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BRONTE, CHARLOTTE (_3 child of the succeeding_). _b._ Hartshead 21
April 1816; ed. at Cowan’s Bridge, Yorkshire 1824–5, and at Miss
Wooler’s school Roehead, Yorkshire 1831–2 where she was teacher 29
July 1835 to Dec. 1837; learnt French in Brussels 1842–3. (_m._ 19
June 1854 Rev. Arthur Bell Nicholls, C. of Haworth); author with
her sisters Emily and Anne of _Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton
Bell_ 1846; _Jane Eyre an autobiography edited by Currer Bell 3
vols._ 1847; _Shirley, a tale by Currer Bell 3 vols._ 1849;
_Villette by Currer Bell 3 vols._ 1853; _The professor, a tale_
[_edited by A. B. Nicholls_] _2 vols._ 1857. _d._ Haworth
parsonage 31 March 1855. _Mrs. Gaskell’s Life of C. Bronte 2
vols._ 1857, _portrait_; _C. Bronte, a monograph by T. W. Reid_
1877; _The Bronte family by F. A. Leyland_ 1886; _G. B. Smith’s
Poets and novelists_ (1875) 207–50; _W. Smith’s Old Yorkshire_
(1883) 124–30, _portrait_; _P. Bayne’s Two great Englishwomen_
(1881) 155–340; _Illust. Review iv_, 257–65, _portrait_.

BRONTE, REV. PATRICK (_son of Hugh Prunty of Ahaderg, Downshire_).
_b._ Ahaderg 17 March 1777; opened a school at Drumgooland,
Downshire 1793; changed his name to Bronte about 1801; entered St.
John’s coll. Cam. Oct. 1802, B.A. 1806; ordained to a curacy in
Essex; C. of Hartshead, Yorkshire 1811; P.C. of Thornton near
Bradford 1814–20; Inc. of Haworth near Bradford 25 Feb. 1820 to
death; author of _Cottage poems_ 1811; _The rural minstrel_ 1813
and of a tract called, _The cottage in a wood, or the art of
becoming rich and happy_ 1818 _reprinted_ 1859, he is partly
represented as Mr. Helstone in his daughter’s novel _Shirley_.
_d._ Haworth parsonage 7 June 1861. _Dict, of nat. biog. vi_,
406–13 (1886).

BROOK, CHARLES (_son of James Brook of Huddersfield, banker and
cotton spinner at Meltham_). _b._ Upperhead row, Huddersfield 18
Nov. 1814; partner with his father 1840; made many improvements in
machinery; founded Convalescent Home at Huddersfield at cost of
£40,000 where there is a portrait of him by Samuel Howell;
purchased Enderby hall near Leicester 1865 at cost of £150,000;
rebuilt Enderby church 1865. _d._ Enderby hall 10 July 1872.

BROOKE, SIR ARTHUR BRINSLEY, 2 Baronet. _b._ 1797; succeeded 24
March 1834; M.P. for co. Fermanagh 30 April 1840 to death. _d._
Colebrooke, co. Fermanagh 20 Nov. 1854.

BROOKE, CHARLES. _b._ in the Mint Exeter 8 Aug. 1777; ed. at English
academy Liege; took part in emigration to Stonyhurst 1794;
ordained at Maynooth 12 June 1802; entered Society of Jesus at
Hodder Place near Stonyhurst 26 Sep. 1803; missioner at Clayton,
Enfield Sep. 1817; provincial 1826–32; superior of Seminary
adjacent to Stonyhurst college 30 July 1834; visitor of Ireland
June 1842 to July 1843; rector of St. Aloysius’ college 1843–5;
sent to Exeter 11 Sep. 1845 to gather materials for continuation
of history of English province of Society of Jesus from 1635. _d._
in same room in which he had been born at Exeter 6 Oct. 1852.

BROOKE, CHARLES (_son of Henry James Brooke 1771–1857_). _b._ 30
June 1804; ed. at Chiswick, Rugby and St. John’s coll. Cam., 23
wrangler 1827, B.A. 1827, B.M. 1828, M.A. 1853; M.R.C.S. 1834,
F.R.C.S. 1844; pres. of Meteorological and Microscopical
Societies; invented the bead suture, a great improvement in
treatment of deep wounds; invented self recording meteorological
instruments which register their variations by means of
photography; fellow of Royal Med. and Chir. Soc. 1844, councillor,
librarian and vice. pres. successively; F.R.S. 4 March 1847;
author of _A synopsis of the principal formulæ and results of pure
mathematics_ 1829; edited Golding Bird’s _Elements of natural
philosophy_ _4 ed. 1854, 5 ed. 1860, and 6 ed. 1867_. _d._
Weymouth 17 May 1879. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xxx_, 1–2 (1880).

BROOKE, EDWARD BASIL. _b._ 1799; 2 lieut. R.A. 15 Dec. 1817; lieut.
col. 67 Foot 9 Nov. 1846 to 31 Dec. 1858; inspecting field officer
31 Dec. 1858; M.G. 1 May 1861. _d._ London 1 Dec. 1868.

BROOKE, EDWIN HARCOURT, stage name of Edward James Macdonald Brook.
_b._ Buckinghamshire 12 June 1843; ed. at City of London School;
made his first appearance in London at Princess’s theatre 10 July
1862 as Lord Chamberlain in _Henry the Eighth_; acted at Sadlers
Wells theatre, Prince’s theatre Manchester, Glasgow 2 seasons,
Alexandra theatre Liverpool nearly 3 years; played Bassanio in
_The Merchant of Venice_ at Prince of Wales’s theatre London April
1875; played at Lyceum theatre 2 years where he acted Simon Renard
in Tennyson’s _Queen Mary_ April 1876; played title role in _The
Silver King_ in the provinces more than 400 times 1883–4; author
of _Gustave_ produced at Alexandra theatre Liverpool about 1876;
of a comedietta called _Bessie_ produced at Royalty theatre; and
of an adaptation of _David Copperfield_. _d._ 1 Bullen road,
Clapham Junction, London 30 Nov. 1884. _Biograph vi_, 582–4
(1881).

BROOKE, FRANCIS CAPPER (_only son of Rev. Charles Brooke of Ufford,
Suffolk 1765–1836_). _b._ 18 Sep. 1810; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch.
Ox., B.A. 1831; sheriff of Suffolk 1869; one of earliest
contributors to _Notes and Queries_ under initials F.C.B.:
collected a fine library of 20,000 volumes at Ufford; author of
_Sepulchral memorials of the Cobham family_ 1874. _d._ Ufford 13
Jany. 1886.

BROOKE, SIR GEORGE. _b._ 1793; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery 8 Sep.
1808, col. commandant 21 July 1851 to 1 Oct. 1877 when placed on
retired list; general 24 May 1870; C.B. 3 April 1846, K.C.B. 13
March 1867. _d._ Charles st. St. James’s London 31 Dec. 1882.
_I.L.N. lxxxii_, 149 (1883), _portrait_.

BROOKE, GEORGE WILLIAM. Secretary of London, Chatham and Dover
railway company 1868 to death. _d._ West hill, Sydenham 21 Feb.
1876.

BROOKE, GUSTAVUS VAUGHAN (_son of Gustavus Vaughan Brooke of
Dublin_). _b._ Hardwick place, Dublin 25 April 1818; ed. at
Edgeworthstown; first appeared on the stage, at T.R. Dublin 9
April 1833 as William Tell; played in Ireland and Scotland; first
appeared in London, at Victoria theatre as Virginius 1837; acted
in United States 1851–3; manager of Astor place opera house New
York May 1852; played in Australia and New Zealand at large salary
of £100 a night 1855–7; partner with George Coppin in T.R.
Melbourne and Melbourne Cremorne in which he lost all his money,
they dissolved partnership Feb. 1859; drowned in the London in Bay
of Biscay on his way to Australia 10 Jany. 1866. _Longman’s Mag.
March 1885_, 490–501; _Theatrical times iii_, 18, 49 (1848),
_portrait_; _Tallis’s Drawing room table book_ (1851) 41–2, 2
_portraits_; _Tallis’s Illust. Life in London_ (1864) 120, 126, 2
_portraits_; _I.L.N. xii_, 12, 91 (1848), 2 _portraits_.

BROOKE, HENRY FRANCIS (_eld. son of George Brooke of Ashbrooke, co.
Fermanagh_). _b._ 3 Aug. 1836; ensign 48 Foot 6 June 1854; served
in Crimea and China; adjutant general Bombay army 23 Nov. 1877 to
28 March 1880; brigadier general in command of second infantry
brigade in Kandahar 28 March 1880 to death; killed at Maiwand in a
sortie from Kandahar 16 Aug. 1880, _bur._ in family vault at
Colebrooke 14 Dec. _Shadbolt’s Afghan campaign_ (1882) 24–6,
_portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxvii_, 289 (1880), _portrait_.

BROOKE, HENRY JAMES (_son of Mr. Brooke of Exeter, broadcloth
manufacturer_). _b._ Exeter 25 May 1771; a trader in Spanish wool
in London 1802; established companies to work mines of South
America; actuary and sec. to London Life association to 1843;
F.G.S. 1815; F.L.S. 1818; F.R.S. 22 April 1819, member of council
1842–44; his unrivalled collection of minerals was presented to
Univ. of Cam.; discovered 13 new mineral species; author of _A
familiar introduction to Crystallography_ 1823; edited with
extensive alterations and additions _An elementary introduction to
Mineralogy by W. Phillips_ 1852. _d._ Clapham Rise, Surrey 26 June
1857. _Proc. of Royal Soc. ix_, 41–4 (1857); _Quarterly Journal of
Geological Soc. xiv_, 44–45 (1858).

BROOKE, HENRY VAUGHAN. _b._ 11 Nov. 1808; ensign 32 Foot 12 July
1827, lieut. col. 13 Sep. 1848 to 24 July 1857; C.B. 9 June 1849;
aide-de-camp to the Queen 20 June 1854 to death. _d._ Holyhead 15
Sep. 1858.

BROOKE, SIR JAMES (_2 son of Thomas Brooke of Widcombe crescent,
Bath who d. 1835_). _b._ Secrole now called Secrore the European
suburb of Benares 29 April 1803; ed. at Norwich gr. sch.; in the
Bengal army 1819–30; sailed for Borneo in a schooner of his own 16
Dec. 1838; subdued insurrection in Borneo 1840–1; created Rajah of
Sarawak 24 Sep. 1841, formerly installed at Kuching 18 Aug. 1842;
suppressed piracy in Malayan Archipelago 1843–9; founded
settlement of Labuan in Borneo 2 Dec. 1846; comr. and consul
general in Borneo 23 July 1847 to 9 Aug. 1855; admitted to freedom
of City of London 29 Oct. 1847; governor of Labuan 27 Nov. 1847 to
Feb. 1856; D.C.L. Ox. 25 Nov. 1847; K.C.B. 27 April 1848; left
Sarawak April 1863. _d._ Burrator, close to Sheepstor, Dartmoor,
Devon 11 June 1868 an estate which was purchased for him by public
subscription 1859. _The private letters of Sir J. Brooke edited by
J. C. Templer 3 vols._ 1853; _The life of Sir J. Brooke by S. St.
John_ 1879, _portrait_; _G. L. Jacob’s Rajah of Sarawak 2 vols._
1876, _portrait_; _Illust. news of the world ii_, 380 (1858),
_portrait_; _I.L.N. xi_, 233 (1847), _portrait_.

BROOKE, JAMES CROFT. Ensign 31 Foot 31 Oct. 1831; major 8 Foot 2
Oct. 1849 to 15 Oct. 1861 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 6 March 1868;
C.B. 24 May 1873. _d._ Hastings terrace, Jersey 27 April 1875.

BROOKE, JOHN. Called to Irish bar 1819; Q.C. 1 July 1837; bencher of
King’s Inns 1859. _d._ 1877.

BROOKE, JOHN BROOKE JOHNSON (_eld. son of Rev. Francis Charles
Johnson, V. of White Lackington, Somerset who d. 22 Dec. 1874 aged
78_). Ensign 88 Foot 11 Oct. 1839, captain 18 Jany. 1848 to Jany.
1853 when he retired; joined his uncle Sir James Brooke in Sarawak
1848; took his uncle’s name of Brooke 1848; member of council of
state Sarawak 1855–63; carried on government of Sarawak as Rajah
Muda during his uncle’s illness 1858; distinguished for energy
with which he suppressed piracy on coast of Borneo. _d._ Hounslow
1 Dec. 1868 aged 45. _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_, 128 (1869).

BROOKE, RICHARD (_son of Richard Brooke of Liverpool who d. 15 June
1852 aged 91_). _b._ Liverpool 1791; solicitor and notary at
Liverpool 1814; member of Liverpool Literary and Philosophical
society 12 Nov. 1855, member of council 1860 to death; F.S.A.;
author of _Observations illustrative of the accounts given by the
ancient historical writers of the battle of Stoke Field_ 1825; _A
treatise on the office and practice of a Notary of England_ 1839,
_4 ed._ 1876; _Liverpool as it was during the last quarter of the
eighteenth century_ 1853; _Visits to fields of battle in England
of the fifteenth century_ 1857. _d._ Liverpool 14 June 1861.

BROOKE, SIR RICHARD, 6 Baronet. _b._ Norton Priory, Cheshire 18 Aug.
1785; succeeded 6 March 1795; sheriff of Cheshire 1817. _d._
Norton Priory 11 Nov. 1865.

BROOKE, REV. RICHARD SINCLAIR. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A.
1827, M.A. 1858, B.D. and D.D. 1860; minister of Mariners’ church
Kingstown, Dublin 1835–62; R. of Wyton, Hunts. 1862–77; author of
_The sheaf of corn, or mornings with a scripture class_ 1850;
_Poems illustrative of Grace-Creation-Suffering_ 1852;
_Recollections of the Irish church_ 1877. _d._ 11 Herbert st.
Dublin 6 Aug. 1882 aged 80.

BROOKE, THOMAS (_2 son of Sir Richard Brooke, 6 Baronet 1785–1865_).
_b._ Norton Priory 2 April 1816; ensign 12 Foot 31 Oct. 1834,
lieut. col. 19 May 1854 to 22 Feb. 1861 when placed on h.p.; col.
28 Foot 30 Sep. 1878 to death; general 27 April 1879. _d._ 13
Manson place, Queen’s gate, London 4 Nov. 1880.

BROOKE, WILLIAM. _b._ Burnham Market, Norfolk 1 Aug. 1795; kept a
school at Norwich 1820–65; supplied records of his meteorological
observations to local papers and scientific journals 1829 to
death; F.R.A.S. 1849. _d._ Upper Surrey st. Norwich 1 Aug. 1867.
_Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xxviii_, 77 (1868).

BROOKE, WILLIAM (_eld. son of Wm. Brooke, M.D. of Dublin_). _b._
Dublin 22 July 1796; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1812, B.A.
1814; called to Irish bar 1817; Q.C. 7 Feb. 1835; bencher of
King’s Inns 1846; a master in court of chancery 1846–74; a comr.
of the Great Seal Feb. 1874; P.C. June 1874. _d._ Taney hill
house, Dundrum, co. Dublin 19 Aug. 1881.

BROOKE, WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ 1781; clerk in bank of John Trotter in
London who established first bazaar in this country namely in Soho
sq. 1816; pupil of Samuel Drummond, A.R.A. who in his etching from
his own painting of “The death of Nelson” has introduced a
_portrait_ of Brooke as one of the sailors; exhibited 9 pictures
at the R.A., 6 at the B.I. and 9 at Suffolk st. gallery 1808–33;
_portrait_ painter in London 1798; contributed drawings to the
_Satirist_ 1812 to Sep. 1813; illustrated _Moore’s Irish Melodies_
1822; _Keightley’s Greek and Roman Mythology_ 1831 and many other
popular books; many of his drawings on wood were engraved by
Thomson, Branston and other eminent xylographers. _d._ Chichester
12 Jany. 1860. _C. R. Smith’s Collectanea Antiqua v_, 273–6
(1861); _C. R. Smith’s Retrospections i_, 281–5 (1883).

BROOKES, WARWICK. _b._ Birtles’ sq. Greengate, Salford 1806; entered
print works of John Barge near Broughton Bridge, Salford; artist
at Manchester. _d._ Egerton grove, Stretford new road, Manchester
11 Aug. 1882. _Manchester City News 26 Aug. 1882 and following
weeks._

BROOKFIELD, REV. WILLIAM HENRY (_2 son of Charles Brookfield of
Sheffield, solicitor_). _b._ Sheffield 31 Aug. 1809; ed. at
Sheffield, Leeds and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; C. of
Maltby near Bawtry Dec. 1834; C. of St. Luke’s Berwick st. London
1841; inspector of elementary church schools 11 Feb. 1848 to 1865;
R. of Somerby near Grantham 1861 to death; hon. chaplain in ord.
to the Queen 24 March 1862, chaplain in ord. 1 Jany. 1867 to
death; chaplain of Rolls chapel, Chancery lane 1866 to death;
preb. of St. Paul’s cath. 1868 to death; he is described in
Thackeray’s _Curates Walk_ as Frank Whitestock; author of _Paris
exhibition Reports on classes. Printing and books, class vi_,
(_reprinted in Illustrated London News 17 Aug. 1867_). _d._ 16
Hereford sq. West Brompton, London 12 July 1874. _Sermons by the
late Rev. W. H. Brookfield edited by Mrs. Brookfield_ 1875,
_portrait_.

BROOKS, CHARLES WILLIAM SHIRLEY (_son of Wm. Brooks of London,
architect who d. 11 Dec. 1867 aged 80_). _b._ 52 Doughty st.
London 29 April 1816; articled to his uncle Charles Sabine of
Oswestry, solicitor 1832–7; wrote parliamentary summary in
_Morning Chronicle_ 1848–52, special correspondent for it in
Russia, Syria and Egypt 1853; contributed to _Punch_ 1851 to
death, editor June 1870 to death, wrote _Punch’s Essence of
parliament_; edited _Literary Gazette_ 1858–9 and _Home News_
1867; author of _The Creole or love’s fetters_, produced at Lyceum
theatre 8 April 1847; _The daughter of the stars_, produced at New
Strand theatre 5 Aug. 1850; _Aspen Court, a story of our own time
3 vols._ 1854; _The gordian knot_ 1859; _The silver cord 3 vols._
1861. _d._ 6 Kent terrace, Regent’s park, London 23 Feb. 1874.
_G.M. xii_, 561–9 (1874); _Illust. review iii_, 545–50 (1872),
_portrait_; _E. Yates’s Recollections ii_, 143–9 (1884); _Cartoon
portraits_ (1873) 128–33, _portrait_.

BROOKS, GEORGE BENJAMIN. Entered Bombay army 1799; colonel 20 Bombay
N.I. 8 Oct. 1839 to death; commanded the field force in Upper
Scinde 1840; general 30 Aug. 1860. _d._ Clewer hill, Windsor 4
Oct. 1862. _The memorial of G. B. Brooks to the Honorable the
Court of directors of the East India Company_ 1842.

BROOKS, JOHN (_only son of Rev. John Brooks, R. of Walton-le-Dale,
Lancs._) _b._ 7 April 1856; ed. at Harrow and Merton coll. Ox.,
B.A. 1878; barrister I.T. 29 June 1881; M.P. for Altrincham
division of Cheshire 27 Nov. 1885 to death. _d._ Eaton place,
London 8 March 1886.

BROOKS, VEN. JONATHAN (_son of Mr. Brooks of Liverpool, merchant_).
_b._ Oldhall st. Liverpool 1 Sep. 1775; ed. at Macclesfield sch.
and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1798, M.A. 1802; C. of Walton on the
hill, C. of St. James’s Liverpool, and C. of St. George’s
Liverpool successively; senior R. of Liverpool 7 Oct. 1829 to
death; archdeacon of Liverpool 29 Sep. 1848 to death; chairman of
Liverpool quarter sessions many years. _d._ Everton road, near
Liverpool 29 Sep. 1855. _G.M. xliv_, 543–4 (1855).

BROOKS, REV. JOSHUA WILLIAM. Curate of East Retford 1821–7; V. of
Clareborough 1827–43; R. of Grove 1837–43; V. of St. Mary’s
Nottingham 1843–64; rural dean 1855–64; preb. of Linc. cath. 1858
to death; R. of Great Ponton 1864 to death; author of _Elements of
prophetical interpretation_ 1836; _History of the Hebrew nation_
1841; edited _Abdiel’s Essays on the Advent of Christ_ 1844;
_Proverbs of Solomon_ 1860. _d._ 17 Feb. 1882 aged 92.

BROOKS, ROBERT. _b._ 1799; merchant and shipowner in London; M.P.
for Weymouth 30 April 1859 to 11 Nov. 1868. _d._ 5 June 1882.
Personalty sworn under £370,000, 15 July 1882.

BROOKS, SAMUEL (_son of Wm. Brooks of Manchester, banker who d.
about 1846_). _b._ Great Harwood 1792; calico printer in
Manchester; opened a bank at Manchester as a branch of Cunliffe’s
bank Blackburn; a great land improver, purchased estates at Moss
Side, Baguley, Sale, Timperley and Partington; chairman of
original meeting of promoters of Lancashire and Yorkshire railway
18 Oct. 1830. _d._ Whalley house, Whalley range, Manchester 7 June
1864. _L. H. Grindon’s Manchester Banks_ (1877) 197–214.

BROOKS, VINCENT. Purchased large establishment of Day and Sons,
lithographers, Gate st. Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London 1867, carried
on the business under style of Vincent Brooks, Day and Son 1867 to
death. _d._ of apoplexy in counting house of Spalding and Hodge,
Drury Lane 29 Sep. 1885 in 70 year.

BROOKS, WILLIAM ALEXANDER (_son of Wm. Brooks of London,
architect_). _b._ London 25 March 1802; engineer officer with Sir
Robert Wilson in Spain 1822; resident engineer to Tees Navigation
company 1828; engineer to corporation of Newcastle 1842–58;
practised in London 1858 to death; made 4 journeys to Honduras
1870–6; sent out to investigate feasibility of a ship canal across
Isthmus of Darien 1876; M.I.C.E. 10 June 1834, Telford medallist
1852; author of _Treatise on the improvement of the navigation of
rivers_ 1841; _Honduras and the Inter-Oceanic railway_ 1874. _d._
Paya, in the Isthmus of Darien 26 Jany. 1877. _Min. of Proc. of
Instit. of C.E. l_, 172–5 (1877).

BROOM, HERBERT (_only son of Herbert Broom of Kidderminster_). _b._
Kidderminster 1815; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., 40 wrangler 1837,
B.A. 1837, M.A. 1854, LLD. 1864; barrister I.T. 20 Nov. 1840;
professor of common law to council of legal education Jany. 1873
to 1875; author of _Practical rules for determining parties to
actions_ 1843, _2 ed._ 1846; _A selection of legal maxims_ 1845,
_6 ed._ 1884; _Commentaries on the common law_ 1856, _7 ed._ 1884;
_Constitutional law_ 1866, _2 ed._ 1885, and of 2 novels _The
missing will 3 vols._ 1877 and _The unjust steward 2 vols._ 1879.
_d._ The Priory, Orpington, Kent 2 May 1882.

BROOME, ARTHUR. Second lieut. Bengal artillery 13 Dec. 1827, colonel
29 April 1861 to death; controller general of military expenditure
Bengal 1 April 1864 to death; M.G. 6 March 1868; C.S.I. 1869. _d._
at sea on passage from India 27 March 1871.

BROOME, HENRY ALFRED. _b._ Birmingham 1826; beat Fred. Mason (the
Bulldog) £50 a side 11 Oct. 1843; fought Joe Rowe £50 a side 10
Dec. 1844, beat him at renewed fight 13 May 1845; fought Ben Terry
£100 a side 3 Feb. 1846; fought Wm. Perry (the Tipton Slasher)
£200 a side and the championship at Mildenhall near Newmarket 29
Sep. 1851 and beat him; fought Harry Orme near Brandon 18 April
1853 £250 a side when Broome won after 31 rounds in 2 hours 18
minutes, this was the best fight for the championship ever seen;
paid £180 forfeit to Tom Paddock 20 Feb. 1855 who beat Broome £200
a side 19 May 1856; landlord of the Opera tavern, Haymarket London
1851–56; kept the Albion tavern, Warblington st. Portsmouth 1856;
kept the Crown and Cushion, Little Russell st. London; a public
caterer at principal race meetings. _d._ 30 Frith st. Soho, London
2 Nov. 1865. _H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica iii_, 308–39 (1881),
_portrait_; _Fights for the championship by Francis Dowling_
(1860) 234–55; _Illust. sporting news iv_, 561 (1865), _portrait_.

BROOME, JOHN (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Birmingham 14 March
1818; fought 7 prize fights all of which he won 1834–40; fought
Jack Hannan £500 a side at New park farm Oxfordshire 26 Jany. 1841
when he beat him after 47 rounds; fought Bungaree the Australian
£300 a side at Mildenhall 27 April 1842 when Broome won after 42
rounds; presented with a golden belt at Castle tavern Holborn,
London 27 Jany. 1842; landlord of the Rising Sun, Air st.
Piccadilly 1841; invented a gun capable of carrying a ball of
50lb. weight 2 miles; cut his throat at the Wrekin tavern, Broad
Court, Bow st. London 31 May 1855. _Fights for the championship by
Francis Dowling_ (1860) 370–8; _The new Tom Spring’s Life in
London_ (1844) 137, _portrait_.

BROPHEY, REV. GEORGE (_son of Mr. Brophey who was executed after
battle of Vinegar Hill 1798_). _b._ near Kilkenny Aug. 1775; ed.
at Carlow college; studied theology in Paris; ordained priest
1798; went to America 1843; pastor of St. Paul’s R.C. church
Harlem, New York 1853–66; settled in Iowa 1866. _d._ Mercy
hospital, Davenport, Iowa 16 Oct. 1880 in 106 year.

BROS, THOMAS. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1831;
barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1831; recorder of Abingdon 30 March 1852 to
April 1878. _d._ Springfield, Upper Clapton, London 16 May 1883
aged 79.

BROTHERHOOD, ROWLAND. Railway contractor; proprietor of large iron
and wagon works at Chippenham where some of the best iron bridges
ever sent to India were made; constructed Bristol and South Wales
Union railway and piers; Assoc. Inst. C.E. 1 May 1866. _d._
Everton villa, Chertsey road, Bristol 5 March 1883.

BROTHERTON, EDWARD. _b._ Manchester 1814; engaged in the silk trade;
wrote letters on popular education in _Manchester Guardian_ which
led to formation of Education Aid Society and paved the way for
Education Act of 1870; author of _Mormonism its rise and progress_
1846; _Spiritualism, Swedenborg and the New Church_ 1860; editor
and chief writer of first vol. of a monthly periodical _The Dawn_
(Manchester 1861–2); wrote _Outlines of my mental history_ in the
_Intellectual Repository_ 1849 and many articles under pseudonyms
of Libra and Pilgrim in Swedenborgian periodicals. _d._ Cornbrook,
Manchester 23 March 1866.

BROTHERTON, JOSEPH (_son of John Brotherton of Manchester, cotton
spinner_). _b._ Whittington, Derbyshire 22 May 1783; cotton
spinner at Manchester 1802–19; joined Bible Christian church 1805,
pastor about 1818; M.P. for Salford (the first) 20 Dec. 1832 to
death, his expenses being paid by his constituents; chairman of
private bills committee; active member of Anti-Corn law league.
_d._ suddenly while travelling in an omnibus from his residence
Rosehill, Pendleton into Manchester 7 Jany. 1857, his statue by M.
Noble in Peel park was uncovered 6 Aug. 1858. _J. B. Robinson’s
Derbyshire gatherings_ (1866) 42–4, _portrait_; _Book-lore ii_,
78–82 (1885); _Illust. news of the world ii_, 117 (1858),
_portrait_; _I.L.N. viii_, 309 (1846), _portrait, xxxiii_, 210
(1858).

BROTHERTON, SIR THOMAS WILLIAM. _b._ 1785; ensign Coldstream Guards
24 Jany. 1800; captain 14 Dragoons 4 June 1807, major 26 March
1812 to Oct. 1820; served in Egypt 1801, in Germany 1805 and
during Peninsular war 1808–14; lieut. col. 12 Lancers 26 Oct. 1820
to 24 May 1827 when placed on h.p.; aide-de-camp to the Sovereign
22 July 1830 to 23 Nov. 1841; lieut. col. 16 Lancers 10 Feb. 1832
to 23 Nov. 1841; inspector general of cavalry 1844; colonel of 15
Hussars 18 May 1849, and of 1 Dragoon Guards 17 July 1859 to
death; general 1 April 1860; C.B. 3 Feb. 1817, K.C.B. 5 July 1855,
G.C.B. 28 June 1861; received the war medal with 8 clasps. _d._ at
his son’s house near Esher 20 Jany. 1868.

BROUGH, ANNIE (_dau. of Thomas Romer of Liverpool_). _b._ Liverpool
19 Dec. 1827; ed. at Royal academy of Music Sep. 1843 to June
1846; made her first appearance in London at Princess’s theatre as
Adalgisa in _Norma_ 1847; sang at Haymarket theatre; prima donna
at the Surrey theatre 1850. (_m._ April 1851 Wm. Brough the
dramatist 1826–70). _d._ 71 Gower st. London 1 Feb. 1852. _Musical
World xxx_, 94 (1852).

BROUGH, BARNABAS. Brewer and wine merchant at Pontypool; one of the
principal witnesses for the Crown in trial of John Frost the
Chartist 1840, which made him very unpopular and ruined his
business; auctioneer and accountant at Manchester 1843–5;
accountant in office of _Illustrated London News_ London 1845 to
death; author under name of Barnard de Burgh of several dramatic
pieces, one of which _I wont go or how to keep a place_ was acted
in London by Tyrone Power. _d._ 4 South Lambeth place, Lambeth,
London 30 Oct. 1854 aged 59.

BROUGH, JOHN CARGILL (_son of the preceding_). _b._ Pontypool,
Monmouthshire 11 Feb. 1834; clerk in audit office of London and
South Western railway 1852–8; wrote articles in many periodicals;
an original member of the Savage club 1857; edited _The Chemist
and Druggist_ 1860–70; F.C.S. 1864; started _The Laboratory, a
weekly record of scientific research_ April 1867; published with
two friends _Exeter Change_ a humourous brochure during meeting of
British Association at Exeter Aug. 1869; librarian and
superintendent of London Institution, Finsbury Circus July 1870 to
death, started and edited _Journal of London Institution_, gave a
course of lectures there on Philosophy of Magic 1871–2; author of
_The fairy tales of science_ 1858, _2 ed._ 1865; one of the
editors of _England’s Workshops_ 1864 and of _Year book of
Pharmacy_ 1870–2. _d._ Esher 7 Sep. 1872. _Chemist and Druggist_
(1872) 287, 305, 340.

BROUGH, MARY ANN. Nurse to Prince of Wales; murdered 6 of her
children at Esher 9 June 1854 and attempted to destroy herself;
tried for murder at Guildford assizes 9 Aug. 1854, when found not
guilty on ground of insanity. _d._ Bethlem hospital, London about
20 March 1861. _Annual Register_ (1854) 93–7;

BROUGH, REDMOND WILLIAM. Ensign 56 Foot 10 March 1807, lieut. 15
July 1808 to 10 Jany. 1822 when placed on h.p.; captain 2 Foot 7
Oct. 1824, lieut. col. 27 Nov. 1841 to 2 March 1846 when placed on
h.p.; M.G. 26 Oct. 1858. _d._ Charles st. St. James’s London 29
Feb. 1860 aged 68.

BROUGH, RICHARD SECKER. First lieut. R.A. 2 Sep. 1794, colonel 21
Nov. 1833 to 1841, col. commandant 17 Aug. 1846 to death; general
16 Dec. 1856. _d._ Onslow sq. London 15 Jany. 1859 aged 85.

BROUGH, RICHARD SECKER (_younger son of Thompson Brough, M.D. of
Kiltegan, co. Wicklow_). _b._ Kiltegan 17 Oct. 1846; a fourth
grade assistant superintendent Indian telegraph service 30 Oct.
1869; assistant to superintendent electrician at Calcutta March
1871 to death; author of _Telegraph construction_; edited
Schwendler’s _Instructions for testing lines, batteries and
instruments_. _d._ from cholera at Calcutta 3 April 1879. _Min. of
Proc. of Instit. of C.E. lix_, 315–17 (1880).

BROUGH, ROBERT BARNABAS (_brother of John Cargill Brough_). _b._
London 10 April 1828; ed. at Newport; started the _Liverpool Lion_
comic weekly paper 1847, edited it 1847–8; wrote burlesques with
his brother William first of which _The enchanted isle_ was
produced at Amphitheatre Liverpool 1848 and reproduced at Adelphi
theatre London 20 Nov. 1848; edited the _Atlas_ a short time and
the _Welcome Guest_; author of _Life of Sir John Falstaff_ 1858;
_Miss Brown, a romance and other tales_ 1860. _d._ Boundary st.
Manchester 26 June 1860. _Marston Lynch by R. B. Brough with
portrait, and a memoir of the author by G. A. Sala_ 1860 this work
contains the story of Brough’s own life; _E. Yates’s Recollections
i_, 312–18 (1884).

BROUGH, WILLIAM (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ London 28 April
1826; apprenticed to a printer at Brecon; author of a series of
papers called _Hints upon heraldry_ in the _Liverpool Lion_; wrote
with his brother Robert the Christmas and Easter pieces for
Adelphi and Haymarket theatres 1848–54; author of many
“Entertainments” for Mr. and Mrs. German Reed and John Parry;
wrote many burlesques including _The field of the cloth of gold_
which was produced at Strand theatre 11 April 1868 and played till
27 March 1869, 298 times. _d._ 37 Maitland park road, Haverstock
hill 13 March 1870.

BROUGH, WILLIAM FRANCIS. _b._ Wexford 1798; made his first
appearance on the stage in Sussex 1818; acted at Haymarket theatre
London 3 years; first appeared in America at Park theatre New York
4 Sep. 1835; made his début in Philadelphia 18 Jany. 1836, at
Chestnut st. theatre as Cedric in opera of _The Maid of Judith_.
_d._ while on his passage to England 21 May 1867. _bur._ in
Brooklyn cemetery New York Feb. 1868.

BROUGHAM, HENRY PETER BROUGHAM, 1 Baron (_eld. son of Henry Brougham
of Brougham near Penrith 1742–1810_). _b._ 19 St. Andrew’s sq.
Edin. 19 Sep. 1778; ed. at high sch. and univ. Edin.; admitted
advocate 10 June 1800; one of founders of _Edinburgh Review_ Oct.
1802, chief contributor to it; F.R.S. 3 March 1803; barrister L.I.
22 Nov. 1808; M.P. for Camelford 1810–12, for Winchelsea 1815–30
and for West Riding of Yorkshire 5 Aug. 1830 to 23 Nov. 1830;
attorney general to Queen Caroline 22 April 1820 to her death 7
Aug. 1821; lord rector of Univ. of Glasgow 1825; K.C. 1827,
received patent of precedence 1827; lord chancellor 22 Nov. 1830
to 22 Nov. 1834; created Baron Brougham and Vaux of Brougham,
Westmoreland 22 Nov. 1830 and by another patent dated 22 March
1860, created Baron Brougham and Vaux of Brougham and of Highhead
Castle, Cumberland; foreign associate of Institute of France 1833;
pres. of Social science association 1857 and 1860–5; chancellor of
Univ. of Edin. 1859. _d._ Chateau Eleanor Louise, Cannes 7 May
1868. _Life and times of Lord Brougham 3 vols._ 1871, _portrait_;
_Lord Campbell’s Lives of the Chancellors viii_, 213–596; _Law
mag. and law review xxiv_, 177–236 (1868); _W. C. Taylor’s
National portrait gallery i_. 62–5 (1846), _portrait_; _Maclise
Portrait gallery_ (1883) 81–7, _portrait_; _A bibliographical list
of Lord Brougham’s publications, by the author of The handbook of
fictitious names_ [_Ralph Thomas_] 1873.

NOTE.—The result of Queen Caroline’s trial made him
extraordinarily popular and the Brougham’s Head became a
common tavern sign; at time of passing of the Reform bill
plaster casts of his head were sold by tens of thousands. His
quarrel with Canning in the House of Commons 17 April 1823 was
paraphrased by Dickens in the opening chapter of Pickwick. All
the morning papers except the Times of Tuesday 22 Oct. 1839
contained leading articles on the sudden death of Lord
Brougham with biographical sketches of him. He is depicted by
Disraeli as ‘Foaming Fudge’ in Vivian Grey 1827, and by T. L.
Peacock as ‘the learned friend’ in Crotchet Castle 1831.

BROUGHAM, WILLIAM BROUGHAM, 2 Baron (_brother of the preceding_).
_b._ 26 Sep. 1795; ed. at Edin. and Jesus coll. Cam., B.A. 1819,
M.A. 1822; barrister L.I. 9 May 1823; master in chancery 29 March
1831 to 2 Nov. 1852, when granted pension of £3225 on abolition of
his office by 15 and 16 Vict. cap. 80; M.P. for Southwark 29 April
1831 to 29 Dec. 1834; contested Leeds 9 Jany. 1835; succeeded 7
May 1868. _d._ Brougham hall near Penrith 3 Jany. 1886. _Law Times
lxxx_, 175 (1886).

BROUGHAM, JOHN. _b._ Dublin 9 May 1814; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub.;
made his début at Tottenham st. theatre London in extravaganza of
_Tom and Jerry_ July 1830; played at Olympic and Covent Garden;
manager of Lyceum 1840–2; managed Niblo’s Garden New York; opened
a new theatre in Broadway N.Y. called Brougham’s Lyceum 15 Oct.
1850; lessee of Bowery theatre N.Y. 7 July 1856; played in London
1860–5 and in America 1865–79; opened Brougham’s theatre 25 Jany.
1869; edited a comic paper in New York called _The Lantern_ 1852;
author of nearly 80 dramatic pieces; said to have been original of
Harry Lorrequer in Lever’s novel. _d._ 60 East Ninth st. New York
7 June 1880. _Life of J. Brougham edited by W. Winter_ 1881,
_portrait_; _Ireland’s Records of New York stage ii_, 178, 210,
384, 594, 655 (1867); _The Oddfellow i_, 65 (1839), _portrait_.

BROUGHTON, JOHN CAM HOBHOUSE, 1 Baron (_eld. son of Sir Benjamin
Hobhouse, 1 baronet 1757–1831_). _b._ Redland near Bristol 27 June
1786; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1808, M.A.
1811; visited Greece and Turkey with Lord Byron 1809–10 who
dedicated to him fourth canto of _Childe Harold_ for which he
wrote the explanatory notes; F.R.S. 19 May 1814; imprisoned in
Newgate 14 Dec. 1819 to 29 Jany. 1820 for publishing a pamphlet
called _The trifling mistake_; M.P. for Westminster 1820–33 for
Nottingham 1834–47 and for Harwich 1848–51; active member of the
Greek Committee in London 1823–24; one of the 6 founders of Royal
Geographical Society 1830; sec. of state for war 1 Feb. 1832 to 4
April 1833; chief sec. for Ireland 28 March to 17 May 1833; first
comr. of woods and forests 19 July to 31 Dec. 1834; pres. of Board
of control 29 April 1835 to 9 Sep. 1841 and 10 July 1846 to Feb.
1852; P.C. 6 Feb. 1832; colonel of Wilts. militia 8 Feb. 1840 to
death; created Baron Broughton of Broughton de Gyfford, Wilts. 26
Feb. 1851; G.C.B. 23 Feb. 1852; author of _Imitations and
translations from the classics, with original poems_ 1809;
_Journey through Albania and other provinces of Turkey with Lord
Byron_ 1812, _2 ed._ 1818; _Substance of some letters written by
an Englishman resident at Paris during the last reign of Napoleon
2 vols._ 1816. _d._ 42 Berkeley sq. London 3 June 1869. Personalty
sworn under £250,000 14 Aug. 1869. _Recollections of a long life
by the late Lord Broughton De Gyfford 5 vols. privately printed
1865_; _Edinburgh Review cxxxiii_, 287–337 (1871); _Maclise
Portrait gallery_ (1883) 372–8, _portrait_; _I.L.N. liv_, 602, 624
(1869), _portrait_.

BROUGHTON, REV. SIR HENRY DELVES, 8 Baronet. _b._ 10 Jany. 1777; ed.
at Jesus coll. Cam., B.A. 1801, M.A. 1805; P.C. of Broughton
Staffs. 1803 to death; succeeded 9 Aug. 1847. _d._ Broughton hall,
Staffs. 3 Nov. 1851.

BROUGHTON, ROBERT EDWARDS. Barrister I.T. 6 May 1825; police
magistrate at Worship st. London 1827–54, and at Marylebone 1854
to death; F.R.S. 17 Feb. 1842. _d._ 33 Dorset sq. London 29 June
1860 aged 79.

BROUGHTON, WILLIAM EDWARD DELVES (_2 son of Thomas Broughton of Ham
Common, Surrey who d. 24 Jany. 1846_). _b._ 30 April 1802; 2
Lieut. R.E. 6 Aug. 1825; comr. to survey northern boundaries of
British possessions in North America June 1840 to 31 March 1845;
colonel R.E. 18 April 1860; colonel commandant 19 June 1872 to
death; general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ 8 Crescent, Surbiton, Surrey 5
April 1880.

BROUGHTON, RIGHT REV. WILLIAM GRANT (_eld. son of Grant Broughton_).
_b._ Bridge st. Westminster 22 May 1788; ed. at Barnet gr. sch.
and King’s sch. Canterbury; clerk in treasury department of East
India house 1807–12; resident member of Pemb. hall Cam. Oct. 1814,
6 wrangler 1818, B.A. 1818, M.A. 1823, D.D. 1836; C. of Hartley
Wespall, Hants. 1818–27; C. of Farnham 1827; chaplain of Tower of
London 6 Oct. 1828 to 24 June 1829; archdeacon of New South Wales
7 Dec. 1828, sworn into office 17 Sep. 1829; bishop of Australia
18 Jany. 1836, consecrated in Lambeth palace chapel 14 Feb. 1836;
installed in St. James’s church Sydney 2 June 1836; bishop of
Sydney and metropolitan of Australasia 25 June 1847 to death. _d._
11 Chester st. Belgrave sq. London 20 Feb. 1853. _bur._ south
aisle of Canterbury cath. 26 Feb. _Sermons on the Church of
England by the Right Rev. W. G. Broughton edited with prefatory
memoir by B. Harrison_ 1857; _G.M. xxxix_, 431–6 (1853); _J.
Bonwick’s Curious facts of old colonial days_ (1870) 34–56.

BROUN, JOHN ALLAN (_son of Mr. Broun of Dumfries, schoolmaster who
d. about 1837_). _b._ Dumfries 21 Sep. 1817; ed. at Univ. of
Edin.; director of Sir T. M. Brisbane’s magnetic observatory at
Makerstoun, co. Dumfries 1842–9; director of observatory at
Trevandrum, South India Jany. 1852 to April 1865; built an
observatory on the Agustia Malley 6200 feet above the sea 1855;
discovered that changes in daily mean horizontal force are nearly
the same all over the globe, his researches contributed largely to
establish meteorology on a scientific basis; F.R.S. 2 June 1853,
Royal medallist 1878; author of _Observations of magnetic
declination made at Trevandrum and Agustia Malley_ 1873 and of
more than 50 papers in scientific journals. _d._ 9 Abercorn place,
London 22 Nov. 1879. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xxx_, 3–6 (1880).

BROUN, SIR RICHARD, 8 Baronet (_eld. son of Sir James Broun of
Colston park, Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire, 7 Baronet who d. 30 Nov.
1844_). _b._ Lochmaben 22 April 1801; a knight of St. John of
Jerusalem 28 July 1835, registrar 8 March 1837, sec. of the Langue
of that order in England 24 June 1839, K.C.J.J. and G.C.J.J. 24
June 1841; hon. sec. of Committee of the baronetage for sustaining
rights and privileges of the Order 15 July 1840 to death; demanded
inauguration as a knight on account of being eldest son of a
baronet, on the Lord Chamberlain’s refusal to present him to the
Queen for this purpose, he assumed title of Sir and addition of
“Eques auratus” June 1842; projected The London Necropolis and
national mausoleum at Woking 1849 which was incorporated 1852.
_d._ Sphinx lodge, Chelsea, London 10 Dec. 1858.

BROUN, SIR WILLIAM, 9 Baronet. _b._ July 1804; ed. at Univ. of
Edin.; admitted procurator 1829; dean of Faculty of procurators
for county of Dumfries; succeeded 10 Dec. 1858. _d._ 7 Irving st.
Dumfries 10 June 1882.

BROWELL, REV. WILLIAM ROBERT. Educ. at Pemb. coll. Ox., B.A. 1828,
M.A. 1831, fellow and tutor of his college; public examiner 1834;
R. of Beaumont-cum-Mose Essex 1839 to death; translated _Count
Carnot’s Reflexions on the metaphysical principles of the
infinitesimal analysis_ 1832; edited _Carwithen’s History of the
Church of England_ 1849. _d._ Beaumont rectory 15 Aug. 1867.

BROWN, REV. ANDREW MORTON. _b._ parish of Loudown, Ayrshire 12 March
1812; ed. at Univs. of Glasgow and Edin.; Congregational minister
at Overton, Hants.; minister at Poole 1837–43; minister of
Highbury chapel Cheltenham 8 Jany. 1843 to death; chairman of
Congregational Union of England and Wales 1854; author of _The
leader of the Lollards, his times and trials_ 1848; _Salvation and
the way to secure it_, _3 ed._ 1851; _Evenings with the prophets,
a series of memoirs and meditations_ 1854; _Peden the prophet a
tale of the covenanters founded on fact_ 1859. _d._ Bridport 17
July 1879. _Waddington’s Congregational history v_, 596–8 (1880);
_Congregational year book_ (1880) 310–12.

BROWN, CHARLES PHILIP (_son of Rev. David Brown 1763–1812, provost
of Calcutta College_). _b._ Calcutta 1798; ed. at Haileybury
college; entered Madras civil service 1817; Persian translator to
Madras government 1838; postmaster general and Telugu translator
1846–55; presented his fine collection of manuscripts including
over 2000 Sanskrit and Telugu works to Madras Literary Society
1845; one of the foremost South Indian scholars; author of
_Prosody of the Telugu and Sanskrit languages_ 1826; _Dictionaries
of Telugu-English and English-Telugu 2 vols._ _Madras_ 1852;
_Grammar of the Telugu language_ 1840, _2 ed._ 1857, and many
other works some of which were translated into Tamil, Canarese and
Hindustani. _d._ 22 Kildare gardens, Paddington, London 12 Dec.
1884. _Some account of the literary life of C. P. B. privately
printed_ 1866.

BROWN, ELEANOR (_dau. of Mr. Fairlam of city of London, jeweller_).
_b._ near Regent’s Park London 22 March 1829; landscape painter;
exhibited 1 picture at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. gallery 1857–72;
author of a fairy tale entitled _Muriel’s Dreamland_ 1871. (_m._
22 March 1849 J. W. Brown of London, estate agent). _d._ 17 Feb.
1878. _E. C. Clayton’s English female artists ii_, 177–83 (1876).

BROWN, GEORGE. _b._ Stoughton, Sussex 27 April 1783; a tailor at
Emsworth, Hants.; moved to Brighton 1825; lessee of Royal Brighton
Cricket ground 1831 to about 1840; kept a lodging house at 71
Middle st. Brighton to Sep. 1856; played his first cricket match
at Lords 30 July 1818; the fastest bowler who ever played in great
cricket matches; threw a cricket ball 137 yards on Walderton
Common about 1819, the longest throw on record; one of the Sussex
eleven till about 1838. _d._ Sompting, Sussex 25 June 1857.

BROWN, SIR GEORGE (_3 son of George Brown, provost of Elgin_). _b._
Linkwood near Elgin 3 July 1790; ensign 43 Foot 23 Jany. 1806;
lieut. col. Rifle brigade 5 Feb. 1824 to 23 Nov. 1841; deputy
adjutant general 23 Nov. 1841; adjutant general 8 April 1850 to 12
Dec. 1853; colonel 77 Foot 11 April 1851 to 22 Dec. 1854;
commanded Light division during Crimean war 1854–55, invalided
home 28 June 1855; colonel commandant Rifle brigade 18 Jany. 1855,
colonel in chief 18 April 1863 to death; general 7 Sep. 1855;
commander of the forces in Ireland 1 April 1860 to April 1865;
P.C. Ireland 1860; colonel 32 Foot 1 April 1863 to death; K.H.
1831, C.B. 19 July 1838, K.C.B. 6 April 1852, G.C.B. 5 July 1855.
_d._ Linkwood 27 Aug. 1865. _E. H. Nolan’s Russian war i_, 203,
384 (1857), _portrait_; _G. Ryan’s Our heroes of the Crimea_
(1855) 58–61; _Kinglake’s Invasion of the Crimea_, _6 ed. vols._
2–7 (1877–83).

BROWN, GEORGE (_son of Peter Brown 1784–1863_). _b._ Edinburgh 29
Nov. 1818; went to New York 1838 and to Toronto 1843; founded the
_Daily Globe_ at Toronto 1844 and the _Canada Farmer_ 1864; member
of legislative assembly of Canada for county Kent Dec. 1851, for
Lambton 1854, for city of Toronto 1857, and for South Oxford March
1863 to the Union 27 May 1867; formed a ministry in Aug. 1858
which only lasted 2 days; member of the Senate 16 Dec. 1873 to
death; joint plenipotentiary with Sir E. Thornton at Washington to
arrange a commercial treaty with United States 1874; gazetted
K.C.M.G. 24 May 1879 but declined the honour. _d._ Toronto 9 May
1880 having been shot by a discharged employé 25 March 1880.
_Morgan’s Sketches of eminent Canadians_ (1862) 769–73; _Dominion
annual register_ (1879) 210, 352, (1880) 393–5; _I.L.N. xlv_, 496
(1864), _portrait_.

BROWN, GEORGE GRANVILLE (_son of Charles Ferdinand D’Artois Duc de
Berri 1778–1820 by his first wife Amy dau. of Rev. Joseph Brown
1784–1876, V. of All Saints church Maidstone, Kent_). _b._
London 1805; brought up at Ouchy near Lausanne; served in army
of King of Naples; naturalised in France about 1843; lived at
Mantes-sur-Seine near Paris about 1843 to death. _d._ Mantes 5
July 1882. _Illust. Lon. News lxxxi_, 62 (1882).

BROWN, RIGHT REV. GEORGE HILARY (_son of Wm. Brown of Clifton in the
Fylde, Lancs._) _b._ 13 Jany. 1786; entered St. Cuthbert’s college
Ushaw 25 Sep. 1799, left it 8 April 1819; ordained deacon 1808,
priest 1810; in charge of mission at Lancaster 1819–40; Vicar
Apostolic of Lancashire district 1840; consecrated Bishop of Bugia
_in partibus_, at Liverpool 24 Aug. 1840; translated to Tloa _in
partibus_ 1842; assistant at Pontifical throne 1843; bishop of
Liverpool 29 Sep. 1850 to death; author of _A supplement to the
Diurnal adapted to the English mission_ 1833. _d._ Catherine st.
Liverpool 25 Jany. 1856.

BROWN, HENRY. Educ. at London hospital, London; L.S.A. 1827,
M.R.C.S. 1832; surgeon at Windsor; medical attendant on the Queen
and royal household at Windsor 1838 to death. _d._ Neet st.
Windsor 24 Oct. 1868 aged 66.

BROWN, HUGH. Hand loom weaver in Ayrshire; a schoolmaster 1828–70;
author of a poem to the memory of Lord Byron in the _Scots
Magazine_ 1825; published _The Covenanters and other poems_ 1838.
_d._ Glasgow 27 Aug. 1885 aged 85.

BROWN, ISAAC BAKER (_son of Mr. Brown of Colne Engaine, Essex_).
_b._ Colne 8 June 1812; studied at Guy’s Hospital; L.S.A. and
M.R.C.S. 1834, F.R.C.S. 1848; partner with Samuel Griffith of
Edgware road London 1834–40; removed to Oxford sq. 1845; gave up
general practice for that of surgeon accoucheur 1847; surgeon and
accoucheur to St. Mary’s hospital, Paddington 1850–8; founded
London Surgical Home 1858; fellow of Obstetrical Society 1859 to 3
April 1867; pres. of Medical Soc. of London 1865; author of _On
Scarlatina and its successful treatment by the Acidum aceticum
dilutum of the Pharmacopœia_ 1846, _2 ed._ 1857; _On some diseases
of women admitting of surgical treatment_ 1854, _3 ed._ 1866; _On
ovarian dropsy_ 1862, _2 ed._ 1868. _d._ 88 Albany st. Regent’s
park London 3 Feb. 1873. _J. F. Clarke’s Autobiographical
recollections of the medical profession_ (1874) 495–503; _Medical
Circular i_, 261, 301–3 (1852), _portrait_; _British Medical
Journal i_, 395–410 (1867).

BROWN, JAMES. _b._ near Montrose; mate of the brig Pomona, built by
him and his elder brother; taken by a French privateer 1808 and
imprisoned at Verdun 1808–14; ship builder at Perth 1814; built 99
vessels including the steam-boat _Tourist_ one of the first
sea-going steamers constructed; raised many sunken ships in all
parts of Europe including the _Comet_, boiler of which exploded in
the Clyde off Greenock 1820; inspector of steam vessels for Dundee
district. _d._ Dundee 19 Jany. 1861 in 77 year. _W. Norrie’s
Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 194–6.

BROWN, JAMES. Flax spinner in Dundee; dean of Guild 1824; the first
pres. of Watt institution 1824; provost of Dundee 1844–7;
contributed many articles to the _Caledonian_ and other
periodicals; author of a small volume of poetry privately printed.
_d._ 6 Jany. 1869 in 82 year.

BROWN, JAMES (_only son of James Brown of Leeds, merchant_). _b._ 12
April 1814; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1840; sheriff
of Yorkshire 1852; M.P. for Malton 1857–68. _d._ 43 Upper
Grosvenor st. London 19 April 1877. Personalty sworn under
£250,000, 14 July 1877.

BROWN, RIGHT REV. JAMES. _b._ Wolverhampton 11 Jany. 1812; ed. at
Sedgley park school 1820–6 and St. Mary’s college Oscott 1826–37;
ordained priest 18 Feb. 1837; professor and prefect of studies at
Oscott 1837–44; pres. of Sedgley park school 1844–51; bishop of
Shrewsbury 27 June 1851 to death, consecrated in St. George’s
cath. Southwark 27 July 1851; one of bishops assistant at
Pontifical throne 17 April 1870; silver jubilee of his episcopate
celebrated in Shrewsbury cath. 27 July 1876. _d._ St. Mary’s
Grange near Shrewsbury 14 Oct. 1881. _A sermon preached on the
occasion of the silver jubilee of the Bishop of Shrewsbury by the
Rev. John Morris_ 1876.

BROWN, REV. JAMES BALDWIN (_elder son of James Baldwin Brown
1785–1843, judge of court of requests at Oldham_). _b._ 10
Harcourt buildings, Inner Temple, London 19 Aug. 1820; ed. at
Univ. coll. London, B.A. London 1839; student at Inner Temple
1839–41; studied at Highbury college 1841; minister of London road
independent chapel Derby 1843; minister of Clayland’s chapel
Clapham road London 1846, removed to new chapel built for him at
Brixton July 1870; chairman of Congregational union of England and
Wales 1878; author of _The soul’s exodus and pilgrimage_ 1862, _3
ed._ 1867; _First principles of ecclesiastical truth_ 1870; _The
higher life_ 1874, _5 ed._ 1879; _The doctrine of annihilation_
1875, _2 ed._ 1878 and many other works. _d._ Coombe, Surrey 23
June 1884. _In memoriam James Baldwin Brown edited by Elizabeth
Baldwin Brown_ 1884, _portrait_; _Leisure hours by a journalist_
(1878) 91–102; _Biograph v_, 154–8 (1881).

BROWN, JANE (_dau. of John Hemsworth of Strokestown, co.
Roscommon_). Roman Catholic bookseller, printer and publisher with
George Keating in Duke st. Grosvenor sq. London Feb. 1837 to 1840
when they dissolved partnership; in business at 10 Duke st.
Manchester sq. 1840; published _The Penny Catholic Magazine_ 7
Sep. 1839 to 1840; _The Laitys Directory_ 1838 _and_ 1839 when it
ceased. (_m._ Richard Brown of Duke st. Grosvenor sq., principal
R.C. publisher in London who _d._ 25 Feb. 1837 aged 60). She _d._
23 March 1860 aged 73.

BROWN, SIR JOHN. Ensign 18 Foot 27 May 1795; lieut. col. 1 Greek
light infantry 1813–15; lieut. col. 21 Dragoons 1815–20; lieut.
col. 13 Dragoons 1820–30; colonel 8 Hussars 4 April 1843 to death;
general 20 June 1854; K.T.S. 25 June 1813; knighted by patent 24
Aug. 1814; K.C.H. 1831. _d._ 118 Pall Mall London 16 Nov. 1855
aged 80. _bur._ at Beckenham, Kent.

BROWN, REV. JOHN (_eld. son of Rev. John Brown 1754–1832, minister
of the Burgher Secession congregation in Whitburn_). _b._
Burnhead, Whitburn 12 July 1784; ed. at Whitburn parish school,
and Edinburgh Univ. 1797–1800; taught a school in village of Elie,
Fife 1800–1803; licensed by Presbytery of Stirling and Falkirk to
preach the gospel 12 Feb. 1805; minister of Biggar 6 Feb. 1806;
translated to Rose st. ch. Edinburgh 1 May 1822; inducted to
Broughton place ch. Edin. 20 May 1829; received degree of D.D.
from Jefferson college Pensylvania 1830; professor of exegetical
theology to United Presbyterian church 1834–57; engaged with
ardour in Apocrypha, Voluntary, and Atonement controversies
1835–43; promoted union of Secession and Relief bodies; jubilee of
his ministry celebrated April 1856; author of _Expository
discourses on 1 Peter 2 vols._ 1848, _2 ed._ 1849; _Discourses and
sayings of our Lord Jesus Christ 3 vols._ 1850; _Discourses suited
to the Lords Supper_ 1816, _3 ed._ 1853; _Exposition of the
Epistle to the Hebrews 2 vols._ 1862. _d._ Newington, Edinburgh 13
Oct. 1858. _John Cairns’s Memoir of John Brown_ 1860, _portrait_;
_John Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1848) 272–80.

BROWN, JOHN. _b._ Dover 2 Aug. 1797; in the East Indian merchant
service 1811–15; wholesale goldsmith and diamond merchant in
London; advocated expeditions in search of Sir John Franklin and
made collections illustrative of Arctic adventure; F.R.G.S. 1837;
a founder of Ethnological Soc. 1843; author of _The north west
passage and the plans for the search for Sir John Franklin a
review_ 1858, _2 ed._ 1860. _d._ Scaleby lodge, Camden road,
London 7 Feb. 1861. _Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xxxi_, 116
(1861); _G.M. x_, 571–3 (1861).

BROWN, JOHN. _b._ Barnwell near Cambridge 4 Aug. 1796; brought up as
a shoemaker; entered the army but deserted; became a strolling
player; served in the navy; worked as a shoemaker; acted in London
and the provinces; proprietor of University billiard rooms and
racket court, Ram yard, Bridge st. Cambridge for many years before
his death; town councillor of Cambridge. _d._ Cambridge 22 Aug.
1863. _Sixty years gleanings from life’s harvest by John Brown_
1858, _portrait_.

BROWN, JOHN (_son of Rev. John Brown 1784–1858_). _b._ Biggar,
Lanarkshire 22 Sep. 1810; ed. at high sch. and univ. Edin.;
apprenticed to James Syme the eminent surgeon 1828–33; M.D. Edin.
1833; physician at Edin. 1833 to death; author of _Horæ Subsecivæ
3 vols._ 1858–82. _d._ 23 Rutland st. Edin. 11 May 1882. _Good
Words for 1882 pp._ 446–51, _portrait_: _Macmillan’s Mag. xlvii_,
281–95 (1883); _I.L.N. lxxx_, 508 (1882), _portrait_.

BROWN, JOHN. _b._ Crathie near Balmoral, Aberdeenshire 8 Dec. 1826;
personal attendant on Queen Victoria Dec. 1865 to death. _d._
Clarence tower, Windsor Castle 27 March 1883. _bur._ Crathie
cemetery 5 April. _Life of J. Brown by H. L. Williams_ 1883; _More
leaves from the journal of a life in the Highlands_ (1884) 31,
_portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxxii_, 332 (1883), _portrait_.

BROWN, JOHN A. (_3 son of Alexander Brown of Baltimore, banker_).
_b._ Ballymena, co. Antrim 21 May 1788; went to United States
about 1800; manager of his father’s bank at Philadelphia 1818,
succeeded to the business; retired about 1839 with a large
fortune; gave to charities sum of 500,000 dollars 300,000 of them
to Presbyterian hospital of Philadelphia. _d._ Philadelphia 31
Dec. 1872.

BROWN, JOHN CHARLES. _b._ Glasgow 1805; landscape painter in London,
Glasgow and Edin.; associate of Royal Scottish Academy; drew views
for John Wilson’s _Scotland illustrated_ 1845; his picture ‘The
last of the Clan’ was engraved for Royal Association of Fine Arts
Scotland 1851. _d._ 10 Vincent st. Edin. 8 May 1867.

BROWN, JOHN HOSKINS. Entered navy 25 July 1805; registrar general of
seamen 1835 to April 1851; captain 20 March 1863; C.B. 8 April
1862; author of _The Shipmasters’ guide_ 1844, _new ed._ 1855;
edited _The mercantile navy list_ 1850 _etc._ _d._ Brixton, London
29 June 1864 aged 72.

BROWN, JOHN TATTON BUTLER. _b._ 1 Oct. 1833; 2 lieut. R.A. 18 June
1851, lieut. col. 9 Nov. 1876 to 29 Oct. 1881 when he retired with
hon. rank of M.G.; C.B. 27 Nov. 1879. _d._ Park Mount, Kent road,
Southsea 19 Aug. 1885.

BROWN, JOHN WRIGHT (_son of Rev. Charles J. Brown of Edinburgh_).
_b._ Edin. 19 Jany. 1836; assistant in herbarium connected with
Botanic garden Edin.; an associate of Edinburgh Botanical Society
to which he contributed a list of the plants of Elie, Fifeshire.
_d._ 39 George sq. Edinburgh 23 March 1863. _Trans. Bot. Soc.
Edin. vii_, 519–20 (1863).

BROWN, REV. JOSEPH. Educ. at Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1829, M.A.
1833; P.C. of St. Matthias, Bethnal Green, London 1844–9; R. of
Ch. Ch. Southwark 1849 to death; originator of Homes for servants
out of place, and the Albert Institution Blackfriars; practically
created Cholera orphan house, Ham common, since called National
orphan home; author of _Narratives and sermons for schools_ 1856;
_Hymns and psalms for divine worship_ 1859. _d._ Richmond hill,
Surrey 13 Aug. 1867 aged 67. _I.L.N. xxvi_, 269 (1855),
_portrait_.

BROWN, JOSEPH (_7 son of George Brown of North Shields_). _b._ North
Shields Sep. 1784; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; entered army medical
service, attached to Wellington’s staff in Peninsular war; resumed
his studies at Edin., M.D. 2 Aug. 1819; practised at Sunderland
1819 to death, medical officer of the Infirmary 1822 to death;
mayor of Sunderland 1840, alderman 1841; author of _Medical essays
on fever, inflammation and rheumatism_ 1828; _A defence of
revealed religion_ 1851; _Memories of the past and thoughts on the
present age_ 1863; _The food of the people_ 1865. _d._ Villiers
st. Sunderland 19 Nov. 1868. _Munk’s Roll of physicians iii_, 284
(1878); _Medical times and gazette ii_, 683–4 (1868).