Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 6), A-H (part 5 of 8)

Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 6), A-H (part 5 of 8)

DYSART, LIONEL WILLIAM JOHN TOLLEMACHE, 7 Earl of. b. 18 Nov. 1794; M.P. for Ilchester 22 Feb. 1827 to 24 July 1830; succeeded 22 Sep. 1840. d. 34 Norfolk st. Strand, London 23 Sep. 1878, personalty sworn under £1,700,000, 14 Dec. 1878.

DYSON, REV. CHARLES (son of Jeremiah Dyson, clerk of House of Commons, who d. 14 Sep. 1835 aged 78). Educ. at Southampton; matric. from C.C. coll. Ox. 6 Dec. 1804 aged 17, scholar of his coll.; B.A. 1808, M.A. 1812; R. of Nunburnholme, Yorkshire 1818–28; V. of Nazing, Essex 1828–36; R. of Dogmersfield, Hants. 1836 to death; Rawlinsonian professor of Anglo-Saxon at Ox. 1812–1816, delivered one lecture only; contributed 4 poems under signature of D to the volume entitled Days and Seasons 1845. d. Dogmersfield rectory 24 April 1860 aged 73. Sir J. T. Coleridge’s Memoir of Rev. John Keble, 3 ed. (1869) i, 19, 35–46, 74, 99, 146, 245, 464.

DYSON, DAVID. A weaver; went to the United States about 1843, crossed the country from New York to St. Louis; returned to England with upwards of 18,000 specimens of insects, birds, shells and plants 1844; twice explored Central America and made another very large collection; curator of the Museum of Earl of Derby; left a private collection of 20,000 shells. d. Rusholme near Manchester 10 Dec. 1856 aged 33.

DYSON, REV. FRANCIS (brother of Rev. Charles Dyson). Matric. from Merton coll. Ox. 13 Dec. 1802 aged 17, B.A. 1806, M.A. 1809; fellow of his college to 1817; R. of South Tedworth, Hants. 1816 to death; R. of North Tedworth 1829 to death; chaplain in ordinary to the sovereign 1819 to death; preb. of Salisbury 6 April 1847 to death. d. Cheltenham 30 Nov. 1858 aged 73.

DYSON, JERRY FRANCIS. Entered Bombay army 1797; col. 18 Bombay N.I. 1 May 1824 to death; general 20 June 1854. d. 5 Lower Berkeley st. Portman sq. London 20 Feb. 1861.

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EADIE, REV. JOHN. b. Alva, Stirlingshire 9 May 1810; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow, LLD. 1846; D.D. St. Andrews 1850; professor of hermeneutics in United Presbyterian Church of Scotland 1847; a temperance lecturer; licensed as a preacher by United Secession church 1835; minister of Cambridge st. ch. Glasgow, Sep. 1835; minister of Lansdowne ch. Glasgow, Dec. 1863 to death; professor of Biblical literature in United Secession divinity hall, Glasgow 1843 to death; moderator of the Synod 1857; edited Voluntary church mag. 1840; member of New Testament revision committee 1870; edited A Biblical cyclopædia 1849, 14 ed. 1873; author of A commentary on the Greek text of the epistle of Paul to the Ephesians 1854, 3 ed. 1883; The English Bible, an external and critical history of the English translations 2 vols. 1876 and many other books. d. Glasgow 3 June 1876. J. Brown’s Life of Rev. J. Eadie (1878); John Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1848) 95–102; Dublin Univ. Mag. lxxxviii, 276–91, portrait; Good Words xix, 470–72 (1878).

EAGLE, FRANCIS KING (2 son of Robert Eagle of Lakenheath, Suffolk). Educ. at Trin. coll. Cam., LLB. 1819; barrister M.T. 24 Nov. 1809, bencher; recorder of Thetford; judge of county courts, circuit 33. (Suffolk) March 1847 to death; F.L.S. 1807; author with Edward Younge of A collection of reports of cases relating to tithes 4 vols. 1826. d. Bury St. Edmunds 8 June 1856 aged 68.

EAGLE, GEORGE BARNARDO (i.e. Barnard). Professor of Clairvoyance; known as the “Wizard of the South”; when giving a morning performance at the Assembly Rooms, St. Peters Port, Guernsey 1 May 1858 suddenly seized on the stage with vomiting of blood. d. at his residence Pollet st. St. Peters Port 5 May 1858 aged 51. bur. Abney park cemetery, London 10 May. Era 16 May 1858 p. 10.

EAGLES, REV. JOHN (eld. son of Thomas Eagles of Bristol, merchant and classical scholar 1746–1812). b. parish of St. Augustine, Bristol, baptised 8 Nov. 1783; ed. at Winchester and Wad. coll. Ox., B.A. 1812, M.A. 1818; C. of Halberton, Devon 1822–34; C. of Winford near Bristol 1834–41; contributed to Blackwood’s Mag. 1831–55 chiefly on subjects connected with fine art; author of The Sketcher, Edin. 1856; Sonnets, ed. by Z. K. Edin. 1858; Felix Farley, rhymes, Latin and English, by Themaninthemoon, Bristol 1826. d. King’s Parade, Clifton 9 Nov. 1855. G.M. xliv, 661–62 (1855) xlv, 148 (1856); Bentley’s Miscellany xlvi, 594–605 (1859).

EARDLEY, SIR CULLING EARDLEY, 3 Baronet (only son of Sir Culling Smith, 2 bart. 1768–1829). b. Lower Grosvenor st. London 21 April 1805; ed. at Eton and Oriel coll. Ox.; succeeded 30 June 1829; M.P. for Pontefract 1830–31; contested Pontefract 1837, Edinburgh 1846 and West Riding of Yorkshire 1848; founded Evangelical Alliance 1846; assumed surname of Eardley in lieu of Smith 14 May 1847; pres. of London Missionary Soc.; built All Saints ch. Belvedere, Kent 1861; took a prominent part in many religious and social movements; had a gallery of paintings at Belvedere near Erith. d. Bedwell park, Hatfield 21 May 1863. Waagen’s Galleries of Art (1857) 275–84.

EARDLEY-WILMOT, FREDERICK MAROW (2 son of Sir John Eardley Eardley-Wilmot, 1 bart. 1783–1847). b. 29 May 1812; 2 lieut. R.A. 6 Nov. 1830, colonel 1 April 1860 to 6 March 1868; M.G. 6 March 1868; F.R.S. June 1863. d. Fox hills near Chertsey 30 Sep. 1877.

EARLE, SIR HARDMAN, 1 Baronet (4 son of Thomas Earle of Spekelands, Lancs., a Liverpool merchant, who d. 9 July 1822). b. 11 July 1792; a merchant at Liverpool; created Baronet 3 Nov. 1869. d. Allerton Tower, Woolton, near Liverpool 25 Jany. 1877. I.L.N. lxx, 156 (1877), portrait.

EARLE, RALPH ANSTRUTHER (2 son of Charles Earle of Everton, Lancs. 1798–1880). b. Edinburgh 1835; ed. at Harrow; attaché at Paris 6 Oct. 1854; private sec. to Disraeli, when chancellor of the exchequer 1 March 1858–June 1859; M.P. for Berwick April 1859 to Aug. 1859, for Maldon July 1865 to Nov. 1868; parliamentary sec. to poor law board 14 July 1866 to 22 March 1867. d. Soden, Nassau 10 June 1879.

EARLE, THOMAS. b. Hull 1810; exhibited 57 sculptures at R.A. and 24 at B.I. 1834–73; gained gold medal and book at R.A. for best historical group 1839; designer and modeller to Sir Francis Chantrey. d. of grief at his great sculpture being refused admission to R.A. 1876 at 1 Vincent st. Ovington square, London 28 April 1876. Athenæum 13 May 1876 p. 673; Times 3 May 1876 p. 12, col. 5.

EARLE, WILLIAM (3 son of Sir Hardman Earle 1792–1877). b. 18 May 1833; ensign 49 foot 17 Oct. 1851; served in Crimean war; lieut. grenadier guards 20 March 1857, major 21 Aug. 1878 to 1 April 1880 when placed on h.p.; military sec. in British North America 1865–70, to viceroy of India 1872–76; C.S.I. 7 March 1876; C.B. 18 Nov. 1882; commanded garrison of Alexandria 1882–84; commanded column sent up the Nile to rescue of General Gordon at Khartoum 1884 to death; shot while leading on his troops against the Arabs at Kirbekan 10 Feb. 1885. bur. at Allerton, statue of him by C. B. Birch, A.R.A., erected at Liverpool. H. Brackenbury’s The river column (1885); I.L.N. 21 Feb. 1885 p. 200, portrait.

EARLY, REV. JOHN. b. co. Fermanagh 1814; went to United States 1832; entered Society of Jesus 1834; ordained priest 1844; professor of belles lettres in Georgetown college, Ontario; pres. of Worcester college Mass.; went to Baltimore 1852 where he built college and church of St. Ignatius; pres. of Georgetown college. d. Georgetown 1874.

EARNSHAW, REV. SAMUEL. b. Sheffield 1805; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; senior wrangler and first Smith’s prizeman 1831; B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; a very successful coach at Cambridge 1831–47; chaplain in church and parish of Sheffield 1847 to death; author of Dynamics or a treatise on motion 1833, 3 ed. 1844; The theory of Statics 1834, 4 ed. 1856; The Tradition of the Elders 1860; The love of the world 1861. d. Earnscliffe 6 Dec. 1888.

EASBY, JOHN. b. Deansgate, Manchester 1812; a green coat schoolboy 1820; journalist actor and local preacher; a frequent contributor to periodicals; Manchester correspondent of The Era. d. Lower Mosley st. Manchester 18 Nov. 1852. J. Easby’s Scenes from the life of a green-coated schoolboy 1851. R. W. Procter’s Manchester Streets (1874) 224–28.

EASSIE, PETER BOYD. b. Lochee, Dundee 17 April 1835; railway contractor at Gloucester; constructed part of Cornwall railway, opened 1859; brought out an elliptograph and other successful inventions; author of Wood and its use, Gloucester 1874. d. 26 June 1875.

EAST, SIR EAST GEORGE CLAYTON, 1 Baronet (2 son of Sir W. Clayton, 4 Bart. 1762–1834). b. 9 April 1794; ed. at Caius coll. Cam.; LLB. 1818, LLD. 1823; assumed name of East by royal sign manual 6 April 1829; created baronet 17 Aug. 1838. d. Hall place near Maidenhead 6 March 1851.

EAST, SIR JAMES BULLER, 2 Baronet (only son of Sir Edward Hyde East, 1 Bart. 1764–1847). b. Bloomsbury, London 1 Feb. 1789; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox.; B.A. 1810, M.A. 1824, D.C.L. 1834; barrister I.T. 5 Feb. 1813; succeeded 8 Jany. 1847; bencher of his Inn 15 Jany. 1856, reader 1869; M.P. for Winchester 30 July 1830 to 3 Dec. 1832, and 10 Jany. 1835 to 10 Feb. 1864. d. Bourton house near Moreton in the Marsh, Gloucs. 19 Nov. 1878.

EASTBURN, RIGHT REV. MANTON. b. Leeds 9 Feb. 1801; graduated at Columbia, U.S. 1817; ordained 1822; assistant minister in Ch. Ch. New York 1822–27; R. of church of the Ascension, New York 1827–42; assistant bishop of Protestant episcopal diocese of Massachusetts 29 Dec. 1842, bishop, March 1843 to death; author of Four lectures on Hebrew, Latin and English poetry 1825; Lectures on the Epistles to the Philippians 1833 and other books. d. Boston 11 Sep. 1872. H. G. Batterson’s sketch of American episcopate (1878) 136–37.

EASTHOPE, SIR JOHN, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Thomas Easthope of Tewkesbury). b. Tewkesbury 29 Oct. 1784; stockbroker at 9 Exchange buildings, city of London 1818; made £150,000 in a few years; contested St. Albans 1821, Southampton 1835, Lewes 1837 and Bridgnorth 1847; M.P. for St. Albans 1826–30, for Banbury 1831–32 and for Leicester 1837–47; purchased Morning Chronicle in 1834 for £16,500; created baronet 24 Aug. 1841. d. Fir Grove near Weybridge, Surrey 11 Dec. 1865. J. Grant’s Portraits of public characters i, 76–86 (1841); J. Sedgwick’s Letters (1845) pp. i-vi.

EASTLAKE, SIR CHARLES LOCK (youngest son of George Eastlake of Plymouth, solicitor, who d. 1820). b. Plymouth 17 Nov. 1793; exhibited 51 pictures at R.A. and 18 at B.I. 1813–55; painted in Rome 1816–30, in London 1830–55; A.R.A Nov. 1827, R.A. 10 Dec. 1830, librarian 1842–44, pres. Nov. 1850 to death; F.R.S. 25 Jany. 1838; sec. to commission of the Fine Arts 3 Dec. 1841 to 1861; keeper of National gallery Nov. 1843 to Oct. 1847, director 1855 to death, when the trustees bought his library for £2,100; knighted at Windsor Castle 13 Nov. 1850; author of Materials for a history of oil painting 2 vols. 1847–69; History of the Gothic revival 1871 and other books. d. Pisa 24 Dec. 1865. bur. English cemetery, Florence 27 Dec., reinterred Kensal Green cemetery 18 Jany. 1866. Sir C. L. Eastlake’s Contributions to the literature of the fine arts, second series with a memoir by Lady Eastlake 1870; Sandby’s History of Royal Academy, ii, 225, 280–87 (1862); W. C. Monkhouse’s Masterpieces of English art (1869) 152–56; The drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages, fourth series (1860), portrait; I.L.N. xvii, 357 (1850), portrait, xxxvi, 448, 450 (1860), portrait.

EASTLAKE, WILLIAM (son of George Eastlake of Plymouth, solicitor). b. 1820; ed. at Repton school; articled to his father; admitted 1844; partner with his father; deputy judge advocate of the fleet 1851 to death. d. 3 Buckland terrace, Plymouth 12 Oct. 1881 in 61 year.

EASTON, JOHN ALEXANDER, b. India 1807; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow, M.D. 1836; surgeon of Glasgow police April 1840 to Nov. 1859; professor of materia medica in Univ. of Glasgow, Oct. 1855 to death. d. Blythswood sq. Glasgow 11 Nov. 1865.

EASTWICK, EDWARD BACKHOUSE (2 son of Robert William Eastwick of Thurloe sq. London 1772–1865). b. Warfield, Berkshire 13 March 1814; ensign Bombay army 5 June 1836; professor of Urdú at Haileybury college, Aug. 1845, librarian 1850; sec. of legation at court of Persia 1860–62; barrister M.T. 6 June 1860; private sec. to Lord Cranbourne, sec. of state for India 1866–67; M.P. for Penryn and Falmouth 18 Nov. 1868 to 26 Jany. 1874; F.R.S. 5 June 1851; F.S.A. 17 March 1853; C.B. 6 Nov. 1866; translated Anvari Suhaili, The Fables of Pilpay 1854 and other books; author of Journal of a diplomate’s three years residence in Persia, 2 vols. 1864 and other books. d. Ventnor 16 July 1883.

EASTWICK, WILLIAM JOSEPH (brother of the preceding). b. 1808; ed. at Winchester; ensign Bombay army 1826; acting resident at Hyderabad to 1841; a director of the H.E.I. Co. 30 June 1847, deputy chairman 1858; member of council of India 21 Sep. 1858 to 1868; an original member of Cobden club 1866; author of Lord Lytton and the Afghan war 1879. d. 12 Leinster gardens, Hyde park, London 24 Feb. 1889. bur. Teddington churchyard 1 March.

EASTWOOD, REV. JONATHAN. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849; C. of Ecclesfield near Sheffield 1847–54; C. of Eckington, Derbyshire 1854–62; P.C. of Hope near Hanley 1862 to death; author of History of the parish of Ecclesfield in the county of York 1862; author with W. A. Wright of Bible word-book, a glossary of old English Bible words 1866. d. St. Leonards on Sea 5 July 1864 aged 40.

EASTWOOD, RICHARD (son of Henry Eastwood, head keeper to Peregrine Edward Towneley of Towneley, Lanes). b. Burnley; admitted attorney 1824; partner with Anthony Buck of Burnley 1824–62, with A. B. Creeke and J. B. Sandy 1862 to death; bred race horses and short horns; won the Oaks with Butterfly 1860. d. Morecambe near Lancaster 28 May 1871. Saddle and Sirloin, By the Druid, Part North (1870) 345–57.

EBORALL, CORNELIUS WILKES. b. Birmingham 1820; general manager of East Lancashire railway company 1850–56, of South Eastern railway company 1856 to death; A.I.C.E. 5 Dec. 1865. d. 2 Lee park, Blackheath, Kent 15 Dec. 1874. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxix, 287–89 (1875).

EBSWORTH, JOSEPH (son of Joseph Ebsworth of Islington, London). b. Islington 10 Oct. 1788; apprenticed to a watch jeweller; sec. to D. E. Morris proprietor of the Haymarket theatre; actor and prompter at T.R. Edinburgh 1826; teacher of music and singing at Edin. 1828 to death; bookseller at 23 Elm row, Edin. 1828–43; gave concerts at Hopetoun rooms, Queen st. 1830–68; leader of the choir at St. Stephen’s ch. Edin.; author of Crockery’s misfortunes or transmogrifications, a burletta produced at Royal Coburg theatre, London 11 July 1821 and 33 other dramatic pieces. d. Edinburgh 22 June 1868.

EBSWORTH, MARY EMMA (dau. of Robert Fairbrother, pantomimist and fencing-master). b. London 2 Sep. 1794; author of the following play published in Cumberland’s acting drama, Payable at sight, or the chaste salute, acted at Surrey theatre; also of The two brothers of Pisa, acted at Royal Coburg theatre, and The sculptor of Florence. (m. 22 June 1817 the preceding). d. Walworth, London 13 Oct. 1881.

EBURN, WILLIAM HAWTHORN. Acted at Glasgow; acted at Edinburgh many years; first appeared in London at Haymarket theatre as Amiens in As you like it 6 April 1855; acted at Adelphi theatre many years. d. Kennington park road, London 19 Sep. 1874. bur. Woking cemetery 27 Sep.

ECCLES, HENRY. b. Bath 1817; called to bar in Canada 1842; a bencher of Canadian Law Society 1853; Q.C. 1856; very prominent in his profession. d. Toronto 22 Nov. 1863.

ECCLES, REV. SETH. b. Longridge, Lancs. 1800; admitted student at English college, Rome 1820, a medallist; R.C. priest of Weston Underwood, Bucks. 1825 to 1871; member of chapter of see of Northampton 1850, provost to death; created hon. D.D. by Pius ix, 1861; author of An explanation of the seven penitential psalms 1844; On justification, What saith the Scripture 1861. d. Weston Underwood 10 July 1884.

ECKFORD, JAMES. Entered Bengal army 1804; col. 56 Bengal N.I. 27 Oct. 1848 to death; L.G. 29 April 1861; C.B. 9 June 1849. d. 33 Clarendon road, St. Heliers, Jersey 2 July 1867 aged 81.

ECKFORD, ROBERT. Surgeon Bombay army 22 Oct. 1812; pres of medical board Bombay 1830 to 1 May 1832 when he retired. d. Jersey 27 Feb. 1865 aged 93.

EDE, GEORGE MATTHEWS. b. Clayfield lodge near Southampton Common Feb. 1834; ed. at Eton; agriculturalist at Northampton; returned to Southampton; gentleman steeplechaser and hurdle rider under name of Mr. Edwards; first rode at Warwick meeting Sept. 1856, rode 9 stone without training; won 306 races 1856–70; called the Fordham of amateurs; won the Grand National on the Lamb 1868 and the Grand Annual at Warwick on Musketeer 1868; established with his twin brother Edward Lee Ede the Hampshire county cricket club, scored 1200 runs in 1863; killed when jumping at Aintree near Liverpool 13 March 1870. Bailey’s Mag. xii, 351–55 (1867), portrait on title page. Sporting Review lxiii, 238–39 (1870).

EDEN, SIR ASHLEY (3 son of 3 Baron Auckland 1799–1870). b. Hertingfordbury Herts. 13 Nov. 1831; ed. at Rugby and Winchester; entered Indian civil service 1852; sec. to government of Bengal and member of Bengal legislative council 1860–71; chief comr. of British Burmah 1871–77; lieut. governor of Bengal 1877–82; a member of secretary of state’s council 1882 to death; C.S.I. 30 May 1874, K.C.S.I. 1878; the Eden canal which joins the Ganges and the Tistá is called after him. d. 31 Sackville st. Piccadilly, London 9 July 1887. bur. Armthorpe near Doncaster 14 July. T. H. S. Escott’s Pillars of the empire (1879) 70–75.

EDEN, SIR CHARLES. (youngest son of Sir Frederick Morton Eden, 2 baronet 1766–1809). b. 3 July 1808; entered navy 27 Oct. 1821; captain 11 Aug. 1841; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 24 May 1873; controller general of coastguard 5 Dec. 1855 to 1859; a lord of the admiralty 27 June 1859 to 1866; V.A. 6 April 1866, retired 1 April 1870; retired admiral 8 Feb. 1873. d. 9 Queen’s gate place, London 7 March 1878.

EDEN, REV. CHARLES PAGE (3 son of Rev. Thomas Eden, C. of St. George’s, Bristol, who d. 22 July 1809 aged 57). b. Whitehall St. George’s near Bristol 13 March 1807; Bible clerk at Oriel coll. Ox. 25 Oct. 1825, fellow 1832–51, dean 1838; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833; select preacher Oxford 1838 and 1853; V. of St. Mary’s, Oxford 1843–50; V. of Aberford near Leeds 1850 to death; proctor in convocation of province of York 1869, 1874 and 1880; preb. of York cath. 1870 to death; edited Gunning’s Paschal, or Lent fast 1845; Andrewes’s Pattern of catechistical doctrine 1846; Jeremy Taylor’s Works vols. i-viii; contributed to the ‘Tracts for the times’ No. 32, ‘On the standing ordinances of religion.’ d. Aberford vicarage 14 Dec. 1885. J. W. Burgon’s Lives of twelve good men (1888) ii, 305–42.

EDEN, EMILY (7 dau. of 1 Baron Auckland 1744–1814). b. Old palace yard, Westminster 3 March 1797; lived in India with her brother Lord Auckland 1835–42; author of Portraits of the people and princes of India 1844; The semi-detached house, edited by Lady Theresa Lewis 1859 anon.; The semi-attached couple, By E. E. 2 vols. 1860; Up the country, letters written from the upper provinces of India 2 vols. 1866, 3 ed. 1872. d. Fountain house, 5 Upper Hill st. Richmond, Surrey 5 Aug. 1869. bur. in family vault at Beckenham, Kent.

EDEN, GEORGE MORTON, b. 9 May 1806; ensign 84 foot 18 July 1822; lieut. col. 56 foot 20 May 1836 to 5 July 1839; captain Scots fusilier guards 5 July 1839 to 20 June 1854; col. 50 foot 20 April 1861 to death; L.G. 14 March 1862. d. Bern, Switzerland 11 Nov. 1862.

EDEN, HENRY (4 son of Thomas Eden, deputy auditor of Greenwich hospital, who d. 1 May 1805). b. 9 Aug. 1797; entered navy 15 June 1811; captain 30 April 1827; private sec. to Lord. Auckland, first lord of the Admiralty 1846–48; superintendent of Woolwich dockyard 1848–53; A.D.C. to the Queen 1853–54; a lord of the Admiralty 1855–58; admiral 16 Sep. 1864, retired 1 April 1870. d. 45 Eaton sq. London 30 Jany. 1888.

EDEN, JOHN (brother of preceding). b. 25 March 1789; cornet 22 light dragoons 14 Feb. 1807; major 15 foot 8 June 1826 to 31 Dec. 1830 when placed on h.p.; col. 34 foot 28 Jany. 1860 to death; general 25 Aug. 1868; C.B. 30 March 1839. d. Bath 6 Oct. 1874.

EDEN, RIGHT REV. ROBERT (brother of Sir Charles Eden 1808–78). b. Pall Mall, London 2 Sep. 1804; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox.; B.A. 1827, M.A. 1839, D.D. 1851; R. of Leigh, Essex 1837–51; bishop of Moray, Ross and Caithness 1851 to death, consecrated at St. Paul’s, Edin. 9 March 1851; Primus of the Episcopal church of Scotland 5 July 1862 to death; founded cathedral of St. Andrew in Inverness, foundation stone laid 17 Oct. 1866; author of many addresses and sermons. d. Eden court, Inverness 26 Aug. 1886.

EDEN, WILLIAM (2 son of Sir Robert Eden, governor of Maryland 1 bart. who d. 1786). Ensign 46 foot 26 Aug. 1786; assist. quartermaster general in England 25 Dec. 1797; lieut. col. 79 foot 15 Aug. 1798 to 11 Dec. 1806; lieut. col. 84 foot 11 Dec. 1806 to 1814; quartermaster general in Madras 20 June 1807: general 28 June 1838; granted reward for distinguished service 1 Dec. 1838. d. Ham, Surrey 24 May 1851 aged 83.

EDEN, WILLIAM HASSALL. b. 22 Feb. 1800; ensign 6 foot 31 March 1814; lieut. col. 88 foot 10 Aug. 1839 to 16 Aug. 1839; lieut. col. 56 foot 16 Aug. 1839 to 3 Feb. 1854; commandant at Chatham 1 Sep. 1854 to 31 March 1858; col. 90 foot 24 Oct. 1862 to death; general 4 March 1872; placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877. d. 5 Royal crescent, Bath 10 Dec. 1832.

EDERSHEIM, REV. ALFRED. Educ. at Univ. of Vienna and Berlin; Ph.D. Kiel 1855; D.D. New coll. Edin.; hon. M.A. Ox. 1881, M.A. by Decree of convocation 1883; ordained deacon and priest 1875; C. of Christchurch, Hants. 1875–76; V. of Loders, Dorset 1876–83; Warburtonian lecturer at Lincoln’s Inn 1880–84; select preacher at Oxford 1884–85; author of History of the Jewish nation after the destruction of Jerusalem 1856; True to the end, a story of Scottish life 1871, new ed. 1878; Jewish social life in the days of Christ 1876; The Life and times of Jesus the Messiah 2 vols. 1883 and many other books, d. Mentone 16 March 1889 aged 64.

EDGAR, EDWARD FISHER. Made his first appearance on the stage at Victoria theatre, London, as a child in The Stranger; played in the provinces; appeared at Olympic theatre, as André in Lucille or the story of a heart 1852; lessee of Marylebone theatre; lessee with Richard Shepherd of Surrey theatre 1871–72; acted at Princess’s, Lyceum, Globe, Adelphi, Royalty and other theatres; played part of Hasting in She stoops to conquer at Imperial theatre, April to July 1879; sec. of Royal general theatrical fund 5 April 1876 to 1879. d. 2 Powis place, Queen sq. London 2 Sep. 1884.

EDGAR, REV. JOHN (son of Rev. Samuel Edgar pastor of Ballykine, Tipperary). b. Ballykine 13 June 1798; professor of theology in secession branch of Presbyterian church 1826–48; D.D. Hamilton college U.S.A. 1836; LLD. New York 1860; a great temperance advocate in Ireland 1829–41; a founder of Religious Book and Tract Society; moderator of general assembly of United church 1842; author of 42 pamphlets published under title of select works of John Edgar. d. Rathgar 26 Aug. 1866. W. D. Killen’s Memoir of John Edgar (1867), portrait.

EDGAR, JOHN GEORGE (4 son of Rev. John Edgar, minister of Hutton, Berwickshire). b. 1834; passed some time in a Liverpool house; visited the West Indies on mercantile affairs; published Biography for boys; Foot-prints of famous men 1854 and about 20 books for the young; the first editor of Every Boy’s Magazine 1862. d. London 22 April 1864.

EDGELL, HARRY (eld. son of Hippil Edgell of Beckington, Somerset). b. Beckington 30 Jany. 1767; ed. at Warminster gr. sch. and Royal college, Douai; admitted student at Gray’s Inn 1787; clerk of Assize of Norfolk circuit 1795 to death; clerk of the Errors in court of Exchequer; barrister G.I. 26 June 1811; clerk of the Errors in Court of Common Pleas 1837. d. 21 Cadogan place, Chelsea 14 May 1863. bur. Ruislip, Uxbridge 21 May.

EDGELL, HARRY EDMUND (only son of Henry Folkes Edgell 1767–1846, R.A.) b. 1809; entered navy 1823; captain 9 Nov. 1846; retired V.A. 14 July 1871; C.B. 20 May 1859. d. Chichester 4 Feb. 1876.

EDGEWORTH, MICHAEL PAKENHAM (youngest son of Richard Lovell Edgeworth the author 1744–1817). b. 24 May 1812; ed. at Charterhouse, Edinburgh and Haileybury; entered Bengal civil service 1831; one of the 5 comrs. for settlement of the Punjaub 1850–59; collected 11 new species of plants in two hours at Aden 1846; author of Grammar of Kashmiri language 1841; Pollen with 446 figures 1877, new ed. 1879. d. in the island of Eigg, Inverness 30 July 1881.

EDISON, JOHN SIBBALD (son of J. Edison). b. 1803; barrister M.T. 25 Nov. 1831; author of Letters to the authors of the Plain tracts for critical times, By a Layman 1839; Remarks on Lord Brougham’s character of Pitt 1842; Legitimate system of national education 1855; Question of admissibility of Jews to Parliament 1859; Henry of Richmond, a drama 2 parts 1857–60; Commentary on Lord Brougham’s character of George iii, 1860; Jephtha, a dramatic poem 1863; Northumberland, a historical dramatic poem 1866; Divine right of rule 1869; Edwin, an historical poem 1873. d. Stock near Ingatestone, Essex 9 Sep. 1878.

EDKINS, ROBERT PITT. Educ. at Trin. coll. Cam.; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1836; second master of Kensington proprietary school; second master of city of London school 18 years; professor of geometry in Gresham college, city of London. d. 28 Belitha villas, Barnsbury, London 11 Nov. 1854 aged 49.

EDMESTON, JAMES. b. 10 Sept. 1791; educ. Hackney; articled to an architect and surveyor 1807; architect 1816, removed to Homerton 1822; sec. of St. Barnabas, Homerton parochial schools; author of The search and other poems 1817; Anston Park, a tale 1821; The world of spirits; The cottage minstrel, 50 hymns 1821; Fifty hymns on missionary subjects 1822; One hundred Sunday School hymns 1822; Patmos a fragment and other poems 1824; The woman of Shunem, a sketch 1829; Hymns for the chamber of sickness 1844; Closet hymns and poems 1846; Sacred Poetry 1848. d. 15 Brooksby’s Walk, Homerton 7 Jany. 1867. Miller’s Singers and songs (1869) pp. 418–20.

EDMONDS, GEORGE (3 son of Richard Edmonds 1774–1860, town clerk of Marazion, Cornwall). b. Penzance 25 March 1805; admitted attorney 4 July 1827; practised in London 1829–38; author of The tuck net retucked, or porpoises instead of pilchards 1824; Complete ancient classical dictionary [1837]; Complete English grammar 1837; The tri-national grammar [1838]; The penny gospel 1843. d. Croydon 13 Sep. 1869.

NOTE.—He was while residing in London actively engaged in writing against the stamp duty on newspapers, and was so often employed by defendants in prosecutions for selling unstamped newspapers, that he was frequently called “The attorney general for unstamped newspapers.”

EDMONDS, GEORGE (son of Rev. Edward Edmonds, pastor of Baptist chapel in Bond st. Birmingham). b. Kenion st. Birmingham 1788; edited Edmonds’s Weekly Recorder 1819; imprisoned 12 months for taking part in a conspiracy to elect a member of parliament 1820–21; kept a school in Bond st. Birmingham 1823; clerk of the peace for Birmingham May 1839, solicitor there 1852; author of The philosophic alphabet with an explanation of its principles 1832; A universal alphabet, grammar and language comprising a scientific classification of the radical elements of discourse and illustrative translations from the Holy Scriptures and principal British classics [1856]. d. Abington Abbey Retreat near Northampton 1 July 1868. E. Edwards’s Personal recollections of Birmingham (1877) 140–54, portrait; R. K. Dent’s Old and new Birmingham (1880) 350–56, 398, 571, portrait; Notes and Queries 6 S. iv, 102, 210, 539 (1881); Aggravating Ladies, by Olphar Hamst (1880) p. 25.

EDMONDS, RICHARD (brother of George Edmonds 1805–69). b. Penzance 18 Sep. 1801; admitted attorney 4 June 1823; practised at Penzance 1823–25 and 1836–61, at Redruth 1825–36, at Plymouth 1861 to death; author of The Land’s End district, its antiquities, natural history, natural phenomena and scenery 1862, and of numerous papers in scientific and archæological transactions. d. Plymouth 12 March 1886. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i, 132–34 (1874), iii, 1169 (1882).

EDMONDS, THOMAS ROWE (brother of the preceding). b. Penzance 20 June 1803; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1826; actuary of the Legal and general life assurance society, London 1832–66; author of Practical, moral and political economy, or the government, religion and institutions most conducive to individual happiness and to national power 1828; Life tables founded on the discovery of a numerical law regulating the existence of every human being 1832; An inquiry into the principles of population 1832, anon. d. 72 Portsdown road, Maida Vale, London 6 March 1889. C. Walford’s Insurance Cyclopædia ii, 470–74 (1873).

EDMONDSON, GEORGE (son of John Edmondson of Lancaster, Quaker). b. Lancaster 8 Sep. 1798; ed. at Ackworth sch. Yorkshire; assisted Daniel Wheeler in superintending some agricultural institutions in Russia 1817–20; lived in Russia again 1823–30; opened a school at Blackburn 1830 and then one at Tulketh hall near Preston; kept an agricultural school at Queenwood Hall, Hants. 1847 to death; an early promoter of College of Preceptors 1846. d. 15 May 1863. bur. in burial ground of Society of Friends, Southampton. From the Lune to the Neva sixty years ago, By J. B. [Mrs. Davis Benson] 1879.

EDMONDSON, THOMAS (brother of George Edmondson 1798–1863). b. Lancaster 30 June 1792; apprenticed to a cabinet maker; journeyman in firm of Gillow and Co. Lancaster; a cabinet maker at Carlisle, became bankrupt; railway booking clerk at Milton station (since called Brampton) 14 miles from Carlisle about 1836; invented the railway ticket system 1837; founded a ticket printing establishment at Manchester. d. Manchester 22 June 1851. J. B. Edmondson’s To whom are we indebted for the railway ticket system? 1878; Household Words vi, 31, (1852); I.L.N. vi, 117 (1845), view of ticket printing machinery.

EDMONDSTON, LAURENCE (son of Laurence Edmonston of Lerwick, Shetland, surgeon). b. Lerwick 1795; studied at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1830; surgeon in Unst, most northerly of Shetland islands 1830 to death; a great naturalist, made many additions to list of British birds embracing the snowy owl, the Glaucus, Iceland and Ivory gulls; author of The claims of Shetland to a separate representation in parliament 1836 and other pamphlets. d. Baltasound, Shetland, March 1879. The home of a naturalist, In Memoriam, in Chambers’s Journal 11 Feb. 1882 pp. 89–92.

EDMONSTONE, SIR ARCHIBALD, 3 Baronet (eld. son of Sir Charles Edmonstone, 2 baronet 1764–1821). b. 32 Great Russell st. Bloomsbury, London 12 March 1795; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1816; succeeded 1 April 1821; contested Stirlingshire 24 May 1821; author of Journey to two of the Oases of Upper Egypt 1822; Tragedies 1837; The Christian gentleman’s daily walk 1840, 3 ed. 1850 and 8 other books. d. 34 Wilton place, London 13 March 1871. Sir A. Edmonstone’s Genealogical account of the family of Edmonstone (1875) 56–7.

EDMONSTONE, SIR GEORGE FREDERICK (4 son of Neil Benjamin Edmonstone 1765–1841, member of supreme council, Bengal). b. April 1813; entered Bengal civil service 1831; sec. to government of India in foreign, political and secret department 1856; lieut. governor of north western provinces of Bengal 20 Jany. 1859 to 7 March 1863; K.C.B. 11 Dec. 1863. d. Effingham hill, Dorking 24 Sep. 1864.

EDMONSTONE, SIR WILLIAM, 4 Baronet (brother of Sir Archibald Edmonstone 1795–1871). b. Hempton, Middlesex 29 Jany. 1810; entered navy Oct. 1823; inspecting commander in Coast Guard 1844–49; captain 20 Oct. 1853; A.D.C. to the Queen 1865–69; superintendent of Woolwich dockyard 1866–71; R.A. 3 July 1869, retired 1 April 1870; retired admiral 1 Jany. 1880; M.P. for Stirlingshire 1874–80; C.B. 24 March 1863. d. 11 Ainslie place, Edinburgh 18 Feb. 1888.

EDMUNDS, CHARLES. b. 1801; entered navy 19 Dec. 1813; captain 22 Nov. 1848; retired admiral 9 March 1878. d. 2 Park place villas, Maida hill west, London 1 Nov. 1879.

EDMUNDS, LEONARD (eld. son of John Edmunds of Ambleside, Westmoreland, who d. 7 July 1826). Articled to Wm. Vizard, solicitor of 61 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London; sec. to Comrs. of the Peace, Nov. 1830; purse bearer 1830; clerk of the patents 29 Aug. 1833 to July 1864; clerk of the Crown 1834–48; reading clerk of House of Lords 1848 to July 1864; clerk of comrs. of patents, Oct. 1852 to July 1864; claimed money from the Government for several years but was always unsuccessful; brought an action for libel against W. E. Gladstone the prime minister, June 1872 when he was nonsuited. d. 6 Culworth st. St. John’s Wood, London 19 June 1887 aged 85. Report on case of Mr. Edmunds in House of Commons Papers (1865) vols. ix and xliii; Law Reports vi Equity (1868) 381–96; The Edmunds scandal case 1870; T. A. Nash’s Life of Lord Westbury (1888) ii, 112–23.

EDWARD, THOMAS (son of a hand-loom linen weaver). b. Gosport, Hants. 25 Dec. 1814; shoemaker at Banff 1835; collected nearly 2000 species of animals which he exhibited at Banff fair, May 1845 and 1846; discovered 20 new species of Sessile-eyed Crustacea; curator of museum of Banff Institution to 1882; A.L.S. 1866; collected nearly every plant in Aberdeenshire and Banffshire; granted civil list pension of £50, 24 Jany. 1877. d. 27 April 1886. Life of a Scotch Naturalist by S. Smiles 1882; Stories of remarkable persons by W. Chambers (1878) 158–71; Graphic xv, 256 (1877), portrait.

EDWARDES, GEORGE WARREN (3 son of 2 baron Kensington 1777–1852). b. 28 May 1802; ed. at Eton; auditor general St. Helena 1845–56; governor of Labuan 13 Feb. 1856 to July 1861. d. Chandos house 21 Feb. 1879.

EDWARDES, SIR HERBERT BENJAMIN (2 son of Rev. Benjamin Edwardes, R. of Frodesley, Salop). b. Frodesley 12 Nov. 1819; ed. at King’s coll. London; ensign 1 Bengal fusiliers 1841; suppressed rebellion in Mooltan, June to July 1848; captain 1 European fusiliers 1 March 1850; comr. of Peshawur frontier, Oct. 1853 to 1859; comr. of Umballa 1862–65; left India 7 Feb. 1865; M.G. 22 Feb. 1868; C.B. 20 Oct. 1849, K.C.B. 18 May 1860; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1866; author of A year on the Punjaub frontier in 1848–49, 2 vols. 1851. d. Holles st. Cavendish sq. London 23 Dec. 1868, mural tablet in Westminster Abbey. Memorials of the life and letters of Sir H. B. Edwardes by Emma Edwardes 2 vols. 1886, portrait; C. R. Low’s Soldiers of the Victorian age ii, 1–43 (1880); I.L.N. xiii, 213 (1848), portrait, xviii, 618 (1851), portrait.

EDWARDES, RICHARD (brother of G. W. Edwardes 1802–79). b. 25 Oct. 1807; entered diplomatic service 1826; minister plenipotentiary to the Argentine republic 10 Aug. 1865 to death but did not leave England. d. 22 Dover st. Piccadilly, London 23 March 1866.

EDWARDS, REV. BARTHOLOMEW. b. 2 March 1789; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1811, M.A. 1814; R. of Ashill, Norfolk 1813 to death; rural dean of Breckles and Thetford. d. Ashill rectory 21 Feb. 1889 said to be the oldest clergyman in England.

EDWARDS, SIR BRYAN (son of Bryan Edwards). b. 1799; barrister I.T. 6 May 1825; chief justice, vice chancellor and judge of vice admiralty court for Jamaica 1859–69 when he retired on a pension; knighted by patent 15 Nov. 1859. d. Eltham Pen, Spanish town, Jamaica 6 Dec. 1876.

EDWARDS, CHARLES. b. Norwich 17 March 1797; ed. at Trin. hall, Cam., LL.B. 1807; practised law in New York; counsel to British consulate, New York 25 years; author of The Juryman’s guide 1831; Parties to bills and other pleadings 1832; Feathers from my own wings 1832; The History and poetry of finger rings 1855; Pleasantries about courts and lawyers 1865 and other books. d. New York 30 May 1868.

EDWARDS, CLEMENT ALEXANDER. b. 12 Nov. 1812; ensign 31 foot 11 June 1829; lieut. col. 18 foot 9 March 1855, lieut. col. 49 foot 3 Aug. 1860 to 4 Aug. 1863 when placed on h.p.; inspector general of recruits 6 July 1867 to 31 July 1873; col. 18 foot 25 March 1877 to death; general 20 May 1878; placed on retired list 1 July 1881. d. Leeson house, Blackheath 29 July 1882.

EDWARDS, EDWARD. b. Corwen, Merionethshire 23 Nov. 1803; a draper at Bangor to 1839; carried on a foundry and iron works at Menai Straits several years from 1840; invented a dark-water chamber slope-back tank for marine aquaria, the principle of which was adopted here and in many of the continental and American zoological schools. d. 13 Aug. 1879.

EDWARDS, EDWARD. b. probably in London 1812; supernumerary assistant in printed book department British Museum 1839–1846; one of the 5 framers of the 91 rules for the printed catalogue; librarian of the Manchester Free library 1850–58, library was opened Sep. 1852; catalogued library of Queen’s college, Oxford 1870–80; author of Napoleon medals 1837; Memoirs of libraries 2 vols. 1859; Libraries and founders of libraries 1865; Lives of the founders of the British Museum 2 vols. 1870 and other books; found dead in his bed at St. Catherine’s Lodge, Niton, Isle of Wight 7 Feb. 1886. Book-Lore, April 1886 pp. 135–41.

EDWARDS, EDWIN (son of Charles Edwards of Bridgham hall, Norfolk). b. Framlingham 6 Jany. 1823; admitted solicitor 1845; practised as a proctor first in Bennett’s hill, then in Knightrider st. London 1845–60; exhibited 54 pictures chiefly sea pieces at R.A. 1861–79, his etchings number about 371; author of Cases in prerogative court with respect to wills 1847; Treatise on jurisdiction of high court of Admiralty 1847; Ecclesiastical jurisdiction, succession to personal property 1853. d. 26 Golden sq. London 15 Sep. 1879.

EDWARDS, GEORGE NELSON (eld. son of George Edwards of Eye, Suffolk, surgeon). b. Eye 1830; ed. at Gonville and Caius coll. Cam., M.B. 1851, M.D. 1859; assistant phys. St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1860, phys. 23 Jany. 1867; lecturer on forensic medicine 1866; edited St. Bartholomew’s hospital reports vols. 1–3 (1865–7); author of The examination of the chest, in a series of tables 1862. d. 20 Finsbury sq. London 6 Dec. 1868.

EDWARDS, HENRY. Entered navy 19 Nov. 1796; captain 2 Aug. 1826; admiral on half pay 9 Feb. 1864. d. Huntingdon 22 Oct. 1864 aged 80.

EDWARDS, SIR HENRY, 1 Baronet (3 son of Henry Lees Edwards of Pye Nest near Halifax 1775–1848). b. Pye Nest 20 July 1812; M.P. for Halifax 1847–52, for Beverley 1857–69; contested Halifax 1852, 1853 and 1857; lieut. col. commandant 2 West Yorkshire yeomanry cavalry 1863 to death; created baronet 3 Aug. 1866; sheriff of Yorkshire 1871; C.B. 1881. d. Pye Nest 23 April 1886. I.L.N. xxiii, 203 (1853), portrait, lxxxvii, 37 (1885), portrait.

EDWARDS, VERY REV. HENRY THOMAS (son of Rev. William Edwards, V. of Llangollen, who d. 1868). b. Llangmawddwy, co. Merioneth 6 Sep. 1837; ed. at Westminster and Jesus coll. Ox., B.A. 1860; C. of Llangollen 1861; V. of Aberdare 1866–69; V. of Carnarvon 1869; dean of Bangor, March 1876 to death; author of The church of the Cymry, a letter to the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 1870 and other small books; hanged himself at Ruabon vicarage 24 May 1884. bur. Glenadda cemetery, Bangor 28 May. Church portrait journal, Aug. 1879 pp. 71–3, portrait; C. Mackeson’s Church congress handbook (1877) 76–7; I.L.N. 31 May 1884 pp. 520, 523, portrait.

EDWARDS, JOHN. b. Llanuwch-y-lynn near Bala 15 April 1806; a farmer near Utica, New York 1828–34, 1840–66, and near Rome, New York 1866 to death; a successful competitor for the prizes awarded at the Eisteddfodan in Wales; known as Eos Glan Twrch (the nightingale of the Twrch river); edited a Welsh periodical published at Utica called Amserai; his published poems include The Crucifixion 1853 and The Omnipresence of God 1859. d. near Rome, New York 20 Jany. 1887.

EDWARDS, JOHN (eld. son of John Edwards of Lower Broughton near Manchester). b. 1836; ed. at Owen’s coll. Manchester; barrister G.I. 26 Jany. 1860, bencher 7 July 1874; practised as a conveyancer in Manchester; Q.C. 6 July 1874. d. The Rosary, Aston-on-Mersey, Cheshire 15 Sep. 1885.

EDWARDS, REV. JOSEPH. Educ. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1835; second master of King’s college school, London 1833–55; chaplain to Fishmongers’ Co. 1841–55; V. of Barrow-on-Trent 1855–70; author of Introduction to English composition, 5 ed. 1847, and many other school books. d. Weybridge, Surrey 1 July 1875.

EDWARDS, REV. LEWIS. b. Pwllcenavon, Cardiganshire 27 Oct. 1809; studied at Univ. of Edin., M.A. 1836, D.D. 1865; ordained in Welsh Calvinistic church 1837; principal of a school at Bala (which became Bala college) 1837 to death; started Y Traethodydd (The Essayist) a quarterly mag. Jany. 1845, edited it 10 years; started the Geiniogwerth (Pennyworth) 1847; most of his essays were published as Traethodau llenyddol a Duwinyddol (Essays literary and theological) 2 vols. 1867. d. Bala college 19 July 1887. Rev. L. Edwards’s Athrawiaeth yr Iawn (Atonement), 2 ed. 1887 with memoir by his son.

EDWARDS, PETER. Second lieut. 3 Ceylon regiment 1 Oct. 1807; captain 75 foot 30 April 1818 to 11 May 1826 when placed on h.p.; general 19 Nov. 1871. d. London 14 Dec. 1874 aged 83.

EDWARDS, REV. ROGER. b. Wales 1811; edited Welsh political paper called Cronicl yr Oes 1835–39, wrote most of it; sec. of Calvinistic Methodist Assoc. 1839–74; co-editor of Y Traethodydd Jany. 1845 to death; edited the Drysorfa 1846 to death; wrote 3 serial stories in Welsh being the first published; author of The Welsh psalmist; Methodist Diary. d. 1886. Drysorfa, Sep. and Oct. 1886.

EDWARDS, THOMAS. b. Northop, Flintshire 1779; sec. to Nathaniel M. Rothschild in London; a member of the Cymmrodorion, delivered many of their lectures; contributed frequently to Welsh magazines; author of Analysis of Welsh orthography 1845; English and Welsh dictionary, Holywell 1850, 2 ed. 1864. d. 10 Cloudesley sq. London 4 June 1858. Foulkes’s Geirlyfr Bywgraffiadol.

EDWARDS, REV. THOMAS WYNNE (son of Evan Edwards of Plas Nantylyn, Denbighshire 1724–96). b. Plas Nantylyn 8 April 1796; ed. at Donnington school, Shropshire and Jesus coll. Ox.; pulled the stroke-oar in his college boat in the first eight-oared boat race ever rowed at Oxford, when Jesus coll. won 1815; B.A. 1817, M.A. 1863; V. of Rhuddlan, Flintshire 1827 to death; vicar choral of St. Asaph cathedral 1828 to death. d. Rhuddlan vicarage 28 Dec. 1877.

EDWARDS, REV. WILLIAM. b. Festiniog, North Wales about 1812; a quarry-man at Meirion; studied at Liverpool and Brecon colleges; Congregational minister at Ebenezer, Aberdare 1844 to death; founded many Congregational churches in Wales; temperance, social and political reformer; chairman of Welsh Congregational Union 1883, delivered his address The Church and the age we live in, at Festiniog 22 Aug. 1883. d. Aberdare 29 Aug. 1884.

EDWARDS, WILLIAM CAMDEN. b. Monmouthshire 1777; engraver at Bungay, Suffolk; engraved portraits and illustrations for the Bible and Pilgrim’s Progress published by Brightly of Bungay; engraved plate of ‘Milton and his daughters’ after Romney and many portraits; a complete series of his engravings and etchings was in Dawson Turner’s collection. d. Bungay 22 Aug. 1855.

EDWIN, ELIZABETH REBECCA (dau. of Mr. Richards of Dublin, actor). b. 1769; first appeared at Crow st. theatre, Dublin when aged 8; first appeared in London at Covent Garden 13 Nov. 1789; played chief characters in comedy at nearly all the west-end theatres; retired about 1822. (m. 1791 John Edwin the younger, comedian 1768–1805). d. at her lodgings in Chelsea 3 Aug. 1854. Mrs. C. B. Wilson’s Our Actresses i, 103–20 (1844); Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography iv, 199–209 (1826), portrait; Theatrical Inquisitor vi, 163–65 (1815) portrait.

EFFINGHAM, HENRY HOWARD, 2 Earl of (son of 1 Earl of Effingham 1767–1845). b. Southampton 23 Aug. 1806; ed. at Harrow; ensign 58 foot 1825; captain 10 foot 1830–33; M.P. for Shaftesbury 2 July 1841 to 13 Feb. 1845 when he succeeded. d. 57 Eaton place, London 5 Feb. 1889.

EGAN, RIGHT REV. CORNELIUS (son of Daniel Egan of Lismickfinan, Killorghan, co. Kerry). b. Lismickfinan 24 June 1780; entered Maynooth college 14 Aug. 1799; ordained priest 26 May 1804; principal of diocesan seminary in Killarney, professor of theology there; erected from Pugin’s design a church at Killarney; P.P. Tralee and vicar general Nov. 1811; coadjutor Bishop of Kerry 29 March 1824, consecrated in Tralee church 25 July 1824, bishop of the diocese Oct. 1824 to death. d. Tralee 22 July 1856. W. M. Brady’s Episcopal succession ii, 62 (1876).

EGAN, DANIEL. b. Windsor, N.S.W. 1803; foreman of dockyards in Sydney, a merchant there; alderman of Sydney, mayor 1851; magistrate of Sydney 1848–53; member of legislative council N.S.W. 1854, of legislative assembly 1856 to death; postmaster general 27 Oct. 1868 to death. d. Watson’s Bay near Sydney 16 Oct. 1870.

EGAN, PIERCE (son of Pierce Egan the author 1772–1849). b. London 19 Dec. 1814; illustrated Davidge’s Acting Drama and his father’s The pilgrims of the Thames in search of the national 1837; author of Wat Tyler 1841, new ed. 1851; Paul Jones 2 vols. 1842; edited the Home Circle 7 July 1849 to Dec. 1851; contributed novels to the London Journal Dec. 1857 to death, the best of them were The flower of the flock 1857–8, The snake in the grass 1858, The poor girl 1862–3, Eve or the angel of innocence 1867. d. Ravensbourne, Burnt Ash, Lee, Kent 6 July 1880. bur. Highgate cemetery 9 July.

EGERTON, WILLIAM TATTON EGERTON, 1 Baron (eld. child of Wilbraham Egerton 1781–1856). b. 30 Dec. 1806; M.P. for Lymington 1830, for Cheshire 1832–58; created baron Egerton of Tatton county palatine of Cheshire 15 May 1859; lord lieut. of Cheshire 29 Jany. 1868 to death. d. Tatton hall, Cheshire 21 Feb. 1883. bur. Rostherne church 27 Feb. Graphic xxvii, 296 (1883), portrait.

EGERTON, CALEDON RICHARD. b. 28 July 1814; ensign 89 foot 15 June 1832, lieut. col. 9 March 1855 to 12 Dec. 1856; lieut. col. of 18 depot battalion 1856–63, of 8 depot battalion 1863–65; assistant adjutant general in Scotland 1865–66; deputy adjutant general 1 April 1866 to 1 Nov. 1871; M.G. 6 March 1868; military sec. to commander in chief 1 Nov. 1871 to 20 Feb. 1874; col. 89 foot 20 Feb. 1874 to death. d. 7 Durham villas, Kensington, London 27 May 1874.

EGERTON, SIR CHARLES BULKELEY (4 son of Philip Egerton of Oulton park, Cheshire 1732–86). b. Oulton park 5 June 1774; ensign 29 foot 16 Nov. 1791; lieut. col. 44 foot 5 Jany. 1809 to 22 Aug. 1811 when placed on h.p.; col. 89 foot 26 Sep. 1837 to death; general 9 Nov. 1846; G.C.M.G. 10 May 1837. d. 1 Upper Portland place, London 8 July 1857.

EGERTON, CHARLES CHANDLER (son of Rev. Charles Egerton, V. of Thorncombe, Dorset). b. Thorncombe vicarage, April 1798; ed. at St. Thomas’s and Guy’s hospitals; M.R.C.S. 1819, assistant surgeon Bengal 1823; oculist at the Eye hospital and afterwards at Medical college hospital, Calcutta where he was also first surgeon to 1847 when he retired. d. Kendal lodge, Epping, May 1885.

EGERTON, EDWARD CHRISTOPHER (brother of 1 Baron Egerton 1806–83). b. Tatton park, Cheshire 27 July 1816; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1837, B.C.L. 1841; fell. of All Soul’s coll. 1837–46; barrister I.T. 12 June 1840; M.P. for Macclesfield 1852 to 1868; M.P. for East Cheshire 1868 to death; under sec. for foreign affairs, July 1866 to Dec. 1868. d. Baveno, Italy 27 Aug. 1869. I.L.N. xxi, 402 (1852), portrait.

EGERTON, HENRY. b. 7 July 1836; acting manager T.R. Dublin; killed in the fire of the T.R. Dublin 9 Feb. 1880, body found 6 March. bur. Mount Jerome cemetery 9 March. Graphic xxi, 205 (1880), portrait.

EGERTON, REV. JOHN COKER (eld. son of John Egerton of Bunbury, Cheshire). Matric. from Brasenose coll. Ox. 3 Feb. 1848 aged 18; B.A. 1852, M.A. 1854; C. of Nunton, Wilts. 1854–57; C. of Burwash, Sussex 1857–62 and 1865–67; C. of St. Andrew Undershaft, City of London 1862–65; R. and V. of Burwash 1867 to death; a writer in Leisure Hour and the Sussex Advertiser; author of Sussex Folk and Sussex Ways. d. 20 March 1888. The Academy 31 March 1888 p. 223.

EGERTON, JOHN HUME (elder son of John Cust 1 Earl Brownlow 1779–1853). b. Cavendish sq. London 15 Oct. 1812; ed. at Magd. coll. Cam., M.A. 1833; M.P. for Bedfordshire 13 Jany. 1835 to death; captain North Lincolnshire militia 29 May 1833, colonel to death; took part in the Eglinton tournament, fought in earnest with the Marquis of Waterford the last day 30 Aug. 1839; took name of Egerton only by r.l. 15 March 1849. d. Ashridge park 3 Jany. 1851.

EGERTON, SIR PHILIP DE MALPAS GREY-, 10 Baronet (eld. son of Rev. Sir Philip Grey-Egerton, 9 baronet). b. Malpas, Cheshire 13 Nov. 1806; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1828; collected fossil fishes in Germany, Switzerland and Italy; M.P. for Chester 1830–32, for South Cheshire 1835–68, for West Cheshire 1868 to death; contested South Cheshire 1832; F.G.S. 1829, Wollaston medallist 1873; F.R.S. 10 Feb. 1831; author of Alphabetical catalogue of type specimens of fossil fishes 1871, and of over 80 papers in the Transactions, Proceedings and Journal of Geol. Soc., and other scientific journals. d. 28^B Albemarle st. Piccadilly, London 5 April 1881. Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxiii, pp. xxii-iv (1882); Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxxviii, 46–8 (1882).

EGERTON, RICHARD. b. 7 April 1783; ensign 89 foot 1 Dec. 1798; captain 34 foot 14 April 1808 to 16 Dec. 1819 when placed on h.p.; first aide-de-camp and private sec. to Lord Hill the commander in chief 1828–42; col. 46 foot 24 Jany. 1853 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854; C.B. 19 July 1838. d. Eaton Banks, Cheshire 18 Nov. 1854.

EGERTON, WILBRAHAM. b. 1 Sep. 1781; sheriff of Cheshire 1808; M.P. for Cheshire 1812–31. d. Tatton park 25 April 1856.

EGG, AUGUSTUS LEOPOLD (son of Joseph Egg of 1 Piccadilly, London, gunmaker). b. 1 Piccadilly 2 May 1816; studied at R.A.; exhibited 28 pictures at R.A., 9 at B.I. and 9 at Suffolk st. gallery 1837–60; A.R.A. 1848, R.A. 1860. d. Algiers 26 March 1863. Life of Charles Dickens by J. Forster iii, 55–74 (1874); Redgrave’s Century of painters ii, 358–60 (1866); Art Union monthly journal (1847) 312, portrait; I.L.N. xxx, 419, 420 (1857), portrait.

EGLEY, WILLIAM. b. Doncaster 1798; miniature painter in London 1824 to death; exhibited 169 miniatures at R.A. 1824–69. d. London 19 March 1870.

EGLINTON, ARCHIBALD WILLIAM MONTGOMERIE, 13 Earl of (only son of major general Archibald Montgomerie 1773–1814). b. Palermo 29 Sep. 1812; succeeded his grandfather as 13 Earl, 14 Dec. 1819; ed. at Eton; began racing 1831, won the St. Leger with Blue Bonnet 1842, with Van Tromp 1847, won the Derby and St. Leger with the Flying Dutchman 1849; col. Ayrshire militia 1836–52; carried out celebrated tournament held at Eglinton castle, Ayrshire 28–30 Aug. 1839; served heir male general of George 4 Earl of Winton (who d. 6 March 1704) 22 Dec. 1840; lord lieut. of Ayrshire 17 Aug. 1842; lord rector of Marischal coll. Aberdeen 1852; lord lieut. of Ireland 27 Feb. to Dec. 1852 and 26 Feb. 1858 to 5 Jany. 1859; P.C. 27 Feb. 1852; lord rector of Glasgow Univ. 1852; K.T. 18 June 1853; created Earl of Winton in peerage of U.K. 23 June 1859; the most popular man in the three kingdoms. d. Mount Melville near St. Andrews 4 Oct. 1861. Nixon and Richardson’s Eglinton Tournament (1843), portrait; Eton portrait gallery (1876) 352–56; Sporting Review xxxix, 452–5 (1858), xlvi, 320–1 (1861); Rice’s British turf (1879) i, 281–3; Sporting Times 28 March 1885 pp. 5–6.

EGMONT, GEORGE JAMES PERCEVAL, 6 Earl of (3 son of 2 Baron Arden 1756–1840). b. 14 March 1794; served as midshipman at Trafalgar 21 Oct. 1805, captain 7 Dec. 1818; admiral on h.p. 23 March 1863; M.P. for West Surrey 4 Aug. 1837 to 5 July 1840 when he succeeded as 3 Baron Arden; succeeded as 6 Earl of Egmont 23 Dec. 1841. d. North house, Epsom 2 Aug. 1874, personalty sworn under £350,000, 26 Sep. I.L.N. lxv, 164 (1874), portrait.

EKINS, SIR CHARLES (son of Very Rev. Jeffery Ekins, dean of Carlisle, who d. 20 Nov. 1791). b. Quainton rectory, Bucks. 1768; entered navy 20 March 1781; captain 22 Dec. 1796; admiral 23 Nov. 1841; K.C.B. 8 June 1831; G.C.B. 6 April 1852; author of Naval battles from 1744 to the peace of 1814 critically reviewed and illustrated 2 vols. 1824, 2 ed. 1828. d. 69 Cadogan place, London 2 July 1855 aged 87.

ELD, GEORGE. b. Coventry; a miller, silk dealer and dyer successively; edited Coventry Standard 20 years; mayor of Coventry 1834–5, alderman to death; made many drawings of ancient buildings and other memorials of the past. d. Coventry 22 May 1862 in 71 year.

ELD, JOHN (3 son of Francis Eld of Seighford hall near Stafford 1736–1817). b. 16 July 1779; elected master of the ceremonies of assemblies at Old Ship inn, Brighton, March 1828 being the third and last master, final ball held 20 Nov. 1854. d. Brighton 22 Dec. 1855 in 76 year. J. G. Bishop’s A Peep into the past, Brighton (1880) 34–6, portrait.

ELDER, CHARLES. Historical and portrait painter; exhibited 5 pictures at B.I., 11 at R.A. and 5 at Suffolk st. gallery 1844–52. d. Gower st. London 11 Dec. 1851 aged 30.

ELDER, REV. EDWARD (son of John Edward Elder of Barbadoes). b. 1 Oct 1812; ed. at Charterhouse and Ball. coll. Ox., open scholar 1830; B.A. 1834, M.A. 1836, D.D. 1853; master of Durham cathedral gr. school 1839–53; master of Charterhouse school 1853 to death; contributed several articles to Smith’s Dictionary of classical biography and mythology. d. 6 April 1858, memorial tablet in Charterhouse chapel. G.M. iv, 563, 673–4 (1858).

ELDER, JOHN (3 son of David Elder of Glasgow, marine engineer 1784–1866). b. Glasgow 8 March 1824; member of firm of Randolph Elliott & Co. of Glasgow, marine engineers 1852; a shipbuilder in Glasgow 1860 to death; employed about 4000 men; adopted the compound or combined high and low pressure engines 1854; patented his round war ship 1868 and many improvements in marine machinery; pres. of Institution of engineers and shipbuilders of Glasgow 1869. d. London 17 Sep. 1869. W. J. M. Rankine’s Memoir of J. Elder 1870, portrait; Maclehose’s Memoirs and portraits of a hundred Glasgow men 1886.

ELDER, WILLIAM. b. Malin, Donegal 22 July 1822; ed. at Queen’s coll. Belfast, and Univs. of Glasgow and Edin.; a minister in Presbyterian church; went to New Brunswick; edited the Colonial Presbyterian, edited the Morning Journal at St. John 1865; chief editor and proprietor of the Daily Telegraph at St. John 1871; member of legislative assembly of New Brunswick 1878 to death; provincial secretary 1882. d. St. John N.B. 23 July 1882. Dominion Annual Register 1883 pp. 309–11.

ELDON, JOHN SCOTT, 2 Earl of. b. Manchester square, London 10 Dec. 1805; ed. at Winchester and New coll. Ox.; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; D.C.L. 1834; LLD. Cam. 1842; M.P. for Truro 1829–32; succeeded 13 Jany. 1838; pres. of the Pitt club 1842; declared by inquisition to be of unsound mind Jany. 1853. d. Shirley park, Surrey 18 Sep. 1854. bur. family vault at Kingston, Isle of Purbeck 29 Sep. Doyle’s Official baronage i, 671 (1886), portrait; I.L.N. iv, 65 (1844), portrait.

ELDRED, JOSEPH. b. London 1843; agent for Rev. J. M. Bellew on a reading tour through the provinces 1860; a low comedian in Dublin 1865; an actor and manager at Liverpool; first appeared in London at Olympic theatre 15 June 1868 as Major Regulus Rattan in Ici on parle Français; acted at Gaiety theatre from 21 Dec. 1868; played Micawber in Little Emly at Olympic from 9 Oct. 1869; played several starring tours in provinces; remarkably like the Earl of Beaconsfield. d. Sydney, New South Wales 29 Feb. 1884. Sporting Times 25 Sep. 1875, pp. 537, 540, portrait.

ELDRIDGE, CHARLES MONROE. Member of assembly for city of St. John’s, Antigua 1852–63; pres. of Dominica 1872 and 1882; pres. of Nevis, April 1872 to May 1873; pres. of St. Christopher 1883 and of St. Kitt’s and Nevis 1883. d. 8 Oct. 1888.

ELEN, PHILIP WEST. Landscape painter in London; exhibited 64 pictures at R.A., 57 at B.I. and 46 at Suffolk st. gallery 1838–72. d. Regent’s park road, London 21 Feb. 1880.

ELGIN, JAMES BRUCE, 8 Earl of, and 12 Earl of Kincardine (2 son of 7 Earl of Elgin 1766–1841). b. Park lane, London 20 July 1811; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; B.A. 1833, M.A. 1835, D.C.L. 1856; fellow of Merton coll. 1833 to 1841; M.P. for Southampton 1841–42; succeeded his father 17 Nov. 1841; governor general of Jamaica 1842–46, of Canada 1846–54; knighted by patent 19 June 1847; K.T. 12 July 1847; created baron Elgin of Elgin 13 Nov. 1849, special ambassador to China 1857–59 and 1860–61; P.C. 21 March 1857; G.C.B. 28 Sep. 1858; postmaster general 1859 to 1860; lord rector of Univ. of Glasgow, Nov. 1859; received freedom of City of London 1 March 1860; viceroy of India 21 Jany. 1862 to death. d. Dhurmsala, Cashmere 20 Nov. 1863. T. Walrond’s Letters and journals of James, eighth Earl of Elgin 1872; L. Oliphant’s Narrative of Lord Elgin’s Mission to China and Japan 2 vols. 1859; H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches, 4 ed. (1876) 108–21; Eton portrait gallery (1876) 360–67; D. C. Boulger’s History of China, vol. 3 (1884).

ELIOT, REV. EDWARD (eld. son of Rev. Richard Eliot, Vicar of Maker, Cornwall, who d. 1795). b. Maker 22 May 1789; ed. at Lostwithiel and Ex. coll. Ox., fellow 30 June 1811 to 10 July 1826; B.A. 1814, M.A. 1815, B.D. 1825; archdeacon of Barbadoes 1825–37; V. of Norton Bavant, Wilts. 1837 to death; preb. of Salisbury 30 Dec. 1848 to death; author of Christianity and Slavery 1833 and other books. d. Norton Bavant 1 Nov. 1861.

ELIOTT, SIR DANIEL (4 son of Sir William Eliott, 6 baronet, who d. 14 May 1812). b. Stobs castle, Roxburghshire 3 March 1798; writer Madras civil service 1817; sec. to board of revenue 1827; member of Madras council and pres. of revenue, marine and college boards 1848; member of legislative council of India 1855–58; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1867. d. 12 The Boltons, West Brompton, London 30 Oct. 1872.

ELIOTT, GEORGE AUGUSTUS (brother of the preceding). b. 24 May 1799; entered navy 1814; captain on h.p. 27 June 1838; admiral on h.p. 10 Sep. 1869. d. Bath 13 May 1872.

ELIOTT, RUSSELL (brother of the preceding). b. Stobs castle 26 March 1802; entered navy 16 Nov. 1814; captain 28 June 1838; admiral on h.p. 10 Sep. 1869. d. Appleby castle, Westmoreland 28 Dec. 1881.

ELKINGTON, GEORGE RICHARDS (son of James Elkington of Birmingham, gilt-toy maker). b. St. Paul’s sq. Birmingham 17 Oct. 1801; apprenticed to his uncles Josiah and George Richards of Birmingham, partner with them, succeeded to the business on their death; partner with his cousin Henry Elkington, who d. 26 Oct. 1852, they introduced industry of electro plating and electro gilding 1840; established large copper-smelting works at Pembrey, South Wales. d. of paralysis at Pool park, Denbighshire 22 Sep. 1865, personalty sworn under £350,000, 20 Jany. 1866.

ELKINGTON, JOHN HENRY FORD (son of James Goodall Elkington). b. 10 April 1830; ensign 6 foot 28 Aug. 1846, lieut. col. 27 Nov. 1867 to 24 Feb. 1877 when placed on h.p.; lieut. governor and commanding the troops Guernsey 1 Nov. 1885 to death; L.G. 1 April 1887; C.B. 24 May 1881. d. St. George, Guernsey 21 Feb. 1889.

ELLA, JOHN (son of Richard Ella of Thirsk, Yorkshire). b. Thirsk 19 Dec. 1802; violinist in orchestra of Drury Lane theatre 18 Jany. 1821, of the King’s theatre 1822; member of all important orchestras in London 1826; musical editor of the Athenæum and other papers; established “The Musical Union” a series of morning concerts of instrumental chamber music 1845, and a similar series of concerts entitled “Musical Winter Evenings” 1850; musical lecturer to London Institution 1855; author of Musical Sketches abroad and at home 1869, 3 ed. 1878; Lectures on dramatic, music and musical education abroad and at home 1872. d. 9 Victoria sq. Pimlico, London 2 Oct. 1888. I.L.N. viii, 420 (1846), portrait.

ELLACOMBE, REV. HENRY THOMAS (son of Rev. William Ellicombe, R. of Alphington near Exeter, who d. 1831). b. 1790; ed. at Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1812, M.A. 1816; C. of Cricklade, Wilts. 1816; C. of Bitton, Gloucs. 1817–35; V. of Bitton 1835–50; R. of Clyst St. George, Devon 1850 to death; restored church of Bitton 1822 and built 3 other churches near there; the great authority on bells, invented an apparatus of chiming hammers; changed his name to Ellacombe about 1842; author of Practical remarks on belfries and ringers, Bristol 1850, 4 ed. 1876; The Church bells of Devon, Somerset and Gloucestershire 3 vols. 1872, 1875, 1881, and other books. d. Clyst St. George 30 July 1885. bur. in Bitton churchyard. Mozley’s Reminiscences (1882) i, 75–81; Church Bells 7 Aug. 1885 pp. 847–8, portrait.

ELLENBOROUGH, EDWARD LAW, 1 Earl of (eld. son of 1 Baron Ellenborough 1750–1818). b. 8 Sep. 1790; ed. at Eton and St. John’s coll. Cam., M.A. 1809; M.P. for St. Michael’s, Cornwall 1813–18; lord privy seal 22 Jany. 1828 to 10 June 1829; P.C. 26 Jany. 1828; a lord of the treasury 21 Nov. 1834; pres. of Board of Control 20 Dec. 1834 to 29 April 1835, 9 Sep. 1841 to 28 Oct. 1841, and 6 March to June 1858; governor general of India 20 Oct. 1841 to 15 June 1844; created Viscount Southam of Southam, Gloucs. and Earl of Ellenborough in the county of Cumberland 22 Oct. 1844; G.C.B. 30 Oct. 1844; first lord of Admiralty 8 Jany. 1846 to 6 July 1846. d. Southam Delabere, Gloucs. 22 Dec. 1871. History of the Indian administration of Lord Ellenborough, edited by Lord Colchester 1874; Eton portrait gallery (1876) 371–78; I.L.N. ii, 92 (1843), portrait, lix, 643 (1871), lx, 36, 37 (1872), portrait.

ELLERTON, REV. EDWARD (son of Richard Ellerton of Downholm, Yorkshire). b. 30 Jany. 1771; ed. at Richmond sch. and Univ. coll. Ox., B.A. 1792, M.A. 1795, B.D. 1805, D.D. 1815; Usher of Magd. coll. sch. 1795, master 1798–1810; fell. of Magd. coll. 2 Nov. 1803 to death, vice pres. 1806, tutor 1810, librarian 1827; senior proctor 1804–5; P.C. of Horsepath, Oxon. 1814; P.C. of Sevenhampton, Gloucs. 1825–51; joint founder in 1832 with Dr. E. B. Pusey and his brother Philip Pusey of the Pusey and Ellerton Hebrew scholarships, which are three in number open to all members of the university and of annual value of £30 each. d. Theale curacy, Berks. 26 Dec. 1851. J. B. Bloxam’s Register of Magdalene college iii, 246–58 (1863).

ELLERTON, JOHN LODGE (son of Adam Lodge of Liverpool). b. Chester 11 Jany. 1801; ed. at Rugby and Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1828; studied music at Rome where he wrote 7 Italian operas; his English opera Domenica produced at Drury Lane 7 June 1838 failed; wrote another English opera The Bridal of Triermain and a German opera Lucinda; published an oratorio Paradise Lost 1857, fifty string quartets and many other musical works; a member of the Musical Union 1847–71; assumed name of Ellerton about 1844; author of The bridal of Salerno, a poetical romance 1845, The elixir of youth, a legend and other poems 1864. d. Connaught place, Hyde park, London 10 Jany. 1873.

ELLESMERE, FRANCIS EGERTON, 1 Earl of (younger son of 1 Duke of Sutherland 1758–1833). b. Arlington st. Piccadilly, London 1 Jany. 1800; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; M.P. for Bletchingley, Surrey 1822–26, for Sutherlandshire 1826–30, for South Lancashire 1834–46; a lord of the Treasury 1827; under sec. of state for Colonies, Jany. to May 1828; chief sec. to Marquis of Anglesey, lord lieut. of Ireland 1828–30; P.C. 28 June 1828; P.C. Ireland 9 Aug. 1828; sec. at war 30 July to 22 Nov. 1830; rector of Univ. of Aberdeen, Oct. 1838; created Earl of Ellesmere of Ellesmere, Salop, and Viscount Brackley of Brackley, Northamptonshire 1 July 1846; K.G. 7 Feb. 1855; lord lieut. of Lancashire 9 April 1856; author of Translations from the German and original poems 1824; Mediterranean sketches 1843; The pilgrimage and other poems 1856. d. Bridgewater house, St. James’s, London 18 Feb. 1857. Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xiv, 184–6 (1858); Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xiv, pp. xlv-xlvii (1858); Fraser’s Mag. July 1835 p. 43, portrait; I.L.N. viii, 60 (1846), portrait, xxxvii, 563, 568 (1860), portrait.

ELLESMERE, GEORGE GRANVILLE FRANCIS EGERTON, 2 Earl of. b. Albemarle st. Piccadilly, London 15 June 1823; M.P. for North Staffs. 1847–51; succeeded 18 Feb. 1857. d. Balbirnie, Fifeshire 19 Sep. 1862.

ELLICE, SIR CHARLES HENRY (2 son of general Robert Ellice 1784–1856). b. Florence 10 May 1823; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign Coldstream guards 10 May 1839; lieut. col. 24 foot 8 Aug. 1851 to 8 July 1862 when placed on h.p.; quarter master general 1 April 1871 to 30 March 1876; adjutant general 1 Nov. 1876 to March 1882; col. of 49 foot 7 Sep. 1874, of 24 foot 6 April 1884 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 1 April 1887; C.B. 1 Jany. 1858, K.C.B. 24 May 1873, G.C.B. 15 April 1882. d. Brook house, Horringer, Bury St. Edmunds 12 Nov. 1888.

ELLICE, EDWARD (eld. son of Alexander Ellice, managing director of the Hudson’s Bay Company). b. Montreal 1781; ed. at Winchester sch. and Marischal coll. Aberdeen, M.A. 1800; settled in London as member of firm of Inglis and Ellice, West India and America house; M.P. for Coventry 1818–1826 and 1830 to death; sec. to the Treasury 26 Nov. 1830 to 10 Aug. 1832 when he resigned; sec. of war 4 April 1833 to 16 Dec. 1834; P.C. 3 April 1833; original chairman of Reform club, London mainly established by his influence 1836; hon. D.C.L. St. Andrews 1862. d. Ardochy, Glengary 17 Sep. 1863. Fagan’s Reform club (1887) 33, 37, 123, portrait; I.L.N. xliii, 335, 337 (1863), portrait.

ELLICE, EDWARD (only son of the preceding). b. London 19 Aug. 1810; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1831; contested Inverness 1834; M.P. for Huddersfield 1836–37, for St. Andrew’s district 1837–80; author of A Letter in reply to A Report on the Poor Law in the Highlands 1855. d. on board his yacht Ita off Portland during the night of 2 Aug. 1880. bur. at Tor-na-cairidh on Lochgarry, Invernessshire.

ELLICE, ROBERT (2 son of Alexander Ellice, managing director of the Hudson’s Bay Company). b. 1784; cornet 12 light dragoons 8 Nov. 1798; major 6 dragoons 25 June 1812 to 30 Nov. 1820 when placed on h.p.; col. 24 foot 2 Nov. 1842 to death; general 20 June 1854. d. Upper Norwood, Surrey 18 June 1856.

ELLICOMBE, SIR CHARLES GRENE (brother of Rev. H. T. Ellacombe 1790–1885). b. Alphington rectory 3 Aug. 1783; first lieut. R.E. 1 July 1801, brigade major 1821 to Dec. 1842, col. commandant 30 May 1856 to death; served in Peninsula, Nov. 1811 to end of the war; general 20 April 1861; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862. d. Worthing 7 June 1871. United Service Mag. July 1871 pp. 407–409.

ELLIOT, SIR CHARLES (youngest son of Hugh Elliot 1752–1830, governor of Madras). b. Dresden 1801; entered navy 26 March 1815; captain 28 Aug. 1828; protector of slaves in British Guiana 1830–33; British plenipotentiary in China 1840–41; consul general in Texas 1841–46; governor of Bermuda 1846–54; governor of Trinidad 1854–56; governor of St. Helena 20 May 1863 to 1 Feb. 1870 when he retired on pension; retired admiral 12 Sep. 1865; K.C.B. 19 July 1856; is drawn by Sir Henry Taylor in the poem Edwin the Fair 1845 as Earl Athulf. d. Withycombe near Exmouth 9 Sep. 1875. Autobiography of H. Taylor i, 164–69, 345–75 (1885).

ELLIOT, CHARLES MORGAN (9 child of John Elliot, F.R.S.) b. Pimlico lodge, Westminster 27 April 1815; ed. at Eton and Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Madras engineers 1832, lieut. 11 Sep. 1841 to death; superintendent of magnetic observatory at Singapore 1840–45; made a magnetic survey of Eastern Archipelago, Jany. 1846 to Oct. 1849; F.R.S. 5 June 1851. d. Masulipatam 4 Aug. 1852.

ELLIOT, LADY CHARLOTTE (eld. dau. of Sir James Carnegie, 5 baronet 1799–1849). b. 22 July 1839; raised to rank of an Earl’s daughter 1855 on her brother becoming Earl of Southesk; author of Stella and other poems By Florenz 1867; Medusa and other poems 1878. (m. (1) 16 June 1860 Thomas Frederick Scrymsoure Fothringham, who d. 7 March 1864; m. (2) 17 Dec. 1868 Frederick Boileau Elliot, barrister 1826–80). d. 15 Jany. 1880. Athenæum 24 Jany. 1880 p. 124.

ELLIOT, SIR GEORGE (2 son of 1 Earl of Minto 1751–1814). b. Swanage, Dorset 1 Aug. 1784; entered navy 4 June 1794; a naval aide-de-camp to Wm. iv, 1830–37; a junior lord of the Admiralty 1835–37; commander in chief at Cape of Good Hope 1837–40; commander of fleet in East Indies 15 Feb. 1840 to Nov. 1840; admiral 5 March 1853; pensioned 3 Oct. 1855; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831, K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862. d. 4 Prince’s terrace, Knightsbridge, London 24 June 1863.

ELLIOT, SIR HENRY MIERS (brother of Charles Morgan Elliot 1815–52). b. 1808; ed. at Winchester; entered Bengal civil service 1826; sec. for foreign department to governor general in council 1847; K.C.B. for service during Sikh war 5 June 1849; author of Supplement to the glossary of Indian terms [Compiled in 1842 by H. H. Wilson] A-J. 1860, no more printed; Bibliographical index to the historians of Muhammedan, India, vol. i, 1849; The History of India as told by its own historians, edited by J. Dowson 8 vols. 1867–77 and other books. d. Simon’s Town, Cape of Good Hope 20 Dec. 1853.

ELLIOT, JOHN EDMUND (youngest son of 1 Earl of Minto 1751–1814). b. 30 March 1788; in the Bengal civil service to 1830; M.P. for co. Roxburgh 1837–1841 and 1847–1859; sec. of Board of Control 26 Jany. 1849 to March 1852; author of Letter to the Teviotside Farmer 1841. d. 29 Cadogan place, London 4 April 1862.

ELLIOT, SIR THOMAS FREDERICK (brother of Sir Charles Eliot 1801–75). b. London, July 1808; ed. at Harrow; clerk in colonial office London 5 July 1825; sec. to commission of enquiry into state of Canada, July 1835; agent general of emigration April 1837; chairman of board of advice and management over colonial land and emigration 1840–1847; assistant under sec. of state for colonies 1847 to Dec. 1868 when he retired on pension; K.C.M.G. 30 June 1869. d. Shepherd’s hotel, Cairo 12 Feb. 1880.

ELLIOT, SIR WALTER (eld. son of James Elliot of Wolfelee, Roxburghshire). b. Edinburgh 16 Jany. 1803; writer Madras civil service 1821; third member of Board of Revenue 1844, second 1848, first 1851; comr. of the Northern Circars 1848–54; member of council and pres. of revenue and marine boards 1855–56 and 1857 to 27 Dec. 1859 when he resigned the service; a scholar in the Tamil and Hindustani languages; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1866; F.R.S. 6 June 1878; hon. LLD. Edin. 22 April 1878; author of Carnacta translation of Esop’s Fables 1840; Flora Andhrica, a list of plants in the Telegu district 1859, and of many papers on archæology in Indian Antiquary, Madras Journal of Literature and Science, Journal of Royal Asiatic Society and other periodicals. d. Wolfelee 1 March 1887. Journal of Royal Asiatic Society, July 1887 pp. 519–24; Biograph i, 251–54 (1882).

ELLIOTSON, JOHN (eld. son of Thomas Elliotson of 106 High st. Southwark, druggist). b. High st. Southwark 24 Oct. 1791; spent 5 years at Univ. of Edin. 1805–10, M.D. 24 June 1810; L.R.C.P. London 22 Dec. 1810; spent 3 years at Jesus coll. Cam. 1813–16, M.B. 1816, M.D. 4 July 1821; candidate of R.C.P. 1 Oct. 1821, a fellow 30 Sep. 1822, censor 1825, consiliarius 1836, Gulstonian lecturer 1824, Lumleian lecturer 1829–30, Harveian orator 1846; assist. phys. to St. Thomas’s hospital 1817, phys. 1823–34; professor of medicine at London University 1832 to Dec. 1838; senior phys. to University hospital 1834 to Dec. 1838; began practise of Mesmerism 1837; founded Phrenological Society of London, pres.; founded London Mesmeric infirmary in Weymouth st. 1849; established The Zoist, a journal of cerebral physiology and mesmerism 1844 which ran to 13 vols.; broke up his establishment and quitted his house in Conduit st. 1865; pres. of Royal Med. and Chir. Soc.; author of The principles and practice of medicine 1839; Treatise on human physiology, Fifth ed. 1835–40, another ed. 1856 and other books. d. 2 Davies st. Berkeley sq. London 29 July 1868. J. Ashburner’s Notes and Studies (1867) 59–68; Medical Circular iv, 403–4, 419–21, 432–3 (1854); Physic and Physicians ii, 273–85 (1839).

ELLIOTT, CHARLES. Entered Bengal civil service 1797; senior member of Board of Revenue in Bengal; agent to governor general in Western provinces, retired on annuity 1826; F.R.S. 1832; F.R.G.S.; treasurer of Asiatic Society some years; author of The life of Hafiz-ool-Moolk Hafiz Rehmab Khan 1831. d. Portland place, London 4 May 1856 aged 79.

ELLIOTT, REV. CHARLES. b. Greenconway, Donegal 16 May 1792; went to the U.S. about 1815; presiding elder of Wesleyan, Ohio district 4 years; professor of languages in Madison college, Uniontown, Panama 4 years; edited Pittsburg Conference Journal; edited Western Christian Advocate to 1848 and 1852–56; professor of Biblical literature in and pres. of Iowa Wesleyan Univ. 1856–60; author of Treatise on Baptism 1834; Delineation of Roman Catholicism 2 vols. 1842, third ed. 1851; Life of Bishop Roberts 1853 and other books. d. Mount Pleasant, Iowa 6 Jany. 1869.

ELLIOTT, REV. CHARLES BOILEAU (eld. son of Charles Elliott, who d. 4 May 1856). b. 1803; ed. at Harrow and Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1837; V. of Godalming, Surrey 1833–38; R. of Tattingstone near Ipswich 1838 to death; F.R.G.S.; F.R.S. 5 April 1832; author of Letters from the North of Europe 1832; Travels in the three great empires of Austria, Russia and Turkey 2 vols. 1838 and other books. d. Geneva 1 July 1875.

ELLIOTT, REV. CHARLES JOHN. b. 7 July 1818; ed. at St. Cath. coll. Cam., Crosse Univ. scholar 1840, Tyrwhitt Univ. scholar 1842, B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843; V. of Winkfield near Windsor 1844 to death; surrogate 1872; hon. canon of Ch. Ch. Ox. 1873; select preacher at Cambridge 1877; member of Old Testament revision company; author of Enquiry into the doctrine of the Church of England on private confession and absolution 1859 and other books; contributed to the Bible Educator 1872, the S.P.C.K. Commentary, Smith’s Dictionary of Biography and Antiquities, Edinburgh Review, &c. d. Winkfield vicarage 11 May 1881.

ELLIOTT, CHARLOTTE (3 dau. of Charles Elliott of Clapham and Brighton). b. 17 March 1789; lived at Torquay 1845–57, at Brighton 1857 to death; edited Christian Remembrancer Pocket Book 1834–59; edited The Invalid’s Hymn book, 6 ed. 1854, to this collection she contributed 112 hymns including “Just as I am, without one plea,” a hymn dated 1836 which has been translated into almost every living language, she also wrote “My God and Father while I stray” 1834 in the same collection; author of Hymns for a week 1837, 40th thousand 1871; Hours of Sorrow 1836 and many later editions; Poems by C. E. 1863. d. 10 Norfolk terrace, Brighton 22 Sep. 1871. Selections from the poems of Charlotte Elliott with a memoir by her sister E. B. (Mrs. E. Babington) 1873, portrait; Just as I am, by C. Elliott 1884 with memoir by H. L. L. 1885; Miller’s singers and songs of the church 1869, 461–62.

ELLIOTT, REV. EDWARD BISHOP (brother of the preceding). b. 24 July 1793; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., fellow 1817–24, B.A. 1816, M.A. 1819; wrote Seatonian prize poems 1821 and 1822; V. of Tuxford, Notts. 1824–40; preb. of Salisbury 1853; P.C. of St. Mark’s chapel, Brighton 1853 to death; author of The Question “What is the image of the Beast?” answered 1838; Horæ Apocalyptica, or a commentary on the Apocalypse critical and historical 3 vols. 1844; Vindiciæ Horariæ 1848 and 6 other books. d. 30 July 1875.

ELLIOTT, GEORGE PERCY (eld. son of Rev. Luther Graves Elliott of Ottery St. Mary, Devon). b. Silverton 1800; ed. at Winchester and St. Mary hall, Ox.; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; barrister M.T. 29 May 1829; magistrate at Lambeth police court 1845 to 20 Sep. 1870 when he retired; author of A practical treatise on the qualifications of Parliamentary electors 1839; ed. for the Camden Soc. Diary of Dr. E. Lake and Autobiography of Dr. Taswell. d. Egland, Honiton, Devon 12 July 1874.

ELLIOTT, REV. HENRY VENN (brother of Charlotte Elliott 1789–1871). b. 17 Jany. 1792; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., fellow 1 Oct. 1816; 14 wrangler and 2 chancellor’s medallist 1814; C. of Ampton, Suffolk 1823–25; prior of St. John’s, Wilton near Salisbury 1826–32; P.C. of St. Mary’s, Brighton 18 Jany. 1827 to death, this chapel was built by his father for about £10,000 in 1826; founded St. Mary’s hall, Brighton opened 1 Aug. 1836; author of Psalms and Hymns 1835, fourteenth thousand 1858 and of many sermons. d. 31 Brunswick sq. Brighton 24 Jany. 1865. Life of Rev. H. V. Elliott by Josiah Bateman 1868, portrait.

ELLIOTT, SAMUEL MACKENZIE. b. Inverness 9 April 1811; graduated at College of surgeons, Glasgow 1828; studied in Cincinnati and Philadelphia 1833–35; an oculist in New York 1835–74 where he gained a high reputation; lieut. col. of 79 regiment of New York volunteers in civil war 1861; raised the Highland brigade; author of The U.S. Highland Brigade, New York 1861. d. New Brighton, Staten Island, New York 1 May 1873.

ELLIOTT, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (younger son of John Elliott, captain R.N.) b. Elliott house near Ripon 1792; ensign 51 foot 6 Dec. 1809, lieut. col. 27 June 1838 to 13 Feb. 1855 when placed on h.p.; commanded Madras brigade in second Burmese war 1852–53; commandant at Rangoon 1853–55; col. of 55 foot 15 Nov. 1861, of 51 foot 1 June 1862 to death; general 25 Oct. 1871; K.H. 19 July 1837; K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862, G.C.B. 24 May 1873. d. 20 Cambridge sq. Hyde park, London 27 March 1874. I.L.N. lxiv, 331 (1874).

ELLIS, REV. ARTHUR AYRES (son of Charles Ellis of Birmingham). b. Birmingham 1830; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1852, M.A. 1855, fell. of his coll. 1854; senior classical master Liverpool coll. 1853–57; junior dean of Trin. coll. Cam. and divinity lecturer in Ch. coll. Cam. 1859–60; V. of Stotfold, Beds. 1860 to death; published Bentleii Critica Sacra 1862. d. 22 March 1887.

ELLIS, SIR BARROW HELBERT (son of S. Helbert Ellis of London). b. London 24 Jany. 1823; ed. at Univ. coll. school and Haileybury; matric. at Univ. of London 1839; entered Bombay civil service 26 July 1843; assistant comr. in Sind 1851–55; ordinary member of Bombay council 1865, member of governor general’s council 2 May 1870 to 27 April 1875; member of council of secretary of state, July 1875 to 1885; K.C.S.I. 5 Oct. 1875; vice pres. of Jews’ college, London where there is a portrait of him; edited G. Stack’s Dictionary of Sindhi and English, Bombay 1855. d. Evian-les-Bains, Savoy 20 June 1887. bur. Jewish cemetery, Willesden, Middlesex 28 June. Journal of Royal Asiatic Soc. xix, 688–90 (1887).

ELLIS, CHARLES WILLATS (eld. son of Rev. Thomas Ellis, V. of Great Milton, Oxon.) Ed. at Westminster; matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 22 Oct. 1807 aged 17; B.A. 1811, M.A. 1814; barrister L.I. 21 Nov. 1817; published A treatise on the pleadings in suits for tithes in equity 1821; A treatise on the law of debtor and creditor 1822; The clergyman’s assistant ed. by C. Ellis 1822, new ed. 1828; A collection of acts and records of parliament by Sir H. Gwillim, second ed. with notes by G. Ellis 1825; The law of fire and life insurance and annuities 1832, second ed. 1846. d. 42 Kensington sq. London 17 July 1868.

ELLIS, EDWARD SHIPLEY (eld. son of John Ellis 1789–1862). b. 1817; chairman of Midland railway company, May 1873 to death. d. The Newark, Leicester 3 Dec. 1879.

ELLIS, EDWIN. Solo violinist at Cremorne Gardens, London 1841; member of orchestra of Princess’s theatre; member of orchestra at Adelphi theatre 1860, conductor 1867 to death; published selections from Flotow’s Alessandro Stradella, Thomas’s Le Caid and Offenbach’s La Belle Hélène and a few songs. d. St. Thomas’s hospital, London 25 Oct. 1878 aged 35.

ELLIS, GEORGE CRESSALL. Director of Her Majesty’s dramatic performances at Windsor castle many years. d. Park road east, West Brompton, London 23 June 1875 in 66 year.

ELLIS, SIR HENRY. b. 1777; private sec. to pres. of Bengal board of control at Calcutta 1812–14; minister plenipotentiary ad interim in Persia 18 April 1814 to 1815; clerk of the Pells 1825–1834 when office was abolished; comr. of board of control 6 Dec. 1830 to 20 Dec. 1834; P.C. 11 July 1832; a comr. for affairs of India 13 Dec. 1832; ambassador to Persia 1 July 1835 to Nov. 1836; sent on an extraordinary and special mission to the Brazils 20 Sep. 1842; K.C.B. 27 April 1848; F.R.S. 11 June 1819, F.G.S.; author of Journal of the proceedings of the late embassy to China 1817. d. Brighton 28 Sep. 1855.

ELLIS, SIR HENRY (younger son of John Ellis, master of the free school in Primrose st. Bishopsgate st. London, who d. 1812). b. Primrose st. 29 Nov. 1779; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s school and St. John’s coll. Ox., fellow 1802–5; B.C.L. 1802; assistant librarian at Bodleian library 1797–1800; temporary assistant in British Museum library 1800, assistant keeper of printed books 1805, keeper 1806–12, keeper of the manuscripts 1812–27, secretary 1814–27, principal librarian 20 Dec. 1827 to Feb. 1856; F.S.A. 15 Jany. 1807, one of the secs. 1813 to 1 Dec. 1853, director 1 Dec. 1853 to 7 Dec. 1857; F.R.S. 30 May 1811; K.H. 21 July 1832; knighted at St. James’s palace 22 Feb. 1833; author of History of the parish of Saint Leonard, Shoreditch 1798; edited Original letters illustrative of English history 3 series 1824, 1827, 1846 and other books. d. 24 Bedford sq. London 15 Jany. 1869. Fagan’s Life of Panizzi i, 142–43 (1880), portrait; Cowtan’s Memories of the British Museum (1872) 230–32; Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. 2 series iv, 303–305 (1869); I.L.N. liv, 99, 141 (1869), portrait.

ELLIS, JAMES. Managed Cremorne gardens, London 1845–51; arrived in Melbourne, Oct. 1852; established Salle Valentino there also Cremorne gardens. d. Melbourne 9 Jany. 1874 in 62 year. Era 22 March 1874 p. 7, col. 4.

ELLIS, JOHN (eld. son of Joseph Ellis of Sharman’s lodge near Leicester, farmer). b. Frisk house near Leicester 1789; farmer at Beaumont Leyes near Leicester 1807–47; founded at Leicester firm of Ellis, Everington and Co. 1826; projected the third line of railway in England namely from Swannington to Bagworth, opened July 1832; M.P. for Leicester 1848–52; chairman of Midland railway company 1849–58. d. Belgrave near Leicester 26 Oct. 1862. Charlotte Ellis’s Sketch of one branch of the Ellis family, privately printed; The Midland railway by F. S. Williams (1876) 166–68.

ELLIS, REV. ROBERT. b. Tyn-y-meini, Denbighshire 3 Feb. 1810; began preaching 5 Oct. 1834; baptist minister at Llanelian 1837, at Sirhowy, Monmouthshire 1847, at Carnarvon 1862–75; author of Lectures on Baptism 1841; The principles of Biblical Exegesis 1854; Memoir of John Williams 1871 and other books. d. Gartheryr 20 Aug. 1875. Rev. J. S. James’s Biography of Rev. R. Ellis 1877.

ELLIS, REV. ROBERT. Member of St. John’s coll. Cam. 9 April 1836, scholar 5 Nov. 1839, fellow 30 March 1841 to 2 April 1872; fifth wrangler 1840; B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843; B.D. 1850; chiefly known by his controversy with W. J. Law on route followed by Hannibal over the Alps; author of A Treatise on Hannibal’s passage of the Alps 1853; Contributions to the ethnography of Italy and Greece 1858; The Armenian origin of the Etruscans 1861 and 6 other books. d. 3 Higher Summerlands, Exeter 20 Dec. 1885 aged 65. The Eagle, the St. John’s college magazine (1886).

ELLIS, ROBERT LESLIE (youngest child of Francis Ellis of Bath). b. Bath 25 Aug. 1817; pensioner of Trin. coll. Cam. Oct. 1836, senior wrangler 1840; B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843; fell. of his coll. Oct. 1840 to 1849; edited Cambridge mathematical journal; seized with rheumatic fever at S. Remo 1849. d. Anstey hall, Trumpington 12 May 1859. The mathematical and other writings of R. L. Ellis, edited by W. Walton, with a biographical memoir by Very Rev. H. Goodwin (1863) pp. ix-xxxvi, portrait.

ELLIS, ROBERT STAUNTON. Entered Madras civil service 1844; member of council Madras 1875 to 16 March 1877; member of India office council 1877 to death; C.B. 21 April 1875; found dead in his bed at 141 Gloucester road, Kensington, London 9 Oct. 1877 aged 52.

ELLIS, SIR SAMUEL BURDON (son of Charles Ellis, captain R.N.) b. 1787; 2 lieut. R.M. 1 Jany. 1804; commanded Chatham division of R.M. 1851–1855; col. of Portsmouth division 28 March 1863 to death; general 1862; C.B. 1841, K.C.B. 18 May 1860. d. Old Charlton, Kent 10 March 1865. Memoirs and services of Sir S. B. Ellis, edited by Lady Ellis 1866.

ELLIS, SARAH (dau. of William Stickney of Ridgmont near Hull, farmer, who d. 9 July 1848 aged 84). b. 1812; brought up as a Quaker, but became a Congregationalist 1837; author of Pictures of private life, 3 series 3 vols. 1833–37; The poetry of life 2 vols. 1835; Home, or the iron rule, a story 3 vols. 1836; The women of England, their social duties and domestic habits 1839, more than 20 eds.; The sons of the soil, a poem 1839; Family Secrets, or hints to those who would make home happy 3 vols. 1841 and numerous other books. (m. 1837 William Ellis 1794–1872). d. Rose Hill, Hoddesdon, Herts. 16 June 1872. Fisher’s Drawing Room scrap book 1844–5, portrait; S. Ellis’s Self Deception vol. i, portrait.

ELLIS, SYDNEY (youngest son of Edward Shipley Ellis 1817–79). b. Leicester 12 Dec. 1850; educ. at Brighton and at Tottenham; member of a firm of worsted spinners; lectured to his work people on physical and natural science; took great interest in chemistry, geology and anthropology; member of British Assoc. 1874 and of Literary and Philosophical Soc. of Leicester; author of Leila Marston, a tale 1861. d. from accidentally inhaling poisonous gas while investigating the composition of ferro-prussiate of potash 26 Oct. 1877, left legacies of £1000 each to Anthropological Instit., the Royal, Chemical and Geological societies. Journal of Anthropological Institute ix, 441–42 (1880).

ELLIS, THOMAS FLOWER. b. 1796; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., fellow; B.A. 1818; barrister L.I. 6 Feb. 1824; Q.C. within county palatine of Lancaster; a municipal corporation comr. 1831; recorder of Leeds, May 1839 to death; attorney general of Duchy of Lancaster to death; edited with J. L. Adolphus Reports in court of King’s Bench 12 vols. 1835–42 and Queen’s Bench reports, new series, 18 vols. 1842–56; with Colin Blackburn Reports in court of Queen’s Bench 8 vols. 1852–58; with C. Blackburn and F. Ellis Reports in court of Queen’s Bench 1858; with F. Ellis Reports in court of Queen’s Bench 3 vols. 1858–61; acted as Lord Macaulay’s executor, and edited the posthumous vol. of his works. d. 15 Bedford place, Russell sq. London 5 April 1861. Trevelyan’s Life of Lord Macaulay (1878) i, 182, 253, 345, ii, 95, 220, 284; Pollock’s Personal Remembrances i, 91, 100.

ELLIS, REV. WILLIAM (2 child of William Ellis of London). b. Charles st. Long Acre, London 29 Aug. 1794; employed as a gardener at Wisbeach; removed to London 1811; missionary of the London missionary society in the South Sea Islands 1816–25; travelling agent at home 1825–31; foreign sec. of L.M.S. 1831–41; edited The Christian Keepsake an annual; pastor of Congregational church at Hoddesdon, Herts. 1847–52; missionary to Madagascar 1853, 1856 and 1861–65; author of History of Madagascar 2 vols. 1838; Polynesian Researches 2 vols. 1829, second ed. 3 vols. 1832–34, another ed. 1848, 4 vols. 1853 and other books. d. Rose hill, Hoddesdon 9 June 1872. bur. Abney park cemetery 14 June. J. E. Ellis’s Life of W. Ellis 1873; I.L.N. lx, 625, 630 (1872), portrait.

ELLIS, WILLIAM (son of Andrew Ellis De Vezian, an underwriter at Lloyds, London, who took name of Ellis about 1801). b. Jany. 1800; assistant underwriter of Indemnity marine insurance company 1824, chief manager 1827; founded at his own expense five schools 1848–52, naming them Birkbeck after George Birkbeck; gave lectures to the royal children at Buckingham Palace; author of Outlines of social economy 1846; Education as a means of preventing destitution 1851; Philo-Socrates 1861 a series of papers, and other books. d. 6 Lancaster terrace, Regent’s park, London 18 Feb. 1881. Good Words, Aug. 1881 p. 543, portrait.

ELLIS, REV. WILLIAM WEBB (2 son of James Ellis of Manchester). b. Nov. 1807; ed. at Rugby and Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1831; C. of St. George’s, Albemarle st. London 1836–55; R. of St. Clement Danes, Strand 1843–55; R. of Laver Magdalen, Essex 1855 to death; author of A concise view of prophecy which relates to the Messiah 1832; Sermons at St. George’s 1838; Dangerous errors of Romanism 1853. d. 24 Jany. 1872. I.L.N. xxiv, 400 (1854), portrait.

ELLIS, WYNN (son of Thomas Ellis of Oundle, Northamptonshire). b. Oundle, July 1790; hosier and mercer at 16 Ludgate st. City of London 1812, wholesale silk merchant 1830–71 latterly the largest in London; M.P. for Leicester 1831–34 and 1839–47; sheriff of Herts. 1851–52. d. 30 Cadogan place, Sloane st. London 20 Nov. 1875. bur. at Whitstable, personalty sworn under £600,000, 8 Jany. 1876. I.L.N. lxviii, 35, 37, 38 (1876), portrait.

NOTE.—He bequeathed all his pictures by the old masters 402 in number to the National Gallery, but the trustees selected only 44 of them which have since been exhibited as the Wynn Ellis collection. Among his modern pictures was a portrait of the Duchess of Devonshire purchased by Thomas Agnew and Sons for £10,605 the largest sum ever obtained for a picture at public auction, after being exhibited for a short time at 39 B Old Bond st., it was on the night of 26 May 1876 cut out of the stretching frame and stolen.

ELLIS-McTAGGART, FRANCIS (son of Thomas Flower Ellis 1796–1861). b. 13 Dec. 1823; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849; barrister I.T. 4 May 1849; edited with T. F. Ellis and C. Blackburn Reports in court of Queen’s Bench 1858; with T. F. Ellis Reports in court of Queen’s Bench 3 vols. 1858–61; judge of circuit 34 (Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire) 4 May 1861 to Dec. 1871; judge of circuit 43 (Marylebone, London), Dec. 1871 to death; assumed additional name of McTaggart 1868. d. 28 Norfolk sq. London 15 March 1872.

ELLIS-NANNEY, OWEN JONES. b. 1790; contested Carnarvon district 15 Dec. 1832, seated on petition 6 March 1833, unseated on counter petition 23 May 1833; contested Carnarvon district 12 Jany. 1835; sheriff of Carnarvon 1861. d. 27 Oct. 1870. Perry and Knapp’s Cases of controverted elections (1833) 106–11, 435–61; Cockburn and Rowe’s Cases (1833) 127–38, 550–60.

ELLISON, CUTHBERT EDWARD. Educ. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843; barrister I.T. 31 Jany. 1845; stipendiary magistrate at Newcastle 25 Jany. 1854, at Manchester 4 May 1860, at Worship st. police court, London 14 June 1864, at Lambeth police court, Sep. 1870 to death. d. 7 Chester st. Grosvenor place, London 26 May 1883.

ELLISON, NATHANIEL (_son of Rev. Nathaniel Ellison, Incumbent of St. Andrew, Newcastle upon Tyne_). b. Newcastle 19 March 1786; ed. at Durham gr. sch.; admitted commoner of Univ. coll. Ox. 18 Oct. 1802; B.A. 1806, M.A. 1810; fellow of Merton coll. 1807–23; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1811; one of comrs. of bankrupts in London; comr. of court of bankruptcy at Newcastle upon Tyne 21 Oct. 1842 to death. d. Jesmond near Newcastle 12 Dec. 1861.

ELLISTON, HENRY TWISELTON (2 son of Robert Wm. Elliston the comedian 1774–1831). b. about 1801; established with his brother Wm. a library at Leamington, afterwards known as the County library; erected the music hall in Bath st. Leamington, lessee of the royal assembly rooms, organist at the parish church to death, librarian of the free public library Sep. 1863; wrote four services. d. Leamington 19 April 1864 aged 63.

ELMES, JAMES (son of Samuel Elmes). b. London 15 Oct. 1782; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s school; exhibited 36 architectural designs at R.A. 1801–42; vice pres. of Royal Architectural Society 1809–48; surveyor of port of London 1809–48; edited The Annals of the Fine Arts 1816–20; author of Hints for the improvement of prisons 1817, 3 ed. 1829; Lectures on Architecture 1823; Memoirs of Sir Christopher Wren 1823, 2 ed. 1852; The Arts and Artists 3 vols. 1825; Survey of the harbour and port of London 1838. d. Greenwich 2 April 1862.

ELMORE, ALFRED. b. Clonakilty, co. Cork 18 June 1815; historical painter; exhibited 72 pictures at R.A., 9 at B.I. and 9 at Suffolk st. gallery 1834–80; his picture ‘Origin of the Guelph and Ghibelline quarrel’ was sold in 1845 for £300; A.R.A. 1845, R.A. 1857. d. 1 St. Alban’s road, Kensington, London 24 Jany. 1881. Sandby’s History of Royal Academy ii, 302–4 (1862); I.L.N. lxxviii, 125, 126 (1881), portrait; Ottley’s Dict. of painters 1866 p. 61.

ELMSLEY, JOHN (son of John Elmsley 1762–1805, speaker of legislative council of Lower Canada). b. Elmsley house, Toronto 1801; entered British navy 1815, lieut. 1824; member of legislative council of Upper Canada until union of two provinces 1840; joined Church of Rome; established House of Providence at Toronto, and the first Roman Catholic school in Upper Canada; chief founder of College of St. Michael in Toronto. d. Toronto 8 Aug. 1863.

ELMSLEY, WILLIAM. b. 1797; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; barrister M.T. 11 Nov. 1825; Q.C. 1851; bencher of his inn, Dec. 1851, treasurer and master of the library 1861; judge of county courts circuit 19 (Derbyshire) 16 April 1862 to death. d. Derby 20 Dec. 1866.

ELMSLIE, WILLIAM JACKSON (2 child of James Elmslie). b. Aberdeen 29 June 1832; a shoemaker to 1848; at Aberdeen gram. sch. 1848, at King’s coll. Aberdeen 1853, at Free ch. divinity coll. 1858; medical student in Edinburgh 1862; M.R.C.S. 1864; medical missionary in Kashmir 1864 to death; author of A vocabulary of the Kashmírí language 1872. d. Goojerat 16 Nov. 1872. Seed time in Kashmir, a memoir of W. J. Elmslie 1875, portrait.

ELPHINSTONE, JOHN, 13 Baron Elphinstone (only son of 12 baron Elphinstone, who d. 21 May 1813). b. Cumbernauld house, Dumbartonshire 23 June 1807; cornet royal horse guards 28 Jany. 1826, captain 4 Dec. 1832 to 21 Nov. 1836 when placed on h.p.; governor of Madras 6 March 1837 to 24 Sep. 1842; a lord in waiting to the Queen, Dec. 1847 to Feb. 1852 and Jany. to Oct. 1853; governor of Bombay Oct. 1853 to May 1860, took his seat 26 Dec. 1853; representative peer for Scotland; G.C.H. 1836; P.C. 3 Aug. 1836; G.C.B. 31 March 1859; created baron of the U.K. as Baron Elphinstone of Elphinstone 21 May 1859. d. King st. St. James’s, London 19 July 1860. Kaye and Malleson’s History of the Indian mutiny (1888–89) i, 309 etc.

ELPHINSTONE, SIR JAMES DALRYMPLE HORN, 2 Baronet (son of Sir Robert Elphinstone, 1 baronet 1766–1848). b. Logie, Elphinstone, Aberdeenshire 20 Nov. 1805; captain in navy of H.E.I.Co.; M.P. for Portsmouth, April 1857 to July 1865 and Dec. 1868 to March 1880; a lord of the Treasury, Feb. 1874 to March 1880. d. Uplands, Bridgwater 26 Dec. 1886.

ELPHINSTONE, MOUNTSTUART (youngest son of 11 baron Elphinstone 1737–94). b. 6 Oct. 1779; went to Calcutta 1796; resident at Nagpur 1803–8; envoy to King of Cabool 13 Oct. 1808; political resident at Poona 1810–18; governor of Bombay 7 Oct. 1818 to 17 Jany. 1827 where a college bearing his name was founded; author of An account of the kingdom of Caubul 1815; History of India 2 vols. 1841, 5 ed. 1866 and other books. d. Hookward park near Limpsfield, Surrey 20 Nov. 1859. Life of M. Elphinstone by Sir T. E. Colebrooke 2 vols. 1884, 2 portraits.

ELSLEY, CHARLES HENEAGE (2 son of Rev. Heneage Elsley 1746–1833). b. 14 Aug. 1792; ed. at St. Peter’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816; barrister M.T. 29 Jany. 1819; a comr. of bankrupts for Whitby, Scarborough and Northallerton; clerk of the peace for west riding of Yorkshire 1827 to death; recorder of Richmond, Yorkshire 1827 to death, of York 1834 to death, of Scarborough 1836 to death; judge of county courts March 1847–1854 when he resigned; author of Reports of Cases by Sir W. Blackstone, revised 1828; Essay on the relation between the English and French languages 1858. d. York 3 Aug. 1865.

ELT, CHARLES HENRY. b. about 1805; a chartist; chairman of building act committee; member of Metropolitan Board of Works 1866 to death. d. 41 Gibson sq. Islington 20 May 1882.

ELTON, SIR ARTHUR HALLAM, 7 Baronet (3 son of the succeeding). b. Belle Vue place, Clifton 19 April 1818; lieut. 14 foot 1840–41 when he sold out; sheriff of Somerset 1857; M.P. for Bath 28 March 1857 to 23 April 1859; author of Poems of past years 1856; Below the surface 3 vols. 1857; Herbert Chauncey, a novel 3 vols. 1860. d. Clevedon court near Bristol 14 Oct. 1883. I.L.N. xxx, 478 (1857), portrait.

ELTON, SIR CHARLES ABRAHAM, 6 Baronet (eld. son of Rev. Sir Abraham Elton, 5 baronet 1755–1842). b. Bristol 31 Oct. 1778; ed. at Eton; ensign 4 foot Nov. 1796, captain 1799–1802 when placed on h.p.; captain 48 foot 1803–4; retired July 1825; lieut.-col. 2 Somerset militia; author of Poems 1804; Tales of romance with other poems 1810; The remains of Hesiod translated into English verse 1815; Specimen of the classic poets in a chronological series from Homer to Tryphiodorus translated into English verse 3 vols. 1814; A History of the Roman emperors 1825. d. at house of his son-in-law Rev. E. D. Tinling at Bath 1 June 1853.

ELTON, JAMES FREDERIC (2 son of Roberts W. Elton, lieut. col. Bengal army). b. 3 Aug. 1840; entered Bengal army 1857; aide-de-camp to Sir Hugh Rose, commander in chief; captain 98 foot; served on staff of French army in Mexico 1866; vice consul at Zanzibar 15 Dec. 1874; consul for Portuguese possessions on east coast of Africa 8 March 1875 to death; F.R.G.S.; author of With the French in Mexico 1867. d. near Usekhe in Ugogo on an exploring expedition to Lake Nyassa 19 Dec. 1877. J. F. Elton’s Travels and researches among the lakes and mountains of Eastern and Central Africa 1879, portrait.

ELVEY, STEPHEN (eld. son of John Elvey of Canterbury). b. Canterbury, June 1805; lay clerk at Canterbury cathedral; Mus. Bac. Ox. 1831, Mus. Doc. 1838; organist of New coll. Ox. 1830 to death; organist of St. John’s coll. Ox. 1856 to death; deputy professor of music at Ox. to 1847; choragus in Univ. of Ox. 1848 to death; published The Oxford Psalm Book 1852; The Psalter printed for chanting upon a new principle 1856; The Canticles 1858. d. Oxford 6 Oct. 1860.

ELY, JOHN HENRY LOFTUS, 3 Marquis of (eld. son of 2 Marquis of Ely 1770–1845). b. Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 19 Jany. 1814; contested Gloucester 29 July 1841; M.P. for Woodstock 1 May 1845 to 26 Sep. 1845 when he succeeded. d. 63 Eaton place, London 15 July 1857.

EMDEN, WILLIAM SAMUEL. Prompter at Covent Garden theatre under Madame Vestris 1839, subsequently acting manager; partner with F. Robson at Olympic theatre 1857–64; acting manager of St. James’s theatre; treasurer of Covent Garden theatrical fund 1869 to death; wrote The evil May Day, The head of the family, Lives labyrinth and The rear admiral, printed in Duncombe and Lacy’s plays. d. 18 Upper park road, Haverstock hill, London 4 Jany. 1872 aged 71.

EMERY, SAMUEL ANDERSON (son of John Emery, actor 1777–1822). b. Hyde st. Bloomsbury, London 10 Sep. 1817; first appeared on the stage at Fitzroy theatre, May 1834 as Dan in John Bull; played at Lyceum 1843 and 1844–47; stage manager at Surrey theatre 1848–9; played at Drury Lane 1850; the original Fouché in Tom Taylor’s Plot and Passion at Olympic 17 Oct. 1853; manager of Marylebone theatre 1857–58; first appeared in America 30 March 1863, at Barnum’s Old Museum, New York; returned to England, Sep. 1863; played at nearly all the west end theatres; played in Australia 1880–81. d. 3 King William st. Strand, London 19 July 1881. Tallis’s Drawing room table book (1851) 45–6, portrait; Theatre n.s. iii, 70–2 (1884); Theatrical Times ii, 57 (1847), portrait; Touchstone 13 July 1878 p. 3, portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news, xv, 464 (1881), portrait.

EMMETT, ANTHONY. Educ. at Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.E. 16 Feb. 1808, col. 11 Nov. 1851 to 21 May 1855 when placed on retired full pay as M.G.; served in Peninsula 1809–12; held various commands at St. Helena 1815–21, at Bermuda and in the Mediterranean. d. Brighton 27 March 1872.

EMMETT, ROBERT (son of Thomas Addis Emmett, Irish patriot 1764–1827). b. Ireland about 1792; went to New York with his father 1804, admitted to New York bar; a justice of state superior court; one of the directory formed in New York for purpose of aiding contemplated Irish insurrection of 1848. d. New Rochelle, New York 15 Feb. 1873.

EMPSON, WILLIAM. Educ. at Winchester and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1812, M.A. 1815; began to contribute to Edinburgh Review 1823, wrote more than 60 articles upon law, politics and literary topics 1823–49, editor Feb. 1847 to death; professor of general polity and the laws of England in Haileybury college near Hertford 2 July 1824 to death. d. Haileybury 10 Dec. 1852 aged 62. Cockburn’s Life of Lord Jeffrey (1852) i, 374, ii, 232, 310 etc.; Selections from the correspondence of Macvey Napier (1879) pp. 62, 547.

ENFIELD, EDWARD (3 son of Henry Enfield, town clerk of Nottingham). b. Nottingham 15 May 1811; one of the moneyers of the Mint, London to 1851 when he retired on pension; member of council of University college, London, and of its committee of management 1858 to death; chairman of committee of management and treasurer of University college hospital 1867 to death; pres. of senate of the college 1878 to death; pres. of Manchester New college, London to death. d. 19 Chester terrace, Regents park, London 21 April 1880. N. H. Nixon’s North London hospital, a history (1882) 40; In Memoriam, Edward Enfield 1880.

ENGEL, CARL. b. Hanover 1818; author of Pianist’s Handbook 1853; The music of the most ancient nations 1864; Musical myths and facts 2 vols. 1876; hanged himself at 54 Addison road, Kensington, London 17 Nov. 1882.

ENGLAND, POOLE VALLANCEY. Second lieut. R.A. 10 May 1805, col. 17 Feb. 1854, col. commandant 27 Feb. 1866 to 1 Oct. 1877 when placed on retired list; general 29 March 1873. d. 41 Marine parade, Dover 6 Nov. 1884 in 97 year.

ENGLAND, SIR RICHARD (son of lieut. general Richard England of Lifford near Ennis, co. Clare). b. Detroit, Upper Canada 13 May 1793; ed. at Winchester and Marlow; ensign 5 foot 25 Feb. 1808; lieut. col. 75 foot 6 July 1826 to 7 July 1837; lieut. col. 4 foot 7 July 1837 to 10 July 1837; lieut. col. 41 foot 10 July 1837 to 22 July 1845; brigadier general Madras 5 Feb. 1839 to Oct. 1840; commanded third division in Crimea 21 Feb. 1854 to 17 Aug. 1855; col. of 50 foot 20 Sep. 1854 to 20 April 1861; major general division Curragh 15 Aug. 1856 to 31 March 1859; col. 41 foot 20 April 1861 to death; general 6 July 1863; placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877; K.H. 1835; K.C.B. 27 Sep. 1843, G.C.B. 5 July 1855; grand officer of legion of honour 1856. d. St. Margaret’s, Titchfield, Hants. 19 Jany. 1883. Once a week, xxvii, 7, 39, 53 (1872); Nolan’s Russian War, ii, 405, portrait.

ENGLISH, HENRY. b. 1803; proprietor and editor of The Mining Journal 1835 to death; edited The quarterly mining review 4 vols. 1830–37; F.R.G.S.; author of A compendium of information relating to companies formed for working British mines 1826; A Glossary of mining terms used in Mexico, Columbia, Peru and other parts of South America, also those used in the mining districts of Cornwall and Derbyshire 1830; The mining almanack 3 vols. 1849–51. d. Islington, London 28 April 1855.

ENNIS, SIR JOHN, 1 Baronet (only son of John Ennis of Ballinahowen court near Athlone, who d. 31 March 1834). b. Dublin 15 Aug. 1800; ed. at Stonyhurst college; merchant in Dublin; sheriff of Westmeath 1837, of co. Dublin 1849; contested Athlone, April 1856, M.P. for Athlone, April 1857 to July 1865; a comr. of charitable bequests to death; governor of Bank of Ireland to death; created baronet 27 July 1866. d. 9 Merrion sq. east, Dublin 8 Aug. 1878.

ENNIS, SIR JOHN JAMES, 2 Baronet (eld. son of the preceding). b. 6 April 1842; ed. at Oscott and Ch. Ch. Ox.; sheriff of Westmeath 1866; M.P. for Athlone 1868–74 and 1880 to death. d. Curzon st. Mayfair, London 28 May 1884.

ENNISKILLEN, WILLIAM WILLOUGHBY COLE, 3 Earl of (eld. son of 2 Earl of Enniskillen 1768–1840). b. Dover st. Piccadilly, London 25 Jany. 1807; M.P. for Fermanagh 1831 to 31 March 1840 when he succeeded his father as 3 earl of Enniskillen and 2 baron Grinstead; hon. col. Fermanagh militia 1875 to death; F.R.S. 15 Jany. 1829; F.G.S. d. Florence court, Fermanagh 12 Nov. 1886.

EPPS, ELLEN (dau. of John Frederick Elliott). b. 1809; author of Labour and live, a story 1848, anon.; Practical Observations on health and long life 1855; Blenham, a story, By the author of Labour and live 1858; Living among the dead, a story, By the author of Blenham 1860. (m. 24 Aug. 1831 John Epps 1805–69), she d. 7 July 1876.

EPPS, GEORGE NAPOLEON (son of John Epps of Ashford, Kent, who d. 1835). b. 22 July 1815; pupil and assistant of his brother John Epps; M.R.C.S. 1845; surgeon to Homœopathic hospital in Hanover sq. London 1845; very successful in treating spinal curvatures and deformities; author of Spinal curvature, its theory, its cure 1849; On deformities of the Spine and on Club Foot 1859. d. 28 May 1874.

EPPS, JOHN (half-brother of the preceding). b. Blackheath, Kent 15 Feb. 1805; ed. at Mill Hill school and Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1826; practised in London 1827 to death, latterly as a homœopath; lecturer on materia medica at Homœopathic hospital 1851; joint editor of the London Medical and Surgical Journal 1828–9; published The Christian physician and Anthropological magazine 1835–9; edited Journal of health and disease 1845–52; Notes of a new truth 1856–69; contested Northampton as a Chartist 30 July 1847; author of The Devil 1842, anon.; Constipation, its theory and cure 1854; Consumption, its nature and treatment 1859. d. 89 Great Russell st. Bloomsbury, London 12 Feb. 1869. Diary of the late John Epps, edited by Mrs. Epps 1875; J. F. Clarke’s Autobiographical Recollections (1874) 137–40.

ERCK, JOHN CAILLARD. Ecclesiastical comr. for Ireland; author of The Irish ecclesiastical register for the year 1817 By J. C. E. Dublin 1817; Records of patent rolls of Chancery, Ireland 2 vols. 1847–50. d. Dublin 2 June 1851.

ERLE, PETER (4 son of Rev. Christopher Erle of Gillingham, Dorset). b. 1795; ed. at New college, Ox., fellow 1812–25, B.A. 1816, M.A. 1821; barrister M.T. 1 June 1821; chief charity estate comr. 24 Oct. 1853 to 1872; Q.C. 10 July 1854; bencher of his inn 22 Nov. 1854, treasurer 1864; P.C. 27 Nov. 1872. d. 12 Park crescent, Regent’s park, London 29 Jany. 1877.

ERLE, SIR WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). b. Fifehead-Magdalene, Dorset 1 Oct. 1793; ed. at Winchester and New coll. Ox.; B.C.L. 1818, D.C.L. 1857; fellow of his college 1811–34, hon. fellow 1870 to death; barrister M.T. 26 Nov. 1819; admitted barrister at I.T. 11 June 1822, bencher 18 Nov. 1834, reader 1843, treasurer 1844; K.C. 1834; M.P. for city of Oxford 26 July 1837 to 23 June 1841; counsel for Bank of England 1844; serjeant-at-law 7 Nov. 1844; justice of Court of Common Pleas 6 Nov. 1844; transferred to Court of Queen’s Bench, Oct. 1846; chief justice of Court of Common Pleas 24 June 1859 to 26 Nov. 1866; knighted 23 April 1845; P.C. 6 July 1859; F.R.S. 22 Nov. 1860; member of Trades Union commission 1867–8; author of The law relating to Trades Unions 1869. d. Bramshott Grange near Liphook, Hants. 28 Jany. 1880. I.L.N. lxxvi, 157 (1880), portrait.

ERLE-DRAX, JOHN SAMUEL WANLEY SAWBRIDGE- (eld. son of Samuel Elias Sawbridge of Olantigh tower, Ashford, Kent). b. 6 Oct. 1800; captain in East Kent militia 35 years; maintained a troop of yeomanry known as the Charborough troop; assumed name of Erle-Drax 1828; M.P. for Wareham 1841–57, 1859–65 and 1868–80; contested Wareham 1857 and 1865. d. Holnest park, Sherborne 5 Jany. 1887. The book of sports ii, 61 (1843), portrait; New sporting mag. xiii, 262 (1837), portrait.

ERRINGTON, MOST REV. GEORGE (2 son of Thomas Errington of Clintz near Richmond, Yorkshire). b. Clintz 14 Sep. 1804; ed. at Ushaw 1814–21 and English college, Rome 1821–24; sub-deacon 1825, deacon 1826, priest 22 Dec. 1827; D.D. cum præmio 1827; vice rector of English college, Rome 29 May 1832 to 1843; travelled in France and Spain 1832–40; presided over the studies in St. Mary’s coll. Oscott 1843–47; employed at Liverpool and Salford 1848–51; bishop of newly created see of Plymouth 27 June 1851 to March 1855; consecrated in church of St. John, Salford by Abp. Wiseman 25 July 1851; coadjutor to Cardinal Wiseman with title of Archbishop of Trebizond in partibus March 1855 to 2 July 1862; administrator of diocese of Clifton, Oct. 1855 to Feb. 1857; assistant at pontifical throne 5 Dec. 1869; held charge of missions in Isle of Man 1865–8; undertook tuition of young theological students at St. Paul’s college, Prior Park, Bath, Oct. 1870 to death; author of Four lectures on the hierarchy of the Catholic Church 1850; The Irish land question 1880. d. Prior Park 19 Jany. 1886. M. Brady’s Episcopal Succession, iii, 376, 436, 437, 473 (1877).

ERRINGTON, JOHN EDWARD (eld. son of John Errington). b. Hull 29 Dec. 1806; a resident engineer on Grand Junction railway to 1837; joint engineer with Joseph Locke of Lancaster and Carlisle railway 1843; constructed Caledonian railway 1848; engineer to London and South Western railway 1856–60; A.I.C.E. 1831, M.I.C.E. 22 Jany. 1839, mem. of council 1850, vice pres. 1861–62. d. 6 Pall Mall east, London 4 July 1862. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxii, 626–29 (1863).

ERSKINE, DAVID MONTAGU ERSKINE, 2 Baron (eld. son of 1 Baron Erskine 1750–1823). Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1797, LLD. 1811; barrister L.I. 20 Nov. 1802; M.P. for Portsmouth 19 Feb. to July 1806; min. plenipo. to United States, July 1806 to 1809, at Stuttgard 1825–28; ambassador at Munich, Feb. 1828 to Nov. 1843 when he retired on pension. d. Butler’s Green near Lewes 19 March 1855 aged 79.

ERSKINE, EDWARD MORRIS (4 son of the preceding). b. Brighton 28 March 1817; attaché at Munich 25 Sep. 1835; envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at Athens 7 May 1864 to 24 July 1872, at Stockholm 24 July 1872 to 1 May 1881 when he retired on a pension; C.B. 25 Feb. 1873. d. Neville house, Twickenham 19 April 1883.

ERSKINE, VERY REV. HENRY DAVID (2 son of 1 Baron Erskine 1750–1823). Ed. at Univ. of Edin. and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. Cam. 1809; D.D. Columbia coll. New York 1852; R. of Swithland, Leics. 1817–41; R. of Kirby Underdale, Yorkshire 1840 to death; preb. of York cath. 28 Oct. 1845, dean of Ripon 23 Sep. 1847 to death. d. Ripon 27 July 1859 aged 72.

ERSKINE, JOHN ELPHINSTONE (son of David Erskine of Cardross, Stirling). b. 13 July 1806; entered navy 1819; captain 28 June 1838; M.P. for Stirlingshire, July 1865 to 26 Jany. 1874; R.A. 4 Nov. 1857; commanded a division of Channel Squadron 1859–61, admiral 10 Sep. 1869; author of A short account of the discoveries of gold in Australia 1851; Journal of a cruise among the islands of the Western Pacific 1853. d. 1 Albany, Piccadilly, London 23 June 1887.

ERSKINE, THOMAS (3 son of 1 Baron Erskine 1750–1823). b. 10 Serjeant’s Inn, Fleet st. London 12 March 1788; ed. at Harrow; entered at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. as a peer’s son without residence or examination 1811; secretary of presentations 1806; practised as special pleader 1810–13; barrister L.I. 20 May 1813; K.C. Nov. 1827; chief judge of Court of Review in Bankruptcy 2 Dec. 1831 to Nov. 1842; P.C. 1831; a judge of Court of Common Pleas 9 Jany. 1839 to Nov. 1844; pres. of Trinitarian Bible Society 1840. d. Bournemouth 9 Nov. 1864.

ERSKINE, THOMAS (youngest son of David Erskine of Linlathen, Forfarshire, who d. 5 April 1791). b. Edinburgh 13 Oct. 1788; an advocate in Edin. 1810–16; a friend of Dr. Chalmers and Thomas Carlyle; author of Remarks on the internal evidence of the truth of revealed religion 1820, 10 ed. 1878; An essay on faith 1822; The unconditional freeness of the Gospel 1828; The doctrine of election and its connection with Christianity 1837, 2 ed. 1878 and 8 other books. d. Edinburgh 20 March 1870. Letters of Thomas Erskine of Linlathen edited by W. Hanna 1878.

ESCOTT, BICKHAM SWEET. b. 1802; barrister M.T. 17 June 1825; M.P. for Winchester 1841–47; contested West Somerset at general elections of 1832, 1835 and 1847; author of A letter on the reform question 1831 and other works on same subject. d. Hartrow manor, Somerset 4 Nov. 1853.

ESDAILE, JAMES. b. Montrose 6 Feb. 1808; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1830; assistant surgeon Bengal army 1831; presidency surgeon at Calcutta 1848, marine surgeon 1850 to 1 June 1851; began practising mesmerism 1845; author of Letters from the Red Sea, Egypt and the Continent, Calcutta 1839; Mesmerism in India and its practical application in surgery and medicine 1846; Natural and mesmeric clairvoyance with the practical application of mesmerism in surgery and medicine 1852 and other books. d. Elm bank, Lawrie road, Sydenham 10 Jany. 1859.

ESMONDE, SIR JOHN, 9 or 10 Baronet. b. Kilmanock, co. Wexford 16 May 1826; ed. at Clongowes Wood and Trin. coll. Dublin; called to Irish bar 1850; M.P. for co. Waterford 1852 to death; sheriff of Wexford 1866, of Wicklow 1875. d. 9 Dec. 1876.

ESMONDE, SIR THOMAS, 8 or 9 Baronet. b. 10 Dec. 1786; succeeded his uncle 19 Dec. 1803; M.P. for Wexford 1841–47; P.C. Ireland 1847. d. 31 Dec. 1868.

ESPINASSE, JAMES (only son of Isaac Espinasse of Bexley, Kent, who d. 14 Feb. 1834 aged 76). b. 1798; ed. at Balliol coll. Ox., B.A. 1820; barrister G.I. 27 June 1827; recorder of Rochester 1842 to death; judge of county courts, circuit 49 (West Kent), March 1847 to death; author of A treatise on the law of bankrupts 1823. d. The college, Maidstone 16 March 1867.

ESSEX, CATHARINE CAPEL-CONINGSBY, Countess of (dau. of Edward Stephens of London, carver and gilder). b. London 18 Sep. 1791; sang under name of Miss Young at many concerts in the provinces; sang in Italian opera at the Pantheon, London 1812 as Catharine Stephens; first appeared at Covent Garden as Mandane in Arne’s opera Artaxerxes Sep. 1813; played Polly in The Beggar’s Opera and Clara in The Duenna; sang at Drury Lane 1822–26; sang at concerts and in oratorios; one of the finest soprano singers; her voice reached to the high D; retired from the stage 1831. (m. 19 April 1838 George Capel-Coningsby 5 Earl of Essex 1757–1839), she d. 9 Belgrave sq. London 22 Feb. 1882, mural monument erected in Watford church, Herts. March 1885. Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography ii, 123–36 (1825), portrait; Mrs. C. B. Wilson’s Our Actresses i, 276–87 (1844), portrait; E. C. Clayton’s Queens of song ii, 33–44 (1865); Theatrical Inquisitor iii, 259–61 (1813), portrait; Musical Gem (1832), 2–3, portrait.

ESSEX, WILLIAM. Enamel painter; sole exponent of the art after death of H. P. Bone 1855; painted many miniature copies of pictures by Correggio, Guido, Wilkie and others; exhibited 109 enamels at R.A., 20 at B.I. and 17 at Suffolk st. gallery 1818–64; enamel painter to the Queen 1839 to death; a private exhibition of his works was held in 1839, of which a catalogue was printed. d. Brighton 29 Dec. 1869 aged 85.

ESTCOURT, REV. EDGAR EDMUND (eld. son of Rev. Edmund William Estcourt of Newnton, Wilts.) b. 7 Feb. 1816; ed. at Ex. coll. Ox., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1840; C. of Cirencester, Gloucs. 1842–45; received into Church of Rome at Prior Park, Dec. 1845; ordained priest 1848; œconomus of diocese of Birmingham 1850; canon of St. Chad’s cathedral, Birmingham to death; author of The dogmatic teaching of the Book of Common Prayer on the subject of the Holy Eucharist 1868; The question of Anglican orders discussed 1873; The memoir of Jane Dormer, Duchess of Feria, edited by Rev. J. Stevenson 1887. d. Leamington 16 April 1884. bur. Kenilworth.

ESTCOURT, JAMES BUCKNALL (2 son of the succeeding). b. Edward st. Portman sq. London 12 July 1802; ed. at Harrow; ensign 44 foot 13 July 1820, second in command in Euphrates valley expedition 1834–36; major 43 foot 21 Oct. 1836 to 25 Aug. 1843 when placed on h.p.; adjutant general in the Crimea 21 Feb. 1854 to death; granted distinguished service reward 25 Oct. 1854; M.G. 12 Dec. 1854; M.P. for Devizes 1848–52; named a K.C.B. in London Gazette 10 July 1855. d. of cholera in camp before Sebastopol 23 June 1855.

ESTCOURT, THOMAS GRIMSTON BUCKNALL (eld. son of Thomas Estcourt of Estcourt, Gloucs. 1748–1818). b. 3 Aug. 1775; ed. at C.C. coll. Ox., M.A. 1796; hon. D.C.L. 1827; barrister L.I. 20 June 1820; recorder of Devizes; chairman of Wiltshire general quarter sessions to 1837; M.P. for Devizes 1805–26, for Univ. of Ox. 1826–47. d. Estcourt 26 July 1853.

ESTCOURT, THOMAS HENRY SUTTON SOTHERON (eld. son of the preceding). b. 4 April 1801; ed. at Harrow and Oriel coll. Ox.; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, D.C.L. 1857; M.P. for Marlborough 1829–1832, for Devizes 1835–1844, for North Wilts, 1844 to 1865; pres. of Poor law board 8 March 1858 to 9 March 1859; P.C. 1858; sec. of state for home department 3 March 1859 to June 1859. d. Estcourt 6 Jany. 1876. I.L.N. xxxii, 312 (1858), portrait, lxviii, 70, 76, 83, 287 (1876), portrait.

ESTLIN, JOHN BISHOP (son of John Prior Estlin of Bristol, schoolmaster 1747–1817). b. St. Michael’s hill, Bristol 26 Dec. 1785; M.C.S. 1806, F.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon at Bristol 1808 to death, where he established a dispensary for treatment of diseases of the eye 1812 which he managed 1812–49; one of the chief ophthalmic surgeons; author of On prayer and divine aid 1825; Remarks on Mesmerism 1845. d. Park st. Bristol 10 June 1855. Memoir of J. B. Estlin By W. James 1855.

ETHERIDGE, MOST REV. JAMES. b. Redmarley, Worcs. 19 Oct. 1808; ed. at Stonyhurst coll.; ordained priest 1836; rector of Mount St. Mary’s coll. 1842; minister at Hodder 1842; minister of St. Wilfred’s, Preston 1855; bishop of Torona and vicar apostolic of British Guiana 1858 to death; consecrated by Cardinal Wiseman in London 17 Oct. 1858. d. on his passage from Barbadoes to Georgetown, Demerara 1 Jany. 1878.

ETHERIDGE, REV. JOHN WESLEY. b. Youngwoods near Newport, Isle of Wight 24 Feb. 1804; Wesleyan minister at Hull 1827, London 1829, in Cornwall 1833–37 and 1853 to death; Ph.D. Heidelberg 1847; a scholar in many languages; author of The Syrian churches, their history, liturgies and literature with translation of the Four Gospels from the Peschito 1846; The Life of Dr. Adam Clarke 1858; The Life of Dr. Thomas Coke 1860 and other books. d. Camborne 24 May 1866. Rev. T. Smith’s Memoirs of Rev. J. W. Etheridge 1871.

ETWALL, RALPH. b. in or near Andover 1804; M.P. for Andover 1831–47; kept a racing stud 1832 to about 1849; one of the best known coursers in south of England. d. Connaught st. Hyde Park, London 15 Dec. 1882. William Day’s Reminiscences of the turf, 2 ed. 1886, pp. 241–46.

EUING, WILLIAM. b. Partick near Glasgow 20 May 1788; ed. at Glasgow gr. sch. and univ.; an underwriter and insurance broker at Glasgow 1819; founded a music lectureship at Anderson’s college, Glasgow by deed dated 1866; left his valuable musical library (of which a catalogue was printed) to Anderson’s college, with £1000 for its maintenance. d. Glasgow 12 May 1874. T. Mason’s Public and private libraries of Glasgow 1885 pp. 176–93, 437; Rev. C. Rogers’s Leaves from my autobiography (1876) p. 331; Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxxi, 231–2 (1875).

EUSTACE, SIR JOHN ROWLAND (youngest son of Charles Eustace of Robertstown, co. Kildare). b. 1795; ed. at St. Peter’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1816; captain Grenadier guards 5 July 1827 to 24 April 1840 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 2 April 1859; knighted 1816; K.H. 1835; sheriff of Kildare 1848. d. Bouverie sq. Folkestone 7 Aug. 1864.

EUSTACE, SIR WILLIAM CORNWALLIS (brother of the preceding). Lieut. 32 foot 27 Sep. 1783; lieut. col. Chasseurs Britanniques 23 Aug. 1810 to 1814 when placed on h.p. regiment being disbanded; captain Grenadier guards 25 March 1818 to 18 May 1826 when placed on h.p.; col. 60 Rifles 7 April 1843 to death; general 20 June 1854; C.B. 4 June 1815; K.C.H. 1832. d. Sampford hall, Essex 9 Feb. 1855 aged 73.

EVANS, REV. ALFRED BOWEN. b. Finsbury sq. London 1816; C. of Enfield, Middlesex 1854–61; R. of St. Mary-le-Strand, London 1861 to death; a powerful and original preacher; D.D. by Abp. of Canterbury 1863; author of Dissent and its inconsistences 1841; Christianity in its homely aspects 2 vols. 1852–4; Lectures on the book of Job 1856 and 30 other books. d. 23 Gloucester crescent, Regent’s park, London 6 Nov. 1878. Rev. C. M. Davies’s Orthodox London (1874) 176–85.

EVANS, ANNE (dau. of the succeeding). b. 4 June 1820; resided at Britwell court near Burnham, then at Bosworth, afterwards at 16 Kensington sq. London; a friend of Thackeray and his daughters; poet and musician. d. 16 Kensington sq. London 19 Feb. 1870. Anne Evans’ Poems and music, with memorial preface by Anne Thackeray Ritchie 1880, portrait.

EVANS, REV. ARTHUR BENONI (2 son of Rev. Lewis Evans 1755–1827, V. of Froxfield, Wilts.) b. Compton-Beauchamp, Berks. 25 March 1781; ed. at Gloucester and St. John’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1804, M.A. 1820, B.D. and D.D. 1828; C. of Hartpury, Gloucs. 1804; professor of classics and history in royal military college, Great Marlow 1805–12 when he removed with the college to Sandhurst, resigned 1822; C. of Burnham, Bucks. 1822–29; master of Market Bosworth free gr. sch. 1829 to death; C. of Bosworth Carlton and Cadeby successively 1829–41; author of Synopses for the use of the students in the royal military academy; The Curate and other poems 1810; Leicestershire words, phrases and proverbs 1848, and 16 other books. d. Market Bosworth 8 Nov. 1854. G.M. xliii, 100–102 (1855).

EVANS, BROOKE (son of Thomas Evans of Birmingham, tailor). b. Bull st. Birmingham 1797; manufacturer of fire arms in the United States; indigo planter and merchant; glass and lead merchant at Stratford-on-Avon 6 years; partner with Charles Askin as manufacturers of nickel and cobalt at Birmingham 1835–47 when Askin died, managed the business (which gained a European reputation) 1847 to death. d. Birmingham 15 Sep. 1862.

EVANS, CALEB. b. 25 July 1831; clerk in Chancery pay office, London 1852–82; collected fossils near London 1858–83; a founder of Geologists’ Association of London 1857; F.G.S. 1867; author of 11 papers on geological subjects, some of which were published separately; constructed several excellent geological models or relief maps. d. 16 Sep. 1886.

EVANS, CHARLES (eld. son of Rev. Benjamin Evans, assistant master at Harrow). b. Harrow 1798; ed. at Eton and Pemb. coll. Cam., 12 wrangler 1819; B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; fell. of his coll. 1821; barrister L.I. 4 Feb. 1823; revising barrister for Norwich 1832 to death; comr. of bankrupts for Norwich; chancellor of diocese of Norwich 1845 to death; pres. of directors of Norwich Union Fire office. d. Norwich 21 Oct. 1868.

EVANS, CHARLES JOHN. Entered British Museum 1858; compiled the catalogue of music which occupied him 15 years; wrote many articles in Grove’s Dictionary of Musicians 3 vols. 1879–82; played the fagotto or bassoon in the Wandering Minstrels Orchestra. d. 150 King’s road, Chelsea 8 Dec. 1884.

EVANS, DANIEL THOMAS (eld. son of Thomas Evans of Taunton). b. Cain’s Cross, Gloucs.; barrister M.T. 19 Nov. 1847; sub-editor of The Law Times 1843–46; joint editor of Wise and Evans’s Digest 1846–55, sole editor 1855–73 when it ceased. d. London 6 Nov. 1885 in 73 year.

EVANS, DAVID MORIER (son of Joshua Lloyd Evans of Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire). b. London, 1819; assistant city correspondent of The Times 1846–57; manager of Morning Herald 1857, of Standard 1857–72; started The Hour, daily morning paper, March 1873; became bankrupt 19 Dec. 1873; editor and part proprietor of Banker’s Mag., and Banker’s Almanac and Bullionist; author of The commercial crisis of 1847–48, 1849; City men and city manners 1856; Revelations of facts, failures and frauds 1861. d. Albion house, King Edward’s road, South Hackney, London 1 Jany. 1874.

EVANS, EDWARD DAVID (eld. son of Edward Evans of London, printseller, who d. 24 Nov. 1835 aged 46). Printseller at 1 Great Queen st., Lincoln’s Inn Fields with his mother and brother 1835–53, then at 403 Strand 1853 to death. d. 3 Circus road, St. John’s Wood, London 15 Aug. 1860 aged 42.

EVANS, REV. EVAN. b. Gellillyndy, Llanddewibrefi, Cardiganshire 8 March 1804; Calvinistic preacher 1825; joined the Independents 1847; went to America 1869; collected a small Welsh church in Arkansas 1881, in charge of it to his death; author of numerous works in the Welsh language. d. 29 Oct. 1886.

EVANS, EVAN WILLIAM. b. near Swansea 1827; graduated at Yale Univ. 1851; principal of Delaware institute, Franklin, New York; a tutor in Yale 1855–57; professor of natural philosophy and astronomy in Marietta college, Ohio 1857–64; a mining engineer 1864–67; professor of mathematics in Cornell Univ. 1868–72; regarded as the best Celtic scholar in the United States. d. Ithaca, New York 22 May 1874.

EVANS, FREDERICK JOHN (son of John Evans, gas engineer). b. 1818; chief consulting engineer of Gas light and coke company, London 1863–72, the works at Beckton, opposite Woolwich, finest establishment of the kind in the world were opened 1871; this company absorbed 7 other companies 1870–76, in 1881 it made about two-thirds of the whole metropolitan supply; discovered valuable properties of oxide of iron for gas purification which revolutionised conduct of that process; A.I.C.E. 10 March 1840; M.I.C.E. 9 Feb. 1864. d. Clayponds, Brentford 8 July 1880. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxiii, 311–13 (1881).

EVANS, SIR FREDERICK JOHN OWEN (son of John Evans, master R.N.) b. 9 March 1815; entered navy 1828; superintendent of compass department of navy 1855; Chief Naval Assistant to the hydrographer to the admiralty 1865, hydrographer to the admiralty 1874–84; captain 1872; C.B. 8 May 1873; K.C.B. 24 May 1881; F.R.S. 5 June 1862, vice pres. 1876; author of Chart of curves of equal magnetic declination 1858; Report on compass deviations in the royal navy 1860; edited with Archibald Smith, Admiralty manual for ascertaining deviations of the compass 1862, 3 ed. 1869. d. 21 Dawson place, Bayswater, London 20 Dec. 1885. Proc. of Royal Soc. xl, 1–7 (1886).

EVANS, SIR GEORGE DE LACY (son of John Evans of Miltown). b. Moig, co. Limerick 7 Oct. 1787; ensign 22 foot 1 Feb. 1807; captain 5 West India regiment 1815–17 when placed on h.p.; M.P. for Rye 1830–31, for Westminster 1833–41 and 1846–65; contested Westminster and Rye, Dec. 1832; commanded British legion of 9,600 men in Spain, June 1835 to June 1837; col. 21 foot 29 Aug. 1853 to death; commanded 2nd division of British army in Crimea 1854–55; general 10 March 1861; K.C.B. 13 Feb. 1838, G.C.B. 5 July 1855; granted distinguished service reward 1 Sep. 1848; grand officer of Legion of Honour 1856; author of Facts relating to the capture of Washington 1829 and other books. d. 6 Great Cumberland st. Hyde park, London 9 Jany. 1870. G. Ryan’s Our Heroes (1855) 13–36; G. Mackay’s Leaders of the Host 1854; Diprose’s St. Clements i, 64–68 (1869); E. H. Nolan’s Russian war i, 661 (1857), portrait; Duncan’s The English in Spain (1877) 41, 342.

NOTE.—The thanks of the House of Commons were voted to him “in his place” 2 Feb. 1855 and so the seat from which he heard the thanks read out became his all the rest of the time he sat in the House.

EVANS, GEORGE HENRY. b. Bromyard, Herefordshire 25 March 1805; went to the United States 1820, one of the earliest land reformers there; advocated inalienable homesteads, general bankrupt laws and laborers’ liens; edited and published The Man, at Ithaca, New York about 1822; the Working Man’s Advocate, in New York 1830; The Daily Sentinel 1837; and Young America, in New York and then at Rahway, New Jersey 1853. d. Granville, New Jersey 2 Feb. 1855.

EVANS, JOHN (only son of John Evans of Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire). Ed. at univ. of Glasgow and Geneva; barrister I.T. 16 June 1820; Q.C. 1837; bencher of his inn 1837, reader 1849, treasurer 1850; M.P. for Haverfordwest 1847–52; F.S.A. 3 Feb. 1853. d. Buxton 17 Oct. 1864 aged 68.

EVANS, VEN. JOHN. b. Carmarthen; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.D. 1830; V. of Llanboidy, Carmarthenshire 1827 to death; R. of Llanglydwen, Carmarthenshire 1832 to death; archdeacon of Carmarthen 1858 to death. d. Nantyr-Eglwys, St. Clear’s 7 Feb. 1865.

EVANS, REV. JOHN. b. Ty Mawr, North Wales 23 July 1814; Welsh poet and Calvinistic methodist minister; better known as I. D. Fpaid; author of History of the Jews 1830 in Welsh; translated into Welsh Young’s Night Thoughts and Milton’s Paradise Lost; contributed prose and verse to Welsh periodicals. d. 4 March 1876.

EVANS, REV. JOHN (son of John Evans of Wellington, Somerset). Matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 13 Oct. 1814 aged 18; P.C. of Whixhall, Salop 1844 to death; author of Compendious view of the authenticity and inspiration of the Old and New Testament 1828; Statutes of the fourth general council of the Lateran 1843 and many other books. d. Whixhall vicarage 7 March 1889.

EVANS, REV. LEWIS (4 son of Thomas Simpson Evans of St. Botolphs, London). Matric. from Wadham coll. Ox. 30 June 1832 aged 17; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1842; fell. of his coll. 1839–46; head master of Sandbach free gr. sch. 1850 to death; edited Marshall’s Penitential Discipline 1844; Bishop Beveridge’s Sermons 8 vols.; author of The satires of Juvenal Persius, Sulpicia and Lucillius literally translated into English prose with notes 1848; author with Rev. J. G. Sheppard of Notes upon Thucydides Books i and ii, 1857. d. Gloucester 28 March 1869.

EVANS, RICHARD. Portrait painter and copyist; pupil and assistant to Sir Thomas Lawrence; lived at Rome many years; exhibited 42 pictures at R.A. 1816–59. d. Southampton, Nov. 1871 aged 87.

EVANS, ROBERT HARDING (son of Thomas Evans of London, bookseller 1742–84). Ed. at Westminster school; apprenticed to Thomas Payne bookseller at the Mewsgate; general bookseller in Pall Mall 1804–12; auctioneer at sale of Roxburghe and many other famous libraries 1812–47; edited Bishop Burnet’s History of his own time 4 vols. 1808–9; Hakluyt’s Collection of early voyages of the English nation 5 vols. 1809–12 and other books; author with Thomas Wright of Historical account of the caricatures of James Gillray 1851. d. Edward st. Hampstead road, London 25 April 1857 in 80 year. Dibdin’s Bibliographical Decameron iii, 51 (1817), portrait; G.M. ii, 734–5 (1857).

EVANS, VEN. ROBERT WILSON (2 son of John Evans, M.D. of Shrewsbury). b. the council house, Shrewsbury 30 Aug. 1789; ed. at Shrewsbury and Trin. coll. Cam., 7th wrangler 1811; B.A. 1811, M.A. 1814, B.D. 1842; fellow of his college 1813, classical tutor 1814; V. of Tarvin, Cheshire 1836–42; V. of Heversham, Westmoreland 1842 to death; archdeacon of Westmoreland 1856 to Jany. 1865; author of The Bishopric of Souls 1842, 5 ed. 1877; The rectory of Valehead 1830, 12 ed. 1842; Tales of the ancient British church 1840, 3 ed. 1859 and 25 other works. d. Heversham vicarage 10 March 1866. E. Bickersteth’s ed. of Bishopric of Souls (1877) v-xiv, portrait; The Church of England Photographic portrait gallery (1859), portrait 33.

EVANS, THOMAS. Ensign 113 foot 3 Dec. 1794; lieut.-col. 70 foot 24 Sep. 1829 to 28 June 1838; col. 81 foot 12 July 1847 to death; general 18 May 1855; C.B. 4 June 1815. d. Quebec 11 Feb. 1863.

EVANS, THOMAS. b. Cardigan 1840; a collier at Aberdare; won 20 prizes for his poems at Eisteddfodau; his poetical works were published with a short memoir in 1866. d. 29 April 1865.

EVANS, REV. THOMAS SAUNDERS. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., scholar; B.A. 1839, M.A. 1845, M.A. Durham 1862, D.D. Edin. 1885; assistant master of Rugby 1847–62; canon of Durham 1862 to death; professor of Greek in Univ. of Durham, May 1862 to death; proctor for chapter of Durham 1864 to death; author of Tennyson’s Œnone translated into Latin hexameters 1873; Notes on i. Corinthians in The Speaker’s Commentary 1881; The Nihilist in the Hayfield, a Latin poem 1882. d. Weston-super-Mare 16 May 1889.

EVANS, WILLIAM. b. Carana, Ireland 22 Nov. 1786; went to Canada 1819; sec. to the first Agricultural Society founded in Montreal; established the Canadian Quarterly and the Agriculturalist and Industrial Magazine; edited in Toronto British American Cultivator 1842; founded at Montreal the Canadian Agricultural Journal 1843, edited it 1843–56; sec. and treasurer of board of agriculture in Lower Canada 1853; author of Theory and practice of agriculture, Montreal 1835, supplement 1836. d. Montreal 1857.

EVANS, WILLIAM. b. North Wales about 1810; painted scenery in North Wales down to 1852 when he went to Italy; associate member of Old Society of Painters in water-colours. d. Marylebone road, London 7 Dec. 1858.

EVANS, WILLIAM (son of Samuel Evans of Flintshire, landscape painter, who d. about 1835). b. Eton 4 Dec. 1798; ed. at Eton; drawing master at Eton 1818, resigned 1856; associate of Old Society of Painters in water-colours 1828, member 1830; exhibited a great number of paintings; head of one of the houses at Eton 1856 to death. d. Eton 31 Dec. 1877. I.L.N. lxxii, 103, 107 (1878), portrait.

EVANS, REV. WILLIAM EDWARD (son of John Evans, M.D. of Shrewsbury). b. Shrewsbury 8 June 1801; ed. at Shrewsbury and Clare hall, Cam., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826; P.C. of Criggion, Montgomeryshire 1829–32; C. of Monkland, Herefordshire 1832–50; preb. and prælector of Hereford 1841–61; V. of Madley near Hereford 1850 to death; canon of Hereford 1861 to death; author of The song of the birds, or analogies of animal and spiritual life 1845 and other books. d. The Close, Hereford 21 Nov. 1869.

EVATT, HENRY. Second lieut. R.E. 11 July 1788; col. commandant 6 April 1832 to death; L.G. 28 June 1838. d. Fordwich near Canterbury 27 Jany. 1851 aged 83.

EVELEGH, HENRY. Second lieut. R.A. 24 April 1793, col. commandant 6 Feb. 1845 to death; general 20 June 1854. d. Standen, Newport, Isle of Wight 24 Sep. 1859 aged 86.

EVERARD, HARRIETTE EMILY. b. 12 March 1844; first appeared at T.R. Exeter about 1860; in London at royal Alfred theatre 1869; acted at Queen’s, Princess’s, Royalty, St. James’s and Drury Lane theatres; played Little Buttercup in H.M.S. Pinafore at Opera Comique 25 May 1878 to March 1880. (m. George Wm. Darley Beswick). d. 22 Feb. 1882. bur. Highgate cemetery 28 Feb.

EVERARD, MATHIAS. Ensign 2 foot 28 Sep. 1804; led the forlorn hope at storming of Monte Video 3 Feb. 1807 when out of 32 men 22 were killed or wounded; lieut.-col. 14 foot 12 July 1831 to 25 Dec. 1847 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 26 Sep. 1826; K.H. 1831. d. Southsea 20 April 1857.

EVEREST, SIR GEORGE (eld. son of Tristram Everest of Gwernvale, Breconshire). b. Gwernvale 4 July 1790; 2 lieut. Bengal engineers 4 April 1806; superintendent of trigonometrical survey at Hyderabad 1823–43; surveyor general of India 1830–43; retired with rank of lieut.-col. 16 Dec. 1843; C.B. 26 Feb. 1861; knighted at St. James’s palace 13 March 1861; F.R.S. 8 March 1827, mem. of council 1863–65; the loftiest peak of Himalayan range is called Mount Everest after him; author of An account of the measurement of two sections of the meridional arc of India 1830 and 1847 and other books. d. 10 Westbourne st. Hyde park gardens, London 1 Dec. 1866. F. W. Stubbs’ History of Bengal artillery ii, 251–54 (1877); Proc. of Royal Soc. xvi, pp. xi-xiv (1868).

EVERETT, EDWARD (4 son of Joseph Everett of Salisbury, banker). b. 13 May 1798; ed. at Winchester and Ball. coll. Ox.; B.A. 1820, M.A. 1824; a barrister M.T. 28 May 1824; a conveyancer at Salisbury; judge of court of requests at Salisbury; judge of Dorset county courts (circuit 56), March 1847 to Dec. 1867 when he resigned. d. Clifton 24 Jany. 1870.

EVERETT, REV. JAMES (2 son of John Everett of Alnwick). b. Alnwick 16 May 1784; Wesleyan minister at Shields 1807, in Derbyshire 1808–10, in Yorkshire 1810–22, at Newcastle 1834–39, at York 1839–42; bookseller at Sheffield 1823–25, at York 1839–42; expelled from Wesleyan conference 7 Aug. 1849 being suspected of authorship of the Fly Sheets reflecting on leading men of the conference; lived at Newcastle 1853–59, at Sunderland 1859 to death; pres. of United Methodist Free Churches, July 1857; author of Adam Clarke portrayed 3 vols. 1843 and 17 other works. d. Sunderland 10 May 1872. James Everett, a biography by Richard Chew 1875; G. Gilfillan’s Remoter Stars 1867 pp. 14–25; I.L.N. xv, 188 (1849), portrait.

EVERITT, ALLEN EDWARD (son of Edward Everitt of Birmingham, art dealer). b. Birmingham 1824; a painter there all his life; member of Royal Soc. of Artists of Birmingham 1857, hon. sec. 1858 to death; taught drawing in midland counties; hon. curator of Birmingham free art gallery, June 1880 to death; illustrated Davidson’s History of the Holtes of Aston 1854, and History of Old St. Martin’s, Birmingham 1875. d. The Grove, Frederick road, Edgbaston 11 June 1882. Edgbastonia ii, 108 (1882), portrait.

EVERSLEY, CHARLES SHAW-LEFEVRE, 1 Viscount (eld. son of Charles Shaw-Lefevre, M.P. for Reading, who d. 27 April 1823). b. Bedford sq., London 22 Feb. 1794; ed. at Winchester and Trin. coll. Cam.; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1819; barrister L.I. 12 May 1819; bencher 29 May 1839; M.P. for Downton, Wilts. 1830–31, for Hampshire 1831–32, for North Hants. 1832–57; speaker of House of Commons 27 May 1839 to 20 March 1857; P.C. 3 June 1839; second comr. of church estates 24 Aug. 1850; created Viscount Eversley of Heckfield co. Southampton 11 April 1857; governor of Isle of Wight 31 Oct. 1857; an ecclesiastical comr. for England 2 Aug. 1859. d. Heckfield place, Winchfield, Hants. 28 Dec. 1888. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 2 Jany. 1889. J. A. Manning’s Lives of the speakers (1850), 494–96; I.L.N. xxx, 109 (1857), portrait, 5 Jany. 1889, p. 8, portrait.

EWART, JOHN FREDERICK. b. Berlin 28 July 1786; ensign 52 foot 1 Nov. 1803; lieut. col. York Chasseurs 15 Sep. 1814 to 8 May 1817; lieut. col. 67 foot 5 Feb. 1818 to June 1826; inspecting field officer of Coventry recruiting district 1826–37; col. 67 foot 30 Oct. 1852 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854; C.B. 24 Oct. 1818. d. 1^A Wellington road, St. John’s Wood, London 23 Oct. 1854.

EWART, JOSEPH CHRISTOPHER (2 son of Wm. Ewart of Liverpool, merchant). b. Liverpool 1799; ed. at Eton; a merchant at Liverpool; a founder of Peninsular and Oriental steam navigation company; M.P. for Liverpool 1855–65. d. Broadleas near Devizes 14 Dec. 1868.

EWART, WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). b. Liverpool 1 May 1798; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; Newdigate prizeman 1820; B.A. 1821; barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1827; M.P. for Bletchingly 1828–30, for Liverpool 1830–37, for Wigan 1839–41, for Dumfries district 1841–68; author of The Temple of Diana at Ephesus 1820. d. Broadleas 23 Jany. 1869. Reg. and mag. of biography i, 209–10, 522 (1869); I.L.N. 25 July 1846, p. 53, portrait, 6 March 1869, p. 237, portrait.

EWBANK, THOMAS. b. Barnard castle, Durham 11 March 1792; maker of cases for preserved meats in London 1812–19; manufacturer of lead, tin and copper tubing in New York 1820–36; comr. of patents in Washington 1849–52; a founder and pres. of American Ethnological Society; author of A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water 1842, 17 ed. 1876; The world a workshop, or the physical relationship of man to the earth 1855; Life in Brazil, or the land of the cocoa and the palm 1856 and other books all published at New York. d. 140 East Thirty-first st. New York 16 Sep. 1870.

EWING, RIGHT REV. ALEXANDER (eld. son of John Ewing, advocate of Shelagreen, Aberdeenshire 1790–1827). b. Castle st. Aberdeen 25 March 1814; ed. at Chelsea 1830–31, Edin. univ. 1831 and 1834–35; incumbent of Forres 1841–47; bishop of Argyll and the Isles 28 Oct. 1847 to death; provost of Cumbrae 28 June 1854 to 28 Dec. 1866; D.C.L. Ox. 1851; author of Revelation considered as light 1873, new ed. 1874; The relations of the church of England with foreign churches 1866 and 15 other books. d. Westmill rectory, Herts. 22 May 1873. Memoir of Right Rev. A. Ewing by A. J. Ross 1879, portrait.

EWING, JAMES (son of Walter Ewing who assumed name of Maclae, arbitrator, d. 22 Oct. 1814). b. Glasgow 7 Dec. 1775; educ. High sch. Glasgow and univ. of Glasgow, D.C.L. 1835; West India merchant; lord dean of Guild 10 Oct. 1816; helped to establish first Provident or Savings bank in Glasgow of which he was deputy governor 19 June 1815; president of the Andersonian univ. 1817; gave an annual silver medal to Glasgow high sch.; lord provost of Glasgow 1820; a founder of the Royal Exchange and the Fir park; M.P. Glasgow 19 Dec. 1832 to 30 Dec. 1834, contested Glasgow 17 Jany. 1835; author of a History of the Merchants’ House; left £70,000 to Glasgow charities. d. Glasgow 29 Nov. 1853. Mackay’s Memoir of James Ewing 1866, portrait; Bourne’s English Merchants ii, 321–39 (1866).

EWING, JULIANA HORATIA (2 dau. of Rev. Alfred Gatty, V. of Ecclesfield, Yorkshire b. 1813). b. Ecclesfield 3 Aug. 1841; wrote many stories in Aunt Judy’s Magazine 1861–85; author of Melchior’s Dream and other tales 1862; Mrs. Overtheway’s Remembrances 1868, 3 ed. 1880; A Flat-iron for a farthing 1873; Passages in life of an only son 1872; Lob Lie-by-the-Fire and other tales 1874 and many other books for children. (m. 1 June 1867 Alexander Ewing, major army pay department). d. Bath 13 May 1885. J. H. Ewing and her books, by H. K. T. Gatty (1885), portrait.

EXALL, WILLIAM. b. Godalming, Surrey, May 1808; partner with his uncle Barrett in the Katesgrove foundry, Reading; invented patent safety cylindrical horse gear, and endless-band sawing machine; the first to apply the double acting air pump or box shaped condenser to horizontal engines; the pioneer of steam cultivation, having made first set of machinery on roundabout system for H. J. Hannam of Buscot park, Oxfordshire 1849; constructed the first hand-power threshing machine 1844 of which his firm made thousands; A.I.C.E. 3 Dec. 1850; alderman of Reading 1854 to death, mayor 1854–5. d. Holy Bank house, Reading 14 July 1881. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxvii, 405–7 (1882).

EXETER, BROWNLOW CECIL, 2 Marquis of (2 son of 1 Marquis of Exeter 1754–1804). b. Burghley house near Stamford 2 July 1795; ed. at Eton and St. John’s coll. Cam., M.A. 1814, LLD. 1835; recorder of Stamford 1816; lord lieut. of Rutland 1826; K.G. 10 May 1827; groom of the stole to Prince Albert 1841–46; P.C. 14 Sep. 1841; lord lieut. of Northampton 1842; lord chamberlain of Queen’s household 27 Feb. to 28 Dec. 1852; lord steward of Queen’s household 26 Feb. 1858 to 18 June 1859; bred one of largest studs in England 1815–55; won the Oaks 1821, 1829 and 1832 and Two thousand guineas 1825, 1829, 1830 and 1852. d. Burghley house 16 Jany. 1867. Rice’s British Turf i, 311–17 (1879); Baily’s Mag. i, 311–15 (1860), portrait; Sporting Review lvii, 82–85 (1867); Waagen’s Treasures of art iii, 402–9 (1854).

EXLEY, THOMAS. b. Gowdall near Snaith, Yorkshire; a mathematical teacher at Bristol about 1811–47; author of A vindication of Dr. Adam Clarke, Bristol [1817]; Principles of natural philosophy 1829; Physical Optics 1834 and other books; author with Rev. W. M. Johnson of The Imperial Encyclopædia 4 vols. [1812]. d. Cotham, Clifton, Bristol 17 Feb. 1855 aged 80.

EYRE, CHARLES. b. 1784; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1807; proprietor of 3 liberal newspapers printed at Colchester; managed a large farm; author of An illustration of the Epistles of St. Paul including an entirely new translation 2 vols. 1832; The fall of Adam from Milton’s Paradise Lost 1852; hanged himself at his residence Upper Park, Dedham, Essex 28 Sep. 1864.

EYRE, HENRY. Ensign 98 foot 10 Dec. 1824, lieut. col. 17 March 1843 to 28 April 1843 when placed on h.p.; commandant at Chatham 1858–59; commandant of Chatham district 1859–64; col. 59 foot 23 March 1865 to death; general 23 Sep. 1874; author of Light Infantry Drill 1868. d. Middleton-Tyas, Richmond, Yorkshire 10 April 1889 aged 83.

EYRE, SIR JAMES (eld. son of Rev. Wm. Eyre, V. of Padbury and Hillesden, Bucks., who d. 18 March 1830 aged 76). b. 14 Feb. 1792; M.R.C.S. 20 May 1814; surgeon in Hereford 1814 to 1834, in London 1834 to death; mayor of Hereford 1829–30; knighted by Wm. 4 at St. James’s palace 4 Aug. 1830 on presenting an address from city of Hereford on his accession; M.D. Edinburgh 1 Aug. 1834; physician accoucheur to St. George’s and St. James’s dispensary 1834–1851, consulting phys. 30 Oct. 1851; L.R.C.P. 1836; published Practical remarks on some exhausting diseases 1845, 2 ed. 1851; The stomach and its difficulties 1852, 8 ed. 1877. d. Lauriston house, Clapham 19 June 1857. Medical Circular i, 353–55 (1852), portrait.

EYRE, SIR VINCENT (3 son of Henry Eyre). b. Portsdown near Portsmouth 22 Jany. 1811; ed. at Norwich gr. sch. and Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Bengal Artillery 12 Dec. 1828, col. 24 Nov. 1862 to 1 Sep. 1863 when he retired on full pay; rendered great service during Indian mutiny; inspector general of ordnance at Calcutta 1861–62; retired L.G. Oct. 1863; member of army amalgamation commission 1861; C.B. 5 Feb. 1858; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1867; author of The military operations at Cabul 1843; A Fortnight’s tour among French ambulances 1870; Lays of a Knight Errant 1874 and other books. d. Villa des Acacias, Aix les Bains 22 Sep. 1881. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 1 Oct. C. R. Low’s Soldiers of the Victorian age i, 284–347 (1880); G. B. Malleson’s Recreations of an Indian official (1872) 249–329; Army and navy mag. iii, 97 (1882), portrait; I.L.N. xxxi, 380 (1857), portrait.

EYRE, SIR WILLIAM (younger son of vice admiral Sir George Eyre 1769–1839). b. Hatfield 21 Oct. 1805; ed. at Rugby; ensign 6 foot 17 April 1823; served in both Caffre wars 1851–2; lieut. col. 73 foot 12 Nov. 1847 to 14 April 1854; A.D.C. to the Queen 1853–1854; commanded second brigade of third division in Crimea 1854, commanded third division there 1854; commanded troops in Canada 1856–59; M.G. 12 Dec. 1854; K.C.B. 5 July 1855. d. Bilton hall near Rugby 8 Sep. 1859. Naval and military records of Rugbeians (1865) 53–4; Kinglake’s Invasion of the Crimea (1877) iii, 278, vi 54, ix 203–17, 270.

EYTON, PETER ELLIS. b. Flint 1827; solicitor at Flint 1853 to death; M.P. for district of Flint 6 Feb. 1874 to death; author of A trip to the Isle of Man. d. Englefield house, Rhyl, North Wales 17 or 19 June 1878.

EYTON, REV. ROBERT WILLIAM (3 son of Rev. John Eyton, V. of Wellington, Shropshire). b. Wellington vicarage 21 Dec. 1815; ed. at Rugby and Ch. Ch. Ox.; B.A. 1839, M.A. 1845; R. of Ryton, Shropshire 1841–63; author of The antiquities of Shropshire 12 vols. 1861; A Key to Domesday, an analysis and digest of the Dorset survey 1878; Court, household and itinerary of Henry ii, 1878 and other books. d. Winchfield house near Basingstoke 8 Sep. 1871.

EYTON, THOMAS CAMPBELL (son of Thomas Eyton 1777–1855, recorder of Wenlock). b. Eyton hall near Wellington, Shropshire 10 Sep. 1809; edited the Herd book of Hereford cattle 1842–60; formed at Eyton one of the finest collections of skins and skeletons of birds in Europe; author of History of the rarer British birds 1836; A history of the oyster and the oyster fisheries 1858; Osteologia Avium 1871. d. Eyton hall 25 Oct. 1880.

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FABER, REV. FREDERICK WILLIAM (7 child of Thomas Henry Faber, who d. 1833, sec. to Dr. Barrington, bishop of Durham). b. Calverley vicarage, Yorkshire 28 June 1814; ed. at Shrewsbury, Harrow and Ball. coll. Ox.; scholar of Univ. coll. Ox. 1834, fellow 1837, Newdigate prizeman 1836; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; Johnson divinity scholar 1837; R. of Elton, Hunts. 1843–45; admitted into R.C. church at Northampton by Bishop Wareing 17 Nov. 1845; entered Monastery of St. Wilfrid, Colmore terrace, Birmingham 26 May 1846; rector of oratory of St. Philip Neri, 24 and 25 King William st. Strand, London opened 31 May 1849, Father Superior 12 Oct. 1850 to death, the oratory removed to Brompton, March 1854; created D.D. 9 July 1854; edited The Saints and Servants of God, continued by the Congregation of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri 42 vols. 1847–56; author of The Cherwell water lily and other poems 1840 and about 30 other books. d. the Oratory, Brompton 26 Sep. 1863. bur. in burial ground of St. Mary’s, Sydenham 30 Sep. J. E. Bowden’s Life and letters of F. W. Faber 1869; A brief sketch of the early life of F. W. Faber, by his only surviving brother [Rev. F. A. Faber] 1869; Gillow’s English Catholics ii, 207–18; I.L.N. xxiv, 289, 290 (1854), portrait.

FABER, REV. GEORGE STANLEY (eld. son of Rev. Thomas Faber, V. of Calverley, Yorkshire). b. Calverley parsonage 25 Oct. 1773; ed. at Happenholme gr. sch. and Univ. coll. Ox., B.A. 1793, M.A. 1796, B.D. 1803; fell. and tutor of Linc. coll. 1793–1803; proctor 1801; Bampton lecturer 1801; C. of Calverley 1803–1805; V. of Stockton upon Tees 1805–1808; V. of Redmarshall, Durham 1808–11; V. of Longnewton, Durham 1811–32; Preb. of Salisbury 1831; master of Sherburn hosp. near Durham 1832 to death; author of Horæ Mosaicæ, or a view of the Mosaical records 2 vols. 1801, 2 ed. 1818; Dissertation on the prophesies 2 vols. 1807, 5 ed. 3 vols. 1814–18; The difficulties of Romanism 1826, 3 ed. 1853; The sacred calendar of prophecy 3 vols. 1828, 2 ed. 1844 and many other works. d. Sherburn hospital 27 Jany. 1854. The many mansions in the house of the Father, by G. S. Faber with memoir by F. A. Faber 1854; Christian Remembrancer xxix, 310–31 (1855); H. Heaviside’s Annals of Stockton on Tees (1865) 101–104.

FABER, WILLIAM RAIKES (son of the preceding). Second lieut. 60 rifles 10 April 1826; lieut. col. 2 West India foot 15 Dec. 1848 to 21 Feb. 1851 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. 53 foot 9 Jany. 1857 to 13 July 1858 when placed on h.p.; col. 17 foot 30 April 1871 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 29 May 1875. d. Staplegrove lodge, Taunton 24 June 1879 aged 73.

FADDY, PETER. Second lieut. R.A. 8 Sep. 1803; lieut. col. 10 Aug. 1839 to 3 Sep. 1845 when he retired on full pay; general 7 Feb. 1870; author of Essay on the defence of Great Britain at home and abroad 1848. d. Charleville, co. Cork 17 July 1879.

FAGAN, WILLIAM TRANT (eld. son of James Fagan of Cork). b. Cork 1801; ed. at Southall park, Middlesex; a merchant at Cork, alderman, mayor; M.P. for city of Cork 1847–1851 and 1852 to death; author of The life and times of Daniel O’Connell 2 vols. 1847–8. d. 9 or 16 May 1859. I.L.N. xiv, 205 (1849), portrait; Fitzpatrick’s O’Connell (1888) ii, 453.

FAGGE, CHARLES HILTON (son of Charles Fagge, surgeon). b. Hythe, Kent 30 June 1838; ed. at Guy’s hospital; M.D. 1863; M.R.C.P. 1864, F.R.C.P. 1870; medical registrar of Guy’s hospital 1866, assistant phys. 1867, phys. 1880; edited Guy’s Hospital Reports some years; author of Principles and practice of medicine 1886, 2 ed. 1888. d. 76 Grosvenor st. London 18 Nov. 1888.

FAHEY, JAMES. b. Paddington 16 April 1804; sec. of New Society of Painters in watercolours 1838–74; drawing master at Merchant Taylor’s school 1856–83; exhibited 13 landscapes at R.A., 1 at B.I. and 5 at Suffolk st. gallery 1825–36. d. The Grange, Shepherd’s Bush Green, London 11 Dec. 1885. I.L.N. 26 Dec. 1885 p. 667, portrait.

FAIR, ALEXANDER. Entered Madras army 1792; col. 27 Madras N.I. 1837 to death; general 20 June 1854. d. South crescent, Bedford sq. London 29 Jany. 1861 aged 85.

FAIRBAIRN, REV. PATRICK (son of John Fairburn of Hallyburton, Greenlaw, Berwickshire, farmer). b. Hallyburton 28 Jany. 1805; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; licensed to preach 1826; minister of parish of North Ronaldshay, Orkney islands 1830–36; minister of Bridgeton, Glasgow 1836–40; minister of Salton, East Lothian 1840–43; minister of free church Salton 1843–53; professor of divinity in free church theological college, Aberdeen 1853–56; transferred to free church college, Glasgow 1856, principal 4 Nov. 1856; moderator of general assembly 1865; member of Old Testament revision company; edited The Imperial Bible Dictionary 2 vols. 1866; author of The typology of Scripture 2 vols. 1845–47, 5 ed. 1870 and 7 other books. d. 6 Aug. 1874. Pastoral Theology, by Rev. P. Fairbairn, with biog. sketch by Rev. James Dodds 1875.

FAIRBAIRN, SIR PETER (youngest son of Andrew Fairbairn of Kelso, Roxburghshire). b. Kelso, Sep. 1799; machine maker at Glasgow 1823–28, at Leeds 1828 to death; invented many new machines; member of town council Leeds 1836–42, alderman 1854 to death, mayor 1857–59; knighted by the Queen at Leeds 7 Sep. 1858; there is a portrait of him by Sir Francis Grant in the council chamber Leeds and a bronze statue by Noble in the town. d. Woodsley house, Leeds 4 Jany. 1861. Fortunes made in business ii, 252–79 (1884); Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis (1865) 491–96; Illust. news of the world ii, 181 (1858), portrait, vii, 29 (1861), portrait.

FAIRBAIRN, SIR WILLIAM, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Andrew Fairbairn of Smailhome, co. Roxburgh 1758–1844). b. Kelso, co. Roxburgh 19 Feb. 1789; manufacturing engineer at Manchester 1817 to death; M.I.C.E. 20 April 1830; established an iron shipbuilding yard at Millwall near London 1835; built and designed nearly 100 bridges; F.R.S. 6 June 1850, Royal Medallist 1860; correspondent of National Institute of France 11 May 1852; pres. of Institution of Mechanical Engineers 1854–55; pres. of Manchester literary and philosophical society 1855–60; pres. of British Association at Manchester 1861; declined knighthood 23 Oct. 1861; created Baronet 7 Oct. 1869; author of Useful information for Engineers 1856, 4 ed. 1864; Iron, its history 1861, 3 ed. 1869 and other books. d. Moor park near Farnham, Surrey 18 Aug. 1874. bur. Prestwick parish church, Manchester. The life of Sir W. Fairbairn, edited by W. Pole 1877; Fortunes made in business ii, 240–50 (1884); Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxix, 251–64 (1875); Practical Mag. iv, 241, portrait; I.L.N. xl, 215, 225 (1862), portrait, lxv, 205, 212, 332 (1874), portrait.

FAIRFAX, SIR HENRY, 1 Baronet (youngest son of vice-admiral Sir Wm. George Fairfax 1739–1813). b. Edinburgh 3 Feb. 1790; ensign 49 foot 8 June 1809; major 85 foot 17 July 1823 to 6 Nov. 1827 when placed on h.p.; retired from the army 1844; created baronet in consideration of his father’s distinguished naval services 21 Feb. 1836. d. Edinburgh 3 Feb. 1860.

FAIRFAX, JOHN. b. Warwick 1804; printer and bookseller at Leamington; librarian to the Australian subscription library in Sydney 26 Sep. 1838; bought the Sydney Morning Herald a biweekly paper 1841, converted it into a daily morning paper which soon became leading journal of New South Wales, sole proprietor of the paper 1853; member of council of education 1870; member of legislative council 1874 to death; author of The Colonies of Australia 1852. d. Ginahgulla near Rose Bay, Port Jackson 16 June 1877.

FAIRHOLT, FREDERICK WILLIAM (16 child of a German named Fahrholz, who Anglicised his name to Fairholt). b. London 1814; employed in a tobacco factory 14 years; assistant to S. Sly the wood engraver 1835; made many hundreds of drawings on wood to illustrate Charles Knight’s publications; illustrated many important works; F.S.A. 1844; draughtsman to British Archæol. Assoc. 1845–52; author of Costume in England 1846, 3 ed. 2 vols. 1885 and 5 other books. d. 22 Montpelier square, Brompton 3 April 1866. C. R. Smith’s Retrospections i, 218–26, 307–21 (1883).

FAIRLAND, THOMAS. Pupil of Charles Warren; a lithographer, afterwards a portrait painter; his best work, one of the best ever executed in lithography, was the cartoon of the Virgin and Child by Raphael known as the Rogers Madonna; published a volume of Comic Sketches after W. Hunt 1844 which was very popular. d. of consumption Oct. 1852 in 49 year. G.M. Jany. 1853 p. 102.

FAIRLIE, ROBERT FRANCIS. b. Scotland, March 1831; civil engineer in Gracechurch st. London; patented the double-bogie engine 1864, first of which was built for Neath and Brecon railway 1866; these engines were introduced into many foreign countries; the Czar of Russia had a special gold medal struck in honour of Fairlie; author of Railways or no railways, narrow gauge v. broad gauge 1872. d. the Woodlands, Clapham common, London 31 July 1885.

FALCIERI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA, the faithful servant of Lord Byron. Entered service of Isaac D’Israeli; messenger at the India office, superannuated on pension of £140. d. Ramsgate 22 Dec. 1874; Sarah his widow was granted civil list pension of £50, 5 March 1875.

FALCONAR, CHESBOROUGH GRANT. Ensign 36 foot 1 Sep. 1795; major 78 foot 26 June 1823 to 22 Oct. 1825 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. 22 foot 25 Nov. 1828 to 18 Oct. 1839; inspecting field officer 18 Oct. 1839 to 11 Nov. 1851; col. 73 foot 11 Feb. 1857 to death; L.G. 20 July 1858; K.H. 1837. d. Hazelbank near Edinburgh 10 Jany. 1860.

FALCONER, EDMUND, stage name of Edmund O’Rourke. b. Dublin 1814; acted in the provinces many years; lessee with B. Webster of Lyceum theatre, London, Aug. 1858 to April 1859; played Danny Man in The Colleen Bawn at Adelphi theatre 231 nights from 18 July 1860; lessee of Lyceum again 1861 where his Irish drama Peep o’ Day ran from 9 Nov. 1861 to Dec. 1862; lessee with F. B. Chatterton of Drury Lane 1863 to 26 Sep. 1866 where he lost all his money; played in America 1867–70; author of Memories, poems 1863; Murmurings in the May and Summer of Manhood, O’Ruark’s Bride and Man’s Missions, poems 1865 and of many dramas, librettos and songs. d. 28 Keppel st. Russell sq. London 29 Sep. 1879. Pascoe’s Dramatic List (1879) 116–20; Illust. sporting and dramatic news 4 Dec. 1875 pp. 233–4.

FALCONER, FORBES (_2 son of Gilbert Falconer of Braeside, Fifeshire_). b. Aberdeen 10 Sep. 1805; ed. at Aberdeen gr. sch. and Marischal college; teacher of Oriental languages in London; professor of Oriental languages in Univ. college, London; author of Selections from the “Bôstan of Sâdi” in Persian 1838; Persian Grammar, 2 ed. 1848. d. 40 Dorset st. Portman sq. London 7 Nov. 1853.

FALCONER, HUGH (youngest child of David Falconer of Forres, Elginshire). b. Forres 29 Feb. 1808; ed. at Forres gr. sch. and King’s coll. Aberdeen, M.A. 1826; studied medicine at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1829; assist. surgeon in the H.E.I.Co.’s service 1830; superintendent of Botanic garden at Suharunpoor, North Western provinces 1832; awarded Wollaston medal of Geol. Society 1837; returned to England on sick leave 1842, went out again 20 Dec. 1847; superintendent of Calcutta botanic garden, and professor of botany in the medical college, June 1847 to 1855; F.G.S. 1842, foreign sec. 1861 to death; F.R.S. 13 Feb. 1845; author of Descriptive catalogue of the fossil remains from the Sewalik hills, Calcutta 1859. d. Park crescent, London 31 Jany. 1865. C. Murchison’s Palæontological memoirs and notes of the late Hugh Falconer (1868) vol. 1, pp. xxiii-liii, portrait; Proc. of Royal Soc. xv, 14–20 (1867); Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxi, 45–49 (1865).

FALCONER, RANDLE WILBRAHAM (youngest son of Rev. Thomas Falconer of Bath 1772–1839). b. 29 Circus, Bath 1816; studied at Edin., M.D. 1839; practised at Tenby 1839–47, at Bath 1847 to death; physician of Bath united hospital 12 Feb. 1849; physician of Bath mineral water hospital 28 Feb. 1856; mayor of Bath 1857–59; author of The baths and mineral waters of Bath, 6 ed. 1880, and other books. d. Bennett st. Bath 6 May 1881.

FALCONER, THOMAS (brother of the preceding). b. 25 June 1805; barrister L.I. 8 Feb. 1830; revising barrister for boroughs of Finsbury, Tower Hamlets and Marylebone 1837–1840; one of arbitrators to settle boundary of Canada and New Brunswick, Oct. 1850; colonial sec. of Western Australia 29 July 1851; judge of county courts circuit 30, (Brecknock and Glamorgan) 22 Dec. 1851 to Dec. 1881 when he retired on pension; aided in abolishing Duke of Beaufort’s gaol at Swansea; author of On Surnames and the rules of law affecting their change, Cardiff 1862 privately printed, 2 ed. London 1862, Supplement 1863 and 7 other books. d. Royal crescent, Bath 28 Aug. 1882 in 77 year. T. Falconer’s Bibliography of the Falconer family (1866) 20–30; The Red Dragon ii, 193–98 (1882), portrait.

FALCONER, REV. WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). b. Corston, Somerset 27 Dec. 1801; ed. at Oriel coll. Ox.; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1827; fellow of Exeter coll. 30 June 1827 to 18 July 1839, public examiner 1832–3 and 1836–8; R. of Bushey, Herts. 26 Jany. 1839 to death; translated with H. C. Hamilton for Bohn’s Classical Library The Geography of Strabo 3 vols. 1854–57. d. Bushey rectory 9 Feb. 1885.

FALKLAND, LUCIUS BENTINCK CARY, 10 Viscount (eld. child of Charles John Cary, 9 Viscount Falkland 1768–1809). b. 5 Nov. 1803; succeeded his father who d. of wounds received in a duel 2 March 1809; a lord of the bedchamber to Wm. iv, Dec. 1830; a representative peer for Scotland 1831–32; G.C.H. 1831; created Baron Hunsdon of Skutterskelfe, co. York in peerage of the U.K. 15 May 1832; P.C. 1 March 1837; governor of Nova Scotia 1840–1846; captain of yeomen of the guard 24 July 1846 to 16 Feb. 1848; governor of Bombay 1 Feb. 1848 to Dec. 1853, took his seat 1 May 1848. d. Montpellier, France 12 March 1884.

FALKNER, GEORGE. b. Edinburgh 1817; edited Bradshaw’s Manchester Journal from first number 1 May 1841; typographer and lithographer at Manchester to death; published his own Notes on Algiers 1852, and A pilgrimage to the shrine of Our Lady of Loreto 1882. d. The Oaklands, Timperley near Manchester 31 Dec. 1882.

FALLON, JAMES THOMAS. b. Athlone 1823; went to Sydney, N.S.W. 1842; bought a vineyard at Albury about 1859; his wines took first prize at Vienna exhibition 1873 and London exhibition 1875; made champagne from Australian grapes 1876; had largest vineyards and cellars in Australia; member of legislative assembly of N.S.W. 1869–72. d. Manly near Sydney 27 May 1886.

FALLOON, REV. DANIEL. b. Ireland; minister of Church of England in Canada; author of An historical view of the Church of England 2 vols. Dublin 1830; The Apostolic Church 1837; History of Ireland, civil and ecclesiastical from the earliest times to the death of Henry ii, edited by Rev. John Irwin, Montreal 1863. d. Montreal, Sep. 1862.

FALMOUTH, GEORGE HENRY BOSCAWEN, 2 Earl of (only child of Edward Boscawen, 1 Earl of Falmouth 1787–1841). b. Woolhampton house near Newbury, Berks. 8 July 1811; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; B.A. 1833, M.A. 1835; M.P. for West Cornwall 8 July 1841 to 29 Dec. 1841 when he succeeded his father as 2 Earl; high steward of Wallingford 1845 to death. d. 2 St. James’s square, Westminster 28 Aug. 1852.

FALSHAW, SIR JAMES, 1 Baronet (son of Wm. Falshaw of Leeds). b. Leeds 21 March 1810; assisted Stephenson in construction of Caledonian and other railways; constructed with Brassey the northern lines of railway from Inverness; lord provost of Edinburgh 1876; created baronet 17 Aug. 1876; deputy chairman of North British railway co. 1881, chairman 3 Aug. 1882 to 1887. d. 14 Belgrave crescent, Edinburgh 14 June 1889. Graphic x, 490, 501 (1874), portrait; I.L.N. lxix, 253 (1876), portrait.

FANE, HENRY EDWARD HAMLYN (eld. son of Rev. Edward Fane of Fulbeck, Lincs. 1783–1862). b. Fulbeck hall 5 Sep. 1817; ed. at Charterhouse; ensign 90 foot 1 Aug. 1834; major 4 light dragoons 1846–50 when he sold out; lieut. col. South Lincoln militia 20 April 1854 to death; assumed name of Hamlyn by r.l. 1865; M.P. for South Hants. 1865–68; author of Five years in India 1842. d. Avon Tyrrel, Ringwood, Hants. 27 Dec. 1868.

FANE, JOHN WILLIAM. b. 1 Sep. 1804; sheriff of Oxfordshire 1854; lieut. col. of Oxford militia 18 July 1862 to 22 May 1872; M.P. for Oxfordshire 1862–1868. d. 34 Cavendish sq. London 19 Nov. 1875.

FANE, JULIAN HENRY CHARLES (5 son of 11 Earl of Westmoreland 1784–1859). b. Florence 2 Oct. 1827; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; M.A. 1850; attaché at Berlin 1844; sec. of embassy at Vienna 23 Nov. 1860, at Paris 30 Dec. 1865 to 7 June 1868 when he resigned; published Poems 1852; Poems by Heinrich Heine, translated by Julian Fane 1854; author with Edward Lytton of Tannhäuser, or the battle of the bards, a poem by Neville Temple [J. C. Fane] and Edward Trevor [E. R. Bulwer-Lytton] 1861. d. 29 Portman sq. London 19 April 1870. Lytton’s Julian Fane, a memoir (1871), portrait; Jerningham’s Reminiscences of an attaché (1886) 16–20.

FANE, MILDMAY (5 son of Henry Fane 1739–1842, M.P. for Lyme Regis). b. Sep. 1794; ensign 59 foot 11 June 1812; lieut. col. 98 foot 25 March 1824 to 24 Dec. 1829; lieut. col. 54 foot 24 Dec. 1829 to 11 Nov. 1851; col. 96 foot 11 Aug. 1855 to 27 Dec. 1860; col. 54 foot 27 Dec. 1860 to death; general 27 March 1863. d. Fulbeck 12 March 1868.

FANE, ROBERT GEORGE CECIL (brother of the preceding). b. 8 May 1796; ed. at Charterhouse and Balliol coll. Ox.; B.A. 1817, M.A. 1819; a demy and fellow of Magd. coll. Ox. 1824–35; barrister L.I. 1 June 1821; a bankruptcy comr. 1823, one of the six bankrupt comrs. 2 Dec. 1831 to death; author of Bankrupt Reform, Letters i-vii, 2 vols. 1838 and 8 other books. d. Burdon hotel, Weymouth 4 Oct. 1864.

FANQUE, PABLO, assumed name of William Darby. b. Norwich; apprenticed to Wm. Batty, circus proprietor; a negro rope-dancer; circus proprietor 1841 to death. d. Britannia inn, Stockport 4 May 1871 aged 67 or 75. I.L.N. x, 189 (1847), portrait.

FANSHAWE, SIR ARTHUR (youngest son of Robert Fanshawe, Capt. R.N. 1740–1823). b. 1794; entered navy 8 Feb. 1804; captain 17 Oct. 1816; commander in chief North America and West Indies 23 Nov. 1853 to 25 Nov. 1856; R.A. 18 June 1851, V.A. 9 July 1857, admiral 4 Oct. 1862; C.B. 18 Dec. 1840, K.C.B. 18 May 1860. d. 32 Chester terrace, Regent’s park, London 14 June 1864 aged 70.

FARADAY, MICHAEL (younger son of James Faraday of Newington, Surrey, blacksmith 1761–1810). b. Newington 22 Sep. 1791; chemical assistant at royal institution 1 March 1813; travelled as amanuensis with Sir Humphrey Davy in France, Italy and Switzerland 1813–1815; F.R.S. 8 Jany. 1824, Copley medallist 1832 and 1838, royal medallist 1835 and 1846, Rumford medallist 1846; began his lectures to children 29 Dec. 1827; began his ‘Electrical researches’ 29 Aug. 1831; discovered magneto-electricity 1831, electro-chemical decomposition 1833; professor of chemistry at royal institution Jany. 1833 to 1865; granted civil list pension of £300 a year 1835; senator of univ. of London 1836; an elder of the Sandemanian church for 3½ years from 1840; discovered magnetisation of light 1845, diamagnetism 1845 and magnetic character of oxygen 1847; received 95 honorary titles and marks of merit; lived in one of the Queen’s houses Hampton Court Green 1858 to death; author of Chemical manipulation, instructions to students 1827, 3 ed. 1842 and other works. d. Hampton Court Green 25 Aug. 1867. bur. Highgate cemetery 30 Aug. Bence Jones’s Life and letters of Faraday 2 vols. 1870, portrait; J. F. Clarke’s Autobiographical recollections of the medical profession (1874) 399–409; Illustrated Review v, 29–39, portrait; Illust. news of the world i (1858), portrait; Proc. of Royal Soc. xvii, 1–68 (1868).

FARDELL, JOHN. b. 4 May 1784; F.S.A. 15 June 1809; barrister M.T. 2 July 1824; M.P. for city of Lincoln 1830–1831. d. Sprotborough rectory, Yorkshire 5 Feb. 1854.

FAREY, JOHN (son of John Farey of Woburn, geologist 1766–1826). b. Lambeth 20 March 1791; ed. at Woburn; made drawings for illustrative plates of many scientific works; invented machine for drawing ellipses 1813 for which gold medal of Society of Arts was awarded him; constructed ironworks in Russia 1819–21; a lace manufacturer in Devonshire 1821–23; consulting C.E. in London 1826 to death; M.I.C.E. 1826; author of A treatise on the steam engine vol. i, 1827. d. the Common, Sevenoaks 17 July 1851. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xi, 100–102 (1852).

FARGUS, FREDERICK JOHN (eld. son of Frederick Charles Fargus of Bristol, auctioneer, who d. 14 April 1868). b. Bristol 26 Dec. 1847; auctioneer at Bristol 1868–83; author of Called Back 1883, 350,000 copies of it were sold and it was at once translated into 6 European languages, his dramatic version of it was played at Prince’s theatre, London nearly 200 nights from 20 May 1884; all his stories were published under pseudonym of Hugh Conway. d. Monte Carlo 15 May 1885. bur. Nice cemetery 18 May. Called Back, by H. Conway (1885) pp. vii-xiii, portrait; The Lute, June 1885 p. 125; I.L.N. 30 May 1885 p. 559, portrait.

FARIS, WILLIAM. Second lieut. R.E. 1 Jany. 1814, lieut. col. 6 Aug. 1849 to 24 Nov. 1851 when placed on retired list; general 8 June 1871. d. 17 Pall Mall, London 4 Dec. 1874 aged 80.

FARLEY, CHARLES. b. London 1771; first appeared on the stage at Covent Garden 1782; supervised dramatic spectacles at Covent Garden 1806–34; author of The Magic Oak, a Christmas pantomime 1799; Aggression, or the heroine of Yucatan 1805 and other pieces; instructed Grimaldi to whose Orson when he made his appearance in the character 10 Oct. 1806 he played Valentine; the best theatrical machinist of his time. d. 42 Ampthill square, Hampstead road, London 28 Jany. 1859. British stage ii, 145 (1818), portrait.

FARLEY, JAMES LEWIS (only son of Thomas Farley of Meiltran, co. Cavan). b. Dublin 9 Sep. 1823; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; chief accountant of Beyrout branch of Ottoman Bank 1856; accountant general of state bank of Turkey at Constantinople 1860; consul for Turkey at Bristol 1870–84; author of The massacres in Syria 1861; The Druses and the Maronites 1861; Turks and Christians, a solution of the Eastern question 1876 and other books. d. Bayswater, London 12 Nov. 1885.

FARNBOROUGH, SIR THOMAS ERSKINE MAY, 1 Baron. b. London 8 Feb. 1815; ed. at Bedford gr. sch.; assistant librarian House of Commons 1831; barrister M.T. 4 May 1838, bencher 21 May 1873; taxing master in Parliament 1847–56; clerk assistant of House of Commons 1856–71, clerk Jany. 1871 to death; member of Statute law committee 1868, chairman; C.B. 1860, K.C.B. 6 July 1866; created Baron Farnborough of Farnborough in the county of Southampton 10 May 1886; author of Constitutional history of England 1760–1860, 2 vols. 1861–2, new ed. 3 vols. 1871; Law privileges, proceedings and usage of Parliament 1844, 9 ed. 1883; Democracy in Europe 2 vols. 1877. d. Speaker’s Court, Houses of Parliament 17 May 1886. Biograph, Jany. 1882 pp. 14–20.

FARNCOMB, THOMAS. b. Sussex; proprietor of one of the largest wharfs on Surrey side of the Thames for about 50 years; a merchant and shipowner; one of earliest promoters of London and Westminster bank 1834, and long a director of it; sheriff of London 1840, alderman for ward of Bassishaw 1841–59, lord mayor 1849–50. d. Rose hill, Forest hill, Surrey 23 Sep. 1865 aged 86.

FARNHAM, HENRY MAXWELL, 7 Baron (_eld. child of Rev. Henry Maxwell, 6 Baron Farnham 1773–1838_). b. Dublin 9 Aug. 1799; M.P. for co. Cavan 1824–38; succeeded 19 Oct. 1838; an Irish representative peer 2 July 1839 to death; K.P. 1845; killed near Abergele, Denbighshire on the London and north western railway 20 Aug. 1868. I.L.N. liii, 210 (1868).

FARNHAM, SOMERSET RICHARD MAXWELL, 8 Baron (brother of the preceding). b. Dublin 18 Oct. 1803; M.P. for Cavan 1838–40; sheriff of Cavan 1844. d. Farnham house, Cavan 1 June 1884.

FARNHAM, EDWARD BASIL. b. 19 April 1799; M.P. for North Leicestershire 1837–59; sheriff of Leics. 1870. d. Quorndon house near Loughborough 13 May 1879.

FARNIE, HENRY BROUGHAM. b. Fifeshire; ed. at Univs. of St. Andrews and Cambridge; edited the Fifeshire Journal; edited in London a musical weekly called The Orchestra 1863, also the Paris Times, Sock and Buskin 1867 and Cramer’s Opera Bouffe Cabinet 1874; his song The Last Stirrup-cup became very popular; wrote librettos of many operettas and burlesques; translated and adapted most of the more successful modern French comic operas, most popular of which were Genevieve de Brabant produced at Philharmonic theatre 11 Nov. 1871, Nemesis at Strand theatre 17 April 1873, La Fille de Madame Angot at Gaiety theatre 10 Nov. 1873 and Les Cloches de Corneville at Folly theatre 23 Feb. 1878; 20 of his adaptations were printed 1850–87. d. Paris 22 Sep. 1889. Law Reports 5 P.D. 153, 6 P.D. 35, 8 Appeal Cases 43.

FARQUHAR, THOMAS NEWMAN. b. 1809; solicitor in London 1830 to death; one of the nine purchasers of the Crystal Palace for £70,000, 24 May 1852, one of the original directors of the Co. at Sydenham. d. Sydenham, Kent 30 July 1866.

FARQUHARSON, FRANCIS (son of Rev. Robert Farquharson of Allarque, co. Aberdeen). b. 1787; entered Bombay army 1802; col. 9 Bombay N.I. 8 March 1845 to 1869; general 6 Jany. 1863. d. Clifton 20 March 1872.

FARQUHARSON, JAMES JOHN (only son of James Farquharson of Littleton, Dorset 1728–95). b. 9 Oct. 1784; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; B.A. 1828; student of L.I. 1829; kept a pack of foxhounds in Dorset at his own expense 1806 to 1858 when he sold the pack; kept a small racing stud; sheriff of Dorset 1809. d. 9 March 1871. Sporting Review xxxviii, 355–58 (1857), xxxix, 440–42 (1858), portrait; Baily’s Mag. xi, 113–18 (1866), portrait.

FARQUHARSON, ROBERT, stage name of Robert Farquharson Smith. b. 1820; articled to Harris of Drury Lane, chorus master; sang at coronation of William iv, 1838; sang in opera at Drury Lane and Surrey theatres, also at concerts; member of the Sims Reeves opera troupe; went to Australia 1856, sang there in opera and concerts; sang at the Opera Comique, London. d. 2 Wilberforce road, Finsbury park, London 12 Feb. 1880.

FARR, WILLIAM. b. Kenley, Shropshire 30 Nov. 1807; studied medicine in Paris 1829–31; L.S.A. 1832; practised in London 1833–38; compiler of abstracts in registrar general’s office 1838; an assistant comr. for censuses of 1851 and 1861 and a comr. for that of 1871; wrote greater part of the reports on each census; F.S.S. 1839, treasurer 1855–67, vice-pres. 1869–70, pres. 1871–2; F.R.S. 7 June 1855 to 1882; C.B. 10 April 1880; gold medallist of British Association 1880; author of A medical guide to Nice 1841 and of many papers in the Lancet and other periodicals. d. 78 Portsdown road, Maida Vale, London 14 April 1883. Biographical notice of W. Farr by F. A. C. Hare 1883; W. Farr’s Vital Statistics 1885 with biographical sketch by N. A. Humphreys, portrait.

FARRAR, REV. JOHN (youngest son of Rev. John Farrar, Wesleyan minister, who d. 1837). b. Alnwick 29 July 1802; Wesleyan min. Aug. 1822; resident minister successively at Sheffield, Huddersfield, Macclesfield and London; classical tutor at Wesleyan theological institution, Richmond, Surrey 1843–58; governor and chaplain of Woodhouse Grove school near Leeds 1858–68; governor of Headingley college, Leeds 1868–76; pres. of Wesleyan conference at Birmingham 1854 and at Burslem 1870; author of The proper names of the Bible 1839, 2 ed. 1844; A biblical and theological dictionary illustrative of the Old and New Testament 1851 and 3 other books. d. Headingley, Leeds 19 Nov. 1884. bur. Abney Park cemetery, London 25 Nov. Slugg’s Woodhouse Grove school (1885) pp. 14, 79–84, 135, 257; I.L.N. 6 Aug. 1870 p. 149, portrait.

FARRE, ARTHUR (younger son of John Richard Farre 1775–1862). b. London 6 March 1811; ed. at Charterhouse sch. and Caius coll. Cam.; M.B. 1833, M.D. 1841; F.R.S. 2 May 1839; F.R.C.P. 1843, Harveian orator 1872; professor of obstetric medicine at King’s college, and phys. accoucheur to King’s college hospital 1841–62; examiner in midwifery to royal college of surgeons 1852–75; pres. of Royal Microscopical Society 1851–2; phys. extraordinary to the Queen 30 Aug. 1875 to death; pres. of Obstetrical Society 1875; author of The Uterus and its appendages forming parts 49 and 50 of Todd’s Cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology 1858. d. 18 Albert Mansions, Victoria st. Westminster 17 Dec. 1887.

FARRE, FREDERICK JOHN (brother of the preceding). b. Charterhouse sq. London 16 Dec. 1804; ed. at Charterhouse, gold medallist 1821, captain 1822; foundation scholar at St. John’s coll. Cam., 32 wrangler 1827; M.A. 1830, M.D. 1837; lecturer on botany at St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1831–54, on materia medica 1854–76, assistant phys. 1836, phys. 1854; phys. to Royal London Ophthalmic hospital 1843 to death; F.R.C.P. 1838, lecturer on materia medica 1843–5, treasurer 1868–83, vice pres. 1885; one of the editors of first British Pharmacopœia 1864, and of an abridgment of Pereira’s Materia Medica 1865, new eds. 1872 and 1874. d. 35 Elsham road, Kensington, London 9 Nov. 1886.

FARRE, JOHN RICHARD (son of Richard John Farre of Barbadoes, surgeon). b. Barbadoes 31 Jany. 1775; student at United Borough hosps. London 1792; spent two years at Edinburgh; M.D. Aberdeen 22 Jany. 1806; L.C.P. 31 March 1806; physician in London 1806; joint founder with J. C. Saunders of Royal London Ophthalmic hospital 1806, physician there 1806–56; edited Journal of Morbid Anatomy, ophthalmic medicine and pharmaceutical analysis 1828; author of The morbid anatomy of the liver 1812–15, Pathological researches on malformations of the human heart 1814. d. Pentonville road, London 7 May 1862.

FARRELL, FRANCIS. Entered Bombay army 1818; col. 28 Bombay N.I. 15 March 1851 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. d. Hyde lodge, Winchester 17 July 1869 aged 69.

FARREN, HENRY (eld. son of Wm. Farren 1786–1861). b. 1825; made his first appearance on the stage at Haymarket theatre as Charles Surface 1848; played leading comedy parts at Strand 1847–50 and Olympic 1850–53; manager of Brighton theatre short time; played in the U.S. 1854 to death; manager of theatre at St. Louis. d. St. Louis 8 Jany. 1860.

FARREN, HARRIET ELIZABETH (dau. of Mr. Diddear, provincial theatrical manager). b. Penzance, Cornwall 31 July 1789; made her first appearance in London at Covent Garden theatre 7 Oct. 1813 as Desdemona; played leading characters in tragedy and comedy at Covent Garden and Drury Lane; retired about 1837. (m. (1) 1805 John Faucit Saville actor, he d. 1 Nov. 1853. m. (2) Jany. 1856 William Farren 1786–1861). d. 23 Brompton sq. London 16 June 1857. Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography iii, 127–35 (1825), portrait; Theatrical inquisitor x, 83–86 (1817), portrait.

FARREN, WILLIAM (3 son of Wm. Farren of Covent Garden theatre, London, actor, who d. 9 May 1795 aged 41). b. 13 May 1786; made his first appearance on the stage as Sir Archy Macsarcasm in Love à la Mode at Plymouth theatre about 1806; played in Ireland; appeared in London at Covent Garden theatre as Sir Peter Teazle 10 Sep. 1818; played at Covent Garden winter seasons 1818–28, at the Haymarket summer seasons 1818–28; played at Drury Lane 1828–1837, at Covent Garden again 1837, at the Haymarket 1837–47; lessee of the Strand 1847–50, of the Olympic 2 Sep. 1850 to 22 Sep. 1853; took final farewell of the stage at the Haymarket theatre 16 July 1855; famous for his old men characters. d. 23 Brompton sq. London 24 Sep. 1861. Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography iii, 37–47 (1825), portrait; Metropolitan mag. xviii, 85–91 (1837); Theatrical inquisitor xiii, 323 (1818), portrait; I.L.N. i, 188 (1842), portrait, xxvii, 99, 100 (1855), portrait.

FARRER, JAMES (eld. son of the succeeding). b. London 8 May 1812; ed. at Winchester and New coll. Ox.; M.P. for South Durham 1847–57 and 1859–65. d. Ingleborough near Settle, Yorkshire 13 June 1879.

FARRER, JAMES WILLIAM (eld. son of James Farrer). b. 11 May 1785; ed. at Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1806, M.A. 1809; barrister L.I. 11 Feb. 1811; a master in chancery 9 March 1824 to 30 June 1852 when office was abolished by 15 & 16 Vict. c. 80, and he retired on full pay; author of Observations on the offices of the Masters in Chancery 1848. d. Ingleborough 9 Nov. 1863.

FARRIER, ROBERT. b. Chelsea 1796; exhibited 35 pictures at R.A., 50 at B.I. and 32 at Suffolk st. gallery 1818–72 many of which were engraved; one of his pictures ‘The Parting’ is in the South Kensington Museum. d. Holly villa, Hayes, Uxbridge 19 April 1879.

FAULKNER, GEORGE. b. Oldham st. Manchester about 1790; partner in a firm of silk, cotton and linen manufacturers at Manchester 1812; the first chairman of trustees of Owens college, Manchester 1851 to Aug. 1858; a liberal benefactor to the college. d. Limebank, Crumpsall, Manchester 21 Feb. 1862. Thompson’s Owen’s College, Manchester (1886) pp. 52–8; Manchester Courier 1 March 1862 p. 7.

FAULKNER, THOMAS. b. Fulham near London; bookseller and stationer in Paradise row, Chelsea; contributed essays and reviews to Gent. Mag. for more than half a century from Oct. or Nov. 1797; published histories of Chelsea, Fulham, Kensington, Hammersmith, Brentford, Chiswick and Ealing 1810–45. d. Smith st. Chelsea 26 May 1855 in 79 year. G.M. xliv, 215–16 (1855).

FAUSSETT, REV. GODFREY (son of Henry Godfrey Faussett of Nackington near Canterbury, who d. 1825). Matric. from C.C. coll. Ox. 7 July 1797 aged 16, scholar 1797; B.A. 1801, M.A. 1804, B.D. 1822, D.D. 1827; probationary fellow of Magd. coll. July 1802; select preacher 1809, 1813, 1824 and 1835; Bampton lecturer 1820; Lady Margaret’s professor of divinity in Univ. of Ox. 1827 to death; preb. of Worcester 1827–40; canon of Ch. Ch. Ox. 1840 to death; V. of Cropthorne, Worcs. 1840 to death; author of The claims of the established church, Oxford 1820; The Thirty-nine articles considered with reference to No. 90 of Tracts for the Times 1841 and other works. d. Christ Church, Oxford 28 June 1853.

FAUSSETT, THOMAS GODFREY (6 son of the preceding). b. Oxford 1829; ed. at C.C. coll. Ox., B.A. 1851, M.A. 1854, fellow of his coll. 1857–64; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1863; chapter clerk and auditor of Canterbury cathedral 1866 to death; district registrar of Court of Probate at Canterbury 1871 to death; F.S.A. March 1859; hon. sec. of Kent Archæological Soc. 1863–73; author of many articles on antiquity and archæology; wrote the article Canterbury in Encyclopædia Britannica, 9 ed. d. The Precincts, Canterbury 26 Feb. 1877. Rev. W. J. Loftie’s Memorials of T. G. Faussett 1878.

FAUVET, PIERRE ADOLPHE DUHART-. Lived in London nearly 50 years; head French master at Working men’s college North London and other institutions; author of Champ de Roses 1847; Poésies Françaises 1870, 2 ed. 1870; wrote Soyer’s Pantropheon, or history of food and its preparations 1853. d. 8 Arlingford road, Brixton, London 15 Oct. 1882 aged 75.

FAVANTI, RITA, stage name of Margaret Edwards. Educ. at Royal Academy of Music, Aug. 1836 to May 1840; appeared as Mademoiselle Favanti at Her Majesty’s theatre in Cenerentola 23 March 1844; had a compass of voice of almost 3 octaves. d. 28 Abingdon villas, Kensington 19 Aug. 1867 aged 39. H. F. Chorley’s Thirty years musical recollections i, 244–50 (1862); I.L.N. iv, 189 (1844), portrait.

FAWCETT, CHARLES. b. Leicester; acted at Hull; author of plays entitled The Irish Farmer and Cousin Sophy played by Barney Williams; The Irish American played by John Drew, Roderick the King of the Goths and Napoleon the Third. d. Philadelphia 23 July 1867.

FAWCETT, HENRY (son of William Fawcett of Salisbury, draper 1793–1887). b. Salisbury 26 Aug. 1833; ed. at King’s coll. London and Trin. Hall, Cam., 7 wrangler 1856; B.A. 1856, M.A. 1859; student at L.I. 26 Oct. 1854; fell. of his coll. Dec. 1856; totally blinded by his father when shooting 17 Sep. 1858; professor of political economy in Univ. of Cam. 27 Nov. 1863 to death; contested Cambridge 1862, Brighton 1863 and 1874; M.P. for Brighton, July 1865 to 26 Jany. 1874, M.P. for Hackney 24 April 1874 to death; postmaster general 3 May 1880 to death, established the parcels post 1 Aug. 1883; P.C. 3 May 1880; lord rector of Glasgow Univ. 1883; a correspondent of French academy 1884; author of Manual of political economy 1863, 6 ed. 1883 and 10 other books. d. 18 Brookside, Cambridge 6 Nov. 1884, monument placed in Westminster Abbey by national subscription. bur. Trumpington churchyard 10 Nov. Life of Henry Fawcett by Leslie Stephen (1885), 2 portraits; Times 7 Nov. 1884 p. 10, cols. 3–6.

FAWCETT, JOHN (son of a shoemaker at village of Wennington, Lancashire). b. Wennington 8 Dec. 1789, shoemaker there to 1825; organist and professor of music at Bolton 1825 to death; his compositions are said to number 200; his chief works are The Seraphic Choir 1840; The Cherub Lute 1845; Music for thousands 1845; The Lancashire vocalist 1854; The temperance minstrel 1856; Chanting made easy 1857; The universal chorister 1863; The temperance harmonist 1864. d. Bolton 26 Oct. 1867. J. Fawcett’s Harp of Zion, portrait.

FAWCETT, JOHN (3 son of the preceding). b. Bolton 1824; organist of St. John’s church, Farnworth, Lancs. 1825–1842, of Bolton parish church 1842 to death; obtained degree of Mus. Bac. Ox. 3 Nov. 1852, his exercise a sacred cantata Supplication and Thanksgiving was published by subscription 1856. d. Manchester 1 July 1857.

FAWCETT, REV. JOSHUA (2 son of Richard Fawcett of Bradford, worsted manufacturer). b. Bradford 9 May 1809; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1836; P.C. of Holy Trinity, Wibsey, Yorkshire 17 Feb. 1833 to death; hon. canon of Ripon, Sep. 1860 to death; edited The Village Churchman afterwards incorporated with The Churchman and continued under title of The Churchman’s Magazine 8 vols. 1838–45; author of A harmony of the Gospels 1836 and other books. d. suddenly while walking on Low Moor, Bradford 21 Dec. 1864. J. James’s Bradford (1866) 263–64.

FAWKNER, JOHN PASCOE. b. London 20 Aug. 1792; went out to Port Phillip, Australia 1803; a publican at Launceston, Van Diemen’s Land; brought out the Launceston Advertiser 1830; founded Melbourne, Victoria 29 Aug. 1835; brought out the Melbourne Advertiser the first newspaper in Victoria 1 Jany. 1838, the Port Phillip Patriot 5 March 1838 converted it into the Daily News; member of first legislative council Oct. 1851; member of the upper house, Nov. 1856 to death. d. Melbourne 4 Sep. 1869. Labilliere’s Early history of Victoria ii, 88–95 (1878).

FAWSITT, AMY, stage name of Mary Ann Fawsitt (dau. of William Fawsitt of the Manchester exchange, who d. 1843). b. London 1836; ed. for a governess at Abbeville and Milan; first appeared on stage at Edinburgh 1865; first appeared in London at Holborn theatre as Flora Grainger in The Mistress of the Mill 1 May 1869; played Lottie in Albery’s Two Roses at Vaudeville theatre 400 times from 4 June 1870; played Lady Teazle at same theatre 412 times from 18 July 1872; came out at Fifth Avenue theatre New York 27 Sep. 1876. (m. 27 May 1871 Edward Menzies of Perth and Belgrave sq. London). d. 8th Avenue, New York 26 Dec. 1876. bur. Marble cemetery, New York 29 Dec. Illustrated sporting and dramatic news i, 217, 219 (1874), portrait; London Figaro 29 Sep. 1877, pp. 10–12.

FEARON, VEN. HENRY (son of Rev. J. F. Fearon, V. of Cuckfield, Sussex). b. 20 June 1802; ed. at Winchester and Em. coll. Cam., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; fellow of Em. coll.; R. of Loughborough 1848 to death; archdeacon of Leicester 1863–84; author of Old Dame Walder, a tale of Suffolk life 1847; What to learn and what to unlearn, Lectures 1860 and other books. d. Loughborough 12 June 1885.

FEARON, ROBERT BRYCE. Ensign 31 foot June 1795, lieut. col. 8 May 1823; lieut. col. 64 foot 12 Jany. 1826; lieut. col. 6 foot 1 May 1828; lieut. col. 40 foot 23 Nov. 1838 to death; commanded troops on board ship ‘Kent’ burnt in Bay of Biscay 1 March 1825, C.B. for his services on this occasion 2 April 1825; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846; committed suicide by shooting himself at residence of his daughter Lady Palmer at Much Hadham, Herts. 26 Jany. 1851.

FEARON, SAMUEL TURNER. M.R.C.S. 1848; M.D. St. Andrews 1851; professor of Chinese literature, King’s college, London. d. Abercrombie house, Southampton st. Fitzroy sq. London 18 Jany. 1854 aged 35.

FEATHERSTON, ISAAC EARL (4 son of Thomas Featherston of Cotfield house, Durham). b. 21 March 1813; studied medicine at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1836; went to New Zealand 1840; superintendent of province of Wellington 1853–71; member of general assembly for Wanganui and afterwards for city of Wellington; agent general for New Zealand in England 1871 to death. d. 60 York road, Brighton 19 June 1876. W. Gisborne’s New Zealand Rulers (1886), 83, portrait.

FEATHERSTONHAUGH, GEORGE WILLIAM. b. London 1780; went to U.S. America 1807 where he married and resided; geologist of U.S.A. in journeys through Mexico and Arkansas 1834–5; commissioner to determine boundary between U.S.A. and British North America 1839; British consul at Havre 29 Oct. 1844 to death; instrumental in bringing Louis Philippe and his queen to England 3 March 1848; F.R.S. 2 April 1835; edited the monthly American journal of geology from 1831; author of The Republic of Cicero, translated 1829; Excursion through the slave states 2 vols. 1844; A canoe voyage up the Minnay Sotor 2 vols. 1847 and other books. d. Havre 27 Sep. 1866. Quarterly Journal of Geological Soc. xxiii, pp. xliii-v (1867).

FECHTER, CHARLES ALBERT (son of Jean Maria Guillaume Fechter, sculptor). b. Hanway yard, Oxford st. London 23 Oct. 1824; made his début at Comedíe Française, Paris, Dec. 1844; played at St. James’s theatre, London 1847; played at Vaudeville theatre, Paris 1852–58; joint director of Odéon theatre 1857; the leading jeune premier in France; appeared as Ruy Blas in Victor Hugo’s drama Ruy Blas at Princess’s theatre 27 Oct. 1860, and as Hamlet 20 March 1861 with great success; lessee of Lyceum theatre, Dec. 1862 to Nov. 1867; played at Adelphi theatre 1867–69 and 1872; first appeared in New York 10 Jany. 1870; opened Globe theatre, New York 12 Sep. 1870; opened Park theatre, New York 15 April 1874; broke his leg 1876 when he retired from the stage. d. at his farm, Richmond, Bucks. county, Philadelphia 5 Aug. 1879. Kate Field’s C. A. Fechter (1882), 4 portraits; A. Brereton’s Some famous Hamlets (1884) 45–50; Pascoe’s Dramatic List (1879) 127–36; Tallis’s Illustrated life in London (1864) 104, 105, 138, 2 portraits; Theatre iii, 70, 132 (1879), portrait.

FEDERICI, FREDERICK, stage name of Frederick Baker. Sang frequently in London at St. James’s hall and Monday popular concerts; played all the baritone parts in Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic operas in America and England; went to Australia, June 1887; played Mephistopheles in Faust at Princess’s theatre, Melbourne 3 March 1888. d. in the green-room of the theatre at 12.10 a.m. 4 March 1888. Illustrated sporting and dramatic news 26 May 1888 pp. 321, 322, portrait.

FEENEY, PATRICK. b. Galway 1800; ran away from home at 9 years of age; a strolling showman or performer of feats of strength and agility, he balanced coach wheels, a plank 21 feet long and a live donkey on a ladder; always known as Old Malabar; made the round of all the fairs in England and Scotland; an account of his life was written and published by David Prince Miller; performed in streets of Glasgow 5 Nov. 1883. d. 9 M’Pherson st. Glasgow 6 Nov. 1883. Era 10 Nov. 1883 p. 4, col. 4.

FEENEY, PATRICK. b. Rosscommon 19 Nov. 1850; first appeared on the stage at Birmingham as an Irish comic singer; first appeared in London 1876; sang in all chief music halls in London and the provinces; the leading Irish comic singer for some years before his death; spent 40 weeks in the United States 1888. d. Kennington park road, London 13 May 1889.

FEENEY, RIGHT REV. THOMAS. Professor in Maynooth college; bishop of Ptolemais and administrator apostolic of Killala, July 1839, consecrated 13 Oct. 1839; bishop of Killala 12 Dec. 1847 to death. d. Killala 9 June 1873.

FEILD, RIGHT REV. EDWARD (3 son of James Feild). b. Worcester 7 June 1801; ed. at Rugby and Queen’s coll. Ox., Michel scholar, Michel fellow 1827–33; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, D.D. 1844; R. of English Bicknor, Gloucs. 1834–44; the first inspector of schools under National Society, May 1840; bishop of Newfoundland 22 March 1844 to death; consecrated at Lambeth palace 28 April; author of addresses, sermons and charges. d. the bishop’s palace, Bermuda 8 June 1876. Tucker’s Memoir of E. Field (1877), portrait.

FEILDEN, HENRY MASTER (eld. son of the succeeding). b. Witton park, Blackburn 21 Feb. 1818; M.P. for Blackburn 30 March 1869 to death. d. Lytham, Lancashire 5 Sep. 1875.

FEILDEN, JOSEPH. b. Blackburn 1792; sheriff of Lancs. 1818; M.P. for Blackburn 15 Aug. 1865 to 16 March 1869 when unseated on petition. d. Wilton park near Blackburn 29 Aug. 1870.

FEIST, CHARLES (son of Rev. Peter Feist who became a dissenting minister). b. Beverley, Yorkshire 12 April 1795; educ. Beverley gram. sch.; in solicitor’s office London; member of Norfolk and Suffolk circuits under David Fisher 5 years; proprietor of a sch. at Swaffham, Norfolk 7 years, of a sch. in London 1 year, of a sch. in Newmarket 18 years where he educated many of the jockeys; correspondent of Sunday Times at Newmarket; came to London 1842 in connection with Sunday Times; author of Breathings of the Woodland Lyre 1815; Useful rhymes for youths betimes 1837; Spring blossoms, dialogues on subjects entertaining to children, 4 ed. 1844. d. 10 Granville sq. Clerkenwell, London 10 July 1856. Sporting Review xxxvi, 391–4 (1856).

FEIST, HENRY MORT. Editor of The Sporting Life 16 March 1859 to decease, wrote in it under name of Augur; no man understood racing and racing men more thoroughly; reporter and sporting prophet for Daily Telegraph under pseudonym of Hotspur; amateur actor and good in the role of a clown. d. Croydon 18 Dec. 1874 aged 37, a fund raised for his wife and children, admiral Rous president. Sporting Times 26 Dec. 1874 pp. 157–8, portrait; Sporting Life 19 Dec. 1874, p. 2, 26 Dec. p. 2; Illust. sporting and dramatic news ii, 327, 333 (1875), portrait.

FELIX, NICHOLAS, assumed name of Nicholas Wanostrocht (son of Vincent Wanostrocht of Camberwell, Surrey, schoolmaster, who d. 1824). b. Camberwell 5 Oct. 1804; kept a school at Peckham road, Camberwell 1824–32 when he leased it to Royal Naval School; studied cricket under Harry Hampton at Camberwell; invented the Catapulta with which he practised; left hand batsman; slow underhand left hand bowler; played first match at Lord’s 23 Aug. 1828; played in the Gentlemen v. Players matches 1831–52; kept a school at Blackheath; afterwards lived at Montpellier road, Brighton; subscription raised for him 1858; portrait, animal and landscape painter; inventor of the tubular india rubber gloves; a player of fives and billiards; author of Felix on the bat 1845, 3 ed. 1855. d. Wimborne Minster, Dorset 3 Sep. 1876. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores ii, 61 (1862), vii, p. xi (1877).

FELLOWES, CHARLES (son of Sir Thomas Fellowes 1778–1853). b. 19 Oct. 1823; entered navy 14 May 1836; captain 26 Feb. 1858; R.A. 18 June 1876; admiral superintendent of Chatham dockyard 1876–79; V.A. 31 Dec. 1880; C.B. 20 May 1871; commanded channel squadron 3 July 1885 to death. d. Gibraltar 8 March 1886.

FELLOWES, SIR JAMES (3 son of Wm. Fellowes, M.D. of Leicester, physician to George iv). b. Edinburgh 1772; ed. at Rugby; entered at Peterhouse, Cam., removed to Caius as a Tancred scholar; fellow of Caius; studied medicine in London and Edinburgh; M.B. Cam. 1797, M.D. 5 July 1803; F.R.C.P. 30 Sep. 1805; hospital assist. June 1794; one of phys. to the Forces 28 Oct. 1795; knighted by George 3rd at the Queen’s palace 21 March 1810; inspector general of military hospitals 29 April 1813 to 1815 when he retired; F.R.S. 29 Feb. 1816; author of Reports of the pestilential disorder of Andalusia which appeared at Cadiz in the years 1800, 1804, 1810 and 1813, 1815. d. Langstone cottage near Havant 30 Dec. 1857.

FELLOWES, SIR THOMAS (brother of the preceding). b. Minorca 1778; midshipman in service of H.E.I.C.; master’s mate R.N. 1797; C.B. 4 June 1815; K.C. 22 Feb. 1822; knighted 13 Feb. 1828; naval A.D.C. to the Queen 1841–47; superintendent of royal naval hospital and victualling yard, Plymouth 6 Feb. 1843 to 1 Sep. 1847; R.A. 26 July 1847. d. Great Bedwyn vicarage, Wilts. 12 April 1853.

FELLOWS, SIR CHARLES (son of John Fellows of Nottingham). b. Nottingham, Aug. 1799; made the 13th recorded ascent of Mont Blanc 25 July 1827; discovered Xanthus and Tlos, Asia Minor 1838 and 13 other ancient cities there 1840; brought home the Lycian marbles 1844; knighted at St. James’s palace 7 May 1845; author of A journal written during an excursion in Asia Minor 1839; An account of discoveries in Lycia 1841 and other books. d. 4 Montagu place, Russell sq. London 8 Nov. 1860. C. Brown’s Lives of Nottinghamshire Worthies (1882) 352–3.

FELLOWS, THOMAS HOWARD (eld. son of Thomas Fellows of Moneyhill, Herts., solicitor). b. 1823; ed. at Eton; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1852; went to Melbourne 1853; member of legislative assembly of Victoria 1855–58 and 1867–72; member of legislative council 1858–67; solicitor general 1856–57 and 1857–58; attorney general 25 Feb. 1857 to 24 March 1857; postmaster general 14 Oct. 1863 to 24 March 1864; minister of justice and leader of the Assembly, May to July 1868; judge of supreme court of Victoria 18 Dec. 1872 to death; author of The law of costs 1847; Convocation, its origin, progress and authority 1852. d. Melbourne 8 April 1878 in 56 year.

FENN, REV. JOSEPH FINCH (son of Rev. Joseph Fenn, minister of Blackheath park chapel, Kent). b. 1820; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., fellow 1844–7; B.A. 1842, M.A. 1845, B.D. 1877; V. of Stotfold, Beds. 1847–60; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Cheltenham 1860 to death; chaplain to bishop of Gloucester and Bristol 1877 to death; hon. canon of Gloucester 1879 to death; proctor in convocation 1880 to death; promoter of free library system in Cheltenham; author of a vol. of sermons entitled Lenten Teachings. d. Cheltenham 22 July 1884.

FENNELL, JOHN GREVILLE. b. at sea between Ireland and England 1807; artist, naturalist and angler; drew pictures of tournament at Eglinton Castle for Illustrated London News; wrote on fishing in The Field 1853 to death; contributed to Fishing Gazette under name of Creel, and other sporting papers; author of The Rail and the Rod 1867; The book of the Roach 1870. d. Jessamine cottage, Henley 13 Jany. 1885. Fishing Gazette x, 24, 51, 61, 220, 264 (1885), portrait.

FENTON, CHARLES GILL (son of James Gill Fenton, stage director to Edmund Kean, who d. 20 Aug. 1877 aged 83). Played small parts in pantomimes 1831; played Shakesperian parts and principal parts in pantomimes at Sadler’s Wells theatre 1844–59; actor and scene painter at Strand theatre about 1863–73; acted at Vaudeville theatre 1873–74. d. Shelburne road, Islington 15 Feb. 1877 aged 56.

FENTON, EDWARD DYNE. Ensign 53 foot 1847, lieut. 1849–57 when placed on h.p.; captain 14 foot 1858; captain 86 foot 1860–70 when he sold out; author of Sorties from Gib in quest of sensation and sentiment 1872; Military men I have met 1872; Eve’s Daughters 1873; B. an autobiography 3 vols. 1874 a novel. d. Scarborough 29 July 1880.

FENWICK, EDWARD MATTHEW (son of Edward James Reid of Jamaica). b. Jamaica 1812; barrister M.T. 1 May 1854; assumed name of Fenwick in lieu of Reid, June 1851; contested Lancaster 30 April 1859; M.P. for Lancaster 13 April 1864, re-elected 1 Feb. 1866, election was declared void 23 April 1866 and writ was suspended till passing of Reform bill 1867 when borough was disfranchised. d. Burrow hill, Kirkby Lonsdale 16 Oct. 1877.

FENWICK, HENRY (eld. son of Thomas Fenwick of Southill, co. Durham). b. 1820; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1842, M.A. 1845; barrister L.I. 6 May 1845; contested Sunderland, July 1852 and Durham, Dec. 1852; M.P. for Sunderland 1855–66. d. Lansdowne house, Richmond, Surrey 18 April 1868.

FENWICK-BISSET, MORDAUNT (only son of Ven. Maurice George Fenwick-Bisset 1797–1879, archdeacon of Raphoe, Ireland). b. Raphoe 27 Feb. 1825; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; master of Devon and Somerset stag hounds 1855–80; assumed additional name of Bisset 1853; sheriff of Somerset 1872; M.P. for West Somerset, April 1880 to Feb. 1884. d. Bagborough house near Taunton 7 July 1884. Covert side sketches by J. N. Fitt (1870) 219–22; Fores’s Sporting Notes, Oct. 1884, portrait.

FERGUSON, SIR ADAM (eld. son of Adam Ferguson 1723–1816, professor of moral philosophy in Univ. of Edin.) b. Edinburgh 1771; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; captain 101 foot 1808–16 when placed on h.p.; prisoner of war in France 1812–14; deputy keeper of Regalia of Scotland 1818 to death, the Regalia were discovered 5 Feb. 1818; knighted by George iv at Edin. 29 Aug. 1822. d. Edinburgh 1 Jany. 1855 in 84 year. Lockhart’s Life of Sir Walter Scott (1837) iv, 223, 249, 272.

FERGUSON, GEORGE. b. 1786; entered navy July 1798; captain 6 June 1814; admiral on half pay 11 Feb. 1861; M.P. for Banff 1832–37. d. 37 Charles st. Berkeley sq. London 15 March 1867.

FERGUSON, JAMES. b. Perthshire 31 Aug. 1797; taken to the United States 1800; assistant civil engineer on Erie canal 1817; first assistant of U.S. coast survey 1833–47; assistant astronomer of U.S. naval observatory 1847 to death; discovered three asteroids; contributed to Gould’s Astronomical Journal, Astronomische Nachrichten, Episcopal Church Review and other magazines. d. Washington, D.C. 26 Sep. 1867.

FERGUSON, JAMES FREDERIC (son of Jacques Frédéric Jaquemain, who assumed name of Ferguson 1793, deputy postmaster of Beaufort in South Carolina). b. Charleston 1807; went to Dublin 1820; indexed the entire body of Exchequer records; clerk and sec. to commission for arranging records of the Irish courts 1850; in charge of the Exchequer records to death; contributed to Gent. Mag., Notes and Queries, Topographer and Genealogist and Transactions of the Kilkenny archæological society; translated Norman French chronicle of conquest of Ireland, edited by M. Michel. d. Dublin 26 Nov. 1855.

FERGUSON, JOHN (son of William Ferguson of Irvine, Ayrshire, shipmaster). b. Irvine 28 Feb. 1787; ed. at Ayr; in a banker’s office; went to America; settled at Irvine 1810; left by his will £80,000 for educational and religious objects in Scotland, and about £375,000 called the Ferguson Bequest Fund interest of which is spent in building churches and schoolhouses, &c. d. 8 Jany. 1856.

FERGUSON, JOHN CREERY. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1823, M.B. 1827, M.A. 1833; licentiate of K.Q.C.P. Ireland 1827, fellow 1829, hon. fellow 1846; professor of practice of medicine, school of physic, Trin. coll. Dublin; professor of practice of medicine Queen’s college, Belfast to death. d. 14 Howard st. Belfast 24 June 1865.

FERGUSON, ROBERT (son of Robert Ferguson of Indian civil service). b. India 15 Nov. 1799; studied medicine in London, Heidelberg and Univ. of Edin., M.D. Edin. 1 Aug. 1823; resident medical officer of Marylebone infirmary; L.R.C.P. 22 Dec. 1824, F.R.C.P. 3 July 1837, censor 1844 and 1845, consiliarius 1857–59; phys. to Westminster Lying-in-hospital; professor of midwifery at King’s coll. 1831–39 or 40; physician accoucheur to the Queen 16 July 1840; phys. extraordinary to the Queen 14 March 1857; contributed numerous articles to Quarterly Review; published Essay on diseases of women, Puerperal Fever 1839. d. Ascot cottage, Winkfield near Windsor 25 June 1865. Munk’s Roll of the royal college of physicians (1878) iii, 295.

FERGUSON, SIR ROBERT ALEXANDER, 2 Baronet. b. Londonderry 1795; succeeded his father 1811; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1817; M.P. for city of Derry 1830 to death; lord lieut. of Londonderry 1840 to death; col. of Derry militia 24 June 1839 to death. d. Dublin 13 March 1860.

FERGUSON, ROBERT MUNRO. b. 20 Aug. 1802; ed. at Eton and Univ. of Edin.; ensign 43 foot 24 Feb. 1820; lieut. col. 79 foot 13 March 1835 to 29 Oct. 1841; M.P. for Kirkaldy burghs 1841–62. d. Raith house near Kirkaldy 28 Nov. 1868.

FERGUSON, SIR SAMUEL (3 son of John Ferguson of Collon house, co. Antrim). b. Belfast 10 March 1810; ed. at Belfast and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1826, M.A. 1832, hon. LLD. 1864; called to Irish bar 1838; Q.C. 16 June 1859; deputy keeper of public records of Ireland 1867; knighted 17 March 1878; pres. of Royal Irish Academy 1882; contributed from 1833 to Dublin Univ. Mag.; wrote many tales and poems in Blackwood’s Mag.; author of Lays of the Western Gael 1865; Congal, an epic poem in five books 1872; Poems 1880; Ogham inscriptions in Ireland, Wales and Scotland, edited by Lady Ferguson 1887. d. Strand lodge, Howth, co. Dublin 9 Aug. 1886. bur. Donegore, co. Antrim. O’Hagan’s Poetry of Sir S. Ferguson 1887; A. P. Graves’s Has Ireland a national poet?; Blackwood’s Mag. Nov. 1886 pp. 621–41.

FERGUSON, WILLIAM. Entered Ceylon civil service 1839; lived in Ceylon, Dec. 1839 to death; author of The Palmyra Palm, Borassus flabelliformis, Colombo 1850; A plan of the summit of Adam’s Peak; Scripture botany of Ceylon and 4 other books. d. Ceylon 31 July 1887.

FERGUSON-DAVIE, SIR HENRY ROBERT, 1 Baronet. b. 2 May 1797; cornet 9 Lancers 18 March 1818; major 34 foot 28 Dec. 1826, lieut. col. 1828–29; captain Grenadier guards 1830, major 1844–47; col. 73 foot 17 Feb. 1865 to death; general 25 June 1866; took additional surname of Davie 9 Feb. 1846; M.P. for Haddington burghs 1846–78; created baronet 9 Jany. 1847. d. Creedy park near Crediton 1 Dec. 1885.

FERGUSSON, SIR JAMES (son of Charles Fergusson). b. 17 March 1787; ensign 18 foot 20 Aug. 1801; lieut. col. 3 foot 16 May 1814 to 1815 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. of 88 foot 12 Aug. 1819, of 52 foot 2 June 1825 to 10 May 1839 when he retired on h.p.; A.D.C. to the Sovereign 1830–41; col. 62 foot 9 March 1850 to 26 March 1850; col. 43 foot 26 March 1850 to death; commanded troops at Malta, May 1852 to July 1855; governor of Gibraltar 26 July 1855 to 1859; general 13 Feb. 1860; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831, K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 18 May 1860. d. Bath 4 Sep. 1865.

FERGUSSON, JAMES (2 son of Wm. Fergusson, M.D. 1773–1846). b. Ayr 22 Jany. 1808; an indigo manufacturer in India; member of Royal Asiatic Soc. 1840; general manager of Crystal palace, Sydenham, Feb. 1856 to 1858; F.R.S. 4 June 1863; sec. to first comr. of public works 1869; inspector of public buildings 1870–74; awarded by Institute of British Architects royal gold medal for architecture 1871; author of Illustrations of rock cut temples of India 1845; Illustrations of ancient architecture in Hindostan 1847; History of architecture in all countries from the earliest times to the present day 3 vols. 1865–7 and other books. d. 20 Langham place, London 9 Jany. 1886.

FERGUSSON, WILLIAM. Second lieut. R.M. 10 Sep. 1798, col. 9 Nov. 1846, col. commandant of Plymouth division 25 April 1849 to 26 Feb. 1851 when he retired on full pay; L.G. 6 Feb. 1857. d. Princes st. Hanover sq. London 26 Dec. 1861 aged 82.

FERGUSSON, SIR WILLIAM, 1 Baronet (youngest son of James Fergusson of Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire). b. Preston-pans, East Lothian 20 March 1808; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edin., L.R.C.S. Edin. 1828, F.R.C.S. 1829; M.R.C.S. London 1840, F.R.C.S. 1844; professor of surgery King’s college, London, May 1840 to April 1870; surgeon at King’s college hospital May 1840 to death; surgeon extraord. to the Queen 18 Dec. 1855, one of serjeant surgeons in ordinary 11 Oct. 1867; F.R.S. Edin. 1839; F.R.S. 9 June 1848; created baronet 10 Jany. 1866; the greatest operative surgeon in Great Britain or probably in Europe; author of A system of practical surgery 1842, 5 ed. 1870; Lectures on the progress of anatomy and surgery during the present century 1867 and other books. d. 16 George st. Hanover sq. London 10 Feb. 1877. bur. West Linton, Peebleshire 16 Feb. H. Smith’s Sir W. Fergusson 1877; Medical Circular i, 395–7 (1852), portrait; I.L.N. xlviii, 176 (1866), portrait; Graphic xv, 172 (1877), portrait.

FERMOR-HESKETH, SIR THOMAS GEORGE, 5 Baronet. b. Rufford hall near Ormskirk 11 Jany. 1825; succeeded his father 10 Feb. 1843; sheriff of Lancashire 1848; colonel 2 Lancashire militia 1 March 1852 to death; M.P. for Preston 4 April 1862 to death; assumed name of Fermor by royal license 8 Nov. 1867. d. Rufford hall 20 Aug. 1872.

FERMOY, EDMUND BURKE ROCHE, 1 Baron (only son of Edward Roche of Trabolgan, co. Cloyne 1771–1855). b. Aug. 1815; M.P. for co. Cork 1837–55, for Marylebone 1859–65; lord lieutenant of Cork 1856; created Baron Fermoy in the county of Cork 10 Sep. 1856. d. Trabolgan 17 Sep. 1874. I.L.N. xxxv, 82 (1859), portrait.

FERNELEY, JOHN (son of Mr. Ferneley of Thrussington, Leics., wheelwright). b. Thrussington 18 May 1782; pupil of Ben Marshal the animal painter; painted some large hunting pictures for Assheton Smith 1806; an animal painter at Melton Mowbray 1814 to death; enjoyed an unlimited patronage for about 50 years; many of his pictures were engraved in the Sporting Magazine and other similar works. d. Thrussington 4 June 1860. Sporting Review xliv, 4–6 (1860).

FERREY, BENJAMIN. b. Christchurch, Hants. 1 April 1810; ed. at Wimborne gr. sch.; articled to Augustus Pugin 1825; practised as an architect 1832 to death; designed oldest part of present town of Bournemouth 1837; diocesan architect of Bath and Wells 1841 to death; restored Wells cathedral 1842; designed many churches mainly Gothic; F.R.I.B.A. 1839; F.S.A. 1863; author of Recollections of A. N. W. Pugin and of A. Pugin 1861; author with E. W. Brayley of Antiquities of the priory church of Christchurch, Hants. 1834. d. 55 Inverness terrace, Bayswater, London 22 Aug. 1880.

FERRIER, JAMES FREDERICK (son of John Ferrier of Edinburgh, writer to the signet). b. Edinburgh 16 June 1808; ed. at univ. of Edin. and Magd. coll. Ox., B.A. Ox. 1832; called to Scottish bar 1832; prof. of civil history in univ. of Edin. 1842–45; prof. of moral philosophy and political economy in univ. of St. Andrews 1845 to death; author of The institutes of metaphysics 1854, 2 ed. 1856 and other books. d. St. Andrews 11 June 1864. Lectures on Greek philosophy by J. F. Ferrier 1, pp. vii-xliv, 1866; G. Gilfillan’s Remoter Stars (1867) 139–46.

FERRIER, SUSAN EDMONSTONE (youngest child of James Ferrier of Edinburgh, writer to the signet 1744–1829). b. Edinburgh 7 Sep. 1782; author of Marriage, a novel 3 vols. 1818, anon.; The Inheritance 3 vols. 1824, and Destiny, or the chief’s daughter 3 vols. 1831. d. at house of her brother Walter Ferrier in Edinburgh 5 Nov. 1854. Works of S. E. Ferrier (1881), i, 1–38; Edinburgh Review lxxiv, 498–505 (1842).

FESTING, BENJAMIN MORTON (5 son of Henry Festing, commander R.N., who d. 1807). b. Andover, Hants., April 1794; entered navy 2 May 1805; inspector in the coast guard 11 July 1837–1840; captain on half pay 27 Sep. 1851; K.H. 1 Jany. 1837 for services on coast of Italy in 1812–13. d. Weymouth 10 May 1865.

FESTING, SIR FRANCIS WORGAN (2 son of the preceding), b. High Littleton, Somerset 24 July 1833; 2 lieut. R.M. 3 July 1850; served in the Baltic 1854–5, in the China expedition 1857–9; served in Ashantee war 1873–4 for which he received thanks of both Houses of Parliament 30 March 1874; A.A.G. of R.M. 1876–1883; A.D.C. to the Queen 7 July 1879; col. commandant R.M.A. 3 Sep. 1886; C.B. 31 March 1874; K.C.M.G. 8 May 1874. d. Donnington lodge, Newbury 21 Nov. 1886. bur. Eastney cemetery, Portsmouth 26 Nov. Brackenbury’s Ashantee war (1874) i, 72–100; Graphic 2 May 1874, pp. 413, 415, 420, portrait.

FESTING, ROBERT WORGAN GEORGE (brother of B. M. Festing 1794–1865). Entered navy 22 Feb. 1799; captain 9 Oct. 1811; retired admiral 1 Nov. 1860; C.B. 20 July 1838. d. Maiden Bradley near Frome 16 July 1862 aged 73.

FEVERSHAM, WILLIAM DUNCOMBE, 2 Baron. b. London 14 Jany. 1798; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; M.P. for Yorkshire 1826–30, for North riding of Yorkshire 1832 to 16 July 1841 when he succeeded to the peerage; a breeder of short horn cattle. d. 3 Hyde park gate, London 11 Feb. 1867. bur. Helmsley church 19 Feb. Sporting Review lvii, 158 (1867).

FEW, ROBERT (eld. son of Charles Few of Henrietta st. Covent Garden, London, solicitor). b. 1807; ed. at old gr. sch. Marlborough; solicitor in London 1828 to death; settled with Rev. John Hodgson basis of Clergy Mutual Insurance Co. 1829, member of the board 40 years, deputy chairman 1872 to death; one of the founders of Marlborough college 1843, mem. of council many years; deputy steward of Westminster 1873 to death; author of History of St. John’s house 1884. d. Wolsey grange, Esher, Surrey 24 Oct. 1887 in 80 year.

FFARINGTON, WILLIAM. b. 1777; entered navy 13 Oct. 1785; captain 18 Sep. 1815; retired admiral 4 Oct. 1862. d. Woodvale, Cowes 4 May 1868.

FFENNELL, WILLIAM JOSHUA (eld. son of Joshua William Ffennell of Ballybrado near Cahir). b. Ballybrado 16 Aug. 1799; sec. of river Suir Preservation Society 1837; fishery inspector under Board of Works 1845; commissioner to enquire into salmon fisheries of England and Wales 30 July 1860; inspector of fisheries Oct. 1861 to Oct. 1864; com. under Salmon fisheries of Scotland act 1861, 25 Sep. 1862; the act commonly called ‘Ffennell’s act’ was passed 1848 being the first modern salmon fishery act; started with F. T. Buckland Land and Water 27 Jany. 1866. d. London 12 March 1867.

FFOULKES, VEN. HENRY POWELL (2 son of John Powell Ffoulkes of Eriviatt, co. Denbigh, who d. 2 Dec. 1826 aged 56). b. 2 Jany. 1815; ed. at Ball. coll. Ox., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840; C. of St. Matthew, Buckley, Flints. 1840–57; R. of Llandyssil, Montgomery 1857–59; R. of Whittington, Salop 1859 to death; archdeacon of Montgomery and canon res. of St. Asaph, Feb. 1861 to death. d. the Canonry, St. Asaph 26 Jany. 1886.

FIDDES, THOMAS. Entered Bengal army 1804; col. of 45 Bengal N.I. 9 Aug. 1843, of 1 European fusiliers 1853, of 42 Bengal light infantry 1854, of 5 Bengal N.I. 1861 to death; L.G. 15 Sep. 1856. d. Oakfield, Cheltenham 13 April 1863 aged 81.

FIELD, CHARLES FREDERICK. Chief inspector of Metropolitan detective police to 1851 when he retired on pension; inquiry agent at Eldon chambers, Devereux court, Strand, London; figures prominently in Dickens’s novel Bleak House under name of Inspector Bucket. d. 2 Gertrude st. Chelsea, London 27 Sep. 1874. Publisher’s Circular 1874 p. 738.

FIELD, EDWIN WILKINS (eld. child of Rev. Wm. Field 1767–1851). b. Leam near Warwick 12 Oct. 1804; ed. at his father’s school; admitted an attorney and solicitor Nov. 1826; partner with Wm. Sharpe 1827, they became partners in firm of Taylor and Roscoe 1835; secretary to royal commission to prepare a plan for new law courts 1865; a great law reformer, also amateur artist; author of Memoir of Edgar Taylor, privately printed 1839; Observations of a solicitor on defects in the system of the equity courts 1840 and 17 other pamphlets; drowned in the Thames near Goring 30 July 1871. bur. Highgate cemetery 4 Aug., statue by T. Woolner at solicitors’ entrance to the Law courts in Carey st. Edwin Wilkins Field, a memorial sketch by T. Sadler 1872, portrait; Law magazine and law review i, 35–50 (1872).

FIELD, FREDERICK (2 son of Charles Field of London, candle maker). b. Lambeth, London 2 Aug. 1826; an original member of Chemical Soc. of London 1846; chemist to some copper-smelting works at Coquimbo, Chili 1848, manager of the works 1852; British vice consul at Caldera near Coquimbo 1853–56; chemist and sub-manager to smelting works at Guayacan 1856–59; lecturer on chemistry at St. Mary’s hospital, London 1860; professor of chemistry in London Institution 1862; a partner in firm of J. C. and J. Field, candle makers 1866 to death; F.R.S. 4 June 1863; F.R.S. Edin.; M.R.I.A.; wrote 43 papers on scientific subjects. d. Oakfield, Addlestone 3 April 1885.

FIELD, REV. FREDERICK (son of Henry Field of London, apothecary 1755–1837). b. London 20 July 1801; ed. at Christ’s hosp. and Trin. coll. Cam.; Tyrwhitt’s Hebrew scholar and tenth wrangler 1823; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, hon. LLD. 1875; fell. of his coll. 1824–43, hon. fell. of his coll. 1876 to death; R. of Reepham, Norfolk 1842–63; edited S. Joannis Chrysostomi Homiliæ in Matthæum 3 vols. 1839; S. Joannis Chrysostomi Interpretatio omnium epistolarum Paulinarum per homilias facta 7 vols. 1849–62; Origenis Hexaplorum, quæ supersunt 2 vols. 1874–5 and many other patristic works; member of Old Testament revision company 1870 to death. d. Carlton terrace, Heigham, Norwich 19 April 1885. Origenis Hexaplorum 1874, preface; Cambridge Review 6 May 1885.

FIELD, GEORGE. b. Berkhampstead, Herts. about 1777; grew Madder in his own garden from which he produced specimens of the colouring matter more beautiful than any before seen; invented the pereolator by atmospheric pressure for reducing the madder to its finest consistence 1816; author of Chromatography, or a treatise on colours and pigments 1835, 3 ed. 1885; Outlines of analogical philosophy 2 vols. 1839; Rudiments of the painter’s art, or a grammar of colouring 1850 and 5 other books. d. Syon hill, Park cottage, Isleworth, Surrey 28 Sep. 1854.

FIELD, HENRY WILLIAM (4 son of John Field 1764–1845, umpire at Royal Mint, London). b. 23 March 1803; entered Royal Mint 1818, probationer assayer 1836, Queen’s assay master 1851 to 1871; made chemically pure gold and brought the coin of the realm up to mathematical precision; exhibited 8 designs or models for coins at R.A. 1822–27. d. 10 Chesham place, Brighton 9 June 1888. bur. Nunhead cemetery, London 14 June. J. Waylen’s House of Cromwell (1880) p. 49.

FIELD, JOSEPH M. b. London 1810; ed. in New York; first appeared on the stage in New York 1843; performed in most of the large cities; manager of Field’s Varieties, St. Louis, Mo. 1852; established at St. Louis the Reveille a daily paper, one of the editors and chief proprietor; dramatized and produced many local plays; wrote many humorous sketches for the New Orleans Picayune, signed Straws which were widely quoted; proprietor of theatre in Mobile to death; author of The drama of Pokerville, Philadelphia 1847. d. Mobile 30 Jany. 1856.

FIELD, JOSHUA (son of Mr. Field of Lower Thames st. London, corn and seed merchant). b. Hackney 1786; ed. at Harlow, Essex 1793–1802; employed by Maudslay marine engine maker 1804–22, a partner 1822; one of the 6 founders of Institution of Civil engineers and, the first chairman 6 Jany. 1818, vice pres. 1837–48, pres. 1848–50; F.R.S. 3 March 1836. d. Balham hill house, Surrey 11 Aug. 1863. Pusely’s Commercial Companion, 2 ed. (1860) 123–4; Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxiii, 488–92 (1864).

FIELD, REV. WILLIAM (son of John Field of Stoke Newington, London, surgeon). b. Stoke Newington 7 Jany. 1768; ed. for Calvinist ministry at Homerton and Daventry; pastor of presbyterian chapel, High st. Warwick 1789–1843; founded the Warwick Advertiser 4 Jany. 1806; schoolmaster at Leam near Warwick many years; pastor of presbyterian chapel, Kenilworth 1828–50; published An historical account of town and castle of Warwick 1815; Memoirs of the life of the Rev. S. Parr 2 vols. 1826 and many sermons, tracts, letters and pamphlets. d. Leam 16 Aug. 1851. Spears’s Record of Unitarian Worthies (1877); J. Waylen’s House of Cromwell (1880) p. 51.

FIELDEN, JOSHUA (son of John Fielden 1784–1849, M.P. for Oldham). b. 1827; member of firm of Fielden Brothers, cotton spinners of Todmorden and Manchester, and of firm of Fielden Brothers & Co. of London, merchants; M.P. for eastern division of West Riding of Yorkshire 1868–80; author of A Letter showing the effects of the malt tax 1865. d. Hotel Monte Huri, Cannes 9 March 1887 in 60 year, personalty declared of value of £503,598.

FIELDEN, THOMAS (4 son of Joshua Fielden, who d. 1811). Member of firm of Joshua Fielden and Sons, cotton spinners, Todmorden; manager of the Manchester warehouse, firm became Fielden Brothers; erected gas works 1830; firm became Fielden Brothers & Co. 1837. d. Manchester 7 Dec. 1869, personalty sworn under £1,300,000, 12 March 1870. Fortunes made in business i, 411–56 (1884).

FIELDING, ANTONY VANDYKE COPLEY (2 son of Nathan Theodore Fielding, painter). b. 1787; pupil of John Varley; member of Society of Painters in water-colours 1813, treasurer 1817, sec. 1818, pres. 1831 to death; exhibited 17 pictures at R.A. and 100 at B.I. 1811–55; awarded a medal at Paris Salon 1824. d. Worthing 3 March 1855 in 68 year. Redgrave’s Century of painters ii, 509–13 (1866); J. Sherer’s Gallery of British Artists ii, 57–8.

FIELDING, HENRY BORRON (only son of Henry Fielding of Myerscough house near Garstang, Lancs.) Devoted himself to study of plants; bought herbarium of Dr. Steudel 1836; bought Prescott collection of 28,000 plants 1837; F.L.S. 1838; bequeathed his herbarium to Univ. of Oxford. d. Lancaster 21 Nov. 1851.

FIELDING, NEWTON SMITH (brother of Antony V. C. Fielding 1787–1855). b. Huntingdon 1799; worked in water colours, etching, aquatint and lithography; best known for his paintings and engravings of animals; taught painting to family of Louis Philippe in Paris; published Subjects after nature 1836; Lessons on fortification 1853; A dictionary of colour containing 750 tints 1854; How to sketch from nature, or perspective and its application, 2 ed. 1856 and other books, d. Paris 12 Jany. 1856.

FIELDING, THEODORE HENRY ADOLPHUS (brother of the preceding). Painter and engraver; exhibited 18 pictures at R.A., 21 at B.I. and 27 at Suffolk st. gallery 1799–1837; teacher of drawing and perspective at Addiscombe college; published numerous sets of engravings in aquatint; author of Index of colours and mixed tints 1830; On the theory of painting 1836; The art of engraving with the various modes of operation 1844 and other books. d. Croydon 11 July 1851 aged 70.

FIFE, JAMES DUFF, 4 Earl of (elder son of Alexander Duff, 3 Earl of Fife 1731–1811). b. 6 Oct. 1776; served with great distinction in Spanish army during Peninsular war, major general; M.P. for Banffshire 1818–27; succeeded as 4 Earl 7 April 1811; lord lieut. of Banffshire 1811–56; vice pres. of Antiquarian society, Scotland; G.C.H. 1823; K.T. 3 Sep. 1827; created Baron Fife 27 April 1827. d. Duff house, Banffshire 9 March. 1857. W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery iv, 86 (1848), portrait; Jerdan’s National portrait gallery ii, (1831), portrait.

FIFE, JAMES DUFF, 5 Earl of (elder son of General Sir Alexander Duff, G.C.H. 1777–1851). b. Edinburgh 6 July 1814; attached to the embassy at Paris; M.P. for Banffshire 1837 to 1 Oct. 1857 when he was created Baron Skene of Skene; lieut. and sheriff principal of Elginshire 26 May 1851; lord lieut. of Banffshire 1857 to death; succeeded his uncle as 5 Earl 9 March 1857; K.T. 2 March 1860. d. Mar lodge, Braemar, Aberdeenshire 7 Aug. 1879.

FIFE, GEORGE (son of Wm. Fife of Newcastle, surgeon). M.D. and L.R.C.P. Edin. 1827; surgeon to Northern public dispensary, Edin.; phys. to Queen’s hospital and professor of clinical medicine and materia medica and therapeutics at Queen’s college, Birmingham to death; translated Coster’s Manual of operative surgery 1831; author of Observations on Influenza 1833; Treatise on Cholera 1849 and other books; died from taking morphia at his lodgings Surrey st. Strand, London 10 May 1857 aged 50.

FIFE, SIR JOHN (brother of the preceding). b. Newcastle 1795; surgeon at Newcastle 1815; member of Newcastle corporation 1835, alderman 1835, mayor 1838–9 and 1842–3; knighted at St. James’s palace 1 July 1840 for his exertions in repressing Chartist disturbances 1840; F.R.C.S. 1844; senior surgeon to Newcastle infirmary; lieut. col. commandant 1 Newcastle rifle volunteers 1860–68; author of Practical remarks on the Continental cholera, Newcastle 1831. d. Reedsmouth house, North Tyne 15 Jany. 1871.

FIFE, WILLIAM WALLACE (son of Peter Fife of Dundee, baker). b. Dundee 28 March 1816; one of staff of the Dundee Warder; edited North British Agriculturist short time; edited Nottingham Daily Guardian to death. d. Hound’s Gate, Nottingham 25 Sep. 1867.

FIGGINS, JAMES (son of Vincent Figgins of Smithfield, London, type founder, who d. Dec. 1860 or Jany. 1861). b. West st. Smithfield, London 16 April 1811; a type founder in Smithfield; sheriff of London 1865–6; M.P. for Shrewsbury 1868–74; alderman of Farringdon without, 9 June 1873 to 1882. d. 12 Russell sq. London 12 June 1884.

FILDES, JOHN. b. Dorton, Lancs. 18 Dec. 1811; M.P. for Great Grimsby 1865–68. d. Stanley house, Oxford road, Manchester 6 July 1875.

FILLANS, JAMES. b. Wilsontown, Lanarkshire 27 March 1808; apprenticed to a stonemason at Paisley; a sculptor at Glasgow, moved to London 1836; his best works are The Blind teaching the Blind, Grief, a Madonna, busts of Sir James Shaw and John Wilson; exhibited 25 sculptures at R.A. 1837–50. d. 95 Montrose st. Glasgow 27? Sep. 1852. James Paterson’s Memoir of James Fillans 1854, portrait.

FILLEUL, REV. PHILIP (son of Philip Filleul of Jersey). Matric. from Pemb. coll. Ox. 6 Dec. 1813 aged 20, scholar; B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820; R. of St. Brelade, Jersey 1818–29; R. of St. Peter, Jersey 1828–48; vice dean of Jersey 1838; R. of St. Saviour, Jersey 1848–50; R. of St. Heliers, Jersey 1850 to death; author of Défense des Missions 1821; Christ est-il divisé? Guernsey 1825; Infant baptism and confirmation, Jersey 1855 and other books. d. St. Heliers, Jersey 13 Oct. 1875.

FILMER, SIR EDMUND, 8 Baronet. b. 14 June 1809; succeeded his uncle 15 July 1834; M.P. for West Kent 1838 to death. d. East Sutton place near Maidstone 8 Jany. 1857.

FILMER, SIR EDMUND, 9 Baronet (eld. son of the preceding). b. 11 July 1835; ed. at Eton; M.P. for West Kent 1859–65, for Mid Kent 1880–84; sheriff of Kent 1870. d. Brighton 17 Dec. 1886.

FINCH, FRANCIS OLIVER (only child of Francis Finch of Friday st. London, merchant, who d. 25 March 1805 aged 50). b. Friday st. 22 Nov. 1802; pupil of John Varley 1814–19; studied at Sass’s life academy and produced some portraits; exhibited 14 landscapes at R.A. 1817–32; associate of S.P.W.C. 11 Feb. 1822, mem. 4 June 1827; a musician and a poet; lost the use of his limbs 10 Oct. 1861; author of An Artist’s Dream; Sonnets 1863. d. Highfield villas, London 27 Aug. 1862. Memorials of the late F. O. Finch [by his widow] 1865, portrait.

FINCH, GEORGE. b. 1794; M.P. for Lymington, Hants. 1818–19, for Stamford 1833–37, for Rutland 1846–47. d. 41 South st. London 29 June 1870.

FINCH, JOHN (4 son of 4 Earl of Aylesford 1751–1812). b. 13 March 1793; cornet 15 dragoons 5 Oct. 1809; major Royal West India Rangers 5 March 1818 to 25 June 1819 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 20 Feb. 1855; col. 24 foot 19 June 1856 to death; C.B. 26 Dec. 1818. d. Dover 25 Nov. 1861.

FINCHAM, JOHN. Master shipwright of Portsmouth dockyard 2 Oct. 1844 to 2 July 1852; superintendent of school of naval architecture Portsmouth; built the celebrated “Arrogant” the first screw frigate in the British navy 1850; author of A history of naval architecture 1851; A treatise on masting ships 1854. d. Highland lodge near Portsmouth 15 Dec. 1859 aged 74.

FINDEN, EDWARD FRANCIS. b. 1791; pupil and coadjutor of William Finden sharing his successes and fortunes; among his separate works were etchings for Duppa’s Miscellaneous Opinions on the Continent 1825 and Illustrations of the Vaudois 1831; illustrator of annuals, books of beauty and other sentimental works; among his separate engravings were Gainsborough’s Harvest Waggon, Collins’ As Happy as a King, Westall’s Princess Victoria. d. St. John’s Wood, London 9 Feb. 1857 aged 65.

FINDEN, WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). b. 1787; apprentice to James Mitan engraver; he worked chiefly in conjunction with his brother E. F. Finden; made engravings illustrating the books published by Sharpe, Sutton and others; established a school of pupils who worked under their directions and executed much of the work which goes by their name, they themselves giving the finishing touches; produced illustrations to H. Ellis’ ed. of Dugdale’s History of St. Paul’s 1818 and Dibdin’s Ædes Althorpianæ 1822; with his brother engraved Elgin marbles for British museum; published on their own account the illustrations to Moore’s Life and works of Byron 1833; brought out The Royal Gallery of British Art 1838–1840, Nos. 1–15, an admirable work in which they lost all their money; engraved full length portrait of George iv, after Sir T. Lawrence and other important single works; the Crucifixion, after W. Hilton, Finden’s last work was purchased by Art Union for £1470. d. 49 Camden st. Camden Town 20 Sep. 1852 in 65 year. bur. Highgate.

FINDLATER, ANDREW. b. Aberdour, Aberdeenshire 1810; educ. Aberdeen univ. LLD. 1864; sch. master at Tillydesk; head master Gordon’s hospital, Aberdeen; commenced a life long connection with W. and R. Chambers 1853; edited Information for the People 1857; Chambers’s Encyclopædia 1860; prepared for the Educational Course, manuals on language, astronomy, physical geography and physiography, edited their Etymological Dictionary 1882; contributed an essay on Epicurus to Encyclopædia Metropolitana, and articles in the Scotsman. d. 15 Rillbank terrace, Edinburgh 1 Jany. 1885. London Figaro 17 Jany. 1885 p. 4, portrait.

FINDLAY, ALEXANDER. Entered the army as private; ensign 2 West India regiment 27 July 1814, captain 24 Oct. 1821 to 28 Dec. 1826; major royal African corps 28 Dec. 1826 to 19 March 1829 when placed on h.p.; governor of Sierra Leone; fort major at Fort George, Inverness, Feb. 1847 to death; K.H. 1836. d. Fort George 10 May 1851.

FINDLAY, ALEXANDER GEORGE (son of Alexander Findlay b. London 1790, an original F.R.G.S. 1830, made an atlas sheet of environs of London 1829 to a distance of 32 miles from St. Paul’s ½ inch scale, d. 1870). b. London 9 Jany. 1812; geographer and hydrographer succeeding on death of John Purdy in 1843 to the first position in this business; produced six nautical directories invaluable to the maritime world; received Soc. of Arts medal for dissertation on the English lighthouse system; F.R.G.S. 1844, member of Arctic committee and instrumental in government sending out Alert and Discovery expedition 1875; succeeded to Laurie’s geographical and print publishing business in 1858 and on dispersal of navigating business of Van Kenlen of Amsterdam in 1885 it became the oldest firm in Europe for charts and nautical works; foreign hon. memb. of Società Geografica Italiana 1870; author of A directory for the navigation of the Pacific Ocean 2 vols. 1851 and many other books. d. East Cliff, Dover 3 May 1875.

FINGALL, ARTHUR JAMES PLUNKETT, 9 Earl of (only son of 8 Earl of Fingall 1759–1836). b. Geneva 29 March 1791; M.P. for co. Meath 1830–32; P.C. Ireland 1834; K.P. 12 Oct. 1846; lord lieut. of co. Meath 1849 to death. d. 47 Montagu sq. London 21 April 1869.

FINLAISON, JOHN (son of Donald Finlaison d. 1790). b. Thurso, Caithness 27 Aug. 1783; factor to Sir B. Dunbar 1802; employed by board of naval revision London, July 1805, first clerk 1805–8, invented systems for reforming victualling department and arranging admiralty records 1809; keeper of records and librarian of admiralty 1809–22; compiled the original account of the enemy’s naval forces 1811; investigated abuse of sixpenny revenue at Greenwich hospital 1811; founded a system for the salaries in the admiralty 1813; compiled first official navy list 1814 and edited it monthly to 1821; his plan for fund for widows and orphans of civil department of navy established 17 Sep. 1819; connected with London Life Assurance Co. and other offices as actuary; made improvements on Northampton tables of mortality 1829; computed the annuity for the naval and military half pay and pensions, being the only person who could do it 1823; actuary and accountant of check department national debt office 1 Jany. 1822 to Aug. 1851; president of Institution of Actuaries 1847 to death. d. 15 Lansdowne crescent, Notting hill, London 13 April 1860. Assurance magazine, April 1862, 147–69; Walford’s Insurance cyclopædia iii, 300–303 (1874).

NOTE.—In 1833 he computed the duration of Slave and Creole life, with reference to the emancipation of slaves on the West Indian plantations, preliminary to raising a loan of £15,000,000 to compensate the slave owners, which was carried out and 770,280 slaves became free on 1 Aug. 1834.

FINLAY, ALEXANDER STRUTHERS. b. 21 July 1806; ed. at Harrow and Glasgow Univ.; M.P. for Argyllshire 1857–68; author of Our monetary system 1864. d. Castle Toward, Greenock 9 June 1886.

FINLAY, FRANCIS DALZELL (son of John Finlay, tenant farmer). b. Newtownards, co. Down 12 July 1794; apprentice to a printer at Belfast; master printer 1820; founded Northern Whig 1824; often prosecuted for press offences; imprisoned 3 months in 1826 and his newspaper suspended Aug. 1826 to May 1827; imprisoned 3 months in 1832 and fined £50; a friend of D. O’Connell but not an advocate of repeal. d. Glenarm, co. Antrim 10 Sep. 1857. Freeman’s Journal 12 Sept. 1857 p. 4.

FINLAY, GEORGE (son of John Finlay, captain R.E., F.R.S., who d. 1802). b. Faversham, Kent 21 Dec. 1799; studied law in Glasgow, at univ. of Göttingen 1821; went to Greece in 1823 where he was very intimate with Byron; joined Odysseus in an expedition into the Morea 1824, fought in the war of 1824–27; purchased an estate in Attica 1828 in which he lost his money; studied the history of Greece for many years; author of Greece under the Romans 1844; The history of Greece to its conquest by the Turks 1851; The history of Greece under the Ottoman and Venetian domination 1856; History of the Greek Revolution 1861, all republished collectively as A History of Greece, ed. H. F. Tozer 7 vols. 1877. d. Athens 26 Jany. 1875.

FINLAY, SIR THOMAS (youngest son of David Finlay). b. 1803; high sheriff of co. Cavan 1837; knighted 1837. d. 19 Adelaide road north, Hampstead 22 Oct. 1869.

FINLAYSON, JOHN. b. Scotland 1770; a writer at Cupar-Fife and then in Edinburgh; a house agent in London 1798; became a believer in Richard Brothers 1797; obtained Brothers’s release from Fisher house asylum Islington 14 April 1806, Brothers resided in Finlayson’s house Upper Baker st. Marylebone 1815 to his decease 25 Jany. 1824; claimed from the government £5710 for Brothers’s maintenance, but all he received was £270 Brothers’s naval half pay 4 Mch. 1830; reduced to poverty and lived on a parish allowance; author of An admonition to the people of all countries [in support of Richard Brothers], Edin. 1797; An essay [on the First Resurrection] 1798; The last trumpet and the flying angel, the true system as given by God to R. Brothers and myself 1849 and other works; engraved 9 sheets of the ground plan of the New Jerusalem and 12 sheets of views of its public buildings for Brothers’ publications; found dead 14 Paradise st. Marylebone 20 Sept. 1854. bur. in Brothers’ grave at St. John’s Wood.

FINLAYSON, REV. THOMAS (2 son of Thomas Finlayson of Coldock, Blair Drummond, Perthshire, farmer). b. Coldock 22 Dec. 1809; licensed by presbytery of Stirling and Falkirk as a preacher of the gospel April 1835; min. of Union st. congregation Greenock, Nov. 1835 to Sep. 1847; min. of Rose st. church, Edinburgh, Sep. 1847 to death; moderator of supreme court of his church 1867; D.D. Univ. of Edin. 1867 or 1868; edited Beattie’s Poems 1864; Goldsmith’s Poems 1871. d. of heart disease at Campbeltown 17 Oct. 1872. bur. Grange cemetery, Edinburgh 22 Oct. Memorials of Rev. Thomas Finlayson, D.D. Edinburgh 1873; John Smith’s Our Scottish clergy 2 series (1849) 295–301.

FINNELLY, WILLIAM. Barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1827; author with Charles Clark of Reports of cases in the House of Lords on appeals and writs of error 1831–1846, 12 vols. 1835–47, and of House of Lords cases on appeals and writs of error, claims of peerage and divorces 1847–1850, 2 vols. 1849–51; found dead on the floor of his sitting room at 20 Old sq. Lincoln’s Inn 23 Nov. 1851 aged 52. Law Times 29 Nov. 1851 p. 103.

FINNIS, THOMAS QUESTED (son of Robert Finnis of Hythe, Kent). b. Hythe, Jany. 1801; partner in firm of Finnis and Fisher 79 Great Tower st. London, provision merchants; the first pioneer of commerce to port of Bussorah; alderman of Lower Ward 18 Jany. 1848; sheriff of London 1848–49, lord mayor 1856–57. d. Park Gate, Wanstead, Essex 29 Nov. 1883. J. E. Ritchie’s Famous city men (1884) 96–105; Illust. news of the world ii, 333 (1858), portrait; I.L.N. xxix, 479 (1856), portrait, lxxxiii, 581 (1883), portrait.

NOTE.—His brother John Finnis, lieut. col. 11 Bengal N.I. was the first English officer killed in the Sepoy mutiny, at Meerut 10 May 1857 in 54 year, memorial tablet in church of St. Dunstan in the East, London.

FIRBANK, JOSEPH. b. Bishop Auckland 1819; worked in a colliery 1826; executed works for North Western railway 1848; contractor for maintenance of Monmouthshire railway 1854–61; railway contractor in South Wales 30 years; contractor for widening of London and North Western railway near London 1859–66, for Midland Company’s Bedford and London extension 1864–68 and their Settle and Carlisle extension 1870; built St. Pancras goods depot for Midland 1884; promoted the interest of his workmen; J.P. and D.L. for co. Monmouth. d. St. Julian’s, Newport 29 June 1886. Mc. Dermott’s Life of J. Firbank (1887).

FIRTH, JOSEPH FIRTH BOTTOMLEY- (eld. son of Joseph Bottomley of Matlock). b. near Huddersfield 21 Feb. 1842; barrister M.T. 6 June 1866; pres. of Municipal reform league; assumed additional surname of Firth by r.l. Feb. 1873; LL.B. Univ. of London 1875; member of London school board (Chelsea division) 1876–79; M.P. for Chelsea 1880–85, for Dundee 1888 to death; contested North Kensington 1885, received invitations from 13 of the London boroughs to stand for parliament at general election 1886; member of London county council 17 Jany. 1889, deputy chairman 12 Feb. 1889 to death; author of Gas supply of London 1874; Municipal London 1876. d. whilst ascending the Flégère mountain near Chamounix 3 Sep. 1889. Graphic xxv, 153 (1882), 2 portraits; I.L.N. 14 Sep. 1889 pp. 325, 326, portrait.

FIRTH, MARK (elder son of Thomas Firth of Sheffield, steel manufacturer, who d. 1848). b. Sheffield 25 April 1819; worked as a steel smelter for 20/- a week; a steel manufacturer at Sheffield with his father and brother Thomas 1843, they erected the Norfolk works covering 13 acres 1849; master cutler 1867–69; mayor of Sheffield 1875; erected the Mark Firth almshouses at Ranmoor, Sheffield at cost of £30,000, 1869; gave the Firth park of 36 acres to town of Sheffield, park was opened by Prince of Wales 16 Aug. 1875; erected and fitted up Firth college, Sheffield at cost of £20,000, opened by Prince Leopold 20 Oct. 1879, he also endowed it at cost of £5000; famous for castings for gun blocks, and for their refined steel; cast the steel cores for the government great guns; supplied to Italian government a 100 ton gun. d. Oakbrook, Sheffield 28 Nov. 1880, personalty sworn under £600,000, Jany. 1881. Practical mag. vi, 289–91 (1876), portrait; I.L.N. lxvii, 208 (1875), portrait.

FISCHER, JOHN GEORGE PAUL. b. Hanover 16 Sep. 1786; pupil of John Henry Ramberg, court painter 1800 when he painted portraits and theatrical scenery; went to England 1810, painted miniatures of Queen Charlotte, produced a series of military costumes for the Prince Regent, painted Queen Victoria 1819 and 1820; exhibited 80 paintings at R.A. and 17 at Suffolk st., chiefly portraits in miniature 1817–52. d. 4 Upper Spring st. Marylebone 12 Sep. 1875.

FISH, THOMAS LIVERSEDGE (son of Mr. Fish, magistrate at Union hall police office, London). Lived at Knowle cottage, Sidmouth, Devon; known as the “Golden Fish” from his immense wealth, having no less than 400 public houses; author of Guide to Knowle Cottage 1837. d. 18 Penton row, Walworth road, Newington, London 22 March 1861 aged 79.

FISH, WILLIAM. b. Norwich 1775; violinist Norwich theatre; studied under Sharp oboist, and Bond pianist and organist; organist of St. Andrew’s, Norwich; kept a music warehouse; he wrote Sonata for pianoforte, Op. i, 1800; The Morning Star 1842 a ballad, words by the composer, an oboe concerto and some fantasias for the harp. d. 90 Rose lane, Conisford, Norwich 15 March 1866.

FISHBOURNE, EDMUND GARDINER. b. 1811; entered navy 1 Feb. 1824; captain 25 Feb. 1853, retired 1 March 1866; retired admiral 2 Aug. 1879; C.B. 23 June 1859; hon. sec. to Royal patriotic fund and to Naval and military Bible Soc. many years; one of most active of Lord Shaftesbury’s colleagues in work of evangelizing the masses of London; author of Current fallacies in naval architecture 1871; Our ironclads and merchant ships 1874; Stability the seaman’s safeguard 1878 and 20 other books. d. 26 Hogarth road, Kensington, London 12 May 1887.

FISHER, CHARLES (2 son of David Fisher, manager of Suffolk circuit, who d. 6 Aug. 1832 aged 71). Educ. at Cambridge; trained in singing, dancing, fencing and the drama by his father; good in tragedy, comedy and melodrama, acted in Norfolk and Suffolk; appeared at Drury Lane in Lionel and Clarissa 1818; manager of theatres on Norwich circuit 1832 to 1843; violinist, violoncellist and player of double bass; a fine organist; leader of band Norwich theatre 1843; violoncellist in various theatres. d. Glasgow 17 April 1869 aged 76. Theatre i, 193–99 (1880); Era 25 April 1869, p. 10, col. 1.

FISHER, DAVID (brother of the preceding). b. 1788; manager on the Suffolk circuit; first appeared in London at Drury Lane as Macbeth 3 Dec. 1817, the original Titus in Howard Payne’s Brutus 3 Dec. 1818, and Angelo in Buck’s Italians 3 April 1819; played at Bath 1823; built theatres at Bungay, Beccles, Halesworth, Eye, Lowestoft, Dereham, North Walsham and other places; leader of Norwich choral concerts; retired about 1838 to Woodbridge, Suffolk. d. Woodbridge 20 Aug. 1858. Theatrical Inquisitor xi, 479, 481 (1818).

FISHER, DAVID (son of the preceding). b. East Dereham, Norfolk 1816; violinist at local concerts; acted at Prince’s theatre, Glasgow 1849–53; appeared in London at Princess’s theatre as Victor in The Lancers 2 Nov. 1853, remained at Princess’s 6 years where he played in his own piece Music hath charms in June 1858; acted at Adelphi as Abbé Latour in The Dead Heart 1859; gave an entertainment Facts and Fancies at Hanover sq. rooms and St. James’ hall 1863; played at Princess’s 1863, at Haymarket 1865 and at Ampitheatre and Alexandra theatres, Liverpool 1866–68, at opening of Globe theatre, London 28 Nov. 1868 played Major Treherne in Byron’s Cyril’s Success; appeared at Drury Lane, Olympic, Globe, Opera Comique, Criterion, Mirror, Princess’s and Lyceum to 1884. d. St. Augustine’s road, Camden Town, London 4 Oct. 1887. The Players ii, 73 (1860), portrait; Saturday Programme 5 Feb. 1876, portrait; London Figaro 15 Oct. 1887 p. 14, col. 2, portrait.

FISHER, VEN. EDMUND HENRY. b. 31 Jany. 1835; ed. at Rugby and Trin. coll. Cam., fellow 1860; 20 wrangler 1858; B.A. 1858, M.A. 1861; assistant master at Marlborough 1860; V. of St. Mark, Kennington, London 1869 to death; chaplain to Abp. of Canterbury 1869 to death; hon. canon of Winchester cathedral 1874 to death; archdeacon of Southwark 1878 to death; author of The Goth and the Saracen 1859. d. Monk’s Eleigh rectory 6 May 1879. bur. Barnes cemetery 10 May.

FISHER, REV. GEORGE. b. Sunbury, Middlesex 31 July 1794; clerk in Westminster insurance office 1808; entered St. Cath. coll. Cam. 1817; B.A. 1821, M.A. 1825; astronomer to ships Dorothea and Trent in Arctic expedition 1818; chaplain and astronomer to Parry’s expedition to discover North West passage 1821–23; C. of Stanstead, Essex 1825–27; C. of Ampthill, Beds. 1827; F.R.S. 27 Jany. 1825; F.R.A.S. 1827, mem. of council 1835–63; chaplain to H.M.’s ships Spartiate and Asia 1827–32; retired on h.p. 1832; principal and chaplain of Greenwich hospital school 2 Dec. 1834 to 4 Sep. 1863; made experiments on pendulums, chronometers, velocity of sound, liquefaction of gases and refraction; author of papers in Phil. Trans., Proc. of Royal Soc. and other journals. d. 19 Hillmorton road, Rugby 14 May 1873. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xxxiv, 140–44 (1875).

FISHER, SIR JAMES HURTLE (son of James Fisher of London, architect). b. 1790; attorney in partnership with Thomas Rhodes in Davies st. Cavendish sq. London 1811–32; resident comr. for crown lands in South Australia 1836; the first mayor of Adelaide 1840 and 4 times afterwards; member for West Adelaide 1853–55; speaker of the legislative council 1855–56; first pres. of the legislative council 1856–65 when he retired from office and parliament; knighted by patent 24 May 1860. d. Adelaide 28 Jany. 1875.

FISHER, SIR JOHN WILLIAM (son of Peter Fisher of Perth). b. London 30 Jany. 1787; M.R.C.S. 1809, F.R.C.S. 1836, member of council 1843; surgeon to Bow st. patrol 1821; surgeon-in-chief to Metropolitan police 1829–65; M.D. Erlangen 1841; knighted at Osborne 2 Sep. 1858. d. 33 Park lane, London 22 March 1876. Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. viii, 173–4 (1876); I.L.N. lxviii, 335, 527 (1876).

FISHER, ROBERT ALEXANDER. Barrister M.T. 25 Jany. 1850; deputy judge of City of London court; secretary of the Judicature commission 25 Nov. 1872 to Sep. 1874 when last report was issued; judge of county courts (circuit 54) Somerset 1 Oct. 1874 to death; author of Digest of the reported decisions of the courts of common law, bankruptcy, probate, admiralty and divorce from 1756, 5 vols. 1870, new ed. by J. Mews 7 vols. 1884 and other books. d. Glanmorfa, Clifton 30 Sep. 1879.

FISHER, WALTER DAVID (3 son of David Fisher 1816–87). b. Norwich 1845; first appeared on stage at T.R. Glasgow 1852; played in the provinces; acted at Athenée theatre in Paris 1873; first appeared in London at Haymarket theatre as Moses in The school for scandal, July 1875; acted Potain in Cora at Globe theatre March 1877; played with Doyly Carte’s provincial company 1880; acted in Germany with the Gilbert and Sullivan répertoire company 1887; played Shadbolt in The Yeomen of the Guard at Court theatre, Liverpool 15 May 1889. d. 15 Seymour st. Liverpool 25 May 1889.

FISHER, WILLIAM (2 son of John Fisher of Yarmouth, Norfolk). b. 18 Nov. 1780; midshipman R.N. 18 Aug. 1795; surveyed the Mozambique channel 1809–10; employed in suppression of slave trade on coast of Guinea 1816–17; commanded Asia in Mediterranean 1836–41; received Turkish gold medal; good service pension awarded him 1 July 1842; R.A. 2 Dec. 1847; suggested to Admiralty plan of watering ships generally adopted; author of The Petrel, or love on the ocean 1850; Ralph Rutherford, a nautical romance 1851. d. 38 Blandford sq. London 30 Sep. 1852.

FISHER, WILLIAM RICHARD (2 son of John Goate Fisher of Great Yarmouth). b. 14 Aug. 1824; barrister L.I. 13 June 1851; author of The law of mortgage as applied to the redemption, foreclosure and sale in equity of incumbered property 1856, 4 ed. 1884; The forest of Essex, its history, laws, administration and ancient customs 1887. d. Guildford, Surrey 17 Nov. 1888.

FISHER, WILLIAM WEBSTER. b. Westmoreland 1798; studied medicine at Montpellier, M.D. 1825; of Trin. coll. Cam. 1827, of Downing coll., fellow to 1841; Downing professor of medicine 1841 to death; lectured 1841–68; M.B. Cam. 1834, M.D. 1841; univ. examiner of students in medicine and member of univ. board of medical studies; physician to Addenbrooke hospital; had large private practice at Cam.; fellow of Cambridge Philos. Soc. and contributed to its Transactions. d. East lodge, Downing coll. 4 Oct. 1874 in 76 year. Brit. Med. Journ. 10 Oct. 1874, 481.

FISK, WILLIAM (son of a farmer at Can hall, Essex). b. Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex 1796; educ. Colchester; in mercantile house in London 1815–25; commenced historical compositions 1834 in which he accurately reproduced portraits and costumes, among these were Lady Jane Grey in the Tower 1834, Leonardo da Vinci expiring in the arms of Francis i. 1838, Conspiracy of the Pazzi, attempt to assassinate Lorenzo de Medici 1839 for which in 1840 was awarded gold medal of Manchester Institution; painted 5 pictures connected with reign of Charles i. 1840–44; exhibited 25 paintings at R.A., 17 at B.I. and 45 at Suffolk st. 1818–48. d. Danbury, Essex 8 Nov. 1872.

FISK, WILLIAM HENRY (son of the preceding). b. 1827; pupil of his father and student of R. Acad.; anatomical draughtsman to royal coll. of Surgeons; teacher of drawing and painting at Univ. coll. sch. London; made a series of drawing of trees for the queen; lectured on art in London and the provinces; exhibited 11 landscapes at R.A., 7 at B.I. and 5 at Suffolk st. 1846–73. d. Hampstead 13 Nov. 1884.

FISKEN, REV. WILLIAM. b. Gelleyburn farm near Crieff, Perthshire; taught a school at Alyth; minister at Stamfordham near Newcastle 1847 to death; governor and sec. of endowed schools at Stamfordham; with his brother Thomas invented the steam plough; invented a potato-sowing machine, a safety steam boiler, a propeller, apparatus for heating churches and the steam tackle for the steam plough July 1855; author of The cheapest system of steam cultivation and steam cartage; On the comparative methods of steam tackle. d. Stamfordham manse 28 Dec. 1883 aged upwards of 70.

FITCH, WILLIAM STEVENSON. b. 1793; postmaster Ipswich 1838 to death; founder of West Suffolk archæological assoc.; made collections for a history of Suffolk, which were dispersed at his death, but 30 vols. of them are in Suffolk archæol. assoc. museum at Bury St. Edmunds; author of A catalogue of Suffolk manorial registers, Great Yarmouth 1843; Ipswich and its early mints, Ipswich 1848. d. Ipswich 17 July 1859. C. R. Smith’s Retrospections i, 245–8 (1883).

FITTON, MICHAEL. b. Gawsworth, Cheshire 1766; entered navy June 1780; served in Mediterranean 1782, in West Indies 1799–1802, 1803–4; lieut. 9 March 1804 his highest rank; captured or destroyed 40 of the enemy’s ships, received the thanks of the admiralty and a sword value £50 from the Patriotic Soc.; served in the Baltic 1811–15; lieut. of the ordinary at Plymouth 22 Feb. 1831 to 1834; admitted into Greenwich hospital 20 April 1835; one of the bravest and most active officers in the navy. d. Peckham 31 Dec. 1852.

FITTON, WILLIAM HENRY (son of Nicholas Fitton of Dublin). b. Dublin, Jany. 1780; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, senior scholar 1798, B.A. 1799; studied at Edin. Univ. 1808, in London 1809–12; M.D. Edin. 12 Sep. 1810, incorporated at Cam. 1815; candidate of royal coll. of phys. 1815, fellow 1816; practised at Northampton 1811–19 when he removed to London and devoted himself to scientific researches; F.R.S. 9 Nov. 1815; F.G.S. 18 , sec. 18 , pres. 1827, the first to deliver an annual address 15 Feb. 1828, established publication of proceedings 1827, Wollaston medallist 1852; wrote 21 papers on geological subjects 1811–57; author of A geological sketch of Hastings 1833; wrote many articles in Edinburgh Review 1817–41. d. Sussex gardens, London 13 May 1861. Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xviii, 30–34 (1862); Proc. of Royal Soc. of London xii, 4–6 (1861).

FITZADAM, JOHN THOMPSON (eld. son of Adam Fitz Adam of Birmingham, barrister). b. 1833; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1859; recorder of Wigan, April 1880 to death; alderman of Wigan many years. d. 5 Phillimore gardens, Kensington, London 19 April 1886 in 53 year.

FITZBALL, EDWARD, originally called Edward Ball. b. Burwell, Cambs. 1792; attempted to establish a printing office at Norwich; dramatist in London many years; author of Edda; The Pilot 1825; The Innkeeper of Abbeville 1826; The Floating Beacon 1826; The Inchcape Bell 1828; The Flying Dutchman 1829 and many other successful dramas; wrote all the librettos of Balfe’s early operas, libretto of Wallace’s Maritana, and many librettos for other Composers; wrote My Pretty Jane 1828 and many other songs. d. near Chatham 27 Oct. 1873. E. Fitzball’s Thirty five years of a dramatic author’s life 2 vols. 1859, portrait; I.L.N. lxiii, 445 (1873), portrait.

FITZCLARENCE, LORD ADOLPHUS (7 child and 3 son of William iv. 1765–1837 by Dorothea natural dau. of Francis Bland of Kerry, she was known on the stage as Mrs. Jordan 1762–1816). b. 18 Feb. 1802; entered R.N. 26 May 1814; captain 24 Dec. 1824; commander of Royal George yacht 1830; captain of Victoria and Albert yacht 1 Jany. 1851 to 21 Oct. 1852 and commodore of her 21 Oct. 1852 to 17 Sep. 1853; aide de camp to Victoria 12 Feb. 1848 to death; groom of the robes to Will. iv. 24 July 1830; granted rank of younger son of a marquis 24 May 1831; G.C.H. 24 Feb. 1832; a lord of the bedchamber 5 Jany. 1833; R.A. 17 Sep. 1853. d. Newburgh park near Easingwold, Yorkshire 17 May 1856. Lennox’s Celebrities 2 series i, 208–12 (1877).

FITZCLARENCE, REV. LORD AUGUSTUS (brother of the preceding), b. 1 March 1805; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.C.L. 1832, D.C.L. 1835; R. of Mapledurham, Oxon. 1829 to death; chaplain in ordinary to his father 1829–37, to Queen Victoria 1837 to death; granted rank of younger son of a marquis 24 May 1831. d. Mapledurham 14 June 1854.

FITZCLARENCE, LORD FREDERICK (brother of the preceding). b. 9 Dec. 1799; ensign Coldstream guards 12 May 1814, assisted at arrest of Cato st. conspirators 23 Feb. 1820; lieut. col. 7 foot 2 June 1825 to 24 Aug. 1832 when placed on h.p.; granted rank of younger son of a marquis 24 May 1831; G.C.H. 1831; military governor of Portsmouth 1840; col. 36 foot 23 July 1851 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; commander in chief at Bombay 1852 to death, assumed command 22 Nov. 1852; author of A manual of out-post duties 1851 and other works. d. Poorundhur near Poonah 30 Oct. 1854, body embalmed and bur. at Ford, Northumberland 10 Feb. 1855.

FITZGERALD, JOHN DAVID FITZGERALD, 1 Baron (son of David Fitzgerald of Dublin, merchant). b. Dublin 1816; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; called to bar in Ireland 1838; Q.C. 15 Feb. 1847; bencher of King’s Inns 1855; leader of the Munster circuit; M.P. for Ennis 1852–60; solicitor general for Ireland, Feb. 1855 to April 1856, attorney general April 1856 to March 1858 and 1859 to Feb. 1860; P.C. Ireland 1856; comr. of national education Ireland 1863 to death; justice of Queen’s Bench, Ireland, Feb. 1860 to May 1882; principal judge at great state trials of Messrs. Parnell, Biggar and others Jany. 1881; a lord of appeal in ordinary May 1882 to death; created Baron Fitzgerald of Kilmarnock, co. Dublin 23 June 1882; P.C. 29 June 1882; bencher of Gray’s Inn 21 Dec. 1883; author of Report on trial of A. M. Sullivan and R. Pigott for seditious libels 1868. d. 22 Fitzwilliam place, Dublin 16 Oct. 1889. Law magazine and law review v, 267–69 (1858); Graphic 16 Nov. 1889 p. 597, portrait.

FITZGERALD and VESEY, VERY REV. HENRY VESEY-FITZGERALD, 3 Baron. b. 1800; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1821, M.A. 1827; dean of Emly 6 July 1818 to 1825; dean of Kilmore 16 March 1825 to death; succeeded his brother as 3 Baron 11 May 1843. d. Danesfort, co. Cavan 30 March 1860.

FITZGERALD, CHARLES (son of Robert Fitzgerald of Kilkee, co. Clare). Entered navy 1809; governor of British settlements on the Gambia 1844 to 1847; governor of Western Australia Aug. 1848 to June 1855; captain 1 April 1856; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857. d. Geraldine house, Kilkee, co. Clare 29 Dec. 1887 in 96 year. I.L.N. xxx, 59, 60 (1857), portrait.

FITZGERALD, EDWARD (3 son of John Purcell who took name of Fitzgerald). b. Bredfield house near Woodbridge, Suffolk 31 March 1809; ed. at Bury St. Edmund’s gram. sch. and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1830; a friend of Spedding, Donne and Thackeray; resided at Farlingay hall near Woodbridge (where Carlyle visited him in 1855) 1853–60, at Woodbridge 1860–74, at Little Grange 1874 to his death; issued Euphranor, a dialogue on youth 1851, Polonius, a collection of Wise Saws 1852, Six dramas of Calderon 1853 the only book to which he put his name, it was withdrawn from circulation; translated the Agamemnon of Æschylus 1876 and the Œdipus Tyrannus and Œdipus Coloneus of Sophocles, the Quatrains of Omar Khayyám 1859, the Salámán and Absál of Jami 1856; author of a translation of Attar’s Mantik-ut-tair which he called the Bird Parliament MS.; Tennyson’s poem Tiresias 1884 contains a birthday ode to Fitzgerald. d. while on a visit to Merton rectory, Norfolk 14 June 1883. W. Aldis Wright’s Letters and remains of E. Fitzgerald 3 vols. 1889, portrait.

FITZGERALD, JAMES. Entered Madras army 1820; commandant at Malabar 19 Feb. 1858 to 17 Jany. 1862; col. 42 Madras N.I. 12 Dec. 1862 to 1869; L.G. 25 June 1870. d. Kildare house, Lyndall’s park, Clifton 14 Nov. 1871.

FITZGERALD, SIR JOHN FORSTER (4 son of Edward Fitzgerald of Carrigoran, co. Clare, who d. 1815). b. about 1785; ensign 29 Oct. 1793; major 60 foot 1809; commandant of Quebec and afterwards of Montreal 1818–24; lieut. col. 20 foot 1824–30; commanded divisions in Madras and Bombay 1838–41; col. of 62 foot 1843, of 18 foot 1850 to death; general 20 June 1854, field marshal 29 May 1875; K.C.B. 1831, G.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862; M.P. for co. Clare 1852–57. d. Tours, France 24 March 1877. bur. with military honours in St. Symphorien cemetery, Tours 27 March. Times 29 March 1877 p. 9, col. 6.

FITZGERALD, OTHO AUGUSTUS (3 son of 3 Duke of Leinster 1791–1874). b. Carton, Maynooth 10 Oct. 1827; M.P. for co. Kildare 1865–74; master of the horse to viceroy of Ireland 1855 and 1858–59; gentleman of the bedchamber 1859–62; treasurer of H.M.’s household 8 May 1866 to July 1866, comptroller 1868–74; P.C. 11 June 1866. d. Oakley court, Windsor 19 Nov. 1882.

FITZGERALD, SIR PETER GEORGE, 1 Baronet (5 son of Maurice Fitzgerald, P.C., M.P., knight of Kerry 1774–1849). b. 15 Sep. 1808; clerk to David Digges la Touche & Co. bankers, Dublin; vice treasurer of Ireland 1841, nineteenth knight of Kerry 1849; sheriff of Kerry 1849 and of Carlow 1875; improved his estates and built better homesteads for his tenants 1849; created a baronet 8 July 1880. d. Glanlearn, island of Valentia 6 Aug. 1880.

FITZGERALD, ROBERT ALLAN (2 son of Thomas Fitzgerald of Shalstone, Bucks., who d. 1860). b. 1 Oct. 1834; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1858, M.A. 1861; played in Harrow and Cambridge cricket elevens; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1860; sec. to Marylebone cricket club 1864–76; captain of amateur eleven who visited Canada and United States 1872; author of Jerks in from short-leg, By Quid 1866; Wickets in the West, or the twelve in America 1873. d. Charleywood, Herts. 28 Oct. 1881. Illust. sp. and dr. news i, 277 (1874), portrait.

FITZGERALD, RIGHT REV. WILLIAM (son of Maurice Fitzgerald, M.D. of Lifford, Limerick). b. Lifford 3 Dec. 1814; ed. at Middleton, co. Cork and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1833, B.A. 1835, M.A. 1848, B.D. and D.D. 1853, fellow of his college, professor of moral philosophy there 1847–52 and of ecclesiastical history 1852–57; C. of Lackagh, Kildare 1838–46; C. of Clontarf, Dublin 1846–48; V. and preb. of Donoghmore, Dublin 16 Feb. 1848; V. of St. Anne’s, Dublin 1851–55; P.C. of Monkstown, Dublin 13 May 1855; preb. of Timothan, Dublin 1855; archdeacon of Kildare 1855; bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross 7 Feb. 1857, consecrated at St. Patrick’s cath. Dublin 8 March, enthroned 14 March; translated to Killaloe 3 Feb. 1862; edited Bishop Butler’s Analogy with notes and a life of the author, Dublin 1849, reprinted 1860; chief contributor to The Cautions for the Times, a series of papers ed. by R. Whately 1853; author of Episcopacy, tradition and the sacraments considered in reference to the Oxford Tracts 1839 and 20 other works. d. Clarisford house, Killaloe 24 Nov. 1883. Brady’s Records i, 302, iii, 87–8; Dublin Univ. Mag. xlix, 416–26 (1857).

FITZGERALD, SIR WILLIAM ROBERT SEYMOUR VESEY- (eld. son of William Fitzgerald of Dublin). b. 1818; matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 21 Feb. 1833, of Oriel coll., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1844, Newdigate prizeman 1835, D.C.L. 1863; barrister L.I. 29 Jany. 1839; M.P. Horsham 1848 but unseated, M.P. Horsham 1852 to 1865 and 1874–5; under sec. of state foreign affairs 26 Feb. 1858 to June 1859; governor of Bombay 19 Nov. 1866 to March 1872; P.C. 28 Dec. 1866; K.C.S.I. 22 Oct. 1867, G.C.S.I. 8 Dec. 1868; chief commissioner of charities 30 Nov. 1875 to 1885; took names of Seymour Vesey. d. 29 Warwick sq. London 28 June 1885. I.L.N. l, 117 (1867), portrait.

FITZ-GIBBON, ABRAHAM COATES (2 son of lieut. Philp Fitz-Gibbon, R.N., d. 1826). b. Mount Eagle, Kilworth, co. Cork 23 Jany. 1823; apprentice to Sir Charles Lanyon 1837–43; agent and manager for W. Dargan 1847–52; in U.S. America 1852–56, in Ceylon 1857–60, in New Zealand 1860–62, in Queensland 1863–68, in all these countries he surveyed and constructed railway lines; M.I.C.E. 9 Jany. 1866; adopted a 3 foot 6 in. gauge in Queensland; with his brother Maurice Fitz-Gibbon published in Journal of R. Hist. and Archæol. Assoc. of Ireland “Unpublished Geraldine Documents” which with additions were reprinted in four parts by Rev. Samuel Hayman, Dublin 1870–81. d. Moorside, Bushey Heath, Herts. 4 April 1887. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxix, 466–70 (1887).

FITZGIBBON, EDWARD (son of a land agent d. 1817). b. Limerick, Aug. 1803; came to London 1817; articled to a surgeon 1819–20; classical tutor in the provinces 1820–23; at Marseilles 1824–30 studying the language and literature; parliamentary reporter for Morning Chronicle 1830; wrote on angling for Bell’s Life under pseudonym of Ephemera; wrote for the Observer and acted as a theatrical critic; from 1830 his writings gave great impulse to the art of fishing, were the means of improving fishing tackle and of increasing the rents of rivers; he once killed 52 salmon on the Shin river in 55 hours fishing; author of Handbook of Angling, By Ephemera 1847, 3 ed. 1853; The book of the Salmon 1850; author with W. Shipley of A true treatise on the art of fly fishing 1838, and with A. Young of Natural History of the Salmon 1854; ed. The Compleat Angler of Walton and Cotton 1853. d. 19 Nov. 1857. bur. Highgate cemetery 25 Nov. Baron Nicholson’s Autobiography (1860) 334–6; Bell’s Life in London 22 Nov. 1857 p. 8, 29 Nov. p. 5.

FITZGIBBON, GERALD (4 son of Mr. Fitzgerald of co. Limerick, tenant farmer). b. Glin, Limerick 1 Jany. 1793; employed in W. Jameson’s distillery, Dublin 1814; entered univ. of Dublin 1817, B.A. 1825, M.A. 1832, maintained himself by teaching 1817–30; called to Irish bar Jany. 1830; Q.C. 17 Aug. 1841; counsel for Dr. John Gray in state trial of Daniel O’Connell and his 7 fellow prisoners 15 Jany. to 12 Feb. 1844 during which on 30 Jany. he was challenged to a duel by the attorney general Thos. Bury Cusack Smith, when he brought the matter under notice of the Court and Mr. Smith apologised; the greatest commercial lawyer of his day; bencher of King’s Inns 1858; third serjeant at law 1859–60; receiver-master in Chancery 1860 to April 1878; author of Ireland in 1868 the battle field for English party strife 1868, 2 ed. 1868; Roman Catholic priests and National Schools 1871, 2 ed. 1872 and other works. d. Larkfield, Clondalkin 27 Sep. 1882. O. J. Burke’s Anecdotes of Connaught circuit (1885) 328–30; Irish Law Times xvi, 494 (1882).

FITZ GIBBON, JAMES. b. 1780; enlisted in the army 1797; served in war against Napoleon and in American war 1812–15; captain of Glengarry light infantry fencibles 1813–16 when placed on h.p.; assistant adjutant general of militia Upper Canada; saved city of Toronto during Mackenzie rebellion 1837 for which he was awarded 5000 acres of land and received thanks of parliament, the grant of land was subsequently disallowed; chief clerk of lower house of Canadian parliament 1816–29, clerk of the upper house 1829–35; created a military knight of Windsor 1850; author of An appeal to the people of Upper Canada, Montreal 1847. d. Lower Ward, Windsor Castle 12 Dec. 1863.

FITZHARDINGE, WILLIAM FITZHARDINGE BERKELEY, 1 Earl of (eld. son of 5 Earl of Berkeley 1745–1810). b. 26 Dec. 1786; lieut. South Gloucestershire militia 6 July 1803, col. 22 Aug. 1810 to death; kept a pack of hounds in Gloucestershire 1808 to death, not excelled by any in England; M.P. for Gloucestershire 1810; his claim to Berkeley peerage disallowed by House of Lords 28 June 1811; created Baron Segrave of Berkeley Castle 10 Sep. 1831 and Earl Fitzhardinge 17 Aug. 1841; lord lieut. of Gloucestershire 3 Feb. 1836 to death. d. Berkeley Castle about midnight 10 Oct. 1857. Sporting Review xxxviii, 319–22, 389–95 (1857); Cecil’s Records of the Chase (1877) 181–5; My life and recollections by G. F. Berkeley (1865) i, 370–83 and vol. ii passim.

NOTE.—He is drawn as Fitzalleyne of Berkeley in Fitzalleyne of Berkeley, a romance of the present times by Bernard Blackmantle [Charles Molloy] 2 vols. 1825, who also makes him one of the characters in his book The English Spy 2 vols. 1826.

FITZHARDINGE, MAURICE FREDERICK FITZHARDINGE BERKELEY, 1 Baron (brother of the preceding). b. 3 Jany. 1788; entered navy June 1802, captain 7 June 1814, admiral 15 Jany. 1862; M.P. for Gloucester 1831–33, 1835–37 and 1841–57; contested Gloucester 1833, 1837 and 1857; a comr. of admiralty 1833–34, 1837–39, 1846–52 and 1852–57; K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 28 June 1861; P.C. 13 Aug. 1855; master of the Berkeley hounds 1857 to death; claimed Barony of Berkeley 1857; created Baron Fitzhardinge of city and county of Bristol 5 Aug. 1861. d. Berkeley castle 17 Oct. 1867. Baily’s Mag. vi, 217–19 (1863), portrait; Sporting Review lviii, 417–20 (1867).

FITZMAURICE, JOHN G. Second lieut. 95 foot 25 April 1811; captain rifle brigade 19 Dec. 1826 to 30 March 1832 when placed on h.p.; granted service reward 13 March 1855; M.G. 7 May 1861; lieut. of Yeomen of the Guard, Dec. 1861 to death; K.H. 1831. d. Drayton green, Ealing 24 Dec. 1865 aged 72.

FITZMAURICE, WILLIAM EDWARD (younger son of John Fitzmaurice, Viscount Kirkwall 1778–1820). b. 22 March 1805; ed. at Oriel coll. Ox.; captain 9 lancers 26 Feb. 1828; captain 2 life guards 1831–40 when placed on h.p.; M.P. for Bucks. 1842–47; author of A cruise to Egypt, Palestine and Greece 1834. d. Brussels 18 June 1889.

FITZPATRICK, JAMES COLEMAN. b. Ireland about 1818; Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin; called to Irish bar 1844; barrister L.I. 6 June 1857; chief justice of the Gold Coast 1857–61; judge of British Kaffraria 20 July 1861 to 1872; judge of supreme court of Cape of Good Hope 1872–79 when he retired on pension; author of The Pope, his rights and duties 1860. d. Wynberg, British Kaffraria 6 Feb. 1880.

FITZROY, CHARLES (2 son of 4 Duke of Grafton 1760–1844). b. 28 Feb. 1791; ed. at Harrow and Great Marlow; ensign 1 foot guards 25 June 1807; major 55 foot 27 Jany. 1820 to 11 Jany. 1821 when placed on h.p.; sold out 1834; M.P. for Thetford 1818–32, for Bury 1832–47; vice chamberlain of the household 29 June 1835 to 2 May 1838; P.C. 1 July 1835. d. Elm lodge, Hampton 17 June 1865.

FITZROY, SIR CHARLES AUGUSTUS (only son of general Charles Fitzroy 1764–1829). b. 10 June 1796; attached to staff of Sir Hussey Vivian at Waterloo 1815; captain royal horse guards 27 April 1820 to 23 June 1825 when placed on h.p.; M.P. for Bury St. Edmunds, June 1831 to Dec. 1832; lieut. governor of Prince Edward Island 19 March 1837; governor of Leeward Islands 3 Aug. 1841; governor of New South Wales 3 Aug. 1846 to 17 Jany. 1855; his wife Lady Mary Fitzroy killed at Parramatta being thrown from her carriage 7 Dec. 1847; governor general of all the Australian colonies 1850; act for separation of Victoria passed 5 Aug. 1850; constitution act of N.S.W. passed 1853; presented with purse of 2000 guineas 28 Jany. 1856; knighted by Wm. iv. at St. James’s palace 1 June 1837; K.C.B. 12 June 1854. d. Half Moon st. Piccadilly, London 16 Feb. 1858. W. Gisborne’s New Zealand Rulers (1886), 36–42; Rev. J. Buller’s Forty years in New Zealand (1878) 377–82; Therry’s Reminiscences, 2 ed. (1863) 376–80; Heads of the people i, 65 (1847), portrait; I.L.N. xxix, 479 (1856), portrait.

FITZROY, HENRY (younger son of 2 Baron Southampton 1761–1810). b. Great Stanhope st. London 2 May 1807; ed. at Magd. coll. Ox. and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. Cam. 1828; M.P. Great Grimsby 10 Aug. 1831 to 3 Dec. 1832; contested Lewes 1835, M.P. Lewes 21 April 1837 to death; a lord of the Admiralty 12 Feb. 1845 to 13 July 1846; lieut. col. of the Artillery company 1848 to death; under sec. of state for home department Dec. 1852 to Feb. 1855; P.C. 8 Feb. 1855; chairman of committees of House of Commons 16 April 1855 to 1859; chief comr. of board of works 1859 to death. d. Sussex sq. Kemp Town, Brighton 22 Dec. 1859.

FITZROY, ROBERT (brother of Sir C. A. Fitzroy, 1796–1858). b. Ampton hall, Suffolk 5 July 1805; entered navy 19 Oct. 1819; captain 3 Dec. 1834; commander of Beagle on surveys of Straits of Magellan etc. 1828–30, 1831–36, when he ran a chronometric line round the world; F.R.G.S. 1830, gold medallist 1837; an elder brother of Trinity house 1839; M.P. Durham 1841–43; acting conservator of river Mersey 21 Sep. 1842 to 1843; governor of New Zealand 3 April 1843, superseded Nov. 1845 as he did not agree with the colonists; retired from active service 1850; R.A. 1857, V.A. on half pay 12 Sep. 1863; F.R.S. 5 June 1851; superintendent of Meteorological department of board of trade 1854; invented Fitzroy barometer; instituted a system of storm warnings 1862 which developed into the daily forecasts of the weather 1872; author of Narrative of voyages of Adventurer and Beagle and the Beagle’s circumnavigation of the globe 3 vols. 1839; Weather Book, a manual of practical meteorology 1863, 2 ed. 1863 and other works; committed suicide by cutting his throat, at his residence Lyndhurst house, Norwood, Surrey 29 April 1865. Proc. of Royal Soc. xv, 21–23 (1867); Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. ix, 215–8 (1865); Good Words vii, 406–13 (1866).

FITZROY, SIR WILLIAM (3 son of 3 Duke of Grafton 1735–1811). b. 1 June 1782; entered navy 21 April 1794; captain 3 March 1804; admiral 2 April 1853; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 4 July 1840. d. East Sheen near Richmond 13 May 1857.

FITZWALTER, SIR BROOK WILLIAM BRIDGES, 1 Baron (elder son of Sir Brook Wm. Bridges, 4 bart. 1767–1829). b. Goodneston park, Kent 2 June 1801; ed. at Winchester and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1827; succeeded his father 21 April 1829; M.P. for East Kent, Feb. to July 1852 and April 1857 to April 1868; created Baron Fitzwalter 17 April 1868. d. Goodneston park 6 Dec. 1875. I.L.N. xxx, 478 (1857), portrait, lxvii, 614, 629 (1875), portrait.

FITZWILLIAM, CHARLES WILLIAM WENTWORTH, 5 Earl (only child of 4 Earl Fitzwilliam 1748–1833). b. Grosvenor sq. London 4 May 1786; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; M.P. for Yorkshire 20 May 1807 to 24 July 1830 as Viscount Milton; M.P. for Northamptonshire 23 May 1831 to March 1833; pres. of Yorkshire Philosophical Soc. 1830 to death; K.G. 4 Nov. 1851; took surname of Wentworth by r.l. 20 Aug. 1856; author of First, second and third addresses on the Corn laws 1839 and other books; edited with Sir Richard Bourke Correspondence of Edmund Burke 4 vols. 1844. d. Wentworth house, Rotherham 4 Oct. 1857. Waagen’s Treasures of art iii, 337–42 (1854).

FITZWILLIAM, EDWARD. b. near Holborn, London 8 Aug. 1788; actor at Southend, Hythe and Gosport 1806–8; first appeared in London as Hodge in Love in a village, at West London theatre 1812; acted at Olympic 1813 and at Royal Circus; his best parts were Leporello, Dumbiedykes in the Heart of Midlothian, Patch, Partridge in Tom Jones and Humphry Clinker; went to Drury Lane 10 Nov. 1821; became a comic vocalist at city entertainments; generally known as Little Fitz; retired on an annuity from Drury Lane theatrical fund 1845. d. Regent st. London 30 March 1852. Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography ii, 267–76 (1825), portrait; Cumberland’s Minor Theatre, vol. 2, portrait.

FITZWILLIAM, EDWARD FRANCIS (son of the preceding). b. Deal, Kent 2 Aug. 1824; composed a Stabat Mater performed at Hanover square rooms, London 15 March 1845; musical director of Lyceum theatre Oct. 1847 to 1849; musical director of Haymarket theatre Easter 1853 to death; composed The Queen of the day, a comic opera, A summer night’s love, an operetta; author of O Incomprehensible Creator, a cantata 1850; Dramatic songs for 4 voices 1856 and other works; his music to the songs As I laye a thynkynge 1846, The maid with the milking pail 1846, and The jug of Punch 1845 was very popular. d. 9 Grove place, Brompton, London 19 Jany. 1857. Era 25 Jany. 1857 p. 9, col. 3.

FITZWILLIAM, ELLEN (eld. dau. of Thomas Acton Chaplin, d. Nov. 1859). First appeared in London at Adelphi as Wilhelm in Die Hexen am Rhein 7 Oct. 1841; member of Haymarket company under J. B. Buckstone 22 years; went to Australia 1877. (m. 31 Dec. 1853 Edward Francis Fitzwilliam 1824–57). d. Auckland, New Zealand 19 Oct. 1880 aged 58. Theatrical Times 18 Nov. 1848 p. 439, portrait.

FITZWILLIAM, FANNY ELIZABETH (dau. of Robert Copeland, manager of Dover circuit). b. Dover theatre 1801; was on the stage at 3 years of age; as Norah in the Poor Soldier played at Dover theatre 1815; first appeared in London at Haymarket as Lucy in The Review 1817; went to the Olympic and the Surrey; first seen at Drury Lane as Fanny in Maid or Wife 5 Dec. 1821; commenced engagement at Adelphi 10 Oct. 1825, the original Kate Plowden in The Pilot 31 Oct. 1825 and Bella in The Wreck Ashore 21 Oct. 1830; manager of Sadler’s Wells 1832; gave a monologue The Widow Wiggins at Adelphi during Lent 1835; in 1837 was at Haymarket under B. Webster; went to America and made her debut at Park theatre, New York as Peggy in The Country Girl, Oct. 1839; played at Adelphi, London 1844 and afterwards at Haymarket; was good in Lady Teazle, country girls and Irish peasants. (m. 2 Dec. 1822 Edward Fitz William, actor 1788–1852). d. of cholera at Richmond lodge, Putney 11 Sep. 1854. Ireland’s Records of the New York stage i, 302–4 (1867); Tallis’s Drawing room table book (1851) 3–5, 2 portraits; Actors by daylight i, 145–6 (1838), portrait; Theatrical Times ii, 73 (1847), portrait; Actors by gaslight (1838) 25, portrait.

FITZWILLIAM, GEORGE WENTWORTH (3 son of 5 Earl Fitzwilliam 1786–1857). b. Grosvenor place, London 3 May 1817; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1838; M.P. for Richmond 1841, for Peterborough 1841–59; sheriff of Northampton 1866; master of the Fitzwilliam hounds. d. Milton hall, Peterborough 4 March 1874.

FITZWILLIAM, WILLIAM JOHN WENTWORTH (5 son of 6 Earl Fitzwilliam, b. 1815). b. 7 Aug. 1852; ed. at Eton and Magd. coll. Cam., B.A. 1874; M.P. for Peterborough 29 Oct. 1878 to death. d. Wentworth house near Rotherham 11 Sep. 1889. Pictorial World 3 Oct. 1889 p. 416, portrait.

FITZWILLIAM, WILLIAM WENTWORTH (brother of the preceding). b. Grosvenor sq. London 27 July 1839; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.; M.P. for South West Yorkshire 1865–72. d. 17 Jany. 1877.

FLAHERTY, WILLIAM EDWARD. Apprenticed to J. G. Barnard of London, printer; worked for Messrs. Bradbury and Evans 1834; went to Harrisons 1840; assisted Thomas Duffus Hardy in various works; compiled The annals of England 3 vols. 1855–7, anon.; edited The Gentleman’s Magazine, Jany. 1861 to Dec. 1865; revised several handbooks for John Murray. d. 33 Hassett road, Homerton 16 June 1878 aged 71. Bookseller, July 1878 p. 585.

FLANAGAN, REV. THOMAS. b. 1814; educ. Sedgley park sch. Staffordshire and at Oscott coll.; ordained at Oscott 1842, professor and prefect of studies there to 1851 and again July 1853 to 1854; V.P. of Sedgley park sch. 1851 and president Aug. 1851 to July 1853; canon of the chapter of Birmingham 1850; resident priest Blackmore park 1854–60; priest at St. Chad’s cath. Birmingham 1860 to death; author of A manual of British and Irish history 1847; A history of the church in England to the re-establishment of the hierarchy in 1850, 2 vols. 1857 and other works. d. Kidderminster 21 July 1865. bur. in crypt of St. Chad’s cathedral. Gillow’s English Catholics ii, 291 (1885).

FLATMAN, ELNATHAN. b. Holton, Suffolk 1810; apprenticed to Wm. Cooper of Newmarket, trainer; won the Goodwood cup on Glencoe 1834, the One thousand guineas on Preserve 1835, the Derby on Orlando 1844, the St. Leger on Surplice 1848; won 104 races in 1848. d. Newmarket 20 Aug. 1860. Sporting Times 25 July 1885 p. 2; Sporting Review xxx, 10–13 (1853), portrait, xliv, 162, 225 (1860); Rice’s British turf i, 263–65 (1879); I.L.N. xxii, 416 (1853), portrait.

FLEETWOOD, SIR PETER HESKETH, 1 Baronet (son of Robert Hesketh of Rossall, Lancashire). b. Wennington hall near Lancaster 9 May 1801; ed. at Trin. coll. Ox., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826; sheriff of Lancashire 1830; M.P. Preston 1832–47; projected and commenced to build town and port of Fleetwood on river Wyre 1836; created baronet 20 July 1838; assumed name of Fleetwood by r.l. 5 March 1851; translator of Victor Hugo’s Last days of a condemned 1840. d. 127 Piccadilly, London 12 April 1866.

FLEMING, ALEXANDER. b. Edinburgh 1824; M.D. Edin. 1844; F.R.C.P. Lond.; his essay on the physiological and medicinal properties of Aconitum Napellus 1845 led to the introduction of a tincture of aconite known as Fleming’s tincture; edited Monthly retrospect of medical science 2 vols. 1848–9; professor of materia medica Queen’s coll. Cork to 1858; hon. physician to Queen’s hospital, Birmingham 1858–73. d. Brixton, London 21 Aug. 1875.

FLEMING, ANN CUTHBERT. b. Scotland; went to Canada 1815 or 1816; kept a school at Montreal several years; author of _Home, a poem, Edinburgh_ 1815; _A year in Canada and other poems, By A. C. Knight, Edinburgh_ 1816; Views of Canadian scenery and other books. (m. (1) Mr. Knight, m. (2) James Fleming). d. 1860.

FLEMING, CHRISTOPHER. b. Boardstown, co. Westmeath 14 July 1808; educ. Dublin univ., B.A. 1821, M.D. 1838; L.C.S.I. 1824, member 1826, president 1859–60; surgeon House of Industry hospitals, Dublin 1851; M.R.I.A.; author of Clinical records of injuries and diseases of genito-urinary organs 1877; Remarks on application of chloroform to surgical purposes 1851. d. Donnybrook near Dublin 30 Dec. 1880.

FLEMING, EDWARD CARY. Ensign 31 foot 1803; lieut. col. of 2 Ceylon regiment 12 Aug. 1819, of 53 foot 24 Feb. 1820, of 24 foot 6 Nov. 1823 to 1 March 1833; C.B. 19 July 1838; col. 27 foot 19 Sep. 1853 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854. d. Gloucester sq. Hyde park, London 23 April 1860.

FLEMING, HENRY. Assistant sec. poor law board 3 Feb. 1848 to 5 July 1859, permanent sec. 5 July 1859 to 19 Aug. 1871. d. 2 Charles St. Berkeley sq. London 28 Feb. 1876.

FLEMING, JAMES (eld. son of Valentine Fleming of Tuam, co. Galway). Barrister M.T. 10 June 1836; Q.C. 9 Jany. 1858; chief comr. of West Indian incumbered estates court 17 Feb. 1865 to death; chancellor of county palatine of Durham 21 March 1871 to death; author of Rules and orders Chancery Court, Durham 1878. d. 12 Dorset sq. London 23 July 1887.

FLEMING, REV. JOHN (son of Alexander Fleming). b. Kirkroads farm near Bathgate in Linlithgowshire 10 Jany. 1785; ordained 22 Sep. 1808; minister of Flisk, Fifeshire 1810; the best zoologist in Scotland; D.D. of univ. of St. Andrews 1814; minister of Clackmannan 1832–34; professor of natural philosophy in Univ. and King’s coll. Aberdeen 1834; joined the Free ch. 1834; professor of natural science Free ch. coll. Edin. 1845; studied the old red sand stone and its fossils; author of The Philosophy of Zoology 2 vols. 1822; The temperature of the seasons 1851 and other books and articles in scientific journals. d. Llangwym, Monmouthshire 18 Nov. 1857. Fleming’s Lithology of Edinburgh, with memoir by Rev. John Duns 1859 pp. i-civ.

FLEMING, JOHN GIBSON. b. Glasgow 1809; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow, M.D. 1830; member of faculty of phys. and surgeons Glasgow 1833, pres. 1865–71; represented the faculty in general medical council 15 years; surgeon to Royal asylum for lunatics; F.R.S. Edin.; author of Medical statistics of life assurance, Glasgow 1862. d. 155 Bath st. Glasgow 2 Oct. 1879.

FLEMING, SIR VALENTINE (brother of James Fleming, who d. 23 July 1887). b. Ashby de la Zouch 1809; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub., B.A. 1832; barrister G.I. 21 Nov. 1838; comr. of Insolvent Court for Hobart Town 1841; solicitor general of Tasmania 1844 to Jany. 1848, attorney general Jany. 1848 to Aug. 1854; chief justice of supreme court of Tasmania Aug. 1854 to May 1870 when he resigned; knighted by patent 2 July 1856. d. Holbrook, Redhill 25 Oct. 1884 in 75 year.

FLETCHER, REV. ALEXANDER (son of Rev. Wm. Fletcher of Bridge of Teith, Downe, Perthshire, minister of the associate synod). b. Bridge of Teith 8 April 1787; ed. at univ. of Glasgow, M.A.; co-pastor with his father at Bridge of Teith 16 Sep. 1807; minister of Miles’s lane chapel, London, Nov. 1811, of Albion chapel, London Wall 7 Nov. 1816 to 1824; prosecuted in a breach of promise case by Eliza Dick, April 1824; separated from the Secession church 1824, minister of Finsbury chapel, London 1824–59; author of A guide to Family Devotion 1834 of which 50,000 copies were sold in England, The Sabbath School Preacher and Juvenile Miscellany 1848–50, 2 vols., and other works. d. 4 Portland place, Lower Clapton, London 30 Sep. 1860. Macfarlane’s Altar-Light, a tribute to the memory of the Rev. A. Fletcher 1860; Blair’s The prince of preachers, Rev. A. Fletcher 1860; The Christian cabinet illustrated almanack for 1860 p. 31, portrait; Trial of the Rev. Alexander Fletcher before the United Associate synod 1824.

FLETCHER, ELIZA (dau. of Mr. Dawson of Oxton near Tadcaster, Yorkshire, land surveyor). b. Oxton 15 Jany. 1770; educ. Manor sch. York; wrote her autobiography. (m. 16 July 1791 Archibald Fletcher, advocate, who died at Auchindinny house near Edinburgh 20 Dec. 1828). d. Edinburgh 5 Feb. 1858. Autobiography of Mrs. Fletcher, edited by Lady Richardson 1875, 2 portraits.

FLETCHER, GEORGE (son of Joseph Fletcher). bapt. Clarborough, Nottinghamshire 15 Oct. 1764; enlisted in Welsh fusiliers 2 Nov. 1785, deserted 16 March 1792; enlisted 3 foot guards 14 March 1793 when he stated that his original enlistment took place in Oct. 1773; pensioned 18 April 1803 on 1s. 2½d. a day; worked in West India dock 1803–39; local Wesleyan preacher, gave out that his birth took place on 2 Feb. 1747 and had large congregations to see him. d. 41 Wade st. Poplar, London 2 Feb. 1855. Thom’s Human Longevity (1873) 64,164–70; I.L.N. 10 March 1855 p. 221, portrait.

FLETCHER, ISAAC (2 son of John Wilson Fletcher of Tarnbank, Cumberland 1788–1857). b. Greysowthen, Cumberland 22 Feb. 1827; a coal owner and ironmaster; M.P. for Cockermouth, Nov. 1868 to death; chairman of Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith railway; F.R.A.S. 11 May 1849; F.R.S. 7 June 1855; shot himself at Morley’s hotel, Trafalgar sq. London 3 April 1879.

FLETCHER, JOHN VENOUR. b. Chesterfield 14 Nov. 1801; entered navy 13 Feb. 1814; captain 8 June 1841, went on half pay 24 Oct. 1841; admiral on half pay 20 Oct. 1872. d. Reading 5 Dec. 1877.

FLETCHER, JOSEPH. b. 1813; barrister M.T. 7 May 1841; sec. to Handloom inquiry commission 1841, to Children’s employment commission 1841–3; inspector of schools receiving grants under Privy Council 1844; one of hon. secretaries of statistical society of London 15 Feb. 1841; edited the Statistical Journal; author of Summary of the Moral Statistics of England and Wales 1850; Statistics of the Farm School system of the Continent and the education of pauper and criminal children 1851. d. Chirk, co. Denbigh 11 Aug. 1852. bur. Tottenham church, Middlesex 18 Aug.

FLETCHER, REV. JOSEPH (son of Rev. Joseph Fletcher 1784–1843, independent minister at Stepney). b. Blackburn 7 Jany. 1816; in a Manchester counting house to 1833; at Coward coll. 1833; minister of Congregational ch. Hanley 1839–49, of Christchurch, Hampshire 1849–73; kept a school at Christchurch but the death by drowning of 7 of his pupils in May 1838 caused him to close the establishment; author of The works and memoirs of Rev. Joseph Fletcher, D.D. 1846; History of Independency 4 vols. 1847–49 and other works. d. Christchurch 2 June 1876.

FLETCHER, RALPH. b. Gloucester; studied at St. Bartholomews; surgeon to Gloucester county hospital; had one of finest consulting practices in the kingdom, extending to whole of South Wales and Bristol; the income from his practice, which was purely surgical, exceeded £4000 for many years; had a very fine collection of pictures; author of Sketches on the influence of the mind on the body 1833; Notes on cruelty to animals 1846. d. Barton st. Gloucester 8 Feb. 1851 aged 70 worth more than £80,000. Medical Directory 1852 pp. 646–7.

FLEXMORE, RICHARD, stage name of Richard Flexmore Geatter (son of Richard Flexmore Geatter, celebrated comic dancer). b. Kennington, London 15 Sep. 1824; appeared at Victoria theatre as a dancer 1832; clown at Grecian theatre, Christmas 1844, at Olympic theatre, Christmas 1845; played at Princess’s, Strand, Adelphi, Covent Garden and Drury Lane to 1860; noted for his imitations of the leading dancers of his day; acted with his wife in chief European cities in 1849, &c. (m. 28 July 1849 Franciska Christophosa dau. of Jean Baptiste Auriol famous French clown, she m. (2) her cousin Monsieur Auriol, and d. Paris 3 Sep. 1862). d. 66 Hercules buildings, Lambeth, London 20 Aug. 1860. Illust. sp. and dr. news ii, 268 (1874), portrait, iv, 294 (1875), portrait; Era 26 Aug. 1860 p. 10, col. 1, and 2 Sep. p. 10, col. 2; A first appearance, By Mrs. Evans Bell (1872), i, 129–33, iii, 195–7.

FLIGHT, WALTER (son of William P. Flight). b. Winchester 21 Jany. 1841; ed. at Queenwood coll. Hampshire, D. Sci. London 1867; assistant in mineralogical department British Museum 5 Sep. 1867, resigned 1884; experimented on the constituents of meteorites; F.R.S. 7 June 1883; author of numerous papers in scientific journals, majority of them on meteorites. d. 4 Wildwood terrace, North End, Hampstead 4 Nov. 1885. W. Flight’s Chapter on Meteorites 1887.

FLOOD, FREDERICK SOLLY- (only son of Richard Solly of Walthamstow, who d. 1803). b. 7 Aug. 1801; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; assumed by r.l. additional surname of Flood 14 Oct. 1818; barrister L.I. 6 May 1828; attorney general for city and garrison of Gibraltar 15 Feb. 1866 to 1877. d. Gibraltar 13 May 1888.

FLOWER, EDWARD FORDHAM (younger son of Richard Flower, who d. 15 Jany. 1862). b. Marden hall, Hertfordshire 31 Jany. 1805; spent his early life in Illinois; brewer Stratford on Avon 1832–62; mayor of Stratford 3 times, also in 1864 during Shakespeare tercentenary; contested Coventry 1865 and North Warwickshire 1868; removed to London 1873; endeavoured to prevent cruelty to horses in use of bearing reins and gag-bits; author of Bits and bearing reins 1875, 7 ed. 1886 and 3 other books. d. 35 Hyde park gardens, London 20 March 1883. E. F. Flower’s Bits and bearing reins (1886) 3–15, portrait; Victoria Mag., May 1878 pp. 67–8, portrait; I.L.N. 7 May 1864 p. 453, portrait.

FLOWER, JOHN WICKHAM. b. London 11 Aug. 1807; studied geology and archæology; lived at Croydon about 1848 to death; F.G.S. 1863; author of Adam’s disobedience and its results, 2 ed. 1871; A Layman’s reason for discontinuing the use of the Athanasian creed 1872. d. Park hill, Croydon 11 April 1873.

FLOWER, RICHARD. b. Hertfordshire about 1780; went with Morris Birkbeck to the U.S. 1817 to found an English colony in Albion, Edwards co. Illinois; instrumental in securing defeat of attempt to legalize African slavery in Illinois 1823; author of History of the English settlement in Edwards county, Illinois founded in 1817 and 1818 by Morris Birkbeck and Richard Flower, Chicago 1882. d. Grayville, White co. Illinois 15 Jany. 1862.

FLOWERS, FREDERICK (3 son of Field Flowers, rector of Partney, Lincs.) b. Boston, Lincs. 1810; educ. Louth gram. sch.; barrister L.I. 18 Nov. 1839; recorder of Stamford, March 1862 to July 1864; revising barrister northern division Nottinghamshire; police magistrate Bow st. London 6 July 1864 to death. d. Holmesdale, Tottenham lane, Hornsey, Middlesex 26 Jany. 1886. Graphic 8 Jany. 1881 p. 32, portrait; Saturday Review lxi, 145 (1886).

FLOWERS, GEORGE FRENCH (brother of the preceding). b. Boston 1811; studied music under Rink and Von Wartensee in Germany; of Lincoln coll. Oxf., Bac. Mus. 1839, Doc. Mus. 1865; organist British embassy chapel, Paris, St. Mark’s Myddleton sq., and St. John’s Paddington successively; founded Contrapuntists’ Soc. 1843; introduced and developed Vogler’s system of progressive cadences 1848; his most distinguished pupil in singing was Mrs. Howard Paul; joined ch. of Rome 1860; author of Essay on the construction of fugue 1846; Muscular Vocalisation, a poem, Barrow on Humber 1861; composer of organ fugues, pastoral chorus and choral fugue. d. of cholera in London 14 June 1872.

FLOYER, JOHN (younger son of Rev. Wm. Floyer 1746–1819, V. of Stinsford, Dorset). b. 26 April 1811; ed. at Winchester and Balliol coll. Ox., B.A. 1831; sheriff of Dorset 1844; M.P. for Dorset 1846–57 and 1864–85; contested Dorset, April 1857; chairman of Dorset quarter sessions. d. 5 Old palace yard, Westminster 4 July 1887.

FLUDE, THOMAS PETERS (2 son of Jonathan Flude, town mayor of Berwick on Tweed). Second lieut. R.A. 17 July 1817, col. 15 May 1855, col. commandant 11 Dec. 1868 to 1 Oct. 1877; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. Tweed house, Folkestone 13 July 1885 in 87 year.

FOGGO, GEORGE. b. London 14 April 1793; instructed in painting by Jean Baptist Regnault in Paris; worked with his brother James Foggo 1819–59; one of founders and hon. sec. of Soc. for obtaining free access to Museums; lithographer; published a set of lithographs from Raphael’s cartoons 1828; Catalogue of the pictures in the National Gallery 1844 and the Adventures of Sir J. Brook, Rajah of Sarawak 1853; exhibited 7 pictures at R.A., 14 at B.I. and 36 at Suffolk st. 1816–64. d. London 26 Sep. 1869.

FOGGO, JAMES. b. London 11 June 1789; instructed by Jean Baptist Regnault in Paris; returned to London 1815; supported himself by teaching and portrait painting; from 1819 painted pictures in conjunction with his brother George Foggo for 40 years; well known as painters of altar pieces; exhibited a large picture “The Christian inhabitants of Parga preparing to emigrate”; exhibited their works with Haydon and others at the Pantheon, London 1843 etc.; exhibited 5 pictures at R.A., 8 at B.I. and 22 at Suffolk st. 1816–58; with his brother undertook care of exhibition of pictures at Pantheon Oxford st. London 1852. d. London 14 Sep. 1860.

FOLEY, THOMAS HENRY FOLEY, 4 Baron (eld. son of 3 Baron Foley 1780–1833). b. Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 11 Dec. 1808; M.P. for Worcestershire 5 Aug. 1830 to 16 April 1833; captain of corps of gentlemen at arms 1833–34, 1835–41, 1846–52, 1852–58, 1859–66 and 1868 to death; P.C. 1833; lord lieut. of Worcestershire. d. Paris 20 Nov. 1869, personalty sworn under £250,000, 22 Jany. 1870.

FOLEY, REV. DANIEL. b. about 1815; employed in shop of Patrick Grey, Tralee; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1843, M.A. 1852, B.D. 1854, D.D. 1858; professor of Irish in univ. of Dublin 1849–61; prebendary of Kilbragh in Cashel cath. to death; R. of Templetuohy 1852 to death; lectured against disestablishment of Ch. of Ireland; author of An English-Irish Dictionary, Dublin 1855. d. Blackrock, Dublin 7 July 1874.

FOLEY, JOHN HENRY. b. Dublin 24 May 1818; student of the R.A. London 1835, A.R.A. 1849, R.A. 1858; his group of Iro and Bacchus exhibited 1840 purchased by the earl of Ellesmere; executed statues of Hampden and Selden for St. Stephen’s hall, Westminster; executed group of Asia and figure of Prince Consort for Albert Memorial, Hyde park, Caractacus and Egeria for Mansion house, and statues of Canning, Harding and Outram for Calcutta; exhibited 49 works at R.A. and 8 at B.I. 1839–75. d. Hampstead 27 Aug. 1874. bur. St. Paul’s cathedral 4 Sep., left his models to the Dublin Soc. and the bulk of his property to the Artists’ Benevolent fund. Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxxi, 226–29 (1875); Sandby’s History of Royal Academy ii, 315–17 (1862); I.L.N. xxx, 419 (1857), portrait, lxv, 236, 249, 254 (1874), portrait.

FOLJAMBE, GEORGE SAVILE. b. 4 June 1800; ed. at Eton and St John’s coll. Cam.; kept fox hounds in Notts. 1822–45 when he sold them for upwards of £3500; sheriff of Notts. d. Osberton near Worksop 18 Dec. 1869. Sporting Review lxiii, 12–14, 371 (1870).

FOLLETT, BRENT SPENCER (4 son of Benjamin Follett of Topsham, Devon). b. 1810; barrister L.I. 7 June 1833, bencher 3 Nov. 1851 to death, treasurer 1872; Q.C. 11 July 1851; M.P. for Bridgwater 1852–57; contested Cirencester, April 1859; chief registrar of Land Registry Office, London 18 Aug. 1862 to death; member of council of legal education, London. d. 23 Jany. 1887.

FOLSOM, ABBY H. b. England about 1792; went to the U.S. about 1837; became noted as an advocate of anti-slavery reform and for addresses at meetings of American anti-slavery society about 1842–5; author of A letter from a member of the Boston bar to an Avaricious Landlord, Boston 1851. (m. Mr. Folsom of Massachusetts). d. Rochester, New York 1867.

FONBLANQUE, ALBANY WILLIAM (3 son of John de Grenier Fonblanque 1760–1838). b. London 1793; a journalist on Morning Chronicle, Times and Atlas; on the Examiner 1826, manager and editor 1830–47, sole proprietor to 1860; head of statistical department of Board of Trade 1847 to death; a brilliant talker, a finished scholar and a student of music and art; author of England under seven administrations 3 vols. 1837. d. London 14 Oct. 1872. Life, ed. by E. B. de Fonblanque 1874; Westminster Papers vii, 21–23 (1874); Graphic vi, 442, 445 (1872), portrait.

FONBLANQUE, JOHN SAMUEL MARTIN DE GRENIER (brother of the preceding). b. Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London, March 1787; ed. at Charterhouse and Caius coll. Cam.; 2 lieut. 21 fusiliers 3 June 1810, 1 lieut. to 25 March 1817 when placed on h.p.; served in the American war, made prisoner at New Orleans; barrister L.I. 27 Nov. 1816; one of the 70 comrs. of bankruptcy 1817, comr. of Court of Bankruptcy 1830 to death; a founder of The Jurist, a quarterly journal of jurisprudence and legislation 1827; author with J. A. Paris of Medical Jurisprudence 3 vols. 1823. d. Brighton 3 Nov. 1865.

FOOTE, HENRY RICHARD. Entered navy 6 May 1830; captain 20 Oct. 1853; harbour manager and secretary Newport dock company 1854; retired captain 31 March 1866; retired admiral 9 Jany. 1880. d. Ellesmere house, Newport, Monmouthshire 23 Nov. 1885 aged 68.

FORAN, MOST REV. NICHOLAS. b. Waterford; ed. at Maynooth; pres. of St. John’s college, Waterford short time; parish priest of Lismore; parish priest of Dungarvan to 1837; R.C. Bishop of Waterford and Lismore 23 May 1837 to death; consecrated 24 Aug. 1837. d. Dungarvan 18 May 1855 in 74 year.

FORBES, WALTER FORBES, 18 Baron. b. Crailing house, Roxburghshire 29 May 1798; ensign Coldstream guards 1814; commanded a company at defence of Hougoumont 18 June 1815; retired 1825; succeeded 4 May 1843; a great benefactor to St. Ninian’s cathedral, Perth. d. Richmond, Surrey 1 May 1868, monument in Guards’ chapel, Wellington barracks, London.

FORBES, RIGHT REV. ALEXANDER PENROSE (2 son of John Hay Forbes, lord Medwyn 1776–1854). b. Edinburgh 6 June 1817; educ. Glasgow univ. 1833 and Haileybury coll.; assistant collector Rajahmundry, India 1837; head assistant to the Sudder and Foujdarry Adawlut 1839–40; matric. from Brasenose coll. Oxf. 1840, Boden Sanskrit scholar 1841; B.A. 1844, M.A. 1846, D.C.L. 18 May 1848; C. of Aston Rowant, Oxf. 1844; C. of St. Thomas’, Oxf. 1845; incumb. of Stonehaven, Kincardine 1846; V. of St. Saviour’s, Leeds 1847, one of the first Tractarian churches; elected bishop of Brechin 21 Sep. 1847 when the seat of the bishoprick was removed from Brechin to Dundee, and he also became V. of St. Paul’s, Dundee; censured by the college of bishops for his teaching on the real presence 15 March 1860; built St. Paul’s cathedral, Dundee 1855 and founded sisterhood of St. Mary and St. Modwenna; author of An explanation of the Thirty nine articles 2 vols. 1867–68 in which he was assisted by Dr. Pusey; The prisoners of Craigmacaire 1852; The pious life of Helen Inglis 1854; Kalendars of Scottish saints 1872 and 20 other works. d. Castle hill, Dundee 8 Oct. 1875. Mackey’s Bishop Forbes (1888), portrait; Memoir of Alexander, bishop of Brechin, By Miss Skene (1876).

FORBES, SIR CHARLES FERGUSSON. b. 1779; hospital assistant in army medical service, May 1798; served in Egypt, Gallicia and the Peninsula; retired with rank of deputy inspector general of hospitals 1864; M.D. Edinburgh 24 June 1808; L.R.C.P. 22 Dec. 1814, F.R.C.P. 10 July 1841; practised in London 1814 to death; physician Royal Westminster infirmary for diseases of the eye 1816, fell out with his colleague G. J. Guthrie 1827 when he resigned; fought a duel with Hale Thomson one of Guthrie’s party, on Clapham common 29 Dec. 1827; F.L.S. 1822; K.C.H. 1837; knighted at St. James’s palace 13 March 1844. d. 23 Argyll st. London 22 March 1852. Munk’s Roll of College of Physicians (1878) iii, 129; Medical Circular i, 137 (1852).

FORBES, DAVID. Entered Bombay army 1819; lieut. col. 9 Bombay N.I. 23 Nov. 1841 to 25 May 1852; commandant at Aden 9 Jany. 1851 to 25 May 1852; col. 3 European regiment 1854 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. d. Upper Brunswick place, Brighton 2 April 1863.

FORBES, DAVID (son of Edward Forbes of Oakhill, Isle of Man, banker). b. Douglas 6 Sep. 1828; educ. Brentwood, Essex and Edin. univ.; superintendent of mining and metallurgical works at Espedal, Norway 1848–58; F.G.S. 1853 and one of secretaries 1871; F.R.S. 3 June 1856; partner with Evans and Askin, nickel smelters, Birmingham 1856; A.I.C.E. 1 Feb. 1853, mem. of council 1872–73; visited Bolivia, Peru, South Sea islands and Africa in search of mines and minerals 1857–66; foreign sec. of Iron and Steel Institute 1871–6; one of the first to apply the microscope to the study of rocks; wrote 58 papers on scientific subjects. d. 11 York place, Portman sq. London 5 Dec. 1876. Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxxiii, 41–8 (1877); Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xlix, 270–75 (1877); Journal of Iron and Steel Institute 1876 pp. 519–24.

FORBES, DUNCAN. b. Kinnaird, Perthshire 28 April 1798; village school master of Straloch 1815; educ. Carmichael sch., Perth gram. sch. and St. Andrew’s univ., M.A. 1823, LLD. 1847; employed in Calcutta academy Nov. 1823 to 1826; assistant to Dr. John Borthwick Gilchrist, teacher of Hindustani and to Dr. Sandford Arnet 1826–37; professor of oriental languages, King’s coll. London 1837–61; hon. fellow of King’s coll. 1861; catalogued Persian MSS. in British Museum 1849–55; author of The Hindustani Manual 1845; The history of chess from the time of the early invention of the game in India 1860; A grammar of the Bengali language 1861; A grammar of the Arabic language 1863 and other books. d. London 17 Aug. 1868. Annual Report R. Asiatic Soc., May 1869 pp. vii-viii.

FORBES, EDWARD (2 child of Edward Forbes of Douglas, Isle of Man, banker). b. Douglas 12 Feb. 1815; ed. at univ. of Edin. 1831–36; naturalist to H.M.’s surveying ship Beacon, in the Levant 1841–42; professor of botany at King’s college, London, Oct. 1842; F.G.S. 4 Dec. 1844, librarian and curator 1842–44, pres. 1853; F.R.S. 13 Feb. 1845; palæontologist at Museum of practical geology 1 Nov. 1844 to 1854; founded Club of the Metropolitan Red Lions 1845; professor of natural history in Univ. of Edin. April 1854 to death; published with Sylvanus Hanley A History of British Mollusca 4 vols. 1848–53; author of many books and papers on natural history. d. Wardie near Edinburgh 18 Nov. 1854. J. H. Bennett’s Memoir of E. Forbes 1855; Memoir of E. Forbes by G. Wilson and A. Geikie 1861, portrait; Sir A. Grant’s Univ. of Edin. ii, 434 (1884); I.L.N. xxv, 564, 566 (1854), portrait.

FORBES, FRANCIS REGINALD (2 son of 6 Earl of Granard 1760–1837). b. Moira castle, Ireland 17 Sep. 1791; attached to embassy at St. Petersburg, July 1812; minister plenipotentiary at Dresden 26 Nov. 1832; raised to rank of envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary 2 May 1857, transferred to Rio de Janeiro 13 Dec. 1858; retired 2 Sep. 1859, pension granted him 1 Nov. 1859. d. Geneva 5 Nov. 1873.

FORBES, REV. GEORGE HAY (brother of Right Rev. A. P. Forbes). b. 4 Aug. 1821; episcopal minister at Burntisland 1849 to death; founded and endowed the Pitsligo press at Burntisland, issued theological pamphlets, ancient liturgies and missals, and a periodical called The Panoply 1853–69, all of which he printed himself, the press was moved to Edinburgh, January 1884; author of The goodness of God, Prize essay 1849; Doctrinal errors of the English prayer book 1863. d. The Parsonage, Burntisland 7 Nov. 1875.

FORBES, HENRY. b. 1804; pupil of Smart, Hummel, Moscheles and Herz; organist of St. Luke’s, Chelsea; his opera The Fairy Oak produced at Drury Lane 18 Oct. 1845; his cantata Ruth performed London 1847; conductor of Società Armonica 1827–50; composer of National Psalmody 1843. d. London 24 Nov. 1859.

FORBES, JAMES. b. Bridgend, Perthshire, May 1793; head gardener to Duke of Bedford at Woburn abbey, Beds. 37 years; A.L.S. 17 Jany. 1832; published Hortus ericaceus Woburnensis 1825; Salicetum Woburnense 1829; Hortus Woburnensis 1833; Pinetum Woburnense 1839. d. The Abbey Gardens, Woburn 6 July 1861. Proc. of Linnæan Soc. (1861) 104.

FORBES, JAMES DAVID (youngest son of Sir Wm. Forbes, 7 Bart. 1773–1828). b. Edinburgh 20 April 1809; ed. at Univ. of Edin., LLD. 1860; F.R.S. Edin. 1828, sec. 1840–51; F.R.S. 7 June 1832, Rumford medallist 1838 for discovery of polarisation of heat; a founder of British Association 1832; professor of natural philosophy in Univ. of Edin. 30 Jany. 1833, resigned April 1860; dean of Faculty of Arts 1837; granted civil list pension of £200, 14 Oct. 1845; surveyed Mer de Glace 1850; principal of St. Andrews 2 Dec. 1859 to Oct. 1868; author of Travels through the Alps of Savoy with observations on glaciers 1843 and of upwards of 149 articles in scientific transactions. d. Clifton hill house, Bristol 31 Dec. 1868. Life and letters of J. D. Forbes 1873; Proc. of Royal Soc. xix, 1–9 (1871); Sir A. Grant’s Univ. of Edin. ii, 354–7 (1884); Contemporary Review xxii, 484–508 (1873).

FORBES, SIR JOHN (4 son of Alexander Forbes of the Enzie, Banffshire). b. Cuttelbrae, Ruthven, Banffshire 18 Oct. 1787; ed. at Marischal coll. Aberdeen 1803–6 and Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1817; assistant surgeon R.N. 1807–16 when placed on h.p.; phys. at Penzance 1817–22, at Chichester 1822–40, in London 1840–59; F.R.S. 5 Feb. 1829; founded British and Foreign medical review, Jany. 1836, edited it 1836 to Oct. 1847, 48 numbers; phys. extraord. to Prince Consort, Aug. 1840 to 1859; phys. in ord. to H.M.’s Household, Feb. 1841 to 1859; F.R.C.S. Lond. 1845; knighted at Buckingham palace 8 Aug. 1853; author of Original cases illustrating the use of the stethescope 1824; editor with A. Tweedie and J. Conolly of Cyclopædia of practical medicine 1833–35, 4 vols.; author of A physician’s holiday in Switzerland 1848; Sight seeing in Germany 1856. d. Whitchurch near Reading 13 Nov. 1861. E. A. Parke’s Memoir of Sir John Forbes; Proc. of Royal Soc. xii, 6–10 (1862).

FORBES, REV. JOHN. b. Dunkeld, Perthshire; educ. Perth academy and St. Andrew’s univ., D.D. 1837; LLD. of Glasgow univ. 1840; minister at Hope park chapel, Edinburgh 1826, at Outer-High church, Glasgow 18 Dec. 1828; left the Presbyterian ch. 24 May 1843; contributed to The evidences of Revealed Religion 1838; Free church minister of Free St. Paul’s Glasgow 1843; author of Differential and integral calculus; Three sermons on Lord’s Day 1831 and other books. d. Glasgow 25 Dec. 1874 aged 73. Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881) 253–60; John Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy (1848) 231–7.

FORBES, JOHN HAY (2 son of Sir Wm. Forbes, 6 Bart., of Pitsligo 1739–1806). b. Edinburgh Sep. 1776; advocate 2 March 1799; sheriff depute of Perthshire 1807; judge of Court of Session with title of Lord Medwyn, Jany. 1825 to Oct. 1852; a lord of justiciary 16 Nov. 1830 to May 1849; edited Thoughts concerning man’s condition in this life and hopes in world to come, By Alexander Forbes, Baron Pitsligo 1854. d. Edinburgh 25 July 1854. J. Kay’s Edinburgh Portraits ii, 99 (1842), portrait.

FORBES, NATHANIEL. Entered Madras army 1782; col. 24 Madras N.I. 1820 or 1821 to death; L.G. 10 Jany. 1837. d. Sloane st. London 16 Aug. 1851.

FORBES, THOMAS JOHN. Second lieut. R.A. 6 March 1795; col. commandant 8 Dec. 1847 to death; general 16 Jany. 1859. d. Stoke-by-Nayland, Colchester 1 Feb. 1868 aged 87.

FORBES, WILLIAM. b. 1806; M.P. for Stirlingshire 1835–38 and 1841 to death. d. Callander house near Stirling 10 Feb. 1855.

FORBES, WILLIAM ALEXANDER (2 son of John Staats Forbes). b. Cheltenham 24 June 1855; educ. Kensington sch. and Winchester coll.; studied at Edin. univ. 1873 and univ. coll. London 1875–76; matric. St. John’s coll. Cam. 1876, fellow; prosector to Zoological soc. of London, Dec. 1879 to death; lectured on comparative anatomy Charing Cross hospital medical sch.; wrote on the muscular structure and voice organs of birds; travelled in Pernambuco 1880 and in tropical Africa 1882 to investigate the fauna; author of The collected papers of A. H. Garrod 1881. d. Shonga on the Niger 14 Jany. 1883. bur. Wickham, Kent 1 April 1884. F. E. Beddard’s Collected Papers of W. A. Forbes (1885).

FORBES, WILLIAM NAIRN (6 son of John Forbes of Blackford, co. Aberdeen). b. Blackford 3 April 1796; ed. at King’s coll. old Aberdeen, univ. of Edin. and Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Bengal engineers 1816, col. 1 Aug. 1854 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854; superintendent of mint machinery at Calcutta 1823; master of Calcutta mint 3 Feb. 1836 to death; built cathedral at Calcutta 1839–47; M.I.C.E. 1828. d. on board the ‘Oriental’ off the island of Tibble Teer on his way to England 1 May 1855. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xx, 138–40 (1861).

FORBES-LESLIE, JONATHAN (youngest son of John Forbes of Blackford). b. 1798; ensign 78 foot 19 Jany. 1814, lieut. col. 9 Nov. 1846 to 10 Dec. 1847 when he retired from the army; author of Eleven years in Ceylon 2 vols. 1840; Recent disturbances and military executions in Ceylon 1850; assumed name of Leslie after Forbes 1861. d. Rothienorman, Aberdeenshire 23 Dec. 1877. Leslie’s Family of Leslie (1869) iii, 320.

FORD, CHARLES ERSKINE. b. 5 Jany. 1812; 2 lieut. R.E. 29 April 1829, col. 11 Oct. 1863, col. commandant 1 Oct. 1877 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 1 July 1881. d. Hampton court palace 27 July 1884.

FORD, REV. DAVID EVERARD (son of Rev. David Ford, congregational minister). b. Long Melford, Suffolk 13 Sep. 1797; congregational minister at Lymington, Hants. 1821–1841; visited stations of congregational union 1841–43; minister of Richmond chapel, Manchester 1843, resigned 1858; author of Decapolis, or the individual obligation of christians to save souls 1840, fifth American ed. 1848; Chorazin 1841; Damascus 1842; Laodicea 1844 and Alarm in Zion 1848; published music for psalms and hymns 1825–29 and Rudiments of music 1843. d. Bedford 23 Oct. 1875.

FORD, RICHARD (eld. son of Sir Richard Ford, chief police magistrate of London, who d. 3 May 1806 aged 47). b. Sloane st. London April 1796; ed. at Winchester and Trin. coll. Ox.; B.A. 1817, M.A. 1822; barrister L.I. 17 May 1822; resided in Spain 1830–34; settled at Heavitree near Exeter 1834; contributed to Quarterly Review 1836–57; author of A handbook for travellers in Spain and readers at home 2 vols. 1845, new ed. 2 vols. 1861; Gatherings from Spain 1846, new ed. 1861; had a fine collection of majolica ware. d. Heavitree 1 Sep. 1858. Times 4 Sep. 1858 p. 6, col. 5; Waagen’s Treasures of art ii, 223–6 (1854); Fraser’s Mag. Oct. 1858 pp. 422–4.

FORD, WILLIAM (eld. son of Rev. Richard Wilbraham Ford, R. of Little Risington, Gloucs.) b. 4 May 1812; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Cam., fellow; B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; admitted solicitor 1836; partner in firm of Ranken and Co. London 1837; member of council of Incorporated Law Society 1860–76, vice pres. 1869–70, pres. 1870–71. d. Majori, South Italy 10 Jany. 1889.

FORDHAM, GEORGE (son of James Fordham). b. Cambridge 11 Sep. 1837; trained under R. Drewitt and E. Smith, and commenced his career at Brighton 1850; at the head of list of winning jockeys 1855–63, won 165 races 1862; won the Oaks 5 times, the Cambridgeshire 4 times, the Ascot cup 5 times, the 2000 guineas 3 times, the 1000 guineas 7 times; won the Derby on Sir Bevys 1879, won the Grand prix de Paris 1867, 1868 and 1881, the French Derby 1861 and 1868, the French Oaks 1880; known as “the demon.” d. Slough 12 Oct. 1887. Baily’s Mag. iii, 183–8 (1861) xlviii, 277–9 (1888); Illust. sporting news ii, 301 (1863), portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news i, 16 (1874), portrait, 24 May 1884, portrait; Sporting Mirror ii, 37–40 (1881), portrait.

FORDYCE, ALEXANDER DINGWALL. b. Aberdeen 4 March 1800; entered navy 12 June 1813; commander on h.p. 3 Sep. 1841; retired captain 14 July 1857; M.P. for Aberdeen 1847–52; author of Outlines of naval routine 1837. d. Aberdeen 16 July 1864. Naval and military gazette 30 July 1864 p. 483.

FORDYCE, CHARLES FRANCIS. b. 19 Dec. 1819; ensign 41 foot 17 Feb. 1838; major 47 foot 1852–55; A.Q.M.G. Canada 1855–57; military sec. to governor of Madras 1866–71, private sec. 1871–72; col. second battalion Gloucestershire regiment 7 Aug. 1884 to death; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857. d. Hayford, Torquay 23 Sep. 1887.

FORDYCE, GEORGE DINGWALL (brother of Alexander Dingwall Fordyce). b. 1808; advocate 1832, advocate depute; sheriff of Sutherland and Caithness 14 Aug. 1857 to 1875. d. Forres st. Edinburgh 7 Sep. 1875.

FORDYCE, JOHN. b. Ayton, Berwickshire; ensign 34 foot 18 Dec. 1828; lieut. col. 74 foot 10 July 1846 to death; killed in the action of Waterkloof, Caffraria 6 Nov. 1851. The Christian Soldier 1856; W. R. King’s Campaigning in Kaffirland (1853) p. 146, view of his death.

FORDYCE, SIR JOHN (son of James Fordyce). b. 4 March 1806; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery 10 May 1822, col. commandant 5 April 1873 to death; L.G. 21 Jany. 1872; K.C.B. 24 May 1873. d. Colne house, Earl’s Colne, Essex 26 Feb. 1877.

FORDYCE, WILLIAM DINGWALL. b. Rubilaw cottage, Aberdeen 31 March 1836; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.A. 1859; advocate 1862; M.P. for Aberdeenshire 1866–68, for East Aberdeenshire 1868 to death. d. Brucklay Castle near Aberdeen 27 Nov. 1875.

FORESTER, JOHN GEORGE WELD, 2 Baron (eld. child of 1 Baron Forester 1767–1828). b. Sackville st. Piccadilly, London 9 Aug. 1801; M.P. for Wenlock 1826–28; captain of corps of gentlemen-at-arms 1841–46; P.C. 14 Sep. 1841; master of the Belvoir fox hounds 1830–58. d. Willey park, Broseley, Shropshire 10 Oct. 1874. Baily’s Mag. xii, 163–5 (1867), portrait.

FORESTER, GEORGE CECIL WELD FORESTER, 3 Baron (brother of the preceding). b. Sackville st. Piccadilly, London 10 May 1807; ed. at Westminster; cornet Royal horse guards 27 May 1824, lieut. col. 2 Sep. 1853 to 30 Sep. 1859; placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877; general 1 Oct. 1877; M.P. for Wenlock 1828–74; controller of the household, March to Dec. 1852 and Feb. 1858 to July 1859. d. 3 Carlton gardens, London 14 Feb. 1886.

FORMBY, REV. HENRY (2 son of Henry Greenhalgh Formby of Bury, Lancs. 1789–1834). b. 1816; ed. at Clitheroe gr. sch. Charterhouse and Brasenose coll. Ox.; B.A. 1837, M.A. 1841; V. of Ruardean, Gloucs. 1844; received into R.C. church at St. Mary’s college, Oscott 24 Jany. 1846; ordained priest at Oscott 18 Sep. 1847; priest at St. Chads, Birmingham and Wednesbury successively; resided at Dominican priory of St. Peter, Hinckley, Leics. about 1865 to death; edited for some years The monthly magazine of the Holy Rosary, n.s. 1873, &c.; author of A visit to the East 1843 and 40 other books. d. Normanton hall, Leics. 12 March 1884. Gillow’s English Catholics ii, 309–13 (1885).

FORREST, SIR JAMES, 1 Baronet (son of James Forrest of Edinburgh, writer to the signet 1744–1820). b. 16 Oct. 1780; advocate 1803; lord provost of Edinburgh 1838; created a baronet 7 Aug. 1838; a ruling elder of established church of Scotland to 1843 when he joined the free church; grand master of grand lodge of freemasons in Scotland. d. Plymouth 5 April 1860.

FORREST, ROBERT. b. Carluke, Lanarkshire 1790; a stonemason in Clydesdale quarries; cut colossal figure of first Viscount Melville in centre of St. Andrew sq. Edinburgh; sculptor of statues of John Knox in Glasgow necropolis, and of Mr. Ferguson of Raith at Haddington 1843; opened his public exhibition of statuary on the Calton hill, Edinburgh 1832. d. Edinburgh 29 Dec. 1852. W. Anderson’s Scottish Nation iii, 710 (1863); Georgian Era iv, 180 (1834).

FORREST, THOMAS. b. Burnwynd, Wilkieston, Midlothian 1805; studied under W. H. Lizars in Edinburgh; line engraver; many of his plates were published by Royal Assoc. for promotion of fine arts in Scotland; gave a complete set of his works 160 in number to Royal Scottish Academy 1884. d. Edinburgh. 15 Oct. 1889.

FORRESTER, ALFRED HENRY (son of Robert Forrester of 5 North gate, royal exchange, London, public notary). b. London 10 Sep. 1804; apprentice to a notary in the city; connected with his brother Charles Robert Forrester (who d. 15 Jany. 1850 aged 47) in business about 1825–39; illustrated several of his brother’s books in which the pseudonym of Alfred Crowquill was conjointly used by writer and artist, but afterwards it was used by the artist alone; contributed sketches to vols. 2, 3 and 4 of Punch 1842–3; member of staff of Illustrated London News from 1843; wrote and illustrated A. Crowquill’s Guide to watering places 1839 and 25 other books; illustrated wholly or partly Ups and Downs 1823 and 32 other books. d. 3 Portland place north, Clapham road, London 26 May 1872. Everitt’s English caricaturists (1886) 194, 368–71, 410; Illustrated Review 15 June 1872 pp. 737–42, portrait; Bentley’s Miscellany (1846) xix, 87, 99, portrait.

FORRESTER, HENRY, stage name of Henry Frost. b. Capel near Dorking 9 April 1827; became an actor 1855; first appeared in London at Marylebone theatre as Korac in Zembuca 18 Dec. 1858; acted at Sadler’s Wells 1861–64, at Princess’s, Victoria, Surrey, Royalty, Lyceum; played Iago at Lyceum 14 Feb. 1876; played Daniel Druce in the provinces more than 300 times. d. Capel house, South Lambeth, London 9 April 1882. Illust. sp. and dr. news v, 31–3 (1876).

FORRESTER, JOSEPH JAMES, Baron de Forrester. b. Hull 27 May 1809; merchant and wine shipper at Oporto 1831 to death; surveyed river Douro with a view to improvement of its navigation, and published a map of it 1848, adopted by Portuguese government as a national work; author of A word or two on port wine 1844, anon., 8 editions, for which he received addresses of thanks from 102 parishes of the Upper Douro; Oliveira Prize essay on Portugal 1853, 2 ed. 1854; created Baron de Forrester for life by Queen of Portugal; F.S.A. 1 May 1856; drowned in the river Douro near a rapid called the Ponto do Cachuo 12 May 1861. Memorials of Star club of London vol. 1 (1855).

FORSAYETH, THOMAS (son of Rev. John Forsayeth of Cork). b. Cork 1798; ed. at Cork and Trin. coll. Dublin; called to Irish bar, Jany. 1824; went Munster circuit; recorder of Cork 1844 to death; Q.C. 6 July 1858. d. Merville, Queenstown, co. Cork 13 Oct. 1877. J. R. O’Flanagan’s Irish bar (1879) 408.

FORSHALL, REV. JOSIAH (eld. son of Samuel Forshall of Witney, Oxon.) b. Witney 29 March 1795; ed. at Ex. coll. Ox., fell. of his coll. 30 June 1819 to 13 July 1826, assistant tutor 1820, tutor 1822–24; B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; assist. keeper of MSS. in British Museum 1824, keeper 1827 to July 1837, secretary Feb. 1828–51; F.R.S. 12 June 1828; chaplain of Foundling Hospital 1829–59; edited Catalogue of Arundel and Burney manuscripts in British Museum 1834 and other catalogues; published Gospel of St. John arranged 1859, and other books; published with Sir F. Madden The Holy Bible ... in the earliest English versions made by John Wycliffe 4 vols. 1850. d. 49 Woburn place, London 18 Dec. 1863. R. Cowtan’s Memories of the British Museum (1872) 364–76.

FORSTER, REV. CHARLES. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; P.C. of Ash, Kent 1834–38; one of the six preachers in Canterbury cathedral 1835 to death; R. of Stisted near Braintree, Essex 1838 to death; author of Discourses on subjects of Scripture history 1823; The life of J. Jebb, bishop of Limerick 1836; The one primeval language 1851 and other books. d. Stisted rectory 20 Aug. 1871 aged 84. Braintree Advertiser 30 Aug. 1871 p. 2.

FORSTER, FRANK. b. near Newcastle 1800; managed mines near Swansea, also in Lancs.; assistant of Robert Stephenson in his chief enterprises up to completion of Chester and Holyhead railway on which he was resident engineer of portion from near Conway to Holyhead; chief engineer to Metropolitan commission of sewers from its formation 1849 to 1852; M.I.C.E. 1845. d. Elm lodge, Kilburn, London 13 April 1852. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xii, 157 (1853).

FORSTER, SIR GEORGE, 2 Baronet. b. Baronstown Glebe, co. Louth 21 March 1796; called to bar in Ireland 1830; succeeded 4 Dec. 1843; M.P. for co. Monaghan 1852–65. d. Fitzwilliam sq. Dublin 4 April 1876.

FORSTER, REV. HENRY (youngest son of Thomas Forster of St. Michael’s, Oxford). Matric. from New coll. Ox. 17 Nov. 1827 aged 18; B.A. 1832, M.A. 1834; esquire bedel in divinity in Univ. of Ox., Feb. 1832 to death when the office expired. d. Oxford 25 April 1857.

FORSTER, JOHN (eld. child of Robert Forster of Newcastle, cattle dealer, who d. 1836). b. Newcastle 2 April 1812; ed. at Newcastle gr. sch. and Univ. coll. London; student at I.T. 10 Nov. 1828, barrister 27 Jany. 1843; dramatic critic on the True Sun 1832; edited Foreign quarterly review 1842–3; edited Daily News 9 Feb. 1846 to Oct. 1846; edited Examiner 1847 to Dec. 1855; sec. to Lunacy commission 28 Dec. 1855 to Feb. 1861, comr. in Lunacy, Feb. 1861 to 1872; painted by Maclise as Kitely in Ben Jonson’s Every man in his humour; bequeathed his collection of pictures, books, &c. to South Kensington Museum; author of Lives of the statesmen of the Commonwealth 5 vols. 1836–9; The life and adventures of Oliver Goldsmith 1848, new ed. 2 vols. 1854; Life of Charles Dickens 3 vols. 1872–4 and many other books. d. Palace gate, Kensington 1 Feb. 1876. Catalogue of the Forster library (1888) i-xxii; Handbook of Forster and Dyce collections (1877) 1–21; Monthly Chronicle of north country lore, Feb. 1888 pp. 49–54; Madden’s Life of Countess of Blessington (1855) ii, 396–405; T. Powell’s Pictures of living authors (1851) 193–200; E. Yates’s Recollections (1884) ii, 161–3; G.M., n.s. xvi, 313–19 (1876); Temple Bar xlvi, 491–505 (1876); I.L.N. vii, 329 (1845), portrait; Graphic xiii, 179, 182, 188 (1876), portrait.

FORSTER, JOHN. b. 1817; M.P. for Berwick 1853–57. d. 91 Victoria st. London 7 Jany. 1878.

FORSTER, JOHN COOPER (son of Mr. Forster of Lambeth, surgeon). b. Mount st. Lambeth 13 Nov. 1823; ed. at King’s coll. sch. and Guy’s hospital; M.R.C.S. 1844, F.R.C.S. 1849, pres. 1884–5; M.B. London 1847; demonstrator of anatomy at Guy’s 1850, assistant surgeon 1855, surgeon 1870–80; retired from practice 1885; the first to perform operation of gastrotomy in England 1858; author of The surgical diseases of children 1860, papers in Pathological and Clinical Society’s Transactions and reports of cases in Guy’s Hospital Reports. d. 29 Upper Grosvenor st. London 2 March 1886. Guy’s Hospital Reports vol. xiv, 40–57 (1887).

FORSTER, THOMAS BOWES. Entered Madras army 1818; col. 9 Madras N.I. 13 April 1855 to 1869; L.G. 3 July 1867. d. Burder Titley, Herefordshire 21 March 1870.

FORSTER, THOMAS EMERSON. b. Garrigill Gate, Northumberland 1802; resident viewer at Walker colliery, Northumberland 1823; engineer at Newcastle 1846 to death; M.I.C.E. 16 Feb. 1836; pres. of north of England institute of mining engineers 1866–68. d. Ellison place, Newcastle 7 March 1875. Transactions of north of England institute of mining engineers, xxv, 5–10 (1876); Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xliii, 300–303 (1876).

FORSTER, THOMAS IGNATIUS MARIA (eld. son of Thomas Furley Forster of Bishopsgate, London, Russia merchant 1761–1825). b. Bank of England, Threadneedle st. 9 Nov. 1789; studied at C.C. coll. Cam., M.B. 1818; left Cambridge for Edinburgh, Feb. 1816; discovered a comet 3 July 1819; joined Church of Rome about 1823; founded with Gompertz the Animals’ Friend Society 1833; F.L.S. 1811; F.R.A.S.; author of Observations on the brumal retreat of the swallow 1808, 5 ed. 1817; Researches about atmospheric phenomena 1813, 3 ed. 1823 and 44 other books. d. Brussels 2 Feb. 1860. Epistolarium Forsterianum 2 vols. Bruges 1845–50, privately printed; Recueil de ma vie, mes ouvrages, et mes pensées, opuscule philosophique, 3 ed. Brussels 1837.

FORSTER, WILLIAM (son of Mr. Forster of Tottenham, land agent). b. Tottenham 23 March 1784; minister of Society of Friends 1805; resided at Bradpole, Dorset 1816, afterwards at Norwich; spent 5 years on a mission to United States 1820–25; investigated condition of people in Ireland, Nov. 1846 to April 1847; presented an anti-slavery address to president of United States 1 Oct. 1853; author of A Christian exhortation to sailors 1813; Recent intelligence from Van Diemen’s Land 1831; A Salutation of Christian love 1860. d. at house of Samuel Low near the Holston river, East Tennessee 27 Jany. 1854. Memoirs of life of W. Forster edited by B. Seebohm 2 vols. 1865; Brief memoir of W. Forster by R. Charlton 1867.

FORSTER, WILLIAM EDWARD (only child of the preceding). b. Bradpole, Dorset 11 July 1818; ed. at the Friend’s sch. Tottenham 1832–5; woollen manufacturer at Bradford with Wm. Fison 1842 to death; left Society of Friends 1850; contested Leeds, April 1859; M.P. for Bradford, Feb. 1861 to 1885, for central division of Bradford, Nov. 1885 to death; under sec. of state for colonies 25 Nov. 1865 to July 1866; P.C. 9 Dec. 1868; vice pres. of committee of council on education 16 Dec. 1868 to Feb. 1874; lord rector of Aberdeen Univ., installed 24 Nov. 1876; presented with freedom of city of Aberdeen 27 Nov. 1876; admitted to freedom of Clothworkers’ Co. 5 June 1877; chief sec. of state for Ireland, April 1880 to May 1882. d. 80 Eccleston sq. London 5 April 1886. bur. at Burley-in-Wharfedale. Life of W. E. Forster, By T. W. Reid 1888, 2 portraits; Illustrated Review vi, 279–81; Alpine Journal, May 1886; I.L.N. xlviii, 313 (1866), portrait, lxxvii, 112 (1881), portrait.

FORSTER, WILLIAM FREDERICK. Ensign 3 footguards 26 Aug. 1813; captain 97 foot 18 Aug. 1825 to 18 Feb. 1826 when placed on h.p.; deputy adjutant general 27 Feb. 1855 to 1 July 1860; military sec. to Duke of Cambridge, commander in chief 1 July 1860 to 1 Nov. 1871; colonel 81 foot 12 Feb. 1863 to death; general 6 Jany. 1874; K.H. 1833. d. 7 Chesterfield st. Mayfair, London 8 June 1879 aged 80.

FORSYTH, JAMES. b. 1838; entered Indian civil service; settlement officer and deputy comr. of Nimar; captain Bengal staff corps; author of The sporting rifle and its projectiles 1863; The highlands of Central India, notes on their forests and wild tribes, natural history and sports 1871. d. 38 Manchester st. Manchester sq. London 1 May 1871.

FORSYTH, SIR JOHN. Inspector general medical department, Bengal army 12 Nov. 1857; hon. phys. to the Queen 6 Sep. 1861 to death; C.B. 29 Aug. 1862; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1881. d. 51 Selborne road, West Brighton 14 Jany. 1883 in 84 year.

FORSYTH, SIR THOMAS DOUGLAS (10 child of Thomas Forsyth of Liverpool, merchant). b. Birkenhead 7 Oct. 1827; ed. at Sherborne, Rugby and Haileybury; entered Bengal civil service 1848; deputy comr. Umballa 1857; officiating comr. in Punjab 1860; comr. of Lahore 1863, of Jullundur 1865, of Umballa 1871, of Oudh 1872; additional member of governor general’s council 1874; envoy on special mission to Burma 1875, retired 1878; C.B. 1860; K.C.S.I. 27 July 1874. d. Eastbourne 17 Dec. 1886.

FORSYTH, WILLIAM (son of Morris Forsyth of Turriff, Aberdeenshire). b. Turriff 24 Oct. 1818; ed. at Univs. of Aberdeen and Edin.; assistant to a country doctor; sub-editor of the Inverness Courier 1842; sub editor of Aberdeen Herald 1843; joined staff of Aberdeen Journal 1848, editor 1849 to death; member of Aberdeen school board; author of The martyrdom of Kelavane 1861; Idylls and Lyrics 1872 and other books. d. Richmond hill, Aberdeen 21 June 1879. Memoir of W. Forsyth, By A. Walker (1882).

FORT, RICHARD. b. Oakenshaw, Lancs. 15 March 1822; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; sheriff of Lancs. 1854; contested Clitheroe 1853, M.P. for Clitheroe 1865–68. d. 24 Queen’s gate gardens, London 2 July 1868.

FORTESCUE, HUGH FORTESCUE, 2 Earl (eld. child of 1 Earl Fortescue 1753–1841). b. 13 Feb. 1783; styled Viscount Ebrington 1789–1841; ed. at Eton and Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1803, M.A. 1810; M.P. for Barnstaple 1804–7, for St. Mawes 1807–9, for Buckingham 1812–17, for Devon 1818–20, 1830 and 1831–32, for Tavistock 1820–30, for North Devon 15 Dec. 1832 to 1 March 1839 when summoned to House of Peers in his father’s barony of Fortescue; col. of 1 Devon militia 20 May 1816 to death; F.R.S. 5 June 1817; lord lieut. of Ireland 1 March 1839 to 15 Sep. 1841; P.C. 1 March 1839; lord lieut. of Devon 1839 to death; lord steward of H.M.’s household 1846–50; parliamentary sec. of Poor law board 1847–51; K.G. 12 July 1856; author of Memorandum of two conversations between Napoleon and Viscount Ebrington 1814. d. at house of H. Ford, 25 Southernhay, Exeter 14 Sep. 1861. Saunders’s Portraits of Reformers (1840) 135, portrait; The Eton portrait gallery (1876) 349–52.

FORTESCUE, GEORGE MATTHEW (brother of the preceding). b. Hill st. London 21 May 1791; ed. at Eton and Univ. of Edin.; M.P. for Hindon, Wilts. 1827–32. d. Boconnoc near Lostwithiel, Cornwall 24 Jany. 1877.

FORTESCUE, JOHN WILLIAM (2 son of 2 Earl Fortescue 1783–1861). b. 14 July 1819; M.P. for Barnstaple 1847–52. d. Madeira 25 Sep. 1859.

FORTESCUE, MATTHEW (son of Joseph Fortescue of the Scots Greys). b. 18 May 1805; ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; special pleader; barrister M.T. 22 Nov. 1839; judge of county court’s circuit No. 58 (Devonshire) 8 Oct. 1857 to death. d. Oak park house, Dawlish 27 March 1883.

FORTUNE, ROBERT. b. Kelloe, Edrom, Berwickshire 16 Sep. 1813; superintendent of indoor-plant department in Royal Horticultural Society’s garden at Chiswick, sent to China by the Society as collector 1842; curator of Chelsea botanical garden 1846–8; introduced tea-plant into north-west provinces of India 1851; author of Three years’ wanderings in the northern provinces of China 1847; Two visits to the tea countries of China and the British plantations in the Himalayas 2 vols. 1853 and other books. d. 1 Gilston road, South Kensington, London 13 April 1880. Field and Semple’s Memoirs of botanic garden at Chelsea (1878) 205–8.

FOSS, EDWARD (eld. son of Edward Smith Foss of 36 Essex st. Strand, London, solicitor, who d. 13 May 1830 aged 74). b. Gough sq. Fleet st. London 16 Oct. 1787; articled to his father 1804, partner with him 1811–30; student of Inner Temple 1822; under sheriff of London 1827–8; retired from practice 1840; F.S.A. 18 April 1822; one of founders of Incorporated Law Society 1827, pres. 1842–44; published The grandeur of the law 1843; The judges of England 9 vols. 1848–64; Tabulæ Curiales 1865; Biographia Juridica 1870. d. Frensham house, Addiscombe 27 July 1870. Foss’ Biographia Juridica (1870) pp. xii-xv.

FOSTER, CHARLES JAMES. b. Bicester, Oxfordshire 24 Nov. 1820; went to United States 1847; edited Woodruff’s Trotting horses of America 1868, 2 ed. 1875, also Bogardus’s Field cover and trap shooting 1874; wrote for The Spirit of the times paper; established the New York Sportsman 1876; considered the best informed man in America on subject of racing. d. Astoria, New York 12 Sep. 1883.

FOSTER, EDWARD WARD (son of Edward Foster, land steward to Sir R. Burdett). b. in parish of All Saints, Derby 8 Nov. 1762; lieut. 20 regt. of foot; served in America, Holland and Egypt; retired 1805; miniature painter to the royal family with apartments in Round tower, Windsor; exhibited 22 landscapes at R.A. 1812–28; travelled in England as a portrait painter; invented machine for taking faces; author of An elementary grammar of French language 1837; A chronological analysis of the Old and New Testament 1850; Chart of Histories of Rome, France and Britain 1835; Chronological Chart of History of British Empire 1847; had grant of £60 a year from Bounty fund. d. Derby 12 March 1865. J. B. Robinson’s Derbyshire Gatherings (1866) 81–4, portrait.

FOSTER, JAMES LANCELOT. b. York; edited Yorkshire Gazette, manager and publisher of it 1852–82; sheriff of York 1870–71. d. 15 Ogleforth, York 3 Dec. 1883 in 74 year.

FOSTER, JOHN (son of Jonas Foster, yeoman). b. Thornton, Yorkshire 20 Jany. 1798; established a worsted business at Low Fold near Queensbury 1819; removed to Cannon Mill, Great Horton 1832; built the Blackdike mill 1835; introduced power-looms into his works 1836; commenced using alpaca wool and mohair 1837; employed 3000 people and manufactured 15,000 packs of wool a year; retired 1869; purchased Hornby castle estate, Lancaster 1861. d. Prospect house, Queensbury 6 March 1879. Fortunes made in business ii, 1–107 (1881), portrait.

FOSTER, JOHN FREDERIC (son of Rev. Dr. Frederick Wm. Foster, Moravian bishop). b. Wyke near Halifax, Yorkshire 1795; ed. at a Moravian coll. and Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1817, M.A. 1821; barrister M.T. 1 June 1821; stipendiary mag. of Manchester, Aug. 1825 to April 1838; chairman of quarter sessions of hundred of Salford 9 April 1838 to death; recorder of Manchester 18 April 1839, resigned May. d. Alderley, Cheshire 9 April 1858. G.M. iv, 559–60 (1858); Illust. news of the world ii, 117 (1858), portrait.

FOSTER, PETER LE NEVE (only son of Peter Le Neve Foster of Lenwade, Norfolk). b. Lenwade 17 Aug. 1809; ed. at Norwich gr. sch. and Trin. hall, Cam., fellow 1830; 38 wrangler 1830; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833; barrister M.T. 29 Jany. 1836; practised as a conveyancer 1836–53; sec. to Society of Arts 1853 to death; a founder of Photographic Soc. of London 1853; pres. of Quekett Microscopical Club; sec. of mechanical science section of British Association 13 years; author of Photography 1876. d. East hill, Wandsworth, London 21 Feb. 1879. Journal of Soc. of Arts (1879) xxvii, 316; I.L.N. lxxiv, 224 (1879), portrait.

FOSTER, THOMAS. Second lieut. R.E. 1 Sep. 1815, col. commandant 8 Feb. 1866 to death; general 8 June 1871. d. 5 Cleveland terrace, Hyde park, London 26 Aug. 1872 aged 76.

FOSTER, THOMAS CAMPBELL (son of John Foster, proprietor and editor of Leeds Patriot paper). b. Knaresbro’, Yorkshire 6 Oct. 1813; sub-editor of Liverpool Standard; reporter for The Times in Houses of Parliament; made enquiries into the Rebecca riots and other important questions for The Times; special pleader 1842; barrister M.T. 30 Jany. 1846, bencher Jany. 1878; contested Sheffield 13 July 1865; revising barrister for west riding of Yorkshire 1868–75; recorder of Warwick 23 Dec. 1874 to death; Q.C. 25 June 1875; author of Letters on the condition of the people of Ireland 1845; Treatise on the writ of Scire Facias 1851 and other books. d. 30 Orsett terrace, Hyde park, London 1 July 1882. Biograph vol. 1 (1882) pp. 293–326.

FOSTER, SIR WILLIAM, 1 Baronet (younger son of Wm. Foster of Norwich 1762–1821). b. 16 June 1798; attorney at Norwich 1820 to death; alderman of Norwich to death, sheriff 1832, mayor 1844; created baronet 3 Aug. 1838. d. St. Giles’s st. Norwich 2 Dec. 1874.

FOTHERGILL, JOHN MILNER (son of Mr. Fothergill of Morland, Westmoreland, surgeon). b. Morland 11 April 1841; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1865; practised at Morland, then at Leeds; M.R.C.P. 1872; phys. in London 1872 to death; author of Digitalis, its modes of action and its uses 1871; The heart and its diseases with their treatment 1872, 2 ed. 1879 and 20 other books. d. 3 Henrietta st. Cavendish sq. London 28 June 1888. Midland medical miscellany ii, 161–2 (1883), portrait.

FOULKES, REV. HENRY (2 son of John Foulkes of Henllan, Denbighshire 1736–1814). Matric. from Jesus coll. Ox. 10 July 1790 aged 17; B.A. 1794, M.A. 1797, B.D. 1804, D.D. 1817; fellow of Jesus coll. to 1817, principal 1817 to death; R. of Yelford, Oxon. 1815 to death; R. of Besselsleigh, Berks. and of Llandyssil, Cardigan 1817 to death. d. Jesus college 17 Sep. 1857.

FOULKES, WILLIAM DECIMUS INGLETT (youngest son of Rev. Peter Foulkes, V. of Shebbear, Devon). Ed. at Bedford gr. sch.; barrister M.T. 6 June 1871; a reporter on The Law Journal Reports 1875; edited The Law Journal newspaper 1879 to death; author of An elementary view of the proceedings in an action in the supreme court 1876, 3 ed. 1884; A Generation of Judges. By Their Reporter 1886; author with J. M. Lely of The Judicature acts ... with notes 1875, 4 ed. 1883 and other books. d. 25 Half Moon st. Piccadilly, London 17 Feb. 1890 in 42 year.

FOUNTAIN, JOSEPH. Theatrical artist at Leeds many years; the pioneer of the now extensive industry of designing and printing theatrical posters. d. 31 Brunswick terrace, Leeds 11 Oct. 1887 in 60 year.

FOURACRES, CHARLES. b. Devonshire; enlisted in 1st Madras fusiliers; sub-engineer Godavery Delta irrigation works; engaged on Sone irrigation works 1869, resigned 1879; invented an excavator for which government gave him 10,000 rupees; invented the hydraulic-brake shutter for the Sone weir and the vertical-action bucket steam dredger 1878; engineer of the Seebpur engineering factory Calcutta 1879, retired 1884 when he was awarded a bonus of 15,000 rupees; M.I.C.E. 2 Dec. 1879. d. Bristol 14 July 1884. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxviii, 418–24 (1884).

FOURDRINIER, HENRY. b. Lombard st. London 11 Feb. 1766; succeeded his father as a paper maker and wholesale stationer; patented with his brother Sealy (who d. 1847) invention of paper making machine 1801, perfected their machine for making continuous paper 1807; became bankrupt 1810; £7000 voted by Parliament to Messrs. Fourdrinier as compensation for their loss by defective state of law of patents 8 May 1840. d. Mavesyn, Rydware, Staffs. 3 Sep. 1854. G.M. xliv, 102–103 (1855); I.L.N. xxv, 345, 354 (1854), portrait.

FOWKE, FRANCIS. b. Belfast, July 1823; 2 lieut. R.E. 18 June 1842, captain 17 Feb. 1854 to death; inspector of Science and Art department, London 1857, architect and engineer to same department; sec. to English commission attached to Paris exhibition 1855–57; designed Museum of science and art, Edinburgh, opened 19 May 1866; planned buildings for International Exhibition 1862; Albert hall was chiefly designed by him; author of A description of the buildings at South Kensington for the reception of the Sheepshanks pictures 1858; Some account of the buildings designed for the International Exhibition of 1862, 1861. d. The Museum, South Kensington 4 Dec. 1865, bust by Woolner in the Museum. Papers on professional subjects, Corps. of R.E. xxv, 9; Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxx, 468–70 (1866); I.L.N. xl, 431, 433 (1862), portrait.

FOWKE, SIR FREDERICK GUSTAVUS, 1 Baronet (3 son of Sir Thomas Fowke, knt., who d. 30 Nov. 1786). b. 24 Jany. 1782; created baronet 7 Feb. 1814. d. Leamington 17 May 1856.

FOWLER, CHARLES. b. Collumpton 17 May 1792; apprentice to a builder at Exeter; erected court of bankruptcy, Basinghall st. London; gained first premium in a design for London bridge 1822; rebuilt Covent Garden market 1829–30; built Hungerford market opened July 1833; restored Powderham castle, Devon; built churches at Charmouth, Buckley and Honiton and Devon county lunatic asylum at Exminster 1845. d. Great Marlow 26 Sep. 1867. Pycroft’s Art in Devon (1883) p. 45.

FOWLER, FRANK. Lecturer in Willis’ rooms, London; engaged on a London daily paper; lecturer in Sydney 1855; started the Month, first respectable magazine in Sydney, July 1857 last issue Dec. 1858; contested Sydney for legislative assembly receiving 2000 votes; edited a London newspaper; founded The Library Co. London 1860, sec. of it to death; author of Southern lights and shadows 1859 and other books. d. Oakley cottage, Hammersmith 22 Aug. 1863 aged 30. Frank Fowler’s Last Gleanings (1864) pp. vii-xvii.

FOWLER, GEORGE. Formerly of Collumpton; author of Three years in Russia 2 vols. 1841; Lives of the sovereigns of Russia 1858; Turkey, a history of the Ottoman empire 1854; History of the war between Turkey and Russia 1855; Mary Markland the cottager’s daughter, 2 ed. 1861. d. Victoria terrace, Bayswater, London 20 April 1858.

FOWLER, JOHN. b. Melksham, Wiltshire 11 July 1826; entered works of Gilke, Wilson & Co. at Middlesbrough 1847; drained Hainault Forest, Essex by use of his patent drainage plough about 1851; invented with Jeremiah Head a steam plough which gained prize of £500 at Chester show of Royal Agricultural Society 1858; invented double engine tackle 1860; established with Kitson and Hewitson, manufacturing works at Hunslet, Leeds 1860. d. Ackworth, Yorkshire 4 Dec. 1864. Trans. of Soc. of Engineers for 1868 pp. 299–318; Practical Mag. (1875) 257–62, portrait.

FOWLER, SIR JOHN DICKENSON. Solicitor, High Bailiff of Burton upon Trent 1818; knighted by Prince Regent at Beaudesert 8 Nov. 1818 but never gazetted. d. Burton 5 Feb. 1839 aged 70 but name remained in Knightages to 1864.

FOWLER, LYDIA. b. Nantucket, Massachusetts 1823; a graduate of Syracuse medical college; the first female professor of obstetrics in America; lived in London 1863 to death; author of Familiar lessons on phrenology and physiology 1847; Familiar lessons on astronomy 1848; The pet of the household and how to save it 1865; Heart melodies, poems 1870 and 14 other books. (m. Lorenzo Niles Fowler of London, phrenologist). d. 62 St. Augustine’s road, Camden sq. London 26 Jany. 1879.

FOWLER, RICHARD. b. London 28 Nov. 1765; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1793; L.C.P. London 1796; practised at Salisbury from 1796; phys. to Salisbury infirmary 1796–1841; F.R.S. 1 April 1802; purchased and endowed ground for Salisbury and South Wiltshire museum to which he gave a large part of his books and collections 1862; author of Some Observations on the mental state of the blind and deaf and dumb, Salisbury 1843, 2 ed. 1860; An attempt to detect the physiological process by which thinking is effected, Salisbury 1849, 2 ed. 1852. d. Milford near Salisbury 13 April 1863 having attained a greater age than had any other member of the Royal Coll. of Phys. from its foundation. Proc. of Royal Soc. xiii, pp. iii-v (1864); Munk’s Roll, 2 ed. vol. ii, p. 447.

FOX, CAROLINE (2 dau. of Robert Were Fox 1789–1877). b. Falmouth 24 May 1819; kept a journal from 1835 to 1871 which has rendered her celebrated; friend of John Sterling, John Stuart Mill and other eminent men. d. Penjerrick near Falmouth 12 Jany. 1871. Memories of old friends, extracts from journals of Caroline Fox 1835 to 1871, ed. by H. N. Pym 1881, portrait, 3 ed. 2 vols. 1882.

FOX, SIR CHARLES (youngest son of Francis Fox of Derby, physician). b. Derby 11 March 1810; assistant engineer on London and Birmingham railway 1830–35; a civil and consulting engineer in London 1857 to death; introduced the switch into railway practice 1838; erected with John Henderson the building for Great Exhibition in Hyde Park 1850–1; erected Crystal Palace, Sydenham 1852–54; carried out the East Kent and other railways; erected bridges over Thames at Barnes, Richmond, and Staines and many other large bridges; M.I.C.E. 13 Jany. 1838; knighted at Windsor Castle 23 Oct. 1851. d. Blackheath, Kent 14 June 1874. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxix, 264–6 (1875); Graphic ix, 15, 17 (1874), portrait; Practical Mag. vi, 129–33, portrait.

FOX, CHARLES (7 son of Robert Were Fox of Falmouth). b. Falmouth 22 Dec. 1797; partner in firm of G. C. and R. W. Fox and Co. merchants, Falmouth; partner in Perran foundry co., manager 1824–47; one of founders of royal Cornwall polytechnic soc. 1833, pres. 1871–72; with Sir Charles Lemon introduced man engines into Cornish mines 1842; pres. of Miners’ Association of Cornwall and Devon 1861–63; pres. of royal geological soc. of Cornwall 1864–67. d. Trebah near Falmouth 18 April 1878. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. 160–61, 1186; Joseph Foster’s Descendants of Francis Fox (1872) 11.

FOX, CHARLES RICHARD (natural son of 3 Baron Holland 1773–1840). b. 6 Nov. 1796; in the navy 1809–13; ensign Grenadier guards 1815, captain 1830 to 1836 when placed on h.p.; A.D.C. to the Sovereign 1832–1846; surveyor general of Ordnance 5 Dec. 1832 to 12 Jany. 1835; general 6 March 1863; col. of 57 foot 5 Sep. 1865 to death; M.P. for Calne, Wilts. 1831–32, for Tavistock 1832–34, for Stroud 1835, for Tower Hamlets 1841–47; had finest private collection of Greek coins in the world, purchased by Royal Museum at Berlin 1873. d. 1 Addison road, Kensington, London 13 April 1873. Numismatic Chronicle xiv, 16–19 (1874); Waagen’s Galleries of Art (1857) 232–4; I.L.N. lxii, 393, 451 (1873).

FOX, EBENEZER. b. England; chief reporter on the Manchester Guardian several years; went to Dunedin, New Zealand; on staff of Otago Daily Times 1862; confidential clerk and secretary to treasury New Zealand 1870 to death; wrote articles in New Zealand Times on denudation of the forests which attracted much attention. d. Wellington, Jany. 1886.

FOX, EDWARD. Author of Poetical Tentatives, By Lynn Erith 1854; Pleasure paths of travel 1857; Amian and Bertha and other poems 1858; drowned while bathing in the Avon at Keynsham, Somerset 9 Aug. 1862 aged 33.

FOX, HENRY HAWES. b. Bristol 5 Jany. 1788; ed. at Glasgow and St. John’s coll. Cam.; pres. of royal medical society, Edin.; practised at Bristol 1811–32, phys. to infirmary there 1816–32; M.D. Cam. 1826; bought estate of Northwood, Gloucs. 1832 where he built an asylum for the insane; originated a method of fire proof construction now known as Fox and Barrett’s. d. Northwood 12 Oct. 1851.

FOX, REV. JOHN (son of Henry Fox of St. Bees, Cumberland). b. St. Bees; ed. at St. Bees; matric. from Queen’s coll. Ox. 4 Dec. 1794 aged 20, tabarder 1798, fellow 1808–27; B.A. 1798, M.A. 1812, B.D. 1827, D.D. 1827; master of Northleach sch. 1826–27; provost of Queen’s coll. Ox. 1827 to death. d. Oxford 11 Aug. 1855. bur. Sherborne.

FOX, RICHARD MAXWELL. b. Raheny Glebe, co. Dublin 1816; M.P. for co. Longford 13 Aug. 1847 to death. d. St. Leonard’s on Sea 26 April 1856.

FOX, ROBERT WERE (brother of Charles Fox 1797–1878). b. Falmouth 26 April 1789; made researches upon internal temperature of the earth from 1815, the first to prove that the heat increased with the depth; a founder of Royal Polytechnic Soc. 1833; F.R.S. 9 June 1848; contributed 52 papers to scientific periodicals. d. Penjerrick near Falmouth 25 July 1877. A catalogue of the works of R. W. Fox with A sketch of his life, By J. H. Collins, Truro 1878; Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i, 162–5 (1874), iii, 1188 (1882).

FOX, SACKVILLE WALTER LANE. b. 1800; M.P. for Helston 1831–34, for Beverley 1840–41 and 1847–52, for Ipswich 1842–47. d. 22 Pall Mall, London 18 Aug. 1874.

FOX, SAMUEL. b. Bradwell, North Derbyshire 1815; a steel maker at Stockbridge near Sheffield; patented Fox’s paragon frame for umbrellas 6 April 1852 by which he made a fortune; established large works at Lille, France; chairman of Samuel Fox and Co., Stockbridge works, Deepcar near Sheffield to death. d. The Lodge, North Cliffe near Market Weighton, Yorkshire 25 Feb. 1887.

FOX, SARAH HUSTLER (only dau. of Wm. Hustler of Apple hall, Bradford, Yorkshire). b. Apple hall 8 Aug. 1800. (m. 20 Dec. 1825 Charles Fox 1797–1878.) Author of A metrical version of the book of Job 1852–4; Poems original and translated 1863; Catch who can, or hide and seek, original double acrostics 1869. d. Trebah near Falmouth 19 Feb. 1882.

FOX, REV. WILLIAM JOHNSON. b. Uggeshall farm near Wrentham, Suffolk 1 March 1786; Independent minister at Fareham 1810; Unitarian minister at Chichester 1812–17; minister of Parliament court chapel, London 1817, of a chapel built for him in South place, Finsbury 1824–52; edited the Monthly Repository 1833 to 1836; a leading orator of the Anti-Corn-law League; M.P. for Oldham 1847–52, 1852–57 and 1857–62; contested Oldham 1852 and 1857; author of Lectures to the working classes 4 vols. 1845–49 and 30 other books. d. 3 Sussex place, Regent’s park, London 3 June 1864. Memorial edition of collected works of W. J. Fox, vol. 12 (1868); John Evans’s Lancashire authors (1850) 92–96; People’s Journal iii, 69 (1848), portrait; I.L.N. xii, 298 (1848), portrait.

FOX, WILLIAM TILBURY (son of Luther Owen Fox, M.D. of Broughton, Winchester). b. 1836; ed. at Univ. coll. London; M.B. London 1857, M.D. 1858; phys. accoucheur to Farringdon General Dispensary; a specialist on dermatology; phys. to skin departments of Charing Cross and University college hospitals; one of editors of the Lancet; author of Skin diseases, their description, pathology, diagnosis and treatment 1864, 3 ed. 1873; Atlas of skin diseases 1875–7 and 12 other books. d. Paris 7 June 1879. bur. Willesden cemetery 14 June.

FOX, WILSON. b. Wellington, Somerset 2 Nov. 1831; B.A. London 1850, M.B. 1854, M.D. 1855; phys. at Newcastle-under-Lyme 1859–61; professor of pathological anatomy at Univ. coll. London 1861; assistant phys. Univ. coll. hospital 1862, phys. 1867; F.R.C.P. 1866; Holme professor of clinical medicine Univ. coll. hospital 1867; phys. extraord. to the Queen 16 Aug. 1869, phys. in ordinary 18 Dec. 1882 to death; F.R.S. 6 June 1872; author of On the diagnosis and treatment of the varieties of Dyspepsia 1867, 3 ed. under the title of The diseases of the stomach 1872, and other books. d. Preston, Lancs. 3 May 1887. bur. Taunton 6 May, bust in shire hall, Taunton unveiled 25 Oct. 1888.

FRADELLE, HENRY JOSEPH. b. Lille, France 1778; historical painter in London from 1816; exhibited 11 pictures at R.A., 36 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. gallery 1817–54. d. 36 Weymouth st. Portland place, London 14 March 1865.

FRAIL, JOHN FREDERICK. b. Shrewsbury 1 May 1804; hairdresser Shrewsbury; a local actor; electioneering agent to the Carlton club in Shropshire; clerk of the course, Shrewsbury 1843; organised many race meetings; entertained at dinner and presented with plate worth £350, 1854; town councillor 1854, mayor. d. Shrewsbury 9 March 1879. Sporting Review xxxix, 361–3 (1858); Sporting Times 24 July 1875 p. 396, portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news vi, 403, 419 (1877), portrait, x, 620, 627 (1879), portrait.

FRANCATELLI, CHARLES ELMÉ. b. London 1805; studied cookery under Carème; chef to Earl of Chesterfield, Earl of Dudley, Lord Kinnaird and Rowland Errington successively; managed St. James’s club, London; chief cook and maitre d’hotel to the Queen 1840–42; lessee of Coventry House club; chef at the Reform club 1854–61; managed St. James’s hotel, Berkeley st. Piccadilly 1863–70, and Freemason’s tavern, Great Queen st. 1870–76; author of The modern cook 1846, 12 ed. 1865 and other books. d. Eastbourne 10 Aug. 1876. A. Hayward’s Art of dining, new ed. (1883) 75–6.

FRANCE, VEN. FRANCIS. Educ. at Shrewsbury and St. John’s coll. Cam.; B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843, B.D. 1850; fellow tutor and pres. of his college; archdeacon of Ely, Dec. 1859 to death; author of The example of Christ 1861. d. Cambridge 14 April 1864.

FRANCILLON, JAMES (6 son of Francis Francillon of Harwich, Essex). b. 21 Nov. 1802; admitted attorney; conveyancing clerk to Messrs. Wilton at Gloucester 1824; barrister G.I. 20 Nov. 1833; judge of county courts, circuit 54 (Gloucestershire), March 1847 to death; author of Lectures elementary and familiar on English law 2 series 1860–1. d. of cholera at Lausanne 3 Sep. 1866.

FRANCIS, FRANCIS (son of Captain Morgan, R.N.) b. Seton, Devon 1822; changed his name from Morgan to Francis 1843; angling editor of The Field 25 years; established the Thames Rights defence association; suggested plan of the National fish-culture association; a member of the commission on oyster culture 1868–70; author of Pickackifax, a novel in rhyme 1854; Newton Dogvane, a novel 3 vols. 1859 and 14 other books. d. The Firs, Twickenham 24 Dec. 1886. F. Francis’s A Book on Angling, 6 ed. (1887), portrait; The Field 1 Jany. 1887 p. 9, cols. 1–3.

FRANCIS, GEORGE (2 son of George Francis of Maidstone, Kent). b. 20 Aug. 1824; barrister G.I. 16 Jany. 1850, bencher 26 May 1880, treasurer 1886; recorder of Faversham, March 1864 to Nov. 1872; recorder of Canterbury, Nov. 1872 to Aug. 1883; master in Q.B. division, July 1878, master of supreme court of judicature 1879 to death. d. 12 Carlton hill, Maida vale, London 20 Jany. 1890.

FRANCIS, GEORGE GRANT (eld. son of John Francis of Swansea). b. Swansea, Jany. 1814; mayor of Swansea 1853–4; col. of 1st Glamorgan artillery volunteers raised by his exertions 1859; author of The free grammar school Swansea, Swansea 1849; The smelting of copper in the Swansea district, privately printed Swansea 1867, published 1881, and other books on Welsh history and topography. d. 9 Upper Phillimore place, Kensington, London 21 April 1882. bur. Swansea cemetery 26 April. Athenæum 28 April 1882 pp. 510–11.

FRANCIS, GEORGE HENRY. b. about 1817; edited Morning Post, Atlas, Dublin Daily Express; manager and assistant editor of the Press; edited Morning Chronicle; author of Orators of the age 1847 and other books. d. Paris 28 Aug. 1866.

FRANCIS, GEORGE WILLIAM. b. London 1800; edited Magazine of science and school of arts 5 vols. 1840–5; went to Australia 1849; director of Adelaide botanic garden to death; author of Catalogue of British plants and ferns 1835, 5 ed. 1840; An analysis of British ferns 1837, 5 ed. 1855; Electrical experiments 8 ed. 1855 and 8 other books. d. Adelaide 9 Aug. 1865.

FRANCIS, JAMES GOODALL. b. London 1819; went to Van Diemen’s Land 1834; partner with Mr. Macpherson in a business at Hobart Town 1847; managed a branch business in Melbourne 1853; vice pres. of chamber of commerce N.S.W. 1856, pres. 1857; member for Richmond in Victorian legislative assembly 1859–74; comr. of trade and customs 1863–68; treasurer of Victoria 1870–71; prime minister 1872–74; passed a free education act 1874; member for Warrnambool in Victorian assembly 1878–82. d. Queenscliff, Victoria 25 Jany. 1884.

FRANCIS, JOHN. b. Lincolnshire 3 Sep. 1780; pupil of Francis Chantrey in London; executed by command of the Queen a bust in marble of Prince Albert 1844; exhibited 71 sculptures at the R.A. 1820–57. d. 56 Albany st. Regent’s park, London 30 Aug. 1861.

FRANCIS, JOHN. b. Bermondsey, London 18 July 1811; junior clerk in office of the Athenæum, Sep. 1831, business manager and publisher of that paper 4 Oct. 1831 to death; did more than any man to procure repeal of duty on newspaper advertisements 1853, of stamp duty on newspapers 1855 and of the paper duty 1861. d. 20 Wellington st. Strand, London 6 April 1882. John Francis, publisher of the Athenæum, By J. C. Francis (1888) i, 1–19, 45–7, 226, ii, 173 et seq. 545–50, portrait; H. J. Nicoll’s Great Movements (1881) 269–339.

FRANCIS, SIR PHILIP. b. 1822; barrister M.T. 21 Nov. 1845; judge of supreme consular court of the Levant and consul general at Constantinople 16 Sep. 1867 to death; knighted by patent 7 Dec. 1868; author of The law of Charities 1854; The new common law procedure acts 1854. d. on board H.M.S. Antelope between Besika and Smyrna 9 Aug. 1876. Graphic xiv, 257, 261 (1876), portrait.

FRANCKLYN, JOHN HENRY. b. 8 Jany. 1812; 2 lieut. R.A. 26 July 1831, col. commandant 20 Dec. 1878 to death; general 13 Nov. 1880; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857. d. The Wigwam, Dacres road, Forest hill 12 Feb. 1881.

FRANKLAND, CHARLES COLVILLE (3 son of Rev. Roger Frankland, R. of Yarlington, Somerset, who d. 25 March 1826). b. Bath 10 Feb. 1797; entered navy 13 Jany. 1813, captain 23 Nov. 1841; retired admiral 30 July 1875; published Travels to and from Constantinople 2 vols. 1829; Narrative of a visit to the courts of Russia and Sweden 2 vols. 1832. d. 2 Royal crescent, Bath 13 April 1876.

FRANKLIN, LADY JANE (2 dau. of John Griffin of Bedford place, London). b. 1792; travelled in the East, Van Diemen’s Land and New Zealand 1828–44; the first lady who travelled overland from Melbourne to Sydney; sent out at her own expense to the Arctic regions 5 ships in search of her husband Sir John Franklin 1850–57; received gold medal of Royal Geog. Soc. 1860. (m. at Great Stanmore 5 Nov. 1828 John Franklin, captain R.N. who d. Victory point, King William Land 11 June 1847, his name is in the navy list down to April 1854); author of A letter to Viscount Palmerston 1857, 2 editions. She d. 45 Phillimore gardens, London 18 July 1875. Graphic xi, 157, 163 (1875), portrait.

FRANKLYN, GEORGE WOODROFFE. b. Bristol 1800; a merchant at Bristol; mayor of Bristol 1842–43; M.P. for Poole 1852–65. d. Lovel hill, Winkfield, Berks. 5 Nov. 1870.

FRANKS, SIR JOHN (2 son of Thomas Franks of Ballymagooly, co. Cork 1729–87). b. Loher Cannon near Tralee, co. Kerry 1769; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; B.A. 1788, M.A. 1791; called to Irish bar 1792; K.C. 25 Nov. 1822; one of judges of supreme court, Calcutta 1825–1834 when he resigned; knighted at Carlton house 20 April 1825; resided at Roebuck near Dublin 1835 to death; bencher of King’s Inns, Dublin 1840. d. St. Bridgets, Clonkeagh, co. Dublin 11 Jany. 1852.

FRANKS, SIR THOMAS HARTE (2 son of Wm. Franks of Carrig castle near Mallow, co. Cork). Ensign 10 foot 7 July 1825, lieut. col. 28 March 1845 to 20 July 1858; commanded 4th infantry division during Indian mutiny 1858; M.G. 20 July 1858; C.B. 27 June 1846, K.C.B. 27 July 1858. d. Ibstone house, Tetsworth, Oxon. 5 Feb. 1862.

FRASER, ALEXANDER. b. Edinburgh 7 April 1786; painter in Edin. to 1813, in London 1813–59; painted the details and still life in David Wilkie’s pictures for about 20 years; A.R.S.A. 1840; exhibited 32 pictures at R.A., 97 at B.I. and 37 at Suffolk st. gallery 1810–59. d. Wood Green, Middlesex 15 Feb. 1865.

FRASER, HASTINGS. Ensign 74 foot 9 April 1788; lieut. col. 86 foot 18 April 1805 to 31 Aug. 1826; col. 83 foot 30 Sep. 1835, col. 61 foot 1 Sep. 1848 to death; general 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 4 June 1815. d. Bury st. St. James’s, London 29 Sep. 1852 aged 81.

FRASER, SIR HUGH (son of Wm. Fraser, commissary of Inverness). Entered military service of H.E.I. Co. 1790; col. of 5 Madras N.I. 1 May 1834 to death; L.G. 23 Nov. 1841; K.C.B. 7 April 1832 for commanding troops at assault of Copaul Droog. d. Braclangwell, co. Cromarty 6 Oct. 1851 aged 78.

FRASER, RIGHT REV. JAMES (eld. son of James Fraser of Prestbury, Gloucs.) b. Prestbury 18 Aug. 1818; ed. at Bridgnorth and Shrewsbury; scholar of Lincoln coll. Ox. 1836; Ireland scholar 1839; B.A. 1840, M.A. 1842; fellow of Oriel coll. 1840–60, tutor 1842–47, sub-dean and librarian 1844; R. of Cholderton, Wiltshire 1847–60; select preacher at Oxford 1851, 1861, 1871, 1877 and 1885; R. of Ufton Nervet, Berkshire 1860–70; preb. of Salisbury 1861–70; bishop of Manchester 18 Jany. 1870 to death, consecrated at Manchester cathedral 25 March 1870. d. Bishop’s Court, Higher Broughton, Manchester 22 Oct. 1885. bur. at Ufton Nervet. Memoir of James Fraser. By Thomas Hughes, Q.C. 1887, portrait; J. W. Diggle’s The Lancashire life of Bishop Fraser 1889, portrait; Dublin univ. mag. xcv, 452–64 (1880), portrait; Church portrait gallery i, 47 (1880), portrait; Our Bishops and Deans. By Rev. F. Arnold ii, 119–30 (1875); Rev. C. M. Davies’s Orthodox London 2 series (1874) 94–107, 393.

FRASER, JAMES BAILLIE (eld. son of Edward Satchell Fraser of Reelick, Invernessshire). b. Reelick 11 June 1783; travelled in the Himalayas 1815, in Persia 1821–2; took charge of the Persian princes when they visited England 1835–6; author of Narrative of the Persian princes in London 2 vols. 1838; Travels in Koordistan, Mesopotamia, &c. 2 vols. 1840; The dark falcon, a tale of the Attruck 4 vols. 1844 and 14 other books. d. Reelick 24 Jany. 1856. G.M. xlv, 307–8 (1856).

FRASER, JAMES STUART (youngest son of Charles Fraser, col. Madras army, who d. 5 May 1795). b. Edinburgh 1 July 1783; lieut. 18 Madras N.I. 15 Dec. 1800; commandant at Pondicherry 1816–28; col. 36 Madras N.I. 26 Sep. 1835 to death; resident at Hyderabad 31 Dec. 1839 to 1852; general 2 June 1860. d. Twickenham park, Twickenham 22 Aug. 1869. H. Fraser’s Memoir of J. S. Fraser (1885), portrait.

FRASER, SIR JOHN (3 son of Wm. Mackenzie Fraser, M.D. of Balnairn). b. Bath 1792; ed. at Eton; aide-de-camp and Persian interpreter to commander-in-chief in India; retired from army 1827; sec. to lord high comr. of Ionian Islands to 1854; K.C.M.G. 1853. d. Bath 26 Dec. 1864.

FRASER, JOHN FARQUHAR. Barrister L.I. 13 May 1817; judge of county courts, circuit 46 (Surrey), March 1847 to death; author of The reports of Sir E. Coke in 13 parts, 10 parts by J. F. F. 1826; resided at 104 Eaton place, Belgrave sq. London. d. Feb. 1865.

FRASER, PATRICK, Lord Fraser (son of Patrick Fraser of Perth, merchant). b. Pitlochry near Perth 1819; ed. at Perth gr. sch. and univ. of St. Andrews; called to the bar 1843; sheriff of Renfrewshire 3 Feb. 1862; LLD. Edin. 1871; dean of Faculty of Advocates 16 Jany. 1878; Q.C. 1880; a lord of session with title of Lord Fraser 4 Feb. 1881 to death; lord ordinary in exchequer cases 15 Nov. 1881 to death; author of A treatise on the law of Scotland as applicable to the personal and domestic relations 2 vols. Edin. 1846; The conflict of laws in cases of divorce, Edin. 1860 and 5 other books; found dead in his study chair at Gattonside near Melrose 27 March 1889. Juridical Review i, 178–83 (1889), portrait.

FRASER, ROBERT SAMUEL. b. North Shields 26 Oct. 1829; apprentice to William Clark, engineer, Sunderland 1843; manager of the s.s. Chasseur floating factory in Balaclava harbour 1855–56 for the government; assistant to inspector of machinery in the Arsenal, Woolwich 1856; manager of royal gun factories, Woolwich 1859, deputy assist. superintendent 1866; invented the service gun known as the Fraser 1867 but since called the Woolwich gun and still in use; presented by government on two occasions with £5000 each time; changed spelling of his name from Frazer to Fraser 1866; M.I.C.E. 6 Dec. 1864. d. of consumption Arbory cottage, Sydenham road, Croydon 12 July 1884. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxviii, 424–9 (1884).

FRASER, REV. ROBERT WILLIAM (son of captain Robert Fraser). b. Perth 1810; licensed to preach by Edinburgh presbytery 1840; minister of parish of Burntisland 1843–7; minister of St. John’s ch. Edin. 1847 to death; author of Moriah, or sketches of the sacred rites of ancient Israel, Edinburgh 1849 and many other books. d. 19 Lauriston st. Edinburgh 10 Sep. 1876. Scotsman 12 Sep. 1876 p. 4.

FRASER, THOMAS. Took a leading part in Parisian political life which he described in racy articles, sent to the Morning Chronicle 1835–55; sec. to Hudson Bay Co. London 1855. d. Florence 2 Nov. 1869. Newspaper Press 1 Dec. 1869 p. 15.

FRASER, THOMAS (son of vice admiral Alexander Fraser, who d. 29 Dec. 1829). b. May 1796; entered navy 11 Nov. 1811; commander 22 July 1826; captain on h.p. 23 Nov. 1841; V.A. on h.p. 1870. d. 19 Brighton place, Portobello 28 Oct. 1870. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882), p. 139, portrait.

FRASER, MOST REV. WILLIAM. b. Scotland about 1790; R.C. vicar apostolic of Nova Scotia with title of bishop of Fanes 1821; devoted himself to Scottish members of his flock in Antigonish, northern part of the peninsula and neglected the Irish; the Pope divided province of Nova Scotia into two dioceses, Antigonish being united to Cape Breton and erected into diocese of Arishat with W. Fraser as titular bishop. d. Antigonish 4 Oct. 1857.

FRASER, REV. WILLIAM (eld. son of Wm. Fraser of St. George’s, Southwark, London). Matric. from Worcester coll. Ox. 9 June 1841 aged 17; B.A. 1845, M.A. 1848, B.C.L. 1848, D.C.L. 1861; C. of Alton, Staffs. 1853–58, V. 1858 to death; P.C. of Cotton, Staffs. 1862 to death; author of Parish Sermons 2 series 1855–60; A plain commentary of the Book of Psalms, chiefly founded on the Fathers 2 vols. 1857 and other books. d. Alton vicarage 26 Nov. 1877.

FRASER, REV. WILLIAM. b. Cullen, Banffshire 1817; a master in Normal seminary, Glasgow; pastor of the Free Middle congregation, Paisley 1849 to death; LLD. Glasgow 1872; member of Paisley school board; author of The state of our educational enterprises 1858; Blending lights, or the relations of natural science, archæology and history to the Bible 1873. d. Free Middle manse, Paisley 21 Sep. 1879. Renfrewshire Independent 27 Sep. 1879 p. 4.

FRASER, WILLIAM CHARLES. Entered Madras army 1797; col. 14 Madras N.I. 1848 to death; general 20 June 1854. d. Stanley place, Paddington, London 4 March 1859 aged 74.

FRAZER, JOHN JAMES, stage name of John James Fricker. Principal tenor singer in London 1843; went to the United States about 1851. d. Philadelphia 18 June 1863 in 59 year.

FREAKE, SIR CHARLES JAMES, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Charles Freake of St. George’s, Hanover sq. London). b. 7 April 1814; contested Chelsea 17 Nov. 1868; built Cromwell road and other streets in Kensington; created baronet 23 May 1882. d. 1 Cromwell houses, Kensington, London 6 Oct. 1884.

FREDERICK, CHARLES (2 son of lieut. colonel Thomas Frederick, who d. 28 May 1844 aged 80). b. 7 May 1797; entered navy 5 June 1810; captain 23 Oct. 1842; member of Irish relief committee 1847; member of Board of Admiralty, June 1859; senior officer on coast of Ireland 31 March 1865 to 8 Oct. 1867; retired admiral 30 July 1875. d. 13 Victoria st. Westminster 23 Dec. 1875.

FREDERICK, EDWARD (son of col. Charles Frederick). b. 23 June 1784; entered Bombay army 1799; col. 10 Bombay N.I. 28 June 1838 to death; general 26 June 1860; C.B. 28 July 1838. d. Shawford house, Hants. 5 Dec. 1866.

FREEBURN, JAMES. b. parish of St. Cuthbert’s, Midlothian 1808; enlisted in 7th battalion of R.A. 1825, serjeant-major April 1844, quartermaster of 10th battalion 1 April 1846 to 21 April 1856 when he retired with hon. rank of captain; invented an elaborate series of metal and wood fuzes for exploding live shells 1846, his fuzes were adopted in the army 1847. d. Plumstead, Woolwich 5 Aug. 1876.

FREEMAN, VEN. PHILIP (son of Edmund Freeman of The Cedars, Combs, Suffolk). b. The Cedars 3 Feb. 1818; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., scholar 1835; Craven univ. scholar 1838; B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842; fellow of St. Peter’s coll. 1842–53; principal of theological coll. Chichester 1846–55; canon and reader in theology in Cumbrae coll. Scotland 1855–58; V. of Thorverton, Devon 1858–74; preb. of Exeter 1861–64; canon of Exeter 1864 to death; archdeacon of Exeter, April 1865 to death; author of Proportion in Gothic architecture 1848; The principles of divine service 2 parts 1855–62 and 17 other books. d. 1 Northumberland terrace, Primrose hill, London 24 Feb. 1875 from effects of an accident at Chalk Farm railway station 18 Feb.

FREEMAN, SAMUEL. Engraver of portraits; worked chiefly in stipple; engraved numerous portraits and other illustrations for Rev. T. F. Dibdin’s Northern Gallery, Jones’s National Gallery and other books. d. 22 Jeffrey’s st. Camden Town, London 27 Feb. 1857 aged 84.

FREEMAN, WILLIAM DEANE. Called to bar in Ireland 1817; Q.C. 17 Aug. 1841; assistant barrister for Galway to death. d. Galway 13 Oct. 1852. Law magazine and law review ii, 236–40 (1857).

FREEMAN, REV. JOSEPH JOHN. b. Thames st. London 7 Oct. 1794; Congregational minister at Chelmsford 21 May 1816; minister for London missionary soc. in Madagascar 1826–35; minister at Walthamstow 1836; one of foreign secretaries of London Missionary Soc. 1841 and home sec. 1846; visited missionary stations in Guiana and Jamaica 1842–43; took charge of Malagasy refugees when in England 1848; visited mission churches at the Cape and in the Mauritius 1849–51; author of The Holy Bible in the Malagasy language 1830; A Tour to South Africa 1851 and 9 other works. d. Homburg 8 Sep. 1851. Congregational Year Book (1852) pp. 215–16; Waddington’s Congregational history v, 51–9 (1880).

FREER, JOHN CHARLES. b. Malta 1802; appeared on stage at Portsmouth about 1824; played at theatres in east of London with success; kept a public house in Shoreditch which failed; went to Philadelphia; appeared at Park theatre, New York as Richard III. 18 May 1839; lessee of Richmond hill theatre, New York; stage manager of Chatham theatre, New York 10 years. Cut his throat at a coffee house, Bridge court, Cannon row, Westminster bridge, London 24 Dec. 1857. d. Westminster hospital same day. bur. Working 30 Dec. Theatrical times iii, 89 (1848), portrait; Era 27 Dec. 1857 p. 11.

FREER, VEN. RICHARD LANE (son of Rev. Thomas Lane Freer, R. of Handsworth, Staffs., who d. 1835 aged 57). b. 1806; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch., Ox., B.A. 1828, D.D. 1858; R. of Bishopstone, Herefordshire 1830 to death; preb. of Hereford cath. 1847 to death; archdeacon of Hereford, April 1852 to death; prelector of Hereford cath. 1861 to death. d. Bishopstone rectory 11 Aug. 1863. Memoir of Ven. R. L. Freer [by his widow], privately printed 1866, portrait.

FREESTUN, SIR WILLIAM LOCKYER (2 son of Edward Freestun of Primrose hill, co. Waterford). b. May park, Waterford 1804; ensign 5 foot 4 June 1812; on the staff of British legion under Sir De Lacy Evans 1835–37; served on the staff in Syria as assistant adjutant general with rank of major 15 Dec. 1840 to 1842; M.P. for Weymouth 1847–59; knighted at St. James’s palace 20 June 1860. d. 22 Gloucester sq. Hyde park, London 16 April 1862.

FREETH, SIR JAMES (youngest son of Sampson Freeth of Birmingham). b. Birmingham 1786; ensign royal staff corps 25 Dec. 1806, captain 1814 to 1830 when placed on h.p.; A.Q.M.G. 1826–1851, Q.M.G. 1 Feb. 1851 to 13 Aug. 1855; col. 64 foot 13 Aug. 1855 to death; general 9 March 1865; K.H. 1833; K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862. d. 80 Coleshill st. Eaton sq. London 19 Jany. 1867.

FREILIGRATH, FERDINAND. b. Detmold, North Germany 17 June 1810; clerk in a bank at Amsterdam 1831–36; a merchant’s clerk in City of London 1846–48; imprisoned at Düsseldorf 2 months in 1848 for publishing a poem entitled The Dead to the Living 1848; clerk in a bank in City of London 1851–67; naturalised in England 16 Oct. 1858; lived in Germany 1867 to death; a most popular modern German poet; his collected works were published in 6 vols. at Stuttgart 1877. d. Cannstadt near Stuttgart 17 March 1876. W. Buchner’s F. Freiligrath, ein Dichterleben 2 vols. (1882), 2 portraits.

FREMANTLE, SIR CHARLES HOWE (2 son of admiral Sir Thomas Francis Fremantle 1765–1819). b. 1 June 1800; midshipman R.N. 12 Dec. 1812; captain 4 Aug. 1826; admiral superintendent in Balaklava 18 June 1855; commander-in-chief at Devonport, Oct. 1863 to Oct. 1866; admiral 9 Feb. 1864; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1857, G.C.B. 13 March 1867. d. 57 Grosvenor st. London 25 May 1869.

FRENCH, Queen of the, MARIE AMELIE DE BOURBON (2 dau. of Ferdinand I. 1751–1825, king of the Two Sicilies). b. Caserte palace near Naples 26 April 1782. (m. at Palermo 25 Nov. 1809 Louis Philippe De Bourbon b. Paris 6 Oct. 1773 king of the French 1830–48, d. Claremont, Surrey 26 Aug. 1850); lived at Claremont, March 1848 to death. d. Claremont 24 March 1866. bur. in mausoleum at Weybridge 3 April. Mrs. Challis’s Illustrious women of France (1873) 215–320, portrait; I.L.N. xii, 147 (1848), portrait; G.M. i, 741–3 (1866).

FRENCH, MOST REV. EDMUND (son of Rev. Dr. Ffrench, protestant warden of Galway). Educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; Catholic warden of Galway to 1831 when office was abolished; R.C. Bishop of Kilmacduagh and Kilfenora 26 July 1824 to death; consecrated 13 March 1825. d. Gort, co. Galway 14 July 1852.

FRENCH, FITZSTEPHEN (youngest son of Arthur French of French park, co. Roscommon, who d. 24 Nov. 1820). b. 7 Dec. 1801; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; M.P. for co. Roscommon 7 Dec. 1832 to death; col. Roscommon militia 23 Dec. 1854 to death; P.C. Ireland 1866; author of The Question Are the Government entitled to the support of the Irish liberal members? 1839. d. 68 Warwick sq. London 4 June 1873.

FRENCH, GEORGE (3 son of Arthur French of French park, co. Roscommon, M.P. for that county). b. 23 Nov. 1771; called to Irish bar 1795; K.C. 18 Feb. 1822; assistant barrister co. Longford; crown prosecutor Connaught circuit. d. Seamont, Malhide 26 Oct. 1860. O. J. Burke’s Anecdotes of Connaught circuit (1885) 278.

FRENCH, GEORGE. Educ. at Shrewsbury and Caius coll. Cam.; barrister L.I. 11 June 1844; edited The Equity Reports vol. 3, 1853; judge of mixed courts at Sierra Leone 16 Aug. 1871; returned to England 1875; judge of supreme court for China at Shanghae 10 Dec. 1877; chief justice of supreme court for China and Japan at Shanghae 30 Oct. 1878 to death. d. Kobe, Japan 13 Nov. 1881.

FRENCH, GEORGE RUSSELL. b. London 1803; surveyor and architect to Ironmonger’s Company; mem. of council and vice pres. of London and Middlesex Archæological Soc.; author of Ancestry of Victoria and Albert 1841; Genealogical and biographical history of England 1847 and other books. d. London 1 Nov. 1881.

FRENCH, GILBERT JAMES (son of James French of Edinburgh, shawl manufacturer). b. 4 Nicholson square, Edinburgh 18 April 1804; apprenticed to a draper in Edinburgh; partner with John Cross, draper of Bolton, Lancashire; a church furnisher in Manchester road, Bolton; pres. of Bolton mechanics institution 1857–58; life member of Society of Antiquaries 9 Feb. 1860; author of Practical remarks on some of the minor accessories to the service of the church 1844; The life and times of Samuel Crompton 1859 and 9 other books. d. Newport sq. Bolton 4 May 1866.

FRENCH, HENRY JOHN. Ensign 90 foot 27 Aug. 1812; major 85 foot 23 May 1836 to 31 July 1846 when placed on h.p.; col. 80 foot 3 Sep. 1867 to death; L.G. 9 Aug. 1870. d. 17 Belgrave road, Eccleston sq. London 25 Jany. 1874 aged 77.

FRENCH, SYDNEY. Edited Weekly Despatch; acting editor of Licensed Victuallers’ Gazette to death. d. Alresford house, Stansfield road, Stockwell 27 Oct. 1878 aged 42. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 1 Nov.

FRENCH, THOMAS. A jockey; rode St. Albans in the Great Metropolitan stakes 1861; won the Derby on Kingcraft 1870, on Favonius 1871; accomplished unprecedented feat of riding 6 winners in one day at Newmarket July meeting 1869. d. Newmarket 30 Aug. 1873 in 29 year. Illust. sp. and dramatic news i, 255, 256 (1874), portrait; Baily’s mag. xviii, (1870), portrait.

FRERE, BARTHOLOMEW (5 son of John Frere of Roydon, Norfolk, F.R.S. 1740–1807). b. 30 Nov. 1776; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1799, M.A. 1806; sec. of legation at Lisbon 1801; sec. of legation at Constantinople 1807–8, 1811–15 and 1817–20, minister plenipotentiary ad interim there 1815–17 and 1820–21; retired on pension Aug. 1821. d. 23 Old Burlington st. London 29 May 1851.

FRERE, GEORGE EDWARD (2 son of Edward Frere of Llanelly, Brecknockshire). b. 29 Jany. 1807; ed. at Charterhouse and Univ. of Edin.; barrister M.T. 8 Nov. 1851; F.R.S. 8 June 1837. d. Roydon hall near Diss, Norfolk 3 Dec. 1887.

FRERE, SIR HENRY BARTLE EDWARD, 1 Baronet (6 son of Edward Frere of Llanelly). b. Clydach, Brecknockshire 29 March 1815; entered Indian civil service 15 Jany. 1834; resident at Sattara 1 May 1847; comr. to Scinde 2 Dec. 1850; member of council at Calcutta 21 Dec. 1859; governor of Bombay 24 April 1862 to 6 March 1867; member of council of India 12 Nov. 1866; P.C. 4 Aug. 1873; presented with freedom of city of London 16 July 1874; baronet 19 May 1876; governor of Cape of Good Hope 5 March 1877 to July 1880; K.C.B. 20 May 1859, G.C.B. 17 May 1876; G.C.S.I 12 Feb. 1866; F.R.S. 3 May 1877; author of Eastern Africa as a field for missionary labour 1874 and other books. d. Wressil lodge, Wimbledon 29 May 1884. bur. St. Paul’s cath. 5 June, statue erected on Thames embankment 1888. G. B. Malleson’s Recreations (1872) 388–437; Escott’s Pillars of the empire (1879) 92–7; Army and navy mag. i, 474–78 (1881), portrait.

FRERE, JAMES HATLEY (brother of Bartholomew Frere 1776–1851). b. 1779; introduced a phonetic system for teaching the blind to read about 1838; author of A combined view of the prophecies of Daniel, Esdras and S. John 1815; The art of teaching to read by elementary sounds 1840 and 10 other books. d. Shillington vicarage, Beds. 8 Dec. 1866.

FRERE, REV. JOHN ALEXANDER (3 son of James Hatley Frere of army pay office 1779–1866). b. 9 May 1814; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; fellow, tutor and senior dean of his college 1840–47; Whitehall preacher 1847–8; Christian advocate of Univ. of Cam. 1848–50; V. of Shillington, Beds. 1853 to death; author of On the incarnation 1853 and other books. d. Achenkirch, Austrian Tyrol 27 Aug. 1877.

FRERE, PHILIP HOWARD (eld. son of Wm. Frere 1775–1836, master of Downing coll. Cam.) b. 1813; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; fellow of Downing coll. 1837, tutor and bursar 1839; edited Journal of Royal Agricultural Society 1862 to death, in which he wrote many papers on agriculture. d. Panton house, Cambridge 12 May 1868.

FRESHFIELD, JAMES WILLIAM (eld. son of James Freshfield of Chertsey, Surrey). b. Windsor 1775; pensioner at Peterhouse coll. Cam.; admitted solicitor 1795; solicitor to Bank of England 1812–40; M.P. for Penryn and Falmouth 1830–32, 1835–41 and 1852–57; M.P. for Boston 1851–52; barrister G.I. 16 Nov. 1842; chairman of Surrey quarter sessions; sheriff of Surrey 1850; chairman of the Divorce Committee 1856–57; F.R.S. 10 April 1834; author of County Rates 1854. d. 6 Devonshire place, London 27 June 1864.

FREWEN, CHARLES HAY. b. 1813; M.P. for East Sussex 1846–57; sheriff of Leics. 1866. d. Cold Overton hall, Oakham 1 Sep. 1878.

FREWEN, THOMAS (brother of preceding). b. Cold Overton hall 26 Aug. 1811; M.P. for South Leics. 1835–36; sheriff of Sussex 1839. d. Brickwall house, Northiam 14 Oct. 1870.

FRISWELL, JAMES HAIN (son of Wm. Friswell of 93 Wimpole st. London, attorney). b. Newport, Shropshire 8 May 1825; founded in London the Friday Knights, a social society, January 1858, the name was changed to the Urban club 15 November 1858; edited The Censor, a weekly review 23 May to 7 November 1868; edited the Bayard series and the Gentle Life series; author of The gentle life 1864 anon., 21 ed. 1879, 2nd series 1868, 11 ed. 1879, and 34 other books. d. Fair home, Bexley Heath, Kent 12 March 1878. Graphic 30 March 1878 pp. 320, 332, portrait; Pictorial World 6 April 1878 pp. 82, 84, portrait.

FRITH, JOHN WHARTON. Ensign 12 foot 17 July 1804; lieut. col. 58 foot 1836–1842; inspecting field officer 30 Dec. 1842; col. 2 West India regiment 1860, col. 3 foot 1863 to death; L.G. 13 Aug. 1862. d. 85 Waterloo road, Dublin 8 Sep. 1864 aged 74.

FROME, EDWARD CHARLES. b. Gibraltar 7 Jany. 1802; 2 lieut. R.E. 1825, col. 1859, col. commandant 1871 to death; surveyor general of South Australia 1839–49, of Mauritius 1851–58; inspector general of engineers at head quarters 1868–9; lieut. governor of Guernsey 1 May 1869 to 30 April 1874; general 21 Nov. 1874; F.R.A.S.; author of Outlines of the method of conducting a trigonometrical survey 1840, 4 ed. 1873. d. Ewell, Surrey 12 Feb. 1890.

FROPIER, SIR GABRIEL PIERRE JULES. Member of legislative council of Mauritius; knighted by patent 31 Oct. 1862. d. 1882.

FROST, CHARLES (son of Thomas Frost of Kingston-upon-Hull, solicitor). b. Kingston-upon-Hull 1781 or 1782, solicitor there to death; solicitor to Hull dock company 33 years; F.S.A. 2 May 1822; pres. of Hull literary and philos. soc. 10 times; vice pres. of British Assoc. at Hull meeting 1853; author of Notices relative to the early history of the town of Hull 1827 and other books. d. Hull 5 Sep. 1862. R. W. Corlass’s Sketches of Hull authors (1879) 33–4; I.L.N. xxiii, 225, 226 (1853), portrait.

FROST, JOHN (son of John Frost of Mill st. Newport, Monmouthshire, publican). Tailor and draper at Newport 1811, member of town council of Newport, magistrate 1835, mayor 1836; elected 1838 as delegate to represent Chartists of Monmouthshire at national convention of working classes which met in London 4 Feb. 1839 and was dissolved 14 Sep.; led a large body of working men into Newport and attacked the Westgate hotel 4 Nov. 1839, tried at Monmouth 10 Dec. 1839, Frost, Williams and Jones sentenced to be hung, drawn and quartered 16 Jany. 1840 being the last persons in this country so sentenced, transported to Van Diemen’s Land 1840, obtained a conditional pardon 1854, a free pardon May 1856; author of The horrors of convict life 1856. d. Stapleton near Bristol 29 July 1877 aged 93. Gurney’s Trial of John Frost for high treason (1840); W. C. Townsend’s Modern state trials (1850) i, 1–101; The rise and fall of Chartism in Monmouthshire (1840) p. 6 et seq. portrait; Century Mag. xxiii, 428 (1882), portrait.

FROST, WILLIAM EDWARD. b. Wandsworth, Surrey, Sep. 1810; student at the R.A. 1829; painter of portraits and allegorical pictures; A.R.A. Nov. 1846, R.A. 30 Dec. 1870 to June 1876 when he resigned; exhibited 77 pictures at R.A. and 33 at B.I. 1836–78. d. 40 Fitzroy sq. London 4 June 1877. Sandby’s History of Royal Academy (1862) ii, 219–21; Art Journal (1849) p. 184, portrait, (1857) pp. 5–7, (1877) pp. 234, 280; I.L.N. xxx, 419, 420 (1857), portrait, and lviii, 61, 63 (1871), portrait.

FROUDE, VEN. ROBERT HURRELL (son of Robert Froude of Walkhampton, Devon). Matric. from Oriel coll. Ox. 28 Jany. 1788 aged 17, B.A. 1792, M.A. 1795; R. of Denbury, Devon 1798 to death; R. of Dartington, Devon 1799 to death; archdeacon of Totnes 30 May 1820 to death. d. Dartington 23 Feb. 1859.

FROUDE, WILLIAM (4 son of the preceding). b. Dartington parsonage 28 Nov. 1810; ed. at Westminster and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1837; worked under I. K. Brunel on Bristol and Exeter railway 1837 to May 1844 when line was opened; lived at Paignton near Torquay 1859–67, at Chelston Cross, Torquay which he built, 1867 to death; conducted at the Admiralty establishment, Torquay, experiments on resistance and propulsion of ships 1870 to death; M.I.C.E. 1846, mem. of council 1877; F.R.S. 2 June 1870, royal medallist 1876. d. Admiralty house, Simon’s Town, Cape of Good Hope 4 May 1879. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lx, 395–404 (1880); Nature xx, 148–50, 169–73 (1879); Proc. of Royal Soc. xxix, pp. ii-vi (1879); Rev. T. Mozley’s Reminiscences (1882) ii, 14–17.

FRY, FRANCIS (2 son of Joseph Storrs Fry 1769–1835). b. Westbury-on-Trym near Bristol 28 Oct. 1803; partner in firm of J. S. Fry & Sons, cocoa and chocolate manufactures, Bristol; a director of Bristol and Gloucester railway 1839–45, of Bristol and Exeter, South Devon and other railways; his collection of British bibles said to be finest in the world became property of the Bible Society, March 1890; F.S.A. 13 Feb. 1863; published A description of the Great Bible 1539, and the six editions of Cranmer’s Bible 1540 and 1541 printed by Grafton and Whitchurch 1865 and 11 other books. d. Tower house, Cotham, Bristol 12 Nov. 1886. A brief memoir of F. Fry. By his son T. Fry, privately printed (1887), portrait.

FULCHER, GEORGE WILLIAMS. Bookseller, stationer and printer at Sudbury, Suffolk; started the Sudbury Pocket Book 1825, edited it 1825 to death; author of The village paupers and other poems 1845; Life of Thomas Gainsborough 1856 and other books. d. Sudbury 19 June 1855 in 60 year.

FULFORD, RIGHT REV. FRANCIS (2 son of Baldwin Fulford of Great Fulford, Devon). b. Sidmouth, Devon 3 June 1803; ed. at Tiverton gr. sch. and Ex. coll. Ox., fellow 1824–30; B.A. 1827, M.A. 1838, hon. D.D. 1850; R. of Trowbridge, Wilts. 1832–42; R. of Croydon, Cambs. 1842–45; min. of Curzon chapel, Hanover sq. London 1845–50; bishop of Montreal 19 July 1850 to death, consecrated in Westminster Abbey 25 July; metropolitan bishop of Canada 9 July 1860 to death; edited Colonial church chronicle and missionary journal 1848–50; author of A course of plain sermons on the Church of England 2 vols. 1837–40 and 10 other books. d. See house, Montreal 9 Sep. 1868. F. Taylor’s Last three bishops appointed by the Crown for the Anglican church of Canada (1870) 23–130, portrait; I.L.N. 24 Aug. 1850 p. 168, portrait, 29 Nov. 1862 pp. 576, 587, portrait.

FULFORD, JOHN (brother of the preceding). b. 16 Feb. 1809; entered navy 1821; captain 1848; R.A. 1866; retired admiral 5 Aug. 1877. d. Bemerton, Salisbury 15 Feb. 1888.

FULLER, CHARLES FRANCIS. Sculptor at Florence; exhibited 28 sculptures at the R.A. 1859–75. d. Florence 10 March 1875 aged 45.

FULLER, FRANCIS. b. Coulsdon, Surrey 29 June 1807; surveyor to London, Brighton and South Coast railway 25 years; constructed line from Caterham Junction to Caterham at his own cost and without aid of act of parliament; promoted with Sir Henry Cole and Scott Russell the Great Exhibition of 1851; declined knighthood; managing director of Crystal Palace co. 1852; saw the race for the Derby at Epsom 1821–84, 64 years, a fact unparalleled in turf history; author of Alexandra Park 1873. d. 63 St. Aubyn’s, Hove, Brighton 27 May 1887. The Field 4 June 1887 p. 769; I.L.N. xix, 487, 508 (1851), portrait.

FULLER, HENRY PETER. b. 1785; a surgeon in London 1807–59; a governor of St. George’s hospital 1817 to death, visiting apothecary there 1819 to death, raised in 1830 sum of £20,000 for rebuilding the hospital, where one of the wards is named after him. d. Sarratt hall, Rickmansworth, Herts. 28 Aug. 1866.

FULLER, RIGHT REV. THOMAS BROCK. b. Kingston, Upper Canada 16 July 1810; R. of St. George’s, Toronto 1853–67; archdeacon of Toronto 1867–75; bishop of Niagara 1875 to death. d. Bishophurst, Hamilton, Canada 17 Dec. 1884.

FULLERTON, LADY GEORGIANA CHARLOTTE (younger dau. of 1 Earl Granville 1773–1846). b. Tixall hall, Staffs. 23 Sep. 1812; admitted into R.C. church 29 March 1846; enrolled herself in the third order of St. Francis 1856; founded with Miss Taylor a religious community called the Poor Servants of the Mother of God Incarnate 1868; author of Ellen Middleton, a tale 3 vols. 1844; Too strange not to be true, a tale 3 vols. 1864 and 33 other books. (m. 13 July 1833 Alexander George Fullerton of Ballingtoy castle, co. Antrim). d. Ayrfield, Bournemouth 19 Jany. 1885. bur. in cemetery of convent of Sacred Heart, Roehampton, Surrey 23 Jany. Life of Lady Georgiana Fullerton, from the French of Mrs. Madame Augustus Craven. By H. J. Coleridge (1888), portrait.

FULLERTON, JOHN (son of Wm. Fullerton of Carstairs). b. 16 Dec. 1775; an advocate Feb. 1798; a lord of session with title of Lord Fullerton 7 Feb. 1829 to Nov. 1853 when he retired. d. Edinburgh 3 Dec. 1853.

FULLOM, STEPHEN WATSON. edited United Service Mag. many years; resided at Torquay; author of The King and the countess 3 vols. 1849; The great highway 3 vols. 1854; History of woman 2 vols. 1855; The last days of Jerusalem, a song 1871 and 11 other books. d. in a cab at Liverpool 13 July 1872 aged 54.

FULTON, HAMILTON HENRY (son of Hamilton Fulton, C.E., state engineer to North Carolina and Georgia 1819–29, who d. 1834). b. Charles st. London 1813; pupil to his father 1829–39; M.I.C.E. 6 May 1845; an engineer in London from 1846; engineer of West London and Crystal palace railway, of Ryde and Ventnor railway, and of Salisbury and Dorset junction railway 1860; projected a railway bridge over the Severn 1863 and a scheme for Manchester ship canal 1882; author of London Water Supply 1869. d. Bedford house, Chiswick 10 Aug. 1886. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxvii, 418–22 (1886).

FURLEY, ROBERT (3 son of Robert Furley of Canterbury). b. 1811; solicitor at Ashford, Kent 1832–69; F.S.A. 12 Jany. 1871; author of A history of the Weald of Kent 2 vols. 1871–74. d. Ashford, Kent 9 Sep. 1887.

FURNELL, MICHAEL CUDMORE. b. 1 July 1829; M.R.C.S. 1851, F.R.C.S. 1870; M.D. St. Andrews 1877; assistant surgeon H.E.I. Co. 7 Feb. 1855; surgeon to governor of Madras 1871–73; principal and professor of medicine, Medical college, Madras 1875–80; surgeon general Madras, April 1885 to death. d. Monte Carlo 24 May 1888.

FURNER, WILLIAM (eld. son of John Furner of Brighton). b. Brighton 1791; admitted attorney 1815; member of firm of Hill, Fitzburgh and Furner at Brighton 30 years; comr. of bankrupts for Brighton district; judge of local courts of request at Brighton and Shoreham 1840–47; judge of county courts, circuit 50 (Sussex), March 1847 to 20 Sep. 1877 when he resigned; barrister G.I. 7 May 1851. d. 18 Palmeira sq. Brighton 25 Nov. 1877.

FURNESS, RICHARD (son of Samuel Furness of Eyam, Derbyshire, farmer). b. Eyam 2 Aug. 1791; a currier at Eyam 1813; schoolmaster in free school at Dore, Derbyshire 1821; author of The Rag Bag 1832 a satirical poem; Medicus-Magus, a poem in three cantos, Sheffield 1836, title was afterwards altered to The Astrologer. d. Eyam 13 Dec. 1857. The poetical works of R. Furness with a sketch of his life, By G. C. Holland, M.D. (1858).

FURTADO, TERESA ELIZABETH (dau. of Charles Furtado of London, professor of music, by Annie Flanagan). b. 12 a.m. at 19 Edward st. Hampstead road, London 6 June 1845; made her début on the stage at New Royalty theatre 8 Feb. 1864 as Mercury in Burnand’s burlesque Ixion; leading actress at Olympic theatre 1865–6, then at Adelphi theatre where she played Esmeralda in Notre Dame 10 April 1872. (m. 10 Aug. 1873 John Clarke, comedian, who d. 20 Feb. 1879 aged 49). d. 77 Mornington road, Regent’s park, London 9 Aug. 1877. Illust. sp. and dr. news 17 Oct. 1874 p. 49, portrait, and p. 75; Era 12 Aug. 1877 p. 4, col. 2, 19 Aug. p. 5, col. 2.

FYDELL, SAMUEL RICHARD (elder son of Thomas Fydell 1740–1812, M.P. for Boston). b. Hardwicke hall near Chepstow 6 April 1771; receiver general for Lincolnshire 1794 to 1834 when office was abolished by Land tax amendment act 1834 and he declined pension offered him; sheriff of Rutland 1840; lieut. col. of South Lincoln militia. d. Morcott hall, Rutland 1 Feb. 1868. bur. in family vault St. Botolph’s church, Boston. G.M. v, 395 (1868).

FYFE, ANDREW (eld. son of Andrew Fyfe of Edinburgh, anatomist 1754–1824). b. 18 Jany. 1792; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1814; fellow of college of surgeons Edin. 1818, pres. 1842–3; professor of chemistry in Univ. of Aberdeen 1844 to death; author of Elements of Chemistry 2 vols. 1827, 3 ed. 1833. d. 4 Windsor st. Edinburgh 31 Dec. 1861.

FYFE, JAMES HAMILTON (only son of John Fyfe of Edinburgh). b. Edinburgh 1837; ed. at City of London school; barrister M.T. 17 Nov. 1863; a reporter on Edinburgh Express, Scotsman, Times; assistant editor of Pall Mall Gazette 1867–71, of Saturday Review 1871 to about 1878; author of Triumphs of invention and discovery 1860; British enterprise beyond the seas or our colonies 1863 and other books. d. 35 Cathcart road, West Brompton, London 5 June 1880.

FYFE, WILLIAM BAXTER COLLIER. b. Dundee about 1836; studied at R.S.A. and in Paris; painter in London 1863 to death; exhibited 23 pictures at R.A., 2 at B.I. and 4 at Suffolk st. gallery 1866–79. d. 62 Abbey road, St. John’s Wood, London 15 Sep. 1882.

FYFE, WILLIAM WALLACE (eld. son of Peter Fyfe, R.N. of Dundee). A contributor to the newspaper press; promoter and manager of the Church and Country Newspaper Co., and of the Newspaper Press college at Dorchester about 1865, both schemes were unsuccessful and involved him in loss; edited The Provincial Souvenir, Paisley 1846; author of Agricultural science applied in practice 1859; Canada as a field for emigration 1861 and 8 other books. d. Houndsgate, Nottingham 25 Sep. 1867. Newspaper Press 1 Oct. 1867 p. 205.

FYNMORE, JAMES. Midshipman R.N. at Trafalgar 1805 of which battle he was last survivor; captain R.M. 1836–1848, hon. lieut. col. 28 Nov. 1854 to death. d. Blenheim grove, Rye lane, Peckham 15 April 1887 in 94 year. Graphic xix, 217 (1879), portrait, xxxv, 448 (1887), portrait.

FYSH, REV. FREDERICK. Ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam.; B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; lived at 2 Duke st. Bath 1840–47, at 6 Lower terrace, Torquay 1856; author of Catechism of the Apocalypse 1844; A Lyrical version of the Psalms 2 vols. 1851; Historia Apodeixis Horæ historicæ et chronologicæ 5 vols. 1856 and 15 other books. d. 1867.

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GABRIEL, MARY ANN VIRGINIA (dau. of the succeeding). b. Banstead, Surrey 7 Feb. 1825; composed several hundred songs, many of which became very popular; her operetta Widows Bewitched was performed at St. George’s hall, London 13 Nov. 1867; composed 3 cantatas Dreamland, Evangeline and Graziella. (m. Nov. 1874 George Edward March of the Foreign office, London, who wrote most of her librettos). d. St. George’s hospital, London 7 Aug. 1877 from compound fracture of the skull, result of carriage accident near Grosvenor hotel 5 Aug. Lennox’s Fashion then and now, ii, 92–4 (1878); Illust. sp. and dr. news vi, 597, 620 (1877), portrait.

GABRIEL, ROBERT BURD. Cornet 2 dragoon guards 1797, captain 1805–1822 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846; col. 7 dragoon guards 18 March 1853 to death; K.H. 1834; C.B. 19 July 1838. d. 7 Connaught place west, London 15 April 1853 aged 74.

GAGE, EDWARD THOMAS (2 son of 4 Viscount Gage 1791–1877). b. 28 Dec. 1825; 2 lieut. R.A. 1844, col. 1876, col. commandant 1887 to death; brigade major R.A. in Crimea 1854–55; commanded Woolwich district 1881–3; L.G. 1882; placed on retired list 1 April 1888; C.B. 13 March 1867. d. Clifton crescent, Folkestone 21 May 1889.

GAGE, SIR WILLIAM HALL (6 son of general Thomas Gage 1721–87). b. Park place, St. James’s, London 2 Oct. 1777; entered navy 1789; captain 1797; commander in chief in East Indies 1825–30, on the Lisbon station 1834–37, at Devonport 1848–51; a lord of the Admiralty 1842–1846; admiral 1846; R.A. of United Kingdom 1853; V.A. of United Kingdom 1854; admiral of the Fleet 20 May 1862 to death; G.C.H. and K.B. 19 April 1834; G.C.B. 18 May 1860. d. Thurston, Suffolk 4 Jany. 1864.

GAINES, THOMAS. Last survivor of the 12 Bow street officers who under Sir Richard Birnie captured the Cato st. conspirators 23 Feb. 1820. d. Metropolitan asylum, Leavesdon, Herts. 4 Feb. 1879 aged nearly 90.

GAINSBOROUGH, CHARLES NOEL, 1 Earl of (eld. son of Sir Gerard Noel Noel, 2 baronet 1759–1838). b. 2 Oct. 1781; M.P. for Rutland 1808–14; succeeded his mother as 3 Baron Barham 12 April 1823; created Baron Noel, Viscount Campden and Earl of Gainsborough 16 Aug. 1841; married four times. d. 17 Prince’s Gate, Hyde park, London 10 June 1866. bur. Teston church, Kent 19 June.

GAINSBOROUGH, CHARLES GEORGE NOEL, 2 Earl of. b. Edinburgh 5 Sep. 1818; M.P. for Rutland 1840–41; contested Rutland 1841 and co. Cork 1860; sheriff of Rutland 1848, lord lieutenant of Rutland 6 March 1867 to death; taken ill in a cab and d. University college hospital, London 13 Aug. 1881.

GAIRDNER, JOHN (eld. son of Robert Gairdner, captain Bengal artillery, who d. 1795 or 1796). b. Mount Charles near Ayr 18 Sep. 1790; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1811; phys. in Edin. 1813; F.C.S. Edin. 1813, pres. 1830–32; author of many papers in Trans. of Medico-Chirurgical Soc. of Edin. and in medical journals; his anonymous book Burns and the Ayrshire Moderates was privately printed 1883. d. 45 Northumberland st. Edinburgh 12 Dec. 1876. The Scotsman 14 Dec. 1876 p. 5.

GAIRDNER, WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). b. Mount Charles near Ayr 11 Nov. 1793; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1813; phys. in London 1822–66; L.C.P. 1823; author of Essay on the effects of Iodine on the human constitution 1824, and On Gout, its history, its causes and its cure 1849, 4 ed. 1860. d. Avignon 28 April 1867.

GAIRDNER, WILLIAM JOHN. Entered Bengal army 1807; M.G. 1851; col. 63 Bengal N.I. 1852 to death; C.B. 3 April 1846. d. Strathtyrum house, St. Andrews 3 Feb. 1861 aged 71.

GAISFORD, VERY REV. THOMAS (eld. son of John Gaisford of Iford, Wilts.) b. Iford 22 Dec. 1779; commoner of Ch. Ch. Ox., Oct. 1797, student Dec. 1800; B.A. 1801, D.D. 1831; Regius professor of Greek at Oxford 29 Feb. 1812 to death; R. of Westwell, Oxon. 1815–47; preb. of Llandaff 1823 to death; preb. of St. Paul’s 1823 to death; preb. of Worcester 1825–29; preb. of Durham 1829–31; dean of Ch. Ch. Ox. 10 Oct. 1831 to death; published Poetæ Minores Græci 4 vols. 1814–20 and 32 other classical and patristic works. d. the Deanery, Ch. Ch. Oxford 2 June 1855. bur. in nave of Ch. Ch. cathedral 9 June. G.M. xliv, 98–100 (1855).

GALBERRY, MOST REV. THOMAS. b. Naas, co. Kildare 1833; taken to Philadelphia 1836; ordained R.C. priest 20 Dec. 1856; pres. of Villanova college; provincial of the Augustinian order 1874; bishop of Hartford 1876 to death; consecrated 19 March 1876. d. New York 10 Oct. 1878.

GALE, CHARLES JAMES (son of Charles Gale). b. April 1805; barrister M.T. 1 June 1832; judge of county courts, circuit 51 (Hampshire), March 1847, of circuit 21 (Warwickshire) 1874 to Sep. 1874 when he retired on pension; author of A treatise on the law of easements 1839, 6 ed. 1888; published with Henry Davison Reports in the court of Queen’s Bench 1841–43, 3 vols. 1841–43. d. Kitnocks, Botley near Southampton 5 Aug. 1876.

GALIGNANI, JOHN ANTHONY (eld. son of Giovanni Antonio Galignani of London, teacher of languages, who d. Paris 1821). b. London 13 Oct. 1796; bookseller at Cambrai 1816; bookseller and publisher with his brother at 18 Rue Vivienne, Paris; Galignani’s Messenger was founded by their father 1814 as a triweekly, it became a daily paper 1821; obtained denizenship Dec. 1830, never naturalised; removed to Rue de Rivoli 1855; knight of the Legion of Honour; gave with his brother between 5 and 6 million francs to charities of Paris. d. Paris 29 Dec. 1873. I.L.N. lxiv, 48 (1874), portrait.

GALIGNANI, WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). b. London 10 March 1798; mayor of parish of Etiolles near Paris more than 20 years; erected with his brother a hospital for indigent English at Neuilly; obtained denizenship Dec. 1830, naturalised 1832; officer of Legion of Honour; bequeathed a site and funds for erection at Neuilly of the Retraite Galignani Frères for 100 inmates. d. 82 Faubourg St. Honoré, Paris 11 Dec. 1882, a fine sculpture of the two brothers by Chapu has been erected at Corbeil.

GALL, JAMES. Member of firm of Gall and Inglis, publishers in George st. Edinburgh; master of Merchants’ Co. Edin. 1850; author of Gospel of St. John for the blind 1835; Philosophy of education 1840 and other books. d. Edinburgh 3 Nov. 1874 aged 90. Publishers’ Circular (1874) 866.

GALL, RICHARD HERBERT. b. 10 Nov. 1815; ensign 3 foot 3 July 1835; major 14 light dragoons 1857–64 when placed on h.p.; A.D.C. to the Queen 8 June 1870 to death; lieut. governor of Chelsea hospital 1 March 1874 to death; C.B. 21 March 1859. d. Chelsea hospital 21 Feb. 1881.

GALLAGHER, REV. HUGH P. b. Killygordan, Donegal 1815; went to the U.S. of A. 1837; ordained R.C. priest at Philadelphia 1840; pres. of Theological seminary Pittsburg 1844; founded and edited Pittsburg Catholic; theologian to first plenary council of Baltimore 1852; founded and edited Catholic Standard 1853; built many churches, schools and hospitals. d. San Francisco, March 1882.

GALLOWAY, RANDOLPH STEWART, 9 Earl of. b. Coolhurst, Sussex 16 Sep. 1800; ed. at Harrow; M.P. for Cockermouth 1826–31; lord lieut. of Kirkcudbright to 1845, of Wigtonshire to 1851. d. Galloway house near Wigton 2 Jany. 1873.

GALLOWAY, THOMAS (son of Wm. Galloway of Symington, Lanarkshire, miller). b. Symington 26 Feb. 1796; ed. at New Academy, Lanark, and Univ. of Edin., M.A. 1820; teacher of mathematics at Sandhurst 1823–33; register or actuary of Amicable Life Assurance Co. of London 1833 to death; F.R.A.S. 13 Feb. 1829; F.R.S. 18 Dec. 1834, member of council 1843 to death; author of many articles in Encyclopædia Britannica, Edinburgh Review and Philosophical Mag. d. 45 Torrington sq. London 1 Nov. 1851.

GALLOWAY, THOMAS JAMES. Ensign 15 foot 1821; lieut. col. 70 foot 1848–1863; brigadier general Bengal 1857–1861; col. 49 foot 1871–1874; col. 70 foot 7 Sep. 1874 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. Kilmeague, Naas, Ireland 15 Sep. 1881 aged 81.

GALLWEY, SIR WILLIAM PAYNE, 2 Baronet. b. 1807; succeeded 16 April 1831; M.P. for Thirsk, Yorkshire 1851–1880. d. Thirkleby park near Thirsk 19 Dec. 1881 in 74 year.

GALWAY, GEORGE EDWARD ARUNDELL MONCKTON ARUNDEL, 6 Viscount. b. Knutsford, Cheshire 1 March 1805; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox.; succeeded 1834; M.P. for East Retford 1847 to death; master of fox hounds in Notts. 1865 to death. d. Serlby hall, Notts. 6 Feb. 1876. Baily’s Mag. xix, 171 (1871), portrait.

GALWEY, SIR MICHAEL (youngest son of James Galwey). b. 1818; entered Madras army 1835; commandant 36 Madras N.I. 1865 to 1869; C.B. 26 July 1858, K.C.B. 2 June 1877; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. d. London 22 July 1878.

GAMBIER, SIR EDWARD JOHN (3 son of Samuel Gambier 1752–1813, first comr. of the navy). b. 1794; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820; barrister L.I. 7 Feb. 1822; a municipal corporation comr. 1833; recorder of Prince of Wales Island 1834; puisne judge at Madras 28 Nov. 1836, chief justice 11 March 1842 to 1849; knighted at St. James’s palace 6 Aug. 1834; author of A treatise on parochial settlements 1828, 2 ed. 1835. d. 22 Hyde park gate, Kensington, London 31 May 1879 in 86 year.

GAMBIER, GEORGE CORNISH. b. 1795; entered navy 18 June 1808; captain 4 June 1821; retired admiral 27 April 1863. d. Great Berkhampstead, Herts. 18 June 1879.

GAMBIER, ROBERT (brother of the preceding). b. Wateringbury, Kent 3 Aug. 1791; entered navy 3 Aug. 1804; captain 6 June 1814; retired admiral 15 Jany. 1862. d. 7 Onslow sq. London 26 Jany. 1872.

GAMBIER, ROBERT FITZGERALD (2 son of Sir James Gambier, F.R.S.) b. Lisbon 21 Nov. 1803; entered navy 28 Feb. 1815; captain 9 Nov. 1846; retired admiral 1 Aug. 1877. d. 7 Crescent, Anglesey, Gosport 17 Oct. 1885.

GAMBLE, DOMINIC JACOTIN. b. 15 Aug. 1823; ensign 4 foot 19 April 1844; D.Q.M.G. New Zealand 1861–67; A.Q.M.G. Aldershot 1869–74; commanded forces in West Indies 1878–83; director general of military education 1887 to death; L.G. 1886?; C.B. 25 Feb. 1864. d. 58 Courtfield gardens, South Kensington, London 21 Nov. 1887.

GAMGEE, JOSEPH SAMPSON (eld. son of Joseph Gamgee, veterinary surgeon). b. Leghorn 17 April 1828; M.R.C.S. 1854; surgeon to British Italian legion during Crimean war 1855; surgeon to Queen’s hospital Birmingham 1857–81; invented several surgical appliances largely adopted; author of Researches in pathological anatomy and clinical surgery 1856 and 11 other books. d. 22 Broad st. Birmingham 18 Sep. 1886.

GAMMAGE, ROBERT GEORGE. b. Northampton; apprenticed to a coachbuilder; a Chartist lecturer 1842–4; Chartist sec. for Northampton district 1844; a shoemaker at Northampton 1844–8; removed to Birmingham 1848; mem. of paid executive of National Charter Assoc. 1853–4; M.R.C.S. 1864; assistant to Dr. Heath of Newcastle; practised at Sunderland; author of History of the Chartist movement 1854 and 20 other works. d. Northampton 7 Jany. 1888 aged 72.

GAMMON, FREDERIC THOMAS (son of Rev. John Gammon, pres. of Bible Christian conference in London 1859). b. Somerset 1849; entered firm of S. W. Partridge & Co. of London, publishers 1865, head of the firm 1883 to death; edited British Workman, Band of Hope Review, Band of Mercy, and other periodicals; author of The canal boy who became president [J. A. Garfield] 1881 and 4 other small books. d. St. Leonards-on-Sea 19 Sep. 1888.

GANDELL, REV. ROBERT (6 son of Thomas Gandell of City of London). b. London; matric. from St. John’s coll. Ox. 5 Dec. 1839 aged 21; Michel scholar Queen’s coll. 1843–5, fellow 1845–50; B.A. 1843, M.A. 1846; Kennicott scholar 1844, Pusey and Ellerton scholar 1845; tutor of Magdalen hall 1848–72; Laudian professor of Arabic 1861 to death; chaplain at C.C. coll. 1852–77; fellow of Hertford coll. 1874 to death; preb. of Wells 1874, canon of Wells 1880 to death; edited Lightfoot’s Horæ Hebraicæ et Talmudicæ 4 vols. 1859; contributed commentaries on Amos, Nahum and Zephaniah to the Speaker’s Commentary 1876. d. The Liberty, Wells 24 Oct. 1887. bur. Holywell cemetery, Oxford.

GAPE, JOSEPH. Entered navy 2 Aug. 1803; inspecting commander coast guard 1837 to 1841; captain 1841; admiral on h.p. 30 July 1875. d. 1 Upper Phillimore place, Kensington, London 12 March 1876 in 83 year.

GARBETT, REV. EDWARD (_6 son of Rev. James Garbett 1775–1857, preb. of Hereford_). b. Hereford 10 Dec. 1817; ed. at Hereford coll. and Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1847; V. of St. Stephen’s, Birmingham 1847–49; P.C. of St. Bartholomew’s, Grays Inn road, London 1850–63; V. of Ch. Ch. Surbiton 1863–77; hon. canon of Winchester 1875; R. of Barcombe near Lewes 1877 to death; edited The Record 1854–67 and The Christian Advocate 1867–74; author of The Soul’s Life 1863 and 30 other books. d. Barcombe rectory 11 Oct. 1887. The Record 14 and 21 Oct. 1887.

GARBETT, VEN. JAMES (brother of the preceding). b. Hereford 1802; ed. at Brasenose coll. Ox., scholar 1819, fellow 1825–36, tutor 1827, junior dean 1832; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; Michel fellow of Queen’s coll. 1824–5; Bampton lecturer 1842; professor of poetry in Univ. of Ox. 1842–52; R. of Clayton near Brighton 1835 to death; preb. of Chichester 1844; archdeacon of Chichester 28 April 1851 to death; author of De Rei poeticæ idea 1843; Parochial Sermons 2 vols. 1843–4 and 30 other books. d. 7 Belgrave place, Brighton 26 March 1879 in 78 year. I.L.N. lxxiv, 373 (1879), portrait.

GARD, RICHARD SOMMERS. b. North Tawton near Barnstaple 1797; sheriff of Devon 1854; contested Honiton, Devon 1852; M.P. for Exeter 1857–65. d. Court hall, Monkton near Honiton 16 Dec. 1868 in 72 year.

GARDEN, REV. FRANCIS (son of Alexander Garden of Glasgow, merchant). b. 1810; ed. at Glasgow and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; P.C. of Holy Trinity, Blackheath 1840–44; Inc. of St. Paul’s, Edin. 1845–49; C. of St. Stephen’s, Westminster 1854–59; teacher of theology Queen’s coll. London 1858–81; sub-dean of chapels royal St. James’s and Whitehall, Nov. 1859 to death; edited The Christian Remembrancer from 1841; author of Discourses on heavenly knowledge and love 1848; An outline of Logic 1867, 2 ed. 1871 and 14 other books. d. 67 Victoria st. Westminster 11 May 1884.

GARDINER, ALLEN FRANCIS (5 son of Samuel Gardiner of Coombe lodge, Oxfordshire 1755–1827). b. Basildon parsonage, Berkshire 28 June 1794; entered navy 23 June 1810; commander 13 Sep. 1826; went to the Zulu country, South Africa 1834; laboured among the Indians of Chili 1838–43; founded Patagonian Missionary Soc. 1844; author of Outlines of a plan for exploring the interior of Australia 1833; A voice from South America 1847 and other books. d. Picton island, South America, probably 6 Sep. 1851, his remains were found 21 Jany. 1852. Memoir of A. F. Gardiner, By J. W. Marsh 1857, portrait; The story of A. Gardiner, By J. W. Marsh 1867, portrait; C. M. Yonge’s Pioneers and Founders (1871) 255–84.

GARDINER, SIR JOHN (son of John Gardiner, captain 3 foot). b. 1777; ensign 3 foot 1791; commanded a brigade at battles of Nivelle 1813 and Orthes 1814; A.G. in Ireland 1823–1830; D.A.G. at the Horse Guards 1830–1841; col. of 61 foot 1840, of 50 foot 1844, of 6 foot 1849 to death; L.G. 23 Nov. 1841; K.C.B. 19 July 1838. d. 23 Eaton place, London 6 June 1851.

GARDINER, ROBERT (son of Robert Hallowell of Bristol). b. Bristol about 1782; went to the U.S. 1792; graduated at Harvard 1801; took surname of Gardiner 1802; lived at town of Gardiner, Maine 1803 to death, gave a church, a lyceum and a public library to Gardiner; pres. of Maine Historical Soc. 1846–55. d. Gardiner 22 March 1864.

GARDINER, SIR ROBERT WILLIAM (brother of Sir John Gardiner 1777–1851). b. 2 May 1781; 2 lieut. R.A. 7 April 1797, col. 24 Nov. 1839; A.D.C. to the Sovereign 22 July 1830 to 23 Nov. 1841; governor and commander in chief at Gibraltar 21 Nov. 1848 to July 1855; col. commandant R.A. 22 March 1853 to death; general 28 Nov. 1854; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 21 June 1859; K.C.H. 1820; author of Memoir of admiral Sir Graham Moore 1844 and of 12 pamphlets on military organisation 1848–60. d. Melbourne lodge, Claremont, Esher, Surrey 26 June 1864.

GARDINER, WILLIAM. b. Dundee 1809; in shop of George Robertson, hosier, Dundee 1824–44; collected and sold many thousands of botanical specimens; sold many vols. of dried plants illustrative of the British Flora; A.L.S.; author of Botanical rambles in Braemar, Dundee 1845; Twenty lessons on British mosses, 4 ed. Dundee 1849, 2nd series 1849; The Flora of Forfarshire 1848. d. Dundee 21 June 1852. W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 139–144.

GARDINER, WILLIAM (only son of Thomas Gardiner of Leicester, stocking manufacturer, who d. aged 93). b. Leicester 15 March 1770; assistant to Coltman of Leicester, hosiery warehouseman; member of Acad. of St. Cecilia at Rome; published Sacred Melodies 6 vols. 1812; The Music of Nature 1832; Music and Friends 3 vols. 1838–53; Sights in Italy 1847. d. Leicester 16 Nov. 1853. G.M. xli, 92–95 (1854); W. Gardiner’s Poems with life, by his daughter 1854; Notes and Queries 5 s. x, 169–71 (1878).

GARDNER, ALEXANDER. b. Paisley; printer, bookseller and publisher there 1829 to death; wrote religious books; author of On lots, By G. A. Paisley 1851. d. Greenhill cottage, Paisley 25 Aug. 1875 aged 76.

GARDNER, HENRY. Left by his will dated 24 July 1876 sum of £300,000 for benefit of the blind in England and Wales. d. 1 Westbourne terrace, Hyde park, London 9 January 1879.

GARDNER, JOHN. One of the best low comedians of his day; acted at City of London theatre 1850. d. 14 Queen st. Hoxton sq. London 5 May 1851 aged 51. The Era 11 May 1851 p. 12.

GARDNER, JOHN. b. Great Coggeshall, Essex 1804; apothecary in London 1829 to death, M.D. Giessen 1847; a founder of Royal college of chemistry 1844, sec. 1844–6; professor of chemistry and materia medica to General Apothecaries’ Co.; introduced into England podophyllin and many other American drugs; L.R.C.P. Edin. 1860; translated and edited Liebig’s Familiar Letters on Chemistry 1843, 2nd series 1844; author of Household Medicine 9 ed. 1878; Longevity 5 ed. 1878; Hymns for the sick and convalescent 2 ed. 1879. d. 29 Lansdowne crescent, Notting hill, London 14 Nov. 1880.

GARDNER, MARTHA. b. 1776. d. 85 Grove st. Liverpool 10 March 1881 aged 104 years and 5 months. Notes and Queries 6 s. iii, 486 (1881).

GARDNER, RICHARD. b. Manchester 1813; ed. at Manchester sch., Charterhouse and Wadham coll. Ox., B.A. 1838; M.P. for Leicester 30 July 1847 but election declared void; M.P. for Leicester 9 July 1852 to death; author of some political pamphlets. d. 100 Eaton square, London 4 June 1856 aged 43.

GARDNER, WILLIAM. b. Ohio 1844; perfected the machine gun called after him 1876 which was introduced in the British service 1881; patented various improvements in fire-arms 1882–4; perfected an improved quick-firing cannon 1886. d. Henley lodge, St. Leonards-on-Sea 20 Jany. 1887.

GARDNER, WILLIAM HENRY (3 son of 1 Baron Gardiner 1742–1802). b. 6 Oct. 1774; 2 lieut. R.A. 18 Sep. 1793; col. commandant 1 April 1846 to death; general 20 June 1854. d. Bishopsteignton, Devon 15 Dec. 1856.

GARFIT, THOMAS. b. Boston 16 Oct. 1815; barrister M.T. 16 Jany. 1846; a banker at Boston; M.P. for Boston 1878–80 when unseated on petition. d. Boulogne 29 May 1883.

GARLAND, CHARLES (son of Thomas Garland of Illogan, Cornwall 1771–1827). b. Illogan 10 March 1813; edited The Cornish Telegraph weekly paper from first number 3 Jany. 1851 to 1853; edited Pembrokeshire Herald weekly paper from first number 5 Jany. 1844 to 1849; author of Wings of the Dove and 8 other poems in The Pocket Album 1831–2; Outlines of scripture doctrine, and history 1842. d. 2 Trewartha terrace, Penzance 17 Feb. 1875. S. W. Christopher’s Poets of Methodism (1875) 467–70.

GARLAND, JOHN. Ensign 44 foot 14 March 1805; captain 73 foot 26 Nov. 1813 to 25 June 1817 when placed on h.p.; K.H. 1833. d. Lille, France 17 Jany. 1851.

GARLAND, JOHN BINGLEY (son of George Garland, M.P. for Poole, d. 1825). b. 1791; sheriff of Dorset 1828; gave 13 acres to Poole for a cemetery 1854; lived in Newfoundland many years, speaker of the first house of assembly there 1855 etc. d. Leeson house near Swanage, Dorset 12 Jany. 1875 aged 83. I.L.N. lxvi, 115 (1875).

GARLAND, THOMAS (brother of Charles Garland 1813–75). b. Bridge near Redruth, Cornwall, April 1804; edited The Cornubian, Falmouth weekly paper from first number 1 Oct. 1830 to 18 Dec. 1832; author of Letters on the recent agitations in Wesleyan Methodism 1852. d. Fairfield, Illogan 30 July 1865. Memorials, literary and religious, of T. Garland (1868); S. W. Christopher’s Poets of Methodism (1875) 454–66.

GARNAULT, JOSEPH. Entered Madras army 1810; col. 29 Madras N.I. 11 Dec. 1848 to 1869; general 22 Feb. 1870. d. 14 Hesketh crescent, Torquay 15 May 1872.

GARNER, THOMAS. b. Birmingham 1789; pupil of Samuel Lines, engraver; A founder of the Antique Academy, Birmingham, which became Royal Birmingham Soc. of Artists; chiefly known by his plates in the Art Journal. d. Birmingham 14 July 1868.

GARNETT, ARTHUR WILLIAM (younger son of Wm. Garnett 1793–1873). b. 1 June 1829; lieut. Bengal engineers 1848, 2 captain 27 Aug. 1858 to death; designed and built Fort Garnett and other forts, barracks, &c. on the Punjab frontier; built the church at Kohat. d. Calcutta 1 May 1861. bur. St. Paul’s cath. Calcutta where is monument, also monuments in church at Kohat and in church of Holy Trinity at Brompton.

GARNETT, JEREMIAH (son of Wm. Garnett of Otley, Yorkshire, paper manufacturer). b. Wharfside, Otley 2 Oct. 1793; in office of Wheeler’s Manchester Chronicle about 1814–21; started with J. E. Taylor the Manchester Guardian 1821 of which he was printer, business manager and sole reporter, sole editor Jany. 1844 to 1861. d. Sale near Manchester 27 Sep. 1870. Sphinx iii, 349 (1870).

GARNETT, THOMAS (brother of the preceding). b. Otley 18 Jany. 1799; manager Low Moor cotton mill Clitheroe, Garnett & Horsfall 1828, afterwards sole proprietor; mayor of Clitheroe 1850; author of Facts on the natural history of the salmon 1867; Essays in natural history and agriculture: edited by R. Garnett, privately printed 1883. d. Low Moor 25 May 1878.

GARNETT, WILLIAM (2 son of Thomas Garnett of Old Hutton, Kendal, who d. 1793). b. London 13 Nov. 1793; deputy registrar of the land-tax 1819, registrar to 1841; assistant inspector general of stamps and taxes 1835, inspector general 1842; took a leading part in introduction of income tax in Great Britain 1842 and in Ireland 1853; author of The guide to the property and income tax 1842; The guide to the income tax laws as applicable to Ireland 1853. d. 4 Argyll road, Kensington 30 Sep. 1873.

GARNETT, WILLIAM JAMES. b. Manchester 10 July 1818; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844; barrister I.T. 1845; M.P. for Lancaster 1857–1864. d. Quernmore park near Lancaster 15 Sep. 1873.

GARNIER, VERY REV. THOMAS (2 son of George Garnier of Rookesbury, Hants.) b. 26 Feb. 1776; ed. at Winchester and Worcester coll. Ox.; fellow of All Souls coll. 1796; B.C.L. 1800, D.C.L. 1850; R. of Bishopstoke, Hants. 1807–69; preb. of Winchester, 1830–40; dean of Winchester 9 April 1840 to 1872; F.L.S. 1798. d. close of Winchester cathedral 29 June 1873. Church of England photographic gallery (1859) part 7, portrait.

GARNIER, VERY REV. THOMAS (2 son of the preceding). b. Bishopstoke rectory 15 April 1809; ed. at Winchester and Worc. coll. Ox.; B.A. 1830, B.C.L. 1833; rowed in first boat race with Cambridge 10 June 1829; fellow of All Souls coll. 1830; V. of Lewknor 1835–40; R. of Longford, Derbyshire 1840–49; chaplain of Lock hospital, London 1849–50; chaplain to Speaker of House of Commons 1849 to death; R. of Trinity ch. Marylebone 1850–59; dean of Ripon 29 Aug. 1859; dean of Lincoln 30 March 1860 to death; author of Domestic duties, sermons 1851 and other works. d. Deanery, Lincoln 7 Dec. 1863. Illust. news of the world ix (1862), portrait; Some account of T. Garnier, B.C.L. (1863).

GARRARD, THOMAS (eld. son of Thomas Garrard of Lambourne, Berkshire). b. 1787; chamberlain of Bristol 1822, city treasurer 1 Jany. 1836 to March 1856; author of Edward Colston the philanthropist, his life and times, edited by S. G. Tovey, privately printed 1852. d. Springfield place, Bath 18 Dec. 1859. J. Latimer’s Annals of Bristol (1887), 80, 102, 348.

GARRETT, RHODA (eld dau. of Rev. John Fisher Garrett, P.C. of Elton, Derbyshire). b. Eyam, Derbyshire 1841; partner with Agnes Garrett as house decorators in London to death; author of Electoral disabilities of women 1872; author with Agnes Garrett of Suggestions for House decoration in painting woodwork and furniture 1876. d. 2 Gower st. London 22 Nov. 1882 aged 41. bur. Rustington, Sussex 25 Nov.

GARRETT, RICHARD (son of Richard Garrett, agricultural implement maker d. 1837). b. about 1805; entered his father’s works at an early age; became head of firm of Garrett and Sons, Leiston Works, Saxmundham, Suffolk 1836, where 500 men were employed; manufactured patent steam engines, thrashing machines, corn and seed drilling and manuring machines, etc.; one of the founders of R. Agricultural soc. of England 1837, member of council; retired from active business 1855. d. Carlton house, Saxmundham 26 June 1866. Journal of Agriculture, Sept. 1866, portrait; Farmer’s Mag. July 1857 pp. 1–2, portrait.

GARRETT, RICHARD (son of the preceding). b. at the Works house, Leiston, 22 July 1829; manager of Leiston works 1850, and partner with his father and brother 1853; invented improved thrashing machines 1859, and portable steam engines; farmer of 2000 acres in West Suffolk; breeder of horses and sheep 1869; an amateur prize fighter; A.I.C.E. 7 March 1854, member 30 Oct. 1877. d. 30 July 1884. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxviii, 429–34 (1884).

GARRETT, SIR ROBERT (eld. son of John Garrett of Ellington near Ramsgate). b. 1794; ed. at Harrow; ensign 2 foot 6 March 1811; lieut. colonel 46 foot 16 May 1845 to 18 Aug. 1856 when placed on h.p.; commanded 4th division before Sebastopol 1855–1856; colonel of 4th West India regt. 1 April 1862, of 43 foot 14 Jany. 1866 to death; K.H. 1836; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1857; L.G. 10 March 1866; service reward 10 Feb. 1855. d. 40 Pall Mall, London 13 June 1869. Morning Post 16 June 1869 p. 5.

GARROD, ALFRED HENRY (eld. child of Sir Alfred Baring Garrod). b. Charterhouse sq. London 18 May 1846; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., scholar 1870, fellow 1873; B.A. 1872; prosector to Zoological Soc. London 1871 to death; professor of comparative anatomy at King’s coll. London 1874–79; Fullerian professor of physiology, Royal Institution 5 April 1875 to death; F.R.S. 1 June 1876; author of many papers on zoology. d. 10 Harley st. London 17 Sep. 1879. A. H. Garrod’s Scientific Papers, edited by W. A. Forbes (1881) pp. ix-xxi, portrait; I.L.N. lxxv, 424 (1879), portrait.

GARSIDE, REV. CHARLES BRIERLEY (only son of Joseph Garside of Manchester, surgeon, who d. 21 May 1868 aged 78). b. Manchester 6 April 1818; ed. at gr. sch. Manchester and Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844; C. of Tetbury, Gloucs. 1842; C. of Margaret st. chapel, London 1847; received into R.C. church 21 June 1850, ordained priest at Rome 23 Dec. 1854; assistant priest at St. Mary’s, Chelsea 1857–61, at St. Aloysius, Somers Town 1861; author of The impiety of bartering faith for opinion 1850 and 6 other books. d. Posileppo near Naples 21 May 1876.

GARSTIN, EDWIN. Second lieut. Bengal engineers 6 May 1815, col. commandant 5 Dec. 1848 to death; general 1 March 1867. d. Bangalore 13 July 1871.

GARTLAND, MOST REV. FRANCIS XAVIER. b. Dublin 1805; ordained R.C. priest in Philadelphia 1832; assistant pastor of St. John’s ch. Philadelphia 1832, pastor; vicar general of New York 1845; bishop of Savannah 1849 to death, consecrated 10 Sep. 1850. d. Savannah 20 Sep. 1854. R. H. Clarke’s Lives of deceased bishops of Catholic church in the United States (1872) ii, 408–14.

GARVEY, MICHAEL ANGELO. Barrister M.T. 17 Nov. 1854; author of The silent revolution, or future effects of steam 1852; A manual of human culture 1866 and other books. d. 24 St. Augustine’s road, Camden Town, London 1 Aug. 1877.

GARVOCK, SIR JOHN (only son of major John Garvock who d. 14 March 1838 aged 67). b. Kennington, Surrey 1817; ensign 10 foot 4 Sep. 1835; captain 31 foot 1843–55 when placed on h.p.; commanded Peshawur division of Bengal army 1863–65; commanded northern district of England 1866–67, southern district 1877 to death; col. of 89 foot 1870, of 10 foot 1874 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; K.C.B. 5 Aug. 1864, G.C.B. 29 May 1875. d. 81 Queen’s gate, South Kensington, London 10 Nov. 1878.

GARWOOD, REV. JOHN. Matric. from Magd. hall, Ox. 24 Oct. 1828 aged 23; B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; P.C. of St. Mary, Spital sq. London 1832–46; clerical sec. to London city mission 1837–76; author of The million-peopled city, London 1853. d. 17 Cambridge road, Kilburn, London 6 Dec. 1889.

GASCOIGNE, ERNEST FREDERIC. b. May 1796; ensign 39 foot 2 May 1811; captain grenadier guards 7 Aug. 1840 to 15 Nov. 1850 when placed on h.p.; colonel of 69 foot 3 April 1858 to death; general 20 Jany. 1867; served in the Peninsula and American war. d. 14 Lowndes sq. London 18 July 1876.

GASCOYNE, CHARLES (son of general Isaac Gascoyne, col. 54 foot). b. 1805; ensign 54 foot 7 Dec. 1820; lieut. col. 94 foot 1839 to 1841, of 6 foot 1841 to 1842 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. 72 foot 1845 to 1849 when placed on h.p.; col. 89 foot 1864; col. 72 foot 1870 to death; general 10 May 1872. d. 4 Chesterfield st. London 10 March 1881 aged 76.

GASELEE, STEPHEN (eld. son of Sir Stephen Gaselee 1762–1839 judge of court of Common Pleas). b. 77 Upper Guilford st. London 1 Sep. 1807; ed. at Winchester and Balliol coll. Ox., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1832; barrister I.T. 16 June 1832; serjeant at law 2 Nov. 1840, treasurer of Serjeants’ Inn 1866; contested Portsmouth 1855; M.P. for Portsmouth 1865–68. d. 2 Cambridge sq. Hyde Park, London 20 Oct. 1883.

GASKELL, BENJAMIN (elder son of Daniell Gaskell of Clifton Hall near Manchester who d. 1787). b. 28 Feb. 1781; ed. at Gateacre near Liverpool and Trin. coll. Cam.; M.P. for Maldon 1806, but unseated on petition; M.P. for Maldon 1812–26. d. Thornes house near Wakefield 21 Jany. 1856.

GASKELL, DANIEL. b. 11 Sep. 1782; M.P. for Wakefield 1832–37. d. Lupset hall, Wakefield 20 Dec. 1875.

GASKELL, ELIZABETH CLEGHORN (dau. of Wm. Stevenson, keeper of records to Treasury in London, who d. 22 April 1829). b. Lindsay row, Chelsea 29 Sep. 1810; ed. at Stratford-on-Avon; author of Mary Barton, a tale of Manchester life 2 vols. 1848 anon., translated into many languages; Ruth, a novel 3 vols. 1853; North and South 2 vols. 1855; Life of Charlotte Bronte 2 vols. 1857; Sylvia’s Lovers 3 vols. 1863 and 14 other books. (m. 30 Aug. 1832 Rev. Wm. Gaskell 1805–84). d. Holybourne near Alton, Hants. 12 Nov. 1865. bur. Knutsford, Cheshire. Dict. of Nat. Biog. xxi, 49–54 (1890).

GASKELL, JAMES MILNES (only child of Benjamin Gaskell 1781–1856). b. 19 Oct. 1810; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; M.P. for Wenlock 1832–1868; a lord of the Treasury 1841 to 11 March 1846. d. 28 Norfolk st. Park lane, London 5 Feb. 1873.

GASKELL, SAMUEL. Educ. at Manchester and Edinburgh; medical superintendent of Lancashire lunatic asylum 1840 where he carried out the non-restraint system; one of the medical comrs. in lunacy, Jany. 1849 to 1866. d. Walton, Surrey 30 March 1886 aged 79.

GASKELL, REV. WILLIAM (eld. son of Wm. Gaskell of Latchford near Warrington, sail-canvas maker, who d. 15 March 1819). b. Latchford 24 July 1805; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow, M.A. 1824; studied at Manchester college, York 1825–28; pastor of Cross st. chapel, Manchester 3 Aug. 1828 to death; sec. of York college, Manchester 1840–46; professor of English history, literature and composition in it 1846–53 when it was moved to London; professor of literature in Unitarian home missionary board 1854–84, principal 1876–84; one of editors of Unitarian Herald 1861–75; author of Temperance Rhymes 1839; Two lectures on the Lancashire dialect 1844 and other books. (m. 30 Aug. 1832 Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson 1810–65). d. Plymouth Grove, Manchester 11 June 1884. bur. Unitarian Chapel yard, Knutsford 14 June. Sir T. Baker’s Memorials of a dissenting chapel (1884) pp. 54, 153; John Evans’s Lancashire authors (1876) 96–101.

GASKIN, REV. THOMAS. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; fellow of Jesus coll. about 1831–78; F.R.S. 21 March 1839; F.R.A.S.; author of The Solutions of geometrical problems 1847; The Solutions of trigonometrical problems 1847; _Geometrical construction of a conic section_ 1852. d. 7 Pittville lawn, Cheltenham 17 Feb. 1887 aged 76.

GASKOIN, GEORGE. M.R.C.S. 1838; L.S.A. 1841; house surgeon St. George’s hospital 1839; practised in London 1838 to death; K.C.Christ of Portugal; K.C.Isabella la Catholica of Spain; translated The Medical works of Francisco de Villalobos 1870; author of On Psoriasis or Lepra 1875; Essay on the range of hereditary tendencies in health and in disease 1882. d. The priory, Caerleon, Monmouth 5 Feb. 1887 aged 70.

GASKOIN, JOHN SAMUEL. b. Bagshot Sep. 1790; educ. St. George’s hospital; a specialist in skin diseases; surgeon to George iv. and William iv.; F.L.S. 1853. d. 32 Clarges st. May Fair, London 5 Oct. 1858. Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. iii, 48 (1861).

GASPEY, THOMAS (son of Wm. Gaspey, lieut. R.N.) b. Hoxton, London 31 March 1788; parliamentary reporter for Morning Post about 1808–24; sub-editor of Courier about 1824–28; edited Sunday Times 1828; edited evening edition of Morning Chronicle (in which ‘Sketches by Boz’ first appeared 1835); published The mystery or forty years ago, a novel 1820 anon.; The witch finder, or the wisdom of our ancestors 3 vols. 1824; The life and times of the good Lord Cobham 2 vols. 1843 and many other books. d. Shooters’ Hill, Kent 8 Dec. 1871. Newspaper Press vi, 40 (1872).

GASPEY, THOMAS WILLIAM (son of the preceding). Ph. Doc. of Heidelberg; author of Heidelberg and its castle 1860; The Rhine and the Rhine Lands 1855. d. 4 Ordnance ter. Shooter’s hill road, Kent 22 Dec. 1871 aged 53.

GASPEY, WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). b. Westminster 20 June 1812; author of Lyrics and Meditations 1850 and other books in prose and verse. d. 17 St. Ann’s road, North Brixton 19 July 1888.

GASSIOT, JOHN PETER. b. London 2 April 1797; midshipman R.N.; member of firm of Martinez, Gassiot & Co. wine merchants of London and Oporto; chairman of committee of Kew observatory which he purchased for £10,000 and presented to Royal Soc. 1871; discovered dark bands, or stratification of electric discharge 1852; author of 44 papers in scientific periodicals; F.R.S. 9 April 1840, founded the Scientific Relief fund. d. St. John’s house, Ryde 15 Aug. 1877.

GASTINEAU, HENRY G. Studied at the R.A.; joined Soc. of Painters in water-colours 1818, associate 1821, member 1823, exhibited 1818–75; exhibited 26 landscapes at R.A. and 3 at B.I. 1812–41. d. Norfolk lodge, Cold harbour lane, Camberwell 17 Jany. 1876 in 85 year.

GATLEY, ALFRED. b. Kerridge near Macclesfield 1816; studied at British Museum and R.A.; sculptor in London 1841–52, at Rome 1852 to death; exhibited 30 sculptures at R.A. 1841–52; exhibited a bas-relief of The overthrow of Pharaoh in the Red Sea, and statues of Echo and Night at International Exhibition, London 1862. d. Rome 28 June 1863. Our sculptor friend, by Miss M. A. Sumner in Aunt Judy’s Mag., Oct. 1885 pp. 722–736.

GATHERCOLE, REV. MICHAEL AUGUSTUS. C. of Rilstone-in-Burnsall, Yorkshire 1832–5; C. of Cleasby, Yorkshire 1835–37; V. of Chatteris, Cambs. 1845–77; convicted at York assizes of publishing in The Watchman a libel imputing improper practices to the nuns at Darlington and Stockton, sentenced by Court of Queen’s Bench to 3 months’ imprisonment in the Marshalsea, London 24 Nov. 1838; edited The Church Magazine 6 vols. 1839–44; author of Letters to a dissenting minister of the Congregational Independent denomination, containing remarks on the principles of that sect, and the author’s reasons for leaving it. By L. S. E. 1833 and 3 other books under initials of L. S. E. d. Manor house, Chatteris 11 Dec. 1886 aged 84.

GATTI, CARLO. b. Dongio, valley of Blenio, canton Ticino, Switzerland 27 July 1817; walked to Paris with 25 francs in his pocket 1829, sold roast chestnuts in the streets and a peculiar dough called goffre, in Paris 1829–47, and in London 1847–49; chocolate maker with Battista Bolla at 129 Holborn hill 1849; pastry cook at 33, 34 and 65 Great hall, Hungerford market; built Hungerford hall, Villiers st. Strand 1851, pulled down for Charing Cross station 1862; an ice merchant at Caledonian road, King’s Cross 1857 to death, imported ice from Norway. d. Dongio 6 Sep. 1878. Penny pictorial news 21 Sep. 1878 pp. 1, 3, portrait; Graphic xviii, 341 (1878), portrait; Marcus Fall’s London Town (1880) i, 244–52.

GATTY, MARGARET (youngest dau. of Rev. Alexander John Scott). b. Burnham rectory, Essex 3 June 1809; edited Aunt Judy’s Mag., May 1866 to death; author of Parables from nature 5 vols. 1855–71; Legendary tales 1858; Aunt Judy’s Tales 1859 and about 20 other books. (m. 8 July 1839 Alfred Gatty, D.D., V. of Ecclesfield, Yorkshire). d. Ecclesfield vicarage 4 Oct. 1873. Parables from nature (1885) ix-xxi; A. Gatty’s A life at one living (1884) 164–7; I.L.N. 18 Oct. 1873 pp. 369, 370, portrait.

GAUNTLETT, HENRY JOHN (eld. son of Rev. Henry Gauntlett 1762–1833 V. of Olney, Bucks.) b. Wellington, Salop 9 July 1805; organist of Olney ch. 1815–25, of St. Olaves, Southwark 1827–46; solicitor in London 1831–46; Mus. Doc. Canterbury 1842 being first instance of such a degree since Reformation; organist at Union chapel, Islington 1853–61, at All Saints Notting hill 1861–63, at St. Bartholomew’s, Smithfield 1872 to death; edited Musical world; started The Church Musician 1850, edited it 1850–51; patented application of electricity to the organ 1852; published Comprehensive tune books 2 vols. 1851 and 65 other musical works. d. 15 St. Mary Abbott’s terrace, Kensington 21 Feb. 1876. I.L.N. lxviii, 253, 254 (1876), portrait.

GAVIN, GEORGE O’HALLORAN. b. Limerick 1810; M.P. for Limerick 1858–1874. d. Kilfreacon court, Limerick 23 Oct. 1880.

GAVIN, HECTOR. L.R.C.S. Edin. 1835, F.R.C.S. 1838; M.D. Edin. 1836; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1843; Superintending inspector of General board of health 1851–53; phys. general to Post Office, London 1853; lecturer on forensic medicine at Charing Cross hospital; editor of Journal of Public Health; author of On feigned and fictitious diseases of soldiers 1843 and 4 other books; accidentally shot by his brother Wm. Gavin in his hut at Balaklava in the Crimea 21 April 1855 aged 39; Margaret his widow granted civil list pension of £50 15 Nov. 1856.

GAVIN, ROBERT (2 son of Peter Gavin of Leith, merchant). b. Leith 1827; A.R.S.A. 1854, R.S.A. 10 Feb. 1879; painted numerous Moorish pictures at Tangier; exhibited 5 pictures at the R.A. 1855–71. d. Cherry Bank, Newhaven near Edinburgh 6 Oct. 1883. S. Armytage’s Beautiful pictures by British artists pp. 63–4.

GAWEN, JOHN CHARLES GAWEN ROBERTS. b. 25 Aug. 1787; captain R.N. 13 June 1815; retired admiral 4 Oct. 1862. d. Park st. Grosvenor square, London 21 Nov. 1874.

GAWLER, GEORGE (son of Samuel Gawler, captain 73 foot, who d. 1799 aged 25). b. 1796; ed. at Great Marlow; ensign 52 foot 4 Oct. 1810, major 1831–34 when placed on h.p.; led the forlorn hope at storming of Badajoz 6 April 1812; governor of South Australia 12 Oct. 1838 to 13 May 1841 when recalled; col. 9 Nov. 1846; K.H. 1837. d. Southsea 8 May 1869.

GAY, JOHN. b. Wellington, Somerset 1813; M.R.C.S. 1834; surgeon to Royal free hospital, London 1836–54; surgeon of Great Northern hospital 1856 to death; author of On femoral rupture, its anatomy, pathology and surgery 1848; A memoir on indolent ulcers and their surgical treatment 1855; On varicose disease of the lower extremities 1868; On hæmorrhoidal disorders 1882. d. 51 Belsize park, Hampstead 15 Sep. 1885. Medical Circular ii, 249–51 (1853), portrait; Barker’s Photographs of medical men ii, 43 (1868), portrait.

GAYER, ARTHUR EDWARD (eld. son of Edward Echlin Gayer, major 67 foot). b. near Newcastle under Lyne 6 July 1801; ed. at Durham and Bath gr. schools and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1823, LL.B. and LLD. 1830; called to Irish bar 1827; Q.C. 2 Nov. 1844; chancellor and vicar general of diocese of Ossory 1848, of Meath Jany. 1851, of Cashel June 1851; contested Univ. of Dublin, March 1857; an ecclesiastical comr. for Ireland 8 June 1859 to July 1869; edited The Catholic Layman 1851–57, reprinted in 8 vols. Dublin 1862; author of several pamphlets defending established church of Ireland, and of Papal infallibility and supremacy tried by ecclesiastical history, scripture and reason 1877. d. Abbotsleigh, Upper Norwood, Surrey 12 Jany. 1877. A. E. Gayer’s Memoirs of family of Gayer, privately printed (1870).

GEACH, CHARLES (son of George Geach of St. Austell, Cornwall). b. St. Austell 1808; clerk in Bank of England, Birmingham 1826–36; manager of Birmingham and Midland bank 1836; purchased Park Gate iron manufacturing co. 1840 and Patent Shaft and Axle-tree co. 1840; made a fortune in railroad iron 1844–5; mayor of Birmingham 1847; M.P. for Coventry 8 April 1851 to death. d. 9 Park st. Westminster 1 Nov. 1854. E. Edwards’s Personal recollections of Birmingham (1877) 125–31; Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xiv, 148–51 (1855); I.L.N. xxi, 377, 378 (1852), portrait.

GEARY, STEPHEN. Architect and civil engineer at Hamilton place, New road, London; erected an octagonal structure with a colossal statue of George iv. on the top, in the centre of the 6 roads uniting at Battle Bridge 1831 when the name was changed to King’s Cross; took out patents for artificial fuel, paving streets, water supply, obtaining motive power, and 3 other patents 1838–47; designed the first gin palace in London about 1830; founded the London Cemetery Co. 1838 for which he laid out Highgate cemetery, opened 20 May 1839. d. 19 Euston place, London 28 Aug. 1854 in 75 year. A. W. Pugin’s Contrasts (1841), plate xiv.

GEDDES, JOHN. Ensign 27 foot 22 Dec. 1804, major 1825 to 1831 when placed on h.p.; col. 46 foot 13 Feb. 1860, col. 27 foot 24 April 1860 to death; L.G. 23 March 1861. d. 15 Salisbury road, Newington, Edinburgh 28 April 1869.

GEDEN, REV. JOHN DURY (son of Rev. John Geden, Wesleyan minister). b. Hastings 5 May 1822; assistant tutor of Richmond coll. Surrey 1847–51; tutor in sacred and classical languages at theological coll. Didsbury, Lancs. 1856–83; joint-editor of London Quarterly Review 1857; elected into the legal hundred 1868; member of Old Testament revision company 1870; hon. D.D. St. Andrews 1885; author of Didsbury sermons in the Wesleyan college chapel 1878. d. Didsbury 9 March 1886.

GEDGE, REV. SYDNEY (youngest son of Peter Gedge of Bury St. Edmunds). b. 1802; educ. Bury St. Edmunds’ gram. sch. and St. Catharine’s coll. Camb.; fellow 1825–27; B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; C. of North Runcton, Norfolk 1827–35; second master king Edward’s sch. Birmingham 1835–59; V. of All Saints, Northampton 1859–77; rural dean Northampton 1871–77; preacher and speaker for Ch. missionary soc. and hon. life governor; author of 4 single sermons 1856–69. d. Cromer 29 Aug. 1883, five of his sons became clergymen. The Guardian 5 Sept. 1883 p. 1300.

GEERAN or GUERIN, THOMAS. Enlisted in 71 regt. 3 March 1813, deserted 10 April; worked as a sawyer; settled at Brighton; professed to have been a son of Michael Geeran, farmer, born at Scariff co. Clare 14 May 1766 and to have served in 71 regt. abroad 1796–1819; made a living by relating his military adventures and dilating on his great age. d. infirmary of Brighton union 28 Oct. 1871 claiming to be 105. Longevity, with Life of Thomas Geeran (1871), portrait; Thom’s Human Longevity (1873) pp. 12, 131–54.

GELDART, REV. EDMUND MARTIN (2 son of Thomas Geldart of Thorpe, Norwich and of Hannah Ransome Geldart who was a writer of children’s books and d. 1861). b. Norwich 20 Jany. 1844; ed. at Ball. coll. Oxf., scholar 1863–67; B.A. 1867, M.A. 1873; assist. master Manchester gram. sch. 1867 and 1869–71; a teacher at Athens 1867–69; C. of All Saints, Manchester 1869–71; C. of St. George’s ch. Everton 1871; minister of Hope st. unitarian chapel, Liverpool 1873–77; unitarian minister Croydon 1877–85; author of Modern Greek in relation to ancient 1870; Faith and Freedom 14 sermons 1881 and other works; left Newhaven on 10 April 1885 for Paris, supposed to have been lost during passage to Dieppe. A son of Belial, autobiographical sketches by Nitram Tradleg i.e. M. Geldart (1883); Echoes of Truth ed. Mrs. Geldart (1886) with portrait.

GELDART, REV. JAMES WILLIAM (eld. son of Rev. James Geldart, R. of Kirk Deighton, Yorks. who d. 12 Nov. 1839 aged 79). b. Swinnow hall, Wetherby 15 Feb. 1785; ed. at Beverley gr. sch. and Trin. hall, Cam., LL.B. 1806, LLD. 1814; fell. of St. Catherine’s hall 1808–9; fell. and tutor of Trin. hall 1809–20; Regius professor of civil law at Cam. 11 Dec. 1813 to 1847; R. of Kirk Deighton 1840 to death; author of a new ed. of S. Halifax’s Analysis of the civil law 1836. d. Kirk Deighton rectory 16 Feb. 1876.

GELDART, THOMAS CHARLES. Barrister L.I. 9 May 1823; master of Trinity hall, Cam. 1852 to death; LLD. by royal mandate 4 Jany. 1853; author with H. F. Maddock of Reports of cases in court of vice-chancellor 1829. d. the Master’s lodge, Trinity hall, Cambridge 17 Sep. 1877 aged 80.

GELL, JOHN SHERBROOKE. Entered Bombay army 11 June 1839; commanded Bombay district 28 Oct. 1872 to 11 June 1877; M.G. 1 Oct. 1877. d. Downderry, Cornwall 16 July 1878.

GENDALL, JOHN. b. Exeter 1790; went to London with introduction to Sir John Soane; manager for Rudolph Ackermann, Strand, London, print seller; went on sketching tour in Normandy, gave illustrated description of tour at Exeter 6 Nov. 1862, his sketches published in Picturesque tour of the Seine 1821; exhibited 25 pictures at R.A. and 1 at B.I. 1818–63; his works chiefly views in Devonshire; settled at Exeter as an artist 1839. d. Cathedral yard, Exeter 1 March 1865 aged 75. G. Pycroft’s Art in Devonshire (1883) 50–54.

GEAREY, SIR WILLIAM RICHARD POWLETT, 3 Baronet. b. Oxon-Heath, Tunbridge 13 Nov. 1810; succeeded his father 6 Aug. 1825; contested West Kent, Dec. 1832, M.P. for West Kent, Jany. 1835 to Feb. 1838. d. Oxon-Heath 19 Dec. 1877.

GEDDES, JAMES LORAINE. b. Edinburgh 19 March 1827; served in Bengal artillery about 1846–55; settled at Vinton, Benton co. U.S.A. 1857; private in 8th Iowa regiment Aug. 1861, brigadier general 5 June 1865; provost marshal of Memphis; captured Spanish fort during Mobile campaign; professor of military tactics at Iowa college of agriculture; wrote The soldier’s battle prayer, The stars and stripes, and several other popular war-songs. d. Ames, Story co. Iowa 21 Feb. 1887.

GENESTE, REV. MAXIMILIAN (4 son of Lewis Geneste of Kirk Bradden, Isle of Man). Matric. from Queen’s coll. Ox. 20 May 1820 aged 20; B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; P.C. of Holy Trinity, West Cowes, Isle of Wight 1832 to death; author of The parallel histories of Judah and Israel 2 vols. 1843 and other books; translated Krümmacher’s Glance into the Kingdom of grace 1837 and other books. d. Trafalgar house, Cowes 27 July 1860.

GEOGHEGAN, ARTHUR GERALD. Author of The Monks of Kilcrea, By * * * 1853, 3 ed. 1861 and other books; contributed to The Nation many years. d. 27 Addison road, London 29 Nov. 1889 aged nearly 80.

GEOGHEGAN, JOSEPH BRYAN. b. Oldfield road, Salford, Manchester 13 April 1815; manager of Victoria music hall, Bolton 1864 to death; proprietor of Star theatre, Hanley; author of John Barleycorn 1860; The men of merry merry England 1858; Lancashire Witches, and upwards of 200 other favourite songs. d. Bolton 21 Jany. 1889.

GEOGHEGAN, MOST REV. PATRICK BONAVENTURE. b. Dublin 1811; joined Franciscan order at Coimbra; the first resident R.C. priest at Port Phillip, New Holland 1839; vicar general of Melbourne 1848; bishop of Adelaide 1859 to death; consecrated 8 Sep. 1859. d. Kingston, Dublin 5 May 1865.

GEORGE, FREDERICK DARLEY. Cornet 11 light dragoons 1825; major 22 foot 1849–53 when placed on h.p.; D.A.G. Windward and Leeward Islands 1853–58; col. 76 foot 28 April 1875 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 4 July 1843. d. 67 Brunswick place, Brighton 2 June 1888 aged 80.

GEORGE, JOHN (eld. son of John George of Dublin, merchant, who d. 1837). b. Dublin 18 Nov. 1804; ed. at Frascati school and Trin. coll. Dublin; called to bar at King’s Inns, Dublin 1826, bencher 1859; barrister G.I. 16 May 1827; Q.C. 2 Nov. 1844; M.P. for co. Wexford 1852–57 and 1859–66; solicitor general for Ireland, Feb. to July 1859; judge of court of Queen’s Bench, Ireland, Nov. 1866 to death; P.C. Ireland 1866. d. 45 Fitzwilliam sq. Dublin 15 Dec. 1871.

GERARD, ROBERT TOLVER, 1 Baron. b. Sutton, Lancs. 12 May 1808; lieut. col. Lancashire yeomanry cavalry 1855, col. 1878 to death; A.D.C. to the Queen 23 March 1867 to death; sheriff of Lancs. 1859; created Baron Gerard of Bryn, Lancs. 18 Jany. 1876. d. 16 South st. Park lane, London 15 March 1887. I.L.N. lxviii, 61, 62 (1876), portrait.

GETTY, SAMUEL GIBSON. b. 30 Nov. 1817; M.P. for Belfast 1860–68. d. 60 Redcliffe gardens, London 15 Dec. 1877.

GIBB, ALEXANDER (only son of John Gibb, C.E., who introduced use of Aberdeen granite in construction of public works). b. Larbert, Stirlingshire 21 Sep. 1804; partner with his father at Aberdeen; built Victoria bridge over the Wear 1836, remarkable for its height and large spans; planned and carried out railway lines in North of Scotland; engineer of Great North of Scotland railway 1845 to death; lessee of Rubislaw quarries near Aberdeen; M.I.C.E. 9 Feb. 1830. d. Willowbank, Aberdeen 8 Aug. 1867. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxvii, 587–89 (1868).

GIBB, SIR GEORGE DUNCAN, 4 Baronet (eld. son of Thomas Gibb). b. Montreal 25 Dec. 1821; educ. McGill coll., M.D. 1846; L.R.C.S. Ireland 1848; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1859; in practice at Montreal 1849–53; one of originators of St. Lawrence sch. of medicine and professor there; gave his collection of 1500 specimens to Natural History soc., Montreal 1853; founded Pathological soc., Montreal, president 1853; settled in London 1853; assist. physician Westminster hospital; assumed a disputed baronetage May 1867; discovered crystal of diabetic sugar 1854; the first to remove tumours from the larynx by the mouth 1864; author of A treatise on whooping cough 1854; On diseases of throat and windpipe 1860; Life of Robert Gib 2 vols. 1874 and 41 other works. d. 1 Bryanston st. Portman sq. London 16 Feb. 1876. N. and Q. 3 Ser. x 311, xii 274, 362, 421, 536 (1866–67), 4 Ser. i 37 (1868); Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis (1867) pp. 140–50.

GIBBES, SIR GEORGE SMITH (son of Rev. George Gibbes, R. of Woodborough, Wilts.) b. 1771; Commoner of Ex. coll. Ox.; B.A. 1792, M.A. 1795, M.B. 1796, M.D. 1799; fellow of Magd. coll. Ox.; candidate of coll. of physicians 1803, fellow 1804, Harveian orator 1817; physician to Bath general hospital 1804; physician extraord. to Queen Charlotte 1819; knighted by George iv. at Carlton house 10 May 1820; removed to Cheltenham about 1835, afterwards to Sidmouth; F.L.S. 21 May 1793; F.R.S. 18 Feb. 1796; author of A treatise on the Bath waters 1800 and other books. d. Sidmouth 23 June 1851. bur. family vault at Woodborough. W. Munk’s Roll (1878) iii, 13.

GIBBONS, DAVID OCTAVIUS (eld. child of Edward Augustus Gibbons, who d. 20 Aug. 1834). b. 28 Oct. 1811; special pleader 1834; author of A manual of the law of fixtures 1836; A treatise on the law of dilapidations and nuisances 1838, 2 ed. 1849 and other books. d. 30 St. George’s sq. London 23 Oct. 1876.

GIBBONS, SIR SILLS JOHN, 1 Baronet (son of Richard Gibbons of Sittingbourne, Kent). b. Chatham 1809; hop merchant in London; alderman for Castle Baynard ward 1862–75, sheriff 1865–6, lord mayor 1871–2; created baronet 11 March 1872. d. Hastings 11 Jany. 1876. I.L.N. lix, 457, 458 (1871), portrait.

GIBBS, SIR BENJAMIN THOMAS BRANDRETH (youngest son of Thomas Gibbs of Ampthill, Beds.) b. London 1821; steward of yard of R. Agricultural soc. 1839–42, hon. director 1843–74, vice president 1871–85; hon. sec. of Smithfield club 1843–85, presented with a silver candelabra 12 Dec. 1855; associated with agricultural sections of national exhibitions in London 1851 and 1862, in Paris 1855, 1867 and 1878, in Vienna 1873, in Philadelphia 1875; commander of order of Francis Joseph 1873; officer of Legion of honour 1878; knighted for his agricultural services, first person so rewarded, by the Queen at Windsor 27 Nov. 1878; sec. of Fisheries exhibition, London 1883; author of The Smithfield club, a condensed history 1857. d. Mossley house, Sinclair road, West Kensington park 2 June 1885. Journ. of Royal Agric. Soc. xxi, 611–20 (1885), portrait; The Biograph, March 1882 pp. 259–61; I.L.N. xxvii, 725–26 (1855), portrait.

GIBBS, JAMES (son of Michael Gibbs of Walbrook, London, merchant). b. 25 July 1825; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ and Haileybury; entered Bombay civil service 1846; barrister I.T. 6 June 1864; judge of high court Bombay, Feb. 1866 to 1879; vice chancellor of Univ. of Bombay 1870–79; mem. of governor general’s council 10 May 1880 to 1885, pres. 1884; C.S.I. 1878; C.I.E. 1878. d. 58 Courtfield gardens, South Kensington, London 30 Oct. 1886.

GIBBS, JOSEPH. b. Staffordshire 1798; established extensive sawing and cutting works at Crayford Mills, Kent and London; invented “Gibbs’ elbow joint” chiefly used for construction of inlaid floors; erected much machinery here and in Holland for manufacturing purposes and lifting water; M.I.C.E. 6 April 1852; author of Considerations relative to sewage of London 1849; Cotton cultivation in its various details 1862. d. 11 Feb. 1864. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxiv, 528–31 (1865).

GIBBS, MATILDA BLANCHE (youngest dau. of Sir Thomas Crawley-Boevey, 3 Baronet 1769–1847). Founded St. Michael and All Angels’ Home for Consumptives at Axbridge 1878, St. Michael’s Home at Cheddar and St. John’s Convalescent Home at Tyntesfield, all in Somerset. (m. 1 Aug. 1839 Wm. Gibbs 1790–1875). d. Tyntesfield 22 Sep. 1887 aged 69, personalty declared at £483,683 7s. 4d.

GIBBS, MRS. (dau. of Mr. Graddon). b. Taunton 1804; first sang at Vauxhall 1821, in Dublin 1823; first appeared in London at Drury Lane Oct. 1824 as Susanna in the Marriage of Figaro; second only to Miss Stephens in ballad singing and to Miss Paton in bravura singing; sang in New Orleans, Dec. 1835, in New York Nov. 1836, returned to England; re-appeared in New York 1855 with an entertainment of song and anecdote entitled The Lakes of Killarney. (m. about 1827 Alexander Gibbs of firm of Graddon and Gibbs, pianoforte makers); date of death not known. J. N. Ireland’s Records of New York stage ii, 180–1 (1867); Cumberland’s Minor Theatre vol. iii, portrait; Le Bal Costumé, polka composed by Mrs. Gibbs (1854), portrait.

GIBBS, WILLIAM (2 son of Antony Gibbs of Exeter, merchant 1756–1815). b. 22 May 1790; partner with his elder brother as merchants in Cadiz and London, head of the firm on his brother’s death 21 Aug. 1842; held for some years monopoly of the guano islands; built the chapel at Keble college, Oxford, dedicated 25 April 1876. d. Tyntesfield near Bristol 3 April 1875, personalty sworn under £800,000, 2 Oct. 1875.

GIBSON, ALEXANDER. b. Laurencekirk, Kincardineshire 24 Oct. 1800; M.D. Edin.; assistant surgeon H.E.I.C. service 1825; passed in Hindustani, Mahrati and Gujerati; superintendent of botanical garden at Dapuri 1838; conservator of forests in Bombay 1847–60; F.L.S. 19 April 1853; author of Forest Reports Bombay 1849–55; Bombay Flora 1861; A handbook to forests of Bombay 1863. d. 16 Jany. 1867. Proc. Linnean Soc. (1866–67) p. 33.

GIBSON, ALEXANDER CRAIG. b. Harrington, Cumberland 17 March 1813; F.S.A.; L.M. Edin.; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1846; L.S.A. 1855; in practice at Branthwaite and Ullock 1841–43, at Coniston 1843–49, at Hawkshead 1849–57, at Bebington, Cheshire 1857–72; contributed to Kendal Mercury, Tait’s Mag., and to Trans. of Historic Soc. of Lancashire and Cheshire; author of The old man, or ravings and ramblings round Coniston, Kendal 1849; The Folk-speech of Cumberland, stories and rhymes in dialect of West Border counties, Carlisle 1869; wrote The Lockerbie Lycke, a ballad in Annandale dialect. d. Bebington 12 June 1874.

GIBSON, DAVID COOKE. b. Edinburgh 4 March 1827; artist in Edin. 1844–52, in London 1852 to death; exhibited 5 domestic pictures at the R.A. 1855–57; wrote Angelo and Zelica and other poems. d. London 5 Oct. 1856. Struggles of a young artist, being a memoir of D. C. Gibson (anon. by W. Macduff) 1858, portrait.

GIBSON, GEORGE STACEY (only son of Wyatt George Gibson of Saffron Walden, Essex). b. Saffron Walden 20 July 1818; senior partner in firm of Gibson, Tuke and Gibson, bankers, Saffron Walden; clerk of yearly meeting of Soc. of Friends; added six species to the British flora, described in the Phytologist 1842–51; F.L.S. 1847; author of The Flora of Essex 1862. d. Temperance hotel, 12 Bishopsgate st. without, London 5 April 1883. Journal of Botany 1883, pp. 161–65, 2 portraits.

GIBSON, REV. JAMES. b. Crieff, Perthshire 31 Jany. 1799; educ. Glasgow univ.; licensed presbyterian minister 1820; travelled with Capt. Elliot in Portugal 1825; assistant in the College parish, Glasgow; built a ch. at Kingston, Glasgow, and was minister 1839–43; joined the Free church and had a chapel built for him at Kingston 1843; professor of systematic theology in Free ch. coll. Glasgow 1856; edited Church of Scotland Mag. 1834–37, and Scottish Protestant vols. i, ii, 1852; author of Marriage affinity question 1854; The public worship of God 1869 and other books. d. Glasgow 2 Nov. 1871. Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1876) 261–64, portrait.

GIBSON, JAMES. Called to bar in Ireland 1828; law adviser to general assembly of Irish presbyterian church; a comr. of national education in Ireland 1848 to death; chairman of Queen’s co.; chairman of co. Donegal to 1879; M.P. for Belfast, Aug. 1837 to March 1838 when unseated on petition; Q.C. 30 Jany. 1869. d. 35 Mountjoy sq. Dublin 5 Feb. 1880.

GIBSON, SIR JAMES BROWN, b. 1805; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1826; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1826; hospital assistant in the army 14 Dec. 1826, surgeon 2 July 1841; served in Crimean war; body surgeon to Duke of Cambridge 1855; director general of medical department 7 March 1860 to 30 March 1867 when placed on h.p.; hon. physician to the Queen 16 Aug. 1859 to death; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857, K.C.B. 28 March 1865. d. Rome 25 Feb. 1868.

GIBSON, JAMES YOUNG (4 son of William Gibson of Edinburgh, merchant). b. Edinburgh 19 Feb. 1826; educ. Edin. univ. and at divinity hall of United Presbyterian ch. 1847–52, licensed preacher 1853, at Melrose 1853–59; travelled in Egypt and Palestine 1865 and in Spain 1871–72; settled in London 1872, at Long Ditton near Surbiton 1884; corrected proofs of J. Duffield’s Don Quixote 1881; translator and editor of Journey to Parnassus by Miguel de Cervantes 1883; Numantia, a tragedy by Miguel de Cervantes 1885. d. Granville hotel, Ramsgate 2 Oct. 1886. bur. Dean cemetery, Edin. The Cid by J. Y. Gibson, ed. M. D. Gibson, memoir by Agnes Smith 1887 pp. xxiii-lv, portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news xxvi, 122 (1886).

GIBSON, JANE (2 dau. of John Gibson of Oakbank near Glasgow). b. Oakbank 22 May 1785; resided for many years in Edinburgh with Mrs. Grant of Laggan; founded the John Gibson bursaries in Glasgow Univ. at cost of £1000 in 1877. d. 9 Blythswood sq. Glasgow 25 Nov. 1887 aged 102 years and 6 months. Glasgow Herald 26 Nov. 1887 p. 4.

GIBSON, JOHN. b. Newcastle 1794; ornamental and house painter and enameller in glass; painted church windows in Newcastle and neighbourhood; formed a gallery of paintings; sheriff of Newcastle 1853–4. d. the Leazes ter. Newcastle 25 Nov. 1854. Mackenzie’s Hist. of Newcastle (1827) pp. 345, 761.

GIBSON, JOHN (son of a market gardener). b. Gyffin near Conway 19 June 1790; removed to Liverpool 1799; sent to Royal Academy Psyche drawn by Zephyrs 1816; came to London 1817; arrived in Rome 20 Oct. 1817; stayed there to 1844 where he studied under Canova and Thorwalsden; A.R.A. 1833, R.A. 1838; exhibited 33 works at R.A. 1816–64; his better known works are Mars and Cupid 1819, Hylas and the Nymphs 1826, Cupid tormenting the soul 1839, The Queen 1846, The tinted Venus 1854, Christ blessing little children 1862; revived the use of colour in statuary. d. Rome 27 Jany. 1866. bur. English cemetery, left £32,000 and the contents of his studio to the Royal Academy. Lady Eastlake’s Life of John Gibson (1870), portrait; W. B. Scott’s British school of sculpture (1871) 109–22; Sandby’s History of Royal Academy ii, 188–92 (1862); Illust. news of the world iii (1859), portrait.

NOTE.—The King of Bavaria placed his statue on the exterior of the Glyptothek at Munich and in the hall of the Walhalla near Ratisbon. There is a fine collection of about 20 casts from his best grouped statues at the Crystal Palace.

GIBSON, JOHN (son of George Gibson of Leith, merchant). b. Leith 15 Jany. 1796; ed. at high school and Univ. of Edin.; writer to the Signet 1819; agent for the Buccleuch estates 1821 to death; legal adviser to Sir Walter Scott 1821–32; deputy keeper of the privy seal 1850; treasurer to Society of writers to the signet; published Reminiscences of Sir Walter Scott 1871. d. 29 Greenhill gardens, Edinburgh 14 Sep. 1877. A Mackie’s Review of the conduct of J. Gibson (1823).

GIBSON, JOHN THOMAS. Entered Madras army 1800; M.G. 23 Nov. 1841; colonel 1 European regiment 27 Feb. 1842 to death. d. Kotagherry, Madras 30 June 1851.

GIBSON, SOLOMON (younger brother of John Gibson, R.A. 1790–1866). Passed his life in Liverpool; modelled a small figure of Mercury when aged 16 which is his best work; exhibited 2 sculptures at R.A. 1816–22; a Greek, Latin and Welsh scholar; wrote many papers on ancient Welsh literature; lived chiefly on the bounty of his brother; fell down dead entering his hotel in Paris 29 Jany. 1866.

GIBSON, THOMAS MILNER (son of Thomas Milner Gibson, major 37 foot, d. 1807). b. Port of Spain, Trinidad 3 Sep. 1806; educ. Charterhouse 1819 and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1830; M.P. Ipswich 1837–39; M.P. Manchester 1841–57; M.P. Ashton-under-Lyne 1857–68; a free trader 1837 and a prominent orator of Anti-corn law league; V.P. of board of trade 1846–48; P.C. 8 July 1846; moved vote of censure on Palmerston for his law of conspiracy bill which caused resignation of ministry 19 Feb. 1858; president of poor law board 1859; president of board of trade 1859–66; assumed additional surname of Milner 7 Feb. 1839; president of Assoc. for repeal of taxes on knowledge 1850, on repeal received testimonial 1 Oct. 1861; amateur yachtsman, navigating his own vessel, the last person who cruised in the Mediterranean with a pass from the dey of Algiers 1830. (m. 23 Feb. 1832 Susanna Arethusa only child of Rev. Sir T. G. Cullum, she was a leader in society and an advocate of mesmerism and spiritualism, d. Paris 23 Feb. 1885 aged 71). d. on board his yacht Resolute at Algiers 25 Feb. 1884. bur. Theberton churchyard 13 March. G. H. Francis’s Orators of the age (1847) 294–300; J. Evans’s Lancashire authors (1850) 101–5; I.L.N. 31 Dec. 1842 p. 541, portrait, 8 March 1884 pp. 217, 227, portrait.

GIBSON, REV. WILLIAM (son of James Gibson of Ballymena, co. Antrim, merchant). b. Ballymena 8 May 1808; Presbyterian minister of First Ballybay, co. Monaghan 1834; colleague of Rev. S. Hannay in Rosemary st. ch. Belfast 1840; professor of christian ethics in the assembly’s coll. Belfast 1847; moderator of the general assembly 1859; author of The position of the church of Ireland and the duty of presbyterians in reference to it 1835; The year of grace, a history of the Ulster revival of 1859, Edin. 1860; chief founder of the Banner of Ulster newspaper 1842. d. Dublin 8 June 1867.

GIBSON, WILLIAM SIDNEY. b. Parson’s Green, Fulham, Middlesex 1814; barrister L.I. 29 Jany. 1845; registrar of Newcastle upon Tyne district court of bankruptcy 1843 to 1870 when granted sum of £1000 on abolition of the court; M.A. Durham 1857; F.S.A. 24 Feb. 1842; F.G.S.; author of The history of the monastery founded at Tynemouth 2 vols. 1846–7; Lord Lyndhurst In memoriam 1865, new ed. 1869 and 11 other books. d. Grosvenor hotel, London 3 Jany. 1871. bur. in disused burial ground of the Old Priory, Tynemouth. Colburn’s New monthly mag. April 1871 p. 244.

GIBSONE, JOHN CHARLES HOPE (son of general D. A. Gibsone). b. 21 May 1810; cornet 7 dragoon guards 1830, lieut. col. 1847–49; lieut. col. 17 light dragoons 1860–62; col. of 8 hussars 10 Dec. 1868, of 17 lancers 22 Sep. 1875 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. Redcross lodge, Leamington 18 July 1884.

GIFFARD, SIR GEORGE MARKHAM (4 son of the succeeding). b. Portsmouth dockyard 4 Nov. 1813; ed. at Winchester and New coll. Ox., fellow 1832; B.C.L. 1841; barrister L.I. 20 Nov. 1840; practised in court of chancery; Q.C. Jany. 1859, bencher of his inn 1859; vice chancellor March 1868; knighted at Windsor Castle 14 May 1868; a lord justice of appeal 1 Jany. 1869 to death; P.C. 4 Feb. 1869. d. 4 Princes gardens, Hyde park, London 13 July 1870. Foss’s Biographia Juridica (1870) 299, 792; I.L.N. lii, 320 (1868), portrait, lvii, 107, 259 (1870).

GIFFARD, JOHN. b. 1766; entered navy 25 April 1780; captain 19 Oct. 1796; lieut. governor of royal naval college at Portsmouth 23 March 1807 to 12 Aug. 1819; admiral 23 Nov. 1841. d. Southampton 25 Sep. 1855.

GIFFARD, JOHN WALTER DE LONGUEVILLE (eld. son of the succeeding). b. 1817; ed. at Merton coll. Ox., B.A. and M.A. 1843; barrister I.T. 19 Nov. 1843; reported in V.C. Stuart’s court 1852–70; judge of county courts, circuit 12 (West Riding of Yorkshire), 15 March 1875, of circuit 58 (Devonshire) March 1883 to death; author of Reports of cases adjudged in court of chancery by Sir John Stuart 1858–1865, 5 vols. 1860–71; author with John Smale of Reports of cases adjudged in court of chancery by Sir John Stuart 1852–1857, 3 vols. 1855–58. d. North Huish near Ivybridge, Devon 20 Oct. 1888.

GIFFARD, STANLEY LEES (youngest son of John Giffard of Dromartin, co. Dublin 1747–1819). b. Dublin 4 Aug. 1788; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1807, M.A. 1811; barrister M.T. 24 May 1811; edited St. James’s Chronicle some years; edited Standard newspaper 1827 to death; contributed articles to Quarterly Review and Blackwood’s Mag. d. Folkestone 6 Nov. 1858.

GIFFORD, ADAM (eld. son of James Gifford, treasurer of the Merchant Co.) b. Edinburgh 28 Feb. 1820; educ. Edinburgh institution 1832; apprenticed to a solicitor 1835, managing clerk; called to the Scotch bar 1849; advocate depute 1861; conducted the prosecution of Jessie M’Lauchlan in the Sandyford murder case 1863; sheriff of Orkney and Zetland 1865; a judge of court of session, with the title of Lord Gifford 28 Jany. 1870, resigned 25 Jany. 1881. d. Granton house, Edinburgh 20 Jany. 1887, left £80,000 to found lectureships on natural theology at Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and St. Andrews.

GIFFORD, JAMES (eld. son of James Gifford, unitarian writer 1740–1813). b. Halifax, Nova Scotia 20 Nov. 1768; midshipman R.N. 1 Oct. 1783; captain 12 Aug. 1812 when he left the sea, rear admiral 1 Oct. 1846; spent his income in works of benevolence and in furthering cause of unitarianism; author of The remonstrance of a unitarian addressed to the Bishop of St. Davids’ 1818, 2 ed. 1820; Letter of a unitarian to the minister of St. James’s church, Jersey 1845. d. Mount Orgueil cottage near St. Helier, Jersey 20 Aug. 1853.

GILBART, JAMES WILLIAM. b. London 21 March 1794; clerk in a London bank 1813; cashier in a Birmingham office 1825–7; manager of branches of Provincial Bank of Ireland at Kilkenny and Waterford 1829–33; general manager of London and Westminster bank 1833–59 when he retired on pension of £1600, bank opened 10 March 1834; F.R.S. 18 June 1846; author of A practical treatise on banking 1827, 6 ed. 1856; The history and principles of banking 1834 and 14 other books republished in 6 vols. 1865. d. Brompton crescent, London 8 Aug. 1863. J. W. Gilbart’s Practical treatise on banking, vol. i (1856), portrait; Drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages, 3rd series (1860), portrait.

GILBERT, ANN (eld. child of Rev. Isaac Taylor of Ongar 1759–1829). b. opposite Islington ch. London 30 Jany. 1782; engraved small plates for Darton and Harvey’s juvenile works; co-author with her sister Jane of Original poems for infant minds 2 vols. 1804–5; Hymns for infant minds 1810 and other books. (m. 24 Dec. 1813 Rev. Joseph Gilbert 1779–1852). d. College st. Nottingham 20 Dec. 1866. Josiah Gilbert’s Autobiography of Mrs. Gilbert 2 vols. (1874), 2 portraits.

GILBERT, RIGHT REV. ASHURST TURNER (son of Thomas Gilbert, captain R.M., who d. 14 Dec. 1844 aged 86). b. near Burnham Beeches, Bucks. 14 May 1786; ed. at Manchester gr. sch. and Brasenose coll. Ox.; B.A. 1809, M.A. 1811, B.D. 1819, D.D. 1822; fellow of Brasenose 1811, principal 2 Feb. 1822 to Feb. 1842; vice chancellor of Ox. 1836–40; bishop of Chichester 24 Jany. 1842 to death, consecrated at Lambeth palace 27 Feb. 1842; inhibited Rev. John Purchas from carrying on ritualistic services at St. James’s chapel, Brighton 14 Oct. 1868; author of 14 letters, sermons and charges. d. Episcopal palace, Chichester 21 Feb. 1870. Manchester school register ii, 221–4 (1868).

GILBERT, ELIZABETH MARGARETTA MARIA (2 dau. of the preceding). b. Oxford 7 Aug. 1826; became entirely blind April 1829; established work rooms for blind people at New Turnstile, Holborn, London, May 1854 which developed into Association for promoting the general welfare of the blind 1855; writer of fugitive verses. d. 5 Stanhope place, Hyde park, London 7 Feb. 1885. F. Martin’s Elizabeth Gilbert and her works for the blind (1887), portrait.

GILBERT, REV. JOSEPH. b. Wrangle, Lincs. 20 March 1779; Independent minister at Southend, Essex; classical tutor at Rotherham college; pastor of Nether chapel, Sheffield 1818; pastor of James st. chapel, Nottingham 1825, of Friar lane chapel, Nottingham 1828 to 1851; chairman of Congregational Union 1833; author of The Christian Atonement, its basis, nature and bearings 1836, 2 ed. 1852. d. Nottingham 12 Dec. 1852. A biographical sketch of J. Gilbert, by his widow 1853 pp. 1–150.

GILBERT, JOSEPH FRANCIS. Resided at Portsmouth 1813; resided at Chichester many years; painted many views in Sussex; exhibited 6 pictures at R.A., 5 at B.I. and 12 at Suffolk st. gallery 1813–53. d. London 25 Sep. 1855 in 64 year.

GILBERT, MISS. b. Hants.; pupil of J. S. Rarey the horse tamer 1859; kept a riding school in London; the best performer with the Queen’s hounds; the chief subject of Landseer’s picture called “The pretty horsebreaker.” d. Dec. 1863. I.L.N. xxxii, 593, 594 (1858), portrait; Baily’s Mag. Feb. 1864 p. 321.

GILBERT, RICHARD (son of Robert Gilbert of St. John’s sq. Clerkenwell, printer, who d. 10 Jany. 1815 aged 51). b. St. John’s sq. 1794; a printer with his brother in London 1815; head of firm of Gilbert and Rivington, printers 1830 to death; projected and edited Clergyman’s Almanack 1818, Gilbert’s Clergyman’s Almanack 1835; author of Liber Scholasticus 1829, 2nd ed. entitled The parents school and college guide 1843; The Clerical guide, or ecclesiastical directory 1817 anon., 2 ed. 1821 anon., 3 ed. 1829, 4 ed. 1836. d. 70 Euston sq. London 26 Feb. 1852.

GILBERT, SIR WALTER RALEIGH, 1 Baronet (3 son of Rev. Edmund Gilbert, R. of Helland, Cornwall, who d. 1816). b. Bodmin 18 March 1785; entered Bengal army 1800; lieut. col. 39 Bengal N.I. 1824; col. 35 Bengal N.I. 1832; commanded divisions in first and second Sikh wars 1845–6 and 1849; col. 1 European regiment 1845 to death; member of council of India 3 April 1850 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; K.C.B. 3 April 1846, G.C.B. 9 June 1849; created baronet 31 Dec. 1850. d. Stevens’ hotel, Bond st. London 10 May 1853, memorial obelisk erected on the Beacon, Bodmin 1856–7. G.M. xxxix, 652–3 (1853); I.L.N. vii, 269 (1845), portrait, viii, 269 (1846), portrait, xxii, 404, 483 (1853); Bentley’s Miscellany xxxiii, 627–32 (1853).

GILBERT, WILLIAM. Entered Bombay army 1795; col. 21 Bombay N.I. 1 May 1824 to 17 Feb. 1852; col. 3 Bombay N.I. 17 Feb. 1852 to death; general 20 June 1854. d. Tweed near Lymington, Hants. 5 Nov. 1866 aged 85.

GILBERT, WILLIAM. Author of On present system of rating for the poor in the metropolis 1857; De Profundis 2 vols. 1864; Sir Thomas Bramston 3 vols. 1869; King George’s Middy 1869; Doctor Austin’s Guests 2 vols. 1866; The City, an enquiry into the corporation, its livery companies 1877 and 20 other books; some of his books are illustrated by his son W. S. Gilbert. d. The Close, Salisbury 3 Jany. 1889 in 86 year. Contemporary Review xii, 437–40 (1869).

GILBEY, ALFRED. b. Bishop Stortford, Herts. 23 Oct. 1833; with his elder brother Henry P. Gilbey, wine merchant, London 1847; in government civil service in the Crimea 1855; firm of William and A. Gilbey, wine merchants 357 Oxford st. London, established Feb. 1857; firm admitted 6 other partners all relatives; removed business to the Pantheon, Oxford st. 1867, wine and spirit business became largest in Great Britain; author with W. Gilbey of Treatise on wines and spirits of the producing countries 1869. d. Wooburn house, Wooburn, Bucks. 28 Nov. 1879, personalty sworn under £350,000, 23 Feb. 1880. Wine Trade Review 15 Dec. 1879 p. 599 and 15 March 1880 p. 107.

GILCHRIST, ALEXANDER (son of James Gilchrist of Newington Green, London 1783–1835). b. Newington Green 25 April 1828; ed. at Univ. college school; barrister M.T. 3 May 1850; author of Life of William Etty, R.A. 2 vols. 1855; Life of William Blake, Pictor Ignotus 2 vols. 1863; contributed to Eclectic Review, Literary Review and Critic. d. 6 Cheyne row, Chelsea 30 Nov. 1861. A. Gilchrist’s Life of W. Blake, (2 ed. 1880) ii, 359–76.

GILCHRIST, ANNE (dau. of John Parker Burrows, solicitor, d. 1839). b. 7 Gower st. London 25 Feb. 1828; educ. under the Misses Cahusac at Highgate 1833; resided at Guildford and Chelsea 1828 etc.; in U.S. America 1876–79; friend of W. M. Rossetti 1862. (m. 4 Feb. 1851 the preceding); author of Lost in the woods 1864; Secular ethics of a national education 1872; Mary Lamb 1883; contributed to Household Words and Blackwood’s Mag. d. Keat’s corner, Well road, Hampstead 29 Nov. 1885. Life and writings of Anne Gilchrist (1887), with portraits.

GILDEA, VERY REV. GEORGE ROBERT. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1827, M.A. 1832; C. of Westport, Tuam 1826–28; C. of Kilmaine 1828–34; R. of Newport, Ireland 1834–44; R. of Kilmaine 1844–67; R. of Moylough 1867–73; provost of Tuam cathedral 1872 to death; author of Reproductive relief spinning in the West of Ireland 1849. d. 17 Alfred place, Thurloe sq. London 2 June 1887 in 84 year.

GILDERDALE, REV. JOHN. b. 1802; educ. Howden gram. sch. Essex and St. Catharine’s hall, Camb., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1830, B.D. 1853, ad eundem Oxford 1847; C. of Huddersfield 1840–42; lecturer Halifax parish ch. Yorkshire 1842–47; principal of the Forest sch. Walthamstow 1848 to 1863; P.C. of Caundle Stourton, Dorset 1863; author of An essay on natural religion and revelation 1837; A course of family prayer for one month 1838; A letter to Lord Brougham on national education 1838. d. Caundle Stourton 25 Sep. 1864 aged 62.

GILES, REV. HENRY. b. Cranford, Wexford 1 Nov. 1809; Unitarian minister at Greenock 2 years, at Liverpool 3 years; went to America 1840 where he became a brilliant lecturer; author of Lectures and essays 2 vols. 1850; Christian thought on life 1850; Human life in Shakespeare 1868, all at Boston, U.S.A., and other books. d. Hyde park near Boston 10 July 1882.

GILES, JAMES WILLIAM. b. Glasgow 4 Jany. 1801; at age of 13 maintained his mother and sister by painting; taught classes in Aberdeen 1821; visited Italy; portrait and landscape painter; A.R.S.A. 1829; exhibited 2 works at R.A., 80 at B.I. and 13 at Suffolk st. 1830–68, and many at R. Scottish Academy; his picture ‘The Weird Wife’ is in the National gallery of Scotland. d. Bon Accord st. Aberdeen 6 Oct. 1870.

GILES, REV. JOHN ALLEN (eld. son of Wm. Giles of Mark, Somerset). b. Southwick house, Mark 26 Oct. 1808; ed. at Charterhouse and C.C. coll. Ox., scholar 1824, fellow 1832–33; double first class 1828; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831, D.C.L. 1838; Vinerian scholar 1831; head master of Camberwell coll. sch. 1834–6; head master of City of London sch. 1836–40; C. of Bampton, Oxon. 1845–54; sentenced at Oxford assizes 6 March 1855 to a year’s imprisonment in Oxford Castle for making a false entry in marriage register book of Bampton parish church, but released by royal warrant 4 June 1855; C. of Perivale, Mid. 1857–61; R. of Sutton, Surrey 1867 to death; published Patres Ecclesiae Anglicanæ 34 vols. 1837–43; Life and letters of Thomas Becket 2 vols. 1846; History of Bampton 1847, 2 ed. 1848; Christian records on the age, authorship and authenticity of the New Testament 1854 which he suppressed, and 80 other books. d. Sutton rectory 24 Sep. 1884.

GILES, VEN. JOHN DOUGLAS (eld. son of Robert Giles of Wedmore, Somerset). Matric. from C.C. coll. Ox. 28 Nov. 1828 aged 16, exhibitioner 1828–32; B.A. 1832, M.A. 1836; V. of Swinstead, Lincs. 1840–50; R. of Belleau with Aby, Lincs. 1850–61; R. of Willoughby, Lincs. 1861 to death; archdeacon of Stow 1863 to death; precentor of Lincoln cath. April 1866 to death; author of Village sermons 1861. d. Willoughby rectory 5 Feb. 1867.

GILES-PULLER, CHRISTOPHER WILLIAM (only son of Sir Christopher Puller 1773–1824, chief justice of supreme court of Calcutta). b. London 16 June 1807; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., double first class 1828; barrister L.I. 23 Nov. 1832; practised in court of chancery 1832–41; with his mother founded and endowed church of St. Giles at High Cross near Standon, Herts., consecrated 6 Aug. 1847; contested Herts. 1852 and 1854; M.P. for Herts. 31 March 1857 to death; assumed additional name of Giles 1857. d. Youngsbury near Ware, Herts. 16 Feb. 1864.

GILFILLAN, REV. GEORGE (11 child of Rev. Samuel Gilfillan 1762–1826). b. Comrie, Perthshire 30 Jany. 1813; ed. at Glasgow coll.; licensed as a United Presbyterian minister 1835: minister of the School-Wynd ch. Dundee, March 1836 to death; a successful public lecturer; took an important part in political and religious meetings; author of Hades or the Unseen, a sermon 1843, three editions; A gallery of literary portraits 1845, Second ser. 1850, Third ser. 1854; Life of Robert Burns 1856; History of a Man: By B. E. ed. by G. G., a semi-autobiographical romance 1856; British Poets 6 vols. 1853–60; Night, a poem 1867 and about 100 other books. d. Arnhalt, Brechin 13 Aug. 1878. bur. Balgay cemetery, Dundee, the funeral procession being 2 miles long. The lamps of the temple, 3 ed. (1856) 242–68; Our Scottish clergy 2 series (1849) 368–78; P. R. Drummond’s Perthshire (1879) 160–70.

GILFILLAN, JAMES (brother of the preceding). b. Comrie, Perthshire 11 May 1797; educ. Glasgow coll. 1808, and at the divinity hall of antiburgher synod, Edin.; United Secession ch. minister Stirling 24 Dec. 1822, resigned 1869; D.D. of Glasgow univ. 1866; author of The Sabbath viewed in the light of reason, revelation and history 1861. d. Portobello near Edinburgh 28 Jany. 1874.

GILL, THOMAS. b. 19 Feb. 1782; entered navy 15 Jany. 1794; captain 10 Jany. 1837, retired R.A. 8 April 1868; on 14 June 1803 in action with Lodi off St. Domingo severely wounded, voted a sword of 50 guineas by Patriotic Soc. d. Grove lodge, Pulteney road, Bath 27 Jany. 1874. Athenæum 21 June 1862 pp. 823–4.

GILL, WILLIAM JOHN (son of Robert Gill, major Madras army). b. Bangalore 10 Sep. 1843; ed. at Brighton college and R.M. academy, Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.E. 11 Nov. 1864, captain 21 Dec. 1877 to death; travelled in Persia with col. Valentine Baker 1873; contested Hackney 1874, Nottingham 1880; travelled in China and Tibet 1876–78; gold medallist of R.G.S. 26 May 1879; gold medallist of Paris geographical society 1880; author of The river of golden sand 2 vols. 1880; started from Suez for the desert 8 Aug. 1882, murdered by Bedouins at Wady Sudr 11 Aug. 1882. bur. in the crypt of St. Paul’s cath. 6 April 1883, stained glass memorial window in Rochester cathedral. W. J. Gill’s River of golden sand, new ed. (1883) pp. 19–66, portrait; Graphic xxvi, 469 (1882), portrait.

GILLAN, REV. ROBERT (son of Robert Gillan, minister at Hawick, Roxburgh, d. 7 May 1824). b. Hawick 1800; educ. Edin. univ.; Presbyterian minister at Stamfordham, Northumberland 1830, at South Shields 1833, at Holytown, Lanarkshire 1837, at Wishaw 1842, at Abbotshall, Fifeshire 1843, at St. John’s, Glasgow 1847 and at Inchinnan, Renfrewshire 1861 to death; D.D. of Glasgow univ. 1853; lecturer on pastoral theology at the Scottish universities; publicly entertained at Glasgow and presented with his portrait 11 Oct. 1870; moderator of general assembly 1873; author of The Decalogue, a series of discourses 1856. d. Inchinnan manse 1 Nov. 1879. J. Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy (1848) 182–8; H. Scott’s Fasti ii, pt. 1, p. 269.

GILLIES, MARGARET (2 dau. of William Gillies, merchant). b. Throgmorton st. London 7 Aug. 1803; educ. Edinburgh; had lessons in painting from F. Cruikshank in London, and from Hendrik and Ary Scheffer in Paris; Assoc. of Old Soc. of painters in water-colours 1852 and a constant contributor to its gallery; exhibited 101 subjects at R.A., 2 at B.I. and 8 at Suffolk st. 1832–61; some of her best known works are Past and present 1855, The heavens are telling 1856, Cercando Pace 1875; resided Church row, Hampstead, but d. The Warren, Crockham hill, Kent 20 July 1887. Clayton’s English Female artists (1876) ii, 87–94; Hays’s Women of the Day (1885) 77–78.

GILLIES, MARY (sister of the preceding). Author of The voyage of the Constance 1860; The Carewes 1861; Great fun for our little friends 1862; More fun for little friends, by Harriet Myrtle 1864. d. 1870.

GILLIES, ROBERT PIERCE (son of Dr. Thomas Gillies. d. 1808). b. at or near Arbroath 1788; educ. Edin. univ.; admitted advocate 1813; in pecuniary difficulties from 1813 to his decease; imprisoned for debt 1847–9; friend of Scott and Wordsworth; an early contributor to Blackwood’s Mag.; called Kempferhausen in the Noctes Ambrosianæ; founder and editor of Foreign Quarterly Review, July 1827; resided in London 1827 and at Boulogne 1840–47; author of Childe Alarique, a poet’s reverie, by R. P. G. 1814; The confessions of Sir H. Longueville, by R. P. G. 2 vols. 1814; German stories 3 vols. 1826; Tales of a voyager to the Arctic Ocean 6 vols. 1826–29; Memoirs of a literary veteran 3 vols. 1851. d. Kensington 28 Nov. 1858.

GILLIS, MOST REV. JAMES (only child of Alexander Gillis of Fochabers, Elgin, who d. Nov. 1833). b. Montreal 7 April 1802; founded St. Margaret’s convent, Edinburgh for nuns of the Ursuline order 16 June 1835; coadjutor bishop of Eastern district of Scotland 28 July 1837; consecrated bishop of Limyra in partibus 22 July 1838; vicar apostolic of East of Scotland 24 May 1852 to death; introduced the Jesuits into his district 1859; author of Facts relating to admission into catholic church of viscount and viscountess Feilding 1850 and many letters and discourses. d. Greenhill near Edinburgh 24 Feb. 1864. Gordon’s Catholic mission in Scotland (18 ) 480, portrait; History of St. Margaret’s convent, Edinburgh (1886), portrait; Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis (1867) 151–3.

GILLKREST, JAMES. Hospital assistant in the army 1800; surgeon 43 foot 1804; inspector general 1845–46 when placed on retired list; author of Cholera Gleanings, a family handbook 1849; Notes worth noticing relative to the Cholera 1852, of a work on yellow fever which he presented to French Academy of Medicine, and of a monograph on yellow fever published in General Board of Health’s second report on quarantine. d. St. Alban’s place, Haymarket London 25 Dec. 1853.

GILLMAN, JOSEPH. b. Little Over near Derby 1759; fought under Rodney and Hood off Port Royal, Jamaica, April 1782, believed to have been last survivor of that battle; one of the foremost mutineers at the Nore, May-June 1797; one of forlorn hope at storming of Seringapatam 4 May 1799; received a compound fracture of both legs at Copenhagen 2 April 1801. d. Manchester 25 June 1855 in 96 year.

GILLOTT, JOSEPH. b. Sheffield 11 Oct. 1799; working cutler; removed to Birmingham 1821; adapted the press to the making of steel pens 1830, invented side slits and cross grinding of the points, sold the pens at 1s. each; established works at Graham st. Newhall hill 1859 where he employed 450 persons and sold his pens at 4d. the gross; formed a collection of paintings chiefly Turner’s and Etty’s, collection sold in 1873 for £170,000; collected violins which realised £4000; had a residence at Stanmore near London. d. Westbourne road, Edgbaston, Birmingham 5 Jany. 1873, personalty sworn under £250,000. Practical Mag. (1873) i, 322–5, portrait; Mayhew’s Shops of London (1865) 98–100; Edwards’s Personal recollections of Birmingham (1877) 89–100.

GILLOW, REV. JOHN (youngest son of John Gillow of Elswick Grange). b. 27 Feb. 1814; ed. at Ushaw college, Durham, professor of mathematics there 1837–42, of natural philosophy 1842–50, of dogmatic theology 1850–59 and 1863 to death, of moral theology 1859–60; canon theologian of cathedral chapter of Hexham 1857; created D.D. by Pius ix, 1859; vice pres. of Ushaw college 1859 to death. d. Ushaw college 9 Aug. 1877. J. Gillow’s English Catholics ii, 476–81 (1885).

GILLY, REV. WILLIAM STEPHEN (son of Rev. Wm. Gilly, R. of Wanstead, Essex, who d. 23 Nov. 1837 aged 75). b. 28 Jany. 1789; ed. at Christ’s hospital and Caius and St. Catharine’s hall, Cam., B.A. 1812, M.A. 1817, D.D. 1833; R. of North Fambridge, Essex 1817; canon of Durham 1826; P.C. of St. Margaret’s, Durham 1827–51; V. of Norham on the Tweed 1851 to death; canon residentiary of Durham 1853 to death; author of The Spirit of the Gospel 1818; A memoir of Felix Neff 1832, many eds.; Our Protestant Forefathers 1835, many eds., and numerous other books. d. Norham 10 Sep. 1855. G.M. xliv, 437–39 (1855).

GILPIN, REV. BERNARD (4 son of Rev. Wm. Gilpin, R. of Pulverbatch, Salop). b. Cheam, Surrey 26 Jany. 1803; ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; R. of St. Andrew, Hertford 15 Jany. 1829 to Oct. 1835 when he resigned and seceded from Church of England; preached for 35 years in a chapel at Port Vale Bengeo, Hertford, built for him by his followers. d. Pulverbatch 10 Jany. 1871. Benson’s Memorials of B. Gilpin (1874), with portrait.

GILPIN, CHARLES (son of James Gilpin of Bristol). b. Bristol 1815; publisher and bookseller in Bishopsgate st. London to 1853; common councilman London 1848; parliamentary sec. of Poor law board 28 June 1859 to 22 Feb. 1865; contested Perth 1852; M.P. for Northampton, April 1857 to death; chairman of National freehold land society. d. 10 Bedford sq. Holborn, London 8 Sep. 1874. The drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages 3rd series (1860), portrait; The statesmen of England (1862) No. 45, portrait; I.L.N. xxxiii, 92, 94 (1858), portrait, lxv, 260, 273, 379 (1874), portrait.

GILPIN, HENRY DILWOOD (son of Joshua Gilpin of Philadelphia 1765–1840). b. Lancaster 14 April 1801; ed. in England 1811–16; graduated at Univ. of Pennsylvania 1819; attorney in Philadelphia 1822 to death; attorney general of the U.S. 1840–1; edited Atlantic Souvenir 7 vols. 1826–32; published Opinions of the attorney generals of the United States 2 vols., Washington 1841 and other books. d. Philadelphia 29 Jany. 1860. Memorials of H. D. Gilpin, Privately printed Philadelphia (1860); Appleton’s American biography ii, 659 (1887), portrait.

GILPIN, SIR RICHARD THOMAS, 1 Baronet (only son of Richard Gilpin of Hockliffe grange, Leighton Buzzard, Beds., who d. 3 Jany. 1841). b. Manchester st. Manchester sq. London 12 Jany. 1801; ed. at Rugby and Christ’s coll. Cam.; col. Bedfordshire militia 11 Sep. 1848 to death; sheriff of Beds. 1850; M.P. for Beds. 1851–80; created baronet 19 Feb. 1876. d. Hockliffe grange 8 April 1882.

GIOVANELLI, EDWARD, stage name of Edward Edwards. b. Clerkenwell, London, Aug. 1823; first appeared in London at Cabinet theatre 1839; proprietor of Highbury Barn gardens, Islington 21 May 1861 to 14 Oct. 1870 when he lost his dancing license after spending £35,000 on the property; built Alexandra theatre in the gardens, opened 20 May 1865; manager of Royal Alfred theatre opened 12 Nov. 1870. d. 6 Lady Somerset road, Kentish town, London 14 March 1881.

GIRAUD, HERBERT JOHN (2 son of John Thomas Giraud, surgeon 1764–1836). b. Faversham, Kent 14 April 1817; educ. Edin. univ., M.D. 1840; entered service of H.E.I.C. 1842, professor of chemistry and botany 1845 and then principal of Grant Medical coll. Bombay; medical officer of Sir J. Jeejeeboy’s hospital; chemical analyst to Bombay government; deputy inspector general of Bombay army medical service, retired 1868; dean of faculty of medicine, Bombay university 1863; writer of papers on botany and chemistry. d. Shanklin, Isle of Wight 12 Jany. 1888.

GIRAUD, RICHARD HERVÉ. b. Canterbury 1801; midshipman R.N. to 1815; solicitor in London 1822 to death; a Freemason 1824 to death, founder and first master of the Huguenot lodge; a director of French hospital, London 1829, sec., treasurer and deputy governor successively; a founder of Huguenot Soc. of London, April 1885. d. 55 Doughty st. London 13 Oct. 1886.

GIRDLESTONE, REV. CHARLES (2 son of Samuel Rainbow Girdlestone of London, barrister). b. London 6 March 1797; ed. at Wadham coll. Ox., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; fell. of Balliol coll. 1818–26; C. of Hastings 1822–24; C. of Ferry Hincksey, Berks. 1824–26; select preacher at Ox. 1825 and 1830; V. of Sedgley, Staffs. 1826–37; R. of Alderley, Cheshire 1837–47; R. of Kingswinsford, Staffs. 1847–77; author of The New Testament with a commentary 2 vols. 1832–5; The Holy Bible with a commentary 4 vols. 1842, new ed. 6 vols. 1873; The question of the day, By the Creature of an Hour 1857, and 60 other books. d. Holywell house, Weston-super-Mare 28 April 1881.

GIRDLESTONE, REV. EDWARD (brother of the preceding). b. London 6 Sep. 1805; ed. at Balliol coll. Ox., scholar 1823–6, B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; C. of Deane, Lancs. 1828, V. 1830–55; canon of Bristol 1854; V. of St. Nicholas with St. Leonard’s, Bristol 1855–58; V. of Wapley, Gloucs. 1858–62; V. of Halberton, Devon 1862–72; V. of Olveston, Gloucs. 1872 to death; author of Sermons on Romanism and Tractarianism 1851; Remarks on Essays and Reviews 1861 and 15 other books. d. Canon’s house, Bristol 4 Dec. 1884. Church of England photographic portrait gallery (1859) part 6, portrait; Church Portrait Journal, Aug. 1884 pp. 57–60, portrait.

GIRLING, MARY ANNE (dau. of Mr. Clouting, farmer). b. Little Glemham, Suffolk 27 April 1827; a wesleyan methodist; believed that she was called to be a new incarnation of the Deity 1864; commenced preaching at 107 Bridge road, Battersea 1870, community named themselves The Children of God, but generally called Shakers; removed to New Forest lodge, Hampshire 2 Jany. 1872; ejected for non-payment of rent 1873 and 1878 and suffered much hardship; rented Tiptoe farm, Hordle, Lymington 1879; members expected to live for ever and that Mrs. Girling would rule over the world. (m. George Stanton Girling a general dealer at Ipswich). d. Tiptoe farm 18 Sep. 1886. Irish Monthly, Oct. 1878 pp. 555–64; Lymington Chronicle 23 and 30 Sept. 1886.

GISBORNE, JOHN (2 son of John Gisborne of Yoxall, Staffs.) b. St. Helen’s, Derby 26 Aug. 1770; ed. at Harrow and St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1792; author of The Vales of Wever 1797; Reflections 1833 and other poems. d. Pentrich, Derbyshire 17 June 1851. A brief memoir of the life of John Gisborne with extracts from his diary (1852).

GISBORNE, LIONEL. b. St. Petersburgh 1823; civil engineer; worked for the government in Ireland 1842–52; practised in London 1852 to death; brought forward a scheme for embankment of river Thames 1852; projected several of the long submarine telegraphs 1851 to death; partner with Henry C. Forde; A.I.C.E. 1852; author of The Isthmus of Darien 1853. d. Dartmouth st. Westminster 9 March 1861. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxi, 586–92 (1862).

GISBORNE, THOMAS (eld. son of Rev. Thomas Gisborne 1758–1846). b. 1794; M.P. for Stafford 1830–32, for North Derbyshire 1832–37, for Carlow 1839–41, for Nottingham 1843–47; contested Totnes 1840, Newport and South Leics. 1841, Ipswich 1842, Nottingham 1847 and Kidderminster 1849; author of Essays on Agriculture 1854, and of speeches and pamphlets. d. Yoxall lodge, Staffs. 20 July 1852.

GIUGLINI, ANTONIO. b. Fano, Italy 1827; sang at Her Majesty’s theatre, London 1857–58; sang with much success in the provinces and abroad; had a sweet and high tenor voice, the best since Tamberlik; became insane 1862. d. in an asylum at Pesaro, Italy 12 Oct. 1865. Illust. sporting news iv, 553 (1865), portrait.

GLADSTONE, SIR JOHN, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Thomas Gladstones of Leith, corn merchant 1732–1809). b. Leith 11 Dec. 1764; corn merchant at Liverpool 1788–1843 when he retired; M.P. for Lancaster 1818, for Woodstock 1820, for Berwick 1826–27 when unseated on petition; dropped the final s in his name by r.l. 10 Feb. 1835; created baronet 18 July 1846; author of Plain facts connected with the Corn laws 1846 and other pamphlets. d. Fasque, Kincardineshire 7 Dec. 1851. Fortunes made in business ii, 111–36 (1884); H. R. F. Bourne’s English merchants ii, 290–306 (1886).

GLADSTONE, JOHN NEILSON. b. 18 Jany. 1807; M.P. for Walsall 1841, for Ipswich 1842–7, for Devizes 1852–7 and 1859 to death; sheriff of Wilts. 1859. d. Bowden park, Wilts. 7 Feb. 1863. I.L.N, xxii, 197, 198 (1853), portrait.

GLADSTONE, MURRAY (6 son of Robert Gladstone of Liverpool 1773–1835). b. Liverpool 14 Feb. 1816; employed in making surveys for railways; a merchant at Calcutta 1844–50; established firm of Gladstone, Latham & Co. in Manchester 1850; erected an observatory at Penmaenmawr, North Wales; F.R.A.S. 11 May 1860. d. suddenly while walking along the shore at Penmaenmawr 23 Aug. 1875. Monthly notices of R.A.S. xxxvi, 142 (1876).

GLADSTONE, SIR THOMAS, 2 Baronet (eld. son of Sir John Gladstone 1764–1851). b. Annfield near Liverpool 25 July 1804; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; M.P. for Queenborough, Kent 1830–32, for Portarlington 1832–35, for Leicester 1835–37, for Ipswich 1842 but unseated on petition; lord lieut. of Kincardineshire; founded at Fasque, Kincardineshire a herd of pure-bred polled cattle. d. Fasque house 20 March 1889. Fortunes made in business ii, 137–40 (1884).

GLASGOW, JAMES CARR-BOYLE, 5 Earl of (2 son of 4 Earl of Glasgow 1766–1843). b. London 10 April 1792; served in the navy 1807–18, retired commander 5 Oct. 1867; assumed name of Carr before Boyle 2 Aug. 1823; contested Ayrshire 1837, M.P. for Ayrshire 1839–43; lord lieut. and sheriff principal of Renfrewshire 21 Oct. 1844; kept many racehorses 1819 to death, most of which were unnamed; won the Two thousand guineas and Doncaster Cup with General Peel 1864; master of Renfrewshire fox hounds. d. Hawkhead, Renfrewshire 11 March 1869. Rice’s British Turf (1879) ii, 242–55; Saddle and Sirloin, By the Druid. Part North (1870) 26–32; Baily’s Mag. i, 257–60 (1860), portrait.

GLASGOW, GEORGE FREDERICK BOYLE, 6 Earl of (_half-brother of the preceding_). b. 9 Oct. 1825; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1847, M.A. 1852; M.P. for Buteshire, Feb. to July 1865, contested Buteshire, July 1865; lord clerk register of Scotland 1879 to death; principal keeper of the Signet. d. 32 Palmerston place, Edinburgh 23 April 1890.

GLASS, JOSEPH. b. 1792; invented the chimney-sweeping machine now in use for which he received a silver medal and prize of £200 about 1828; author of Chimney-sweeping described 1834. d. Brixton, London 29 Dec. 1867.

GLASS, SIR RICHARD ATWOOD (eld. son of Francis Glass of Bradford, Wilts.) b. Bradford 3 July 1820; established with Kuper a wire-rope manufactory; introduced use of twisted iron wires in Dover and Calais cable as a protecting medium for submarine telegraphs 1852; made a length of 1250 miles of the Atlantic cable of 1858 which failed; partner in firm of Glass, Elliot and Co., Greenwich, firm was eventually absorbed in the Telegraph construction and maintenance co., managing director; knighted by patent 26 Nov. 1866; chairman of Anglo-American Telegraph company; M.P. for Bewdley 1868–69 when unseated on petition; A.I.C.E. 4 May 1858. d. Moorlands, Bitterne, Southampton 22 Dec. 1873. I.L.N. xlix, 545, 558 (1866), portrait.

GLASSE, FREDERICK HENRY HASTINGS. Entered navy 20 Nov. 1818; captain 9 Nov. 1846; R.A. 16 Sep. 1864, retired 1 April 1870; admiral 1 Aug. 1877; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857. d. Billacombe villa, Plymstock, South Devon 25 May 1884.

GLAZEBROOK, THOMAS KIRKLAND (son of Rev. James Glazebrook 1744–1803). b. Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leics. 4 June 1780; glass manufacturer at Warrington; lived at Southport 1835 to death; F.L.S.; printed many songs and poems; author of The first eclogue of Virgil translated into English verse 1807; A guide to Southport 1809, 2 ed. 1826 and other books. d. Southport 17 Jany. 1855. J. Kendrick’s Warrington Worthies, 2 ed. (1854) p. 6, portrait.

GLEIG, REV. GEORGE ROBERT (son of Right Rev. George Gleig 1753–1840, primate of Scotch episcopalian church). b. Stirling 20 April 1796; ed. at Glasgow univ. and Balliol coll. Ox., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; ensign 3 garrison battalion 1812; lieut. 85 foot 1813–16 when placed on h.p., sold out 1826; served in Peninsula 1813–14 and in American war; R. of Ivychurch, Kent 1822–80; chaplain of Chelsea hospital 1834–40; principal chaplain to the forces 1844–46, chaplain general 1846–75 when placed on h.p.; inspector general of military schools 1846–57; preb. of St. Paul’s 29 Dec. 1848 to death; author of The Subaltern 1826; The Chelsea pensioners 1829; The history of the British Empire in India 4 vols. 1830–5; Memoirs of the life of Warren Hastings 3 vols. 1841 and 35 other books; the survivor of original contributors to Blackwood’s Mag. and Fraser’s Mag. d. Stratfield Turgis near Winchfield 9 July 1888. Maclise Portrait Gallery (1883) 267–70, portrait; Colburn’s New Monthly xlix, 220–23 (1837), portrait.

GLENELG, CHARLES GRANT, 1 Baron (eld son of Charles Grant 1746–1823, M.P. for Invernesshire). b. Kidderpore, Bengal 26 Oct. 1778; ed. at Magd. coll. Cam., fellow 1802, 4th wrangler and chancellor’s medallist 1801; B.A. 1801, M.A. 1804, L.L.D. 1819; barrister L.I. 13 June 1807; M.P. for Fortrose burghs 1811–18, for Invernesshire 1818–35; a lord of the treasury 1813–19; chief sec. for Ireland 1818–1821; P.C. Ireland 1819; P.C. 28 May 1819; vice pres. of board of trade 1823, pres. 1827–28; treasurer of navy 1827–28; pres. of board of control 1830–34; sec. of state the colonies 1835–39; created Baron Glenelg of Glenelg, Inverness 11 May 1835; F.R.S. 27 May 1828. d. Cannes 23 April 1866.

GLENGALL, RICHARD BUTLER, 2 Earl of (eld. child of 1 Earl of Glengall 1775–1819). b. 29 May 1794; succeeded his father 30 Jany. 1819; colonel of South Tipperary artillery 21 Nov. 1826 to death; Irish representative peer 1 Sep. 1829 to death; wrote The Irish tutor 1823; The follies of fashion, a comedy in 5 acts 1830 and other dramatic works. d. Cowes, Isle of Wight 22 June 1858.

GLENNIE, GEORGE. Captain of the Royal and Ancient Golf club of St. Andrews; made celebrated score of 88 for King Wm. Fourth’s medal at St. Andrews 1855 which was unbeaten until 1884; the George Glennie medal was instituted 1881, and presented by Royal Blackheath golf club to the St. Andrew’s club. d. 3 St. Germain’s place, Blackheath 26 March 1886 aged 68. H. G. Hutchinson’s Golf (1890) 388–90, portrait.

GLENNY, GEORGE. b. 1 Nov. 1793; gained many prizes at flower shows; wrote a series of letters in The British Luminary 1820 of which he became editor; edited Royal ladies’ magazine and St. James’s Archives; started Horticultural Journal 1832; edited Gardener’s Gazette, Garden Journal, Practical Florist, Glenny’s Journal, &c.; started the Metropolitan Society of Florists and Amateurs 1832; author of Cottage gardening 1847; The handy-book of gardening 1858; The properties of Flowers and plants 1864 and other books. d. Gipsy Hill, Norwood, Surrey 17 May 1874. Gardener’s Mag. 23 May 1874 p. 269, portrait.

GLEW, EDWARD LEES (son of Thomas Faulkner Glew of Dublin, solicitor). b. Dublin 3 March 1817; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; became a portrait painter; settled at Walsall; published History of the borough and foreign of Walsall, Walsall 1856; started a newspaper in Birmingham; resided at 53 Beaver st. New York as a painter; removed to Philadelphia, then to Trenton, New Jersey. d. Newark, New Jersey 9 Oct. 1870. Morning Advertiser 11 Oct. 1870 p. 3, col. 5.

GLIDDON, GEORGE ROBINS. b. Devonshire 1809; resided in Egypt nearly 23 years; U.S. vice consul at Alexandria about 20 years; lectured in Boston, New York and Philadelphia on Egyptian antiquities; agent for Honduras interoceanic railway at time of his death; author of A memoir on the cotton of Egypt 1841; Discourses on Egyptian archæology 1841 and other books; author with J. C. Nott of Types of Mankind 1854, and edited L. F. A. Maury’s Indigenous races of the earth 1857. d. Panama 16 Nov. 1857.

GLOUCESTER and EDINBURGH, MARY, Duchess of (4 dau. of King George the Third 1738–1820). b. 25 April 1776. (m. at Buckingham palace 22 July 1816 her cousin Prince William Frederick, 2 Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, b. 15 Jany. 1776, d. 30 Nov. 1834); ranger and keeper of Richmond new park 30 Oct. 1850 to death. d. Gloucester house, Park lane, London 30 April 1857. H. Martineau’s Biographical Sketches, 4 ed. (1876) 21–9; I.L.N. xxx, 434, 465, 466 (1857), portrait.

GLOVER, CHARLES WILLIAM. b. London, Feb. 1806; violinist in orchestras of Drury Lane and Covent Garden; musical director Queen’s theatre, Tottenham st. 1832 etc.; composed Jeannette and Jeannot 1845, Cosin Harry a semi-comic song 1855, Tis hard to give the hand where the heart can never be 1853, and a very large number of pieces for the piano, ballads and songs. d. Caversham road, Kentish town, London 23 March 1863.

GLOVER, EDMUND (eld. son of Samuel Glover and Julia Glover, actress, who d. 16 July 1850). b. England 1813; acted at Haymarket theatre, London, at Edinburgh 1841 where he played Richelieu, Rob Roy, etc.; engaged Jenny Lind in 1847 to sing in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Perth, cleared £3000; lessee of Prince’s theatre, Glasgow 1848; manager of Paisley and Dunfermline theatres and of Greenock theatre in 1849; last appeared as Triplet in Edinburgh 25 May 1859; a good actor, dancer, fencer and pantomimist. d. 3 Gayfield place, Edinburgh 23 Oct. 1860. Dibdin’s Annals of Edinburgh stage (1888) 380 et seq.

GLOVER, EDWARD AUCHMUTY (eld. son of James Glover of Mount Glover, co. Cork). Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1837; called to bar in Ireland 1840; insolvent in Ireland 1849; barrister M.T. 30 Jany. 1852; contested Canterbury 18 Aug. 1854; contested Beverley 7 July 1852, M.P. for Beverley 28 March 1857 to 3 Aug. 1857 when unseated on petition; sentenced at Central Criminal Court 13 April 1858 to 3 months’ imprisonment in Newgate for having made false declaration as to his property, this was the last prosecution of the kind, the property qualification of M.P’s. was abolished by 21 & 22 Vict. c. 26, 28 June 1858. d. 65 Denbigh st. Pimlico, London 17 March 1862 aged 45. Annual Register (1858) 69–71; Wolferstan and Dew’s Reports i, 214–24 (1859).

GLOVER, SARAH ANN (eld. dau. of Rev. Edward Glover, R. of St. Lawrence, Norwich). Governess in family of Sir T. Fowell Buxton; taught children at Norwich music on the Sol-faing mode 1815; founded the Tonic Sol-fa method 1840 which Rev. John Curwen modified and made popular 1844; entertained at a soirée in Jewin st. schoolroom, London 20 April 1855; author of A manual of the Norwich Sol-fa system 1845; Manual of Tetrachordal system 1850; resided 11 St. Owen st. Hereford; portrait in Tonic Sol-fa coll. Forest Gate, Essex. d. Great Malvern 20 Oct. 1867 aged 82. Memorials of J. Curwen (1882) pp. viii, 49, 173.

GLOVER, VEN. GEORGE (son of George Glover of Wigan). b. 1778; ed. at Manchester sch. and Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1801, M.A. 1811; R. of South Repps, Norfolk 1804 to death; archdeacon of Sudbury 21 July 1823 to death; V. of Gayton, Norfolk 1831 to death; author of A course of sermons 2 vols. 1859. d. South Repps 4 May 1862, memorial brass on chancel floor of South Repps church. Manchester School Register ii, 196–8 (1868).

GLOVER, SIR JOHN HAWLEY (son of rev. John Glover, English chaplain at Cologne). Entered R.N. 1841; in expedition to the Niger under Dr. Baikie 1857–61; acting consul at Lagos 22 May to 21 Nov. 1863, colonial secretary 9 May 1864 and administrator of the settlement 19 Oct. 1866 to 1872; commissioner to friendly natives near the Gold coast 18 Aug. 1873; commanded 800 houssas in the march to Coomassie 1874, received thanks of both houses of parliament; G.C.M.G. 8 May 1874; governor of Newfoundland Jany. 1876 to June 1881, and 17 Dec. 1883 to death; retired captain 24 Nov. 1877; governor of the Leeward islands Dec. 1881 to 17 Dec. 1883. d. 35 Harley st. Cavendish sq. London 30 Sept. 1885. I.L.N. lxiv. 384, 386 (1874), portrait.

GLOVER, PERCY CLABON (2 son of Rev. Richard Glover, vicar of St. Luke’s, West Holloway). b. Holy Trinity parsonage, Maidstone 14 May 1856; educ. Highgate and Worcester coll. Ox., B.A. 1880, M.A. 1883; founded the De Quincy soc. at his coll. 1878; served as tutor with various families in England and abroad; his collar bone fractured playing Lacrosse at Dulwich 5 March 1888. d. of rheumatic fever at Addiscombe vicarage 1 April 1888. Self Discipline, a memoir of P. C. Glover by Rev. Richard Glover (1889), with portrait.

GLOVER, STEPHEN. Author of The Peak guide, Derby 1830; The history and gazetteer of county of Derby, ed. by Thomas Noble, vol. i, pt. i, 1831, vol. ii, pt. i, 1833, never finished; assisted Thomas Bateman in his Vestiges of the Antiquities of Derbyshire 1848. d. 26 Dec. 1869. bur. Moreton, Cheshire.

GLOVER, STEPHEN (brother of Charles W. Glover 1806–63). b. London 1812; teacher of music, London; composer of Merry is the Greenwood, a cavatina 1847; Beauty and the beast, chamber opera 1868; The dream is past 1837, What are the wild waves saying 1850, Stars of the summer night 1855, There is a sweet wild rose 1863, duets; Annie on the Banks o’ Dee 1857, Emigrants’ Farewell 1850, songs; and upwards of 1200 other works all of which commanded a sale. d. 71 Talbot road, Bayswater, London 7 Dec. 1870. Grove’s Music and Musicians (1889) iv, 648–9.

GLOVER, WILLIAM. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; barrister M.T. 23 Jany. 1829; serjeant at law 19 June 1840; purchased Morning Chronicle from Duke of Newcastle, W. E. Gladstone and Sidney Herbert for £7500 in 1854, receiving from them £3000 a year for 3 years; engaged with Napoleon III. to edit the paper in his interest 1855, brought actions against French government for breach of contract; sold the paper to George Stiff 1860, it ceased 1862; author of A practical treatise on the law of municipal corporations 1836. d. 3 Gower st. Bedford sq. London 21 Dec. 1870. Grant’s Newspaper Press (1871) i, 310–12.

GLOVER, WILLIAM HOWARD (brother of Edmund Glover 1813–60). b. Kilburn, London 6 June 1819; a violinist in Lyceum orchestra under Wagstaff 1834; with his mother founded Music and dramatic agency Soho sq. London; gave a season of opera in Manchester with his own pupils; gave annual monster concerts at St. James’s hall and Drury Lane; initiated performance of Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony with pictorial and choregraphic illustrations 1863, and of Israel in Egypt 1865; his cantata Tam o’Shanter produced at Philharmonic 4 July 1855; his opera Ruy Blas brought out at Covent Garden 24 Oct. 1861; musical critic on Morning Post 1849–65; conductor of Niblo’s orchestra, New York 1868; Palomita operetta produced at Niblo’s 1875. d. New York 28 Oct. 1875.

GLYN, HENRY CARR. b. 17 April 1829; entered navy 4 March 1844; captain 20 Aug. 1861; V.A. 9 June 1882; C.B. 29 May 1875. d. 32 Eaton place, London 16 Feb. 1884. bur. family vault, Stanbridge church 21 Feb. Illust. sp. and dr. news xx, 661 (1884), portrait; I.L.N. lxxxiv, 205 (1884), portrait.

GLYN, ISABELLA DALLAS (dau. of Mr. Gearns, architect). b. Edinburgh 22 May 1823; appeared at Manchester under her mother’s maiden name Glyn 8 Nov. 1847 as Constance in King John; at Olympic, London as Lady Macbeth 26 Jany. 1848; played at Sadler’s Wells 1848–51; gave her first Shakespearian reading Sep. 1851; appeared at Drury Lane as Bianca in Fazio 26 Dec. 1851, at St. James’ 1854, at Standard 1855, at Sadler’s Wells 1859, at Princess’s 1867; gave recitals at Boston, U.S.A. 1870; gave Shakespeare readings at Steinway hall and St. James’ hall 1878, 1879; a theatrical instructor; the latest adherent of the Kemble sch. of acting. m. (1) Edward Wills; m. (2) in Glasgow, Dec. 1853 and in London 12 July 1855 Eneas Sweetland Dallas d. 1879, divorced on her petition 10 May 1874, she was imprisoned at Holloway for contempt of court in declining to give up documents relating to her divorce case, released 28 June 1876. d. of cancer 13 Mount st. Grosvenor sq. London 18 May 1889. The Duchess of Malfi, with a memoir of Miss Glyn (1851) pp. 1–6, portrait; Tallis’s Dramatic Mag. (1850) 37–40, 2 portraits; Tallis’s Drawing room table book (1851) 1–2, portrait, and parts 7, 10, 12, 17, 21, 5 portraits; The Players iii, 391, 408 (1861), portrait.

GLYNN, HENRY RICHARD (youngest son of John Glynn 1722–79, serjeant at law, M.P. for Middlesex). b. 2 Sep. 1768; entered navy 19 May 1780; captain 10 April 1797; admiral 9 Nov. 1846, placed on half pay June 1851; mayor of Plymouth 1838. d. Bideford 20 July 1856.

GLYNN, JOSEPH (son of James Glynn of Ouseburn iron foundry, Newcastle). b. Hanover sq. Newcastle 6 Feb. 1799; designed and executed gas works for Berwick upon Tweed 1821; engineer to Butterley iron co. Derbyshire; employed the water wheel or scoop wheel for draining marshes and fens by steam power; chairman of Eastern counties railway 2 years; M.I.C.E. 22 April 1828; member of Society of Arts 16 Nov. 1836; F.R.S. 8 Feb. 1838; author of Rudimentary treatise on the construction of cranes 1849, 4 ed. 1865. d. 28 Westbourne park villas, London 6 Feb. 1863.

GLYNNE, SIR STEPHEN RICHARD, 9 Baronet. b. Hawarden castle, Flintshire 22 Sep. 1807; succeeded 5 March 1815; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; M.P. for Flint district 1832–5, for Flintshire 1837–41 and 1842–47; lord lieut. of Flintshire 30 June 1845 to death; taken ill in street and d. Dr. Flack’s surgery 56 High st. Shoreditch, London 17 June 1874. Times 18, 19, 20 June 1874.

GOAD, JOHN. b. Plymouth 20 Feb. 1825; known universally as the quarrier and worker of Devonshire marble having 4 large quarries near Plymouth, supplied all the polished marble for interior of the Oratory at Brompton, London 1854; found dead in his bed at his residence, Buckingham place, Stonehouse, Plymouth 25 Jany. 1886.

GOBAT, RIGHT REV. SAMUEL. b. Cremuse, canton Berne, Switzerland 26 Jany. 1799; studied at Bale, Paris and London; entered service of Church Missionary Soc., laboured in Abyssinia 1830–32; principal of Missionary college, Malta 1839; nominated bishop of Jerusalem by King of Prussia 1846; consecrated at Lambeth 5 July 1846; naturalised in England by act of parliament 9 & 10 Vict. c. 49, 13 Aug. 1846; author of Journal of a three years residence in Abyssinia 1847. d. Jerusalem 11 May 1879.

GODBY, CHRISTOPHER. Entered Bengal army 1805; col. 55 Bengal N.I. 1853 to death; L.G. 22 Nov. 1862; C.B. 21 May 1846. d. South bank, Batheaston 8 Dec. 1867 aged 77.

GODDARD, GEORGE BOUVERIE. b. Salisbury 25 Dec. 1832; self taught artist; spent 2 years in zoological gardens, London, studying animal life 1849–51; drew sporting subjects on wood for Punch; settled in London 1857; exhibited 19 paintings at R.A. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1856–79; chiefly an animal painter; his principle works were Lord Wolverton’s blood hounds 1875, The struggle for existence 1879 now in Walker gallery, Liverpool, Love and War in the Abbotsbury swannery 1883. d. 37 Brook green, Hammersmith, London 6 March 1886.

GODFREY, ADOLPHUS FREDERICK (son of the succeeding). b. 1837; bandmaster of the Coldstream Guards Dec. 1863 to death; wrote many lancers, polkas, galops and quadrilles; confined in Peckham lunatic asylum, Surrey 1 June 1881. d. there 28 Aug. 1882.

GODFREY, CHARLES. b. Kingston, Surrey 22 Nov. 1790; bandmaster of Coldstream guards nearly 50 years; musician in ordinary to Wm. IV. 1831; editor and arranger of Jullien’s Military Band Journal 1847. d. London 12 Dec. 1863.

GODKIN, JAMES. b. Gorey, co. Wexford 1806; pastor of dissenting ch. at Armagh 1834; missionary to Roman Catholics to 1845; went to London as a journalist 1847; established in Belfast The Christian Patriot 1849; editor of Derry Standard; editor of Daily Express, Dublin; member of Irish tenant league 1850; special commissioner of Irish Times to ascertain feeling of the farmers on land question 1869; granted civil list pension of £90, 5 April 1869; author of A guide from the church of Rome to the church of Christ 1836, 3 ed. 1845; Ireland and her churches 1867; The land war in Ireland 1870 and other books. d. Upper Norwood, Surrey 2 May 1879.

GODLEY, DENIS (son of John Godley of Killigar, co. Leitrim). b. 1823; ensign 74 highlanders 1839; sec. to governor general of Canada 1861–68; sec. to commission on Irish church temporalities 1869–81; sec. to Irish land commission 1881–88; C.B. 1881. d. Guardswell, Ascot 24 Jany. 1890.

GODLEY, JOHN ROBERT (brother of the preceding). b. 1814; ed. at Harrow and Christ church, Ox., B.A. 1836; proposed to emigrate one million Irish to Canada; contested Leitrim county 12 Aug. 1847; Canterbury colony, New Zealand, founded by him and E. G. Wakefield 1850, guided Canterbury 1850–52, agent in England 1854–56; commissioner of income tax Ireland 1853; assistant under secretary at war 1855–61; F.R.G.S.; author of Letters from America 2 vols. 1844; Observations on an Irish poor law 1847. d. 11 Gloucester place, Portman square, London 17 Nov. 1861. Selection from writings and memoir by J. E. Fitzgerald (1863) 1–32, portrait.

GODWIN, EDWARD WILLIAM. b. Old Market st. Bristol 26 May 1833; architect Bristol and then in partnership with Henry Crisp; removed to London 1862; built Northampton and Congleton town halls; assisted W. Burgess in his designs for new law courts London, and R. W. Eddis in his designs for parliament houses Berlin; designed theatrical costumes for Hamlet, Claudian, Helena in Troas and the Bachelors 1886; F.S.A. 13 Feb. 1862; F.R.I.B.A.; a constant contributor to the British Architect; author of Art furniture by W. Watt, from designs by E. W. Godwin 1877; Temple Bar illustrated 1877; A few notes on the architecture and costumes of Claudian 1883 and other books. d. 6 Great College st. Westminster 6 Oct. 1886. British Architect 15 Oct. 1886 pp. 347–48, portrait.

GODWIN, GEORGE. b. Brompton, London 28 Jany. 1815; chief founder of Art Union of London 14 Feb. 1837, hon. sec.; author of The last day, a farce played at Olympic 28 Oct. 1840, and of several dramas; editor of The Builder Dec. 1842 to Oct. 1883; F.R.S. 7 March 1839; F.S.A. 13 Feb. 1838; vice pres. of R.I. of British Architects, gold medallist 1881, founded the Godwin bursary 1881; architect of St. Mary’s ch. West Brompton and many other edifices; restored St. Mary’s, Redcliffe, Bristol 1846–75; made a collection of ancient chairs, including Shakespeare’s chair, sold 19 April 1888; author of The churches of London 2 vols. 1839; A history of St. Paul’s cathedral 1837; Facts and fancies 1844; History in Ruins, letters on history of architecture 1853; London Shadows 1854; Another blow for life 1864. d. 6 Cromwell place, South Kensington 27 Jany. 1888. Colburn’s New Monthly Mag., vol. 167 p. 182, portrait.

GODWIN, HENRY. Ensign 9 foot 30 Oct. 1799; lieut. col. 41 foot 26 July 1821; lieut. col. 87 foot 5 April 1827 to 25 June 1827, when placed on h.p.; employed in 6 several commands during Burmese war 1824–6; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846; recaptured Pegu Nov. 1852; col. 20 foot 25 Oct. 1853; C.B. 26 Dec. 1826, gazetted K.C.B. 9 Dec. 1853; author of Burmah, Letters and papers written 1852–53, 1854. d. Simla, Bengal 26 Oct. 1853 aged 69.

GODWIN, JOHN. b. Swansea; pupil of Sir James M’Adam; engineer to Ulster railway 1836–62; the first professor of engineering Queen’s college, Belfast 1849; M.I.C.E. 24 June 1845. d. Tamnagharrie, co. Down 15 Jany. 1869.

GODWIN, REV. JOHN HENSLEY. b. Bristol 18 June 1809; educ. Highbury coll. 1833–36 and Edin. univ. 1836–37; congregational minister Old Meeting, Norwich 1837; resident and philosophical tutor Highbury coll. 1839; professor of New Testament exegesis, mental and moral philosophy and English, New coll. 1850–72; author of Christian Baptism 1845; Christian Faith 1852; Translations of The Revelations 1856, St. Matthew 1863, St. Mark 1869, The Epistle to the Galatians 1871 and The Romans 1873; a contributor to the Contemporary Review and the Evangelical Mag. d. 1 Belsize ter. Hampstead 26 Feb. 1889.

GODWIN, MARIANNE ELIZABETH. Caricaturist in London; signed her pictures with the word “Jack.” d. University college hospital London 12 Aug. 1887 from her muslin dress catching fire at the ironing stove at her residence 13 Fitzroy sq. London.

GODWIN-AUSTEN, ROBERT ALFRED CLOYNE (eld. son of Sir Henry Edmund Austen. 1785–1871). b. Shalford house, Guildford 17 March 1808; ed. at Midhurst, Sussex and Oriel coll. Ox. fellow 1830, B.A. 1830; student of L.I. 1830; F.G.S. 19 March 1830, sec. 1843–4 and 1853–4; Wollaston medallist 1862; member of British Association 1846, pres. of geological section at Norwich 1868, and at Brighton 1872; F.R.S. 7 June 1849; made a splendid collection of palæozoic fossils in Cornwall which he presented to Jermyn st. Museum; took additional name of Godwin by royal license 1854; author of numerous papers on geology in scientific journals. d. Shalford house near Guildford 25 Nov. 1884. Geological Mag. Jany. 1885 pp. 1–10; Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxviii, pp. ix-xiii (1885); Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xli, 37–9 (1885).

GOLD, CHARLES EMILIUS. Ensign 65 foot 20 March 1828; lieut. col. 30 Dec. 1845 to 15 June 1860; L.G. 27 Dec. 1868. d. Dover 29 July 1871 aged 68.

GOLD, WILLIAM GEORGE. Second lieut. royal staff corps 7 April 1825; lieut. col. of 53 foot 26 July 1844, of 4 foot 8 Dec. 1848 to 7 Sep. 1852, when placed on h.p.; col. of 32 foot 28 Aug. 1865, of 53 foot 2 Feb. 1867 to death; L.G. 29 March 1868. d. Garthmyl hall, Montgomeryshire 26 Dec. 1868 aged 68.

GOLDFINCH, SIR HENRY (son of Henry Goldfinch of Peckham, Surrey). b. London 1781; 2 lieut. R.E. 1 March 1790, col. 10 Jany. 1837, col. commandant 17 Feb. 1854 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 6 April 1852. d. 11 Upper Wimpole st. London 21 Nov. 1854.

GOLDIE, GEORGE. b. Mornay house, Edinburgh 25 Oct. 1784; ed. at Univ. of Edin. M.D. 1808; L.R.C.P. London 1812; practised in London 1812 at Warminster, at York 1815 to about 1849; phys. to York county hospital 1822–33; took charge of cholera hospital at York during epidemic of cholera 1831; took an active part in agitation for Catholic emancipation; contributed to British and Foreign Medical Review and medical journals. d. Sheffield 2 May 1853. J. Gillow’s English Catholics ii, 510–13 (1885).

GOLDIE, GEORGE (son of the preceding). b. York 1828; ed. at St. Cuthbert’s coll. near Durham; pupil and afterwards partner of Messrs. Hatfield and Weightman of Sheffield, architects; practised in London; designed pro-cathedral at Kensington, cathedral at Sligo and many other Roman Catholic churches, convents, &c. in Great Britain and Ireland; A.R.I.B.A. d. 9 Kensington sq. London 1 March 1887.

GOLDIE, SIR GEORGE LEIGH. Cornet 6 dragoon guards 3 Sep. 1803; lieut. col. 11 foot 29 May 1835 to 26 Feb. 1841, when placed on h.p.; col. of 77 foot 22 Dec. 1854, of 35 foot 13 Feb. 1861 to death; general 6 Nov. 1862; C.B. 19 July 1838, K.C.B. 28 June 1861. d. Claremont Southampton 26 March 1863 aged 72.

GOLDING, BENJAMIN. b. Essex; ed. at St. Andrew’s Univ., M.D. 6 Dec. 1823; L.R.C.P. London 4 June 1825; physician to West London infirmary, founded the Charing Cross hospital which was the infirmary rebuilt and renamed 1831, director of it to death; published An historical account of St. Thomas’s hospital, Southwark 1819. d. The Boltons, West Brompton, London 21 June 1863 aged 69.

GOLDING, RICHARD. b. London 15 Aug. 1785; engraved B. West’s Death of Nelson, book plates for Don Quixote and Gil Blas, Sir T. Lawrence’s Princess Charlotte of Wales 1818, Westall’s Princess Victoria, W. Fowler’s Princess Victoria 1830 and Rubens’ St. Ambrose refusing Theodosius admission into the Church; commenced engraving Maclise’s A Peep into Futurity, for the Art Union 1842 which was still unfinished in 1852. d. in a poor lodging Stebbington st. St. Pancras, London 28 Dec. 1865. bur. Highgate cemetery, body exhumed Sep. 1866 on a suspicion that he had been poisoned by his doctor.

GOLDNEY, PHILIP (2 son of Thomas Goldney of Clifton). b. London 21 Nov. 1802; cadet H.E.I.C.S. 1821, capt. 11 June 1836; learned the native languages and Persian; collector and magistrate in Sind 1844; commissioner in charge of Fyzabad to 1857; lieut. col. 53 Bengal N.I. 1853–56, 22 Bengal N.I. 1856–57, 38 Bengal N.I. 1857 to death; shot by the mutineers on an island in the Gograh 9 June 1857.

GOLDSBROUGH, RICHARD. b. Shipley near Bradford, Yorks. 1821; wool merchant Bradford 1842; went to Adelaide, Australia, settled in Melbourne 1847 and became a dealer in wool, etc. 1848; in partnership with Edward Rowe and George Kirk 1853 as dealers in stations, stock and wool; amalgamated with Australian agency and banking corporation 1881 when the consolidated concern became a limited co. and himself chairman, capital 3 millions; steward of Victoria racing club from its foundation. d. Melbourne 8 April 1886.

GOLDSMID, ANNA MARIA (sister of the succeeding). Pupil of Thomas Campbell the poet, who gave her some of his manuscripts which she bequeathed to British Museum; gave large sums to charity, often anonymously; published many original pamphlets on education; translated L. Philippsohn’s The development of the religious idea in Judaism 1855 and J. Cohen’s The Deicides, Analysis of the life of Jesus 1872 and other books. d. 26 Cambridge sq. Hyde park, London 8 Feb. 1889 aged 84.

GOLDSMID, SIR FRANCIS HENRY, 2 Baronet (2 son of Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, 1 baronet 1778–1859). b. Spital sq. London 1 May 1808; barrister L.I. 31 Jany. 1833, bencher 11 Jany. 1858; Q.C. 9 Jany. 1858, the first Jew called to the English bar and the first Jewish Q.C. and bencher; pres. of senate of Univ. coll. London, where is portrait of him by R. Lehmann; M.P. for Reading 11 Jany. 1860 to death; founded Jews’ infant sch. 1841, now largest infant sch. in England; founded Anglo-Jewish Association 1871; author of many pamphlets. d. St. Thomas’s hospital, London 2 May 1878 from effects of an accident at Waterloo station same day. Memoir of Sir F. H. Goldsmid, by D. W. Marks and Albert Löwy, 2 ed. (1882), portrait.

GOLDSMID, FREDERICK DAVID. b. London 1812; M.P. for Honiton 12 July 1865 to death. d. 20 Portman sq. London 18 March 1866, personalty sworn under £400,000 23 June 1866.

GOLDSMID, HENRY EDWARD (son of Edward Goldsmid of Upper Harley st. London). b. 9 May 1812; educ. Haileybury coll. where he learnt Persian and Hindustani; went to Bombay 1832; assistant revenue commissioner Tauna 1835 when he devised the revenue survey and assessment system which was applied to the whole of the lands in Bombay 1865–68 with great success; sec. to Bombay government in revenue department 1848 and chief sec. 1854. d. Cairo 3 Jany. 1855.

GOLDSMID, SIR ISAAC LYON, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Asher Goldsmid of Finsbury sq. London who d. 1 Nov. 1822). b. Bury st. St. Mary Axe, London 13 Jany. 1778; member of firm of Mocatta and Goldsmid, bullion brokers; treasurer of Univ. coll. hospital 1839–57; created baronet 15 Oct. 1841, being the first Jew so created; created Baron de Goldsmid and Da Palmeira of Portugal 1846; endowed chair of geology in Univ. coll. London, where is portrait of him by B. R. Faulkner; F.R.S. 13 March 1828. d. St. John’s lodge, Regent’s park, London 27 April 1859. J. Picciotto’s Sketches of Anglo-Jewish history (1875) 249–56; N. H. Nixon’s History of North London hospital (1882), 16–18; Banker’s Mag. June 1859, pp. 375–82, July 1859, pp. 449–57, April 1860, pp. 220–4.

GOLDSMITH, GEORGE (son of John Goldsmith, paymaster R.N.) Entered navy 20 June 1821; captain 16 Sep. 1842; superintendent of Chatham dockyard 1856–61; admiral 30 July 1875; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856; granted Greenwich hospital pension 1866. d. 35 Victoria road, Old Charlton, Kent 2 July 1888 in 82 year.

GOLDSTUECKER, THEODOR. b. Königsberg, Prussia 18 Jany. 1821; Ph.D. Königsberg 1840; came to England 1850; contributed to Chambers’ Encyclopædia 1862–68 and to Westminster Review; professor of Sanskrit in Univ. coll. London May 1852 to death; chief founder of Sanskrit Text Society 1866; pres. of Philological Soc. to death; author of On the Mahâbhârata 1868 and other books. d. 14 St. George’s sq. Primrose hill, London 6 March 1872. Goldstuecker’s Literary Remains 2 vols. (1879); Trubner’s Record vii, 109, 145 (1872).

GOLIGHTLY, REV. CHARLES POURTALES (2 son of William Golightly of Ham, Surrey). b. 23 May 1807; educ. Eton and at Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1830; C. of Penshurst, Kent 1828; C. of Littlemore, Oxford 1836; C. of Godalming, Surrey 1839–41; C. of Headington Quarry, Oxford 1849–58; C. of Marston, Ox. 1858–68; a prominent opponent of the ritualistic movement 1840; author of Look at home or a short and easy method with the Roman Catholics 1837; Brief remarks upon No. 90 of the Tracts for the Times 1841, and many other works against Ritualism. d. 6 Holywell st. Oxford 25 Dec. 1885. E. M. Goulburn’s Reminiscenses of C. P. Golightly (1886); Mozley’s Reminiscences ii, 108–13 (1882).

GOLLOP, GEORGE TILLY (elder son of Thomas Gollop of Sherborne 1745–93). b. 11 Oct. 1791; ed. at Brasenose coll. Ox.; student of I.T. 1811; made a tour on the continent, riding from Holland to Vienna and on to Naples 1814; held the estate of Strode, Dorset 1793 to death 96 years; published a vol. of translations of several poems of Schiller, and translations of Eichhorn’s Introduction to the New Testament and Introduction to the Old Testament. d. Strode manor, Dorset 22 Feb. 1889.

GOMERSAL, EDWARD ALEXANDER (son of a military officer). b. Gomersal near Leeds; first appeared in London at Haymarket theatre 16 Sep. 1811; spoke the first words upon boards of new T.R. Windsor; played Napoleon in The Battle of Waterloo at Astley’s about 1817, acted same character in every amphitheatre in Great Britain; proprietor with B. O. Conquest of Garrick theatre, Whitechapel to 4 Nov. 1846 when it was burned down; is referred to in the Bon Gaultier Ballads and The Newcomes. d. Leeds 19 Oct. 1862 aged 74. Era 26 Oct. 1862 p. 10, col. 4.

GOMM, SIR WILLIAM MAYNARD (1 son of lieut. col. William Gomme, killed 1794). b. Barbadoes 10 Nov. 1784; gazetted ensign 9 regt. 24 May 1794; served in Holland 1799, Spain 1800, Hanover 1805, Baltic 1807, Peninsula 1808–9, 1810–14, at Quatre Bras and Waterloo 1815; lieut. col. of Coldstream guards 1836; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 21 June 1859; commander in Jamaica 1839–41; governor of Mauritius 1842–49; col. of 13 foot 10 March 1846, of Coldstream guards 15 Aug. 1863 to death; commander in chief in India, Jany. 1851 to Dec. 1855, general 1854, field marshal 1 Jany. 1868; constable of Tower of London 31 Oct. 1872 to death; knight of St. Anne of Russia 1815, of St. Vladimir 1874; author of The story of Newcastle, Jamaica, etc. 1864; five Field-marshal Gomm scholarships founded at Keble coll. Ox. by the will of his widow who d. 30 Nov. 1877 leaving £15,000 for the purpose. He d. Brighton 15 March 1875. bur. Ch. Ch. Rotherhithe. I.L.N. lxi, 412, 414 (1872), portrait; Graphic xi, 315 (1875), portrait; Letters and Journals of Sir W. M. Gomm (1881), portrait.

NOTE.—The public house Sir William Gomm, 44 Abbeyfield road, Rotherhithe, London, is named after him.

GOMPERTZ, BENJAMIN (son of Mr. Gompertz, diamond merchant). b. Bury st. London 5 March 1779; a stock broker; president of Old Mathematical soc. of Crispin st. Spitalfields which became Astronomical soc. 1820, member of council 1821–31; F.R.S. 29 June 1819; F.R.A.S., member of council 1832, contributed to the complete catalogue of stars; actuary of Alliance British and Foreign assurance Co. 1824–48; propounded the law of human mortality 1825; author of The principles and application of imaginary quantities 2 vols. 1817–18; Hints on Porisms 1850. d. 1 Kennington terrace, Vauxhall, London 14 July 1865. Assurance Mag. April 1866, pp. 1–20; Walford’s Insurance Cyclop. v, 437–54 (1878).

GOMPERTZ, LEWIS (younger brother of the preceding). Spent his life in enforcing kindness to animals; a strict vegetarian and would never ride in a coach; hon. sec. of soc. for prevention of cruelty to animals 1826–32; founded the Animals’ Friend soc. 1832; edited The Animals’ Friend or the Progress of Humanity 1846; invented shot proof ships, fortifications for reflecting the balls to the place fired from, a mechanical cure for apoplexy, and the expanding chuck which is now found attached to lathes in workshops; author of Mechanical inventions and suggestions on locomotion 1850; Fragments in defence of animals 1852. d. 5 Kennington oval, London. 2 Dec. 1861. Fragments in defence of animals by L. Gompertz (1852), portrait.

GOOCH, SIR DANIEL, 1 Baronet. (3 son of John Gooch of Bedlington, Northumberland 1783–1833). b. Bedlington 24 Aug. 1816; chief locomotive engineer to Great Western Railway Company 1837–1864, chairman Nov. 1866 to death; M.P. for Cricklade 1865–85; comr. on Trades Union; Chairman of Great Eastern Steamship Co.; Chairman of Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company; one of purchasers of Great Eastern Steamship, with a view to her being employed in laying Atlantic cable, and this having been effected in 1866, created baronet 15 Nov. 1866, being first engineer made a baronet. d. Clewer park, Windsor 15 Oct. 1889. Biograph, March to April 1882 pp. 329–32; Touchstone 29 March 1879 pp. 1–2, portrait; Colburn’s New monthly mag. cxvi, 1390 (1879), portrait.

GOOCH, SIR EDWARD SHERLOCK, 6 Baronet. b. Holbecks, Suffolk 1802; M.P. for East Suffolk 19 Feb. 1846 to death; provincial grand master of freemasons 1851 to death; succeeded 18 Dec. 1851. d. Benacre hall, Suffolk 9 Nov. 1856.

GOOCH, REV. JOHN HENRY. b. Suffolk; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., scholar, 14 wrangler 1834, B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; assist. master Wakefield proprietory sch. 1838–40; master of Heath gr. sch. Halifax 1840–61; Inc. of Stainland near Halifax 1841–60; author of Church catechism expanded 1851. d. 22 July 1861 aged 60. T. Cox’s History of Heath gr. sch. (1879) 45, 77, portrait.

GOOCH, THOMAS LONGRIDGE (eld. son of John Gooch). b. London 1 Nov. 1808; pupil of George Stephenson 1823–29; made working drawings for Liverpool and Manchester railway 1827–8, resident engineer on it at Liverpool 1829–30, had charge of the Dart locomotive on opening of the line 1830; resident engineer on London and Birmingham line 1833; with G. Stephenson joint principal engineer of Manchester and Leeds line 1839–41 and alone 1841–44; with G. Stephenson and G. P. Bidder engineer of Trent valley line 1845; retired from business 1851; as an engineer second only to the Stephensons and Brunel; M.I.C.E. 3 June 1845. d. Team lodge, Gateshead 23 Nov. 1882. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxii, 300–8 (1883).

GOOCH, SIR THOMAS SHERLOCK, 5 Baronet. b. 2 Nov. 1767; M.P. for Suffolk 1806–30; succeeded his father 7 April 1826; chairman of Suffolk quarter sessions to 1843. d. Benacre hall, Suffolk 18 Dec. 1851.

GOOD, JOSEPH HENRY. b. Sambrook, Shropshire 18 Nov. 1775; articled to Sir John Sloane 1795–99; built Apps’ Court park, Surrey and Horndean, Hampshire; surveyor to Thavies estate, Holborn, and parish of St. Andrew’s, Holborn; surveyor to Armourers’ co. 1819, built new hall Coleman st. 1840; architect to Royal Pavilion, Brighton 1822, to the commissioners for building new churches 1826; clerk of works to the Tower, Royal Mint, Fleet and King’s bench prisons, etc. 1830 and Kensington palace 1831; F.R.I.B.A. 1834. d. Palace Green, Kensington 20 Nov. 1857.

GOOD, THOMAS SWORD. b. Berwick-upon-Tweed 4 Dec. 1789; a house painter, produced cheap portraits; a genre painter of domestic subjects; exhibited 19 pictures at R.A., 43 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1820–34; his chief paintings are Coast scene with a fisherman 1833, The Newspaper, No News, and Study of a boy, all in the National gallery; J. W. Barnes of Durham has a large collection of his works. d. in a house on the Quay walls, Berwick 15 April 1872.

GOODALL, EDWARD. b. Leeds 17 Sept. 1795; self-taught, from 1811 practised engraving and painting; commenced engraving Turner’s pictures 1823 and produced a long series; engraved Stanfield’s The Castle of Ischia and F. Goodall’s The Piper, for the Art Union of London; etched Maclise’s Shakspeare’s Seven Ages 1850; exhibited 2 engravings at R.A., 3 at B.I. and 8 at Suffolk st. 1822–41. d. 143 Hampstead road, London 11 April 1870.

GOODALL, FREDERICK TREVELYAN (son of Frederick Goodall, R.A.) Student at R.A., gold medal for his picture The return of Ulysses 1869; exhibited 17 pictures at R.A. 1868–71. d. Capri, Italy from an accident 11 April 1871 aged 23.

GOODALL, HOWARD (brother of the preceding). Exhibited at R.A., Nydia in the house of Glaucus 1870 and Capri girls winnowing 1873. d. Cairo 17 Jany. 1874 aged 24.

GOODALL, ISABELLA. b. Liverpool 10 Aug. 1851; appeared at Royal amphitheatre, Liverpool 1865 in The Middy ashore; appeared in London at Prince of Wales’s theatre 15 April 1866 as Coralie in A winning hazard; burlesque actress at Strand theatre London several years. d. 124 Pentonville road, London 3 Feb. 1884. bur. Norwood cemetery 9 Feb. beside her mother, her sister Annie (actress d. 1 March 1877 aged 30), and her brother.

GOODALL, WALTER (youngest son of Edward Goodall 1795–1870). b. 6 Nov. 1830; studied at Somerset house and Royal academy; Assoc. of Soc. of Painters in water-colours 1853, mem. 1862; exhibited 3 drawings at R.A. 1852 and works at Royal Manchester Institution; his Lottery Ticket shown at Philadelphia Centennial exhib. 1876; made drawings from pictures in Vernon gallery for Art Union; published Walter Goodall’s Rustic Sketches. d. Clapham near Bedford 14 May 1889.

GOODALL, WILLIAM. Whip of the Belvoir fox hounds 1837–42, huntsman 1842 to death. d. The Kennels near Belvoir 17 May 1859. Scott and Sebright, By the Druid (1862) 408–11; Silk and Scarlet, By the Druid (1859) 372, portrait; Sporting Review xli, 398–400 (1859).

GOODE, JOHN. Ensign 3 West India foot 5 Sep. 1811; lieut. 10 foot 10 Aug. 1826 to 20 Feb. 1835, captain on h.p. 20 Feb. 1835 to death; arrested at 218 Regent street, London 4 Nov. 1837 for making use of threatening gestures and language to Queen Victoria in the Birdcage walk same day, declared before the authorities that he was John the Second king of England, son of George iv. and Queen Caroline, and was born in Montague place, Blackheath; tried in Court of Queen’s Bench for using seditious language to the Queen and sent to Bethlehem hospital as insane 18 Nov. 1837, moved to Broadmoor criminal lunatic asylum March 1864 where he d. from natural decay 10 Feb. 1883. Times 6, 7, 20 Nov. 1837.

GOODE, VERY REV. WILLIAM (son of Rev. Wm. Goode 1762–1816, R. of St. Andrew’s and St. Ann’s, Blackfriars, London). b. 10 Nov. 1801; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828, D.D. 1860; C. of Ch. Ch. Newgate st. London 1825–35; R. of St. Antholin’s, Watling st. 1835–49; R. of Allhallows, Thames st. 1849–56; Warburtonian lecturer 1853–57; R. of St. Margaret, Lothbury 1856–60; dean of Ripon 10 May 1860 to death; edited Christian Observer; author of A memoir of the Rev. W. Goode, 2 ed. 1828; A brief history of church rates, 2 ed. 1838; The divine rule of faith and practice 2 vols. 1842, new ed. 3 vols. 1853, and 6 other books; found dead in his bed at the Deanery, Ripon 13 Aug. 1868. I.L.N. liii, 187 (1868).

GOODENOUGH, JAMES GRAHAM (son of Rev. Edmund Goodenough 1785–1845, dean of Wells). b. Stoke hill near Guildford 3 Dec. 1830; ed. at Westminster; naval cadet 7 May 1844, captain 9 May 1863; captain of the Minotaur 1867–70; worked for the Daily News French peasant relief fund 1870; naval attaché to all maritime courts of Europe 1871–73; commodore of the Australian station 22 May 1873 to death; C.M.G. 28 May 1875; C.B. 29 May 1875. d. on board the Pearl about 500 miles from Sydney 20 Aug. 1875 from arrow wounds received at Carlyon bay, island of Santa Cruz 12 Aug. bur. St. Leonard’s cemetery, north shore of Sydney harbour 24 Aug., bust by Prince Victor of Hohenlohe in painted hall Greenwich hospital; the ‘Goodenough royal naval home’ in Sydney was founded in his honour. Journal of Commodore Goodenough, edited with a memoir by his widow (1876), portrait; H. A. Page’s Leaders of men (1880) 140–78; Graphic xi, 269 (1875), portrait.

GOODENOUGH, VEN. WILLIAM (son of Rev. Edmund Goodenough, V. of Swindon, Wilts., who d. 8 Nov. 1807 aged 62). Ed. at Westminster; matric. at Ch. Ch. Ox. 9 June 1790 aged 17; kept a school at Ealing, Middlesex; V. of Warkworth, Northumberland 1811, of Mareham le Fen, Lincs. 1818 to death; archdeacon of Carlisle 20 June 1827 to death; V. of Great Salkeld, Cumberland 1827 to death. d. Mareham le Fen 13 Dec. 1854.

GOODEVE, JOSEPH (3 son of John Goodeve of Bury hall, Hants.) b. Gosport, Hants. 1801; barrister I.T. 28 Nov. 1829; wrote for Westminster Review and Monthly Mag.; professor of English law at Presidency coll. Calcutta 1860; master in equity of supreme court of Calcutta 1861; author of The law of evidence as administered in England and applied to India 1862. d. Cook’s Folly near Bristol 29 Jany. 1865. bur. Norwood cemetery, Surrey.

GOODEVE, LOUIS ARTHUR (son of the preceding). b. 11 Jany. 1841; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., junior student 1859–66; B.A. 1862; barrister M.T. 9 June 1865; practised at Calcutta; editor and sec. of Bengal Law Reports 1868–70 and 1873; superintendent of law and jurisprudence Presidency coll. Calcutta 1871; law lecturer Bristol Univ. coll. 1878–80; author of Railway passengers and railway companies 1877; Modern law of real property 1883, 2 ed. 1885; Modern law of personal property 1887 and other books. d. Clayton villa, Clifton park, Clifton 13 March 1888.

GOODFELLOW, SAMUEL. Second lieut. Bombay engineers 1795, col. 29 July 1825 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. 19 Fitzroy sq. London 14 June 1860.

GOODFORD, REV. CHARLES OLD (2 son of Rev. John Goodford of Chilton Cantelo, Somerset 1784–1835). b. Chilton Cantelo 15 July 1812; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Cam., fellow to 1844; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839, D.D. 1853; assistant master at Eton 1835, head master 1853–62, provost 27 Jany. 1862 to death; R. of Chilton Cantelo 1856 to death; edited P. Terentii Afri Comœdiæ 1854. d. The lodge, Eton 9 May 1884. Lyte’s Eton College (1875) 475–8, 517, 519; I.L.N. 17 May 1884 pp. 465, 475, portrait; Graphic 7 June 1884 pp. 546, 549, portrait.

GOODLAKE, FRANCIS. Printer and publisher of The Times 1858–1882 when he retired on pension. d. Brixton 12 April 1890 in 68 year.

GOODLAKE, GERALD LITTLEHALES (youngest son of T. M. Goodlake of Letcombe, Berkshire 1807–77). b. Wadley, Berkshire 14 May 1832; ed. at Eton; 2 lieut. 21 foot 14 June 1850; ensign Coldstream guards 27 June 1851, major 14 Aug. 1872 to 7 Aug. 1875 when placed on h.p.; D.A.Q.M.G. Crimea 1855–1856; A.D.C. to the Queen 1869–1879; M.G. 11 Aug. 1879; V.C. 24 Feb. 1857; one of the best all-round sportsmen of his time. d. Denham fishery, Uxbridge 5 April 1890. Baily’s Mag. xxxii, 373 (1878), portrait; Sporting Mirror ii, 197–8 (1881), portrait; Graphic 26 April 1890 p. 533, portrait.

GOODMAN, SIR GEORGE (son of Benjamin Goodman of Leeds, who d. 10 June 1848 aged 85). Woolstapler at Leeds and Bradford; mayor of Leeds 1836, 1847 and 9 Nov. 1850 to 20 March 1852; represented Leeds at Great Exhibition 1851; knighted at St. James’s palace 26 Feb. 1852; M.P. for Leeds 1852–1857. d. Roundhay near Leeds 13 Oct. 1859 aged 67. R. V. Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis (1865) 477–80.

GOODSIR, JOHN (eld. son of John Goodsir of Anstruther, Fife, surgeon). b. Anstruther 14 March 1814; ed. at St. Andrews and Univ. of Edin.; L.C.S. Edin. 1836, curator of Museum 1841–43; curator of Museum in Univ. of Edin. 1845–46; professor of anatomy in Univ. of Edin. 1846 to Dec. 1866; author of Anatomical and pathological observations 1845; conducted Annals of anatomy and physiology, Nos. 1–3, 1850–53. d. South Cottage, Wardie near Edinburgh 6 March 1867. J. Goodsir’s Anatomical memoirs, edited by W. Turner i, 1–191 (1868), portrait; Proc. of Royal Soc. xvi, 14–16 (1868).

GOODWIN, CHARLES WYCLIFFE (eld. son of Charles Goodwin of King’s Lynn, Norfolk, solicitor). b. King’s Lynn 1817; ed. at St. Cath. coll. Cam., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1842; barrister L.I. 14 Nov. 1848; edited the Literary Gazette 1871, The Parthenon 1872; assistant judge of supreme court for China and Japan 31 March 1865, acting judge 1869 and 22 May 1876 to death; wrote essays on Hieratic Papyri in Cambridge Essays 1858, and On the Mosaic Cosmogony in Essays and Reviews 1860. d. Shanghai 17 Jany. 1878.

GOODWIN, JOSIAH. Journalist in Devonshire; editor of Journal of Bath and West of England Soc. 1859–90, sec. 1866–83; assisted in editing Journal of Royal Agricultural Soc. 1863 etc. d. Bath 3 June 1890 aged 70. I.L.N. 14 June 1890 p. 741, portrait.

GOODWIN, THOMAS (brother of William Goodwin, music librarian, d. 1 April 1876). b. London 1799; landed in New York 24 Aug. 1827; music librarian New York. d. New York 28 June 1886. O. Mason’s Sketches and Impressions from after dinner talk of T. Goodwin (1887) p. iii.

GOODWYN, HENRY. 2 lieut. Bengal engineers 18 Dec. 1823, lieut. col. 5 Dec. 1848, col. commandant 3 Aug. 1855 to death; general 14 July 1871; author of Memoir on the Taperchain suspension bridge, Calcutta 1844; The last Adam 1868; The book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ 1877. d. Bournemouth 8 Nov. 1886.

GOODWYN, JULIUS EDMUND (son of Wildman Goodwyn of Blackheath). b. 21 Feb. 1824; ensign 41 foot 5 Jany. 1844, lieut. col. 9 March 1855 to March 1866; brigadier general Bengal 14 March 1866 to 28 Feb. 1870; col. of 1 battalion Gloucestershire regiment 5 Nov. 1880, of 1 battalion Welsh regiment 20 Jany. 1883 to death; general 10 Jany. 1881; placed on retired list 1 July 1881; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857; author of Antitypical parallels, or the kingdom of Israel and of Heaven, By Gershom 1866. d. Bath 4 March 1890.

GOOLD, WYNDHAM (youngest son of Thomas Goold of Dublin, master in chancery, who d. 16 July 1846). Ed. at Westminster school and Univ. of Dublin; called to Irish bar 1837; M.P. for co. Limerick 14 Dec. 1850 to death. d. London 27 Nov. 1854 in 40 year.

GORDON, EDWARD STRATHEARN GORDON, 1 Baron (eld. son of John Gordon, major 2 foot). b. Inverness 10 April 1814; ed. at royal academy, Inverness and Univ. of Edin.; LL.B. Glasgow and Edin.; called to bar in Scotland 1835; Q.C. 12 Nov. 1868; sheriff of Perthshire 26 July 1858 to 12 July 1866; solicitor general for Scotland 12 July 1866 to 28 Feb. 1867; lord advocate of Scotland 28 Feb. 1867 to Dec. 1868 and 26 Feb. 1874 to Oct. 1876; M.P. for Thetford 3 Dec. 1867 to 11 Nov. 1868 when borough was disfranchised; contested Glasgow and Aberdeen univs. 1868, M.P. for these univs. 1869–76; dean of faculty of advocates 1869–74; P.C. 17 March 1874; lord of appeal in ordinary 6 Oct. 1876 to death; created Baron Gordon of Drumearn, co. Stirling 6 Oct. 1876. d. Brussels 21 Aug. 1879. Journal of jurisprudence xxiii, 541–2 (1879).

GORDON, ADAM LINDSAY (son of Capt. Adam D. Gordon). b. Fayal in the Azores 1833; educ. Cheltenham coll. and Woolwich; in the mounted police, South Australia 1853; a horse breaker; member of the house of assembly, Victoria 1865; livery stable keeper Ballarat 1867; a steeple chaser; settled at Brighton near Melbourne 1869; failed in securing reversion to Esselmont estate, Scotland 1869; author of Sea spray and smoke drift 1867; Bush ballads and galloping rhymes 1870; Ashtaroth, a dramatic lyric; shot himself on the beach at Brighton 24 June 1870. J. H. Ross’ Laureate of the Centaurs (1888), portrait; Poems ed. by Marcus Clarke (1887); Temple Bar, Feb. 1884 pp. 208–20.

GORDON, ALEXANDER (2 son of David Gordon, inventor of system of compressing gas, who d. about 1830). b. New York 5 May 1802; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; manager of the portable gas works in London until they were abolished about 1827; constructed many lighthouses, especially in the colonies; designed and erected the original great sea-light in an iron tower at Morant point, Jamaica, the first of many of a similar character 1842; founded with Sir George Cayley and others the Polytechnic Institution, London 1838; A.I.C.E. 10 April 1827, M.I.C.E. 17 Feb. 1835; his widow Sarah Gordon granted civil list pension of £50, 20 Dec. 1872; author of An historical and practical treatise upon elemental locomotion 1832, 3 ed. 1836 and other books. d. Sandown, Isle of Wight 14 May 1868.

GORDON, SIR ALEXANDER CORNEWALL DUFF- 3 Baronet (elder son of Sir Wm. Duff-Gordon, 2 baronet 1772–1823). b. Great Marylebone st. London 3 Feb. 1811; ed. at Eton; a senior clerk in Treasury 1854–56; sec. to chancellor of Exchequer 1854; a comr. of Board of Inland Revenue 1856; asst. gentleman usher of privy chamber to death; translated Von Ense’s Sketches of German life 1847, A. Weill’s Village tales from Alsatia 1847; translated with his wife Lady Lucy Duff-Gordon, L. Ranke’s Memoirs of the house of Brandenburg and history of Prussia 3 vols. 1849. d. 4 Upper Eccleston st. Belgrave sq. London 27 Oct. 1872.

GORDON, SIR ALEXANDER HAMILTON- (2 son of 4 Earl of Aberdeen 1784–1860). b. 11 Dec. 1817; ed. at Harrow; ensign Grenadier guards 2 May 1834, captain 10 April 1849 to 17 Oct. 1856; D.Q.M.G. at head quarters 1855–60; brigadier general Dublin district 1861–66; commanded Bombay division 1867–70; col. 100 foot 5 July 1872 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 1 July 1881; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 24 May 1873; M.P. for East Aberdeenshire 1875–85; author of Remarks on national defences, volunteers and rifles 1853; An enquiry into the organization of the Army 1875. d. 34 Lennox gardens, London 18 May 1890. Pictorial World 29 May 1890 p. 697, portrait.

GORDON, ARCHIBALD. Ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1834; assistant surgeon in army 28 June 1836, surgeon major 1854; principal medical officer of 2nd division in Crimea 1854–55; inspector general 9 March 1867 to 1 July 1870; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856; hon. surgeon to Queen 9 Aug. 1871 to death. d. West Hoathly, Sussex 3 Aug. 1886.

GORDON, CHARLES (son of Francis Grant, captain R.N., who assumed name of Gordon 1768 and d. 1803). Entered navy June 1796; captain 21 Dec. 1807; C.B. 4 July 1840; R.A. 23 Nov. 1841; admiral on half pay 20 Jany. 1858. d. Duke st. Bath 3 Oct. 1860 aged 79.

GORDON, CHARLES. Entered navy 19 June 1810; captain 17 April 1828; retired admiral 24 April 1865. d. Huntly, Aberdeenshire 19 May 1876.

GORDON, CHARLES GEORGE (4 son of lieut. general Henry William Gordon d. 1865). b. Woolwich 28 Jany. 1833; 2 lieut. R.E. 23 June 1852; lieut. col. 1 Oct. 1877 to death; served in Crimea 1854–56; went to China June 1860; commander of the ‘Ever Victorious Army’ in China 1863–64 when in 33 engagements he stamped out the Taiping rebellion, received from emperor yellow jacket and peacock’s feather of a mandarin of first class, always known afterwards as Chinese Gordon; hon. C.B. 9 Dec. 1864; governor of equatorial provinces of Central Africa where he suppressed slavery 1874–76; created Pasha by Khedive of Egypt 1877; governor general of the Soudan, Darfour, the Equatorial provinces and the Red Sea littoral 1877–79; taken prisoner by King John of Abyssinia, Nov. 1879; private sec. to marquis of Ripon viceroy of India, May 1880; adviser of Chinese government in their relations with Russia, Sep. 1880; commander of troops in Mauritius 1881–82; M.G. 23 March 1882; commandant of colonial forces Cape of Good Hope 1882; author of Colonel Gordon in Central Africa 1881; Reflections in Palestine 1883; General Gordon’s Letters from Crimea, Danube and Armenia 1884; sent by the English government to the Soudan to withdraw the garrisons and evacuate the country, arrived at Khartoum 18 Feb. 1884, besieged by the Mahdi 12 March; killed in the storming of Khartoum 26 Jany. 1885, monu. by Hamo Thornycroft erected in Trafalgar sq. 15 Oct. 1888, Gordon Boys’ Home for homeless boys founded 1889. A. E. Hake’s Journals at Khartoum of C. G. Gordon (1885); A. Forbes’ Chinese Gordon (1886), portrait; Events in life of C. G. Gordon, By Sir H. W. Gordon (1886); Letters of C. G. Gordon (1888); Chesney’s Essays in modern military biography (1874) 163–213; D. C. Boulger’s China iii, 578–628 (1884), portrait.

GORDON, CHARLES WILLIAM. b. 19 March 1817; captain Madras cavalry; contested Berwick-on-Tweed, March 1857; M.P. for Berwick-on-Tweed, April 1859 to death. d. Pall Mall, London 15 June 1863.

GORDON, COSMO (youngest son of Alexander Gordon, Lord Rockville 1739–92). b. 28 Nov. 1777; ensign 71 foot 6 Dec. 1792; major 94 foot 12 Feb. 1807 to 20 July 1809; lieut. col. 63 foot 20 July 1809 to 1810 when placed on h.p.; granted service reward 1 July 1851; general 20 June 1854. d. Exton, Hants. 7 March 1867.

GORDON, DOUGLAS WILLIAM COPE (3 son of 10 Marquis of Huntley 1792–1863). b. 11 Oct. 1851; lieut. Coldstream Guards 1871–1880; contested Hunts. 1874; M.P. for West Aberdeenshire 1876–80, for Hunts. 1880–85. d. Green Park chambers, 90 Piccadilly, London 4 Aug. 1888.

GORDON, ELIZABETH, Duchess of Gordon (dau. of Alexander Brodie, M.P. Elgin 1796–1802. d. 15 Jany. 1812). b. London 20 June 1794; owner of great wealth on father’s death 1812. (m. 11 Dec. 1813 George Gordon, marquis of Huntley, who became 5 duke of Gordon 1827 and d. 28 May 1836); the unblushing vice she found in high quarters led her to make a renunciation of the world 1826; left the episcopal ch. and joined the Free ch. of Scotland and held an important position in the evangelical party 1847; a great patron of open air preaching. d. Huntly lodge, Strathbogie 31 Jany. 1864. A. M. Stuart’s Life of duchess of Gordon (1865), portrait; Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881) 271–78, portrait.

GORDON, GABRIEL. Ensign 60 foot 6 Jany. 1781, lieut. col. 9 March 1802 to 4 Jany. 1808 when placed on h.p.; col. 91 foot 19 April 1837 to death; general 9 Nov. 1846. d. Higher Ardwick lodge near Manchester 7 Aug. 1855 aged 92.

GORDON, GEORGE. b. Lucan co. Dublin 25 Feb. 1806; learnt gardening under his father 1820; with J. Colvill, King’s road, Chelsea 1827; on staff of Horticultural Soc. Chiswick 18 Feb. 1828, foreman of the arboretum to his decease; A.L.S. 16 Feb. 1841; author with R. Glendenning of The Pinetum, 1858, supplement 1862, 2 ed. 1875, New ed. 1880. d. Kew 11 Oct. 1879; his herbarium purchased by Sir J. Hooker and given to royal gardens, Kew. Gardener’s Chronicle xii, 569 (1879).

GORDON, GEORGE HUNTLY (son of Pryse Lockhart Gordon). educ. for the Scottish church; licensed to preach; transcribed manuscript of Waverley novels for the press in order that the secret of the authorship might not be betrayed; Sir Walter Scott wrote two sermons for him published under title of Religious discourses, By A Layman 1828, preface signed W.S. which Gordon sold for £250; clerk in the treasury, clerk in government stationery office 30 years; contributed much to Notes and Queries. d. Inverness 27 Dec. 1868 aged 72.

GORDON, GEORGE THOMAS. (2 son of Samuel Gordon, captain R.N.) b. 1807; entered navy 5 March 1818; captain 9 Nov. 1846; R.A. 28 Oct. 1864; retired 1 April 1870; admiral 1 Aug. 1877; K.H. 1837. d. Ingleden, Kent 30 July 1887.

GORDON, HENRY (brother of Charles Gordon who d. 3 Oct. 1860). Entered navy 18 May 1791; captain 8 April 1805; admiral on h.p. 21 Jany. 1854; mayor of Bath twice. d. Nelson place, Bath 14 Sep. 1855.

GORDON, SIR HENRY PERCY, 2 Baronet (only son of Sir James W. Gordon 1772–1851). b. 52 Upper Seymour st. London 1806; ed. at St. Peter’s coll. Cam., fellow 1830; B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; barrister L.I. 5 May 1831; F.R.S. 9 Dec. 1830. d. Blackhall, Aberdeenshire 29 July 1876.

GORDON, HENRY WILLIAM. Second lieut. R.A. 17 Aug. 1803; col. commandant 22 Feb. 1863 to death; L.G. 19 May 1863. d. Southampton 19 Sep. 1865 aged 79.

GORDON, SIR HENRY WILLIAM (brother of Charles George Gordon 1833–85). b. Blackheath, Kent 18 July 1818; ensign 59 foot Aug. 1835; entered ordnance department 1855; controller general Jany. 1870; commissary general Nov. 1875 to 9 July 1878 when he retired; C.B. 22 Jany. 1857, K.C.B. 6 Aug. 1877; author of Events in the life of Charles George Gordon 1886. d. Oat hall, Hayward’s heath, Sussex 22 Oct. 1887. Graphic 26 Nov. 1887 pp. 581–82, portrait.

GORDON, SIR JAMES ALEXANDER. (eld. son of Charles Gordon of Wardhouse, Aberdeenshire). b. Kildrummie castle, Aberdeen 1782; entered navy 25 Nov. 1793; captain 16 May 1805; lost a leg at capture of French frigate “La Pomone” at Pelagosa 29 Nov. 1811; governor of royal naval hospital Plymouth 1827–32; superintendent of Chatham dockyard 1832–37; lieut. governor of Greenwich hospital 1 July 1840, governor 17 Oct. 1853 to death; admiral 21 Jany. 1854; admiral of the Fleet 30 Jany. 1868 to death; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1851, G.C.B. 5 July 1855. d. Greenwich hospital 8 Jany. 1869. Macmillan’s Mag. xix, 353–54 (1869); I.L.N. liv, 74, 165, 166 (1869), portrait.

GORDON, JAMES ALEXANDER. b. Middlesex; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; M.D. 24 June 1814; established The Quarterly Journal of Foreign Medicine and Surgery 1819, edited it; L.R.C.P. 16 April 1821, fellow 9 July 1836, Censor 1838; Assist. physician to London hospital 18 July 1827, physician 18 Nov. 1828 to Dec. 1844; retired from practice and lived at Dorking about 1846 to death; F.R.S. 2 April 1835. d. Dorking 18 April 1872 aged 78. Munk’s Roll of royal college of physicians (1878) iii, 232.

GORDON, SIR JAMES DAVIDSON (son of Evelyn M. Gordon of the Bengal C.S.) Entered Bengal C.S. 1854; private sec. to governor general of India Jany. 1866; resident Mysore and chief comr. of Coorg 1881–83 when he retired; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1881. d. 31 St. James’s st. London 27 June 1889 aged 54. bur. Aston ch. near Knebworth 4 July.

GORDON, SIR JAMES WILLOUGHBY, 1 Baronet (brother of Charles Gordon, who d. 3 Oct. 1860). b. 21 Oct. 1772; ensign 66 foot 17 Oct. 1783; lieut. col. royal African corps 13 June 1808, col. 25 July 1810 to 27 Nov. 1815; Q.M.G. in the Peninsula 1811–12; Q.M.G. at head quarters 1812 to death; col. of 85 foot 27 Nov. 1815, of 23 foot 23 April 1823 to death; general 23 Nov. 1841; created baronet 5 Dec. 1818; G.C.H. 1825; G.C.B. 13 Sep. 1831; F.R.S. 11 June 1801. d. his residence near royal hospital, Chelsea 24 Jany. 1851.

GORDON, JOHN (brother of 4 Earl of Aberdeen 1784–1860). b. 1792; captain R.N. 31 Dec. 1818; retired admiral 23 March 1863. d. 28 Queen Anne st. Cavendish sq. London 11 Nov. 1869.

GORDON, SIR JOHN (son of Samuel Gordon of Clonmel, co. Tipperary). b. Clonmel 1798; general medical practitioner at Cork 1820 to death; mayor of Cork 1855; knighted by lord lieut. of Ireland 1855. d. Cork 29 Jany. 1871.

GORDON, JOHN SHEPHEARD. Publisher of The Record more than 50 years. d. 1 Albert road, Crouch hill near London 31 Oct. 1884 aged 76.

GORDON, SIR JOHN WATSON- (eld. son of James Watson, captain R.A.) b. Edinburgh 1788; leading portrait painter in Scotland 1823 to death; exhibited 123 portraits at R.A. London 1827–64; assumed name of Watson-Gordon by which he is always known; A.R.A. 1841, R.A. 11 Feb. 1851; pres. of R.S.A. March 1850 to death; knighted at St. James’s palace 3 July 1850; limner to the Queen for Scotland 1850 to death. d. Catherine bank house, Edinburgh 1 June 1864, the Watson-Gordon professorship of fine art instituted in Univ. of Edin. 1879. Sandby’s Royal Academy ii, 287–9 (1862); Redgrave’s Century of Painters ii, 76–8 (1866); I.L.N. xviii, 219 (1851), portrait.

GORDON, SIR JOHN WILLIAM (elder son of Thomas Gordon of Harperfield, Lanarkshire who d. 1832). b. 1814; 2 lieut. R.E. 1 Dec. 1833; commanded R.E. in Crimea 1854–5; lieut. col. R.E. 1856–66; A.D.C. to the Queen 1855–66; D.A.G. at head quarters 1856–61; M.G. 3 Aug. 1866; inspector general of R.E. 1 June 1869 to death; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 28 March 1865; A.I.C.E. 3 Feb. 1857; cut his throat at house of lieut. col. Hutchinson, Golfston, Westward Ho. Devon 8 Feb. 1870; full length portrait in head-quarter messroom of R.E. at Chatham. Chesney’s Essays in modern military biography (1874) 154–62. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxi, 241–5 (1871); I.L.N. lvi, 211 (1870).

GORDON, JOSEPH. b. 1836; borough surveyor of Carlisle; designed many plans for draining large towns in North of England and Scotland; designed and carried out sewerage of Frankfort-on-Main 1886 and of other foreign cities; surveyor of Leicester 1880 where he greatly reduced the death rate; engineer to London county council 9 July 1889 to death; A.I.C.E. 1862; M.I.C.E. 1874. d. in an omnibus outside Eyre Arms tavern St. John’s Wood, London 9 Nov. 1889. bur. Leicester cemetery 13 Nov.

GORDON, LADY LUCY DUFF- (only child of John Austin 1790–1859). b. Queen sq. Westminster 24 June 1821; left Unitarian ch. for ch. of England 1837. (m. 16 May 1840 Sir Alexander Cornewall Duff-Gordon, bart. 1811–72); intimate with Dickens, Thackeray, Eliot Warburton and others; visited Heinrich Heine in Paris 1854; lived in Egypt 1862 to decease; translated many works from German and French; author of Letters from the Cape in Galton’s Vacation Tourist 1862–63, pp. 119–222; Letters from Egypt 1865. d. Cairo 14 July 1869. Lady Duff-Gordon’s Last letters from Egypt with a memoir by her daughter Mrs. Ross (1875) i-xl, portrait; Macmillan’s Mag. Sep. 1869 pp. 457–62; Good Words (1875) pp. 637–40.

GORDON, REV. OSBORNE (2 son of George Gordon of Broseley, Salop). b. Broseley 21 April 1813; educ. Bridgnorth sch. and Christ Church, Oxford; double first class in classics and mathematics; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839, B.D. 1847; rhetoric reader to university 1845 and Greek reader 1846; proctor 1846–47; censor Christ Church 1846; university examiner 1848–52; select preacher 1849 and 1862; member hebdomadal council 1854, 1857; Prince of Wales became his pupil at Christ Church 1859; member of Oxford univ. commission 1877; R. of Easthampstead, Berks. 1860 to death; author of Eusebii Pamphili historiæ ecclesiasticæ Annotationes variorum 1842; Considerations on improvement of examination statute 1847. d. Easthampstead 25 May 1883. G. Marshall’s Osborne Gordon (1885) pp. 1–72, with portrait.

GORDON, REV. ROBERT. b. Glencairn, Dumfriesshire 5 May 1786; educ. Edin. univ. to 1809 and at Marischal coll. Aberdeen D.D. 1823; presbyterian minister at Kinfauns, Perthshire 1816, at St. Cuthbert’s chapel of ease, Edin. 1821, at Hope park chapel of ease 1824, at New North ch. 1825, at the High ch. 1830; moderator of general assembly 20 May 1841; joined Free ch. and was minister of Free High ch. Edin. 1843 to death; invented a self registering hygrometer; author of articles Euclid, geography and meteorology in Edinburgh Encyclopædia; wrote Sermons 1825; Christ as made known to the Ancient Church 4 vols. 1854–55. d. 14 Northumberland st. Edinburgh 21 Oct. 1853. Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881) pp. 309–316; Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) p. 19–21, portrait.

GORDON, SAMUEL ENDERBY (2 son of Henry Wm. Gordon, col. commandant R.A. who d. 19 Sep. 1865 aged 79). b. 14 Nov. 1824; 2 lieut. R.A. 19 June 1844; col. 23 Dec. 1875; director of artillery studies at Woolwich 1 May 1871 to 31 Oct. 1877; L.G. 23 May 1882; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 Nov. 1882; C.B. 13 March 1867. d. Brook lodge, The Park, Cheltenham 5 Feb. 1883.

GORDON, WILLIAM (2 son of George Gordon, Lord Haddo 1764–91). b. 1785; midshipman R.N. 2 July 1797; captain 12 March 1810; V.A. 11 Feb. 1854: commander-in-chief at the Nore 1 July 1854 to 1 July 1857; M.P. for Aberdeenshire 1820–54; a lord of the Admiralty 8 Sep. 1841 to 17 Feb. 1846. d. Exmouth 3 Feb. 1858.

GORDON, WILLIAM. b. 26 June 1821; ensign 17 foot 20 July 1838; lieut. col. 15 Jany. 1861 to 1 April 1873; lieut. col. brigade depot 1 April 1873 to 14 April 1875 when placed on h.p.; A.A.G. 1 April 1870 to 31 March 1873; L.G. 29 April 1880; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881; C.B. 20 May 1871. d. while grouse shooting on the hill of Correen, Aberdeenshire 14 Aug. 1883.

GORDON, WILLIAM ALEXANDER. Ensign 112 foot 2 Oct. 1794; captain 50 foot 23 Oct. 1806 to 26 Nov. 1818 when placed on h.p.; colonel 54 foot 15 Aug. 1850 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831. d. Nairn, Scotland 10 Aug. 1856 aged 87.

GORE, AUGUSTUS FREDERICK (only son of Edward Gore 1797–1879, captain R.N.) b. 1 Feb. 1826; colonial sec. Barbadoes 1867–74; lieut. governor of Tobago 29 Sep. 1877, of St. Vincent 5 Aug. 1880 to 1886; F.G.S. d. 21 Sep. 1887.

GORE, CATHERINE GRACE FRANCES (dau. of C. Moody of East Retford, Nottinghamshire, wine merchant). b. East Retford 1799. (m. 15 Feb. 1823 Charles Arthur Gore, lieut. and capt. 1 life guards, d. 1846). Resided in France 1832–35; her dramas The School for Coquettes produced at Haymarket theatre 1831 and Quid pro Quo or the Days of Dupes, a prize drama, at Haymarket 1844; author of Theresa Marchmont, or the Maid of Honour 1824; Manners of the day, or Women as they are 3 vols. 1830, greatly praised by Geo. IV.; Mothers and daughters 3 vols. 1831 anon.; Cecil, or the Adventures of a Coxcomb 3 vols. 1841 anon.; The Royal Favourite 3 vols. 1845 and 65 other works. d. Linwood, Lyndhurst, Hampshire 29 Jany. 1861. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 7 Feb. New Monthly mag. xlix, pt. i, 434–35 (1837), portrait; I.L.N. 16 Feb. 1861 p. 147, portrait; R. H. Horne’s New spirit of the age, i, 232–39 (1844).

NOTE.—She was a ward of Sir John Dean Paul, her novel The Banker’s Wife 1843 was dedicated to him, which is very curious as in it is described a swindling banker just like he turned out to be in 1855 when she lost £20,000.

GORE, SIR CHARLES STEPHEN (4 son of 2 Earl of Arran 1734–1809). b. 26 Dec. 1793; cornet 16 light dragoons 21 Oct. 1808; served in Peninsula and at Waterloo 1811–15; col. of 91 foot 8 Aug. 1855, of 6 foot 9 March 1861 to death; general Feb. 1863; lieut. governor of Chelsea hospital Dec. 1868 to death; C.B. 1838, K.C.B. 18 May 1860, G.C.B. 13 March 1867; K.H. 1836. d. Chelsea hospital 4 Sep. 1869. Register and Mag. of Biog. Oct. 1869 p. 198.

GORE, JOHN. Entered navy Sep. 1797; captain 27 July 1825; retired admiral 15 Dec. 1863. d. 9 York place, Clifton 7 Dec. 1869 aged 85.

GORE, MONTAGUE (eld. son of Rev. Charles Gore of Barrow court, Somerset, who d. 21 April 1841). Matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 8 May 1818 aged 18; student of L.I. 1821; M.P. for Devizes 1832–34, for Barnstaple 1841–47; author of 20 pamphlets on political and social subjects; translated Valentini’s Description of the seat of war in European Turkey 1854. d. Chapel place, Vere st. London 5 Oct. 1864.

GORE, ROBERT (brother of 6 Earl of Arran 1801–84). b. 5 May 1810; entered navy 4 Sep. 1823; captain R.N. 9 Nov. 1846; M.P. for New Ross 1841–47; chargé d’affaires and consul general at Monte Video 23 Oct. 1846, at Buenos Ayres 29 Aug. 1851 to death. d. Monte Video 4 Aug. 1854.

GORE-LANGTON, WILLIAM HENRY. b. London 1802; M.P. for Bristol 1852–65. d. 2 Prince’s Gate, London 16 May 1875.

GORE-LANGTON, WILLIAM HENRY POWELL. b. Burdrop, Wilts. 25 July 1824; M.P. for West Somerset 1851–59 and 1863 to death. d. Newton park near Bath 11 Dec. 1873.

GORHAM, REV. GEORGE CORNELIUS (son of George James Gorham of St. Neots, Hunts, merchant). b. St. Neots 21 Aug. 1787; ed. at St. Neots and Queen’s coll. Cam., fellow 1809–27; 3rd wrangler and 2nd Smith’s prizeman 1808; B.A. 1808, M.A. 1812, B.D. 1820; C. of Beckenham, Kent 1814–18; C. of Clapham, Surrey 1818–27; C. of St. Mary’s chapel, Maidenhead 1840–42; C. of Fawley near Henley 1843–46; V. of St. Just in Penwith, Cornwall 1846–50; presented by Lord Chancellor Cottenham to vicarage of Brampford Speke near Exeter 2 Nov. 1847, but the Bishop of Exeter refused to institute him on account of his views on baptismal regeneration, the result was more than 2½ years’ litigation at end of which Gorham was instituted by Sir H. J. Fust, judge of the court of arches; author of: The history and antiquities of Eynesbury and St. Neots 2 vols. 1820 and many other books. d. Brampford Speke 19 June 1857; Bentley’s Miscellany xxvii, 612–16 (1850), portrait; I.L.N. 25 May 1850 p. 373, portrait.

GORING, SIR HARRY DENT, 7 Baronet. b. Devonshire place, London 30 Dec. 1801; M.P. for Shoreham 1832–41; succeeded 26 March 1844; sheriff of Anglesea 1848. d. Hotel Windsor, Rue Rivoli, Paris 19 April 1859.