisher at 9 Rupert st. Leicester sq. London 1848, and at 75 Great Queen st. to death; published The weekly register 4 Aug. 1849 to 26 Jany. 1850; The Catholic register and magazine 1850; Booker’s Pocket-Book directory. d. Richmond 9 Nov. 1859 aged 37.

BOOKER-BLAKEMORE, THOMAS WILLIAM (son of Rev. Luke Booker 1762–1836, V. of Dudley). b. Dudley 28 Sep. 1801; ed. at Hartlebury, Worcs.; tin plate manufacturer; took out patents for tin plate making 1837 and for manufacturing iron 1841; sheriff of Glamorganshire 1848; M.P. for Herefordshire 18 Oct. 1850 to death; took an active part on protectionist side in free trade controversy; A.I.C.E. 1850; assumed by r.l. additional name of Blakemore Sep. 1855; author of Treatise on the mineral basin of South Wales 1848. d. Kingston-upon-Thames 7 Nov. 1858.

BOOLE, GEORGE (son of Mr. Boole of Lincoln, tradesman). b. Lincoln 2 Nov. 1815; opened a school at Lincoln 1835; professor of mathematics in Queen’s college Cork 1849 to death; public examiner for degrees in Queen’s University of Ireland; LLD. Dublin 1852; Keith medallist of Royal Society of Edinburgh 1857; F.R.S. June 1857, Royal medallist 1844; hon. D.C.L. Oxford 1859; author of Mathematical analysis of logic 1847; Investigation of the laws of thought 1854, a work of astonishing originality and power; Treatise on differential equations 1859, 3 ed. 1872; Treatise on the calculus of finite differences 1860, new ed. 1880. (m. 1855 Mary dau. of Rev. Thomas Roupell Everest, R. of Wickwar, Gloucs., she was granted a civil list pension of £100, 19 June 1865). d. Blackrock near Cork 8 Dec. 1864. There are memorial windows to him in Lincoln cathedral and the college hall at Cork. Proc. of Royal Society xv, 6–11 (1867); Athenæum 23 Aug. 1884 pp. 237–39; G.M. xviii, 247–49 (1865); I.L.N. xlvi, 59, 61 (1865), portrait.

BOONE, REV. JAMES SHERGOLD (son of Thomas Boone of Sunbury, Middlesex). b. 30 June 1799; ed. at Charterhouse 1812–16; student at Ch. Ch. Ox. 1816; Craven scholar 1817; won Chancellor’s prize for Latin verse, and Newdigate prize for English verse 1817; published anonymously a satire on Oxford University life called The Oxford Spy 2 parts 1818–19, which created a great sensation; chancellor’s prizeman 1820; B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; edited The Council of Ten a monthly periodical June 1822 to May 1823, wrote nearly all of it; Incumbent of St. John’s church Paddington June 1832 to death; edited The British Critic from Jany. 1827; author of An essay on the study of modern history 1821; Men and things in 1823, a poem in three epistles with notes 1823; The educational economy of England 1838; Sermons on various subjects and occasions 1853. d. 2 Stanhope st. Hyde park, London 24 March 1859. Mozley’s Reminiscences ii, 200–204 (1882); Notes and Queries 3rd series iii, 510, iv, 35, 98, 138, 153, 299.

BOONE, WILLIAM. Bookseller at 480 Strand, London 1815–30 with his brother Thomas Boone who d. 21 April 1873 aged 83; moved to New Bond st. 1830; buyer of books for British Museum on death of Thomas Rodd 1849, retired 1860. d. 26 Nov. 1870 aged 75.

BOORMAN, JAMES. b. Kent 1785; partner with Divie Bethune in New York 1805–13; founded with John Johnson firm of Boorman, Johnson and Co. leading mercantile house in New York, which was dissolved 1855; pres. of Hudson River railroad to 1863; founded the Bank of Commerce 1839. d. New York 24 Jany. 1866.

BOOSEY, THOMAS. Foreign bookseller at 28 Holles st. Cavendish sq. London; published Italian operas of Bellini, Donizetti and Verdi down to 1854, when deprived of all his foreign copyrights by a decision of the House of Lords. d. 27 Notting hill sq. London 25 Oct. 1871 aged 76. C. Clark’s House of Lords Cases iv, 815–996 (1855).

BOOTH, REV. GEORGE (youngest son of Wm. Booth of Masbrough, Yorkshire). Ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., pensioner; matric. from Lincoln coll. Ox. 16 May 1811 aged 19, B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816, B.D. 1823; fellow of Magdalen coll., vice pres. 1830, dean of divinity 1832; V. of Findon, Sussex 1833 to death; privately printed a quarto vol. of Latin poetry entitled Nugæ Canoræ 1826; composed a school song entitled Sicut lilium, carmen hortativum which is regularly sung by boys of Magdalen school on their breaking up. d. Findon vicarage 21 June 1859 in 68 year.

BOOTH, HENRY (eld. son of Thomas Booth of Liverpool, corn merchant). b. Rodney st. Liverpool 4 April 1788; a corn merchant; one of chief promoters of scheme for making a railway between Liverpool and Manchester 1822, sec. and treasurer of the company 1826, managing director, the line was begun June 1826 and opened 15 Sep. 1830; suggested the multitubular boiler, coupling screws, spring buffers, and lubricating material for carriage axles, all of which are still used; sec. for northern section of London and North-Western railway July 1846, a director of the company October 1848 to 18 May 1859, presented by the Company with 3000 guineas 12 Oct. 1846 and 5000 guineas 9 April 1859; author of Sebastian a tragedy 1823; The rationale of the currency question 1847; Master and man a dialogue 1853, and many other small books. d. Eastbourne, Princes park, Liverpool 28 March 1869. Memoir of the late Henry Booth by Robert Smiles (1869).

BOOTH, REV. JAMES (eld. son of John Booth of Lava, co. Leitrim). b. Lava 25 Aug. 1806; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub., scholar 1829, B.A. 1832, LL.B. and LLD. 1842; principal of Bristol college 1840–43; vice principal of Collegiate institution Liverpool 1843–48; pres. of Literary and philosophical institution Liverpool 1848–51; lectured in London for Society of Arts 1848–54, fellow 1852, treasurer and chairman of the council 1855–57; C. of St. Anne’s Wandsworth, London 1854–59; V. of Stone, Bucks. 1859 to death: F.R.S. 22 Jany. 1846, F.R.A.S. 10 June 1859; author of Education and educational institutions 1846; Examination the province of the state 1847; A treatise on some new geometrical methods 2 vols. 1873–77. d. Stone vicarage 15 April 1878. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xxxix, 219–25 (1879).

BOOTH, JAMES (4 son of Thomas Booth of Toxteth lodge near Liverpool). b. 1796 or 1797; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; barrister L.I. 10 Feb. 1824; member of Royal commission for inquiring into municipal corporations of England and Wales 1833; counsel to the speaker and examiner of recognizances Sep. 1839; prepared the Companies, Lands, and Railways Clauses Consolidation acts 1845, and 8 other consolidation acts 1847; secretary to Board of trade 10 Oct. 1850 to 1865; member of Royal commission for inquiring into trades unions 12 Feb. 1867, which made 11 reports 1867–69; C.B. 6 July 1866; author of The problem of the world and the church reconsidered in three letters to a friend by a Septuagenarian 1871, 3 ed. 1879. d. 2 Princes gardens, Kensington, London 11 May 1880.

BOOTH, JOHN (son of Thomas Booth of Killerby near Catterick, Yorkshire, cattle breeder who d. 1835). Breeder of shorthorns at Killerby 1819 to 1852; judged a great deal at cattle shows in England and Ireland; sold all his stock 21 Sep. 1852; master of the Bedale hunt 3 seasons. d. Killerby 7 July 1857 in 70 year. W. Carr’s History of rise and progress of Killerby herds of shorthorns 1867; Saddle and Sirloin by the Druid (1870) 195–207.

BOOTH, JOHN KAY (eld. son of John Booth of Brush house, Ecclesfield). b. Yorkshire; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 24 June 1805; L.C.P. 30 Sep. 1809; fellow Royal Med. and Chir. Soc. 1810; settled at Birmingham; physician to general hospital there 1812–35; physician to Queen’s hospital there; principal of Queen’s college Birm. 1856; one of founders of Medical school of Birmingham, and the first lecturer there on practice of physic. d. Brush house, Ecclesfield 14 Jany. 1859 aged 80.

BOOTH, JUNIUS BRUTUS (son of Richard Booth of Queen st. Bloomsbury, London, attorney who d. 1840 aged 76). b. St. Pancras, London 1 May 1796; made his début on the stage at Peckham as Campillo in The Honeymoon 13 Dec. 1813; played in Belgium and Holland 1814 and 1826, and at Covent Garden 1815; acted in the provinces 1818 and at Drury Lane 7 Aug. 1820 to 13 Jany. 1821; went to the United States April 1821; appeared at Park theatre New York 2 Oct. 1821; managed the Camp theatre New Orleans 1828; played at Drury Lane, Surrey and Sadler’s Wells theatres 1836–7; lived on his farm at Bel Air 30 miles from Baltimore 1842 to death; made his last appearance at St. Charles theatre New Orleans 19 Nov. 1852. d. on board the J. S. Chenoweth between New Orleans and Cincinnati 30 Nov. 1852. bur. in Greenmount cemetery Baltimore 11 Dec. The elder and the younger Booth by A. B. Clarke (1882) 1–116, 3 portraits; Memoirs of J. B. Booth (1817), portrait; The tragedian by T. R. Gould (1868), portrait; Phelps’s Players of a century (1880); T. A. Brown’s History of the American stage (1870) 40, portrait.

NOTE.—His son John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln, pres. of the U.S. at Ford’s theatre, Washington, Good Friday 14 April 1865, he was himself shot near Bowling Green 26 April.

BOOTH, RICHARD (brother of John Booth who d. 7 July 1857). Breeder of shorthorns at Studley farm, Yorkshire 1814–34 when he sold his herd; breeder at Warlaby, Yorkshire 1835 to death; gained many medals and prizes at cattle shows. d. Warlaby 31 Oct. 1864 aged 76. Saddle and Sirloin by the Druid (1870) 195–207.

BOOTH, SIR ROBERT GORE, 4 Baronet. b. Bath 25 Aug. 1805; succeeded 23 Oct. 1814; sheriff of Sligo 1830; M.P. for Sligo 12 March 1850 to death; chairman of the Musical Union; lord lieutenant of Sligo 7 Dec. 1868. d. Lissadell, co. Sligo 21 Dec. 1876. Burke’s Portrait gallery ii, 129 (1833).

BOOTH, SARAH. b. Birmingham early in 1789; a dancer at Manchester about 1804; first appeared in London at Surrey theatre 1810 as Cherry in a burletta founded on the Beaux Stratagem; played at Covent Garden 23 Nov. 1810, at the Olympic 19 Dec. 1821, at Drury Lane 2 Feb. 1822, at Haymarket and Adelphi theatres; retired about 1828, last appeared for a benefit at Marylebone theatre 1841. d. 39 Queen’s sq. Bloomsbury, London 30 Dec. 1867. Mrs. C. B. Wilson’s Our actresses i, 121–7 (1844); Oxberry’s Dramatic biography iv, 55–65 (1826), portrait; Theatrical Inquisitor ii, 69–74 (1813), portrait.

BOOTH, WILLIAM. Ensign 53 Foot 8 May 1806; lieut. col. 41 Foot 11 July 1837 to 12 Sep. 1843 when placed on h.p.; colonel 15 Foot 10 Nov. 1861 to death; L.G. 27 March 1863. d. London 20 April 1868 aged 77.

BOOTH, WILLIAM. Deputy commissary general 18 Dec. 1818 to 1824 when placed on h.p.; served in Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands principal clerk of survey at Dublin 1824 to 1856; C.B. 17 Aug. 1849. d. 17 Lansdowne crescent, Cheltenham 4 May 1880 in 88 year.

BOOTH, SIR WILLIAMSON, 2 Baronet. b. Stanstead Abbots, Herts. 15 July 1810; ed. at Eton; succeeded 24 Jany. 1850; sheriff of Cambridge and Hunts 1855. d. Paxton park, St. Neots 26 Aug. 1877.

BOOTHBY, BENJAMIN (eld. son of Benjamin Boothby of Cornwall place, Holloway, London). b. Doncaster 5 Feb. 1803; barrister G.I. 28 April 1841; revising barrister for West Riding of Yorkshire 1845–52; judge of Court of Record of Pontefract and recorder 1848–53; second judge of supreme court of South Australia Feb. 1853, sworn in 17 Oct. 1853, presided as senior judge Dec. 1856 to July 1858; deputy judge of Court of Vice Admiralty 1856–61; removed from judgeship of Supreme Court by South Australian parliament July 1867 owing to his objections to the Real Property or Torrens act. d. Adelaide 21 June 1868.

BOOTHBY, REV. SIR BROOKE WILLIAM ROBERT, 10 Baronet. b. Winchester 21 Jany. 1809; ed. at Charterhouse and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1833; fellow of All Souls’ college 1829; R. of Elmley, Kent 1846–52; R. of Welwyn, Herts. 17 Sep. 1852 to death; succeeded 21 April 1846. d. Tunbridge Wells 21 Sep. 1865.

BOOTHBY, LADY LOUISA CRANSTOUN (eld. dau. of Frederick Hayes Macnamara, ensign 52 Foot). b. 1 April 1812; a juvenile theatrical wonder under name of Louisa Mordaunt, made her first appearance in London at Drury Lane theatre 16 Oct. 1829 as the Widow Cheerly in Cherry’s comedy of The Soldier’s Daughter; acted at the Haymarket 1830, 1837–39 and 1840–44; re-appeared at Drury Lane Oct. 1832; acted at the Queen’s 1835 and Strand; played Constance in The love chase nearly 100 nights from 9 Oct. 1837 and Lady Gay Spanker in London Assurance 4 March 1841 in both of which parts she was unequalled; played leading parts in genteel comedy at Covent Garden 1839–40. (m. (1) Jany. 1831 John Alexander Nisbett of Brettenham hall, Suffolk, Cornet 1 Life Guards, he d. 2 Oct. 1831. m. (2) 15 Oct. 1844 Sir Wm. Boothby, 9 baronet of Ashbourne hall, Derbyshire, he was b. 25 March 1782 and d. 21 April 1846). d. Rose Mount, St. Leonard’s on Sea 16 Jany. 1858. C. B. Wilson’s Our actresses ii, 66–88 (1844), portrait; Theatrical Times ii, 121, 130 (1847), portrait; Dramatic and musical review iii, 498, 527 (1844); I.L.N. x, 256 (1847), portrait.

BOOTT, FRANCIS (son of Kirk Boott of Boston, Massachusetts). b. Boston 26 Sep. 1792; ed. at Univs. of Harvard and Edinburgh, M.D. Edin. 1824; surgeon in London 1825–31; lecturer on botany in Webb st. school of medicine 1825–31; member of senate and council of Univ. coll. London; F.L.S. 1819, sec. 1832–39, treasurer Nov. 1856 to May 1861; wore a blue coat with brass buttons and a yellow waistcoat the costume of 1830 down to his death; author of Memoir of the life and medical opinions of John Armstrong, M.D. 2 vols. 1833–34; Illustrations of the genus Carex 4 parts 1858–67. d. 24 Gower st. London 25 Dec. 1863. Proc. of Linnæan Society (1864) 23–27.

BORCHARDT, LOUIS. b. Landsburg on Warthe, Prussia 1813; ed. at Univ. of Berlin, M.D. 1838; practised as a physician at Zorbich and then at Breslau; imprisoned in fortress of Glatz 1848–50; practised at Bradford, Yorkshire 1850–52, and at Manchester 1852 to death, phys. to Childrens’ Dispensary June 1853, pres. of Manchester Medical Society. d. Swinton house, Fallowfield, Manchester 15 Nov. 1883.

BORLAND, JAMES. b. Ayr April 1774; surgeon’s mate 42 Foot 20 Dec. 1792; surgeon to the forces in St. Domingo 1796–8; deputy inspector of army hospitals 5 Dec. 1799; established existing system of regimental hospitals 1805; inspector general 22 Jany. 1807; head of medical department of the army in Mediterranean 1810–16 during which time he organised the hospitals of the Anglo-Sicilian contingent; retired on h.p. 25 May 1816; received order of St. Maurice and St. Lazare of Savoy; phys. extraord. to Duke of Kent. d. Bridgeman house, Teddington 22 Feb. 1863. G.M. xiv, 666 (1863).

BOROUGH, SIR EDWARD RICHARD, 2 Baronet. b. Merrion sq. Dublin 20 June 1800; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox.; army agent in Dublin; succeeded 22 Jany. 1837. d. 61 Fitzwilliam sq. north, Dublin 3 Dec. 1879.

BORRADAILE, EDWARD SIDNEY (son of the succeeding). b. Littlehampton 30 March 1845; assistant engineer Launceston and Western railway Tasmania 1868–9; wrote for the Press 1870–3; lost whilst exploring in North Australia June 1874, two mountains are named after himself and his companion Mr. Permain in memory of the event.

BORRADAILE, HARRY (son of Henry Borradaile of London 1759–1822). b. 19 July 1800; in the Bombay civil service 1819–44; compiled for publication by Government Reports of select suits decided in the Suddur Adawluts 1825; translated the Muyook (Sanscrit Law book) into Mahratta and Goozerattee 1827; author of Collection of the rules and customs of various castes as affecting civil rights; and of A table of a decimal system of accounts 1853; a member of the India law commission at Calcutta under T. B. Macaulay. d. London 7 Oct. 1876.

BORRELL, HENRY PERIGALL. Learnt business in London; merchant at Smyrna 1818 to death; very successful in discovery of inedited Greek coins; author of Notice sur quelques médailles grecques des Rois de Chypre, Paris 1836 and of papers in Revue Numismatique, Numismatic Chronicle and various German numismatic periodicals; his collection of coins, antiquities and gems was sold in London 1851. d. Smyrna 2 Oct. 1851 aged 56.

BORRER, WILLIAM (eld. son of Wm. Borrer of Parkyns manor, Hurstpierpoint 1753–1832). b. Henfield, Sussex 13 June 1781; endeavoured to cultivate every critical British species and all the hardy exotic plants he could obtain, having no less than 6660 species; wrote descriptions of species of Myosotis, Rosa, and nearly all of Rubus for Sir W. Hooker’s British Flora 1830 and subsequent editions; several plants were named after him and the genus Borreria of Acharius amongst lichens; his herbarium of British plants is kept at the Royal gardens, Kew; F.L.S. 1805, F.R.S. 4 June 1835. d. Barrow hill, Henfield 10 Jany. 1862. Proc. of Linnæan Society (1862) 85–90; Lower’s Worthies of Sussex (1865) 71–73.

BORRIE, JOHN (son of Peter Borrie, proprietor of the Dundee foundry). b. Dundee 27 Nov. 1837; employed by Bolckow and Vaughan of Middlesbrough, engineers 1856–61; resident engineer at Cleveland iron works Eston 1866–71; a consulting engineer 1871 to death; designed and set to work the hopper-and-spout kilns for calcining ironstone 1869, which have become general, reducing cost of labour very considerably; M.I.M.E. 1869. d. Stockton-on Tees 8 Feb. 1884. Engineering 26 Nov. 1869.

BORROW, GEORGE HENRY (younger son of Thomas Borrow, captain in West Norfolk militia who d. 1823). b. East Dereham, Norfolk 5 July 1803; ed. at Norwich gr. sch. 1815–18; articled in office of Simpson and Rackham solicitors Norwich 1818–23; worked for Sir Richard Phillips the publisher in London; travelled in France, Germany, Russia, the East and Spain 1833–39, acting as agent for the British and Foreign Bible Society; sent letters to the Morning Herald 1837–39, being the first of the newspaper correspondents; travelled in Albania, Wallachia, Hungary and Turkey 1844; author of Romantic ballads translated from the Danish 1826; Targum or metrical translations from 30 languages and dialects 1835; The Zincali, or an account of the Gypsies of Spain 2 vols. 1841, 4 ed. 1846; The Bible in Spain 3 vols. 1843, new ed. 1873; Lavengro the scholar, the gypsy, the priest 3 vols. 1851, 3 ed. 1872 which is in a great degree an autobiography; The Romany Rye 2 vols. 1851, 3 ed. 1872; Wild Wales 3 vols. 1862, 2 ed. 1865. d. Oulton near Lowestoft, Norfolk 26 July 1881. Lavengro vol. i, (1851), portrait; The Norvicensian April 1882, pp. 109–14.

BORROWES, REV. SIR ERASMUS DIXON, 8 Baronet. b. Portarlington, Queen’s county 21 Sep. 1799; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; succeeded 7 March 1834; R. of parish of Ballyroan, Queen’s county. d. Lauragh near Portarlington 27 May 1866.

BORROWS, REV. WILLIAM. b. Derby 15 Nov. 1781; ed. at Quorn, Derbyshire, Winkfield, Wilts, and St. Edmund Hall Ox., B.A. 1812, M.A. 1815; C. of Over, Oxon 1812–15; P.C. of St. Paul’s chapel, Clapham 1815 to 1 July 1851; author of Reformation from Popery two sermons 1818; Sacred maxims collected from the discourses of W. B. by an attached member of his congregation 1852. d. 3 April 1852. bur. Derby churchyard 10 April. Select sermons by the late Rev. Wm. Borrows with a brief memoir edited by Rev. Philip Gell (1852).

BORTHWICK, CUNNINGHAME BORTHWICK, 12 Baron (2 son of Patrick Borthwick who d. 12 April 1840 aged 60). b. Edinburgh 6 June 1813; ed. at high school and univ. of Edin.; head of firm of Borthwick, Wark and Co. of London, stockbrokers; established his claim to this barony (which had been dormant since 1772) before a committee of House of Lords 5 May 1870; bought Ravenstone castle, Wigtonshire in 1874 for £85,000; a representative peer for Scotland April 1880. d. Ravenstone castle 24 Dec. 1885. P. H M’Kerlie’s Lands in Galloway ii, 445–50 (1877).

BORTHWICK, MICHAEL ANDREWS. b. Dunbar, East Lothian 30 Oct. 1810; A.I.C.E. 1833, M.I.C.E. 1845; resident engineer of Northern and Eastern railway 1837 and subsequently manager; engaged with Stephenson carrying out Egyptian railway between Alexandria and Cairo. d. Pernambuco 3 June 1856. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xvi, 108–13 (1857).

BORTHWICK, PETER (only son of Thomas Borthwick of Edinburgh). b. Cornbank, parish of Borthwick, Mid Lothian 13 Sep. 1804; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; entered Jesus coll. Cam.; fellow commoner of Downing coll.; contested Evesham 1832 and St. Ives, Penryn and Falmouth 1847; M.P. for Evesham 6 Jany. 1835 to 23 July 1847; barrister G.I. 28 April 1847; edited the Morning Post 1850 to death; author of A brief statement of Holy Scriptures concerning the second Advent 1830; A Lecture on slavery 1836. d. 11 Walton villas, Brompton, London 18 Dec. 1852. G.M. xxxix, 318–20 (1853); I.L.N. ii, 8 (1843), portrait, xxi, 563 (1852), xxii, 11 (1853).

BORWICK, REV. W. B. b. Orkney; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; licensed to preach 1834; pastor of the United Secession church in the Overgate, Dundee May 1835, and of United presbyterian church in Bell st. Dundee 1850 to May 1866. d. Newport 15 June 1870 aged 62. Monument erected in Western cemetery Dundee Jany. 1871. W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 355–7.

BOSANQUET, AUGUSTUS HENRY (2 son of Wm. Bosanquet of London, banker who d. 21 June 1800 aged 43). b. 1 March 1792; ed. at Harrow and Haileybury; in Bengal civil service 1811–17; one of founders of Universal Life insurance company 1842, director 1842–77. d. 19 Feb. 1877.

BOSANQUET, GEORGE WILLIAM (4 son of Rev. Robert Wm. Bosanquet 1800–80, R. of Bolingbroke, co. Lincoln). b. 4 July 1845; ensign 85 Foot 19 April 1864 to 1866; clerk in the Exchequer and audit department. d. 2 Brunswick terrace, Kensington 24 Jany. 1869. Essays and stories by the late G. W. Bosanquet, with an introductory chapter by Captain C. B. Brackenbury, R.A. 1870.

BOSANQUET, JAMES WHATMAN (2 son of Samuel Bosanquet of Forest house, Waltham forest, Essex 1768–1843). b. 26 Jany. 1804; ed. at Westminster school; taken into his father’s bank 1822; F.R.A.S.; author of Chronology of the times of Daniel, Ezra and Nehemiah 1848; Messiah the Prince 1866, 2 ed. 1869; Hebrew chronology from Solomon to Christ 1867. d. Claysmore, Enfield 22 Dec. 1877.

BOSANQUET, SAMUEL RICHARD (brother of the preceding). b. London 1 April 1800; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1829; barrister I.T. 5 May 1826; a revising barrister 1832; chairman of Monmouth quarter sessions 35 years; wrote many leading articles for The Times; author of New system of logic 1839, 2 ed. 1870; The rights of the poor vindicated 1841; Principia, a series of essays 1843; Prophecies of Zechariah interpreted 1877; Select interpretations of Scripture 1878. d. Dingestow court, Monmouth 27 Dec. 1882.

BOSIO, ANGIOLINA. b. Turin 22 Aug. 1830; made her début at Teatro Rè, Milan in I Due Foscari July 1846; sang in Paris 1848, in America 1849–51; sang at Covent Garden theatre London during seasons 1852 to 1855 and 1858; sang at the Lyceum theatre 1856 and 1857; première cantatrice to Imperial Court of St. Petersburg 1858 being the first singer to obtain that honour. d. St. Petersburg 12 April 1859. E. C. Clayton’s Queens of song ii, 317–29 (1863).

BOSSEY, PETER (eld. child of Francis Bossey, constructor in royal carriage department of Woolwich arsenal). b. Woolwich 3 April 1806; apprenticed to Thomas Bayles of Woolwich; studied at United Borough hospital; L.S.A. 1826, M.R.C.S. 1828, F.R.C.S. 1852; surgeon to Convict hulk establishment at Woolwich to 1848 when he retired on pension; fellow of Med. and Chir. Soc. 1846; gave up practice 1857; author of many statistical reports and papers on diseases and mortality of prisoners printed in Reports of Superintendent of Convict establishment at Woolwich. d. Worthing 22 Dec. 1862. Proc. of Royal Med. and Chir. Soc. iv, 203–7 (1864).

BOSTOCK, JAMES. Proprietor of Bostock and Wombwell’s menagerie, d. 12 April 1878 aged 63.

BOSTON, FLORANCE GEORGE HENRY IRBY, 5 Baron. b. Florence 9 March 1837; sheriff of Anglesea 1865; succeeded 22 Dec. 1869. d. Porthamel Anglesey 4 Jany. 1877.

BOSTON, GEORGE IRBY, 3 Baron. b. Grosvenor st. London 24 Dec. 1777; Cornet 1 Dragoons 1794, major 13 Light Dragoons 22 Jany. 1801 to 14 Aug. 1801; succeeded 23 March 1825. d. Hedsor lodge near Maidenhead 12 March 1856.

BOSTON, GEORGE IVES IRBY, 4 Baron. b. Grosvenor st. London 14 Sep. 1802; succeeded 12 March 1856. d. Wilton crescent, London 22 Dec. 1869.

BOSWELL, SIR JAMES, 2 Baronet (son of Sir Alexander Boswell, 1 Baronet b. 1775 and killed by James Stuart in a duel 26 March 1822). b. Dec. 1806. d. Auchinleck, Ayrshire 4 Nov. 1857.

BOSWORTH, REV. JOSEPH. b. Derbyshire early in 1789; ed. at Repton gr. sch., Univ. of Aberdeen, and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A., M.A., and LLD. Aberdeen; B.D. at Cam. 1834, D.D. 1839; incorp. D.D. of Ch. Ch. Ox. 1858; V. of Horwood Parva, Bucks. 1817–29; chaplain at Amsterdam 1829–32 and at Rotterdam 1832–40; V. of Waith, Lincs. 1841–45 and 1848–58; R. of Water Stratford, Bucks. 1858–75; F.R.S. 4 June 1829; professor of Anglo Saxon in Univ. of Oxford 4 Nov. 1858 to death; made over to Univ. of Cam. by deed of gift in 1867 sum of £10,000 towards professorship of Anglo Saxon which was founded May 1878; author of The elements of Anglo-Saxon Grammar 1823, earliest English work of the kind; Anglo-Saxon dictionary 1838, 2 ed. 1882; Scandinavian literature 1839; A compendious dictionary of Anglo-Saxon 1848, 5 ed. 1882. d. 20 Beaumont St. Oxford 27 May 1876. Academy 3 and 10 June 1876; Times 29 May 1876, p. 10, col. 4.

BOTFIELD, BERIAH (eld. son of Beriah Botfield of Norton hall, Northamptonshire 1768–1813). b. Earl’s Ditton, Salop. 5 March 1807; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1847; sheriff of Northamptonshire 1831; M.P. for Ludlow 23 May 1840 to 23 July 1847 and 27 March 1857 to death; F.R.S. 17 Jany. 1839; F.S.A. 1839; a chevalier of order of Albert the Brave of Saxony; knight of order of Leopold of Belgium; member of Abbotsford, Bannatyne, Maitland, and Roxburgh clubs, and of Surtees Society, for all of which he edited books; set up a private printing-press at Norton hall, where he printed Journal of a tour through the Highlands of Scotland [anon.] 1830; Stemmata Botevilliana 1843; Bibliotheca Hearneiana 1848; published Notes on cathedral libraries of England 1849; Prefaces to first editions of Greek and Roman classics 1861. d. 5 Grosvenor sq. London 7 Aug. 1863. Stemmata Botevilliana (2 ed. 1858) 84–7, 156, App. 33, 479–96; G.M. xv, 645–7 (1863); Numismatic Chronicle iv, 17–18 (1864).

BOTT, THOMAS. b. near Kidderminster 1829; a portrait painter at Birmingham; one of principal artists of the Royal Porcelain works Worcester 1852; gained many prizes at Worcester School of Art; obtained distinction for his work in Worcester enamel, at Paris Exhibition 1855 and London Exhibition 1862; one of his best works is now in South Kensington Museum. d. Worcester 13 Dec. 1870. Jewitt’s History of the Ceramic art in Great Britain (1883) 143–4 and 150.

BOTTRELL, WILLIAM (son of Wm. Vingoe Bottrell of Raftra, St. Levan, Cornwall, farmer 1790–1876). b. Raftra 7 March 1816; learnt farming under his father; English master in the Seminary of Quebec, Canada Sep. 1847 to 1851; author of Traditions and hearthside stories of West Cornwall 1870, 2 series 1873; communicated upwards of 50 of the “Drolls” to Robert Hunt for his Popular romances of the west of England 2 vols. 1865. d. Dove st. St. Ives 27 Aug. 1881.

BOUCH, SIR THOMAS (3 son of Wm. Bouch, captain in merchant service). b. Thursby, Cumberland 22 Feb. 1822; manager and engineer of Edinburgh and Northern railway 1849; made floating railways for goods trains over rivers Forth and Tay; constructed a number of remarkable bridges chiefly railway, in all of which he made use of the lattice girder; designed railway bridge over river Tay, completed 22 Sep. 1877, opened 31 May 1878, the central portion of this bridge fell into the river carrying with it an entire train and its load of about 70 passengers 28 Dec. 1879; designed railway bridge over river Forth begun 30 Sep. 1878, work was stopped after above accident; A.I.C.E. 3 Dec. 1850, M.I.C.E. 11 May 1858; presented with freedom of Dundee 31 May 1878; knighted at Windsor Castle 26 June 1879. d. Moffat, Dumfriesshire 30 Oct. 1880. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxiii, 301–308 (1881); I.L.N. lxxvii, 468 (1880), portrait.

BOUCHER, REV. JOHN (son of Mr. Boucher of Moneyrea, near Belfast, tenant-farmer). b. 1819; ed. at Belfast academy 1837–42; Unitarian minister at Southport 1842, at Glasgow to 1848 and at the New Gravel Pit chapel Hackney, London 1848–53 when he entered at St. John’s coll. Cam. to read for orders in Church of England, B.A. 1857; one of trustees of Dr. Williams’s library: a member of the presbyterian board; published a sermon on The present religious crisis 1850. d. Chesterton near Cambridge 12 March 1878. The Inquirer 23 March 1878 p. 190.

BOUCHIER, REV. BARTON (son of Rev. Jonathan Boucher 1738–1804, V. of Epsom, Surrey). b. 1794; ed. at Balliol coll. Ox., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1827; changed his name from Boucher to Bouchier; C. of Cheam, Surrey about 1832 to 1858; R. of Fonthill Bishops, Wilts. 1858 to death; author of Manna in the house or daily expositions of the Gospels 4 vols. 1852–58; Manna in the heart or daily comments on the book of Psalms 2 vols. 1855–56; My Parish 1856, second series 1857. d. Fonthill Bishops 20 Dec. 1865.

BOUDIER, REV. JOHN. Educ. at Sid. Sus. coll. Cam., B.A. 1809, M.A. 1813; V. of Warwick 1815–72; hon. canon of Worcester 1852 to death; author of Plain and practical sermons 1818; Attendance on daily public worship the Christian’s duty 1854; Congregational psalmody and church choirs 1857; The two holy sacraments of the Christian church necessary to salvation 1859. d. 7 Nov. 1874 aged 88.

BOUGH, SAMUEL (3 child of Mr. Bough of Carlisle, shoemaker). b. Carlisle 8 Jany. 1822; executed the illustrations to Jefferson’s History of Cumberland 2 vols. 1840–2; assistant scene painter in T.R. Manchester about 1845; exhibited pictures at Manchester Institute, where Heywood gold medal was awarded him; principal scene painter at T.R. Glasgow 1848; A.R.S.A. 1856, R.S.A. 10 Feb. 1875; a collection of his works was exhibited at Glasgow Institute 1880 and another at Edinburgh 1884. d. Edinburgh 19 Nov. 1878. Portfolio x, 114 (1878); Academy 30 Nov. 1878 and 5 July 1884.

BOUGHEY, SIR THOMAS FLETCHER FENTON, 3 Baronet. b. Betley, Staffs. 22 Jany. 1809; succeeded 27 June 1823; sheriff of Staffs. 1832. d. Aqualate, Newport, Staffs. 6 Oct. 1880.

BOUGHTON, SIR WILLIAM EDWARD ROSE, 10 and 2 Baronet (only son of Sir Charles Wm. Rose Boughton, 9 and 1 Baronet who d 26 Feb. 1821). b. Lower Grosvenor st. London 14 Sep. 1788; F.R.S. 5 May 1814; M.P. for Evesham 6 March 1820 to 2 June 1826. d. Downton hall near Ludlow 22 May 1856.

BOULT, SWINTON. b. 1809; local agent in Liverpool for insurance offices 1831; founded Liverpool fire and life insurance company 1836 which became largest fire insurance office in the world, it was renamed in 1848 Liverpool and London insurance office and in 1864 Liverpool, London and Globe, secretary 1836–65, managing director 1865 to death; originated Liverpool Salvage committee, first combination of the kind ever introduced; devised a uniform policy for tariff offices; author of Law and practice relating to assurance, banking and other joint-stock companies 1841; Trade and partnership 1855. d. suddenly in the Aigburth road, Liverpool 8 July 1876. C. Walford’s Insurance Cyclopædia i, 353–5 (1871).

BOULTBEE, FREDERICK MOORE. Entered navy 17 March 1811; captain 23 Nov. 1841; admiral on h.p. 30 July 1875; chief constable for Bedfordshire. d. Emery Down, Lyndhurst 23 Nov. 1876.

BOULTBEE, REV. THOMAS POWNALL (eld. son of Rev. Thomas Boultbee, V. of Bidford, Warwickshire who d. 23 March 1883). b. 7 Aug. 1818; ed. at Uppingham school 1833–7, captain 1836–7; exhibitioner at St. John’s coll. Cam. 1837, 5 wrangler 1841, B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844, LLD. 1872; fellow of his college March 1842; C. of St. Mary’s Cheltenham, and then of St. Luke’s; theological tutor of Cheltenham college 1853–63; principal of London College of divinity at Kilburn 1863, and at St. John’s hall Highbury 1865 to death; preb. of St. Paul’s cathedral Oct. 1883; author of A commentary on the Thirty nine articles 1871; A history of the Church of England, pre-reformation period 1879. d. Bournemouth 30 Jany. 1884. Quiet strength, a memorial sketch of the life and works of the late Rev. T. P. Boultbee by Rev. Gordon Calthrop (1884).

BOURCHIER, CLAUD THOMAS. 2 Lieutenant Rifle brigade 10 April 1849, major 4 Aug. 1865 to 20 May 1868 when placed on h.p.; aide-de-camp to the Queen 30 April 1869 to 1876; V.C. 26 June 1856. d. 38 Brunswick road, Brighton 19 Nov. 1877 aged 46.

BOURCHIER, HENRY. Entered navy 28 Aug. 1797, Captain 22 Aug. 1811, superintendent of quarantine establishment at Milford Jany. 1827 to 1 Oct. 1846, retired R.A. 1 Oct. 1846. d. Lille, France 14 Oct. 1852.

BOURCHIER, JAMES CLAUD. Cornet 28 Dragoons 28 Sep. 1797; major 11 Dragoons 5 Nov. 1818 to 25 Sep. 1820, when placed on h.p.; colonel 3 Dragoon Guards 9 Jany. 1851 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854. d. Buxton vicarage, Norfolk 12 Feb. 1859 aged 78.

BOURDILLON, JAMES DEWAR (2 son of Rev. Thomas Bourdillon, V. of Fenstanton, Hunts. who d. 11 March 1854 aged 82). b. 1811; ed. at Ramsgate and Haileybury college; writer in Madras civil service 1829; secretary to Board of revenue 1843; third member of Board of revenue 1855; secretary to Government revenue department 1859–60 when he became an annuitant on the Fund, resigned the service 1861; wrote report of commission which reported upon system of public works in Madras presidency; author of A short account of the measures proposed by the late Colonel J. T. Smith for the restoration of the Indian exchanges by an Ex-Madras civilian 1882. d. Tunbridge Wells 21 May 1883.

BOURKE, OLIVER PAGET. b. 1817; Ensign 17 Foot 11 Dec. 1835, lieut. col. 7 Sep. 1855 to 10 Nov. 1856, when placed on h.p.; Exon of yeomen of the guard 17 July 1862 to Nov. 1873; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. d. 3 Breffin terrace, Kingstown near Dublin 28 April 1880.

BOURKE, SIR RICHARD (only son of John Bourke of Dromsally, Ireland). b. Dublin 4 May 1777; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox.; ensign 1 Foot 22 Nov. 1798; captain 1 Garrison battalion 5 Dec. 1805; quartermaster general South America 1806; served in the Peninsula 1809–14; governor of eastern district of Cape of Good Hope 1825, conducted the government of the colony to Nov. 1829; governor of New South Wales 3 Dec. 1831 to 5 Dec. 1837; colonel 64 Foot 29 Nov. 1837 to death; general 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 26 Jany. 1835; sheriff of Limerick 1839; edited with Earl Fitzwilliam The correspondence of Edmund Burke 1829. d. Thornfield, Castle Connell, co. Limerick 12 Aug. 1855. R. Therry’s Reminiscences, 2 ed. (1863) 129–89.

NOTE.—The people of New South Wales erected a magnificent bronze statue by Westmacott to his memory in the Domain Sydney, which was unveiled 11 April 1842, this was the first statue in New South Wales.

BOURKE, WALTER (eld. son of Joseph Bourke of Carrowkeel, co. Mayo who d. 1820). b. 1808; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1824; called to Irish bar 1827; Q.C. 7 Feb. 1849. d. Carrowkeel 26 Dec. 1870.

BOURKE, WALTER MCWILLIAM (2 son of Isidore Bourke of Curraghleagh Claremorris, co. Mayo, a crown solicitor for Ireland who d. 1866). b. 1838; ed. at Stonyhurst and Clongowes Wood colleges and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1859, M.A. 1863; called to Irish bar 1858, practised in Dublin and then in high court at Calcutta; purchased Rahassane park, co. Galway 1880; contributed to Dublin literary magazines; published a volume of Indian law reports; assassinated at Castle Taylor near Ardrahan, co. Galway 8 June 1882. Irish law times xvi, 298 (1882).

BOURNE, HUGH (son of Joseph Bourne of Fordhays farm in parish of Stoke-upon-Trent, farmer). b. Fordhays farm 3 April 1772; a carpenter and builder at Bemersley, Staffs.; joined Wesleyan methodists June 1799; built a chapel at Harrisehead 1802; held a camp meeting on the mountain at Mowcop near Harrisehead 31 May 1807, first of many held in Staffordshire; expelled from Wesleyan Methodist Society 27 June 1808; formed first class of a new community at Standley near Bemersley 14 March 1810, first general meeting was held at Tunstall 26 July 1811, name Primitive Methodist was finally adopted 13 Feb. 1812, first annual conference was held at Hull May 1820, and a deed poll of the Primitive Methodist was enrolled in Court of Chancery 10 Feb. 1830; purchased land and built at Tunstall their first chapel 1811; travelled in United States 1844–6; author of Remarks on the ministery of women 1808; History of the Primitive Methodist 1823; A treatise on Baptism 1823; edited The Primitive Methodist Magazine 1824 to about 1844. d. Bemersley 11 Oct. 1852. bur. at Englesea Brook, Cheshire. J. Walford’s Memoirs of H. Bourne 1855, portrait; J. Petty’s Primitive Methodist connexion 1864, portrait; Simpson’s Recollections of H. Bourne 1859.

BOURNE, JAMES. b. Dalby near Spilsby, Lincolnshire 1773; teacher of drawing in London; made numerous sketches in Cumberland and in Devon and Cornwall; Huntingtonian minister at Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire May 1845 to death. d. Sutton Coldfield 11 June 1854 in 82 year. W. Benson’s Life and letters of J. Bourne 1875, portrait.

BOURNE, JAMES (brother of Hugh Bourne). b. Feb. 1781; joined Wesleyan Methodists 1799; co-operated with his brother in establishment of Camp meetings 1807; the first general book steward of Primitive Methodist connexion 1820; chairman at the annual conferences many times. d. Bemersley, Staffs. Jany. 1860. J. Petty’s History of Primitive Methodist connexion, (new ed. 1864).

BOURNE, SIR JAMES, 1 Baronet (2 son of Peter Bourne of Hackinsall, Lancs. 1783–1846). b. 8 Oct. 1812; ed. at Shrewsbury; lieut. col. commandant royal Lancashire artillery 13 April 1863 to 27 July 1881, hon. col. 27 July 1881 to death; M.P. for Evesham 12 July 1865 to 24 March 1880; created baronet 10 May 1880; C.B. 24 May 1881. d. Heathfield house, Wavertree near Liverpool 14 March 1882.

BOURNE, SIR JAMES DYSON, 2 Baronet (eld. child of the preceding). b. 29 July 1842; cornet 5 Dragoon guards 21 Dec. 1860, lieut. col. 1 July 1881 to 1883. d. Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London 11 Nov. 1883.

BOURNE, STEPHEN. Edited the World newspaper which was incorporated with the Patriot 1831; an active promoter of the Protestant Society, of the Ecclesiastical Knowledge Society, and of the Test and Corporation agitation; stipendiary magistrate in Jamaica; registrar of Berbice; a cotton grower in Jamaica. d. Brixton, London 29 March 1868 aged 76.

BOUSFIELD, NATHANIEL GEORGE PHILIPS. b. Dublin 1829; M.P. for Bath 4 Feb. 1874 to 24 March 1880. d. Grosvenor place, London 21 May 1883.

BOUTELL, REV. CHARLES (son of Rev. Charles Boutell, P.C. of Repps, Norfolk who d. 26 July 1855 in 84 year). b. St. Mary Pulham, Norfolk 1 Aug. 1812; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1834, incorp. at Trin. coll. Ox. 1836, M.A. 1836; R. of Downham Market, Norfolk 1847–50; V. of Wiggenhall, St. Mary, Norfolk 1847–55; Reader at St. Luke’s Lower Norwood, Surrey 1860–67; assistant minister at St. Stephen’s Portland town London 1872–73; one of founders of London and Middlesex Archæological society 14 Dec. 1855, sec. 23 July 1857 to 27 Nov. 1857; sec. of St. Alban’s Architectural Society; author of Monumental brasses and slabs of the Middle ages 1847; A manual of British Archæology 1858; A manual of heraldry historical and popular 1863, 3 ed. 1864; English heraldry, illustrated 1867, 4 ed. 1879; A Bible Dictionary 1871, republished as Haydn’s Bible Dictionary 1879. d. 18 Portsdown road, London 31 July 1877. London and Middlesex Arch. Soc. Trans. i, 209, 316.

BOUTFLOWER, REV. HENRY CREWE (son of John Johnson Boutflower of Salford, Manchester, surgeon). b. Salford 25 Oct. 1796; ed. at Manchester school 1807–15, and St. John’s coll. Cam., Hulsean theological prizeman 1816, B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; C. of Elmdon near Birmingham 15 April 1821; head master of Bury sch. Lancs. 6 May 1823 to 1857; P.C. of St. John’s Bury 1832–57; R. of Elmdon 1857 to death; author of The doctrine of atonement is agreeable to reason 1817, and of sermons; collected materials for a history of Bury. d. West Felton vicarage, Salop 4 June 1863. Admission register of Manchester school iii, 13–15 (1874).

BOUTFLOWER, VENERABLE SAMUEL PEACH (eld. son of Charles Boutflower of Colchester, surgeon). b. 1815; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., scholar, 22 wrangler 1838, B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; P.C. of Brathay 1839–42 and 1856–67; C. of Seaforth 1842–56; V. of St. Lawrence Appleby 1867 to death; archdeacon and canon res. of Carlisle 1867 to death. d. The Abbey, Carlisle 22 Dec. 1882.

BOUVERIE, REV. EDWARD (2 son of hon. Bartholomew Bouverie 1753–1835, M.P. for Downton). b. 15 Aug. 1783; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807; V. of Coleshill, Berks. 1808 to death; chaplain in ord. to the Sovereign 1819 to death; preb. of Preston in Sarum cathedral 16 Feb. 1826 to death. d. Coleshill vicarage 22 July 1874.

BOUVERIE, EVERARD WILLIAM (eld. son of Edward Bouverie of Delapré abbey near Northampton 1767–1858). b. 13 Oct. 1789; ed. at Harrow and St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1812, M.A. 1816; cornet Royal horse guards 2 April 1812, lieut. col. 16 Sep. 1845 to Sep. 1853 when placed on h.p.; colonel 15 Hussars 17 July 1859 to death; general 9 April 1868; author of The horse-buyer’s guide, shewing the tricks of dealers 1853. d. Delapré abbey 18 Nov. 1871. Annual Register (1862) 149–53.

BOUVERIE, REV. FREDERICK WILLIAM BRYON. Educ. at College Bourbon, Paris 1844; C. of St. Peter Port. Guernsey 1850–57; Incumb. of St. Paul, Aberdeen 1858–69; Incumb. of French Anglican church of St. John, Bloomsbury st. London 1869 to death; author of Force et Faiblesse 1859; Life and its lessons, a tale 1859; Six short stories for short people 1861, new ed. 1868; Herbert Lovell 1862. d. 1884.

BOUVERIE, SIR HENRY FREDERICK (_youngest son of Edward Bouverie 1738–1810, M.P. for New Sarum_). b. 11 July 1783; ed. at Eton; ensign 2 Foot Guards 23 Oct. 1799, major 18 Jany. 1820 to 27 May 1825; assistant adjutant general to 4 division of the army 1810; governor of Malta 1 Oct. 1836 to 14 June 1843; L.G. 28 June 1838; col. of 1 West India regiment 13 May 1842 and of 97 Foot 21 Nov. 1843 to death; K.C.B. 5 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 6 April 1852, G.C.M.G. 28 Sep. 1836. d. Woolbeding house near Midhurst, Sussex 14 Nov. 1852.

BOUVERIE, VENERABLE WILLIAM ARUNDELL (brother of Rev. Edward Bouverie). b. 6 Feb. 1797; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820, B.D. 1829; fellow of Merton coll.; R. of West Tytherley, Hants. 1829–39; R. of Denton, Norfolk 1839 to death; hon. canon of Norwich 1847 to death; archdeacon of Norfolk 20 Dec. 1850 to 1869. d. Denton rectory 23 Sep. 1877.

BOUVIER, AUGUSTUS JULES (son of Jules Bouvier of London, painter 1800–67). Painter of figure subjects in water colours in London; member of New Society of Painters in water colours 1853; exhibited 55 pictures at Suffolk st. gallery 1845–65. d. 56 Alexandra road, St. John’s Wood, London 20 Jany. 1881 aged 54.

BOVILL, GEORGE HINTON (son of Benjamin Bovill of Durnsford lodge, Wimbledon who d. 1864). b. London 1821; member of firm of Swayne and Co. of Millwall, makers of railway wheels and machinery; introduced important improvements in grinding of corn by use of an air blast and exhaust between the millstones 1849; connected with Millwall iron works; constructed the iron forts at Plymouth; took out a patent dated 5 June 1849 for ‘Improvements in the manufacture of flour,’ there was a very long litigation about this patent which lasted 12 years 1856–68 and cost £60,000, the judges not being able to settle meaning of the words “my invention relates only to sucking away the plenum of dusty air forced through the stones.” d. Malvern 9 May 1868. W. W. Wynne’s The Bovill patent 1873.

BOVILL, SIR WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). b. Allhallows, Barking, London 26 May 1814; articled in office of Willis and Co. solicitors Tokenhouse yard; pupil of Wm. Fry Channell; practised as special pleader; barrister M.T. 15 Jany. 1841, bencher 1855, treasurer 1866; went the Home circuit; largely engaged in commercial cases in which he was unsurpassed; Q.C. 1855; M.P. for Guildford 28 March 1857 to 29 Nov. 1866; Petition of right act 23 and 24 Vict. cap. 34 and Partnership law amendment act 28 and 29 Vict. cap. 86 are known as Bovill’s acts; solicitor general 10 July 1866; knighted at Osborne 26 July 1866; serjeant at law 29 Nov. 1866; lord chief justice of Court of Common Pleas 29 Nov. 1866 to death; P.C. 28 Dec. 1866; F.R.S. 9 May 1867; hon. D.C.L. Ox. 1870; tried ejectment case of Tichborne v. Lushington 11 May 1871 to 6 March 1872 when he ordered the plaintiff to be indicted for perjury; he is one of the three clerks drawn by John Oxenford in his first dramatic piece My fellow clerks 1835. d. Combe house, near Kingston on Thames 1 Nov. 1873. I.L.N. xlix, 569 (1866), portrait, lxiii, 447, 614 (1873).

BOVILL, WILLIAM JOHN (only son of Wm. Bovill of Upper Tooting, Surrey, solicitor.) b. Dec. 1810; solicitor at Upper Tooting 1833–5 and at 24 Essex st. Strand, London 1835–46; barrister M.T. 29 Jany. 1847; admitted ad eundem at L.I. 31 Jany. 1850; Q.C. 8 Feb. 1872; bencher of L.I. 8 May 1872. d. Bath 3 March 1882.

BOWATER, SIR EDWARD (only son of Edward Bowater of Hampton Court Middlesex, admiral R.N.) b. St. James’s palace, London 13 July 1787; ed. at Harrow; ensign 3 Foot Guards 31 March 1804, major 12 Oct. 1826 to 10 Jany. 1837; served in Peninsula and at Waterloo; equerry to William iv, 1831–37; equerry to Prince Albert 1840–46; groom in waiting in ordinary to the Queen 3 March 1846; colonel 49 Foot 24 April 1846 to death; general 20 June 1854, K.C.H. 1837. d. Cannes, France 14 Dec. 1861. Miscellanea geneal. et herald. n.s. ii, 177–9; Martin’s Life of the Prince Consort v, 405, 417.

BOWDEN, HANNAH (dau. of John Finch Marsh of Croydon). b. London 1823; wrote poetry in The Peace Advocate. (m. Sep. 1857 James Bowden, recording clerk of Society of Friends). d. Croydon 3 July 1859. Poetical remains of Hannah Bowden edited by her sister [Priscilla Marsh] 1860.

BOWDEN, REV. JOHN EDWARD (eld. son of John Wm. Bowden, of Wimbledon, Surrey who d. 15 Sep. 1844 aged 46). b. London 24 April 1829; ed. at Eton 1841–6 and Trin. coll. Ox.; joined Church of Rome 1848; novice at Oratory of St. Wilfrid’s Cotton hall, Staffs. 2 Feb. 1849, went to King Wm. st. Strand, London with the other Fathers May 1849; ordained priest 1852; edited Notes on doctrinal and spiritual subjects by F. W. Faber 2 vols. 1866; The spiritual works of Louis of Blois 1871; author of The life and letters of Frederick Wm. Faber 1869. d. the Oratory, Brompton, London 14 Dec. 1874.

BOWDICH, EDWARD HOPE SMITH (son of Thomas Edward Bowdich, African traveller 1791–1824). b. 16 Feb. 1822; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school 1829–38; entered Bombay army 1838; served in Persian campaign under Sir James Outram 1856–7, and Indian mutiny 1857–9; commandant 7 Bombay N.I. 1 Jany. 1862 to 31 Dec. 1874 when he retired on full pay; M.G. 23 Jany. 1875. d. 58 Harley st. London 5 Feb. 1882.

BOWDLER, HENRY. Entered Madras army 1797; col. 21 N.I. 24 Dec. 1835 to death; M.G. 28 June 1838. d. Dublin 6 June 1851.

BOWDLER, REV. THOMAS (eld. son of John Bowdler of Eltham, Kent 1746–1823). b. 13 March 1780; ed. at Hyde Abbey sch. near Winchester and St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1803, M.A. 1806; C. of Leyton, Essex 1803–6; Incumbent of Hopton-Wafers, Salop 1806, of Ash, Kent 1809, of Ridley, Kent 1809, of Addington, Kent to 1832, and of St. Bartholomews, Sydenham 1832–43; sec. to Incorporated Church building society 1846 to death; preb. of St. Paul’s 7 Dec. 1849 to death; author of A pastor’s address to his flock 1818, 4 ed. 1822; Sermons on the nature, offices and character of Jesus Christ 2 vols. 1818–20; Quid Romæ faciam 1841, 2 ed. 1842; Sermons on the privileges, responsibilities and duties of members of the Gospel covenant 2 vols. 1845–46. d. 2 Onslow sq. Brompton, London 11 Nov. 1856. An account of a memorial to the late Rev. T. Bowdler with memoir 1858; G.M. ii, 241–2 (1857).

BOWEN, FRANCIS NATHANIEL BURTON (son of Edward Bowen, chief justice of Canada). b. Canada 1822; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.B. 1854; assistant surgeon Coldstream Guards 22 Dec. 1854 to 2 Dec. 1859 when placed on h.p.; surgeon in Military school Dublin; practised in London 1862 to death; assisted Spencer Wells in his private practice; published some interesting papers 1866 on Cancer of the Peritoneum and Fatty degeneration of the walls of Ovarian Cysts. d. 28 Oct. 1868.

BOWEN, HERBERT. Entered Bengal army 1795; lieut. col. commandant 51 N.I. 28 Nov. 1826; col. 34 N.I. 5 Jany. 1829 to 2 April 1834; col. 55 N.I. 2 April 1834 to 1842 and col. 19 N.I. 1842 to death; M.G. 28 June 1838; C.B. 20 July 1838. d. Montagu sq. London 16 Oct. 1851 aged 70.

BOWEN, REV. JEREMIAH. Educ. at All Souls’ coll. Ox., B.A. 1825; R. of West Lynn, Norfolk 1830–63; R. of Walton-Lewes, Norfolk 24 Feb. 1863 to death; author of The Resurrection defended against the objections of the Mental improvement society 1838; The war abroad and the Church at home 1854; Starlight and other poems by Walton Lewes pseud. 1869; St. Cross and other poems by Walton Lewes 1872. d. 1875.

BOWEN, RIGHT REV. JOHN (son of Thomas Bowen, captain 85 Foot who d. 1844.) b. Court near Fishguard, Pembrokeshire 21 Nov. 1815; ed. at Haverfordwest; went to Canada April 1835; farmed land at Dunville on shores of Lake Erie 1835–42; entered at Trin. coll. Dublin Jany. 1843, B.A. 1847, LL.B. and LLD. 1857; ordained deacon in Ripon Cathedral 20 Sep. 1846, and priest 19 Sep. 1847; C. of Knaresborough 1848–50; R. of Orton Longueville, Hunts. 1853–57; Bishop of Sierra Leone 10 Aug. 1857 to death; consecrated at Lambeth 21 Sep. 1857; sailed for his diocese 26 Nov. 1857. d. Freetown, Sierra Leone 28 May 1859. Memorials of John Bowen compiled from his letters and journals by his sister 1862; G. M. vii, 187–8 (1859).

BOWER, GEORGE HENRY KERR. b. 1817; entered navy March 1828; commanded the Osborne yacht 1856–64; master attendant Gosport victualling yard 1 Dec. 1864 to 1869; retired captain 15 June 1870; knight of the Legion of Honour; C.B. 13 March 1867; author of Drops from the ocean, or life under the Pennant 1879. d. York crescent Lower Norwood 26 Aug. 1883.

BOWER, HAROLD ELYOTT. Paris correspondent of Morning Post 1848 to 1852 and of Morning Advertiser 1852 to death; killed Saville Morton, Paris correspondent of Morning Advertiser by stabbing him in Paris 1 Oct. 1852, tried in Paris for murder 27 Dec. 1852 when acquitted. d. 142 Rue de la Tour, Passy, Paris 8 Dec. 1884 aged 69. Annual Register (1852) 402–407.

BOWER, JOSHUA. Crown and bottle glass manufacturer at Hunslet near Leeds; one of the largest toll farmers in England, having at one time nearly all turnpikes between Leeds and London besides numerous others; took a conspicuous part in most of the political movements of his time; contested Leeds 17 Feb. 1834; a member of Leeds town council 1835 to death, and alderman Nov. 1844 to death; proprietor of extensive coal mines. d. Hillidge house Hunslet 7 Sep. 1855 aged 82.

BOWERBANK, JAMES SCOTT (son of Edward Bowerbank of Bishopsgate, London, rectifying distiller). b. Bishopsgate July 1797; rectifying distiller in Bishopsgate 1817–47; a founder of London Clay Club 1836, Microscopical Society 1839, Ray Society 1844 and Palæontographical Society 1847; F.R.S. 17 Nov. 1842; built a museum at Highbury 1846; his magnificent natural history collection was sold to British Museum 1864; author of A history of the fossil fruits and seeds of the London clay 1840; A monograph of the British Spongiadæ 3 vols. 1864, and of 45 papers in scientific periodicals. d. 2 East Ascent, St. Leonards-on-Sea 9 March 1877. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xxxviii, 144–7 (1878).

BOWERS. Charles Robert. Cornet 13 Dragoons 18 Jany. 1810; captain 23 Foot 30 Dec. 1818 to 5 April 1820 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 10 March 1866. d. Little Tew Lodge, Oxfordshire 9 Oct. 1870.

BOWERS, VERY REV. GEORGE HULL (son of Francis Bowers). b. Staffordshire 1794; ed. at Pembroke gr. sch. and Clare coll. Cam., B.A. 1819, B.D. 1829, D.D. 1849; P.C. of Elstow Beds. 1819–32; select preacher to Univ. of Cam. 1830; R. of St. Paul’s Covent Garden, London 1831–47; joint founder with Rev. Charles Eaton Plater of Marlborough college 1843; dean of Manchester 19 June 1847 to 24 Sep. 1872; author of Sermons preached before the University of Cambridge 1830; A scheme for the foundation of schools for the sons of clergymen and others 1842; Pew rents injurious to the Church 1865. d. Leamington 27 Dec. 1872 in 79 year. R. Parkinson’s Old church clock 5 ed. 1880 p. lxxiv.

BOWERS, REV. JOHN. b. Chester 19 July 1796; Wesleyan minister in London 1834–40; a chief founder of Theological college at Didsbury near Manchester 1842, and governor 1843–64: Pres. of Wesleyan conference 1858–59. d. Southport 30 May 1866. Wesl. Meth. Mag. lxxxix, pt. 2, 942–3 (1866); J. Evan’s Lancashire authors (1850) 38–42.

BOWERYEM, GEORGE. b. England; went to United States 1854; a correspondent of The Tribune at Charleston and subsequently of Philadelphia Press with the army of the Potomac; published melodies of considerable merit; drowned near Newport News 12 July 1864 aged about 33.

BOWES, JAMES STUART. Edited Galignani’s Messenger in Paris 40 years; wrote Deeds of dreadful note and many other dramatic pieces for the London stage under pseudonym of Alfred Dubois. d. Paris 24 May 1864 aged 75.

BOWES, JOHN (son of John Bowes of Swineside Coverdale, parish of Coverham, Yorkshire 1779–1853). b. Swineside 12 June 1804; joined Wesleyan Methodists 1817, and Primitive Methodists Dec. 1821; went from town to town preaching in the open air; pastor of the first church of Christian Mission in Dundee 20 April 1831; one of English representatives at Brussels peace congress 20–21 Sep. 1848; published two monthly magazines entitled The Christian Magazine and The truth promoter; author of Treatise on Christian Union 1835; The New Testament translated from the purest Greek 1870, and 220 Gospel and other tracts to instruct Christians. d. Westfield house, Dundee 23 Sep. 1874. The autobiography or history of the life of John Bowes 1872, portrait.

BOWES, JOHN (natural son of John Bowes-Lyon 10 Earl of Strathmore 1769–1820). b. 19 July 1811; ed. at Eton; M.P. for South Durham 24 Dec. 1832 to 23 July 1847; began racing 1834, won Derby with Mundig 1835, gaining £19,000 besides stakes of £6,000, won Two thousand guineas with Meteor 1842, same race and Derby with Cotherstone 1843, Derby with Daniel O’Rourke 1852, and Two thousand guineas Derby and St. Leger with West Australian 1853, won Ascot cup with same horse 1854; the luckiest man on the turf and one of best judges of yearlings; oldest member of Jockey club; sheriff of Durham 1854; erected at Barnard Castle, Durham in memory of his first wife the “Josephine and John Bowes museum and park” at cost of £80,000 and gave art treasures to the museum, (m. (1) 1872 Josephine Benoite, Countess of Montalbo who d. 1874, m. (2) 1877 Alphonsina Marie de St. Amand, Comtesse de Courten of the Valais, Switzerland). d. Streatlam Castle near Gateshead 9 Oct. 1885. Sporting Review xl, 114–8 (1858); Illust. sp. and dr. news xxiv, 107, 114 (1885).

BOWES, ROBERT AITKEN (son of John Bowes 1804–74). Editor of the Bolton Guardian. d. 7 Nov. 1879 aged 42.

BOWIE, JAMES, b. London; entered service of Royal gardens, Kew 1810; botanical collector to the gardens 1814; collected plants and seeds in Brazil 1815–17, and in South Africa 1817–23; enriched gardens of Europe with greater variety of succulent plants than had ever been discovered by any traveller; gardener to Baron Ludwig of Ludwigsberg, Cape of Good Hope about 1829–41; made journeys into interior of South Africa to collect plants for sale. d. 1853.

BOWLBY, THOMAS WILLIAM (eld. child of Thomas Bowlby, captain R.A.) b. Gibraltar about 1817; articled to Russell Bowlby of Sunderland solicitor; member of firm of Lawrence, Crowdy and Bowlby solicitors 25 Old Fish st. Doctors Commons London 1846–54; arranged performances abroad for L. G. Jullien the musician; special correspondent of Times at Berlin 1848 and in China 1860 to death; shipwrecked in the Malabar at Point de Galle 22 May 1860; went with Admiral Hope to Tang-chow Aug. 1860; captured by Tartar general Sanko-lin-sin 18 Sep. 1860; died from effects of torture inflicted by Chinese, 22 Sep. 1860. bur. in Russian cemetery outside Antin gate of Pekin 17 Oct. Boulger’s History of China iii, 499–521 (1884); I.L.N. xxxvii, 615–6 (1860), portrait.

BOWLER, THOMAS WILLIAM b. in the Vale of Aylesbury; assistant astronomer under Sir T. Maclear at Cape Town 1833–7; an artist and teacher of drawing at Cape Town; painted a panorama of the district; made a number of drawings in Mauritius 1866; published Four views of Cape Town 1844; South African sketches 1854; The Kafir wars a series of 20 views 1865. d. England 24 Oct. 1869. Art Journal ix, 107 (1870).

BOWLES, SIR GEORGE (2 son of Wm. Bowles of Heale house, Wilts.) b. Heale house 1787; Ensign Coldstream Guards 20 Dec. 1804, major 31 Dec. 1839 to 30 May 1843 when placed on h.p.; served in the Peninsula 1808–14, in Flanders and France 1814–18, in the West Indies 1820–25, and in Canada 1837–43; commanded the troops in Lower Canada during rebellion of 1838; comptroller of household of Viceroy of Ireland 1843–5; master of the Queen’s household 4 April 1845 to July 1851; lieutenant of Tower of London 16 July 1851 to death; K.C.B. 22 July 1851, G.C.B. 24 May 1873; col. of 1 West India regiment 9 Sep. 1855 to death; general 9 Nov. 1862. d. 9 Berkeley St. Piccadilly London 24 May 1876. I.L.N. lxviii, 551 (1876), lxix, 255.

BOWLES, REV. HENRY MATTHEW JOHN. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1846, M.A. 1851, M.A. Ox. 1856; C. of St. John Cheltenham 1851–54; R. of Framilode Gloucs. 21 Sep. 1854 to 1867; R. of St. Aldate’s Gloucester 15 April 1867 to death; author of Prayers for the dead 1873; Fasting communion 1873; Lawlessness 1874. d. Cathedral house, College gardens, Gloucester 6 Jany. 1884.

BOWLES, REV. JOSEPH. Educ. at Magd. hall Ox., B.A. 1835, M.A. 1836, LLD. 1837, D.D. 1841; R. of Woodstock 1841–7; V. of Stanton-Lacey, Shropshire 1847 to death; author of Elegy on the death of the Princess Charlotte; Monody on the death of Sir John Throckmorton; Letters in vindication of the appointment of the Bishop of Hereford. d. 1879.

BOWLES, SIR WILLIAM (eld. son of Wm. Bowles of Heale house, Wilts.) b. Heale house 1780; entered navy 9 Sep. 1796, captain 13 Oct. 1807; commander in chief on South American station 1816–20; comptroller general of the Coastguard July 1822 to Nov. 1841; a lord of the Admiralty 13 May 1844 to 13 July 1846; M.P. for Launceston 20 May 1844 to 1 July 1852; admiral 28 Nov. 1857; commander in chief at Portsmouth 1 March 1859 to 1 March 1860; admiral of the fleet 15 Jany. 1869 to death; C.B. 18 April 1839, K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862, F.R.G.S. 1833; author of Thoughts on national defence; Considerations on the late naval war 1856. d. 8 Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 2 July 1869. Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xl, pp. cxl-cxlii, (1870).

BOWLEY, ROBERT KANZOW (son of Mr. Bowley of Charing Cross, London, bootmaker). b. 13 May 1813; brought up to the bootmaking business; conductor of Benevolent society of musical amateurs; organist of an independent chapel near Leicester sq. about 1834; joined the Sacred harmonic society 1834, librarian 1837–54, treasurer 1854–70: originated in 1856 plan of the gigantic Handel festivals which have been held every three years at Crystal Palace since 1857; general manager of Crystal Palace 8 April 1858 to death; committed suicide by jumping into the Thames from a steamboat at Greenwich 25 Aug. 1870.

BOWLY, SAMUEL (son of Mr. Bowly of Bibury, Gloucs., miller). b. Cirencester 23 March 1802; a cheese factor at Gloucester 1829; chairman of many local companies; took a prominent part in agitation against the corn laws and against slavery; a founder of British and ragged schools in Gloucester; formed a teetotal society at Gloucester 30 Dec. 1835; pres. of National temperance league. d. Gloucester 23 March 1884. Sessions’s Life of S. Bowly 1884, portrait; The Public Good, Sep. and Oct. 1851, portrait.

BOWMAN, EDDOWES (eld. son of John Eddowes Bowman of Wrexham, bank manager 1785–1841). b. Nantwich 12 Nov. 1810; ed. at Hazelwood near Birmingham; sub-manager of Varteg iron works near Pontypool about 1835–40; studied in Univ. of Glasgow and at Berlin; professor of classical literature and history in Manchester New College 1846 to 1853 when college was removed to London as a purely theological institution; F.R.A.S. 1864; built an observatory at Manchester; author of Arguments against the divine authority of the Sabbath considered and shown to be inconclusive 1842; On the Roman governors of Syria at the time of the birth of Christ 1855 and of many papers in the Christian Reformer. d. Victoria park, Manchester 10 July 1869. Unitarian Herald 16 July 1869; Hall’s History of Nantwich (1883) 505.

BOWMAN, HENRIETTA (dau. of Rev. John Bowman, P.C. of Burscough near Ormskirk Lancs.) b. Cumberland 1838; taught Bible classes for young ladies at Clifton and Southport; author of Life, its duty and discipline 1859; Christian daily life 1860, new ed. 1877; Our village girls 1863; Thoughts for workers and sufferers 1868; The autobiography of Elsie Ellis 1869, in which she describes her own childhood and girlhood; Lily Hope and her friends 1885. d. Southport 13 Feb. 1872. Songs amid the shadows by the late Hetty Bowman 2 ed. 1872; Woman’s Work in the great harvest field i, 137–40 (1872).

BOWMAN, JOHN EDDOWES (brother of Eddowes Bowman 1810–69). b. Welchpool 7 July 1819; ed. at King’s college London; demonstrator of chemistry at the college 1845 and professor of practical chemistry there 1851 to death; one of founders of Chemical society of London 1841; author of A lecture on steam boiler explosions 1845; An introduction to practical Chemistry 1848, 6 ed. 1871; A practical Handbook of medical chemistry 1850, 4 ed. 1862. d. 10 Feb. 1854. Chem. Soc. Journ. ix, 159 (1857).

BOWNESS, WILLIAM. b. Kendal 1809; portrait and figure painter in London 1830; exhibited his ‘Keepsake’ at Royal Academy 1836 and about one picture annually until his death; exhibited 26 pictures at British Institution and 86 pictures at Suffolk st. gallery; author of Rustic studies in the Westmoreland dialect with other scraps from the sketch-book of an artist 1868. d. Charlotte st. Fitzroy sq. London 27 Dec. 1867.

BOWRING, ALGERNON CHARLES. b. Hackney, London 19 March 1828; ed. at London Univ. and Trin. coll. Cam.; joined Church of Rome 1850; entered Society of Jesus at Hodder 24 March 1850; professor of rhetoric at Stonyhurst college 1854; studied theology at St. Beuno’s college and then in the Roman college at Rome 1855 to death. d. the Roman College 18 Nov. 1857.

BOWRING, SIR JOHN (eld. son of Charles Bowring of Larkbear Devon, serge manufacturer). b. Exeter 17 Oct. 1792; set up in business in London 1815; travelled abroad 1819–20; joint editor of Westminster Review 1824 and then sole editor; examined and reported on public accounts of Holland 1828 and France 1831; LLD. Univ. of Groningen 31 Jany. 1829; sec. to Commission for inspecting accounts of United Kingdom 1831; contested Blackburn 1832, M.P. for Kilmarnock 1835–37 and for Bolton 1841–49; British consul at Canton 10 Jany. 1849; plenipotentiary to China 24 Dec. 1853 to 17 April 1857; governor of Hong Kong 10 Jany. 1854; sent on special mission to Siam 12 March 1855; retired on a superannuation allowance 17 July 1859; knighted at Buckingham Palace 16 Feb. 1854; F.R.S. 5 June 1856; one of greatest linguists on record; author of Specimens of the Russian poets translated 1820; Minor morals for young people illustrated in tales and travels 2 vols. 1834–35; The kingdom and people of Siam 2 vols. 1857; The Oak, original tales and sketches 1869 and many other books. d. Claremont near Exeter 23 Nov. 1872. Bowring, Cobden and China a memoir by L. Moor 1857; Autobiographical recollections of Sir J. Bowring with a brief memoir by L. B. Bowring 1877; Sir J. Bowring’s The kingdom and people of Siam ii, 248–340 (1857), portrait; Illustrated Review i, 161–65, portrait; Dict. of Nat. Biog. vi, 76–80 (1886).

BOWSTEAD, REV. JOHN. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; V. of Messingham, Lincs. 1840–62; R. of St. Olave’s Southwark, London 1862 to death; author of The village wake 1846; Practical sermons 2 vols. 1856; Regeneration not salvation, a letter to Mr. Spurgeon 1864. d. 29 Jany. 1875 aged 64.

BOWYER, CORNELIUS. Entered Bengal army 1799, lieut. col. 9 July 1825, retired 20 May 1829; C.B. 26 Dec. 1826. d. Ostend 12 Feb. 1855.

BOWYER, SIR GEORGE, 6 and 2 Baronet. b. Radley house near Abingdon, Berkshire March 1783; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807; succeeded his father 6 Dec. 1799; M.P. for Malmesbury 8 May 1807 to Jany. 1810, for Abingdon 24 June 1811 to 10 June 1818; author of The resolution of the House of Commons in the last session of the late Parliament relative to the adjustment of the claims of the Roman Catholics considered 1813. d. Dresden 1 July 1860.

BOWYER, SIR GEORGE, 7 and 3 Baronet (eld. son of the preceding). b. Radley house 8 Oct. 1811; barrister M.T. 7 June 1839, reader 1850; hon. M.A. Ox. 1839, hon. D.C.L. 1844; contested Reading 1849; M.P. for Dundalk 1852–68, and for co. Wexford 1874–80; expelled from Reform Club by a vote of two-thirds at a general meeting 23 June 1876 for his frequent voting against Liberal party; joined Church of Rome 1850; chamberlain to Pope Pius ix; built church of St. John of Jerusalem Great Ormond st. Bloomsbury, London; a knight of Malta; knight grand cross of order of St. Gregory the Great; author of A dissertation on the statutes of the cities of Italy 1838; Commentaries on the modern civil law 1848; Lombardy, the Pope and Austria 1848; Commentaries on universal public law 1854; Friends of Ireland in council—Sir George Bowyer, W. H. Wilberforce, J. P. Hennessey 1864; Introduction to the study and use of the civil law 1874; found dead in his bed at 13 King’s Bench Walk Temple, London 7 June 1883. Rev. T. Mozley’s Reminiscences ii, 231–5 (1882); I.L.N. xxxvi, 548 (1860), portrait.

BOWYER, HENRY GEORGE (brother of the preceding). b. 3 Jany. 1813; inspector of schools 28 Sep. 1847. d. Leamington 26 Sep. 1883.

BOWYER, JAMES. Member of many private clubs in London such as the Blenheim, the Socials, the Watsonians’ and the Hollywoods’; a well known whist player of the very old school. d. 17 Tavistock sq. London 11 Jany. 1871 aged 72.

BOWYER, JOHN. b. Mitcham, Surrey 18 June 1790; a print cutter at Mitcham where he lived all his life; came out as a professional cricketer in the match Surrey against England at Lords 16–18 July 1810 where he played in many great matches till 1828; played in 6 matches of England against an eleven whose names all began with B.; played at Mitcham till 1838. d. Mitcham 3 Feb. 1880. F. Gale’s Echoes from old cricket fields (1871) 20–29; Illust. sporting and dramatic news ix, 483 (1878), portrait.

BOWYER, WILLIAM BOHUN. b. 1 Aug. 1789; entered navy 9 May 1803; inspecting commander in coast guard 14 Feb. 1817 to April 1828; captain 17 Feb. 1830; retired R.A. 9 July 1855. d. Southampton 8 Oct. 1859.

BOX, THOMAS. b. Ardingly, Sussex 7 Feb. 1809; played cricket 1825–54, 30 seasons; first played at Lords 25 June 1832 in Sussex against England; played in 43 great matches 1851; the best wicket keeper in England; kept the Hanover Arms and Ground in Lewes road Brighton, then the Egremont hotel in Western road Brighton, then Brunswick cricket ground and hotel at Hove; ground keeper at Prince’s cricket ground London from date of formation of that club to death. d. suddenly on Prince’s cricket ground 12 July 1876. W. Denison’s Cricket (1846) 16–17; I.L.N. iii, 45 (1843), portrait.

BOXALL, SIR WILLIAM (son of Thomas Boxall of Oxford, Clerk to the Collector of Excise). b. Oxford 29 June 1800; ed. at Abingdon gr. sch. and Royal Academy 1819–27; lived in Italy 1827–9; exhibited 86 pictures at R.A. 1823–80; designed several illustrations for Waverley novels; painted portraits of many literary and artistic celebrities; many of his portraits of females were engraved in art publications; A.R.A. 1851, R.A. 1863; director of National Gallery Dec. 1865 to Feb. 1874; knighted at Windsor Castle 24 March 1871. d. 14 Welbeck st. Cavendish sq. London 6 Dec. 1879. Fortnightly Review xxvii, 177–89 (1880); Waagen’s Galleries of art (1857) 196–8; I.L.N. xliii, 80, 94 (1863), portrait.

BOXER, EDWARD. b. Dover 1784; entered navy 1 July 1798; captain 23 June 1823; C.B. 18 Dec. 1840; agent for transports and harbour master at Quebec 24 Aug. 1843 to 5 March 1853; R.A. 5 March 1853; admiral superintendent in the Bosphorus 7 April 1854 and at Balaklava 18 Dec. 1854 to death; gazetted K.C.B. 10 July 1855. d. of cholera on Board H.M.S. Jason outside harbour of Balaklava 4 June 1855 in 72 year. I.L.N. xxvi, 644 (1855).

BOYCE, REV. JAMES. b. Ardagh, co. Longford; ed. at St. John’s coll. Fordham New York, ordained priest 1854; pastor of St. Mary’s Roman Catholic church N.Y. 1854–63 and of St. Teresa’s church 21 June 1863 to death; founded St. Teresa’s Male academy at 10 Rutgers st. N.Y. 1865 and established a convent for girls at 139 Henry st. 1872. d. New York 9 July 1876 aged 50. J. G. Shea’s Catholic churches of New York city (1878) 674–8.

BOYCE, JOSEPH (3 son of James Boyce of Kilcason, Ferns, co. Wexford). b. 1795; a merchant at Dublin; lord mayor of Dublin 1855; sheriff of city and county of Dublin 1865. d. 1875.

BOYD, VERY REV. ARCHIBALD (son of Archibald Boyd of Gortlee and Derry, treasurer of Donegal). b. Londonderry 1803; ed. at diocesan college Londonderry and Trin. coll. Dub., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1832, B.D. and D.D. 1868; C. and preacher in Derry Cathedral 1827–42; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Cheltenham 1842–59; hon. canon of Gloucester cath. 1857–67; P.C. of Paddington 1859–67; rural dean 1860–67; dean of Exeter 11 Nov. 1867 to death; author of Sermons on the Church 1838; Episcopacy and Presbytery 1841; The history of the Book of Common Prayer 1850; Turkey and the Turks 1853; Baptism and baptismal regeneration 1865. d. the deanery Exeter 11 July 1883. Bequeathed nearly £40,000 to societies and institutions in diocese of Exeter. A golden decade of a favoured town by Contem Ignotus (1884) 70–102.

BOYD, BENJAMIN (2 son of Edward Boyd of Merton hall, Wigtonshire who d. 1846). b. about 1796; a stockbroker in City of London 1824–39; went out to Sydney to organise various branches of Royal Banking Company of Australia 1840–41; speculated largely in whaling also in shipping cattle to Tasmania and New Zealand; founded Boyd Town, Twofold Bay N.S.W.; the largest squatter in Australia having in 1847 estates of his own amounting to 381,000 acres; went to California 1850; murdered by the natives at Gaudalcanar one of the islands in the Solomon Group 1851. Heads of the people i, 21 (1847), portrait; J. H. Heaton’s Australian dictionary of dates (1879) 23–4.

BOYD, CHARLES. Commissioner of customs in Ireland; surveyor general of customs for the United Kingdom 1840 to 1855. d. Brixton, London 7 May 1857 aged 76.

BOYD, DAVID. Superintending surgeon Madras army 8 Dec. 1837, surgeon genl. 19 Aug. 1846 to 1 Aug. 1850 when he retired. d. 26 Drummond place, Edin. 25 Oct. 1854 aged 61.

BOYD, SIR HARLEY HUGH, 5 Baronet. b. Drumawillen house, co. Antrim 2 Nov. 1853; succeeded 7 Aug. 1857. d. 2 June 1876.

BOYD, REV. JAMES (son of Mr. Boyd of Paisley, glover). b. Paisley 24 Dec. 1795; ed. at Paisley and Univ. of Glasgow; licensed to preach by Presbytery of Dumbarton May 1822; House Governor of Heriot’s hospital Edinburgh 1825 to 29 Aug. 1829; one of Classical masters in high sch. Edin. 19 Aug. 1829 to death; sec. to Edinburgh Society of teachers many years. d. George sq. Edinburgh 18 Aug. 1856. W. S. Dalgleish’s Memorials of the high school of Edinburgh (1857) 31, 46–7, portrait; History of Dr. Boyd’s fourth High school class with biographical sketch of Dr. Boyd by James Colston, 2 ed. 1873.

BOYD, REV. JAMES. Licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 28 June 1815; ordained 11 Feb. 1818; minister of Auchinleck 24 Nov. 1818, of Ochiltree 27 March 1833 and of Tron church Glasgow 28 March 1844 to death; D.D. Glasgow 1845. d. 27 March 1865 in 79 year. Our Scottish Clergy, (2 series 1849) 51–58.

BOYD, JAMES. b. Drogheda, Ireland; proprietor and editor of the Panama Star and Herald 1865 to death. d. Panama 25 April 1882 aged 43.

BOYD, SIR JOHN, 3 Baronet. b. 5 June 1786; ensign 5 Foot 8 July 1808; lieut. 1 Garrison battalion 1811–1814 when placed on h.p.; succeeded 30 May 1815. d. Boulogne 19 Jany. 1855.

BOYD, JOHN (son of John Boyd of Belle Isle, co. Antrim). b. Rose-yard, co. Antrim 1789; M.P. for Coleraine 18 Feb. 1843 to March 1852 and 30 March 1857 to death. d. 2 Jany. 1862.

BOYD, SIR JOHN AUGUSTUS HUGH, 4 Baronet. b. 30 July 1819; succeeded 19 Jany. 1855. d. 7 Aug. 1857.

BOYD, JOHN M’NEILL (brother of Very Rev. Archibald Boyd). b. Londonderry 1812; entered navy 1825; second captain of Royal George 120 guns 1853–6; served in the Baltic campaign; captain 10 May 1856, captain of Ajax 60 guns coastguard ship at Kingstown 1 Feb. 1858 to death; author of A manual for naval cadets 1857. Drowned while attempting to rescue crew of a vessel wrecked near Kingstown harbour 9 Feb. 1861. Life in death a sermon preached on board H.M.S. Ajax on Sunday Feb. 17, 1861 by the Lord Bishop of Labuan with a memoir of J. M. Boyd by his brother 1861.

BOYD, MARK (4 son of Edward Boyd of Merton hall, Wigtonshire who d. 1846). b. Surrey 1805; director in London of a Scotch Insurance Office; engaged in colonization of Australia and New Zealand 1843–53; author of Reminiscences of fifty years 1871; Social Gleanings 1875. (m. 23 Sep. 1848 Emma Anne widow of Robert Coates, better known as Romeo Coates the eccentric actor, she d. 1872). d. 16 St. George’s place, Hyde park, London 12 Sep. 1879.

BOYD, MOSSEM. Entered Bengal army 1795; lieut. col. commandant 65 N.I. 13 May 1825; colonel of 5 N.I.; colonel of 53 N.I. to death; general 9 April 1856. d. 6 Dawson place Bayswater, London 8 April 1865 aged 84.

BOYD, PERCY. Great friend of Dickens and Thackeray; author of A book of ballads from the German 1848. d. London 1 Jany. 1876.

BOYD, ROBERT. M.R.C.S. 1830, M.D. Edin. 1831, L.R.C.P. 1836, F.R.C.P. 1852; resident phys. at Marylebone workhouse infirmary; phys. and superintendent of Somerset county lunatic asylum; proprietor and manager of Southall Park private asylum; pres. of Med. Psychol. Assoc. 1870; contributed 16 papers to the Journal of Mental Science and papers to Royal medical and chirurgical transactions, Edinburgh Medical Journal and the Lancet; lost his life in a fire which destroyed his asylum at Southall Park 14 Aug. 1883. Lancet ii, 352–3 (1883); Medical times and gazette ii, 249–50 (1883).

BOYD, WILLIAM. Called to Irish bar 1818; Q.C. 7 Feb. 1849; recorder of Londonderry to death. d. 1855.

BOYD, WILLIAM (3 son of Richard Keown of Downpatrick). b. Dublin March 1816; sheriff of co. Down 1849; M.P. for Downpatrick 5 Aug. 1867 to 26 Jany. 1874; assumed name of Boyd 1873. d. Carrowdore castle, co. Down 19 Jany. 1877.

BOYES, JOHN FREDERICK (son of Benjamin Boyes of Charterhouse sq. London). b. 10 Feb. 1811; entered Merchant Taylors’ school Oct. 1819; scholar of Linc. coll. Ox. 1828; Andrews’ civil law exhibitioner at St. John’s coll. 1829, B.A. 1833, M.A. 1835; second master of proprietary school Walthamstow, then head master; author of Illustrations of tragedies of Æschylus and Sophocles from the Greek, Latin and English poets 1844; English repetitions in prose and verse 1849; Life and Books, a record of thought and reading 1859; Lacon in council 1865. d. 10 St. James’s terrace, Harrow road, London 26 May 1879. Preface and appendix to Sermon by Rev. J. G. Tanner 1879.

BOYLE, ALEXANDER (2 son of David Boyle lord chief justice of Scotland). b. 9 March 1810; entered navy 4 Sep. 1823; commander of Thunderbolt steam sloop at Cape of Good Hope 27 Dec. 1845, lost his ship in Algoa Bay Feb. 1847 for which he was dismissed service 4 May 1847 but restored Jany. 1849; captain 8 Aug. 1857; retired V.A. 2 Aug. 1879. d. 17 Prince’s Gardens London 8 June 1884.

BOYLE, CAROLINE COURTENAY. b. 26 May 1803; maid of honour to Queen Adelaide many years; granted civil list pension of £100, 30 Oct. 1850. d. 23 Jany. 1883.

BOYLE, COURTENAY EDMUND WILLIAM. b. 3 Aug. 1800; entered navy 7 Sep. 1816; captain 27 May 1830; groom of the chamber to Prince Albert 1840; retired captain 1 Oct. 1850; retired R.A. 27 Sep. 1855. d. Rue Faubourg St. Honoré Paris 11 Feb. 1859.

BOYLE, DAVID (2 son of Patrick Boyle of Shewalton, Ayrshire who d. 26 Feb. 1798.) b. Irvine, Ayrshire 26 July 1772; ed. at Univ. of Edin; member of Faculty of Advocates 14 Dec. 1793; solicitor general for Scotland 9 May 1807; M.P. for Ayrshire 5 June 1807 to Feb. 1811; a lord of Session and Justiciary 23 Feb. 1811; lord justice clerk 15 Oct. 1811; P.C. 11 April 1820; lord justice general of Scotland and lord president of Court of Session 9 Oct. 1841 to May 1852; distinguished for his personal appearance, there are full-length portraits of him by Sir J. W. Gordon at Faculty of Advocates and at Society of Writers to the Signet Edinburgh. d. Shewalton 30 Jany. or 6 Feb. 1853. I.L.N. xxii, 76, 134 (1853), portrait.

BOYLE, JOHN (2 son of Edmund Boyle 8 Earl of Cork 1767–1856). b. Wimpole st. London 13 March 1803; ed. at Winchester and Ch. Ch. Ox, B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; M.P. for co. Cork 4 Dec. 1827 to 24 July 1830, and for Cork city 11 Aug. 1830 to 3 Dec. 1832. d. Rock Wood, Torquay 6 Dec. 1874.

BOYLE, ROBERT (son of Mr. Boyle of Hamilton Lanarkshire, surgeon). b. Hamilton 1821; started a bakery for manufacture of pure bread at Glasgow; lectured for missionary purposes in Scotland; invented a new description of detonating powder 1866 which was reported upon favourably by principal military authorities; invented an ink which is perfectly inerasable; invented the Self-Acting Air-pump ventilator which was awarded highest and only prize given to roof ventilators by judges at International Medical and Sanitary Exhibition 1881. d. 2 Sep. 1878. Robert Boyle inventor and philanthropist a biographical sketch by L. Saunders 1885, portrait.

BOYLE, ROBERT EDWARD (brother of John Boyle 1803–74). b. London March 1809; ensign 68 Foot 14 Nov. 1826; captain Coldstream guards 10 Dec. 1847 to death; secretary to Order of St. Patrick 1837–53; groom in waiting to the Queen 1846–52 and 1853 to death; secretary to master general of the Ordnance Dec. 1853 to death; M.P. for Frome 30 July 1847 to death. d. Varna 3 Sep. 1854.

BOYLE, ROBERT FREDERICK. b. 13 June 1841; ed. at Ball. coll. Ox., B.A. 1864, M.A. 1866; fellow of All Souls’ coll.; barrister M.T. 17 Nov. 1866; inspector of schools 16 May 1871. d. Florence 15 May 1883.

BOYLE, WILLIAM. b. 25 Jany. 1821; ensign 15 Foot 6 Dec. 1838; lieut. col. 89 Foot 13 Oct. 1858 to death; C.B. 20 May 1871. d. 10 Craven hill gardens, London 14 Feb. 1874.

BOYLE, WILLIAM GEORGE. b. Dublin 12 Aug. 1830; 2 lieut. 21 Foot 9 Feb. 1849; captain Coldstream guards 24 Nov. 1863 to 1867; lieut. col. 2 Somerset militia 23 March 1868 to 12 Sep. 1870; M.P. for Frome 23 July 1856 to 21 March 1857; F.C.S., F.G.S. d. San Francisco 22 April 1880.

BOYLE, WILLIAM ROBERT AUGUSTUS. Barrister L.I. 24 Nov. 1835; author of A practical treatise on the law of charities 1837; Inspiration of book of Daniel 1863; The tribute of Assyria to biblical history 1868; Literature under the shade of Great Britain 1870, 2 ed. 1870. d. 7 Church st. Kensington 20 May 1875.

BOYNE, GUSTAVUS HAMILTON, 6 Viscount. b. 12 April 1777; succeeded 29 Feb. 1816. d. 22 Belgrave sq. London 30 March 1855.

BOYNE, GUSTAVUS HAMILTON-RUSSELL, 7 Viscount (son of the preceding). b. Downton hall near Ludlow 11 May 1797; assumed name of Russell by r.l. 1850; created Baron Brancepeth of Brancepeth, co. palatine of Durham 31 Aug. 1866. d. Brancepeth castle, co. Durham 29 Oct. 1872.

BOYNTON, SIR HENRY, 9 Baronet. b. St. James’s st. Westminster 22 March 1778; succeeded 17 Nov. 1832. d. Burton Agnes, Yorkshire 29 Aug. 1854.

BOYNTON, SIR HENRY, 10 Baronet. b. Nafferton hall, Yorkshire 2 March 1811; succeeded 29 Aug. 1854. d. Burton Agnes 25 June 1869.

BOYS, EDWARD (son of John Boys of Betteshanger, Kent, agriculturist 1749–1824). b. 1785; entered navy 1796; a prisoner in France 1803–9; superintendent of Deal dockyard 16 Sep. 1837 to 1841; retired captain 1 July 1851; author of Narrative of a captivity and adventures in France and Flanders 1827, which is the source from which Captain Marryat in his novel Peter Simple drew much of the account of his hero’s escape; Remarks on the practicability and advantages of a Sandwich or Downs harbour 1831. d. 14 Blomfield terrace, Harrow road, London 6 June 1866 in 82 year.

BOYS, HENRY, b. 1806; composed a few glees and songs, best known being Friar Tuck a glee for 3 voices 1842. d. Margate 1851.

BOYS, REV. RICHARD (brother of Edward Boys 1785–1866). b. 1783; ed. at King’s school Canterbury and C.C. coll. Cam., B.A. 1807, M.A. 1818; chaplain at St. Helena 1811–29; P.C. of Platt, Kent 1849–54; P.C. of Loose, Kent 1854 to death; author of Elements of Christian knowledge 1838; Primitive obliquities 1851. d. Loose 13 Feb. 1866.

BOYS, REV. THOMAS (son of Thomas Boys of Sandwich, Kent, rear admiral R.N.) b. Sandwich 1792; ed. at Tonbridge gr. sch. and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1813, M.A. 1817; attached to the military chest in the Peninsula under Wellington 1813; wounded in 3 places at battle of Toulouse 10 April 1814; teacher of Hebrew to Jews at Hackney college 1830–2; professor of Hebrew at Missionary college Islington 1836; Inc. of Holy Trinity, Hoxton 22 Feb. 1848 to death; translated the Bible into Portugese 1813, his version has been adopted both by Protestants and Roman Catholics; author of Tactica Sacra 1824; Plain exposition of the New Testament 1827. d. 23 Leighton road, Kentish town, London 2 Sep. 1880.

BOYS, THOMAS SHOTTER. b. Pentonville, London 2 Jany. 1803; articled to George Cooke, engraver; a member of Institute of Painters in water colours; exhibited 2 pictures at Royal Academy and 14 at Suffolk st. gallery 1824–58; lithographed the works of David Roberts and Clarkson Stanfield 1837; published Picturesque architecture in Paris 1839 which was much admired; Original views of London as it is 1843; drew illustrations to Blackie’s History of England; etched some plates for Ruskin’s Stones of Venice. d. of paralysis at 30 Acacia road, Marylebone, London 10 Oct. 1874.

BRABAZON, LUKE (elder son of Hugh Higgins of Brabazon park, co. Mayo who d. 26 April 1864 aged 63). b. 23 March 1832; 2 Lieut. R.A 20 June 1849; second captain 23 Aug. 1855 to death; deputy assistant quartermaster general; changed his name to Brabazon 1854; author of Soldiers and their science 1860; went with admiral Hope to Tang-chow, China Aug. 1860, captured by Tartar general San-ko-lin-sin 18 Sep. 1860; executed by the Chinese on the bridge at Palikao 21 Sep. 1860. Boulger’s History of China iii, 499–521 (1884).

BRACEBRIDGE, CHARLES HOLTE (only son of Abraham Bracebridge of Atherstone hall, Atherstone, Warws. who d. 21 Aug. 1832). b. 19 March 1799; ed. at Merton coll. Ox.; went with Florence Nightingale to Constantinople Oct. 1854; author of A letter on the affairs of Greece 1850; Shakespeare no deerstealer, or a short account of Fulbroke park near Stratford-on-Avon 1862. d. of heart disease at Atherstone hall 13 July 1872.

BRACKENBURY, SIR EDWARD (2 son of Richard Brackenbury of Aswardby, co. Lincoln). b. 1785; ensign 61 Foot 1803, served in Peninsula 1809–14; attached to Portuguese and Spanish army 1814–16; major 28 Foot 1 Nov. 1827 to 31 Jany. 1828 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. 10 Jany. 1837; retired from the service 1847; K.T.S. 1824, K.S.F.; knighted at Windsor Castle 26 Aug. 1836. d. Skendleby hall near Spilsby, co. Lincoln 1 June 1864.

BRACKENBURY, REV. JOSEPH. b. Langton, Lincolnshire 1788; a student at C.C. coll. Cam. 28 Oct. 1808, B.A. 1811, M.A. 1819; chaplain Madras establishment 1812–19; chaplain and secretary to Magdalen hospital Blackfriars road London 1828–56; R. of Quendon, Essex 1862 to death; author of Natale solum and other poetical pieces 1810. d. Quendon rectory 31 March 1864.

BRACKENRIDGE, GEORGE WEARE (eld. son of George Brackenridge of Brislington near Bristol, merchant). b. Hanover county, Virginia 4 Jany. 1775; ed. at Dr. Estlin’s school Bristol, England; partner in a leading West India firm; lived at Brislington 1824 to death; formed a good collection of Coleoptera and organic remains; gave greater portion of building fund for Christchurch, Clevedon, also a permanent endowment for church which was consecrated 1839. d. Brislington 11 Feb. 1856. Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. of London xiv, 60–62 (1858).

BRADBURY, HENRY (eld. son of the succeeding). A pupil at Imperial printing office Vienna 1850 where he learnt process of Nature printing which he claimed afterwards to have invented; founded a business in Fetter lane, London which he moved to Farringdon st. and carried on under name of Bradbury, Wilkinson and Co.; produced nature printed plates to Moore and Lindley’s Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland 1855 and Johnstone’s British sea weeds 4 vols. 1860–1; author of Printing, it’s dawn, day, and destiny 1858; Autotypography or art of nature printing 1860; Specimens of bank note engraving 1860; committed suicide by drinking prussic acid in Cremorne gardens, London 1 Sep. 1860 aged 30.

BRADBURY, WILLIAM. Printer at 76 Fleet st. London 1824; publisher with F. M. Evans in Whitefriars st. 1830; published The Christmas carol 1843; Punch 1843 to death, the Daily News 1846 to death; joint proprietor with C. Dickens, J. Forster and W. H. Wills of Household Words 1850–59; proprietor of Gent. Mag. 1866–70. d. 13 Upper Woburn place, London 11 April 1869 in 70 year. Reg. and mag. of biog. i, 485 (1869); C. Beavan’s Reports of cases in chancery xxvii, 53–61 (1861).

BRADDYLL, EDWARD STANLEY BAGOT RICHMOND GALE. b. 1803; contested North Durham 21 Dec. 1832; fought a duel with Russell Bowlby at Offerton lane near Herrington, Durham 27 Sep. 1832 and another with Sir Hedworth Williamson, Bart. at the Hare and Hounds on the Sedgefield road same day. d. Windermere Bank, Bowness, Ambleside 2 Sep. 1874 aged 71. Sykes’s Local Records ii, 397–8 (1833).

BRADEN, REV. WILLIAM. b. Marylebone, London 22 Nov. 1840; ed. at Maida Hill gr. sch. and Cheshunt coll.; Congregational minister at St. Alban’s 1861 at Hillhouse chapel Huddersfield 1866 and at the King’s Weigh house chapel, London Jany. 1871 to death; edited the English Independent; author of The beautiful gleaner, A Hebrew pastoral story 1872; Our social relationships 1876. d. Clapton, London 20 July 1878. Sermons by the Rev. W. Braden, edited by Agnes Braden 1880; J. Waddington’s Congregational history v, 598–602 (1878).

BRADFIELD, HENRY JOSEPH STEELE (son of Thomas Bradfield of Derby st. Westminster, coal merchant). b. Derby st. Westminster 18 May 1805; left England in the schooner Unicorn as surgeon under Lord Cochrane 26 April 1826; sous lieutenant in Bataillon Etranger of Belgium 1 Sep. 1832; stipendiary magistrate in Tobago 31 Dec. 1835, removed to Trinidad 13 May 1836, re-appointed to the Southern or Cedros district 13 April 1839; private sec. to Lieutenant Governor of Dominica 1841, colonial sec. in Barbados 1842; author of Waterloo or the British minstrel a poem 1825; The Athenaid or modern Grecians a poem 1830; Tales of the Cyclades and other poems 1830; committed suicide by drinking a bottle of prussic acid in coffee room of St. Albans hotel, 12 Charles st. St. James’s sq. London 11 Oct. 1852. G.M. xxxix, 102 (1853); Morning Post 13 Oct. 1852 p. 4 and 15 Oct. p. 6.

BRADFORD, GEORGE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK HENRY BRIDGEMAN, 2 Earl of. b. 23 Oct. 1789; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1810; succeeded 7 Sep. 1825. d. Weston park Shiffnal, Salop 22 March 1865.

BRADFORD, SIR THOMAS (son of Thomas Bradford of Ashdown park, Sussex). b. 1 Dec. 1777; ensign of an Independent company 20 Oct. 1793; commanded a brigade of Portuguese army 1810–13, and a division 1813–14; lieut. col. of 34 Foot 18 May 1809, and of 82 Foot 21 Dec. 1809 to 1815; commanded seventh division of the army of occupation in France 1815–17; commanded the troops in Scotland 1819–25; colonel of 94 Foot 1 Dec. 1823, of 30 Foot 16 April 1829 and of 4 Foot 7 Feb. 1846 to death; commander in chief in Bombay 20 July 1825 to 17 May 1829, assumed command 3 May 1826; general 23 Nov. 1841; K.C.B. 5 Jany. 1815; G.C.B. 15 Feb. 1838; G.C.H. 1831. d. 13 Eaton sq. London 28 Nov. 1853. United Service Mag. 1854 part 1 p. 157.

BRADFORD, REV. WILLIAM. R. of Storrington, Sussex 1811 to death; chaplain in ordinary to the Sovereign 1821 to death. d. Storrington rectory 13 June 1857 aged 77.

BRADLEY, REV. CHARLES (elder son of Thomas Bradley of Wallingford). b. Halstead, Essex Feb. 1789; took pupils 1810–25; a member of St. Edmund hall Ox.; C. of High Wycombe, Bucks. 1812–25; V. of Glasbury, Brecknockshire 1825 to death; P.C. of St. James’s Clapham, London 1829–53; very eminent as a preacher; author of Sermons 1818, 11 ed. 1854; Sermons 1825, 9 ed. 1854; Practical sermons 2 vols. 1836–8; Sacramental sermons 1842; Sermons on the Christian life 1853. d. Cheltenham 16 Aug. 1871 aged 82. A selection from the sermons of Rev. C. Bradley, edited by Rev. G. J. Davies 1884; Guardian 22 March 1882, 421–2.

BRADLEY, GEORGE. b. Whitby, Yorkshire 1816; a reporter on York Herald; editor of Sunderland and Durham County Herald; editor and one of proprietors of Newcastle Guardian about 1848 to death; author of A concise and practical system of short-hand writing 1843. d. Newcastle 14 Oct. 1863.

BRADLEY, REV. RICHARD BEADON. b. Minehead, Somerset 1803; P.C. of Ash Priors near Taunton 1834 to death; P.C. of Cothelstone, Somerset 1835 to death; author of The portion of Jezreel, a sacred drama 1843; Pauperism. Whence does it arise? how may it be remedied 1846; The expected budget, or how to save more than twelve millions a year 1850. d. Teignmouth 22 March 1851 aged 48.

BRADLEY, ROBERT GREENE (only son of Robert Bradley of Slyne near Lancaster who d. 1825). b. 14 April 1788; barrister G.I. 22 June 1814, bencher 26 April 1837, treasurer 30 Aug. 1839; comr. of bankrupts for Lancaster. d. of paralysis at Slyne 16 Oct. 1869.

BRADLEY, SAMUEL MESSENGER. b. 2 June 1841; ed. at Manchester school of medicine, M.R.C.S. 1862, F.R.C.S. 1869; demonstrator of anatomy at Manchester school of medicine 1865, and lecturer on anatomy 1866; professor of physiology at Stonyhurst college several years; assistant surgeon to Manchester Royal infirmary 1873 and surgeon 1876 to death; lecturer on practical surgery at Owens college school of medicine 1876 to death; author of Manual of comparative anatomy and physiology 1869, 3 ed. 1875; Notes on Syphilis 1872; Injuries and diseases of the lymphatic system 1879. d. Ramsgate 27 May 1880. Medical times and gazette i, 625–6 (1880).

BRADLEY, WILLIAM. b. Manchester 16 Jany. 1801; a painter and teacher of drawing at Manchester 1817; a portrait painter in London 1822–47; exhibited 13 portraits at Royal Academy, 21 at Free Society of artists, and 8 at British Institution 1823–46. d. Manchester 4 July 1857.

BRADSHAW, GEORGE (only son of Thomas Bradshaw of Windsor Bridge, Pendleton, Salford). b. Windsor Bridge 29 July 1801; an engraver and printer at Belfast 1820–21, and at Manchester 1821; projected engraved and published maps of the English counties 1827; published Bradshaw’s Railway map 1838; Railway time tables 1839; Monthly railway guide Dec. 1841 to death; Continental railway guide June 1847 to death; General railway directory 1849–53; attempted to establish an ocean penny postage; A.I.C.E. Feb. 1842. d. of Asiatic cholera near Christiania, Norway 6 Sep. 1853. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xiii, 145–9 (1854); Manchester Guardian 17 Sep. 1853, p. 7.

BRADSHAW, HENRY (son of J. H. Bradshaw of London). b. London 2 Feb. 1831; ed. at East Sheen and Eton; scholar of King’s coll. Cam. 1847, fellow 1854 to death, B.A. 1854, M.A. 1857; assistant master at St. Columba’s college near Dublin for a year; principal library assistant in Cambridge Univ. library March 1857 to Dec. 1858, superintendent of the manuscripts 1859–67, librarian 8 March 1867 to death; pres. of Library Association at the Cambridge meeting 5–8 Sep. 1882; F.S.A. 26 March 1860; author of 17 papers in Antiquarian Communications of Cambridge Antiquarian Society, and of a series of pamphlets which he called Memoranda, most important being The University library 1881; found dead in his rooms at King’s coll. Cam. 11 Feb. 1886, having died about 11 p.m. 10 Feb. The library chronicle iii, 25–36 (1886); Book-lore April 1886, pp. 141–5.

BRADSHAW, JAMES HILL (eld. son of J. F. Bradshaw, manager of Quebec branch of Bank of Upper Canada). b. Hillsborough, co. Down 21 Aug. 1834; ed. at Quebec; ensign 52 Foot 29 Feb. 1856, lieutenant 11 July 1856 to death; shot through the heart at Delhi 14 Sep. 1857. H. J. Morgan’s Sketches of celebrated Canadians (1862) 712–19.

BRADSHAW, JOSEPH. Ensign 37 Foot 12 May 1825; lieut. col. 60 Rifles 9 May 1845 to death; C.B. 9 June 1849. d. Kussowlie, North Western provinces of India 18 Oct. 1851.

BRADSHAW, LAWRENCE. Ensign 46 Foot 25 Sep. 1780; lieut. col. 13 Foot 1 Sep. 1795 to 2 Feb. 1803; major 1 Life Guards 2 Feb. 1803 to 1 March 1812 when he sold out; a comr. of military inquiry 1806–12; M.G. 25 July 1810, retired 1826. d. Harley st. London 10 Jany. 1853 aged 84.

BRADSHAW, THOMAS JOSEPH CAVENDISH (eld. son of Joseph Hoare Bradshaw of London, banker who d. 24 May 1845 aged 61). b. 17 Oct. 1824; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1853; secretary to Royal commission on judicature 1867–71; judge of county courts of Northumberland (Circuit No. 1) 27 Oct. 1871 to death. d. in a room adjoining town hall, Newcastle 17 Dec. 1884.

BRADSTREET, SIR SIMON, 4 Baronet. b. Upper Leeson st. Dublin 25 Nov. 1772; succeeded March 1791; a member of Repeal association many years. d. Clontarf near Dublin 25 Oct. 1853.

BRADWELL, EDMUND (son of Wm. Bradwell of Covent Garden theatre London, mechanician who d. 4 Aug. 1849). Theatrical decorator and mechanician in London; introduced some extraordinary mechanical changes into Tom Dibdin’s pantomime of Guy, Earl of Warwick at Victoria theatre Dec. 1833; mechanician at Olympic, Lyceum, Her Majesty’s and other theatres. d. 11 Magdala terrace, Lordship lane Dulwich 25 July 1871 aged 72. Era 30 July 1871, p. 11, col. 4.

BRADY, SIR ANTONIO (eld. son of Anthony Brady, storekeeper at Royal William victualling yard, Plymouth). b. Deptford 10 Nov. 1811; junior clerk in Royal Victoria victualling yard Deptford 29 Nov. 1828; clerk in accountant general’s office London 26 June 1844; registrar of contracts 1864; superintendent of purchase and contract department 13 April 1869 to 31 March 1870 when he retired on a special pension; knighted at Windsor Castle 23 June 1870; promoted the Plaistow mission and East London museum; pres. of Inventors’ Institute; a judge in Verderer’s Court for forest of Epping; made a collection of fossil Mammalia which is now in Natural history museum Kensington; author of The Church’s work and its hindrances with suggestions for church reform 1869; Catalogue of Pleistocene Mammalia from Ilford, Essex 1874. d. Maryland point, Forest lane, Stratford Essex 12 Dec. 1881. Geological Mag. 1882, p. 93.

BRADY, ELIZABETH (2 dau. of Jacob Hutchinson of Islington, London). b. Islington 1803; ed. at Islington school where she was successively apprentice, teacher, and governess, head mistress there 1838–42; superintendent of the York Girls’ school 1842–46; conducted a school for daughters of Friends at Edgbaston Birmingham 1848–69. (m. 1828 Edward Foster Brady head master of Islington school who d. 1838). d. Edgbaston 22 May 1874. The Annual Monitor for 1876, pp. 20–25.

BRADY, SIR FRANCIS (son of James Brady of Navan, Meath). b. 1809; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub., B.A. 1835; called to Irish bar 1836; chief justice of Newfoundland and judge of vice admiralty court 15 Oct. 1847 to 1865; knighted by patent 24 May 1860. (m. 1839 Kate dau. of David Lynch of Dublin, she d. 16 Jany. 1880). d. 59 Burlington road, Bayswater London 29 Dec. 1871.

BRADY, SIR MAZIERE, 1 Baronet (2 son of Francis Tempest Brady of Dublin, gold and silver thread manufacturer 1763–1821). b. Dublin 20 July 1796; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub. 1812–16, scholar 1814, B.A. 1816; called to Irish bar 1819; barrister I.T. 1835; solicitor general for Ireland 1837; attorney general 1839; P.C. Ireland 1839; chief baron of Court of Exchequer 11 Aug. 1840 to 1846; lord chancellor of Ireland 1846 to Feb. 1852, Jany. 1853 to 1858 and 1859 to 28 June 1866; vice chancellor of Queen’s Univ. Ireland 1850 to death. d. 26 Upper Pembroke st. Dublin 13 April 1871. O. J. Burke’s Lord chancellors of Ireland (1879) 270–7.

BRAE, ANDREW EDMUND. Practised as dentist at Leeds to 1872; lived in Guernsey 1872 to death; author of Literary cookery with reference to matter attributed to Coleridge and Shakespeare 1855; Electrical communication in railway trains 1865; The treatise on the Astrolabe of G. Chaucer, edited by A. E. B. 1870; wrote many papers on Shakespeare and Chaucer in first series of Notes and Queries under signature of A. E. B. d. London 10 Dec. 1881. bur. Mont Durand, Guernsey. Notes and Queries, 6 series vi, 323 (1882).

BRAGGE, WILLIAM (3 son of Thomas Perry Bragge of Birmingham, manufacturing jeweller). b. Birmingham 31 May 1823; a civil engineer; constructed the first railway line in Brazil namely from Rio Janeiro to Petropolis; knighted and made a chevalier by Emperor of Brazil; partner with John Brown in Atlas Steel works, Sheffield 1858–64 when works were sold to a limited company and he received sum of £50,000, managing director of the company 1864–72; established works at Birmingham for manufacture of watches by machinery 1876 which became English Watch company in 1882; M.I.M.E. 1854, F.S.A. 1870; sold his collection of illuminated manuscripts for £12,272, June 1878, and his collection of 13000 pipes and smoking apparatus for £4,000 Feb. 1882; author of Bibliotheca Nicotiana, a catalogue of books about tobacco 1880. d. 59 Hall road, Handsworth, Birmingham 6 June 1884.

BRAHAM, CHARLES BAMPFYLDE (son of the succeeding). b. 20 Dec. 1823; made his first appearance on stage at Princess’s theatre London 26 Oct. 1848 as Adelmar in Leoline; sang in Italy and Portugal with great success. d. 103 Ebury st. Pimlico, London 11 June 1884.

BRAHAM, JOHN (son of John Abraham of Goodman’s Fields, London, a German Jew). b. Goodman’s Fields 20 June 1773; pupil of Myer Lyon otherwise Leoni; made his début at Bagnigge Wells assembly rooms; changed his name to Braham 1787; sang at Bath 1794–6, Drury Lane 1796, in Paris 1797 and Italy 1798–1801,at Covent Garden 1801–5 and Drury Lane 1805–24; sang in Italian opera at King’s theatre London 1804–6 and 1816; made £14,000 per annum 1801–24; built St. James’s theatre London in 14 weeks at cost of £36,000 Sep.-Dec. 1835, managed it 1835–9; sang in New York Nov. 1840; composed music to The Cabinet 1801; Family Quarrells 1802 and 10 other dramas. d. The Grange, Brompton, London 17 Feb. 1856. Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography iii, 145–59 (1825), portrait; Metropolitan Mag. xviii, 130–42 (1837); Stirling’s Old Drury Lane ii, 91–5 (1881); I.L.N. xx, 245–6 (1852), portrait; P. Fitzgerald’s Life of C. Lamb iii, 226, vi, 145.

BRAID, GEORGE ROSS. b. May 1813; made his first appearance in London at Adelphi theatre 29 Sep. 1843; acted at Haymarket theatre many years. d. Holly house, Kennington road London 18 Feb. 1878.

BRAID, JAMES (son of Mr. Braid of Rylaw, Fifeshire). b. Rylaw about 1795; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; M.R.C.S. Edin.; surgeon at Manchester; investigated subject of mesmerism 1841; author of Neurypnology or the rationale of nervous sleep 1843; The power of the mind over the body 1846; Magic, witchcraft, animal magnetism, hypnotism and electro-biology 3 ed. 1852. d. 25 March 1860. Med. Times and Gaz. i, 355, 386 (1860); Manchester Courier 31 March 1860.

BRAIDWOOD, JAMES (son of Mr. Braidwood of Edinburgh, builder). b. Edinburgh 1800; ed. at the High sch.; engaged in his father’s business; superintendent of Edinburgh fire engines 1823; published his work “On the construction of Fire Engines and Apparatus, the training of firemen and the method of proceeding in cases of Fire” 1830; superintendent of London Fire Engine establishment formed by 8 of the Insurance companies 1 Jany. 1833; A.I.C.E. 1833; read many papers on subject of fires at Institute of Civil Engineers and Society of Arts; killed in great fire at Cotton’s wharf, Tooley st. London 22 June 1861 which continued burning for a month and destroyed property of the value of £2,000,000. J. Braidwood’s Fire prevention with memoir of the author (1866), portrait; Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxi, 571–8 (1862).

BRAITHWAITE, REV. GEORGE. b. Kendal 15 April 1818; ed. at Sedbergh sch. and Queen’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843; C. of Perry Barr, Staffs. 1847–51; V. of St. Peter the Great, Chichester 1851–68; sub-dean of Chichester cathedral 1853–68; author of Sonnets and other poems 1851, 2 ed. 1875. d. Beechfield, Carnforth, Lancashire 2 April 1875. Sonnets by the late Rev. G. Braithwaite, 2 ed. 1875 preface.

BRAITHWAITE, JOHN (3 son of John Braithwaite of London, engineer who d. June 1818). b. 1 Bath place, New road London 19 March 1797; engineer in London 1818–44; ventilated House of Lords by means of air pumps 1820; constructed the first practical steam fire engine; engineer of Eastern Counties railway 1836–43; joint founder with J. C. Robertson of the Railway Times 1837, sole proprietor 1837–45 when his affairs were wound up; surveyed lines in France 1844–46; F.S.A. 1819, M.I.C.E. 1838; author of Supplement to Capt. Sir John Ross’s Narrative of a second voyage in search of a North-West passage 1835. d. 8 Clifton gardens, Paddington London 25 Sep. 1870. Mechanic’s Mag. xiii, 235–7, 377–88, 417–9 (1830), portrait; Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxi, 207–11 (1871).

BRAME, BENJAMIN. Attorney at Ipswich 1798 to death; bailiff of Ipswich 1820 and 1822; the first mayor of Ipswich 1835. d. 21 July 1851 aged 78. G.M. xxxvi, 332 (1851).

BRAMSTON, THOMAS WILLIAM (elder son of Thomas Gardiner Bramston of Skreens, Essex 1770–1831, M.P. for Essex). b. 30 Oct. 1796; ed. at Winchester and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1823; fellow of All Souls’ college; M.P. for South Essex 19 Jany. 1835 to 6 July 1865. d. 30 Eccleston sq. London 21 May 1871.

BRAMWELL, JOHN (son of Rev. Wm. Bramwell, Wesleyan minister who d. 1818). b. 24 April 1794; attorney at Durham 1815; alderman of Durham 1835–52; mayor 1840, 41, 45, 52 and 1853; undersheriff of co. Durham 1840; recorder of Durham and steward of Court Leet and Court Baron of city of Durham March 1860 to death. d. Framwell gate, Durham 25 Nov. 1882.

BRANCKER, SIR THOMAS (eld. child of Peter Whitfield Brancker of Liverpool 1750–1836). b. Liverpool 17 Sep. 1783; sugar refiner at Liverpool; mayor of Liverpool 1830; knighted at St. James’s palace, London 13 Sep. 1831. d. Mount Pleasant, Liverpool 13 Feb. 1853.

BRANCKER, WILLIAM GODEFROY (son of W. Brancker of Erbstock hall, Ruabon). b. 27 March 1834; ed. at Em. coll. Cam.; lieut. R.A. 6 March 1856; lieut. col. 4 Oct. 1882 to death; instructor in artillery at Woolwich 1872–80; C.B. 18 Nov. 1882. d. Ipswich 22 May 1885.

BRAND, SIR CHRISTOFFEL JOSEPH (son of Johannes Henricus Brand, member of Court of Justice in Cape Colony). b. 1797; ed. at Leyden, doctor in philosophy and law 1820; admitted advocate in Court of Justice, Cape of Good Hope 1821; member of legislative council 1850; speaker of house of assembly 1854 to death; knighted by patent 24 May 1860. d. 20 May 1875.

BRAND, FERDINAND. Comptroller of Bridge house estates, City of London 1839 to Dec. 1878, and of the Chamber, City of London 1854 to Dec. 1878. d. Craigmillar, Avenue road, Crouch End 1 Nov. 1880 in 80 year.

BRAND, GEORGE. b. Arbuthnott, Aberdeenshire 1816; ed. at King’s coll. Aberdeen, B.A., M.A.; vice consul at Loanda 27 Dec. 1844 to 31 July 1856; author of various Reports including a very able one on the Decree of the Portuguese government for registration and emancipation of slaves in the Colonial possessions of Portugal; consul at Lagos, West Africa 10 June 1859 to death. d. on board H.M.’s steamer Alecto 16 June 1860.

BRAND, JOHN. b. Armenia; lived some time there; compiled a dictionary of the Armenian language, shutting himself up in a convent for that purpose; had an estate at Sutton near Ipswich; a successful batsman for about 15 seasons in great cricket matches, played his first match at Lords 31 May 1815; one of the very best amateur boxers and chess-players. d. in a private lunatic asylum at Ticehurst, Sussex April 1856 aged 66.

BRAND, WILLIAM ALLAN. Editor of the Montrose Review. d. Inchbridge near Montrose 7 Feb. 1869 aged 31.

BRAND, WILLIAM. b. Blackhouse parish of Peterhead 1807; a writer to the signet 1834; partner in firm of Scott and Balderston of Edinburgh; secretary to Union Bank of Scotland, Edin. 1846 to death; a founder of Botanical Society of Edin. 8 Feb. 1836, treasurer 17 March 1836, contributed many papers, enriched its herbarium with many thousand specimens of plants; discovered several rare and new plants in Scotland. d. Edinburgh 15 Oct. 1869. Trans. of Botanical Soc. of Edin. x, 284–8 (1870).

BRANDARD, ROBERT. b. Birmingham 1805; landscape engraver in London 1826 to death; engraved plates for Turner’s England and Rivers of England and other books, also for the Art Journal; produced some etchings from his own designs, one series of which was published by the Art Union 1864; painted both in oils and water-colours; exhibited 3 pictures at R.A., 21 at British Institution and 32 at Suffolk st. gallery 1831–58. d. Campden hill, Kensington, London 7 Jany. 1862.

BRANDE, EVERARD AUGUSTUS (eld. son of Augustus Everard Brande of Arlington st. London, apothecary to George iii.) b. Arlington st. 1776; ed. at Westminster sch.; studied at St. George’s hospital 1795; apothecary to George iii and Queen Charlotte 1801; apothecary to William iv and Queen Adelaide 1830–33 when he retired from practice; a member of first Court of Examiners of Society of Apothecaries 1815; presented to College of Phys. valuable collection of Materia Medica made by Dr. Burgess. d. Sulhamstead house, Turnham-Green, London 11 Dec. 1868. Reg. and mag. of biog. i, 312 (1869).

BRANDE, GEORGE WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). Chief clerk of the Treasury many years. d. Exeter 18 June 1854 aged 69.

BRANDE, WILLIAM THOMAS (brother of the preceding). b. Arlington st. 11 Jany. or Feb. 1788; ed. at Westminster; began lecturing on chemistry 1808; F.R.S. 13 April 1809, Copley medallist 1813, one of secretaries 1816–26; professor of chemistry to Apothecaries company 4 Nov. 1812 and professor of materia medica 1813, master of the Company 1851; professor of chemistry at Royal Institution May 1813 to 1854; superintendent of die department of Mint 1825 and of coining department 1854; edited with M. Faraday Quarterly journal of science and arts 1816–36; author of Outlines of geology 1817, 2 ed. 1829; A manual of chemistry 1819, 6 ed. 2 vols. 1848; A manual of pharmacy 1825, 3 ed. 1833; edited A dictionary of science literature and art 1842, 3 ed. 1853. d. Tunbridge Wells 11 Feb. 1866. Proc. of Royal Society xvi, 2–6 (1868); S. Muspratt’s Chemistry vol. 1 (1853), portrait.

BRANDLING, JOHN JAMES. Second lieut. R.A. 19 March 1839; lieut. col. 8 March 1860 to death; C.B. 5 July 1855. d. Woodsley house, Leeds 16 April 1860 aged 39.

BRANDON, JOHN RAPHAEL. b. 1817; articled to W. Parkinson, architect 1836; practised at Beaufort buildings, Strand, London with his brother Joshua Arthur Brandon 1841–7 when the latter died; joint architect with Robert Ritchie of Catholic Apostolic church, Gordon sq. London, opened 1 Jany. 1854; architect of St. Peter’s church, Great Windmill st. Piccadilly 1861; one of the 11 architects who competed for Royal Courts of Justice, London 1867; author with his brother of Analysis of Gothick architecture 2 vols. 1847; Views of English ecclesiastical structures 1848, new ed. 2 vols. 1858; Open timber roofs of the middle ages 1849; Railways and the Public 1868, 8 ed. 1871; shot himself at his chambers 17 Clement’s Inn, Strand, London 8 Oct. 1877.

BRANDRETH, THOMAS ALSTON. Second lieut. R.A. 19 July 1797; colonel 23 Nov. 1841 to death; served in the Peninsula 1812–14; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831. d. Chudleigh, Devon 24 Sep. 1851 aged 72.

BRANDRETH, THOMAS SHAW (2 son of Joseph Brandreth M.D. of Liverpool, physician 1746–1815). b. 24 July 1788; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., 2 wrangler, 2 Smith’s prizeman and chancellor’s medallist 1810, B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813; fellow of his college 1811; barrister I.T. 5 June 1818; revising barrister for Liverpool, Bolton and other towns in Lancashire many years; invented a logometer or ten-foot gunter, a friction wheel, and a double-check clock escapement, all of which he patented; invented a machine in which the weight of a horse was utilised on a moving platform, this invention was used where steam power proved too expensive as in Lombardy and in some parts of the United States where it is still employed; F.R.S. 8 March 1821; author of Homer’s Iliad with notes 2 vols. 1841 in which the Digamma was restored throughout for sake of the metre; A dissertation on the metre of Homer 1844; Homer’s Iliad, translated 2 vols. 1846. d. The Steyne, Worthing 27 May 1873.

BRANDT, FRANCIS FREDERICK (eld. son of Rev. Francis Brandt R. of Gawsworth Cheshire who d. 1870). b. Gawsworth rectory 1819; ed. at Macclesfield gr. sch.; practised as special pleader; barrister I.T. 30 April 1847; leader of Chester and Knutsford sessions; reported for the Times in Court of Common Pleas; contributed to Bells Life in London; author of Habet, a short treatise on the law of the land as it effects pugilism 1857; Fur and feathers 1859; Frank Marland’s Manuscripts 1859; Games, gaming and gamester’s law 1871, 2 ed. 1873. d. 8 Fig tree court, Temple London 6 Dec. 1874.

BRANDT, ROBERT. Barrister L.I. 1 June 1821; went northern circuit; commissioner in Bankruptcy for Manchester; judge of Bury Court of Requests; judge of Manchester county court March 1847 to death. d. Pendleton near Manchester 15 April 1862. Law Times xxxvii, 321 (1862).

BRANKS, REV. WILLIAM. Minister of parish of Torpichen; published anonymously Heaven our Home 1861, new ed. 1864, sale of which reached considerably over 100,000 copies; Zion’s King 1859; preserved anonymous character of his works to the last. d. Torpichen 18 Feb. 1879.

BRANSON, WILLIAM SCHOLES. Member of company of T.R. Liverpool 1847 or before; manager of Adelphi theatre Liverpool; author of many plays. d. Fairfield, Liverpool Jany. 1884 aged 74.

BRANT, JAMES. Vice consul at Trebizond 31 March 1830; consul at Erzeroom 27 April 1836 and at Damascus Sep. 1856 to 2 Nov. 1860 when he retired on a pension; C.B. 31 Oct. 1860. d. Cliftonville, Brighton 24 Nov. 1861.

BRANT, REV. WILLIAM HOLT. Consular chaplain at St. Michael’s in the Azores 11 Nov. 1834 to 25 April 1865. d. Lisbon 20 April 1867 aged 90.

BRANWHITE, CHARLES (son of Nathan Branwhite of Bristol, miniature painter). b. Bristol 1817; landscape painter especially of frost scenes; exhibited 9 pictures at R.A., 25 at British Institution and 2 at Suffolk st. gallery 1845–57. d. Bramford house, Westfield park, Redland, Bristol 15 Feb. 1880. I.L.N. lxxvi, 285 (1880), portrait.

BRASIER, JAMES. Entered navy 3 Dec. 1799; captain 10 Jany. 1837; V.A. on h.p. 14 Nov. 1863. d. Bradney near Bridgnorth 28 July 1864 aged 80.

BRASSEY, THOMAS (son of John Brassey of Buerton, Aldford, Cheshire, farmer). b. Buerton 7 Nov. 1805; land surveyor at Birkenhead 1826; railway contractor in London 1836; made line from Paris to Rouen 1841–3 and from Rouen to Havre 1843–5; contractor for Great Northern railway 1847–51, railways in Italy 1850–3, Grand Trunk railway of Canada 1852–9 and railways in Australia 1859–63; established with E. T. Betts and M. Peto Canada works at Birkenhead 1853. d. Hastings 8 Dec. 1870. Life by Arthur Helps 1872, portrait; J. Devey’s Life of Joseph Locke (1862) 145–54; Work and wages practically illustrated, by T. Brassey, M.P. 1872.

NOTE.—He laid out £78,000,000 of other people’s money and upon that outlay retained £2,500,000 being as nearly as possible three per cent.; he had in his employ at one time upwards of 30,000 men on railways in Europe; his will was proved in London 7 Feb. 1871, personalty being sworn under £3,200,000.

BRAVO, CHARLES DELAUNEY TURNER (only son of Charles Turner of the Isle of Jersey). b. 39 Upper Charlotte st. Tottenham Court road, London 30 Nov. 1845; ed. at King’s coll. London and Trin. coll. Ox., admitted gentleman commoner 16 Jany. 1864, B.A. 1866, M.A. 1868; barrister M.T. 30 April 1870, went Home circuit; changed his name to Bravo 1868 or 1869. (m. 7 Dec. 1875 Florence eld. dau. of Robert Campbell of Buscot park near Reading, she was b. 5 Sep. 1845, m. (1) 21 Sep. 1864 Alexander Lewis Ricardo, Ensign Grenadier Guards (who d. 19 April 1871), she d. at Lumps villa Southsea 17 Sep. 1878 and was bur. at Farringdon, Berkshire 21 Sep.) C. D. T. Bravo d. suddenly and mysteriously from taking tartar emetic at The Priory Bedford hill road, Balham Surrey 21 April 1876. bur. Lower Norwood cemetery 1 May. The Balham mystery or the Bravo poisoning case 7 numbers 56 pages (1876), portraits.

NOTE.—There was a coroner’s inquest held at which no conclusion was arrived at as to how the poison was administered, a renewed inquest was opened by the Coroner for East Surrey 11 July 1876 which lasted till 11 Aug. when the coroner’s jury returned the following verdict, “We find that the deceased did not commit suicide, but that he was wilfully murdered by the administration of tartar emetic, but there is not sufficient evidence to fix the guilt upon any person or persons.” In consequence of this decision the Government offered a reward of £250 for information leading to the conviction of the murderer, but nothing more was ever found out.

BRAY, ANNA ELIZA (only dau. of John Kemp of the Mint, London, bullion porter 1748–1823). b. St. Mary Newington, Surrey 25 Dec. 1790; author of Traditions, legends, superstitions and sketches of Devonshire, the Tamar and the Tavy 3 vols. 1838; Trelawnie of Trelawne or the prophecy 3 vols., 2 ed. 1845; Henry de Pomeroy or the eve of St. John 3 vols. 1842, new ed. 1846; Handel, his life personal and professional 1857; Joan of Arc 1874. (m. (1) Feb. 1818 Charles Alfred Stothard, historical draughtsman who d. 28 May 1821, m. (2) 1822 Rev. Edward Atkyns Bray, V. of Tavistock who d. 1857). She d. 40 Brompton Crescent, London 21 Jany. 1883. Mrs. Bray’s Autobiography 1844, portrait; Library Chronicle i, 126–9 (1884); I.L.N. lxxxii, 197 (1883), portrait.

BRAY, CHARLES (son of Mr. Bray of Coventry, ribbon manufacturer who d. 1835). b. Coventry 31 Jany. 1811; ribbon manufacturer at Coventry 1835–56; helped to establish Coventry Labourers’ and Artisans’ Society 1843 which developed into a co-operative society of which he was president; started a working man’s club 1845; purchased The Coventry Herald and Observer 1846 which he sold to J. M. Scott 1874; author of Education of the feelings 1838, 4 ed. 1872; Philosophy of necessity 2 vols. 1841, 2 ed. 1863; Outlines of social systems and communities 1844; A manual of anthropology 1871, 2 ed. 1883; Psychological and ethical definitions on a physiological basis 1879 and a number of pamphlets. d. 5 Oct. 1884. C. Bray’s Phases of opinion and experience during a long life (1884), portrait; George Eliot’s Life, by J. W. Cross 1885.

BRAY, REV. EDWARD ATKYNS (only son of Edward Bray of Tavistock, solicitor). b. the Abbey house, Tavistock 18 Dec. 1778; a student at M.T. 1801, barrister M.T. 1806; ordained by bishop of Norwich about 1811; entered at Trin. coll. Cam. 1812, B.D. 1822; V. of Tavistock 1812 to death; P.C. of Brent Tor, Devon 1812 to death; author of Sermons from the works of the most eminent divines 1818; Discourses from tracts and treatises of eminent divines 1821; Discourses on Protestantism 1829; Poetical remains 2 vols. 1859. d. Tavistock 17 July 1857. Poetical remains of the late E. A. Bray i, pp. ix-lii, (1859), portrait.

BRAY, EDWARD WILLIAM. Ensign 67 Foot 12 Jany. 1805; major 39 Foot 9 Nov. 1841 to 7 Aug. 1846 when he retired on full pay; C.B. 2 May 1844. d. Montpellier villas, Brighton 3 Dec. 1859 aged 70.

BRAY, GEORGE FREDERICK CAMPBELL. b. 23 April 1826; ensign 39 Foot 22 March 1844; lieut. col. 96 Foot 14 Sep. 1870 to 13 March 1878 when placed on h.p.; assistant adjutant general second division Abyssinian expedition 11 Nov. 1867 to 7 June 1868; deputy A.A.G. Bombay 20 Sep. 1872 to 15 Nov. 1873; A.A.G. and Q.M.G. southern district 15 March 1878 to 31 March 1883; hon. M.G. 26 Sep. 1883. d. 16 Kidbrook Green, Blackheath 26 Sep. 1884.

BRAY, REGINALD (son of Edward Bray of Shere near Guildford 1768–1814, treasurer of Society of Antiquaries). b. 26 Jany. 1797; solicitor in London 1818 to death; F.S.A. 26 Nov. 1829; printed many papers on reforms of the law; author of Concise directions for obtaining Lord Chancellors orders for election and removal of coroners of counties 1831. d. Shere 9 Sep. 1879.

BRAYBROOK, RICHARD GRIFFIN NEVILLE, 3 Baron (eld. son of Richard Aldworth Neville Griffin, 2 Baron Braybrook 1750–1825). b. Stanlake, Berks. 26 Sep. 1783; ed. at Sunbury, Eton and Magd. coll. Cam., M.A. 1811, D.C.L. Ox. 1810; M.P. for Thirsk 1805–1806, for Saltash 1806–1807, for Buckingham 1807–1812 and for Berkshire (after a 15 days poll) 12 Oct. 1812 to 28 Feb. 1825 when he succeeded as 3 Baron; recorder of Saffron Walden to 1835; pres. of Camden Society and of Surtees Society; edited Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys 2 vols. 1825, 4 ed. 4 vols. 1854; Life of Jane Lady Cornwallis 1842; author of History of Audley End and Saffron Walden 1835. d. Audley End 13 March 1858.

BRAYBROOK, RICHARD CORNWALLIS NEVILLE, 4 Baron (eld. son of the preceding). b. St. George’s parish, Hanover sq. London 17 March 1820; ed. at Eton; ensign Grenadier guards 2 June 1837, lieut. 31 Dec. 1841 to 1842 when he sold out; F.S.A. 25 March 1847; succeeded 13 March 1858; author of Saxon Obsequies discovered in Cambridgeshire 1852. d. Audley End 22 Feb. 1861.

BRAYBROOKE, SAMUEL. Second lieut. 1 Ceylon regiment 17 Dec. 1812, lieut. col. 26 Jany. 1844 to 11 June 1859; col. 99 Foot 26 Jany. 1866 to death; general 16 April 1875. d. 3 Gledhow gardens, South Kensington, London 7 Oct. 1880 aged 84.

BRAYBROOKE, WILLIAM LEMAN (2 son of the preceding). Ensign 90 Foot 29 March 1844; ensign 15 Foot 6 June 1845; ensign Ceylon Rifles 11 July 1845, lieut. 10 Jany. 1847 to death, adjutant 7 April 1848 to 1854; served with and carried colours of 95 Foot in Crimean war 1854. d. on board H.M.S. Vulcan in Black Sea 21 Sep. 1854 from wounds received at battle of the Alma 20 Sep. The diary of the late W. L. Braybrooke 1855.

BRAYE, SARAH OTWAY-CAVE, Baroness. b. July 1767. (m. 25 Feb. 1790 Henry Otway who was b. 1769 and d. 13 Sep. 1815); barony of Braye in abeyance since 1557 was revived in her favour 3 Oct. 1839. d. 14 Great Stanhope st. London 21 Feb. 1862.

BRAYLEY, EDWARD WEDLAKE. b. Lambeth, Surrey 1773; apprenticed to an enameller at Clerkenwell; prepared enamel plates for Henry Bone; edited with John Britton The beauties of England and Wales 10 vols. 1801–14; sec. and librarian to Russell Institution 55 Great Coram st. London 1826 to death; F.S.A. 1823; author of The history and antiquities of the abbey church of St. Peter Westminster 2 vols. 1818; Historical and descriptive account of the theatres of London 1826; Londiniana, or reminiscences of the British metropolis 4 vols. 1829; The graphic and historical illustrator, a periodical July 1832 to Nov. 1834; A topographical history of the county of Surrey 5 vols. 1841–8 and many other books. d. 55 Great Coram st. London 23 Sep. 1854. Memoir by John Britton privately printed 1855; G.M. xlii, 538, 582 (1854).

BRAYLEY, EDWARD WILLIAM (eld. son of the preceding). b. London 1801; studied science at London and Royal Institutions; joint librarian of the London Institution 1834 where he also lectured, sole librarian 1865 to death, and professor of physical geography and meteorology 1865 to death; an original member of Zoological society 1826 and of Chemical society of London 1841; F.R.S. 1 June 1854; F.R.A.S. Nov. 1866; one of the editors 1822–45 of Annals of philosophy, Zoological journal, and Philosophical Magazine to all of which he contributed papers; author of Ancient castles of England and Wales 2 vols. 1825. d. 53 Oakley road, London 1 Feb. 1870. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xxxii, 111 (1872).

BREADALBANE, JOHN CAMPBELL, 2 Marquis of (only son of John Campbell, 1 Marquis of Breadalbane 1762–1834). b. Nethergate, Dundee 26 Oct. 1796; ed. at Glasgow college; M.P. for Okehampton 1820–26; M.P. for Perthshire 29 Dec. 1832 to 29 March 1834 when he succeeded as 2 Marquis; F.R.S. 5 June 1834; K.T. 21 March 1838; lieut. and sheriff principal of Argyllshire 5 Dec. 1839; presided over meeting of British Association at Glasgow 1840; lord rector of Univ. of Glasgow 1841; received Queen Victoria at Taymouth Castle, Perthshire on her first visit to Scotland 8 Sep. 1842; lord chamberlain of the household 1848–52 and 1853–58; P.C. 4 Sep. 1848; colonel of Argyll and Bute militia 18 Sep. 1854 to death. d. Lausanne 8 Nov. 1862. P. R. Drummond’s Perthshire in bygone days (1879) 6–17.

BREADALBANE, JOHN ALEXANDER GAVIN Campbell, 6 Earl of. b. London 30 March 1824; ensign 79 Foot 2 Aug. 1842; captain 1 Foot 4 Aug. 1854 to 12 Jany. 1855 when he sold out; succeeded 8 Nov. 1862, confirmed as 6 Earl by Court of Session 1866 and by House of Lords 1867; a frequent correspondent of The Field; a great salmon fisher. d. 4B The Albany, Piccadilly, London 20 March 1871. J. Paterson’s Breadalbane succession case 1863.

BREEKS, JAMES WILKINSON. b. Edengate, Warcop, Westmoreland 5 March 1830; entered Madras civil service 1849, private sec. to Sir W. T. Denison governor of Madras 1861–64; comr. of the Nilagiris, principal sanatorium of South of India to death; made a complete collection of arms, ornaments, dresses and implements in use among four aboriginal tribes of the Nilagiris and of contents of many cairns and cromlechs; author of An account of the primitive tribes and monuments of the Nilagiris 1873. (m. 19 Feb. 1863 Susan Maria eld. dau. of Sir. W. T. Denison). d. Madras 6 June 1872.

BREEN, JAMES (2 son of Hugh Breen who superintended Lunar reductions at Royal Observatory, Greenwich). b. Armagh 5 July 1826; a calculator at Royal Observatory, Greenwich Aug. 1842 to Aug. 1846 and at Cambridge Observatory Aug. 1846 to Dec. 1858; observed the total eclipse of the sun at Camuesa in Spain 18 July 1860; F.R.A.S. 10 June 1862; author of The Planetary Worlds, the topography and telescopic appearance of the sun, planets, moon and comets 1854; contributed to Popular Science Review and other periodicals generally anonymously. d. 25 Aug. 1866. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xxvii, 104 (1867).

BREESE, EDWARD. b. 13 April 1835; ed. at Lewisham, Kent; admitted solicitor 1857; practised at Dolgelly to death; clerk of the peace for Merionethshire; F.S.A. 21 March 1872; author of Kalendars of Gwynedd, or chronological lists of lords-lieutenant, sheriffs and knights of the shire for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon and Merioneth 1873. d. Morva lodge, Portmadoc, Carnarvonshire 10 March 1881. Law Times lxx, 357, 413 (1881).

BREFFIT, EDGAR. b. Cromford near Matlock 12 June 1810; founded a glass bottle manufactory in City of London which became the leading house, trading as Aire and Calder glass bottle company at Castleford Yorkshire and Free trade wharf London; took out patents for stoppered bottles and for making large bottles with taps for drawing off the contents; member of court of common council for Dowgate ward 1865; sheriff of London 1875–6; alderman of ward of Cheap 1877 to death. d. The Glebe, Lee Kent 18 Oct. 1882. I.L.N. lxvii, 475 (1875), portrait; Graphic xi, 446 (1875), portrait.

BREMNER, JAMES. b. Keiss, parish of Wick, Caithnessshire 25 Sep. 1784; shipbuilder at Wick 1809 to death; designed and constructed many harbours and piers on north coast of Scotland; raised 236 wrecked vessels between Aberdeenshire and Isle of Skye; removed steamer Great Britain off strand in Dundrum bay 1847, she was stranded 22 Sep. 1846 and floated 27 Sep. 1847; author of Treatise on the planning and constructing of harbours in deep water 1845. d. Harbour place, Pulteney Town, Wick 20 Aug. 1856. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xvi, 113–20 (1857).

BREMRIDGE, RICHARD. b. Barnstaple 1803; solicitor at Barnstaple 1825; M.P. for Barnstaple 1847–52, re-elected 8 July 1852 but election declared void; M.P. for Barnstaple 1863–65. d. Exmouth 15 June 1878.

BRENNAN, VERY REV. PATRICK. b. Carlow; one of the Superiors of Carlow college 1812–20; priest of parish of Kildare 1820; Penitentiary of dioceses of Kildare and Leighlin. d. Kildare 1864.

BRENT, JOHN (eld. son of John Brent of Rotherhithe, Kent, shipbuilder 1786–1867). b. Rotherhithe 21 Aug. 1808; a miller at Canterbury; alderman; city treasurer; F.S.A. 7 April 1853; author of The sea wolf, a romance 1834; Lays and legends of Kent 1840, 2 ed. 1851; The battle cross, a romance of the fourteenth century 3 vols. 1845; Canterbury in the olden time 1860, 2 ed. 1879; Village bells and other poems 1865, 2 ed. 1868 and of many papers in antiquarian magazines. d. 8 Dane John grove, Canterbury 23 April 1882. C. R. Smith’s Retrospections i, 259, 303 (1883); Journal of Brit. Archæol. Assoc. xxxviii, 235–6 (1882).

BRENT, WILLIAM BRENT. Barrister L.I. 19 Nov. 1813; comr. of bankrupts to 1831; steward of Marshalsea Court and Palace Court, Great Scotland yard, Westminster 16 Sep. 1825 to 31 Dec. 1849 when they were abolished by 12 & 13 Vict. c. 101, s. xiii; probably dead.

BRENTON, JOHN. b. 28 Aug. 1782; entered navy 28 Aug. 1798; captain 26 Dec. 1822; retired V.A. 5 Jany. 1858; knight of Russian order of St. Vladimir. d. Ryde, Isle of Wight 17 Sep. 1859.

BRENTON, SIR LANCELOT CHARLES LEE, 2 Baronet (younger son of Vice Admiral Sir Jahleel Brenton, 1 Baronet 1770–1844). b. 1807; ed. at Hyde abbey sch. Winchester, and Oriel college Oxford; ordained 1830; seceded from Church of England Dec. 1831; took a small chapel at Bath and set up a new sect which died out with its founder; succeeded 21 April 1844; author of The Septuagint version of the Old Testament according to the Vatican text translated into English 2 vols. 1844; Cardiphonia Latina, 3 ed. 1850; Diaconia, or thoughts on the subject of Ministry 1852; Psalms: Bible and Prayer book version, parallel 1860. d. Montagu house, Ryde 13 June 1862. Memoir of Sir Jahleel Brenton re-edited by his son [Rev. L. C. L. Brenton] 1855, preface vii-cxxv; Rev. T. Mozley’s Reminiscences ii, 114–20 (1882).

BRERETON, REV. CHARLES DAVID (eld. son of Rev. Charles David Brereton, R. of Little Massingham, Norfolk). b. 19 April 1820; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1846; C. of St. James Piccadilly 1848–49; R. of St. Edmund Norwich 1849–52; consular chaplain at Malaga, Spain 27 Aug. 1850 to 30 April 1859; R. of Bixley with Framlingham Earl, Norfolk 1863 to death; author of Lectures for travellers 1854; Verses and lectures 1868. d. Lowestoft 15 April 1876.

BRERETON, SIR WILLIAM (son of major Robert Brereton who fought at Culloden). b. 1789; 2 lieut. R.A. 10 May 1805; lieut. col. 17 Aug. 1843 to 16 Dec. 1854; served in Spain, France and the Netherlands; granted service reward 1 April 1856; head of Irish constabulary short time; K.H. 1837; C.B. 19 July 1838; K.C.B. 28 June 1861; L.G. 27 June 1864; author of The British fleet in the Black Sea while under the command of Vice Admiral J. W. D. Dundas, privately printed 1857. d. 3E Albany, Piccadilly, London 27 July 1864. I.L.N. xlv, 154, 299 (1864).

BRERETON, WILLIAM WESTROPP (4 son of Arthur Brereton of Ballyadams Queen’s county). b. 1810; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1832, M.A. 1856; called to Irish bar 1836; went Munster circuit; Q.C. 9 Nov. 1852; assistant barrister for co. Kerry 1858; chairman of quarter sessions for co. Galway 1858 to death. d. Fitzwilliam sq. north, Dublin 13 Dec. 1867. Law mag. and law review v, 260 (1855).

BRETT, HARRY AUGUSTUS. Writer Madras civil service 1831; collector of Salem 1860; member of Board of Revenue 1862–65; pres. of Income tax commission 1862–67; resigned the service 27 May 1867. d. 20 Dec. 1867.

BRETT, JOHN WATKINS (son of Wm. Brett of Bristol, cabinet maker). b. Bristol 1805; Telegraphic engineer; laid a gutta percha wire between Dover and Cape Grisnez 1850 by which the first submarine message was sent from England to France; laid cables between Dover and Calais 1851, Dover and Ostend 1853, and Sardinia and France 1854; mainly instrumental in forming Atlantic Telegraph Company 1856; director of Submarine Telegraph Co.; made a splendid collection of works of art; author of On the origin and progress of the Oceanic telegraph 1858. d. Lunatic asylum, Coton Hill, Stafford 3 Dec. 1863 bequeathing one tenth of his large property to charity. Notes and Queries 3 S. viii, 203 (1865).

BRETT, ROBERT. b. at or near Luton Beds. 11 Sep. 1808; ed. at St. George’s hospital London, M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1830; assistant to Samuel Reynolds of Stoke Newington surgeon, partner with him 1860 to death; founded the Guild of St. Luke, a band of medical men who co-operate with the clergy; vice pres. of London Union on church matters 1850; one of founders and vice pres. with Dr. Pusey of English Church Union 1860; author of The Churchman’s guide to faith and piety by R. B. 1862, 5 ed. 1871; Scripture history for the young 1845; Devotions for the sick room 1843; Companion for the sick room 1844; Thoughts during sickness, 4 ed. 1870 and 11 other books. d. Stoke Newington 3 Feb. 1874. Robert Brett. In memoriam reprints from the principal church journals including a sermon by Rev. J. W. Belcher 1874.

BRETT, WILLIAM FREELAND. b. 19 Oct. 1821; ensign 54 Foot 1 April 1842, major 14 Aug. 1857; major 61 Foot 27 Sep. 1861; lieut. col. brigade depot 26 Jany. 1876; M.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 1 July 1881. d. Colchester 10 Nov. 1884.

BRETT, REV. WILLIAM HENRY. b. Dover; left Dover on his first journey to Demerara as missionary from S.P.G. 10 Feb. 1840; ordained deacon 1843 and priest 1844; chaplain to Bishop of Guiana and R. of Holy Trinity Essequibo 1851–79; author of The Indian tribes of Guiana 1852; Legends and myths of the aboriginal Indians of British Guiana 1880; Mission work among the Indian tribes in the forests of Guiana 1881. d. Bowruma, Totnes road, Paignton, Devon 10 Feb. 1886 aged 67.

BRETTELL, REV. JACOB (only son of Rev. Jacob Brettell, Independent minister at Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts who d. 19 March 1810). b. Sutton-in-Ashfield 16 April 1793; ed. at Manchester college York 1809–14; Unitarian minister at Cockey Moor (now called Ainsworth) Lancs. July 1814 and at Rotherham Sep. 1816 to June 1859; author of The country minister, a poem in 4 cantos 1821; The country minister part second, a poem in 3 cantos 1825; The country minister, a poem in 7 cantos with additional poems and notes 1827; contributed hundreds of hymns and political and patriotic pieces to Christian Reformer, Sheffield Iris, and other periodicals. d. Rotherham 12 Jany. 1862. Christian Reformer xviii, 128, 191 (1862).

BRETTLE, ROBERT. b. Portobello near Edinburgh 6 Dec. 1831; a glassblower in the hardware districts; fought B. Malpas for £50 a side 14 Feb. 1854 when stakes were drawn; fought Sam. Simmonds for £200 a side 3 June 1856, and Job Cobley for £100 a side 4 Aug. 1857 and beat them both; fought Bob Travers for £100 a side 26 Jany. 1858 when he won after 100 rounds in 2 hours; fought James Mace for £100 a side 21 Sep. 1858 when he won; fought Tom Sayers who staked £400 to Brettle’s £200, 20 Sep. 1859 when Sayers won; fought James Mace again 9 Sep. 1860 when Mace won; fought Jack Rooke for £200 a side 31 Dec. 1861, 1 Jany. 1862 and 11 March 1862 when stakes were drawn; kept the White Lion, Digbeth, Birmingham 1857 to about 1868 when he went to the United States; trained and brought out some of the best light-weight pugilists. d. 56 Upper Windsor st. Birmingham 7 April 1872. The championship of England by the editor of Bell’s Life in London [Francis Dowling] 1860 pp. 70–4; Illust. sporting news 1862 p. 9, portrait; H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica iii, 451–60 (1881).

BREWER, GEORGE. b. Gosport 7 Aug. 1773; entered navy 19 March 1793; joined the ‘Robust’ 15 Feb. 1795; discharged incurable 17 May 1799; a waterman at Gosport. d. in a court in Havant st. Portsea 7 Sep. 1871 aged 98 but generally reputed to be 106. Thoms’s Human longevity (1873) 185–6.

BREWER, REV. JOHN SHERREN (eld. son of John Sherren Brewer of Eaton, Norwich, schoolmaster). b. 1810; ed. at Queen’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1835; chaplain of workhouse of St. Giles’s in the Fields and St. George’s Bloomsbury 17 Dec. 1837 to July 1845; lecturer in classical literature at King’s college London 1839–60, professor of English language and literature there 1855 and of English literature and modern history 1865–77; reader at the Rolls chapel Chancery lane 1857–62, and preacher 1862 to death; hon. fellow of Queen’s coll. Ox. Nov. 1870; head of Working mens’ college in Great Ormond st. 1872; R. of Toppesfield Essex 16 Sep. 1876 to death; edited the Standard for short time in 1860; edited Aristotle’s Ethics 1836; Book of the Church by R. Field 3 vols. 1843; Lectures to ladies on practical subjects 1855; and Letters and papers foreign and domestic of the reign of Henry viii, 4 vols. d. Toppesfield rectory 16 Feb. 1879. Rev. J. S. Brewer’s English Studies (1881) vii-xl.

BREWER, THOMAS. b. 1807; entered office of Town Clerk of City of London 1823; secretary of City of London school 1837 to death; a founder of Sacred Harmonic Society 1832, secretary 1832–70, pres. Nov. 1870 to death; author of Memoir of John Carpenter, town clerk of London 1836, 2 ed. 1856; Memoir of Walter Scott, citizen and plaisterer of London privately printed 1858. d. City of London school, Milk st. London 25 Dec. 1870.

BREWER, WILLIAM (brother of Rev. John Sherren Brewer). Ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D., L.R.C.S. Edin. 1834; M.D. St. Andrew’s 1834; M.R.C.P. London 1841, F.R.C.P. 1872; M.P. for Colchester 18 Nov. 1868 to 26 Jany. 1874; member of Metropolitan Board of Works for St. George’s Hanover square 1870; chairman of Metropolitan Asylums Board; author of The family medical reference book 1840; Beatrice Sforza or the progress of truth 3 vols. 1863; translated A. Tavernier’s Treatise on the treatment of deformities of the spine 1842. d. 21 George st. Hanover sq. London 3 Nov. 1881.

BREWSTER, ABRAHAM (eld. son of Wm. Bagenal Brewster of Ballinulta, co. Wicklow). b. Ballinulta April 1796; ed. at Kilkenny coll. and Univ. of Dublin, B.A. 1817, M.A. 1847; called to Irish bar 1819, went Leinster circuit; K.C. 13 July 1835, legal adviser to lord lieut. of Ireland 10 Oct. 1841; bencher of King’s Inns Dublin 1846; solicitor general for Ireland 2 Feb. 1846 to 16 July 1846; attorney general 10 Jany. 1853 to 10 Feb. 1855; P.C. Ireland Jany. 1853; lord justice of Court of Appeal in Ireland July 1866; lord chancellor of Ireland March 1867 to 17 Dec. 1868. d. 26 Merrion square south, Dublin 26 July 1874. Burke’s Lord Chancellors of Ireland (1879) 307–11; I.L.N. lxv, 115, 427 (1874).

BREWSTER, SIR DAVID (2 son of James Brewster, rector of Jedburgh gr. sch. who d. 1815). b. Canongate, Jedburgh 10 or 11 Dec. 1781; ed. at Jedburgh gr. sch. and Univ. of Edin.; licensed by Presbytery of Edin. 1804; LLD. Aberdeen 1807, M.A. Cam. 1807; F.R.S. Edin. 1808, pres. 1864; F.R.S. 4 May 1815, Copley medallist 1815, Rumford medallist 1818, Royal medallist 6 times; founded Scottish Society of Arts 1821; invented polyzonal lens for lighthouses 1811, Kaleidoscope 1816 and lenticular stereoscope; procured establishment of British Association 1831; K.H. 1831; knighted at St. James’s Palace 8 March 1832 fees of £109 were never demanded from him; principal of Univ. of St. Andrew’s Jany. 1838 to Oct. 1859; a chevalier of Order of Merit 1847; one of the 8 foreign associates of French Institute 1849; president of Peace congress at Exeter hall London 22–24 July 1851; principal of Univ. of Edin. 28 Oct. 1859 to death; author of Treatise on the Microscope 1837, new ed. 1851; Lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler 1841, new ed. 1874; More worlds than one 1854, new ed. 1874; History of the Stereoscope 1856 and many other books. d. Allerley near Melrose 10 Feb. 1868, centenary of his birth celebrated at Jedburgh 10 Dec. 1881. The home life of Sir D. Brewster by his daughter Mrs. Gordon 1869, portrait; Proc. of Royal Soc. xvii, 69–74 (1869); Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxvi, 194–200 (1871); Grant’s Story of Univ. of Edin. ii, 274–8 (1884), portrait; Maclise Portrait Gallery (1883) 143–7, portrait; I.L.N. xvii, 121 (1850), portrait, lii, 189 (1868), portrait.

BREWSTER, REV. PATRICK (brother of the preceding). b. 20 Dec. 1788; licensed by Presbytery of Fordoun 26 March 1817; minister of Abbey church Paisley Aug. 1817 to death; ordained 10 April 1818; had but few equals as a preacher for elegance of style and purity of diction; took an active share in chartist agitation; author of An essay on passive obedience 1836; The rights of the poor of Scotland vindicated against the misrepresentations of the editor of the Glasgow Post and Reformer 2 parts; The seven Chartist and military discourses libelled by the Marquis of Abercorn and other heritors of the Abbey parish 1843. d. Craigie Linn near Paisley 26 March 1859, monument to his memory erected by public subscription in Paisley cemetery 1863. John Smith’s Our Scottish clergy, 2 series 1849, 162–6.

BREWSTER, WILLIAM BAGENAL. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1846; rowed No. 4 in Oxford boat against Cambridge 1842 when Oxford gained her first victory on the Putney to Mortlake course; ensign 1 battalion Rifle brigade 7 July 1846, captain 29 Dec. 1854 to 1858 when he sold out; served in Kaffir war 1852–3; lieut. col. 23 Middlesex Volunteers (Inns of Court) 9 April 1860 to death. d. 75 Warwick sq. Belgrave road, London 7 July 1864 in 45 year. Saturday Review xviii, 81–2 (1864).

BRICE, EDWARD. Second lieut. Madras Artillery 16 June 1826, colonel 25 Sep. 1861 to death; C.B. 1 March 1861. d. Harley st. London 9 June 1868.

BRIDELL, FREDERICK LEE (son of Mr. Bridell of Southampton, builder). b. Southampton 7 Nov. 1831; apprenticed to a picture dealer 1846–53; studied painting at Munich 1854–7; his chief works are ‘Sunset on the Atlantic,’ exhibited at Liverpool Nov. 1857; ‘Temple of Venus’ painted in emulation of Turner 1858 and ‘The Coliseum by moonlight’ painted at Rome 1858, exhibited at the R.A. 1859 and at International Exhibition 1862; his patron James Wolff of Southampton acquired so many of his works that he formed a ‘Bridell gallery’ which was sold for nearly £4,000. d. Aug. 1863. Art Journal n.s. iii, 12 (1864).

BRIDGE, REV. JOHN BRICE. b. Liverpool 2 Nov. 1793; ed. at Stonyhurst college; admitted to Society of Jesus at Hodder 7 Sep. 1814; ordained priest at Dublin July 1819; spiritual father and superior of seminary Stonyhurst June 1838; minister of Stonyhurst college Nov. 1841; superior of residence of St. Michael, Yorkshire many years; missioner at Allerton Park, Yorkshire 18 July 1842 to death; compiler of the Ordo S. J. 1844 to death. d. Allerton park 20 Feb. 1860.

BRIDGEMAN, CHARLES ORLANDO (2 son of 1 Earl of Bradford 1762–1825). b. 5 Feb. 1791; entered navy 18 June 1804; captain 2 Sep. 1819, captain of the Rattlesnake in Mediterranean 1827–30; retired captain 1 Oct. 1846; retired V. A. 10 Sep. 1857. d. Knockin near Oswestry 13 April 1860.

BRIDGER, CHARLES. Clerk in Heralds’ College London; assistant of Stephen Tucker, Somerset Herald; author of An index to printed pedigrees contained in county and local histories 1867; The family of Leete edited by J. C. Anderson privately printed 1881. d. 17 Selwood terrace, South Kensington, London 27 May 1879 in 54 year.

BRIDGER, WILLIAM. Solicitor at Guildford, Surrey 1854 to death; travelled in Australia; formed one of the best known collections of birds eggs; F.R.Z.S. d. Stoke near Guildford 15 Oct. 1870 aged 38.

BRIDGER, WILLIAM MILTON. Educ. at Winchester and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1814, M.A. 1818; barrister M.T. 20 June 1817; recorder of Chichester 1821 to death; recorder of Petworth d. from an accident in London 12 Aug. 1863.

BRIDGES, REV. CHARLES. Educ. at Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1831; V. of Old Newton, Suffolk 1823–49, rural dean 1844–9; R. of Melcombe Regis, Dorset 1849–55; R. of Hinton Martell, Dorset 1855 to death; author of An exposition of Psalm cxix, 1827, 27 ed. 1873; The Christian ministry 1830, 7 ed. 1849; Memoir of Miss M. J. Graham 1832, 3 ed. 1833; An exposition of the book of Proverbs 1846; Scriptural studies 9 ed. 1884. d. Hinton Martell rectory 2 April 1869 aged 75. Reg. and mag. of biog. i, 399 (1869).

BRIDGES, SIR HENRY (son of Alexander Bridges of Ewell, Surrey). b. Ewell 1786; sheriff of Surrey 1813–14; knighted on presenting an address to Prince Regent at Carlton house 11 May 1814. (m. 1808 Frances dau. of general Wm. Tombes Dalrymple, she d. 6 Feb. 1859). d. Beddington house near Croydon 29 Oct. 1861.

BRIDGMAN, FREDERICK (eld. son of Frederick Horatio Bridgman). b. 1837; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1860; went South Eastern circuit 1860–82; Queen’s Advocate for Gold Coast Colony 7 Oct. 1882 to death, acting chief justice 1883 to death. d. Cape Coast 5 May 1883.

BRIDPORT, SAMUEL HOOD, 2 Baron. b. Catherington, Hants. 7 Dec. 1788; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1809; succeeded 3 May 1814. d. Cricket St. Thomas, Chard, Somerset 6 Jany. 1868.

BRIDSON, THOMAS RIDGWAY (son of Paul Bridson of Douglas, Isle of Man who d. 1820). b. 1795; owner of bleach works near Bolton foremost establishment of the kind in the world; invented the patent “stenter” or elastic finishing machine which much advanced mechanism of the trade; mayor of Bolton 1847–8. d. 24 Jany. 1863. H. Mayhew’s Shops of London i, 127–38 (1865).

BRIGGS, AUGUSTUS. b. 7 May 1813; member of House of Assembly, Barbados many years, speaker 1868–75; member of Legislative council 1878 and president 1881 to death. d. Maynards, Barbados 17 May 1882.

BRIGGS, GEORGE. Second lieut. Madras artillery 16 Dec. 1824; colonel 18 Feb. 1861 to 6 May 1867; M.G. 6 May 1867. d. Cambridge st. Pimlico, London 29 July 1875 in 80 year.

BRIGGS, RIGHT REV. JOHN. b. Manchester 20 May 1788; ed. at St. Cuthbert’s college Ushaw; sub-deacon 1812, deacon 1813 and priest 1814; had charge of Chester 1818–32; pres. of Ushaw 28 March 1832 to 11 Aug. 1836; co-adjutor of Bishop Penswick in Northern district Jany. 1833; consecrated as Bishop of Trachis in Thessalia 29 Jany. 1833; vicar apostolic of Northern district Feb. 1836 and of Yorkshire district July 1840; bishop of Beverley 29 Sep. 1850 to 7 Nov. 1860 when he resigned; enthroned in St. George’s church York 13 Feb. 1851; a Count of the Holy Roman empire. d. at his house York 4 Jany. 1861. Brady’s Episcopal succession iii, 396–8 (1877); The Lamp iii, 163 (1851), portrait.

BRIGGS, JOHN (eld. child of James Briggs, physician general Madras, who d. about 1830). b. Madras 18 Sep. 1785; ed. at Eton 1794–9; lieut. 15 Madras N.I. 10 July 1801; resident at Sattara Jany. 1823 to Jany. 1827; senior comr. in Mysore 1831 to 13 Nov. 1832; resident at Nagpore Dec. 1832 to March 1835; colonel 13 Madras N.I. 16 Nov. 1836 to 1869; general 6 Feb. 1861; took the chair at meeting of Anti-corn-law league in Covent Garden theatre 22 May 1844; contested Exeter April 1844 and July 1845; F.R.S. 22 Nov. 1838. d. Bridge Lodge, Burgess Hill, Sussex 27 April 1875. Memoir of John Briggs by Evans Bell 1885, portrait.

BRIGGS, JOHN JOSEPH (son of John Briggs of King’s Newton near Melbourne, Derbyshire, farmer 1777–1864). b. King’s Newton 6 March 1819; apprenticed to W. Bemrose of Derby, printer 1834; farmer at King’s Newton about 1840 to death; originated ‘The Naturalists’ column’ in the Field newspaper 1855; author of Melbourne, a sketch of its history and antiquity 1839; History of Melbourne 1852; The Trent and other poems 1857; The Peacock at Rowsley 1869; Guide to Melbourne 1871; History and antiquities of Hemington, Leicestershire, 12 copies privately printed 1873. d. King’s Newton 23 March 1876. Reliquary xvii, 49–54 (1877).

BRIGGS, SIR JOHN THOMAS (son of Wm. Briggs). b. London 4 June 1781; sec. to Commission for revising civil affairs of navy 1806; assistant sec. of Victualling Board 1809–30; private sec. to Sir James Graham, first lord of Admiralty 1830; comr. of Victualling Board 1831–2; accountant general of navy 1832 to Feb. 1854; knighted at St. James’s Palace 26 Feb. 1851; author of several pamphlets on naval administration. d. 4 Royal Crescent, Brighton 3 Feb. 1865. Morning Post 8 Feb. 1865 and 3 Jany. 1874; Daily Telegraph 6 Jany. 1874.

BRIGGS, SIR THOMAS (7 son of Stephen Briggs, chief surgeon at Madras). b. Southampton 1780; entered navy 10 Sep. 1791; captain of Queen Charlotte 100 guns 1818–21; resident comr. of naval yard at Bermuda 1823 and at Malta 1829–32; superintendent of Malta dockyard 1832–38; G.C.M.G. 26 June 1833; admiral 2 Sep. 1850; commander in chief at Portsmouth 18 Sep. 1851 to death. d. Admiralty house, Portsmouth 16 Dec. 1852.

BRIGHAM, REV. HENRY. b. Manchester 23 June 1796; ed. at Stonyhurst college; entered Society of Jesus at Hodder 7 Sep. 1813; ordained priest 1 June 1822; missioner at Hereford 10 Dec. 1827; removed to Preston 2 Oct. 1834 and to Bury St. Edmunds 23 July 1836; superior of College of Holy Apostles 1842–3; served missions of Pontefract, Teignmouth and Ugbrooke; professor of elocution at St. Stanislaus’ college Beaumont near Windsor 1865. d. St. Stanislaus’ college 26 May 1881.

BRIGHT, HENRY (son of Richard Bright of Bristol, merchant). West India Merchant at Bristol; M.P. for Bristol 1820–30. d. Malvern 26 March 1869 aged 83.

BRIGHT, HENRY (son of Jerome Bright of Saxmundham, Suffolk who d. 1846). b. Saxmundham 1814; apprenticed to a chemist at Woodbridge; studied painting in London; a member of Institute of Painters in Water Colours and of the Graphic Society; very popular as a teacher of painting; exhibited 12 pictures at R.A., 26 at B.I. and 7 at Suffolk st. gallery 1836–73. d. Ipswich 21 Sep. 1873, Art Journal Oct. 1873; I.L.N. lxiii, 389 (1873), portrait.

BRIGHT, HENRY ARTHUR (eld. son of Samuel Bright of Liverpool, shipowner 1799–1870.) b. Liverpool 9 Feb. 1830; ed. at Rugby and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1857 (being with James Heywood first nonconformist to take a degree at Cam.) M.A. 1860; partner in firm of Gibbs, Bright and Co. shipowners 1857; contributed largely to Athenæum 1871 to death; published A year in a Lancashire garden 1879, which he wrote in Gardeners’ Chronicle 1874, and privately printed 50 copies 1875; The English flower garden 1881 and 5 other books. d. Ashfield, Knotty Ash near Liverpool 5 May 1884. H. A. Bright’s The Brights of Colwall (1872), p. 11; Christian Life 10 and 17 May 1884; N. Hawthorne and his wife ii, 21–7 (1885).

BRIGHT, JACOB (youngest son of Jacob Bright). Learnt handloom weaving at New Mills Derbyshire 1790–6; bookkeeper to J. and W. Holme of Rochdale, partner with them; cotton spinner at Hanging road factory Rochdale, at Greenbank mill Cronkeyshaw 1809, had 7000 spindles at work 1823; retired from business 1839. d. 7 July 1851 aged 76. Fortunes made in business ii, 181–97 (1884).

BRIGHT, JOHN. b. Derbyshire 1782; ed. at Wad. coll. Ox., B.A. 1801, M.A. 1804, M.B. 1806, M.D. 1808; practised at Birmingham; removed to London; candidate of R.C.P. 30 Sep. 1808, Fellow 30 Sep. 1809, Censor 1813, 1822, 1833 and 1840, Harveian orator 1830, Consiliarius 1839, an Elect 25 June 1839; Physician to Westminster hospital 1822–43; a Metropolitan Commissioner in Lunacy 1 Sep. 1836. d. 19 Manchester sq. London 1 Feb. 1870. Munk’s Roll of physicians iii, 79 (1878).

BRIGHT, REV. MYNORS (son of John Bright, physician 1783–1870). b. 1818; ed. at Shrewsbury; entered Magd. coll. Cam. 3 July 1835, B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843, Tyrwhitt Hebrew scholar 1843, foundation fellow, and tutor of his college, president 1853 to 1873; proctor of Univ. of Cam. 1853; re-edited Lord Braybrook’s edition of Pepys’s Diary published simultaneously in 4º. and 8º. 6 vols. 1879 for which he redeciphered the whole of Pepys’s Diary from the original M.S. in Magd. coll. library. d. 23 Sussex place, Regent’s Park, London 23 Feb. 1883.

BRIGHT, RICHARD (3 son of Richard Bright of Bristol, merchant). b. Queen sq. Bristol 28 Sep. 1789; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 13 Sep. 1813; L.R.C.P. 23 Dec. 1816; assistant phys. to Guy’s hospital 1820–4, phys. 1824–43; F.R.S. 8 March 1821; F.R.C.P. 25 June 1832, Gulstonian lecturer 1833, Lumleian lecturer 1837, Censor 1836 and 1839, Consiliarius 1838 and 1843; phys. extraordinary to Queen Victoria 8 Aug. 1837; the leading consulting phys. in London; discovered several affections of the kidney, dependent upon an altered condition of the blood, called after him Bright’s disease or nephritis; author of Travels from Vienna through Lower Hungary 1818; Reports of medical cases, selected with a view of illustrating the symptom and cure of diseases by a reference to morbid anatomy 3 parts 1827–31. d. 11 Savile Row, London 16 Dec. 1858. Munk’s Roll of physicians iii, 155–60 (1878); Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery vol. 2 (1840), portrait; Proc. of Royal Soc. x, 1–4 (1860); Morbus Brighti von Joseph Buchner, Leipzig 1870.

BRIGHT, RICHARD (son of the succeeding). b. Abbots Leigh near Bristol 14 April 1822; ed. at Rugby and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1843; barrister I.T. 21 Nov. 1851; M.P. for East Somerset 19 Nov. 1868 to death. d. 28 Feb. 1878.

BRIGHT, ROBERT (brother of Richard Bright 1789–1858). b. 1795; partner in great mercantile house of Gibbs and Bright of Bristol, Liverpool and London, owners of the Eagle line of packets and of Great Britain steamship; took chief part in freeing port of Bristol from heavy dues levied on its commerce 1848 for which he was presented with a service of plate worth £1,000 at Bristol March 1855. d. Abbots Leigh near Bristol 19 Sep. 1869. I.L.N. xxvi, 325–6 (1855).

BRIGHTWELL, CECILIA LUCY (eld. child of the succeeding). b. Thorpe near Norwich 27 Feb. 1811; pupil of John Sell Cotman, etcher; etched many landscapes and subjects; author of Memorials of the life of Amelia Opie 1854, 2 ed. 1855; Palissy, the Huguenot potter a true tale 1858, 2 ed. 1877; Heroes of the laboratory and the workshop 1859, 2 ed. 1860 and 18 other books. d. Norwich 17 April 1875.

BRIGHTWELL, THOMAS (son of Thomas Brightwell of Ipswich, tanner). b. 18 March 1787; articled to S. Daniell of Colchester, attorney; practised at Norwich 1810; partner with Thomas Bignold; mayor of Norwich 1837; F.L.S. 1821; made a fine collection of Insects especially Coleoptera, which he gave to the Norwich museum about 1844; author of Notes on the Pentateuch selected from the exegetical parts of Rosenmuller’s Scholia 1840. d. Norwich 17 Nov. 1868. Memorials of the life of Mr. Brightwell of Norwich by his daughter C. L. Brightwell 1869, portrait.

BRIGSTOCKE, THOMAS. b. 1809; studied at Sass’s drawing school London; pupil of H. P. Briggs, R.A. and J. P. Knight, R.A.; spent 8 years in Paris and Italy; made a copy of Raphael’s ‘Transfiguration’ in the Vatican which was purchased for Christ Church, Albany st. Regent’s Park; went to Egypt 1847; painted an historical picture entitled ‘The prayer for victory’; exhibited 16 pictures at R.A. and 2 at B.I. 1843–65; author of The mutual scourges, or France and her neighbours, an historical drama in 4 acts 1871. d. 11 March 1881.

BRIMLEY, GEORGE (son of Mr. Brimley of Cambridge). b. Cambridge 29 Dec. 1819; ed. at Totteridge, Herts. 1830–5; entered at Trin. coll. Cam. Oct. 1838, scholar 1841, librarian 4 June 1845 to 1857; contributed articles to the Spectator and Fraser’s Mag. 1851 to death; one of the finest critics of his day. d. Cambridge 29 May 1857. Essays by the late G. Brimley edited by W. G. Clark, 3 ed. 1882, portrait.

BRINCKMAN, SIR THEODORE HENRY LAVINGTON, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Theodore Henry Broadhead of Holly grove, Windsor, M.P. 1767–1820.) b. London 17 Jany. 1798; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.; M.P. for Yarmouth 17 Jany. 1821 to 2 June 1826; created baronet 30 Sep. 1831; assumed by royal licence original family surname of Brinckman 5 July 1842. d. St. Leonards near Windsor 9 Feb. 1880.

BRIND, FREDERICK. Colonel Bengal army 20 June 1854; C.B. 9 June 1849. d. Sealkote Bengal 10 July 1857 aged 55.

BRINDLE, VERY REV. THOMAS. b. Walton-le-Dale, Lancs. 18 Dec. 1791; ed. at Benedictine coll. Ampleforth, Yorks.; ordained priest Sep. 1815; administrator of Western diocese and Grand Vicar March 1829 to 1830; regent of college at Prior park, Bath 1830 to Nov. 1849; vicar general of diocese of Clifton 1850 an office which he held at various periods for 21 years; provost of the Cathedral Chapter 1852; domestic prelate to Pope Gregory xvi, 1854; received many persons into R.C. church during Tractarian movement. d. Bath 13 Dec. 1871. Tablet 23 Dec. 1871.

BRINE, GEORGE (3 son of James Brine, admiral R.N. who d. 1814). Entered navy Feb. 1797; captain 7 Dec. 1818; retired 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 23 March 1863. d. Richmond, Surrey 16 Nov. 1864 aged 79.

BRINTON, WILLIAM (2 son of Henry Brinton of Kidderminster, carpet manufacturer who d. about 1856). b. Kidderminster 20 Nov. 1823; matric. at Univ. of London 1843, M.B. 1847, M.D. 1848; M.R.C.P. 1849, F.R.C.P. 1854, Croonian lecturer 1859; medical tutor at King’s college, London 1850–3; lecturer on forensic medicine at St. Thomas’s hospital 1853; phys. to Royal free hospital 1852–60 and to St. Thomas’s hospital 1860 to Nov. 1864; member of Alpine Club; F.R.S. 1864; author of Bürger’s Leonora, Englished [by W.B.] 1850; On the medical selection of lives for insurance 1856, 3 ed. 1861; The diseases of the stomach 1859. d. 24 Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London 17 Jany. 1867. Proc. of Royal Soc. xvi, 6–8 (1865).

BRISBANE, SIR THOMAS MACDOUGALL (eld. son of Thomas Brisbane of Largs, Ayrshire who d. 1812 aged 92). b. Brisbane house, Largs 23 July 1773; ensign 38 Foot 9 April 1789; lieut. col. 69 Foot 4 April 1800 to 30 May 1805 when placed on h.p.; commanded 1 brigade of 3 division in Peninsula 1812 to end of the war; commanded brigade in Canada 1813 and a brigade in army of occupation in France and afterwards the second division there; governor of New South Wales 1 Dec. 1821 to 1 Dec. 1825; colonel 34 Foot 16 Dec. 1826 to death; general 23 Nov. 1841; fought in 14 general actions and 23 other battles; erected an observatory near Brisbane house 1808, another at Paramatta near Sydney opened 2 May 1822 and a third at Makerstown near Kelso 1826 to which he added a magnetic station 1841 only one in Scotland; F.R.S. 10 May 1810; F.R.S. Edin. 1811, pres. 1832; gold medallist of Royal Astronom. Soc. 1828; F.G.S. 1833; pres. of British Assoc. at Edin. 1834; G.C.H. 1831; baronet 22 Feb. 1836; G.C.B. 6 Feb. 1837. d. Brisbane house 27 Jany. 1860. Reminiscences of Sir T. M. Brisbane privately printed 1860; Proc. of Royal Soc. xi, 3–7 (1860); Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xxi, 98–100 (1861); G.M. viii, 298–302 (1860).

BRISCO, SIR ROBERT, 3 Baronet. b. Crofton hall, Carlisle 17 Sep. 1808; succeeded 1 Oct. 1862; became a pledged abstainer 1858, vice pres. of United Kingdom Alliance, lectured frequently on temperance. d. Crofton hall 23 Dec. 1884.

BRISCO, SIR WASTELL, 2 Baronet. b. 17 May 1778; succeeded 27 Dec. 1806; sheriff of Cumberland 1813. d. Crofton hall 1 Oct. 1862.

BRISCOE, JOHN IVATT (son of John Briscoe of Cross Deep, Twickenham). b. Twickenham 1791; ed. at Ealing and Univ. coll. Ox., B.A. 1812, M.A. 1815; M.P. for Surrey 1830–32, for East Surrey 1832–34, for Westbury 1837–41 and for West Surrey 1857 to death. d. 60 Eaton place, London 16 Aug. 1870.

BRISCOE, JOSEPH. b. Wilmount, co. Kilkenny; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; went to United States 1854; connected as civil engineer with many important public works in Pennsylvania coalfields; enlisted in First New York Volunteers at outbreak of the civil war; chief of the staff of Tenth army corps; colonel of 199 regiment Pennsylvania volunteers; commanded a brigade at capture of Petersburg; stormed Fort Gregg for which he was brevetted general; pres. of Examining board for officers in regular army. d. New York 24 May 1869 aged 35.

BRISTOL, FREDERICK WILLIAM HERVEY, 1 Marquis of (younger son of Right Rev. Frederic Augustus Hervey, bishop of Derry, 4 Earl of Bristol 1730–1803). b. 2 June 1769; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., M.A. 1788, LLD. 1811; ensign 1 Foot Guards 1788–92; M.P. for Bury St. Edmunds 27 May 1796 to 8 July 1803 when he succeeded; under sec. of state for foreign affairs 20 Feb. 1801 to 8 Nov. 1803; F.R.S. 23 May 1805; created Marquis of Bristol and Earl Jermyn of Horning’s Heath, Suffolk 30 June 1826. d. 6 St. James’s sq. London 15 Feb. 1859. Doyle’s Official baronage of England i, 242 (1886), portrait.

BRISTOL, FREDERICK WILLIAM HERVEY, 2 Marquis of (eld. son of the preceding). b. Portland place, London 15 July 1800; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1822, LLD. 1862; M.P. for Bury St. Edmunds 12 June 1826 to 15 Feb. 1859 when he succeeded; treasurer of Royal household 9 Sep. 1841 to 6 July 1846; P.C. 6 Oct. 1841; colonel of West Suffolk militia 25 March 1846 to death. d. Ickworth park, Bury St. Edmunds 30 Oct. 1864.

BRISTOW, ALFRED RHODES (youngest son of Isaac Bristow of Greenwich, government contractor). b. Greenwich 20 Dec. 1819; ed. at King’s college London; admitted solicitor 1842, head of firm of Bristow and Tarrant of London and Greenwich; represented Greenwich and Deptford at Metropolitan Board of Works 1856–62; solicitor to the Admiralty 1862 to death; barrister G.I. 17 Nov. 1868; M.P. for Kidderminster 30 April 1859 to May 1862; treasurer of Westminster Chess Club Oct. 1870 to death; fell down dead on leaving railway station at Sydenham 5 April 1875. Westminster Papers viii, 14 (1876), portrait.

BRISTOW, HENRY. b. 1786; cornet 1 Life Guards 14 Feb. 1805; major 11 Foot 20 Jany. 1814 to 27 April 1815 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 20 June 1854. d. Madrid 22 Nov. 1874.

BRISTOWE, EDMUND (son of Mr. Bristowe of Windsor, heraldic printer). b. Windsor 1 April 1787; made sketches of public characters in Eton and Windsor; exhibited 7 pictures at R.A., 12 at B.I. and 8 at Suffolk st. gallery 1809–38; some of his works are in the royal collection at Windsor. d. Eton 12 Feb. 1876.

BRITTAIN, THOMAS. b. Sheffield 2 Jany. 1806; a professional accountant; lived at Manchester about 1842 to death; lectured on natural science at mechanics’ and similar institutions; vice. pres. of Manchester Microscopical Society 1879, then pres.; author of Half a dozen songs by Brittannicus 1846 privately printed; Micro-fungi, when and where to find them 1882; Whist, how to play and how to win 1882. d. Manchester 23 Jany. 1884. Axon’s Field Naturalist (1882), p. 148; Unitarian Herald 1 Feb. 1884.

BRITTON, JOHN (eld. son of Mr. Britton of Kington St. Michael near Chippenham Wilts., farmer). b. Kington St. Michael 7 July 1771; author of The beauties of Wiltshire 3 vols. 1801–25; The architectural antiquities of Great Britain 4 vols. 1805–14; Cathedral antiquities of England 14 vols. 1814–35; Dictionary of the architecture and archæology of the middle ages 4 parts 1830–8; edited with E. W. Brayley The beauties of England and Wales 10 vols. 1801–14; granted civil list pension of £75, 5 April 1852. d. Burton cottage Burton st. London 1 Jany. 1857. Autobiography of John Britton 1850; G.M. ii, 126, 185–92, 258 (1857).

BRIZZI, SIGNOR, stage name of Francesco Achille Scipione Bisteghi (son of Giovanni Bisteghi, general in army of Napoleon I). b. Milan 16 April 1810; pupil at Royal Academy of Music, London Sep. 1828 to Dec. 1831; fought in Piedmontese army against the Austrians 1848; greatly assisted Benjamin Lumley in organising new company for Her Majesty’s theatre London 1855, director of the company on its Continental tour 1856. d. 47 Grove road, Regent’s park, London 24 Aug. 1884. Illust. sporting and dramatic news xxii, 27 (1884).

BROADBRIDGE, WILLIAM, b. Duncton near Petworth, Sussex 1 Oct. 1790; a farmer there; played in cricket matches 1813–40; played his first match at Lords (Sussex v. Epsom) 2–6 July 1817 when 1047 runs were made altogether, being largest number ever made down to 1861 or later; a good batsman and wicket keeper; in a match Sussex v. Hampshire and Surrey 7 Aug. 1826 he performed extraordinary feat of stumping 7 men and catching 2. d. Duncton 19 April 1860.

BROADHEAD, HENRY (6 son of Theodore Henry Broadhead of Holly Grove, Windsor, M.P. 1767–1820). b. 25 April 1806; entered navy 6 April 1820; captain 27 June 1846; admiral on half pay 1 Aug. 1877. d. Walton on Thames 20 May 1878.

BROADHEAD, WILLIAM. Secretary of Saw Grinders Union at Sheffield from 1848 in connection with which a great many outrages were committed; treasurer of United Kingdom Alliance of organised trades; kept an inn in Carver st. Sheffield to 22 Aug. 1867 when magistrates refused to renew his license; went to America Nov. 1869 but failed to find employment there; lectured upon his own career; a grocer in Meadow st. Sheffield to death; he is the villain under name of Grotait of Charles Reade’s novel Put yourself in his place. d. Meadow st. Sheffield 15 March 1879 aged about 60. Sheffield Daily Telegraph 17 March 1879 p. 4, col. 2; Trades unions commission, Sheffield outrages inquiry vol. 2 Minutes of evidence (1867) 222–51.

BROADLEY, HENRY, b. 1793; chairman of Hull and Selby railway 1836–43; M.P. for east riding of Yorkshire 10 Aug. 1837 to death. d. 3 Charles st. St. James’s square, London 8 Aug. 1851 in 58 year. bur. Holy Trinity church Hull 16 Aug.

BROCK, THOMAS SAUMAREZ. Entered navy 9 Feb. 1815; captain 13 Nov. 1850; held possession of Eupatoria against the Russians 15 Sep. 1854 to 25 Dec. 1854; superintendent agent of transports at Genoa 15 March 1855; retired R.A. 20 March 1867; C.B. 5 July 1855; knight of St. Maurice and Lazare 1856. d. The hermitage, Guernsey 28 April 1873 in 73 year.

BROCK, REV. WILLIAM (eld. child of Wm. Brock of Honiton, Devon, Unitarian baptist who d. 20 June 1811). b. Honiton 14 Feb. 1807; ed. at Culmstock and Honiton; apprenticed to a watchmaker at Sidmouth Sep. 1820 to March 1828; a journeyman watchmaker at Hertford 1828–29; studied at Derby and Stepney baptist college; pastor of baptist chapel in parish of St. Mary’s Norwich 1833–48; pastor of Bloomsbury chapel London 5 Dec. 1848 to 30 Sep. 1872; D.D. Harvard 1859; held his first service in London theatres, at the Britannia theatre Hoxton 18 Dec. 1859; pres. of London Baptist association Nov. 1865; went to the United States 1866; pres. of Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland 1869; author of Fraternal appeals to young men; Sacramental religion 1850; A biographical sketch of Sir Henry Havelock 1858; Midsummer morning sermons 1872. d. Orwell house, St. Leonards 13 Nov. 1875. Life of W. Brock by C. M. Birrell 1878, portrait; W. Brock by G. W. M’Cree 1876; Rev. C. M. Davies’s Unorthodox London (1873) 81–88; I.L.N. lxvii, 537, 590 (1875), portrait; Graphic xi, 518, 533 (1875), portrait.

BROCK, REV. WILLIAM JOHN (eld. son of John Brock of George st. Portman sq. London). b. about 1818; ed. at Magd. hall Ox.; C. of St. George’s, Barnsley 1852; P.C. of Hayfield, Derbyshire 1856 to death; author of Wayside verses 1848; Twenty seven sermons 1855, 2 ed. 1858; The rough wind stayed 1867; The bright light in the clouds 1870. d. Hayfield 27 April 1863 aged 45.

BROCKEDON, WILLIAM (only child of Mr. Brockedon of Totnes, Devon, watchmaker who d. Sep. 1802). b. Totnes 13 Oct. 1787; watchmaker at Totnes 1802–7; studied at R.A. London 1809–15; painted “The resurrection of the widow’s son” which obtained premium of £105 from British Institution 1818 and was presented by him to Dartmouth church; patented plan of using drilled gems in wire drawing 1819 universally adopted; founded Graphic Society 1831 an association of 100 artists of reputation; F.R.S. 18 Dec. 1834; exhibited 36 pictures at R.A. and 29 at B.I. 1812–37; author of Illustrations of the passes of the Alps 2 vols. 1828–9; Journals of excursions in the Alps 1833; Italy classical historical and picturesque 1842–4; edited Illustrated road book from London to Naples 1835. d. 29 Devonshire st. Queen sq. Bloomsbury, London 29 Aug. 1854. G.M. xlii, 521–3 (1854); Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xxv, 84 (1855).

BROCKET, STANES BROCKETT (eld. son of Stanes Chamberlayne of the Ryes, Essex who d. 12 April 1834 in 89 year). b. 9 April 1782; barrister M.T. 29 May 1812, bencher 1841 to death; assumed surname of Brocket, May 1834; sheriff of Essex 1844. d. Spain’s hall near Ongar 2 March 1873.

BROCKETT, WILLIAM HENRY (youngest son of John Brockett of Newcastle). b. Jany. 1804; merchant at Gateshead; mayor of Gateshead 1839; sole proprietor of Gateshead Observer; sec. to Newcastle and Gateshead Chamber of commerce; author of The tradesmens tokens of Durham and Northumberland 1851; The tradesmens tokens of Cumberland and Westmoreland 1853; The tradesmens tokens of Derbyshire 1857. d. Gateshead 15 Jany. 1867. G.M. iii, 264 (1867).

BROCKLEHURST, JOHN (son of John Brocklehurst of Jordan gate house Macclesfield). b. 30 Oct. 1788; a silk manufacturer and banker at Macclesfield; pres. of Macclesfield institution; M.P. for Macclesfield 14 Dec. 1832 to 11 Nov. 1868. d. London 13 Aug. 1870. Personalty sworn under £800,000, 22 Oct. 1870.

BROCKMAN, EDWARD DRAKE (youngest child of James Drake Brockman of Beachborough near Hythe, Kent who d. 28 June 1832). Barrister I.T. 29 June 1819; recorder of Folkestone 1833; M.P. for Hythe 31 July 1847 to 21 March 1857. d. Beachborough 7 Nov. 1858.

BROCKY, CHARLES. b. Temeswar in the Banat Hungary 1807; studied painting in Vienna and Paris; portrait and subject painter in London; exhibited 43 pictures at R.A. and 16 at B.I. 1839–54; painted portraits of the Queen, Prince Consort, Lord Melbourne and other celebrities; left 5 pictures to his native country which are in the Musée at Pesth. d. London 8 July 1855. N. Wilkinson’s Sketch of the life of C. Brocky 1870.

BRODERIP, FRANCES FREELING (2 dau. of Thomas Hood the poet 1798–1845). b. Winchmore Hill, Middlesex 1830; granted civil list pension of £50, 4 Oct. 1847; author of Wayside Fancies 1857; Funny fables for little folks 1860; Chrysal, or a story with an end 1861 and many other childrens’ books. (m. 10 Sep. 1849 Rev. John Somerville Broderip R. of Cossington Somerset, he was b. 1814 and d. 10 April 1866). d. Clevedon, Somerset 3 Nov. 1878.

BRODERIP, WILLIAM JOHN (eld. child of Wm. Broderip of Bristol, surgeon). b. Princes st. Bristol 21 Nov. 1789; ed. at Bristol and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1812; pupil of Godfrey Sykes; barrister L.I. 12 May 1817; magistrate at Thames police court 1822–46, and at Westminster police court 1846 to Dec. 1855; bencher of Grays Inn 30 Jany. 1850, treasurer 29 Jany. 1851; F.L.S. 1824; F.G.S. 1825, co-secretary to 1830; a founder of Zoological Society 1826; F.R.S. 14 Feb. 1828; his unrivalled conchological cabinet was purchased by British Museum; edited with P. Bingham Reports of cases in the Court of Common Pleas and other courts 3 vols. 1820–2; author of Zoological recreations 1847; Leaves from the note book of a naturalist 1852. d. 2 Raymond’s buildings, Grays Inn, London 27 Feb. 1859. Berger’s W. J. Broderip, ancien magistrat, naturaliste, litterateur, Paris 1856; Fraser’s Mag. lix, 485–8 (1859); I.L.N. ix, 317 (1846) portrait, xxviii, 253 (1856), portrait; Law mag. and law review viii, 174–8 (1859).

BRODIE, ALEXANDER (son of Wm. Brodie of Chesterhill, Roxburghshire). Author of A history of the Roman government 1810; The prophetess, a tale of the last century in Italy 3 vols. [anon.] 1826. d. The Whim house, Peebleshire 13 March 1858.

BRODIE, ALEXANDER (younger son of John Brodie of Aberdeen, mariner). b. Aberdeen 1830; apprenticed in foundry of Messrs. Blaikie Brothers of Aberdeen brass-finishers; sculptor at Aberdeen about 1858 to death; very successful in bust-portraiture and medallions; his best known statues are those of Duke of Richmond at Huntly and Queen Victoria at Aberdeen. d. Aberdeen 30 May 1867.

BRODIE, SIR BENJAMIN COLLINS, 1 Baronet (3 son of Rev. Peter Bellinger Brodie 1742–1804, R. of Winterslow, Wilts.) b. Winterslow 9 June 1783; studied at St. George’s hospital London 1803–5, assistant surgeon 1808 and surgeon 1822 to Jany. 1840; teacher of anatomy in Windmill st. school 1805–12 and lecturer on surgery 1808–29; F.R.S. 15 Feb. 1810, Copley medallist 1811 and pres. 1858–61; professor of comparative anatomy and physiology at College of Surgeons 1819–23 and pres. 1844; surgeon to George iv, 11 Aug. 1828; serjeant surgeon to Wm. iv, 5 Sep. 1832; presented his pathological museum to St. George’s hospital 1829; created baronet 30 Aug. 1834; author of Pathological and surgical observations on diseases of the joints 1818, 3 ed. 1834; Lectures on the diseases of the urinary organs 1832, 4 ed. 1849 and many other books. d. Broome park, Surrey 21 Oct. 1862. Autobiography of the late Sir B. C. Brodie 1865; Proc. of royal society xii, 42–56 (1863); Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery ii, (1840), portrait; Taylor’s National portrait gallery i, 41 (1846), portrait.

BRODIE, SIR BENJAMIN COLLINS, 2 Baronet (eld. son of the preceding). b. Sackville st. Piccadilly, London 5 Feb. 1817; ed. at Harrow and Ball. coll. Ox., B.A. 1838, hon. D.C.L. 1872; studied chemistry at Giessen 1845; propounded doctrine of polarity of chemical elements 1847; sec. of Chemical Soc. of London 1850–4, pres. 1859–61; F.R.S. 7 June 1849, Royal medallist 1850; lecturer at Royal Institution 1851; Aldrichian prof. of chemistry at Ox. 1855–66 when professorship was suppressed, and Waynflete prof. of chemistry 1865–72; discovered graphitic acid. d. Torquay 24 Nov. 1880. Journal of Chemical Soc. xxxix, 182–5 (1881).

BRODIE, GEORGE (youngest son of Wm. Brodie of Chesterhill, East Lothian, farmer). b. Chesterhill 1786; ed. at high sch. and Univ. of Edin.; member of faculty of advocates 1811; historiographer royal of Scotland 1836 to death; author of A history of the British empire from the accession of Charles I to the Restoration 4 vols. 1822, new ed. 3 vols. 1866; edited Stair’s Institutes of the law of Scotland. d. Percy house, Randolph road, London 22 Jany. 1867.

BRODIE, JAMES CAMPBELL JOHN. b. 26 March 1843; ed. at Rugby and St. Andrew’s; lord lieutenant of Nairnshire 26 June 1873 to death. d. Moss close, Manor road, Bournemouth 25 Feb. 1880.

BRODIE, JOHN. b. Edinburgh; served at hospital Scutari during Russian war; went to New York 1869; city editor of New York Dispatch; contributed largely to columns of the Spirit of the Times. d. New York 29 Jany. 1873 aged 32.

BRODIE, PETER BELLINGER (brother of Sir B. C. Brodie, 1 Baronet). b. Winterslow, Wilts. 20 Aug. 1778; pupil of Charles Butler; a conveyancer; barrister I.T. 5 May 1815; drew charter of King’s College London 1829; a real property comr. 1828, drew the part relating to Fines and Recoveries of first report made May 1829, the part relating to Probate of wills of second report made June 1830, and the part relating to Copyhold and Ancient Demesne made April 1833; drew bill for abolishing Fines and Recoveries which became law 1833; author of A treatise on a tax on successions to real as well as personal properly 1850. d. 49 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London 8 Sep. 1854. Law Review xxi, 348–54 (1855).

BRODIE, WILLIAM. b. 2 July 1799; ed. at King’s coll. Aberdeen; lord lieutenant of Nairnshire 1824 to death. d. Brodie castle, Forres, Morayshire 6 June 1873.

BRODIE, WILLIAM (brother of Alexander Brodie 1830–67). b. Banff 22 Jany. 1815; studied in the Trustees school of design, Edinburgh 1846–52; an associate of Royal Scottish Academy 1857, member 1859, sec. 8 Nov. 1876; executed portrait busts of most of the celebrities of his day; executed 4 busts of the Queen, colossal statue of Prince Consort at Perth, and one of the representative groups in bronze, for Scottish memorial to Prince Consort in Edin. d. Douglas lodge, Edin. 30 Oct. 1881. Biograph ii, 218 (1879).

BRODIE, WILLIAM BIRD. b. 26 Sep. 1780; a banker at Salisbury; M.P. for Salisbury 14 Dec. 1832 to April 1843. d. Swanage, Dorset 24 Oct. 1863.

BRODRIBB, WILLIAM PERRIN. Pupil of Abernethy at St. Bartholomew’s hospital London; L.S.A. 1822, M.R.C.S. 1823, L.R.C.P. Edin. 1859; surgeon to Magdalen hospital, London; chairman of court of examiners of Society of Apothecaries 1860–1, sec. to the court 1865 to death. d. 7 Bloomsbury sq. London 8 Jany. 1869 aged 68.

BROGDEN, REV. JAMES. Educ. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833; R. of Great Henny, Essex 1841–5; C. of St. Michaels, St. Albans 1845–8; V. of Deddington, Oxon 1848 to death; author of Illustrations of the liturgy and ritual of the united church of England and Ireland 3 vols. 1842; Catholic safeguards against the errors, novelties, and corruptions of the church of Rome 3 vols. 1851. d. Deddington 11 Feb. 1864 aged 58.

BROKE, SIR ARTHUR BROOKE DE CAPELL, 2 Baronet (elder son of Sir Richard Brooke-Supple, 1 baronet 1758–1829). b. Bolton st. Piccadilly, London 22 Oct. 1791; ed. at Magd. coll. Ox., B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816; captain 17 Dragoons 26 Feb. 1818 placed on h.p. same date; changed his name from Brooke to Broke; F.R.S. 29 May 1823; founded the Raleigh Club, (forerunner of Royal Geographical Society), first regular meeting took place at the Thatched house 7 Feb. 1827, in 1854 the name of Raleigh was dropped and it became Geographical club; succeeded 27 Nov. 1829; sheriff of Northamptonshire 1843; author of Travels through Sweden, Norway and Finmark to the North Cape 1823; A winter in Lapland and Sweden 1827; Sketches in Spain and Morocco 2 vols. 1831. d. Oakley hall near Kettering 6 Dec. 1858. C. Markham’s Fifty years work of the Royal Geographical Society (1881) 15–18.

BROKE, CHARLES ACTON. b. 30 June 1818; 2 lieut. R.E. 18 June 1836, captain 17 Feb. 1854 to death; quartered in island of Zante; well known to all H.M.’s ships, merchantships and yachts as “Signal Broke” as he challenged all vessels passing Zante from the signal posts and extracted news from them; supported 40 or 50 starving families in Zante during winters of 1852–54. d. Ayr 7 Sep. 1855.

BROKE, HORATIO GEORGE. b. 4 June 1790; captain 58 Foot 18 March 1813 to 25 Feb. 1816 when placed on h.p.; permanent assistant quartermaster general 4 July 1823; deputy quartermaster general Nova Scotia 20 July 1830 to 12 Sep. 1834; aide-de-camp to the Queen 23 Nov. 1841 to 20 June 1854; colonel 88 Foot 24 Dec. 1858 to death; L.G. 15 June 1860. d. Gloucester place, Portman sq. London 30 Aug. 1860.

BROKE, SIR PHILIP VERE, 2 Baronet. b. 15 Jany. 1804; entered navy Dec. 1819; captain 12 Sep. 1835; succeeded 2 June 1841; sheriff of Suffolk 1844. d. Broke hall near Ipswich 24 Feb. 1855.

BROKE, SIR WILLIAM DE CAPELL, 3 Baronet. b. Deal, Kent 12 June 1801; ed. at Rugby and Brasn. coll. Ox., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1835; barrister I.T. 25 May 1827; sheriff of Rutland 1852; succeeded 6 Dec. 1858. d. The Elms, Market Harborough 8 March 1886. Law Times lxxx, 364 (1886).

BROMBY, REV. JOHN HEALEY. b. 1771; ed. at Hull gr. sch. and Sid. Suss. coll. Cam., 17 wrangler 1792, B.A. 1792, M.A. 1795, fellow of his coll.; V. of Trinity, Hull 1797–1866; V. of Cheswardine, Salop 1821–67; master of the Charterhouse, Hull 1849 to death; author of various sermons, essays and lectures published in Hull. d. Hull 25 March 1868, the oldest clergyman in Church of England.

BROME, FREDERICK. Governor of military prison on Windmill hill, Gibraltar 1846 to Dec. 1868, and of military prison at Weedon Northampton 1869 which was abolished same year; well known as a palæontologist. d. 4 March 1870. Nature i, 509 (1870).

BROMEHEAD, REV. WILLIAM CRAWFORD (youngest son of Rev. A. C. Bromehead of Newbold, Warws.) Educ. at Repton and Trin. coll. Cam., scholar, B.A. 1849, M.A. 1853, B.D. 1879, chaplain of his college 1857–9; chaplain in Bengal 1859–79; one of founders of Indian church aid association and the first hon. sec.; chaplain in ord. at Kensington palace, London 8 July 1879 to death; author of A short account of the lives of the bishops of Calcutta 1876; Step by step or the devout communicant led through the Church to the vision of God 1878. d. Kensington palace 6 May 1884 aged 59.

BROMFIELD, WILLIAM ARNOLD (son of Rev. John Arnold Bromfield of Boldre in the New Forest who d. 1801). b. Boldre 1801; entered Univ. of Glasgow 1821, M.D. 1823; travelled through Germany, Italy and France 1826–30; went to West Indies 1844 and to North America 1846; embarked for the East, Sep. 1850; author of List of plants likely to be found wild in the Isle of Wight 1840; Botanico-topographical map of the Isle of Wight 1850; Letters from Egypt and Syria 1856. d. of malignant typhus fever at Damascus 9 Oct. 1851. Hooker’s Kew garden miscell. iii, 373–82 (1851); Proc. of Linnæan Soc. ii, 182–3 (1855); W. A. Bromfield’s Flora Vectensis 1856, portrait.

BROMHEAD, SIR EDMUND GONVILLE, 3 Baronet. b. Birch grove, Ballinasloe 22 Jany. 1791; ensign 8 Foot 18 Jany. 1808; lieut. 54 Foot 23 March 1809; captain 19 Foot 21 Nov. 1822 to 13 May 1826 when placed on h.p. as major; served in Walcheren expedition, the Peninsula and at Waterloo; led the forlorn hope at Cambray 24 June 1815; succeeded 14 March 1855. d. Thurlby hall near Lincoln 25 Oct 1870.

BROMHEAD, SIR EDWARD THOMAS FFRENCH, 2 Baronet (eldest son of Sir Gonville Bromhead, 1 baronet 1758–1822). b. Dublin 26 March 1789; ed. at Gonville and Caius. coll. Cam., B.A. 1812, M.A. 1815; barrister I.T. 28 May 1813; succeeded 11 May 1822; F.R.S. 13 March 1817, F.L.S. 1844. d. Thurlby hall 14 March 1855.

BROMLEY, SIR RICHARD MADOX (2 son of Samuel Bromley, Surgeon R.N. who d. 1835). b. 11 June 1813; ed. at Lewisham gr. sch.; entered Admiralty department of Civil service 1829; sec. to Comrs. for auditing public accounts 6 June 1848 to Feb. 1854; accountant general of the Navy Feb. 1854 to March 1863; comr. of Greenwich hospital 28 March 1863 to death; C.B. 13 Sep. 1854, K.C.B. 6 Sep. 1858. d. The Marina, St. Leonard’s-on-Sea 30 Nov. 1865.

BROMLEY, SIR ROBERT HOWE, 3 Baronet (only son of Sir George Smith, 2 baronet 1753–1808, who assumed surname of Bromley 1778). b. Stoke near Newark 28 Nov. 1778; entered navy 26 Dec. 1791; captain 28 April 1802; placed on h.p. 1809; admiral 17 Aug. 1851; succeeded his father 17 Aug. 1808. d. Stoke 8 July 1857.

BROMLEY, VALENTINE WALTER (eld. son of Wm. Bromley of St. John’s Wood, London). b. London 14 Feb. 1848; contributed many illustrations to Illustrated London News; an associate of Institute of painters in water colours; exhibited 5 pictures at R.A. and 22 at Suffolk st. gallery 1865–77; his picture of Troilus and Cressida is engraved in Art Journal 1873. d. Fallows Green, Harpenden 30 April 1877. I.L.N. lxx, 469 (1877), portrait.

BROMLEY-DAVENPORT, WILLIAM (eld. son of Rev. Walter Davenport-Bromley of Wooton hall, Staffs. 1787–1862). b. Capesthorn near Crewe 20 Aug. 1821; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox.; lieut. col. Staffordshire yeomanry cavalry 13 July 1864 to death; M.P. for North Warwickshire Dec. 1864 to death; assumed name of Bromley-Davenport in lieu of Davenport-Bromley 1868; aide-de-camp to the Queen 15 Aug. 1883 to death; author of many hunting songs and of an article entitled Fox hunting in The Nineteenth Century June 1883. d. Lichfield 15 June 1884. Waagen’s Treasures of art iii, 371–80 (1854); I.L.N. lxxxv, 629 (1884), portrait; Baily’s Mag. xlii, 385 (1884).

BRONTE, CHARLOTTE MARY HOOD, Duchess of (only dau. of Wm. Nelson, 1 Earl Nelson 1757–1835). b. 20 Sep. 1787; succeeded her father as Duchess of Bronte in Sicily 28 Feb. 1835. (m. 3 July 1810 Samuel Hood, 2 Baron Bridport 1788–1868). d. Cricket, St. Thomas 29 Jany. 1873. Earl Nelson v. Lord Bridport, 6 Beavan, Reports in Chancery 295–305 (1845); 7 Beavan 195–202 (1846); 8 Beavan 527–74 (1847).

BRONTE, CHARLOTTE (3 child of the succeeding). b. Hartshead 21 April 1816; ed. at Cowan’s Bridge, Yorkshire 1824–5, and at Miss Wooler’s school Roehead, Yorkshire 1831–2 where she was teacher 29 July 1835 to Dec. 1837; learnt French in Brussels 1842–3. (m. 19 June 1854 Rev. Arthur Bell Nicholls, C. of Haworth); author with her sisters Emily and Anne of Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell 1846; Jane Eyre an autobiography edited by Currer Bell 3 vols. 1847; Shirley, a tale by Currer Bell 3 vols. 1849; Villette by Currer Bell 3 vols. 1853; The professor, a tale [edited by A. B. Nicholls] 2 vols. 1857. d. Haworth parsonage 31 March 1855. Mrs. Gaskell’s Life of C. Bronte 2 vols. 1857, portrait; C. Bronte, a monograph by T. W. Reid 1877; The Bronte family by F. A. Leyland 1886; G. B. Smith’s Poets and novelists (1875) 207–50; W. Smith’s Old Yorkshire (1883) 124–30, portrait; P. Bayne’s Two great Englishwomen (1881) 155–340; Illust. Review iv, 257–65, portrait.

BRONTE, REV. PATRICK (son of Hugh Prunty of Ahaderg, Downshire). b. Ahaderg 17 March 1777; opened a school at Drumgooland, Downshire 1793; changed his name to Bronte about 1801; entered St. John’s coll. Cam. Oct. 1802, B.A. 1806; ordained to a curacy in Essex; C. of Hartshead, Yorkshire 1811; P.C. of Thornton near Bradford 1814–20; Inc. of Haworth near Bradford 25 Feb. 1820 to death; author of Cottage poems 1811; The rural minstrel 1813 and of a tract called, The cottage in a wood, or the art of becoming rich and happy 1818 reprinted 1859, he is partly represented as Mr. Helstone in his daughter’s novel Shirley. d. Haworth parsonage 7 June 1861. Dict, of nat. biog. vi, 406–13 (1886).

BROOK, CHARLES (son of James Brook of Huddersfield, banker and cotton spinner at Meltham). b. Upperhead row, Huddersfield 18 Nov. 1814; partner with his father 1840; made many improvements in machinery; founded Convalescent Home at Huddersfield at cost of £40,000 where there is a portrait of him by Samuel Howell; purchased Enderby hall near Leicester 1865 at cost of £150,000; rebuilt Enderby church 1865. d. Enderby hall 10 July 1872.

BROOKE, SIR ARTHUR BRINSLEY, 2 Baronet. b. 1797; succeeded 24 March 1834; M.P. for co. Fermanagh 30 April 1840 to death. d. Colebrooke, co. Fermanagh 20 Nov. 1854.

BROOKE, CHARLES. b. in the Mint Exeter 8 Aug. 1777; ed. at English academy Liege; took part in emigration to Stonyhurst 1794; ordained at Maynooth 12 June 1802; entered Society of Jesus at Hodder Place near Stonyhurst 26 Sep. 1803; missioner at Clayton, Enfield Sep. 1817; provincial 1826–32; superior of Seminary adjacent to Stonyhurst college 30 July 1834; visitor of Ireland June 1842 to July 1843; rector of St. Aloysius’ college 1843–5; sent to Exeter 11 Sep. 1845 to gather materials for continuation of history of English province of Society of Jesus from 1635. d. in same room in which he had been born at Exeter 6 Oct. 1852.

BROOKE, CHARLES (son of Henry James Brooke 1771–1857). b. 30 June 1804; ed. at Chiswick, Rugby and St. John’s coll. Cam., 23 wrangler 1827, B.A. 1827, B.M. 1828, M.A. 1853; M.R.C.S. 1834, F.R.C.S. 1844; pres. of Meteorological and Microscopical Societies; invented the bead suture, a great improvement in treatment of deep wounds; invented self recording meteorological instruments which register their variations by means of photography; fellow of Royal Med. and Chir. Soc. 1844, councillor, librarian and vice. pres. successively; F.R.S. 4 March 1847; author of A synopsis of the principal formulæ and results of pure mathematics 1829; edited Golding Bird’s Elements of natural philosophy 4 ed. 1854, 5 ed. 1860, and 6 ed. 1867. d. Weymouth 17 May 1879. Proc. of Royal Soc. xxx, 1–2 (1880).

BROOKE, EDWARD BASIL. b. 1799; 2 lieut. R.A. 15 Dec. 1817; lieut. col. 67 Foot 9 Nov. 1846 to 31 Dec. 1858; inspecting field officer 31 Dec. 1858; M.G. 1 May 1861. d. London 1 Dec. 1868.

BROOKE, EDWIN HARCOURT, stage name of Edward James Macdonald Brook. b. Buckinghamshire 12 June 1843; ed. at City of London School; made his first appearance in London at Princess’s theatre 10 July 1862 as Lord Chamberlain in Henry the Eighth; acted at Sadlers Wells theatre, Prince’s theatre Manchester, Glasgow 2 seasons, Alexandra theatre Liverpool nearly 3 years; played Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice at Prince of Wales’s theatre London April 1875; played at Lyceum theatre 2 years where he acted Simon Renard in Tennyson’s Queen Mary April 1876; played title role in The Silver King in the provinces more than 400 times 1883–4; author of Gustave produced at Alexandra theatre Liverpool about 1876; of a comedietta called Bessie produced at Royalty theatre; and of an adaptation of David Copperfield. d. 1 Bullen road, Clapham Junction, London 30 Nov. 1884. Biograph vi, 582–4 (1881).

BROOKE, FRANCIS CAPPER (only son of Rev. Charles Brooke of Ufford, Suffolk 1765–1836). b. 18 Sep. 1810; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1831; sheriff of Suffolk 1869; one of earliest contributors to Notes and Queries under initials F.C.B.: collected a fine library of 20,000 volumes at Ufford; author of Sepulchral memorials of the Cobham family 1874. d. Ufford 13 Jany. 1886.

BROOKE, SIR GEORGE. b. 1793; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery 8 Sep. 1808, col. commandant 21 July 1851 to 1 Oct. 1877 when placed on retired list; general 24 May 1870; C.B. 3 April 1846, K.C.B. 13 March 1867. d. Charles st. St. James’s London 31 Dec. 1882. I.L.N. lxxxii, 149 (1883), portrait.

BROOKE, GEORGE WILLIAM. Secretary of London, Chatham and Dover railway company 1868 to death. d. West hill, Sydenham 21 Feb. 1876.

BROOKE, GUSTAVUS VAUGHAN (son of Gustavus Vaughan Brooke of Dublin). b. Hardwick place, Dublin 25 April 1818; ed. at Edgeworthstown; first appeared on the stage, at T.R. Dublin 9 April 1833 as William Tell; played in Ireland and Scotland; first appeared in London, at Victoria theatre as Virginius 1837; acted in United States 1851–3; manager of Astor place opera house New York May 1852; played in Australia and New Zealand at large salary of £100 a night 1855–7; partner with George Coppin in T.R. Melbourne and Melbourne Cremorne in which he lost all his money, they dissolved partnership Feb. 1859; drowned in the London in Bay of Biscay on his way to Australia 10 Jany. 1866. Longman’s Mag. March 1885, 490–501; Theatrical times iii, 18, 49 (1848), portrait; Tallis’s Drawing room table book (1851) 41–2, 2 portraits; Tallis’s Illust. Life in London (1864) 120, 126, 2 portraits; I.L.N. xii, 12, 91 (1848), 2 portraits.

BROOKE, HENRY FRANCIS (eld. son of George Brooke of Ashbrooke, co. Fermanagh). b. 3 Aug. 1836; ensign 48 Foot 6 June 1854; served in Crimea and China; adjutant general Bombay army 23 Nov. 1877 to 28 March 1880; brigadier general in command of second infantry brigade in Kandahar 28 March 1880 to death; killed at Maiwand in a sortie from Kandahar 16 Aug. 1880, bur. in family vault at Colebrooke 14 Dec. Shadbolt’s Afghan campaign (1882) 24–6, portrait; I.L.N. lxxvii, 289 (1880), portrait.

BROOKE, HENRY JAMES (son of Mr. Brooke of Exeter, broadcloth manufacturer). b. Exeter 25 May 1771; a trader in Spanish wool in London 1802; established companies to work mines of South America; actuary and sec. to London Life association to 1843; F.G.S. 1815; F.L.S. 1818; F.R.S. 22 April 1819, member of council 1842–44; his unrivalled collection of minerals was presented to Univ. of Cam.; discovered 13 new mineral species; author of A familiar introduction to Crystallography 1823; edited with extensive alterations and additions An elementary introduction to Mineralogy by W. Phillips 1852. d. Clapham Rise, Surrey 26 June 1857. Proc. of Royal Soc. ix, 41–4 (1857); Quarterly Journal of Geological Soc. xiv, 44–45 (1858).

BROOKE, HENRY VAUGHAN. b. 11 Nov. 1808; ensign 32 Foot 12 July 1827, lieut. col. 13 Sep. 1848 to 24 July 1857; C.B. 9 June 1849; aide-de-camp to the Queen 20 June 1854 to death. d. Holyhead 15 Sep. 1858.

BROOKE, SIR JAMES (2 son of Thomas Brooke of Widcombe crescent, Bath who d. 1835). b. Secrole now called Secrore the European suburb of Benares 29 April 1803; ed. at Norwich gr. sch.; in the Bengal army 1819–30; sailed for Borneo in a schooner of his own 16 Dec. 1838; subdued insurrection in Borneo 1840–1; created Rajah of Sarawak 24 Sep. 1841, formerly installed at Kuching 18 Aug. 1842; suppressed piracy in Malayan Archipelago 1843–9; founded settlement of Labuan in Borneo 2 Dec. 1846; comr. and consul general in Borneo 23 July 1847 to 9 Aug. 1855; admitted to freedom of City of London 29 Oct. 1847; governor of Labuan 27 Nov. 1847 to Feb. 1856; D.C.L. Ox. 25 Nov. 1847; K.C.B. 27 April 1848; left Sarawak April 1863. d. Burrator, close to Sheepstor, Dartmoor, Devon 11 June 1868 an estate which was purchased for him by public subscription 1859. The private letters of Sir J. Brooke edited by J. C. Templer 3 vols. 1853; The life of Sir J. Brooke by S. St. John 1879, portrait; G. L. Jacob’s Rajah of Sarawak 2 vols. 1876, portrait; Illust. news of the world ii, 380 (1858), portrait; I.L.N. xi, 233 (1847), portrait.

BROOKE, JAMES CROFT. Ensign 31 Foot 31 Oct. 1831; major 8 Foot 2 Oct. 1849 to 15 Oct. 1861 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 6 March 1868; C.B. 24 May 1873. d. Hastings terrace, Jersey 27 April 1875.

BROOKE, JOHN. Called to Irish bar 1819; Q.C. 1 July 1837; bencher of King’s Inns 1859. d. 1877.

BROOKE, JOHN BROOKE JOHNSON (eld. son of Rev. Francis Charles Johnson, V. of White Lackington, Somerset who d. 22 Dec. 1874 aged 78). Ensign 88 Foot 11 Oct. 1839, captain 18 Jany. 1848 to Jany. 1853 when he retired; joined his uncle Sir James Brooke in Sarawak 1848; took his uncle’s name of Brooke 1848; member of council of state Sarawak 1855–63; carried on government of Sarawak as Rajah Muda during his uncle’s illness 1858; distinguished for energy with which he suppressed piracy on coast of Borneo. d. Hounslow 1 Dec. 1868 aged 45. Reg. and mag. of biog. i, 128 (1869).

BROOKE, RICHARD (son of Richard Brooke of Liverpool who d. 15 June 1852 aged 91). b. Liverpool 1791; solicitor and notary at Liverpool 1814; member of Liverpool Literary and Philosophical society 12 Nov. 1855, member of council 1860 to death; F.S.A.; author of Observations illustrative of the accounts given by the ancient historical writers of the battle of Stoke Field 1825; A treatise on the office and practice of a Notary of England 1839, 4 ed. 1876; Liverpool as it was during the last quarter of the eighteenth century 1853; Visits to fields of battle in England of the fifteenth century 1857. d. Liverpool 14 June 1861.

BROOKE, SIR RICHARD, 6 Baronet. b. Norton Priory, Cheshire 18 Aug. 1785; succeeded 6 March 1795; sheriff of Cheshire 1817. d. Norton Priory 11 Nov. 1865.

BROOKE, REV. RICHARD SINCLAIR. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1827, M.A. 1858, B.D. and D.D. 1860; minister of Mariners’ church Kingstown, Dublin 1835–62; R. of Wyton, Hunts. 1862–77; author of The sheaf of corn, or mornings with a scripture class 1850; Poems illustrative of Grace-Creation-Suffering 1852; Recollections of the Irish church 1877. d. 11 Herbert st. Dublin 6 Aug. 1882 aged 80.

BROOKE, THOMAS (2 son of Sir Richard Brooke, 6 Baronet 1785–1865). b. Norton Priory 2 April 1816; ensign 12 Foot 31 Oct. 1834, lieut. col. 19 May 1854 to 22 Feb. 1861 when placed on h.p.; col. 28 Foot 30 Sep. 1878 to death; general 27 April 1879. d. 13 Manson place, Queen’s gate, London 4 Nov. 1880.

BROOKE, WILLIAM. b. Burnham Market, Norfolk 1 Aug. 1795; kept a school at Norwich 1820–65; supplied records of his meteorological observations to local papers and scientific journals 1829 to death; F.R.A.S. 1849. d. Upper Surrey st. Norwich 1 Aug. 1867. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xxviii, 77 (1868).

BROOKE, WILLIAM (eld. son of Wm. Brooke, M.D. of Dublin). b. Dublin 22 July 1796; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1812, B.A. 1814; called to Irish bar 1817; Q.C. 7 Feb. 1835; bencher of King’s Inns 1846; a master in court of chancery 1846–74; a comr. of the Great Seal Feb. 1874; P.C. June 1874. d. Taney hill house, Dundrum, co. Dublin 19 Aug. 1881.

BROOKE, WILLIAM HENRY. b. 1781; clerk in bank of John Trotter in London who established first bazaar in this country namely in Soho sq. 1816; pupil of Samuel Drummond, A.R.A. who in his etching from his own painting of “The death of Nelson” has introduced a portrait of Brooke as one of the sailors; exhibited 9 pictures at the R.A., 6 at the B.I. and 9 at Suffolk st. gallery 1808–33; portrait painter in London 1798; contributed drawings to the Satirist 1812 to Sep. 1813; illustrated Moore’s Irish Melodies 1822; Keightley’s Greek and Roman Mythology 1831 and many other popular books; many of his drawings on wood were engraved by Thomson, Branston and other eminent xylographers. d. Chichester 12 Jany. 1860. C. R. Smith’s Collectanea Antiqua v, 273–6 (1861); C. R. Smith’s Retrospections i, 281–5 (1883).

BROOKES, WARWICK. b. Birtles’ sq. Greengate, Salford 1806; entered print works of John Barge near Broughton Bridge, Salford; artist at Manchester. d. Egerton grove, Stretford new road, Manchester 11 Aug. 1882. Manchester City News 26 Aug. 1882 and following weeks.

BROOKFIELD, REV. WILLIAM HENRY (2 son of Charles Brookfield of Sheffield, solicitor). b. Sheffield 31 Aug. 1809; ed. at Sheffield, Leeds and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; C. of Maltby near Bawtry Dec. 1834; C. of St. Luke’s Berwick st. London 1841; inspector of elementary church schools 11 Feb. 1848 to 1865; R. of Somerby near Grantham 1861 to death; hon. chaplain in ord. to the Queen 24 March 1862, chaplain in ord. 1 Jany. 1867 to death; chaplain of Rolls chapel, Chancery lane 1866 to death; preb. of St. Paul’s cath. 1868 to death; he is described in Thackeray’s Curates Walk as Frank Whitestock; author of Paris exhibition Reports on classes. Printing and books, class vi, (reprinted in Illustrated London News 17 Aug. 1867). d. 16 Hereford sq. West Brompton, London 12 July 1874. Sermons by the late Rev. W. H. Brookfield edited by Mrs. Brookfield 1875, portrait.

BROOKS, CHARLES WILLIAM SHIRLEY (son of Wm. Brooks of London, architect who d. 11 Dec. 1867 aged 80). b. 52 Doughty st. London 29 April 1816; articled to his uncle Charles Sabine of Oswestry, solicitor 1832–7; wrote parliamentary summary in Morning Chronicle 1848–52, special correspondent for it in Russia, Syria and Egypt 1853; contributed to Punch 1851 to death, editor June 1870 to death, wrote Punch’s Essence of parliament; edited Literary Gazette 1858–9 and Home News 1867; author of The Creole or love’s fetters, produced at Lyceum theatre 8 April 1847; The daughter of the stars, produced at New Strand theatre 5 Aug. 1850; Aspen Court, a story of our own time 3 vols. 1854; The gordian knot 1859; The silver cord 3 vols. 1861. d. 6 Kent terrace, Regent’s park, London 23 Feb. 1874. G.M. xii, 561–9 (1874); Illust. review iii, 545–50 (1872), portrait; E. Yates’s Recollections ii, 143–9 (1884); Cartoon portraits (1873) 128–33, portrait.

BROOKS, GEORGE BENJAMIN. Entered Bombay army 1799; colonel 20 Bombay N.I. 8 Oct. 1839 to death; commanded the field force in Upper Scinde 1840; general 30 Aug. 1860. d. Clewer hill, Windsor 4 Oct. 1862. The memorial of G. B. Brooks to the Honorable the Court of directors of the East India Company 1842.

BROOKS, JOHN (_only son of Rev. John Brooks, R. of Walton-le-Dale, Lancs._) b. 7 April 1856; ed. at Harrow and Merton coll. Ox., B.A. 1878; barrister I.T. 29 June 1881; M.P. for Altrincham division of Cheshire 27 Nov. 1885 to death. d. Eaton place, London 8 March 1886.

BROOKS, VEN. JONATHAN (son of Mr. Brooks of Liverpool, merchant). b. Oldhall st. Liverpool 1 Sep. 1775; ed. at Macclesfield sch. and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1798, M.A. 1802; C. of Walton on the hill, C. of St. James’s Liverpool, and C. of St. George’s Liverpool successively; senior R. of Liverpool 7 Oct. 1829 to death; archdeacon of Liverpool 29 Sep. 1848 to death; chairman of Liverpool quarter sessions many years. d. Everton road, near Liverpool 29 Sep. 1855. G.M. xliv, 543–4 (1855).

BROOKS, REV. JOSHUA WILLIAM. Curate of East Retford 1821–7; V. of Clareborough 1827–43; R. of Grove 1837–43; V. of St. Mary’s Nottingham 1843–64; rural dean 1855–64; preb. of Linc. cath. 1858 to death; R. of Great Ponton 1864 to death; author of Elements of prophetical interpretation 1836; History of the Hebrew nation 1841; edited Abdiel’s Essays on the Advent of Christ 1844; Proverbs of Solomon 1860. d. 17 Feb. 1882 aged 92.

BROOKS, ROBERT. b. 1799; merchant and shipowner in London; M.P. for Weymouth 30 April 1859 to 11 Nov. 1868. d. 5 June 1882. Personalty sworn under £370,000, 15 July 1882.

BROOKS, SAMUEL (son of Wm. Brooks of Manchester, banker who d. about 1846). b. Great Harwood 1792; calico printer in Manchester; opened a bank at Manchester as a branch of Cunliffe’s bank Blackburn; a great land improver, purchased estates at Moss Side, Baguley, Sale, Timperley and Partington; chairman of original meeting of promoters of Lancashire and Yorkshire railway 18 Oct. 1830. d. Whalley house, Whalley range, Manchester 7 June 1864. L. H. Grindon’s Manchester Banks (1877) 197–214.

BROOKS, VINCENT. Purchased large establishment of Day and Sons, lithographers, Gate st. Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London 1867, carried on the business under style of Vincent Brooks, Day and Son 1867 to death. d. of apoplexy in counting house of Spalding and Hodge, Drury Lane 29 Sep. 1885 in 70 year.

BROOKS, WILLIAM ALEXANDER (son of Wm. Brooks of London, architect). b. London 25 March 1802; engineer officer with Sir Robert Wilson in Spain 1822; resident engineer to Tees Navigation company 1828; engineer to corporation of Newcastle 1842–58; practised in London 1858 to death; made 4 journeys to Honduras 1870–6; sent out to investigate feasibility of a ship canal across Isthmus of Darien 1876; M.I.C.E. 10 June 1834, Telford medallist 1852; author of Treatise on the improvement of the navigation of rivers 1841; Honduras and the Inter-Oceanic railway 1874. d. Paya, in the Isthmus of Darien 26 Jany. 1877. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. l, 172–5 (1877).

BROOM, HERBERT (only son of Herbert Broom of Kidderminster). b. Kidderminster 1815; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., 40 wrangler 1837, B.A. 1837, M.A. 1854, LLD. 1864; barrister I.T. 20 Nov. 1840; professor of common law to council of legal education Jany. 1873 to 1875; author of Practical rules for determining parties to actions 1843, 2 ed. 1846; A selection of legal maxims 1845, 6 ed. 1884; Commentaries on the common law 1856, 7 ed. 1884; Constitutional law 1866, 2 ed. 1885, and of 2 novels The missing will 3 vols. 1877 and The unjust steward 2 vols. 1879. d. The Priory, Orpington, Kent 2 May 1882.

BROOME, ARTHUR. Second lieut. Bengal artillery 13 Dec. 1827, colonel 29 April 1861 to death; controller general of military expenditure Bengal 1 April 1864 to death; M.G. 6 March 1868; C.S.I. 1869. d. at sea on passage from India 27 March 1871.

BROOME, HENRY ALFRED. b. Birmingham 1826; beat Fred. Mason (the Bulldog) £50 a side 11 Oct. 1843; fought Joe Rowe £50 a side 10 Dec. 1844, beat him at renewed fight 13 May 1845; fought Ben Terry £100 a side 3 Feb. 1846; fought Wm. Perry (the Tipton Slasher) £200 a side and the championship at Mildenhall near Newmarket 29 Sep. 1851 and beat him; fought Harry Orme near Brandon 18 April 1853 £250 a side when Broome won after 31 rounds in 2 hours 18 minutes, this was the best fight for the championship ever seen; paid £180 forfeit to Tom Paddock 20 Feb. 1855 who beat Broome £200 a side 19 May 1856; landlord of the Opera tavern, Haymarket London 1851–56; kept the Albion tavern, Warblington st. Portsmouth 1856; kept the Crown and Cushion, Little Russell st. London; a public caterer at principal race meetings. d. 30 Frith st. Soho, London 2 Nov. 1865. H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica iii, 308–39 (1881), portrait; Fights for the championship by Francis Dowling (1860) 234–55; Illust. sporting news iv, 561 (1865), portrait.

BROOME, JOHN (brother of the preceding). b. Birmingham 14 March 1818; fought 7 prize fights all of which he won 1834–40; fought Jack Hannan £500 a side at New park farm Oxfordshire 26 Jany. 1841 when he beat him after 47 rounds; fought Bungaree the Australian £300 a side at Mildenhall 27 April 1842 when Broome won after 42 rounds; presented with a golden belt at Castle tavern Holborn, London 27 Jany. 1842; landlord of the Rising Sun, Air st. Piccadilly 1841; invented a gun capable of carrying a ball of 50lb. weight 2 miles; cut his throat at the Wrekin tavern, Broad Court, Bow st. London 31 May 1855. Fights for the championship by Francis Dowling (1860) 370–8; The new Tom Spring’s Life in London (1844) 137, portrait.

BROPHEY, REV. GEORGE (son of Mr. Brophey who was executed after battle of Vinegar Hill 1798). b. near Kilkenny Aug. 1775; ed. at Carlow college; studied theology in Paris; ordained priest 1798; went to America 1843; pastor of St. Paul’s R.C. church Harlem, New York 1853–66; settled in Iowa 1866. d. Mercy hospital, Davenport, Iowa 16 Oct. 1880 in 106 year.

BROS, THOMAS. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1831; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1831; recorder of Abingdon 30 March 1852 to April 1878. d. Springfield, Upper Clapton, London 16 May 1883 aged 79.

BROTHERHOOD, ROWLAND. Railway contractor; proprietor of large iron and wagon works at Chippenham where some of the best iron bridges ever sent to India were made; constructed Bristol and South Wales Union railway and piers; Assoc. Inst. C.E. 1 May 1866. d. Everton villa, Chertsey road, Bristol 5 March 1883.

BROTHERTON, EDWARD. b. Manchester 1814; engaged in the silk trade; wrote letters on popular education in Manchester Guardian which led to formation of Education Aid Society and paved the way for Education Act of 1870; author of Mormonism its rise and progress 1846; Spiritualism, Swedenborg and the New Church 1860; editor and chief writer of first vol. of a monthly periodical The Dawn (Manchester 1861–2); wrote Outlines of my mental history in the Intellectual Repository 1849 and many articles under pseudonyms of Libra and Pilgrim in Swedenborgian periodicals. d. Cornbrook, Manchester 23 March 1866.

BROTHERTON, JOSEPH (son of John Brotherton of Manchester, cotton spinner). b. Whittington, Derbyshire 22 May 1783; cotton spinner at Manchester 1802–19; joined Bible Christian church 1805, pastor about 1818; M.P. for Salford (the first) 20 Dec. 1832 to death, his expenses being paid by his constituents; chairman of private bills committee; active member of Anti-Corn law league. d. suddenly while travelling in an omnibus from his residence Rosehill, Pendleton into Manchester 7 Jany. 1857, his statue by M. Noble in Peel park was uncovered 6 Aug. 1858. J. B. Robinson’s Derbyshire gatherings (1866) 42–4, portrait; Book-lore ii, 78–82 (1885); Illust. news of the world ii, 117 (1858), portrait; I.L.N. viii, 309 (1846), portrait, xxxiii, 210 (1858).

BROTHERTON, SIR THOMAS WILLIAM. b. 1785; ensign Coldstream Guards 24 Jany. 1800; captain 14 Dragoons 4 June 1807, major 26 March 1812 to Oct. 1820; served in Egypt 1801, in Germany 1805 and during Peninsular war 1808–14; lieut. col. 12 Lancers 26 Oct. 1820 to 24 May 1827 when placed on h.p.; aide-de-camp to the Sovereign 22 July 1830 to 23 Nov. 1841; lieut. col. 16 Lancers 10 Feb. 1832 to 23 Nov. 1841; inspector general of cavalry 1844; colonel of 15 Hussars 18 May 1849, and of 1 Dragoon Guards 17 July 1859 to death; general 1 April 1860; C.B. 3 Feb. 1817, K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 28 June 1861; received the war medal with 8 clasps. d. at his son’s house near Esher 20 Jany. 1868.

BROUGH, ANNIE (dau. of Thomas Romer of Liverpool). b. Liverpool 19 Dec. 1827; ed. at Royal academy of Music Sep. 1843 to June 1846; made her first appearance in London at Princess’s theatre as Adalgisa in Norma 1847; sang at Haymarket theatre; prima donna at the Surrey theatre 1850. (m. April 1851 Wm. Brough the dramatist 1826–70). d. 71 Gower st. London 1 Feb. 1852. Musical World xxx, 94 (1852).

BROUGH, BARNABAS. Brewer and wine merchant at Pontypool; one of the principal witnesses for the Crown in trial of John Frost the Chartist 1840, which made him very unpopular and ruined his business; auctioneer and accountant at Manchester 1843–5; accountant in office of Illustrated London News London 1845 to death; author under name of Barnard de Burgh of several dramatic pieces, one of which I wont go or how to keep a place was acted in London by Tyrone Power. d. 4 South Lambeth place, Lambeth, London 30 Oct. 1854 aged 59.

BROUGH, JOHN CARGILL (son of the preceding). b. Pontypool, Monmouthshire 11 Feb. 1834; clerk in audit office of London and South Western railway 1852–8; wrote articles in many periodicals; an original member of the Savage club 1857; edited The Chemist and Druggist 1860–70; F.C.S. 1864; started The Laboratory, a weekly record of scientific research April 1867; published with two friends Exeter Change a humourous brochure during meeting of British Association at Exeter Aug. 1869; librarian and superintendent of London Institution, Finsbury Circus July 1870 to death, started and edited Journal of London Institution, gave a course of lectures there on Philosophy of Magic 1871–2; author of The fairy tales of science 1858, 2 ed. 1865; one of the editors of England’s Workshops 1864 and of Year book of Pharmacy 1870–2. d. Esher 7 Sep. 1872. Chemist and Druggist (1872) 287, 305, 340.

BROUGH, MARY ANN. Nurse to Prince of Wales; murdered 6 of her children at Esher 9 June 1854 and attempted to destroy herself; tried for murder at Guildford assizes 9 Aug. 1854, when found not guilty on ground of insanity. d. Bethlem hospital, London about 20 March 1861. Annual Register (1854) 93–7;

BROUGH, REDMOND WILLIAM. Ensign 56 Foot 10 March 1807, lieut. 15 July 1808 to 10 Jany. 1822 when placed on h.p.; captain 2 Foot 7 Oct. 1824, lieut. col. 27 Nov. 1841 to 2 March 1846 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 26 Oct. 1858. d. Charles st. St. James’s London 29 Feb. 1860 aged 68.

BROUGH, RICHARD SECKER. First lieut. R.A. 2 Sep. 1794, colonel 21 Nov. 1833 to 1841, col. commandant 17 Aug. 1846 to death; general 16 Dec. 1856. d. Onslow sq. London 15 Jany. 1859 aged 85.

BROUGH, RICHARD SECKER (younger son of Thompson Brough, M.D. of Kiltegan, co. Wicklow). b. Kiltegan 17 Oct. 1846; a fourth grade assistant superintendent Indian telegraph service 30 Oct. 1869; assistant to superintendent electrician at Calcutta March 1871 to death; author of Telegraph construction; edited Schwendler’s Instructions for testing lines, batteries and instruments. d. from cholera at Calcutta 3 April 1879. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. lix, 315–17 (1880).

BROUGH, ROBERT BARNABAS (brother of John Cargill Brough). b. London 10 April 1828; ed. at Newport; started the Liverpool Lion comic weekly paper 1847, edited it 1847–8; wrote burlesques with his brother William first of which The enchanted isle was produced at Amphitheatre Liverpool 1848 and reproduced at Adelphi theatre London 20 Nov. 1848; edited the Atlas a short time and the Welcome Guest; author of Life of Sir John Falstaff 1858; Miss Brown, a romance and other tales 1860. d. Boundary st. Manchester 26 June 1860. Marston Lynch by R. B. Brough with portrait, and a memoir of the author by G. A. Sala 1860 this work contains the story of Brough’s own life; E. Yates’s Recollections i, 312–18 (1884).

BROUGH, WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). b. London 28 April 1826; apprenticed to a printer at Brecon; author of a series of papers called Hints upon heraldry in the Liverpool Lion; wrote with his brother Robert the Christmas and Easter pieces for Adelphi and Haymarket theatres 1848–54; author of many “Entertainments” for Mr. and Mrs. German Reed and John Parry; wrote many burlesques including The field of the cloth of gold which was produced at Strand theatre 11 April 1868 and played till 27 March 1869, 298 times. d. 37 Maitland park road, Haverstock hill 13 March 1870.

BROUGH, WILLIAM FRANCIS. b. Wexford 1798; made his first appearance on the stage in Sussex 1818; acted at Haymarket theatre London 3 years; first appeared in America at Park theatre New York 4 Sep. 1835; made his début in Philadelphia 18 Jany. 1836, at Chestnut st. theatre as Cedric in opera of The Maid of Judith. d. while on his passage to England 21 May 1867. bur. in Brooklyn cemetery New York Feb. 1868.

BROUGHAM, HENRY PETER BROUGHAM, 1 Baron (eld. son of Henry Brougham of Brougham near Penrith 1742–1810). b. 19 St. Andrew’s sq. Edin. 19 Sep. 1778; ed. at high sch. and univ. Edin.; admitted advocate 10 June 1800; one of founders of Edinburgh Review Oct. 1802, chief contributor to it; F.R.S. 3 March 1803; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1808; M.P. for Camelford 1810–12, for Winchelsea 1815–30 and for West Riding of Yorkshire 5 Aug. 1830 to 23 Nov. 1830; attorney general to Queen Caroline 22 April 1820 to her death 7 Aug. 1821; lord rector of Univ. of Glasgow 1825; K.C. 1827, received patent of precedence 1827; lord chancellor 22 Nov. 1830 to 22 Nov. 1834; created Baron Brougham and Vaux of Brougham, Westmoreland 22 Nov. 1830 and by another patent dated 22 March 1860, created Baron Brougham and Vaux of Brougham and of Highhead Castle, Cumberland; foreign associate of Institute of France 1833; pres. of Social science association 1857 and 1860–5; chancellor of Univ. of Edin. 1859. d. Chateau Eleanor Louise, Cannes 7 May 1868. Life and times of Lord Brougham 3 vols. 1871, portrait; Lord Campbell’s Lives of the Chancellors viii, 213–596; Law mag. and law review xxiv, 177–236 (1868); W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery i. 62–5 (1846), portrait; Maclise Portrait gallery (1883) 81–7, portrait; A bibliographical list of Lord Brougham’s publications, by the author of The handbook of fictitious names [Ralph Thomas] 1873.

NOTE.—The result of Queen Caroline’s trial made him extraordinarily popular and the Brougham’s Head became a common tavern sign; at time of passing of the Reform bill plaster casts of his head were sold by tens of thousands. His quarrel with Canning in the House of Commons 17 April 1823 was paraphrased by Dickens in the opening chapter of Pickwick. All the morning papers except the Times of Tuesday 22 Oct. 1839 contained leading articles on the sudden death of Lord Brougham with biographical sketches of him. He is depicted by Disraeli as ‘Foaming Fudge’ in Vivian Grey 1827, and by T. L. Peacock as ‘the learned friend’ in Crotchet Castle 1831.

BROUGHAM, WILLIAM BROUGHAM, 2 Baron (brother of the preceding). b. 26 Sep. 1795; ed. at Edin. and Jesus coll. Cam., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; barrister L.I. 9 May 1823; master in chancery 29 March 1831 to 2 Nov. 1852, when granted pension of £3225 on abolition of his office by 15 and 16 Vict. cap. 80; M.P. for Southwark 29 April 1831 to 29 Dec. 1834; contested Leeds 9 Jany. 1835; succeeded 7 May 1868. d. Brougham hall near Penrith 3 Jany. 1886. Law Times lxxx, 175 (1886).

BROUGHAM, JOHN. b. Dublin 9 May 1814; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub.; made his début at Tottenham st. theatre London in extravaganza of Tom and Jerry July 1830; played at Olympic and Covent Garden; manager of Lyceum 1840–2; managed Niblo’s Garden New York; opened a new theatre in Broadway N.Y. called Brougham’s Lyceum 15 Oct. 1850; lessee of Bowery theatre N.Y. 7 July 1856; played in London 1860–5 and in America 1865–79; opened Brougham’s theatre 25 Jany. 1869; edited a comic paper in New York called The Lantern 1852; author of nearly 80 dramatic pieces; said to have been original of Harry Lorrequer in Lever’s novel. d. 60 East Ninth st. New York 7 June 1880. Life of J. Brougham edited by W. Winter 1881, portrait; Ireland’s Records of New York stage ii, 178, 210, 384, 594, 655 (1867); The Oddfellow i, 65 (1839), portrait.

BROUGHTON, JOHN CAM HOBHOUSE, 1 Baron (eld. son of Sir Benjamin Hobhouse, 1 baronet 1757–1831). b. Redland near Bristol 27 June 1786; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811; visited Greece and Turkey with Lord Byron 1809–10 who dedicated to him fourth canto of Childe Harold for which he wrote the explanatory notes; F.R.S. 19 May 1814; imprisoned in Newgate 14 Dec. 1819 to 29 Jany. 1820 for publishing a pamphlet called The trifling mistake; M.P. for Westminster 1820–33 for Nottingham 1834–47 and for Harwich 1848–51; active member of the Greek Committee in London 1823–24; one of the 6 founders of Royal Geographical Society 1830; sec. of state for war 1 Feb. 1832 to 4 April 1833; chief sec. for Ireland 28 March to 17 May 1833; first comr. of woods and forests 19 July to 31 Dec. 1834; pres. of Board of control 29 April 1835 to 9 Sep. 1841 and 10 July 1846 to Feb. 1852; P.C. 6 Feb. 1832; colonel of Wilts. militia 8 Feb. 1840 to death; created Baron Broughton of Broughton de Gyfford, Wilts. 26 Feb. 1851; G.C.B. 23 Feb. 1852; author of Imitations and translations from the classics, with original poems 1809; Journey through Albania and other provinces of Turkey with Lord Byron 1812, 2 ed. 1818; Substance of some letters written by an Englishman resident at Paris during the last reign of Napoleon 2 vols. 1816. d. 42 Berkeley sq. London 3 June 1869. Personalty sworn under £250,000 14 Aug. 1869. Recollections of a long life by the late Lord Broughton De Gyfford 5 vols. privately printed 1865; Edinburgh Review cxxxiii, 287–337 (1871); Maclise Portrait gallery (1883) 372–8, portrait; I.L.N. liv, 602, 624 (1869), portrait.

BROUGHTON, REV. SIR HENRY DELVES, 8 Baronet. b. 10 Jany. 1777; ed. at Jesus coll. Cam., B.A. 1801, M.A. 1805; P.C. of Broughton Staffs. 1803 to death; succeeded 9 Aug. 1847. d. Broughton hall, Staffs. 3 Nov. 1851.

BROUGHTON, ROBERT EDWARDS. Barrister I.T. 6 May 1825; police magistrate at Worship st. London 1827–54, and at Marylebone 1854 to death; F.R.S. 17 Feb. 1842. d. 33 Dorset sq. London 29 June 1860 aged 79.

BROUGHTON, WILLIAM EDWARD DELVES (2 son of Thomas Broughton of Ham Common, Surrey who d. 24 Jany. 1846). b. 30 April 1802; 2 Lieut. R.E. 6 Aug. 1825; comr. to survey northern boundaries of British possessions in North America June 1840 to 31 March 1845; colonel R.E. 18 April 1860; colonel commandant 19 June 1872 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. 8 Crescent, Surbiton, Surrey 5 April 1880.

BROUGHTON, RIGHT REV. WILLIAM GRANT (eld. son of Grant Broughton). b. Bridge st. Westminster 22 May 1788; ed. at Barnet gr. sch. and King’s sch. Canterbury; clerk in treasury department of East India house 1807–12; resident member of Pemb. hall Cam. Oct. 1814, 6 wrangler 1818, B.A. 1818, M.A. 1823, D.D. 1836; C. of Hartley Wespall, Hants. 1818–27; C. of Farnham 1827; chaplain of Tower of London 6 Oct. 1828 to 24 June 1829; archdeacon of New South Wales 7 Dec. 1828, sworn into office 17 Sep. 1829; bishop of Australia 18 Jany. 1836, consecrated in Lambeth palace chapel 14 Feb. 1836; installed in St. James’s church Sydney 2 June 1836; bishop of Sydney and metropolitan of Australasia 25 June 1847 to death. d. 11 Chester st. Belgrave sq. London 20 Feb. 1853. bur. south aisle of Canterbury cath. 26 Feb. Sermons on the Church of England by the Right Rev. W. G. Broughton edited with prefatory memoir by B. Harrison 1857; G.M. xxxix, 431–6 (1853); J. Bonwick’s Curious facts of old colonial days (1870) 34–56.

BROUN, JOHN ALLAN (son of Mr. Broun of Dumfries, schoolmaster who d. about 1837). b. Dumfries 21 Sep. 1817; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; director of Sir T. M. Brisbane’s magnetic observatory at Makerstoun, co. Dumfries 1842–9; director of observatory at Trevandrum, South India Jany. 1852 to April 1865; built an observatory on the Agustia Malley 6200 feet above the sea 1855; discovered that changes in daily mean horizontal force are nearly the same all over the globe, his researches contributed largely to establish meteorology on a scientific basis; F.R.S. 2 June 1853, Royal medallist 1878; author of Observations of magnetic declination made at Trevandrum and Agustia Malley 1873 and of more than 50 papers in scientific journals. d. 9 Abercorn place, London 22 Nov. 1879. Proc. of Royal Soc. xxx, 3–6 (1880).

BROUN, SIR RICHARD, 8 Baronet (eld. son of Sir James Broun of Colston park, Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire, 7 Baronet who d. 30 Nov. 1844). b. Lochmaben 22 April 1801; a knight of St. John of Jerusalem 28 July 1835, registrar 8 March 1837, sec. of the Langue of that order in England 24 June 1839, K.C.J.J. and G.C.J.J. 24 June 1841; hon. sec. of Committee of the baronetage for sustaining rights and privileges of the Order 15 July 1840 to death; demanded inauguration as a knight on account of being eldest son of a baronet, on the Lord Chamberlain’s refusal to present him to the Queen for this purpose, he assumed title of Sir and addition of “Eques auratus” June 1842; projected The London Necropolis and national mausoleum at Woking 1849 which was incorporated 1852. d. Sphinx lodge, Chelsea, London 10 Dec. 1858.

BROUN, SIR WILLIAM, 9 Baronet. b. July 1804; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; admitted procurator 1829; dean of Faculty of procurators for county of Dumfries; succeeded 10 Dec. 1858. d. 7 Irving st. Dumfries 10 June 1882.

BROWELL, REV. WILLIAM ROBERT. Educ. at Pemb. coll. Ox., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831, fellow and tutor of his college; public examiner 1834; R. of Beaumont-cum-Mose Essex 1839 to death; translated Count Carnot’s Reflexions on the metaphysical principles of the infinitesimal analysis 1832; edited Carwithen’s History of the Church of England 1849. d. Beaumont rectory 15 Aug. 1867.

BROWN, REV. ANDREW MORTON. b. parish of Loudown, Ayrshire 12 March 1812; ed. at Univs. of Glasgow and Edin.; Congregational minister at Overton, Hants.; minister at Poole 1837–43; minister of Highbury chapel Cheltenham 8 Jany. 1843 to death; chairman of Congregational Union of England and Wales 1854; author of The leader of the Lollards, his times and trials 1848; Salvation and the way to secure it, 3 ed. 1851; Evenings with the prophets, a series of memoirs and meditations 1854; Peden the prophet a tale of the covenanters founded on fact 1859. d. Bridport 17 July 1879. Waddington’s Congregational history v, 596–8 (1880); Congregational year book (1880) 310–12.

BROWN, CHARLES PHILIP (son of Rev. David Brown 1763–1812, provost of Calcutta College). b. Calcutta 1798; ed. at Haileybury college; entered Madras civil service 1817; Persian translator to Madras government 1838; postmaster general and Telugu translator 1846–55; presented his fine collection of manuscripts including over 2000 Sanskrit and Telugu works to Madras Literary Society 1845; one of the foremost South Indian scholars; author of Prosody of the Telugu and Sanskrit languages 1826; Dictionaries of Telugu-English and English-Telugu 2 vols. Madras 1852; Grammar of the Telugu language 1840, 2 ed. 1857, and many other works some of which were translated into Tamil, Canarese and Hindustani. d. 22 Kildare gardens, Paddington, London 12 Dec. 1884. Some account of the literary life of C. P. B. privately printed 1866.

BROWN, ELEANOR (dau. of Mr. Fairlam of city of London, jeweller). b. near Regent’s Park London 22 March 1829; landscape painter; exhibited 1 picture at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. gallery 1857–72; author of a fairy tale entitled Muriel’s Dreamland 1871. (m. 22 March 1849 J. W. Brown of London, estate agent). d. 17 Feb. 1878. E. C. Clayton’s English female artists ii, 177–83 (1876).

BROWN, GEORGE. b. Stoughton, Sussex 27 April 1783; a tailor at Emsworth, Hants.; moved to Brighton 1825; lessee of Royal Brighton Cricket ground 1831 to about 1840; kept a lodging house at 71 Middle st. Brighton to Sep. 1856; played his first cricket match at Lords 30 July 1818; the fastest bowler who ever played in great cricket matches; threw a cricket ball 137 yards on Walderton Common about 1819, the longest throw on record; one of the Sussex eleven till about 1838. d. Sompting, Sussex 25 June 1857.

BROWN, SIR GEORGE (3 son of George Brown, provost of Elgin). b. Linkwood near Elgin 3 July 1790; ensign 43 Foot 23 Jany. 1806; lieut. col. Rifle brigade 5 Feb. 1824 to 23 Nov. 1841; deputy adjutant general 23 Nov. 1841; adjutant general 8 April 1850 to 12 Dec. 1853; colonel 77 Foot 11 April 1851 to 22 Dec. 1854; commanded Light division during Crimean war 1854–55, invalided home 28 June 1855; colonel commandant Rifle brigade 18 Jany. 1855, colonel in chief 18 April 1863 to death; general 7 Sep. 1855; commander of the forces in Ireland 1 April 1860 to April 1865; P.C. Ireland 1860; colonel 32 Foot 1 April 1863 to death; K.H. 1831, C.B. 19 July 1838, K.C.B. 6 April 1852, G.C.B. 5 July 1855. d. Linkwood 27 Aug. 1865. E. H. Nolan’s Russian war i, 203, 384 (1857), portrait; G. Ryan’s Our heroes of the Crimea (1855) 58–61; Kinglake’s Invasion of the Crimea, 6 ed. vols. 2–7 (1877–83).

BROWN, GEORGE (son of Peter Brown 1784–1863). b. Edinburgh 29 Nov. 1818; went to New York 1838 and to Toronto 1843; founded the Daily Globe at Toronto 1844 and the Canada Farmer 1864; member of legislative assembly of Canada for county Kent Dec. 1851, for Lambton 1854, for city of Toronto 1857, and for South Oxford March 1863 to the Union 27 May 1867; formed a ministry in Aug. 1858 which only lasted 2 days; member of the Senate 16 Dec. 1873 to death; joint plenipotentiary with Sir E. Thornton at Washington to arrange a commercial treaty with United States 1874; gazetted K.C.M.G. 24 May 1879 but declined the honour. d. Toronto 9 May 1880 having been shot by a discharged employé 25 March 1880. Morgan’s Sketches of eminent Canadians (1862) 769–73; Dominion annual register (1879) 210, 352, (1880) 393–5; I.L.N. xlv, 496 (1864), portrait.

BROWN, GEORGE GRANVILLE (son of Charles Ferdinand D’Artois Duc de Berri 1778–1820 by his first wife Amy dau. of Rev. Joseph Brown 1784–1876, V. of All Saints church Maidstone, Kent). b. London 1805; brought up at Ouchy near Lausanne; served in army of King of Naples; naturalised in France about 1843; lived at Mantes-sur-Seine near Paris about 1843 to death. d. Mantes 5 July 1882. Illust. Lon. News lxxxi, 62 (1882).

BROWN, RIGHT REV. GEORGE HILARY (son of Wm. Brown of Clifton in the Fylde, Lancs.) b. 13 Jany. 1786; entered St. Cuthbert’s college Ushaw 25 Sep. 1799, left it 8 April 1819; ordained deacon 1808, priest 1810; in charge of mission at Lancaster 1819–40; Vicar Apostolic of Lancashire district 1840; consecrated Bishop of Bugia in partibus, at Liverpool 24 Aug. 1840; translated to Tloa in partibus 1842; assistant at Pontifical throne 1843; bishop of Liverpool 29 Sep. 1850 to death; author of A supplement to the Diurnal adapted to the English mission 1833. d. Catherine st. Liverpool 25 Jany. 1856.

BROWN, HENRY. Educ. at London hospital, London; L.S.A. 1827, M.R.C.S. 1832; surgeon at Windsor; medical attendant on the Queen and royal household at Windsor 1838 to death. d. Neet st. Windsor 24 Oct. 1868 aged 66.

BROWN, HUGH. Hand loom weaver in Ayrshire; a schoolmaster 1828–70; author of a poem to the memory of Lord Byron in the Scots Magazine 1825; published The Covenanters and other poems 1838. d. Glasgow 27 Aug. 1885 aged 85.

BROWN, ISAAC BAKER (son of Mr. Brown of Colne Engaine, Essex). b. Colne 8 June 1812; studied at Guy’s Hospital; L.S.A. and M.R.C.S. 1834, F.R.C.S. 1848; partner with Samuel Griffith of Edgware road London 1834–40; removed to Oxford sq. 1845; gave up general practice for that of surgeon accoucheur 1847; surgeon and accoucheur to St. Mary’s hospital, Paddington 1850–8; founded London Surgical Home 1858; fellow of Obstetrical Society 1859 to 3 April 1867; pres. of Medical Soc. of London 1865; author of On Scarlatina and its successful treatment by the Acidum aceticum dilutum of the Pharmacopœia 1846, 2 ed. 1857; On some diseases of women admitting of surgical treatment 1854, 3 ed. 1866; On ovarian dropsy 1862, 2 ed. 1868. d. 88 Albany st. Regent’s park London 3 Feb. 1873. J. F. Clarke’s Autobiographical recollections of the medical profession (1874) 495–503; Medical Circular i, 261, 301–3 (1852), portrait; British Medical Journal i, 395–410 (1867).

BROWN, JAMES. b. near Montrose; mate of the brig Pomona, built by him and his elder brother; taken by a French privateer 1808 and imprisoned at Verdun 1808–14; ship builder at Perth 1814; built 99 vessels including the steam-boat Tourist one of the first sea-going steamers constructed; raised many sunken ships in all parts of Europe including the Comet, boiler of which exploded in the Clyde off Greenock 1820; inspector of steam vessels for Dundee district. d. Dundee 19 Jany. 1861 in 77 year. W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 194–6.

BROWN, JAMES. Flax spinner in Dundee; dean of Guild 1824; the first pres. of Watt institution 1824; provost of Dundee 1844–7; contributed many articles to the Caledonian and other periodicals; author of a small volume of poetry privately printed. d. 6 Jany. 1869 in 82 year.

BROWN, JAMES (only son of James Brown of Leeds, merchant). b. 12 April 1814; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1840; sheriff of Yorkshire 1852; M.P. for Malton 1857–68. d. 43 Upper Grosvenor st. London 19 April 1877. Personalty sworn under £250,000, 14 July 1877.

BROWN, RIGHT REV. JAMES. b. Wolverhampton 11 Jany. 1812; ed. at Sedgley park school 1820–6 and St. Mary’s college Oscott 1826–37; ordained priest 18 Feb. 1837; professor and prefect of studies at Oscott 1837–44; pres. of Sedgley park school 1844–51; bishop of Shrewsbury 27 June 1851 to death, consecrated in St. George’s cath. Southwark 27 July 1851; one of bishops assistant at Pontifical throne 17 April 1870; silver jubilee of his episcopate celebrated in Shrewsbury cath. 27 July 1876. d. St. Mary’s Grange near Shrewsbury 14 Oct. 1881. A sermon preached on the occasion of the silver jubilee of the Bishop of Shrewsbury by the Rev. John Morris 1876.

BROWN, REV. JAMES BALDWIN (elder son of James Baldwin Brown 1785–1843, judge of court of requests at Oldham). b. 10 Harcourt buildings, Inner Temple, London 19 Aug. 1820; ed. at Univ. coll. London, B.A. London 1839; student at Inner Temple 1839–41; studied at Highbury college 1841; minister of London road independent chapel Derby 1843; minister of Clayland’s chapel Clapham road London 1846, removed to new chapel built for him at Brixton July 1870; chairman of Congregational union of England and Wales 1878; author of The soul’s exodus and pilgrimage 1862, 3 ed. 1867; First principles of ecclesiastical truth 1870; The higher life 1874, 5 ed. 1879; The doctrine of annihilation 1875, 2 ed. 1878 and many other works. d. Coombe, Surrey 23 June 1884. In memoriam James Baldwin Brown edited by Elizabeth Baldwin Brown 1884, portrait; Leisure hours by a journalist (1878) 91–102; Biograph v, 154–8 (1881).

BROWN, JANE (dau. of John Hemsworth of Strokestown, co. Roscommon). Roman Catholic bookseller, printer and publisher with George Keating in Duke st. Grosvenor sq. London Feb. 1837 to 1840 when they dissolved partnership; in business at 10 Duke st. Manchester sq. 1840; published The Penny Catholic Magazine 7 Sep. 1839 to 1840; The Laitys Directory 1838 and 1839 when it ceased. (m. Richard Brown of Duke st. Grosvenor sq., principal R.C. publisher in London who d. 25 Feb. 1837 aged 60). She d. 23 March 1860 aged 73.

BROWN, SIR JOHN. Ensign 18 Foot 27 May 1795; lieut. col. 1 Greek light infantry 1813–15; lieut. col. 21 Dragoons 1815–20; lieut. col. 13 Dragoons 1820–30; colonel 8 Hussars 4 April 1843 to death; general 20 June 1854; K.T.S. 25 June 1813; knighted by patent 24 Aug. 1814; K.C.H. 1831. d. 118 Pall Mall London 16 Nov. 1855 aged 80. bur. at Beckenham, Kent.

BROWN, REV. JOHN (eld. son of Rev. John Brown 1754–1832, minister of the Burgher Secession congregation in Whitburn). b. Burnhead, Whitburn 12 July 1784; ed. at Whitburn parish school, and Edinburgh Univ. 1797–1800; taught a school in village of Elie, Fife 1800–1803; licensed by Presbytery of Stirling and Falkirk to preach the gospel 12 Feb. 1805; minister of Biggar 6 Feb. 1806; translated to Rose st. ch. Edinburgh 1 May 1822; inducted to Broughton place ch. Edin. 20 May 1829; received degree of D.D. from Jefferson college Pensylvania 1830; professor of exegetical theology to United Presbyterian church 1834–57; engaged with ardour in Apocrypha, Voluntary, and Atonement controversies 1835–43; promoted union of Secession and Relief bodies; jubilee of his ministry celebrated April 1856; author of Expository discourses on 1 Peter 2 vols. 1848, 2 ed. 1849; Discourses and sayings of our Lord Jesus Christ 3 vols. 1850; Discourses suited to the Lords Supper 1816, 3 ed. 1853; Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews 2 vols. 1862. d. Newington, Edinburgh 13 Oct. 1858. John Cairns’s Memoir of John Brown 1860, portrait; John Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1848) 272–80.

BROWN, JOHN. b. Dover 2 Aug. 1797; in the East Indian merchant service 1811–15; wholesale goldsmith and diamond merchant in London; advocated expeditions in search of Sir John Franklin and made collections illustrative of Arctic adventure; F.R.G.S. 1837; a founder of Ethnological Soc. 1843; author of The north west passage and the plans for the search for Sir John Franklin a review 1858, 2 ed. 1860. d. Scaleby lodge, Camden road, London 7 Feb. 1861. Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xxxi, 116 (1861); G.M. x, 571–3 (1861).

BROWN, JOHN. b. Barnwell near Cambridge 4 Aug. 1796; brought up as a shoemaker; entered the army but deserted; became a strolling player; served in the navy; worked as a shoemaker; acted in London and the provinces; proprietor of University billiard rooms and racket court, Ram yard, Bridge st. Cambridge for many years before his death; town councillor of Cambridge. d. Cambridge 22 Aug. 1863. Sixty years gleanings from life’s harvest by John Brown 1858, portrait.

BROWN, JOHN (son of Rev. John Brown 1784–1858). b. Biggar, Lanarkshire 22 Sep. 1810; ed. at high sch. and univ. Edin.; apprenticed to James Syme the eminent surgeon 1828–33; M.D. Edin. 1833; physician at Edin. 1833 to death; author of Horæ Subsecivæ 3 vols. 1858–82. d. 23 Rutland st. Edin. 11 May 1882. Good Words for 1882 pp. 446–51, portrait: Macmillan’s Mag. xlvii, 281–95 (1883); I.L.N. lxxx, 508 (1882), portrait.

BROWN, JOHN. b. Crathie near Balmoral, Aberdeenshire 8 Dec. 1826; personal attendant on Queen Victoria Dec. 1865 to death. d. Clarence tower, Windsor Castle 27 March 1883. bur. Crathie cemetery 5 April. Life of J. Brown by H. L. Williams 1883; More leaves from the journal of a life in the Highlands (1884) 31, portrait; I.L.N. lxxxii, 332 (1883), portrait.

BROWN, JOHN A. (3 son of Alexander Brown of Baltimore, banker). b. Ballymena, co. Antrim 21 May 1788; went to United States about 1800; manager of his father’s bank at Philadelphia 1818, succeeded to the business; retired about 1839 with a large fortune; gave to charities sum of 500,000 dollars 300,000 of them to Presbyterian hospital of Philadelphia. d. Philadelphia 31 Dec. 1872.

BROWN, JOHN CHARLES. b. Glasgow 1805; landscape painter in London, Glasgow and Edin.; associate of Royal Scottish Academy; drew views for John Wilson’s Scotland illustrated 1845; his picture ‘The last of the Clan’ was engraved for Royal Association of Fine Arts Scotland 1851. d. 10 Vincent st. Edin. 8 May 1867.

BROWN, JOHN HOSKINS. Entered navy 25 July 1805; registrar general of seamen 1835 to April 1851; captain 20 March 1863; C.B. 8 April 1862; author of The Shipmasters’ guide 1844, new ed. 1855; edited The mercantile navy list 1850 etc. d. Brixton, London 29 June 1864 aged 72.

BROWN, JOHN TATTON BUTLER. b. 1 Oct. 1833; 2 lieut. R.A. 18 June 1851, lieut. col. 9 Nov. 1876 to 29 Oct. 1881 when he retired with hon. rank of M.G.; C.B. 27 Nov. 1879. d. Park Mount, Kent road, Southsea 19 Aug. 1885.

BROWN, JOHN WRIGHT (son of Rev. Charles J. Brown of Edinburgh). b. Edin. 19 Jany. 1836; assistant in herbarium connected with Botanic garden Edin.; an associate of Edinburgh Botanical Society to which he contributed a list of the plants of Elie, Fifeshire. d. 39 George sq. Edinburgh 23 March 1863. Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. vii, 519–20 (1863).

BROWN, REV. JOSEPH. Educ. at Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1833; P.C. of St. Matthias, Bethnal Green, London 1844–9; R. of Ch. Ch. Southwark 1849 to death; originator of Homes for servants out of place, and the Albert Institution Blackfriars; practically created Cholera orphan house, Ham common, since called National orphan home; author of Narratives and sermons for schools 1856; Hymns and psalms for divine worship 1859. d. Richmond hill, Surrey 13 Aug. 1867 aged 67. I.L.N. xxvi, 269 (1855), portrait.

BROWN, JOSEPH (7 son of George Brown of North Shields). b. North Shields Sep. 1784; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; entered army medical service, attached to Wellington’s staff in Peninsular war; resumed his studies at Edin., M.D. 2 Aug. 1819; practised at Sunderland 1819 to death, medical officer of the Infirmary 1822 to death; mayor of Sunderland 1840, alderman 1841; author of Medical essays on fever, inflammation and rheumatism 1828; A defence of revealed religion 1851; Memories of the past and thoughts on the present age 1863; The food of the people 1865. d. Villiers st. Sunderland 19 Nov. 1868. Munk’s Roll of physicians iii, 284 (1878); Medical times and gazette ii, 683–4 (1868).

BROWN, LEWIS GEORGE. b. 23 Feb. 1838; ensign 5 Bombay N.I. 13 July 1854; wing commander 8 Bombay N.I. 30 June 1877 to death; lieut. col. staff corps 9 June 1880 to death. d. Sibi, Afghanistan 11 Aug. 1880. I.L.N. lxxvii, 309 (1880), portrait.

BROWN, OLIVER MADOX (son of Ford Madox Brown of London, historical painter). b. Finchley 20 Jany. 1855; ed. at Univ. coll. London; exhibited 2 water colours at Dudley Gallery 1869–70; exhibited a water colour “Exercise” at the R.A. 1870, “Prospero and the infant Miranda” at International exhibition South Kensington 1871 and “Silas Marner” at Society of French artists 1872; published a story entitled Gabriel Denver 5 Nov. 1873. d. Fitzroy sq. London 5 Nov. 1874. O. M. Brown, a biographical sketch by H. Ingram (1883), 2 portraits; The Dwale Bluth and other literary remains of O. M. Brown 2 vols. 1876, 2 portraits; Scribner’s Mag. xii, 425–8 (1876).

BROWN, PETER. Ensign 82 Foot 7 Dec. 1799; major 23 Foot 20 July 1815 to 25 July 1816 when placed on h.p.; commandant of Royal military asylum at Chelsea 15 Dec. 1843 to 1851; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846; served in the Peninsula 1810 to end of the war. d. Gosport 3 Jany. 1853.

BROWN, PETER. b. Perth; editor of the Dundee Advertiser about 1835; edited the Dundee Herald originally called Dundee Chronicle; a reporter on the Morning Post in London to death. d. 5 April 1855.

BROWN, PETER. b. Scotland 29 June 1784; merchant in Edinburgh; went to New York 1838; editor and proprietor of the British Chronicle; removed to Toronto 1843 where he established The Banner 18 Aug. 1843 and edited it; author of The fame and glory of England vindicated, by Libertas 1842. d. Toronto 30 June 1863. Morgan’s Bibl. Canad. (1867) p. 51.

BROWN, RAWDON LUBBOCK. b. 1803; lived at Venice 1833 to death; commissioned by Lord Palmerston to calendar Venetian state papers treating of English history 1862 for which purpose he examined twelve million packets of documents in North Italy; author of Calendar of state papers and manuscripts relating to English affairs existing in the archives and collections of Venice and of other libraries of Northern Italy 8 vols. 1864–84. d. Casa della Vida, Venice 25 Aug. 1883. Times 29 Aug., 8 Sep. and 13 Sep. 1883; Athenæum 8 Sep. 1883 p. 307.

BROWN, ROBERT (2 son of Rev. James Brown, Episcopalian minister of Montrose). b. Montrose 21 Dec. 1773; ed. at Marischal coll. Aberdeen and Univ. of Edin.; naturalist to H.M.S. Investigator under Flinders 1801–5 when he collected nearly 4000 species of dried plants; librarian to Linnæan Society 1805–20; custodian of library and collections of Sir Joseph Banks 1810–20; keeper of Banksian botanical collection at British Museum 1827 to death; F.R.S. 12 Dec. 1811, Copley medallist 1839; F.L.S. 1822, pres. 1849 to May 1853; one of the 8 foreign associates of French Academy of Sciences 1833; an honorary member of every academy in Europe; granted a civil list pension of £200, 14 Sep. 1843; author of Prodromus Floræ Novæ Hollandiæ et insulæ Van Diemen 1810; Vermischte botanische Schriften, ed. by C. G. Nees von Esenbeck 5 vols. 1825–34. d. 17 Dean st. Soho, London 10 June 1858. Proc. of Royal Soc. ix, 527–32 (1858); Proc. of Linnæan Soc. (1859) 25–30; Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xxix, 115–19 (1859); I.L.N. xxxiii, 29 (1858), portrait.

BROWN, REV. ROBERT CHRISTOPHER LUNDIN (son of Rev. Robert Brown, minister of Largo). ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.A. 1854; missionary in British Columbia 1860–5; V. of Lineal Salop 1869–74; P.C. of Rhodes near Manchester 1874–5; author of British Columbia 1863; The dead in Christ 1868; Klatsassan 1873; The life of Peace 1876. d. 26 Grafton sq. Clapham, London 16 April 1876.

BROWN, SIR SAMUEL (eld. son of Wm. Brown of Borland, co. Galloway). b. London 1776; entered navy 8 June 1795; commander 1 Aug. 1811; retired captain 18 May 1842; invented iron chain cables, described in Philosophical Magazine Oct. 1814; built Union suspension bridge over the Tweed near Berwick 1820; erected chain pier at Brighton 1823; K.H. 13 Jany. 1835; knighted at St. James’s palace 21 Feb. 1838; took out patents for chains and chain cables and ten other patents. d. Vanbrugh lodge, Blackheath 15 March 1852. G.M. xxxvii, 519–20 (1852).

BROWN, SAMUEL. Cornet 6 Dragoons 15 March 1798; assistant quartermaster general to the army in Egypt 1801; major York light infantry 25 Sep 1807 to 19 March 1817 when placed on h.p.; general 20 June 1854. d. Bromley, Kent 2 March 1855.

BROWN, SAMUEL (4 son of Samuel Brown of Haddington, founder of itinerating libraries). b. Haddington 23 Feb. 1817; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edin., M.D. 1839; delivered a course of lectures on philosophy of the sciences at Edin. 1840–1, and 4 lectures on the Atomic theory 1843; contested chair of chemistry in Univ. of Edin. 1843; experimented on the atomic constitution of bodies; author of The tragedy of Galileo Galilei in 5 acts and in verse 1850; Lectures on the atomic theory and essays scientific and literary 2 vols. 1858, and of many articles in North British Review and other periodicals. d. Canaan grove, Morningside, Edin. 20 Sep. 1856. Macmillan’s Mag. xii, 74–82 (1865); North British Review Nov. 1856.

BROWN, SAMUEL. b. 1812; actuary of Mutual life office 1850 and of Guardian insurance company 1855; advocated uniform weights and measures throughout commercial world; an active founder of Institute of Actuaries 1848, pres. 1867–70, instituted the Brown prize; joint editor of Journal of Institute of Actuaries; pres. over section of Economic Science and Statistics at British Association in Norwich 1868; author of numerous papers in Assurance Magazine 1850 to death and in Journal of Statistical Society. d. The Elms 42 Lark hall rise, Clapham, London 20 March 1875. C. Walford’s Insurance Cyclopædia i, 395–6 (1871).

BROWN, THOMAS. Midshipman R.N. 1787; captain 22 Jany. 1806; commanded the Ordinary at Sheerness 1816–19; commanded Vigo 74 guns, Tartar 42 guns, Talavera 74 guns and Caledonia 120 guns, successively May 1833 to Oct. 1835 when placed on h.p.; admiral on h.p. 4 July 1855. d. Southampton 17 June 1857 aged 79.

BROWN, THOMAS (son of Christopher Brown, member of firm of Longmans, publishers, London who d. 1807). b. near Paternoster Row, London 1778; ed. at Christ’s hospital; apprenticed in his father’s firm Dec. 1792; a partner 1811 to June 1859; a liveryman of Stationers Company 1804, warden and upper warden 1856–8; gave a stained glass west window to St. Paul’s cathedral which was uncovered 19 March 1867; left by his will £10,000 to Booksellers Provident Institution, £10,000 to Booksellers Retreat and £10,000 to Christ’s hospital. d. 39 Ludgate hill, London 24 March 1869. W. H. Blanch’s Famous blue-coat boys (1880) 59–83; Reg. and mag. of biog. i, 480–2 (1869).

BROWN, RIGHT REV. THOMAS JOSEPH. b. Bath 2 May 1798; received Benedictine habit at the college Acton Burnell near Shrewsbury 19 April 1813, removed with the college to St. Gregory’s college Downside near Bath where he was professed 28 Oct. 1814, professor of theology there 1823–40, prior of the college 18 July 1834 to 3 July 1840; ordained priest in London 12 March 1823; cathedral prior of Winchester 1833–40; D.D. 24 July 1834; vicar Apostolic of newly created Welsh district 3 July 1840; consecrated in St. John’s chapel Bath, Bishop of Apollonia in Archdiocese of Thessalonica 28 Oct. 1840; bishop of Newport and Menevia 29 Sep. 1850 to death; assistant at pontifical throne 29 Nov. 1854; author of various pamphlets and letters in defence of doctrines of Church of Rome. d. Bullingham near Hereford 12 April 1880. M. Brady’s Episcopal succession iii, 337, 354, 424–6 (1877); Downside Review July 1880 pp. 4–16.

BROWN, REV. THOMAS RICHARD (son of Richard Brown of Cambridge). b. 1791; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1820; V. of Southwick near Oundle, Northamptonshire 1834 to death; author of English terminations 1838; Hebrew hieroglyphs 1840; Etymological dictionary 2 vols. 1843; Essentials of Sanscrit grammar 1851. d. Southwick 1 Sep. 1875.

BROWN, WILLIAM (son of a small farmer at Foxford, co. Mayo). b. Foxford 22 June 1777; went to Pennsylvania 1786; commanded an English merchant ship; commodore in navy of Buenos Ayres Feb. 1814; destroyed Spanish fleets at Martin Garcia and Monte Video 1814 and in Pacific ocean and Caribbean sea 1815–18; commanded Buenos Ayres fleet in war against Brazil 12 Jany. 1826 to 1828; assumed reins of government on breaking out of civil war 1842. d. Barracas near Buenos Ayres 3 May 1857. M. G. Mulhall’s English in South America (1878) 144–69, portrait.

BROWN, WILLIAM (4 son of James Brown of Cononsyth, flax-spinner). Flax-spinner with his brother James at East Ward mill Dundee 1809–56, in 1811 every mill in Dundee was stopped except their mill and the Dens mill; author of Reminiscences of flax-spinning 1862 and of a volume of poetry. d. 14 Nov. 1864 aged 73. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 245–8.

BROWN, REV. WILLIAM. Professor of Biblical criticism and theology at St. Andrews University Scotland 14 June 1851 to death; author of The scientific character of the Scottish universities viewed in connection with religious belief and their educational use 1856. d. St. Andrews 19 July 1868 aged 68.

BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Alexander Brown of Ballymena, co. Antrim, linen merchant 1764–1834). b. Ballymena 30 May 1784; ed. at Catterick, Yorkshire; went to the United States 1800; partner in firm of Alexander Brown and Sons of Baltimore, linen merchants; founded firm of Brown, Shipley and Co. at Liverpool 1810 which became leading house in American trade; alderman of Liverpool 1831–8; M.P. for South Lancashire 21 July 1846 to 23 April 1859; raised and equipped a corps of artillery which ranks as the 1 brigade of Lancashire artillery volunteers 1859; a director of Atlantic telegraph company Dec. 1856, chairman; erected at a cost of £40,000 Free public library and Derby museum at Liverpool opened 8 Oct. 1860; created a baronet 24 Jany. 1863; sheriff of Lancashire 1863. d. Richmond hill, Liverpool 3 March 1864. Personalty sworn under £900,000, 21 May 1864. H. R. F. Bourne’s English merchants ii, 307–20 (1866); I.L.N. xix, 70 (1851), portrait.

BROWN, SIR WILLIAM (son of Richard Brown, chief examiner of accounts at the War Office London). b. 1812; a temporary clerk in office of Secretary at war Dec. 1828; a first class clerk on the consolidation of War office Jany. 1856; assistant accountant general Oct. 1857; accountant general Aug. 1860 to 1 April 1870 when he retired on a pension of £800 a year; C.B. 7 Dec. 1868; knighted at Windsor Castle 18 May 1870. d. Hillside, Parkstone, Dorset 19 May 1884.

BROWN, WILLIAM GUSTAVUS. b. 5 Feb. 1809; ensign 24 Foot 7 July 1825, lieut. col. 21 Dec. 1849 to 1 Sep. 1861 when placed on h.p.; brigadier general Bengal 28 July 1858 to 15 Nov. 1859 and 5 Sep. 1860 to 2 April 1861; brigadier general Aldershot 1 Sep. 1861 to 28 Feb. 1863; colonel 83 Foot 29 May 1873 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. Sydenham 27 Nov. 1883.

BROWN, WILLIAM ROBERT HENRY. Projector and one of founders of Morning Advertiser, first number issued 8 Feb. 1794 and of Licensed Victuallers schools at Kennington 1794; projected Golden Lane brewery in which 600 persons were proprietors Sep. 1804; common councilman for ward of Cripplegate 1807; one of founders of Hope Life Insurance Company, the first chairman; governor of Newgate 1817 to 1822 when he resigned; warden of the Fleet prison in city of London and keeper of the old and new palaces in county of Middlesex (alias Westminster Hall) 13 April 1822 to 31 May 1842 when appointment was abolished by act of Parliament 5 and 6 Vict. c. 22 and the prisoners were transferred to Queen’s Bench prison. d. 3 Doughty st. London 15 Feb. 1853 aged 86.

BROWN, REV. WILSE. Educ. at Em. coll. Cam., scholar; B.A. 1833; P.C. of Eggleston, Durham 1835–57; R. of Whitstone near Exeter 1857 to death; private in Exeter Rifle Corps 1862 to death being only clergyman in England serving in Volunteer Corps, gained many prizes at Wimbledon. d. Whitstone rectory 22 Jany. 1883 aged 72.

BROWN-GREIVE, JOHN TATTON. Second lieut. R.M. 21 May 1811, lieut. col. 13 Dec. 1852, col. commandant 30 Oct. 1855 to 1 April 1870 when he retired on full pay; granted good service pension 1 April 1857; general 13 Feb. 1867; C.B. 2 June 1869. d. Orde house near Berwick-on-Tweed 4 Nov. 1880 aged 85.

BROWNBILL, REV. FRANCIS. b. Gillmoss, Lancs. 5 Nov. 1793; entered Society of Jesus at Hodder 7 Sep. 1813; ordained priest in Dublin Dec. 1819; superior of St. George’s Residence Worcester and of College of St. Francis Xavier 1838–42; superior at the Seminary Stonyhurst 1847; missioner at Newhall, Chelmsford 1843–63; superior at the Little college Hodder Dec. 1864. d. Stonyhurst college 13 May 1875.

BROWNBILL, REV. JAMES (brother of the preceding). b. Gillmoss 31 July 1798; entered Society of Jesus 7 Sep. 1815; ordained priest at Stonyhurst 30 July 1829; rector of Stonyhurst college 15 May 1836; minister of Stonyhurst 29 May 1839; rector of college of St. Ignatius London 1841–54; missioner to Bury St. Edmunds 1854. d. Newhall, Chelmsford 14 Jany. 1880.

BROWNE, ALEXANDER. b. Langlands parish of Twynholm 1800; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; hospital assistant in the army 16 June 1825; assistant surgeon 23 foot 3 Aug. 1826; went on a medical mission to Emperor of Morocco 1827 whom he cured of ague; surgeon to 37 foot 22 Nov. 1839 to 2 Aug. 1850 when placed on h.p.; d. Langlands 15 April 1872. Medical times and gazette i, 613 (1872).

BROWNE, ANDREW. b. 6 June 1820; Ensign 28 foot 30 April 1841; lieut. col. 44 foot 10 Nov. 1869 to 27 Sep. 1871 when placed on h.p.; C.B. 28 Feb. 1861; granted a service reward 9 Sep. 1878; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 July 1881. d. Dublin 8 April 1883.

BROWNE, CHARLES ALFRED (son of Wm. Loder Browne of Kennington, London, merchant). Entered Madras army 1826; sec. to military department 4 Feb. 1845 to 1860; M.G. 6 April 1862; a leading member of Church Missionary Society. d. King’s head court, St. Martin’s le grand, London 14 Feb. 1866 aged 65.

BROWNE, CHARLES FARRAR. b. Waterford, Maine 26 April 1834; a printer in Maine, Boston and Cincinnati; wrote in the Cleveland, Plaindealer a letter purporting to come from a travelling showman signing it with nom de plume of Artemus Ward; edited Vanity Fair the leading comic paper in New York 1861; gave his first lecture in New York at Clinton hall 23 Dec. 1861; went to California and Utah 1862; went to England 1866; contributed to Punch 1866; lectured at the Egyptian hall, Piccadilly 13 Nov. 1866 to 23 Jany. 1867. d. Radley’s hotel, Southampton 6 March 1867. The genial showman by E. P. Hingston 1871; Essays by E. S. Nadal 1882 16–41; Illust. sporting news v, 705 (1866), portrait.

BROWNE, CHARLES THOMAS. b. Wellington, Somerset 1825; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; engaged on a London daily paper 1857 to death; author of Astrello or the prophet’s vision 1850; Life of Southey 1854; The United States constitution and powers 1856 and under pseudonym of Alexander de Comyne of a poem entitled Irene 1844. d. Basingstoke 7 Oct. 1868.

BROWNE, FIELDING. Ensign 40 Foot 7 March 1800; major 19 Jany. 1815 to 22 June 1820 when placed on h.p.; C.B. 22 June 1815; colonel 10 Jany. 1837. d. Gloucester crescent, Regent’s park, London 22 July 1864 aged 79.

BROWNE, GEORGE. Captain 37 Foot 24 March 1825 to 29 Aug. 1826 when placed on h.p.; chief commissioner of Dublin Metropolitan police 1837–58; C.B. 13 June 1857. d. Clifton gardens, Folkestone 12 July 1879 aged 91.

BROWNE, GEORGE (2 son of John Browne of Hall court, Herts, attorney general of Jamaica who d. 1828). b. Jamaica 1825; ed. at Jesus coll. Cam., B.A. 1848; barrister I.T. 4 May 1849; a revising barrister 1868; recorder of Ludlow 22 Jany. 1873 to death; Q.C. 24 March 1880; author of A treatise on the principles and practice of the court for divorce and matrimonial causes 1864, 4 ed. 1880; A treatise on the principles and practice of the court of probate 1873, 2 ed. 1881. d. Calverley park, Tunbridge Wells 19 Sep. 1880.

BROWNE, RIGHT REV. GEORGE JOSEPH PLUNKET. b. about 1790; ed. at Maynooth; parish priest of Athlone many years; bishop of Galway 6 Aug. 1831, consecrated by Abp. of Tuam 23 Oct. 1831; translated to Elphin 26 March 1844. d. 1 Dec. 1858 in 68 year. W. M. Brady’s Episcopal succession ii, 208, 231–2 (1876).

BROWNE, HABLOT KNIGHT (9 son of Wm. Loder Browne of Kennington, London, merchant). b. Lower Kennington lane, London 15 June 1815; apprenticed to Wm. Finden the line engraver; illustrated Dickens’s Sunday as it is, by Timothy Sparks 1836, published at 1/- but now worth more than its weight in gold; illustrated under pseudonym of Phiz Pickwick papers, Martin Chuzzlewit and many other of Dickens’s novels; exhibited many water-colours at Brit. Instit. and Soc. of Brit. artists; illustrated many of Lever’s and Ainsworth’s novels; contributed about 350 sketches to Judy July 1869 to death. d. Hove, Brighton 8 July 1882. D. C. Thomson’s Life and labours of H. K. Browne 1884, portrait; Phiz, a memoir by J. G. Kitton 1882, portrait; Graphic xxvi, 132 (1882), portrait; G. Everitt’s English Caricaturists (1886) 336–54, 412–16.

BROWNE, REV. HENRY (son of Rev. John Henry Browne, R. of Crownthorpe, Norfolk who d. 1 May 1843 aged 75). b. 1804; ed. at C.C. coll. Cam.; Bell Univ. scholar 1823, B.A. 1826, M.A. 1830; V. of Rudgwick, Sussex 1831; R. of Earnley, Sussex 1833; principal of diocesan theol. coll. Chichester 1842–7; preb. of Chichester cath. 9 Dec. 1842; chaplain to bishop of Chichester 1847–70; P.C. of St. Bartholomew’s Chichester 1850–4; R. of Pevensey 1854 to death; author of Ordo sæculorum 1844; Remarks on Mr. Greswell’s Fasti Catholici 1852; translated with C. L. Cornish for the ‘Library of the Fathers’ 17 short treatises of St. Augustine. d. Pevensey 19 June 1875.

BROWNE, VERY REV. HENRY MONTAGUE (2 son of 2 Baron Kilmaine 1765–1825). b. 3 Oct. 1799; dean of cathedral church of St. Carthagh, Lismore 1850 to death. d. Bredon rectory, Worcs. 24 Nov. 1884.

BROWNE, RIGHT REV. JAMES. b. Mayglass, Forth, co. Wexford 1786; ed. at Maynooth college; dean of Maynooth 1814–6, professor of Sacred Scriptures 1816–27; bishop of Kilmore 20 March 1827 to death; consecrated to see of Magida in partibus 10 June 1827; d. Cavan 11 April 1865. Battersby’s Catholic directory (1866) 389–92.

BROWNE, JAMES SOLOMON. b. Paddington, London 6 Aug. 1791; ed. at Eton; clerk in Prerogative office Doctors Commons 1802; played Harlequin to Grimaldi at Birmingham; played at Liverpool 1813–23 and 1826–38; first appeared in London at Drury Lane 7 Oct. 1823 as Lord Foppington in A trip to Scarborough; became most versatile actor of the day; acted in America 1838, at Olympic theatre London 1845, afterwards in New York; the original Robert Macaire in the drama of that name; retired from the stage 1858. d. New York 28 Nov. 1869. Oxberry’s Dramatic biography ii, 177–88 (1825), portrait.

BROWNE, VEN. JOHN HENRY. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; R. of Cotgrave near Nottingham 1811 to death; archdeacon of Ely 23 Sep. 1816 to death; preb. of Ely 26 June 1817. d. Cotgrave 2 Nov. 1858 aged 79.

BROWNE, JOHN ROSS. b. Ireland 1817; passed his youth in state of Kentucky; went to California 1849; went to Europe as a newspaper correspondent 1851; inspector of custom houses on northern frontier of the U.S.; reported on the mineral resources of the country west of the Rocky Mountains for the Government 1866 and 1868; United States minister in China 1868–9; author of Etchings of a whaling cruise 1846; Crusoe’s Island 1864; An American family in Germany 1866; The land of Thor 1867. d. Oakland near San Francisco 7 Dec. 1875.

BROWNE, JOHN SAMUEL (eld. son of John Browne of London, landscape engraver who d. 2 Oct. 1801 in 60 year). b. St. Saviour’s, Southwark 15 Sep. 1782; clerk in the East India house 1801; author of A catalogue of bishops containing the succession of archbishops and bishops of Canterbury and York from 1688 to the present time 1812; contributed to Gentlemen’s Mag. and Morning Herald. d. Walworth, Surrey 6 June 1858. Gent. Mag. v, 198 (1858).

BROWNE, PETER, b. 1794; M.P. for Rye 18 June 1818 to 2 June 1826; chargé d’affaires at Copenhagen 8 times during the period 1823–52; retired on a pension 6 Jany. 1853. d. Pallanza 7 April 1872.

BROWNE, PHILIP, b. 16 Sep. 1772; entered navy 1 July 1777; captain 19 June 1810; captain of the Hermes 20 guns 1811–14 when placed on h.p.; V.A. on h.p. 15 April 1854. d. Parkstone near Poole, Dorset 25 Jany. 1860.

BROWNE, REV. SAMUEL (son of Rev. John W. Browne, Independent minister). b. England 19 March 1788; went to Cincinnati with his father 1798; a minister of the United Brethren; joined presbytery of Cincinnati about 1868; accumulated a large fortune by the rise of real estate in Cincinnati; bequeathed sum of 150,000 dollars for establishment of a university to bear his name also land whereon to erect the building and an endowment for professorships, d. Harrison junction, Ohio 10 Sep. 1872.

BROWNE, THOMAS. Entered navy 5 April 1782; captain 29 April 1802; V.A. 11 Dec. 1846. d. Clifton 7 April 1851 in 83 year. O’Byrne’s Naval biog. dict. (1849) 136.

BROWNE, SIR THOMAS HENRY (elder son of George Browne of Liverpool, Tuscan consul). b. Liverpool 8 Sep. 1787; ensign 23 foot 28 Oct. 1805, captain 15 April 1813 to 25 Dec. 1814 when placed on h.p.; received war medal with 8 clasps; aide-de-camp to Marquis of Londonderry at head quarters of Russian and Austrian armies 1815; L.G. 20 June 1854; colonel 80 foot 19 Aug. 1854 to death; sheriff of Flintshire 1824; K.C.H. 1826. d. London 11 March 1855.

BROWNE, WALTER JOHN. Ensign Bombay army 17 Sep. 1819; col. 14 N.I. 22 Aug. 1857–1869; general 29 Aug. 1873; C.B. 4 July 1843. d. Warkworth 31 Oct. 1881 aged 81.

BROWNE, WALTER RALEIGH (3 son of Rev. Thomas Murray Browne, V. of Almondsbury, Gloucs.) b. Standish, Gloucs. 1842; ed. at home and Trin. coll. Cam., scholar 1863, 19 wrangler and tenth classic 1865, B.A. 1865; fellow of his coll. 1867; managing director of Bridgewater Engineering company 1874–8; M.I.M.E. 1869, sec. 1878 to Jany. 1884; M.I.C.E. 27 May 1879, Telford medallist 1871 and 1876; F.G.S.; F.R.G.S.; one of founders of Society for Psychical Research 1882; lectured frequently for Christian evidence society; author of Facts and fallacies of pauper education 1878; The inspiration of the New Testament 1880; The foundations of mechanics 1882; The students mechanics 1883. d. from typhoid fever in the general hospital, Montreal 4 Sep. 1884. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxix, 362–6 (1885).

BROWNE, WILLIAM, b. 1 Nov. 1791; M.P. for co. Kerry 19 July 1841 to 23 July 1847. d. at his house in London 4 Aug. 1876.

BROWNE, WILLIAM ALEXANDER FRANCIS. b. near Stirling 1805; ed. in Edinburgh high school and Univ., M.D. 1826; L.R.C.S. Edin. 1826; studied in France 1826–30; physician at Stirling 1830; superintendent of Montrose lunatic asylum; superintendent of Crichton Instit. at Dumfries 1839; paid Comr. in lunacy for Scotland 23 Sep. 1857 to 1870; the first phys. in Scotland who adopted new system of treating the insane; author of What asylums were, are, and ought to be. d. Crindan, Dumfries 2 March 1885 aged 79.

BROWNE, WILLIAM CHESELDEN. b. 1805; entered navy 1816; captain 9 Jany. 1854; retired admiral 9 Jany. 1880; sec. to Royal yacht club at Cowes 1853–60. d. Townsend house, West Cowes 6 April 1881.

BROWNE, VEN. WILLIAM HENRY. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin; archdeacon of Launceston, Tasmania 1870 to death. d. Launceston 18 June 1877 aged 77.

BROWNE, WILLIAM HENRY JAMES (son of Mr. Browne, harbour master at Dublin). Served in merchant service; 2 lieut. of the Enterprise 1848–9; led a sledge party from Port Leopold to east coast of Prince Regent’s Inlet; 2 lieut. of the Resolute 1850–1; his sketches of Arctic scenery at Port Leopold were published by Ackerman 1849; assisted in painting the Arctic panorama in Leicester square London; retired commander 1 July 1864. d. Woolwich March-June 1871.

BROWNE, WILLIAM MEREDITH. Assistant sec. of Westminster Fire Office 1831, sec. 1838 to death; a founder of Mutual Life Office 1834; founded Westminster and General Life Office 1839, actuary 1839–69; hon. sec. of London Fire Engine Establishment 1832–65, when the work was undertaken by Metropolitan Board of Works. d. Clarendon road, Putney 30 March 1880 aged 74.

BROWNING, COLIN ARROTT. Surgeon in the navy 8 Feb. 1817; surgeon of the Surrey, convict ship 1831 and of six other convict ships 1834–46; retired deputy inspector of hospitals 30 June 1856; author of England’s exiles 1842; The Convict ship 1844; The convict ship and England’s exiles, 6 ed. 1855. d. Woolwich 26 Oct. 1856.

BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT (eld. dau. of Edward Moulton of Burn hall, Durham). b. Burn hall 6 March 1809; lived at 74 Gloucester place London many years; lived at Florence 1847 to death, (m. 9 Sep. 1846 Robert Browning the poet). author of An essay on mind, with other poems, anon. 1826; Casa Guidi Windows a poem 1851; Aurora Leigh 1857, 18 ed. 1884 and many other poems. d. Casa Guidi, Florence 30 June 1861. The poetical works of E. B. Browning, complete with a memoir 2 vols. New York 1871; P. Bayne’s Two great Englishwomen (1881), 1–154; Macpherson’s Memoirs of the life of Anna Jameson (1878) 191–263; G. B. Smith’s Poets and novelists (1875) 57–110; M. R. Mitford’s Recollections of a literary life (1859), 154–68; T. H. Ward’s English poets, 2 ed. (1883) iv, 562–80.

BROWNING, GEORGE. Secretary of Society for promoting the fine arts; author of Footprints, poems translated and original 1871; A memoir of the late Emperor Napoleon iii, and a political poem entitled Rip Van Winkle, 2 ed. 1873; The Edda, songs and sagas of Iceland, a lecture, 2 ed. 1876. d. 21 Kildare gardens, London 20 Dec. 1878 in 65 year.

BROWNING, WILLIAM SHERGOLD (uncle of Robert Browning the poet). author of Leisure hours 1801; The history of the Huguenots during the sixteenth century 2 vols. 1829, new ed. 1845; Hoel Morvan or the court and camp of Henry v, 3 vols. 1844. d. 4 March 1874.

BROWNLOW, JOHN CUST, 1 Earl (eld. son of Brownlow Cust, 1 baron Brownlow 1744–1807). b. 19 Aug. 1779; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1801, LLD. 1835; created D.C.L. at Ox. 10 June 1834; M.P. for Clitheroe 6 July 1802 to Jany. 1808; colonel of Royal Lincoln militia; succeeded 25 Dec. 1807; lord lieut. of Lincolnshire 1 March 1809; created Viscount Alford and Earl Brownlow 27 Nov. 1815; recorder of Boston 12 Dec. 1820; G.C.H. 1834; pres. of Archæological Institute at Lincoln 1848; F.L.S. 1828, F.R.S. 8 May 1838. d. Belton house, Grantham 15 Sep. 1853. Portraits and memoirs of eminent Conservatives, portrait; Waagen’s Treasures of art ii, 313–16 (1854).

BROWNLOW, JOHN WILLIAM SPENCER Brownlow Egerton Cust, 2 Earl. b. Carlton gardens, London 28 March 1842; succeeded 15 Sep. 1853. d. Mentone 20 Feb. 1867. bur. at Belton 2 March. Good words viii, 373 (1867), a poem by G. Massey; I.L.N. li, 609 (1867), portrait.

BROWNLOW, EMMA SOPHIA CUST, Countess (eld. dau. of Richard Edgcumbe, 2 Earl of Mount Edgcumbe 1764–1839). b. Portugal st. London 28 July 1791; one of the 6 ladies of the bedchamber to Queen Adelaide July 1830 to 2 Dec. 1849 when the Queen died; author of Slight reminiscences of a septuagenarian 1867, 3 ed. 1868. (m. 17 July 1828 1 Earl Brownlow). d. Belton lodge, Torquay 28 Jany. 1872. I.L.N. lxi, 139, 434 (1872).

BROWNLOW, FRANCIS (eld. son of Wm. Brownlow). b. 19 July 1836; ed. at Harrow; ensign 72 Foot 8 Sep. 1854, lieut. col. 15 Aug. 1877 to death; C.B. 19 Nov. 1879; served in Crimean war, Indian mutiny and Afghan war; killed at battle with Ayab Khan’s army in Kandahar 1 Sep. 1880. Shadbolt’s Afghan campaign (1882) 27–8, portrait; I.L.N. lxxvii, 309 (1880), portrait.

BROWNLOW, VERY REV. JOHN. Ordained 1832; R. of Ardbraccan, Navan 1843 to death; dean of Clonmacnois, Meath 1862 to death, d. Ardbraccan rectory 24 May 1882 aged 77.

BROWNRIGG, CHARLES JAMES. b. 19 Nov. 1836; captain R.N. 18 Sep. 1873; captain of Euphrates, Indian troop ship 22 April 1878; captain of London, store ship 8 June 1880 to death; killed by the crew of a slave dhow off Zanzibar 3 Dec. 1881. I.L.N. lxxix, 650 (1881), portrait; Graphic xxv, 45 (1882), portrait.

BROWNRIGG, SIR HENRY JOHN (eld. son of general Thomas Brownrigg who d. May 1826). b. 18 June 1798; 2 lieut. Rifle brigade 6 Dec. 1813, lieut. 23 Dec. 1819 to 23 April 1826 when placed on h.p.; entered Irish Constabulary 1826, inspector general 1858 to 1865; C.B. 13 June 1857; knighted by Earl of Eglinton lord lieutenant of Ireland 1858. d. 12 Talbot sq. Hyde park, London 25 Nov. 1873.

BROWNRIGG, JOHN STUDHOLME. b. 17 March 1786; a merchant in London; M.P. for Boston 9 Jany. 1835 to 23 July 1847. d. Ashford lodge, Middlesex 21 Sep. 1853.

BROWNRIGGE, SIR ROBERT WILLIAM COLEBROOK, 2 Baronet. b. Audley square, London 29 July 1817; succeeded 27 May 1833. d. 12 Eaton place West, London 6 Aug. 1882.

BROWNSMITH, JOHN LEMAN. b. Westminster 1809; chorister at Westminster Abbey; organist of St. John’s church Waterloo road, London 1829–53; lay vicar of Westminster Abbey 1838; organist to Sacred harmonic society 1848; organist at Handel festivals Crystal palace 1857, 1859, 1862 and 1865; organist of St. Gabriel, Pimlico 1853 to death; published The psalms and hymns in the morning and evening services with the pointing completed for chanting 1839; A course of Psalms 1848. d. 104 Cambridge st. Pimlico, London 14 Sep. 1866.

BRUCE, ALEXANDER (2 son of Henry Bruce of London). Educ. at Univ. coll. London 1858–64; lecturer on anatomy and assistant surgeon to Wesminster hospital Dec. 1867 to death; invented the gas cautery which has proved very successful; author of Observations in the military hospitals of Dresden 1866; An epitome of the Venereal diseases 1868. d. 6 Albert terrace, Regent’s park, London 11 April 1869 aged 27. Reg. and mag. of biog. i, 406 (1869).

BRUCE, DAVID. b. Scotland 1770; went to New York 1793; started with his brother George a book printing office at corner of Pearl st. New York 1806, removed to Sloat lane 1809 where they had 9 presses at work; learnt art of stereotyping in England 1812 which he established in America, retired from business 1822; published Specimens of printing types New York 1815. d. New York 1857.

BRUCE, EYRE EVANS. Entered Madras army 1827; colonel 35 Madras N.I. 5 July 1854 to 1869; general 3 Sep. 1871. d. Doneraile, Ireland 10 April 1874.

BRUCE, SIR FREDERICK WILLIAM ADOLPHUS (3 son of Thomas Bruce, 7 Earl of Elgin 1766–1841). b. Broomhall, Dunfermline 14 April 1814; colonial sec. at Hong Kong 9 Feb. 1844; lieut. governor of Newfoundland 27 June 1846; consul general in Bolivia 23 July 1847; chargé d’affaires in Uruguay 29 Aug. 1851; agent and consul general in Egypt 3 Aug. 1853; principal sec. to 8 Earl of Elgin British ambassador in China April 1857; envoy extraord. and minister plenipo. to Emperor of China 2 Dec. 1858; chief superintendent of British trade in China 1 March 1859; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to the United States 1 March 1865 to death; C.B. 28 Sep. 1858, K.C.B. 12 Dec. 1862, G.C.B. 17 March 1865. d. Boston, United States 19 Sep. 1867. bur. Dunfermline abbey 8 Oct. D. C. Boulger’s History of China iii, (1884); G.M. iv, 677–8(1867).

BRUCE, GEORGE (brother of David Bruce 1770–1857). b. Edinburgh 26 June 1781; a type founder in New York 1816 to death; harmonised and graduated size of different bodies of type as they ranged in the 11 series from pearl to canon; introduced the body called “agate” which is largely used by American newspapers; pres. of New York Type founders association 1863 to death; invented with his nephew David Bruce type-casting machine which was in general use many years. d. New York 6 July 1866.

BRUCE, SIR HENRY WILLIAM (3 son of Rev. Sir Henry Hervey Aston Bruce, 1 Baronet who d. 17 Oct. 1822). b. 2 Feb. 1792; entered navy 1803; captain 16 Nov. 1821; commodore on West Coast of Africa 5 March 1851; commander in chief in the Pacific 25 Nov. 1854 to 8 July 1857 and at Portsmouth 1 March 1860 to 1 March 1863; admiral 27 April 1863; K.C.B. 28 June 1861. d. Fairfield near Liverpool 14 Dec. 1863.

BRUCE, HERBERT. Entered Bombay army 1842; captain 2 European regiment 27 March 1855 to death; C.B. 26 July 1858. d. on board Messageries Imperiales steamer, near Suez 26 Feb. 1866 aged 39.

BRUCE, JAMES. b. Aberdeen 1808; editor of the Fifeshire Journal at Cupar; edited successively Madras Athenæum, Newcastle Chronicle and Belfast Northern Whig; author of The black kalendar of Aberdeen 1840; Lives of eminent men of Aberdeen 1841; Table talk 1845; Classic and historic portraits 1853; Scenes and sights in the East 1856. d. Belfast 19 Aug. 1861.

BRUCE, SIR JAMES LEWIS KNIGHT (3 son of John Knight of Fairlinch, Devon who d. 1799). b. Barnstaple, Devon 15 Feb. 1791; ed. at Bath gr. sch. and Sherborne 1799–1805; articled to B. C. Williams of Lincoln’s Inn Fields solicitor 1807–12; barrister L.I. 21 Nov. 1817, bencher 6 Nov. 1829, treasurer 1842–3, laid foundation stone of the new hall 20 April 1843; practised in Court of Chancery; K.C. Nov. 1829; recorder of Brecon; M.P. for Bishop’s Castle 30 April 1831 to 3 Dec. 1832; contested borough of Cambridge Aug. 1837; spoke for 7 days in case of Small v. Attwood Nov 1831; leader in Sir Lancelot Shadwell’s court 1834; made £18,000 a year 1835–41; assumed by royal license additional surname of Bruce 4 Sep. 1837; vice chancellor 28 Oct. 1841; knighted at Windsor Castle 15 Jany. 1842; P.C. 15 Jany. 1842; chief judge in bankruptcy Nov. 1842; exercised jurisdiction of the old Court of Review, after it’s abolition 1847; senior lord justice of appeal in chancery 8 Oct. 1851 to Oct. 1866; F.R.S. 18 March 1829, D.C.L. Ox. 1834. d. The Priory, Roehampton, Surrey 7 Nov. 1866. Law mag. and law review v, 244–50 (1858), xxii, 278–93 (1867); London Society xi, 181–8 (1867), portrait; The bench and the bar, part 1, portrait.

BRUCE, JOHN. b. London 1802; a founder of Camden Society 2 March 1838, director 19 years; edited the first and 12 other volumes for the Society; F.S.A. 1830, treasurer 1849–54; edited Gent. Mag. some years; edited Calendars of state papers, domestic series Charles i 1625–39, 12 vols. 1858–71; contributed many papers to the Archæologia. d. suddenly in Montagu sq. London 28 Oct. 1869, his library was sold at Sotheby’s 27 April to 2 May 1870. Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. 2 series iv, 472–5 (1870).

BRUCE, SIR MICHAEL, 7 Baronet. b. 31 March 1796; succeeded 1827. d. Scotstown, Aberdeen 14 Dec. 1862.

BRUCE, MICHAEL. b. 16 May 1823; ensign Grenadier guards 15 Dec. 1840, lieut. col. 16 May 1865 to 22 Sep. 1875; L.G. 31 Oct. 1880; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881. d. Glenelg, Bournemouth 29 Sep. 1883.

BRUCE, ROBERT (3 son of Thomas Bruce, 7 Earl of Elgin 1766–1841). b. 15 March 1813; ensign Grenadier guards 18 June 1830, major 16 Sep. 1856 to 7 Dec. 1858 when placed on h.p.; military secretary to his brother Lord Elgin in Jamaica 1841–47, in Canada 1847–54; surveyor general of the ordnance 1855; governor to Prince of Wales 9 Nov. 1858 to death; M.G. 7 Dec. 1859. d. St. James’s palace, London 27 June 1862. I.L.N. xli, 58, 61 (1862), portrait.

BRUCE, ROBERT (eld. son of Alexander Bruce of Kennet, co. Clackmannan). b. 8 Dec. 1795; ed. at Eton; ensign 1 Foot guards 9 Dec. 1813, lieut. 1820–24 when he sold out; served in the Peninsula and at Waterloo; M.P. for Clackmannan 27 March 1820 to July 1824; vice lieut. and convener of Clackmannan 1853; chairman of Scottish Central railway board; claimed Scottish peerage of Balfour of Burley which was allowed to his son by committee for privileges in House of Lords 23 July 1868. d. Kennet house near Alloa 13 Aug. 1864. M. F. Conolly’s Biog. dict. of eminent men of Fife (1866) 88–90.

BRUCE, REV. WILLIAM (2 son of Rev. Wm. Bruce of Belfast, Presbyterian minister 1757–1841). b. Belfast 16 Nov. 1790; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 2 July 1804, B.A. 1809; licensed by presbytery of Antrim 25 July 1811; presbyterian minister at Belfast 19 Jany. 1812 to 21 April 1867; professor of Classics and Hebrew in Belfast Academical Instit. 27 Oct. 1821 to 1825 and of classics only 1825 to Nov. 1849; moderator of northern presbytery of Antrim 4 April 1862. d. 25 Oct. 1868.

BRUCE, WILLIAM. Captain 79 foot 14 March 1811; served in Peninsula 1812–4 and at Waterloo; major 75 foot 31 Dec. 1827 to 27 Nov. 1828 when placed on h.p.; K.H. 1837; lieut. col. 23 Nov. 1841. d. Grosvenor hotel, London 28 Nov. 1868.

BRUCE, WILLIAM DOWNING (eld. son of Samuel Barwick Bruce of Ripon, surgeon 1786–1853). b. 14 Aug. 1824; barrister L.I. and M.T. 30 April 1853; consul in Scotland for Monte Video 1856; recorder of Wallingford June 1863 to 1869; counsel in Yelverton appeal case; district judge at Spanish Town, Jamaica 1869 to death; author of Chronological tables 1847; An account of the ecclesiastical courts 1852; How the ecclesiastical courts rob the public 1856. d. Jamaica 1875.

BRUEN, HENRY. M.P. for county Carlow 30 Oct. 1812 to 23 April 1831; colonel commandant of Carlow militia to death. d. Oak park, co. Carlow 5 Nov. 1852 in 62 year.

BRUNEL, ISAMBARD KINGDOM (only son of Sir Mark Isambard Brunel, civil engineer 1769–1849). b. Portsmouth 9 April 1806; engineer of Great Western Railway 7 March 1833 which was completed 30 June 1841; constructed the station at Paddington 1849–54; constructed South Devon railway 1844–6, where his system of atmospheric propulsion failed; constructed Royal Albert bridge at Saltash 1853–9; designed Great Western Steamship launched 19 July 1837 and the Great Britain the first large iron steamship, launched 19 July 1843; designed the Great Eastern steamship 1852, she was floated 31 Jany. 1858; conducted experiments for Admiralty with screw propeller 1841–4; F.R.S. 10 June 1830. d. 18 Duke st. Westminster 15 Sep. 1859. Life of I. K. Brunel by I. Brunel 1870, portrait; Drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages 2 series 1859, portrait; Proc. of Royal Soc. x, 7–11 (1860); Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xix, 169–73 (1860).

BRUNKER, JAMES ROBERT. Ensign 91 foot 9 April 1825; deputy adjutant general in Ceylon 24 Aug. 1852 to 6 Aug. 1858; major 15 foot 2 Oct. 1854 to 2 Feb. 1855 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 10 March 1866; commanded forces in China 16 Dec. 1867 to death. d. Hong Kong 24 March 1869.

BRÜNNOW, ERNST PHILIPP IVANOVITCH, Count de. b. Dresden 31 Aug. 1797; Russian envoy and minister in London 1840 to 8 Feb. 1854 and 4 Feb. 1861 to July 1874; raised to the rank of Count, April 1871. d. Darmstadt 11 April 1875. Illust. News of the World iii, (1859), portrait.

BRUNSWICK AND LUNEBURG, KARL FRIEDRICH AUGUST WILHELM HERZOG VON. b. Brunswick 30 Oct. 1804; lived at Vauxhall in London 1809–15; laid foundation stone of Vauxhall bridge 1814; entered on exercise of his authority as Duke of Brunswick 30 Oct. 1823; fled to England 7 Sep. 1830, abdicating in favour of his brother William; was much libelled in the Age and Satirist 1843; crossed to France in Green’s balloon the Victoria in 5 hours 31 March 1851; lived in Paris at 52 Champs Elysees and in London at Brunswick house, New road; bequeathed all his property including his collection of valuable diamonds to city of Geneva. d. Geneva 18 Aug. 1873, his decorations consisting of various orders of principal European courts enriched with jewels were sold at Debenhams in London 25 June 1874. Temple Bar lxxiii, 353–63 (1885); Life of T. S. Duncombe ii, 44–99 and 162–90 (1868).

BRUNTON, REV. ALEXANDER. b. Edinburgh 1772; minister of parish of Bolton 1797–1803, of New Greyfriars church Edin. 1803–9 and of the Tron church Edin. 23 Nov. 1809 to death; professor of Oriental languages in Univ. of Edin. 19 May 1813 to death; D.D. Edin. 17 Dec. 1813; moderator of General Assembly 22 May 1823; author of Sermons and lectures 1818; Outlines of Persian grammar with extracts 1822; Forms for public worship in the Church of Scotland 1848. d. Jordonstone house, Coupar Angus 9 Feb. 1854. W. B. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882), portrait.

BRUNTON, ROBERT. b. Lockwinnock N.B. 10 Feb. 1796; chief assistant to his brother W. Brunton 1823; engaged by Banks & Co. of Bilston; principal assistant of Isaac Dodds at the Horsley iron works Staffs.; in service of Indian iron company 1835 to death; constructed and managed works at Porto Nuovo on coast of Coromandel; acting engineer of Maestaeg iron works Glamorganshire to death; M.I.C.E. 1842; author of A compendium of mechanics or text book for engineers, millwrights, machine makers 1824, 2 ed. 1825. d. Maestaeg iron works 6 July 1852. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xii, 149 (1853).

BRUNTON, WILLIAM (eld. son of Robert Brunton of Dalkeith, watch maker). b. Dalkeith 26 May 1777; partner in and manager of Eagle foundry Birmingham 1815–25; civil engineer in London 1825–35; partner in Cwm Avon tin works Glamorganshire 1835–8; had a large share in introduction of steam navigation; invented the Calciner used in nearly all Cornish tin mines and Mexican silver mines, and a walking machine called the Steam Horse which was used at Butterley 1813–5 when it exploded and killed 13 persons; took out many patents. d. Camborne, Cornwall 5 Oct. 1851. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xi, 95–9 (1852).

BRUNTON, WILLIAM (3 son of the preceding). b. Birmingham 3 April 1817; resident engineer of West Cornwall railway 1847; invented the apparatus for washing and separating ores from their matrix known as “Brunton’s endless cloth”; invented a fuse making machine of most ingenious construction, this process has never been divulged, its introduction at once reduced the selling price of fuse by 75 per cent.; chief engineer of the Punjab railway 1865; leaseholder of a sheeprun of 30000 acres in New Zealand; district engineer of railways in Southland, N.Z. 1871; M.I.C.E. 7 March 1854. d. Wellington, N.Z. 13 June 1881.

BRUSHFIELD, THOMAS (2 son of George Brushfield of Ashford-in-the-Water, Derbyshire who d. 25 Feb. 1825 aged 52). b. Ashford-in-the-Water 16 Feb. 1798; kept an oil and colour shop at 28 Union st. Spitalfields, London 1821–55; played under an assumed name at City of London theatre 1827; chairman of Whitechapel board of guardians 1839–48; member for Whitechapel of Metropolitan Board of Works 1865 to death; contributed many papers to The Reliquary, quarterly archæological journal and review 1861 to death. d. 5 Church st Spitalfields, London 1 Sep. 1875. Reliquary xvi, 209–16 (1876).

BRUTON, JAMES. Author of a few dramatic pieces and of many songs. d. Palace road, Westminster 5 March 1867 aged 52.

BRYAN, GEORGE LEOPOLD. b. Ballyduff house 29 Nov. 1828; sheriff of Kilkenny 1852; M.P. for co. Kilkenny 24 July 1865 to 24 March 1880. d. 29 June 1880.

BRYCE, DAVID. b. Scotland; private secretary to Benjamin D’Israeli; a publisher in Paternoster Row, London; employed by W. H. Smith the bookseller; compiled The confessional unmasked from Petrus Dens’s Theologia moralis et dogmatica 8 tomes 1832. d. 1 May 1875 aged 56.

BRYCE, DAVID (son of Mr. Bryce of Edinburgh, builder). b. Edin. 3 April 1803; partner with Wm. Burn leading architect in Edin. to 1844; became leading architect in Scotland; designed important works in all styles in most of chief towns in Scotland; revived the picturesque French Gothic now naturalised in Scotland under name of Baronial; A.R.S.A. 1835, R.S.A. 1836, F.R.I.B.A., F.R.S. Edin. 1856; grand-architect to grand lodge of Masons in Scotland 1850 to death; built Fettes College, Royal Infirmary, and Bank of Scotland, all in Edinburgh. d. Edinburgh 7 May 1876. Builder xxxiv, 508 (1876); D. M. Lyon’s Lodge of Edinburgh (1873) 30, 341, portrait; Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. ix, 216–8 (1878).

BRYCE, REV. JAMES (son of John Bryce of Airdrie, Lanarkshire). b. Airdrie 5 Dec. 1767; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow; ordained minister of Scottish Antiburgher Secession church 1795; minister of Antiburgher congregation at Killaig, co. Londonderry 1805; founded a branch of the Presbyterian church which took name of the Associate Presbytery of Ireland; this body was ultimately united with Scottish united presbyterian church. d. Killaig 24 April 1857.

BRYCE, REV. JAMES. Minister of Church of Scotland in Bengal 11 April 1814 to 30 May 1842; D.D. Edin. 12 Aug. 1818; author of Sketch of the state of British India 1810; On the ecclesiastical establishment of the Church of Scotland 1815; Ten years of the Church of Scotland 2 vols. 1850. d. Edinburgh 11 March 1866 in 82 year.

BRYCE, JAMES (3 son of Rev. James Bryce 1767–1857). b. Killaig 22 Oct. 1806; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow, B.A. 1828, hon. LLD. 1858; mathematical master in Belfast academy; master in high school Glasgow 1846–74; F.G.S., Dublin; pres. of Philosophical Soc. of Glasgow; author of First principles of geography and astronomy 1848; General gazetteer 1859; Library gazetteer 1859; Geology of Arran 1864; killed by accident at Inverfarigaig on shores of Loch Ness 11 July 1877. Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. ix, 514 (1878).

BRYDGES, SIR JOHN WILLIAM EGERTON, 2 Baronet. b. Canterbury Nov. 1791; succeeded 8 Sep. 1837. d. Lee priory, Canterbury 15 Feb. 1858.

BRYDON, WILLIAM. b. London 9 Oct. 1811; assistant surgeon Bengal army 9 July 1835, surgeon 14 Nov. 1849, retired 1 Nov. 1859; C.B. 16 Nov. 1858. d. Westfield, Rossshire 20 March 1873. Kaye’s History of war in Afghanistan, 3 ed. (1874) 389; I.L.N. lxii, 369 (1873), portrait; J. McCarthy’s A history of our own times, new ed. (1882) i, 161–95, iii, 8.

NOTE.—He was the one solitary individual of the 13000 soldiers and camp followers composing the army of General Elphinstone who was neither killed nor taken prisoner in the terrible disaster of January 1842, it was also his singular fate to be shut up with Sir Henry Lawrence at Lucknow and to pass uninjured through that long and trying siege. Mrs. Thompson-Butler painted a portrait of him appearing under the walls of Jellalabad in her picture “Remnant of an army” exhibited at Royal Academy 1881 and engraved 1883.

BRYDSON, REV. THOMAS. b. Glasgow 1806; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow and Edin.; minister of Levern chapel near Paisley 1839–42; minister of Kilmalcolm 1842 to death; author of Poems 1829; Pictures of the past 1832; contributed to Edinburgh Literary Journal and Republic of letters, Glasgow. d. Kilmalcolm 28 Jany. 1855. The modern Scottish minstrel by Charles Rogers iv, 172–3 (1857).

BRYMER, VEN. WILLIAM THOMAS PARR. Educ. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; R. of Charlton Mackrell, Somerset 1821 to death; archdeacon of Bath 6 March 1839 to death; canon res. of Wells 1840 to death; superintended affairs of the entire diocese during incapacity of Bishop Law. d. Charlton Mackrell 19 Aug. 1852. G.M. xxxviii, 544 (1852).

BRYSON, ALEXANDER. b. Edinburgh 12 Oct. 1816; clock and watch maker at Edin. 1840 to death; F.R.S. Edin. 1858; pres. of Royal Soc. of Arts 1860; pres. of Royal Physical Soc. 1863; F.G.S. London and Edin.; author of many papers on geology. d. Hawkhill 7 Dec. 1866.

BRYSON, ALEXANDER. Assistant surgeon R.N. 7 Feb. 1827; inspector general of hospitals and fleets 30 June 1855; hon. physician to the Queen 1859 to death; director general of medical department of navy 1864–9; F.R.S. 1 June 1854; C.B. 7 June 1865. d. The Heritage, Barnes, Surrey 12 Dec. 1869 aged 67.

BUCCLEUCH, WALTER FRANCIS MONTAGU-DOUGLAS-SCOTT, 5 Duke of. (2 son of 4 Duke of Buccleuch 1772–1819). b. Dalkeith house near Edinburgh 25 Nov. 1806; ed. at Eton and St. John’s coll. Cam., M.A. 1827, LLD. 1842, D.C.L. Ox. 1834; succeeded 20 April 1819; lord lieut. of Midlothian 5 March 1828 to death, of Roxburghshire 2 Dec. 1841 to death; K.T. 5 Nov. 1830; K.G. 23 Feb. 1835; pres. of Royal Archers 1837–9, captain general 1839 to death; lord privy seal 2 Feb. 1842 to 21 Jany. 1846; P.C. 2 Feb. 1842; colonel of Edinburgh militia 6 Jany. 1842 to death; lord pres. of the council 21 Jany. 1846 to 6 July 1846; chancellor of Univ. of Glasgow 24 April 1878; constructed harbour and port of Granton 1835. d. Bowhill house, co. Selkirk 16 April 1884, will proved in London 30 Oct. 1884, personalty in England £475,000 in Scotland £435,000. Sir H. Nicolas’s Court of Queen Victoria (1845) 55–63; J. B. Paul’s History of royal company of archers (1875), portrait; R. C. Dudgeon’s History of Edinburgh militia (1882), portrait; Graphic xxix, 400 (1884), portrait.

BUCHAN, HENRY DAVID ERSKINE, 12 Earl of. b. July 1783; succeeded 19 April 1829. d. 8 St. Agnes Villas, Bayswater, London 13 Sep. 1857.

BUCHAN, PETER. b. Peterhead 1790; a printer there 1816 to death; author of The recreation of leisure hours being songs and verses in the Scottish dialect 1814; Annals of Peterhead 1819; Treatise proving that brutes have souls and are immortal 1824; Ancient ballads and songs of the North of Scotland hitherto unpublished 2 vols. 1828 and many other works. d. London 19 Sep. 1854. W. Anderson’s Scottish nation iii, 691–3 (1863).

BUCHANAN, SIR ANDREW, 1 Baronet (only son of James Buchanan of Blairvadock Ardinconnal, co. Dumbarton 1776–1860). b. 7 May 1807; attached to embassy at Constantinople 10 Oct. 1825; minister plenipotentiary to Swiss confederation 12 Feb. 1852; envoy extraordinary and min. plenipo. to king of Denmark 9 Feb. 1853; transferred to Madrid 31 March 1858; transferred to the Hague 11 Dec. 1860; ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to King of Prussia 28 Oct. 1862; P.C. 3 Feb. 1863; ambassador extraord. and plenipo. to Russia 15 Sep. 1864, to Austria 16 Oct. 1871 to 16 Feb. 1878 when he retired on a pension; C.B. 23 May 1857, K.C.B. 25 Feb. 1860, G.C.B. 6 July 1866; created a baronet 14 Dec. 1878. d. Craigend castle near Glasgow 12 Nov. 1882.

BUCHANAN, GEORGE (3 son of David Buchanan of Montrose, printer 1745–1812). b. Montrose about 1790; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; a land surveyor about 1812 then a civil engineer; engaged in all the important salmon fishing cases in Scotland; built chimney nearly 400 feet high for Edinburgh gasworks 1848; F.R.S. Edin.; pres. of Royal Scottish Society of Arts 1847–8; author of Report on the theory and application of Leslie’s Photometer 1824 and of the article “Furnaces” in 8 ed. of Encyclopædia Britannica. d. 30 Oct. 1852.

BUCHANAN, GILBERT JOHN LANE. Second lieut. R.A. 16 Dec. 1831, colonel 16 July 1862 to 2 April 1870; commanded at Fort William, Bengal 10 Sep. 1867 to 2 April 1870; M.G. 6 March 1868. d. Cambridge st. Hyde park sq. London 13 April 1875.

BUCHANAN, REV. JAMES. b. Paisley 1804; minister of Roslin near Edin. 1827; minister of North Leith 1828; attained great fame as a preacher; D.D. Princeton college, New Jersey 1844; LLD. Glasgow; minister of high church Edin. 1840, of St. Stephens free church Edin. 1843; professor of apologetics in New college Edin. 1845 and of systematic theology 1847–68; author of Comfort in affliction 1837; Faith in God and modern atheism compared 2 vols. 1855; Analogy considered as a guide to truth, 2 ed. 1867. d. 1870.

BUCHANAN, ROBERT. b. Ayr 1813; a schoolmaster, a lecturer advocating socialistic views of Robert Owen and a journalist successively; author of The religion of the past and present society 1839; The origin and nature of ghosts 1840; Concise history of modern priestcraft 1840; The past, the present and the future 1840. d. Bexhill, Sussex 4 March 1866.

BUCHANAN, REV. ROBERT. b. Callander 1785; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow, LLD. 1869; licensed as a preacher of Church of Scotland 1812; minister of parish of Peebles 1813; assistant professor of logic Univ. of Glasgow 1824, professor 1827–64, the Buchanan prizes were instituted 1866 in commemoration of his services, he bequeathed by his will £10,000 for founding of Buchanan bursaries; author of Fragments of the table round 1860; Vow of Glentreuil and other poems 1862; Tragic dramas from Scottish history 1868 and Wallace, a tragedy 1856 performed twice at Prince’s theatre Glasgow March 1862. d. Ardfillayne, Dunoon 2 March 1873.

BUCHANAN, REV. ROBERT (son of Mr. Buchanan of St. Ninians near Stirling, brewer and farmer). b. St. Ninians 15 Aug. 1802; ed. at Univs. of Glasgow and Edin.; licensed by presbytery of Dunblane; minister of Gargunnock near Stirling Oct. 1826; ordained 6 March 1827; minister of Salton, East Lothian 1829; minister of Tron church Glasgow 22 Aug. 1833; D.D. Glasgow 1840; minister of Free college church Glasgow 26 December 1857; pres. of Sustentation fund committee 1847–75; moderator of the Assembly 1860; presented with sum of £4,200 in Queen’s hotel, Glasgow 8 Aug. 1864; member of Glasgow school board 1872 to death; author of History of the ten years conflict 2 vols. 1849; Notes of a clerical furlough 1859; Book of Ecclesiastes 1859. d. 25 Via dell’ Angelo Custode Rome 31 March 1875. Robert Buchanan, D.D. an ecclesiastical biography by the Rev. L. N. Walker 1877, portrait; Good Words xix, 15–20 (1878), portrait; J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1878) 17–23.

BUCHANAN, WALTER. b. Glasgow 1797; a merchant in Glasgow; M.P. for Glasgow 1 April 1857 to 6 July 1865. d. Plas Newton, Chester 21 May 1883.

BUCHANAN, WILLIAM (son of David Buchanan of Montrose, printer and publisher 1745–1822). b. Montrose 1781; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; called to Scottish bar 1806; an elder of the Glasite church 1823 to death; Queen’s advocate and solicitor of teinds or tithes 1856; author of Reports of certain remarkable cases in the court of session and trials in the high court of justiciary 1813; Treatise on the law of Scotland on the subject of teinds 1862. d. Edinburgh 18 Dec. 1863.

BUCHANAN, WILLIAM. b. Glasgow 1777; picture dealer in London; author of Memoirs of painting with a chronological history of the importation of pictures by the Great Masters into England since the French revolution 2 vols. 1824. d. Glasgow 19 Jany. 1864 aged 86.

BUCHANAN, REV. WILLIAM. Licentiate of Church of Scotland; editor of Ayr Observer and subsequently of Edinburgh Courant and Glasgow Courier; author of Verses serious, humorous and satirical 1866. d. Ayr July 1866.

BUCK, HENRY. b. Yorkshire; wrote on racing in the Sportsman in London and on billiards under pseud. of “Spot Stroke”; wrote on racing in Daily Telegraph under pseud. of “Hotspur”; a large betting commission agent. d. 25 Jany. 1884.

BUCK, LEWIS WILLIAM (2 son of George Stucley Buck of Moreton, Devonshire). b. 1784; M.P. for Exeter 1826 to 1832, and for North Devon 1839 to 1857; sheriff of Devon 1826. d. 12 Norfolk st. Park lane, London 25 April 1858.

BUCK, ZACHARIAH. b. Norwich 10 Sep. 1798; teacher of the pianoforte; assistant organist of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich 1818–21; organist of Norwich cathedral and master of the choristers 1819–77; Mus. Doc. by Abp. of Canterbury 1853; composed many services, anthems and chants. d. Newport, Essex 5 Aug. 1879.

BUCKINGHAM, RICHARD PLANTAGENET TEMPLE NUGENT BRYDGES-CHANDOS-GRENVILLE, 2 Duke of (only child of 1 Duke of Buckingham 1776–1839). b. Pall Mall, London 11 Feb. 1797; ed. at Eton; M.P. for Bucks. 22 June 1818 to 17 Jany. 1839 when he succeeded; introduced into reform act 1832 the tenant at will clause; G.C.H. 1835; lord privy seal 3 Sep. 1841 to 2 Feb. 1842; P.C. 3 Sep. 1841; K.G. 1842; D.C.L. Cam. 1842; received Queen Victoria at Stowe 15 Jany. 1845; Stowe was taken possession of by bailiffs 31 Aug. 1847; sold part of his estates 10 May 1848 for £263,000; author of Memoirs of the court and cabinets of George iii 3 vols. 1853–5; Memoirs of the court of England during the Regency 1811–20 2 vols. 1856; Memoirs of the court of George iv 2 vols. 1859; Memoirs of the courts and cabinets of William iv and Victoria 2 vols. 1861. d. Great Western railway hotel, Paddington 29 July 1861. G. Lipscomb’s History of Bucks, iii, 87–108 (1847); G. H. Francis’s Orators of the age (1847) 217–23; I.L.N. i, 496 (1842), portrait.

BUCKINGHAM, JAMES SILK (youngest child of Christopher Buckingham of Barnstaple who d. 1794). b. Flushing near Falmouth 25 Aug. 1786; commander of merchant ships 1807–13; established Calcutta Journal at Calcutta which appeared 2 Oct. 1818 to 26 April 1823 when it was suppressed and he was expelled from India; started Jany. 1824 Oriental herald and colonial review which ceased Dec. 1829; edited The Sphynx a weekly journal 1827–9; started The Athenæum 2 Jany. 1828; M.P. for Sheffield 15 Dec. 1832 to 17 July 1837; travelled in America 1837–41; resident director of British and foreign institute Hanover sq. London 1843–6; pres. of London temperance league 1851; granted civil list pension of £200 per annum 1 Sep. 1851; travelled through the country delivering lectures many years; author of Travels in Palestine 1822; America historical descriptive and statistic 3 vols. 1841; The eastern and western states of America 3 vols. 1842 and 16 other books, also about 40 pamphlets on social and political subjects. d. Stanhope lodge, Upper Avenue road, St. John’s Wood, London 30 June 1855. Autobiography of J. S. Buckingham 2 vols. 1855, portrait; Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i, 44–8 (1874), iii, 1098–9 (1882).

BUCKINGHAM, LEICESTER SILK (youngest son of the preceding). b. 11 Cornwall terrace, Regent’s park, London 29 June 1825; wrote and delivered explanatory description of views of various countries at the Panopticon Leicester sq. 1854; manager of Strand theatre short time; dramatic and musical critic of the Morning Star 1857–67; author of Memoir of Mary Stuart Queen of Scotland 1844 and other books and of about 35 burlesques, comedies and farces. d. Margate 15 July 1867. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i, 48–9 iii, 1099.

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, REV. AUGUSTUS EDWARD HOBART-HAMPDEN, 6 Earl of. b. Ripon 1 Nov. 1793; ed. at Westminster and Brasn. coll. Ox., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; R. of Bennington, co. Lincoln 14 Dec. 1817; R. of Walton-on-the-Wolds Leics. 5 July 1820 to 1847; preb. of Wolverhampton 1844 to death; succeeded 1 Feb. 1849; assumed additional name of Hampden by r.l. 5 Aug. 1878. d. Hampden house, Great Missenden, Bucks. 13 Oct. 1885.

BUCKLAND, FRANCIS TREVELYAN (eld. son of Very Rev. Wm. Buckland 1784–1856). b. Christ Church, Oxford 17 Dec. 1826; ed. at Winchester 1839–44 and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1848; studied at St. George’s hospital London 1848–51, house surgeon May 1852 to June 1853; assistant surgeon 2 life guards 14 Aug. 1854 to 1863; discovered coffin of John Hunter in vaults of St. Martin’s church, Charing Cross 22 Feb. 1859, the remains were buried in Westminster Abbey 28 March 1859; wrote largely in the Field newspaper 1856–65; started Land and Water 27 Jany. 1866; inspector of salmon fisheries for England and Wales 6 Feb. 1867 to death; the highest authority on subject of pisciculture; scientific referee to South Kensington Museum May 1865, where he established a large collection of fish-hatching apparatus and the like which expanded into International Fisheries Exhibition of 1883; author of Curiosities of natural history, 4 vols. 1857–72; Logbook of a fisherman and zoologist 1875; Natural history of British fishes 1881; edited White’s Natural history of Selbourne with original notes 1875. d. 37 Albany st. Regent’s park, London 19 Dec. 1880. Life of Frank Buckland by G. C. Bompas 1885, portrait; Macmillan’s Mag. xliii, 303–9 (1881); Graphic xxiii, 45 (1881), portrait.

BUCKLAND, VERY REV. WILLIAM (eld. son of Rev. Charles Buckland, R. of Templeton, Devon who d. 1829). b. Axminster 12 March 1784; ed. at Tiverton, Winchester and C. C. coll. Ox., Devon scholar 1801, B.A. 1805, M.A. 1808, B.D. 1816, D.D. 1825, fellow of his college 1809–25; reader in mineralogy Univ. of Ox. 1813, and reader in geology 1819; F.G.S. 1813, pres. 1824–5 and 1840–1, Wollaston medallist 1848; F.R.S. 26 Feb. 1818, Copley medallist 1822, F.L.S. 1821; R. of Stoke Charity, Hants. 1825–46; canon of Ch. Ch. cathedral Ox. 1825–46; pres. of British Assoc. at Ox. 1832; dean of Westminster 27 Nov. 1846 to death; R. of Islip, Oxon. 1846 to death; a trustee of British Museum 1847; author of Geology and mineralogy considered with reference to natural theology 2 vols. 1836, 4 ed. 2 vols. 1869–70; Reliquiæ Diluvianæ 1823, 2 ed. 1824. d. Clapham, London 14 Aug. 1856. Geology and mineralogy by the late Very Rev. W. Buckland, edited by F. T. Buckland, 2 vols. 1858; Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xiii, 27–45 (1857); Proc. of Royal Soc. viii, 264–8 (1856); I.L.N. vii, 336 (1845), portrait.

BUCKLE, HENRY BRUGES. Assistant surgeon Bengal medical department 18 March 1844; surgeon 16 Sep. 1857; principal medical storekeeper 1866–70; deputy surgeon general 4 Oct. 1870; C.B. 29 May 1865. d. Clarges st. Piccadilly 12 Dec. 1874.

BUCKLE, HENRY THOMAS (only son of Thomas Henry Buckle of London, shipowner 1779–1840). b. Lee, Kent 24 Nov. 1821; travelled in Belgium, Germany, Holland, Italy and France 1840–1; lectured at Royal Instit. London on the “Influence of women on the progress of knowledge” 19 March 1858, published in Fraser’s Mag. April 1858; author of History of civilisation in England 2 vols. 1857–61, republished as History of civilisation in England, France, Spain and Scotland 3 vols. 1869; won the chess tournament at Strand divan London 1849; one of the best chess, whist, and backgammon players in Europe; knew 19 different languages, 7 of them well; left Southampton for Alexandria 20 Oct. 1861. d. from typhoid fever at Damascus 29 May 1862. The life and writings of H. T. Buckle by A. H. Huth 2 vols. 1880, 2 portraits; Miscellaneous and posthumous works of H. T. Buckle vol. 1 (1872); Chess player’s magazine ii, 33–45 (1864), portrait.

BUCKLE, MATTHEW (only son of Matthew Buckle, admiral R.N. who d. 7 July 1784 aged 68). b. Nork house, Banstead 3 May 1770; entered navy 4 Feb. 1777; captain 29 April 1802; superintendent of Portsmouth district of Sea fencibles 2 May 1804 to Feb. 1810 when corps was discharged; captain of the Adamant 44 guns, 16 Aug. 1810 to 14 Sep. 1813; admiral on h.p. 30 July 1852. d. Bath 8 April 1855.

BUCKLE, WILLIAM. b. Alnwick Castle 1794; superintended arrangements of visit of George iv to Ireland; held a responsible post in Soho works of Boulton and Watt at Birmingham to 1851; built first locomotive engine which made journey from Liverpool to Manchester 15 Sep. 1830; an officer in coining department of Royal Mint, London 1851 to death. d. Royal Mint, London 30 Sep. 1863.

BUCKLER, JOHN (son of Edward Buckler 1741–92). b. Calbourne, Isle of Wight 30 Nov. 1770; an architect in London to 1826; contributed water colour drawings yearly to Royal Academy 1796–1849; F.S.A. 1810. d. Rockingham row, New Kent road, London 6 Dec. 1851.

BUCKLER, WILLIAM. b. Newport, Isle of Wight 13 Sep. 1814; studied at Royal Academy where he exhibited 1836–56, 62 pictures chiefly portraits in water-colour; lived at Emsworth, Hampshire about 1848 to death; contributed to Entomologist’s Weekly intelligencer; Weekly Entomologist and Entomologist’s monthly magazine. d. Lumley, Emsworth, Hants. 9 Jany. 1884. Entomologist’s Monthly Mag. xx, 216, 229–36 (1884).

BUCKLEY, CECIL WILLIAM. Entered navy 1845; served in White Sea and Black Sea during Russian war 1854–6; landed and fired a quantity of stores at Genitchi 29 May 1855, and the stores and government buildings at Taganrog June 1855; decorated with Victoria cross on institution of that order 27 Feb. 1856; captain 16 April 1862; commanded Pylades on Pacific station 1868–70, and Valiant coastguard ship in the Shannon Dec. 1871 to Oct. 1872. d. Madeira Dec. 1872.

BUCKLEY, EDWARD PERY (eld. son of Edward Pery Buckley of New hall near Salisbury 1760–1840). b. Audley sq. London 7 Nov. 1796; ed. at Harrow and Marlow; ensign 1 foot guards 24 June 1812, captain 12 April 1827 to 9 Nov. 1830 when placed on h.p.; equerry to the Queen 1837–58; colonel 83 foot 17 Aug. 1865 to death; general 17 Aug. 1865; M.P. for Salisbury 15 Nov. 1853 to 6 July 1865. d. 12 South Audley st. London 28 May 1873.

BUCKLEY, JOSEPH (son of George Buckley of Maer, Staffs.) b. Maer 13 May 1804; joined Society of Friends 26 June 1829; a minister 9 Feb. 1843; a cotton spinner at Preston 1834, removed to Manchester 1837; went on a mission to Norway 1856 and 1866; travelled in Germany 1863. d. Sale near Manchester 27 Sep. 1868. Memoirs of Joseph Buckley edited by his daughter 1874, portrait.

BUCKLEY, R. BISHOP. b. England; entered the minstrel profession in Boston, U.S. 1843 in a band organised by his father under title of Buckley’s Minstrels; the chief performer in the band 1843 to death. d. of paralysis at Quincy, Massachusetts 6 June 1867.

BUCKLEY, REV. THEODORE ALOIS WILLIAM. b. 27 July 1825; servitor at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1849; chaplain of his college; translated classics for H. G. Bohn; edited and wrote numerous works for Routledge; author of The great cities of the ancient world 1852; A history of the council of Trent 1852; The great cities of the middle ages 1853; edited L. Apuleii de Deo Socratis, liber singularis 1844. d. London 30 Jany. 1856. G.M. xlv, 314–6 (1856).

BUCKLEY, WILLIAM. b. Moreton near Macclesfield, Cheshire 1780; brought up a bricklayer; served in the 4th Regt. the King’s Own 1799; sentenced to transportation for life for mutiny, he with 6 others having turned out to shoot the Duke of Kent at Gibraltar 24 Dec. 1802; escaped from Port Phillip, Victoria 27 Dec. 1803; resided among the natives of Port Phillip without ever seeing a white man for 32 years; received a pardon from Governor Arthur 28 Aug. 1835; resided in Tasmania 1837 to death; died from being thrown out of a cart at Hobart Town 2 Feb. 1856. Morgan’s Life and adventures of Buckley, Hobart Town 1852, portrait; Labilliere’s Early history of Victoria ii, 64–87 (1878); Progress iii, 166, 238, 311, 273 (1884).

BUCKLEY-MATHEW, SIR GEORGE BENVENUTO (eld. son of George Mathew of Fabians, Essex 1760–1846). b. 1807; ensign 52 foot 7 July 1825; lieut. Coldstream guards 26 July 1833; captain 85 foot 17 June 1836 to 23 Sep. 1836 when placed on h.p.; retired from army 9 April 1841; M.P. for Athlone 1835–7, for Shaftesbury 1837–41; governor of Bahama islands 1844–50; minister plenipotentiary to the republics in Central America 21 Aug. 1861, to Argentine republic 13 April 1866, to republic of Paraguay 6 Dec. 1866, to Brazil 19 Sep. 1867 to 1 April 1879 when he retired on pension; changed his Christian name from Byam to Benvenuto 1836; assumed additional surname of Buckley by r.l. 9 May 1865; C.B. 7 Aug. 1863; K.C.M.G. 24 May 1879. d. Suffolk st. Pall Mall, London 22 Oct. 1879 in 73 year.

BUCKMAN, JAMES (son of John Buckman). b. Cheltenham 1814; curator and resident professor at Birmingham Philosophical Instit. 1842–8; professor of geology and botany at Royal Agricultural college Cirencester 1848–63; conducted a farm on scientific principles at Bradford Abbas near Sherborne 1863 to death; a recognised authority on all agricultural matters; presented collections of Roman antiquities and fossils to Cirencester; F.L.S.; F.G.S.; F.S.A.; author of Remains of Roman art at Cirencester 1851; Science and practice in farm cultivation 1865; edited The practical farmer’s chronicle 1861; author of many papers on archæology, botany and geology. d. Bradford Abbas 23 Nov. 1884.

BUCKSTONE, JOHN BALDWIN. b. Hoxton, London 14 Sep. 1802; made his début in London at Surrey theatre as Ramsay in The fortunes of Nigel 30 Jany. 1823; acted at Coburg theatre 1824–7, at Adelphi theatre winter seasons of 1827–39 and at Haymarket theatre summer seasons of 1833–9; played in United States 1840–2; lessee and manager of Haymarket theatre 28 March 1853 to 1877; author of 150 comedies, dramas and farces best known being The wreck ashore, produced at Adelphi theatre 21 Oct. 1830, The green bushes, produced there 27 Jany. 1845 and The flowers of the forest, produced there 11 March 1847; one of the best low comedians of his time, his best parts were Sir Andrew Aguecheek, Bob Acres and Tony Lumpkin; cleared £20,000 by Our American cousin 1861–2; adjudicated bankrupt 27 March 1878. d. Bell green lodge, Lower Sydenham 31 Oct. 1879. Maclise Portrait gallery (1883) 411–6, portrait; The Theatre iii, 261–7 (1879); Illust. Review n.s. i, 161–3; J. E. Mayall’s Celebrities of the London stage; Cartoon portraits (1873) 116–7, portrait; Pascoe’s Dramatic list, 2 ed. (1880) 66–72; I.L.N. i, 384 (1842), portrait, lxxv, 457 (1879), portrait.

BUDD, CORDELIA GEORGIANA (youngest dau. of Wm. James Turquand of Bengal civil service). Composed many musical pieces under nom de plume of “Dewdrop” and afterwards under initials C.B. (m. 4 May 1844 Samuel Budd of Exeter, physician who d. 21 May 1885 in 79 year). d. 1 Charleville road, West Kensington, London 3 May 1886 aged 61.

BUDD, EDWARD HAYWARD. b. Great Missenden, Bucks. 23 Feb. 1785; a clerk in War Office 1801 to Dec. 1817 when he retired on pension of £180 a year; played his first cricket match at Lord’s 13 Sep. 1802; played in all the great matches of Marylebone cricket Club 1805–25; played his last cricket match 16 June 1852; one of the best batsmen, bowlers and amateur boxers of his time; lived at Wroughton, Wilts. 1825 to death. d. Rose cottage Wroughton 29 March 1875. C. A. Wheeler’s Sportascrapiana, 2 ed. 1868, portrait; Baily’s Mag. xxvii, 9–16 (1875).

BUDD, GEORGE (3 son of Samuel Budd of North Tawton, Devon, surgeon). b. North Tawton Feb. 1808; ed. at St. John’s and Caius colleges Cam., 3 wrangler 1831, B.A. 1831, M.B. 1835, M.D. 1840; fellow of Caius coll. 1831–54, hon. fellow 1880; studied at Middlesex hospital London; practised in London 1840–67; F.R.S. 21 Jany. 1836; F.R.C.P. 1841, Gulstonian lecturer 1843, Croonian lecturer 1847, censor 1845–7; physician to Dreadnought hospital ship 1837–40; professor of medicine in King’s college London 1840–63; phys. to King’s college hospital 1840–63; author of On diseases of the liver 1845, 3 ed. 1857; On the organic diseases and functional disorders of the stomach 1855. d. Ashleigh, Barnstaple 14 March 1882. Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxiv, 1–3 (1883); Medical Circular i, 458–9 (1852); Van Kaathoven’s Collection vol. 2, portrait.

BUDD, REV. HENRY (son of Richard Budd of London, physician 1746–1821). b. Newbury, Berkshire 25 Sep. 1774; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1798, M.A. 1801; chaplain of Bridewell hospital 1801 to April 1831 when he resigned; R. of White Roothing, Essex 18 March 1808 to death; a founder of Prayer book and homily society 21 May 1812; author of Infant baptism the means of national regeneration 1827, 3 ed. 1841; Helps for the young 2 vols. 1832–9. d. White Roothing rectory 27 June 1853. A memoir of Rev. Henry Budd 1855; Christian Observer lvi 194–211 (1856).

BUDD, RICHARD. b. 1795; ensign 16 Madras N.I. 11 June 1812; commandant of Southern division 10 May 1857 to 1862; colonel of 2 European regiment 27 Jany. 1858, of 32 Madras N.I. 1860 to 1869; general 8 July 1874. d. Belfont, The Park, Cheltenham 22 Jany. 1885.

BUDD, WILLIAM (brother of George Budd 1808–82). b. North Tawton Sep. 1811; ed. in London, Edinburgh, and Paris; M.D. Edin. 1838; practised at Bristol 1842–73; physician to Bristol royal infirmary 1847–62; F.R.S. 8 June 1871; the greatest authority on zymotic diseases; author of Scarlet fever and its prevention 1869, 4 ed. 1870; Typhoid fever its nature, mode of spreading and prevention 1873 and of many articles in medical papers. d. Clevedon, Somerset 9 Jany. 1880. British Med. Jour. (1880) i, 163–6.

BUDGE, REV. EDWARD (son of John Budge). b. Devonshire 1800; ed. at Saffron Walden and Ch. coll. Cam., B.A. 1824; C. of Launcells, Cornwall 1834–9; V. of Manaccan, Cornwall 1839–46; R. of Bratton Clovelly, Devon 1846 to death; author of The mirror of history 1851; translated the Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the statues for Dr. Pusey’s Library of the Fathers; supplied many articles to Geol. Soc. and Royal Instit. of Cornwall. d. Bratton Clovelly 3 Aug. 1865. Life prefixed to Rev. E. Budge’s Posthumous gleanings 1866.

BUDGETT, SAMUEL. b. Wrington, Somerset 27 July 1794; provision dealer at Kingswood near Bristol 1816 to about 1838 and at Bristol about 1838 to death; founded greatest house in provision trade in West of England; gave £2,000 a year in charity for some time before his death. d. Kingswood 29 April 1851. The Successful merchant by W. Arthur 1885.

BUIST, GEORGE (eld. son of Rev. John Buist, minister of Tannadice, Forfarshire who d. 8 Dec. 1845 in 92 year). b. Tannadice 17 Nov. 1805; ed. at St. Andrew’s univ. 1817–24, and at Univ. of Edin.; edited Dundee Courier 1834; established Dundee Guardian 1834; edited Perth Constitutional 1835, and Fifeshire Journal 1837–9, and Bombay Times at Bombay 1840–58; started Bombay Standard 1858; F.R.S. 29 Jany. 1846; founded Bombay Reformatory School of Industry 1850; superintendent of government printing press Allahabad 1859 to death; author of Index to books and papers on the physical geography antiquities and statistics of India 1852. d. Calcutta 1 Oct. 1860. Memoir of G. Buist, Cupar 1846; W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 190–2.

BULL, REV. JOHN (eld. son of John Bull of Oxford, surgeon). b. Oxford; ed. at Ruthin gr. sch. and Westminster; student at Ch. Ch. Ox. 1808, Rhetoric reader, censor, and librarian of his house; B.A. 1812, M.A. 1814, B.D. 1821, D.D. 1825; public examiner 1817–8, Proctor 1820; preb. of Fenton in York cathedral 1 June 1826 to death; V. of Staverton, Northamptonshire 1830 to death; canon of Exeter 26 March 1823 to death; archdeacon of Cornwall 6 Feb. 1826 to 6 May 1826, of Barnstaple 6 May 1826 to 10 March 1830; canon of Ch. Ch. Ox. 15 March 1830 to death; endowed vicarage of St. Mary Magdalen, Oxford with £2,000. d. at his lodgings in Ch. Ch. Oxford 21 Feb. 1858 aged 68.

BULLAR, HENRY (son of John Bullar, of Basset Wood near Southampton). b. 25 Feb. 1815; a special pleader 1839–53; barrister L.I. 6 June 1853; recorder of Poole Oct. 1864 to death; a judge of Court of record of Poole Oct. 1864 to death; published with Joseph Bullar A winter in the Azores 2 vols. 1841; Prætors or pleaders. d. Basset Wood 5 Jany. 1870.

BULLEN, SIR CHARLES (son of John Bullen, surgeon general R.N.) b. Newcastle 10 Sep. 1769; entered navy 16 Feb. 1779; captain 29 April 1802; commodore on coast of Africa 12 Dec. 1823 to 1827; superintendent of Pembroke dockyard and captain of Royal Sovereign yacht 22 July 1830 to 10 Jany. 1837; admiral 30 July 1852; C.B. June 1815, K.C.B. 18 April 1839, G.C.B. 6 April 1852, K.C.H. 13 Jany. 1835; knighted at St. James’s palace 25 Feb. 1835; granted 12 July 1843 good service pension of £300. d. Shirley near Southampton 2 July 1853. Portrait of him in painted hall at Greenwich.

BULLEN, EDWARD (son of Robert Bullen of Taunton, solicitor). b. Taunton 3 April 1813; ed. at Benedictine college, Douay; law student at Lincoln’s Inn; practised in London as a certificated special pleader 1836 to death; author of A practical treatise on the law of distress for rent and of things damage feasant 1842; author with S. M. Leake of Precedents of pleadings in common law 1860, 3 ed. 1868. d. 82 Belsize park gardens, London 19 July 1868.

BULLEN, JOSEPH (2 son of Rev. John Bullen, R. of Kennet, Cambs.) b. 14 April 1761; midshipman on board “Pallas” 36 guns 1774; commanded Lynn Regis district of Sea Fencibles 26 Sep. 1804 to 1810 when corps was disbanded; admiral on h.p. 23 Nov. 1841. d. Bath 17 July 1857.

BULLER, SIR ANTHONY (youngest son of John Buller of Morval, Cornwall 1744–90). b. Antony house, Torpoint 26 July 1780; ed. at Westminster; barrister L.I. 12 May 1803; M.P. for West Looe 1812–16 and 1831–32; appointed a puisne justice at Madras 6 Sep. 1815, but was transferred to Calcutta March 1816 and it is believed never took his seat on the Madras bench; knighted by Prince Regent at Carlton house 23 April 1816. d. Marytavy rectory, Devon 27 June 1866.

BULLER, SIR ARTHUR WILLIAM (2 son of Charles Buller of Bengal civil service 1774–1848). b. Calcutta 5 Sep. 1808; ed. at Edin. and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1834; pupil of Thomas Carlyle; barrister L.I. 10 June 1834; Queen’s advocate in Ceylon 19 Oct. 1840 to July 1848; judge of supreme court at Calcutta July 1848 to 1858 when he retired; M.P. for Devonport 17 Aug. 1859 to June 1865, and for Liskeard 21 June 1865 to death. d. 6 Half Moon st. Piccadilly, London 30 April 1869.

BULLER, FREDERICK WILLIAM. Ensign 37 foot 20 Jany. 1790; lieut. col. 88 foot 28 Aug. 1804 and 1 foot 27 Feb. 1806 to 1 Dec. 1808; captain Coldstream guards 1 Dec. 1808 to 1814; aide de camp to George iii, 25 July 1810 to 4 June 1813; L.G. 27 May 1825; retired 1833. d. Bury st. St. James’s, London 8 Nov. 1855 aged 83.

BULLER, SIR GEORGE (3 son of Frederick Wm. Buller of Pelynt, Cornwall who d. 8 Nov. 1855). b. 30 May 1800; ensign 23 foot 2 March 1820; lieut. col. Rifle brigade 27 Aug. 1841 to 12 Dec. 1854, col. commandant 13 Oct. 1860 to death; commanded 2 brigade of light division in Crimea 21 Feb. 1854 to 11 Dec. 1854; commanded a brigade and then a division in first Kaffir war 1847; commanded a division in second Kaffir war 30 Aug. 1852 to 31 Oct. 1853; commanded division in Ionian Isles 1856–62 and troops at Portsmouth 1865–70; C.B. 26 Dec. 1848; K.C.B. 5 July 1855; G.C.B. 2 June 1869. d. 23 Bruton st. Berkeley sq. London 12 April 1884.

BULLER, JAMES WENTWORTH (eld. son of James Buller of Downes near Crediton 1766–1827, M.P. for Exeter). b. Downes 1 Oct. 1798; ed. at Harrow and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1819, B.C.L. 1824, D.C.L. 1829; fellow of All Souls coll.; M.P. for Exeter 29 July 1830 to 29 Dec. 1834, for North Devon 6 April 1857 to death; colonel 1st Devon yeomanry cavalry 5 Aug. 1842 to death; chairman of Bristol and Exeter railway. d. 109 Jermyn st. Piccadilly, London 13 March 1865.

BULLEY, REV. FREDERIC (3 son of John Bulley of Reading). Demy of Magd. coll. Ox. July 1825, probationer fellow 1837, served offices of dean of arts, bursar, vice pres., dean of divinity and college tutor successively, B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832, B.D. 1840, D.D. 1856; pres. of his college Jany. 1855 to death; author of A tabular view of the varieties in the communion and baptismal offices of the Church of England 1842. d. Marston hill near Fairford 3 Sep. 1885 aged 75.

BULLIONS, REV. PETER. b. Moss Side near Perth Dec. 1791; ed. at Univ. of Edin. 1810–13; licensed by presbytery of Edin. June 1817; pastor of presbyterian church at Argyle in Washington county, New York March 1818; professor of languages in Albany academy Nov. 1824 to 1848; pastor of United presbyterian church at Troy, New York 1834–52 and Dec. 1853 to death; author of Practical lessons in English grammar 1844, new ed. 1853; An analytical and practical grammar of the English language, 21 ed. 1853, and many other books. d. Troy 13 Feb. 1864.

BULLOCH, JOHN. b. 1805; a working brass-finisher at Aberdeen; contributed several articles on decimal coinage to the Athenæum; suggested a number of textual emendations which were introduced into notes of W. G. Clark’s Cambridge Shakespeare 1863; author of Studies of the text of Shakespeare 1878. d. Aberdeen at end of Dec. 1882.

BULLOCK, EDWARD (eld. son of Edward Bullock of Jamaica). Educ. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; barrister I.T. 26 Nov. 1824; judge of Sheriff’s Court of London and comr. at Old Bailey 1840–50; common serjeant of City of London 1850 to Dec. 1855. d. Upfield near Stroud, Gloucs. 27 Dec. 1857 aged 57.

BULLOCK, FREDERICK (son of James Bullock, commander R.N.) Entered navy 28 Nov. 1804; captain 28 June 1838; granted pension for wounds 11 Nov. 1864; admiral on half pay 10 Sep. 1869; F.R.G.S. 1830. d. 6 Feb. 1874 in 87 year.

BULLOCK, RALPH. b. Morpeth 1841; apprenticed to Thomas Dawson of Tupgill 1851; rode his first race at Harrowgate 1853; won the Derby on Colonel Townley’s Kettledrum 1861; won Ascot vase and Goodwood and Doncaster cups on Tim Whiffler 1862; one of the very best jockeys in England; won 212 races 1854–62. d. Tupgill 23 Jany. 1863. Sporting Review xlix, 86, 203–5 (1863), portrait.

BULLOCK, REV. WILLIAM THOMAS (2 son of John Bullock of London). b. London 1818; ed. at Magd. Hall Ox., B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850; C. of St. Anne, Westminster 1847–50; assist. sec. S.P.G. June 1850, sec. 1865 to death; chaplain at Kensington Palace 13 Sep. 1867 to. death; preb. of Oxgate in St. Paul’s cathedral 1875 to death; author of Sermons on missions and other subjects 1879, of Ecclesiastes in the Speaker’s Commentary 1880 and of about 70 articles in Smith’s Dictionary of the Bible. d. Mentone 27 Feb. 1879.

BULMER, HENRY TAYLOR. Artist at Preston where he painted the altar-piece at St. Augustine’s church 1840; decorated St. Cuthbert’s, North Shields, and several other churches; painted many portraits. d. Brook hill, Sheffield 6 Dec. 1857 aged 46.

BULTEEL, HENRY BELLENDEN (son of Thomas Bulteel of Plymstock, Devon). b. Bellevue near Plymouth 1800; Educ. at Brasn. coll. Ox., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1824; fellow of Ex. coll. 30 June 1823 to 6 Oct. 1829; C. of St. Ebbe’s Oxford 1826 to 10 Aug. 1831 when his license was revoked by Bishop of Oxford for fraternising with dissenters and preaching in their chapels; built a large chapel behind Pembroke college, Oxford, his congregation were called Bulteelers; preached a sermon on 1 Corinthians ii, 12 before Univ. of Ox. at St. Mary’s 6 Feb. 1831 which created great excitement in Oxford and when printed went to 6 editions; author of The doctrine of the miraculous interference of Jesus on behalf of believers 1832 in which he narrated how by means of prayer and intercession he had cured and restored to health 3 women; The Oxford Argo by an Oxford divine 1845, an anonymous denunciation of the Puseyite party. d. The Crescent, Plymouth 28 Dec. 1866 aged 66. Cox’s Oxford (1868) 244, 248; Mozley’s Reminiscences (1882) i, 228, 350.

BUNBURY, SIR CHARLES JAMES FOX, 8 Baronet. b. Messina in Sicily 4 Feb. 1809; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; contested Bury St. Edmunds 1835 and 1837; F.R.S. 5 June 1851; succeeded 13 April 1860; sheriff of Suffolk 1868. d. 18 June 1886.

BUNBURY, SIR HENRY EDWARD, 7 Baronet (younger son of Henry Wm. Bunbury the caricaturist 1750–1811). b. London 4 May 1778; ed. at Westminster; ensign Coldstream guards 14 Jany. 1795; quartermaster general in Mediterranean 1805–9; lieut. col. Royal Newfoundland fencible infantry 1805–14; under secretary of state for war 1809–16; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815; L.G. 22 July 1830; succeeded his uncle as 7 Baronet 31 March 1821; M.P. for Suffolk 11 Aug. 1830 to 3 Dec. 1832, the county had been uncontested for 40 years before 1830; author of Narrative of the campaign in North Holland 1849; Narrative of certain passages in the late war with France 1852. d. Barton hall, Bury St. Edmunds 13 April 1860. Memoir and literary remains, edited by his son Sir C. J. F. Bunbury P.P. (1868).

BUNBURY, HENRY WILLIAM ST. Pierre (3 son of the preceding). b. Brompton, London 2 Sep. 1812; ensign 43 foot 29 June 1830; lieut. col. 23 foot 9 March 1855 to 10 Jany. 1857 when placed on h.p.; C.B. 5 July 1855. d. Marchfield house, Bracknell 18 Sep. 1875.

BUNBURY, THOMAS. Ensign 46 foot 25 March 1804; lieut. col. Rifle corps 5 Feb. 1824 to 24 April 1835; lieut. col. 67 foot 24 April 1835 to 9 Nov. 1846; L.G. 20 June 1854; colonel commandant Rifle corps 9 Feb. 1855 to death; K.H. 1835. d. London 13 April 1857.

BUNBURY, THOMAS. Ensign 3 foot 13 Aug. 1807; major 80 foot 21 Nov. 1834 to 26 July 1844; C.B. 3 April 1846; K.T.S. d. 11 St. James’s terrace, Regent’s park, London 25 Dec. 1861.

BUNN, ALFRED. b. 8 April 1796; a junior clerk in army medical department; stage manager of Drury Lane theatre 1823; manager of T.R. Birmingham 1819 to May 1825; one of 7 managers of Drury Lane one season; managed Drury Lane and Covent Garden theatres 1833; introduced orchestra stalls first used at Drury Lane 5 Feb. 1833; lessee of Drury Lane 1835–48; purchased for £2,000 dignity of a gentleman at arms formerly called gentleman pensioner 14 March 1836; bankrupt 17 Dec. 1840; adapted a great number of pieces for the stage; made his début in America at Niblo’s Saloon, New York in a literary and dramatic entertainment 11 Oct. 1852; said to be the original of Mr. Dolphin the manager in Thackeray’s Pendennis; (m. 1819 the succeeding). author of The stage both before and behind the curtain, 3 vols. 1840; A word with Punch 1847; Old England and New England, 2 vols. 1853; edited The Vauxhall papers 1841. d. of apoplexy at Boulogne 20 Dec. 1860. J. R. Planche’s Reminiscenses, vol. i, (1872); Dents Old and New Birmingham (1880) 385–7, 432, portrait; I.L.N. iv, 220 (1844), portrait, xvi, 141 (1850), portrait.

BUNN, MARGARET AGNES (eld. dau. of John Somerville of Marylebone, London, biscuit baker). b. Lanark 26 Oct. 1799; made her first appearance on the stage at Drury Lane theatre 9 May 1816 as Imogine in Maturin’s tragedy of Bertram; created character of Bianca in Dean Milman’s Fazio at Bath 6 Jany. 1818; played at Drury Lane 1816–18 and 1823–24, Covent Garden 1818–19. (m. 1819 the preceding). d. Blue Earth city, Minnesota Jany. 1883. Oxberry’s Dramatic biog. v. 163–74 (1826), portrait; T. Marshall’s Lives of actors (1848) 73–8.

BUNNETT, FANNY ELIZABETH. Author of The golden balance or the false and the real 1859; Nature’s school or lessons in the garden and the field 1859; Louise Juliane, Electress palatine and her times 1862; Linked at last 1871; translated Shakespeare commentaries by G. G. Gervinus 1863, 3 ed. 1877; W. Luebke’s History of art 1868, and many other books. d. Budleigh Salterton near Exmouth 19 Feb. 1875 in 43 year.

BUNNEY, JOHN COOPER. Established with Theodore Hook, John Bull weekly paper 1820, published it 1820–50. d. Clerkenwell 22 June 1867.

BUNNEY, JOHN WHARLTON. b. Charlotte st. Fitzroy sq. London 20 June 1828; apprenticed to a stationer in city of London; employed by Messrs. Smith and Elder, publishers to 1859; gave lessons in drawing; made drawings for John Ruskin in Switzerland and Italy; painted at Florence 1863–70 and at Venice 1870 to death; painted a picture of St. Mark’s Venice for J. Ruskin 1876–80; exhibited 8 pictures at the R.A., 2 at the B.I. and 10 at Suffolk St. Gallery 1853–81. d. Venice 23 Sep. 1882. Catalogue of the exhibition of pictures and drawings of Venice, also a memoir of the late J. Bunney by A. Wedderburn 1882.

BUNNING, JAMES BUNSTONE. b. London 6 Oct. 1802; architect in London; surveyor of Foundling hospital estates 1825; erected City of London school opened 2 Feb. 1837; surveyor to London cemetery company 1839; laid out Nunhead cemetery; clerk of the City of London’s works 23 Sep. 1843 to death; built Coal Exchange 1849, City prison Holloway 1852, Billingsgate market 1853, Metropolitan cattle market Copenhagen fields opened 15 June 1855; F.S.A. 1848, F.R.I. B.A. d. 6 Gloucester terrace, Regent’s park, London 7 Nov. 1863.

BUNNY, ARTHUR. b. 5 May 1825; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery 8 Dec. 1843; brigade major siege artillery Lucknow Feb. 1858 to April 1858; col. R.A. 1 Oct. 1877 to 1879; L.G. 1 Oct. 1882; C.B. 24 May 1873, placed on retired list 26 July 1883. d. 40 Addison gardens north, Kensington 9 Nov. 1883.

BUNSEN, FRANCES, Baroness de (eld. dau. of Benjamin Waddington of Llanover, Monmouthshire who d. 19 Jany. 1828 in 80 year). b. Dunston park, Berkshire 4 March 1791. (m. 1 July 1817 Christian Charles Josiah Baron de Bunsen, German ambassador in London 1841–54); published A memoir of Baron Bunsen drawn chiefly from family papers by his widow 2 vols. 1868, she d. Carlsruhe, Baden 23 April 1876. A. J. C. Hare’s Life of Baroness Bunsen 2 vols. 1882; F. M. Muller’s Biographical essays (1884) 311–62; Contemporary Review xxviii, 948–69 (1876).

BUNTING, REV. JABEZ (only son of Wm. Bunting of Manchester, tailor). b. Newton lane, Manchester 13 May 1779; Wesleyan minister at Oldham st. chapel Manchester 1803, stationed at London 1803, 1815 and 1833 to death, at Manchester 1805 and 1824, and Liverpool 1809 and 1830; sec. to the Conference 1814, president 1820, 1828, 1836 and 1844; senior sec. of Missionary Society 1833; pres. of Theological Institute 1835; M.A. Aberdeen 1818; D.D. Middleton Univ. U.S.A. 1835; superintended the Connexional literature 1821–4; his conduct in some of the Society’s affairs gave rise to the expression “Bunting Methodism.” d. 30 Myddleton sq. London 16 June 1858. Life by T. P. Bunting (1859), 2 portraits; Rev. W. H. De Puy’s Threescore years and beyond, New York 1873; I.L.N. ii, 208 (1843), portrait, xxxii, 642 (1858); Illust. news of the world ii, 37 (1858), portrait.

BUNTING, REV. WILLIAM MACLARDIE (eld. child of the preceding). b. Manchester 23 Nov. 1805; Wesleyan minister at Salford 1824–7, Manchester 1827–9 and 1838–41, Huddersfield 1829–32, Halifax 1832–5, London 1835–38 and 1841 to death; edited Select letters of Mrs. Agnes Bulmer 1842; contributed to Wesleyan Methodist Mag. d. at his residence Highgate Rise 13 Nov. 1866. Memorials of the late Rev. W. M. Bunting, edited by Rev. G. S. Rowe 1870, portrait.

BURANELLI OR BURINELLI, LUIGI. b. Ancona, Italy; officer of dragoons in the Pope’s army; valet to Stewart Drummond a monk known as the Abbé Stewart who was assassinated whilst bathing; servant to John Craufurd of 12 Grafton st. Bond st. London; a tailor at Penshurst near Tunbridge Wells; shot Joseph Latham dead at 5 Foley place, Regent st. London 7 Jany. 1855 after which he shot himself; tried for murder at Central criminal court 12 April 1855; hanged at Newgate 30 April 1855 aged 32. The law on its trial by A. H. Dymond (1865) 178–94; Central criminal court trials xli, 633–61 (1855).

BURCHAM, THOMAS BORROW. Educ. at Trin. coll. Cam., fellow 1832 to death, B.A. 1830; barrister I.T. 27 Jany. 1843; recorder of Bedford 1848–1856; magistrate of Southwark police court 1856 to death. d. Chingford, Essex 27 Nov. 1869 aged 62.

BURCHELL, WILLIAM JOHN (son of Matthew Burchell of Fulham, nurseryman). b. Fulham 1783; schoolmaster at St. Helena 1805–10; explored South Africa 1811–15; explored Brazil 1825–30; executed at Rio Janeiro a series of views from which R. Burford’s panorama of that city was painted; F.L.S. 15 Feb. 1808; hon. D.C.L. Ox. 1834; lived at Fulham 1830 to death; his name is perpetuated in scientific names of many animal and plant species discovered by him; author of Travels in Southern Africa 2 vols. 1822. d. Churchfield house, Fulham 23 March 1863. Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xxxiii, 124 (1864).

BURCHETT, RICHARD. b. Brighton 30 Jany. 1815; entered school of design at Somerset House about 1841, assistant master 1845, head master 1851 to death; exhibited 5 historical pictures at Royal Academy 1847–73; assisted in decoration of dome of Great Exhibition 1862; author of Practical geometry 1855; Linear perspective 1856. d. Dublin 27 May 1875. Graphic xi, 606, 621 (1875), portrait.

BURDEN, HENRY. b. Dunblane, Scotland 1791; went to America 1819; maker of agricultural implements; invented the first cultivator 1820; invented a machine for making hook-headed spikes 1840, which are used on every railroad in United States; devised a machine for making horseshoes June 1857 which is self-acting, and produces 60 shoes per minute from iron bars. d. Woodside Troy, New York 19 Jany. 1871.

BURDER, REV. GEORGE BERNARD (son of Rev. George Burder 1752–1832, editor of Evangelical magazine). ed. at Magd. coll. Ox.; C. of Ruardean, Gloucs.; received into Church of Rome at Oscott college 24 Jany. 1846; ordained priest; joined the Cistercians at Mount St. Bernard’s abbey, Leics. where he filled offices of sub-prior, prior, and abbot; author of the following translations from the French The souls in purgatory by Bouguets 1873; The consoler by Lambilotte 1873; St. Bernard and his work by Caussette 1874; Confidence in the mercy of God by Languet de Villeneuve de Gergy 1876; The Christian life and virtues considered in the religious state by C. Gay 1878. d. 26 Sep. 1881.

BURDER, REV. HENRY FORSTER (brother of the preceding). b. Coventry 27 Nov. 1783; ed. at Hoxton academy and Glasgow Univ.; assistant minister at Independent chapel St. Thomas sq. Hackney 31 Oct. 1811, minister 2 March 1814 to 1852; professor of philosophy and mathematics at Hoxton college 1810–30; chairman of Congregational union of England and Wales 1844; author of Mental discipline or hints on the cultivation of intellectual and moral habits 1822; A collection of psalms and hymns 1826, 3 ed. 1845 and other books. d. Hatcham park, Surrey 29 Dec. 1864. Evangelical Mag. March 1865 pp. 129–34.

BURDER, WILLIAM CORBETT (son of Rev. John Burder). b. Stroud, Gloucs. 30 Oct. 1822; connected as a meteorologist with Glaisher’s corps of observers; discovered 2 new comets 28 March 1854 and 30 June 1861; author of A motto or apophthegm for every day in the year selected by W.C.B. 1859; The meteorology of Clifton 1863; published with J. Hine and W. Godwin The architectural antiquities of Bristol and its neighbourhood 1851. d. Clifton 16 Oct. 1865.