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Printed in Encyclopædia Metropolitana, 1853. d. Futtyghur, Bengal 18 Feb. 1854, memorial monument erected in cemetery at Futtyghur. Memoirs of Colonel A. S. H. Mountain, edited by Mrs. A. S. H. Mountain (1857) portrait.

MOUNTAIN, GEORGE JEHOSHAPHAT (brother of the preceding). b. Norwich 27 July 1789; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1810, D.D. 1819; secretary to his father, the bishop of Quebec; R. of Frederickton, New Brunswick 1814–7; R. of Quebec 1817; archdeacon of Lower Canada 1821; consecrated at Lambeth 14 Feb. 1836 bishop of Montreal, as coadjutor to the bishop of Quebec, had charge of the entire diocese until 1839, when Upper Canada was made a separate see; had sole charge of Lower Canada until 1850; bishop of Quebec 19 July 1850 to death; established in 1845 the Lower Canadian church university, Bishop’s college, Lennoxville for the education of clergymen; D.C.L. Oxford 1853; author of The journal of the bishop of Montreal during a visit to the church missionary society’s north-west American mission 1845, 2 ed. 1849; Songs of the wilderness 1846; Journal of a visitation in a portion of the diocese by the lord bishop of Montreal 1847; Sermons 1865. d. Bardfield, Quebec 6 Jany. 1863. A. W. Mountain’s Memoir of G. J. Mountain (1866) portrait; F. Taylor’s The last three bishops appointed by the crown for the church of Canada (1870) 131–86 portrait; Appleton’s American biography iv 447–8 (1888) portrait; Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadiensis (1867) 284–7; I.L.N. xli 576, 587 (1862) portrait.

MOUNTAIN, JACOB GEORGE (2 son of Jacob Henry Brooke Mountain 1788–1872). b. 14 Oct. 1818; ed. on foundation of Eton school, Newcastle medallist 1837; postmaster Merton coll. Oxf., 1837–41; rowed in boat race against Cambridge 1840–1; B.A. 1841, M.A. 1847; private tutor at Eton; C. of Clewer near Windsor 1846; went to Newfoundland as a missionary April 1847; dean of Fortune bay 1847–54; principal of St. John’s college, Newfoundland 1854 to death; commissary of bishop of Newfoundland to death; R. of cathedral ch. of St. John’s March 1856 to death. d. St. John’s, Newfoundland 10 Oct. 1856. bur. St. John’s cemetery. Lives of missionaries, North America (1864) 206–52.

MOUNTAIN, JACOB HENRY BROOKE (brother of G. J. Mountain 1789–1863). b. Norwich Jany. 1788; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1814, B.D. 1836, D.D. 1842; preb. of Lincoln cath. 23 March 1812 to death; R. of South Ferriby, Lincs. 1812–4; R. of Puttenham, Lincs. 1814–31; R. of Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks. 1814–7; V. of Hemel, Hempstead, Herts. 1820–46; R. of Blunham, Beds. 29 Jany. 1831 to death; a contributor to the British Critic; translator of A tract on preparation for death by D. Erasmus 1866; author of Advent, twelve sermons 1834; Twenty one sermons 1835; A summary of the writings of Lactantius 1839; to the Encyclopædia Metropolitana he contributed to History of Greece, 1852, chapters ii, x, xi, and xii, to The history of the Roman empire, Cæsar to Vitellius 1853, chapters i, viii, ix and to The history of Roman empire from Vespasian 1853, chapter vi. d. Blunham rectory 8 Sept. 1872. The Guardian 23 Oct. 1872 p. 1324.

MOUNT CASHELL, STEPHEN MOORE, 3 Earl of (eld. child of 2 earl of Mount Cashell 1770–1822). b. St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 20 Aug. 1792; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1812; styled lord Kilworth till 1822, when he succeeded his father; an Irish representative peer 2 July 1826 to death. d. Oxford terrace, Paddington, London 10 Oct. 1883. I.L.N. lxxxiii 405 (1883) portrait.

MOUNT EDGCUMBE, ERNEST AUGUSTUS EDGCUMBE, 3 Earl of (2 son of 2 earl of Mount Edgcumbe 1764–1839). b. Richmond Hill, Surrey 23 March 1797; ensign 1 foot guards 12 Jany. 1814 to 30 March 1819; brevet lieutenant 29 July 1815, received Waterloo medal 1816; styled viscount Valletort 1819–39; M.P. Fowey 1819–26; contested Cornwall at great expense 10 May 1831; M.P. Lostwithiel 1826–32; colonel of Duke of Cornwall rangers’ militia 17 Feb. 1821; militia A.D.C. to Wm. IV 23 Nov. 1830, and to Victoria June 1837; vice chamberlain to queen Adelaide at her coronation 8 Sept. 1831; succeeded as 3 earl 26 Sept. 1839; special deputy warden of the Stannaries Oct. 1852; m. 3 Dec. 1831 Caroline, eld. dau. of Charles Fielding, captain R.N., she was b. Jany. 1808 and d. Saltram near Plymouth 2 Nov. 1881; author of Considerations on the endowment of the Roman Catholic church of Ireland 1847; Extract from a journal kept during the commencement of the revolution at Palermo 1849, 2 ed. 1850; On the militia bill 1855. d. in his yacht off Erith 3 Sept. 1861. Sir H. Nicolas’s Court of queen Victoria (1845) 37–45 portrait of the Countess.

MOUNTFORD, WILLIAM. b. Kidderminster 31 May 1816; studied at Manchester college York; became a Unitarian preacher 1838; went to the U.S. of America 1849; an early convert to spiritualism; author of Christianity, the deliverance of the soul and its life 1846; Martyria, a legend 1845; Thorpe, a quiet English town and life therein 1852; Miracles past and present 1870; Euthanasy, or happy talks towards the end of life 1874. d. Boston, Massachusetts 20 April 1885.

MOUNTMORRES, HERVEY DE MONTMORENCY 4 Viscount (only son of Francis Hervey de Montmorency, 3 Viscount Mountmorres 1756–1833). b. Snugborough, co. Kilkenny 20 Aug. 1796; ed. Dublin univ., B.A. 1826, LL.B. and LL.D. 1836; succeeded as 4 viscount 23 March 1833; dean of Cloyne 1 Nov. 1845 to Jany. 1851; dean of Achonry Jany. 1851; chaplain to lord lieutenant of Ireland Jany. 1853; author of A brief notice of the parties and doctrines of the established church and subscription to the articles especially in relation to Ireland 1842. d. The Grove, Killiney near Dublin 23 Jany. 1872. I.L.N. lx 115 (1872).

MOUNTMORRES, WILLIAM BROWNE DE MONTMORENCY, 5 Viscount (1 son of the preceding). b. Kingstown, co. Dublin 21 April 1832; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1855; succeeded as 5 viscount 23 Jany. 1872; a magistrate for county Galway; had most unhappy relations with his tenants, some of whom he ejected 1880. murdered with 6 bullet wounds at Rusheen near Clonbur, co. Galway 25 Sept. 1880. bur. Monkstown. Graphic xxii 356 (1880) portrait; I.L.N. lxxvii 361 (1880) portrait.

MOUNTSOY, ANTOINE. b. Bordeaux 1787; taken prisoner by an English war ship; prisoner in England some years; pressed into English navy where he served 5 years; served in the Queen Charlotte at bombardment of Algiers, badly wounded; went whaling cruises off the coast of Greenland; living at village of Armitage near Lichfield in Dec. 1891. Daily Graphic 15 Dec. 1891 p. 14 portrait.

MOUNT TEMPLE, WILLIAM FRANCIS COWPER TEMPLE, 1 Baron (2 son of 5 earl Cowper 1778–1837). b. Brockethall, Herts 13 Dec. 1811; ed. Eton; cornet royal horse guards 1830, lieut. 1832; brevet capt. 1835, major 1852; private sec. to lord Melbourne, prime minister 1835; M.P. Hertford 1834–68; M.P. South Hampshire 1868–80; a lord of the treasury 1841; a lord of the admiralty 1846–52, and Jany. 1853 to Feb. 1855; under sec. of state, home department 1855; president of the board of health Aug. 1855 to Feb. 1857, and Sept. 1857 to March 1858; vice president of committee of privy council on education Feb. 1857 to 1858; vice president of board of trade and paymaster general Aug. 1859 to Feb. 1860; first comr. of public works Feb. 1860 to 1866; cr. baron Mount Temple of Mount Temple, Sligo 25 May 1880; assumed by R.L. additional surname of Temple on succeeding to the Broadland estate on death of viscount Palmerston 1869; author of The medical practitioners bill explained 1858. d. Broadlands near Romsey, Hants 16 Oct. 1888. The Times 17, 18, 22 and 23 Oct. (1888); I.L.N. 27 Oct. 1888 pp. 481, 482 portrait.

MOUTRIE, WILLIAM FRANCIS COLLARD. Pianoforte maker at 4 King st. High Holborn, London 1850–7, at 22 King st. 1857–60, at 133 Oxford st. 1860–1, at 50 Southampton row 1861–5, and at 77 Southampton row 1865–9; originated distribution of musical instruments after the plan of the Art Union, seven of these distributions took place, but the eighth was stopped by Lord Palmerston Oct. 1853. d. 1869.

MOWAT, JOHN LANCASTER GOUGH (3 son of rev. James Mowat, wesleyan minister, d. 1881). b. St. Helier’s, Jersey 25 Sept. 1846; educ. Taunton; scholar of Exeter coll. Oxf. 1865–70; B.A. 1869, M.A. 1872; fellow of Pembroke coll. 1871 to death, lecturer, senior bursar and junior dean 1872, librarian 1885 to death; proctor 1885; curator of Bodleian library 1889 to death; also bursar of Lincoln coll.; a student of Lincoln’s inn 15 June 1876; an antiquarian, a botanist and a great pedestrian; completely explored the line of the Roman wall between England and Scotland; edited for Anecdota Oxoniensia Sinonoma Bartholomei 1882, and Alphita, a medico-botanical glossary 1887; author of Thermopylæ, a prize poem 1864; A walk along the Teufelsmaeur and Pfahgraben 1885; Notes on the Oxfordshire domesday 1892. hung himself at Pembroke college 7 Aug. 1894, inquest, verdict, suicide in a fit of temporary insanity. The Times 9 Aug. 1894.

MOWATT, ALEXANDER MURRAY. b. 1838; on the press in Aberdeen; connected with the Caledonian Mercury, Edinburgh, and was in repute as a short hand writer; head of reporting staff of the Glasgow Herald; reporter for the press Liverpool. d. Liverpool 21 June 1869. Newspaper Press iii 181 (1869).

MOWATT, ANNA CORA (10 child of Samuel Gouverneur Ogden of New York, d. 1860). b. Bordeaux, France 1819; one of 17 children; m. 6 Oct. 1835 James Mowatt, barrister, financier and publisher, who became bankrupt and d. Green st. Grosvenor sq. London 15 Feb. 1851 aged 45; she m. (2) 7 June 1854 William F. Ritchie of Richmond, Virginia, who d. 1868; appeared as Pauline at the Park theatre, New York 13 June 1845; played at theatre royal, Manchester as Pauline 7 Dec. 1847, at the Princess’, London as Julia in the Hunchback 5 Jany. 1848, at the Olympic, at the Marylebone as Rosalind, where she produced her drama Armand 18 Jany. 1849, at the New Olympic theatre 18 Dec. 1850 as Beatrice; her last appearance was as Pauline at Niblo’s theatre, New York 3 June 1854; author of The fortune hunter by Mrs. Helen Berkley 1842; Evelyn, a tale 1850; Fashion, or life in New York, a comedy 1850; Mimic life, or before and behind the curtain 1855. d. Richmond, Surrey 28 July 1870. Howitt’s Journal iii 146, 167, 181 portrait; Ireland’s New York stage ii, 437–8, 729 (1867); Tallis’ Drawing room table book 1851, Part 2 pp. 9–11 two portraits; Theatrical Times iii 162, 169 (1848) portrait; A. C. Mowatt’s Autobiography of an actress (1854) portrait; Appleton’s American biography iv 450 (1888) portrait.

MOWBRAY, ALFRED JOSEPH STOURTON, 21 Baron (3 son of 18 baron Stourton 1802–72). b. 28 Feb. 1829; lieut. Yorkshire yeomanry cavalry 1853; succeeded as 19 baron Stourton 23 Dec. 1872; summoned by writ to parliament as lord Mowbray and lord Segravês Jany. 1878, the abeyance of these baronies having been terminated in his favour. d. Hotel St. James, 211 Rue St. Honoré, Paris 18 Apl. 1893.

MOWBRAY, ALFRED RICHARD. b. Leicester 28 Nov. 1824; entered St. Mark’s college, Chelsea 1843; a schoolmaster at Ibstock, then at Bingham, where he painted a window in the parish church, lastly at Pinchbeck near Spalding; a bookseller and publisher at 2 Cornmarket, Oxford, afterwards in St. Aldate’s to death; organised a branch of the Guild of St. Alban of which he was master; carried on a night school at St. Nicholas’s mission; author of The Anglican missal, with borders, initial letters and vignettes, outlined for illumination by A. R. Mowbray 1869; The deformation and the reformation, designed by A. R. M. 1873; A handy book of illustrations for Christian memorials 1873; Mowbray’s Prayer triptych, a card 1879. d. 30 St. John st. Oxford 17 Dec. 1875. bur. Holywell cemet. Guide to the church congress (1883) 51.

MOXON, EDWARD (son of Michael Moxon). bapt. in Wakefield parish church 12 Dec. 1801; apprenticed to Mr. Smith, bookseller 1810; in the service of Longman and co. publishers, London 1821–7; employed in Hurst’s publishing house in St. Paul’s churchyard 1827–30; publisher at 64 New Bond st. 1830–33, at 44 Dover st. 1833 to death; started and edited the Englishman’s Magazine April 1831, which ceased Oct. 1831; published Charles Lamb’s Album Verses 1830; Barry Cornwall’s Songs and ballads 1832; Tennyson’s Poems 1833; B. Disraeli’s Revolutionary Epoch 1834; Wordsworth’s Poems, 6 vols. 1836; R. Browning’s Sordello 1840; Dyce’s edition of Beaumont and Fletcher 11 vols. 1843–6; a series of single volume editions of the poets 1840, &c; author of The Prospect and other poems 1826; Christmas, a poem 1829; Sonnets, two parts 1830–35, reprinted together 1843 and 1871, Charles Lamb, By E. M. 1835. d. Putney Heath 3 June 1858. bur. Wimbledon churchyard. Curwen’s History of booksellers (1873) 347–62; Lupton’s Wakefield Worthies (1864) 229–35 and 257; P.W. Clayden’s Rogers and his contemporaries ii 46, 458 (1889).

NOTE.—Moxon was indicted in the Queen’s Bench on 23 June 1841 for selling Shelley’s works “containing a scandalous libel concerning the Holy Scriptures and Almighty Go d.” The jury found him guilty, but he was not sentenced to any punishment. W. C. Townsend’s Modern state trials ii 356–92 (1850).

MOXON, EMMA (dau. of Charles Isola, an Italian teacher of languages of Emm. coll. Camb., B.A. 1796, M.A. 1799, esquire bedel. 1797. d. Cambridge Oct. 1814). b. 1809; first met C. Lamb at house of Mrs. Paris; left an orphan; as a school girl, visited C. Lamb in 1823 and was afterward adopted by Charles Lamb and his sister; C. Lamb taught her Latin and Mary Lamb French; known as the Nut Brown maid and the Girl of Gold; governess to James Haddy Wilson Williams, rector of Fornham, All Saints, near Bury St. Edmunds 1829; m. 30 July 1833 Lamb’s friend, Edward Moxon 1801–58; after Mary Lamb’s death in 1847, she inherited Charles Lamb’s savings about £2,000; after E. Moxon’s death, Ward and Lock purchased the business in 1877, and allowed Mrs. Moxon an annuity of £250 a year. d. Brighton 2 Feb. 1891. bur. Brighton cemet. 5 Feb. I.L.N. 14 Feb. 1891 p. 203 portrait; The correspondence of C. Lamb with an essay on his life by T. Purnell, aided by recollections of the author’s adopted daughter (1870); A. Ainger’s Letters of C. Lamb i 341, ii 172, 365 (1888); Law Reports 8, Chancery 881–8 (1873).

MOXON, JAMES HENRY HARMAR (2 son of John Moxon of Hanover terrace, Regent’s park, London). b. Souldern, Oxon 1847; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb.; one of the London club’s grand challenge crew 1867; senior in law tripos and chancellor’s gold medallist 1869; LL.B. 1870; barrister M.T. 6 June 1871; a teacher of law at Cambridge; a founder of the National skating association; author of Fen floods and the Lower Ouze, Cambridge 1878. d. suddenly of apoplexy near the Cam at Cambridge 23 May 1883. Baily’s Mag. xl 415 (1883).

MOXON, WALTER (son of an inland revenue officer, Somerset house). b. Midleton, co. Cork 27 June 1836; clerk in a merchant’s office in London; entered Guy’s hospital 1854; M.B. London 1859, M.D. 1864; demonstrator of anatomy at Guy’s 1859–66, assistant physician and lecturer on comparative anatomy 1866, lecturer on pathology 1869, lecturer on materia medica, physician to the hospital 1873, lecturer on medicine 1882; F.R.C.P. 1868, Croonian lecturer 1881; a medal to commemorate his attainments in clinical medicine is awarded every year by the college; author of Lectures on pathological anatomy 1875; Pilocereus senilis and other papers 1887. d. 6 Finsbury circus, London 21 July 1886 after drinking a dose of hydrocyanic acid. bur. Highgate cemet. 24 July. British medical journal 1886 vol. ii 178, 234, 392, 434.

MOYLAN, DENIS. Rectifying distiller and wine and spirit merchant at 9 and 10 John st. Dublin; lord mayor of Dublin 1862; collector general of rates 1870. d. 46 Leeson st. Dublin 25 July 1878.

MOYLE, JOHN GRENFELL (2 son of Richard Moyle, surgeon 1756–1828). b. Marazion, Cornwall 1787; M.D.; F.R.C.S.; assistant surgeon Bombay army 15 Sept. 1808, surgeon 1 Jany. 1820, superintending surgeon 1831; member of the medical board, Bombay 1835, then president; retired 3 Jany. 1838. d. 23 Blomfield terrace, Harrow road, London 3 Jany. 1860.

MOYLE, MATTHEW PAUL (2 son of John Moyle). b. Chacewater, Cornwall 4 Oct. 1788; ed. at Guy’s and St. Thomas’s hospitals; M.R.C.S. 1809; practised at Helston, Cornwall 1809–78; wrote papers in Thomson’s Annals of philosophy 1814, &c; author of a paper On the formation of electro-type plates independently of any engraving, in Sturgeon’s Annals of Electricity 1841; author with Robert Were Fox of An account of the observations and experiments on the temperature of mines, which have recently been made in Cornwall and the North of England, in Tilloch’s Philosophical Magazine 1823. d. Cross st. Helston 7 Aug. 1880.

MOYSEY, CHARLES ABEL (son of Abel Moysey of London, M.P., d. 1831). b. 26 Nov. 1779; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1802, M.A. 1805, B.D. and D.D. 1818; Bampton lecturer 1818; P.C. of Southwick, Hants. and V. of Hinton Parva, Wilts. 1808–39; R. of Martyr Worthy, Hants. 1810–39; R. of Walcot near Bath 1817–39; archdeacon of Bath 17 June 1820 to 6 March 1839; prebendary of Wells 1 Feb. 1826 to 6 Oct. 1832; had a paralytic stroke 1839; author of The doctrines of unitarians examined, Bampton lectures 1818; Eighteen lectures on important points of doctrine and practice from the gospel of St. John 1823; Lectures on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans 1830. d. Batheaston court, Bath 17 Dec. 1859.

MOZLEY, ANNE (dau. of Henry Mozley of Gainsborough, bookseller). b. Gainsborough 17 Sept. 1809; resided at Derby 1815–32, then at Barrow on the Trent, but returned to Derby; she published anonymously Passages from the poets 1837; Church poetry or christian thoughts 1843, 4 ed. 1857; Days and seasons or church poetry for the year 1845; Poetry, past and present 1849; reviewed books for the Christian Remembrancer 1847–68, and contributed to the Saturday Review 1861–77; wrote for Blackwood’s Mag. from 1865; edited The letters of J. B. Mozley 1885; The letters and correspondence of Cardinal Newman, 2 vols. 1891. d. Derby 27 June 1891. A. Mozley’s Essays from Blackwood (1892) memoir pp. vii–xx; I.L.N. 4 July 1891 p. 3 portrait.

MOZLEY, HARRIET ELIZABETH (elder sister of John Henry Newman, cardinal, d. 11 Aug. 1890). m. at St. Werburgh’s, Derby 27 Sept. 1836 Thomas Mozley, divine and journalist 1806–93; author of The fairy bower or the history of a month 1841; The lost brooch 1841; Louisa, or the bride 1842; Family adventures 1852. d. 71 Guilford st. Russell sq. London 17 July 1852.

MOZLEY, JAMES BOWLING (brother of Anne Mozley 1809–91). b. Gainsborough 15 Sept. 1813; ed. at Grantham gr. sch. 1822–8; matric. from Oriel coll. Oxf. 1 July 1830; B.A. 1834, M.A. 1838, B.D. 1846, D.D. 1871; fellow of Magdalen coll. 1840–56; joint editor of the Christian Remembrancer, the organ of the high church party about 1845–55; V. of Old Shoreham, Sussex 1856 to death; select university preacher 1869; canon of Worcester 1869–71; regius professor of divinity at Oxford and canon of Ch. Ch. 7 Oct. 1871 to death; author of On the Augustinian doctrine of predestination 1855, 2 ed. 1878; The primitive doctrine of baptismal regeneration 1856; A review of the baptismal controversy 1862, 2 ed. 1883; Eight lectures on miracles; Bampton lectures 1865, 6 ed. 1883; Ruling ideas in early ages and their relation to the Old Testament faith 1877, 4 ed. 1889; The theory of development, a criticism of Dr. Newman’s essay 1878; Sermons, parochial and occasional 1879, 2 ed. 1882; Lectures and other theological papers 1883. d. Old Shoreham vicarage 4 Jany. 1878. J. B. Mozley’s Essays, 2 vols. (1884) introduction pp. xi–xlvii; J. B. Mozley’s Letters (1885) introduction pp. 1–30; I.L.N. lxxii 108 (1878) portrait.

MOZLEY, THOMAS (brother of the preceding). b. Gainsborough 1806; ed. at Charterhouse and Oriel coll. Oxf.; pupil of John Henry Newman; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; fellow of Oriel April 1829 to 27 Sept. 1836, junior treasurer 1835; C. of Buckland near Oxford 1831; P.C. of Moreton-Pinkney, Northamptonshire 1831–6; R. of Cholderton, Wiltshire 1836–47, rebuilt the church; advocated the tractarian movement from 1833; edited the British Critic 1841–3; wrote leading articles for The Times from 1844 for more than 40 years; R. of Plymtree, Devon 1868–80; rural dean of Plymtree 1874, and of Ottery St. Mary 1876; author of Reminiscences, chiefly of Oriel college and the Oxford movement, 2 vols. 1882, 2 ed. 1882; Reminiscenses, chiefly of towns, villages and schools, 2 vols. 1885; The Word 1889; The Son 1891; Letters from Rome on the occasion of the Œcumenical council 1869–70, 2 vols. 1891; The creed, or a philosophy 1893, with autobiographical preface. d. 7 Lansdowne terrace, Cheltenham 17 June 1893.

MUDGE, HENRY (son of Thomas Mudge). b. Tower Hill house, Bodmin 29 July 1806; ed. at St. Bartholomew’s hospital, London; L.S.A. 1828, M.R.C.S. 1829; practised at Bodmin to his death; advocated strict temperance principles; mayor of Bodmin twice; edited The Western temperance luminary, 12 numbers 1838; The Bodmin temperance luminary, 12 numbers 1840–1; The Cornwall and Devon temperance journal, 8 vols. 1851–8; author of An exposure of Odd-fellowship 1845; Rescued texts or teetotalism put under the protection of the gospel 1853, 3 ed. 1856; Alcoholics, a letter to practitioners in medicine By one of themselves 1856; Dialogues against the use of tobacco 1861. d. Fore st. Bodmin 27 June 1874. Boase & Courteney’s Bibl. Cornub. i 377–8 (1874), iii 1290 (1882).

MUDGE, RICHARD ZACHARIAH (eld. son of major general Wm. Mudge, col. R.A. 1762–1820). b. Plymouth 6 Sept. 1790; ed. at Blackheath and R.M. academy, Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.E. 4 May 1807, lieut. col. 10 Jany. 1837, retired on full pay 7 Sept. 1840; in charge of the drawing department, Tower of London, some years; superintended the ordnance survey of Lincolnshire 1818; appointed comr. by the British government to examine the boundary between Maine and New Brunswick 1838, the survey was made by Mr. Featherstonehaugh and himself Aug. to Oct. 1839, the boundary was settled by the treaty of Washington 1842; author of Observations on railways with reference to utility, profit and the obvious necessity of a national system 1837. d. Teignmouth, Devon 25 Sept. 1854. bur. Denbury. S. R. Flint’s Mudge memoirs (Truro 1883) 177–239.

MUDGE, Zachary (son of John Mudge, physician 1721–93). b. Plymouth 22 Jany. 1770; entered navy 1 Nov. 1780; captain 15 Nov. 1800; captain of Blanche 32 gun frigate 23 Sept. 1802 in the West Indies, where he captured many French merchant ships and privateers; lost his ship in an action with a French squadron 19 July 1805, tried by court martial 14 Oct. when acquitted of all blame; commanded the Phœnix in the Bay of Biscay 1805–10, and the Valiant, 74 guns 1814–5; admiral 15 Sept. 1849. d. Sydney near Plympton 26 Oct. 1852. bur. Newton Ferrers. Memorial window in St. Andrew’s church, Plymouth.

MUDIE, CHARLES EDWARD (son of Thomas Mudie, second-hand bookseller). b. Cheyne Walk, Chelsea 18 Oct. 1818; assisted his father until 1840; stationer and bookseller at 28 Upper King st. (now Southampton row), Bloomsbury; published Poems by James Russell Lowell 1844, and R. W. Emerson’s Man thinking, an oration 1844; commenced lending books 1842; removed to 510 New Oxford st. 1852, where he opened a large new hall and library 17 Dec. 1860; established branches in London, Birmingham and Manchester; made over the library to a limited company 1864, in which he held half the shares and remained manager, there were over 25,000 subscribers to his library; member of London school board for Westminster 1870–3; author of Stray Leaves 1872, a vol. of poems, 2 ed. 1872. d. 31 Maresfield gardens, Hampstead 28 Oct. 1890. Curwen’s Booksellers (1873) 421–32 portrait; Cartoon portraits (1873) 72–3 portrait; I.L.N. 3 Nov. 1890 p. 583 portrait.

MUDIE, CHARLES HENRY (son of the preceding). b. Adelaide road, Haverstock hill 26 Jany. 1850; ed. at Univ. college school, London; took part in management of his father’s business 1871 to death; a good musician, an amateur actor, and a lecturer; he devoted much time to improvement of the poorer classes. d. 13 Jany. 1879. C. H. Mudie [by Mary Mudie his sister] (1879) portrait; Athenæum i 90 (1879).

MUDIE, JAMES. Second lieutenant royal marines 10 May 1799, first lieut. 18 Aug. 1804 to 1810 or 1811; manufactured medals of principal persons engaged in Peninsular and Waterloo campaigns; became insolvent 22 Aug. 1821; in New South Wales July 1822 to March 1836; owner of Castle Forbes station near Maitland, N.S.W. where there was an insurrection of the convicts in 1833, when he was removed from the commission of the peace together with 32 other magistrates; gave evidence in London before select committee appointed to inquire into the system of transportation, April and May 1837; author of An historical and critical account of a grand series of national medals, published under the direction of J. Mudie 1820; The felonry of New South Wales being a picture of the real romance of life in Botany bay 1837. R. Therry’s Reminiscenses (1863) 164–78; R. Flanagan’s History of New South Wales i 478–9, 524 (1862); Vindication of J. Mudie and J. Larnach from reflections on their conduct relative to treatment of convict servants 1834.

MUDIE, THOMAS MOLLISON. b. Chelsea 30 Nov. 1809; ed. at royal academy of music from 1823, professor of the pianoforte there 1832–44; organist at Lord Monson’s seat Gatton, Surrey 1834–40; taught music in Edinburgh 1844–63 when he returned to London; his song Lungi dal caro bene was published at cost of the R.A. of music composed symphonies in C and in B flat; at the concerts of the Society of British musicians, were performed his symphony in F 1835, symphony in D 1837, a quintet in E flat for pianoforte and strings 1843, &c.; composer of Remember, a duet 1840; Six songs and two duets 1844; There be none of beauty’s daughters, a song 1845; The songs of Scotland by G. F. Graham, arranged by T. M. Mudie and others, 3 vols. 1848; Airs from Macfarren’s opera She stoops to conquer 1864, two books; Christabel waltz 1874; First Nocturne for the piano 1872; his name is attached to upwards of 40 pieces 1830–76. d. Shaftesbury terrace, London 24 July 1876. bur. Highgate cemet. 28 July.

MUGGERIDGE, SIR HENRY (son of Robert Muggeridge). b. Banstead, Surrey 1814; a corn factor at 1 Hart st. Mark lane, London; common councilman for Castle Baynard ward Dec. 1843, alderman of the ward July 1853, resigned 1862; sheriff of London and Middlesex June 1854; knighted at Buckingham palace 1 May 1855, after visit of emperor of French; a founder of Bank of London 1859, director 1859–62; an unsuccessful candidate for lord mayorship of London 1861; suspended payment 4 March 1862. d. West End lodge, Streatham common, Surrey 27 June 1866.

MUIR, EMILY MARGARET (dau. of Thomas Dinamore Muir, artist). Played Frédégonde in Hervé’s opera Chilperic, at Lyceum theatre, London 28 Jany. 1870; lady Guy Fox in Burnand’s burlesque Our babes in the wood at Gaiety 2 April 1877; lady Southdown in Burnand’s comedy Jeames at Gaiety 26 Aug. 1878; Mrs. Beaumont in Byron’s comedy Uncle at Gaiety 1 Feb. 1879; played Ninetta in Lecocq’s musical drama The great Casimir at Gaiety 27 Sept. 1879. d. Mansfield road, London 4 Nov. 1883.

MUIR, JAMES (son of William Muir, presbyterian minister). b. Glasgow 31 May 1817; articled to J. and G. Rennie, London 1835–41; assistant engineer to New River co. 1841, and engineer 1859–82, during which time he greatly improved and extended the company’s works, consulting engineer 1882, and then a director until 1888; designed a new water meter; M.I.C.E. 1 May 1866. d. Bournemouth 4 Jany. 1889. Min. of Proc. of I.C.E. xcvi 323–6 (1889).

MUIR, JOHN. b. Glasgow 1778; presbyterian minister of Lecroft, Stirlingshire 1803–21, and of St. James’s, Glasgow 1820 to death; D.D. 1831; author of Popery makes void the laws of God 1836; The doctrines and practices of popery examined 1851; Discourses delivered in the Scottish National church, Crown court, London 1856. d. Glasgow 1 Feb. 1857. Our Scottish clergy, by J. Smith (1848) 45–56; Scott’s Fasti ii, pt. 1, p. 31 (1868).

MUIR, JOHN (eld. son of Wm. Muir, magistrate of Glasgow). b. Glasgow 5 Feb. 1810; ed. at Glasgow univ. and Haileybury college; assistant secretary to board of revenue at Allahabad 1828; principal of newly established Victoria or Queen’s college at Benares 1844–5; civil and sessions judge at Fatehpur, Bengal 1845, retired 1853; resided at Edinburgh 1853 to death; chief founder of the Association for the better endowment of Edinburgh univ.; founded in Edinb. univ. the chair of Sanskrit and comparative philology 1862, and with his brother, sir Wm. Muir, the Shaw fellowship for moral philosophy; instituted the Muir lectureship in comparative religion; author of A sketch of the argument for christianity and against Hinduism, in Sanskrit verse, Calcutta 1839, 2 ed. 1840; The course of divine revelation 1846; An examination of religions Sanskrit and English, 2 parts 1852–4; Notes of a trip to Kedarnath and parts of the snowy range of the Himalayas 1855; Original Sanskrit texts on the origin of the religion and institutions of India, 5 vols. 1858–70, 2 ed. 1868–73; Metrical translations from Sanskrit writers 1879. d. 10 Merchiston avenue, Edinburgh 7 March 1882. W. Hole’s Quasi Cursores (1884) 103–4; I.L.N. lxxx 352 (1882) portrait.

MUIR, MATTHEW ANDREW. b. Glasgow 1812; managing partner of the Anderston foundry co. about 1850 to death; took out numerous patents; introduced plate moulding, which made the production much cheaper. d. Glasgow Jany. 1880.

MUIR, MATTHEW ARNOLD. A yachtsman on the Clyde and the Thames; owner of the 60 ton cutter Mabel 1886; successfully raced in Scottish waters 5 seasons; bought the famous yacht Irex 1891, which he renamed Mabel, won seven prizes with her 1893; member of the royal Thames and 8 other clubs. d. 25 Gloucester terrace, Hyde park, London 27 April 1894.

MUIR, WILLIAM (son of Wm. Muir of Glasgow, merchant). b. Glasgow, 11 Oct. 1787; matric. at Glasgow univ. 1800 LL.D., 1812 D.D.; presbyterian minister of St. George’s ch. Glasgow 1812–22; minister of New Grey Friars Edinb. 1822–9; minister of St. Stephen’s Edinb. 1829–67; moderator of general assembly 17 May 1838; consulted by the government about church patronage; dean of the order of the Thistle 9 June 1845 to death; chaplain in ordinary to the Queen 1845 to death; member of council of univ. of Glasgow 1858; author of Discourses on the epistles to the seven churches in Asia; Practical sermons on the holy spirit 1842; Metrical meditations 1870. d. Ormelie, Murrayfield, Edinburgh 23 June 1869. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 75–7 portrait; Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edinb. vii 22–5 (1872).

MUIR, WILLIAM (2 son of Andrew Muir, farmer). b. Catrine, Ayrshire 17 Jany. 1806; ed. Glasgow univ.; apprentice to Thomas Morton, blacksmith, Kilmarnock to 1824; employed at Maudslay and Field’s engineering factory, London 1831–6; foreman at Bramah and Robinson’s foundry at Pimlico, London 1836–40; worked with Joseph Whitworth, engineer at Manchester 1840–2; engineer in Berwick st. Manchester June 1842; subsequently took larger premises in Miller’s lane, Salford, afterwards erected the Britannia works at Strangeways; achieved a great reputation as a maker of lathes and machine tools; took out 11 patents 1853–67, his sugar-cutting machine 1863 is much used; a great advocate of temperance. d. Brockley 15 June 1888. bur. Brockley cemetery. R. Smiles’ Brief memoir of Wm. Muir (1888).

MUIR, SIR WILLIAM MURE (son of Walter Boyd Muir). b. Edinburgh 24 Jany. 1818; ed. Edinb. univ., M.D. 1840, and St. George’s hospital, London; assist. surgeon in army 1842, surgeon 1854, inspector general 1861, surgeon general 1873, and director general 1 April 1874 to 1882; served in the Crimea throughout the war 1854, in the Mauritius, in India during the mutiny 1857–8, in China 1860, and again in India; hon. physician to the queen 6 May 1868; responsible for the improvement made in the position of army surgeons 1879; C.B. 28 Feb. 1861, K.C.B. 24 May 1873. d. Oak lodge, Blackheath park, Kent 2 June 1885. Medical Times and Gazette i 800 (1885).

MUIRHEAD, JAMES (son of Claud Muirhead of Gogan park, Midlothian, proprietor of the Edinburgh Advertiser). b. 1831; in a merchant’s office in Leith; connected with the Edinburgh Advertiser; barrister I.T. 6 June 1857; member of faculty of advocates 1857; professor of civil law in univ. of Edinb. 1862 to death; advocate depute 1874–80; sheriff in chancery 1885; sheriff of Stirling, Dumbarton and Clackmannanshire 1886; hon. LL.D. Glasgow 1885; edited The institutes of Gaius and rules of Ulpian 1880; author of Historical introduction to the private law of Rome, Edinburgh 1886, a work of authority translated into French and Italian; his law library was purchased by subscription after his death and presented to Owen’s college, Manchester. d. Drumsheugh gardens, Edinburgh 8 Nov. 1889. Juridical Review Jany. 1890 pp. 27–36 portrait; W. Hole’s Quasi Cursores (1884) 175–80 portrait.

MULCAHY, JOHN. ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1830, LL.B. 1850, LL.D. 1851; professor of mathematics Queen’s college, Galway 1849 to death; author of Principles of modern geometry, Dublin 1852, 2 ed. 1862. d. 1 Dec. 1853.

MULCASTER, WILLIAM EDWARD (1 son of captain sir William Howe Mulcaster). b. 29 Sept. 1820; ensign 64 Bengal N.I. 31 May 1838, major 14 Nov. 1861; major Bengal staff corps 18 Feb. 1861, lieut. col. 4 April 1863 to 1 July 1881; served in Afghanistan 1841; in Sutlej campaign 1845–6, and present at Modkee, etc.; served with 7 Irregular cavalry in second Punjab campaign 1848–9, and was present at siege of Mooltan, etc.; commander of 7 Irregular cavalry 14 Jany. 1852 to 26 May 1864, and was present in campaign on North West frontier 1853; brigadier commanding the cavalry in Sitana campaign 1857; brigadier general in Assam 1864, and commanded the Bhootan field force on the Eastern frontier; brigadier general commanding the Mooltan brigade 1865; commanded the Agra brigade to 1867; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881. d. 3 Portland place, Bath 4 Feb. 1887.

MULES, HENRY CHARLES. b. 1816; copyhold and enclosure comr. 13 Nov. 1852 to death. d. Hill house, Copdock, Suffolk 4 Dec. 1862.

MULHALL, EDWARD. b. Queen’s co. Ireland 1812; ordained R.C. priest 1835; professor of humanity at Carlow college from 1835, until his health obliged him to retire. d. Mountrath, Queen’s county 9 Sept. 1857.

MULHOLLAND, ANDREW (son of Thomas Mulholland, cotton manufacturer). b. Belfast 1791; cotton manufacturer with his brother in York st. Belfast, their mill was burnt down 10 June 1828; produced flax yarns by machinery 1830, in which business he enjoyed almost a monopoly; member of Belfast corporation 1842, mayor 1845; presented the town with the organ in Ulster hall at cost of £3,000, 1845; retired from business 1860; sheriff of Down and Antrim. d. Springvale, Ballywalter, co. Down 24 Aug. 1866.

MULL, MATTHIAS. b. 1820; manager of a printing establishment in India 1850; manager of Bombay gazette; on staff of Bombay times, purchased the paper, took Robert Knight into partnership, and renamed it The Times of India, when it became the representative journal of Western India, retired 1880; author of Shakespeare 1883, emendations on certain passages; Paradise lost, with notes 1884; Hamlet restored, with notes 1885; Hamlet, supplementary notes 1888; Macbeth, with preface and notes 1889. d. Oct. 1893.

MULLANY, PATRICK FRANCIS. b. Tipperary 29 June 1847; ed. by the Christian Brethren at Utica, New York 1862; professor of mathematics and English literature Rock hill college, Ellicott city, Maryland 1866, president 1878, charges being made against him he was summoned to Paris and on investigation acquitted; professor of rhetoric at De La Salle institute 1889; established the summer school at Plattsburg, a catholic copy of Chautauqua; contributed to the Contemporary, Fortnightly, American Catholic and North American reviews, and The Forum; author under the name of Azarias, of The development of English literature, the old English period, New York 1879; On thinking, an address 1881; Aristotle and the christian church 1888; Phases of thought and criticism 1892; The history of education from the earliest ages 1893, left unfinished. d. Plattsburgh, New York state Sept. 1893.

MULLEN, ROBERT. Ensign 1 foot 25 June 1802, major 8 Aug. 1833 to 16 June 1843; lieut. col. in the army 16 June 1843; K.H. 1835. d. at residence of his son, captain Mullen, governor of Glasgow prison 7 July 1851.

MULLENS, JOSEPH. b. London 2 Sept. 1820; entered Coward college 1837; graduated B.A. London 1841; ordained congregational minister at Barbican chapel, London 5 Sept 1842; missionary at Bhowanipore, Bengal 1843–6; pastor of the native church at Bhowanipore 1846–66; D.D. William college Massachusetts 1861, D.D. Edinb. 1867; joint foreign secretary of London missionary society April 1866; sole foreign secretary March 1868 to death; author of Missions in South India visited and described 1854; The religious aspects of Hindoo philosophy discussed 1860; Brief memorials of the rev. Alphonse François Lacroix 1862; Twelve months in Madagascar 1874, 2 ed. 1875. d. Mpwapwa, Africa 10 July 1879. J. O. Whitehouse’s Register of Missionaries (1877) 169–70; Congregationalist viii 969 portrait; Congregational year book (1880) 342–4.

MULLER, EDWARD ANGIER GODFREY. b. about 1802; ensign 1 foot 3 Feb. 1820, captain 11 Jany 1833; conducted the trials for high-treason of Canadian rebels, Nov. 1838 to May 1839; major depôt battalion 1 Oct. 1856; lieut.-col. 3 Aug. 1860 to 1 Oct. 1866; commandant of royal military asylum, Chelsea 1 Oct. 1866 to 1871; M.G. 6 March 1868. d. Sterndale lodge, Tulse hill, Surrey 22 June 1875.

MÜLLER, FRANZ. b. 1841; a tailor residing at 16 Park ter. Old Ford road, London 1864; mortally wounded on his head. Thomas Briggs chief clerk to Robarts & Co. bankers, Lombard st., robbed him and threw him out of a North London railway carriage near Victoria park 9 July 1864; Mr. Briggs was taken to the Mitford arms public house where he died the same night; Müller went to New York by the Victoria, but was arrested there and brought to England, tried at Central criminal court 27–9 Oct., found guilty and executed at Newgate on 14 Nov. 1864 his last words were Ja, Ich habe es gethan. Law Mag. Feb. 1865 pp. 239–63; Central criminal court, Sessions papers lx 461–504 (1864); Annual register (1864) 100, 129, 138, 157, 247; Illust. Times 24 Sept. 1864 p. 201 portrait; A. Griffiths’ Newgate ii 448–52 (1884).

NOTE.—This was one of the last of the most celebrated public executions. Most disgraceful scenes took place among the mob assembled in the Old Bailey. As much as twelve pounds were given for a first floor to witness the execution and places commanding a view ranged from five shilling to two guineas; the last person publicly executed was Michael Barrett the Fenian on 26 May 1868.

MULLINS, FREDERICK WILLIAM (eld. son of rev. Frederick Ferriter Mullins, d. 1832 aged 54, and grandson of 1 baron Ventry 1736–1824). b. 29 June 1804; M.P. co. Kerry 1831–7; contested Kerry 12 Aug. 1837. d. Newgate prison, London 17 March 1854.

MULLINS, JAMES. Detective in the Irish police; sergeant in K division of the Metropolitan police; superannuated on pension of £35 per annum; an officer on South Eastern railway; sentenced to 6 years penal servitude for robbery, removed from Leicester gaol to Dartmoor 1854, nearly murdered a warder; for which he forfeited his pension; a bricklayer and plasterer; murdered Mrs. Mary Emsley, aged 70, at 9 Grove road, Stepney London Aug. 1860, tried at the Old Bailey 25 Oct. 1860, when sentenced to death, hanged at Newgate prison 19 Nov. 1860. Central Criminal court trials lii 769–805 (1860); A.R. (1860) 541–64.

MULLOCK, JOHN THOMAS. b. Limerick 1806; ed. at Seville; superior of the Franciscan House in Dublin; nominated bishop of Thaumacus and coadjutor to the bishop of St. John’s, Newfoundland 1847, succeeded as bishop 1850; author of Life of Saint Alphonsus M. Liguori, Dublin 1846; Lectures on Newfoundland, delivered at St. Bonaventure’s college, New York 1860; edited and translated A. M. Liguori’s The history of heresies and their refutation, 2 vols. Dublin 1847. d. St. John’s, Newfoundland 29 March 1869.

MULLOOLY, JOSEPH. Prior of Irish Dominicans, St. Clement’s, Rome, and rector of the basilica of St. Clement’s; discovered and excavated the basilica beneath the 12th century church of St. Clement 1857, explained the excavations to the prince of Wales 1859. d. Rome 25 June 1880. bur. in cemetery of San Lorenzo 27 June. Times 3 July 1880 p. 12.

MULOCK, DINAH MARIA (dau. of rev. Thomas Mulock). b. Stoke-upon-Trent 20 April 1826; came to London about 1846 and resided at Lynover cottage, Kilburn; author of How to win love or Rhoda’s lessons 1848; The Ogilvies, 3 vols. 1849; Cola Monti 1849; Olive, 3 vols. 1850; The head of the family, 3 vols. 1852; Alice Learmont 1852; Avillion and other tales, 3 vols. 1853; Nothing new, 2 vols. 1857; John Halifax, gentleman, 3 vols. 1856; Poems 1859; A life for a life, 3 vols. 1859; Mistress and maid 1863; Christian’s mistake 1865; A woman’s kingdom 1868; Sermons out of church 1875; The little lame prince 1875; Thirty years 1880, poems; obtained a literary pension of £50 in 1864; m. 1864 George Lillie Craik, professor of English literature at Queen’s coll. Belfast. d. Corner house, Shortlands near Bromley, Kent 12 Oct. 1887. A. H. Miles’ Poets of the century vii 377–84 (1891).

NOTE.—The authorship of John Halifax was incorrectly claimed by Mrs. Granville Whyte.

MULREADY, WILLIAM (son of a leather-breeches maker Leicester sq. London). b. Ennis, co. Clare 1 April 1786; taken to London 1792; student at the R.A. Nov. 1800; designed illustrations for Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare 1807, The butterfly’s ball and the grasshopper’s feast 1807, and 12 other children’s books 1807–9; A.R.A. Nov. 1815, R.A. Feb. 1816; exhibited 77 pictures at R.A., 5 at B.I., and 1 at Suffolk st. 1804–62; many of his finest pictures are in the Sheepshanks collection at South Kensington and in the National Gallery; designed the first penny postage envelope issued by Rowland Hill in 1840; lived at Kensington Gravel Pits 1811–27 and at 1 Lindon grove, Bayswater 1827 to death. d. 7 July 1863. bur. Kensal Green cemet. F. G. Stephen’s Memorials of W. Mulready (1890) 2 portraits; Stephen’s Masterpieces of Mulready (1867); Sandby’s History of the royal academy i 355–58 (1862); S. Armytage’s Beautiful pictures by British artists (1871) 15–6; J. Dafforne’s Pictures by W. Mulready, R.A. (1872); W. C. Monkhouse’s Masterpieces of English art (1869) 137–43; Redgrave’s Century of painters ii 224–30, 298–325 (1866); I.L.N. vii 20 (1845) portrait.

MULVANY, CHARLES PELHAM (son of Henry Wm. Mulvany, barrister). b. Dublin 20 May 1835; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 1850, scholar 1854, B.A. 1856; edited the College magazine 1856–7; surgeon in the navy; ordained deacon of Church of England 1868; went to Canada, ordained priest by bishop of Ontario 1872; assistant professor of classics at Lennoxville about 2 years; curate successively at Clarke’s Mills, Huntley, Milford, and the Carrying Place, all in Ontario; contributed to first 3 vols of Kottabos, issued at Trinity coll. Dublin 1874, 1877, and 1881; author of Lyrics of history and of life 1880; History of Brant, Ontario 1883; Toronto, past and present 1884; History of the north-west rebellion of 1885, 1886. d. 69 Augusta terrace, Toronto 31 May 1885. David J. O’Donoghue’s Poets of Ireland (1892) 171.

MULVANY, GEORGE F. (son of Thomas James Mulvany, painter R.H.A. d. 1852). b. Dublin 1809; studied at R.H.A. and in Italy; exhibited 2 pictures at the R.A. London 1836–9; A.R.H.A., succeeded his father as keeper of the royal Hibernian academy 1852–64; the first director of the newly founded National gallery of Ireland 1864 to death; author of Thoughts and facts concerning the fine arts in Ireland and schools of design 1847; Catalogue of works of art in National gallery of Ireland, with an introduction to the painting and sculpture by G. Mulvany 1890. d. Dublin 6 Feb. 1869.

MUMFORD, ELIZA. b. 1819; a Sunday school teacher connected with a Congregational chapel 1834; joined the Wesleyan Methodists 1837, and taught in a Sunday school, became a class leader; author under the name of Lillie of Aunt Mabel a tale for the young Chichester 1867; My class for Jesus 1872; New packet of Penny Books, Lillie’s pet series of stories for the young 1878; author under name of Lillie Montfort of my class for Jesus 2 ed. 1873; Incidents in my Sunday school life 1873; Maude Linden 1873, 2 ed. 1881; Broken purposes 1878, 2 ed. 1885; The meadow daisy 1878; Luther Miller’s ambition 1883. d. Bromley, Kent 3 Feb. 1884.

NOTE.—Samuel Pretyman Mumford was living at 70 Mason’s hill, Bromley in 1882.

MUMMERY, ISAAC VALE (son of rev. Stephen Mummery). b. Canterbury 8 July 1812; assistant in his father’s school at Edmonton; ed. at Wymondley and Coward colleges; congregational minister at Tonbridge 1841; minister at Ratcliff and at Bethnal Green, London; worked for the Religious book society, the Evangelical magazine and the Apprenticeship soc.; financial sec. to Congregational union for many years; F.R.A.S. d. 28 High st. Hampstead, London 2 Oct. 1892. bur. Abney park cemet. 7 Oct. Congregational Mag. (1893) 234.

MUNBY, GILES (youngest son of Joseph Munby, solicitor). b. York 1813; studied medicine in Edinb., London, and Paris; lived in Algiers 1839–44, collecting plants, cultivating oranges, and practising medicine; settled at La Senia near Oran, Algeria 1844; returned to England 1860; a skilful vegetable anatomist, his herbarium was presented to Kew at his death; an original member of Botanical Soc. of Edinb.; author of Flore de l’Algérie, Paris 1847, and of Catalogus plantarum in Algeria sponte nascentium, Oran 1859, 2 ed. London 1866. d. the Holt near Farnham, Surrey 12 April 1876. Gardener’s Chronicle ii 260–2 (1876) portrait.

MUNDELL, WILLIAM ADAM (son of Alexander Mundell of Great George st. Westminster). b. 1815; clerk in office of Berridge and Morris, solicitors, Leicester; managing clerk to Calthrop & co., solicitors, Whitehall place, London; barrister M.T. 7 May 1847, bencher 1866 to death; practised chiefly at parliamentary bar; Q.C. 23 July 1866; known as the Shilling whist player; a chess player; became owner of chief justice Jervis’ library; published A digest of criminal statutes and cases from 1846–48, 1848; A letter to lord Campbell proposing alterations in the holding of assizes and sessions 1857. d. 150 Buckingham palace road, London 15 July 1875. Law Times lix 252 (1875); Solicitor’s Journal xix 736 (1875); Westminster Papers 1 Aug. 1875 p. 77.

MUNDY, CHARLES FITROY MILLER (6 son of Edward Miller Mundy of Shipley hall, Derbyshire, d. 1834). b. 31 March 1815; ensign 1 Bengal N.I. 24 Sept. 1835; ensign 34 Bengal N.I. 15 Jany. 1836, captain 21 Nov. 1848; commandant of regiment of Kelat-i-Ghilzie 9 Feb. 1856 to 22 April 1858 during the mutiny; lieut. col. Bengal staff corps 23 March 1861; L.G. 1 July 1881; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881. d. London 12 July 1888.

MUNDY, GEORGE. Went to Chinsurah, Madras as a catechist and schoolmaster 1819; ordained at Chinsurah Nov. 1825; missionary at Calcutta 1849 to death; author of Christianity and Hindooism contrasted, 2 vols. 2 ed. Serampore 1834; A brief memoir of Mrs. Louisa Mundy, 1845, 2 ed. 1845. d. Calcutta 23 Aug. 1853.

MUNDY, SIR GEORGE (3 son of Edward Miller Mundy of Shipley hall co. Derby M.P. Derbyshire d. Oct. 1822). b. Shipley hall 1777; embarked Oct. 1792, captain 10 Feb. 1801; served at the taking of Corsica and was in the battles of St. Vincent and the Nile; C.B. June 1815, K.C.B. 28 Feb. 1837; commanded ‘Royal George’ yacht 1830; rear admiral 22 July 1830; admiral 24 Dec. 1849; vice admiral of H.M. fleet; M.P. Boroughbridge, Yorkshire 1819–31. d. 2 Grosvenor st. west, London 9 Feb. 1861.

MUNDY, SIR GEORGE RODNEY (son of general Godfrey Basil Mundy d. 1848). b. London 19 April 1805; entered navy Dec. 1819, captain 10 Jany. 1837; captain of the Iris frigate, in which he fought against the Borneo pirate tribes 1846; took possession of Labuan 24 Dec. 1846; captain of the Nile 91 guns in the Baltic and West Indies July 1854 to 1857; R.A. 30 July 1857; second in command in the Mediterranean 1859–60; commanded the detached squadron on the coast of Syria 1861; V.A. 15 Dec. 1863; commander-in-chief in North America and West Indies 1866–72; admiral 26 May 1869; commander-in-chief at Portsmouth 1872–5; admiral of the fleet on the retired list 27 Dec. 1877; C.B. 23 June 1859, K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862, G.C.B. 2 June 1877; author of Narrative of events in Borneo and Celebes down to the occupation of Labuan 2 vols. 1848; H.M.S. Hannibal at Palermo and Naples during the Italian revolution 1863. d. 12 Chesterfield st. Mayfair, London 23 Dec. 1884.

MUNDY, GEORGE VALENTINE (brother of the preceding). b. 1819; ensign Coldstream guards 27 Feb. 1835, lieut. 1 May 1840; captain 33 foot 10 Sept. 1841, lieut. col. 19 Sept. 1855; lieut. col. 19 foot 17 July 1857 to death; C.B. 5 July 1855; colonel in the army 24 April 1860. d. 42 Bryanston st. Portman sq. London 14 May 1863.

MUNDY, GODFREY CHARLES (brother of the preceding). Ensign 2 foot 6 Dec. 1821, captain 13 May 1826; captain 43 foot 6 Sep. 1831 to 31 Dec. 1839 when placed on h.p.; deputy adjutant general New South Wales 28 Nov. 1845; placed on h.p. 23 Jany. 1852; brevet colonel 20 June 1854; lieut. governor of Jersey 31 Jany. 1857 to death; author of Pen and pencil sketches being the journal of a tour in India 2 vols. 1832, 3 ed. 1858; Our antipodes or residence in the Australian colonies 3 vols. 1852. d. London 10 July 1860.

MUNDY, SIR ROBERT MILLER (brother of Sir George Mundy 1777–1861). b. 12 Oct. 1813; 2 lieut. R.A. June 1833; lieut. R.H.A. March 1841, second captain April 1844, sold out Oct. 1846 with brevet rank of major; served in Crimean war as lieut.-col. in the Osmanli horse artillery 1854 to Aug. 1856; lieut. governor of Grenada, West Indies Sept. 1863 to Feb. 1874; acting governor of Windward Islands 1865 and 1868–9, of British Guiana May 1866 to Sept. 1867, and of Leeward Islands 1871; lieut. governor of British Honduras Feb. 1874 retired on a pension of £333 18 March 1877; C.M.G. 1874, K.C.M.G. 30 May 1877. d. Hollybank, Emsworth, Hampshire 22 March 1892.

MUNDY, WILLIAM (son of Francis Mundy M.P. d. 6 May 1837). b. Markeaton, Derbyshire 14 Sep. 1801; sheriff of Derbyshire 1843; M.P. South Derbyshire 1849–57 and 1859–65; contested South Derbyshire 19 July 1865. d. Markeaton 10 April 1877.

MUNRO, ALEXANDER (son of a stonemason in Sutherlandshire). b. 1825; a sculptor, executed The four seasons, on the terrace at Cliveden, Berks.; came to London 1848, employed on stone carving for new houses of parliament; exhibited 97 sculptures at R.A. and 14 at B.I. 1849–70; his chief work was portrait-sculpture especially in relief; his subject groups were Paolo et Francisca 1852 and Undine 1858; executed statue of queen Mary for house of parliament and colossal statue of James Watt for Birmingham; lived at 152 Buckingham palace road some years; built himself a house and studio at Cannes. d. Cannes 1 Jany. 1871. W. B. Scott’s British school of sculpture (1871) 133–8.

MUNRO, ALEXANDER. b. Aberdeen 1819; compositor in office of Aberdeen Herald; joined the church of Rome 1839; studied at Blair coll. Aberdeen; a student in Scotch coll. Valladolid, Spain, and a professor there; priest at pro-cathedral church of St. Andrew, Glasgow 1867 to death; provost of the chapter of canons in Glasgow diocese; D.D. with title of monsignor from the pope; refused the bishoprick of Dunkeld; member of Glasgow school board 1870 to death; author of Calvinism in its relations to scripture and reason 1856. d. Glasgow Nov. 1892.

MUNRO, ALEXANDER THOMPSON (son of John Munro, lieut. 73 regt., d. Tain 1845). Resided in Grenada, West Indies 1820–3; a private in the royal horse guards 1823; ensign 78 foot 11 Jany. 1831; cornet royal horse guards 18 Jany. 1831, adjutant 18 Jany. 1831 to Jany. 1844, lieut. 1 June 1833; while adjusting some family accounts was insulted by his brother in law, lieut. col. David Lynar Fawcett, major 55 foot, C.B., a duel ensued at Brecknock Arms tavern, Regent’s park, London 1 July 1843, when Fawcett was shot and died at the Camden Arms, Randolf st. on 3 July; left the country and was superseded in his regt. for being absent without leave Jany. 1844; indicted at Central criminal court 25 Aug. 1843 but did not appear; returned and was found guilty of murdering Fawcett and condemned to death 18 Aug. 1847, sentence commuted to 12 months imprisonment in Newgate. The Times 3, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 15, 22, 25, 26 July, 8, 24, 26 Aug., 4 Dec. 1843; Annual Register (1843) 79–80, 115, (1847) 111–12; I.L.N. xi 173 (1847) portrait.

MUNRO, SIR CHARLES, 9 Baronet (son of George Munro of Culrain, Rossshire, d. 1846). b. Culrain 20 May 1794; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edinb.; ensign 45 foot 6 April 1810, lieut. 5 March 1812, placed on h.p. 15 May 1817, sold out 1829; served in Portugal, Spain, and France from 1811 to end of the war; received a medal and six clasps; served with distinction in the war of independence in South America, and commanded a division of the Columbian army under Bolivar at the time when the Spanish army surrendered; succeeded his kinsman, sir Hugh Munro, as 9 baronet 2 May 1848. d. Southport, Lancs. 12 July 1886.

MUNRO, DONALD. b. Scotland; gardener to George Don at Forfar; head gardener to Horticultural society of London at Chiswick to 1850; F.L.S. 1821. d. 9 April 1853 Proc. Linnean Soc. ii 237 (1855).

MUNRO, DONALD. b. 1832; merchant and manufacturer Whitechapel road, London; member of Metropolitan board of works for Whitechapel 4 Oct. 1875 to death. d. Whitehall, Chigwell row, Essex 18 May 1888.

MUNRO, SIR GEORGE GUN (son of col. Innes Munro of Poyntzfield, co. Cromarty). b. 1788; served in Indian army; lieut. governor of St. Mawes castle, Cornwall; knighted at St. James’s palace 13 April 1842. d. 16 Sept. 1852.

MUNRO, HUGH ANDREW JOHNSTONE (natural son of H. A. J. Munro of Novar, Rossshire). b. Elgin 19 Oct. 1819; ed. at Shrewsbury and Trin. coll. Camb., scholar 1840, fellow 1843 to death; univ. Craven scholar 1841; second classic and first chancellor’s medallist 1842; B.A. 1842, M.A. 1845; hon. D.C.L. Oxf. 1873; Kennedy professor of Latin at Cambridge June 1869, resigned Nov. 1872; one of the greatest Latin scholars of his time; published Lucretius (text 1860); Titi Lucretii cari de rerum natura libri sex, the text revised, 2 vols. 1864, 4 ed. 3 vols. 1886; Aetna revised and explained 1867; Q. Horatii Flacci, opera, the text revised 1867; The pronunciation of Latin 1871; Criticisms and elucidations of Catullus 1878; and with E. Palmer, Syllabus of Latin pronunciation 1872; formed a large collection of ancient and modern paintings. d. Rome 30 March 1885. bur. in protestant cemet., memorial brasses in Trinity coll. chapel and Elgin academy. Saturday Review lix 472; Waagen’s Treasures of art ii 131–42 (1854).

MUNRO OR McKENZIE, JANET. Remembered the battle of Culloden 1746; became a widow in 1809; a staunch Jacobite all her life, and doubtless the last individual in the British dominions who conscientiously believed that queen Victoria held the crown by an unlawful tenure. d. Alness in Rossshire 18 April 1852, aged at least 110 years. bur. Roskeen 19 April. Times 15 May 1852 p. 8.

MUNRO, JOHN (youngest son of James Munro lieut. R.N. of Teaninich, co. Ross, d. May 1788). b. June 1778; entered Madras army 1790; captain Madras European regiment 24 Dec. 1800, major 1811 to 1818; Q.M.G. Madras 1806–12; colonel of 31 N.I. 5 June 1829 to 2 Oct. 1842; colonel 4 Madras native infantry 2 Oct. 1842 to death; general 20 June 1854. d. Muirtown house, Inverness 26 Jany. 1858.

MUNRO, WILLIAM (eld. son of Wm. Munro of Druid’s Stoke, Gloucs.). b. 1818; ensign 39 foot 20 Jany. 1834, lieutenant colonel 11 Nov. 1853; severely wounded at battle of Maharajpore 24 Dec. 1843; commanded his regiment at siege of Sebastopol 1855, and in Canada and Bermuda; retired on h.p. 19 Dec. 1865; commanded the troops in Windward and Leeward islands 1870 to 1875; col. of 93 highlanders 11 Oct. 1876 to death; general 25 June 1878; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857; the best authority on subject of grasses; author of A monograph on the bamboos in the Transactions of the Linnaen Society; On antidotes to snake-bites in Journal of Agricultural Society of India vi 1–23 (1848) and other papers. d. Monty court near Taunton 29 Jany. 1880.

MUNROE, KATE, stage name of Katherine Lister (dau. of Dr. Lister). b. New York 1848; studied singing at Milan 1869; sang in grand opera at Milan, Naples, and other Italian cities 1870–3, when her voice failed; appeared as Catherine in the Love Apple at the Gaiety, London 24 Sept. 1874; at the Holborn as Mdlle. Lange and the Prince; at the Philharmonic in The Bohemian Girl and in Madame Angot; at the Alhambra in Chilperic from 10 May 1875 for 83 nights, in Spectresheim 14 Aug. 1875 for 100 nights, and in La voyage de la lune 15 April 1876 for 100 nights; she appeared in revivals of Le roi Carotte and The Black Crook at the Alhambra; the original Serpolette in Les cloches de Corneville at Folly theatre 23 Feb. 1878; played in Les deux nababs at Théatre des nouveautés and in La marquise des Roues at the Bouffes Parisiens, Paris in 1878–9; toured in America 1879–82; acted Isabella in Boccacio at the Comedy 22 April 1882; the heroine in the Merry Duchess at the Royalty 23 April 1883; Javotte in Erminie at Comedy theatre 9 Nov. 1885, and Gretchen in Mynheer Jan at Comedy 14 Feb. 1887; m. 1886 Mr. Miles. d. from atrophy of the liver 90 Regent street, London 17 Oct. 1887, body embalmed, sent to New York and bur. in Woodburn cemetery, will proved 17 Dec. 1887 exceeding £18,000. Pascoe’s Dramatic list (1880) 267; Illust. S. & D. News v 321, 327 (1876) portrait; The Theatre ii 169, 208 (1883) portrait.

MUNSEY, THOMAS ALEXANDER AUGUSTUS. b. 1806; entered Madras army 1823; lieut. 1 Madras light cavalry 8 June 1825, lieut. col. 7 Nov. 1847 to 1850; lieut. col. of 8 Madras light cavalry 1850–1, of 3 light cavalry 1851–6, of 6 light cavalry 1856–8, and of 7 light cavalry 20 July 1858–9; col. of 4 Madras light cavalry 30 May 1859–60; col. of 8 light cavalry 1860 to death; M.G. 11 Sept. 1859. d. Brighton 23 Jany. 1867.

MUNSIE, WILLIAM. b. Glasgow 1801; assistant in Dr. Angus’ school till 1824; opened an academy in Glasgow 1824, where he educated with success a large number of pupils; trained a class of teachers for the Free church 1842–64; president of Sabbath school union 1850; author of Evangelical training, in lessons on some of the names of the Lord Jesus, 3 ed. 1849, 4 ed. 1860; editor of Glasgow Sabbath school union magazine 1856–64. d. Glasgow 1864. Maclehose’s Glasgow men ii 235–6 (1886) portrait.

MUNSTER, HENRY (only son of Frederick Munster of Port Royal, Jamaica). b. 1824; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb.; coxswain of the Cambridge boat in the first university match over the Putney to Mortlake course 15 March 1845, also in the grand challenge cup race against Oxford at Henley 1845; barrister L.I. 12 May 1848; B.A. Camb. 1858. d. Novington manor, Plumpton, near Lewes 11 April 1894.

MUNSTER, WILLIAM FELIX LAURENCE (son of Henry Munster, M.P.) b. Mortier near Tours, France 1849; ed. Stonyhurst coll. and at univ. coll. London 1868, B.A. 1871; M.P. Mallow 1872–4; resided Silwood lodge, Brighton. d. St. Louis, Missouri 11 April 1877.

MUNTZ, GEORGE FREDERICK (eld. son of Philip Frederick Muntz, merchant, d. 1811). b. Great Charles st. Birmingham 26 Nov. 1794; managed his father’s metal works in Water st. 1811; made a large fortune by manufacture of what is known as Muntz metal, patented by him 1832; a partner with Pascoe, Grenfell and Sons, copper smelters, London and Swansea 1837; founded with Thomas Attwood and Joshua Scholefield the Political Union for the protection of public rights 1829; chairman of a meeting of 15,000 persons in Birmingham to consider the general distress Jany. 1830; M.P. Birmingham 24 May 1840 to death, was the first M.P. who wore a beard; author of Letters upon corn and currency 1841; The true cause of the change in the commercial affairs of the country, 2 ed. 1843. d. Umberslade hall, near Birmingham 30 July 1857. J. Grant’s Portraits of public characters (1841) 86–101; R. B. Prosser’s Birmingham Inventors (1881) 93, 170, 206, 225; Dent’s Birmingham 398, 476, 493, 530, 533, (1880) portrait; I.L.N. i 92 (1842) portrait, xiv 196 (1849) portrait; E. Edwards’s Personal recollections of Birmingham (1877) 79–88.

MUNTZ, PHILIP HENRY (brother of preceding). b. Selby hall, Worcs. 21 Jany. 1811; ed. Shrewsbury school; merchant Birmingham; chief promoter of incorporation of the borough 1837, a town councillor 26 Dec. 1838, senior alderman 27 Dec. 1838, mayor 1839 and 1840, resigned aldermanship 10 Nov. 1856; presented with the freedom of the borough 31 Oct. 1888; M.P. Birmingham 1868–85; resided Edstone hall, Henley-in-Arden. d. Leamington 25 Dec. 1888. bur. Leamington 28 Dec. Biograph iii 47–52 (1880); Times 26 Dec. 1888, p. 4, 29 Dec. p. 7; Dent’s Birmingham 494, 546 (1880); I.L.N. 12 Jany. 1889 p. 36 portrait.

MURCHISON, CHARLES (younger son of Alexander Murchison, M.D.) b. Spring Field Vue, Jamaica 26 July 1830; taken to Elgin 1833; ed. at univs. of Aberdeen and Edinb.; M.R.C.S. Edinb. 1850; M.D. Edinb. 1851; assistant surgeon Bengal army 4 April 1853, retired Oct. 1855; professor of chemistry at Medical college, Calcutta 1853–5; physician in London 1855 to death; physician to Westminster general dispensary 1855; lecturer on botany at St. Mary’s hospital 1856; assistant physician to King’s college hospital 1856–60, to Middlesex hospital 1860, physician 1866–71; assistant physician to London fever hospital 1856, physician 1861–70; physician and lecturer on medicine at St. Thomas’s hospital 1871 to death; M.R.C.P. 1855, F.R.C.P. 1859; Croonian lecturer 1873; F.R.S. 7 June 1866; hon. LL.D. Edinb. 1870; examiner in medicine to univ. of London 1875; member of Pathological soc. 1855, secretary 1865–8, treasurer 1869–76, and president 1877 to death, contributed 143 papers to the Transactions; author of A treatise on the continued fevers of Great Britain 1862, 3 ed. 1884; Clinical lectures on diseases of the liver, jaundice, and abdominal dropsy 1868, 3 ed. 1885; On functional derangements of the liver 1874, 2 ed. 1879. d. suddenly in his consulting room at 79 Wimpole st. London 23 April 1879. bur. Norwood cemet., marble portrait bust in St. Thomas’s hospital. Proc. of Royal Society xxix 23–5 (1879).

MURCHISON, KENNETH (son of Kenneth Murchison of Tarradale, Eastern Ross 1751–96). b. 1793; ensign 78 foot 23 July 1807; lieut. 21 June 1810 to 20 Jany. 1814; lieut. 9th royal veteran battalion 20 Jany. 1814; lieut. 3rd royal veteran battalion 1815, retired on full pay 24 May 1816; governor of Penang and Singapore. d. Oxford terrace, Hyde park, London 1 Aug. 1854.

MURCHISON, SIR RODERICK IMPEY, 1 Bart. (brother of Kenneth Murchison 1793–1854). b. Tarradale, Eastern Ross 19 Feb. 1792; ed. at Durham gr. sch. and at military college, Great Marlow 1805; ensign 36 foot 22 April 1807, captain 13 Aug. 1812 to 1814; served at Vimieira 1808; in sir John Moore’s Spanish campaign and retreat to Corunna 1808; aide de camp to general Mackenzie in Sicily 1809–11, and in Ireland 1811–14; captain 6 dragoons 13 April 1815, sold out 14 Sept. 1815; attended lectures at royal institution 1824; F.G.S. 7 Jany. 1825, secretary 1826–31, president 1831; F.R.S. 6 April 1826, Copley medallist 1849; president of Geographical Society 1843–58; granted Russian orders of St. Anne and of Stanislaus 1845; knighted at St. James’s palace 11 Feb. 1846; president of British Association at York 1846; director general of the geological survey 1855 to death; K.C.B. 3 Feb. 1863; created a baronet 10 Jany. 1866; D.C.L. Oxford 1852; LL.D. Cambridge 1861; lived at 16 Belgrave square, London 1839 to death; grand officer of the order of the Crown of Italy Aug. 1869; founded chair of geology at Edinburgh 10 March 1871; author of The Silurian system 1839; Siluria, the history of the oldest known rocks containing organic remains 1854, 4 ed. 1867; author with A. Von Keyserling and E. De Verneuil of The Geology of Russia and the Ural Mountains 1845; m. 29 Aug. 1815 Charlotte only dau. of general Francis Hugonin colonel of 4 dragoons 1808–36, she d. 16 Belgrave sq. London 9 Feb. 1869 aged 80. d. 16 Belgrave sq. London 22 Oct. 1871. bur. Brompton cemet. 27 Oct., personalty sworn under £250,000, 25 Nov. 1871. A. Geikie’s Life of Sir R. I. Murchison, 2 vols. (1875) portrait; Dunkin’s Obituary notices of astronomers (1879) 206–13; Quarterly journal of Geol. Soc. xxviii 29–35 (1872); Walford’s Representative Men (1868) portrait No. 13; I.L.N. xlviii 237 (1866) portrait; Graphic iv 411, 429 (1871) portrait; Illust. Times 13 Jany. 1866 p. 17 portrait; Victoria Mag. xii 461–3 (1809) an account of Lady Murchison; Reg. and mag. of biog. i 297–8 (1869).

MURDOCH, GEORGE. b. 1815; assistant engineer in navy Jany. 1838; chief engineer 1 July 1847; inspector of machinery 22 Sept. 1856, chief inspector of machinery 6 July 1866, retired 14 June 1870; served in Black Sea during Russian war, for which he was created knight of legion of honour; introduced, the now abandoned, smoke observations at the official trials of men-of-war; claimed to be first inventor of breech-loading system of ordnance, submitted a model of his gun and breechpiece to the Admiralty 1866. d. Hilsea near Portsmouth 24 Dec. 1888.

MURDOCH, JOHN. b. 1767; a baker; the public hangman in Scotland; the last execution at which he officiated was in Oct. 1851. d. 15 March 1856. Times 28 March 1856 p. 10.

MURDOCH, JOHN. b. Enzie, Banffshire 11 Nov. 1796; studied in Spain; ordained priest 19 March 1821; coadjutor bishop of western district of Scotland, 4 June 1833 with title of bishop of Castabala, consecrated in St. Andrew’s, Glasgow by bishop Kyle 20 Oct. 1833; bishop of the western district 4 Dec. 1846 to death. d. Glasgow 15 Dec. 1865.

MURDOCH, SIR THOMAS WILLIAM CLINTON (son of Thomas Murdoch, F.R.S.) b. Portland place, London 22 March 1809; ed. at Charterhouse; junior clerk in colonial office 1826, senior clerk May 1846; chief secretary for Canada Sept. 1839 to Sept. 1842; chairman of Colonial land and emigration comrs. Nov. 1847, retired on a pension of £1,200 on abolition of the office 1 Jany. 1877; employed on a special mission to Canada and U.S. of America 1870; K.C.M.G. 15 Jany. 1870. d. 88 St. George’s sq. London 30 Nov. 1891.

MURE, DAVID (3 son of colonel Wm. Mure of Caldwell, Renfrewshire, d. 1831). b. 21 Nov. 1810; ed. at Westminster sch. and univ. of Edinb.; called to Scotch bar Dec. 1831; one of junior counsel for the crown 1843–6; sheriff of Perthshire 28 Nov. 1853–8; solicitor general for Scotland 12 July 1858–9; lord advocate of Scotland 15 April 1859; judge of court of session with courtesy title of lord Mure 11 Jany. 1865 to 1889; a lord justiciary 1 April 1874; resigned Oct. 1889; M.P. co. Bute 1859–65. d. Bournemouth 11 April 1891.

MURE, JAMES (son of James Mure). b. Great George st. Westminster 31 July 1796; ed. Westminster 1807–14, king’s scholar 1809, and at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820; barrister I.T. 2 July 1824; wrote the Westminster play epilogue On the peace congress 1850; wrote epilogues and epigrams for the election dinners and was a Busby trustee; attended the play rehearsals as a coach to the actors; examined before the Public school commission 1863; president of the Elizabethan club 1867–76; with H. Bull and C. B. Scott editor of Lusus alteri Westmonasterienses 1863–7, 2 parts. d. 20 Gloucester place, Portman sq. London 20 July 1876. F. H. Forshall’s Westminster school (1884) 311–13.

MURE, WILLIAM (brother of David Mure 1810–91). b. Caldwell, Ayrshire 9 July 1799; ed. at Westminster school and at univs. of Edinburgh and Bonn; colonel of Renfrewshire militia 3 Feb. 1831 to death; D.C.L. Oxford 1833; D.C.L. Glasgow 1853; M.P. Renfrewshire 1846–55; lord rector of Glasgow univ. 1847–8; author of Brief remarks on the chronology of the Egyptian dynasties 1829; A dissertation on the calendar and zodiac of ancient Egypt 1832; Journal of a tour in Greece and the Ionian islands 1842; A critical history of the language and literature of ancient Greece, 5 vols. 1850–7, 2 ed. 1859; prepared for the press and presented to the Maitland club Selections from the family papers at Caldwell, 3 vols. 1854. d. 55 Rutland gardens, Kensington road, London 1 April 1860. G.M. viii 634–5 (1860).

MURE, WILLIAM (eld. son of preceding). b. Edinburgh 9 May 1830; 2 lieut. 60 rifles 22 Oct. 1847. 1 lieut. 11 July 1851; captain 79 foot 29 Dec. 1854; lieut. Scots fusilier guards 13 July 1855, capt. 16 Dec. 1859, sold out 12 June 1860; served in Kaffir war 1851–3, and in the Crimea 1854–5; lieut. col. of Paisley rifle corps 17 Dec. 1860 to death; contested Renfrewshire 13 Sept. 1873; M.P. Renfrewshire 7 Feb. 1874 to death. d. 2 Hamilton place, Piccadilly, London 9 Nov. 1880.

MURFITT, SAMUEL. b. Wimblington, Cambs. 1831; the largest man in the world, height 6 ft. 1 inch, weight 40 stone, girth of waist 100 inches, measure round calf of leg 20 inches; publicly exhibited down to 1886. d. Princes-end, Tipton 21 Jany. 1887.

MURLAND, JAMES WILLIAM. b. 1814 or 1815; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; called to Irish bar 1837; chairman of the Royal Bank 1868 to death; chairman of Great Northern railway co. of Ireland 1876 to death; comr. of national education in Ireland 1865 to death. Found dead in his bed at Nutley, Stillorgan road, Booterstown, co. Dublin 20 May 1890. Irish law times xxiv 275 (1890).

MURLY, GEORGE BULLOCK. b. 1810; solicitor at Bristol 1832 to death; solicitor to Stuckey’s banking co. 40 years; founded Langport and Mid-Somerset benefit building soc. March 1849; founded Bristol and South Wales railway waggon co. 1862. d. Coombe Leigh, Weston-super-mare 19 Oct. 1887.

MURPHY, MR. b. Killowen near Rostrevor; a labourer in the Liverpool docks; a waiter in an hotel; 7 feet 10½ inches high in his stockings; exhibited in Great Britain and on the continent; at Vienna on 9 May 1857 was presented to the emperor and empress of Austria; grew to be almost 9 feet high and to weigh 24 stone. d. of small pox at Marseilles about May 1862 aged 26. Willis’ Current Notes (1857) 34; E. J. Wood’s Giants and dwarfs (1868) 224; F. Buckland’s Curiosities of Natural history, 3rd series ii 23 (1868).

MURPHY, BLANCHE ELIZABETH MARY ANNUNCIATA (eld. child of Charles George Noel, 2 Earl of Gainsborough 1818–81). b. Portman sq. London 25 March 1845; m. 6 March 1870 Thomas P. Murphy, an Irishman, her father’s organist, the earl opposed the match but finally allowed the marriage to take place from his house, he was an organist in America; bought a farm near Humphrey’s Ledge, New England 1880; wrote in the Catholic World Mag. 1871 to death, and corresponded with The Atlantic, Scribner’s Monthly, The Galaxy, The Catholic Review and Lippincott’s Mag. d. North Conway, near Hampshire, United States 21 March 1881. bur. in catholic cathedral, Portland, Maine 24 March. Appleton’s American biography iv 465 (1888); The Tablet 23 April 1881 pp. 659–60.

MURPHY, EDWARD WILLIAM. b. Dublin 1802; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1829, M.A. and M.B. 1832, M.D. 1853; L.R.C.S.I. 1827, F.R.C.S.I. 1832; assistant surgeon Dublin lying-in hospital 1832; removed to London 1841; professor of midwifery Univ. coll. 1842–65; one of the earliest to use chloroform 1848; president of Medical soc. of London; author of Chloroform in the practice of midwifery 1848; Lectures on midwifery 1852, 2 ed. 1862; What is puerperal fever 1857. d. 1 Nottingham place, Regents park, London 4 Jany. 1877. Barker’s Photographs of medical men i 69–72 (1868) portrait; Medical times i 217 (1877).

MURPHY, FRANCIS. b. Navan, co. Meath 20 May 1795; ed. at St. Patrick’s college, Maynooth; ordained R.C. priest 1826; missioner at Bradford, Yorkshire 1826–9; priest of St. Anne’s, Toxteth park, Liverpool 1829–38; went to New South Wales 1838; vicar general of Australia 1838; bishop of the new see of Adelaide 1844 to death, consecrated in St. Mary’s cathedral, Sydney 8 Sept. 1844; began the erection of a cathedral in Victoria st. Adelaide; established 21 churches in South Australia; author of A letter to J. Taylor on his attack on Dr. Baines’ sermon at Bradford 1827. d. West terrace, Adelaide 26 April 1858.

MURPHY, SIR FRANCIS (son of Francis D. Murphy, head of the South of Ireland transport of convicts’ department 30 years). b. Cork 1809; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; M.R.C.S. London 1832; arrived in Sydney, N.S.W. June 1836; district surgeon for Bungonia, Argyle county 1 Jany. 1837, resigned 1840; settled on a large station at Goulburn 1840, became the chief grain grower in the country; removed to Port Philip 1847, farmed about 50,000 acres at Tarawingi, sold his station 1852; member for Murray in legislative council of Victoria 1851–6, and in legislative assembly 1856–65; chairman of committees Nov. 1851–53; chairman of central road board March 1853 to Nov. 1856; speaker of the assembly Oct. 1856 to 24 Jany. 1871; knighted by patent 24 May 1860; member for Grenville in the assembly 1865–71, and for the Eastern province 1872–7; presented with £3,000 for his services as speaker 1871; chairman of the league against transportation 1863; chairman of National bank of Australia. d. St. Hilda road, Melbourne 30 March 1891.

NOTE.—His eldest son Francis Reid Murphy, member of legislative assembly of Queensland. d. Rockhampton, Queensland 24 Feb. 1892, in his 50th year.

MURPHY, FRANCIS STACK (son of Jeremiah Murphy, merchant). b. Cork 1807; ed. at Clongowes Wood and Trin. coll. Dublin, classical gold medallist 1829, B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; barrister L.I. 25 Jany. 1833; assisted F. S. Mahony, otherwise Father Prout, in his Reliques in Frazer’s Mag. 1834; Mahony introduces him in his Prout Papers as Frank Cresswell of Furnival’s Inn; M.P. Cork 1841–6, and 1851–3; serjeant-at-law 25 Feb. 1842; received patent of precedence 1846; a comr. for relief of insolvent debtors, London 1 Aug. 1853 to death; a noted wit, many of his repartees are recorded in Duffy’s League of north and south (1886) 211, 227, and in Serjeant Robinson’s Bench and bar (1891); author with E. T. Hurlstone of Reports of cases argued in the court of exchequer 1836–1837. 1838. d. Kensington, London 17 June 1860. Bates’s Maclise portrait gallery (1883) 464–7; I.L.N. iv 107 (1844) portrait; Law Times xxxv 191 (1860).

MURPHY, GEORGE MOLLETT (son of a shop keeper who d. 1845). b. Chelsea, London 9 Sept. 1823; enlisted in 56 regt. 1839, became a corporal, his discharge purchased by his mother 1845; an officer on board the convict ship York at Portsmouth 1848–52; signed the teetotal pledge 1850; a time keeper to Fox, Henderson and co. Birmingham 1852–5; an open air preacher at Birmingham 1852; an evangelical preacher in Hawkstone hall, Waterloo bridge road, London 1856 etc.; lectured at Guilford street hall, his first lecture was on the History of an apple dumpling, with cooked specimens 15 Nov. 1858; opened Lambeth baths for religious services during many seasons; minister of the Borough road chapel Jany. 1866 to death; held Working classes’ industrial exhibitions in Lambeth baths 1864 etc.; contested a Lambeth division seat for the school board 1870; a member for the Lambeth division 1873–87; wrote The drama of dirt, or death and disease upheld, acted at Portsmouth 1852; author of The slave among pirates, or Uncle Tim’s many editors, a satire, by An Unknown 1852; Anti-Alcohol, a warning voice from a prison, a poem 1852; Bands of hope and Sunday schools, how to unite them 1860; The downfall of the drink Dagon 1865; Parental aid, or speed the plough, a new year’s address 1863; A ten years’ story, a statement of results of Southwark mission for the education of the working classes 1866; Popular melodies and hymns for temperance meetings 1870, 2 ed. 1872. d. 8 Finchley road, Lorrimer sq. London 17 July 1887. bur. Abney park cemet. 22 July. Annie Taylor’s Life of G. M. Murphy (1888) portrait; The Biograph iv 233–7 (1880).

MURPHY, GEORGE STORMONT. Founded the Cabdrivers’ benevolent association at 15 Soho sq. London 1870, honorary secretary 1870 to death. d. 46 Cambridge terrace, Hyde park, London 8 Feb. 1893. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 14 Feb., the funeral procession extended upwards of a mile in length, being mainly composed of cabdrivers with their cabs.

MURPHY, JAMES. Called to Irish bar 1849; Q.C. 22 June 1866; bencher of Kings’ Inns 1871. d. 1883.

MURPHY, JEREMIAH JOHN (younger son of John Murphy of Cork). b. Cork 1803; ed. at Clongowes Wood college and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1824, M.A. 1832; called to Irish bar Jany. 1828; Q.C. 17 Aug. 1841; bencher of Kings’ Inns 1847; a master in chancery 1846–74, when offices of masters were abolished. d. 50 Upper Mount st. Dublin 25 June 1878. bur. in Glasnevin cemet. Law mag. and law review iii 206 (1857).

MURPHY, JOHN. b. Omagh, co. Tyrone 12 March 1812; taken to U.S. of America 1822; apprenticed to a printer at Philadelphia 1826; a printer at Baltimore 1835, became one of the chief Roman Catholic publishers; issued the United States Catholic Mag. 1842–9; published the Metropolitan Mag. 1853–9; printed a translation of the Definition of the dogma of the immaculate conception 1855, for which Pope Pius IX sent him a gold medal; issued the Proceedings of the second plenary council of Baltimore 1866, for which Pius IX conferred upon him honorary title of printer to the pope, a distinction that had never been bestowed on a resident of any English speaking country. d. Baltimore, Maryland 27 May 1880.

MURPHY, MILES. b. Oulart, near Gorey, co. Wexford 8 Sept. 1787; ed. at Maynooth to 1811; president of Wexford college from 1811 for many years; declined the see of Ossory 1828; parish priest of Tintern 1831; parish priest of Wexford 1835–50; vicar capitular 1849; bishop of Ferns 19 Nov. 1849 to death, consecrated 10 March 1850. d. Ballin, Oulart 13 Aug. 1856. bur. Enniscorthy cathedral 18 Aug. The Tablet 16 Aug. 1856 p. 524, 23 Aug. p. 540.

MURPHY, PATRICK. Called to Irish bar 1827; Q.C. 25 Feb. 1841; chairman of quarter sessions Cavan 1835 to death. d. Hotel Folkestone, Boulogne 7 Nov. 1862.

MURPHY, TIMOTHY. b. Parish of Coachford, co. Cork 16 Dec. 1789; entered Maynooth college Sept. 1810; ordained priest May 1815; C. of Fermoy March 1826, and parish priest there 1841; bishop of Cloyne 19 April 1849 to death, consecrated 16 Sept. 1849. d. Fermoy 4 Dec. 1856. Brady’s Episcopal succession ii 102 (1876).

MURRAY, ALEXANDER. Second lieut. 87 foot 24 April 1835; lieut. 18 foot 23 Oct. 1839, captain 20 Aug. 1844; captain 87 foot 31 Jany. 1845, lieut. col. 2 Nov. 1855 to death; served in the China expedition, was wounded at Chefoo. d. London 24 Dec. 1865.

MURRAY, ALEXANDER (son of Anthony Murray of Dollerie, Crieff). b. 1811; entered royal navy 1824; lieutenant 1830, retired 1835; served at battle of Navarino 1827; first assistant of geological survey of Canada 1843–64; director of geological survey of Newfoundland 1864 to death; C.M.G. 30 May 1877. d. Belmont cottage, Crieff, Perthshire 18 Dec. 1884.

MURRAY, AMELIA MATILDA (4 dau. of George Murray 1761–1803, bishop of St. Davids). b. 30 April 1795; had a government pension of £70 from 1803; great friend of lady Byron 1820 etc.; maid of honour to queen Victoria 1837, resigned 1856; extra woman of the bedchamber; author of Remarks on education 1847; Letters from the United States, Cuba, and Canada, 2 vols. 1856; Recollections from 1803 to 1837, 1868; Pictorial and descriptive sketches of the Odenwald, 2 parts 1869. d. Glenberrow, near Malvern, Herefordshire 7 June 1884.

MURRAY, ANDREW (2 son of Andrew Murray of Murrayshall, Perthshire 1782–1847). b. Edinb. 19 Aug. 1813; ed. at high school, academy and univ.; apprenticed to Wm. Fairbairn, C.E. 1832–37, managing partner with him at Millwall 1842–43; assistant chief engineer of Woolwich dockyard 1843; chief engineer of Portsmouth dockyard May 1846–69; inspector of factories and consulting engineer to the admiralty 1869 to April 1870; A.I.C.E. 20 March 1838, M.I.C.E. 2 Feb. 1847; C.B. 1869. d. Richmond, Surrey 13 Oct. 1872. Min. of Proc. of I.C.E. xxxvi 270–72 (1873).

MURRAY, ANDREW (son of Wm. Murray of Conland, Perthshire). b. Edinburgh 19 Feb. 1812; a writer to the signet in Edinb. 15 June 1837–60; professor of natural science in New college, Edinb. for one session 1857; F.R.S. Edinb. 1857; secretary of the Oregon exploration society on its foundation; president of Botanical society of Edinb. 1858–9; assistant secretary in London to Royal horticultural society 1860, member of its scientific committee 1868, scientific director 1877 to death; F.L.S. 1861; began collection of economic entomology for Science and art department 1868, now at Bethnal Green museum; author of The pines and firs of Japan 1863; the letter press to Peter Lawson’s Pinetum Britannicum 1866; The geographical distribution of mammals 1866. d. 67 Bedford gardens, Camden hill, Kensington 10 Jany. 1878. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 12 Jany.

MURRAY, AUGUSTUS WILLIAM. b. 15 Oct. 1811; ensign 73 foot 28 Dec. 1832, lieut. 1837; captain 1 West India regiment 25 Nov. 1842, lieut. col. 16 March 1860; commanded the troops on expedition up the river Gambia in Feb. 1861; placed on h.p. 4 March 1862; deputy adjutant general Windward and Leeward Islands 4 March 1862 to 30 April 1867; commanded forces in Mauritius 14 Jany. 1877 to 14 Jany. 1882; granted distinguished service reward 28 Jany. 1868; M.G. 1 Oct. 1877, placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 14 Jany. 1882; C.B. 27 Jany. 1862. d. Limassol, Cyprus 18 Mar. 1894.

MURRAY, CHARLES KNIGHT (son of Charles Murray). b. 12 Oct. 1793; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s school; barrister L.I. 1 Feb. 1825; principal secretary to lord chancellor Lyndhurst; a comr. of bankrupts in London 1829–31; police magistrate at Union Hall police Southwark court 7 Oct. 1830 to Dec. 1834; secretary and treasurer to ecclesiastical comrs. for England and Wales Dec. 1834 to Dec. 1849, when he owed them £6,000; went to Melbourne, Victoria 1852. d. Sydney, N.S.W. 1865.

MURRAY, DANIEL (son of a farmer). b. Sheepwalk, near Arklow, co. Wicklow 18 April 1768; studied at Dublin and at Salamanca 1784; R.C. curate at St. Paul, Dublin 1790, and then at Arklow to 1798; C. of St. Mary, Dublin 1798–1809; prebendary of Wicklow 1805; coadjutor archbishop of Dublin, with title of archbishop of Hierapolis 30 Nov. 1809; archbishop of Dublin 1823 to death; had a long controversy respecting The Notes of the Douay Bible and Rhenish New Testament 1826 to 1850; president of Maynooth college; established the order of the Sisters of Charity; a comr. of national board of education 1831 to death; took part in the synod of the R.C. clergy at Thurles 1850; author of A pastoral address announcing the miraculous cure of Mrs. M. Stuart 1823, a work to which replies were printed. d. Mountjoy sq. Dublin 26 Feb. 1852, body embalmed. bur. pro-cathedral, Marlborough st. Dublin 2 March, where is marble statue of him in memorial monument by James Farrell; marble bust in Irish national gallery, Dublin. J. D’Alton’s Memoirs of archbishops of Dublin (1838) 488–92; D. Murray’s Sermons, 2 vols. Dublin (1859) portrait; Notices of D. Murray, archbishop of Dublin by W. Meagher (1853) memoir pp. 53–142.

MURRAY, EDWARD (brother of Amelia Matilda Murray 1795–1884). b. Lower ward of Windsor castle 5 Nov. 1798; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1829; usher of Westminster school 1820–1; V. of Stinsford, Dorset 1823–37; R. of Winterbourn Monkton, Dorset 1831–37; V. of Northolt, Middlesex 1837 to death; prebendary of St. Paul’s 1 Dec. 1848 to death; author of Prayers and collects, translated from the annotations of Calvin 1825; Enoch Restitutus, the book of Enoch with parallel passages from the scriptures 1836. d. Northolt 1 July 1852. G.M. xxxviii 317 (1852).

NOTE.—He applied the Archimedian screw to the purposes of navigation in 1823 and many of his lines were used in the admiralty and in men of war. He was a member of the Chess Club and beat France when he played for England more than once.

MURRAY, ELIZABETH (dau. of Thomas Heaphy president of Society of British artists 1775–1835). Educ. at Rome; while sketching at Cambray was arrested as a spy; sent to Malta by queen Adelaide to take some views 1836; exhibited 18 portraits at R.A. 1834–47; resided in America 12 years; visited Rome 1875; author of Sixteen years of an artist’s life in Morocco, Spain and the Canary islands, 2 vols. 1859; m. Henry John Murray, British consul in Maine, U.S. of America 1860–76; consul at Buenos Ayres 1876, retired on a pension 1 Oct. 1879. She d. San Remo, Italy 8 Dec. 1882. Ellen C. Clayton’s English female artists ii 111–16 (1876).

MURRAY, ELIZABETH (2 dau. of Henry Lee, dramatist and manager 1765–1836). b. 15 May 1816; acted Little Pickle in The spoilt child at Barnstaple theatre 1821; played in her father’s theatres in West of England, and then at Manchester, Liverpool, and Leeds; first appeared in London at Olympic as Cupid in extravaganza Cupid; played at Covent Garden 30 Sept. 1839, then at Sadler’s Wells and in Birmingham; leading lady at Adelphi theatre, Edinburgh 1841; played Apollo in Frank Talfourd’s burlesque, Diogenes and his lantern at Strand 7 Feb. 1850; played at Olympic Oct. 1850, at Adelphi April 1853; the original Madame Duchatlet in The marble heart at Adelphi 31 May 1854; played Victorine in Victorine, or I’ll sleep on it 30 Aug. 1855; played Lady Lavender in S. Coyne’s comedy The love knot at Drury Lane 8 March 1858; the original Mrs. Burr in J. Oxenford’s The porter’s knot 2 Dec. 1858, Patty in Craven’s Chimney Corner 21 Feb. 1861, Mrs. Major de Boots in S. Coyne’s comedy Everybody’s Friend 17 May 1865, all at Olympic; played Lady Selina Raffle-ticket in Dion Boucicault’s How she loves him 21 Dec. 1867, Mrs. Kinpeck in Robertson’s Play 15 Feb. 1868, Lady Franklyn in Bulwer’s Money 4 May 1872, lady Lundie in W. Collins’s Man and wife 22 Feb. 1873, Mrs. Candour in The school for scandal 4 April 1874, all at Prince of Wales’s theatre; played Mrs. Crumbley in Burnand’s comedy A proof positive at Opéra Comique 16 Oct. 1875, Madame Seneschal in Fernande 20 Sept. 1879, and Mrs. M’Tartar in Byron’s comedy Courtship 16 Oct. 1879, both at Court theatre; played Neeltje Kwak in Faassen’s play Annie Mie at Prince of Wales’s 1 Nov. 1880; the original Lady Tompkins in Burnand’s The Colonel at Prince of Wales’s 2 Feb. 1881, and Mrs. Goddard in Jones and Herman’s Breaking a butterfly 3 March 1884, the first English version of Ibsen’s Doll’s House, and Mrs. Stead in The private secretary 29 March 1884, both at Prince’s theatre; given a benefit at Haymarket theatre 9 May 1888, when she played Mrs. Foley in Forget me not; m. at Edinburgh 26 Oct. 1841 Henry Leigh Murray, actor, who d. 29 Jany. 1870. She d. 25 May 1892. bur. Brompton cemet. 28 May. Theatrical Times iii 381, 382 (1848) portrait.

MURRAY, EUSTACE CLARE GRENVILLE (natural son of Richard Plantagenet, 2 duke of Buckingham and Chandos 1797–1861). b. 1824; matric. from Magd. hall, Oxf. 1 March 1848; student of the Inner Temple 1850; attaché to embassy at Vienna 14 July 1851, acted as correspondent of the Morning Post, but was forbidden to continue his correspondence; attaché at Constantinople 1852; vice-consul to Mitylene 1853–4; attaché at Teheran 1857; consul general at Odessa 24 July 1858, dismissed by lord Stanley 28 May 1868; returned to England 1868 and contributed to the first number of Vanity Fair 7 Nov. 1868; started a weekly journal entitled The Queen’s Messenger 21 Jany. 1869; horsewhipped by lord Carrington outside the Conservative club 22 June 1869 for a libel upon his father Robert John, 2 baron Carrington 1796–1868; charged with perjury at Bow st. 17 July 1869, fled from his bail to Paris; lived in Paris July 1869 to death, where he took the title of his Spanish wife, comte de Rethel d’Aragon; Paris correspondent of the Daily News and Pall Mall gazette; proprietor with E. H. Yates of The World for a short time from July 1874; author of The roving Englishman 1854, 2 ed. 1855; The member for Paris: a tale of the second empire. By Trois-Etoiles, 3 vols. 1871; Men of the second empire 1872; Men of the third republic 1873; Young Brown, or the law of inheritance 1874; The Russians of to-day 1878; Side lights on English society, 2 vols. 1881; High life in France under the republic 1884; Under the lens, social photographs, 2 vols. 1885. d. Passy, near Paris 20 Dec. 1881. bur. Paris 24 Dec. E. Yates’s Recollections ii 309–30 (1884); J. Hatton’s Journalistic London (1882) 106–10; Fox Bourne’s English Newspapers ii 301–11 (1887); Biograph vi 585 (1881); Truth 29 Dec. 1881 pp. 24–5; A.R. (1869) 79–82; Papers relating to Mr. G. Murray, Parliamentary Papers 1868–69, No. 4163.

MURRAY, FREEMAN. b. 16 Nov. 1804; ensign 64 foot 24 Feb. 1825, captain 21 Dec. 1832; captain 60 foot 11 July 1834, major 20 Aug. 1844; major 17 foot 23 April 1847, lieut. col. 5 Nov. 1847, placed on h.p. same day; lieut. col. 72 foot 11 Sept. 1849, placed on h.p. 5 May 1854; governor of Bermuda 1854–61; commanded Chatham district 1 Jany. 1867 to 31 March 1870, and Eastern district 1 April 1870 to 31 Dec. 1871; col. of 57 foot 14 April 1873, of 93 foot 11 Dec. 1875, and of 60 foot 11 Oct. 1876 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. Florence 14 April 1885.

MURRAY, GASTON, stage name of Garstin Parker Wilson. b. London 1826; first appeared on the stage at Prince’s theatre, Glasgow June 1854, as Charles in The happiest day of my life; first appeared in London 2 March 1855, at the Lyceum as Tom Saville in Used up; played sir George Evelyn in Mrs. Inchbald’s Wives as they were and maids as they are 24 Nov. 1856; Charles Rushout in Tom Taylor’s Going to the bad 5 June 1858, both at Olympic; took part in the Windsor castle theatricals in Jany. 1857, appearing as Jules de Crussac in Secret Service; played Alfred Warnford in Oxenford’s Lost Hope at Adelphi 16 Feb. 1859; Vicentio in Falconer’s The Leprechaun 2 March 1859, and Leonardo in Falconer’s Francesca 30 March 1859, both at Lyceum; played Charles Chetty in Craven’s Chimney Corner at Olympic 21 Feb. 1861, George Talboys in Lady Audley’s Secret 28 Feb. 1863, Mr. Monkton in Eleanor’s Victory 29 May 1865, both at St. James’s; played Wm. Fielding in Charles Reade’s Never too late to mend at Princess’s 4 Oct. 1865; Sir George Touchwood in The Belle’s Stratagem 8 Oct. 1866, Tomaso in W. S. Gilbert’s burlesque Dulcamara 29 Dec. 1866, and Baron Lintz in Idalia 25 April 1867, all at St. James’s; played Edward Ashley in Miss Le Thiere’s All for money at Haymarket 12 July 1869; Bracassin in Fernande 15 Oct. 1870, and lord Leyton de Lay in Albery’s Two Thorns 4 March 1871, both at St. James’s; played Prince of Hesselstadt in Edmund Kean at Holborn 23 Sept. 1871; acted in Pickwick and The Bells at Lyceum 1871; played Pickwick at Standard theatre 1872; treasurer to Earl of Londesborough when he produced Babil and Bijou at Covent Garden 29 Aug. 1872; secretary of the General theatrical fund 1880–2. d. 8 Aug. 1889. bur. Nunhead cemet. 12 Aug., left a widow and 5 daughters. The Era 10 Aug. 1889 p. 8, 17 Aug. p. 8.

MURRAY, GEORGE (brother of Amelia Matilda Murray 1795–1884). b. Farnham 12 Jany. 1784; ed. at Harrow and at Ch. Ch. Oxf., student, B.A. 1806, M.A. 1810, D.D. 1814; R. of Bocking, Essex 1802; R. of Woodchurch, Kent 1808; V. of Broadwindsor 1813; archdeacon of Isle of Man 29 Sept. 1808; bishop of Sodor and Man 22 May 1813, consecrated in Whitehall chapel 6 March 1814; bishop of Rochester 24 Nov. 1827 to death; dean of Worcester 19 March 1828 to 1854; printed Charges and Sermons 1832–43; went to Hanover to confirm the Crown prince 1838. d. 77 Chester sq. London 16 Feb. 1860. Portraits of eminent conservatives, 2nd series (1846) portrait 21.

MURRAY, GEORGE (son of John Murray of Troquhain). b. Galloway 1808; presbyterian minister, licensed 8 June 1836; assistant and successor to minister of Balmaclellan, Kirkcudbright 8 March 1837; minister at Girthon 1843; synod clerk 24 Oct. 1843; readmitted minister at Balmaclellan 23 Oct. 1851; principal of Edinburgh Institution; wrote two curling songs The broom and the channelstane, Carle now the frost’s come 1854, and The bridge 1866. d. Wimbledon, Surrey 15 Nov. 1883. H. Scott’s Fasti i 697 (1867).

MURRAY, SIR HENRY (youngest son of David Murray, 2 earl of Mansfield 1727–96). b. 6 Aug. 1784; ed. at Westminster school; cornet 16 dragoons 16 May 1800; major 26 foot 26 March 1807; major 18 dragoons 2 Aug. 1810, lieut.-col. 2 Jany. 1812 to 10 Sept. 1821, when regiment was disbanded; placed on h.p. 10 Nov. 1821; served in Peninsular war and at Waterloo; col. 7 dragoon guards 18 Dec. 1847 to 18 March 1853; col. 14 dragoons 18 March 1853 to death; general 6 Feb. 1855; C.B. 22 June 1815, K.C.B. 18 May 1860; author of Memoirs of Capt. Arthur Stormont Murray 1859. d. Wimbledon 29 July 1860.

MURRAY, HENRY LEIGH, stage name of Henry Leigh Wilson (brother of Gaston Murray 1826–89). b. Sloane st. London 19 Oct. 1820; made his début as an actor at Hull 2 Dec. 1839; appeared at Adelphi theatre, Edinburgh 17 Sept. 1840; played in Edinburgh till 1845; first appeared in London at Princess’s theatre 19 April 1845 as sir Thomas Clifford in The hunchback; played with Macready at the Surrey 1846; acted at the Lyceum 1847; played Romeo at Dublin 1848; played at Windsor castle 1848 and 1849; stage manager at Strand 1847–50, and Olympic 1850–3 under Wm. Farren; played at Adelphi 1853 to Sept. 1854 and 4 Nov. 1856–7, at Sadler’s Wells 1855, at Drury Lane 1858, and at Lyceum 1859; made a great hit as Raphael Duchatlet in Selby’s The marble heart at Adelphi 31 May 1854; the original Harrington in James Kenney’s London Pride at St. James’s 9 Nov. 1859; his best parts were Gustave de Grignon in The ladies battle, Prince Maurice de Saxe in The reigning favourite, Harry Dornton in The road to ruin, and Burchell in The vicar of Wakefield; given a benefit at Drury Lane 27 June 1865; was the leading jeune premier of his day. d. 29 New Bridge st. London 17 Jany. 1870. bur. Brompton cemetery 22 Jany. W. Marston’s Our recent actors ii 307–9 (1888); Tallis’s Dramatic magazine (1851) 135–7 portrait; Tallis’s Drawing room table book, part 14 portrait; The Players iii 399 (1861), and iv 2 (1861); Theatrical Times i 161 (1847) portrait.

MURRAY, JAMES. b. Armagh 9 Dec. 1831; articled with W. Scott of Liverpool, architect 1845; practised there in partnership with T. D. Barry; partner with E. W. Pugin at 14 Buckingham st. Strand, London 1857–9, dissolved partnership; practised at Coventry till his death; his chief works are the justice rooms, and the corn exchange, Coventry 1856; corn exchanges at Banbury 1857, and St. Albans 1858, besides churches at Warwick, Bolton, Sunderland, Newcastle, and Stratford-on-Avon; author of Modern architecture, ecclesiastic, civil, and domestic 1862; Gothic and classic buildings erected since 1850, part 1, Coventry 1862. d. Warwick Green south, Coventry 24 Oct. 1863. Builder xxi 780, 807, (1863).

MURRAY, SIR JAMES (son of Edward Murray). b. co. Londonderry 1788; studied medicine in Edinburgh and Dublin; L.C.S. Edinb. 1807; M.C.S. Dublin 1808; M.D. Edinb. 1829; hon. M.D. Dublin 1832; physician at Belfast 1809 to 1829; resident physician to marquess of Anglesey, lord lieutenant of Ireland 1829, knighted by him 1833; resident physician to viscount Ebrington 1839, and to marquess of Normandy 1845; inspector of anatomy in Dublin nearly 40 years; established a manufactory for fluid magnesia which he had discovered 1817; probably the first to suggest electricity as a curative agent; author of Dissertation on the influence of heat and humidity 1829; Observations on fluid magnesia 1840; Electricity as a cause of cholera or other epidemics, Dublin 1849. d. 19 Upper Temple st. Dublin 8 Dec. 1871. bur. Glasnevin cemet. I.L.N. lix 618 (1871), lx 15, 16, (1872) portrait.

MURRAY, JAMES. b. 1806; entered foreign office 11 Nov. 1826; assistant under secretary of state for foreign affairs 1 Oct. 1858 to 4 July 1869, when he retired on a pension of £1,375 a year; C.B. 7 Aug. 1869; F.R.G.S. d. 149 Sloane st. Chelsea 19 Feb. 1878.

MURRAY, JAMES. b. 1802 or 1803; lost his sight at the age of five years; known as the blind poet of Galloway; author of The maid of Galloway, a tale of Thrieve and Otterburn 1850. d. middle of Aug. 1882. Athenæum 26 Aug. 1882 p. 273.

MURRAY, JAMES ARCHIBALD (son of Charles Murray). b. 4 March 1797; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school; solicitor in London 1820; second secretary to the master of the rolls 1820–1843; one of the clerks of records and writs in chancery 1851 to death. d. 7 Southwick st. Cambridge sq. London 23 Feb. 1873.

MURRAY, JOHN (son of James Murray, sea-captain). b. Stranraer, Wigtownshire about 1786; lecturer on the philosophy of physics and of chemistry; lectured at the Surrey institution, Blackfriars road, London many years from 1816; F.L.S. 1819; F.S.A. 1822; F.G.S. 1823; F.H.S. 1824; author of Elements of chemical science 1815, 2 ed. 1818; A manual of experiments illustrative of chemical science, 5 ed. 1839; A treatise on atmospherical electricity 1830; The truth of revelation 1831 anon, 2 ed. 1840; Observations on flame and safety lamps 1833, and 23 other books. d. Broadstone house, near Stranraer 28 June 1851. bur. in Inch churchyard. Mining Journal 12 July 1851 p. 336.

MURRAY, JOHN. b. 1798; succeeded David Laing the original Gretna Green blacksmith as keeper of the Sark toll-bar just over the Scotch border in Dumfriesshire, where he performed on an average 400 marriages a year up to 1856; keeper of the Sark Bar hotel. d. May 1861. P. O. Hutchinson’s Chronicles of Gretna Green ii 91 (1844); G.M. xi 96 (1861).

MURRAY, JOHN (son of Andrew Murray, an advocate). b. Aberdeen 1843; educ. Aberdeen univ., M.B. and C.M. 1865, M.D. 1867; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1865; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1870; studied in London, Paris, Berlin and Vienna; hospital reporter to The British Medical journal 1867, sub-editor to his decease; assist. physician and lecturer on pathology Middlesex hospital, became dean 1868; visited the ambulances around Sedan 1870; assist. physician Children’s hospital Great Ormond st. 1871. d. after an operation for tracheotomy 42 Harley st. London 15 Oct. 1873. bur. Aberdeen. British medical journal 18 Oct. 1873 p. 476; The Lancet 18 Oct. 1873 p. 577.

MURRAY, JOHN. b. Kelso 12 Dec. 1804; engineer to river Wear comrs. at Sunderland 1831; moved the Wear lighthouse in one solid piece to another site, a distance of more than 150 yards Aug. 1841, the lighthouse was 69 feet high and 15 feet in diameter at the base, constructed docks along the sea shore with an outlet into the river at one end and into Hendon bay at the other 1848–56; practised in London 1848–70; M.I.C.E. 12 March 1833, member of council 1859–71; author of An address on the sanitary improvement of the metropolis 1852; The tides and currents in the Polar seas, with reasons for persevering in the search for sir J. Franklin 1854. d. 2 Feb. 1882. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxi 400–407 (1883); W. H. D. Adams’s Lighthouses (1870) 182–6 view of the Wear lighthouse.

MURRAY, JOHN (eld. son of John Murray, publisher 1778–1843). b. London 16 April 1808; ed. at Charterhouse and univ. of Edinb. 1827; helped his father in the business 1830–43; publisher at 50 Albemarle st. 1843 to death; published many books by Borrow, Croker, Lyell, Lockhart, Hallam, sir F. Head, lord Stanhope, lord Campbell, and Grote, and the series known as Murray’s Handbooks; published the Quarterly Review 1843 to death; started Murray’s Mag. Jany. 1887 which ceased Dec. 1891; F.S.A. 2 March 1876; edited Unpublished letters of Laurence Sterne, Philobiblon Soc., Miscellanies vol. ii (1855–6) Tract xi; author of Hand-book for travellers in France 1843; Murray’s Hand-book for Belgium and the Rhine 1852; Scepticism in geology and the reason for it. By Verifier 1877, 2 ed. 1878. d. 50 Albemarle st. London 2 April 1892. bur. in Wimbledon parish church 6 April, net personal estate sworn at £71,390. S. Smiles’s A publisher and his friends vol. 2 (1891) passim; Curwen’s Booksellers (1873) 159–98; The Critic xx 17 (1860) portrait; Graphic 9 April 1892) p. 464 portrait; Saturday Review lxii 834.

MURRAY, SIR JOHN ARCHIBALD (2 son of Alexander Murray, lord Henderland, Scottish judge 1736–95). b. Midlothian 1779; ed. at Edinburgh high school, Westminster school, and univ. of Edinb.; advocate Scottish bar 1799; on staff of Edinburgh review, joint editor with Sydney Smith and 3 others of Edinburgh review 1802, to which he contributed many years; founder of the Friday club 1805; M.P. Leith Dec. 1832 to April 1839; recorder of the great roll and clerk of the pipe; lord advocate 1834 and 20 April 1835 to 1839; judge of court of session with courtesy title of lord Murray April 1839 to death; knighted at St. James’s palace 24 April 1839; author of Letter to the lord advocate, on the procedure in the court of session and jury trials, by a member of court, Edinburgh 1850. d. 11 Great Stuart st. Edinburgh 7 March 1859. H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches (1876) 71–7; Memoirs of Francis Horner, 2 vols. 1853, this work is dedicated to Lord Murray and contains many letters to him; Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 107–9 portrait; Law magazine and law review vii 182–7 (1859).

MURRAY, JOHN FISHER (eld. son of sir James Murray, physician 1788–1871). b. Belfast 11 Feb. 1811; studied medicine; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1830, M.A. 1832; contributed to Blackwood’s Magazine sketches of London life, afterwards reprinted separately, and a series of papers in 1840 entitled Some account of himself, by the Irish oyster eater; wrote for the Belfast Vindicator and the Nation 1845; author of The Chinese and the ministry 1840; The Viceroy, a romance, 3 vols. 1841; The Environs of London, western division, Edinb. 1842; The world of London, 2 vols. Edinb. 1843, second series, 2 vols. London 1845. d. Dublin 20 Oct. 1865. bur. Glasnevin cemet. C. G. Duffy’s Young Ireland (1880) 14 et seq.

NOTE.—He also wrote The court doctor dissected 1839, second ed. entitled Lady Flora Hastings 1839. This refers to the conduct of Sir James Clark, M.D. in the case of Lady Flora Hastings, lady in waiting to the Queen, who was accused of being in a pregnant condition, when the appearance was caused by disease. There was much discussion, both in the newspapers and by pamphlets, on this case.

MURRAY, JOHN O’KANE. b. Glenariffe, co. Antrim 12 Dec. 1847; went to U.S. of America June 1856; graduated at St. John’s college, Fordham, New York; practised medicine in Brooklyn, New York; worked from 12 to 16 hours a day for years; author of A popular history of the Catholic church in the United States 1876; The prose and poetry of Ireland 1877; The catholic heroes and heroines of America 1878; Little lives of the great saints 1879; The catholic pioneers of America 1881; Lessons in English literature 1883. d. Chicago 30 July 1885.

MURRAY, MARY FRANCES (dau. of Julio Henry Hughes of Adelphi theatre, London actor, his widow Fanny Hughes d. 12 April 1880). b. near Frankfort, Germany; first appeared on the stage 1851 at Guildford theatre as Sophia in The rendezvous; first appeared in London 23 Nov. 1853 at Lyceum as Emma Thornton in The bachelor of arts; played Ariel in The tempest at Sadler’s Wells 2 Oct. 1855; Esther in P. Simpson’s Daddy Hardacre 26 March 1857, Elvira in Brough’s burlesque Masaniello 2 July 1857, Violet in Oxenford’s Doubtful victory 19 April 1858, Alice in Oxenford’s Porter’s knot 2 Dec. 1858, Grace Emery in Craven’s Chimney corner 21 Feb. 1861, Amelia Howard in Horace Wigan’s Taming a truant 19 March 1863, Emily St. Evremond in Tom Taylor’s The ticket-of-leave man 27 May 1863, all at the Olympic; played Marion Vernon in Taylor and Dubourg’s A sister’s penance at Adelphi 26 Nov. 1866; Mrs. Singleton Bliss in Byron’s Cyril’s success at opening of Globe theatre 28 Nov. 1868; acted in Cheltnam’s drama Edendale and Gilbert’s extravaganza The pretty druidess at opening of Charing Cross theatre 19 June 1869; Marguerite in Burnand’s Very little Faust at same house 17 Aug. 1869; played Mrs. Merton in Byron’s Not such a fool as he looks 23 Oct. 1869, Chloe in Albury’s Oriana 15 Feb. 1873, both at Globe theatre; played Mrs. Magennis in Byron’s An American lady at opening of Criterion theatre 21 March 1874; Miss Tarragon in H. Aidé’s Nine days wonder 12 June 1875, Romona in W. Stephen’s Ethel’s revenge 9 Sept. 1876, Mrs. Meredith in C. F. Coghlan’s Brothers 4 Nov. 1876, Mrs. Primrose in W. G. Will’s Olivia 30 March 1878, all at Court theatre; played Miss Meryon in G. W. Godfrey’s Coralie 28 May 1881, Mrs. Preston in C. Scott’s The Cape mail 27 Oct. 1881, Miss Kilmore in B. C. Stephenson’s Impulse 9 Dec. 1882, all at St. James’s, and Mrs. Stonehay in A. W. Pinero’s The Profligate at opening of Garrick theatre 24 April 1889; m. Gaston Murray, who d. 8 Aug. 1889. d. 1 Trent road, Brixton, London 15 Jany. 1891. Pascoe’s Dramatic List (1880) 269; Illust. S. and D. news iii 513, 539 (1875) portrait.

MURRAY, MONTAGU. b. Edinburgh; educ. Glasgow; arrived at Port Nicholson with the New Zealand expedition co. as tailor to the emigrants 1840, when Wellington was founded; attached to the survey staff; proprietor of the Ship inn, Wellington; played Scotch characters in a bijou theatre; after the Wairoa massacres he removed to New South Wales 1843; tailor and actor in Sydney; a master tailor Little Collins st. Melbourne; organized and managed the Garrick club; opened the Queen’s theatre 1851; toured through New South Wales, Queensland, and South Australia; the original in the song, dialogue, and dance of The deil among the tailors; always known as Wee Murray; played Baillie Nicol Jarvie in Sydney, last time in 1869; settled in business with his son Donald Murray at Hay, N.S.W. 1869. d. Hay June 1880. The Era 1 Aug. 1880 p. 6.

MURRAY, NICHOLAS (son of Nicholas Murray, farmer). b. Ballynaskea, Westmeath 25 Dec. 1802; landed in New York July 1818; a printer 1818–21; became a Protestant 1821; graduated at Williams college 1826, and at Princetown theological seminary 1829; pastor of Presbyterian church in Elizabethtown, New Jersey 1833 to death; D.D. Williams college 1843; moderator of the general assembly 1850; under the signature of Kirwan he wrote Letters to the rt. hon. J. Hughes, Roman catholic bishop of New York 1848 two series, 1851 three series, and new ed. 1875; Kirwan’s Letter to Dr. Côte on baptism 1849; Romanism at home, being letters to the hon. Roger B. Taney 1852, 6 ed. 1852; Kirwan on Bedini and Dr. Duff, an address 1854, several replies were made to these works; author of Notes, historical and biographical, concerning Elizabeth Town 1844; Men and things as I saw them in Europe 1853; Parish and other pencillings 1855; Preachers and preaching 1860. d. Elizabethtown, New Jersey 4 Feb. 1861. S. I. Prime’s Memoir of N. Murray (1863) portrait.

MURRAY, PATRICK ALOYSIUS. b. Clones, co. Monaghan 18 Nov. 1811; ed. at Maynooth 1829–35; R.C. curate Francis st. Dublin 1835; professor of belles lettres Maynooth 7 Sept. 1838–41, and professor of theology 27 Aug. 1841 to death, nearly 2,000 priests were his pupils; prefect of Dunboyne house 1879 to death; contributed to Dublin Review many years; author of The Irish annual miscellany 1850; Essays, chiefly theological 1851; Sponsa mater et Christi 1858, a poem; Tractatus de ecclesia Christi, 3 vols. 1860–6, the most complete work on the subject; Prose and verse 1867; Tractatus de gratia 1877. d. Maynooth college 15 Nov. 1882. bur. Maynooth 18 Nov. Irish Monthly xix 337–46 (1891); Freeman’s Journal 17 Nov. 1882 p. 5.

MURRAY, PETER (son of Patrick Murray, M.D., assistant judge of supreme court of Jamaica). b. Montego bay, Jamaica 30 March 1782; ed. at Scarborough, Kensington and univ. of St. Andrews 1794; entered univ. of Edinb. 31 Oct. 1799, M.D. 24 June 1802; assistant physician at Finsbury dispensary, London 1803; practised at High Harrogate May 1804–12; at Knaresborough 1812 to Oct. 1826, and at Scarborough from 1826 to death. d. Belle Vue, near Scarborough 27 Feb. 1864. bur. Scarborough cemet. 5 March. The beloved physician by Rev. R. Balgarnie (1864).

MURRAY, RICHARD. b. 1777; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1802, M.A. 1807, D.B. and D.D. 1830; dean of Ardagh 10 Feb. 1829 to death; author of Practical remarks on book of Genesis 1827; Outlines of the history of the catholic church in Ireland 1840; Ireland and her church 1845; The church of St. John in Ireland 1849. d. Exmouth, Devon 2 Aug. 1854.

MURRAY, ROBERT FULLER (eld. child of John Murray of Roxbury in Massachusets, unitarian minister, who d. 1886). b. Roxbury 26 Dec. 1863; taken to England 1869; lived at Kelso 1869–71, at York 1871, then at Canterbury; ed. at Ilminster and Crewkerne gr. schools; entered at univ. of St. Andrews 1881 with a scholarship won as an external student of Manchester New college; wrote verse in the University paper afterwards called College Echoes; assisted professor J. M. D. Meiklejohn of St. Andrews, in literary and academic work 1886–9, left St. Andrews May 1889; wrote leader-notes for the Scottish leader May 1889 to about 6 Aug. 1889; wrote pieces of verse in Longman’s Magazine, Punch, and St. James’s Gazette; his book The Scarlet Gown, verses by a St. Andrews man, was published by his friend A. M. Holden 1891. d. Laurel bank, Ilminster, Somerset 17 Jany. 1894. Robert F. Murray, his poems, with a memoir by Andrew Lang (1894); Longman’s Mag. April 1894 pp. 644–50.

MURRAY, SIR TERENCE AUBREY (son of Terence Murray, captain 48 foot, a settler at Lake George, N.S.W.) b. Limerick 1810; went to New South Wales with his father 1827; gazetted a magistrate 1833, when he helped to repress bush ranging; member for Murray, King, and Georgiana in legislature of N.S.W. 1843–56; member for Argyle in the legislative assembly 1856–62; member for the Southern Boroughs 1856; secretary for lands and works 26 Aug. 1856 to 2 Oct. 1856, and 7 September 1857 to 12 January 1858; speaker of the legislative assembly 31 Jany. 1860; member of legislative council 1862 to death; president 14 Oct. 1862 to death; knighted by patent 4 May 1869. d. Sydney 22 June 1873. Australian men of mark i 159–64 (1889) portrait.

MURRAY, THOMAS. b. parish of Girthon, Kirkcudbrightshire 1792; entered univ. of Edinb. 1810; a licensed minister in the established church and a preacher for some time; wrote for sir David Brewster’s Cyclopædia; helped to found the Edinburgh Galloway Association 1843, secretary 1843 to death; secretary of Edinburgh School of Art 1844 to death; established at 21 George st. Edinb. the printing business of Murray and Gibb 1841, the firm became her majesty’s printers for Scotland, he retired about 1860; member of Edinb. town council 1854–60; author of The literary history of Galloway 1822; The life of Samuel Rutherford 1828; The life of Robert Leighton 1828; The life of John Wycliffe 1829; Biographical annals of the parish of Colinton 1863. d. Elm Bank, Lasswade, near Edinburgh 15 April 1872. Rev. C. Rogers’s Leaves from my autobiography (1876) 77.

MURRAY, THOMAS. b. Paisley 1801; founded firm of Thomas Murray and Son, booksellers and publishers 8 Argyll st. Glasgow, removed to 31 Buchanan st., retired some years before his death; member of Glasgow town council; with A. K. Murray published Murray’s Handbooks for Scotland, Glasgow 1852–6, eleven numbers; Murray’s Railway readings 1867 etc. d. 7 Royal crescent, Crosshill, Glasgow 13 Jany. 1884.

MURRAY, THOMAS BOYLES (son of Charles Murray, solicitor, d. 1847). b. 16 Dec. 1798; educ. Merchant Taylors’ sch., Parkin’s exhibitioner to Pemb. coll. Camb. 1817, B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824; C. of Starcross, Devon; C. of St. Olave’s, Hart st. London; assistant secretary to soc. for promoting Christian knowledge 1835, joint secretary to 1860; P.C. of St. Dunstan in the East 28 Feb. 1837 to death; prebendary of St. Paul’s cath. March 1843 to death; author of A notice of Ely chapel, Holborn 1840; An alphabet of emblems 1844; The children in St. Paul’s, the anniversary of the assembled charity schools 1851; Pitcairn, the island, the people, and the pastor 1853; Chronicles of a city church, St. Dunstan in the east 1859; A concordance to the Old and New Testament and the Apocrypha 1859. d. 30 Brunswick sq. London 24 Sept. 1860. bur. Kensal Green cemet. Gent. Mag. ix 556 (1860); I.L.N. xxvi 269 (1855) portrait.

MURRAY, THOMAS GRAHAM (3 son of Andrew Murray of Murrayshall, Perthshire 1782–1847). b. Edinburgh 24 Nov. 1816; educ. Edinb. academy and univ.; writer to the signet 22 Nov. 1838; senior partner in firm of Tods, Murray, and Jamieson, retired 1879; member of royal commission on the law of hypothec 1864, and on law courts of Scotland 1868; crown agent 1866–8; convener of endowment scheme of established church of Scotland 1887, under his supervision 100 churches were built; LL.D. of Edinb. univ. 1888; purchased Stenton estate, Perthshire 1860; member for Dunkeld of Perthshire county council; lieut. then capt. to writer to the Signet’s volunteer corps. d. 11 Randolph crescent, Edinburgh 10 March 1891. bur. Dean cemetery 14 March, portrait by George Reid, R.S.A., exhibited at R.S.A. 1891. The Scotsman 11 March 1891 p. 7.

MURRAY, WILLIAM. b. Portsea, Hants. 1796; admitted solicitor 1817; partner with Wm. Osbaldeston in city of London 1817–34, practised alone 1834–57; partner with his son C. F. Murray and F. L. Hutchens 1857–67, retired from practise 1867; member of council of Incorporated law society 26 June 1855, retired 1867; M.P. Newcastle under Lyme 1859–65. d. 7 Warrior terrace, St. Leonard’s 27 Oct. 1870. Solicitor’s Journal 5 Nov. 1870 p. 14.

MURRAY, WILLIAM (son of Mrs. Murray who lived at 33 Harley st. London in 1861). Ensign 97 foot 9 March 1838, lieut. 29 May 1840; captain 10 hussars 3 Sept. 1847; captain 12 lancers 1 May 1857, sold out 4 Dec. 1857; served in Crimean war 1855; major in the army 26 Dec. 1856; resided at Elm lodge, Talbot road, Tottenham 1861; had a desperate fight with W. J. Roberts a money lender at Roberts’ chambers 16 Northumberland st. Strand 12 July 1861, Roberts died in Charing Cross hospital 19 July, the coroner’s jury returned a verdict of justifiable homicide 25 July; Roberts was in love with Murray’s mistress Anna Maria Moody and tried to kill Murray by shooting him. A.R. (1861) 119–26; J. Irving’s Annals of our time 2 ed. (1876) 606–7; Illust. Times 20 July 1861 p. 46, 27 July pp. 56–9 and 3 Aug. pp. 72–4, portrait of Miss A. M. Moody and view of 16 Northumberland st.

MURRAY, WILLIAM DAVID (only son of 4 Earl of Mansfield, b. 1806). b. Scone palace, Perthshire 12 July 1835; styled viscount Stormont 1840 to death; ensign grenadier guards 21 July 1854, sold out 27 Sept. 1856; served in Crimean war 1855; lieut. col. commandant of Perthshire militia 22 Dec. 1871 to death; commanded Tay brigade of volunteer infantry 4 Aug. 1888 to death; militia A.D.C. to the Queen 10 May 1892 to death; vice lieut. of Perthshire 1879 to death; a comr. of supply about 1880; member of the road board and of Perth district committee March 1881, chairman of the committee to 1892; chairman of the county road trustees. d. Scone palace, 12 Oct. 1893.

MURRAY, WILLIAM HENDERSON. Apprentice to a shoemaker at Cupar-Fife; designer, engraver and afterwards reporter on the Fife Herald at Cupar; reporter to Falkirk Herald; connected with Edinburgh guardian; editor and manager of Daily Express, Edinb. 1856, then joint proprietor with Joseph Ebenezer Cupples, latterly sole proprietor, his name appears on the paper as printer until No. 1014, Sept. 23, 1858. d. at house of his father-in-law, Charles Duncan, painter Cupar 25 July 1858. The Fife Herald 29 July 1858, p. 2.

MURRAY, WILLIAM HENRY WOOD (son of Charles Murray, actor and dramatist 1754–1821). b. Bath 26 Aug. 1790; played small parts at Covent Garden 1803–4; first appeared at T.R. Edinburgh as Count Cassel in Lover’s vows 20 Nov. 1809; manager of theatre royal in Shakspere sq. Edinburgh April 1815 to death; played Captain Thornton in Rob Roy Macgregor, produced 15 Feb. 1819, which ran 41 nights; played Wamba in his drama Ivanhoe 24 Nov. 1823; made a great hit as Paul Pry Nov. 1825; produced his farce No, 10 Feb. 1827, and his drama Gilderoy 25 June 1827; lessee of T.R. Edinburgh 1830 to death, opened 17 Nov. 1830; lessee with F. H. Yates of Adelphi theatre, Edinb. 1830–1, sole lessee 1831 to death; last appeared in Edinb. at Adelphi as Sir Anthony Absolute 22 Oct. 1851; author of Mary, queen of Scots 4 July 1825; Gilderoy, a drama 25 June 1827; Dominique the deserter, a comic drama 16 Nov. 1831; Philippe or the secret marriage 15 July 1834; Cramond Brig or the Gudeman o’ Ballangeich 17 Jany. 1834; Diamond cut diamond, Adelphi theatre Aug. 1838; Romeo and Juliet, a burlesque; Oliver Twist, a drama 23 March 1840. d. St. Andrews 5 May 1852. bur. in the cathedral burying ground, portrait by sir Wm. Allan in Scottish national portrait gallery. B. W. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 170–2 portrait; The Town ii 766, 778 (1839); J. C. Dibdin’s Annals of Edinburgh stage (1888) 260, 349, 422, 509 portrait; The Farewell addresses of W. H. Murray, with a biographical sketch (1851).

MURRAY, WILLIAM POWELL (7 son of Charles Murray of Petworth, Sussex). b. London 23 March 1817; educ. Westminster 1829, King’s scholar 1831, elected as head boy to Trin. coll. Camb. 1835, B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842; barrister L.I. 23 Nov. 1841; practised in the chancery courts; registrar of bankruptcy court, Manchester 26 March 1863, registrar in London 1863 to death. d. Newgrove, Upper Norwood 20 Aug. 1885. bur. Shirley churchyard, Surrey. Law Times 19 Sept. 1885 p. 347.

MURRAY-DUNLOP, ALEXANDER COLQUHOUN STIRLING (eld. son of Alexander Dunlop of Keppoch Dumbartonshire banker). b. Greenock 27 Dec. 1798; ed. at Greenock gr. sch. and univ. of Edinb.; called to Scottish bar 1820; assessor to town of Greenock; fought a duel with James Colquhoun, eldest son of Sir James Colquhoun, 3 baronet, about 1825; framer of the “Claim of rights” for the Free church of Scotland and of the “Protest” made on occasion of the disruption 1843; legal adviser to Free church 1843 to death: contested Greenock March 1845 and July 1847; M.P. Greenock 1852–68; hon. LL.D. Princetown univ. U.S. of America; assumed additional surname of Murray on death of John Murray of Edinb. 1849, and names of Colquhoun Stirling on death of W. C. Stirling 1866; author of A treatise on the poor law. d. Corsach, Kirkcudbrightshire 1 Sept. 1870. Law Times 10 Sept. 1870 p. 357.

MURRIETA, CRISTOBAL DE. b. Spain 1789; a merchant at 5 Bloomfield st. Moorfields, City of London 1825; took his sons Mariano and Jose into partnership 1850, the business was principally with Spain and South America and was carried on at 7 Adam court, Old Broad st. from 1847, it was converted into a limited liability company 21 March 1891, which failed 30 July 1892; knight grand cross of Spanish order of Charles III. d. 11 Kensington palace gardens, London 17 Nov. 1868, personalty sworn under £600,000 Jany. 1869.

MURSELL, JAMES (son of the succeeding). b. Leicester 22 July 1829; in office of sir Morton Peto, Westminster 1846; educ. Bristol coll. 1850; Baptist minister at Kettering 1852–70; at Hallfield chapel, Bradford 1870–2; at Berwick st. chapel, Newcastle 1872 to death; attended the opening of Mr. Wall’s Baptist chapel in Rome 1875; author of Our relations with India 1857; The principal historical associations of Northamptonshire 1861. d. Newcastle 28 May 1875. S. A. Swaine’s Faithful men (1884) 330–2; The Baptist handbook 1876 pp. 378–80.

MURSELL, JAMES PHILIPPO (son of William Mursell, ironmonger). b. High st. Lymington, Hants 7 Sept. 1799; educ. Newbury and at Bristol academy; Baptist minister at Wells, at Birmingham, at Leicester 1826, resigned 1875 when he was presented with £1,600; first chairman of Baptist union at Birmingham 1864; a founder of the voluntary church society at Leicester 1836 and of the Nonconformist newspaper 1841; took the name of Philippo, after his friend James Philippo, a missionary in Jamaica; author of Letters on education 1831; Reasons for not observing fasts, 2 ed. 1847; Robert Hall, his genius and writings 1854; A zealous ministry, its character and its worth 1857. d. Leicester 2 Nov. 1885. A. Mursell’s J. P. Mursell (1886) portrait; The Baptist handbook 1886 pp. 131–3.

MURTON, FREDERIC (son of Mr. Murton, commandant of marines, Chatham). b. Chatham 24 March 1817; articled to colonel George Landmann 1834, employed by him on Preston and Wyre railway 1837; resident engineer upon the Paris, Rouen, Havre, and Dieppe railway; engaged by Thomas Brassey on Paris, Lyons, Avignon and Marseilles railway, presented by his employer with £5,000; in practice in Paris; carried out a railway from Gladbach to Venlo; examined railway projects in Portugal and North America; M.I.C.E. 1 March 1864. d. 85 Addison road, Kensington, London 17 Jany. 1889. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xcvi 326–8 (1889).

MUSGRAVE, ANTHONY. b. Antigua Nov. 1793; ed. at Edmonton and Edinb., M.D. June 1814; annual president of Edinb. medical society; partner with H. M. Daniell at Antigua 1815; partner with Robert Crichton 1824 to Crichton’s death 1827; member of house of assembly 1817; treasurer of Antigua 1824 to death; partner with Thomas Nicholson 1827 to death; wrote in the Medico Chirurgical transactions of London, a history of the yellow fever which broke out in Antigua June 1816; wrote articles in the medical papers. d. Antigua 24 Feb. 1852.

MUSGRAVE, SIR ANTHONY (son of the preceding). b. 1828; private secretary to R. J. Mackintosh, governor of Leeward Islands 1850–1; student at Inner Temple 1851; treasury accountant at Antigua 1852, colonial secretary 1854–60; administrator at Nevis Oct. 1860, and at St. Vincent April 1861; lieut. governor St. Vincent May 1862; governor of Newfoundland April 1864, and of British Columbia 8 Nov. 1869; lieutenant governor of Natal 25 May 1872; governor of South Australia 6 March 1873; governor and captain-general in Jamaica 8 June 1877; governor and commander-in-chief in Queensland 21 July 1883 to death; C.M.G. 23 Feb. 1871, K.C.M.G. 30 Aug. 1875, G.C.M.G. 6 June 1885; author of Studies in political economy 1875. d. Government house, Brisbane 9 Oct. 1888.

MUSGRAVE, CHARLES (son of W. Peete Musgrave of Cambridge, woollen draper). b. 1792 or 1793; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., tenth wrangler 1814; B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817, B.D. 1830, D.D. 1837; fellow of his college; V. of Whitkirk, Leeds 1821–36; select preacher at Camb. 1821–2; V. of Halifax, Yorkshire 30 March 1827 to death; prebendary of York cath. 16 Feb. 1833 to death; archdeacon of Craven 30 Dec. 1836 to death; author of Charges and sermons 1824–54. d. Halifax Vicarage 17 April 1875. The church of England photographic portrait gallery (1859) portrait 43; Hulbert’s Annals of Almondbury (1882) 111, 519.

MUSGRAVE, FRANK. b. 1834; conductor at Strand theatre, London 1861 to about 1876, where he arranged music for H. J. Byron’s burlesque Esmeralda 28 Sept. 1861; composed the music for Burnand’s Windsor Castle, produced 5 June 1865, the first opera-burlesque in this country, also for his burlesque L’Africaine, produced 18 Nov. 1865; composer of The pantomime polka 1861; Le chevalier et sa belle, a song 1866; The excursion train galop 1862; A selection from The Messiah and The Creation arranged for the violin 1862; The smile and the tear, a ballad 1866; Boosey’s Burlesque series, music arranged by F. Musgrave 1861; Boosey’s Christy minstrel’s melodies arranged by F. Musgrave 1862; Boosey’s 24 popular dances arranged as duets 1862; his name is attached to upwards of 50 pieces of music 1861–84. d. Cambridge house, Bethnal green, London 11 May 1888. bur. Highgate cemetery 17 May.

MUSGRAVE, GEORGE MUSGRAVE (eld. son of George Musgrave of Shillington manor, Beds. 1769–1861). b. St. Marylebone, London 1 July 1798; ed. at Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; C. of All Souls, Marylebone 1824–6; C. of Marylebone 1826–9; R. of Bexwell, Norfolk 1835–8; V. of Borden, Kent 1838–54; travelled in France and Italy; founded 2 theological prizes at Clergy orphan school, St. Thomas’s Mount, Canterbury, and three at Clergy orphan school, St. John’s Wood, London; author of Translations from Tasso and Petrarch 1822; The book of the Psalms in English blank verse 1833; The crow keeper or thoughts in the fields 1847; The parson, pen, and pencil, 3 vols. 1848; A pilgrimage into Dauphiné, 2 vols. 1857; Continental excursions, cautions for the first tour By Viator Verax, M.A. 1863, 5 ed. 1866; Ten days in a French parsonage, 2 vols. 1864; Nooks and corners in Old France, 2 vols. 1867; The Odyssey of Homer, rendered into English blank verse, 2 vols. 1865, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1869; A ramble into Brittany, 2 vols. 1870. d. 13 Grosvenor place, Bath 26 Dec. 1883.

MUSGRAVE, SIR RICHARD, 3 Baronet (1 son of sir Christopher Frederick Musgrave, 2 Bart. 1758–1826). b. 6 Jany. 1790; succeeded Sept. 1826; M.P. co. Waterford 1835–7. d. Whiting bay, co. Waterford 7 July 1859.

MUSGRAVE, SIR RICHARD COURTENAY 11 Baronet (2 son of sir G. Musgrave, 10 baronet 1799–1872). b. Eden hall, Penrith, Cumberland 21 Aug. 1838; ensign 71 foot 17 Nov. 1857, sold out 21 Oct. 1859; succeeded 29 Dec. 1872; lord lieut. of Westmoreland 27 Sept 1876 to death; contested East Cumberland 16 Feb. 1874, and 28 April 1876; M.P. East Cumberland April 1880 to death; colonel of royal Westmoreland militia 1 Feb. 1879 to death. d. 17 Cavendish sq. London 13 Feb. 1881.

MUSGRAVE, THOMAS (son of W. Peete Musgrave, tailor and woollen draper). b. Slaughter house lane, Cambridge 30 March 1788; ed. at gr. sch. Richmond, Yorkshire; pensioner Trin. coll. Camb. 1804, scholar 1807, junior fellow 1812, senior fellow 1832–7, senior bursar 1825–37; 14 wrangler 1810; B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813, D.D. 1837; lord almoner’s professor of Arabic 1821–37; senior proctor 1831; V. of Over, Cambridge 1823; R. of St. Mary the Great 1825–33; V. of Bottisham 1837; dean of Bristol 27 March 1837; bishop of Hereford 5 Aug. 1837, consecrated at Lambeth 1 Oct 1837, revived the office of rural dean; archbishop of York 15 Nov. 1847 to death, enthroned in York minster 15 Jany. 1848; author of Charges and Sermons 1831–54. d. 41 Belgrave sq. London 4 May 1860. bur. Kensal Green cemet., portrait in dining room at Bishopthorpe.

MUSGRAVE, THOMAS MOORE. b. 1775; private sec. to lord Pelham, sec. of state for home department 1802; of Alien department in sec. of state’s office 1803–6, and again in 1816; sec. to the secretary to the government of Ireland 1806, when he retired on a pension; mail agent at Lisbon July 1816; agent for the mail packets at Falmouth; comptroller of the twopenny post office, London to 1833; postmaster at Bath 1833 to death; a writer in the Edinburgh and Quarterly reviews, and in Ackerman’s Forget-me-not; author of A candid appeal to public confidence 1803; Considerations on the re-establishment of an effective balance of power, 2 ed. 1813; Ignez de Castro, a tragedy from the Portuguese of A. Ferriera 1825; The Lusiad by L. de Camoens, a translation 1826. d. Bath 4 Sept. 1854. Bath Chronicle 14 Sept. 1854 p. 3.

MUSGRAVE, WILLIAM. Barrister I.T. 23 June 1814; puisne judge supreme court of Cape of Good Hope 7 July 1843 to death. d. Wynberg, Cape of Good Hope 6 Oct. 1854.

MUSGRAVE, WILLIAM PEETE. b. 1813; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., scholar, B.A. 1835, M.A. 1837; C. of Trumpington, Cambs. 1837–40; V. of Eaton-Bishop, Herefordshire 1841–54; resident canon and preb. of Hereford cath. 1 Feb. 1844 to death; R. of Etton, Yorkshire, and rural dean of Beverley 1854–78; warden of St. Katherine’s hospital, Ledbury 1877 to death; precentor of Hereford cath. 1878 to death; author of What preach we?; The Christian soldier, and various single sermons. d. Residence house, Hereford 11 April 1892. F. T. Havergal’s Fasti Herefordenses (1869) p. 66.

MUSGROVE, SIR JOHN, 1 Baronet (only son of John Musgrove of London, merchant 1763–1820). b. 21 Jany. 1793; auctioneer and house agent at 5 Austin Friars, London 1824; alderman of Broad st. Ward, London 1842, resigned 17 Sept. 1872; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1843–4; lord mayor of London 1850–1; knighted on occasion of queen opening royal exchange 28 Oct. 1844; baronet 2 Aug. 1851, after queen’s visit to the city. d. Rusthall house, Speldhurst, Kent 5 Oct. 1881. I.L.N. xvii 357 (1850) portrait.

MUSHET, ROBERT (2 son of Richard Mushet). b. Dalkeith 1811; second clerk and probationer melter in the royal mint, London 1832, senior clerk and melter 1851 to death; F.G.S. 1863; author of The Trinities of the ancients 1837; The book of symbols 1844, 2 ed. 1847; The coin book, Philadelphia 1873. d. Haywards Heath, Sussex 4 Sept. 1871.

MUSHET, ROBERT FORESTER (youngest son of David Mushet metallurgist 1772–1847). b. Coleford, Forest of Dean 8 April 1811; assisted his father in his researches at Coleford; experimented with the alloy of iron and manganese known as Spiegeleisen from 1848; took out three patents for improving the quality of iron 16 Sept. 1856; claimed to have perfected the Bessemer process of refining iron by blowing air through it when in a molten condition; the Bessemer medal of the Iron and Steel institute was awarded to him 1876; took out about 20 patents for manufacture of alloys of iron and steel with titanium tungsten and chromium 1859–61; invented ‘special steel’ about 1870; author of The Bessemer-Mushet process 1883. d. 10 Sydenham villas, Cheltenham 19 Jany. 1891. Jeans’s Creators of the age of steel (1884) 60–5; Journal of iron and steel institute (1876) 1–4; Engineering Review 20 July 1893 p. 7 portrait.

MUSPRATT, JAMES (son of Evan Muspratt, an Englishman, d. 1810). b. Dublin 12 Aug. 1793; apprenticed to a wholesale chemist in Dublin 1807; midshipman on board the Impétueux 1812, but deserted about 1814; a manufacturer of prussiate of potash in Dublin 1818; set up alkali works at Liverpool 1823; joined J. C. Gamble and built new works at St. Helens 1828, left Gamble and set up another manufactory at Newton 1830; opened new works in Widnes and Flint; retired from business 1857; was the chief founder of the alkali manufacture in the United Kingdom. d. Seaforth hall, near Liverpool 4 May 1886. bur. in Walton parish churchyard. J. F. Allen’s Memoir of James Muspratt, with portrait.

MUSPRATT, JAMES SHERIDAN (1 son of the preceding). b. Dublin 8 March 1821; studied chemistry at Andersonian univ. Glasgow 1836, and at Univ. coll. London 1838; lost some thousands in a trading partnership in America 1842; worked in the laboratory of Liebig at Giessen 1843–5; Ph.Doc. Giessen 1845, a title never before granted to so young a man; F.C.S. 1843; founded the Liverpool college of chemistry 1848; succeeded to a share in his father’s business 1857; F.R.S. Edinb. 1844; F.R.S. Dublin; translated Plattner’s Treatise on the blowpipe 1845, 3 ed. 1854; discovered a proto-chloride of iron spring at Harrogate 1868, since known as Dr. Muspratt’s chalybeate; author of Outlines of qualitative analysis 1849; Chemistry, theoretical, practical, and analytical, 2 vols. 1853–61; m. 22 March 1843 Susan Cushman, American actress, d. 10 May 1859. He d. The Hollies, West Derby, Liverpool 3 Feb. 1871. Biography of Sheridan Muspratt, by a London barrister-at-law (1852) portrait; J. S. Muspratt’s Chemistry, 2 vols. (1853–61) 2 portraits; W. White’s Biography of S. Muspratt (1869) portrait.

MUSSY, HENRI GUÉNEAU DE. b. Paris 1814; physician, came to England with Louis Philippe in 1848; physician to the Orleans family throughout his life; F.R.C.P. of England 25 Nov. 1859; resided at Claremont 1848–72; made investigations in Ireland about the famine fever of 1847; entertained at a banquet by the president and college of physicians of England; representative of the French académie de médecine at tercentenary of univ. of Edinb. 16–18 April 1884, when he was created LL.D.; wrote De l’apoplexie pulmonaire in Ecole de Medicine, collection des thèses 1844, vol. viii. d. St. Raphael in the Riviera Sept. 1892. bur. Pére Lachaise cemet. Paris 3 Oct. The Times 4 Oct. 1892 pp. 3, 7.

NOTE.—He was one of the few foreigners elected to the full fellowship of the royal college of physicians, his coat-of-arms is represented in one of the stained glass windows of the college in Trafalgar square.

MUSTERS, GEORGE CHAWORTH (son of John George Musters of Wiverton hall, Notts., d. 1842). b. Naples 13 Feb. 1841; entered the navy 1854; served in the Algiers, 74 guns, in the Black Sea, received English and Turkish Crimean medals 1856; lieut. of the Stromboli on coast of South America Dec. 1861 to June 1866; retired commander 10 June 1871; started sheep-farming at Montevideo 1866; lived with the Patagonian aboriginies, who treated him as a king 1869–70; received a gold watch from Royal Geog. soc. 1872; travelled with his wife in Bolivia and adjacent countries Feb. 1874 to Sept. 1876; appointed consul for the Mozambique 23 Sept. 1878; author of At home with the Patagonians, a year’s wanderings on untrodden ground from the Straits of Magellan to the Rio Negro 1871, 2 ed. 1873. d. London 25 Jany. 1879. Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. i 397–8 (1879).

MUSTOXIDI, SIR ANDREA. b. Corfu 1785; created doctor at Padua 1807; historiographer to the French government under ministry of duke de Feltre in the Ionian Islands 1807; member of legislative assembly of Ionian Islands 1817, then president; president of municipality of Corfu; minister of public instruction in the Ionian Islands, and chancellor of the univ. of Corfu 1823; historiographer of the Ionian Islands 1811, sir Thomas Maitland deprived him of the title 1820; K.C.M.G. 1857; author of many editions of the classical authors and of works on Greece, published at Corfu, Malta, Milan, Padua, and Venice 1811–48. d. Corfu 17 July 1860. G.M. Nov. 1860 p. 554; Didot’s Nouvelle Biog. Générale xxxvi 73 (1863); Larousse’s Grand Dictionnaire xi 732 (1874).

MUSURUS, CONSTANTINE (son of Paul Musurus). b. Constantinople 18 Feb. 1807; a Greek christian; sec. to Stefanaki Beg Vogorides, afterwards prince of Samos 1832, whose daughter Anne he married in 1839, she was b. 1819 and d. in London 19 July 1867; Turkish minister at Athens 1840, and at Vienna 1848; minister in London April 1851, raised to the rank of ambassador 30 Jany. 1856 with the title of Pasha, on the Sultan’s visit to London July 1867; retired 7 Dec. 1885; resided 1 Bryanston sq. London. d. Constantinople 12 Feb. 1891. The Graphic 21 Feb. 1891 p. 209 portrait; I.L.N. 21 Feb. 1891 p. 235 portrait; Pictorial World 21 Feb. 1891 p. 241 portrait.

MUTRIE, ANNIE FERAY (sister of the succeeding). b. Ardwick, Manchester 6 March 1826; exhibited 46 flower pictures at R.A. and 6 at B.I. 1851–80, her pictures praised by John Ruskin in his Notes on the Royal academy 1855; removed to London 1854; sent pictures to Manchester exhibition of 1857, and to the International exhibition of 1862. d. 26 Lower Rock gardens, Brighton 28 Sept. 1893. bur. Brompton cemet. The Times 10 Oct. 1893 p. 9.

MUTRIE, MARTHA DARLEY (elder dau. of Robert Mutrie, who settled at Manchester in the cotton trade). b. Ardwick, Manchester 26 Aug. 1824; exhibited flower pictures at Royal Manchester Institution during some years; resided in London 1854 to death; exhibited 43 pictures at R.A. and 1 at B.I. 1853–78; a Group of Camellias by her is in the South Kensington museum. d. 36 Palace gardens’ terrace, Kensington 30 Dec. 1885. bur. Brompton cemet. Athenæum 9 Jany. 1886 p. 75.

MUTTLEBURY, GEORGE. b. 1775; ensign 55 foot Jany. 1795, captain 21 Feb. 1798; captain 69 foot 5 Dec. 1802, lieut. col. 10 Aug. 1815, placed on h.p. 25 Nov. 1816; lieut. col. 69 foot again 3 July 1817, retired 3 Oct. 1826; C.B. 22 June 1815. d. Maida hill, London 11 Jany. 1854.

MYBURGH, PHILIP ALBERT (5 son of François Gerard Myburgh of Cape of Good Hope civil service, d. 21 Jany. 1868). b. 24 Feb. 1841; educ. South African college; matric. univ. of London 1858, B.A. 1860; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1862, bencher Jany. 1886 to death; Q.C. 18 Jany. 1882; her majesty’s standing counsel in supreme court, China and Japan; practised in the admiralty court, London. d. 31 Queen’s gate gardens, London 4 July 1892.

MYCROFT, WILLIAM. b. Brimington, near Chesterfield 1 Feb. 1841; a miner at Brimington; professional cricketer; engaged at Birkenhead 1871, at Derby by the South Derbyshire club 1872–3; first played at Lord’s in All England v. the United South 22–3 May 1876, when he put out 9 of the latter and hit W. G. Grace for three 4’s in one over; a fast left hand bowler; in the Players v. Gentlemen at Lord’s and at Prince’s 1877; engaged by lord Sheffield to help Alfred Shaw in training Sussex players; on ground staff at Lord’s 1876–93. d. Derby 19 June 1894. Marylebone Club cricket scores xiii 823 (1880).

MYERS, ARTHUR THOMAS (eld. son of rev. Frederick Myers of Keswick, Cumberland). b. 1841; educ. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1873, M.A. 1876, M.D. 1881; L.S.A. 1879; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1882; house physician St. George’s hospital 1879–80, medical registrar 1880–4; physician Belgrave hospital for children 1887 to death; contributed to Clinical society transactions. d. from effects of a dose of some narcotic at 2 Manchester sq. London 10 Jany. 1894.

MYERS, FREDERICK (son of Thomas Myers 1774–1834, professor of mathematics at royal military academy, Woolwich.) b. Blackheath 20 Sept. 1811; scholar of Clare hall, Camb. 1829, Crosse scholar 1833, fellow 1833; B.A. 1833; Tyrwhitt Hebrew scholar 1836; C. of Ancaster, Lincs. 1835; P.C. of St. John’s, Keswick 1838 to death; author of Catholic Thoughts, privately printed, in 4 books 1834–48, published 1873 in the series of Present-day papers, edited by Bishop Ewing, issued again in 1883; Four sermons preached before the university of Cambridge, Keswick 1846; Six lectures on great men 1848. d. Clifton 20 July 1851. bur. Keswick churchyard 26 July. The life of Wm. Whewell, By Mrs. Stair Douglas (1881) passim.

MYERS, JAMES WASHINGTON. b. Providence, Rhode island, U.S. of America 1823; an equestrian apprentice to Aaron Turner and Sons 1832; the first person who did a double somersault over horses; proprietor of a circus and menagerie 1844, travelled in United States 7 years, sold his establishment to James Nixon and P. T. Barnum 1851; came to England and performed before the queen at Windsor Castle 1851; travelled with Howes and Cushing’s circus 17 months; circus proprietor performing in the English provinces and on the Continent; had a very large establishment in Paris; his circus was at Crystal palace, Sydenham, summer of 1876; opened at the Agricultural hall, Islington 12 Jany. 1879; sold his circus, horses, lions, and elephants for about £5,000 at North Woolwich gardens 18 Oct. 1882; travelled with Hengler’s circus to death. d. Bristol 1 Dec. 1892. Era 21 Oct. 1882 p. 7, cols. 3–4; Graphic xxvi 501 (1882); Illust. Sp. and Dr. news xviii 145 (1882).

MYERS, WILLIAM. Apprenticed to a land surveyor; acted under Mr. Thornhill at Bilston, then at Birmingham; played under Charles Kean’s management; acted Buckingham in Richard iii, and Appius Claudius in Virginius; played Quasimodo in Notre Dame in Jersey and was complimented by Victor Hugo; acted with W. C. Macready; last appeared as the Baillie in Rob Roy at Jersey; was the successor to T. P. Cooke in the character of William in Black-eyed Susan; correspondent of The Era in Guernsey. d. Guernsey 31 Dec. 1891, left a daughter Katherine Myers, professionally known as Kate Maynard.

MYERS, WILLIAM. b. Norwich 5 March 1836; at Shrewsbury walked 300 miles in 6 days 1853; jumped 500 hurdles, 10 yards apart, in 30 minutes at Huntingdon 30 Dec. 1856; won a gold cup over 500 hurdles at Aldershot 1858; won a silver cup in a distance of 34 miles at Brompton; walked Bailey of Oxford st. London for £10 a side at Brompton; won a 3 mile handicap at Holloway grounds; beat W. Priestly for the championship £25 a side on Good Friday 1861; beat T. Beeston 7 miles £25 a side at Chalk farm, Primrose hill, London. Illust. sporting news (1862) 45 portrait.

MYLES, JAMES. b. parish of Liff, Scotland 1819; worked as a mason several years; a public speaker on the people’s rights; bookseller in the Overgate, Dundee to death; published A Feast of literary crumbs, By Foo Foozle and friends; author of Chapters in the life of a Dundee factory boy, reprinted from Northern Warder newspaper; Rambles in Forfarshire, or sketches in town and country 1850, mostly reprinted from Dundee Courier; issued prospectus of a periodical entitled Myles’s Forfarshire telegraph and monthly advertiser, shortly before his death. d. Dundee 26 Feb. 1851. W. Norries’ Dundee Celebrities (1873) 132–3.

MYLES, PERCY WATKINS (son of rev. T. P. Myles, rector of Kilmore, co. Cork). b. Kilmore Feb. 1849; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1872; C. of St. John, Wednesbury, Staffs. 1871–4; Senior C. of Holy Trinity, Upper Chelsea 1874–8; C. of Hillingdon, Middlesex 1878–82; C. of St. George, Old Brentford 1882–4; C. of St. Stephen, Ealing 1884 to death; agent of Additional curates aid soc.; F.L.S.; his lecture before Rudy institute, Paris on Contemporary English literature Jany. 1890, printed as a pamphlet March 1890; a writer in The Academy; edited for the Selbourne Society, its monthly magazine Nature notes 1890 to death. d. 1 Argyll road, Castle Hill, Ealing 7 Oct. 1891. Academy 10 Oct. 1891 p. 335.

MYLNE, ROBERT WILLIAM (son of the succeeding). b. 14 June 1817; assisted his father for about 20 years; engineer to Limerick water company some years; obtained a supply of water from a sunk fort in the sea off Portsmouth; surveyor to the Stationers’ company 1861 to death; F.R.I.B.A. 1849–89; F.G.S. 1848, member of council 1854–68; F.S.A. 8 Feb. 1849; author of On the supply of water from Artesian wells in the London basin 1840; Account of the ancient basilica of San Clemente at Rome 1845; Sections of the London strata with a block plan of the metropolis 1850; Topographical map of London and its environs 1851 and 1855; Map of the geology and contours of London and its environs 1856; Map of London shewing the districts supplied by the waterworks 1856. d. Home lodge, Great Amwell, Herts. 2 July 1890. Proc. of Royal Soc. xlviii pp. xx–xxi (1891); Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xiii 317 (1890).

MYLNE, WILLIAM CHADWELL (2 son of Robert Mylne, architect and engineer 1734–1811). b. London 6 April 1781; assistant engineer to the New River company 1804, engineer 1811–61; designed and executed water works for Lichfield 1821, and for Stamford 1836; laid out 50 acres of land for building purposes near Islington, and designed St. Mark’s ch. Myddelton sq. 1826–8; constructed many settling reservoirs at Stoke Newington 1828; surveyor to the Stationers’ company 1811–61; F.R.A.S. 1821; F.R.S. 16 March 1826; F.R.I.B.A. 1834; M.I.C.E. 1842, member of council 1844–8; treasurer to Smeatonian society of engineers 41 years. d. Amwell, Herts. 25 Dec. 1863. R. S. Mylne’s Master masons to the crown of Scotland (1893) 284–98 portrait; Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxx 448–51 (1870).

MYNN, ALFRED (4 son of Wm. Mynn, farmer). b. Twisdon lodge, Goudhurst, Kent 19 Jany. 1807; a hop merchant with his brother at 12 Counter st. Borough, London 1833; played with lord Sondes’ club at Leeds court from 1825; first appeared at Lord’s in Gentlemen v. Players 27 Aug. 1832; served with the Gentlemen 20 times; played for county of Kent regularly till 1854; in 1836 he scored 283 runs in 4 consecutive innings, besides being twice not out; on an average he made about 30 runs in an hour; member of All England eleven 1846–54; a second Kent and England match was played in his honor at Lord’s 1847, when he got most runs, most wickets, and also hit the winning ball; the champion single wicket player of England, and beat, twice each, Thomas Hills in 1832, James Dearman in 1838, and N. Felix in 1846, all of whom had challenged him; a fast and ripping round armed bowler; resided at Harrietsham from 1825, removed to Thurnham and then to London. d. Merrick sq. Borough, London 1 Nov. 1861. Denison’s Cricket (1846) 3–11 and 74–6; Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores ii 200–1 (1862); R. Daft’s Kings of cricket (1893) 28–32, 203, 3 portraits; W. G. Grace’s Cricket (1891) 29 portrait; Illust. sporting news (1862) 137 portrait.

MYNN, WALTER PARKER (brother of preceding). b. 24 Nov. 1805; member of the Kent eleven, a steady bat, generally going in first; played at Lord’s first time in Sixteen gentlemen v. Eleven players 8 July 1833; long stop to his younger brother, A. Mynn’s tremendous bowling, and was much hurt about his hands in consequence; height upwards of six feet. d. 19 South Grove, Peckham, London 17 Oct. 1878. bur. Forest Hill. Lillywhite’s Cricket scores ii 221 (1862).

MYTTON, RICHARD HERBERT (only son of rev. Richard Mytton of Garth, near Welshpool, Montgomeryshire, d. 21 Feb. 1828). b. 2 Dec. 1808; ed. at Eton and Haileybury; judge of the Sudder, or high court of appeal at Calcutta, retired 1853; sheriff of Montgomeryshire 1856; chairman of quarter sessions. d. Garth 12 May 1869.

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NADEN, CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL (only child of Thomas Naden, architect). b. 15 Francis road, Edgbaston, Birmingham 24 Jany. 1858; lived with Mrs. Woodhill at Edgbaston till 1 June 1887, from whom she inherited a handsome fortune; a disciple of Robert Lewins, M.D. from 1876, the doctrine he taught is called hylo-idealism, and is monistic positivism; studied physics, chemistry, botany, flower painting, German, French, Latin, and Greek under private tutors, and at the Midland institute, and at Mason’s coll. Birmingham 1879–1887; lectured at Mason’s coll. 1889; edited the Mason college magazine; a member of the Aristotelian society; travelled in the East 1887–8; purchased 114 Park st. Grosvenor sq. London Nov. 1888; endeavoured to form a Spencer society 1819; wrote scientific papers with the signatures of C. N., Constance Arden, and C. A.; author of Songs and sonnets of spring time 1881; A modern apostle, the elixir of life, and other poems 1887; Further reliques of C. Naden, ed. by George M. McCrie 1891; Selections from the works of C. C. W. Naden 1893. d. from an internal complaint 114 Park st. London 23 Dec. 1889. bur. in Old cemet. Warstone lane, Birmingham; Dr. Lewin founded a Naden gold medal at Mason college, and gave her bust in marble to the library 1890. Induction and deduction by C. C. W. Naden (1890) memoir pp. vii–xvii portrait; W. R. Hughes’ C. Naden (1890) portrait; Mason coll. mag. Feb. 1890 pp. 47–55; Midland Institute mag. Feb. 1890 p. 223, March p. 240; Edgbastonia Feb. 1890 pp. 17–23 portrait; A. H. Miles’ Poets of the century, viii 571–8 (1893); E. C. Brewer’s Constance Naden and hydro-idealism (1891); Contemporary review April 1891 pp. 508–22; The Speaker No. 2 Jany. 11 1890 p. 35, by W. E. Gladstone, where he praises her Pantheistic song of immortality.

NAFTEL, MAUD (only dau. of the succeeding). b. 1 June 1856; studied at Slade school of art in London, and in Paris under Carolus Duran; exhibited 8 drawings at the Dudley gallery 1877–82, and at the Dudley Gallery art soc. 2 drawings 1883–5; was noted for her paintings of flowers; associate of the Old Society of painters in water-colours March 1887, where she exhibited 16 drawings; exhibited 2 flower pieces at R.A. 1875–8; author of Flowers and how to paint them 1886. d. 76 Elm park road, Chelsea 18 Feb. 1890. J. L. Roget’s Old water colour society ii 352, 428–9 (1891).

NAFTEL, PAUL JACOB (son of Paul Naftel of Guernsey). b. Guernsey 10 Sept. 1817; professor of drawing at Elizabeth college, Guernsey; associate of the Old Society of Painters in water-colours 11 Feb. 1856, member 13 June 1859, exhibited 550 works; a landscape drawing-master in water-colours, London 1870 to death; resided at 4 St. Stephen’s sq. Westminster 1870–83, and then at 76 Elm park road; designed the illustrations for Ansted and Latham’s The Channel Islands 1862. d. 1 Walpole gardens, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham 13 Sept. 1891. J. L. Roget’s Old water colour society ii 352–4 (1891).

NOTE.—His wife exhibited 6 pictures at R.A., and 9 at Suffolk st. 1857–79.

NAGHTEN, ARTHUR ROBERT (son of Thomas Naghten of Crofton house, Titchfield, Hants). b. 23 April 1829; educ. Eton and Worcester coll. Oxf., B.A. 1852, M.A. 1853; M.P. Winchester 3 Feb. 1874 to 24 March 1880; captain Hampshire artillery 3 Aug. 1859, major 1872–5; a director of Southampton dock co. d. Blightmont, Southampton 7 Aug. 1881.

NAGLE, JAMES. b. co. Cork; sessional crown prosecutor in East Riding of co. Cork 1836–53; master of the crown office in Ireland, queen’s coroner and attorney and clerk of the crown 1853 to death. d. 90 Pembroke road, Dublin 11 Sept. 1875. Irish Law Times ix 470, 535 (1875).

NAIRN, WILLIAM EDWARD (1 son of Wm. Nairn, major 46 foot). b. Lynecombe, Somerset 1812; matric. from Queen’s coll. Oxf. 21 Jany. 1830; scholar of Lincoln coll. 1830–4; B.A. 1833; went with sir John Franklin to Van Diemen’s Land 1837; secretary to board of education 1839; clerk to the executive and legislative councils 1841; assistant colonial secretary 1842; deputy controller general of convicts 1843, controller general 1855; sheriff of Van Diemen’s Land 1855; member for Meander of legislative council 1856–69; president of the council Sept. 1859 to Aug. 1868. d. Hobart Town 9 July 1869.

NAIRNE, CHARLES MURRAY. b. Perth 15 April 1808; graduated at Univ. of St. Andrews 1830, and afterwards at Edinburgh; assistant to Dr. Thomas Chalmers at Glasgow; taught at College Hill, Poughkeepsie, New York 1847; established a private school in New York; professor of moral and intellectual philosophy and literature in Columbia college 1857–81, emeritus professor 1881 to death; received degree of L.H.D. from the regents of New York 1865; author of Two lectures of the annual psychological course in Columbia college, New York 1866, and of many pamphlets. d. Warrenton, Virginia 28 May 1882.

NAIRNE, ROBERT. Educ. Edinb. and at Trin. coll. Camb., M.B. 1832, M.L. 1836, M.D. 1837; F.R.C.P. Lond. 1838; physician to St. George’s hospital 1839, then senior physician and lecturer on medicine; a comr. in lunacy April 1857 to July 1883, hon. comr. 1883 to death. d. Mossley, Beckenham 5 Nov. 1886. The Lancet 13 Nov. 1886 p. 955, 20 Nov. p. 1005.

NAISH, JOHN (2 son of Carrol Naish of Ballycullen, co. Limerick). b. 1841; ed. at Jesuit school of Clongowes Wood in Kildare, and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar in science 1861, B.A. 1863; won the studentship given by inns of court, London; called to Irish bar 1865; Q.C. 28 Feb. 1880; bencher of King’s Inns 1883; law adviser to Dublin castle 1880–3; solicitor general for Ireland 9 Jany. 1883, attorney general 19 Dec. 1884 to 21 May 1885; contested Mallow 25 June 1883; P.C. Ireland Jany. 1885; lord chancellor of Ireland 21 May to 1 July 1885, being the second Roman Catholic chancellor since the reformation; lord justice of appeal Aug. 1885 to Feb. 1886, and June 1886 to death; lord chancellor again Feb. to July 1886. d. Ems 17 Aug. 1890. bur. at Ems. Our judges, By Rhadamanthus (1890) 45–9 portrait; Irish law times xxiv 446–7 (1890); Law Journal 23 Aug. 1890 p. 514.

NAISH, WILLIAM (son of Francis Naish, silversmith). b. High st. Bath 9 March 1785; haberdasher at 37 Gracechurch st. London 1823–34; published many tracts and pamphlets in favour of the anti-slavery movement which he sold at his shop 1829–30; resided sometime at Maidstone; author of The negroe’s remembrancer, 13 numbers; The negroe’s friend, 26 numbers; Reasons for using East Indian sugar 1828; The negro slave, a tale 1830; Sketches from the history of Pennsylvania 1845; The fulfilment of the prophecy of Isaiah 1853, and of a number of 4 page Quaker tracts. d. Bath 4 March 1860. bur. Friends burial ground at Widcombe Hill near Bath. J. Smith’s Catalogue ii 210–14 (1867).

NOTE.—His son Arthur John Naish, b. 1816, founded with Paul Bevan the valuable Bevan-Naish library of Friend’s books, now deposited in the library, Dr. Johnson passage, Birmingham, he d. 1889.

NALLY, PATRICK W. b. co. Mayo 1857; tried Dec. 1883 and again in 1884 at Cork, and sentenced to 10 years penal servitude for being concerned in the Crossmolins conspiracy to murder case; detained in Mountjoy prison, Dublin from 1882–6, in Downpatrick gaol and 1886, again at Mountjoy; preparation had been made for a Nally testimonial on his expected release from prison on 27 Nov. 1891. d. Mountjoy prison, Dublin 9 Nov. 1891. bur. Glasnevin cemet. 14 Nov., when a large number of people attended. The Freeman’s Journal 10 Nov. 1891 p. 5, 16 Nov. p. 5.

NAPIER OF MAGDALA, Robert Cornelis Napier, 1 Baron (son of Charles Frederick Napier, major R.A. d. 1812). b. Colombo, Ceylon 6 Dec. 1810; ed. at Addiscombe 1824–6; 2 lieut. Bengal engineers 15 Dec. 1826; laid out the new settlement of Dargiling 1838–42; served at battles of Ferozeshah 21 Dec. 1845, and Sobraon 10 Feb. 1846; served in the second Sikh war 1848–9; civil engineer to board of administration of the Punjab 1849–56 where he carried out important public works; officiating chief engineer of Bengal 1857; military secretary and chief of the adjutant general’s department in Oudh, and at relief of Lucknow 1857, severely wounded at second relief of Lucknow 17 Nov. 1857, commanded a brigade of engineers at siege of Lucknow 21 March 1858; commanded the Central India force May 1858, defeated Tantia Topee in June, commanded the Gwalior division 29 June, captured the rebel leaders Man Singh and Tantia Topee 7 April 1859; commanded the second division in the expedition to China Jany. 1860, took the Peiho forts 21 Aug. 1860; military member of council of governor general of India Jany. 1861 to Jany. 1865; commander-in-chief of the Bombay army Jany 1865; commanded the expedition to Abyssinia which landed at Zoulah 2 Jany. 1868, defeated the troops of King Theodore 10 April and stormed Magdala 13 April; C.B. 24 March 1858, K.C.B. 27 July 1858, G.C.B. 27 April 1868; G.C.S.I. 16 Sept. 1867; created baron Napier of Magdala in Abyssinia and of Caryngton in the county palatine of Cheshire 14 July 1868; received freedom of cities of London 21 July 1868 and of Edinburgh 15 Sept. 1868; hon. colonel of 3rd London rifle corps 22 July 1868 to death; F.R.S. 16 Dec. 1869; commander-in-chief in India Jany. 1870 to 10 April 1876; col. commandant of the R.E. 1 April 1874 to death; general 1 April 1874; governor of Gibraltar 30 June 1876 to 1 Jany. 1883; field marshal 1 Jany. 1883; constable of Tower of London 6 Jany. 1887 to death. d. 63 Eaton sq. London 14 Jany. 1890. bur. St. Paul’s cathedral 21 Jany. equestrian statue by Boehm erected in Calcutta 1876, a replica of which was unveiled in Waterloo place, London 8 July 1891. C. R. Low’s Soldiers of the Victorian age (1870) 308–71; T. H. S. Escott’s Pillars of the empire (1879) 228–35; C. R. Markham’s History of Abyssinian expedition (1869) 140 et seq.; E. H. Nolan’s Indian mutiny iii 71 portrait; I.L.N. li 349, 350 (1867) portrait, 18 July 1891 p. 67 view of statue; Graphic xvii 293 (1878) portrait.

NOTE.—He is depicted under the name of general Sutton in the novel called Chronicles of Dustypore, a tale of modern Anglo-Indian society. By the author of Wheat and Tares (H. S. Cunningham). 2 vols. 1875.

NAPIER, ALEXANDER (6 son of Macvey Napier 1776–1847, editor of the Edinburgh Review 1829–47). b. Edinburgh 1814; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1847; V. of Holkham, Norfolk 1847 to death; chaplain and librarian to earl of Leicester; R. of Egmere with Waterden 1847 to death; edited Isaac Barrow’s Theological Works, 9 vols. Camb. 1859; Life of Samuel Johnson, by J. Boswell, 5 vols. 1884, 2 ed. 6 vols. 1884; translated and edited J. A. W. Neander’s The epistle to the Philippians and the general epistle of James 1851; Karl Elze’s Lord Byron 1872; Julius Payer’s New lands within the Arctic circle, 2 vols. 1876; A. T. F. Michaelis’ The Holkham bust of Thucydides 1878; his wife Robina Napier translated Memoirs of prince Metternich 1773–1815, edited by prince Richard Metternich, 5 vols. 1880–4; he d. Holkham vicarage 24 Aug. 1887. Quarterly Review Oct. 1869 pp. 353–81.

NAPIER, Sir Charles (eld. son of Charles Napier of Merchiston hall, Stirlingshire, captain in the navy 1731–1807). b. Merchiston hall 6 March 1786; entered navy 1 Nov. 1799, captain 22 May 1809; lost his fortune in an attempt to promote iron steamers on the Seine 1819–27; vice-admiral, major general of the Portuguese navy and commander-in-chief of the fleet in the cause of Donna Maria and Dom Pedro 8 June to 15 Oct. 1833; defeated the squadron of Dom Miguel off Cape St. Vincent 3 July 1833; promoted to rank of admiral and created viscount Cape St. Vincent in peerage of Portugal July 1833; granted grand cross of order of the Tower and Sword and created count Cape St. Vincent by Dom Pedro; captain H.M.S. Powerful, 84 guns, 1 Jany. 1839; commanded a squadron off Syria June 1840, took Beyrout from the Egyptians 10 Oct. 1840, and Acre 3 Nov.; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 2 Dec. 1840, received orders of Maria Theresa of Austria, of St. George of Russia, of the Red Eagle of Prussia, and the first class of the Medjidie; presented with freedom of city of London 23 Sept. 1841; captain on h.p. 1841; naval A.D.C. to the queen 30 Nov. 1841 to 9 Nov. 1846; R.A. 9 Nov. 1846; commanded the channel fleet May 1847 to April 1849; V.A. 28 May 1853; commanded the fleet in the Baltic sea 25 Feb. 1854 to 19 Feb. 1855, where he blockaded all the Russian ports; admiral 6 March 1858; contested Portsmouth 14 Dec. 1832 and Greenwich 1837; M.P. Marylebone 1841–7; M.P. Southwark 1855–60; author of An account of the war in Portugal between Don Pedro and Don Miguel, 2 vols. 1836; The life of sir C. Napier, chiefly by himself, 3 ed. 1841 portrait; The war in Syria, 2 vols, 1842; The history of the Baltic campaign 1857. d. Merchiston hall, Horndean, Hants. 6 Nov. 1860. bur. at Catherington; portrait by T. M. Joy in painted hall at Greenwich, and another portrait by John Simpson in National portrait gallery, Edinburgh. E. D. H. E. Napier’s Life of sir C. Napier, 2 vols. (1862) portrait; Men of the time (1857) 558–64; G.M. x 209–16 (1861); E. H. Nolan’s Russian war i 310 (1855) portrait; Sporting Review xxxii 205–7 (1854) portrait; Fagan’s Reform club (1887) 93–101, 121 portrait; I.L.N. ii 175 (1843) portrait, xxiv 207, 208 (1854) portrait.

NAPIER, SIR CHARLES JAMES (eld. son of colonel the hon. George Napier 1751–1804). b. Whitehall, London 10 Aug. 1782; ensign 33 foot 31 Jany. 1794; lieut. 89 foot 8 May 1794; captain in the staff corps 22 Dec. 1803; major 50 foot 6 Nov. 1806 to 27 June 1811; served in Spain, was wounded five times at battle of Corunna 16 Jany. 1809, a prisoner at Corunna Jany. 1809 to Jany. 1810; lieut. col. 102 foot 27 June 1811 to 2 Sept. 1813; commanded a brigade against U.S. of America May 1813 for some months; lieut. col. 50 foot 2 Sept. 1813, placed on h.p. Dec. 1814; served as a volunteer against Napoleon 1815; inspecting field officer in the Ionian Islands 30 July 1818, placed on h.p. 1 March 1832; resident of Cephalonia March 1822 to 1830; commanded troops in northern district, India April 1839, and at Poona 12 Dec. 1841; commanded the Sinde and Beloochistan division 24 Aug. 1842 to 17 Dec. 1846; won the battle of Meanee with 2,700 men against more than 20,000 men 17 Feb. 1843; defeated Shir Muhammad, the Lion of Mirpur, at Haidarabad 24 March 1843; Sinde finally annexed 24 May 1844; col. of 22 foot 21 Nov. 1843 to death; captured Bega Khan Dumki, the leading hill chief 9 March 1845; L.G. 9 Nov. 1846; commander-in-chief in India 7 March 1849 to 6 Dec. 1850; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 19 July 1838, G.C.B. 4 July 1843; author of Memoir on the roads of Cephalonia 1825; The colonies, treating of their value generally, of the Ionian islands in particular 1833; Remarks on military law and flogging 1837; A letter on the baggage of the Indian army 1849; A letter on the defence of England by volunteers and militia 1852. d. Oaklands, near Portsmouth 29 Aug. 1853. bur. in ground attached to garrison chapel at Landport; bronze statue by G. G. Adams in Trafalgar sq. London, unveiled 26 Nov. 1856. W. F. P. Napier’s Life of sir C. J. Napier, 4 vols. (1857) 4 portraits; W. N. Bruce’s Life of general sir C. Napier (1885) portrait; J. J. Higginbotham’s Men whom India has known (1874) 316–21; E. H. Nolan’s Illust. history of British empire in India ii 669 (1860) portrait; G.M. xl 410–6 (1853); Men of the time (1853) 330–3; I.L.N. ii 255 (1843) portrait, xiv 145, 146 (1849) 2 portraits, xxiii 191, 192, 229, 230, 431 (1853) portrait.

NOTE.—He was the first general who recorded in his despatches the names of private soldiers who had distinguished themselves side by side with officers. A portrait of him photographed by W. E. Kilburn on 24 March 1849, has been engraved in line by Joseph Skelton. He was called in the army “Old Fagin” from his strong likeness to the Jew in Oliver Twist.

NAPIER, DAVID. b. 1790; founded with his cousin Robert Napier, the firm of Napier and Sons, shipbuilders and marine engineers, Govan, Glasgow; introduced coasting steamers for the post office service 1818; established regular steam communication between Greenock and Belfast, and in 1822 between Liverpool, Greenock, and Glasgow; constructed machinery for the United Kingdom 1826, the largest vessel then designed; invented the steeple engine; tried the application of the surface condenser in marine engines; proposed a plan for removal of the Glasgow sewage by means of barges. d. 8 Upper Phillimore gardens, Kensington, London 23 Nov. 1869. Glasgow daily herald 27 Nov. 1869 pp. 4, 5; Engineering 3 Dec. 1869 p. 365.

NAPIER, EDWARD DELAVAL HUNGERFORD ELERS (elder son of Edward Elers, lieutenant R.N., d. 1814). b. 1808; took additional name of Napier from his mother’s second husband, admiral sir Charles Napier; ensign 46 foot 11 Aug. 1825, major 11 Oct. 1839, retired on h.p. 14 Oct. 1842; served in India 1830–3; obtained release of Syrian troops detained by Mahomet Ali, and conducted them to Beyrout, May to Sept. 1841; commanded bodies of irregulars during the Kaffir war 1846–7; colonel of 61 foot 3 Oct. 1864, and of 46 foot 22 Feb. 1870 to death; L.G. 3 Oct. 1864; author of Scenes and sports in foreign lands, 2 vols. 1840; Excursions along the shores of the Mediterranean, 2 vols. 1842; Reminiscenses of Syria, 2 vols. 1843; Wild sports in Europe, Asia, and Africa, 2 vols. 1844; Excursions in Southern Africa, 2 vols. 1849; The life of admiral sir Charles Napier, 2 vols. 1862. d. Westhill, Shanklin, Isle of Wight 19 June 1870. Colburn’s United service mag. Aug. 1870 pp. 484–92.

NAPIER, GEORGE (son of George Napier, solicitor). b. 1802; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edinb.; advocate 1823; advocate depute 1830–4 and 1835–40; sheriff of Peebleshire 1840 to death. d. Coates hall, Haymarket terrace, Edinburgh 29 Aug. 1883.

NAPIER, SIR GEORGE THOMAS (brother of sir Charles James Napier 1782–1853). b. Whitehall, London 30 June 1784; cornet 24 light dragoons 25 Jany. 1800; lieut. 52 foot 25 Dec. 1802, major 27 June 1811; served in Sicily, Sweden, and Portugal, and in the Peninsular campaigns 1809–11; lost his right arm at assault on Ciudad Rodrigo 19 Jany. 1812; deputy adjutant general of the York district 1812; lieut. col. 71 foot 24 March 1814; captain 3 foot guards 25 July 1814; lieut. col. 44 foot 22 Feb. 1821, placed on h.p. 19 April 1821; governor and commander-in-chief at Cape of Good Hope 4 Oct. 1837 to 12 Dec. 1843, where he enforced the abolition of slavery, and abolished inland taxation; declined command of Sardinian army 1849; col. of 1 West India regiment 29 Feb. 1844 to death; general 20 June 1854; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 19 July 1838; author of Passages in the early military life of general sir G. T. Napier, edited by W. C. E. Napier 1884, 2 ed. 1886. d. Geneva 8 Sept. 1855, his body was brought to England July 1881 and bur. in family vault at Cosham near Portsmouth. Passages in the early military life of Sir G. T. Napier (1886) portrait.

NAPIER, GEORGE THOMAS CONOLLY (eld. son of the preceding). b. 1815; ensign 52 foot 7 Sept. 1832; lieut. Cape mounted riflemen 23 Feb. 1839, lieut. col. 17 May 1850 to 28 Jany. 1853, when placed on h.p.; A.D.C. to the queen 20 June 1854 to Dec. 1861; deputy quartermaster general North America 1 July 1859 to 6 Dec. 1861; M.G. on the staff in Canada 6 Dec. 1861 to 1 Jany. 1867; col. 96 foot 14 June 1869 to 10 May 1872; col. 22 foot 10 May 1872 to death; L.G. 30 April 1871; C.B. 31 May 1853. d. Morpeth terrace, Victoria st. Westminster 5 May 1873.

NAPIER, HENRY ALFRED (youngest son of 8 baron Napier 1758–1823). b. 20 June 1797; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1822; R. of Swyncombe, near Henley 13 Oct. 1826 to death; author of Historical notices of the parishes of Swyncombe and Ewelme, Oxfordshire 1858, 4to. 63/-, published by himself at Oxford. d. Swyncombe rectory 20 Nov. 1871. I.L.N. lix 531 (1871).

NAPIER, HENRY EDWARD (brother of sir George Thomas Napier 1784–1855). b. 5 March 1789; entered navy 20 Sept. 1806; served in the East Indies 1808–11; lieutenant 4 May 1810; commanded the Goree, 18 guns, 7 June 1814, and afterwards the Rifleman, 18 guns, in the Bay of Fundy; placed on h.p. Aug. 1815, captain on h.p. 31 Dec. 1830; F.R.S. 18 May 1820; author of Florentine history, from the earliest authentic records to the accession of Ferdinand the third, 6 vols. 1846–7. d. 62 Cadogan place, London 13 Oct. 1853.

NAPIER, JAMES. b. Partick, Glasgow June 1810; apprenticed to a dyer; studied at Glasgow univ.; lived in London and Swansea several years; returned to Glasgow about 1849–50, where he became closely associated with Anderson’s college and the technical school founded by James Young; author of A manual of electro-metallurgy 1851, 5 ed. 1876; A manual of the art of dyeing, Glasgow 1853; A manual of dyeing receipts 1855, 3 ed. 1875; The ancient workers in metal, from references in the Old Testament 1856; Stonehaven and its historical associations, 2 ed. 1870; Notes relating to Partick 1873; Manufacturing arts in ancient times 1874; Folk lore or superstitious beliefs in the West of Scotland 1879; illustrated J. Mac Arthur’s The antiquities of Arran 1861, 2 ed. 1873. d. Bothwell, Lanarkshire 1 Dec. 1884.

NAPIER, JAMES ROBERT (son of Robert Napier of Shandon 1791–1876). b. Camlachie 12 Sept. 1821; educ. Glasgow high sch. and univ.; managed his father’s ship building at Govan 1841; invented plan of working outside plating of ships in alternate in and out strakes; a partner in firm of R. Napier and sons 1853–7; a shipbuilder on his own account a few years; engaged in West Scotland fishery co.; invented the graphic method of correcting deviations of a ship’s compass known as Napier’s Diagram 1851; invented Napier’s Glass coffee apparatus; took out many patents; a founder of Institution of engineers in Scotland, president 1863; F.R.S. 6 June 1867; M.I.N.A.; wrote 17 scientific papers; contributed to Macquorn Rankine’s Shipbuilding, theoretical and practical 1866; edited Francis Napier’s Australian notes. d. 22 Blythswood sq. Glasgow 13 Dec. 1879. Maclehose’s Glasgow Men (1886) 115, 118, 237–40, 243, 270 portrait; Nature xxi 206.

NAPIER, SIR JOSEPH, 1 Baronet (youngest son of Wm. Napier of Belfast, merchant, d. 1830). b. Belfast 26 Dec. 1804; ed. at Belfast academical institution; entered Trin. coll. Dublin Nov. 1820; B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828, LL.B. and LL.D. 1851; D.C.L. Oxford 1853; revived the Old College historical society, president 1854 to death; student at Gray’s Inn 1828; called to Irish bar 1831; the only lawyer in Dublin who had pupils; delivered lectures on the common law, and established a law institute in Dublin; Q.C. 6 Nov. 1844; much employed in appeals before the house of lords; contested univ. of Dublin 9 Aug. 1847; M.P. univ. of Dublin 1848–58; introduced and carried through the house of commons the ecclesiastical code, afterwards known as Napier’s ecclesiastical code; bencher of King’s Inns 1852; attorney general of Ireland March to Dec. 1852; P.C. Ireland 1852; a comr. on registration of title to land 18 Jany. 1854; lord chancellor of Ireland 10 March 1858 to June 1859; created baronet 26 March 1867; the special champion of the Irish church; vice-chancellor of Dublin univ. 1867 to Dec. 1879; one of the 26 members of the ritual commission June 1867; P.C. 11 Nov. 1868; member of judicial committee of privy council 11 Nov. 1868 to Jany. 1881; chief comr. of the great seal Ireland 11 March 1874 to 1 January 1875; edited with John C. Alcock Reports of cases argued in the courts of King’s Bench and exchequer chamber in Ireland 1831–3, Dublin 1834; author of A manual of precedents of forms and declarations on bills of exchange and promissory notes 1831; Digest of the civil bill and manor courts statutes, Dublin 1836, 2 ed. 1843; Essay on the communion service of the church of England or Rome, which shall govern Ireland 1851, 2 ed. 1851; and many Addresses and Speeches 1854–73. d. St. Leonard’s-on-Sea 9 Dec. 1882. bur. Mount Jerome cemetery, Dublin, memorial tablets in mortuary chapel of the cemetery and in St. Patrick’s cathedral. A. C. Ewald’s Life of Sir Joseph Napier (1887) portrait; O. J. Burke’s Lord chancellors of Ireland (1879) 293–307; Sir Joseph Napier’s Lectures, essays, and letters (1888) portrait; I.L.N. xiv 405 (1849) portrait, xxxiii 394 (1858) portrait; Graphic xxvii 60 (1883) portrait.

NAPIER, MACVEY (son of Macvey Napier 1776–1847, editor of the Edinburgh Review 1829–47). b. 1807 or 1808; edited Selections from the correspondence of the late Macvey Napier 1879. d. 7 Pembroke villas, Richmond, Surrey 8 July 1893.

NAPIER, MARK (only son of Francis Napier of Edinburgh, writer to the signet). b. 24 July 1798; ed. at high school and univ. of Edinb.; advocate at Scottish bar 1820; sheriff depute of Dumfriesshire 4 Nov. 1844 to death, and of Galloway to death; author of Memoirs of John Napier of Merchiston 1834; History of the partition of the Lennox 1835; Montrose and the covenanters, 2 vols. 1838; Commentaries on the law of prescription in Scotland 1839, 2 ed. 1854; Memoirs of the Marquis of Montrose, 2 vols. 1856. d. 6 Ainslie place, Edinburgh 23 Nov. 1879. Journal of jurisprudence xxiii 652 (1880).

NAPIER, PETER. b. Dumbarton 1793; educ. Glasgow univ., M.A., D.D. 1847; assistant presbyterian minister at Port Glasgow 1815; minister of St. George’s in the Fields, Glasgow 1824; minister of Blackfriars ch. Glasgow 1845 to death; author of A course of lectures on infidelity 1842; Grace exhibited, grace communicated 1845. d. Glasgow 12 March 1865. H. Scott’s Fasti ii, part 1 p. 35 (1868); J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1848) 315–22.

NAPIER, ROBERT (son of James Napier, blacksmith and millwright). b. Dumbarton 18 June 1791; apprenticed to his father 1807–12; blacksmith in Greyfriars’ Wynd, Glasgow 1815; ironfounder and engineer at the Camlachie works in Gallowgate 1821, constructed his first marine engine 1823 for the Leven; took extensive works, the Vulcan foundry in Washington st. 1828, and the Lancefield foundry on Anderston quay 1835, the works were sold 14 March 1877; engined all the paddle-wheel ships of the Cunard company 1840–55; took his sons into partnership 1853; opened a shipbuilding yard at Govan 1841, built his first ship the Vanguard 1843; began constructing iron ships 1850; built the Persia of 3,300 tons for the Cunard co. 1854; a juror at Paris exhibition 1855, received gold medal and legion of honour; built more than 300 vessels for the government and great companies 1856 to death; built men-of-war for the French, Turkish, Danish, and Dutch governments; M.I.C.E. 31 March 1840; M.I.M.E. 1856, president 1863–5. d. West Shandons, Glasgow 23 June 1876. Maclehose’s Glasgow Men (1886) 241–4 portrait; Engineering (1867) 594–7 portrait, (1876) 554–5; Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xlv 246–51 (1876) with list of all the vessels engined or built by him; Practical Mag. iii 1 (1874) portrait; Graphic xiv 44 (1876) portrait.

NAPIER, ROBERT D. (son of David Napier 1790–1869). b. Glasgow 1821; engineer with his father and his brother, Frank Napier, at Glasgow to 1837, then with them as engineers Millwall, London from 1837, where they built numerous steamships; went to New South Wales; dredged Sydney harbour; invented the self-holding brake; returned to Glasgow 1870, partner with his brother John D. Napier as Napier Brothers; manufactured self-holding brakes for ships’ windlasses, etc.; contributed to The Engineer and to Trans. of Institution of Engineers, Glasgow; author of On the velocity of steam and other gases 1866. d. Glasgow 8 May 1885. The Engineer 15 May 1885 p. 387.

NAPIER, SIR ROBERT JOHN MILLIKEN, 9 Baronet (eld. son of sir William John Milliken Napier, 8 baronet 1788–1852). b. Milliken house, near Johnstone, Renfrewshire 7 Nov. 1818; ensign 79 foot 7 Aug. 1835, captain 12 April 1844, sold out 9 June 1846; succeeded his father 4 Feb. 1852; deputy lieut. of Renfrewshire 1845, and convener 1859–65; lieut. col. commandant of Renfrewshire militia 31 March 1854, hon. col. 19 Jany. 1878 to death. d. 32 Moray place, Edinb. 4 Dec. 1884.

NAPIER, SIR THOMAS ERSKINE (brother of sir Charles Napier 1786–1860). b. 10 May 1790; ensign 52 foot 3 July 1805; captain in the Chasseurs Britanniques 27 Oct. 1809, placed on h.p. 1814, when the corps was disbanded; served in Sicily and Spain 1812–3; A.D.C. to sir John Hope in the Peninsula 1813, lost his left arm at battle of the Nive 11 Dec. 1813; assistant adjutant general in Ireland to 1843, deputy adjutant general 1843–6; governor of Edinburgh castle and commander of the troops in Scotland May 1852 to 20 June 1854; colonel of 16 foot 28 Jany 1854 and of 71 foot 16 May 1857 to death; general 20 Sept. 1861; C.B. 19 July 1838, K.C.B. 18 May 1860; granted distinguished service reward 1 June 1849. d. Polton house, Lasswade, near Edinburgh 5 July 1863.

NAPIER, Sir William Francis Patrick (brother of sir George Thomas Napier 1784–1855). b. Celbridge, co. Kildare 17 Dec. 1785; ensign royal Irish artillery 14 June 1800; ensign 62 foot 1800, lieut. 1801, placed on h.p. 1802; captain 43 foot 11 Aug. 1804, major 14 May 1812, placed on h.p. 17 June 1819; served at siege of Copenhagen 1807, in Spain 1808–9, and in Portugal 1809–13; granted £150 per annum for his distinguished services 29 May 1841; lieutenant-governor of Guernsey Feb. 1842 to Dec. 1847; colonel of 27 foot 5 Feb. 1848, and of 22 foot 19 Sept. 1853 to death; general 17 Oct. 1859; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 27 April 1848; author of History of the war in the Peninsula and in the south of France, from the year 1807 to the year 1814, 6 vols. 1828–40, 5 ed. 6 vols. 1851, upwards of 15 works appeared in reference to these volumes; The conquest of Scinde, 2 vols. 1845; The life and opinions of general sir C. J. Napier, 4 vols. 1857, 2 ed. 1857. d. Scinde house, King’s road, Clapham park, London 10 Feb. 1860. bur. Norwood; statue by G. G. Adams in north transept of St. Paul’s cathedral. H. A. Bruce’s Life of sir W. F. P. Napier, 2 vols. (1864) 2 portraits; H. Martineau’s Biog. Sketches, 4 ed. (1876) 199–212; I.L.N. xxxvi 172, 186 (1860) portrait.

NAPLETON, JOHN CHARLES (9 son of rev. Timothy Napleton, R. of Powderham, Devon, d. 1816). b. 1811; ed. Worcester coll. Oxf., Bible clerk 1830–2; B.A. 1833; P.C. of Hatfield, Herefordshire 1844–58, and P.C. of Grendon Bishop 1849–58; P.C. of All Saints’, Lambeth 1858 to death; author of Daily services in the cottage 1848, new ed. 1877; The present condition of the working classes 1855; A letter to C. H. Spurgeon, touching his sermon on baptismal regeneration 1864. d. Bayswater, London 13 April 1867.

NAPOLEON III, CHARLES LOUIS NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, Emperor of the French (3 son of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte 1778–1847, king of Holland). b. Rue Cérutti, now Rue Lafitte, Paris 20 April 1808; became heir to the French empire 22 July 1832; arrived in London from America 10 July 1837; went to Arenenberg to attend his mother’s death bed 5 Oct. 1837; resided in London at Fenton’s hotel, 63 St. James’s st. from 24 Oct. 1838, at Waterloo place, at Carlton ter. to Dec. 1839, and at Carlton gardens to Aug. 1840; one of the ten knight visitors at the Eglinton tournament 28–30 Aug. 1839, tilted on foot with Charles Lamb in the ball room on 29 Aug.; attended on Wimbledon common 3 March 1840 to fight a duel with count Leon, a reputed son of Napoleon I, the police interfered and carried the parties to Bow st. where they were bound over to keep the peace; went from Margate to Boulogne and attempted to seize the government of France 6 Aug. 1840, condemned to perpetual imprisonment 6 Oct. 1840, sent to Ham, North France 10 Oct., escaped to England 25 May 1846; living at the Brunswick hotel, 52 Jermyn st. 27 May 1846; resided in Bath 1846; leased 3a King st. St. James, now 10 King st., from 1 Feb. 1847 at £300 a year, his furniture, etc. sold by auction 22 May 1849; charged Charles Pollard of Essex st. London with stealing two bills of exchange of £1,000 each, prisoner acquitted on technical grounds 3 July 1847; a special constable in London on day of Chartists’ procession 10 April 1848; author of Des Idées Napoleoniennes, London 1839, and of Canal of Nicaragua to connect the Atlantic with the Pacific, London 1846; president of the French republic 20 Dec. 1848; emperor of the French 2 Dec. 1852; m. 29 Jany. 1853 Eugénie Marie de Guzman, countess of Téba, b. 5 May 1826; with the empress visited the queen at Windsor and Buckingham palace 16–21 April 1855; K.G. 18 April 1855; entertained by city of London 19 April 1855; with the empress visited the queen at Osborne 6–9 Aug. 1857; hon. M.I.C.E. 23 May 1869; declared war against Prussia 15 July 1870, taken prisoner at Sedan 2 Sept., deposed at Paris 4 Sept., confined at Wilhelmshöhe near Cassel 5 Sept., released and landed at Dover 20 March 1871, resided at Camden place, Chislehurst, Kent to his death 9 Jany 1873. bur. St. Mary’s ch. Chislehurst 15 Jany., the remains removed to a mausoleum built by the empress at Farnborough, Surrey 9 Jany. 1888. Blanchard Jerrold’s Life of Napoleon III, 4 vols. (1874–82) seven portraits; Victor Hugo’s Napoleon le Petit (1852); Fagan’s Reform club (1887) 94 portrait: Passing Events 18 Jany. 1873 portrait and other plates; I.L.N. 6 June 1846 pp. 364–5 portrait, 23 Dec. 1848 p. 385 portrait, 21 April to 5 May 1855 pp. 371 et seq. portraits, 15 Aug. 1857 p. 154, 25 March 1871 p. 283, 18 and 25 Jany. 1873 p. 65 et seq. portraits; J. H. Nixon’s Eglinton tournament (1843) plates xviii, xx, and xxi; P. Larousse’s Grand Dictionnaire xi 819–33 (1874).

NOTE.—His real father was Charles Henri Verhuel a well-known Dutch admiral, his mother was Hortense de Beauharnais, dau. of the empress Josephine, by her first marriage. He is depicted under the name of Porphyro in the novel entitled Rumour, By the author of Charles Auchester, Counterparts, &c, &c. [Miss Elizabeth S. Sheppard] 3 vols. 1858. He was known in France under the sobriquets of Badinguet, Boustrapa, The Man of December, and The Man of Sedan.

NARRIEN, JOHN (son of a stonemason). b. Chertsey, Surrey 1782; a very skilful optician at 70 St. James’s st. London 1811–7; taught at R.M. college at Sandhurst 1814; mathematical professor in the senior department 1820–58, presented with many testimonials, and his portrait in 1841, retired on account of failure of his sight Feb. 1858; F.R.A.S.; F.R.S. 18 June 1840: author of An historical account of the origin and progress of astronomy 1833; Elements of geometry 1842; Practical astronomy and geodesy 1845; Analytical geometry 1846; with G. Tappen, Explanatory remarks on a method of building groined arches in brickwork 1808 and 1819. d. 16 Clarendon road, Kensington 30 March 1860. Monthly notices of royal astronom. soc. vi 240 (1845), xviii 100 (1858), xxi 102 (1861); G.M. Aug. 1860 pp. 193–4; The Linesman, By Elers Napier ii 348, 369 (1856).

NASH, CHARLES. b. Bristol; a draper’s assistant; a commercial clerk in London; trained at the British and foreign school soc. Southwark; master of the Day ragged sch. Pye st. Westminster 1848–50; opened a reformatory institution for boys 28 St. Ann st. Westminster 1849, of which he became governor and corresponding secretary, when it was named The London colonial training institution and ragged dormitory 9 Great Smith st. Westminster; sec. to Hospital for diseases of the skin 25 New Bridge st. Blackfriars, London 1853–7. I.L.N. xxiv 76 (1854) portrait; Samuel Marten’s A place of repentance, the London colonial training institution (1852) 1 et seq.

NASH, CHARLES BARNES (son of Rowland Nash 1784–1859). b. 1815; extensively engaged in the affairs of public companies from 1836; honoured with a leading article in The Times 1 Nov. 1844 p. 4; strongly advocated the narrow gauge interest 1846; devoted much time and money to expositions of affairs and battles of shareholders in various courts meetings &c. to 1852; persecuted by railway officials in the law courts and house of lords; edited History of the war in Afghanistan 1843; author of Railway and land taxation 1844; Railway carrying 1846; The railway robberies 1846; Railway robberies, the summing up in Waream v. Prance 1847; Railways and shareholders by An Endinbro’ Reviewer 1849; Chancery time tables 1853; Appeals in criminal cases 1860; Merchant shipping laws and remedies 1860; Public companies tracts, No. 8 Railway management Hare versus the London and North Western, by A Journalist 1861; with Rowland Nash Nash’s marriage and divorce law, 2 ed. 1859. d. 23 Valmar road, Denmark Hill, Surrey 21 Nov. 1892. Law Times 17 Dec. 1892 p. 164.

NASH, FREDERICK (son of a builder). b. Lambeth, London 28 March 1782; studied at the R.A.; architectural draftsman to society of antiquaries 1807; associate of society of painters in water-colours 1810, member 1811, seceded 1812, re-elected 1824; exhibited 51 pictures at R.A. 63 at B.I. and 7 at Suffolk st. 1799–1852; published a series of views of the collegiate chapel of St. George at Windsor 1805; pronounced by Turner to be the finest architectural painter of his day; resided at Brighton 1834 to death; four of his pictures are in South Kensington museum. d. 4 Montpellier road, Brighton 5 Dec. 1856. Art Journal (1857) 61.

NASH, HARRY. Printer and stationer at Bournemouth 1873; connected with the Bournemouth Observer; proprietor and manager of theatre royal, Bournemouth 1881 to death; conducted the provincial tours of the Moore and Burgess Minstrels and of Mr. George Grossmith. d. Bournemouth 22 Oct. 1894 aged 41.

NASH, JOSEPH. Entered Bengal army 1812; ensign 7 Bengal N.I. 1 Nov. 1814 to 1816; ensign 22 N.I. 1816; lieut. 25 Dec. 1817; captain 43 N.I. 24 Jany. 1829; major 26 Sept. 1841 to 11 Nov. 1847; lieut.-col. 72 N.I. 11 Nov. 1847 to 1852 of 18 N.I. 1852–5 and of 47 N.I. 1855–6; commandant at Delhi 7 Nov. 1854 to 27 Feb. 1856; col. of 46 N.I. 15 July 1857 to death; L.G. 23 March 1869; C.B. 27 June 1846. d. Dehra, Meerut 1 Jany. 1870.

NASH, JOSEPH (son of rev. Okey Nash who kept the Manor house school at Croydon). b. Great Marlow, Bucks. 17 Dec. 1809; pupil of Augustus Pugin the architect; associate of society of painters in water-colours 1834, member 1842; published Architecture of the middle ages 1838; The mansions of England in the olden time 4 series 1839–49; lithographed Sir D. Wilkie’s Sketches in Turkey 1843, Sir D. Wilkie’s Sketches in Spain 1846, and Views of Windsor Castle 1848; exhibited 3 pictures at R.A. and 11 at B.I. 1831–71; granted civil list pension of £100, 19 June 1878; illustrated J. P. Lawson’s Scotland delineated 1847; E. Macdermott’s The merrie days of England 1859; Old English ballads 1864; with L. Haghe and others painted Dickinson’s comprehensive picture of the great exhibition of 1851 executed for prince Albert 1854. d. Hereford road, Bayswater, London 19 Dec. 1878. J. Sherer’s Gallery of British artists II 120–32 (1880); I.L.N. lxxiv 21 (1879) portrait.

NASH, ROWLAND (son of James Nash, architect d. 1842 aged 95). b. 1784; served in the Volunteers 1799; assistant registrar and solicitor at the bishop’s registry, diocese of Lincoln, some years; lost heavily in lottery speculations; edited the Star newspaper in London; a colonial and parliamentary agent in London; author of Nash’s Marriage and divorce law 1859. d. 45 Amwell st. Clerkenwell, London 10 Sept. 1859. Law Times 1 Oct. 1859 pp. 22–3.

NASMITH, DAVID (1 son of David Nasmith of London). b. 1829; matric. univ. of London 1849; LL.B. 1870; barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1865; Q.C. 13 Feb. 1888; had an extensive practice in the common law courts; F.S.S.; hon. LL.D. of St. Andrew’s univ.; translated J. L. E. Ortolan’s The history of Roman law 1871; author of The chronometrical chart of the history of England 1863; The institutes of English public law 1873; The institutes of English private law 1875; The institutes of English adjective law 1879; Outline of history from Romulus to Justinian 1890; Makers of modern thought, 2 vols. 1892; he also published a series called The practical linguist, French and German, 7 vols. 1870–3; resided 37 Norland sq. London. d. Evelyn house, Herne Bay, Kent 10 July 1894.

NASMYTH, CHARLES (eld. son of Robert Nasmyth, F.R.C.S Edinb.) b. Edinburgh Sept. 1825; ed. at Addiscombe 1843–5; 2 lieut. Bombay artillery 12 Dec. 1845, 1 lieut. 4 Feb. 1850; Times correspondent in Omar Pasha’s camp at Shumla; reached Silistria 28 March 1854, before it was invested by the Russians, Nasmyth and captain J. A. Butler conducted the defence for the Turks, and continually headed sorties against the besiegers, the Russians compelled to raise the siege 22 June 1854; freedom of city of Edinburgh conferred on him 2 March 1855; appointed captain unattached and brevet major in British army 15 Sept. 1854 for his services at Silistria; present at battle of the Alma and siege of Sevastapol; assistant adjutant general of Kilkenny district 1855; brigade major at the Curragh camp 1856–7; brigade major of second infantry brigade, Dublin 1857–8; brigade major at Sydney, N.S.W. 1858–9; major of 4 foot 25 May 1860, but sold out same day. d. Pau, France 2 June 1861. I.L.N. xxxix 36 (1861) portrait.

NASMYTH, JAMES HALL (son of Alexander Nasmyth, artist 1758–1840). b. 47 York place, Edinburgh 19 Aug. 1808; ed. at Edinb. high school 1817, and at school of arts 1821; assistant to Henry Maudslay, engineer at Lambeth, London May 1829, and to his partner, Joshua Field Feb. to Aug. 1831; invented a flexible shaft for driving small drills 1829, and the nut-shaping machine 1830; engineer in Dale st. Manchester 1834; built the Bridgewater foundry at Patricroft, near Manchester 1836; partner with Holbrook Gaskell 1836–52; made many improvements in machine tools; invented the steam hammer 1839, which he patented 9 June 1842; erected the first steam hammer in this country at Patricroft 1843; applied steam hammer to pile driving 1845; proposed the use of chilled cast-iron shot 1862; retired from business 1856, lived at Penshurst, Kent 1856 to death; contributed Remarks on tools and machines to T. Baker’s Elements of mechanism 1858, 2 ed. 1867; author with James Carpenter of The Moon, considered as a planet, a world, and a satellite 1874, 3 ed. 1885. d. Bailey’s hotel, Gloucester road, South Kensington 7 May 1890. James Nasmyth, an autobiography, edited by S. Smiles (1883) portrait.

NASON, JOHN. b. 19 Sept. 1827; ensign 49 foot 9 May 1846, captain 29 Oct. 1854; major depôt battalion 1 Oct. 1856, lieut. col. 3 March 1866, placed on h.p. 13 June 1870; lieut. col. brigade depôt 1 April 1873, placed on h.p. 1 April 1878; A.A.G. Northern district 1 Oct. 1870 to 31 March 1873; A.A. and Q.M.G. Northern district 8 May 1880 to 20 Dec. 1881; M.G. 10 July 1881; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 April 1885. d. Comrie, Perthshire 23 April 1891.

NATHAN, BARON (brother of the succeeding). b. 1793; teacher of dancing at 10 Kennington Cross, London 1844 to death; master of the ceremonies and managing director at Rosherville gardens, near Gravesend, many years, where on his benefit night he used to dance a hornpipe blindfolded in the midst of a number of eggs, placed on various parts of the stage, without once touching an egg, this was known as the egg hornpipe; there are many portraits of him in the early vols. of Punch. d. 10 Kennington Cross, London 6 Dec. 1856.

NATHAN, ISAAC (son of jewish parents). b. Canterbury 1792; educ. Cambridge; articled to Dominico Corri of London, Italian composer; made his début on the stage as Henry Bertram in Bishop’s opera Guy Mannering at Covent Garden 12 March 1816, but his voice was not strong enough for the stage; dramatist and musical composer; musical historian to George IV and instructor in music to princess Charlotte of Wales; went to Sydney N.S.W. 1841, where he frequently lectured on music; author of An essay on the history of music 1823; Musurgia vocalis; an essay on the history of music 1836 vol. 1 no more published; Fugitive pieces and reminiscences of Lord Byron 1829; Memoirs of Madame Malibran de Beriot 1836, 3 ed. 1836; The Southern Euphrosyne and Australian miscellany, Sydney 1846; Lectures on music 1846; composer of A selection of ancient and modern Hebrew melodies, poetry by lord Bryon, music by J. Braham and I. Nathan 1815; God save the Regent, a national song 1818; Sweethearts and wives, an operatic comedy Haymarket 7 July 1823 ran 50 nights; The Alcaid, a comic opera Haymarket 10 Aug. 1824; The illustrious stranger, an operatic farce Drury Lane 4 Oct. 1827; Merry freaks, an operatic drama Sydney 1851; resided at Byron lodge, Randwick, Sydney. killed descending from a tramcar in Pitt st. Sydney 15 Jany. 1864. bur. Camperdown cemet. 17 Jany. Notes and Queries viii 494, ix 71, 137, 178, 197, 355 (1883–4); Georgian Era iv 280 (1834).

NATHAN, MOSES NATHAN. b. 1805; Jewish rabbi at Denmark court synagogue, London then at Liverpool 1829; one of the first to give instruction to Jews in the English language; the first to preach for the benefit of a christian institution, the Liverpool dispensary 1833; minister in Jamaica, St. Thomas and New Orleans; author of Prepare to meet thy God 0 Israel, a sermon, Jamaica 1843; A defence of ancient rabbinical interpretation of the law of Deut. xxiii, 3, an answer to J. M. De Solla, Kingston, Jam. 5621 (1861). d. Bath 13 May 1883. bur. Ball’s Pond cemet. Jewish World 18 May 1883 p. 2.

NAYLOR, HENRY. First appeared on the stage at Drury Lane theatre 26 Dec. 1847 as the Henchman in Harlequin King gold; pantaloon in the Christmas pantomimes at Sadler’s Wells theatre Dec. 1852 to Dec. 1857; prompter at Vaudeville theatre, played the Butler in Our Boys there 4 Feb. 1879. d. 6 Feb. 1879 aged 60.

NAYLOR, JAMES. b. Glasgow 1817; connected with Fox, Henderson & Co. London and Birmingham; established the Britannia engineering works, Birkenhead 1852; inventor of the floating graving dock; inventor and builder of the largest steam cranes in the world; a leading contractor to the admiralty nearly 40 years. d. 12 Sept. 1894.

NAYLOR, SIDNEY. b. Kensington, London 24 July 1841; pianist, conductor, and composer; organist successively at St. George’s, Bloomsbury, St. Michael’s, Bassishaw, and St. Mary’s, Newington; had remarkable facility in transposition of music; one of the best accompanists to vocalists in his day; accompanist to Sims Reeves from 1870, and at London ballad concerts many years; partner with Carl Rosa in his second opera season 1874; composed a Te Deum, The Well of St. Keyne, a ballad 1880, and other songs; m. 16 Dec. 1868 Blanche Cole, soprano singer, they separated, she d. 30 Aug. 1888; he d. London 4 March 1893. bur. West Brompton cemet. Illust. sp. and dr. news 11 March 1893 p. 24 portrait.

NAYLOR, THOMAS HACKE (son of Thomas Hargrave Naylor of Carisbrook, Isle of Wight). b. 4 Dec. 1809; educ. at Queen’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; barrister I.T. 19 Nov. 1841; went Norfolk circuit; recorder of Sudbury and judge of court of pleas of that borough Aug. 1866 to death; mayor of Cambridge 1872–3, and 1877–8; author of Cases in election law decided in Cambridge borough scrutiny 1857. d. The Hill house, Chesterton, Cambs. 3 March 1882. Law Journal lxxii 376 (1882).

NAYLOR, WILLIAM. b. 8 May 1782; Wesleyan Methodist minister at Retford 1802–3, Gainsborough 1803–5, Edinburgh 1805–7, Liverpool 1820–3, London 1829–35 and 1850–3, Manchester 1847–50; author of The visions of sapience, reply to a malignant attack on Methodism by J. Douglas, Leeds 1815; Miscellaneous musings, poems 1835; Hymns for personal, domestic, and social worship, Manchester 1850; Selections from a minister’s manuscripts, Wednesbury 1854, and 24 other books, chiefly sermons. d. 1868.

NEALE, EDWARD ST. JOHN (son of Daniel Neale of Supreme court, Madras). Joined the Liberating army of Portugal 20 Sept. 1832, engaged in attack on St. Sebastian May 1836; member of order of St. Ferdinand; accompanied sir G. L. Hodges to Servia May 1837; in charge of consulate at Belgrade; British vice-consul at Alexandria 1841; consul at Varna in Bulgaria 1847; consul for the Morea 1858; consul at Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Montenegro 1858; secretary of legation in China 3 Jany. 1860, in Japan 25 Jany. 1862, and at Athens 21 April 1865; chargé d’affaires and consul general at Guayaquil, Equador 14 Aug. 1865 to death; C.B. 27 Nov. 1863. d. the British legation house, Quito 11 Dec. 1866. I.L.N. xliv 208 (1864) portrait; F.O. List Jany. 1867 pp. 133, 180.

NEALE, EDWARD VANSITTART (only son of Edward Vansittart, rector of Taplow, Bucks., who took surname of Neale 1805, and d. 21 Jany. 1850). b. Bath 2 April 1810; ed. at Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1836; barrister L.I. 5 May 1837; joined the Christian Socialists 1850; founded the first London co-operative stores at Charlotte st. Fitzroy sq.; established the Central co-operative agency 1851; spent £40,000 in his efforts to promote co-operation; helped to found the Cobden Mills 1866, and the Agricultural and Horticultural association 1867; promoted the annual co-operative congress from 1869; a member of London section of the Central board 1872–5, general secretary to the board 1875, resigned 11 Sept. 1891; author of Feasts and fasts, an essay on the laws relating to Sundays and other holidays and days of fasting 1845; The co-operator’s handbook 1861; The analogy of thought and nature investigated 1863; The mythical element in christianity 1872 and many addresses and lectures. d. Bentinck st. Manchester sq. London 16 Sept. 1892. bur. Bisham churchyard. A Vansittart Neale scholarship founded at Oriel college, and a memorial tablet with marble bust portrait unveiled in crypt of St. Paul’s cathedral 3 March 1894. Life of F. D. Maurice ii 75, 157, 220, 232 (1884); Holyoake’s History of co-operation i 139, ii 55, 58, 59, 393, 435 (1875–7); Holyoake’s Co-operative movement to-day (1891) 25, 29, 47, 51, 95, 103, 127; Beatrice Potter’s Co-operative movement in Great Britain (1891) 122 et seq.; Economic Review Jany. 1893 pp. 38–94, April 1893 pp. 174, 189.

NEALE, ERSKINE (son of Adam Neale, army physician, d. 1832). b. 12 March 1804; ed. at Westminster and Emm. coll. Camb., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1832; lecturer of St. Hilda church, Jarrow 24 June 1828; V. of Adlingfleet, Yorkshire 19 Oct. 1835–44; R. of Kirton, Suffolk 1844–54; V. of Exning with Lanwade, Suffolk 1854 to death; an expert in handwriting, a witness at the trial of Ryves v. the attorney general June 1866; author of The living and the dead, By A Country Curate 1827, second series 1829; Whychcotte of St. John’s, 2 vols. 1833; The life-book of a labourer, By A Working Clergyman 1839, 2 ed. 1850; The bishop’s daughter 1842, 2 ed. 1853; Experiences of a gaol chaplain, 3 vols. 1847; The closing scene, or Christianity and infidelity contrasted in the last hours of remarkable persons 1848, second series 1848; The life of Edward, duke of Kent 1850, 2 ed. 1850. d. Exning vicarage 23 Nov. 1883. Notes and Queries xii 465 (1885), i 31, 115, 156 (1886).

NEALE, JOHN MASON (only son of rev. Cornelius Neale, fellow of St. John’s coll. Camb., d. 1823). b. 40 Lamb’s Conduit st. Holborn, London 24 Jany. 1818; ed. Blackheath sch. and at Sherborne; won a scholarship at Trin. coll. Camb. 12 April 1839; B.A. 1840, M.A. 1845; D.D. Trin. coll. Hartford, U.S. of America 1861; Seatonian prizeman 1845 and 9 times afterwards; a founder of the Cambridge Camden society 1839; fellow and tutor of Downing coll. 1840; declined the provostship of St. Ninians, Perth 1850; warden of Sackville college, East Grinstead 1846 to death; rebuilt Sackville college chapel 1850, adding ornaments which were denounced by Dr. Gilbert, bishop of Chichester, who inhibited him from officiating in his diocese, a suit was instituted and Neale was defeated, the inhibition was removed Nov. 1863; founded St. Margaret’s sisterhood at Rotherfield 1854, transferred to East Grinstead 1856; was unequalled as a translator of ancient Latin and Greek hymns, knew 20 languages; wrote one-eighth of the hymns in Hymns ancient and modern, including Jerusalem the golden; leader writer on Morning Chronicle 1851–3; edited and translated The rhythm of Bernard de Morlaix on the celestial country 1859, 3 ed. 1866; A commentary on the psalms 1860, 3 ed. 1874; The history of pews 1841, 3 ed. 1843; Agnes de Tracy, a tale 1843; English history for children 1845, 3 ed. 1849; Herbert Tresham, a tale 1843, 2 ed. 1870; A history of the holy eastern church, 5 vols. 1850–73; Handbook for travellers in Portugal 1855, 4 ed. 1887; Hymns of the eastern church 1862, 5 ed. 1888; Selections from the writings of J. M. N. 1864, 2 ed. 1887; Hymns chiefly mediæval 1865, 2 ed. 1867; Sermons preached in Sackville college, 4 vols. 1871–82; and upwards of 100 other works 1841–66; composer of An Eastern carol 1849. d. Sackville college, East Grinstead 6 Aug. 1866. bur. East Grinstead 10 Aug. St. Margaret’s Mag. 20 July 1887 pp. 12–20, 21 Jany. 1888 pp. 54–69, 20 July pp. 123–51; Huntington’s Random recollections (1893) 198–223; Julian’s Dictionary of hymnology (1892) 785–90; G.M. ii 407–10 (1866); Notes and Queries, 6th series ii 102–4, 193 (1880).

NEALE, WILLIAM HENRY (3 son of rev. James Neale, P.C. of Allerton Mauleverer, near York, d. 1828). bapt. at Little Hampton, Sussex 12 May 1785; ed. at Christ’s hospital and Pemb. coll. Camb., B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811; master of Beverley gr. sch. 8 Feb. 1808, resigned Dec. 1815; chaplain of the county bridewell in Gosport, Hampshire Nov. 1823–50; F.S.A. 5 March 1840; a poor brother of the Charterhouse 1853 to death; author of The Mohammedan system of theology, or a survey of Islamism contrasted with Christianity 1828; The different dispensations of the true religion considered 1843; The prophecies of Hosea translated, 2 ed. 1850. d. the Charterhouse, London 20 Jany. 1855.

NEALE, WILLIAM JOHNSTOUN NELSON (brother of Erskine Neale 1804–83). b. 1812; entered navy 1824, served at Navarino 1827; barrister M.T. 25 Nov. 1836; recorder of Walsall Aug. 1859 to death; high bailiff of Birmingham county court many years; author of Cavendish or the patrician at sea, 3 vols. 1831 anon., 4 ed. 1861; The port admiral, a tale of the war, 3 vols. 1833, 2 ed. 1861; The Lauread, a literary, political, and naval satire, Book the first 1833; Will-Watch, from the autobiography of a British officer, 3 vols. 1834; The Priors of Prague, 3 vols. 1836; The naval surgeon, 3 vols. 1841, 3 ed. 1861; Paul Periwinkle, or the pressgang 1841; The scapegrace at sea, or soldiers afloat and sailors ashore, 3 vols. 2 ed. 1863; History of the mutiny at Spithead and the Nore 1842 anon; author with Basil Montagu of the law of parliamentary elections, 2 parts 1839–40. d. Cheltenham 27 March 1893. Reynold’s Newspaper 9 April 1893 p. 6.

NEAT, WILLIAM. b. Castle st. Bristol 11 March 1791; was nearly 6 feet in height and weighed when trained 13 stone 7 pounds; fought Tom Oliver for 100 guineas a side at Rickmansworth 10 July 1818, when Neat won after 28 rounds lasting 91 minutes; took a benefit at the Fives Court, London 23 Feb. 1819; was to have fought Tom Spring 6 Oct. 1819, but having broken his arm the match was off; fought Thomas Hickman, the Gasman, for 100 guineas a side at Hungerford Downs, near Newbury 11 Dec. 1821, when Neat won in 18 rounds lasting 23½ minutes, 25,000 persons were present and £150,000 changed owners after the battle; fought Tom Spring near Andover 20 May 1823 for £200 a side, when Spring won in 8 rounds lasting 37 minutes; a butcher in Bristol to his death. d. Bristol 23 March 1858. The Fancy, By An Operator i 441–6 (1826) portrait; H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica ii 15–22, 104–17 (1880) portrait.

NEATE, CHARLES. b. London 28 March 1784; appeared as pianist at Covent Garden 1800; member of Royal society of Musicians 2 March 1806; an original member of Philharmonic Society 1813, became a director, performed often at the concerts; intimate with Beethoven at Vienna 1815; a pianist and teacher of music in London 1818; introduced to English audiences Beethoven’s pianoforte concertos in C minor and E flat, and Weber’s Concertstück; retired about 1856; author of An essay on fingering, with observations on pianoforte playing 1855; composer of A grand sonata 1808; Three select movements for two pianos 1823; Fantasia for the piano and violoncello 1825; Forty seven preludes for the piano 1827; A hundred impromptus or short preludes 1830; Victoria’s sceptre o’er the waves, a song 1848. d. Brighton 30 March 1877, probably the oldest musician in Europe. Concordia (1875) 395, 428.

NEATE, CHARLES (5 child of Thomas Neate, R. of Alvescot, Oxfordshire). b. Adstock, Bucks 13 June 1806; ed. at Collège Bourbon in Paris and Lincoln coll. Oxf., scholar 1826–8; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1830; fellow of Oriel coll. 1828 to death; lecturer on law and history 1856; barrister L.I. 27 Jany. 1832; offering frequent suggestions when engaged in a case as junior to sir Richard Bethell, the latter said loudly Hold your tongue you fool, on the rising of the court he assaulted Bethell and ruined his own chance at the bar; secretary to sir F. T. Baring, chancellor of the exchequer 1839–41; Drummond professor of political economy at Oxford 1857–62; M.P. city of Oxford March 1857, but unseated for bribery June 1857; M.P. Oxford 1863–8; clerk of the market, Oxford to death; resided at Oxford 1868 to death; author of the following pamphlets and lectures, Considerations on the punishment of death; Arguments against reform 1831 anon.; Dialogue des morts, Guizot et Louis Blanc 1848 anon.; Two lectures on the currency 1859; Two lectures on the history and conditions of landed property 1860; Two lectures on trades unions 1862; Specimens of composition in prose and verse 1874. d. Norham manor, Northumberland 7 Feb. 1879. bur. at Alvescot, Oxf. 13 Feb. portrait in common room of Oriel coll. J. W. Burgon’s Lives of twelve good men (1891) 212, 484; T. Mozley’s Reminiscenses of Oriel college ii 99–105 (1882); T. A. Nash’s Life of lord Westbury i 76 (1888).

NEAVE, SIR RICHARD DIGBY, 3 Baronet (eld. son of sir Thomas Neave, 2 Bart. 1761–1848). b. 9 Dec. 1793; ed. at St. Mary’s Hall, Oxf., B.A. 1815; m. 7 Aug. 1828 Mary Arundell, youngest dau. of James Everard, 9th lord Arundell of Wardour, she d. 30 Aug. 1849; succeeded 11 April 1848; F.R.G.S.; author of Four days in Connemara 1852. d. 10 Eccleston sq. London 10 March 1868. Sir H. Nicolas’s Court of Queen Victoria (1845) 51–54. portrait of Lady Neave.

NEAVES, CHARLES, Lord Neaves (son of Charles Neave of Forfar, solicitor, who changed his name to Neaves). b. Edinburgh 14 Oct. 1800; ed. at Edinb. high sch. and univ., LL.D. 1860; advocate 1822; advocate depute 1841–5; sheriff of Orkney and Shetland March 1845–52; solicitor general for Scotland 24 May 1852 to Jany. 1853; judge of court of session, with courtesy title of lord Neaves 13 May 1854; a lord of justiciary 7 May 1858 to death; lord rector of St. Andrew’s univ. 1872 and 1873; presided at the Leyden centenary celebration 1875; contributed prose and verse to Blackwood’s Mag. 40 years; author of Songs and verses, social and scientific, By An old contributor to Maga. 1868, 3 ed. 1875; On fiction as a means of popular teaching 1869; The Greek anthology 1870; A glance at some of the principles of comparative philology 1870; A lecturer on cheap and accessible pleasures 1872. d. 7 Charlotte sq. Edinburgh 23 Dec. 1876. J. Campbell Smith’s Writings by the way (1885) 468–81; I.L.N. lxx 4 (1877) portrait.

NECKER DE SAUSSURE, LOUIS ALBERT (son of James Necker, professor of botany). b. Geneva 10 April 1786; educ. Edinb. univ. 1806; professor of geology and mineralogy at Geneva 1810, honorary professor 1817; had extensive natural history collections; came to Edinburgh for his health 1831 etc.; F.R.S. Edinb.; resided at Portree, Isle of Skye from 1839 to death; author of Voyage en Écosse et aux isles Hébrides, Geneva, 3 vols. 1821; Le règne minéral, Paris, 2 vols. 1835; Études géologiques dans les Alpes, Paris 1841, volume one only. d. Portree 20 Nov. 1861. Proc. Royal soc. of Edinb. v 53–76 (1866).

NEEBE, REV. FREDERICK., D.D.; author of German grammar and exercises 1847; Children’s mirror, 100 stories in German and English 1873. d. 8 Bath st. Brighton 11 May 1880.

NEED, SIR ARTHUR (son of lieut. general Samuel Need of Fountain Dale, Notts., d. 1839). b. 1819; ed. at Shrewsbury; cornet 16 lancers 13 Oct. 1839, lieut. 17 June 1842; lieut. 14 hussars 30 March 1847, captain 1 June 1854, placed on h.p. 2 Dec. 1862; lieut. col. in the army 14 Jany. 1862; served in Punjab campaign 1848–9, in Persian expedition 1857, and with Central India field force 1857–8; lieutenant of Her Majesty’s body guard of yeomen of the guard 11 Feb. 1870 to death; knighted at Buckingham palace 25 Feb. 1881. d. Blidworth, Notts. 28 July 1888.

NEEDHAM, EDWARD MOORE. b. Birmingham 1819; a booking clerk to the Midland railway co. 1840; superintendent Midland railway co. 1860 to death. d. Duffield, near Derby 23 Jany. 1890.

NEEDHAM, FRANCIS JACK (eld. child of 2 earl of Kilmorey 1787–1880). b. 2 Feb. 1815; styled viscount Newry and Morne 30 Nov. 1832 to death; M.P. Newry 8 July 1841 to death. d. 10 Grosvenor crescent, Eaton sq. London 6 May 1851. bur. Shavington hall chapel, near Market Drayton.

NEELD, SIR JOHN, 1 Baronet (brother of the succeeding). b. Fulham, Middlesex 20 July 1805; educ. Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; M.P. Cricklade 1835–59; contested Cricklade 30 April 1859; M.P. Chippenham 1865–8; gentleman of the privy chamber to the queen 1843–57; cr. a baronet 20 April 1859; sheriff of Wiltshire 1872. d. Grittleton house, Chippenham 3 Sept. 1891.

NEELD, JOSEPH (eld. child of Joseph Neeld of Fulham, Middlesex 1754–1828). b. 13 Jany. 1789; ed. at Harrow, a governor of the school 1828–36, founded in 1840 two scholarships of £30 a year for 3 years, and in 1851 gave a gold medal to be given annually to the best proficient in mathematics; M.P. Gatton 8 March to 24 July 1830; M.P. Chippenham 30 July 1830 to death; came into possession of about £900,000 on death of his maternal great uncle, Phillip Rundell of Ludgate st. London, goldsmith, who d. 17 Feb. 1827 aged 81; purchased estate of Grittleton, Wilts from colonel Houlton 1828; F.L.S. 1829; F.S.A. 31 Jany. 1828; M.R.G.S. d. 6 Grosvenor sq. London 24 March 1856. bur. 31 March under north aisle of church of Leigh Delamere, near Chippenham, which was rebuilt at his sole expense 1846. Waagen’s Treasures of art ii 243–48 (1854).

NEGRETTI, ENRICO ANGELO LUDOVICO. b. Como, Italy 1817; came to London 1829; glass-blower and thermometer maker at 19 Leather lane, Holborn 1843, removed to 9 Hatton garden 1848; partner with J. W. Zambra 1850; they gained many prize medals at Great exhibition of 1851; meteorological instrument makers to the queen, Greenwich observatory and British meteorological society 1851; took out a patent for thermometers and barometers 1852; the firm became known all over the world; they removed to 107 Holborn hill 1858, and to Holborn circus 1869; friend of Garibaldi, who was his guest in 1854; chief of the Italian Garibaldi reception committee in London 1864; naturalised as a British subject 11 April 1862; obtained the respite of Serafino Pelizzioni, who was sentenced to be executed 22 Feb. 1865 for murdering Michael Harrington Dec. 1864, Pelizzioni was liberated March 1865, the murder having been really committed by Gregorio Mogni; author of A treatise on meteorological instruments 1864. d. Cricklewood house, Cricklewood, Middlesex 24 Sept. 1879. M. Williams’s Leaves of a life i 113–24 (1890).

NEILD, JOHN CAMDEN (younger son of James Neild, silversmith and philanthropist 1744–1814). b. 4 St. James’s st. London 3 May 1780; ed. at Eton 1793–7, and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1801, M.A. 1804; barrister L.I. 9 Feb. 1808; succeeded to a fortune of £250,000 on his father’s death 1814; became a confirmed miser; attempted to cut his throat at North Marston, Bucks. 1827; left by his will nearly the whole of his property, estimated at half-a-million, to queen Victoria for her sole use and benefit, two caveats were entered against the will but were subsequently withdrawn. d. 5 Cheyne walk, Chelsea 30 Aug. 1852. bur. in chancel of North Marston church 9 Sept., the queen restored this chancel in 1855 and erected a stained-glass window and reredos to Neild’s memory. H. Tattam’s Short memoir of J. C. Neild (1852); Timbs’s English eccentrics (1875) 99–103; Chambers’s Book of days ii 285–8 (1864); G.M. xxxviii 429–31, 492 (1852), xxxix 570 (1853); I.L.N. xxi 222, 350 (1852); xxvii 379, 380 (1855).

NEILL, JAMES GEORGE SMITH (eld. son of colonel Wm. Smith Neill of Burnweill, Ayrshire 1784–1850). b. near Ayr 27 May 1810; ed. at Ayr and Glasgow univ.; ensign 1 Madras European regiment 5 Dec. 1826, adjutant 7 March 1834, major 25 March 1850; deputy assistant A.G. in the Ceded districts 23 March 1841–50; deputy assistant to Madras troops in the Burmese war 1852–3; second in command of Anglo-Turkish contingent in the Russian war 1855–6, went to Constantinople April 1855; commanded his regiment 28 April 1857 to death; brigadier general in command of the Haidarabad contingent June 1857 to death; was gazetted A.D.C. to the queen, with rank of colonel in the army 16 Oct. 1857; commanded at Cawnpore July 1857; commanded the right wing in the advance to Lucknow 19 Sept. shot dead outside Lucknow 25 Sept. 1857. bur. Lucknow 26 Sept., colossal statue by Noble erected in Wellington sq. Ayr. J. J. Higginbotham’s Men whom India has known (1874) 321–8; J. W. Kaye’s Lives of Indian officers ii 353–416 (1867); E. H. Nolan’s British empire in India ii 724 (1860) portrait; R. M. Martin’s Indian empire ii 292 et seq. (1860) view of his death; W. Forbes-Mitchell’s Reminiscenses of the great mutiny (1893) appendix A; I.L.N. xxxi 577, 578 (1858) portrait.

NOTE.—He wrote the history of his regiment under the title of Historical record of the Madras European regiment 1843. His widow Isabella Neill was raised 26 Nov. 1857 to the same rank as if her husband had survived to be created K.C.B., for which honour he was named in the London Gazette Nov. 1857, she was granted a pension of £500 a year by the East India Co. 1857 and d. 1875. His fourth son Andrew Harry Spencer Neill b. 30 Aug. 1844, ensign Madras infantry 20 Aug. 1861, commanded second regiment of Central India horse 5 Nov. 1880 to death, major Bengal staff corps 20 Aug. 1881 to death, was shot dead on parade by an insane trooper of his regiment 14 March 1887 at Agar, Central India.

NEILL, PATRICK. b. Edinburgh 25 Oct. 1776; head of the large printing firm of Neill and Co.; secretary of the Wernerian natural history society 1808; secretary of the Caledonian horticultural society 1809–49; laid out the West Princes st. gardens, Edinb. 1820; the rosaceous genus Neillia is called after him; F.L.S. 1813; F.R.S. Edinb.; LL.D. Edinb. univ.; author of A Tour through some of the islands of Orkney and Shetland 1806; An account of the basalts of Saxony, from the French of J. F. D’Aubuisson 1814; and of the article Gardening in the 7th ed. of the Encyclopædia Britannica, which was published under title of The fruit, flower, and kitchen garden 1840, 5 ed. 1854. d. Canonmills cottage, near Edinburgh 3 Sept. 1851. Proc. of Linnæan Soc. ii 191–2 (1855); Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 115 portrait.

NEILL, ROBERT (son of John Neill, captain). b. Irvine, Ayrshire 1822; ed. at Dr. Browne’s school, Greenock, and univ. of Edinb.; called to Scottish bar 1846; partner with his uncle James Dunlop 1846–9, when the latter died; practised by himself 1849–56, and with his brother Stewart Neill 1856 to death; provost of Greenock 1871–2; published Forms of proceedings in maritime causes before the sheriff court in Scotland 1878. d. Balgray, Greenock 18 March 1881. Law Times lxx 430 (1881).

NEILL, THOMAS, the assumed name of Thomas Neill Cream. b. Glasgow about 19 May 1850; taken to Quebec when a child; received a medical education at M’Gill college, Montreal 1872–6, when he took a degree; attended lectures at St. Thomas’s hospital, London; took two degrees at univ. of Edinb.; practised as physician in Ontario and at Chicago 1880–1 under his real name; arrived at Liverpool 1 Oct. 1891; lodged at 103 Lambeth palace road, London, until 6 Jany. 1892, and again in April 1892; poisoned by strychnine a woman called Matilda Clover at 27 Lambeth road, London 21 Oct. 1891; probably poisoned also Alice Marsh, Ellen Donworth, and Emma Shrivell; tried at central criminal court for murder of Matilda Clover 17–20 Oct. 1892, found guilty and sentenced to death 20 Oct. hanged by Billington at Newgate prison, London 9 a.m. 15 Nov. 1892. Central criminal court sessions paper, Minutes of evidence cxvi 1417–60 (1892); Times 16 Nov. 1892 p. 11; Daily Graphic 18 Oct. 1892 p. 1 portrait; Spectator 29 Oct. 1892 p. 590.

NEILSON, JAMES BEAUMONT (younger son of Walter Neilson, engine-wright at the Govan coal works, near Glasgow). b. Shettleston, near Glasgow 22 June 1792; engine-wright of a colliery at Irvine 1814–7; foreman of the Glasgow gas works 1817, manager and engineer of the works 1822–47; invented the swallow-tail burner, which came into general use; invented the hot blast in the manufacture of iron, which is now in general use; patented the invention with his partners, Charles Macintosh and John Wilson 1 Oct. 1828; established the validity of the patent after a ten days’ trial 1843; this invention made available the black band ironstone, formerly useless; M.I.C.E. 1832; F.R.S. 15 Jany. 1846. d. Queenshill, near Kirkcudbright 18 Jany. 1865. Maclehose’s Glasgow Men ii 245–8 (1886) portrait; Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxx 451–3 (1870); S. Smiles’s Industrial biography (1879) 149–61; Chambers’s Biog. Dict. of eminent Scotsmen iii 215–6 (1870); Report of the case Neilson v. Harford in the court of exchequer, Edinb. (1841); Report of case of Neilson v. Baird (1843).

NEILSON, JOHN FINLAY. Parliamentary reporter for The Times nearly 40 years. d. 61 Bessborough st. London 27 July 1881 aged 72.

NEILSON, LILIAN ADELAIDE, stage name of Elizabeth Ann Brown (dau. of Ann Brown, an actress, who became Mrs. Bland). b. 35 St. Peter’s sq. Leeds 3 March 1848; lived at Skipton 1848–50; worked as a mill hand at Guiseley; a nurse girl in the family of Mr. John Padgett at Hawkhill house, Guiseley 1859–61; a barmaid, under name of Lizzie Ann Bland, at a public house near the Haymarket, London; a ballet girl; befriended by admiral Henry Carr Glyn; first appeared on the stage at Margate 1865 as Juliet, under name of Lilian Adelaide Lizon, which she afterwards changed to Neilson; pupil of John Ryder the actor; first appeared in London at Royalty theatre 17 July 1865 as Juliet; the original Gabrielle de Savigny in Watts Phillip’s Huguenot Captain at Princess’s 2 July 1866; played Victorine in the drama Victorine at Adelphi 14 Nov. 1866, the original Nellie Armroyd in W. Phillips’s Lost in London at Adelphi 16 March 1867; played Rosalind at T.R. Edinburgh 25 Sept. 1868; played at Prince of Wales’s theatre, Birmingham in Millicent, an adaption of Miss Braddon’s Captain of the Vulture 2 Nov. 1868; the original Lilian in W. Marston’s Life for life at Lyceum 6 March 1869, Madame Vidal in Oxenford and Wigan’s A life chase 11 Oct. 1869, Mary Belton in Uncle Dick’s Darling 13 Dec. 1869, both at Gaiety; began a series of dramatic readings at St. James’s hall 26 May 1870; appeared as Amy Robsart in A. Halliday’s Kenilworth at Drury Lane 24 Sept. 1870, and as Rebecca in his Ivanhoe 23 Sept. 1871; played Juliet and Pauline at Queen’s Sept. 1872; at Booth’s theatre, New York acted Juliet 18 Nov. 1872, reappeared in America 1873, 1874, 1876, 1877, 1879, and 1880; the first Anne Boleyn in Tom Taylor’s Anne Boleyn at Haymarket 5 Feb. 1876, played there again in 1878; acted Isabel of Bavaria in The crimson cross at Adelphi 27 Feb. 1879; arrived in Paris from London, on her way to Trouville 11 Aug. 1880. d. at the Nouveau chalet du rond royal, Bois de Boulogne, Paris 15 Aug. 1880, body removed to the Morgue same day. bur. West Brompton cemetery, London 20 Aug. L. C. Holloway’s Adelaide Neilson, New York (1885) 8 portraits and view of tomb; M. A. de Leine’s L. A. Neilson, a memorial sketch (1881) portrait; W. Smith’s Old Yorkshire (1890) 94–8, 2 portraits; C. E. Pascoe’s Dramatic List (1880) 271–5; W. Marston’s Our recent actors ii 219–50 (1888); W. Winter’s Shadows of the stage (1892) 47–62, Second series (1892) pp. 268–76; The Theatre ii 155 (1879) portrait, ii 122, 183–4, 247–9, 253, 255, 271–3 (1880) portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news i 289, 294 (1874) portrait, viii 569, 575 (1878) portrait, and 21 Aug. 1880 p. 558, portrait; Saturday programme 23 Sept. 1876 portrait, 14 Oct. pp. 6–7, and 29 Nov. p. 4; Touchstone 27 April 1878 pp. 3–4 portrait; Lippincott’s Mag. xxx 623; Era Almanac (1893) 17 portrait.

NOTE.—She was m. on 30 Nov. 1864 at St. Mary, Newington, Surrey, as “Lilian Adelaide Lizon, dau. of Pera Lizon, gentleman,” to Philip Henry Lee, son of P. H. Lee, rector of Stoke Bruerne, Northamptonshire. This marriage was annulled, at her instance, by the supreme court in New York 1877, husband and wife having been previously naturalised as citizens of U.S. America. P. H. Lee m. (2) 21 Oct. 1880 Charlotte Ann Rowe, dau. of Samuel Lillicrap Trevanion Penrose, R.N. and widow of Charles Loftus Thorpe of Sonning, Berkshire.

Miss Neilson who had been unwell from 1876 ruptured a varicose vein in the left fallopian tube, and died from internal hæmorrhage. The Lancet ii 348, 484 (1880).

Her will, dated 25 Sept. 1879, received probate 30 Aug. 1880, being sworn under £25,000, exclusive of the Chicago property, George Henry Lewis sole executor. She left £3,000 to be invested for her mother Ann Bland, half of it at A. Bland’s death to go to her three sisters, the other half to Thomas Brown. To Joseph Knight, theatrical critic £1,000. To Edward Compton, actor £1,000, and the residue to her old and steadfast friend vice admiral Henry Carr Glynn, who d. 16 Feb. 1884. This money has been used as a fund for the relief of actors in distress.

NEILSON, PETER (youngest son of George Neilson, calenderer). b. Glasgow 24 Sept. 1795; ed. at Glasgow high sch. and univ.; with his father an exporter of cambric and cotton goods to America; was in America on business 1822–8; settled at Kirkintilloch, Dumbartonshire 1841; proposed improvements in the life buoy 1846; suggested iron-plated ships to lord John Russell 8 Jany. 1848, the Warrior and Black Prince were built according to his plan; author of Recollections of six years residence in the United States of America, Glasgow 1830; The millenium, a poem 1834; The life and adventures of Zamba, an African king, corrected by P. Neilson 1847; Remarks on ironbuilt ships of war and iron-plated ships of war 1861. d. Kirkintilloch 3 May 1861. interred in burying-ground of Glasgow cathedral. Poems of Peter Neilson, edited with memoir by Dr. Whitelaw (1870).

NEILSON, WALTER (son of John Neilson). b. Glasgow March 1807; partner in his father’s millwright and engineering business, Oakbank foundry, Glasgow 1828; built the Fairy Queen, one of the earliest iron ships, which had also the first oscillating marine engines 1831; partner in Wilson’s and co.’s blast furnace iron works, Summerlee, Coatbridge 1836, works became the Summerlee iron co. 1870; adapted the Addenbrook system of collecting the combustible gas and using it in heating the air of the blast, and in getting up steam; owner of coal and ironstone mines; produced sulphate of ammonia from the gasses emitted from the blast furnaces; senior partner in Mossend iron and steel co. on death of his brother, William Neilson; A.I.C.E. 5 May 1868. d. 18 Aug. 1884. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxx 347–9 (1885).

NEILSON, WALTER MONTGOMERY (son of James Beaumont Neilson 1792–1865). b. Glasgow 1819; partner with Mr. Kerr in the Hyde Park locomotive works, Glasgow, for making land and marine engines; commenced making locomotives 1842; supplied 1,200 locomotives to India 1857 etc.; succeeded to Queenshill estate, Kirkcudbrightshire 1865; colonel of 6 Lanarkshire volunteer corps 9 Sept. 1874 to 2 July 1887; grand master of freemasons Glasgow province; owner of Monte Picini estate, near Florence, where he cultivated vines; M.I.C.E. 3 April 1860. d. Queenshill 8 July 1889. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. c 400–1 (1890).

NEISH, THOMAS. b. 1789; insurance broker in the Cowgate, Dundee 1807; partner with David Smart to 1826, when they failed; a dealer in flax and other Russian produce to his death; one of the first in Dundee to import jute, which he sold for upwards of 30 years after its introduction; vice consul for Russia in Dundee many years; became tacks-man of the shore dues in 1817 at a rental of £5605; took a prominent part in proceedings of the Dundee chamber of commerce. d. 25 April 1864. W. Norrie’s Dundee celebrities (1873) 235–6.

NELIGAN, JOHN MOORE (son of a physician). b. Clonmel, co. Tipperary June 1815; M.D. Edinb. 1836; M.D. Dublin 1853; M.R.C.P. 1846, F.R.C.P. 1853; practised at Clonmel, moved to Cork; physician in Dublin 1840 to death; physician to Jervis st. hospital 1841; lectured on materia medica 1841–6, and on medicine 1846–7 in the school, Peter st. Dublin; edited the Dublin quarterly journal of medical science 1849–61; author of Medicines, their uses and mode of administration 1844, 7 ed. 1867; The diagnosis and treatment of eruptive diseases of the scalp 1848; A practical treatise on diseases of the skin 1852, 2 ed. 1866; Atlas of cutaneous diseases 1855; edited R. J. Graves’s Clinical lectures on the practice of medicine, 2 ed. 1848, 4 ed. 1884. d. Clonmel house, near Blackrock, Dublin 24 July 1863. C. A. Cameron’s History of college of surgeons in Ireland (1886) 528, 593, 637, 692; Dublin quarterly journal of medical science Aug. 1863 pp. 255–8.

NELSON, SIR ALEXANDER ABERCROMBY. b. Walmer, Kent 30 June 1814; ensign 40 foot 6 March 1835, captain 31 July 1846 to 31 Dec. 1847; served at Kandahar and in Afghanistan 1841–2, and at battle of Haidarabad 24 March 1843; D.A.A.G. at Portsmouth 1855–6; brigade major at Portsmouth 1856–7; D.A.G. in Jamaica 9 Dec. 1864 to 27 Oct. 1866, with lieut. Herbert Brand tried George William Gordon by court martial in Jamaica for high treason and caused him to be hanged 23 Oct. 1865, Nelson and Brand were tried for murder at central criminal court London 10 April 1867 and acquitted, but lord chief justice Cockburn made strong remarks as to the evidence on which Gordon had been sentenced to death; A.A.G. Cork district 1867; A.A.G. Gibraltar 1873–6; lieut. col. in the army 9 Dec. 1864, placed on h.p. 9 June 1877; lieutenant governor of Guernsey 1 May 1879–83; M.G. 29 April 1880; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 10 Oct. 1883; C.B. 29 May 1875, K.C.B. 30 May 1891. d. Walmer, Bath road, Reading 28 Sept. 1893. Charge of lord chief justice Cockburn in the case of The queen against Nelson and Brand (1867); Irving’s Annals (1876) 764, 766, 771.

NELSON, ALFRED (son of Mr. Nelson, actor). b. about 1830; first appeared at theatre royal, Bristol, under Mrs. Macready’s management; appeared as Horatio in Hamlet, Haymarket theatre, London 29 July 1865; with his father and other relatives arranged a musical and dramatic entertainment, with which they travelled in Australia, America, and Canada; played at Liverpool; played Jack Scroggins in Burnand’s Morden Grange at Queen’s theatre 4 Dec. 1869; acted in Tom Taylor’s Twixt Axe and Crown at Queen’s 22 Jany. 1870 for 9 months, and in My wife’s dentist 300 nights; played Andrew Duvernay in Sir Charles Young’s Montcalm 28 Sept. 1872 at Queen’s theatre; played Duke of Norfolk in W. S. Raleigh’s Queen and cardinal at Haymarket 26 Oct. 1881, the Duke in A Midsummer night’s dream at Drury Lane 13 March 1883, and Mr. Gibson in The ticket of leave man at Her Majesty’s 14 April 1884; teacher of elocution at Guildhall school of music, London 1880 to death; organised successful Students’ recitals. d. 40 Lordship lane, Tottenham 5 March 1894. bur. Old West Norwood cemet. 8 March. E. L. Blanchard’s Life ii 375, 417, 526, 549, 560 (1891).

NELSON, ANN. Proprietor or had an interest in the greater number of coaches running into Essex, Norfolk, and Suffolk; kept the Bull inn 25 Aldgate high st. London 1824 to death. d. 1853. G.M. Sept. 1871 p. 497.

NELSON, ARTHUR MARSH. b. 1811; played leading parts in the legitimate drama in the provincial and minor theatres; became a talking clown; a clever musician and great favourite; made his last appearance in London at Alhambra palace. d. Bromley 28 July 1860.

NELSON, CHARLES GUDGEON. Entered R.N. 1845; lieut. 28 Feb. 1854; served in Baltic during Russian war 1854–6; prepared prince Alfred, the Duke of Saxe Coburg, for the naval profession 1858, and for his lieutenants examination 1863; commander 24 Nov. 1862; one of her majesty’s gentlemen ushers 27 Oct. 1862 to death; commanded the President, 31 guns, on the home station 1869–70; retired as captain 1 Oct. 1873; settled at Godalming, became well known in horticultural circles; his brother, the rev. J. Nelson, bequeathed to him a unique collection of bulbs, which he much increased. d. Holme lodge, Godalming, Surrey 20 April 1892.

NELSON, HORATIA (dau. of Horatio, lord Nelson 1758–1805, by Emma, lady Hamilton 1761–1815). b. England 30 Jany. 1801; lord Nelson when dying said ‘Remember I leave lady Hamilton and my daughter Horatia as a legacy to my country’; lord Nelson left her the interest of £4,000 by his will 1805; resided with her mother at Merton, Surrey to 1808; was with her mother when she died at Calais 15 Jany. 1815; lived with lord Nelson’s sister 1815–22; m. 19 Feb. 1822 at Burnham, Norfolk, rev. Philip Ward, vicar of Tenterden, Kent, d. 16 Jany. 1859; known as Mrs. Horatia Nelson Ward. d. Beaufort villa, Woodrising, Pinner 6 March 1881.

NELSON, HUGH (son of Robert Nelson of Larne). b. in Ulster 1830; made a fortune in the lumber trade in British Columbia; member for city of New Westminster in Canadian parliament; a member of the dominion senate; lieutenant governor of British Columbia 8 Feb. 1887–91; took part in Canadian International fisheries’ exhibition 1883. d. at residence of his sister, Mrs. James Murray 6 Cedars road, Clapham, Surrey, 3 March 1893.

NELSON, ISAAC. Minister of Presbyterian church, Donegall st. Belfast to 1880; contested Leitrim April 1880; M.P. co. Mayo 24 May 1880 to 18 Nov. 1885. d. Sugarfield, Belfast 8 March 1888.

NELSON, JOHN (son of Ann Nelson, d. 1853). b. about 1794; led the opposition against the Eastern counties railway having a terminus in Whitechapel, which was successful, the company being driven to Shoreditch; started the Wellington omnibuses 1856, which caused the ruin of the London conveyance company; kept the Bull inn, Aldgate 1853 to death. d. 24 July 1868. G.M. Sept. 1871 p. 498.

NOTE.—A few months after his death, the celebrated old ‘Bull Inn,’ which had belonged to the Nelson family 150 years, was dismantled and sold by auction piecemeal, with its rare old stock of wines and quaint old-fashioned silver plate.

NELSON, PARK (son of John William Nelson, solicitor). b. 10 June 1804; educ. Merchant Taylors’ sch. 1811 etc.; articled to his father; solicitor in partnership with George Nelson 1826–9; partner with William Benfield Nelson 1835, they took in Joseph John Morgan 1873, firm being Park, Nelson, and Morgan, 11 Essex st. Strand, London; member of council of Incorporated law society 28 Nov. 1861 to death, vice pres. 1871–2, pres. 1872–3; clerk to the Skinners’ co. d. Parson’s Green, Fulham, Middlesex 19 Dec. 1876. Solicitor’s Journal xxi 167 (1876).

NELSON, RICHARD JOHN (son of general Richard Nelson). b. Crabtree, near Plymouth 3 May 1803; 2 lieut. R.E. 6 Jany. 1826, lieut. col. 20 June 1854, colonel 17 May 1860; commanded the R.E. at Halifax, Nova Scotia Sept 1858, returned to England Aug. 1861; retired on full pay with rank of M.G. 5 Feb. 1864; edited with G. G. Lewis and sir H. Jones The Aide-memoire of military science 1846; author of Geology of the Bermudas; Memoranda of the Bahama tornado, by W. J. Woodcock, part 2 by R. J. Nelson 1850; Lockspeise, or inducement to the study of the German language 1855; and of many papers in the Professional papers of the corps of royal engineers. d. 12 Penlee villas, Stoke, Devonport 17 July 1877.

NELSON, ROBERT HENRY (son of Henry Nelson of Leeds). Lieut. in Baker’s horse with Wood’s flying column during Zulu war; commanded a mounted native corps under the resident magistrate of British Basutoland; one of H. M. Stanley’s officers in Emin Pasha relief expedition 1888; in service of Imperial British East Africa co.; in charge of the district of Kikuyu, midway between the coast and the Victoria Nyanza to death. d. of dysentery at Dagoreti, East Africa 26 Dec. 1892. I.L.N. 28 Jany. 1893 p. 106 portrait; Daily Graphic 21 Jany. 1893 p. 8 portrait.

NELSON, SYDNEY (son of Solomon Nelson). b. London 1 Jany. 1800; pupil of sir George Smart; teacher of music in London; partner with Charles Jeffreys as music sellers at 21a Soho sq. 1840–3; associate of Philharmonic society 1843; music publisher at 61 Greek st. Soho 1843–4, at 28 New Bond st. 1844–7; arranged a musical and dramatic entertainment with members of his family and went on tour in North America, Canada, and Australia; his burletta, The Grenadier, was produced at the Olympic about 1835; The Cadi’s daughters performed at Macready’s farewell benefit at Drury Lane 26 Feb. 1851; his grand opera Ulrica was rehearsed at Princess’s but never produced; composer of The pilot, a song 1835; The hero of a hundred fights, a song 1837; All hail my native shore, recitative and air 1840; The better land 1840; The maid of Athens, a song 1840; The men of merry England 1850; Six vocal duets 1852; Vocal gems of foreign operas 1852; The vocalist’s daily practice 1852; Six vocal trios 1852; Mary of Argyle, a song 1860; England’s volunteers, a song 1862; composer of about 800 pieces 1826–62. d. London 7 April 1862. bur. West Ham cemet.

NELSON, THOMAS. b. 1780; presbyterian minister 1810; presented to Little Dunkeld, but his settlement refused for his want of knowledge of Gaelic 26 Oct. 1824; appointed minister of Muckhart, but appointment not confirmed 1825; minister of Auchtergaven 21 July 1831 to death; author of A sermon on the return of peace 1814; A pronouncing geographical vocabulary 1821; Historical account of the visit of George iv 1822; Life of William Ritchie 1830. d. Auchtergaven 27 March 1852. H. Scott’s Fasti Scoticanæ, vol. 2, part ii 791 (1859).

NELSON, THOMAS (son of a farmer). b. Throsk near Stirling 1780; an assistant to a publisher in London 1800; a canvasser for subscribers to Henry’s Bible, 6 volumes folio, brought out in shilling parts; a second hand bookseller in Edinburgh; issued Scots Worthies in parts; removed to a shop in the West Bow; published Baxter’s Saints’ rest and other works; admitted his sons, William 1835 and Thomas 1840, into partnership, when the firm became Thomas Nelson and sons; removed to Hope park 1843; published cheap theological literature, juvenile works, school books, and maps, also the Family Treasury. d. Abdenhouse, Prestonfield, Edinburgh 23 March 1861. bur. the Grange cemetery. H. Curwen’s Booksellers (1873) 399–411.

NELSON, THOMAS. b. Carlyle 1807; partner in Denton Holme marble works, Carlisle; builder and railway contractor, Carlisle; constructed the Silloth and Carlisle railway and dock; executed works for the North Eastern, and London and North Western railway companies; in partnership with his sons made the Cardiff dock; director of Cumberland union bank; purchased Friars Carse estate on the Nith near Dumfries, and the Hermitage in which Burns wrote some of his poems 1872; made a collection of Burns’ manuscripts and other relics. d. Friars Carse, Dumfries 19 Sept. 1890. Dumfries Courier 20 Sept. 1890 p. 2.

NELSON, THOMAS (younger son of Thomas Nelson 1780–1861). b. Edinburgh 25 Dec. 1822; entered his father’s publishing business 1840; established and had charge of the London branch 1844–6; superintended the manufacturing department at Hope park, Edinburgh, the firm employed about 500 people; invented a rotary press with curved stereotype plates fixed on cylinders 1850; established an American branch 1854; initiated a series of school-books written principally by himself; published the Royal Readers 1872; edited the Children’s Paper, which had a great sale; the Nelson’s premises at Hope park were completely destroyed by fire 1878, but new premises were built at Parkside, St. Leonard’s, within a year; became a partner in firm of Bartholomew and co., map engravers, Edinburgh; author of A class atlas of ancient geography 1867; author with Thomas Davies of New atlas of the world 1859. d. St. Leonard’s, Dalkeith road, Edinburgh 20 Oct. 1892, leaving more than £1,000,000, bequeathed £50,000 for erection of a working men’s club.

NELSON, SIR THOMAS JAMES (eld. son of Thomas Nelson of Mark house, Walthamstow, Essex, d. 16 May 1883, aged 84). b. 18 Oct. 1826; ed. at City of London sch. and at college of Saxe-Coburg in Germany; solicitor in city of London 1848–62; solicitor to the city of London 18 Dec. 1862 to death; conducted the litigation respecting Epping Forest, lasting many years; knighted at Windsor castle 21 April 1880; chairman of Lower Thames valley main sewerage board, and of the Hampton Wick local board; acted as remembrancer of city of London during litigation between corporation and C. H. Robarts the remembrancer 1880–1. d. The Grove, Hampton Wick, Middlesex 7 Feb. 1885. bur. Teddington cemet. 13 Feb. Law Journal 14 Feb. 1885 p. 115; Law Times 14 Feb. 1885 p. 290.

NELSON, WALTER (youngest child of John Wm. Nelson, sailmaker, Rotherhithe, and storekeeper of Deptford dockyard). b. 5 Feb. 1818; ed. at Merchant Tailors’ school 1825 etc.; copied Rymer’s transcripts in the British Museum for the record commission 1834–7; clerk in the record office 1840; one of assistant keepers of public records at Carlton Ride 1853 to death. d. 11 Margaretta terrace, Chelsea, London 2 Aug. 1862. G.M. xiii 501 (1862).

NELSON, WILLIAM (brother of Thomas Nelson 1822–92). b. Edinburgh 13 Dec. 1816; entered his father’s publishing business 1835; travelled in Scotland and England, taking orders for the firm’s publications 1836; the chief agent in extending the business; spent large sums of money restoring St. Bernard’s Well on the water of Leith, the Argyle tower, St. Margaret’s chapel, and the old Scottish parliament house in Edinburgh castle, which was re-opened by Princess Louise Oct. 1892; erected a memorial cross to Alexander III, the last of the Celtic kings, at Kinghorn in Fifeshire; was presented with freedom of burgh of Kinghorn July 1887. d. Salisbury Green, Dalkeith road, Edinburgh 10 Sept. 1887. bur. in Grange cemetery. Sir Daniel Wilson’s William Nelson, a memoir with portrait; Proc. of Royal soc. of Edinb. xix pp. lviii–lxii; Bookseller Oct. 1887 p. 1002; D. Bremner’s Industries of Scotland (1869) 502–4.

NELSON, WOLFRED (son of Wm. Nelson of the commissariat department, royal navy). b. Montreal 10 July 1792; obtained degree of M.D. Jany. 1811 and began practice at St. Denis, near Montreal; carried on a distillery and brewery at St. Denis; elected member of the assembly of Lower Canada for borough of William Henry 1827; chairman at a great meeting of delegates from six counties of Lower Canada held at St. Charles 23 Oct. 1837, a warrant was issued against him for his violent speeches, he defended himself against the troops and defeated the 23rd regiment on 23 Nov. but was ultimately captured and kept a prisoner in Montreal gaol until 1838; practised medicine at Plattsburg, New York 1838–42, at Montreal 1842 to death; member of assembly for county of Richelieu 1845; chairman of the board of health 1847; inspector of prisons 1851, chairman of board of prison inspectors 1859; contributed to Medical Gazette 1844, and to other journals. d. Montreal 17 June 1863. H. J. Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis (1867) 295.

NEPEAN, CHARLES WIDEKIND. Entered Madras army 1819; lieut. 7 Madras N.I. 7 April 1820, captain 26 Nov. 1830; lieut. col. 24 Aug. 1847 to death. d. Bombay 14 May 1853.

NEPEAN, EVAN (4 son of sir Evan Nepean, 1 Bart. of Loders, Dorset, d. 2 Oct. 1822). b. 20 April 1800; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826; minister of Grosvenor chapel, South Audley st. London 1830 to death; R. of Heydon, Norfolk 1831–61; chaplain in ordinary to the queen 3 Aug. 1848 to death; resident canon of Westminster 29 Aug. 1860 to death, installed 19 Sept.; author of A sermon on occasion of the funeral of the duke of Wellington 1852. d. Little Cloisters, Westminster abbey 13 March 1873. bur. in Westminster abbey 18 March. I.L.N. lxii 283 (1873).

NERINCKX, JOHN. b. Ninove, Belgium Aug. 1776; ordained R.C. priest by a French bishop in a private room 1801; honorary chaplain of church of St. Aloysius, Clarendon sq. Somers Town, London 1830 to death; founded the schools attached to the church. d. 49 Clarendon sq. London 21 Dec. 1855. Tablet 29 Dec. 1855 p. 821.

NESBIT, ALFRED ANTHONY (son of John Collis Nesbit 1818–62). b. 1854; partner in firm of Nesbit, Lansdell and co., analytical chemists at 38 Gracechurch st. London 1876–82, in business by himself at same address 1882–5; his patent for preventing the fraudulent alteration of cheques (No. 2184 of 1880) was well received but never used; patented an improved ink for obliterating postage stamps 1883; successful in colouring white flowers by causing them to absorb aniline dyes of various shades. d. 1894.

NESBIT, ANTHONY (son of Jacob Nesbit, farmer of Long Benton, near Newcastle). bapt. Long Benton 3 May 1778; under-master at Preston gr. sch. 1808–9; land surveyor and teacher of mathematics at Farnley, near Leeds 1810; set up a school at Bradford about 1814; kept a school in Oxford road, Manchester about 1821–41; started a school at 38 Lower Kennington lane, London about 1841; author of A complete treatise on practical land surveying, York 1810, 12 ed. 1870; Mensuration 1816; An introduction to English parsing 1817; A treatise on practical gauging, York 1822; A treatise on practical arithmetic, Liverpool 1826, second part London 1846; An essay on education 1841. d. 38 Lower Kennington lane, London 15 March 1859. bur. Norwood cemet.

NESBIT, JOHN COLLIS (son of Anthony Nesbit 1778–1859). b. Bradford, Yorkshire 12 July 1818; constructed a galvanic battery 1833; lecturer upon scientific subjects; helped to manage his father’s school in London about 1841, eventually the school was converted into a chemical and agricultural college under his sole direction; obtained a large practice as a consulting and analytical chemist; F.G.S. and F.C.S. 1845; discovered important beds of coprolites in the Ardennes 1855; presented by the Farmers’ club and others with testimonial, value £300, 7 Dec. 1857; author of Lecture on agricultural chemistry at Saxmundham 1845; On Peruvian guano, its history, composition, and fertilising qualities 1852, 5 ed. 1852, translated into German 1853; On agricultural chemistry 1856; The history and properties of natural guanos, new ed. 1860. d. at the house of a friend at Barnes 30 March 1862. Farmers Mag. May 1856 pp. 415–6, Jany. 1858 p. 6, May 1862 p. 458; Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. (1863) p. xix; I.L.N. 19 April 1862 p. 394 portrait.

NESBIT, ROBERT (son of Benjamin Nesbit, farmer). b. Bowsden, Durham 22 March 1803; educ. St. Andrews; tutor in family of Dr. Inverarity at Arbroath 1823–5; tutor in family of A. N. Groves at Exeter 1825; presbyterian minister 15 Dec. 1826; missionary of the Scottish missionary society at Bombay 1827–43; a student of Sanscrit, Hindustani, and Marathi; Free church minister at Bombay 1843–8, 1851 to death; revised the Marathi New Testament; author of Discourses, chiefly on doctrinal subjects, Bombay 1835, Berwick 2 ed. 1837. d. Bombay 26 July 1855. J. M. Mitchell’s Memoir of R. Nesbit (1858) portrait.

NESBITT, ALEXANDER. b. Ireland 1817; an enthusiast respecting Gothic architecture in connection with ancient domestic buildings; contributed the articles Baptistry, Church, etc. to Smith’s Dictionary of Christian Antiquities 1875–80; with his pen and pencil aided John Henry Parker in his Domestic architecture 1851; F.S.A. 26 May 1859, contributed many important papers to the Archæologia; made molds from ivory carvings, his process and his molds formed the groundwork of the Arundel Societies’ collection of fictile ivories; formed a collection of fragments of ancient glass, now in British museum; wrote introductions to W. Chaffers’ Catalogue of the collection of glass formed by F. Slade 1871, and to A descriptive catalogue of the glass vessels in South Kensington museum 1876. d. Oldlands, near Uckfield 21 June 1886. Proc. of Soc. of Antiquaries xi 372 (1885–7).

NESBITT, COSBY LEWIS. Second lieut. 60 foot 27 March 1824, lieut. col. 26 July 1844 to death; served throughout the Caffir war 1851–3. drowned in fording the Keiskamma river, Cape of Good Hope 1 Oct. 1853.

NESBITT, FRANCIS, stage name of Francis Nesbitt McCron. b. Manchester 1809; studied for the medical profession; acted in the English provinces and at Glasgow to 1840; arrived in Port Jackson, N.S.W. 7 Jany. 1841; played Pizarro at Victoria theatre, Sydney 1841; one of leading actors in Australia 1841 to death; toured round the colonies 1843–8; sailed for San Francisco 1848; returned to Sydney 1852. d. the hospital, Geelong, Victoria 1853. bur. in Geelong cemet., where a monument was placed over his grave by G. V. Brooke 1856.

NESBITT, WILLIAM (son of John Nesbitt, wesleyan minister). b. Enniskillen 1824; on the staff of the Raphoe royal school 1841; educ. Dublin univ., B.A. 1844; professor of Latin Queen’s college, Galway 1849–54, and then professor of Greek 1854–64; professor of Latin at Belfast branch of Queen’s univ. 1864 to death; D.Lit of Queen’s univ. Sept. 1881. d. 24 Mount Charles, Belfast 26 Nov. 1881. The Belfast News-Letter 28 Nov. 1881 p. 5.

NESFIELD, CHARLES. b. 1802; educ. Jesus coll. Camb., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1831; V. of Stratton, Wilts. 1833–64; V. of Headon with Upton, Notts. 1864 to death; author of Horace’s Art of poetry, translated into English verse By A Graduate of Cambridge 1854; Reformata filii confessio 1855. d. Headon vicarage 27 Oct. 1878.

NESFIELD, WILLIAM ANDREWS (son of Wm. Nesfield, R. of Brancepeth, Durham). b. Chester-le-Street 19 Feb. 1793; entered Winchester school as fourth scholar 1806, went to Trin. coll. Camb. 1807; a cadet at Woolwich 1809; 2 lieut. 95 foot 26 June 1812; lieut. 89 foot 1814; lieut. 76 foot 1816; lieut. 48 foot 25 March 1817; lieut. on h.p. 24 Dec. 1818 to death; served in the campaign of the Pyrenees, at St. Jean de Luz, and in Canada; associate of Society of painters in water-colours Feb. 1823, a member 9 June 1823, resigned 14 June 1852; was famous for his pictures of waterfalls; a professional landscape gardener 1852; planned the horticultural gardens at South Kensington 1860, also the grounds at Arundel castle, Trentham and Alnwick; with C. Stanfield and others illustrated J. P. Lawson’s Scotland delineated 1847. d. 3 York terrace, Regent’s park, London 2 March 1881.

NESFIELD, WILLIAM EDEN (eld. son of the preceding). b. Bath 2 April 1835; ed. at Eton; articled to Wm. Burn of London, architect; designed Kinmel park, Denbigh, Cloverley hall, Shropshire, the hall and church at Loughton, Essex, Farnham Royal church, and lodges at Kew gardens and Hampton court; a designer of all kinds of furniture; published Specimens of mediæval architecture, chiefly selected from examples of the 12th and 13th centuries in France and Italy 1861–2; resided 6 Waverley place, St. John’s wood, London. d. Brighton 25 March 1888.

NESHAM, CHRISTOPHER JOHN WILLIAMS (son of Christopher Nesham, captain 63 foot). b. 1771; entered navy Jany. 1782; created a citizen of the French republic 17 Nov. 1789, for protecting a corn merchant named Planter from a furious mob at Vernon in Normandy Oct. 1789; presented with a sword by the assembly at Paris Jany. 1790; captain 29 April 1802; captain of the Intrepid, 64 guns July 1808 to Dec. 1809; took part in the capture of Martinique Feb. 1809; captain of the Melville, 74 guns, in the Mediterranean 1830–1; R.A. on h.p. 10 Jany. 1837; replaced on the active list 17 Aug. 1840; V.A. 9 Nov. 1846; admiral on h.p. 30 July 1852. d. Exmouth, Devon 4 Nov. 1853. Paris municipalité, Assemblée, courone (sic) civique décernée à un Jeune Anglais, pour avoir suavé la vie à un Français 1790.

NETHERCLIFT, FREDERICK GEORGE (son of the succeeding). b. 9 Sept. 1817; lithographic artist and printer with his father 1847–53; partner with Alexander Durlacher at 18 Brewer st. Golden sq. 1853–8; carried on business at 17 Mill st. Conduit st. 1858–66, at 10 Poland st. 1866–8, at 38 Brewer st. 1868–70, at 19 Air st. 1875–7; handwriting expert at 7 Theobald’s road 1881–3, and at 10 Bedford row 1883 to death; engaged in connection with the Irish commission 1889; is depicted in Charles Reade’s novel Foul Play 1869, under name of Underclift; published A collection of one hundred autograph letters 1849; The autograph miscellany 1855; The hand-book of autographs 1858–62; and the fac-similes in R. Sims’ The autograph souvenir 1863, and L. B. Phillips’ The autographic Album 1866; composer of Bend thy sail mariner, a song 1868. d. 33 Shaftesbury road, Hornsey rise, Middlesex 26 March 1892. M. Williams’s Leaves of a life (1891) 265.

NETHERCLIFT, JOSEPH. b. Whitchurch, Hampshire 8 Sept. 1792; lithographic artist and printer at 23 King William st. Strand, London 1833–51, at 100 St. Martin’s lane 1851–8, and at 113 St. Martin’s lane 1858 to death; was in partnership with his son 1847–53; a musician, gained a prize for the best madrigal; obtained a prize for production of transfer paper used in lithography; produced many documents in fac-simile by permission of the trustees of British Museum, such as The Magna Charta and The death warrant of Charles the First 1829; author of Autograph letters of illustrious women 1838; composer of Twenty four psalms and hymns, with accompaniments for the organ or piano 1842, and other music. d. 50 Sydney st. Brompton, London 8 April 1863. bur. Brompton cemet. Cornhill Mag. Feb. 1885 pp. 148–62.

NETTLEFOLD, JOSEPH HENRY. b. London 1827; in a hardware business with his father and brother 54 High Holborn, London; managed the gimlet pointed wood screw branch of the business at Birmingham, in conjunction with Joseph Chamberlain, M.P., Chamberlain retired 1874; became a colliery proprietor and a wire manufacturer; business formed into a company as Nettlefolds, limited, with works at Smethwick; a member of Institute of mechanical engineers 1860; resided King’s Heath, Birmingham; presented his collection of David Cox’s paintings, valued at £40,000, to town of Birmingham Oct. 1881. d. Allean house, Pitlochry, Perthshire 22 Nov. 1881, personalty sworn as £287,000 Feb. 11, 1882. Proc. of Instit. of mechanical engineers (1882) 9–10.

NETTLESHIP, HENRY (eld. son of Henry John Nettleship of Kettering, Northamptonshire, solicitor). b. Kettering 5 May 1839; ed. at Lancing college, Durham sch. and at Charterhouse; scholar of C.C. coll. Oxford 3 April 1857–61; Hertford scholar and Gaisford prizeman 1859; Craven scholar 1861; B.A. 1861, M.A 1863; fellow of Lincoln college 20 Jany 1862–71, tutor and librarian 1862–8; lecturer in classics Christ Church 1863–8; assistant master at Harrow 1868–73; fellow of C.C. coll. 1873, tutor and librarian 1875; joint classical lecturer at C.C. coll. and Ch. Ch. 1873; Corpus professor of Latin 25 June 1878 to death; matric. at univ. of Berlin 1865, and attended lectures there one term; edited J. Conington’s P. Virgili Maronis 1858, another ed. 1881; J. Conington’s The satires of A Persius Flaccus 1872; Essays of Mark Pattison 1889; A. O. Seyffert’s A dictionary of classical antiquities 1891; M. Pattison’s Isaac Casaubon, 2 ed. 1892; author of Ancient lives of Vergil 1879; Lectures and essays on subjects connected with Latin literature and scholarship 1885; Contributions to Latin lexicography 1889. d. 17 Bradmore road, Oxford 10 July 1893. I.L.N. 22 July 1893 p. 94 portrait; Graphic 22 July 1893 p. 103 portrait.

NETTLESHIP, RICHARD LEWIS (brother of the preceding). b. Kettering 17 Dec. 1846; ed. at Uppingham school 1858–65, captain 1863–5; scholar of Balliol coll. Oxf. 1864–9, fellow 1869 to death, tutor 1871, dean 1872; Hertford scholar 1866, Ireland scholar 1867, Craven scholar 1870; B.A. 1869, M.A. 1872; contributed The theory of education in Plato’s Republic to Evelyn Abbott’s Hellenica 1880, pp. 67–180; wrote A memoir of Thomas Hill Green, prefixed to the third volume of Green’s works 1880, pp. xi–clxi. d. between the Aiguille du Gouter and the Dome du Gouter 25 Aug. 1892, from exposure while attempting to ascend Mont Blanc. bur. at English church, Chamounix 29 Aug., memorial tablet placed in the antechapel of Balliol college, and a scholarship, tenable at the college by a student of music, founded by his pupils and friends. Uppingham School Magazine Nov. 1892. I.L.N. 3 Sept. 1892 p. 291 portrait.

NEUBERG, JOSEPH. b. Heidingsfeld, close to Würzburg, Bavaria 21 May 1806; in business at Hamburg and at Nottingham; president of the People’s college; naturalised in England 16 June 1845; studied at univ. of Bonn 1850–3; friend of Thomas Carlyle 1848, and his voluntary secretary 1849; his companion and guide over the battle fields of Prussia 1852; published T. Carlyle’s works in German as, T. Carlyle über Helden Heldenverehrung und das Heldenthümliche in der Geschichte 1853, 2 ed. 1889; Geschichte Friedrichs des Zuieiten 1858–69. d. New Mount lodge, Windsor terrace, Hampstead 23 March 1867. Baines’s Hampstead (1890) 378–80; Macmillan’s Mag. Aug. 1884 pp. 280–97; J. A. Froude’s Thomas Carlyle ii 106–130 (1890).

NEVAY, JOHN. b. Forfar 28 Jany. 1792; a handloom weaver at Forfar; wrote prose tales in various periodicals; several of his lyrics were translated into French and German; mentioned in Christopher North’s Noctes Ambrosianœ as John of ye Girnal; author of A pamphlet of rhymes 1818; A second pamphlet 1821; Emmanuel 1831, a sacred poem in nine cantos; The peasant, a poem in nine cantos 1834; The child of nature 1835; Rosalind’s dream 1853; The fountain of the rock 1855. d. Forfar 4 May 1870. J. Grant Wilson’s Poets of Scotland ii 122–4 (1877).

NEVILL, CHARLES WILLIAM (eld. son of Richard Janion Nevill of Llanelly, Carmarthenshire). b. 7 May 1816; ed. at Rugby 1830 etc.; copper smelter and colliery proprietor; sheriff of Carmarthenshire 1868; M.P. Carmarthen district 9 Feb. 1874 to July 1876. d. Westfa, Llanelly 7 June 1888.

NEVILL, HENRY WILLIAM (son of Henry Nevill, farmer). b. Wherwell, near Andover, Hants 28 July 1819; baker at 23 Great Wild st. Drury Lane, London 1839–44, at 17 Sidmouth st. Clerkenwell 1842–52, at 16 Holborn Bars 1851–9; commenced using hot water ovens 1860; opened a large bakery at 37 Bingfield st. Caledonian road 1855, and ultimately additional bakeries at 94 Milkwood road, Herne hill 1871, the Harrow road, Leytonstone 1883, and at Avenue terrace, Acton lane, Acton 1885; he had 58 hot water ovens and used 3,000 sacks of flour a week; had the largest business in London, where Nevill’s household bread became everywhere well known. d. Ramsgate 18 Aug. 1889, will proved Oct. 1889, left his business, etc. to his son Robert Nevill, and his personalty of £288,256 17s. 1d. to his three daughters. The Miller 2 Sept. 1889 p. 307 portrait, 4 Nov. 1889 p. 380; The Baker’s record 24 Aug. 1889 p. 6 portrait.

NEVILLE, HENRY F. b. March 1822; educ. Maynooth coll.; missioner North Parish, Cork 1847; professor of logic Oct. 1850, and of theology 1852–69, in Maynooth college; D.D.; accompanied Dr. Moriarty to Rome as his theologian; created Monsignor by the Pope; minister of Passage and Monkstown 1870, and canon of Cork; parish priest of St. Finn Bars, dean and vicar general of Cork March 1875 to death; rector of Roman catholic univ. Dublin 1879; author of A few comments on Mr. Gladstone’s Expostulation, with some remarks on Vaticanism, 3 ed. 1875. d. Cork 15 Dec. 1889. bur. Blackrock graveyard 17 Dec. The Cork Examiner 16 Dec. 1889 p. 2, 18 Dec. p. 2; The Tablet 21 Dec. 1889 p. 999.

NEVILLE, JOHN GARSIDE. b. Manchester 1787; first appeared under Stephen Kemble at Whitehaven; acted in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dublin, York, and Hull; manager of Manchester theatre 1826–31; manager of various theatres in the north of England; played at the Lyceum, London 1839; acted at the Surrey in G. B. Davidge’s characters, appearing on Whit Monday 1839 as Chrystal Baxter in Haine’s Alice Gray; played Friar Lawrence to the Romeo and Juliet of the Cushmans at Haymarket 1846; very good as Peter Bell, Jonathan Wild, and the Old Commodore; generally took the heavy business; proprietor of Deptford theatre; acted under Edmund Falconer at the Lyceum 1861–2, and under F. B. Chattertan at Drury Lane, retired after the run of Amy Robsart 1873. d. 16 March 1874. Theatrical Times iv 17–8 (1849) portrait; The Era 22 March 1874 p. 11.

NEVILLE, PARK (son of Arthur Neville, surveyor to corporation of Dublin). b. Dublin 1812; educ. under Charles Vignoles, C.E., and William Farrell, architect; city engineer to corporation of Dublin 1851 to death; repaved the streets, and constructed new sewers 1853 etc.; carried out the Vartry waterworks, Dublin, at cost of £650,000; built cattle markets; made a street connecting Dame st. with Christ Church place at cost of £70,000; M.I.C.E. 5 Dec. 1865. d. 58 Pembroke road, Dublin 30 Oct. 1886. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxvii 424–7 (1886).

NEVILLE, WILLIAM LATIMER (1 son of William Neville of St. Martin’s, Birmingham). b. Birmingham 1801; educ. Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1828; C. of Holy Trinity, Brompton, London to 1859; superintendent of West Indian mission to Western Africa 1859 to death; author of The necessity of Christ’s suffering, a sermon at East Orchard, Dorset 1836; A Catholic’s reply to some Dissenters by birth, education and conviction 1836; An answer to G. H. Stodart’s Reasons for secession 1836; Apostolical succession proved 1839; A treatise on the divine origin of the scripture 1844; and in West Indian Church Association occasional papers, Journal of a voyage from Plymouth to Sierra Leone 1858. d. Fallangia on the Rio Pongas, West Africa 7 July 1861.

NEW, HERBERT. b. 1821; solicitor at Evesham 1843 to death; senior partner in firm of New, Prance, and Garrard, the firm failed with liabilities of about £300,000 April 1894; registrar of Evesham county court 1868 to death; member of Evesham town council, alderman to death, mayor several times; author of Simon de Montfort and the battle of Evesham 1874; Memoir of A Martin and funeral addresses 1879. d. Green hill, Evesham 28 Nov, 1893.

NEW, STEVEN W. b. 1818; sang at Dr. Johnson tavern, Bolt court, Fleet st. London; chairman and musical director at several music halls; organist at Portland chapel, Portland st. London; composer of The English emigrant, ballad 1852; A selection of sacred music, as sung at Little Portland street chapel 1854; Charm of my life, ballad 1855; God’s presence in affliction, a sacred song 1856; The oath of allegiance, a song 1860; Who’s that tapping at the garden gate 1868; wrote nearly 100 pieces 1851–68. d. 21 Burton crescent, London, about 4 Sept. 1866.

NEWALL, ROBERT STIRLING. b. Dundee 27 May 1812; employed under Robert M’Calmont London, experimenting on rapid production of steam; took out a patent for invention of wire rope which made submarine telegraphy possible 1840, established with his partners, Liddell and Gordon, works for the manufacture at Gateshead-on-Tyne 1840; made the telegraph cable laid between Dover and Calais 25 Sept. 1851, and many other cables; invented the brake-drum and cone for laying cables in deep seas 1853; made half of the first Atlantic cable 1858; gave his 25 inch refracting telescope to the university of Cambridge 2 March 1889; mayor of Gateshead 1867–8; F.R.A.S. 1864; F.R.S. 3 June 1875; M.I.M.E. 1879; received Brazilian order of the Rose 1872; D.C.L. Durham 1887; author of Facts relating to the invention of the submarine cable, and to the first cable between Dover and Calais 1882. d. Ferndene, near Gateshead 21 April 1889. Proc. of Royal Soc. xlvi, p. xxxiii (1890).

NEWBIGGING, SIR WILLIAM (son of Robert Newbigging of Lanark, solicitor). b. Lanark 1772; F.R.C.S. Edinb. 1799; F.R.S. Edinb.; surgeon royal infirmary, Edinb. for periods of 12 and 8 years respectively; knighted at St. James’s palace 18 July 1838; author of Case of inguinal and popliteal aneurism cured by tying the external iliac artery, Edinb. 1815; Harveian oration 1838. d. 29 Heriot row, Edinburgh 23 Oct. 1852.

NEWBON, ROBERT ALGER. Auctioneer at 275 Upper st. Islington, London; left by his will £20,000 to the royal national lifeboat institution, on condition that five lifeboats were provided, to be named respectively the Ann Newbon after his mother, the Lucy Newbon after his late wife, the Betsy Newbon and the Nancy Newbon after his sisters, and the Bob Newbon after himself; bequeathed to the incumbent and wardens of chapel of ease Upper st. Islington, £20,000 to be applied at their discretion for the schools and charities connected with the chapel, and to the Great Northern central hospital to found a Newbon ward £15,000. d. 28 Oct. 1891, probate duty paid on £130,000 Dec. 1891.

NEWBOULD, WILLIAM WILLIAMSON (son of a Russia merchant). b. Sheffield 20 Jany. 1819; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A 1842, M.A. 1845; C. of Comberton and Harleton, Cambs. 1851–64; F.B.S. Edinb. 1841; an original member of Ray Society 1844; F.L.S. 1863; made botanical excursions to Jersey, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland 1842–62; added five or six species to the British flora; gave much help to C. C. Babington, G. S. Gibson and other botanists in their books. d. Kew 16 April 1886. bur. Fulham cemet. Journal of botany (1886) 159–74.

NEWBURGH, MARGARET, Countess of (3 dau. of first marquess of Ailsa 1770–1846). b. 16 June 1800; m. 14 Nov. 1817 John Thomas Eyre, styled seventh earl of Newburgh, b. 1790 and d. 22 May 1833; joined the church of Rome; a friend of lady Lothian and lady Georgiana Fullerton; blind for some years but still worked for the poor. d. 35 Wilton crescent, London 3 Sept. 1889. P. Gallwey’s Salvage from the wreck (1890) xxxii portrait.

NEWBURGH, MARIA CECILIA AGATHA ANNA JOSEPHA LAURENTIA DONATA MELCHIORA BALTHASSARA GASPARA BANDINI, Countess of (only child of Vincent, prince Giustiniani, styled 6 earl of Newburgh 1762–1826). b. Rome 5 Feb. 1796; m. 21 Sept. 1815 Charles, 4 marquis Bandini and Rustano in the Roman states, he d. 5 June 1851; succeeded her father as princess Giustiniani and countess of Newburgh 13 Nov. 1826; naturalised by 20 and 21 Vict. cap. 14, 17 Aug. 1857; confirmed by the house of lords as countess of Newburgh 30 July 1858. d. Rome May 1878.

NOTE.—In the peerages of Burke, Lodge and Foster she is said to have died 8 Jany. 1877, but the death was not announced in The Times until 27 May 1878.

NEWBY, EMMA (daughter of the rev. Henry Barry, R. of Draycot Cerne, Wilts.) m. 27 June 1848, Charles John Newby of London, solicitor, who d. 27 Aug. 1867; author of Margaret Hamilton, a novel, 3 vols. 1858; Right and left, 3 vols. 1862; Wondrous strange, 3 vols. 1864; Trodden down, 3 vols. 1866; Common sense, 3 vols. 1865, 2 ed. 1866; Only temper, 3 vols. 1868; Married, 3 vols. 1869; Langley manor, 3 vols. 1872; His wife, 3 vols. 1879.

NEWBY, THOMAS CAUTLEY. Publisher at 65 Mortimer st. Cavendish sq. London 1843–4, at 72 Mortimer st. 1844–9, and at 30 Welbeck st. 1849–74; retired March 1874; one of the chief publishers of novels. d. 1882.

NEWCASTLE, HENRY PELHAM PELHAM-CLINTON, 4 Duke of (elder son of Thomas Pelham-Clinton, 3 duke of Newcastle 1752–95). b. 30 Jany. 1785; styled lord Clinton 1785–94, and earl of Lincoln 1794–5; succeeded his father 17 May 1795; ed. at Eton 1796–1803; went to France 1803, detained there 1803–7; lord lieut. of Nottingham 20 Dec. 1809, dismissed 4 May 1839; K.G. 19 June 1812; the mob of Nottingham burnt Nottingham castle 10 Oct. 1831, for the damage done he was awarded sum of £21,000 in 1832; author of Thoughts in times past, tested by subsequent events 1836. d. Clumber Park, Notts. 12 Jany. 1851. bur. in Markham Clinton church 21 Jany. Portraits of eminent conservatives vol. 1 (1836) portrait 4; I.L.N. xviii 37, 62, 64 (1851) portrait; G.M. xxxv 309 (1851); Thoroton’s History of Nottinghamshire iii 405 (1797); J. E. Doyle’s Official baronage ii 566 (1886) portrait.

NEWCASTLE, HENRY PELHAM PELHAM-CLINTON, 5 Duke of (eld. son of the preceding). b. Charles st. Berkeley sq. London 22 May 1811; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1832; styled Earl of Lincoln 1811–51; M.P. for South Notts. 1832–46, and for Falkirk burghs 1846–51; a lord of the treasury 31 Dec. 1834 to 20 April 1835; P.C. 3 Sept. 1841; first comr. of woods and forests 25 Sept. 1841 to 10 March 1846; chief sec. to lord lieut. of Ireland 14 Feb. 1846 to 6 July 1846; sec. of state for the colonies 28 Dec. 1852 to June 1854; sec. of state for war 12 June 1854 to Feb. 1855; lord lieut. of Notts. 2 Feb. 1857 to death; colonial sec. 18 June 1859 to April 1864; went to Canada and United States with prince of Wales 1860; lord warden of stannaries 6 Feb. 1862 to 1864; one of council to prince of Wales Jany. 1863; K.G. 17 Dec. 1860. d. Clumber park, Worksop, Notts. 18 Oct. 1864, personalty sworn under £250,000, 11 Feb. 1865. C. Brown’s Nottinghamshire Worthies (1882) 353–5; H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches, 4 ed. (1876) 122–30; The Eton portrait gallery (1876) 412–17; Men of the time, British statesmen (1854) 240–50; G.M. xvii 783–86 (1864); I.L.N. viii 129 (1846) portrait; The British cabinet in 1853, 240–50; Reynolds’s Miscellany xxvii 308 (1862) portrait.

NEWCASTLE, HENRY PELHAM ALEXANDER PELHAM-CLINTON, 6 Duke of. b. 25 Jany. 1834; styled lord Clinton 1834–51, and earl of Lincoln 1851–64; ed. at Eton; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 20 Oct. 1852; M.P. Newark 1857–9; succeeded 18 Oct. 1864; kept race horses from 1856, but was always unfortunate; grand master of the freemasons of Nottingham; bankrupt 11 Feb. 1870, bankruptcy annulled 31 Jany. 1871. d. 10 Park place, St. James’s, London 22 Feb. 1879. Baily’s mag. xii 1–3 (1867) portrait; I.L.N. xxx 385, 386 (1857) portrait.

NEWCOMB, GEORGE. b. Chelmsford 1835; member of Smith’s circus at Chelmsford about 1852; engaged as bottom densman at Wombwell’s No. 2 menagerie at Ramsgate; became a lion tamer; had his left eye torn out by a leopard; had an encounter at Swindon with five African lions 1874, when he received 9 wounds on the right arm and other injuries, 3 of the lions died in the struggle. d. about 4 Jany. 1890.

NEWCOMBE, JOHN REILLY. b. Bath 20 March 1803; bought the lease of the Swansea theatre; manager with Paul John Bedford of theatre royal, Bath 12 April to 22 May 1841; lessee and manager of theatre royal, Plymouth 16 April 1845 to death; lessee and manager of Devonport theatre to 1874, also of Barnstaple theatre; engaged Taglioni, the dancer, at salary of £100 a night 1845, Macready played at Plymouth in Sept. 1849, at a nightly salary of 50 guineas, to nearly empty houses, on account of the cholera epidemic; lost £10,000 during his first ten years 1845–55; the theatre partly burnt 1853; spent £3,000 renovating the theatre, which was opened 19 Aug. 1861; the house was damaged by fire 5 Jany. 1863, but re-opened 12 Jany.; it was burnt down 13 June 1878, when he lost £4,000, the theatre was rebuilt by the town council and re-opened 24 Dec. 1878; presented with £700 and a silver salver by 237 friends at duke of Cornwall hotel, Plymouth 6 Nov. 1878; was a good low comedian, his three best parts were the Widow Twankey, Bob Handy, and Jeremy Diddler; nearly always played in his Christmas pantomime; was the oldest lessee and manager in England, and had the last stock company in the provinces; hunted for 60 years down to a few months before his death; judge at Plymouth race meetings for some years; rode in several races. d. 4 Crescent place, Plymouth 18 July 1887. bur. Plymouth cemetery 21 July. Era 23 July 1887 p. 13; Western Morning News 19 July 1887 p. 5, 22 July p. 5.

NOTE.—He is drawn by Mortimer Collins in his novel Two plunges for a pearl, 3 vols. 1872, under name of Oldgo. His elder son Albert Newcombe, who was his treasurer and acting manager many years, d. 28 Jany. 1881, aged 48, and his younger son Arthur Newcombe d. 15 Aug. 1883, aged 34.

NEWCOME, EDWARD CLOUGH (son of rev. William Newcome). Educ. Eton 1823 etc.; capt. East Norfolk artillery militia; J.P. for Norfolk; a lover of hawking; an ornithologist. d. Feltwell hall, near Brandon 22 Oct. 1871.

NEWCOME, RICHARD. b. 1779; ed. at Queen’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1800, M.A. 1804; R. of Llanrydd, Denbighshire, and warden of Ruthin, Denbighshire 1804–51; R. of Llanfwrog, Denbighshire 1804–51; canon of Bangor 15 June 1821 to 1834; R. of Clocaenog, Denbighshire 20 Dec. 1829 to 1834; archdeacon of Merioneth 4 June 1834 to death; R. of Llanrhaiadr-in-Kimmerch, Denbighshire 1851 to death. d. Llanrhaiadr vicarage 7 Aug. 1857.

NEWCOMEN, ARTHUR HENRY TURNER (son of Arthur Newcomen, 1 lieut. royal horse artillery, d. 1848). b. Kirkleatham hall, near Redcar 1844; master of a pack of harriers at the age of thirteen; master of the Cleveland hounds 1875 to death; a breeder of horses, and owner of race horses; the chief promoter of the Redcar race course and grand stand; a good shot, a fisherman, and a cricketer. d. 6 April 1884. Baily’s Mag. xxvii 311 (1875) portrait.

NEWDEGATE, CHARLES NEWDIGATE (only son of Charles Newdigate Newdegate of Harefield place, Middlesex, d. 1833). b. 14 July 1816; ed. at Eton 1829–34, and at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1849, M.A. 1859, D.C.L. 1863; M.P. for North Warwickshire 11 March 1843–85; a great opponent of the church of Rome; P.C. 6 Feb. 1886; presented by his Warwickshire constituents with an illuminated address and £547, 1886; published between 1849 and 1852 many letters on The balance of trade, ascertained from the market value of all articles imported; author of A collection of the customs’ tariffs of all nations 1855; Speech on the state of Ireland and the proposals for the establishment of a Roman catholic university 1868. d. Arbury hall, Warwickshire 9 April 1887. bur. Harefield church 15 April.

NEWELL, M’FADDEN ALEXANDER. b. Belfast 7 Sept. 1824; educ. royal college, Belfast and Trin. coll. Dublin; went to U.S. of America 1848; professor of natural science in Baltimore city college 1850–4, and in Lafayette college, Pennsylvania 1854–64; president of the normal school, state of Maryland 1865–8; superintendent of public instruction of state of Maryland 1868 to death, his Annual reports in 25 vols. are highly esteemed; published with professor Creery a series of text-books entitled the Maryland series. d. Havre de Grace, Maryland Aug. 1893.

NEWELL, ROBERT HASELL (son of Robert Richardson Newell, surgeon). b. Essex 1778; ed. at Colchester school; pensioner of St. John’s coll. Camb. 22 April 1795, scholar 2 Nov. 1795, fellow 1 April 1800, lecturer 1800–4, dean 1809–13; fourth wrangler 1799; B.A. 1799, M.A. 1802, B.D. 1810; R. of Little Hormead, Herts 1 June 1813 to death; C. of Great Hormead, Herts; a good amateur artist; his edition of Goldsmith’s Poetical Works 1811 and 1820 is embellished with drawings by himself; illustrated his Letters on the scenery of North Wales 1821; author of The zoology of the English poets corrected by the writings of modern naturalists 1845. d. 31 Jany. 1852.

NEWELL, THOMAS GEORGE. Entered Madras army 1804; lieut. 11 Madras N.I. 25 July 1805, captain 5 June 1820; major 21 N. I. 4 Feb. 1832 to 30 April 1837; lieut. col. 4 N.I. 30 April 1837, of 25 N.I. 1838–40, of 42 N.I. 1840–1, of 47 N.I. 1841–4. of 28 N.I. 1844–5, and of 32 N.I. 1845–6; col. of 6 N.I. 16 March 1847 to death. d. England 11 Oct. 1853.

NEWENHAM, FREDERICK. b. 1807; an historical and portrait painter in London; exhibited his picture Parisina at the R.A. 1838; painted a portrait of the queen for the Junior united service club 1842, it was exhibited at the R.A. 1844; became a fashionable painter of ladies’ portraits; exhibited 19 pictures at R.A. and 17 at B.I. 1838–55. d. 21 March 1859.

NEWHAM, SAMUEL (only son of Samuel Newham). b. Walford, Notts. 24 June 1796; a billiard player, a whist player, and a patron of all popular games; one of the strongest chess players in the provinces; founder and president of Nottingham chess club, the members presented him with a piece of plate 1837; played in the first International tournament, which was held at the St. George’s chess club rooms, Cavendish sq. London 1851, when he was defeated by Mr. Szen, who was one of the best players in the world. d. Nottingham 24 March 1875. Chess players’ chronicle iv 313 (1875).

NEWINGTON, CHARLES (7 son of a medical man at Ticehurst, Sussex, d. 1811). b. Ticehurst 1781; M.R.C.S. 1802; an assistant to his father at Ticehurst lunatic asylum 1802, with his brother Jesse Newington became manager of the establishment 1811, Jesse d. 1819; on decease of his mother, purchased the asylum 1831; spent large sums in improving the house and grounds; had 60 patients and as many servants; invented an instrument for feeding patients who tried to starve themselves; aided John Read in perfecting an instrument for removing obstructions; invented a tell-tale clock; asylum partly burnt down 22 April 1852. d. Ticehurst 27 April 1852. M. A. Lower’s Worthies of Sussex (1865) 254–5.

NEWLAND, HENRY GARRETT. b. London 1804; taken to Sicily 1809; ed. at Lausanne 1816; matric. from Christ’s coll. Camb. 1821. migrated to C.C. coll., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; R. of Westbourne, Sussex Sept. 1829; V. of Westbourne Jany. 1834 to 1855, where he established a daily choral service 1850; V. of St. Mary-Church, near Torquay 1855 to death; domestic chaplain to bishop of Exeter 1855 to death; author of The Erne, its legends and its fly-fishing 1851; Confession and absolution 1852; Three lectures on tractarianism 1854, 4 ed. 1853; The seasons of the church, what they teach, 3 vols. 1856–60; Confirmation and first communion 1853, 2 ed. 1854; Postils, short sermons on the parables 1854; Forest scenes in Norway and Sweden 1854. d. St. Mary-Church 25 June 1860. R. J. Shutte’s Memoir of H. G. Newland (1861) portrait.

NEWLANDS, JAMES (son of a rope manufacturer). b. Edinburgh 28 July 1813; assistant to David Low, professor of agriculture in univ. of Edinb. 1833–36; the first borough engineer of Liverpool 26 Jany. 1847 to May 1871, constructed a new system of sewage; A.I.C.E. 6 June 1848, M.I.C.E 20 Jany. 1857; his paintings exhibited in Royal Scottish academy; sent by government to Balaklava during Crimean war as sanitary commissioner 1855; author of Liverpool water supply, a report 1849; The carpenter and joiner’s assistant 1857–60, new ed. 1880; wrote for 7 ed. of Encyclopedia Britannica the articles ropemaking and history of steam navigation, also contributed to 8 edition. d. Liverpool 15 July 1871. Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxiii 227–31 (1872).

NEWMAN, ALFRED A. (eld. son of S. Newman of Forest Hill, Surrey). b. 1852; art metal worker 19 Maddox st. Regent st. London 1884; did much to revive art iron work and was a craftsman of talent; founded the Old English Smithy in Archer st. Haymarket, London, which was a place of fashionable resort in the season; made the wrought iron work for Eaton hall, Cheshire; an art commissioner and expert for the Folkestone exhibition 1886; his forge at the Inventions’ exhibition 1885 was one of the most interesting sights; took great interest in Anglo Jewish history and made a collection of prints and tracts on the subject; his efforts defeated the proposal to demolish Bevis Marks synagogue 1886. d. 30 Westbourne park villas, Bayswater, London 21 Jany. 1887. bur. Willesden cemetery 24 Jany. The Jewish Chronicle 28 Jany. 1887 p. 5.

NEWMAN, ARTHUR SHEAN. b. Old Bridge house, Southwark 1828; partner with Arthur Billing as architects; surveyor to Guy’s hospital and to St. Olave’s district board of works many years; designed St. James’s church, Kidbrook, Blackheath 1867, Christ church, Somers Town 1868, and Holy Trinity church, Penge 1872; restored Stepney church. d. 22 Belmont Hill, Lee, Kent 3 March 1873.

NEWMAN, CHARLES ROBERT (brother of cardinal John Henry Newman). Usher in a school at Windmill Hill, near Hurstmonceaux, Sussex 1845; an acquaintance of Julius Charles Hare; resided at Tenby 30 years; a very great recluse, lived alone in lodgings, seldom went out except after dark and had hardly any acquaintances; Thomas Purnell visited him 1857–60. d. Marsh road, Tenby March 1884. Athenæum 29 March 1884 pp. 408, 475.

NEWMAN, EDWARD (eld. son of George Newman, woolstapler). b. Hampstead 13 May 1801; ed. at Painswick, Gloucs. 1812–7; a woolstapler with his father at Godalming, Surrey 1817–26; owned a ropewalk at Deptford 1826–37; printer with George Luxford at the sign of the Bouncing B, Ratcliff highway, London 1840, Luxford retired 1841; Newman removed to 9 Devonshire st. Bishopsgate 1841, retired 1870; one of the four founders of the Entomological club 1826, editor of the Journal started 1832, one of chief founders of Entomological Society which grew out of the club 1833; F.L.S. 1833; edited The Entomologist 1840–3, and The Zoologist, 34 vols. 1843–63, and Montagu’s A dictionary of British birds 1866; brought out and wrote much in The Phytologist, monthly magazine June 1841 to June 1854; curator of the Entomological club’s museum, to which he gave his entire collection 1842; natural history editor of The Field 1858 to death; author of The grammar of entomology 1835, 2 ed. under title of A familiar introduction to the history of insects 1841; A history of British ferns 1840, 3 ed. 1854; The insect hunter, or entomology in verse 1857 anon.; Birdnesting and bird skinning 1861, 2 ed. 1888; edited An illustrated history of British moths 1869; An illustrated history of British butterflies 1870–1. d. 7 York grove, Peckham 12 June 1876. bur. Nunhead cemetery. T. P. Newman’s Memoir of Edward Newman (1876) portrait; Joseph Smith’s Friends’ Books ii 236–7 (1867); Biographical catalogue of lives of Friends (1888) 467–72; Leisure Hour xxix 629.

NEWMAN, EDWARD. b. Newton Abbot, Devon 1832; an engineer in Swindon locomotive works; second class assist. engineer R.N. Oct. 1853, engineer June 1859, chief engineer 26 Feb. 1866; first assistant to chief engineer at Portsmouth 1867, superintendent of the steam department 1872 to death; wounded in the explosion on board the Thunderer 14 July 1876, when superintending the trial of the engines, from the effects of which he never fully recovered. d. Portsmouth dockyard 4 Dec. 1882. bur. Haslar hospital with naval honors 8 Dec. The Engineer 8 Dec. 1882 p. 426; The Army and navy gazette 9 Dec. 1882 p. 1011; The Times 7 Dec. 1882 p. 10.

NEWMAN, FREDERICK, D.D.; a bishop of the Free church of England and president of the London district; author of The true church of Christ, a lecture 1856; Thoughts on church orders and government, historically, ecclesiastically and scripturally considered 1877. d. Willesborough, near Ashford, Kent 12 Oct. 1887. The Free church of England Mag. July 1884 p. 114 et seq.

NEWMAN, HORATIO TOWNSEND. b. 1781; ordained deacon 6 July 1806, priest 12 July 1807; prebendary of Kilbrogan 1818–42; dean of Cork 24 March 1842 to death; author of A brief view of ecclesiastical history from the earliest periods to the present time 1844, 2 ed. 1866. d. Cork 6 Jany. 1864.

NEWMAN, JAMES. b. 1804; apprenticed to Gosling and Eglen of New Bond st. London, booksellers; historical and parliamentary bookseller at 225 High Holborn, London about 1830 to death. d. St. Leonard’s, near Hastings 28 May 1877. Bookseller June 1877 p. 500.

NEWMAN, JOHN (son of John Newman, wholesale dealer in leather, d. Hampstead 1 Oct. 1808). bapt. at St. Sepulchre’s church, London 8 July 1786; employed under sir Robert Smirke in the erection of Covent Garden theatre 1809, and at the general post office 1823–9; one of the three surveyors in the commission of sewers for Kent and Surrey about 1815; designed R.C. church of St. Mary, Blomfield st. Moorfields, London 1817–20, the school for the blind in St. George’s fields, Southwark 1834–8, and St. Olave’s girls’ school, Maze road, Southwark 1839–40; clerk of the Bridge house estates; an original fellow of Institute of British architects 1834; F.S.A. 1830–49; his collection of the antiquities found in and near London, was sold by auction at Sotheby’s 1848; retired from practice 1851. d. at house of his son-in-law Dr. Alexander Spiers at Passy, near Paris 3 Jany. 1859.

NEWMAN, JOHN HENRY (eld. child of John Newman, partner in bank of Ramsbottoms, Newman, Ramsbottom and co. 72 Lombard street, London). b. Old Broad st. London 21 Feb. 1801; ed. at Dr. Nicholas’s school, Ealing 1808–16; entered at Trin. coll. Oxf. 14 Dec. 1816, scholar 1818; B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823, B.D. 1836; student at Lincoln’s inn 1819; fellow of Oriel coll. 12 April 1822, tutor 1826–32; C. of St. Clement’s ch. Oxford 13 June 1824; vice-principal of Alban Hall, Oxford March 1825–6; one of the preachers at Whitehall 1827; V. of St. Mary’s, Oxford 14 March 1828, resigned 18 Sept. 1843; a select univ. preacher 1831–2; began the Tracts for the times Sept. 1833, and eventually wrote 29 of the series; editor of The British Critic 1838 to July 1840; published Tract 90 1841; withdrew from Oxford 1841, resided at Littlemore monastery 1841–4; received into Church of Rome by Father Dominic the Passionist at Littlemore 9 Oct. 1845; quitted Oxford 23 Feb. 1846; ordained priest and received degree of doctor of divinity at Rome 30 May 1847; established the Oratory of St. Philip Neri at Alcester st. Birmingham 1848, it was subsequently removed to Edgbaston; founded the Oratory of St. Philip Neri 24 and 25 King William st. Strand, London, opened 31 May 1849, where he delivered his Lectures on Anglican difficulties; fined £100 by Mr. Justice Coleridge for libelling Dr. Achilli 23 Jany. 1853, his costs of £14,000 were defrayed by public subscription; rector of the Catholic university, Dublin 1854–8, which proved a failure; honorary fellow of Trin. coll. Oxf. 28 Dec. 1877; created cardinal of the title of St. George in Velabro at Rome 12 May 1879; author of Lyra Apostolica 1836, 3 ed. 1866; Parochial sermons, 6 vols. 1834–42; Lectures on justification 1838, 4 ed. 1885; An essay on the development of Christian doctrine 1845, 3 ed. 1878; Apologia pro vita sua 1864, 3 ed. 1873; The dream of Gerontius 1866, 23 ed. 1888; wrote upwards of 70 works, besides editing many others; to some of his publications very numerous printed replies were made; an edition of his works in 36 volumes was printed 1868–81. d. the Oratory, Edgbaston 11 Aug. 1890. bur. at Rednal, busts by Westmacott and Woolner, a statue is to be erected by public subscription in front of the London oratory in the Brompton road. J. H. Newman’s Apologia pro vita sua (1864); Anne Mozley’s Letters and correspondence of J. H. Newman, 2 vols. 1891; R. W. Church’s The Oxford movement (1891) 5 et seq.; Illust. Review iii 577–85 (1872) portrait; R. H. Hutton’s Cardinal Newman (1891) portrait; T. Mozley’s Reminiscences, 2 vols. (1882) passim; C. K. Paul’s Biographical sketches (1883) 171–224; Memoir of J. R. Hope-Scott, 2 vols. (1884) passim; Edgbastonia iv 65–69 (1884) portrait; The Lamp ii 303 (1851) portrait; Graphic xxii 497 (1880) portrait; I.L.N. v 45 (1844) portrait, lxxiv 456 (1879) portrait, 19 Oct. 1889 full page portrait.

NOTE.—He is described in Maude, or the Anglican sister of mercy, by Miss Elizabeth Jane Whately 1869, under the name of Dr. Oldacre.

NEWMAN, SIR LYDSTON, 3 Baronet (2 son of sir Robert William Newman, 1 bart., M.P. 1776–1848). b. Sandridge, Devon 14 Nov. 1823; ensign 72 Highlanders 28 March 1844, captain 19 July 1850, served at Gibraltar and in West Indies; capt. 7 hussars 17 June 1851, sold out 9 May 1856, served in the Crimea 1854–5; sheriff of Devon 1871; succeeded his brother sir R. Newman, who fell at Inkerman 5 Nov. 1854; kept race horses from 1856; had a large breeding establishment at Mamhead 1857–68, had annual sales in June when he obtained good prices; bought Gemma di Vergy for 1,010 guineas. d. Mamhead, near Exeter 29 Dec. 1892. Biograph iii 220–4 (1880); Baily’s Mag. ix 325–6 (1864) portrait; lix 140 (1893).

NEWMAN, WILLIAM ABIAH (eld. son of James Newman). b. St. Pancras, London 1811; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1838, M.A. 1842; M.A. Oxford 1847, B.D. and D.D. 7 June 1855; C. of St. George’s, Wolverhampton 1840–54; C. of Collegiate church, Wolverhampton 1854; chaplain Wolverhampton general hospital; dean of Capetown 1851–8; special preacher for the S.P.G. 1856; C. of St. Peter’s, Wolverhampton 1858–9; edited South African magazine 1850–52; author of The martyrs, the dreams, and other poems, Wolverhampton 1847; The gospel of Christ exemplified in the writings of Paul 1848; A lecture on the Cape of Good Hope 1856; St. Peter’s church, Wolverhampton, an address 1857. d. Hastings 7 Feb. 1864. Simms’s Bibliotheca Staffordiensis (1894) 327.

NEWMARCH, WILLIAM. b. Thirsk, Yorkshire 28 Jany. 1820; second cashier in bank of Leatham, Tew, & Co. of Wakefield 1843–6; second officer of London branch of the Agra bank 1846–51; joined the staff of the Morning Chronicle about 1846; secretary of the Globe insurance co. 1851; manager in bank of Glyn, Mills, & co. 1862–81; secretary of the Statistical society 1862–9, edited the Journal for five years, president 1869; secretary of the Political economy club some years; gave evidence before select committee on the Bank acts 1857; F.R.S. 6 June 1861; author of The new supplies of gold 1853; On the loans raised by Mr. Pitt during the first French war 1793–1801, 1855; A history of prices and of the state of the circulation during the nine years 1848–56, 1857, translated into German; The political perils of 1859, 1859. d. 3 Sulyarde terrace, Torquay 23 March 1882. bur. Norwood 27 March, the Newmarch professorship of economic science and statistics at University college, London was founded in his memory. Journal of Statistical Society (1882) 115–9, 209, 284, 333, 389, 397, 519–21; Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxiv p. xvii (1883).

NEWNHAM, WILLIAM (son of a general medical practitioner). b. Farnham, Surrey 1 Nov. 1790; studied at Guy’s hospital and in Paris; pupil of sir Astley Cooper; practised at Farnham to 1856; an early member of Provincial medical and surgical assoc. 1836, a trustee of its benevolent fund and general manager 1847–55; author of A tribute of sympathy addressed to mourners 1817, 8 ed. 1842; An essay on inversio uteri 1818; The principles of physical, intellectual, moral, and religious education, 2 vols. 1827; Essay on superstition 1830; Essay on disorders incident to literary men 1836; Human magnetism, its claims to dispassionate inquiry 1845. d. Tunbridge Wells 24 Oct. 1865.

NEWPORT, GEORGE (son of a wheelwright). b. Canterbury 4 July 1803; curator of Mr. Masters’s natural history museum; entered London univ. 16 Jany. 1832; M.R.C.S. 1835, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; house surgeon to Chichester infirmary April 1835 to Jany. 1837; practised in London 1837; received royal medal of Royal Society for his paper, printed in Philosophical Transactions 1851, pp. 169–242, entitled On the impregnation of the ovum in the amphibia; president of Entomological Soc. 1844–5; F.R.S. 26 March 1846, member of council to death; F.L.S. 1847; granted civil list pension of £100 a year 16 Nov. 1847; author of Observations on the anatomy, habits, and economy of Athalia Centifoliæ, the saw-fly of the turnip 1838; Catalogue of Myriapoda in the British Museum 1856. d. 55 Cambridge st. Hyde park, London 7 April 1854. Proc. of Royal Soc. vii 278–85 (1855); Proc. of Linnean Soc. ii 309–12 (1855).

NEWSOME, TIMOTHY (brother of James Newsome, circus proprietor). b. 1813; a lion tamer of great courage and nerve; served with Hilton, Manders, Wombwell, Batty, Newsome and other menagerie proprietors; received 25 wounds in an encounter with a lion at Middleton, near Manchester, when he killed the lion with a stroke from the butt end of a musket; his body was quite scarred with the wounds he had received in combats with wild animals; his wife, also a lion tamer, d. 1874, and was bur. Bury, Lincolnshire; he d. Preston, North Shields March 1890. bur. Preston cemetery 25 March.

NEWSON, SAMUEL. b. 1816; a private in the army, served in the Crimea; a hawker of fish; a street itinerant in the neighbourhood of Shepherd’s market and other localities, who went about with a wooden sword reciting passages from Shakespeare, chiefly from Richard iii and Romeo and Juliet; generally called Richard the Third. run over by a Hansom cab in Piccadilly, London 28 March 1880, on being taken to St. George’s hospital was found to be dead. The Times 10 April 1880 p. 12.

NEWTON, ADELAIDE LEAPER. b. Derby 1 March 1824; author of The song of Solomon compared with other parts of scripture 1850; The epistle to the Hebrews compared with the old testament 1854; The heavenly life, select writings of A. L. Newton 1856; Sabbath hours 1862; The eternal purposes of God 1868. d. 26 April 1854. A memoir of A. L. Newton, By Rev. John Baillie, 2 ed. (1856) portrait.

NEWTON, ALFRED PIZZI. b. Essex 1830; painted water-colour pictures in the highlands of Scotland; selected by the queen to paint a picture as a wedding gift to the princess royal 1858; associate of the Old Society of painters in water-colours 1 March 1858, member 24 March 1879; exhibited 4 landscapes at R.A. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1855–9; his best known pictures are Mountain gloom 1860, The Mountain pass 1880, and Shetland desolation 1882. d. at house of his father-in-law Edward Wylie 14 Rock park, Rockferry, Liverpool 9 Sept. 1883. I.L.N. 27 Oct. 1883 p. 405 portrait.

NEWTON, ANN MARY (dau. of Joseph Severn, painter, d. Rome 2 Aug. 1879). b. Rome 29 June 1832; studied under Ary Scheffer in Paris; painted many portraits in England; exhibited 7 portraits at the R.A. 1863–5; m. 27 April 1861 Sir Charles Thomas Newton 1816–94; made many drawings of the antiquities at the British Museum for her husband’s books and lectures; made many sketches in Greece and Asia Minor. d. 37 Gower st. Bedford sq. London 2 Jany. 1866.

NEWTON, SIR CHARLES THOMAS (son of rev. Newton Dickinson Hand Newton, V. of Bredwardine, Hereford, d. 1853). b. 1816; ed. at Shrewsbury and Ch. Ch. Oxf.; B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840, D.C.L. 1875; LL.D. Cambridge and Ph.D. Strasburg 1879; Assistant in department of antiquities, British Museum May 1840 to Jany. 1852; vice consul at Mytilene 24 Jany. 1852; acting consul at Rhodes April 1852 to Jany. 1853; superintended excavations at Budrum and Cape Crio April 1856 to April 1859, discovered the tomb of Mausolus at Halicarnassus; consul at Rome 10 June 1859 to 16 Jany. 1861; head of department of Greek and Roman antiquities in British Museum 17 Jany. 1861, resigned Dec. 1885; purchased for the Museum 1874 the collection of gems of the Duc de Blacus for £48,000, also the collection of bronzes, vases, &c. of Alexandro Castellani; antiquary to the Royal academy; corresponding member of the French institute; hon. fell. of Worcester coll. Oxf. 28 Nov. 1874; C.B. 16 Nov. 1875, K.C.B. 21 June 1887; presided at nearly all the meetings of the Hellenic Society 1879–84; the first professor of archæology in Univ. coll. London July 1880, resigned 1889; author of Notes on the sculptures at Wilton house, privately printed 1849; A history of discoveries at Halicarnassus, Cnidus and Branchida, 2 vols. 1862; Travels and discoveries in the Levant, 2 vols. 1865; Essays on art and archæology 1880; translated Panofka’s Manners and customs of the Greeks 1849; edited The collection of ancient Greek inscriptions in the British museum 1874. d. Westgate-on-Sea, Kent 28 Nov. 1894. National Review Jany. 1895 pp. 616–27; I.L.N. 8 Dec. 1894 p. 700 portrait; Times 30 Nov. 1894 p. 10.

NEWTON, HORACE PARKER (3 son of Wm. Newton of Elveden, Suffolk). b. 29 Oct. 1824; 2 lieut. R.A. 11 Jany. 1843, col. 4 Feb. 1874; served in Crimean war 1854–6; commanded R.A. in Western district 1876–81; M.G. 13 Feb. 1881; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 Feb. 1882. d. London 23 Sept. 1890.

NEWTON, RICHARD. b. Liverpool 25 July 1813; graduated at univ. of Pennsylvania 1836, and at general theological seminary, New York 1839; R. of Holy Trinity ch., West Chester 1839; R. of St. Paul’s ch., Philadelphia 1840–62; R. of ch. of the Epiphany, Philadelphia 1862–81; R. of ch. of the Covenant, Philadelphia 1881 to death; D.D. Kenyon college, Ohio 1862; his sermons for children have been translated into French, German, Arabic, and other languages; author of The giants and how to fight them 1861, 9 ed. 1881; Rills from the fountain of life 1860, 6 ed. 1877; The king’s highway 1861; 5 ed. 1878; Bible jewels 1868, 3 ed. 1877, Nature’s mighty wonders 1871, 2 ed. 1877. d. Philadelphia 25 May 1887. R. Newton’s The heath in the wilderness, to which is added the story of his life by W. W. N., New York (1888).

NEWTON, ROBERT (4 son of Francis Newton, farmer 1732–1816). b. Roxby, north riding of Yorkshire 8 Sept. 1780; preached his first sermon 1798; Wesleyan minister in London 1812–4, at Liverpool 1817–20, 1826–32 and 1850–2, at Manchester 1820–6, 1832–5 and 1841–7, at Leeds 1835–41, and at Stockport 1847–50; gave his services during the week to the rural districts, travelling from six to eight thousand miles a year on preaching tours; president of the Wesleyan conference 1824, 1832, 1840 and 1848, secretary of the conference 19 times; visited Ireland 1822 for first time, and America 1839; created D.D. by an American univ. 1839; author of Memoirs of the late Mr. Francis Newton, Wakefield 1817; Sermons on special and ordinary occasions, edited by J. H. Rigg 1856. d. Easingwold, near York 30 April 1854. T. Jackson’s Life of Rev. Robert Newton (1855) portrait; A. Stevens’s History of methodism ii 364–8, 442, 610, 647 (1873–4) portrait; G. Smales’s Whitby authors (1867) 129–41; The lamps of the temple, 3 ed. (1856) 269–81; The Pulpit v (1826) portrait; J. Evans’ Lancashire authors (1850) 189–93.

NEWTON, THOMAS DUNCOMBE (son of John Newton of the customs house, Plymouth). b. Weymouth 1799; educ. Totnes gram. sch.; member of Plymouth glee and madrigal club; a founder of The Blue Friars, Plymouth, and known as Brother Roger, sacristan 17 May 1829; friend of Charles Mathews. d. 5 West Hoe terrace, Plymouth 1869. Wrights’ The Blue Friars (1889) 141, 217–18 portrait.

NEWTON, WILLIAM (son of Mr. Newton of Chancery lane, London, globe maker). b. London 1786; globe maker, land surveyor, and draftsman at 66 Chancery lane, London, afterwards patent agent at same address to death; established London Journal of arts and sciences 1820, edited it to his death; introduced many valuable improvements into manufacture of globes and projection of maps; A.I.C.E. 1837; Associate of British archæological association 1846, contributed papers to the Journal; author of Letters and suggestions upon the amendment of the patent laws 1835; A display of heraldry 1846; London in the olden time 1855. d. Clarence house, Herne Bay 10 July 1861. Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxi 593 (1862); Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xviii 359–60 (1862).

NEWTON, WILLIAM. Resided at 35 Arbour sq. Stepney, London; member of metropolitan board of works for Mile End Old Town 1862 to death. d. 41 Stepney Green, London 9 March 1876.

NEWTON, WILLIAM HENRY. b. about 1789; lieutenant 1 foot 23 Aug. 1804; captain 64 foot 25 June 1808; captain 62 foot 29 June 1815, placed on h.p. 25 May 1817; major in the army 27 May 1825, placed on h.p. 11 May 1826; lieut. col. in the army 28 June 1838; major royal Canadian rifle regiment 16 July 1841, lieut. col. 18 Dec. 1845, sold out 9 Dec. 1849; K.H. 1836. d. 1874.

NEWTON, SIR WILLIAM JOHN (son of James Newton the engraver). b. London 1785; engraved a few plates; became a miniature-painter; exhibited 343 miniatures at the R.A. 1808–63; miniature-painter in ordinary to Wm. IV and queen Adelaide 1831, and to Victoria 1837–58; knighted by the queen at St. James’s palace 19 July 1837; invented a plan for joining several pieces of ivory to form a large surface; his three large miniatures The coronation of the queen 1838, The marriage of the queen 1840, and The christening of the prince of Wales 1842, were lent to the Victorian exhibition at the New gallery 1892; many of his portraits were engraved; a collection of his works was sold at Christie’s 23 June 1890. d. 6 Cambridge terrace, Hyde park, London 22 Jany. 1869.

NEWTON, WILLIAM SAMUEL. b. 16 Aug. 1816; ensign Coldstream guards 5 Dec. 1834, lieut. col. 13 Dec. 1860 to 2 July 1861; served in the Crimean campaign Oct. 1854 to April 1855; commanded at Malta 1868–70, at Dublin 1870–72; col. 82 foot 4 March 1872 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 1 July 1881. d. Eastbourne 16 Oct. 1889.

NIAS, SIR JOSEPH (3 son of Joseph Nias, ship insurance broker). b. London 2 April 1793; entered navy 19 Nov. 1807; served in W. E. Parry’s three expeditions to the Arctic regions 1818–23; first lieutenant of the Asia at battle of Navarino 7 Sept. 1829, captain 8 July 1835; captain of the Herald, frigate in the East Indies 1838–43, served at capture of Canton; commanded the Ordinary at Devonport 1850–3; granted good service pension 12 Jany. 1854; superintendent of victualling yard and hospital at Plymouth 2 Nov. 1854 to 13 Nov. 1856; R.A. 14 Feb. 1857, V.A. 12 Sept. 1863, retired admiral 18 Oct. 1867; C.B. 29 June 1841, K.C.B. 13 March 1867. d. 56 Montagu sq. London 17 Dec. 1879.

NIBLO, WILLIAM. b. Ireland 1789; went to New York, where he established a hotel and coffee-house; proprietor of Niblo’s Garden, New York 1829; purchased the library of Dr. Francis L. Hawks and presented it to New York historical society; left a library to the New York Young men’s christian association. d. New York 21 Aug. 1875.

NICHOL, JAMES. b. Brechin, Forfarshire 1806; publisher in Edinburgh 1859 to death. d. Edinburgh 26 April 1866. Bookseller May 1866 p. 481.

NICHOL, JOHN (only son of the succeeding). b. Montrose, Forfarshire 8 Sept. 1833; ed. in univ. of Glasgow 1848–55, and at Balliol coll. Oxf. 1855–9; B.A. Oxford 1859, M.A. 1874; LL.D. St. Andrews 1873, student of Gray’s Inn 12 Nov. 1859; professor of English literature in univ. of Glasgow 1861, resigned 1889; a private tutor at Oxford; lectured especially to ladies’ classes in Scotland and England; author of Fragments of criticism 1860; Hannibal, a classical drama 1872; Tables of European literature and history A.D. 200–1876, 1876, 5 ed. 1888; The death of Themistocles and other poems 1881; American literature, an historical review 1882; Lord Bacon’s Life and philosophy, 2 vols. 1887–9. d. 11 Stafford terrace, Kensington, London 11 Oct. 1894.

NICHOL, JOHN PRINGLE (eld. son of John Nichol, gentleman farmer). b. Huntly Hill, near Brechin, Forfarshire 13 Jany. 1804; ed. at King’s college, Aberdeen; licensed as a preacher before he came of age; head master of the Hawick gr. sch.; editor of the Fife Herald; head master of Cupar academy; rector of Montrose academy 1827–34; regius professor of astronomy in univ. of Glasgow 1836 to death, procured transference of the Glasgow observatory from the college grounds to its present site at Dowanhill 1840; hon. LL.D. Aberdeen 1837; F.R.A.S.; F.R.S. Edinb. 1836; author of Views of the architecture of the heavens 1837, 9 ed. 1868; Phenomena of the solar system 1838; The system of the world 1846, 2 ed. 1848; The stellar universe 1847; The planetary system 1848; The planet Neptune 1855; A cyclopædia of the physical sciences 1857; translated Willm’s Education of the people 1847; one of the editors of Mackenzie’s Imperial dictionary of biography 1857. d. Glenburn house, near Rothesay, Buteshire 19 Sept. 1859. Maclehose’s Hundred, Glasgow men ii 249–52 (1886) portrait; G. Gilfillan’s A second gallery of literary portraits (1850) 231–55; C. Mackay’s Forty years’ recollections i 313–24 (1877).

NICHOLAS, RICHARD GRIFFIN. b. 23 Jany. 1843; cornet 3 dragoon guards 18 Feb. 1862, sold out 3 April 1866; served in the ranks 5 years and 9 months; riding master 4 dragoon guards 13 April 1872; lieut. 1 dragoon guards 14 Feb. 1874, adjutant 1874–81; captain 5 lancers 15 Oct. 1881; captain 1 dragoon guards 1 April 1882 to death. d. Canterbury 23 Jany. 1884. bur. St. Thomas’s hill cemet. 26 Jany.

NICHOLAS, THOMAS. b. near Treffgarne chapel, Solva, Pembrokeshire 1820; ed. at Lancashire college, Manchester and in Germany, where he took degree of Ph.D.; became a Presbyterian minister; professor of biblical literature and mental and moral science at Presbyterian college, Carmarthen 1856, resigned 1863 and settled in London; one of promoters of a scheme for the furtherance of higher education in Wales on unsectarian principles, the University college of Wales was founded at Aberystwith 1867, one of the governors, drew out a new scheme of education; author of Middle and high class schools and university education for Wales 1863; Pedigree of the English people 1868, 5 ed. 1878; Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales, 2 vols. 1872; History and antiquities of the county of Glamorgan and its families 1874. d. 156 Cromwell road, London 14 May 1879. Athenæum 24 May 1879 p. 662.

NICHOLAS, TRESSILIAN GEORGE (5 son of George Nicholas of St. George’s, Westminster). matric. from Wadham coll. Oxf. 25 April 1839, aged 17; B.A. 1843, M.A. 1846; C. of St. Lawrence, Reading 1845–6; P.C. of West Molesey, Surrey 1846–59; V. of Lower Halstow, Kent 1859–63; V. of West Molesey 1863 to death; author of Poems 1851; Sermon before the lord mayor and sheriffs of London 1858. d. West Molesey vicarage 23 Jany. 1891.

NICHOLAY, JOHN AUGUSTUS. Furrier to the queen and royal family at 82 Oxford st. London to death; member of Metropolitan board of works for St. Marylebone 1856 to death. d. 82 Oxford st. London 20 Nov. 1873.

NICHOLDS, JOSEPH. b. near Birmingham; wrote three oratorios, one of which, Babylon, was published posthumously, the others, Miriam and The Redemption are still in manuscript; published Sacred music, a selection of psalm and hymn tunes 1820. d. Sedgeley, near Dudley 18 Feb. 1860.

NICHOLETTS, GILBERT (1 son of John Nicholetts of South Petherton, Somerset). b. 13 July 1826; educ. Rugby; lieut. 1 Bombay fusiliers 27 July 1848; adjutant to 1 Baluchis regiment 1854; served with 1 Sind horse in Persian war 1856, Persian medal and clasp; with 1 Baluchis regiment during Indian mutiny 1857–8, and was present in several actions; at the attack on Rampur Kussia succeeded to temporary command of the regiment and held it throughout the campaign; second in command of 1 Baluchis regiment 16 Sept. 1858 to 12 Feb. 1867; commandant of 2 Baluchis regiment 12 Feb. 1867 to death; lieut. col. Bombay staff corps 27 July 1874 to death; served in Afghan campaign 1878–9. d. Kokaran, Afghanistan 18 July 1879. S. H. Shadbolt’s Afghan campaign (1882) 146–7 portrait.

NICHOLL, FREDERICK ILTID. b. 1815; admitted solicitor 1840; practised at 18 Carey st. Chancery lane, London 1844, afterwards at Howard st. Strand to death; member of council of Incorporated law society 28 Nov. 1861, retired 1867; F.S.A. 30 May 1872. d. 120 Harley st. London 25 Feb. 1893.

NICHOLL, GEORGE WHITLOCK (2 son of Iltyd Nicholl of The Ham, Cowbridge, Glamorganshire 1785–1871). b. 2 Feb. 1816; barrister M.T. 31 Jany. 1840; recorder of Usk Oct. 1861 to death; constable of the castle of Llanblethian. d. 1889.

NICHOLL, JOHN (younger son of sir John Nicholl 1759–1838, dean of Arches and judge of high court of admiralty). b. Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London 21 Aug. 1797; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.C.L. 1823, D.C.L. 1825; barrister L.I. 1 July 1824; advocate Doctors’ Commons 3 Nov. 1826; M.P. for Cardiff 1832–52; one of junior lords of treasury 14 March to 18 April 1835; vicar general of province of Canterbury Sept. 1838 to 1844; judge advocate general 14 Sept. 1841 to 31 Jany. 1846; P.C. 14 Sept. 1841; chairman of Glamorganshire quarter sessions; member of board of trade 21 Jany. 1846. d. Via Sistine, Rome 27 Jany. 1853. bur. in the English protestant burial ground at Rome 29 Jany. G.M. xxxix 311 (1853); I.L.N. xxii 134 (1853).

NICHOLL, JOHN (only son of John Nicholl, brewer, d. 1790). b. Stratford Green, Essex 19 April 1790; F.S.A. 16 Feb. 1843; master of the Ironmongers’ Company 1859, compiled a history of the company in seven folio volumes, the first six of which he presented to the company 1840–4; printed for private circulation Some account of the worshipful company of ironmongers 1851, 2 ed. 1866; collected in six folio volumes genealogical notes made in the churches of Essex, and filled three folio volumes with Essex pedigrees, and three others with pedigrees of the various families of Nicholl, Nicholls, or Nichols; left in manuscript collections for the history of Islington, and notes on biblical criticism; privately printed his poems 1863. d. 8 Canonbury place, Islington 7 Feb. 1871. bur. in churchyard of Theydon Garnon, Essex 13 Feb., portrait by Middleton placed in court room of Ironmongers’ company 1851. Nicholl’s Herald and genealogist vii 83–5 (1873).

NICHOLLS, BENJAMIN. b. 1790; cotton manufacturer in Manchester 1816; built a mill in Chapel st. 1833; member of Manchester town council Nov. 1845 to death; mayor 1853–5; alderman for St. George’s ward 1855 to death; founded by his will the Nicholls hospital. d. York house, Oxford st. Manchester 1 March 1877.

NICHOLLS, GEORGE. Ensign 66 foot 26 June 1799, captain 23 Oct. 1809 to 11 May 1826, when placed on h.p.; orderly officer to Napoleon at St. Helena; M.G. 31 Aug. 1855. d. Rodney terrace, Cheltenham 11 March 1857, aged 81.

NICHOLLS, SIR GEORGE (eld. child of Solomon Nicholls of St. Keverne, Cornwall, d. 1793) b. St. Keverne 31 Dec. 1781; ed. at Helston gr. sch.; midshipman on board the East India company’s ship the Abergaveny 1796; captain of the Lady Lushington 1809; captain of the Bengal, which was burnt at Point de Galle 18 Jany. 1815, when he lost about £30,000, left the service 1815; resided at Southwell, Notts. 1815, overseer of the poor there 1821, reduced the amount of relief from £2,000 to £500 in two years by abolishing outdoor relief; resided at Gloucester 1823, where he controlled the Gloucester and Berkeley ship canal; superintendent of Birmingham branch of Bank of England Nov. 1826 to Aug. 1834; established the Birmingham savings’ bank; a director of Birmingham canal navigation to death, chairman the last 12 years; one of the three poor law comrs. 18 Aug. 1834 to 17 Dec. 1847; his two reports on the Irish poor law 1836–7 were the foundation of the provision of the Irish poor law act 1838, directed the working of the measure in Ireland Sept. 1838 to Nov. 1842; permanent secretary of the poor law board 18 Dec. 1847, retired 27 Jany. 1851; C.B. 27 April 1848, K.C.B. 1 March 1851; author of Eight letters on the management of our poor, By An Overseer 1823; The farmer 1844; A history of the English poor law, 2 vols. 1854; A history of the Scotch poor law 1856; A history of the Irish poor law 1856. d. 17 Hyde park st. London 24 March 1865. bur. Willesden cemetery 30 March. Examiner 1 April 1865 p. 193.

NICHOLLS, HENRY GEORGE (only son of sir George Nicholls, K.C.B. 1781–1865). b. 1825; educ. at Trinity coll. Camb., B.A. 1845, M.A. 1848; P.C. of Holy Trinity, Dean Forest 1847 to death; author of The forest of Dean 1858; The personalities of the forest of Dean 1863; Iron making in the olden times as instanced in the ancient mines, forges and furnaces of the forest of Dean 1866. d. 26 Porchester terrace, London 1 Jany. 1867.

NICHOLLS, JAMES. b. Norfolk; L.S.A. 1825; M.R.C.S. 1827, F.R.C.S. 1852; M.R.C.P. 1861; medical adviser to Albert Life assurance society; author of Notes on Shakespeare, 2 parts 1861–2; and of papers in The Lancet. d. 13 Saville row, London 2 Jany. 1870.

NICHOLLS, JAMES FAWCKNER (son of a builder at Sidmouth, Devon). b. Sidmouth 26 May 1818; a draper at Benwick in the Isle of Ely 1835; kept a school at Ramsay; traveller to a firm of paper-stainers at Manchester; a paper-stainer at Bristol 1860–8; city librarian of Bristol 1868 to death; the old city library was extended into three free libraries; F.S.A. 1876; author of The remarkable life, adventures, and discoveries of Sebastian Cabot 1869; How to see Bristol, a guide for the excursionist, the naturalist, the archæologist, and the man of business 1874, 2 ed. 1877; Bristol, past and present, an illustrated history of Bristol and its neighbourhood, 2 parts 1881–2. d. Goodwick, Fishguard, Pembrokeshire 19 Sept. 1883. Biograph Nov. 1881 pp. 493–7.

NICHOLLS, JOHN ASHTON (only child of Benjamin Nicholls). b. Grosvenor st. Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester 25 March 1823; ed. at Manchester New college 1840–4; a life member of British Association June 1842; F.R.A.S. June 1849; entered his father’s business 1844; secretary to the Ancoats Lyceum, organised classes and delivered courses of lectures; helped to form the Unitarian home missionary board 1854, one of the first secretaries; chairman of directors of Manchester Athenæum 1856. d. of low fever at Eagley house, Manchester 18 Sept. 1859. In memoriam, a selection from the letters of J. A. Nicholls, privately printed (1862); Christian Reformer (1859) 639 et seq.; Wade’s Rise of nonconformity in Manchester (1880) 64 et seq.

NOTE.—There is a tablet to his memory in Cross street chapel, Manchester; a granite obelisk in Great Ancoat st. was erected in his honour by the working men of Manchester July 1860. His parents devoted over £100,000 to the erection and endowment of an orphanage, the Nicholls hospital in Hyde road, as a memorial of their son.

NICHOLS, JAMES. b. Washington, Durham 6 April 1785; worked in a factory at Holbeck 1793–7; ed. at Leeds gr. sch.; a Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and Dutch scholar; tutor in a gentleman’s family; printer and bookseller at Briggate, Leeds; edited the Leeds Literary Observer, vol. 1 Jany. to Sept. 1819; printer at 22 Warwick sq. Newgate st. London 1820–32, and at 45 and 46 Hoxton sq. 1832 to death; a friend of Southey, Tomline, and Wordsworth; translated The works of Jacob Arminius 1825–75, 3 vols., vols. 1 and 2 by J. Nichols, vol. 3 by W. Nichols; edited Jeremiah and Lamentations by B. Blayney, 3 ed. 1836; The history of the university of Cambridge by T. Fuller 1840; The morning exercises at Cripplegate, St. Giles by S. Annesley 1844; The divine legation of Moses by W. Warburton 1846; The poetical works of James Thomson 1849; The complete works of Dr. Edward Young 1854, 2 vols.; Poems by S. Wesley the younger 1862; The church history of Britain by T. Fuller 1868; author of Calvinism and Arminianism compared 1824. d. 45 Hoxton sq. London 26 Nov. 1861. Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis (1865) 503–6; Athenæum 30 Nov. 1861 p. 705, and 7 Dec. p. 769; Watchman 27 Nov. 1861 p. 391; Two letters from Holland, addressed to the translator of Arminius by A. D. A. V. D. Hoeven (1826).

NICHOLS, JOHN BOWYER (eld. son of John Nichols, printer and author 1745–1826). b. Red Lion passage, Fleet st. London 15 July 1779; ed. at St. Paul’s school; entered his father’s printing office Sept. 1796; helped to edit Gentleman’s Magazine and contributed to it under the initials J. B. N. and N. R. S.; sole proprietor of the Gent. Mag. 1833, sold it to John Henry Parker June 1856; edited with Richard Gough vol. 4 of Hutchins’s History of Dorset 1815; partner in firm of J. Nichols, son & Bentley, printers 25 Parliament st. Westminster to death; a registrar of royal literary fund 1821; master of the Stationers’ company 1850; printed nearly all the county histories published 1801–50; F.L.S. 1812; F.S.A. 1818, printer to the society 1824 to death; author of A brief account of the guildhall of the city of London 1819; Account of the royal hospital and collegiate church of St. Katherine, near the Tower 1824; Historical notices of Fonthill abbey, Wiltshire 1836; Catalogue of the Hoare library at Stourhead, co. Wilts. 1840; edited J. Cradock’s Memoirs, vols. 3 and 4 1828; J. T. Smith’s Cries of London 1839; R. Yates’s History of the abbey of St. Edmunds, Bury, 2 ed. 1843; and vols. 7 and 8 of his father’s Illustrations of the literary history of the eighteenth century 1848–56. d. Hanger Oak, Ealing 19 Oct. 1863. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 24 Oct., bust of him by W. Behnes exhibited at the R.A. 1858, his library was sold at Sotheby’s for £6,175, May 1865. W. Bates’s Maclise portrait gallery (1883) 113–4.

NICHOLS, JOHN GOUGH (eld. child of the preceding). b. Red Lion passage, Fleet st. London 22 May 1806; ed. at Lewisham 1814–6, and at Merchant Taylors’ sch. 1817–24; entered his father’s printing office 1824; completed and edited his grandfather John Nichols’s Progresses of king James the first, 4 vols. 1828; joint editor of Gent. Mag. 1828–51, sole editor 1851–6, contributed many essays and compiled the obituary notices; F.S.A. 3 Dec. 1835; a founder of the Camden Society 1838, edited many of its publications and printed A descriptive catalogue of the works of the Camden society 1862, new ed. 1872; printed Hoare’s History of modern Wiltshire, 6 vols. 1822–44, in which he wrote An account of the hundred of Alderbury 1837; edited Collectanea topographica et genealogica, 8 vols. 1834–43; The typographer and genealogist, 3 vols. 1846–8; founded the Herald and Genealogist 1863, edited vols. 1–8 1863–74; founded the Register and magazine of biography Jany. 1869, which ceased after 12 monthly numbers; author of Autographs of royal, noble, learned, and remarkable personages, from Richard II to Charles II 1829; London pageants 1831, 2 ed. 1837; Description of the church of St. Mary, Warwick, and of the Beauchamp chapel, London 1838; edited books for the Roxburgh club 1857–60. d. Holmwood park, near Dorking, Surrey 14 Nov. 1873, his library was sold by Sotheby Dec. 1874 for £2,195. Memoir of J. G. Nichols by R. C. Nichols (1874) portrait; Proc. of Soc. of Antiquaries vi 193–6 (1873–76); Bigmore and Wyman’s Bibliography of printing ii 76–7 (1884).

NICHOLS, ROBERT CRADOCK (brother of preceding). b. 1824; printer 25 Parliament st. London; printer of the house of commons votes; F.S.A. 23 Feb. 1854; F.R.G.S.; proprietor of Highley manor, Balcombe, Sussex; edited for the Roxburghe club A fragment of Partonope of Blois 1873; author of The passage of the Col de la Temple and of the Col de l’Echauda, printed in Peaks, passes, and glaciers, ii 183–97 (1862; resided Highley manor, and 5 Sussex place, Hyde park. d. 26 May 1892, will proved 21 July, personal estate £171,000.

NICHOLS, WILLIAM. Barrister L.I. 10 Feb. 1818; commissioner for relief of insolvent debtors 29 June 1860; one of registrars of Manchester court of bankruptcy 21 July 1862; judge of county courts, circuit 21, Warwickshire 22 Oct. 1862 to death. d. Mentone in Savoy 29 Dec. 1864.

NICHOLS, WILLIAM LUKE (eld. son of Luke Nichols of Gosport, Hants, merchant). b. Gosport 10 Aug. 1812; ed. at Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1829; C. of Keynsham, Somerset 1825; C. of Bedminster, near Bristol; minister of St. James’s, Bath 1 Feb. 1834 to 31 March 1839; V. of Trinity church, Bath 1839–40; R. of Buckland Monachorum, near Plymouth 1846–51; R. D. of Tavistock 1849–51; F.S.A. 2 Feb. 1865; had a fine library; resided at the Woodlands, Somerset from 1870; author of Horæ Romanæ or a visit to a Roman villa, Bath 1838; The Quantocks and their associations, Bath 1873, 2 ed. 1891 with portrait; edited Remains of the Rev. Francis Kilvert 1866; left by his will to parish of Grosport funds for completion of a campanile, which cost with the bells £2,500. d. the Woodlands, midway between Nether Stowey and Alfoxden, Somerset 25 Sept. 1889. bur. Gosport churchyard 1 Oct. Peach’s Historic houses in Bath (1884) pp. 7, 8, 9, 58; The Bath Chronicle 3 Oct. 1889 p. 3, 10 Oct. p. 3.

NICHOLSON, ALFRED. b. 1822; a player on the oboe; composer of The Belvoir polka 1852; That day, a song 1854. d. Leicester 29 Aug. 1870.

NICHOLSON, BRINSLEY (eld. son of Brinsley Nicholson, surgeon 42 foot, d. 1857–9). b. Fort George, Scotland 1824; entered Edinb. univ. 1841, M.D. 1845; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1845; assistant surgeon in the army 25 Sept. 1846; assistant surgeon in rifle corps 27 June 1851; surgeon 9 foot 23 Oct. 1857 to 16 Dec. 1859; surgeon major at Cork 25 Sept. 1866, retired with hon. rank of deputy inspector general 18 Nov. 1871; served in the Kaffir wars 1853–4, the war in China 1860, and the Maori war in New Zealand 1864; edited for the New Shakspeare society the first folio and the first quarto of Henry the Fifth 1875, and the Parallel texts of Henry the Fifth 1877; reprinted Reginald Scot’s The discoverie of witchcraft 1886; edited The best plays of Ben Jonson, 2 vols. 1893; his edition of Donne’s Poems was completed for the Muses’ Library 1895. d. Surrenden lodge, Queen’s road, South Norwood, Surrey 14 Sept. 1892.

NICHOLSON, CORNELIUS (his mother was postmistress of Ambleside 50 years). b. Ambleside 14 March 1804; with John Hudson a bookseller and printer Sept. 1825; established a paper manufactory at Burneside 1832, sold the business 1845; with Thomas Gough founded Kendal natural history and scientific soc. 1836 and was hon. sec; aided in forming Kentmere reservoir; a pioneer of railways in the North 1836 etc.; chief agent in forming Kendal gas and water co. 1846; mayor of Kendal 1845–6; lost his money by French revolution of 1848; managing director in London of Great Indian peninsular railway 1848–57; F.G.S. 1849; received freedom of city of London 10 Oct. 1856; chairman of Gas meter co. to 1877; resided at Muswell Hill from 1858, and at Ashleigh, Ventnor from Sept. 1879; visited Russia 1862 and 1863; author of The annals of Kendal 1835, 2 ed. 1861 with portrait; On the mental, moral, and social progress exhibited in the present half-expired century 1855; The Roman station, Alauna 1860; Lord Robert de Clifford, where was he buried 1862; History of the three royal charters of Kendal 1875; Scraps of history of the northern suburbs of London 1879; An account of Roman villa near Brading, Isle of Wight 1880. d. Ashleigh, Ventnor 5 July 1889. Cornelia Nicholson’s A well spent life, memoir of C. Nicholson (1890) portrait.

NICHOLSON, EDWARD CHAMBERS (7 son of Robert Nicholson of Lincoln and Maidenhead). b. Lincoln Jany. 1827; educ. Uxbridge; with a druggist at Andover; with Lloyd Bullock in Conduit st. London; one of first students of Royal college of chemistry Oct. 1845–50; F.C.S. 1848; with Frederick Abel assisted professor von A. W. Hofman in his researches in organic chemistry 1845; for Fothergill & Co. Aberdare investigated the chemistry of iron making 1850; with Simpson and Maule started a chemical manufactory at Walworth, London 1853; introduced improvements in manufacture of pyrogallol, ether and collodion; built a factory at Hackney Wick for production of aniline and coal-tar colours which acquired great importance and became an important industry; discovered the arsenic acid process of manufacturing magenta 1860; produced chrysaniline yellow, the lower phenylated products of rosaniline, etc.; retired from business. d. of cancer Carlton house, Herne hill, Surrey 23 Oct. 1890. The Times 27 Oct. 1890 p. 10; Journal of Chemical Soc. i 464–5 (1891).

NICHOLSON, GEORGE. b. Wheelgate, Malton 31 Oct. 1787; instructor in art to Fitzwilliam family at Castle Howard, Malton; resided Woodhouse Moor, Leeds; painter in oil and water colours, etcher in copper, engraver and lithographer; painted Tobit and the angel; exhibited 4 landscapes at R.A., 3 at B.I., and 3 at Suffolk street 1831–2; published six etchings of Roche abbey, Yorkshire. Malton 1824; Plas Newydd 1824. d. Filey, Yorkshire 7 June 1878. bur. Malton old church W. Smith’s Old Yorkshire ii 90–2 (1890).

NICHOLSON, HENRY JOSEPH BOONE (son of John Payler Nicholson, rector of St. Albans, d. 1817). b. Lisson grove, Middlesex April 1795; educ. Marlowe, Hemel Hempstead, and Magdalen hall, Oxf., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1823, B.D. 1835, D.D. 1839; F.S.A. 14 April 1853; F.R.S.A.; domestic chaplain to earl of Mexborough; domestic chaplain to duke of Clarence March 1826; R. of St. Albans 1835 to death; rural dean of St. Albans 1846 to death; hon. canon of Rochester 1861 to death; proctor for the diocese in convocation Aug. 1865; member of Numismatic soc. 1861; had a collection of local coins; author of Some account of relics at Cologne, considered to be part of the body of St. Alban, proto-martyr 1851; The abbey of St. Alban 1851, 2 ed. 1856. d. St. Albans 27 July 1866. bur. St. Albans abbey 3 Aug. G.M. ii 411 (1866); Numismatic Chronicle vii 12 (1867).

NICHOLSON, JOHN (eld. son of Alexander Nicholson of Dublin, physician, d. 1830). b. Dublin 11 Dec. 1821; ed. at Dungannon college; ensign Bengal army 24 Feb. 1839; ensign 27 Bengal N.I. Dec. 1839, adjutant 31 May 1843; defended Ghuzni against the Afghans Dec. 1841, surrendered and was imprisoned; brevet major 7 June 1849 for his services in the second Sikh war 1848–9; an administrative officer at Bunnoo 1851–6, where he reduced to order the most ignorant and bloodthirsty people in the Punjab; a brotherhood of fakeers in Hazara commenced the worship of Nikkul Seyn (J. Nicholson) in 1848, this sect lasted till 1858; deputy comr. at Peshaware 1856; commanded the Punjab movable column with rank of brigadier general 22 June 1857; defeated the rebels at Trimmu Ghaut 12 July; marched into the camp at Delhi 14 Aug.; defeated the rebels near Delhi 25 Aug.; commanded the main storming party in the assault of Delhi 14 Sept., when he was shot through the chest. d. Delhi 23 Sept. 1857. bur. in new burial ground in front of the Kashmir Gate. J. W. Kaye’s Lives of Indian officers i 417–91 (1867); R. G. Wilberforce’s An unrecorded chapter of the Indian mutiny (1894), dedicated ‘To the memory of John Nicholson,’ contains a view of his grave; I.L.N. xxxi 426, 564 (1857) portrait; Reynold’s Miscellany xix 349 (1858) portrait; J. J. Higginbotham’s Men whom India has known (1874) 329–31.

NICHOLSON, JOHN (son of a carrier between Dumfries and Galloway, and brother of Wm. Nicholson, the Galloway poet 1782–1849). b. in parish of Tongland, Kirkcudbright 1777; a handloom weaver; enlisted in the Scots Greys; publisher at Kirkcudbright to death; proprietor of the Stewartey Times. d. Kirkcudbright 11 Sept. 1866, left a son a bookseller at Kirkcudbright. M. M. Harper’s Rambles in Galloway (1876) 64–6.

NICHOLSON, JOHN (1 son of rev. Mark Nicholson, president of Codrington college, Barbadoes, d. 1838). b. Barbadoes 1809; educ. Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1830; studied oriental languages under professor G. H. A. von Ewald in Germany; Ph.D. of univ. of Tübingen 1840; settled at Penrith in 1840; spent his life in studying Eastern languages; a member of the Oriental soc. 40 years; contributed to J. Kitto’s Cyclopædia of Biblical literature 1843–5; translated G. H. A. von Ewald’s A grammar of the Hebrew language of the Old Testament 1836; An account of the establishment of the Fatemite dynasty in Africa by Ali ibn Husain ibn Ali 1840. d. Penrith Dec. 1886. The Times 9 Dec. 1886 p. 7.

NICHOLSON, JOHN. b. 1829 or 1830; assistant librarian in library of society of Lincoln’s Inn, London 1843, librarian 11 Dec. 1877 to death; author of Catalogue of the Mendham collection, being a selection of books and pamphlets from the library of the late rev. Joseph Mendham 1871 and Supplement 1874; Catalogue of the printed books in the library of the hon. society of Lincoln’s Inn, Supplementary volume containing the additions from 1859–90, 1890. d. suddenly of heart disease at his residence 228 Peckham rye, London 24 July 1894. bur. Forest hill, cemet. 28 July.

NICHOLSON, JOSHUA (son of Joshua Nicholson). b. Luddenden Foot, near Halifax 26 Oct. 1812; apprenticed to a draper at Bradford; resided at Leek, Staffs. 1837 to death, and travelled over the United Kingdom for the silk manufacturing firm of J. & J. Brough & Co. of Leek many years, admitted by them as partner, title of firm being changed to J. & J. Brough, Nicholson & Co., he became the head of the firm which he made the most important house in the trade; president of North Staffordshire Liberal association many years; built the Nicholson Institute at Leek, completed 1884 at cost of £30,000, the library contains 8,000 volumes, and 350 students attend the schools of art, science and technology. d. Stockwell house, Leek 24 Aug. 1885. W. Smith’s Old Yorkshire ii 118–9 (1890) portrait.

NICHOLSON, SIR LOTHIAN (3 son of George Thomas Nicholson of Waverley abbey, Surrey). b. Ham Common, Surrey 19 Jany. 1827; ed. at R.M. academy, Woolwich 1844–6; 2 lieut. R.E. 6 Aug. 1846, colonel 20 July 1866, colonel commandant 28 June 1890 to death; served in Crimean war July 1855 to June 1856, and in Indian mutiny 1857–8; granted distinguished service reward 3 March 1881; commanded the R.E. in the London district 1861–6, and at Gibraltar 1866–8; assistant A G. of R.E. in Ireland 1868–70; commanded the R.E. at Shorncliffe 27 Jany. 1872 to 1 Oct. 1878; lieutenant governor of Jersey 1 Oct. 1878 to 30 Sept. 1883; inspector general of fortifications and of the R.E. 8 July 1886 to 25 March 1891; general 5 May 1888; governor and commander-in-chief of Gibraltar 26 March 1891 to death; C.B. 14 May 1859, K.C.B. 21 June 1887. d. The Convent, Gibraltar 27 June 1893. I.L.N. 8 July 1893 p. 30 portrait.

NICHOLSON, NANCY (only dau. of rev. John Jackson, vicar of Drax, Yorkshire, d. 1810). b. Drax 3 May 1787; m. Oct. 1811 rev. John Nicholson, formerly an assistant in Mr. Jackson’s school at Drax, then vicar of Drax 1810 and master of the grammar school, d. 1850; separated from her husband Nov. 1814; a great termagant, very eccentric, dishonest and a miser; was burnt in effigy at Asselby, near Howden, Yorkshire 1850; joined the church of Rome 1850 and again left it on being asked for a subscription. d. Asselby 6 Aug. 1854, leaving considerable property to her relations. Life of Nancy Nicholson; S. B. Gould’s Yorkshire Oddities ii 25–95 (1874).

NICHOLSON, NATHANIEL ALEXANDER (2 son of John Armytage Nicholson of Dublin). Matric. from Trin. coll. Oxf. 26 Oct. 1843 aged 16; B.A. 1849, M.A. 1858; acted in Frank Talfourd’s burlesque Macbeth travestie at Oxford 17 June 1847; author of The science of exchanges 1861, 4 ed. 1873; E pur si muove 1866; Observations on coinage, seignorage, etc. 1868, 3 ed. 1869; Matter and motion 1870; A shilling’s worth of political economy 1871; resided at 2 Oakland villas, Rathgar, near Dublin. d. 15 Feb. 1874.

NICHOLSON, RENTON. b. Hackney road, London 4 April 1809; ed. at Henry Butter’s school, Islington; apprenticed to a pawnbroker 1821–4; employed by various pawnbrokers until 1830; a jeweller at 99 Quadrant, Regent st. about March 1830, became insolvent Nov. 1831; kept a cigar shop Warwick st. Regent st.; a wine merchant in Leicester place, bankrupt 22 April 1836; edited a weekly paper of fast life, entitled The Town 156 numbers 3 June 1837 to 23 May 1840; started with Joseph Last and Charles Pitcher The Crown, a weekly paper supporting the beer-sellers, which ran to 42 numbers 28 June 1838 to 14 April 1839; opened with T. B. Simpson The Garrick’s head and Town hotel 27 Bow st. Covent Garden 1841, where he established 8 March 1841 the Judge and jury society, over which he presided as ‘The Lord Chief Baron’; gave a three days’ fête at Cremorne Gardens 31 July and 1–2 Aug. 1843, and another fête at Easter 1844; had refreshment booths on race courses and dancing booths at fairs; removed the Judge and jury society to the Coal Hole tavern, Fountain court 103 Strand 1844; landlord of The Garrick’s Head 1847–9, where he introduced the poses plastiques 1847, he presided there till July 1851; rented the Justices’ tavern, Bow st. 1849 or 1850; landlord of the Coal Hole tavern July 1851 to 1856; presided at the Cider Cellar tavern 20 Maiden lane, Covent Garden 16 Jany. 1858 to death; was insolvent 6 Oct. 1849 and again 23 Feb. 1856; proprietor and editor of Illustrated London Life 25 numbers 1843; author of Boxing, with a chronology of the ring 1837; Cockney adventures 1838; Owen Swift’s Handbook of boxing 1840 anon; Miscellaneous writings of the lord chief baron, in monthly numbers, part 1 May 1849 with portrait; Nicholson’s Noctes, or nights and sights of London, 11 numbers 1852; Dombey and daughter, a moral fiction 1858. d. Gordon tavern, 3 Piazza, Covent Garden, London 18 May 1861. bur. Brompton cemet. 22 May. The lord chief baron Nicholson, an autobiography (1860) portrait; C. H. Ross’s Painted Faces (1891) 103–8 portrait; Notes and Queries vi 477 (1870), vii 18, 286, 327 (1871), iii 3–5 (1893); Vizetelly’s Glances back i 168–70 (1893); The Era 26 May 1861 p. 7.

NOTE.—Views of the Judge and Jury club are in The Bachelor’s guide to life in London, p. 8, and in The Illust. Sporting News 21 May 1864, pp. 129, 133. A view of the Garrick’s Head booth at Epsom is in Illustrated London Life 28 May 1843, p. 126, and a view of Nicholson’s Parlour at the Garrick’s Head is in the same paper 11 June p. 161.

The last scene of Frank Talfourd’s burlesque Shylock, produced at Olympic theatre 4 July 1853, represented the Judge and Jury society, in which Charles Bender, made up like Nicholson, opened the proceedings by calling ‘Waiter a glass of brandy and water and & cigar.’ The Society is referred to in R. H. Barham’s Ingoldsby Legends, 18 ed. 1860 in The Ghost, vol. ii, p. 296 as follows—

It more resembled one of later date And tenfold talent, as I’m told, in Bow st., Where kindlier souls do congregate; And though there are who deem that same a low street, Yet I’m assured, for frolicsome debate And genuine humour it’s surpassed by no street, When the ‘Chief Baron’ enters and assumes To rule o’er mimic Thesigers and Broughams.

NICHOLSON, ROBERT LAWRANCE (only son of Robert Lawrance Nicholson of Cambridge). Author of Lady Nell and other poems. d. Neuilly, near Paris 18 March 1880.

NICHOLSON, THOMAS. b. Hunslet, near Leeds 1805; a wire worker in Manchester; a self taught French scholar; gave instruction in French at the Ancoats lyceum; wrote in magazines and newspapers; author of Visions of the muse, poems, and the Gallic lovers, a tale 1828; A peal for the people 1849; The warehouse boy of Manchester 1852; The thunderstorm 1857; The miser’s will, MS. 1863; some of his poems are in John Harland’s Lancashire Lyrics 1866, and others are in Gems of thought. d. Woodhouse, Lancashire Dec. 1863. R. W. Proctor’s Memorials of bygone Manchester (1880) 207–9.

NICHOLSON, THOMAS. b. 12 March 1777; solicitor at Hertford 1803–24; town clerk of Hertford; under-sheriff for Herts. 1820–4; a barrister in Tasmania and comr. for investigating claims to grants of land. d. Hawkswell, near Bedale, Yorkshire 9 Sept. 1878. Solicitors’ Journal 21 Sept. 1878 p. 888.

NICHOLSON, THOMAS WILLIAM. Lieutenant 55 foot 11 Oct. 1805, major 12 June 1839; placed on h.p. with rank of lieut. col. 28 June 1839; served in the campaign of 1814 in Holland, severely wounded at storming of Bergen-op-Zoom; lieut. col. 88 foot 31 Dec. 1841, but sold out same day; K.H. 1835. d. 1883.

NICHOLSON, WILLIAM (son of Miles Nicholson, farmer). b. Tretting Mill, Lamplough, Cumberland 27 Feb. 1816; went to Melbourne Oct. 1841, kept a grocer’s shop there, which became the mercantile firm of W. Nicholson & Co. of Flinders street; member of the city council for Latrobe ward 1848–52, alderman 1850, mayor 9 Nov. 1850; member for North Bourke in the legislative council Oct. 1852; moved a resolution that any electoral act should be based upon the principle of voting by ballot 18 Dec. 1855, which he carried against the ministry by eight votes; went to England 1856, became known as the ‘Father of the ballot’; member of legislative assembly for Murray Jany. 1859, and for Sandridge Aug. 1859; chief secretary 27 Oct. 1859 to 26 Nov. 1860; settled the land question by the Land act of 1860; chairman of Melbourne chamber of commerce 1859. d. St. Hilda, Melbourne 10 March 1865, portrait in council chamber of Melbourne town-hall. Heaton’s Australian dictionary (1879) 153, part ii 158.

NICHOLSON, WILLIAM ADAMS (son of James Nicholson, a carpenter). b. Southwell, Notts. 8 Aug. 1803; articled to J. B. Papworth of London, architect July 1821–4; architect at Lincoln 1828 to death; partner with Goddard 1839–46; designed the churches at Glandford-Brigg, at Wragby, and at Kirmond; restored many churches; designed Worsborough hall, Yorkshire, the castle of Bayons manor, and Elkington hall near Louth; designed the town-hall at Mansfield; superintended rebuilding of village of Blankney, near Lincoln, erected the Wesleyan chapel, Lincoln 1837, and the corn exchange 1847; F.R.I.B.A. d. Boston, Lincs. 8 April 1853. bur. churchyard of St. Swithin, Lincoln. Dictionary of architecture vi 29 (1881).

NICHOLSON, WILLIAM NORRIS (eld. son of Isaac Nicholson of Clapham common, Surrey). b. 1815; ed. at Charterhouse and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; rowed in the first match against the Leander club 9 June 1837, and again in 1844; barrister L.I. 11 June 1841; a visitor in lunacy 1860 to 1877; master in lunacy, with salary of £2,000, 1877 to death; an active member of Marylebone cricket club; author of A statement of the case of the deposed Rajah of Sattara 1845. d. 43 Phillimore gardens, Kensington, London 17 Jany. 1889. Law Times 23 Feb. 1889 p. 322.

NICKINSON, JOHN (son of a Chelsea pensioner). b. London 1808; a drummer boy in 24 foot 1823, a sergeant 1825, bought his discharge 1830; first appeared on the stage at Albany, New York 6 Oct. 1830; played engagements at the Franklin, Park, and Olympic theatres, New York; the original Mr. Dombey in John Brougham’s play Dombey and Son at Burton’s theatre, New York 1848; played Haversac in Napoleon’s Old Guard, Monsieur Jacques, and other character parts in the country; went to Canada with a company of his own 1852; lessee of the royal Lyceum theatre, Toronto 1852–8; stage manager at Pike’s opera house Cincinnati to death. d. suddenly in a drug store at Cincinnati 9 Feb. 1864. H. P. Phelps’s Players of a century, Albany (1880) 149, 204, 206, 241, 257, 259.

NICKLE, SIR ROBERT (son of Robert Nicholl of the 17 dragoons, who changed his name to Nickle). b. at sea 12 Aug. 1786; ensign loyal Durham fencibles 16 Dec. 1798; ensign 60 foot 22 Jany. 1801; ensign 15 foot 19 May 1801, lieut. 26 Jany. 1802; lieut. 8 garrison brigade 1803; lieut. 88 foot 4 Aug. 1804, major 28 Nov. 1822; led the forlorn hope at Buenos Ayres 7 July 1807, when severely wounded; served through the Peninsular war, present at 9 battles, severely wounded at Toulouse; served in the American war 1814; lieut. col. 36 foot 15 June 1830 to 22 Aug. 1834; acting governor of St. Christopher 14 July 1832 to March 1833; served in Canadian rebellion 1838, when he raised several volunteer forces; colonel on h.p. 29 Aug. 1843; M.G. 11 Nov. 1851; commanded the forces in Australia 1853 to death; K.H. 1832; knighted at St. James’s palace 13 March 1844. d. Jolimont, Melbourne 26 May 1855.

NICOL, EMMA (eld. dau. of Mrs. Nicol, actress, who d. about 1834). b. 1801; appeared at Edinburgh as a dancer 2 May 1808; played at the Royal or Minor theatre, Edinb. 1808–24; played Flora in The Wonder at Drury Lane 9 Nov. 1824, acted there till 1829, then at Surrey theatre 1830–1; played old-women parts at T.R. Edinb. 1834–59; played Mrs. Macleary in Waverley 18 Sept. 1852, and Marjory in The heart of Midlothian 4 Oct. 1852; was the original hon. Mrs. Falconer in Ebsworth’s comedy £150,000, 1 Sept. 1854, and Matty Hepburn in Ballantine’s Gaberlunzie Man 7 June 1858; played Mrs. Major de Boots in Coyne’s Everybody’s Friend at New Queen’s theatre, Edinb. 25 June 1859, and Queen Elizabeth in the burlesque of Kenilworth 6 Aug. 1859; made her last appearance 31 May 1862 as the Hostess in The Honeymoon; her best parts were Meg in Twas I, and Miss Lucretia Mactab in The poor gentleman. d. London Nov. 1877. J. C. Dibdin’s Annals of the Edinburgh stage (1888) 361, 476.

NICOL, HENRY. Philologist; author of An account of M. Gaston Paris’ method of editing in his Vie de Saint Alexis 1874. d. Algiers 30 Dec. 1880.

NICOL, JAMES (son of James Nicol, minister of Traquair, Peebleshire, and poet 1769–1819). b. Traquair manse 12 Aug. 1810; entered univ. of Edinb. 1825; studied geology at univs. of Bonn and Berlin; a clerk in Geological society of London 1840, assistant secretary to the society 1847–9; professor of geology in Queen’s college, Cork 1849–53; professor of civil and natural history in Marischal coll. and univ. of Aberdeen 1853–60; professor of natural history in univ. of Aberdeen 1860–78; F.G.S. 1847; F.R.S. Edinb. 1847; the first to perceive the true relations of the rock-masses in the Highlands of Scotland; author of Guide to the geology of Scotland 1844; Introductory book of the sciences 1844, 9 ed. 1872; Manual of mineralogy 1849; Elements of mineralogy 1858, 2 ed. 1873; The geology and survey of the North of Scotland 1866, and of 18 papers on geological subjects. d. London 8 April 1879. Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxxvi 33–6 (1880).

NICOL, JAMES DYCE (only son of W. Nicol, M.D.) b. Stonehaven 13 Aug. 1805; partner in firm of Nicol & Co. Bombay to 1844; M.P. Kincardineshire 17 July 1865 to death; F.R.G.S. d. 13 Hyde park terrace, London 16 Nov. 1872. I.L.N. lxi 503 (1872).

NICOL, JOHN. b. Tain, Rossshire 1846; with Strahan & Co.; manager for Isbister & Co. London, and exercising a literary supervision over their publications; sub-editor of Contemporary Review; while staying at Shandon homœopathic establishment found drowned in the Gaerloch, Clyde river 11 Feb. 1891.

NICOL, WILLIAM (eld. son of James Nicol, collector of customs, Banff, Scotland). b. 1790; educ. Aberdeen; served in medical service of H.E.I.C. 1810–16; a merchant at Bombay 1816; contested Youghal 8 Aug. 1837; M.P. Dover 1859–65. d. 10 Ashley place, Victoria st. Westminster 28 July 1879.

NICOLAS, JOHN TOUP (eld. child of John Harris Nicolas 1758–1844, lieutenant in the navy). b. Withen, near Helston, Cornwall 22 Feb. 1788; entered navy 1799; commander of the Pilot, brig in the Mediterranean 1810–16, where he captured or destroyed many of the enemy’s vessels; captain 26 Aug. 1815; C.B. 4 June 1815; commanded the Egeria, frigate on the Newfoundland station 1820–2, the Hercules, 74 guns on the Lisbon station 1837–9, the Belle-Isle in the Channel and Mediterranean 1839–41, and the Vindictive on the East India station 1841–4; R.A. 30 Dec. 1850; superintendent of victualling yard Plymouth 1 Sept. 1847 to 5 Feb. 1850; received cross of St. Ferdinand and Merit from King of Naples Oct. 1815, knight commander of the order April 1816; K.H. 1 Jany. 1834; author of An inquiry into the causes which have led to our late naval disasters 1814; A letter to rear admiral Du Petit Thouars on the late events at Otaheite, Papeete 1843. d. Plymouth 1 April 1851. bur. St. Martin’s ch. by Looe 4 April. James’s Naval history v 257–8, 341–2 (1859); Marshall’s Royal naval biog. viii 53; G.M. xxxv 665–6 (1851).

NOTE.—His son Granville Toup Nicolas b. 15 Aug. 1832, entered the navy 1848, commanded the gunboat Insolent on the China station during the Tae-ping insurrection, retired as captain 15 April 1882. d. Edinburgh 21 April 1894.

NICOLL, DONALD. b. 25 April 1820; cloth manufacturer and a tailor at 114 Regent st. London with his brother Henry John Nicoll 1843–69, also at 22 Cornhill 1846–69, and at Liverpool and Manchester; wholesale clothier 1869–74; parliamentary agent 1876–85; civil engineer 1885 to death; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1849–50; contested Frome 24 Oct. 1854; M.P. Frome 1857–59; contested Frome 3 May 1859; capt. 29 North Middlesex volunteers 1864; the pioneer of underground telegraphy 1866; took out English and foreign patents for electric and telegraphic conductors, awarded medals at Great Exhibition 1851, Moscow exhibition 1872, and Vienna exhibition 1873; chairman of Poor law amendment society; president of Engineering and sanitary association; A.I C.E. 2 Dec. 1844; author of Election, a dramatic piece in two acts 1880; Publicity, an essay on advertising 1878; Health and appliances 1885; Man’s revenge: personal reminiscences with quotations from causes célèbre 1890, with portrait; resided at 14 Buckland crescent, Fitzjohn’s avenue, London. d. Folkestone 6 Sept. 1891. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 9 Sept. I.L.N. xxx 478 (1857) portrait; City Press 9 Sept. 1891 p. 5; Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. cviii 411–2 (1892).

NICOLL, WILLIAM. b. Little Tullybeltane 1817; in a situation at Glasgow on £40 a year; a poet, his fugitive pieces are printed in Drummond’s Perthshire. d. Edinburgh 1855. bur. North Leith churchyard. P. R. Drummond’s Perthshire (1879) 333–83.

NOTE.—His brother Robert Nicoll b. Little Tullybeltane 7 Jany. 1814 d. 1837, was also a well known poet.

NICOLLS, SIR EDWARD (son of Jonathan Nicolls, surveyor of excise, Coleraine). b. Coleraine 1779; 2 lieut. R.M. 24 March 1795, with 13 volunteers captured a French armed cutter off St. Domingo 1803; at the passage of the Dardenelles 1807; at reduction of Anholt 1809; at attack on Fort Bowyer 1814; awarded a pension of £250 a year 28 Dec. 1815; major 8 May 1828, placed on h.p. 1829; major retired on full pay 15 May 1835 to death; governor of island of Ascension; commander of island of Fernando Po; awarded good service pension of £150 a year 30 June 1842; general 28 Nov. 1854; K.C.B. 5 July 1855. d. 3 Woodland’s terrace, Shooter’s hill road, Blackheath, Kent 5 Feb. 1865. G.M. xviii 644 (1865).

NOTE.—During his services abroad he had his left leg broken and right leg severely wounded, was shot through the body and right arm, received a severe sabre cut in the head, was bayoneted in the chest, and lost an eye in his 107th action, having received altogether 24 wounds.

NICOLLS, GUSTAVUS. b. 1780 or 1781; 2 lieut. R.E. 4 Jany. 1795, colonel 29 July 1825; colonel commandant 28 Jany. 1851 to death; general 20 June 1854. d. at his residence, near Southampton 1 Aug. 1860.

NICOLLS, JASPER HUME (3 son of Gustavus Nicolls of Guernsey). Matric. from Oriel coll. Oxf. 2 June 1836, aged 17; B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843, D.D. 1856; Michel fellow of Queen’s coll. 1843–8; principal of and professor of classics in Bishop’s college, Lennoxville, Lower Canada 1853 to death; author of The end and object of education, a lecture, Montreal 1857; Address to the convocation of Bishop’s college, at its annual meeting, Sherbrooke 1860. d. Aug. 1877.

NICOLSON, ALEXANDER (son of Malcolm Nicolson of Husabost in Skye). b. Husabost 27 Sept. 1827; ed. at univ. of Edinb., B.A. 1850, hon. M.A. 1859, LL.D. 1880; one of the sub-editors of the eighth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica; editor of Edinburgh Guardian 1855; edited the Daily Express for one year; contributed to the Scotsman; called to Scottish bar 1860; reported law cases for the Scottish Jurist ten years, edited it latterly; assistant comr. of education 1865 when he produced a blue book on the Western and Northern Highlands; sheriff substitute of Kirkcudbright 1872; comr. to inquire into condition of the crofters 1883; sheriff substitute of Greenock 1885–9; author of The lay of the Beanmòhr, a song of the Sudreyar 1867; edited D. Macintosh’s A collection of Gaelic proverbs 1881, 2 ed. 1882; Memoirs of Adam Black, M.P. 1885, 2 ed. 1885; he revised the Gaelic Scriptures for the soc. for Promoting Christian Knowledge. d. Edinburgh 13 Jany. 1893. bur. Warriston cemet. Verses by A. Nicolson with memoir by W. Smith (1893) portrait; Scottish law review ix 38–40; D. H. Edwards’s Modern Scottish poets, 3rd series (1880) 417–9.

NICOLSON, JAMES. b. Aberdeenshire; Scott bursar of univ. of Aberdeen; M.A. 1856; Luscombe scholar of Trinity coll. Glenalmond Sept. 1854; chaplain to bishop Forbes of Brechin 1856–75; incumbent of St. Salvador, Dundee 1857 to death, raised funds and built a church which cost £10,000, 1868–74, the congregation being mostly working men; synod clerk diocese of Brechin 1863–74; dean of Brechin 1874 to death; a member of the school board; built a chapel and schoolroom dedicated to St; Martin at Dundee; author of In memoriam, a sermon after the funeral of A. P. Forbes, bishop of Brechin 1875. d. Dundee 25 Jany. 1889. Church portrait journal n.s. vi 77 (1885) portrait.

NIEMANN, EDMUND JOHN (eld. son of John Diederich Niemann, b. Minden, Westphalia, a member of Lloyd’s). b. Islington, London 1813; a clerk in Lloyd’s 1826–39; lived at High Wycombe, Bucks. 1839–48; trustee and hon. secretary of the Free Exhibition of art, Chinese gallery, Hyde Park corner 1848; exhibited 29 landscape paintings at R.A., 45 at B.I., and 40 at Suffolk st. 1844–72; many of his pictures were exhibited at opening of the Nottingham museum and art galleries 1878. d. The Glebe, Brixton hill, Surrey 15 April 1876. G. H. Shepherd’s Catalogue of the pictures painted by E. J. Niemann (1890).

NIEUWENHUYS, CHRISTIAN JOHANNES. b. Belgium 1799; an art critic 1834; formed gallery of king of Holland 1843; naturalised in England 6 March 1846; an expert and dealer in London to death; brought many important examples of Dutch and Flemish paintings to England, which have enriched some of the best collections; author of A review of the lives and works of some of the most eminent painters 1834; Description de la galerie des tableaux de S. M. le roi des Pays-Bas, Bruxelles 1843. d. Oxford lodge, Park Side, Wimbledon, Surrey 31 Jany. 1883. Times 20 Feb. 1883 p. 10.

NIGHTINGALE, JAMES EDWARD. F.S.A. 18 Feb. 1875; discovered the lost china factory of Longton hall; author of Objects of interest in the Fonthill excursion 1870; Some notice of William Herbert, first earl of Pembroke 1878; Contributions towards the history of early English porcelain 1881; Church plate of the county of Dorset 1889; The church plate of the county of Wilts 1891; resided at The Mount, Witton, Salisbury. d. at the residence of his brother-in-law 16 Alfred place west, South Kensington, London 22 Feb. 1892. Proc. of Soc. of Antiquaries xiv 136 (1892).

NIGHTINGALE, JOSEPH HENRY. b. 1827; dramatist; resided at Liverpool; published The Liverpool year book, edited by Lee and Nightingale 1857; Lee and Nightingale’s Telegraph guide 1858, Number i. d. 13 Coverdale road, Shepherd’s Bush, London 20 Jany. 1882. bur. Brompton cemet. 24 Jany.

NIGHTINGALE, WILLIAM. b. 1799; acted as a judge of coursing in England and Scotland during many years; judged the first Waterloo cup 1857; retired 1860, when he was presented with a testimonial; a very powerful man, could lift any weight, and hold any team of horses together on the box seat; could jump the Big Cut from the Engine at Aintree; a farmer at Skibeden, near Skipton and a good judge of bullocks and sheep. d. 2 Sept. 1869, at his request a representation of a greyhound was placed on his coffin and buried with him in Gisburn ch. yard. Sporting Review Oct. 1869 pp. 242–3; H. H. Dixon’s Field and Fern, South 1865 pp. 14, 19, 24–6, portrait.

NIGHTINGALL, JOHN (son of a trainer, d. 1890). b. 1833; apprenticed to be a jockey; with Cecil won the Cesarewitch 1868; best known as a trainer, especially of horses for the suburban meetings; trained Shifnel, winner of the Grand National steeple chase 1878, and Ilex, winner in 1890; trained for lord Calthorpe, lord Rendlesham, sir Simon Lockhart, and G. Masterman. d. Epsom 13 Nov. 1891. Baily’s Mag. lvi 425 (1891); Illust. sp. and dr. news 21 Nov. 1891 p. 331 portrait; Man of the world 25 Nov. 1891 p. 564 portrait.

NIHILL, DANIELL. b. 1791; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1818; M.A. 1822; P.C. of Clunbury, Salop 1820–6; government chaplain to penitentiary, Milbank, London to 1844; P.C. of Fording, Montgomeryshire 29 Dec. 1826–44; V. of Bridgwater, Somerset 1844–8; R. of Fitz, near Shrewsbury 1848 to death; author of Suggestions on the revival of ecclesiastical assemblies in the church of England 1834, 2 ed. 1836; Prison discipline 1839; Farmer’s guide to happiness; Inconsistency, or why are churchgoers not communicants 1859; Pastoral guide to confirmation; The angels, what is taught in scripture concerning them 1852; Help to young scholars in the bible; Suggestions on the reformation of convicts. d. Fitz rectory 19 July 1867.

NIMMO, ANDREW. b. Edinburgh 1817 or 1818; call boy at Edinburgh theatre, afterwards actor; assistant to John Mitchell of Bond st. London, theatrical agent to 1863; theatrical agent at 55 Wigmore st. Cavendish sq. 1863 to death. d. 55 Wigmore st. Cavendish sq. London 23 June 1872. bur. Brompton cemet. 28 June. Era 30 June 1872 p. 9.

NIMMO, PATRICK. b. Dundee; M.D. St. Andrew’s 1817; served in the East Lothian cavalry some years; practiced as a physician at Dundee, first in partnership with Robert Stewart, M.D., then with Alexander Douglass, afterward alone; surgeon to Dundee royal infirmary about 1805–35; physician to Dundee lunatic asylum about 1835 to death. d. Dundee 11 July 1855.

NIMMO, WILLIAM PHILIP. b. Edinburgh 1831; a bookseller there Dec. 1855; a publisher there to his death; published Nimmo’s Juvenile tales, Edinb. 1866; Nimmo’s Popular tales 1866. d. Minto st. Edinb. 16 April 1883.

NISBET, SIR ALEXANDER (son of Alexander Nisbet). b. 1790 or 1791; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1812; M.D. Edinb. 1818; M.R.C.P. London 1859; entered naval medical service 1812 and served during the whole of the American war 1812–4, for which awarded a medal 1850; inspector general of hospitals and fleets 30 June 1855, retired 1861; granted good service pension June 1865; knighted at Windsor Castle 26 June 1873; honorary physician to the queen 1873 to death. d. Arley lodge, Lee, Kent 22 June 1874.

NISBET, HENRY. b. Laurieston, Glasgow 1818; studied at Glasgow univ., relief divinity hall, Paisley, and Cheshunt college; ordained united presbyterian minister July 1840; missionary at Falelatai, Samoa 1843, at Sapapalii 1850–4; in charge of the mission seminary at Malua Dec. 1859–67, where he prepared various lectures, sermons, notes of scripture, &c. which he subsequently printed in England; D.D. Glasgow univ. 1870. d. Malua 9 May 1876. J. O. Whitehouse’s Register of missionaries (1870) 149–51.

NISBET, JAMES (son of a farmer, who became a serjeant of cavalry). b. Kelso 3 Feb. 1785; clerk to Hugh Usher, West India merchant, London 1803; a Sunday school teacher at the Scotch ch., Swallow st., London 1803; a founder of the Sunday school union 1803; collected for more than 500 charitable institutions, the amount that passed through his hands being £114,339 16s. 4d.; a freeman of city of London; bookseller in Castle st. 1809; bookseller and publisher, chiefly of books of a religious class at 21 Berners st. Oxford st.; partner with James Murray many years, on Murray’s death (at Richmond June 1862), Mr. Watson became manager of the business; publisher of some of Edward Irving’s books, and for a period one of his followers; liveryman of company of stationers 1822; helped to establish Booksellers’ provident institution 1837, president 1848; printed and distributed some religious work gratuitously; built and endowed a church and school at Kelso; published Catalogue of J. Nisbet’s Select theological circulating library 1832; Nisbet’s Series of tracts 1846–50, No. 1–22. d. 21 Berners st. London 8 Nov. 1854. J. A. Wallace’s Lessons from life of J. Nisbet (1867); Curwen’s Booksellers (1873) 324–32; The first 50 years of the Sunday school by W. H. Watson (1873) 75–76.

NISBET, ROBERT PARRY. b. Aug. 1793; ed. at Cheam and Haileybury coll.; entered Bengal civil service 30 April 1809; second assistant to collector of customs, Calcutta 1814; collector of Rungpore 1822; judge and magistrate 1826; commissioner of revenue 14th division 1829; civil and session judge, Nuddea 1837; sheriff of Wilts. 1849; M.P. Chippenham 1856–59. d. Southbroome house, Devizes 31 May 1882.

NISBET-HAMILTON, ROBERT ADAM (eld. son of Philip Dundas, governor of Prince of Wales island, d. 8 April 1807). b. 9 Feb. 1804; educ. St. Andrews; advocate 25 Feb. 1826; M.P. Ipswich 1826–30, and 1835–7; M.P. Edinburgh 1831–2; M.P. North Lincs. 1837–57; chancellor of duchy of Lancaster 1 March to Dec. 1852; P.C. 27 Feb. 1852; exchanged name of Dundas for that of Christopher by R.L. 20 Jany. 1836, and that of Christopher for Nisbet-Hamilton 1855; F.R.S. 18 April 1833; succeeded to estates in Haddingtonshire through his wife lady Mary Bruce, eld. dau. of 7 earl of Elgin. d. 33 Chesham place, Belgrave sq. London 9 June 1877. Journal of jurisprudence xxi 401 (1877).

NISH, ANTONY. b. Newcastle Feb. 1831; visited the United States 1850; joined company of John Raynor, who brought a troupe of Christy minstrels to England 1855; organised a company of his own 1862; visited the Cape colonies, India, and Australia; musical director of the Christy minstrels, St. James’s hall, London 1867 to death; composed the music of many popular songs. d. London 3 Oct. 1874. bur. Brompton cemetery 6 Oct. Era 11 Oct. 1874 p. 9.

NIXON, FRANCIS RUSSELL (son of Robert Nixon, C. of Foot’s Cray, Kent 1784–1804). b. 1 Aug. 1803; educ. Merchant Taylors’ school 1810–22, and St. John’s coll. Oxf., probationary fellow 1822; B.A. 1827, M.A, 1841, D.D. 1842; P.C. of Plaistow, Essex; chaplain to British embassy at Naples 1833–5; P.C. of Sandgate, Kent 20 Jany. 1836; V. of Ash, next Wingham Nov. 1838; one of the six preachers in Canterbury cathedral; bishop of Tasmania 21 Aug. 1842 to 17 Dec. 1863, consecrated in Westminster abbey 24 Aug. 1842, enthroned in Hobart cath. 27 July 1843; attended the first synod of colonial bishops held in Sydney 1857; R. of Bolton-Percy, Yorkshire 1864–5; author of The history of Merchant Taylors’ school 1823; Lectures on the catechism of the church of England 1843; The cruise of the Beacon, a visit to the islands in Bass’s Straits 1857. d. Villa Vignole, Lago Maggiore, North Italy 7 April 1879. Times 12 April 1879 p. 7.

NIXON, SAMUEL. b. 1803; began exhibiting sculpture at the R.A. 1826; employed on portrait and sepulchral sculpture for a few years from 1831; did the sculptural decorations for the Goldsmith’s hall in Foster lane, Cheapside, London; executed a statue of John Carpenter for the city of London school, and one of sir John Crosby for Crosby hall, Bishopsgate street; his chief work was the statue of Wm. IV at the end of King William st. set up Dec. 1844; exhibited 12 works at R.A., 2 at B.I., and 2 at Suffolk st. 1826–46. d. 1 Manley place, Kennington Common, London 2 Aug. 1854.

NIXON, THOMAS. b. Nottingham 4 June 1815; lace maker; his first cricket match at Lord’s was Fast bowlers v. Slow bowlers 18 July 1842; a slow round-armed bowler having a twist; a bowler at Lord’s 1851–7; proprietor of Old white house inn, cricket ground and racquet court, Oxford 1856–60; introduced cork pads 1841, open pads and cane handled bats 1853; invented the balista 1862; formed a cricket ground at Chelford, Cheshire 1861, where he worked to his death. d. Chelford 20 July 1877. Lillywhite’s Cricket scores iii 103 (1863).

NOAD, HENRY MINCHIN (son of Humphrey Noad). b. Shawford, near Frome, Somerset 22 June 1815; educ. Frome gr. sch.; lectured on chemistry and electricity at Bath and Bristol 1836; studied chemistry under A. W. Hofmann in the royal college of chemistry, London 1845; professor of chemistry at St. George’s hospital 1847 to death; Ph. Doc. Giessen about 1849; consulting chemist to the Ebbw Vale iron co., the Cwn Celyn, and Blaina and other iron works in South Wales; instructor in chemistry at the Panopticon in Leicester sq. London 1854; F.R.S. 5 June 1856; author of A course of eight lectures on electricity, galvanism, magnetism, and electro-magnetism 1839, 3 ed. 1849; A manual of electricity, 2 vols. 1857; The improved induction coil 1861, 3 ed, 1868; The students text-book of electricity 1867, new ed. 1879. d. at residence of his son Henry Carden Noad, surgeon, High st. Lower Norwood, Surrey 23 July 1877. Engineer 3 Aug. 1877 pp. 70, 76–7.

NOAKE, JOHN (son of Thomas Noake). b. Sherborne, Dorset 29 Nov. 1816; engaged on Berrow’s Worcester Journal at Worcester 1838, then on the Worcestershire Chronicle; sub-editor of the Worcester Herald to about 1874; sheriff of Worcester 1878, alderman and mayor 1879; magistrate 1882; one of hon. secretaries of Worcester Diocesan architectural and archæological society many years, presented with a testimonial on his retirement July 1892; author of The rambler in Worcestershire, notes on churches and congregations 1851–4, 2 vols.; Worcester in olden times 1849; Notes and queries for Worcestershire 1856; Worcester sects, a history of its Roman catholics and dissenters 1861; The monastery and cathedral of Worcester 1866; Noake’s guide to Worcestershire 1868; Worcestershire relics 1877; Worcestershire nuggets, by an Old Digger 1889. d. 2 St. Mary’s terrace, London road, Worcester 12 Sept. 1894. bur. Astwood road cemet. 15 Sept. Berrow’s Worcester Journal 15 Sept. 1894.

NOAKES, WILLIAM. Landlord of the new Opera hotel, 27 Bow st. Covent Garden, London 1852–73, celebrated for its suppers after the theatres, this hotel was formerly known as the Garrick’s Head, the last night of its being open was 8 Nov. 1873; Noakes greatly resembled Edward Wright the comedian of the Adelphi theatre. E. L. Blanchard’s Life ii 433 (1891).

NOBBS, GEORGE HUNN (son of a marquess by the dau. of an Irish baronet). b. 16 Oct. 1799; served in royal navy Nov. 1811 to 1816; served on board an 18-gun ship belonging to the patriots in South America 1816, captured by the Spaniards and imprisoned at Callao 1817; made a lieutenant in Chilian navy 1820 for helping to cut out Spanish frigate Esmeralda at Callao 5 Nov. 1820; settled on Pitcairn Island 5 Nov. 1828, succeeded John Adams as pastor and teacher of the islanders 29 March 1829; ordained priest by bishop of London and appointed a missionary of the Society for the propagation of the gospel Oct. and Nov, 1852; relanded on Pitcairn Island 14 May 1853; the islanders under Nobbs removed to Norfolk Island 8 June 1856, where they were given a model constitution by sir W. T. Denison, governor-general of the Australian colonies. d. The Chaplaincy, Norfolk Island 5 Nov. 1884. A sermon in St. Mary’s chapel, Park st. Grosvenor square on 12 Dec. 1852 by G. H. Nobbs, with notices of Mr. Nobbs and his flock (1852) portrait; Lady Belcher’s Mutineers of the Bounty (1870) 186 et seq. portrait.

NOBLE, JAMES (2 son of Isaac Noble, who served in the British army against the Americans, killed 1778). b. 1774; entered navy 1787; lieut. of the Agamemnon under Nelson 9 March 1796, badly wounded at Loano 25 April 1796; Nelson’s flag-lieutenant on board the Captain at battle of St. Vincent, during the battle he boarded the San Nicolas for which he was made commander 27 Feb. 1797; commanded the sea fencibles on the coast of Sussex March 1798 to 29 April 1802; captain 29 April 1802; retired R.A. 10 Jany. 1837, moved to the active list 17 Aug. 1840, V.A. 9 Nov. 1846. d. London 24 Oct. 1851. Autobiography of James Noble, privately printed about 1830.

NOBLE, JOHN. b. Boston, Lincs. 2 May 1827; supported the Anti-Corn law league 17 years; came to London 1859 and entered for the bar; a founder of the Alliance national land and building society; founded with Washington Wilks, and others the London political union for the advocacy of manhood suffrage 1860; financial and parliamentary agent with C. F. Macdonald 1864, they promoted street railways in London, Liverpool, and Dublin, the firm being J. Noble and Co. 1865; a founder of the Financial reform union 1868; parliamentary secretary to A. Brogden, M.P. for Wednesbury 1870; secretary of the County council union 1889; lecturer to the Financial reform association 1862–5; delivered lectures on political and social subjects; author of Arbitration and a congress of nations as a substitute for war in the settlement of international disputes 1862; Fiscal legislation 1842–65, 1867; Free trade, reciprocity, and the revivers 1869; Our imports and exports 1870. d. London 17 Jany. 1892. bur. Highgate 21 Jany. John Noble’s Facts for politicians (1892), memoir pp. iii–viii portrait.

NOBLE, JOSEPH WILLIAM (eld. son of John Noble, V. of Frisby-on-the-Wreake, Leics. d. 1840). b. Frisby-on-the-Wreake, 1799; L.S.A. 1819; M.R.C.S. 1820; M.B. Cambridge 1831; physician to Leicester general infirmary to 1856; mayor of Leicester 1858; M.P. Leicester 2 May 1859 to death. d. Malaga, Spain 6 Jany. 1861.

NOBLE, MATTHEW. b. Hackness, Yorkshire 1818; pupil in London of John Francis, the sculptor; exhibited 100 works, chiefly busts, at the R.A. 1845–76; executed a relievo in bronze The bridge of sighs, and another of The dream of Eugene Aram for the monument over Thomas Hood’s grave 1854; executed the Wellington monument at Manchester 1856, and a marble statue of the Prince consort nine feet high, forming part of the Albert memorial in Albert sq. Manchester 1866; executed the statues of sir John Franklin in Waterloo place 1866, sir James Outram on the Victoria embankment, London, unveiled 17 Aug. 1871, of the Queen at St. Thomas’s hospital, and of the earl of Derby in Parliament sq. 1874. d. 43 Abingdon villas, Kensington 23 June 1876. bur. Brompton cemet. his widow Frances Mary Noble granted civil list pension of £150, 10 March 1877. W. Smith’s Old Yorkshire ii 82–3 (1890) portrait; I.L.N. lxix 37, 38, 178, (1876) portrait; Graphic xiv 12 (1876) portrait.

NOBLE, ROBERT TURLINGTON (brother of J. W. Noble, bapt. Frisby 9 March 1809; educ. Oakham gr. sch. 1822–7; entered Sidney Sussex coll. Camb. Oct. 1827; B.A. 1834; migrated to Christ’s coll.; private tutor to sir Thomas Blomfield’s sons 1831–8; C. of Old Dalby, Leics. 1839–41; missionary at Masulipatam, Madras 1841 to death, where he opened a native English school for education of the upper classes 21 Nov. 1843, which was very successful. d. Masulipatam 17 Oct. 1865. J. Noble’s Memoir of R. T. Noble (1867); J. J. Higginbotham’s Men whom India has known (1874) 332–6.

NOBLE, SAMUEL (son of Edward Noble, bookseller, d. 1784). b. London 4 March 1779; apprenticed to an engraver and practised as an architectural engraver, retired from practice 1819; became a Swedenborgian about 1799, helped to found the Society for printing and publishing the writings of Emmanuel Swedenborg 1810; chief editor of and principal writer in The intellectual repository and new Jerusalem magazine 1812–40; ordained on Whitsunday 1820; minister of the Swedenborg church in Lisle st. Leicester square, the congregation purchased Edward Irving’s chapel 15 Cross st. Hatton Garden about 1829, where he preached to his death; lost his eye sight 1848; held that our Lord’s body was not resuscitated but dissipated in the grave and replaced at the resurrection by a new and divine frame, a great controversy arose between the dissipationists and resuscitationists, and a Noble Society was formed to support his position; author of The doctrine of the scriptures respecting the divine Trinity 1821; The plenary inspiration of the scriptures asserted 1825, 2 ed. 1856; An appeal on behalf of the views of the eternal world and state held by the christians who believe that a new church is signified by the New Jerusalem 1826, 3 ed. 1855; Important doctrines of true christian religion explained 1846; The divine law of the ten commandments explained 1848; Book of Judges, sermons in explanation of first eleven chapters 1856; Eight parables explained in twenty three sermons 1857. d. London 27 Aug. 1853. bur. Highgate cemet. where is monument. S. Noble’s An appeal, 3 ed. (1855), memoir pp. v–xviii; W. White’s Life of E. Swedenborg (1867) i 230, ii 613; F. T. Cansick’s Epitaphs (1872) 180–1.

NOBLE, WILLIAM BLACKMORE. b. June 1789; entered R.N. 18 Aug. 1803 as a volunteer; wrecked off Malta 10 Aug. 1810; mate of the Lively and Bellona at the surrender of Vigo; saw boat service on north coast of Spain and in the Basque Roads for which he received a medal; present at surrender of Sebastian, medal; commanded party placing scaling ladders at storming of Fort Erie 1814; lieut. of the Charwell schooner 27 Aug. 1814; on h.p. from Sept. 1815; commander 18 June 1869. d. 16 March 1889, aged nearly 100. Memoirs of Capt. George M’Kinley.

NOBLE, WILLIAM HENRY (eld. son of Robert Noble, R. of Athboy, co. Meath). b. Laniskea, co. Fermanagh 14 Oct. 1834; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1856, M.A. 1859; lieut. R.A. 6 March 1856, lieut. col. 1 Nov. 1882, placed on h.p. 1 July 1885; temporary M.G. 13 Oct. 1889; associate member of the ordnance select committee for carrying out ballistic and other experiments in scientific gunnery 1861–8; on the staff of the director-general of ordnance 1868, member of experimental branch of that department at Woolwich 8 Dec 1868 to 1 April 1876; staff officer of the field train of the Candahar field force in the Afghan war Nov. 1878; member of the ordnance committee 1 April 1881 to 31 March 1884; superintendent of royal gunpowder factory at Waltham abbey 1 July 1885 to death; large quantities of prismatic gunpowder were manufactured there, he patented this discovery 1886; the discovery of cordite is also largely due to him; author of Useful tables, compiled for the use of artillerymen 1874; Report of various experiments relative to the penetration of iron armour-plates by steel shot 1886; Descent of W. H. Noble from the blood royal of England 1889. d. Thrift hall, Waltham abbey 17 May 1892. I.L.N. 28 May 1892 p. 651 portrait; Daily Graphic 23 May 1892 p. 4 portrait.

NODDALL, CORNELIUS THOMAS AUGUSTUS. b. 1812 or 1813; master attendant royal Clarence victualling yard, Gosport 1 April 1858 to 1 Dec. 1864; master attendant and harbour master Deptford dockyard 1 Dec. 1864 to 14 Oct. 1867; commander 22 Feb. 1860; retired captain 14 Oct. 1867; C.B. 24 May 1873. d. St. Bernards, Torquay 22 June 1874.

NOEL, BAPTIST WRIOTHESLEY (youngest child of sir Gerard Noel-Noel, 2 baronet 1759–1838). b. Leightmount, Scotland 16 July 1798; educ. Westminster 1810–3, and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1821; C. of Cossington, Leics.; minister of St. John’s chapel, Bedford row, London 1827 to 3 Dec. 1848; his anti-corn law tract A plea for the poor 1841 produced many replies; chaplain in ordinary to the queen Aug. 1841–9; a founder of the Evangelical Alliance 1846; preached at the Scottish church in Regent sq. London 25 March 1849; took the oaths prescribed by 52 Geo. III, cap. 155, and preached in the Weigh House chapel May 1849; publicly rebaptised by immersion in the Baptist chapel, John st. Bedford row 9 Aug. 1849, minister of the chapel 9 Aug. 1849 to 15 July 1868, when he was presented with a purse containing one thousand guineas; president of the Baptist Union 1855 and 1867; author of Meditations on sickness and old age 1837; Notes of a tour through the Midland counties of Ireland 1837; The first five centuries of the church 1839; A plea for the poor, showing how the repeal of the corn laws will affect the working classes 1841, 29th thousand 1841; Christian missions to heathen nations 1842; Sermons, 2 vols. 1859, and upwards of 50 other works. d. Stanmore, Middlesex 19 Jany. 1873. J. R. Dix’s Pulpit portraits (Boston 1854) 245–56; J. E. Ritchie’s The London pulpit, 2 ed. (1858) 147–54; Pen and ink sketches, 2 ed. (1847) 240–4; Drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages, 4th series, (1860) portrait; I.L.N. xv 141 (1849) portrait, lxii 91, 104, 106 (1873) portrait; Graphic vii 99, 100 (1873) portrait.

NOEL, GERARD THOMAS (brother of preceding). b. 2 Dec. 1782; educ. Edinb. and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1805, M.A. 1808; C. of Radwell, Herts.; C. of Rainham, Essex; hon. canon of Winchester 13 March 1834 to death; V. of Romsey, Hants. 30 Nov. 1840 to death, restored the parish church; author of A selection of psalms and hymns from the new version 1820; Arvendel, or sketches in Italy and Switzerland 1826; Sermons for the use of families 1826, 1827, 2 vols.; A brief inquiry into the prospects of the church of Christ 1828; Sermons preached at Romsey 1853. d. Romsey vicarage 24 Feb. 1851.

NOEL, RODEN BERKELEY WRIOTHESLEY (4 son of 1 earl of Gainsborough 1781–1866). b. 27 Aug. 1834; educ. Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1858; travelled in the East 1858–60; a member of the English Alpine club; a groom of the privy chamber to the queen 1867–71; author of Behind the veil and other poems 1863; Beatrice and other poems 1868; The red flag and other poems 1872; Livingstone in Africa, a poem 1874; The house of Ravensbury, a drama 1877; A little child’s monument 1881, an account of his own son Eric; A philosophy of immortality 1882; Songs of the heights and deeps 1885; Essays on poetry and poets 1886; A modern Faust and other poems 1888; Life of Lord Byron 1890, in the Great Writer’s series; Poor people’s Christmas, a poem 1890; edited A selection from the poems of Edmund Spenser 1887; Thomas Otway 1888 in the Mermaid series. d. in a cab on his way to the hotel at Mainz on the Rhine 26 May 1894. A. H. Miles’s Poets of the nineteenth century vi 81–146 (1893); Academy 2 June 1894 p. 456; Westminster Budget 6 June 1894 p. 31 portrait.

NOEL, THOMAS (eld. son of rev. Thomas Noel, R. of Kirkby-Mallory, Leics.) b. Kirkby-Mallory 11 May 1799; educ. Merton coll. Oxf., B.A. 1824; lived at Boyne hill, near Maidenhead many years; corresponded with Miss M. R. Mitford, who in her recollections of a literary life, i 51–5 (1852) quotes at full length his poems The pauper’s drive and A Thames voyage; author of The cottage muse 1833; Village verse 1841; Rymes and roundelays 1841, which includes The pauper’s drive, set to music by Henry Russell 1839; wrote the words of the well-known song Rocked in the cradle of the deep. d. Brighton 16 May 1861. James Payn’s Literary Recollections (1884) 87–92.

NOEL, WRIOTHESLY BAPTIST (eld. son of B. W. Noel 1798–1873). b. Thorpe hall, Walthamstow, Essex 15 Aug. 1827; educ. Trin. coll. Camb.; barrister M.T. 22 Nov. 1850; landed in Melbourne Nov. 1852; barrister in Victoria 21 Sept. 1854; police magistrate for county of Bourke at Melbourne 8 Jany. 1855; deputy chairman of general sessions July 1857; chief comr. of insolvent estates 28 March 1859; judge of insolvent court for Melbourne 1 Feb. 1871 to death. d. Denby road, Brighton, Melbourne 19 May 1886. Law Journal 24 July 1886 pp. 443–4.

NOLAN, FREDERICK (3 son of Edward Nolan of St. Peter’s, Dublin). b. Old Rathmines castle, co. Dublin 9 Feb. 1784; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 1796; matric. as a gentleman commoner of Exeter coll. Oxf. 19 Nov. 1803; B.C.L. 1828, having passed for the degree in 1805, D.C.L. 1828; ordained Aug. 1806; curate of Woodford, Hackney, and St. Bennet Fink, London successively; Boyle lecturer 1814, Bampton lecturer 1833, Warburtonian lecturer 1833–6; V. of Prittlewell, Essex 25 Oct. 1822 to death; F.R.S.L. 1828; F.R.S. 7 Feb. 1833; author of The romantick mythology in two parts 1809; An inquiry into the nature and extent of poetick licence 1810, under pseudonym of Nicholas Aylward Vigors, jun., Esq.; The operations of the Holy Ghost, illustrated and confirmed by scriptural authorities 1813; An inquiry into the integrity of the Greek vulgate 1815, supplement 1830; Fragments of a civick feast: by a Reformer 1819; A harmonical grammar of the principal ancient and modern languages, 2 parts 1822; Marriage with a deceased wife’s sister. By Sarah Search 1855. d. Geraldstown house, co. Navan 16 Sept. 1864. bur. Navan churchyard. G.M. Dec. 1864 p. 788–91.

NOLAN, JAMES. b. Ireland 1742; a tenant of the earl of Bessborough; his portrait taken and sent to the queen 1852; fully 6 feet in height; retained his faculties to his decease. d. Knockindrane, co. Carlow 24 April 1858, aged 115 years and 9 months. G.M. iv 680 (1858).

NOLAN, JOSEPH. b. Birmingham 1840; pugilist weighing 8 stone 10 pounds; beat Flanery 23 March 1857, Ensor 20 April 1858; and G. Henley 10 Aug. 1858; beat John Hicks £60 a side, 45 rounds in 85 minutes near Aldershot 15 March 1859; beat Hicks again £60 a side, 66 rounds in 2 hours and 45 minutes down the Thames 7 Feb. 1860; fought a drawn battle with Daniel Thomas for £200 a side, 20 rounds in 90 minutes near Oxford 8 April 1862; fought a drawn battle with Richard Fellowes £25 a side, 85 minutes at Four Ashes, Staffs. 16 Aug. 1864. d. at his mother’s residence, in the house in which he was born, Birmingham 29 June 1867. bur. Nechell’s Green cemet. 4 July. Illust. sporting news i 21, 37, 38 (1862) portrait, vi 441 (1867) portrait.

NOLAN, LEWIS EDWARD (son of Babington Nolan, capt. 70 regt., vice-consul at Milan, d. 1837). b. about 1820; educ. Milan military college; a cavalry officer in the Austrian service, served in Hungary and on the Polish frontier as an officer in an Hungarian hussar regiment; ensign 4 foot 15 March 1839; cornet 15 hussars 23 April 1839, captain 8 March 1850, placed on h.p. Aug. 1854; A.D.C. to sir G. F. Berkeley in Madras 1840; extra A.D.C. to sir Henry Pottinger, governor of Madras 1840; riding master to 15 hussars in India; the most noted horseman of his day; spoke 5 European languages and several Indian dialects; A.D.C. to Richard Airey, Q.M.G. in the Crimea 1854; present at battle of the Alma; author of System of training cavalry horses. By Kenner Garrard 1853. Cavalry, its history and tactics 1853; The training of cavalry remount horses 1861. killed at battle of Balaklava in the Crimea 25 Oct. 1854. G. Ryan’s Our heroes of the Crimea (1855) 40–3; I.L.N. xxv 528 (1854) portrait, xxviii 462 (1856) view of tombstone at Maidstone; Kinglake’s Invasion of the Crimea, vols. ii, iii, and v (1877).

NOTE.—At Balaklava 25 Oct. 1854 he brought an order from lord Raglan to lord Lucan, desiring him to prevent the Russians from carrying away some English guns. This order being misunderstood led to the charge of the light brigade and a great waste of life.

NOLAN, THOMAS. b. 1809; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1831, M.A. 1833, D.D. 1857; C. of St. Peter’s, Stockport 1837; V. of St. Barnabas, Liverpool 1841–9; minister of St. John’s chapel, Bedford row, London 1849–54; V. of Acton, Cheshire 1854–7; V. of St. Peter’s, Regent sq. London 1857–73; V. of St. Saviours, Paddington 1873 to death; author of The pastor’s account and the pastor’s duty, two sermons 1850; The christian sabbath and the Sydenham palace 1854; The vicarious sacrifice of Christ the only foundation for the sinner’s hope, the only motive to the christian’s holiness 1860. d. 22 Warrington crescent, London 19 Nov. 1882. Guardian 22 Nov. 1882 p. 1639.

NOLDWRITT, JOHN SPENCER. b. 1815; custom house agent at Custom house court, Beer lane, London 1841, afterwards at 5 Water lane, Great Tower st.; hon. sec. of Camberwell lecture hall, library and reading-room in Carter st. Walworth, founded 31 March 1845; F.R.A.S.; F.R.G.S. d. 44 Benhill road, Brunswick sq. Camberwell 1 Jany. 1891. Blanch’s Camberwell (1877) 358–9.

NOLLOTH, MATTHEW STAINTON. b. 1810; entered navy 27 Aug. 1824; lieut. 28 June 1838; as senior lieut. of the Childers he distinguished himself in the operations in the Yang-tse-Kiang in 1843; captain 21 Feb. 1856, retired 1 April 1870; retired R.A. 11 June 1874; retired V.A. 1 Feb. 1879; F.R.G.S.; F.M.S.; member of Soc of Arts 1879, and on committee for protection of ships from fire and from loss by sinking. d. 13 North terrace, Camberwell 11 May 1882. Journal of Society of Arts xxx 751 (1882).

NOON, JEREMIAH, the assumed name of John Calvin. b. London 5 June 1829; employed in Calvert’s brewery; pugilist 5 feet 8 inches in height and 9 stone 4 pounds in weight; beat Young Greek 1849 and Wm. Gray 1849; beat J. Hazeltine £50 a side, 86 rounds in 3 hours and 12 minutes at Frimley 16 April 1850; fought a drawn battle with James Massey £100 a side, 88 rounds in 3 hours at Dean Wiltshire 19 Nov. 1850; beat Hazeltine again £50 a side, 78 rounds in 3 hours and 10 minutes at Long Reach 17 Aug. 1852; beat George Lane £100 a side, 21 rounds in 44 minutes at Long Reach 5 April 1853; beat Plantagenet Green the Black £50 a side, 34 rounds in 82 minutes at Half-way House 7 Jany. 1854; fought Wm. Barry £100 a side, 16 rounds in 90 minutes at Shell Haven 1 Dec 1854, they renewed the fight 23 Dec. when the referee declared it a drawn battle; was second to John Jones in his fight with Mike Madden at Long Reach 11 Dec. 1855, when Jones was killed, Noon was tried for manslaughter at Maidstone 14 March 1856 and acquitted; called Jerry or young Noon after Anthony Noon, the pugilist, who was killed by Owen Swift in a fight 26 June 1834; second of Tom King in his fight with James Mace 28 Jany. 1862. d. of consumption in St. George’s hospital, London 1 Aug. 1871. bur. Tooting cemet. 5 Aug. John Hannen’s British Boxing (1851) 32–3; Illust. sporting news iii 449 (1864) portrait.

NORCLIFFE, NORCLIFFE (son of Thomas Dalton 1756–1820, who assumed the name of Norcliffe 1807). b. 24 Sept. 1791; lieut. 4 dragoons 28 April 1808, captain 29 Feb. 1816; served in the Peninsula; major 17 lancers 20 Dec. 1821, placed on h.p. 22 May 1823; M.G. 31 Aug. 1855; K.H. 1836; had a residence Langton hall, Malton, Yorkshire. d. 6 Warwick st. Charing Cross, London 8 Feb. 1862.

NORCOTT, SIR WILLIAM SHERBROOKE RAMSAY (son of sir Amos Norcott, G.C.H.) b. Chelmsford 24 Dec. 1804; 2 lieut. rifle brigade 13 June 1822, lieut. col. 22 Dec. 1854; lieut. col. depôt battalion 1 Oct. 1856 to 13 Jany. 1860; served in Crimea 1854–5; commanded a wing of the rifle brigade at the Alma; at first bombardment of Sebastopol, medal with two clasps; A.D.C. to the Queen 29 June 1855 to 10 Dec. 1868; assistant adjutant general Cork 26 Nov. 1863 to 28 Nov. 1867; lieut. governor of Jersey 1 Oct. 1873 to 30 Sept. 1878; col. of 47 foot 20 March 1878 to 14 Sept. 1885; placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1878; general 14 July 1879; col. commandant rifle brigade 14 Sept. 1885 to death; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 2 June 1877. d. St. Leonard’s-on-sea 23 Jany. 1886.

NORFOLK, HENRY CHARLES FITZALAN HOWARD, 13 Duke of (only child of 12 duke of Norfolk 1765–1842). b. George st. Hanover sq. London 12 Aug. 1791; styled earl of Surrey 1815–42; M.P. Horsham 1829–32, the first Roman catholic to take the oath and his seat; M.P. West Sussex 1832–41; treasurer of the household 1837–41; P.C. 19 July 1837; captain of yeomen of the guard 5 July to 8 Sept. 1841; summoned to house of lords as baron Maltravers 11 Aug. 1841; succeeded as 13 duke 16 March 1842; earl marshall of England 16 March 1842; took the name of Fitzalan before Howard by R.L. 26 April 1842; master of the horse 1846–52; K.G. 4 May 1848; lord steward of the household 1853–4; president of royal botanical society; after the papal aggression in 1850 he abjured Romanism and conformed to the church of England, but was reconciled to R.C. religion on his death bed by canon Tierney, which fact is mentioned on his coffin plate. d. Arundel castle, Sussex 18 Feb. 1856. bur. in chapel attached to Arundel parish church 26 Feb. G.M. xlv 419 (1856); Burke’s Portrait gallery i 141 (1833) portrait of Charlotte, duchess of Norfolk, d. 1870; Doyle’s Baronage ii 603 (1886) portrait.

NORFOLK, Henry Granville Fitzalan-Howard, 14 Duke of (1 son of preceding). b. Great Stanhope st. London 7 Nov. 1815; styled lord Fitz-Alan 1815–42; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.; cornet royal horse guards 9 Jany. 1835, retired as captain; M.P. Arundel 1837–51; formally joined R.C. church in Paris 1842; styled earl of Arundel and Surrey 1842–56; M.P. Limerick 1851–2; succeeded as 14 Duke 18 Feb. 1856; declined the Garter when offered to him by lord Palmerston 1856; earl marshall of England 18 Feb. 1856; edited Lives of Philip Howard, earl of Arundel, and of Anne Dacres, his wife 1857, 2 ed. 1861; author of A few remarks on the condition of British catholics 1847; Letter on the bull In Cœna Domini 1848; Observations on diplomatic relations with Rome 1848. d. Arundel castle, Sussex 25 Nov. 1860. bur. in Fitzalan chapel, Arundel 6 Dec. G.M. x 98 (1861); I.L.N. xviii 77 (1851) portrait, xxxvii 539, 544 (1860) portrait.

NORGATE, THOMAS STARLING (son of Elias Norgate, surgeon). b. Norwich 20 Aug. 1772; educ. Norwich gr. sch. 1780–8, and New college, Hackney; student at Lincoln’s inn; wrote for the Analytical review till it ceased 1799; wrote the half-yearly retrospect of domestic literature in the Monthly magazine 1797–1807; wrote nearly a seventh part of Arthur Aikin’s Annual review 1802–8; wrote for the Monthly review; helped to found the Norfolk and Norwich horticultural society 1829; edited the East Anglian, a weekly newspaper published at Norwich 1830–3; edited sir W. Jones’ The principles of government 1797; author of Essays, tales and poems, Norwich 1795. d. Hethersett, Norfolk 7 July 1859.

NORGATE, THOMAS STARLING (4 son of the preceding). b. 30 Dec. 1807; educ. Norwich gr. sch. and Gonville and Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1832; C. of Briningham 1832, C. of Clay-next-the-Sea, and C. of Banningham, all in Norfolk; R. of Sparham, Norfolk 21 April 1840 to death; author of Batrachomyomachia, an Homeric fable reproduced in dramatic blank verse 1863; The Odyssey in dramatic blank verse 1863; The Iliad in dramatic blank verse 1864. d. Sparham 25 Nov. 1893.

NORMAN, ALEXANDER (3 son of Luke Norman of Dublin). b. 1810; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1831, M.A. 1835; called to bar in Ireland 1833; Q.C. 26 May 1858; had a large equity practice; resided 26 Rutland square, Dublin; while on a visit d. of heart disease by the roadside at Lynton 14 Sept. 1870. bur. Mount Jerome cemetery, Dublin 22 Sept. The North Devon Journal 22 Sept. 1870 p. 6, 29 Sept. p. 5; Law Journal v 547–48 (1870).

NORMAN, GEORGE (eld. son of James Norman, surgeon at Bath). b. 2 Sept. 1782; M.R.C.S. 1801, F.R.C.S. 1843; V.P. British medical assoc.; surgeon to the Casualty hospital, Bath 1817–26; first surgeon of Bath united hospital 1826–57, his bust placed in the hospital 1858; presented with a testimonial from the working men of Bath; sent papers to the Medico-chirurgical transactions; for many years he made £4,000 per annum. d. 1 Circus, Bath 17 Jany. 1861, memorial window placed in Abbey church, Bath Dec. 1862. Lancet i 127 1861.

NORMAN, GEORGE WARDE (son of George Norman 1756–1830, sheriff of Kent 1793). b. Bromley common, Kent 20 Sept. 1793; educ. Eton 1805–10; in business with his father as merchants in the Norway timber trade 1810, carried on the business alone 1824–30, when he transferred it to Sewell & Co.; a director of Bank of England 1821–72; examined before parliamentary committees on currency 1832, 1840, and 1848; an exchequer bill comr. 1831, a public works loan comr. 1842–76; the last surviving original member of the Political economy club, founded 1821; a director of the Sun Insurance office 1830–64; great friend of George Grote, who wrote the History of Greece at his suggestion; author of Remarks upon some prevailing errors with respect to currency and banking 1833, republished 1838; Letter to Charles Wood, esq. on money and the means of economising the use of it 1841; An examination of some prevailing opinions as to the pressure of taxation in this and other countries 1850, 4 ed. 1864; Papers on various subjects 1869; A memoir on the life of the rev. F. Beadon 1879. d. 90 Common, Bromley, Kent 4 Sept. 1882. Economist 9 Sept. 1882 p. 1125, 30 Sept. pp. 1209–11.

NORMAN, JOHN PAXTON (eld. son of John Norman of Claverham house, Gatton, Somerset 1777–1837). b. Congresbury, Somerset 21 Oct. 1819; educ. Exeter gram. sch. and Ex. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844; practised as a special pleader; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1852; one of judges of high court of Bengal May 1861 to death; filled office of chief justice temporarily 1864 and 1871; author of The law and practice of copyright 1851; A treatise on letters patent for inventions 1853; with E. T. Hurlstone Reports of cases in the courts of exchequer and exchequer chamber 1856–62, 7 vols. 1857–62; stabbed by an assassin on the steps of his court at Calcutta 20 Sept. 1871. d. in a house near the court at 1 a.m. 21 Sept. Graphic iv 375, 381 (1871) portrait; I.L.N. lix 333, 334, 618 (1871) portrait.

NORMANBY, CONSTANTINE HENRY PHIPPS, 1 Marquess of (1 child of H. Phipps, 1 earl Mulgrave 1755–1831). b. Mulgrave castle, Yorkshire 15 May 1797; styled viscount Normanby 1812–31; educ. Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1818; M.P. Scarborough 1818–20; M.P. Higham Ferrers, Northants 1822–6; M.P. Malton, Yorkshire 1826–30; succeeded as 2 earl Mulgrave 7 April 1831; governor of Jamaica 1832–4; P.C. 30 May 1832; G.C.H. 1832; lord keeper of the privy seal 30 July to 30 Nov. 1834; lord lieutenant of Ireland 1835–9, sworn in 11 May 1835; grand master of order of St. Patrick 1835–9; cr. marquess of Normanby, co. York 25 June 1838; sec. of state for colonial department 20 Feb. to 20 Aug. 1839, and for home department 30 Aug. 1839 to 6 Sept. 1841; ambassador to Paris 1846–52; G.C.B. 10 Dec. 1847; K.G. 19 Feb. 1851; envoy to Florence 1854–8; author of Matilda, a tale of the day, 2 vols. 1825; Yes and no, a novel, 2 vols. 1827; The English in France 1828; The contrast, a novel 3 vols. 1832; A year of revolution from a journal kept in Paris in 1848, 2 vols. 1857; The congress and the cabinet 1859, 4 ed. 1860; An historical sketch of Louise de Bourbon, duchess regent of Parma 1861; A vindication of the duke of Modena from the charges of Mr. Gladstone 1861, 2 ed. 1861. d. 9 Kensington Gore, South Kensington, London 28 July 1863. W. Bates’s Maclise portrait gallery (1883) 331–3 portrait; G. Smales’s Whitby authors (1867) 153–9; St. Stephens, By Mask (1839) 164–72; Jerdan’s National portrait gallery v (1834) portrait; Saunders’s Portraits of reformers (1840) 124 portrait; Taylor’s National portrait gallery ii 92 (1846) portrait; I.L.N. iv 101 (1844) portrait; J. E. Doyle’s Official baronage ii 607 (1884) portrait.

NORMANBY, GEORGE AUGUSTUS CONSTANTINE PHIPPS, 2 Marquess of (only son of the preceding). b. 23 July 1819; styled viscount Normanby 1831–8, and earl of Mulgrave 1838–63; ensign Scots fusilier guards 9 Nov. 1838, sold out 29 Sept. 1843; major North York regt. of militia 1846–53; M.P. Scarborough 1847–51; contested Scarborough 19 July 1851; M.P. Scarborough 1852–7; comptroller of the household 23 July 1851 to 27 Feb. 1852, and treasurer 4 Jany. 1853 to Feb. 1858; P.C. 7 Aug. 1851; lieut. governor of Nova Scotia Jany. 1858 to May 1866; second marquess of Normanby 28 July 1863; hon. col. Tower hamlets rifle volunteers 23 Dec. 1863; lord in waiting to the queen 8 May to 6 July 1866, and 17 Dec. 1868 to 17 Dec. 1869; high steward of Hull; capt. of hon. corps of gentlemen at arms 17 Dec. 1869 to Jany. 1871; governor and commander in chief of Queensland 8 April 1871 to 1874, of New Zealand 5 Sept. 1874 to 1878, and of Victoria 24 Feb. 1879 to April 1884; K.C.M.G. 9 March 1874, G.C.M.G. 30 May 1877; G.C.B. 9 Jany. 1885. d. 6 Brunswick ter. Brighton 3 April 1890. bur. Lythe church, Whitby 10 April. Athenæum ii 504–6 (1877); W. Gisborne’s New Zealand rulers (1886) 261 portrait; C. Brown’s Life of lord Beaconsfield i 306 (1852) portrait; Graphic 26 April 1890 p. 533 portrait; I.L.N. xxxii 200 (1858) portrait, xlviii 144 (1866) portrait; Governor Normanby’s visit to Gympie, with account of the Gympie gold fields, Gympie (1873); The visit of his excellency the governor of the North. Auckland (1876).

NORMANDY, ALPHONSE RENÉ LE MIRE DE. b. Rouen, France 23 Oct. 1809; educ. for the medical profession; studied chemistry in Germany under Gmelin; patented indelible inks and dies 1839; patented a method of hardening soap made from soft goods by the addition of sulphate of soda 1841; patented in 1851 an apparatus for distilling sea-water to obtain pure water for drinking, this is largely used on board ships, the manufacture of these stills is carried on by Normandy’s Patent marine ærated fresh water company near the Victoria docks, London; a consulting and analytical chemist some years; F.C.S. 20 May 1854; resided in England about 1843 to death; author of A guide to the alkali metrical chest 1849; Handbook of chemical analysis 1850, 2 ed. 1875; The chemical atlas 1855; The dictionaries of the chemical atlas 1857. d. Odin lodge, Clapham park, London 10 May 1864. G.M. i 813 (1864), ii 120 (1864); I.L.N. xlv 105, 106 (1864) portrait.

NORMANTON, WELBORE ELLIS AGAR, 2 Earl of (eld. son of 1 earl of Normanton 1736–1809, who was archbishop of Dublin). b. 12 Nov. 1778; styled viscount Somerton to 1809; succeeded 14 July 1809; built a fine gallery at Somerley, near Ringwood, Hants 1854, for his collection of Italian, Spanish, French, and English paintings, gallery especially rich in sir Joshua Reynolds’ pictures. d. 3 Seamore place, London 26 Aug. 1868, personalty sworn under £700,000, 31 Oct. 1868. Waagen’s Galleries of Art (1857) 363–73; Register and Mag. of Biography Feb. 1869 p. 164; Times 27 Aug. 1868 p. 7.

NORRIS, CHARLES (younger son of John Norris of Marylebone, merchant). b. 24 Aug. 1779; educ. Eton; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 26 Oct. 1797; cornet 13 dragoons 21 Feb. 1799, sold out 1800; resided at Tenby 1810 to death; published three numbers of The architectural antiquities of Wales, vol. 1, Pembrokeshire 1810, the 3 numbers were re-issued in one vol. 1811 under title of St. Davids, in a series of engravings illustrating the different ecclesiastical edifices of that ancient city; Etchings of Tenby 1812, containing 40 engravings drawn and etched by himself; author of An historical account of Tenby and its vicinity 1818, 2 ed. 1856. d. Tenby 16 Oct. 1858.

NORRIS, EDWIN. b. Taunton 24 Oct. 1795; tutor to an English family in France and Italy; clerk in office of East India Co. London 1825–36; assistant secretary of Royal Asiatic society 1836, secretary 1859, hon. secretary and librarian 1861 to death, edited the Society’s Journal many years; translator in Foreign office 29 May 1847, retired upon a superannuation allowance 31 March 1866; an Assyriologist and one of the earliest decipherers of cuneiform inscriptions, deciphered the rock inscription of King Asoka near Kapur di Giri 1845; hon. Ph.D. Bonn for his discoveries in deciphering cuneiform inscriptions 1855; author of Outlines of a vocabulary of a few of the principal languages of western and central Africa 1841; A specimen of the Van language of West Africa 1851; The ancient Cornish drama, 2 vols. Oxford 1859; Assyrian dictionary, parts i–iii 1868–72; conducted The ethnographical library, 2 vols. 1853–4. d. 6 Michael’s Grove, Brompton, London 10 Dec. 1872, a bust of him placed in Shire hall, Taunton July 1876. Numismatic Chronicle xiv 19–24 (1874).

NORRIS, JAMES (son of rev. Wm. Norris of Warblington, Hants.). b. Warblington 19 Dec. 1796; educ. Trin. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1822, B.D. 1829, D.D. 1843; scholar of C.C. coll. Oxf. 20 Oct. 1815, fellow 10 Oct. 1822–43, bursar 1830, president 16 Sept. 1843 to death; the college purchased the Lee Grange estate in Bucks. for £57,500 June 1869. d. 16 April 1872. bur. in college cloisters, where is memorial tablet. T. Fowler’s History of Corpus Christi college (1893) 75, 304, 318–9, 326.

NORRIS, JOHN PILKINGTON (son of Thomas Norris, physician). b. Chester 10 June 1823; educ. Rugby and Trin. coll. Camb., scholar, fellow 1848; B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849, B.D. 1875, D.D. 1881; C. of Trumpington, Cambs. 1849; an inspector of schools in Staffs., Shropshire, and Cheshire 6 Oct. 1849 to 1863, and in Kent and Surrey 1863–4; C. of Lewknor, Oxfordshire 1864; canon of Bristol 14 July 1865 to death; P.C. of Hatchford, Surrey 1864–70; V. of St. George, Brandon Hill, Bristol 1870; rural dean of Bristol 1876; V. of St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol 1877–8; archdeacon of Bristol Aug. 1881 to death; examining chaplain to bishop Fraser of Manchester 1870–85; inspector of church training colleges 1871–6; appointed dean of Chichester 25 Dec. 1891, but died 4 days later; author of Translation of Demosthenes, De Corona 1849; The education of the people 1869; A key to the Gospels 1869; Manual of religious instruction, 3 vols. 1874; A key to the narrative of the Acts of the Apostles 1871, 3 ed. 1884; The new testament with introduction and notes 1880; Some account of the church of St. Mary Redcliffe 1882; A key to the epistles of St. Paul 1890. d. 7 Great George st. Bristol 29 Dec. 1891. bur. in the graveyard adjoining Bristol cathedral. The Biograph vi 64–6 (1881); I.L.N. 9 Jany. 1892 p. 38 portrait.

NOTE.—The inauguration of the building of the nave of Bristol cathedral was due to him, he also set on foot the scheme for the revival of the bishopric of Bristol and obtained the act of parliament legalizing it, he raised more than £113,000 for the cathedral, see and spiritual wants of the city of Bristol.

NORRIS, JOHN THOMAS (youngest son of Edmund Norris of Sutton Courtney). b. 1808; contested Abingdon 13 Dec. 1854 and 13 July 1865; M.P. Abingdon 1857–65. d. Sutton Courtney, Abingdon, Berks. 15 Jany. 1870. I.L.N. xxxiii 92, 94 (1858) portrait, lvi 131 (1870).

NORRIS, SIR WILLIAM (4 son of Wm. Norris of Old Jewry, London). b. 7 Nov. 1793; barrister M.T. 29 June 1827; practised in India 1829; a puisne judge at Ceylon, chief justice there 1 Oct. 1835 to 7 March 1836; knighted at Whitehall 7 Nov. 1835; recorder of Prince of Wales Island, Singapore, and Malacca 7 March 1836 to March 1847. d. Ashurst lodge, near Sunningdale, Berks. 7 Sept. 1859. bur. Sunninghill churchyard.

NORTH, BROWNLOW (only son of Charles Augustus North 1785–1825, rector of Alverstoke, Hants.). b. Winchester house, Chelsea, 6 Jany. 1810; appointed registrar of diocese of Winchester 1817 in reversion upon the death of his father; educ. Eton 1819–25; sent to Corfu 1825; travelled with a tutor in France and Italy; served in Don Pedro’s army at Oporto 1832–3; matric. from Magd. coll. Oxf. 21 March 1839, B.A. 1842; conducted evangelical meetings in Scotland from 1855; formally recognised as an evangelist by the Free church of Scotland 1859; took part in revivalist meetings in Ulster 1859; preached in London 20 Dec. 1859 to May 1860; sometimes gave discourses in drawing rooms; author of Ourselves, a picture selected from the history of the children of Israel 1865, 10 ed. 1888; Yes or no, Genesis xxiv 1–58, 1867, 3 ed. 1871; The rich man and Lazarus 1869; The prodigal son, or the way home 1871. d. Tullichewan castle, Dumbartonshire, the residence of Mr. James Campbell 9 Nov. 1875. bur. Dean cemet. Edinb. B. North, Records and Recollections. By K. Moody-Stuart (1878) portrait; J. Baillie’s B. North, esq. (1876).

NORTH, CHARLES NAPIER (eld. son of Roger North, captain 71 foot, d. 1822). b. 12 Jany. 1817; ensign 6 foot 20 May 1836, lieut. 28 Dec. 1838; served against the Arabs at Aden 1840–1; 1 lieut. 60 rifles 7 Jany. 1842, major 19 June 1857; served in Punjab war 1849; deputy judge advocate of Havelock’s column in the Indian mutiny from 21 July 1857 until the arrival of sir Colin Campbell’s force at Lucknow; invalided home Jany. 1858; colonel in the army 30 March 1865, sold out 26 Oct. 1868; author of Journal of an English officer in India 1858. d. Bray, co. Wicklow 20 Aug. 1869. bur. in cemetery at Aldershot.

NORTH, FREDERICK (eld. son of Frederick F. North). b. Hastings 2 July 1800; educ. Harrow and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; a student of the Inner Temple; M.P. Hastings 1831–7, 1854–65, and 1868 to death. d. Hastings 29 Oct. 1869. Reg. and mag. of biog. ii 266 (1869).

NORTH, ISAAC WILLIAM (son of rev. Henry North, assistant minister of Welbeck chapel, London, who d. 16 April 1838). b. St. Marylebone, London 28 July 1810; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; C. of Fulham, Middlesex; chaplain of the Isles of Scilly 1841–51; V. of Holy Trinity, Greenwich 1851 to death; author of Sermons on the liturgy 1844; A sermon preached at the visitation of the archdeacon of Cornwall 1849; A week in the Isles of Scilly 1850, revised and rewritten by L. H. Courtney 1867; Sermons preached in Trinity church, Greenwich 1854. d. Lyndhurst, Hampshire 12 Aug. 1881. Guardian xxxvi 1156 (1881).

NORTH, JOHN (son of Benjamin North of Woodstock). b. 1790; M.R.C.S. 1809, F.R.C.S. 1843; assistant surgeon Oxfordshire militia; had charge of recruits and French prisoners at Bristol to 1814; practised in London, chiefly in midwifery and diseases of women and children; lecturer on these subjects at Westminster hospital and then at Middlesex hospital from 1838; with R. Macleod edited The Medical and physical journal 1829–30; author of Practical observations on the convulsions of infants 1826. d. 9a Gloucester place, Portman sq. London 6 March 1873. Lancet 29 March 1873 p. 465.

NORTH, JOHN. b. 1852; conductor of Huddersfield choral soc., of the Glee and madrigal soc., and of the Philharmonic soc. to death; choirmaster Huddersfield parish church to death. d. Spring-bank, Fartown, Huddersfield 12 Oct. 1891.

NORTH, JOHN SIDNEY (2 son of lieut. general sir Charles William Doyle, G.C.H. 1770–1842). b. Alnwick 28 May 1804; educ. Sandhurst; ensign 11 foot 1 Feb. 1821; capt. 87 foot 22 Nov. 1827, placed on h.p. 17 April 1835, sold out 1837; cr. D.C.L. Oxford univ. 12 June 1839; lieut. col. 2 Tower Hamlets militia 1836; lieut. col. Oxfordshire rifle volunteers 1 May 1860, hon. col. 26 March 1873 to death; by R.L. took name of North instead of Doyle 20 Aug. 1838; sheriff of Oxfordshire 1845; M.P. Oxfordshire 1852–85; voted in the minority of 53 who censured free trade Nov. 1852; P.C. 3 April 1886; m. 18 Nov. 1835 Susan North, 2 dau. of 3 earl of Guildford, she was b. Waldershare, near Dover 6 Feb. 1797, became baroness North by termination of the abeyance 10 Sept. 1841, and d. Putney Hill, Surrey 5 March 1884, bur. Wroxton church, near Banbury 11 March; he d. 11 Oct. 1894. Graphic 20 Oct. 1894 p. 454 portrait; Times 12 Oct. 1894 p. 5.

NORTH, MARIANNE (eld. dau. of Frederick North of Rougham, Norfolk, M.P. for Hastings). b. Hastings 24 Oct. 1830; resided abroad 1847–50; travelled with her father in Syria and Egypt 1865; painted flowers in Canada, U.S. of America, Jamaica and Brazil July 1871 to Sept. 1873; visited Teneriffe 1875; travelled round the world Aug. 1875 to March 1877, and in India 1878–9; exhibited her drawings at a room in Conduit st. London, summer of 1879, after which she presented them to the Botanical gardens at Kew, where a gallery designed by James Fergusson was built for them and opened 9 July 1882; travelled in Borneo, Australia, and New Zealand 1880–2, in South Africa 1882–3; painted araucarias in Chili 1884–5; five species of flowers, four of which she first made known in Europe, have been named after her; resided at Alderley, Gloucs. 1886 to death. d. Mount house, Alderley 30 Aug. 1890. bur. Alderley, bust by Conrad Dressler placed in inner room of the North gallery, Kew March 1894. Recollections of a happy life, the autobiography of M. North, edited by her sister Mrs. J. A. Symonds, 2 vols. (1892) 2 portraits; I.L.N. lxxx 616 (1882) portrait and 13 Sept. 1890 p. 342 portrait.

NORTH, THOMAS (son of Thomas North of Burton End, Melton Mowbray, Leics.) b. Melton Mowbray 24 Jany. 1830; clerk in Paget’s bank, Leicester about 1845–72; hon. secretary of Leicestershire architectural society and editor of its Transactions 1861 to death, to which he contributed more than 30 papers; F.S.A. 1875; author of Tradesmen’s tokens, Leicestershire 1857; A chronicle of the church of St. Martin in Leicester during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary, and Elizabeth 1866; The church bells of Leicestershire 1876, of Northamptonshire 1878, of Rutland 1880, of Lincoln 1882, of Bedfordshire 1883, and of Hertfordshire 1886, six volumes; English bells and bell lore 1888; The accounts of the churchwardens of St. Martin’s, Leicester 1489–1844, 1884. d. The Plas, Llanfairfechan, North Wales 27 Feb. 1884. Transactions of the Leicestershire architectural society vi 91–3 (1885); Church Bells 8 March 1884 p. 318.

NORTH, WILLIAM. b. Nottingham 1807; a schoolmaster Nottingham, then inspector of corn returns; played in Nottingham v. Sheffield on the Forest ground, Nottingham 20–22 Aug. 1827; author of Nottingham cricket scores 1771–1829, 1830. d. 6 March 1855. Lillywhite’s Cricket scores ii 32 (1862).

NORTH, WILLIAM. b. 17 Oct. 1811; member of firm of Payne, Eddison, and Ford solicitors, Leeds 1849; engaged in carrying out the Leeds and North Midland railway; the first secretary of the Midland railway company 1844; founded firm of North and Sons, solicitors, Leeds 1858; legal adviser of the Yorkshire banking company from its formation to his death, a director to 1880; steward to earl of Mexborough for his five manors. d. Potternewton, near Leeds 24 July 1883. bur. Woodhouse cemetery, Leeds. Law Times 11 Aug. 1883 p. 285.

NORTH, WILLIAM (2 son of George North of St. John’s, Brecon). b. 1808; educ. Jesus coll. Oxf., scholar 1830–5; B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; C. of St. John, Brecon 1833–40; professor of Latin in St. David’s coll. Lampeter 1840–62; R. of Llangoedmore, Cardiganshire 10 Dec. 1840 to death; archdeacon of Cardigan and prebendary of Llandyfriog in St. David’s cathedral 1860 to death; author of A charge to the clergy 1865. d. Treforgan, Cardigan 7 June 1893.

NORTHAMPTON, SPENCER JOSHUA ALWYNE COMPTON, 2 Marquess of (2 son of 1 Marquess of Northampton 1760–1828). b. Stoke park, Wiltshire 1 Jany. 1790; styled lord Compton 1796–1812; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1810, LL.D. 1835; capt. central regt. Northamptonshire militia 10 Sept. 1810; styled earl Compton 1812–28; M.P. Northampton 1812–20; lived in Italy 1820–30; succeeded as 2 marquess 24 May 1828; recorder of Northampton 1828–32; F.R.S. 27 May 1830, president 30 Nov. 1838, resigned 30 Nov. 1849; F.S.A. 10 March 1836; F.G.S., president; president of British Association at Bristol 1836, and Swansea 1848; president of Royal soc. of literature 26 April 1849 to death; a trustee of the British museum 1849; D.C.L. of Oxford 24 June 1850; edited Irene, a poem by Margaret, marchioness of Northampton 1833; The Tribute, a collection of unpublished poems 1837; author of Observations on the motion of sir R. Heron, M.P. respecting vacating seats in parliament on the acceptance of office 1835. d. Castle Ashby, near Northampton 17 Jany. 1851. bur. Castle Ashby 25 Jany. P. F. Robinson’s Vitruvius Britannicus (1847) part 3 pp. 1–24; H. Drummond’s Noble British families i 12–6 (1846); G.M. xxxv 425–9 (1851); I.L.N. xviii 59, 60 (1851) portrait; Athenæum 25 Jany. 1851 pp. 110–11; Doyle’s Baronage ii 631 (1886) portrait; Times 18 Jany. 1851 p. 5, 22 Jany. p. 5.

NORTHBOURNE, SIR WALTER CHARLES JAMES, 1 Baron (son of John James, minister plenipotentiary to Holland, d. 4 June 1818). b. 3 June 1816; educ. Westminster school 1826–33, and Christ Church, Oxf., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1840; succeeded his grandfather as second baronet 8 Oct. 1829; by his marriage in 1841 came into the Ellison properties in Gateshead, Hebbern and the neighbourhood; M.P. Hull 1837–47; sheriff of Kent 1855; a commissioner on the constitution and working of the ecclesiastical courts 1880; a trustee of the national gallery; cr. baron Northbourne of Betteshanger, Kent 5 Nov. 1884. d. Betteshanger, near Sandwich 4 Feb. 1893. Daily Graphic 9 Feb. 1893 p. 8 portrait.

NORTHBROOK, FRANCIS THORNHILL BARING, 1 Baron (eld. son of sir Thomas Baring, 2 bart. 1790–1848). b. Calcutta 20 April 1796; educ. Winchester and Christ Church, Oxf., double first class and B.A. 1817, M.A. 1821; capt. North Hants. regt. of militia 1 July 1818; barrister I.T. 7 Feb. 1823; M.P. Portsmouth 1826–65; a lord of the treasury 24 Nov. 1830 to 6 June 1834; joint secretary to the treasury 6 June to 17 Nov. 1834, and 21 April 1835 to Aug. 1839; chancellor of the exchequer 26 Aug. 1839 to 3 Sept. 1841; P.C. 26 Aug. 1839; succeeded as 3 baronet 3 April 1848; first lord of the admiralty 18 Jany. 1849 to 27 Feb. 1852; F.R.S. 22 Sept. 1849; cr. baron Northbrook of Stratton, county of Southampton 4 Jany. 1866. d. of apoplexy Stratton park, near Winchester 6 Sept. 1866. bur. Michelde church, Hants. 13 Sept. G.M. ii 543–4 (1866).

NORTHCOTE, STAFFORD HENRY, 1 Earl of Iddesleigh (eld. son of Henry Stafford Northcote 1792–1830, M.P. Haytesbury 1826–30). b. 23 Portland place, London 27 Oct. 1818; educ. Eton 1831–6, rowed bow oar in the Eton eight 1835; matric. from Balliol coll. Oxf. 3 March 1836, scholar 1836–42, rowed in the college boat 1839; B.A. 1839, M.A. 1840, D.C.L. 1863; private secretary to W. E. Gladstone, the vice-president of board of trade 30 June 1842 to 1845; legal assistant at board of trade Feb. 1845 to Aug. 1850; barrister I.T. 19 Nov. 1847; one of secretaries of Great Exhibition 3 Jany. 1850 to Oct. 1851; succeeded his grandfather as 8 baronet 17 March 1851; C.B. 17 Oct. 1851; G.C.B. 20 April 1880; a comr. for reorganising board of trade Dec. 1852 to March 1853; M.P. Dudley 1855–7; contested North Devon 6 April 1857; M.P. Stamford 1858–66; M.P. North Devon 1866–85; financial sec. to the treasury Jany. to June 1859; member of public schools commission 18 July 1862, and of endowed schools commission 20 Dec. 1865; president of board of trade 1 July 1866 to 1867; P.C. 6 July 1866; secretary for India 2 March 1867 to Dec. 1868; chairman of Hudson’s Bay company Jany. 1869, governor March 1869 to March 1874; one of the six comrs. to arrange matters in dispute between Great Britain and the United States 13 Feb. 1871, the treaty of Washington was signed 8 May 1871; president of commission to inquire into working of friendly societies 14 Jany. 1871; chancellor of the exchequer 18 Feb. 1874 to April 1880; abolished the sugar duties of £2,000,000, 1874; applied an annual sinking fund of 28 millions to reduction of the national debt 1875; exempted incomes of £150 from income tax instead of £100 as before 1876; carried his Savings’ bank bill 1875, his Friendly societies’ bill 1875, and his Public works loan bill 1878; F.R.S. 18 Feb. 1875; leader of the house of commons 8 Feb. 1877 to 24 March 1880; led the opposition April 1881 to June 1885; first lord of the treasury June 1885 to Feb. 1886; created viscount Saint Cyres of Newton Saint Cyres, Devon, and earl of Iddesleigh 3 July 1885; president of commission to inquire into depression of trade 29 Aug. 1885, the last report dated 21 Dec. 1886; presented by members of house of commons with a service of plate 8 March 1886; foreign secretary 27 July 1886 to 4 Jany. 1887; lord lieutenant of Devon 8 Jany. 1886 to death; lord rector of univ. of Edinb. 3 Nov. 1883 to death; author of The case of sir Eardley Wilmot 1847, 2 ed. 1847; A short review of the navigation laws of England. By A Barrister 1849, 2 ed. 1849; A statement connected with the election of W. E. Gladstone for the university of Oxford in 1847, 1852, and 1853, 1853; Twenty years of financial policy 1862; The pleasures, the dangers, and the uses of desultory reading 1885; Lectures and essays 1887. d. in lord Salisbury’s ante-room, Downing st. London 12 Jany. 1887. bur. Upton Pyne, Devon 18 Jany., two statues by sir E. Boehm, R.A., one in house of commons vestibule, the other on Northernhay, Exeter; personalty sworn under £23,000 March 1887. A. Lang’s Life of sir S. Northcote 2 vols. (1890) 2 portraits; C. Worthy’s Life of earl of Iddesleigh (1887) portrait.

NORTHESK, GEORGE JOHN CARNEGIE, 9 Earl of (only son of 8 earl of Northesk 1794–1878). b. Longwood, Hants. 1 Dec. 1843; styled lord Rosehill 1843–78; cornet 1 dragoons 10 June 1862; ensign Scots fusilier guards 21 Nov. 1862, captain 26 March 1873, sold out 27 June 1874; succeeded as 9 earl 5 Dec. 1878; a representative peer for Scotland Feb. 1885; made a collection of flint prehistoric weapons, which he lent to the museum of science and arts Edinb., and to the city museum, Winchester; F.S.A. 30 Nov. 1871, vice-president. d. Longwood house, near Winchester 10 Sept. 1891. Proc. of Society of Antiquaries xiv 136 (1892).

NORTHEY, FRANCIS VERNON (son of E. R. Northey of Epsom). b. 1836; educ. Eton, one of the cricket eleven 1852–4; ensign 60 foot 22 March 1855, instructor in musketry 3 Nov. 1858, major 5 July 1873 to death; commanded the third battalion in Zululand; mortally wounded at battle of Ginghilovo 2 April 1879, and d. 7 April 1879. I.L.N. lxxiv 576 (1879) portrait; Graphic xix 584 (1879) portrait.

NORTHMORE, THOMAS (eld. son of Thomas Northmore of Cleve house, near Exeter 1735–77). b. Cleve house 1766; educ. Tiverton and Emm. coll. Camb., B.A. 1789, M.A. 1792; F.S.A. 19 May 1791; contested Exeter 20 June 1818, and Barnstaple 12 Dec. 1832; discovered the ossiferous nature of Kent’s cavern at Torquay about 1824; published Plutarch’s Treatise upon the distinction between a friend and flatterer 1793; Memoirs of Planetes, or a sketch of the laws and manners of Makar. By Philelentherus Devoniensis 1795; Washington, or liberty restored, a poem in ten books 1809, Baltimore 1809; Of education founded upon principles, Part the first, Time previous to the age of puberty 1800, no more published. d. Furzebrook House, near Axminster 20 or 29 May 1851. I.L.N. xviii 545 (1851).

NORTHROP, FLORA (dau. of Mr. Macdonald). Principal of the Royal school for officers’ daughters at Castleton, Isle of Man; went to U.S. of America 1885 where she suffered great reverses. d. of starvation and of being frozen to death New York 31 Dec. 1893.

NORTHUMBERLAND, ALGERNON PERCY, 4 Duke of (younger son of 2 duke of Northumberland 1742–1817). b. Northumberland house, Charing Cross, London 15 Dec. 1792; educ. Eton; entered R.N. March 1805; midshipman Sept. 1805, lieut. 1811; served in Mediterranean to 1810; while acting captain of the Caledonia fought in an action off Toulon 1814; captain 19 Aug. 1815, when put on h.p.; cr. baron Prudhoe of Prudhoe castle, Northumberland 27 Nov. 1816; LL.D. Camb. 6 July 1835; D.C.L. Oxf. 15 June 1841; succeeded his brother as 4 duke 11 Feb. 1847; constable of Launceston castle 28 May 1847; R.A. of the Blue 11 Nov. 1850, V.A. 9 July 1857, admiral 13 Oct. 1862; P.C. 27 Feb. 1852; first lord of the admiralty 28 Feb. to 28 Dec. 1852; K.G. 19 Jany. 1853; a trustee of the British museum 24 April 1861; hon. col. 2 Northumberland batt. of artillery volunteers 27 Dec. 1864; F.R.S. 9 April 1818; F.S.A. 10 April 1823; president of Royal Institution; president of Royal united service institution; president of Royal national lifeboat institution, gave premiums for improved boats; introduced the Victoria Regia 1838, which first flowered in England in a tank built for it at Sion house, Isleworth; bought the famous Camuccini collection of 74 paintings at Rome 1856. d. Alnwick castle, Northumberland 12 Feb. 1865. bur. in chapel of St. Nicholas, Westminster Abbey 25 Feb., personalty sworn under £500,000, 8 April 1865. Numismatic Chronicle v 20 (1865); G.M. xviii 504–11 (1865); I.L.N. xlvi 177, 190, 213, 217 (1865) portrait; G. J. Aungier’s History of Syon monastery (1840); Illust. Times 4 March 1865 pp. 129, 132, views of funeral, &c.; Waagen’s Galleries of art 1857, 265–69 and 465–74; O’Byrne’s Naval Biog. Dict. (1849) 822.

NORTHUMBERLAND, GEORGE PERCY, 5 Duke of (2 son of Algernon Percy, 1 earl of Beverley 1750–1830). b. Alnwick castle, Northumberland 22 June 1778; styled lord Louvain 1790–1830; educ. Eton and St. John’s coll. Camb., M.A. 1799, LL.D. 1842; M.P. Beeralston 1799–1800; lieut. col. Northumberland regt. of militia 3 March 1804, col. 17 May 1804; a lord of the treasury 16 May 1804 to 10 Feb. 1806; commissioner for the affairs of India 6 April 1807 to 8 Sept. 1812; lord of the bed chamber to George IV 23 March 1826, and to William IV 24 July to Dec. 1830; succeeded as 2 earl of Beverley 21 Oct. 1830; captain of the yeomen of the guard 15 Jany. 1842 to 24 July 1846; P.C. 15 Jany. 1842; constable of Launceston castle 28 May 1847; succeeded his cousin as 5 duke of Northumberland 12 Feb. 1865; hon. col. 2 Northumberland batt. of artillery volunteers 29 April 1865. d. Alnwick castle 21 Aug. 1867. bur. beneath chapel of St. Nicholas, Westminster abbey 30 Aug., personalty sworn under £350,000, 21 Sept. G.M. iv 532 (1867).

NORTHWICK, JOHN RUSHOUT, 2 Baron (elder son of 1 baron Northwick 1739–1800). b. St. George’s parish, Hanover sq. London 16 Feb. 1770; educ. Hackney, London, and at Neufchatel; lived in Italy 1790–1800; succeeded his father 20 Oct. 1800; a governor of Harrow school 1801 to death; the first man in Europe to receive the news of the victory of the Nile and that from Nelson himself at Palermo; F.S.A. 11 Dec. 1800; his celebrated gallery of pictures, 1881 in number, at Thirlestane, Cheltenham, was sold by auction for £95,725 26 July to 15 Aug. 1859; his cabinet of Greek coins and medals was sold by auction for £8,565, 5 Dec. to 17 Dec. 1859. d. Northwick park, near Morton in the Marsh 20 Jany. 1859. Waagen’s Treasures of art iii 195–212 (1854); A.R. (1859) 130–2, 181 and 466; Hours in the picture gallery at Thirlestane house (1843); Catalogue of the paintings the property of J. R. baron Northwick (1859).

NORTHWICK, GEORGE RUSHOUT, 3 Baron (only son of hon. and rev. George Rushout, 1772–1842, rector of Burford, who took name of Bowles 20 June 1817). b. 30 Aug. 1811; educ. Harrow and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; cornet 1 life guards 18 Jany. 1833, captain 18 March 1842, placed on h.p. 4 June 1847; M.P. Evesham 1837–41; M.P. East Worcestershire 1847–59; lieut. col. Herefordshire militia 1853–62; chairman of Severn fishery board of conservators; succeeded his uncle as 3 baron 20 Jany. 1859. d. Upper Norwood 18 Nov. 1887. Times 21 Nov. 1887 p. 7.

NORTON, BERNARD GUSTAVUS. Educ. Queen’s univ. Ireland; barrister I.T. 6 June 1855; solicitor general of British Guiana March 1863, and first puisne judge of supreme court 1868 to death. d. Norwood, Surrey 13 April 1871. Solicitors’ Journal xv 478 (1871).

NORTON, CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH (2 dau. of Thomas Sheridan, d. Cape of Good Hope 1817). b. 11 South Audley st. London 1808; resided with her mother in Hampton court palace 1817, then at Great George st. Westminster; m. (1) 30 July 1827 George Chapple Norton, he brought an action for crim. con. against lord Melbourne who was acquitted at the trial 23 June 1836; she obtained a separation 1840, he d. 24 Feb. 1876; she m. (2) 1 March 1877 sir Wm. Stirling-Maxwell, 9 baronet, he d. 15 Jany. 1878; edited La belle assemblée, vols. 1–9, 1832 etc.; The English annual 1834; Fisher’s Drawing room scrap-book 1832 etc.; author of The dandies’ rout 1828, a satirical piece; The sorrows of Rosalie, a tale with other poems 1829; The undying one, and other poems 1830; A voice from the factories 1836, a poem; The dream and other poems 1840, 2 ed. 1841; The child of the islands 1845, a poem; Aunt Carry’s ballads for children 1847; Stuart of Dunleath, 3 vols. 1851; English laws for women in the nineteenth century 1854; Letter to the queen on lord chancellor Cranworth’s marriage and divorce bill 1855; Heimgegangen, in memory of H.R.H. the prince consort 1862; The lady of La Garaye 1862, 8 ed. 1875; Lost and saved, 3 vols. 1863, 5 ed. 1863; Old sir Douglas, 3 vols. 1867, new ed. 1871; edited The rose of Jericho, from the French 1869. d. 10 Upper Grosvenor st. London 15 June 1877, portrait by Mrs. Ferguson in Scottish National portrait gallery, she is depicted as Astrea the spirit of justice in Maclise’s fresco in the house of lords executed 1849; she is the heroine of George Meredith’s novel Diana of the Crossways, 3 vols. 1885. Songs, poems and verses by Helen, lady Dufferin (1894) p. 32 etc.; F. Harvey’s Genealogical table of Sheridan family (1873); P. Fitzgerald’s Lives of the Sheridans ii 352–448 (1886); C. J. Hamilton’s Women writers, second series (1893) 121–41 portrait; W. Bates’s Maclise portrait gallery (1883) 53–8 portrait, 355, 419, 457, 493; C. C. F. Greville’s Memoirs iii 349–51 (1874); Graphic xv 624 (1877) portrait; I.L.N. lxx 595, 613 (1877) portrait; Temple Bar Feb. 1878 pp. 101–110; Englishwoman’s Domestic Mag. xxiv 49, 67 (1878); Traits of character by a contemporary ii 317–42 (1860); S. J. Hale’s Woman’s Record, 2 ed. 1855 p. 761 portrait; C. M. Collins’s Celtic Irish song writers (1885) 101–3; Reynold’s Miscellany i 233 (1847) portrait.

NORTON, DANIEL (1 son of William Norton of Uxbridge). b. 1806; timber merchant Wharf road, City road, London 1827; resided Northwood park, near Rickmansworth: first played cricket at lord Ebury’s seat, Moor park 1856; started the Northwood park club 1865, and played in all the matches; often engaged professionals to play for his team, paid Coleman to be his groundsman; in his other club at Wharf road he also played in the matches; owner of landed estates in Kent, Middlesex, Herts., and Hants. d. The Dell, Bonchurch, Isle of Wight 10 Feb. 1888. Cricket 23 Feb. 1888 p. 30.

NORTON, FLEMING, stage name of Frederic Mills (youngest son of Wm. Mills of Lindridge Worcs.) b. 1836 or 1837; gave an entertainment at Egyptian hall, Piccadilly, Mr. Fleming Norton’s musical and mimetic entertainment entitled Perkin’s picnic 1875; acted sir Joseph Porter in H.M.S. Pinafore at Opera Comique theatre 20 Sept. 1879; the original capt. Flapper in Billee Taylor at Imperial theatre 30 Oct. 1880; a monologue entertainer and polyphonist; toured in Australia, New Zealand, the Straits Settlements, and India 1883–6; resided at 3 Olympia mansions, Kensington. d. 30 March 1895. bur. Highgate cemet. 3 April. Illust. sp. and dr. news xxv 583 (1886) portrait.

NORTON, GEORGE (son of John Norton of Shoreham, Sussex). b. 1791; educ. Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1813, Michel scholar 1815–6, M.A. 1810, fellow 1816–20; barrister I.T. 28 June 1816; appointed one of common pleaders of city of London; advocate general of Bombay 1825, of Madras 1827, retired 1854; first pres. of Madras univ.; author of Commentaries on the history, constitution, and chartered franchises of the city of London 1829, 3 ed. 1869; An exposition of the privileges of the city of London in regard to the claims of non-freemen to deal within its jurisdiction 1821; Rudimentals, a series of discourses on the principles of government, Madras 1841; Native education in India 1848; A new financial scheme for India 1857; Proselytism in India, with an account of the Tinnevelly slaughter 1859; Thought, its origin and operation 1876. d. Wyvols court, Swallowfield, near Reading 13 July 1876.

NORTON, GEORGE CHAPPLE (2 son of Fletcher Norton, a baron of the exchequer in Scotland 1744–1820). b. 31 Aug. 1800; educ. Winchester and Edinb. univ.; barrister M.T. 25 Nov. 1825; a comr. of bankruptcy 1827–31; stipendiary magistrate at Lambeth st. Whitechapel 19 April 1831, this court was closed 28 Dec. 1844; stipendiary magistrate Lambeth police court, Kennington lane 4 Jany. 1845–67; M.P. Guildford 1826–30; recorder of Guildford Oct. 1827 to death; m. 1827 Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Sheridan. d. Wonersh park, Guildford 24 Feb. 1875. I.L.N. lxvi 223, 595 (1875); Law Times lviii 349 (1875); Times 1, 4, 8, 18, 20, 23 June 1836.

NORTON, JOHN BRUCE (eld. son of sir John David Norton, puisne justice Madras, d. 24 Sept. 1843). b. 1815; educ. Harrow 1829–34, in the cricket eleven 1832–3, head of the school 1833; matric. from Merton coll. Oxf. 13 June 1833, postmaster 1833–7, B.A. 1838; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1841; sheriff of Madras 1843–5; clerk of the crown in supreme court of judicature 1845 till 17 Aug. 1862, when court was abolished; counsel for paupers 1847; government pleader 1 Feb. 1853; public prosecutor 15 Aug. 1862; acting advocate general 1862–3; advocate general 2 June 1863, resigned 1871; a senator of Madras univ. and professor of law; president of Patcheapah’s Institution; lecturer on law to Indian students at the Temple, London Jany. 1873; held private classes; author of Folia opima. By J. B. N. of Merton college 1843; The rebellion in India, how to prevent another 1857; The law of evidence applicable to the courts of the East India company 1858, 8 ed. 1873; Memories of Merton 1861, 2 ed. 1865 in verse; Nemesis, a poem 1861; A selection of leading cases in the Hindu law of inheritance, 2 vols. 1870–1. d. 11 Pengwern road, Kensington, London 13 July 1883. Law Times 21 July 1883 p. 232, 28 July p. 249.

NORTON, THOMAS (2 son of Peter Norton of Athlone, co. Westmeath). b. Athlone 1806; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; student Gray’s Inn 5 Feb. 1829, barrister 26 Jany. 1848, bencher 1865 to death, treasurer 1869; called to Irish bar 1835; practised in Dublin; first puisne judge British Guiana 10 June 1837 to 1844; chief justice of Newfoundland 14 Sept. 1844 to 8 Oct. 1847; chairman of committee of Reform club; contested Reading 8 Aug. 1849, Athlone 23 April 1853, and Lymington 12 July 1865; master in crown office of court of queen’s bench 1860–2; queen’s coroner and attorney 1860, resigned 1872. d. 13 Bolton row, Mayfair, London 12 April 1875. bur. Kensal green 19 April. Law Times lix 39 (1875); Irish Law Times 15 May 1875 p. 252.

NORWAY, WILLIAM KING (son of William Norway, merchant, Wadebridge 1774–1819). b. Court place, Egloshayle, Cornwall 25 Sept. 1799; educ. Eton from 1811, king’s scholar 1813; solicitor at Wadebridge, Cornwall 1822–31; private sec. to sir William Molesworth, bart.; sec. of the Reform club, Pall Mall, London July 1852; author of A lecture on total abstinence from intoxicating drinks 1842. d. suddenly in his room at the Reform club 31 Jany. 1857. bur. Kensal Green 5 Feb.

NORWOOD, CHARLES MORGAN (1 son of Charles Norwood). b. Ashford, Kent 1825; merchant and steamship owner at Hull; head of firm of C. M. Norwood & Co. 9 Gracechurch st. London 1862, and at 21 Billiter st. 1870; president of Hull chamber of commerce 1859 and 1860; first chairman of Associated chamber of commerce of the United Kingdom which met at Westminster 21 Feb. 1865; M.P. Hull 1865–85; contested Central division of Hull 1885 and 1886; chairman of the London and India docks joint committee 1889, rejected the demands of the dock labourers in the strike of Aug. 1889. d. 34 Ennismore gardens, London 24 April 1891. Pictorial World 9 May 1891 p. 598 portrait; I.L.N. 2 May 1891 p. 563 portrait.

NORWOOD, JOHN (eld. son of Benjamin Norwood of Nelson st. Dublin). Educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849; called to Irish bar Nov. 1846; joined North-East circuit; reported for the Irish Jurist; secretary of the Loan fund board 1881 to death; member of corporation of Dublin many years; chairman of Drumcondra petty sessions; prepared a large work on municipal law. d. Lakelands, Dundrum, co. Dublin 9 Sept. 1884. Irish law times 20 Sept. 1884 p. 491.

NOSOTTI, CHARLES ANDREW (son of Andrew Nosotti, wine grower Italy, d. 1835). b. Milan 1796; came to England about 1819; a jeweller at 132 Oxford st. 1819–22; looking glass and frame manufacturer, carver, gilder, and upholsterer at 398 Oxford street, London 1822 to death, where was an immense hall of mirrors. d. 398 Oxford st. 28 Aug. 1853. bur. Kensal green. H. Mayhew’s Shops of London i 203–5 (1865).

NOTE.—His son Charles Francis Nosotti removed the business to 93–99 Oxford st. in 1880, and to 123 King’s road, Chelsea in 1891. He made a mirror 108 by 180 feet, weight 2 tons, cost £600, for the ball given by The Guards to the prince and princess of Wales 26 June 1863.

NOTT, HENRY. b. 14 July 1810; ensign 19 Madras N.I. 24 April 1827, major 7 May 1860; lieut. col. Madras staff corps 12 Sept. 1866; M.G. 17 Sept. 1871, L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 14 July 1880; general 22 Jany. 1889; commanded the force engaged in suppression of the rebellion in the Cuddepah district 1847; served in the Burmese war of 1852–3, and with general Whitlock’s force during the mutiny. d. The Elms, Great Stanmore, Middlesex 29 March 1895.

NOTTAGE, CHARLES GEORGE (only son of the succeeding). b. 1853; educ. Jesus coll. Camb., B.A. 1879; barrister I.T. 11 May 1881; captain Devon artillery militia 17 Oct. 1885 to death. d. 35 Collingham road, South Kensington, London 24 Dec. 1894.

NOTE.—His estate was sworn at the value of £37,824 Feb. 1895; he bequeathed to four trustees a sum of £13,000 to establish The Nottage Institute for instructing yachtsmen and other sailors in the science of navigation. He also left £2,000 for a Nottage cup for yachts, but this bequest was declared to be invalid, Times 24 May 1895 p. 13.

NOTTAGE, GEORGE SWAN. b. London 10 Nov. 1822; lived in Essex to 1852; engaged in the iron business of his uncle R. W. Kennard, M.P. Newport; established the London stereoscopic and photographic company at 54 Cheapside, and 313 Oxford st. 1856; opened a shop at 108 Regent st. 1862; obtained medals for his photographs at Vienna, Paris, and Berlin exhibitions; erected the Orleans club and other buildings in Brighton; alderman for Cordwainer ward 8 Nov. 1876 to death; sheriff 1877–8; lord mayor 1884 to death; master of the Carpenters’ Co. 1884; m. 1851 Martha Christiana, dau. of James Warner, she was granted rank and precedence of the widow of a knight by royal warrant 1885. d. Mansion house, London 11 April 1885. Graphic xvi 436 (1877) portrait; I.L N. lxxxi 444 (1877) portrait, lxxxv 444 (1884) portrait; City Press 12 Nov, 1884 pp. 2–3, 6, 15 April 1885 pp. 2–3.

NOTTIDGE, WILLIAM. b. 1767; governor of Asylum for deaf and dumb children 1797, and treasurer 1815 to death; resuscitated the Free grammar school, Bermondsey 1835; treasurer of Surrey and Kent commissioners of sewers; chairman of Wandsworth petty sessions; a well known philanthropist. d. Wandsworth, Surrey 17 March 1853. bur. at Bermondsey 23 March. G.M. xxxix 550 (1853).

NOVELLO, VINCENT (son of Giuseppe Novello, an Italian). b. 240 Oxford road, now Oxford st. London 6 Sept. 1781; a chorister at chapel of Sardinian embassy, Duke st. Lincoln’s inn fields 1793–7; organist of Portuguese embassy chapel in South st. Grosvenor sq. 1797–22; taught the piano at Campbell’s school in Brunswick sq. 27 years, and at Hibbert’s school, Clapton 25 years; founded firm of Novello & Co. music publishers 1811; his son Joseph Alfred became music publisher at 67 Frith st. Soho 1829; pianist and conductor for the Italian opera at the Pantheon, Oxford st. 1812; one of the 30 original members of Philharmonic soc. 1812, pianist to the society, afterwards conductor, his cantata Rosalba was produced by the society 1834; the Manchester prize for the best glee of a cheerful nature was awarded to his Old May Morning 1832; helped to found the Choral harmonists’ society, which first met 2 Jany. 1833, and the Classical harmonists’ society; organist at the musical festival in Westminster abbey 1834; organist of Roman catholic chapel in Moorfields 1840–3; member of the Royal soc. of musicians where he played the viola; lived at Nice 1849 to death; published Collection of sacred music as performed at the Portuguese chapel 1811; A collection of motetts with accompaniment for the organ and piano 1815, twelve books; Twelve easy masses, 3 vols. 1816; Mozart’s masses arranged 1819; The evening service 1822, twelve books; Haydn’s masses arranged 1823; Studies in madrigalian scoring 1841, eight books; Novello’s Cathedral choir book 1848; The Fitzwilliam music, selected from the Italian composers in the Fitzwilliam museum, Cambridge, 5 vols 1854; his name is attached to upwards of 150 pieces of music, original and arranged. d. Nice 9 Aug. 1861, memorial window placed in north transept of Westminster abbey 1863. Mary Cowden-Clarke’s Life of Vincent Novello (1864) portrait; A short history of cheap music, Novello, Ewer & Co. (1887) portrait.

NOTE.—On 17 Aug. 1808 he m. Mary Sabilla Hehl who d. Nice 25 July 1854. She was author of A day in Stowe gardens 1825, and wrote the words to her husband’s songs Doubt not my love 1835, Sterne’s Maria 1840, and The infant’s prayer 1845.

NOVERRE, ARTHUR. b. London 1815; in a government office; educ. St. George’s hospital; L.S.A. and M.R.C.S. 1836; in practice at Stanmore, Middlesex 1838–59; removed to 25 South st. Park lane, London 1859 where he had a high class practice; fellow Med. and Chir. soc. 1849, member of council 1870–71. d. 16 Park st. Grosvenor square, London 22 April 1878. Proc. of Med. and Chir. soc. viii 385 (1880).

NOWELL, JOHN. b. Todmorden, Lancs. 1802; a hand loom weaver; a twister at Fielden Brothers’ works, Waterside, Todmorden to death; botanized over greater part of England, Wales and Ireland, and studied crypto-gamic botany; discovered a cavern moss, schistostega pennata 1840; assisted Thomas Baines in his Flora of Yorkshire; for Baines and Baker’s Yorkshire Flora 1854, he edited The mosses of of the county; the mosses Nowellia curvifolia, Zygodon Nowellii and Lastrea montana Nowelliana were called after him. d. Todmorden 1867. bur. Cross stone. Manchester quarterly i 205–18 (1882).

NOWELL, JOHN. b. Farnley Wood, Yorkshire 1 March 1794; educ. Almondbury gram. sch.; gave lectures in Huddersfield on chemistry; engaged in the fancy trade; aided in founding Huddersfield college; an original member of Archæological soc.; made a copy of the first register book of Almondbury parish 1864; author of An essay on farms of industry, and an essay on cottage allotments, also an essay on self-supporting schools of industry and mental discipline 1844; Manual of field gardening or Belgian agriculture made easy 1845, 2 ed. 1846. d. Almondbury 4 March 1869. Hulbert’s Annals (1882) 63, 144, 256, 448–52.

NOWOSIELSKI, FELIX. b. Bruinow, Poland 1800; lieutenant colonel in the Polish army of 1831; knight of the military order Virtuti Militari; an exile in London. d. London 22 April 1864. bur. Highgate cemetery.

NOYES, THOMAS HERBERT (eld. son of rev. Thomas Herbert Noyes, V. of Bath-Easton, Somerset Dec. 1797 until his death 8 Aug. 1812). b. 31 Aug. 1800; educ. Harrow and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1823; barrister L.I. 11 May 1830; F.G.S.; author of Some notices of the family of Newton 1857; An Idyll of the Weald, with other lays and legends 1868; Hymns of modern man 1872; translated Lyrics and bucolics, the eclogues of Virgil, a selection of the odes of Horace, &c. 1868; author with G. de Mirelles Soares of Mind or more than matter, a spirit drama, by Pro and Con 1873. d. Craig-en-ross, Millport, Scotland 19 Dec. 1881.

NUGEE, GEORGE (youngest son of Francis James Nugee of St. James’s, London, tailor, d. 1844). b. London 24 July 1819; educ. Shrewsbury and Trin. coll. Camb., senior classical scholar, B.A. 1842, M.A. 1846; student at Inner Temple; curate to rev. W. J. E. Bennett at St. Paul’s, Wilton place, London 1845; warden of the House of mercy at Park house, Highgate 1846, a most successful penitentiary; principal of St. Paul’s mission college Dean st. Soho, London; sec. of London diocesan home mission; V. of Wymering and R. of Widley, Hants Jany. 1859–72; founded the order of St. Augustine at Wymering 1872; founded a May meeting at Wymering with a May Queen, and in London with a Rose Queen; founded the Sisterhood of St. Mary the Virgin at Wymering, a nursing society partly paid by the English government; worked in conjunction with Father Ignatius; founded St. Austin’s priory New Kent road, London 1872, provost 1872 to death; author of The necessity for Christian education to elevate the native character in India 1846; Instruction on confirmation 1848; Emmaus or things in the way 1848; The holy women of the gospel, lectures 1856; A penitential. By G. N. 1857; The words from the cross as applied to our own deathbeds 1856; St. Austin’s mission handbook of prayer and praise 1875; England and the Jews, their destiny and her duty 1881. d. at residence of his brother-in-law, rev. A. J. Street, Talaton rectory, Devon 5 Oct. 1892. The very rev. provost Nugee, M.A., a retrospect reprinted from the South London gazette (1879); Biograph iv 344–50 (1880); Church portrait journal iii 111 (1879) portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news xxiii 626 (1885) portrait.

NUGENT, CHARLES LAVALLIN (son of colonel Andrew Nugent of Portaferry, co. Down). b. 4 Dec. 1815; ensign 58 foot 21 Aug. 1835, major 18 July 1851; major depôt battalion 28 Jany. 1859, placed on h.p. 1 June 1865; deputy judge advocate 1 April 1865 to 30 June 1875; L.G. 16 March 1880; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881; served in New Zealand war 1845–6; commanded the advance guard which penetrated the forest at Ruapekapeka, present at the capture of that pah. d. Southsea 3 Nov. 1884.

NUGENT, SIR EDMOND. Alderman of Dublin 15 Jany. 1820, lord mayor 1827–28; knighted by lord lieutenant of Ireland 1828; resided at Airfield, St. Dolough’s, co. Dublin. d. 1856.

NUGENT, GEORGE HODGES. Vice-consul at Arica, Peru 16 March 1846, and consul there 16 June 1871 to death; acting chargé d’affaires at Lima 13 June to 4 Sept. 1874. d. Mollendo 25 March 1879. I.L.N. lxxv 505 (1879) portrait.

NUGENT, GEORGE WILLIAM. b. 1814; proprietor of royal Cambridge music hall, Commercial st. Whitechapel, London 1869–79. d. at his house 59 Maida Yale, London 8 March 1884. bur. St. Mary’s cemetery, Kensal Green 14 March.

NUGENT, LAVALL, Count Nugent (elder son of John Nugent of Ballinacor, co. Wicklow). b. Ballinacor 3 or 30 Nov. 1777; a cadet in the Austrian engineer corps 1 Nov. 1793, captain in the corps to 1 March 1799 when transferred to the quartermaster general’s staff; served in the Italian campaign 1799, and the Marengo campaign 1800; won the cross of Maria Theresa for the battle of Monte Croce 10 April 1800; commandant of 61st infantry regiment 1807–9; served on the staff during campaign of 1809; placed again on active list of Austrian army 1 July 1813; persuaded the Croats to fight against the French on Austria declaring war 11 Aug. 1813; drove the French behind the Isongo after many fights, besieged Trieste castle 16–30 Oct. 1813 when it surrendered; fought actions at Ferrara, Forli and Ravenna, and blockaded Venice Dec. 1813; defeated the French at Reggio, Parma and Piacenza 1814; honorary K.C.B. 5 Jany. 1815; as commander of a division of Marshall Bianchi’s army entered Florence 15 April 1815; invested Rome early in May 1815; commanded the Austrian troops in Naples 1816; created a prince of the Holy Roman empire 1816; colonel proprietor of 30th infantry regiment 1816; commanded the Neapolitan army as captain-general 1817–20; created a magnate of Hungary 1826; commanded a division at Venice 1828; master of the ordnance and commander of the troops in Lower Austria, the Tyrol, &c. 1830–40; general 1838; commanded in the Banat 1841–2, and in Lower Austria 1843–8; marched into Hungary with a reserve corps which he had organized on breaking out of the revolution 11 Sept. 1848; effected capitulation of Essig 14 Feb. 1849; organised a second reserve corps in Styria, but was driven back towards Servia July 1849; field-marshal Nov. 1849; present as a volunteer at battle of Solferino 24 June 1859. d. Bosilgevo, near Karlstadt, Croatia 21 Aug. 1862.

NUGENT, SIR OLIVER (son of hon. Nicholas Nugent, M.D.) b. Antigua 1815; educ. Edinb. univ.; private sec. to sir Henry Light, governor of Antigua 1836; speaker of legislative assembly Antigua 1845; vice-president of legislative council 1867 and president 1869; commanded Antigua yeomanry cavalry 20 years; member of the executive council of Antigua and the Leeward islands to death; knighted at Osborne 21 Feb. 1872; president of legislative council of the Leeward islands 1872–81. d. Millars, Antigua 28 Aug. 1894.

NUGENT, SIR PERCY FITZGERALD, 1 Baronet (son of Thomas Fitzgerald). b. Baltinoran, co. Westmeath 29 Sept. 1797; educ. Old hall green, Herts.; assumed name of Nugent 14 Sept. 1831; created baronet 30 Sept. 1831; M.P. Westmeath 1847–52. d. Donore, near Multifarnham, co. Westmeath 25 June 1874. I.L.N. lxv 23 (1874).

NUGENT, ST. GEORGE MERVYN (6 son of C. E. Nugent of Farran Connell house, co. Cavan). b. 19 Jany. 1825; ensign 29 foot 25 Oct. 1842, captain 15 March 1853; served in Sutlej campaign against the Sikhs 1845, present at Ferozeshah, Modkee, and Sobraon where wounded; captain 96 foot 26 Dec. 1854 to 18 Nov. 1859; D.A.A.G. Aldershot 1858–61; A.Q.M.G. Nova Scotia 1861–7, made arrangements for arrival in Halifax of 12,000 men and for sending them on to Rivièrè de Loup in winter; A.Q.M.G. at head quarters, Ireland 1870–5; D.Q.M.G. Malta 1877–8, where he received the Indian troops; A.A. and Q.M.G. North Britain 1878–80; lieut. col. 13 March 1880; hon. M.G. 21 July 1880. d. 29 May 1884. Times 4 June 1884 p. 10.

NUN, RICHARD. Called to Irish bar 1808; Q.C. 6 Nov. 1844. d. 1867.

NUNN, ANN (dau. of captain Boyle of the R.N.). b. Southampton 1811; first appeared Royalty theatre, Wellclose sq. London as Young Norval in Douglas 1824; acted at the New Pavilion, the Queen’s, and Sadler’s Wells; made a provincial tour; acted at the Queen’s, London with Madame Vestris 1829; had the entire lead at Sadler’s Wells under Osbaldiston for one season; acted in Nottingham where she was the original Pauline in the Lady of Lyons in the provinces; acted in Nottingham, Worcester, Liverpool, Norwich, Preston, and Sheffield circuits; appeared at Bradford in West York circuit as Julia in the Hunchback 12 Aug. 1844, remained in the circuit 12 years, often took the parts of Othello, Romeo, Hamlet, Claude Melnotte, and William in Black eyed Susan; was good as Rosalind, Lady Macbeth, Constance in the Love Chase, and Miami in the Green Bushes; often played 14 different characters in a week; m. John Nunn a comedian at Bradford; made her last appearance as Mrs. Haller in The stranger and William in Black eyed Susan at Bradford 1863. d. at the residence of her son John F. Nunn, Granville road, Frizinghall, Bradford 1 Nov. 1890. bur. Undercliff cemet. 4 Nov. The Era 8 Nov. 1890.

NUNNELEY, THOMAS (son of John Nunneley). b. Market Harborough, Leics. March 1809; educ. Guy’s hospital; L.S.A. 12 July 1832; M.R.C.S. 1832, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; a surgeon at Leeds 1833 to death; surgeon to the Eye and ear hospital, Leeds, 20 years; lectured on anatomy, physiology and surgery in Leeds school of medicine till 1866; surgeon to Leeds general infirmary 1864; gave evidence at the trials of the poisoners Wm. Palmer and Wm. Dove 1856; removed the whole tongue for cancer 1861; performed upwards of 1,000 operations for cataract; author of A treatise on erysipelas 1841, 2 ed. 1844; Anatomical tables 1838; On anæsthesia and anæsthetic substances generally, Worcester 1849; On the organs of vision, their anatomy and physiology 1858. d. 22 Park place, Leeds 1 June 1870. Barker’s Photographs of medical men ii 33 (1867) portrait; Proc. of royal med. and chir. soc. vi 354 (1870); Lancet i 823 (1870).

NURSE, WILLIAM MOUNTFORD. b. 1789; a builder; erected some of the terraces which surround Regent’s park, London; resided at 5 Langham place; built the Polytechnic, Regent st. 1837, in Dec. 1838 he leased it to the Polytechnic Institution, which had been incorporated by charter Aug. 1838, erected a new theatre adjoining the building 1847, the Institution took a lease of the new theatre 1848. d. York terrace, Regent’s Park, London 7 Dec. 1855.

NUSSEY, JOHN. L.S.A. 1818; apothecary at 4 Cleveland row, St. James’s, London; apothecary to prince Albert to Dec. 1861; joint apothecary in ordinary to her majesty and the royal household to death; representative of the Apothecaries society of London in the general medical council 29 Oct. 1858, resigned 21 March 1862, treasurer of the council 25 Nov. 1858, resigned 23 June 1860. d. April 1862.

NUTT, DAVID (son of William Nutt, connected with Truman and Hanbury’s brewery, London). b. 177 Brick lane, Spitalfields, London 3 April 1810; educ. Merchant Tailors’ school; clerk in a large mercantile firm in the city; bookseller at 158 Fleet st. London 1837–50, and at 270 Strand, London 1850 to death; bookseller and publisher to Winchester college at College st. Winchester to death; printed A catalogue of ancient and modern books, Hebrew and Syriac literature illustrative of the sacred writings 1856, often quoted by Brunet and Grasse; A catalogue of theological books in foreign languages 1857. d. 270 Strand, London 28 Nov. 1863. bur. at Norwood cemet. G.M. xvi 126 (1864).

NUTTALL, JOHN, known as Soldier. b. Barnsley 1835; height 5 ft. 9¾ in., weight 11 stone 3 lbs.; with 41 yards start won first prize in a 285 yards handicap Hyde park, Sheffield 8 March 1859; took first prize in 300 yard handicap Higginshaw grounds, Oldham 12 March 1859; beat W. Hall 440 yards £25 a side, Copenhagen grounds, Manchester 19 March 1859; won first prize in a 315 yards handicap, Hyde park 12 July 1859; defeated Siah Albison 440 yards £50 a side, time 51 seconds Copenhagen ground 9 Dec. 1859, and James Hancock 440 yards £50 a side, 11 Feb. 1860; matched with T. Sherdon, 300 yards, £50, but the latter paid forfeit 5 Nov. 1870. d. Barnsley 15 Oct. 1875. Illust. sporting news v 57 (1866) portrait; Bell’s Life in London 30 Oct. 1875 p. 4.

NUTTALL, THOMAS (son of Jonas Nuttall of Blackburn, Lancs. printer). b. Long Preston, Settle, Yorkshire 5 Jany. 1786; brought up as a printer; went to the U.S. of America March 1807, visited nearly all the states and made more discoveries in botany than any other explorer; ascended the rivers Missouri 1811, and the Arkansas 1819; explored the Oregon and Upper California 1834; curator of the botanic gardens and professor of natural history Harvard univ. 1825–34; returned to England 1842 and resided at Nutgrove, near St. Helens, Lancs. to death; author of The genera of North American plants and a catalogue of the species for the year 1817, Philadelphia 2 vols. 1818; A journal of travels into the Arkansas territory, Philadelphia 1821; Introduction to systematic and physiological botany, Boston 1827; A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada 1834, 2 ed. 1840; The North American sylva, trees not described by F. A. Michaux, Philadelphia 3 vols. 1842–9. d. Nutgrove 10 Sept. 1859. Asa Gray’s Scientific papers ii 75, &c. (1889); Elias Durand’s Life of T. Nuttall; Proc. of Linnæan Soc. (1860) 26–9; Montague Chamberlain’s Ornithology of United States (1891) pp. v–vii.

NUTTALL, THOMAS (son of George R. Nuttall, M.D., physician of the Westminster dispensary). b. London 7 Oct. 1828; ensign 29 Bombay N.I. 21 Jany. 1846, adjutant Dec. 1851 to Nov. 1856, captain 23 Nov. 1856; captain Bombay staff corps 1861, lieut. col. 2 Aug. 1871; served in the Persian expedition 1857; on special police duty against disaffected Bheels and Coolies in the Nassick districts 9 Nov. 1857 to 25 March 1861, where he organised a corps of one of the wildest tribes of the Deccan, the Coolies of the Western Ghauts; superintendent of police at Kaira, Sholapur and Kulladgi successively, June 1860 to Aug. 1865; second in command of the land transport of Abyssinian expedition Oct. 1867; second in command of 25 Bombay N.I. Aug. 1868 to Feb. 1871; commandant of 22 Bombay N.I. April 1871 to April 1876; acting commandant of Sind frontier force 5 April 1876, commandant 25 Jany. 1877 to 20 Nov. 1878; commanded a brigade in Afghanistan 20 Nov. 1878, and the brigade left for the occupation of Kandahar 1879; brigadier general of cavalry brigade at Kandahar 28 May to 14 Aug. 1880; led the cavalry charge at battle of Maiwand 27 July 1880, and took part in battle of Kandahar and pursuit of the Afghan army 1 Sept. 1880; L.G. 1 Dec. 1888. d. Insch, Aberdeenshire 30 Aug. 1890. A. Forbes’s Afghan wars (1892) 299.

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OAKELEY, FREDERICK (youngest child of sir Charles Oakeley, 1 baronet, governor of Madras 1751–1826). b. the Abbey house, Shrewsbury 5 Sept. 1802; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 15 June 1820, B.A. 1824; chaplain fellow of Balliol coll. 1827–45, tutor 1830–7; prebendary of Lichfield 23 Jany. 1832 to 1845; select preacher at Oxford 1831; one of the public examiners to the univ. 1835; Whitehall preacher 1837; incumbent of St. Margaret’s chapel, Marylebone, London 1839–45, where he introduced ritualism; asserted in two pamphlets, published 1845, a claim to hold, as distinct from teaching, all Roman doctrine, for doing this his licence was revoked by court of arches and he was suspended from all clerical duty in the province of Canterbury 30 June 1845; joined Newman’s community at Littlemore Sept. 1845, received into Church of Rome at St. Clement’s chapel, Oxford 29 Oct. 1845, confirmed by bishop Wiseman at Birmingham 31 Oct.; theological student at St. Edmund’s college, Ware, Herts. Jany. 1846 to Aug. 1848; was in charge of church of St. John the Evangelist, Duncan terrace, Islington 22 Jany. 1850 to death; canon of Westminster 1852 to death; author of Sermons, preached chiefly in Whitehall chapel 1839; The order and ceremonial of the mass 1848; The youthful martyrs of Rome 1856, a drama adapted from cardinal Wiseman’s Fabiola; The church of the Bible 1857; Lyra Liturgica. By F. O. 1865; Historical notes on the Tractarian movement 1865; The priest on the mission 1871; The voice of creation 1876; and of upwards of 35 other works. d. 39 Duncan terrace, City road, London 29 Jany. 1880. Reminiscences of Oxford, edited by L. M. Q. Couch (1892) 301–45; A.R. (1845) 95–6; C. Hodgson’s Report of the case Hodgson v. rev. F. Oakeley (1845).

OAKELEY, SOULDEN. b. 27 Nov. 1818; ensign 56 foot 28 June 1836, lieut. col. 3 Feb. 1854 to death. d. Oakeley, Shropshire 17 Oct. 1856.

OAKES, CHARLES HENRY (youngest son of lieut. general sir Henry Oakes, 2 baronet 1756–1827). b. 25 Nov. 1810; barrister M.T. 5 May 1837; edited Who’s Who 1851 to death. d. 16 May 1864.

OAKES, JOHN WRIGHT. b. Sproston house, near Middlewich, Cheshire 9 July 1820; exhibited fruit-pieces at Liverpool academy 1839 &c., member of the academy, hon. secretary several years; a landscape painter about 1843 to death; exhibited 68 pictures at R.A., 28 at B.I., and 11 at Suffolk st. 1847–80; resided in London 1859 to death; associate of Institute of painters in water-colours 1874, resigned 1875; A.R.A. 2 April 1876; honorary M.R.S.A. Nov. 1883. d. Leam house, 34 Addison road, Kensington 8 July 1887. bur. Brompton cemet. I.L.N. lxviii 469 (1876) portrait; Graphic xiii 462, 476 (1876) portrait.

OAKES, THOMAS GEORGE ALEXANDER. b. 2 June 1827; cornet 12 lancers 16 Jany. 1846, lieut. col. 5 March 1861 to 25 March 1871; M.G. 17 May 1869; inspecting officer of yeomanry cavalry 1 April 1873–7; C.B. 5 July 1865. d. Farnham 22 Aug. 1878.

OAKEY, JOHN. b. 1813; glass paper manufacturer at 3 Manor place, Walworth, London 1833, subsequently manufacturer of emery, black lead, emery and glass cloths, glass, emery and flint papers, the Wellington knife polish and knife boards, and other specialties for household use; erected the Wellington mills, Westminster bridge road 1874, where he carried on business to his death, with his son Herbert Oakey as J. Oakey and sons; gained prize medals at Philadelphia 1876, Boston 1883, and the Crystal palace 1884. d. St. John’s, Victoria road, Surbiton 10 Jany. 1887.

OAKLEY, CHARLES EDWARD (only son of Richard Cater Oakley of Chatham, capt. 20 regt.) b. Brompton, Kent 9 Jany. 1832; educ. Truro gram. sch. and Rugby; exhibitioner Wadham coll. Oxf. 1850; scholar of Pembroke coll. 1851; demy of Magd. coll. 1853–5; B.A. 1855, B.C.L. and M.A. 1857; chaplain to a brigade of artillery in the Crimea 1855–6; R. of Wickwar, Gloucs. 1856–63; sec. to Church missionary soc. 1857; R. of St. Paul’s, Covent garden, London Sept. 1863 to death; author of The English bible and its history 1855; A son born to Naomi, a sermon on baptism of prince Albert Victor 1864. d. Rhyl, North Wales 15 Sept. 1865. G.M. xix 526, 651 (1865); Times 19 Sept. 1865 p. 7, 25 Sept. p. 12.

OAKLEY, HERBERT WILLIAM. b. Taunton Jany. 1848; assistant to Boyd-Dawkins, professor of natural history in Owen’s college, Manchester 1870–7; in the Cape mounted police 1877–9; distinguished himself in the Moirosi campaign; assistant curator of colonial museum, Cape Town Sept. 1879 to death; with W. B. Dawkins, F.R.S. he wrote the sections on proboscidea, hyracoidea, and ungulata in P. M. Duncan’s Cassell’s Natural history, vol. ii, 273 et seq. (1878). d. Cape Town 14 Nov. 1884.

OAKLEY, JOHN (son of John Oakley of Blackheath, Kent, land agent). b. Frindsbury near Rochester 28 Oct. 1834; educ. Rochester cathedral school and at Hereford gram. sch.; scholar of Brasenose coll. Oxf. 1852; president of the Oxford Union 1856; B.A. 1857, M.A. 1859, D.D. 1881; C. of St. Luke’s, Berwick st. London 1858–9; C. of St. James’s, Piccadilly 1859–67; secretary to London diocesan board of education 1864–8; V. of St. Saviour’s, Hoxton 1867–81; declined bishopric of Nelson, New Zealand 1865; dean of Carlisle 23 Nov. 1881, installed 6 Jany. 1882; dean of Manchester Nov. 1883 to death; wrote in the Manchester Guardian under name of Vicesimus a memoir of Henry Nutcombe Oxenham and a series of papers on Dean Burgon’s Lives of twelve good men 1888–9; author of The Christian aspect and application of the decalogue 1865; The conscience clause, its history 1866. d. Deganwy, near Llandudno 10 June 1891. bur. Chiselhurst, stained glass memorial window erected in south aisle of Manchester cathedral. Health Journal (Manchester) June 1887 pp. 11–13 portrait; I.L.N. 21 June 1890 p. 774 portrait; Pictorial World 21 June 1890 p. 788 portrait.

OAKLEY, OCTAVIUS. b. Bermondsey, London 27 April 1800; placed with a cloth manufacturer near Leeds; a portrait painter at Derby about 1825, removed to Leamington 1836; came to London about 1841; associate of Society of painters in water-colours 1842, member 1844, exhibited 210 landscapes and groups of gipsies, which gained him the sobriquet of Gipsy Oakley; exhibited 30 water-colour portraits at the R.A. 1826–60; there was a sale of his works at Christie’s March 1869. d. 7 Chepstow villas, Bayswater, London 1 March 1867. bur. Highgate cemet. Roget’s History of the old water-colour society ii 268–71 (1891).

OAKLEY, WILLIAM. b. 1818; governor of Somerset county gaol, Taunton 1850 to death; author of Observations on constabulary and police 1853; Observations on the grand jury system 1853. d. the gaol, Upper High st. Taunton 6 March 1880.

OASTLER, RICHARD (youngest child of Robert Oastler of Leeds, steward of the Fixby estates, Huddersfield, d. July 1820). b. St. Peter’s sq. Leeds 20 Dec. 1789; educ. the Moravian school at Fulneck; articled to Charles Watson, architect at Wakefield, 4 years; a commission agent, failed 1820; steward to Thomas Thornhill at Fixby hall 5 Jany. 1821, discharged for opposing the poor-law comrs. 28 May 1838; began his attempt to reform the factories by a letter to the Leeds Mercury entitled ‘Yorkshire Slavery’ 29 Sept. 1830; became known as ‘The factory king’; published letters on the ten-hours day and similar subjects in some of the unstamped periodicals; confined more than three years in the Fleet prison, from 9 Dec. 1840, for a debt of £2,000; published The Fleet Papers, being letters to Thomas Thornhill, Esquire, of Riddlesworth, from Richard Oastler his prisoner in the Fleet 1841; an Oastler liberation fund was started 1842, released from prison Feb. 1844; made a public entry into Huddersfield 20 Feb. 1844; agitated for a ten hours’ day 1844–7; edited The Home, weekly paper 3 May 1851 to June 1855; edited with rev. J. R. Stephens a weekly journal entitled the Ashton Chronicle; lived at South Hill cottage, Guildford 1845 to death; author of Vicarial tithes, Halifax 1827; The Huddersfield dissenter stark staring mad, because the mask has fallen 1835; The devil-to-do amongst the dissenters in Huddersfield 1835; Slavery in Yorkshire 1835; More work for the Leeds new thief catchers 1836; Damnation, eternal damnation to the fiend begotten coarser food new poor law 1837; Brougham versus Brougham on the new poor law 1847; Factory legislation 1855. d. Harrogate 22 Aug. 1861. bur. Kirkstall churchyard, bronze statue by J. B. Philip at Bradford, unveiled 15 May 1869. Sketch of the life and opinions of R. Oastler, Leeds (1838) portrait; Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis (1865) 499–503, 671; Spence’s Eminent men of Leeds pp. 53–9 with portrait; R. Oastler’s Fleet papers, vol. 1, number 12 portrait; Illust. news of the world viii 245 (1861) portrait; I.L.N. iv 156 (1844) portrait.

OATES, FRANCIS (2 son of Edward Oates of Meanwoodside, Yorkshire). b. Meanwoodside 6 April 1840; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 9 Feb. 1861; collected birds and insects in Central America 1871; F.R.G.S. 1872; sailed with his brother W. E. Oates from Southampton for Natal 5 March 1873; left Maritzburg 16 May 1873 and explored the Matabele country north of the Limpopo river; started again 3 Nov. 1874, arrived on the banks of the Zambesi 31 Dec., after collecting many objects of natural history. d. of a fever near the Makalaka kraal, about 80 miles north of the Tati river 5 Feb. 1875. Matabele land and the Victoria falls, a naturalist’s wanderings in the interior of South Africa by F. Oates, ed. by C. J. Oates 1881, 2 ed. (1889) memoir pp. xix–xlii and portrait; Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xlv, p. clii (1875).

OATES, JAMES POOLE. b. 1768; ensign 88 foot 3 March 1797, captain 19 Oct. 1804, placed on h.p. 26 March 1818; served in the West Indies, East Indies, Egypt, and South America; present at almost every siege and battle in the Peninsular war; received the gold medal for Egypt and the silver war medal with ten clasps; lieut. col. in the army 22 July 1830; K.H. 1837. d. 6 Linden grove, Notting hill, London 4 April 1863.

OATES, WILLIAM WILFRID. b. 1828; publisher of Roman catholic books, of the firm of Burns, Lambert and Oates 17 Portman st. Portman sq. London 1865, subsequently of the firm of Burns and Oates to death. d. 28 Dec. 1876.

O’BRIEN, BARTHOLOMEW (son of Bartholomew O’Brien of Harbledown, Canterbury). b. 18 June 1818; ensign 2 West India regiment 15 April 1836, lieut. 1838–40; lieut. 77 foot 23 July 1841, major 20 April 1855; major 87 foot 17 Aug. 1855; lieut. col. 26 Oct. 1858 to 15 Nov. 1859; lieut. col. military train 15 Nov. 1859, placed on h.p. 12 Sept. 1870; served in Crimean war and Indian mutiny and in New Zealand 1863–7; C.B. 24 May 1873; M.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 July 1881. d. 1 Addison road, Bedford park, Chiswick, Middlesex 8 March 1885.

O’BRIEN, CORNELIUS (son of Henry O’Brien of Birckfield, co. Clare). b. Birckfield 1782; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; admitted attorney 1811; M.P. Clare 1832–52, and 1852–7. d. about 1857.

O’BRIEN, DOMINIC. b. Waterford 5 July 1798; studied theology at the Propaganda college, Rome; D.D.; ordained priest at Rome 1821; chaplain to the Ursuline convent, Waterford; president of St. John’s college, Waterford; one of the secretaries to the synod of Thurles 1850; parish priest of St. Patrick’s, Waterford; R.C. bishop of Waterford and Lismore 23 July 1855 to death, consecrated 30 Sept. 1855. d. at the Episcopal residence, George st. Waterford 12 June 1873. bur. in St. John’s cath. Munster Express 14 June 1873 p. 4; Brady’s Episcopal succession ii 76 (1876).

O’BRIEN, DONAT HENCHY (2 son of Michael O’Brien of Ennistimon, co. Clare). b. Ireland 5 Nov. 1784; entered navy 16 Dec. 1796; master’s mate of the Hussar frigate, when she was wrecked on the Saints (Ile de Sein) 8 Feb. 1804; a prisoner of war at Verdun 1804, escaped Nov. 1808; lieut. of the Warrior 29 March 1809, assisted at the reduction of Ionian Islands; lieut. of the Amphion March 1810, served in action off Lissa 13 March 1811; commanded the Slaney on the South American station 1818–21; captain 5 March 1821; R.A. on h.p. 8 March 1852; author of The narrative of captain O’Brien, containing an account of his shipwreck, captivity, and escape from France 1814; My adventures during the late war, comprising a narrative of shipwreck, captivity, escapes from French prisons, &c. from 1804–27, 2 vols. 1839 portrait. d. Yew house, Hoddesdon 13 May 1857, memorial window in Broxbourne church.

O’BRIEN, FITZ JAMES (son of an attorney-at-law). b. Limerick 1828; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; went to London and spent his fortune of £8,000; edited a periodical in aid of the World’s fair 1851; went to U.S. of America about 1852, where he wrote in the Lantern, Home journal, Evening Post, New York times, American Whig review, and the Atlantic monthly; contributed more than 66 articles to Harper’s Mag. from Feb. 1853; author of The Diamond lens and other stories 1881; What was it 1889; wrote A gentleman from Ireland and other pieces for the theatres; the most able of the brilliant set of Bohemians in New York; joined the 7th regiment of New York national guard 1861. d. Cumberland, Virginia 6 April 1862, having been wounded in a skirmish 26 Feb. bur. Greenwood cemetery. The Diamond Lens (1887) memoir pp. vii–xx; Appleton’s American Biography iv 549 (1888) portrait.

O’BRIEN, JAMES (2 son of Daniel O’Brien of Granard, co. Longford, wine merchant). b. 1805; educ. at Edgworthstown school and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1829; student at Gray’s Inn 24 March 1830; acting editor of Henry Hetherington’s Poor man’s guardian, an unstamped paper 1831; wrote in Hetherington’s Poor man’s conservative, signed his articles Bronterre, and called himself subsequently James Bronterre O’Brien; started Bronterre’s National Reformer 1837, and in 1838 the Operative, which ceased July 1839; a delegate to the Chartist meeting in Palace yard, Westminster 17 Sept. 1838; contributed violent articles to the Northern Star 1839; tried at Newcastle Feb. 1840 on a charge of conspiracy, when acquitted, but sentenced at Liverpool April 1840 to 18 months’ imprisonment for seditious speaking; quarrelled with Feargus O’Connor, who called him the ‘Starved Viper’; edited the British Statesman June to Dec. 1842, and The National Reformer 1845; a delegate to Chartist convention 4 April 1848, but withdrew 9 April; edited Reynold’s Newspaper for short time in 1848; lectured on his scheme of social reform at John st. institute and at the Eclectic institute, Denmark st. Soho, London; author of The life and character of Maximilian Robespierre 1837, vol. 1, no more published; Ode to lord Palmerston 1856; An ode to Louis Napoleon Bonaparte 1857; An elegy on the death of Robespierre 1857; A vision of hell, lord Overgrown’s dream, his lordship’s reunion with sir Robert Peel in the regions below 1859. d. Hermes st. Pentonville, London 23 Dec. 1864. R. G. Gammage’s History of Chartist movement (1854) 114 et seq.

O’BRIEN, JAMES. b. 1810; educ. Dublin univ., B.A. 1843, M.A., B.D., and D.D. 1859; entered Magdalen hall, Oxf.; incorporated B.A. at Hertford coll. 1861, and M.A., B.D., and D.D. 1863; P.C. of St. Patrick, Hove, Brighton 1858, built a church at his own cost £20,000, 1868, the patronage of which he bequeathed to Hove; he figures in Cuthbert Bede’s novel Mattins and Mutton’s, or the beauty of Brighton, 2 vols. 1866, as Dr. O’Lion vol i, p. 319 et seq. d. St. Patrick’s parsonage 8 Jany. 1884.

O’BRIEN, JAMES (3 son of James O’Brien of Limerick). b. Limerick 27 Feb. 1806; educ. at Belfast institution and Trin. coll. Dublin; called to bar in Ireland 1830; Q.C. 17 Aug. 1841; third serjeant at law 1848–51; second serjeant at law 1851 to 25 Jany. 1858; bencher of Kings inns 1849; M.P. Limerick 1854–8; justice of court of queen’s bench 25 Jany. 1858 to death. d. 92 St. Stephen’s Green South, Dublin 29 Dec. 1881. Law mag. and law review iii 209 (1857); Law times lxxii 176 (1882).

O’BRIEN, JAMES THOMAS (son of Michael Burke O’Brien, corporation officer of New Ross, Westmeath, d. 1826). b. New Ross, Sept. 1792; educ. endowed school of New Ross; a pensioner at Trin. coll. Dublin, Nov. 1810, scholar 1813, gold medalist 1815, fellow 1820–36, B.A. 1815, M.A. 1825, B.D. and D.D. 1831; one of the six Dublin univ. preachers 1828–42; archbishop King’s lecturer in divinity 30 March 1833; voted freedom of borough of New Ross Sept. 1826; V. of Clondahorky, Raphoe 1836–7; V. of Arboe, Armagh 1837–41; dean of Cork 9 Nov. 1841, instituted 5 Jany. 1842; bishop of Ossory, Fearns, and Leighlin 9 March 1842 to death, consecrated in Trinity college chapel 20 March 1842; restored the use of the offertory in the cathedral; author of An attempt to explain the doctrine of justification by faith only, in ten sermons 1833, 3 ed. 1863; Sermons upon the nature and effects of faith 1833, 5 ed. 1891; Tractarianism, its present state and the only safeguard against it 1850; and 20 other books. d. 49 Thurlow sq. London 12 Dec. 1874. bur. in churchyard of St. Canice’s cathedral, Kilkenny 19 Dec. W. G. Carroll’s Memoir of J. T. O’Brien (1875) portrait.

O’BRIEN, JOHN (brother of James O’Brien 1806–81). M.P. city of Limerick 1841–52; of Elmvale, co. Clare. d. 92 St. Stephen’s Green South, Dublin 5 Feb. 1855. Freeman’s Journal 7 Feb. 1855 p. 3.

O’BRIEN, JOHN (son of a solicitor by a Miss Nalder). b. Nenagh, co. Tipperary 1811; educ. Trinity college, Dublin to 1834; a sporting man residing at Limmer’s hotel, London 1844, and setting up for a leader of fashion; had horses trained by Thomas Dawson of Middleham; purchased Traverser colt 1843, with whom he won many races; purchased Grimston and Jonathan Wild, won Goodwood stakes with the latter and the Goodwood cup with Grimston 1846; said to be worth £25,000 after the Goodwood of 1846; lost all his money by 1848; pawned some paintings on which the Bishop of Bond st. (Wm. Bishop d. 1871) had made advances, sent to Newgate 1862; fined £100 for an assault on Dollar Smith 1862; became a broken down swell. d. Nenagh 29 Sept. 1869. Sporting Times 22 Aug. 1885 p. 2.

O’BRIEN, JOSEPH. b. 1793; entered navy 25 June 1807; lieut. in the Impregnable at bombardment of Algiers 1816; commander of the Beaver sloop 1826; captain 8 Aug. 1829, when he went on h.p; admiral on h.p. 12 Sept. 1865. d. Fareham 17 Nov. 1865.

O’BRIEN, MATTHEW (son of Matthew O’Brien, M.D.). b. Ennis 1814; scholar of Gonville and Caius coll. Camb. 1834, junior fellow 1840–1; third wrangler 1838; B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; moderator in the mathematical tripos 1843–4; lecturer on practical astronomy at R.M.A. Woolwich 10 Jany. 1849 to death; professor of natural philosophy and astronomy in King’s college, London 8 March 1844 to 17 Aug. 1854; author of Mathematical tracts, Part i on Laplace’s Coefficients 1840, no more published; An elementary treatise on the differential calculus 1842; The senate house problems for 1844, with solutions 1844; A treatise on plane co-ordinate geometry 1844, part i; On a new notation for expressing conditions and equations in geometry 1847. d. Petit Ménage, Jersey 22 Aug. 1855.

O’BRIEN, MICHAEL WILLIAM (son of William O’Brien). b. 29 Sept. 1813; educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1836, M.A. 1863; barrister L.I. 5 May 1842; revising barrister 1854; serjeant at law 13 May 1862; recorder of Lincoln Jan. 1872 to death. d. 57 Brunswick road, Brighton 2 June 1873. Law times lv 209 (1873).

O’BRIEN, SIR PATRICK, 2 Baronet (eld. son of sir Timothy O’Brien, d. 1862). b. Dublin 1823; educ. Dublin univ., B.A. 1842, M.A. 1847; called to the Irish bar 1844; M.P. King’s county 1852–85; succeeded to the baronetcy 4 Dec. 1862; refused to cooperate with the Parnellite party; at one time he complained to the speaker of the insolence of a member, whom he called ‘the young sea serpent from county Clare’; a well known member of the Reform club; author of Notes of interviews with the ministers of France in reference to the policy of Louis Napoleon 1852; The French and English in Rome, with notes of interviews with the Pope and cardinal Antonelli 1853; Journal of a residence in the Danubian principalities 1854; resided 10 Bryanstown square, London. d. 20 Brunswick terrace, Brighton 25 April 1895.

O’BRIENN, TERENCE. Lieut. 87 foot 7 Jany. 1819, major 18 April 1845 to 31 July 1846, when placed on h.p.; assistant quartermaster general 1 Nov. 1855 to 6 Nov. 1860; commanded the troops in Ceylon 6 Nov. 1860 to death; M.G. 13 Feb. 1861; granted service reward 10 Nov. 1856. d. on board P. and O. ship Golconda at Suez 27 July 1865, aged 66.

O’BRIEN, SIR TIMOTHY, 1 Baronet (son of Timothy O’Brien of Tinnekilly, co. Tipperary). b. co. Tipperary 1790; merchant; Spanish consul and consul for Parma and Placentia 50 Fleet st. Dublin; governor of the Hibernian bank; lord mayor of Dublin 1844 and 1849; M.P. Cashel 1846–59; created baronet 25 Aug. 1849 on occasion of the queen’s visit to Ireland. d. 14 Merrion sq. east, Dublin 4 Dec. 1862.

O’BRIEN, WILLIAM SHONEY. b. Abbeyleix, Ireland 1825; emigrated to New York, admitted a citizen 1845; worked in the mines in California 1849; with J. C. Flood kept the Auction lunch saloon, San Francisco 1854–66; a ship chandler; with J. C. Flood, J. S. Fair and John Mackey held the silver mine on the Comstock ledge, Nevada, called the big bonanza 1874, from which they gained immense wealth, and became known as the Bonanza Kings, he held one fifth part of the mine. d. San Rafael, California 2 May 1878, left from 15 million to 20 million dollars. Appleton’s American biography iv 551 (1888).

O’BRIEN, WILLIAM SMITH (2 son of sir Edward O’Brien, 4 baronet 1773–1837). b. Dromoland, co. Clare 17 Oct. 1803; educ. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1826; assumed additional name of Smith on death of his maternal grandfather; M.P. Ennis 1828–31; fought a duel with Thomas Steele, O’Connell’s ‘head pacificator’; M.P. Limerick 1835–48; a motion in house of commons declaring him guilty of contempt for refusing to serve on a railway committee of which he had been appointed a member, was carried by 120 votes 28 April 1846, committed to custody of sergeant-at-arms 30 April and discharged 25 May; made his last speech in house of commons 10 April 1848; joined the Repeal Association 20 Oct. 1843 and became the second man in the movement; seceded from O’Connell’s party 27 July 1846; chief founder of the Irish Confederation, which first met 13 Jany. 1847; met Mitchel at the confederate soirée at Limerick 29 April 1848, which meeting is burlesqued by Thackeray in his The Battle of Limerick (W. M. Thackeray’s Ballads and Tales 1869, pp. 179–83); tried in court of queen’s bench, Dublin 15 May 1848, for his speech at meeting of the Irish confederation 15 March urging formation of a national guard, but the jury were discharged without returning a verdict 16 May; made an attack on the police at Boulah Common, near Ballingarry 29 July 1848, which failed, arrested at Thurles railway station 5 Aug., tried at Clonmel by a special commission 28 Sept., found guilty of high treason 7 Oct. and sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered 9 Oct., this sentence was commuted to transportation for life and he was sent to Tasmania 29 July 1849, granted a pardon 26 Feb. 1854; resided at Brussels 1854–6; returned to Ireland July 1856; author of Considerations relative to the renewal of the East India company’s charter 1830; Principles of government or meditations in exile, 2 vols. 1856. d. Penrhyn arms, Bangor 18 June 1864. bur. Rathronan churchyard, co. Limerick 24 June, statue by Thomas Farrell, R.H.A. erected close to O’Connell bridge, Dublin 1870. Cusack’s The liberator: his life and times (1872) 573–5; Duffy’s Four years of Irish history (1883) 316–7, 331–3, 511, 561; W. C. Townsend’s Modern state trials i 469–533 (1850); Sullivan’s New Ireland i 163–8 (1877); Clark and Finnelly’s House of Lords cases ii 465–96 (1851); T. C. Anstey’s Case as to the legality of the arrest of W. S. O’Brien 1846; J. G. Hodge’s Report of trial of W. S. O’Brien for high treason 1849; I.L.N. iv 424 (1844) portrait, viii 300 (1846) portrait, xiii 92, 220 (1848) portrait.

O’BRYAN, WILLIAM (2 son of Mr. Bryant). b. Gunwen, Luxulyan, Cornwall 6 Feb. 1778; converted 5 Nov. 1795; changed his name to O’Bryan; preached in East Cornwall and West Devon; resided for some years at Liskeard; expelled from the Wesleyan Methodist society Nov. 1810; formed a small sect constituted under name of Arminian Bible Christians, otherwise Bryanites, at Lake in Cornwall 1815; the greater part of his adherents seceded in 1829, and founded a separate society under the name of Bible Christians; emigrated to U.S. of America 1831, preached a great deal, but was not able to found a church; author of The rules of society, or a guide to conduct for those who desire to be Arminian Bible Christians, 2 ed. 1812; A collection of hymns for the use of the people called Arminian Bible Christians, Stoke Damerel 1825; Travels in the United States of America 1836. d. Brooklyn, New York 8 Jany. 1868. Thorne’s William O’Bryan (1888); Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. (1874) 406.

O’BRYEN, JAMES JOSEPH (son of Terence O’Bryen of Glancolumbhill, co. Clare). b. 1823; ensign 16 Bengal N.I. 22 Nov. 1843, served in Sutlej campaign 1845–6 and was present in battles of Mudki, Ferozeshah and Sobraon, medal and two clasps; adjutant of the 16 N.I. till his regiment was disbanded in the mutiny 1857; barrack master at Moradabad and at Almorah; second in command of the 16 or Lucknow regt.; joined the staff corps on its formation, major 22 Nov. 1863, second in command of 22 Punjab N.I. 1864, lieut. col. 22 Nov. 1869, served in Lushai expedition 1872, medal and clasp, colonel 1874, present in Jowaki campaign 1877, marched with his regt. into Afghanistan Dec. 1879. d. Safed Sang 22 Jany. 1880. S. H. Shadbolt’s Afghan campaign (1882) 150–1 portrait, plate xii.

O’CALLAGHAN, EDMUND BAILEY. b. Mallow near Cork 28 Feb. 1797; studied medicine in Paris 1820–2; emigrated to Canada 1823; practised at Quebec 1827–30; assisted in forming the association called The Friends of Ireland, in Quebec; removed to Montreal 1830; edited The Vindicator, the organ of the Canadian patriots 1834, the office of his paper was wrecked by members of the tory Doric club 6 Nov. 1835; member for Yamaska in the assembly of Upper Canada 1835; fought on the side of the revolutionists at battle of St. Denis 23 Nov. 1837, when the rising failed he fled to U.S. of America, a reward was offered for his apprehension as a traitor 29 Nov. 1837; practised as a doctor at Albany; edited The Northern Light, an industrial journal; hon. M.D. univ. of St. Louis 1846, and LL.D. St. John’s college, Fordham, Massachusetts; edited State records, or documentary history of the state of New York, 11 vols. 1849–51; author of The late session of the provincial parliament of Lower Canada, by An old countryman 1836; History of New Netherlands, or New York under the Dutch, 2 vols. 1846–8; Jesuit relations of discoveries in Canada and the northern and western states 1636–72, 1847; A list of editions of the Holy Scriptures printed in America 1861. d. 651 Lexington avenue, New York 29 May 1880. bur. Calvary cemetery 2 June. Magazine of American history July 1880 pp. 77–80.

O’CALLAGHAN, JOHN CORNELIUS (son of John O’Callaghan, attorney). b. Dublin 1805; educ. at Jesuit coll. at Clongowes Wood; called to Irish bar 1829, but did not practice; wrote for The Comet, Dublin weekly paper 1830–3, then for The Irish monthly magazine, his contributions to these two periodicals were published under title of The Green Book, or gleanings from the writing desk of a literary agitator 1841, 2 ed. 1845; was on the staff of The Nation newspaper 1842, using the signature of Gracchus, wrote The Exterminator’s song in the first number; edited Charles O’Kelly’s Macariæ Excidium, or the destruction of Cyprus 1846, being the secret history of the revolution in Ireland from 1688–91; author of The Irish in the English army and navy 1843; History of the Irish brigade in the service of France, Dublin 1854, vol. 1, another ed. Glasgow 1870. d. Fitzgibbon street, Dublin 24 April 1883. C. G. Duffy’s Young Ireland i, 18, 103 (1884); Irish Monthly xvii 503 (1889), xviii 411–21 (1890); Freeman’s Journal 25 April 1883 and 5 Feb. 1892.

O’CALLAGHAN, WILLIAM FREDERICK ORMONDE (2 son of 2 viscount Lismore, b. 1815). b. London 14 Nov. 1852; educ. Eton 1868 etc.; M.P. co. Tipperary Feb. 1874 to death. d. 20 April 1877. Times 23 April 1877 p. 6.

OCEANA, stage name of Oceana Renz (dau. of Ethardo the spiral ascensionist). b. at sea and christened Oceana 1858; a slack wire walker, first came out in Italy 1865; first appeared in England at the Canterbury music hall; played at the Cirque d’eté, Paris 1878; acted Leo in Les pirates de la Savane at the Théâtre des nations, Paris; was for some seasons at the Hippodrome, Paris; visited all the capitals of Europe; appeared with W. Holland’s circus at Covent Garden theatre, London Dec. 1884; m. Ernest Renz of the Circus Renz, Berlin, who is dead; last appeared in England at the Trocadero music hall 1883. d. of paralysis at Nice 17 April 1895. Illust. sporting and dramatic news xxii 412, 461 (1885) portrait.

O’CONNELL, CHARLES (son of Daniel O’Connell of Porthagee, co. Kerry). b. 1805; M.P. co. Kerry 1833–4; resident magistrate in Bantry 1847 to death. d. Ballynabloun, co. Kerry 20 Jany. 1877. Times 23 Jany. 1877 p. 6.

O’CONNELL, SIR JAMES, (1 Baronet) 4 son of Morgan O’Connell of Carhen, co. Kerry 1739–1809). b. Carhen house, co. Kerry 10 Jany. 1786; educ. Cork; created baronet 29 Oct. 1869. d. Lakeview, near Killarney 28 July 1872. I.L.N. lxi 143 (1872).

O’CONNELL, JOHN (3 son of Daniel O’Connell 1775–1847). b. Dublin 24 Dec. 1810; called to the Irish bar 1837; M.P. Youghall 15 Dec. 1832 to July 1837; M.P. Athlone 1837–41; M.P. Kilkenny 1841–7; M.P. Limerick 1847–51; M.P. Clonmel 21 Dec. 1853 to Feb. 1857; helped his father in the repeal agitation and prepared reports for the repeal association; tried with his father in the court of queen’s bench, Dublin 15 Jany. to 12 Feb. 1844, sentenced to 9 months imprisonment and to pay a fine of £50, 30 May, imprisoned in Richmond gaol 30 May, released 4 Sept., the house of lords having reversed the judgment of the queen’s bench; succeeded his father as head of the repeal association in Ireland, which was dissolved for want of funds 6 June 1848; carried on an agitation under popular name of the ‘Young Liberator’; clerk of the Hanaper office, Ireland Feb. 1857 to death; edited The life of Daniel O’Connell, 2 vols. 1846; The select speeches of D. O’Connell, 2 vols. 1854–5; author of An argument for Ireland 1844, 2 ed. 1847; Recollections and experiences during a parliamentary career, 2 vols. 1849. d. Gowran hill, Kingstown, near Dublin 24 May 1858. bur. Glasnevin cemet. 28 May. Reports of state trials, n.s., vol. v (1893); Shaw’s Report of the Irish state trials (1844); I.L.N. iv, 88 (1844) portrait.

O’CONNELL, MAURICE (brother of preceding). b. 1803; called to Irish bar 1827; M.P. Clare 1831–2; M.P. borough of Tralee 1832 to death; wrote in Mrs. Johnstone’s Edinburgh Tales, 3 vols. 1845–6, The Legend of the Big fluke ii, 144–7, and The Ross Beh wrecker ii, 147–51. d. London 17 June 1853. I.L.N. xxii 507 (1853).

NOTE.—Daniel O’Connell, his 3 sons, and 2 of his sons-in-law were all members of the first reformed parliament.

O’CONNELL, SIR MAURICE CHARLES (elder son of general sir Maurice Charles Philip O’Connell, acting governor of N.S.W. 1846, d. Sydney 25 May 1848). b. Sydney Jany. 1812; educ. East Sheen 1819, and the high sch. Edinb.; ensign 73 foot 25 March 1828, lieut. 25 Nov. 1831, placed on h.p. 24 July 1835; lieut. col. of the 10 Munster light infantry 1835, which he had raised in Ireland for service under queen Isabella of Spain against Don Carlos; was present in several engagements between the Christinos and the Carlists; D.A.G. of the British legion in Spain, and then general of brigade 1836, the British legion was disbanded at San Sebastian 1837; created knight commander of Isabella the Catholic, knight of San Fernando, and knight extraordinary of Charles III.; lieut. 51 foot 25 Nov. 1837; captain 28 foot 22 June 1838, sold out 24 May 1844; military secretary to his father in N.S.W.; settled in N.S.W. as a breeder of horses 1844, a great authority on breeding; contested Sydney for the first legislative council 1843; member for Port Philip Aug. 1845 to 7 Nov. 1848; a comr. for crown lands in the Burnett district 7 Nov. 1848; government resident comr. of crown lands and police magistrate of Port Curtis Jany. 1854 to 10 Dec. 1859; member of the first legislative council of Queensland 29 May 1860, president of the council Aug. 1860 to death; administered the government of Queensland 4 Jany. to 14 Aug. 1868, 2 Jany. to 12 Aug. 1871, 12 Nov. 1874 to 23 Jany. 1875; knighted by patent 6 March 1871; colonel commandant of Queensland volunteers; provincial grand master of the freemasons of the Irish constitution. d. Brisbane 23 March 1879, bust in Queensland council chamber, presented to him by the council 1878. Heads of the people i 79 (1847) portrait, ii 113 (1848) portrait of his wife.

O’CONNELL, MORGAN (2 son of Daniel O’Connell 1775–1847). b. 30 Merrion sq. Dublin 31 Oct. 1804; an officer in the Irish South American legion which served under Bolivar in Bolivia about 1821–5; served in the Austrian army; M.P. Meath 19 Dec. 1832 to Jany. 1840; first assistant registrar of deeds for Ireland, with £1200 a year, Jany. 1840 granted pension of £780, 22 Oct. 1869; fought a duel with 2 baron Alvanlay at Chalk Farm, London 4 May 1835, when neither was wounded; challenged by Benjamin Disraeli Dec. 1835, but declined to fight. d. 12 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 20 Jany. 1885. bur. Glasnevin cemet. 23 Jany. Hitchman’s Public life of Earl of Beaconsfield (1881) 47–55; Irish Monthly xv 160–5 (1887).

O’CONNELL, MORGAN DAVID. Educ. Dublin univ. and Glasgow univ., M.D. 1838; L.M. Dublin lying-in-hospital 1833; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1835, F.R.C.S.I. 1845; a surgeon in British army; joined the British legation at Madrid 1830, helped to suppress rebellion against queen Isabella, served in several engagements, received gold medal and clasp of the legion of honour, bearing inscription ‘Spain intends to show her gratitude’; created a knight of the order of St. Ferdinand; settled at Kilmallock as a surgeon. d. Kilmallock 23 Jany. 1887.

O’CONNELL, MORGAN JOHN (1 son of John O’Connell of Grena, co. Kerry). b. 27 Aug. 1811; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1833; student Gray’s Inn 4 May 1833, readmitted 11 June 1851, called 7 June 1852; M.P. co. Kerry 1835–52; one of the most popular Irish members; succeeded to the Coppinger estates, co. Cork. d. at the residence of his father-in-law Carlo Bianconi, Longfield, Tipperary 2 July 1875. I.L.N. lxvii 47 (1875).

O’CONNOR, ARTHUR (3 son of Roger Connor of Connerville). b. Mitchelstown, co. Cork 4 July 1765; fellow commoner of Trin. coll. Dublin 1779 under name of Arthur Connor, B.A. 1782; called to Irish bar Nov. 1788; member for Philipstown in the Irish parliament 1791, resigned his seat 4 May 1795; joined the United Irishmen 1796; formed with lord Edward Fitzgerald the first Leinster Directory 1796; arrested for seditious libel Feb. 1797, imprisoned in Dublin Castle six months; chief editor of The Press, the organ of the United Irishmen 1797; tried at Maidstone, Kent May 1798 for high treason, when acquitted, but detained as a state prisoner 1798–1803 for negotiating with the French general Hoche; confined at Fort George, Scotland April 1799, released and went to France June 1803; appointed by Bonaparte a general of division 29 Feb. 1804; m. 1807 Eliza de Condorcet, only dau. of Marquis de Condorcet, the mathematician; resided in Rue de Tournon, Paris 1818–34, and in the chateau de Bignon, near Nemours 1834 to death; became a naturalised Frenchman 1818 and took name of Arthur Condorcet O’Connor; author of The measures of ministry to prevent a revolution are the certain means of bringing it on. By a Stoic, Cork 1794; A letter to the earl of Carlisle 1795; Speech on the Catholic bill 1795, 3 ed. 1796; State of Ireland 1798; Etat actuel de la Grande Bretagne 1804; Monopoly the cause of all evil, 3 vols. 1848; edited with Arago The works of Condorcet, 12 vols. 1847–9. d. Chateau de Bignon, near Nemours 25 April 1852. Madden’s United Irishmen, 2nd series, ii 289–324 (1842); Biographical Anecdotes of the founders of the Irish rebellion. By A candid observer (1799) 38–43; Biographie Générale xxxviii 451–4 (1862).

O’CONNOR, FEARGUS (son of Roger O’Connor of Connorville, co. Cork, Irish nationalist 1762–1834). b. Dangan castle, co. Meath 18 July 1794; educ. at Portarlington gr. sch. and Trin. coll. Dublin; called to Irish bar; took part in the reform agitation in co. Cork 1831; travelled through the country organising the registration of the new electorate 1832; M.P. co. Cork 29 Dec. 1832, re-elected 24 Jany. 1835 but unseated June 1835 not having the necessary property qualification; contested Oldham 8 July 1835, but received only 32 votes; founded the central committee of radical unions 1836, and the London democratic association 1837; established 18 Nov. 1837 the Northern Star, weekly radical paper published at Leeds, which became the official chartist paper 1838; took the chief part in the chartist convention which met in London 4 Feb. 1839, dissolved 14 Sept.; tried at York 17 March 1840 for seditious libels published in the Northern Star July 1839, sentenced 11 May 1840 to 18 months’ imprisonment in York castle, released Sept. 1841; one of the 59 persons tried at Lancaster 1 March 1843, for taking part in the ‘Plug riots’ of Aug. 1842, he was convicted but never called up for judgment; with Mr. Grath held a public debate with Bright and Cobden 5 Aug. 1844; inaugurated the chartist co-operative land company 24 Oct. 1846, afterwards altered to the National land co.; edited with Ernest Jones The Labourer, a monthly magazine, vols. 1–4, 1847–8; purchased estates of W. B. Cliffe, 500 acres for £20,000, Feb. 1847; M.P. Nottingham 1847–52; moved for a committee on the union with Ireland 7 Dec. 1847, when defeated by 232 votes; presided at the chartist meeting on Kennington common 10 April 1848, and presented the chartist petition to the house of commons same evening; went to U.S. of America spring of 1852; grossly insulted Beckett Denison, M.P. in the house of commons 9 June 1852, when committed to custody of the sergeant-at-arms; pronounced to be insane by two medical men 10 June, confined in Dr. Tuke’s asylum at Chiswick June 1852 to 20 Aug. 1854; author of A state of Ireland showing the rise and progress of the present disaffection, Cork 1820; A series of letters to Daniel O’Connell on Catholic emancipation 1836; The trial of Feargus O’Connor, edited by himself, Manchester 1843; A practical work on the management of small farms 1846. d. at his sister’s house 18 Albert terrace, Notting hill, London 30 Aug. 1855. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 10 Sept. when 50,000 persons were present. Reports of state trials, n.s., iii 1299–1311 (1891), iv 935–1248, 1352–65 (1892); The Labourer, vol. 2 (1848) portrait; R. G. Gammage’s History of Chartism 1854 p. 19 et seq.; J. Frost’s Forty years’ recollections (1880) 169–85; G.M. xliv 545–7 (1855); I.L.N. i 344 (1842) portrait, xii 243 (1848) portrait; Michael Mc Donagh’s Irish graves in England (1888) 83–6.

O’CONNOR, JOHN (son of Mr. O’Connor who emigrated from Kerry to Boston, U.S. 1823). b. Boston Jany. 1824; educ. in co. Essex, Ontario; a farm labourer, lost his leg by an accident; called to the bar in Ontario Jany. 1854; admitted to practise law in state of Michigan, and was thus an American citizen and a British subject at the same time, the point was tested in an election trial between him and Wm. M’Gregor 1874; reeve of Windsor and warden of Essex county; M.P. for Essex in Canadian legislature 1867–74, president of the council; minister of inland revenue and postmaster general successively 1872–3 and 1878–84; Q.C. 1873; M.P. Russell county 1878–84; puisne judge of queen’s bench division, Ontario 17 Sept. 1884 to death. d. Cobourg, Ontario 3 Nov. 1887. Law Journal 10 Dec. 1887 p. 661 col. 2.

O’CONNOR, JOHN (3 son of Francis O’Connor). b. co. Londonderry 12 Aug. 1830; call-boy at the T.R. Dublin 1842; painted scenery for sir E. Tierney 1844, and for earl of Bective 1847; a scene-painter at Drury Lane theatre April 1848, and at Haymarket theatre Oct. 1848, principal scene-painter there 1863–78; visited Ireland at time of the queen’s visit 1849, on return to London painted for Philip Phillips a diorama of The Queen’s visit to Ireland, which was exhibited in the Chinese gallery; A.R.H.A.; exhibited 20 pictures at R.A., 6 at B.I. and 25 at Suffolk st. 1853–80; drawing master to the London and south western literary and scientific institution 1855–8; painted scenery for Shakespeare tercentary performances at Stratford-on-Avon 1864; took a studio with lord Ronald Gower at 47 Leicester sq. 1872; painted act-drops for the new Sadler’s Wells theatre 1879, St. James’s theatre, and the Minuet act-drop at Haymarket theatre 1879; built a house at 28 Abercorn place, St. John’s Wood 1877, and lived there to 1888; painted The marriage of princess Louise and the marquess of Lorne 1871, The thanksgiving service in St. Paul’s 1872, and The jubilee service in Westminster abbey 1887; designed and directed many of the tableaux vivants held at Cromwell house and elsewhere; a member of the Cambridge amateur dramatic club for which he painted scenery many years. d. Heathcroft, Blackwater, Hampshire 23 May 1889. bur. Finchley cemetery.

O’CONNOR, JOHN (son of Edward O’Connor of Mulgeeth house, co. Kildare). b. 1 May 1837; proprietor of many licensed houses in Dublin, and of a bacon curing establishment under the name of Donnelly & Co.; a representative of Inns-quay ward, Dublin 1880, alderman 1883, lord mayor of Dublin 1885; contested co. Kildare April 1880; M.P. South Kerry Dec. 1885, resigned Sept. 1887. d. 23 Rutland square, Dublin 12 Jany. 1891. bur. Glasnevin cemet. 15 Jany. Freeman’s Journal 13 Jany. 1891 p. 5, 15 Jany. p. 3.

O’CONNOR, LUKE SMYTHE. b. Dublin 15 April 1806; ensign 1 West India regiment 27 April 1827, lieut. col. 21 Sept. 1855 to 29 July 1862; governor of the Gambia and commander of the troops in West Africa Sept. 1852; stormed Sabbajee the stronghold of the Mohammedan rebels of Combo 1 June 1853, and acquired by treaty considerable’ territory; stormed their stockade in the pass of Boccow Kooka 4 Aug. 1855; brigadier general commanding the troops during the rebellion in Jamaica 1865; member of privy council and president of legislative council of Jamaica; acting governor; granted distinguished service reward 27 Nov. 1855; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856; M.G. 24 April 1866. d. 7 Racknistrasse, Dresden 24 March 1873. A. B. Ellis’s History of First West India regiment (1885) 211, 365; A. B. Ellis’s The land of the Fetish (1883) p. 6 et seq.

O’CONNOR, MICHAEL. b. near Cork 27 Sept. 1810; ordained R.C. priest 1 June 1833; professor of sacred scripture in the Irish college, Rome 1833, vice-rector; pastor of Fermoy, Ireland 1834–9; professor in ecclesiastical seminary of St. Charles Boromeo, Philadelphia 1839, president about 1840; built the church of St. Francis Xavier in Fairmount, Philadelphia; vicar general of western part of diocese of Philadelphia 1841; bishop of Pittsburg 1843, consecrated 15 Aug. 1843; introduced the order of St. Benedict for the first time into the U.S. of America 1846; brought a colony of Passionists from Europe, to Pittsburg 1852; finished the Pittsburg cathedral 1855, resigned his see 1860; entered a Jesuit monastery in Germany 1860; professor of theology in Woodstock college, Maryland 1862; socius to the provincial of the Jesuits, and preacher and lecturer in most of the great cities. d. Woodstock 18 Oct. 1872. Appleton’s American Biography iv 553 (1888) portrait.

O’CONOR, DENIS MAURICE (2 son of Denis O’Conor of Belangare, called The O’Conor Don). b. 1840; educ. Downside coll. near Bath; M.A. univ. of London 1861, LL.D. 1866; sheriff of Roscommon 1865; barrister M.T. 30 April 1866; M.P. co. Sligo 2 Dec. 1868 to death. d. 110 Queen’s Gate, Kensington, London 26 July 1883.

O’CONOR, SIR RICHARD (2 son of sir Patrick O’Conor of Cork). b. Marble hill, co. Cork 1784; entered navy Sept. 1798; superintendent of the naval yards on the Canadian lakes 1813; commanded the boats at the capture of Oswego 1814; captain 16 Aug. 1814; K.C.H. 25 Jany. 1836; retired 1 Oct. 1846; a retired R.A. 2 Sept. 1850. d. 73 Westbourne terrace, Hyde park, London 10 Jany. 1855.

O’CONOR, THOMAS. b. Dublin 1 Sept. 1770; went to U.S. of America 1801; established with Wm. Kernan a settlement on a tract of 40,000 acres in Steuben, co. New York; resided in New York many years before his death; edited various periodicals, including the Military monitor established 1812, the Shamrock and the Globe founded 1819; author of Selections from several literary works 1821; The Inquisition examined by An impartial observer 1825. d. New York 9 Feb. 1855.

O’CONOR, WILLIAM ANDERSON. b. Cork 1820; studied at Trin. coll. Dublin 1849, B.A. 1864; entered St. Aidan’s theological college at Birkenhead, and became lecturer on Latin; ordained to curacy of St. Nicholas’s, Liverpool 1853; C. of St. Thomas’s, Liverpool 1854; C. of St. Michael with St. Olave, Chester 1855–8; R. of St. Simon and St. Jude, Manchester 1858 to death; wrote many papers for Manchester statistical society and Manchester literary club 1875 etc.; author of Miracles not antecedently incredible 1861; Faith and works 1868, 5 ed. 1885; The truth and the church 1869; A commentary on the epistle to the Romans 1871, 2 ed. 1886; The epistle to the Hebrews, with an introduction and notes 1872; A commentary on the gospel of St. John 1874; A commentary on Galatians with a revised text 1876; History of the Irish people, 2 vols. 1882, 2 ed. 1886; The Irish massacre of 1641, 1885. d. Torquay 22 March 1887. W. A. O’Conor’s Essays in literature and ethics, edited by W. E. A. Axon (1889) memoir pp. v–xvii portrait; The Manchester Quarterly Jany. 1891 pp. 1–26 portrait.

O’CURRY, or CURRY, EUGENE (son of Owen or Eugene O’Curry of Dunaha near Carrigaholt, co. Clare, farmer). b. Dunaha 1796; called Owen Oge or Young Owen; worked on a farm; an assistant in Limerick county lunatic asylum to 1834; employed in the topographical and historical section of the ordnance survey in Ireland 1834–7; copied, arranged, and examined Irish manuscripts in the royal Irish academy, Trin. coll. Dublin, and elsewhere 1847; member of council of Celtic society 1852, which in 1855 published a text and translation by O’Curry of two mediæval Irish tales: Cath Mhuighe Leana (The battle of the Plain of Leana) and Tochmarc Momera (The courtship of Momera); examined the Irish manuscripts in the British Museum 1849 and 1855, and wrote the manuscript catalogue of them for the library, a folio volume of 319 pages; professor of Irish history and archæology in the newly founded Catholic univ. of Ireland 1854 to death; delivered his first course of lectures 1855–6, 21 lectures by him were published at the university’s expense 1860; made facsimile copies of a genealogical manuscript of Duald Mac Firbis 1836, and of the Book of Lismore 1839 for the R.I.A., and of the Book of Lecan and the Leabhar Breac for Trin. coll. Dublin; copied eight large vols. of 2906 pages of the ancient Irish law tracts, and wrote out 13 vols. of a rough preliminary translation; edited A collection of ancient Irish law tracts, printed in facsimile 1860; Ancient laws of Ireland 1865; author of Lectures on the manuscript materials of ancient Irish history 1861; On the manners and customs of the ancient Irish, 3 vols. 1873. d. 2 Portland st. north, Dublin 30 July 1862. bur. Glasnevin cemetery. Irish monthly mag. April 1874 pp. 191–210.

ODAMS, JAMES (son of a land steward). b. Wavenden, Bucks. 6 May 1815; apprentice to a chemist at Northampton; chemist and druggist Rye street, Bishops Stortford from 1837; one of the first to advocate use of artificial manure; assisted to send seeds to French farmers after Franco-German war 1871; erected cattle markets, on 10 acres, near Victoria dock, London, for foreign cattle to prevent contagion to English stock 1866; patented a manure made from blood and formed a company to manufacture it, called the Blood manure and nitro-phosphate co., of which he was managing director 1851; author of Why have a foreign cattle market on the Thames, and where 1866; Racks and troughs, remarks on transmission of cattle by rail 1873. d. The Grange, Bishops Stortford, Herts 6 Feb. 1881. bur. Bishops Stortford cemetery 11 Feb. Live stock journal 11 Feb. 1881 pp. 119–20; The Farmer 14 Feb. 1881 p. 253; I.L.N. 26 Feb. 1881 p. 216 portrait.

ODGER, GEORGE, (son of George Odger, a Cornish miner). b. Jump, since renamed Roborough, near Plymouth 1813; apprentice to a shoemaker; educated himself; a shoemaker in London; member of society of Cordwainers; mediator for masters and men in the Liverpool and Kendal strikes; member of London trade council on its formation 1860, secretary 1862–72; a founder of the International association; a member of the National reform league; a public lecturer on retrenchment and reform; a candidate for Chelsea Nov. 1868, for Stafford June 1869, and for Bristol July 1870; contested Southwark Feb. 1870 and Feb. 1874; president of general council of international association of working men 1870; brought an action for libel against The London Figaro, but the verdict was against him 14 Feb. 1873; author of Odger’s Monthly pamphlets on current events 1872, 2 numbers; Rhymes for the people, Paul Copse the poacher 1871; Odger’s reply to the attorney general, with the trial G. Odger v. the publishers of the Figaro 1873; he also wrote in The Contemporary Review 1870–71. d. 18 High st. Bloomsbury, London 4 March 1877. bur. Brompton cemetery 10 March. The life of George Odger (1877); London Sketch Book Feb. 1874 portrait; W. E. Wink’s Lives of illustrious shoemakers (1883) 350–2; Graphic xv 270 (1877) portrait; I.L.N. lxx 257 (1877) portrait; Boase’s Collectanea Cornubiensia (1890) 633–4; Littell’s Living age cxxxiii 2 (1877), a poem.

O’DOHERTY, WILLIAM JAMES. b. Dublin 1835; worked in the studio of Joseph R. Kirk, R.H.A., sculptor 1852–4; came to London 1854; exhibited under name of W. J. Dogherty at the R.A. 1857 a model in plaster of Gondoline, afterwards executed in marble for R. C. L. Bevan, the banker; sent to the R.A. the model of marble statue of Erin 1860, engraved by T. W. Knight for the Art Journal 1861; called himself Doherty 1860–1, but took name of O’Doherty 1862; exhibited 6 sculptures at R.A. and 3 at B.I. 1857–64; went to Rome about 1865. d. the hospital of La Charité in Berlin Feb. 1868. Art Journal (1861) 252, (1868) 73.

O’DONEL, SIR GEORGE CLENDINING, 5 Baronet (elder son of sir Richard Annesley O’Donel, 4 bart. 1808–78). b. Newport house, co. Mayo 15 June 1832; ensign 62 foot 22 Dec. 1848, lieut. 23 May 1851, sold out 1852; knighted by the lord lieutenant at Dublin castle 21 Feb. 1865, in compliance with the clause in the patent of baronetcy 1780; succeeded as 5 baronet 9 Nov. 1878. d. Norwood, Surrey 22 Jany. 1889.

O’DONNELL, SIR CHARLES ROUTLEDGE (son of lieut. col. H. A. O’Donnell, C.B. of Limerick). b. 1794; ensign 2 foot 9 Sept. 1813; lieut. 15 hussars 7 Sept. 1815, major 14 Jany. 1826, placed on h.p. 15 Aug. 1826; colonel on the staff in Ireland 1843–50; col. 18 hussars 10 Sept. 1864 to death; general 2 April 1865; knighted by lord lieutenant of Ireland 1835; a knight of St. John of Jerusalem; M.R.I.A.; resided at Trugh, near Limerick. d. Donyland lodge, near Colchester 18 Nov. 1870. I.L.N. lvii 555 (1870).

O’DONNELL, JOHN FRANCIS (son of a shopkeeper). b. Limerick 1837; a reporter on the Manchester News 1854–6; wrote verse and prose in The Nation, the organ of the Young Ireland party 1854 to death; sub-editor of the Tipperary Examiner, a Clonmel paper 1856–60; on the staff of the Universal News, a weekly R.C. paper in London 1860–2; on the staff of The Nation in Dublin 1862–4, and editor of Duffy’s Hibernian Mag. 1862–4; edited the Universal News 1864–5, and sub-edited The Tablet 1865–8; contributed numerous poems advocating republican principles to the Dublin national journals under pseudonyms of Caviare and Monkton West; London correspondent of the Irish People, the organ of the Fenian movement 1864–5; sent poems to All the year round 1861–2; employed in the London office of the agent-general of New Zealand Sept. 1873 to death; author of The emerald wreath, Dublin 1865; Memoirs of the Irish Franciscans 1871. d. London 7 May 1874. bur. Kensal Green cemet. J. F. O’Donnell’s Poems (1891) memoir pp. vii–xxi; M. McDonogh’s Irish graves in England (1888) 94–8 two portraits.

O’DONNELL, LAURENCE, D.D.; bishop of Galway 26 Sept. 1844 to death, consecrated 28 Oct. 1845. d. Taylor’s hill, Galway 23 June 1855. bur. 25 June. The Galway Vindicator 23 June 1855 p. 2, 27 June p. 2.

O’DONNELL, MATTHEW (eld. son of Richard O’Donnell of Kilkenny). b. 1813; called to Irish bar 1835; Q.C. 11 Feb. 1860; chairman of quarter sessions for co. Westmeath 1870; author of A treatise on the law of actions in the civil bill court 1844; A commentary upon the jurisdiction of the court of the assistant barrister 1852; and with Francis Brady of An analytical digest of the cases in courts of equity in Ireland and the house of lords 1840. d. 36 Mountjoy square, Dublin 20 Jany. 1876. bur. Glasnevin cemet. near Dublin. Law Times lx 279 (1876); Irish Law Times x 61 (1876).

O’DONNELL, PATRICK. b. Meeracladdy, near Derrybeg in Donegal 1835; in America 1859–79; served in Federal army during civil war; kept a public house on the Canadian frontier; sent by the Fenians to the Cape on board the Kinfauns Castle to make away with James Carey, the Fenian crown witness in the Phœnix park murders case, shot him on board the steamer Melrose between Cape Town and Port Elizabeth 29 July 1883, brought to England, tried at the Old Bailey 30 Nov., 1 Dec. 1883, hanged at Newgate 17 Dec. 1883, monument in Roman catholic cemetery Dublin. I.L.N. lxxxiii 300, 302, 545 (1883) two portraits.

O’DONOGHUE, DANIEL, known as The O’Donoghue (only child of Charles James O’Donoghue O’Donoghue of the Glens, co. Kerry, d. 1833). b. 1833; educ. Stonyhurst; major of Kelly militia; M.P. Tipperary 1857–65; M.P. Tralee 1865–85; author of A letter to cardinal Manning on his expression of confidence in Mr. Parnell 1886. d. Ballsmahon court, Athlone 7 Oct. 1889. Illust. Times 16 Feb. 1867 p. 97, view of the O’Donoghue addressing the reform meeting in the Agricultural hall, London.

O’DONOGHUE, JOHN. b. 1812; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1831, B.A. 1833; called to Irish bar 1837; contributed to the Freeman’s Journal 1838, editor of the Journal 1871; wrote many literary articles in Dublin univ. mag.; author of A book about the Irish bar in 1840; The summary jurisdiction of magistrates at the petty sessions courts in Ireland 1835; Historical memoirs of the O’Briens 1860. d. 9 Henrietta st. London 23 March 1893.

O’DONOGHUE, PATRICK. b. Ireland; sentenced to death for high treason 9 Oct. 1848; transported 9 July 1849. d. New York Feb. 1854.

O’DONOVAN, EDMUND (son of the succeeding). b. Dublin 13 Sept. 1844; studied medicine at Trin. coll. Dublin, clerk to the registrar and assistant librarian; contributed to the Irish Times and other Dublin papers from 1866; served in the légion etrangère of the French army Sept. 1870, took part in the battles round Orleans, was wounded and made prisoner; described in the Times and the Hour the Carlist rising in Spain 1873; correspondent of the Daily News in Bosnia and Herzegovina 1876, and in Asia Minor 1877–8; went to Merv 1879, detained there several months; author of The Merv oasis: travels and adventures east of the Caspian, 2 vols. 1882; went to the Soudan for the Daily News 1883, attached himself to army of Hicks Pasha which marched on Obeid, the army fell into an ambush and O’Donovan was killed 3–5 Nov. 1883, probate of his will was not granted till 1891; brass tablet designed by Herbert Johnson in memory of O’Donovan and six other journalists erected in crypt of St. Paul’s cathedral. J. A. O’Shea’s Roundabout recollections (1892) 1–25; Graphic xxiv 609 (1881) portrait, xxviii 529 (1883) portrait; I.L.N. lxxxii 96 (1883) portrait, lxxxiii 532 (1883) portrait, lxxxv 576 (1884) portrait.

O’DONOVAN, JOHN (4 son of Edmond O’Donovan, farmer, d. 29 July 1817). b. at farm of Attateemore, at foot of Tory hill, Kilkenny 9 July 1809; worked in the Irish record office 1826, and in the historical department of ordnance survey of Ireland 1829; wrote many articles in the Dublin Penny Journal 1832–3, and in the Irish Penny Journal 1840–1; student at Gray’s Inn 15 April 1844, called to Irish bar 1847; employed by the commission for the publication of the ancient laws of Ireland 1852 to death; LL.D. Dublin 1850; granted civil list pension of £50, 5 June 1856; author of A grammar of the Irish language, for the use of the senior classes in the college of St. Columba 1845; Annala Rioghachta Eireann, Annals of the kingdom of Ireland, by the four masters, 7 vols. 1851. d. 36 Upper Buckingham st. Dublin 9 Dec. 1861. bur. Glasnevin cemet. near Dublin, his widow Mary Anne O’Donovan granted civil list pension of £50, 18 June 1863. J. T. Gilbert’s Memoir of John O’Donovan; J. O’Donovan’s Annala Rioghachta vi 2160–1 (1851); Dublin univ. mag. lix 85–8 (1862).

O’DOWD, JAMES KLYNE. b. 1802; called to Irish bar Michaelmas term 1832; solicitor for merchant shipping; assistant solicitor of customs; published The law relating to the sale of estates in Ireland 1849; Customs’ administrators and customs’ reformers, the digest of the Charlotte row committee 1851, 2 ed. 1853; The new practice of the court of chancery 1852; The merchant shipping amendment act 1863; The law and facts of the case of the Alabama 1873. d. 24 Nov. 1879. Law Times lxviii 140 (1879).

NOTE.—It was upon his legal advice the government declined to take steps to prevent the construction of the Alabama 1862.

O’DWYER, ANDREW CAREW (son of Joseph O’Dwyer of Cork and Waterford, merchant). b. 1800; called to Irish bar Jany. 1830; M.P. Drogheda 15 Dec. 1832 to 29 Dec. 1834, re-chosen 12 Jany. 1835 but unseated on petition 24 April 1835; secondary of Irish exchequer; connected with periodical press during agitation for Catholic relief act; author of Danger of conceding ecclesiastical securities, Concordat in the Netherlands 1829; Belgium in 1828, Ireland in 1851, 1851; The catholic question of 1851, considered 1851. d. 15 Nov. 1877. Law Times lxiv 91 (1877).

O’FARRELL, MICHAEL JOSEPH. b. Limerick 2 Dec. 1832; ordained R.C. priest 18 Aug. 1855; professor of dogmatic theology in the college of the Sulpitian order in Paris; professor in the Sulpitian seminary at Montreal; pastor of St. Patrick’s church, New York, then of St. Peter’s, New York 1869–72; pastor at Rondout 1872, then at St. Peter’s again 1872–81; bishop of Trenton 1881 to death, consecrated in New York cathedral by cardinal McClosky. d. Trenton 1 or 2 April 1894.

O’FERRALL, RICHARD MORE (eld. son of Ambrose O’Ferrall of Balyna, co. Kildare 1752–1835). b. Balyna, Kildare 1797; M.P. co. Kildare 1830–47 and 1859–65; M.P. co. Longford 21 April 1851 to July 1852; a lord of the treasury 16 May 1835 to 28 Aug. 1839; secretary to the admiralty 4 Oct. 1839 to 9 June 1841; secretary to the treasury 9 June 1841; governor of Malta 1 Oct. 1847 to 1851; P.C. 22 Nov. 1847. d. Kingstown, near Dublin 27 Oct. 1880. W. J. Fitzpatrick’s Life of right rev. Dr. Doyle i 394, ii 110, 558 (1880).

OFFICER, SIR ROBERT (son of Robert Officer). b. Scotland 1800; educ. St. Andrew’s univ., B.A., M.A.; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1821; went to Van Diemen’s Land; government medical officer for New Norfolk; practised at Hobart Town in partnership with James Wilson Agnew; assistant colonial surgeon in Van Diemen’s Land; member of the legislative council for Buckingham 1853; member of house of assembly for Glenorchy Sept. 1856 to April 1877, chairman of committees 1856–61; speaker of the house Aug. 1861 to April 1877; knighted by patent 4 May 1869. d. Hall Green, near New Norfolk, Tasmania 8 July 1879.

OFFOR, GEORGE (son of George Offor). b. 1787; bookseller at 2 Postern row, Tower Hill, London, where he acquired a fortune; made a collection of early printed English bibles, psalters, and testaments, and a unique collection of Bunyan’s works, the greater part of his library was burnt in Sotheby’s auction rooms 29 June 1865; author of An easy introduction to reading the Hebrew language 1814; The triumph of Henry VIII over the usurpation of the church 1846; edited The Hebrew psalter revised 1820; The New Testament by W. Tyndale 1836; The Pilgrim’s progress 1847 for Hanserd Knolly’s society; The Pilgrim’s progress 1856, 3 ed. 1884; The works of John Bunyan, 3 vols. 1853, 2 ed. 3 vols. 1862; Profitable meditations being Christ and a sinner by J. Bunyan 1860; Little books by J. Bunyan 1873. d. Grove house, Grove st. South Hackney 4 Aug. 1864. bur. Abney Park cemet. G.M. Oct. 1864 p. 528.

O’FLAHERTY. RICHARD JAMES. M.R.C.S. Eng. 1834; assistant surgeon in the army 9 Jany. 1835, deputy inspector general 19 July 1859, surgeon general 19 Oct. 1872 to death; C.B. 20 May 1871. d. Malabar hill, Bombay 8 Dec. 1874.

OGBORNE, ELIZABETH (dau. of David Ogborne, artist). b. Chelmsford; bapt. 16 May 1759; author of The history of Essex, with notices of the most distinguished natives and engravings by Mr. Ogborne, the first volume was published in 1817, but the engraved title page is dated 1814, no more appeared; many of her manuscripts were used as waste paper, the remainder were purchased in March 1854 by Edward J. Sage, an Essex antiquary. d. Great Portland st. London 22 Dec. 1853.

OGDEN, CHARLES RICHARD (son of Isaac Ogden, judge of court of king’s bench at Montreal). b. Montreal 1791; called to bar at Montreal 1812; solicitor general of province of Lower Canada 1823, attorney general 17 Nov. 1832; barrister L.I. 22 April 1844; attorney general of Isle of Man 29 Jany. 1844 to death; registrar of Liverpool district probate court 1858 to death. d. Edge hill, near Liverpool 19 Feb. 1866.

OGDEN, J. H. b. Manchester 1829 or 1830; a singer of Irish comic songs at the Raglan and other London music halls, and in the provinces to 1861; appeared at the Canterbury music hall, and Lea’s Melodion, New York 1861; was singing in London 1862–4; returned to U.S. of America and sang at the Casino, Philadelphia, June 1864. d. 722 Sansom st. Philadelphia 11 Aug. 1864. Era 4 Sept. 1864 p. 6.

OGDEN, JOHN. b. 1790; author of Varieties in verse, including songs for the celebration of Shakspeare’s birthday 1823; The friendly observer, or remarks and suggestions on various subjects of public interest 1851. d. 15 Dec. 1853. bur. Highgate cemetery. F. T. Cansick’s Epitaphs (1872) 146.

OGDEN, JOHN. b. Leeds 1829; apprentice to sir E. Baines, printer, Leeds; in employment of Woodfall and Kinder, printers, London 1851, manager of the works to 1866; a printer at Brewhouse yard, 172 St. John’s st. Clerkenwell, as John Ogden and co.; he worked long hours and was a proficient in all branches of his business; he printed Hart’s Army list, the A B C railway guide, the Argosy magazine, and at one time The Figaro and Whitaker’s Almanack. d. Ilkley, Yorkshire 18 July 1887. Bookseller, Aug. 1887 p. 764.

OGDEN, JONATHAN ROBERT (only son of Robert Ogden, merchant, d. 1816). b. Leeds 13 June 1806; became a unitarian; a piano and violin player, pupil of Ignaz Moscheles and August Kollman in London; studied music in Paris, Munich, and Vienna 1827; resided at Lakefield, Sawrey, Lancs. 1834 to death; composed Holy songs and musical prayers for four voices, London 1843, in which he adapted pieces by Beethoven and others as hymn tunes, these adaptations were omitted from the seventh ed. of Holy songs 1873. d. Lakefield 26 March 1882. bur. Hawkshead churchyard 31 March. Inquirer 1 April 1882 p. 207, 22 April pp. 261–2.

OGILVIE, CHARLES ATMORE (son of John Ogilvie of Whitehaven, Cumberland, who d. 25 April 1839). b. Whitehaven 20 Nov. 1793; educ. Balliol coll. Oxf.; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818, B.D. and D.D. 1842; fellow of Balliol 1816–34, tutor 1819–30, bursar 1822, and senior dean 1842; R. of Wickford, Essex 4 Jany. 1822 to 1833; R. of Abbotsley, Hunts. 1822–39; a select preacher before univ. of Oxf. 1825, 1832 and 1844; Bampton lecturer 1836; V. of Duloe, Cornwall 1833–40; R. and V. of Ross, Herefordshire 6 Dec. 1839 to death; regius professor of pastoral theology at Oxford 23 April 1842 to death; canon of Ch. Ch. 1849 to death; author of On the union of classical and mathematical studies, printed in the Oxford English prize essays, vol. iii 1836; The apostolical origin of the three orders of the christian ministry 1836; Considerations on subscription to the thirty nine articles 1845. d. Christ Church, Oxford 17 Feb. 1873. Chapman’s Reminiscences of three Oxford worthies (1875) 43–52; Couch’s Reminiscences of Oxford (1892) 208, 422; Letters of J. B. Mozley (1885) 27, 33, 37, 142, 162, 184.

OGILVIE, GEORGE. Professor of institutes of medicine in Aberdeen univ. 1860–77; author of An introductory lecture at Marischal college and university of Aberdeen 1852; The master builders’ man, or the principles of organic architecture 1858; The genetic cycle in organic nature, or the succession of forms in the propagation of plants and animals 1859; On the forms and structure of fern stems 1859.

OGILVIE, JOHN (son of Wm. Ogilvie, farmer). b. parish of Marnoch, Banffshire 17 April 1797; worked as a ploughman till 1818, when he lost one of his legs; a schoolmaster; entered Marischal coll. Aberdeen Oct. 1824, M.A. 1828, LL.D. 1848; mathematical master in Gordon’s hospital, Aberdeen 13 May 1831 to July 1859; contributed under the signature Iota, the imitations of Horace in the Scottish dialect to the Aberdeen Mag. 1831–2; edited The imperial dictionary, English, technical, and scientific, 2 vols. 1850, Supplement 1855, new ed. 4 vols. 1882–3; The comprehensive English dictionary 1864; The students’ English dictionary 1865; An English dictionary for the use of schools 1867. d. Aberdeen 21 Nov. 1867. W. Walker’s Bards of Bon-Accord (1887) 613–16.

OGILVIE, ROBERT ANNESLEY. b. 1807; educ. Eton; clerk in secretary’s office, custom house, London 27 July 1827, inspector general of the waterside department 27 Aug. 1857; surveyor general of customs 1863–76; assistant comr. to carry out treaty of commerce with France 23 Jany. 1860; joint comr. to carry out treaty of commerce with Austria 16 Dec. 1865; British delegate at conference on sugar convention in London 1–12 Aug. 1872; C.B. 28 Aug. 1872; his widow Robina Ogilvie was granted a civil list pension of £100 19 June 1879. d. 24 Mecklenburgh square, London 13 May 1879.

OGILVIE, WILLIAM. Cadet Bombay army 1804; ensign 3 Bombay N.I. 20 June 1805, lieut. 20 Feb. 1809 to 1818; lieut. 10 N.I. 1818–20; lieut. 12 N.I. 1820; captain 26 N.I. 19 July 1821, major 26 Jany. 1838 to 27 Nov. 1844; judge advocate general 30 June 1836 to death; lieut. col. 20 N.I. 27 Nov. 1844 to 22 Dec. 1849; lieut. col. 19 N.I. 22 Dec. 1849 to death. d. Poonah 17 June 1851.

OGILVY, ALEXANDER WILLIAM. Sub-lieut. R.N. 18 March 1869; lieut. 8 April 1873, retired 13 Oct. 1876; naval knight of Windsor 6 May 1881 to death. d. 27 Aug. 1887.

OGILVY, DAVID STEUART. Unpaid vice-consul at Gallipoli, Dardanelles 9 May 1864 to 7 July 1868; captain on the staff of French army Oct. or Nov. 1870. killed by a bullet in the forehead while charging the Germans at battle of Beaune la Rolande 28 Nov. 1870.

OGILVY, GEORGE RAMSAY (son of James Ramsay). b. about 1820; assumed name of Ogilvy; member of faculty of advocates 1844; sheriff substitute of the Forfar district 25 May 1857; sheriff substitute of Dundee 16 Oct. 1860, resigned Sept. 1866. d. Edinburgh 22 Nov. 1866. W. Norrie’s Dundee celebrities (1873) 276.

OGILVY, SIR JOHN, 9 Baronet (1 son of admiral sir Wm. Ogilvy, d. 1823). b. Edinburgh 17 March 1803; educ. Harrow 1817–21; matric. from Christ Church, Oxf. 5 Nov. 1821; lieut. 2 life guards 1826–31; succeeded 1823; convenor of Forfarshire 1828 to Dec. 1889; vice lieut. of Forfarshire 1860; contested Montrose 9 March 1855; M.P. Dundee 1857–74; hon. col. 1 Dundee rifle volunteers 1865 to death; major general Royal company of archers; resided Baldoven, near Dundee. d. Archerfield, Berwickshire, the residence of his son Henry Hamilton Ogilvy 29 March 1890.

OGLANDER, SIR WILLIAM, 6 Baronet (1 son of sir Wm. Oglander, d. 1806). b. Parnham, Dorset 13 Sept. 1769; succeeded 5 Jany. 1806; M.P. Bodmin 1807–12. d. Parnham 17 Jany. 1852. G.M. xxxvii 297 (1852); Hutchin’s Dorset i 445 (1796), iv 371 (1815).

OGLE, SIR CHARLES, 2 Baronet (eld. son of admiral sir Chaloner Ogle, 1 baronet 1727–1816). b. 24 May 1775; entered navy 1787; captain of the Minerva in the Mediterranean 11 Jany. 1796; captain of the Princess Augusta yacht 1806–15; R.A. 12 Aug. 1819; commander-in-chief in North America 27 April 1827 to 14 July 1830; V.A. 22 July 1830, admiral 23 Nov. 1841; commander-in-chief at Portsmouth 30 Sept. 1845 to 13 Sept. 1848; admiral of the fleet 8 Dec. 1857. d. Tunbridge Wells 16 June 1858.

OGLE, CHARLES CHALONER (4 son of John Ogle of St. Clare, near Ightham, Sevenoaks, Kent). b. 16 April 1851; matric. at univ. of London June 1869; pupil of F. W. Roper the architect; an associate of the R.I.B.A. 1872; went to Athens Aug. 1875, where he worked in office of Her Ziller the royal architect; special correspondent of the Times in the war between Turkey and Montenegro 1878; wrote letters from Montenegro, the Herzegovina, Greece, Crete, and Thessaly; knight of the order of the Redeemer; was present at battle between Turkish troops and the insurgents occupying Mont Pelion and the town of Macrynitza 28 and 29 March 1878, slept at Katochori 29 and 30 March, found dead in a ravine 1 April. bur. the Piræus, Athens 10 April. Streit’s Mémoire concernant les détails du meutre de Charles Ogle (1878); Times 2, 10, 11, 25 April, 19 June 1878; Graphic xvii 401 (1878) portrait; I.L.N. 13 April 1878 pp. 329, 330 portrait.

OGLE, SIR EDMUND, 6 baronet (3 son of rev. James Ogle, V. of Crondale, Hants 1778–1833). b. 20 Sept. 1816; 2 lieut. R.E. 9 June 1834, colonel 6 July 1867, col. commandant 11 Feb. 1883 to death; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881; succeeded his cousin as 6 baronet 2 Dec. 1885. d. Schallbach 14 June 1887.

OGLE, HARMON CHALONER (1 son of Nathaniel Ogle of Orpington, Kent). b. 1843; educ. Magdalen coll. Oxf., demy 1861–5, fellow 1865–87, usher 1866–7, tutor 1868–71, junior dean of arts 1868, bursar 1870, schoolmaster 1876–86; B.A. 1865, M.A. 1868; took the Ireland 1863, Craven 1866, Denyer and Johnson 1868, scholarships; warden Queen’s coll. Birmingham Aug. 1873 to 1874; master Worcester cathedral school 1874–6; R. of Tubney, Berks. 1886 to death; with Thomas Clayton published Select pieces for translation into Latin prose 1879; offered to go as a missionary in the archbishop’s mission to Assyria, was studying Assyrian preparatory to sailing in Aug. 1887. d. Queen’s hotel, Leeds 25 June 1887.

OGLE, JAMES ADEY (son of Richard Ogle, general practitioner). b. Great Russell st. London 22 Oct. 1792; educ Eton 1808–10; commoner Trin. coll. Oxf. 1810, scholar 1811, B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816, M.B. 1817, M.D. 1820; studied at Edinb. univ., at St. George’s hospital, and at Windmill st. school of medicine London 1813, and in France, Italy, and Germany from 1814; physician at Oxford about 1819 to death; mathematical tutor of Trin. coll. 1820; F.R.C.P. 1 April 1822, Harveian orator 1844; physician to Radcliffe infirmary and to Warneford lunatic asylum Oxford 1824; Aldrich professor of medicine in univ. of Oxf. 1824–57, and clinical professor of medicine 1830–57; regius professor of physic 28 Oct. 1851 to death; obtained the institution of a public examination for the degree of M.D. 1835; F.R.S. 2 Feb. 1826; pres. of provincial medical assoc. at Oxford meeting 1852; examiner in new school of natural science 1854–5; author of A letter to the warden of Wadham college, on the system of education pursued at Oxford 1841; Oratio in collegii Regalis medicorum Londinensis ædibus novis habita 1844. d. Old Shoreham vicarage, residence of his son-in-law James Bowling Mozley 25 Sept. 1857. bur. St. Sepulchre’s cemet. Oxford. Munk’s College of physicians iii 245 (1878); Medical circular i 281 (1852) portrait; Proc. of Med. and Chir. soc. ii 55 (1858).

OGLE, OCTAVIUS (4 son of James Adey Ogle 1792–1857). b. 1829; educ. Wadham coll. Oxf., scholar 1846–52; B.A. 1850, M.A. 1853; fellow of Lincoln coll. 1852–9, tutor and claviger 1853, Greek lecturer 1855, librarian 1854, sub-rector 1855, moderator 1854; public examiner 1879–80, master of the schools 1863; clerk of the market; a representative of the university in Oxford city council; chaplain of Warneford asylum, Oxford 1864; edited Copy-book of sir A. Paulet’s letters 1866 for Roxburgh club; with W. H. Bliss Calendar of the Clarendon state papers 1872, vol. i; author of Idylls of Ilium 1887; wrote The Oxford market in Oxford Hist. Soc. Collectanea, 2 series 1890. d. 19 Park crescent, Oxford 27 June 1894. The Times 30 June 1894 p. 14.

OGLE, THOMAS. b. 1794; entered R.N. 25 Jany. 1809; aide de camp to capt. lord Amelius Beauclerk in Walcheren expedition 1809; served in operations on coast of America 1812; captain 28 June 1838; while on the Southampton, 50 guns, forced the entrance into Port Natal, and by landing troops rescued a detachment surrounded by Africans 1842; admiral 10 Sept. 1869; knight of Brazilian order of the Southern cross. d. Beaumaris, North Wales 27 Dec. 1886. The Times 30 Dec. 1886 p. 5.

O’GORMAN, DANIEL. Educ. Belfast college; author of Intuitive arithmetic, Newcastle, 3 ed. 1849, 26 ed. 1885; The prince of Wales’s new table book 1859; A chronological record, containing the remarkable events from the creation of the world to the present time, Manchester 1860, 3 ed. 1865. drowned in the “London” in the bay of Biscay on his voyage to Melbourne 11 Jany. 1866.

O’GORMAN, JAMES MICHAEL. b. co. Limerick 1809; a Trappist monk 1828; founded Trappist monastery of New Milleray, near Dubuque, Iowa, of which he became prior; vicar apostolic of Nebraska 1859 to death; consecrated bishop of Raphanea in partibus infidelium 8 May; established a hospital and asylum, and founded academies and Indian missions. d. Cincinnati, Ohio 4 July 1874.

O’GORMAN, JUDGE RICHARD. Concerned in Smith O’Brien’s rising in Ireland 1848; fled to United States. d. New York about 28 Feb. 1895.

O’GORMAN, NICHOLAS PURCELL (only child of James O’Gorman of Ennis 1717–87). Called to Irish bar 1803; Q.C. 13 July 1835; chairman and assistant barrister, co. Kilkenny to death. d. Dublin 31 Dec. 1857.

O’GORMAN, PURCELL (2 son of the preceding). b. 1820; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1840; 2 lieut. Ceylon regiment 3 Feb. 1843; lieut. 90 foot 9 Dec. 1845, captain 2 April 1852, sold out 17 Aug. 1855; served in Crimean war 1854–5; M.P. Waterford 1874–80. d. Springfield, co. Kilkenny 24 Nov. 1888.

O’GRADY, HAYES (son of Darby O’Grady of Mount Prospect, Limerick). b. 1787; entered navy 4 Dec. 1802; present at reduction of Cape of Good Hope, and in the expedition to the Rio de la Plata; captain 7 June 1814; R.A. 1 Oct. 1849; admiral on h.p. 15 Jany. 1862. d. Erinagh house, co. Clare 8 July 1864.

O’GRADY, MICHAEL. b. Roscommon, Ireland 1821; resided in London; sent to Sydney, N.S.W. to establish a branch of the People’s provident soc. 1855; connected with an insurance office in Melbourne 1856; member for Villiers and Heytesbury in legislative assembly of Victoria from 1861; commissioner for public works 6 May to 11 July 1868, and from 19 June 1871 to 10 June 1872; created by the Pope a knight of St. Gregory 1871. d. Hawthorne, near Melbourne 1875.

O’GRADY, MICHAEL MARTIN. Educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; M.D. 1818; M.R.I.A.; in practice at Malahide, co. Dublin; member of botanical committee of Royal Dublin soc.; invented an instrument for removal of uterine polypi. d. La Mancha, Malahide 1858.

OGSTON, FRANCIS (3 son of Alexander Ogston an Aberdeen soap manufacturer). b. Aberdeen July 1803; ed. at gr. sch. and Marischal coll. Aberdeen; graduated M.D. Edinb. univ. 1824; physician at Aberdeen; began to teach chemistry privately 1827; lecturer on medical jurisprudence at Marischal coll. 1839, and professor of medical jurisprudence 1857–60; professor of medical jurisprudence univ. of Aberdeen 1860–83; police surgeon in Aberdeen from 1831; medical officer of health for the city 1862–81; dean of the faculty of medicine in Aberdeen; hon. LL.D. Aberdeen 1885; author of Lectures on medical jurisprudence 1878. d. 13 Albyn terrace, Aberdeen 25 Sept. 1887. E. H. B. Rodgers’s Aberdeen Doctors (1893) 201, 301, 312.

O’HAGAN, THOMAS O’HAGAN, 1 Baron (only son of Edward O’Hagan of Belfast, merchant 1779–1836). b. Belfast 29 May 1812; educ. Belfast academical institution; student of King’s inns, Dublin Nov. 1831, and bencher 1859; student of Gray’s inn Jany 1834, and hon. bencher 21 Dec. 1883; pupil of Thomas Chitty, special pleader; called to Irish bar Jany. 1836, went north-east circuit; edited the Newry Examiner 1836–40; defended C. G. Duffy, one of the repeal leaders 1843–4; assistant barrister of co. Longford 1847–57, and of co. Dublin 1857; Q.C. 13 Feb. 1849; third serjeant-at-law 1859; solicitor general for Ireland Feb. 1860 to 1861; attorney general Feb. 1861 to 1865; P.C. Ireland 1861; member of board of national education 1858; M.P. Tralee May 1863 to Jany. 1865; judge of Irish court of common pleas Jany. 1865 to Dec. 1868; lord chancellor of Ireland Dec. 1868 to Feb. 1874, the first Roman catholic chancellor since the reign of James II, lord chancellor again May 1880, resigned Nov. 1881; created baron O’Hagan of Tullahogue, co. Tyrone 14 June 1870; an original member of the intermediate education board 1878, the first vice-chairman; a senator of royal univ. of Ireland 1880, and vice-chancellor 1880 to death; K.P. 17 Jany. 1882; author of Occasional papers and addresses 1884; Selected speeches and arguments, ed. by George Teeling 1885. d. Hereford house, Park st. London 1 Feb. 1885. bur. Glasnevin cemetery, Dublin, statue by Farrell in the Four courts, Dublin. O. J. Burke’s Lord chancellors of Ireland (1879) 314–44 portrait; Pump court ii 126 (1884) portrait; I.L.N. xlvi 296 (1865) portrait, liv 385, 446 (1869) portrait; The Period 2 July 1870 p. 91 portrait; Illustrated Times 4 Feb. 1865 p. 68 portrait.

O’HAGAN, JOHN (2 son of John Arthur O’Hagan of Newry, co. Down). b. Newry 19 March 1822; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1842, M.A. 1865; called to Irish bar 1842, went Munster circuit; a leader of the Young Ireland party; comr. of board of national education 1861; chairman of quarter sessions at Westmeath 1864–70, at Leitrim 1870–2, and at Clare 1872–8; Q.C. 8 Feb. 1865; bencher of King’s inns 1878; third serjeant 31 May 1881; county court judge; judicial comr. under the Land law (Ireland) act of 1881, with rank of justice of high court of justice Sept. 1881 to death; contributed many poems to The Nation newspaper, which are collected in The spirit of the nation, Dublin 1874; author of A lecture on Chaucer in Afternoon lectures on literature and art 1863; The song of Roland 1880, 2 ed. 1883; The poetry of Sir Samuel Ferguson 1887; The children’s ballad rosary 1890; Joan of Arc 1893. d. Howth, Dublin 12 Nov. 1890. D. J. O’Donoghue’s Poets of Ireland (1893) 188; Irish Law Times xxiv 578–9 (1890); Academy ii 476 (1890).

O’HALLORAN, HENRY DUNN. Ensign 69 foot 1 Nov. 1818, captain 1 Sept. 1838, placed on h.p. 4 Feb. 1853; major depôt battalion 2 March 1855; lieut. col. 1 West India foot 26 March 1858 to 16 March 1860, when he retired on full pay; M.G. 25 June 1866; author of Volunteer equipments in war 1861. d. Bath 30 Sept. 1871, aged 71.

O’HALLORAN, THOMAS SHULDHAM (2 son of sir Joseph O’Halloran, G.C.B. 1763–1843). b. Berhampore, Bengal 25 Oct. 1797; educ. Marlow 1808, and at Sandhurst; ensign Royal West Middlesex militia 1809; ensign 17 foot 2 Feb. 1813, lieut. 1817–22; served during Nepaul war 1814–6, and Deccan war 1817–8; lieut. 44 foot 1822–7; captain 99 foot 27 April 1827; captain 56 foot 6 March 1828; captain 6 foot 19 Feb. 1829; deputy assistant Q.M.G. at Saugor, Central India June 1830 to Jany. 1831, placed on h.p. Oct. 1834; captain 97 foot 27 April 1837, sold out 9 March 1838; suppressed the riots in Yorkshire 1837; settled near Adelaide, South Australia 1838; a justice of the peace 2 Feb. 1839; major commandant of South Australia militia 26 Feb. 1840; comr. of police 8 June 1840, resigned 12 April 1843; commanded expeditions against the natives 1840 and 1841; senior non-official member of the nominee council 1843–51; contested Noarlunga district 1851, and Sturt 1855; lieut. col. of the volunteer military force 1854; member of legislative council 1857, resigned 1863. d. Lizard lodge, O’Halloran Hill, near Adelaide 16 Aug. 1870.

O’HARA, HENRY. Called to the Irish bar 1829; Q.C. 4 July 1860; author of The cotton plant and the countries adapted to its culture, Manchester 1862. d. 19 Nov. 1884.

O’HARA, ROBERT (only son of John O’Hara of Raheen, co. Galway). b. Dublin 1836; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin and Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1859; called to Irish bar 1860; parliamentary draftsman to Irish office in London several years; a member of statute law revision commission; author of a series of letters in The Times upon the Irish land question. d. Ostend 21 Sept. 1885. Law Times 7 Nov. 1885 p. 16.

O’HEA, JAMES (3 son of John O’Hea of Greenfield, Clonakilty, co. Cork). b. 1809; educ. Cork and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1829, B.A. 1831; called to bar 1838; crown prosecutor for co. of Limerick 1860 to death, and for county and city of Cork 1849 to death; a follower of D. O’Connell. d. Harcourt st. Dublin 27 May 1882. Law Times 17 June 1882 p. 129.

O’HEA, MICHAEL (son of James O’Hea of Woodfield, parish of Rosscarbery). b. Woodfield 12 Aug. 1808; studied at college of Picpus, Paris 3 years, at college of Larochefoucauld, and grand séminaire of Angoulême and Irish college, Paris; sub-deacon, deacon, and priest 1834; held curacies in Ireland 1835–50; parish priest of Rosscarbery 20 April 1850; vicar general of Ross 2 Feb. 1851; bishop of Ross 28 Sept. 1857 to death, consecrated in parish church of Skibbereen 7 Feb. 1858; visited Rome 1862, 1867 and 1869. d. Ross August 1877. Brady’s Episcopal succession ii 113 (1876).

O’HEA, MISS, known as “Elena Norton.” Composed operetta of ‘The rose and the ring’; In a valley far away, ballad 1876; Gather ye rosebuds, song 1878. d. Southsea boarding house, West Cliff road, Bournemouth west, early in March 1880. Athenæum i 419 (1880).

OKE, GEORGE COLWELL (son of Wm. Jane Oke d. Truro July 1859). b. St. Columb Major, Cornwall 8 Feb. 1821; accountant in a solicitor’s office; assistant clerk to Newmarket bench of justices 1848; assistant clerk at the Mansion House, London 1855–64, chief clerk 1864 to death; author of The synopsis of summary convictions 1848, 2 ed. under title of The Magisterial synopsis 1849, 14 ed. 1893; An improved system of solicitors’ book keeping 1849; The Magisterial formulist 1850, 7 ed. 1893; The laws of turnpike roads 1854, 2 ed. 1861; A handy book of the game and fishery laws 1861, 2 ed. 1863; The laws as to licensing inns 1872, 2 ed. 1874. d. Rosedale, St. Mary’s road, Peckham, Surrey 9 Jany. 1874. bur. Nunhead cemet. 15 Jany. Law Journal ix, 38 (1874); Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. 409, 1296 (1874–8); I.L.N. lxiv 80 (1874) portrait; Graphic ix 124, 131 (1874) portrait.

O’KEEFE, ADELAIDE D. (only dau. of John O’Keefe, dramatist 1747–1833). b. Eustace st. Dublin 5 Nov. 1776; contributed 34 poems to Taylor’s Original poems for infant minds, by several young persons, 2 vols. 1804, her pieces are signed Adelaide; author of Original poems calculated to improve the mind of youth and to allure it to virtue, Part i 1808; National characters 1808; Patriarchal times, or the land of Canaan, 2 vols. 1811, 6 ed. 1842; Zenobia, queen of Palmyra, a narrative founded on history, 2 vols. 1814; A trip to the coast, poems 1819; Dudley, 3 vols. 1819; Poems for young children 1849; The broken sword, a tale 1854; she was living at 3 Spring place hill, Southampton in April 1848. d. about 1855. Athenæum 5 Dec. 1874 p. 762; N. and Q. 7 May 1887 p. 361, 18 June p. 503.

O’KEEFE, EUGENE. b. Cork; educ. St. Francis Xavier college, and at the Sulpitian college, Montreal; attached to the household of the bishop of Toronto until 1864; in charge of a parish in New Jersey; a great linguist and classical scholar. d. New York 22 Sept. 1880.

O’KEEFE, JOHN (son of Patrick O’Keefe of Abbeyville). b. Waterford 1827; educ. Clongowes coll.; sheriff of Waterford 1865; M.P. Dungarvan 1874 to death; resided Mountain castle, Cappoquin. d. Stephen’s Green club, Dublin 10 June 1877.

O’KEEFE, MATHIAS. b. 1830; M.D. Queen’s univ. Ireland 1860; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1860; librarian Queen’s coll. Cork 1855–75; examiner in the Royal university; employed as an analyst in criminal cases; professor of materia medica at Queen’s coll. Cork and lecturer on medical jurisprudence 1875 to death. d. 17 St. Patrick’s hill, Cork 19 May 1884. Medical Times 24 May 1884 p. 719.

O’KEEFE, ROBERT. b. Callan, co. Kilkenny; chaplain to a convent in Kilkenny, removed by Dr. Walsh, bishop of Ossory 1849; priest at Rathdowney to 1863; parish priest of Callan 1863; attempted to establish a community of nuns from Beziers in France May 1869, but Dr. Walsh refused his sanction; tried to make the National school at Callan a school for higher education, named it the Callan academy, and sought to make French the normal language of the school; brought actions for libel against his bishop, suspended Oct. 1870; suspended from all ecclesiastical functions by cardinal Cullen, acting under authority from the Pope 13 Nov. 1871; brought an action against the cardinal in queen’s bench Ireland, obtained one farthing damages 27 May 1873; submitted to the Cardinal May 1876; author of Ultramontanism versus civil and religious liberty 1875. d. 2 Feb. 1881. The Callan case 1872; Cardinal Cullen and the P. P. Callan 1872; Court of queen’s bench, R. O’Keefe against cardinal Cullen 1874; Ultramontanism versus education, the case of Father O’Keefe 1875; The Dublin review July 1873 pp. 211–38; Irish reports Common law series vii 319–444 (1874).

O’KELLY, JOSEPH (2 son of Matthias Joseph O’Kelly, conchologist). b. Dublin 31 Oct. 1832; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1852, M.A. 1860; employed on the geological survey of Ireland 1854; secretary to the survey Oct. 1865 to death; wrote many geological memoirs, published by the survey; M.R.I.A. 1866. d. 13 April 1883. Geological Mag. (1883) 288.

OKES, RICHARD (19 child of Thomas Verney Okes of Cambridge, surgeon). b. Cambridge 25 Dec. 1797; educ. Eton and King’s coll. Camb., scholar 1817, fellow 1820–6, Browne’s medallist 1819–21; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825, D.D. 1848; master at Eton 1823–38, lower master 1838–50, member of the governing body; provost of King’s coll. Camb. Nov. 1850 to death, abandoned the old regulations and obtained for the college a high rank in the university; vice-chancellor 1851; gave with Dr. Hawtrey the heraldic window in the school museum at Eton; chairman of Cambridge water co. 1858–87; edited Musæ Etonenses, new series 1796–1833, 2 vols. 1859–69; author of Epigrammata numismate annuo dignata et in curia Cantabrigiensis recitata 1819, 1820 and 1820, 3 vols. d. The lodge, King’s coll. Cambridge 25 Nov. 1888. bur. King’s college chapel. Saturday Review lxvi 647–8 (1888).

OKEY, CHARLES HENRY (son of Henry Okey). b. 7 April 1797; educ. Merchant Taylors’ school 1805 and at Heidelberg univ.; barrister I.T. 9 May 1823; private sec. to lord Stuart de Rothesay, when ambassador to France 1828–30; counsel to British embassy at Paris; police magistrate Antigua 1862, puisne justice and member of council Aug. 1863; knight of legion of honor; author of Droit d’ Aubaine de la Grande Britaine, Paris 1830, 2 ed. 1831; A concise digest of the law affecting the commercial and civil intercourse of the subjects of Great Britain and France, 2 ed. 1829, 6 ed. 1842. d. 1876.

OKEY, ELIZABETH. b. 1824; she and her sister Jane, b. 1826, were cured of epileptic fits by Dr. John Elliotson by mesmerism; they were experimented on by Dr. Elliotson at his residence in Conduit st. Hanover sq. London 1842, before audiences, when he made them do many wonderful things in a mesmeric state; E. Okey was an inmate of University college hospitals under Dr. John Elliotson from April 1837; she developed a power of seeing spirits sitting on the beds of patients who were about to die, which had a baneful effect on all the patients; turned out of the the hospital 28 Dec. 1838. T. Wakley’s Undeniable facts concerning practices of Dr. Elliotson with E. & J. Okey (1842); The Lancet 5 Jany. 1839 pp. 561–2, 590–7.

OLD, JOHN. b. Totnes 1829; studied under John and Edward Loder 1842, and at Royal academy of music under sir W. S. Bennett, and afterwards under Thalberg and Molique; conductor of Torquay choral soc. 1855–9; settled at Reading 1859, where he founded the Layston college of music, which had 200 pupils; composer of The seventh seal, a sacred drama 1853; The battle, a dramatic solo and chorus 1854; Herne, a legend of royal Windsor, an opera in 3 acts, libretto by E. Oxenford 1879, performed at Reading; his name is attached to upwards of 40 pieces of music 1849–79; he also contributed essays to The Monthly musical record. d. Reading 4 Feb. 1892.

OLDAKER, WILLIAM FITZHARDINGE (son of Tom Oldaker, huntsman). b. Woodbank, Gerrard’s Cross 1810; a saddler at Finsbury and Upper Brook street, London, his hunting saddles were in much request; a dealer in horses; rode in a steeplechase 1838; managed the stag hunting establishments of barons Lionel and Nathaniel Rothschild; ran a match with John Darby at Horncastle; retired and lived at Gerrard’s cross, Middlesex; resided at Newbold-on-Avon near Rugby 1865, where he hunted with all the neighbouring packs; retired to Woodbank, Chester 1880. d. Woodbank 6 Sept. 1884. W. Day’s Turf Celebrities (1891) 107–16; Baily’s Mag. xliii 121–2 (1885).

OLDFIELD, JOHN (only son of John Nicholls Oldfield, lieutenant in royal marines, d. 1793). b. Portsmouth 29 May 1789; 2 lieut. R.E. 2 April 1806, captain 26 Jany. 1815, placed on h.p. April 1819; served at battle of Waterloo and the occupation of Paris; commanded the R.E. in Newfoundland Sept. 1830 to Oct. 1835, in Jersey Oct. 1835 to March 1839, and in Canada March 1839 to 1843, where he served during the rebellion; K.H. 23 July 1830; A.D.C. to the queen 9 Nov. 1841; colonel R.E. 9 Nov. 1846, col. commandant 25 Oct. 1859 to death; commanded the R.E. in Ireland 1848–54; general 3 April 1862; contributed Memoranda on the use of asphalte to the Professional papers of the corps of the R.E., new series, vols. 3 and 5. d. Oldfield lawn, Emsworth, Sussex 2 Aug. 1863. bur. Westbourne.

OLDHAM, JAMES. b. 17 Jany. 1817; educ. Guy’s hospital; L.S.A. 1840; M.R.C.S. 1841, F.R.C.S. 1865; in practice at 53 Norfolk square, Brighton 1842–80; a founder of the Brighton and Sussex medical chirurgical soc. 1847, president; purchased and supported a coffee tavern; chief supporter of St. Christopher’s home for sick children at Hayward’s Heath. d. Lucastes, Hayward’s Heath 26 Dec. 1881. Lancet i 40 (1882).

OLDHAM, JAMES (son of a millwright). b. Hull 23 June 1801; at sea in the Baltic 1815–7; an apprentice to his father 1817; built a movable bridge for Hull corporation; reclaimed for the commissioners of woods and forests 700 acres in the estuary of the Humber 1850; government inspector of steamers for Hull; gave evidence before parliamentary committee on public works connected with Hull; wrote a paper on the Reclamation of land from seas and estuaries, for which he obtained Council premium of Institution of Civil engineers 1862; superintended tidal observations on the Humber, Trent and Ouse for British Association 1862–4; took George Bohn into partnership 1874, made the Hull and Barnsley railway and the Alexandra dock; M.I.C.E. 28 Jany. 1834. d. Hull 10 June 1890. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. ciii 377–80 (1891).

OLDHAM, THOMAS (eld. son of Thomas Oldham). b. Dublin 4 May 1816; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin 1832, B.A. 1836, M.A. 1846, LL.D. 1874; chief geological assistant in ordnance survey of Ireland 1839, surveyed counties of Kerry and Tyrone 1843; assistant professor of engineering Trin. coll. Dublin 1844, professor of geology 1845–51; president of Dublin geological society 1846; local director for Ireland of geological survey of the United Kingdom 1846; discovered in the rocks of Bray Head, co. Wicklow, the fossils or organic marks named after him Oldhamia 1849; superintendent of geological survey of India Nov. 1850, retired 1876; M.R.I.A. 1842; F.G.S. 1843; F.R.S. 9 June 1848, royal medallist 1875; member of royal Asiatic society of Bengal 1857, president four times; author of On the geological structure of part of the Khasi hills 1854; Memoirs of the geological survey of India, Palentologia Indica 1861; Memoranda on the result of an examination of the salt range in the Punjab 1864; Catalogue of the meteoric stones in the museum of the Geological survey of India 1865, 2 ed. 1868; Catalogue of the organic remains belonging to the echinodermata 1865; edited Records of the Geological survey of India 1868 etc. d. 18 Hillmorton’s road, Rugby 17 July 1878. Quarterly journal of geol. soc. xxxv 46–8 (1879); Geological Mag. (1878) 382.

OLDHAM, WILTON. b. 1835; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A., LL.B. and LL.D. 1865; of Bengal civil service; magistrate at Ghazipore; C. of St. Michael, Louth 1878–80; C. of Stoke Bishop, Bristol 1880 to death; author of Historical and statistical memoir of Ghazipore 2 vols. 1870–6; Tenant right and auction sales in Ghazipore 1873. d. St. Servan, France 2 Oct. 1883.

OLDKNOW, SIR JAMES (son of John Oldknow). b. Nottingham 1821; a lace manufacturer; alderman of Nottingham, mayor 1869, 1878, and 1879; after the visit of the prince and princess of Wales to open the Castle Art museum, knighted at Osborne 14 Aug. 1878. d. Villa road, Nottingham 4 Jany. 1888.

OLDKNOW, JOSEPH (son of Octavius Oldknow mayor of Nottingham). b. Nottingham 16 March 1809; educ. Christ’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1835; D.D. of Hartford univ. U.S. of America 1857; V. of Holy Trinity, Bordesley, Birmingham 1841 to death; leader of high church party in Birmingham, established daily services and the observance of saints’ day 1841; he was libelled by marks put on the copper coins, such as ‘Oldknow is a papist and has pay from Rome,’ others were marked ‘No surplice,’ and such coins were at times thrown through the windows into the church during service time; the first in Birmingham to establish early weekly communion and harvest festivals; author of The catholic church, its nature, constitution and privileges 1839; A letter on the relations of the church of England to the church of Rome and the protestant bodies 1848; A month in Portugal 1855; The validity of the holy orders in the church of England 1857; Anti-ritual proceedings, a letter to the clergy of the rural deanery of Birmingham 1866; Sermons on various points of doctrine and practice 1868; and with A. D. Crake The priest’s book of private devotion 1872, 4 ed. 1891. d. Birmingham 3 Sept. 1874. bur. Holy Trinity churchyard. Guide to the church congress (1883) 54–5.

O’LEARY, DANIEL FLORENCE. Served in the war of Colombian independence, general of brigade; aide-de-camp to general Bolivar 1819–27; British consul at Puerto Cabello 11 Aug. 1841; chargé d’ affaires and consul general in New Granada 28 Nov. 1843 to death. d. 24 Feb. 1854.

O’LEARY, ELLEN (dau. of a shopkeeper). b. Tipperary 1831; contributed verse to The Commercial journal, The Irishman, The Shamrock, and to the Irish People newspaper Nov. 1863 to 15 Sept. 1865, when the paper was seized by the government; assisted James Stephens, chief organiser of the Irish republic, in directing the affairs of the Fenian organisation; raised £200 on a mortgage of her property to help Stephens to escape from Ireland 1866; resided in Tipperary 1866–85, and with her brother John O’Leary in Dublin from 1885. d. Cork 16 Oct. 1889. Ellen O’Leary’s Lays of country, home and friends (1891) portrait; A. H. Miles’ Poets of the century (1893) 449–58; Irish Monthly xvii 83–94 (1889); Academy xl 70 (1891).

O’LEARY, WILLIAM HAGERTY (son of Thomas O’Leary of Charleston road, co. Dublin). b. 16 June 1839; educ. catholic univ. Ireland, gold medallist; L.R.C.S. Ireland 1861, F.R.C.S. Ireland 1871; professor of anatomy and physiology at Sedwick school of medicine 1872–4; surgeon to St. Vincent’s hospital, Dublin to 1874; M.P. Drogheda 5 Feb. 1874 to death; wrote on Original researches on the sources of animal heat; New theory on the functions of iron in the blood; Food, its relation to animal heat and muscular motion; received a treasury grant to assist him in prosecuting investigations in scientific philosophy. d. 1 Cottage green, Camberwell, London 15 Feb. 1880.

OLIPHANT, SIR ANTHONY (3 son of Ebenezer Oliphant of Condie, Perth, d. 1807). b. Condie 1793; educ. Hyde Abbey school; advocate Edinburgh; barrister L.I. 6 Feb. 1821; attorney general, Cape of Good Hope 1826–38; chief justice of Ceylon 22 Oct. 1838, retired on a pension 1855; knighted by patent 7 Aug. 1839; C.B. 27 April 1848. d. London 9 March 1859. Gent. Mag. vi 429 (1859).

OLIPHANT, FRANCIS ROMANO (younger son of the succeeding). b. Rome Oct.-Dec. 1859; educ. Eton, at Balliol coll. Oxf. and at New Inn hall; B.A. 1883; assistant to R. R. Holmes in the royal library at Windsor castle; contributed frequently to The Spectator and other periodicals; assisted his mother M. O. Oliphant in the preparation of her Victorian age of literature 1892; author of Notes of a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and the Holy Land 1891. d. about 4 Oct. 1894. Times 5 Oct. 1894 p. 3, 13 Oct. p. 6.

NOTE.—His elder brother Cyril Francis Oliphant, b. 1856, educ. Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1883, published in 1890 in the Foreign classics series A biography and criticism of the work of Alfred de Musset, he d. 1890.

OLIPHANT, FRANCIS WILSON (son of Thomas Oliphant of Edinburgh). b. Newcastle 31 Aug. 1818; educ. Edinburgh academy of art; designer of painted glass in the works of Messrs. Wailes of Newcastle; worked with Welby Pugin in London, especially upon the painted windows in new houses of parliament; sent in a cartoon to the competition for the decoration of Westminster Hall; exhibited the Prodigal son nearing home and 4 other pictures at R.A. 1849–55; produced the windows in the ante-chapel of King’s college, Cambridge, those in the chancel of Aylesbury church, and designed the famous choristers’ window in Ely cathedral; author of A plea for painted glass 1855. d. Rome Oct. 1859.

OLIPHANT, HENRY WILLIAM. b. 1822; connected with Drury lane theatre 1842–46; edited Weekly Despatch; edited Sunday Times to death; resided 8 Brigstock road, Croydon. d. Clapham, London 5 March 1882. bur. Highgate cemet. 10 March.

OLIPHANT, LAURENCE (only child of sir Anthony Oliphant 1793–1859). b. Capetown 1829; private secretary to his father in Ceylon 1848; called to the bar in Ceylon; barrister Lincoln’s Inn 30 April 1855; secretary to lord Elgin during negotiation at Washington of reciprocity treaty with Canada 1854; superintendent of Indian affairs at Quebec 1854; went to the Crimea with lord Stratford de Redcliffe 1855; joined the force under Omar Pasha, present at battle of the Ingour 6 Nov. 1855, was correspondent of The Times during this expedition; a candidate for Stirling 1855; private secretary to lord Elgin in China and Japan 1857–9; first secretary of legation in Japan, arrived at Yeddo June 1861, severely wounded by a Japanese 5 July, returned to England; started with sir Algernon Borthwick and others a journal called The Owl 1864, contributed to the first ten numbers; M.P. the Stirling burghs 13 July 1865 to April 1868; joined the community of The Brotherhood of the New Life, of which Thomas Lake Harris was the leader, at Brockton Junction or Salem-on-Erie, Chautauqua county, United States of America 1867, where he gave all his money to the community and was employed in very menial occupations; Times correspondent in the Franco-German war 1870–71; m. June 1872 at St. George’s, Hanover sq. London, Alice, dau. of Henry le Strange of Hunstanton, Norfolk (she d. at Haifa, Syria 2 Jany. 1886 aged 40), returned with his wife and mother to Brockton by Harris’s orders 1873; recovered his land at Brockton by legal proceedings from Harris May 1881; resided a great deal at Mount Carmel, Palestine from 1882; m. (2) at Malvern 16 Aug. 1888 Rosamond Dale, dau. of Robert Dale Owen; author of A journey to Khatmandu 1852; The Russian shores of the Black Sea 1853; The Trans-Caucasian campaign under Omar Pasha, a personal narrative 1856; Narrative of the Earl of Elgin’s mission to China and Japan in the years 1857–8–9, 2 vols. 1859; Patriots and filibusters incidents of political and exploratory travel 1860; Universal suffrage and Napoleon the Third 1860; Piccadilly, a fragment of contemporary biography 1870, 5 ed. 1874; The land of Gilead with excursions in the Lebanon 1880; The land of Khemi, up and down the Middle Nile 1882; Traits and travesties 1882; Altiora Peto, 2 vols. 1883; Massollam, 3 vols. 1886; Episodes in a life of adventure 1887; Fashionable philosophy 1887; The star in the east 1887; Scientific religion 1888; author with Alice Oliphant of Sympneumata 1885. d. at residence of sir M. G. Duff, York house, Richmond road, Twickenham 23 Dec. 1888. M. O. W. Oliphant’s Memoir of Laurence Oliphant and of Alice, his wife, 2 vols. (1891) with portraits; L. Liesching’s Personal reminiscences of L. Oliphant (1891); R. Mac Cully’s Brotherhood of the new life (1893) 146–61; The Times 21 Jany. 1886 p. 7, 23 Jany. p. 10.

NOTE.—He is described under name of Cyril Gordon in Haskett Smith’s novel For God and humanity, a romance of Mount Carmel, 3 vols. 1891, the dedication is inscribed ‘To the memory of my beloved friend Laurence Oliphant.’

OLIPHANT, THOMAS (son of Ebenezer Oliphant of Condie, Strathearn, Perthshire). b. Condie 25 Dec. 1799; educ. Winchester; member of the stock exchange, London a short time; member of the Madrigal society 1830, adapted for the use of its members English words to Italian madrigals, honorary secretary of the society many years, president 1871; sang as a bass vocalist in the chorus at the Handel festival, Westminster Abbey 1834; engaged cataloguing the music at British museum some years; wrote English versions of Beethoven’s Fidelio and the Mount of Olives, and the words for many songs; author of Comments of a chorus singer at the royal musical festival in Westminster abbey. By Solomon Sackbut 1834; A brief account of the Madrigal society 1835; A short account of madrigals 1836; La musa madrigalesia 1837; In C. E. Pascoe’s Everyday life in our public schools 1881 he wrote the section Life among the Oppidans, Eton pp. 37–62; edited and arranged Catches and rounds by Old Composers 1835; Ditties of the olden time 1835; Ten favourite madrigals 1836; German songs adapted to English words, two series, Nos. 1 to 40, 1838–49; Six ancient part songs for five voices 1845; Six English songs 1847; Select German and English vocal duets 1849; Phœbe and Corydon by W. Croft 1853; National and popular ballads 1863; his name is attached to upwards of 70 pieces, chiefly of arranged music 1835–73. d. Great Marlborough st. London 9 March 1873, his collection of ancient music sold by Puttick and Simpson April 24–6.

OLIPHANT, WILLIAM. b. Edinburgh 14 Jany. 1807; bookseller as Wm. Oliphant & co. 7 South Bridge, Edinburgh 1831 to death. d. 21 Buccleuch place, Edinb. 13 Nov. 1860. Bookseller Dec. 1860 p. 908.

OLIVEIRA, BENJAMIN (3 son of Dominick Oliveira of Madeira, then of London, merchant, naturalised by R.L. 30 Aug. 1811, and d. 1846). b. England 24 June 1806; contested Reading 8 Jany. 1835; M.P. Pontefract 8 July 1852 to 20 March 1857; F.R.S. 4 June 1835; revived the Star club 1830, president 1831 to death, in 1855 sir F. G. Moon the lord mayor conferred on the club a charter constituting it The Star club of London; author of Wine duties reduction, committee proceedings 1861; A few observations on the works of the isthmus of Suez canal 1863; A visit to the Spanish camp in Morocco during the late war 1863. d. 8 Upper Hyde Park st. London 28 Sept. 1865. Memorials of Star club of London (1860) memoir and portrait; G. M. xix 658 (1865); I.L.N. xxii 277, 278 (1853) portrait.

OLIVER, EMMA SOPHIA (dau. of W. Eburne of Rathbone place, London, coachbuilder). b. 15 Aug. 1819; exhibited 34 landscapes at R.A., 19 at B.I. and 35 at Suffolk st. 1842–74; member of New society of painters in water-colours 1849; m. 1840 Wm. Oliver landscape painter 1804–53; m. (2) about 1856 John Sedgwick of Watford, Herts, solicitor, b. 1812, d. 23 Oct. 1882. She d. Brewery house, Great Berkhamstead 15 March 1885. Clayton’s English female artists ii 227–30 (1876).

OLIVER, GEORGE. b. Newington, Butts, Surrey 9 Feb. 1781; educ. Sedgley park, Staffs. and Stonyhurst college 11 years; ordained at Durham May 1806; served the mission of the society of Jesus at St. Nicholas, Exeter Oct. 1807 to 6 Oct. 1851, but never became a member of the society; hon. member of Historical society of Boston 30 March 1843; created D.D. by Pope Gregory XVI 15 Sept. 1844; provost of the chapter of Plymouth 1852–7; author of Historic collections relating to the monasteries in Devon 1820; The history of Exeter 1821, 2 ed. 1861; Ecclesiastical antiquities in Devon, 3 vols. 1840–2; Collections towards illustrating the biography of the Scotch, English and Irish members of the society of Jesus 1838, 2 ed. 1845; Merrye Englaunde or the golden daies of goode queene Besse 1841, anon.; Monasticon diœcesis Exoniensis, a collection of records illustrating conventual, collegiate and eleemosynary foundations in the counties of Cornwall and Devon and a supplement 1846, additional supplement 1854; Collections illustrative of the history of the Catholic religion in the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Wilts. and Gloucester 1857; Lives of the bishops of Exeter and a history of the cathedral 1861. d. St. Nicholas priory, Exeter 23 March 1861. bur. near the high altar in the chapel 2 April. T. N. Brushfield’s Bibliography of the rev. G. Oliver (1885) portrait; Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i 410 (1874); G.M. x 575–7 (1861).

OLIVER, GEORGE (eld. son of Samuel Oliver, R. of Lambley, Notts.). b. Papplewick, Notts. 5 Nov. 1782; educ. Nottingham; second master of gr. sch. at Caistor, Lincs. 1803–9; head master of Great Grimsby gr. sch. 1809; C. of Grimsby 1814–32; V. of Clee, Lincs. 1815–35; V. of Scopwick, Lincs. 12 Oct. 1831 to death; P.C. of St. Peter’s, Wolverhampton 1834–46; created D.D. by archbishop of Canterbury 25 July 1835; R. of South Hyckham, Lincs. 1846 to death; deputy past grand master of masons for Lincolnshire 1832; author of The antiquities of freemasonry 1823 and 1843; The star in the east 1825, new ed. 1842; The monumental antiquities of Great Grimsby, Hull, 1825; The history and antiquities of the Town and minster of Beverley 1829; History of the Holy Trinity guild at Sleaford, Lincoln 1837; Historical landmarks and other evidences of freemasonry, 2 vols. 1845–6; The golden remains of the early masonic writers, 5 vols. 1847–50; The book of the lodge or officer’s manual 1849, 4 ed. 1879. d. Eastgate, Lincoln 3 March 1867, bur. in cemetery attached to St. Swithin’s church 7 March.

OLIVER, JOHN (son of John Oliver, shopkeeper). b. Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire 7 Nov. 1838; educ. Carmarthen sch. and at Carmarthen presbyterian college to 1859; Congregational minister and an occasional preacher in Welsh and English; author of Welsh poems on David, the prince of the Lord; The beauties of nature; The widow of Nain; The wreck of the Royal Charter and Myfyrdod; author of English poems on Life, and When I die. d. Llanfynydd 24 June 1866. Cerddi Cystudd edited by Henry Oliver (1867) portrait.

OLIVER, JOHN. b. 1804; educ. Queen’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1847; V. of Warmington, near Oundle 1844–73; chaplain to King’s college hospital, London 1855–62; warden of the London diocesan penitentiary, Highgate 1862 to death, where he was very successful in the reformation of the poor girls. d. The Penitentiary, Highgate 10 July 1883. Guardian 11 July 1883 p. 1023.

OLIVER, MARTHA CRANMER (dau. of John Oliver, scene-painter). b. Salisbury 1834; appeared at Salisbury theatre 1840; first appeared in London at Marylebone theatre 1847; played at Lyceum 1849–55; always known as Pattie Oliver; acted Matilda in Married for money at Drury Lane 10 Oct. 1855, and Celia in As you like it 4 Sept. 1856; played in Talfourd’s burlesque of Atalanta at Haymarket 14 April 1857; leading actress at Strand theatre 1858–61, where she played Amy Robsart in Ye queen, ye earl and ye maiden 29 Dec. 1858, Pauline in Byron’s burlesque The lady of Lyons 14 June 1859, Lisetta in Talfourd’s burlesque Tell and the strike of the cantons 26 Dec. 1859, and the Prince in Byron’s burlesque Cinderella 26 Dec. 1860; the original Mary Meredith in Our American cousin at Haymarket 16 Nov. 1861; played Beautiful Haidee in Byron’s burlesque of that name at Princess’s 10 April 1863; lessee and manager of New Royalty theatre March 1866 to 30 April 1870; played Meg in H. T. Craven’s Meg’s Diversion 17 Oct. 1866; produced F. C. Burnand’s burlesque The latest edition of Black-eyed Susan, in which she played Susan 29 Nov. 1866, which ran 420 nights and was revived 3 March 1870; produced A. Halliday’s drama Daddy Gray 1 Feb. 1868, and his drama The loving cup 26 Nov. 1868; m. 26 Dec. 1876 Wm. Charles Phillips of Bond st. London, auctioneer; she d. 5 Grove end road, St. John’s Wood, London 20 Dec. 1880. The Players i 97–8 (1860) portrait.

OLIVER, NATHANIEL WILMOT. Second lieut. R.A. 2 June 1796, colonel 10 Jany. 1837; col. commandant 18 Feb. 1851 to death; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846. d. Clifton 11 Jany. 1854.

OLIVER, RICHARD ALDWORTH (son of admiral Robert Dudley Oliver). b. 1811; entered navy 26 April 1825, lieut. 28 June 1838, captain 11 Dec. 1854, retired 1 July 1864; retired admiral 27 Oct. 1884; served at battle of Navarino 1827; commanded the Monarch in the Baltic during the Russian war 1854; chairman of the sanitary committee of Marylebone, London to death; published A series of lithographic drawings from sketches in New Zealand 1853. d. 38 Grove-end road, St. John’s Wood, London 13 Sept. 1889.

OLIVER, RICHARD SILVER (1 son of Robert S. Oliver of Darrington, Ferrybridge, Yorkshire, d. 1842). Educ. Eton; cornet royal horse guards 29 July 1830, captain 16 Dec. 1836, sold out 25 June 1844; hunted at Melton, Bicester and Northampton; settled at Bolton Percy, Yorkshire; a supporter of the Bramham Moor hounds; a coachman and a good shot. d. Bolton lodge Feb. 1889. Baily’s Mag. li 208–9 (1889).

OLIVER, SAMUEL. b. 1801; V. of Calverton, near Nottingham 1826 to death; author of Emma Whiteford, or death in the bosom of the church 1852; War and its probable consequences as foreshadowed in holy scripture 1855; Village lectures on some controverted articles of Catholic faith. d. in a cottage in Calverton village Sept. 1874. bur. 1 Oct.

OLIVER, THOMAS. b. about 1776; founded with George Boyd, firm of Oliver and Boyd, publishers, Edinburgh 1806, retired in 1843 after George Boyd’s death. d. Newington lodge, Edinburgh 26 April 1853.

OLIVER, THOMAS. b. Breadlow, Bucks. June 1789; employed by Mr. Baker of Millbank, London, gardener; fought and beat Kimber a stone-mason at Tothill Fields, Westminster 1811; always known afterwards as the Chelsea gardener; beat George Cooper at Moulsey Hurst, Surrey 15 May 1813, and Edward Painter at Shepperton Range, Middlesex 17 May 1814; landlord of the Duke’s Head 31 Peter st. Westminster 1814; fought Jack Carter at Gretna Green for 100 guineas a side 4 Oct. 1816, when he was badly beaten in 32 rounds lasting 46 minutes; beaten by Wm. Neat at Rickmansworth, Herts. 10 July 1818 in 28 rounds lasting one hour; beat Kendrick the black 28 May 1819; beaten by Daniel Donnelly, the Irish champion 21 July 1819 at Crawley Hurst, Sussex for 100 guineas a side; beat Tom Shelton at Sawbridgeworth, Herts. 13 Jany. 1820; beaten by Edward Painter at North Walsham, Norfolk 17 July 1820; beaten by Tom Spring at Hayes, Middlesex 20 Feb. 1821 for 100 guineas a side 25 rounds in 55 minutes; beaten by T. Hickman 12 June 1821 at Blindow Heath, Surrey for £100 a side; beaten by Wm. Abbott at Moulsey Hurst 6 Nov. 1821, 33 rounds in 54 minutes; commissary of the ring, taking charge of the ropes and stakes; beat Benjamin Burn at Hampton, Middlesex 28 Jany. 1834; a fruiterer and greengrocer in Pimlico and Chelsea. d. London June 1864. H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica ii 89–103 (1880) portrait; The Fancy. By An Operator i 609–16 (1826) portrait; Boxiana ii 954 (1818), iii 262 (1825) portrait, iv 233 etc.; Hannan’s British boxing, part 2, pp. 43–6.

OLIVER, THOMAS. b. 1790; entered Bengal army 1803; lieut. 6 Bengal N.I. 18 May 1805, captain 16 Nov. 1818; major 3 N.I. 13 July 1827; lieut. col. of 3 N.I 3 July 1832 to 1838, and of 12 N.I. 1838 to 10 April 1843; col. of 37 N.I. 13 March 1844 to 1869; general 19 June 1866. d. 43 Duke street, Grosvenor square, London 22 April 1872.

OLIVER, THOMAS (son of a farmer and maltster). b. Angmering, Sussex; a stable boy to his uncle, Mr. Page of Epsom; rode light weights for lord Mountcharles; sold horses at fairs for Mr. Farrell of Liverpool; became a steeple chase rider; rode Harlequin at Clifton and won; won the Great Dunchurch steeplechase on Foreigner; a partner with Mr. Curlewis; in Northampton gaol for debt; landlord of The Star at Leamington; won the Great Liverpool on Jerry; a steeple chaser trainer at Prestbury; brought out Charles Boyce and Robert James. Sporting Review xli 249–54 (1859).

OLIVER, WILLIAM. b. about 1804; landscape painter, chiefly in water-colours; member of the New society (now royal institute) of painters in water-colours 1834; exhibited 29 pictures at R.A., 54 at B.I., and 36 at Suffolk st. 1829–53; published Scenery of the Pyrenees, lithographed by G. Barnand, T. S. Boys, Carl Hughe and others 1843. d. Langley Mill house, Halstead, Essex 2 Nov. 1853.

OLLENDORFF, HEINRICK GODEFROY, OR HERMANN GERSCHAL. b. Rewitsch, Posen, Prussia about 1802; professor of the German language and literature; resided in 1843 at 23 Titchbourne st. Westminster; his system of acquiring a language was founded on the principle, that each question contained nearly the answer required to be returned; Capt. Basil Hall recommended this system to the English; naturalised in England 20 Dec. 1850; author of A new method of learning to read, write and speak a language in six months, adapted to the German, two parts 1838–41; A new method of learning to read, etc., adapted to the French 1843, 9 ed. 1861; A new method of learning to read, etc., applied to the Italian 1846, 5 ed. 1865; Nouvelle méthode pour apprendre à lire, à écrire et à parler une language en six mois, appliquée à l’Anglais, Paris 1848, 6 ed. 1856; A new method of learning to read, etc., adapted to the Spanish 1858; Introduction à la méthode Ollendorff, appliquée au Latin, Paris 1862; the above works all went to many editions in various languages, with keys to them in other volumes. d. Paris 1865.

NOTE.—On 10 Dec. 1850 he obtained an injunction against Alexander Black to restrain him from selling a pirated edition of A new method of learning French, originally published in London by Ollendorff 25 April 1843. The son Paul Ollendorff is a teacher of languages at 28 bis Rue de Richelieu, Paris.

OLLIER, CHARLES. b. Bath, Somersetshire 1788; clerk in Coutt’s bank, Strand, London 1802; publisher with his brother James Ollier at 3 Welbeck st. and then in Vere st. Bond st. 1816–22; a friend of Leigh Hunt; published Leigh Hunt’s Foliage 1818, Hero and Leander 1819, and The story of Rimini, 2 ed. 1819; also Keats’s Poems 1817, and Shelley’s The revolt of Islam 1817, the Collected works of Charles Lamb 1818, and several of Barry Cornwall’s volumes of Poems; literary adviser to Henry Colburn and then to Richard Bentley; a lecturer on celebrated writers; a publisher in Southampton st. Strand, London 1845–9; author of Altham and his wife, a domestic tale 1818; Inesilla, or the tempter, a romance, with other tales 1824; Ferrers, a romance, 3 vols. 1842; Fallacy of ghosts, dreams, and omens, with stories of witchcraft, life-in-death, and monomania 1848; Original views of London 1842, and Original views of Oxford 1843, 2 vols., letterpress by C. Ollier. d. 5 Caroline place, Fulham road, London 5 June 1859. Correspondence of Leigh Hunt i 308–11, ii 61 etc. (1862); Spectator 18 June 1859 p. 640; Lady Shelley’s Shelley memorials (1875) ix 80 etc.; Temple Bar lviii 243–52 (1880); St. James’s Mag. xxxv 387–413 (1875).

OLLIER, EDMUND (son of the preceding). b. near London 26 Nov. 1826; wrote for Ainsworth’s magazine, the Athenæum, All the year round 1850–70, and Household Words 1850–9; edited the first series of The essays of Elia for Hotten’s Worldwide library 1867; edited Leigh Hunt’s Tale for the chimney corner 1869; on staff of the Daily News 1853–77; sub-editor of The Leader 1855–8; editor of The Atlas 1859–60; literary editor of London review 1874–6; worked for the firm of Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, publishers; granted cross of the Italian order of S.S. Maurice and Lazarus 1867; author of Poems from the Greek mythology 1867; The Doré gallery 1870; Cassell’s History of the war between France and Germany, 2 vols. 1871–2, 3 ed. 1887–9; Cassell’s History of the United States, 3 vols. 1874–7; Our British portrait painters, from sir P. Lely to J. Sant 1874; Cassell’s Illustrated history of the Russo-Turkish war, 2 vols. 1877–9, 3 ed. 1889–91; Cassell’s Illustrated universal history, 4 vols. 1882–5, 2 ed. 1892; The life and times of queen Victoria by R. Wilson 1887, the first eleven chapters were by E. Ollier. d. 154 Oakley st. King’s road, Chelsea 19 April 1886. Biograph ii 533–5 (1879); Academy xxix 309–10 (1886); Athenæum i 583 (1886).

OLLIFFE, SIR JOSEPH FRANCIS (son of Joseph Olliffe of Cork, merchant). b. Cork 1808; educ. univ. of Paris, M.A. 1829, M.D. 1840; began practice in Paris 1840; fellow of Anatomical society of Paris; president of Paris Medical society; a knight of the Legion of honour 1846, officer 1855; physician to British embassy, Paris from March 1852; knighted at Buckingham palace 13 June 1853; F.R.C.P. 1859; took part with count de Morny in unremunerative building operations at Deauville, near Trouville. d. 12 Chichester terrace, Brighton 14 March 1869. British medical Journal 20 March 1869 p. 274; Reg. and mag. of biog. April 1869 p. 296.

OLLIVANT, ALFRED (son of Wm. Ollivant of Ashton-under-Lyne, cotton spinner). b. Mosley st. Manchester 16 Aug. 1798; educ. St. Paul’s school 1809–17, captain of the school; Campden exhibitioner at Trin. coll. Camb. 1817; Perry exhibitioner 1819, Craven scholar 1820, sixth wrangler and senior chancellor’s medallist 1821; B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824, B.D. and D.D. 1836; fellow of Trin. coll. 1821; Tyrwhitt Hebrew scholar 1822; vice-principal of St. David’s college, Lampeter 1827–43; prebendary of St. David’s 28 July 1829; R. of Llangeler, Carmarthenshire 1831, vicar 1832–43; prebendary of Brecon 10 Nov. 1831; R. of Bettws Bledrws, Cardiganshire 1835–7; V. of Kerry, Montgomeryshire 1836–43; regius professor of divinity at Cambridge and R. of Somersham, Hunts. March 1843 to Nov. 1849; bishop of Llandaff 20 Nov. 1849 to death, consecrated at Lambeth 2 Dec; restored the cathedral and built, restored, or enlarged about 170 churches; established the Church extension society; member of the Old Testament revision company, which he had suggested 1870; presented with his portrait in the town hall at Cardiff 30 Nov. 1882; author of An analysis of the Hebrew text of the history of Joseph 1828, 3 ed. 1836; Some account of the condition of the fabric of Llandaff cathedral 1857, 2 ed. 1860; and of upwards of 30 charges, letters, and sermons 1827–81. d. Bishop’s court, Llandaff 16 Dec. 1882. bur. in churchyard of Llandaff cathedral 21 Dec., tomb with effigy in marble by Armitstead, on north side of the altar steps. J. Morgan’s Four biographical sketches (1892) 1–60; Church portrait journal i 41 (1880) portrait; Red Dragon iii 193 (1883) portrait; I.L.N. xv 376 (1849) portrait, lxxxi 680 (1882) portrait.

OLMAR, stage name of James Chadwick. Performer on a trapèze-swing; a walker head downwards with his feet in rings; performed at the Alhambra palace, London in Nov. 1862; weighed 130 lbs.; his biceps, fore-arm, wrists, pectoral muscles and muscles of his back were of great strength. d. 1 King st. Chester road, Manchester 24 Feb. 1885. bur. Ardwick cemetery 27 Feb. F. T. Buckland’s Curiosities of natural history, 3rd series, 2 ed. ii 92–6 (1868).

O’LOGHLEN, SIR COLMAN MICHAEL, 2 baronet (eld. son of sir Michael O’Loghlen, 1 baronet 1789–1842). b. Dublin 20 Sept. 1819; B.A. univ. of Dublin 1840; admitted King’s inns 1838; called to Irish bar 1840, went Munster circuit; Q.C. 9 Nov. 1852; chairman of Carlow quarter sessions 1856–9; chairman of Mayo quarter sessions 1859–61; M.P. Clare 1863 to death; third sergeant-at-law 1865, second sergeant 1866; judge advocate general 16 Dec. 1868 to Nov. 1870; P.C. 12 Dec. 1868; introduced and carried the bill enabling Roman Catholics to hold the lord chancellorship of Ireland. d. suddenly on board the mail-boat while crossing from Holyhead to Kingstown 22 July 1877. J. R. O’Flanagan’s Irish bar (1879) 301–6.

OLPHERT, WYBRANTS (son of rev. John Olphert, d. 1851). b. 1810; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1833; always resided on his estates in Ireland, where he had a large number of small tenants; in 1884 after formation of the Land league had to evict 32 of his tenants; refusing to make large reductions in his rents 1887 Father M’Fadden organised the ‘Plan of campaign’ and the evictions were resisted by cutting and barricading the roads, loopholding the houses, and using pitchforks, stones and boiling water against the bailiffs, the tenants eventually paid up and were reinstated 1892. found dead in his arm chair, Ballyconnell house, co. Donegal 21 Sept. 1892.

O’MAHONY, JOHN FRANCIS. b. Kilbeheney, co. Limerick 1816; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; took part in Smith O’Brien’s attempted insurrection 1848, fled to France, lived in Paris 1849–54, and in New York 1854 to death; one of the founders of the Emmet movement association about 1854; for a short time in a lunatic asylum; col. of 69th regt. in U.S. of America; took a prominent part in the Fenian movement from 1858; was head centre of the Fenian brotherhood several years; published Foras feasa ar Eirinn, The history of Ireland by Geoffrey Keating, D.D., translated from the original Gaelic and copiously annotated, New York 1857. d. New York 7 Feb. 1877. bur. Glasnevin cemet. near Dublin in Feb. Appleton’s American biography iv 579–80 (1888).

O’MALLEY, PETER FREDERIC (son of Charles O’Malley of the Lodge, co. Mayo). b. 1804; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, M.A. 1828; barrister L.I. 2 May 1834; went Oxford circuit; migrated to Middle Temple 1839, bencher 1850 to death; Q.C. 28 Feb. 1850; leader of the Norfolk circuit; recorder of Norwich April 1859 to death; contested Finsbury as a Conservative 16 Nov. 1868; author of Religious liberty and the Indian proclamation 1859; The articles, liturgy, and subscription 1865; To the electors of the borough of Finsbury, two addresses 1868. d. 7 Lowndes st. Belgrave sq. London 10 Dec. 1874. Irish Law Times viii 649 (1874); Law Times lviii 124 (1874).

O’MALLEY, SIR SAMUEL, 1 Baronet (son of Owen O’Malley of Borrishowle, co. Mayo). b. 26 Dec. 1779; created baronet 2 July 1804. d. Kilboyne house, Castlebar, Mayo 18 Aug. 1864. G.M. xvii 529 (1864).

O’MALLEY, THADEUS JOSEPH. b. Garryowen, near Limerick 1796; a Roman Catholic minister, Philadelphia, U.S. of America, but was suspended by bishop England 1825; assistant priest to the cathedral in Marlborough st. Dublin under archbishop Daniel Murray 1827; advocated a poor law for Ireland and a system of national education; rector of R.C. university of Malta, but dismissed by the government; started a newspaper in Dublin entitled The social economist and another entitled The Federalist, No. 1 Sept. 24, 1870, which ran to No. 31 April 22, 1871; tried to unite the Old Ireland and Young Ireland parties; advocated home rule from 1870; author of A sketch of the state of popular education in Holland, Prussia, Belgium and France, 2 ed. 1840; Home rule on the basis of federalism 1873. d. 1 Henrietta st. Dublin 2 Jany. 1877. bur. Glasnevin cemet. The works of the right rev. J. England, bishop of Charleston v 187–202 (1849).

O’MEARA, KATHLEEN (dau. of Dennis O’Meara of Tipperary). b. Dublin 1839; resided in Paris most of her life, where she was correspondent of The Tablet newspaper many years; author of the following works under pseudonym of Grace Ramsay, A woman’s trials, 3 vols. 1867; Iza’s story, 3 vols. 1869, 2 ed. 1877; The bells of the sanctuary, Agnes 1871; The bells of the sanctuary, A daughter of St. Dominick 1873; A salon in the last days of the Empire 1873; Thomas Grant, first bishop of Southwark 1874, 2 ed. 1886; The battle of Connemara 1878, 2 ed. 1878; Are you my wife, 3 vols. 1878; translated Henri Perreyve and his counsels to the sick 1881; author under own name of The Bells of the sanctuary, Mary Benedicta, etc. 1879; The blind apostle 1890; Frederic Ozanam, his life and works 1876, 2 ed. 1878; Madame Mohl, her salon and her friends 1885, 2 ed. 1886; Narka, 2 vols. 1888; The old house in Picardy 1887; One of God’s heroines, Mother Mary Teresa Kelly 1878; Queen by right divine and other tales 1885; The ven. Jean Baptiste Viauney 1891. d. at residence of Father Faber, Paris 10 Nov. 1888. Irish Monthly Oct. 1889 pp. 527–36; Tablet 17 Nov. 1888 p. 789.

OMMANNEY, HENRY MANATON. b. 1775; entered navy June 1787; captain 22 Jany. 1806; retired R.A. 28 June 1838, placed on the active list 17 Aug. 1840; admiral on h.p. 4 July 1855. d. 11 West Emma place, Stonehouse 22 March 1857.

OMMANNEY, SIR JOHN ACWORTH (eld. son of rear admiral Cornthwaite Ommanney, d. 1801). b. 1773; entered navy 1786; captain 16 Oct. 1800; flag captain to sir Erasmus Gower on the Newfoundland station 1804–6; commanded the Albion 1825–30; served at battle of Navarino 20 Oct. 1827, for which created C.B. 1828, and knight of the orders of St. Louis, St. Vladimir and the Redeemer of Greece; R.A. 22 July 1830; knighted at St. James’s palace 20 May 1835; commanded the Lisbon station 1837–40, and the Mediterranean station 1840–1; K.C.B. 20 July 1838; V.A. 23 Nov. 1841, admiral 4 May 1849; commander-in-chief at Devonport 17 April 1851 to 1 May 1854. d. Warblington house, Havant 8 July 1855.

O’NEILL, JOHN BRUCE RICHARD O’NEILL, 3 Viscount (younger son of 1 viscount O’Neill 1740–98). b. Shane’s castle, co. Antrim 30 Dec. 1780; ensign Coldstream guards 10 Oct. 1799; lieut. col. Chasseurs Britanniques 21 April 1808 to 29 March 1810; lieut. col. 19 dragoons 29 March 1810 to 11 July 1816; captain Coldstream guards 11 July 1816 to 27 May 1825; M.G. 27 May 1825; general 20 June 1854; M.P. co. Antrim 1802–41; succeeded his brother as 3 viscount 25 March 1841; constable of Dublin castle May 1811 to death; vice-admiral of the coast of Ulster; a representative peer of Ireland Feb. 1842 to death. d. Shane’s Castle 12 Feb. 1855.

O’NEILL, WILLIAM O’NEILL, 1 Baron (eld. son of rev. Edward Chichester, R. of Kilmore, Armagh, d. June 1840). b. Culdaff house, co. Donegal 3 March 1813; educ. Foyle college, Londonderry, Shrewsbury and Trin. coll. Dublin; B.A. 1836; C. of Kilmore 1837; prebendary of Ch. Ch. Dublin 1848–59; succeeded to the O’Neill estates 1855, when he took name of O’Neill in lieu of that of Chichester; acted frequently as organist in the Dublin cathedrals; composer of church music, glees, and songs; composed the poetry and music of an ode when prince Arthur visited Shane’s Castle 1869; created baron O’Neill of Shane’s Castle in the county of Antrim 18 April 1868; a great supporter of the disestablished church; a member of the Victoria institute 1875; author of Friendly suggestions on Christian consistency, Exeter 1847; The christian sabbath 1859; Unchanging love, or the final perseverance of all believers in Christ Jesus 1860; Absolution and the prayer book 1871; Essays and addresses on the truths of the christian religion 1886; composer of Let others quaff the racy wine, a glee 1881. d. Shane’s Castle 17 April 1883. The O’Neill scholarship founded in the divinity school, Trin. coll. Dublin in his memory. Sermon by the rev. lord O’Neill (1885), memoir pp. ix–xlviii portrait.

O’NEILL, HENRY. b. Dundalk 1800; Irish archæologist; author of A guide to pictorial art 1846; The most interesting of the ancient crosses of ancient Ireland, drawn to scale and lithographed by H. O’Neill 1857; The fine arts and civilization of ancient Ireland, illustrated with chromo and other lithographs 1863; Ireland for the Irish 1868. d. 109 Lower Gardiner st. Dublin 21 Dec. 1880.

O’NEILL, HENRY ARTHUR. Ensign 41 foot 22 Nov. 1821; captain 12 foot 8 March 1827, major 28 Aug. 1835 to 25 Oct. 1842, when placed on h.p.; L.G. 22 Nov. 1870. d. St. Ann’s Donnybrook, co. Dublin 23 Nov. 1874.

O’NEIL, HENRY NELSON. b. St. Petersburg 7 Jany. 1817; came to England 1823; studied at the R.A. from 1836; historical painter; exhibited 94 pictures at R.A., 34 at B.I., and 14 at Suffolk st. 1838–79; A.R.A. 1860; with other persons supplied illustrations to L’Allegro and Il penseroso 1848; author of Lectures on painting, delivered at the Royal Academy 1866; Two thousand years hence 1868; Modern art in England and France 1869; Satirical dialogues 1870; The age of stucco, a satire in three cantos 1871. d. 7 Victoria road, Kensington, London 13 March 1880. bur. Kensal Green cemet. Sandby’s History of royal academy ii 343 (1862); Walford’s Representative men (1868) portrait; I.L.N. xxxvi 180, 181 (1860) portrait, lxxv 308 (1880) portrait.

O’NEILL OR O’NIELL, JOHN (son of a shoemaker). b. Waterford 8 Jany 1777; a shoemaker at Garrick-on-Suir 1800, afterwards in London from 1812; a strong advocate of temperance; author of The clothier’s looking-glass, a poem 1799; Irish melodies; The sorrows of memory, a poem; Alva, a drama 1821; The Drunkard 1840, a poem, new edition with George Cruikshank’s etchings of the effects of the Bottle 1842; The triumph of temperance, or the destruction of the British upas tree 1852, a poem; Handerahan the Irish fairy-man and legends of Carrick 1854; Hugh O’Neill the prince of Ulster, a poem 1859; Mary of Avonmore, or the foundling of the beach, a novel. d. White horse yard, Drury lane, London 3 Feb. 1858. J. O’Neill’s Blessings of Temperance (1851), memoir pp. i–vi, portrait; W. E. Winks’s Lives of illustrious shoemakers (1883) 316–9; D. J. O’Donoghue’s Poets of Ireland, part iii, p. 195 (1893); S. Couling’s History of the temperance movement (1862) 338–9.

O’NEILL, JOHN. b. about 1837; employed in the war office; retired on a pension of £350 in 1879; accountant general in Cyprus, where he had to reduce eleven different currencies to a common denomination; made a special study of Japanese, and compiled a grammar which was adopted by the Mikado; contributed to philological and literary journals in London and Paris; an authority on the Provençal language and literature; author of A first Japanese book for English students 1874; The night of the Gods, an inquiry into cosmic and cosmogonic mythology 1893. d. Selling, near Faversham 12 Jany. 1895.

O’NEILL, JOHN ROBERT (only son of Robert O’Neill of Talylyn, co. Brecon, who was brother of lady Becher). b. Ireland 1823; matric. from Magdalen hall, Oxf. 5 Dec. 1844; appeared on the stage at Exeter; a reader and lecturer; author of the plays, Don Roderick; The Loose fish; Mrs. Johnson; Ali Baba, or a night with the 40 thieves, extravaganza performed by the marionettes at the St. James’ theatre, London 27 Dec. 1852; An optical delusion, a farce, St. James’ theatre; under the name of Hugo Vamp, esq. he wrote the dramas Aladdin; The Arcadian brothers; Poll Practice; Roscius in spirits; The manager at home; composer (as Hugo Vamp) of Alonzo the brave 1856; Lord Ronald the bold, duke of Putney 1861; Mazeppa, the cream of Tartars 1869; King Leah, a comic scena 1872; Othello, a comic scena 1872. d. 39 Paulton square, Chelsea 12 June 1860. W. Donaldson’s Recollections of an actor (1865) 309–21; The Era 24 June 1860 p. 11.

ONSLOW, GEORGES (son of Edward Onslow). b. Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne 27 July 1784; pupil of Hullmandel, Dussek, and J. B. Cramer in England; studied music in Vienna two years; pupil of Reicha in Paris 1808; composed 3 operas, produced at the Théatre Feydeau, Paris, L’Alcalde de la Vega 10 Aug. 1824, Le Colporteur 22 Nov. 1827, and Le Duc de Guise 8 Sept. 1837; one of the first honorary members of the Philharmonic society, London 1832; nine of his symphonies were played at the Conservatoire concerts in Paris 1831, &c.; member of the French Institute Nov. 1842; published at Paris, Vienna and Leipsic 34 quintets, 36 quartets and 6 trios for piano, violin, and violincello 1824–50; printed in London An air for the pianoforte 1828. d. Clermont-Ferrand 3 Oct. 1853. F. Halevy’s Souvenirs et portraits, Paris (1861) 161–86; Georges Onslow, Esquisse par, Auguste Gathy.

ONSLOW, GUILDFORD JAMES HILLIER MAINWARING-ELLERKER (2 son of succeeding). b. Bulstrode st. London 29 March 1814; educ. Eton; lieut. Scots fusilier guards; M.P. Guildford 1858–74; assumed by R.L. additional names of Mainwaring-Ellerker 19 Aug. 1861; a friend of sir Roger Tichborne from 1847; a firm believer in the Tichborne claimant 1867, to whom he gave continuous support, assisted him with money and was a holder of Tichborne bonds, a believer in Tichborne to his death; the claimant in June 1895 admitted that he was Arthur Orton and not sir Roger Tichborne; author of Tichborne, Reasons why he should have the benefit of the doubt 1874; Two hundred facts proving the claimant to be Roger Tichborne, in De Morgan’s Popular series, No. 2, 1876. d. The Grove, Ropley, Alresford 20 Aug. 1882. bur. Old Alresford churchyard 24 Aug.

ONSLOW, THOMAS CRANLEY (2 son of 2 earl of Onslow 1754–1827). b. 7 Oct. 1778; educ. Harrow; ensign 3 foot guards 29 April 1795, captain 26 Sept. 1805, sold out 1812; colonel 2 Surrey militia to 1852; M.P. Guildford 1806–18. d. Upton house, Alresford 7 July 1861.

ONSLOW, WILLIAM. Cornet 11 dragoons 12 Dec. 1798, lieut. 26 Feb. 1801; captain 4 dragoons 29 Jany. 1805, major 23 Nov. 1820; major 88 foot 15 Feb. 1827, placed on h.p. 2 July 1829; major 55 foot 7 Feb. 1840, sold out same day; K.H. 1832.

NOTE.—He is in Burke’s and Dod’s Peerages 1887, but probably died some years before this date.

ONWHYN, JOSEPH. b. 1787; bookseller 3 Catherine st. Strand, London; published Onwhyn’s Guide to the Highlands of Scotland 1839; Onwhyn’s Welsh tourist 1840, 2 ed. 1853; Onwhyn’s Pocket guide to the Lakes 1841; and The Owl, a Wednesday journal of politics and society. First issue numbered 1001 27 April 1864, last issue 1095 22 July 1868, a satirical journal treating chiefly on political subjects. d. New Hillingdon, Cowley, Uxbridge, Middlesex 27 Nov. 1870.

ONWHYN, THOMAS (youngest son of the preceding). b. London 1811; designer and engraver; in Additional illustrations to the Pickwick Papers by Samuel Weller, issued in 8 monthly parts, Lond. E. Grattan 1837, he executed 21 of the 32 plates, some of which bear his initials; and in Illustrations to Nicholas Nickleby by Peter Palette, esq., issued in 9 parts, Lond. E. Grattan 1839, he executed all the 40 plates, this work was reprinted in 1848, another set of illustrations to the same work by Onwhyn appeared in 1893; he illustrated The memoirs of David Dreamy 1839; Charles Selby’s Maxims and specimens of William Muggins 1841; M. J. E. Sue’s The mysteries of Paris 1844; Etiquette illustrated by an X M.P. 1849; he illustrated the following works by Henry Cockton, Valentine Vox, the Ventriloquist 1840; George St. George Julian, the Prince 1842; Sylvester Sound, the Somnambulist 1844; The Love Match 1845; The Steward 1850; The Sisters 1851; Lady Felicia 1851; Percy Effingham 1853; under the name of Peter Palette he wrote Mr. and Mrs. Brown’s Visit to the Exhibition 1851; Peter Palette’s Tales and Pictures, 1856, second series 1856; with J. Onwhyn he produced Costumes of the times of George iii, designed for her majesty’s state ball 1845; his 12 pictures entitled Cupid and crinoline, dated 20 Oct. 1858, were reprinted in The Picture Magazine June 1893, pp. 326–7. d. 9 May’s buildings, Strand, St. Martin in the Fields, London 21 Jany. 1886, his son Thomas Onwhyn present at his death. Jas. Cook’s Bibliography of C. Dickens (1879) 12, 17, 83, 85.

OPIE, AMELIA (only child of James Alderson of Norwich, physician, d. Oct. 1825). b. Calvert st. Norwich 12 Nov. 1769; took charge of her father’s house on her mother’s death 31 Dec. 1784; wrote a tragedy entitled Adelaide about 1787; author of The dangers of coquetry 2 vols. 1790, anon.; m. at Marylebone church 8 May 1798 John Opie, the Cornish painter, who d. April 1807, aged 46; received into the Society of Friends 11 Aug. 1825; author of The father and daughter 1801, 4 ed. 1804; Poems 1802, 6 ed. 1811; Adelaide Mowbray or the mother and daughter, 3 vols. 1804, new ed. 1844; Simple Tales 1806, 4 ed. 1815; The warrior’s return and other poems 1808; Temper or domestic scenes, 3 vols. 1812; Tales of real life, 3 vols. 1813, 3 ed. 1816; Valentine’s Eve, 3 vols. 1816; New tales, 4 vols. 1818; Tales of the heart, 4 vols. 1820; Madeline, 2 vols. 1822; Illustrations of lying in all its branches, 2 vols. 1825; Detraction displayed 1828; Lays for the dead 1834, 2 ed. 1840; a collected edition of her Miscellaneous tales was published in 12 vols. 1845–7. d. Castle Meadow, Norwich 2 Dec. 1853. bur. in the Friends’ burying-ground, Gildencroft, Norwich 9 Dec. C. L. Brightwell’s Memorials of life of A. Opie (1854) portrait; C. J. Hamilton’s Women writers, 2 series (1893) 175–90 portrait; Biographical catalogue of lives of friends (1888) 473–80; A book of memories by S. C. Hall (1877) 167–80; J. C. Jeaffreson’s Novels and novelists ii 15–30 (1858); J. Kavanagh’s English women of letters ii 237–84 (1863); H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches (1876) 329–36; A book of sibyls by Miss Thackeray (Mrs. R. Ritchie 1883) pp. 149–96; Cornhill magazine Oct. 1883 pp. 357–82.

ORANGE, JAMES. b. 1799; minister of the Gospel, formerly resident at Castle terrace, Nottingham; edited Narrative of the late George Vason, missionary in the ship Duff, with An essay on the South Seas, Derby 1840; author of The ecclesiastical and civil history of the town and people of Nottingham, 2 vols. 1840; Synoptica Hebræa, Anglo-Hebrew Bible expositor, a manual of self instruction, London 1858; a teacher of Hebrew at 471 Mile end road, London 1866 to death. d. 471 Mile end road, London 6 Jany. 1878. Christian World 25 Jany. 1878 p. 72.

ORANMORE, DOMINICK BROWNE, 1 Baron (2 son of Dominick Geoffrey Browne, governor of Mayo 1755–1826). b. Sackville st. Dublin 28 May 1787; educ. Eton, Edinburgh, and St. John’s coll. Camb.; M.P. Mayo 1814–36; P.C. Ireland 1834; lord lieutenant of Mayo 1834–42; cr. baron Oranmore and Browne of Carra Browne castle, Oranmore, co. Galway and of Castle Mac Garrett, co. Mayo 4 May 1836. d. Brighton 30 Jany. 1860. G.M. viii 296 (1860).

ORCZY, BODOG, Baron. b. Hungary 1835; composer of II rinnegato, opera in 3 acts, Hungarian libretto by Farkas Deak, Italian adaptation by S. C. Marchesi, English adaptation by Frederick Corder, London 1881. d. 23 Wimpole st. London 20 Jany. 1892.

ORD, SIR HARRY ST. GEORGE (eld. son of Harry Gough Ord, captain R.A.). b. North Cray, Kent 17 June 1819; 2 lieut. R.E. 14 Dec. 1837; adjutant of the R.E. at Chatham 1 Jany. 1852 to July 1854; brigade major of the R.E. in the Baltic July 1854; lieut. col. R.E. 28 Nov. 1859, retired with hon. rank of M.G. 16 April 1869; lieutenant governor of Dominica 2 Sept. 1857; governor of the Bermudas 16 Feb. 1861 to Nov. 1866; governor of the Straits Settlements 5 Feb. 1867 to Nov. 1873; governor of Western Australia 12 Nov. 1877, retired on a pension 6 April 1880; C.B. 9 Oct. 1865; knighted by patent 19 Aug. 1867; K.C.M.G. 30 May 1877, G.C.M.G. 24 May 1881. d. Homburg 20 Aug. 1885. bur. in churchyard of Fornham, St. Martin, near Bury St. Edmunds, portrait in chamber of legislative council, Bermuda.

ORD, JOHN WALKER (son of Richard Ord of Guisborough, Yorkshire, tanner). b. Guisborough 5 March 1811; educ. univ. of Edinb.; apprenticed to Robert Knox the anatomist; founded in London 1834 the Metropolitan literary journal, which was merged in the Britannia; author of England, a historical poem, 2 vols. 1834–5; Remarks on the sympathetic condition existing between the body and the mind, especially during disease 1836; The Bard and minor poems 1841; Rural sketches and poems chiefly relating to Cleveland 1845; The history and antiquities of Cleveland 1846; edited Roseberry Topping, a poem by Thomas Pierson, Stockton 1847. d. Guisborough 29 Aug. 1853. J. W. Ord’s History and antiquities of Cleveland (1846) portrait.

ORD, WILLIAM REDMAN. b. about 1792; second lieut. R.E. 25 April 1809, colonel 17 Feb. 1854, col. commandant 20 April 1861 to death; general 1 Jany. 1868. d. Stoke Damarel, Devonport 11 April 1872.

ORDISH, ROWLAND MASON (son of John Ordish, land agent and surveyor). b. Melbourne, near Derby 11 April 1824; employed by R. E. Brounger, civil engineer, London 1847, afterwards by Charles Fox; made the working drawings for the iron work of the Great Exhibition building 1851, and was engaged on the re-erection of the building at Sydenham 1852–4; chief draughtsman in the works’ department of the admiralty at Somerset house Jany. 1856 to March 1858; engineer at 18 Great George st. Westminster 1858; partner with W. H. Le Feuvre; took out a patent April 1858 for an improvement in suspension bridges, which is known as Ordish’s straight chain suspension system; designed the Franz-Joseph bridge over the Moldau at Prague 1868, and the Albert bridge over the Thames at Chelsea, opened Sept. 1873, both constructed on this principle; designed the roof of the Dutch-Rhenish railway station at Amsterdam 1863, roof of the Dublin winter palace 1865, winter garden for Leeds infirmary 1868, and the railway station at Cape Town; designed with J. W. Grover the roof of the Albert Hall at South Kensington 1870; member of the Society of Engineers 1857, president 1860. d. Stratford place, Camden Town, London 12 Sept. 1886. bur. Highgate cemet.

O’REARDON, JOHN. b. 1776; educ. Maynooth 1797; a physician 1802; studied in Paris 1803; a prisoner in France to 1814; physician to fever hospital, Cork st. Dublin 1814–48, wrote the annual reports for 1824, 1827, 1830 and 1833; physician to Daniell O’Connell; author of De ictero 1802; A memoir of Richard Kirwan, the chemist. d. Mount Prospect, Killarney 14 March 1866. Medical Times 31 March 1866 p. 353.

O’REGAN, ANTHONY. b. Kiltullagh, Ireland 1809; a priest in Tuam cathedral; professor and then president of St. Jarlath’s coll. Tuam; went to U.S. of America; vicar-general of diocese of St. Louis; president of the college of Carondelet and professor of theology and sacred scriptures; bishop of Chicago 1854, resigned 1858 and was transferred to the titular see of Dora; resided in Europe 1858 to death. d. Michael’s grove, Brompton, London 13 Nov. 1866. bur. Cloonfad, co. Galway, 22 Nov. The Tablet 17 Nov. 1866 p. 721, 1 Dec. p. 764.

O’REILLY, BERNARD. b. co. Longford 1803; embarked for U.S. of America 17 Jany. 1825; educ. Ecclesiastical seminary, Montreal 1825, and at St. Mary’s coll. Baltimore; ordained in New York 13 Oct. 1831; a priest at St. James’ ch. Brooklyn from 1831; devoted himself to the sick during the cholera of 1832; pastor of St. Patrick’s ch. Rochester Dec. 1832; vicar-general of the new see of Buffalo Oct, 1847; consecrated bishop of Hartford in St. Patrick’s ch. 1850; introduced Sisters of mercy to the states of Rhode Island and Connecticut, and protected them against a mob in 1855; went to Europe 5 Dec. 1855; embarked at Liverpool on board the steamer Pacific on his return to his diocese 23 Jany. 1856, but the ship was never again heard of, requiem masses said for him in June 1856. R. H. Clarke’s Lives of bishops of catholic church in United States ii 391–407 (1872).

O’REILLY, BERNARD (son of a farmer). b. Ballybeg, co. Meath 10 Jany. or June 1824; educ. at St. Cuthbert’s college, Ushaw, Durham 10 June 1836 to 17 May 1847; received tonsure and 4 minor orders 15 Feb. 1845, sub-deacon 20 Sept. 1845, deacon 19 Dec. 1846, priest 9 May 1847; assistant priest of mission at St. Patrick’s, Toxteth park, Liverpool 18 May 1847 to 8 Dec. 1852; removed to new mission of St. Vincent de Paul 8 Dec. 1852, erected a new church 1857; canon of chapter of Liverpool 24 Dec. 1862 and vicar-general; bishop of Liverpool 28 Feb. 1873 to death; consecrated at St. Vincent’s, Liverpool 19 March 1873. d. St. Edward’s coll. Everton 9 April 1894. bur. Upholland cemet. Wigan 13 April. Brady’s Episcopal succession iii 423 (1877).

O’REILLY, DOWELL (4 son of Matthew O’Reilly of Knock Abbey castle, co. Louth, d. Jany. 1817). b. May 1795; called to Irish bar; barrister L.I. 17 April 1832; attorney general of Jamaica 1831–55; nominated president of legislative council there June 1855, but he died before being inaugurated. d. St. Andrews, Kingston, Jamaica 13 Sept. 1855. bur. in R.C. cemet. Kingston 14 Sept. G.M. xliv 651 (1855).

O’REILLY, EDMUND JOSEPH. b. London 30 April 1811; studied at Maynooth and the Irish college at Rome 1830, doctor in sacred theology 1835; professor of theology at Maynooth college 1838–50; member of the Society of Jesus 1852; teacher of theology at the Jesuits’ college of St. Beuno, near St. Asaph 1852–8; teacher of divinity in the catholic univ. of Ireland 1858–9; superior of the Jesuits’ house of retreat at Milltown Park, Dublin 1859 to death; Irish provincial of Society of Jesus 1863–70. d. Milltown Park 10 Nov. 1878. bur. Glasnevin cemet. Dublin. E. J. O’Reilly’s The relations of the church to society (1892) memoir pp. i–viii; Irish Monthly vi 695–700 (1878).

O’REILLY, JOHN BOYLE (2 son of Wm. David O’Reilly, master of the national school attached to the Netterville institution at Dowth Castle, near Drogheda 35 years, d. 17 Feb. 1871). b. Dowth Castle 28 June 1844; a compositor on the Guardian newspaper at Preston 1859, reporter on the paper to March 1863; a trooper in the 10 hussars May 1863, arrested at Island Bridge barracks, Dublin 13 Feb. 1866, tried by court martial at the royal barracks, Dublin 27 June 1866 for having in Dublin in January 1866 come to the knowledge of an intended mutiny in her majesty’s forces in Ireland and not giving information to his commanding officer, ordered to be shot 9 July, but eventually sentenced to 20 years penal servitude, sent to Western Australia Oct. 1867, escaped on an American whaler April 1869; editor and part proprietor of the Pilot newspaper in Boston 1870; took part in the Fenian invasion of Canada June 1870; organised the rescue of all the military political prisoners from Western Australia April 1876; wrote odes to commemorate many national celebrations; author of Songs from the Southern seas, Boston 1873; Songs, legends, and ballads, Boston 1878; The statues in the block and other poems 1881; Ethics of boxing and manly sports 1888; In Bohemia, poems 1886; Moondyne, a story 1889; edited The poetry and songs of Ireland 1889; author with Robert Grant, F. J. Stimson, and J. T. Wheelwright of The king’s man, a tale of tomorrow 1884, a satirical novel. d. Winthrop st. Boston 10 Aug. 1890. bur. Holyhood cemetery, Brookline, Massachusetts 12 Aug. J. J. Roche’s Life of J. B. O’Reilly (1891) portrait; Cosmopolitan ix 768 (1890) portrait; Irish Monthly xiii 19 (1885).

O’REILLY, MONTAGU FREDERICK. b. 1822; entered R.N. Feb. 1835, lieut. 12 Dec. 1845, capt. 23 June 1862, retired 1 April 1870, R.A. 9 March 1878; served in the Chinese war 1841; first lieut. of Retribution in Black sea during Russian war, wounded at Odessa 22 April 1854, present at attack on Sebastopol 17 Oct. 1854, Crimean medal, two Turkish medals and the medal of the Medjidié fifth class; author of Twelve views in the Black sea and the Bosphorus, with letterpress 1856, the original sketches are at Windsor Castle. d. Suffolk st. Pall Mall, London 20 May 1888.

O’REILLY, MYLES WILLIAM PATRICK (only son of Wm. O’Reilly of Knock abbey, co. Louth 1792–1844). b. Dublin 13 March 1825; educ. St. Cuthbert’s college, Ushaw, Durham; B.A. London 1845, LL.D. Rome 1847; sheriff of co. Louth 1848; captain Louth rifles militia; major in service of Pius IX, commanded the Irish brigade, defended Spoleto against the Piedmontese troops Sept. 1860, but was obliged to surrender; M.P. co. Longford March 1862 to April 1879; assistant comr. of intermediate education in Ireland April 1879 to death; author of Progress of catholicity in Ireland in the nineteenth century 1865; Memorials of those who suffered for the Catholic faith in Ireland 1868, reprinted under the title of Lives of the Irish martyrs and confessors, New York 1878. d. Dublin 6 Feb. 1880. bur. Philipstown near Knock Abbey.

ORFORD, HORATIO WALPOLE, 3 Earl of (eld. son of 2 earl of Oxford 1752–1822). b. Whitehall, London 14 June 1783; styled lord Walpole 1809–22; M.P. for King’s Lynn 1809–22; a lord of the admiralty 12 June 1811; secretary of embassy at St. Petersburgh 5 July 1812 to 5 April 1825 when pensioned, minister ad interim 1814–5; a comr. for the affairs of India 17 June 1818 to 17 Feb. 1822; succeeded to the peerage 15 June 1822; colonel West Norfolk militia 26 June 1822; high steward of Great Yarmouth 1833–6. d. Wolterton park, Aylsham, Norfolk 29 Dec. 1858.

ORFORD, HORATIO WALPOLE, 4 Earl of (eld. child of preceding). b. Bolton row, Piccadilly, London 18 April 1813; styled lord Walpole 1822–58; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.; M.P. for East Norfolk 1835–7; succeeded to the peerage 29 Dec. 1858. d. 6 Cavendish sq. London 6 Dec. 1894.

O’RIORDAN, DANIELL O’CONNELL. Called to Irish bar 1849; Q.C. 28 Feb. 1880. d. 13 Aug. 1890.

ORKNEY, GEORGE WILLIAM HAMILTON FITZMAURICE, 6 Earl of (1 son of 5 earl of Orkney 1803–77). b. 6 May 1827; known as viscount Kirkwall 1831–77; ensign 92 foot 8 Aug. 1845; capt. 71 foot 23 Dec. 1853; lieut. Scots fusilier guards 25 Jany. 1856, sold out 25 Sept. 1857; served at siege of Sebastopol and capture of Kertch, medal and clasp and Turkish medal; aide-de-camp to sir Henry Wood in Ionian islands 1851–4; C.M.G. 1866, K.C.M.G. 28 May 1875; succeeded 16 May 1877; a representative peer for Scotland 19 Feb. 1885 to death; author of Four years in the Ionian islands 1864. d. 26 Sussex place, Regent’s park, London 21 Oct. 1889.

ORLEANS, HELENE LOUISE ELISABETH, Duchess of (youngest dau. of Frederic Louis, grand duke of Mecklenburgh Schwerin, d. 1816). b. Ludwigslust castle 24 Jany. 1814; m. at palace of Fontainebleau, France 30 May 1837 Ferdinand, duke of Orleans, prince royal of France, eld. son of Louis Philippe, king of the French, the duke was killed by a fall from his carriage 13 July 1842; she escaped to Belgium at outbreak of French revolution Feb. 1848; resided chiefly in Germany 1848–57, but was very frequently in England; lived at Cambourne house, Mr. William Paynter’s villa, Richmond, Surrey 1857–8. d. Cambourne house, Richmond 18 May 1858. H. Castille’s Portraits politiques, La duchess d’Orleans (1856); The duchess of Orleans, a translation by Mrs. Austin (1859); I.L.N. 23 July 1842 pp. 168–9, 29 May 1858 p. 544 portrait; G.M. June 1858 p. 668.

ORLEBAR, JOHN (3 son of Richard Orlebar of Hinwick house, Bedfordshire 1775–1833). b. Hinwick house 19 Oct. 1810; entered navy 16 March 1824; captain 1 Jany. 1861, retired 1 Oct. 1864; admiralty surveyor in British North America 30 years; retired admiral 15 July 1887. d. 91 Pevensey road, St. Leonards-on-Sea 11 May 1891. An account of families of Boase (1893) 112.

ORMATHWAITE, JOHN BENN-WALSH, 1 Baron (only son of sir John Benn-Walsh, 1 baronet 1759–1825). b. Warfield park, Bracknell, Berks. 9 Dec. 1798; educ. Eton; matric. from Christ Church, Oxf. 3 Dec. 1816; sheriff of Berkshire 1823; succeeded as 2 bart. 7 June 1825; M.P. Sudbury 1830–4, and 1838–40; contested Radnorshire 19 Jany. 1835; contested Poole 25 July 1837; M.P. Radnorshire 1840–68; lord lieutenant of Radnorshire 11 Aug. 1842, resigned 1875; cr. baron Ormathwaite of Ormathwaite, Cumberland 16 April 1868; author of Poor laws in Ireland in their effect upon the capital, the prosperity, and the improvement of that country 1830, 3 ed. 1831; Popular opinion on parliamentary reform, 4 ed. 1831; Observation on the ministerial plan of reform 1831; On the present balance of parties in the state, 3 ed. 1832; Chapters of contemporary history 1836; The practical result of the reform act 1860; Astronomy and geology compared 1872; Lessons of the French revolution 1873. d. Warfield park 3 Feb. 1881.

ORME, COSMO. b. Scotland 1780; apprenticed to James Fairbairn, bookseller, Edinburgh; clerk in house of Longman and Rees, London; partner in house of Longman, Rees, Hurst, and Orme 1803, retired June 1841; the first president of the Booksellers’ provident institution 15 Feb. 1837. d. Tunbridge Wells 12 Aug. 1859. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 19 Aug., will proved 26 Aug. personalty sworn under £200,000. Bookseller Aug. 1859 p. 1169; G.M. vii 312 (1859).

ORME, HENRY ROBERT. b. Old Ford, near Bow, London May 1826; pugilist 5 feet 8 inches in height and 11 stone 8 pounds in weight; beat Aaron Jones at Frimley Green, Surrey in 40 rounds lasting 2 hours and 45 minutes 18 Dec. 1849; beat Nat Langham, £50 a side, at Lower Hope point on the Thames in 117 rounds lasting nearly 3 hours 6 May 1851; fought Aaron Jones again, £100 a side, 23 rounds in 33 minutes, an undecided contest 10 May 1852; fought Harry Broome, the champion, near Brandon near Thetford 18 April 1853, £250 a side, when Broome won after 31 rounds in 2 hours and 18 minutes, this was the best fight for the championship ever seen; landlord of the Jane Shore public house 103 Shoreditch, London 1854 to death. d. 103 Shoreditch, London 9 June 1864. bur. Abney park cemetery 14 June. H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica iii 253–70, 330–8 (1880) portrait; F. W. J. Henning’s Recollections of the prize ring (1888) 160–7; Fights for the championship, by the editor of Bell’s Life (1860) 244–55, 405; Illust. sporting news iii 196, 203 (1864) portrait.

NOTE.—He was the only man who ever beat Nat Langham, and Langham was the only man who defeated Tom Sayers.

ORMEROD, EDWARD LATHAM (6 son of the succeeding). b. London 27 Aug. 1819; educ. Laleham and at Rugby to 1838; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1838–41; entered Gonville and Caius coll. Camb. Oct. 1841, gained a classical scholarship and scholarships in anatomy and chemistry; M.B. 1846, M.D. 1851; demonstrator of morbid anatomy at St. Bartholomew’s 1844–7; physician at Brighton 1847 to death; physician to the Sussex county hospital 1853, where he greatly improved the library and museum; F.R.S. 6 June 1872; author of Clinical observations on continued fever 1848; British social wasps, their anatomy and physiology, architecture and natural history 1868. d. 14 Old Steyne, Brighton 18 March 1873. St. Bartholomew’s Hospital reports vol. ix, pp. vii–xxi (1873); J. F. Clarke’s Autobiographical recollections of the medical profession (1874) 503–6.

ORMEROD, GEORGE (only child of George Ormerod of Bury, Lancs.) b. High st. Manchester 20 Oct. 1785; educ. King’s school, Chester and Brasenose coll. Oxf., hon. M.A. 1807, D.C.L. 1818; purchased Sedbury park near Chepstow, resided there to his death; F.S.A. 16 Feb. 1809; F.R.S. 25 Feb. 1819; F.G.S.; author of The history of the county palatinate and city of Chester, with a republication of King’s Vale Royal and Leycester’s Cheshire antiquities, 3 vols. 1819, 2 ed. by Thomas Helsby, 3 vols. 1875–82; Miscellanea Palatina, genealogical essays illustrative of Cheshire and Lancashire families 1851–6; Parentalia, genealogical memoirs, four parts 1851–6. d. Sedbury park, Gloucs. 9 Oct. 1873. G. Ormerod’s History of Chester, 2 ed. vol. 1 (1875) portrait; I.L.N. lxiii 575 (1873).

ORMEROD, GEORGE WAREING (2 son of the preceding). b. Tyldesley, Lancs. 12 Oct. 1810; educ. Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; solicitor at Manchester 1836–55, at Chagford, Devon 1855–69, then at Teignmouth, Devon 1869 to death; F.G.S. 1833; an original member of the Devonshire Association 1874; wrote 9 papers on geological subjects in Quarterly journal of the Geological society, and about 14 papers on same subject in other journals; compiled and printed A classified index to the transactions, proceedings and quarterly journal of the Geological society 1858; Annals of the Teignmouth cricket club 1888. d. Woodway, Teignmouth 6 Jany. 1891. Athenæum 10 Jany. 1891 p. 56; Academy xxxix 43 (1891).

ORMEROD, THOMAS JOHNSON (brother of the preceding). b. 27 July 1809; educ. Brasenose coll. Oxf., fellow 1831–8, Hebrew lecturer 1832, junior bursar 1833, divinity lecturer 1836; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833; a student of the Inner Temple 1830; examining chaplain to bishop of Norwich 1840–57; select preacher in univ. of Oxf. 1845; archdeacon of Suffolk 12 Jany. 1846 to 1868; R. of Framlingham Pigot, Norfolk 1844–5; R. of Redenhall with Harleston and Wortwell, Norfolk 1847 to death; author of Outlines of the history of theology 1844, with charges, lectures, and sermons. d. Sedbury park, near Chepstow 2 Dec. 1874, his library was sold at Sotheby’s Aug. 1875 for £2,200. I.L.N. lxv 571 (1874).

ORMEROD, WILLIAM PIERS (brother of the preceding). b. Welbeck st. London 14 May 1818; educ. Laleham and Rugby; went to St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1835, house surgeon 1840–1, demonstrator of anatomy 1843–4; M.R.C.S. 17 July 1840, F.R.C.S. 11 Dec. 1845; practised at Oxford 1846, retired from ill-health Dec 1848; resided at Canterbury 1850 to death; author of Clinical collections and observations in surgery 1846; Questions in anatomy for the use of the students in St. Bartholomew’s hospital; A few plain words about the cholera 1848; fell in an epileptic fit and fractured the base of his skull, d. Canterbury 10 June 1860. bur. St. Martin’s, Canterbury. St. Bartholomew’s hospital reports, vol. ix, pp. vii–xxi (1873).

ORMISTON, THOMAS. b. Edinburgh 28 July 1826; worked as a builder with his father and uncle; an engineer working on the Clyde 1846–64; erected the Needles Rock lighthouse 1856–7; chief engineer to Elphinstone land and press company of Bombay 1864–73, reclaimed 328 acres of land from the sea; chief engineer of Bombay port trust 1873–77; constructed the Bombay wet dock 1875–80; fellow of univ. of Bombay; dean of faculty of engineering there 1879; M.I.C.E. 28 May 1861; C.I.E. 1 Jany. 1880. d. Freshwater, Isle of Wight 9 July 1882. Minutes of proc. of instit. of C.E. lxxi 409–15 (1883).

ORMOND, FRANCIS (son of capt. Ormond of the mercantile marine). b. Aberdeen 23 Nov. 1829; educ. Liverpool; a squatter in Victoria, Australia, made a fortune; gave £40,000 for building the Presbyterian coll. Melbourne 1877–87; contributed to the Working men’s coll. 1887 and was the first president; founded Ormond coll. Melbourne; gave £20,000 to endow a chair of music at the Melbourne univ. 1887; member of legislative council; resided Egoleen, Toorak, Melbourne. d. Pau, France 5 May 1889, left £40,000 to Ormond coll., £10,000 to Melbourne Working men’s coll., and many other gifts to institutions and charities. P. Mennell’s Australian biography (1892) 356–7; Times 11 May 1889 p. 12.

ORMONDE, JOHN BUTLER, 2 Marquess of (eld. child of James Butler, 1 marquess of Ormonde 1774–1838). b. Merrion sq. Dublin 24 Aug. 1808; educ. Harrow 1821 etc.; known as viscount Thurles 1808–38; succeeded as 2 marquess 22 May 1838; hereditary chief butler of Ireland 1838 to death; a lord in waiting to the queen Sept. 1841 to Feb. 1852 and Jany. 1853 to death; K.P. 17 Sept. 1845; author of An autumn in Sicily, an account of the remains of antiquity in that island, Dublin 1850; translated F. P. G. Guizot’s Meditations and moral sketches 1855, and A. Dumas’ Memoirs of a mâitre d’ armes 1856. d. Loftus hall, co. Wexford 25 Sept. 1854. bur. in Kilkenny cathedral 2 Oct. G.M. xlii 505 (1854); I.L.N. xxv 361 (1854).

ORMONDE, ALFRED. b. Kilkenny 19 March 1816; dramatist. d. April or May 1852. Leipsig Illustrated News 23 May 1852 portrait.

ORMSBY, ARTHUR SYDNEY (youngest son of rev. Owen Ormsby). b. Seatown house, Dundalk Feb. 1825; articled to George Halpin, engineer 1839–44; resident engineer on a portion of Midland great western line; an engineer in U.S. of America 1849–51; assistant colonial engineer Melbourne, Australia 1852; executive engineer public works department Calcutta 1858–61; experimented on the water supply to London 1861, proposing to collect the rain fall before it reached the ground, and to discriminate between the potable water and the water for ordinary purposes; constructed water works at Hillbottom, Berks.; author of A new idea for the water supply of towns 1867. d. London 24 Feb. 1887. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxix 479–81 (1887).

ORMSBY, HENRY W. (son of Henry Ormsby, R. of Kilskier, co. Meath). b. Kilskier Feb. 1812; educ. Trinity college, Dublin, B.A. 1834; called to Irish bar 1835; Q.C. 26 May 1858; bencher of King’s Inns 1874; solicitor general for Ireland 1868 and 12 March 1874; attorney general 21 Jany. to 12 Nov. 1875; P.C. Ireland Jany. 1875; judge of landed estates court 12 Nov. 1875; judge of chancery division of high court of justice in Ireland 1878–85. d. Marine terrace, Bray 17 Sept. 1887. Law Times 1 Oct. 1887 p. 386.

ORMSBY, JOHN WILLIAM. Second lieut. R.A. 6 Aug. 1828; colonel R.A. 9 Aug. 1858; M.G. 5 April 1866; lieut. governor and commandant royal military academy Woolwich 1 April 1867 to death. d. Woolwich 17 March 1869.

ORNSBY, GEORGE (eld. son of George Ornsby of the Lodge, Lanchester, Durham, d. 1823). b. Darlington, Durham 9 March 1809; educ. Durham gr. sch. 1823–7; practised as a solicitor in Durham; studied theology at Univ. coll. Durham 1839–41; C. of Newburn, Northumberland 1841–3; C. of Sedgefield, Durham 1843–4; C. of Whickham, Durham 1845–50; V. of Fishlake, South Yorkshire July 1850 to death; hon. M.A. Durham 1872; F.S.A. 29 May 1873; preb. of York 15 Feb. 1879 to death; author of Sketches of Durham 1846; York 1882 in Diocesan histories; edited for the Surtees society The works and letters of D. Granville, dean of Durham 1861–5; The correspondence of John Cosin, bishop of Durham, 2 vols. 1869–72, and Selections from the household book of lord William Howard of Naworth castle 1878. d. Fishlake vicarage 17 April 1886. Proc. of soc. of antiq. xi 376 (1886); Biograph July 1881 pp. 26–8.

ORNSBY, ROBERT (brother of preceding). b. 1820; educ. Linc. coll. Oxf.; exhibitioner 1836–43; B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843; fellow of Trin. coll. 1843–7, and lecturer in rhetoric 1844; master of the schools; C. of St. Peter-the-less, Chichester 1845–7; entered the church of Rome May 1847; helped to manage the Tablet newspaper in Dublin; professor of classical literature in the Catholic univ. Dublin Oct. 1854–82; librarian at Arundel Castle a short time; fellow of royal univ. of Ireland and examiner in Greek 1882 to death; author of The life of St. Francis de Sales 1856; Η Καινη Διαθηκη the Greek testament from cardinal Mai’s edition of the Vatican bible, with notes, Dublin 1860; Memoirs of James Robert Hope Scott, Q.C., 2 vols. 1884. d. Earlsfort terrace, Dublin 21 April 1889. E. G. K. Browne’s Tractarian Movement (1861) 145, 151.

O’RORKE, PATRICK HENRY. b. co. Cavan, Ireland 25 March 1837; taken to U.S. of America 1838; educ. Rochester, New York; a marble cutter; second lieut. of engineers in the Federal army 24 June 1861, first lieut. 3 March 1863, brevet colonel 2 July 1863; served at battle of Bull Run 21 July 1861; colonel of the 140th regiment of New York volunteers Sept. 1862, which became one of the best in the army of the Potomac; killed in the battle of Gettysburg 2 July 1863. Appleton’s American biography iv 591 (1888) portrait.

O’ROURKE, HUGH. Professor of English, rhetoric and French in royal college of St. Patrick, Maynooth 1862–85; elected bishop of Clonfert 10 Feb. 1881, but declined the charge. d. 1885.

ORPEN, SIR RICHARD JOHN THEODORE (2 son of Francis Orpen, V. of Kilgarvan, co. Kerry, d. 1805). b. Cork 6 Nov. 1788; educ. Middleton and Cork; solicitor at Dublin 1809 to death; president of Incorporated society of attorneys and solicitors of Ireland 1860 to death; one of the comrs. to inquire into practice of courts of law and equity in Ireland; knighted by duke of Abercorn 17 Jany. 1868. d. 41 George’s st. Great North, Dublin 4 May 1876. bur. Mount Jerome cemet. 8 May. I.L.N. lxviii 478 (1876); Irish Law Times x 266, 281, 300 (1876).

ORR, SIR ANDREW (eld. son of Francis Orr of Glasgow, wholesale stationer). b. Glasgow 1802; educ. univ. of Glasgow; partner in firm of S. Orr and Co., stationers, Glasgow; member of town council 1842–60; lord provost of Glasgow 1854–7; knighted at St. James’s palace 18 Feb. 1858; took an active part in procuring for Glasgow a water supply, public parks, and a gallery of arts 1857–9; chairman of Glasgow and south western railway 1849; acquired estates of Harvieston and Castle Campbell 1859, Aberdona 1860, and Sheardale 1861. d. Bridge of Allan, Perthshire 19 April 1874. Maclehose’s Glasgow Men ii 253–4 (1886) portrait.

ORR, CHARLES ALEXANDER. Second lieut. Madras engineers 9 June 1831, colonel 29 June 1863; colonel commandant 24 March 1871 to death; L.G. 20 March 1876. d. 6 Oct. 1876.

ORR, JOHN H. b. Grey Abbey, co. Down 26 Nov. 1826; ordained at Antrim 19 March 1851; D.D.; clerk of the general assembly of the Presbyterian church in Ireland 1869 to death; moderator of the general assembly 1887; sec. of the trustees of the fund of the Regium Donum; sent letters to The Times on 1 and 6 July 1892 in reply to Mr. Gladstone, giving the views of Irish Presbyterians on home rule. d. Antrim 23 Jany. 1895. Daily Graphic 22 March 1893 p. 4 portrait.

ORR, ROBERT SCOTT (son of a chemist). b. Edinburgh 1819; apprentice to sir George Newbigging; L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1840, M.R.C.S. 1866, M.D. Edinb. 1840; F.F.P.S. Glasgow 1856; medical assistant royal lunatic asylum; superintendent Glasgow royal infirmary 1843, afterwards physician; member of general medical council 1 April 1878 to death; president of Faculty of physicians and surgeons 1880–3; author of Statistical tables of the Royal infirmary of Glasgow 1845–7, 3 vols.; Historical sketch of epidemic fever in Glasgow 1848. d. 9 Albany place, Glasgow 15 May 1886. Lancet i 1001 (1886).

ORR, SUTHERLAND GEORGE GORDON. b. 1816; ensign European regiment (left wing) 23 Feb. 1836; captain 23 Madras light infantry 12 March 1846 to death; commandant 3 regt. Hyderabad cavalry 27 Jany. 1854 to death. d. at the residence of his brother-in-law Greenhill, Barnet, Herts. 19 June 1858. Mrs. C. Mackenzie’s Storms and sunshine of a soldier’s life.

ORR, WILLIAM ADAM (eld. son of Wm. Orr, d. 1816). b. 1810; educ. Addiscombe coll.; 2 lieut. Madras artillery 15 Dec. 1826, colonel 9 June 1862 to death; aide-de-camp to the queen 1862 to death; C.B. 21 March 1859; succeeded to the property of Patrick Orr of Bridgeton 1828. d. Weston super Mare 11 Sept. 1869.

ORR, WILLIAM SOMERVILLE. Publisher at 2 Amen corner, St. Paul’s churchyard, London 1837–59; the London publisher of W. & R. Chambers’ works 1850; published Orr’s Circle of the Sciences, 9 vols. 1854–6; A primary atlas of ancient and modern geography 1855; in the employment of Chapman and Hall, publishers, London, at time of his death. d. 129 Blenheim crescent, Notting Hill, London 6 Jany. 1873. The Publishers’ circular 1 Feb. 1873 p. 72.

ORRIDGE, BENJAMIN BROGDEN. b. 1814; a medical agent and valuer at 30 Bucklersbury, London; common councilman for ward of Cheap 1863–9; chairman of the library committee of city of London; F.G.S.; member of London and Middlesex archæological society to 1870; author of A letter on eminent Londoners and civic records 1866; Some account of the citizens of London and their rulers from 1060 to 1867, 1867; Some particulars of alderman Philip Malpas and alderman sir Thomas Cooke, K.B. 1868; Illustrations of Jack Cade’s rebellion from researches in the Guildhall records 1869. d. 33 St. John’s Wood park, London 17 July 1870. Trans. of London and Middlesex Archæol. Soc. iv 70–1 (1871).

ORRIDGE, ELLEN AMELIA (eld. dau. of Edward Orridge of 2 Houghton place, Ampthill square, London). b. London 1856; educ. Royal academy of music under Manuel Garcia 1875, took bronze medal 1876, silver and gold medal 1877, Parepa gold medal, second Christine Nilsson prize and certificate of the Academy 1878; had a fine contralto voice; sang in Mr. Pyatt’s autumnal tour concerts 1877 and 1878, at John Boosey’s ballad concerts 1878, and at A. and S. Gatti’s promenade concerts 1878; sang in oratorios at Birmingham and other places. d. Guernsey 16 Sept. 1883. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 21 Sept. Illust. sp. and dr. news x 265, 271 (1878) portrait.

ORROCK, HECTOR HEATLEY (2 son of James Orrock, dentist). b. Edinburgh; educ. Edinb. high sch. under Dr. Boyd; with an architect in Edinb. to 1853; architect in London 1853–4, and in Edinb. from 1854 to death; exhibited drawings at Royal Scottish academy exhibitions. d. 19 Broughton place, Edinburgh 15 Feb. 1862.

ORTON, CHARLES JAMES. b. 1817; solicitor in city of London 1843 to death; sworn attorney of the mayor’s court and clerk of enrolment in the court of hustings 1848 to death, his duties were to attend the lord mayor as legal adviser and assessor at all wardmotes where he presided, and on the election of an alderman and to enrol all deeds in the court of hustings, served under 45 lord mayors and witnessed the election of 72 aldermen; master of the Clothworkers’ company July 1883 to July 1884. d. Ferry house, River side, Twickenham 6 Feb. 1893.

ORTON, JAMES. Assistant surgeon Bombay army 26 March 1809, surgeon 17 May 1820, retired 15 Jany. 1840; member of Bombay medical board 1835, president Jany. 1838 to 15 Jany. 1840. d. 3 Oxford parade, Cheltenham 15 Feb. 1857.

ORTON, REGINALD (only son of James Orton, inspector-general of Bombay hospitals). b. Surat, near Bombay 27 Jany. 1810; educ. Richmond gr. sch. Yorkshire; apprenticed to his father in Bombay; studied at St. Thomas’s hospital, London; M.R.C.S. 1833; L.S.A. 1834; surgeon at Sunderland 1834 to 1861 or 1862; surgeon to Sunderland eye infirmary; was the means of Sunderland obtaining its system of gas lighting, water supply, &c.; one of the chief agents in obtaining the repeal of the duty on glass and windows 24 April 1845; patented in 1845 a new form of reel lifebuoy and a new lifeboat; invented an æther inhaling apparatus. d. Ford North farm, Bishopwearmouth 1 Sept. 1862. G.M. Nov. 1862 pp. 644–6.

OSBALDESTON, GEORGE (son of George Osbaldeston of Hutton-Bushell, near Scarborough, d. 1794). b. Wimpole st. London 26 Dec. 1787; educ. Eton; matric. from Brasenose coll. Oxf. 3 May 1805, where he was a cricketer; first played at Lord’s in Middlesex v. Marylebone 23 May 1808; a swift paced under hand bowler, requiring two long-stops; a famous single wicket player, after the great single wicket contest in 1818 he removed his name from Lord’s; purchased a pack of hounds from the earl of Jersey; master of the Atherstone hounds 1809–12, of the Burton hounds 1812–7, of the Quorn hounds 1817–21, 1823–8, and of the Pytchley hounds 1828–44; carrying 11 stone 2 lbs. he rode 200 miles in 8 hours and 42 minutes, having backed himself for ten hours, for a bet of 1,000 guineas at Newmarket 5 Nov. 1831; rode a steeplechase on Clasher against Richard Christian on Clinker for a bet of 1,000 guineas, which he won; fought a duel with lord George Bentinck on Wormwood Scrubs 17 April 1836; was one of the best shooters of his time; M.P. East Retford 1812–8; sheriff of Yorkshire 1829; always known as the Squire. d. 2 Grove road, St. John’s Wood, London 1 Aug. 1866. C. A. Wheeler’s Sportascrapiana (1867) 6–54; Baily’s Mag. ii 295–306 (1861) portrait; Sporting Review lvi 170–80 (1866) portrait; Day’s Reminiscences of the turf (1891) 84, 85; Kent’s Racing life of lord George Bentinck (1892) 402–8; Nimrod’s Hunting reminiscences (1843) 43–6; Wildrake’s Cracks of the day (1841) 32–5; H. R. Sargent’s Thoughts upon sport (1895); Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores i 342 (1862); Grace’s Cricket (1891) 21 portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news ix 144, 163 (1878) portrait.

OSBORN, GEORGE (son of George Osborn of Rochester, draper 1764–1836). b. Rochester 1809; Wesleyan Methodist minister at Brighton 1829–31, in London 1836–42, 1851–68, at Manchester 1842–5, 1848–51, and at Liverpool 1845–8; D.D.; a founder of the Evangelical Alliance 1845; one of the Wesleyan foreign mission secretaries 1851–68; president of the Wesleyan conference 1863 and 1881; professor of divinity at Richmond college 1868–85; a supernumerary minister 1885 to death; published The poetical works of J. and C. Wesley, collected and arranged, 13 vols. 1868; Outlines of Wesleyan bibliography, or a record of Methodist literature from the beginning 1869. d. 24 Cambrian road, Richmond, Surrey 19 April 1891. Wesleyan Methodist mag. June 1891 pp. 468–78 portrait; I.L.N. 6 Aug. 1881 pp. 124, 126 portrait, 2 May 1891 p. 563 portrait.

OSBORN, MARMADUKE CLARK (4 son of Samuel Osborn, cutler). b. Sheffield 22 Oct. 1827; educ. Richmond; Wesleyan Methodist minister at Cambridge 1850–3, at Liverpool 1859–65, 1871–4, and at London 1868–71; missionary secretary, London 1877 to death; secretary of the conference 1878–80; corrected and enlarged William Hill’s An alphabetical arrangement of Wesleyan Methodist ministers 11 ed. 1869, 12 ed. 1874, 13 ed. 1878, and 14 ed. 1882. d. of influenza at Hydropathic establishment, Baslow, Derbyshire 11 May 1891. bur. Norwood cemet. 15 May. Wesleyan Methodist Mag. July 1891 pp. 553–5; J. E. Ritchie’s Religious Life of London (1870) 227; Methodist Recorder 14 May 1891 p. 377 portrait.

OSBORN, ROBERT DURIE (son of Henry Roche Osborn, lieut. col. 13 Bengal N.I., d. 1849). b. Agra 6 Aug. 1835; ensign 26 Bengal N.I. 16 Aug. 1854, lieut. 1857; served during Indian mutiny 1857–8, and with the Bundelcund field force 1859–60; lieut. Bengal staff corps 1857, major 20 Dec. 1873, retired with hon. rank of lieut. col. 1 May 1879; captain 12 regiment of Bengal cavalry 1868–72; served through Afghan campaign of 1879; resided at 20 Winchester road, Hampstead 1879 to death; London correspondent of the Calcutta Statesman; author of Islam under the Arabs 1876; Islam under the Khalifs of Baghdad 1878, 2 ed. 1880; Lawn tennis, its players and how to play 1881, 2 ed. 1884. d. of syncope while playing lawn tennis at the Hyde Park tennis court, London 19 April 1889, portrait by J. R. Hodgson exhibited at the R.A. 1877. Academy xxxv 304 (1889); Athenæum i 538 (1889).

OSBORN, SAMUEL (brother of Marmaduke Clark Osborn 1827–91). b. Sheffield Aug. 1826; a file maker Brook hill, Sheffield 1851; a manufacturer of steel railway materials in the Wicker, Sheffield, took J. E. Fawcett into partnership; head of firm of Samuel Osborn and co., Clyde steel and iron works, Sheffield; master cutler 1873; suspended payment April 1873 with heavy liabilities, bought back the business paying a composition of 12s. in the pound, paid all his creditors in full 9 Feb. 1884, and was presented with a testimonial April 1884; mayor of Sheffield 1890; removed to the Rutland works, Sheffield 1885. d. Blackpool 7 July 1891. bur. Ecclesall 11 July. Sheffield Independent 8 July 1891 p. 5, 10 July p. 6, 13 July pp. 5–6.

OSBORN, SHERARD (eld. son of Edward Osborn, colonel Madras army). b. 25 April 1822; entered navy Sept. 1837; commanded the Pioneer steam tender in the Arctic expedition under captain Austin 1850–1; commanded the Pioneer again in the Arctic expedition under sir Edward Belcher 30 Oct. 1852, all the ships were abandoned 20 Aug. 1854; commanded the Vesuvius in the Black Sea 1855; senior officer in Sea of Azov June 1855 to end of the war; commanded the Furious in the Chinese war 1857, and the Donegal in the Gulf of Mexico during the Mexican war 1861–2; commanded the Royal Sovereign 1864; agent at Bombay to the Great Indian Peninsular railway 1865–6; managing director of the Telegraph construction and maintenance company 1867–71; R.A. 29 May 1873; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856; contested Birkenhead 18 Nov. 1868; wrote many papers in Blackwood’s Mag.; F.R.S. 2 June 1870; author of Stray leaves from an Arctic journal 1852, 2 ed. 1865; Quedah, or stray leaves from a journal in Malayan waters 1857, 2 ed. 1865; A cruise in Japanese waters 1859; The career, last voyage and fate of sir John Franklin 1860; The past and future of British relations in China 1860; Japanese fragments with facsimiles of illustrations 1860; edited The discovery of a north-west passage by captain M’Clure 1856, 3 ed. 1865. d. 33 Charles st. Berkley sq. London 6 May 1875. bur. Highgate cemet. 10 May. Geographical Mag. ii 161 (1875); Colburn’s United service mag. 1875 part 2, p. 254; I.L.N. xx 336 (1852) portrait, lxvi 475, 489, 495, 571 (1875) portrait; Graphic xi 486, 492 (1875) portrait.

OSBORNE, CATHERINE REBECCA (eld. dau. of Robert Smith, major R.E.). b. 1795; m. 4 April 1816 sir Thomas Osborne, 8 baronet, b. 1757, d. 3 June 1821. She d. Newton Anner, co. Tipperary 10 Oct. 1856. Memorial of life of Lady Osborne, edited by her daughter Mrs. Osborne 2 vols. (1870).

OSBORNE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (3 son of the organist of Limerick cathedral). b. Limerick 24 Sept. 1806; studied music at Brussels 1824–6; chapel master to the prince of Orange 1826–31; wrote with Charles A. de Bériot 33 duets for violin and pianoforte; served as a volunteer on the royalist side during Belgian revolution of 1830; resided in Paris 1831–44, and in London 1844 to death; made tours of the provinces with other musicians; a popular teacher of the piano, noted for his performances of Bach’s music; member of the Philharmonic Society and of the Musical Association and a director of the Royal academy of music; wrote Sylvia and another opera; La pluie de perles, valse brillante 1848; Classical pianoforte works 1851–2, thirty numbers; Fallen leaves, twelve short pieces 1861; The reapers, a part song 1862; The communion service 1878; his name is attached to upwards of 250 pieces of music 1834–84. d. 5 Ulster terrace, Regent’s park, London 17 Nov. 1893. Musical times Dec. 1893 and Jany. 1894.

OSBORNE, GEORGE WILLOUGHBY. b. 1808; second lieut. Madras army 6 April 1820; lieut. 19 Madras N.I. 17 July 1823, captain 25 May 1830, major 14 March 1843, lieut. col. 31 Oct. 1850 to 1855; lieut. col. of 46 N.I. 1855–7, of 31 light infantry 1857–8, of 32 N.I. 1858–60, of 48 N.I. 1860–1, and of 33 N.I. 1861 to 31 Dec. 1861; commandant Thayat Mew 22 March 1859 to 31 Dec. 1861; retired M.G. 31 Dec. 1861. d. 5 Lower Seymour st. London 21 Oct. 1880.

OSBORNE, HUGH STACEY. b. 1770; entered Bombay army 1788; lieut. 1 Oct. 1790; captain European infantry 6 March 1800, major 25 Feb. 1807 to 6 July 1811, lieut. col. 1813–15; lieut. col. 1 Bombay N.I. 1815; col. 14 N.I. 27 May 1825 to death; M.G. 10 Jany. 1837; L.G. 9 Nov. 1846; general 20 June 1854. d. Brighton 15 Sept. 1855.

OSBORNE, JOHN. b. Yorkshire; hunting groom to Mr. Taylor of Kirton; trained Ararat for Liverpool races; trained horses in the North; trained for the marquis of Westminster 1842; trained some horses which his son rode; ran Exact and Lambton at York 1852; had 40 brood mares; ran Brown Brandy. Cherry Brandy, and Lord Alford; trained for lord Zetland, lord Londesborough, and sir Charles Monk. d. Aug. 1865. bur. Coverham ch. yard. Sporting Review Sept. 1865 pp. 165–8.

OSBORNE, JOHN (son of Jeremiah Osborne of Bristol). b. 10 Oct. 1810; educ. Shrewsbury and Trin. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; barrister L.I. 16 June 1835; Q.C. 29 Nov. 1862; judge of county courts circuit S. Lancashire 26 Jany. 1871 to death. d. Bent house, near Prestwich, Lancs. 23 Nov. 1872. Law Times liv 122 (1872).

OSBORNE, JOHN WILLIAM WILLOUGHBY. b. 25 Sept. 1833; ensign Indian army 1 Jany. 1850; executive engineer Mhow division July 1855; political agent at Réwah 1857, defeated the mutineers near Réwah in nine actions 1857, and preserved Bandalkhand during the mutiny; lieut. Madras staff corps 18 Feb. 1861, lieut. col. 1 Jany. 1876 to death; hon. aide-de-camp to the governor general Feb. 1858; C.B. 18 May 1860; adviser to the Begum of Bhopal 1860; administered the Gwalier state to death, where he was in much favor with Scindhia; colonel in the army 2 April 1877; hon. A.D.C. to the viceroy of India; author of A pilgrimage to Mecca by Sikandar Begam, followed by a sketch of the reigning family of Bhopal 1870. d. Mussoree 4 Oct. 1881. Army and navy mag. iii 539–45 (1882); Kaye and Malleson’s Indian mutiny v 75–7, 134, vi 167 (1889).

OSBORNE, SIDNEY GODOLPHIN (3 son of 1 baron Godolphin 1777–1850). b. Stapleford, Cambs. 5 Feb. 1808; educ. Rugby and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1830; R. of Stoke-Pogis, Bucks. 1832–41; R. of Durweston-with-Bryanstown, Dorset 1841–75; inspected the hospitals at Scutari during the Crimean war 1855; granted the rank of a duke’s son 28 June 1859; wrote letters in the Times, all signed with the initials S. G. O. 1844–88; author of A word or two about the new poor law 1835, 8 ed. 1836; Hints to the charitable 1838; Hints for the amelioration of the moral condition of village populations 1839; Gleanings in the west of Ireland 1850; Lady Eva, her last days, a tale 1851; Scutari and its hospitals 1855. d. Lewes, Sussex 9 May 1889. Letters of S. G. O. edited by Arnold White, 2 vols. (1888) portrait; The Mask (1868) 42 portrait; I.L.N. 25 May 1889 p. 647 portrait; Punch 18 May 1889 p. 235.

OSBORNE, WILLIAM ALEXANDER (son of William Osborne of Worcester). b. Clapham, Surrey 1814; educ. St. Paul’s sch. 1824, captain of the school 1831–2; Camden exhibitioner to Trin. coll. Camb. 1832; Craven scholar 1836, senior chancellor’s medalist 1836, B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; ordained 1838; head master Macclesfield gram. sch. 1836–49; head master of Rossall sch. 1849, retired on £400 a year 1869; English chaplain Wiesbaden 1870–75; R. of Doddington, Somerset 1876–88; prebendary of Wells 1876 to death; author of The revised version of the New Testament, a critical commentary 1882; with C. Girdleston Horace with notes 1848. d. Melrose house, Hampton road, Teddington, Middlesex 4 Jany. 1891. The Little Journal i 219–21 (1884).

OSCROFT, JOHN. b. Arnold, Notts. 21 July 1807; a frame work knitter; played in Nottingham cricket matches many seasons; in Nottingham v. England match 1845 he was 3½ hours at the wicket; bowler to various clubs in England and Scotland; kept a public house at Nottingham 1854 to death. d. of dysentery Nottingham 28 Sept. 1857. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores ii 85 (1862).

OSCROFT, JOHN. b. Arnold, Notts. 24 March 1846; a frame work knitter; professional cricketer at the Old Trafford ground, Manchester 1864, at Lord’s 1865, at Bradford 1866–7; played in Gentlemen of Yorkshire v. M.C.C. at Lord’s 18 and 19 May 1865; played with the All England eleven 1868; engaged with the East Lanarkshire club at Blackburn 1870–3, and at Burnley 1874–5; a good hitter and fine medium pace bowler. d. Arnold 16 June 1885. Marylebone club cricket scores ix 25 (1877); Bell’s Life in London 17 June 1885 p. 4.

OSGOOD, JAMES RIPLEY. b. Fryeburg, Maine, U.S. of America 1836; graduated at Bowdoin college, Maine; a manager for Charles Dickens in America 1867; agent for Harper brothers, publishers at 30 Fleet st. London 1888–90; head of the firm of Osgood, Mc Ilvaine and co. publishers 45 Albemarle st. London 1890 to death; compiled Massachusetts Artists’ centennial album 1876; Osgood’s Pocket guide to Europe 1882. d. 161A Piccadilly, London 18 May 1892. J. Forster’s Charles Dickens iii 391, 395 (1874).

O’SHANASSY, SIR JOHN (son of Denis O’Shanassy, land surveyor, d. 1831). b. Henry street, Tipperary 1818; landed in Port Philip bay, Victoria 15 Nov. 1839; a draper in Melbourne 1846; a promoter of the Colonial bank 1856, chairman of the board of directors 14 years; founded the St. Patrick’s society; one of the members for Melbourne in the first legislative council of Victoria 29 Oct. 1851; leader of the opposition in the council; a member of the gold commission 1855, and of the crown land commission 1855; member for Kilmore of the first legislative assembly Sept. 1856 to 1866; premier and chief secretary 11 March to 29 April 1857, premier again 10 March 1858 to 27 Oct. 1859, and 14 Nov. 1861 to 27 June 1863; negotiated the first Victorian loan of eight millions; created knight of the order of St. Gregory the Great by pope Pius IX in 1866; member for Central province of the legislative council Feb. 1868 to 1874; member of the assembly for Belfast May 1877 to death; C.M.G. 15 Jany. 1870, K.C.M.G. 9 March 1874; author of Primary education in Victoria, speeches, Melbourne 1878. d. Tara hall, near Melbourne 8 May 1883. Irish Monthly xvii 586–90 (1889); James F. Hogan’s The Irish in Australia (1887) 13, 265–8, 271–4.

O’SHAUGNESSY, ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR. b. London 14 March 1844; a junior assistant in the British Museum library 27 June 1861, assistant in the zoological department 5 Aug. 1863 to death, prepared the part of the annual zoological record devoted to herpetology; an authority on Reptilia; author of An epic of women and other poems 1870; Lays of France 1872; Music and moonlight 1874; Songs of a worker 1881; author with his wife of Toyland 1875, a book of tales for children; m. 1873 Eleanor, dau. of Westland Marston, the dramatist, she d. 8 Feb. 1879; he d. 163 Goldborne road, Kensal Green, London 30 Jany. 1881. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 3 Feb. L. C. Moulton’s Arthur O’Shaugnessy, his life and his work (1894), memoir pp. 13–46 portrait; E. C. Stedman’s Victorian poets (1887) 284, 440; A. H. Miles’s Poets of the century viii 171–92 (1893); H. B. Forman’s Our living poets (1871) 508–12; T. H. Ward’s English poets, 2 ed. iv 629–32 (1883).

O’SHAUGHNESSY, MICHAEL. b. 1797; called to Irish bar 1828; Q.C. 16 June 1859. d. Stonehenge, Killiny, co. Dublin 28 Sept. 1884.

O’SHAUGHNESSY, SIR WILLIAM BROOKE, afterwards Sir William O’Shaughnessy Brooke (son of Daniel O’Shaughnessy of Limerick). b. Limerick Oct. 1809; educ. univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1830; entered service of the East India company 1830; assistant surgeon in Bengal 8 Aug. 1833, surgeon 1848, surgeon major 1861; professor of chemistry in the medical college, Calcutta; laid down an experimental line of telegraphs in India 1847, director-general of telegraphs in India 1852, constructed the line between Calcutta and Agra Nov. 1853 to March 1854; connected Calcutta with Agra, Bombay, and Madras 1854–5, retired 1861; F.R.S. 16 March 1843; knighted at Windsor castle 28 Nov. 1856; assumed by R.L. name of Brooke 1861; translated J. G. A. Lugol’s Essay on the effects of iodine in scrofulous diseases 1831; author of A manual of chemistry Calcutta 1841, 2 ed. 1842; The Bengal dispensatory 1842; The Bengal pharmacopæia, Calcutta 1844. d. Southsea 10 Jany. 1889. Laurie’s Distinguished Anglo-Indians, 1st series (1887) 281–2.

OSLER, EDWARD (eld. son of Edward Osler). b. Falmouth 30 Jany. 1798; educ. Guy’s hospital, London, M.R.C.S. 1818; resident house surgeon to Swansea infirmary about 1819–25; a surgeon in the navy 1825; visited the West Indies; on the staff in London and Bath of the Society for the promotion of Christian knowledge about 1836; edited at Truro the Royal Cornwall gazette 1841 to death; published with rev. W. J. Hall Psalms and hymns, adapted to the services of the church of England 1836, to which he contributed 15 versions of the psalms and 50 hymns, including the well known hymn O God unseen yet ever near; author of The voyage 1830, a poem; Life of admiral viscount Exmouth 1835, revised editions 1841 and 1854; Church and dissent considered in their practical influence 1836. d. The Parade, Truro 7 March 1863. bur. Kenwyn where is memorial window. Julyan’s Hymnology (1892) 873.

OSMENT, DAVID. b. 24 June 1775; initiated in the Lodge of benevolence, No. 459, at Sherborne Jany. 1820; J.D. and S.D., tyler for 20 years and janitor to the chapter for five years; an annuitant on the Royal masonic benevolent fund 1850 to death. d. Sherborne, Dorset 21 March 1875. I.L.N. 10 April 1875 p. 345 portrait.

OSSINGTON, JOHN EVELYN DENISON, 1 Viscount (eld. son of John Wilkinson, who took name of Denison of Ossington, Notts., M.P. Chichester, d. 6 May 1820). b. Ossington 27 Jany. 1800; educ. Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1828, hon. D.C.L. 22 June 1870; M.P. Newcastle-under-Lyne 1823–6; M.P. Hastings 1826–30; M.P. Notts. 1831–2; M.P. South Notts. 1832–7; M.P. Malton 1841–57; M.P. North Notts. 1857–72; counsel to the lord high admiral 2 May 1827 to 4 Feb. 1828; speaker of house of commons 30 April 1857 to 8 Feb. 1872, when he retired, but refused the usual pension; mainly instrumental in passing 18 and 19 Vict. c. 34, ‘1855 An act to provide for the education of children in the receipt of outdoor relief,’ which is known as Denison’s act; P.C. 6 May 1857; cr. viscount Ossington of Ossington, co. Nottingham 13 Feb. 1872. d. Ossington hall, Newark, Notts. 7 March 1873. C. Brown’s Nottinghamshire worthies (1882) 366–68 portrait; Cartoon portraits (1873) 20–21 portrait; Illust. news of the world iii 65 (1859) portrait; I.L.N. xxx 455, 456 (1857) portrait, lxii 259, 297, 355 (1873) portrait.

OSTEN, WILHELM, Baron Osten. Lieutenant first regiment of light dragoons king’s German legion 10 Nov. 1803; lieutenant 16 lancers 17 Nov. 1808; major 25 Oct. 1827, sold out 7 March 1834; K.H. 1823; a general in Hanoverian service. d. Rufford abbey, Notts. 24 Jany. 1852. G.M. xxxvii 299 (1852).

OSTREHAN, GEORGIANA AUGUSTA (dau. of rev. Joseph Ostrehan). b. 15 Jany. 1834; mother abbess of Franciscan convent of the Immaculate conception, Portobello road, Bayswater, London, under name of Mother Mary Magdalen to death. d. at the Convent 5 Jany. 1884. Peter Gallwey’s Salvage from the wreck (1890) 221–32 portrait.

O’SULLIVAN, MICHAEL. b. 3 Oct. 1823; educ. Oscott and at English coll. at Rome; matric. univ. of London; a priest in Birmingham, Brewood, and Stafford; canon of St. Chad’s cath. Birmingham; vicar general of Birmingham diocese to 1879; member of Birmingham school board Nov. 1870 to death; resided at Solihull from 1879. d. Solihull, Birmingham 12 Jany. 1892.

O’SULLIVAN, MORTIMER (2 son of a schoolmaster at Clonmel, Tipperary). b. Clonmel 1791 or 1792; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1816, M.A. 1832; second master of Tipperary endowed school and curate of parish of Tipperary about 1820; the first master of the royal school at Dungannon; chaplain of St. Stephen’s chapel, Dublin; prebendary of St. Patrick’s cathedral, Dublin 20 Dec. 1827 to 24 Aug. 1830; R. of Killyman, co. Armagh 24 Aug. 1830; gave evidence before committees of lords and commons on the state of Ireland 1825, and on Orange lodges 1835; Donellan lecturer at Trin. coll. Dublin 1851; R. of Tanderagee, near Ballymore 1853 to death; prebendary of Armagh to death; author of Captain Rock detected, or the origin and character of the recent disturbances. By A Munster farmer 1824; A guide to an Irish gentleman in his search for a religion, Dublin 1833; The case of the protestants of Ireland stated 1836; Of the apostasy predicted by St. Paul, Dublin 1842; Theory of developments in Christian doctrine 1846; The hour of the Redeemer 1853. d. Dublin 30 April 1859. bur. Chapelizod churchyard.

O’SULLIVAN, SAMUEL (brother of the preceding). b. Clonmel 13 Sept. 1790; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1814, B.A. 1818, M.A. 1825, D.D.; C. of St. Catherine’s, Dublin 1818, and chaplain of the Marshalsea, Dublin 1819; chaplain to the royal Hibernian military school in Phœnix park, Dublin 1827 to death; contributed to Blackwood’s Mag., Fraser’s Mag., and the Dublin Univ. review; author of The agency of divine providence manifested in the principal transactions connected with the history of Great Britain from the reformation to the revolution in 1688, Dublin 1816; The catechism of the united church of England and Ireland explained and confirmed, Dublin 1850. d. Royal Hibernian school, Dublin 6 Aug. 1851. bur. churchyard of Chapelizod, Dublin 9 Aug. Dublin univ. mag. Oct. 1851 pp. 504–8; Remains of rev. S. O’Sullivan, 3 vols. (1853) memoir vol. i pp. i–xlviii.

O’SULLIVAN, WILLIAM HENRY (only son of Thomas Luke O’Sullivan of Rathkeale, co. Limerick). b. 1829; merchant Kilmallock, co. Limerick; under strict police surveillance, his house at Kilmallock being the rendezvous of the Fenians down to 1867, when they resorted to arms; imprisoned in Limerick gaol some months, but never brought to trial 1867; sat as a home rule M.P. for co. Limerick 1874–85; a follower of C. Parnell for some time; chairman of Kilmallock board of guardians. d. Kilmallock 27 April 1887.

OSWALD, ALEXANDER HALDANE (son of Richard Alexander Oswald, d. 1822). b. 1811; educ. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; M.P. Ayrshire 1843–52; contested Weymouth 10 July 1852, and Ayrshire 30 Dec. 1854; inherited Aunchincruive estate near Ayr, from his uncle James Oswald, M.P. in 1853; assumed the name of Haldane. d. Aunchincruive house 6 Sept. 1868. I.L.N. 19 Sept. 1868 p. 283.

OSWELL, WILLIAM COTTON (elder son of Wm. Oswell of Shrewsbury). b. Leytonstone, Essex 27 April 1818; educ. Rugby and Haileybury; served in Madras civil service 1837–47, ordered to South Africa for his health, where he spent two years hunting and exploring; discovered Lake Ngami with Dr. Livingstone 1849, and the Zambesi 1851; the Knabaõba or straight-horned rhinoceros was named Oswellii after Oswell; returned to England 1853; served as a volunteer, in the trenches and hospitals, during war in the Crimea; carried secret service money from lord Raglan to sir Lintorn Simmons at Shumla; resided at Groombridge, Kent 1860 to death; contributed four chapters on South Africa to C. P. Woolley’s Big game shooting 1894. d. Hillside, Groombridge 1 May 1893. C. P. Woolley’s Big game shooting (1894) memoir vol. i 28–34; Macmillan’s Mag. Aug. 1894 pp. 307–12; Daily Graphic 9 May 1893 p. 14 portrait.

OSWIN, CHARLES HANNAY. A member of the Marylebone literary and scientific institution, established April 1832, where he was known as Alphabet Owen; a writer on the Dispatch 1838; a writer of verses; was residing in Harley st. London in 1842; author of Elsdale hall, or the days of Oliver Cromwell, a play in 3 acts, with the pirate’s bride and other poems 1843. The Town ii 513 (1838).

NOTE.—Elsdale hall was produced by Miss Kelly in 1842.

OTLEY, JONATHAN. b. Loughrigg, Westmoreland 11 Jany 1766; resided at Keswick; author of A concise description of the English lakes, with observations on mineralogy and geology, Keswick 1825, 6 ed. 1837, 8th ed. to which is added an excursion through Lonsdale to the caves 1849. d. Keswick 7 Dec. 1856.

OTTAWAY, CUTHBERT JOHN (only son of James Cuthbert Ottaway of Inverness terrace, Bayswater). b. Dover 20 July 1850; educ. Eton and Brasenose coll. Oxf., scholar 1869–74, B.A. 1874; in the Eton eleven 1867–69, in the Oxford eleven 1870–3, secretary of the Oxford univ. cricket club 1872, president 1873; played for the Gentlemen against the Players 1870; one of Fitzgerald’s eleven in America 1872; played for Middlesex 1872, making an average of 89 runs; the Oxford racquet and tennis champion 1870–2; played in the football team against Scotland 1872, and in the first match Oxford against Cambridge 3 Dec. 1873; barrister I.T. 1876. d. 34 Westbourne place, Harrow road, London 2 April 1878. Grace’s Cricket (1891) 350; Marylebone club cricket scores x 177 (1878).

OTTER, FRANCIS (1 son of Francis Otter of Ranby hall, Louth). b. 4 Nov. 1832; educ. Rugby and Corpus Christi coll. Oxf., scholar 1850–61, fellow 1861–75, tutor, vice-president 1871; B.A. 1854, M.A. 1856; mathematical moderator 1859, 1861, and 1869; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1867; returned as a liberal for Louth division of Lincolnshire Dec. 1885 to 1886; contested the Sleaford division of Lincolnshire Sept. 1889; an intimate friend of George Eliot. d. 37 Gordon sq., London 29 May 1895.

OTTER, HENRY CHARLES. b. 1807; entered R.N. 1822; commanded the Sparrow, the Avon, the Porcupine and the Shamrock surveying vessels 1844 etc.; capt. R.N. 8 Sept. 1854; retired R.A. 1 April 1870; compiled Scotland, North West coast, Little Minch, its lights, buoys, etc. 1859; F.R.A.S. 11 Nov. 1842; published Sailing directions for the west coast of Scotland 1867; and with W. Stanton Western Hebrides, sailing directions for the sound of Harris 1859. d. Clare park, Hants. 26 March 1876. Monthly Notices of R.A.S. xxxvii 152 (1877).

OTTER, WILLIAM BRUERE (eld. son of Wm. Otter, bishop of Chichester 1768–1840). Educated St. Peter’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1838; V. of Cowfold, Horsham 1839 to death; prebendary of Chichester cathedral 1850 to death; archdeacon of Lewes 1855 to death; author of The ornaments of ministers, Brighton 1866. d. Cowfold vicarage 25 June 1876.

OTTLEY, HENRY (son of William Young Ottley, F.A.S., 1771–1836). b. 1811; author of Remarkable sieges, from the siege of Constantinople in 1453 to that of Sebastopol 1854, 1854; Fechter’s version of Othello critically analysed 1861; A biographical and critical dictionary of painters and engravers, forming a supplement to Bryan’s Dictionary of painters 1866; On the errors of diplomacy, with reference to the treaty of Washington 1872. d. Torquay 3 Feb. 1878. Times 6 Feb. 1878 p. 1.

OTTLEY, LAWRENCE. b. 1808; educ. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; R. of Richmond, Yorkshire 1850 to death; canon of Ripon 1858 to death; proctor in convocation for Richmond; revised W. Barne’s A selection of psalms and hymns 1852; and printed some sermons. d. London 11 June 1861.

OTTON, GEORGE RALPH. b. 1825; entered the house of Simpkin, Marshall and co. publishers, Stationers’ hall court 1837, where he became the right hand man of the chief partner Mark Lockwood; a partner in the firm 1859 to death. d. 34 Highbury hill, London 24 Jany. 1878. The Bookseller 1 Feb. 1876 p. 84.

OTWAY, SIR GEORGE GRAHAM, 2 baronet (son of sir Robert Waller Otway, bart. 1772–1846). b. Westwood, near Southampton Sept. 1816; entered navy 15 July 1828; succeeded his father 13 May 1846; captain 18 May 1846; commander of Virago steam sloop in Mediterranean; admiral on h.p. 22 Jany. 1877. d. the Rione Amadeo, Naples 22 Aug. 1881.

OTWAY, JOHN HASTINGS (eld. son of rev. Cæsar Otway 1768–1842). b. Celbridge, co. Kildare 25 July 1808; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; called to Irish bar 1832; professor of law of personal property at Dublin twice; Q.C. 9 Nov. 1852; judge of Antrim county court 1858 to death; recorder of Belfast 1867 to death; author of Public opinion, a lecture 1854. d. Lisburn, co. Antrim 28 May 1884.

OTWAY, LOFTUS (only son of sir Loftus Wm. Otway, K.C.B., colonel 84 foot 1774–1854). b. Brighton 4 Sept. 1815; attached to the missions at Stockholm 1830, at St. Petersburgh 1833, and at Madrid 1834; paid attaché at Lisbon 1843, at Madrid 1845; sec. of legation at Madrid 1850 and chargé d’affaires 1852, 1854, 1855, 1856, 1857; minister plenipotentiary to Mexican republic 19 Feb. 1858 to 1 Aug. 1859; consul general at Milan 2 April 1860 to death; C.B. 21 Sept. 1854. d. Madrid 26 Sept. 1861.

OTWAY, SIR LOFTUS WILLIAM (4 son of Cooke Otway of Castle Otway, d. Dec. 1800). b. 28 April 1775; cornet 5 dragoon guards 17 May 1796; major 18 dragoons 12 Feb. 1807 to 1811, when placed on h.p; served in Ireland during rebellion 1798; saw service in Peninsular war, commanded 3 regt. of Portuguese cavalry at Albuhera; colonel 84 foot 30 Dec. 1840 to death; general 11 Nov. 1851; knight commander of Spanish order of Charles III; knighted by prince regent 15 Jany. 1815; C.B. 21 Sept. 1854. d. 13 Grosvenor square, London 7 June 1854. bur. Highgate cemet. G.M. xlii 389 (1854); Cansick’s Epitaphs at St. Pancras ii 76 (1872).

OUDIN, EUGENE (of French parentage). b. New York 1858; a member of the New York bar 1879; came to London 1886 and sang at private parties; appeared as the Templar in Sullivan’s Ivanhoe at the English opera house, London 31 Jany. 1891 with great success; a baritone; sang in Peter Tschaikowsky’s opera Eugene Onegin at the Olympic theatre on 17 Oct. 1892; translated Albert Carré’s The Basoche 1891, and P. Ferrier’s Elaine, an opera 1892; sang at concerts French songs, which he adapted to English verse; sang at Birmingham festival Oct. 1894; an expert amateur photographer; taken ill at the Richter concert at the Queen’s hall 20 Oct. 1894, carried home in an ambulance. d. 31 Linden gardens, Bayswater, London 4 Nov. 1894. bur. Brompton cemetery 8 Nov. The Times 5 Nov. 1894; Illust. sp. and dr. news 10 Nov. 1894 p. 337 portrait.

OUSELEY, SIR FREDERICK ARTHUR GORE, 2 Baronet (younger son of sir Gore Ouseley, diplomatist, 1 baronet 1770–1844). b. Grosvenor square, London 12 Aug. 1825, godson of dukes of Wellington and York; educ. privately and at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849, Mus. Bac. 1850, Mus. Doc. 1854, incorporated Mus. Doc. at Durham 1856, Cambridge 1862, and Dublin 1888; succeeded his father 1844; C. of St. Barnabas, Pimlico, London, and C. of St. Paul’s, Knightsbridge, London 1849–51; precentor of Hereford cathedral 1855; professor of music in univ. of Oxford May 1855 to death; LL.D. Camb. 1883, LL.D. Edinb. 1884; canon residentiary of Hereford cathedral 1886 to death; composed music at three years of age and opera to words by Metastasio at eight; composed two oratorios The martyrdom of St. Polycarp 1855, and Hagar 1873; bequeathed his musical library of about 5,000 vols. to the college of St. Michael, Tenbury, which he built and partially endowed, the church was consecrated and the college opened 29 Sept. 1856, when he became the first vicar and warden, he spent £64,000 on this college; edited E. Naumann’s The history of music 1882; author of A treatise on harmony, Oxford 1868, 2 ed. 1875; A treatise on counterpoint, canon, and fugue, based upon that of Cherubini, Oxford 1869, 2 ed. 1880; A treatise on musical form and general composition, Oxford, 1875; his name is attached to upwards of 150 pieces of music. d. suddenly in the Birmingham, Dudley and district bank, Hereford 6 April 1889. bur. St. Michael’s, Tenbury. F. T. Havergal’s Memorials of sir F. A. G. Ouseley (1889) portrait; J. S. Bumpus’s Compositions of sir F. A. G. Ouseley (1892); Church portrait journal, n.s. ii 17 (1881) portrait.

OUSELEY, JOSEPH WALKER JASPER. b. 1799; attached to the college of Fort William, Calcutta 1821; assistant professor of Sanscrit, Mahratta and Bengali 1824; professor of Arabic and Persian 1825, secretary of the college 1833–8; superintendent of the Mysore princes 1838–44; professor of Arabic and Persian at East India college, Haileybury, England 1844–57; an examiner in oriental languages for civil service commissioners 1862–83; colonel Bengal retired list 28 Nov. 1854. d. 10 Inverness terrace, London 29 Oct. 1889. Times 1 Nov. 1889 p. 5, 9 Nov. p. 6.

OUSELEY, THOMAS JOHN. Published and edited the Manx Punch several months; author of Poems, Douglas 1869. d. May 1874.

OUSELEY, SIR WILLIAM GORE (eld. son of sir Wm. Ouseley, orientalist 1767–1842). b. London 26 July 1797; attached to British embassy at Stockholm Nov. 1817; attaché at Washington Nov. 1825; secretary of legation at Rio de Janiero June 1832; chargè d’affaires in Brazil 20 April 1838; minister to the Argentine confederation 13 Dec. 1844; went on a special mission to Monte Video Jany. 1847; secured the evacuation of Uruguay by the Argentine troops and the withdrawal of their fleet from Monte Video; sent on a special mission to Central America 30 Oct. 1857; returned to England 1860, retired on a pension of £1,000; K.C.B. 29 June 1852, D.C.L. Oxford 20 June 1855; author of Remarks on the statistics and political institutions of the United States 1832; Notes on the slave trade 1850; A description of views in South America from original drawings made in Brazil, the river Plate, the Parana, &c. 1852. d. 31 Albemarle st. Piccadilly, London 6 March 1866. G.M. i 588–9 (1866); I.L.N. xxxi 460 (1857) portrait.

OUTRAM, SIR BENJAMIN FONSECA (son of captain Wm. Outram). b. Kilham, Yorkshire 1774; educ. United Borough hospitals, London; entered naval medical service 1794, surgeon 1796; surgeon in the Superb in the action off Cadiz 12 July 1801; surgeon to the Royal Sovereign yacht several years; studied at univ. of Edinb. 1806–9, M.D. 24 June 1809; L.C.P. London 16 April 1810, F.R.C.P. 9 July 1852; a physician at Hanover sq. London 1810–50; physician to the Welbeck st. dispensary; F.R.S. 3 May 1838; F.R.G.S.; medical inspector of fleets and hospitals 1841; K.C.B. 17 Sept. 1850; author of De feber continuâ, Edinburgh 1809; Suggestions to naval surgeons, previous to, during, and after a battle. d. Brighton 16 Feb. 1856. bur. at Clifton. Munk’s College of physicians iii 90 (1878); Quarterly journal of Geol. Soc. xiii 66–8 (1857).

OUTRAM, GEORGE (2 son of Joseph Outram 1732–1810, manager of the Clyde ironworks, near Glasgow). b. the Clyde ironworks 25 March 1805; educ. Leith high sch. and univ. of Edinb.; advocate Scottish bar 1827; edited the Glasgow Herald May 1837 to death; member of the Edinburgh angling club; author of Legal lyrics and metrical illustrations of the Scotch forms of process 1851, 2 ed. 1874, new ed. by J. H. Stoddart 1887; privately printed a collection of legal anecdotes; assisted John Wilson in his Dies Boreales, a series of articles contributed to Blackwood’s Mag. 1836–46. d. Rosemore on the Holy Loch 15 Sept. 1856. bur. Warriston cemetery, Edinburgh. George Outram’s Lyrics (1888), memoir pp. 1–26 portrait.

OUTRAM, SIR JAMES, 1 Baronet (2 son of Benjamin Outram, civil engineer 1764–1805). b. Butterley hall, Derbyshire 29 Jany. 1803; educ. Marischall coll. Aberdeen 1818–19; ensign 4 Bombay N.I. 2 May 1819; lieut. 1 grenadier N.I. 4 Aug. 1819; lieut. 23 Bombay N.I. 1824, major 1848–53; raised and commanded a corps of Bhils 1825; conducted an expedition into disturbed districts, lying between Kabul and Kandahar 1839; political agent in Lower Sind Dec. 1839, and in Upper Sind 18 Aug. 1841 to 1842; called by sir Charles James Napier 5 Nov. 1842 the Bayard of India; defended the British residency at Haidarabad against 8,000 Baluchis Feb. 1843; presented with a sword and piece of plate at Bombay April 1843; resident at Sattara 26 May 1845, at Baroda May 1847 to 1852; lieut. col. of 11 Bombay N.I. 1854–5; resident at Baroda again 19 March 1854; political agent and commandant at Aden June 1854; resident at Lucknow Nov. 1854; Oudh was annexed Feb. 1856 after his report on that country had been made; commanded the army during the Persian war Nov. 1856, defeated the Persians at Khush-áb 8 Feb. 1857; commanded Dinapore and Cawnpore divisions of the Bengal army during the mutiny from 8 Aug. 1857; chief comr. of Oudh 5 Aug. 1857 to 4 April 1858; besieged in Lucknow Sept. to Nov. 1857; captured Lucknow 19 March 1858; military member of the governor-general’s council 16 April 1858 to July 1860; created baronet 9 Oct. 1858; voted an annuity of £1,000 by house of commons; presented with a silver shield by his friends in Bombay June 1858, which is on loan at South Kensington Museum; L.G. 16 July 1858; presented with freedom of city of London 20 Dec. 1860; K.C.B. 5 Feb. 1856, G.C.B. 30 July 1857; K.C.S.I. 25 June 1861; hon. D.C.L. Oxf. June 1862; author of Rough notes of the campaigns in Sinde and Afghanistan in 1838–9, 1840; The conquest of Scinde 1846; Baroda intrigues and Bombay Kutput 1853; A few brief memoranda of the public services rendered by lieut. colonel Outram 1853; Lieutenant general Sir James Outram’s Persian campaign in 1857–8, 1860. d. Pau 11 March 1863. bur. Westminster abbey 25 March, bust by Matthew Noble, R.A. over the doorway on south side of the nave. Sir F. J. Goldsmid’s James Outram, a biography, 2 vols. (1880) portrait; J. Chapman’s Baroda and Bombay, in relation to removal of lieut. col. Outram from office of resident at Gaekwar 1853; C. R. Low’s Soldiers of the Victorian age ii 109–72 (1880); E. H. Nolan’s Illustrated history of British empire in India ii 635 (1860) portrait; Golden Hours (1869) 599–610 portrait; J. B. Robinson’s Derbyshire gatherings (1866) 17–20 portrait.

NOTE. There is an equestrian statue of him by Foley in the Maidan of Calcutta, another by Noble on the Thames embankment, London, erected Nov. 1871, Illust. Times 2 Dec. 1871 p. 345 view of his monument in Westminster abbey, uncovered 29 May 1866.

OUVRY, FREDERIC (3 son of Peter Aimé Ouvry of the Ordnance office). b. 6 Abingdon st. Westminster 20 Oct. 1814; partner in firm of Robinson, King, and Ouvry, solicitors 13 Tokenhouse yard 1837; partner with his brothers-in-law F. W. and W. J. Farrer 66 Lincolns Inn Fields 1855 to death; member of Incorporated law society 12 March 1838, member of council 21 July 1861 to death, vice-president 1870–1, president 1871–2; solicitor to regiment of Scots Guards 9 Nov. 1858 to death; member of Weavers’ company; F.S.A. 24 Feb. 1848, member of council 1850–78; treasurer 1854–74, vice-president 1874, president 4 Jany. 1876 to 1878; is depicted by Charles Dickens in a paper in Household Words as Mr. Undery; printed The Cobler of Canterburie 1862; T. Eulenspiegel’s Howleglas 1867; G. Markham’s The famous whore 1868; T. Cranley’s Amanda 1869, and other facsimiles of rare publications; his library, including the first four folios of Shakespeare, was sold for £6,169 at Sotheby’s 30 March to 5 April 1882. d. 12 Queen Anne st. London 26 June 1881. bur. at Acton, bust by Marshall Wood at Society of Antiquaries. Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. 2 series, ix 7 114–7 (1881–3).

OVANS, CHARLES. b. about 1793; entered Bombay army 1808; ensign 3 Bombay N.I. 25 June 1809; lieut. European regiment 6 July 1811, captain 17 Dec. 1821; major of right wing of the regiment 8 Feb. 1829 to 10 Nov. 1835; quarter master general Bombay 1835–8; lieut. col. of 18 N.I. 1837–8, and of 4 N.I. 1838 to 1845; commander and political agent at Sattara 22 June 1837 to 26 Feb. 1845, where he was the chief agent in dethroning the Raja 1845, and was impeached before the court of directors of H.E.I.C. in London on 24 Sept. 1845, but the motion was negatived; lieut. col. of 10 N.I. 1845 to 9 Nov. 1846; colonel of 19 N.I. 15 Aug. 1847 to 1856, and of 14 N.I. 1856 to death; M.G. 20 June 1854; author of An account of the settlements made with the Naiks and Bheels of the districts comprising the Kumir agency 1830. d. Gloucester sq. London 19 July 1858. Case of Krushnajee Sudasew Bhider, the accuser of lieut. col. Ovans, of bribery 1845; Debate at India house on case of deposed rajah of Sattara and impeachment of col. C. Ovans 1845.

OVENS, EDWARD (son of Hugh Ovens of St. Catherine’s, Fermanagh). b. 1817; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1838; barrister M.T. 21 Nov. 1845; chairman of Salford hundred quarter sessions 31 May 1858 to 1862; judge of county courts, circuit 8 (Manchester) 6 May 1862 to death. d. Enville house, Bowdon 19 Feb. 1869. Law Times xlvi 418 (1869).

OVERALL, WILLIAM HENRY (son of Wm. Henry Overall). b. St. John’s Wood, London 18 Jany. 1829; educ. City of London college; employed in the town clerk’s office at the Guildhall, London 1847–57; sub-librarian of the corporation library 1847, librarian 23 March 1865 to death; removed the collections to the new building in Basinghall st. and arranged the museum; F.S.A. 11 June 1868; member of council of the Library Association 1879, and of the London and Middlesex archæological society; presented with freedom and livery of Clockmakers’ co. 1877; author of Catalogue of Sculpture, paintings and other works of art belonging to the corporation of the City of London, 2 vols. 1867–8; Some account of the ward of Vintry and the Vintners company 1869; The dictionary of chronology or historical and statistical register 1870; Catalogue of books, pictures, etc. presented by Mrs. Letitia Hollier to, and also of books and music in the library of Gresham college 1872; A catalogue of books, manuscripts, clocks, watches, paintings and prints in the library and museum of the company of Clockmakers 1875; A catalogue of books, manuscripts, letters, etc. belonging to the Dutch church, Austin Friars, London 1879; edited The accounts of the churchwardens of the parish of St. Michael, Cornhill from 1456 to 1608, 1871; Civitas Londinum, a survey of the cities of London and Westminster, published in facsimile with a biographical account of Ralph Agas 1874. d. Crouch End, Middlesex 28 June 1888. bur. St. Pancras cemetery, Finchley 3 July. Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xii 391 (1887–9).

OVEREND, WILLIAM (youngest son of Hall Overend of Sheffield). b. 1809; educ. Sheffield gr. sch.; barrister L.I. 21 Nov. 1837, bencher 2 Nov. 1855 to death; Q.C. 6 July 1855; contested Sheffield 7 July 1852 and 30 March 1857; M.P. Pontefract 29 April 1859, resigned Jany. 1860; contested East Derbyshire 23 Nov. 1868; chief comr. to assess damage by bursting of the Bradfield reservoir 11 March 1864, which resulted in the loss of 250 lives and property valued at nearly half-a-million; chief comr. to inquire into Sheffield trade outrages, commission sat at Sheffield 3 June to 8 July 1867; retired from practice about 1872. d. East Retford, Notts. 24 Dec. 1884. Law Times 3 Jany. 1885 p. 177.

OVERSTONE, SAMUEL JONES LOYD, 1 Baron (only child of Lewis Loyd of London, banker 1768–1858). b. 43 Lothbury, London 25 Sept. 1796; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1822; hon. D.C.L. Oxf. 1867; a banker in Manchester 1844 to 23 Dec. 1848; M.P. Hythe 1819–26; contested Manchester 15 Dec. 1832; the last survivor of those who held seats in the house of commons in the reign of George III; sheriff of Warwickshire 1838; presided over a great liberal meeting at the London tavern 15 June 1841; head of Jones Loyd and co. bankers, London 1844, afterwards merged in London and Westminster bank 1864; chairman of the Irish famine committee of 1847; member of senate of univ. of London July 1850 to 1877; a great authority on finance, the Bank act of 1844 was chiefly based on his principles; cr. baron Overstone of Overstone and of Fotheringay, Northamptonshire 5 March 1850; author of Reflections on the causes and consequences of the pressure on the money market 1837; Further reflections on the currency and the action of the Bank of England 1837; A letter on the management of the Bank of England 1840; Remarks on the management of the circulation of the Bank of England and of the country issues 1840; Thoughts on the separation of the departments of the Bank of England 1844; Tracts and publications on metallic and paper currency 1858. d. 2 Carlton gardens, London 17 Nov. 1883. bur. Lockinge, Berks. 23 Nov.; will proved under £2,100,000 Dec. 1883. Times 19 Nov. 1883 p. 8, cols. 1, 3, p. 9, col. 3; Graphic xxviii 560 (1883) portrait; W. J. Lawson’s History of banking (2 ed. 1855) 232–34; I.L.N. lxxxiii 525 (1883) portrait; Waagen’s Galleries of art (1857) 130–47; Manchester Guardian 20 Nov. 1883 p. 8.

OVERTON, CHARLES (6 son of John Overton 1763–1838, rector of St. Margaret’s and St. Crux, York). b. York 1805; assistant curate of Ch. Ch. Harrogate 1829; C. of Ronaldkirk, Yorkshire 1829–37; V. of Clapham, Yorkshire 1837–41; V. of Cottingham, near Hull 1841 to death; author of Cottage lectures, or the Pilgrim’s progress practically explained, 2 parts 1847–9; Cottage lectures, or the Lord’s Prayer practically explained 1848; The expository preacher, or St. Matthew’s gospel expounded, 2 vols. 1850; Ecclesia Anglicana 1853; The history of Cottingham 1861; The life of Joseph in twenty three lectures 1866. d. Cottingham 31 March 1889. Memoir of rev. Charles Overton (1889).

OVERWEG, ADOLF. b. Hamburg 24 July 1822; doctor; made explorations and surveys of Lake Tchad, Central Africa 1851, he was the first to navigate this lake; explored 100 miles further than major Denham, reaching the river Terbenel. d. of fever near Ku Ka, Central Africa 27 Sept. 1853. Notice of recent discoveries in Central Africa by Drs. Barth and Overweg. By J. Hogg 1852; Journal Royal Geog. Soc. xxi 130 (1851), xxii 133 (1852), xxiii p. cx (1853), xxvi pp. clxi, clxii (1857); Allgemine Deutsche biographie xxv 19–24 (1887).

OWDEN, SIR THOMAS SCAMBLER (youngest son of John Owden of Brighton). b. Cuckfield, Sussex 28 Oct. 1808; a merchant in City of London; common councilman for Bishopsgate ward 1845, alderman 12 May 1868 to death; sheriff of London 1870–1, lord mayor 1877–8; knighted at Windsor Castle 27 Nov. 1878; a member of the Innholders’ and Loriners’ companies; opened the new winter gardens at Blackpool, Lancs. 1878. d. Mulgrave house, Sutton, Surrey 9 Jany. 1889. J. E. Ritchie’s Famous city men (1884) 139–47; Graphic xvi 436 (1877) portrait; I.L.N. lxxxi 444 (1877) portrait.

OWEN, ANEURIN (only son of Wm. Owen, who took name of Pughe). b. 23 July 1792; studied the Chronicle of the Princes in the Red Book of Hergest at Jesus coll. Oxf. 1831; an assistant tithe comr. for England and Wales 1836; an assistant poor law comr.; a comr. for inclosure of commonable lands 1845; the adviser of the Record office upon all Welsh matters 1825 to death; won a silver medal at the Beaumaris Eisteddfod 1832 for the best Welsh essay on agriculture, the essay was published in the Transactions of the Eisteddfod, ed. by W. Jones 1839, pp. 153–201, and in a separate volume; edited Ancient chronicles of the princes of Wales as far as 1066, printed in Petrie and Sharpe’s Monumenta Historica Britannica (Record Commission 1848) pp. 841–55, reprinted and completed in Brut y Tywysogion, or The chronicle of the princes of Wales, ed. by J. Williams ab Ithel (Rolls Series 1860). d. Trosypare, near Denbigh 17 July 1851. Archæologia Cambrensis, 3 ed. series iv 208–12, 245–9 (1858), vi 184–6 (1860), vii 93–103, 169–71, 263–7 (1861), viii 289–90 (1862).

OWEN, CONRAD JOHN. Entered Bombay army 1823; captain 1 Bombay light cavalry 30 Oct. 1838, major 7 Dec. 1850, lieut. col. 28 May 1857; lieut. col. 3 Bombay light cavalry 1858 to death; C.B. 21 March 1859. d. Malta 3 April 1860.

OWEN, DAVID (son of Benjamin Owen of Llanpumpsant, near Carmarthen, shoemaker). b. Llanpumpsant 1794; originally known as David Benjamin; kept school at Gilfach, near Aber, Carnarvonshire; in charge of the Baptist churches of Talygraig, Galltraeth, Tyndomen and Rhos Hirwaen in Carnarvonshire; expelled from the Baptist denomination; member of the Independent church at Capel Newydd; wrote an article signed Brutus on The poverty of the Welsh language in Seren Gomer, the leading Welsh magazine 1824; edited an undenominational monthly magazine entitled Lleuad yr Oes, Swansea 1827–31; edited at Llandovery an Independent magazine entitled Efengydydd 1831–5, and a church magazine entitled The Haul 1835 to death; author of A treatise in defence of infant baptism, Aberystwith 1828; Allwedd y Cyssegr new Eglurhad byr ar yr Ysgyrthyrau Sanctaidd, Llanmddyfri 1834; Proceedings of the established church 1841; Eliasia. By Bleddyn 1844, being notes on the career of John Elias of Anglesey; Brutusiana 1855, a selection of his non-controversial writings. d. Bron Arthen near Llandovery 16 Jany. 1866. bur. Llywel churchyard. Ashton’s History of Welsh literature (1894); Red Dragon iii 385–405 (1883) portrait; Y Traethodydd, Denbigh (1867) 213–27, 421–8.

OWEN, DAVID DALE (son of Robert Owen, the Socialist 1771–1858). b. Lanarkshire 24 June 1807; graduated at Ohio medical college 1835; conducted the survey of Minnesota territory 1849–52; state geologist of Kentucky 1854–7, of Arkansas 1857–9, and of Indiana 1859 to death; author of Report of a geological survey of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota, Philadelphia, 2 vols. 1852; Report of a geological reconnoisance of Indiana 1839; A geological report of the Marble hall quarry 1853; Report of the geological survey in Kentucky, 2 vols. 1856–7; Reports of a geological reconnoisance of Arkansas, 2 vols. 1858–60. d. New Harmony, Indiana 13 Nov. 1860.

OWEN, EDWARD (only son of Edward Owen of Garthyngharad, Merioneth). Educ. Friars school, Bangor, and Clare coll. Camb., B.A. 1852; C. of St. George, Hulme 1856–7; C. of Stockton Heath, Cheshire 1858–9; in charge of Eastham, Cheshire 1859–60; V. of St. Peter’s, Oldham 1861 to death; author of A brief history of the church and parish of St. Peter’s, Oldham 1868; Jottings on the rubrics for morning and evening prayer 1874. d. Oldham 22 Jany. 1883 aged 52. bur. Chaddington cemetery.

OWEN, EDWARD PRYCE (only son of Hugh Owen 1761–1827, archdeacon of Salop). b. March 1788; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1816; minister of Park st. chapel, Grosvenor sq. London; V. of Wellington and R. of Eyton-upon-the-Wildmoors, Shropshire 1823–40; contributed several plates to Owen and Blakeway’s History of Shrewsbury 1825; published Etchings of ancient buildings in Shrewsbury, 2 numbers 1820–1; Etchings 1826, containing 45 plates with his portrait; The book of etchings, 2 vols. 1842–55. d. Roderic house, Cheltenham 15 July 1863.

OWEN, ELLIS (son of Owen Ellis of Cefnymeusydd in the parish of Ynys Cynhaiarn, Carnarvonshire, farmer). b. 31 March 1789; educ. Penmorfa and Shrewsbury; farmer at Cefnymeusydd to his death; a local antiquary and genealogist; a writer of englynion (stanzas); president of the Literary Society of Cefnymeusydd 1846–57; F.S.A. 23 Jany. 1868; his poetical and prose writings were published with a biographical notice under the title of Cell Mendwy, The Hermit’s Cell 1877. d. Cefnymeusydd 27 Jany. 1868.

OWEN, SIR FRANCIS PHILIP CUNLIFFE (3 son of Charles Cunliffe Owen, captain R.N.) b. 8 June 1828; entered navy 1840, served in the Mediterranean and West Indies 1840, retired from ill health 1845; clerk in the Science and art department, Marlborough house, London 1854; one of the superintendents of the British section of the International exhibition at Paris 1855; deputy general superintendent of the South Kensington museum 1857, assistant director 1860–73, and director 1873–93; director of the foreign sections of the London exhibition 1862; assistant executive comr. at Paris exhibition 1867; secretary of the English commission at the Vienna exhibition 1873; entertained at a banquet in London and presented with 3,500 guineas for his services as secretary of royal commission at Paris exhibition of 1878, 12 March 1881; one of the executive committee of the Fisheries exhibition 1883, the Health exhibition 1884, and the Inventions exhibition 1885; executive officer of the Colonial and Indian exhibition 1886; C.B. 5 Jany. 1875, K.C.B. 28 June 1886, K.C.M.G. 29 Oct. 1878; C.I.E. 30 June 1879; grand officer of the legion of honour. d. Lowestoft 23 March 1894. New monthly mag. cxvi 1260 (1879) portrait; Touchstone 3 May 1879 pp. 1–2 portrait; Biograph March–April 1882 pp. 249–51; Huish’s Year’s Art (1892) 15 portrait; Graphic xiii 459, 472 (1876) portrait, and 20 May 1893 p. 562 portrait; I.L.N. lxiii 445 (1873) portrait.

OWEN, FREDERICK. b. 1800 or 1801; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1823, M.A. 1832; R. of Aghold with Mullinacuffe, co. Wicklow 1857–89; precentor of Leighlin 1880–90; dean of Leighlin 1890 to death. d. Aghold rectory 3 July 1895.

OWEN, GEORGE. Secretary of the Welsh property defence association; organized the landlord’s case for the Welsh land commission; chief organizer of the conservative party in North Wales; committed suicide by taking poison at Carnarvon 9 July 1895.

OWEN, HENRY CHARLES CUNLIFFE (brother of Sir Francis P. C. Owen 1828–94). b. Lausanne, Switzerland 16 Oct. 1821; 2 lieut. R.E. 19 March 1839, lieut col. 1 April 1862 to death; served in the Boer war 1845, and the Kaffir war 1846–7; computer of space for the United Kingdom at the Great exhibition 1851, then superintendent of the foreign departments, and lastly general superintendent of the exhibition; inspector of art schools in the department of practical art at Marlborough house 1851–4; assoc. of Instit. of C.E. 3 Feb. 1852; lost his leg in the Crimean war 1855; granted pension of £100 per annum; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856; assistant inspector-general of fortifications at the war office Oct. 1855, deputy inspector-general April 1856 to Aug. 1860; commanded R.E. of the Western district Aug. 1860 to death; colonel in the army 22 Nov. 1861; a founder of the English church union 1860. d. Plymouth 7 March 1867, memorial window in St. James’s church, Plymouth.

OWEN, HENRY JOHN (son of John Owen, minister of Park chapel, Chelsea 1812–22, d. Ramsgate 1822). b. 22 Sept. 1796; perpetual curate of Park chapel, Chelsea 1822–34; Miss Hughes miraculously cured in the chapel July 1831; Dr. Bayford spoke in the spirit there; built the Catholic Apostolic church in College st. Chelsea, ordained to be the angel there 1834, some of his former congregation joined him there, held office to his death, it was generally known as Owen’s chapel; author of Discourses on the Lord’s Supper 1830; The prayer of faith viewed in connexion with the healing of the sick 1831; We are not our own, a discourse 1859. d. 11 Foulis terrace, South Kensington, London 26 Nov. 1872. A. Beaver’s Memorials of Old Chelsea (1892) 146, 342; Miller’s Irvingism i 139–40 (1878).

OWEN, HUGH. b. Denbigh 23 May 1784; captain Shropshire volunteers 24 Nov. 1803; cornet in sir Stapleton Cotton’s regiment 31 July 1806; captain of cavalry in the Portuguese army 1810; brigade major to sir Loftus Otway and then to sir Benjamin D’Urban; led a brigade into action at battle of Vittoria 21 June 1813; captain 18 hussars 22 June 1813; placed on h.p. 25 May 1816; sold out of British army 4 Sept. 1817; went with lord Beresford to Brazil 1820; retired and resided on his estate near Oporto; knight commander of San Bento d’Aviz and knight of the Tower and Sword; author of A Guerra civil em Portugal, o sitio do Porto e a morte de Don Pedro. Por hum Estrangeiro 1836; The civil war in Portugal and the siege of Oporto 1836; Memoir of major the hon. Somers Cocks, privately printed by sir John Rennie. d. Garratt’s hall, Banstead, Surrey 16 Dec. 1861.

OWEN, SIR HUGH (son of Owen Owen). b. Voel, parish of Llangeinwen, Anglesea 14 Jany. 1804; educ. Carnarvon 1812–17; clerk to W. Bulkeley Hughes, barrister the Temple, London 1825; clerk to R. Vaughan Williams, solicitor, Hatton garden 1819 and for many years; clerk in the poor law office, Somerset house 22 Feb. 1836; advanced to be in the secretary’s office; chief clerk of the poor law board 1853 to Nov. 1872, gave evidence before parliamentary committees on the poor law board which led to the establishment of local government board; sec. to a committee for establishing the South Islington and Pentonville British schools 1839; a great advocate of improved education in Wales and a promoter of the Bangor training college, established 1858, and the Swansea training college for women; founded social science section of the national Eisteddfod at Carnarvon 1862; a founder of the honorable society of the Cymmroderion Nov. 1873; chief founder of the University college of Wales at Aberystwith, opened Oct. 1872; member of London school board for Finsbury 3 April 1872; knighted at Osborne 18 Aug. 1881. d. Mentone 20 Nov. 1881. bur. Abney park cemetery 26 Nov., bronze statue unveiled at Carnarvon 22 Oct. 1888, bust at royal institution, Swansea. Red Dragon i 291–300 (1882) portrait; The Times 8 and 23 Oct. 1888.

OWEN, SIR HUGH OWEN, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir John Owen, d. 1861). b. Lincoln’s inn, London Jany. 1804; M.P. Pembroke boroughs 1826–38 and 1861–68; lieut. col. Pembrokeshire militia 1830; succeeded 6 Feb. 1861; lieut. col. commandant royal Pembroke artillery 14 May 1872, hon. col. 10 Feb. 1875 to death; aide-de-camp to the queen 24 May 1872 to death. d. Cranmore, Midhurst, Sussex 5 Sept. 1891.

OWEN, JACOB. b. North Wales 28 July 1778; clerk of the works to royal engineer department at Portsmouth 1804–32; principal engineer and architect at Irish board of works in Dublin 1832–56; erected criminal lunatic asylum at Dundrum, near Dublin 1848, and Mountjoy prison, Dublin 1850; erected model schools and other government buildings in Ireland. d. Great Bridge, Tipton, Staffs. 26 Oct. 1870. bur. Mount Jerome cemetery, Dublin. Dictionary of architecture vi 54 (1877).

OWEN, JAMES HIGGINS (son of Jacob Owen 1778–1870). Educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1844, M.A. 1852; architect to Irish board of works at Dublin, in succession to his father, 1856 to death. d. 9 April 1891.

OWEN, SIR JOHN. b. 1780; 2 lieut. R.M. 1 March 1796; served in battles of Camperdown and Trafalgar; commanded the detachment of marines at Languilia, which defeated the 52 French regt. 1812; commanded marines in lord John Hay’s squadron on coast of Spain 1836–7; aide-de-camp to the sovereign 21 April 1837 to 11 Nov. 1851; deputy adjutant general of R.M. 1 Jany. 1838 to 13 Dec. 1854; col. commandant R.M. 10 July 1844 to Nov. 1851; L.G. 20 June 1855; K.H. 1 Jany. 1833, C.B. 19 July 1838, K.C.B. 23 Feb. 1852. d. 47 Connaught sq. London 15 Feb. 1857.

OWEN, SIR JOHN, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Joseph Lord of Pembroke, d. 15 June 1801). b. Pembroke 1776; barrister I.T. 23 May 1800; M.P. Pembrokeshire 1806–41; M.P. Pembroke district of burgh 1841 to death; assumed by R.L. name of Owen in lieu of Lord on succeeding to estates of sir Hugh Owen on 23 Aug. 1809; cr. baronet 12 Jany. 1813; governor of Milford Haven 14 June 1821 to death; lord lieut. of Pembrokeshire 1824 to death. d. Taynton house, near Newent, Gloucestershire 6 Feb. 1861.

OWEN, JOHN. V. of Thrussington, Leicestershire 1845 to death; rural dean 1853; translated from the Latin of John Calvin Commentaries on the twelve minor Prophets 1846; On Paul to the Romans 1849; On Jeremiah and Lamentations 1850; On Paul to the Hebrews 1853; On the Catholic Epistles 1855; from the Latin of Martin Luther Commentary on the Galatians 1845; from the Welsh of W. Rees The Mercy seat 1861; author of A memoir of rev. Daniel Rowlands 1840; Lectures on popery 1843; Memoirs of rev. T. Jones 1851; Church government according to the New Testament 1852. d. 1867.

OWEN, JOHN (son of the captain of a small vessel). b. Crane st. Chester 14 Nov. 1821; apprenticed to Messrs. Powell and Edwards, cutlers; became a professional musician 1844; organist successively of Lady Huntingdon’s chapel, S. Paul’s, Boughton, St. Bridgets, St. Mary’s, and the Welsh church, all in Chester; known in Wales as Owain Alaw 1863; won the prize for the best anthem at the royal Eisteddfod of Rhuddlan 1850; edited Gems of Welsh melody, 2 series 1862, 4 series 1873; composed The prince of Wales cantata 1862; The festival of Wales cantata 1866; The Welsh harp, national songs 1880; wrote glees, songs, and anthems in Welsh musical magazines; his name is attached to upwards of 25 pieces of music. d. Lorne st. Chester 30 Jany. 1883. Y Geninen, Carnarvon (1883) 124–30; The musical world 3 Feb. 1883 p. 74.

OWEN, JOHN BLACKMAN. In the service of Great Eastern railway from 1836, secretary 1850 to death. d. 17 Upper Hornsey Rise, London 31 July 1873. bur. Great Northern cemetery, Southgate 7 Aug.

OWEN, JOHN PICKARD. b. Goodge st. Tottenham court road, London 5 Feb. 1832; received baptism by immersion in a pond near Dorking; joined the church of Rome; became a Deist, but afterwards a believer in christianity; author of The fair haven, a work in defence of the miraculous element in our Lord’s ministry upon earth, by J. P. Owen, ed. by W. B. Owen 1873, memoir pp. 1–70. d. 15 March 1872.

OWEN, JONATHAN. b. 3 April 1820; billiard player; teacher of billiards; marker in annual matches between Oxford and Cambridge many years; known as Oxford Jonathan; father of Fred Owen, the actor. d. Craven Buildings, Strand, London 26 March 1879. Bell’s Life in London 29 March 1879 p. 2.

OWEN, JOSEPH BUTTERWORTH (5 son of Jacob Owen, architect, Dublin 1778–1870). b. Portsmouth 22 July 1809; educ. St. Paul’s gram. sch. near Portsmouth, and at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; C. of Walsall Wood, Staffs. 1835; in charge of Farthingstone, Northants. 1837; P.C. of St. Mary, Bilston, Staffs. 1838–54, also preacher at St. George’s ch. Wolverhampton, on leaving received a service of plate valued at £1,000; incumbent of St. John’s chapel, Bedford row, London 1854–7, when the chapel fell in and the ruins were taken down; preached in Store st. music hall 1857; preacher at St. Swithin’s, Cannon st. 1856; chairman of directors of Royal Polytechnic soc. 1857 to death; V. of St. Jude’s, Chelsea 1858 to death; lecturer St. John’s, Wapping 1858 to death; author of Six plain sermons on the Sabbath 1835; Six lectures on the rite of confirmation 1840; The pottery schoolmaster, a biographical sketch of Silas Even 1852; Diligent in business, a memoir of G. B. Thornycroft 1856; Business without christianity, with statistics and facts 1856, 2 ed. 1858; The mischief and miseries of temper 1857; Cliques, social, professional, and religious, with sketches of the Latch-Key and the Lock-out-the-Town’s libel 1864; The homes of scripture 1865; Men’s infirmities, natural and acquired 1865. d. 40 Cadogan place, London 18 May 1872. bur. Brompton cemetery 24 May. Lectures and sermons by J. B. Owen (1873), memoir pp. 1–96; R. Simms’s Bibliotheca Staffordiensis (1874) 339–40.

OWEN, SIR RICHARD (younger son of Richard Owen, West India merchant 1754–1809). b. Brock st. Lancaster 20 July 1804; educ. Lancaster gr. sch. 1810–20; apprenticed to Leonard Dickson of Lancaster, surgeon 11 Aug. 1820; matric. at univ. of Edinb. Oct. 1824, where he founded with Gavin Milroy the Hunterian society; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1825–6; M.R.C.S. 18 Aug. 1826; surgeon at 11 Cook’s court, Carey st. Lincoln’s inn fields 1826; lecturer on comparative anatomy at St. Bartholomew’s 1829; assistant conservator to Hunterian museum at royal college of surgeons 1827, joint conservator 1842, sole conservator 1849; started the Zoological Magazine Jany. 1833, sold it in July; F.R.S. 13 Dec. 1834, royal medallist 1846, Copley medallist 1851; Hunterian professor of comparative anatomy and physiology at royal college of surgeons April 1836 to 1856; Wollaston gold medallist of Geological Society 1838; corresponding member of Institute of France 1839; helped to found Royal microscopical society 1839, president 1840–1; granted civil list pension of £200, 25 Nov. 1842; resided at Sheen lodge, Richmond park, lent to him by the queen 1852 to death; juror of Paris exhibition 1855, created a knight of the Legion of Honour; devised the exhibition of models of extinct animals at the Crystal palace 1855; superintendent of natural history department of British museum 26 May 1856 to 1883, with £800 a year; new Natural history museum at South Kensington opened 1881; Fullerian professor of physiology in the Royal institution 1859–61; president of British association at Leeds 1858; Rede lecturer at Cambridge 1859; awarded the prix Cuvier of the French academy 1857; went to Egypt 1869, 1871, 1872, and 1874; C.B. 3 June 1873, K.C.B. 5 Jany. 1884; granted another civil list pension of £100, 26 Feb. 1884; the first gold medallist of the Linnæan society 1888; author of Odontography, text and atlas, 2 vols. 1840–5; Lectures on the comparative anatomy and physiology of the invertebrate animals 1843, 2 ed. 1855; A history of British fossil mammals and birds 1846; A history of British fossil reptiles, 4 vols. 1849–84; On the anatomy of vertebrates 3 vols. 1866–8; his name is attached to upwards of 50 works. d. Sheen lodge, Richmond park 18 Dec. 1892. bur. Ham churchyard, portrait by Holman Hunt exhibited in Grosvenor gallery 1881. Rev. R. Owen’s Life of Richard Owen, 2 vols. (1884) 4 portraits; British medical journal 19 Dec. 1892 special supplement; Maguire’s Portraits of distinguished naturalists, Ipswich (1852) portrait; Walford’s Representative men (1868) portrait; Nature xxii 577–79 (1892) portrait; Modern thought March 1883 pp. 97–101; The coward conscience by Charles Adams (1882) passim; Graphic xxviii 260 (1883) portrait; Vanity Fair 1 March 1873 p. 71 portrait; Daily Graphic 19 Dec. 1892 p. 8 portrait; Strand Mag. ii 274 (1891) 3 portraits.

OWEN, ROBERT (6 child of Robert Owen of Newtown, Montgomeryshire, saddler). b. Newtown 14 May 1771; employed by James Mc Guffog, draper, Stamford, Northants 1780–5; a machine maker at Manchester, then a yarn spinner; manager of Mr. Drinkwater’s spinning business, Manchester 1790–4; founded the Chorlton Twist company 1794–5; he and his partners purchased David Dale’s mills at New Lanark on the falls of the Clyde for £60,000, which he managed from about 1 Jany. 1800, in 1814 he and six others bought the business for £114,000; founded schools at his works for all children under twelve, claimed to be the founder of infant schools 1816; gave up the Lanark works 1823; at meeting at London tavern 14 Aug. 1817 declared that all the religions in the world were founded in error; contested the Lanark district of burghs 31 March 1820; retired from business 1819; started the Economist a paper explanatory of the new system of society, No. 1 27 Jany. 1821, No. 26 21 July 1821, succeeded by the Political economist 1823, and The advocate of the working classes 1827; bought the village of New Harmony in Illinois and Indiana with 20,000 acres for £30,000 April 1825, the scheme failed and he retired 1827; edited The Crisis, or the change from error and misery to truth and happiness, a penny paper, No. 1 14 April 1832, last issue No. 20, vol. iv 23 Aug. 1834; opened an Equitable labour exchange at The Bazaar in Gray’s Inn road, London 3 Sept. 1832, which was moved to Charlotte st. Fitzroy sq. 1 May 1833, and ultimately became bankrupt; took part in the seven cooperative congresses 1830–4, and in the 14 socialist congresses 1835–46; published The new moral world 1834–41; presented to the queen by lord Normanby 5 Jany. 1840; published the Rational quarterly June 1853; author of A statement regarding the New Lanark establishment 1812; A new view of society, or essays on the principle of the formation of the human character 1813–4, 3 ed. 1817; The addresses of R. Owen 1830; The book of the new moral world containing the rational system of society 1836; The catechism of the new moral world 1840; An outline of the rational system of society 1840, 9 ed. 1871; Manifesto of R. Owen, the discoverer of the rational system of society 1840, 8 ed. 1841; The signs of the times or the approach of the millenium 1841; The future of the human race 1853; R Owen’s Journal, No. 1, Nov. 2 1850, No. 104 Oct. 23,1852, 4 volumes. d. Bear’s head hotel, Newtown, Montgomeryshire 17 Nov. 1858. The Life of R. Owen, written by himself 1857, vol. 1, no more published; C. Bradlaugh’s Five dead men whom I knew when living (1877) 3–6; J. Grants Portraits of public characters ii 163–91 (1841); H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches, 4 ed. 1876 307–15; Georgian Era iv 37–41 (1834); The Times 9 Aug. 1817 p. 4, with A view of the Agricultural and manufacturing village of Unity and Mutual Co-operation 8 Jany. 1840 p. 7, 11 Feb. p. 7, 26 March p. 4; S. J. Hall’s Biographical Sketches (1873) 275–8; Reynold’s Miscellany xviii 88 (1857) portrait; G.M. v 643–5 (1858).

OWEN, ROBERT DALE (eld. son of preceding). b. Glasgow 9 Nov. 1800; educ. at the Swiss college of Hofwyl, near Berne 1820–3; joined his father’s community at New Harmony 1825; became a citizen of U.S. of America 1827; published with Francis Wright at New York The free inquirer Nov. 1828 to 1832; member of the legislature of Indiana 1835, member of the house of representatives 1843; chairman of committee for promoting the Smithsonian institution 1846, one of the regents; United States chargé d’ affaires at Naples 1853, minister 1853–8; chairman of a committee to examine into condition of emancipated freedmen 1863; author of Moral physiology 1831, 12 ed. 1870; Darby and Susan, a tale of Old England 1840; Footfalls on the boundary of another world 1859; The wrong of slavery, the right of emancipation, and the future of the African race in the United States 1864; The debatable land between this world and the next 1872. d. at his summer residence on Lake George, New York 17 June 1877. R. D. Owen’s Threading my way (1874); Appleton’s American biography iv 615 (1888) portrait.

OWEN, ROBERT HENRY. Educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1836, M.A. 1863; called to Irish bar 1839; Q.C. 23 Feb. 1867. d. 15 Lower Pembroke st. Dublin 8 Jany. 1869 aged 64.

OWEN, SAMUEL. b. Drayton, Shropshire 1774; introduced steam boats to Sweden. d. Stockholm 15 Feb. 1853. Historiskt Bildergalleri, No. iii, Samuel Owen (Norrkoping 1863) portrait.

OWEN, SAMUEL. b. about 1769; water-colour painter; exhibited 2 paintings and 6 drawings at the R.A. 1794–1807; member of the Associated artists in water-colours 1808, resigned 1810, exhibited 29 pictures; made 84 drawings, engraved by W. B. Cooke, for his work The Thames 1811, and 7 drawings for the Picturesque tour on the river Thames, published by Wm. Westall and himself 1828; his Shipping in a calm, and 9 other river and sea pieces are in South Kensington museum. d. Sunbury, Middlesex 8 Dec. 1857.

OWEN, THOMAS ELLIS (brother of Joseph Butterworth Owen 1778–1870). Architect at Portsmouth; surveyor for the South Hampshire district; helped to develop Southsea as a watering place; designed the French protestant church at St. Martin’s-le-Grand, London 1842–3, and the church of St. Jude’s, Southsea 1851. d. 1862.

OWEN, WILLIAM (son of Luke Owen, maltster). b. Rotherham 1810; apprentice to Sandford and Yates, Phœnix foundry, Greasborough road, Rotherham 1823, a partner 1832, sole proprietor to March 1864, when the Wheathill foundry works were transferred to a limited liability co., chairman and managing director 1864–72; chairman of Midland wagon co.; a judge of machinery at Royal agricultural society’s meetings; A.I.C.E. 3 March 1857; member of Instit. of Mechanical engineers 1847; author of several inventions for making solid wrought-iron wheels and tires. d. Clifton house, Rotherham 20 Jany. 1881. Min. of Proc. of Instit. C.E. lxiii 333 (1881); Proc. of Instit. of M.E. (1882) 10.

OWEN, WILLIAM FITZWILLIAM (son of Wm. Owen, captain R.N., d. 1778). b. 1774; entered navy 4 June 1788; explored the Maldive Islands Sept. 1806, discovered the Sea-flower channel between Si-biru and Si-pora on the west coast of Sumatra; captain 2 May 1811; surveyed the Canadian Lakes 1815–6; captain of the Leven Aug. 1821, surveyed the coast of Africa 1821–5; settled the colony at Fernando Po 1827; R.A. on h.p. 21 Dec. 1847, V.A. on h.p. 27 Oct. 1854; granted a pension 6 Feb. 1855; author of Narrative of voyages to explore the shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar in H.M. ships Leven and Barracouta, 2 vols. 1833. d. St. John’s, New Brunswick 3 Nov. 1857.

OWEN, WILLIAM GEORGE. b. 5 May 1817; ensign 11 Madras N.I. 7 Aug. 1835, major 1 Jany. 1862; lieut. col Madras infantry 30 April 1866, colonel 30 April 1878; M.G. 4 Aug. 1866; commanded the Ceded districts 1874–6; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881; general 1 Dec. 1888. d. Folkestone 1 May 1895.

OWENS, JOHN EDWARD (son of a shoemaker). b. Liverpool 4 May 1824; taken to Philadelphia 1834; first appeared on the stage at National theatre, Philadelphia, where he acted until 1843; played at Peak’s museum, Baltimore 1844–7; one of proprietors of Baltimore museum 1849–53; opened the Charles st. theatre with Uncle Tom’s cabin, playing Uncle Tom 1853; manager of the Varieties in New Orleans 1858–60; played with great success at the Broadway, New York 29 Aug. 1864 to 14 April 1865; played Solon Shingle at Adelphi theatre, London 3 July 1865; acted at Broadway theatre again 8 Jany. to 28 April 1866; played in California 1880, where he lost most of his fortune in mining speculations; acted in Esmeralda in many American cities 1882; owner of the Academy of music, Charleston, South Carolina to his death. d. near Towson, Baltimore county, Maryland 6 Dec. 1886. Atlantic xix 750 755–8 (1867); T. A. Brown’s American stage (1870) 270 portrait.

OXBERRY, WILLIAM HENRY (son of Wm. Oxberry, actor 1784–1824). b. Brownlow st. Bloomsbury, London 21 April 1808; educ. Merchant Taylors’ school; with an artist; with an attorney; apprenticed to Septimus Wray, surgeon, Fleet st. to 1824; first appeared on the stage at the Olympic 17 March 1825 as Sam Swipes in The high road to marriage; served under Leigh Hunt in connection with The Examiner; played in the provinces 1826–32; acted at the Strand 1832, and at the Italian opera, Paris 1833; played four years at the English opera house 1833–7 where he was manager, then lessee in 1842 and lost everything; played the hero of A lost letter at Princess’s Jany. 1843; played in Bombastes Furioso at Strand Sept. 1843, and Wamba in The maid of Judah at Princess’s 1844; the original Mrs. Caudle in Mr. and Mrs. Caudle at Princess’s July 1845; managed the Windsor theatre for a time; edited Oxberry’s Weekly budget of plays, No. 1 20 March 1843, No. 78 30 Nov. 1844; Oxberry’s Budget of plays, 39 original dramas 1844; and Oxberry’s Dramatic chronology 1850; he wrote The actress of all work, a sketch produced at the Surrey theatre; Matteo Falcone or the brigand and his son, English opera house June 1836; Delusion or is she mad, a drama, Queen’s theatre 4 Feb. 1836; The Pacha’s pet, a farce, Victoria theatre Sept. 1838; The Idiot boy or the castle of Heidelberg, Victoria March 1839; Norma travestie, a burletta, Adelphi theatre 6 Dec. 1841; with J. Gann Mr. Midshipman Easy, a drama, Surrey theatre March 1837; with Madame Laurent The Truand chief, a melodrama, Victoria 9 Oct. 1837; m. (1) 11 Dec. 1834 Ellen M. Lancaster; m. (2) 11 Jany. 1844 Louise Blanche, dau. of a master shipwright in Portsmouth dockyard, she was b. Portsmouth 28 April 1826, and was a dancer at the Lyceum and Strand theatres and in the provinces. d. on 28 February 1852. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 5 March. Dramatic and musical review 1842 p. 102 et seq.; Theatrical times 20 Feb. 1847 pp. 49–50 portrait, and iv 25–6 (1849) portrait of his second wife; Actors by gaslight (1838) 129–30 portrait; I.L.N. xx 194 (1852).

OXENDEN, ASHTON (5 son of sir Henry Oxenden, 7 baronet 1756–1838). b. Broome park, Canterbury 20 Sept. 1808; educ. Ramsgate, Harrow and Univ. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1859, D.D. 1869; C. of Barham, Kent Dec. 1833, resigned 1838; R. of Pluckley with Pevington, Kent 1848–69; hon. canon of Canterbury 1864 to death; bishop of Montreal and Metropolitan of Canada (nine dioceses) May 1869, resigned April 1878, consecrated in Westminster Abbey 1 Aug. 1869, installed in Montreal cathedral 5 Sept.; V. of Hackington or St. Stephen’s, near Canterbury 30 May 1879 to 1884; dean of Canterbury 1879 to 1884; author of The cottage library, 6 vols. 1846–51; The pathway of safety 1856, circulated 350,000 copies; The Barham tracts, 49 numbers, collected and published as Cottage readings 1859; My first year in Canada 1871; The Christian life 1877; his name is attached to upwards of 50 works. d. Biarritz 22 Feb. 1892. A. Oxenden’s History of my life: an autobiography (1891); A. Oxenden’s Plain sermons (1893) memoir pp. xiii–lxxxv with portrait; Graphic 5 March 1892 p. 298 portrait.

OXENFORD, HENRY. Last survivor of the official agents in H.M.’s Customs Long Room, Custom house, London. d. Putney 26 Nov. 1883, in his 100 year.

OXENFORD, JOHN (son of William Oxenford of H.M. customs, d. London 30 Jany. 1867, aged 84). b. Camberwell 12 Aug. 1812; educ. by S. T. Friend; solicitor in London 1837; assisted his uncle, Mr. Alsager of Birchin lane, some years; wrote on commercial and financial matters; taught himself German, Italian, French and Spanish; dramatic critic to the Times newspaper 1850–75; he wrote A day well spent, a farce, first performed at English opera house 4 April 1835; My fellow clerks, a farce, English opera house 20 April 1835; Twice killed, a farce, Olympic theatre 26 Nov. 1835; The reigning favourite, a drama, Strand 9 Oct. 1849; A doubtful victory, a comedietta, Olympic 20 April 1858; The porter’s knot, a drama, Olympic 2 Dec. 1858; The magic toys, a ballet farce, St. James’ 24 Oct. 1859; Uncle Zachary, a drama, Olympic 8 March 1860; The world of fashion, a comedy, Olympic 17 March 1862; Bristol diamonds, a farce, St. James’ 11 Aug. 1862; An allegorical masque, Freya’s gift in honor of marriage of prince of Wales, Covent Garden 10 March 1863; Beauty or the beast, a farce, Drury Lane 2 Nov. 1863; The monastery of St. Just, a play, Princess’ 27 June 1864; Neighbours, a comedy, Strand 10 Nov. 1866; The last days of Pompeii, drama, Queen’s 8 Jany. 1872; The two orphans, a drama, Olympic 14 Sept. 1874; and with Horace Wigan A life chase, a drama, Gaiety 6 Nov. 1869; his name is attached to upwards of 40 dramatic pieces; he wrote the librettos to G. A. Macfarren’s operas Robin Hood 1860 and Helvellyn 1864, and to J. Benedict’s Richard Cœur de Lion 1863 and The Lily of Killarney 1862; he translated G. A. Buerger’s Leonora 1855; Goethe’s Autobiography 1848, vol. i only; J. P. Eckermann’s Conversations of Goethe 1850; J. M. Callery’s History of the insurrection in China 1853; F. C. W. Jacobs’s Hellas 1855; Kuno Fischer’s Francis Bacon of Verulam 1857; edited Flügel’s Dictionary of the German and English languages 1857, 2 ed. 1880, and The illustrated book of French songs 1851. d. 28 Trinity sq. Southwark 21 Feb. 1877. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 28 Feb. Life of E. L. Blanchard ii 465 (1891) portrait; Tinsley’s Magazine March 1874 pp. 270–2; Illust. sp. and dr. news vi 553 (1877) portrait; Graphic xv 236 (1877) portrait; I.L.N. lxx 229 (1877) portrait; Hatton’s Journalistic London (1882) 78 portrait; The theatre i 55–57 and 68 (1877); You have heard of them by Q (1854) 121–27; E. Yates’s Recollections i 307–10 (1884); Wednesday Programme 22 Nov. 1876 p. 5 portrait; Illust. Times 1 Dec. 1866 p. 340 portrait; The Period 11 Feb. 1871 p. 55 portrait; The Mask (1868) 42 portrait.

OXENHAM, HENRY NUTCOMBE (eld. son of Wm. Oxenham 1800–63, second master of Harrow school). b. Harrow 15 Nov. 1829; educ. Harrow and Balliol col. Oxf., classical scholar 27 Nov. 1846, B.A. 1850, M.A. 1854; president of the Union 1852; C. of Worminghall, Bucks. 1854; C. of St. Bartholomew’s, Cripplegate, London 1857; entered the Church of Rome Nov. 1857; a member of the London oratory; took the minor orders as far as Ostiarus; a professor at St. Edmund’s college, Ware; a master at the Oratory school, Birmingham; author of The sentences of Kaires and other poems, Oxford 1854, 3 ed. entitled Poems 1871; The tractarian party and the Anglican church 1858; The Catholic doctrine of the atonement 1865, 2 ed. 1869; Catholic eschatology and universalism 1876; Short studies, ethical and religious, 2 vols. 1884–5; translated Döllinger’s First age of Christianity and the church, 2 vols. 1866, 3 ed. 1877; and his Lectures on the reunion of the churches 1872; edited and translated the second volume of bishop C. J. Von Hefele’s A history of Christian councils 1876. d. 42 Addison road, Kensington, London 23 March 1888. bur. St. Mary’s R.C. church, Chislehurst 27 March. Tablet 31 March 1888 p. 534, 7 April pp. 571–2; Saturday Review lxv 380 (1888).

OXENHAM, WILLIAM (2 son of William Oxenham, prebendary of Exeter 1771–1844). b. Paul, Mount’s bay, Cornwall 13 Dec. 1800; educ. Harrow 1813–19, and Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826; assistant master Harrow 1826–41, lower master 1841 to death; author of English notes for Latin elegiacs 1842, 4 ed. 1862; Death the christian’s gain 1861. d. Somers villa, Reigate 13 Oct. 1863. bur. Harrow ch. yard 20 Oct. G.M. xvi 660 (1863).

OXFORD, EDWARD (3 child of Mr. Oxford, the best gold chaser in Birmingham, who d. 10 June 1829, his widow kept a coffee shop in the Borough road, London). b. Birmingham 19 April 1822; discharged two pistols at queen Victoria and prince Albert as they were driving up Constitution hill, London in an open phaeton 10 June 1840, tried at the Old Bailey 10 July 1840, found to be insane, sent first to Bethlehem hospital, and then to Broadmoor, Surrey; released from Broadmoor Nov. 1867, but not permitted to live in the United Kingdom. Reports of state trials iv 498–555 (1892); W. C. Townsend’s Modern state trials i 102–50 (1850); L. Benson’s Book of remarkable trials (1871) 528–45; A. Griffith’s Newgate ii 285–9 (1884); The Reginacide (1840).

NOTE.—The pistol with which he shot at the queen is in the criminal museum at the convict office, New Scotland Yard, Victoria embankment, London.

OXFORD, JACOB. b. 1834; only 4 feet high; played the concertina outside National gallery, London every evening for 28 years, 1854 to death; he is the subject of a poem of 100 lines entitled In Trafalgar Square, see Songs of the world in The works of Lewis Morris (1890) pp. 16–18. d. Morpeth court, Waterloo road, London 7 Nov. 1882.

OXLEE, JOHN (son of a farmer). b. Guisborough in Cleveland, Yorkshire 25 Sept. 1779; second master of Tunbridge gr. sch. 1802–5; C. of Egton, near Whitby Jany. 1806; C. of Stonegrave 1811; R. of Scawton 1815–26; R. of Molesworth, Hunts. 8 July 1836 to death; learnt 120 languages and dialects, being 60 more than cardinal Mezzofanti; contributed to the Anti-Jacobin review, Valpy’s Classical Journal, the Christian remembrancer, and other periodicals; author of The christian doctrines of the Trinity, the incarnation and the atonement considered and maintained on the principles of Judaism, 3 vols. 1815–50; Six letters to the archbishop of Canterbury on the futility of any attempt to convert the Jews, 2 vols. 1842–5. d. Molesworth rectory 30 Jany. 1854. Smith’s Old Yorkshire (1882) 55–6 portrait; Horne’s Manual of biblical bibliography (1839) 183, 184; Church review 22 March 1862 pp. 175–6; G.M. April 1854 p. 437, and Feb. 1855 pp. 203–4; G. Smales’s Whitby authors (1867) 105–11.

OXLEY, RICHARD. b. Chertsey, Surrey 1803; successor of Charles Knight in the possession and control of the Windsor and Eton Express; official printer of the Windsor race cards, employed pigeons to convey the daily Ascot scratchings for the race cards; printer of the cards for the fashionable yearly meetings at Hawthorn hill; printer to the queen and royal family at Windsor; the oldest follower of the queen’s stag hounds; printed Oxley’s Windsor guide to the castle and Eton college 1889. d. 13 Selborne road, Brighton 9 Aug. 1893.

OXTOBY, THOMAS. Served with lord Henry Bentinck; second whip to Tom Day at Quorn; first whip to Ben Bontheroyd; kennel huntsman to capt. Percy Williams at Rufford many years; whipper-in to Mr. Hodgson in the Holderness country to 1853; huntsman of Fife fox hounds 1853–9. Babington’s Records of the Fife fox hounds (1883) 92 portrait.

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PACIFICO, DAVID. b. Gibraltar 1784; in business at Lagos, Portugal 1812, subsequently resided at Mertola, where his property was confiscated by Don Miguel; Portuguese consul in Morocco 28 Feb. 1835; Portuguese consul-general in Greece 5 Jany. 1837, dismissed from the service 21 Jany. 1842; a merchant at Athens, where his house was burnt down by the mob Easter, 4 April 1847, claimed £26,618 from the Greek government, who delaying to make compensation, lord Palmerston sent the British fleet to the Piræus 18 Jany. 1850, French and English comrs. endeavoured to arrange terms at Athens, but the attempt resulted in a quarrel, and the French ambassador left London 15 May 1850; Pacifico eventually received 120,000 drachmas for the plunder of his house, and £500 for his personal sufferings; settled in London and d. 15 Bury st. St. Mary Axe, London 12 April 1854. bur. Spanish burial-ground, Mile End 14 April. Correspondence respecting the demands made upon the Greek government, in Parliamentary papers 1850 and 1851; Hansard’s Debates 25 June 1850, cols. 380–444; Ashley’s Life of lord Palmerston i 176–227 (1876); Finlay’s History of Greece vii 209–14 (1877); Gordon’s Thirty years of foreign policy (1855) 412–25; McCarthy’s History of our own time ii 41–62 (1879); G.M. June 1854 p. 666.

PACKE, CHARLES WILLIAM (1 son of Charles James Packe of Prestwold hall, near Loughborough). b. 23 Sept. 1792; M.P. South Leicestershire 1836 to death; chairman of Leicestershire quarter sessions to death. d. 7 Richmond terrace, Whitehall, London 27 Oct. 1867.

PACKE, GEORGE HUSSEY (brother of preceding). b. 1 May 1796; educ. Eton; cornet 13 dragoons 24 June 1813; captain 21 light dragoons 27 June 1816, placed on h.p. 25 March 1817, sold out 1861; sheriff of Lincs. 1843; chairman of Sleaford quarter sessions; deputy chairman of Great northern railway company 1851, chairman 1865 to death; contested Newark 31 July 1847; M.P. South Lincolnshire 1859–68. d. 41 Charles st. Berkeley sq. London 2 July 1874.

PACKER, SIR CHARLES (3 son of John Culling Packer of Barbados). b. Barbados 1816; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1839; barrister I.T. 29 Jany. 1841; solicitor general of Barbados 12 March 1847 to 1874; escheator general 1859; vice-chancellor, judge of the admiralty court, and chief justice 30 Oct. 1874 to 1886; member of general assembly 1846–67, speaker 1861–7; member of legislative council 1868–76; knighted by patent 29 Oct. 1879. d. Ruttal house, Barbados 21 Feb. 1888. Law Times lxxxiv 396 (1888), lxxxvi 265 (1889).

PACKER, JOHN GRAHAM. b. 1812; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1840; C. of St. Matthew, Bethnal Green, London 1837–41; V. of St. Peter, Bethnal Green 1841–73; R. of Wootton, Kent 1873–9; V. of Arreton, Isle of Wight 1879 to death; author of Companion to Euclid 1835; Plain sermons 1838; Bethnal Green sermons, sermons on the Lord’s prayer 1848; Theopolis 1850; Sermons on death 1856. d. St. Audries, Bridgwater, Somerset 1 Aug. 1883. Guardian 8 Aug. 1883 pp. 1168, 1169.

PADDOCK, THOMAS. b. Redditch, Worcs. 1824; beat Elijah Parsons in 23 rounds 3 Dec. 1844; beat Nobby Clarke in 42 rounds 27 Jany. 1846, and again in 35 rounds 6 April 1847; beaten by Wm. Thompson, the champion known as Bendigo, at Mildenhall 5 June 1850, £200 a side, 49 rounds in 59 minutes; beaten by Wm. Perry at Woking 17 Dec. 1850, £100 a side, 27 rounds in 42 minutes; beaten by Harry Paulson at Sedgebrook, near Grantham 23 Sept. 1851, £25 a side, 71 rounds in 95 minutes; beat Paulson at Belper, Derbyshire 16 Dec. 1851, £50 a side, 86 rounds in 95 minutes, sentenced to ten months’ imprisonment with hard labour for this fight March 1852; beat Paulson at Mildenhall 14 Feb. 1854, £100 a side, 102 rounds in 2½ hours; beat Aaron Jones at Long Reach, Kent 18 July 1854, £100 a side, 121 rounds in 2 hours and 24 minutes; beat Aaron Jones again at Mildenhall 26 June 1855, £100 a side, 61 rounds in 89 minutes; beat Harry Broome at Bentley, Suffolk 19 May 1856, £200 a side, 51 rounds in 63 minutes; beaten by Tom Sayers, the champion, at Canvey island 16 June 1858, £150 a side, 21 rounds in 80 minutes; fought Samuel Hurst for £200 a side, near Aldermaston, Berkshire 5 Nov. 1860, when Hurst won in five rounds and obtained the champion belt. d. 41 Percy st. Tottenham court road, London 30 June 1863. bur. Finchley 5 July, his widow d. 9 July 1863. Bell’s Life in London 5 July 1863 p. 6, 12 July p. 7; H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica iii 271–307 (1881) portrait; F. W. Henning’s Prize Ring (1888) 130–9, 168–81; J. Hannan’s British Boxing (1850) 15–26.

PADMORE, RICHARD (1 son of Thomas Padmore of Ketley, Salop). b. Ketley 28 Sept. 1789; educ. Wellington school; came to Worcester as a working man, became member of firm of Hardy and Padmore, iron founders, retired some years before his death; sheriff of Worcestershire 1845; alderman of Worcester 1838, mayor 1848 and 1852, retired from the corporation 1874; M.P. Worcester 1860–8; managing director of Worcester City and County banking co.; gave £5,000 to the Royal Albert asylum, Worcester. d. Henwick hall, near Worcester 12 Jany. 1881. bur. Worcester cemetery 19 Jany. Berrow’s Worcestershire Journal 15 Jany. 1881 p. 5, 22 Jany. p. 5.

PADWICK, HENRY (2 son of William Padwick, butcher, d. 1834). b. Horsham, Sussex 1805; a solicitor at 38 Davis st. Berkeley sq. London 1846, retired 1855; resided at 2 Hill st. 1855–68, at 4 Hill st. 1868 to death; commenced horse racing 1849 under the name of Howard; his horses were trained at Danebury, then transferred to Findon under John Barnham Day 1853; with Virago won the 1,000 guineas 1854; sold Kangaroo to the marquess of Hastings for £12,000 in 1865, and Oulston to Mr. Elwes for £8,000; won £80,000 on Virago, and lost the money the same year on the stock exchange 1854; J.P. for London and Westminster; deputy lieutenant for Sussex; deputy keeper of Holyrood palace, Scotland; a well known money lender. d. 4 Hill st Berkeley sq. London 23 Sept. 1879. J. Rice’s History of British Turf i 371–80 (1879); W. Day’s Reminiscences, 2 ed. (1886) 1–34; Times 25 Sept. 1879 p. 9.

PAE, DAVID (son of a miller). b. Amulree, Perthshire 6 May 1828; was with Thomas Grant, publisher, Edinburgh 1848; wrote stories for the Penny Post and the North Briton, Edinb.; editor of The Theatre, Edinburgh, 12 Numbers 1851–2; edited for some years the People’s Journal, Dundee, a weekly paper; wrote 27 works of fiction, printed in instalments in the Journal from 5 Sept. 1863 to his death; wrote the dramatic criticisms for the Evening Telegraph, Dundee, from 1877; wrote Mrs. Macgregor’s Levee for W. C. Gourlay, the Comedian, and other dramas; author of The coming struggle among the nations of the earth 1853, 2 ed. 1854, five replies were made to this work; The coming rest for the nations of the earth 1853; The mission and destiny of Russia as delineated in scripture prophecy 1853; Jessie Melville or the double sacrifice 1856; The merchant’s daughter 1857; Fraud and friendship 1857; Two years after and onward, or the approaching war among the powers of Europe 1864; The present war among the powers of Europe 1866; Hard times, or the trials of the Linwood family, 2 ed. 1886. d. Craigmount, East Newport, Fife 9 May 1884. bur. Western cemet. Dundee 13 May. Dundee Advertiser 10 May 1884 p. 5, 12 May p. 5, 14 May p. 3.

PAGAN, JAMES (son of James Pagan, a bleacher). b. Trailflat, parish of Tinwald, near Dumfries 18 Oct. 1811; educ. Dumfries academy; a compositor and reporter on the Dumfries Courier; partner in a printing firm in London; reporter and sub-editor of the Glasgow Herald 1839, and editor 1856 to death, he converted it into a daily paper 1857; the correspondent of The Times in Glasgow 1857 to death; edited The prospective observer, a broadsheet; author of Sketches of the history of Glasgow 1847; History of the cathedral and see of Glasgow 1851, 2 ed. 1883; Glasgow, past and present, illustrated in dean of guild reports, 3 vols. 1851–6, another ed. 1884; Old Glasgow and its environs 1864; with J. H. Stoddart Relics of ancient architecture in Glasgow 1885. d. Glasgow 11 Feb. 1870. In memoriam, Mr. James Pagan (1870); Maclehose’s Glasgow men ii 255–60 (1886) portrait; Newspaper Press iii 82, 106 (1870).

PAGAN, JOHN. b. Maxwelltown, Dumfriesshire 21 May 1842; assistant surveyor to corporation of Preston 1867–9, and to corporation of Bradford 1869–72; deputy borough surveyor Sheffield 1872–5; borough surveyor Wakefield 1875–9, where he executed the main sewerage extension; A.I.C.E. 2 Feb. 1875; surveyor general to the Gold Coast, May 1879 to death. d. Accra 13 Dec. 1888. Min. of Proc. of Instit. C.E. xcvi 348–9 (1889).

PAGAN, JOHN M. (only son of Andrew Pagan, sheep farmer). b. Halglenmuir, parish of Auchinleck, Ayrshire, Jany. 1802; M.D. Edinb. 1823; F.F.P.S. Glasgow 1827, hon. librarian some years; in practice at Preston, Lancs. 1825, removed to Glasgow 1827; had a class for forensic medicine 1839; regius professor of midwifery and the diseases of women and children, univ. of Glasgow 1840 to death; president Glasgow Medico-chirurgical soc. 1860; invented an obstetric forceps known by his name; author of De syncope anginosa 1823; The medical jurisprudence of insanity 1840. d. Blythswood sq. Glasgow 19 May 1868. Glasgow Medical journal i 129–31 (1869).

PAGANI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA. b. Borgomanero province of Novara, North Italy 14 May 1806; a priest 1828; prefect in theological seminary, Novara 1829; professor of dogmatic theology and canon law; spiritual director of the young ecclesiastics 1831–6; served his noviciate at San Michele della Chiusa, near Turin, in connection with the Institute of Charity 1836–7; joined Fr. Gentili at Prior park, Bath, July 1837, where he was professor of theology to 1841; superior of the English province of the Institute of Charity, established 8 houses with 80 brethren; elected general of the order of the Institute of Charity at Rome 24 July 1855, visited England every year; translated Liguori’s Instructions on the religious state 1848; L’ Anima amante or the soul loving God 1848; Leonardo’s The path to Paradise 1850; author of The Anima Divota, translated by the rev. J. Shepherd, Prior Park 1844; The way to heaven, a manual of devotion 1849; The life of the rev. A. Gentili 1851; The one thing needful, or the attainment of our last end 1852; A help to devotion, a collection of novenas 1853, new ed. 1892; The science of the saints in practice 1853–5, 3 vols.; The end of the world 1855. d. Rome 25–26 Dec. 1860. G. B. Pagani’s The Anima Divota (1891) memoir pp. 7–12; G.M. x 230 (1861).

PAGE, AUGUSTINE. b. 1783; master of Boys’ hospital, Ampton 6 March 1821 to death; author of Memoranda concerning the Boys’ hospital at Ampton in Suffolk, Ipswich 1838; A supplement to the Suffolk traveller 1843, another copy is dated 1844. d. Bury St. Edmunds 18 Sept. 1853.

PAGE, DAVID (son of a mason and builder). b. Lochgelly, Fifeshire 24 Aug. 1814; educ. univ. of St. Andrew’s 1828–34; lecturer and editor of a Fifeshire newspaper; scientific editor to W. and R. Chambers in Edinburgh 1843–51; professor of geology in Durham univ. college of physical science at Newcastle July 1871 to death; F.G.S. 1853; president of Geological society of Edinb. 1863 and 1865; LL.D. St. Andrew’s 1867; author of Introductory text book of geology 1854, 12 ed. 1888; Advanced text book of geology, descriptive and industrial, Edinb. 1856, 5 ed. 1872; Handbook of geological terms and geology 1859, 2 ed. 1865; Introductory text book of physical geography 1863, 12 ed. 1887; The earth’s crust 1864, 6 ed. 1872; Geology for general readers 1866, 12 ed. 1888; and 13 other books. d. Newcastle 9 March 1879, his widow was granted civil list pension of £100, 2 Aug. 1890.

PAGE, JAMES AUGUSTUS. b. 1821; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; vice-chancellor’s prize 1844, B.A. 1845, M.A. 1865; C. of Lymm, Cheshire 1845–6, and V. of Tintwistle 1846–73; lecturer at Rusholme, near Manchester 1873 to death; author of Gathered leaves 1843; The ruined cities of Central America 1844; My church 1845; Protestant ballads 1852. d. Anson terrace, Rusholme 25 March 1880.

PAGE, THOMAS (eld. son of Robert Page of City of London, solicitor). b. London 26 Oct. 1803; employed by Edward Blore, the architect; A.I.C.E. 2 April 1833, M.I.C.E. 18 April 1837; one of the assistant engineers on the Thames tunnel works 1835, acting engineer 1836 until completion of tunnel 25 March 1843; designed the embankment of the Thames from Westminster to Blackfriars 1842, but the scheme was abandoned; prepared plans for harbours at Holyhead and Port Denllaen, also for docks at Swansea; designed and executed the Albert embankment between Vauxhall and Battersea bridges, and the Chelsea suspension bridge, opened 28 March 1858, the Albert embankment was opened 24 Nov. 1869; designed Westminster bridge, commenced May 1854, opened 24 May 1862; engineer for the town of Wisbeach; invented a system for firing guns under water; author of Report on the eligibility of Milford Haven for ocean steam ships, and for a naval arsenal 1859. d. Paris 8 Jany. 1877. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xlix 262–5 (1877).

PAGE, WILLIAM EMMANUEL (2 son of rev. Wm. Page of Westminster). b. 9 April 1808; educ. Westminster and Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1826, faculty student 1826–56; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833, B.M. 1834, D.M. 1837; F.R.C.P. Lond. 1838, treasurer; lecturer on theory and practice of medicine St. George’s hospital, senior physician at his decease; author of Oratio ex Harveii instituto in ædibus collegii regalis medicorum Londinensis habita 1860; An introductory address delivered at St. George’s hospital 1864. d. 106 Gloucester place, Portman sq. London 2 Jany. 1868. Medical Times and Gazette i 49 (1868).

PAGET, ALFRED HENRY (5 son of 1 Marquess of Anglesey 1768–1854). b. 29 June 1816; educ. Westminster; cornet royal horse guards 6 July 1832, lieut. 14 March 1834; captain 7 hussars 3 July 1841, placed on h.p. with rank of major 16 May 1845; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877, placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881; chief equerry and clerk marshal to the queen July 1846 to March 1852, Dec. 1852 to March 1858, and June 1859 to Aug. 1874; clerk marshal to the queen July 1846 to death; his boat the Mystery 25 tons was the first iron yacht built; M.P. Lichfield 1837–65; m. 8 April 1847 Cecilia, 2 dau. of George Thomas Wyndham, she was one of the Court beauties in 1858; he d. on board his yacht Violet at Inverness 24 Aug. 1888. bur. Hampton churchyard 30 Aug. H. Vizetelly’s Glances back through seventy years ii 6 (1893); Yachting (Badmington Library 1894) ii 15, 185–6.

PAGET, CHARLES (elder son of Joseph Paget). b. Loughborough, Leics. 1799; a manufacturer at Nottingham; sheriff of Notts. 1844; a practical and scientific farmer; established schools for his labourers’ children at Ruddington, near Nottingham; M.P. Nottingham 1856–65; contested Nottingham 11 July 1865; author of Results of an experiment on the half-time system of education in rural districts, as carried on at Ruddington 1859; drowned with his wife off Filey Brigg, Yorkshire 13 Oct. 1873. Scarborough Mercury 18 Oct. 1873 p. 4, 25 Oct. p. 2.

NOTE.—Mr. and Mrs. Paget while standing on a ridge of rocks known as Filey Brigg, were washed off by a huge wave, and the bodies were not recovered.

PAGET, CLARENCE EDWARD (4 son of 1 marquess of Anglesey 1768–1854). b. 17 June 1811; educ. Westminster school 1821–3; entered navy 1827; a midshipman on board the Asia at Battle of Navarino; captain 26 March 1839; commanded the princess Royal, 91 guns, in the Baltic 1854, and during blockade and bombardment of Sebastopol 1855; R.A. 4 Feb. 1858, admiral 1 April 1870, placed on retired list 18 June 1876; M.P. Sandwich 1847–52 and 1857–66; secretary to the admiralty 1859–66; commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean 28 April 1866 to 28 April 1869; C.B. Feb. 1856, K.C.B. 2 June 1869, G.C.B. 29 May 1886; P.C. 9 May 1866; m. 1852 Martha Stuart, dau. of admiral Sir Robert Otway, she d. 23 March 1895; he d. Brighton 22 March 1895, they were both buried at Patcham, near Brighton 28 March. Illust. news of the world viii (1861) portrait.

PAGET, FRANCIS EDWARD (eld. son of sir Edward Paget, general 1775–1849). b. 24 May 1806; educ. Westminster school 1817–24 and Ch. Ch. Oxf., student 1825–36; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1830; R. of Elford, near Lichfield 1835 to death, the church was restored 1848; chaplain to Dr. Bagot, bishop of Bath and Wells; author of Caleb Kniveton, the incendiary, Oxford 1833; St. Antholin’s, or old churches and new 1841; Milford Malvoisin, or pews and pewholders 1842; The warden of Berkingholt, or rich and poor 1843; The owlet of Owlstone Edge 1856; The curate of Cumberworth and the vicar of Roost 1859; Lucretia, or the heroine of the nineteenth century 1868, a satire on the sensational novel; Some records of the Ashstead estate and of its Howard possessors, Lichfield 1873; A student penitent of 1695, 1875; Homeward bound 1876; edited The Juvenile Englishman’s library, and wrote for it 5 volumes, namely, Tales of the village children 1845, 2 vols.; The hope of the Katzekopfs 1845, also issued separately under pseudonym of William Charme of Staffordshire; Luke Sharp 1845; Tales of the village 1860. d. Elford 4 Aug. 1882. Guardian 16 Aug. 1882 p. 1124; Church congress (1883) 55.

PAGET, SIR GEORGE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK (brother of Clarence E. Paget 1811–95). b. Burlington st. London 16 March 1818; educ. Westminster school 1829; cornet 1 life guards 25 July 1834, lieut. 1837–41; captain 4 light dragoons 17 June 1842, lieut. col. 29 Dec. 1846, placed on h.p. 1 May 1857; served at battles of Alma, Balaklava, and Inkerman; commanded the light brigade in the Crimea 25 Feb. to 29 July 1855; brigadier general in the Crimea 30 July 1855 to 14 May 1856, and at Aldershot 1 April 1860 to 31 Aug. 1861; commanded the Sirhind division of the Bengal army 26 Dec. 1862 to 23 March 1865; inspector general of cavalry at head quarters 1 April 1865 to 31 March 1870; col. of 7 dragoon guards 28 Jany. 1868, and of 4 hussars 7 Jany. 1874 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; M.P. Beaumaris 1847–57; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 2 June 1869; author of The light cavalry brigade in the Crimea, 1875, 2 ed. 1881. d. Farm st. Mayfair, London 30 June 1880. I.L.N. xxxii 461 (1858) portrait; Times 2 July 1880 p. 5.

PAGET, SIR GEORGE EDWARD (7 son of Samuel Paget of Great Yarmouth, merchant). b. Great Yarmouth 22 Dec. 1809; educ. Charterhouse 1824–7, and Gonville and Caius coll. Camb. 1827, scholar 1828, eighth wrangler Jany. 1831; fellow of his college 1832 to 11 Dec. 1851, elected fellow again 2 May 1881; B.A. 1831, M.B. 1833, M.L. 1836, M.D. 1838; studied medicine at St. Bartholomew’s hospital and in Paris; physician to Addenbrooke’s hospital, Cambridge 1839–84; Linacre lecturer on medicine at St. John’s college, July 1851 to 1872; president of Cambridge philosophical society 1855–6; member of council of the senate of Cambridge univ. 1856, and their representative on general council of medical education 27 Nov. 1863 to 9 July 1869, president 9 July 1869 to 18 July 1874; president of British medical association 1864; regius professor of physic at Cambridge 15 Feb. 1872 to death; delivered Harveian oration at royal college of physicians 1866; F.R.S. 12 June 1873; K.C.B. 19 Dec. 1885; author of Notice of an unpublished manuscript of Harvey 1850; The Harveian oration 1866. d. St. Peter’s terrace, Cambridge 29 Jany. 1892. Proc. of royal society l, p. xii (1892); Some lectures by sir G. E. Paget, edited by C. E. Paget, Cambridge (1893) memoir pp. 1–26 portrait; Graphic 6 Feb. 1892 p. 174 portrait; Barker’s Photographs of medical men (1865) portrait 6.

PAGET, JOHN (son of John Paget). b. Thorpe Satchville, Leics. 1808; a lay student in Manchester college, York 1823–6; studied medicine in univ. of Edinb. 1826, M.D. 1830 but never used title of doctor; studied medicine in Paris and Italy; m. at Rome 1837 baroness Polyxena Wesselingi, widow of baron Ladislaus Bánffy, she d. 1878; developed his wife’s estates in Hungary, where he introduced an improved breed of cattle, and paid special attention to viniculture; member of the Unitarian church of Transylvania; author of Hungary and Transylvania, 2 vols. 1839, 2 ed. 1855; Unitarianism in Transylvania, in J. R. Beard’s Unitarianism exhibited 1846, pp. 296–315. d. Gyeres, Hungary 10 April 1892. bur. Kolozsvár 12 April. Keresztény Magretö (1893) pp. 90 et seq., memoir and portrait; Inquirer 30 April 1892 p. 278.

PAGET, THOMAS TERTIUS (1 son of Thomas Paget, M.P.) b. 27 Dec. 1807; proprietor of banking firm of T. T. Paget, Leicester; M.P. South Leicestershire Nov. 1867 to Nov. 1868; contested S. Leicestershire 26 Nov. 1868, 13 June 1870 and 14 Feb. 1874; M.P. S. Leicestershire 1880 to death; sheriff of Leicester 1869; proprietor of the opera-house in Leicester; well known in the hunting field; author of Talbot v. Talbot, a statement of facts 1855; A letter on the judgement of the high court of delegates in Talbot v. Talbot 1856. d. Humberstone, near Leicester 16 Oct. 1892, will proved 1 Nov., personalty amounted to over £589,000.

PAGET, WILLIAM (2 son of 1 marquess of Anglesey 1768–1854). b. Wigmore st. London 1 March 1803; entered navy 1 April 1817, captain 18 Oct. 1826; M.P. for Carnarvon 1826–30, and for Andover 1841–7. d. Boulogne 17 May 1873. A.R. (1844) 21–4, 25; I.L.N. lxii 523 (1873).

PAGLIARDINI, TITO. b. Italy 1817; second French master St. Paul’s sch. London 28 July 1853, head French master 4 Feb. 1859 to 1879; member of the order of the Corona d’Italia 1893; a member of Workman’s Peace association, of the National Education association, of the National health soc., of the Paddington parliament, and of the Social science congresses; translated L. Manzotti’s Excelsior, a ballet at Her Majesty’s theatre 1885; C. Lisei’s Giovanni Bottesini 1886; L. Manzotti’s Amor love, a choreographic poem 1886; author of Le petit précepteur; Le petit grammairien 1868. d. 21 Alexander st. Westbourne park, London 26 March 1895.

PAICE, WILLIAM. b. 1836; educ. University coll. sch.; matric. Univ. of London 1852, B.A. 1856, M.A. 1860; edited Light, a journal devoted to the highest interests of humanity, both here and hereafter, No. 1, 8 Jany. 1881; author of Energy and motion, a text book of elementary mechanics 1884. d. 1 Portman mansions, Baker st. London 24 Jany. 1895.

PAIN, JAMES (son of James Pain, builder and surveyor). b. Isleworth, Surrey about 1779; apprenticed to John Nash, the architect; partner with his brother George Richard Pain as architects and builders; James settled at Limerick and George at Cork as builders about 1817; they built the churches of Buttevant, Midleton, and Carrigaline, the gaols at Limerick and Cork, Thomond bridge at Limerick, and Athlunkard bridge near Limerick 1839–43; they designed Mitchelstown castle, near Cork, for the earl of Kingston; James was architect to the board of first-fruits for the province of Munster, with charge of the churches and glebe houses; George b. London 1793, d. 1838, bur. St. Mary Shandon ch. yard; James d. Limerick 13 Dec. 1877. bur. Limerick cathedral. Dictionary of architecture vi, Letter P, 6–7 (1881).

PAINTER, EDWARD. b. Stratford, near Manchester March 1784; a brewer by trade; fought J. Coyne of Kilkenny at St. Nicholas, near Margate 23 Aug. 1813 and won in 40 minutes; beat J. Alexander in 20 rounds at Moulsey Hurst, Surrey 20 Nov. 1813; beaten by Tom Oliver 17 May 1814; beaten by John Shaw the lifeguardsman in 28 minutes at Hounslow heath 18 April 1815; beaten by Harry Sutton the Black at Moulsey Hurst 23 July 1817; beat Sutton at Bungay, Suffolk in 15 rounds 7 Aug. 1818; beaten by Tom Spring at Mickleham Downs, Surrey in 31 rounds 1 April 1818; beat Spring at Russia farm, near Kingston in 42 rounds 7 Aug. 1818; beat Tom Oliver at North Walsham 17 July 1820; landlord of the Anchor inn, Lobster lane, Norwich 1818 many years, then of the White Hart inn, Market place, Norwich. d. at his son’s residence near the Ram, Lakenham, Norwich 18 Sept. 1852. bur. St. Peter’s churchyard, Norwich 22 Sept. Miles’ Pugilistica ii 74–88 (1880) portrait: The Fancy. By An Operator i 393–400 (1826) portrait.

PAKENHAM, CHARLES REGINALD (4 son of Thomas Pakenham, 2 earl of Longford 1744–1835). b. 21 Sept. 1821; ensign 72 foot 14 June 1839; captain 69 foot 1 Dec. 1846; lieut. grenadier guards 5 March 1847, sold out 2 May 1851; aide de camp to the queen, and accompanied her to Ireland 1849; sold all his possessions and gave the proceeds to charitable institutions 1851; joined the order of the ‘Barefooted clerks of the most sacred passion of our Lord Jesus Christ’ 1854, ordained a priest 29 Sept. 1855; visited Rome 1856; rector of the ‘Retreat of blessed Paul of the Cross’ at Harold’s Cross, Dublin, Aug. 1856 to death; known as Father Paul Mary. d. Harold’s Cross, Dublin 1 March 1857. bur. in chapel of the Retreat 4 March. The Tablet 7 March 1857 p. 148.

PAKENHAM, EDWARD WILLIAM (1 son of sir Hercules Robert Pakenham 1781–1850). b. Ireland 20 Sept. 1819; M.P. Antrim July 1852 to death; ensign grenadier guards 12 Jany 1838, captain 24 Feb. 1854 to death; one of the foremost at the battle of the Alma, in the charge of the guards, he was the officer who first jumped over the embrasure of the Russian battery; at Inkerman he defended at the head of the 7 company of grenadier guards the Sand-bag battery and fell pierced by many wounds 5 Nov. 1854. bur. 6 Nov. G. Ryan’s Our heroes (1855) 167–8.

PAKENHAM, JOHN (4 son of admiral sir Thomas Pakenham 1757–1836). b. 18 Oct. 1790; entered navy 22 April 1804; commanded the Harrier on the Cork station 1825; captain 26 Aug. 1826, retired 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 15 June 1864. d. Cannes 1 June 1876. O’Byrne’s Naval Biog. (1849) 851.

PAKENHAM, SIR RICHARD (brother of preceding). b. Pakenham hall, Castle Pollard, Westmeath 19 May 1797; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; attaché at the Hague 15 Oct. 1817; secretary to the legation in Switzerland 26 Jany. 1824, and to the legation in Mexico 29 Dec. 1826; minister plenipotentiary to the United Mexican states 12 March 1835, obtained treaty for abolition of the slave trade 1841; P.C. 13 Dec. 1843; envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to United States of America 14 Dec. 1843, went on leave of absence 29 May 1847, retired on a pension 22 March 1849; envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at Lisbon 28 April 1851, retired on pension 28 June 1855; sent on a special mission to Lisbon 7 Aug. 1855, returned to England Oct. 1855, granted pension. d. Coolure, Castle Pollard 28 Oct. 1868. Men of the time (1868) p. 630; I.L.N. liii 459 (1868).

PALEY, FREDERICK APTHORP (eld. son of Edmund Paley, R. of Easingwold, near York, then R. of Gretford, Lincs., d. 1850). b. Easingwold 14 Jany. 1815; educ. Shrewsbury and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1842; resided at St. John’s 1838–46; an original member of Cambridge Camden society, hon. secretary and member of committee, contributed to the Ecclesiologist; joined the church of Rome 1846; tutor to Bertram Talbot, heir to earldom of Shrewsbury 1847–50; tutor in the Throckmorton family 1850–2; non-resident tutor in the family of Kenelm Digby 1852–6; resided at Cambridge as a private tutor 1860–74, examiner in the classical tripos 1873–4; professor of classical literature at the new catholic univ. college at Kensington 1874–7; classical examiner to univ. of London 1875–80, and to the civil service commission; hon. LL.D. Aberdeen 1883; edited the greater part of the Greek tragedies separately in Cambridge Greek and Latin texts with notes; published Ecclesiologists’ guide to the churches within seven miles of Cambridge 1844; Æschyli quæ supersunt omnia 1850; A manual of Gothic mouldings 1845, 5 ed. 1891; S. A. Porpertii Carmina with English notes 1853, 2 ed. 1872; The tragedies of Æschylus with an English commentary 1855, 4 ed. 1879; The tragedies of Euripides, 3 vols. 1857, 2 ed. 1872; The Epics of Hesiod, with an English commentary 1861, 2 ed. 1883; The Iliad of Homer, with English notes, 2 vols. 1866, 2 ed. 1884. d. Apthorp, Boscombe Spa, Bournemouth 11 Dec. 1888. bur. R.C. churchyard, Boscombe.

PALEY, GEORGE BARKER (eld. son of John Green Paley of Langcliffe and Oatlands, Yorkshire 1774–1860). b. 28 Oct. 1799; educ. St. Peter’s coll. Camb., 25 wrangler and B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825, B.D. 1833; fellow of his college 1822–32; P.C. of Little St. Mary, Cambridge 1832–3; V. of Cherry Hinton, Cambs. 1833–5; R. of Freckenham, Suffolk 14 Oct. 1835 to death; published Form of family prayer for Sunday and daily use 1839; A tract for the foundry, or hear what the furnace teacheth 1846; Saul of Tarsus, a drama 1855. d. 90 Onslow gardens, London Feb. 1880, personalty sworn as £300,000, 10 April 1880. Times 14 Feb. 1880 p. 10.

PALGRAVE, SIR FRANCIS (only son of Meyer Cohen, member of the stock exchange). b. London July 1788; articled to Loggin and Smith, solicitors, Basinghall st. 1803, and was their managing clerk 1808–22; solicitor in King’s Bench walk Temple 1822; barrister I.T. 9 Feb. 1827, engaged in pedigree cases before the house of lords; became a Christian 1823; m. 13 Oct. 1823 Elizabeth, 2 dau. of Dawson Turner, F.R.S., by Mary, 2 dau. of William Palgrave of Coltishall, Norfolk, having assumed by R.L. the name of Palgrave in lieu of Cohen 30 Sept. 1823; his plan for publication of the public records was accepted Aug. 1822, edited for the record commission Parliamentary writs and writs of summons, 2 vols. 1827–34; Rolls and records of the court held before the king’s justiciars or justices 1195–1199, 2 vols. 1835; The antient kalendars and inventories of the treasury of his majesty’s exchequer, 2 vols. 1836; Documents and records illustrating the history of Scotland preserved in the treasury of her majesty’s exchequer 1837; knighted at St. James’s palace 31 Aug. 1832; K.H. 1832; F.R.S. 15 Nov. 1821; one of the municipal corporations’ comrs. 18 July 1833, but withheld his signature from their report; deputy keeper of her majesty’s records Dec. 1838 to death; collected at the rolls’ office the national muniments from 56 different offices in Lendon, issued 22 annual reports 1840–61; author of History of England vol. 1 only 1831; The rise and progress of the English commonwealth, Anglo-Saxon period, 2 parts 1832; An essay on the original authority of the King’s council 1834; Documents and records illustrating the history of Scotland, vol. 1 1837; Handbook for travellers in Northern Italy 1842, and 6 other editions 1847–60; The history of Normandy and of England, 4 vols. 1851–64. d. The Green, Hampstead 6 July 1861, after residing there from 19 March 1834. Proc. of royal soc. xii 13–20 (1862); G.M. Oct. 1861 pp. 441–5; Palgrave family memorials, edited by C. J. Palmer and S. Tucker (1878) 91, 108, portrait of sir F. and lady Palgrave; Blackwood’s Mag. June 1857 pp. 731–47.

PALGRAVE, WILLIAM GIFFORD (2 son of sir Francis Palgrave 1788–1861). b. 22 Parliament st. Westminster 24 Jany. 1826; educ. Charterhouse 1838–43, gold medallist and captain of the school; scholar of Trin. coll. Oxf. 1843–7; 2 lieut. 8 Bombay N.I. 1847; entered a Jesuit establishment in Madras and was ordained a priest; employed in the missionary work of the order in Southern India until June 1853; a missionary in Syria 1853, made many converts, barely escaped from the massacre at Damascus June 1861; a perfect Arabic scholar; delivered lectures in Ireland on the Syrian massacres 1861, published under title of Four lectures on the massacres of the Christians in Syria 1861; travelled across Central Arabia disguised as a Syrian christian doctor and merchant 1862–3; sent on a special mission to Abyssinia to obtain from king Theodore the release of consul Cameron, July 1865; British consul at Soukem-Kaleh 23 July 1866, and at Trebizond 20 May 1867; consul at St. Thomas in the West Indies 30 Jany. 1873, and at Manila 3 April 1876; consul-general in Bulgaria 23 Sept. 1878, and in Siam 26 Nov. 1879; minister-resident in Uruguay 16 Jany. 1884 to death; F.R.G.S. 1878; author of Narrative of a year’s journey through Central and Eastern Arabia, 2 vols. 1865, with portrait; Hermann Agha, 2 vols. 1872, 3 ed. 1878; Essays on eastern questions 1872; Dutch Guiana 1876; Ulysses, or scenes and studies in many lands 1887; A vision of life, semblance and reality 1891; m. 1868 Katherine, dau. of G. E. Simpson of Norwich, she was granted civil list pension of £50, 23 Jany. 1889; he d. Monte Video 30 Sept. 1888. bur. St. Thomas’s cemet. Fulham. T. Cooper’s Men of mark, vol. iv (1880) portrait 4.

PALIN, WILLIAM (youngest son of Richard Palin). b. Mortlake, Surrey 10 Nov. 1803; matric. from St. Alban hall, Oxf. 17 Dec. 1829; migrated to Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1851, M.A. Oxf. 1861; C. of Stifford, Essex, Trinity Sunday 1833; R. of Stifford 6 June 1834 to death, restored the parish church 1861–3; edited the Churchman’s Magazine 1853–7; author of Village lectures on the litany 1837; Bellingham, or narrative of a christian in search of the church 1839; The history of the church of England 1688–1717, 1851; The Christian month, original hymns, set to music by Ann Sheppard Mounsey 1842; Stifford and its neighbourhood, past and present 1871, and More about Stifford and its neighbourhood 1872. d. Stifford rectory-house 16 Oct. 1882. W. Palin’s Stifford (1871) 72, 179–80.

PALIN, WILLIAM HENRY (son of an officer in H.E.I.C. service). b. India 1824; ensign 17 Bombay N.I. 12 Dec. 1840, captain 21 May 1855, retired 29 May 1857; chief constable of Manchester 1857, resigned Feb. 1881. d. 24 Belvidere road, Prince’s park, Liverpool 16 June 1882. bur. Southern cemetery, Withington.

PALLISER, FANNY BURY (dau. of Joseph Marryat, M.P. for Sandwich 1832–4). b. 23 Sept. 1805; (m. 8 Aug. 1832 captain Richard Bury Palliser, 3 son of John Palliser of Derrybuskan, co. Tipperary, he d. Cowley Grove, Middlesex 29 Oct. 1852, aged 55); contributed to the Art Journal and the Academy; helped to organise the international lace academy held at South Kensington 1874; author of The modern poetical speaker 1845; History of lace 1856, 3 ed. 1875; Brittany and its byways 1869; Historic devices, badges and war cries 1870; A descriptive catalogue of the lace and embroidery in the South Kensington museum 1871, 3 ed. 1881; Mottoes for monuments 1872; The china collector’s pocket companion 1874, 2 ed. 1875; A brief history of Germany to the battle of Könizgratz; translated from the French J. Labarte’s Handbook of the arts of the middle ages 1855; A. Jacquemarts History of the ceramic art 1873, and A history of furniture 1878. d. 33 Russell road, Kensington 16 Jany. 1878. F. Marryat’s Life of captain Marryat i, 256–60 (1872); Academy i 73 (1878).

PALIOLOGUS, WILLIAM THOMAS (son of Nicholas Paliologus of Calcutta, notary public d. 1840). b. Calcutta 20 Oct. 1827; educ. by Frederick M. Walter, P.C. of St. Petrox, Dartmouth, England 1840–6; matric. at univ. of London 1846; studied medicine in London; M.R.C.S. 1851; F.R.G.S.; assistant surgeon in the army 1 Sept. 1854, served in the Crimea and India 1854–9; surgeon 20 Oct. 1869, placed on h.p. 13 April 1872; was a representative of the Palæologus family, emperors of the East. d. Isleworth, near Twickenham, Middlesex 15 July 1873. Illustrated Times 17 Jany. 1863 p. 45 portrait; N. and Q. 1 S. v 173 et seq. (1852); Archæologia xviii 84–104 (1817).

PALLISER, HENRY. b. 1793; 2 lieut. R.A. 4 June 1810, colonel 13 Dec. 1854 to 22 Feb. 1863; M.G. 22 Feb. 1863. d. Victoria park, Dover 17 Dec. 1864.

PALLISER, JOHN (eld. son of Wray Palliser of Comragh, co. Waterford, d. 1862). b. 29 Jany. 1817; sheriff of Waterford 1844; captain Waterford artillery militia; went on a hunting expedition among the Indians of the western states of America 1847; appointed by the government leader of the expedition for exploring the west of British North America 31 March 1857; explored the Rocky Mountains 1858, for which he was granted the Victoria gold medal of the royal geographical society, May 1859; returned to England 1861; C.M.G. 30 May 1877; author of Solitary rambles and adventures of a hunter in the prairies 1853, eighth thousand 1856. d. Comragh, co. Waterford 18 Aug. 1887.

PALLISER, SIR WILLIAM (brother of the preceding). b. Dublin 18 June 1830; educ. Rugby, Trin. coll. Dublin, Trin. hall, Camb., and Sandhurst; 2 lieut. rifle brigade 22 April 1855, lieut. 31 Aug. 1855; lieut. 18 hussars 1858, captain 5 Aug. 1859; brigade major of cavalry Dublin 6 July 1860, placed on h.p. 4 Oct. 1860; major in the army 4 Oct. 1864, sold out Dec. 1871; patented improvements in the construction of ordnance and in the projectiles to be used therewith 11 Nov. 1862; took out a patent for screw-bolts 6 Dec. 1862, and another for chill-casting projectiles 27 May 1863, which were introduced into the service 1866; took out 14 patents relating to guns, bolts, and projectiles 1867–81; C.B. 7 Dec. 1868; knighted at Osborne 16 Jany. 1873; granted cross of a commander of the crown of Italy 1875; contested Dungarvon 15 July 1865, and Devonport 18 Nov. 1868; M.P. Taunton April 1880 to death; author of Notes of recent experiments at Shoeburyness with chilled shot and shells 1866, which he withdrew from circulation; The use of earthen fortresses for the defence of London and as a preventive against invasion 1871; m. 1868 Anna, dau. of George Perham, she was granted civil list pension of £150, 20 June 1883. d. 21 Earl’s court sq. London 4 Feb. 1882. bur. Brompton cemet. 9 Feb. Professional papers of the corps of R.E. xiii 128, xiv 163, xvi 125; Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lix 418–21 (1882); I.L.N. lxii 177, 178 (1873) portrait.

PALMER, ARTHUR (only son of John Jordan Palmer of Bristol). b. 1783; barrister G.I. 16 May 1821; judge of county courts, circuit 55, comprising Bristol, Thornbury, and Chipping-Sodbury 15 March 1847, resigned Jany. 1854. d. the Hot Wells, Clifton 19 Nov. 1856. J. Latimer’s Annals of Bristol (1887) 303.

PALMER, CHARLES (eld. son of John Palmer, projector of mail-coaches 1742–1818). b. Weston, near Bath 6 May 1777; educ. Eton; matric. from Oriel coll. Oxf. 16 Oct. 1793; cornet 10 dragoons 17 May 1796, lieut. col. 3 May 1810 to 12 Nov. 1814; lieut. col. 23 light dragoons 12 Nov. 1814, placed on h.p. 25 Dec. 1814; A.D.C. to the prince regent, afterwards the king, 8 Feb. 1811 to 27 May 1825; served during the whole of the Peninsular war; M.G. 27 May 1825; M.P. Bath 1808–26 and 1830–7; proprietor of the Bath theatre from 1818; a large vine-grower in the Gironde; author of Speech on the state of the nation, on the third reading of the reform bill 1832. d. 17 April 1851. G.M. July 1851 p. 92; Royal military calendar iv 243 (1820).

PALMER, CHARLES JAMES. b. 1808; collector of rare prints and etchings; bought the great etching by Rembrandt of “Christ healing the sick,” better known as “the hundred guilder print,” at sir Charles Price’s sale for £1,180, the largest sum ever paid for a print down to May 1883; some of his paintings were sold at Christie’s on 16 May 1868. d. 46 Portland place, London 3 Jany. 1868. Athenæum 18 Jany. 1868 p. 98.

PALMER, CHARLES JOHN (only son of John Danby Palmer, ship owner). b. Yarmouth 1 Jany. 1805; articled to Robert Cory, attorney 1822–7; a freeman of Banff 12 Oct. 1824, and of Yarmouth 28 June 1825; a notary public 10 May 1827; an attorney 29 June 1827; proctor to admiralty court, Yarmouth 12 Aug. 1827; practised at Yarmouth 1827–77; an alderman of the old corporation to 1835, member of the town council, mayor 1854 and 1855; chief promoter of the Victoria building company; a promoter of the Wellington pier and of the assembly rooms; hon. sec. of church restoration committee 1845–75; F.S.A. 1830; edited The history of Great Yarmouth by Henry Manship 1854; author of The history of Great Yarmouth 1856; The perlustration of Great Yarmouth with Gorleston and Southtown, 3 vols. 1872–5; Memorials of the family of Hurry of Great Yarmouth and of New York 1873; edited with Stephen I. Tucker, Palgrave family memorials, Norwich 1878. d. Villa Graham, Great Yarmouth 24 Sept. 1882. Leaves from the diary of C. J. Palmer, edited by F. D. Palmer (1892) portrait; Law Times lxxiii 388 (1882).

PALMER, EDWARD (3 son of James Burden Palmer of Charlottetown, Prince Edward island). b. Charlottetown 1 Sept. 1809; called to the local bar 1831, admitted solicitor 1834; Q.C. 1857; member of the assembly to 1860, of the legislative council 1860; solicitor general Prince Edward island 1848–51; attorney general 1854, 1863–9, and 1872–3; president of executive council 1859; judge of county court of Queen’s county 1873, and chief justice July 1874 to death. d. Charlottetown 3 Nov. 1889. Law Times 25 Jany. 1890 p. 229.

PALMER, EDWARD HENRY (son of Wm. Henry Palmer, schoolmaster). b. Green st. Cambridge 7 Aug. 1840; educ. Perse gr. sch. Cambridge; clerk in the office of Hill and Underwood of Eastcheap, London, wine merchants 1856–9; learnt Persian, Arabic and Hindustani; a sizar at St. John’s coll. Camb. 9 Oct. 1863, scholar 16 June 1865, fellow 5 Nov. 1867 to death; B.A. 1867, M.A. 1870; catalogued the Persian, Arabic and Turkish manuscripts of King’s and Trinity colleges and of the university library; one of the surveyors of Sinai for the Palestine exploration fund 1869; walked from Sinai to Jerusalem with C. F. T. Drake, identifying sites and searching for inscriptions 1870; lord almoner’s professor of Arabic at Cambridge 10 Nov. 1871 to death, lectured on Arabic, Persian and Hindustani 1873–81; barrister M.T. 6 June 1874; wrote leading articles for the Standard, London, daily paper Aug. 1881 to June 1882; sent by the government to Egypt on a secret-service mission June and July 1882; rode from Alexandria across the desert to Suez; interpreter-in-chief to British forces in Egypt Aug. 1882; started from Suez for the desert 8 Aug. 1882, shot by Bedouins at Wady Sudr 11 Aug. 1882. bur. in crypt of St. Paul’s cath. London 6 April 1883; portrait in hall of St. John’s coll. Camb., his widow was granted civil list pension of £200, 2 Feb. 1883; author of Oriental mysticism, a treatise on the Sufiistic and unitarian theosophy of the Persians 1867; A catalogue of the Arabic, Persian and Turkish manuscripts in Trinity college, Cambridge 1870; The desert of the exodus, journeys on foot 1871; A grammar of the Arabic language 1874; A dictionary of the Persian language 1876; The Arabic manual 1881; Simplified grammar of Hindūstānī, Persian and Arabic 1882; with W. Besant, Jerusalem the city of Herod and Saladin 1871, 2 ed. 1888; with C. G. Leland English gipsy songs 1875. W. Besant’s Life of E. H. Palmer (1883) portrait; A. E. Haynes’ Man-hunting in the desert, a narrative of Palmer’s Search-expedition (1894) portrait; Graphic xxvi 469 (1882) portrait; I.L.N. lxxxi 461 (1882) portrait.

PALMER, EDWIN (4 son of William Jocelyn Palmer 1778–1853, V. of Mixbury, Oxfordshire). b. Mixbury 18 July 1824; educ. Charterhouse and Balliol coll. Oxf. 1841, scholar 1841–5; Hertford and Ireland scholar 1843; B.A. 1845, M.A. 1850, D.D. 1878; fellow of Balliol 29 Nov. 1845 to 19 Sept. 1867, hon. fellow 1870; senior dean 1855, catechetical lecturer 1871; select preacher univ. of Oxf. 1865–6 and 1873–4; fellow Corpus Christi coll. 1870–8, vice-president 1877, hon. fellow 1878; Corpus professor of Latin literature 1870–8; examining chaplain to bishop of Oxford 1869; archdeacon of Oxford with canonry of Christ Church 1878 to death; edited The Apology of Plato 1867; Catulli Veronensis Carmina selecta 1872; The Greek testament 1881; author of Bishop Patteson missionary bishop and martyr 1872, and of charges and sermons. d. Christ Church, Oxford 17 Oct. 1895. bur. Osney cemet. Oxford 21 Oct. I.L.N. 26 Oct. 1895 p. 510 portrait; Black and White 26 Oct. 1895 p. 530 portrait.

PALMER, FRANCIS ROGER. b. 21 Oct. 1811; ensign 89 foot 22 March 1833; 1 lieut. rifle corps 26 Feb. 1836, lieut. col. 22 June 1858 to death; colonel in the army 22 June 1863; C.B. 16 Nov. 1858. d. Villa d’ Este, Lake Como, Italy 18 Oct. 1872.

PALMER, GEORGE (eld. son of Wm. Palmer of Wanlip, Leics. and of London, merchant, d. 1821, aged 53). b. 11 Feb. 1772; educ. Charterhouse; served in the East India company’s navy 1786–99; East India merchant and shipowner at 28 Throgmorton st. London 1802; master of the Mercers’ company 1821; connected with the National lifeboat institution 1826, lifeboats on his plan were used at more than 20 ports until 1858, deputy chairman 25 years, resigned Feb. 1853; chairman of the General shipowners’ society 1832; contested South Shields Dec. 1832; M.P. South Essex 1836–47; sheriff of Hertfordshire 1818; sheriff of Essex; author of Memoir of a chart from the strait of Allas to the island Bouro 1799; A new plan for fitting all boats so that they may be secure as lifeboats at the shortest notice 1828. d. Nazeing park, Essex 12 May 1853. The lifeboat July 1853 pp. 28–32; G.M. June 1853 pp. 656–7.

PALMER, GEORGE HENRY (eld. son of Henry Palmer of Brynbank, Carmarthenshire). b. Wernligoes parish, Llanvalteg, Carmarthenshire 29 Dec. 1831; educ. Narberth and Carmarthen college; usher at a school in France; a student of univ. of Glasgow Nov. 1853, M.A. 1856; resident lecturer in classics and history at cavalry college, Richmond, Jany. to Dec. 1859; sec. of Law amendment society 8 April 1861 to 1864; barrister G.I. 6 June 1861; contributed to Law Magazine and Law Times; edited a trades’ protection paper 1863; edited The law magazine and law review 1864; secretary of jurisprudence department of Social science association 1864; left Gravesend for Melbourne in the steamer “London” 30 Dec. 1865, the ship foundered in the Bay of Biscay 11 Jany. 1866. Law Mag. and Law Review xxi 129–36 (1866).

PALMER, GEORGE JOSIAH (son of George Josiah Palmer, printer in Savoy st. Strand, London). b. Clapham, Surrey 30 June 1828; educ. Clapham gram. sch. and King’s coll. sch. London; a compositor in his father’s establishment, then manager of the printing office; a printer at 27 Lamb’s Conduit st. 1853–60; removed to 32 Little Queen st. Holborn 1860; publisher of the Union newspaper to 27 June 1862; started The Church Times, a penny weekly paper in the high church interest, which he also edited, No. 1 7 Feb. 1863, editor to his death; hon. treasurer of Church of England working men’s soc.; a publisher of books. d. Ramsgate 27 Jany. 1892. bur. Highgate cemet. 1 Feb. Church portrait journal 15 July 1885 pp. 45–6 portrait; Church Times 29 Jany. 1892 p. 97, 5 Feb. 1892 p. 119.

PALMER, HENRY. b. 11 July 1807; ensign 48 Bengal N.I. 13 Feb. 1826, major 5 June 1853; lieut. col. Bengal infantry 4 Oct. 1857, placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877; general 1 Oct. 1877; served against Bheel tribes 1827–8; served in Afghan and Belooch campaigns 1838–40; commanded 48 B.N.I. at Modkie and Ferozeshah; brigade major of general Wheeler’s force in the Punjab 1848–9. d. Mussoorie, North West Provinces of India 23 Aug. 1892.

PALMER, HENRY ANDREWES (son of Arthur Palmer of Bristol, solicitor). b. 1803; articled to his father 1817–22; solicitor at Bristol 1826–60; comr. of bankruptcy for Bristol district 1833 to date when local courts of bankruptcy were established; registrar and deputy judge of the Tolzey court, Bristol 1838–60; defended owner of Ashton Court estates against Thomas Provis, calling himself sir Richard Hugh Smyth, 8–10 Aug. 1853, he was found guilty of perjury and forgery and sentenced to be transported for 20 years. d. South Dulwich 16 Dec. 1884. Solicitor’s Journal 3 Jany. 1885 p. 156.

PALMER, HENRY SPENCER (youngest son of colonel John Freke Palmer of the East India company’s service). b. Bangalore, Madras 30 April 1838; lieut. R.E. 20 Dec. 1856, lieut. col. 1 Oct. 1882, retired with hon. rank of M.G. 1 Oct. 1887; surveyed in British Columbia 1858–63; joined the ordnance survey Dec. 1863, surveyed Kent and East Sussex; assistant comr. in the parliamentary boundaries’ commission 1867–8 and 1869; surveyed the Sinaitic peninsula Oct. 1868 to May 1869; chief of the party sent to New Zealand to observe the transit of Venus, June 1874; went to Barbados Nov. 1875, A.D.C. to the governor Feb. 1877 to March 1878; went to Hongkong Jany. 1878, engineer of the admiralty works, A.D.C. to the governor 11 May 1878 to June 1880; designed a physical observatory for Hong Kong 1881; commanding R.E. of the Manchester district July 1883; designed and constructed waterworks for Yokohama, Japan 1883–7; superintendent of the Yokohama harbour works and engineer to the Yokohama docks’ company 1889 to death; published with sir C. W. Wilson Ordnance survey of the Peninsula of Sinai, &c. 1869; author of The ordnance survey of the kingdom: its objects, mode of execution, history, and present condition 1873; Ancient history from the monuments, Sinai from the fourth Egyptian dynasty to the present day 1878, new ed. 1892. d. Tokio, Japan 10 March 1893. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. cxiii 373–5 (1893).

PALMER, SIR JAMES FREDERICK (youngest son of John Palmer 1752–1827, R. of Great Torrington, Devon). b. Torrington 27 June 1803; a surgeon in London to 1839; surgeon to St. George’s and St. James’s dispensary to 1838; went to New South Wales 1839; a doctor at Port Philip some time, then a manufacturer of cordials, then a wine merchant; mayor of Melbourne 1846; member for Port Philip of legislature of New South Wales Sept. 1848 to July 1849; member for Normanby district of legislative council of Victoria 29 Oct. 1851, elected speaker Dec. 1851; member for Western province to the new legislative council 23 Nov. 1855, first president 21 Nov. 1856, re-elected five times, resigned Oct. 1870; knighted by patent 13 July 1857; edited The works of John Hunter, 4 vols. 1835–7; and A dialogue in the Devonshire dialect 1837. d. Burwood road, Hawthorn, Melbourne 23 April 1871. Colby’s Pedigree of Palmer family (1892) 7–9.

PALMER, JOHN BERNARD (son of Wm. Palmer of Charmouth, Dorset, farmer). b. 15 Oct. 1782; joined the Church of Rome 1806; a novice in the Cistercian monastery of St. Susan, Lulworth, Dorset 1808, professed there by the name of Bernard 21 Nov. 1810; received minor orders at the abbey of La Meilleraie, near Nantes, where the community had taken refuge in 1817; the abbey was suppressed 1831 and Palmer was confined at Nantes by the French government 1831–7; joined a community of Cistercian monks in Charnwood forest, Leics. March 1837, received priest’s orders 31 July 1838, superior of the monastery 1841, a new monastery called Mount St. Bernard was built by Pugin 1844, the monastery was constituted an abbey and Palmer appointed abbot 9 May 1848, consecrated with mitre, crozier, ring, and gloves 18 Feb. 1849, being the first English mitred abbot since the reformation. d. Mount St. Bernard abbey 10 Nov. 1852. The metropolitan and provincial catholic almanac for 1855 pp. 1–16 portrait; G.M. Jany. 1853 p. 101.

PALMER, JOHN HINDE (only son of Samuel Palmer of Dulwich common, Surrey). b. Surrey 1808; barrister L.I. 24 Jany. 1832, bencher 16 June 1869 to death; Q.C. 10 June 1859; contested Lambeth 7 Aug. 1850; M.P. Lincoln 16 Nov. 1868 to 26 Jany. 1874; contested Lincoln 4 Feb. 1874. d. 11 St. George’s sq. London 2 June 1884.

PALMER, JOHN HORSLEY (4 son of Wm. Palmer of Nazeing park, Essex). b. 7 July 1779; partner with his brother George Palmer and captain Wilson as East India merchants in City of London 1802, retired April 1857; a director of the bank of England 1811–57, governor 1830–2, gave evidence before the committee of secrecy on the bank of England charter 1832; a leading authority on currency and finance; a member of royal commission on bankruptcy and insolvency 4 Dec. 1839; examined by select committee on banks of issue 1840; author of Reasons against the proposed Indian joint-stock bank 1836; The causes and consequences of the pressure upon the money market, with a statement of the action of the bank of England from 1 Oct. 1833 to 27 Dec. 1836, 1837; Reply to the reflections of Mr. Samuel Jones Lloyd on the pamphlet entitled ‘Causes and consequences’ 1837. d. Mulgrave house, Hurlingham, Middlesex 7 Feb. 1858. Maclaren’s History of the currency (1858) 173–8.

PALMER, NATHANIEL (son of Nathaniel Palmer government contractor for the navy and stamp distributor at Great Yarmouth). b. Great Yarmouth Oct. 1792; solicitor at Great Yarmouth; barrister I.T. 27 Nov. 1827, went Norfolk circuit; a county comr. of bankruptcy; judge of Guildhall court of record at Norwich; recorder of Great Yarmouth June 1836 to death. d. Coltishall, near Norwich 30 March 1872. Law journal vii 264 (1872).

PALMER, RICHARD (son of Robert Palmer, landlord of the White Horse inn, Preston). b. Lancaster 23 Feb. 1773; articled to Nicholas Grimshaw of Preston, attorney 6 June 1788; admitted attorney March 1794; partner with N. Grimshaw Dec. 1799; one of coroners for Lancashire 12 Nov. 1799 to death; town clerk of Preston 1801 to death, officiated at the three guilds of 1802, 1822, and 1842, when a medal was struck in his honour; N. Grimshaw died in 1835, when all his public offices were conferred on Palmer; clerk to local board of health 7 Oct. 1850, resigned 12 Feb. 1852; attended the Lancaster assizes for the 127th time 7 Aug. 1852. d. Preston 13 Dec. 1852. G.M. Feb. 1853 pp. 212–3.

PALMER, ROBERT (1 son of Richard Palmer of Hurst and Sonning, Berks.) b. 31 Jany. 1793; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.; sheriff of Berks. 1818; M.P. Berks. 1825–59; chairman of Berks. quarter sessions. d. Holme park, near Reading 24 Nov. 1872. bur. Sonning churchyard 29 Nov. I.L.N. lxi 527 (1872).

PALMER, SAMUEL (son of Samuel Palmer, bookseller, d. Dec. 1848). b. Surrey sq. St. Mary’s, Newington 27 Jany. 1805; educ. Merchant Taylors’ school 1817 etc.; exhibited 57 landscapes at R.A., 20 at B.I., and 8 at Suffolk st. 1819–80; his first picture exhibited at the British institution sold 1819; resided at Shoreham, near Sevenoaks, Kent 1826–32; lived at Rome and Naples 1837–9; associate of Society of painters in water-colours Feb. 1843, member June 1854; member of the Etching society 1853; nearly the last of the ideal school of landscape painters; resided at Mead Vale, Redhill 1862 to death; his eight pictures, illustrating Milton’s poems L’Allegro and Il Pensoroso were exhibited at the Water-colour society 1868–82; seven of his plates were published by the Etching club 1872–80; author of English version of the Eclogues of Virgil, with illustrations 1883; he illustrated A. A. Procter’s Legends and lyrics 1866, and The shorter poems of John Milton 1889; m. 1837 Hannah, eld. dau. of John Linnell, the painter, she exhibited 8 Italian views at the R.A. and B.I. 1840–2, and d. Nov. 1892 in 76 year; he d. Furze hill house, Mead Vale, Redhill 24 May 1881. bur. Reigate old church 28 May; a collection of his works was exhibited by Fine Art Society 1881, and 17 of his drawings were lent to the winter exhibition of the R.A. 1893. A. H. Palmer’s Life and letters of S. Palmer (1892) portrait; S. Palmer, a memoir by A. H. Palmer (1882) portrait; P. G. Hamerton’s Etching and etchers (1876) 325–38; The Portfolio (1872) 161–9; I.L.N. lxviii 616 (1881) portrait; F. G. Stephens’ Notes on a collection of drawings by S. Palmer, with an account of the Milton series (1881).

PALMER, SHIRLEY (son of Edward Palmer, solicitor). b. Coleshill, Warws. 27 Aug. 1786; educ. Coleshill gr. sch. and Harrow; M.R.C.S. 1807; M.D. Glasgow 1815; practised at Tamworth, Staffs. 1807 to death, also at Birmingham from 1831; edited with Wm. Shearman and James Johnson the New medical and physical journal 1815–9; and with D. Uwins and S. F. Gray the London medical repository 1819–21; author of The Swiss exile, Lichfield 1804; Popular illustrations of medicine 1829; Popular lectures on the vertebrated animals of the British islands 1832; A pentaglot dictionary of the terms employed in anatomy, physiology, pathology, practical medicine, &c. 1845. d. Tamworth 11 Nov. 1852. Simms’s Bibliotheca Staffordiensis (1894) 345.

PALMER, SILAS (son of Mr. Palmer of 47 regt.) b. Stirling castle 1815; educ. in medicine at Paris, Vienna, and Rome; M.D. Edinb. 1836; L.R.C.S. 1836; in practice at Speenhamland, Newbury, Berks. 1846 to death; a leading authority on archæological matters in Berks.; local sec. of congress of British Archæological assoc. at Newbury in 1859; a founder of the Newbury district field club 1870; contributed to Provincial medical journal, to the Lancet, and to British Archæol. journal. d. London road, Newbury 24 March 1875. A rod taken out of pickle, correspondence between J. Taylor and S. Palmer during the late annual meeting at Newbury, Berks. 1860; Journal British Archæol. assoc. xxxii 282–3 (1876).

PALMER, THOMAS. Entered Bengal army 1803; lieut. 19 Bengal N.I. 28 Oct. 1804, capt. 11 Jany. 1818; major 39 N.I. 30 Sept. 1827, and lieut. col. 15 Oct. 1832 to 18 June 1834; lieut. col. of 21 N.I. 18 June 1834 to 1840, and of 27 N.I. 1840 to 16 April 1844; col. of 72 N.I. 16 April 1844 to death; commanded at Delhi 13 June 1846 to 14 July 1851; commanded Cawnpore division 9 April 1852 to death. d. Mussoorie 15 April 1854.

PALMER, WILLIAM (2 son of William Palmer of Rugeley, Staffs., timber merchant). b. Rugeley, baptised there 21 Oct. 1824; educ. Rugeley gr. school; apprenticed to Evans and Sons, druggists, Liverpool, dismissed for opening letters; apprenticed to Dr. Tylecote at Heywood, near Rugeley 1842; studied at Stafford infirmary and St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1846, house surgeon 8 Sept. 1846, resigned Oct. 1846; M.R.C.S. 10 Aug. 1846; practised at Rugeley from 1846 for several years; owner and breeder of racehorses 1850; won the Liverpool autumn handicap with The Chicken Nov. 1855, this horse afterwards named Vengeance won the Cesarewitch; m. 7 Oct. 1847 Ann, dau. of colonel William Brookes, insured his wife’s life for £13,000, she died of bilious cholera 25 Sept. 1854, when he was paid the amount; insured his brother Walter Palmer’s life for £13,000, he died suddenly 16 Aug. 1855, when the insurance office refused to pay, on account of the suspicious circumstances; arrested 15 Dec. 1855 on the charge of poisoning his friend, John Parsons Cooke, a betting man from Lutterworth, who d. 21 Nov. 1855 at the Talbot arms, Rugeley; verdicts of wilful murder were found against Palmer at the inquests on the exhumed bodies of his wife and brother; tried at the Old Bailey before lord chief justice Campbell 14–27 May 1856, found guilty of murder 27 May; hanged outside Stafford gaol 14 June 1856, in the presence of 20,000 people; he had poisoned many persons 1850–6. Illustrated life of William Palmer (1856) portraits; Central criminal court proceedings xliv 5–225 (1856); A. S. Taylor On poisoning by strychnine (1856); Browne and Stewart’s Reports of trials (1883) 84–232; J. F. Stephen’s General view of the criminal law of England (1890) 231–72; J. F. Stephen’s History of the criminal law iii 389–425 (1883); Simms’s Bibliotheca Staffordiensis (1894) 345–6; Reynolds’s Miscellany xvi 377–9, 391–2 (1856) portrait; Sporting Review xxxvi 110–14 (1856); Law Mag. and Law Review i 332–56 (1856); I.L.N. xxviii 560–4, 554–5, 566–7, 598–9, 694 (1856); A.R. (1856) 13, 60–62, 387–529; Griffith’s Newgate ii 432–9 (1884).

PALMER, WILLIAM (2 son of George Palmer of Nazeing park, Essex). b. 9 Nov. 1802; educ. St. Mary hall, Oxf., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; barrister I.T. 14 May 1830; had a large practice as a conveyancer; professor of civil law at Gresham college, city of London 1836 to death; author of An inquiry into the navigation laws 1833; Discourse on the Gresham foundation, two introductory lectures 1837; The law of wreck considered with a view to its amendment 1843; Principles of the legal provision for the relief of the poor 1844. d. 56 Eaton place, London 24 April 1858. Law Times xxxi 87, 101 (1858).

PALMER, WILLIAM (eld. son of Wm. Jocelyn Palmer 1778–1853, R. of Mixbury, Oxfordshire). b. Mixbury 12 July 1811; educ. Rugby and Magd. coll. Oxf., demy 1826–32, fellow 1832–55, tutor 1838–43; B.A. 1831, M.A. 1833; tutor and censor and member of the senate in univ. of Durham 1833–6; examiner in classical schools at Oxford 1837–9; resided in Russia examining oriental christianity 1840–1; sought admission to the Greek church, but was refused 1841–52; received into church of Rome in chapel of Roman college at Rome 27 Feb. 1855; resided at Rome 1855 to death; always known as Palmer of Magdalen; author of Aids to reflection on the foundation of a Protestant bishopric at Jerusalem, Oxford 1841; Short poems and hymns 1843; Harmony of Anglican doctrine with the doctrine of the Eastern church, Aberdeen 1846, translated into Greek 1851; An appeal to the Scottish bishops and clergy, and generally to the church of their communion. By N. N., deacon of the church of England, Edinburgh 1849; Dissertations on subjects relating to the orthodox or eastern-catholic communion 1853; Egyptian chronicles with a harmony of sacred and Egyptian chronology, 2 vols. 1861; Commentatio in Librum Danielis, Rome 1874; The Patriarch Nicon and the Tsar, 6 vols. 1871–6. d. Piazza di Santa Maria in Campitelli, Rome 5 April 1879. bur. cemet. of S. Lorenzo in Campo Verano 8 April. J. R. Bloxam’s Register of Magdalen college vii 297–318 (1881); Life of Leon Papin Dupont (1882) 55–64; Contemporary Review May 1883 pp. 636–59; H. P. Liddon’s Life of E. B. Pusey ii 287 (1893).

PALMER, WILLIAM (only son of Wm. Palmer of St. Mary’s, Dublin, d. 1865). b. 14 Feb. 1803; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1824; M.A. Oxf. 1829; incorporated at Magd. hall, Oxf. Oct. 1828, removed to Worcester coll. 1831; always known as Palmer of Worcester; founded with Hurrell Froude and Hugh James Rose the Association of friends of the church 1833; he wrote No. 15 of the Tracts for the Times 13 Dec. 1833, On the apostolical succession in the English church, but it was revised and completed by J. H. Newman; V. of Monkton-Wyld, Devon and Dorset 1846–69; V. of Whitchurch-Canonicorum, Dorset, with Chideock, Marshwood and Stanton St. Gabriel, in Dorset and Wilts. 1846 to death; preb. of Salisbury 1849–58; claimed and assumed the title of baronet on his father’s death 1865; author of Origines liturgicæ, or antiquities of the English ritual, 2 vols. Oxford 1832, 4 ed. 1845; A treatise on the church of Christ, 2 vols. 1838, 3 ed. 1842; A letter to N. Wiseman, D.D. (calling himself bishop of Melipotamus) containing remarks on his letter to Mr. Newman, Oxford 1841; A narrative of events connected with the publication of Tracts for the times 1843, 4 ed. 1883; The doctrine of development and conscience considered in relation to the evidences of Christianity and of the Catholic system 1846; Results of the expostulations of W. E. Gladstone in their relation to the unity of Roman Catholicism. By Umbra Oxoniensis 1875. d. London Oct. 1885. J. H. Newman’s Essays, 2 ed. i 143–85, ii 454 (1846); H. P. Liddon’s Life of E. B. Pusey i 263, ii 146, 524, iii 137, 485 (1893–95).

PALMER, WILLIAM ISAAC. b. Manor house, Elberton, Gloucestershire 31 May 1824; educ. at a quaker school at Sidcot, Somerset; signed the temperance pledge 1836; an apprentice at Reading, then in Liverpool; one of the founders of the firm of Huntley and Palmer, Reading Biscuit factory, the most extensive manufactory in the United Kingdom, employing continuously 4,000 hands; gave £5,000 towards Reading municipal buildings; connected with and contributed liberally to all the Reading public institutions and libraries; presented with his portrait 19 March 1885; a great supporter of the Blue Ribbon movement and the first to wear the ribbon 1882; for many years he conducted a weekly gathering of the work people of Reading for a pleasant Saturday evening. d. Hillside, Reading 4 Jany. 1893. bur. Friends’ ground 9 Jany. Reading Mercury 7 Jany. 1893 p. 5, 14 Jany. p. 2; Daily Graphic 7 Jany. 1893 p. 14 portrait.

PALMERSTON, HENRY JOHN TEMPLE, 3 Viscount (1 son of Henry Temple, 2 viscount Palmerston 1739–1802). b. Park st. Westminster 20 Oct. 1784, bapt. St. Margaret, Westminster 23 Nov.; educ. Eton, Edinb. univ. and St. John’s coll. Camb. M.A. 1806; LL.D. 1864; D.C.L. Oxford 1862; succeeded 17 April 1802; contested Cambridge univ. 7 Feb. 1806, Horsham 4 Nov. 1806, and Cambridge again 8 May 1807, when beaten by 2 votes; M.P. Newport, Isle of Wight 1807–11, the patron sir Leonard Holmes required him never to visit the town, not even for the election; M.P. Cambridge univ. 1811–31; M.P. Bletchingley 1831–2; M.P. South Hants 1832–4; M.P. Tiverton 1835–65; a lord of the admiralty 3 April 1807 to Oct. 1809; made his first speech 3 Feb. 1808; declined chancellorship of the exchequer Oct. 1809; sec. at war 28 Oct. 1809 to 26 May 1828; P.C. 1 Nov. 1809; shot at and slightly wounded at the war office 8 April 1818, by lieut. David Davies, who d. of apoplexy at Bethlehem hospital 30 Dec. 1861 aged 67; sec. for foreign affairs 22 Nov. 1830 to 15 Nov. 1834, 18 April 1835 to 31 Aug. 1841, and 3 July 1846 to 22 Dec. 1851; G.C.B. 6 June 1832; home sec. 28 Dec. 1852 to 30 Jany. 1855; first lord of the treasury and prime minister 20 Feb. 1855 to 20 Feb. 1858, and 30 June 1859 to 18 Oct. 1865; K.G. 12 July 1856, the first peer of Ireland upon whom it was ever conferred; lord warden of the Cinque ports 27 March 1861; lord rector of univ. of Glasgow 1862; master of the Trinity house 1862–6; author of Selections from private journals of tours in France (1871). d. Brocket hall, Herts. 18 Oct. 1865. bur. north transept of Westminster abbey 27 Oct., will proved 22 Dec. 1865 under £120,000. Bulwer’s Life of viscount Palmerston to 1847, 3 vols. (1870) portrait; Ashley’s Life of viscount Palmerston, 2 vols. (1879) portrait; W. H. Bidwell’s Imperial Courts of France, England, etc., New York (1863) pp. 137–44; The drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages, 1st series (1859) portrait; Justin McCarthy’s A history of our own times ii 121–63 and 259–94 (1879); Rice’s History of the British turf i 319–22 (1879); Opinions and policy of viscount Palmerston, with a memoir by George Henry Francis (1852); The two great statesmen, a Plutarchian parallel between Earl Russell and Viscount Palmerston (1862); Materials for the true history of Lord Palmerston (1866); Memoir by Edward Walford (1865); Lord Palmerston, a biography by John McGildrist (1865); Life and times of Lord Palmerston by J. Ewing Ritchie (1867); Saunders’s Portraits of reformers (1840) 163 portrait; Orators of the age by G. H. Francis (1847) 124–41; Illust. news of the world i (1858) portrait; D. D. Maddyn’s Chiefs of parties (1859) 154–84; H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches 4 ed. (1876) 143–53; G. H. Jenning’s Anecdotal history of British parliament (1880) 268–78; Baily’s mag. ii 229–35 (1861) portrait; The betrayal of England by Wm. Coningham; The British cabinet in 1853 pp. 70–113; I.L.N. i 309 (1842) portrait, xvi 457 (1850) portrait; Representative statesmen by A. C. Ewald ii 294–355 (1879); St. Stephens. By Mask (1839) 164–72; Malmesbury’s Memoirs, 2 vols. (1884) passim; Sporting Review liv 317–20 (1865); Sporting Times 9 May 1885 p. 2; W. Day’s Reminiscenses, 2 ed. (1886) 210–7; Illust. Times 12 Nov. 1864 pp. 312–3, double page portrait; P. M. Thornton’s Foreign Secretaries ii 307–36 (1881).

NOTE.—Lord Palmerston was dismissed from the office of foreign sec. on 17 Dec. 1851 for recognising Louis Napoleon as president of the French republic, without first communicating with the queen on the subject. Ashley’s Life ii 193–228.

He had race horses in training from 1815. He first raced at Winchester in 1816, with Luzborough he won small races in 1824, with Iliona he won the queen’s plate at Guildford in 1840 and the Cesarewitch in 1841, with Buckthorn the Ascot stakes in 1853. His horse Maidstone was a favourite for the Derby in 1860. A member of the Jockey club 1845, he frequently rode from London to the Derby race at Epsom, and in 1864 trotted from London to Harrow to hear the speeches, twelve miles in one hour.

At his funeral in Westminster Abbey the Rev. H. Sullivan threw into the grave several diamond and gold rings, as ‘a precious offering to the dead.’ Times 28 Oct. 1865 p. 9.

PALMERSTON, EMILY MARY, Viscountess (1 dau. of Penistar Lamb, 1 viscount Melbourne, d. 1828). b. 21 April 1787; m. 20 July 1805 Peter Leopold, 5 earl Cowper, who d. 27 June 1837; a leader of society; one of the first six patronesses of Almacks when quadrilles were introduced 1813; m. (2) 16 Dec. 1839 Henry J., 3 viscount Palmerston, who d. 1865; her houses at Panshanger park, Herts. and Cambridge house, London, were frequented by the élite of society, including diplomatists and politicians; resided later on at Brocket hall, Herts. and Broadlands; on death of her brother Frederick, 3 viscount Melbourne 1853, she inherited the family estates in Herts. and Derbyshire. d. Brocket hall 11 Sept. 1869. bur. Westminster abbey 17 Sept., will proved 22 Jany., resworn June 1870 under £170,000. A. Hayward’s Essays ii 293–302 (1873); A.R. (1869) 101; Register and Mag. of Biography Oct. 1869 pp. 189–90; Every Saturday viii 503 (1873).

PANIZZI, SIR ANTHONIO GENESIO MARIA (son of Luigi Panizzi of Brescello in duchy of Modena). b. Brescello 16 Sept. 1797; educ. Reggio and univ. of Parma 1814–8; practised as an advocate 1818; became a Carbonaro March 1820, arrested 22 Oct. 1822, escaped and fled to Lugano, was sentenced to death 6 Oct. 1823 in his absence, having published a pamphlet entitled I Processi di Rubiera, denouncing the Modenese government; came to London May 1823; taught Italian in Liverpool to 1828; professor of Italian at London univ. May 1828 to 1837, the univ. opened 1 Oct. 1828; assistant librarian in the British Museum 27 April 1831, keeper of the printed books 15 July 1837, principal librarian 6 March 1856, procured an annual grant of £10,000 for the library 1845; submitted a design for the new reading room to the trustees 5 May 1852, foundations were laid May 1854 and the building opened 2 May 1857; resigned librarianship 26 June 1866 on his full pay; naturalised 24 March 1832; received cross of the legion of honour 24 Dec. 1851; received Sardinian order of Saint Maurice and Lazarus Dec. 1855; a senator of the Kingdom of Italy 12 March 1868; a commander of the order of crown of Italy 22 April 1868; K.C.B. 27 July 1869; edited Works of Ariosto 1818, Bojardo 1830, and Dante 1858; author of An elementary Italian grammar for the use of students in the London university 1828; Extracts from Italian prose writers 1828; On the supply of printed books from the library to the reading room of the British museum 1846; On the collection of printed books at the British museum, its increase and arrangement 1845. d. 31 Bloomsbury sq. London 8 April 1879. bur. St. Mary’s catholic cemet. Kensal Green 12 April, bust by Marochetti and portrait by Watts at British Museum. L. Fagan’s Life of sir A. Panizzi, 2 vols. (1880) portrait; R. Cowtan’s Biographical sketch of sir A. Panizzi (1873); F. Espinasse’s Literary recollections (1893) 15–21; L. Fagan’s reform club (1887) 125–6 portrait; I.L.N. lxxiv 369 (1879) portrait; Graphic xix 396 (1879) portrait; Leisure Hour xxx 344 portrait.

PANMURE, WILLIAM MAULE, 1 Baron (2 son of George Ramsay, 8 earl of Dalhousie, d. 15 Nov. 1787). b. 27 Oct. 1771; succeeded to the greater part of the Panmure estates on death of his great uncle Wm. earl of Panmure 4 Jany. 1782, when he assumed the name of Maule; cornet 11 dragoons 10 Oct. 1788; raised an independent company of foot, which was disbanded 1791; M.P. Forfarshire 25 April 1796 to 20 May 1796, and 24 June 1805 to 9 Sept. 1831, and was a great supporter of Fox; a boon companion of George IV; cr. baron Panmure of Brechin and Navar, co. Forfar, by letters patent 10 Sept. 1831, on coronation of William IV; his dinner parties were sometimes protracted to eighteen hours, when the consumption of claret was enormous; gave considerable sums in charity to Dundee and neighbouring towns. d. Brechin castle, Forfarshire 13 April 1852, portrait in Dundee town hall. G.M. xxxvii 515 (1852); I.L.N. xx 315 (1852); Norrie’s Dundee celebrities (1873) 136–9; Times 16 April 1852 p. 8.

PANOFKA, HEINRICH. b. Breslau 2 Oct. 1807; a singer and violinist; gave concerts in Vienna, Munich, Berlin, and Paris 1827 etc.; came to London 1844; an assistant of Benjamin Lumley at Her Majesty’s opera 1847; resided in London as a teacher of music and singing to 1852; composer of The practical singing tutor, 24 studies 1849; Twelve two part studies for soprano and contralto 1850; Two romances for the violin and piano 1851; The dear old Linden tree, a song 1852; The mountain flower, a song 1872; his name is attached to upwards of 30 pieces of music 1830–85. d. Carlsruhe or Florence 18 Nov. 1887. Allgemeine Deutsche biographie xxv 124 (1887).

PANTIN, THOMAS PINDEN (son of Thomas Pantin of St. Sepulchre’s, London). b. 1792; educ. Queen’s coll. Oxf., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1827; R. of Westcote, Gloucs. 1828 to death; author of Observations on certain passages in Dr. Arnold’s Christian duty of granting the Roman Catholic claims, Lutterworth 1829; The novelty of popery in matters of faith and practice 1837; The church of England apostolical in its origin, episcopal in its government, and scriptural in its belief 1849; edited G. Bull’s The corruptions of the church of Rome 1836; and Stillingfleet’s Origines Britannicæ, 2 vols. Oxford 1842. d. Westcote rectory 2 Sept. 1866.

PANTON, CHARLES. b. 1802; educ. Westminster; clerk in the Pipe office in the exchequer 1819–33, when office was abolished; clerk in the Queen’s Remembrancer’s office 1833, and chief clerk 1855 to Nov. 1879. d. 18 Woburn square, London 27 Sept. 1882. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 29 Sept. Law Times lxxiii 388 (1882).

PANTON, DAVID BROOKE. b. 1832; educ. Gonville and Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1857, M.A. 1860; C. of Birnan Wood and St. Andrew’s parish ch. Jamaica to 1884; R. of Mandeville and acting archdeacon of Middlesex, Jamaica 1884 to death. d. Mandeville 14 Sept. 1891.

PANTON, WILLIAM. Surgeon Bengal army 23 June 1818; inspector general of hospitals 16 Feb. 1844; surgeon general 15 Feb. 1845; physician general 24 July 1848, retired 10 Feb. 1849. d. Tunbridge Wells 10 May 1858.

PAPAFFY, NICHOLAS. b. Hungary; alchemist; professed to have an invention by which he could convert base metals into silver; with bismuth, aluminium and other ingredients, a crucible and a furnace he manipulated, in the presence of Barnet, Cox, Cole, and co., and produced 10 pounds of silver; a company was formed to work the patent, with offices at 104 Leadenhall st. London, the inventor to receive £12 a week; having drawn £600 in advance and raised £10,000 on bills in the name of the company, he decamped 1860 and was not heard of afterwards. Bell and Redwood’s Progress of pharmacy (1880) 297.

PAPE, C. First clarionet in Crystal palace band 1855 to death. d. 11 St. Hugh road, Anerley, Surrey 7 Sept. 1874.

PAPINEAU, LOUIS JOSEPH (son of Joseph Papineau, notary 1752–1841). b. Montreal 7 Oct. 1786; educ. Quebec seminary; member for Kent of legislative assembly of Lower Canada 1809, member for West ward of city of Montreal 1811; called to the bar 1811; served in the militia in the American war 1812; speaker of the legislative assembly of Lower Canada 1815–37; denounced the government in violent speeches 1837; attended the meeting held at St. Charles 23 Oct. 1837, when armed rebellion was decided on; fled to the U.S. of America 1837; resided in Paris 1839–47; member of the Lower house of Canadian legislature 1847–54, was paid £4,500 arrears of salary as speaker. d. Montebello, Quebec 28 Sept. 1871. L. O. David’s Ls.-Jos. Papineau (1872) portrait; H. J. Morgan’s Sketches of Canadians (1862) 327–30; C. Lindsey’s Life of W. L. Mackenzie i 352 etc., ii 13 etc. (1862); S. Walpole’s History of England iii 413–35 (1880); Appleton’s American biography iv 642 (1888) portrait.

PAPWORTH, EDGAR GEORGE (only son of Thomas Papworth of London, builder 1773–1814). b. 20 or 21 Aug. 1809; pupil of E. H. Baily, R.A.; student at the R.A. 15 Dec. 1826, silver medallist 1829 and 1831, and gold medallist 1833, travelling student 1834; exhibited a panorama of Rome at a gallery in Great Portland st. about 1844; published Original sculptural designs executed in Rome 1834–6, London 1840; exhibited 62 busts and statuettes at R.A., 1 at B.I., and 25 at Suffolk st. 1832–60; his best known works are Adam and Eve, The woman of Samaria, and The Moabitish maiden; executed Bunyan’s memorial tomb in Bunhill Fields; gained the third prize of £300 in the competition for the Wellington monument for St. Paul’s cathedral 1857. d. 90 Milton st. Dorset sq. London 26 Sept. 1866. bur. Highgate cemet.

PAPWORTH, GEORGE (3 son of John Papworth of London, builder 1750–99). b. 9 May 1781; exhibited 4 drawings at R.A. 1796–1803; an architect in Dublin 1812 to death; constructed the King’s bridge, Dublin 1822–7; designed two Roman Catholic churches in Dublin; built the Kilkenny lunatic asylum 1849, and the museum of Irish industry, Stephen’s Green, Dublin 1851; architect to the ecclesiastical comrs. for province of Connaught 1837–42; architect to Dublin and Drogheda railway and to the Royal bank, Dublin; member of royal Hibernian academy 1831, treasurer 1849; introduced into Ireland external decoration in architectural design especially in private houses. d. Dublin 14 March 1855.

PAPWORTH, JOHN WOODY (elder son of John Papworth, architect 1775–1847). b. 4 March 1820; secretary to the council of the government school of design, Somerset House, opened 1 June 1837; associate of Institute of British architects 1841, a fellow 1846; made designs for glass, pottery, terra cotta, paper hangings and other art manufactures; designed the carpet presented by 150 ladies to the queen, exhibited at great exhibition of 1851; designed the Albert Institution, Gravel Lane; exhibited 11 drawings at R.A. 1837–51; author of An alphabetical dictionary of coats of arms belonging to families in Great Britain and Ireland upon a new plan 1874; author with his brother, Wyatt A. Papworth, of Specimens of decoration in the Italian style, selected from the designs of Raffaello in the Vatican 1844; Museums, libraries, and picture galleries, their establishment, formation, arrangement, and architectural construction 1853; contributed papers to the Architectural Publication society. d. 13 Hart st. Bloomsbury sq. London 6 July 1870. bur. Highgate cemetery. Dict. of architecture vi p. 39 (1881); Builder 16 July 1870 pp. 559–60.

PAPWORTH, THOMAS. Wrote poetry; author of Letter of recommendation, a romance of the Levant by Frank P. Worth, 2 vols. 1870. d. Smyrna Feb. 1871.

PAPWORTH, WYATT ANGELICUS VAN SANDAU (brother of John Woody Papworth). b. London 23 Jany. 1822; employed by the comrs. of sewers for Westminster; assistant surveyor to the Alliance assurance company June 1866, sole surveyor, retired on a pension 1887, designed and erected a branch office at Ipswich; member of the clothworker’s company, junior and senior warden 1879–81, master 1889; founded the Architectural publication society for the production of detached essays and illustrations 1848; edited and compiled Dictionary of explanation and reference, brought out in parts May 1853 to April 1892, making 11 vols. at cost of nearly £10,000; F.R.I.B.A. 1860, member of council many years; curator of sir John Soane’s museum 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London Jany. 1893 to death, rewrote catalogue of the museum and brought out a new edition of the General description; edited Gwilt’s Encyclopædia of architecture, 2 ed. 1867, 3 ed. 1876 and 4 ed. 1889; author with his brother, J. W. Papworth, of Specimens of decoration in the Italian style 1844, and of Museums, libraries, and picture galleries 1853; author alone of J. B. Papworth, a brief record of his life and works 1879; Memoir of A. W. W. Morant 1881; The renaissance and Italian style of architecture in Great Britain 1883. d. the Soane museum, London 19 Aug. 1894. bur. Highgate cemet. 24 Aug.

PARADISE, JOHN. b. 1812; editor of Lincoln Rutland and Stamford Mercury. d. 24 St. Mary st. Stamford 29 Jany. 1887.

PARDEY, JOHN QUIN. b. 17 Feb. 1796; ensign 66 foot 18 July 1811; ensign royal staff corps 22 Oct. 1811, lieut. 17 Dec. 1812; in Spain 1813 in connection with quartermaster general’s department, engaged in constructing the rope bridge at Alcantara; present at Vittoria, San Sebastian and Toulouse 1813–4; aided in restoring French bridges 1814; war medal and clasp; received Decoration du Lis 1819; captain 53 foot 9 July 1830; paymaster 12 Feb. 1836, placed on h.p. 1 May 1844; served at Gibraltar, Malta, and Ionian islands; adjutant of auxiliary forces 29 Jany. 1846 to 6 Aug. 1858. d. 12 Sion hill, Bath 17 March 1887.

PARDOE, JULIA S. H. (2 dau. of Thomas Pardoe, captain royal waggon train, who sold out of the army 20 Jany. 1832). b. Beverley, Yorkshire 1806; visited Constantinople 1836; resided in Kent from 1846; author of Lord Morcar of Hereward, 4 vols. 1829, 2 ed. 1837; Traits and traditions of Portugal 1833; Speculation, 3 vols. 1834; The Mardens and the Daventrys, 3 vols. 1835; The city of the sultan and domestic manners of the Turks, 2 vols. 1837, reprinted in 3 vols. 1838, 1845, and 1854; The river and the desert, or recollections of the Rhine and the Chartreuse, 2 vols. 1838; The beauties of the Bosphorus 1839, reprinted under title of Picturesque Europe 1854 and 1874; The romance of the harem, 2 vols. 1839, 2 ed. 1857; The city of the Magyar, or Hungary and her institutions, 3 vols. 1840; The Hungarian castle, 3 vols. 1842; The confessions of a pretty woman, 3 vols. 1846; The jealous wife, 3 vols. 1847, 4 ed. 1858; Louis XIV and the court of France in the seventeenth century, 3 vols. 1847, 3 ed. 1849, reprinted 1886; The rival beauties, 3 vols. 1848, 2 ed. 1861; The court and reign of Francis, king of France, 2 vols. 1849, 3 vols. 1887; Flies in amber, 3 vols. 1850; The life of Marie de Medicis, queen of France, 3 vols. 1852, reprinted 1890; Reginald Lyle, 3 vols. 1854; Lady Arabella, or the adventures of a doll 1856; Abroad and at home, tales here and there 1857; Pilgrimages in Paris 1857; The poor relation, a novel, 3 vols. 1858; Episodes of French history during the consulate and the first empire, 2 vols. 1859; A life struggle, 2 vols. 1859; The rich relation 1862; translated La Peste 1834, an Italian poem by G. Sorello; edited Memoirs of the queens of Spain by A. George 1850; in Seven tales by seven authors 1849 she wrote The Will pp. 77–186; granted civil list pension of £100, 16 Jany. 1860. d. at her lodgings, Upper Montagu st. London 26 Nov. 1862. Bentley’s Miscellany xxvi 323–4 (1849) portrait; S. J. Hales’s Woman’s Record, 2 ed. (1855) 765 portrait; Eclectic Mag. xlii 135–6 (1857) portrait; Godey’s Lady book xlvii 344 (1853); J. Pardoe’s Beauties of the Bosphorus (1839) portrait.

PARDON, CHARLES FREDERICK (eld. son of the succeeding). b. 28 March 1850; on staff of European mail 1870; connected with Press Association 112 Fleet st. London 1872, and sporting editor to his decease; established Pardon’s Cricket and sporting reporting agency 1880; a cricketer; edited Wisden’s Cricketer’s Almanack, under name of Merlin 1887–90; master of the Gallery lodge 1886; an original member of London press club and president Jany. 1890; wrote on cricket in Land and Water, the Evening News, and the Standard; with A. S. Wilks wrote How to play solo whist 1888. d. 5 Oxford mansions, Oxford market, Oxford st. London 18 April 1890. Sell’s World’s Press (1891) 83 portrait; London Figaro 26 April 1890 p. 10 portrait.

PARDON, GEORGE FREDERICK. b. London 1824; sub-editor of the Evening Star 1841–2; on staff of European mail 1870; projected the Illustrated exhibitor 1852, a weekly description of the exhibition; projected and edited the Popular educator and other publications for John Cassell; he edited The people’s and Howitt’s journal 1847–50; The quarterly magazine of the order of Odd Fellows 1858; The Working man’s friend 1850; The family friend and the home companion 1854–5; The literary gift book 1858; Tales from the opera 1858; B. Taylor’s A visit to India 1860; Hoyle’s Games modernized 1863; The London magazine, vols. 2 and 3 1876–7; author of The juvenile museum by Quiet George 1850; The Christmas tree 1856; The faces in the fire 1856; The months 1858; Games for all seasons 1858, 2 ed. 1868; Stories about animals and birds, 2 vols. 1858; Dogs, their sagacity, instinct, and use 1857, 2 ed. 1877; Boldheart the warrior 1859; Handbooks of chess, whist, draughts, and billiards, 4 vols. 1860–2; A guide to the international exhibition 1862, 20th thousand 1862; The card player 1863; The popular guide to London 1862, 2 ed. 1866; Parlour pastimes 1868; Noble by heritage, a novellette 1877; under the name of Rawdon Crawley he wrote 17 works, but many of these seem to be same as those under his own name, Billiards, its theory and practice 1857, 10 ed. 1876; Backgammon 1858; Cricket 1866; Croquet 1866; Gymnastics 1868; The book of manly games for boys 1873; Bezique 1876. d. Fleur de Lis hotel, Canterbury 5 Aug. 1884. Bookseller Sept. 1884 p. 907; Illust. sporting news v 381 (1866) portrait.

PARE, WILLIAM (son of John Pare cabinetmaker). b. Birmingham 1805; apprenticed to his father; became a reporter; kept a tobacconist’s shop in New st. Birmingham; an original member of council of the Political Union 1830; secretary of the Reformer’s registration society 1835; the first registrar of Birmingham under the act legalising civil marriages 1837–42; a member of the first town council of Birmingham 1830; a founder of the first Birmingham co-operative society 1828, presided at the anniversary 28 Dec. 1829; lectured in support of co-operation at Liverpool, Manchester, and other places, one of the secretaries of the co-operative congresses 1830–8; vice-president of Robert Owen’s society The Association of all classes of all nations to 1840; acting governor of Owen’s community at Queenwood, Hampshire 1842–4; a railway statist in London 1844–6; resided near Dublin and managed ironworks at Clontarf, Liverpool, and Chepstow 1846–65; literary executor of Robert Owen 1858, presided at the Owen centenary 1871; edited Wm. Thompson’s Inquiry into the principles of the distribution of wealth most conducive to human happiness, 2 ed. 1850; author of The claims of capital and labour, with a sketch of practical measures for their conciliation 1854; A plan for the suppression of the predatory classes 1862; Co-operative agriculture, a solution of the land question as exemplified in the history of the Ralahine co-operative association, co. Clare, Ireland 1870. d. at his son’s house, Ruby lodge, Park hill, Croydon 18 June 1873. bur. Shirley churchyard, near Croydon 23 June. Holyoake’s History of Co-operation (1875) passim; Holyoake’s Sixty years of an agitator’s life i 40, 41, 77, 141 (1893); Bunce’s History of the corporation of Birmingham i, 109, 113, 131, 145, 155, 158, 245, 289 (1878).

PAREPA-ROSA, EUPHROSYNE (dau. of baron Georgiades de Boyesku, a Wallachian noble, d. about 1836, by Elizabeth Seguin, singer, d. 14 Jany. 1870, aged 57). b. Edinburgh 7 May 1836; pupil of her mother; made her début as Euphrosyne Parepa at Malta 1855 as Amina in La Sonnambula; sang at Naples, Rome, Florence, Genoa, Madrid, and Lisbon 1855–6; first appeared in England at the Lyceum 21 May 1857 as Elvira in I Puritani; played Camille in Zampa at Covent Garden Aug. 1858, and sang there several years; the original Victorine in Mellon’s Victorine 1859; La reine Topaze in Massé’s opera of that name 1860, and Mabel in Macfarren’s Helvellyn 1864; sang at Philharmonic concerts 1860 and at the Handel festivals 1862 and 1865; sang in the U.S. of America 1865, where she was prima donna of the Parepa-Rosa English opera company 1869–70; sang at the Peace jubilee in Boston June 1869; sang at Covent Garden theatre 1872; resided at Cairo winter of 1872–3, played Ruy Blas at the grand opera, Cairo 11 Feb. 1873; had a soprano voice of two and a half octaves in range, reaching to D in alt.; m. (1) Dec. 1863 captain Henry de Wolfe Carvell, of 17 Gloster crescent, Hyde park, London, he d. Lima, Peru 26 April 1865; m. (2) in New York 26 Feb. 1867 Carl August Nicolas Rosa, b. 22 March 1842, he endowed a Parepa-Rosa scholarship at R.A. of music 1874 and d. 30 April 1889; she d. 10 Warwick crescent, Maida Vale, London 21 Jany. 1874. bur. Highgate cemet. 26 Jany. The Western monthly iii 213–21 (1870); Musical World (1873) 113, 265, 607 (1874) 50, 54, 70, &c.; Graphic ix 124, 131 (1874) portrait; I.L.N. lxiv 129 (1874) portrait; Orchestra 23 Jany. 1874 p. 266, 30 Jany. pp. 281–2.

PARES, THOMAS. b. Leicester 30 Oct. 1790; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.; M.P. Leicester 1818–26; barrister L.I. 6 Feb. 1818; sheriff of Derbyshire 1845. d. Hopwell hall, near Derby 26 April 1866.

PARFITT, EDWARD (son of Edward Parfitt 1800–75, gardener to lord Hastings at Melton Constable, Norfolk). b. East Tuddenham, Norfolk 17 Oct. 1820; gardener with his father; gardener to Anthony Gwyn, Sennow lodge, Norfolk; while on a voyage shipwrecked near Cape of Good Hope; gardener to John Milford, Conver house, Exeter Nov. 1848 to 1860; studied plants, insects, geology, and palæontology, and wrote in Trans. of Devonshire association, Annals and mag. of natural history, Entomological mag., the Naturalist, Trans. Royal microscopical soc., Bath and West of England journal, and the Zoologist; curator of Somerset Archæological and natural history soc. at Taunton 1860–1; librarian of Devon and Exeter institute, Exeter 26 Jany. 1861 to death; published The fauna of Devon, 22 parts 1866–91; left in M.S. The fungi of Devonshire, 12 vols., illustrated by 1,530 plates, drawn and painted by himself. d. at the Devon and Exeter institution, Cathedral close, Exeter 15 Jany. 1893. N. and Q. 30 Sept. 1893 p. 262; Natural Science, April 1893.

PARHAM, BENJAMIN (eld. son of Benjamin Parham of Ashburton, Devon 1769–1851). b. 1793; barrister M.T. 4 May 1827; went Western circuit; judge of county courts, circuit 23, Worcestershire March 1847, resigned Oct. 1859. d. Chelstone manor house, Torquay 16 Aug. 1861. County Court chronicle Oct. 1861 p. 266; Law Times xxxvi 523 (1861).

PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT D’ ORLEANS, Comte de (elder son of Ferdinand, duc d’Orleans 1810–42). b. Pavilion Marsan, the Tuileries, Paris 24 Aug. 1838; became heir to the French throne 13 July 1842; a refugee in England 1849; confirmed by cardinal Wiseman at French ch. Portman sq. London 1849; resided in Devonshire 1852; visited the East 1860, and U.S. of America 1861; permitted to return to France 1872, and had some of his estates restored to him; banished from France and returned to England June 1886; conspired with general Boulanger in London March 1889; leased Stowe house, Bucks. from trustees of duke of Buckingham 1873; received large sum of money by will of duke de Galliera; m. in R.C. chapel at Kingston 30 May 1864 his cousin Marie Isabella, dau. of the duke de Montpensier; author of The trades’ unions of England 1869; History of the civil war in America 1875. d. Stowe house, Bucks. 8 Sept. 1894. bur. R.C. chapel, Weybridge 12 Sept. Illustrated Times 4 June 1864 p. 361, view of marriage; Times 10 Sept. 1894 p. 4; Saturday Review 26 Dec. 1891 pp. 716–7; A.R. (1894) 178–81; I.L.N. 15 Sept. 1894 pp. 333, 339–47 portraits and views of Stowe house.

PARIS, JOHN AYRTON (son of Thomas Paris of Cambridge). b. Cambridge 7 Aug. 1785; entered Caius coll. Camb. 30 June 1803, scholar Oct. 1803 to 1808; Tancred student in physic 3 Jany. 1804; M.B. 1808, M.D. 1813; physician to Westminster hospital 1809–13; practised at Penzance 1813–7, chief founder and first secretary of the Royal Geological society of Cornwall 1814–17, contributed many papers to its Transactions; returned to London 1817, practised at 27 Dover st. Piccadilly 1818 to death; lectured on materia medica in Windmill st. 1818, etc.; candidate of R.C.P. 30 Sept. 1813, fellow 30 Sept. 1814, censor 1817, 1828, 1836 and 1843, lectured at the college on materia medica 1819–26, Harveian orator 1833, president 20 March 1844 to death, Swiney prizeman 20 Jany. 1849; F.R.S. 21 June 1821; author of Pharmacologia 1812, 9 ed. 1843, by which he made £5,000; A guide to Mount’s Bay and the Land’s End 1815, 2 ed. 1824; A memoir of the life and scientific labours of the Rev. William Gregor 1818; Medical jurisprudence 1823; The elements of medical chemistry 1825; A treatise on diet 1827, 5 ed. 1837; Philosophy in sport made science in earnest 1827, 8 ed. 1857; The life of Sir Humphry Davy 1831. d. 27 Dover st. London 24 Dec. 1856. bur. Woking cemet. Munk’s College of physicians iii 120 (1878); Lives of British physicians (1857) 369–87; Munk’s Goldheaded cane (1884) 186–90, 196–219; The Bibliographer i 65–7 (1882), this a key to Philosophy in sport.

PARISH, JAMES. Champion of the Thames; a member of Waterman’s hall; the coxswain and trainer of the Leander club; kept the Lion public house 1 Newcastle st. Strand, London 1852 to death. d. 1861. Diprose’s Parish of Saint Clement Danes i 110 (1868).

PARISH, JOHN EDWARD (2 son of succeeding). b. 1823; educ. Naval coll. Portsmouth; entered R.N. 1836, commander 1857, captain 25 March 1863, retired 11 July 1876, R.A. 11 Dec. 1878; commander of the Ardent in Brazil 1859–61; refused to give up the ex-president of the Argentine government when received on board the Ardent in the Parana, the English government approved of his conduct; captain of the Satellite 1862; commanded the Sphinx on North American station 1873; good service pension of £150, 1875; retired V.A. 30 Oct. 1884. d. Beech hill, Headley 22 Jany. 1894.

PARISH, SIR WOODBINE (eld. son of Woodbine Parish). b. 14 Sept. 1796; educ. at Eton; entered foreign office 1812, sent to Sicily 1814, to Naples 1815, then to Paris; was with lord Castlereagh at meeting of the allied sovereigns at Aix-la-Chapelle 1818; comr. and consul general at Buenos Ayres 1823; concluded a treaty of amity and commerce 2 Feb. 1825, chargé d’ affaires 1825–32, when the government presented him with letters of citizenship and a diploma to take and bear the arms of the republic for himself and his descendants; K.C.H. 1832; knighted by Wm. IV at St. James’s palace 1 March 1837; sent to Naples as chief comr. to settle the British claims upon the Neapolitan government in consequence of the sulphur monopoly 17 Nov. 1840; joint plenipotentiary with sir Wm. Temple to make a new commercial treaty with the king of Naples 1842, treaty signed 1845; F.R.S. 4 March l824; F.G.S. 1832; F.R.G.S., vice-president many years; author of Buenos Ayres and the provinces of Rio de la Plata 1838. d. Quarry house, St. Leonards-on-Sea 16 Aug. 1882. bur. Fairlight cemet. Hastings 22 Aug. Quarterly journal of Geol. Soc. xxxix 39 (1883); Proc. of royal Geol. Soc. iv 612 (1882); Conduct of the consul-general Mr. Parish to J. Oughgan in Buenos Ayres (1824).

PARK, ALEXANDER ATHERTON (younger son of sir James Allan Park, judge 1763–1838). b. 1802; educ. Harrow 1813–9, and at Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; barrister L.I. 22 May 1827; went Midland circuit; prothonotary and master of court of common pleas 1837 to death. d. Heddon house, Isleworth, Twickenham 21 Nov. 1871. Law Times lii 90 (1871).

PARK, ANDREW. b. Renfrew 7 March 1807; educ. Glasgow univ.; in a warehouse in Paisley 1826; salesman in a hat manufactory in Glasgow 1827; began business on his own account 1828; resided in London to 1840; a bookseller, Ingram st. Glasgow 1841 for a short time; visited Egypt 1856; author of A vision of mankind, Glasgow 1833; The bridegroom and the bride 1834; Blindness 1839; Miscellaneous poems 1844; Silent love. By James Wilson, druggist, Paisley 1843, re-issued 1845; Veritas 1849; Beauty 1853; The poetical works of A. Park 1854; Egypt and the East 1857; The world 1862; several of his lyrics have been set to music by Auber, Donizetti and others. d. Glasgow 27 Dec. 1863. bur. Paisley cemet. 2 Jany. 1864, memorial monument erected 7 March 1867. J. G. Wilson’s Poets and poetry of Scotland ii 289–92 (1877); C. Rogers’s Scottish minstrel v 248–57 (1857); Inglis’s Dramatic writers of Scotland (1868) 92.

PARK, JOHN (son of John Park, wine merchant). b. Greenock 14 Jany. 1804; educ. at Aberdeen and at Glasgow univ.; licensed as a probationer 1831; assistant at West church, Greenock, and then at Bonhill, Dumbartonshire; minister of Rodney st. presbyterian church, Liverpool 1832–43; minister of Glencairn, Dumfriesshire 1843–54; minister at St. Andrews 1854 to death; D.D. St. Andrews 1854; composed O gin I were where Gadie rins, Montgomery’s mistress, The miller’s daughter, and other popular airs; author of Lectures and sermons, Edinburgh 1865; A Greenockian’s visit to Wordsworth 1887. d. suddenly from paralysis at St. Andrew’s 8 April 1865. bur. in grounds of St. Andrew’s cathedral. Songs composed and in part written by the late Rev. John Park, Leeds (1876), with memoir and portrait; D. H. Edwards’s Modern Scottish Poets (1889).

PARK, PATRIC (3 child of Matthew Park, mason and builder). b. Glasgow 12 Feb. 1811; apprenticed to Mr. Connell, a builder 1826–9; employed by Gillespie, the architect 1829–31; pupil of Thorwalsden, the sculptor, in Rome 1831–3; executed the full-length statue of Michael Thomas Sadler, exhibited at the R.A. 1837 and erected in Leeds 1841, and the colossal statue of Charles Tennant in the Glasgow necropolis; resided in Edinburgh 1848–52, and at Manchester 1852 to death; A.R.S.A. Nov. 1849, R.S.A. Feb. 1851, exhibited nearly 90 works in the R.S.A. 1839–56; modelled a colossal statue of Wallace at Edinb. about 1850; executed a bust of Napoleon III in Paris 1854, which is at South Kensington museum; exhibited 54 sculptures at R.A., 8 at B.I., and 29 at Suffolk st. 1836–55; author of On the use of drapery in portrait sculpture, privately printed 1846. d. Warrington, Lancs. 16 Aug. 1855. G.M. ii 451–8 (1884).

PARKE, THOMAS ADAMS. b. 1781; 2 lieut. R.M. 19 May 1795, colonel commandant 12 Feb. 1842 to 11 Nov. 1851; A.D.C. to the sovereign 21 Aug. 1835 to 11 Nov. 1851; general 6 Feb. 1857; C.B. 26 Sept. 1831. d. Hythe, near Southampton 3 Sept. 1858.

PARKE, THOMAS HEAZLE (2 son of Wm. Parke, justice of the peace). b. Clogher house, Drumsna, co. Roscommon 27 Nov. 1857; L.R.C.S. Ireland 1878, hon. F.R.C.S. 1890; L.K. and Q.C.P. Ireland and licentiate in midwifery 1879; surgeon to the Eastern dispensary at Bath; surgeon in army medical department Feb. 1881; served in the Tel-el-Kebir campaign of 1882; senior medical officer at the Helouan cholera camp near Cairo 1883; served in the Nile expedition 1884–5, and went with the column across the Bayuda desert to rescue Gordon; served at the battles of Abu Klea and Gubat; went with H. M. Stanley as a volunteer to the Congo forest for the relief of Emin Pasha 1887–8, returned to England May 1890; hon. D.C.L. Durham 1890; granted the gold medals of royal geographical societies of London and Antwerp 1890; received the orders of the Medjidie and the Brilliant star of Zanzibar; attached to the 2 lifeguards in London 1890; employed at royal Victoria hospital, Netley 1891; author of Report to the war office on the cholera outbreak in Egypt 1883; Evidence before the vaccination commission 1890; My experiences in Equatorial Africa 1891; A guide to health in Africa, with notes on the country and its inhabitants 1893; and of articles in periodicals. d. while on a visit to the duke of St. Albans at Alt-na-Craig in Argyleshire 10 Sept. 1893. bur. at Kilmessan, co. Leitrim 16 Sept. Graphic 16 Sept. 1893 p. 351 portrait; Westminster Budget 15 Sept. 1893 p. 29 portrait.

NOTE.—An oil portrait by Miss Ffolliott is in the masonic lodge, Boyle, co. Roscommon, but is to be removed to the Parke memorial, being erected at Carrick-on-Shannon. A fund has also been opened to erect a statue of Parke in Dublin.

PARKE, SIR WILLIAM (eld. son of Roger Parke of Dunally, co. Sligo, lieut. col. of Sligo militia). b. March 1779; ensign 53 foot 14 Dec. 1791; major 2 foot 27 June 1811; major 66 foot 5 March 1812 to 25 Dec. 1817, when placed on h.p.; served in the West Indies, Egypt, Holland, the Peninsula, Walcheren, and St. Helena; wounded in battle of Corunna; sheriff of co. Sligo twice; knighted by marquess of Normanby, lord lieut. of Ireland 1836. d. Dunally, Sligo 1 Sept. 1851. G.M. xxxvi 453 (1851).

PARKE, WILLIAM (son of James Parke). b. Churchgates of Brewood, Staffordshire 23 March 1797; educ. Brewood gram. sch.; apprenticed to Mr. Smart, bookseller and printer, High Green, Wolverhampton 1812–8, partner in the business 1828, sole proprietor 1833 to death; part proprietor of Wolverhampton chronicle 1831–2; a great friend of Harrison Ainsworth from 1872; exercised great hospitality to literary men; known as the Murray of Wolverhampton; warden of Wolverhampton collegiate ch. 1856 to death. d. the Deanery, Wolverhampton 10 June 1876. bur. Brewood 15 June. W. Parke, a sketch by J. B. Brodhurst, Wolverhampton (1876).

PARKER, CHARLES. b. 1800; pupil of sir Jeffrey Wyatville; studied in Italy many years; architect in London about 1830; designed Messrs. Hoare’s bank in Fleet st., the Italian Roman Catholic church at Kingston, Surrey, and the chapel in Stamford st. Blackfriars 1830–2; F.R.I.B.A. 1834, retired 15 Nov. 1869, contributed many papers to the sessional meetings; F.S.A. 9 Jany. 1834, withdrew 1844; steward and surveyor to duke of Bedford’s London property 1859–69; became totally blind; author of Villa rustica, selected from the buildings and scenes in the vicinity of Rome and Florence, and arranged for rural and domestic dwellings 1832, 2 ed. 1848. d. 48 Park road, Haverstock hill, London 9 Feb. 1881.

PARKER, SIR CHARLES CHRISTOPHER, 5 Baronet (3 son of vice-admiral Christopher Parker, d. 1804). b. Harley st. London 16 June 1792; entered navy June 1804; commander of the Harlequin on the coast of Ireland 1819–22; captain 23 April 1822, retired R.A. 7 Oct. 1852, retired admiral 27 April 1863; succeeded his brother, sir J. E. G. Parker, as baronet 18 Nov. 1835. d. Clifton 13 March 1869. Reg. and mag. of biog. i 387–8, 524 (1869).

PARKER, EDWARD AUGUSTUS. Second lieut. R.M. 23 Sept. 1811, lieut. colonel 13 Dec. 1852, colonel commandant 6 Feb. 1857; retired on full pay as major general 24 Feb. 1858; war medal with one clasp, and the cross of the Tower and sword of Portugal. d. Park villa, Charlotte st. Park st. Bristol 8 June 1875.

PARKER, FRANKE. b. 1803; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1831; C. of Sampford Peverell, Devon 1829–31; C. of Starcross, Devon 1831–2; R. of Luffincott, near Launceston 30 Jany. 1838 to death; author of The church, with a chart 1851; Chronology, 2 vols. 1858; The Parian chronicle subversive of the common chronology 1859; Replies to the first and second part of the bishop of Natal’s Pentateuch 1863, and Replies to the third and fourth part 1864; A light thrown upon Thucydides to illustrate the prophecy of Daniel 1865; The Athenian year and its bearing on the eclipses of Thucydides and Ptolemy and the metonic cycle 1866. d. Luffincott rectory 3 April 1883.

PARKER, SIR GEORGE, 3 Baronet (2 son of sir Wm. George Parker, 2 baronet, d. 1848). b. 1813; educ. at Addiscombe; cadet Bengal army 1833; lieut. 74 Bengal N.I. 30 Jany. 1837, captain 3 Oct. 1845 to death; superintendent of Akbara and joint magistrate at Meerut 10 June 1847 to June 1852; succeeded his brother as 3 baronet 24 March 1848; returned to India Dec. 1854; superintendent of Akbara and magistrate at Cawnpore 5 May 1856 to death; major in the army June 1857. d. of sunstroke during the sortie from Cawnpore 6 July 1857. Malleson’s History of the Indian mutiny ii 228 (1889).

PARKER, GEORGE (3 son of Thomas Watson Parker of Lewisham, Kent 1772–1861). b. 1 April 1804; educ. Charterhouse 1818 etc.; solicitor at Lewisham 1831–63; gave £2,000 towards restoration of nave of Lewisham parish church; built at his own cost church of St. George’s, Perry Hill, Greenwich 1878–80. d. Lewisham house, 224 High st. Lewisham 10 March 1889.

PARKER, GEORGE CHARLES (son of a captain in the marines). b. Havant, Hants. 19 Feb. 1836; midshipman H.E.I.C.S. 3 April 1853 to 30 April 1863, retired as a lieut. and was transferred to the Indian marine, captain 1883; served in the China wars 1856–7 and 1860; in naval brigade in Indian mutiny 1857–8; port officer at Carwar 1863; master attendant at Karáchi 1873, where he aided in improving the port; raised and formed the Karáchi brigade of naval volunteers; A.I.C.E. 2 Dec. 1884; F.R.G.S. d. at sea on his voyage to England 15 Nov. 1890. Min. of Proc. of Instit. C.E. civ 318–20 (1891).

PARKER, GEORGE HARGREAVE. Educ. St. Bees theol. coll.; C. of Anstey, Leics. 1838; C. of Grooby 1841; V. of St. Andrew’s, Bethnal Green, London 1843 to death; edited Juliana’s Sixteen revelations of divine love 1843; J. Eaton’s The true doctrine of baptism 1850; author of Letters on the great revolution of 1848, 1848. d. 3 Grove st. South Hackney, London 18 April 1864.

PARKER, HENRY PERLEE (son of Robert Parker of Devonport, drawing master). b. Devonport 15 March 1795; a portrait painter at Plymouth 1815, and at Newcastle 1816; secretary of the Northumberland institution, Newcastle, for the promotion of the fine arts 1822; became known as ‘Smuggler Parker’ from his pictures of smugglers; gave his picture of the rescue of John Wesley from the fire at Epworth in 1709 to the Wesleyan conference 1840, to be placed in the centenary hall, London; exhibited 23 pictures at R.A., 40 at B.I., and 23 at Suffolk st. 1817–63; drawing master at Wesley college, Sheffield 1840–4; resided in London 1844 to death; author of Critiques on paintings, together with a few slight etchings showing the compositions, Newcastle 1835. d. 1 Blenheim villa, Goldhawk road, Shepherd’s Bush, London 11 Nov. 1873. Walford’s Men of mark twixt Tyne and Tweed iii 249 (1895); Newcastle Weekly chronicle 22 Aug. 1891 portrait, and 3–8 Nov. 1894; I.L.N. 23 May 1874 p. 493 portrait.

PARKER, HENRY PERROTT (son of Joseph Parker). b. Upton Cheyney, Gloucestershire 21 Sept. 1852; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1875; at Church missionary coll. Islington; C. of Holy Trinity, Exeter 1876–8; sec. of Church missionary soc. and chaplain to bishop of Calcutta 1878; missionary at Urgui, Africa 1882; bishop of the church of England in Eastern Equatorial Africa Oct. 1886, consecrated 14 Oct. d. in the Unyoro country to the south east of the Albert Nyanza 26 March 1888. Times 15 Oct. 1886 p. 9, 19 Oct. p. 7, 2 May 1888 pp. 7, 11.

PARKER, HENRY WALTER. b. 9 Oct. 1808; educ. Merchant Taylors’ sch. 1820 etc.; barrister G.I. 15 June 1832, went home circuit; assistant sec. poor law board 9 April 1836 to 21 April 1839; author of The rise, progress, and present state of Van Diemen’s land 1833; Letters to sir James Graham on the proceedings connected with Andover union 1845; A digest of the laws relating to the relief of the poor 1849. d. Adelaide 1874.

PARKER, SIR HENRY WATSON (4 son of Thomas Watson Parker of Lewisham, Kent). b. Lewisham 1808; private secretary to sir George Gipps, governor of New South Wales 1838–46; member of legislative council of N.S.W. 8 Dec. 1848 to 1856, chairman of committees 17 May 1849; member for Paramatta of legislative assembly 1856; contested the speakership 1856, when beaten by one vote; premier 3 Oct. 1856 to 7 Sept. 1857; knighted at Buckingham palace 7 May 1858; resided in England about 1859 to death; contested Greenwich against W. E. Gladstone 18 Nov. 1868; K.C.M.G. 30 May 1877; a comr. for the exhibitions held at Sydney 1880 and Melbourne 1881. d. Stawell house, Richmond, Surrey 2 Feb. 1881.

PARKER, SIR HENRY WATSON (son of John Goodhand Parker of Kingston-upon Hull). b. 1825; admitted solicitor Nov. 1853; partner with Fred. Clarke 1857–81; head of firm of Parker, Garrett, and Parker, St. Michael’s rectory, Cornhill. London 1881 to death; a royal comr. on Loss of life at sea 1884–7; member of council of Incorporated law society 20 Aug. 1873, V.P. 1885–6, and president 1886–7; knighted at Osborne 12 Aug. 1887. d. 10 Rosslyn hill, Hampstead, London 31 May 1894. bur. St. Mary’s R.C. cemetery, Kensal green 5 June. Solicitor’s Journal 9 June 1894 p. 527.

PARKER, HYDE (eld. son of admiral sir Hyde Parker 1739–1807). b. about 1782; entered royal naval academy 5 Feb. 1796; a volunteer on board the Cambrian, Sept. 1799; captain 13 Oct. 1807; extra naval aide-de-camp to Wm. 4, 5 Sept. 1831; C.B. 18 April 1839; R.A. 23 Nov. 1841; admiral superintendent Portsmouth 4 Aug. 1842 to 15 Dec. 1847; V.A. 4 June 1852; one of lords’ comrs. of the admiralty 30 Dec. 1852 to death. d. Ham, Surrey 25 May 1854. G.M. xlii 76 (1854).

PARKER, SIR HYDE, 7 Baronet (2 son of sir Harry Hyde Parker, 5 Bart., d. 1812). b. 1785; succeeded his brother, sir William Parker, 6 Bart. 21 April 1830; M.P. West Suffolk 1832–5. d. Government house, Devonport 21 March 1856. G.M. xlv 519 (1856).

PARKER, SIR JAMES (son of Charles Steuart Parker of Blochairn, near Glasgow). b. Glasgow 1803; educ. Glasgow gr. sch. and college, and Trin. coll. Camb., seventh wrangler 1825; B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; barrister L.I. 6 Feb. 1829. bencher 1844 to death; went northern circuit; Q.C. July 1844; vice-chancellor 8 Oct. 1851 to death; knighted at Windsor castle 23 Oct. 1851; member of the chancery commission 11 Dec. 1850; contested Leicester 30 July 1847. d. Rothley Temple, Leics. 13 Aug. 1852. Foss’s Judges ix 233–5 (1864); Law Mag. xlviii 321–2 (1852).

PARKER, JOHN (2 son of Thomas Netherton Parker of Sweeney hall, Shropshire, d. 1854). b. 3 Oct. 1798; educ. Eton and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1825; R. of Llanmarewic, Montgomeryshire 1827–44, added a tower and south porch to his church; designed the church and vaulted apse of Trinity church, Oswestry 1835; V. of Llan-y-Blodwell, Shropshire 1844 to death, rebuilt the church at his own cost and from his own designs and carved the altar-piece himself; local secretary of the Cambrian archæological association; author of The Passengers [a dialogue between three tourists in North Wales] 1831. d. Llan-y-Blodwell vicarage 13 Aug. 1860. G.M. Dec. 1860 pp. 675–8.

PARKER, JOHN (2 son of Wm. Parker of High Wycombe, Bucks.) b. 1801; solicitor at High Wycombe 1823–80; town clerk 40 years; clerk to the bench of magistrates many years; registrar of Wycombe county court; author of A brief history of the church of Christ in Crendon lane meeting house, Chipping Wycombe 1848; The early history and antiquities of Wycombe 1878. d. High Wycombe 22 Dec. 1880. Solicitor’s Journal xxv 183 (1881).

PARKER, JOHN (eld. son of Hugh Parker of Tickhill, near Doncaster, d. 1861). b. Woodthorpe, near Sheffield 21 Oct. 1799; educ. Repton school and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; barrister L.I. 1 July 1824; M.P. Sheffield 15 Dec. 1832 to July 1852; a lord of the treasury 18 July 1837 to 23 June 1841; first secretary of the admiralty 9 June to 10 Sept. 1841, and 21 May 1849 to 3 March 1852; joint-secretary of the treasury 7 July 1846 to 22 May 1849; P.C. 24 Oct. 1854. d. 71 Onslow square, London 5 Sept. 1881. bur. Healaugh, near Tadcaster 9 Sept. Law Times lxxi 366 (1881); Chapters in the political history of Sheffield (1884).

PARKER, JOHN. b. 1822; huntsman of the Sinnington hunt, Malton 1853, retired 1890; subscription raised for him by editor of Vanity Fair, April 1890. d. 14 Nov. 1890. St. Stephens Review 24 May 1890 pp. 15–16 portrait, 22 Nov. p. 15 portrait; W. S. Dixon’s In the North countree (1889) 137–40 portrait; Blair Athol by Blinkhoolie, 3 vols. 1881.

PARKER, JOHN BOTELER. Second lieut. R.A. 1 April 1802; lost his left leg at Waterloo; lieutenant governor of royal military academy, Woolwich; lieut. col. R.A. 10 Jany. 1837, retired on full pay 20 July. 1840; C.B. 22 June 1815; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846. d. Woolwich 25 March 1851. G.M. xxxv 665 (1851).

PARKER, JOHN HENRY (son of John Parker of London, merchant). b. London 1 March 1806; bookseller and publisher at the Turl, Oxford 1832, retired 1863; secretary of Oxford architectural society 1839; issued the libraries of the Fathers and of Anglo-catholic theology and the series of Oxford pocket classics; published Dr. Pusey’s works, also all John Keble’s works 1832–73; F.S.A. 7 June 1849; went to Rome 1863, where he excavated the walls, especially the gates, and took 3,300 photographs; hon. M.A. Oxf. 27 June 1867; endowed the keepership of the Ashmolean museum, Oxford, with £250 a year 1869, keeper of the museum 1870 to death; member of the Oxford architectural society, vice-president; knight of Italian order of St. Maurice and Lazarus, April 1879; awarded a gold medal by Pope Pius IX for his researches in Rome; C.B. 30 Oct. 1871; author of A glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture 1836, 4 ed. 1845; A handbook for visitors to Oxford 1847; An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture 1849, 6 ed. 1881; The mediæval architecture of Chester 1858; Mosaic pictures in Rome and Ravenna 1866; Historical photographs illustrative of the Archæology of Rome, 7 vols. 1872–5; The archæology of Rome, 1874–6, second ed. 1878; Historical photographs, a catalogue of 3,300 historical photographs of antiquities in Rome and Italy 1879; A.B.C. of Gothic architecture 1881, 2 ed. 1882. d. The Turl, Oxford 31 Jany. 1884. bur. St. Sepulchre’s cemetery, Oxford 5 Feb. Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. (1884) 79–81; Curwen’s Booksellers (1873) 312–24; Bookseller March 1884 pp. 247–50; I.L.N. lxxxiv 157 (1884) portrait.

PARKER, JOHN WILLIAM (son of Mr. Parker of the royal navy). b. 1792; apprenticed to William Clowes, printer, Duke st. Blackfriar’s road, London 1806, became manager of the business; worked on his own account; superintendent of the Cambridge university press Feb. 1829, retired 1854; publisher at 445 Strand, London 1832–63; publisher to the Society for promoting Christian knowledge; published and edited the Saturday Magazine 1832; printer to univ. of Cambridge 15 Nov. 1836; publisher to the committee of council on education 1839; published Fraser’s Mag. and the works of Buckle, Froude, Hare, Kingsley, Lewes, Maurice, Mill, Whately Whewell, and others; partner as publishers with Wm. Butler Bourn 1860, they sold the business to Messrs. Longman 1863 for £20,000; partner with Thomas Richard Harrison as printers in St. Martin’s lane 1863 to death, they printed the London Gazette; author of Bibles, testaments, books of common prayer and proper lessons, printed at the Cambridge university press by J. W. Parker 1839. d. Warren corner house, near Farnham, Surrey 18 May 1870. Curwen’s History of booksellers (1873) 317–24; R. Bowes’ Biographical notes on the university printers (1886) 329; Bookseller 16 Jany. 1861 p. 2, and 1 June 1870 pp. 491–2.

PARKER, JOHN WILLIAM (son of the preceding). b. 1820; partner with his father 1845 to death; edited Fraser’s Magazine about 1848 to death. d. 9 Nov. 1860. G.M. Feb. 1861 pp. 221–4.

PARKER, KENYON STEVENS. b. 1789; 2 lieut. R.M. 26 Oct. 1805; 1 lieut. on half pay 1 Sept. 1814 to death; barrister G.I. 27 Nov. 1819; migrated to Lincoln’s inn, bencher 1841 to death; Q.C. Nov. 1841; examiner in court of chancery Jany. 1853 to death; run over by a cab in Chancery lane and d. 49 Lancaster gate, London 2 June 1866. Law Times xli 607 (1866).

PARKER, RICHARD. b. 29 June 1803; cornet 1 life guards 2 Aug. 1822, lieut. col. 20 June 1854 to 24 Aug. 1861; colonel of 5 dragoon guards 7 Dec. 1871 to death; M.G. 24 Aug. 1861, L.G. 2 Jany. 1871; placed on retired list with rank of general 1 Oct. 1877. d. Castle Malwood, near Lyndhurst, Hampshire 15 March 1885.

PARKER, ROBERT (eld. son of Robert Parker comptroller of customs in New Brunswick). b. 1796; educ. Bideford, Devon, and King’s coll. Windsor, Nova Scotia; solicitor general of Nova Scotia 1828; acted as attorney general; puisne judge of New Brunswick 31 Oct. 1834; chief justice of supreme court Sept. 1865 to death. d. St. John’s, New Brunswick 24 Dec. 1865.

PARKER, ROBERT TOWNLEY (only son of Thomas T. Parker, d. 1794). b. 27 Aug. 1793; educ. Eton; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 17 Oct. 1811; sheriff of Lancs. 1817; M.P. Preston 1837–41 and 1852–7; contested Preston 29 June 1841 and 29 July 1847; guild mayor of Preston 1862; constable of Lancaster castle 1874. d. Cuerden hall, near Preston 11 Aug. 1879. I.L.N. xli 285 (1862) portrait.

PARKER, ROGER. Ensign 113 foot 30 June 1795; lieut. 39 foot 1 Oct. 1795, major 25 Feb. 1808, lieut. col. 18 May 1826, served in the Peninsula 1809–12; silver medal for Albuera; lieut. col. 22 foot 6 March 1828, placed on h.p. 25 Nov. 1828; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846; granted distinguished service reward 26 July 1847; col. 86 foot 26 May 1852 to death. d. 28 April 1854.

PARKER, SAMUEL WILLIAM LANGSTON (son of Wm. Parker, surgeon). b. Birmingham 1803; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital and in Paris; M.R.C.S. 1828, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon in Birmingham 1830 to death; professor of comparative anatomy at Queen’s college, Birmingham 25 years, a college which with Sands Cox he had established; surgeon to the Associated hospital 1840–65, and consulting surgeon 1865 to death; an authority on syphilis, introduced new methods of treatment; author of The stomach, in its morbid state 1838; The modern treatment of syphilitic diseases 1839, 5 ed. 1871; Digestion and its disorders 1849; The treatment of secondary syphilis 1850; On the nature of some painful affections of bone 1852; The treatment of cancerous diseases by caustic 1856; The mercurial vapour bath 1868. d. Paradise st. Birmingham 27 Oct. 1871. bur. Ashton-juxta-Birmingham. Literary remains of S. W. L. Parker, edited by Josiah Allen (1876); Medical times and gazette ii 602, 605 (1871); Proc. of Medical and Chirurgical soc. vii 43–44 (1875).

PARKER, TASS, ring name of Hazard Parker. b. West Bromwich, Staffs. 10 April 1811; fought Hammer Lane for £25 a side at Kensale Corner 15 Sept. 1835, when Lane won in 48 rounds; fought Lane again for £50 a side at Woodstock 7 March 1837, when Lane won in 96 rounds lasting 2 hours; beat Harry Preston near Castle Donnington in 13 rounds for £100 a side; fought Tom Britton for £100 a side at Woore, Staffs. 8 May 1838 after 33 rounds the fight was adjourned to 5 March 1839, when they met at Wem in Shropshire, but Britton was arrested by the police; beat Britton at Worksop, Notts. 9 June 1840 in 77 rounds lasting 110 minutes; fought Brassey for £100 a side at Brunt Lays, Worksop 10 Aug. 1841, when Parker won in 158 rounds; fought Wm. Perry for £100 a side at Dartford Marshes 19 Dec. 1843, the police interfered after 67 rounds; fought him again for same sum at Horley 27 Feb. 1844, after 133 rounds Parker went down without a blow; fought him again for same sum at Lindrick Common 4 Aug. 1846, beaten again in 23 rounds lasting 27 minutes; beat Con. Parker for £100 a side at Trimley Green 26 Nov. 1849 in 27 rounds lasting 97 minutes; fought a drawn battle with Burton of Leicester, £100 a side, 87 rounds in 100 minutes 19 May 1851; employed by James Merry the great racing man. d. June 1884. Fistiana by the editor of Bells’s Life in London (1868) 95; W. Day’s Reminiscences, 2 ed. (1886) 319–23; H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica iii 187–99, 344–55 (1881); J. Hannan’s British boxing (1850) 29–30.

PARKER, THOMAS LISTER (eld. son of John Parker of Browsholme hall, Yorkshire 1755–97). b. Browsholme hall 17 Sept. 1779; educ. Clitheroe gr. sch. and Christ’s coll. Camb.; formed a collection of antiquities and pictures; bought many engravings and prints during a tour on the continent 1800 and 1801; F.S.A. 14 May 1801; F.R.S. 1 June 1815; sheriff for Lancashire 1804; trumpeter to the queen; hereditary bow-bearer of the forest of Bowland, Lancs. 1797; author of A description of Browsholme hall and of the parish of Waddington 1815; some of his letters are printed in F. R. Raine’s Miscellanies of rev. Thomas Wilson (Chetham Soc. vol. xlv 1858) pp. 20, 159–64, 170, 205. d. the Star inn, Deansgate, Manchester 2 March 1858. bur. in his family chapel Waddington church, Yorkshire 9 March. Whitaker’s History of Wally i 336 (1872).

PARKER, SIR WILLIAM, 1 Baronet (3 son of George Parker of Almington, Staffs. 1730–1819). b. Almington hall 1 Dec. 1781; entered navy Feb. 1793; captain 9 Oct. 1801; commanded the Amazon, 38 guns, Nov. 1802 to 16 Jany. 1812; commanded the Warspite in the Mediterranean 1828; commanded the royal yacht Prince Regent Dec. 1828 to 22 July 1830; R.A. 22 July 1830; second in command of the channel squadron April to Sept. 1831; commanded a squadron in the Tagus river Sept. 1831 to June 1834; a lord of the admiralty July to Dec. 1834 and April 1835 to 12 May 1841; commanded a squadron on coast of China 10 Aug. 1841; captured Amoy, Ningpo, Woosung, Shanghai, and Chin-kiang-foo; concluded peace at Nankin 27 Aug. 1842; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 16 July 1834, G.C.B. 2 Dec. 1842; granted good-service pension of £300 a year 26 April 1844; created baronet 18 Dec. 1844; commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean 27 Feb. 1845 to 17 Jany. 1852; commanded the Channel fleet May 1846 to 28 April 1852; principal A.D.C. to the queen 10 Dec. 1846 to death; admiral 29 April 1851; chairman of committee to inquire into the manning of the navy, July 1852; commander-in-chief at Devonport 1 May 1854 to 4 May 1857; an elder brother of the Trinity house 1861; R.A. of the United Kingdom 20 May 1862, admiral of the fleet 27 April 1863 to death. d. Shenstone lodge, near Lichfield 13 Nov. 1866. bur. Shenstone churchyard, monument in Lichfield cathedral. Sir A. Phillimore’s Life of Sir W. Parker, 3 vols. (1876–80) portrait; I.L.N. lv, 233 (1869) view of monument.

PARKER, WILLIAM ALEXANDER (eld. son of John Parker, principal keeper of judicial records of Scotland). b. Edinburgh 4 Dec. 1818; educ. Edinb. academy and univ.; assistant keeper of judicial records in general register house, Edinb. 1839; advocate at Edinb. 1853; chief judge and member of legislative council of the Gold Coast 1866; chief justice and judge in admiralty of St. Helena 8 April 1869 to 1875; chief justice of British Honduras 1 Nov. 1875, retired on a pension 1881; an originator and first hon. sec. of Architectural Institute of Scotland. d. Hillside, Gorey, Jersey 27 July 1886. Journal of jurisprudence xxx 495 (1886); Law Times 14 Aug. 1886 p. 283.

PARKER, WILLIAM KITCHEN (2 son of Thomas Parker, yeoman farmer). b. Dogsthorpe, near Peterborough 23 June 1823; apprenticed to a druggist at Stamford 1839; articled to Mr. Costal at Market Overton 1842–4; studied at Charing Cross hospital 1844; L.S.A. 1849; a general practitioner at 124 Tachbrook st. Pimlico, London 1849, at 18 Bessborough st. 1853, and at 36 Claverton st. to 1883; M.R.C.S. 1873, Hunterian professor of comparative anatomy at the college, 1873, gave ten courses of lectures; wrote 99 scientific memoirs in Trans Palæontographical Soc., Trans. Ray Soc., Trans. Royal Irish academy, Annals and Mag. of Natural history, and Trans. Microscopical Soc.; F.R.S. 1 June 1865, gold medallist 1866; Baly medallist of royal college of physicians; president of royal microscopical society 1871–3; a director of the Star life assurance soc. 1874; with T. H. Huxley he made a minute study of the skull; differed from sir R. Owen about the anatomy of animals; author of On mammalian descent, the Hunterian lecture 1885; and with G. T. Bettany The morphology of the skull 1877; in the Ray Society series he printed A monograph on the structure of the shoulder-girdle and sternum in the vertebrata 1868. d. in his son’s house 74 Llandaff road, Cardiff 3 July 1890. bur. Wandsworth cemet. London 7 July. T. J. Parker’s W. K. Parker (1893) portrait; Proc. of royal soc. xlviii pp. xv–xx (1890); G. T. Bettany’s Professor W. K. Parker (1891).

PARKER, WINDSOR (eld. son of William Parker of Hardwick court, Gloucs.) b. 1802; cornet 6 Bengal light cavalry 24 Nov. 1820; lieut. 10 Bengal light cavalry 1 May 1824, captain 30 July 1829; served at siege of Bhurtpore 1825–6; aide-de-camp to commander-in-chief 1827–8; brigade major Malwa field force 1829–35; brigade major in Oude 1835–6; sheriff of Suffolk 1854; M.P. western division of Suffolk 1859–80; major west Suffolk militia 9 Oct. 1852 to 6 May 1869; celebrated his golden wedding 1880. d. Clopton hall, Rattlesden, Suffolk Feb. 1892.

PARKES, ALEXANDER (son of a brass lock manufacturer). b. Suffolk st. Birmingham 29 Dec. 1813; in charge of the casting department in the works of Messrs. Elkington; took out a patent for the electro-deposition of works of art 1841; patented a method of electro-plating flowers 1843; took out 66 patents in 46 years; superintended the erection of Elkington and Mason’s copper-smelting works at Pembrey, South Wales 1850–3; his method of using zinc for the desilverisation of lead, patented 1850, is in universal use in America; showed articles made from the compound of pyroxyline, named Parkesine, at exhibition of 1862, when he received a medal, this compound is now known as zylonite or celluloid. d. Rosendale road, West Dulwich 29 June 1890. Engineering 25 July 1890 p. 111; Birmingham Weekly Post 5 July 1890.

PARKES, CAROLINE. b. Islington, London 1 Jany. 1838; appeared as Bacchus in a ballet at Her Majesty’s 1842; a columbine at Sadler’s Wells 1849, and often from that time to 1865; acted many characters in Phelps and Greenwood’s revivals of Shakespeare’s dramas at Sadler’s Wells 1850–60; a great favourite at the Marylebone theatre; chief dancer at the Eagle tavern, danced in Jason and Medea there 28 Aug. 1851; columbine at the Surrey 1851, at Sadler’s Wells 1852–3, 1855, 1857, and 1859; acted Donaldbain in Macbeth at Her Majesty’s 19 Jany. 1858; had a character in Cock Robin pantomine, Lyceum 1867; played Joe Tiller in Poll and my Partner Jo burlesque, St. James’ 6 May 1871; acted Dicky Dilver in Little Dicky Dilver pantomime, Princess’s 26 Dec. 1871; Jack in Jack and the bean stalk pantomime, Adelphi 26 Dec. 1872; played in Crystal palace pantomime 20 Dec. 1873, and several succeeding years, when her songs and dances were very popular; was seen at the majority of the London theatres and music halls; a teacher of dancing; m. Charles Gill Fenton, actor and scene painter, d. 15 Feb. 1877. She d. 17 Medina road, Holloway, London 7 March 1887. Illustrated Sporting News 15 Nov. 1862 p. 308 portrait; Scott and Howard’s E. L. Blanchard i 86 etc., ii 397, 720 (1891).

PARKES, CHARLES HENRY. b. 1816; clerk in election office of house of commons; clerk to Dyson and co., parliamentary agents 24 Parliament st. London, partner in the firm; a director of the Eastern counties’ railway 1869, deputy chairman Aug. 1873, chairman Nov. 1874 to July 1893, greatly improved the line, increased the traffic, built and then enlarged Liverpool station at a cost of £3,000,000, and developed the continental traffic by a route from Harwich to the Hook of Holland, the quays at Harwich are called after him, the main line was renamed the Great Eastern 1862, was voted sum of £2,000 on retirement from the chairmanship. d. Netherfield, Weybridge 9 May 1895. bur. Weybridge cemetery 14 May. Times 17 May 1895 p. 10; I.L.N. 25 May 1895 p. 638 portrait.

PARKES, EDMUND ALEXANDER (son of Wm. Parkes of the Marble-yard, Warwick). b. Bloxham, Oxfordshire 29 March 1819, or Warwick 30 March 1819; educ. Christ’s hospital, and Univ. coll. and hospital; M.B. London 1841, M.D. 1846; M.R.C.S. 1840; assistant surgeon to 84 foot April 1842, served in Madras and Moulmein 1842–5, retired Sept. 1845; practised in London 1845; special professor of clinical medicine at Univ. college 1849–60, emeritus professor 1860; physician to Univ. coll. hospital 1849; edited British and foreign medico-chirurgical review 1852–5; sent to Turkey to select a site for and organize and superintend a large civil hospital, he selected Renkioi on the Asiatic bank of the Dardanelles and remained there till 1856; professor of hygiene in army medical school at Fort Pitt, Chatham 27 March 1860, the school was transferred to the royal Victoria hospital, Netley 1863; invented the new military valise which displaced the old knapsack; the founder of the science of modern hygiene; wrote an annual review of the progress of hygiene in the army medical department blue-book 1861–75; crown member of general medical council 17 Nov. 1863 to death; F.R.S. 6 June 1861, member of council; member of senate of univ. of London 1871 to death; author of Remarks on the dysentery and hepatitis of India 1846; Researches into Asiatic or algide cholera 1847; On self-training by the medical student 1856; The composition of the urine in health and disease 1860; A manual of practical hygiene for use in the army 1864, 8 ed. 1891; A scheme of medical tuition 1868; On the issue of spirit ration during the Ashanti campaign 1875. d. Sydney cottage, Bitterne, near Southampton 15 March 1876. bur. Solihull, near Birmingham, bust at Univ. coll. London. Good Words (1879) 553–8; Medical times and gazette i 348–9 (1876); I.L.N. lxviii 325, 326 (1876) portrait; Saturday Review 2 June 1883 p. 687.

NOTE.—The Parkes museum of hygiene was instituted 1876 at University college, London, in 1882 it was incorporated and removed to Margaret st. Cavendish sq. and opened by the duke of Albany 26 May 1883, it was incorporated with the Sanitary institute of Great Britain Aug. 1888. In Dec. 1894 Hermann Weber, M.D., M.R.C.P, gave the royal college of physicians the sum of £2,500 in trust for the purpose of founding a prize to be called the Weber-Parkes prize to be given at intervals for the best essay in tubercular consumption.

PARKES, GEORGE. b. 1827; a barber in Old Bridge court, Cannon row, Westminster 1845; had a fine baritone voice, sang at Vauxhall and Cremorne gardens and the Bower saloon, Stangate st.; lessee with Wm. Tanner of the Alhambra music hall, Shoreditch 1871–5, and of the Raglan music hall, Southwark; in partnership with Wm. Tanner, lessee of the Elephant and Castle theatre 1880, and alone 1881–3, produced Walter Burnot’s burlesque of The German silver king 24 March 1883; proprietor of Richardson’s theatre at the World’s fair at the Agricultural hall, Islington Dec. 1883 to Feb. 1884; generally known as Baron Parkes. d. 29 Hercules road, Lambeth, London 16 Oct. 1895. bur. Brompton cemet. 21 Oct.

PARKES, SIR HARRY SMITH (youngest child of Harry Parkes of Walsall, ironmaster, d. 1833). b. Birchill’s hall, Bloxwich, near Walsall 24 Feb. 1828; educ. Birmingham gr. sch. 1838–41; joined his sisters in China 1841; attached to sir Henry Pottinger’s suit 1842; interpreter at Foo-chow March 1845 to Aug. 1846; interpreter at Shanghai Aug. 1846 to 1850; interpreter at Canton 21 Nov. 1851; consul at Amoy 10 Aug. 1854; secretary to special mission to Siam March 1855, first treaty signed 18 April 1855; acting-consul at Canton June 1856, city stormed by sir Michael Seymour, who entered it with Parkes 29 Oct. 1856, Canton was bombarded 28 Dec. 1857, after which Parkes tracked and arrested commissioner Yeh 5 Jany. 1858, who was transported to Calcutta; British comr. of the allied commission at Canton 9 Jany. 1858; attached as joint Chinese secretary to earl of Elgin’s special embassy in China 1860 to Feb. 1861; accompanied vice-admiral Hope when he advanced upon Tien-tsin 23 Aug. 1860; taken prisoner by the Chinese at Tungchow 18 Sept. 1860, released 8 Oct.; envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary and consul-general in Japan 28 March 1865, obtained the ratification of the treaties of 1858 by the Mikado 24 Nov. 1865, left Japan Aug. 1883; minister plenipotentiary in China July 1883; concluded a treaty with the Korean government Nov. 1883; minister plenipotentiary to king of Korea 7 March 1884; C.B. 6 Dec. 1859, K.C.B. 19 May 1862. d. Peking 22 March 1885. bur. Whitchurch 26 June, statue at Shanghai unveiled by duke of Connaught April 1890, memorial bust by T. Brock, R.A. unveiled in St. Paul’s cathedral 1887. S. Lane-Poole and F. V. Dickins’s Life of sir Harry Parkes, 2 vols. (1894) portrait; D. C. Boulger’s History of China iii 250 etc., 827 (1884); Illust. times 19 Jany. 1861 p. 31 portrait; I.L.N. xxxvii 587 (1860) portrait; Times 23 March 1885 p. 7.

PARKES, JOSEPH (younger son of John Parkes, manufacturer). b. Warwick 22 Jany. 1796; articled to a solicitor in London 1817–22; practised as a solicitor in Birmingham 1822–33; a member of Birmingham political union 10 May 1832, made active preparations for an armed rebellion; secretary of the commission on municipal corporations 1833; parliamentary solicitor at 21 Great George st. Westminster 1833–47; taxing master to court of exchequer Nov. 1847 to death; secretary to commission for inquiry into public charities 1840; author of A history of the court of chancery 1828; author with Herman Merivale of Memoirs of sir Philip Francis, K.C.B., with correspondence and journals, 2 vols. 1867. d. 17 Wimpole st. London 11 Aug. 1865. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 17 Aug. Law mag. and law review xx 174 (1865).

PARKES, JOSIAH (brother of the preceding). b. Warwick 27 Feb. 1793; worked in his father’s mill at Warwick 1810–20; carried out near Woolwich a new process for refining salt; A.I.C.E. 11 March 1823, M.I.C.E. 26 Dec. 1837; carried on business at Puteaux-sur-Seine 1825–30; fought on the popular side in the revolution 1830, after which he returned to England; a land drainer 1830–54, employed 1,000 men; drained part of Chat Moss, Lancs. for Mr. Heathcote of Tiverton, invented the deep drainage system of not less than four feet; in 1846 sir Robert Peel advanced four millions to be spent in draining on the Parkesian principle; drained the fortifications at Yaverland and Warden Point, Isle of Wight for the war office 1862–9; author of Lecture on draining 1846; Essay on the philosophy and art of land drainage 1848; Fallacies on land drainage exposed 1851. d. Freshwater, Isle of Wight 16 Aug. 1871. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxiii 231–6 (1872).

PARKES, WILLIAM. b. Gloucester 6 Oct. 1822; in the office of James Walker, C.E. 1845; resident engineer at the Alderney harbour works 1847–9; a civil engineer in Parliament st. and then at 23 Abingdon st. London from 1849; connected with the lake Fucino, Italy, draining works 1853; reported on Kurrachee, India, harbour 1854, and again in 1868, the breakwater, the first constructed on the sloping-block system, completed 1873; designed and erected lighthouses in the Red sea 1860; at Madras in 1873 and 1876 in connection with the harbour works, which were destroyed by a cyclone in 1882; A.I.C.E. 3 Feb. 1849, M.I.C.E. 17 April 1860. d. 8 Grove road, Surbiton 1889. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xcvi 328–30 (1889).

PARKIN, GEORGE LEWIS (son of George Patey Parkin of Woolwich). b. 30 Sept. 1818; educ. Merchant Taylors’ school 1829; admitted solicitor 1841; partner with H. W. Woodhouse many years; partner with Frederick John Pagden, retired 1884; one of the Antients and subsequently principal of Barnard’s inn; a governor of Christ’s hospital; an early member of the Solicitors’ Benevolent institution, d. 22 Park lane, London 23 April 1885. Solicitors’ Journal 2 May 1885 p. 442.

PARKINS, WILLIAM. b. Great Berkhampstead, Herts.; a manufacturing stationer in Hanway st. London about 1842; introduced cheap paper and envelopes; partner with Henry Gotto at 25 Oxford st. 1851 to death, having a very large establishment of fancy goods, especially of articles for presents, employed nearly 500 people; published Parkins and Co.’s Almanack and price list 1850 etc.; Parkins and Gotto’s Rent book 1858; Parkins and Gotto’s Annual Diary 1861 etc. d. 43 Abbey road, St. John’s Wood, London 19 Sept. 1872. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 25 Sept. Colburn’s New monthly mag. cxx 494–8 (1881); Puseley’s Companies (1858) 167.

PARKINSON, EDWARD. Cornet 33 light dragoons 27 Feb. 1796; captain 33 foot 3 July 1805, major 17 March 1814, placed on h.p. 11 Sept. 1817; C.B. 19 July 1831; granted distinguished service reward 15 Nov. 1849; colonel 93 highlanders 10 Dec. 1852 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854. d. Pall Mall, London 14 Jany. 1858.

PARKINSON, JOHN. b. 1779; practised as solicitor in London; solicitor to the Grenadier guards 19 July 1831 to death. d. Gray’s Inn sq. London 30 Jany. 1855.

PARKINSON, JOSEPH (son of James Parkinson, proprietor of a museum in London 1730–1813). b. 1783; articled to Wm. Pilkington, the architect, London; designed the library to the Surrey institution 1809; laid out Bryanston square 1811; surveyor to the Union assurance society to 1854; directed rebuilding of body of Streatham church 1831; had many professional pupils. d. 41 Sackville st. London 17 May 1855. bur. Kensal Green.

PARKINSON, RICHARD (son of John Parkinson of Fairsnape, Lancs.) b. Woodgates, Admarsh near Lancaster 17 Sept. 1797; matric. from St. John’s coll. Camb. Dec. 1815, B.A. 1820, M.A. 1824, B.D. 1838, D.D. 1852; master of Lea school, near Preston 1820; edited the Preston Sentinel newspaper 1821; C. of St. Michael’s-on-Wyre, Lancs. 1823–6; theological lecturer at St. Bees college, Cumberland 1826, principal of the college Sept. 1846 to death; F.S.A. 16 Dec. 1847; obtained Seatonian prize at Cambridge 1830; P.C. of Whitworth, near Rochdale 1830–41; fellow of the Manchester collegiate chapter 20 May 1833; Hulsean lecturer at Cambridge 1837 and 1838; P.C. of St. Bees church 1846; P.C. of Northaw, Herts. 1847; a founder of the Chetham society 1843, vice-president 1843 to death, edited for the society The life of Adam Martindale 1845; The autobiography of Henry Newcome, 2 vols. 1851–2; The private journal of John Byrom, 4 vols. 1853–8; author of Sermons on points of doctrine and rules of duty, 2 vols. 1825–32; Poems, sacred and miscellaneous 1832, 2 ed. 1845; Rationalism and revelation: Hulsean lectures 1838; The old church clock 1843, 5 ed. 1880. d. the college, St. Bees 28 Jany. 1858, his portrait presented to St. Bees college by his friends 1857. R. Parkinson’s Old church clock, 5 ed. (1880), memoir pp. ix–xcvii; J. Evans’s Lancashire authors (1850) 198–204; G. Huntington’s Random recollections (1893) 263–82; Raines’s Fellows of the collegiate church of Manchester ii 361 (1891); G.M. iv 556–8 (1858).

PARKINSON, STEPHEN (7 child of a land agent). b. Keighley, Yorkshire 1823; entered St. John’s coll. Camb. Oct. 1841, sizar and scholar, senior wrangler, and 2 Smith’s prizeman 1845; fellow of his college March 1845, lecturer on mathematics, tutor 1864–82, had nearly a thousand pupils, president 1865 to death; hon. fellow 1882; B.A. 1845, M.A. 1848, B.D. 1855, D.D. 1868; senior proctor 1864; member of the council of the senate 1866–78; F.R.S. 2 June 1870; author of An elementary treatise on mechanics 1855, 6 ed. 1881; A treatise on optics 1859, 4 ed. 1884. d. Newnham, Cambridge 2 Jany. 1889. bur. Madingley, Camb. Cambridge Review 24 Jany. 1889 pp. 148–9; The Eagle March 1889 pp. 356–62; Proc. of royal soc. xlv pp. i–iii (1889).

PARKYNS, MANSFIELD (2 son of Thomas Boultbee Parkyns). b. Ruddington, Notts. 16 Feb. 1823; matric. from Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1839; travelled in Abyssinia and Kordofan 1843–50, living like a native, and was given up for dead by his relatives, during the first part of the time he was in correspondence with the Foreign office; attaché to embassy at Constantinople 15 Feb. 1850 to 1852; knew many languages and dialects; resided at Woodborough hall, Notts. 1852; in the Sherwood forest militia; lieut. col. of Nottinghamshire rifle volunteers; comptroller of court of bankruptcy, London, Jany. 1870 to 1884; F.R.G.S.; author of Life in Abyssinia, being notes collected during three years’ residence in that country, 2 vols. 1853, new ed. 1868; carved the oak choir stalls for Woodborough church. d. Woodborough hall 12 Jany. 1894. bur. Woodborough church, Notts. Times 19 Feb. 1894 p. 8.

PARLBY, BROOK BRIDGES (son of Samuel Parlby, C. of Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk). b. 1 June 1783; educ. Rugby 1796–8; entered Madras army 1798; lieut. 7 Madras N.I. 15 Dec. 1800, major 15 April 1817; lieut. col. 19 N.I. 1823–28; lieut. col. 13 N.I. 1828 to 13 Nov. 1829; col. 35 N.I. 13 Nov. 1829 to 5 July 1854; col. 20 N.I. 5 July 1854 to 1869; general 13 Oct. 1857; C.B. 26 Dec. 1826; in the battle of the Argaum; wounded at storming of Gawilghur 1803, and at Lassoulgaum Oct. 1804; commanded a division at Rangoon 8 Dec. 1824, and at Melloon 13 Jany. 1826; in Burmese war 1824; author of Revenge, or the novice of San Martino, a tragedy 1818; A brief sketch of the establishment of the Anglican church in India 1851. d. Upper Norwood, Surrey 7 March 1873.

PARLBY, WILLIAM. b. 19 May 1801; cornet 8 dragoons 3 Oct. 1816; captain 4 dragoons 7 Dec. 1826, lieut. col. 30 Jany. 1846; lieut. col. 10 hussars 7 Aug. 1846 to 10 Aug. 1856, when placed on h.p.; col. 21 hussars 24 Oct. 1865 to 1 July 1880; general 22 May 1876; placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877; col. 4 hussars 1 July 1880 to death. d. Hubberston, Milford Haven 26 Oct. 1881.

PARNELL, CHARLES STEWART (2 son of John Henry Parnell of Avondale, co. Wicklow, d. 1859). b. Avondale 27 June 1846; educ. at Yeovil, Somerset; matric. as a pensioner from Magdalene coll. Camb. 1 July 1865, left Cambridge May 1869; resided at Avondale 1869–72; an officer in the Wicklow militia; travelled in the U.S. of America 1872–3; sheriff of Wicklow 1874; contested co. Dublin 19 March 1874; M.P. co. Meath 1875–80; joined the Amnesty association 1876; his plan for obstructing the business of house of commons caused the house to sit continuously from 4 p.m. till 6 p.m. on the following evening 31 July to 1 Aug. 1877, this was then the longest recorded sitting; president of the National land league of Ireland, founded at a convention in Dublin Oct. 1879; went to U.S. of America to obtain funds for the league 21 Dec. 1879, addressed the house of representatives at Washington 2 Feb. 1880, also addressed the legislatures of 5 states; M.P. Cork city 1880 to death; chairman of the home rule party in the house of commons 17 May 1880; founded The Irish national newspaper and publishing company, July 1881; held a great land league convention at Dublin 15 Sept. 1881; arrested at Morrison’s hotel, Dublin 13 Oct. 1881, imprisoned in Kilmainham gaol, released 2 May 1882; at a meeting of the Ladies’ land league at Dublin 2 Jany. 1882 Parnell was described as the uncrowned King of Ireland, which title was adopted by his supporters; attended a national conference in Dublin 17 Oct. 1883, when the Land League was revived as the Irish national league; presented with sum of £37,000 at a banquet at the Rotunda in Dublin 11 Dec. 1883; elected chairman of the Irish parliamentary party 11 Jany. 1886, re-elected 25 Nov. 1890; the freedom of city of Edinburgh was conferred on him 20 July 1889; his friend capt. Wm. Henry O’Shea obtained a decree nisi for a divorce 17 Nov. 1890 with costs against Parnell as co-respondent; on 25 June 1891, Parnell married Mrs. Katherine O’Shea in the registry office at Steyning, near Brighton; deserted by 45 of his followers in the house of commons 6 Dec. 1890; repudiated by the Roman Catholic archbishops and bishops 4 Dec. 1890. d. of inflammation of the lungs at his residence 10 Walsingham terrace, Aldrington, Brighton 6 Oct. 1891. bur. Glasnevin cemet. Dublin 11 Oct. T. P. O’Connor’s Life of C. S. Parnell (1891) portrait; R. F. Walsh’s Memorial volume, C. S. Parnell (1892), memoir pp. 1–210 four portraits; J. S. Mahoney’s C. S. Parnell (1886) two portraits; T. Sherlock’s Life of C. S. Parnell (1887) portrait; J. Connellan’s Life of C. S. Parnell (1888) portrait; A. Filon’s Profils Anglais, Paris (1893); H. Le Caron’s Twenty five years in the secret service (1892) 178 portrait.

NOTE.—In 1887 The Times published articles entitled Parnellism and Crime, and on 18 April gave a facsimile of a letter said to be by C. S. Parnell in which he extenuated the Phœnix park murders. On 22 Oct. 1888 three judges, forming a special commission, commenced inquiring into all the charges which had been made against Parnell. On 1 March 1889 Richard Piggott, who had forged the letter, committed suicide at Madrid. The report of the commission acquitted Parnell of any sympathy with the Phœnix park murders 13 Feb. 1890. He brought an action for libel against The Times claiming £100,000 damages, but the action was compromised by a payment of £5,000 on 3 Feb. 1890. Annual Register 1887 p. 99 etc., 1888 p. 233 etc., 1889 pp. 477–507, 1890 p. 7; David Anderson’s Scenes in the house of commons (1884) 202–21; I.L.N. lxxix 389 (1881) portrait; Graphic 10 Oct. 1891 p. 424 portrait.

PARNELL, FANNY (sister of the preceding). b. Avondale, co. Wicklow 3 Sept. 1854; contributed poems to the Irish People, the Fenian newspaper, under signature of Alena or Alerta 1867, and wrote poetry in the Nation and the Irishman; went with her mother to America and settled at Bordentown, New Jersey;. wrote much verse in the Boston Pilot and Dublin Nation 1879–82; made many speeches during the land league agitation in America 1880; organized in 1881 the despatch to Ireland of Irish-American women to take the places of women who had helped to administer the ladies’ land league in Ireland and had been imprisoned. d. Bordentown, New Jersey 29 July 1882. bur. Mount Auburn cemetery, near Boston. R. F. Walsh’s Memorial volume (1892) p. 3 portrait.

PARR, GEORGE. b. Radcliffe-on-Trent, Notts. 22 May 1826; first played at Lord’s 1845; member of Clarke’s touring eleven 1847, captain 1857; played for the Players against the Gentlemen 1846–65; played for Notts. 1846–70, made 130 runs against Surrey 1859; took a team to Canada 1859, winning all the five matches against twenty-twos; coached the Harrow eleven 1859–62; captain of a team in Australia 1863, winning ten matches; captain of the All England eleven 1857–70; played his last match 1871; the finest batsman in England, especially famous for his leg hitting. d. Radcliffe-on-Trent 23 June 1891. Baily’s Mag. ii 215–20 (1860) portrait; W. G. Grace’s Cricket (1891) 115 portrait; Illust. sporting news iii 161 (1864) portrait, v 36 (1866) portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news i 161 (1874) portrait.

PARR, THOMAS. b. 1809; travelled in Dorset and Devonshire as a dealer in tea; began racing 1839 with two horses, increased his stud to about 20; ran second for the Cesarewitch with Giselle; won 18 races with Rataplan 1854; won the St. Leger with Saucebox 1855; won the Queen’s vase and 22 other races with Fisherman 1856; won the Goodwood stakes and the Cesarewitch with Weathergaze and the Cambridgeshire with Odd Trick and Malacca. d. Manor house, Letcomb Regis 19 Jany. 1880. W. Day’s Reminiscences, 2 ed. (1886) 286–300; W. Day’s The race horse in training (1880) 19.

PARR, THOMAS CHASE (son of John Owen Parr of London). b. 1802; entered Bombay army 1818; lieut. 4 Bombay N.I. 5 Feb. 1819; captain 7 N.I. 4 Sept. 1827, major 19 Oct. 1839 to 21 Jany. 1846; lieut. col. 1 European regiment right wing 21 Jany. 1846 to 15 Aug. 1847; lieut. col. of 10 N.I. 15 Aug. 1847 to 1850, of 7 N.I. 1850–1, of 2 N.I. 1851–3, and of 6 N.I. 1853–6; commandant Kurrachee 28 March 1854 to 13 March 1856; col. of 2 European regiment 18 March 1856 to 1863, and of 12 N.I. 1863; general 10 Feb. 1876. d. Powis lodge, Bickley, Kent 15 June 1883.

PARR, WILLIAM CHASE (2 son of rev. John Owen Parr, vicar of Preston). b. 4 Dec. 1826; ensign 24 Bombay N.I. 27 Jany. 1844, captain 23 Nov. 1856; lieut. col. Bombay staff corps 1 Sept. 1869; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 2 July 1885; general 1 April 1894. d. King’s Holt, West Lyss, Hants. 6 March 1895.

PARRAVICINI, STEFANO ANNONI DE (only son of Carlo De Parravicini, advocate, Milan). An officer in the Italian army; joined an opera company in England; business manager to Willert Beale to 1856; a musical and professional agent 49 Duke st. St. James’, London 1856–86, in partnership with Wardle Corbyn and then with J. F. P. Hyatt 1876–86; agent for Blondin; for the Alhambra music hall, under F. Strange, where he introduced Madame Pitteri, the dancer; he brought Pauline Virginie Déjazet to the Charing Cross theatre Oct. 1870; agent for the circuses at Covent garden, for Barnum’s show and Venice at Olympia; joint lessee with W. Corbyn of Park theatre, London, opened Oct. 1875. d. Addison road north, London 13 Jany. 1893. bur. St. Mary’s R.C. cemetery, Kensal green 18 Jany. The Era 21 Jany. 1893.

PARRIS, EDMUND THOMAS (son of Edward Parris). b. parish of St. Marylebone, London 3 June 1793; learnt enamel painting and metal chasing with Ray and Montague, the jewellers; entered schools of the R.A. 1816; painted the panorama of London for the Colosseum 1825–9; painted with W. Daniell, R.A. a panorama of Madras; a fashionable portrait painter some years; many of his pictures were engraved in the Keepsake, &c.; made a sketch of queen Victoria on her first state visit to Drury Lane theatre Nov. 1837, and from this painted a portrait, of which an engraving was published April 1838; painted a picture of the queen’s coronation 1838; gained a prize of £100 at the cartoon competition in Westminster Hall 1843, for his Joseph of Arimathea converting the Britons; repainted Thornhill’s paintings in St. Paul’s cathedral 1853–6; historical painter to queen Adelaide 1832; exhibited 26 pictures at R.A. 36 at B.I. and 18 at Suffolk st. 1816–74; employed in decorating the mansions of the nobility; carried on a life-drawing school at his house in Grafton st. Bond st.; invented a medium which when mixed with oil produced a dull fresco-like surface, this was widely known as Parris’s medium; illustrated the Countess of Blessington’s The confessions of an elderly gentleman 1836, her Flowers of loveliness 1836, and her The confessions of an elderly lady 1838; also Gems of Beauty 1838 etc. d. 27 Francis st. Bedford sq. London 27 Nov. 1873. I.L.N. 24 Dec. 1853 portrait xxix, 145, 146 (1856) portrait, lxiii 543, 564, 587 (1873) portrait.

PARROTT, THOMAS. b. 1796; admitted attorney 1826; practised at Macclesfield, Cheshire 1826 to death; town clerk 27 Jany. 1830 to death; partner with Thomas Michael Colville and with John May 1839, firm becoming Parrott, May and Sons; clerk to the county and borough magistrates, also coroner; his portrait was presented to the corporation of Macclesfield March 1879; a successful proprietor of a dairy farm. d. Green bank, Higher Sutton, Macclesfield 29 May 1879. bur. St. James’ ch. yard, Sutton 6 June. The Macclesfield courier 31 May 1879 p. 5, 7 June p. 5.

PARROTT, WILLIAM. b. 1814 or 1815; exhibited 25 landscapes at the R.A., 19 at B.I., and 25 at Suffolk st. gallery 1835–69. d. 3 Nether st. North Finchley, London 23 Sept. 1893.

PARRY, ALBERT WOODWARD (son of Richard Parry, builder). b. Salford 19 Jany. 1834; principal assistant to borough surveyor, Bradford 1863–71; borough surveyor, Reading 1871–91, completed the sewerage, enlarged the water works, and erected the sewage farm buildings; consulting engineer for Reading 1891 to death; a surveyor with his son Richard Parry at 27 Great George street, Westminster 1893; A.I.C.E. 1 April 1873, A.M.I.C.E. 1878. d. Reading 13 July 1894. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. cxviii 462–3 (1894).

PARRY, CHARLES HENRY (eld. son of Caleb Hillier Parry, physician 1755–1822). b. Bath 1779; studied medicine at Gottingen; travelled with S. T. Coleridge in the Harz 1799; M.D. Edinb. 24 June 1804; L.R.C.P. 22 Dec. 1806; F.R.S. 20 Feb. 1812; practised at Bath some years; physician to general hospital, Bath 1818–22; resided at Brighton many years; author of De Græcarum atque Romanorum religionum ad mores formandos vi et efficacia commentatio, Gottingæ 1799; Additional experiments on the arteries of warmblooded animals 1819; The parliaments and councils of England chronologically arranged 1839; A memoir of the rev. Joshua Parry 1872. d. 5 Belgrave place, Brighton 21 Jany. 1860. bur. Weston, near Bath. Munk’s College of physicians ii 385–8, iii 45–6 (1878).

PARRY, EDWARD (son of sir Wm. Edward Parry 1790–1855). b. Government house, Sydney 14 Jany. 1830; educ. Cheam, Surrey 1840–3, and Rugby 1843–9, head of the school 1848–9; entered Balliol coll. Oxf. Oct. 1849, B.A. 1852, M.A. 1855, D.D. 1870; D.D. Durham 1870; tutor in univ. of Durham Jany. 1853 to 1856; C. of Sonning, Berkshire 1856–7; domestic chaplain to A. C. Tait, bishop of London 1857–9, and one of his examining chaplains Feb. 1859 to 1869; R. of St. Mary’s, Acton 1859–69, and rural dean of Ealing 1863–9; archdeacon and canon of Canterbury May 1869 to death; bishop suffragan of Dover 26 Jany. 1870, resigned Nov. 1889, consecrated in Lambeth chapel 25 March 1870; declined the bishopric of Sydney Nov. 1882; author of Memoirs of rear admiral Sir W. E. Parry 1857, 3 ed. 1857; Memorials of Charles Parry, R.N. 1870, new ed. 1879. d. St. Leonard’s-on-Sea 11 April 1890. bur. in churchyard of St. Martin’s, Canterbury, effigy in nave of Canterbury cathedral. Graphic 19 April 1890 p. 444 portrait; I.L.N. 19 April 1890 p. 483 portrait.

PARRY, FRANCIS CHARLES (eld. son of Charles Henry Parry, V. of Speen, Berks., d. 1788). b. Speen 1780; educ. Winchester and Univ. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1802, M.A. 1806; barrister M.T. 23 June 1806; a comr. of bankrupts 1810–31; deputy registrar in court of bankruptcy, London 1831–45; F.G.S.; contributed to the Edinburgh Review 1819–23. d. Alington, Devizes 18 Dec. 1878. Law Times lxvi 213 (1879).

NOTE.—He occupied a prominent place in the Collier Shakespeare controversy as having been the possessor of a folio which was for some time wrongly identified with the Perkins folio.

PARRY, GEORGE FREDERICK. b. India 8 Dec. 1794; first played at Lord’s E. H. Budd’s side against W. Ward’s side 1 June 1818; played 5 seasons 1818–20, 1828, and 1829; was abroad from 1820–28; the finest field of his day, occupying middle-wicket, a very fast runner and also a good bat; resided Egham park, Surrey; was at Cheltenham in 1860. d. Mentone 11 Jany. 1872. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores i 407 (1862).

PARRY, HENRY HUTTON (2 son of Thomas Parry 1795–1870). b. 18 Dec. 1827; educ. Rugby 1841–6, and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1851, M.A. 1859; D.D. Durham univ. 1886; C. of Holy Trinity, Trinidad 1851–5; tutor of Codrington theological college, Barbados 1855–60, and chaplain to the forces 1860–1; archdeacon of Barbados 1861–8; bishop-coadjutor to his father, the bishop of Barbados 10 May 1868–76; bishop of Perth, Western Australia 20 May 1876 to death. d. Bunbury, Western Australia 16 Nov. 1893.

PARRY, JAMES (son of Joseph Parry, artist 1744–1826). Exhibited landscapes, portraits, and figure-pictures at the royal Manchester institution 1827–56; engraved most of the plates in Corry’s History of Lancashire 1825; engraved many plates from his own, his brother David Henry Parry’s and other artists’ work. d. Manchester about 1871, portrait painted by himself in royal Salford museum.

PARRY, JOHN. b. Denbigh, North Wales 18 Feb. 1776; joined the Denbigh militia band 1793, leader 1797–1807; learned to play many instruments, also to play three flageolets at the same time; played at Covent Garden theatre 1805; a teacher of the flageolet in London 1807; wrote songs for Vauxhall gardens from 1809; wrote Fair cheating, a musical farce Drury Lane 15 June 1814, Oberon’s oath 21 May 1816, High notions 11 Feb. 1819, Helpless animals, Covent Garden 17 Nov. 1819; Two wives or a hint to husbands, English Opera house 7 Aug. 1821, My uncle Gabriel, an operatic farce 10 Dec. 1824; conducted the Eisteddvodau at Wrexham 1820, and at Brecon 1822; received degree of Bardd Alaw, master of song 1821; a chief promoter of the Cambrian society, became its registrar; treasurer to Royal society of musicians 1831–49; concert-music critic of the Morning Post 1834–48; musical editor of the Sunday Times for a time; gave a farewell concert Jany. 1837, when he sang his own song Jenny Jones; published An account of the royal musical festival held in Westminster Abbey in 1834; composer of Chevy Chase, the overture to the historical drama 1800; Harlequin Hoax, pantomime by T. Dibdin, music by J.P. 1814; Goulding & Co.s Collection of country dances 1815; The minstrel boy 1819; Scales and preludes for harps 1820; A selection of Welsh melodies 1820; The London collection of glees, duetts and catches 1825; A trip to Wales, an entertainment 1827; The vocal companion, songs, duetts, and glees 1829; The Parisian divertissements 1830; The Welsh harper, with observations on the antiquity of Welsh music and the rise and progress of the harp, 2 vols. 1839–48; Two thousand melodies, selected English and Foreign 1841; Complete scales for Wheatstone’s patent symphonion 1859; his name is attached to upwards of 170 compositions 1800–50. d. 31 Great Russell st. Bloomsbury, London 8 April 1851. Grove’s Dictionary of music i 484, 651, ii 248, iv 443 (1878).

PARRY, JOHN (2 son of Thomas Sefton Parry, solicitor 52 Charlotte st. Portland place, London). b. London 1809; clerk in a ship broker’s office and in a bank; first acted at Leeds theatre 1827; appeared at Sheffield, Sunderland, and Pontefract 1827–33; acted at Victoria theatre, London under Glossop’s management 1833; appeared at most of the London houses; was good as Fag in farce of The three clerks; stage manager Victoria theatre 1838–9; stage manager of the Queen’s 1839–47. Actors by gaslight 8 Sept. 1838 pp. 161–2 portrait; Theatrical times 3 July 1847 pp. 201–2 portrait.

PARRY, JOHN BILLINGSLEY (2 son of James Parry of Preston Montford hall, Salop). b. 1798; educ. Shrewsbury sch.; barrister L.I. 12 Nov. 1824; equity draftsman; Q.C. Feb. 1845; judge of county courts, circuit No. 36, Oxfordshire, March 1847, resigned Sept. 1874. d. Brighton 28 March 1876.

PARRY, JOHN HAYDN (son of Dr. Joseph Parry of univ. coll. of South Wales, Cardiff). b. April 1864; musical instructor Harrow school; professor of London Guildhall school of music Sept. 1889 to death; composer of Gwen, a cantata produced by students of Guildhall school of music 1890; Cigarette, an opera, T.R. Cardiff 15 Aug. 1892, and Lyric theatre, London 7 Sept. 1892; Miami, a musical version of The green bushes, Princess’s theatre 16 Oct. 1893; O Lord abide with me, a song 1894. d. 87 Broadhurst gardens, West Hampstead, London 29 March 1894. bur. West Hampstead cemet. 2 April.

PARRY, JOHN HUMFFREYS (son of John Humffreys Parry, Welsh antiquary 1786–1825). b. London 24 Jany. 1816; employed in the printed-book department of the British Museum, engaged on the new catalogue Jany. 1839 to June 1843; barrister M.T. 9 June 1843, bencher 15 Nov. 1878 to death; obtained a large criminal practice; sergeant-at-law 9 June 1856, obtained patent of precedence 9 Feb. 1864; largely employed in compensation cases; leader of the home circuit; retained in the trials of Manning 1849, Muller 1864, Overend and Gurney 1869, the Tichborne claimant 1873–4, and Whistler v. Ruskin Nov. 1878; a founder of the Complete suffrage association 1842; contested Norwich 30 July 1847 and Finsbury 30 March 1857; edited The National association gazette, No. 1–28, 1841–2. d. 56 Holland park, Kensington, London 10 Jany. 1880. bur. Woking cemet. 15 Jany. M. William’s Leaves of a life (1891) 39, 50, 58, 90, 127, 141, 143, 181, 218; Law Times lxviii 211 (1880); I.L.N. lxxvi 85 (1880) portrait; Graphic xxi 93 (1880) portrait.

PARRY, JOHN ORLANDO (only son of John Parry 1776–1851). b. London 3 Jany. 1810; first appeared as a vocalist at Hanover sq. rooms, London 7 May 1830; sang at the Antient and Philharmonic concerts, and at musical festivals; pupil of Luigi Lablache at Naples 1833; sang at St. James’s theatre in a burletta The Sham prince 29 Sept. 1836, and in Charles Dickens’s Village Coquettes 6 Dec.; sang at concerts and in the provinces 1842–9; produced an entertainment by Albert Smith entitled Notes, vocal and instrumental, at the Store st. music hall, Bedford sq. London 25 June 1850, gave another entertainment there The portfolio for children of all ages 17 Aug. 1852 to Aug. 1853; was mentally deranged some time; organist at St. Jude’s church, Southsea; gave musical monologues with Mr. & Mrs. German Reed at Gallery of illustration, Regent st. London 1860–9; wrote his own entertainments and composed his own music; received prizes for songs from the Melodists’ club; his farewell benefit at Gaiety theatre 7 Feb. 1877 realised £1,300; lost his 40 years’ savings 1877; author of Ridiculous things: scraps and oddities 1854; composer of Wanted a governess, a song 1840; Charming Chloe Cole 1854; Don’t be too particular 1868; Take a bumper and try 1874; his name is attached to upwards of 50 compositions. d. at his daughter’s residence Pembroke lodge, East Molesey, Surrey 20 Feb. 1879. bur. East Molesey cemet. 25 Feb. Theatrical times ii 201 (1847) portrait; Dramatic and musical review ii 541–3 (1843); Pascoe’s Dramatic List (1879) 253–5; I.L.N. iv 389 (1844) portrait; Illust. sporting news iv 657 (1865) portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news x 572, 574 (1879) portrait; Life of Ignatz Moscheles i 289, ii 10, 107 (1873).

PARRY, LOUISA (3 dau. of Henry Hutton, rector of Beaumont, Essex). Author of The young christian’s Sunday evening or conversations on scripture history, the Old Testament 1836, Second series, on the Four gospels 1837, Third series, on the Acts of the Apostles 1840; m. 1824 Rev. Thomas Parry 1795–1870.

PARRY, SIR LOVE PARRY JONES- (eld. son of Thomas Jones of Lwynen, Denbighshire, who took surname of Parry 1780). b. London 28 Nov. 1781; educ. Westminster sch.; elected to Trin. coll. Camb. 1799; gentleman commoner Ch. Ch. Oxf. 8 May 1799; B.A. 1803, M.A. 1811; student at Lincoln’s Inn 1802; ensign 105 foot April 1794; captain 112 foot 30 Oct. 1794, placed on h.p. June 1795; captain 81 foot 9 July 1803; major 90 foot 28 Aug. 1804, placed on h.p. 16 June 1808; major 103 foot 5 Sept. 1811; commanded a brigade on the Canadian frontier during the war 1812–4; major 6 garrison battalion 1 Sept. 1814, placed on h.p. 1814; L.G. 9 Nov. 1846; knighted 1835; K.H. 1836; M.P. Horsham 1806, re-elected 1807 but unseated on petition; M.P. Carnarvon 1835–37; contested Shrewsbury 30 June 1841; sheriff of Anglesey 1840; chairman of quarter sessions of Carnarvon many years. d. Madryn park, Pwllheli, Carnarvonshire 23 Jany. 1853. bur. in family vault, Llanbedrog church 1 Feb.

PARRY, ROBERT. b. Carnarvon Feb. 1804; a lecturer in the Principality; a Welsh bard of great renown; known as Robyn Ddu Eryri; received grant of £100 from Royal Bounty fund; author of Awdl ar etholiad, Arglwydd Newborough yn aelod seneddawl dros Swydd Caernafon 1826; Teithiau a barddoniaeth Robyn Ddu Eryri 1857. d. Ludlow, Salop Nov. 1892. bur. Ludlow 8 Nov.

PARRY, SEFTON HENRY. b. 1822; conducted dramatic performances at Cape Town 1859; travelled with a small company in various parts of the world; designed and built the Holborn theatre, which he opened with Boucicault’s drama The flying scud 6 Oct. 1866, lessee of the house until 1872; built the Globe theatre, which he opened with Byron’s Cyril’s success 28 Nov. 1868, lessee until 1871; built the Avenue theatre, which he opened with Offenbach’s Madame Favart 11 March 1882; proprietor of theatres at Hull and Southampton; wrote The bright future, a drama, produced at the opening of Grand theatre, Islington 4 Aug. 1883. d. Cricklewood lodge, Middlesex 18 Dec. 1887. bur. Old Willesden churchyard 24 Dec. E. L. Blanchard’s Life (1891) 283, 327, 364, 552, 613; Era 24 Dec. 1887 p. 14.

PARRY, THOMAS (brother of John Parry of the Britannia theatre). b. 1806; first appeared at Covent Garden 22 Nov. 1830; he wrote Damp Beds, a farce, Strand May 1832; P.P. or the Man and the tiger, a farce, Adelphi 21 Oct. 1833; Meet me by moonlight, a farce, Olympic theatre; The lucky horse shoe or woman’s trials, a drama, Drury Lane 27 Dec. 1839; A cure for love, a comedy, Haymarket 29 Nov. 1842; Eugenia Claircille, a drama, Adelphi 17 Sept. 1846; The harvest home, a drama, Adelphi; The First night or my own ghost, a drama Princess’ 1 Oct. 1849. d. Pigott’s hotel, 166 Westminster bridge road, London 5 Dec. 1862. The Era 7 Dec. 1862 p. 11.

PARRY, THOMAS (4 son of Edmund Parry, R. of Llanferras, Denbighshire). b. Llanferras 1795; educ. Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1816, M.A. 1819; fellow and tutor of Balliol coll. 1816; R. of St. Leonard’s, Colchester 1817; archdeacon of Antigua 1824–40; archdeacon of Barbados 1840–2; bishop of Barbados 1842–69, consecrated in Westminster abbey 21 Aug. 1842; author of Parochial sermons preached in the West Indies, Oxford, 1828; A practical exposition of the epistle to the Romans 1832; The apostleship and priesthood of Christ: an exposition of the epistle to the Hebrews 1834; Ordination vows, a series of sermons 1846. d. Malvern 16 March 1870. bur. West Malvern. I.L.N. lvi 386, 643 (1870).

PARRY, THOMAS GAMBIER (only child of Richard Parry, director of H.E.I.C.) b. 22 Feb. 1816; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1848; purchased estate of Highnam, near Gloucester 1838, which he raised from a small hamlet to an important parish; built and endowed Highnam church, adorned the walls with frescoes of his own designing, for which he invented and employed a process named by him spirit frescoe; painted from his own designs the frescoes on the six eastern bays of the roof of the nave of Ely cathedral 1862–5; painted frescoes in St. Andrew’s chapel, Gloucester cathedral; reported officially on Painting on glass in the Paris exhibition of 1867, and on Mosaic and glass painting in the London exhibition of 1871; founded and endowed in Gloucester the free hospital for children, the St. Lucy’s home for orphans, and the Gloucester schools of science and art; author of Spirit fresco painting, an account of the process 1880, 2 ed. 1883; The ministry of fine arts to the happiness of life 1886. d. Highnam court, near Gloucester 28 Sept. 1888.

PARRY, SIR THOMAS LOVE DUNCOMBE JONES-, 1 Baronet (eld. son of sir Love Parry Jones-Parry 1781–1853). b. Llanbedrog, Carnarvon 8 Jany. 1832; educ. Rugby 1848–50; matric. from Univ. coll. Oxf. 15 May 1850; sheriff of Carnarvon 1854; captain royal Anglesey militia 29 May 1854 to 1867; M.P. co. Carnarvon 1868–74; M.P. Carnarvon district 1882–6; cr. a baronet 30 Aug. 1886; F.S.A. 1 Dec. 1853. d. Madryn park, Pwllheli 18 Dec. 1891. bur. Llanbedrog church 23 Dec.

PARRY, SIR WILLIAM EDWARD (4 son of Caleb Hillier Parry, physician 1755–1822). b. Bath 19 Dec. 1790; entered navy 30 June 1803; commanded the Alexander in Ross’s expedition to the Arctic seas 1818; commanded the Hecla in an expedition to discover the north-west passage 1819–20, reached Melville island, a point which has never been passed; presented with the freedom of city of Bath 24 March 1821, and of Winchester 26 Dec. 1823; F.R.S. 15 Feb. 1821; commanded the Fury in another expedition 1821–3; captain 8 Nov. 1821; acting hydrographer 1 Dec. 1823; commanded the Hecla in a third expedition and wintered at Port Bowen 1824 to 1825; hydrographer to the admiralty 1825–6 and 1827–9; attempted to reach the pole from Spitzbergen by travelling with sledge boats over the ice 1827, reached latitude 82°45´ the farthest northern point attained until 1876; knighted at St. James’s palace 29 April 1829; comr. for the Australian agricultural company May 1829 to 1834; D.C.L. Oxford 1 July 1829; assistant poor law comr. in Norfolk 7 March 1835 to 3 Feb. 1836; controller of the steam-department of navy 19 April 1837 to Dec. 1846; captain superintendent of Haslar hospital 2 Dec. 1846 to 4 June 1852; R.A. 4 June 1852; lieutenant governor of Greenwich hospital 19 Dec. 1853 to death; author of Nautical astronomy by night 1816; Journal of a voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific 1821; Journal of a second voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage 1824–5; Journal of a third voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage 1826; Journal of the first, second, and third voyages, 5 vols. 1828; Narrative of an attempt to reach the North Pole in boats fitted for that purpose and attached to H.M. ship Hecla 1828; Thoughts on the parental character of God 1841, 6 ed. 1878. d. Ems 8 July 1855. bur. in mausoleum of Greenwich hospital burial-ground 19 July, portrait in museum of royal naval college at Greenwich. E. Parry’s Memoirs of W. E. Parry (1857) portrait; Marshall’s Royal naval biography viii 315 (1833); G.M. ii 233–9 (1826); Proc. of Royal Soc. vii 603–12 (1855); Georgian era iii 87–91 (1833).

PARSELLE, JOHN. b. 1820; educ. Marischall coll. Aberdeen; attended Mr. Rowhill’s Latin class Glasgow gram. sch 1834–9; acted the Chevalier de Bellevue in the Pride of the Market, Lyceum 18 Oct. 1847; at the Adelphi under Madame Celeste’s management 1853 etc.; acting manager Strand theatre, where he also played Mr. Bingley in Craven’s The Post boy 31 Oct. 1860, Max Altman in Wooller’s Silver wedding 24 Jany. 1861, Lieut. Hilliard in Troughton’s Unlimited confidence 1 Feb. 1864, Edward Hartwright in his own comedietta Cross purposes 27 March 1865; wrote My son’s a daughter, produced Strand theatre 15 Sept. 1862; stage manager for Fanny Joseph at Holborn theatre 13 April 1868; at the Globe acted in Craven’s Philomel 10 Feb. 1870; went to America with Charles Wyndham’s company in 1873; connected with the management of A. M. Palmer’s Union square theatre, New York 1873 to death. d. New York 17 Feb. 1885. bur. Evergreen cemetery. Entr’acte Annual (1882) 58 portrait; Scott and Howard’s E. L. Blanchard (1891) 105, 720.

PARSONS, BENJAMIN (son of Thomas Parsons, yeoman). b. Nibley, Gloucs. 16 Feb. 1797; apprenticed to a tailor at Frampton-on-Severn 7 years; studied at Cheshunt college 1821–5; congregational minister at Ebley, near Stroud Aug. 1826 to death; started a provident fund 1832 and a day-school 1840; has been called the Oberlin of Gloucestershire; author of Why have you become a Pædobaptist, a dialogue between Hezekiah Hastie, a baptist, and Simon Searche, a pædobaptist. By John Bull, Stroud 1835; Anti-Bacchus 1840, 11th thousand 1843; The wine question settled 1841; The mental and moral dignity of woman 1842; Tracts for fustian jackets and smock frocks, No. 1–18, 1848. d. at the Chapel house, Ebley 10 Jany. 1855. E. P. Hood’s The Earnest minister, the life of Benjamin Parsons (1856) portrait; The lamps of the temple, 3 ed. (1856) 520–41; S. Couling’s History of the temperance movement (1862) 339–40.

PARSONS, DANIEL (son of John Parsons, vicar of Sherborne, Dorset). b. 1811; educ. Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; C. of Marden, Wilts.; C. of St. James’, Langton, Staffs. 1841–3; joined the church of Rome 1843; resigned his Anglican orders under Clerical disabilities relief act 22 Sept. 1870; edited The diary of sir H. Slingsby 1836; author of Plain parochial sermons 1838; a contributor to Notes and Queries. d. Stuart’s lodge, Malvern wells 5 July 1887.

PARSONS, ELIZABETH (dau. of W. Rooker of Tavistock, Devon, congregational minister). b. Tavistock 5 June 1812; conducted a class for young people in her father’s chapel 1840–4, for whom she wrote hymns, 18 of which were printed by one of her pupils under the title of Willing class hymns, three have become popular, Saviour round thy footstool bending, Jesus we love to meet, and O happy land! O happy land!; also wrote a few hymns for adults; m. 1844 T. Edgcumbe Parsons; she d. Plymouth 1873. Julian’s Dictionary of hymnology (1892) 69, 834, 882, 996, 1267; W. Garrett Horder’s Hymn lover (1889) 442.

PARSONS, GEORGE SAMUEL. b. 1783; entered R.N. July 1795; signal midshipman of the Foudroyant under Nelson 1800–1, lieut. 1802; commanded the boats of the Valiant in cutting out a convoy from Basque Roads 1810; on h.p. 1810–41; admiralty agent on board a contract mail steamer 1 Nov. 1841; retired commander 15 Feb. 1850; author of Nelsonian reminiscences, leaves from memory’s log 1843, 2 ed. 1843. d. Holt hill, Cheshire 20 Jany. 1854. G.M. July 1854 p. 79.

PARSONS, GERTRUDE (4 dau. of John Hext of Trenarran, Cornwall, captain in 22 foot, d. 30 June 1838). b. Restormel near Lostwithiel, Cornwall 19 March 1812; joined church of Rome 1844; m. 8 April 1845 Daniel Parsons 1811–87; edited The Workman, or life and leisure: a magazine, 25 numbers 7 Jany. to 24 June 1865, and its continuation The literary workman 29 July to 30 Dec. 1865; author of Thornberry abbey, a tale of the established church 1846; The life of St. Ignatius of Loyola 1860; The romance of Cleaveside, 3 vols. 1867; Ursula’s love story, 3 vols. 1869; Sun and shade, 3 vols. 1871; Beautiful Edith, 3 vols. 1873; Major Vandermere, 3 vols. 1876; The life of Saint Colette, the reformer of the three orders of St. Francis 1879; Love knots, 3 vols. 1881; Thomas Rileton, his family and friends 1890. d. Teignmouth, Devon 12 Feb. 1891. bur. the Priory church, Little Malvern 17 Feb. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. (1874–82) 425–7, 1301; Tablet 28 Feb. 1891 p. 348.

PARSONS, JAMES. Entered Bengal army 1805; ensign 25 Bengal N.I. 19 Dec. 1806, lieut. 13 Aug. 1812; captain 50 N.I. 1 May 1824, major 22 April 1836 to 7 July 1842; lieut. col. of 18 N.I. 7 July 1842 to 1 March 1846, and of 66 N.I. 1 March 1846 to 1851; deputy commissary general 12 April 1837 to 5 Jany. 1848; commanded Gwalior contingent 5 Jany. 1848 to 29 July 1853; lieut. col. of 50 N.I. 1851–1852, and of 48 N.I. 1852–53; col. of 57 N.I. 31 March 1853–54, and of 50 N.I. 1854 to death; commandant at Rohilcund 29 July 1853 to 23 Nov. 1855; L.G. 18 March 1863; C.B. 3 April 1846; at the capture of the Isle of France 1810, in the Nepaul campaign 1815, medal; in the Pindaree war 1817; wounded at capture of Ghuznee; in the Sutlej campaign and present at Modkee, Ferozeshur and Sobraon. d. Almorah, N.W. Province, India 9 Nov. 1868.

PARSONS, JAMES (2 son of Edward Parsons, congregational minister 1762–1833). b. Leeds 10 April 1799; studied at the academy at Idle, Yorkshire 1820–2; congregational minister at Lendal chapel, York 1822–39; minister of Salem chapel, York, opened 25 July 1839, he retired to Harrogate 1870; chairman of the Congregational union 1849; the first president of the Yorkshire congregational union and home missionary society 1873; the most remarkable pulpit orator of his time; author of Excitements to exertion in the cause of God, York, 3 ed. 1827; Sermons, critical and explanatory 1830, 4 ed. 1837; many of his sermons were published in The Pulpit 1824–64. d. York 20 Oct. 1877. bur. York 26 Oct. The lamps of the temple, 3 ed. (1856) 282–323; Congregational year book (1878) 332–5; Congregational magazine (1831) 229–40; Congregationalist (1877) 748–53; The Pulpit v (1826) portrait and xvi 250–2, 365; E. J. Evans and W. Hurndall’s Pulpit memorials (1878) 343–80.

PARSONS, JOHN MEESON (youngest son of Thomas Parsons of Newport, Shropshire). b. Newport 27 Oct. 1798; a member of the Stock exchange, London; A.I.C.E. 5 Feb. 1839; a director of London and Brighton railway company 9 Feb. 1843 to 21 Aug. 1848, chairman 19 June 1843 to 11 April 1844; a director of the Shropshire union railway 1845–9; resided at 6 Raymond buildings, Gray’s inn to 1869; collected a gallery of pictures of the German and Dutch schools and of water-colour drawings by English artists; bequeathed 92 oil and 47 water-colour paintings to South Kensington museum 1870; he also gave three pictures to the National gallery, and many fine engravings to British Museum. d. 45 Russell sq. Bloomsbury, London 25 March 1870. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxi 252–3 (1871).

PARSONS, NEEDHAM THOMPSON. b. 1 Nov. 1826; ensign 1 European Bengal fusiliers 26 July 1845; captain 101 foot 12 March 1858, major 15 Sept. 1869; lieut.-col. 103 foot 24 July 1872, placed on h.p. 8 Dec. 1877; lieut.-col. regimental district 19 Dec. 1877 to 19 Dec. 1882; honorary M.G. 17 Nov. 1883; served in the Burmese war 1852–3, the Indian mutiny 1857, and the Indian north west frontier war 1863. d. Isle of Man 7 Aug. 1895.

PARSONS, PERCIVAL MOSES (son of John Parsons of Seraptoft house, Leics.) b. London 1819; under chief engineer Portsmouth dockyard 1834–6; articled to Braithwaite, Milner & co. 1836–40; engaged laying out Eastern counties’ railway 1841–5; an engineer in London from 1850; invented improved switches and axle-boxes; connected with the Permanent way co.; designed a central railway station for London on north bank of the Thames, near Charing Cross 1853; patented an invention for rifled cannon which had occupied him 8 years; patented improved bolts Feb. 1867; engineer to the Bessemer steel and ordnance co. 1871; invented white brass for shaft bearings, and manganese bronze for propellers; M.I.C.E. 2 Dec. 1873; took out 52 patents 1851–89; author of Proposed London railway 1853; Guns versus armour plates 1863. d. Melbourne house, Blackheath, Kent 5 Nov. 1892. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. cxi 385–9 (1893).

PART, JAMES. b. Wigan 1809; apprentice to Christopher Morris of Wigan; educ. St. Bartholomew’s, Aldersgate sch. and Univ. coll.; L.S.A. 1832; M.R.C.S. 1832, F.R.C.S. 1854; F.M.C. and C.S. 1851; M.D. St. Andrew’s 1860; surgeon Artists’ annuity fund soc.; president North London medical soc.; author of Medical and surgical case book. d. 89 Camden road, London 1 Oct. 1875. Lancet 24 Dec. 1875 p. 931; Proc. of royal Med. and Chir. soc. viii 71 (1875).

PARTINGTON, CHARLES FREDERICK. Lecturer on modern improvements in mechanics and on other subjects at mechanics’ institutions; published Lectures on select subjects in mechanics and hydrostatics by J. Ferguson, F.R.S., adapted to the present state of science 1825; The century of inventions by the Marquis of Worcester, with notes and a biographical memoir 1825; edited The scientific gazette July 1825 to 4 Feb. 1826; edited with Wm. Newton the second series of The London journal of arts and sciences, 9 vols. 1834–42; edited with other authors The British cyclopædia of arts and sciences, 10 vols. 1835–8; author of An historical and descriptive account of the steam engine 1822, 3 ed. 1826; A brief account of the royal gardens, Vauxhall 1822; A manual of natural and experimental philosophy, 2 vols. 1828; The builder’s complete guide 1852; he was living in 1857.

PARTON, JAMES. b. Canterbury 9 Feb. 1822; taken to America 1827; a teacher in Philadelphia and New York; a contributor to the Home journal 3 years; a public lecturer; resided in New York to 1875, then at Newbury Port, Massachusetts; m. Jany. 1856 Sarah Payson Willis (1811–72) widow of Charles H. Eldredge, she became a well known author under the name of Fanny Fern; he was the author of The life of Horace Greeley 1855; General Butler in New Orleans 1864; The life of Aaron Burr 1861; Life of Benjamin Franklin, 2 vols. 1864; Life of J. J. Astor 1865; Famous Americans of recent time 1867; Eminent Women of the age 1868; People’s Book of biography 1869; Life of Thomas Jefferson 1874; Caricature and other comic art in all times 1877; The humorous poetry from Chaucer to Saxe 1881; Life of Voltaire, 2 vols. 1881; Life of Andrew Jackson, 3 vols. 1883. d. Newbury port, Massachusetts 17 Oct. 1891. Appleton’s American Biog. iv 665–6 (1888) portraits of J. and S. P. Parton.

PARTRIDGE, JOHN (son of Samuel Partridge). b. Glasgow 28 Feb. 1790; pupil of Thomas Phillips, R.A. about 1814; studied in France and Italy 1823–7; a fashionable portrait painter in London 1827; painted portraits of the queen and prince Albert 1840; portrait painter extraordinary to the queen 1842; exhibited 72 pictures at R.A. and 58 at B.I. 1815–61; presented to the National portrait gallery 1872 his picture entitled Meeting of the fine art commission at Gwydyr house, Whitehall in the year 1846; author of On the constitution and management of the royal academy 1864. d. 60 Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London 25 Nov. 1872. Art Journal (1873) 44.

PARTRIDGE, RICHARD. b. 19 Jany. 1805; apprenticed to his uncle W. H. Partridge of Birmingham 1821–7; entered St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1827; M.R.C.S. 1827, F.R.C.S. 1843, member of council 1852, examiner 1854, Hunterian orator 1865, and president 1866; L.S.A. 1827; demonstrator of anatomy at Kings’ college, London 1831–6, professor of descriptive and surgical anatomy 1836 to death; assistant surgeon to Charing Cross hospital 23 Dec. 1836, surgeon 8 Jany. 1838 to 13 April 1840; surgeon to Kings’ college hospital 13 April 1840 to 1870; F.R.S. 23 Feb. 1837; professor of anatomy at the royal academy 1853 to death; fellow of royal Med. and Chir. soc. of London 1828, secretary 1832–6, member of council 1837–8 and 1861–2, vice-pres. 1847–8, president 1863–4. d. 18 Wimpole st. London 25 March 1873. Illust. times 4 Oct. 1869 p. 369 portrait; Lancet 29 March 1873 pp. 456, 464.

NOTE.—The body of the murdered Italian boy Carlo Ferrari was brought to Kings’ coll. hospital for dissection, and it was through Partridge’s astuteness that the murderers Bishop and Williams were arrested, and executed 5 Dec. 1831.

PARTRIDGE, WILLIAM (1 son of John Partridge of Monmouth). b. 2 Jany. 1818; educ. Winchester and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1860; a student of Lincoln’s inn 12 June 1840; barrister M.T. 3 Nov. 1843; stipendiary magistrate, Wolverhampton 1860–3; police magistrate at the Thames court 2 April 1863, at Southwark 1867–79, at Westminster 1879–89, at Lambeth 1889–90, and at Marylebone 1890 to death; presided in his court 29 Aug. 1891. d. The Grange, Uxbridge road, London 10 Sept. 1891. Graphic 19 Sept. 1891 p. 327 portrait; I.L.N. 19 Sept. 1891 p. 369 portrait.

PASCO, JOHN. b. 20 Dec. 1774; entered navy 4 June 1784; lieutenant of the Victory in the Mediterranean April 1803; served at the blockade of Toulon, in the chase of the French fleet to the West Indies, and in the battle of Trafalgar, where as signal officer, he made Nelson’s famous signal England expects that every man will do his duty, severely wounded in the right arm for which he was afterwards granted pension of £250 a year; captain 3 April 1811; captain of the Rota frigate on the Lisbon station 1811–5; commanded the Victory at Portsmouth 1846; R.A. 22 Sept. 1847. d. East Stonehouse, Devon 16 Nov. 1853. O’Byrne’s Naval Biog. Dict. (1849) 869–70.

PASCOE, FRANCIS POLKINGHORNE (only child of Wm. Pascoe of Penzance, Cornwall, d. 1817). b. Penzance 1 Sept. 1813; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital, London; M.R.C.S. 1835; assistant surgeon in the navy 1836–43; resided in London 1851–91, where he formed the entomological collection, which is in the Natural history museum at South Kensington; F.L.S. June 1852; member of Entomological society of London 1854, president 1864–5; author of Zoological classification 1877, 2 ed. 1880; Hints for collecting and preserving insects 1882; The student’s list of British coleoptera 1882; Notes on natural selection and the origin of species 1884; List of British vertebrate animals 1885; Analytical lists of the orders of the animal kingdom 1886; The Darwinian theory of the origin of species 1890. d. Brighton 20 June 1893. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. ii 427–9, iii 1302 (1882–90); Entomologists’ monthly mag. (1893) 194–6.

PASHLEY, ROBERT (son of Robert Pashley of Hull). b. York 4 Sept. 1805; admitted at Trin. coll. Camb. 3 May 1825, fellow 1830–53; took a double first class 1829; B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; travelled in Greece, Asia Minor and Crete 1833; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1837, bencher 1851 to death; Q.C. July 1851; contested King’s Lynn 9 July 1852; assistant judge of the Middlesex sessions 19 Jany. 1856 to death; author of Travels in Crete, 2 vols. 1837; Pauperism and poor laws 1853; Observations on the government bill for abolishing the removal of the poor 1854, 2 ed. 1854. d. 16 Manchester sq. London 29 May 1859. bur. Kensal green cemet. 4 June. G.M. vii 191 (1859); Law Times xxxiii 154, 225 (1859).

NOTE.—He acquired great reputation as a settlement lawyer, raising the most ingenious points and arguing them with such pertinacity, that the act for regulating appeals which gave the court the power of amendment was jocosely called in Westminster Hall “An act for the better suppression of Pashley” about 1850.

PASLEY, CHARLES (eld. son of the succeeding). b. Brompton barracks, Chatham, Kent 14 Nov. 1824; educ. Rochester gr. sch. and R.M. Academy, Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.E. 20 Dec. 1843; served in Canada and Bermuda 1846–50; on the staff of the Great Exhibition 1851; colonial engineer to the colony of Victoria 18 Sept. 1853, member of legislative council 16 Oct. 1854; comr. of public works for Victoria 25 Nov. 1855 to 11 March 1857, professional head of department of public works 1857–60; served in the war in New Zealand 1860, where he was wounded in the attack of the pah at Kaihihi, for which he was granted a pension of £100 per annum; A.I.C.E. 10 April 1866; special agent for Victoria in London 1864 to Dec. 1868; in charge of the great extension works at Chatham dockyard Oct. 1865 to 1873; secretary to the committee on designs for ships of war Dec. 1870, member of the committee May 1871, drafted the report; colonel in the army April 1876, retired as major general Aug. 1881; director of engineering works and of architecture at the admiralty Sept. 1873 to Sept. 1882; acting agent general for Victoria with title of chairman of the board of advice May 1880 to 1882; C.B. 23 April 1880. d. 7 Queen Anne’s grove, Bedford park, Chiswick 11 Nov. 1890. Royal engineer’s journal (1891); Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. ciii 388–92 (1891).

PASLEY, SIR CHARLES WILLIAM. b. Eskdalemuir, Dumfriesshire 8 Sept. 1780; educ. at Selkirk and R.M. academy, Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 Dec. 1797; 2 lieut. R.E. 1 April 1798, col. commandant 28 Nov. 1853 to death; served at the battle of Corunna, also in the expedition to Walcheren and the siege of Flushing 1809; director of the establishment for field instruction at Chatham June 1812 to 23 Nov. 1841; hon. M.I.C.E. 1820; presented with freedom of city of London, for having removed the brig William and the schooner Glenmorgan from the bed of the Thames, near Gravesend in 1838; blew up wreck of the Royal George at Spithead 1839–43; formed the schools for the royal engineers and for the navy; inspector general of railways 23 Nov. 1841 to 1846; F.R.S. 7 March 1816; general 20 Sept. 1860; C.B. 26 Sept. 1831, K.C.B. 21 Dec. 1846; author of Essay on the military policy and institutions of the British empire 1810, 4 ed. 1812; Course of instruction for use of the royal engineer department, 3 vols. 1814–7; A course of elementary fortifications, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1822; The practical operations of a siege, 2 parts 1829–32; Observations on limes, calcareous, cements, mortar, stuccos, and concretes 1838. d. 12 Norfolk crescent, Hyde park, London 19 April 1861, portrait in royal engineers’ mess-room at Chatham. Proc. of royal society xii 20–5 (1862); Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxi 545–50 (1862).

PASLEY, SIR THOMAS SABINE, 2 Baronet (only son of colonel John Sabine of the grenadier guards 1773–1805). b. Welbeck st. London 26 Dec. 1804; succeeded his grandfather sir Thomas Pasley as baronet 29 Nov. 1808; assumed surname of Pasley by R.L. 20 March 1809; entered navy Dec. 1818; captain 24 May 1831; superintendent of Pembroke dockyard 1849–54; captain of the Agamemnon in the Black sea Nov. 1854 to 31 Jany. 1856; superintendent of Devonport dockyard Dec. 1857 to Dec. 1862; commander-in-chief at Portsmouth 1 March 1866 to 25 Feb. 1869; admiral 20 Nov. 1866; K.C.B. 24 May 1873. d. Moorhill, Shedfield, Botley, Hampshire 13 Feb. 1884.

PASSMORE, JOSEPH. b. 1822; member of firm of Alabaster and Passmore, printers and publishers, 34 Wilson st. Finsbury, London 1853, Alabaster died 1891; a member of C. H. Spurgeon’s church, actively assisted in building the Tabernacle institutions and in founding the Stockwell orphanage 1867; suggested the weekly issue of Spurgeon’s Sermons 1855 and continued printing it without intermission 36 years; printed and published the whole of Spurgeon’s works 1855–95. d. at his residence in London 1 Aug. 1895. Bookseller Sept. 1895 p. 778.

PASTA, GIUDITTA (dau. of Mr. Negri, a Jew). b. Sarrano, near Milan 1798; had a soprano voice of two octaves and a half, from A above the bass clef note to C flat and even to D in alt.; appeared at King’s theatre, London 11 Jany. 1817 as Telemaco in Cimarosa’s Penelope; then acted Cherubino in Nozze de Figaro; appeared at King’s theatre 24 April 1824 as Desdemona and was a great success, her salary being £14,000; was also seen in London 1825, 1826, 1827, 1828, 1831, 1837, 1850; among her parts were Tancredi, Romeo, Desdemona, Medea, Semiramide, Maria Stuarda, Niobe, Anna Bolena, and Norma; lost her fortune in the failure of Guymuller’s bank, Vienna 1841. d. at her villa at Como 1 April 1865. E. C. Clayton’s Queens of song ii 1–32 (1863) portrait; Musical gem for 1831 p. 2 portrait.

PASTRANA, JULIA, called the Nondescript; said to have been born near Copala, Mexico 1834; a servant to Pedro Sanchez, governor of the state of Sinaloa to 1854; brought to the United States April 1854 and was publicly exhibited; her nose, forehead, face, shoulders and arms were covered with thick black hair, and all her body was hairy except her bosom, hands and feet; had no apparent pupil in the eye, no cartilage in the nose; possessed double gums in her jaws, but only one row of front teeth; spoke and sang in English and Spanish, and danced the Highland fling, etc.; could sew, cook, wash and iron; 4 ft. 6 inches high and weighed 112 pounds; was exhibited at the Regent gallery 69 Quadrant, London Aug. 1857; m. Lewis B. Lent, circus manager. d. in childbirth at Moscow April 1860. Account of Miss Pastrana, London (1857) portrait; F. T. Buckland’s Curiosities of Natural history, 3 Series, ii 40–2 (1868); G. Van Hare’s Fifty years of a showman’s life (1888) 46.

NOTE.—Mr. Lent sold her body to Dr. Suckaloff for £500, who embalmed it so naturally that Lent thought he could make a fortune by exhibiting it and gave the doctor £800 for it, but the authorities would not allow him to show it in Russia; he exhibited it at the Burlington gallery, 191 Piccadilly, London in March 1862.

PATCH, JOHN. b. 1798; surgeon Bombay army 29 Dec. 1833; superintending surgeon in Sinde 31 March 1846 to 1848; surgeon general Bombay army 29 Aug. 1848, retired 17 Sept. 1849. d. Penzance, Cornwall 20 Aug. 1865.

PATE, ROBERT (son of Robert Francis Pate of Wisbeach, sheriff of Cambs. 1848). Cornet 10 hussars 5 Feb. 1841, lieut. 22 July 1842, sold out March 1846; struck the Queen on the head with his cane, outside Cambridge house, 94 Piccadilly 27 May 1850, sentenced at central criminal court to 7 years’ transportation 11 July 1850; resided Hobart Town, Tasmania. d. Broughton, Ross road, South Norwood, Surrey 6 Feb. 1895, will proved for £22,464. A.R. (1850) 73, 331–9; Griffith’s Newgate ii 93 (1884).

PATER, WALTER HORATIO (younger son of Richard Glode Pater of Shadwell, London, physician). b. Shadwell 4 Aug. 1839; educ. at Enfield and King’s school, Canterbury; entered Queen’s college, Oxford as a commoner 11 June 1858; B.A. 1862, M.A. 1865; fellow of Brasenose college 1864, junior dean 1866, tutor 1867–83, dean 1871, lecturer 1873; wrote an essay on Winckelmann in the Westminster Review Jany. 1867, which made him famous; wrote essays in the Fortnightly Review and other periodicals; is caricatured by W. H. Mallock in his novel The new republic, 2 vols. 1877, under the name of Mr. Rose; author of Studies in the history of the renaissance 1873, 2 ed. called The renaissance 1877, 4th thousand 1888; Marius the epicurean 1885, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1892; Imaginary portraits 1887; Appreciations, with an essay on style 1889; Plato and Platonism 1893; The child in the house, an imaginary portrait 1894. d. 64 St. Giles’s, Oxford 30 July 1894. bur. St. Giles’s cemet. Oxford 2 Aug., his sisters Hester and Clara Pater were granted civil list pensions of £50 each 8 Jany. 1895. W. H. Pater’s Greek Studies, a series of essays (1895) portrait; Contemporary Review Dec. 1894 pp. 795–810; I.L.N. 4 Aug. 1894 p. 135 portrait; Westminster Budget 3 Aug. 1894 p. 21 portrait.

PATERSON, ADAM (son of rev. Mr. Paterson). b. Kinghorn manse, Flint-shire 8 March 1811; educ. St. Andrew’s univ. LL.D. 1871; partner in firm of H. and R. Moncrieff, writers, Glasgow 1837 to death; defended some of directors of Western bank of Scotland 1857; dean of faculty of procurators, Glasgow 1870–5; member of Soc. of Sons of the clergy 1848 to death, and president 1858; a royal comr. on the Scotch courts of justice 1878, issued 5 reports. d. Springhall, Rutherglen, near Glasgow 1 July 1881. Maclehose’s Glasgow men ii 261–2 (1886) portrait; Law Times lxxi 254 (1881).

PATERSON, EMMA ANNE (dau. of Henry Smith 1808–64, head master of the schools of St. George’s parish, Hanover sq. London). b. London 5 April 1848; a German and Italian scholar; assistant secretary of the Workmen’s club and institute union 1867–72; secretary of the Women’s suffrage association Feb. 1872, resigned 1873; visited America 1873; founded the Women’s protective and provident league 8 July 1874, honorary secretary to death, attended many annual conferences; contributed to the Labour News 1874; a delegate to the trade union congress at Glasgow, being the first female delegate 1875; edited the Women’s union journal, a monthly record of the league proceedings, started Feb. 1876, and wrote greater part of the contents; founded the Women’s printing society at Westminster 1876; m. 24 July 1873 Thomas Paterson 1828–1852; she d. at her lodgings in Great college st. Westminster 1 Dec. 1856. bur. in Paddington cemet. Willesden 6 Dec. The Woman’s union journal Dec. 1886 pp. 111–18; Englishwoman’s Rev. Dec. 1886 pp. 540–3.

PATERSON, JAMES (son of James Paterson, farmer at Struthers, Ayrshire). b. Struthers 18 March 1805; apprenticed to a printer at Kilmarnock; stationer and printer at Kilmarnock 1826–35; Dublin correspondent of the Glasgow Liberator 1835; wrote at Edinburgh the letter-press for Kay’s Edinburgh portraits 1837–9; edited the Ayr Observer 1839–46; author of The contemporaries of Burns and the more recent poets of Ayrshire 1840; History of the county of Ayr 1847; Memoir of James Fillans, sculptor 1854; Origin of the Scots and of the Scottish language 1855, 2 ed. 1858; Wallace and his times 1858, 4 ed. 1870. d. Edinburgh 26 May 1876. James Paterson’s Autobiographical reminiscences (1871) portrait.

PATERSON, JAMES (3 son of Alexander Paterson of Janefield, Lauder, Berwickshire). b. 1823: barrister M.T. 24 May 1850; author of The wine and beer house act 1869–70, with notes 1870; The bastardy laws amendment act 1872, 1873; The intoxicating liquor acts 1872; Commentaries on the liberty of the subject, 2 vols. 1877–8; The liberty of the press, speech, and public worship 1880; Notes on the law of master and servant 1885. d. 10 Hyde park mansions, London 10 Dec. 1894.

PATERSON, JOHN (3 child of George Paterson of Duntocher, near Glasgow). b. Duntocher 26 Feb 1776; educ. univ. of Glasgow 1798; a preacher under the rev. Robert Haldane; congregational missionary in Denmark 1804–7, at Stockholm 1807–12, at St. Petersburgh 1812; conducted the affairs of the Russian bible society 1822–5; served at Edinburgh as secretary for Scotland of the London missionary society many years; chairman of the committee of the Congregational union; doctor of theology univ. of Abo in Finland 1 Nov. 1817; author of The book for every land, reminiscences of labour in the work of bible circulation in the North of Europe and in Russia, edited by W. L. Alexander 1858, memoir pp. xi–xxxv. d. Kincaldrum, Forfarshire 6 July 1855. Norrie’s Dundee celebrities (1873) 162–4.

PATERSON, JOSEPH. b. 1775; ensign 28 foot 17 May 1779; captain 77 foot 7 May 1807; major York chasseurs 29 Sept. 1814, placed on h.p. 14 Dec. 1819; lieut.-col. on h.p. 31 Dec. 1825; lieut.-col. rifle brigade 1 Jany. 1838 to 6 Feb. 1839, when placed on h.p.; colonel commandant of 60 rifles 14 April 1857 to death; a cavalry volunteer in Irish rebellion 1798; served in Egypt 1801, in the Peninsula 1811–14, also in the West Indies and Canada; L.G. 26 Aug. 1858. d. at the residence of his niece Lower Baggot st. Dublin 31 March 1863.

PATERSON, NATHANIEL (eld. son of Walter Paterson, stone-engraver). b. parish of Kells, Kirkcudbrightshire 1787; educ. univ. of Edinb.; church of Scotland minister of Galashiels 1821–33; minister of St. Andrew’s parish church, Glasgow 1833–43; minister of free St. Andrew’s, Glasgow 1844 to death; moderator of the free church assembly 1850; author of The Manse Garden 1836, 9th thousand 1860. d. Glasgow 25 April 1871. Letters to his family by Nathaniel Paterson, D.D., with memoir by Rev. Alexander Anderson (1874).

PATERSON, NOEL HUNTINGDON (son of John Paterson, commander R.N., of Calcutta and Camberwell, London). b. London 14 June 1844; educ. Merchant Taylor’s sch. 1853–63; exhibitioner of Lincoln coll. Oxf. 1863, resigned to take Stuart exhibition at St. John’s coll. 1863; B.A. 1867, M.A. 1872; barrister M.T. 17 Nov. 1869; went south eastern circuit; published A manual of the usages of the stock exchange 1870; edited Woolrych’s Metropolitan building acts, 2 ed. 1877; assisted in editing Wharton’s Law lexicon, 6 ed. 1876. killed by an accident on the Lyskamm, near Zermatt 6 Sept. 1877. bur. at Zermatt 10 Sept. Law Times lxiii 353 (1877).

PATERSON, THOMAS (son of Robert Paterson of Plewlands, Ayrshire). b. 1780; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 Dec. 1795, col. commandant 15 Aug. 1850 to death; served in Canada and West Indies 1796–1804, in expedition to Copenhagen 1807, and in Walcheren expedition 1809; superintendent of royal military repository at Woolwich 1836–46; L.G. 30 June 1854. d. Woolwich 13 June 1856.

PATERSON, THOMAS (son of a cabinet maker in London). b. Elgin 1828; a cabinet maker and wood carver in London; a political economist; member of council of Women’s protective and provident league 1874; hon. sec. Clerkenwell Working men’s club 1863; hon. sec. of Working men’s club and Institute union 1866, vice-chairman of the council; member of council of Workmen’s Peace association to death; with Auberon Herbert and J. W. Probyn organised the Workmen’s international exhibition at Agricultural hall, London 1870; much engaged in endeavouring to improve the education and prosperity of the working classes. d. 2 Queen sq. place, Bloomsbury, London 15 Oct. 1882. bur. Paddington cemet. Willesden 19 Oct. T. Paterson’s A new method of mental science (1886) memoir pp. i–viii; The women’s union journal Nov. 1882 pp. 89–90.

PATERSON, THOMAS VARLEY. b. 1811; author and journalist in England and America; author of How to get money quickly or thirty ways of making a fortune 1868; The art of living or good advice for the young and old 1875. d. 35 Harrison st. Gray’s Inn road, London 2 Feb. 1880.

PATERSON, WILLIAM (son of a market gardener). b. Shepherd’s Loan, Dundee; assisted in his father’s business; experimented in raising new varieties of potatoes from 1853; produced the new varieties known as Paterson’s Seedlings, which since 1860 have been extensively cultivated, not only in the United Kingdom but also on the Continent, in America and Australasia; awarded silver medal of Manchester and Liverpool agricultural society and gold medal of Highland and agricultural society of Scotland; received medal of the Erfurt society and their diploma of honour. d. 3 Jany. 1870. W. Norrie’s Dundee celebrities (1873) 352.