Chapter II: Front Matter (2)

ADAMS, WILLIAM BRIDGES. _b._ London 1797; a carriage builder in Long
Acre; travelled over great part of Europe and America; pupil of
John Farey civil engineer; invented the fish-joint for railway
rails 1847, this joint is still universally used on railways; made
many valuable improvements in rolling stock; manufactured railway
plant at works at Bow, London but failed; patented improvements in
carriages, in ship propulsion, guns and wood carving; took out no
less than 32 patents; author of _English pleasure carriages_ 1837;
_Railways and permanest way_ 1854; _Roads and Rails_ 1862, and of
very many articles in scientific and technical periodicals; wrote
several political pamphlets under the pseudonym of Junius
Redivivus. (_m._ 1834 Sarah dau. of Benjamin Flower of Great
Harlow, Essex, she was _b._ 22 Feb. 1805, wrote many poems and
hymns, and _d._ Aug. 1848). _d._ Broadstairs 23 July 1872. _bur._
at St. Peters. _Engineering 26 July 1872 p._ 63.

ADAMS, WILLIAM DACRES. _b._ 16 Dec. 1775; confidential sec. to
William Pitt during his last administration May 1804 to Feb. 1806;
a comr. of woods and forests 31 July 1810 to 23 Aug. 1834. _d._
Sydenham 8 June 1862.

ADAMS, WILLIAM HENRY (_second son of Thomas Adams of Norman Cross,
Hunts, by Anna Maria dau. of W. Fair of Romsey, Hants_). _b._
Norman Cross 1809; compositor in a printing office in London;
manager of _Lincolnshire Herald_ at Boston 1834; law reporter for
the _Morning Herald_; barrister M.T. 24 Nov. 1843; went northern
circuit; Auditor of the Poor law accounts for Lincoln, Nottingham
and Rutland districts 1856; M.P. for Boston (lib. conserv.) 27
March 1857 to 23 April 1859; mayor of Boston twice; Recorder of
Derby 10 Jan. 1859; Attorney General for colony of Hong Kong 19
April 1859; Mem. of legislative council there 2 Feb. 1860 and
Chief Justice 5 July 1860. (_m._ (1) 1832 Anne dau. of Thomas
Walford. _m._ (2) 1 June 1864 Ellen Williams eld. dau. of Edward
Cobb of Kensington). _d._ Plas Llyssyn, Carno, Montgomeryshire 29
Aug. 1865. _bur._ Carno 6 Sep. _I.L.N. xxxvii_, 467 (1860)
_portrait_.

ADAMS, WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ Malta; captain 36 foot 3 July 1840 to 7
June 1844, when placed on half pay; professor of fortification at
R.M. college, Sandhurst 1845–70. _d._ Athenæum st. Plymouth 20
Dec. 1883 aged 79.

ADAMS, WILLIAM JAMES. _b._ London 1809; articled to a solicitor;
London agent for Bradshaw’s railway map about 1838; published
Bradshaw’s railway guide for the proprietors at 170 Fleet St.
1841–43 and at 59 Fleet st. 1843 to death; the 1st number is dated
Dec. 1841, and consisted of about 38 pages; the continental
Bradshaw was started 1847. _d._ 59 Fleet st. London 21 Dec. 1873.
_Athenæum 27 Dec. 1873_; _17 Jany 1874, and 24 Jany 1874_.

ADAMS, WILLIAM PITT. _b._ 11 Dec. 1804; chargé d’affaires and consul
general to republic of Peru 30 Nov. 1842 to death. _d._ Lima 1
Sep. 1852.

ADAMSON, REV. HENRY THOMAS; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.D. 1864;
V. of Benthall Salop 1871–77; chaplain at Turin 1877–78; at Nervi
1880; author of _The analogy of the faith_ 1869; _The truth as it
is in Jesus_ 1878; _The three sevens_ 1880; _The Millenium_ 1882.
_d._ Lyons 29 May 1882 in 66 year.

ADAMSON, JOHN (_3 son of Cuthbert Adamson, lieut. R.N. by his 2 wife
Mary dau. of John Huthwaite of Seaton Delaval near Newcastle_).
_b._ High st. Gateshead 13 Sep. 1787; ed. at Newcastle gr. sch.;
articled to Thomas Davidson of Newcastle, attorney; practised at
Newcastle 1808 to death; undersheriff there 1811–36; sec. to
Newcastle and Carlisle railway company 1829 to death; member of
Literary and philosophical society of Newcastle 1811, one of its
secretaries 1825 to death; treasurer and sec. of “The Antiquarian
society of Newcastle” 11 Feb. 1813 to death; one of the 4 founders
of Typographical society of Newcastle; K.C. and K.T.S. of
Portugal; F.L.S. 1823, F.S.A., F.R.G.S. 1830; author of _Memoirs
of life and writings of Luis de Camoens_ 1820, 2 _vols_;
_Lusitania illustrata notices of the history of Portugal, 2 parts
1842–46_. (_m._ 3 Dec. 1812 Elizabeth dau. of Samuel Huthwaite of
Seaton Delaval, she _d._ 5 July 1855). _d._ 9 Victoria terrace
Jesmond road, Newcastle 27 Sep. 1855. _bur._ Jesmond cemetery 1
Oct. _Dibdin’s Northern tour i_, 369–91 (1838); _Martin’s
Catalogue of privately printed books_ 1834, 419–40.

NOTE.—His library which contained a probably unrivalled
collection of books relating to Portugal was nearly entirely
destroyed by fire 16 April 1849, the remainder was sold at
Sotheby’s in London 22 May 1856.

ADCOCK, JAMES. _b._ Eton 1778; chorister in St. George’s chapel
Windsor and Eton college chapel 1786; lay clerk in St. George’s
chapel 1797 and in Eton college chapel 1799; member of choirs of
Trinity, St John’s and King’s colleges Cambridge; master of the
choristers of King’s college; published several of his glees and
_The rudiments of singing, with about 30 solfeggi to assist
persons wishing to sing at sight_. _d._ Union road, Cambridge 30
April 1860.

ADDAMS, JESSE (_son of Richard Addams of Rotherhithe, shipbuilder_).
_b._ 1 Jany. 1786; ed. Merchant Taylor’s sch. 1793; at St. John’s
coll. Ox. 1804; B.C.L. 1810, D.C.L. 1814; admitted a proctor at
Doctors Commons 3 Nov. 1814; Q.C. Jany. 1858; author of “_Reports
of cases argued and determined in the ecclesiastical courts at
Doctors Commons and in the high court of delegates_,” _3 vols._
1823–26. _d._ 224 Marylebone road, London 25 May 1871.

ADDERLEY, ARDEN, entered navy 4 June 1796; Captain 19 July 1814;
went on half pay 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 16 June 1862. _d._
Hams lodge, Ryde, Isle of Wight 15 Jany 1864.

ADDINGTON, HENRY UNWIN (_2 son of John Hiley Addington, M.P., P.C.
who d. 11 June 1818, by Mary dau. of Henry Unwin, she d. 3 Sep.
1833_). _b._ Blount’s Court near Henley on Thames 24 March 1790;
ed. at Winchester; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. at Madrid 10
Oct. 1829 to 2 Nov. 1833; permanent under secretary of state for
foreign affairs 4 March 1842 to 9 April 1854; P.C. 15 April 1854;
F.R.G.S. 1861 and member of council 1861–70. (_m._ 17 Nov. 1836
Eleanor Anne Bucknall eld. dau. of Thomas Grimston Bucknall
Estcourt of Estcourt Gloucs, she _d._ 17 Oct. 1877). _d._ 78 Eaton
place London 6 March 1870.

ADDIS, BERNARD. _b._ London 28 Feb. 1791; entered Society of Jesus
at Hodder 14 Oct. 1817; ordained priest at Maynooth college 1 June
1822; procurator at Mount St. Mary’s college, Derbyshire 1852–59;
assistant missioner at Skipton, Yorkshire 1863–73. _d._ the
Novitiate, Manresa house, Roehampton, Surrey 1 Oct. 1879.

ADDISON, REV. BERKELEY (_son of Rev. Joseph Addison of Weymouth_);
ed. at Reading gr. sch. and St. Peter’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1839,
M.A. 1842; R. of Collyhurst, Manchester 1855–60; domestic chaplain
to Earl Caithness 1856 to death; surrogate 1861; V. of Jesmond,
Northumberland 1861 to death; member of Newcastle upon Tyne school
board 25 Jan. 1871 and vice chairman; hon. canon of Durham 1877 to
death. _d._ Jesmond vicarage 13 Jany. 1882 in 67 year.

ADDISON, CHARLES GREENSTREET (_youngest son of Wm. Dering Addison of
Newark house, Maidstone_); barrister Inner Temple 10 June 1842;
went home circuit; revising barrister for East Kent; author of
_The history of the knights templars, the Temple church and the
Temple_ 1842, _3 ed._ 1852; _A treatise on the law of contracts, 2
vols._ 1845–47, _8 ed._ 1883; _Wrongs and their remedies_ 1860, _5
ed._ 1879. (_m._ 19 Nov. 1848 Frances Octavia 8 dau. of James
Wolfe Murray, Lord Cringletie). _d._ 29 Alfred place west, Thurloe
square London 19 Feb. 1866.

ADDISON, EDWARD PHILLIPS, stage name of Edward Philip Haddy. _b._
Plymouth Dock (name changed to Devonport 1 Jany. 1824) 24 Feb.
1809; acted in the provinces; first appeared in London at Lyceum
theatre 1 April 1839 in “Dark Events”; acted at Drury Lane,
Olympic, Prince of Wales’s and Lyceum theatres; played Pickwick in
Albery’s dramatic version of it at Lyceum theatre 23 Oct. 1871 to
Nov. 1871; lessee of Doncaster theatre many years. _d._ Plymouth
16 April 1874. _bur._ there 19 April.

ADDISON, HENRY ROBERT. _b._ Calcutta; cornet 2 dragoon guards 12
July 1827; lieut. 15 March 1831 to 21 June 1833 when placed on
half pay; began writing for the stage 1830; author of about 60
dramas and farces; lessee of Queen’s theatre London Aug.
1836–1837; wrote many songs and articles in monthly magazines;
edited _Who’s Who 1849–50_; special correspondent of a morning
paper at Paris exhibition 1867; deputy chairman of London
steamboat company; author of about 12 novels and stories. _d._
Albion st. Hyde park, London 24 June 1876 aged 71. _Dublin Univ.
Mag. xviii_, 505 (1841) _portrait_.

ADDISON, JOHN (_son of John Addison of Preston, recorder of
Clitheroe who d. 1837 in his 83 year, by Agnes dau. of Thomas
Batty of Avenham house, Preston_). _b._ Fishergate, Preston 21
April 1791; ed. at Blanchard’s school, Nottingham; articled with
Aspden and Shuttleworth of Preston, solicitors; barrister Inner
Temple 6 Feb. 1818; went northern circuit; recorder of Clitheroe
1837 to death; judge of county court number 4 circuit, Lancashire
March 1847 to death; his first court was held at Blackburn 7 June
1847; presented with valuable piece of plate by registrars of his
circuit 1857; alderman of Preston 25 Sep. 1832, again 27 Feb.
1846; mayor 1833 and 1843; councillor for St. John’s ward 1842.
_d._ Winckley sq. Preston 14 July 1859. _bur._ St. Leonard’s ch.
Balderston 20 July.

ADDISON, JOSEPH (_youngest son of Rev. Wm. Addison, R. of Dinsdale,
Durham_). _b._ 1789; ed. at gr. sch. Richmond, Yorkshire and
Lincoln coll. Ox., B.A. 1811, M.A. 1813; barrister Inner Temple 28
Jany. 1831; went northern circuit; bencher of his inn 1857. (_m._
28 Dec. 1824 Jane 1 dau. of Thomas Beckett of Thornton le Moor
near Northallerton). _d._ 7 Dean’s yard, Westminster 10 April
1858.

ADDISON, LAURA, stage name of Laura Wilmshurst (_dau. of Thomas
Wilmshurst of Colchester, grocer_). _b._ Colchester 15 Nov. 1822;
first appeared on stage at Worcester theatre, Nov. 1843, as Lady
Townley in _The provoked husband_; played at Glasgow, Dublin and
Edinburgh; at Sadlers Wells theatre, London 26 Aug. 1846 to 1848;
at Drury lane 26 Dec. 1849 to 1850; at the Haymarket 6 March 1851
to 31 July 1851; made her first appearance in New York, at the
Broadway theatre 29 Sep. 1851, as Lady Teazle in _The school for
scandal_. _d._ from congestion of the brain, on board the steamer
Oregon, between Albany and New York 3 Sep. 1852, _bur._ in Second
Avenue burying-ground, New York. _Theatrical Times, i_, 185 (1847)
_portrait_; _Tallis’s Drawing room table book_ (1851) 23–24,
_portrait_.

ADDISON, THOMAS (_younger son of Joseph Addison of Long Benton, near
Newcastle, grocer, who d. 1823 aged 67, by Sarah dau. of Mr. Shaw
of Newcastle, grocer, she d. 1841 aged 80_). _b._ Long Benton,
April 1793; ed. at Newcastle gr. school, and Univ. of Edin.; M.D.
1 Aug. 1815; pres. of royal medical society of Edin. 1814; house
surgeon to Lock hospital, London; L.R.C.P. 22 Dec. 1819 and
F.R.C.P. 4 July 1838; a medical officer of general dispensary 8
years; assistant phys. at Guy’s hospital 1824 and phys. 1837–60;
lecturer on Materia Medica there 1827–37; and on practice of
medicine 1837–60; pres. of royal medico-chirurgical society 1849
and 1850; discovered disease of the supra renal capsules, called
after him “Addison’s disease.” Author of _The elements of the
practice of medicine, vol._ 1 only 1839; _On the constitutional
and local effects of disease of the supra renal capsules_ 1855.
(_m._ 14 Sep. 1847 Elizabeth Catherine, widow of W. W. Hanxwell,
she _d._ 30 May 1872 aged 72); placed under medical care, May
1860; attempted to destroy himself several times. _d._ 29 June
1860 at 15 Wellington villas, Brighton, from injuries caused by
jumping down the area there, 27 June, buried near north eastern
corner of Lanercost abbey churchyard 5 July; _A collection of the
published writings of the late Thomas Addison, M.D._ 1868; _H.
Lonsdale’s Worthies of Cumberland, iv_, 239–72 (1873) _portrait_;
_Munk’s Roll of physicians, 2 ed. iii_, 205–211 (1878).

NOTE.—A bust of him by Joseph Towne, is in the pathological
museum of “Guys,” one of the medical wards in new portion of
the hospital is named after him, and in the chapel there is a
marble tablet to his memory.

ADDISON, THOMAS BATTY (_eld. son of John Addison of Preston,
barrister who d. Nov. 1837 in 83 year, by Agnes dau. of Thomas
Batty of Avenham house, Preston_). _b._ Fishergate, Preston 17
June 1787; ed. at Charter house; barrister Inner Temple 1 July
1808; went northern circuit; recorder of Preston 1819 to death; a
magistrate for Lancashire 1821; chairman of Preston quarter
sessions 1821 to March 1874; commissioner of Bankrupts for Preston
district. _d._ 23 Winckley square, Preston 6 June 1874.

ADDISON, WILLIAM, L.S.A. 1824, M.R.C.S. 1825, F.R.S. 29 Jany. 1846,
F.R.C.P. 1858; Gulstonian lecturer 1859; physician Brighton and
Hove dispensary; author of _A dissertation on the Malvern water_
1828; _Cell therapeutics_ 1856. _d._ 10 Albert road, Brighton 26
Sep. 1881 in 80 year.

ADEANE, HENRY JOHN. _b._ Babraham, Cambs. 9 June 1833; M.P. for
Cambs. (lib.) 6 April 1857 to 6 July 1865. _d._ 8 Seamore place,
London 17 Feb. 1870.

ADEY, REVEREND JOHN. _b._ Painswick, Gloucs. 15 May 1793; in
business at Winslow, Bucks; began first voluntary Sunday school in
Gloucester; founded a Sunday school at Great Horwood; ordained
congregational minister there 1820; moved to Cranbrook, Kent then
to Ramsgate; minister at Horselydown, Surrey 1836–58; at Bexley
Heath, Kent 1858–68 when he retired; author of _The eleventh hour_
1835; _The convert from popery_ 1851. _d._ Bexley Heath 16 Dec.
1869. _bur._ Abney Park cemetery.

ADIE, ALEXANDER JAMES. _b._ Edinburgh 1775; an optician there; much
employed by all kinds of inventors to give their schemes a
practical form; erected on his house in Merchant court an
observatory, long before any public observatory existed in Edin.;
invented the sympiesometer 1818 which contributed much to the
safety of shipping; F.R.S. Edin. _d._ Canaan near Edinburgh 4 Dec.
1858.

ADIE, ALEXANDER JAMES (_son of the preceding_). _b._ Edinburgh 1808;
ed. at the high school and univ.; apprenticed to James Jardine,
C.E.; resident engineer of Bolton Chorley and Preston railway
1836; engineer and manager of Edinburgh and Glasgow railway to
about 1863; made a series of important experiments on the
expansion of stone by heat; M.R.S. Edin. 1846. _d._ Rockville near
Linlithgow 1879.

ADOLPHUS, JOHN LEYCESTER (_only son of John Adolphus 1768–1845,
barrister, F.S.A., by Martha Elizabeth only dau. of Rev. Ralph
Leycester of White place, Berks_). _b._ 11 May 1795; ed. at
Merchant Taylor’s school 1802–11, head monitor, elected to
fellowship at St. John’s coll. Ox. 1811; Newdigate English verse
prizeman 1814; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1819; visited Sir Walter Scott at
Abbotsford; barrister Inner Temple 21 June 1822; went northern
circuit; Bencher of his inn 1851; reported in Court of King’s
Bench, first with Richard Vaughan Barnewall 1831–35, then with
Thomas Flower Ellis 1835–52; solicitor general of county palatine
of Durham; judge of county courts circuit 44 Marylebone, Oct. 1852
to death; sat for the first time 14 Oct. 1852; author of _Letters
to Richard Heber, Esq., containing critical remarks on the series
of novels, beginning with “Waverley,” and an attempt to ascertain
their author_; author with Richard Vaughan Barnewall, of _Reports
in court of King’s Bench 1830–34, 5 vols._ 1831–35; with Thomas
Flower Ellis, of _Reports in court of King’s Bench and Queen’s
Bench 1834–41, 12 vols._ 1835–42 and _Queen’s Bench reports, new
series 1841–52, 18 vols._, 1842–56; _Letters from Spain_ 1858,
_and of many metrical jeux d’esprit_. (_m._ 10 Sep. 1822 Clara
dau. of Rowland Richardson of Streatham, Surrey). _d._ 12 Hyde
park sq. London 24 Dec. 1862. _G.M. xiv_, 246 (1863).

ADY, JOSEPH (_son of John Ady of London, recording clerk of the
Society of Friends, who d. 17 Nov. 1812 aged 68_). _b._ London
1775 or 1776; a hatter and hosier at 6 Charlotte st. Wapping;
hatter at 11 Circus, Minories 1831–33; accountant at same address
1833; was accustomed to examine lists of unclaimed dividends,
estates and bequests, and to send letters always unstamped to all
persons he could find who were called by any of the names
mentioned in the lists, stating to each person that on his
remitting a fee of 20/- he would be informed of something to his
advantage. The Lord Mayor, Sir Peter Laurie, in 1833, publicly
advertised people to be cautious of him, and the Court of Aldermen
the same year directed measures to be taken against him. His
lucrative trade was at last stifled by a new section in the Post
Office Act, which made the writers of letters that were refused,
liable for the postage; he then resorted to a new device, this was
to post his letters really unstamped, but bearing marks on them as
of stamps removed, so as to furnish ground for his asseveration
that stamps had really been put on them. In the year 1835 he was
indicted by the Rev. Francis Tebbutt for a misdemeanour, under
statute 7 & 8, George iv, cap. 29 sec. 53, for obtaining a
sovereign by various false pretences, he was tried at the Central
criminal court 7 Feb. 1835, found guilty and sentenced to 7 years
transportation, which was commuted to 1 year’s imprisonment in the
House of Correction. He was sent to prison again in the year 1851
for a similar offence, but was released early in 1852 by order of
the Home Secretary in consequence of his declining health. _d._ 89
Fenchurch st. London 17 July 1852 aged 77. _bur._ Friend’s burial
ground, Whitechapel 22 July. _Central criminal court minutes of
evidence, by Henry Buckler, i_, 646–52 (1835); _De Quincey’s
Works, vi_, 258, 327 (1862). The epistle of which the following is
an exact copy, was received by the Duke of Wellington 5 Dec. 1833,
and sent by him to the Lord Mayor the next day:

MY LORD,

The undersigned is able to inform you of something
considerably to your advantage on receipt of 20 shillings, by
post office order or otherwise for his trouble.

Yours respectfully,
JOSEPH ADY, Accountant,
11 Circus, Minories,
London.

Nov. 29th, 1833.

No letters received unless postpaid.

To His Grace The Duke of Wellington,
Strathfieldsaye, Hants.

The annexed is copied from a letter of his, which was received by a
gentleman in the country.

“The undersigned is able to inform you of something
considerably to your advantage (value £100 and upwards), on
receipt of 20/- by order on Whitechapel post office as an
equivalent for his trouble and costs generally.

Respectfully
JOSEPH ADY, Accountant,
No. 5 York St Charlotte St.
¼ mile East of Whitechapel Chh.
London.

Personally known to each of the Aldermen of London, having
been a Freeman and Housekeeper 50 years.

April 5th, 1847.

Should you find any difficulty in getting the money, the Rt.
Hon. Sir Peter Laurie, Deputy Lord Mayor, will frank you from
all Expenses except Postage, which you must pay both ways. In
your reply be pleased to copy the Marks of Reference, F. 1847,
Page 6.”

ADY, VENERABLE WILLIAM BRICE (_son of Wm. Ady, comr. of the Gun
Wharf, Devonport_). _b._ 1816; ed. at Eton; entered Ex. coll. Ox.
29 Oct. 1834, B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; V. of Little Baddow, Essex
1842–57 and Rector 1857 to death; archdeacon of Colchester Dec.
1864 to death. (_m._ 10 April 1844 Emilia 3 and youngest dau. of
Rev. Brook Henry Bridges, R. of Danbury, Essex). _d._ Little
Baddow 21 April 1882. _bur._ Little Baddow churchyard 27 April.
_Statute 29 & 30 Vict. cap. 111, sections 15 and 16._

AFFLECK, SIR GILBERT, 5 Baronet. _b._ 9 June 1804; succeeded 7 May
1851. _d._ Calverley park, Tunbridge Wells 18 Nov. 1854.

AFFLECK, REV. SIR ROBERT, 4 Baronet. _b._ 27 Jany. 1765; ed. at
Westminster, captain of the school 1782; and at Ch. Ch. Ox.; B.A.
1787, M.A. 1790; Preb. of York cathedral 8 May 1802 to death; V.
of Doncaster 1807–17; V. of Silkstone near Barnsley 1817–37;
succeeded 10 Aug. 1833. _d._ Dalham hall near Newmarket 7 May
1851.

AFFLECK, SIR ROBERT, 6 Baronet. _b._ Retford Notts 28 July 1805;
succeeded 18 Nov. 1854; sheriff of Suffolk 1875. _d._ Dalham hall
9 Oct. 1882.

AGAR, SIR EMANUEL FELIX, lieutenant 1 life guards 15 Nov. 1804;
major 2 life guards 28 April 1814 to April 1815; M.P. for Sudbury
(lib.) 5 May 1807 to 29 Sep. 1812; knighted by the Prince Regent
at Carlton house 18 July 1812. (_m._ 21 Aug. 1811 Margaret
youngest dau. of Edward George Lind of Stratford place, London,
she _d._ 10 Aug. 1863). _d._ 6 Langham st. Marylebone, London 28
Aug. 1866 aged 85.

AGAR, HONORABLE GEORGE CHARLES (_2 son of Most Rev. Charles Agar
1736–1809, 1 Earl of Normanton Abp. of Dublin, by Jane eld. dau.
of Wm. Benson of Downpatrick, she d. 25 Oct. 1826_). _b._ 1 Aug.
1780; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., M.A. 1807; ensign 3 foot
guards 21 Jany. 1804; lieut. 1 June 1809 to 5 Nov. 1811 when he
retired; F.R.S. 7 June 1832. _d._ Ropley house Alresford, Hants 24
Jany. 1856.

AGAR, HONOURABLE AND VENERABLE JAMES (_3 son of Most Rev. Charles
Agar, 1 Earl of Normanton_). _b._ 10 July 1781; ed. at Westminster
and at Ch. Ch. Ox.; preb. of Timothan in St. Patrick’s cathedral,
Dublin 16 Nov. 1805; R. of St. Nicholas without, Dublin 1806; R.
of Caningallen, Leitrim 1809; archdeacon of Kilmore 1810 to death.
(_m._ 7 July 1829 Louisa youngest dau. of Samuel Thompson of
Greenmount, co. Antrim). _d._ 6 Sep. 1866.

AGER, JOSEPH (_son of Joseph Ager of London, apothecary_). _b._
London; entered at Pembroke coll. Ox. 1 April 1800 aged 18,
Ossulston scholar; B.A. 1803, M.A. 1807, M.B. 1807, M.D. 1810;
fellow of his college; F.R.C.P. 30 Sep. 1811, Gulstonian lecturer
1812, and Censor 1815, 1825 and 1835; delivered the Materia Medica
lectures 1827–28: F.R. Med. and Chir. soc. 1814; assistant phys.
to Marylebone infirmary many years; greatly assisted Robert
Hooper, M.D. in the formation of his pathological museum. _d._ 85
Great Portland st. London 17 July 1857 in 77 year.

AGLIO, AGOSTINO. _b._ Cremona 15 Dec. 1777; painter at Rome 1797;
went to England, Dec. 1803; painted scenery at the Opera house,
London 1804, and at Drury Lane theatre 1806; largely employed in
decoration of country mansions in England and Ireland; decorated
Pantheon in Oxford st. 1811; ceiling of R.C. chapel in Moorfields
1819 where he also executed the altarpiece; produced many easel
pictures about 1820; exhibited 22 pictures at British Institution,
8 at the Suffolk st. gallery 1825–56, and 13 at the R.A. 1830–46;
painted 2 portraits of the Queen; decorated the Olympic theatre,
which was reopened 26 Dec. 1849; published _Mexican Antiquities_
_9 vols._ 1830–48; drew many works in lithography. _d._ 87
Beresford st. Walworth 30 Jany. 1857. _bur._ Highgate cemetery.

AGLIONBY, HENRY AGLIONBY. _b._ 28 Dec. 1790; M.P. for Cockermouth
(lib.) 12 Dec. 1832 to death. _d._ The manor house, Caterham,
Surrey 31 July 1854. _I.L.N. vi_, 184 (1845) _portrait_.

AGNESI, LOUIS FERDINAND LEOPOLD, stage name of L. F. L. Agniez. _b._
Erpent, Belgium 17 July 1833; ed. at the Conservatoire, Brussels;
a baritone singer of the first rank; member of Italian opera
company at Drury Lane; sang at the fifth triennial Handel festival
at Crystal palace 19–26 June 1874. _d._ 56 Loudoun road, Hampstead
2 Feb. 1875.

AGNEW, THOMAS. _b._ Liverpool Dec. 1794; fellow student with John
Gibson the sculptor; partner with Vittoria Zannetti of Market st.
lane, Manchester 1816, who was then the only art dealer in the
north of England except Burland of Liverpool; carried on business
in Exchange st. Manchester 1826 to Oct. 1861 when he retired;
published many works of art and not less than 1000 engravings;
alderman of Salford from its incorporation 16 April 1844 and mayor
1850; gave many pictures and prints to the free museum and library
at Peel park, Salford. _d._ Fair Hope, Eccles. Manchester 24 March
1871. _bur._ churchyard of St. Mark’s Worsley 29 March.

AHMUTY, JAMES, 2 Lieut. Bengal artillery 7 Sep. 1791; colonel
commandant 29 Aug. 1824 to death; general 15 Sep. 1855. _d._ 14
Chesham place, Belgrave sq. London 12 Jany. 1864 aged 89.

AIKENHEAD, MARY (_eld. child of David Aikenhead of Cork, physician
who d. 28 Dec. 1801, by Mary eld. dau. of Mr. Stacpole of Cork,
merchant, she m._ (2) _Mr. Bernard of Palace Anne and _d._ 1809_).
_b._ Cork 19 Jany. 1787; received into R. C. church 6 June 1802
and confirmed 2 July 1802; took name of Sister Mary Augustine,
June 1812; superior of the first convent of sisters of charity
William st. Dublin Aug. 1815 to 1827; made her perpetual vows 9
Dec. 1816; superior of convent at Sandymount 16 Aug. 1831;
superior general of the Irish foundation of Sisters of charity
1843; lived at convent of Our Lady’s Mount, Harold’s Cross, Dublin
Sep. 1845 to death. _d._ Our Lady’s Mount, 22 July 1858. _Mary
Aikenhead by S.A. 2 ed. revised 1882, portrait._

AIKIN, ARTHUR (_1 son of John Aikin, M.D. of Warrington, Lancs.
1747–1822 by Martha dau. of Arthur Jennings of Harlington,
Bedford, she d. 1830 aged 83_). _b._ Warrington 19 May 1773; ed.
there and at Palgrave in Norfolk; studied classics under Gilbert
Wakefield, and chemistry under Dr. Priestley; settled in London
1796; one of the founders of Geological Society of London 1807,
which was incorporated 23 Apl. 1823; one of the secretaries and a
member of council; lecturer on chemistry at Guy’s hospital
1816–52; secretary of Society for encouragement of arts,
manufactures and commerce 1817–40, where he read more than 40
lectures; chairman of its committee of chemistry 1840; the first
treasurer of Chemical Society 30 March 1841; F.L.S. 1818; the
first hon. sec. of Institution of Civil Engineers 2 Jany. 1818;
one of specially selected members of the Athenæum club; much
employed in drawing specifications of patents for improvements in
chemical manufactures, in which Lord Lyndhurst held him to excel
all other persons; made many chemical analyses for patentees and
public companies; lived at 19 John st. Adelphi 1817–40; at 7
Bloomsbury sq. 1840 to death; edited _The annual review_
1802–1806; author of _Journal of a tour through north Wales, and
part of Shropshire_ 1797; _Manual of mineralogy_ 1814, _2 ed._
1815. _d._ 7 Bloomsbury sq. London 15 April 1854. _J. Kendrick’s
Profiles of Warrington worthies, 2 ed._ 1854, _portrait_;
_European Mag. lxxv_, 387 (1819) _portrait_; _Proc. of Linnæan
society, ii_, 304–306 (1855); _Minutes of proceedings of
institution of civil engineers, xiv_, 120–23 (1855).

AIKIN, LUCY (_only dau. of John Aikin, M.D. of Harrington
1747–1822_). _b._ Warrington 6 Nov. 1781; author of _Epistles on
women, a poem_ 1810, _Lorimer, a tale_ 1814, _Memoirs of the court
of Queen Elizabeth_, _2 vols._ 1818; _Memoirs of the court of King
James I_, _2 vols._ 1822; _Memoirs of the court of King Charles
I_, _2 vols._ 1833; _Life of Addison_ 1843; lived at Church row,
Hampstead, June 1822 to 1830; at 18 Church row 1830–44; in London
1844–45; at Wimbledon 1845–50; at John st. Hampstead 1850 to
death. _d._ Milford house, Hampstead 29 Jany. 1864. _bur._ near
east end of old churchyard of Hampstead. _Memoirs, miscellanies
and letters of the late Lucy Aikin, edited by P. H. Le Breton_
1864; _J. Kendrick’s Profiles of Warrington worthies, 2 ed._ 1854,
_portrait_.

AIKMAN, JAMES. A bookseller in Edinburgh; author of _Poems, chiefly
lyrical_ 1816; _An account of the tournament at Eglinton_ 1839;
_The animal kingdom_ 1861; editor and proprietor of a weekly paper
called _The Star_. _d._ Edinburgh 21 May 1860 aged 81.

AILESBURY, CHARLES BRUDENELL-BRUCE, 1 Marquess of (_3 and youngest
son of Thomas Bruce 1 earl of Ailesbury 1729–1814, by his 1 wife
Susanna dau. of Henry Hoare of Stourhead, Wilts and widow of
honble. Charles Boyle, she d. 4 Feb. 1783_). _b._ Seamore place
Mayfair, London 12 Feb. 1773; M.P. for Marlborough (tory) as
Charles B. B. Bruce commonly called Lord Bruce 30 May 1796 to 19
April 1814, when he succeeded; col. of Wiltshire yeomanry
1798–1811; col. commandant of Wiltshire militia 25 July 1811 to
1827; K.T. 20 May 1819; created Viscount Savernake of Savernake
Forest co. Wilts, Earl Bruce of Whorlton co. York, and Marquess of
Ailesbury co. Buckingham 17 July 1821. (_m._ (1) 10 April 1793
Henrietta Maria 1 dau. of Noel Hill, 1 baron Berwick, she _d._ 2
Jany. 1831. _m._ (2) 20 Aug. 1833 Maria Elizabeth youngest dau. of
honble. Charles Tollemache and widow of Charles John Clarke, she
was _b._ 27 Oct. 1809). _d._ Tottenham park near Marlborough 4
Jany. 1856. _bur._ in family vault in parish church of Great
Bedwyn, Wilts 12 Jany.

AILESBURY, GEORGE WM. FREDERICK BRUDENELL-BRUCE, 2 Marquess of
(_elder son of the preceding_). _b._ Lower Grosvenor st. London 20
Nov. 1804; ed. at Ch. Ch Ox.; lieut. col. commandant Wilts
yeomanry cavalry 30 June 1837 and col. 1 April 1876 to death;
summoned to house of Lords in his father’s barony of Bruce 10 July
1838; kept a racing stud 1840 to death; won the St. Leger with St.
Albans 12 Sep. 1860; succeeded his father 4 Jany. 1856; aide de
camp to the Queen with rank of colonel 13 March 1857 to death;
P.C. 18 June 1859; master of the horse to the Queen 24 June 1859
to July 1866 and 16 Dec. 1868 to Feb. 1874; lord lieut. of Wilts
25 March 1863 to death; K.G. 23 May 1864; succeeded his cousin as
8 Earl of Cardigan 28 March 1868. (_m._ 11 May 1837 Mary Caroline
2 dau. of George Augustus Herbert, 11 Earl of Pembroke, she was
_b._ 22 March 1813). _d._ Savernake park, Marlborough 6 Jany.
1878. _Baily’s Mag. iv_, 217–20 (1862) _portrait_.

AILSA, ARCHIBALD KENNEDY, 2 Marquess of (_1 son of Archibald
Kennedy, styled Earl of Cassilis 1794–1832, by Eleanor only dau.
of Alexander Allardyce of Dunottar, co. Kincardine, she d. 16 Nov.
1832_). _b._ Dunottar, Aug. 1816; succeeded his grandfather 8 Sep.
1846; K.T. 7 March 1859; Lord. lieut. of Ayrshire 7 Dec. 1861 to
death. (_m._ 10 Nov. 1846 Julia 2 dau. of Sir Richard Mounteney
Jephson, 1 baronet). _d._ Culzean castle, Maybole, N.B. 20 March
1870 from injuries received in the hunting field.

AINGER, REV. THOMAS (_youngest son of William Ainger of Whittlesea,
Cambs._) _b._ Whittlesea 1 Aug. 1799; ed. at Norwich gr. school
and St. John’s Coll. Cam.; B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824; C. of St. Giles
ch. Reading 1 Sep. 1822; Asst. minister of St. Mary’s, Greenwich
1825; P.C. of Hampstead 28 March 1841 to death; founded in
Hampstead, the Parochial Association in aid of the Society for the
propagation of Gospel 1845; founded the Church Extension
Association 1858; Preb. of St. Paul’s Cath., Aug. 1859; preached
his last sermon Easter day 5 April 1863. (_m._ 4 Aug. 1828 Frances
only dau. of Wm. Barnard of Deptford Green). _d._ the Parsonage,
Hampstead 15 Nov. 1863. _bur._ in churchyard of parish church 20
Nov. _The last sermons of the Rev. Thomas Ainger, M.A., with a
memoir of the author prefixed_ 1864.

AINSLIE, FREDERICK GEORGE. 2 lieut. 21 foot 24 April 1828; lieut.
col. 23 April 1852 to death. _d._ on board the “Andes” in Scutari
harbour 14 Nov. 1854 aged 45, of wounds received at battle of
Inkerman 5 Nov.

AINSLIE, REV. GILBERT (_youngest son of Henry Ainslie, M.D. of Hall
Garth Lancashire, he was senior wrangler 1781 and d. 1834, by
Agnes dau. of Wm. Ford of Coniston Water Head_). _b._ 1793; ed. at
Charterhouse and Pemb. coll. Cam. 8 wrangler and B.A. 1815, M.A.
1818; foundation fellow of his college 1816; treasurer, tutor,
bursar and lecturer; laid first stones of university library at
Cam. Sep. 1837, and of the Fitzwilliam museum 2 Nov. 1837; Master
of his college 15 Aug. 1828 to death; Vice Chancellor of the Univ.
1828 and 1836. (_m._ 2 Dec. 1829 Emily 2 dau. of Wm. Coxhead Marsh
of Park hall, Essex). _d._ Pembroke college lodge 9 Jany. 1870.
_bur._ at Over Kellet, Lancs. 14 Jany.

AINSLIE, HUGH. _b._ Bargeny Mains, parish of Dailly, Ayrshire 5
April 1792; emigrated to New York 1822; established several
breweries, mills and factories in the western States; author of _A
pilgrimaqe to the land of Burns_ 1822; _Scottish songs, ballads
and poems_ 1855. _d._ Louisville Kentucky 11 March 1878.

AINSLIE, SIR ROBERT SHARP, 2 Baronet. _b._ 1777; M.P. for Mitchell,
Cornwall 6 July 1802 to 24 Oct. 1806; succeeded 22 July 1812. _d._
Chingford, Essex 14 March 1858.

AINSWORTH, JAMES (_son of Jeremiah Ainsworth of Manchester_). _b._
Manchester 5 March 1783; ed. at Manchester free gr. sch. and by
Rev. Joshua Brookes; apprenticed at the infirmary Manchester 1798;
studied at Univ. of Edin.; surgeon to the infirmary Manchester
1806; the first to commence anatomical lectures in Manchester; one
of the ablest operators of his day, and the first who tied the
internal iliac artery successfully; one of the founders of Natural
history society, and of Botanical and horticultural society;
member of Manchester literary and philosophical society Jany. 1805
to death; hon. F.R.C.S. 1843. _d._ Cliff point, Higher Broughton
near Manchester 28 Oct. 1853. _Admission Register of Manchester
school ii_, 202–204 (1868).

AINSWORTH, PETER, _b._ 24 Nov. 1790; M.P. for Bolton, (radical) 9
Jany. 1835 to 23 July 1847. _d._ Smithills hall, Bolton 18 Jany.
1870.

AINSWORTH, WILLIAM HARRISON (_elder son of Thomas Ainsworth of
Manchester, solicitor 1778–1824, by Ann Harrison 1778–1842 eld.
dau. of Rev. Ralph Harrison of Manchester, Presbyterian
minister_). _b._ King st. Manchester 4 Feb. 1805; ed. at the free
gr. sch. 1817–22; articled 1821 to Alexander Kay of Manchester,
solicitor; a publisher in London 1826–27; edited _Bentley’s
Miscellany_, March 1839 to Dec. 1841; author of _Jack Sheppard_,
_3 vols._ 1839 which was produced in dramatic form simultaneously,
at Adelphi, Queen’s, Sadler’s Wells, Victoria and Pavilion
theatres in London, Oct. 1839; received £1000 from the ‘_Sunday
Times_’ for ‘_Old St. Paul’s_’ 1841, and another £1000 for the
‘_Lancashire Witches_’ 1848; edited _Ainsworth’s Magazine_, Feb.
1842 to 1854; purchased _New monthly magazine_ from Henry Colburn
1845; purchased _Bentley’s Miscellany_ 1854 and combined with it
Ainsworth’s Magazine, Jany. 1855; gave the flitch of bacon at
Dunmow in Essex 19 July 1855 and 25 July 1857; granted a civil
list pension of £100 a year 10 Dec. 1868; entertained at a banquet
in the town hall, Manchester by the mayor, Thomas Baker 15 Sep.
1881; lived at the Elms, Kilburn; at Kensal manor house; at
Brighton; at Tunbridge Wells; at Reigate. (_m._ 11 Oct. 1826 Anne
Frances younger dau. of John Ebers of John st. London, publisher,
she _d._ 6 March 1838). _d._ St. Mary’s road, Reigate 3 Jany.
1882. _bur._ Kensal Green cemetery 9 Jany. _Manchester quarterly_,
_i_, 136–55 (1882) _portrait_; _Maclise portrait gallery_ (1883)
256–62, _portrait_; _J. H. Friswell’s Modern men of letters_
(1870) 257–72; _Illustrated Review_, _ii_, 321–23 (1872)
_portrait_; _Horne’s New spirit of the age_, _ii_, 215–22 (1844).

NOTE.—His novel _Mervyn Clitheroe_ is autobiographical; in
March 1878 he presented a life size portrait of himself,
painted by H. W. Pickersgill, about 1841 to the Chetham
Library Manchester; the best portrait of him is the figure in
the vignette by Cruikshank, which forms the standing title to
monthly editorial gossip in early numbers of Ainsworth’s
magazine. He was caricatured unmercifully by Thackeray in
Punch. His books and the MSS. of 18 of his novels were sold by
Sotheby in London for £463, 21–22 Aug. 1882. He was the author
of upwards of 40 works of fiction.

AIRD, DAVID MITCHELL. Compositor at The Sun newspaper office,
London; started a bimonthly magazine called _The Student_ which
lasted 6 months; edited _The Mirror_ 1843; printed for the
Countess de Brunetiere Tallien the first daily French paper
published in England 1851 which failed; barrister M.T. 11 June
1867; wrote several books under pseudonym of Pamphilius. _d._ 2
Sussex gardens, Hyde park, London 15 June 1876. _Head and Heart
legacy by Pamphilius_ 1861, _portrait_.

AIRD, THOMAS (_2 child of James Aird of Bowden, Roxburghshire,
portioner or farmer who d. aged 86, by Isabella Paisley, she d.
aged 86_) _b._ Bowden 28 Aug. 1802; ed. there, at Melrose and at
Univ. of Edinburgh; edited _Edinburgh Weekly Journal_ 1833;
_Dumfriesshire and Galloway herald_ at Dumfries 1835–63; presided
at Scott centenary at Dumfries 9 Aug. 1871; author of _The old
bachelor in the Scottish village_ 1845; _Poetical works_ 1848, _5
ed._ 1878; contributed poetry and prose to _Blackwood’s Magazine_,
_d._ Dumfries 25 April 1876. _bur._ near Robert Burns in St.
Michael’s churchyard 1 May. _Poetical works of T. Aird with a
memoir by Rev. J. Wallace_, _5 ed._ 1878, _portrait_.

AIREY, RICHARD AIREY, 1 Baron, _b._ Newcastle April 1803; ed. at
Sandhurst; ensign 34 foot 15 March 1821; lieut. col. 10 Feb. 1838
to 12 Feb. 1847 when placed on half pay; military sec. to
commander in chief 1 Oct. 1852 to 17 April 1854; quartermaster
general in the Crimea 1 Sep. 1854 to Nov. 1855; quartermaster
general of the forces 26 Dec. 1855 to 31 Oct. 1865; governor and
commander in chief at Gibraltar 10 Nov. 1856 to 4 Sep. 1870; col.
17 foot 20 July 1860 to 1 May 1868; col. 7 foot 1 May 1868 to
death; adjutant general 1 Oct. 1870 to 31 Oct. 1876; general 9
April 1871; pres. of commission of inquiry into results of new
short service system 1879; K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 13 March
1867; created Baron Airey of Killingworth, Northumberland 29 Nov.
1876. _d._ the Grange, Leatherhead 13 Sep. 1881. _bur._ Kensal
Green cemetery 17 Sep. _A. W. Kinglake’s History of the war in the
Crimea_ (1863–75); _Sir A. M. Tulloch’s The Crimean commission_
1881; _I.L.N. lxix_, 500, (1876), _portrait_.

AIRLIE, DAVID GRAHAM DRUMMOND, 5 or 7 Earl of. _b._ London 4 May
1826; succeeded 20 Aug. 1849; a representative peer for Scotland
18 March 1850 to death; F.R.G.S. 1859; K.T. 12 March 1862; high
comr. to general assembly of Church of Scotland 1872–73. _d._ at
an hotel in Denver city, Colorado 25 Sep. 1881. _bur._ Cortachy,
Forfarshire 3 Nov.

AITCHISON, GEORGE. _b._ Leyton, Essex 21 Dec. 1792; student at Royal
academy; clerk of the works to St. Katherine’s dock company 1827,
docks were opened 25 Oct. 1828; A.I.C.E. 1828; district surveyor
of Woolwich 1844. _d._ Muscovy court, Trinity square, London 12
June 1861. _Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxi_, 569–71
(1862).

AITCHISON, SIR JOHN (_3 son of Wm. Aitchison of Drummore, East
Lothian, by Jane eld. dau. of James Mylne of Langridge, East
Lothian_). _b._ 1789; ensign Scots fusilier guards 25 Oct. 1805;
lieut. col. 11 Aug. 1837 to 23 Nov. 1841; commanded Mysore
division of Madras army 2 June 1845 to 1851; col. 72 foot 29 Dec.
1851 to 27 Aug. 1870; general 30 July 1860; col. Scots fusilier
guards 27 Aug. 1870 to death; K.C.B. 21 June 1859; G.C.B. 13 March
1867. (_m._ 31 Oct. 1857 Ellen Elizabeth youngest dau. of Thomas
Mayhew of Fairfield house, Suffolk). _d._ 4 Devonshire place,
London 13 May 1875.

AITKEN, DAVID. Educ. high school and univ. of Edinburgh; D.D. 8 July
1843; licensed by presbytery of Edin. 28 March 1821; minister of
parish of Minto 14 Sep. 1827 to 16 Nov. 1864; lived in Edin. 1866
to death; corresponded with Georg Hegel the German philosopher;
offered chair of church history in univ. of Edin. 1843; wrote an
article on German literature in Edinb. Review, xlvi, 304–51
(1827); F.R.S. Edin. 1868. _d._ Charlotte square, Edin. 27 March
1875.

AITKEN, JOHN. Member of Manchester geological society 1863, pres.
twice; author of part of _Thomas Newbigging’s History of the
forest of Rossendale_ 1868, and of many papers in geological
periodicals. _d._ Clifton villas, Urmston 29 July 1884 aged 64.

AITKEN, REV. ROBERT (_son of Robert Aitken_). _b._ Crailing near
Jedburgh 22 Jany. 1800; a schoolmaster in Sunderland; ordained
deacon by Bishop Van Mildert 1823; minister of Wesleyan Zion
chapel, Waterloo road, Liverpool to 20 Dec. 1840; C. of
Perranuthnoe, Cornwall 1842–44; domestic chaplain to Earl of
Caithness 1844–64; minister of Episcopalian church, Coatbridge
about Oct. 1847 to 1848 or 1849; V. of Pendeen, Cornwall 1849 to
death; the church, of which he was the architect, was built for
him by his parishioners 1854; domestic chaplain to Earl of
Seafield 1864 to death; well known throughout England as a
preacher of almost unrivalled fervour; author of many sermons and
pamphlets. _d._ on platform of Great Western railway station,
Paddington 11 July 1873. _bur._ Pendeen 18 July. _Boase and
Courtney’s Bibliotheca Cornubiensis i_, 2 _and iii_, 1025; _John
Smith’s Our Scottish clergy 2 Series_ 80–87 (1849); _Church Times
6 Aug. to 24 Sep. 1875_.

AITKEN, ROBERT DICKSON. _b._ Hawick, Roxburghshire 8 May 1801; a
gardener, then a horsebreaker; left Hawick 1857; purchased estate
of Reston Mains, Berwickshire, worth many thousands; tried in the
sheriff court at Greenlaw 31 May 1860, for making people of Dunse
believe he was heir to a large estate, when found guilty and
sentenced to 6 months imprisonment with hard labour; his career
was dramatised by George Duckenfield, theatrical manager; he
played the chief part in this drama at Berwick and other border
towns; delivered a lecture in Hawick 31 May 1864 entitled “How I
did the Dunse dunces.” _d._ the poor house, Hawick 30 April 1879.

AITKEN, WILLIAM. _b._ Dunbar 1814; kept a school at
Ashton-under-Lyne; went to the United States 1842; grand master of
the Odd-fellows there 1846; author of _A journey up the Mississipi
river_; and of articles in the _Quarterly magazine of
Odd-fellows_; committed suicide at Ashton 27 Sep. 1869. _Quarterly
magazine of Odd-fellows i_, 129–32 (1858) _portrait_.

AITKEN, WILLIAM COSTEN. _b._ Dumfries 3 March 1817; worked for R. W.
Winfield of Birmingham, brassfounder 1844–64; took out a patent
for ornamenting cornice poles, &c. with porcelain or glass which
was much used; manager at Skidmore’s Art manufacturing company,
Coventry, retired 1872; chief organiser of Industrial Exhibition
at Bingley house, Birmingham 1849, from which Prince Albert took
the idea of Exhibition of 1851; contributed descriptive notes
signed W.C.A. to Illustrated catalogue of Great Exhibition 1851;
wrote about a third of _Birmingham and the Midland hardware
district_ 1865; wrote in the _Art Journal_. _d._ Birmingham 23
March 1875. _Birmingham Daily Post 24 March 1875_.

AITON, JOHN (_youngest son of Wm. Aiton 1760–1848, sheriff
substitute of Lanarkshire_). _b._ Strathaven, June 1797; studied
theology at univ. of Edinburgh; licensed by presbytery of Hamilton
30 Nov. 1819; minister of parish of Dolphington 14 April 1825 to
death; D.D. Glasgow, March 1836; author of _Life and times of
Alexander Henderson_ 1836; _Clerical Economics_ 1842, _2 ed._
1846; _The lands of the Messiah, Mahomet, and the Pope_ 1852;
_Manual of domestic economy_ 1857. _d._ Pyrgo park, Havering,
Essex 15 May 1863.

AITON, JOHN TOWNSEND. Gardener at Kensington palace 1831 to death.
_d._ Kensington palace 4 July 1851 aged 74.

AKERMAN, JOHN YONGE (_son of John Akerman of St. Mary Newington,
Surrey who d. 2 Nov. 1835 aged 50_). _b._ London 12 June 1806;
F.S.A. 16 Jany. 1834; started the _Numismatic Journal_ June 1836,
the first English periodical devoted to the illustration of coins;
one of the secretaries of Numismatic society 1836–60, the first
regular meeting was held 22 Dec. 1836; edited _Journal of
Numismatic Society_ 1837–60; and _Numismatic Chronicle_ 1838–60;
gold medallist of French Institute; joint sec. with Sir Henry
Ellis of Society of Antiquaries 2 May 1848 and sole sec. 1853–24
June 1860; lived at Abingdon 1860 to death; author of _Numismatic
Manual 1832_; _Descriptive catalogue of rare Roman coins, 2 vols._
1834; _Legends of old London_ 1853 and 18 other books; author of
many papers in the _Archæologia_ and _Numismatic Journal_. _d._
Abingdon 18 Nov. 1873. _Numismatic Chronicle xiv_, 13–19 (1874).

AKHURST, WILLIAM. _b._ Hammersmith 29 Dec. 1822; went to Australia
1850; sub-editor and musical critic on the _Argus_ daily paper in
Melbourne; wrote 14 pantomimes; wrote _The siege of Troy_
burlesque which was performed 60 nights, a run without precedent
in Australia; returned to England 1870; wrote pantomimes for
Astley’s, Pavilion, and Elephant and Castle theatres. _d._ on
board the “Patriarch” on his voyage to Sydney 7 June 1878.

ALABASTER, HARRY. Interpreter in consulate Bangkok Siam 30 Nov. 1864
to 31 Dec. 1871; author of _The modern Buddhist, translated by
H.A._ 1870; _The wheel of the law, Buddhism, illustrated from
Siamese sources_ 1871. _d._ Bangkok Siam 8 Aug. 1884.

ALBANO, BENEDETTO. _b._ in kingdom of Naples about 1796; fled to
England at the Bourbon restoration 1815; employed by Messrs.
Rennie in London; naturalised by 1 & 2 Vict. cap. 42, 9 May 1838;
converted Covent garden theatre into an opera house at a cost of
nearly £30,000, 1846; A.I.C.E. 1831, M.I.C.E. 1840. _d._ 75
Welbeck st. Cavendish sq. 7 Nov. 1881.

ALBANY, LEOPOLD GEORGE DUNCAN ALBERT, 1 Duke of (_8 child and 4 son
of Queen Victoria_). _b._ Buckingham palace 7 April 1853. K.G. 24
May 1869, K.T. 24 May 1871; matric. at Univ. of Ox. (Ch. Ch.)
1872; D.C.L. 1876; P.C. 1874; admitted by patrimony to freedom of
city of London 25 Oct. 1875; a younger brother of the Trinity
House 1875; an elder brother 1878; G.C.S.I. 25 Jany. 1877; a
bencher of Lincoln’s Inn 18 June 1877; G.C.M.G. 24 May 1880;
created Duke of Albany, Earl of Clarence, and Baron Arklow 24 May
1881. _d._ Villa Nevada, Cannes at 2 a._m._ 28 March 1884. _bur._
royal tomb, St. George’s chapel, Windsor 5 April. _Graphic_,
_xxix_, 317–22 and 341–61 (1884) 2 _portraits_; _I.L.N. lxxxiv_,
313–29 (1884), 4 _portraits_.

ALBEMARLE, AUGUSTUS FREDERICK KEPPEL, 5 Earl of. _b._ 2 June 1794;
M.P. for Arundel (whig) as Viscount Bury 8 March 1820 to 2 June
1826; succeeded as 5 Earl 30 Oct. 1849, but never took his seat in
House of Lords; declared to be of unsound mind on an inquisition
Dec. 1849. _d._ Blacklands house asylum, King’s Road, Chelsea 15
March 1851.

ALBERT, PRINCE CONSORT OF QUEEN VICTORIA. _b._ the Rosenau near
Coburg 26 Aug. 1819; baptised in the Marble hall at the Rosenau 19
Sep. 1819 when he received the following names in the order in
which they are given, Franz Karl August Albrecht Immanuel; ed. at
Brussels and Bonn 1836–38; invested with the order of the Garter
at Gotha 23 Jany. 1840; received the title of Royal Highness by
patent 6 Feb. 1840; naturalized by act of parliament 3 and 4 Vict.
cap. 2, 7 Feb. 1840; Field Marshal 8 Feb. 1840. _m._ at the chapel
royal, St. James’s Palace, London 10 Feb. 1840 Queen Victoria;
G.C.B. 6 March 1840, acting great master 31 May 1843; Colonel 11
Hussars 30 April 1840 to 25 April 1842; appointed Regent 4 Aug.
1840; admitted to the freedom of city of London 28 Aug. 1840; P.C.
11 Sep. 1840; ranger of Windsor park 6 April 1841; pres. of fine
arts commission 22 Nov. 1841; lord warden of the Stannaries, and
chief steward of the Duchy in Cornwall and Devon 16 April 1842;
colonel Scots Fusilier guards 25 April 1842 to 25 Sep. 1852;
governor and constable of Windsor castle 18 May 1843 to death;
captain general and colonel of the Artillery company 20 Sep. 1843;
elected chancellor of Univ. of Cam. 27 Feb. 1847, by a majority of
112 over Earl Powis, installed chancellor 6 July 1847; organised
the Great Exhibition of 1851; colonel in chief of 60th or King’s
Royal rifle corps 15 Aug. 1850 to 23 Sep. 1852; of the Rifle
brigade 23 Sep. 1852 to death; master of the Trinity house 19 Oct.
1852 to death; colonel of Grenadier guards 23 Sep. 1852 to death;
created Prince Consort by patent 25 June 1857; pres. of British
Association at Aberdeen 14 Sep. 1859; G.C.S.I. 25 June 1861;
composed many songs and chorales; the “Athalie” and “Œdipus” of
Mendelssohn were first performed in this country at Windsor castle
by his command. _d._ at Windsor castle at 10.50 p._m._ 14 Dec.
1861. _The life of The Prince Consort by Theodore Martin 5 vols._
1874–80, 5 _portraits_; _The early homes of Prince Albert by
Alfred Rimmer_ 1883; _Medical Times and Gazette ii_, 638–42
(1861).

ALCHIN, WILLIAM TURNER. _b._ St. Mary-at-Hill Billingsgate, London
1790; a solicitor at Winchester; compiled indexes to
ecclesiastical registers of Winchester and Salisbury; librarian of
Guildhall library, London 1845 to death; compiled indexes to the
ancient records of the corporation of London; and calendar of the
wills enrolled in the court of Hustings of London. _d._ Chelsea 3
Feb. 1865.

ALCOCK, THOMAS SAINT LEGER. Major 95 foot 2 Feb. 1844 to 21 April
1846 when placed on half pay; lieut. colonel 1 or royal East
Middlesex militia 30 Jany. 1851 to 21 July 1871; colonel 21 July
1871 to death. _d._ 22 Somerset st. Portman sq. 7 Aug. 1882.

ALDBOROUGH, BENJAMIN O’NEALE STRATFORD, 6 Earl of. _b._ Dublin 10
June 1808; succeeded 4 Oct. 1849; took out 5 patents for
Improvements in aerial navigation 1854–57. _d._ Alicante, Spain 19
Dec. 1875.

ALDER, JOSHUA (_son of Mr. Alder of Newcastle, provision merchant
who d. Nov. 1808_). _b._ Dean st. Newcastle 7 April 1792; ed. at
Tanfield school; member of Literary and Philosophical society of
Newcastle Feb. 1815; a provision merchant at Newcastle to 1840;
collected the large museum of shells and zoophytes which with his
library was presented by Sir Wm. Armstrong to Natural history
society of Northumberland and Durham; this society founded in 1839
and the Tyneside Naturalists Field Club founded in 1846 owed very
much to Alder, pres. of this club 1849; granted a civil list
pension of £70 18 June 1863; author with Albany Hancock of the
great monograph _On the British Nudibranchiate Mollusca_ 1845–55
(Ray, Society); wrote more than 50 papers all zoological in the
chief natural history periodicals. _d._ Newcastle 21 Jany. 1867.
_Natural history trans. of Northumberland and Durham i_, 324–37
(1867), _portrait_.

ALDERSON, SIR EDWARD HALL (_eld. son of Robert Alderson, recorder of
Norwich who d. 4 Dec. 1833 aged 80, by a dau. of Samuel Hurry of
Yarmouth, she d. 1791_). _b._ Yarmouth 11 Sep. 1787; ed. at
Scarning Norfolk, the Charterhouse, and Caius coll. Cam.; Browne’s
medallist 1807; senior wrangler, first Smith’s prizeman and first
chancellor’s medallist Jany. 1809; B.A. 1809, M.A. 1812; fellow of
his college 1809–23; barrister I. T. 28 June 1811; a comr. for
amendment of the law 1828; sergeant at law 11 Nov. 1830; justice
of court of Common Pleas 12 Nov. 1830; knighted by William iv at
St. James’s palace 17 Nov. 1830; baron of court of Exchequer 29
April 1834 to death; published with R. V. Barnewall _Reports of
cases in court of King’s Bench_, _5 vols._ 1818–22. (_m._ 1823
Georgina 3 dau. of Rev. Edward Drewe of the Grange near Honiton,
Devon, she _d._ 1871). _d._ Beechwood park Hemel Hempstead, Herts
27 Jany. 1857. _bur._ churchyard of Risby near Bury, Suffolk.
_Selections from the charges of Baron Alderson by C. Alderson_
1858.

ALDERSON, SIR JAMES (_son of John Alderson, M.D. of Hull 1758–1829
by Sarah dau. of Christopher Scott_). _b._ Hull 1800; ed. at Hull
and Pembroke coll. Cam.; 6 wrangler 1822; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825;
fellow of his college 1823; incorporated M.A. at Magdalen hall,
Ox. 1826; B.M. 1826, D.M. 1829, D.C.L. 1870; inceptor candidate
college of physicians 26 June 1826; candidate 30 Sep. 1829; fellow
30 Sep. 1830; senior censor 1848 and 1856; treasurer 1854–67;
pres. 1867–70; physician at Hull 1829–45; in London 1845 to death;
F.R.S. 17 June 1841; senior physician of St. Mary’s hospital,
Paddington 1851–67; consulting physician 1867; representative of
Royal college of physicians at the general medical council 27
Jany. 1864 to 13 May 1867; knighted by the Queen at Windsor castle
11 Nov. 1869; one of Her Majesty’s physicians extraordinary 30
Aug. 1875; _Lumleian_ lecturer 1852 and 1853; delivered Harveian
oration 1854 and 1867; author of _Diseases of the Stomach and
alimentary canal_ 1847. (_m._ 24 June 1828 Mary Anne dau. of Peter
Berthon of Glenadda, Carnarvon, she _d._ 5 March 1877). _d._ 17
Berkeley sq. London 13 Sep. 1882. _Medical Circular i_, 27 (1852)
_portrait_.

ALDHAM, WILLIAM CORNWALLIS. _b._ 21 Sep. 1809; Captain R.N. 9 May
1853; captain Greenwich hospital 12 Jan. 1863 to 1 Oct. 1865;
retired V.A. 30 July 1875; C.B. 22 Sep. 1858. _d._ Assoint Upper
Nile 27 Feb. 1878.

ALDIS, SIR CHARLES (_7 son and one of 22 children of Daniel Aldis of
Hoxne, Suffolk, surgeon_). _b._ Dickleborough, Norfolk 1776;
apprenticed to his father 1789; studied at Guy’s and Bartholomew’s
hospitals; surgeon to the sick and wounded at the depôt for
prisoners of war at Norman Cross, Hunts 1797–99; practised at
Hertford 1800–1802; in London 1802; M.R.C.S. 1803; senior surgeon
New Finsbury dispensary 1831; founded Glandular institution for
the cure of cancer and scrofula in Clifford st. about 1820,
surgeon there. _d._ 13 Old Burlington st. London 28 March 1863.
_Biographical memoirs of Sir Charles Aldis and Dr. Aldis_,
_privately printed_ 1852, _portrait_.

ALDIS, CHARLES JAMES BERRIDGE (_eldest son and survivor of 14
infants of the preceding_). _b._ London 16 Jany. 1808; admitted
into St. Paul’s school 9 May 1815; exhibitioner to Trinity coll.
Cam. July 1827; B.A. 1831, M.B. 1832, M.A. and L.M. 1834, M.D.
1837; studied at St. George’s hospital, London; F.R.C.P. 1838,
member of council, delivered Harveian oration 1859; physician to
London dispensary 1839; lectured at Charlotte st. school of
medicine 1841; phys. to Surrey dispensary 1843; physician to St.
Paul and St. Barnabas dispensary which was founded 1848; medical
officer of health for St. George’s Hanover square 1855 to death;
superintended Hunterian school of medicine several years; invented
an instrument for examination of the chest. (_m._ 9 Nov. 1835
Emily Arabella dau. of Rev. John Brome of Trinity college
Cambridge). _d._ 45b Chester sq. London 26 July 1872.
_Biographical memoirs of Sir C. Aldis_ 1852, _portrait_.