Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 6), A-H (part 7 of 8)

Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 6), A-H (part 7 of 8)

HEMING, DEMPSTER (youngest son of George Heming of Weddington near Nuneaton, Warws.) b. about 1778; ed. at Univ. of St. Andrews; barrister M.T. 27 May 1808; practised with great success at Madras; registrar of supreme court at Calcutta; contested North Warwickshire 26 Dec. 1832; sheriff of Warws. 1840; F.R.A.S. d. 7 Hubert terrace, Dover 24 Dec. 1874. bur. in family burial place in Warws.

NOTE.—He was the oldest barrister in the law list, his exact age was unknown to his relatives.

HEMPEL, CARL or CHARLES FREDERIC (eld. son of the succeeding). b. Truro, Sep. 1811; teacher of music at Truro, organist of St. Mary’s ch. there 1844–57; introduced into Cornwall choral performances on a large scale; matric. from Magd. hall, Ox. 11 Feb. 1855, B.M. 15 Feb.; his oratorio The Seventh Seal performed at Oxford 19 March 1862, D.M. 20 March; organist and choirmaster St. John’s episcopal ch. Perth 1857 to death; conductor of Perth choral union, and of the Euterpean soc.; printed portions of The Seventh Seal 1864 etc., and many pieces of light music. d. Perth 25 April 1867. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. 227–8, 1226; Boase’s Collect. Cornub. p. 349; The Choir, v, 360 (1867).

HEMPEL, CHARLES WILLIAM. b. Chelsea 28 Aug. 1777; played organ in King’s German chapel, St. James’ 1785; studied at Leipsic and Dresden 1793–4; organist of St. Mary’s ch. Truro, May 1804 to 1844; removed to Exeter 1844; composer and writer of Psalms from the New Version 1805; Sacred melodies 1812; A morning and evening service 1820; An introduction to the pianoforte 1822; he also was author of The Commercial tourist or gentleman traveller, a poem 1822, 3 ed. 1832; a banker’s clerk in London 1854–5. d. in the workhouse, Prince’s road, Lambeth, London 14 March 1855. Dictionary of Musicians, i, 359–60 (1827).

HEMPHILL, ANDREW T. Ensign 29 foot 7 April 1825, lieut.-colonel 8 Dec. 1846 to 8 March 1848; lieut.-colonel 26 foot 8 March 1848 to 31 July 1860 when placed on h.p.; commander first infantry brigade at Dublin 1 July 1861 to death; M.G. 10 Nov. 1861. d. 11 Burlington road, Dublin 31 March 1863.

HEMPHILL, BARBARA (youngest dau. of Rev. Patrick Hare, rector of Golden, Tipperary). (m. John Hemphill of Rathkeany, Tipperary, who d. 26 Sep. 1833); author of Lionel Deerhurst, or fashionable life under the Regency 3 vols. 1846; The priest’s niece 3 vols. 1855; Freida the Jongler 3 vols. 1857. d. Dublin 5 May 1858.

HEMSLEY, JOHN. Chairman of Implement committee of R. Agric. soc. of England 1876 to death, member of council 22 May 1874 to death; a frequent judge of steam cultivation, implements, etc. at the annual meetings, steward of implements 1886; author of Report on the trial of agricultural implements at Taunton 1875. d. Shelton, Newark, Dec. 1888. Agricultural Gazette 1888.

HEMY, HENRY FREDERICK. b. Newcastle 12 Nov. 1818; resided Newcastle to 1885; removed to West Hartlepool 1885; pianist to the Earl of Ravensworth; musical instructor at Ushaw coll. Durham; engaged upon A history of the organ, when he died; composer of upwards of 100 pieces of music including Drawing room melodies 1851; Melodies of the Tyne and Wear 1857; Thirteen sacred songs 1869; God save the Prince of Wales, song 1876; set to music a number of Longfellow’s poems; author of The royal modern tutor for the pianoforte 1854, copyright of which was sold for £500, 1867 and for £3000, 1879. d. suddenly at 10 Regent st. Hartlepool 10 June 1888. bur. Moor Edge cemet. Newcastle. Northern Daily Mail 11 June 1888 p. 3, 14 June p. 3.

HENCHY, DAVID O’CONNOR. b. Rutland sq. west, Dublin 1810; M.P. for co. Kildare 1852–59. d. 1 Dec. 1876.

HENDERSON, ALEXANDER. b. Aberdeenshire 1780; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 12 Sep. 1803; L.C.P. 22 Dec. 1808; resided at 6 Curzon st. London; published A sketch of the revolutions of medical science by P. J. G. Cabanis, translated from the French 1806; An examination of the imposture of Ann Moore the fasting woman of Tutbury 1813; The history of ancient and modern wines 1824. d. Caskieben, Aberdeenshire 16 Sep. 1863. Munk’s Roll of Physicians, iii, 69 (1878).

HENDERSON, ALEXANDER. b. 1828 or 1829; in service of Post office; sec. to Edward Askew Sothern the comedian; lessee and manager Prince of Wales’ theatre, Liverpool 1861? to 8 Feb. 1868; lessee of Criterion theatre, London 1876–9; lessee of Folly theatre 1876–9; lessee of Globe theatre 1878–81; opened the Comedy theatre with La Mascotte comic opera 15 Oct. 1881, lessee to 1885; lessee of Avenue theatre 1885 to decease. (m. (1) Miss Moon of Liverpool; m. (2) Lydia Thompson, actress). d. Prince of Wales’ hotel, Cannes 1 Feb. 1886 aged 57. bur. 2 Feb. The Era 6 Feb. 1886 p. 8, 19 Jany. 1889 p. 16; A. Brereton’s Dramatic Notes (1887) 15–17.

HENDERSON, ANDREW (son of John Henderson of Shetland). b. Liverpool 10 Jany. 1800; in the navy 1813–16; commanded ships for Palmer & Co.; formed with Lord William Bentinck and Auber the East India steam navigation co. and the Assam co.; commanded the India 1840 first steamer that went round the Cape; conveyed first mails between Calcutta and Suez; A.I.C.E. 1840; invented a bow and stern rudder. d. 20 Feb. 1868. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxx, 472–75 (1870).

HENDERSON, REV. ANKETELL MATTHEW. b. Anketell grove, Monaghan, Ireland 1820; Wesleyan minister in Ireland 1841–52; Congregational minister at Cork 1852–6, at Claremont chapel, Pentonville, London 1856–65; wrote articles in the Patriot, the British Quarterly and the London Quarterly Reviews 1856–65; president of Congregational coll. Melbourne, Australia 1865 to death; pastor of Collins’ st. ch. 1866 to death, built a new ch. at cost of £23,000 which was opened free of debt 1868; an eloquent preacher; preached in Theatre Royal during rebuilding of his church; edited The preacher’s manual, By S. J. Sturtevant 1866. d. in house of his nephew John Garvin, Toronto, Canada 23 June 1876. Heaton’s Australian Dictionary (1879) 89; Congregational Year Book (1877) 374–76; J. Jones’ Sermon on death of A. M. Henderson (1876).

HENDERSON, CHARLES COOPER (younger son of John Henderson, amateur artist). b. Abbey house, Chertsey 14 June 1803; ed. at Winchester; studied for the bar; painted sporting pictures and sketches, horses and coaching scenes, many of which were engraved and published by Messrs. Fores, London; exhibited 2 pictures at R.A. 1840–8. d. Lower Halliford-on-Thames 21 Aug. 1877.

HENDERSON, REV. EBENEZER (youngest son of George Henderson, agricultural labourer). b. The Linn, parishes of Saline and Dunfermline 17 Nov. 1784; clock and watch maker 1794, kept cows, then a boot and shoemaker 1799; ed. at Robert Haldane’s seminary, Edinburgh 1803–5; engaged founding Bible societies in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland and Russia 1805 etc.; minister at Elsinore 1806–7, at Gothenburg 1807; formed first Congregational ch. in Sweden 6 Oct. 1811; visited Iceland and distributed Bibles 1814; at St. Petersburg printed the Bible in 10 dialects 1816, resided in Russia to 1825; tutor at Gosport, Hoxton and Highbury colleges 1825–50; minister Sheen Vale independent chapel, Mortlake, Surrey 1852–3; author of Iceland, a residence in that island 2 vols. 1818; The Book of the Twelve minor Prophets translated 1845; The Vaudois, a tour to the valleys of Piedmont 1845; The Book of Isaiah translated 1840, 2 ed. 1857 and many other works. d. Mortlake 16 May 1858. Memoir of E. Henderson by Thalia S. Henderson (1859), portrait.

HENDERSON, EBENEZER (son of John Henderson, watch and clock maker). b. Dunfermline, Feb. 1809; made an orrery and an astronomical clock 1827; clerk to his brother a tanner at St. Helens 1829; curator Liverpool Astronomical instit.; member of 13 scientific societies in England, LLD. of an American coll.; F.R.A.S.; received freedom of Elgin 1850 and of Dunfermline 1859; made a combination of wheels to show and check sidereal time 1850; restored old market cross of Dunfermline 1868 and queen Margaret’s stone; author of An historical treatise on horology 1836; A treatise on astronomy 1843, 3 ed. 1848; Life of James Ferguson 1867, 2 ed. 1870; The annals of Dunfermline and vicinity 1879. d. Muckhart, Perthshire 2 Nov. 1879.

HENDERSON, GEORGE (son of Capt. Henderson of 4 foot). b. Newton, Aberdeenshire 4 June 1783; 2 lieut. R.E. March 1800; served in Ceylon 1803–12, in the Peninsula 1812–14; lieut.-col. R.E. 30 Dec. 1824, retired from the service 9 April 1825; general superintendent London and South Western railway co. 1830, a director to death; A.I.C.E. May 1837; chairman London Equitable gas co., and Southampton gas co. to death. d. 11 Anglesea place, Southampton 21 April 1855. Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xv, 100–101 (1856).

HENDERSON, GEORGE. b. 1785 or 1786; entered navy 1 March 1794; captain 1 Aug. 1811; retired admiral 1 Nov. 1860. d. Middle Deal, Kent 23 Jany. 1864 aged 78. O’Byrne p. 493.

HENDERSON, GEORGE AUGUSTUS. Ensign 2 foot 1 Oct. 1794; inspecting field officer of militia, Nova Scotia 24 Aug. 1815 to 10 Feb. 1817 when placed on h.p.; col. 59 foot 27 April 1852 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854; K.H. 1836. d. Kempsey, Worcs. 7 Sep. 1857 aged 78.

HENDERSON, GILBERT. b. Colquitt st. Liverpool 8 Aug. 1797; ed. at Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1817; barrister L.I. 12 Nov. 1824; a leader on the northern circuit; recorder of Liverpool 24 July 1843 to death. d. Hyde park sq. London 5 Dec. 1861. The Liverpool Courier 7 Dec. 1861 p. 5.

HENDERSON, JAMES (son of a labourer). b. Scotland 1829; worked on a farm for 50s. a year 1843–5; butler to Mr. Grant Duff 1847–52; ed. at Surgeons’ hall, Edin. 1855–8, surgeon 1858; M.D. of St. Andrew’s univ. 1859; medical missionary Shanghai, China 1860–5, in charge of the Chinese hospital 1860–5; author of Shanghai Hygiene, or hints for preservation of health in China 1863; edited Reports of the Chinese hospital, Shanghai 1860–63. d. Nagasaki, Japan 30 July 1865. Memorials of J. Henderson (1868), portrait; Good Words (1878) 784–90.

HENDERSON, J. SCOTT. b. Berwickshire 1838; a banker at Paisley; edited the Ayr Observer some years, the Times and Mirror at Bristol, the Edinburgh Courant 1867–72 and the Bullionist in London; translated H. C. L. Von Sybel’s Clerical policy in the nineteenth century 1875. d. Oaklands, St. Mark’s road, Notting hill, London 18 Sep. 1883.

HENDERSON, JOHN (son of John Henderson, gardener at Brechin castle). b. Brechin 14 June 1804; carpenter Brechin; architect Edinburgh making a special study of gothic; designed and built many episcopal and other churches in Scotland 1831–65; Trinity college, Glenalmond, Perth with its decorated chapel is his best work 1847. d. 7 Greenhill park, Edinburgh 27 June 1865. Dictionary of Architecture, iv, 43.

HENDERSON, JOHN (son of Robert Henderson, merchant and shipowner). b. Borrowstounness, Linlithgowshire 1780; drysalter Glasgow; East India merchant London; gave from £30,000 to £40,000 a year to religious and charitable schemes; maintained several religious newspapers; spent £4000 in sending copy of a publication to all railway servants to tell them of the sinfulness of Sunday labour; stopped for sometime Sunday railway travelling in Scotland; maintained mission churches in Glasgow; a founder of Evangelical Alliance 1845. d. Park Inchinnan, Renfrewshire 1 May 1867. Glasgow Daily Herald 2 May 1867 p. 2.

HENDERSON, JOHN (son of John Henderson the actor). b. London 1822; apprenticed to Sanders the equestrian; performed as an equestrian artiste in every capital in Europe; returned to England 1862, equestrian director 1862 to death. (m. 1843 Agnes Selina Hengler). d. Ipswich 10 May 1867. bur. Highgate cemetery 3 July. Illustrated sporting news, ii, 428 (1862), portrait, iv, 641 (1865), portrait; Era 19 May 1867 p. 14 col. 3.

HENDERSON, JOHN (brother of Charles Cooper Henderson 1803–77). b. Adelphi ter. London 1797; ed. at Ball. coll. Ox., B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820; studied for the bar; spent his life in collecting works of art, which he kept at his residence 3 Montague st. Bloomsbury, London; F.S.A. 11 March 1858; left to Univ. of Oxford his Greek and Roman vases and Egyptian antiquities, to British Museum his water-colour drawings, enamels, porcelain, glass, metal work, arms and MSS., to National Gallery some water-colour drawings and paintings. d. 3 Montague st. London 20 Nov. 1878. Waagen’s Galleries of art (1857) 202–13; Proc. of Soc. of Antiquaries, viii, 105 (1881); Academy 30 Nov. 1878 p. 531; Works of art in pottery, glass and metal in collection of J. Henderson 1868.

HENDERSON, JOHN (son of Gilbert Henderson). b. Durham 2 May 1811; ed. Durham gram. sch.; carpet manufacturer and coal owner, Durham; M.P. Durham city 1864–74; M.P. Durham 5 Feb. 1874 but election declared void. d. Bournemouth 4 April 1884. Times 10 April 1884 p. 7.

HENDERSON, JOHN IRVING. b. Dumfriesshire 1781; in R.N.; advocate of the Scotch bar 1812; sheriff substitute of Dundee district, of Forfarshire 1832, resigned 1860. d. Blackness crescent, Dundee 24 Dec. 1860; his daughter erected schools to his memory which were opened by the Bishop of Brechin 2 Aug. 1862 but shortly afterwards finally closed. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 193; Dundee Advertiser 25 Dec. 1860 p. 3.

HENDERSON, PETER. b. Pathhead near Edinburgh 25 June 1823; apprentice to a gardener 1839; went to U.S. America 1843; greenhouse horticulturist Jersey City, and seedsman in New York, the largest business of its kind in America; author of Gardening for profit 1867, circulated 100,000 copies; Practical floriculture 1869; Gardening for pleasure 1875; Henderson’s Handbook of plants 1881; Garden and farm topics 1884; How the farm pays 1884. d. Jersey City Heights, Jany. 1890. Appleton’s American Biog. iii, 164 (1887).

HENDERSON, PETER LINDSAY. b. Glasgow 1831, ed. at high school there; master in the merchant service; owner and manager of a line of steamers between Copenhagen and Germany 1857; established whale fisheries in Iceland, using steamships with harpoon guns; proprietor of the Greenwich and Poplar horse ferry; A.I.C.E. 7 Feb. 1871. d. Woodfield, Hendon 20 Feb. 1881. Proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxiv, 341–2 (1881).

HENDERSON, WILLIAM (4 son of William Henderson, sheriff substitute of Caithness). b. Thurso 17 Jany. 1810; ed. at univ. of Edin., M.D. 1831; physician fever hospital, Edin. 1832; pathologist Royal infirmary, resigned 1845; made clinical studies on the heart and blood vessels 1835–7; F.R.C.P. Edin. 1838; professor of general pathology, Univ. of Edin. 1842, resigned 1869; adopted homœopathy 1845 when professor Syme, Sir John Forbes and others withdrew from associating with him, and he was expelled from the Med. Chir. Soc. of Edin. in Dec. 1851, wrote many works on homœopathy in reply to his adversaries 1845–53; author also of Letter to lord provost on charges against Queen’s college 1840; A dictionary of names of persons and places in Old and New Testaments 1869. d. 19 Ainslie place, Edinburgh 1 April 1872. Grant’s University of Edinburgh, ii, 451 (1884); British Journal of Homœopathy, xxx, 617–23 (1872).

HENDERSON, WILLIAM. Called to Irish bar 1825; Q.C. 26 May 1858. d. 1875.

HENDERSON, WILLIAM. b. Biggar, Lanarkshire 5 Aug. 1831; compositor with firm of T. & A. Constable, Edinburgh; a type-music printer with Novello, Ewer & Co. London 1860; partner with James Cossar Rait at 30 Penton st. Pentonville, and also with Montague Spalding, as type music printers 1861, they acquired a world-wide reputation, they moved to Winsley st. Oxford st. 1864, then to Berners st., afterwards to 3 Marylebone lane and Dyott house, Holborn; a composer of some ability. d. suddenly at Ipswich 22 May 1891. Stationery Trades Journal 30 May 1891 p. 254.

HENDERSON, WILLIAM WILMOTT. Entered navy May 1799, captain 9 Oct. 1815, R.A. 21 March 1851; commander in chief on south east coast of America 19 July 1851 to 1 May 1854; K.H. 13 Jany. 1835; C.B. 18 Dec. 1840. d. at sea returning to England 12 July 1854.

HENDREN, MOST REV. JOSEPH WILLIAM. b. Birmingham 19 Oct. 1791; received Franciscan habit 2 Aug. 1806; a teacher at Baddesley school 1812–16; priest 28 Sep. 1815; a teacher at Perthyre 1816–18, at Aston 1818–23; president Baddesley academy 1823–26; served mission at Abergavenny 1826–39; confessor and spiritual director to the nuns and pensioners of Franciscan convent at Taunton Lodge 1839–48; vicar apostolic of western district, and bishop of Uranopolis in partibus 28 July 1848, consecrated at Clifton by bishop Ullathorne 10 Sep. 1848; translated to newly created See of Clifton 29 Sep. 1850; translated to See of Nottingham 27 June 1851, resigned 26 Dec. 1852; bishop of Martyropolis in partibus 25 Feb. 1853, resided at Birmingham, May 1853 to death. d. Birmingham 14 Nov. 1866. Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 266–7 (1887); Brady’s Episcopal succession, iii, 317, 333, 357, 406, 432 (1877).

HENDRICKEN, MOST REV. THOMAS FRANCIS. b. Kilkenny, Ireland 5 May 1827; ed. at St. Kyran’s coll. Kilkenny and at Maynooth; ordained in Dublin, R.C. priest 29 April 1853; pastor at Winsted, Conn., U.S. America 1854; pastor at Waterbury 1855–72 where he built the church of the Immaculate Conception; Pius ix. created him D.D. 1868; first bishop of new diocese of Providence, R.I., consecrated 28 April 1872, built a cathedral and an episcopal residence. d. Providence 11 June 1886. Appleton’s American Biography, iii, 165 (1887).

HENEAGE, EDWARD (2 son of George Robert Heneage of Hainton, Lincolnshire, d. 1833). b. 24 July 1802; M.P. for Great Grimsby 7 Jany. 1835 to 1 July 1852; contested Great Grimsby 8 July 1852. d. Stag’s End, Hemel Hempstead 25 June 1880.

HENEAGE, GEORGE FIESCHI (brother of preceding). b. 22 Nov. 1800; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1826; M.P. Great Grimsby 1826–30; M.P. Lincoln 1831–4 and 1852–62; sheriff of Lincolnshire 1839. d. Hainton 11 May 1868.

HENFREY, ARTHUR (3 son of Henry Antram Henfrey). b. Aberdeen 1 Nov. 1819; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital; M.R.C.S. 1843; lecturer on botany at Middlesex and St. George’s hospitals 1847; professor of botany King’s coll. 1853; F.L.S. 1844; F.R.S. 3 June 1852; edited The Botanical Gazette 3 vols. 1849–51, the Photographic Journal, vols. 1, 2, 1853; author of Outlines of structural and physiological botany 1847; The vegetation of Europe, its conditions and causes 1852; An elementary course of botany 1857, 4 ed. 1884, besides many translations from the German and other books. d. 12 Heathfield ter. Turnham green, Middlesex 7 Sep. 1859. Proc. Royal Soc. x, 18 (1860).

HENFREY, HENRY WILLIAM (eld. son of preceding). b. London 5 July 1852; ed. at Brighton coll.; member Numismatic soc. 1868, on council; contributed 12 papers to Numismatic Chronicle; member British Archæol. Assoc. 1870 and wrote in its proceedings; author of A guide to the study of English coins 1870, 2 ed. 1885; Numismata Cromwelliana 1877; edited Henfrey’s Journal, St. Albans 1864. d. Widmore cottage, Bromley, Kent 31 July 1881. Numismatic Chronicle, ii, 21–2 (1882).

HENGLER, EDWARD HENRY (son of Henry Hengler, tight rope dancer of Vauxhall gardens). b. 1819; tight rope dancer; kept a riding school with his brother John Milton Hengler at Elizabeth st. Pembroke place, Liverpool. d. Liverpool 8 Jany. 1865. Era 15 Jany. 1865 p. 14.

HENGLER, FREDERICK CHARLES (brother of the preceding). b. Cambridge 1820; taught the circus business by his father; violin and trumpet player in James Wild’s theatre, Bradford 1841; business manager of Price and Powell’s circus, afterwards purchased the circus with which he travelled; built circuses in Liverpool 1857, Glasgow and Dublin 1863, Hull 1866, Bristol 1867, Birmingham 1868 and London 1871; introduced spectacular pieces played by children; taught riding to several members of the royal family; a great horse tamer and exhibitor of trained animals. d. Cambridge house, 27 Fitzjohn’s avenue, Hampstead, Middlesex 28 Sep. 1887. bur. Pauntley, Gloucestershire, left £59,665 2s. 5d. Frost’s Circus Life (1876) 48 etc.; The Era 15 Jany. 1865 and 1 Oct. 1887; Judy 13 Dec. 1882 p. 280, portrait.

NOTE.—His eldest son and successor Frederick Charles Hengler was b. 4 Aug. 1855 and d. 7 May 1889.

HENLAND, HENRY. b. Germany 1778; scientific dealer in minerals in London 1807, having purchased Old Humphrey’s collection; supplied the British Museum with greater part of their collection of minerals; formed a mineralogical cabinet for C. H. Turner of Rooks Nest, Surrey, an account of which was printed in 3 volumes with an atlas of 83 plates of forms of crystals; foreign secretary Geological soc. some years. d. Hastings 16 Nov. 1856.

HENLEY, JOSEPH WARNER (only son of Joseph Henley, merchant, London). b. Putney, Surrey 3 March 1793; ed. at Fulham and Magd. coll. Ox., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1834, hon. D.C.L. 1854; in his father’s office 1815–17; M.P. for Oxfordshire 1841–78; president of board of trade 27 Feb. to 17 Dec. 1852 and 25 Feb. 1858 to March 1859; P.C. 27 Feb. 1852; author of A Conservative’s opinion on the contagious diseases act. Nottingham 1878. d. Waterperry, Oxfordshire 8 Dec. 1884. The drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages 2 series (1859), portrait; The statesmen of England (1862), portrait; St. James’ Mag. March 1870 pp. 771–4, portrait.

HENLEY, WILLIAM THOMAS. b. Midhurst, Sussex 1814; a leather dresser, a light porter 1829 and a dock labourer; a philosophical instrument maker 1838; assisted Sir C. Wheatstone and made his electrical apparatus 1836; took out 13 patents for improvements in electric telegraphs, &c. 1848–71; founded the British and Irish magnetic telegraph co.; made 14,000 miles of submarine cables; made electric light apparatus 1849; had manufactories at North Woolwich 1859 and iron works and colleries in Wales employing 2000 men and making a profit of £80,000 a year; failed for £500,000 in 1874; director of Henley’s Telegraph works 1880 to death. d. Chesterton house, Plaistow, Essex 13 Dec. 1882. bur. Kensal green 18 Dec. Times 15 Dec. 1882 p. 5; The Electrician 23 Dec. 1882 p. 136.

HENN, JONATHAN (2 son of William Henn of Paradise, co. Clare, master of Irish court of chancery, d. 1822). b. 1789; ed. at Lucan and at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1808; called to Irish bar 1811; went Connaught circuit, joined Munster circuit; defended D. O’Connell in the Repeal prosecutions 1843; K.C. 7 Feb. 1835; engaged for the Crown in the case of John Mitchell 1849; assistant barrister for co. of Donegal; retired from practice about 1850; a brilliant orator. d. Clifton villa, Bray, co. Dublin 22 July 1873. J. R. O’Flanagan’s Irish bar (1879) 225–31; Law mag. and law review, ii, 233–35 (1857).

HENN, THOMAS RICE (3 son of Thomas Rice Henn, Q.C., recorder of Galway). b. Dublin 2 Nov. 1849; ed. at Windermere coll. and R. Milit. acad. Woolwich 1866; lieut. Bombay engineers 7 July 1869, commanded 2 company in Afghan war 1880; present in Bolan pass and at Candahar; brigade major R.E. 1879–80; killed while covering the retreat of the army at the battle of Maiwand 27 July 1880, window to his memory placed in Rochester cath. Shadbolt’s Afghan campaign. Biog. Division (1882) 107–9, portrait.

HENN, WILLIAM (brother of Jonathan Henn, d. 1873). Called to Irish bar 1808; bencher of King’s Inns, Dublin 1822, master in chancery 1822 to death. d. Dublin 8 March 1857. O’Flanagan’s Irish bar (1879) 224.

HENNEDY, ROGER. b. Carrickfergus near Belfast, Aug. 1809; a block cutter for calico printers; learnt to draw on stone and made designs for textiles; a teacher of botany at Glasgow 1848; in business with a partner 1851–7; professor of botany Andersonian univ. Glasgow 1863 to death; author of The Clydesdale Flora, plants and ferns of the Clyde district, Glasgow 1865, 4 ed. 1878. d. Whitehall near Bothwell, Lanarkshire 22 Oct. 1877.

HENNEN, JOHN (son of John Hennen, M.D., d. Gibraltar 3 Nov. 1828). M.R.C.S. Edin. 1820; M.D. Edin. 1821; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1843; in medical department of army 1824; physician R. Milit. asylum, Southampton 1828–40; in practice at 24 Upper Southwick st. Hyde park, London 1847; F. Med. and Chir. soc. 1844, librarian 1848–50, compiled an Index to the Society’s Transactions 1851; translated C. J. Nitzsch’ System of christian doctrine 1849; edited his father’s Sketches of medical topography of the Mediterranean 1830. d. Tunbridge Wells, June 1871 aged 71. Proc. Med. Chir. Soc. vii, 38 (1875).

HENNESSY, WILLIAM MAUNSELL. b. Castle Gregory, co. Kerry 1829; resided for some time in U.S. America; in the Lunatic asylum office 1855; wrote for Irish newspapers; chief clerk Public Record office, Dublin 1868, assist. deputy keeper 1886 to his death; Todd professor R. Irish acad. 1822–4; the best Irish scholar of his day; contributed to The Academy, La Revue Celtique, etc.; edited Chronicon Scotorum. A chronicle of Irish affairs 1866; The annals of Loch Cé. A chronicle of Irish affairs 1871; J. Graves’ Pedigree of the White Knight 1881; J. C. Mangan’s The poets and poetry of Munster 1883 and many other works. d. 71 Pembroke road, Dublin 13 Jany. 1889. Academy 26 Jany. 1889 p. 56.

HENNIKER, JOHN HENNIKER-MAJOR, 4 Baron (eld. son of 3 Baron Henniker 1777–1832, who in 1822 assumed additional surname of Major). b. Stratford Green, Essex 3 Feb. 1801; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; barrister L.I. 28 May 1824; M.P. for East Suffolk 1832–47 and 1856 to 13 July 1866 when created Baron Hartismere of Hartismere, co. Suffolk; sheriff of Suffolk 1853; F.S.A. 16 Dec. 1852. d. 6 Grafton st. Bond St. London 16 April 1870. I.L.N. xxx, 479 (1857), portrait.

HENNIKER, ALDBOROUGH (eld. son of Aldborough Brydges John Henniker of Catcott, Somerset 1797–1880). b. 6 July 1821; ed. at the Charterhouse; barrister G.I. 1 May 1844, bencher 7 July 1874, treasurer 1877 to death; Q.C. 6 July 1874; member of council of legal education. d. 26 Leinster sq. Bayswater, London 28 Jany. 1880 from injuries received by falling down the staircase at King’s Cross station of Metropolitan railway.

HENNIKER, REV. ROBERT (brother of the preceding). b. 1 June 1833; ed. at Trin. coll. Ox., Johnson’s Theol. sch. 1856, B.A. 1856, M.A. 1860; C. of St. Michael, Alnwick 1858–60; P.C. of South Charlton near Alnwick 1860–69; head master of Rossall school 1869–75; V. of Frocester near Stroud 1875 to death; author of Stories from English history for young children 1861; Trifles for travellers 1864. d. Frocester vicarage 1 Feb. 1880.

HENNING, JOHN (son of Samuel Henning, carpenter). b. Paisley 2 May 1771; carpenter; modeller of wax figures 1800; a modeller at Glasgow; studied in Trustees’ academy, Edin. 1802; went to London 1811; made models of the Parthenon and Phigaleian friezes with the missing parts restored 1811–23; made models in relief of cartoons of Raphael; exhibited 17 sculptures at R.A., 8 at B.I. and 37 at Suffolk st. 1816–52; executed busts of Princess Charlotte of Wales and Mrs. Siddons; a founder of Soc. of British Artists 1847; presented with freedom of Paisley 1846; executed the relievi on the gate at Hyde park corner and those on the Athenæum club. d. 17 Lower Belgrave place, Pimlico, London 8 April 1851. bur. St. Pancras cemet. Finchley.

HENNINGSEN, CHARLES FREDERICK (son of a Swede). b. England 1815; in Carlist army in Spain, lieut.-col. 1834; served in Russian army in Circassia; commander of fortress of Comorn under Kossuth in Hungary 1849; commander of the artillery under William Walker in Nicaragua, America 1856, major general; colonel of 3 regt. of Wise’s brigade in Confederate army and served in Virginia; superintended construction of first Minié rifle made in U.S. America; author of Revelations of Russia. Paris 1845; The most striking events of a twelve months’ campaign with Zumalacarregui 2 vols. 1836; The White slave 3 vols. 1845; Personal recollections of Nicaragua, and other works. d. Washington, D.C. 14 June 1877. Appleton’s American Biography, iii, 169 (1887).

HENRADE, MARY (3 dau. of Thomas Young of Melbourne, Australia). b. 1842; appeared in original cast of Our American Cousin at Haymarket theatre, London 11 Nov. 1861; played at Lyceum theatre, Oct. 1864, and at chief west end theatres. (m. Stephen Demetrius Pitzipios a Greek merchant and general agent at 17 Throgmorton st. London). d. Duncroft house, 3 Grove end road, London 11 March 1876 aged 34. Era 19 March 1876 p. 10 col. 4.

HENRY, ALEXANDER. b. Loughbrickland, co. Down 1783; came from U.S. America and settled in Palace st. Manchester as an American house doing an export trade in cotton and woollen goods 1804; crossed the Atlantic 30 times; opened houses at Leeds, Huddersfield, Bradford, Leicester, Nottingham, Glasgow and Belfast; member of Anti-Corn law league 1838; M.P. South Lancashire 20 Dec. 1847 to June 1852; entertained Kossuth 1850; lost his sight many years before his death. d. Harrogate 4 Oct. 1862. London Society (Nov. 1880) 446–62; Hunt’s Merchant’s Mag. xix, 63–67 (1848), xxxiv, 36–45 (1856).

HENRY, CHAPLIN, assumed name of Henry Charles Stroud. b. 1826; bookseller; had a fine bass voice; attached to choir of Surrey chapel, Blackfriars road, London; an early member of Henry Leslie’s choir 1856; chief bass at Foundling chapel; a singer at the banquets at the City of London halls; author of O write me a song of my father, Ballad 1869. d. Peckham 12 Jany. 1888. Musical Times 1 Feb. 1888 p. 92.

HENRY, GEORGE FITZGERALD (brother of Sir Thomas Henry 1807–76). b. 1827; entered service of P. and O.S.N. Co. 1847, commander on the China line, superintendent of service at Bombay; connected with Bank of Bombay and the Port Trust board; member of the Bombay corporation; thrown out of his carriage at Bombay and killed 23 Feb. 1877. The Graphic 5 May 1877 pp. 407, 408, portrait.

HENRY, JAMES (1 son of Robert Henry, woollen draper). b. Dublin 13 Dec. 1798; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1819, M.A. and M.B. 1822, M.D. 1832; a physician in Dublin with a large practice 1822–45 charging a five shilling fee instead of the usual guinea; from 1841 the study of Virgil became the object of his life, began walking through Europe with his wife and daughter making Virgilian researches 1846; wife Anne Jane dau. of John Patton d. Arco, Tyrol and was cremated; crossed the Alps 17 times; dau. Katharine Olivia b. 20 Nov. 1830 assistant to her father in his travels and studies, d. 7 Dec. 1872; author of Miliaria accuratius descripta. Dublin 1832; The Eneis, books i and ii rendered into English blank Iambic by J. H. 1845; Notes of a twelve years’ voyage of discovery in the first six books of the Eneis. Dresden 1853; Poems, chiefly philosophical. Dresden 1856, with a portrait; Thalia Petasata, a foot journey from Carlsruhe to Bassano. Dresden 1859; Æneidea, remarks on the Æneis, with collation of principal editions 2 vols. 1873–9. d. Dalkey lodge, Dalkey near Dublin 14 July 1876. The Academy 12 Aug. 1876 pp. 162–3.

HENRY, JOHN. Entered Madras army 1800; col. 51 Madras N.I. 15 March 1842 to death; L.G. 3 Aug. 1855. d. Holles st. Cavendish sq. London 17 Dec. 1860.

HENRY, MICHAEL (son of a merchant, d. April 1840). b. Kennington, London 19 Feb. 1830; ed. at City of London sch. 1840–44; assisted in editing Mechanics’ Mag. 1846–57; a patent agent in London 1857 to death; edited Jewish Chronicle 1868 to death; founded General Benevolent Assoc. 1847, hon. sec. to death; hon. sec. Stepney Jewish schools to death; A.I.C.E.; author of The Inventor’s almanac 1858; A defence of the present patent laws 1866; his clothes caught fire when he was in his office 68 Fleet St., d. from the burns at 6 Argyle sq. Euston sq. London 16 June 1875. bur. Willesden cemet. 21 June. Jewish Chronicle 25 June 1875 pp. 205–6; Times 18 June 1875 p. 13, 19 June p. 7.

HENRY, SIR THOMAS (eld. son of David Henry of Stephens green, Dublin, government contractor). b. Dublin 1807; ed. at Von Feinaigles sch. and at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; barrister M.T. 23 Jany. 1829; magistrate at Lambeth st. police court near Whitechapel, April 1840, removed to Bow st. 1846, chief mag. at Bow st. 6 July 1864 to death; knighted at Windsor castle 30 Nov. 1864. d. 23 Hanover sq. London 16 June 1876. I.L.N. 14 March 1846 p. 172, portrait, 24 June 1876 p. 623, 1 July pp. 3, 4, portrait; Graphic, xiii, 614, 628 (1876), portrait.

HENRY, WALTER. b. Donegal, Ireland 1 Jany. 1791; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin; hospital assistant in 66 foot April 1811, served in the Peninsula to 1814, in Nepaulese war 1816–7, in St. Helena 1817–21, prepared bulletin of post mortem appearance of body of Napoleon; in Canada 1827–41; staff surgeon 1839, inspector general of hospitals in Canada 1852, retired 1856; wrote in periodicals under pseudonyms of Miles, Piscator, and Scrutator; author of Trifles from my Portfolio, or recollections of 29 years military service, By a Staff Surgeon. Quebec 2 vols. 1839; Events of a military life 2 vols. 1843. d. Belleville, Upper Canada 27 June 1860. Morgan’s Bibl. Canadensis (1867) 182–3.

HENRY, WILLIAM ALEXANDER. b. Halifax, Nova Scotia 30 Dec. 1816; barrister N.S. Nov. 1840; Q.C. 1849; member of Nova Scotia Assembly 1840 for many years; mayor of Halifax; solicitor general 3 times; provincial secretary and attorney general; puisne judge of supreme court of Canada, Oct. 1875 to death. d. Ottawa 3 May 1888.

HENSLOW, REV. JOHN STEVENS (1 son of John Prentis Henslow, solicitor, Enfield, d. 1854). b. Rochester, Kent 6 Feb. 1796; ed. at free gram. sch. Rochester and St. John’s coll. Cam., 16 wr. 1818, B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; F.L.S. 1818; F.G.S. 1819; founded with Adam Sedgwick, the Cambridge Phil. Soc. 15 Nov. 1819; prof. of mineralogy at Cam. 1822 to March 1827; P.C. of St. Mary the Less, Cam. 1824–32; prof. of botany at Cam. June 1825 to death, his enthusiasm rendered botany popular, Darwin and others were his pupils; V. of Cholsey, Berks. 1832–7; R. of Hitcham, Suffolk 1837 to death; established study of botany in his schools; for tithe dinners substituted excursions; discovered beds of phosphatic nodules in the Suffolk Crag 1843 much used for manure; a founder of the Ipswich museum 1848; author of Catalogue of British plants 1829, 2 ed. 1835; The principles of descriptive and physiological botany 1836; An account of Roman antiquities found at Rougham, Bury St. Edmunds 1843; A dictionary of botanical terms 1856 and other books. d. Hitcham rectory house 16 May 1861, his collections divided between Ipswich, Cambridge and Kew museums. Jenyns’ Memoir of J. S. Henslow (1862), portrait; Popular Science Monthly, iii, 159–72 (1873), portrait; Longman’s Mag. June 1883 pp. 147–59.

HENSMAN, REV. JOHN (son of Thomas Hensman of Birmingham). b. Bedford 22 Sep. 1780; ed. at C.C. coll. Cam., 9 wr. 1801, B.A. 1801, M.A. 1804; fellow of his coll. 1801; C. to Rev. Charles Simeon at Cam. 1801; C. of Wraxall, Somerset 1803–9; C. in charge of Clifton parish ch. Bristol 1809–22; C. of Dowry chapel, Clifton 1822–30; incumb. of Trinity ch. Hotwells 1830–44; P.C. of Christ Church, Clifton 1844–7; R. of Clifton 1847 to death; St. James’ chapel, Clifton commonly known as the Hensman memorial church was consecrated Dec. 1862; hon. canon of Bristol cath. 1858; well known member of evangelical party; prime mover in building 4 churches in Clifton. d. Clifton hill 23 April 1864. Bristol Times 30 April 1864 p. 6.

HENSOM, GRAVENER. b. Nottingham 1785; engaged in hosiery trade and in point and bobbin net manufacture; had a practical knowledge of all kinds of looms; wandered about the coasts of England, Scotland and France discovering and exposing the tricks of the smugglers; imprisoned in Coldbath-fields prison for his connection with Luddite riots; gave evidence before parliamentary committee; author of List of 100 inventions and alterations in the stocking and lace machines 1828; Civil, political and mechanical history of the frame-work knitting and lace trades 1831 which was never finished. d. Broad st. Nottingham 15 Nov. 1852. Felkin’s History of hosiery (1867) pp. xv-xvii; Wylie’s Nottingham (1853) 234–5.

HENTY, EDWARD (6 son of Thomas Henty, landowner and banker, West Tarring, Sussex, who went to Tasmania 1831). b. West Tarring, Sussex 10 March 1809; emigrated to Tasmania 1831; one of the three founders of the colony of Victoria, Australia; the first settler in Portland Bay, Victoria 19 Nov. 1834 where he had a whaling station; imported pure merino sheep 1835; ploughed the first land ever turned up in Victoria 1835; went inland and took up large sheep runs; member for Normanby in legislative assembly 1856–61; held Muntham station, Victoria. d. Offington, St. Kilda road, Melbourne 14 Aug. 1878. Times 28 Sep. 1878 p. 10; Men of the Time. Victorian Series (1878) 86–8; R. Henty’s Australiana (1886) 26 etc.

HENTY, WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). b. England 1808; emigrated to Tasmania 1831; solicitor at Launceston, Tasmania; member of legislative assembly, Tasmania; colonial secretary, Tasmania 1857–62; returned and settled in England 1863; author of Our improvements in cottage husbandry. Launceston 1850. d. 12 Medina villas, Brighton 11 July 1881. Times 14 July 1881 p. 9.

HENWOOD, WILLIAM JORY (eld. son of John Henwood of Perran-wharf near Truro). b. Perran-wharf 16 Jany. 1805; clerk to Fox & Co. at Perran 1822–7; first went underground 1825; assay master and supervisor of tin for duchy of Cornwall 1832–8; Telford medallist of Instit. of C.E. for paper On pumping engines 1837; made special study of metalliferous deposits; F.G.S. 1828, Murchison medallist 27 Feb. 1875; F.R.S. 27 Feb. 1840; in charge of Gongo-Soco mines, Brazil 1843–53; reported on the metals in Kumaon and Gurhwal for Indian government 1855; president R. Instit. of Cornwall 1869–71, delivered three valuable addresses; author of On the metalliferous deposits of Cornwall and Devon. Subterranean temperature, Water and Electric currents, being vol. v. of Trans. R. Geol. Soc. of Cornwall 1843, and Observations on metalliferous deposits and on Subterranean temperature vol. vi. 1871, and other books and numerous papers. d. 3 Clarence place, Penzance 5 Aug. 1875. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. 230–3, 1227; Times 10 Aug. 1875 p. 3 by W. P. Courtney.

HEPBURN, HENRY POOLE (1 son of Francis K. Hepburn, major general). b. 24 Jany. 1822; ensign Scots Fusilier guards 19 Feb. 1841, lieut.-col. 21 March 1874 to 10 Oct. 1874 when placed on h.p.; served in Crimean campaign 1854–5, wounded at battle of Alma, medal with 2 clasps, Turkish medal and 5 class of Medjidie; L.G. 1 July 1881; C.B. 2 June 1869; maintained an orphanage for daughters of soldiers of the Scots guards. d. The Hooke, Chailey, Lewes 26 Oct. 1888. Times 29 Oct. 1888 p. 6.

HEPPEL, JOHN MORTIMER (eld. son of George Hastings Heppel of Taplow, Bucks., paper maker). b. Taplow 23 Dec. 1817; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s sch. and London univ.; established with Moser an engineering factory at Aix la Chapelle, partnership dissolved 1847; chief engineer on Madras railway, May 1857 to 1861; engineer to Peruvian railway 1865; A.I.C.E. 20 April 1835, M.I.C.E. 11 Feb. 1851; invented a water meter and other pieces of mechanism. d. 2 Storey’s gate, Westminster 21 March 1872. Min. of Proc. of C.E. xxxvi, 265–68 (1873).

HERAPATH, JOHN (son of a maltster). b. Bristol 30 May 1790; a maltster with his cousin William Herapath at Bristol; conducted a mathematical school, taking candidates for the navy 1815; Royal Soc. refused to publish his paper “A mathematical enquiry into the causes of heat, gases, gravitation, &c.” 1820, which was then printed in Annals of Philosophy and a controversy with Royal Soc. ensued; mathematical tutor at Cranford, Middlesex 1820–32; removed to Kensington 1832; one of first advocates of atmospheric railway system 1839; part proprietor and manager Railway Magazine 1835, called The Railway magazine and Annals of Science 1836–39, then Herapath’s Railway Journal, became sole proprietor; printed numerous mathematical papers; author of Mathematical physics 2 vols. 1847. d. Catford bridge, Lewisham, Kent 24 Feb. 1868. G.M. April 1868 pp. 544–5; Herapath’s Railway Journal 29 Feb. 1868 p. 234.

HERAPATH, SPENCER (2 son of the preceding). b. 1822; ed. in a college in Indiana, U.S. America; connected with Herapath’s Railway Journal; sec. to Admiral Laws manager Lancashire and Yorkshire railway; sec. of Sheffield, Barnsley and Wakefield railway to 1865; A.I.C.E. 5 March 1867; head of firm of Spencer Herapath & Co., stock brokers, London 1844; member of committee of Spanish bondholders; director of Buenos Ayres Great southern railway 11 Jany. 1868; F.G.S.; F.A.S.; F.S.S. d. 18 Upper Phillimore gardens, Kensington 13 March 1884. Min. of Proc. of C.E. lxxviii, 447–8 (1884).

HERAPATH, WILLIAM (son of Mr. Herapath of Bristol, maltster). b. Bristol 26 May 1796; a maltster, Bristol; one of the founders of the Bristol Medical sch. 1828, professor of chemistry there 1828; president of Bristol Political Union 1831; one of the founders of Chemical Soc. of Lond. 23 Feb. 1841; F.C.S.; employed as analytical chemist in cases of Mary Ann Burdock of Bristol 1835 and of W. Palmer of Rugeley 1856; member of Bristol town council 1833 and senior magistrate. d. Manor house, Old Park st. Bristol 13 Feb. 1868. Gent. Mag. v, 404, 544 (1868); Herapath’s Railway Journal 22 Feb. 1868 p. 205.

HERAPATH, WILLIAM BIRD (1 son of the preceding). b. 1820; L.S.A. 1843, M.R.C.S. 1844; ed. at Univ. of London, M.B. 1844, M.D. 1851; surgeon Queen Elizabeth’s hospital, Bristol; president Bristol microscopical soc.; F.R.S.; made many chemical and toxicological discoveries; contributed numerous papers to scientific journals; discoverer and manufacturer of artificial tourmalines; author of A few words on the Bristol and Clifton Hotwells 1854; The handbook for visitors to the Bristol and Clifton Hotwells 1864. d. 32 Old Market st. Bristol 12 Oct. 1868. I.L.N. 24 Oct. 1868 p. 411; Times 15 Oct. 1868 p. 5.

HERAUD, JOHN ABRAHAM (son of Abraham Heraud, law stationer, d. 1846). b. St. Andrew’s, Holborn, London 5 July 1799; friend of Coleridge, Southey, Wordsworth and Carlyle; assistant editor of Fraser’s Mag. 1830–3; edited The Sunbeam 1838–9, the Monthly Mag. 1839–42 and the Christian monthly mag.; contributor and dramatic critic to the Athenæum 1843–68; dramatic critic Illust. London News 1849–79; a brother of the Charterhouse 21 July 1873 to death; wrote Videna, a tragedy, Marylebone theatre 1854, Wife and no Wife, and Medea; author of The legend of St. Loy 1820; The descent into hell 1830, 2 ed. 1835; The judgment of the flood 1834, new ed. 1857; The life and times of G. Savonarola 1843; The sibyl among the tombs 1886. d. Charterhouse, Charterhouse sq. London 20 April 1887. Athenæum 23, 30 April (1887); I.L.N. 30 April 1887 p. 485.

HERBERT OF LEA, SIDNEY HERBERT, 1 Baron (younger son of 11 Earl of Pembroke 1759–1827). b. Richmond, Surrey 16 Sep. 1810; ed. at Harrow and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1831; M.P. for South Wilts., Dec. 1832 to Jany. 1861; sec. of board of control Jany. to April 1835; joint sec. of the admiralty 10 Sep. 1841 to 13 Feb. 1845; sec. of state for war 4 Feb. 1845 to 6 July 1846, 29 Dec. 1852 to 8 Feb. 1855 and 18 June 1859 to July 1861; sec. of state for the colonies Feb. 1855 to 15 May 1855; P.C. 3 Feb. 1845; first president National Volunteer assoc. 16 Nov. 1859; cr. Baron Herbert of Lea, Wilts. 15 Jany. 1861; made great sanitary reforms in the army; author of Proposal for the better application of cathedral institutions to their intended use 1849; The conduct of the war. A speech 1854; Military education. A speech 1856. d. Wilton house, Salisbury 2 Aug. 1861, his statue in front of war office, Pall Mall, London, unveiled 1 June 1867. The British Cabinet in 1853, 276–86; H. Martineau’s Biog. sketches (1876) 78–90; Fraser’s Mag. lxv, 198 (1861); I.L.N. iv, 136 (1844), portrait.

NOTE.—With Lord Lincoln afterwards the duke of Newcastle, he became interested in the Morning Chronicle, which was the organ of the Peelites from 21 Feb. 1848 under the editorship of John Douglas Cook.—In the autumn of 1854 the paper was sold to Serjeant William Glover.—Lord Herbert is said to have lost £116,000 in this undertaking.—Bourne’s English newspapers, ii, 152–8.

HERBERT, ALFRED (son of Thomas Herbert, waterman). Apprentice to a boat-builder; painter of coast scenes with fishing boats and figures and views in the reaches of the Thames; exhibited 14 pictures at R.A., 3 at B.I. and 26 at Suffolk st. 1844–60; obliged to sell his pictures to dealers at low prices; 2 of his pictures are at South Kensington. d. Jany. 1861. Redgrave Dict. of Artists (1878) 209; Art Journal 1861 p. 56.

HERBERT, ALGERNON (youngest son of 1 Earl of Carnarvon 1741–1811). b. 12 July 1792; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., removed to Exeter coll., B.A. 1813, M.A. 1825; fellow of Merton coll. 1814–31, subwarden 1826, dean 1828; barrister I.T. 27 Nov. 1818; published Nimrod, a discourse upon certain passages of history and fable, By A. H. part i. 1826, reprinted, remodelled and republished in 2 vols. 1828, a 3 vol. 1828, vol. 4 part i. 1829, part ii. 1830; Britannia after the Romans, By the Hon. A. H. 2 vols. 1836–41; Cyclops Christianus, or an argument to disprove the antiquity of the Stonehenge and other Megalithic erections in England and Britanny 1849. d. Ickleton, Cambs. 11 June 1855. G.M. xliv, 649–50 (1855).

HERBERT, CHARLES. b. 1783; entered Madras army 1803; colonel 16 Madras N.I. 29 June 1842 to death; general 26 April 1866; C.B. 20 July 1838. d. Morland lodge, Croydon 17 Jany. 1867 aged 84.

HERBERT, CHARLES. b. 1805; ensign 66 foot 10 Dec. 1825; lieut. col. 75 foot 2 June 1857 to 7 Dec. 1858; lieut. col. 54 foot 7 Dec. 1858 to 27 July 1866 when he retired on full pay; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 1 Jany. 1858. d. Boyle cottage, Thames Ditton 19 Sep. 1879.

HERBERT, SIR CHARLES LYON. M.D.; knighted at St. James’s palace 19 Aug. 1836; (m. 1812 Anne dau. of Humphrey Jeffreys of Bristol, she d. Florence 28 Nov. 1860), he d. Lower Berkeley st. Manchester sq. London 1855.

HERBERT, CYRIL WISEMAN (youngest son of John Rogers Herbert 1810–90). b. Gloucester road, Old Brompton, London 30 Sep. 1847; godson of Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman; ed. in France, at St. Mary’s coll. Oscott and King’s coll. London; studied in Italy 1868; exhibited 5 pictures at R.A, 1870–5; some of his paintings were Homeward after labour. Roman cattle driven home 1870; Returning to the fold. Welsh sheep driven home 1874, in Walker art gallery, Liverpool; curator of antique school in Royal Academy 1882. d. The Chimes, Kilburn 2 July 1882. Academy 8 July 1882 p. 38; Art Journal 1882 p. 256.

HERBERT, DENNIS. Inspecting field officer of militia, Nova Scotia 28 Jany. 1808 to 17 March 1817 when placed on h.p.; general 20 June 1854. d. Exeter 19 Sep. 1861.

HERBERT, EDWARD CHARLES HUGH (younger son of 2 Earl of Carnarvon 1772–1833). b. 30 March 1802; M.P. for Callington, Cornwall 1831–32. d. 30 May 1852.

HERBERT, EDWARD GILBERT. Ed. at Univ. college, London; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1862; equity draftsman and conveyancer; lecturer on law at Univ. of London; brought out with other writers a volume of essays entitled Religious Republics 1869 in which he wrote The Congregational Character pp. 91–132; wrote on art in public journals. d. Nottingham 12 March 1871.

HERBERT, EDWARD HENRY CHARLES (only son of E. C. H. Herbert 1802–52). b. 1 Sep. 1837; ed. at Ball. coll. Ox., scholar 1855–61, B.A. 1859, M.A. 1865; 3 sec. of legation at Athens 16 Nov. 1868 to death; while on an excursion to the plains of Marathon, taken prisoner by Greek brigands and murdered at Oropos Sykamenos 21 April 1870, bur. Burghclere ch. yard 15 May. Times 14 April 1870 p. 5, 7 May p. 12, 17 May p. 6; I.L.N. lvi, 491, 557 (1870); Parl. Papers 1870 and 1871.

HERBERT, HENRY ARTHUR (elder son of Charles John Herbert of Muckross abbey, co. Kerry, d. 1836). b. Muckross 1815; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; M.P. for co. Kerry 9 Aug. 1847 to death; chief sec. to lord lieut. of Ireland, June 1857 to Feb. 1858; P.C. 25 June 1857; sheriff of Kerry 1836; lord lieut. of Kerry 1853 to death; hon. colonel of Kerry militia 9 Jany. 1854 to death. d. Adare manor, Limerick 26 Feb. 1866. I.L.N. xxv, 616 (1854), portrait.

HERBERT, HENRY WILLIAM (elder son of Hon. and Rev. William Herbert 1778–1847, dean of Manchester). b. 10 Poland st. Oxford st. London 3 April 1807; ed. at Eton and at Caius coll. Cam., B.A. 1830; classical master in Rev. R. T. Huddart’s sch. New York 1831–9; with A. D. Patterson established the American Monthly Mag. 1833; made much money but was improvident and quarrelled with his friends; lived at The Cedars on the Passaic 1846–58; author of Cromwell, a novel 2 vols. 1837; The Roman traitor 3 vols. 1846; The knights of England, France and Scotland 1852; Memoirs of Henry VIII of England and his six wives 1858; under the pseudonym of Frank Forester he wrote My Shooting Box 1846; Frank Forester and his friends 3 vols. 1849; The Deerstalker 1850; Horse and horsemanship of the United States and British provinces 2 vols. 1857 and other books; shot himself through the head at Stevens house, Broadway, New York 17 May 1858. Judd’s Life of F. Forester 2 vols. (1882), portrait; Picton’s Life of F. Forester (1881); Appleton’s American Biog. iii, 179–80 (1877), portrait.

HERBERT, JOHN (son of Wm. Herbert 1771–1851, librarian Guildhall library, city of London). b. Walcot place, Lambeth 28 Feb. 1814; appeared as Romeo in the Catherine st. theatre 1831; a comic singer at Vauxhall, Cremorne and Rosherville 1833 etc.; played in dramatic companies at Brighton 1837–8, at York 1839–40, at Newcastle 1840, at Sadler’s Wells 1841, at the Victoria 1843, at City of London 1844–7; a low comedian of much ability, his best character was Paulo in Plot and Counterplot; acted at Royal theatre, Edinburgh 1851–2. d. Edinburgh 6 April 1852. Theatrical Times, ii, 217, 226 (1847), portrait; J. C. Dibdin’s Edinburgh Stage (1888) 434, 436.

HERBERT, JOHN MAURICE (son of John Lawrence Herbert of New hall, Montgomeryshire). b. 15 July 1808; ed. at cathedral school, Hereford and St. John coll. Cam., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833; fellow of his college 1830–40; barrister L.I. 8 May 1835; assistant tithe and copyhold comr.; comr. for enfranchising assessionable manors of duchy of Cornwall; judge of county courts, circuit No. 24 (South Wales) 12 March 1847 to death; F.G.S. d. Rocklands near Ross 3 Nov. 1882. I.L.N. lxxxi, 569 (1882), portrait; Red Dragon, iii, 1 (1883), portrait.

HERBERT, JOHN ROGERS (son of the controller of customs, Maldon, Essex). b. Maldon 23 Jany. 1810; student R. Acad. London 1826; exhibited 69 pictures at R.A., 26 at B.I. and 7 at Suffolk st. 1830–80; studied in Italy 1835; joined the Church of Rome 1840; A.R.A. 1841, R.A. 1846, retired 1886; a master of the School of design, Somerset house 1837; decorated the peers’ robing room, house of lords with 9 pictures, the best being, Moses bringing the tables of the law, executed in the water glass process and taking 14 years to complete; commenced painting religious subjects with, Introduction of Christianity into Britain 1842; some of his best known works are, Sir Thomas More and his daughter 1844; The acquittal of the seven bishops 1846; Our Saviour subject to his parents at Nazareth 1847; Laborare est orare 1862; The sower of good seed 1865; The bay of Salamis 1869; The adoration of the Magi 1874. d. The Chimes, Kilburn 17 March 1890. bur. Kensal green. Sandby’s Hist. of R. Academy, ii, 179–81 (1862); Sherer’s Gallery of British artists, i, 39–46; I.L.N. 29 March 1890 p. 390, portrait; Pictorial World 3 April 1890 pp. 423, 441, portrait; Times 20 March 1890 p. 10.

HERBERT, SIR PERCY EGERTON (2 son of 2 Earl of Powis 1785–1848). b. Powis castle, Montgomeryshire 15 April 1822; ed. at Eton and Sandhurst; ensign 43 foot 17 Jany. 1840; served in Kaffir war 1851–3, Russian war 1854–6 and wounded at the Alma, Indian mutiny 1857–8; A.D.C. to the Queen 29 June 1855 to 28 Jany. 1868; lieut.-col. 82 foot 19 Feb. 1858 to 16 Nov. 1860 when placed on h.p.; deputy quartermaster general 1 Nov. 1860 to 28 April 1865; L.G. 22 Sep. 1875; colonel 74 highlanders April 1876; M.P. Ludlow 1854–60; M.P. South Shropshire 1865 to death; treasurer of H.M.’s household 27 Feb. 1867 to Dec. 1868; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 2 June 1869; P.C. 19 March 1867. d. Styche, Market Drayton 7 Oct. 1876.

HERBERT, ST. LEGER ALGERNON (1 son of Frederick Charles Herbert 1819–68, commander in navy). b. Kingston, Canada 16 Aug. 1850; ed. at naval sch. New Cross, Kent and at Wadham coll. Ox., scholar 1869–74; in Canadian C.S. 1875–8; private sec. to Sir Garnet Wolseley in Cyprus 1878 and in South Africa 1879; at the storming of Sekokoeni’s Mountain and for his services C.M.G. 1880; a correspondent of The Times from 1878; sec. to Sir F. Roberts in Africa, Feb. 1881; sec. to Transvaal commission 1881; special correspondent for Morning Post in Egypt from Sep. 1883, shot through the leg at Tamai; on staff of Sir H. Stewart in Egypt 1884, killed at battle of Gubat near Metammeh in the Soudan 19 Jany. 1885; monument to memory of 7 journalists who died in Soudan, in crypt of St. Paul’s. Morning Post 29 Jany. 1885 p. 5; I.L.N. lxxxvi, 171 (1885), portrait.

HERBERT, SIR THOMAS (2 son of Richard Townshend Herbert of Cahirnane, M.P. co. Kerry 1783–90). b. Cahirnane, Feb. 1793; entered navy 23 July 1803; captain 25 Nov. 1822; served in China during war operations in Canton river 1840–41; commodore on south east coast of America 11 Jany. 1847 to 21 June 1849; a junior lord of admiralty, Feb. to Dec. 1852; V.A. 8 Dec. 1857; sheriff of Kerry 1829; C.B. 29 June 1841, K.C.B. 14 Oct. 1841; M.P. for Dartmouth 1852–57. d. 74 Cadogan place, London 4 Aug. 1861.

HERBERT, REV. THOMAS MARTIN (son of Thomas Herbert of Nottingham). b. Nottingham 18 Oct. 1835; ed. at Mill Hill sch., Spring Hill coll., Lancashire coll. and at Univ. coll. London, B.A. London, M.A.; congregational minister at Nether chapel, Sheffield to 1867, at Cheadle 1868–76; professor of philosophy and church history, Lancashire coll. 1876 to death; author of The external relations of Congregationalism, printed in Religious Republics 1869; Difficulties in the way of religious education by the state 1874; The realistic assumptions of modern science 1879. d. Ottringham near Manchester 28 Nov. 1877. The Congregationalist, vii, 33–40 (1878); Congregational Year Book (1879) 320–21.

HERBERT, WILLIAM. b. 1771; librarian Guildhall library, city of London 1828–45; author of Antiquities of the inns of court and chancery 1804; Select views of London and its environs 2 vols. 1804–5; The history of the twelve great livery companies of London 2 vols. 1836–7; with E. W. Brayley he wrote Syr Reginalde or the Black tower, a romance 1803; History of Lambeth palace 1806; with Robert Wilkinson Londina illustrata 2 vols. 1819–25. d. 40 Brunswick st. Haggerston, London 18 Nov. 1851.

HERBISON, DAVID (son of an innkeeper, d. 1827). b. Ballymena, co. Antrim 14 Oct. 1800; a hand loom linen weaver 1814–27 and 1830 to death; resided in Canada 1827–30; known as The Bard of Dunclug; author of The fate of Mc. Quillan and O’Neill’s daughter, poems, Belfast 1841; Midnight musings 1848; Woodland wanderings 1858; The Snow wreath 1869, with Autobiography of the author; The children of the year 1876. d. Dunclug near Ballymena 26 May 1880, monu. at Ballymena. Collected works of D. Herbison, ed. by Rev. D. Mc. Meekin (1883), with memoir.

HERDMAN, ROBERT (4 son of Rev. William Herdman, minister of Rattray, Perthshire, d. 1838). b. Rattray 17 Sep. 1829; ed. at Madras coll. St. Andrews 1838, and at Univ. of St. Andrews; studied art in Trustees’ acad. Edin. 1847 and in Italy 1854–6 and 1868; A.R. Scottish Acad. 1858, Academician 1863; portrait, figure and landscape painter; exhibited at R. Scottish Acad. 1850 to death; exhibited 32 pictures at R.A. Lond. and 2 at B.I. 1861–80; some of his paintings were, After the battle, a scene in covenanting times 1870, in National gallery, Scotland; Charles Edward seeking shelter in the house of an adherent 1876; Landless and homeless 1887; author of Address to the students of the Board of manufacturers’ Art School 1888; found dead in his studio from heart disease, Edinburgh 10 Jany. 1888. Times 12 Jany. 1888 p. 6.

HERDMAN, WILLIAM GAWIN (son of a corn merchant). b. Liverpool 13 March 1805; art teacher Liverpool; member of Liverpool academy till 1857 when he was expelled for his opposition to pre-Raphaeliteism; established an Art school in Liverpool 1857; exhibited 5 pictures at R.A. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1834–61; the reformation of perspective occupied much of his time; the founder of shilling art-unions; F.S.A.; published Views of Fleetwood-on-Wyre 1838; Studies from the folio of W. G. H. 1838; Pictorial relics of ancient Liverpool 1843; A treatise on the curvilinear perspective of nature 1853; Thoughts on speculative cosmology and the principles of art 1870; found dead in his bed at 41 St. Domingo vale, Liverpool 29 March 1882. Bryan’s Dictionary of painters (1886) 645; Liverpool Mercury 1 April 1882 p. 5.

HERING, GEORGE EDWARDS (younger son of a German bookbinder). b. London 1805; studied in Munich art sch. 1829 and in Italy 1830 etc.; landscape painter; exhibited 88 pictures at R.A., 86 at B.I. and 10 at Suffolk st. 1836–80; among his paintings were The ruins of the palace of the Cæsars at Rome 1836; Amalfi 1841 and Capri 18—, both in the Royal collection; Bridge over a stream 1847, in South Kensington museum; published Sketches on the Danube, in Hungary and Transilvania 1838; The mountains and lakes in Switzerland, the Tyrol and Italy, twenty coloured lithographs 1847. d. 45 Grove end road, St. John’s Wood, London 18 Dec. 1879, his wife a well known painter, exhibited landscapes 1853–8. Art Journal, xxxii, 83; Clement and Hutton’s Artists (1879) 348.

HERIOT, FREDERICK LEWIS MAITLAND. b. 6 Feb. 1818; barrister 1839, advocate depute; sheriff of Forfarshire 21 Feb. 1862 to death; edited The Scottish jurist, containing reports of cases decided in the courts of session. d. Paris 7 March 1881. Journal of Jurisprudence, xxv, 204 (1881).

HERMAN, GEORGE FREDERIC. Joined British auxiliary legion in Spain as a captain in the Rifle corps 11 July 1835 and was present during all the fighting 1835–8, lieut.-col. 1 Oct. 1836; went out to Syria as assistant adjutant general on staff of Sir Charles Smith 1840 and served through Syrian campaign, receiving Sultan’s gold medal; vice consul at Bengazi 31 March 1848; consul at Tripoli 1 Jany. 1852 and consul general there 26 March 1856 to 13 Jany. 1865, retired on a pension 18 July 1865. d. 2 Aug. 1873. Foreign Office List (1873) 111–12.

HERMON, EDWARD (son of Richard Hermon). b. London about 1821; member of firm of Horrocks, Miller and Co. cotton spinners, Preston; M.P. Preston 1868–81; gave money for prizes, for Essays on the prevention of explosions and accidents in coal mines 1874. d. Berkeley sq. London 6 May 1881, personalty sworn to be £588,000 on 25 June 1881, his pictures were sold for £37,116 4s. 6d. on 13 May 1882.

HERON, DENIS CAULFIELD (eld. son of W. Heron). b. Dublin 1826; ed. at St. Gregory’s Downside and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1845, LL.B. and LLD. 1857; obtained a university scholarship 1845 but precluded from enjoying it on account of being a Roman Catholic; called to Irish bar 1848; professor of jurisprudence in Queen’s college, Galway 1849–59; Q.C. 4 July 1860; law adviser at Dublin Castle, April to July 1866; bencher of King’s Inns 1872; M.P. for Tipperary 1870–74; third serjeant at law Oct. 1880 to death; author of The constitutional history of the university of Dublin 1847; Should the tenant of land possess the property in the improvements made by him? 1852; An introduction to the history of jurisprudence 1860; The principles of jurisprudence 1873. d. while salmon fishing on the river Corrib at Galway 15 April 1881. bur. Glasnevin cemetery, Dublin 19 April. Case of D. C. Heron against the provost and senior fellows of Trinity college, Dublin (1846).

HERON, SIR JOSEPH (son of James Holt Heron, merchant). b. Manchester 1809; ed. at Moravian sch. at Fairfield; admitted attorney and solicitor 1830; town clerk of Manchester, Dec. 1838 to death, an able administrator, instrumental in obtaining the act for the Thirlmere water scheme for Manchester 1879; knighted at Windsor castle 9 July 1869. d. Cannes, France 23 Dec. 1889. Times 25 Dec. 1889 p. 4; Law Journal, xxv, 14 (1890).

HERON, MATILDA. b. Labby vale, Londonderry, Ireland 1 Dec. 1830; studied in Philadelphia, U.S. America under Peter Richings; first appeared at Walnut st. theatre as Bianca in Fazio 17 Feb. 1851; played at St. Louis 1852, in San Francisco 1853, in New York 1854 and 1857 when she acted as Camille her most successful character. (m. 24 Dec. 1857 Robert Stoepel, musical director, from whom she separated 1862, sued for a divorce March 1869); appeared at Lyceum, London as Rosalie Lee in New Year’s Eve 1 April 1861 but met with little success; returned to U.S. America, made last appearance as Medea in April 1876; teacher of elocution New York 1876 to death; published Camille. Adapted from the French of A. Dumas [by M. H.] 1856; Medea, a tragedy by G. J. B. E. W. Legouvé, translated 1857. d. New York city 7 March 1877. Appleton’s American Biog. iii, 184 (1887), portrait; Soulé’s Annals of San Francisco (1855) 661, portrait.

HERON, SIR ROBERT, 2 Baronet (only son of Thomas Heron of Chilham castle, Kent). b. Newark 27 Nov. 1765; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; succeeded his uncle Sir R. Heron 18 Jany. 1805; came into large property on death of his uncle Rev. Robert Heron 19 Jany. 1813; M.P. Grimsby 1812–18; contested Lincolnshire 1818; M.P. Peterborough 1819–47; built the nave and tower of Stubton ch. Lincolnshire; author of Notes. Grantham 1850, reprinted 1851. d. Stubton hall near Newark 29 May 1854. G.M. July 1854 pp. 74–5.

HERRIES, SIR CHARLES JOHN (eld. son of succeeding). b. 1815; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840; barrister I.T. 20 Nov. 1840; commissioner of excise 22 Nov. 1842; dep. chairman of board of inland revenue 1856, chairman 15 Aug. 1877, retired 1881 on a pension of £1353; C.B. 1871, K.C.B. 27 Oct. 1880; author of Memoir of Rt. Hon. J. C. Herries 2 vols. 1880. d. St. Julian’s, Sevenoaks 14 March 1883. Times 16 March 1870 p. 8.

HERRIES, JOHN CHARLES (eld. son of Charles Herries of London, merchant, d. 1819). b. Nov. 1778; ed. at Cheam and at Univ. of Leipsic; clerk in the treasury 5 July 1798; private sec. to Nicholas Vansittart when secretary of the treasury 1801–1802, to Spencer Perceval when prime minister 1810–12; secretary and registrar to order of the Bath, Jany. 1809, resigned 1822; comptroller of army accounts 1811; commissary in chief 1 Oct. 1811 to 24 Oct. 1816 when office was abolished and he retired on pension of £1350; auditor of the civil list 29 Oct. 1816 to 1821; financial sec. to the treasury 7 Feb. 1823 to 4 Sep. 1827; chancellor of the exchequer 17 Aug. 1827 to 26 Jany. 1828; P.C. 17 Aug. 1827; master of the mint 12 Feb. 1828 to 14 Dec. 1830; president of board of trade 2 Feb. 1830 to 22 Nov. 1830; secretary at war 16 Dec. 1834 to 20 April 1835; president of board of control 28 Feb. to Dec. 1852; member of the India board 28 Feb. 1852; M.P. for Harwich 1823–41; contested Ipswich 3 July 1841; M.P. for Stamford 1847–53; translated Frederick Gentz’s work On the state of Europe before and after the French revolution 1803. d. St. Julian’s, Sevenoaks 24 April 1855. E. Herries’ Memoir of J. C. Herries 2 vols. 1880; Portraits of eminent conservatives and statesmen 2 series (1846); I.L.N. xiv, 269 (1849), portrait.

HERRIES, SIR WILLIAM LEWIS (brother of the preceding). b. Amiens, France 1785; cornet 19 dragoons 23 Jany. 1801; served in South America, at Walcheren, at siege of Flushing and in Peninsula; lost his leg before Bayonne 1814; permanent assistant quartermaster general 28 July 1814 to 31 July 1817 when placed on h.p.; chairman of board of comrs. for auditing public accounts; lieut.-col. on half pay 13 Aug. 1830 to 9 Nov. 1846; a comr. of Chelsea hospital; col. of 68 foot 17 April 1854 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854; K.C.H. 1826; knighted at Carlton house 29 May 1826; C.B. 19 July 1831. d. 14 Bolton st. Piccadilly, London 3 June 1857.

HERRING, JOHN FREDERICK (son of Mr. Herring, fringe maker, Newgate st. London). b. Surrey 1795; coach painter at Doncaster 1814; driver of the Nelson coach from Wakefield to Lincoln 1814–6, then of the Doncaster and Halifax coach, and later on of the Highflyer coach between London and York; painted Filho da Puta the winner of the St. Leger 1815, and the winners for 32 years in succession; painted Mameluke the winner of the Derby 1827 and the winners for 18 years following; at Doncaster till 1830, at Six mile bottom, Newmarket 1830–33, settled at Camberwell 1833; exhibited 22 pictures at R.A., 44 at B.I. and 82 at Suffolk st. 1818–68; member of Soc. of British Artists 1841–52; animal painter to duchess of Kent; among his pictures were, A frugal meal, now in National gallery; A group of ducks, in the Glasgow gallery, and A black horse drinking from a trough, in National gallery, Dublin; many of his paintings were engraved, and published by Fores, Fuller and Graves; he published The Horse, 12 plates. d. Meopham park near Tunbridge Wells 23 Sep. 1865. Memoir of J. F. Herring. Sheffield (1848), portrait; Scott and Sebright, By the Druid (1862) 88–93; I.L.N. xlvii, 360, 361 (1865), portrait.

HERRING, PAUL, stage name of William Smith. b. 20 Sep. 1800; clown at Richardson’s show playing 12 times a day and also taking part in the outside parade; acted Bob Logic in the original cast of Tom and Jerry at the royal amphitheatre 17 Sep. 1821; in H. Brading’s dramatic co. at Albert saloon, Shepherd fields, London where he was the hero in The imp of the devil’s gorge 1841; clown at Victoria theatre under Daniel Webster Osbaldiston; played clown last time at St. James’ theatre 1859; pantaloon from 1859, played in The White Cat at Drury Lane 1877. d. 32 North st. Hercules buildings, Lambeth, London 18 Sep. 1878. bur. Tooting cemetery 25 Sep. The Era 22 and 29 Sep. 1878; Illust. S. and D. News, ii, 268 (1874); Tinsley’s Mag., July 1883 pp. 72–6.

HERRING, RICHARD. b. 1829; paper agent and wholesale stationer Finsbury pavement, London; made a study of telegraphy; author of Paper and paper making, ancient and modern 1855, 3 ed. 1863; A letter on the collection of rags for paper making 1860; A few personal recollections of the Rev. George Croly 1861; Mr. Herring and the telegraphs 1874, 4 ed. 1875 and other books. d. 27 St. Mary’s road, Islington 5 Oct. 1886. The Bookseller 8 Oct. 1886 p. 949.

HERSCHEL, SIR JOHN FREDERICK WILLIAM, 1 Baronet (only child of Sir Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel, astronomer 1738–1822). b. Slough, Bucks. 7 March 1792; ed. at Hitcham, Eton and St. John’s coll. Cam., senior wrangler, Smith’s prizeman and fellow of his coll. 1813; B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816; F.R.S. 27 May 1813, member of council, one of secretaries 1824–7, royal medallist 1833, 1836 and 1840; a founder of R. Astronomical soc. 1820, wrote the inaugural address, first foreign secretary 1824–7, medallist 1826, 1836, president 1827; discovered 525 new nebulae; discovered double stars; made researches and discoveries in light, heat and photography, one of the greatest men since Sir Isaac Newton; K.H. 12 Oct. 1831; baronet 17 July 1838; lord rector of Marischal college, Aberdeen, March 1842; master of the mint 13 Dec. 1850, resigned Feb. 1855; president of British association at Cambridge meeting 1845; one of the 8 foreign members of Institute of France 23 July 1855; wrote upwards of 150 scientific papers; author of Results of astronomical observations made 1834–8 at Cape of Good Hope being the completion of a survey of the heavens 1847; A manual of scientific enquiry, for the use of the navy 1849, 5 ed. 1886; Outlines of astronomy 1849, 10 ed. 1869; Familiar lectures on scientific subjects 1866; The Iliad of Homer translated into accentuated hexameters 1866. d. Collingwood, Hawkhurst, Kent 11 May 1871. bur. Westminster abbey 19 May. Dunkin’s Obituary notices of astronomers (1879) 47–85; Martineau’s Biog. sketches (1876) 449–67; Monthly notices R. Astronom. soc. xxxii, 122–42 (1872); Illust. News of World, ix (1862), portrait; Year book of facts (1846), portrait.

HERSCHELL, HELEN S. (dau. of William Mowbray of Edinburgh). A Latin, Greek, Hebrew and German scholar; a friend of Rev. Edward Irving 1834–8. (m. 1831 the succeeding); wrote The Bystander, a series of papers in The Christian Ladies’ magazine; author of The child’s help to self-examination and prayer 1835; The voice from the fire 1839. d. Bonn, Germany 31 Dec. 1853. bur. Kensal green 12 Jany. 1854. Far above rubies. Memoir of Helen S. Herschell (1854).

HERSCHELL, REV. RIDLEY HAIM (son of a Jew). b. Strzelno, Prussian Poland 7 April 1807; ed. at Berlin univ. 1822; baptized in England by bishop of London 1830; missionary among the Jews; in charge of Lady Olivia Sparrow’s schools and mission work at Leigh, Essex and Brampton, Hunts. 1835–8; opened an unsectarian chapel in London 1838, removed to Trinity chapel, John st. Edgware road 1846; a founder of British soc. for propagating gospel among Jews; one of first to establish school excursions; a founder of Evangelical Alliance 1845; author of A brief sketch of the state and expectations of the Jews 3 ed. 1834; Plain reasons why I a Jew have become a catholic and not a Roman catholic 1842; A visit to my fatherland. Notes of a journey to Syria and Palestine 1844; edited The voice of Israel conducted by Jews who believe that Jesus is the Messiah, vols. 1–2, 1845–7, and other books. d. Brighton 14 April 1864.

HERSEE, WILLIAM. b. Coldwaltham, Sussex 1786; a ploughman; bookseller with Cooper at Bunhill row, London 1813; accountant in Inland revenue office, London 1809–26; edited the Warwick Advertiser 1831 to March 1852; published Poems, rural and domestic. Chichester 1810; The battle of Vittoria, a poem 1813; The spirit of the orders issued by the board of excise for the guidance of officers 1829 and other books. d. Warwick 6 Aug. 1854.

HERSHON, PAUL ISAAC. b. Galicia 1817; early converted to Christianity; a missionary for promoting christianity among the Jews in England; director of the house of industry for Jews at Jerusalem, and then of the model farm at Jaffa, retired 1859; author of Extracts from the Talmud 1860; The Pentateuch according to the Talmud. Genesis 1878; A Talmudic miscellany 1880; Treasures of the Talmud 1882; translated the New Testament into Judæo-Polish for the use of the Continental Jews. d. 9 Park avenue, Wood Green, Middlesex 14 Oct. 1888. Times 15 Oct. 1888 p. 10.

HERTFORD, MARIA SEYMOUR-CONWAY, Marchioness of (dau. of the Marchese Fagniani an Italian). b. 1771; known as Mie Mie; lived with George Selwyn as his adopted dau. at Matson hall, Gloucester 1779–91 when he died leaving her £30,000; a public singer. (m. 18 May 1798 Francis, Earl of Yarmouth who in 1822 became 3 Marquis of Hertford 1777–1842); travelled on the continent as the acknowledged mistress of Marshal Andoche Junot, duc d’Abrantes 1802–4; the 4th Duke of Queensberry (’Old Q’) bequeathed to her by will in 1810 a sum of £100,000. d. 3 Rue Taitbout, Paris, March 1856 aged 85. P. Fitzgerald’s Kings and Queens of an hour, ii, 355–70 (1883); The Croker Papers, By L. J. Jennings, i, 235–6 (1884).

HERTFORD, RICHARD SEYMOUR-CONWAY, 4 Marquis of (elder son of 3 Marquis of Hertford 1777–1842). b. 22 Feb. 1800; styled viscount Beauchamp 1800–22, earl of Yarmouth 1822–42; attaché of embassy at Paris 1817; cornet 2 dragoons 24 Feb. 1820, captain 25 March to 17 April 1823 when placed on h.p.; M.P. co. Antrim 1821–26; captain of Cape corps of cavalry 1823; attaché of embassy at Constantinople 1829; succeeded his father 1 March 1842; K.G. 19 Jany. 1846; commander of Legion of Honour for encouragement given to the arts 14 Nov. 1855; known by the nickname of Bagatelle. d. 6 Rue Lafitte, Paris 25 Aug. 1870. bur. Père Lachaise cemetery, personalty sworn under £500,000, 8 July 1871. Irish Reports. Common Law series, vi, 196–220, 343–410 (1873); Some professional recollections [By C. R. Williams] (1883) 75–92; Waagen’s Treasures of art, ii, 154–61 (1854); Waagen’s Galleries of art (1857) 79–92; Lippincott’s Mag. xiii, 191–6 (1874).

HERTFORD, FRANCIS HUGH GEORGE SEYMOUR, 5 Marquis of (son of Sir George Francis Seymour, G.C.B. 1787–1870). b. 11 Feb. 1812; ensign 3 foot guards 12 July 1827, captain 28 Nov. 1845 to 10 Dec. 1847; groom of the robes to the Queen 1837–70; state steward to lord lieut. of Ireland 1843–46; equerry to Prince Albert 1846–58, to the Queen 1858–70; deputy ranger of Windsor great park 1850–70; succeeded his cousin 25 Aug. 1870; lord chamberlain of the household 21 Feb. 1874 to 7 May 1879; P.C. 2 March 1874; general 10 Feb. 1876; G.C.B. 24 Jany. 1879. d. Ragley hall near Alcester, Warws. 25 Jany. 1884. Graphic, xxix, 100 (1884), portrait; I.L.N. lxxxiv, 97 (1884), portrait.

HERTSLET, LEWIS. b. Nov. 1787; sub-librarian in foreign office, London 5 Feb. 1801, librarian and keeper of the papers 6 Jany. 1810 to 20 Nov. 1857 when he retired on pension; superintendent of queen’s messengers and comptroller of their accounts for three secretaries of state offices 30 June 1824 to 30 June 1854 when office abolished; author of A complete collection of the treaties between Great Britain and foreign powers and of the laws concerning the same 11 vols. 1827–66. d. 16 Great college st. Westminster, London 15 March 1870.

HERTZEN or GERTSEN, ALEKSANDR IVANOVICH (son of Mr. Yakovlef, d. 1846). b. Moscow 1812; ed. at Moscow univ.; imprisoned in 1835, in Siberia 1835–7; editor of Vladimir gazette 1837; in office of minister of interior, Moscow 1840; in France, Switzerland and Italy 1846; came to England 1848, established a printing office in Paternoster row, edited the Free Russian Press; The Polar Star; Kolokol [The Bell], ed. by Iskander, 196 numbers 1857–63, it was afterwards published at Geneva; lost his influence by taking the side of the Polish insurgents; author of Imprimerie Russe á Londres 1855; La France ou l’Angleterre. Par Iscander 1858; Le monde Russe et la Révolution 2 parts 1860–62 and many other works in French, Russian and Polish. d. Paris 21 Jany. 1870. Temple Bar, April 1870 pp. 44–58, by W. R. S. Ralston; A. Hertzen’s My exile to Siberia 2 vols. (1855).

HERVEY, ALFRED (youngest son of 1 marquis of Bristol 1769–1859). b. St. James’ sq. London 25 June 1816; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1837, LLD. 1864; barrister I.T. 27 Jany. 1843; M.P. for Brighton 1842–57, for Bury St. Edmunds 1859–65; a lord of the treasury Dec. 1852 to Feb. 1855; keeper of privy seal to Prince of Wales 4 Feb. 1853 to 1855; receiver general of inland revenue 1871 to death. d. Lowndes st. London 15 April 1875. I.L.N. lxvi, 402 (1875).

HERVEY, ANDREW. Entered Bengal army 1805; col. 52 Bengal N.I. 8 March 1849 to death; L.G. 23 July 1861; C.B. 9 June 1849. d. England 14 June 1862.

HERVEY, AUGUSTUS HENRY CHARLES (2 son of 2 marquis of Bristol 1800–64). b. Ickworth park, Bury St. Edmunds 2 Aug. 1837; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1859; attaché at St. Petersburg 31 July 1862, at Dresden 19 Feb. 1863, resigned 24 Jany. 1865; M.P. West Suffolk 8 Dec. 1864 to death. d. at res. of his brother 6 St. James’ sq. London 28 May 1875.

HERVEY, THOMAS KIBBLE (son of James Hervey of Manchester, drysalter). b. Paisley 4 Feb. 1799; ed. at Manchester free gr. sch.; articled to Sharp, Eccles & Co. solicitors, Manchester; studied for the bar; at Trin. coll. Cam. 1818–20; edited the Friendship’s Offering 1826–7; migrated to Paris 1827 but soon returned to London; edited The Amaranth 1839; a leading contributor to the Athenæum from 1828, editor 23 May 1846, resigned Dec. 1853; contributed to the Art Journal 1855–9. (m. 17 Oct. 1843 Eleanor Louisa dau. of George Conway Montagu, she is an author and poetess); author of Australia with other poems 1824; The poetical sketch book 1829; The book of Christmas 1837; The English Helicon 1841. d. Kentish town, London 27 Feb. 1859. bur. Highgate cemet. The poems of T. K. Hervey, Ed. by Mrs. Hervey with a memoir (1866), portrait; Manchester sch. register, iii, 284 (1874).

HERZ, JAMES. b. 1807; founder of the Cheque Bank opened Pall Mall east, London 23 July 1873, the payment of all cheques drawn being guaranteed by the Bank. d. Coburg hotel 14 Charles st. Grosvenor sq. London 23 Feb. 1880. Times 1 April 1873 p. 10, 25 Sep. p. 5, 26 Sep. p. 4; Banker’s Mag. xxxiii, 651, 930 (1873).

HESKETH, SIR THOMAS GEORGE FERMOR, 5 Baronet. b. Rufford hall near Ormskirk, Lancs. 11 Jany. 1825; succeeded 10 Feb. 1843; sheriff of Lancs. 1848; lieut. col. commandant 2 royal Lancashire militia 1 March 1852 to 25 Sep. 1872; 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. I.L.N. lxi, 215, 571 (1872).

HESKETH-FLEETWOOD, SIR PETER, 1 Baronet (3 son of Robert Hesketh of Rossall, Lancs. 1764–1824). b. Wennington hall near Lancaster 9 May 1801; ed. at Trin. coll. Ox., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826; sheriff of Lancashire 1830; assumed by r.l. additional name of Fleetwood, March 1831; M.P. for Preston 10 Dec. 1832 to July 1847; cr. a Baronet 20 July 1838; projected and commenced building town of Fleetwood, Lancashire on his estate at Rossall at mouth of river Wyre 1836; published a translation of Victor Hugo’s Last days of a condemned, to which he prefixed Observations on capital punishment 1840. d. 127 Piccadilly, London 12 April 1866. G.M. i, 908 (1866); I.L.N. xlviii, 426 (1866); Herald and genealogist, iv, 371 (1866–7).

HESLEDEN, WILLIAM SMITH. b. 1773; Assoc. British Archæol. Assoc. 1845; wrote An account of ancient earth works at Barton and on the site of the battle of Brunanburgh in the time of Athelstan; published A sketch of the properties of Sutton patent gravitated sails for windmills 1807. d. Barton-upon-Humber 24 Dec. 1854. Journ. B. Archæol. Assoc. xi, 162 (1855).

HESLOP, REV. GEORGE HENRY (1 son of Rev. Alfred Heslop of Keswick, Cumb.) b. 1822; ed. at Queen’s coll. Ox., scholar 1842–8, fellow 1848–51; B.A. 1846, M.A. 1846; head master of St. Bees gram. sch. 1854–79; hon. canon of Carlisle 1875; R. of Church Oakley, Hants. 1879 to death; one of the most exact and correct scholars of his time; in the Catena Classicorum series, Rivingtons, London, he edited Demosthenes’ Orationes publicae 1868 and Demosthenes’ De Falsa legatione. d. Oakley rectory, Basingstoke 30 Jany. 1887.

HESLOP, THOMAS PRETIOUS (son of Mr. Heslop a Scotchman and major R.A.) b. West Indies 1823; apprenticed to Thomas Underhill, M.D. of Tipton, Staffs.; studied at Universities of Dublin and Edin., M.D. Edin. 1848; M.R.C.P. 1859, F.R.C.P. 1872; practised at Birmingham 1848 to death, house physician general hospital 1848 to Jany. 1852; professor of physiology at Queen’s college 1853–58 and senior phys. 1870–82; the chief consultant phys. in Midland counties many years; founded the Free hospital for children opened in Steel house lane, Birmingham 1861, the Women’s hospital 1871 and the Skin and Lock hospital 1880; founded the Midland Medical Society 1848; a trustee of Mason college 1873, president of the council 1884 to death, gave 11,000 volumes to the library; author of The realities of medical attendance on the sick children of the poor. Birmingham 1869; The abuse of alcohol in the treatment of acute diseases 1872. d. the Devil’s Elbow, 3 miles south of Braemar 17 June 1885. bur. at Dublin 20 June. Birmingham Weekly Post 20 June 1885 p. 4 col. 7.

HESSEY, REV. FRANCIS (2 son of James Augustus Hessey of St. Bride’s, London). b. 10 April 1816; ed. at Merchant Taylors and St. John’s coll. Ox., scholar and fellow 1834–61; S.C.L. 1837, B.C.L. 1839, D.C.L. 1844; C. of Kentish town, London 1839–40; principal of Huddersfield coll. sch. 1840–43; head master of Kensington sch. 1843–53; V. of St. Barnabas, Kensington 1853 to Oct. 1881; author of Hints to district visitors, By F. H. 1858; Confirmation questions 1859, 7 ed. 1866, Second series 1862; Catechetical lessons on book of Common prayer 1868; A few parochial sermons preached at St. Barnabas, Kensington 1882. d. Midhurst, Sussex 10 Aug. 1882.

HETHERINGTON, REV. WILLIAM MAXWELL. b. in parish of Troqueer near Dumfries 4 June 1803; a gardener; ed. at Edin. Univ. 1822; presbyterian minister of Torphichen, Linlithgow 1836–43; a free ch. minister to students at St. Andrews 1843–8; minister at St. Paul’s, Edin. 1848; edited the Free Church Magazine 1844–8; professor of systematic theology in Glasgow Free Church coll. 1857; LLD. and D.D. of an American university; author of Twelve dramatic sketches founded on the pastoral poetry of Scotland 1829; The minister’s family 1838, 12 ed. 1880; History of the Church of Scotland 1842, 7 ed. 2 vols. 1852; History of Westminster assembly of divines 1843, 4 ed. 1878; The anti-christian system or popery as predicted in Scripture 1851. d. 23 May 1865. bur. Grange cemet. Edin. Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881); The apologetics of the Christian faith By W. H. Hetherington 1867, with a Memoir pp. xiii-xv; Scott’s Fasti vol. i, pt. i, p. 204.

HEWETSON, CHARLES. Entered Madras army 1811; col. 49 Madras N.I. 21 July 1861 to 1869; L.G. 25 June 1870. d. Madras 4 Feb. 1873.

HEWETT, SIR PRESCOTT GARDINER, 1 Baronet (son of Wm. Nathan Wrighte Hewett of Bilham hall near Doncaster). b. 3 July 1812; ed. at St. George’s hospital and in Paris; M.R.C.S. 1836, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843, professor of human anatomy and surgery, member of council 1867, vice pres. 1875, pres. 1876; surgeon extraord. to the Queen 14 Oct. 1867, sergeant surgeon extraord. 19 Feb. 1877; surgeon in ord. to Prince of Wales 10 March 1874; pres. of Clinical Soc. 1873; F.R.S. 4 June 1874; retired from practice Nov. 1883; created baronet 6 Aug. 1883. d. Chestnut lodge, Horsham, Sussex 19 June 1891. bur. Brompton cemetery, London 25 June.

HEWETT, SIR WILLIAM NATHAN WRIGHTE (2 son of Dr. William Wrighte Hewett). b. Brighton 12 Aug. 1834; entered the navy March 1847; shewed great presence of mind and courage in a battery before Sebastopol and at Inkerman 1854, lieut. 20 Oct.; V.C. 24 Feb. 1857; commodore and commander in chief on west coast of Africa during Ashantee war 1873–76, and present at capture of Coomassie; K.C.B. 31 March 1874, Ashantee medal with clasp; commander in chief in East Indies 1882–5; occupied Suez and seized the Canal 1882; defended Suakim 6 Feb. 1884, governor for the Khedive 10 Feb.; went on a mission to king John of Abyssinia, April 1884; commander of Channel squadron 18 March 1886 to 17 April 1888; known as the fighting admiral; K.C.S.I. 17 Nov. 1882. d. Haslar hospital, Portsmouth 13 May 1888. Times 15 May 1888 p. 8, 16 May pp. 11, 16, 18 May p. 5; I.L.N. xxxix 41 (1861), portrait, lxxxiv 172 (1884), portrait.

HEWITSON, WILLIAM CHAPMAN. b. Newcastle-upon-Tyne 9 Jany. 1806; ed. at York; land surveyor, sometime under George Stephenson on London and Birmingham railway, came into a fortune and gave up business; resided at Bristol, at Hampstead and from 1848 at Oatlands park, Surrey; made a study of birds’ eggs and collected specimens in Norway 1833; made a collection of diurnal lepidoptera, paid travellers to search for them in all parts of the world and gave £350 for a single specimen 1848, etc.; member of Entomological soc. 1846, the Zoological 1859 and the Linnean 1862; author of British Oology being illustrations of the eggs of British birds with figures of each species Newcastle 3 vols. 1833–42; Coloured illustrations of the eggs of British birds 2 vols. 1846, 3 ed. 2 vols. 1856; Illustrations of diurnal lepidoptera 2 vols. 1863–78; Description of 100 new species of hesperediæ 1867. d. Oatlands park 28 May 1878. bur. Walton-on-Thames. Left his lepidoptera, stuffed birds, pictures and water colours to Br. Museum, now in Cromwell road; his books and £30,000 to Nat. Hist. Soc. Newcastle, and money to the Müller institute Bristol. Academy 8 June 1878 p. 512; Nature xviii, 196–7 (1878).

HEWITT, DANIEL CHANDLER. b. Scotland 1789; author of New analysis of music, a theory of melody, harmony and modulation 1828; The true science of music 1860 and 1864. d. London 1869.

HEWITT, JOHN. b. Lichfield 1807; organist St. Mary’s ch. Lichfield; in war office, London; resided at Woolwich; wrote articles in magazines under name of Sylvanus Swanquill; author of The tower of London, its history 1841; Ancient armour and weapons in Europe 3 vols. 1855–60; Official catalogue of the Tower armories 1859; Old Woolwich 1860; Handbook for the city of Lichfield 1874, 2 ed. 1884 and other works. d. Lichfield 10 Jany. 1878. bur. in cathedral close 15 Jany. Reliquary xviii, 228–30 (1877–8).

HEWITT, WILLIAM HENRY. b. 1791; entered Bengal army 1806; col. 27 Bengal N.I. 1850 to death; L.G. 30 Dec. 1859. d. Westfield house, Bath 16 April 1863 aged 72.

HEWLETT, THOMAS (2 son of Thomas Hewlett of Oxford). b. Oxford 16 March 1845; of Magd. hall Ox., B. Mus. 22 June 1865; organist Duke of Buccleuch’s chapel, Dalkeith; teacher and organist in Edin.; accompanyist Edin. Sacred harmonic soc.; organist Newington park ch. Edin.; wrote Are other eyes, Madrigal 1864; The good old days, A Christmas song 1865; Introduction, offertoire and fuge for the organ 1867; Second offertoire for the organ 1872 and Third 1872. d. 2 Hope park crescent, Edinburgh 1 April 1874.

HEWLETT, THOMAS GILLHAM. b. 1832; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1853; assist. surgeon Bombay army 20 Jany. 1854, surgeon 20 Jany. 1865; served during Indian mutiny 1857–8; deputy assay master Bombay mint; health officer Bombay when he organized the public health department; sanitary commissioner for Bombay presidency; deputy surgeon general Bombay 1 Nov. 1879; C.I.E. 1 Jany. 1878; author of Reports on leprosy in the Bombay presidency 1879; Report on enteric fever 1883. d. of heart disease at Finchley road station, Metropolitan railway 8 Oct. 1889. Times 29 Oct. 1889 p. 9, 31 Oct. p. 10.

HEWSON, REV. WILLIAM (son of William Hewson, banker’s clerk). b. 12 April 1806. bapt. St. Margaret’s, Westminster 29 Dec.; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. and St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833; C. of Bishop Burton, Yorks. 1830–3; C. of Spofforth 1834–5; head master of Sherburn gram. sch. Yorks. 1835–8 and of St. Peter’s sch. York 1838–47; P.C. of Goatland 1848 to death; author of The key of David or the mystery of the 7 sealed books of Jewish prophecy 1855; The oblation and temple of Ezekiel’s prophetic visions 5 parts 1858; Thy kingdom come 1859; Christianity in relation to Judaism and Heathenism 1860; The Hebrew and Greek scriptures compared with Oriental history, dialling, science and mythology 7 parts 1870. d. 1 St. Hilda ter. Whitby 23 April 1870. bur. York cemet. Smales’ Whitby authors (1867) 104, 171–6, 217; Whitby Times 29 April 1870 p. 4.

HEY, WILLIAM (son of William Hey 1772–1844 surgeon). b. Leeds 23 Dec. 1796; M.R.C.S., F.R.C.S.; succeeded his father at Leeds 1844; surgeon Leeds infirmary 1830–51, consulting surgeon 1864; a founder of Leeds school of medicine, and lecturer on surgery there 1831–57; president surgical section British Med. Assoc. at Leeds, July 1869; V.P. Leeds Philos. and Lit. Soc. 1835 and 1839. d. Gledhow Wood, Leeds 10 May 1875. British Medical Journal, i, 763 (1875).

HEY, VEN. WILLIAM (son of Rev. Samuel Hey, vicar of Ockbrook, Derbyshire). b. Ockbrook 1811; ed. at Sherborne and at St. John’s coll. Cam., fellow 1836, B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; head master St. Peter’s sch. York 1844–64; V. of St. Helen, Stonegate 1854–77; preb. of Weighton, York cath. 1854–81 and succentor canonicorum 1871–81; canon residentiary of York cath. 1864; precentor and preb. of Duffield 1881; archdeacon of Cleveland 1874 to death; examining chaplain to Archbp. of York 1874; V. of St. Olave with St. Giles’, York 1877 to death; select preacher Cam. 1879. d. The Residence, Minster yard, York 22 Nov. 1882. Church portrait journal, Jany. 1880 pp. 5–8, portrait.

HEYGATE, JAMES. b. West Haddow, Northampton; M.R.C.S. 1823, M.D. Edin. 1836; in practice at Hanslope, Bucks., at Derby 1837 to death; senior physician Derbyshire general infirmary; F.R.S.; V.P. British medical assoc.; author of Tic doloureux, An essay 1836 and of papers in medical journals. d. Little Eaton, Derby 4 Aug. 1872. Medical Times 31 Aug. 1872 p. 243.

HEYSHAM, THOMAS COULTHARD (eld. son of Dr. John Heysham). b. 1792; mayor of Carlisle 1839; J.P. for Cumberland; made extensive collections in entomology, ornithology and botany; his name given to some species of coleoptera. d. Fisher st. Carlisle 6 April 1857. Carlisle Journal 10 April 1857 p. 8, 17 April p. 8.

HEYTESBURY, WILLIAM A’COURT, 1 Baron (eld. son of Sir William Pierce Ashe A’Court, 1 Baronet 1747–1817). b. Salisbury 11 July 1779; ed. at Eton; sec. of legation at Naples 31 July 1801; sec. to special mission at Vienna 20 April 1807; first commissioner of affairs, Malta 1812; envoy extraord. to Barbary states 5 Jany. 1813, to Naples 5 July 1814 and to Spain 5 April 1822; ambassador to Portugal 22 Sep. 1824 and to Russia 5 April 1828, pensioned 18 Aug. 1832; succeeded as 2 baronet 22 July 1817; P.C. 30 Dec. 1817; G.C.B. 20 Sep. 1819; cr. baron Heytesbury of Heytesbury, Wilts. 23 Jany. 1828; nominated governor general of India 28 Jany. 1835 but the ministry resigned and he never took office; lord lieut. of Ireland 26 July 1844 to 11 July 1846; governor of the Isle of Wight to 1857. d. Heytesbury 31 May 1860. F. O. List (1860) 145; I.L.N. v, 60 (1844), portrait; Eton portrait gallery (1876) 346–8; Waagen’s Galleries of art (1857) 386–90.

HEYTESBURY, WILLIAM HENRY ASHE A’COURT-HOLMES, 2 Baron (son of the preceding). b. London 1809; ed. at Eton and St. John’s coll. Camb., M.A. 1831. m. 2 Oct. 1833 Elizabeth Woosley, eld. dau. of Sir Leonard Worsley Holmes, bart., and assumed name of Holmes on 14 Oct.; M.P. for Isle of Wight 1837–47; succeeded as 2 Baron 31 May 1860. d. Heytesbury 21 April 1891.

HEYWOOD, SIR BENJAMIN, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Nathaniel Heywood of Manchester, banker, d. 1815). b. St. Ann’s sq. Manchester 12 Dec. 1793; ed. at univ. of Glasgow 1809–11; banker at Manchester 1814, sole proprietor 1828, retired 1860; chief founder of Manchester mechanics’ institution 1824, president 1824–44; M.P. for Lancashire 1831–1832; baronet 28 July 1838; F.R.S. 1843; gave £1000 toward Manchester public park 1844; vice pres. of British association at Manchester 1842 and 1861; author of Address delivered at Manchester mechanics’ institution 1843. d. Claremont near Manchester 11 Aug. 1865. bur. St. John’s Islam’s o’ the Height; personalty sworn under £400,000, 14 Oct. 1865. Grindon’s Manchester banks (1877) 79–86; T. Heywood’s Memoir of Sir B. Heywood (1888), portrait.

HEYWOOD, JOHN. b. 1804; hand loom weaver to 1837; a ruler to his brother Abel Heywood 1839–46; a stationer Deansgate st. Manchester from 1846, the largest copy book maker in the world, bookseller and newsagent, employed 120 hands; member of Manchester city council 1860–61; chairman of Chorlton guardians. d. Manchester 7 Oct. 1864. The Bookseller 26 Feb. 1861, p. 105.

HEYWOOD, JOHN (son of the preceding). b. 1832; errand boy in a solicitor’s office; succeeded to his father’s book, news and stationery establishment, Manchester 1864; made a central depot for the small local booksellers, and a book saloon for the exhibition of educational appliances; had 30,000 customers’ names in his books, and employed 30 carts to distribute books and newspapers; his Excelsior printing and bookbinding works, Hulme hall road, Manchester, opened 4 July 1870; employed 750 workmen; printed a series of books called J. Heywood’s Pocket guides 1869 etc., and many other works. d. The Grange, Derbyshire lane, Stretford, Manchester 10 May 1888. Bookseller, June 1888 pp. 573–4.

HEYWOOD, JOHN JOSEPH (son of R. Heywood of Glencrutchery near Douglas). b. 1789; first deemster or chief justice of Isle of Man 1821 to death. d. Bomahague, Douglas 26 May 1855 aged 66. bur. Kirk Onchar ch. yard. Hardwicke’s Annual Biog. (1856) 355.

HEYWOOD, THOMAS (brother of Sir B. Heywood). b. Manchester 3 Sep. 1797; ed. at Manchester gram. sch. 1811; partner in Heywood, Bros. & Co. bankers, St. Ann’s sq. Manchester, retired 1828; collected a remarkable library of local books at Swinton, they were sold Manchester 22–3 April 1835; boroughreeve of Salford 1826; sheriff of Herefordshire 1840; F.S.A.; member of council of Chetham soc. for which he edited The Norris Papers 1846 and 5 other works; author of The earls of Derby and the verse writers of the 16th and 17th centuries. Manchester 1826; The most pleasant song of Lady Bessy 1829. d. Hope End near Ledbury 20 Nov. 1866; his general library sold Manchester, Nov. 1868. Manchester sch. reg. iii, 74–6 (1874).

HEYWORTH, LAWRENCE (4 son of Peter Heyworth, woollen manufacturer, d. 1799). b. Greensnook, Bacup 1786; ed. at Hipperholme gram. sch. near Halifax 1799–1802; woollen manufacturer with his brothers at Bacup 1802; established business connections with Portuguese and Spanish 1805 and with South America 1808; in S. America 1809–16; established agencies in Liverpool and Hamburg; firm became Heyworth, Brothers & Co., retired 1836; purchased Yew Tree estate near Liverpool 1819; chairman Liverpool Free trade association; M.P. Derby 1848–57; author of On the corn laws and other legislative restrictions, 7 ed. 1843; On economic fiscal legislation 1845; The expansion of the suffrage and accession of blessings God has in store for all classes through the wise exercise of the franchise 1861. d. Yew Tree, West Derby, Liverpool 19 April 1872. I.L.N. 22 June 1850 pp. 443–4, portrait; Newbigging’s Forest of Rossendale (1868) 181–88.

HIBBERD, JAMES SHIRLEY (son of a master mariner). b. St. Dunstan, Stepney, London 1825; apprentice to a bookseller at Stepney; editor of Floral World 1858, which he managed to 1875; editor Gardener’s Magazine 1861 to death; a practical writer on agriculture, experimented on fruit trees and vegetables, especially on potatoes; temperance advocate and a vegetarian; a popular lecturer, lectured at Wylde’s Great Globe; F.R.H.S.; author of Brambles and Bayleaves. Essays 1855, 3 ed. 1873; Profitable gardening 1863; Familiar garden flowers 5 vols. 1879–87; Water-cresses without sewage 1878 and 25 other books. d. 1 Priory road, The Green, Kew 16 Nov. 1890. Gardener’s Mag. 22 Nov. 1890, portrait; I.L.N. 29 Nov. 1890 p. 678, portrait.

HIBBERD, SAMUEL. b. 1839; jockey; won the Cambridgeshire on Malacca 1856, Cesarewitch on Lecturer 1866, the Chester Cup on One Act in 1856 and on Dalby in 1865 and 1866. d. Newmarket 21 Feb. 1888. Times 29 Feb. 1888 p. 9.

HIBBERT, JOHN (son of John Hibbert of Braywick lodge, Maidenhead, d. 1855). b. 29 Jany. 1811; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Cam., scholar, fellow; B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; barrister I.T. 29 April 1836; chairman of Cookham board of guardians; built a ch. for the poor of the Maidenhead and Cookham union; founded and endowed a ward in Royal Windsor infirmary. d. Braywick lodge, Maidenhead 28 March 1888.

HIBBS, REV. RICHARD. b. 1812; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., scholar; B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844; C. of Bishop Hatfield 1841–3; C. of Corton near Lowestoft 1843–8; teacher and preacher at Lowestoft 1848–52; C. of St. Paul’s, Covent Garden 1852; assist. minister St. John’s chapel, Edin. 1852–4, a controversy with the incumbent led him to establish the New Church of England chapel, St. Vincent st. Edin. 1854; C. of Market Lavington 1874–6; chaplain at Lisbon; chaplain at Rotterdam and Utrecht 1876–8; author of The substance of a series of discourses on baptism 1848; Scottish episcopal Romanism, or popery without a pope 1856; Truth vindicated or some account of the New Church of England chapel 1858, 4 ed. 1859; Prussia and the poor, or the systematized relief of the poor at Elberfeld in contrast with that of England 1876, 4 ed. 1883. d. 13 St. Lawrence road, North Kensington, London 26 March 1886. Academy 10 April 1886 pp. 255–6.

HICKEY, REV. WILLIAM (eld. son of Rev. Ambrose Hickey, rector of Murragh, co. Cork 1796 to his death in 1826). b. 1787 or 1788; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin 1804–5, B.A. 1809, M.A. 1832; pensioner St. John’s coll. Cam. 7 March 1806, B.A. 1809; C. of Dunleckny, Leighlin 1811; V. of Bannow, Ferns 1820; founded an agricultural soc. on a farm of 40 acres; a founder of South Wexford agricultural soc., the first of its kind in Ireland; R. of Kilcormuick 1826; R. of Wexford 1831; R. of Mulrankin 1834 to death; endeavoured to improve the husbandry of small farms; author of State of the poor in Ireland 1817; member of R. Dublin soc, gold medallist; civil list pension of £80, 6 Oct. 1853; had pension from R. Literary fund; under the pseudonym of Martin Doyle he wrote Hints to small farmers 1830, numerous editions; Hints on emigration to Upper Canada 1831, 3 ed. 1834; Practical gardening 1833, 2 ed. 1836; A cyclopædia of practical husbandry 1839, new editions 1844, 1851; The farmer’s manual 1868; with Edmund Murphy he conducted the Irish Farmer’s and Gardener’s Magazine 9 vols. 1834–42. d. Mulrankin 24 Oct. 1875. Dublin Univ. Mag., April 1840 pp. 374–6, portrait; Wexford Independent 27 and 30 Oct. 1875.

HICKLEY, VICTOR GRANT (son of J. A. Hickley of Purbrook, Hants.) b. 1823 or 1824; sub-lieut. R.N. 18 Aug. 1842; captain 1 April 1858, retired 8 June 1868; retired admiral 12 April 1886. d. Taunton railway station 27 Jany. 1888.

HICKLIN, JOHN. b. England; editor of Nottingham Journal, and of Chester Courant; author of Church and state. Historic facts ancient and modern. Torquay 1873; Literary recreations. d. 13 Jany. 1877.

HICKS, AGNES ROSS (dau. of J. Boss of Campsie, Stirlingshire). b. 1850; ed. under Warwick Jordan, Mus. Bac. organist of St. Stephen’s, Lewisham; soprano singer; first appeared in public at Public hall, Lee, Kent 1875; sang at St. James’ hall, London, her old ballads being in much favor; well known by her singing of Gounod’s ‘Worker.’ (m. George Hicks), she d. 32 Henrietta st. Covent Garden, London 13 March 1886. bur. Norwood cemet. 17 March. The Era, March 1886 p. 13.

HICKS, EDWARD (only son of Edward Simpson of Lichfield). b. 10 Aug. 1814; ed. at Charterhouse and C.C. coll. Cam., B.A. 1836; student of Inner Temple 1837; assumed surname of Hicks on succeeding his kinsman Rev. James Hicks 1835; sheriff of Cam. 1862; master of harriers; M.P. Cambs. 1879–85; contested Newmarket division 1885. d. Wilbraham Temple, Cambridge 13 Jany. 1889.

HICKS, SIR FRANCIS (youngest son of John Hicks of Southwark, London). b. Southwark 1821; treasurer of St. Thomas’s hospital, London 1865 to death; knighted at St. James’s palace 21 June 1871 on opening of new St. Thomas’s hospital. d. Margate 1 Sep. 1877 in 57 year. Times 4 Sep. 1877 p. 9.

HICKS, GEORGE. Entered Bengal army 7 Sep. 1808; col. 70 Bengal N.I. 7 May 1854 to 1869; L.G. 28 Oct. 1868; C.B. 3 April 1846. d. 24 Oct. 1873.

HICKS, MARY (dau. of John and Sarah Roden). bapt. Broseley, Salop 14 Nov. 1773; she however said she was dau. of Samuel and Mary Roden and bapt. Broseley 15 Feb. 1767. (m. at Isleworth, John Hicks who d. 1848). d. Brentford workhouse 24 Nov. 1870 aged 97. W. J. Thoms’ Longevity (1879) 236–42.

HICKS, NEWTON TREE (son of Cecil Hicks, who d. 15 March 1866). b. 4 Sep. 1811; appeared as Richard 3rd at Royalty theatre, London 1824; played at the Coburg, the New Brunswick and Surrey theatres; in the provinces 6 or 7 years; made the round of metropolitan theatres; known by sobriquet of Bravo or Brayvo Hicks; some of his characters were Fabian in The Black Doctor; Monte Christo at the Surrey, June 1848; Sir Thomas Clifford in The Hunchback, and Leopold in The Jewess; retired from the stage about 1863; lived in Hogarth’s house, Hogarth lane, Chiswick. d. 21 Feb. 1873. Theatrical Times, ii 17 (1847), portrait, iii 209 (1848), portrait; Era 2 March 1873 p. 11.

NOTE.—His brother Cecil Hicks pianist at the Canterbury, Cambridge and Foresters’ music halls, d. 19 Jany. 1888. bur. Ilford cemet. 29 Jany.

HICKS, WILLIAM. b. 29 April 1831; ensign 24 Bombay N.I. 3 March 1851; served in India in campaign of 1857–9, with Panjâb movable column, in Rohilkand campaign and under Lord Clyde; captain Bombay Staff Corps 29 Dec. 1861; brigade major in 1 div. in Abyssinian campaign 1867–8; lieut.-col. B.S.C. 29 Dec. 1875 to 1 July 1880; A.A.G. Bombay 3 Dec. 1877 to 1 July 1880; commander of Egyptian army in the Sûdân to suppress the Mahdi’s revolt Feb. 1883 and known as Hicks Pasha, joined his troops at Khartûm, ascended the White Nile to Duem and advanced across the desert to El’Obeyd Sep. 1883, betrayed into an ambuscade and killed with most of his troops at the battle of Kashgil 4 Nov. 1883. J. Colborne’s With Hicks Pasha in the Soudan (1884), portrait; I.L.N. lxxxiii, 521 (1883), portrait; Graphic xxviii, 529 (1883), portrait.

HICKS, WILLIAM ROBERT (son of William Hicks, schoolmaster, Bodmin, d. 1833). b. Bodmin 1 April 1808; schoolmaster Bodmin 1832–40; clerk of Bodmin board of guardians 1834; domestic superintendent Cornwall county lunatic asylum 1840–60, with the medical officers introduced a more humane treatment of the patients; mayor of Bodmin 1865; a well known story teller, familiar in London as the Yorick of the West; was a proficient in the Cornish and Devonshire dialects, and in miners’ talk. d. Westheath, Bodmin 5 Sep. 1868. Collier’s W. R. Hicks, a memoir (1888), portrait.

HICKSON, GEORGE BLAKE. Called to the bar in Ireland 1819; Q.C. 1 July 1837. d. 2 Aug. 1869.

HICKSON, WILLIAM EDWARD (son of William Hickson, boot manufacturer, London). b. 7 Jany. 1803; boot maker, partner with his father, retired 1840; a pioneer of national education and of popular musical culture; on the royal commission on condition of handloom weavers 1837, when he visited seats of industry in Great Britain and Ireland; studied national school systems in Holland, Belgium and Germany 1839; editor and proprietor of Westminster Review, vols. 34–45, 1840–52; author of The singing master, instructions for teaching singing in schools and families, 3 parts 1836; Dutch and German schools 1840; Part singing or vocal harmony for choral societies, 4 parts 1842; Time and faith, an enquiry into the data of ecclesiastical history 2 vols. 1857; A musical gift containing 24 new songs 1859. d. Fairseat, Sevenoaks, Kent 22 March 1870.

HIGGIN, RIGHT REV. WILLIAM (4 son of John Higgin of Greenfield, governor of Lancaster castle 1783–1833). b. Lancaster 27 Sep. 1793; ed. at Lancaster gram. sch., Manchester gram. sch., and Trin. coll. Cam., 13 wr. 1817, B.A. 1817; M.A. of Trin. coll. Dublin 1835, D.D. 1849; C. of Clifton 1817–20; chaplain Richmond general penitentiary, Dublin 1820–8; R. of Roscrea 1828–45; vicar general of Killaloe 1828–45; dean of Limerick, instituted 25 Jany. 1845; bishop of Limerick 1849; translated to Derry 7 Dec. 1853, enthroned 20 Dec.; comr. of national education 1853; an ecclesiastical comr. for Ireland 1866; author of Ministerial fidelity and zeal. A sermon 1839, and other sermons and charges 1849–67. d. the Palace, Londonderry 12 July 1867. bur. in ground of St. Columba cath. Manchester school register, iii, 62–5 (1874).

HIGGINBOTTOM, JOHN (son of a solicitor). b. Ashton under Lyne 14 June 1788; studied at Edin.; M.R.C.S. 1818, F.R.C.S. 1844; F.R.S. 3 June 1852; practised at Nottingham 1812 to death; temperance advocate, gave no alcohol to his patients; wrote in scientific journals on tritons, tadpoles and frogs 1850–62; author of An essay on the application of lunar caustic in the case of wounds and ulcers 1826, 3 ed. 1865; Mothers, doctors and nurses. A dialogue on paralysis and apoplexy 1850. d. St. Alban’s villas, Gill st. Nottingham 7 April 1876. The Lancet 29 April 1876 p. 652.

HIGGINS, MOST REV. ANDREW. b. Killarney 1834; dean of Kerry; bishop of Kerry 5 Feb. 1882 to death. d. The palace, Kerry 1 May 1889. bur. in the cathedral 3 May. Tablet 4 May 1889 p. 702, 11 May p. 736.

HIGGINS, CHARLES. b. 1805 or 1806; M.D. Edin. 1825; knight of legion of honour; author of Observations on climate, diet and medical treatment in France and England 1835; Notes sur l’emploi des altérants dans les maladies, aigues et chroniques. Paris 1859. d. 212 Rue de Rivoli, Paris 27 July 1866.

HIGGINS, CHARLES LONGUET (1 son of John Higgins of Turvey abbey, Beds., d. 1846). b. Turvey abbey 30 Nov. 1806; pensioner of Trin. coll. Cam. 14 Nov. 1825; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1834; student of Lincoln’s inn 16 Nov. 1830, withdrew his name 2 Nov. 1847; studied medicine at St. Bartholomew’s 1836–8; in practice at Turvey 1838; visited Egypt and the Holy Land 1848; restored Turvey ch. 1852–4, built schools 1847, a village museum 1852 and better cottages 1849 etc.; projected a hymn book for general use in Ch. of England, and printed Hymnology, a paper read before the church congress Nottingham. Oxford 1871. d. Turvey 23 Jany. 1885. J. W. Burgon’s Lives of twelve good men (1888) ii, 343–422.

HIGGINS, GEORGE GORE OUSELEY (2 son of Fitzgerald Higgins of Westport, co. Mayo). b. 15 Oct. 1818; ed. at Brussels and Trin. coll. Dublin; in C.S. in Jamaica; M.P. for Mayo 1850 to 1857; lieut.-col. North Mayo militia 5 Feb. 1855 to 1 Oct. 1861. d. 6 Wilton place, London 8 May 1874. I.L.N. xvii, 169 (1850), portrait.

HIGGINS, MATTHEW JAMES (only son of Matthew Higgins of Benown castle, Westmeath). b. Benown castle 4 Dec. 1810; ed. at Eton; matric. from New coll. Ox. 22 May 1828; went to British Guiana 1838 and 1846 where he owned an estate; contributed an article called ‘Jacob Omnium the Merchant Prince’ to New Monthly Magazine, Aug. 1845; agent for the British Association for the relief of the destitute Irish 1847; contested Westbury 31 July 1847; one of chief writers on Morning Chronicle 1848; contributed to The Times on all kinds of questions under pseudonym of Jacob Omnium, J.O., Civilian, Paterfamilias, West Londoner, A Belgravian Mother, Mother of six, A thirsty soul, John Barleycorn, Providus, and many others till 1863; contributed to the Edinburgh Rev., the Cornhill and the Pall Mall Gazette; author of Is cheap sugar the triumph of free trade? A letter to Lord J. Russell 1847, Second Letter 1848, Third Letter 1848; Light horse 1855; The story of the Mhow court-martial 1864 and other books. d. Kingston house near Abingdon 14 Aug. 1868. bur. in R.C. cemet. Fulham 21 Aug. Essays on social subjects by M. J. Higgins, with memoir by Sir W. S. Maxwell (1875); Cornhill, xviii, 507–12 (1868); The Mask (1868), 42 portrait.

HIGGINS, THOMAS GORDON. b. 1789; Second lieut. R.A. 4 Oct. 1806, col. 20 June 1854 to 24 Jany. 1857, col. commandant 20 Sep. 1865 to death; L.G. 26 Dec. 1865; commandant of garrison of Quebec 5 years, presented with a piece of plate by inhabitants of Quebec 30 April 1853. d. 83 Sloane st. Chelsea 20 June 1871 aged 82. I.L.N. xxii, 341 (1853), picture of testimonial.

HIGGINSON, REV. EDWARD (eld. son of Rev. Edward Higginson, unitarian minister, d. 1832). b. Heaton Norris, Lancs. 9 Jany. 1807; ed. at Manchester coll. York 1823–8; unitarian minister Bowl alley lane chapel, Hull 1828–46, at Westgate chapel, Wakefield 1846–58, and at High st. chapel, Swansea 1858–76; president Royal Institution, South Wales 1877–9; author of Orthodoxy and unbelief 1832; The sacrifice of Christ 1833, 2 ed. 1848; The spirit of the Bible 2 vols. 1853–5, 2 ed. 1863; Ecce Messias 1871; with his wife Emily dau. of George Thomas he wrote The fine arts in Italy 1859. d. 2 Glanmore ter. Swansea 12 Feb. 1880. Autobiographical sketch in Christian Reformer (1856) 192, (1857) 528; Christian Life 21 Feb. 1880 pp. 86–7, portrait.

HIGGINSON, GEORGE POWELL. b. 1787; ensign 1 foot guards 6 Nov. 1805, captain 26 Oct. 1820 to 11 April 1834 when placed on h.p.; col. 94 foot 29 Jany. 1855 to death; general 9 Nov. 1862. d. Cannes 19 April 1866 aged 79.

HIGGINSON, SIR JAMES MACAULAY (son of James Higginson, major 10 foot). b. 1805; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; entered Bengal army 1824; private sec. to Lord Metcalfe in India, Jamaica and Canada 1835–46; governor of Antigua and the Leeward island 1846–50; governor of Mauritius 1 Oct. 1850 to 11 Sep. 1857; C.B. 1 March 1851, K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1857. d. Tulfaris, co. Wicklow 28 June 1885.

HIGGS, WILLIAM ALPHEUS (3 son of William Higgs of Tiverton, Somerset). b. Luckington near Frome 1838; head of firms of W. A. Higgs & Co. and Barber & Co. tea merchants, London; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1887–8; accompanied Lord mayor Polydore de Keyser to Belgium on his visit to his native country 1888; F.R.G.S.; of Willenhall park, New Barnet; a breeder of prize stock. d. suddenly at Hotel Victoria, Northumberland avenue, London when starting to attend lord mayor’s ball 23 Dec. 1889. City Press 28 Dec. 1889 p. 5.

HIGHTON, EDWARD. b. Leicester 13 Aug. 1817; resident engineer of Taff Vale dock and railway 1845; telegraphic engineer to London and North Western railway co. 1846; A.I.C.E. 1847; received large gold medal of Society of Arts for his inventions in electric telegraphy 1849; author of The electric telegraph, its history and progress 1852; Highton’s Mathematical arrangement of code for telegraph purposes 1857. d. 5 Gloucester road, Regent’s park, London 13 Nov. 1859.

HIGHTON, REV. HENRY (1 son of Henry Highton). b. Leicester 19 Jany. 1816; ed. at Rugby and Queen’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840; Mitchel fell. of his coll. 1840–1; assistant master of Rugby 1841–56; principal of Cheltenham coll. March 1859 to 1862; silver medallist of Soc. of Arts for paper on Telegraphy without insulation 1 May 1872; patented 4 improvements in galvanic batteries 1871–2 and 3 improvements in electric telegraphs 1873–4; invented artificial stone much used for paving and building; author of A letter to Sir M. Montefiore on address presented by 1500 continental Jews 1842; A catechism of the Second Advent 1851; A revised translation of the New Testament 1862; Letter on repeal of the Act of uniformity 1863; Dean Stanley and Saint Socrates, the ethics of the philosopher and the philosophy of the divine 1873. d. The Cedars, Putney 23 Dec. 1874.

HIGMAN, REV. JOHN PHILIPS. b. 1793; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., 3rd wrangler 1816; B.A. 1816, M.A. 1819; fellow and tutor of his coll.; R. of Fakenham, Norfolk 1834 to death; F.R.S. 23 May 1820; F.R.A.S.; author of A syllabus of the differential and integral calculus 1826. d. Cambridge ter. Hyde park, London 7 Aug. 1855.

HIGSON, JOHN (eld. son of Daniel Higson). b. Whiteley Farm, Gorton, Lancs. 25 July 1825; ed. at Ardwick and Gorton old sch.; cashier of Victoria mills, Droylsden; cashier of Springhead spinning co. Droylsden; author of The Gorton historical recorder or a history of the Mesne manor and its inhabitants 1852; A history of Droylsden 1859; Explosions in coal mines 1878; commenced a newspaper at Droylsden which was a failure; contributed to Ashton Reporter under signature of H. d. Birch cottage, Lees near Oldham 13 Dec. 1871. bur. Droylsden ch. yard. Procter’s Manchester streets (1874) 288–91; Ashton Reporter 16 Dec. 1871.

HILDIGE, JAMES GRAHAM. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1852; L.K.Q.C.P.I. 1853; F.R.C.S.I. 1859; lecturer on ophthalmic surgery Carmichael sch. of medicine; author of Medical sketches in Austria, Prussia and Italy, with remarks on the Campagna and the conquered provinces in Italy and Hungary. Dublin 1859; writer of papers in medical journals. d. 7 Upper Merrion st. Dublin 14 May 1871.

HILDITCH, SIR EDWARD (son of John Frederick Hilditch of Hammersmith). b. 1805; studied at St. George’s hospital; M.R.C.S. 1826; M.D. Aberdeen 1859; entered navy 1826, on West India station 1830–55; inspector general of hospitals and fleets 6 Feb. 1854 to 13 Jany. 1870 when he retired; in charge of Royal hospital, Plymouth 1855–61, of Greenwich hospital 1861–65; knighted at Windsor castle 20 Nov. 1865; hon. physician to the Queen 1868 to death. d. 18 Arundel gardens, Bayswater, London 24 Aug. 1876.

HILDYARD, REV. JAMES (8 son of Rev. Wm. Hildyard 1762–1842, R. of Winstead in Holderness, Yorkshire). b. Winstead 11 April 1809; ed. at Shrewsbury 1820–29, was head of the sch. from 1826, headed a rebellion in the sch. known as the Beef Row, April 1829; pensioner at Ch. coll. Cam. Oct. 1829, Tancred divinity student 1829, sen. opt. in mathematics, second in the first class of the class. tripos and chancellor’s medallist Jany. 1833; B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836, B.D. 1846; fellow of his coll. 1833 and classical lecturer and tutor; Cambridge preacher at Chapel royal, Whitehall 1843, 1844; senior proctor 1843; R. of Ingoldsby, Lincoln, June 1846 to death; author of M. A. Plauti Menæchmi cum notis 1836; Five sermons on the parable of the rich man and Lazarus 1841; The university system of private tuition examined 1844; Reply to the bishops in convocation, on Lord Ebury’s motion for a revision of the liturgy. Signed Ingoldsby 1858, 4 ed. 2 vols. 1879. d. Ingoldsby 27 Aug. 1887. The Biograph, May 1881 pp. 472–77; William Smith’s Old Yorkshire (1883) pp. 142–46, portrait; Church portrait journal, April 1877, 49–50, portrait.

HILDYARD, JOHN (brother of the preceding). b. 1796 or 1797; ed. at Shrewsbury, head boy there; went to St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; barrister L.I. 10 July 1821; recorder of Stamford, Grantham and Leicester 1835–54; judge of county courts, circuit 20 (Leicestershire), March 1847 to death. d. the King’s hotel, Loughborough 13 Feb. 1855. bur. in Townshend vault, All Saints’ church, Hertford 21 Feb.

NOTE.—His father lived to see 9 sons masters of arts in Cambridge university, and 6 of them fellows of their respective colleges.

HILDYARD, ROBERT CHARLES (brother of the preceding). b. Winstead 1800; ed. at Oakham sch. and Cath. hall, Cam., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, fellow of his coll.; barrister L.I. 25 May 1827; admitted ad eundem at I.T. 1833, bencher 1844, reader 1857; counsel to duchy of Lancaster to 1846; Q.C. 1845; M.P. for Whitehaven 28 July 1847 to death. d. 24 Lowndes st. London 7 Dec. 1857.

HILDYARD, THOMAS BLACKBORNE THOROTON- (son of colonel Thomas B. Thoroton-Hildyard of Flintham hall, Notts., d. 1830). b. 8 April 1821; ed. at Eton; matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 16 Oct. 1839; sheriff of Notts. 1862; M.P. South Notts. 1846–52 and 1866–85; chairman Notts. quarter sessions 6 April 1874. d. 11 Moreton gardens, South Kensington 19 March 1888.

NOTE.—His fellow member for South Notts. 1874–85 George Storer d. Thornton hall, Notts, the same day 19 March.

HILDYARD, REV. WILLIAM (son of Rev. John Hildyard of Monk’s Eleigh, Suffolk). Matric. from Trin. coll. Ox. 24 May 1808 aged 17, scholar 1812–5, B.A. 1812, M.A. 1817; assist. P.C. Beverley minster 1820; R. of Hameringham cum Scrayfield, Lincoln 1837–66; author of Thoughts on Sunday schools. Beverley 1827; Specimens of composition 1832; A manual of ancient geography for the use of schools 1835; A letter to the Rev. A. J. Carr respecting a sermon preached by him in St. John’s chapel, Beverley 1843. d. Market Deeping, Lincs. 11 Feb. 1875. I.L.N. lxvi, 211 (1875).

HILES, JOHN. b. 1810; organist at Shrewsbury 1835–53, at Portsmouth 1853–60, and at Brighton 1860–74; organist Christ church, Gipsy hill, London 1874–81; author of A catechism for the pianoforte student 1871, 18 ed. 1882, circulated 65,000 copies; A complete dictionary of 12,500 musical terms 1871, 7 ed. 1882; Short Voluntaries for the organ 4 series 1854–75; Catechism of the organ 1876; revised The Amateur organist. By E. Travis 1872, and composed many pieces of music. d. 51 Elsham road, Kennington, London 4 Feb. 1882. Musical Directory (1883) p. xviii.

HILL, ROWLAND HILL, 2 Viscount (eld. son of John Hill 1769–1814, colonel in the army). b. 10 May 1800; ed. at Oriel coll. Ox., M.A. 1820; cornet royal horse guards 1820–24; M.P. for Shropshire 1821–32, for North Shropshire 1832–42; succeeded his grandfather as 4 baronet 21 May 1824, and his uncle as 2 viscount 10 Dec. 1842; lieut.-col. North Salop yeomanry cavalry 18 Aug. 1824; lord lieut. of Shropshire 20 Nov. 1845 to death; col. Shropshire militia 8 June 1849 to Aug. 1852. d. Hawkstone park, Salop 2 Jany. 1875. I.L.N. iv, 65 (1811), portrait.

HILL, REV. ALEXANDER (son of George Hill, D.D. 1750–1819, principal of St. Andrews univ.) b. St. Andrews 19 July 1785; ed. at St. Andrews, B.A. 1804, D.D. 1828; licensed as a presbyterian preacher Sep. 1806; minister of Colmonell, Ayrshire 1815–16 and of Dailly 1816–40; professor of divinity Glasgow univ. 1840–62; moderator of the general assembly 1845; author of The practice in the judicatories of the church of Scotland 2 ed. 1830, 5 ed. 1851; Practical hints to young ministers; Counsels regarding the pastoral office. d. 24. Wellington sq. Ayr 27 Jany. 1867. John Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy 3rd series (1851) 364–9; Scott’s Fasti ii, part i, p. 108.

HILL, DAVID OCTAVIUS (son of Thomas Hill, bookseller, Perth). b. Perth 1802; studied under Andrew Wilson, Edin.; landscape painter; sec. Soc. of Arts, Edin. 1830, which became R. Scottish academy, sec. 1838–70; R.S.A.; the first to apply photography to portraiture and to use calotype; a commissioner of the board of manufacturers 1850; originated Art Union of Edin. 183-, the first institution of the kind; exhibited 4 pictures at R.A., 1 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1832–68 and many at R.S.A.; commenced in 1843 his picture, Signing the deed of demission, which contains 500 portraits, finished 1865, now in Free Ch. assembly hall, Edin.; published 60 pictures of the Scenery of the Land of Burns 1841. d. Edinburgh 17 May 1870. Redgrave’s Dictionary of Artists (1878) 211; Edinburgh Evening Courant 18 May 1870 p. 8.

HILL, SIR DUDLEY ST. Leger (eld. son of Dudley Hill). b. co. Carlow 1790; ensign 82 foot 27 Aug. 1804; captain royal West India rangers 1810–14; major attached to Portuguese and Spanish army 1814 to 25 Dec. 1816 when placed on h.p.; major 95 foot 1823 to 19 Jany. 1826 when placed on h.p.; served in South America 1806–8 and in the Peninsula 1808–14, being wounded 7 times; K.T.S. 20 Nov. 1816; knighted 25 Nov. 1816; governor of St. Lucia 15 April 1834 to 21 Dec. 1847; general on staff in Bengal 10 April 1848 to death; colonel of 50 regt. 28 March 1849 to death; M.G. 23 Nov. 1841; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 2 March 1848. d. Umballa, Bengal 21 Feb. 1851. I.L.N. xviii, 329 (1851).

HILL, EDWARD ROWLEY (2 son of Hugh Hill 1770–1850, colonel battle axe guards, Dublin castle). b. 29 Dec. 1795; ensign 43 foot 23 Feb. 1813; lieut. col. 1 West India regiment 1 Jany. 1847 to 7 Sep. 1855; lieut. col. 68 foot 7 Sep. 1855 to 10 Sep. 1858 when placed on h.p.; col. 5 foot 21 Feb. 1868 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. Brighton 10 Sep. 1878.

HILL, EDWIN (2 child of Thomas Wright Hill of Birmingham 1763–1851). b. Birmingham 25 Nov. 1793; manager Fazeley st. rolling mills, Birmingham to 1827; with his bro. Sir Rowland Hill kept a school at Bruce castle, Tottenham 1827; supervisor of the stamps department, Somerset house 1840, remodelled the machinery in use, thus effecting a saving of many thousands a year; with W. De la Rue invented machine for folding envelopes 1840; author of Principles of currency. Means of ensuring uniformity of value and adequacy of supply 1856; Criminal capitalists, pamphlets 1870–2. d. 1 St. Mark’s sq. Regent’s park, London 6 Nov. 1876. G. B. Hill’s Life of Sir Rowland Hill (1880) i, 37, ii, 99, 503.

HILL, ELLEN (dau. of Mr. Shaw). b. 1803; an actress of some note at the minor theatres; played leading business at the Royalty, the Marylebone and the City of London theatres; acted in a drama with the young Roscius, W. H. Betty and Charles Kean; retired from stage 1840. (m. William John Hill, leader and composer d. Dublin, Jany. 1851). d. London 9 Dec. 1866 aged 63. Era 23 Dec. 1866 p. 12.

HILL, GEORGE. b. co. Wexford 1809; printer; contributed articles on the scenery and antiquities of Wexford and Kilkenny to Dublin Penny Journal, illustrated by his own drawings; reporter to the Waterford Mail, Wexford Independent, Drogheda Conservative, Liverpool Herald, Rochdale Pilot and the Bacup and Rossendale News. d. Bacup, Lancs. 8 July 1869. Newspaper Press 2 Aug. 1869 p. 181.

HILL, GEORGE AUGUSTA (5 son of 2 marquis of Downshire 1753–1801). b. 9 Dec. 1801; lieut. royal horse guards 20 July 1820; captain 8 hussars 1825 to 6 July 1830 when placed on h.p.; M.P. for Carrickfergus 1831–2; sheriff of Donegal 1845; author of Facts from Gweedore with useful hints to Donegal tourists. Dublin 2 parts 1845, 3 ed. 1854. d. Ballyane house near Ramelton, co. Donegal 6 April 1879.

HILL, HENRY. b. Manchester 1807; first betted at Newmarket 1829; in partnership with John Gully; factotum for Lord George Bentinck for many years; cleared some thousands on Bloomsbury winning the Derby 1839; discovered the Running Rein fraud 1844; kept race horses; won heavily on Pyrrhus the First, winner of Derby 1846; won the Two Thousand with Pitsford 1850; with Rogerthorpe won Goodwood cup 1856; the largest better on the Derby except W. E. Davies the Leviathan; lost £40,000 in one year on the Stock Exchange; purchased Ackworth near Pomfret from John Gully. d. 52 Queen’s gate ter. Kensington 1 Feb. 1881 aged 74. Sporting Rev., April 1858 pp. 295–8; W. Day’s Reminiscences (1886) 63–76.

HILL, REV. HENRY THOMAS. b. 1815; ed. at C.C. coll. Cam., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840; P.C. of Lye, Worcs. 1839–43; C. of Wolverley 1843–51; R. of Felton 1851 to death; V. of Preston Wynne, Hereford 1858–76; diocesan inspector of schools 1870–72; preb. of Nonnington in Hereford cath. 1870 to death; author of Church restoration, What is it? Whence is it? 1864; Thoughts on churches and church yards 1856, 3 ed. 1862. d. Felton 11 Jany. 1882.

HILL, SIR HUGH (2 son of James Hill of Graig, co. Cork 1771–1850). b. Graig 1802; entered Trin. coll. Dublin, Nov. 1816, B.A. 1821; at King’s Inns, Dublin; practised in London as a special pleader below the bar 1827–41; barrister M.T. 29 Jany. 1841, bencher Dec. 1851; Q.C. July 1851; serjeant at law May 1858; judge of court of Queen’s Bench 29 May 1858 to 3 Dec. 1861; knighted at Buckingham palace 18 April 1859. d. Royal crescent hotel, Brighton 12 Oct. 1871.

HILL, SIR JAMES (eld. son of James Haylock Hill of Newbold Firs, Leamington). bapt. at St. Thomas, Winchester 6 Feb. 1814; ed. at Winchester and New coll. Ox., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1840; fellow of his coll.; barrister I.T. 3 May 1839; second charity estate comr. 24 Oct. 1853, chief charity estate comr. 7 Dec. 1872 to death; knighted at Windsor castle 5 May 1873; published A practical treatise on the law relating to trustees, their powers, duties, privileges and abilities 1845. d. Folkestone 23 Oct. 1875. Law Times, lx, 60 (1875); I.L.N. lxvii, 447 (1875), lxviii, 22 (1876).

HILL, JAMES FREDERICK. b. Norwich 1817; conductor; composer of Old Friends met together, part song, printed in J. P. Hullah’s The Singer’s Library 1859. d. St. Giles ter. Bethel st. Norwich 9 March 1877.

HILL, JAMES JOHN (son of Daniel Hill of Birmingham). b. Broad st. Birmingham 1810; ed. at Hazlewood sch.; pupil of John Vincent Barber of Birmingham, artist; a portrait painter in Birmingham to 1839; moved to London 1839; member of Society of British artists 1842; exhibited 10 pictures at R.A., 5 at B.I. and 109 at Suffolk st. 1842–80. d. Sutton house, West Hill, Highgate 27 Jany. 1882. Birmingham Weekly Post 4 Feb. 1882.

HILL, SIR JOHN. b. 1774; entered navy 25 Sep. 1781, present in battle of the Nile; an agent for transports 24 March 1813–1819; captain 28 Oct. 1815; captain superintendent of victualling yard at Deptford 1820–1838; superintendent of dockyard at Sheerness 9 March 1838–41, at Deptford 11 Dec. 1841 to 16 April 1851; rear admiral 2 April 1851; knighted at St. James’s palace 31 Aug. 1831. d. Walmer lodge, Deal 20 Jany. 1855 aged 81.

HILL, REV. JOHN (son of John Hill of London). b. 1787; ed. at St. Edmund hall, Ox., B.A. 1809, M.A. 1812, B.D. 1844; vice principal of his hall 1812–51; city lecturer at Oxford 1851; R. of Wyke Regis, Dorset 1851 to death; editor of Artis Logicæ Rudimenta by H. Aldrich. With observations 1849; author of a few sermons. d. Wyke Regis 22 Feb. 1855. bur. St. Peter’s in the East, Oxford.

HILL, REV. JOHN HARWOOD (son of Robert Hill of Leamington). b. Louth, Lincs. 1809; pensioner Peter house, Cam. 30 June 1830, B.A. 1834; R. of Cranoe, Leics. 1837 to death, and V. of Welham 1841 to death; F.S.A. 12 Jany. 1871; local sec. Leicestershire Architect, and Archæol. Soc. and a contributor to its transactions; author of The chronicle of the christian ages or records of events ecclesiastical, civil and military. Uppingham 2 vols. 1859; The history of the parish of Langton. Leicester 1867; The history of Market Harborough. Leicester 1875. d. Cranoe rectory 3 Dec. 1886. Proc. Soc. of Antiquaries, xi, 371 (1885–7); Academy 18 Dec. 1886 p. 411.

HILL, VEN. JUSTLY (youngest son of colonel William Hill of St. Boniface, Isle of Wight). bapt. Bonchurch, I. of W. 16 Dec. 1781; ed. at Winchester and New coll. Ox., scholar, B.A. 1805, M.A. 1808; fellow of his coll. 1802–20; R. of Shanklin and Bonchurch, Isle of Wight 1809 to death; R. of Tingewick, Bucks. 1818 to death; archdeacon and commissary of Buckingham 1825; author of Two charges delivered to the clergy and churchwardens of the archdeaconry of Buckingham. Eton, 2 ed. 1847, and other charges and sermons. d. Shanklin 18 March 1853.

HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (eld. child of Thomas Wright Hill of Birmingham 1763–1851). b. Suffolk st. Birmingham 6 Aug. 1792; ed. at Wolverhampton and in his father’s school, Birmingham; assisted in his father’s school to 1815; barrister L.I. 18 Nov. 1819, went Midland circuit, quitted it 1846; defended wife of Richard Carlile on charge of selling a libel 1820; leading counsel for Nottingham rioters 1831, for Canadian prisoners 1839, for Rebecca rioters 1843, and for D. O’Connell 1844; for the plaintiffs in Braintree ch. rate case 1848, for the crown in Dr. Hampden’s case 1848; for many years in parliament and in the courts engaged in Baron de Bode’s case; established with Bentham and Brougham the Soc. for Diffusion of useful knowledge, Jany. 1827; M.P. for Hull 1832–35; Q.C. 7 July 1834; recorder of Birmingham, April 1839, resigned Jany. 1866; one of commissioners of court of bankruptcy for Bristol district 24 March 1851 to 31 Dec. 1869 when office was abolished, granted sum of £1800; author of Suggestions for repression of crime 1857; Our exemplars. Biographical sketches 1861. d. Heath house, Stapleton, Gloucs. 7 June 1872. The Recorder of Birmingham, a memoir of M. D. Hill, By R. and F. D. Hill (1878), portrait; Law mag. and review, July 1872 pp. 515–29.

HILL, REV. PASCOE GRENFELL (son of major Thomas Hill). b. Marazion, Cornwall 15 May 1804; ed. at Mill Hill sch. Middlesex and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1836; chaplain R.N. 1836–45; chaplain Westminster hospital 1852–7; R. of St. Edmund the King and martyr with St. Nicholas Acons, Lombard st. London 26 Jany. 1863 to death; the first to introduce a surpliced choir into a city ch.; author of Fifty days on board a slave ship 1843, 3 ed. 1853; A voyage to the slave coasts 1849; A journey through Palestine 1852; Life of Napoleon 3 vols. 1869. d. the rectory house 32 Finsbury sq. London 28 Aug. 1882. bur. Ilford cemetery. City Press 2 Sep. 1882 p. 5; Boase & Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i, 240.

HILL, PERCY. b. 24 Dec. 1817; ensign 68 foot 26 June 1835; lieut. colonel rifle brigade 22 June 1855 to 6 March 1868; served in Russian war 1854–6 and in Indian mutiny 1857–8; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; colonel 85 foot 27 Sep. 1879 to death; C.B. 26 July 1858. d. 24 April 1880.

HILL, REV. RICHARD HUMPHRY (2 son of Rev. Richard Hill of Wolverton, Somerset). b. Wolverton 21 Oct. 1824; chorister Magd. coll. Ox. 1834–42, demy 1842–51, matric. from Ex. coll. 2 June 1842; B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849, D.C.L. 1854; head master of Beaumaris gr. sch. 1850–64 and of Magd. coll. sch. Ox. Jany. 1865 to 23 July 1876 which he raised to the level of a first-rate public school; precentor and canon of Bangor 31 Dec. 1864 to death; R. of Stanway near Colchester 22 Dec. 1874 to death. d. Stanway rectory 26 Feb. 1891. J. R. Bloxam’s Register of Magdalen College, i 219, vii 353–6.

HILL, SIR ROBERT CHAMBRE (4 son of Sir John Hill of Hawkstone, Salop, 3 bart. 1740–1824). b. 25 March 1778; ed. at Rugby; cornet royal horse guards 11 June 1794, lieut. colonel 13 May 1813 to 24 July 1823; knighted by the prince regent at Carlton house 29 May 1812; served in the Peninsula and at Waterloo; C.B. 22 June 1815. d. Prees hall, Salop 5 March 1860. The case of J. Jebb with charges against Sir R. Hill (1830).

HILL, ROBERT GARDINER (son of Robert Hill of Leamington). b. Louth, Lincs. 26 Feb. 1811; M.R.C.S. 1834; L.C.P. Edin. 1859; resident house surgeon of Lincoln lunatic asylum July 1835; proprietor with Richard Sutton Harvey of Eastgate House private asylum, Lincoln 1840–63; presented with a testimonial at Lincoln 29 Oct. 1851 as the author and originator of the non-restraint system in lunacy; mayor of Lincoln 1852–3; F.S.A. 17 Feb. 1853; resident medical proprietor of Earl’s Court house, Old Brompton, London, Oct. 1863 to death; author of A concise history of the entire abolition of medical restraint in the treatment of the insane 1857; Lunacy, its past and its present 1870. d. Earl’s Court House, London 30 May 1878. Robertson’s Photographs of eminent medical men (1868) ii, 65–8, portrait; Medical Circular 7 Sep. 1853 pp. 187–9, portrait, and 23 Nov. pp. 522–3; I.L.N. 3 Jany. 1852 pp. 13–14, view of testimonial.

HILL, SIR ROWLAND (3 son of Thomas Wright Hill 1763–1851). b. Kidderminster 3 Dec. 1795; a teacher in his father’s schools at Birmingham and Tottenham 1808–28; established the Hazelwood system of school management 1812; undertook the management of his father’s money affairs from 1812; invented a rotatory printing press; sec. to the South Australian commission 1835–9; published _Post office reform, its importance and practicability_ 1836; described his adhesive postage stamp 13 Feb. 1837; attached to the Treasury to introduce cheap postage 1839–42, dismissed by Sir R. Peel, Sep. 1842, penny postage established 10 Jany. 1840; director of London and Brighton railway 1843, chairman 1845–6, introduced system of express and excursion trains; presented by public subscription with £13,000, 17 June 1846; sec. to post-master-general Nov. 1846; permanent sec. of post office, April 1854 to 4 March 1864; had a grant from parliament of £20,000, 1864; F.R.S. 11 June 1857, member of council 1867; D.C.L. of Ox. 9 June 1864; K.C.B. 10 Feb. 1860; F.R.A.S.; presented with freedom of city of London 6 June 1879; author of Home colonies, plan for extinction of pauperism 1832; Post office reform 1837, 3 ed. 1837; _The state and prospects of penny postage_ 1844; Results of postal reform 1864. d. Bertram house, Hampstead 27 Aug. 1879. bur. St. Paul’s chapel, Westminster abbey 4 Sep. _G. B. Hill’s Life of Sir R. Hill 2 vols._ 1880, portrait; _W. Lewin’s Her Majesty’s Mails_ (2 ed. 1865) 168–97, portrait; _Walford’s Photographic portraits, No. 12, April 1857_, portrait; _H. J. Nichol’s Great movements_ (1881) 189–220, portrait.

NOTE.—Sir R. Hill’s statue at corner of Royal exchange, London, was unveiled 17 June 1882.—Other statues have been erected at Kidderminster and Birmingham.

HILL, RIGHT REV. ROWLEY (3 son of Sir George Hill, 3 bart. 1804–45). b. 22 Feb. 1836; ed. at Christ’s hospital, Lond. and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1859, M.A. 1863; C. of Ch. Ch. Dover 1860–61; C. of St. Mary, Marylebone 1861–63; P.C. of St. Luke’s, Marylebone 1863–68; R. of Frant, Sussex 1868–71; V. of St. Michael’s, Chester sq. London 1871–73; V. of Sheffield 1873–77; preb. of York cath. 1876–77; bishop of Sodor and Man 17 July 1877 to death, consecrated in York Minster 24 Aug.; author of Sunday school lessons: the collects 1866, 2 ed. 1867; Sunday school lessons: the gospels 1866; The titles of our Lord 1870. d. 10 Hereford sq. Old Brompton, London 27 May 1887. Church Portrait Journal ii, 25 (1878), portrait.

HILL, THOMAS. b. 1794; at Royalty theatre; clown at Drury Lane, especially known in the pantomime of Jack of Spades under R. W. Elliston’s management. d. 26 May 1851 aged 57. bur. St. Peter’s ch. Walworth road. Era 8 June 1851 p. 11.

HILL, REV. THOMAS. b. 1808; ed. at Clare coll. Cam., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833; assist. classical master of Mercer’s sch. London 1832–50; P.C. of Holy Trin. Minories, London 1850 to death; author of The harmony of the Latin and Greek languages 1842; The history of the parish of Holy Trinity Minories 1851. d. 30 Little Trinity lane, London 13 Feb. 1865.

HILL, VEN. THOMAS. Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813, B.D. 1822; V. of Badgeworth, Gloucs. 1821; V. of Chesterfield, Derby 1822–46; archdeacon of Derby 4 Jany. 1847 to 1873; canon res. with prebendal stalls of Offley and Flixton annexed, in Lichfield cath. 1851–63; P.C. of Hasland, Derby 1851–63; author of The doctrine of the Trinity 1820; Letters and memoirs of W. A. Shirley, bishop of Sodor and Man 1849; The life of L. Saunders 1858. d. Harrogate 14 Sep. 1875.

HILL, THOMAS WRIGHT (son of James Hill, baker and dealer in horse corn). b. Kidderminster 24 April 1763; ed. at Kidderminster gram. sch.; apprentice to a brass founder; discovered the distinction between vocal and whisper letters; said to have edited the Hazelwood Magazine 1824–30; invented a system of philosophic short-hand; devised scheme for representation of minorities; a manufacturer of woollen stuffs; founded a school at Hill Top, Birmingham 1803, with his sons removed it to Hazelwood near Birmingham 1819 and to Bruce castle, Tottenham, Middlesex 1827; F.R. Astronom. Soc.; a volume of Selections from his papers was printed in 1860. d. Bruce terrace, Tottenham 13 June 1851. M. D. Hill’s Remains of T. W. Hill (1859); Edin. Rev. xli, 315–35 (1825); Monthly Notices R. Astronom. Soc. 1852 pp. 90–93; Life of Sir R. Hill (1880) i, 2 et seq., portrait.

HILL, WILLIAM. b. 1806; salesman and book keeper with Daniel Lee & Co., calico printers, Manchester; mnemonicalist; author of Fifteen lessons on the analogy and syntax of the language 1833; The rational school grammar and entertaining class book; The complete English exposition and comprehensive spelling book; The educational monitor, which will enable the student to fix knowledge rapidly in the mind 1847; How to teach the alphabet in a few hours 1865; Memories for the million 1875. d. Rose Bank, Patricroft near Salford 2 April 1881. Gillow’s English catholics, iii, 310–11 (1887).

HILL, SIR WILLIAM (_son of Daniel Hill, member of council, Antigua_). b. 1805; entered military service of E.I.C. 1821; commanded garrison of 500 men at Pegu Pagoda, which he held against 6000 men 1852; commanded the Gwalior contingent 1853; commanded the Nizam’s contingent during the Indian mutiny 1857; col. in the army 1859; retired with rank of M.G. 31 Dec. 1861; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1867. d. Southsea 20 Aug. 1886.

HILL, WILLIAM JOHN. Composer of Our Saviour’s farewell. A devotional canzonette 1839. (m. Ellen Shaw d. 9 Dec. 1866 aged 63). d. Dublin, Jany. 1851.

HILL, WILLIAM JONES, stage name of William Hill Jones. b. 14 Jany. 1834; a musician; appeared as an actor at Court theatre, London 25 Jany. 1871 as Nicodemus Nobbs in Turn him out, as John Brodie in Dotheboys’ Hall, as the manager in Vesta’s Temple 14 Nov. 1872, in The Happy Land made up as Robert Lowe 3 March 1873, as Uncle Bopeddy in The Wedding March 15 Nov. 1873, in Peacock’s Holiday 16 April 1874; at the Criterion in Betsy 6 Aug. 1879; as Mr. Cattermole in Private Secretary at Prince’s theatre 29 March 1884; as the Baillie in Les cloches de Corneville at Folly theatre Feb. 1878 to 1879; acted Irascible Fizzleton in Nita’s First at Novelty up to 11 April 1888. d. Birchmore villa, 29 Ampthill sq. London 13 April 1888. bur. Highgate cemet. Illust. Sport. and Dram. News, xiv, 397 (1881), portrait; Theatre, v, 95 (1885), portrait, xi, 281 (1888); Saturday Programme 25 Nov. 1876 pp. 10–11, portrait; Era 14 April 1888 p. 8, 21 April p. 9.

HILLIER, GEORGE (eld. son of William Hillier, commander R.N.) b. Kennington 1815; made collections for the History and antiquities of the Isle of Wight, engraved the plates himself and printed part of it in his own house; discovered the Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Chessel Down and excavated the graves; author of The topography of the Isle of Wight 1850; A narrative of the attempted escape of Charles I. from Carisbrook 1852; The sieges of Arundel castle 1854; The stranger’s guide to Reading 1859. d. Ryde, Isle of Wight 1 April 1866.

HILLIER, THOMAS. b. 1831; ed. at Univ. coll. London, M.B. Lond. 1845, B.A. 1849, M.D. 1855; M.R.C.S. 1852; F.R.C.P. 1867; resident medical officer Univ. coll. hospital; medical officer of health St. Pancras 12 years; physician hospital for sick children, Great Ormond st.; lectured on diseases of skin at University coll.; author of Hand-book of skin diseases 1865; Diseases of children 1868 and other books. d. 32 Queen Anne st. London 7 Nov. 1868. Medical Times 14 Nov. 1868 p. 573; Proc. Med. and Chir. Soc. vi, 154 (1871).

HILLMAN, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS (eld. son of William Hillman, surgeon R.N., d. 1865). b. 1819; ed. at London univ.; M.R.C.S. 1841, F.R.C.S. 1845, student in human and comparative anatomy there 1841–4; assist. surgeon Westminster hospital and lecturer on physiology and general anatomy there 10 years; surgeon Westminster hospital 1869–71; author of The study of physic and surgery 1846. d. 2 Argyle st. Regent st. London 11 Dec. 1873. Medical Times 20 Dec. 1873 p. 705.

HILLS, JAMES. b. 1800; whip of the old Surrey hounds 7 seasons; first whip of Lord Ducie’s hounds; huntsman of the Heythrop hounds at Heythrop near Didcot many years from 1835. Scott and Sebright, By The Druid (1862) 359–72, portrait; Cecil’s Records of the Chase (1877) 163–7.

HILLS, TOM. b. 1793; huntsman of the Old Surrey hounds 1812–62; landlord of the Plough at Bletchingly. d. Feb. 1873. Sporting Rev. June 1859 pp. 394–7; Baily’s Mag. March 1873 pp. 161–4.

HILLYAR, SIR CHARLES FARRELL (2 son of Sir James Hillyar 1769–1843, rear admiral). b. 1818; cadet R.N. 24 July 1828; served in South America 1837; severely wounded at Lagos 1851; captain 20 Feb. 1852; served at blockade of Sebastopol 1854–5; commander in chief in China 31 Aug. 1877 to 26 Sep. 1878; C.B. 2 June 1869, K.C.B. 21 June 1887; admiral 26 Sep. 1878, retired 9 June 1882. d. Torre house, Torpoint, Cornwall 14 Dec. 1888.

HILLYAR, ROBERT PURKIS. Inspector of hospitals and fleets 23 Nov. 1841; K.H. 1 Jany. 1837; C.B. 17 Aug. 1850. d. Little Green near Gosport 23 March 1855.

HILLYER, WILLIAM RICHARD (son of an innkeeper). b. Leybourne, Kent 5 March 1813; played with Town Malling club from 1830; first round armed bowler of his time, known as ‘the best of all bowlers’; his balls took a curl and uprooted the middle stump; the finest short-slip ever seen; first played at Lord’s 27 July 1835; practice bowler to Marylebone club to 1851; in his last match 7 June 1855 broke his thumb; had a benefit at the Oval 1858 which produced £300. d. Wheeler st. Maidstone 8 Jany. 1861. bur. Leybourne. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores, ii, 334 (1862), vol. v, page xv (1876).

HILLYERD, REV. SAMUEL JOHN (son of Nicholas John Hillyerd). b. 20 Feb. 1784; National schoolmaster Farnley Tyas, Yorks. to 1819; raised himself by education and was ordained as a literate 1819; C. of Denby Penistone, Yorks. 1819, C. of Farnley Tyas 1821, C. of Primrose hill, Great Horton, Bradford 1823; P.C. of Tattersall, Lincs. 1823–46; V. of Semperingham, Lincs. 1846 to death; a brilliant preacher. d. Semperingham 29 June 1861. Hulbert’s Suppl. Annals of Almondbury (1885) 16; Correspondence between C. G. Selleck and S. J. Hillyerd on universal salvation (1835).

HILTON, HILDA. b. 1853; actress and vocalist; played with success in the provinces; acted at Criterion as Little Loo in Orange Blossom 1877; at Globe as Mrs. Honeyton in The Happy Pair; at the Strand as Ruth in Ruth’s Romance; at the Gaiety as Juliana in The Honeymoon 1880; at the Princess’ as Martha Gibbs in All that glitters is not gold; at Sadler’s Wells 1881; at the Globe as Frou Frou; lessee of Opera Comique 1883 when she produced Bondage 31 March; she wrote Princess Carlo’s plot drama in 3 acts adapted from Ouida’s Afternoon, brought out at Novelty theatre 31 Jany. 1887. d. Florence 13 June 1888 aged 35. The Theatre 1 Aug. 1881 p. 125, portrait; Illust. Sport. and Dram. News 8 Jany. 1881 pp. 401, 419, portrait.

HILTON, JOHN. b. Sible Hedingham, Essex 22 Sep. 1807; ed. at Chelmsford gr. sch. and Boulogne-sur-Mer; studied at Guy’s 1824, M.R.C.S. 1827, F.R.C.S. 1843; demonstrator of anatomy at Guy’s 1828, made dissections of the body which were reproduced in wax for Guy’s museum, assist. surgeon 1844, full surgeon 1849; professor of surgery at R.C.S. 14 July 1859, president 1867; in practice at New Broad st., city of London; surgeon extraordinary to the queen 14 Oct. 1867; F.R.S. 10 Jany. 1839; author of On rest and pain, a course of lectures 1863, 3 ed. 1880; Notes on the functional relations of portions of the cranium 1855; The Hunterian Oration 1867. d. Hedingham house, Clapham common 14 Sep. 1878. Proc. of Med. Chir. Soc. viii, 388–90 (1875); Medical Times, ii, 422 (1878); The Medical profession in all countries, i, No. 17 (1873).

HIME, BENJAMIN. Musical publisher; vocal composer; wrote I see them on their winding ways, song 1830; Let us hope for the best, song 1835; O the Forester’s life is the life for me 1855 and 20 other pieces. d. 30 Victoria st. Manchester 1871.

HINCHLIFF, JOHN ELY. b. 1777; chief assistant in studio of John Flaxman 1806–26; completed some of Flaxman’s unfinished works 1826; exhibited 36 works at R.A. and 9 at B.I. 1814–49; among his sculptures were Christian and Apollyon 1815, Leonidas, Menelaus and Paris, and Theseus and Hippodamia; made many mural tablets and sepulchral monuments. d. Mornington place, 185 Hampstead road, London 23 Nov. 1867.

HINCHLIFF, JOHN JAMES (son of the preceding). b. 1805; in hydrographic department of admiralty; executed engravings for Beattie’s Castles and abbeys of England 1842, and Gastineau’s Picturesque scenery of Wales 1860. d. Walton-by-Clevedon, Somerset 16 Dec. 1875.

HINCHLIFF, THOMAS WOODBINE (eld. son of Chamberlain Hinchliff). b. 1826; president of Alpine club; F.R.G.S.; author of Summer months among the Alps 1857; South American sketches 1863; Over the sea and far away, wanderings round the world 1876. d. Aix les Bains, Savoy 8 May 1882. Proc. of R. Geog. Soc. iv, 424 (1882).

HINCKS, REV. EDWARD (eld. son of Rev. Thomas Dix Hincks 1767–1857). b. Cork 19 Aug. 1792; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1810, B.A. 1812, M.A. 1817, B.D. 1823, D.D. 1829, fellow 1813–9; R. of Ardtrea 1819–26; R. of Killeleagh, co. Down 1826 to death; a pioneer in deciphering cuneiform inscriptions; studied Assyrian monuments 1846 and discovered the names of Sennacherib and Nebuchadnezzar; discovered conjointly with Sir H. C. Rawlinson the Persian cuneiform vowel system; the results of his investigations were printed in Trans. Royal Irish Acad. 1833–65; author of Report to Trustees of British museum on cylinders and terra cotta tablets 1854; Letter on the Polyphony of Assyrio-Babylonian writings 1863 and 25 other works; granted civil list pension of £100, 20 April 1854. d. Killeleagh 3 Dec. 1866. Webb’s Irish Biography (1878) 251; G.M. iii, 122 (1867).

HINCKS, SIR FRANCIS (brother of the preceding). b. Cork 9 May 1807; ed. at Royal Belfast Institution; clerk to a shipowner, Belfast; went to Canada 1830, opened a warehouse in Toronto; founded and edited the Toronto Examiner 1838; member for county of Oxford in Canadian legislature, March 1841 to Nov. 1855; inspector general of public accounts 1842–3 and 1848–54; started the Montreal Pilot 1844; prime minister of Canada 1851–5; governor of Windward Islands 1855–62; governor of British Guiana 1862–9; C.B. 23 July 1862; K.C.M.G. 23 June 1869; finance minister for Dominion of Canada 1869–73; president of City Bank of Montreal 1874 which failed; editor of Journal of Commerce, Montreal; author of 5 pamphlets and of Reminiscenses of my public life 1884. d. Montreal 18 Aug. 1885. Dublin Univ. Mag. vol. 88, p. 534, portrait; I.L.N. xxvii, 413–14 (1855), portrait; Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis (1867) p. 186.

HINCKS, VEN. THOMAS (son of the succeding). b. 1796; R. of Finvoy, Connor to 1865; R. of Billy, Connor 1865 to death; archdeacon of Connor 1865 to death. d. the archdeaconry, Bushmills, co. Antrim 28 March 1882.

HINCKS, REV. THOMAS DIX (son of Edward Hincks, d. 1772). b. Bachelor’s quay, Dublin 24 June 1767; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin 1784–8 and at Hackney New coll. 1788–90; presbyterian minister Cork 1790; kept a school at Cork 1791–1803; lecturer on chemistry and natural philosophy, Royal Cork institution 1810–13; tutor Fermoy academy 1815–21; classical head master Belfast Academical Instit. 1821–36 and professor of Hebrew there 1822–49; LLD. of Glasgow univ. 1834; author of Letters occasioned by the circulation of Paine’s Age of Reason 1795, 2 ed. 1796; An introduction to ancient geography 1825, 7 ed. 1855; Rudiments of Greek grammar 1825 and other books. d. Murray’s ter. Belfast 24 Feb. 1857. bur. Killeleagh.

HINCKS, REV. WILLIAM (son of the preceding). b. Cork, May 1794; presbyterian minister Cork 1815, at Exeter 1816–22 and at Renshaw st. Liverpool 1822–7; professor of natural philosophy at Manchester coll. York 1827–39; editor of The Enquirer 1842–9; professor of natural history, Queen’s coll. Cork 1849–53 and at University coll. Toronto 1853–71; contributed to Canadian Journal 1854–65. d. Toronto 10 Sep. 1871. Morgan’s Bibl. Canad. (1867) 186–7.

HIND, REV. JOHN. b. Cumberland 1796; sizar St. John’s coll. Cam. 1813, scholar 1815, B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; fellow of Sid. Suss. coll.; moderator 1822, 1823, 1826, examiner 1824, 1827; granted civil list pension of £100, 4 Oct. 1858; author of The principles of the differential and integral calculus 1827; The elements of plane and spherical trigonometry 5 ed. 1855; The principles and practice of arithmetic 1832, 8 ed. 1856. d. 22 Trumpington st. Cambridge 17 Dec. 1866. Light Blue, ii, 120 (1867).

HINDLEY, CHARLES. b. Fairfield 1800; classical and mathematical tutor Moravian establishment, Gracehill, Ireland to 1819; a cotton spinner 1819; a founder of the Aston and Dukinfield mechanics’ instit. 1825; president of Peace soc.; contested Ashton-under-Lyne 14 Dec. 1832; contested Warrington 7 Jany. 1835; M.P. Ashton 9 Jany. 1835 to death. d. Dartmouth house, Queen st. Westminster 1 Dec. 1857. Dr. Todd and the late member for Ashton. Fatal effects of the stimulating treatment of disease. By A. B. Granville 1860.

HINDLIP, HENRY ALLSOPP, 1 Baron (3 son of Samuel Allsopp of Burton on Trent, brewer 1780–1838). b. 19 Feb. 1811; head of firm of Allsopp and Sons, brewers, Burton; M.P. for East Worcestershire 1874–80, contested it 1880; cr. a baronet 7 May 1880; cr. baron Hindlip of Hindlip in the co. of Worcester and of Alsop-en-le-Dale in the co. of Derby 15 Feb. 1886. d. Hindlip hall near Worcester 3 April 1887. London Figaro 9 April 1887 p. 4 portrait.

HINDMARCH, WILLIAM MATHEWSON (son of Wm. Hindmarch of Sunderland, brewer). b. Fan quay near Sunderland 10 June 1803; articled to Thomas Collin of Sunderland, attorney; barrister G.I. 30 Jany. 1832, bencher 12 April 1862; Q.C. 5 Feb. 1862; attorney general of county palatine of Durham 7 Dec. 1861; recorder of York, Oct. 1865 to death; author of A treatise on the law relating to patent privileges for the sole use of inventions 1846; Observations on the defects of the patent laws, with suggestions for reform 1851. d. Aix la Chapelle 27 Aug. 1866. Journal of B.A. Assoc. xxiii, 307 (1867).

HINDMARSH, SIR JOHN. b. 1786; entered navy May 1793; served in Lord Howe’s action and in battle of the Nile when though but a Midshipman he was in temporary command of the Bellerophon; captain 3 Sep. 1831; K.H. 4 May 1836; founded the colony of South Australia 28 Dec. 1836 and was governor to 16 July 1838; lieut. governor of Heligoland 28 Sep. 1840 to 7 March 1857; knighted at Buckingham palace 7 Aug. 1851; R.A. on half pay 31 Jany. 1856. d. Denbigh place, Belgravia, London 29 July 1860. Heaton’s Australian Dict. of Dates (1879) 91.

HINDS, RIGHT REV. SAMUEL (son of Abel Hinds of Barbadoes). b. Barbadoes 1795; ed. at Charterhouse and Queen’s coll. Ox.; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818, B.D. and D.D. 1831; missionary to the Negroes of Barbadoes; principal of Codrington college Barbadoes; vice-principal of St. Alban hall Ox. 1827–31; domestic chaplain to archbishop Whately in Dublin 1831–3 and 1843; V. of Ardeley, Herts. 5 Feb. 1835 to March 1843; prebendary of St. Patrick’s cathedral Dublin 1843; V. of united parishes of Castlenock, Clonsilla and Mullahidart 1843–8; dean of Carlisle 27 Sep. 1848; bishop of Norwich 26 Sep. 1849, consecrated at Lambeth 2 Dec. 1849, resigned 1857; author of The history of the rise and progress of Christianity 2 vols. 1828, 2 ed. 1846; Sonnets and other poems 1834; The three temples of the one true God contrasted 1830, 3 ed. 1857 and 25 other books. d. 40 Clarendon road, Notting hill, London 7 Feb. 1872. I.L.N. xv, 376 (1849), portrait, lx, 163, (1872).

HINGSTON, EDWARD PERON. b. about 1823; attended lectures at King’s coll. Lond.; contributed to periodicals 1841–42; manager for professor Anderson the wizard of the north, acting manager for him at Covent Garden, Dec. 1855 to 5 March 1856 when house burnt; went with Anderson to America and Australia 1856–64; manager for Artemus Ward, American humorist in America and England 1864 to Jany. 1867; managed “the Hall by the sea,” Margate; stage manager at St. James’s theatre 1870; lessee and manager of Opera Comique theatre, Oct. 1872 to Dec. 1873; manager at Criterion theatre 21 March 1874; edited many works by R. H. Newell, Mark Twain and Artemus Ward 1865–76; author of The Siddons of Modern Italy, Adelaide Ristori 1856; The Genial Showman, Being reminiscences of Artemus Ward 1870. d. Crowndale road, Camden town, London 9 June 1876. Era 18 June 1876 p. 10; Illust. Sporting news, vi, 473 (1867), portrait.

HINTON, JAMES (3 child of Rev. John Howard Hinton 1791–1873). b. Reading 1822; ed. at Harpenden; cashier at a woollen draper’s shop in Whitechapel 1838–9; clerk in an insurance office in the city; M.R.C.S. 1848; assist. surgeon at Newport, Essex 1847; in the West Indies 1848–50; partner with Mr. Fisher in Bartholomew Close, London 1850–3; in practice at 18 Savile row, London 1853 to 1874; aural surgeon to Guy’s hospital 1863; the chief aurist in London from date of Toynbee’s death to March 1874 when he retired; author of Man and his dwelling place 1859, 3 ed. 1872; Life in nature 1862; The mystery of pain 1866, 3 ed. 1879; Thoughts on health 1871; The question of aural surgery 1874. d. St. Michael’s, Madeira 16 Dec. 1875. bur. at Ponta Delgada in the island of Sao Miguel. Life and letters of James Hinton, edited by Ellice Hopkins (1878), portrait; Graphic, xiii, 99, 101 (1876), portrait; Good Words (1878) 784–90, portrait.

HINTON, REV. JOHN HOWARD (son of Rev. James Hinton, congregational minister 1761–1823). b. Oxford 24 March 1791; ed. at Bristol coll. 1811–13 and at Edin. univ., M.A. 1816; baptist minister at Haverfordwest 1816–20, at Hosier st. chapel, Reading 1820–37, at Devonshire sq. chapel, London 1837–63, at Reading 1863–8; resided at Bristol 1868 to death; sec. of the Baptist Union many years; author of The work of the Holy Spirit in conversion considered 1830, 3 ed. 1841; The epistle to the Hebrews freely rendered 1843; Athanasius, or Four books on immortality 1849; An exposition of the epistle to the Romans 1863; author with his brother Rev. Isaac Taylor Hinton d. 1847 of The history and topography of the United States 2 vols. Boston 1834, 2 ed. New York 1853. d. 1 Redland terrace, Clifton, Bristol 17 Dec. 1873. Baptist Handbook (1875) 277–80; I.L.N. 10 Jany. 1874 pp. 35–6, portrait; S. A. Swaine’s Faithful Baptist men of Bristol coll. (1884) 238.

HIRST, WILLIAM. b. near Huddersfield 1777; a cloth dresser and manufacturer at Leeds 1810; commenced finishing his goods by machinery 1813; introduced spinning mules, Lewis’ machine and hydraulic presses into his works 1813–25; made a large fortune which he lost in 1825; freely communicated his improved process to the public and was called the father of the Yorkshire woollen trade; d. in poverty at Leeds 29 Aug. 1858. Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis (1865) 472–4.

HISLOP, REV. STEPHEN (son of Stephen Hislop, mason). b. Duns, Berwickshire 8 Sep. 1817; ed. at Edinburgh and Glasgow universities 1834–9; a tutor; sec. to Ladies’ soc. for female education in India 1843; Free church of Scotland minister 1844; missionary to Nagpoor, Central India 1844–58 and 1861 to death; opened a school at Nagpoor 1846 which grew into Hislop coll.; studied the languages of the aboriginal tribes; made discoveries in geology and natural history; contributed papers to Royal Asiatic Soc. Journal 1835 etc. and to Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. 1854–61; author of Papers relating to the Aboriginal tribes of the central provinces 1866; drowned, in attempting to cross a stream 20 miles south of Nagpoor 4 Sep. 1863. R. Hunter’s Hist of Mission of Free Ch. to India (1873) pp. 24, 384; Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. 1864 pp. xxxix-xl; G. Smith’s Life of S. Hislop (1889), portrait.

HITCHCOCK, RICHARD (son of Rodney Hitchcock of Springvale, co. Cork, farmer, d. Aug. 1853). b. Blennerville near Tralee, March 1825; devoted himself to the study of archæology of his native country, using his pen and pencil in their description; assistant librarian Trinity coll. Dublin; assistant to geological society of Ireland; contributed papers to proc. of Kilkenny Archæol. Soc.; d. Roundtown near Dublin 3 Dec. 1856.

HITCHIN, GEORGE. b. 1785; editor of the Hampshire Chronicle 1814 to death. d. High st. Winchester 2 May 1858. Hampshire Chronicle 8 May 1858 pp. 4, 5.

HITCHINS, BENJAMIN ROBERTSON. b. 1792; entered Madras army 1806; lieut. colonel 47 N.I. 12 May 1842 to 2 Jany. 1854; colonel 1 European regiment 2 Jany. 1854 to death; L.G. 26 Aug. 1866. d. Upper Norwood, Surrey 13 July 1867 aged 75.

HITCHMAN, FRANCIS. b. 1839; connected with Western Morning News, Plymouth; editor of Manchester Courier; assist. editor Standard, London; wrote for the reviews and magazines, London; an active member of the Primrose League; author of Pius the ninth. A biography 1878; The public life of the earl of Beaconsfield 2 vols. 1879, 2 ed. 1881; Eighteenth century studies. Essays 1881; Richard F. Burton, his life, travels and explorations 2 vols. 1888. d. London, Dec. 1890.

HOARE, CHARLES (2 son of Sir Richard Hoare of Barn Elms, Surrey, 1 bart. 1735–87). b. 25 Aug. 1767; partner in banking house of Hoare & Co. 37 Fleet st. London, afterwards senior partner to death; F.S.A. Jany. 1792; built Luscombe house near Dawlish, Devon 179-; F.R.S. 1809. d. Luscombe house 16 Nov. 1851.

HOARE, CHARLES HUGH (3 son of George Matthew Hoare, brewer, London). b. 24 Oct. 1819; ed. at Rugby and Ex. coll. Ox, B.A. 1841; manager of his father’s brewery and ultimately sole acting partner; member of All England Eleven; president and treasurer of Surrey cricket club; member of committee of Lord’s. d. Romsey, Hants. 4 April 1869.

HOARE, VEN. CHARLES JAMES (3 son of Henry Hoare, banker 1750–1828). b. London 14 July 1781; admitted a pensioner at St. John’s coll. Cam. 7 May 1799, 2 wr. and 2 Smith’s pr. 1803, B.A. 1803, M.A. 1806; Lady Margaret fellow of his coll. 24 March 1806 to 4 July 1811; V. of Blandford Forum, Dorset 1807 to March 1821; V. of Godstone, Surrey, March 1821 to death; archdeacon of Winchester 10 Nov. 1829; canon residentiary of Winchester cath. 2 Dec. 1831; archdeacon of Surrey 14 Nov. 1847, resigned 1860; author of The shipwreck of St. Paul. A Seatonian prize poem 1808, 2 ed. 1860; Sermons on the Christian character 1821; The holy scriptures, their nature, authority and use 1845, 2 ed. 1857 and other books. d. Godstone 18 Jany. 1865.

HOARE, VERY REV. EDWARD NEWENHAM (4 son of Rev. John Hoare, chancellor of St. Mary’s and Vicar general of diocese of Limerick, d. 9 March 1813 aged 47). b. 11 April 1802; archdeacon of Ardfert 23 Dec. 1836 to 1839; dean of Achonry 14 June 1839 to 1850; dean of Waterford 26 Nov. 1850 to death; edited The Christian Herald, Dublin 5 vols. 1830–5; author of The tendency of the principles advocated in the Tracts for the Times considered 1841; Remarks on mis-statements as to scriptural education in Ireland 1850; Practical suggestions with view to removal of objections to the working of the national education system of education in Ireland 1854. d. Lauranah villa, Hamlet road, Upper Norwood 1 Feb. 1877.

HOARE, EDWARD WALLIS (2 son of Sir Edward Hoare, bart. 1745–1814). b. Cork 4 May 1779; entered navy May 1790; when signal lieut. of the London condemned to death by the delegates of the mutineers at Spithead 1797; served in Egypt 1801, at Isle of France 1811; landed on island of Java and routed the enemy 5 June 1811; on half pay 13 Aug. 1812; captain 13 May 1847; admiral on half pay 9 June 1860. d. Upton near Ryde, Isle of Wight 6 Jany. 1870.

HOARE, REV. GEORGE TOOKER (2 son of Ven. Charles James Hoare 1781–1865). b. 27 July 1820; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1847; P.C. of Tandridge, Surrey 1853–65; V. of Godstone, Surrey 1865 to death; edited Dare and endure 1868; author of The village museum, or how we gather profit with pleasure 1858; A letter written for the people, hints on letter writing 1860; True stories of brave deeds 1870. d. Aix la Chapelle 9 Aug. 1881.

HOARE, JOHN GURNEY (2 son of Samuel Hoare, banker 1783–1847). b. 7 May 1810; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; banker Fleet st. London; president of Guy’s hospital, Dec. 1867 to death. d. Biarritz, France 17 Feb. 1875. I.L.N. lxvi, 211, 259 (1875).

HOARE, JOSEPH (brother of the preceding). b. 21 March 1814; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; banker of firm of Hoare & Co. Fleet st.; M.P. Hull 30 April 1859 but unseated on petition Aug. 1859; contested Manchester 18 Nov. 1868; president Hampstead conservative assoc. d. Child’s Hill house, Hampstead 21 Jany. 1886. _Times 25 Jany. 1886 p._ 7.

HOARE, REV. WILLIAM HENRY (2 son of William Henry Hoare 1776–1819). b. Penzance 31 Oct. 1809; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; 31 wr. 1831, B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834, fellow of his coll. 25 March 1833 to 1835; C. of All Saints, Southampton 1841; commissary to bishop of Newcastle, N.S.W. Australia; diocesan inspector of diocese of Chichester; founder and sec. of Worth clerical association; author of Harmony of the Apocalypse with the prophecies of holy scriptures 1848; Outlines of ecclesiastical history before the Reformation 1852, 2 ed. 1857; The veracity of the book of Genesis, with the life of the inspired historian 1860 and other books. d. Oakfield, Crawley, Sussex 22 Feb. 1888. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i, 244.

HOBART, AUGUSTUS CHARLES (3 son of 6 earl of Buckinghamshire 1793–1885). b. Walton-on-the-Wolds, Leics. 1 April 1822; ed. at Cheam; entered navy March 1835; employed in suppressing slave trade 1835–43; present during Russian war 1854–5; commanded mortar boats at attack on Sveaborg; attached to coast guard at Dingle, co. Kerry 1855–61; captain 23 May 1863 when he retired on h.p.; ran the blockade and carried cargoes into Wilmington and Charleston, U.S. America 1863–5; naval adviser to Sultan of Turkey 1867; suppressed the Cretan rebellion 1867; full admiral with title of Pasha 1869; reorganised Turkish fleet and manœuvred against the Russian ships in Black sea 1877; mushir or marshal of Turkish empire 8 Jany. 1881, first christian who ever held that dignity; name struck off British navy list 1867, 1877, restored 1874 and 1884 when he became retired V.A. 30 Oct. 1884; president of Turkish admiralty board; author of Never caught, By Captain Roberts 1867; The torpedo scare 1885. d. Milan, Italy 19 June 1886. Sketches of my life, By Hobart Pasha 1887, portrait; Biographical Mag., No. 1, June 1877 pp. 35–45; I.L.N. lxx, 433, 435 (1877), portrait.

HOBART, VERE HENRY (brother of the preceding). b. Welbourn, Lincs. 8 Dec. 1818; ed. at Cheam and Trin. coll. Ox., scholar 1836–42, B.A. 1840; clerk in board of trade 1842 to 1 Oct. 1863; known as lord Hobart from 1849; private sec. to Sir George Grey; sec. of states for colonies 1854–55; a writer in the press on Irish questions from 1850; with Mr. Foster, paymaster general, investigated and advised on Turkish finance 1861; director general of Ottoman bank to 1871; governor of presidency of Madras 14 March 1872 to death; author of Essay on the Alabama claims 1870; Political essays 1866, Reprinted 1877. d. of typhoid fever at Madras 27 April 1875. Essays. With Biographical sketch by his widow 2 vols. 1885, 2 portraits.

HOBBS, JOHN WILLIAM. b. Henley on Thames 1 Aug. 1799; chorister Canterbury cath.; tenor singer; sang at Norwich musical festival 1813; singer at King’s and St. John’s coll. Cam. and St. George’s chapel Windsor; gentleman of the chapel royal, London 1827; lay vicar Westminster abbey 1836; well known glee singer; composer of Wake, Lady, Wake 1845; Phillis is my only joy 1848; For these and all Thy mercies, A grace 1851; When Delia sings 1862; The captive Greek girl and 70 other pieces. d. 20 Duppas Hill ter. Croydon 12 Jany. 1877.

HOBBS, THOMAS FRANCIS (1 son of Capt. Hobbs of Barnaby house, King’s county). Second lieut. 21 foot 15 Jany. 1847, which regiment he commanded at the attack on the Redan 18 June 1855; lieut. colonel 14 depot battalion 8 March 1859; lieut. col. 6 foot 6 Feb. 1863 to death; connected with the suppression of the outbreak in Jamaica, became of unsound mind 1866; author of The subaltern’s hand-book and guide to the military examination. Belfast 1859; threw himself overboard from the ‘Tyne’ off the coast of Hayti 25 April 1866.

HOBBS, WILLIAM FISHER (son of a yeoman). b. White Colne, Essex 1809; farmer at Marks hall, Coggeshall 1831; grew improved and more productive wheat; famous for his pigs known as the Fisher Hobbs pigs; V.P. of Royal agricultural society to death; member of council of Smithfield club to death; a scientific farmer, using the best machinery. d. Boxted lodge near Colchester 11 Oct. 1866. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxvi, 577–79 (1867).

HOBHOUSE, HENRY (only son of Henry Hobhouse of Hadspen house, Somerset 1742–92). b. Clifton 12 April 1776; ed. at Eton and Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1797, M.A. 1799, D.C.L. 1827; barrister M.T. 23 Jany. 1801; solicitor to H.M. customs 1806–12; solicitor to the Treasury 1812–17; under sec. of state for home department 28 June 1817 to July 1827 when he resigned on a pension of £1000; keeper of the state papers 23 May 1826 to death; P.C. 28 June 1828; chairman of Somerset quarter sessions, resigned 1845; one of Ecclesiastical comrs. for England 1838 to death; commissioner of the records 10 June 1852 when he commenced a new system for their arrangement. d. Hadspen house, Somerset 13 April 1854. G.M. xlii, 79–80 (1854); Times 18 April 1854 p. 9.

HOBHOUSE, THOMAS BENJAMIN (_5 son of Sir Benjamin Hobhouse, bart. 1757–1831_). b. 19 June 1807; ed. at Ball. coll. Ox., B.A. 1828; contested Aylesbury 1835; M.P. Rochester 1837–41; contested Newark 1841; M.P. Lincoln 1848–52; contested Ipswich 1852. d. 31 Dec. 1876.

HOBLER, FRANCIS (son of Francis Hobler, clerk to the lord mayor 1803–43 who d. 21 Jany. 1844 aged 78). Solicitor in City of London 1817–60; solicitor to Licensed Victuallers Soc. 1837–60; solicitor for the Crown in trial of F. B. Courvoisier 18–20 June 1840; sec. of Numismatic Soc. of London; author of Familiar exercises between an attorney and his articled clerk on the principles of the laws of real property 1831, 2 ed. 1838; Liber mercatoris or the merchant’s manual, being a concise treatise on bills of exchange 1838; Records of Roman history as exhibited on the Roman coins 2 vols. 1860.

HOBLYN, RICHARD DENNIS (1 son of Rev. Richard Hoblyn 1771–1827, R. of All Saints, Colchester). b. Colchester 9 April 1803; ed. at Tiverton gram. sch. and Ball. coll. Ox., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1828; ordained 1832, resigned clerical life; devoted himself to teaching and writing on education; author of A dictionary of terms used in medicine and the collateral sciences 1835, 11 ed. 1887; A manual of the steam engine 1842; A dictionary of scientific terms 1849. d. 22 Aug. 1886.

HOBLYN, THOMAS (eld. son of Edward Hoblyn). b. Liskeard 1778; chief clerk in H.M. treasury 1820–34; F.R.S. 27 June 1811; F.L.S. 4 March 1823; author of Precepts for the use of Hoblyn’s equalizer, the value in imperial measure equivalent to any value in wine measure 1826; Description of a method of founding a lighthouse on the Goodwin sands 1851. d. White Barns, Herts. 6 Aug. 1860. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i, 246, iii, 1232; Boase’s Collect. Cornub. 370.

HOBSON, FREDERICK. b. 1800; proprietor of The Leeds Times 1833 to death, and manager of the commercial department; joined by his son William Hobson. d. Woodhouse, Leeds 18 Feb. 1863. Leeds Times 21 Feb. 1863 p. 4.

HOBSON, JOHN. b. Leeds; musical director of the Christy (afterwards the Moore and Burgess) minstrels London for 12 years before his death; composer of The flight of the birds 1870; The man with the appetite 1880. d. 8 Appach road, Brixton 31 Jany. 1887.

HOBSON, MARTIN. b. 1833; chorus master at Alhambra palace, London; musical conductor to Bernard’s opera company; composed many popular songs, among others The boys of merry England 1865; A norrible tale of the suicidal family 1865; Give me the man of honest heart 1867; O sing the song you used to sing 1872; I likes a drop of good beer 1875; Popular hymns, carols and sacred songs, arranged for pianoforte, 40 numbers 1875; Popular favourites arranged for the pianoforte, 153 numbers 1876–9, and 30 other pieces besides arranging many songs, etc. d. 3 Dec. 1880.

HOBSON, RICHARD. b. Whitehaven, Cumberland 1795; studied at St. George’s hospital, London; at Queen’s coll. Cam., M.B. 1825, M.D. 1830; settled in Leeds 1831; physician Leeds infirmary 1833–43; kept a pack of harriers; was intimate with C. Waterton from 1836; published Charles Waterton, his home, habits and handiwork 1866. d. 10 Park place, Leeds 29 Nov. 1868.

HOBSON, WILLIAM ROBERT (only son of Capt. William Hobson, governor of New Zealand, d. 1842). b. 1831; entered R.N. 1845; mate of the Rattlesnake in her expedition to Behring Straits as relieving ship to the Enterprise and Investigator 1853; lieut. 20 April 1855, served in Baltic campaign 1854–5; accompanied Capt. Francis L. M’Clintock in the Fox in search of Sir John Franklin 1857–9, in the sledge party April to June 1859, discovered 6 May 1859 in the cairn built by the crews of the Erebus and Terror the tin case containing the record that Sir John Franklin died 11 June 1847; captain 11 April 1866, retired 12 Aug. 1872. d. Pitminster near Taunton 11 Oct. 1880. I.L.N. 15 Oct. 1859 p. 362–3, portrait.

HOBY, REV. JAMES (son of George Hoby, boot maker to George III., St. James’ st. Piccadilly). b. London 1788; ed. at Bristol Baptist coll. 1812; assist. minister at Maze Pond chapel to 1823; minister at Birmingham, Weymouth and Twickenham; visited United States as one of a deputation from the Baptist Union 1836; author of Narrative of a visit to christian brethren in Hamburg, Copenhagen, etc. 1844; Memoir of William Yates, D.D. of Calcutta 1847; Anti-popery. A lecture 1851. d. Caterham 20 Nov. 1871. S. A. Swaine’s Faithful Baptist men (1884) 242–3; Baptist Handbook 1872 p. 226.

HOCHSCHILD, BARON CHARLES. Ambassador and minister plenipotentiary from Sweden in London 6 Nov. 1854 to death. d. 8 Sep. 1857.

HODDER, GEORGE. b. 1819; ed. at Christ’s hospital; connected with Henry Mayhew in the initiation of Punch or the London Charivari 17 July 1841; connected with Morning Post; author of Memories of my time, including personal reminiscences of eminent men 1870; upset in a four-horse drag in Richmond park on 28 May 1870 when his skull was fractured, d. Richmond infirmary 31 July 1870. Newspaper Press, iv, 175, 215 (1870); Times 4 Aug. 1870 p. 9.

HODGE, JOHN. b. Scotland 10 April 1787; wholesale stationer and paper maker, firm being Spalding and Hodge, 145–7 Drury lane, London from 1810; largest house in England, probably in the world. d. 18 Gilston road, West Brompton, 15 Dec. 1865.

HODGES, EDWARD. b. Bristol 20 July 1796; organist of Clifton church, of St. James’s ch. Bristol 1819, of St. Nicholas’s ch. Bristol 1821–35; Mus. Bac. and Mus. Doc. Cam. 1825; went to Toronto, Canada 1835; went to U.S. of A. 1838; organist of Trinity ch. New York 1846–63; composed a morning and evening service and two anthems for reopening of St. James’s organ Bristol 2 May 1824, published 1825; published An apology for church music and musical festivals, Bristol 1834; Canticles of the Church, New York 1864. d. Clifton 1 Sep. 1876.

HODGES, REV. EDWARD RICHMOND. b. 1826; scripture reader in London; sent by Soc. for promoting Christianity among the Jews, as a missionary to Palestine; missionary in Algeria to 1856; minister of reformed episcopal church; author of Ancient Egypt 1851; edited Craik’s Principia Hebraica 1863; Cory’s Ancient fragments of the Phœnician and other authors 1876 and other books. d. Tollington park, Holloway, London 9 May 1881. Academy 18 June 1881 p. 454.

HODGES, SIR GEORGE FLOYD (son of George Thomas Hodges of Limerick). b. Old Abbey, Limerick 1792; ensign 61 foot 28 Aug. 1806; served in the Peninsula and at Waterloo 1810–15; adjutant recruiting district 5 May 1825 to 31 Dec. 1830 when placed on h.p.; commanded British and foreign legion in Portugal under Dom Pedro 1832; chargé d’ affaires and consul general to Hanse Towns 31 July 1841 to 1860 when he retired on a pension; C.B. 1 March 1851, K.C.B. 6 Aug. 1860; author of Narrative of the expedition to Portugal in 1832 under the orders of Dom Pedro 2 vols. 1833; contributed many articles to periodicals. d. 60 Lansdowne place, Brighton 14 Dec. 1862.

HODGES, JAMES. b. Queenborough, Kent 6 April 1814; engineer, worked under contractor for Greenwich railway 1834; superintended construction of Shakespeare tunnel, Dover and blasting of Round cliff, Down 1842–3; resident engineer on Norfolk railway; contracted for 50 miles of Great Northern railway; superintended construction of Victoria bridge over the St. Lawrence 1853–60; engaged in manufacturing peat fuel in Canada 1862; constructed the Callao docks 1870–5; a great benefactor to Bagshot; author of Construction of the great Victoria bridge in Canada 1860. d. Perry hill, Bagshot, June 1879. I.L.N. 22 Sep. 1860 p. 266, portrait; Engineering 25 June 1879 p. 78.

HODGES, THOMAS LAW (son of Thomas Hallett Hodges, d. 1801). b. 3 June 1776; major West Kent regiment of militia; M.P. for Kent 1830–32; for West Kent 1832–41 and 1847–52; author of Minutes of evidence before house of commons on emigration, and on state of the poor laws 1833; The use of Pearson’s drain plough 1833. d. Hemsted, Kent 14 May 1857.

HODGES, SIR WILLIAM (eld. son of Wm. Hodges of Weymouth). b. Melcombe Regis, Dorset 29 Sep. 1808; ed. at Salisbury and London Univ.; barrister I.T. 3 May 1833; a revising barrister for Devon and Cornwall 1837–57; recorder of Poole, Dorset Nov. 1846 to Nov. 1857; drafted the Public health act 1848; chief justice of the Cape colony, judge of vice admiralty court, and president of legislative council 9 Feb. 1858 to death; knighted at Buckingham palace 3 Feb. 1858; author of Report of the case of the Queen v. Lumsdaine 1839; The law relating to the assessment of railways 1842; The statute law relating to railways 1845; A treatise on the law of railways 1855, 7 ed. 2 vols. 1888; with G. Williams and F. L. Wollaston Reports of cases in court of queen’s bench 1840 continued as Term Reports to 1841. d. Sea point house, Cape town 17 Aug. 1868.

HODGETTS, FOLEY JOHN HODGETTS. b. Prestwood near Stourbridge 17 July 1797; took name of Hodgetts before that of Foley by r.l. 4 April 1821; M.P. for Droitwich 1822–34; contested Droitwich 1835; M.P. for East Worcestershire 1847 to death. d. Prestwood house, Stafford 13 Nov. 1861.

HODGKIN, JOHN (2 son of John Hodgkin of Tottenham, Middlesex, grammarian 1766–1845). b. Pentonville, London 11 March 1800; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1825; practised as a conveyancer 1825–43; had numerous pupils; aimed at conciseness and brevity in documents; a preacher among the Friends, and a visitor to Ireland, France and America 1861; helped to prepare the Encumbered Estates act 1849; author of Observations on the establishment of a General Register of titles 1827. d. Bournemouth 3 July 1875. bur. Friends’ ground, Winchmore hill, Middlesex.

HODGKIN, THOMAS (brother of the preceding). b. Tottenham, Middlesex 17 Aug. 1798; studied at Guy’s hospital, in Paris and in Edin., M.D. Edin. 1823; settled in London; L.R.C.P.; curator of museum and professor of morbid anatomy, Guy’s hospital; on senate of Univ. of London 1837 to death; a founder of Aborigines protection soc. 1838; F.R.G.S.; Hodgkin’s disease is the name given to an enlargement of the lymphatic glands; author of An essay on medical education 1828; Hints relative to the cholera in London 1832; Lectures on the morbid anatomy of the serous and mucous membranes 2 vols. 1836–40; Lectures on the means of promoting and preserving health 1835, 2 ed. 1841; Narrative of a journey to Morocco in 1863, with portrait of author 1866 and 14 other works. d. while on a visit to Jaffa, Palestine 4 April 1866, Sir M. Montefiore erected an obelisk to his memory there. Medical Times, i, 403 (1866); Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. v, 250 (1867); Barker’s Photographs of Medical Men, ii, 73–6 (1868), portrait.

HODGKINSON, EATON (son of Mr. Hodgkinson of Anderton, parish of Great Budworth, Cheshire, farmer, d. 1795). b. Anderton 26 Feb. 1789; ed. at Northwich gram. sch.; pawn broker, Salford, Manchester 1811; pupil of Dr. John Dalton of Manchester 1811; member of Manchester Lit. and Philos. society 1826, president 1848–50; F.R.S. 1841; professor of mechanical principles of engineering in Univ. coll. London 1847; hon. M.I.C.E. 1851; F.G.S.; experimented on strength and forms of iron beams and invented Hodgkinson’s beam; his paper on Strength of pillars of cast iron in Philos. Trans. obtained for him Royal soc. royal medal 1841; edited Practical essay on strength of cast iron, By T. Tredgold 5 ed. 1860. d. Eaglesfield house, Higher Broughton near Manchester 18 June 1861. Life of E. Hodgkinson in Memoirs Manchester Lit. and Philos. Soc. ii, 145 (1861); Proceedings of royal society, xii, 11–13 (1862); Minutes of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxi, 542–45 (1862).

HODGKINSON, REV. GEORGE CHRISTOPHER. b. 1816; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., 14 wrangler and B.A. 1837, M.A. 1842; principal R. Agric. coll. Cirencester; principal of York and Ripon Diocesan training institution to 1854; head master Louth gram. sch. 1854–76; sec. of National soc.; R. of Screveton, Notts. 1876 to death; an alpine climber; recommended use of aneroids in mountain expeditions; made astronomical observations on the summit of Mont Blanc; experimented on registering amount and intensity of sunshine; author of The doctrine of the church. And the statement of G. C. Hodgkinson of the Training school, York in his defence 1854; Drops for the cup of uniformity, unity and peace 1845. d. Car Colston, Notts. 25 April 1880.

HODGKINSON, SIR GEORGE EDMUND (only son of George Hodgkinson). b. Southwell, Notts. 1817; ship owner, ship and insurance agent, 74 Cornhill, London; at one time in partnership with Sir John Pirie, bart.; sheriff of London 1850–51, after the Queen’s visit to the city 9 July 1851 was knighted at Buckingham palace 17 July 1851. d. Bournemouth 26 March 1886.

HODGKINSON, GROSVENOR. b. Newark upon Trent 12 Feb. 1818; solicitor at Newark 1839–70; M.P. for Newark 1859–74. d. Newark 14 Feb. 1881.

HODGSON, ANTHONY. b. Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1780; ed. at Crook hall coll. and at Ushaw; hatter Newcastle, and bookseller dealing chiefly in R.C. books; a great student of English R.C. history; contributed many articles to Catholic Miscellany, Catholic Mag., Weekly Orthodox journal, and London and Dublin orthodox journal. d. Newcastle 10 Feb. 1869. Gillow’s English Catholics iii, 315–18 (1887).

HODGSON, BRIAN (son of Brian Hodgson, innkeeper, Buxton, d. 1827). bapt. Buxton 15 March 1767; partner in banking house of Hawkins, Mills & Co., Macclesfield 1787, the bank failed but paid 20s. in the pound; superintendent of Martello towers on coast of Essex, office abolished 1820; barrack master of the troops at Canterbury 1820–50. d. in Holland 31 Jany. 1858.

HODGSON, CHRISTOPHER (eld. son of John Hodgson of Bishop Auckland, Durham). b. Bartlett’s buildings Holborn, London 1784; attorney and notary in Westminster 1805–71; chapter clerk to dean and chapter of St. Paul’s 1806; sec. to Abp. of Canterbury 1809; sec. to Bp. of London 1813; M.A. by Abp. of Canterbury 22 July 1820; sec. to governors of queen Anne’s bounty 15 Feb. 1822, resigned Jany. 1871; sec. to Abp. of York 1826; treasurer to queen Anne’s bounty 1839 to Jany. 1871; author of Instructions for the use of candidates for holy orders 1817, 9 ed. 1870; An account of the augmentation of small livings by the Governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne 2 parts 1826–35, 2 ed. 1845–56. d. Spring grove, Isleworth, Middlesex 7 Aug. 1874. bur. Norwood cemetery.

HODGSON, CHRISTOPHER PEMBERTON. b. 1821; resided in New South Wales 1840–45 and accompanied several exploring expeditions; vice consul at Pau, France 1851–5; vice consul at Caen 1857–9; consul at Nagasaki, Japan 1859, and at Hakodadi 1859–61; author of Reminiscences of Australia 1846; El Ydaivur 1849; Pyrenaica, a history of the viscounts of Bèarn 1855; The Wanderer and other poems 1849; A residence at Nagasaki and Hakodadi 1861. d. Pau 11 Oct. 1865.

HODGSON, EDMUND (son of a bookseller in Wimpole st. London). b. 1794; publisher with Robert Saunders at 39 Fleet st. London 1825–8; publisher at 192 Fleet st. 1829–55, at 2 Chancery lane 1856 to about 1867; pres. of Booksellers’ Provident Institution. d. 102 Lower Tulse hill, Brixton 3 May 1875. Publisher’s Circular (1875) 383–4.

HODGSON, REV. FRANCIS (2 son of Rev. James Hodgson, R. of Humber, co. Hereford, d. Oct. 1810). b. Croydon 16 Nov. 1781; ed. at Eton 1794–99, scholar King’s coll. Cam. 1799; B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807, B.D. 1840; fellow and tutor of his college 1808–14; friend of lord Byron whom he visited at Newstead 1808, corresponded with lady Byron about her separation; C. of Bradden, Northamptonshire 1815–16; V. of Bakewell, Derbyshire 1816–40; archdeacon of Derby 9 Sep. 1836 to 30 Dec. 1840; P.C. of Edensor in Chatsworth park 1838–40; provost of Eton college 5 May 1840 to death; R. of Cottesford, Oxon. 1842 to death; published The satires of Juvenal, A translation 1807; The Friends, a poem 1818; Mythology for versification 1831; Select portions of sacred history conveyed in sense for Latin verses 1828, 2 ed. 1833; Sacred lyrics adapted to Latin versification in the principal metres of Horace 1842; made considerable contributions in Latin to the Arundines Cami. d. The Lodge, Eton college 29 Dec. 1852. bur. in college chapel 4 Jany. 1853. Memoir of Rev. F. Hodgson by his son 2 vols. 1878, portrait; H. C. M. Lyte’s History of Eton college (1875) 413–73.

HODGSON, REV. FRANCIS. b. Duffield 13 Feb. 1805; settled at West Chester, Pa., U.S. America; minister of Methodist Episcopal ch. at Dauphin, Pa. 1828, at Philadelphia, New York, Hartford and New Haven; author of Examination into the new system of divinity 1829; The ecclesiastical polity of Methodism defended; The Calvinistic doctrine of predestination examined and refuted 1855. d. 16 April 1877. Appleton’s American biography, iii, 225 (1887).

HODGSON, FREDERICK. b. 1795; a brewer and merchant at Barnstaple; M.P. for Barnstaple 1824–30, 1831–2 and 1837–47. d. Paris 30 March 1854. E. Yates’s Recollections, i, 12 (1884).

HODGSON, HENRY (son of Robert Hodgson). b. Congleton, Cheshire 24 Feb. 1781; entered Bengal army 1798; col. 51 Bengal N.I. 5 June 1829 to 1841; col. 12 Bengal N.I. 1841 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. Passy, Paris 8 March 1855.

HODGSON, ISAAC. b. Bradford 15 Nov. 1828; a cricketer 1847; first played at Lord’s 16 July 1860; with C. Lawrence at Glasgow put the England Eleven out for 20 runs 20 Sep. 1860; bowler to Manchester Broughton club 1862; right hand batsman, but bowled left, round armed, slow with a twist; a good player at Knurr and Spell; had a benefit at Bradford 29 Aug. 1867; landlord of West End tavern, Lister hills, Bradford. d. Bradford 24 Nov. 1867. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores vi, 437–8 (1876).

HODGSON, JOHN STUDHOLME (2 son of John Hodgson 1757–1846, general in the army). b. Blake st. York May 1805; ed. at Woolwich; ensign 23 Bengal N.I. 3 Feb. 1822; served in campaign of 1845–6 and was wounded at Sobraon; raised first Sikh regt. embodied in British service which he commanded in second Sikh war 1848–9; as brigadier, organised Punjab irregular force 1850; in command of Peshawur frontier; lieut.-col. 12 Bengal N.I. 15 April 1858 to 1862; M.G. 23 July 1861; retired 1865. d. 10 Stanhope terrace, Hyde park, London 14 Jany. 1870.

HODGSON, JOSEPH (son of John Hodgson of Birmingham, merchant). b. Penrith, Cumberland 1788; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital; M.R.C.S. 1811, member of council 1849, examiner in surgery 1856–66, president 1864; in practice at King st. Cheapside 1811–18; edited London Medical Rev.; removed to Birmingham 1818; surgeon to general dispensary and general hospital to 1848; a founder of Birmingham eye infirmary 1824; returned to London 1849; examiner in surgery London univ.; president Medico-Chirur. Soc. 1851; very successful as a lithotomist; F.R.S. 14 April 1831; attended Sir Robert Peel on his death 2 July 1850; author of A treatise on the diseases of arteries and veins 1815 which was translated into German and Italian. d. 60 Westbourne ter. London 7 Feb. 1869. Reg. and Mag. of Biog. March 1869 pp. 211–2; J. F. Clarke’s Biog. Recollections (1874) 331–5.

HODGSON, REV. JOSEPH LOWTHER (3 son of William Hodgson of Houghton house, Cumberland). b. 27 Sep. 1818; ed. at Pet. coll. Cam., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1844; P.C. of Wetheral with Warwick 1848 to death; hon. canon of Carlisle cath. 1858 to death; author of A simple catechism of the Lord’s prayer 1851; The village schools of Cumberland 1857. d. Harber Grange near Carlisle 29 March 1861.

HODGSON, REV. JOSEPH STORDY (2 son of Joseph Hodgson). b. 1806; ed. at Caius coll. Cam., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1834; R. of Brinklow near Coventry 1840–58; R. of Aikton, Cumberland 1858–70; hon. canon of Carlisle cath. 1872, canon residentiary 1872 to death; author of Considerations in phrenology 1839; The duty of private judgment 1844. d. The Abbey, Carlisle 24 Jany. 1879.

HODGSON, KIRKMAN DANIEL (eld son of John Hodgson of the Elms, Hampstead, d. 1858). b. London 1814; ed. at the Charterhouse 1826 etc.; partner in firm of Baring Brothers and Co. merchants; a director of Bank of England 1849–78, deputy governor 1862, governor 1863–4; M.P. for Bridport 1857–68, contested Penryn 1868; M.P. Bristol 1870 to 1878. d. Ash Grove, Sevenoaks 11 Sep. 1879, personalty sworn under £400,000 Nov. 1879.

HODGSON, MARY (dau. of Thomas Hodgson 1800–69). b. Bentham, Yorkshire 1835; ed. at Ackworth sch. near Pontefract 1846–50; student of Manchester sch. of Art 1874, and at Manchester Academy of art 1876; lady exhibitor 1882, associate 1884; landscape painter in oil and water colours; made studies of animals, especially of cats; author of A plea for the Alliance, in verse 1864; Vegetarian receipts for Christmas time 1883; illustrated H. Thompson’s History of Ackworth School 1879 with 12 drawings. d. York 13 Sep. 1886. J. H. Nodal’s Bibliography of Ackworth school (1889) 15, portrait.

HODGSON, RICHARD. b. Wimpole st. London 1804; partner in firm of Hodgson and Graves of Pall Mall, London, publishers to 1841; introduced many improvements in daguerreo type; built an observatory at Claybury in Essex 1852, removed it to Hawkwood near Chingford, Essex; F.R.A.S. 14 April 1848, mem. of council 12 Feb. 1858, hon. sec. 1863–67. d. Hawkwood 4 May 1872.

HODGSON, SIR ROBERT (son of Robert Hodgson, speaker of house of assembly, Prince Edward island). b. Charlotte town, Prince Edward island 1798; ed. at Collegiate sch. Windsor, Nova Scotia; admitted to bar of Nova Scotia and of Prince Edward island 1819; surrogate and judge of probate for P.E. island 1828, attorney general and advocate general 1828, president of legislative council 1840, and acting chief justice 1841; resigned all offices except surrogate and judge 1851; chief justice 1852, judge of vice admiralty court 1853; acting governor of P.E. island 1865, 1868 and 1873–4; lieut.-governor July 1874 to July 1879; knighted by patent 1 March 1869. d. Charlotte town 16 Sep. 1880.

HODGSON, STUDHOLME JOHN (son of general John Hodgson 1757–1846). b. 1 April 1805; ensign 50 regt. 30 Dec. 1819; served in 45, 39 and 19 regiments in Ceylon, India and the first Burmese war; commander of the forces in Ceylon 1865–69; commander of troops in Straits Settlement; administrator of civil government of Ceylon; colonel 54 regt. 13 March 1868; colonel 4 regt. 21 Nov. 1876 to death; general 2 Feb. 1876; retired 1 Oct. 1877. d. Argyll hall, Torquay 31 Aug. 1890.

HODGSON, THOMAS. b. Lancaster, Jany. 1800; land surveyor, Lancaster 1821; made a survey of the county of Westmoreland 1823–5, concerning which he had a paper war with G. & J. Greenwood, map publishers; author of Plan of the county of Westmoreland 1828, another issue with the geological strata coloured by Adam Sedgwick is dated 1841. d. Lancaster 1869.

HODGSON, THOMAS. Master Badsworth hounds for 3 seasons, of Holderness hounds 16 seasons and of Quorn hounds 2 seasons; registrar of deeds, West Riding of Yorkshire. d. Snydale hall, May 1863 aged 70. Sporting Rev., June 1863 pp. 461–3.

HODGSON, WILLIAM. b. 1745; studied medicine and botany in Holland; M.D.; tried at Old Bailey 9 Dec. 1793 for proposing toast of The French Republic and comparing the king to a German hog butcher, imprisoned in Newgate 2 years; author of The picture of the Times 1795; The commonwealth of reason 1795; The case of W. Hodgson now confined in Newgate 1795; A critical grammar of the French and English language 1819; Flora’s cabinet in which the relation of chemistry to the flower garden is elucidated 1835; The life of Napoleon Bonaparte 1841. d. Hemingford ter. Islington 2 March 1851 aged 106. G.M. xxxv, 560 (1851); N. & Q. 14 June 1884 p. 475.

HODGSON, WILLIAM BALLANTYNE (son of William Hodgson a working printer). b. Edinburgh 6 Oct. 1815; matric. at Edin. univ. Nov. 1829; a lecturer on literature, education and phrenology in Fifeshire; sec. Mechanics’ instit. Liverpool 1 June 1839; principal of Liverpool institute 1844; LLD. of Glasgow univ. 11 March 1846; principal Chorlton high sch. Manchester 1847–51; lectured on economic science R. Instit. London 1854; assist. comr. of inquiry into primary education 1858; professor of commercial law Edin. univ. 17 July 1871; author of Lectures on education 1837; The education of girls 1864–6, 2 ed. 1869; The true scope of economic science 1870; Turgot, his life, times and opinions 1870 and other works. d. at Brussels while attending educational congress 24 Aug. 1880. Meiklejohn’s Life and letters of W. B. Hodgson (1885), portrait; Grant’s University of Edinburgh, ii, 466–9 (1884).

HODGSON, WILLIAM NICHOLSON (eld. son of Joseph Hodgson). b. Carlisle 14 Aug. 1801; M.P. Carlisle 1847–52, 1857–9 and 1865–8; M.P. East Cumberland 1868 to death; sheriff of Cumberland 1863. d. 33 Duke st. St. James’s, London 2 April 1876.

HODSON, VEN. GEORGE (youngest son of Mr. Hodson of Carlisle). b. 1787; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1810, of Magd. coll., M.A. 1813; Taxor of the university 1813; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Birmingham, Oct. 1824; archdeacon of Stafford, April 1829 to death; second residentiary canon and chancellor of Lichfield cath. 28 June 1833 to death; V. of St. Mary, Lichfield 1851 to death; author of Twelve sermons on Christian temper and experience 1825; Morning discourses at Christ Church, Birmingham 1832; The church of Rome’s traffic in pardons 1838; The finished course 1855. d. Riva on the Lago di Garda 13 Aug. 1855.

HODSON, GEORGE A. (son of George A. Hodson, musical composer of numerous pieces). b. Dublin 1822; first appeared on stage at Bath about 1839; actor of Irish characters; played Teddy the Tiler at Covent Garden 1841; lessee of Cheltenham theatre; lessee of theatre royal, Gloucester to his death. d. Bath 27 June 1869. Era 4 July 1869 p. 11 col. 4.

HODSON, JAMES. b. Streat Place near Ditchling, Sussex 30 Oct. 1808; miller at Brighton; first played at Lord’s 10 June 1839 when he was no-balled for being too high; round armed bowler; resided at Hunston near Chichester from 1856. d. 17 March 1880. Lillywhite’s Cricket scores, ii, 495 (1862).

HODSON, MARGARET (eld. dau. of Allen Holford of Davenham, by Margaret Wrench of Chester, authoress). b. 1778; author of Wallace or the fight of Falkirk, a romance 1809, 2 ed. 1810; Poems 1811; Margaret of Anjou 1816; Warbeck of Wolfstein 1820. (m. 16 Oct. 1820 Septimus Hodson, rector of Thrapston, Northamptonshire d. 12 Dec. 1833); a friend of Southey, Coleridge and Landor; also published The lives of Vasco Nunez de Balboa and Francisco Pizarro from the Spanish of Don Manuel Josef Quintana 1832. d. Sharrow cottage, Dawlish, Devon 11 Sep. 1852. N. & Q. 2 S. i 113, 4 S. ix 534, x 94, xi 411.

HODSON, WILLIAM STEPHEN RAIKES (3 son of Ven. George Hodson 1787–1855, archdeacon of Stafford). b. Maisemore court near Gloucester 19 March 1821; ed. at Rugby and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1844; entered H.E.I.C. service Sep. 1845; with the 2nd grenadiers engaged in Sikh war; adjutant of corps of guides 1847; assist. commissary at Umritsur in the Punjab 1849; commander of corps of guides Sep. 1852, removed 1855; two inquiries made as to his conduct, the last being favourable 1856; raised and commanded a regiment of irregular horse known throughout the mutiny of 1857 as Hodson’s horse; managed the intelligence department 1857; pursued and captured the king of Delhi 21 Sep. 1857; captured and shot with his own hands the 3 princes of Delhi 22 Sep. 1857; shot by a native in the begum’s palace at Lucknow 11 March 1858. d. Lucknow 12 March 1858. Twelve years of a soldier’s life in India, By W. R. Hodson 1859; Rev. G. H. Hodson’s Hodson of Hodson’s Horse (1883); R. B. Smith’s Life of Lord Lawrence, i 309, ii 14, 538; Kaye and Malleson’s Indian mutiny, vols. i-iv (1888–89).

HOFFMEISTER, SIR WILLIAM CARTER (son of Charles William Hoffmeister, collector of customs, Belfast). b. Portsmouth 6 July 1817; ed. at Glasgow univ., M.D. 1840; M.R.C.S. 1840, F.R.C.S. 1855; L.R.C.P. 1861; surgeon apothecary to the Queen at Osborne; surgeon Royal yacht squadron; knighted at Osborne 26 Aug. 1884. d. Clifton house, Cowes, Isle of Wight 29 July 1890.

HOGAN, JOHN (son of a builder). b. Tallow, co. Waterford, Oct. 1800; with Sir Thomas Deane, architect Cork 1815–22; decorated R.C. chapel, Cork with 44 wooden figures of saints 1822; studied in Rome 1823–9; first works in marble, A shepherd boy 1824 and a Drunken Faun; retired to Ireland 1829; his ‘Dead Christ’ forms altar piece of R.C. chapel, Clarendon st. Dublin; patronised by R.C. clergy; made statues of D. O’Connell and others, and busts of Father Mathew, &c.; exhibited 4 sculptures at R.A. London 1833–50. d. Dublin 20 March 1858. His widow Cornelia granted civil list pension of £100, 4 Oct. 1858. Dublin Univ. Mag. xxxv, 72 (1850), portrait; Art Journal, ii, 376 (1850), portrait.

HOGAN, JOHN SHERIDAN. b. near Dublin 1815; sent to Toronto, Canada 1826; newsboy for Canadian Wesleyan 1826, foreman, then on staff of writers; studied law, attorney 1844 in practice at Hamilton; sent articles on Canadian politics to Blackwood’s Edin. Mag. 1850; established United Empire newspaper at Toronto; accused of complicity in burning steamer Caroline, but discharged, brought a claim for indemnity which was not entertained; first prize for an essay on Canada and her resources, at Paris exhibition 1855; editor Toronto Daily Colonist 1856 and for some years; member for county of Grey in Canadian parliament 1857; murdered near Toronto, Dec. 1859. Morgan’s Bibl. Canad. (1867) 192; Appleton’s American Biog. iii, 229 (1887).

HOGARTH, GEORGE, b. Edinburgh 1783; a writer to the signet; a violinist and composer; a contributor to Edinburgh Courant; a writer on Morning Chronicle, London 1831, afterwards editor; musical critic to Daily News 1846–66 and also to Illust. London News; sec. to Philharmonic soc. 1850–64; compiled the Houseland Narrative 1850–61; author of Musical history, biography and criticism 1835; Memoirs of the opera in Italy, France, Germany and England 2 vols. 1851; his musical publications were The musical herald 2 vols. 1846; School music arranged for three voices 1852. d. at res. of his dau. Mrs. R. C. Roney, 10 Gloucester crescent, Regent’s park, London 12 Feb. 1870. Newspaper Press, iv, 81 (1870).

HOGARTH, MOST REV. WILLIAM. b. Dodding Green, Kendal, Westmoreland 25 March 1786; entered catholic college at Crook hall near Consett 29 Aug. 1796, this college was subsequently removed to Ushaw; received tonsure and four minor orders at Durham 19 March 1807, ordained sub-deacon 2 April 1808, deacon 14 Dec. 1808, priest 20 Dec. 1809; a professor and general prefect at Ushaw college; chaplain at Cliffe hall 31 Oct. 1816 to 9 Nov. 1824; transferred to the mission at Darlington 9 Nov. 1824 where he remained to death; vicar general to bishops Briggs, Mostyn and Riddell; vicar apostolic of the northern district, and bishop of Samosata in partibus 28 July 1848, consecrated in St. Cuthbert’s chapel, Ushaw 24 Aug. 1848; bishop of Hexham and Newcastle 29 Sep. 1850 to death. d. Paradise row, Darlington 29 Jany. 1866. bur. St. Cuthbert’s coll. Ushaw 6 Feb. Brady’s Episcopal succession, iii, 346, 357, 410–13 (1877); Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 321–23 (1887).

HOGG, HENRY (son of a manufacturer of hosiery). b. Nottingham 1831; solicitor at Nottingham to death; wrote a number of short poems in the Christian Miscellany, also wrote hymns and carols some of which he set to music; published Poems, Nottingham 1852; Songs for the Times 1856. d. Nottingham 1874. Wylie’s Old and New Nottingham (1853) 247.

HOGG, JAMES. b. Leitrim, Ireland; contributed to Dublin University Mag. and New York Albion; editor and proprietor of New Brunswick Reporter at Fredericton to death; author of Poems. St. John, N.B. 1825; Poems, religious, moral and sentimental. d. Fredericton, New Brunswick 12 June 1866. Morgan’s Bibl. Canad. (1867) 192.

HOGG, JAMES (son of James Hogg). b. near Edinburgh 26 March 1806; apprenticed to James Muirhead, printer, Edin. 1818; printer and publisher in Edin. 1837–58; edited Hogg’s Weekly Instructor, first number 1 March 1845, title changed to The Instructor 1849, afterwards to Titan, last number Dec. 1859 altogether 29 vols.; publisher in London 1858 to July 1867; published De Quincey’s Collected Works 14 vols. 1857, new ed. 15 vols. 1862; Churchman’s Family Mag. and London Society projected by his son Feb. 1862. d. The Acacia, Crescent road, St. John’s, Kent 14 March 1888. H. A. Page’s [i.e. A. H. Japp’s] Life of T. de Quincey (1877) i 396, ii 1–33, 339; Nicoll’s Landmarks of English literature (1883) 454–5.

HOGG, SIR JAMES WEIR, 1 Baronet (eld. son of William Hogg of Lisburn, co. Antrim 1754–1824). b. Stoneyford, co. Antrim 7 Sep. 1790; scholar of Trinity coll. Dublin 1808, B.A. 1810; student of Gray’s inn, London 20 May 1811; went to Calcutta 1814, practised at the bar to 1822; registrar in supreme court, Calcutta 1822–33; returned to England, June 1833 with a large fortune; M.P. Beverley 1835–47; M.P. Honiton 1847–57; director of H.E.I.C. 11 Sep. 1839, deputy chairman 1845–6, 1850–1 and 1851–2, chairman 1846–7 and 1852–3; cr. baronet 20 July 1846; member of council of India 21 Sep. 1858 to 1872, vice president 1860; P.C. 5 Feb. 1872. d. 11 Grosvenor crescent, London 27 May 1876, personalty sworn under £350,000, 8 July 1876. I.L.N. iv, 268 (1844), portrait; Times 29 May 1876 p. 12.

HOGG, JOHN (2 son of John Hogg of Norton house near Stockton on Tees, barrister, d. 1840). b. 21 March 1800; ed. at Durham gr. sch. and St. Peter’s coll. Cam., scholar 1820, B.A. 1822, M.A. 1827, fellow 1827; barrister I.T. 27 Jany. 1832; F.L.S. 1823; F.R.S. 20 June 1839; mem. of Royal Soc. of Lit. 1843, foreign sec. and vice pres. 1866; F.R.G.S., sec. 1849–50; author of A catalogue of Sicilian plants 1842; Letters from abroad to a friend at Cambridge 1844, and 40 articles in periodical publications. d. Norton house 16 Sep. 1869. Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. xiv, 298–9.

HOGG, MARGARET (dau. of Mr. Phillips of Langbridgemoor, Annandale, farmer). (m. 28 April 1820 James Hogg 1770–1835 the Eltrick shepherd); friend of Sir Walter Scott; received a present of £130 from Cincinnati 1853; civil list pension of £50, 3 Jany. 1854. d. Bellevue place, Linlithgow 15 Nov. 1870 aged about 80. C. Rogers’ Leaves from my autobiography (1876) 256, 265–78.

HOGG, THOMAS JEFFERSON (brother of John Hogg 1800–69). b. Norton 24 May 1792; ed. at Durham gr. sch. and Univ. coll. Ox. from which he was expelled 25 March 1811 for declining to disavow a publication entitled The necessity of Atheism by Shelley; made acquaintance of Shelley at Oxford 1810, which he kept to his death 1822; barrister M.T. 28 Nov. 1817; a municipal corporation comr. for England and Wales 1833–34; revising barrister for Northumberland and Berwick 20 years; came into £2000 under Shelley’s will in 1844; author of Memoirs of Prince Alesy Haimatoff, Translated by John Brown, esq. [i.e. T. J. Hogg], A novel 1813; Two hundred and nine days, or the Journal of a traveller on the continent 2 vols. 1827; Life of P. B. Shelley 2 vols 1858, never completed. d. 33 Clifton road, St. John’s Wood, London 27 Aug. 1862. Durham County Advertiser 5 Sept. 1862 p. 5; G.M. xiii, 506, 643 (1862).

HOGGAN, JOHN (4 son of major George Hoggan of Waterside, Dumfries). b. 1790; entered Bengal army 1807; colonel 45 Bengal N.I. 11 July 1853 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854; C.B. 9 June 1849. d. Delna, Bengal 13 Nov. 1861.

HOGGE, CHARLES. b. 1814; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery 11 Dec. 1829; colonel R.A. 20 Feb. 1860 to death; C.B. 17 June 1858. d. Erith 18 Sep. 1865.

HOGGINS, CHRISTOPHER ARGYLE. b. 1793; barrister M.T. 12 Feb. 1830; went northern circuit; Q.C. March 1850; bencher of his inn 1850. d. 3 Plowden buildings, Temple 19 June 1871.

HOLBERTON, VEN. ROBERT (son of Robert Holberton of Torr house, Devon). b. 1800; ed. at Ex. coll. Ox., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1825; R. of St. John, Antigua 1827–50; archdeacon of Antigua 1843–50; V. of Norbiton, Surrey 1850–75; C. of Walton-on-the-Hill 1876–8. d. Devon lodge, Kew 14 June 1886.

HOLCROFT, THOMAS (son of Thomas Holcroft, dramatist 1745–1809). Journalist in London 1822 to death; Paris correspondent for the Morning Herald; sec. to the Asiatic Society; edited an East Indian paper in India some years. d. 37 Woburn place, London 6 Feb. 1852. G.M. xxxvii, 425 (1852).

HOLDEN, GEORGE. b. 1800; professor of music; organist St. George’s ch. Liverpool to death; composer of anthems, songs, etc.; wrote Smiling Mirth. d. 22 Rodney st. Liverpool 5 Dec. 1856.

HOLDEN, REV. GEORGE (son of Rev. George Holden, master of Horton-in-Ribblesdale gram. sch.) b. Horton 1783; ed. at univ. of Glasgow, B.A.; P.C. of Maghull near Liverpool 1811 to death; V. of Horton, 1821–5; author of An attempt towards an improved version of the Proverbs 1819; The christian expositor or guide to the New Testament 1830; An essay on the angels of the church 1862; and 13 other books. d. Maghull 19 March 1865; his library and half his property left to clergy of Ripon, library kept in palace at Ripon. G.M. xviii, 657 (1865).

HOLDEN, GEORGE. b. Walsall, Staffs. 29 Nov. 1821; beat C. Davis at Sutton Coldfield 24 Jany. 1843 in 73 rounds; beaten by Paddy Gill on Warwickshire Moor 29 Oct. 1844 in 21 rounds for £50; beat Bill Stevens at Calf Heath near Wolverhampton 14 July 1845 in 56 rounds for £25; beat Bob Smith at the Clock, Bickenhall 1 April 1846 in 84 rounds for £50; one of the gamest men who ever lived; licensed victualler, Wolverhampton; landlord of the Malt shovel inn, Walsall. d. Wood’s Fold, New st. Walsall 4 Feb. 1889. Sporting Life 9 Feb. 1889 p. 7.

NOTE.—He had 3 brothers Jem, Ted and John all pugilists, his son George Holden, junior, also was well known, he fought Charley Linch, Jack Lead and Peter Morris in London.

HOLDEN, GEORGE KENYON. b. Worcester 1806; attorney and solicitor; emigrated to Sydney, Australia 1831; private sec. to Sir Richard Bourke 1831–7; crown prosecutor 1837; solicitor in practice at Sydney from 1838; member of legislative council 1861; examiner of titles 1862. d. Rockton, Sydney 16 April 1874. Heaton’s Australian Dict. of Dates (1879) 94.

HOLDEN, REV. JOHN. b. Bonds, Garstang, Lancs. 6 May 1797; ed. at Stonyhurst and Oscott colleges 1812–25; priest 6 Oct. 1825; missioner at Thetford, Norfolk 1825–39; member of Soc. of Jesus 21 Feb. 1840; missioner at Spinkhill, Derbyshire 1842, at Lowergate, Clitheroe, Lancs. 1843 and at Lincoln 1847–59; procurator at St. Bruno’s coll. St. Asaph 1859–61; author of A discharge of grape shot against “Authorities to prove that Church of Rome prohibits reading of the Scriptures.” By the Rev. T. D. Atkinson 1826. d. Mount St. Mary coll. Spinkhill, Derbyshire 30 June 1861. Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 339–40 (1887).

HOLDEN, MOSES. b. Bolton 21 Nov. 1777; a landscape gardener, then a weaver; constructed an orrery and a magic lantern 1814–5; gave astronomical lectures in north of England from 1815; assisted in establishing Preston Institution; freedom of the borough given him 1834; published A small celestial atlas or maps of the visible heavens in the latitude of Britain 1818, 4 ed. 1840; An almanac 1835, &c. d. Preston 3 June 1864.

HOLDEN, HENRY. b. 1810; a butcher at Birmingham; landlord of the Rodney inn, Coleshill st. Birmingham about 1840; built a small music hall there, which became the leading one in the Midlands, built a large music hall there, and a brewery 1857, managed his hall down to 1863 or 1864. d. Lansdowne house, Malvern 27 Jany. 1880. Era 1 Feb. 1880 p. 4.

HOLDFORTH, JAMES (son of Joseph Holdforth, silk manufacturer Leeds). b. Leeds 14 June 1778; J.P. for Leeds 1836; mayor of Leeds Nov. 1838, first Roman catholic mayor since the Reformation; president of Leeds Catholic institute; supported a ragged school in Leeds. d. Burley hill, Leeds 13 July 1861. Gillow’s English Catholics iii, 346–7 (1887); Taylor’s Biog. Leodiensis (1865) 498.

HOLDING, FREDERICK (son of Henry Holding, painter). b. 1817; painter at Manchester; illustrated Southey’s Battle of Blenheim 1864 and other books; scene painter Theatre royal and Prince’s theatre, Manchester. d. 1874. Manchester City News 3 May 1890.

HOLDING, HENRY JAMES (brother of preceding). b. Salford, Lancs., Nov. 1833; a calico printer’s pattern designer; a painter of marine and torrent scenery in oil and water colours; exhibited in Manchester, Liverpool and London; his chief works were, Finding the body of Rufus by the charcoal burners 1862 and Bettwys-y-Coed 1872. d. Paris 2 Aug. 1872.

HOLE, LEWIS (son of Rev. Wm. Hole, archdeacon of Barnstaple, d. 26 Oct. 1791 aged 82). b. Strodeley, Devon 16 Jany. 1779; entered R.N. 1793, first lieut. of the Revenge at Trafalgar; captain 4 Dec. 1813; retired R.A. 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 11 Feb. 1861. d. Newport near Barnstaple 16 July 1870. I.L.N. lvii, 131 (1870); O’Byrne (1849) 529.

HOLKER, SIR JOHN (son of Samuel Holker of Bury, Lancs.) b. Bury 24 March 1828; ed. at Bury gr. sch.; barrister G.I. 9 June 1854, bencher 15 April 1868, treasurer 1875; practised at Manchester 1854–64; removed to London 1864; Q.C. 21 Feb. 1868; much engaged in patent cases; M.P. Preston 1872–82; solicitor general 20 April 1874; knighted at Windsor Castle 12 Dec. 1874; attorney general 25 Nov. 1875 to May 1880, his income during 1875–77 was £22,000 a year; lord justice of court of appeal 14 Jany. 1882, resigned 19 May 1882. d. 46 Devonshire st. Portland place, London 24 May 1882. bur. St. Cuthbert’s church, Lytham 30 May. A generation of Judges, By Their Reporter (1886) 119–27; I.L.N. lxiv, 493 (1874), portrait; Times 25 May 1882 p. 9, cols. 3–4.

HOLL, CHARLTON. b. 1805; entered Madras army 1820; colonel 15 Madras N.I. 11 July 1861 to 1864; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. 39 Royal crescent, Notting hill, London 4 Dec. 1878.

HOLL, FRANCIS (4 son of William Holl, engraver 1771–1838). b. Bayham st. Camden Town, London 23 March 1815; pupil of his father; engaged 25 years engraving pictures belonging to the Queen; exhibited 17 engravings at R.A. 1856–79; A.R.A. Jany. 1883; his principal works were, The Stocking Loom by A. Elmore, and The coming of age in the olden time, and The railway station, both by W. P. Frith; portraits of him by his son Frank Holl were exhibited at the R.A. 1868 and 1884. d. Elm house, Milford near Godalming 14 Jany. 1884. bur. Highgate cemetery 19 Jany.

HOLL, FRANCIS MONTAGUE, known as Frank Holl (eld. son of the preceding). b. 7 St. James’s terrace, Kentish Town, London 4 July 1845; studied at R.A. schools, silver medallist 1862–3, gold medallist 1863, travelling student of R.A. 1868–9; worked for The Graphic 1874–6; portrait painter 1876 to death, painted 198 portraits including nearly all celebrated men of the day 1879–88; A.R.A. 19 June 1878, R.A. 29 March 1883; associate of Royal Soc. of painters in water-colours 26 March 1883. d. The Three Gables, 6 Fitzjohn’s Avenue, London 31 July 1888. Universal Review 15 Aug. 1888 pp. 478–93, portrait; Graphic 3 May 1879, portrait, and 11 Aug. 1888, portrait.

HOLL, HENRY (brother of Francis Holl 1815–84). b. July 1811; first appeared on stage as prince Arthur in King John at Drury Lane 1828; acted in the provinces; for many years a member of Haymarket Co.; wrote for the stage Grace Huntley, Adelphi 1833, Wapping Old Stairs, Haymarket 18 Nov. 1837, Louise or the White Scarf, Victoria 1838, The Forest keeper, Drury Lane 15 Feb. 1860, and Caught in a trap, Princess’s 8 Feb. 1860; a reader at Hanover square rooms about 1874; author of The King’s mail 3 vols. 1863; The Old house in Crosby square 2 vols. 1863; More secrets than one 3 vols. 1864. d. 1 Horbury crescent, Notting hill, London 20 Nov. 1884. Theatrical Times, iii, 17, 50 (1848), portrait; N. & Q. 6 S. x 487 (1884).

HOLL, WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). b. Plaistow, Essex, Feb. 1807; pupil of his father; engraved many portraits for Lodge’s Portraits 1834, Knight’s Gallery of Portraits 1833–36, &c.; engraved W. P. Frith’s An English Merrymaking, The village pastor, &c.; engraved pictures after J. Absolom, A. Elmore, B. West and others; F.G.S.; exhibited 22 engravings at R.A. 1860–71. d. 174 Adelaide road, Haverstock hill, London 30 Jany. 1871.

HOLLAND, HENRY EDWARD VASSALL, 4 Baron (only son of 3 Baron Holland 1773–1840). b. 7 March 1802; sec. of legation at Turin 24 July 1832, at Vienna 3 July 1835; minister plenipotentiary to Germanic confederation 17 April 1838, and to Florence 6 Dec. 1838 to 8 June 1846; succeeded 22 Oct. 1840; edited Foreign reminiscences of Henry Richard 3 Baron Holland 1850; Memoirs of the Whig party, By H. R. 3 Baron Holland 1852. d. Naples 18 Dec. 1859. Saunders’s Portraits of reformers (1840) 191, portrait.

HOLLAND, CHARLES. b. 1802; M.D. Edin. 1824; L.R.C.S. Lond. 1828; F.R.S. 19 Jany. 1837; president Roy. Med. Soc. Edin. d. St. Chads, Lichfield 21 March 1876.

HOLLAND, EDWARD (eld. son of Samuel Holland, merchant, London). b. 1806; M.P. East Worcestershire 1835–7, contested E. Worcs. 4 Aug. 1837; contested East Gloucestershire 9 Jany. 1854; M.P. Evesham 1855–68. d. Dumbleton hall near Evesham 5 Jany. 1875.

HOLLAND, REV. FREDERICK WHITMORE. b. Dumbleton near Evesham 1837; ed. at Eton and Trin coll. Cam., B.A. 1860, M.A. 1864; V. of All Saints with St. Lawrence, Evesham 1872 to death; revisited the peninsula of Sinai in 1861 and 1865; joint hon. sec. of Palestine exploration fund 1866 to death; a founder of the Sinai survey fund, and accompanied Sir C. W. Wilson’s expedition to Sinai 1868; again went to Sinai 1878; F.R. Geog. Soc. 1867, wrote many papers on Palestine in its Journal; author of Sinai and Jerusalem, or scenes from Bible lands 1870. d. on the Nissen, near Thun, Switzerland 27 Aug. 1880. Proc. R. Geographical Soc. iii, 670–1 (1881).

HOLLAND, GEORGE. b. Lambeth, London 6 Dec. 1791; clerk in a silk warehouse, London; appeared at Drury Lane in a small part 1817; first appeared at Bowery theatre, New York 12 Sep. 1827 as Jerry in The Day after the Fair; treasurer of the St. Charles theatre, New Orleans 1834; connected with Mitchell’s Olympic theatre, New York 1843–9; with Wood and Christy’s negro minstrels under an assumed name 1849–52; member of Wallack’s Co. 1852–7; made his last appearance at Daly’s Fifth Avenue theatre 15 May 1870; in his performances he brought in numerous eccentricities, ventriloquial diversions and imitations of men and animals. d. New York city 20 Dec. 1871; 15,000 dollars subscribed for his wife and family. Thos. H. Morrell’s Life of G. Holland 1871; Ireland’s New York Stage, i 560, ii 421, 620 (1866–7).

HOLLAND, GEORGE CALVERT. b. Pitsmoor, Sheffield 28 Feb. 1801; apprentice to a hairdresser; ed. at Edinburgh univ., M.D. 1827; in practice at Manchester 1829, removed to Sheffield; became a director of railways and banks and was ruined; resided in London 1849–51; returned to Sheffield as a homœopathic practitioner 1851; alderman of Sheffield 1862 to death; author of The physiology of the fœtus, liver and spleen 1831; The vital statistics of Sheffield 1843; The nature and cure of consumption 1850; The domestic practice of homœopathy 1859 and 15 other books; conducted The Sheffield Homœopathic Lancet 1853. d. Sheffield 7 March 1865. G.M. xviii, 653 (1865).

HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, 1 Baronet (son of Peter Holland of Knutsford, Cheshire, surgeon). b. Knutsford 27 Oct. 1788; ed. at Newcastle upon Tyne 1799–1803, at Bristol 1804, and at Glasgow univ. 1804–6; studied medicine at Edin. Univ., M.D. 12 Sep. 1811; domestic physician to Caroline, princess of Wales 1814; L.R.C.P. 1816, F.R.C.P. 1828 and V.P., Gulstonian lecturer 1830, censor 1832, 1836 and 1842, consiliarius 1836, 1839, 1844–46, 1850–52 and 1869; physician extraordinary to William iv. 16 April 1835; one of H.M.’s physicians extraordinary 8 Aug. 1837; one of prince Albert’s physicians extraordinary 1840; one of H.M.’s physicians in ordinary 22 Dec. 1852; cr. baronet 10 May 1853; F.G.S. 1809, F.R.S. 19 Jany. 1815; D.C.L. Ox. 1856; a manager of Royal Institution 4 Feb. 1861, president; author of Travels in the Ionian islands, Albania, Thessaly, Macedonia 1815, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1819; Medical notes and reflections 1839, 3 ed. 1855; Recollections of past life 1872, 2 ed. 1872 and 6 other books. d. 25 Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London 27 Oct. 1873. Munk’s Roll of Physicians, iii, 144–9 (1878); Barker’s Photographs of Medical men (1865) 65–8, portrait; J. F. Clarke’s Autobiographical Recollections (1874) 458–95; Graphic, viii, 460, 466 (1873), portrait.

NOTE.—His 2 wife Saba whom he m. 20 March 1834, d. 2 Nov. 1866, she wrote A memoir of her father the Rev. Sydney Smith 2 vols. 1855, 4 ed. 1855.

HOLLAND, JAMES (son of a potter). b. Burslem 17 Oct. 1800; painter of flowers on pottery and porcelain; went to London 1819; painter in water colours and oil; exhibited 32 pictures at R.A., 91 at B.I. and 108 at Suffolk st. 1815–67; Assoc. Soc. Painters in water colours 1835–43; member of Soc. of British Artists 1843–8; member Water Colour Soc. 1856; paid many visits abroad from 1830; drew for the Landscape and other annuals 1839 etc.; one of the finest colourists of the English school; his views in Venice fetch large prices; several of his pictures are at South Kensington. d. London 12 Feb. or Dec. 1870. Redgrave’s Dict. of Artists (1878) 219; Bryan’s Dict. of painters, i, 671 (1886).

HOLLAND, JOHN (son of John Holland of Richmond hill, Handsworth, Yorkshire, optical instrument maker). b. in Sheffield Park 14 March 1794; edited the Sheffield Iris 1825–32, the Newcastle Courant 1832–3; joint editor of Sheffield Mercury 1835–48; presented by ten gentlemen of Sheffield with an annuity of £100, 1870; author of Sheffield Park, a descriptive poem. Sheffield 1820; The history of the town and parish of Worksop, Nottingham 1826; The Psalmists of Britain 1843, and 15 other books; author with James Everett of Memoirs of the life and writings of James Montgomery 7 vols. 1854–6. d. in Sheffield Park 28 Dec. 1872. W. Hudson’s Life of John Holland (1874), portrait; Reliquary, xv, 145.

HOLLAND, JOHN (son of a house painter and picture dealer). b. 15 Vernon st. Nottingham 14 Dec. 1829; a self taught artist; resided in Todmorden district, Lancs., then in London, afterwards at Trebray lodge, Tintagel, Cornwall; sent 3 pictures The Storm, After the Storm, and The Wreckers to the exhibition at the Nottingham Castle Art museum 1868; a most rapid painter, only excelled in speed by Smith the painter of waterfalls. d. Trebray lodge, Feb. 1886.

HOLLAND, REV. SAMUEL (son of Nicholas Holland of Greenwich, Kent). b. Greenwich 1772; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. and at Worc. coll. Ox., B.A. 1792, M.A. 1795, M.B. 1796, M.D. 1799; candidate of college of physicians 30 Sep. 1799, fellow 30 Sep. 1800, censor 1803; physician to the Middlesex hospital 15 Jany. 1801 to 1806 when he quitted the profession; ordained deacon and priest 1806; R. of Poynings, Sussex 1806–46; R. of Beaudesert, Warcs. 1806 to death; preb. of Thorney, Chichester cath. 1817; precentor of Chicester cath. and preb. of Oving 1825 to death; author of The preaching of the regular clergy, illustrated and defended 1813, 6 ed. 1817 and of several sermons. d. 33 Regency square, Brighton 16 April 1857 aged 85. Munk’s Roll of Physicians, ii, 470 (1878).

HOLLAND, REV. THOMAS AGAR (eld. son of the preceding). b. 16 Jany. 1803; ed. at Westminster sch. and Worcester coll. Ox., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; V. of Oving, Sussex 1827–38; R. of Greatham, Hants. 1838–46; R. of Poynings, Sussex 1846 to death; author of Dryburgh Abbey and other poems 1826, 4 ed. 1884 and of a History of Poynings in the Trans. of Sussex Archæological Society for 1863. d. Poynings Rectory 18 Oct. 1888.

HOLLAND, THOMAS SEWARD. b. 1827; M.D. Edin. 1850; M.R.C.S. England 1850; assist. physician Renkioi hospital in the Dardanelles 1855–6; author of Pathological anatomy considered in its relations to medical science 1852, and papers in medical journals. d. at his lodgings, Lambeth 16 June 1856.

HOLLINGS, JAMES FRANCIS. b. 1806; second master proprietary sch. Leicester 1837; proprietor and editor of Leicestershire Mercury 7 years; member of town council Leicester, and Mayor; one of the founders of Leicester Literary and Philos. Soc., president several times; barrister M.T. 21 Nov. 1851; author of The life of Gustavus Adolphus 1838; The life of Marcus Tullius Cicero 1839; The history of Leicester during the civil war 1840; Roman Leicester 1855; Lord Macaulay 1860; hanged himself at Stonygate, Leicester 15 Sep. 1862. Leicestershire Mercury 20 Sep. 1862 p. 5.

HOLLINGWORTH, VEN. JOHN BANKS. b. 1779; ed. at Peterhouse, Cam., B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807, B.D. 1814; fellow of his coll. 1804; assistant preacher at Lincoln’s Inn 1806; R. of St. Margaret, Lothbury and St. Christopher le Stocks, London 1814 to death; Norrisian professor of Div. at Cam. 1824–38; archdeacon of Huntingdon 25 Feb. 1828 to death; author of Heads of lectures on divinity delivered in the university of Cambridge 1825, 3 ed. 1835, and charges and sermons. d. Rectory house, St. Margaret’s, Lothbury 9 Feb. 1856. G.M. xlv, 430–1 (1856).

HOLLINS, JOHN (son of Thomas Hollins, a painter on glass). b. Birmingham 1 June 1798; exhibited 101 pictures at R.A., 35 at B.I. and 6 at Suffolk st. 1819–55; removed to London 1822; studied in Italy 1825–7; A.R.A. 1842; historical, figure, and landscape painter, introduced portraits into some of his historical pictures. d. 47 Berners st., London 7 March 1855. Redgrave’s Dict. of Artists (1878) 220; Literary Gazette 17 March 1855 p. 170.

HOLLINS, PETER (eld. son of William Hollins, architect and sculptor 1754–1843). b. Birmingham 1800; ed. as a sculptor and assisted his father; in Chantrey’s studio; exhibited 44 pieces of sculpture at R.A. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1822–71; resided Old Bond st. London 1828–43, then returned to Birmingham where he erected statues of Sir R. Peel and Sir Rowland Hill; V.P. of Soc. of Arts, Birmingham. d. 17 Great Hampton st. Birmingham 16 Aug. 1886, portrait in Birmingham Art gallery.

HOLLINWORTH, JOHN IBBETSON. Entered navy June 1795; retired captain 3 April 1811; retired admiral 9 June 1860. d. Southsea 28 Dec. 1861 aged 79.

HOLLOND, REV. EDMUND (eld. son of William Hollond of H.E.I.C.) Ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; succeeded his uncle 1845; lord of manor of Middleton Austin; resided at Benhall lodge, Saxmundham, Suffolk; a great Evangelical; author of Israel’s pre-millenial future or the testimony of scripture as to Israel’s return and what awaits him in his own land 1875; patron of 8 livings. d. 33 Hyde park gardens, London 18 March 1884 in 83 year.

HOLLOND, ELLEN JULIA (dau. of Thomas Teed of Stanmore hall, Middlesex). b. Madras 1822. (m. 18 March 1840 Robert Hollond, M.P. for Hastings, d. 1877); her salon in Paris frequented by the leading liberals 1840–77; started the first crèche in London 1844; founded an English nurses’ home in Paris with a branch at Nice; sat for the head of Monica in Ary Scheffer’s picture of St. Augustine and his mother 1846; her portrait by Scheffer painted 1852 is in National gallery; author of Channing, sa vie and ses œuvres 1857; La vie de village en Angleterre 1862; Les Quakers, études sur les premiers Amis et leur société 1870. d. Stanmore hall 29 Nov. 1884. Journal des Débats 6 Dec. 1884.

HOLLOND, ROBERT (youngest son of William Hollond of Grosvenor place, London, and Bengal civil service, d. 14 Feb. 1836). b. 5 Jany. 1808; ed. at C.C. coll. Cam., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; barrister L.I. 24 Nov. 1834; M.P. for Hastings 1837–52; in company with Charles Green and Monck Mason made at his own expense a voyage in the Nassau balloon from London to Weilburg, Nassau 7–8 Nov. 1836; John Hollins painted a picture of the 3 persons with the balloon in the back ground 1836. d. Paris 26 Dec. 1877, personalty sworn under £350,000, 16 Feb. 1878. Hatton Turnor’s Astra Castra (1865) 139–58; Monck Mason’s Aeronautica (1838) 1–98, portrait.

HOLLOWAY, JAMES LEWIS (_son of Benjamin Holloway of Lee place, Charlbury, Oxon._) b. 2 July 1824; M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1847; assistant surgeon 17 March 1848; principal medical officer at Cape of Good Hope; surgeon general 12 March 1882 to death; C.B. 27 Nov. 1879. d. Netley 19 April 1883.

HOLLOWAY, SIR THOMAS (brother of the preceding). b. 1810; 2 lieut. R.M. 17 March 1825; at siege of Sebastopol 1854–5; served in China 1857 when he was wounded; A.D.C. to the Queen 27 Feb. 1857 to 1 July 1863; colonel 2nd commandant R.M. 25 Feb. 1858, colonel commandant 21 Nov. 1859 to death; general 1 April 1870; C.B. 18 June 1858, K.C.B. 13 March 1867. d. Farlington near Portsmouth 21 July 1875.

HOLLOWAY, THOMAS (son of Mr. Holloway, baker and publican). b. Devonport 22 Sep. 1800; ed. at Camborne and Penzance; removed to London 1828; merchant and foreign agent 1836; commenced advertising his pills and ointment 15 Oct. 1837, was spending £50,000 a year in advertising 1883; directions for use of his medicines were printed in almost all known languages; at 244 Strand, London 1838, removed to 533 New Oxford st. 1867; employed 100 people; made a large fortune; built and endowed at cost of £700,000 Holloway coll. for ladies at Mount Lee, Egham hill, Surrey, opened 30 June 1866; erected a sanatorium for mentally afflicted of lower middle class, opened 15 June 1885. d. Tittenhurst, Sunninghill, Berks. 26 Dec. 1883. I.L.N. 5 Jany. 1884 p. 24, portrait; Graphic 5 Jany. 1884 p. 5, portrait; Some memories as to the origin of Holloway coll. (1886).

HOLM, JOHN DIEDERICK. A well known phrenologist; executor of J. G. Spurzheim the German phrenologist (b. 1776, d. 1832). d. High st. Highgate 24 Oct. 1856 aged 84.

HOLMAN, MRS. (dau. of Mr. Lattimer). b. England 1798; appeared at Charleston theatre 1817. (m. (1) 22 Aug. 1817 Joseph George Holman, actor, who d. 24 Aug. 1817, the writer of numerous plays); appeared in New York singing The soldier tired of war’s alarms, and Bishop’s Echo song 8 July 1817; (m. (2) March 1819 Isaac Star Clawson); (m. (3) in 1824 Charles W. Sandford, lawyer and general of militia); appeared at her husband’s house, the Lafayette theatre, Oct. 1826; last played in Park theatre, New York as Maria in Of age to-morrow, June 1832. d. New York city 1 Sep. 1859. T. A. Brown’s American stage (1870) 181; Ireland’s New York stage, i, 290 336 (1866).

HOLMAN, JAMES (son of Mr. Holman of Fore st. Exeter, chemist and druggist). b. Exeter 15 Oct. 1786; entered navy 7 Dec. 1798, lieut. 27 April 1807, served till Nov. 1810 when he was invalided and became totally blind; a naval knight of Windsor 29 Sep. 1812; travelled over greater part of Europe 1819–24 and round the world 1827–32; F.R.S.; author of A narrative of a journey through France, Italy, Savoy, &c. 1822, with portrait; Travels through Russia, Siberia, Poland, Austria, &c. 2 vols. 1825, with portrait, 4 ed. 2 vols. 1834. d. at his lodgings near the Minories, London 28 July 1857. Reynolds’ Miscellany, x, 9 (1853), portrait; Proc. of Linnæan Soc. (1858) 26–30; People’s Journal, iv, 213, portrait.

HOLMAN, JOHN. Steeple chaser; won royal birthday steeple chase at Worcester on The Page 1843; bred a large number of successful steeple chasers. d. Cheltenham, Jany. 1888. Baily’s Mag., Feb. 1888 pp. 488–9.

HOLME, BRYAN (son of Wm. Holme of Thurland castle, Lancs.) baptised at Tunstal, Lancs. 29 Dec. 1776; articled to John Baldwin of Lancaster, solicitor; admitted solicitor Jany. 1800; a managing clerk in office of Bleasdale and Alexander of Hatton court, London about 1803, a partner in the firm at Hatton court and New Inn 1806–16; partner with Alexander at New Inn 1816–21, with Frampton and Loftus 1821–36, with Loftus and Young 1836 to death; projected “The Law Institution,” Chancery Lane 2 June 1825, which became “The Incorporated Law Society” by a new charter granted 5 June 1845; a whole length portrait of him by H. W. Pickersgill, R.A. was placed in the Society’s hall about 1836. d. 13 Brunswick sq. London 15 July 1856. Legal Observer 23 Aug. 1856 pp. 281–5.

HOLME, THOMAS WINN (son of Thomas Holme). b. Kendal 3 March 1828; ed. at Ackworth sch. 1841–3, and at Manchester art sch.; managed a woollen mill near Kendal, and then powder mills at Sedgwick, near Leven’s Park; a painter; author of Poems and prose 1874. d. Kendal 20 May 1876. Nodal’s Bibliog. of Ackworth sch. (1889) 16.

HOLMES, ALFRED (son of Thomas Holmes of Lincoln). b. London 9 Nov. 1837; learnt the violin from his father; with his brother Henry Holmes made a series of concert tours in Belgium 1855, Germany 1856, Austria 1857, Sweden 1857–9, Denmark 1860, Holland 1861; settled in Paris 1864, where he established a quartet party; produced at St. Petersburg his symphony Jeanne d’ Arc April 1868, which was performed in 1870 at Théâtre Italien, Paris, and at Crystal Palace, Sydenham 27 Feb. 1875; composed symphonies The Youth of Shakespeare, The siege of Paris 1870, Robin Hood, Charles XII, and Romeo and Juliet; an opera in 5 acts called Inez de Castro 1869; overtures The Cid and The Muses; Two nocturnes for the violin and piano, Leipzig 1857. d. Paris 4 March 1876. I.L.N. lxviii, 315 (1876), portrait.

HOLMES, REV. ARTHUR. Ed. at Shrewsbury and St. John’s coll. Cam., Bell sch. 1856, Craven sch. 1856, B.A. 1859, M.A. 1862; fellow of his coll. 1860–62; C. of All Saint’s, Cam. 1860–61; lecturer of St. John’s coll. 1860–73 and of Clare coll. 1864–73; senior fellow and dean of Clare coll. 1873 to death; deputy public orator of Cam. 1867, Lady Margaret preacher 1868, select preacher 1868–69; Cambridge preacher at chapel royal 1869–71; general editor of the Catena Classicorum series 1867 etc.; published The Midias of Demosthenes with notes 1862; Demosthenes De Corona 1867; The Nemeian odes of Pindar 1867; cut his throat at Clare coll. Cambridge 17 April 1875. Cambridge Chronicle 24 April 1875 p. 6.

HOLMES, EDWARD. b. 1797; ed. at Enfield; apprenticed to R. B. Seeley, bookseller; studied music under Vincent Novello; taught the piano in schools; wrote musical criticisms for The Atlas from 1829 and later for The Spectator; wrote articles in Fraser’s Mag. and Musical Times; author of A ramble among the musicians of Germany 1828, 3 ed. 18 ; The life of Mozart 1845; Analytical and thematic index of Mozart’s pianoforte works 1852; A critical essay on the Requiem of Mozart 1854; Life of H. Purcell. d. 4 Sep. 1859.

HOLMES, JAMES. b. 1777; apprenticed to an engraver; member of Soc. of Painters in Water-colours 1813–22; assisted to establish Soc. of British Artists, member 1829–50; also a miniature painter; 2 of his portraits of Lord Byron were engraved; a personal friend of George iv. d. Shropshire 24 Feb. 1860. Redgrave’s Dict. of Artists (1878) 221.

HOLMES, JAMES. b. Exeter 1789 or 1790; ed. at Exeter gr. sch.; apprenticed to Thomas Besley of Exeter, printer 16 Sep. 1806; printer at 4 Took’s court, Chancery lane, London, March 1825 to 1869; started the Court Journal with Henry Colburn 25 April 1829; bought The Athenæum for £200, 7 Jany. 1830, joint proprietor with C. W. Dilkie 20 Sep. 1831, printed it 1829–69. d. 4 July 1873. bur. Kensal green cemetery 11 July.

HOLMES, JOHN (son of Nathaniel Holmes d. Derby 18 Dec. 1840). b. Deptford, Kent 17 July 1800; bookseller Derby; temporary assistant MSS. department Br. Museum 15 Jany. 1830, senior assistant April 1837, assistant keeper 6 May 1850 to death; adviser of 4 earl of Ashburnham in formation of his collection of MSS. which was sold 1883–4; author of A catalogue of manuscripts, maps, charts in the British Museum 1844. d. 4 Park ter. Highgate, London 1 April 1854, his library sold 15 June 1854. G.M. ii, 87–8 (1854).

HOLMES, JOHN. b. Rossshire, Scotland, March 1789; emigrated to Nova Scotia 1803; sat in Nova Scotia assembly 1836–47, 1851–8, in legislative council 1858–67; senator in Dominion parliament 1867. d. 1870. Appleton’s American Biography iii, 242 (1887).

HOLMES, REV. JOSEPH. b. 1789; ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam., 3 wrangler 1812, B.A. 1812, M.A. 1815, B.D. 1840, fellow and tutor of his coll. to 1819; head master Leeds gram. sch. 1830–53; C. of Trinity ch. Leeds 1830–45; author of The duty of a Christian state to support a national church establishment 1834. d. Leeds 14 June 1854. Taylor’s Biog. Leodiensis (1865) 454–5.

HOLMES, REV. PETER (1 son of Walter Holmes of Bickleigh, Plymouth). b. Bickleigh 1815; ed. at Plymouth gram. sch. and at Magd. hall Ox., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1844, D.D. 1859; C. of Sheepstor, Devon 1840–3; head master Plymouth gram. sch. 1840–54; diocesan inspector of schools, deanery of Plympton 7 years; kept a private school at Plymouth; F.R.A.S. Dec. 1841; author of Observations on the standard of doctrine in the Church of England 1848; Bishop Bull’s Defensio fidei Nicænæ. A translation 2 vols. 1851–2; contributed to Anglo-Catholic library, Christian Remembrancer, Kitto’s Biblical Cyclopædia, Clark’s Ante-Nicene Christian library. d. Wellington villa, Mannamead, Plymouth 11 Oct. 1878; left a valuable library. Academy ii, 428 (1878).

HOLMES, ROBERT (son of Mr. Holmes of Belfast). b. Dublin 1765; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1787; called to bar in Ireland 1795; imprisoned some months, being suspected of complicity with his brother-in-law, Robert Emmet’s rising 1803; had the largest practice in the Irish courts, made upwards of £100,000; refused offices of crown prosecutor, King’s counsel, and solicitor general; author of A demonstration of the necessity of the legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland 1799; The case of Ireland stated 1847. d. 37 Eaton place, Belgrave sq. London 30 Nov. 1859. Dublin Univ. Mag., Jany. 1848 pp. 122–33, portrait; O’Flanagan’s Irish Bar (1879) 273–87.

HOLMES, REV. SAMUEL (son of John Holmes of Feversham, Kent). b. 1826; ed. at Magd. hall, Ox., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1845; P.C. of Sidcup 1844–50; R. of North Cray 1850–5; V. of Huddersfield 1855–66; canon residentiary of Ripon cath. 1863 to death; V. of St. Paul, Dorking 1866–81; author of sermons. d. 18 Park parade, Harrogate 9 Nov. 1890.

HOLMES, WILLIAM (5 son of Thomas Holmes of co. Sligo, brewer). b. co. Sligo 1779; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1795; D.C.L. of Oxford univ. 5 July 1810; military sec. to Sir Thomas Hislop in West Indies; M.P. for Grampound 1808–12, for Tregony 1812–18, for Totnes 1819–20, for Bishop’s Castle 1820–30, for Haslemere 1830–2; contested Ipswich 1835; M.P. Berwick on Tweed 1837–41; contested Stafford 1841; whipper-in to the Tory party 30 years; treasurer of the ordnance 1820–30; was close to Spencer Perceval when he was assassinated 1812 and near to Wm. Huskisson when he was killed 1830. d. Grafton st. Bond st. London 26 Jany. 1851. Portraits of eminent conservatives 2nd series (1846), portrait.

HOLMES, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (3 son of Alexander Holmes of Athgarven, co. Kildare). b. 1817; private sec. to Sir Henry Light when governor of Guiana 1838–47; provost marshal of Guiana 1847, adjutant general of militia there; comr. from Guiana to Paris exhibition 1855; knighted at Buckingham palace 4 April 1856; author of Report of an expedition to explore a route to the gold fields of Caratal 1857; Free cotton, how and where to grow it 1862. d. 5 Osborne villas, Stoke, Devonport 9 Aug. 1868.

HOLMES, WILLIAM HENRY. b. Sudbury, Derbyshire 8 Jany. 1812; student at R.A. of music 1822, sub-professor of pianoforte 1826, afterwards professor; the teacher of W. S. Bennett, J. W. Davison, G. A. and W. Macfarren; appeared as a pianist at Philharmonic Soc. concert 24 March 1851; composer of The Elfin of the Lake, an opera 1850, of very numerous pieces left in MS. and of 130 printed pieces for the piano 1835–81. d. 23 April 1885. bur. Brompton cemet. 27 April. Cazalet’s Hist. of R. Acad. of music (1854) 295; Grove’s Dict. of music, i, 744 (1879).

HOLMES, SIR WILLIAM RICHARD (son of William Henry Holmes of Kilrea, co. Londonderry). b. London 1821; entered consular service at Erzeroum, Oct. 1841; vice consul at Batoom, Asia Minor 17 March 1846; consul at Diarbekir 23 Nov. 1852; consul in Bosnia 12 Jany. 1860; British delegate to commission for pacification of Herzegovina 1861; knighted at Osborne 13 Aug. 1877; retired from the service 1 Sep. 1877 on a pension; author of Sketches on the shores of the Caspian 1845. d. Yewhurst, Belvedere, Kent 19 Jany. 1882.

HOLMS, JOHN (son of James Holms of Saucel Bank, Paisley). b. Saucel Bank 21 Sep. 1830; partner in firm of W. Holms and Brothers, spinners, Glasgow; M.P. Hackney, London 1868–85; a lord of the treasury April 1880 to May 1882; parliamentary sec. of board of trade 1882–5; author of The British army in 1875, its administration and organization 1875; Our military difficulty. d. 16 Cornwall gardens, Queen’s gate, London 31 March 1891. I.L.N. lxvi, 199, 200 (1875), portrait, 11 April 1891 p. 467, portrait.

HOLROYD, EDWARD (3 son of Sir George Sowley Holroyd 1758–1831, justice of court of Queen’s Bench). b. 24 July 1794; ed. at Charterhouse and Trin. coll. Cam.; admitted at Gray’s inn 26 Nov. 1812; special pleader under the bar 7 years; barrister G.I. 26 April 1826; a comr. of bankrupts Nov. 1828; a comr. of bankruptcy court Oct. 1831 to 31 Dec. 1869 when granted sum of £2000 on abolition of office; author of Observations upon the case of A. Thornton tried for the murder of Mary Ashford 1819. d. Elland lodge, Wimbledon 29 Jany. 1881.

HOLT, ALFRED HENRY (son of Henry Josiah Holt, pugilist 1792–1844). Reported prize fights for The Era, Morning Advertiser, Bell’s Life in London and Sportsman. d. 20 Nov. 1865 aged 39. bur. Nunhead cemetery.

HOLT, DAVID. b. Chorlton upon Medlock, Manchester 13 Nov. 1828; assistant sec. of Lancashire and Yorkshire railway co. to death; author of Poems, rural and miscellaneous 1846; Lays of hero worship and other poems 1850; Janus, Lake sonnets and other poems 1853; Poems 1868. d. Altrincham, Cheshire 15 March 1880.

HOLT, ELISE. b. London 11 July 1847; appeared as a comic singer, Surrey gardens, London 1863; pupil of Mdlle. Louise, danseuse 1863, and came out at the Victoria theatre as a dancer, and then as Cupid 26 Dec. 1864; played in burlesques at the Strand theatre 1865–8; appeared at Olympic theatre, Boston, U.S. America in burlesque of Lucretia Borgia 21 Dec. 1868 and at Waverly theatre, New York 18 Feb. 1869; visited California; (m. Henry Palmer). d. about 1873. T. A. Brown’s American stage (1870) 182, portrait.

HOLT, THOMAS (son of a wool merchant, Leeds). b. Horbury, Yorkshire 1811; with his father at Leeds 1825–8, partner 1832; a wool buyer in London 1828–31; a wool buyer in Australia 1842–55; purchased large estates in Queensland and New South Wales; member for Stanley boroughs in legislative assembly, N.S.W. 1856 and for Newtown to 1866; colonial treasurer 6 June to 25 Aug. 1856; member of legislative council 1868; member of council on education 1873; author of Two speeches on the subject of education in New South Wales 1857. d. Halcot, Bexley, Kent 5 Sep. 1888. Heaton’s Australian Dict. of dates (1879) 95.

HOLT, THOMAS LITTLETON. b. 1794 or 1795; known as Raggedy Holt; projected Weekly Chronicle; proprietor of Iron Times started during the railway mania 1845; edited Morning Chronicle; started many papers in London with G. A. A’Beckett; projected The Novel newspaper; started Ryland’s Iron trade circular at Birmingham; edited a weekly paper called Chat 1846; took an active part in popularising cheap literature and in the abolition of the paper duty; advertisement duty repealed partly owing to him 1853; edited The Sixpenny magazine 1863; John Horsleydown or the confessions of a thief 1860. d. The Burrows, Hendon 14 Sep. 1879. Reminiscences of an old Bohemian, ii, 35–46 (1882).

HOLYOAKE-GOODRICKE, SIR FRANCIS LYTTELTON, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Francis Holyoake of Tettenhall, Staffs. 1766–1835). b. Tettenhall 13 Nov. 1797; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1819; assumed name of Goodricke by r.l. 12 Dec. 1833; sheriff of Warwickshire 1834; M.P. for Stafford, Feb. to May 1835, for South Stafford, May 1835 to 1837; created baronet 31 March 1835; master of Quorn hounds in Leicestershire 1834–5; one of the very best riders after hounds of his time. d. Sherborne house, Malvern Wells 29 Dec. 1865. Burke’s Vicissitudes of families, ii, 398–9 (1869).

HOMAN, SIR WILLIAM JACKSON, 1 Baronet (2 son of Rev. Philip Homan). b. 1771; cr. baronet 1 Aug. 1801. d. Dromeroe, Cappoquin, co. Waterford 2 March 1852 aged 80. G.M. xxxvii, 406 (1852).

HOME, COSPATRICK ALEXANDER RAMEY HOME, 11 Earl of (eld. son of 10 Earl 1769–1841). b. Dalkeith house, N.B. 27 Oct. 1799; attaché to embassy at St. Petersburgh 1822–3; précis writer in foreign office 1824–7; under sec. of state for foreign affairs 9 June 1828 to 25 Nov. 1830; succeeded 12 Oct. 1841; a Scotch representative peer 1842–74; keeper of great seal of Scotland May 1853; cr. baron Douglas of Douglas co. Lanark in peerage of the U.K. 11 June 1875. d. near the Hirsel, Coldstream, Berwick 4 July 1881. bur. in church of St. Brides at Douglas 12 July. F.O. list 1882 p. 213.

HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (son of William Home of the family of the earl of Home). b. near Edinburgh 20 March 1833; taken by his aunt to Greenville, Connecticut about 1842 where he became famous for his mysterious raps, guitar playing without hands, etc.; came to London April 1855 where he held private spiritual séances; held séances before emperor of the French, King of Prussia, and Queen of Holland 1857–8; expelled from Rome as a sorcerer Jany. 1864; gave a series of public readings in America 1864; founded in London with John Elliotson and S. C. Hall the Spiritual Athenæum, a society for the propagation of spiritualism 1866, lived as sec. at the Society’s rooms 22 Sloane st.; assumed name of Lyon-Home on being adopted as her son by a widow named Jane Lyon, who gave him £30,000 and assigned to him a mortgage security of £30,000, both sums were restored to her by the Court of Chancery 22 May 1868; gave public readings in the provinces 1869–70; author of Incidents in my life 1863, 2nd series 1872; Lights and Shadows of Spiritualism 1877. d. Auteuil, near Paris 21 June 1886. bur. at St. Germain-en-Laye. Annual register (1868) 187–206; The Mask (1868) 141–6, portrait; T. A. Trollope’s What I remember, i, 376–81; Nineteenth century, April 1890 pp. 577–81.

NOTE.—Robert Browning’s poem Mr. Sludge the medium is understood to be a study of Home.

HOME, DAVID MILNE (1 son of admiral Sir David Milne, d. 1845). b. 1804; ed. at Edin. univ., B.A. 1829, LLD. 1870; called to Scotch bar 1831; advocate depute 1841; succeeded to the family estate and took name of Home 1845; F.R.G.S.; tried to prevent appointment of Dr. Robert Wallace of the Old Greyfriars to the professorship of church history 1873, one of the last “heresy hunts” in the Church of Scotland; author of Our Social reforms needed in Scotland 1867; Scotch poor houses and English work houses 1873; The salmon Fisheries of Scotland 1882. d. Milne Graden, Coldstream 19 Sep. 1890. Times 23 Sep. 1890.

HOME, FRANCIS (eld. son of James Home, professor of materia medica in Univ. of Edin.) b. Edin. 1800; ed. at high school and univ. of Edin.; advocate 1825; sheriff substitute of co. Kinross 1838 and of co. Linlithgow 1838 to death. d. Main’s house near Linlithgow 20 Jany. 1882.

HOME, SIR JAMES EVERARD, 2 Baronet (_elder son of Sir Everard Home, 1 bart., serjeant surgeon to George III._) b. 25 Oct. 1798; entered navy 10 April 1810; succeeded 31 Aug. 1832; captain 5 Dec. 1837; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842; captain of the “Calliope” 26 guns 28 Nov. 1850 to death; F.R.S. d. Sydney 2 Nov. 1853. bur. Camperdown cemetery, Sydney 4 Nov.

HOME, JOHN. Entered Bengal army 1803; colonel 57 Bengal native infantry 1854 to death; M.G. 20 June 1854. d. Weston, Bath 12 April 1860.

HOME, JOHN HOME (son of John Home of Bassenleau, co. Berwick). b. 1797; ensign 1 foot guards 19 Jany. 1813, lieut. col. 15 April 1845 to 1 April 1849 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 22 Sep. 1858; colonel 56 foot 17 Oct. 1859 to death. d. Pall Mall, London 22 April 1860.

HOME, NORTH DALRYMPLE. b. Long Ashton, Aug. 1856; ed. at Bristol gram. sch. at Montreux and Paris; engaged in London and Westminster bank 2 years; student R. Acad. of music; tenor singer in German Reed’s Co.; played in W. S. Gilbert’s Ages Ago, and in The Friar operetta by Comyns Carr 15 Dec. 1886. d. Clifton 3 July 1887. The Era, July 1887 p.

HOME, RICHARD. b. 1789; entered Bengal army 1804; colonel 43 Bengal N.I. 7 April 1851 to 1861; colonel 6 Bengal N.I. 1861 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. d. Brighton 19 April 1862 aged 73.

HOME, ROBERT (eld. son of James Home, captain 30 foot). b. Antigua 29 Dec. 1837; 1 lieut. R.E. 7 April 1856, major 25 Aug. 1873 to death; deputy assistant Q.M.G. at Aldershot 1865–70; commander of R.E. on the Ashantee expedition 1873; C.B. 31 March 1874; assistant Q.M.G. at head quarters 1 April 1876; sent to Turkey to report on defence of Constantinople 1876; British comr. for delimitation of boundaries of Bulgaria 1877; contributed to Quarterly Rev. and Macmillan’s Mag.; translated Baron Stoffel’s Military Reports 1872; author of The law of recruiting 1872 and A précis of modern tactics 1873 the best English book on the subject. d. 21 Regent’s park terrace, London 29 Jany. 1879; Anne Josephine his widow (dau. of J. Hunt) granted civil list pension of £300, 21 April 1879. Graphic xix, 372 (1879), portrait; I.L.N. lxxiv, 185 (1879), portrait.

HOMER, JOHN JAMES. b. Wandsworth 1809; educated for a solicitor; proprietor of Dolphin tavern, Mare st. Hackney; was the means of abolishing a brewers’ impost known as butt-money 1836; hon. treasurer of the London Licensed Victuallers’ Protection Soc. 1838 to death; governor of Incorporated Soc. of Licensed victuallers 1850; doubled the size of the Morning Advertiser 1850; common councilman for ward of Cornhill 1866; contested Hackney 18 Nov. 1868; wine and spirit merchant 2 Royal Exchange buildings, London 1852 to death; author of A summary of the laws relating to licensed victuallers 1839; Monarch fire and life insurance co., Scenes at the election for a director 1852. d. at res. of his son-in-law Dr. William Slimon 4 York place, Bow road, London 3 March 1888. Licensed Victuallers’ Almanack (1862) 95–9, portrait; Licensed Victuallers’ Year book (1875) 70–1, portrait.

HONE, VEN. RICHARD BRINDLEY (2 son of Joseph Terry Hone of Faringdon, Berks.) b. 1805; ed. at Brasen. coll. Ox., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1831; R. of Halesowen, Worcs. 1836 to death; hon. canon of Worcester 10 Nov. 1845 to death, archdeacon 7 Nov. 1849 to death; author of Lives of eminent Christians 4 vols. 1834–43, 19 charges and 41 New Year’s addresses. d. Halesowen rectory 5 May 1881.

HONEY, GEORGE ALFRED (mother Mrs. Down d. 27 Nov. 1881 aged 90). b. 25 May 1823; call-boy Adelphi theatre 1841; made debut in London at Princess’s theatre Nov. 1848 as Pan in Midas; member of Pyne and Harrison company at Covent Garden 1858 etc.; played in Macfarren’s opera Robin Hood at Her Majesty’s 1860; played Eccles in Caste at Prince of Wales’s 1867, 1871 and 1879; Graves in Money at Holborn 1869 and at Prince of Wales’s 1872, 1875 and 1879; Our Mr. Jenkins in The Two Roses at Vaudeville 1870; visited U.S. of America 1878; seized with a fit of paralysis while performing at Prince of Wales’s 1879. d. 127 Camden road, London 28 May 1880. Pascoe’s Dramatic List (1880) 183–4; Illust. Sport, and Dram. News, x 468–9 (1879) portrait, xiii 281 (1880), portrait, xvii 125 (1882), view of tomb; The Era 30 May 1880 p. 6, 6 June p. 7; Mr. and Mrs. Bancroft On and off the stage 7th ed. (1889) 107, 156, 274, 281–3.

HONNER, MARIA (dau. of Eugene Macarthy, actor, d. Dramatic coll. 1886 aged 78). b. Enniskillen Ireland 21 Dec. 1812; played with Kean and Macready in Ireland; chief star at Pavilion theatre, London 1831–2; at Coburg theatre 1833, at Sadler’s Wells 1838–43, at Surrey theatre 1845, at City of London theatre 1845; excellent in Shakespearean parts, in Julia, in the Hunchback, and other roles; (m. (1) 21 May 1836 Robert W. Honner 1809–52; m. (2) Frederick Morton, stage manager); she d. 4 Jany. 1870. Actors by gaslight 4 Aug. 1838 pp. 121–2, portrait; Theatrical Times 10 Oct. 1846 pp. 137–8, portrait.

HONNER, ROBERT WILLIAM (youngest son of John Honner of Soho, London, solicitor, d. about 1817). b. 24 Percy st. Tottenham court road, London 18 Jany. 1809; apprenticed to Charles Leclercq, ballet master 1817–20; made his debut at Sans Pareil theatre in a ballet 1818; actor at Coburg 1825; stage manager at Surrey 1835–38, manager 1842–46; lessee of Sadler’s Wells 1838–41 and of City of London theatre 1846; stage manager of Standard theatre 1848 to death, d. Nichols sq. Hackney road, London 31 Dec. 1852. Theatrical Times 27 March 1847 pp. 89–90, portrait.

HONNER, SIR ROBERT WILLIAM. Entered Bombay army 1820; lieut. 4 Bombay N.I. 1 May 1824, lieut. col. 15 Sep. 1855 to 1861; commander of Nussurabad 6 March 1858 to 24 Oct. 1862; commander of Scinde division 28 March 1863 to 26 May 1866, C.B. 21 Jany. 1858, K.C.B. 28 March 1865; M.G. 17 Sep. 1861. d. Lower Berkeley st., Portman sq., London 8 Nov. 1868.

HONY, VEN. WILLIAM EDWARD (2 son of Rev. Wm. Hony, V. of Liskeard, Cornwall 1778–95). b. Liskeard 7 Feb. 1788; fellow of Ex. coll. Ox. 30 June 1808 to 3 July 1827, B.A. 1811, M.A. 1812, B.D. 1823; V. of South Newington, Oxon. 24 Oct. 1818 to 1827; R. of Baverstock 4 June 1827 to death; preb. of Salisbury 29 July 1841; archdeacon of Salisbury 3 Aug. 1846 to death, and canon residentiary 1857 to death; F.G.S. 1831; author of Church Rates 1859. d. The Canonry, Salisbury 7 Jany. 1875. I.L.N. lxvi 403 (1875).

HORNYGOLD, WILLIAM, b. 1797; an artist; lived in parish of St. Clement Danes, London; known for his drawings of theatrical characters for the toy theatre, to which he added sketches of the scenery incidental to the pieces performed; his portrait of C. Kemble as Hen. viii. is No. 55 in Skelt’s portraits: drew the illustrations for comic songs; fell down intoxicated outside the ‘Fountain,’ 4 Clare Market, London, taken to the Strand union workhouse, where he d. 12 Feb. 1867 aged 69. J. Diprose’s Some account of parish of St. Clement Danes i, 165–6 (1868).

HONYMAN, SIR GEORGE ESSEX, 4 Baronet (eld. son of Sir Ord Honyman, 3 Bart. 1794–1863). b. Strawberry hill, Middlesex 22 Jany. 1819; pupil of Martineau, Malton and Trollope, solicitors, London 1838–40; pupil of Sir Fitzroy Kelly and David O. Gibbons, the special pleader 1840, etc.; practised as a pleader 1842–9; barrister M.T. 8 June 1849, bencher Nov. 1866; best commercial lawyer of his day; Q.C. 23 July 1866; sergeant at law 23 Jany. 1873; judge of court of common pleas 23 Jany. 1873, resigned 21 Feb. 1875. d. Tunbridge Wells 16 Sep. 1875. Law mag. and law review i, 122–27 (1875); I.L.N. lxvii, 319, 333, 566, (1875), portrait.

HONYWOOD, REV. PHILIP JAMES (3 son of William Honywood of Siston, Kent). b. 1809; matric. from Trin. coll. Ox. 29 May 1827 aged 18, B.A. 1831; R. of Markshall, Essex 23 Dec. 1838 to 1866; R. of Bradwell next Coggeshall, Essex 27 March 1840 to 1845; R. of Colne-Wake, Essex 1866 to death; kept beagles at Markshall 1851–3 which were always followed on foot, sold his hounds 1853; injured himself hunting on foot three days a week d. Colne-Wake 19 Nov. 1874 aged 65. Baily’s Mag. xxix, 150–5 (1877).

HOOD, SIR ALEXANDER, 2 Baronet (only son of Alexander Hood, capt. R.N., slain on board his ship the ‘Mars’ 1798). b. Wootton, Somerset 5 July 1793; ed. at Ex. coll. Ox., M.A. 1814; K.C.B. 22 May 1812 as proxy for his uncle Sir S. Hood; succeeded as 2 baronet 24 Dec. 1814; M.P. West Somerset 1847 to death. d. 43 Wimpole st. London 7 March 1851.

HOOD, CHARLES. b. 18 Sep. 1825; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign 3 foot 26 June 1844, captain 1851 to 8 Jany. 1856; led the ladder party in the attack on the Redan 8 Oct. 1855; major 58 foot 28 Jany. 1859, lieut. col. 23 Nov. 1860 to 23 May 1874 when placed on h.p.; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 July 1881. d. 8 Feb. 1883.

HOOD, CHARLES (son of William Hood, an ironmaster 18 Earl st. Blackfriars). b. 1805; ironmaster with his brother in London; made researches into chemistry of combustion of coal, silver medal of Soc. of Arts; F.R.S. 7 Dec. 1843; F.R.A.S.; F.S.S.; chairman of British home for incurables 1861–6; author of A practical treatise on warming buildings by hot water, to which are added Remarks on ventilation 1837, 5 ed. 1879. d. 10 Leinster gardens, Bayswater, London 10 Dec. 1889.

HOOD, REV. EDWIN PAXTON (son of a sailor in the navy). b. at house of bishop Porteous 34 Half Moon st. Piccadilly, London 24 Oct. 1820; began to lecture on temperance and peace about 1840; Congregational minister at North Nibley, Gloucs. 1852–7, at Offord road, Islington 1857–62 and 1873, at Queen sq. church, Brighton 1862–73, at Cavendish st. Manchester 1877 to 1880, at Falcon sq. Aldersgate st. London 1882 to death; editor of the Eclectic and Congregational Review, of the Argonaut and The Preacher’s Lantern; author of Old England 1851; William Wordsworth, a biography 1856; The Peerage of Poverty 1 series 1859, 3 ed. 1859, 2 series 1861, 5 ed. 1870 and 50 other books. d. suddenly at Paris 12 June 1885. Congregational Year-Book (1886) 178–82.

HOOD, FRANCIS GROSVENOR (2 son of lieut. col. Francis Wheler Rood, killed in action 2 March 1814). b. 4 March 1809; ensign grenadier guards 30 April 1827, captain 31 Dec. 1841, major of 3 battalion 20 June 1854 to death; leading his battalion gallantly contributed to defeat of the enemy at battle of the Alma 20 Sep. 1854; killed in the trenches before Sebastopol 18 Oct. 1854. Kinglake’s Invasion of the Crimea 6 ed. iii 220–2, 239 et seq. iv 442.

HOOD, PETER. b. Gateshead 1808; ed. at St. George’s hospital; L.S.A. 1831, M.D. St. Andrews 1863; practised in London among the upper classes; discouraged the practice of blood letting; a keen sportsman, fly fisher and whist player; treasurer of Fisheries’ preservation soc.; president West Herts. medical assoc.; author of Practical observations on diseases fatal to children 1845; The successful treatment of scarlet fever 1857; A treatise on gout, rheumatism and the allied affections 1871, 3 ed. 1885. d. Watford, Herts. 18 Sep. 1890. Lancet 27 Sep. 1890 p. 699.

HOOD, REV. SAMUEL. b. Devizes 27 Dec. 1782; received episcopal ordination at Stirling, May 1826; minister of congregation in Trinity house, Dundee 1826–37; restored episcopacy at Rothesay and was minister there 1838, helped to establish seven churches in his district; dean of diocese of Argyle and the Isles 1847 to death; D.D. by archbishop of Canterbury 1870. d. Rothesay 30 May 1872. Norrie’s Dundee celebrities (1873) 392.

HOOD, SAMUEL. b. Moyle, co. Donegal 1800; emigrated to Philadelphia 1826, a member of the bar there; author of Practical treatise on the laws relating to registers, registers’ courts, guardians and trustees in Pennsylvania 1847; A practical treatise on the law of decedents in Pennsylvania 1847; A brief account of the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick 1844. d. Philadelphia 1875.

HOOD, THOMAS (only son of Thomas Hood the poet 1798–1845). b. Lake house, Wanstead, Essex 19 Jany. 1835; granted a civil list pension of £50, 4 Oct. 1847; commoner at Pemb. coll. Ox. 1853; edited the Liskeard Gazette 1858–59; clerk in the war office 11 July 1860 to May 1865; edited a periodical called Saturday Night 1862; edited Fun, May 1865 to death; Tom Hood’s Comic Annual first issued 1867; author of Captain Master’s children 3 vols. 1865; A golden heart 3 vols. 1868; Rules of rhyme, a guide to English versification 1869 and many other books. d. Gloucester cottage, Peckham Rye, Surrey 20 Nov. 1874. Poems by Thomas Hood the younger, with a memoir by his sister Frances Freeling Broderip 1877; Cartoon portraits (1873) 64–65, portrait; Illust. sporting news, iv, 357 (1865), portrait.

HOOD, THOMAS H. COCKBURN. b. 1820; in Australia and New Zealand to 1877; inherited Walton hall, Kelso from a relative; author of The Rutherfords of that ilk 188-; The house of Cockburn, with anecdotes of the times in which many of them played a part, Edin. 1888, and of many scientific papers. d. Edinburgh 16 Jany. 1889. The Bookseller 6 March 1889 p. 228.

HOOD, SIR WILLIAM CHARLES (only son of Dr. William Chamberlayne Hood, d. Berners st. hotel, London 16 Dec. 1879 aged 89). b. South Lambeth 1824; ed. at Brighton and Trin. coll. Dublin; M.D. St. Andrews 1846; F.R.C.P. Edin. 1850; F.R.C.P. London 1863; treasurer of Bridewell and Bethlehem hospital July 1868 to death; lord chancellor’s visitor in lunacy to death; knighted at Windsor castle 7 July 1868. d. Bridewell royal hospital, London 4 Jany. 1870.

HOOF, WILLIAM. b. 1788; a railway contractor. d. Madeley house, Kensington 11 Aug. 1855, leaving property exceeding half a million.

HOOK, ANNA DELICIA (dau. of John Johnson, physician, Birmingham). b. 1812; author of Some Meditations for every day in the year 1864; The Cross of Christ 1855 which was edited by her husband; (m. June 1829 Rev. Walter Farquhar Hook 1798–1875). d. 5 May 1871 aged 59 bur. churchyard of Mid Lavant near Chichester 11 May.

HOOK, VERY REV. WALTER FARQUHAR (eld. child of Very Rev. James Hook 1771–1828, dean of Worcester). b. Conduit st. London 13 March 1798; ed. at Hertford, Tiverton, Winchester, and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824, B.D. and D.D. 1837, student of Ch. Ch. 1817; C. of Whippingham, Isle of Wight 1821–25; P.C. of Moseley near Birmingham 1826–31; chaplain in ord. to the sovereign 1827 to death; V. of Holy Trin. Coventry 1828 to 1837; preb. of Linc. cath. 1832 to 1859; select preacher univ. of Ox. 1833–34 and 1858–59; V. of Leeds 1837 to 1859; preached his famous sermon Hear the Church before the Queen 17 June 1838, 31 ed. 1841, circulated 100,000 copies; dean of Chichester 24 Feb. 1859 to death, installed 19 March 1859; F.R.S. 5 June 1862; author of A Church Dictionary 1842, 14 ed. 1887; An ecclesiastical biography 8 vols. 1845–52; Lives of the archbishops of Canterbury 12 vols. 1860–76 and about 70 other books. d. the deanery, Chichester 20 Oct. 1875, memorial church at Leeds consecrated 29 Jany. 1880. Life and letters of W. F. Hook By W. R. W. Stephens 2 vols. 1878; Illust. news of the world, iii, (1859), portrait; Dent’s Birmingham (1880) 427, portrait; Graphic xii, 447, 448 (1875), portrait.

HOOKER, SIR WILLIAM JACKSON (son of Joseph Hooker of Exeter). b. Norwich 6 July 1785; ed. at Norwich gram. sch.; travelled for scientific purposes 1806–14; F.L.S. 1806; F.R.S. 9 Jany. 1812; lived at Halesworth, Suffolk 1815–20; regius prof. of botany Glasgow 1820–41; K.H. 1836; knighted at St. James’ palace 20 April 1836; director of royal gardens, Kew 1841 to death, chief agent in building the palm house and the temperate house, and a founder of the museum of economic botany; LLD. of Glasgow; D.C.L. of Ox. 1845; author of Exotic flora, 3 vols. 1823–7; Icones plantarum 10 vols. 1827–54; The Botanical Mag. 38 vols. 1827–65; British flora 2 vols. 1830–1, many editions; Species filicum 5 vols. 1846–64 and 35 other books and many papers. d. Kew 12 Aug. 1865. Proc. of R. Soc. xv, 25–30 (1867); Proc. Med. and Chir. Soc. v, 150, 162 (1867); Jerdan’s National Portrait gallery (1834) v, portrait; Taylor’s National Portrait gallery ii, 95, portrait.

HOOLE, ELIJAH (son of Holland Hoole, shoe maker). b. Manchester 3 Feb. 1798; ed. at Manchester gr. sch. 1809–13; Wesleyan methodist missionary in Madras 1820–8 during which time he published a number of translations in Tamil; a superintendent of schools in Ireland 1829–34; assistant sec. in London of Wesleyan Missionary Soc. 1834, one of the general secretaries 1836 to death; author of Personal narrative of a mission to the south of India from 1820–8, 1829, 2 ed. 1844; The year-book of missions 1847. d. 30 Russell sq. London 17 June 1872. T. F. Smith’s Manchester School Reg. iii, pt. 1, pp. 45, 290.

HOOPER, EDWARD. b. 1795; officer in navy; first appeared at Drury Lane as Colonel Briton, Sep. 1826; acting manager at Olympic 1832; lessee of St. James’s 1839; manager of Strand 1848; proprietor of Cambridge theatre to death. (m. Miss Brothers, she was b. 1800, first appeared at Drury Lane as Mrs. Haller 19 Feb. 1827 and was a well-known actress at St. James’s theatre). d. Cambridge 27 Jany. 1865 aged 70.

HOOPER, EDWARD. b. London 24 May 1829; ed. in London; member of firm of Bobbett and Hooper, wood engravers 1850 to death; an originator of the American water colour soc.; exhibited water colours at the Academy of design; engraved illustrations for Festivals of song, By F. Saunders 1866. d. Brooklyn, New York 13 Dec. 1870.

HOOPER, FREDERIC EDWARD EDEN. b. 1842; clerk in the Admiralty, London; wrote many verses on Christmas and other cards; author of The Indian revolt. A poem, part i, 1858. d. 12 Feb. 1886.

HOOPER, GEORGE. b. Oxford 1824; a journalist in London 1848–86; helped to start The Leader weekly paper 1850; wrote for The Globe and The Spectator; edited Bombay Gazette at Bombay 1868–71; on staff of Daily Telegraph, London 1872–86; author of The Italian campaigns of general Bonaparte 1859; Waterloo, the downfall of the first Napoleon 1862, new ed. 1890; The campaign of Sedan 1887; Wellington, a memoir 1889. d. Southsea 15 May 1890. I.L.N. 31 May 1890 p. 680, portrait; Pictorial World 29 May 1890 p. 697, portrait.

HOOPER, JOHN. b. Oxford 1802; went to U.S. of America 1839 and devoted himself to natural science; made collection of marine algæ which he left to Long island historical soc. d. Brooklyn, New York 26 April 1869. Appleton’s American Biog. iii, 252 (1887).

HOOPER, JOHN KINNERSLEY (3 son of Richard Hooper of Queenhithe and Limpsfield, Surrey). b. 1791; wine merchant as Richard Hooper and Sons, 20 Queenhithe, London to death; alderman of Queenhithe ward 1840 to death, sheriff 1842–43, lord mayor 1847–48; received the French national guard at the mansion house 23 Oct. 1848; pres. of St. Bartholomew’s hospital. d. St. Leonards-on-Sea 17 April 1854. I.L.N. xi, 309 (1847), portrait.

HOOPER, WILLIAM. b. 1819; a chemist; manufacturer of india-rubber goods 7 Pall Mall East, London and at Mitcham, Surrey 1857–78; inventor and manufacturer of india rubber insulated telegraph cables which he patented 19 March 1868; founder of Hooper’s Telegraph Co. in London 1870. d. Beechwood, Clapham common, Surrey 25 Sep. 1878. Journal Soc. of Arts 1 Nov. 1878 p. 964.

HOOPER, WILLIAM HULME. b. 1827; mate of the Plover, R.N. Nov. 1847 and lieut. 12 May 1849, in the expedition to search for Sir John Franklin, sailed from Plymouth 30 Jany. 1848, reached Port Providence 16 Oct. 1848, led a party along the coast as far as Cape Atcheen, learned the language of the natives, returned to England Oct. 1851; author of Ten months among the tents of the Tuski, with incidents of an Arctic boat expedition in search of Sir John Franklin 1853. d. Brompton, London 19 May 1854.

HOPE, ADRIAN (6 son of 4 Earl of Hopetown 1765–1823). b. Hopetown house, Linlithgowshire 3 March 1821; 2 lieut. 60 rifles 23 Nov. 1838, served in Kafir war 1851–3; major 1855; lieut. col. 93 Highlanders 25 Jany. 1856 to death; commanded brigade in Crimea 1854–5; C.B. 24 March 1858; killed in attack on fort at Rowas 14 April 1858. Martin’s Indian empire, ii, 493 (1876), portrait.

HOPE, ALEXANDER JAMES BERESFORD BERESFORD- (youngest son of Thomas Hope of Deepdene, Surrey 1770–1831). b. 25 Jany. 1820; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844, D.C.L. 1848, hon. LLD. 1864; LLD. Washington and Tennessee 1879, LLD. Dublin 1881; M.P. for Maidstone 1841–52 and 1857–65; contested Univ. of Cam. 1859 and Stoke-upon-Trent 1862; M.P. for Stoke 1865–8, M.P. for Univ. of Cam. 1868 to death; bought St. Augustine’s abbey, Canterbury as a college for missionary clergy 1844; built All Saints’ church, Margaret st. London 1849; joint owner of Saturday Review with John Douglas Cook 1855; took additional surname of Beresford 30 May 1854; P.C. 20 April 1880; possessed a collection of pictures and objects of art at 1 Connaught place, London; author of Poems 1843; Essays 1844; The English cathedral of the nineteenth century 1861; A popular view of the American civil war 1861, 3 ed. 1861; Worship in the Church of England 1874, 2 ed. 1875; Strictly tied up 3 vols. 1880, a novel, anon. 3 ed. 1881; The Brandreths 3 vols. 1882, a novel, and 24 other books. d. Bedgebury park, Cranbrook, Kent 20 Oct. 1887. C. Brown’s Life of Beaconsfield (1882) i, 194, portrait; Waagen’s Galleries of art (1857) 189–92; I.L.N. 16 May 1857 pp. 477, 479, portrait.

HOPE, ANNE (2 dau. of John Williamson Fulton of Calcutta, merchant). b. Calcutta 1809. (m. 10 March 1831 James Hope, physician 1801–41); joined Church of Rome, Nov. 1850; author of The acts of the early martyrs 1855; The lives of the early martyrs 1857; Life of St. Philip Neri 1859; Conversion of the Teutonic race 2 vols. 1872; Franciscan martyrs in England 1878; wrote many articles in Dublin Review 1872–9. d. St. Marychurch, Torquay 2 Feb. 1887. Gillow’s English Catholics iii, 375.

HOPE, CHARLES, Lord Granton (eld. son of John Hope of London, merchant 1739–85). b. 29 June 1763; admitted advocate 11 Dec. 1784; a depute advocate 1786; sheriff of Orkney 5 June 1792; lord advocate June 1801 to Nov. 1804; M.P. for Dumfries district 1802–3, for city of Edin. 1803–4; a lord of session and lord justice clerk 20 Nov. 1804, assumed title of lord Granton; lord pres. of court of session 12 Nov. 1811 to 1841; P.C. Scotland 17 Aug. 1822, lord justice general Dec. 1836 to 1841; lieut. general of royal archers of Scotland; author of Notes by the lord president on the subject of hearing counsel in the Inner House 1826. d. Moray place, Edinburgh 30 Oct. 1851. Omond’s Lord Advocates of Scotland ii, 205–23; Kay’s Original Portraits ii, 246–55 (1885), 3 portraits; Lockhart’s Peter’s Letters to his kinsfolk, ii, 102–8 (1819).

HOPE, CHARLES WEBLEY. b. 21 April 1829; entered navy 1842; captain 15 May 1861; A.D.C. to the Queen 12 Feb. 1873 to 1 Aug. 1877; R.A. 1 Aug. 1877; superintendent of Devonport dockyard 1 Feb. 1879 to death; F.R.G.S.; author of The education and training of naval officers 1869. d. Devonport dockyard 13 Feb. 1880.

HOPE, REV. FREDERICK WILLIAM (2 son of John Thomas Hope of Netley, Salop 1761–1854). b. 37 Upper Seymour st. Portman sq. London 3 Jany. 1797; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823, hon. D.C.L. 1855; C. of Frodesley, Salop 1823; F.R.S. to 1851 when he withdrew; F.L.S. 5 March 1822; one of founders of Zoological Soc. 1826, of Entomological Soc. 1833, president 1835–37; resided at Naples and Nice 1840–62; executed in 1849 a deed of gift giving his collection of fishes, crustacea, birds, shells, books and 230,000 engravings to Univ. of Oxford, his fishes, etc. were removed to the New Museum and his engravings to Radcliffe library 1861; founded and endowed a professorship of zoology in the Univ. of Ox. 1861; author of Buprestidae 1835; The Coleopterist’s Manual 3 parts 1837–40 and of about 60 papers on entomological subjects. d. 37 Upper Seymour st. London 15 April 1862. Journal British Archæol. Assoc. xix, 157–62 (1863); Proc. Linnæan society (1862) 90–93; J. O. Westwood’s Thesaurus Entomologicus Oxon. (1874) pp. xvii-xxiv.

HOPE, GEORGE (2 son of Robert Hope, tenant farmer). b. Fenton, East Lothian 2 Jany. 1811; farmer at Fenton Barns to 1875; did much to improve the agriculture of East Lothian, his farm was well-known in America and on the continent; gained a prize of £30 offered by the Anti-Corn-law league for an essay on Agriculture and the corn laws 1842; contributed Hindrances to agriculture from a tenant farmer’s point of view to Recess Studies, Edited by Sir A. Grant, Edinburgh 1870; contested Haddingtonshire 1865 and East Aberdeenshire 1875. d. Broadlands, Berwickshire 1 Dec. 1876. Memoir of George Hope, By His Daughter (1881).

HOPE, GEORGE WILLIAM (2 son of general the hon. Sir Alexander Hope 1769–1837). b. Blackheath 4 July 1808; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1830; barrister L.I. 28 Jany. 1831; M.P. for Weymouth 1837 to 1841 when unseated on petition; M.P. for Southampton 1842–6; M.P. for New Windsor 1859 to death; under sec. of state for the colonies 8 Sep. 1841 to 8 Jany. 1846. d. Luffness, Haddingtonshire 18 Oct. 1863. I.L.N. vi, 184 (1845), portrait.

HOPE, SIR HENRY (eld. child of Charles Hope, captain R.N., d. 10 Sep. 1808). b. 1787; entered navy 2 April 1798, captain 24 May 1808, captain of the Endymion May 1813, captured the American frigate President 15 Jany. 1815; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 5 July 1855; A.D.C. to the sovereign 1831–46; admiral 20 Jany. 1858. d. Holly hill, Hants. 23 Sep. 1863.

HOPE, HENRY THOMAS (eldest bro. of Alexander J. B. Hope 1820–87). b. 1808; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1829; M.P. East Looe 1830–2; M.P. Gloucester 1833–41 and 1847–52; a great patron of architectural art; erected a residence 116 Piccadilly, now known as the Junior Athenæum club; sold Trenant park, Cornwall and purchased Castle Blaney, Ireland; possessed a collection of marble statues, vases and Italian and Dutch pictures. d. 116 Piccadilly, London 4 Dec. 1862, personalty sworn under £300,000, 17 Jany. 1863. Waagen’s Treasures of Art, ii, 112–24 (1854); I.L.N. xxxii, 352 (1858).

HOPE, SIR JAMES (only son of Sir George Hope, K.C.B. 1767–1818). b. 3 March 1808; entered royal naval college 1 Aug. 1820; captain 28 June 1838; commander in chief East Indies 25 Jany. 1859 to 8 Feb. 1862, in North America and West Indies 7 Jany. 1864 to 10 Jany. 1867, and at Portsmouth 25 Feb. 1869 to 1 March 1872; admiral 21 Jany. 1870, retired March 1878, admiral of the fleet 15 June 1879; principal naval A.D.C. to the Queen 8 Feb. 1873; C.B. 3 April 1846, K.C.B. 9 Nov. 1860, G.C.B. 28 March 1865; grand cross of legion of honour 1861. d. Carriden house, Bowness, Linlithgowshire 9 June 1881, portrait by Sydney Hodges in painted hall at Greenwich. D. C. Boulger’s History of China, vol. iii, passim (1884).

HOPE, JAMES. b. 28 May 1803; writer to the signet 1828; deputy keeper of the signet 1828 to death. d. Avenel, Edinburgh 14 Feb. 1882. Law Times, lxxii, 305 (1882).

HOPE, SIR JAMES ARCHIBALD (son of lieut.-col. Erskine Hope). b. 1785; ensign 26 foot 12 Jany. 1800, captain 1805–14; captain 3 foot guards 25 July 1814, major 10 Jany. 1837 to 1 Nov. 1839, when placed on h.p.; M.G. on the staff in Lower Canada 1841–7; colonel 9 foot 18 Feb. 1848 to death; general 12 June 1859; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 28 June 1861. d. Balgowan house, Cheltenham 30 Dec. 1871.

HOPE, SIR JOHN, 11 Baronet. b. Pinkie house, Midlothian 13 April 1781; succeeded 26 June 1801; M.P. for Midlothian 1845 to death. d. 104 Gloucester terrace, Hyde park, London 5 June 1853. bur. Inveresk churchyard 11 June.

HOPE, JOHN (eld. son of Charles Hope of Granton 1763–1851). b. Edinburgh 26 May 1794; admitted advocate 23 Nov. 1816; solicitor general for Scotland Nov. 1822 to 1830; dean of faculty of advocates 17 Dec. 1830 to 1841; lord justice clerk 1841 to death; P.C. 17 April 1844; author of A letter to Francis Jeffery, Esq., editor of the Edinburgh Review, By an Anti-Reformist 1811 and two other letters. d. 20 Moray place, Edinburgh 15 June 1858, bur. at Ormiston near Tranent; portraits in national gallery of Scotland, in the Parliament house and in Scottish national portrait gallery. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 73–4, portrait.

HOPE, SACKETT. Entered navy 2 Nov. 1814; present at bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre 1840; captain 4 Nov. 1840; V.A. on half pay 2 April 1866; granted pension for wounds 7 Nov. 1843. d. 9 Widcomb crescent, Bath 25 May 1868.

HOPE, WILLIAM WILLIAMS (youngest child of John Williams Hope of Amsterdam, banker 1757–1813). b. 1802; reassumed name of Williams before that of Hope by r.l. 14 July 1826; purchased Rushton hall near Kettering for £140,000 in 1828, sold it for £165,000 Sep. 1854; sheriff of Northamptonshire 1832; lived latterly in Paris, built a large house at 131 Rue St. Dominique, Faubourg St. Germain, played a prominent part in Parisian society, noted for his eccentricity and his collection of diamonds; found dead in his bed at 131 Rue St. Dominique, Paris 21 Jany. 1855. Gronow’s Last Recollections (1866) 129–33; Boase’s Collect. Cornub. (1890) 1262–4.

HOPE-JOHNSTONE, JOHN JAMES (1 son of Sir William Hope-Johnstone, G.C.B. 1766–1831). b. 29 Nov. 1796; M.P. for co. Dumfries 1830–47, and 1857–65; keeper of Lockmaben; claimed dormant earldom of Annandale. d. Raehills, Dumfriesshire 11 July 1876.

HOPE-SCOTT, JAMES ROBERT (3 son of general the hon. Sir Alexander Hope, G.C.B. 1769–1837). b. Great Marlow, Bucks. 15 July 1812; ed. at Eton 1825–28 and at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1832, B.C.L. 1838, D.C.L. 1842; fellow of Merton 13 April 1833; commenced a friendship with W. E. Gladstone 1837 and corresponded with him on “The State in its relation with the Church” 1838; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1838, reader 1862; a promoter of Glenalmond college, Perthshire 1841; chancellor of diocese of Salisbury 1840 to 10 Feb. 1845; Q.C. April 1849; paid fees of £20,000 by London and north western railway for 25 bills 1860; received into R.C. church at Farm st. London 6 April 1851; lived at Abbotsford 1853 to death; assumed additional name of Scott 1853; spent winters of 1863–70 at the Villa Madonna Hyères which he bought 1859; visited by Queen Victoria at Abbotsford 22 Aug. 1867; built church of Our Lady and St. Andrew at Galashiels at cost of £10,000, opened 2 Feb. 1858; purchased estate of Lochshiel for £24,000, 1855; author of The bishopric of the United Church of England and Ireland at Jerusalem 1841, 2 ed. 1842. d. 7 Hyde park place, London 29 April 1873. bur. in the vaults of St. Margaret’s convent, Bruntsfield, Edin. 7 May. Memoirs of J. R. Hope-Scott, By Robert Ornsby 2 vols. 1884.

HOPETOUN, JOHN ALEXANDER HOPE, 6 Earl of (only son of 5 earl of Hopetoun 1803–43). b. Edinburgh 22 March 1831; ed. at Harrow; cornet and sub-lieut. 1 life guards 1851–2; succeeded 8 April 1843; lord lieut. of Linlithgowshire 30 Sep. 1863 to death. d. Florence 1 April 1873. Baily’s Mag. xvi, 159–61 (1869), portrait.

HOPKINS, SIR FRANCIS, 2 Baronet (only son of Sir F. J. Hopkins, M.P.) b. Athboy, co. Meath 28 May 1813; succeeded 19 Sep. 1814; ed. at Eton, matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 27 June 1830; knight of the Burning Tower at the Eglinton tournament 28–30 Aug. 1839; sheriff of Westmeath 1855. d. Madeira 11 May 1860. J. H. Nixon’s Eglinton tournament p. 6 and plate xiv (1843).

HOPKINS, REV. GERARD MANLEY (1 son of Manley Hopkins of Stratford, Essex). b. Essex 1845; ed. at Ball. coll. Ox., exhibitioner 1863–8, B.A. 1868; fellow of royal univ. of Ireland 1885 (which was created by letters patent 22 April 1880), professor of classical literature there 1885 to death; member of Society of Jesus about 1868. d. of typhoid fever at University college, Stephen’s Green, Dublin 8 June 1889. bur. Glasnevin cemet. 11 June. Freeman’s Journal 10 June 1889 p. 5.

HOPKINS, JOHN BAKER. b. London 10 April 1830; began his career as a journalist 1858; editor of Atlas paper; joint editor with Henry Hotze of The Index, English organ of Confederate States, No. i. 1 May 1862, at the end of the war the paper ceased; London correspondent to Paris Correspondence Havas 1864–8; on Standard paper Sep. 1865 to 1868; on Law Journal 1867; contributed to Morning Post and Vanity Fair under pseudonym of Esse quam videri; chief leader writer on London Figaro, July 1870; author of The Yogi’s daughter, a tragedy 1854; Elviré, a reminiscence of Paris 1855; Not at all nervous, a farce 1860; Making the worst of it, a novel 2 vols. 1874; Jack Oakum, a play 1877; The true history of Nihilism, a novel 1880. d. 14 Russell road, Holloway 20 Dec. 1888. Cartoon portraits (1873) 140–43, portrait.

HOPKINS, RIGHT REV. JOHN HENRY. b. Dublin 30 Jany. 1792; emigrated to U.S. of A. 1801, an iron manufacturer in Pennsylvania 1810–17 when he failed; admitted to Pittsburgh bar 1817, practised to 1823; R. of Trinity ch. Pittsburgh 1824–31; assistant minister Trinity ch. Boston 1831; professor of divinity in theol. seminary of Massachusetts 1831; first bishop of Vermont 31 Oct. 1832; R. of St. Paul’s, Burlington 1832–56; seventh presiding bishop of ch. in U.S. 1865, attended Lambeth conference 1867; D.C.L. Ox. 3 Dec. 1867; author of Christianity vindicated 1833; Essay on Gothic architecture 1836; Twelve canzonets, words and music 1839; The history of the confessional 1850, and 30 other books. d. Rock Point, Vermont 9 Jany. 1868. A sketch book of American episcopate. By K. G. Batterson (1878) 104–106; Appleton’s American Biog. iii, 254–6 (1887).

HOPKINS, JOHN LARKIN. b. Westminster 25 Nov. 1819; chorister boy in the abbey; organist of Rochester cathedral 1841–56; Mus. Bac. Cam. 1842, Mus. Doc. 1857; organist of Trin. coll. Cam. 1856 to death; composed Five glees and a madrigal 1842, and Cathedral Services in C flat and E flat 1857; author of A new vocal tutor 1855. d. Ventnor, Isle of Wight 25 April 1873.

HOPKINS, SIR JOHN PAUL (eld. son of Capt. John Hopkins, killed on board the “Bellerophon” in the battle of the Nile). Ensign 43 foot 1804; served in the Peninsula and in campaign of 1815; major 98 foot 25 June 1829, retired 18 Oct. 1831; K.H. 1836; governor of military knights of Windsor 1865 to death; knighted at Windsor castle 11 Dec. 1867. d. Windsor 9 March 1875.

HOPKINS, WILLIAM (only son of William Hopkins of Kingston, Derbyshire, farmer). b. Kingston 2 Feb. 1793; farmed, without success near Bury St. Edmunds; entered at Peterhouse, Cam. 1822, 7 wrangler 1827, B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; a private tutor at Cam. from 1827 and known as the senior wrangler maker; esquire bedel of Univ. of Cam. 1827 to death; F.G.S. 18—, Wollaston medallist 1850, president 1851–3; pres. of British Assoc. at Hull 1853; F.R.S. 1 June 1837; author of Elements of trigonometry 1833; An abstract of a memoir on physical geology 1836. d. Parker’s Piece, Cambridge 13 Oct. 1866, portrait in hall of Peterhouse. Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxiii, pp. xxix-xxxii (1867); I.L.N. xxiii, 225 (1853), portrait.

HOPKINS, REV. WILLIAM BONNER. Ed. at Gonville and Caius coll. Cam., second wrangler, second Smith’s prizeman and B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847, B.D. 1854; fellow and tutor of St. Cath. hall 1848–54; V. of St. Peter, Wisbech 1854–66; V. of Littleport near Ely 1866 to death; hon. canon of Ely 1865 to death, rural dean 1868; Dean Stanley said he was “the incarnation of sound common sense”; author of Apostolic missions. Five sermons preached before the university 1853; The words spoken by Christ upon the Cross. Seven sermons 1866; The position and duty of non-abstainers 1874, 2 ed. 1875. d. Littleport vicarage 24 March 1890.

HOPKINSON, SIR CHARLES (son of B. Hopkinson of Highbury park, Middlesex). b. Grantham 1784; ed. at Woolwich; lieut. R.A. 1799; served in Mahratta war 1803; commanded the artillery against the Poligars and at Hyderabad; lieut.-col. 1824; commanded Madras artillery; served in war in Ava 1825; retired through deafness 1829; C.B. 1826; knighted by Wm. iv. at St. James’s palace 26 April 1837; author of Hints to cadets and others proceeding to India 1850. d. 2a King st. St. James’s sq. London 17 Dec. 1864.

HOPKINSON, WILLIAM (son of Rev. Samuel Edmund Hopkinson, R. of Morton-cum-Haconby). b. 1784; coroner for the Soke of Peterborough; solicitor at Bourn and Stamford; purchased Little Gidding manor, Hunts. 700 acres 1853 and restored the church to the Caroline style in which it had been left by Nicholas Ferrar in 1637. d. Stamford 1 Sep. 1865. Rivington’s Ecclesiastical Year-book (1866) 334.

HOPLEY, EDWARD WILLIAM JOHN. b. 1816; painter of domestic subjects and portraits; exhibited 15 pictures at R.A., 26 at B.I. and 7 at Suffolk st. 1844–69; his picture, The birth of a pyramid, shown 1859; invented a trigonometrical system of facial measurement for the use of artists. d. 14 South Bank, Regent’s Park, London 30 April 1869.

HOPPER, VEN. AUGUSTUS MACDONALD (son of Walter Carles Hopper of Walworth, co. Durham). b. 11 Aug. 1816; ed. at Shrewsbury and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842, fellow of St. John’s 1841–5; R. of Starston, Norfolk 1845 to death; hon. canon of Norwich 1854–72; archdeacon of Norwich 1868 to death; author of Two Charges 1869 and 1870. d. Starston rectory 7 Jany. 1878.

HOPPER, CLARENCE (son of Thomas Hopper of Reading, surgeon d. 1856). b. Granthan, Wilts 17 May 1817; ed. at Reading gram. sch.; palæographer of British Archæol. Assoc. 1862; an expert in deciphering ancient writings; employed in Record office; edited London Chronicle of Hen. VII. and Hen. VIII. 1859, and Sir F. Drake’s service against the Spaniards 1863, in vols. 4 and 5 of Camden Miscellany; author of A descriptive account of churchwardens’ presentments Stratford-on-Avon 1867; A catalogue of books illustrative of Shakespeare 1868. d. Brighton 10 June 1868. Journal of B.A. Assoc. xxv, 316 (1869).

HOPPER, THOMAS (son of Mr. Hopper of Rochester, surveyor). b. Rochester 6 July 1776; architect and surveyor 40 Connaught ter. London; made alterations at Carlton House, London 1807; surveyor of Essex 40 years; built Arthur’s club, St. James’s st., Atlas fire office, Cheapside and St. Mary’s hospital, Paddington 1843; competed for erection of General Post Office 1820, for rebuilding of Royal Exchange 1839, and for Houses of parliament 1840; published A letter to viscount Duncannon on competitors for building houses of parliament 1837; Designs for the houses of parliament 1842. d. 1 Bayswater Hill, London 11 Aug. 1856.

HOPPUS, REV. JOHN (only son of Rev. John Hoppus, independent minister, Yardley, Hastings). b. London 1789; ed. at Rotherham and Univs. of Edin. and Glasgow, M.A. Glasgow 1823, LLD. 1839; minister of independent chapel, Carter lane, London 1823–5; professor of the philosophy of mind and logic in London Univ. 1829–66; F.R.S. 20 May 1841; author of An account of Lord Bacon’s Novum Organum Scientiarum 1827; Sketches on the Continent in 1835 2 vols. 1836; The crisis of popular education 1847 and 12 other books. d. 26 Camden st. Camden town, London 29 Jany. 1875. Congregational Year-book (1876) 341–3.

HORAN, EDWARD JOHN. b. Quebec, Canada 1817; ed. in the Seminary of Quebec, priest 1842, a director of the Seminary; principal of the normal sch. Quebec; bishop of Kingston 1858, resigned; assistant of the pontifical throne; present at Vatican council 1870. d. Canada 16 Feb. 1875. Appleton’s American Biog. iii, 262 (1887).

HORAN, MARY AUSTIN. b. Ireland 1820; entered the Convent of Mercy, Dublin; assisted in founding the Institution of Mercy, New York 1846; first mistress of novices in St. Catherine’s convent, New York and trainer of the early members; built St. Joseph’s Industrial institute for children. d. New York city 14 June 1874. Appleton’s American Biog. iii, 262 (1887).

HORDERN, REV. JOSEPH (son of Rev. Joseph Hordern of Prestwich, Lancs.) b. 1794; ed. at Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1816, M.A. 1820; V. of Rostherne, Cheshire 1821–54; R. of Burton Agnes with Harpham, Yorks. 1854 to death; author of Plain directions for reading to the sick 1826, 4 ed. 1830; Sermons 1830; The armour of light, sermons 1851. d. Knutsford, Cheshire 12 Aug. 1876. F. Ross’ Celebrities of the Wolds (1878) 76.

HORMAN, GEORGE HELIER (son of Philip Horman of St. Saviour’s, Jersey). b. 1817; practised as a solicitor in Jersey, one of the six advocates of the royal court there 1848; Her Majesty’s advocate general for Jersey 23 July 1866 to death; chairman of the Channel islands bank 1858–74. d. The Terrace, St. Heliers, Jersey 29 May 1879.

HORN, HENRY (son of Frederick Jacob Horn of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire). b. 23 Sep. 1806; ed. at M.T. school and St. John’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; fellow of Magdalen coll. 1831–4; barrister M.T. 11 Jany. 1833; recorder of Hereford 1847 to death; edited Woodfall’s Practical treatise on law of landlord and tenant, 7 ed. 1856; with E. T. Hurlstone published Reports in court of exchequer upon writs of error to exchequer chamber 2 vols. 1840; while attending the corpse of his father in law J. S. Gowland shot himself in the head at Cagebrook near Hereford 29 Nov. 1857. Hereford Journal 2 Dec. 1857 p. 5.

HORN, MARION (dau. of Mr. Horton, manufacturer of silver plate ware). b. Birmingham 1811; sang small parts in English operas and served as a substitute for Emma Romer; studied under Marco Bordogni in Paris; had a mezzo soprano voice; appeared as Cinderella at Old Park theatre, New York 16 Sep. 1836 and then as Rosina, Amina, and Susanna; sang in operas throughout United States; (m. 1839 Charles Edward Horn 1786–1849, the writer of Cherry Ripe 1825, and I know a bank 1830); taught in New York many of best known American singers. d. Morrisania co. Winchester, New York, Jany. 1887. Ireland’s New York Stage, ii, 176 (1867).

HORN, ROBERT (youngest son of William Horn, farmer). b. Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire 24 May 1810; ed. at Glasgow univ.; passed at Scotch bar 1834; hon. memb. Speculative Soc. Edin.; a commissioner of the board of manufacturers 1866; vice dean of Faculty of Advocates 1874 and dean 1876; helped in preparing Catalogue of Faculty of Advocate’s Library 1873. d. 7 Randolph crescent, Edinburgh 2 Jany. 1878. Journ. of Jurisprudence, xxii, 93–7 (1878).

HORNBLOWER, JANE ELIZABETH (dau. of William Roscoe 1753–1831 historian). b. Liverpool 1797; (m. Francis Hornblower); author of Poems 1820; Poems 1821; Poems 1843. d. Liverpool 2 Aug. 1853.

HORNBY, EDMUND (eld. son of Rev. Geoffry Hornby, R. of Winwick, Lancs. d. 1812). b. 16 June 1773; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1794, M.A. 1797; barrister I.T. 22 June 1798; chairman of Lancaster court of quarter sessions many years; M.P. for Preston 1812–26; sheriff of Westmoreland 1828. d. Dalton hall near Burton, Westmoreland 18 Nov. 1857.

HORNBY, EDMUND GEORGE (son of the preceding). b. 6 Nov. 1799; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1820; M.P. for Warrington 1832–5; constable of Lancaster castle. d. Dalton hall 26 or 27 Feb. 1865.

HORNBY, LOUISA (sister of Edmund Hornby 1773–1857). b. Winwick 5 April 1788; author of Bible Stories; Universal Reform; The Full Loom and other books. d. Winwick 6 Jany. 1873.

HORNBY, SIR PHIPPS (brother of the preceding). b. Winwick 27 April 1785; ed. at Sunbury; entered navy 19 May 1797, captain 16 Feb. 1810; as commander of the Volage took part in action off Lissa 1811, gold medal; superintendent of royal naval hospital and victualling yard at Plymouth 1832 to 6 Jany. 1838; superintendent of Woolwich dockyard 6 Jany. 1838 to 16 Dec. 1841; controller general of the coastguard 16 Dec. 1841 to Nov. 1846; commander in chief in the Pacific 1847–50; a lord of the admiralty 28 Feb. to 30 Dec. 1852; admiral 25 June 1858; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 6 April 1852, G.C.B. 28 June 1861. d. Little Green near Petersfield 19 March 1867.

HORNBY, ROBERT VERNON ATHERTON. b. Atherton 6 Nov. 1805; author of Statistical account of Winwick 1837; Vale: a poem 1854. d. Wansfell, Windermere 25 Aug. 1857.

HORNBY, WILLIAM HENRY (3 son of John Hornby of Blackburn). b. Blackburn 2 July 1805; founded the Brookhouse cotton mills, Blackburn 1828; first mayor of Blackburn 1851; M.P. Blackburn 1857–69 when he was unseated. d. Pool hall, Nantwich, Cheshire 5 Sep. 1884. Puseley’s Commercial Companion (1858) 114–5.

HORNCASTLE, JAMES HENRY. b. London 26 May 1801; appeared as first witch in Macbeth at Drury Lane 1820; first appeared at Chestnut street theatre, Philadelphia 28 Jany. 1839; at National theatre, New York with Louisa Pyne’s troupe 1854 and at Broadway theatre 1855; attached to Princess’ theatre, London; musician, actor, author and composer; an annuitant on General theatrical fund. d. West Malvern 6 May 1869. Ireland’s New York stage, ii, 231, 629 (1867).

HORNE, JAMES. b. 1790; experimented on steam locomotives on roads; F.R.S. 6 Feb. 1834; A.I.C.E. 20 Feb. 1835, auditor 1840; applied warming and ventilating apparatus to halls of the City companies. d. London 26 Oct. 1856. Min. of Proc. Instit. of C.E. xvii, 102 (1858).

HORNE, LENOX (younger brother of the succeeding). Baritone singer at Surrey theatre under name of Mr. Lennox 1849–51; lecturer at the Polytechnic Institution London; wrote Two heads are better than one, A farce, produced at Lyceum theatre Dec. 1854; The baronet abroad; The tale of a comet. d. Clapham road, Kennington 20 Nov. 1874.

HORNE, RICHARD HENRY or HENGIST. b. London 31 Dec. 1802; ed. at Sandhurst; midshipman in Mexican navy, served in war against Spain 1829; edited the Monthly Repository July 1836 to June 1837; sub.-comr. to report on employment of children in mines 1843; went with Wm. Howitt to Australia 1852; commander of the gold escort between Ballarat and Melbourne 1852; comr. of crown lands for the gold fields 1853–4; territorial magistrate 1855 &c.; took name of Hengist instead of Henry 1864; returned to England 1869; granted civil list pension of £50, 19 June 1874, and another of £50, 28 April 1880; author of Cosmo de Medici 1837, a tragedy; The death of Marlowe 1837, a tragedy; The history of Napoleon 2 vols. 1841, new ed. 1879; Orion, an epic poem 1843, 10 ed. 1874, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd eds. were issued at a farthing; A new spirit of the age 2 vols. 1844; The poor artist 1850, 2 ed. 1871; Sithron the Star-stricken 1883, and 15 other books. d. Margate 13 March 1884. R. H. Horne’s Australian facts and prospects (1859) 1–44; H. B. Forman’s Our living poets (1871) 427–46; Athenæum 22 March 1884 pp. 374–5; I.L.N. lxxxiv, 301 (1884), portrait.

HORNE, REV. THOMAS HARTWELL (son of William Horne of London, barrister’s clerk). b. Chancery lane, London 20 Oct. 1780; ed. at Christ’s hospital 1789–95; barrister’s clerk 1796–1806; sec. to Joseph Butterworth, M.P. 1806–9; sub-librarian to Surrey institution 1809–23; C. of Ch. Ch. Newgate st. London 1819–25; senior assist. librarian British museum 1824–60; assist. minister at Welbeck chapel, London 1825–33; F.S.A. 1828; F.R.S.L.; B.D. Cambridge 1829, D.D. Univ. of Pennsylvania; preb. of St. Paul’s 1831 to death; R. of St. Edmund the King with St. Nicholas Acons, Lombard st. 25 Nov. 1833 to death; author of An introduction to the critical study and knowledge of the Holy Scriptures 3 vols. 1818, 11 ed. 1860; Outlines for the classification of a library submitted to the trustees of the British museum 1825; A compendious introduction to the study of the Bible 1827, 10 ed. 1862; Manual of parochial psalmody 1829, 41 ed. 1861 and about 50 other books. d. 47 Bloomsbury sq. London 27 Jany. 1862. G. M. Turpin’s The Rev. T. H. Horne (1862), portrait; Reminiscences of T. H. Horne, by his daughter S. A. Cheyne (1862); Cowtan’s Memories of British Museum (1872) 105–9.

HORNE, SIR WILLIAM (2 son of Rev. Thomas Horne, schoolmaster at Chiswick). b. 1774; barrister L.I. 23 June 1798, bencher 6 Nov. 1818; comr. of bankrupts 1806–18; K.C. Nov. 1818; attorney general to queen Adelaide 24 July 1830; solicitor general 26 Nov. 1830 to 23 Nov. 1832, attorney general 26 Nov. 1832 to Feb. 1834; appointed a baron of the Exchequer but declined the office 1834; master in chancery 23 July 1839, resigned 1853; M.P. for Helston 1812–18, for Bletchingley 1831, for Newton, Isle of Wight 1831–2, for Marylebone 12 Dec. 1832 to 29 Dec. 1834; knighted by Wm. IV. at St. James’s palace 24 Nov. 1830. d. 49 Upper Harley st. London 13 July 1860. Mrs. Hardcastle’s Life of Lord Campbell (1881) ii, 18–41; Lord Brougham’s Life and times, iii, 341–54, 426–9.

HORNEGOLD or HORNIGOLD, WILLIAM 1797–1867, artist. See Hornygold, W. ante col. 1523.

HORNER, LEONARD (youngest son of John Horner of Edinburgh, linen merchant). b. Edinburgh 17 Jany. 1785; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edin.; partner in a branch of his father’s business in London 1804–17; F.G.S. 1808, sec. 1810, pres. 1846 and 1860; F.R.S. 1813, vice pres. 1857; warden of London Univ. 1827–31; inspector under the Factories act 1833–60; published Works of Francis Horner 1843; Memoirs of Francis Horner 1848, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1853; a translation of Villari’s History of Savonarola 1863. d. 60 Montague sq. London 5 March 1864. Quarterly Journal of Geol. soc. xxi, 30–40 (1865); Proc. of Royal soc. xiv, 5–10 (1865); Macmillan’s Mag. x, 319–26 (1864).

HORRABIN, REV. RICHARD. b. Garstang near Preston; ed. at Old Hall Green coll.; chaplain Virginia st. chapel, Ratcliffe highway, London 1815–39, and 1841–54; chaplain St. Mary, Moor fields 1839–41; gave evidence before house of commons on education of lower orders 1816; published The New Testament, ed. by Marlow J. F. Sidney and revised by the Rev. R. Horrabin 1818. d. Houndsditch, London 13 Dec. 1859. Gillow’s English Catholics iii, 403–4 (1887).

HORSBURGH, JOHN. b. Prestonpans near Edinburgh 1791; apprenticed to Robert Scott the engraver 1805; engraved several plates after J. M. W. Turner for Scott’s Poetical and Prose Works and other publications; engraved several single plates including Prince Charlie reading a despatch and 2 portraits of Sir Walter Scott; undertook gratuitously duties of pastor in Scottish Baptist church. d. 16 Buccleuch place, Edinburgh 24 Sep. 1869. Pastoral addresses of J. Horsburgh with memoir 1869.

HORSEY, GEORGE (4 son of Charles Horsey of St. John st., London). b. 29 Sep. 1819; barrister G.I. 22 May 1850; equity draughtsman and conveyancer; author of A practical analysis of the Trustees Act 1850; The probate and administration act 1858; The court of Probate acts 3 ed. 1859; Law of property and trustees relief act 1860. d. Colne villa, New Southgate, Middlesex 16 Sep. 1889.

HORSFALL, THOMAS BERRY. b. Liverpool 1805; a merchant in Liverpool, mayor of Liverpool 1847–48; M.P. Derby 8 July 1852, unseated 9 March 1853; M.P. Liverpool 9 July 1853 to Nov. 1868; president Liverpool chamber of commerce on its foundation 1849. d. Torquay 22 Dec. 1878.

HORSFIELD, THOMAS. b. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 12 May 1773; ed. Univ. of Pennsylvania, M.D. 1798; studied natural history in Java 1799–1819; in service of Dutch government in Java and Sumatra to 1811 and of H.E.I.Co. 1811–20; keeper of museum, India House, London 1820 to death; F.L.S. 1820; F.R.S. 1828; author of Zoological Researches in Java 1824; Descriptive catalogue of Lepidoptera in the H.E.I.C. museum, 2 parts 1828–9 and other books. d. Chalcott villas, Camden town, London 24 July 1859. Proc. of Royal Society x, 19–21 (1860); Proc. Linnean Soc. (1859–60) 25–6.

HORSFORD, SIR ALFRED HASTINGS (son of general George Horsford, d. 1840). b. Bath 3 April 1818; 2 lieut. rifle brigade 12 July 1833, lieut.-col. 9 March 1855 to 1 Jany. 1868, col. commandant 2 battalion 21 Nov. 1880 to death; served in Kaffir wars 1847–8 and 1852–3, Crimean war 1854–5 and Indian mutiny 1857–8; D.A.G. at horse guards 1860–6; brigadier general at Aldershot 1866–9; military sec. at Horse Guards 1874–80; col. 79 foot 17 March 1876, col. 14 foot 1 Jany. 1879 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 3 April 1883; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 8 May 1860, G.C.B. 29 May 1875. d. Munlochy near Inverness 13 Sep. 1885. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 19 Sep.

HORSFORD, SIR ROBERT MARSH (eld. son of Paul Horsford, chief justice of Antigua, d. 1850). b. Boswell court, Lincoln’s inn, London 1798; ed. at Winchester; matric. from Ex. coll. Ox. 7 Dec. 1816; barrister M.T. 17 May 1822; settled in island of Antigua, solicitor general there 1825–46, attorney general 1846 to Nov. 1847, chief justice 19 Nov. 1847, retired Aug. 1856; knighted at Buckingham palace 25 Jany. 1841; C.B. 15 Nov. 1852. d. 11 Delamere terrace, Westbourne park, London 23 May 1875.

HORSLEY, CHARLES EDWARD (son of the succeeding). b. 24 Queen’s buildings, Knightsbridge, London 16 Dec. 1822; pupil of Moscheles, Hauptmann, Spohr and Mendelssohn; teacher of music in London 1846; organist of St. John’s, Notting hill 19 Sep. 1853 to June 1857; went to Melbourne 1868, then to New York 1872, choir master St. John’s chapel 1872 to death; composed for Liverpool Philharmonic Soc. two oratorios David 1849 and Joseph 1852; wrote the cantata Comus 1854; produced oratorio Gideon at Glasgow musical festival 1860; wrote an ode Euterpe for opening of Melbourne town hall 1870, and about 35 other pieces; author of A text book of harmony 1876. d. New York city 28 Feb. 1876.

HORSLEY, WILLIAM H. b. London 15 Nov. 1774; articled to Theodore Smith, pianist 1790–4; organist of Ely chapel, Holborn 1794–8; member of Royal Soc. of Musicians 15 June 1797; founded with J. W. Callcott the Concentores Sodales a club for encouragement of glee and canon writing, June 1798 which existed till 1847; assistant organist Asylum for female orphans about 1798, organist 1802–54; Mus. Bac. Oxford 18 June 1800; organist at Belgrave chapel, Halkin st. 1812–37 and at the Charterhouse 1838; had few equals as a composer of glees; published Five collections of glees 1801–27; An introduction to the study of practical harmony and modulation 1847; The musical treasury 1853 and about 60 pieces of music; his best known glees were By Celia’s Arbour 1807 and Mine be a cot. d. 1 High row, Kensington, London 12 June 1858. G.M. lxxxiii, 82, 565 (1813); Grove’s Dictionary of music, i, 753–4 (1879).

HORSMAN, CHARLOTTE (dau. of Mr. Gardiner). b. Dublin 1827; (m. 1847 Charles Horsman, actor b. Welchpool, Montgomeryshire 21 Oct. 1825); a prominent actress at Lyceum, Strand, Sadler’s Wells and Holborn theatres; a member of the Pygmalion and Galatea co.; her last appearance was at Bradford as Meg Merrilies 14 May 1877. d. 2 William st. Bradford 4 June 1878. bur. Undercliffe cemet. 7 June. The Era 9 June 1878 p. 12.

HORSMAN, EDWARD (son of William Horsman d. 22 March 1845 aged 86). b. 8 Feb. 1807; ed. at Rugby and Trin. coll. Cam.; admitted advocate at Scottish bar 1832; M.P. Cockermouth Feb. 1836 to 1 July 1852; M.P. Stroud 29 June 1853 to Nov. 1868; M.P. Liskeard 11 May 1869 to death; fought a duel at Wormwood Scrubbs with James Bradshaw, M.P. 1840; comr. of Church Inquiry in Scotland; a lord of the Treasury June to Sep. 1841; chief sec. of state for Ireland March 1855, resigned May 1857; P.C. 10 March 1855; on 13 March 1866 Bright described Horsman as retiring “into his political cave of Adullam,” hence his party became known as “the cave”; author of Five speeches on ecclesiastical affairs 1849. d. Biarritz 30 Nov. 1876. H. D. Traill’s The new Lucian (1884) 183–401; I.L.N. xxx, 478 (1857), portrait; Graphic xiv, 592, 595 (1876), portrait.

HORT, SIR JOSIAH WILLIAM, 2 Baronet (_1 son of Sir John Hort d. 1807_). b. 6 July 1791; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1812; succeeded 23 Oct. 1807; M.P. co. Kildare 1831–2. d. Ebury st. Eaton square, London 24 Aug. 1876.

HORT, SIR JOHN JOSIAH, 3 Baronet (1 son of the preceding). b. Dublin 14 Jany. 1824; ensign 61 foot 20 Nov. 1840; captain 4 foot 27 May 1847, lieut.-col. 1 Feb. 1856 to 10 Nov. 1856 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. 36 foot 15 May 1857 to 28 Dec. 1866; lieut.-col. 44 foot 28 Dec. 1866 to 10 Nov. 1869 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. brigade depot 1 April 1873; L.G. 10 Aug. 1878; C.B. 24 May 1873; knight of Malta. d. 35 Merrion sq. east, Dublin 5 Jany. 1882. The case of maltreatment by Capt. Hort, fourth King’s own regiment, of lieut. A. V. D. Harris. Plymouth 1851.

HORT, SIR WILLIAM FITZMAURICE JOSIAH, 4 Baronet (brother of the preceding). b. Boulogne-sur-mer 28 Jany. 1827; ed. at R.M.A. Woolwich; called to bar in Ireland 1852; paid resident magistrate at Kilkenny 1858, at Tuam co. Galway 1858–83. d. St. Canice’s cottage, Kilkenny 18 Sep. 1887.

HORWITZ, BERNARD. b. Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg 1807; learnt chess from Mendheim at Berlin; one of the 7 great Berlin players known as the Pleiades; spent sometime at Hamburg; lived in England about 1845 to death; took part in nearly all the tournaments held in England before 1862; author of Chess studies and end-games systematically arranged 1884; author with J. Kling of Chess Studies 1851 three editions, and of a periodical called The Chess Player 4 vols. 1851–3. d. 27 Parkhurst road, Bowes Park, London 29 Aug. 1885. I.L.N. viii, 100 (1846), portrait; Chess Monthly, vii, 8; Fortnightly Review, Dec. 1886 p. 754.

HORWOOD, ALFRED JOHN (younger son of Thomas Horwood of the Middle Temple, London, conveyancer). b. Camberwell, Surrey 1821; barrister M.T. 22 Nov. 1844; inspector under royal commission on historical manuscripts 1869 to death; edited Year books of the reign of Edward the First. Rolls Series 1858; A catalogue of the manuscripts belonging to Gray’s inn 1869; A common place book of John Milton 1876. d. 1 New Court, Temple, London 7 July 1881. Law Times, lxxi, 255 (1881).

HOSACK, JOHN (3 son of John R. Hosack of Glenaher, Dumfriesshire). b. Glenaher 1809; barrister M.T. 29 Jany. 1841, bencher 22 April 1875; magistrate at Clerkenwell police court 5 June 1877 to death; author of A treatise on the conflict of laws of England and Scotland 1847; The rights of British and neutral commerce as affected by recent royal declarations and orders in council 1854; Mary Queen of Scots and her accusers, London 1869, 2 ed. 2 vols. Edin. 1870–4 and other books. d. 172 Finborough road, West Brompton, London 3 Nov. 1887. bur. Lytham, Lancs. 8 Nov.

HOSKEN, JAMES (son of James Hosken, gunner in navy, d. Penryn 20 June 1848 aged 92). b. Plymouth 6 Dec. 1798; midshipman R.N. 1810, lieut. 1828; captain of the Great Western specially built for ocean steam navigation 1837, she left Bristol 8 April 1838 and reached New York 23 April, made 64 voyages in Great Western; captain of the Great Britain 1844, made 3 or 4 trips to New York in her, she was stranded in Dundrum bay 22 Sep. 1846; harbour master, postmaster and chief magistrate at Labuan 1848–9; commanded the Belle-Isle hospital ship in the Baltic 1854–5; captain R.N. 15 June 1857, retired 8 Jany. 1868, retired V.A. 2 Aug. 1879. d. 32 Highfield road, Ilfracombe 2 Jany. 1885. Autobiographical Sketch. Edited by his widow. Privately printed 1889.

HOSKING, WILLIAM (eld. son of John Hosking, woollen manufacturer). b. Buckfastleigh, Devon 26 Nov. 1800; apprenticed to a builder and surveyor in New South Wales; articled to W. Jenkins of Red Lion square, London, architect 1820–23; exhibited 1 drawing at R.A. and 9 at Suffolk st. 1825–9; F.S.A. 11 Feb. 1830; F.I.B.A. 16 Jany. 1835, member of council 1842–3; engineer of Birmingham, Bristol and Thames Junction railway 1834; superintended formation of Abney Park cemetery, Stoke Newington, London 30 acres 1839–40; professor of Art of construction in King’s coll. London 1840, and of Principles and practice of architecture 1841 to death; an official referee under Metropolitan building act 3 Sep. 1844 to 1855; published Preliminary essay on bridges 1841, 2 ed. 1842; Theory, practice and architecture of bridges 1842; Some observations upon the recent addition of a reading room to the British museum 1858, he claimed to have suggested the Circular reading room for which Panizzi has the credit. d. 23 Woburn sq. London 2 Aug. 1861. G. Pycroft’s Art in Devonshire (1883) 70; The Builder 17 Aug. 1861 p. 560.

HOSKINS, SAMUEL ELLIOTT (son of Samuel Hoskins of Guernsey). b. Guernsey Feb. 1799; ed. at Guy’s and St. Thomas’s hospitals 1818–20; L.S.A. 1821; M.R.C.S. 1822; L.R.C.P. 1834, F.R.C.P. 1859; physician in Guernsey 1827–59; F.R.S. 25 May 1843; author of A Stethoscopic Chart. Guernsey 1830; Home resorts for invalids in the climate of Guernsey 1852; Louis le Grand or Fontainebleau and Versailles, a comedy in three acts 1852; Charles the Second in the Channel Islands 2 vols. 1854; and other books. d. York place, Candie road, Guernsey 12 Oct. 1888. Lancet 20 Oct. 1888 p. 797, 27 Oct. p. 845.

HOSKINS, WILLIAM (3 son of Abraham Hoskins of Newton park, Derbyshire). b. Norton, Derbyshire 1816; ed. at Camb. univ.; an actor in the provinces 1834; member of Phelps’s company at Sadler’s Wells 1844; then at Olympic; went to Australia 1856, played at Queen’s theatre, Melbourne; manager Ballarat theatre 1858, of Theatre royal, Melbourne 1863, and of Haymarket, Melbourne; rebuilt Theatre Royal, Christ Church, New Zealand; teacher of elocution, Melbourne 1884 to death; (m. (1) 1850 Julia Harland, actress d. New Zealand; m. (2) Florence Colville, actress, she d. about 1881; m. (3) Miss Bowman). d. Melbourne 28 Sep. 1886. Tallis’ Drawingroom Table book, Parts 8 and 12, two portraits; Theatrical Times ii, 297 (1847), portrait; Era 13 Oct. 1886 p. 9.

HOSKYNS, CHANDOS WREN (2 son of Sir Hungerford Hoskyns, 7 baronet 1776–1862). b. Hereford 15 Feb. 1812; ed. at Shrewsbury and Balliol coll. Ox., B.A. 1834; barrister I.T. 4 May 1838; assumed additional surname of Wren by royal license 15 April 1837; a co.-editor of Journal of R. Agricultural Soc.; M.P. for Hereford 1869–74; contributed Anomalies of Agriculture and many other papers to Agricultural Gazette 1844, &c.; author of Talpa, or the chronicles of a clay farm 1852, 4 ed. 1857; Occasional Essays 1866; Systems of land tenure in various countries 1870. d. 41 Eccleston sq. London 28 Nov. 1876. Journal of the Royal Agricultural Soc. 1877 p. xli; Agricultural Gazette 4 Dec. 1876 p. 544.

HOTHAM, BEAUMONT HOTHAM, 3 Baron (elder son of Beaumont Hotham 1768–99, captain Coldstream guards). b. Lullingstone castle, Dartford, Kent 9 Aug. 1794; ed. at Westminster; ensign Coldstream guards 27 June 1810, lieut. 25 Dec. 1813 to 14 Oct. 1819 when placed on h.p.; succeeded his grandfather 4 March 1814; served in the Peninsula 1812–14; general 12 Jany. 1865; M.P. Leominster 1820–41; M.P. East Yorkshire 1841–68. d. Sand Hutton near York 13 Dec. 1870. bur. in family vault at South Dalton 20 Dec., personalty sworn under £500,000, 21 Jany. 1871.

HOTHAM, SIR CHARLES (1 son of Hon. and Rev. Frederick Hotham 1774–1854, R. of Dennington, Suffolk). b. Dennington 14 Jany. 1806; entered navy 6 Nov. 1818, captain 28 June 1833; served in South America 1845–6; K.C.B. 9 March 1846; commander in chief West coast of Africa 1846–9; min. plenipo. to Argentine Confederation 17 April 1852; lieut. governor of colony of Victoria 6 Dec. 1853, governor in chief there 1 Feb. 1855 to death. d. Toorak, Melbourne 31 Dec. 1855.

HOTHAM, WILLIAM (eld. child of lieut.-col. George Hotham 1770–1823). b. 30 July 1794; entered navy June 1803, commanded a flotilla in the river Po 1813–14; captain 4 April 1825; K.H. 25 Jany. 1836; retired on half pay 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 30 Nov. 1863. d. Clifton, York 22 Feb. 1873.

HOTTEN, JOHN CAMDEN, originally named John William Hotten (son of Wm. Hotten of Clerkenwell, London, carpenter). b. 45 St. John’s sq. Clerkenwell 12 Sep. 1832; placed with John Petheram, bookseller 71 Chancery lane 1846; in the United States 1848–56; a bookseller and publisher at 151B Piccadilly, London 1856 to death, and at 74–5 Piccadilly 1863 to death; published Dictionary of modern slang, cant and vulgar words 1859; A. C. Swinburne’s Poems and ballads 1866 which Moxon had withdrawn from circulation; the first to introduce into England the works of J. R. Lowell, Artemus Ward, O. W. Holmes, C. G. Leland and Bret Harte 1864 &c. d. 4 Maitland park villas, Haverstock hill, Hampstead 14 June 1873. bur. Highgate cemet. 21 June. Bookseller 31 Aug. 1873 pp. 491–3; Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. 255, 1237.

HOUGH, REV. GEORGE. b. London 1797; ordained 1824; studied Hebrew under Dr. Wolff 1836; C. of Earl’s Heaton, Dewsbury 1827–8; V. of South Crosland near Huddersfield 1829 to death; originator and sec. of the Almondbury clerical soc. 1828–78; gave considerable sums to church works and charities; author of Annual new year addresses to the parishioners of Almondbury 1840–79; A brief exposition of the book of Revelation. Huddersfield 1878. d. South Crosland 6 June 1879. Hulbert’s Annals of Almondbury (1882) 76, 306–12, 506–7.

HOUGH, WILLIAM. Entered Bengal army 1805; captain 48 Bengal N.I. to 1 Oct. 1840 when invalided; lieut. col. July 1864; author of Case book of European and native courts martial. Calcutta 1821; On the E.I.Co.’s mutiny acts 1838; Chronological exposition of opinions of writers on military law 1839; A narrative of the army of the Indies in the expedition to Afghanistan 1841; Political and military events in British India 2 vols. 1853. d. Tenterden st. Hanover sq. London 3 Jany. 1865 aged 75.

HOUGHTON, RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES, 1 Baron (only son of Robert Pemberton Milnes, M.P. 1784–1858). b. London 19 June 1809; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1831, hon. fellow of his coll. April 1876; M.P. Pontefract 1837–63; D.C.L. Ox. 1854; cr. Baron Houghton of Great Houghton, Yorks. 20 Aug. 1863; F.R.S. 10 Dec. 1868; president Social Science congress, Aug. 1873; hon. LLD. Edin. 23 April 1878; a trustee of British museum 1881; author of Memorials of a tour in Greece 1834; Memorials of many scenes 1840; Poems legendary and historical 1844; Palm leaves 1844; Monographs, personal and social 1873. d. Vichy, France 11 Aug. 1885. Reid’s Life and letters of lord Houghton 2 vols. 1890, 2 portraits; Poetical works of lord Houghton 2 vols. 1876, portrait.

HOUGHTON, ARTHUR BOYD (4 son of Capt. M. Houghton of H.E.I.C. service). b. 1836; illustrator of the Graphic and Fun; exhibited 10 pictures at R.A., 4 at B.I., and 3 at Suffolk st. 1861–72; associate of Soc. of painters in water colours 1871; illustrated Dalziel’s Arabian Nights 1864–5; Adventures of Don Quixote 1866 and many other works; author of The gods on peace and war, as applicable to the eastern struggle 1877. d. 162 King Henry’s road, South Hampstead, London 23 Nov. 1875. Redgrave’s Dictionary of artists (1878) 225; Art Journal 1876 p. 47.

HOUGHTON, REV. HENRY HALL (3 son of Jeremiah Houghton). b. Dublin 10 Dec. 1823; ed. at Sherborne and at Pemb. coll. Ox., scholar 1841–5, B.A. 1845, M.A. 1848; clerk of Magdalen coll. 1847–68; C. of St. Peter’s, Cheltenham 1849–52; with his uncle rev. John Hall, canon of Bristol, founded at Oxford the Canon Hall and Hall-Houghton prizes for knowledge of Greek Testament, Septuagint and Syriac versions 1868–71 at cost of £11,000; on death of his uncle took name of Hall 1871; gave Church Missionary soc. £4,500 for instruction of native young men in the scriptures; gave hospital for sick Jews at Jerusalem £3,000. d. Melmerby hall, Cumberland 4 Sep. 1889. Record 20 Sept. 1889 p. 922.

HOUGHTON, REV. WILLIAM (son of Thomas Houghton, governor of Preston house of correction). b. Preston 17 May 1812; C. of St. Sennen and St. Levan, Cornwall 1848–65; V. of Manaccan, Cornwall 1865 to death; author of Calvinism scripturally examined 1836; Rationalism in the church of England 1863 and 4 other books. d. Manaccan Vicarage 25 Dec. 1870. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i, 256.

HOULDSWORTH, JOHN. b. Whitehall, Glasgow 12 April 1807; one of the founders of the Coltness and Dalmellington iron works in Lanarkshire and Ayrshire about 1835; senior partner of various establishments for machine making, iron founding, cotton spinning and weaving; the last provost of burgh of Anderston before it was incorporated with Glasgow; A.I.C.E. 1844. d. Bath st. Glasgow 18 Oct. 1859. Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E., xix, 189 (1860).

HOULDSWORTH, THOMAS (_2 son of Henry Houldsworth of Gonalston, Notts._) b. 13 Sep. 1771; a merchant and cotton spinner at Manchester and Pontefract; M.P. Pontefract 1818–30; M.P. Newton, Lancs. 1830–2; M.P. North Notts. 1832–52. d. Portland place, Manchester 1 Sep. 1852.

HOULSTON, THOMAS (son of Edward Houlston of Wellington, Salop, printer). b. 1804; traveller for his father 1821–35; bookseller at 154 Strand, London 1835–44; partner with John Stoneman at 65 Paternoster row 1844 to 5 April 1856 when the latter died aged 64; partner with Henry Wright at 65 Paternoster row 1857 to death. d. Ryde, Isle of Wight 28 Aug. 1869. Bookseller, Nov. 1869 p. 938; Reg. and Mag. of Biog. Oct. 1869 p. 204.

HOULTON, SIR GEORGE (youngest son of Joseph Houlton of Farley castle near Bath, d. 1806). b. Carmarthen 1791; ensign 43 foot 20 Nov. 1806, captain 2 Nov. 1815 to 25 March 1817 when placed on h.p.; received war medal and 10 clasps for service in Peninsular war 1808–14; ensign of yeomen of the guard 25 Sep. 1835 to death; knighted 1835 or 1838, but name never in London Gazette. d. Farley castle 16 Sep. 1862.

HOULTON, JOSEPH. b. 1789; M.R.C.S. 1811, M.D. Erlangen 1840; surgeon East Norfolk militia; practised at Saffron Walden 1817, at Lisson grove, London 1823; professor of botany to Medical botanical society; with J. Davies edited The London medical and surgical journal 1828; translated F. Magendie’s Formulary for preparation of new remedies 1828. d. 12 Blomfield st. Westbourne terrace, London 14 Jany. 1861.

HOUSMAN, FRANCIS (_son of William Housman of St. John’s Wood, London_). b. London 3 Jany. 1829; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s sch. 1838 &c.; barrister L.I. 7 June 1852; recorder of Rangoon 1871 to death; author of A selection of precedents in conveyancing 1861. d. Calcutta 19 July 1873.

HOUSTON, JOHN ADAM. b. Gwydir castle near Llanwrst, Wales 25 Dec. 1812; ed. at Edin. sch. of design; studied in Paris and Germany; a portrait painter in London some years; exhibited 45 pictures at R.A., 21 at B.I. and 3 at Suffolk st. 1840–8; resided in Edin. from 1841 to 1858 when he began contributing to the Scottish academy; returned to London 1858; exhibited Gallantry, London 1859; Lights and shadows of the wayside 1861; Prospero and Miranda, Edin. 1865. d. 10 Upper Phillimore place, Kensington 2 Dec. 1884. Art Journal (1869) 69–71, 127.

HOUSTON, REV. THOMAS. b. Donegore 1803; teacher in a sch. at Leyhmore near Ballymena 1818; ed. at Academical instit. Belfast 1819; reformed presbyterian minister Knockbraken 8 April 1828 to death; took part in the Arian separation from the synod of Ulster; professor of theology in Reformed presbyterian Theological hall, Belfast 1855 to death; went to U.S. America 1856 where he took a D.D. degree; edited The Covenanter 1830; author of A practical treatise on christian baptism, Paisley 1853; The dominion and glory of the Redeemer. Discourses 1880 and 7 other books. d. Royal hospital, Belfast 27 March 1882. bur. Knockbraken 30 March. Belfast News-Letter 28 March 1882 p. 5.

HOUSTOUN, SIR ROBERT (5 son of colonel Andrew Houstoun). b. Jordan hill, co. Renfrew 1780; entered Bengal army 1794 and served 25 years; col. 9 regiment light cavalry 1 May 1824 to 1858; col. 4 European light cavalry 1858 to death; governor of Addiscombe coll. 10 years; general 20 June 1854; K.C.B. 10 March 1837. d. Torquay 5 April 1862.

HOUSTOUN, WALLACE (son of the preceding). b. 1811; entered navy 2 Dec. 1824; captain 23 July 1847; R.A. 5 May 1865, retired 1 April 1870; retired admiral 1 Aug. 1877. d. 42 Eaton sq. London 17 May 1891.

HOVELL, WILLIAM HILTON. b. Yarmouth 26 April 1786; a marine trader on coasts of Australia and New Zealand 1813–19; farmer at Narellan 1819; accompanied Hamilton Hume in his overland journey from Sydney to Port Philip 1824–5; one of the first settlers at Western Port 1826; resided at Goulburn from 1829; author of Reply to “A brief statement in connection with an expedition from Lake George to Port Philip. By Hamilton Hume.” Sydney 1855. d. Sydney 1876. Heaton’s Australian Dict. of Dates (1879) 97.

HOWARD DE-WALDEN, CHARLES AUGUSTUS ELLIS, 6 Baron (elder son of C. Rose Ellis, 1 Baron Seaford 1771–1845). b. London 5 June 1799; ed. at Eton 1811–14; succeeded his maternal great grandfather as 6 Baron 8 July 1803, claim admitted 1806; under sec. of state for foreign affairs 5 July 1824; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. at Stockholm 2 Oct. 1832, at Lisbon 22 Nov. 1833 and at Brussels 10 Dec. 1846 to death; G.C.B. 19 July 1838; K.T.S. 1841; succeeded as 2 Baron Seaford 1 July 1845. d. Lesve chateau, Namur, Belgium 29 Aug. 1868.

HOWARD, OF GLOSSOP, EDWARD GEORGE FITZALAN HOWARD, 1 Baron (2 son of 16 Duke of Norfolk 1791–1856). b. 21 St. James’s sq. London 20 Jany. 1818; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; M.P. Horsham, Sep. 1848 to 1 July 1852; M.P. Arundel, July 1852 to Dec. 1868 when the borough was disfranchised; P.C. 8 July 1846; vice chamberlain 8 July 1846 to Feb. 1852; had charge of the Norfolk estates as trustee of his nephew 1861–8 and acted as deputy earl marshal of England 4 Feb. 1861 to Dec. 1868; cr. baron Howard of Glossop 9 Dec. 1869; chairman of Catholic poor school committee 1869–77. d. 19 Rutland gate, London 1 Dec. 1883. bur. in R.C. church of St. Charles of Borromeo at Hadfield near Glossop 11 Dec. Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 422–6 (1887).

HOWARD, CHARLES WENTWORTH GEORGE (5 son of 6 Earl of Carlisle 1773–1848). b. Chiswick, Middlesex 27 March 1814; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1836; M.P. for East Cumberland, July 1840 to death. d. Holker house, Lancs. 11 April 1879.

HOWARD, EDWARD HENRY (3 son of Very Rev. H. E. J. Howard 1795–1868). b. 7 June 1832; ed. at Eton 1844; entered navy 21 June 1845; served in the Baltic 1855; captain 16 Feb. 1864; naval attaché at maritime courts of Europe, Sep. 1874 to Dec. 1876; A.D.C. to the queen 1878–9; V.P. Ordnance committee 1881–4; V.A. 26 Nov. 1885, retired 29 Nov. 1889. d. 16 Granville park, Lewisham, Kent 18 Jany. 1890. Pictorial World, xvi, 147, 165 (1890), portrait.

HOWARD, FRANK (son of Henry Howard 1769–1847, R.A., professor of painting to R.A.) b. Poland st. London 1805; ed. at Ely; pupil and assistant to Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A.; consulting designer and modellist to Storr and Mortimer of London, silversmiths; exhibited 43 paintings at R.A., 26 at B.I. and 9 at Suffolk st. 1824–46; obtained prize for “Una coming to seek the assistance of Gloriana,” Westminster hall competition 1843; removed to Liverpool about 1847; published The spirit of the plays of Shakspeare, a series of outline plates 5 vols. 1827–33; author of The sketcher’s manual 1837, 7 ed. 1860; The science of drawing 1839–40. d. Liverpool 29 June 1866.

HOWARD, GREVILLE THEOPHILUS (2 son of 17 Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire 1804–76). b. 22 Dec. 1836; matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 30 May 1855; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1863; commissioner in lunacy 17 June 1873 to 1877. d. Castle Rising near Lynn, Norfolk 28 July 1880.

HOWARD, HENRY. b. 25 July 1802; ed. at Harrow; M.P. Steyning 1824–6; M.P. Shoreham 1826–32; sheriff of Cumberland 1834. d. Thornbury castle, Gloucester 7 Jany. 1875.

HOWARD, VERY REV. HENRY EDWARD JOHN (youngest child of 5 Earl of Carlisle 1748–1825). b. Castle Howard, Yorkshire 14 Dec. 1795; ed. Eton 1805–11 and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1822, B.D. 1834, D.D. 1838; V. of Stainton, Yorks. 5 July 1820; succentor of York cath. with stall of Holme annexed 27 Nov. 1822; R. of Slingsby 1823–33; V. of Sutton in the Forest 1824–33; dean of Lichfield with R. of Tattenhill, Staffs, annexed 27 Nov. 1833 to death; R. of Donington, Salop 11 Feb. 1834 to death; author of Translations from Claudian 1823; The books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy according to the lxx, translated with notes 3 vols. 1855–7 and 5 other books. d. Donington rectory 8 Oct. 1868. Guardian 14 Oct. 1868 p. 1148; Burke’s Portrait gallery, ii, 99 (1833), portrait.

HOWARD, HENRY THOMAS (2 son of 16 earl of Suffolk 1776–1851). b. 16 Jany. 1808; M.P. Cricklade, Wilts. 1841–7. d. Beauchamp near Gloucester 29 Jany. 1851.

HOWARD, JAMES (2 son of John Howard 1790–1878). b. Bedford 16 Oct. 1821; head of firm of James and Frederick Howard, makers of agricultural instruments at Britannia works, Bedford 1851; member of R. Agric. Soc., on council; member of Farmers’ club; an originator and first president of Farmers’ Alliance 1879; a promoter and director of Agricultural hall, London 1861; M.P. Bedford 1868–74; M.P. Bedfordshire 1880–5; mayor of Bedford 1863 and 1864; sheriff of Bedfordshire 1878; champion of Tenant’s rights 1873; farmed Clapham farm estate, Bedford 1862; took out upwards of 60 patents for agricultural machinery; author of Steam cultivation, its history 1862; Agricultural implement manufacture, its rise and progress 1879 and 20 other works. d. Midland hotel, St. Pancras, London 25 Jany. 1889. bur. Clapham, Beds. 30 Jany. Agricultural Gazette 28 Jany., 4 Feb. 1889; London Figaro 2 Feb. 1889 p. 10, portrait; Farmers’ Mag. xviii, 1–7 (1860), portrait.

HOWARD, JAMES KENNETH (4 son of 16 earl of Suffolk 1776–1851). b. 5 March 1814; précis writer to viscount Palmerston 1835–40 and private sec. to him 6 Jany. 1840 to 2 Sep. 1841; M.P. Malmesbury 1841–52; commissioner of woods and forests March 1855 to death. d. Hajelby near Newbury 7 Jany. 1882.

HOWARD, JOHN (son of John Moore Howard, farmer). b. Bedford 1790; builder and land speculator; erected the Britannia foundry for manufacture of agricultural implements about 1838; invented an improved plough 1839; made over his business to his sons 1851; mayor of Bedford 1858–61, 1863–4 and 1871. d. Caldwell priory 23 Dec. 1878. Times 24 Dec. 1878 p. 7, col 6.

HOWARD, JOHN. b. Burnley Wood, Lancs. 24 June 1824; champion long distance jumper using dumb bells, jumped 28 feet 6 inches Chester race course 1854; jumped 29 feet 7 inches at Lancaster and leaped over a billiard table lengthwise for a wager 1854; the greatest pedestrian of his time, beat Bob Coates 120 yards, Hyde park, Sheffield 1839; beat John Flockton of Leeds 120 yards at Garrick Corner; beat John Walker the Delemere forest stag 120 yards for £25 at Bellevue, Manchester, when 25,000 paid for admission; beat Robert Low of Heywood 100 yards for £25 at Bellevue, time 9–3/4 seconds up hill; beat the Demon, J. Whitehead alias Clark of Oldham 110 yards for £50 at Bellevue. d. suddenly, Dublin hotel, Bradford 14 Oct. 1875. Bell’s Life 16 Oct. 1875 p. 8; Illust. Sporting News (1862) 68, 76–7, 116, 3 portraits.

HOWARD, JOHN ELIOT (son of Luke Howard, F.R.S. 1772–1864). b. Plaistow, Essex 11 Dec. 1807; manufacturing chemist with his father at Stratford; studied history of febrifuge alkaloids; purchased a collection of specimens of Peruvian bark at Madrid 1858; mem. Pharmaceutical soc. 1853; F.L.S. 1857; F.R.S. 4 June 1874; V.P. Victoria institute; received thanks of government for his aid in cinchona cultivation in India 1876; author of Eight lectures on the scriptural truths most opposed to Puseyism, 1845, 2 ed. 1847; Illustrations of the Nueva Quinologia of Pavon 1859–62; The Quinology of the East India plantations 3 parts 1869–76; The Epistle to the Hebrews. A translation 1872 and 9 other books. d. Lord’s Mead, Tottenham, Middlesex 22 Nov. 1883. Graphic 29 Dec. 1883 pp. 634, 637, portrait; Trans. Essex Field club, iv, 8–11, portrait.

HOWARD, JOHN MORGAN (eld. son of John J. Howard of Swansea). b. Nov. 1837; barrister M.T. 30 April 1858, bencher 16 Nov. 1877; Q.C. 6 July 1874; an editor of the New Reports 1862 to 1865; contested Lambeth 1868, 1874 and 1880; M.P. for Camberwell, Dulwich division 1885–7; recorder of Guildford 15 March 1875 to death; judge of circuit No. 59 (Cornwall), Nov. 1887 to death. d. Chelston Dene, Torquay 10 April 1891. I.L.N. 18 April 1891 p. 499, portrait; Graphic x, 223, 224 (1874), portrait.

HOWARD, LUKE (son of Robert Howard, introducer of the Argand lamp, d. Jany. 1812). b. London 28 Nov. 1772; apprentice to a chemist at Stockport 1786; chemist in London 1793, partner with William Allen 1796–1803; chemist at Stratford 1805; made observations on the clouds 1802 and first used the terms cirrus, cumulus and stratus and nimbus or rain cloud; kept a meteorological register from 1806; F.R.S. 1821; corresponded with Goethe 1822 who sent him a poem entitled Howard’s Ehrengedächtniss; author of A few notes on a letter to the Archbishops and on a charge relative to Joseph Lancaster’s plan for education. By Eccletus 1806; The climate of London 2 vols. 1818–20, 2 ed. 3 vols. 1833; Essay on the modification of clouds 1830, 3 ed. 1865; Cowper’s English version of the Odyssey with a commentary. By Outis 1843; Barometrographia, twenty years’ variation of the barometer 1847 and 10 other books. d. at res. of his son R. Howard, Bruce grove, Tottenham 21 March 1864. Proc. Royal Soc. xiv, 10–12 (1865); J. Bell and T. Redwood’s Pharmacy (1880) 331.

HOWARD, PHILIP HENRY (eld. son of Henry Howard of Corby castle near Carlisle 1757–1842). b. Edinburgh 22 April 1801; ed. at Oscott coll. and Stonyhurst; M.P. for Carlisle 1830–47 and 1848–52 being the second Roman Catholic returned to parliament; F.S.A. 8 Dec. 1842; sheriff of Cumberland 1860; wrote miscellaneous poems and other articles in Edinburgh Catholic Mag. and other periodicals. d. Ventnor, Isle of Wight 1 Jany. 1883. Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 441–2 (1888).

HOWARD, SIR RALPH, 1 Baronet (elder son of Hugh Howard, comr. of stamp office, d. 3 Nov. 1840 aged 80). b. 1801; M.P. co. Wicklow 1829–47 and 1848–52; contested Evesham 1847; colonel of Wicklow militia 1 Oct. 1834 to 11 Dec. 1871; created baronet 26 July 1838. d. 15 Aug. 1873.

HOWARTH, REV. HENRY (son of Wm. Howarth, of Manchester, bath-keeper). b. Manchester 12 Jany. 1801; ed. at Manchester sch. and St. John’s coll. Cam., fellow 1823–33; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, B.D. 1833; Hulsean lecturer 1835–36; R. of Meppershall, Beds. 1833–45; R. of St. George’s, Hanover sq. London 1845 to death; chaplain in ord. to the Queen 14 May 1855 to death; author of The truth and obligation of revealed religion. Discourses 1836; Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ of God. Discourses 1837; The liturgy as it is. Sermons 1843 and 11 other books. d. Tunbridge Wells 25 Aug. 1876. I.L.N. xxiv, 400 (1854), portrait.

HOWDEN, JOHN HOBART CARADOC 2 Baron (only child of 1st Baron Howden 1762–1839). b. Dublin 16 Oct. 1799; ensign Grenadier Guards 13 July 1815; A.D.C. to Duke of Wellington in Paris, to Viscount Beresford in Portugal, and to Sir Thomas Maitland in the Mediterranean; major on half pay 9 June 1825; L.G. 26 Dec. 1859; sold out 29 Oct. 1861; M.P. for Dundalk 1830–31; succeeded his father as 2 Baron July 1839; attaché at Berlin 1824, at Paris 1825; wounded in battle of Navarino; military commissioner with French army at siege of Antwerp 1832, and with Spanish Army in Portugal 1834; envoy extraord. and minister plenipo. to Brazil 25 Jany. 1847 to 1850; minister plenipo. to Spain 14 May 1850 to March 1858; K.C.B. 23 Feb. 1852, G.C.B. 5 March 1858; K.H. 1830; equerry to Duchess of Kent 1841 to 1861. d. Caradoc near Bayonne 9 Oct. 1873. Foreign office list July 1873 p. 117.

HOWDEN, JAMES ADAM. b. 1803; entered Madras army 1819, M.G. 28 Nov. 1854; colonel 52 Madras N.I. 28 June 1855 to death. d. Devonshire place, Portland place, London 22 March 1869.

HOWE, RICHARD WILLIAM PENN CURZON-HOWE 1 Earl (only son of the hon. Penn Assheton Curzon 1757–97). b. Gopsall house, Leics. 11 Dec. 1796; capt. Leics. regt. of yeomanry 21 May 1818, lieut.-col. 1831–60; succeeded his grandfather as 2 viscount and baron Curzon 21 March 1820; took name of Howe 7 July 1821; cr. Earl Howe 15 July 1821; G.C.H. 1830; lord chamberlain to queen Adelaide 1830–31, when he was dismissed by earl Grey the prime minister, again lord chamberlain 1834–49; P.C. 31 Jany. 1831; succeeded his mother as 2 baron Howe 3 Dec. 1835; vice lieut. co. Leicester 27 Oct. 1863. d. Curzon house, South Audley st., London 12 May 1870. Portraits of eminent conservatives (1836) 1 Series, portrait 23.

HOWE, GEORGE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK LOUIS CURZON HOWE, 2 Earl (1 son of the preceding). b. Brook st. London 16 Jany. 1821; styled viscount Curzon 1821–70; ed. at Eton; matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 30 May 1838; cornet Leics. regt. of yeomanry 1838, lieut.-col. 15 Nov. 1860, lieut.-col. commandant 15 March 1870 to death; M.P. South Leics. 1857–70; master of the Atherstone hounds some years; succeeded as 2 earl Howe 12 May 1870. d. Gopsall hall, Leics. 4 Feb. 1876, personalty sworn under £250,000, 13 May 1876. I.L.N. lxviii, 167, 479 (1876); Baily’s Mag. xii, 217–8 (1867), portrait.

HOWE, JOSEPH (son of John Howe 1752–1835, King’s printer at Halifax, Nova Scotia). b. in a cottage on banks of North-west Arm, Halifax 13 Dec. 1804; a printer 1817–27; editor and proprietor of a paper called the Nova Scotian 1828; M.P. for co. of Halifax, Nov. 1836; member of the executive council 1840; speaker of house of assembly 1840; provincial sec. 4 years; sec. of state for lower provinces in Dominion of Canada 1870–3; governor of Nova Scotia, May 1873; author of Speech on the importance to Great Britain of her North American colonies 1851; Confederation considered in relation to the interests of the empire 1866; The organization of the empire 1866 and 4 other books. d. Halifax 1 June 1873. W. Annand’s Speeches and letters of Joseph Howe 2 vols. (1858).

HOWE, WILLIAM. b. West Auckland, co. Durham 3 March 1814; a mechanic with R. Stephenson & Co., Newcastle; perfected Williams’ valve gear known as the link motion, in the form in which it has been universally applied to locomotives, Aug. 1842; invented the three-cylinder locomotive engine 1846; engineer at Stephenson’s Clay Cross collieries and iron works Nov. 1846 to death; designed the self-acting fence now universally used at top of colliery winding shafts; M.I.M.E. 1860. d. Clay Cross, Chesterfield 16 Jany. 1879. N. P. Burgh’s Link motion (1870) pp. i-xvi; D. K. Clark’s Railway machinery (1855) 26; Engineer, xlvii, 67 (1879).

HOWELL, ARTHUR (eld. son of James Howell 1811–79, contra-bassist). b. London 1836; contra-bassist and bass singer; stage manager Carl Rosa opera co.; went on an Australian tour with his wife 1879; (m. 1874 Rose Hersee, soprano opera and concert singer). d. 32 Lawford road, Kentish Town, London 16 April 1885.

HOWELL, FRANCIS (brother of the preceding). b. London 1834; wrote 2 oratorios The Captivity 1860, The Land of Promise 1870 and many songs and ballads. d. 1882.

HOWELL, JAMES, b. Plymouth 1811; student R. Acad. of music, June 1825 to Dec. 1830; learnt double-bass under signor Anfossi; professor of double-bass at R. Acad. of music 1830; M.R.A.M.; double-bass player at the Ancient and Philharmonic concerts and R. Italian opera; the successor of Domenico Dragonetti as the best double-bass player 1846. d. London 5 Aug. 1879. Cazalet’s R. Acad. of Music (1854) 296–7; Grove’s Dict. of Music, i, 754 (1879).

HOWELL, JOHN. b. Old Lauriston, Edinburgh 1788; bookbinder in Thistle st. Edin., invented the ‘plough’ for cutting edges of books; polyartist, curiosity dealer and china and picture repairer at 22 Frederick st., then at 110 Rose st. Edin.; broke one of his legs while using a flying machine in Edin.; introduced manufacture of Pompeian plates for dentists; author of An essay on the war-galleys of the ancients. Edin. 1826; The life and adventures of Alexander Selkirk. Edin. 1829; edited The life of Alexander Alexander. Edin. 1830; wrote several of Wilson’s Tales of the Borders. d. 110 Rose st. Edinburgh 4 April 1863. Notes and Queries, 3rd ser. ii 491, iii 19, 78, 379, 4th ser. ii 393, 500.

HOWELL, JOHN (son of Mr. Howell, army packer, Mark Lane). b. London 1807; apprentice to his father; chief clerk to Ellis and Everington, haberdashers, hosiers and silk mercers, 3 St. Paul’s ch. yard, London 1835, admitted a partner 1841, firm became Ellis, Howell & Co. 1857 and in 1871 John Howell & Co. limited, with J. Howell as chairman to his death; gave evidence before three parliamentary committees on laws of limited liability 1851 etc.; author of Partnership-law legislation and limited liability reviewed 1869. d. Rutland house, Kingston on Thames 3 Nov. 1888. Warehouseman and Drapers’ Trade Journal (1888) 345–6, portrait, and 1049–50.

HOWELL, MATTHEW. b. 14 Feb. 1796; appeared as the child in Pizarro with George Frederick Cooke at Liverpool; made first appearance in London at Sadler’s Wells 1810; played at the Coburg; came out at Drury Lane as harlequin in pantomime of The Flying Chest, Dec. 1823 and was for more than 20 years the recognised harlequin there; last appeared as harlequin at the Marylebone in 1847; played pantaloon some years. d. 1 Dec. 1873.

HOWELL, SIR THOMAS (son of Thomas Howell of Clapham common, Surrey). b. London 1802; ed. at Charterhouse 1815–16; in business in London to 1855; director of contracts at War Office 1855–74; knighted at Windsor castle 27 June 1876; author of A day of business in the port of London 1850; A few stray thoughts upon Shakspeare 1867. d. 2 Uplands, St. Leonards-on-Sea 23 April 1883.

HOWELL, THOMAS JONES (son of Thomas Bayly Howell 1768–1815, editor of the State Trials). b. 24 Dec. 1793; edited a Complete collection of State Trials vols. 22–33, 1815–26; barrister L.I. 17 May 1822; judge advocate and judge of vice-admiralty court at Gibraltar 1822; sec. to comrs. of colonial inquiry 1830; comr. for West India Islands relief 1832; inspector of factories 1833. d. 6 Eaton place west, London 4 June 1858.

HOWELLS, REV. JOHN. b. 21 Sep. 1777; C. of Tipton, Staffs. 1803–37; P.C. of Holy Trinity, Coventry 1837 to death; author of A selection of psalms, hymns, anthems and choruses for public and private use. Tipton 1831. d. Coventry 31 Dec. 1856. monu. in Holy Trinity ch. which says d. 1 Jany. 1857. I.L.N. xxxiv, 260 (1859), view of monu.

HOWES, EDWARD (2 son of Rev. George Howes, R. of Spixworth, Norfolk). b. Spixworth 7 July 1813; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. and Trin. coll. Cam., fellow 1836–42; B.A. 1835, M.A. 1838; barrister L.I. 7 June 1839; chairman of Norfolk quarter sessions 1848; M.P. East Norfolk 1859–68; M.P. South Norfolk 1868 to death; a church estates comr. 4 Aug. 1866; author of King Richard II, Act 3 Sc. 2 with Greek version in Prolusiones Academicæ. Cantab. 1834 pp. 25–29. d. Morningthorpe, Norfolk 26 March 1871.

HOWES, JOSEPH. Landlord of the Blue Boar and Wellington castle inns, Leicester; on his retirement lived at Evington lodge near Leicester. d. at residence of Mr. Read, Morledge st. Leicester 13 Dec. 1853 in 102 year. Willis’ Current Notes (1856) 27.

HOWIE, VERY REV. JAMES. Dean of Cloyne 17 Jany. 1851 to death; R. of Farriley 23 Oct. 1851. d. Barnabrow house, Cloyne 6 Dec. 1884.

HOWITT, GEORGE. b. Old Lenton, Notts. 14 March 1843; fast left-hand, round-arm bowler; went to London 1860; played for Middlesex and then for Notts.; bowled W. G. Grace for a brace of ducks at Neath in 1868; a member of the ground staff at Lord’s 1870; went a voyage to Australia for his health 1880. d. Nottingham 19 Dec. 1881. W. G. Grace’s Cricket (1891) 329.

HOWITT, HERBERT CHARLTON (younger son of William Howitt). b. Esher, Feb. 1838; visited Australia with his father 1852–4; went to Canterbury, New Zealand, Nov. 1860; employed in an expedition to discover gold 1862 and then in cutting a horse track over the mountains between Christchurch and the western coast 1 Jany. 1863 to death; drowned in crossing the Brunner Lake 27 June 1863, his body was not found. W. Howitt’s History of discovery in Australia, ii, 443–58 (1865); M. Howitt, an autobiography, i, 277, ii, 133–6 (1889).

HOWITT, MARY (dau. of Samuel Botham). b. Coleford, Gloucs. 12 March 1799; wrote verse at an early age; (m. 16 April 1821 William Howitt 1792–1879); wrote many books with her husband 1827–64; civil list pension of £100, 21 April 1879; joined R.C. ch., received by the Pope 10 Jany. 1888; edited The drawing room scrap book 1832–54, and Pictorial calendar of the seasons 1854; translated Frederika Bremer’s Novels 18 vols. 1842–63, works she then made known to English readers; author of Sketches of natural history 1834; Little coin, much care 1842; The Heir of West Waylen 1847; A popular history of the United States 2 vols. 1859; M. Howitt’s Illustrated library for the young 1861, two series; The cost of Caergwyn 3 vols. 1864; Tales for all seasons 1881; her name is attached to upwards of 110 volumes. d. 38 Via Gregoriana, Rome 30 Jany. 1888. M. Howitt’s Life of Mary Howitt (1889), two portraits; Alaric Watts’ Life, ii, 1–15 (1884); Graphic 18 Feb. 1888 p. 168, portrait.

HOWITT, RICHARD (son of Thomas Howitt of Heanor, Derbyshire, farmer). b. Heanor 1799; chemist and druggist at Parliament st. Nottingham 1823–39; farming in Australia 1839–44; farmer near Southwell 1846 to death; author of Antediluvian Sketches and other poems 1830; The Gipsy King and other poems 1840; Impressions of Australia Felix, notes of a voyage round the world, Australian poems, &c. 1845; Wasps’ Honey, or poetic gold and gems of poetic thought 1868. d. at his farm Edingley, Notts. 5 Feb. 1869. bur. in Friends’ cemetery, Mansfield. The Reliquary, x 209–16, xi 17–22, 103–8, 141–4 (1869–71); S. T. Hall’s Biographical Sketches (1873) 308–11.

HOWITT, WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). b. Heanor, Derbyshire 18 Dec. 1792; ed. at Ackworth sch. 1802–6; chemist and druggist Nottingham 1823–36; alderman of Nottingham 1833; resided at Esher 1836–9, at Heidelberg 1840–3, at Clapton 1843–8, St. John’s Wood, London 1848–52, in Australia 1852–4, at Highgate 1854–66, at Esher again 1866–70, at Rome 1870 to death; a spiritualist, friend of D. D. Home, and contributor to Spiritual Mag.; civil list pension of £140, 19 June 1865; (m. 1821 Mary Botham 1799–1888); celebrated his golden wedding 16 April 1871; part proprietor of People’s Journal 1847, edited Howitt’s Journal 1847–8; translated Peter Schlemihl’s Wundersame Geschichte 1843 and other works; in conjunction with his wife he wrote The literature and romances of Northern Europe 1852; Stories of English and foreign life 1853; Ruined abbeys and castles of Great Britain 1862–4; his own chief works were The book of the seasons 1831 which after being refused by 4 publishing houses ran to 7 editions; The rural life of England 2 vols. 1838; Visits to remarkable places 1840, second series 1842; Rural and domestic life of Germany 1842; Land, labour and gold, or two years in Victoria 2 vols. 1855; Popular history of England 5 vols. 1856–62, seven editions; The northern heights of London 1869. d. 55 Via Sistina, Rome 3 March 1879. R. H. Horne’s New spirit of the age, i 177–98 (1844), portrait; S. C. Hall’s Retrospect of a long life, ii, 126–31 (1883); The Naturalist, iv 366–73 (1839), portrait; I.L.N. 29 March 1879 pp. 297, 298, portrait.

HOWLETT, REV. JOHN HENRY (son of John Howlett). b. 10 June 1781; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ sch. 1796–1800 when he became Parkin’s exhibitioner to Pemb. coll. Cam.; 14 wrangler and B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807; fellow of his coll. 1806–7; V. of Hollington, Sussex 25 Nov. 1812 to 1834; morning reader at chapel royal, Whitehall 1809 to death; R. of Foston, Leics. 30 April 1834 to death; founder and sec. of Kensington gram. sch. 1831; author of Metrical chronology 1824, 6 ed. 1865; Instruction in reading the liturgy of the United church of England and Ireland 1826, 3 ed. 1866. d. 9 Young st. Kensington, London 10 Oct. 1867.

HOWLETT, SAMUEL BURT (only son of Samuel Howlett of Gracechurch st. London). b. 10 July 1794; cadet and officer in corps of royal military surveyors and draughtsmen 1808 to 1817 when corps was reduced; assistant surveyor and draughtsman to board of ordnance 1824, chief military surveyor 1830, draughtsman in charge of plans, &c. in inspector general of fortifications office 1838–56; made improvements in mountain barometer and in the stadiometer used in school of musketry; invented an anemometer; author of A treatise on perspective 1828; Tables for determining altitude with the mountain barometer 1844; Description of a barometer that requires no correction either for zero or for temperature 1844. d. 46 Palace grove, New Bromley, Kent 24 Jany. 1874.

NOTE.—The words “In” and “Out” which are now seen on the doors of every public office were suggested by him; they were first used at the Bank of England in consequence of a written communication made by him to the authorities.

HOWLEY, SIR JOHN (1 son of John Howley of Rich Hill, co. Limerick). b. Rich Hill 1789; ed. at Oscott coll. and Trin. coll. Dublin; called to the Irish bar 1815; chairman of quarter sessions for co. Tipperary 1835–65; K.C. 13 July 1835, third serjeant Sept. 1843, second serjeant July 1848; queen’s first serjeant in Ireland June 1851 to death; bencher of King’s Inns 1843; knighted by lord lieut. at Dublin Castle 14 Aug. 1865. d. 32 Upper Fitzwilliam st. Dublin 13 Feb. 1866.

HOWLISON, ROBERT (2 son of a miller at Channelkirk, Berwickshire). Said to have been b. Channelkirk on Handsel Monday (Jany.) 1769, but no proof of this; ploughman, and then a shepherd. d. West Linton, Peebleshire 30 Oct. 1871 said to be 103. _W. J. Thoms’ Longevity of Man_ (1879) 186–92.

HOWORTH, REV. WILLIAM (2 son of Rev. Wm. Howorth). b. 1806; ed. at Caius coll. Cam., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; R. of Whitton with Thurleston, Suffolk 3 Nov. 1835 to death; hon. canon of Norwich cath. 1863 to death; author of Sermons doctrinal and practical 1839; The Redeemer, a poem 1840; Life and the issue of it 1869. d. Whitton rectory 13 Dec. 1875.

HOWS, JOHN WILLIAM STANHOPE. b. London 1797; appeared as Shylock, Park theatre, New York 16 Feb. 1834; professor of elocution, Columbia, Carolina 1843–57; dramatic critic New York Albion 7 years; author of The practical elocutionist 1849, 6 ed. 1856; The Shakspearian reader 1850, 3 ed. 1870; Golden leaves from the British and American dramatic poets 1865; Golden leaves from the American poets 1866; The ladies’ book of reading and recitations 1870. d. New York city 27 July 1871. Appleton’s American Biog. iii, 288 (1887).

HOWSON, FRANK. b. London 1817; in a lancer regt. fought in Carlist war in Spain 1836; an artist in Australia 1842; the father of opera in the colonies; manager and stage director for Anna Bishop when appearing in operas in Australia 1854–6; with his sons and daus. produced plays and operas at San Francisco 1866. d. Omaha, Nebraska 16 Sep. 1869.

HOWSON, JOHN (2 son of the preceding). b. Hobart Town, Tasmania 17 Nov. 1844; first appeared on the stage at Royal Victoria theatre, Sydney; left Australia with his family for San Francisco 1866, played there 1866–9; first appeared in New York at Wood’s Museum, Nov. 1869; played in the U.S. of A. 1869–77; first appeared in England at Brighton 3 Sep. 1877 as Commodore Patatras in La Créole, played same part at Folly theatre, London 15 Sep.; acted the Marquis in Les Cloches de Corneville at same house 23 Feb. 1878 and at the Globe July 1879. d. 16 Dec. 1888. C. E. Pascoe’s Dramatic List (1880) 189–90.

HOWSON, REV. JOHN. b. Giggleswick, Yorkshire 1787; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1811, M.A. 1813; second master Giggleswick gr. school 1814 to death; F.L.S. 1822; author of The gain of Godliness 1840. d. Giggleswick 23 Jany. 1859.

HOWSON, VERY REV. JOHN SAUL (son of the preceding). b. Giggleswick 5 May 1816; ed. at Giggleswick gr. sch. and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840, D.D. 1862; senior classical master Liverpool collegiate institute 1845 and principal 1849–65; exam. chaplain to bishop of Ely 1866–73; V. of St. Peter’s, Wisbech 1866–7; dean of Chester 12 June 1867 to death, continued the repairing of the cath. and reopened it 25 Jany. 1872; instrumental in building and endowing the King’s sch., the Queen’s sch. and the museum, Chester; a contributor to the Quarterly Review, The Speaker’s Commentary, etc.; author of Sunday evenings. Short sermons 1849; Sermons to schoolboys 1858–66, 2 series; The character of St. Paul 1862, 4 ed. 1884; The companions of St. Paul 1871 and about 35 other works; with the Rev. J. Conybeare, The life and epistles of St. Paul 2 vols. 1852, many editions. d. Bournemouth 15 Dec. 1885. bur. the cloister garden, Chester 19 Dec. I.L.N. lxxxvii 667 (1885), portrait; Guardian, Dec. 1885 pp. 1892, 1951; Times, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 23, 31 Dec. 1885.

HOWTH, THOMAS ST. LAWRENCE, 3 Earl of. b. 16 Aug. 1803; succeeded his father 4 April 1822; vice admiral of province of Leinster; K.P. 22 July 1835; lord lieut. of co. Dublin 1851 to death; trained his horses with W. Day at Danebury, won the Chester cup with Peep o’ Day Boy in 1848; a flat race rider 1830–50. d. Cannes 4 Feb. 1874. W. Day’s Reminiscences (1886) 236–8; Sporting Times 12 Sep. 1885 pp. 2–3.

HOYLE, WILLIAM. b. valley of Rossendale, Lancs. 1831; a cotton spinner with his father at Brooksbottom near Bury, Lancs. 1851–9; cotton spinner at Tollington near Bury 1859 to death; a temperance reformer, a Good Templar and a vegetarian; contested Dewsbury 1880; wrote an annual letter to The Times on the “national drink bill of successive years”; built a residence at Claremont near, Bury; author of Hoyle’s Hymns and songs for temperance societies and bands of hope 1869; Our national resources and how they are wasted 1871, four editions; Crime in England and Wales in the nineteenth century 1876 and of 13 other books. d. Southport, Lancs. 26 Feb. 1886. Manchester Guardian 1 March 1886 p. 8.

HOYLES, SIR HUGH WILLIAM (son of Newman Wright Hoyles, colonial treasurer of Newfoundland). b. St. John’s, Newfoundland, Jany. 1814; called to bar in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland 1837; member of assembly there 1848; acting solicitor general of Newfoundland 1854, attorney general and leader of the government 1861; chief justice of Newfoundland 4 March 1865 to 1880; knighted by patent 13 Feb. 1869. d. 18 Morris st. Halifax, Nova Scotia 1 Feb. 1888.

HUARD, LOUIS. b. in South of France 1813; studied at Antwerp; came to London 1854 and was connected with Illust. London news till his death; exhibited 2 figure paintings at British institution 1857; illustrated Souvenirs de la fête donnée aux artistes exposants 1849; Sir S. W. Baker’s Cast up by the sea 1869; A. and E. Keary’s The heroes of Asgard 1871 and other books. d. 37 Onslow sq. London 19 Sep. 1874. I.L.N. 10 Oct. 1874 p. 345, portrait.

HUBBACK, CATHERINE ANNE (dau. of admiral Sir Francis Wm. Austen, G.C.B. 1774–1865). (m. 25 Aug. 1842 John Hubback 1811–85); author of The younger sister 3 vols. 1850; The wife’s sister 3 vols. 1851; Life and its lessons 3 vols. 1851; Malvern or the three marriages 3 vols. 1855; May and December, a tale 3 vols. 1855; The old vicarage 3 vols. 1856; Agnes Milbourne 2 vols. 1856; The Rival suitors 3 vols. 1857; The stage and the company 3 vols. 1858; The mistake of a life 3 vols. 1863.

HUBBACK, JOHN (2 son of Joseph Hubback of Berwick-on-Tweed). b. Berwick-on-Tweed 1811; barrister I.T. 12 June 1835; author of A treatise on the evidence of succession to real and personal property and peerages 1844. d. Brislington, Somerset 24 Feb. 1885.

HUBBARD, JOHN GELLIBRAND, 1 Baron Addington (1 son of John Hubbard, Russian merchant d. 1847). b. 21 March 1805; ed. at Bordeaux 1816–20 in his father’s business 1821; Russia merchant 4 St. Helen’s place, London; director of Bank of England 1838–41; chairman public works loan commission 1853 to death; M.P. Buckingham 1859–68; defeated lord Palmerston’s government in making a motion for an enquiry into the income tax 1861; M.P. city of London 1874–87; P.C. 6 Aug. 1874; F.R.G.S.; gave much attention to the income tax, the coinage, ecclesiastical affairs and education; built and endowed St. Alban’s ch. Holborn, consecrated 26 Feb. 1863; cr. baron Addington of Addington, Bucks. 22 July 1887; author of Vindication of a fixed duty on corn 1842; The currency and the country 1843; The church and church rates 1861, 2 ed. 1861; A census of religion. Denominational worship. The national church. Essays 1882; Gladstone on the income tax 1885 and 10 other pamphlets. d. Addington manor, Winslow, Bucks. 28 Aug. 1889. I.L.N. lxiv, 551, 552 (1874), portrait; Touchstone 5 April 1879 pp. 1–2, portrait.

HUBBARD, THOMAS. b. 1789; framework knitter; obtained possession of some property in Nottinghamshire and under the impression that he was the heir at law retained the ownership 6 years, a will was then found giving the property to a person named Holland; Hubbard under the belief that the will was forged refused to give up the deeds of the estate, and in July 1856 was imprisoned for contempt of court; he remained in the debtors’ prison, Nottingham till his death 23 Jany. 1864. G.M. April 1864 p. 534.

HUBBARDE, JAMES DIBDEN. b. 1803; proprietor of Wakefield Journal to 1850; connected with and editor of Hampshire Advertiser 1850 to death; president of Ornithological association; author of Pencil notes of five days’ tour from Wakefield to Matlock. By J. D. H. 1839. d. Wick cottage, Avenue road, Southampton 28 Jany. 1870. Newspaper Press 1 March 1870 p. 82; Hampshire Advertiser 29 Jany. 1870 pp. 4, 5.

HUCKIN, REV. HENRY ROBERT (son of John Huckin, fishmonger, Islington). b. 11 Oct. 1841; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ sch. 1850–60, Andrew’s exhib. to St. John’s coll. Ox. 1860; B.A. 1864, M.A. 1867, D.D. 1874; assist. master at Haileybury 1865–8; a master at M.T. sch. 1869–74; head master Repton gram. sch. March 1874 to death; Townsend lecturer St. Magnus-the-Martyr, city of London 1871–3; ed. of Milton. Comus, Lycidas. With notes 1871; author of The analogy of religion. Dialogues founded upon Butler’s Analogy of religion 1873. d. Repton 30 July 1882.

HUDDART, FANNY (niece of Mary Amelia Warner the actress, d. 1854). A contralto singer, played the chief contralto parts in all the Italian operas and also in English operas, was the original Azucena when the English version of Il Trovatore was produced at Drury Lane May 1855; sang the contralto parts in Handel’s and Mendelssohn’s oratorios at Sacred harmonic society’s concerts; played the leading roles in Shakespearean dramas and modern comedies; (m. John Russell of Covent Garden theatre). d. 28 June 1880. Era 4 July 1880 p. 6.

HUDDLESTON, SIR JOHN WALTER (1 son of Thomas Huddleston, captain in merchant service). b. Dublin 8 Sep. 1815; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin; barrister G.I. 7 May 1839; was with Cockburn in Rugeley poisoning case 1856; Q.C. June 1857; bencher of his inn 4 Nov. 1857; contested Worcester 1852, Shrewsbury 1857 and Kidderminster 1859 and 1861; M.P. Canterbury 1865–8; contested Norwich 1870, M.P. 1874–5; counsel to the admiralty and judge advocate of the Fleet Nov. 1865 to 22 Feb. 1875; serjeant at law and justice of court of common pleas 22 Feb. 1875, transferred to court of exchequer 12 May 1875; knighted at Windsor castle 13 May 1875; created the last baron of the exchequer; judge of queen’s bench division of high court of justice 26 Feb. 1881; tried the libel action Belt v. Lawes lasting 43 days 1881–2; entertained by the French bar in Paris 1868. d. 43 Ennismore gardens, South Kensington 5 Dec. 1890, cremated at Woking 12 Dec. Pump Court, i, frontispiece and p. 135 (1884), portrait; Vanity Fair xxxv, 325 (1886); I.L.N. lxvi, 229 (1875), portrait; Graphic 13 Dec. 1890 p. 667, portrait.

HUDSON, ALFRED. b. 15 Nov. 1808; ed. Dublin univ., M.B. 1834, M.D. 1861; M.R.C.S. England 1834; F.K.Q.C.P. Ireland 1857, censor 1858–9; M.R.I.A.; physician Adelaide hospital, Dublin; a physician in ordinary to queen in Ireland 21 Jany. 1878; member of general council of medical education and registration of U.K. for Ireland 14 May 1877 to death; a contributor to Dublin medical journal and Dublin quarterly journal; author of Lectures on the study of fever 1867, new ed. 1872; edited W. Stokes’ A treatise on diseases of the chest 1882. d. Loweville near Dublin 19 Nov. 1880. Times 23 Nov. 1880 p. 6; Medical Times ii, 660 (1880).

HUDSON, REV. CHARLES. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1851, M.A. 1854; chaplain in the Crimea 1854–6; C. of St. Mary’s, Bridgnorth 1856–7; V. of Shillington, Lincs. 1859 to death; the best Alpine amateur climber of his time, organized the party of 7 who ascended Mont Blanc without guides 14–15 Aug. 1855; author of An Ascent of Mont Blanc and two ascents of Monte Rosa 1856; Narrative of the accident on the Col de Miage in July 1861 in Peaks and Passes, i, 208–24 (1862); killed by a fall while descending the Matterhorn 14 July 1865. bur. Zermatt. E. Whymper’s Ascent of the Matterhorn (1880) 273–95; Times 20, 21, 22 July and 12 Aug. 1865.

HUDSON, CORRIE. b. 1822; clerk in legacy and succession duty department of inland revenue office 1845–72, a principal clerk 1872 to death; author of A practical guide to the payment of legacy and succession duties 1867, 7 ed. 1888. A practical guide to making and proving wills and obtaining letters of administration 1876, 2 ed. 1878. d. 67 Bessborough st. Pimlico, London 6 Nov. 1880.

HUDSON, VERY REV. EDWARD GUSTAVUS. Educated Dublin univ., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813; dean of Armagh 1841 to death, patent dated 1 Sep. 1841, instituted 5 March 1842. d. Glenville, co. Cork 14 Aug. 1851.

HUDSON, GEORGE (son of a farmer and constable, d. 1806). b. Howsham near York, March 1800; apprentice to Bell and Nicholson, drapers, York 1815, a partner, firm became Nicholson and Hudson; originator and manager York banking co. 1833; chairman of York and West riding railway 1837, Newcastle and Darlington 1842, Midland 1843, Eastern counties 1846 and many other lines; known as the railway king; resided at Albert gate, Knightsbridge, London 1846–52 which he bought with sum of £15000 presented to him 1846; lord mayor of York 1837 and 1846; M.P. Sunderland 1845–59; many of his transactions in railway shares were of a questionable nature; the great fall in railway shares in 1847 ruined him; resided much abroad from 1852; committed to York castle by sheriff of Yorkshire for contempt of court of exchequer in not paying £23,989 5s., released 7 Oct. 1865; friends raised £4800 and invested it in an annuity for him 1868; entertained at a banquet in Sunderland 1869. d. 37 Churton st. Belgrave road, London 14 Dec. 1871. bur. Scrayingham, Yorks. 21 Dec. Evans’ Facts, failures and frauds (1859) 6–73; Lennox’s Celebrities I have known 2 Ser. i, 184–92 (1877); Fraser’s Mag. Aug. 1847 pp. 215–22; Richardson’s The mysteries of Hudson’s railway frauds (1850); Williams’ Midland railway (1877) 99–124, 132; I.L.N. 6 Sep. 1845 p. 157, portrait; Graphic 27 Aug. 1881 pp. 223, 229, portrait; Times 16, 22 Dec. 1871.

HUDSON, JAMES. Assistant sec. to royal society 1829–38; secretary Royal agricultural society from its foundation 27 June 1838 to death. d. Norton terrace, Longsight near Manchester 28 June 1859 aged 55.

HUDSON, JAMES. b. Aungier st. Dublin, March 1811; student R. Dublin soc. 1821; articled to a portrait painter Dublin; an actor in the provinces; appeared at Hawkins st. theatre, Dublin 1834; came out at Drury Lane as Gratiano in Merchant of Venice 1841; played King Alfourite in Planché’s Fortunio 17 April 1843; acted Rory O’More in The Irish Post at the Haymarket, expressly written for him by Planché 28 Feb. 1846; considered the successor of Tyrone Power (drowned in President 1841); made his American debut Walnut st. theatre, Philadelphia as Pandeen O’Rafferty in Born to good luck 15 Oct. 1849; played in New York 1850; appeared in a drawing room entertainment with Anna Thillon; retired from the stage 1858. d. 6 March 1878. bur. Highgate cemet. 9 March. Tallis’ Drawing room Scrap book (1851) 21–2; Theatrical Times ii, 233 (1847), portrait; Planché’s Extravaganzas ii, 179, (1879), portrait; Ireland’s New York Stage ii, 549–50; Era Almanack (1879) 39; Era 10 March 1878 p. 11.

HUDSON, SIR JAMES (son of Harrington Hudson of Bessingby hall, Bridlington, Yorkshire). b. 1810; ed. at Rugby, Westminster, Paris and Rome; assistant private sec. to Wm. IV. 1830–37; resident gentleman usher to queen Adelaide 21 Nov. 1831; known as “Hurry Hudson” from the speed with which he travelled to Italy to summon Peel home 1834; sec. of legation at Washington 1838, at the Hague 1843, at Rio de Janeiro 1845; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to Emperor of Brazil 14 May 1850, to Grand Duke of Tuscany 29 Aug. 1851, but did not proceed there; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to King of Sardinia 19 Jany. 1852 to 20 Oct. 1863 when he retired on a pension of £1300; C.B. 1 March 1851, K.C.B. 2 May 1855, G.C.B. 11 Aug. 1863. d. Strasburg 20 Sep. 1885 in 76 year. F. Ross’s Celebrities of Yorkshire Wolds (1878); Elliot’s Sir J. Hudson and Earl Russell 1886; Times 24 Sep. 1885 p. 7, cols. 3–5.

HUDSON, JOHN CORRIE (son of Thomas Hudson of the Stamp office). b. 1796; ed. St. Paul’s sch. 1804 etc.; an advanced liberal; chief clerk in legacy duty office, Somerset house?; friend of Horne Tooke, Godwin, Shelley, Hazlitt, Charles Lamb, T. Hood, and Hamilton Reynolds; author of A letter on the cruelty of employing children in sweeping chimneys in The Pamphleteer xxii, 407–30 (1823). d. April 1879. Athenæum i, 506 (1879).

HUDSON, ROBERT. b. 1801; F.G.S., F.L.S., F.Z.S., vice president; F.R.S. 10 April 1834; writer on Fossil shells, _Mag. Nat. Hist. ix_, 103–5 (1836); resided Clapham common. d. Bournemouth 9 Feb. 1883.

HUDSON, WILLIAM ELIOT (son of a professional man). An enthusiast about Irish antiquities and well known in Irish literary circles; took an active part in the publication of The Citizen, a monthly journal, Dublin 1840–1. d. south of Ireland July or Aug. 1853.

HUDSPETH, JOHN. b. Manchester 21 Nov. 1806; apprentice in a mercantile house; an actor at Manchester and in Scotland and Ireland; first appeared in London at Pavilion theatre 1839; played at Strand theatre when William Copeland rechristened it Punch’s playhouse 1851; at Queen’s theatre, Tottenham court road 3 years; a favourite in David Dump in The Irish Rebellion. d. 2 Oct. 1866. Theatrical Times, iii, 357, 366 (1818), portrait; Era 7 Oct. 1866 p. 11.

HUE, CLEMENT (son of John Hue, merchant, St. Heliers, Jersey). b. St. Heliers 1779; ed. at Abingdon and Pemb. coll. Ox.; B.A. 1801, M.A. 1803, M.B. 1804, M.D. 1807; fellow of his coll.; candidate of college of physicians 30 Sep. 1807, fellow 30 Sep. 1808, censor 1812, registrar 1815 to 4 Feb. 1824, Harveian orator 1829, elect 13 April 1835, consiliarius 1836; physician to Foundling hospital 1815–37, governor and vice pres. many years; physician to St. Bartholomew’s hospital 23 May 1823 to 1861; registrar of national vaccine establishment 1824 to death. d. 9 Bedford sq. London 23 June 1861. Munk’s College of physicians, iii, 66 (1878).

HÜFFER, FRANCIS OR FRANZ (son of a banker). b. Münster 22 May 1845; ed. at Münster, Leipzig and Berlin; Ph.D. Göttingen, July 1869; came to London 1869; assistant editor of The Academy about 1871; editor of the New Quarterly Mag. about 1876; musical critic to The Times, April 1879 to death; naturalised 18 Jany. 1882; edited The Musical Review 1883, The Musical World 1886; author of Richard Wagner and the music of the future 1874; The Troubadours: a history of Provençal life and literature in the middle ages 1878; Half a century of music in England 1889 and other books; edited a series of biographies of The Great Musicians 1881–4; wrote the libretti for A. C. Mackenzie’s two operas produced at Drury Lane, Colomba 1883 and The Troubadour 1885. d. 90 Brook green, Hammersmith 19 Jany. 1889. Grove’s Dict. of music, iv, 680, 819 (1888); Times 21, 25 Jany. 1889.

HUELIN, REV. ELIAS. b. 1786; French protestant clergyman; owner of house property in London; assistant chaplain at Brompton cemetery; resided 15 Paulton sq. Chelsea; murdered and robbed by Walter Miller at 25 Wellington square, Chelsea 9 May 1870 and buried there. Walter Miller who had also murdered the housekeeper Ann Boss at 15 Paulton sq. was executed at the Old Bailey 1 Aug. 1870. Annual Register (1870) pp. 47, 95.

HUGGENS, JOHN. b. 29 April 1776; founded Huggens’s college, 40 almshouses and a chapel at Northfleet, Kent which he himself superintended. d. Crown quay, Sittingbourne, Kent 11 Aug. 1865. bur. Northfleet churchyard.

HUGGINS, HASTINGS CHARLES. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1858; practised in Island of Nevis, Q.C. Nevis, solicitor general Nevis, speaker of House of Assembly; attorney general British Honduras 1861; stipendiary mag. British Guiana to death; author of The laws of Nevis from 1681 to 1861 inclusive, with appendices and index 1862. d. Georgetown, Demerara 27 March 1883.

HUGGINS, HORATIO JAMES (eld. son of Horatio Nelson Huggins of the island of St. Vincent). b. 1811; barrister L.I. 1838; acting attorney general St. Vincent 1857 and 1858; Queen’s advocate at Sierra Leone 9 May 1863 to 1880, chief justice there 1876 to 1880; manufacturer of bottle washing machines at Pentonville and Hornsey 1881, bankrupt 18 Feb. 1882. d. Staplehay, Hornsey 20 Jany. 1886. bur. Bedford cemetery.

HUGGINS, SAMUEL. b. Deal, Kent 1811; lived at Liverpool most of his life; an architect from 1846; member of Liverpool Architectural Soc. 1849, president 1856–8, read a paper On so-called restorations of our cathedral and abbey churches 1871 which led to formation of Soc. for protection of ancient buildings 1877; published Chart of the history of architecture 1863; compiled Catalogue of the Liverpool free public library 1872. d. Christleton near Chester 10 Jany. 1885. Biograph, i, 406 (1879).

HUGGINS, WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). b. Liverpool 1820; member of Liverpool Academy; painter at Chester 1861 to death; his horses, cattle and poultry pictures were his best work; exhibited 31 pictures at R.A., 8 at B.I. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1842–75; exhibited many pictures at Liverpool, Manchester, Dublin, Edinburgh and Glasgow. d. Christleton near Chester 25 Feb. 1884. Biograph, Feb. 1882 pp. 217–23; Liverpool Mercury 28 Feb. 1884 p. 6.

NOTE.—His sister Sarah Huggins, a painter of flowers and fruit and then of architectural views in Chester and Liverpool, d. Liverpool, May 1869. The Builder 8 May 1869 p. 369.

HUGHES, CHRISTOPHER (youngest son of Henry Hughes of Northampton, solicitor). b. Northampton 1815; articled to Hughes and Britten of Northampton, solicitors; admitted Trinity term 1837; clerk of the peace for borough of Northampton 1858 to death; translated The odes, epodes, Carmen seculare, and the first satire of Horace 1867. d. 60 Waterloo, Northampton 20 Oct. 1877. Law Times, lxiv, 53 (1877).

HUGHES, REV. DAVID. b. Cefn-uchaf, Llanddeiniolen, Carnarvonshire 1813; B.A., M.A.; member of Bethel independent church, Arfon, began preaching 1832; studied at Hackney coll. and Glasgow univ.; ordained 14 Sep. 1841, pastor of two small congregations in Flintshire; pastor at St. Asaph 1845, at Manchester 1846, at Bangor 1846 and at Tredegar, Monmouthshire 1 Nov. 1855 to death; author of Geiriadur Ysgrythyrol o Duwinyddol, i.e. A scriptural and theological dictionary 2 vols. 1852–55, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1876–9; contributed to the Gwyddoniadur or Welsh Cyclopædia; edited and enlarged An English and Welsh dictionary. By T. Edwards of Caerfallwch 1864. d. Tredegar 3 June 1872.

HUGHES, EDWARD. b. Ireland 1819; second master of lower school, Greenwich hospital 4 Nov. 1841 and head master of royal naval school there 1844 to death; A.I.C.E. 1848; F.R.A.S.; F.R.G.S.; author of A manual of explanatory arithmetic 1849, 2 ed. 1855; Outlines of physical geography 1849, 5 ed. 1855; Geography for elementary schools 1851, new ed. 1873; Select English poetry 1851, 5 ed. 1856 and other school books. d. Greenwich hospital 30 July 1859.

NOTE.—His widow Sarah, youngest dau. of James Oliphant Bell, M.D., granted civil list pension of £100, 18 June 1863, she d. 9 Jany. 1884 aged 68.

HUGHES, EDWIN (son of a steel toy manufacturer). b. Birmingham 2 Oct. 1813; member of Batty & Sons’ circus; the best polander performer in England, the first to introduce turning round on his head without holding; had a company of his own at Donnybrook fair two years; at Cheltenham established Hughes’ Great mammoth equestrian circus; appeared before the Queen at Drury Lane under A. Bunn’s management 22 April 1847; retired after nine seasons with a handsome fortune 1847; the first to drive thirty-two horses in hand; the first to introduce camels and elephants in harness. d. Welby house, Lower Norwood, Surrey 7 Dec. 1867. bur. Smithdown cemet. Liverpool 12 Dec. Era 22 Dec. 1867 p. 6; Frost’s Circus life (1876) 97, 216.

HUGHES, EDWIN (eld. son of Edwin Hughes of The Farm, Smithdown road, Wavertree near Liverpool). b. Dublin 1 Feb. 1837; articled to Avison and Pritt of Liverpool, solicitors; admitted Jany. 1858; went to America, joined Federal army in which he became major; served under Garibaldi in Italy; a solicitor in Liverpool 1869 to death; captain 1 Lancashire artillery volunteers 21 Jany. 1874 to death; member of council of Financial reform association. d. 13 Elm vale, Fairfield, Liverpool 12 May 1879. bur. Smithdown cemetery, Liverpool. Law Times, lxvii, 105 (1879).

HUGHES, FANNY. b. 1843; educated for a singer; an actress in comedies and burlesques at Strand theatre when under Mrs. Swanborough’s management 1862–72; played Orozembo in L. S. Buckingham’s burlesque Pizarro, or the Leotard of Peru 24 April 1862; played Anne Boleyn in Wm. Brough’s extravaganza The field of the cloth of gold, produced 11 April 1868; (m. Edward Swanborough of the Strand theatre). d. 5 Neville st. Onslow gardens, London 12 Jany. 1888.

HUGHES, GEORGE EDWARD (1 son of John Hughes of Uffington, Berks.) b. Uffington 18 Sep. 1821; ed. at Rugby and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1845, M.A. 1849, D.C.L. 1850; stroke of Ox. univ. crew of 7 oars which beat Camb. crew of 8 oars 1843; a student of Lincoln’s inn 1848; member of college of doctors of law 12 Nov. 1850, practised in the ecclesiastical courts; member of Pen and Pencil club at Pau; violoncello player. d. Hoylake, Cheshire 2 May 1872. Memoirs of a brother. By Thomas Hughes (1873), portrait.

HUGHES, GEORGE MARTIN. b. Maidstone 1827; a solicitor; investigated Romano-British topography of the south of England; author of A history of Windsor forest, Sunninghill and the Great park 1890. d. Kingswick, Sunninghill, Berkshire 9 Sep. 1891.

HUGHES, HENRY GEORGE (_eld. son of James Hughes of Dublin, solicitor_). b. Capel st. Dublin 22 Aug. 1810; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; called to Irish bar, Nov. 1834; Q.C. 2 Nov. 1844; bencher of King’s Inns 1850; solicitor general for Ireland 26 Sep. 1850 to Feb. 1852 and Feb. 1858 to July 1859; baron of court of exchequer July 1859 to death; contested Cavan 1855; M.P. for co. Longford 1856–7; author of _Practice of the Court of chancery, Ireland_. Dublin 1837. d. Bray, Wicklow 22 July 1872. _Irish law times, vi_, 404 (1872).

HUGHES, HUGH (son of Thomas Hughes). b. Pwllygwichiad. bapt. Llandudno 20 Feb. 1790; apprentice to an engraver in Liverpool; studied oil painting in London; exhibited 4 landscapes at B.I. and 6 at Suffolk st. 1827–51; spent 3 years at Meddiant working at his Beauties of Cambria 60 views published Carmarthen 1823, drew 58 of the views and engraved all of them; a printer at Carnarvon where he published Y Papur Newydd Cymraeg; expelled from Welsh Calvinistic ch. London for signing petition in favor of catholic emancipation 1828; joined the Independents, then the Plymouth brethren; had a controversy with Rev. Evan Evans and published pamphlets under name of Cristion 1832; author of Hynafion Cymreig, a work on Welsh antiquities. Carmarthen 1823 and other books in Welsh language. d. Great Malvern 11 March 1863. Red Dragon, May 1887 xi 457–66, 576 (1887).

HUGHES, REV. HUGH (son of Mr. Hughes, deacon of independent church at Cororion). b. Cilgeraint, Llandegai, Carnarvonshire 1805; pastor of independent churches at Rhos-y-lan, Tabor, and Llanystymdwy, at Jackson st. Manchester, at Capelhelyg, Chwilog and Abererch in Carnarvonshire; set up a printing-press at Abererch and edited Yr Arweinydd a penny monthly many years; pastor of the new church at Bethel, Aberdare 1859 to death; competed frequently and successfully at Eisteddfods; most voluminous Welsh writer of his day; author of Rhesymeg. Wrexham 1856; d. Aberdare 8 Dec. 1864. J. T. Jones’s Geiriadur Bywgraffydol, i, 567–70.

HUGHES, REV. HUGH. Educ. at St. Peter’s coll. Cam., B.D. 1842, D.D. 1847; R. of St John, Clerkenwell, London 13 Dec. 1839 to death; author of Female characters of holy writ, in a course of sermons. 3 series 1845, 6, 7; The remarkable scenes of the bible 1860, new ed. 1879. d. 18 Chadwell st. Myddleton sq. London 1870.

HUGHES, REV. JAMES. b. Carlow, March 1810; R.C. priest June 1833; professor of natural philosophy St. Patrick’s coll. Carlow 1835–6; in charge of Carlow classical academy; C. of Maryborough; C. of Kilcock 1837; dean of coll. of St. Patrick’s 1841–55; administrator of Carlow parish 1855–8; priest in charge of Naas, Dec. 1858 to death; author of A practical exposition of the ceremonies to be observed at solemn mass. Dublin 1843; The ceremonies of low mass, 4 ed. 1858; The ceremonies of high mass; Pontifical ceremonies. d. Naas, May 1876. M. Comerford’s Collections of Kildare and Leighlin (1883) 229.

HUGHES, JAMES STANNUS. L.R.C.S. Ireland 1838, F.R.C.S. 1844, examiner in surgery, joint professor of surgery, sec. of council; M.D. Queen’s univ. 1864; surgeon Jervis st. hospital, Dublin; surgeon in ordinary to Dublin castle; edited Sir H. Marsh’s Clinical lectures 1869; author of On diseases of the prostate gland 1863, 2 ed. 1870, and of contributions to Dublin medical press and Dublin hospital gazette. d. 1 Merrion sq. west, Dublin 1 June 1884. Medical Times 7 June 1884 p. 771.

HUGHES, JOHN (only child of Rev. Thomas Hughes, canon of St. Paul’s, d. 6 Jany. 1833 aged 77). b. 2 Jany. 1790; ed. at Westminster and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1812, M.A. 1815; author of the macaronic Oriel grace-cup song ‘Exultet mater Oriel’; author of Pompeii 1820, an ode; An Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone with etchings by the author 1822; Lays of past days 1850; edited The Boscobel Tracts 1830, 2 ed. 1857; published a song called The small coal man attacking Lord Durham, long attributed to Theodore Hook and R. H. Barham; wrote for the magazines under pseud. of Buller of Brasenose; celebrated in John Wilson’s Christopher in the tent in the Noctes Ambrosianæ. d. 7 Boltons, West Brompton, London 13 Dec. 1857. G.M. iv, 225 (1858); Miss Mitford’s Recollections (1859) 462–4.

HUGHES, REV. JOHN (son of Hugh Hughes of Adwy’r Clawdd near Wrexham, carpenter). b. Adwy’r Clawdd 11 Feb. 1796; a carpenter to 1815; began preaching in Calvinistic methodist church at Adwy’r 1813; kept a school at Wrexham to 1835; authorised as a regular preacher to visit all parts of Wales, Feb. 1821; ordained at Bala 17 June 1829; a flour merchant 1835–8; co-pastor of Welsh Calvinistic churches of Liverpool 1838 to death; author of History of Welsh Calvinistic Methodism 3 vols. Wrexham 1851–6 and other books in the Welsh language. d. Abergele 8 Aug. 1860. Sermons of Rev. John Hughes, with memoir and portrait (1862).

HUGHES, VEN. JOHN (son of John Hughes of Llwyn Glas near Aberystwyth). b. 1787; C. at Llandrillo yn Rhôs near Conway 1811–17; P.C. of Aberystwyth 16 May 1827 to death; V. of Llanbadern-Fawr 14 June 1834 to death; preb. of Nantgunllo in Brecon coll. ch. to death; archdeacon of Cardigan 1859 to death; most popular preacher of Church of England in Wales; author of The domestic ruler’s monitor 1821; Ruth and her kindred 1839; Esther and her people. Sermons 1842 and other books. d. 1 Nov. 1860. J. Hughes’s Sermons with biography by his son. Liverpool (1864).

HUGHES, MOST REV. JOHN (son of Patrick Hughes, farmer, d. 1837). b. Annalogham, co. Tyrone 24 June 1797; a gardener and day labourer in U.S. of America 1817–9; ed. at Mount St. Mary’s coll. Emmitsburg, Maryland 1819–26; ordained R.C. priest 1825; minister at St. Augustine’s 1825 and then at St. Joseph’s churches, Philadelphia, built ch. of St. John there which he served 1832; coadjutor to bishop John Dubois of New York Jany. 1838 and succeeded him as bishop 1842; founded St. John’s coll. at Fordham 1841; archbishop of New York 3 Oct. 1850 to death; one of the founders of the American coll. at Rome 1858; author of Controversy between Rev. Messrs. Hughes and Breckenridge on the subject “Is the protestant religion the religion of Christ?” Philadelphia 3 ed. 1833; The church and the world. A lecture 1850, and other theological works. d. New York city 3 Jany. 1864; remains removed from old cath. of St. Patrick to crypt beneath high altar in new cath. 30 Jany. 1883. Hassard’s Life of Most Rev. J. Hughes (1866), portrait; Clarke’s Lives of bishops of catholic church in U.S. ii, 73–125 (1872); Appleton’s American Biog. iii, 303–5 (1887), portrait; Complete works of J. Hughes. Ed. by L. Kehoe 2 vols. 1866.

HUGHES, JOHN (youngest son of Thomas Hughes, civil engineer). b. Linlithgow near Edin. 1823; ed. at Marischal coll. Aberdeen; parliamentary reporter for Evening Sun, London 1842, for Times 1844, for Morning Chronicle, for Daily News, and for Times again to 1860; theatrical art critic for the Era; purchased the West Surrey Times, Godalming 1860 and removed it to Guildford where he edited it to his death. d. 18 High st. Guildford 2 Nov. 1868. The Newspaper Press 1 Dec. 1868 p. 18.

HUGHES, JOHN (youngest son of William Hughes of Pen y Clawdd, Denbighshire). b. 1805; ed. at univ. of Edin.; barrister I.T. 3 May 1839; sec. to commission for settlement of claims of Portuguese government on British legion under Sir De L. Evans 1844–9; twice went to Sweden for Overend, Gurney & Co. and then to Copenhagen to claim money advanced before Danish-German war; a Welsh scholar and a writer on Cambrian archæology. d. 34 Abingdon villas, Kensington 11 July 1883. Law Times 28 July 1883 p. 249.

HUGHES, JOHN, known as Ceiriog (youngest child of Richard Hughes). b. Penbryn, Llanarmon-Dyffryn Ceiriog, Denbighshire 25 Sep. 1832; clerk in an office in London road, Manchester 1849–65; stationmaster on the Cambrian railway at Llanidloes 1865, at Towyn 1870, at Trefeglwys 1871, at Caersws 1871 to death; won many prizes for poetry at Eisteddfods; the best lyric poet of Wales; author of Oriau’r Hwyr (Evening Hours) Ruthyn 1860, 2 ed. 1861 of which 25,000 copies were sold and of 7 other vols. of poetry 1862–88; wrote 50 songs for Brinley Richards’s Songs of Wales 1873, among them is ‘God bless the Prince of Wales.’ d. Caersws, Montgomeryshire 23 April 1887. Memoir of J. C. Hughes. By Llyfrbryf i.e. Isaac Foulkes. Liverpool.

HUGHES, JOHN CHARLES. b. Hatton garden, London 23 Dec. 1789; appeared at Cheltenham 1806; manager Woolwich theatre; acted at Richmond; at Drury Lane 1818; good in old men and country clowns. Theatrical Inquisitor, Oct. 1818 pp. 251–3, portrait.

HUGHES, RIGHT REV. JOSHUA (son of Caleb Hughes of Newport, Pembrokeshire). b. Nevern, Pembrokeshire 7 Oct. 1807; ed. at Ystradmeirig gr. sch. and St. David’s coll. Lampeter; C. of Aberystwith 1830; C. of St. David’s, Carmarthen; V. of Abergwilly to 1846; V. of Llandingat 1846–70; D.D. Lambeth; bishop of St. Asaph 25 March 1870 to death, consecrated 8 May 1870; author of several charges, sermons and pamphlets, one of the latter on The University of Brecknock. By Veritas, was much discussed. d. Crieff, Perthshire 21 Jany. 1889. I.L.N. lvi, 449 (1870), portrait, and 2 Feb. 1889 pp. 135, 158, portrait.

HUGHES, JULIO HENRY (son of Henry Hughes, proprietor of Exeter theatre, and grandson of Mr. Hughes manager of Sadler’s Wells). b. in residence attached to Devonport theatre 1810; under scene painter at Vauxhall gardens; held a share in the Exeter, Devonport and Guernsey theatres; first appeared in London at Pavilion theatre under management of Mr. Gladstones; leading actor at the Surrey 1840–6; played at Princess’s 1847, at Sadler’s Wells. d. 11 Oct. 1872. Theatrical Times, ii, 129, 138, portrait.

HUGHES, MARY (dau. of Mr. Robson). m. 1817 Thomas Hughes of Dundee; went to U.S. of America 1817; kept a school for young ladies at Philadelphia 1818–39; with her husband commenced farming at Doylestown, Bucks county 1839; contributed to the Church Tract Soc. London 1824; author of The alchemist, a tale 1818; The orphan girl 1819; The rebellious school girl 1821; The life of W. Penn 1822, another ed. Philadelphia 1828; Pleasing and instructive stories 1830; Sickroom dialogues, 4 ed. 1836; The twin brothers 1839; Village dialogues 1839. See Hale’s Woman’s Record (1855) 845.

NOTE.—She also wrote Aunt Mary’s tales, Ornaments discovered, Metamorphosis, Emma Mortimer, The two schools, Julia Ormond, Buds and Blossoms, The ivy wreath.

HUGHES, PHILIP. Conducted musical choirs in Manchester and the neighbourhood; gave much time to musical services of R.C. ch.; composer of music to many hymns such as The hymn to St. Albans; The green boughs meet; O turn to Jesus’ Mother turn; _Jesus, dulcis memoria_, and others. d. West Gorton, Manchester 10 Feb. 1880. Gillow’s English catholics, iii, 469 (1887).

HUGHES, ROBERT BALL (brother of Julio Henry Hughes 1810–72). b. London 19 Jany. 1806; pupil of E. H. Bailey the sculptor 7 years; gained gold medal at R.A. 1823 for a bas-relief, ‘Pandora brought by Mercury to Epimetheus,’ exhibited 4 sculptures at R.A. 1822–8; went to U.S. of America 1829 where his chief works were statue of Alexander Hamilton for Merchants’ Exchange, New York, destroyed by fire 1835; bronze statue of Nathaniel Bowditch now at Mount Auburn; and monument to bishop Hobart in Trin. ch. New York; sent a statue of Oliver Twist to Great exhibition in London 1851; lectured on art and made sketches on wood with a hot iron. d. Boston 5 March 1868.

HUGHES, SAMUEL (5 son of Richard Hughes, barrister). b. 1801; barrister I.T. 28 Jany. 1831; author with T. Coventry of An analytical digested index to the common law reports 1827; furnished an index and notes to Sir B. Shower’s Reports of cases in court of king’s bench 1836. d. Skipper’s hill, Mayfield, Sussex 29 Nov. 1887.

HUGHES, THOMAS (brother of Robert Ball Hughes 1806–68). b. 3 Dec. 1808; studied with E. H. Bailey, sculptor; first appeared at Queen’s theatre, London 1825; at the St. James’s theatre under Edward Hooper’s management when he appeared in a series of original parts 1839; broke his leg and was unable to resume his profession. d. London 7 Sep. 1857. The Era 13 Sep. 1857 p. 11.

HUGHES, THOMAS. Connected with the turf 40 years; an early patron of Fred Archer the jockey; won the Chester cup with Our Mary Ann 1870; the Shobden cup twice with Oxonian which he sold for £3000; retired from the turf 1886. d. Aldford near Eaton hall about 25 Feb. 1890.

HUGHES, THOMAS. b. Chester 1827; apprentice to a printer; connected with the press at Plymouth; partner in firm of Minshull and Hughes, booksellers, Eastgate row, Chester, retired 1880; sheriff of Chester 1873; F.S.A. 7 June 1866; had great knowledge of antiquities of Chester and its neighbourhood; edited D. King’s The vale royal of England 1852; George Batenham’s Ancient Chester 1880; author of The stranger’s handbook to Chester 1856, 2 ed. 1857. d. The Grove, Chester 30 May 1890. The Bookseller 6 June 1890 p. 584.

HUGHES, THOMAS ELLIOTT. b. 6 Jany. 1830; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery 8 June 1849; commander of a mountain train battery on N.W. frontier of India, present at storming of Laloo and capture of Umbeylah; lieut.-colonel R.A. 16 Jany. 1875, colonel 24 Jany. 1880 to death; M.G. 11 Feb. 1885; A.A.G., R.A. at head quarters 1878–82; director general of ordnance in India 1884–5. d. Simla 24 May 1886.

HUGHES, THOMAS FIOTT (1 son of Rev. Thomas Smart Hughes, V. of Edgware, d. 1847). Student attaché at Constantinople 16 May 1845; instrumental in raising the Bashi-Bazouks during the Crimean war 1854; consul at Erzeroom 29 May 1856; oriental sec. at Constantinople 6 Feb. 1859; commissioner for the dedicated monasteries in the United Principalities; retired from public service on a pension of £700, 12 Nov. 1875; great linguist and eastern scholar; translated Arabian Nights into Persian but not printed. d. Cheltenham 18 June 1887 aged 62.

HUGHES, SIR WALTER WATSON (3 son of Thomas Hughes of Pittenweem, Fife). b. 1803; master in mercantile marine; settled in South Australia, engaged in mining and pastoral pursuits 1841; shared in expenses of exploring expeditions and was a promoter of several new industries; ‘father’ of the Univ. of Adelaide; knighted at Windsor castle 16 Dec. 1880; purchased Fan Court, Lyne near Chertsey, Surrey 1883. d. Fan Court 1 Jany. 1887.

HUGHES, WILLIAM (4 son of Rev. Sir Robert Hughes, bart., d. 1814). b. Maker vicarage, Cornwall 2 March 1803; barrister G.I. 11 June 1833; auditor of poor law union district of Cornwall and Devon; author of Practical instructions for drawing wills 1833; The practical angler. By Piscator 1842; The three students of Gray’s inn, A novel 1846; The practice of conveyancing 2 vols. 1856–7 and other books. d. 2 Millbay grove, Plymouth 20 Aug. 1861. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i, 258.

HUGHES, WILLIAM. b. 1817; assistant in library of Br. Museum, cataloguing the geographical collection 1841, resigned Dec. 1843; F.R.G.S.; editor of Maunder’s Treasury of geography 1856; author of Atlas of constructive geography 1841; A class book of modern geography 1859, 3 ed. 1885; A class book of physical geography 1861, 4 ed. 1886; A treatise on the construction of maps, 3 ed. 1864, and about 30 other school books. d. 198 Adelaide road, Hampstead, London 21 May 1876. Cowtan’s British Museum (1872) 321–2.

HUGHES, WILLIAM BULKELEY. b. 26 July 1797; ed. at Harrow; barrister L.I. 21 May 1824; M.P. for Carnarvon district of boroughs 1837–59 and 1865 to death; sheriff of Anglesea 1861. d. Plas Coch near Llanfair, Isle of Anglesea 9 March 1882. Law Times, lxxii, 376 (1882).

HUGHES, WILLIAM EDWARD (2 son of Michael Hughes of Sherdley hall, Lancs. d. 1825). b. 16 July 1823; ed. at Eton 1838–42; member of Turf club; a player at whist, picquet and billiards; won a race with Sophistry; known as Gentleman Hughes and as Little Hughes. d. Brussels 17 Dec. 1885. Sporting Rev. Aug. 1858 p. 118–19.

HUGHES, WILLIAM HUGHES (son of John Hewitt). b. 1792; barrister L.I. 26 June 1827; contested Oxford 1832 and 1837; M.P. for Oxford 18 March 1833 to 18 July 1837; sheriff of Hants.; assumed name of Hughes 25 May 1825; alderman of London 1832; contributed preface and notes to J. L. De Lolme’s The constitution of England 1834. d. Ilkley Wells house, Yorkshire 10 Oct. 1874.

HUGHES, WILLIAM LITTLE (son of Wm. Hughes of Dublin). b. Dublin 1822; clerk in foreign press department of ministry of the interior, Paris about 1857, chief clerk to death; a collector of works on Shakespeare in all languages; translated and published Les temps difficiles. Par C. Dickens 1857; Devereux. Par Sir E. B. Lytton 1859; Histoire d’ une chandelle. Par M. Faraday 1865; Œuvres choisies d’ Edgar Poe 1885; Les aventures de Huck Finn. Par M. Twain 1886 and other works. d. Paris 5 Jany. 1887.

HUGO, REV. THOMAS (eld. son of Charles Hugo, M.D. of Taunton). b. Taunton 1820; ed. at Worc. coll. Ox., B.A. 1842; C. of Walton-le-Dale, Lancs. 1842–44; V. of Halliwell, Lancs. 1850–52; V. of St. Botolph’s, Bishopsgate 1852–58; P.C. of All Saints, Bishopsgate 1858–68; R. of West Hackney 1868 to death; F.S.A. 24 Feb. 1853; founder of London and Middlesex archæol. soc. 1855; made collection of works of the Brothers Bewick of Newcastle, and had many of their wood-blocks; contributed to Hymns ancient and modern 1860; author of The charters of Cleeve abbey 1856; Varus, a tragedy 1864; The Bewick collector. A catalogue of the works of T. and J. Bewick 1866; The Bewick collector. A supplement 1868; Bewick’s Woodcuts 1870 and 15 other books. d. West Hackney rectory 31 Dec. 1876. bur. Highgate cemet. 6 Jany. 1877. Guardian 3 Jany. 1877 p. 12.

HUISH, MARK. b. 1808; sec. and general manager Glasgow and Greenock railway 1839 or 40, of grand junction railway 1841–45, of Liverpool and Manchester and Bolton railway 1845–46, and of London and north western railway 1846 to Nov. 1858; A.I.C.E. 6 April 1852. d. Combe Wood, Bonchurch 18 Jany. 1867. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxvii, 600–602 (1868); I.L.N. xxxiii, 517–8 (1858), portrait; Railway Management. Two letters to G. C. Glyn by J. Whitehead and M. Huish 1848.

HULBERT, CHARLES (son of Thomas Hulbert of Hulbert Green near Cheadle, Cheshire). b. Manchester 18 Feb. 1778; manager of print works at Middleton 1800; cotton manufacturer at Swinton near Manchester, then at Coleham near Shrewsbury 1803–13; bookseller and printer, Shrewsbury 1813–27 and at Hadnal near Shrewsbury 1827 to death; printed Salopian Mag. 1815–7; his house and library burnt 7 Jany. 1839; author of The select museum of the world 4 vols. 1822–5; The history of Salop 1837; Cheshire Antiquities 1838; Memoirs of seventy years of an eventful life 1848–52, with portrait, and many other books. d. Hadnal near Shrewsbury 7 Oct. 1857. Obituary of C. Hulbert. By C. A. Hulbert, 2 ed. (1860); Shrewsbury Chronicle 6 Nov. 1857.

HULBERT, REV. CHARLES AUGUSTUS (eld. son of the preceding). b. Coleham near Shrewsbury 31 Dec. 1804 or 1805; ed. at Shrewsbury and Sid. Sus. coll. Cam., B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; C. of St. Mary’s, Islington 1834–9; P.C. of Slaithwaite, Yorkshire 1839–67; V. of Almondbury near Huddersfield 26 Feb. 1867 to death; hon. canon of Ripon, Oct. 1866 to death; author of Poetical recreations 1828; Theotokos, or the song of the Virgin 1842; Annals of the church in Slaithwaite 1864; Annals of the church and parish of Almondbury 1882, Supplementary Annals 1885, and other books; (Mary his wife dau. of James Lacy of Islington d. 2 May 1884 aged 75). d. 5 March 1888. C. A. Hulbert’s Annals of Almondbury (1883) 96, 592, portrait; Supplementary Annals (1885) 62–8, portrait of his wife.

HULINE, JAMES. b. about 1816; played clown in pantomime of The Maid and the Magpie, at Princess’s theatre, London, Dec. 1854; in pantomime of Harlequin and the House that Jack built, at Drury Lane Dec. 1861; in pantomime of Ladybird or Harlequin Lord Dundreary, at Astley’s Dec. 1862; father of the well known brothers Huline clowns. d. 31 Jany. 1890. Illust. sp. and dram. news 19 Dec. 1874 p. 268, portrait.

HULL, REV. EDWARD. b. 1789; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1814; minister of St. Mary’s attached to Blind sch. Liverpool 1819–57; author of The institution and abuses of ecclesiastical property 1831; The tractarian and the prayer book 1853. d. Waterloo road, Liverpool 6 Jany. 1867.

HULL, ROBERT. b. 1795; M.R.C.S. 1816, Ext. L.R.C.P.; M.D. Lambeth; physician Norfolk and Norwich eye infirmary; author of Cursory notes on the morbid eye 1840; Essay on determination of blood to the head 1842; A few suggestions on consumption 1849. d. St. Michael-at-Plea, Norwich 13 April 1856.

HULL, WILLIAM (son of a small farmer). b. Graffham, Hunts. 6 May 1820; ed. at Moravian settlements, Ockbrook near Derby, Wellhouse, Yorkshire, and Grace Hill near Ballymena, Ireland 1834–40; travelled in France, Germany and Holland 1841–4; an artist at Manchester 1844–70; exhibited at Manchester academy of fine arts, Royal Manchester Instit. and the Black and white exhibitions held 1877–80; illustrated R. Langton’s Charles Dickens and Rochester 1880; settled at Rydal, Westmoreland 1870 and became known as The painter of Rydal. d. Rydal 15 March 1880. bur. Grasmere ch. yard. Portfolio, Jany. 1886 pp. 15, 21; Papers of Manchester Literary Club (1880) 308–10; Catalogue of water colour drawing, etc. by W. Hull, exhibited at Manchester Lit. Club 1886.

HULL, WILLIAM WINSTANLEY (son of John Hull, M.D., botanist 1761–1843). b. Blackburn 15 March 1794; ed. at Manchester and Macclesfield gr. schs. and Brasenose coll. Ox., fellow 1816–20; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1817; barrister L.I. 16 June 1820; practised at chancery bar to 1846; with his brother Rev. John Hull drew up a petition praying for revision of the liturgy, presented to House of Lords 26 May 1840; author of Occasional papers on church matters 1848; A collection of prayers for household use, with some hymns and other poems 1852; A letter concerning the revision of the book of common prayer 1860. d. The Knowle, Hazlewood, Derbyshire 28 Aug. 1873. Manchester School Register, iii, 37, 289.

HULLAH, JOHN PYKE. b. Worcester 27 June 1812; studied music under Wm. Horsley and at royal academy of music 1832; his opera The Village Coquette produced at St. James’s theatre, London 5 Dec. 1836 ran for 60 nights; organist of Croydon church 1837; his operas The Barbers of Bassora and The Outpost produced at Covent Garden 1837 and 1838 were unsuccessful; formed classes at Exeter Hall for teaching music to large numbers of persons on Wilhelm’s method 1841, his classes removed to St. Martin’s hall, Oct. 1849, formally opened 11 Feb. 1850, burnt down 26 Aug. 1860; organist to the Charterhouse 1858 to death; composed music for Kingsley’s songs The Sands of Dee and The Three Fishers; conducted concerts of R.A. of music 1870–3; bankrupt Oct. 1860; musical inspector of training schools for United Kingdom, March 1872; LLD. Edin. 1876; granted civil list pension of £150, 13 Oct. 1880; edited Part music 2 vols. 1842–5, another ed. 1868; The song book 1866; author of Wilhelm’s Method of teaching singing 1841, 3 ed. 1854; A grammar of musical harmony 1852; A grammar of counterpoint 1864 and about 100 pieces of music. d. 17 Grosvenor mansions, Victoria st. London 21 Feb. 1884. bur. Kensal green 26 Feb. Life of John Hullah (1886); Dublin Univ. Mag. March 1880 pp. 323–33, portrait; I.L.N. i, 69, 76 (1842) portrait, x 405 (1847), xvi 117 (1850); Graphic xxix, 229 (1884), portrait.

HULLETT, REV. JOHN. b. 1815; ed. at St. Cath. hall, Cam., B.A. 1838; P.C. of Allestree, Derby 1849 to death; author of Sermons preached for the most part in the church of Allestree 1858, Second series 1859; The true light and other poems 1861. d. Toft near Knutsford 25 April 1865.

HULME, FREDERICK WILLIAM (son of an artist). b. Swinton, Yorkshire 1816; landscape painter; teacher of drawing and painting in London; exhibited 36 pictures at R.A., 5 at B.I. and 5 at Suffolk st. 1845–80; published A graduated series of drawing copies on landscape subjects for use of schools 4 parts 1850. d. 8 St. Alban’s road, Kensington, London 14 Nov. 1884. I.L.N. lxxxv, 556 (1884), portrait; Athenæum 22 Nov. 1884 p. 666.

HULME, JOHN WALTER. Barrister M.T. 23 Jany. 1829; chief justice of Hong Kong 9 Feb. 1844 to Jany. or Feb. 1860. d. Brighton 1 March 1861 in 57 year.

HULTON, REV. CAMPBELL BASSET ARTHUR GREY (4 son of Henry Hulton of Preston 1765–1831, treasurer of co. of Lancaster). b. Ballalhick, Isle of Man 3 May 1813; ed. at Manchester sch. and Brasenose coll. Ox., scholar 1831–4; B.A. 1835, M.A. 1838; Ellerton theological prizeman 1837; C. of St. Mary’s, Manchester 1839–44; Chetham’s librarian at Manchester 1839–45; R. of St. Paul’s, Manchester 1844–60; R. of Emberton, Bucks. 1860 to death; author of A catechetical help to bishop Butler’s Analogy 1854, another ed. 1859. d. Emberton rectory 30 April 1878. Manchester sch. register, iii, 176 (1874).

HULTON, WILLIAM ADAM (brother of the preceding). b. Preston 18 Oct. 1802; ed. at Manchester gr. sch.; barrister I.T. 29 June 1827; treasurer of county Lancaster 1831–49; assessor of Lancaster Sheriff’s Court to 1847; judge of county courts, circuit No. 5 (Bolton, &c.), 13 March 1847; judge of circuit No. 6 (Liverpool), 31 Dec. 1859; judge of circuit No. 4 (Preston, &c.) 1863 to April 1886; edited and printed with his own hands A Pedigree of the Hulton family about 1847; member of council of Chetham Soc. 1848, edited for the Soc. The Coucher book, or chartulary of Whalley Abbey 4 vols. 1847–50, Documents relating to the Priory of Penwortham 1853; author of A treatise on the law of convictions with the statutes and forms applicable to summary convictions by justices of the peace 1835. d. Hurst Grange near Preston 3 March 1887. Law Times 19 March 1887 p. 367.

HUMBER, WILLIAM. b. 1821; pupil of G. Watson 1835–39; one of Thomas Brassey’s staff 1847–52; practised as civil engineer 1852 to death; A.I.C.E. 6 May 1856; author of A complete treatise on cast and wrought iron bridge construction 2 vols. 1857, 3 ed. 1870; A record of the progress of modern engineering 1863–66, 4 vols. 1870; A handy book for the calculation of strains in girders 1868, 4 ed. 1885; A comprehensive treatise on the water supply of cities and towns 1876. d. 1 Portland villas, Brixton hill, Surrey 14 April 1881.

HUMBERSTON, PHILIP STAPLETON (only son of Philip Humberston of Chester). b. 1812; ed. at Westminster; M.P. for Chester 1859–65; sheriff of Cheshire 1878; hon. col. of 2 volunteer battalion of Cheshire regiment 20 May 1876 to death; member of council of Royal Agricultural Soc., proposed the use of a special form of Farming agreements 1855. d. Glan-y-Wern near Denbigh 16 Jany. 1891.

HUMBERT, ALBERT JENKINS. b. 1822; partner with Charles Frederick Reeks, architect, designed Carlisle parade and Robertson terrace, Hastings, and rebuilt the church at Bodiam; had premium for designs for new government offices 1856; rebuilt Whippingham ch. Isle of Wight 1860; designed mausoleum of duchess of Kent 1861 and that of Prince Consort 1862, both at Frogmore near Windsor; designed and superintended rebuilding of Sandringham house for prince of Wales 1869–71; F.R.I.B.A. d. Castle Mona, Douglas, Isle of Man 24 Dec. 1877.

HUMBLE, REV. HENRY. Ed. at Univ. coll. Durham, B.A. 1837, M.A. 1842; C. of Newburn, Northumberland 1842–53; canon and precentor of St. Ninian’s cath. Perth 1853 to death; author of A letter to the bishop of St. Andrews on his recent charge 1859; The recent episcopal decisions. A review of the transactions at the episcopal synod 1858; Remarks on a debate in convocation in reference to the Scottish liturgy 1862; The rights of laymen in the church of Christ 1870; The administration of canon law, a review of proceedings in the case of Humble and others v. the bishop of St. Andrews 1873. d. San Remo, Italy 7 Feb. 1876.

HUMBLE, REV. MICHAEL MAUGHAN. b. 1811; ed. at Em. coll. Cam., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1860; C. of Felton, Northumberland 1835–9; R. of Sutton cum Duckmanton, Derbyshire 2 July 1839 to death; author of Methodistic Catholicism 1852; The church of England and the fathers 1854; Credenda 1875; Family Prayers 1879. d. Sutton rectory 3 Feb. 1889.

HUMBLE, WILLIAM. b. 1797; M.D.; F.G.S.; author of A practical treatise on sea bathing. Worthing 1838; Dictionary of geology and mineralogy 1840, 3 ed. 1860. d. Cliff lodge, Ramsgate 23 April 1878.

HUMBY, ANNE (dau. of Mr. Ayre of London, law stationer). b. London 1800; first appeared on the stage at Hull as Rosina; appeared at Bath 4 Nov. 1818 as Rosetta in Love in a village; played at Dublin 1821–5; first appeared in London at Haymarket theatre 18 April 1825 as Cowslip in The Agreeable Surprise; played at Haymarket 1825–30, then at Drury Lane; unrivalled as an actress of chambermaids, &c.; the original exponent of Polly Briggs in Douglas Jerrold’s Rent Day 25 Jany. 1832, of Sophy Hawes in Jerrold’s Housekeeper at the Haymarket 17 July 1833, of Chicken in Jerrold’s Time Works Wonders at the Haymarket 26 April 1845, and of Lady Clutterbuck in Boucicault’s Used up at the Haymarket 6 Feb. 1844, and was seen in the same character at Windsor castle 4 Jany. 1849; made her last appearance on the stage, at Lyceum theatre as a Damsel in Barbadoes in Drop the Curtain 28 Nov. 1849; (m. (1) about 1817 William Henry Humby actor in the Hull circuit, subsequently a dentist London 1831 to 1847, d. Guernsey 15 June 1850 aged 58; m. (2) 3 April 1854 at Episcopal chapel, St. Peter’s, Hammersmith, Joseph Hammon of Bridge road, Hammersmith, builder then aged 43); she lived at 198 Piccadilly, London 1848–51, at 3 Castlenau cottages, Barnes 1854–60 or 61 and must be dead, but her name cannot be found in register of deaths at Somerset house between 1866 and 1887. The Oddfellow, i, 81 (1839).

HUME, REV. ABRAHAM (son of Thomas F. Hume). b. Hillsborough, co. Down 9 Feb. 1814; ed. at Royal Belfast coll., Glasgow univ., LL.B. and LLD. 1851, and Trin. coll. Dublin; B.A. Dublin 1843, LLD. Cam. 1856, D.C.L. Ox. 1857; C. of St. Augustines, Everton 1844–47; prof. of English literature in collegiate institution, Liverpool 1844–7; V. of Vauxhall, Liverpool 1847 to death; surveyed Chili and Peru for South American Missionary Soc. 1867; chief founder of Hist. Soc. of Lancs. and Cheshire 1848, pres. 1869–75; sec. of church congress at Liverpool 1869; sec. of British association at Liverpool 1870; vice chairman of Liverpool school board 1870–6; sec. of Liverpool bishopric committee 1873–80; hon. canon of Chester 1874–80, of Liverpool 1880 to death; F.S.A. 14 March 1844; author of The learned societies and printing clubs of the United Kingdom 1847, new ed. 1853; Ancient Meols, or some account of the antiquities found on the sea-coast of Cheshire 2 parts 1863–66 with portrait of author; Remarks on the Irish dialect of the English language 1878, and more than 100 other books. d. All Soul’s vicarage, 6 Rupert lane, Liverpool 21 Nov. 1884. J. C. Morley’s Memoir of Rev. A. Hume, Liverpool 1887; Crockford’s Clerical Directory (1876) 474.

HUME, ALEXANDER (son of Walter Hume, a retail trader). b. Kelso 1 Feb. 1809; a strolling player in England 1822 or 1823; employed by London agents of Berwick & Co. brewers, Edinburgh 1827–40; London agent for Messrs. Lane, brewers, Cork 1841–7; author of Scottish songs 1835; English songs and ballads 1838; Songs and poems, chiefly Scottish 1845. d. Northampton, May 1851. Rogers’s Modern Scottish Minstrel, ii, 182–94 (1856).

HUME, ALEXANDER. b. Edinburgh 17 Feb. 1811; tenor singer in St. Paul’s episcopal ch. Edin.; chorus master in theatre royal, Edin.; arranged musical manual for the Glassites; cabinet maker at Glasgow about 1855; very successful in setting tunes to Scottish lyrics and songs of his own; edited The lyric gems of Scotland, Glasgow 1856, to which he made 50 contributions. d. Glasgow 4 Feb. 1859.

HUME, ALEXANDER HAMILTON (son of Andrew Hamilton Hume 1762–1849, Australian settler). b. Paramatta, New South Wales 18 June 1797; with his brother John Kennedy Hume (shot by bush rangers Jany. 1840) discovered Bong Bong and Berrima, Aug. 1814; accompanied surveyor Meehan in the discovery of Goulburn plains 1817, rewarded with grant of 300 acres near Appin; made the first overland journey from Sydney to Port Philip 2 Oct. to 16 Dec. 1824, discovered the Hume now called Murray river 16 Nov. 1824, rewarded with grant of 1200 acres of land valued at half a crown an acre 1825; accompanied Charles Sturt in his Macquarie and Darling river expedition 1828–9; F.R.G.S. 1860; author of A brief statement of an overland expedition from Lake George to Port Philip 1855, 3 ed. 1874. d. Fort George, Yass, N.S.W. 19 April 1873, monumental pillar at Albury on the Murray. Heaton’s Australian Dictionary (1879) 98; Bonwick’s Port Philip Settlement (1883) 80–93, portrait.

HUME, SIR GUSTAVUS (2 son of Rev. Robert Hume of Dublin, d. 1849). b. 25 Feb. 1826; ensign 38 foot 30 May 1843, captain 21 Sep. 1852 to 22 June 1858 when placed on h.p.; served in Crimean war 1854–5 and in Indian mutiny 1857–8; assistant inspector of volunteers 1860–65; lieut.-col. in the army 17 March 1863; member of corps of gentlemen-at-arms, Dec. 1872, adjutant 1 Jany. 1876, lieut. 20 Nov. 1878 to death; a knight of Legion of Honour; knighted at Windsor Castle 1 Dec. 1880. d. 21 Royal York crescent, Clifton 16 June 1891.

HUME, JOHN ROBERT. b. Renfrewshire 1781 or 1782; received medical education at Glasgow 1795, 98 and 99, and at Edinburgh 1796–97; entered medical department of army, inspector general 3 Dec. 1818 to 25 April 1821 when placed on h.p.; M.D. St. Andrews 12 Jany. 1816; L.R.C.P. London 22 Dec. 1819, F.R.C.P. 9 July 1836; settled in London; private physician to duke of Wellington many years; D.C.L. Ox. 13 June 1834; one of metropolitan comrs. in lunacy 1 Sep. 1836 to death; C.B. 16 Aug. 1850. d. 9 Curzon st. London 1 March 1857. Munk’s Coll. of physicians, iii, 212 (1878).

HUME, JOSEPH (son of James Hume of Montrose, shipmaster). b. Montrose 22 Jany. 1777; apprenticed to a surgeon of Montrose 1790; M.R.C.S. Edin. 1796; M.R.C.S. Lond. 2 Feb. 1797; assistant surgeon in marine service of East India Co.; Persian interpreter in army during Mahratta war 1802–1807; commissary general 1807, resigned and returned to England with £40,000, 1808; M.P. Weymouth, Jany. 1812; M.P. Aberdeen district of burghs 1818–30; M.P. Middlesex 1830–37; M.P. Kilkenny 1837–41; contested Leeds 1841; M.P. Montrose district of burghs 1842 to death; leader of the radical party 30 years, he spoke longer and oftener than any other private member, many of his speeches were printed; lord rector of Univ. of Aberdeen 1824 and 1828; F.R.S.; F.R.A.S. d. Burnley hall, Norfolk 20 Feb. 1855. bur. Kensal Green cemetery. Joseph Hume a memorial [a poem]. By J. B. Hume (1855); H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches, 4 ed. (1876) 64–70; Reminiscences of 50 years. By Mark Boyd (1871) 281–92; J. Grant’s Memoir of Sir G. Sinclair (1870) 66–79; St. Stephens. By Mask (1839) 198–210; Saunders’s Portraits of reformers (1840), 55 portrait; Fagan’s Reform club (1887) 29–31, portrait.

HUMFREY, LEBBEUS CHARLES (eld. son of Rev. Lebbeus Charles Humfrey, R. of Laughton, Leics. d. 1833). b. about 1798; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; barrister L.I. 17 June 1823, bencher 1845; went Midland circuit of which he became leader; counsel to Times newspaper; Q.C. Feb. 1845; marble bust of him by E. H. Bailey exhibited at the R.A. 1852. d. 11 Great Queen st. Westminster 11 May 1852. bur. beneath chapel of Lincoln’s inn. G.M. xxxviii, 95–6 (1852).

HUMPHERY, JOHN (eld. son of John Humphery of Shadwell, London). b. 30 May 1794; a wharfinger and merchant at Hay’s wharf, Tooley st. Southwark; M.P. for Southwark 1832–52; governor of Irish Society 1843 to death; alderman of Aldgate ward 1835 to death; sheriff of London 1832–3, lord mayor 1842–3. d. Battersea Rise, north side of Clapham common 28 Sep. 1863. I.L.N. ii, 279 (1843), portrait.

HUMPHREY, THOMAS. b. Mitcham, Surrey 16 Jany. 1839; one of the best batsmen of his day, especially good at cutting, made 1000 runs during a season several times; played for Surrey many years; a first-class fieldsman especially at long-leg and long-on; had a benefit at Kennington Oval 26–28 July 1876. d. the Asylum, Brookwood, Surrey 3 Sep. 1878. bur. Woking cemet. 9 Sep. Illust. sp. and dram. news, v, 401, 402, 430 (1876), portrait; Bell’s Life in London 7 Sep. 1878 pp. 3, 4, and 14 Sep. p. 4; W. G. Grace’s Cricket (1891) 329–30.

HUMPHREYS, HENRY NOEL (son of James Humphreys of Birmingham). b. Birmingham 4 Jany. 1810; resided in Italy about 1828–40; illustrated Westwood’s British butterflies 1841; Loudon’s British Wild Flowers 1856 and other books; author of The Coins of England 1846; The coin-collector’s manual 2 vols. 1847; The origin and progress of the art of writing 1853; A history of the art of printing 1867 and 20 other books. d. 7 Westbourne sq. London 10 June 1879. Academy 21 June 1879 p. 550.

HUMPHREYS, SIR JOHN (son of John Humphreys of Upper Clapton, Middlesex). b. Upper Clapton 1814; a solicitor and parliamentary agent in London 1842–59; coroner for East Middlesex 1859 to death; knighted at Osborne 18 Aug. 1881. d. 20 Devonshire st. Portland place, London 20 Nov. 1886.

HUMPHREYS, WILLIAM. b. Dublin 1794; learnt engraving from George Murray at Philadelphia; engraved small plates for annuals, &c.; returned to England 1822; engraved steel plate head of Queen Victoria on postage stamps, also head of Washington for U.S. stamps; engraved Murillo’s Spanish peasant boy 1833, C. R Leslie’s Sancho and the Duchess 1838, and other large plates. d. at Alfred Novello’s residence, Villa Novella, Genoa 21 Jany. 1865. W. S. Baker’s American Engravers (1875) 84–86.

HUMPHRY, JOSEPH. b. 1795 or 1796; barrister L.I. 6 July 1821; Q.C. 1846 to 28 Nov. 1850; master in chancery 28 Nov. 1850 to 8 Aug. 1860 when he retired. d. Brighton 18 Nov. 1861.

NOTE.—He was the last master in chancery appointed, the office was abolished in 1852 by 15 & 16 Vict. cap. 80 having been in existence since 1272.

HUMPHRY, REV. WILLIAM GILSON (eld. son of Wm. Wood Humphry, barrister). b. Sudbury, Suffolk 30 Jany. 1815; ed. at Shrewsbury, captain of the school; entered Trin. coll. Cam. 1833, Pitt scholar 1835, fellow 1839, senior classic and 27th wrangler 1837, B.A. 1837; proctor of Univ. of Cam. 1845–6, Hulsean lecturer 1849–51, Boyle lecturer 1857–9; exam. chaplain to bishop Blomfield of London 1847–55; V. of Northolt, Middlesex 1852–5; preb. of St. Paul’s 1852 to death; V. of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London 1855 to death; one of revisers of New Testament 1870; a treasurer of S.P.C.K. 30 years; author of A commentary on the Acts of the Apostles 1847, 2 ed. 1854; An historical treatise on the book of common prayer 1853, 6 ed. 1885; A commentary on the revised version of the New Testament for English readers 1882, 2 ed. 1888 and 20 other books. d. 6 St. Martin’s place, Trafalgar sq. London 10 Jany. 1886.

HUMPIDGE, THOMAS SAMUEL. b. Gloucester 23 July 1853; ed. at Royal school of mines 1874, Jodrell scholar 1875; B. Sc. London 1875; Ph.D. Heidelberg 1878; science master Fellenberg instit. Hofwyl near Berne 1878; prof. of natural science Univ. coll. Aberystwyth, Sep. 1879 to death; made discoveries in the atomic weight of beryllium, towards the cost of which the Royal Soc. made grants, all his apparatus burnt in the college July 1885; sent papers to Philos. Trans. and Proceedings; translated H. Kolbe’s A short text-book of inorganic chemistry 1884. d. The college, Aberystwyth 30 Nov. 1887. Journal Chemical soc. (1888) 513–18.

HUNGATE, WILLIAM ANNING. b. 7 Sep. 1786; entered navy 10 July 1803, lieut. on h.p. 2 March 1815 to death; claimed to be descended from and to be entitled to estates of the Hungate family of Yorkshire, brought actions of ejectment to obtain possession of estates 1831 and 1832 but failed; assumed title of baronet and was presented to Wm. iv. as Sir W. A. Hungate, by Earl of Denbigh 27 April 1831. d. 18 Feb. 1852.

HUNLOKE, SIR HENRY JOHN JOSEPH, 6 Baronet. b. 29 Sep. 1812; succeeded 19 June 1816; formed a menagerie of rare animals at Wingeworth hall, Derbyshire, which was sold by auction after his death. d. Grafton st. London 8 Feb. 1856.

HUNNUM, ROBERT (son of Fenwick Hunnum, purveyor to the Lambton kennel). b. Durham 1795; second horseman to Mr. Ralph John Lambton of Merton house, Durham 1809 and known by name of ‘Mr. Ralph’s Great Coat’; second whip 1818; first whipper-in 1829 till the Lambton hounds were sold to Lord Suffield; a man of great courage and endurance; huntsman to Sir Matthew White Ridley in Northumberland 1843, whose hounds were sold by auction in London 30 June 1845 for £773, after which the hunt was kept up by subscription. The Book of Sports, ii, 42–6 (1843), portrait; New Sporting Mag. v, 4–5 (1833), portrait.

HUNT, ANDREW. b. Erdington near Birmingham 1790; pupil of Samuel Lines the engraver; landscape painter and teacher of drawing at Liverpool; member of Liverpool Academy and exhibitor there. d. 31 Oxford st. 22 July 1861.

HUNT, EDWARD (son of Thomas Hunt). b. Hammersmith, Middlesex 29 Sep. 1829; ed. at Univ. coll. London, B.A. London 1850; assistant to Crace Calvert, royal institution laboratory, Manchester 1851; discovered process for distilling resin without decomposition 1857; took out patent for treatment of resin in making soap 1858; partner with Samuel Barlow and H. D. Pochin as Samuel Barlow & Co. in bleaching and dyeing works Stakehill near Middleton, Lancs. 1861 to death; F.C.S. Dec. 1851. d. Whalley range, Manchester 12 Aug. 1883. Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 476–7 (1887).

HUNT, ELLEN ST. JOHN. b. Norwich 27 Nov. 1837; a contributor to The Bible class mag. and to The Sunday school teachers’ mag. under pseudonym of Ion; author of Thoughts of sunshine in sorrow. By E.S.J.H. 1862, Second series 1866. d. Norwich 11 March 1864. Memoir pp. v-xlvii in Thoughts of sunshine (1866).

HUNT, FREDERICK KNIGHT. b. Buckinghamshire, April 1814; employed in printing office of Morning Herald 1830; clerk to a barrister in the Temple 1830; sec. to London Anti-Corn-law league 1836; studied medicine at Middlesex hospital, M.R.C.S. 13 Nov. 1840; projected the Medical Times which he edited 28 Sep. 1839; surgeon of a union in Norfolk; sub-editor of Illustrated London News; sub-editor of Pictorial Times; edited Hunt’s London Journal 1844; assistant editor Daily News Jany. 1846, and editor 1851 to death; author of The book of art 1846; The Rhine, its scenery and associations 1845; The fourth estate, contributions towards a history of newspapers 2 vols. 1850. d. Forest hill, Sydenham 18 Nov. 1854. John Francis, publisher of the Athenæum. By J. C. Francis, i, 224, 226, 410–13 (1888); Diprose’s St. Clements, i, 245 (1868).

HUNT, REV. GEORGE (son of Nehemiah Augustus Hunt of Plymouth). b. 1789; ed. at Trin. coll. Ox., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813; V. of Egg Buckland near Plymouth 26 May 1818 to death; F.R.S.; edited Specimens of lithography as applied to eastern literature 1819; translated The book of Job 1825; Himyaric inscriptions of Hisn Ghoráb 1848. d. Egg Buckland 20 Feb. 1861.

HUNT, GEORGE WARD (eld. son of Rev. George Hunt of Buckhurst, Berks.) b. Buckhurst 30 July 1825; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1848, M.A. 1851, D.C.L. 1870; barrister I.T. 21 Nov. 1851, bencher 23 May 1873; contested Northampton 1852 and 1857; M.P. for North Northamptonshire 16 Dec. 1857 to death; chairman of quarter sessions for Northamptonshire, April 1866; financial sec. to treasury, July 1866 to Feb. 1868; chancellor of the exchequer 29 Feb. to Dec. 1868; P.C. 29 Feb. 1868; first lord of the admiralty 21 Feb. 1874 to death. d. Homburg 29 July 1877. bur. Homburg 30 July. C. Brown’s Life of Beaconsfield, ii, 93, 162 (1882), portrait; Graphic 4 Aug. 1877 pp. 99, 113, portrait.

HUNT, HENRY. Educ. at St. Bartholomew’s hospital and Paris; M.R.C.P. 1840, F.R.C.P. 1859; fellow of Royal Med. Chir. Soc.; practised at 68 Brook st. Hanover sq. London from 1840; phys. to Dispensary for Children; author of On the nature and treatment of tic-douloureux, sciatica and other neuralgic disorders 1844; On the severer forms of heartburn and indigestion 1854. d. 25 May 1877 aged 75.

HUNT, SIR HENRY ARTHUR (son of James Hunt of Westminster). b. 1810; consulting surveyor to H.M. commissioners of works and buildings 1856–86; receiver-general for dean and chapter of Westminster to 1886; partner in firm of Hunt, Stephenson and Jones, surveyors, 45 Parliament st. Westminster; A.I.C.E. 4 March 1851; C.B. 5 Aug. 1871; knighted at Osborne 21 July 1876. d. The Lees, Folkestone 13 Jany. 1889.

HUNT, HOLDSWORTH (youngest son of Wm. Chollwill Hunt, M.D. of Dartmouth). b. Dartmouth 1806; ed. at Crediton and in Paris; barrister I.T. 12 June 1833, bencher 1865 to death, reader 1879, treasurer 1880; member of council of legal education; member of French Institute 1851. d. 20 Park crescent, Portland place, London 26 April 1883.

HUNT, JAMES (son of Thomas Hunt 1802–51). b. Swanage, Dorset 1833; Ph.D. of Giessen 1855 and M.D. 1867; succeeded his father as a specialist in curing stammering, had a house at Hastings where he received many patients; member of Ethnological soc. of London 1854, hon. sec. 1859–62, hon. fellow 1862; founded Anthropological soc. of London 1863, president 1863–8, director 1867; edited Anthropological Rev. 1863; agitated for making Anthropology a department at British Assoc. meetings which was done in 1883; F.S.A.; F.R.S.L. 1854; author of A manual of the philosophy of voice and speech 1859; Stammering and stuttering, their nature and treatment 1861, 7 ed. 1870 and 7 other books. d. Ore Court near Hastings 29 Aug. 1869. Reg. and mag. of biog., ii, 198–200 (1869).

HUNT, JAMES HENRY LEIGH (son of Rev. Isaac Hunt, d. 1809 aged 57). b. Southgate, Middlesex 19 Oct. 1784; ed. at Christ hospital 1792–99; started with his brother John, The Examiner a weekly paper 1808, editor 1808–21; edited a quarterly mag. called The Reflector which ran to 4 numbers 1810; tried for a libel in The Examiner on the prince regent, and imprisoned in Surrey gaol 3 Feb. 1813 to 3 Feb. 1815; great friend of Byron, Shelley, Keats, C. Lamb, T. Moore, J. Forster and T. Carlyle; edited The Indicator, Oct. 1820 to 1822, 77 numbers; was in Italy 1822–5; edited The Liberal 1822–3, 2 vols.; The Literary Examiner, 27 numbers; The Companion 1828, 28 numbers; The Chat of the Week 1830, 13 numbers; The Tatler a daily sheet entirely written by himself 4 Oct. 1830 to 13 Feb. 1832, 59 numbers; Leigh Hunt’s London Journal 1834 to 26 Dec. 1835, and The Monthly Repository July 1837 to March 1838; produced A Legend of Florence at Covent Garden 7 Feb. 1840; civil list pension of £200, 4 Oct. 1847; published Leigh Hunt’s Journal 1850 to March 1851; author of Lord Byron and some of his contemporaries 1828; The Town 2 vols. 1848; The autobiography of L. Hunt 1850, 3 vols. new ed. 1860; Table talk 1851 and very numerous other books. d. at res. of Charles W. Reynell, Chatfield house, (now 84) High st. Putney, Surrey 28 Aug. 1859. bur. Kensal Green cemet. Sep., monument by Joseph Durham, A.R.A. placed on the spot 19 Oct. 1869. The Correspondence of Leigh Hunt 2 vols. (1862); Leigh Hunt’s Lord Byron, 2 ed. (1828) 55–408, portrait; W. Howitt’s Homes and haunts of British poets, ii, 347–67 (1847); T. H. Ward’s English poets, 2 ed. (1883) iv, 340–7; J. A. Langford’s Prison books (1861) 316–33, portrait; Maclise Portrait Gallery (1883) 242–56, portrait; L. Hutton’s Literary landmarks of London, 4 ed. (1888) 144–9; F. E. Baines’ Hampstead (1890) 358, portrait.

NOTE.—He is drawn in Bleak House 1853 as Harold Skimpole and in A. W. Pinero’s play Lady Bountiful 1891 as Roderick Heron. His dau. Julia Trelawney Leigh Hunt was granted civil list pension of £75, 19 April 1861 and d. Hammersmith 3 Feb. 1872.

HUNT, REV. JOHN HIGGS. b. 1780; ed. at Charterhouse and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1801, M.A. 1804; edited The Critical Review, reviewed Byron’s Hours of Idleness in it Sep. 1807; V. of Weedon Beck, Northamptonshire 20 March 1823 to death; published Tasso’s Jerusalem delivered, with notes and occasional illustrations 2 vols. 1818, reprinted in E. Sanford’s The works of the British poets, vols. 48, 49 (1819); said to have written a work upon Cosmo the Great. d. Weedon Beck 17 Nov. 1859.

HUNT, JOSEPH. Kept a tavern in London; a public singer at Naval Coffee house, St. Martin’s lane, London; William Probert and John Thurtell murdered William Weare at Gill’s hill lane near Elstree, Herts. 24 Oct. 1823, Hunt was found guilty as an accessory before the murder and sentenced to death 7 Jany. 1824 but eventually transported for life; court keeper of assize court, Bathurst, N.S.W. 1839–59; living at Bathurst 1859; father of a famous female singer living in 1864. Narrative of murder of Mr. W. Weare, the confession of Hunt and the execution of Thurtell (1824), portrait.

NOTE.—John Thurtell was hanged at Hertford 9 Jany. 1824, Wm. Probert escaped by turning King’s evidence, but was hanged at the Old Bailey 20 June 1825 for horse-stealing; Thurtell’s gig used by him in going to Gill’s hill lane, was exhibited in a piece called The Gamblers produced at the Surrey theatre, Jany. 1824.

HUNT, ROBERT (son of Robert Hunt lost in H.M.S. Mocheron 1807). b. Plymouth Dock (now Devonport) 6 Sep. 1807; studied medicine in London; chemist and druggist Chapel st. Penzance 1833–4; sec. of Royal Cornwall Polytechnic soc. 1840–5, pres. 1859; keeper of the mining records office 1845 till it was abolished 1883; lecturer on mechanical science in Royal school of mines 1851–3, lecturer on experimental physics 1853; F.R.S. 1 June 1854; The Miners’ Assoc. of Cornwall and Devon was instituted at a meeting called by him 1859 and opened 1861; a comr. on inquiry on quantity of coal remaining 1866; made researches on solar rays, electrical phenomena in mineral veins and photography; edited Ure’s Dictionary of arts, manufactures and mines 1859, 1867 and 1875, three editions; author of A popular treatise on the art of photography 1841; Researches on light 1844, 2 ed. 1854; Elementary physics 1851, new ed. 1855; Popular romances of West of England 2 vols. 1865; British mining 1884, 2 ed. 1887; compiler and editor of annual blue books on Mineral statistics 1855–84. d. 26 St. Leonard’s ter. Chelsea 17 Oct. 1887. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. 259–60, 1238; Athenæum 22 Oct. 1887 pp. 541–2; Times 20 Oct. 1887 p. 5.

HUNT, THOMAS. b. Dorset 1802; ed. at Winchester and Trin. coll. Cam.; invented a method of curing stammering, which he practised at 224 Regent st. London 1827 to death; Sir John Forbes sent him pupils 1828–51; his pupils subscribed for his bust in marble which was modelled by Joseph Durham and exhibited in the R.A. 1849. d. Godlingstone near Swanage, Dorset 18 Aug. 1851. James Hunt’s Treatise on stammering, with memoir of T. Hunt (1854) 27–69, portrait; Fraser’s Mag. July 1859 pp. 1–14, By Charles Kingsley.

HUNT, THOMAS NEWMAN. b. 1806; merchant of firm of Newman, Hunt & Co. 12 New Broad st. city of London; a director of Bank of England 1856–83, deputy governor 1866–7, governor 1867–9; chairman of Public works loan commission. d. 79 Portland place, London 17 Jany. 1884.

HUNT, THORNTON LEIGH (eld. son of J. H. Leigh Hunt 1784–1859). b. London 10 Sep. 1810; studied drawing and painting; sub-editor of The Constitutional, morning paper 15 Sep. 1836 which lasted to 1 July 1837; edited the North Cheshire Reformer at Chester; The Argus at Glasgow to 1840; one of chief contributors to Spectator 1840–60; one of founders of Leader 1850; one of chief contributors to Globe; on the Daily Telegraph as acting editor 1855–72; author of The Foster Brother 1845; The rationale of railway administration 1846; Unity of the iron network, the argument for the break of gauge 1846; edited his father’s Autobiography 1860, Works 1860, and Correspondence 1862. d. 41 Victoria road, Kilburn, Middlesex 25 June 1873. Athenæum 28 June 1873 p. 825; Bourne’s English newspapers, ii, 98, 235, 241, 267 (1887).

HUNT, VERE DAWSON DE VERE (son of Vere Hunt). b. 7 July 1829; captain inland transport corps; author of The horse and its master, with hints on breeding, breaking, etc. 1859; England’s horses for peace and war 1874. d. 9 Dec. 1878.

HUNT, WILLIAM. b. 1766; ed. at Rugby and King’s coll. Cam., scholar 1784, fellow 1787 to death; B.A. 1789, M.A. 1792; barrister L.I. 27 June 1794; went Norfolk circuit, leader of it long time; assessor to the vice chancellor in the university courts 1805 to death; recorder of Tamworth (the last) 1817–42. d. King’s college, Cambridge 6 Jany. 1852.

HUNT, WILLIAM (son of Thomas Hunt). b. Bath 1801; in business with his brother at Bath; a great supporter of Reform 1832; one of first members of Bath reformed corporation 1836, alderman 1841–7, 1848 to death; mayor of Bath 1840, 47, 54, 67 and 73; presented with a silver salver and his portrait 16 June 1869; J.P. for Bath 2 Sep. 1847 to death. d. 72 Pulteney st. Bath 17 Sep. 1885. Keene’s Bath Journal 19 Sep. 1885 p. 4.

HUNT, VERY REV. WILLIAM. b. East Hendred, Berks. 15 June 1803; ordained priest 1830; professor at St. Edmund’s coll. Ware 1830–2; missioner at Southampton 1832–41; minister St. James’ chapel, Spanish place, Manchester sq. London 1842, resigned 1883; provost of the chapter of Westminster 1865. d. 6 Spanish place 9 Jany. 1889.

HUNT, WILLIAM GEORGE LENNON. b. 1842; a baritone; before he was 21 he had appeared in 20 different operas in Madrid; musical composer, dramatist, author; director of Philharmonic soc. of Madrid; consul at Loanda, South Africa 10 June 1878 to death. d. Loanda 30 Aug. 1879. Illust. sp. and dr. news, xii, 101, 102 (1879), portrait.

HUNT, WILLIAM HENRY (son of John Hunt, tinplate worker). b. 8 Old Belton st. (now Endell st.), Long Acre, London 28 March 1790; apprenticed to John Varley, artist 1804–11; painted in oils 1807–24, in water colours 1824–63; associate exhibitor of Watercolour soc. 1824, member 1826; member of Amsterdam royal academy 1856; exhibited 14 pictures at R.A., 6 at B.I. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1807–29; his Roses in a Jar in the Wade collection 1872 sold for five hundred guineas. d. 62 Stanhope st. Hampstead road, London 10 Feb. 1864. Redgrave’s Century of painters, ii, 502–9 (1866); Fraser’s Mag. lxxii, 525–36 (1865).

HUNTER, ADAM. b. Greenock 20 June 1791; ed. at Glasgow and Edin. univs., M.D. Edin. 1813; physician Edin. 1815 to death; F.R.S. Edin. 1839; made a report to Scottish national insurance co. on the lives insured; author of The fruits of amalgamation exhibited in the correspondence of a Palladium policy holder with C. Jellicoe. Edin. 1865. d. 18 Abercromby place, Edinburgh 24 June 1870. Proc. Royal Soc. of Edin. vii, 240–2 (1872).

HUNTER, SIR CLAUDIUS STEPHEN, 1 Baronet (younger son of Henry Hunter of Beech hill, Berks., barrister 1739–89). b. Beech hill 24 Feb. 1775; student, of the Inner Temple; solicitor in London 1797 to Jany. 1811; alderman of ward of Bassishaw, Sep. 1804 to 1835; alderman of ward of Bridge without 1835 to death; lieut. col. of Royal east regiment of London militia 1806 and col. of royal west regt. 10 Jany. 1810 to death; sheriff of London 1808–9, lord mayor 1811–12 when he revived ancient ceremonies; created baronet 11 Dec. 1812; hon. D.C.L. Ox. 23 June 1819; president of London Life association 1835 to death. d. Mortimer hill, Berkshire 20 April 1851. European Mag. lxii, 177–84 (1812), portrait; G.M. xxxvi, 88–90 (1851); Thornbury’s London, i, 116, 329–30, (1872).

HUNTER, SIR CLAUDIUS STEPHEN PAUL, 2 Baronet. b. Ghazepore, East Indies 21 Sep. 1825; ed. at Eton and St. John’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1849, M.A. 1850; student of Inner Temple 1848; succeeded his grandfather 20 April 1851; captain royal London militia 1846–50; founder of 1st Berkshire volunteer regt. and capt. commandant 31 March 1860, lieut.-col. 2 Nov. 1872 to Dec. 1885; sheriff of Berks. 1860. d. Mortimer hill near Reading 7 Jany. 1890.

HUNTER, GEORGE. Entered Bengal army 1800; colonel 1 European regt. of light infantry 1843 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 26 Dec. 1826. d. Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire 11 Nov. 1854.

HUNTER, VEN. JAMES (son of John Hunter). b. Barnstaple 1817; clerk to Charles Roberts, solicitor, Barnstaple; a master in Tavistock sch.; ed. at Ch. Miss. coll. Islington to 1843; archdeacon of Cumberland, Rupert’s Land 1854–67; V. of St. Matthew, Bayswater, London 1867 to death; M.A. 1855 and D.D. 1876 by Archbishop of Canterbury; author of The Book of common prayer, Translated into the language of the Cree Indians 1859; The gospels of St. Matthew, St. Mark and St. John in Cree; The faith and duty of a Christian in Cree; with J. Mason and others The Bible translated into the language of the Knisteneaux or Cree North American Indians 2 parts 1861–2. d. 52 Leinster sq. London 12 Feb. 1882. bur. Highgate cemet. 18 Feb.

HUNTER, JAMES. b. Muirkirk, Ayrshire 1818; manager Coltness iron works 1839 and then a partner (Houldsworth & Co.), retired 1885, increased the works from 2 to 12 furnaces; the Coltness brand of iron became known all over the world; D.L. for Ayrshire; A.I.C.E. 4 April 1854. d. Newman’s House by Motherwell, Edinburgh 5 Oct. 1886. Min. of Proc. I.C.E. lxxxix, 494–5 (1887).

HUNTER, REV. JOHN (youngest son of Rev. Andrew Hunter, minister of Tron ch. Edin., d. 1809). b. Edin. 1788; presbyterian minister of Swinton, Berwickshire 1814–32; assistant minister of Tron ch. Edin. after a contest with the kirk session which was decided in house of lords Oct. 1832, minister of Tron ch. to death; D.D. of univ. of Edin. 29 May 1847. d. 9 Regent ter. Edinburgh 21 June 1866. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 27–8, portrait; Scott’s Fasti, i part i, p. 61.

HUNTER, JOHN (son of professor Andrew Hunter). In a writer’s office copying law papers at 3d. a page; a writer to the signet 1826; auditor of court of session to 1866; author of Miscellanies in verse. By N.R. i.e. J. Hunter 1843. d. Craigcrook 3 Dec. 1869. Journal of jurisprudence, xiv, 42–5 (1870).

HUNTER, JOHN (only son of John Hunter, physician). b. Belfast 23 March 1843; ed. at Queen’s coll. Belfast and Queen’s univ., B.A. 1863, M.A. 1864; assistant professor of chemistry Queen’s coll. 1865–70; professor of mathematics and natural philosophy King’s coll. Windsor, Nova Scotia 1870–1; accompanied the Deep Sea dredging expedition in H.M.S. Porcupine 1869; made researches on the absorption of gases by charcoal, the absorption of mixed vapours, pressure of absorption and the composition of sea water. d. Enniscrone, Mayo 13 Sep. 1872. Proc. of royal soc. of Edin. viii, 322–4 (1875).

HUNTER, JOHN (2 son of John Hunter, d. 3 Dec. 1869). Advocate 1857; sheriff substitute of Peebleshire 1868 to death; member of Speculative soc. d. Kingsmuir, Peebles 29 Sep. 1872. Journal of Jurisprudence, xvi, 603–5 (1872).

HUNTER, JOHN CHARLES. b. 20 Aug. 1799; L.S.A. 1821; M.R.C.S. 1821; L.R.C.P. 1863; inspector National Vaccine establishment; author of 63rd vol. of the Family library Sketches of imposture, deception and credulity 1837. d. 30 Wilton place, Belgrave sq. London 19 Dec. 1871.

HUNTER, JOHN KELSO. b. Dunkeith, Ayrshire 15 Dec. 1802; a herd boy; shoemaker at Kilmarnock; removed to Glasgow; painted and exhibited portrait of himself at R.A. London 1847; author of The retrospect of an artist’s life 1868; Life studies of character 1871, containing facts about Robert Burns; Memorials of west country men and manners. d. Pollokshields near Glasgow 3 Feb. 1873. Times 6 Feb. 1873 p. 7.

HUNTER, REV. JOSEPH (son of Michael Hunter of Sheffield, cutler 1759–1831). b. Sheffield 6 Feb. 1783; minister of a Presbyterian congregation at Bath 1809–33; a sub-comr. of public records in London 1833, an assistant keeper of the first class 1838 to death; F.S.A., mem. of council and vice pres. 1855; author of Hallamshire. The history of the parish of Sheffield 1819, new ed. by Rev. A. Gatty 1869; South Yorkshire. The history of the deanery of Doncaster 2 vols. 1828–31; The diary of Ralph Thoresby, F.R.S. 2 vols. 1830 and 30 other books; his library was sold at Sothebys, Dec. 1861 for £1105; his MS. collections were purchased by Br. Museum 1862. d. 30 Torrington sq. London 9 May 1861. bur. Ecclesfield near Sheffield 15 May. A brief memoir [by Sylvester Hunter] 1861, privately printed; Proc. of Soc. of Antiquaries, ii, 106–8 (1861).

HUNTER, JOSEPH. b. Scarborough 21 Oct. 1857; became known in the match County Eleven v. Surrey at Sheffield 15 July 1878; member of Yorkshire Eleven 1881; played against Australian team in 1883; member of Shaw’s English team in Australia 1884; had no superior as a wicket keeper; wicket keeper to the Yorkshire Eleven to 1889. d. at his residence the Wheat Sheaf hotel, Rotherham 4 Jany. 1891. Illust. S. and D. News, xxiii, 661, 662 (1885), portrait.

HUNTER, ROBERT (only child of an East India merchant, d. 1793). b. near Edinburgh 8 July 1791; ed. at High sch. Edin. to 1804 and at Edin. univ.; member of Scottish bar 1814; sheriff of Buteshire 1837 to death; sheriff of Dumbartonshire 1853 to death; author of A treatise on the law of landlord and tenant. Edin. 1833, 4 ed. 2 vols. 1876. d. 67 Northumberland st. Edinburgh 23 Dec. 1871. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 16, portrait; Journal of Jurisprudence, xvi, 93–6 (1872).

HUNTER, ROBERT HOPE ALSTON (3 son of Rev. William Hunter). b. 1805; hospital assistant in army 10 Jany. 1827; surgeon of 57 regt. at Madras 1843–47; surgeon major 30 July 1847; placed on h.p. 10 Feb. 1852; author of Statistical review of the climate of the principal stations for European troops in the Bombay presidency; The medical history of the queen’s royal regiment during the campaign in Afghanistan. d. Dollar 22 June 1867. Medical Times 3 Aug. 1867 pp. 135–6.

HUNTER, ROWLAND, b. 1774; extensive bookseller at 72 St. Paul’s churchyard (where he succeeded his uncle Joseph Johnson) 1815–36. d. the Charterhouse 18 Jany. 1864.

HUNTER, WALTER. b. parish of Newbattle near Edin. 1772; worked as a millwright under Watt and Rennie; adapted steam power to move dredging buckets and ladders; partner with Wm. English as millwrights and engineers at 28 High st. south, Bow, London 1807 or 1808 to death; M.I.C.E. 1827. d. Bow 8 Feb. 1852. Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xii, 161 (1853).

HUNTER, WILLIAM (son of Andrew Hunter of Bury St. Edmunds). b. Bury St. Edmunds; of 76 Coleman st. City of London; member of ward of Coleman st. London 1823 and alderman 1843 to death, sheriff 1844–5, lord mayor 1851–52. d. 13 Westbourne terrace, Hyde park, London 22 Sep. 1856 aged 75. I.L.N. xix, 605 (1851), portrait.

HUNTER, WILLIAM FREDERICK. b. 1841; ed. at Edin. univ., M.A., LL.B.; at Heidelberg and Berlin univ., D.C.L.; examiner in law, Edin. univ.; advocate in Scotland 1865; barrister L.I. 30 April 1875; inherited Hafton estate, Argyleshire on death of his brother; wrote article on Canon Law in Encyclop. Brit. v. 15–22 (1876). d. Madeira 28 April 1880. Journal of Jurisprudence, xxiv, 320–1 (1880).

HUNTER-BLAIR, SIR DAVID, 3 Baronet. b. Edinburgh 1777; midshipman H.M.S. Hyacinth; succeeded his brother 24 May 1800; col. of Ayrshire militia during the war; convener of Ayrshire 1822 to 1855; vice lieut. of Ayrshire 1822 to death. d. Blairquhan, Ayr 26 Dec. 1857.

HUNTER-BLAIR, JAMES (1 son of preceding). b. Milton, Ayrshire 22 March 1817; ensign Scots fusilier guards 24 April 1835, captain 31 March 1848 to death; M.P. Ayrshire 22 July 1852 to death; killed when commanding his battalion at Inkerman 5 Nov. 1854.

HUNTINGDON, FRANCIS POWER PLANTAGENET HASTINGS, 13 Earl of (eld. child of 12 Earl of Huntingdon 1808–75). b. Gaultier cottage, Waterford 4 Dec. 1841; styled Lord Hastings 1841–75; matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 20 Jany. 1860; succeeded 13 Sep. 1875; master of harriers at Whitechurch, Waterford 1867–8, of fox hounds 1868–71; master of the Ormond and King’s county hunt 1872–5 and of the King’s county alone from 1875, the Land League ultimately mobbed his hounds and he sold the pack to a Canadian; speculated in land in Florida and visited that country. d. Shanavogue, King’s county 20 May 1885. Baily’s Mag. xxxi, 63–4 (1878), portrait, xliv, 295 (1885).

HUNTINGFORD, REV. HENRY (son of Rev. Thomas Huntingford, master of Warminster school, Wilts.) b. Warminster 19 Sep. 1787; ed. at Winchester and New coll. Ox., fellow 1807–14; fellow of Winchester 5 April 1814 to his death; B.C.L. 1814; prebendary of Colwall in Hereford cath. Dec. 1817; R. of Hampton Bishop, Herefordshire 1822 to death; canon residentiary of Hereford cath. 1822 to death; master of Ledbury hospital, Hereford 1867; published Pindari Carmina juxta examplar Heynianum...et Lexicon Pindaricum ex integro Dammii opere etymologico excerptum 1814, another ed. 1821; translated Romanist Conversations [By B. Pictet] 1826. d. Goodrest, Great Malvern 2 Nov. 1867. bur. Hampton Bishop. F. T. Havergal’s Fasti Herefordenses (1869) 61.

HUNTLY, GEORGE GORDON, 9 Marquis of (only son of 4 Earl of Aboyne 1726–94). b. Edinburgh 28 June 1761; ensign 1 foot guards; lieut. col. 35 foot April 1789 to 15 June 1789; captain Coldstream guards 15 June 1789 to 1792 when he sold out; col. of Aberdeenshire militia 1798 to death; succeeded his father as 5 Earl of Aboyne 28 Dec. 1794; a representative peer of Scotland 1796–1815; cr. baron Meldrum of Morven, co. Aberdeen in peerage of the U.K. 11 Aug. 1815; K.T. 10 May 1827; succeeded as 9 marquis of Huntly by decision of House of Lords 22 June 1838 on death of his kinsman the 8 Marquis 28 May 1836. d. 24 Chapel st. Grosvenor sq. London 17 June 1853.

HUNTLY, CHARLES GORDON, 10 Marquis of (eld. child of the preceding). b. Orton near Peterborough 11 Jany. 1792; styled Lord Strathaven 1792–1853; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., M.A. 1812; M.P. East Grinstead 1818–30; M.P. Hunts. 1830–31, contested Hunts. 1831; lord lieut. of Aberdeenshire 14 Feb. 1861 to death. d. Orton Longueville near Peterborough 17 Sep. 1863.

HUNTLEY, SIR HENRY VERE (3 son of Rev. Richard Huntley of Boxwell court, Gloucs. 1776–1831). b. 1795; entered navy 10 March 1809; accompanied Napoleon to St. Helena in the Northumberland 8 Aug. to 15 Oct. 1815; employed in suppressing slave trade 1826–37; commander 28 June 1838; lieut. gov. of settlements on river Gambia 23 Dec. 1839; lieut. gov. of Prince Edward’s Island 20 Aug. 1841 to 26 Oct. 1847; knighted by patent 9 Oct. 1841; consul at Loanda, Aug. 1858; consul at Santos, Brazil, May 1862 to death; author of Peregrine scramble, or thirty years’ adventures of a bluejacket 2 vols. 1849; Observation on free trade policy in connection with the Sugar act 1846; Seven years’ service on the Slave coast 2 vols. 1850; California, its gold and its inhabitants 2 vols. 1856. d. Santos, Brazil 7 May 1864.

HUNTLEY, JOHN. b. London 25 March 1805; a packer of bale goods; went to U.S. America 1832; prompter Richmond hill theatre, New York; acted in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Richmond, Cincinnati and Pittsburg, when he first undertook old men characters; stage manager for Ludlow and Smith at St. Louis 1848–53; travelled in America as an actor, prompter and manager 1853–63. Brown’s American stage (1870) 190.

HUNTLEY, REV. RICHARD WEBSTER (brother of Sir H. V. Huntley). b. 1793; ed. at Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1819; fellow of All Souls 1815–31, proctor 1824; V. of Alderbury, Salop 20 Jany. 1829 to death; R. of Boxwell and Leighterton 3 Dec. 1831 to death; one of the 3 priests who opposed Dr. R. D. Hampden’s election to bishopric of Hereford, both in Bow ch. 11 Jany. 1848 and in the queen’s bench 1 Feb.; rural dean of Hawkesbury and Bitton 1840–51; author of A letter to the archbishop of Canterbury on the ecclesiastical commission and the suppression of a bishoprick in North Wales 1843; A glossary of the Cotswold dialect illustrated by examples from ancient authors. Gloucester 1868. d. Boxwell court, Gloucs. 4 April 1857. The Year of the Church. By R. W. Huntley (1860). Memoir pp. vii-xviii.

HURDIS, JAMES HENRY (elder son of James Hurdis, poet 1763–1801). b. 1800 probably at Bishopston, Berks.; ed. at Southampton; spent a few years in France; articled to Charles Heath the engraver; lived at Newick near Lewes; etched many portraits of local notabilities and views of buildings in Sussex, some of which are in the Sussex Archæological Society’s collections; a friend of George Cruikshank. d. Southampton 30 Nov. 1857. M. A. Lower’s Worthies of Sussex (1865) 170.

HURDLE, SIR THOMAS (son of James Hurdle). b. 1797; 2 lieut. R.M. 24 April 1812, lieut. col. 15 Aug. 1853; served at Navarino 1827, in Greece 1828, commanded brigade of R.M. in Crimea 1854–6; aide-de-camp to the queen 1855–7; col. commandant 20 Feb. 1857; retired on full pay 17 Nov. 1859; hon. major general 2 Dec. 1859; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 2 June 1877. d. Porchester, Fareham, 7 June 1889.

HURLSTONE, EDWIN TYRRELL. b. 1806; barrister I.T. 31 Jany. 1834, went South-Eastern circuit; a revising barrister to death; author with John Gordon of Exchequer Reports 1854–56, 2 vols. 1855–56; with J. P. Norman of Reports of cases in the courts of Exchequer and Exchequer Chamber 1856–62, 7 vols. 1857–62; with F. J. Coltman of Reports of cases in the Courts of Exchequer and Exchequer Chamber 1862–65, 3 vols. 1863–66 and other Reports. d. Thanet place, Temple, London 29 Sep. 1881.

HURLSTONE, FREDERICK YEATES (1 son of Thomas Yeates Hurlstone a proprietor of the Morning Chronicle). b. London 1800 or 1801; pupil of Sir W. Beechey and Sir T. Lawrence; student of the R.A. 1820, silver medallist 1822, gold medallist 1823; exhibited 37 pictures at R.A., 19 at B.I. and 326 at Suffolk st. 1821–70; member of Society of British artists 1831, president 1835 and 1840 to death; awarded a gold medal at Paris exhibition 1855; 11 of his best works were re-exhibited at Soc. of British Artists 1870; author with others of Protest against the Report from the committee of the National gallery 1855; (m. 1836 Jane Coral an artist, who exhibited 6 pictures at R.A. and 23 at Suffolk st. 1846–56 and d. 2 Oct. 1858); he d. 9 Chester st. Belgrave sq. London 10 June 1869.

HURMAN, WILLIAM. Studied at Univ. coll. London; pupil of Robert Liston; M.R.C.S. 1846; house surgeon Univ. coll. hospital; in practice at Windsor, Brighton and London; surgeon to 3rd Middlesex militia 11 Aug. 1865 to death; one of the best known men in the hunting, coaching and racing world; originator of the Badminton club, 100 Piccadilly, London 1876. d. 83 Grand parade, Brighton, Dec. 1883. Baily’s Mag. Jany. 1884 pp. 429–30.

HURST, REV. BLYTHE. b. Winlaton, Durham 6 July 1801; a blacksmith at Winlaton; ordained by Bishop Maltby at Auckland castle, July 1842; C. of Alston, Cumberland 1844–6; V. of Collierley near Newcastle 1854 to death; taught himself French, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Syriac and Arabic; published Four sermons, Christianity no priestcraft 1840. d. Collierley 24 June 1882. Newcastle Weekly Chronicle 1 July 1882 p. 7 col. 5; I.L.N. lxxxi, 56 (1882), portrait.

HURST, DANIEL, b. 1802 or 1803; publisher with Henry Blackett at 13 Great Marlborough st. London 1854 to death. d. Mitcham, Surrey 6 July 1870.

HURST, SAMUEL, b. Stalybridge, Lancashire 1832; champion wrestler of Lancashire; known as “The Stalybridge Infant”; 6 feet 2½ inches high and 15 stone in weight; matched with J. C. Heenan 1860 but engagement fell through; fought Tom Paddock for £200 a side near Aldermaston, Berkshire 5 Nov. 1860 when Hurst won in 5 rounds and obtained the champion belt; broke his leg by a fall 19 Nov. 1860; fought James Mace for £200 a side on one of the islands up the river Medway 18 June 1861 when Mace won in 8 rounds lasting 50 minutes and obtained the belt; kept the Wilton Arms tavern 4 Mayes st. Manchester about 1861–5, the Glass House tavern, Oldham road, Manchester about 1865–70. d. Mayfield cottage, Manchester 22 May 1882. Illust. sporting news (1862) 249, portrait; F. W. J. Henning’s Some recollections of the prize ring (1888) 140–9.

HURST, REV. THOMAS (son of Joseph Hurst). b. Lancashire about 1775; ordained a priest at Lisbon; priest in the English coll. at Lisbon when used for secular education 1807, professor 1813, procurator of the restored college 1834 to death; a minister in the British and Portuguese hospitals in Lisbon 1807–14; confessor to the Bridgettine nuns at Lisbon. d. Lisbon 31 March 1855. Gillow’s English Catholics iii, 490–1 (1887).

HUSBAND, WILLIAM (eld. son of James Husband, surveyor for Lloyd’s Register at Falmouth d. 1857). b. Mylor near Falmouth 13 Oct. 1822; apprenticed to Harvey & Co. of Hayle, Cornwall, engineers 1839–43; mechanical engineer in charge of steam machinery on drainage works Haarlem lake, Holland 1845–9, planned and erected the half-weg engine, the lake when drained added 47,000 acres of rich soil to Holland; manager of business of firm of Harvey & Co. in London 1852–4, and at Hayle 1854–63, a partner 1863 to death; patented balance valve for water-work purposes, four-beat pump valve, Husband’s oscillating cylinder stamps, &c.; M.I.C.E. 1 May 1866; originated 8th Cornwall artillery volunteers 1860, captain 2 April 1860 to 6 May 1865. d. 26 Sion hill, Clifton 10 April 1887. bur. St. Erth, Cornwall 16 April. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. (1887) lxxxix 470–3.

HUSENBETH, REV. FREDERICK CHARLES (son of Frederick Charles Husenbeth of Bristol, wine-merchant). b. Bristol 30 May 1796; ed. at Sedgly Park sch. Staffs. and St. Mary’s coll. Oscott; ordained R.C. priest 25 Feb. 1820; chaplain at Cossey hall, Norfolk 7 July 1820; missioner of St. Walstan’s chapel, Cossey 1841 to death; grand vicar of the Midland district 1827; created D.D. by Pius ix. 7 July 1850; provost of the chapter and vicar-general of diocese of Northampton 24 June 1852; wrote 1305 articles under initials of F.C.H. in Notes and Queries 4 Feb. 1854 to 2 Nov. 1872; published Breviarium Romanum suis locis interpositis officiis sanctorum Angliæ 4 vols. 1830; The Missal for the use of the laity 1837; Emblems of Saints by which they are distinguished in works of art 1850, 3 ed. 1882; The Holy Bible translated from the Latin Vulgate 2 vols. 1853 and 50 other books. d. the presbytery adjoining St. Walstan’s chapel at Cossey 31 Oct. 1872. Gillow’s English Catholics (1887) iii, 492–507.

HUSK, WILLIAM HENRY. b. London 4 Nov. 1814; clerk to Manning and Dalston and their successors, solicitors, London 1833–86; member of Sacred Harmonic Soc. Oct. 1834, hon. librarian 1853–82 when society was dissolved, wrote prefaces to word-books of Oratorios performed at Society’s concerts; author of Catalogue of library of Sacred Harmonic Society 1862, new ed. 1872; Account of the musical celebrations on St. Cecilia’s day in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries 1857; edited Songs of the Nativity [1866]; wrote many articles in Grove’s Dictionary of Music. d. 20 Westmoreland place, Pimlico, London 12 Aug. 1887.

HUSKISSON, SAMUEL (3 son of Wm. Huskisson of Oxley, Staffs). b. 1773; cornet 29 light dragoons 17 May 1799; served in Bengal 1799–1803; major 8 foot 4 July 1805; lieut.-col. 1 West India reg. 28 May 1807; lieut.-col. 9 garrison batallion 25 Sep. 1807 to May 1808; lieut.-col. 67 foot 16 June 1808 to 8 July 1824; general 11 Nov. 1851. d. 10 Mount st. Grosvenor sq. London 30 Dec. 1854.

HUSSEY, REV. JAMES MC.CONNELL (5 son of William Hussey of Glasgow). b. 1819 or 1820; ed. at Exeter coll. Ox., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1857; C. of Atherstone, Warwickshire 1846–8; P.C. of St. James, Kennington, London 1848–54; afternoon preacher at the Foundling hospital 1854–61; V. of Ch. Ch. North Brixton 1855 to death; hon. canon of Rochester Jany. 1878 to death; rural dean of Kennington 1879–87 and 1889 to death; D.D. by archbp. of Canterbury Jany. 1881; author of Joy for the sorrowful or comfort in sickness 1855, 2 ed. 1856; Home. An essay 1878; Scandal and scandal-mongers 1879. d. Ch. Ch. vicarage, Cancel road, Vassal road, Brixton 19 May 1891. Daily Graphic 22 May 1891 p. 9, portrait.

HUSSEY, REV. ROBERT (4 son of Rev. Wm. Hussey, R. of Sandhurst, Kent). b. 7 Oct. 1801; ed. at Westminster (King’s scholar 1816) and Ch. Ch. Ox., student 1821–46; double first class 1824, B.A. 1825, M.A. 1827, B.D. 1837; Greek reader 1832, censor and librarian 1835, catechist 1836, select preacher 1831 and 1846, proctor 1836, Whitehall preacher 1841–3; regius prof. of ecclesiastical history in univ. of Ox. 23 April 1842 to death; P.C. of Binsey near Oxford 1845 to death; author of An essay on the ancient weights and money 1836; An account of the Roman road from Alchester to Dorchester 1841; Sermons, mostly academical 1849; edited the histories of Socrates 1844, Evagrius 1844, Bæda 1846 and Sozomen 3 vols. 1860 and 15 other works. d. Beaumont st. Oxford 2 Dec. 1856. bur. Sandford on Thames. The Rise of the Papal power. Ed. by Jacob Ley (1863), Memoir pp. viii-xxvii.

HUTCHESON, CHARLES. b. Scotland 1792; taught music in Glasgow; published Christian Vespers, Glasgow 1832, containing Hymn tunes harmonised in 3 and 4 parts, and An essay on church music. d. Glasgow 1856.

HUTCHESON, FRANCIS DEANE. b. 1800; entered navy 13 Oct. 1813; captain 23 Nov. 1841; retired admiral 30 July 1875. d. 76 Shaftesbury road, West Hammersmith 21 Dec. 1875.

HUTCHESSON, THOMAS. b. 1781; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 Dec. 1797; colonel 1 batt. R.A. 23 Nov. 1841 to 30 Aug. 1854; col. commandant 30 Aug. 1854 to death; L.G. 14 June 1856. d. Clarence lawn, Dover 28 Aug. 1857.

HUTCHINS, EDWARD JOHN (eld. son of Edward Hutchins of Briton Ferry, co. Glamorgan). b. 1809; ed. at Charterhouse and St. John’s coll. Cam.; M.P. Penryn 23 Jany. 1840 to 23 June 1841; M.P. Lymington 30 April 1850 to 20 March 1857; contested Southampton 2 July 1841 and Poole 31 July 1847. d. Hastings 11 Feb. 1876. I.L.N. lxviii, 215 (1876).

HUTCHINSON, CHARLES HENRY. Second lieut. Madras artillery 13 June 1834 and colonel 9 June 1868 to 5 Feb. 1870 when he retired on full pay; M.G. 5 Feb. 1870. d. 20 Westbourne park, London 27 Oct. 1873.

HUTCHINSON, CHARLES WATERLOO, b. 18 June 1824; 2 lieut. Bengal engineers 9 June 1843; col. R.E. 1 April 1874, col. commandant 17 Dec. 1881 to death; general 28 Nov. 1885; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 16 Sep. 1886; author of Specimens of various vernacular characters passing through the post office in India, photozincographed. Calcutta 1877. d. 13 Kildare gardens, Bayswater, London 27 March 1890.

HUTCHINSON, GEORGE ROWAN. Second lieut. R.E. 29 May 1832, captain 13 Dec. 1847 to death; superintendent of new harbour works at Holyhead, killed by explosion of powder there 25 Feb. 1851 though half a mile from where it took place. A.R. (1864) 14.

HUTCHINSON, JOHN. b. Newcastle 1811; ed. at London univ.; assistant phys. to Hospital for consumption, Brompton; author of The spirometer and stethoscope and scale-balance, their use in discriminating diseases of the chest and their value in life-offices 1852. d. Fiji, Sandwich islands, July 1861.

HUTCHINSON, JOHN DYSON. b. Halifax, Yorkshire 6 July 1822; ed. at Hipperholme gram. sch.; in business at Halifax, retired 1870; mayor of Halifax 1868 and 1871; M.P. Halifax 21 Feb. 1877, accepted the Chiltern hundreds Aug. 1882. d. 25 Redcliffe sq. South Kensington, London 25 Aug. 1882.

HUTCHINSON, WILLIAM EVANS, b. 1806; superintendent of Midland counties line to July 1840; a director of Midland railway 1837 and chairman 1864–70; presented with a testimonial at a complimentary dinner 20 Dec. 1870. d. Oadby hall, Leicester 6 Dec. 1882. F. S. Williams’ Midland railway (1888) 181–4, 195, 236, 243.

HUTCHISON, REV. ÆNEAS BARKLY (_eld. son of Robert Hutchison of London, merchant_). b. London 1819; ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam., B.D. 1855, B.D. Oxford 1856; P.C. of St. James, Devonport 21 Aug. 1850 to death; author of Memorials of the abbey of Dundrennan, Galloway 1857; A monograph of the history of St. Mary, Callington 1861. d. Harrogate 25 Dec. 1866.

HUTCHISON, REV. WILLIAM [ANTONY] (son of George Hutchison, a cashier in Bank of England, who d. 1833). b. London 27 Sep. 1822; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam. 1843–5; received into R.C. church at Birmingham 21 Dec. 1845, confirmed by bishop Walsh, receiving name of Antony 29 Dec. 1845; ordained priest 15 Aug. 1847; a member of the Oratory, London, to the institution of which he largely contributed 1849 to death; established ragged schools and other charities; author of Loreto and Nazareth: two lectures containing the result of personal investigation of the two sanctuaries 1863. d. The Oratory, Brompton 12 July 1863. Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 511–4 (1887).

NOTE.—He left by his will dated 7 July 1860 all his property to the Brompton oratory, will disputed by his brother in law Dr. Alfred Smee but its validity affirmed in case of Knox v. Smee, Court of Probate 1864. Annual Register (1864) 232–41.

HUTCHISON, REV. WILLIAM CORSTON (2 son of Robert Hutchison of Fincham, Norfolk). Matric. from Worcester coll. Ox. 6 May 1841 aged 19; Curate of St. Mary’s, Devonport 1848–50; Curate of St. Endellion, Cornwall 1850–1; joined Church of Rome Aug. 1851; lived chiefly abroad rest of his life; tutor to Prince Imperial of France; a member of the third order of St. Francis; a chevalier of Holy Cross of Jerusalem; private chamberlain to Pius ix. and Leo xiii.; had a great share in production of Dr. Fan di Bruno’s Catholic Belief. d. Holly Place, Hampstead 9 Sep. 1883 aged 63. bur. Leytonstone cemet. Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 514–5 (1887).

HUTH, FREDERICK. b. Hanover 1777; settled at Corunna, landed in England 1809, naturalized by act 59 Geo. iii. cap. 90 (1819); founded house of F. Huth and Co. merchants, City of London 1816; one of most eminent merchants of City of London; had order of Charles iii. of Spain. d. 33 Upper Harley st. London 14 Jany. 1864, personalty sworn under £500,000, 5 March.

HUTH, HENRY (3 son of the preceding). b. London 1815; ed. at Rusden’s sch. Leith hill, Surrey to 1833; travelled in Germany, France and the U.S. of A. 1836–9; joined a firm in Mexico 1840; in a firm at Hamburg 1844–9; merchant in London 1849 to death; purchased books at all the important sales, also daily at chief booksellers; with the single exception of Lord Spencer had finest private library then known; member of Philobiblon Society 1863, of Roxburgh club 1866; treasurer and pres. of royal hospital for incurables 1861; printed Ancient ballads and broadsides 1867; Inedited poetical miscellanies 1584–1700. 1870; Fugitive Tracts 1493–1700. 2 vols. 1875 and other books. d. 30 Prince’s gate, London 10 Dec. 1878. bur. Bolney ch. yard, Sussex. Times 14 Dec. 1878 p. 9; Athenæum 21 Dec. 1878 p. 803; Academy 21 Dec. 1878 p. 583; The Huth library. A catalogue of books, manuscripts, letters and engravings, collected by H. Huth 5 vols. (1880).

HUTHERSAL, REV. CORT (son of John Huthersal of Ardwick green, Manchester, schoolmaster). Ed. at Manchester school and St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; C. of St. Mary’s, Manchester; C. of All Saints, Leamington to about 1837, lived at Leamington rest of his life; author of Synopsis of the various administrations for the government of England from the year 1756 to 1842. London 1842, anon. d. Leamington 14 Sep. 1859.

HUTHWAITE, SIR EDWARD (eld. son of William Huthwaite, draper, Nottingham). bapt. St. Peter’s, Nottingham 24 June 1793; ed. at military academy Woolwich; second lieut. Bengal artillery 12 Nov. 1810, lieut.-col. 3 July 1845, col. commandant 23 Jany. 1854 to death; L.G. 6 March 1868; C.B. 3 April 1846, K.C.B. 2 June 1869; served in India 1810 to his death, and was present at Sobraon, Chillianwalla and Goojrat. d. Sherwood, Nynee Tal, India 5 April 1873. I.L.N. lxii, 475 (1873).

HUTHWAITE, HENRY. b. 1769; entered Bengal army 1795; colonel 15 Bengal N.I. 1837–52; colonel 42 Bengal N.I. 1852 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. Hoveringham, Notts. 5 Dec. 1853.

HUTT, SIR GEORGE (son of Richard Hutt of Appley Towers, Ryde, Isle of Wight). b. 1809; lieut. Bombay artillery 28 Sep. 1827, major 12 Sep. 1855 to 9 Nov. 1858 when he retired; served during Scinde and Afghan campaigns 1839–44, in Persia 1857, and Indian mutiny 1857–8; M.G. 18 Jany. 1859; sec. to comrs. of Chelsea hospital 6 March 1865 to 13 March 1885; C.B. 26 Feb. 1846, K.C.B. 21 June 1887; edited Papers illustrative of the history of the royal hospital at Chelsea 1872. d. Appley Towers, Ryde, Isle of Wight 27 Sep. 1889. Times 31 Oct. 1889 p. 10.

HUTT, RICHARD. b. 1803; assistant to George Cawthorne of the circulating library 24 Cockspur st., London May 1825, managed the business for the widow 1833–50, and was partner with her son 1850–74 when the latter retired. d. 24 Cockspur st. 8 Nov. 1876 aged 73. Bookseller Dec. 1876 p. 1143; Publisher’s Circular Dec. 1876 p. 920.

NOTE.—This was the first circulating library in London, it was commenced at 132 Strand in 1740 by Wright, who was succeeded by Batho. John Bell next became the proprietor of the business and was followed by G. Cawthorne who removed to Cockspur st. in 1807.

HUTT, Sir William (brother of Sir George Hutt, 1809–89). b. 2 Chester place, Lambeth, Surrey 6 Oct. 1801; ed. at St. Mary’s hall, Ox. Feb. to Aug. 1820 and at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1831; M.P. Hull 1832–41; M.P. Gateshead 1841–74; V.P. of board of trade and paymaster general 22 Feb. 1860 to Nov. 1865; P.C. 22 Feb. 1860; negotiated a treaty of commerce between Great Britain and Austria 27 Feb. 1865 etc.; member of mixed commission at Vienna to examine into Austrian Tariff 1 March 1865; K.C.B. 27 Nov. 1865. d. Appley Towers, Ryde, Isle of Wight 24 Nov. 1882.

HUTTON, EDWARD. b. 1797; L.R.C.S. Ireland 1819, F.R.C.S. 1824, president 1852, sec. June 1853 to June 1865; M.B. Dublin 1822, M.D. 1842; president of pathological society of Dublin; M.R.I.A.; contributed to Dublin medical journal and other periodicals. d. 5 Merrion square south, Dublin 24 Nov. 1865.

HUTTON, FREDERICK. b. 1801; entered navy 28 Jany. 1813; captain 3 July 1844; governor of Ascension 12 Nov. 1846; R.A. 1 April 1863. d. Tunbridge Wells 6 March 1866.

HUTTON, GEORGE. Entered Madras army 1811; colonel 22 Madras N.I. 1860 to death; M.G. 4 July 1856. d. Vizianagram, Madras 28 Aug. 1861.

HUTTON, HENRY. Called to the bar in Ireland 1822, Q.C. 7 Feb. 1849; chairman of quarter sessions, co. Roscommon to death. d. 1859.

HUTTON, REV. HENRY (son of lieut. general Henry Hutton, d. 1827). b. Moate, Westmeath 1808; ed. at Wad. coll. Ox., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833; C. of Lidlington, Beds. 1832; P.C. of Woburn, Beds. 1834–49; chaplain to duke of Bedford 1839; R. of St. Paul’s, Covent Garden, London 1849 to death; author of Lectures, doctrinal, explanatory and practical on the English liturgy. Woburn 1848; An account of the charitable institutions in parish of Saint Paul, Covent Garden 1858. d. 7 Henrietta st. Covent Garden 23 June 1863. Sermons on the Lord’s Prayer. By H. Hutton (1863), Memoir pp. i-xlviii.

HUTTON, JAMES FREDERICK (son of Wm. M. Hutton). b. London 1826; an African merchant and manufacturer of cotton goods at Manchester; Belgian consul at Manchester 11 Aug. 1887 to death; pres. of Manchester chamber of commerce; F.R.G.S.; M.P. for North division of Manchester 1885 to 1886. d. Cairo 1 March 1890.

HUTTON, REV. PETER. b. Holbeck near Leeds 29 June 1811; ed. at Benedictine college, Ampleforth; studied at Univ. of Louvain 1836–9; ordained priest 24 Sep. 1839; pres. of St. Peter’s college, Prior Park near Bath, and professor of Latin and Greek there Sep. 1839 to July 1841; entered the Order of Charity at Loughborough, Leics. 5 July 1841; rector of the college of Order of Charity near village of Ratcliffe-on-the-Wreak near Leicester 23 Nov. 1844, vice pres. 2 July 1850, pres. 1 Nov. 1851 to death; translated all the Latin and Greek authors read in the schools at Ratcliffe. d. Ratcliffe college 2 Sep. 1880. J. Hirst’s Brief memoir of Father Hutton. Market Weighton, St. William’s press (1886); Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 517–21 (1887).

HUTTON, ROBERT HOWARD (son of Robert Hutton). b. Soulby, Westmoreland 26 July 1840; farmer Milnthorpe 1863–9; bone setter at 74 Gloucester place, Portman sq. London 1871–9, at 36 Queen Anne st. Cavendish sq. 1879 to death; had an extensive practice and made much money; a well known huntsman at Melton Mowbray. d. University coll. hospital, London from taking laudanum in error for a black draught 16 July 1887.

NOTE.—His uncle Richard Hutton was a bone setter at Wyndham place, Crawford st. London for many years and d. Gilling lodge, Watford 6 Jany. 1871 aged 70. Among his successful cures were the Hon. Spencer Ponsonby in 1865 and George Moore the philanthropist in 1869.

HUTTON, REV. WYNDHAM MADDEN (son of Rev. John Hutton of Granby, Notts.) Matric. from St. Edmund hall, Ox. 7 July 1849 aged 18; at St. Bees 1854; V. of St. Paul, Tipton, Staffs. 1861–9; V. of Kirk-Christ-Lezayre, Isle of Man 1869–77; V. of Twyford with Hungarton and Thorpe-Satchville, Leics. 1877 to death; author of Poems. By A member of the university of Oxford. Oxford 1851; Gottfried’s pilgrimage: an allegory 1866, 3 ed. 1868; Bertha’s Dream and other tales. Frome Selwood 1868; The unconquered island. Ramsay 1873. d. Hungarton vicarage 18 Jany. 1882.

HUY, JOHN. Acting manager of Court theatre, London under Marie Litton, Jany. 1871 to March 1875 and under John Hare, March 1875 to 19 July 1879; acting manager of St. James’s theatre, London under John Hare and W. H. Kendall 4 Oct. 1879 to 21 July 1888; ruptured his liver by falling on the stone stairs at his residence 3 Langham place, Regent st. London 29 Nov. 1891. d. 30 Nov. 1891 aged 57. The Era 5 Dec. 1891 p. 9 col. 4.

HUYSHE, ALFRED (youngest son of Rev. John Huyshe of Exeter 1772–1851). b. 1811; ed. at Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery 13 Dec. 1827; col. R.A. 29 April 1861 to 31 Oct. 1867; inspector general of artillery in India 1867–73; general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 2 June 1877. d. 46 Onslow sq. London 25 Feb. 1880 in 69 year. Graphic xxii, 196 (1880), portrait.

HUYSHE, GEORGE (brother of the preceding). b. 1804; ensign 13 Bengal N.I. 22 March 1820; col. Bengal infantry 15 Nov. 1853; general 19 Feb. 1872; C.B. 27 Sep. 1843. d. Guernsey 6 Oct. 1881.

HUYSHE, GEORGE LIGHTFOOT (2 son of the preceding). b. 1839; ensign rifle brigade 18 April 1856, capt. 19 Dec. 1862; served with 83 regt. in Indian mutiny 1857–9, in pursuit of Tantia Topee 1858–9, medal; on Sir G. Wolseley’s staff on Red river expedition 1870; D.A.A.G. on Sir Garnet Wolseley’s staff; author of The Red river expedition 1871; with H. Brackenbury of Fanti and Ashanti 1873. d. Prah-su, Ashantee 18 Jany. 1874. Graphic, ix, 218, 229 (1874), portrait.

HYDE, EDGAR (youngest son of Rev. Henry Woodd Cock Hyde of Camberwell, Surrey). b. 27 May 1829; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. and C.C. coll. Ox., junior math. scholar 1847–57, fellow 1857–68; B.A. 1851, M.A. 1854; barrister I.T. 11 June 1862; practised at Calcutta 1862–71; edited Reports of cases in Court of judicature at Fort William, Calcutta 1864; author of The Indian succession act, with introduction and synopsis 1865. d. Folkestone 27 Jany. 1891.

HYDE, GEORGE HOOTON (_son of Rev. George Hooton Hyde, R. of Wareham, Dorset_). b. 1798; 2 lieut. R.A. 7 July 1817, captain 18 Aug. 1843 to 14 Jany. 1852 when he retired on full pay; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. 13 Albert place, Victoria road, Kensington, London 8 March 1879.

HYDE, HENRY (brother of Edgar Hyde 1829–91). b. St. Giles, Camberwell 1825; ed. Addiscombe to 1844; 2 lieut. Bengal engineers 7 June 1844; engaged in forming Cis-Sutlej states roads 1847; at siege of Mooltan and battle of Goojrat 1849; raised the Pathan companies of the sappers 1858; deputy consulting engineer railway department, N.W. provinces and Bengal 1859–60; inspector general of public works accounts, Bengal 1861; master of Calcutta mint Jany. 1862 to Jany. 1876, superintended paper currency department 1862–70; president Asiatic soc. Calcutta; inspector general of stores, India office, London 1876 to death; retired from royal engineers 17 Feb. 1878; hon. major general 17 Feb. 1878. d. Burntwood, Caterham, Surrey 23 Oct. 1887. Min. of Proc. of I.C.E. xci, 462–6 (1888).

HYDE, REV. JOHN. b. London 26 Feb. 1833; joined the Church of the Latter day saints 1849, preached Mormonism in France 1852, went to Salt Lake city 1853, lectured against Mormonism in the Sandwich islands and the United States of America and England 1855–6; bapt. by Dr. Jonathan Bayley in Argyle sq. ch. London and became a Swedenborgian 1858; minister at Brightlingsea 1859–61, at Derby 1861–6, and at Manchester 1866 to death; president of the New Jerusalem Church conference in London three times; author of Mormonism, its leaders and designs. New York 1857; Swedenborg, the man of the age 1859; The serpent that beguiled Eve 1862; The doctrine of substitution 1880, new ed. 1882; wrote under pseud. of A Bible Student Our eternal homes 1864, several editions; Bible Photographs, a contrast between righteousness and wickedness 1865 and other books. d. Milford, Derbyshire 18 Aug. 1875. Intellectual Repository, Oct. 1875 pp. 468–77; Publishers’ Circular 1 Sep. 1875 pp. 635–6; I.L.N. lxv, 229, 230 (1874), portrait.

HYDES, JOHN P. Best known actor in New Zealand where he first appeared as Chizzler in the farce of But-However 23 April 1849; built Duke of Edinburgh theatre at Hokilika; held every position in the profession from checktaker to proprietor; great burlesque actor; appeared at Maguire’s opera house, San Francisco as Pauline in burlesque of Lady of Lyons 30 April 1859. d. Melbourne early in 1883.

HYETT, WILLIAM HENRY (eld. son of Rev. Henry Cay Adams of Shrewsbury, d. 1808). b. 2 Sep. 1795; ed. at Westminster, matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 21 Oct. 1813; swam across the Hellespont from Sestos to Abydos in 1 hour and 50 minutes; assumed name of Hyett upon succeeding to estates of Benjamin Hyett 1815; M.P. Stroud 13 Dec. 1832 to 30 Dec. 1834; made experiments on growth of trees by watering with chymical solutions; taught mechanical drawing in his schools at Painswick; founder of Gloucestershire eye institution 1866; made translations from Horace, Goethe, Victor Hugo and Filicaja which he privately printed; F.R.S. d. Painswick house, Gloucs. 10 March 1877. Times 13 March 1877 p. 10.

HYLAND, MOST REV. THOMAS RAYMOND. b. Dublin 3 Nov. 1837; entered Dominican order at Tallaght, Feb. 1856; ordained priest in Rome 22 Dec. 1864; consecrated bishop of Euria, in partibus, in Rome 30 April 1882 and appointed coadjutor archbishop of Trinidad, West Indies. d. Trinidad 9 Oct. 1884.

HYLES, WILLIAM (eld. son of Georges Hyles of Canute castle hotel, Southampton). b. 1843; proprietor of the York music hall, Southampton from its foundation 1873 to death. d. Royal York hotel, above Bar, Southampton 30 Aug. 1878.

HYLTON, WILLIAM GEORGE HYLTON JOLIFFE, 1 Baron (elder child of Rev. Wm. John Hylton of Merstham, Surrey d. 31 Jany. 1835). b. Little Argyle st. London 7 Dec. 1800; cornet 15 hussars 10 April 1817; captain 29 foot 22 April 1824 to 24 June 1824 when placed on h.p.; cr. baronet 20 Aug. 1821; M.P. Petersfield 1830–34, 1841–66; under sec. of state for home department March 1852 to Dec. 1852; parliamentary sec. to treasury March 1858 to June 1859; P.C. 18 June 1859; whip to conservative party in house of commons; created baron Hylton of Hylton, co. Durham and of Petersfield, Hants. 16 July 1866. d. Merstham house, Redhill, Surrey 1 June 1876. I.L.N. xxxii 312 (1858) portrait, li 609, 610 (1867) portrait, lxviii 575 (1876).

HYMAN, REV. ORLANDO HAYDON BRIDGMAN (1 son of Simon Hyman of Devonport). b. 1814; ed. at Wadham coll. Ox., scholar 1830–5, senior fellow 1835 to death; B.A. 1834, M.A. 1840; a well known Greek scholar; had a remarkably tenacious memory, tore up his books when he had read them. d. Porchester place, Oxford sq., London 9 Dec. 1878. Times 18 Dec. 1878 p. 11; N. and Q. 5 Series xi, 201–2 (1879).

HYMERS, REV. JOHN (son of a farmer). b. Ormsby in Cleveland, Yorkshire 20 July 1803; a sizar at St. John’s coll. Cam. 1822; 2 wrangler 1826, B.A. 1826, B.D. 1836, D.D. 1841; fellow of his coll. 1827, assistant tutor 1829, tutor 1832, senior fellow 1838–52, pres. 1848–52; lady Margaret preacher in Univ. of Cam. 1841–52; R. of Brandesburton in Holderness, Yorkshire 1852 to death; F.R.S. 31 May 1838; author of The theory of Equations 1837, 3 ed. 1858; The Integral Calculus 1844; A treatise on spherical trigonometry 1841 and other books; left nearly all his property to found a gram. sch. at Hull, but bequest invalid under statute of mortmain, his brother Robert Hymers gave £50,000 for same purpose Jany. 1891. d. Brandesburton 7 April 1887. F. Ross’s Celebrities of the Yorkshire wolds (1878) p. 84.

INDEX.

This Index contains references to the most important, curious and interesting facts, to be found in the pages of this work.

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Aberdeen, granite from first used in public works 1136; lives of eminent men of 451; Marischal coll. lord rectors 971, 1448, Marischal coll., univ. of Aberdeen and King’s coll. fused 628, univ. chancellor 6, univ. lord rectors 76, 976, 1086, 1586, univ. principal 533.

Aberdeenshire, lords lieutenant 6, 1599.

Aberystwyth, university coll. burnt 1588.

Abipones, account of the 675.

Absolon, John, scene painter 1243.

Absorption, the pressure of 1596.

Abyssinia, king Theodore 522, Theodore’s general Bell 228, prince of, death of 9, travellers in 223, war in 522.

Achilli, Giacinto, case of 1361.

Achonry, bishop of 930.

Acids, graphitic discovered 409.

Aconite, tincture of 1067.

Acting, rapid study 1285.

Actors see also Circus proprietors, Clowns, Columbines, Conjurors, Dancers, Dramatists, Entertainers, Equestrian performers, Gymnasts, Harlequins, Jugglers, Lecturers, Lion tamers, Negro minstrels, Panoramas, Pantaloons, Pantomimists, Polander performers, Singers, Somersault throwers, Theatres, Theatrical managers, Tight-rope dancers, Trapeze performers, Ventriloquists and Wire walkers; Barnes 172, Barnett 174, Bateman 190, Bedford 225, Belford 225, Belmore 236, Bennett, G. J. 241, Bennett, J. 242, Bennett, W. 244, Betty 265, Beverley, E. 267, Beverley, H. 267, Bland 308, Bone 1345, Booth, J. B. 338, Booth, Sarah 339, Boothby 340, Braid 378, Brooke 416, Brothers 1527, Browne 444, Buckstone 465, Bunn 473, Burton 495, Calvert, C. A. 519, Calvert, F. B. 520, Cartlitch 564, Celeste 579, Chatterley 579, Clark 630, Clarke 633, Colville 1546, Compton 689, Conway 696, Cony 697, Cooke, G. 701, Cooke, J. 702, Cooke, T. P. 703, Cooper 710, Coote 713, Cowell, J. L. 735, Cowell, S. H. 735, Cowle 737, Craven 752, Cushman 796, Dale 801, Daly 808, Davison 833, De Bar 844, De Walden 869, Dewar 869, Dickson 876, Dillon 879, Dinneford 880, Don 893, Donaldson 894, Donnelly 896, Dowton 910 bis., Drake 914, Drew 917, Drift 925, Dyott 849, Eburn 955, Edgar 958, Edwin, E. R. 967, Edwin, J. 968, Eldred 973, Elliston 988, Emery 991, Everard 1006, Farley 1021, Farquharson 1023, Farren, H. 1025, Farren, H. E. 1025, Farren, W. 1025, Farren, W. 1025, Fechter 1030, Fenton 1033, Field 1042, Fisher, C. 1052, Fisher, D. 1052, Fisher, W. D. 1054, Fitzwilliam, Edward 1065, Fitzwilliam, Ellen 1065, Fitzwilliam F. E. 1065, Foote 1344, Freer 1104, Furtado 633, 1113, Gardner 1122, Glover 1158, Glyn 805, 1161, Gomersal 1169, Goodall, A. and I. 1172, Gourlay 1192, Grattan, H. P. 1209, Grattan, Mrs. 1209, Green 1224, Grimaldi 1254, Guerint 1254, Hale, C. B. 1277, Hale, C. F. 1278, Hall 1285, Hamblin 1297, Hamilton 1306, Harland 1546, Harley 1340, Harlowe 1340, Hartland 1361, Harvey 1366, Hatton 1377, Hazlewood 1403, Heath 1410, Henderson 1424, Hengler 1424, Herbert 1440, Heron 1445, Hicks 1461, Hill, E. 1470, Hill, T. 1475, Hilton 1478, Hodson 1499, Holl 1506, Holland 1508, Holman 1512, Holt 1518, Honey 1521, Honner, M. 1522, Honner, R. W. 1231, 1522, Hooper 1527, Horncastle 1538, Horsman, Chas. d. 1886, 1543, Horsman, Charlotte 1543, Hoskins 1545, Howell 1557, Hows 1561, Howson, F. 1561, Howson, J. 1561, Huddart 1565, Hudson 1567, Hudspeth 1568, Hughes, F. 1571, Hughes, J. C. 1575, Hughes, J. H. 1575, Hughes, T. 1576, Humby 1583, Huntley 1600, Hydes 1611, Jordan 1056, Kemble, C. 1523, Kemble, J. P. 869, Leclercq 1522, Macarthy 1522, Mackay 1192, Menken 1417, Nicholl 1349, Nisbett 340, Nye 597, O’Neill 215, Paul 1072, Phelps 1231, Power 1567, Ristori 1483, Russell 1565, Saville 1025, Sothern 1421, Thompson 1421, Vokes 944, Warner 1565, Wild 1428.

Actors, Singers and others. Stage names, Given names, etc. See also Names. Addison, Edward P. i.e. E. P. Haddy 22. Addison, Laura i.e. L. Wilmshurst 23. African Roscius i.e. Ira F. Aldridge 41. Agnesi, Louis F. L. i.e. L. F. L. Agniez 29. Arnold, Henry Thomas i.e. Henry Thomas Arden 82. Artois, The flying wonder i.e. John Lilley 92. Barrett, Wilson i.e. William Henry Barrett 1410. Beatrice, Mademoiselle i.e. Marie Beatrice Binda 209. Belmore, George i.e. George Belmore Garstin 236. Beverley, Edward i.e. E. Dickenson 267. Beverley, Henry i.e. H. Roxby 267. Braham, John i.e. John Abraham 378. Brizzi, Signor i.e. Francesco A. S. Bisteghi 404. Brooke, Edwin Harcourt i.e. Edwin J. M. Brook 415. Calcraft, John William i.e. John W. Cole 513. Caradori-Allan, Maria C. R. i.e. M. C. R. de Munck 541. Celeste, Madame i.e. Celeste Elliott 579. Chew, Mr. i.e. James Henry Chute 620. Christoff, George i.e. George Christopher 617. Clements, Frank i.e. Robert Menti 644. Clifton, Harry i.e. Henry Robert Clifton 649. Collins, Sam i.e. Samuel Thomas Collins Vagg 680. Compton, Henry i.e. Charles Mackenzie 689. Conquest, Benjamin Oliver i.e. Benjamin Oliver 695. Cowper, John Curtis i.e. John Curtis 739. Cox, Harry i.e. Oliver James Bussley 742. Crosmond, Rosa i.e. Helen Turner 770. Cure, The Perfect i.e. James Hurst Stead 312. Diavolo, Joel Il, also known as Joel Benedict 870. Diavolo, Joel Il i.e. John Delany 870. Dibdin, Charles i.e. Charles I. M. Pitt 871. Dog Star, The i.e. Barkham Cony 697. Drake, Samuel i.e. Samuel Bryant 914. Dunn, John i.e. John Bampton 938. Eagle, George Barnardo i.e. G. Barnard Eagle 950. Falconer, Edmund i.e. E. O’Rourke 1016. Fanque, Pablo i.e. William Darby 1020. Farquharson, Robert i.e. R. Farquharson Smith 1023. Favanti, Rita i.e. Margaret Edwards 1027. Fawsitt, Amy i.e. Mary Ann Fawsitt 1028. Federici, Frederick i.e. Frederick Baker 1030. Fitz, Little i.e. W. Fitzwilliam 1065. Flexmore, Richard i.e. R. Flexmore Geatter 1070. Forrester, Henry i.e. Henry Frost 1083. Frazer, John James i.e. J. J. Fricker 1103. Gentleman George i.e. George Barrett 177. Giovanelli, Edward i.e. Edward Edwards 1152. Grattan, Henry Plunkett i.e. H. Willoughby G. Plunkett 1209. Harcourt, Charles i.e. Charles Parker Hillier 1323. Harris, Augustus i.e. Augustus Glossop 1345. Haywell, Frederick i.e. Frederick Hawley 1391. Heller, Robert i.e. William Henry Palmer 1418. Henrade, Mary i.e. Mary Young 1431. Henry, Chaplin i.e. Henry Charles Stroud 1432. Herring, Paul i.e. William Smith 1447. Hicks, Bravo i.e. Newton Tree Hicks 1461. Hill, William Jones i.e. William Hill Jones 1476. Lennox, Mr. i.e. Lenox Horne 1539. Leoni, Mr. i.e. Myer Lyon 378. Lester, Thomas i.e. T. Lester Donnelly 896. Lucchesini, Mddlle. i.e. Marie Beatrice Binda 209. Lunardini, Giuseppe i.e. James Goulston 1192. Mordaunt, Louisa i.e. Louisa C. Macnamara 340. Nye, Henry i.e. Henry Nye Chart 597. Old Malabar i.e. Patrick Feeney 1030. Plunkett, Henry i.e. H. Willoughby Grattan Plunkett 1209. Romer, Emma i.e. Emma Almond 54. Roscius, The Young i.e. W. H. Betty 1470. Simpson, Miss i.e. Mary Barnes 172. Singing mouse, The i.e. John Bull Binge 278. Voullaire, Andrew Leonard i.e. A. Voullaire Campbell 527.

Actuaries, Ansell 72.

Addington, John Gellibrand Hubbard, 1 Baron 1563.

Addiscombe college, Surrey, first principal 67.

Adelaide, Queen d. 1849, her lord chamberlain 1555.

Admiralty, funds for widows and orphans 1048, half pay and pensions 1048, lithography introduced into 765, navy list 1048, records 1048, salaries 1048.

Admiralty first lords, Briggs 398, Corry 724, De Grey 848, Ellenborough 975, Graham 1196, Haddington 1271, Hunt 1590, Pakington 1312, Wood 1281.

Adullam, the cave of 1543.

Adventure and Beagle’s surveying voyage 819, 1064.

Advertisements, duty on 1099, duty abolished 1518, Holloway spending £50,000 a year on 1512.

Æginetan and Phigaleian marbles discovered 664.

Aeronautism See also Balloons, carburetted hydrogen gas used 1222, guide rope invented 1223, height of ascent 1223, navigation improvements in 39, persons killed 1192, 1291.

Aeronauts, Burges 477, Burnaby 483, Cocking 1228, Green 1222, Hall 1291, Lunardini 1192.

Africa, Burchell’s explorations 475, Capetown, first bishop 1218, excavations at Utica 832, metropolitan of South Africa 1218.

Agricultural implement makers. Garrett 1125, Green 1224, Howard, Jas. 1552, Howard, John 1553.

Agriculturalists, Buckman 465, Corrie 722, Hannam 1010.

Agriculture, cultivation by steam, cultivators 476, 922, farming agreements 1583, farming machinery on roundabout system 1010, farms, scientific 465, feeding cattle experiments 491, khol-rabi introduced 762, manuring machines 1126, Pearson’s drain plough 1491, plough improved 1553, ploughing, self propelling engine 1284, steam threshing machine the first 1284, white carrot introduced 491.

Ainsworth, William Harrison d. 1882, author 33, Dunmow flitch of bacon 598, illustrations of his works 444.

Air beds 627.

Air pump ventilator for roofs 369.

Aire and Calder glass bottle co. 389.

Albert d. 1861, prince consort 38, memorial in Hyde park, Cockerell’s design for 664, history of 799 and sculptures on 1073, his treasurer and private sec. 1240, mausoleum built 1583.

Albert Edward, prince of Wales b. 1841, anthem for his recovery 1187, banquet to in Dublin 104, Dr. Gull attends him 1257, entertained at Packington hall 112, God bless the P. of Wales, song 1575, God save the P. of Wales, song 1421, governor to 452, his nurse 424, Sandringham rebuilt 1583, taught billiards 926, tutors 282, 1182.

Aldermen, alms houses for 1415.

Alexander I. d. 1825, czar of Russia, his physicians 760, 761.

Algæ, collectors of, Harvey 1368, Hooper 1528.

Algiers, Dey of, his passes to navigate the Mediterranean 1142.

Alloa, town and parish, memorials of 754.

Alma, battle of the 1524, first gun taken at the battle 227.

Alpaca wool used 1089.

Alpine climbers, Hinchliff 1479, Hodgkinson 1493, Hudson 1566.

Alps, the higher, photographs of 896.

Alton, Hants., British sch. 776, Crowley’s brewery 776.

America, United States of, acts relating to 569, American coll. at Rome 1574, blockade running 1487, Bruce’s type casting machine 450, canal boy who became president 1120, Caroline rebel steamer sent burning over Niagra 916, Corcoran’s legion 718, crossing the Atlantic thirty times 1431, crossing one hundred and eighty times 1356, death of president Lincoln 338, female professor of obstetrics 1093, Minié rifle, the first 1431, Odd-fellows, grand master 36, ordinations in 569, President frigate taken 1530, recruiting soldiers for England 750, stereotyping introduced 449, treaty of Washington 662, types, Bruce’s harmony of 450, Washington’s head engraved for postage stamp 1587, Washington, portraits of 1285.

America, U.S. of Baltimore, Cooke’s circus burnt 704.

America, U.S. of Cincinnati, Browne university 445.

America, U.S. of Illinois, African slavery not legal 1071, colony founded 1071.

America, U.S. of Memphis, first theatre at 1209.

America, U.S. of New Orleans, gas introduced 515.

America, U.S. of New York, archbishop of 1574, Bowery theatre burnt 1297, Brougham’s theatres 427, Burton’s theatres 495, Columbia coll. 996, merchants’ exchange burnt 1576, Methodist ch. the first pewed 1284, old Chinese buildings 68, Park theatre burnt 1297, seedsman at 1425.

America, U.S. of Philadelphia, Brown’s bank 435.

America, U.S. of Washington, Franklin’s printing press 1344.

Anderson bay, Victoria land named 65.

Anderson, John d. 1796, M.D., his university at Glasgow 778, 1000, 1009.

Anemometer, a new 1560.

Anglesey, lords lieutenant of 70 bis. 71.

Anglesey, W. H. Paget, marquis of d. 1854, loss of his leg 71.

Anglo Saxon, grammar 345, professor of 949.

Aniline dyes 1290.

Annuals, introduced into Germany and Russia 95.

Anthropology, a department at British Assoc. 1591.

Antrim, lord lieutenant 894.

Antiquary, A professional, Harrod 1358.

Apoplexy, mechanical cure for 1170.

Approach caused by vibration, discovered 1264.

Aquaria, tank for 964.

Arabic, collection of calligraphs 114, scholars Chenery 602 and Gendell 1120.

Arabs, murder of W. Gill by 1149.

Arch, a tied brick arch 629.

Architects, Bryce 455, Burn 483, Burton 494, Cockerell, C. R. 664, Cockerell, F. P. 664, Cresy 759, Deane 842, Devey 868, Dobson 886, Donaldson 894, Elmes 988, Fergusson 1037, Ferrey 1038, Fowke 1092, French 1106, Geary 1133, Godwin 1163, Goldie 1166, Good 1171, Gough 1190, Gregan 1232, Griffith 1246, Gwilt, J. S. 1267, Gwilt, Jos. 1267, Habbershon 1269, Hadfield 1272, Hakewill, E. C. 1276, Hakewill, J. H. 1276, Hansom 1321, Hardwick 1330, Haviland 1382, Henderson 1424, Hopper 1536, Hosking 1545, Huggins 1569, Humbert 1583, Reeks 1583.

Architecture, architectural decorator 746, Gothic, revival of 1272.

Arctic explorers, Austin 109, Back 119, Beechey 220, Belcher 224, Bellot 235, Bird 284, Brown 447, Collinson 682, Cresswell 758, Davis 831, Franklin 682, 1490, 1528, Hobson 1490, Hooper 1528, M’Clintock 1490, Parry 1053, Ross 831.

Arctic exploring vessels, Alert and Discovery 1047, Dorothea and Trent 1053, Investigator and Enterprise 65, Plover 1528, Terror 831.

Arctic regions, collections illustrative of 434.

Ardagh, bishops of 560, 695.

Argentine confederation founded 864.

Argyll and the Isles, bishops of 931, 1009.

Armagh, archbishops of, Beresford 251, 252, Cullen 780 and Dixon 883, cathedral restored 251–52.

Armenian dictionary 380.

Armour plates, manufacture of 525.

Arms and armour, collections of Baily 130, Breeks 388, Colnaghi 684, Meyrick 684.

Arms, school of 611.

Army, Blueviad a poem 1190, commander in chief 1328, Crawley, court martial on 756, diseases of soldiers 1131, Enfield rifle manufacture 1230, field marshals Gomm 1169, Grosvenor 1251 and Hardinge 1328, Freeburn’s fuzes 1103, guards’ chapel, Wellington barracks 1075, guns, Gardner’s machine 1123, gymnastics introduced 647, Hart’s army list 1359, helmets reduced in weight 1229, historical records of 537, Hythe sch. of musketry 1281, libraries for noncommissioned officers 1361, medals of the army 563, military critics 603, military education commission 654, military prison at Weedon abolished 411, mortar practice, treaty on 764, Netley hospital army medical sch. 846, ordnance survey 849, précis of modern tactics 1521, private soldiers becoming officers 636, 643, purchase system abolished 543, regiments, historical records of 563, regimental hospitals established 341, short service 543, sanitary reforms made 1438, savings bank, the first 1361, service of eighty four years 943, sketching and shading of plans 839, sword exercise, superintendent of 70, united service museum originated 1292.

Art, art union of London founded 1164, department of practical art S. Kensington 671.

Art collections, Bernal 255, Bohn 326, Bone 332, Hope 1529.

Art dealers, Agnew 29, Burland 29, Zannetti 29.

Asia minor, on horseback through 1306.

Askin, Charles d. 1847, nickel manufacturer 1001.

Assassinated persons, Bourke 350, Burke 481, Cavendish 575, Perceval 908.

Associations See also Institutions and Societies, Anglo Jewish founded 239, 1167, 1222, anti-state church founded 1191, booksellers protection founded 808, British founded 394, 1078, 1325, chancery reform, secretary 556, commercial union founded 1323, evangelical alliance founded 951, financial reform founded 715, for promoting welfare of blind, instituted 1144, for repeal of taxes on knowledge, president 1142, general benevolent founded 1433, Jewish for diffusion of religious knowledge 1222, legal education, president 58, London life association, president 1595, mercantile association founded 243, miners of Cornwall and Devon instituted 1592, national, for protection of industry and capital, dissolved 223, national for vindication of Scottish rights founded 1203, northern architectural, president 886, Palestine archæological founded 294, provincial medical founded 1400, provincial medical and surgical originators of 1415 founded 1372, royal for promoting fine arts in Scotland, purchases pictures 755, royal hist. and archæol. of Ireland established 1211, royal Scottish academy instituted 1469, Scottish unitarian founded 1347, vocal formed 238, west Suffolk archæological 1055, Worth clerical founded 1486, Yorkshire archæol. and topog. founded 156.

Astronomers, Aytoun 1204, Birmingham 288, Bishop 837, Breen 388, Brisbane 402, Broun 428, Burder 476, Burton 493, Carrington 558, Challis 582, Chary 597, Chevallier 607, Cooper 709, Dawes 837, Demainbray, S. C. T. 854, Demainbray, S. G. F. T. 854, Glaisher 476, Grant 1204, Hamilton 1307, Herschel 1447, Hodgson 1497, Holden 1504.

Astronomy, Antares and his companion 1204, astronomical instrument maker 1423, double stars 1448, meteoroscope 582, nebulae 1448, transit reducer 582, trophy telescope 1204, used to fix dates in ancient history 781.

Athens, ten days in 723.

Atlantic ocean, crossing it 180 times 1356, crossing it 30 times 1431.

Atmosphere, atmospheric recorder invented 891, atmospheric waves 288.

Atomic theory, the 438.

Attorney General’s devil 82.

Auriol, Jean Baptiste d. 29 Aug. 1881, clown 1070.

Aurist, Harvey 1368.

Auscultation, science of 734.

Australia, book, the first printed in 176, Claxton’s exhibition of pictures 639, emigration 612, gold discovered by Clarke 636, gold discovery, history of 996, gold fields 1234, governor general 1063, merino sheep introduced 1435, Murray river discovered 1585 and navigated 509, overland journey from Sydney to Port Philip 1585, pearl fisheries 1234, Sophia Jane the first steam vessel 172, wines 1018.

Australia, New South Wales, acts and ordinances of 517, Boyd town founded 365, Buckley the convict 465, duke of Edinburgh shot 99, floods 89, Hunt keeper of Bathurst assize court 1592, jew boy gang of bushrangers 840, oaten hay introduced 311, statue, the first erected 350.

Australia, Queensland, Cooper’s creek 708.

Australia South, foundation of 69, 1482.

Australia South, Adelaide, botanic garden 1098, first mayor 1053, Hart’s flour mills 1360, university founded 1577.

Australia, Victoria, Black Wednesday 878, Berry ministry did away with county court judges 278, colonel commandant of all the volunteers 67, Eureka stockade rioters 99, land, the first ploughed up 1435, Roman catholic priest the first 1135, separated from N.S.W. 1063, sugar beet introduced 670.

Australia, Victoria, Melbourne, archbishop 1191, city founded 1028, 1435, city of Melbourne screw steamer 670, Cole’s wharf 670, first newspaper 1028.

Australia, Western, Hardman mountains 1329.

Australian explorers, Babbage 116, Barrallier 176, Borradaile 341, Burke 481, Cadell 509, Calvert 521, Gregory 1234, Haverfield 1380, Hovell 1550, Hume 1550, 1585, Leichhardt 521, Meehan 1585, Permain 341, Sturt 1585.

Autographs, collection of 896.

Autotypography or nature printing 372.

Ayrshire, lord lieutenant 31.

Azimuth tables 831.

B

Backgammon player, Buckle 463.

Bagshot park, Surrey, lent to Sir James Clark 626.

Baker, a learned 871.

Baker, Valentine d. 1887, colonel, travelled in Persia 1149.

Bala college 966.

Balaklava, charge at 542.

Balham mystery or the Bravo poisoning case 384.

Ballet masters, Byrne 506, Leclercq 1522.

Balloons See also Aeronautism. Crestadoro’s metallic 758, Eclipse 484, Florence Nightingale 1291, Great Nassau 1222, 1268, 1512, Victoria 453.

Ballot, motion in favor of 1251.

Banffshire, lord lieutenant 1044 bis.

Bankers, Batten 552, Call 516, Cohen 668, Currie 792 bis., De Sterne 867, Digges 1059, Drummond 919, Garfit 1123, Gibson 1139, Gosling 1207, Grote 1251, Gurney 1260, 1261, 1262, Handley 1315, Hankey 1316, Heywood 1457, 1458, Hoare 1485, 1486, Hodgson 1494.

Banking, bank manager Gilbart 1144, bank notes, machine for printing 77, cheque bank founded 1451, clearing house 576, joint stock banks established 641.

Bank of England, architect of 664, doors first marked In and Out 1561, one pound notes 77, physician 827, printing of bank notes 77, printing machinery 739, solicitor 1108.

Bankruptcy, country district courts abolished 9, seventy commissioners 1074.

Banks, Sir Joseph d. 1820, naturalist, his collections 437.

Banting, William d. 1878, undertaker 155, his medical man 1368, banting system introduced 155, 173.

Banwell hill, Somerset, bone caves at 208.

Barbary, captives in 875.

Bark trade, the 1281.

Barnard Castle, Durham, Josephine and John Bowes, museum and park 358.

Barometers, aneroids used in mountain expeditions 1493, Fitzroy barometer 1064, mountain barometer, an improved 1560.

Baronetage, assuming an extinct 1136, baronetage declined 814, 1291, baronetage not taken up 588, committee for sustaining rights of 429, designation taken 152, 666, 1307, 1588, eldest sons claim and obtain knightage 727, 844, extinct 733, first engineer made a baronet 1170, premier baronet of England 120, sham baronet presented to William iv. 1588.

Barrister making £22,000 a year 1506.

Bashi Bazouks organised 210, 1577.

Bassoon player, Baumann 195.

Bateman, Thomas d. 1861, author 191, 1160.

Bath, Portland chapel 479, Prior park R.C. coll. 479, 1609, Sir L. C. L. Brenton’s chapel 390, W. Hunt mayor 1594.

Batho, Mr. proprietor of a circulating library 1607.

Baths, fumigating established 1225.

Batteries, iron cased floating 914.

Bayeux tapestry, account of 721.

Bayley, Jonathan, Swedenborgian minister 1611.

Beaufoy, Henry B. H. d. 1851, F.R.S. 212, his collection of tokens 482.

Bedford, Britannia foundry 1553.

Bedford level canal 1311.

Bedfordshire, lord lieutenant 218.

Bedouin Arab troops 870.

Beds, air 627.

Beer, method of testing gravities 886.

Beethoven, Ludwig von d. 1827, Israel in Egypt performed 1160, Pastoral symphony performed with illustrations 1160.

Beetroot, spirit distilled from 263.

Belcher, John b. 1841, architect, designed Goss memorial 1187.

Belfast hospitals founded 240.

Bell, John, proprietor of a circulating library 1607.

Bellingham, John executed 1812, assassin, his arrest 908.

Bells, chiming hammers 975, writers on 975.

Belt, Richard Claude, sculptor, Belt v. C. Lawes 1565.

Benedictine order, Acton Burnell coll. 439, St. Gregory’s coll. 439.

Bentham, Jeremy d. 1832 philosopher, his amanuensis 732.

Bentinck, Lord George F. C. d. 1848 politician, his betting factotum 1470.

Berkeley, Colonel, connection with Maria Foote 1344.

Berkeley, G. C. Grantley F. d. 1881, M.P. 254, his huntsman 561.

Berkshire, lord lieutenant 8 bis.

Berlin, Victoria Lyceum founded 81.

Bermuda, slaves emancipated 593.

Bernard’s opera co. 1489.

Berry, Charles, Duc de assassinated 1820, his English wife 431, his son 431, marriage annulled 258, See also Brown, Charlotte and Louise post. col. 1628.

Beryllium, atomic weight of 1588.

Berwick on Tweed, town major 1072.

Betting, Leviathan better 829, lists originated 829 and declared illegal 829.

Betting men, Davies 829, Head 1404, Hill 1470.

Bettws-y-coed, a sketching resort 740.

Bewick, Thomas d. 1828 and John Bewick d. 1795, collections of their works and wood blocks 1579.

Bey, title of given to, Ayrton, F. 114.

Bible, Fry’s collection of bibles 1111, Haydock’s bible 1396, list of English editions 728, monopoly of printing 531, pentateuch critically examined 673 and Colenso adversely criticised 674, speakers’ commentary, contributors to 628, 1005, trinitarian bible soc. 996, Wycliffe’s version 1084.

Bible, New Testament in Judæo-Polish 1449, revisers of 46, 950, 1588.

Bible, Old Testament, revisers of 45, 628, 825, 980, 1014, 1041, 1133, 1188, 1352, paragraph bible 825.

Bidwell, Austin, forger 1396.

Biggar, Joseph Gillis d. 1890 M.P., his trial 1057.

Bill discounters, Overend, Gurney & Co. 1261, 1262.

Billiard players, Dufton 926, Felix 1032, Hughes 1578.

Billiards, handicap billiards 926, writer on 460.

Bills of exchange, law of 505.

Bimetallism 578.

Birds, collections of 1012, 1262, 1530, eggs 396, 1454, voice organs of 1079.

Birkbeck, George d. 1841 M.D., Birkbeck schools 986.

Birkbeck, Morris d. 1825, founded New Albion in Illinois 1071.

Birkenhead, St. Aidan’s coll. founded 199.

Birmingham, Atlas steel works 377, Calthorpe park opened 518, commissioners of street acts 509, English watch co. 378, free art gallery 1007, free libraries 585, Hazelwood sch. 1474, 1476, Holden’s music hall 1505, Mason coll. 1453, musical festivals 725, queen’s coll. 743, queen’s hospital 743, royal school of medicine 740, 743, St. Andrew’s ch. 555, St. Stephen’s ch. 555, watches made by machinery 377.

Birth, change of style, affecting age 152.

Birnie, Sir Richard d. 1832, magistrate Bow st., captured Cato st. conspirators 1115.

Biscuits, steam machinery for making 1206.

Black bottle quarrel 542.

Blackburn, Cunliffe’s bank opened 421, the first mayor 1538.

Blacksmiths learned 491, 1601.

Blarney, St. Anne’s water cure establishment opened 184.

Bleaching, Barlow’s works 1589, Bridson’s works 397, stenter or elastic finishing machine invented 397.

Blessington, Charles John Gardiner d. 1829 earl of, acquaintance with comte D’Orsay 899, his wife 899.

Blind, money left for 1122, phonetic system of teaching to read 1108.

Blind persons, Barker 165, Fawcett 1027, Gilbert 1144, Hamilton 1303, Hearder 1409, Holman 1513.

Blow pipe, oxy-hydrogen, invented 1261, use in chemical analysis 610.

Blue ribband movement 711.

Board of Control presidents, Dalhousie 803, Ellenborough 975, Glenelg 1157, Halifax 1281, Herries 1446, Hobhouse 421, Wood 1281.

Board of Trade presidents, Cardwell 543, Clarendon 623, Dalhousie 803, Donoughmore 897, Gibson 1142, Glenelg 1157, Henley 1428, Herries 1446.

Boats, Denham’s rowlocks 856, outrigger invention of 638.

Bobbing net Trade 592, machines improved 124.

Bode, Baron de, his case 1472–3.

Bogardus, James d. 1874 inventor, field, cover and trap shooting 1089.

Bohn, Henry publisher 1243.

Bolton, Lancashire, Chadwick’s orphanage 581, Chadwick’s statue 581.

Bonaparte, Jerome Napoleon d. 1870 at Baltimore 330.

Bonaparte, Joseph d. 1844 king of Spain, his friend 1208.

Bonaparte, Louis Lucien d. 1891 linguist, his medical attendant 1415.

Bonaparte, Napoleon E. L. J. J. in 1879 killed 330, his tutor 1606. See also Napoleon.

Bone, Henry P. d. 1855 enamel painter 332, his successor 998.

Bone setters, Hutton, R. 1609, Hutton, R. H. 1609.

Bonnetts of embossed paper 851.

Bookbinders, Bedford 218, Clarke 218, Hayday 1395, Howell 1557, Lewis 218.

Book binding, embossed cloth for 851, plough for cutting edges 1557.

Books, bookseller with thirty thousand customers 1458, copyrights foreign 336, Crane’s coloured toy books 751, Grenville’s diary expurgated 1239, Mrs. Mary Ann Clarke’s Narrative suppressed 634, O. H. B. Hyman tore up his books when he had read them 1612, Orion a poem published at a farthing 1539, remainders sale of 326.

Booksellers, Arch 80, Baldock 140, Baldwin 141, Bell 229, Bickers, H. 270, Bickers, H. Junr. 270, Bohn 326, Brown 433, Burn 482, Burns 488, Bush 270, Carpenter, J. 556, Carpenter, W. H. 556, Cottle 727, Dalton 808, Darling 815, Delf 853, Diprose 881, Dolby 891, Drakard 914, Evans 1004, Farran 1245, Faulkner 1026, Fulcher 1111, Gilpin 1152, Gowans 1193, Griffin C. 1243, Griffin J. J. 1244, Griffith 1245, Hall 1287, Hodgson 1494, Hotten 1547, Houlston 1549, Hughes 1577, Hulbert 1579, Hunter 1598, Johnson 1598, Payne 1004, Stoneman 1549, Trubner 853, Wright 1549.

Boot makers, Hickson 1462, Hoby 1490.

Boring machine, automatic tunnel machine invented 187.

Borneo, Brooke’s government in 417.

Botanists, Arnott 89, Atkinson 419, Bohler 325, Borrer 341, Bowie 359, Bromfield 412, Brown, J. W. 435, Brown, R. 437, Buxton 504, Calvert 519, Champion 589, Daubeny 820, Dickie 874, Dickson 875, Dillwyn 880, Drummond 920, Falconer 1017, Fielding 1043, Forbes 1076, Francis 1098, Gardiner 1122, Gourlie 1192, Greville 1240, Hance 1313, Henfrey 1427, Hennedy 1429, Hooker 1526, Prescott 1043, Steudel 1043.

Botany, herbarium of Mauritius plants at Kew 113.

Bottles, bottle washing machines 1569, stoppered 389, with taps 389.

Bows and arrows, Clay’s 640.

Boxers, Amateur, Brand 380, Budd 466. See also Pugilists.

Boyd, Archibald d. 1883 dean of Exeter 365, his controversy on episcopacy 1189.

Brachiopoda 824.

Bradlaugh, Charles d. 1891 M.P. kept out of house of commons 1188.

Bradshaw, George d. 1853 publisher 375, Bradshaw’s Manchester Journal 1018, railway maps and guides 20, 375.

Bradshaw, James, M.P. 1543.

Braintree, Essex, church rate case 733.

Brass founder, Guest 1254.

Bravo, Charles D. Turner d. in 1876 suddenly 384, 1257.

Brazil, exploration of 475, first railway 377, regiment raised for 140, Thayer expedition 1363.

Bread, aerated 821, Dauglish’s patent 821, unfermented 815.

Brechin, bishop of 1075, seat of bishoprick removed to Dundee 1075.

Bremer, Frederika d. 1865 Swedish novelist, works introduced into England 1559.

Brewers, Allsopp 834, 1481, Barclay, A. K. 158, Barclay, C. 158, Bass 189, Buxton 503, Crowley 776, Findlater 834, Flower 1071, Guinness 1256, Hanbury 1313 bis., Hoare 1485, Hodgson 1495, Ind Coope 707, Meux 847, Truman 834, Whitbread 309.

Breweries, Barclay, Perkins & Co.’s men assault Haynau 1400, butt-money 1521.

Brett, Charles a police sergeant killed in 1867 at Manchester 53.

Bridges, Forth railway bridge commenced 347, lattice bridges 316, 845, Royal Albert at Saltash 453, taperchain suspension 1175, Tay railway bridge and its fall 316.

Bright, John d. 1889 M.P., the cave of Adullam 1543.

Brighton, Brighton and London coach 729, Burrows and his statue 492, chain pier 438, court of request 1113, Davies’ bequest 829, Dick Gregory 1234, master of ceremonies 972, Old Ship hotel 701, poor, gift to, on St. Thomas’ day 274, Preston park 829, royal literary and scientific institution 492, St. Mary’s ch. 981, St. Mary’s hall 982, St. Paul’s ch. 555, stipendiary magistrate the first 274, theatre 597.

Bristol, bull baiting at 540, court of conscience 1340, orphan house, Ashley down 749, Plymouth brethren 749, port freed from dues 400, reformatory 554, 555, sch. industrial 555, sch. ragged 554.

British museum, Christy ethnological collection 618, Cuming collection of shells 1218, Elgin marbles 1046, engravings, Cousins’ collection 734, gift refused Ayrton’s Arabic calligraphs 114, keeper of antiquities 1387, keeper of manuscripts 1084, keeper of prints and drawings 556, keepers of zoological department 610, 1216, librarian the principal 983, oriental cylinders and seals, collection of 781, Persian manuscripts 1076, persons forbidden to enter reading room 1295, 1353, reading room, claimant to suggestion of 1545, reading room superintendent 570, the ninety one cataloguing rules 965.

Bromsgrove sch. Worcestershire, master Collis 683, chapel 683, St. John the Baptist ch. 683, tercentenary 683.

Brothers, Richard d. 1824 fanatic, his friends 1049.

Brown, Charlotte Marie Augustine (dau. of duc de Berri) comtesse d’Issoudun d. 1886 aged 79, m. 1823 Prince de Faucigny Lucinge.

Brown, Louise Marie Charlotte (dau. of duc de Berri) comtesse de Vierzon d. Brittany 26 Dec. 1891, m. 1826 Baron de Charette.

Browning, Robert d. 1890 poet, his wife 447.

Brunel, Isambard K. d. 1859, C.E. 453, 1259.

Brunswick, Karl d. 1873, duke of 453, 1233.

Buckenham, Old, Norfolk, Cocks’ almshouses 665.

Buckland, Francis T. d. 1880 naturalist, Land and Water 1040.

Bude light invented 1261.

Builders, Cubitt T. 779, Cubitt W. 780, Grainger 1199, Grissell 1249, Peto 1249.

Bull baiting put down 540.

Bullion broker, Goldsmid 1168.

Bunya bunya tree discovered 274.

Bunyan, John d. 1688 baptist minister, Pilgrim’s Progress in Chinese 490.

Burford, Robert d. 1861 his panoramas 477, 571.

Burial clubs and infanticide 640.

Burns, Robert d. 1796 poet, centenary festival 115, facts about 1597, his punch bowl 1371, his son 489, memorial at Alloway 1305, monument Edin. 1305.

Button maker, Hardman 1329.

Byron, Anne I. d. 1860 Lady 507, gave prize for essay on juvenile delinquency 722.

Byron, George Gordon d. 1824 Lord, Allegra his dau. 621, Childe Harold, dedication of 427, Clara M. J. Clairmont 621, Don Juan 627, friends 151, 852, 1049, 1342, 1345, 1495, 1591, Guiccioli, countess 1255, his fag 1411, his servant 1016, Hours of idleness reviewed 1592, Parisina, dedication of 828, portraits 1213, 1370, swam with S. B. Davies 828, wife 507 and separation from 1495.

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Cables, iron chain cables invented 438, manufacturer of 730.

Cabs, Chapman’s patent 592, Hansom’s patent 592, 1322, Hearn a cab owner 1409, safety cabriolet and two wheel carriage Co. 592.

Cahusac, the misses, school mistresses Highgate 1146.

Calculating machine 116, calculating phenomenon 272.

Calico printers, Brooks 421, Cobden 659, Crum 778, Dalglish 803, Grafton 1195.

Cambridge, Anglo-Saxon professorship founded 345, annals of 708, apostles’ club 305, B.A. without taking the oath 1362, Brown’s billiard rooms 434, chancellor of the university 39, Christian advocate 1108, council of the senate 706, Cripp’s gift of statues 762, Disney professorship of archæology 882, Fitzwilliam museum first stone laid 32, grenadier company of volunteers 616, nonconformists first take degrees 399, observatory 582, peer’s son entering without residence or examination 996, plan for colonial coll. 776, Powis, Earl of stood for chancellorship 39, school of art founded 208, Sunday schools 586, university boat club 616, university library first stone laid 32, university commission 662.

Cambridge. Magdalen coll. song, Sicut lilium carmen hortativum 336, model rifle club 497.

Cambridge. Trinity coll. first jew a senior wrangler 1362, Halliwell accused of taking MSS, from 1295.

Cambridgeshire lord lieut. 1331.

Cambronne, Pierre Jaques Etienne d. 1842 general, taken prisoner at Waterloo 1282.

Camels and elephants in harness 1571.

Camp meetings, first in England 655.

Campbell, Thomas d. 1844 poet, his manuscripts 1167.

Canada. Bytown renamed Gloucester 277, Caroline steamer burnt 1500, governor general 1404, grants of land given to fifty seven rectories 265, metropolitan bishop 1111, paper mill the first 768, peat fuel manufactured 1491, rebellion suppressed 91, Victoria bridge 1491, wheat and flour, first load sent from Upper Canada to Montreal 768.

Canada. Montreal, first daily paper, Daily Advertiser 591.

Canada. Toronto, The Banner established 437, Mackenzie’s rebellion 1061, royal grenadier regiment 782, university built 782.

Canals, cases relating to 560.

Candle makers, Field 1041, Hale 1278.

Caning, boy caned three times a day for seven years 772.

Canning, George d. 1827 statesman, Brougham’s quarrel with 426.

Cannon, Dove’s rifled cannon 905, Gardner’s quick firing 1123.

Canterbury, arches court 890, cath. the six preachers 1084, cath. windows 632, musical doctor’s degree first since reformation 1131, prerogative court abolished 890, St. Augustine’s abbey 1528.

Canvas maker, Gaskell 1128.

Cape Coast castle defended 916.

Cape Town, bishop of, Grey 673, Sir G. Grey’s library 311.

Carbolic acid first manufactured 520.

Cardinal, Cullen 781.

Cardiff, castle rebuilt 478, Sophia gardens 499.

Cards, makers of 851.

Caricatures, collection of 1387.

Caricaturists, Bennett 240, Cruikshank, G. 777, Cruikshank, I. 777, Cruikshank, I. R. 778, Doyle 912.

Carisbrook castle, Isle of Wight, custodian of 859.

Carlile, Richard d. 1843 bookseller, disputation with 128, wife charged with selling a libel 1472.

Carlisle, aerated bread made at 821.

Carlyle, Thomas d. 1881 historian, his friends 996, 1058, 1591.

Carlow lord lieutenant 261.

Carmarthenshire lord lieutenant 948.

Caroline d. 1821 queen of Great Britain, attorney general to 426, solicitor general to 859.

Carpet manufacturers, Crossley 772, Henderson 1425.

Carriers of goods, law of 613.

Carron, Guy T. J. d. 1821 Abbé, established school at Somers Town, London 502.

Carthage, excavations at 832.

Cashel, Emly, Waterford and Lismore, bishop of 809.

Casks, cleansing of 834.

Catalani, Angelica d. 1849 singer, concerts 621.

Cats, a painter of 1497.

Cattle, breeders of 173, 257, 294, 307, 328, 337, 338, 1039–40, Fasque pure bred polled 1155, plague 1342.

Cawthorne, George d. 1833 of circulating library 1607.

Celtic scholar, Evans 1002.

Cemeteries, London cemetery co. founded 1133, London Necropolis projected 429, Woking, national mausoleum at 429, See also Cremation.

Census of 1851, assistant of registrar 1308.