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BIGSBY, JOHN JEREMIAH (_eld. son of John Bigsby of Nottingham,
physician 1760–1844_). _b._ Nottingham; baptised at St. Peter’s
church 14 Aug. 1792; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1814; assistant
surgeon in the army 14 March 1816; physician at Newark 1827–46;
lived in London 1846 to death; F.G.S. 1823, Murchison medallist
1874, founded Bigsby gold medal 1877; F.R.G.S. 1850; F.R.S. 3 June
1869; author of _The shoe and canoe, or pictures of travel in the
Canadas 2 vols._ 1850; _Thesaurus Siluricus the flora and fauna of
the Silurian period_ 1868; _Thesaurus Devonico-Carboniferus the
flora and fauna of the Devonian and Carboniferous periods_ 1878.
_d._ 89 Gloucester place, Portman sq. London 10 Feb. 1881.
_Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxxvii_, 39–41 (1881).

BIGSBY, ROBERT (_only son of Robert Bigsby 1764–1825, registrar of
archdeaconry of Nottingham_). _b._ Castle gate, Nottingham 11
April 1806; ed. at Repton school; a virtuoso or collector of
relics and memorials of illustrious characters; author of _The
triumph of Drake, a poem_ 1839; _Miscellaneous poems and essays_
1842; _Visions of the times of old, or the antiquarian enthusiast
3 vols._ 1848; _Ombo, a dramatic romance in 12 acts_ 1853;
_Historical and topographical description of Repton_ 1854;
_Irminsula, or the great pillar, a mythological research_ 1864;
_Memoir of the order of St. John of Jerusalem_ 1869 and 10 other
books; granted civil list pension of £100 16 Jany. 1860; member of
order of St. John of Jerusalem; F.S.A., F.R.S.; a knight of St.
James of Portugal. _d._ 4 Beaufort terrace, Peckham Rye, London 27
Sep. 1873. _The Freemason 18 Oct. 1873 p._ 677.

BILBY, THOMAS. _b._ Southampton 1794; musical composer; best known
as composer of the hymn tune called “Joyful.” _d._ Islington,
London 24 Sep. 1872.

BILLER, GEORGE. _b._ 20 Nov. 1811; solicitor in London; wrote many
letters to _The Church Advocate_ and other papers on Priestly
Absolution; author of _Rhymes, reasons and recollections from the
common-place books of a Sexagenarian_ 1876; _A few suggestions on
Prayer book reform_ 1878. _d._ 43 Agate road, Hammersmith 24 April
1885.

BILLING, ARCHIBALD (_son of Theodore Billing of Cromlyn, co.
Dublin_). _b._ Cromlyn 10 Jany. 1791; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub.,
B.A. 1811, M.B. 1814, M.A. and M.D. 1818; incorporated M.D. at
Oxford 22 Oct. 1818; physician in London 1818 to death; F.R.C.P.
22 Dec. 1819, Censor 1823, Consiliarius 1852 and 1855–57; the
first in London to organise a system of practical teaching at the
bedside and to give it full effect by regular clinical lectures;
physician to London Hospital 2 July 1822 to 4 June 1845; member of
senate of Univ. of London 1836 to death; F.R.S. 6 June 1844;
author of _First principles of medicine_ 1831, _6 ed._ 1868; _On
the treatment of Asiatic cholera_ 1848; _Practical observations on
diseases of the lungs and heart_ 1852; _The science of gems,
jewels, coins and medals_ 1867. _d._ 34 Park lane, London 2 Sep.
1881. _Medical Circular i_, 243–45 (1852), _portrait_; _I.L.N.
lxxix_, 272 (1881), _portrait_; _Graphic xxiv_, 389 (1881),
_portrait_.

BILLING, RICHARD ANNESLEY. _b._ 1814; called to bar in Ireland Nov.
1839; practised at Dublin; admitted to bar at Melbourne 23 Oct.
1856; lecturer in law at Melbourne Univ.; Q.C. 1878; county court
judge for western division of Victoria April 1882 to death. _d._
Melbourne 21 June 1882.

BILLINGE, MARY (_dau. of Charles Billinge of Eccleston near
Prescot_). _b._ Eccleston 6 Nov. 1772. _d._ Edge lane, Liverpool
20 Dec. 1863 aged 91, but generally reputed to be 112 and so
recorded in the 26th report of the Registrar General. _W. J.
Thoms’s Human longevity_ (1873) 34–37, 105–13.

BILLINGS, ELKANAH (_2 son of Bradish Billings, of Gloucester near
Ottawa, then called Bytown, farmer_). _b._ Gloucester 5 May 1820;
ed. at Ottawa and Potsdam in state of New York; admitted attorney
at Toronto 1844; called to bar at Toronto 1845; practised at
Ottawa 1845–48, and at Renfrew 1849–52; edited the _Citizen_ paper
at Ottawa 1852–55; palæontologist to Geological survey of Canada
at Montreal 1 Aug. 1856 to death; visited Europe 1858; F.G.S.
April 1858; published the _Canadian Naturalist_ Feb. 1856, edited
the first vol. and wrote 55 out of the 63 papers in it;
contributed to _Silliman’s Journal_; presented his fine collection
of Star fishes, Cystideans and Crinoids to museum of Geological
survey of Canada. _d._ Montreal 14 June 1876. _Canadian Naturalist
viii_, 251–61 (1878); _Quarterly journal of Geol. Soc. xxxiii_,
48–50 (1877).

BILLINGS, ROBERT WILLIAM. _b._ London 1813; pupil of John Britton,
topographical draughtsman 1813–20; illustrated Godwin’s _History
of St. Paul’s Cathedral_ 1837; _Illustrations of the Temple
Church, London_, 1838; _Baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of
Scotland 240 illustrations 4 vols._ 1845–52; restored the chapel
of Edinburgh Castle; built Castle Wemyss, Renfrewshire. _d._ The
Moulinère, Putney, Surrey 14 Nov. 1874. _Builder xxxii_, 982, 1035
(1874).

BILLINGTON, WILLIAM (_son of a contractor for road making_). _b._
the Yew Trees, Samlesbury near Blackburn 1827; worked in cotton
mills at Blackburn 1839; a beerseller at Blackburn; wrote a ballad
called _Th’ Shurat Weyvur_ 14,000 copies of which were sold at
time of Lancashire cotton famine; author of _Sheen and shade_
1861; _Lancashire poems with other sketches_ 1883, some copies of
which have a _portrait_ of him. _d._ 2 Bradshaw st. Blackburn 3
Jany. 1884 aged 56.

BINDLEY, CHARLES. _b._ 1796; author of following books all written
under pseudonym of Harry Hieover; _Stable talk and table talk, 2
vols._ 1845–46, _portrait_; _The pocket and the stud_ 1848,
_portrait_; _The stud for practical purposes and practical men_
1849; _Practical horsemanship_ 1850; _The hunting field_ 1850;
_Bipeds and quadrupeds_ 1853; _Sporting facts and sporting
fancies_ 1853; _The world how to square it_ 1854; _Hints to
horsemen_ 1856; _Precept and practice_ 1857; _The sportsman’s
friend in a frost_ 1857; _The sporting world_ 1858 and _Things
worth knowing about horses_ 1859. _d._ at house of Sir Thomas
Barrett-Lennard, 7 Lewes crescent, Brighton 12 Feb. 1859.

BINDON, SAMUEL HENRY. _b._ Ireland 1812; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin,
B.A. 1835; called to Irish bar Nov. 1838; practised at Dublin;
went out to Victoria 1855; called to bar at Melbourne 22 May 1855;
member of legislative assembly of Victoria 1864–69; minister of
justice 1866–1869; county court judge at Sale, Victoria 1869 to
death except a short time, during which the Berry ministry took
all the judges of county courts off the bench, the day when this
was done 9 Jany. 1878 was known as _Black Wednesday_; had a
prominent share in establishment of technological classes in large
places. _d._ Melbourne 1 Aug. 1879 in 67 year.

BINFIELD, JOHN BILSON (_son of Mr. Binfield of Reading, organist who
d. 1839_). _b._ Reading 1805; organist of St. Giles’s church
Reading many years; author of _The choral service of the Church_
1846; editor and compiler of _The Reading psalmody_ 1847; set Dean
Milman’s _Martyr of Antioch_ to music. _d._ Devizes 28 June 1875.

BINGE, JOHN BULL (_son of a Sheffield cutler_). First appeared in
London May 1839 at Strand theatre in Lee’s adaptation of Auber’s
opera _The fairy lake_; sang at Covent Garden theatre 1840–42;
known as The singing mouse from his small voice; kept a toyshop in
the Lowther Arcade; sec. to Covent Garden theatrical fund 1869 to
death. _d._ New Malden, Surrey 21 Nov. 1878 aged about 63.

BINGHAM, CHARLES. _b._ 1 June 1815; 2 lieut. R.A. 20 June 1832;
brigade major at Woolwich 1849–54; deputy adjutant general to R.A.
1 April 1858 to death; colonel R.A. 20 Jany. 1863 to death. (_m._
13 March 1841 Williamina Henrietta dau. of John Mackintosh, M.D.
of Edinburgh, she was granted a civil list pension of £150, 19
June 1865). _d._ Brighton 6 April 1864.

BINGHAM, REV. CHARLES WILLIAM (_youngest son of Rev. Wm. Bingham
1771–1810, R. of Cameley, Somerset_). _b._ 28 Sep. 1810; ed. at
New coll. Ox., fellow, B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; V. of Sydling St.
Nicholas Dorset 1838–46; R. of Melcombe Horsey, Dorset 23 Feb.
1842 to death; preb. of Salisbury 1876 to death; author of
_Commentaries on the four last books of the Pentateuch translated
from the Latin of John Calvin 4 vols._ 1852–55; a frequent
contributor to _Notes and Queries_ 1850 to death. _d._ Bingham’s
Melcombe 1 Dec. 1881.

BINGHAM, HENRY. Second lieut. 60 Rifles 30 April 1827, lieut. col.
19 June 1857 to 1865; inspecting field officer 1865–70; M.G. 6
March 1868. _d._ Wolverton house, co. Dublin 1 Oct. 1878.

BINGHAM, PEREGRINE (_elder son of Rev. Peregrine Bingham 1754–1826,
R. of Edmundesham, Dorset_). _b._ 1788; ed. at Winchester and
Magd. coll. Ox., B.A. 1810; barrister M.T. 27 Nov. 1818; recorder
of Southampton 5 Nov. 1830 to July 1840; contested Southampton 9
Jany. 1835; police magistrate at Worship st. London 1841, at Great
Marlborough st. 1846–60; lived at 35 Gordon square, London 1842 to
death; author of _The law and practice of judgments and
executions_ 1815; _The law of infancy and coverture_ 1816; _A
system of shorthand_ 1821; _Reports of cases in Court of Common
Pleas and other courts 10 vols._ 1824–34; _New cases in the Court
of Common Pleas and other courts 6 vols._ 1835–41; one of chief
contributors to _Westminster Review_, wrote 5 articles in the
first number Jany. 1824. _d._ 35 Gordon sq. London 1 Nov. 1864.

BINGHAM, REV. RICHARD (_son of Rev. Isaac Moody Bingham, R. of
Runwell, Essex who d. 1807_). _b._ 1 April 1765; ed. at Winchester
and New coll. Ox., fellow, B.A. 1787, B.C.L. 1801; P.C. of Trinity
church, Gosport 1790 to death; V. of Great Hale, Lincs. 1796 to
death; preb. of Chichester cathedral 22 July 1807 to death;
sentenced to 6 months imprisonment in county gaol at Winchester 26
Nov. 1813 for having illegally obtained a license for a public
house when no such house was in existence; published by
subscription third ed. of Joseph Bingham’s _Origines
Ecclesiasticæ_ 1829. _d._ Newhouse, Gosport 18 July 1858.
_Proceedings in a trial, the King against Rev. Richard Bingham_
1814.

BINGHAM, REV. RICHARD (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ 1798; ed.
at Magd. hall Ox., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1827; C. of Trinity church,
Gosport 1821–43; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Harwood, Bolton 1844–52; C. of
St. Mary’s Marylebone 1853–56; P.C. of Queenborough, Kent 1856–70;
edited _The works of the Rev. Joseph Bingham 10 vols., Clarendon
Press Oxford_ 1855; author of _Liturgia Recusa or suggestions for
revising the services of the United church of England and Ireland_
1860; _Liturgiæ recusæ exemplar, The Prayer book as it might be_
1863; _The Gospel according to Isaiah_ 1870; _Hymnologia
Christiana Latina_ 1871. _d._ Sutton, Surrey 22 Jany. 1872.

BINGHAM, RICHARD CAMDEN. _b._ 2 May 1801; chargé d´affaires at
Venezuela 23 Nov. 1852 to 31 Aug. 1858. _d._ 23 Jany. 1872.

BINNEY, EDWARD WILLIAM. _b._ Morton, Notts. 1812; solicitor at
Manchester 1836; conducted the case for the Claimant in the great
Chadwick law suit Nov. 1847; a paraffin oil manufacturer in
Scotland; chief founder and sec. of Manchester geological society
Oct. 1838, pres. 1857–59 and 1865–67, contributed 33 papers to the
Transactions 1839–72; member of Manchester literary and
philosophical society Jan. 1842, president to death; F.G.S. 1853,
F.R.S. 5 June 1856; possessed the most exact knowledge of coal
fields of Lancashire and Cheshire and of the geology of the whole
district. _d._ Cheetham hill, Manchester 19 Dec. 1881. _Trans. of
Geol. Soc. of Manchester xvi_, 256–59 (1882); _Proc. of Manchester
Lit. and Philos. Soc. xxi_, 142–48 (1882).

BINNEY, REV. THOMAS. _b._ Newcastle-on-Tyne April 1798; apprenticed
to Mr. Angas of Newcastle, bookseller 1813–20; ed. at Wymondley
college Herts 1820–23; minister of the New meeting, Bedford 1823;
minister of St. James’s st. chapel Newport, Isle of Wight Aug.
1824 to July 1829; ordained 29 Dec. 1824; minister of King’s
Weighhouse Chapel Eastcheap, London July 1829 to 4 July 1869,
where foundation stone of new chapel was laid 16 Oct. 1833; went
to the United States and Canada 1845 and to Australia 1857; LLD.
Univ. of Aberdeen 1852; chairman of Congregational Union of
England and Wales 1848; founded the Colonial Missionary Society
1836; author of _Illustrations of the practical power of faith_
1830, _3 ed._ 1856; _Conscientious clerical nonconformity_ 1839,
_5 ed._ 1860; _Is it possible to make the best of both worlds, a
book for young men_ 1853, this book sold at the rate of 100 a day
for many months, it was translated into several languages; _St.
Paul his life and ministry_ 1866; author of three Letters under
pseud. of _Fiat Justitia_ 1831, and of _The Great Gorham case_
1850, and several other pamphlets under pseud. of _John Search_;
author of a pamphlet called _Leicester Gaol by A. Balance, Esq. of
the Middle Temple_ 1841. _d._ Doric lodge, High road, Upper
Clapton 24 Feb. 1874. _Sermons by T. Binney second series, edited
by Henry Allon_ (1875) _xiii-lxvi_, _portrait_; _A memorial of the
late Rev. T. Binney, edited by Rev. J. Stoughton_ 1874; _T.
Binney, his mind, life and opinions by Rev. E. P. Hood_ 1874; _The
lamps of the temple 3 ed._ (1865) 146–87; _Contemporary Review
xxiii_, 884–97 (1874); _Graphic ix_, 218 (1874), _portrait_. He is
introduced as Canon Burney into the novels called _The master of
Marton_ 1864 and _Diary of a novelist_ 1870 _by Eliza Tabor_.

BINNS, EDWARD. M.D.; author of _The anatomy of sleep or the art of
procuring sound and refreshing slumber at will_ 1842; _Prodromus
towards a philosophical inquiry into the intellectual powers of
the negro_ 1844. _d._ Lucca, Jamaica 10 Feb. 1851.

BINNS, JOHN (_son of Mr. Binns of Dublin, ironmonger who d. 1774_).
_b._ Dublin 22 Dec. 1772; apprenticed to a soapboiler 1786; a
member of the London Corresponding Society 1794 which became the
greatest political association in Great Britain, chairman of its
general committee 6 months in 1795; connected with the United
Irishmen; left London for France 21 Feb. 1798 but arrested at
Margate 27 Feb. and after an examination by the Privy Council
committed to Tower of London; tried for high treason at Maidstone
May 1798 when acquitted; confined in Clerkenwell prison, then in
Gloucester prison till March 1801; sailed for America July 1801;
started a newspaper called _The Republican Argus_ at
Northumberland, Pennsylvania March 1802; edited at Philadelphia
March 1807 to 1829 _Democratic Press_ which soon became leading
paper in the state; alderman of Philadelphia Dec. 1822 to 1844.
_d._ Philadelphia 16 June 1860. _Recollections of the life of John
Binns_ 1854, _portrait_.

BINNS, THOMAS. Head master of the Friends’ school, Grove house,
Tottenham 1828; member of Committee of British and Foreign Bible
Society 1852–68, chairman of the Editorial Sub-Committee. _d._
Rockley near Bristol 2 Dec. 1872 aged 74. _Annual Monitor for
1874_ 6–10.

BINSTEAD, CHEESMAN HENRY. _b._ 1797; entered navy 10 June 1810;
agent for transports afloat 1828–34; captain 7 March 1853; retired
V.A. 30 July 1875. _d._ South parade, Wakefield 26 Nov. 1876.

BINYON, EDWARD. _b._ Manchester 1828; landscape painter both in oil
and water colours; contributed to exhibitions of Royal Academy and
Dudley Gallery 1857–76; his picture ‘The bay of Mentone’ has
frequently been reproduced; lived in island of Capri many years.
_d._ 5 Via Piazza, Capri 18 July 1876.

BIRCH, REV. HENRY MILDRED (_eld. son of Rev. Wm. Henry Rous Birch,
R. of Southwold, Suffolk_). _b._ Bedfield rectory, Suffolk 1820;
ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Cam., scholar 1839, Craven scholar
1841, B.A. 1843, M.A. 1846; fellow of his college 1843, members
prizeman 1844; assistant master at Eton; tutor to Prince of Wales
6 Aug. 1848 to 1851; R. of Prestwich, Lancs. 1852–84; chaplain in
ordinary to the Queen 27 Feb. 1852; B.D. Lambeth 1862; hon.
chaplain to Prince of Wales 16 Feb. 1863; canon of Ripon 29 June
1868 to death; proctor in convocation 1868, 1874 and 1880 to
death, _d._ St. Leonard’s lodge, Windsor 29 June 1884. _I.L.N.
xlii_, 456 (1863), _portrait_.

BIRCH, JAMES WHEELER WOODFORD (_eld. son of Rev. James Wheeler
Birch, V. of All Saint’s, Hertford_). member of Ceylon civil
service 1846–70; colonial sec. of the Straits Settlements May
1870; British resident in Malay state of Perak Nov. 1874 to death;
assassinated by the Malays at Perak 2 Nov. 1875.

BIRCH, JOHN FRANCIS. Second lieut. R.A. 18 Sep. 1793; second lieut.
R.E. 1 Jany. 1794, colonel R.E. 29 July 1825, colonel commandant
19 Oct. 1847 to death; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831; general 20 June 1854;
served in Flanders, Holland, Egypt and Spain. _d._ Folkestone 29
May 1856 aged 79.

BIRCH, SIR RICHARD JAMES HOLWELL (_son of Richard Comyns Birch, of
Bengal civil service_). _b._ Calcutta 1803; entered Bengal army
1821; studied at Trin. coll. Cam. 1823–24; judge advocate general
to the forces in Bengal 1841–52; military secretary to government
of India 1854 to 31 Dec. 1861 when he retired; M.G. 4 May 1858;
C.B. 5 June 1849, K.C.B. 18 May 1860. _d._ Venice 25 Feb. 1875.
_I.L.N. lxvi_, 259 (1875).

BIRCH, ROBERT HENRY. _b._ 1771; second lieut. R.A. 9 March 1795;
colonel 10 Jany. 1837 to 9 Nov. 1846, col. commandant 12 Aug. 1849
to death; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846. _d._ Dublin 29 June 1851.

BIRCH, SAMUEL (_eld. son of Rev. Samuel Birch, R. of St. Mary
Woolnoth, City of London who d. 1848_). _b._ London 3 Nov. 1813;
ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school 1826–31; employed in Public record
office 1834; assistant in department of Antiquities of British
Museum Jany. 1836, assistant keeper 1844; keeper of the Oriental
Mediæval and British antiquities and Ethnographical collections
1861 to death; corresponding member of Archæological Institute of
Rome 1839, of Berlin Academy 1851, of Academy of inscriptions of
French Institute 1861; LLD. St. Andrews 1862; determined the
ancient Cypriote to be a Greek language 1872; presided over
Congress of Orientalists held in London 14 Sep. 1874; received
German order of the Crown Nov. 1874; Rede lecturer Univ. of Cam.
for 1876; LLD. Cam. 1875; hon. fellow of Queen’s coll. Ox. 1875;
D.C.L. Ox. 1876; author of _Gallery of antiquities_ 1842;
_Introduction to the study of hieroglyphics_ 1857; _History of
ancient pottery_ 1857, _2 ed._ 1873; edited _Records of the past
12 vols._ 1873–77; _The manners and customs of the ancient
Egyptians by Sir J. G. Wilkinson_, _new ed. 3 vols._ 1878. _d._ 64
Caversham road, Kentish Town, London 27 Dec. 1885. _Times 29 Dec.
1885 p._ 8, _col._ 3; _Athenæum 2 Jany. 1886 pp._ 34–35; _Dublin
Univ. Mag. xc_, 53–60 (1877), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxxviii_, 64
(1886), _portrait_.

BIRCH, SYLVESTER DOUGLAS. A writer in Madras civil service 1830;
secretary and treasurer of Bank of Madras 1843; accountant general
at Bombay, pres. of the mint committee and government director of
Bank of Bombay 1859 to 28 Feb. 1865 when he retired on an annuity.
_d._ San Remo, Italy 4 Feb. 1881.

BIRCH, SIR THOMAS BERNARD, 2 Baronet. _b._ 18 March 1791; succeeded
22 Aug. 1833; sheriff of Lancs. 1841; M.P. for Liverpool 30 July
1847 to 1 July 1852. _d._ The Hazles Prescot near Liverpool 3
March 1880.

BIRCH, THOMAS JACOB (_2 son of Wyrley Birch of Wretham hall near
Thetford, Norfolk 1781–1866_). _b._ 15 Oct. 1806; ed. at Eton and
Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; barrister I.T. 18 Nov.
1831; recorder of Thetford March 1839 to Dec. 1866; judge of
Norfolk county courts (circuit 32) March 1847 to death. _d._
Ballycroy, Mayo 26 April 1868.

BIRCHALL, REV. JOSEPH (_son of John Birchall of Prescot,
watchmaker_). _b._ Prescot 1805; ed. at Manchester school and
Brasn. Coll. Ox., Somerset scholar 1825, B.A. 1828, M.A. 1830; C.
of Newbury, Berks. 1831–38; R. of Church, Lancashire 1840 to
death; proctor in Convocation for Archd. of Manchester; author of
_Occasional Sermons_ 1840; _Ecclesiastical Synods_ 1868. _d._
Church rectory 27 Oct. 1878.

BIRCHAM, FRANCIS THOMAS (_youngest son of Samuel Bircham of Booton
hall, Norfolk_). _b._ Booton hall 1810; admitted solicitor 1833;
practised in London to 1882; solicitor to London and South Western
railway 1834–82; pres. of Incorporated law society 1874–75. _d._
Burhill near Walton-on-Thames 25 Nov. 1883. Personalty sworn
upward of £161,000 3 March 1884; his correct name was Thomas
Francis Bircham, but he always called himself Francis Thomas
Bircham.

BIRD, REV. CHARLES SMITH (_5 child of William Bird of Liverpool,
West Indian Merchant, who d. 1814_). _b._ Union st. Liverpool 28
May 1795; articled to Stanistreet and Eden of Liverpool,
solicitors Feb. 1812, released from articles 1814; entered Trin.
coll. Cam. 1816, scholar 1818, 3 Wr. and 2 Smith’s prizeman 1820,
Fell. of his coll. Sep. 1820; C. of Burghfield, Berks. 1823–44;
took pupils 1823–44; F.L.S. 4 March 1828; C. of Sulhamstead 1840;
V. of Gainsborough 1843–59; preb. of Lincoln 16 June 1843;
chancellor of Lincoln June 1859 to death, instituted and installed
16 July 1859; edited a monthly periodical called _The Reading
church guardian_ 1839–40; author of _For ever and other devotional
poems_ 1833; _Transubstantiation tried by Scripture and reason_
1839; _The baptismal privileges, the baptismal vow, and the means
of grace considered in 6 Lent lectures_ 1841, _2 ed._ 1843; _The
eve of the Crucifixion_ 1858. _d._ The Chancery, Lincoln 9 Nov.
1862. _Sketches from the life of Rev. Charles S. Bird by Rev.
Claude S. Bird_ (1864), _portrait_.

BIRD, EDWARD JOSEPH (_son of Rev. Godfrey Bird, R. of Little
Waltham, Essex_). Entered navy 9 Sep. 1812; attempted to reach
North Pole from Spitzbergen in the Hecla 1825, penetrated a little
beyond 82° 45´ a latitude more northern than had ever been
attained; 1 lieut. of the Erebus in Antarctic expedition 1839–43;
captain of the Investigator 1848–49; admiral on h.p. 11 Dec. 1875.
_d._ The Wilderness, Witham 3 Dec. 1881 in 83 year.

BIRD, FREDERIC. _b._ Colchester 23 Jany. 1818; ed. at Guy’s
Hospital; surgeon in Craven st. Strand 1841; performed operation
of ovariotomy for ovarian dropsy 26 June 1843, being one of the
pioneers of that treatment; lectured on forensic medicine at
Westminster Hospital, obstetric physician there 1861; phys. to the
Maternity Charity; edited _Provincial (now British) Medical
Journal_. _d._ 13 Grosvenor st. London 28 April 1874. _Medical
Circular i_, 229 (1852); _Medical times and gazette i_, 519
(1874).

BIRD, GEORGE. Writer Madras civil service 1821; judge and criminal
judge of Canara 1835–38 and 1839–42; civil and session judge
Coimbatore 1844–47 and 1850–51; resigned the service 25 Feb. 1851.
_d._ England 20 July 1880.

BIRD, GOLDING. _b._ Downham, Norfolk 9 Dec. 1814; studied at Guy’s
hospital London 1832; lecturer on natural philosophy there
1836–43; L.S.A. 21 Jany. 1836, M.D. St. Andrews 24 April 1838
being only place where a degree could be obtained without
residing, M.A. 18 April 1840; physician to Finsbury dispensary
1838–43; L.R.C.P. 1840, F.R.C.P. 1845; assistant phys. at Guy’s
hospital and lecturer on materia medica 1843 to 4 Aug. 1853;
F.L.S. 1836, F.R.S. 22 Jany. 1846; author of _The elements of
natural philosophy_ 1839, _6 ed._ 1867; _Urinary deposits their
diagnosis pathology and therapeutical indications_ 1844, _5 ed._
1857. _d._ Camden park, Tunbridge Wells 27 Oct. 1854.
_Biographical sketch by J. H. Balfour_ 1855; _Medical Circular
iii_, 129 (1853), _portrait_.

BIRD, JAMES. Ed. at King’s college Aberdeen 1810, M.A. 1814;
apprenticed to his maternal uncle Dr. Scott of Elgin 1812–15;
studied at Guy’s and St. Thomas’s hospitals; M.R.C.S. Sep. 1816;
assistant surgeon H.E.I. Co’s. Bombay service 2 Aug. 1818;
residency surgeon at Sattara 1826–32; superintending surgeon of
Belgaum division of the army 1840–43 and of Presidency division
1843–44; physician general to Bombay medical board 1844 to 1 Dec.
1847 when he retired. _d._ Fern acre lodge, Gerrards Cross, Bucks.
10 July 1864 aged 67.

BIRD, JAMES. Solicitor in London; coroner for West Middlesex 9 July
1862 to death. _d._ Phœnix lodge, Brook Green, Hammersmith 7 Jany.
1868.

BIRD, JAMES. _b._ Cardiff Feb. 1802; ed. at St. Bartholomew’s
hospital; L.S.A. 1821, M.R.C.S. 1825; surgeon at Cardiff 1825–32;
surgeon in London 1832 to 1856; joint sec. with Henry Ancell to
the British medical association; author of _Private devotions for
girls_ 1874. _d._ 80 Seymour st. Portman sq. London 4 June 1874.
_Medical Circular i_, 263 (1852).

BIRD, REV. JOHN. _b._ Betchworth, Surrey 14 Sep. 1783; ed. at
Stonyhurst college; ordained priest 10 Dec. 1808; professed of the
4 vows 2 Feb. 1819; rector of St. Aloysius’ college 26 June 1832
to 18 May 1839 and 15 Sep. 1841; missioner at Pontefract 1842–48;
superior of St. George’s Residence, Worcester Nov. 1850 to death.
_d._ 8 June 1853.

BIRD, LOUIS SAUNDERS. Ensign Bengal Infantry 26 Nov. 1808; col. 23
Bengal N.I. 17 April 1856–1869; L.G. 22 Feb. 1870. _d._ Clevedon,
Somerset 17 April 1874 aged 81.

BIRD, ROBERT MERTTINS. _b._ 1788; Bengal civil servant; assistant to
registrar of Court of Sadr Diwàni Adàlat at Calcutta 9 Nov. 1808;
comr. of revenue and circuit for the Gorakhpur division 1829;
member of board of revenue at Allahabad 1832; revised settlement
of land revenue of North western provinces 1833–41, the most
complete settlement that had yet been made in India; retired to
England 1842; active member of committee of the Church Missionary
Society. _d._ Torquay 22 Aug. 1853. _Dict. of nat. biog. v_, 78
(1886).

BIRD, ROBERT NICHOLAS. Ensign 20 Foot 30 Aug. 1859; lieut. 2 Dec.
1862 to death; murdered by Japanese at Kamahura about 17 miles
from Yokohama 21 Nov. 1864. _R. Lindau’s Erzählungen und Novellen
i_, 15–54 (1871); _F. O. Adams’s History of Japan i_, 485–98
(1874), _ii_, 1–5 (1875).

BIRD, WILLIAM WILBERFORCE (_eld. son of Wm. Wilberforce Bird of the
Spring, Kenilworth, M.P. for Coventry_). _b._ 1784; ed. at Warwick
and Geneva; writer in H.E.I. Co.’s civil service at Calcutta 11
July 1803; third ordinary member of council of India 21 March
1838; senior member of board of customs salt and opium and of the
marine board 17 Sep. 1838; deputy governor of Bengal 4 times;
pres. of the council 1840–44; governor general of India 15 June
1844 to 23 July 1844; very instrumental in abolition of suttee and
suppression of slavery; retired to England 1844. _d._ 22 Sussex
sq. Hyde Park, London 1 June 1857.

BIRDWOOD, CHRISTOPHER. _b._ 1806; ensign 3 Bombay N.I. 3 May 1825;
commissariat officer of Malwa field force 1839–41; colonel Bombay
staff corps 9 Nov. 1868; general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ Pucklechurch
near Bristol 4 July 1882 in 76 year. _Graphic xxvi_, 221 (1882),
_portrait_.

BIRKETT, REV. GEORGE WILLIAM. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam.,
scholar, B.A. 1823, M.A. 1827; V. of St. Florence near Tenby 1829
to death; author of _The trial of creation and other poems_ 1848.
_d._ Tenby 26 Nov. 1877 aged 78.

BIRKIN, RICHARD (_eld. son of Richard Birkin of Belper, calico
weaver_). _b._ Belper 6 July 1805; lace manufacturer at New
Basford, Nottingham with Mr. Biddle 1826–47; juror on behalf of
Nottingham for lace goods in International Exhibitions 1851 and
1862; mayor of Nottingham 1850, 55, 62 and 63; used mohair as a
material for lace being the first to do so either in England or
France. _d._ Aspley hall, Radford, Nottingham 10 Oct. 1870. _J. B.
Robinson’s Derbyshire gatherings_ (1866) 70–72, _portrait_; _W.
Felkin’s History of hosiery_ (1867) 368–71.

BIRKINSHAW, JOHN CASS. _b._ Bedlington iron works Durham 1811; the
first articled pupil of Robert Stephenson at Newcastle; engineer
of London end of London and Birmingham railway 1835; engineer of
Birmingham and Derby railway 1837–42; engineer of many railways
projected but not made; engineer of Danish land company 1865;
M.I.C.E. 2 March 1847; took out a patent 1820 for wrought or
malleable iron rails instead of cast iron as used up to that time.
_d._ March 1867 in 56 year. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E.
xxxi_, 202–207 (1871).

BIRKS, REV. THOMAS RAWSON (_younger son of Mr. Birks of Staveley,
Derbyshire, farmer_). _b._ Staveley 28 Sep. 1810; ed. at
Chesterfield, Mill Hill and Trin. coll. Cam., scholar, fellow
1834–44, 2 wrangler and 2 Smith’s prizemen Jany. 1834; R. of
Kelshall, Herts 1844 to 1864; hon. sec. to Evangelical Alliance
1850–71; P.C. of Holy Trinity Cam. 1865–77; hon. canon of Ely
cathedral 1871 to death; professor of moral theology, casuistical
divinity and moral philosophy at Cambridge 30 April 1872 to death;
published an edition of Paley’s _Horæ Paulinæ_ with notes and a
supplementary treatise entitled _Horæ Apostolicæ_ 1850; author of
_Horæ Evangelicæ_ 1852; _The Bible and modern thought_ 1861;
_Commentary on the book of Isaiah_ 1871, _2 ed._ 1878; _First
principles of moral science_ 1873; _Modern Utilitarianism_ 1874;
_Supernatural revelation_ 1879 and many other books. _d._ 6
Salisbury villas, Cambridge 19 July 1883. _Record 27 July 1883 p._
741.

BIRLEY, HUGH. _b._ Blackburn 21 Oct. 1817; ed. at Winchester; a
partner in firm of Macintosh and Co. india-rubber manufacturers;
chairman of National educational union; M. P. for Manchester 1868
to death. _d._ Moorland, Withington, Manchester 9 Sep. 1883.

BIRMINGHAM, JOHN. _b._ 1816; lived at Millbrook near Tuam;
discovered a remarkable new star in Corona Borealis 12 May 1866;
author of _Catalogue of red stars_ in _Transactions of Royal Irish
Academy xxvi_, 249 (1879); Cunningham medallist of the Academy
1884; discovered 22 May 1881 a deep red star in Cygnus which
proved strikingly variable and became known by his name; author of
a small poetical work entitled _Anglicania or England’s mission to
the Celt_ 1863. _d._ Millbrook 7 Sep. 1884.

BIRMINGHAM, VERY REV. PATRICK. Dean of the lay college and professor
of humanity Carlow college 1851 to July 1854 when he went to
Australia; vice pres. and professor of theology at Carlow college
Sep. 1864 to July 1871 when he went again to Australia. _d._
Fitzroy sq. London 9 Sep. 1883.

BIRNIE, ALEXANDER. _b._ Morayshire 1826; a baptist minister at
Preston; walked to Falkirk 1860; a painter at the Carron works
Falkirk; wrote articles in _Falkirk Advertiser_ under signature of
Cock of the Steeple; started the _Falkirk Liberal_ a penny weekly
paper 1861 which soon collapsed; having been without food or drink
for a fortnight, he entered the workhouse Morpeth where he _d._
March 1862.

BIRRELL, DAVID. _b._ 15 Sep. 1800; entered Bengal army 1817;
commanded a brigade at battle of Sobraon 10 Feb. 1846; lieut. col.
51 N.I. 1851, of 52 N.I. 1852 and of 72 N.I. 1857 to 1858; M.G. 25
April 1858; general 23 July 1876. _d._ 28 Oct. 1878.

BIRT, WILLIAM RADCLIFF. _b._ 15 July 1804; employed by Sir John
Herschel in the reduction and arrangement of his barometric
observations; investigated subject of atmospheric waves for the
British Association; reduced and discussed electrical observations
made at Kew 1848; F.R.A.S. 14 Jany. 1859; the first pres. of the
Selenographical society 1877 or 1878 to death; author of
_Hurricane and Sailor’s guide_ 1850; _Handbook of the law of
storms_ 1854, _new ed._ 1878. _d._ Leytonstone, Essex 14 Dec.
1881. _Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xlii_, 142–43
(1882).

BIRTWHISTLE, JOHN. Ensign 32 Foot 14 April 1813; major 19 Jany. 1839
to 12 March 1841 when placed on h.p; M.G. 28 Aug. 1865. _d._
Cheltenham 6 Oct. 1867 aged 75.

BISHOP, ANNE (_dau. of Daniel Riviére of London, artist_). _b._
London 1814; student at Royal academy of music June 1824 to June
1828; a singer at Philharmonic concerts 1831; one of chief singers
at Vauxhall gardens, the Oratorio concerts and country festivals;
went abroad with R. N. C. Bochsa the harpist 1839; sang at 260
concerts in chief cities of Europe Sept. 1839 to May 1843; sang
with great success at St. Petersburg 1840–41 and in Italy 1843–46;
appeared in 20 operas at the San Carlo, Naples; went to America
1846 where she appeared at Park theatre New York 4 Aug. 1847 as
Linda; went to Australia 1855; sang at the Crystal palace London
1858; gave her farewell concert at Surrey music hall 17 Aug. 1859;
sang in Canada, Mexico and Havana 1859–65; went to California
1865; wrecked on her way from Honolulu to China Feb. 1866; arrived
in India 1867; sang in Australia 1868; re-appeared at Steinway
hall New York Jany. 1881. (_m._ (1) 1832 Sir Henry Rowley Bishop
1786–1855. _m._ (2) at New York 30 April 1858, Martin Schultz).
_d._ New York 18 March 1884. _Drawing room portrait gallery of
eminent personages, third series_ 1860, _portrait_; _N. P.
Willis’s Hurry-graphs, 2 ed._ (1851) 200–203.

BISHOP, REV. DANIEL GODFREY. Head master of Buntingford gr. sch.
Herts. 1841–74; V. of Tibshelf near Alfreton, Derbyshire 1874 to
death; author of numerous articles upon biblical criticism,
classical literature, and general biography in _Penny Cyclopædia_.
_d._ Briston vicarage, Norfolk 14 April 1880 in 86 year.

BISHOP, REV. FRANCIS. _b._ Dorchester 27 July 1813; Unitarian
minister at Cheltenham 1840, at Warrington 1841, at George’s
meeting Exeter 1844–47, at Liverpool 1847–56, at Manchester
1856–58 and at Chesterfield 1858 to death; edited _The Christian
Investigator_; author of _The atonement, or God’s way of speaking
and man’s way of speaking_ 1843. _d._ Chesterfield 5 Aug. 1869.
_The Inquirer_ (1869) 533.

BISHOP, GEORGE. _b._ Leicester 21 Aug. 1785; a maker of British
wines in London, being the largest maker in England; erected an
observatory at South Villa, Regent’s Park 1836 where 11 planets
were discovered 1847–54, after his death the dome and the
instruments were removed by his son George Bishop to his house at
Twickenham; F.R.A.S. 1830, sec. 1833–39, treasurer 1840–57, pres.
1857–59; F.R.S. 9 June 1848; published in 1852 _Astronomical
observations during the years 1839–51_. _d._ South villa, Regent’s
Park, London 14 June 1861. _Monthly notices of Royal Astronomical
Soc. xxii_, 104–106 (1862).

BISHOP, SIR HENRY ROWLEY (_son of Mr. Bishop of London,
Watchmaker_). _b._ Great Portland st. London 18 Nov. 1786; pupil
of Francesco Bianchi the composer; composer of ballet music at
Italian opera house 1806; produced his opera of _The Circassian
bride_ at Drury Lane theatre 23 Feb. 1809, theatre was burnt down
the next night; musical director and composer at Covent Garden
theatre 1810–23, where he produced 50 musical dramas; director of
music at King’s theatre, Haymarket 1816–17; received freedom of
city of Dublin 2 Aug. 1820; composer at Drury Lane theatre
1825–28; musical director of Vauxhall gardens 1830–33; director of
Her Majesty’s concerts of ancient music 1840–48; Reid professor of
Music in Univ. of Edin. Nov. 1841 to Dec. 1843; knighted at St.
James’s palace 1 June 1842, being the first musician who ever
received that honour; professor of music in Univ. of Ox. Jany.
1848 to death; Mus. Bac. Ox. 1848, Mus. Doc. 1853; author of many
songs and glees, best known being _Bid me discourse_, _Should he
upbraid_, _The winds whistle cold_, _My pretty Jane_, _Mynheer Van
Dunck_ and of the trio and chorus _The chough and crow_. _d._ 13
Cambridge st. Edgware road, London 30 April 1855. _I.L.N. xix_,
669–70 (1851), _portrait_; _Charles Mackay’s Forty years
recollections ii_, 165–217 (1877); _Illust. news of the world iv_,
381 (1859), _portrait_.

BISHOP, JAMES. _b._ Trowbridge, Wiltshire 1793; a cloth worker 1813;
partner with Atkins and Gillman, proprietors of a menagery which
became a formidable opponent to George Wombwell’s menagery;
attended all the great fairs in England; proprietor of various
exhibitions; father of 20 children; the oldest showman in England.
_d._ Plymouth 19 Feb. 1881.

BISHOP, JOHN (_4 son of Samuel Bishop of Pimperne, Dorset_). _b._ 15
Sep. 1797; studied at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; M.R.C.S. 1824,
F.R.C.S. 1843, member of council 1851, Hunterian orator 1859;
member of Medical society of London 1839, councillor, trustee,
orator and Lettsomian lecturer successively, and pres. 1852;
F.R.S. 9 May 1844; very successful in treatment of impediments of
speech; author of _On articulate sounds and on the causes and cure
of impediments of speech_ 1851; _Researches into the pathology and
treatment of deformities in the human body_ 1852; _The Lettsomian
lectures on Bones_ 1855; _On the construction of hearing and
speaking instruments_ 1856. _d._ Strangeways-Marshall, Dorset 29
Sep. 1873. _Proc. of royal society xxi_, 5–6 (1873); _British
medical journal ii_, 450 (1873).

BISHOP, WILLIAM. Agent at 170 New Bond st. London for Westley
Richards the gunmaker 1820 to death; brought into public notice by
Vincent Dowling, who rarely wrote a report of a prize fight
without bringing him on the scene; got the Dog Stealers act passed
which is known as Bishop’s act; well known in London as “the
Bishop of Bond st.” _d._ 170 New Bond st. 16 March 1871 in 74
year. _Illust. sporting news ii_, 164 (1863), _portrait_.

BISSET, REV. JAMES (_2 son of George Bisset of Udny, Aberdeenshire,
schoolmaster who d. 1812_). _b._ Udny 20 April 1795; ed. at
Marischal coll. and Univ. of Aberdeen; kept a school at Udny
1812–25 which became celebrated; licensed by presbytery of Ellon
31 March 1819; minister of parish of Bourtie, Aberdeenshire June
1825 to death; ordained 19 April 1826; D.D. Aberdeen 23 Feb. 1850;
moderator of general assembly 22 May 1862. _d._ Bourtie 8 Sep.
1872.

BISSET, SIR JOHN. _b._ Perth 1777; commissary general 31 July 1811
to 1819 when placed on h.p.; served through Peninsular war; K.C.H.
1832; knighted at St. James’s Palace 6 Nov. 1832; K.C.B. 16 Aug.
1850; granted pension of £550; author of _Memoranda regarding the
duties of the Commissariat on field service abroad_ 1846. _d._
Perth 3 April 1854.

BISSHOPP, CECIL (_son of Harry Bisshopp, colonel in the army_).
Cornet 14 Dragoons 10 Dec. 1799; major 11 Foot 6 Sep. 1834 to 17
May 1844 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 11 Nov. 1851; colonel 16 Foot
16 May 1857 to death; C.B. 26 Dec. 1818. _d._ Stoke, Plymouth 21
March 1858.

BISSHOPP, SIR EDWARD CECIL, 11 Baronet. _b._ 23 Feb. 1826; succeeded
15 Dec. 1865. _d._ 27 Jany. 1870.

BISSHOPP, SIR GEORGE CURZON, 10 Baronet. _b._ 10 April 1823;
succeeded 23 Jany. 1849. _d._ Parham park near Hastings 15 Dec.
1865.

BISSON, EDWARD LEONARD (_son of Rev. Amias Bisson, R. of St.
Laurens, Jersey_). _b._ St. Laurens 1797; jurat or judge of the
royal court Jersey 1832 to death; lieutenant bailiff 1839 to
death. _d._ St. Heliers, Jersey 1 April 1884 in 88 year.

BLAAUW, WILLIAM HENRY (_only son of Wm. Blaauw of Beechland, Newick,
Sussex 1748–1808_). _b._ Queen Anne st. London 25 May 1793; ed. at
Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; chief founder of
Sussex Archæological Society 18 June 1846, sec. 1846–58, edited
Society’s Collections 1846–56; elected F.S.A. 30 May 1850,
admitted 27 Feb. 1851; member of council of Camden Society
1848–65, treasurer 1861–65; sheriff of Sussex 1859; author of _The
barons’ war, including the battles of Lewes and Evesham_ 1844, _2
ed._ 1871. _d._ Beechland 26 April 1870. _Sussex Archæological
Collections xxii_, 9–11 (1870), _portrait_.

BLACHFORD, AUGUSTUS GEORGE. Ensign 24 Foot 12 Nov. 1825; lieut. col.
30 March 1858 to 9 March 1860 when he retired on full pay with
hon. rank of major general. _d._ Sheringham near Cromer 13 Nov.
1884 aged 78.

BLACHFORD, JOHN. _b._ 1790; solicitor in City of London 1818 to
death; head of firm of Blachford, Riches and Wood of 25 Abchurch
lane to death; vestry clerk of parish of St. James Aldgate 40
years. _d._ 4 Jany. 1886.

BLACHLEY, HENRY. 2 Lieutenant R.A. 10 Aug. 1804; lieut. col. 23 Nov.
1841 to 4 April 1843 when he retired on full pay; L.G. 27 Feb.
1866. _d._ Banwell, Somerset 13 Aug. 1868.

BLACK, ADAM (_son of Charles Black of Edinburgh, builder_). _b._
Charles st. Edin. 20 Feb. 1784; ed. at high sch. Edin.; opened a
bookseller’s shop at 57 North bridge, Edin. 1808; published
_Edinburgh Review_ 1827 to death, and _Encyclopædia Britannica_,
_7 ed. 22 vols._ 1830–42, _8 ed. 22 vols._ 1853–61, wrote many
articles in it; master of the Merchant Company Edin. 1831; a
member of the town council 1832; lord provost 1843–48; pres. of
Philosophical Institution 1845; bought works of Sir Walter Scott
on behalf of an association of 60 persons for £27,000 March 1851;
M.P. for Edinburgh 9 Feb. 1856 to 6 July 1865; retired from
business 1865. _d._ 38 Drummond place, Edin. 24 Jany. 1874. A
bronze memorial statue of him in East Prince’s st. gardens was
unveiled 3 Nov. 1877. A fine portrait of him by Sir J. W. Gordon
is in the council room Edinburgh. _Life of A. Black by A.
Nicolson_ 1885; _Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ (1882) 179–83,
_portrait_; _Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. viii_, 467 (1865).

BLACK, REV. ALEXANDER (_son of John Black of Aberdeen, gardener_).
_b._ Aberdeen 1789; ed. at Aberdeen gr. sch. and Marischal
college, B.A. 1807, D.D. May 1824; licensed by presbytery of
Aberdeen 9 Feb. 1814; minister of Tarves Nov. 1817 to 27 June
1832; ordained 1 April 1818; professor of divinity in Marischal
college Aberdeen April 1832 to 1843 when he joined the Free church
at the Disruption; sent to the East to make enquiries as to
expediency of beginning a mission to the Jews 1839; professor of
exegetical theology in New college Edinburgh about 1844–1856. _d._
Edinburgh 24 or 27 Jany. 1864 in 75 year.

BLACK, JAMES. _b._ Scotland 1787; L.R.C.S. Edin. 1808; assistant
surgeon R.N. 1809; practised at Bolton to 1839 and 1848–56, at
Manchester 1839–48, and at Edin. 1856 to death; M.D. Glasgow 1820,
L.R.C.S. Eng. 1823, F.R.C.P. 1860; an original member of British
Association 1831; pres. of British medical association 1842; pres.
of Provincial medical association 1853; pres. of Manchester
Geological Society; F.G.S. 1838, F.G.S. of France 1848; F.R.S.
Edin. 1857; author of _An inquiry into the capillary circulation
of the blood_ 1825; _A comparative view of the more intimate
nature of fever_ 1826; _A manual of the bowels_ 1840; _A
medico-topographical, geological and statistical sketch of Bolton
and its neighbourhood_, a paper of 100 pages in the _Transactions
of Provincial medical and surgical association_. _d._ 2 George sq.
Edin. 30 April 1867 in 80 year. _Proc. of Royal Society of Edin.
vi_, 188 (1869).

BLACK, JOHN (_only son of Ebenezer Black of Burnhouses near Dunse,
Berwickshire, farm labourer_). _b._ Burnhouses 1783; articled to a
writer at Dunse 1796–1800; clerk in an accountant’s office
Edinburgh; engaged on the _Morning Chronicle_ daily paper in
London 1810, principal editor 1819–44; fought a harmless duel with
John Arthur Roebuck, M.P. 19 Nov. 1835; sold his library of 30,000
volumes 1844; translated Humboldt’s _Political essay on the
kingdom of New Spain 4 vols._ 1811–12 and other books. _d._
Birling, Kent 15 June 1855. _C. Mackay’s Forty years’
recollections i_, 70–95, _ii_, 177–78; _I.L.N. xxvii_, 13–14
(1855), _portrait_.

BLACK, JOHN. _b._ Glenrinnes, Upper Banff 1834; professor of
humanity in University of Aberdeen 1868 to death. _d._ at his
college residence Old Aberdeen 17 Nov. 1881.

BLACK, NEIL (_son of Archibald Black of Cowal Argyleshire, sheep
farmer_). _b._ Cowal 1804; sailed for Adelaide April 1839; bought
a station near Glenormiston, Victoria; bought the Sisters station;
his annual sales of cattle attracted buyers from all parts of
Australia; member of legislative council of Victoria for the
Western province 1856 to death. _d._ Mount Noorat, Victoria 15 May
1880. _Men of the time in Australia, Victorian series_ (1878) _p._
16.

BLACK, PATRICK (_2 son of colonel Patrick Black of the Bengal
cavalry who d. about 1819_). _b._ Aberdeen 1813; ed. at Eton
1828–30 and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1834, M.D. 1836; F.R.C.P. 1845,
censor 3 times, Croonian lecturer 1855: assistant phys. to St.
Bartholomew’s hospital 1842, warden of the medical school 1851–56,
physician and clinical lecturer 1860–78, lecturer on medicine
1861–78; author of _Chloroform how shall we ensure, safety in its
administration_ 1855; _Essay on the Spleen_ 1876; revised the
Latin part of the _Nomenclature of diseases_ for Royal College of
Phys. 1867. _d._ 11 Queen Anne st. Cavendish sq. London 12 Oct.
1879. _St. Bartholomew’s hospital reports xv_, _pp. xxix-xl_
(1879).

BLACK, THOMAS. _b._ Wemyss 1819; surgeon at Anstruther 1839 to
death; his body was found floating in the harbour of Anstruther 29
Feb. 1864. _Conolly’s Biog. dict. of eminent men of Fife_ (1866)
64.

BLACK, WILLIAM. _b._ Anstruther 1770; entered navy 13 April 1793;
captain 7 June 1814; retired R.A. 9 Oct. 1846. _d._ Ormsby,
Norfolk 6 Nov. 1852 in 82 year. _Conolly’s Biog. dict. of eminent
men of Fife_ (1866) 62.

BLACK, REV. WILLIAM. _b._ Auchinairn parish of Cadder 1801; ed. at
Univ. of Glasgow; licensed by presbytery of Hamilton Aug. 1824;
minister of Shettleston April 1826; minister of Barony church
Glasgow Sep. 1828 to death; D.D. Glasgow April 1834. _d._ Florence
15 Jany. 1851 in 50 year. _Smith’s Our Scottish clergy, 2 series_
(1849) 17–26.

BLACK, WILLIAM HENRY (_eld. son of John Black of Kintore,
Aberdeenshire_). _b._ 7 May 1808; a tutor among families residing
at and near Tulse Hill, Surrey 1825; clerk in the Public Record
Office, assistant keeper; founder and sec. of Chronological
institute of London Dec. 1850, registrar 21 Dec. 1853; founded
Palestine archæological association 13 Sep. 1853 and
Anglo-biblical institute; F.S.A. 9 Dec. 1858; pastor of the
Seventh Day Baptists (one of smallest sects in England) in Mill
yard, Leman st. Whitechapel 1840 to death; prepared an edition of
the British part of the _Itinerary of Antoninus_ (never issued);
contributed to Samuel Bentley’s _Excerpta Historica_ 1831;
catalogued the manuscripts of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, the
Arundel MSS. in the library of the Heralds’ College, and Colfe’s
library at Lewisham. _d._ 15 Mill yard, Whitechapel 12 April 1872.
_Rev. C. M. Davies’s Unorthodox London_ (1872) 227–37; _J. E.
Ritchie’s Religious life of London_ (1870) 159–66.

BLACKADDER, ROBERT BARNES. _b._ Scotland; came to London 1834,
employed by Roake and Varty and other booksellers; edited and
published _Chronological Bible_ 1867 and _Chronological New
Testament_ 1867. _d._ Booksellers’ provident retreat Abbot’s
Langley 26 June 1883 aged 71.

BLACKALL, JOHN (_6th son of Rev. Theophilus Blackall, Preb. of
Exeter cath. who d. 4 Aug. 1781_). _b._ St. Paul’s st. Exeter 24
Dec. 1771; ed. at Exeter gr. sch. and Balliol coll. Ox.; B.A.
1793, M.A. 1796, M.B. 1797, M.D. 1801; studied medicine at St.
Bartholomew’s hosp. London; practised at Exeter 1797–1801 and
1807–52; physician to Devon and Exeter hosp. 1 June 1797–1801 when
he resigned, and June 1807; practised at Totnes 1801–1807;
physician to St. Thomas’s lunatic asylum Exeter 1812; candidate of
R.C.P. 22 Dec. 1814; fellow 22 Dec. 1815; the chief physician in
the West of England 1822–52; author of _Observations on the nature
and cure of dropsies_ 1813 _4 ed._ 1818 which at once placed him
in the rank of the first physicians of his day and acquired for
him an European reputation. _d._ Southernhay Exeter 10 Jany. 1860.
_Munk’s Roll of royal college of physicians iii_, 138–41 (1878),
abridged from _British Medical Journal i_, 75–76 (1860).

BLACKALL, ROBERT. Entered Bengal army 1805; colonel of 43 N.I. 18
July 1848, of 2 European Fusiliers 7 April 1851, and of 13 N.I. 19
Aug. 1859 to death; L.G. 18 Dec. 1860. _d._ 20 April 1863.

BLACKALL, SAMUEL WENSLEY (_eld. son of Robert Blackall of Colamber
manor, co. Longford who d. 1855_). _b._ 1809; ed. at Trin. coll.
Dublin; ensign 85 Foot 26 June 1827, lieut. 17 Feb. 1832 to 1 Feb.
1833 when he sold out; sheriff of co. Longford 1833, of co. Tyrone
1862; M.P. for co. Longford 13 Aug. 1847 to April 1851; lieutenant
governor of Dominica 1 April 1851 to 1857; governor of Sierra
Leone 1862; governor of West African Settlements 23 Feb. 1866;
governor of Queensland 4 May 1868 to death. _d._ Brisbane 21 Jany.
1871.

BLACKBOURN, JOHN (_son of James Blackbourn of Billingsgate, London,
fish salesman_). One of the singing boys of St. Paul’s cathedral
1800–1808, apprenticed to John Sale the master of the boys 1811;
organist of Wandsworth parish church 1818–21 and of Clapham parish
church 1821 to death; member of Royal Society of Musicians 1818,
of the Madrigal Society 1819, of the Glee Club 1819, and secretary
to 1825. _d._ Clapham 18 Dec. 1854 aged 62.

BLACKBURN, REV. JOHN. _b._ the Minories, London 1791; ed. at Stepney
and Hoxton; a missionary in the Irish Evangelical society; pastor
of Church of Christ at Finchingfield, Essex 25 Sep. 1815 to 1822;
pastor of Claremont chapel Pentonville, London 1822 to death;
editor of _Congregational Magazine_; originated and edited
_Congregational Calendar_, afterwards merged in the
_Congregational year book_; a projector and sec. of Congregational
Union of England and Wales 1831; originator of the Christian
Instruction society 1825; edited _The Biblical educator_. _d._ 17
Holford sq. Pentonville 16 June 1855. _Congregational year book_
(1856) 208–10; _J. Waddington’s Congregational history v_, 198–202
(1870).

BLACKBURN, PETER (_eld. son of John Blackburn of Killearn near
Glasgow_). _b._ Levenside, Dumbartonshire 1811; ed. at Eton;
cornet 2 Life Guards 29 Jany. 1830, lieut. 4 May 1832 to 1836;
M.P. for Stirlingshire 5 March 1855 to 6 July 1865; a lord of the
Treasury 15 March 1859 to June 1859; chairman of Edinburgh and
Glasgow railway Sep. 1846 to death. _d._ Killearn house, Killearn
20 May 1870.

BLACKBURNE, FRANCIS (_eld. son of Richard Blackburne of Great
Footstown, co. Meath who d. 1798_). _b._ Great Footstown 11 Nov.
1782; entered Trinity college Dublin July 1798, scholar 1801, B.A.
1803, LL.B. and LLD. 1852; called to bar in Ireland Jany. 1805;
went the Home circuit; K.C. 1822; administered the Insurrection
act in Limerick and Clare 1822–24; serjeant at law July 1826,
king’s second serjeant at law 19 April 1830 to Jany. 1831;
attorney general in Ireland 11 Jany. 1831 to April 1835 and 23
Sep. 1841 to Oct. 1842; P.C. Ireland 1831; master of the Rolls 1
Nov. 1842 to 23 Jany. 1846; chief justice of Queen’s Bench 23
Jany. 1846 to Feb. 1852; lord chancellor of Ireland Feb. 1852 to
Dec. 1852 and 24 July 1866 to March 1867; vice chancellor of Univ.
of Dub. Dec. 1851; one of Commissioners of National education
1852–53; lord justice of Appeal in Ireland Oct. 1856 to July 1866;
offered the Lord Chancellorship by Earl of Derby 24 Feb. 1858 but
declined; refused a Baronetcy May 1867. _d._ Rathfarnham Castle
near Dublin 17 Sep. 1867. _Life of the Right Hon. Francis
Blackburne by his son Edward Blackburne_ 1874, _portrait_; _O. J.
Burke’s History of lord chancellors of Ireland_ (1879) 277–93;
_Dublin univ. mag. xxiv_, 470–78 (1844), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xii_,
323 (1848), _portrait_.

BLACKBURNE, JOHN GEORGE. _b._ London 4 June 1815; articled to Wm.
Dunn of Oldham, surveyor 31 May 1828, partner with him 5 June 1835
to 27 June 1840 when he died; practised at Oldham 1835 to death;
M.I.C.E. 1 May 1855; F.G.S. 1835; pres. of Manchester district
society of surveyors and valuers 1866. _d._ Dryclough, Oldham 30
Sep. 1871. _Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxiii_, 206–209
(1872).

BLACKBURNE, JOHN IRELAND. _b._ 26 May 1783; M.P. for Newton,
Lancashire 8 May 1807 to 10 June 1818 and for Warrington 7 Jany.
1835 to 23 July 1847. _d._ Hale hall near Warrington 27 Jany.
1874.

BLACKER, REV. GEORGE (_elder son of James Blacker of Dublin, police
magistrate_). _b._ 1791; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; scholar 1809,
B.A. 1811, M.A. 1858; C. of St. Andrew’s, Dublin 1811–38; V. of
Maynooth 1838 to death; Preb. of St. Patrick’s cathedral 28 Dec.
1840 to death; author of _Castle of Maynooth_ 1853, _2 ed._ 1860;
_Castle of Kilkea_ 1860; _A record of the history of Maynooth
church_ 1867, all privately printed. _d._ the Rectory, Maynooth 23
May 1871 in 80 year. _Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette xiii_, 131
(1871).

BLACKER, WILLIAM. Ensign 60 Foot 3 July 1801; lieut. col. Armagh
militia 5 Nov. 1812 to 6 May 1846; vice treasurer of Ireland
1817–1829. _d._ Carrick house, Armagh 25 Nov. 1855 aged 80.

BLACKETT, SIR EDWARD, 6 Baronet. _b._ London 23 Feb. 1805; ed. at
Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; succeeded 27 Oct. 1816; sheriff of
Northumberland 1833; married 4 times. _d._ Matfen hall,
Northumberland 23 Nov. 1885.

BLACKETT, HENRY. Publisher in London with Daniel Hurst (who _d._ 6
July 1870 aged 67). _d._ The Green, Ealing 7 March 1871 in 45
year.

BLACKIE, JOHN (_son of John Blackie of Glasgow, publisher who d. 17
June 1874 aged 92_). _b._ Glasgow 29 Sep. 1805; ed. at the high
school; head of the publishing firm of Blackie and Son in Glasgow
and London, with branches in every important town in Scotland;
member of Glasgow town council 1857; lord provost 1863; originated
the City Improvement scheme. _d._ Hillhead, Lillybank, Glasgow 11
Feb. 1873. _Bookseller_ 1873 _p._ 205.

BLACKLEY, REV. WILLIAM. Ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; B.A. 1835,
M.A. 1852; chaplain to Viscount Hill 1837 to death; V. of
Stanton-upon-Hine-Heath, Salop 1855–72; author of _Expository
lectures on the first four chapters of St. Matthew’s Gospel_ 1842;
_Diplomatic correspondence of the Right Hon. Richard Hill 2 vols._
1845; _Scriptural teaching_ 1847; _The Gospel history between the
death of Christ and the day of Pentecost_ 1855. _d._ Garforth
house, Upper Sydenham 29 March 1885 aged 87.

BLACKLOCK, AMBROSE. _b._ Dumfries 1816; Assistant surgeon Madras 8
Feb. 1840; professor of surgery and surgeon of the General
hospital Madras 1851, and professor of medicine and physician 1858
to 28 April 1867; went to England on sick leave 29 Aug. 1865;
returned to Madras 1868; deputy inspector general of Presidency,
Circle and Northern, divisions 4 Aug. 1870 to death; author of _A
treatise on sheep_ 1838, _12 ed._ 1853. _d._ of enteritis at
Chittoor, Madras 11 Feb. 1873.

BLACKLOCK, WILLIAM JAMES. _b._ Cumwhitton near Carlisle about 1815;
landscape painter; exhibited pictures at Royal Academy, British
Institution and Society of British Artists 1836–55. _d._ Dumfries
12 March 1858 aged 42. _Carlisle Journal 19 March 1858._

BLACKMAN, WILLIAM. _b._ Arundel 27 Nov. 1862; ed. at Ardingley
college, captain of the cricket eleven 1880, an assistant master
1880; in the Sussex county eleven 17 July 1881 to 1884; one of the
best all-round cricketers in South of England. _d._ 4 Royal
terrace, Fitzroy, Melbourne 2 June 1885. _Cricket 28 Jany. 1886
p._ 1, _portrait_.

BLACKMORE, REV. RICHARD WHITE. Educ. at Merton coll. Ox., B.A. 1813;
chaplain to the Russia company 1819–47; R. of Donhead St. Mary
near Salisbury 1847 to death; author of _History of the church of
Russia_ 1842; _The doctrine of the Russian church_ 1845. _d._
Donhead St. Mary rectory 28 June 1882 in 91 year.