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BELL, SIR JOHN (_son of David Bell of Bonytoun, Fifeshire_). _b._
Bonytoun 1 Jany. 1782; ensign 52 Foot 15 Aug. 1805; served in
Peninsular war; permanent assistant quartermaster general to 10
Nov. 1814; chief sec. of government at Cape of Good Hope 1828–41;
aide de camp to the sovereign 6 May 1831 to 23 Nov. 1841; lieut.
governor of Guernsey 24 Jany. 1848 to 30 June 1854; col. of 95
Foot 25 June 1850 and of 4 Foot 26 Dec. 1853 to death; general 15
June 1860; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 6 April 1852, G.C.B. 18 May
1860. _d._ 55 Cadogan place, London 20 Nov. 1876. _I.L.N. lxix_,
541 (1876), _portrait_.

BELL, JOHN DAVID (_youngest son of George Joseph Bell, professor of
law at Univ. of Aberdeen_). _b._ 1823 or 1824; barrister M.T. 12
May 1848; practised at Calcutta 1850–58; founder and chairman of
Positive Life Assurance Company 1870; standing counsel to
government of India at Calcutta 1878 to death. _d._ Calcutta 15
Aug. 1880 in 57 year.

BELL, JOHN GRAY (_son of Thomas Bell of Newcastle 1785–1860_). _b._
Newcastle 21 Sep. 1823; a bookseller in London 1848–54 and in
Manchester 1854 to death; published a valuable series of _Tracts
on the topography history and dialects of the counties of Great
Britain_ 1850; author of _A descriptive and critical catalogue of
works illustrated by Thomas and John Bell_ 1851; privately printed
_A genealogical account of the descendants of John of Gaunt_ 1855.
_d._ Manchester 21 Feb. 1866.

BELL, JOHN MONTGOMERIE. _b._ Paisley 1804; advocate in Edinburgh
1825; advocate depute 1847; sheriff of Kincardine 7 May 1851 to
death; author of _Treatise on law of arbitration in Scotland_
1861; _The martyr of liberty, a poem_ 1863. _d._ Linnhouse 16 Oct.
1862.

BELL, JONATHAN ANDERSON (_2 son of James Bell, advocate_). _b._
Glasgow 1809; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; spent some years with Messrs.
Rickman and Hutcheson of Birmingham, architects; an architect in
Edinburgh 1838 to death; sec. to Royal Association for the
promotion of the fine arts in Scotland May 1839 to death; author
of _Poems_. _Privately printed_ 1865. _d._ Edinburgh 28 Feb. 1865.
_Poems by J. A. Bell_ (1865) _v-xi_.

BELL, SIR JOSHUA PETER. _b._ co. Kildare 1826; owner with his father
and brothers of a splendid station called Jimbour near Dalby,
Queensland where they became great wool growers; M.P. for Dalby in
Queensland parliament 1863 to March 1879; colonial treasurer
1871–74; pres. of legislative council March 1879 to death;
K.C.M.G. 24 Nov. 1881. _d._ Brisbane 20 Dec. 1881. _Illust.
sporting and dramatic news xvi_, 405 (1882), _portrait_.

BELL, LADY MARION (_2 dau. of Charles Shaw of Ayr_). _b._ Edinburgh
1787. (_m._ 3 June 1811 Sir Charles Bell, F.R.S., celebrated
physiologist _b._ Nov. 1774 _d._ 28 April 1842). Granted a civil
list pension of £100 for her husband’s services to science 14 Sep.
1843; published _The letters of Sir Charles Bell_ 1870. _d._ 47
Albany st. Regent’s park, London 9 Nov. 1876.

BELL, MATTHEW. _b._ 18 April 1793; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.;
sheriff of Northumberland 1816; M.P. for Northumberland 1826–31
and for South Northumberland 1832–52; lieut. col. of
Northumberland and Newcastle yeomanry cavalry 1826–63. _d._
Woolsington near Newcastle 28 Oct. 1871.

BELL, OSWALD HOME. M.R.C.S. Edin. 3 Feb. 1863; professor of medicine
in Univ. of St. Andrews 1863 to death; dean of the medical
faculty. _d._ The Scores, St. Andrews 24 June 1875 in 39 year.

BELL, REV. PATRICK (_son of George Bell of Mid Leoch farm, parish of
Auchterhouse near Dundee_). _b._ Mid Leoch farm April 1799; ed. at
Univ. of St. Andrews, LLD. 1867; ordained 1843; minister of
Carmyllie, Arbroath Dec. 1843 to death; invented a reaping machine
1826 being 7 or 8 years before the earliest American inventors;
presented by Highland Society with sum of £1000 1868. _d._ The
manse of Carmyllie 22 April 1869. _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_, 473
(1869); _I.L.N. lii_, 225 (1868), _portrait_.

BELL, ROBERT (_son of Benjamin Bell, surgeon_). _b._ 1782; ed. at
high school Edinburgh; advocate 1809; sheriff of Berwickshire
1842–60; procurator to Church of Scotland 1842 to death; member of
Bannatyne club; made a fine collection of Rembrandt etchings. _d._
15 Great Stuart st. Edinburgh 27 April 1861. _Crombie’s Modern
Athenians_ (1882), _portrait_.

BELL, ROBERT (_youngest son of John Bell of Cork_). _b._ Cork 16
Jany. 1800; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin where he originated the
Dublin Historical Society; settled in London 1828; edited the
_Atlas_ weekly paper many years, the _Monthly Chronicle_ and the
_Home News_ a monthly journal; author of _History of Russia 3
vols._ 1838; _Lives of the English poets 2 vols._ 1839; _Wayside
pictures through France, Belgium and Holland_ 1849, _2 ed._ 1858;
_Hearts and altars 3 vols._ 1852; _The ladder of gold 3 vols._
1856; _The annotated edition of the English poets 24 vols._
1854–57, and of 3 five-act comedies, _Marriage_ 1842; _Mothers and
daughters_ 1843, _2 ed._ 1845 and _Temper_ 1847. _d._ 14 York st.,
Portman sq. London 12 April 1867.

BELL, VENERABLE ROBERT. Ordained 1831; Inc. of Tipperary 1866 to
death; archdeacon of Cashel 1872 to death; canon of St. Patrick’s
cathedral, Dublin. _d._ rectory Tipperary 10 Jany. 1883 in 75
year.

BELL, ROBERT CHARLES. _b._ Edinburgh 1806; Engraved a series of
Scottish views and a number of vignette portraits, also many
plates for the Royal Scottish Association; his largest and most
important work was an engraving of Sir William Allan’s Battle of
Preston Pans which he completed in 1872; several of his best
plates appeared in the _Art Journal_ 1850–72. _d._ Edinburgh 5
Sep. 1872. _Art Journal_ (1872) 284.

BELL, SIR SYDNEY SMITH (_9 son of Wm. Bell, of London, banker_).
_b._ 1805; ed. at Univs. of Edin. and Glasgow; barrister I.T. 3
May 1839; puisne judge at Cape of Good Hope 7 Feb. 1851, and first
puisne judge May 1858; chief justice of supreme court and pres. of
legislative council of Cape of Good Hope 16 Dec. 1868 to 1879;
knighted by patent 9 Oct. 1869; author of _Cases decided in the
House of Lords on appeal from the courts of Scotland 7 vols._
1843–52; _Colonial administration of Great Britain_ 1859. _d._ 42
Kensington park road, London 13 Sep. 1879.

BELL, THOMAS (_son of Richard Bell of Newcastle_). _b._ Newcastle 16
Dec. 1785; land valuer and surveyor; an antiquary, assisted the
local topographical authors in their works especially Rev. John
Hodgson in his _History of Northumberland 6 vols._ 1827–40; one of
the founders of Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society and
of Society of antiquaries of Newcastle 1813. _d._ Newcastle 30
April 1860.

BELL, THOMAS (_only son of Thomas Bell of Poole, Dorset, surgeon_).
_b._ Poole 11 Oct. 1792; studied at Guys and St. Thomas’s
hospitals; M.R.C.S. 1815, F.R.C.S. 1844, F.L.S. 1815, pres.
1853–61; dental surgeon to Guy’s hospital 1817–61 where he
lectured on comparative anatomy; F.R.S. 10 Jany. 1828, junior
secretary 1848–53; professor of Zoology at King’s college London
1836 to death; pres. of the Ray Society 1843–59; purchased in 1866
from the grandnieces of Gilbert White The Wakes, Selborne where he
lived to his death; author of _Monograph of Testudinata, parts
1–8, 1832–37, folio_; _History of British quadrupeds_ 1837, _2
ed._ 1874; _History of British reptiles_ 1839; _History of British
Stalk-eyed Crustacea_ 1853; edited _White’s Natural history of
Selborne 2 vols._ 1877. _d._ The Wakes, Selborne 13 March 1880.
_Nature xxi_, 473, 499 (1880).

BELL, SIR WILLIAM (_son of Wm. Bell of Ripon, Yorkshire_). _b._
1788; ed. at Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 23 Nov. 1804; served through
Peninsular war; colonel R.A. 18 March 1852, colonel commandant 26
Dec. 1865 to death; general 31 Jany. 1872; K.C.B. 13 March 1867.
_d._ South lodge, Ripon 28 March 1873.

BELLAIRS, REV. HENRY (_3 son of Abel Walford Bellairs of Uffington,
Lincolnshire 1755–1839_). _b._ 29 Aug. 1790; midshipman on board
H.M.S. Spartiate; wounded twice at Trafalgar; cornet 15 Hussars 25
Nov. 1808; lieut. 26 May 1809 to 1811; ed. at St. Mary hall Ox.,
B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; R. of Bedworth, Warws 1830; V. of
Hunsingore, Yorkshire 1832 to death; hon. canon of Worcester Sep.
1853 to death. _d._ Paignton near Torquay 17 April 1872.

BELLAIRS, SIR WILLIAM (_younger brother of the preceding_). _b._
Uffington 1793; cornet 15 Hussars 2 May 1811; captain 10 April
1817 to 10 Feb. 1820 when he sold out; exon of Yeomen of the Guard
19 Sep. 1837 to Dec. 1848; knighted by the Queen at St. James’s
Palace 17 May 1848. (_m._ 1822 Cassandra dau. of Edmund Hooke of
Mulbarton lodge, Norfolk, she _d._ 1876). _d._ London 2 Oct. 1863.

BELLAMY, GEORGE. _b._ Plymouth 15 Nov. 1773; surgeon’s mate R.N.
Feb. 1793; surgeon 19 May 1795; surgeon to the Bellerophon 74 guns
1796–1800; served at battle of the Nile; placed on retired list
1817; M.R.C.P.; mayor of Plymouth 1811–12. _d._ Plymouth 10 Oct.
1863.

BELLAMY, REV. JAMES WILLIAM (_son of John Bellamy_). _b._ 25 Nov.
1788; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school and Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A.
1811, M.A. 1816; Norrisian and Seatonian prizeman 1815;
incorporated at St. John’s coll. Ox. 1820, B.D. 1821; head master
of Merchant Taylors’ school 6 April 1819 to 23 July 1845; V. of
Sellinge, Kent 1822 to death; preb. of St. Paul’s cathedral 10
March 1843 to death; F.R.S. 18 Dec. 1834; edited _A concordance to
the Holy Bible_ 1818. _d._ Sellinge 2 March 1874.

BELLAMY, JOHN CREMER. _b._ Plymouth 7 Dec. 1812; L.S.A. 1833,
M.R.C.S. 1834; Curator of Plymouth Institute and Devon and
Cornwall Nat. Hist. Society; author of _The natural history of
South Devon_ 1839; _The housekeeper’s guide to the fish market for
each month of the year_ 1843, _new ed._ 1862; _A thousand facts in
the histories of Devon and Cornwall_ 1850. _d._ George st.
Plymouth 12 May 1854.

BELLAMY, WILLIAM HOARE. _b._ Cork 5 Aug. 1800; made his début at
Elmsworth 1825 as Sir Simon Rochdale in _John Bull_; went to the
United States; made his début in New York 1838. (_m._ Mrs. A. W.
Penson, she was _b._ Scotland and acted in the United States 1838
to her death May 1857). _d._ Greenpoint, Long Island 15 April
1866.

BELLARS, HENRY JOHN. _b._ Chester; a schoolmaster; sec. and curator
of Chester Natural History Society; photographic artist in London
1862 to death; the best facsimilist in England; author of
_Illustrated catalogue of British land and freshwater shells_
1858; _The historical numismatic atlas of the Roman emperors_.
_d._ 12 Bedford court, Covent Garden 22 June 1868 aged 44.

BELLASIS, EDWARD (_only son of Rev. George Bellasis, V. of Basildon,
Berkshire who d. 1814_). _b._ Basildon vicarage 14 Oct. 1800; ed.
at Christ’s Hospital 1808–15; barrister I.T. 2 July 1824; employed
in parliamentary practice 1836–66, counsel in 342 important cases;
serjeant at law 10 July 1844; received into Roman Catholic Church
28 Sep. 1850; trustee with J. R. Hope-Scott Q.C. of Earl of
Shrewsbury 1853–56; steward of manors of Duke of Norfolk in
Norfolk and Suffolk 1863; one of the 3 comrs. who reported on
College of Arms 1870; author of several anonymous pamphlets. _d._
Hyères, France 24 Jany. 1873. _The Tablet 1 Feb. 1873 p._ 138.

BELLEW, PATRICK, 1 Baron (_elder son of Sir Edward Bellew, 6 baronet
who d. 15 March 1827_). _b._ London 29 Jany 1798; succeeded 15
March 1827; lord lieut. of co. Louth 1832 to death; col. of Louth
militia 17 Nov. 1843 to death; M.P. for Louth 1831–1832 and
1834–1837; P.C. Ireland 1838; created a peer of Ireland by title
of Baron Bellew of Barmeath co. Louth 17 July 1848. _d._ Barmeath
10 Dec. 1866.

BELLEW, REV. SIR CHRISTOPHER, 2 Baronet. _b._ 1818; succeeded 26
June 1855. _d._ at house of the Jesuit Fathers, Gardiner st.
Dublin 18 March 1867.

BELLEW, JOHN CHIPPENDALL MONTESQUIEU (_only child of Robert Higgin,
lieutenant 12 Foot who d. 24 Jany. 1853_). _b._ Lancaster 3 Aug.
1823; ed. at Lancaster gr. sch. and St. Mary hall Ox.; assumed his
mother’s name of Bellew Aug. 1844; C. of St. Andrew’s Worcester
1849; C. of Prescot Lancs. 1850; assistant chaplain in Bengal
1851; chaplain of St. John’s cathedral Calcutta Dec. 1852 to 1855;
edited the _Bengal Hurkaru_; assistant minister of St. Philip’s
Regent’s st. London 1855–57; P.C. of St. Mark’s St. John’s Wood
1857–62; minister of Bedford chapel Bloomsbury 26 Oct. 1862 to
1868; one of the most popular preachers in London; received into
Church of Rome Oct. 1869; executed deed of relinquishment of holy
orders 13 Aug. 1870; very successful as a public reader in England
and the United States; author of _Shakespeare’s house at New
Place_ 1863; _Blount Tempest a novel 3 vols._ 1866; _Poets Corner,
a manual for students_ 1868. _d._ 16 Circus road, St. John’s Wood
19 June 1874. _Bentley’s Quarterly Review i_, 476–92 (1859);
_Traits of character by a contemporary i_, 285–312 (1860);
_Cartoon portraits_ (1873) 50–51, _portrait_; _Graphic x_, 15
(1874), _portrait_; _E. Yates’s Recollections ii_, 66–69 (1884).

BELLEW, SIR MICHAEL DILLON, 1 Baronet (_son of Christopher Dillon
Bellew of Mount Bellew, co. Galway 1763–1826_). _b._ 29 Sep. 1796;
created a baronet 15 Aug. 1838. _d._ Greenville lodge, Rathmines
near Dublin 26 June 1855.

BELLEW, RICHARD MONTESQUIEU (_younger son of Sir Edward Bellew 6
baronet who d. 1827_). _b._ 12 Feb. 1803; M.P. for co. Louth 21
Dec. 1832 to 1 July 1852 and 16 May 1859 to 6 July 1865; a lord of
the treasury 6 Aug. 1847 to 1852; member of Local government
board, Ireland. _d._ Dublin 8 Jany. 1880.

BELLEW, THOMAS ARTHUR GRATTAN. _b._ 1824; M.P. for co. Galway 26
July 1852 to 21 March 1857; assumed additional surname of Grattan
by r.l. 19 March 1859. _d._ Mount Bellew, Duleek, co. Galway 24
July 1863.

BELLHOUSE, EDWARD TAYLOR (_eld. son of David Bellhouse of
Manchester_). _b._ Manchester 10 Oct. 1816; started firm of E. T.
Bellhouse and Co., engineers, Eagle foundry, Hunt st. Manchester 1
July 1842; erected the Gas works for Buenos Ayres, Pernambuco and
Athens; erected many large bridges for various railways and many
iron buildings; pres. of Manchester Mechanics’ Institute; M.I.M.E.
1857. _d._ Southport 13 Oct. 1881. _Proc. of Instit. of M.E._
(1882) 1–2.

BELLINGHAM, O’BRYEN (_3 son of Sir Alan Bellingham, 2 baronet
1776–1827_). _b._ 12 Dec. 1805; ed. at Feinagle’s school; M.D.
Univ. of Edin. and L.R.C.S. Edin. 1830; professor of botany, Royal
college of surgeons Ireland to 1850, a surgical examiner 1850,
chairman of the court 1856; sec. of Surgical society of Ireland to
death; surgeon to St. Vincent’s hospital 1835 to death; author of
_Observations on aneurism and its treatment by compression_ 1847;
_Treatise on diseases of the heart_ 1857. _d._ The Castle, Castle
Bellingham, co. Louth 11 Oct. 1857. _Dublin Journal of medical
science lxiv_, 469–75 (1877).

BELLOC, ANNE LOUISE (_dau. of Colonel James Swanton, commandant of
Rocroi, France who was b. Ireland_). _b._ La Rochelle 1 Oct. 1796;
assisted Lafayette in establishing public libraries; founded a
choice circulating library; translated many English books into
French. (_m._ 1823 Jean Hilaire Belloc, Director of Royal School
of Design, Paris who _d._ 1866). _d._ Paris 6 Nov. 1881. _S. J.
Hale’s Woman’s record, 2 ed._ 1855 _p._ 583, _portrait_.

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

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

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

BELOE, CHARLES (_2 son of Rev. Wm. Beloe 1756–1817, Prebendary of
St. Paul’s_). A clerk in the London Twopenny post office; sec. to
the Alfred club. _d._ Reading 23 Oct. 1855 aged 69.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

BENEDICT, SIR JULIUS (_2 son of M. Benedict of Stuttgart, banker_).
_b._ Stuttgart 27 Nov. or 24 Dec. 1804; pupil of Hummel at Weimar
and of Weber at Dresden; conductor at the Kärnthnerthor theatre
Vienna 1823–25 and at the San Carlo and Fondo theatres Naples
1825–35; went to London 1835; conducted a series of Italian comic
operas at Lyceum theatre 1836; conductor of English opera at Drury
Lane 1838, where he produced _The gipsy’s warning_ 19 April 1838;
_The brides of Venice_ 22 April 1844, and _The Crusaders_ 1846;
travelled with Jenny Lind in the United States and Havannah and
directed all her 122 concerts 1850–52; formed a choral society
called The vocal association; conductor of Italian opera at Drury
Lane and Her Majesty’s theatres 1859–60; conducted the Norwich
Musical Festivals 1845–78 where he produced _Undine_ 1860,
_Richard Cœur de Lion_ 1863 and _St. Cecilia_ 1866; conducted the
Monday Popular Concerts; his best known opera _The Lily of
Killarney_ was produced at Covent Garden 8 Feb. 1862; conductor of
Liverpool Philharmonic society 9 April 1867 to Feb. 1879; wrote
for Birmingham musical festivals _St. Peter_ 1870 and _Graziella_
1873; knighted at Windsor Castle 24 March 1871. _d._ 2 Manchester
sq. London 5 June 1885. _I.L.N. lviii_, 377 (1871), _portrait,
lxvi_, 494 (1875), _portrait_; _Scribner’s Monthly xiii_, 480–84
(1877); _Graphic xxix_, 184 (1884), _portrait_.

BENETT, JOHN (_2 son of Thomas Benett of Pyt house Tisbury, Wilts.
who d. 16 May 1797 aged 68_). _b._ 20 May 1773; sheriff of Wilts.
1798; M.P. for Wilts. 19 July 1819 to 3 Dec. 1832 and for South
Wilts. 17 Dec. 1832 to 1 July 1852; author of some essays on
agricultural subjects. _d._ Pyt house 1 Oct. 1852. _G.M. xxxviii_,
636–37 (1852).

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

BENHAM, WILLIAM. Author of _English ballads for school reading_
1862; _St. Matthew, authorised version_ 1862; _Epistles for the
Christian year, with notes_ 1864; _Companion to the Lectionary_
1873. _d._ 14 Arley hill, Bristol 16 Sep. 1885 aged 69.

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

BENISCH, ABRAHAM. _b._ Drosan, Bohemia 1811; ed. at Univ. of Vienna;
settled in England 1841; edited the _Jewish Chronicle_ 1854 to
death; one of chief founders of Society of Hebrew Literature 1870,
and of the Anglo Jewish Association 1871; author of _A translation
of the Old Testament_ 1851; _An essay on Colenso’s criticism of
the Pentateuch and Joshua_ 1863; _Judaism surveyed_ 1874. _d._ 13
Brownswood park, Green Lanes, London 31 July 1878.

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

BENJAMIN, JUDAH PHILIP. _b._ St. Croix, West Indies 1811; ed. at
Yale college, Connecticut 1825–28; called to the bar in New
Orleans 16 Dec. 1832; member of firm of Slidell, Benjamin and
Conrad 1840; counsellor of the supreme court New Orleans Dec.
1848; practised chiefly in Washington; a senator for Louisiana to
the Senate 1852 to 4 Feb. 1861 when he withdrew, expelled the
Senate 14 March 1861; attorney general of the Southern Confederacy
Feb. 1861; acting secretary of war Aug. 1861 to Feb. 1862; sec. of
state Feb. 1862 to April 1865 when the members of the cabinet left
Richmond; a student L.I. 13 Jany. 1866, called to bar at L.I. 6
June 1866, bencher 15 April 1875; Q.C. for county palatine of
Lancaster July 1869; Q.C. with patent of precedence 29 July 1872;
made £15,000 a year for several years; entertained on his
retirement, at a banquet in hall of Inner Temple 30 June 1883;
author of _Digest of decisions of supreme court of New Orleans_
1834; _Treatise of the law of sale of personal property_ 1868, _3
ed._ 1883. _d._ Avenue de Jena, Paris 6 May 1884. _J. Davis’s Rise
and Fall of the Confederate government i_, 242 (1881), _portrait_;
_Law Journal_ (1883) 100–103; _I.L.N. lxxx_ 465 (1884),
_portrait_; _Graphic xxix_, 484 (1884), _portrait_.

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

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

BENN, GEORGE (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Tanderagee co.
Armagh 1 Jany. 1801; entered Belfast Academical institution 1816;
took gold medals in logic 1817 and moral philosophy 1818; author
of _The history of the town of Belfast_ [_anon._] 1823; _A history
of the town of Belfast 2 vols._ 1877–80. _d._ 8 Jany. 1882.

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

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

BENNETT, CHARLES HENRY. Draughtsman on wood; contributed sketches
signed in the corner with the figure of an owl to _Diogenes_ comic
weekly paper 1853 and portraits of members of Parliament to
_Illustrated Times_; contributed sketches to _Fun_ down to 1866
and to _Punch_ 1866 to death; published _Fables of Æsop and others
translated into human nature_ 1858; _Proverbs with pictures_ 1858;
_London people sketched from life_ 1863; _Adventures of Young
Munchausen_ 1864. _d._ Caversham road, Kentish Town 2 April 1867
in 38 year. _Punch 13 April 1867 p._ 151.

BENNETT, GEORGE (_2 son of John Bennett, Judge of Irish court of
King’s Bench who d. 25 Dec. 1791_). _b._ Cork 20 Sep. 1777; called
to Irish bar 1800; went Munster circuit; K.C. 18 Feb. 1822; crown
prosecutor for Munster circuit Feb. 1832; bencher of King’s Inns
Dublin 1836, retired about 1849. _d._ Sodylt hall, Shropshire 26
May 1856. _Dublin univ. mag. xxxiv_, 526–32 (1849), _portrait_.

BENNETT, GEORGE JOHN (_son of George Bennett of Norwich, comedian_).
_b._ Ripon 9 March 1800; served in the navy 1813–17; first
appeared on the stage at Lynn 1818, and in London at Covent Garden
27 Jany. 1823 as Richard iii; acted at Covent Garden 1830–38, at
Drury Lane 1841–43 and at Sadler’s Wells 27 May 1844 to 15 March
1862 when he left the stage, his best parts were Bossola in the
_Duchess of Malfi_, and Caliban in _The Tempest_; author of a five
act play called _Retribution or love’s trials_ produced at Sadlers
Wells 11 Feb. 1850, and of a drama called _The Justice_ produced
at Birmingham. _d._ Edmonton 21 Sep. 1879. _Theatrical times i_,
241 (1847), _portrait_; _Tallis’s Drawing room table book, parts
8, 10, 17 and 21_, _4 portraits_; _The Players iv_, 17 (1861),
_portrait_.

BENNETT, JAMES. _b._ Falfield, Thornbury, Gloucs. 10 May 1785;
apprenticed to George Robbins of Bath, printer; printer and
bookseller in Tewkesbury 1810–52; published _History of
Tewkesbury_ 1830; _Tewkesbury Register and Magazine_ 1830–49. _d._
Tewkesbury 29 Jany. 1856.

BENNETT, REV. JAMES. _b._ London 22 May 1774; preached his first
sermon 24 Dec. 1792; Congregational minister at Romsey Feb. 1796;
ordained 5 April 1797; theological tutor and pastor at Rotherham
22 Aug. 1813; pastor of Silver st. church, London Nov. 1828, and
of Falcon sq. church, London 1843 to Nov. 1860; one of foreign
secs. to London Missionary society May 1830 to 1832; chairman of
Congregational Board 1840; author of _Lectures on preaching of
Christ_ 1836; _Lectures on Acts of the Apostles_ 1846; author with
Rev. David Bogue of _History of dissenters from the Revolution in
1688 to the year 1808 4 vols._ 1808, _2 ed. 3 vols._ 1833; wrote
much in the _Eclectic Review_ and _Evangelical Mag._ _d._ 49
Gibson sq. Islington 4 Dec. 1862. _Memorials of the late Rev.
James Bennett_ 1863.

BENNETT, JAMES. Member of company of T.R. Birmingham many years;
made his début in London at Lyceum theatre 18 March 1859 as Iago
in _Othello_; acted in the provinces. _d._ London 9 March 1885.
_Tallis’s Drawing room table book_ (1851) 41, _portrait_.

BENNETT, JAMES GORDON. _b._ New Mill, Keith, Banffshire 1 Sep. 1800;
went to Halifax, Nova Scotia 1819; a printer’s reader,
bookseller’s clerk and assistant in a newspaper office at Boston;
went to New York about 1822; started the _New York Globe_ Oct.
1832 a two cent paper which lived only 30 days; partner with
Messrs. Anderson and Smith of New York, printers 1835; founded the
_New York Herald_ a one cent daily paper 6 May 1835 all of which
he wrote; in 1841 the circulation was 20,000 and the receipts
100,000 dollars, during the civil war its circulation doubled;
sent Henry M. Stanley to Central Africa in search of Dr.
Livingstone at cost of £10,000 in 1871. (_m._ 6 June 1840
Henrietta Agnes Crean, she _d._ 31 March 1873). _d._ New York 1
June 1872. _Memoir of J. G. Bennett by a Journalist_ 1855,
_portrait_; _F. Hudson’s Journalism in the United States_ 1873;
_J. Parton’s Famous Americans of recent times_ (1867) 259–305;
_Democratic Review xxxi_, 409–19 1853, _portrait_; _C. F.
Wingate’s Views and interviews_ (1875) 275–86; _Graphic v_, 600,
611 (1872), _portrait_.

BENNETT, JOHN HUGHES. _b._ London 31 Aug. 1812; ed. at Exeter gr.
sch. and Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1837, LLD. Aug. 1875; founded in
Paris the Parisian Medical Society 1837, pres. 1837; pathologist
to Royal infirmary Edin. 1843; discovered a remarkable disease of
the blood which he called Leucocythemia or white cell blood 1845;
editor of _Edinburgh Monthly Journal of medical science_ 1846;
professor of Institutes of medicine in Univ. of Edin. July 1848 to
July 1874; F.R.S. Edin. 1842, F.R.C.P. Edin. 1842; author of _An
introduction to clinical medicine_ 1849, _4 ed._ 1862; _The
pathology and treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis_ 1853, _2 ed._
1859; _Clinical lectures on principles and practice of medicine_
1852, _5 ed._ 1868 which was translated into French, Russian and
Hindoo. _d._ The Wilderness, Bracondale, Norwich 25 Sep. 1875.
_bur._ Dean cemetery Edin. 30 Sep. _Edinburgh Medical Journal
xxi_, 466–74 (1875); _British Medical Journal ii_, 473–78 (1875).

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

BENNETT, SAMUEL. _b._ Cornwall 20 March 1815; went to Sydney 1841;
superintendent of a printing office there 1842–59; purchased with
Wm. Hanson the _Empire_ newspaper 1859, conducted it as a daily
and weekly paper; started the _Evening News_ 29 July 1867, the
_Australian town and country journal_ 8 Jany. 1870; author of _The
history of Australian discovery and colonisation_ 1867. _d._
Mundarrah towers, Little Coogee, Sydney 2 June 1878.

BENNETT, SAMUEL JAMES. Founder of the Mercantile Association;
founded the _Commercial Gazette_ weekly paper 1853. _d._ The Firs,
Staplecross, Sussex 23 May 1881.

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

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

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

BENNETT, WILLIAM. _b._ 1798; made his début in London at Haymarket
theatre as Jack Junk in _The birthday_ 15 May 1812; member of
English opera company; played old men at Drury Lane about 1829;
secretary to Drury Lane theatrical fund. _d._ Bellevue cottage,
Walthamstow 8 Aug. 1875. _The Oddfellow i_, 77 (1839), _portrait_.

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

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

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

BENNIS, GEORGE GEARY. _b._ Corkamore, Limerick 1790 or 1793; a
grocer at Limerick; settled at Liverpool where he became a Quaker;
went to Paris 1823; director of a libraire des étrangers in Paris
1830–36; an insurance agent and librarian to the British embassy,
Paris; edited _Galignani’s Messenger_; chevalier of the Légion
d’honneur 1854; author of _The principles of the one faith
professed by all Christians, Liverpool_ 1816, _3 ed. Paris_ 1826;
_Traveller’s pocket diary and Student’s journal_; _Treatise on
life assurance_. _d._ Paris 1 Jany. 1866, left over 10,000 volumes
to found a free library at Limerick. _J. Smith’s A descriptive
catalogue of Friends books i_, 246 (1867).

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

BENSON, REV. CHRISTOPHER (_son of Thomas Benson of Cockermouth,
solicitor_). _b._ Cockermouth 1788; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.,
scholar, B.A. 1809, M.A. 1815; select preacher 1817; Hulsean
lecturer (the first) 1820–22; fellow of Magd. coll. Cam. 1820;
preb. of Worcester cathedral 27 Dec. 1825 to death; R. of St.
Giles’s-in-the-Fields, London 1824–26; V. of Cropthorne, Worcs.
1826–40; master of the Temple London 1827–45; author of
_Discourses on powers of the clergy_ 1841; _Baptism and baptismal
regeneration_ 1843. _d._ Woodfield, Ross, Hereford 25 March 1868.
_The living and the dead by a country curate_ (_Rev. E. Neale_)
1827 _pp._ 81–98; _E. M. Roose’s Ecclesiastica_ (1842) 413–15.

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

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

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

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

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

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

BENT, ROBERT (_son of Wm. Bent who founded Bent’s Literary
Advertiser 1802_). Edited _The London Catalogue of books_ 1839.
_d._ 6 Dec. 1859.

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

BENTHAM, GEORGE (_2 son of Sir Samuel Bentham, naval architect
1757–1831_). _b._ Stoke near Plymouth 22 Sep. 1800; lived in
France 1814–26; managed his father’s estate of 2000 acres near
Montpellier; student at Lincoln’s Inn; worked for his uncle Jeremy
Bentham 1826–32; F.L.S. 1828, vice pres. 1858, pres. 1861–74; hon.
sec. of Horticultural Society 1829–40 which he raised to a
flourishing condition; presented his collections and books valued
at £6,000 to Kew Gardens 1854; F.R.S. 5 June 1862, royal medallist
1859; LLD. Cambridge 4 June 1874; C.M.G. 1878; author of _Outlines
of a new system of logic_ 1827 which set forth for the first time
doctrine of quantification of the predicate, the most fruitful
discovery in abstract logical science since Aristotle; _Handbook
of the British flora_ 1858, _2 vols._ 1865; _Flora Hong-Kongensis_
1861; _Flora Australiensis 7 vols._ 1863–78; author with Sir
Joseph Hooker of _Genera Plantarum_, _6 parts in 3 vols._ 1862–83
which marks an epoch in botany. _d._ 25 Wilton place, London 10
Sep. 1884. _Nature xxx_, 539–43 (1884); _G. C. Wallich’s Eminent
men of the day_ (1870), _portrait_.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

BENTLEY, JOSEPH. Lecturer and writer on education; promoted two
assurance companies 1855–56; author of _Manual of life insurance_
1862; _Financial position of life offices_ 1865. _d._ Feb. 1872
aged 67.

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

BENTLEY, RICHARD (BROTHER OF JOHN BENTLEY 1786–1860). _b._ Oct.
1794; ed. at St. Paul’s sch.; publisher with his brother Samuel in
Salisbury st. Fleet st. Jany. 1819 to 1829; publisher with Henry
Colburn 1829–32; started _Bentley’s Miscellany_ 1837; founded with
George Smythe and the Young England party a newspaper called
_Young England_ Jany. 1845 which collapsed April 1845; started
with John Douglas Cook _Bentley’s Quarterly Review_ 1859 of which
only 4 numbers appeared; published _Standard Novels_ 127 volumes
the copyright and stock of which he sold 27 Feb. 1856 for £11,000;
publisher in ordinary to the Queen 1838 to death. _d._ Ramsgate 10
Sep. 1871. _Graphic iv_, 375, 381 (1871), _portrait_.

BENTLEY, SAMUEL (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 10 May 1785; ed.
at St. Paul’s school; apprenticed to John Nichols, printer and
publisher; partner in firm of Nichols, Son and Bentley April 1812
to Dec. 1818; publisher with his brother Richard Jany. 1819 to
1829; carried on business at Bangor house, Shoe lane under firm of
Samuel and John Bentley, Wilson and Fley 1829 to April 1853 when
he retired; an antiquary, musician and artist; edited the _Concio
de puero Jesu of Erasmus_ 1816; author of _Excerpta Historica_
1831; indexed _Nichols’s Literary anecdotes_ and _Surtees’s
History of Durham_. _d._ Croydon 13 April 1868. _G.M. i_, 127
(1868).

BENTLEY, WILLIAM (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 1788; ed. at St.
Paul’s school; principal of the Bank stock office, Bank of
England; master of the Leathersellers Company 1857–58. _d._ Colfe
lodge, Lewisham 28 Jany. 1877.

BENTON, MARY (_dau. of Ralph Lodge_). _b._ Raby Moor house near
Keverstone, Durham 12 Feb. 1751. (_m._ John Benton of Longnewton,
butcher). Lived at hamlet of Elton near Stockton on Tees many
years. _d._ Elton 7 Jany. 1853, aged 102. _I.L.N. xviii_, 324
(1851), _portrait_.

BEOR, HENRY ROGERS (_4 son of Richard White Beor of Swansea_).
Barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1870; admitted to Queensland bar 7 Dec.
1875; member of Queensland parliament for Bowen; attorney general
for Queensland 1880. _d._ on his voyage from Sydney to Auckland 25
Dec. 1880.

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

BERENS, VENERABLE EDWARD (_son of Joseph Berens of Hextable, Kent_).
Matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 17 Jany. 1794 aged 17; B.A. 1798, M.A.
1801; fellow of Oriel coll.; V. of Shrivenham, Berks. 1804 to
death; R. of Englefield, Berks. 1818–55; Preb. of Salisbury 23
Oct. 1829 to death; archdeacon of Berks. 7 Sep. 1832 to 1855;
author of _A discourse on parochial psalmody_ 1825; _Advice to a
young man upon first going to Oxford_ 1832, _6 ed._ 1853; _The
history of the Prayer Book of the Church of England_ 1839, _2 ed._
1854; _A memoir of the life of Bishop Mant_ 1849; _Lectures on the
Liturgy_ 1850 and other books. _d._ Shrivenham vicarage 7 April
1859.

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

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

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

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

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

BERESFORD, MOST REV. JOHN GEORGE (_2 son of George Beresford, 1
Marquis of Waterford 1735–1800_). _b._ Tyrone house, Dublin 22
Nov. 1773; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1793, M.A. 1796, D.D.
1805; ordained deacon 1795, priest 1797; R. of Clonegam and
Newtown Lenan; dean of Clogher 23 Dec. 1799; R. of Termonmaguirk
1801; bishop of Cork and Ross 20 Feb. 1805; consecrated 24 March
1805; translated to Raphoe 10 Aug. 1807; translated to Clogher 25
Sep. 1819; created Archbishop of Dublin 21 April 1820; enthroned 6
May 1820; P.C. Ireland 23 May 1820; archbishop of Armagh and
primate of all Ireland 17 June 1822; vice chancellor of Univ. of
Dublin 1829, chancellor 19 Nov. 1851; founded the chair of
Ecclesiastical history 1853; gave £6000 to college of St. Columba;
restored Armagh cathedral at expense of nearly £30,000. _d._
Woburn near Donaghadee 18 July 1862. _bur._ in crypt of Armagh
cathedral 30 July. _Creasy’s Memoirs of eminent Etonians new ed._
1876, 568–89; _I.L.N. xli_, 128, 138 (1862), _portrait_; _Dublin
Univ. Mag. xvi_, 86–89 (1840), _portrait_.

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

BERESFORD, MARCUS (_2 son of Hon. George Beresford 1776–1842_). _b._
28 July 1800; 2 lieut. 21 Foot 4 Sep. 1817; lieut. col. 3 Foot 25
Dec. 1835 to 13 May 1842 when placed on h.p.; colonel 20 Foot 22
Sep. 1858 to death; general 4 March 1866. _d._ Leamington 16 March
1876.