Chapter I: Front Matter (1)

MODERN
ENGLISH BIOGRAPHY

CONTAINING

MANY THOUSAND CONCISE MEMOIRS OF PERSONS WHO HAVE DIED SINCE THE YEAR
1850,

WITH
AN INDEX OF THE MOST INTERESTING MATTER.

BY
FREDERIC BOASE.

FACTA NON VERBA.

VOLUME I.
A-H.

TRURO:
NETHERTON AND WORTH,
FOR THE AUTHOR.

250 COPIES ONLY PRINTED. PRICE 42/- NET.
1892.

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_Preface._

Biography like other subjects seems to have its fashion; at one time it is much attended to, at another time neglected. The Historical Register from 1717 to 1739, The European Magazine from 1782 to 1826, and The Gentleman’s Magazine from 1731 to 1868 furnished most useful and excellent notices of deceased worthies; then there appeared for one year only, The Register and Magazine of Biography, the first volume by Mr. Thompson Cooper, F.S.A., the second by Mr. Edward Walford, M.A. After this period there was a lull and biography was for some time at a discount; gradually however _The Times_, which hitherto had paid little attention to the subject, commenced inserting numerous obituary notices, and this fashion gradually increased, until at the present day there are few numbers of that paper which do not contain interesting memoirs. Other periodicals followed suit, and now the majority of the daily and weekly journals not only give lives but many of them well engraved portraits.

In the meantime there also came out various books on biography, such as Men of the Time, Men of Mark, Eminent Women Series, English Men of Action, English Men of Letters, English Worthies, Great Artists, Great Writers, Memorable Men of the Nineteenth Century, Men worth Remembering, The Biograph and others, while various improved biographical dictionaries, more especially the Dictionary of National Biography, still in progress, were produced.

General Biography has now become so large a subject, that no one work can comprehend it, and it will, it is imagined, in future, be necessary to attack it in small sections, if anything like justice is to be done to the matter.

Impressed with these ideas, the author of this work, who had during a period of twenty years made a collection of notes relating to English persons deceased since 1850, thought it not improbable that by printing his materials, he might be able to make a useful contribution to biographical literature. The first volume of “Modern English Biography” is the result; in it will be found memoirs referring to the period mentioned, of all privy councillors, knights, judges, recorders, queen’s counsel, serjeants, stipendiary magistrates, benchers of the inns of court, bishops, deans, archdeacons, chancellors, admirals, generals and members of parliament; other persons too, frequently omitted in biographical works, such as architects, engineers, inventors, ship builders, electricians, railway managers, publishers, actors, dramatists, musicians, music hall artistes, painters, sculptors, engravers, physicians, surgeons, sporting celebrities, eccentric characters and notorious criminals have also been inserted, in fact any one who has been well known and about whom a question might arise in general conversation. In addition, many foreigners who have spent portions of their lives in England and some few natives of the British colonies have been included.

The plan in these memoirs, of which there are nearly 8,000 in this volume, has been first to give the main facts in each life, then, in the case of authors, short though exact titles of their chief works, concluding with references to books where longer accounts are to be found. The subject of portraits has been made a speciality, and thousands of notices of likenesses in books, periodicals and newspapers have been inserted. The Transactions of the most important scientific and literary societies as well as the best known magazines and newspapers have been examined and the biographical notices extracted.

The memoirs, though short, will be found to contain many exact facts not given in larger works. Great trouble has been taken about births and deaths, the dates of births frequently cannot be obtained and the places and dates of deaths of even very well known individuals are sometimes not easily settled. Information has been sought from all printed sources, from private individuals, and from church registers; reference has been also continually made to the books of the registrar general at Somerset House.

Froude in one of his Essays says “We want the biographies of common people;” this adage has been acted on in Modern English Biography, and many hundred notices of the less known authors, artists, newspaper proprietors and journalists, merchants, country gentlemen and others, which can be found in no other book, are here recorded.

Some reference must be made to the Knights Bachelor, an increasing and important body of men of much repute, about whom the annual knightages do not furnish exact information. For the elucidation of their history, the columns of the London Gazette have been carefully searched and the dates and places of their knighthood extracted, information which it is believed, cannot be found concentrated in any other single volume.

The memoirs are arranged lexicographically according to the surnames, the peers however have all been inserted under their titles, for the reason that their family names are not generally known to ordinary readers.

To my father Mr. John Josias Arthur Boase and to my eldest brother the Rev. Charles William Boase, I am much indebted for their great kindness in conjointly defraying the cost of printing this work, which I claim, to be an important contribution to the English biography of the nineteenth century.

My thanks are due to Mr. William Prideaux Courtney and to my brother Mr. George Clement Boase, joint authors of the Bibliotheca Cornubiensis, as well as to my before mentioned brother the Rev. C. W. Boase, for kindly reading proofs and supplying additional facts, while to Mr. Richard Bissell Prosser late of the Patent Office and to Mr. Ralph Thomas author of The Handbook of Fictitious Names, I am under an obligation for information about inventors and other persons.

The Second Volume is in active preparation and will appear as soon as is possible, consistently with careful research.

In a biographical work arranged alphabetically an Index is not a necessity, but it was thought that one might add value to the book. A general index was not practicable, as it would have been as extensive as the work itself, but an elaborate and carefully considered compilation of the more remarkable, curious and interesting matter in the volume, has been made for me by my brother Mr. G. C. Boase. Clergy lists, Law lists and Army and Navy lists being common, the names of persons belonging to those professions have not been included. The first important heading in the index is that of Actors followed by Actors’ Stage Names, a list probably unique, while Dancers, Singers and others have not been neglected. To Initialisms, Fancy Names, Changes of Names and Pseudonyms much attention has been given and the entries are very extensive. Fellows of the Royal Society, astronomers, explorers, physicians, surgeons, civil engineers, painters and sculptors are duly recorded, while sport is represented by masters of hounds, betting men, racing men, cricketers, pedestrians and pugilists.

The names of the Knights Bachelor occupy considerable space, and the article London will be found very interesting. Some amount of additional information has been inserted in the Index, to which the reader is recommended to refer when using “Modern English Biography.”

FREDERIC BOASE.

36, James Street,
Buckingham Gate,
London, S.W.,
7 April, 1892.

_Abbreviations._

A.A.G. assistant adjutant general.

A.D.C. aide de camp.

A.G. adjutant general.

A.I.C.E. associate of Institution of Civil Engineers.

A.R. Annual Register.

A.R.A. associate of the Royal Academy.

A.R.S.A. associate of the Royal Scottish Academy.

_b._ born.

B.A. bachelor of Arts.

_bapt._ baptized.

B. Chir. bachelor of surgery.

B.C.L. bachelor of civil laws.

B.D. bachelor of divinity.

B. Th. bachelor of theology.

B.I. British Institution.

_bur._ buried.

C. curate.

Cam. and Camb. Cambridge.

cap. chapter.

C.B. companion of the Bath.

C.C. Corpus Christi.

C.E. civil engineer.

ch. church.

Ch. Ch. Christ Church.

C.I.E. companion of the Indian Empire.

C.M.G. companion of St. Michael and St. George.

co. county.

col. colonel.

coll. college.

comr. commissioner.

cr. created.

C.S. civil service.

_d._ died.

D.A.A.G. deputy assistant adjutant general.

dau. daughter.

D.C.L. doctor of civil laws.

D.D. doctor of divinity.

ed. editor, also educated.

Edin. and Edinb. Edinburgh.

E.I.C.S. East India company’s service.

eld. eldest.

ex. and extraord. extraordinary.

F.C.S. fellow of Chemical Society.

F.G.S. fellow of Geological Society.

F.L.S. fellow of Linnean Society.

F.R.A.S. fellow of Royal Astronomical Society.

F.R.C.S. fellow of Royal College of Surgeons.

F.R.C.P. fellow of Royal College of Physicians.

F.R.G.S. fellow of Royal Geographical Society.

F.R.I.B.A. fellow of Royal Institution of British Architects.

F.R.S. fellow of Royal Society.

F.R.S. Edin. fellow of Royal Society, Edinburgh.

F.S.A. fellow of Society of Antiquaries.

F.S.S. fellow of the Statistical Society.

G.C.B. knight grand cross of the Bath.

G.C.H. knight grand cross of Hanover.

G.C.I.E. knight grand commander of the Indian empire.

G.C.M.G. knight grand commander of St. Michael and St.
George.

G.C.S.I. knight grand commander of Star of India.

G.I. Gray’s Inn.

G.M. Gentleman’s Magazine.

gr. grammar.

H.E.I.C.S. Honourable East India Co.’s service.

H.M.S. Her Majesty’s ship.

hon. honourable.

h.p. half pay.

I.L.N. Illustrated London News.

instit. institution.

I.T. Inner Temple.

J.P. justice of the peace.

K.C. King’s counsel.

K.C.B. knight commander of the Bath.

K.C.H. knight commander of Hanover.

K.C.I.E. knight commander of the Indian Empire.

K.C.M.G. knight commander of St. Michael and st. George.

K.C.S.I. knight commander of the Star of India.

K.G. knight of the Garter.

K.H. knight of Hanover.

K.P. knight of St. Patrick.

K.T. knight of the Thistle.

K.T.S. knight of the Tower and Sword.

L.C.P. licentiate of College of Physicians.

L.G. lieut. general.

L.I. Lincoln’s Inn.

lieut. lieutenant.

L.K.Q.C.P.I. licentiate of King’s and Queen’s College of
Physicians, Ireland.

LLB. bachelor of laws.

LLD. doctor of laws.

L.S.A. licentiate of Society of Apothecaries.

_m._ married.

M.A. master of arts.

mag. magazine.

matric. matriculated.

M.B. bachelor of medicine.

M.D. doctor of medicine.

M.G. major general.

Med. & Chir. Soc. Medical and Chirurgical Society.

mem. member.

M.I.C.E. member of Institution of Civil Engineers.

M.I.M.E. member of Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

min. minutes.

min. plen. and minister plenipotentiary.
min. plenipo.

M.L. licentiate in medicine.

M.P. member of parliament.

M.R.I.A. member of Royal Irish Academy.

M.R.I.B.A. member of Royal Institution of British Architects.

M.R.C.S. member of Royal College of Surgeons.

MS. and MSS. manuscript and manuscripts.

M.T. Middle Temple.

N. and Q. Notes and Queries.

N.I. native infantry.

N.S.W. New South Wales.

N.Z. New Zealand.

Ox. and Oxf. Oxford.

p. and pp. page and pages.

P.C. privy councillor.

P.C. perpetual curate.

P.R.A. president of the Royal Academy.

preb. prebendary.

pres. president.

proc. proceedings.

pt. portrait.

pub. published.

Q.C. Queen’s counsel.

R. rector.

R. royal.

R.A. rear admiral.

R.A. royal academician.

R.A. royal academy.

R.A. royal artillery.

R.E. royal engineers.

rep. representative.

R.H.A. royal horse artillery.

r.l. royal licence.

R.M. royal marines.

R.N. royal navy.

R.S.A. Royal Scottish academician.

S.C.L. student of civil laws.

sch. school.

sec. secretary.

soc. society.

S.P.C.K. society for propagation of Christian Knowledge.

S.P.G. society for propagation of the Gospel.

sq. square.

st. street.

T.R. theatre royal.

Trans. Transactions.

U.K. United Kingdom.

U.S. United States.

V. vicar.

V.A. vice admiral.

V.C. Victoria cross.

V.P. vice president.

Ven. venerable.

Vict. Victoria.

W.S. writer to the signet.

A

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

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

ABBISS, REV. JOHN (_son of John Abbiss of Wandsworth, Surrey_). _b._
12 July 1789; matric. Trin. Coll. Ox. 10 Oct. 1810, B.A. 1814,
M.A. 1817; R. of St. Bartholomew the Great, city of London 1819 to
death. _d._ 41 Myddelton sq. Clerkenwell 8 July 1883. _bur._ Stoke
d’Abernon near Leatherhead 13 July.

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

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

ABBOTT, EDWIN. _b._ London 12 May 1808; principal of Philological
school 248 Marylebone road, London 1827–72; and secretary 1872 to
death; one of the first to advocate a more thorough English
training in schools; author of _A second Latin book_ 1858; _Greek
tragic iambics_ 1864; _Complete concordance to works of Alexander
Pope_ 1875. _d._ 18 Palace sq. Upper Norwood 27 May 1882. _bur._
Kensal Green 31 May.

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

ABBOTT, REV. JOSEPH. _b._ Cumberland 1789; ed. at Bampton sch. and
Marischal coll. Aberdeen; Missionary of the S.P.G. at St.
Andrew’s, Grenville, Lower Canada 1818–47, when he retired; wrote
_The Emigrant to North America from memoranda of a settler in
Canada_, first published in the Quebec _Mercury_ 1842, republished
in many leading Canadian papers and in several English papers,
including _Emigration Gazette_, and in pamphlet form by the
Emigration agent. 2nd ed. 1843, it was also pub. in a more
extended form by John Murray in the Home and Colonial library,
under the title of _Philip Musgrave or the adventures of a
Missionary in Canada_; contributed many tales to Canadian
periodicals. _d._ Montreal, Jany. 1863. _Morgan’s Bibliotheca
Canadensis_ (1867) _pp._ 3–4.

ABBOTT, THOMAS EASTOE. _b._ East Dereham, Norfolk 1779; author of
_Peace; a lyric poem_ 1814; _The triumph of Christianity_ 1819;
_The soldier’s friend_ 1828. _d._ Darlington 18 Feb. 1854.

ABDY, MARIA. _b._ London; wrote in the _New Monthly_, _The
Metropolitan_ and the Annuals; privately printed _Poems_ 8 series,
_8 vols._ 1830–62; _An appeal on behalf of governesses_, her
longest poem gained first prize offered for literary productions
on that subject, (_m._ Rev. John Channing Abdy, R. of St. John’s
Southwark who _d._ 27 Jany. 1845 aged 52.) _d._ 7 Upper Marine
terrace, Margate 19 July 1867 aged 70. _bur._ St. Peter’s church
yard Isle of Thanet.

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

ABDY, SIR WILLIAM, 7 Baronet. _b._ 1779; succeeded 21 July 1803.
_d._ 20b. Hill st. London 15 Apl. 1868.

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

A’BECKETT, GILBERT ABBOT (_2 son of Wm. A’Beckett of Golden sq._)
_b._ The Grange, Haverstock hill, London 9 Jany. 1811. ed. at
Westminster school; sole proprietor of following periodicals, _The
terrific penny magazine_, _The Ghost_, _The Lover_, _The gallery
of terrors_, _The Figaro_ monthly newspaper, and _The Figaro_
caricature gallery; proprietor with Thomas Littleton Holt of
following periodicals, _The evangelical penny magazine_, _Dibdin’s
penny trumpet_, _The thief_, _Poor Richard’s journal_, and _The
people’s penny pictures_; student at Gray’s Inn 25 Apl. 1828;
dramatic critic of the _Weekly Despatch_; edited _Figaro in
London_ comic weekly paper, 160 numbers 1 Dec. 1831 to 27 Dec.
1834; joint manager with Edward Mayhew of the Fitzroy theatre,
Fitzroy st. Tottenham court road, London 1834 where he produced
his first burlesque Glaucus and Scylla; edited _The Wag_ 1837, and
_The Squib_ 1842, comic weekly papers; one of the original staff
of _Punch or the London Charivari_, which appeared 17 July 1841,
wrote in it from number 4 to his death; wrote leading articles in
_The Times_ one year, and in _Morning Herald_; wrote humorous
articles in _Pictorial Times_; barrister G.I. 27 Jany 1841; poor
Law comr. to inquire into iniquities practised in Andover union,
March 1846; magistrate at Greenwich and Woolwich police court,
Feb. 1849, and at Southwark, Dec. 1849 to death; went to Boulogne
17 July 1856; author of _Scenes from the rejected comedies_, a
series of parodies upon living dramatists 1844; _The quizziology
of the British drama_ 1846; _The comic Blackstone_ 1846; _The
comic history of England_, _2 vols._ 1847–8; _The comic history of
Rome_ 1852; wrote more than 50 plays; dramatised with Mark Lemon,
Dickens’s novel “_The Chimes_,” produced at Adelphi theatre 19
Dec. 1844. (_m._ about 1836 Mary Anne eld. dau. of Joseph Glossop,
she was granted a civil list pension of £100, 23 Oct. 1856. She
_m._ (2) George Jones, barrister, and _d._ 11 Dec. 1863 aged 46).
_d._ of typhus fever at Rue Neuve Chaussée, Boulogne 30 Aug. 1856,
body removed to Highgate cemetery. _The Critic, xv._ 436 (1856);
_Mr. Punch, his origin and career_ 1870; _Alfred Bunn’s A word
with Punch_ 1847, _pp._ 5–7 _pt._; _I.L.N. xxx_, 570 (1857), _view
of his tomb in Highgate cemetery_.

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

A’BECKETT, SIR WILLIAM (_eld. son of Wm. A’Beckett of Golden
square_). _b._ London 28 July 1806; ed. at Westminster; barrister
L.I. 30 June 1829; went to Sydney 1837; solicitor general of New
South Wales 1841; a judge of court of N.S.W. 24 Nov. 1845;
resident judge at Port Philip 3 Feb. 1846; chief justice and judge
of admiralty court of Victoria 25 Aug. 1851; knighted by patent 19
Nov. 1852; returned to England 1858; author of great part of _The
Georgian Era_ 4 vols. 1832–34; of _Universal biography_ _3 vols._
1840; and of _The Earl’s choice and other poems_ 1863. (_m._ (1)
1832 Emily dau. of E. Hayley, she _d._ 1 June 1841. _m._ (2) 1849
Matilda dau. of E. Hayley, she _d._ 8 Aug. 1879 aged 64). _d._
Abbotsville, Upper Norwood, Surrey 27 June 1869.

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

ABELL, LUCIA ELIZABETH (_2 dau. of Wm. Balcombe, navy agent,
purveyor to Napoleon Bonaparte at St. Helena, and afterwards the
colonial treasurer of N.S.W. who d. 19 March 1829_). Author of
_Recollections of the Emperor Napoleon during the first three
years of his captivity on the island of St. Helena_ 1848,
including the time of his residence at her father’s house, “the
Briars.” (_m._ Edward Abell). _d._ 18 Chester terrace, Eaton sq.
London 29 June 1871. _Recollections of the Emperor Napoleon 3rd
ed._ 1873, _pt._ Of Mrs. Abell.

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

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

ABERCROMBY, SIR GEORGE SAMUEL, 6 baronet. _b._ Edinburgh 22 May
1824; succeeded 6 July 1855. _d._ Forglen house, Turriff
Banffshire 15 Nov. 1872.

ABERCROMBY, SIR ROBERT, 5 baronet. _b._ Forglen house, Banffshire 4
Feb. 1784; M.P. for Banffshire 2 Nov. 1812–10 June 1818; succeeded
18 July 1831. _d._ Forglen house 6 July 1855.

ABERDEEN, GEORGE HAMILTON GORDON, 4 Earl of (_1 son of George
Gordon, styled Lord Haddo 1764–91, by Charlotte, youngest dau. of
Wm. Baird of Newbyth, co. Haddington, she d. 8 Oct. 1795_). _b._
Edinburgh 28 Jany. 1784; ed. at Harrow, and St. John’s coll. Cam.,
M.A. 1804; succeeded his grandfather 13 Aug. 1801; visited Greece,
Turkey and Russia; founded Athenian society 1804, of which no one
might be a member who had not visited Athens; rep. peer Scotland
15 Dec. 1806–1 June 1814; K.T. 16 March 1808; ambassador to Vienna
29 July 1813–April 1814, when he prevailed with the Emperor to
join the allied sovereigns against Napoleon by treaty of Toplitz 9
Sep. 1813; present at battles of Dresden and Leipsic; signed
treaty of peace at Paris 1 June 1814; created a peer of the U.K.
as Viscount Gordon of Aberdeen, co. Aberdeen 1 June 1814; P.C. 23
July 1814; took name of Hamilton before that of Gordon by royal
license 13 Nov. 1818; chancellor of univ. of Aberdeen 1827;
chancellor of duchy of Lancaster 26 Jan. 1828–2 June 1828; sec. of
state for foreign affairs 2 June 1828–2 Nov. 1830 and 2 Sep.
1841–5 July 1846; sec. of state for the colonies 5 June 1834–18
April 1835; ranger of Greenwich park 1 Feb. 1845; lord lieut. of
Aberdeenshire 23 April 1846; first lord of the treasury 28 Dec.
1852–1 Feb. 1855; an elder brother of Trinity house Nov. 1853–54;
a comr. for executing office of treasurer of exchequer of Great
Britain, and lord high treasurer of Ireland 6 Mch. 1854; president
of Society of Antiquaries 1812–46; F.R.S. 28 April 1808, F.R.G.S.
1830, K.G. 7 Feb. 1855; visited by the Queen at Haddo house, 15
Oct. 1857; author of _Inquiry into principles of beauty in Grecian
architecture_, 1822. (_m._ (1) 28 July 1805 Catherine Elizabeth, 3
dau. of John James Hamilton, 1 Marquess of Abercorn, she was _b._
10 Jan. 1784, and _d._ 29 Feb. 1812. _m._ (2) 8 July 1815 Harriet,
2 dau. of honble. John Douglas and widow of James Hamilton, eld.
son of 1 Marquess of Abercorn, she was _b._ 8 June 1792, and _d._
26 Aug. 1833). _d._ 7 Argyll st. Regent st. London 14 Dec. 1860.
_bur._ in family vault at Stanmore 21 Dec. _Correspondence of Earl
of Aberdeen 1850–53_, _privately printed_ 1880; _Edinburgh
Review_, _clviii_, 547–77 (1883); _Thirty years of foreign policy_
1854; _Proc. of Royal Society of Edin. iv_, 477–83 (1862); _The
British cabinet in 1853_, _pp._ 7–43, _pt._; _Jerdan’s National
portrait gallery_, _vol._ 3, _pt._; _I.L.N. i_, 461 (1842), _xx_,
1, (1853) _xxxvii_, 635 (1860) _pts._; _A.R._ (1860) 376–83.

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

ABERDEEN, GEORGE JOHN JAMES HAMILTON-GORDON, 5 Earl of. _b._ Bentley
priory, Stanmore 28 Sep. 1816; ed. privately, and at Trin. coll.
Cam., M.A. 1837; attaché at Constantinople 1837; M.P.
Aberdeenshire (lib.) 22 Aug. 1854–14 Dec. 1860, when he succeeded;
went to Egypt, Sep. 1854, and June 1860; went to Madrid, May 1863
to petition Queen of Spain for a remission of sentence on Manuel
Matamoros, (who was sentenced to 9 years penal servitude for
preaching Protestantism, he was eventually exiled from Spain, he
was _b._ Malaga, Oct. 1834 and _d._ Lausanne, 31 July 1866.) _d._
Haddo house, Aberdeenshire 22 March 1864. _bur._ Methlie
churchyard 29 March. _Memoir of Lord Haddo by Rev. E. B. Elliott,
6 ed._ 1873; _The true nobility by Alexander Duff_ 1868; _I.L.N.
xxiv_, 265 (1854) _pt._

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

ABERGAVENNY, REV. WILLIAM NEVILL, 4 Earl of. _b._ 28 June 1792;
succeeded 12 April 1845. _d._ Birling manor near Maidstone 17 Aug.
1868.

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

ABINGDON, MONTAGU BERTIE, 5 Earl of. _b._ 30 April 1784; succeeded
26 Sept. 1799; cupbearer at coronation of George iv 19 July 1821;
lord lieut. of Berkshire 1828 to death. _d._ Wytham abbey,
Berkshire 16 Oct. 1854. _bur._ at Rycote 24 Oct.

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

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

ABINGTON, LEONARD JAMES. _b._ London 27 Nov. 1785; edited _The
Pottery Mercury_ at Hanley Staffordshire 1824; pastor of New st.
baptist chapel, Hanley 1836–63. _d._ Northwood, Hanley 7 Aug.
1867. _Personal recollections of late L. J. Abington 1868, pt._

ABRAHALL, THEOPHILUS BENNETT HOSKYNS (_2 son of Rev. John Hoskyns
Abrahall, C. of Badgworth, Somerset_). Barrister I.T. 25 June
1830; went western circuit; sec. of commissions of the peace to
lord chancellor; revising barrister S. Lancashire and
Northumberland; deputy registrar of London court of bankruptcy
1844–54, registrar 1854–14 Dec. 1861; comr. of Newcastle district
court of bankruptcy 14 Dec. 1861–31 Dec. 1869, when country
district courts were abolished, _d._ Wonford house lunatic asylum,
Heavitree, Exeter 2 Aug. 1874 aged 72.

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

ABRAHAM, ROBERT, _b._ Cumberland; ed. for medical profession at
Univ. of Edin.; served on the press in Cumberland; edited a
leading Liverpool journal; went to Canada about 1843; Proprietor
of the _Montreal Gazette_, editor to Dec. 1848, when it was sold;
admitted an advocate of Lower Canada; edited the _Transcript_ 1849
to death; edited the _Lower Canada Agricultural Journal_ to death.
_d._ Montreal 10 Nov. 1854. _Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis_
(1867) _pp._ 4–5.

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

ABYSSINIA, ALAM-AYAHU, Prince of. (_son of Theodore King of
Abyssinia 1818–68_). _b._ Debra Tabor 23 April 1861; arrived in
England 14 July 1868; ed. at Cheltenham, Rugby and Sandhurst, _d._
Headingley, Leeds 14 Nov. 1879.

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

ACKERS, GEORGE HOLLAND, _b._ 10 Aug. 1812; commodore of royal
Victoria yacht club 1850–62, this club was founded at Ryde, Isle
of Wight 24 May 1845, its admiralty warrant is dated 29 July 1845;
sheriff of Cheshire 1852; author of _Universal yacht signals_
1847, of which he gave the copyright to Robert Henry Hunt who at
his suggestion started _Hunt’s Yachting Magazine_ Aug. 1852. _d._
15 Hyde park terrace, London 20 Jan. 1872.

ACKERS, JAMES, _b._ 1811; M.P. for Ludlow (conserv.) 3 July 1841–23
July 1847; purchased estate of Prinknash, Gloucestershire 1847.
_d._ 27 Sep. 1868.

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

ACLAND, SIR PEREGRINE FULLER PALMER, 2 Baronet, _b._ 10 Nov. 1789;
succeeded 23 Feb. 1831. _d._ Fairfield, Bridgwater 25 Oct. 1871.

ACLAND, SIR THOMAS DYKE, 10 Baronet (_1 son of Sir Thomas Dyke
Acland, 9 baronet, who d. 17 May 1794, by Henrietta Anne only dau.
of Sir Richard Hoare, baronet, she d. 2 Sep. 1841_). _b._ London
29 March 1787; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1808, M.A.
1814, D.C.L. 1831; one of the founders of Grillion’s club 1812,
which met at Grillion’s hotel, 7 Albemarle st. London; M.P. Devon
(tory) 17 Oct. 1812–10 June 1818 and 18 March 1820–23 April 1831;
M.P. for North Devon 29 July 1837–21 March 1857; head of religious
party in House of Commons; F.G.S. 1818, F.R.G.S. 1830, F.R.S. 20
June 1839. (_m._ 7 April 1808 Lydia Elizabeth only dau. of Henry
Hoare of Fleet st. London, banker, she _d._ 23 June 1856 aged 69).
_d._ Killerton, Broad Clyst, Devon 22 July 1871. _J. B. Sweet’s
Life of Henry Hoare_ 1870; _I.L.N. lix_, 99, 116, 121, 362 (1871)
_pt._ _Grillion’s Club by P. G. E. privately printed_ 1880 _pt._

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

ACTON, ELIZA (_eld. dau. of John Acton of Hastings, brewer_). _b._
Battle, Sussex 17 April 1799; published Poems 500 copies 1826, 2
ed. 1827; lived some time in France; at Tunbridge 1837; at
Hampstead; author of _The voice of the North, a poem_ 1842;
_Modern Cookery in all its branches_ 1845, _6 ed._ 1855; _The
English bread book_ 1857. _d._ Snowdon house, John st. Hampstead
13 Feb. 1859.

ACTON, MARIANNE LADY ACTON (_elder dau. of general Joseph Edward
Acton_). _b._ 1782. _m._ 1796 by dispensation of the Pope, her
uncle Sir John Francis Edward Acton, 6 baronet, prime minister of
Naples several years, he was _b._ 1736 and _d._ 12 Aug. 1811. _d._
Buckland 18 March 1873.

ACTON, WILLIAM. _b._ 1789; sheriff of Wicklow 1820; M.P. for co.
Wicklow (conserv.) 17 July 1841–27 April 1848. _d._ Westaston
Rathdrum, co. Wicklow 10 April 1854.

ACTON, WILLIAM, _b._ Shillingstone rectory 15 Sep. 1814; placed
under care of Dr. Mant in London 1830; articled pupil of Charles
Wheeler, (Apothecary to St. Bartholomew’s hospital) 1830–35;
Externe at female venereal hospital Paris; Secretary of the
Parisian medical society 1839; returned to London Oct. 1840;
M.R.C.S. June 1840; practised in George st. Hanover square
1840–43; removed to 46 Queen Anne st. Cavendish square March 1843;
surgeon to Islington dispensary; author of _A practical treatise
on diseases of the urinary and generative organs_ 1841, _3 ed._
1860; _Prostitution considered in its moral, social and sanitary
aspects in London and other large cities_ 1857, _2 ed._ 1870. _d._
17 Harley st. London 7 Dec. 1875. _Medical Circular i_, 11–12
(1852).

ADAIR, SIR ROBERT (_son of Robert Adair, sergeant surgeon to George
III, who d. 16 March 1790, by Caroline Keppel, 1737–69 elder dau.
of Wm. Anne 3 Earl of Albemarle_). _b._ London 24 May 1763; ed. at
Westminster and Univ. of Gottingen; called to the bar at L.I. 27
April 1785; M.P. Appleby, (whig) 18 June 1799–29 June 1802, for
Camelford 7 July 1802–29 Sep. 1812; minister to court of Vienna 7
May 1806–14 May 1807; minister to Constantinople 5 July 1808, and
ambassador 14 April 1809; sent on a special mission to the Low
Countries 1831–35; P.C. 23 July 1828; G.C.B. 3 Aug. 1831 for
negotiating peace between Great Britain and Ottoman Porte in 1809;
author of _Historical memoir of a mission to court of Vienna in
1806 with a selection from despatches_, 1844; _The negotiations
for the peace of the Dardanelles in 1808–1809_, _2 vols._ 1845.
(_m._ 1805 Angélique Gabrielle dau. of Marquess d’Hazincourt).
_d._ 11 Chesterfield st. Mayfair, London 3 Oct. 1855. _G.M.,
xliv_, 535 (1855); _Lord John Russell’s Memorials of C. J. Fox,
vol. ii, appendix_.

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

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

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

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

ADAM, JAMES, _b._ Paisley 1809; worked at the loom; went to London
1834; edited the Aberdeen Herald 1834 to death; author of _The
knowledge qualification_: a plan for the reciprocal extension of
education and the franchise 1837. _d._ Old Aberdeen 10 Nov. 1862.

ADAM, WILLIAM PATRICK (_elder son of Admiral Sir Charles Adam,
Governor of Greenwich Hospital_). _b._ 14 Sep. 1823; ed. at Rugby
and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1846; called to bar at Inner Temple 4
May 1849; went home circuit; Sec. to Baron Elphinstone, Governor
of Bombay Dec. 1853–Sep. 1858; M.P. for Clackmannanshire and
Kinrossshire (lib.) 2 May 1859–Oct. 1880; a Lord of the Treasury
April 1865–July 1866, and Dec. 1868–Aug. 1873; first Commissioner
of Works and Buildings, and Paymaster General 11 Aug. 1873–Feb.
1874, and April 1880–Nov. 1880; P.C. 9 Aug. 1873; governor of
Madras 11 Oct. 1880 to death; whip of liberal party April
1874–April 1880; left for India 27 Nov. 1880. (_m._ 23 Feb. 1856
Emily Eliza dau. of Sir Wm. Wyllie, K.C.B., she was raised to rank
of a baronet’s wife 22 May 1882). _d._ Ootacamund, Madras 24 May
1881. _bur._ there 26 May. _Fraser’s Mag. civ_, 113–22 (1881);
_Graphic xxiii_, 589 (1881) _pt._; _I.L.N. lxxvii_, 564 (1880)
_pt._

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

ADAMS, ANDREW LEITH (_2 son of Francis Adams of Belfield house,
Banchory, co. Aberdeen_). Assistant surgeon 64 foot 22 Dec. 1848;
surgeon major 20 Oct. 1868–23 Jany. 1875, when he retired with
honorary rank of deputy surgeon general; professor of zoology,
Royal college of science, Dublin 1873–78; professor of natural
history, Queen’s college, Cork, Nov. 1878 to death; F.G.S. 1870,
LLD. Aberdeen 1871, F.R.S. 6 June 1872; author of _Wanderings of a
naturalist_ 1867; _Notes of a Naturalist_ 1870. (_m._ 26 Oct. 1859
Bertha Jane, eld. dau. of Frederick Grundy of The Avenue,
Hardwick). _d._ Queenstown 29 July 1882.

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

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

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

ADAMS, FRANCES MATILDA. Exhibited pictures of flowers at the Royal
Academy from 1816; water colour painter extraordinary to Queen
Adelaide. _d._ 24 Oct. 1863 aged 79.

ADAMS, FRANCIS, _b._ Lumphanan, co. Aberdeen 13 March 1796; ed. at
Aberdeen; M.R.C.S. 1 Dec. 1815; practised at Banchory-Ternan 1816
to death; translated Paulus Ægineta, _3 vols._ 1844–47, being the
only English translation; _Hippocrates_ _2 vols._ 1849, and
_Aretæus_ 1856; author of _Arundines Devœ, or poetical
translations on a new principle_ 1853. _d._ Banchory-Ternan 26
Feb. 1861. _Scotsman 27 Feb. and 9 March 1861._

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

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

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

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

ADAMS, JOHN (_3 and youngest son of Simon Adams of East Haddon,
Northamptonshire, Recorder of Daventry who d. 10 March 1801, by
Sarah dau. of Cadwallader Coker of Bicester, she d. 17 July 1833
aged 80_). _b._ 1786; barrister M.T. 27 Nov. 1812; went the
Midland circuit; Sergeant at law 5 July 1824, patent of precedence
24 April 1834; J.P. 14 Jan. 1836, steward of Coventry; Chairman of
Middlesex magistrates March 1836; Assistant judge of Middlesex
sessions 17 Aug. 1844 to death; author of _A treatise on the
principles and practice of the action of Ejectment and the
remitting action of mesne profits 1812_, _4 ed._ 1846. (_m._ (1)
1811 Eliza only dau. of Wm. Nation of Exeter, she _d._ 12 Aug.
1814. _m._ (2) 1817 Jane dau. of Thomas Martin of Nottingham, she
_d._ 19 June 1825. _m._ (3) 28 Dec. 1826 his cousin Charlotte
Priscilla only dau. of John Coker of Bicester, Oxon). _d._ 9 Hyde
park st. London 10 Jany. 1856 in his 70th year.

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

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

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

ADAMS, VERY REV. SAMUEL (_3 son of rev. Benjamin Adams 1756–1840, R.
of Kellinick, co. Cavan by Elizabeth dau. of John Clark, she d. 28
Feb. 1833 aged 77_). _b._ 15 Feb. 1788; preb. of Tirbrien in
Elphin cathedral 20 March 1813; dean of Cashel 10 Aug. 1829 to
death; instituted and installed dean 29 Aug.; author of _A
comparative view of the Anglican and Roman Churches_ 1836. (_m._ 4
Jany. 1809 Frances youngest dau. of Capt. John Hervey of Killiam
castle, co. Wexford). _d._ Northlands, co. Cavan 7 Dec. 1856.

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

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

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

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