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BOYES, JOHN FREDERICK (_son of Benjamin Boyes of Charterhouse sq.
London_). _b._ 10 Feb. 1811; entered Merchant Taylors’ school Oct.
1819; scholar of Linc. coll. Ox. 1828; Andrews’ civil law
exhibitioner at St. John’s coll. 1829, B.A. 1833, M.A. 1835;
second master of proprietary school Walthamstow, then head master;
author of _Illustrations of tragedies of Æschylus and Sophocles
from the Greek, Latin and English poets_ 1844; _English
repetitions in prose and verse_ 1849; _Life and Books, a record of
thought and reading_ 1859; _Lacon in council_ 1865. _d._ 10 St.
James’s terrace, Harrow road, London 26 May 1879. _Preface and
appendix to Sermon by Rev. J. G. Tanner_ 1879.

BOYLE, ALEXANDER (_2 son of David Boyle lord chief justice of
Scotland_). _b._ 9 March 1810; entered navy 4 Sep. 1823; commander
of Thunderbolt steam sloop at Cape of Good Hope 27 Dec. 1845, lost
his ship in Algoa Bay Feb. 1847 for which he was dismissed service
4 May 1847 but restored Jany. 1849; captain 8 Aug. 1857; retired
V.A. 2 Aug. 1879. _d._ 17 Prince’s Gardens London 8 June 1884.

BOYLE, CAROLINE COURTENAY. _b._ 26 May 1803; maid of honour to Queen
Adelaide many years; granted civil list pension of £100, 30 Oct.
1850. _d._ 23 Jany. 1883.

BOYLE, COURTENAY EDMUND WILLIAM. _b._ 3 Aug. 1800; entered navy 7
Sep. 1816; captain 27 May 1830; groom of the chamber to Prince
Albert 1840; retired captain 1 Oct. 1850; retired R.A. 27 Sep.
1855. _d._ Rue Faubourg St. Honoré Paris 11 Feb. 1859.

BOYLE, DAVID (_2 son of Patrick Boyle of Shewalton, Ayrshire who d.
26 Feb. 1798._) _b._ Irvine, Ayrshire 26 July 1772; ed. at Univ.
of Edin; member of Faculty of Advocates 14 Dec. 1793; solicitor
general for Scotland 9 May 1807; M.P. for Ayrshire 5 June 1807 to
Feb. 1811; a lord of Session and Justiciary 23 Feb. 1811; lord
justice clerk 15 Oct. 1811; P.C. 11 April 1820; lord justice
general of Scotland and lord president of Court of Session 9 Oct.
1841 to May 1852; distinguished for his personal appearance, there
are full-length portraits of him by Sir J. W. Gordon at Faculty of
Advocates and at Society of Writers to the Signet Edinburgh. _d._
Shewalton 30 Jany. or 6 Feb. 1853. _I.L.N. xxii_, 76, 134 (1853),
_portrait_.

BOYLE, JOHN (_2 son of Edmund Boyle 8 Earl of Cork 1767–1856_). _b._
Wimpole st. London 13 March 1803; ed. at Winchester and Ch. Ch.
Ox, B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; M.P. for co. Cork 4 Dec. 1827 to 24 July
1830, and for Cork city 11 Aug. 1830 to 3 Dec. 1832. _d._ Rock
Wood, Torquay 6 Dec. 1874.

BOYLE, ROBERT (_son of Mr. Boyle of Hamilton Lanarkshire, surgeon_).
_b._ Hamilton 1821; started a bakery for manufacture of pure bread
at Glasgow; lectured for missionary purposes in Scotland; invented
a new description of detonating powder 1866 which was reported
upon favourably by principal military authorities; invented an ink
which is perfectly inerasable; invented the Self-Acting Air-pump
ventilator which was awarded highest and only prize given to roof
ventilators by judges at International Medical and Sanitary
Exhibition 1881. _d._ 2 Sep. 1878. _Robert Boyle inventor and
philanthropist a biographical sketch by L. Saunders_ 1885,
_portrait_.

BOYLE, ROBERT EDWARD (_brother of John Boyle 1803–74_). _b._ London
March 1809; ensign 68 Foot 14 Nov. 1826; captain Coldstream guards
10 Dec. 1847 to death; secretary to Order of St. Patrick 1837–53;
groom in waiting to the Queen 1846–52 and 1853 to death; secretary
to master general of the Ordnance Dec. 1853 to death; M.P. for
Frome 30 July 1847 to death. _d._ Varna 3 Sep. 1854.

BOYLE, ROBERT FREDERICK. _b._ 13 June 1841; ed. at Ball. coll. Ox.,
B.A. 1864, M.A. 1866; fellow of All Souls’ coll.; barrister M.T.
17 Nov. 1866; inspector of schools 16 May 1871. _d._ Florence 15
May 1883.

BOYLE, WILLIAM. _b._ 25 Jany. 1821; ensign 15 Foot 6 Dec. 1838;
lieut. col. 89 Foot 13 Oct. 1858 to death; C.B. 20 May 1871. _d._
10 Craven hill gardens, London 14 Feb. 1874.

BOYLE, WILLIAM GEORGE. _b._ Dublin 12 Aug. 1830; 2 lieut. 21 Foot 9
Feb. 1849; captain Coldstream guards 24 Nov. 1863 to 1867; lieut.
col. 2 Somerset militia 23 March 1868 to 12 Sep. 1870; M.P. for
Frome 23 July 1856 to 21 March 1857; F.C.S., F.G.S. _d._ San
Francisco 22 April 1880.

BOYLE, WILLIAM ROBERT AUGUSTUS. Barrister L.I. 24 Nov. 1835; author
of _A practical treatise on the law of charities_ 1837;
_Inspiration of book of Daniel_ 1863; _The tribute of Assyria to
biblical history_ 1868; _Literature under the shade of Great
Britain_ 1870, _2 ed._ 1870. _d._ 7 Church st. Kensington 20 May
1875.

BOYNE, GUSTAVUS HAMILTON, 6 Viscount. _b._ 12 April 1777; succeeded
29 Feb. 1816. _d._ 22 Belgrave sq. London 30 March 1855.

BOYNE, GUSTAVUS HAMILTON-RUSSELL, 7 Viscount (_son of the
preceding_). _b._ Downton hall near Ludlow 11 May 1797; assumed
name of Russell by r.l. 1850; created Baron Brancepeth of
Brancepeth, co. palatine of Durham 31 Aug. 1866. _d._ Brancepeth
castle, co. Durham 29 Oct. 1872.

BOYNTON, SIR HENRY, 9 Baronet. _b._ St. James’s st. Westminster 22
March 1778; succeeded 17 Nov. 1832. _d._ Burton Agnes, Yorkshire
29 Aug. 1854.

BOYNTON, SIR HENRY, 10 Baronet. _b._ Nafferton hall, Yorkshire 2
March 1811; succeeded 29 Aug. 1854. _d._ Burton Agnes 25 June
1869.

BOYS, EDWARD (_son of John Boys of Betteshanger, Kent, agriculturist
1749–1824_). _b._ 1785; entered navy 1796; a prisoner in France
1803–9; superintendent of Deal dockyard 16 Sep. 1837 to 1841;
retired captain 1 July 1851; author of _Narrative of a captivity
and adventures in France and Flanders_ 1827, which is the source
from which Captain Marryat in his novel _Peter Simple_ drew much
of the account of his hero’s escape; _Remarks on the
practicability and advantages of a Sandwich or Downs harbour_
1831. _d._ 14 Blomfield terrace, Harrow road, London 6 June 1866
in 82 year.

BOYS, HENRY, _b._ 1806; composed a few glees and songs, best known
being _Friar Tuck_ a glee for 3 voices 1842. _d._ Margate 1851.

BOYS, REV. RICHARD (_brother of Edward Boys 1785–1866_). _b._ 1783;
ed. at King’s school Canterbury and C.C. coll. Cam., B.A. 1807,
M.A. 1818; chaplain at St. Helena 1811–29; P.C. of Platt, Kent
1849–54; P.C. of Loose, Kent 1854 to death; author of _Elements of
Christian knowledge_ 1838; _Primitive obliquities_ 1851. _d._
Loose 13 Feb. 1866.

BOYS, REV. THOMAS (_son of Thomas Boys of Sandwich, Kent, rear
admiral R.N._) _b._ Sandwich 1792; ed. at Tonbridge gr. sch. and
Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1813, M.A. 1817; attached to the military
chest in the Peninsula under Wellington 1813; wounded in 3 places
at battle of Toulouse 10 April 1814; teacher of Hebrew to Jews at
Hackney college 1830–2; professor of Hebrew at Missionary college
Islington 1836; Inc. of Holy Trinity, Hoxton 22 Feb. 1848 to
death; translated the Bible into Portugese 1813, his version has
been adopted both by Protestants and Roman Catholics; author of
_Tactica Sacra_ 1824; _Plain exposition of the New Testament_
1827. _d._ 23 Leighton road, Kentish town, London 2 Sep. 1880.

BOYS, THOMAS SHOTTER. _b._ Pentonville, London 2 Jany. 1803;
articled to George Cooke, engraver; a member of Institute of
Painters in water colours; exhibited 2 pictures at Royal Academy
and 14 at Suffolk st. gallery 1824–58; lithographed the works of
David Roberts and Clarkson Stanfield 1837; published _Picturesque
architecture in Paris_ 1839 which was much admired; _Original
views of London as it is_ 1843; drew illustrations to Blackie’s
_History of England_; etched some plates for Ruskin’s _Stones of
Venice_. _d._ of paralysis at 30 Acacia road, Marylebone, London
10 Oct. 1874.

BRABAZON, LUKE (_elder son of Hugh Higgins of Brabazon park, co.
Mayo who d. 26 April 1864 aged 63_). _b._ 23 March 1832; 2 Lieut.
R.A 20 June 1849; second captain 23 Aug. 1855 to death; deputy
assistant quartermaster general; changed his name to Brabazon
1854; author of _Soldiers and their science_ 1860; went with
admiral Hope to Tang-chow, China Aug. 1860, captured by Tartar
general San-ko-lin-sin 18 Sep. 1860; executed by the Chinese on
the bridge at Palikao 21 Sep. 1860. _Boulger’s History of China
iii_, 499–521 (1884).

BRACEBRIDGE, CHARLES HOLTE (_only son of Abraham Bracebridge of
Atherstone hall, Atherstone, Warws. who d. 21 Aug. 1832_). _b._ 19
March 1799; ed. at Merton coll. Ox.; went with Florence
Nightingale to Constantinople Oct. 1854; author of _A letter on
the affairs of Greece_ 1850; _Shakespeare no deerstealer, or a
short account of Fulbroke park near Stratford-on-Avon_ 1862. _d._
of heart disease at Atherstone hall 13 July 1872.

BRACKENBURY, SIR EDWARD (_2 son of Richard Brackenbury of Aswardby,
co. Lincoln_). _b._ 1785; ensign 61 Foot 1803, served in Peninsula
1809–14; attached to Portuguese and Spanish army 1814–16; major 28
Foot 1 Nov. 1827 to 31 Jany. 1828 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col.
10 Jany. 1837; retired from the service 1847; K.T.S. 1824, K.S.F.;
knighted at Windsor Castle 26 Aug. 1836. _d._ Skendleby hall near
Spilsby, co. Lincoln 1 June 1864.

BRACKENBURY, REV. JOSEPH. _b._ Langton, Lincolnshire 1788; a student
at C.C. coll. Cam. 28 Oct. 1808, B.A. 1811, M.A. 1819; chaplain
Madras establishment 1812–19; chaplain and secretary to Magdalen
hospital Blackfriars road London 1828–56; R. of Quendon, Essex
1862 to death; author of _Natale solum and other poetical pieces_
1810. _d._ Quendon rectory 31 March 1864.

BRACKENRIDGE, GEORGE WEARE (_eld. son of George Brackenridge of
Brislington near Bristol, merchant_). _b._ Hanover county,
Virginia 4 Jany. 1775; ed. at Dr. Estlin’s school Bristol,
England; partner in a leading West India firm; lived at
Brislington 1824 to death; formed a good collection of Coleoptera
and organic remains; gave greater portion of building fund for
Christchurch, Clevedon, also a permanent endowment for church
which was consecrated 1839. _d._ Brislington 11 Feb. 1856.
_Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. of London xiv_, 60–62 (1858).

BRADBURY, HENRY (_eld. son of the succeeding_). A pupil at Imperial
printing office Vienna 1850 where he learnt process of Nature
printing which he claimed afterwards to have invented; founded a
business in Fetter lane, London which he moved to Farringdon st.
and carried on under name of Bradbury, Wilkinson and Co.; produced
nature printed plates to Moore and Lindley’s _Ferns of Great
Britain and Ireland_ 1855 and Johnstone’s _British sea weeds 4
vols._ 1860–1; author of _Printing, it’s dawn, day, and destiny_
1858; _Autotypography or art of nature printing_ 1860; _Specimens
of bank note engraving_ 1860; committed suicide by drinking
prussic acid in Cremorne gardens, London 1 Sep. 1860 aged 30.

BRADBURY, WILLIAM. Printer at 76 Fleet st. London 1824; publisher
with F. M. Evans in Whitefriars st. 1830; published _The Christmas
carol_ 1843; _Punch_ 1843 to death, the _Daily News_ 1846 to
death; joint proprietor with C. Dickens, J. Forster and W. H.
Wills of _Household Words_ 1850–59; proprietor of _Gent. Mag._
1866–70. _d._ 13 Upper Woburn place, London 11 April 1869 in 70
year. _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_, 485 (1869); _C. Beavan’s Reports
of cases in chancery xxvii_, 53–61 (1861).

BRADDYLL, EDWARD STANLEY BAGOT RICHMOND GALE. _b._ 1803; contested
North Durham 21 Dec. 1832; fought a duel with Russell Bowlby at
Offerton lane near Herrington, Durham 27 Sep. 1832 and another
with Sir Hedworth Williamson, Bart. at the Hare and Hounds on the
Sedgefield road same day. _d._ Windermere Bank, Bowness, Ambleside
2 Sep. 1874 aged 71. _Sykes’s Local Records ii_, 397–8 (1833).

BRADEN, REV. WILLIAM. _b._ Marylebone, London 22 Nov. 1840; ed. at
Maida Hill gr. sch. and Cheshunt coll.; Congregational minister at
St. Alban’s 1861 at Hillhouse chapel Huddersfield 1866 and at the
King’s Weigh house chapel, London Jany. 1871 to death; edited the
_English Independent_; author of _The beautiful gleaner, A Hebrew
pastoral story_ 1872; _Our social relationships_ 1876. _d._
Clapton, London 20 July 1878. _Sermons by the Rev. W. Braden,
edited by Agnes Braden_ 1880; _J. Waddington’s Congregational
history v_, 598–602 (1878).

BRADFIELD, HENRY JOSEPH STEELE (_son of Thomas Bradfield of Derby
st. Westminster, coal merchant_). _b._ Derby st. Westminster 18
May 1805; left England in the schooner Unicorn as surgeon under
Lord Cochrane 26 April 1826; sous lieutenant in Bataillon Etranger
of Belgium 1 Sep. 1832; stipendiary magistrate in Tobago 31 Dec.
1835, removed to Trinidad 13 May 1836, re-appointed to the
Southern or Cedros district 13 April 1839; private sec. to
Lieutenant Governor of Dominica 1841, colonial sec. in Barbados
1842; author of _Waterloo or the British minstrel a poem_ 1825;
_The Athenaid or modern Grecians a poem_ 1830; _Tales of the
Cyclades and other poems_ 1830; committed suicide by drinking a
bottle of prussic acid in coffee room of St. Albans hotel, 12
Charles st. St. James’s sq. London 11 Oct. 1852. _G.M. xxxix_, 102
(1853); _Morning Post 13 Oct. 1852 p._ 4 _and 15 Oct. p._ 6.

BRADFORD, GEORGE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK HENRY BRIDGEMAN, 2 Earl of. _b._
23 Oct. 1789; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1810; succeeded 7 Sep.
1825. _d._ Weston park Shiffnal, Salop 22 March 1865.

BRADFORD, SIR THOMAS (_son of Thomas Bradford of Ashdown park,
Sussex_). _b._ 1 Dec. 1777; ensign of an Independent company 20
Oct. 1793; commanded a brigade of Portuguese army 1810–13, and a
division 1813–14; lieut. col. of 34 Foot 18 May 1809, and of 82
Foot 21 Dec. 1809 to 1815; commanded seventh division of the army
of occupation in France 1815–17; commanded the troops in Scotland
1819–25; colonel of 94 Foot 1 Dec. 1823, of 30 Foot 16 April 1829
and of 4 Foot 7 Feb. 1846 to death; commander in chief in Bombay
20 July 1825 to 17 May 1829, assumed command 3 May 1826; general
23 Nov. 1841; K.C.B. 5 Jany. 1815; G.C.B. 15 Feb. 1838; G.C.H.
1831. _d._ 13 Eaton sq. London 28 Nov. 1853. _United Service Mag._
1854 _part_ 1 _p._ 157.

BRADFORD, REV. WILLIAM. R. of Storrington, Sussex 1811 to death;
chaplain in ordinary to the Sovereign 1821 to death. _d._
Storrington rectory 13 June 1857 aged 77.

BRADLEY, REV. CHARLES (_elder son of Thomas Bradley of
Wallingford_). _b._ Halstead, Essex Feb. 1789; took pupils
1810–25; a member of St. Edmund hall Ox.; C. of High Wycombe,
Bucks. 1812–25; V. of Glasbury, Brecknockshire 1825 to death; P.C.
of St. James’s Clapham, London 1829–53; very eminent as a
preacher; author of _Sermons_ 1818, _11 ed._ 1854; _Sermons_ 1825,
_9 ed._ 1854; _Practical sermons 2 vols._ 1836–8; _Sacramental
sermons_ 1842; _Sermons on the Christian life_ 1853. _d._
Cheltenham 16 Aug. 1871 aged 82. _A selection from the sermons of
Rev. C. Bradley, edited by Rev. G. J. Davies_ 1884; _Guardian 22
March 1882_, 421–2.

BRADLEY, GEORGE. _b._ Whitby, Yorkshire 1816; a reporter on _York
Herald_; editor of _Sunderland and Durham County Herald_; editor
and one of proprietors of _Newcastle Guardian_ about 1848 to
death; author of _A concise and practical system of short-hand
writing_ 1843. _d._ Newcastle 14 Oct. 1863.

BRADLEY, REV. RICHARD BEADON. _b._ Minehead, Somerset 1803; P.C. of
Ash Priors near Taunton 1834 to death; P.C. of Cothelstone,
Somerset 1835 to death; author of _The portion of Jezreel, a
sacred drama_ 1843; _Pauperism. Whence does it arise? how may it
be remedied_ 1846; _The expected budget, or how to save more than
twelve millions a year_ 1850. _d._ Teignmouth 22 March 1851 aged
48.

BRADLEY, ROBERT GREENE (_only son of Robert Bradley of Slyne near
Lancaster who d. 1825_). _b._ 14 April 1788; barrister G.I. 22
June 1814, bencher 26 April 1837, treasurer 30 Aug. 1839; comr. of
bankrupts for Lancaster. _d._ of paralysis at Slyne 16 Oct. 1869.

BRADLEY, SAMUEL MESSENGER. _b._ 2 June 1841; ed. at Manchester
school of medicine, M.R.C.S. 1862, F.R.C.S. 1869; demonstrator of
anatomy at Manchester school of medicine 1865, and lecturer on
anatomy 1866; professor of physiology at Stonyhurst college
several years; assistant surgeon to Manchester Royal infirmary
1873 and surgeon 1876 to death; lecturer on practical surgery at
Owens college school of medicine 1876 to death; author of _Manual
of comparative anatomy and physiology_ 1869, _3 ed._ 1875; _Notes
on Syphilis_ 1872; _Injuries and diseases of the lymphatic system_
1879. _d._ Ramsgate 27 May 1880. _Medical times and gazette i_,
625–6 (1880).

BRADLEY, WILLIAM. _b._ Manchester 16 Jany. 1801; a painter and
teacher of drawing at Manchester 1817; a portrait painter in
London 1822–47; exhibited 13 portraits at Royal Academy, 21 at
Free Society of artists, and 8 at British Institution 1823–46.
_d._ Manchester 4 July 1857.

BRADSHAW, GEORGE (_only son of Thomas Bradshaw of Windsor Bridge,
Pendleton, Salford_). _b._ Windsor Bridge 29 July 1801; an
engraver and printer at Belfast 1820–21, and at Manchester 1821;
projected engraved and published maps of the English counties
1827; published _Bradshaw’s Railway map_ 1838; _Railway time
tables_ 1839; _Monthly railway guide_ Dec. 1841 _to death_;
_Continental railway guide_ June 1847 _to death_; _General railway
directory_ 1849–53; attempted to establish an ocean penny postage;
A.I.C.E. Feb. 1842. _d._ of Asiatic cholera near Christiania,
Norway 6 Sep. 1853. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xiii_, 145–9
(1854); _Manchester Guardian 17 Sep. 1853, p._ 7.

BRADSHAW, HENRY (_son of J. H. Bradshaw of London_). _b._ London 2
Feb. 1831; ed. at East Sheen and Eton; scholar of King’s coll.
Cam. 1847, fellow 1854 to death, B.A. 1854, M.A. 1857; assistant
master at St. Columba’s college near Dublin for a year; principal
library assistant in Cambridge Univ. library March 1857 to Dec.
1858, superintendent of the manuscripts 1859–67, librarian 8 March
1867 to death; pres. of Library Association at the Cambridge
meeting 5–8 Sep. 1882; F.S.A. 26 March 1860; author of 17 papers
in _Antiquarian Communications_ of Cambridge Antiquarian Society,
and of a series of pamphlets which he called _Memoranda_, most
important being _The University library_ 1881; found dead in his
rooms at King’s coll. Cam. 11 Feb. 1886, having died about 11
p._m._ 10 Feb. _The library chronicle iii_, 25–36 (1886);
_Book-lore April 1886, pp._ 141–5.

BRADSHAW, JAMES HILL (_eld. son of J. F. Bradshaw, manager of Quebec
branch of Bank of Upper Canada_). _b._ Hillsborough, co. Down 21
Aug. 1834; ed. at Quebec; ensign 52 Foot 29 Feb. 1856, lieutenant
11 July 1856 to death; shot through the heart at Delhi 14 Sep.
1857. _H. J. Morgan’s Sketches of celebrated Canadians_ (1862)
712–19.

BRADSHAW, JOSEPH. Ensign 37 Foot 12 May 1825; lieut. col. 60 Rifles
9 May 1845 to death; C.B. 9 June 1849. _d._ Kussowlie, North
Western provinces of India 18 Oct. 1851.

BRADSHAW, LAWRENCE. Ensign 46 Foot 25 Sep. 1780; lieut. col. 13 Foot
1 Sep. 1795 to 2 Feb. 1803; major 1 Life Guards 2 Feb. 1803 to 1
March 1812 when he sold out; a comr. of military inquiry 1806–12;
M.G. 25 July 1810, retired 1826. _d._ Harley st. London 10 Jany.
1853 aged 84.

BRADSHAW, THOMAS JOSEPH CAVENDISH (_eld. son of Joseph Hoare
Bradshaw of London, banker who d. 24 May 1845 aged 61_). _b._ 17
Oct. 1824; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; barrister L.I. 17 Nov.
1853; secretary to Royal commission on judicature 1867–71; judge
of county courts of Northumberland (Circuit No. 1) 27 Oct. 1871 to
death. _d._ in a room adjoining town hall, Newcastle 17 Dec. 1884.

BRADSTREET, SIR SIMON, 4 Baronet. _b._ Upper Leeson st. Dublin 25
Nov. 1772; succeeded March 1791; a member of Repeal association
many years. _d._ Clontarf near Dublin 25 Oct. 1853.

BRADWELL, EDMUND (_son of Wm. Bradwell of Covent Garden theatre
London, mechanician who d. 4 Aug. 1849_). Theatrical decorator and
mechanician in London; introduced some extraordinary mechanical
changes into Tom Dibdin’s pantomime of _Guy, Earl of Warwick_ at
Victoria theatre Dec. 1833; mechanician at Olympic, Lyceum, Her
Majesty’s and other theatres. _d._ 11 Magdala terrace, Lordship
lane Dulwich 25 July 1871 aged 72. _Era 30 July 1871, p._ 11,
_col._ 4.

BRADY, SIR ANTONIO (_eld. son of Anthony Brady, storekeeper at Royal
William victualling yard, Plymouth_). _b._ Deptford 10 Nov. 1811;
junior clerk in Royal Victoria victualling yard Deptford 29 Nov.
1828; clerk in accountant general’s office London 26 June 1844;
registrar of contracts 1864; superintendent of purchase and
contract department 13 April 1869 to 31 March 1870 when he retired
on a special pension; knighted at Windsor Castle 23 June 1870;
promoted the Plaistow mission and East London museum; pres. of
Inventors’ Institute; a judge in Verderer’s Court for forest of
Epping; made a collection of fossil Mammalia which is now in
Natural history museum Kensington; author of _The Church’s work
and its hindrances with suggestions for church reform_ 1869;
_Catalogue of Pleistocene Mammalia from Ilford, Essex_ 1874. _d._
Maryland point, Forest lane, Stratford Essex 12 Dec. 1881.
_Geological Mag. 1882, p._ 93.

BRADY, ELIZABETH (_2 dau. of Jacob Hutchinson of Islington,
London_). _b._ Islington 1803; ed. at Islington school where she
was successively apprentice, teacher, and governess, head mistress
there 1838–42; superintendent of the York Girls’ school 1842–46;
conducted a school for daughters of Friends at Edgbaston
Birmingham 1848–69. (_m._ 1828 Edward Foster Brady head master of
Islington school who _d._ 1838). _d._ Edgbaston 22 May 1874. _The
Annual Monitor for 1876, pp._ 20–25.

BRADY, SIR FRANCIS (_son of James Brady of Navan, Meath_). _b._
1809; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub., B.A. 1835; called to Irish bar
1836; chief justice of Newfoundland and judge of vice admiralty
court 15 Oct. 1847 to 1865; knighted by patent 24 May 1860. (_m._
1839 Kate dau. of David Lynch of Dublin, she _d._ 16 Jany. 1880).
_d._ 59 Burlington road, Bayswater London 29 Dec. 1871.

BRADY, SIR MAZIERE, 1 Baronet (_2 son of Francis Tempest Brady of
Dublin, gold and silver thread manufacturer 1763–1821_). _b._
Dublin 20 July 1796; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub. 1812–16, scholar
1814, B.A. 1816; called to Irish bar 1819; barrister I.T. 1835;
solicitor general for Ireland 1837; attorney general 1839; P.C.
Ireland 1839; chief baron of Court of Exchequer 11 Aug. 1840 to
1846; lord chancellor of Ireland 1846 to Feb. 1852, Jany. 1853 to
1858 and 1859 to 28 June 1866; vice chancellor of Queen’s Univ.
Ireland 1850 to death. _d._ 26 Upper Pembroke st. Dublin 13 April
1871. _O. J. Burke’s Lord chancellors of Ireland_ (1879) 270–7.

BRAE, ANDREW EDMUND. Practised as dentist at Leeds to 1872; lived in
Guernsey 1872 to death; author of _Literary cookery with reference
to matter attributed to Coleridge and Shakespeare_ 1855;
_Electrical communication in railway trains_ 1865; _The treatise
on the Astrolabe of G. Chaucer, edited by A. E. B._ 1870; wrote
many papers on Shakespeare and Chaucer in first series of _Notes
and Queries_ under signature of A. E. B. _d._ London 10 Dec. 1881.
_bur._ Mont Durand, Guernsey. _Notes and Queries, 6 series vi_,
323 (1882).

BRAGGE, WILLIAM (_3 son of Thomas Perry Bragge of Birmingham,
manufacturing jeweller_). _b._ Birmingham 31 May 1823; a civil
engineer; constructed the first railway line in Brazil namely from
Rio Janeiro to Petropolis; knighted and made a chevalier by
Emperor of Brazil; partner with John Brown in Atlas Steel works,
Sheffield 1858–64 when works were sold to a limited company and he
received sum of £50,000, managing director of the company 1864–72;
established works at Birmingham for manufacture of watches by
machinery 1876 which became English Watch company in 1882;
M.I.M.E. 1854, F.S.A. 1870; sold his collection of illuminated
manuscripts for £12,272, June 1878, and his collection of 13000
pipes and smoking apparatus for £4,000 Feb. 1882; author of
_Bibliotheca Nicotiana, a catalogue of books about tobacco_ 1880.
_d._ 59 Hall road, Handsworth, Birmingham 6 June 1884.

BRAHAM, CHARLES BAMPFYLDE (_son of the succeeding_). _b._ 20 Dec.
1823; made his first appearance on stage at Princess’s theatre
London 26 Oct. 1848 as Adelmar in Leoline; sang in Italy and
Portugal with great success. _d._ 103 Ebury st. Pimlico, London 11
June 1884.

BRAHAM, JOHN (_son of John Abraham of Goodman’s Fields, London, a
German Jew_). _b._ Goodman’s Fields 20 June 1773; pupil of Myer
Lyon otherwise Leoni; made his début at Bagnigge Wells assembly
rooms; changed his name to Braham 1787; sang at Bath 1794–6, Drury
Lane 1796, in Paris 1797 and Italy 1798–1801,at Covent Garden
1801–5 and Drury Lane 1805–24; sang in Italian opera at King’s
theatre London 1804–6 and 1816; made £14,000 per annum 1801–24;
built St. James’s theatre London in 14 weeks at cost of £36,000
Sep.-Dec. 1835, managed it 1835–9; sang in New York Nov. 1840;
composed music to _The Cabinet_ 1801; _Family Quarrells_ 1802 and
10 other dramas. _d._ The Grange, Brompton, London 17 Feb. 1856.
_Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography iii_, 145–59 (1825), _portrait_;
_Metropolitan Mag. xviii_, 130–42 (1837); _Stirling’s Old Drury
Lane ii_, 91–5 (1881); _I.L.N. xx_, 245–6 (1852), _portrait_; P.
_Fitzgerald’s Life of C. Lamb iii_, 226, _vi_, 145.

BRAID, GEORGE ROSS. _b._ May 1813; made his first appearance in
London at Adelphi theatre 29 Sep. 1843; acted at Haymarket theatre
many years. _d._ Holly house, Kennington road London 18 Feb. 1878.

BRAID, JAMES (_son of Mr. Braid of Rylaw, Fifeshire_). _b._ Rylaw
about 1795; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; M.R.C.S. Edin.; surgeon at
Manchester; investigated subject of mesmerism 1841; author of
_Neurypnology or the rationale of nervous sleep_ 1843; _The power
of the mind over the body_ 1846; _Magic, witchcraft, animal
magnetism, hypnotism and electro-biology 3 ed._ 1852. _d._ 25
March 1860. _Med. Times and Gaz. i_, 355, 386 (1860); _Manchester
Courier 31 March 1860_.

BRAIDWOOD, JAMES (_son of Mr. Braidwood of Edinburgh, builder_).
_b._ Edinburgh 1800; ed. at the High sch.; engaged in his father’s
business; superintendent of Edinburgh fire engines 1823; published
his work “_On the construction of Fire Engines and Apparatus, the
training of firemen and the method of proceeding in cases of
Fire_” 1830; superintendent of London Fire Engine establishment
formed by 8 of the Insurance companies 1 Jany. 1833; A.I.C.E.
1833; read many papers on subject of fires at Institute of Civil
Engineers and Society of Arts; killed in great fire at Cotton’s
wharf, Tooley st. London 22 June 1861 which continued burning for
a month and destroyed property of the value of £2,000,000. _J.
Braidwood’s Fire prevention with memoir of the author_ (1866),
_portrait_; _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxi_, 571–8 (1862).

BRAITHWAITE, REV. GEORGE. _b._ Kendal 15 April 1818; ed. at Sedbergh
sch. and Queen’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843; C. of Perry
Barr, Staffs. 1847–51; V. of St. Peter the Great, Chichester
1851–68; sub-dean of Chichester cathedral 1853–68; author of
_Sonnets and other poems_ 1851, _2 ed._ 1875. _d._ Beechfield,
Carnforth, Lancashire 2 April 1875. _Sonnets by the late Rev. G.
Braithwaite_, _2 ed._ 1875 _preface_.

BRAITHWAITE, JOHN (_3 son of John Braithwaite of London, engineer
who d. June 1818_). _b._ 1 Bath place, New road London 19 March
1797; engineer in London 1818–44; ventilated House of Lords by
means of air pumps 1820; constructed the first practical steam
fire engine; engineer of Eastern Counties railway 1836–43; joint
founder with J. C. Robertson of the _Railway Times_ 1837, sole
proprietor 1837–45 when his affairs were wound up; surveyed lines
in France 1844–46; F.S.A. 1819, M.I.C.E. 1838; author of
_Supplement to Capt. Sir John Ross’s Narrative of a second voyage
in search of a North-West passage_ 1835. _d._ 8 Clifton gardens,
Paddington London 25 Sep. 1870. _Mechanic’s Mag. xiii_, 235–7,
377–88, 417–9 (1830), _portrait_; _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of
C.E. xxxi_, 207–11 (1871).

BRAME, BENJAMIN. Attorney at Ipswich 1798 to death; bailiff of
Ipswich 1820 and 1822; the first mayor of Ipswich 1835. _d._ 21
July 1851 aged 78. _G.M. xxxvi_, 332 (1851).

BRAMSTON, THOMAS WILLIAM (_elder son of Thomas Gardiner Bramston of
Skreens, Essex 1770–1831, M.P. for Essex_). _b._ 30 Oct. 1796; ed.
at Winchester and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1823; fellow of All
Souls’ college; M.P. for South Essex 19 Jany. 1835 to 6 July 1865.
_d._ 30 Eccleston sq. London 21 May 1871.

BRAMWELL, JOHN (_son of Rev. Wm. Bramwell, Wesleyan minister who d.
1818_). _b._ 24 April 1794; attorney at Durham 1815; alderman of
Durham 1835–52; mayor 1840, 41, 45, 52 and 1853; undersheriff of
co. Durham 1840; recorder of Durham and steward of Court Leet and
Court Baron of city of Durham March 1860 to death. _d._ Framwell
gate, Durham 25 Nov. 1882.

BRANCKER, SIR THOMAS (_eld. child of Peter Whitfield Brancker of
Liverpool 1750–1836_). _b._ Liverpool 17 Sep. 1783; sugar refiner
at Liverpool; mayor of Liverpool 1830; knighted at St. James’s
palace, London 13 Sep. 1831. _d._ Mount Pleasant, Liverpool 13
Feb. 1853.

BRANCKER, WILLIAM GODEFROY (_son of W. Brancker of Erbstock hall,
Ruabon_). _b._ 27 March 1834; ed. at Em. coll. Cam.; lieut. R.A. 6
March 1856; lieut. col. 4 Oct. 1882 to death; instructor in
artillery at Woolwich 1872–80; C.B. 18 Nov. 1882. _d._ Ipswich 22
May 1885.

BRAND, SIR CHRISTOFFEL JOSEPH (_son of Johannes Henricus Brand,
member of Court of Justice in Cape Colony_). _b._ 1797; ed. at
Leyden, doctor in philosophy and law 1820; admitted advocate in
Court of Justice, Cape of Good Hope 1821; member of legislative
council 1850; speaker of house of assembly 1854 to death; knighted
by patent 24 May 1860. _d._ 20 May 1875.

BRAND, FERDINAND. Comptroller of Bridge house estates, City of
London 1839 to Dec. 1878, and of the Chamber, City of London 1854
to Dec. 1878. _d._ Craigmillar, Avenue road, Crouch End 1 Nov.
1880 in 80 year.

BRAND, GEORGE. _b._ Arbuthnott, Aberdeenshire 1816; ed. at King’s
coll. Aberdeen, B.A., M.A.; vice consul at Loanda 27 Dec. 1844 to
31 July 1856; author of various Reports including a very able one
on the Decree of the Portuguese government for registration and
emancipation of slaves in the Colonial possessions of Portugal;
consul at Lagos, West Africa 10 June 1859 to death. _d._ on board
H.M.’s steamer Alecto 16 June 1860.

BRAND, JOHN. _b._ Armenia; lived some time there; compiled a
dictionary of the Armenian language, shutting himself up in a
convent for that purpose; had an estate at Sutton near Ipswich; a
successful batsman for about 15 seasons in great cricket matches,
played his first match at Lords 31 May 1815; one of the very best
amateur boxers and chess-players. _d._ in a private lunatic asylum
at Ticehurst, Sussex April 1856 aged 66.

BRAND, WILLIAM ALLAN. Editor of the _Montrose Review_. _d._
Inchbridge near Montrose 7 Feb. 1869 aged 31.

BRAND, WILLIAM. _b._ Blackhouse parish of Peterhead 1807; a writer
to the signet 1834; partner in firm of Scott and Balderston of
Edinburgh; secretary to Union Bank of Scotland, Edin. 1846 to
death; a founder of Botanical Society of Edin. 8 Feb. 1836,
treasurer 17 March 1836, contributed many papers, enriched its
herbarium with many thousand specimens of plants; discovered
several rare and new plants in Scotland. _d._ Edinburgh 15 Oct.
1869. _Trans. of Botanical Soc. of Edin. x_, 284–8 (1870).

BRANDARD, ROBERT. _b._ Birmingham 1805; landscape engraver in London
1826 to death; engraved plates for Turner’s _England_ and _Rivers
of England_ and other books, also for the _Art Journal_; produced
some etchings from his own designs, one series of which was
published by the Art Union 1864; painted both in oils and
water-colours; exhibited 3 pictures at R.A., 21 at British
Institution and 32 at Suffolk st. gallery 1831–58. _d._ Campden
hill, Kensington, London 7 Jany. 1862.

BRANDE, EVERARD AUGUSTUS (_eld. son of Augustus Everard Brande of
Arlington st. London, apothecary to George iii._) _b._ Arlington
st. 1776; ed. at Westminster sch.; studied at St. George’s
hospital 1795; apothecary to George iii and Queen Charlotte 1801;
apothecary to William iv and Queen Adelaide 1830–33 when he
retired from practice; a member of first Court of Examiners of
Society of Apothecaries 1815; presented to College of Phys.
valuable collection of Materia Medica made by Dr. Burgess. _d._
Sulhamstead house, Turnham-Green, London 11 Dec. 1868. _Reg. and
mag. of biog. i_, 312 (1869).

BRANDE, GEORGE WILLIAM (_brother of the preceding_). Chief clerk of
the Treasury many years. _d._ Exeter 18 June 1854 aged 69.

BRANDE, WILLIAM THOMAS (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Arlington
st. 11 Jany. or Feb. 1788; ed. at Westminster; began lecturing on
chemistry 1808; F.R.S. 13 April 1809, Copley medallist 1813, one
of secretaries 1816–26; professor of chemistry to Apothecaries
company 4 Nov. 1812 and professor of materia medica 1813, master
of the Company 1851; professor of chemistry at Royal Institution
May 1813 to 1854; superintendent of die department of Mint 1825
and of coining department 1854; edited with M. Faraday _Quarterly
journal of science and arts_ 1816–36; author of _Outlines of
geology_ 1817, _2 ed._ 1829; _A manual of chemistry_ 1819, _6 ed.
2 vols._ 1848; _A manual of pharmacy_ 1825, _3 ed._ 1833; edited
_A dictionary of science literature and art_ 1842, _3 ed._ 1853.
_d._ Tunbridge Wells 11 Feb. 1866. _Proc. of Royal Society xvi_,
2–6 (1868); _S. Muspratt’s Chemistry vol. 1_ (1853), _portrait_.

BRANDLING, JOHN JAMES. Second lieut. R.A. 19 March 1839; lieut. col.
8 March 1860 to death; C.B. 5 July 1855. _d._ Woodsley house,
Leeds 16 April 1860 aged 39.

BRANDON, JOHN RAPHAEL. _b._ 1817; articled to W. Parkinson,
architect 1836; practised at Beaufort buildings, Strand, London
with his brother Joshua Arthur Brandon 1841–7 when the latter
died; joint architect with Robert Ritchie of Catholic Apostolic
church, Gordon sq. London, opened 1 Jany. 1854; architect of St.
Peter’s church, Great Windmill st. Piccadilly 1861; one of the 11
architects who competed for Royal Courts of Justice, London 1867;
author with his brother of _Analysis of Gothick architecture 2
vols._ 1847; _Views of English ecclesiastical structures_ 1848,
_new ed. 2 vols._ 1858; _Open timber roofs of the middle ages_
1849; _Railways and the Public_ 1868, _8 ed._ 1871; shot himself
at his chambers 17 Clement’s Inn, Strand, London 8 Oct. 1877.

BRANDRETH, THOMAS ALSTON. Second lieut. R.A. 19 July 1797; colonel
23 Nov. 1841 to death; served in the Peninsula 1812–14; C.B. 26
Sep. 1831. _d._ Chudleigh, Devon 24 Sep. 1851 aged 72.

BRANDRETH, THOMAS SHAW (_2 son of Joseph Brandreth M.D. of
Liverpool, physician 1746–1815_). _b._ 24 July 1788; ed. at Eton
and Trin. coll. Cam., 2 wrangler, 2 Smith’s prizeman and
chancellor’s medallist 1810, B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813; fellow of his
college 1811; barrister I.T. 5 June 1818; revising barrister for
Liverpool, Bolton and other towns in Lancashire many years;
invented a logometer or ten-foot gunter, a friction wheel, and a
double-check clock escapement, all of which he patented; invented
a machine in which the weight of a horse was utilised on a moving
platform, this invention was used where steam power proved too
expensive as in Lombardy and in some parts of the United States
where it is still employed; F.R.S. 8 March 1821; author of
_Homer’s Iliad with notes 2 vols._ 1841 in which the Digamma was
restored throughout for sake of the metre; _A dissertation on the
metre of Homer_ 1844; _Homer’s Iliad_, _translated 2 vols._ 1846.
_d._ The Steyne, Worthing 27 May 1873.

BRANDT, FRANCIS FREDERICK (_eld. son of Rev. Francis Brandt R. of
Gawsworth Cheshire who d. 1870_). _b._ Gawsworth rectory 1819; ed.
at Macclesfield gr. sch.; practised as special pleader; barrister
I.T. 30 April 1847; leader of Chester and Knutsford sessions;
reported for the _Times_ in Court of Common Pleas; contributed to
_Bells Life in London_; author of _Habet, a short treatise on the
law of the land as it effects pugilism_ 1857; _Fur and feathers_
1859; _Frank Marland’s Manuscripts_ 1859; _Games, gaming and
gamester’s law_ 1871, _2 ed._ 1873. _d._ 8 Fig tree court, Temple
London 6 Dec. 1874.

BRANDT, ROBERT. Barrister L.I. 1 June 1821; went northern circuit;
commissioner in Bankruptcy for Manchester; judge of Bury Court of
Requests; judge of Manchester county court March 1847 to death.
_d._ Pendleton near Manchester 15 April 1862. _Law Times xxxvii_,
321 (1862).

BRANKS, REV. WILLIAM. Minister of parish of Torpichen; published
anonymously _Heaven our Home_ 1861, _new ed._ 1864, sale of which
reached considerably over 100,000 copies; _Zion’s King_ 1859;
preserved anonymous character of his works to the last. _d._
Torpichen 18 Feb. 1879.

BRANSON, WILLIAM SCHOLES. Member of company of T.R. Liverpool 1847
or before; manager of Adelphi theatre Liverpool; author of many
plays. _d._ Fairfield, Liverpool Jany. 1884 aged 74.

BRANT, JAMES. Vice consul at Trebizond 31 March 1830; consul at
Erzeroom 27 April 1836 and at Damascus Sep. 1856 to 2 Nov. 1860
when he retired on a pension; C.B. 31 Oct. 1860. _d._
Cliftonville, Brighton 24 Nov. 1861.

BRANT, REV. WILLIAM HOLT. Consular chaplain at St. Michael’s in the
Azores 11 Nov. 1834 to 25 April 1865. _d._ Lisbon 20 April 1867
aged 90.

BRANWHITE, CHARLES (_son of Nathan Branwhite of Bristol, miniature
painter_). _b._ Bristol 1817; landscape painter especially of
frost scenes; exhibited 9 pictures at R.A., 25 at British
Institution and 2 at Suffolk st. gallery 1845–57. _d._ Bramford
house, Westfield park, Redland, Bristol 15 Feb. 1880. _I.L.N.
lxxvi_, 285 (1880), _portrait_.

BRASIER, JAMES. Entered navy 3 Dec. 1799; captain 10 Jany. 1837;
V.A. on h.p. 14 Nov. 1863. _d._ Bradney near Bridgnorth 28 July
1864 aged 80.

BRASSEY, THOMAS (_son of John Brassey of Buerton, Aldford, Cheshire,
farmer_). _b._ Buerton 7 Nov. 1805; land surveyor at Birkenhead
1826; railway contractor in London 1836; made line from Paris to
Rouen 1841–3 and from Rouen to Havre 1843–5; contractor for Great
Northern railway 1847–51, railways in Italy 1850–3, Grand Trunk
railway of Canada 1852–9 and railways in Australia 1859–63;
established with E. T. Betts and M. Peto Canada works at
Birkenhead 1853. _d._ Hastings 8 Dec. 1870. _Life by Arthur Helps_
1872, _portrait_; _J. Devey’s Life of Joseph Locke_ (1862) 145–54;
_Work and wages practically illustrated_, _by T. Brassey, M.P.
1872_.

NOTE.—He laid out £78,000,000 of other people’s money and upon
that outlay retained £2,500,000 being as nearly as possible
three per cent.; he had in his employ at one time upwards of
30,000 men on railways in Europe; his will was proved in
London 7 Feb. 1871, personalty being sworn under £3,200,000.

BRAVO, CHARLES DELAUNEY TURNER (_only son of Charles Turner of the
Isle of Jersey_). _b._ 39 Upper Charlotte st. Tottenham Court
road, London 30 Nov. 1845; ed. at King’s coll. London and Trin.
coll. Ox., admitted gentleman commoner 16 Jany. 1864, B.A. 1866,
M.A. 1868; barrister M.T. 30 April 1870, went Home circuit;
changed his name to Bravo 1868 or 1869. (_m._ 7 Dec. 1875 Florence
eld. dau. of Robert Campbell of Buscot park near Reading, she was
_b._ 5 Sep. 1845, _m._ (1) 21 Sep. 1864 Alexander Lewis Ricardo,
Ensign Grenadier Guards (who _d._ 19 April 1871), she _d._ at
Lumps villa Southsea 17 Sep. 1878 and was _bur._ at Farringdon,
Berkshire 21 Sep.) C. D. T. Bravo _d._ suddenly and mysteriously
from taking tartar emetic at The Priory Bedford hill road, Balham
Surrey 21 April 1876. _bur._ Lower Norwood cemetery 1 May. _The
Balham mystery or the Bravo poisoning case 7 numbers 56 pages_
(1876), _portraits_.

NOTE.—There was a coroner’s inquest held at which no
conclusion was arrived at as to how the poison was
administered, a renewed inquest was opened by the Coroner for
East Surrey 11 July 1876 which lasted till 11 Aug. when the
coroner’s jury returned the following verdict, “We find that
the deceased did not commit suicide, but that he was wilfully
murdered by the administration of tartar emetic, but there is
not sufficient evidence to fix the guilt upon any person or
persons.” In consequence of this decision the Government
offered a reward of £250 for information leading to the
conviction of the murderer, but nothing more was ever found
out.

BRAY, ANNA ELIZA (_only dau. of John Kemp of the Mint, London,
bullion porter 1748–1823_). _b._ St. Mary Newington, Surrey 25
Dec. 1790; author of _Traditions, legends, superstitions and
sketches of Devonshire, the Tamar and the Tavy 3 vols._ 1838;
_Trelawnie of Trelawne or the prophecy 3 vols., 2 ed._ 1845;
_Henry de Pomeroy or the eve of St. John 3 vols._ 1842, _new ed._
1846; _Handel, his life personal and professional_ 1857; _Joan of
Arc_ 1874. (_m._ (1) Feb. 1818 Charles Alfred Stothard, historical
draughtsman who _d._ 28 May 1821, _m._ (2) 1822 Rev. Edward Atkyns
Bray, V. of Tavistock who _d._ 1857). She _d._ 40 Brompton
Crescent, London 21 Jany. 1883. _Mrs. Bray’s Autobiography_ 1844,
_portrait_; _Library Chronicle i_, 126–9 (1884); _I.L.N. lxxxii_,
197 (1883), _portrait_.

BRAY, CHARLES (_son of Mr. Bray of Coventry, ribbon manufacturer who
d. 1835_). _b._ Coventry 31 Jany. 1811; ribbon manufacturer at
Coventry 1835–56; helped to establish Coventry Labourers’ and
Artisans’ Society 1843 which developed into a co-operative society
of which he was president; started a working man’s club 1845;
purchased _The Coventry Herald and Observer_ 1846 which he sold to
J. M. Scott 1874; author of _Education of the feelings_ 1838, _4
ed._ 1872; _Philosophy of necessity 2 vols._ 1841, _2 ed._ 1863;
_Outlines of social systems and communities_ 1844; _A manual of
anthropology_ 1871, _2 ed._ 1883; _Psychological and ethical
definitions on a physiological basis_ 1879 and a number of
pamphlets. _d._ 5 Oct. 1884. _C. Bray’s Phases of opinion and
experience during a long life_ (1884), _portrait_; _George Eliot’s
Life, by J. W. Cross_ 1885.

BRAY, REV. EDWARD ATKYNS (_only son of Edward Bray of Tavistock,
solicitor_). _b._ the Abbey house, Tavistock 18 Dec. 1778; a
student at M.T. 1801, barrister M.T. 1806; ordained by bishop of
Norwich about 1811; entered at Trin. coll. Cam. 1812, B.D. 1822;
V. of Tavistock 1812 to death; P.C. of Brent Tor, Devon 1812 to
death; author of _Sermons from the works of the most eminent
divines_ 1818; _Discourses from tracts and treatises of eminent
divines_ 1821; _Discourses on Protestantism_ 1829; _Poetical
remains 2 vols._ 1859. _d._ Tavistock 17 July 1857. _Poetical
remains of the late E. A. Bray i_, _pp. ix-lii_, (1859),
_portrait_.

BRAY, EDWARD WILLIAM. Ensign 67 Foot 12 Jany. 1805; major 39 Foot 9
Nov. 1841 to 7 Aug. 1846 when he retired on full pay; C.B. 2 May
1844. _d._ Montpellier villas, Brighton 3 Dec. 1859 aged 70.

BRAY, GEORGE FREDERICK CAMPBELL. _b._ 23 April 1826; ensign 39 Foot
22 March 1844; lieut. col. 96 Foot 14 Sep. 1870 to 13 March 1878
when placed on h.p.; assistant adjutant general second division
Abyssinian expedition 11 Nov. 1867 to 7 June 1868; deputy A.A.G.
Bombay 20 Sep. 1872 to 15 Nov. 1873; A.A.G. and Q.M.G. southern
district 15 March 1878 to 31 March 1883; hon. M.G. 26 Sep. 1883.
_d._ 16 Kidbrook Green, Blackheath 26 Sep. 1884.

BRAY, REGINALD (_son of Edward Bray of Shere near Guildford
1768–1814, treasurer of Society of Antiquaries_). _b._ 26 Jany.
1797; solicitor in London 1818 to death; F.S.A. 26 Nov. 1829;
printed many papers on reforms of the law; author of _Concise
directions for obtaining Lord Chancellors orders for election and
removal of coroners of counties_ 1831. _d._ Shere 9 Sep. 1879.

BRAYBROOK, RICHARD GRIFFIN NEVILLE, 3 Baron (_eld. son of Richard
Aldworth Neville Griffin, 2 Baron Braybrook 1750–1825_). _b._
Stanlake, Berks. 26 Sep. 1783; ed. at Sunbury, Eton and Magd.
coll. Cam., M.A. 1811, D.C.L. Ox. 1810; M.P. for Thirsk 1805–1806,
for Saltash 1806–1807, for Buckingham 1807–1812 and for Berkshire
(after a 15 days poll) 12 Oct. 1812 to 28 Feb. 1825 when he
succeeded as 3 Baron; recorder of Saffron Walden to 1835; pres. of
Camden Society and of Surtees Society; edited _Diary and
correspondence of Samuel Pepys 2 vols._ 1825, _4 ed. 4 vols._
1854; _Life of Jane Lady Cornwallis_ 1842; author of _History of
Audley End and Saffron Walden_ 1835. _d._ Audley End 13 March
1858.

BRAYBROOK, RICHARD CORNWALLIS NEVILLE, 4 Baron (_eld. son of the
preceding_). _b._ St. George’s parish, Hanover sq. London 17 March
1820; ed. at Eton; ensign Grenadier guards 2 June 1837, lieut. 31
Dec. 1841 to 1842 when he sold out; F.S.A. 25 March 1847;
succeeded 13 March 1858; author of _Saxon Obsequies discovered in
Cambridgeshire_ 1852. _d._ Audley End 22 Feb. 1861.

BRAYBROOKE, SAMUEL. Second lieut. 1 Ceylon regiment 17 Dec. 1812,
lieut. col. 26 Jany. 1844 to 11 June 1859; col. 99 Foot 26 Jany.
1866 to death; general 16 April 1875. _d._ 3 Gledhow gardens,
South Kensington, London 7 Oct. 1880 aged 84.

BRAYBROOKE, WILLIAM LEMAN (_2 son of the preceding_). Ensign 90 Foot
29 March 1844; ensign 15 Foot 6 June 1845; ensign Ceylon Rifles 11
July 1845, lieut. 10 Jany. 1847 to death, adjutant 7 April 1848 to
1854; served with and carried colours of 95 Foot in Crimean war
1854. _d._ on board H.M.S. Vulcan in Black Sea 21 Sep. 1854 from
wounds received at battle of the Alma 20 Sep. _The diary of the
late W. L. Braybrooke_ 1855.

BRAYE, SARAH OTWAY-CAVE, Baroness. _b._ July 1767. (_m._ 25 Feb.
1790 Henry Otway who was _b._ 1769 and _d._ 13 Sep. 1815); barony
of Braye in abeyance since 1557 was revived in her favour 3 Oct.
1839. _d._ 14 Great Stanhope st. London 21 Feb. 1862.

BRAYLEY, EDWARD WEDLAKE. _b._ Lambeth, Surrey 1773; apprenticed to
an enameller at Clerkenwell; prepared enamel plates for Henry
Bone; edited with John Britton _The beauties of England and Wales
10 vols._ 1801–14; sec. and librarian to Russell Institution 55
Great Coram st. London 1826 to death; F.S.A. 1823; author of _The
history and antiquities of the abbey church of St. Peter
Westminster 2 vols._ 1818; _Historical and descriptive account of
the theatres of London_ 1826; _Londiniana, or reminiscences of the
British metropolis 4 vols._ 1829; _The graphic and historical
illustrator_, a periodical July 1832 to Nov. 1834; _A
topographical history of the county of Surrey 5 vols._ 1841–8 and
many other books. _d._ 55 Great Coram st. London 23 Sep. 1854.
_Memoir by John Britton privately printed_ 1855; _G.M. xlii_, 538,
582 (1854).

BRAYLEY, EDWARD WILLIAM (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ London
1801; studied science at London and Royal Institutions; joint
librarian of the London Institution 1834 where he also lectured,
sole librarian 1865 to death, and professor of physical geography
and meteorology 1865 to death; an original member of Zoological
society 1826 and of Chemical society of London 1841; F.R.S. 1 June
1854; F.R.A.S. Nov. 1866; one of the editors 1822–45 of _Annals of
philosophy_, _Zoological journal_, and _Philosophical Magazine_ to
all of which he contributed papers; author of _Ancient castles of
England and Wales 2 vols._ 1825. _d._ 53 Oakley road, London 1
Feb. 1870. _Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xxxii_, 111
(1872).

BREADALBANE, JOHN CAMPBELL, 2 Marquis of (_only son of John
Campbell, 1 Marquis of Breadalbane 1762–1834_). _b._ Nethergate,
Dundee 26 Oct. 1796; ed. at Glasgow college; M.P. for Okehampton
1820–26; M.P. for Perthshire 29 Dec. 1832 to 29 March 1834 when he
succeeded as 2 Marquis; F.R.S. 5 June 1834; K.T. 21 March 1838;
lieut. and sheriff principal of Argyllshire 5 Dec. 1839; presided
over meeting of British Association at Glasgow 1840; lord rector
of Univ. of Glasgow 1841; received Queen Victoria at Taymouth
Castle, Perthshire on her first visit to Scotland 8 Sep. 1842;
lord chamberlain of the household 1848–52 and 1853–58; P.C. 4 Sep.
1848; colonel of Argyll and Bute militia 18 Sep. 1854 to death.
_d._ Lausanne 8 Nov. 1862. _P. R. Drummond’s Perthshire in bygone
days_ (1879) 6–17.

BREADALBANE, JOHN ALEXANDER GAVIN Campbell, 6 Earl of. _b._ London
30 March 1824; ensign 79 Foot 2 Aug. 1842; captain 1 Foot 4 Aug.
1854 to 12 Jany. 1855 when he sold out; succeeded 8 Nov. 1862,
confirmed as 6 Earl by Court of Session 1866 and by House of Lords
1867; a frequent correspondent of _The Field_; a great salmon
fisher. _d._ 4B The Albany, Piccadilly, London 20 March 1871. _J.
Paterson’s Breadalbane succession case_ 1863.

BREEKS, JAMES WILKINSON. _b._ Edengate, Warcop, Westmoreland 5 March
1830; entered Madras civil service 1849, private sec. to Sir W. T.
Denison governor of Madras 1861–64; comr. of the Nilagiris,
principal sanatorium of South of India to death; made a complete
collection of arms, ornaments, dresses and implements in use among
four aboriginal tribes of the Nilagiris and of contents of many
cairns and cromlechs; author of _An account of the primitive
tribes and monuments of the Nilagiris_ 1873. (_m._ 19 Feb. 1863
Susan Maria eld. dau. of Sir. W. T. Denison). _d._ Madras 6 June
1872.

BREEN, JAMES (_2 son of Hugh Breen who superintended Lunar
reductions at Royal Observatory, Greenwich_). _b._ Armagh 5 July
1826; a calculator at Royal Observatory, Greenwich Aug. 1842 to
Aug. 1846 and at Cambridge Observatory Aug. 1846 to Dec. 1858;
observed the total eclipse of the sun at Camuesa in Spain 18 July
1860; F.R.A.S. 10 June 1862; author of _The Planetary Worlds, the
topography and telescopic appearance of the sun, planets, moon and
comets_ 1854; contributed to _Popular Science Review_ and other
periodicals generally anonymously. _d._ 25 Aug. 1866. _Monthly
notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xxvii_, 104 (1867).

BREESE, EDWARD. _b._ 13 April 1835; ed. at Lewisham, Kent; admitted
solicitor 1857; practised at Dolgelly to death; clerk of the peace
for Merionethshire; F.S.A. 21 March 1872; author of _Kalendars of
Gwynedd, or chronological lists of lords-lieutenant, sheriffs and
knights of the shire for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon and
Merioneth_ 1873. _d._ Morva lodge, Portmadoc, Carnarvonshire 10
March 1881. _Law Times lxx_, 357, 413 (1881).

BREFFIT, EDGAR. _b._ Cromford near Matlock 12 June 1810; founded a
glass bottle manufactory in City of London which became the
leading house, trading as Aire and Calder glass bottle company at
Castleford Yorkshire and Free trade wharf London; took out patents
for stoppered bottles and for making large bottles with taps for
drawing off the contents; member of court of common council for
Dowgate ward 1865; sheriff of London 1875–6; alderman of ward of
Cheap 1877 to death. _d._ The Glebe, Lee Kent 18 Oct. 1882.
_I.L.N. lxvii_, 475 (1875), _portrait_; _Graphic xi_, 446 (1875),
_portrait_.

BREMNER, JAMES. _b._ Keiss, parish of Wick, Caithnessshire 25 Sep.
1784; shipbuilder at Wick 1809 to death; designed and constructed
many harbours and piers on north coast of Scotland; raised 236
wrecked vessels between Aberdeenshire and Isle of Skye; removed
steamer Great Britain off strand in Dundrum bay 1847, she was
stranded 22 Sep. 1846 and floated 27 Sep. 1847; author of
_Treatise on the planning and constructing of harbours in deep
water_ 1845. _d._ Harbour place, Pulteney Town, Wick 20 Aug. 1856.
_Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xvi_, 113–20 (1857).

BREMRIDGE, RICHARD. _b._ Barnstaple 1803; solicitor at Barnstaple
1825; M.P. for Barnstaple 1847–52, re-elected 8 July 1852 but
election declared void; M.P. for Barnstaple 1863–65. _d._ Exmouth
15 June 1878.

BRENNAN, VERY REV. PATRICK. _b._ Carlow; one of the Superiors of
Carlow college 1812–20; priest of parish of Kildare 1820;
Penitentiary of dioceses of Kildare and Leighlin. _d._ Kildare
1864.

BRENT, JOHN (_eld. son of John Brent of Rotherhithe, Kent,
shipbuilder 1786–1867_). _b._ Rotherhithe 21 Aug. 1808; a miller
at Canterbury; alderman; city treasurer; F.S.A. 7 April 1853;
author of _The sea wolf, a romance_ 1834; _Lays and legends of
Kent_ 1840, _2 ed._ 1851; _The battle cross, a romance of the
fourteenth century 3 vols._ 1845; _Canterbury in the olden time_
1860, _2 ed._ 1879; _Village bells and other poems_ 1865, _2 ed._
1868 and of many papers in antiquarian magazines. _d._ 8 Dane John
grove, Canterbury 23 April 1882. C. R. _Smith’s Retrospections i_,
259, 303 (1883); _Journal of Brit. Archæol. Assoc. xxxviii_, 235–6
(1882).

BRENT, WILLIAM BRENT. Barrister L.I. 19 Nov. 1813; comr. of
bankrupts to 1831; steward of Marshalsea Court and Palace Court,
Great Scotland yard, Westminster 16 Sep. 1825 to 31 Dec. 1849 when
they were abolished by 12 & 13 Vict. c. 101, s. xiii; probably
dead.

BRENTON, JOHN. _b._ 28 Aug. 1782; entered navy 28 Aug. 1798; captain
26 Dec. 1822; retired V.A. 5 Jany. 1858; knight of Russian order
of St. Vladimir. _d._ Ryde, Isle of Wight 17 Sep. 1859.

BRENTON, SIR LANCELOT CHARLES LEE, 2 Baronet (_younger son of Vice
Admiral Sir Jahleel Brenton, 1 Baronet 1770–1844_). _b._ 1807; ed.
at Hyde abbey sch. Winchester, and Oriel college Oxford; ordained
1830; seceded from Church of England Dec. 1831; took a small
chapel at Bath and set up a new sect which died out with its
founder; succeeded 21 April 1844; author of _The Septuagint
version of the Old Testament according to the Vatican text
translated into English 2 vols._ 1844; _Cardiphonia Latina_, _3
ed. 1850_; _Diaconia, or thoughts on the subject of Ministry_
1852; _Psalms: Bible and Prayer book version, parallel_ 1860. _d._
Montagu house, Ryde 13 June 1862. _Memoir of Sir Jahleel Brenton
re-edited by his son_ [_Rev. L. C. L. Brenton_] 1855, _preface
vii-cxxv_; _Rev. T. Mozley’s Reminiscences ii_, 114–20 (1882).

BRERETON, REV. CHARLES DAVID (_eld. son of Rev. Charles David
Brereton, R. of Little Massingham, Norfolk_). _b._ 19 April 1820;
ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1846; C. of St. James
Piccadilly 1848–49; R. of St. Edmund Norwich 1849–52; consular
chaplain at Malaga, Spain 27 Aug. 1850 to 30 April 1859; R. of
Bixley with Framlingham Earl, Norfolk 1863 to death; author of
_Lectures for travellers_ 1854; _Verses and lectures_ 1868. _d._
Lowestoft 15 April 1876.

BRERETON, SIR WILLIAM (_son of major Robert Brereton who fought at
Culloden_). _b._ 1789; 2 lieut. R.A. 10 May 1805; lieut. col. 17
Aug. 1843 to 16 Dec. 1854; served in Spain, France and the
Netherlands; granted service reward 1 April 1856; head of Irish
constabulary short time; K.H. 1837; C.B. 19 July 1838; K.C.B. 28
June 1861; L.G. 27 June 1864; author of _The British fleet in the
Black Sea while under the command of Vice Admiral J. W. D.
Dundas_, _privately printed 1857_. _d._ 3E Albany, Piccadilly,
London 27 July 1864. _I.L.N. xlv_, 154, 299 (1864).