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BROWN, LEWIS GEORGE. _b._ 23 Feb. 1838; ensign 5 Bombay N.I. 13 July
1854; wing commander 8 Bombay N.I. 30 June 1877 to death; lieut.
col. staff corps 9 June 1880 to death. _d._ Sibi, Afghanistan 11
Aug. 1880. _I.L.N. lxxvii_, 309 (1880), _portrait_.

BROWN, OLIVER MADOX (_son of Ford Madox Brown of London, historical
painter_). _b._ Finchley 20 Jany. 1855; ed. at Univ. coll. London;
exhibited 2 water colours at Dudley Gallery 1869–70; exhibited a
water colour “Exercise” at the R.A. 1870, “Prospero and the infant
Miranda” at International exhibition South Kensington 1871 and
“Silas Marner” at Society of French artists 1872; published a
story entitled _Gabriel Denver_ 5 Nov. 1873. _d._ Fitzroy sq.
London 5 Nov. 1874. _O. M. Brown, a biographical sketch by H.
Ingram_ (1883), 2 _portraits_; _The Dwale Bluth and other literary
remains of O. M. Brown 2 vols._ 1876, 2 _portraits_; _Scribner’s
Mag. xii_, 425–8 (1876).

BROWN, PETER. Ensign 82 Foot 7 Dec. 1799; major 23 Foot 20 July 1815
to 25 July 1816 when placed on h.p.; commandant of Royal military
asylum at Chelsea 15 Dec. 1843 to 1851; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846; served
in the Peninsula 1810 to end of the war. _d._ Gosport 3 Jany.
1853.

BROWN, PETER. _b._ Perth; editor of the _Dundee Advertiser_ about
1835; edited the _Dundee Herald_ originally called _Dundee
Chronicle_; a reporter on the _Morning Post_ in London to death.
_d._ 5 April 1855.

BROWN, PETER. _b._ Scotland 29 June 1784; merchant in Edinburgh;
went to New York 1838; editor and proprietor of the _British
Chronicle_; removed to Toronto 1843 where he established _The
Banner_ 18 Aug. 1843 and edited it; author of _The fame and glory
of England vindicated, by Libertas_ 1842. _d._ Toronto 30 June
1863. _Morgan’s Bibl. Canad._ (1867) _p._ 51.

BROWN, RAWDON LUBBOCK. _b._ 1803; lived at Venice 1833 to death;
commissioned by Lord Palmerston to calendar Venetian state papers
treating of English history 1862 for which purpose he examined
twelve million packets of documents in North Italy; author of
_Calendar of state papers and manuscripts relating to English
affairs existing in the archives and collections of Venice and of
other libraries of Northern Italy 8 vols._ 1864–84. _d._ Casa
della Vida, Venice 25 Aug. 1883. _Times 29 Aug., 8 Sep. and 13
Sep. 1883_; _Athenæum 8 Sep. 1883 p._ 307.

BROWN, ROBERT (_2 son of Rev. James Brown, Episcopalian minister of
Montrose_). _b._ Montrose 21 Dec. 1773; ed. at Marischal coll.
Aberdeen and Univ. of Edin.; naturalist to H.M.S. Investigator
under Flinders 1801–5 when he collected nearly 4000 species of
dried plants; librarian to Linnæan Society 1805–20; custodian of
library and collections of Sir Joseph Banks 1810–20; keeper of
Banksian botanical collection at British Museum 1827 to death;
F.R.S. 12 Dec. 1811, Copley medallist 1839; F.L.S. 1822, pres.
1849 to May 1853; one of the 8 foreign associates of French
Academy of Sciences 1833; an honorary member of every academy in
Europe; granted a civil list pension of £200, 14 Sep. 1843; author
of _Prodromus Floræ Novæ Hollandiæ et insulæ Van Diemen_ 1810;
_Vermischte botanische Schriften_, _ed. by C. G. Nees von Esenbeck
5 vols._ 1825–34. _d._ 17 Dean st. Soho, London 10 June 1858.
_Proc. of Royal Soc. ix_, 527–32 (1858); _Proc. of Linnæan Soc._
(1859) 25–30; _Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xxix_, 115–19 (1859);
_I.L.N. xxxiii_, 29 (1858), _portrait_.

BROWN, REV. ROBERT CHRISTOPHER LUNDIN (_son of Rev. Robert Brown,
minister of Largo_). ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.A. 1854; missionary
in British Columbia 1860–5; V. of Lineal Salop 1869–74; P.C. of
Rhodes near Manchester 1874–5; author of _British Columbia_ 1863;
_The dead in Christ_ 1868; _Klatsassan_ 1873; _The life of Peace_
1876. _d._ 26 Grafton sq. Clapham, London 16 April 1876.

BROWN, SIR SAMUEL (_eld. son of Wm. Brown of Borland, co.
Galloway_). _b._ London 1776; entered navy 8 June 1795; commander
1 Aug. 1811; retired captain 18 May 1842; invented iron chain
cables, described in _Philosophical Magazine_ Oct. 1814; built
Union suspension bridge over the Tweed near Berwick 1820; erected
chain pier at Brighton 1823; K.H. 13 Jany. 1835; knighted at St.
James’s palace 21 Feb. 1838; took out patents for chains and chain
cables and ten other patents. _d._ Vanbrugh lodge, Blackheath 15
March 1852. _G.M. xxxvii_, 519–20 (1852).

BROWN, SAMUEL. Cornet 6 Dragoons 15 March 1798; assistant
quartermaster general to the army in Egypt 1801; major York light
infantry 25 Sep 1807 to 19 March 1817 when placed on h.p.; general
20 June 1854. _d._ Bromley, Kent 2 March 1855.

BROWN, SAMUEL (_4 son of Samuel Brown of Haddington, founder of
itinerating libraries_). _b._ Haddington 23 Feb. 1817; ed. at high
sch. and univ. of Edin., M.D. 1839; delivered a course of lectures
on philosophy of the sciences at Edin. 1840–1, and 4 lectures on
the Atomic theory 1843; contested chair of chemistry in Univ. of
Edin. 1843; experimented on the atomic constitution of bodies;
author of _The tragedy of Galileo Galilei in 5 acts and in verse_
1850; _Lectures on the atomic theory and essays scientific and
literary 2 vols._ 1858, and of many articles in _North British
Review_ and other periodicals. _d._ Canaan grove, Morningside,
Edin. 20 Sep. 1856. _Macmillan’s Mag. xii_, 74–82 (1865); _North
British Review Nov. 1856_.

BROWN, SAMUEL. _b._ 1812; actuary of Mutual life office 1850 and of
Guardian insurance company 1855; advocated uniform weights and
measures throughout commercial world; an active founder of
Institute of Actuaries 1848, pres. 1867–70, instituted the Brown
prize; joint editor of _Journal of Institute of Actuaries_; pres.
over section of Economic Science and Statistics at British
Association in Norwich 1868; author of numerous papers in
_Assurance Magazine_ 1850 to death and in _Journal of Statistical
Society_. _d._ The Elms 42 Lark hall rise, Clapham, London 20
March 1875. _C. Walford’s Insurance Cyclopædia i_, 395–6 (1871).

BROWN, THOMAS. Midshipman R.N. 1787; captain 22 Jany. 1806;
commanded the Ordinary at Sheerness 1816–19; commanded Vigo 74
guns, Tartar 42 guns, Talavera 74 guns and Caledonia 120 guns,
successively May 1833 to Oct. 1835 when placed on h.p.; admiral on
h.p. 4 July 1855. _d._ Southampton 17 June 1857 aged 79.

BROWN, THOMAS (_son of Christopher Brown, member of firm of
Longmans, publishers, London who d. 1807_). _b._ near Paternoster
Row, London 1778; ed. at Christ’s hospital; apprenticed in his
father’s firm Dec. 1792; a partner 1811 to June 1859; a liveryman
of Stationers Company 1804, warden and upper warden 1856–8; gave a
stained glass west window to St. Paul’s cathedral which was
uncovered 19 March 1867; left by his will £10,000 to Booksellers
Provident Institution, £10,000 to Booksellers Retreat and £10,000
to Christ’s hospital. _d._ 39 Ludgate hill, London 24 March 1869.
_W. H. Blanch’s Famous blue-coat boys_ (1880) 59–83; _Reg. and
mag. of biog. i_, 480–2 (1869).

BROWN, RIGHT REV. THOMAS JOSEPH. _b._ Bath 2 May 1798; received
Benedictine habit at the college Acton Burnell near Shrewsbury 19
April 1813, removed with the college to St. Gregory’s college
Downside near Bath where he was professed 28 Oct. 1814, professor
of theology there 1823–40, prior of the college 18 July 1834 to 3
July 1840; ordained priest in London 12 March 1823; cathedral
prior of Winchester 1833–40; D.D. 24 July 1834; vicar Apostolic of
newly created Welsh district 3 July 1840; consecrated in St.
John’s chapel Bath, Bishop of Apollonia in Archdiocese of
Thessalonica 28 Oct. 1840; bishop of Newport and Menevia 29 Sep.
1850 to death; assistant at pontifical throne 29 Nov. 1854; author
of various pamphlets and letters in defence of doctrines of Church
of Rome. _d._ Bullingham near Hereford 12 April 1880. _M. Brady’s
Episcopal succession iii_, 337, 354, 424–6 (1877); _Downside
Review July 1880 pp._ 4–16.

BROWN, REV. THOMAS RICHARD (_son of Richard Brown of Cambridge_).
_b._ 1791; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1820; V.
of Southwick near Oundle, Northamptonshire 1834 to death; author
of _English terminations_ 1838; _Hebrew hieroglyphs_ 1840;
_Etymological dictionary 2 vols._ 1843; _Essentials of Sanscrit
grammar_ 1851. _d._ Southwick 1 Sep. 1875.

BROWN, WILLIAM (_son of a small farmer at Foxford, co. Mayo_). _b._
Foxford 22 June 1777; went to Pennsylvania 1786; commanded an
English merchant ship; commodore in navy of Buenos Ayres Feb.
1814; destroyed Spanish fleets at Martin Garcia and Monte Video
1814 and in Pacific ocean and Caribbean sea 1815–18; commanded
Buenos Ayres fleet in war against Brazil 12 Jany. 1826 to 1828;
assumed reins of government on breaking out of civil war 1842.
_d._ Barracas near Buenos Ayres 3 May 1857. _M. G. Mulhall’s
English in South America_ (1878) 144–69, _portrait_.

BROWN, WILLIAM (_4 son of James Brown of Cononsyth, flax-spinner_).
Flax-spinner with his brother James at East Ward mill Dundee
1809–56, in 1811 every mill in Dundee was stopped except their
mill and the Dens mill; author of _Reminiscences of flax-spinning_
1862 and of a volume of poetry. _d._ 14 Nov. 1864 aged 73.
_Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 245–8.

BROWN, REV. WILLIAM. Professor of Biblical criticism and theology at
St. Andrews University Scotland 14 June 1851 to death; author of
_The scientific character of the Scottish universities viewed in
connection with religious belief and their educational use_ 1856.
_d._ St. Andrews 19 July 1868 aged 68.

BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, 1 Baronet (_eld. son of Alexander Brown of
Ballymena, co. Antrim, linen merchant 1764–1834_). _b._ Ballymena
30 May 1784; ed. at Catterick, Yorkshire; went to the United
States 1800; partner in firm of Alexander Brown and Sons of
Baltimore, linen merchants; founded firm of Brown, Shipley and Co.
at Liverpool 1810 which became leading house in American trade;
alderman of Liverpool 1831–8; M.P. for South Lancashire 21 July
1846 to 23 April 1859; raised and equipped a corps of artillery
which ranks as the 1 brigade of Lancashire artillery volunteers
1859; a director of Atlantic telegraph company Dec. 1856,
chairman; erected at a cost of £40,000 Free public library and
Derby museum at Liverpool opened 8 Oct. 1860; created a baronet 24
Jany. 1863; sheriff of Lancashire 1863. _d._ Richmond hill,
Liverpool 3 March 1864. Personalty sworn under £900,000, 21 May
1864. _H. R. F. Bourne’s English merchants ii_, 307–20 (1866);
_I.L.N. xix_, 70 (1851), _portrait_.

BROWN, SIR WILLIAM (_son of Richard Brown, chief examiner of
accounts at the War Office London_). _b._ 1812; a temporary clerk
in office of Secretary at war Dec. 1828; a first class clerk on
the consolidation of War office Jany. 1856; assistant accountant
general Oct. 1857; accountant general Aug. 1860 to 1 April 1870
when he retired on a pension of £800 a year; C.B. 7 Dec. 1868;
knighted at Windsor Castle 18 May 1870. _d._ Hillside, Parkstone,
Dorset 19 May 1884.

BROWN, WILLIAM GUSTAVUS. _b._ 5 Feb. 1809; ensign 24 Foot 7 July
1825, lieut. col. 21 Dec. 1849 to 1 Sep. 1861 when placed on h.p.;
brigadier general Bengal 28 July 1858 to 15 Nov. 1859 and 5 Sep.
1860 to 2 April 1861; brigadier general Aldershot 1 Sep. 1861 to
28 Feb. 1863; colonel 83 Foot 29 May 1873 to death; general 1 Oct.
1877. _d._ Sydenham 27 Nov. 1883.

BROWN, WILLIAM ROBERT HENRY. Projector and one of founders of
Morning Advertiser, first number issued 8 Feb. 1794 and of
Licensed Victuallers schools at Kennington 1794; projected Golden
Lane brewery in which 600 persons were proprietors Sep. 1804;
common councilman for ward of Cripplegate 1807; one of founders of
Hope Life Insurance Company, the first chairman; governor of
Newgate 1817 to 1822 when he resigned; warden of the Fleet prison
in city of London and keeper of the old and new palaces in county
of Middlesex (alias Westminster Hall) 13 April 1822 to 31 May 1842
when appointment was abolished by act of Parliament 5 and 6 Vict.
c. 22 and the prisoners were transferred to Queen’s Bench prison.
_d._ 3 Doughty st. London 15 Feb. 1853 aged 86.

BROWN, REV. WILSE. Educ. at Em. coll. Cam., scholar; B.A. 1833; P.C.
of Eggleston, Durham 1835–57; R. of Whitstone near Exeter 1857 to
death; private in Exeter Rifle Corps 1862 to death being only
clergyman in England serving in Volunteer Corps, gained many
prizes at Wimbledon. _d._ Whitstone rectory 22 Jany. 1883 aged 72.

BROWN-GREIVE, JOHN TATTON. Second lieut. R.M. 21 May 1811, lieut.
col. 13 Dec. 1852, col. commandant 30 Oct. 1855 to 1 April 1870
when he retired on full pay; granted good service pension 1 April
1857; general 13 Feb. 1867; C.B. 2 June 1869. _d._ Orde house near
Berwick-on-Tweed 4 Nov. 1880 aged 85.

BROWNBILL, REV. FRANCIS. _b._ Gillmoss, Lancs. 5 Nov. 1793; entered
Society of Jesus at Hodder 7 Sep. 1813; ordained priest in Dublin
Dec. 1819; superior of St. George’s Residence Worcester and of
College of St. Francis Xavier 1838–42; superior at the Seminary
Stonyhurst 1847; missioner at Newhall, Chelmsford 1843–63;
superior at the Little college Hodder Dec. 1864. _d._ Stonyhurst
college 13 May 1875.

BROWNBILL, REV. JAMES (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Gillmoss 31
July 1798; entered Society of Jesus 7 Sep. 1815; ordained priest
at Stonyhurst 30 July 1829; rector of Stonyhurst college 15 May
1836; minister of Stonyhurst 29 May 1839; rector of college of St.
Ignatius London 1841–54; missioner to Bury St. Edmunds 1854. _d._
Newhall, Chelmsford 14 Jany. 1880.

BROWNE, ALEXANDER. _b._ Langlands parish of Twynholm 1800; ed. at
Univ. of Edin.; hospital assistant in the army 16 June 1825;
assistant surgeon 23 foot 3 Aug. 1826; went on a medical mission
to Emperor of Morocco 1827 whom he cured of ague; surgeon to 37
foot 22 Nov. 1839 to 2 Aug. 1850 when placed on h.p.; _d._
Langlands 15 April 1872. _Medical times and gazette i_, 613
(1872).

BROWNE, ANDREW. _b._ 6 June 1820; Ensign 28 foot 30 April 1841;
lieut. col. 44 foot 10 Nov. 1869 to 27 Sep. 1871 when placed on
h.p.; C.B. 28 Feb. 1861; granted a service reward 9 Sep. 1878;
placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 July 1881. _d._
Dublin 8 April 1883.

BROWNE, CHARLES ALFRED (_son of Wm. Loder Browne of Kennington,
London, merchant_). Entered Madras army 1826; sec. to military
department 4 Feb. 1845 to 1860; M.G. 6 April 1862; a leading
member of Church Missionary Society. _d._ King’s head court, St.
Martin’s le grand, London 14 Feb. 1866 aged 65.

BROWNE, CHARLES FARRAR. _b._ Waterford, Maine 26 April 1834; a
printer in Maine, Boston and Cincinnati; wrote in the _Cleveland,
Plaindealer_ a letter purporting to come from a travelling showman
signing it with nom de plume of Artemus Ward; edited _Vanity Fair_
the leading comic paper in New York 1861; gave his first lecture
in New York at Clinton hall 23 Dec. 1861; went to California and
Utah 1862; went to England 1866; contributed to _Punch_ 1866;
lectured at the Egyptian hall, Piccadilly 13 Nov. 1866 to 23 Jany.
1867. _d._ Radley’s hotel, Southampton 6 March 1867. _The genial
showman by E. P. Hingston_ 1871; _Essays by E. S. Nadal_ 1882
16–41; _Illust. sporting news v_, 705 (1866), _portrait_.

BROWNE, CHARLES THOMAS. _b._ Wellington, Somerset 1825; ed. at Trin.
coll. Dublin; engaged on a London daily paper 1857 to death;
author of _Astrello or the prophet’s vision_ 1850; _Life of
Southey_ 1854; _The United States constitution and powers_ 1856
and under pseudonym of Alexander de Comyne of a poem entitled
_Irene_ 1844. _d._ Basingstoke 7 Oct. 1868.

BROWNE, FIELDING. Ensign 40 Foot 7 March 1800; major 19 Jany. 1815
to 22 June 1820 when placed on h.p.; C.B. 22 June 1815; colonel 10
Jany. 1837. _d._ Gloucester crescent, Regent’s park, London 22
July 1864 aged 79.

BROWNE, GEORGE. Captain 37 Foot 24 March 1825 to 29 Aug. 1826 when
placed on h.p.; chief commissioner of Dublin Metropolitan police
1837–58; C.B. 13 June 1857. _d._ Clifton gardens, Folkestone 12
July 1879 aged 91.

BROWNE, GEORGE (_2 son of John Browne of Hall court, Herts, attorney
general of Jamaica who d. 1828_). _b._ Jamaica 1825; ed. at Jesus
coll. Cam., B.A. 1848; barrister I.T. 4 May 1849; a revising
barrister 1868; recorder of Ludlow 22 Jany. 1873 to death; Q.C. 24
March 1880; author of _A treatise on the principles and practice
of the court for divorce and matrimonial causes_ 1864, _4 ed._
1880; _A treatise on the principles and practice of the court of
probate_ 1873, _2 ed._ 1881. _d._ Calverley park, Tunbridge Wells
19 Sep. 1880.

BROWNE, RIGHT REV. GEORGE JOSEPH PLUNKET. _b._ about 1790; ed. at
Maynooth; parish priest of Athlone many years; bishop of Galway 6
Aug. 1831, consecrated by Abp. of Tuam 23 Oct. 1831; translated to
Elphin 26 March 1844. _d._ 1 Dec. 1858 in 68 year. _W. M. Brady’s
Episcopal succession ii_, 208, 231–2 (1876).

BROWNE, HABLOT KNIGHT (_9 son of Wm. Loder Browne of Kennington,
London, merchant_). _b._ Lower Kennington lane, London 15 June
1815; apprenticed to Wm. Finden the line engraver; illustrated
Dickens’s _Sunday as it is, by Timothy Sparks_ 1836, published at
1/- but now worth more than its weight in gold; illustrated under
pseudonym of Phiz _Pickwick papers_, _Martin Chuzzlewit_ and many
other of Dickens’s novels; exhibited many water-colours at Brit.
Instit. and Soc. of Brit. artists; illustrated many of Lever’s and
Ainsworth’s novels; contributed about 350 sketches to _Judy_ July
1869 to death. _d._ Hove, Brighton 8 July 1882. _D. C. Thomson’s
Life and labours of H. K. Browne_ 1884, _portrait_; _Phiz, a
memoir by J. G. Kitton_ 1882, _portrait_; _Graphic xxvi_, 132
(1882), _portrait_; _G. Everitt’s English Caricaturists_ (1886)
336–54, 412–16.

BROWNE, REV. HENRY (_son of Rev. John Henry Browne, R. of
Crownthorpe, Norfolk who d. 1 May 1843 aged 75_). _b._ 1804; ed.
at C.C. coll. Cam.; Bell Univ. scholar 1823, B.A. 1826, M.A. 1830;
V. of Rudgwick, Sussex 1831; R. of Earnley, Sussex 1833; principal
of diocesan theol. coll. Chichester 1842–7; preb. of Chichester
cath. 9 Dec. 1842; chaplain to bishop of Chichester 1847–70; P.C.
of St. Bartholomew’s Chichester 1850–4; R. of Pevensey 1854 to
death; author of _Ordo sæculorum_ 1844; _Remarks on Mr. Greswell’s
Fasti Catholici_ 1852; translated with C. L. Cornish for the
‘Library of the Fathers’ 17 short treatises of St. Augustine. _d._
Pevensey 19 June 1875.

BROWNE, VERY REV. HENRY MONTAGUE (_2 son of 2 Baron Kilmaine
1765–1825_). _b._ 3 Oct. 1799; dean of cathedral church of St.
Carthagh, Lismore 1850 to death. _d._ Bredon rectory, Worcs. 24
Nov. 1884.

BROWNE, RIGHT REV. JAMES. _b._ Mayglass, Forth, co. Wexford 1786;
ed. at Maynooth college; dean of Maynooth 1814–6, professor of
Sacred Scriptures 1816–27; bishop of Kilmore 20 March 1827 to
death; consecrated to see of Magida _in partibus_ 10 June 1827;
_d._ Cavan 11 April 1865. _Battersby’s Catholic directory_ (1866)
389–92.

BROWNE, JAMES SOLOMON. _b._ Paddington, London 6 Aug. 1791; ed. at
Eton; clerk in Prerogative office Doctors Commons 1802; played
Harlequin to Grimaldi at Birmingham; played at Liverpool 1813–23
and 1826–38; first appeared in London at Drury Lane 7 Oct. 1823 as
Lord Foppington in _A trip to Scarborough_; became most versatile
actor of the day; acted in America 1838, at Olympic theatre London
1845, afterwards in New York; the original Robert Macaire in the
drama of that name; retired from the stage 1858. _d._ New York 28
Nov. 1869. _Oxberry’s Dramatic biography ii_, 177–88 (1825),
_portrait_.

BROWNE, VEN. JOHN HENRY. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; R. of
Cotgrave near Nottingham 1811 to death; archdeacon of Ely 23 Sep.
1816 to death; preb. of Ely 26 June 1817. _d._ Cotgrave 2 Nov.
1858 aged 79.

BROWNE, JOHN ROSS. _b._ Ireland 1817; passed his youth in state of
Kentucky; went to California 1849; went to Europe as a newspaper
correspondent 1851; inspector of custom houses on northern
frontier of the U.S.; reported on the mineral resources of the
country west of the Rocky Mountains for the Government 1866 and
1868; United States minister in China 1868–9; author of _Etchings
of a whaling cruise_ 1846; _Crusoe’s Island_ 1864; _An American
family in Germany_ 1866; _The land of Thor_ 1867. _d._ Oakland
near San Francisco 7 Dec. 1875.

BROWNE, JOHN SAMUEL (_eld. son of John Browne of London, landscape
engraver who d. 2 Oct. 1801 in 60 year_). _b._ St. Saviour’s,
Southwark 15 Sep. 1782; clerk in the East India house 1801; author
of _A catalogue of bishops containing the succession of
archbishops and bishops of Canterbury and York from 1688 to the
present time_ 1812; contributed to _Gentlemen’s Mag._ and _Morning
Herald_. _d._ Walworth, Surrey 6 June 1858. _Gent. Mag. v_, 198
(1858).

BROWNE, PETER, _b._ 1794; M.P. for Rye 18 June 1818 to 2 June 1826;
chargé d’affaires at Copenhagen 8 times during the period 1823–52;
retired on a pension 6 Jany. 1853. _d._ Pallanza 7 April 1872.

BROWNE, PHILIP, _b._ 16 Sep. 1772; entered navy 1 July 1777; captain
19 June 1810; captain of the Hermes 20 guns 1811–14 when placed on
h.p.; V.A. on h.p. 15 April 1854. _d._ Parkstone near Poole,
Dorset 25 Jany. 1860.

BROWNE, REV. SAMUEL (_son of Rev. John W. Browne, Independent
minister_). _b._ England 19 March 1788; went to Cincinnati with
his father 1798; a minister of the United Brethren; joined
presbytery of Cincinnati about 1868; accumulated a large fortune
by the rise of real estate in Cincinnati; bequeathed sum of
150,000 dollars for establishment of a university to bear his name
also land whereon to erect the building and an endowment for
professorships, _d._ Harrison junction, Ohio 10 Sep. 1872.

BROWNE, THOMAS. Entered navy 5 April 1782; captain 29 April 1802;
V.A. 11 Dec. 1846. _d._ Clifton 7 April 1851 in 83 year.
_O’Byrne’s Naval biog. dict._ (1849) 136.

BROWNE, SIR THOMAS HENRY (_elder son of George Browne of Liverpool,
Tuscan consul_). _b._ Liverpool 8 Sep. 1787; ensign 23 foot 28
Oct. 1805, captain 15 April 1813 to 25 Dec. 1814 when placed on
h.p.; received war medal with 8 clasps; aide-de-camp to Marquis of
Londonderry at head quarters of Russian and Austrian armies 1815;
L.G. 20 June 1854; colonel 80 foot 19 Aug. 1854 to death; sheriff
of Flintshire 1824; K.C.H. 1826. _d._ London 11 March 1855.

BROWNE, WALTER JOHN. Ensign Bombay army 17 Sep. 1819; col. 14 N.I.
22 Aug. 1857–1869; general 29 Aug. 1873; C.B. 4 July 1843. _d._
Warkworth 31 Oct. 1881 aged 81.

BROWNE, WALTER RALEIGH (_3 son of Rev. Thomas Murray Browne, V. of
Almondsbury, Gloucs._) _b._ Standish, Gloucs. 1842; ed. at home
and Trin. coll. Cam., scholar 1863, 19 wrangler and tenth classic
1865, B.A. 1865; fellow of his coll. 1867; managing director of
Bridgewater Engineering company 1874–8; M.I.M.E. 1869, sec. 1878
to Jany. 1884; M.I.C.E. 27 May 1879, Telford medallist 1871 and
1876; F.G.S.; F.R.G.S.; one of founders of Society for Psychical
Research 1882; lectured frequently for Christian evidence society;
author of _Facts and fallacies of pauper education_ 1878; _The
inspiration of the New Testament_ 1880; _The foundations of
mechanics_ 1882; _The students mechanics_ 1883. _d._ from typhoid
fever in the general hospital, Montreal 4 Sep. 1884. _Min. of
Proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxix_, 362–6 (1885).

BROWNE, WILLIAM, _b._ 1 Nov. 1791; M.P. for co. Kerry 19 July 1841
to 23 July 1847. _d._ at his house in London 4 Aug. 1876.

BROWNE, WILLIAM ALEXANDER FRANCIS. _b._ near Stirling 1805; ed. in
Edinburgh high school and Univ., M.D. 1826; L.R.C.S. Edin. 1826;
studied in France 1826–30; physician at Stirling 1830;
superintendent of Montrose lunatic asylum; superintendent of
Crichton Instit. at Dumfries 1839; paid Comr. in lunacy for
Scotland 23 Sep. 1857 to 1870; the first phys. in Scotland who
adopted new system of treating the insane; author of _What asylums
were, are, and ought to be_. _d._ Crindan, Dumfries 2 March 1885
aged 79.

BROWNE, WILLIAM CHESELDEN. _b._ 1805; entered navy 1816; captain 9
Jany. 1854; retired admiral 9 Jany. 1880; sec. to Royal yacht club
at Cowes 1853–60. _d._ Townsend house, West Cowes 6 April 1881.

BROWNE, VEN. WILLIAM HENRY. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin; archdeacon
of Launceston, Tasmania 1870 to death. _d._ Launceston 18 June
1877 aged 77.

BROWNE, WILLIAM HENRY JAMES (_son of Mr. Browne, harbour master at
Dublin_). Served in merchant service; 2 lieut. of the Enterprise
1848–9; led a sledge party from Port Leopold to east coast of
Prince Regent’s Inlet; 2 lieut. of the Resolute 1850–1; his
sketches of Arctic scenery at Port Leopold were published by
Ackerman 1849; assisted in painting the Arctic panorama in
Leicester square London; retired commander 1 July 1864. _d._
Woolwich March-June 1871.

BROWNE, WILLIAM MEREDITH. Assistant sec. of Westminster Fire Office
1831, sec. 1838 to death; a founder of Mutual Life Office 1834;
founded Westminster and General Life Office 1839, actuary 1839–69;
hon. sec. of London Fire Engine Establishment 1832–65, when the
work was undertaken by Metropolitan Board of Works. _d._ Clarendon
road, Putney 30 March 1880 aged 74.

BROWNING, COLIN ARROTT. Surgeon in the navy 8 Feb. 1817; surgeon of
the Surrey, convict ship 1831 and of six other convict ships
1834–46; retired deputy inspector of hospitals 30 June 1856;
author of England’s exiles 1842; _The Convict ship_ 1844; _The
convict ship and England’s exiles_, _6 ed._ 1855. _d._ Woolwich 26
Oct. 1856.

BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT (_eld. dau. of Edward Moulton of Burn
hall, Durham_). _b._ Burn hall 6 March 1809; lived at 74
Gloucester place London many years; lived at Florence 1847 to
death, (_m._ 9 Sep. 1846 Robert Browning the poet). author of _An
essay on mind, with other poems_, _anon._ 1826; _Casa Guidi
Windows a poem_ 1851; _Aurora Leigh_ 1857, _18 ed._ 1884 and many
other poems. _d._ Casa Guidi, Florence 30 June 1861. _The poetical
works of E. B. Browning, complete with a memoir 2 vols. New York
1871_; _P. Bayne’s Two great Englishwomen_ (1881), 1–154;
_Macpherson’s Memoirs of the life of Anna Jameson_ (1878) 191–263;
_G. B. Smith’s Poets and novelists_ (1875) 57–110; _M. R.
Mitford’s Recollections of a literary life_ (1859), 154–68; _T. H.
Ward’s English poets_, _2 ed._ (1883) _iv_, 562–80.

BROWNING, GEORGE. Secretary of Society for promoting the fine arts;
author of _Footprints, poems translated and original_ 1871; _A
memoir of the late Emperor Napoleon iii, and a political poem
entitled Rip Van Winkle_, _2 ed._ 1873; _The Edda, songs and sagas
of Iceland, a lecture_, _2 ed._ 1876. _d._ 21 Kildare gardens,
London 20 Dec. 1878 in 65 year.

BROWNING, WILLIAM SHERGOLD (_uncle of Robert Browning the poet_).
author of _Leisure hours_ 1801; _The history of the Huguenots
during the sixteenth century 2 vols._ 1829, _new ed._ 1845; _Hoel
Morvan or the court and camp of Henry v_, _3 vols._ 1844. _d._ 4
March 1874.

BROWNLOW, JOHN CUST, 1 Earl (_eld. son of Brownlow Cust, 1 baron
Brownlow 1744–1807_). _b._ 19 Aug. 1779; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.,
B.A. 1801, LLD. 1835; created D.C.L. at Ox. 10 June 1834; M.P. for
Clitheroe 6 July 1802 to Jany. 1808; colonel of Royal Lincoln
militia; succeeded 25 Dec. 1807; lord lieut. of Lincolnshire 1
March 1809; created Viscount Alford and Earl Brownlow 27 Nov.
1815; recorder of Boston 12 Dec. 1820; G.C.H. 1834; pres. of
Archæological Institute at Lincoln 1848; F.L.S. 1828, F.R.S. 8 May
1838. _d._ Belton house, Grantham 15 Sep. 1853. _Portraits and
memoirs of eminent Conservatives, portrait_; _Waagen’s Treasures
of art ii_, 313–16 (1854).

BROWNLOW, JOHN WILLIAM SPENCER Brownlow Egerton Cust, 2 Earl. _b._
Carlton gardens, London 28 March 1842; succeeded 15 Sep. 1853.
_d._ Mentone 20 Feb. 1867. _bur._ at Belton 2 March. _Good words
viii_, 373 (1867), _a poem by G. Massey_; _I.L.N. li_, 609 (1867),
_portrait_.

BROWNLOW, EMMA SOPHIA CUST, Countess (_eld. dau. of Richard
Edgcumbe, 2 Earl of Mount Edgcumbe 1764–1839_). _b._ Portugal st.
London 28 July 1791; one of the 6 ladies of the bedchamber to
Queen Adelaide July 1830 to 2 Dec. 1849 when the Queen died;
author of _Slight reminiscences of a septuagenarian_ 1867, _3 ed._
1868. (_m._ 17 July 1828 1 Earl Brownlow). _d._ Belton lodge,
Torquay 28 Jany. 1872. _I.L.N. lxi_, 139, 434 (1872).

BROWNLOW, FRANCIS (_eld. son of Wm. Brownlow_). _b._ 19 July 1836;
ed. at Harrow; ensign 72 Foot 8 Sep. 1854, lieut. col. 15 Aug.
1877 to death; C.B. 19 Nov. 1879; served in Crimean war, Indian
mutiny and Afghan war; killed at battle with Ayab Khan’s army in
Kandahar 1 Sep. 1880. _Shadbolt’s Afghan campaign_ (1882) 27–8,
_portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxvii_, 309 (1880), _portrait_.

BROWNLOW, VERY REV. JOHN. Ordained 1832; R. of Ardbraccan, Navan
1843 to death; dean of Clonmacnois, Meath 1862 to death, _d._
Ardbraccan rectory 24 May 1882 aged 77.

BROWNRIGG, CHARLES JAMES. _b._ 19 Nov. 1836; captain R.N. 18 Sep.
1873; captain of Euphrates, Indian troop ship 22 April 1878;
captain of London, store ship 8 June 1880 to death; killed by the
crew of a slave dhow off Zanzibar 3 Dec. 1881. _I.L.N. lxxix_, 650
(1881), _portrait_; _Graphic xxv_, 45 (1882), _portrait_.

BROWNRIGG, SIR HENRY JOHN (_eld. son of general Thomas Brownrigg who
d. May 1826_). _b._ 18 June 1798; 2 lieut. Rifle brigade 6 Dec.
1813, lieut. 23 Dec. 1819 to 23 April 1826 when placed on h.p.;
entered Irish Constabulary 1826, inspector general 1858 to 1865;
C.B. 13 June 1857; knighted by Earl of Eglinton lord lieutenant of
Ireland 1858. _d._ 12 Talbot sq. Hyde park, London 25 Nov. 1873.

BROWNRIGG, JOHN STUDHOLME. _b._ 17 March 1786; a merchant in London;
M.P. for Boston 9 Jany. 1835 to 23 July 1847. _d._ Ashford lodge,
Middlesex 21 Sep. 1853.

BROWNRIGGE, SIR ROBERT WILLIAM COLEBROOK, 2 Baronet. _b._ Audley
square, London 29 July 1817; succeeded 27 May 1833. _d._ 12 Eaton
place West, London 6 Aug. 1882.

BROWNSMITH, JOHN LEMAN. _b._ Westminster 1809; chorister at
Westminster Abbey; organist of St. John’s church Waterloo road,
London 1829–53; lay vicar of Westminster Abbey 1838; organist to
Sacred harmonic society 1848; organist at Handel festivals Crystal
palace 1857, 1859, 1862 and 1865; organist of St. Gabriel, Pimlico
1853 to death; published _The psalms and hymns in the morning and
evening services with the pointing completed for chanting_ 1839;
_A course of Psalms_ 1848. _d._ 104 Cambridge st. Pimlico, London
14 Sep. 1866.

BRUCE, ALEXANDER (_2 son of Henry Bruce of London_). Educ. at Univ.
coll. London 1858–64; lecturer on anatomy and assistant surgeon to
Wesminster hospital Dec. 1867 to death; invented the gas cautery
which has proved very successful; author of _Observations in the
military hospitals of Dresden_ 1866; _An epitome of the Venereal
diseases_ 1868. _d._ 6 Albert terrace, Regent’s park, London 11
April 1869 aged 27. _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_, 406 (1869).

BRUCE, DAVID. _b._ Scotland 1770; went to New York 1793; started
with his brother George a book printing office at corner of Pearl
st. New York 1806, removed to Sloat lane 1809 where they had 9
presses at work; learnt art of stereotyping in England 1812 which
he established in America, retired from business 1822; published
_Specimens of printing types New York_ 1815. _d._ New York 1857.

BRUCE, EYRE EVANS. Entered Madras army 1827; colonel 35 Madras N.I.
5 July 1854 to 1869; general 3 Sep. 1871. _d._ Doneraile, Ireland
10 April 1874.

BRUCE, SIR FREDERICK WILLIAM ADOLPHUS (_3 son of Thomas Bruce, 7
Earl of Elgin 1766–1841_). _b._ Broomhall, Dunfermline 14 April
1814; colonial sec. at Hong Kong 9 Feb. 1844; lieut. governor of
Newfoundland 27 June 1846; consul general in Bolivia 23 July 1847;
chargé d’affaires in Uruguay 29 Aug. 1851; agent and consul
general in Egypt 3 Aug. 1853; principal sec. to 8 Earl of Elgin
British ambassador in China April 1857; envoy extraord. and
minister plenipo. to Emperor of China 2 Dec. 1858; chief
superintendent of British trade in China 1 March 1859; envoy
extraord. and min. plenipo. to the United States 1 March 1865 to
death; C.B. 28 Sep. 1858, K.C.B. 12 Dec. 1862, G.C.B. 17 March
1865. _d._ Boston, United States 19 Sep. 1867. _bur._ Dunfermline
abbey 8 Oct. _D. C. Boulger’s History of China iii_, (1884); _G.M.
iv_, 677–8(1867).

BRUCE, GEORGE (_brother of David Bruce 1770–1857_). _b._ Edinburgh
26 June 1781; a type founder in New York 1816 to death; harmonised
and graduated size of different bodies of type as they ranged in
the 11 series from pearl to canon; introduced the body called
“agate” which is largely used by American newspapers; pres. of New
York Type founders association 1863 to death; invented with his
nephew David Bruce type-casting machine which was in general use
many years. _d._ New York 6 July 1866.

BRUCE, SIR HENRY WILLIAM (_3 son of Rev. Sir Henry Hervey Aston
Bruce, 1 Baronet who d. 17 Oct. 1822_). _b._ 2 Feb. 1792; entered
navy 1803; captain 16 Nov. 1821; commodore on West Coast of Africa
5 March 1851; commander in chief in the Pacific 25 Nov. 1854 to 8
July 1857 and at Portsmouth 1 March 1860 to 1 March 1863; admiral
27 April 1863; K.C.B. 28 June 1861. _d._ Fairfield near Liverpool
14 Dec. 1863.

BRUCE, HERBERT. Entered Bombay army 1842; captain 2 European
regiment 27 March 1855 to death; C.B. 26 July 1858. _d._ on board
Messageries Imperiales steamer, near Suez 26 Feb. 1866 aged 39.

BRUCE, JAMES. _b._ Aberdeen 1808; editor of the _Fifeshire Journal_
at Cupar; edited successively _Madras Athenæum_, _Newcastle
Chronicle_ and _Belfast Northern Whig_; author of _The black
kalendar of Aberdeen_ 1840; _Lives of eminent men of Aberdeen_
1841; _Table talk_ 1845; _Classic and historic portraits_ 1853;
_Scenes and sights in the East_ 1856. _d._ Belfast 19 Aug. 1861.

BRUCE, SIR JAMES LEWIS KNIGHT (_3 son of John Knight of Fairlinch,
Devon who d. 1799_). _b._ Barnstaple, Devon 15 Feb. 1791; ed. at
Bath gr. sch. and Sherborne 1799–1805; articled to B. C. Williams
of Lincoln’s Inn Fields solicitor 1807–12; barrister L.I. 21 Nov.
1817, bencher 6 Nov. 1829, treasurer 1842–3, laid foundation stone
of the new hall 20 April 1843; practised in Court of Chancery;
K.C. Nov. 1829; recorder of Brecon; M.P. for Bishop’s Castle 30
April 1831 to 3 Dec. 1832; contested borough of Cambridge Aug.
1837; spoke for 7 days in case of Small _v._ Attwood Nov 1831;
leader in Sir Lancelot Shadwell’s court 1834; made £18,000 a year
1835–41; assumed by royal license additional surname of Bruce 4
Sep. 1837; vice chancellor 28 Oct. 1841; knighted at Windsor
Castle 15 Jany. 1842; P.C. 15 Jany. 1842; chief judge in
bankruptcy Nov. 1842; exercised jurisdiction of the old Court of
Review, after it’s abolition 1847; senior lord justice of appeal
in chancery 8 Oct. 1851 to Oct. 1866; F.R.S. 18 March 1829, D.C.L.
Ox. 1834. _d._ The Priory, Roehampton, Surrey 7 Nov. 1866. _Law
mag. and law review v_, 244–50 (1858), _xxii_, 278–93 (1867);
_London Society xi_, 181–8 (1867), _portrait_; _The bench and the
bar_, _part 1_, _portrait_.

BRUCE, JOHN. _b._ London 1802; a founder of Camden Society 2 March
1838, director 19 years; edited the first and 12 other volumes for
the Society; F.S.A. 1830, treasurer 1849–54; edited _Gent. Mag._
some years; edited _Calendars of state papers, domestic series
Charles i 1625–39, 12 vols._ 1858–71; contributed many papers to
the _Archæologia_. _d._ suddenly in Montagu sq. London 28 Oct.
1869, his library was sold at Sotheby’s 27 April to 2 May 1870.
_Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. 2 series iv_, 472–5 (1870).

BRUCE, SIR MICHAEL, 7 Baronet. _b._ 31 March 1796; succeeded 1827.
_d._ Scotstown, Aberdeen 14 Dec. 1862.

BRUCE, MICHAEL. _b._ 16 May 1823; ensign Grenadier guards 15 Dec.
1840, lieut. col. 16 May 1865 to 22 Sep. 1875; L.G. 31 Oct. 1880;
placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881. _d._
Glenelg, Bournemouth 29 Sep. 1883.

BRUCE, ROBERT (_3 son of Thomas Bruce, 7 Earl of Elgin 1766–1841_).
_b._ 15 March 1813; ensign Grenadier guards 18 June 1830, major 16
Sep. 1856 to 7 Dec. 1858 when placed on h.p.; military secretary
to his brother Lord Elgin in Jamaica 1841–47, in Canada 1847–54;
surveyor general of the ordnance 1855; governor to Prince of Wales
9 Nov. 1858 to death; M.G. 7 Dec. 1859. _d._ St. James’s palace,
London 27 June 1862. _I.L.N. xli_, 58, 61 (1862), _portrait_.

BRUCE, ROBERT (_eld. son of Alexander Bruce of Kennet, co.
Clackmannan_). _b._ 8 Dec. 1795; ed. at Eton; ensign 1 Foot guards
9 Dec. 1813, lieut. 1820–24 when he sold out; served in the
Peninsula and at Waterloo; M.P. for Clackmannan 27 March 1820 to
July 1824; vice lieut. and convener of Clackmannan 1853; chairman
of Scottish Central railway board; claimed Scottish peerage of
Balfour of Burley which was allowed to his son by committee for
privileges in House of Lords 23 July 1868. _d._ Kennet house near
Alloa 13 Aug. 1864. _M. F. Conolly’s Biog. dict. of eminent men of
Fife_ (1866) 88–90.

BRUCE, REV. WILLIAM (_2 son of Rev. Wm. Bruce of Belfast,
Presbyterian minister 1757–1841_). _b._ Belfast 16 Nov. 1790;
entered Trin. coll. Dublin 2 July 1804, B.A. 1809; licensed by
presbytery of Antrim 25 July 1811; presbyterian minister at
Belfast 19 Jany. 1812 to 21 April 1867; professor of Classics and
Hebrew in Belfast Academical Instit. 27 Oct. 1821 to 1825 and of
classics only 1825 to Nov. 1849; moderator of northern presbytery
of Antrim 4 April 1862. _d._ 25 Oct. 1868.

BRUCE, WILLIAM. Captain 79 foot 14 March 1811; served in Peninsula
1812–4 and at Waterloo; major 75 foot 31 Dec. 1827 to 27 Nov. 1828
when placed on h.p.; K.H. 1837; lieut. col. 23 Nov. 1841. _d._
Grosvenor hotel, London 28 Nov. 1868.

BRUCE, WILLIAM DOWNING (_eld. son of Samuel Barwick Bruce of Ripon,
surgeon 1786–1853_). _b._ 14 Aug. 1824; barrister L.I. and M.T. 30
April 1853; consul in Scotland for Monte Video 1856; recorder of
Wallingford June 1863 to 1869; counsel in Yelverton appeal case;
district judge at Spanish Town, Jamaica 1869 to death; author of
_Chronological tables_ 1847; _An account of the ecclesiastical
courts_ 1852; _How the ecclesiastical courts rob the public_ 1856.
_d._ Jamaica 1875.

BRUEN, HENRY. M.P. for county Carlow 30 Oct. 1812 to 23 April 1831;
colonel commandant of Carlow militia to death. _d._ Oak park, co.
Carlow 5 Nov. 1852 in 62 year.

BRUNEL, ISAMBARD KINGDOM (_only son of Sir Mark Isambard Brunel,
civil engineer 1769–1849_). _b._ Portsmouth 9 April 1806; engineer
of Great Western Railway 7 March 1833 which was completed 30 June
1841; constructed the station at Paddington 1849–54; constructed
South Devon railway 1844–6, where his system of atmospheric
propulsion failed; constructed Royal Albert bridge at Saltash
1853–9; designed Great Western Steamship launched 19 July 1837 and
the Great Britain the first large iron steamship, launched 19 July
1843; designed the Great Eastern steamship 1852, she was floated
31 Jany. 1858; conducted experiments for Admiralty with screw
propeller 1841–4; F.R.S. 10 June 1830. _d._ 18 Duke st.
Westminster 15 Sep. 1859. _Life of I. K. Brunel by I. Brunel_
1870, _portrait_; _Drawing room portrait gallery of eminent
personages 2 series_ 1859, _portrait_; _Proc. of Royal Soc. x_,
7–11 (1860); _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xix_, 169–73
(1860).

BRUNKER, JAMES ROBERT. Ensign 91 foot 9 April 1825; deputy adjutant
general in Ceylon 24 Aug. 1852 to 6 Aug. 1858; major 15 foot 2
Oct. 1854 to 2 Feb. 1855 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 10 March 1866;
commanded forces in China 16 Dec. 1867 to death. _d._ Hong Kong 24
March 1869.

BRÜNNOW, ERNST PHILIPP IVANOVITCH, Count de. _b._ Dresden 31 Aug.
1797; Russian envoy and minister in London 1840 to 8 Feb. 1854 and
4 Feb. 1861 to July 1874; raised to the rank of Count, April 1871.
_d._ Darmstadt 11 April 1875. _Illust. News of the World iii_,
(1859), _portrait_.

BRUNSWICK AND LUNEBURG, KARL FRIEDRICH AUGUST WILHELM HERZOG VON.
_b._ Brunswick 30 Oct. 1804; lived at Vauxhall in London 1809–15;
laid foundation stone of Vauxhall bridge 1814; entered on exercise
of his authority as Duke of Brunswick 30 Oct. 1823; fled to
England 7 Sep. 1830, abdicating in favour of his brother William;
was much libelled in the _Age_ and _Satirist_ 1843; crossed to
France in Green’s balloon the Victoria in 5 hours 31 March 1851;
lived in Paris at 52 Champs Elysees and in London at Brunswick
house, New road; bequeathed all his property including his
collection of valuable diamonds to city of Geneva. _d._ Geneva 18
Aug. 1873, his decorations consisting of various orders of
principal European courts enriched with jewels were sold at
Debenhams in London 25 June 1874. _Temple Bar lxxiii_, 353–63
(1885); _Life of T. S. Duncombe ii_, 44–99 _and_ 162–90 (1868).

BRUNTON, REV. ALEXANDER. _b._ Edinburgh 1772; minister of parish of
Bolton 1797–1803, of New Greyfriars church Edin. 1803–9 and of the
Tron church Edin. 23 Nov. 1809 to death; professor of Oriental
languages in Univ. of Edin. 19 May 1813 to death; D.D. Edin. 17
Dec. 1813; moderator of General Assembly 22 May 1823; author of
_Sermons and lectures_ 1818; _Outlines of Persian grammar with
extracts_ 1822; _Forms for public worship in the Church of
Scotland_ 1848. _d._ Jordonstone house, Coupar Angus 9 Feb. 1854.
_W. B. Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ (1882), _portrait_.

BRUNTON, ROBERT. _b._ Lockwinnock N.B. 10 Feb. 1796; chief assistant
to his brother W. Brunton 1823; engaged by Banks & Co. of Bilston;
principal assistant of Isaac Dodds at the Horsley iron works
Staffs.; in service of Indian iron company 1835 to death;
constructed and managed works at Porto Nuovo on coast of
Coromandel; acting engineer of Maestaeg iron works Glamorganshire
to death; M.I.C.E. 1842; author of _A compendium of mechanics or
text book for engineers, millwrights, machine makers_ 1824, _2
ed._ 1825. _d._ Maestaeg iron works 6 July 1852. _Min. of proc. of
Instit. of C.E. xii_, 149 (1853).

BRUNTON, WILLIAM (_eld. son of Robert Brunton of Dalkeith, watch
maker_). _b._ Dalkeith 26 May 1777; partner in and manager of
Eagle foundry Birmingham 1815–25; civil engineer in London
1825–35; partner in Cwm Avon tin works Glamorganshire 1835–8; had
a large share in introduction of steam navigation; invented the
Calciner used in nearly all Cornish tin mines and Mexican silver
mines, and a walking machine called the Steam Horse which was used
at Butterley 1813–5 when it exploded and killed 13 persons; took
out many patents. _d._ Camborne, Cornwall 5 Oct. 1851. _Min. of
proc. of Instit. of C.E. xi_, 95–9 (1852).

BRUNTON, WILLIAM (_3 son of the preceding_). _b._ Birmingham 3 April
1817; resident engineer of West Cornwall railway 1847; invented
the apparatus for washing and separating ores from their matrix
known as “Brunton’s endless cloth”; invented a fuse making machine
of most ingenious construction, this process has never been
divulged, its introduction at once reduced the selling price of
fuse by 75 per cent.; chief engineer of the Punjab railway 1865;
leaseholder of a sheeprun of 30000 acres in New Zealand; district
engineer of railways in Southland, N.Z. 1871; M.I.C.E. 7 March
1854. _d._ Wellington, N.Z. 13 June 1881.

BRUSHFIELD, THOMAS (_2 son of George Brushfield of
Ashford-in-the-Water, Derbyshire who d. 25 Feb. 1825 aged 52_).
_b._ Ashford-in-the-Water 16 Feb. 1798; kept an oil and colour
shop at 28 Union st. Spitalfields, London 1821–55; played under an
assumed name at City of London theatre 1827; chairman of
Whitechapel board of guardians 1839–48; member for Whitechapel of
Metropolitan Board of Works 1865 to death; contributed many papers
to _The Reliquary, quarterly archæological journal and review_
1861 to death. _d._ 5 Church st Spitalfields, London 1 Sep. 1875.
_Reliquary xvi_, 209–16 (1876).

BRUTON, JAMES. Author of a few dramatic pieces and of many songs.
_d._ Palace road, Westminster 5 March 1867 aged 52.

BRYAN, GEORGE LEOPOLD. _b._ Ballyduff house 29 Nov. 1828; sheriff of
Kilkenny 1852; M.P. for co. Kilkenny 24 July 1865 to 24 March
1880. _d._ 29 June 1880.

BRYCE, DAVID. _b._ Scotland; private secretary to Benjamin
D’Israeli; a publisher in Paternoster Row, London; employed by W.
H. Smith the bookseller; compiled _The confessional unmasked_ from
Petrus Dens’s _Theologia moralis et dogmatica 8 tomes_ 1832. _d._
1 May 1875 aged 56.

BRYCE, DAVID (_son of Mr. Bryce of Edinburgh, builder_). _b._ Edin.
3 April 1803; partner with Wm. Burn leading architect in Edin. to
1844; became leading architect in Scotland; designed important
works in all styles in most of chief towns in Scotland; revived
the picturesque French Gothic now naturalised in Scotland under
name of Baronial; A.R.S.A. 1835, R.S.A. 1836, F.R.I.B.A., F.R.S.
Edin. 1856; grand-architect to grand lodge of Masons in Scotland
1850 to death; built Fettes College, Royal Infirmary, and Bank of
Scotland, all in Edinburgh. _d._ Edinburgh 7 May 1876. _Builder
xxxiv_, 508 (1876); _D. M. Lyon’s Lodge of Edinburgh_ (1873) 30,
341, _portrait_; _Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. ix_, 216–8 (1878).

BRYCE, REV. JAMES (_son of John Bryce of Airdrie, Lanarkshire_).
_b._ Airdrie 5 Dec. 1767; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow; ordained
minister of Scottish Antiburgher Secession church 1795; minister
of Antiburgher congregation at Killaig, co. Londonderry 1805;
founded a branch of the Presbyterian church which took name of the
Associate Presbytery of Ireland; this body was ultimately united
with Scottish united presbyterian church. _d._ Killaig 24 April
1857.

BRYCE, REV. JAMES. Minister of Church of Scotland in Bengal 11 April
1814 to 30 May 1842; D.D. Edin. 12 Aug. 1818; author of _Sketch of
the state of British India_ 1810; _On the ecclesiastical
establishment of the Church of Scotland_ 1815; _Ten years of the
Church of Scotland 2 vols._ 1850. _d._ Edinburgh 11 March 1866 in
82 year.

BRYCE, JAMES (_3 son of Rev. James Bryce 1767–1857_). _b._ Killaig
22 Oct. 1806; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow, B.A. 1828, hon. LLD. 1858;
mathematical master in Belfast academy; master in high school
Glasgow 1846–74; F.G.S., Dublin; pres. of Philosophical Soc. of
Glasgow; author of _First principles of geography and astronomy_
1848; _General gazetteer_ 1859; _Library gazetteer_ 1859; _Geology
of Arran_ 1864; killed by accident at Inverfarigaig on shores of
Loch Ness 11 July 1877. _Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. ix_, 514
(1878).

BRYDGES, SIR JOHN WILLIAM EGERTON, 2 Baronet. _b._ Canterbury Nov.
1791; succeeded 8 Sep. 1837. _d._ Lee priory, Canterbury 15 Feb.
1858.

BRYDON, WILLIAM. _b._ London 9 Oct. 1811; assistant surgeon Bengal
army 9 July 1835, surgeon 14 Nov. 1849, retired 1 Nov. 1859; C.B.
16 Nov. 1858. _d._ Westfield, Rossshire 20 March 1873. _Kaye’s
History of war in Afghanistan_, _3 ed._ (1874) 389; _I.L.N. lxii_,
369 (1873), _portrait_; _J. McCarthy’s A history of our own
times_, _new ed._ (1882) _i_, 161–95, _iii_, 8.

NOTE.—He was the one solitary individual of the 13000 soldiers
and camp followers composing the army of General Elphinstone
who was neither killed nor taken prisoner in the terrible
disaster of January 1842, it was also his singular fate to be
shut up with Sir Henry Lawrence at Lucknow and to pass
uninjured through that long and trying siege. Mrs.
Thompson-Butler painted a _portrait_ of him appearing under
the walls of Jellalabad in her picture “Remnant of an army”
exhibited at Royal Academy 1881 and engraved 1883.

BRYDSON, REV. THOMAS. _b._ Glasgow 1806; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow and
Edin.; minister of Levern chapel near Paisley 1839–42; minister of
Kilmalcolm 1842 to death; author of _Poems_ 1829; _Pictures of the
past_ 1832; contributed to _Edinburgh Literary Journal and
Republic of letters_, _Glasgow_. _d._ Kilmalcolm 28 Jany. 1855.
_The modern Scottish minstrel by Charles Rogers iv_, 172–3 (1857).

BRYMER, VEN. WILLIAM THOMAS PARR. Educ. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A.
1820, M.A. 1823; R. of Charlton Mackrell, Somerset 1821 to death;
archdeacon of Bath 6 March 1839 to death; canon res. of Wells 1840
to death; superintended affairs of the entire diocese during
incapacity of Bishop Law. _d._ Charlton Mackrell 19 Aug. 1852.
_G.M. xxxviii_, 544 (1852).

BRYSON, ALEXANDER. _b._ Edinburgh 12 Oct. 1816; clock and watch
maker at Edin. 1840 to death; F.R.S. Edin. 1858; pres. of Royal
Soc. of Arts 1860; pres. of Royal Physical Soc. 1863; F.G.S.
London and Edin.; author of many papers on geology. _d._ Hawkhill
7 Dec. 1866.

BRYSON, ALEXANDER. Assistant surgeon R.N. 7 Feb. 1827; inspector
general of hospitals and fleets 30 June 1855; hon. physician to
the Queen 1859 to death; director general of medical department of
navy 1864–9; F.R.S. 1 June 1854; C.B. 7 June 1865. _d._ The
Heritage, Barnes, Surrey 12 Dec. 1869 aged 67.

BUCCLEUCH, WALTER FRANCIS MONTAGU-DOUGLAS-SCOTT, 5 Duke of. (_2 son
of 4 Duke of Buccleuch 1772–1819_). _b._ Dalkeith house near
Edinburgh 25 Nov. 1806; ed. at Eton and St. John’s coll. Cam.,
M.A. 1827, LLD. 1842, D.C.L. Ox. 1834; succeeded 20 April 1819;
lord lieut. of Midlothian 5 March 1828 to death, of Roxburghshire
2 Dec. 1841 to death; K.T. 5 Nov. 1830; K.G. 23 Feb. 1835; pres.
of Royal Archers 1837–9, captain general 1839 to death; lord privy
seal 2 Feb. 1842 to 21 Jany. 1846; P.C. 2 Feb. 1842; colonel of
Edinburgh militia 6 Jany. 1842 to death; lord pres. of the council
21 Jany. 1846 to 6 July 1846; chancellor of Univ. of Glasgow 24
April 1878; constructed harbour and port of Granton 1835. _d._
Bowhill house, co. Selkirk 16 April 1884, will proved in London 30
Oct. 1884, personalty in England £475,000 in Scotland £435,000.
_Sir H. Nicolas’s Court of Queen Victoria_ (1845) 55–63; _J. B.
Paul’s History of royal company of archers_ (1875), _portrait_;
_R. C. Dudgeon’s History of Edinburgh militia_ (1882), _portrait_;
_Graphic xxix_, 400 (1884), _portrait_.

BUCHAN, HENRY DAVID ERSKINE, 12 Earl of. _b._ July 1783; succeeded
19 April 1829. _d._ 8 St. Agnes Villas, Bayswater, London 13 Sep.
1857.

BUCHAN, PETER. _b._ Peterhead 1790; a printer there 1816 to death;
author of _The recreation of leisure hours being songs and verses
in the Scottish dialect_ 1814; _Annals of Peterhead_ 1819;
_Treatise proving that brutes have souls and are immortal_ 1824;
_Ancient ballads and songs of the North of Scotland hitherto
unpublished 2 vols._ 1828 and many other works. _d._ London 19
Sep. 1854. _W. Anderson’s Scottish nation iii_, 691–3 (1863).

BUCHANAN, SIR ANDREW, 1 Baronet (_only son of James Buchanan of
Blairvadock Ardinconnal, co. Dumbarton 1776–1860_). _b._ 7 May
1807; attached to embassy at Constantinople 10 Oct. 1825; minister
plenipotentiary to Swiss confederation 12 Feb. 1852; envoy
extraordinary and min. plenipo. to king of Denmark 9 Feb. 1853;
transferred to Madrid 31 March 1858; transferred to the Hague 11
Dec. 1860; ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to King of
Prussia 28 Oct. 1862; P.C. 3 Feb. 1863; ambassador extraord. and
plenipo. to Russia 15 Sep. 1864, to Austria 16 Oct. 1871 to 16
Feb. 1878 when he retired on a pension; C.B. 23 May 1857, K.C.B.
25 Feb. 1860, G.C.B. 6 July 1866; created a baronet 14 Dec. 1878.
_d._ Craigend castle near Glasgow 12 Nov. 1882.

BUCHANAN, GEORGE (_3 son of David Buchanan of Montrose, printer
1745–1812_). _b._ Montrose about 1790; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; a
land surveyor about 1812 then a civil engineer; engaged in all the
important salmon fishing cases in Scotland; built chimney nearly
400 feet high for Edinburgh gasworks 1848; F.R.S. Edin.; pres. of
Royal Scottish Society of Arts 1847–8; author of _Report on the
theory and application of Leslie’s Photometer_ 1824 and of the
article “Furnaces” in _8 ed._ of _Encyclopædia Britannica_. _d._
30 Oct. 1852.

BUCHANAN, GILBERT JOHN LANE. Second lieut. R.A. 16 Dec. 1831,
colonel 16 July 1862 to 2 April 1870; commanded at Fort William,
Bengal 10 Sep. 1867 to 2 April 1870; M.G. 6 March 1868. _d._
Cambridge st. Hyde park sq. London 13 April 1875.

BUCHANAN, REV. JAMES. _b._ Paisley 1804; minister of Roslin near
Edin. 1827; minister of North Leith 1828; attained great fame as a
preacher; D.D. Princeton college, New Jersey 1844; LLD. Glasgow;
minister of high church Edin. 1840, of St. Stephens free church
Edin. 1843; professor of apologetics in New college Edin. 1845 and
of systematic theology 1847–68; author of _Comfort in affliction_
1837; _Faith in God and modern atheism compared 2 vols._ 1855;
_Analogy considered as a guide to truth_, _2 ed._ 1867. _d._ 1870.

BUCHANAN, ROBERT. _b._ Ayr 1813; a schoolmaster, a lecturer
advocating socialistic views of Robert Owen and a journalist
successively; author of _The religion of the past and present
society_ 1839; _The origin and nature of ghosts_ 1840; _Concise
history of modern priestcraft_ 1840; _The past, the present and
the future_ 1840. _d._ Bexhill, Sussex 4 March 1866.

BUCHANAN, REV. ROBERT. _b._ Callander 1785; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow,
LLD. 1869; licensed as a preacher of Church of Scotland 1812;
minister of parish of Peebles 1813; assistant professor of logic
Univ. of Glasgow 1824, professor 1827–64, the Buchanan prizes were
instituted 1866 in commemoration of his services, he bequeathed by
his will £10,000 for founding of Buchanan bursaries; author of
_Fragments of the table round_ 1860; _Vow of Glentreuil and other
poems_ 1862; _Tragic dramas from Scottish history_ 1868 and
_Wallace, a tragedy_ 1856 performed twice at Prince’s theatre
Glasgow March 1862. _d._ Ardfillayne, Dunoon 2 March 1873.

BUCHANAN, REV. ROBERT (_son of Mr. Buchanan of St. Ninians near
Stirling, brewer and farmer_). _b._ St. Ninians 15 Aug. 1802; ed.
at Univs. of Glasgow and Edin.; licensed by presbytery of
Dunblane; minister of Gargunnock near Stirling Oct. 1826; ordained
6 March 1827; minister of Salton, East Lothian 1829; minister of
Tron church Glasgow 22 Aug. 1833; D.D. Glasgow 1840; minister of
Free college church Glasgow 26 December 1857; pres. of
Sustentation fund committee 1847–75; moderator of the Assembly
1860; presented with sum of £4,200 in Queen’s hotel, Glasgow 8
Aug. 1864; member of Glasgow school board 1872 to death; author of
_History of the ten years conflict 2 vols._ 1849; _Notes of a
clerical furlough_ 1859; _Book of Ecclesiastes_ 1859. _d._ 25 Via
dell’ Angelo Custode Rome 31 March 1875. _Robert Buchanan, D.D. an
ecclesiastical biography by the Rev. L. N. Walker_ 1877,
_portrait_; _Good Words xix_, 15–20 (1878), _portrait_; _J.
Smith’s Our Scottish clergy_ (1878) 17–23.

BUCHANAN, WALTER. _b._ Glasgow 1797; a merchant in Glasgow; M.P. for
Glasgow 1 April 1857 to 6 July 1865. _d._ Plas Newton, Chester 21
May 1883.