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BUCHANAN, WILLIAM (_son of David Buchanan of Montrose, printer and
publisher 1745–1822_). _b._ Montrose 1781; ed. at Univ. of Edin.;
called to Scottish bar 1806; an elder of the Glasite church 1823
to death; Queen’s advocate and solicitor of teinds or tithes 1856;
author of _Reports of certain remarkable cases in the court of
session and trials in the high court of justiciary_ 1813;
_Treatise on the law of Scotland on the subject of teinds_ 1862.
_d._ Edinburgh 18 Dec. 1863.

BUCHANAN, WILLIAM. _b._ Glasgow 1777; picture dealer in London;
author of _Memoirs of painting with a chronological history of the
importation of pictures by the Great Masters into England since
the French revolution 2 vols._ 1824. _d._ Glasgow 19 Jany. 1864
aged 86.

BUCHANAN, REV. WILLIAM. Licentiate of Church of Scotland; editor of
_Ayr Observer_ and subsequently of _Edinburgh Courant_ and
_Glasgow Courier_; author of _Verses serious, humorous and
satirical_ 1866. _d._ Ayr July 1866.

BUCK, HENRY. _b._ Yorkshire; wrote on racing in the _Sportsman_ in
London and on billiards under pseud. of “Spot Stroke”; wrote on
racing in _Daily Telegraph_ under pseud. of “Hotspur”; a large
betting commission agent. _d._ 25 Jany. 1884.

BUCK, LEWIS WILLIAM (_2 son of George Stucley Buck of Moreton,
Devonshire_). _b._ 1784; M.P. for Exeter 1826 to 1832, and for
North Devon 1839 to 1857; sheriff of Devon 1826. _d._ 12 Norfolk
st. Park lane, London 25 April 1858.

BUCK, ZACHARIAH. _b._ Norwich 10 Sep. 1798; teacher of the
pianoforte; assistant organist of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich
1818–21; organist of Norwich cathedral and master of the
choristers 1819–77; Mus. Doc. by Abp. of Canterbury 1853; composed
many services, anthems and chants. _d._ Newport, Essex 5 Aug.
1879.

BUCKINGHAM, RICHARD PLANTAGENET TEMPLE NUGENT
BRYDGES-CHANDOS-GRENVILLE, 2 Duke of (_only child of 1 Duke of
Buckingham 1776–1839_). _b._ Pall Mall, London 11 Feb. 1797; ed.
at Eton; M.P. for Bucks. 22 June 1818 to 17 Jany. 1839 when he
succeeded; introduced into reform act 1832 the tenant at will
clause; G.C.H. 1835; lord privy seal 3 Sep. 1841 to 2 Feb. 1842;
P.C. 3 Sep. 1841; K.G. 1842; D.C.L. Cam. 1842; received Queen
Victoria at Stowe 15 Jany. 1845; Stowe was taken possession of by
bailiffs 31 Aug. 1847; sold part of his estates 10 May 1848 for
£263,000; author of _Memoirs of the court and cabinets of George
iii 3 vols._ 1853–5; _Memoirs of the court of England during the
Regency 1811–20 2 vols._ 1856; _Memoirs of the court of George iv
2 vols._ 1859; _Memoirs of the courts and cabinets of William iv
and Victoria 2 vols._ 1861. _d._ Great Western railway hotel,
Paddington 29 July 1861. _G. Lipscomb’s History of Bucks, iii_,
87–108 (1847); _G. H. Francis’s Orators of the age_ (1847) 217–23;
_I.L.N. i_, 496 (1842), _portrait_.

BUCKINGHAM, JAMES SILK (_youngest child of Christopher Buckingham of
Barnstaple who d. 1794_). _b._ Flushing near Falmouth 25 Aug.
1786; commander of merchant ships 1807–13; established _Calcutta
Journal_ at Calcutta which appeared 2 Oct. 1818 to 26 April 1823
when it was suppressed and he was expelled from India; started
Jany. 1824 _Oriental herald and colonial review_ which ceased Dec.
1829; edited _The Sphynx_ a weekly journal 1827–9; started _The
Athenæum_ 2 Jany. 1828; M.P. for Sheffield 15 Dec. 1832 to 17 July
1837; travelled in America 1837–41; resident director of British
and foreign institute Hanover sq. London 1843–6; pres. of London
temperance league 1851; granted civil list pension of £200 per
annum 1 Sep. 1851; travelled through the country delivering
lectures many years; author of _Travels in Palestine_ 1822;
_America historical descriptive and statistic 3 vols._ 1841; _The
eastern and western states of America 3 vols._ 1842 and 16 other
books, also about 40 pamphlets on social and political subjects.
_d._ Stanhope lodge, Upper Avenue road, St. John’s Wood, London 30
June 1855. _Autobiography of J. S. Buckingham 2 vols._ 1855,
_portrait_; _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i_, 44–8 (1874),
_iii_, 1098–9 (1882).

BUCKINGHAM, LEICESTER SILK (_youngest son of the preceding_). _b._
11 Cornwall terrace, Regent’s park, London 29 June 1825; wrote and
delivered explanatory description of views of various countries at
the Panopticon Leicester sq. 1854; manager of Strand theatre short
time; dramatic and musical critic of the _Morning Star_ 1857–67;
author of Memoir of _Mary Stuart Queen of Scotland_ 1844 and other
books and of about 35 burlesques, comedies and farces. _d._
Margate 15 July 1867. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i_, 48–9
_iii_, 1099.

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, REV. AUGUSTUS EDWARD HOBART-HAMPDEN, 6 Earl of.
_b._ Ripon 1 Nov. 1793; ed. at Westminster and Brasn. coll. Ox.,
B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; R. of Bennington, co. Lincoln 14 Dec. 1817;
R. of Walton-on-the-Wolds Leics. 5 July 1820 to 1847; preb. of
Wolverhampton 1844 to death; succeeded 1 Feb. 1849; assumed
additional name of Hampden by r.l. 5 Aug. 1878. _d._ Hampden
house, Great Missenden, Bucks. 13 Oct. 1885.

BUCKLAND, FRANCIS TREVELYAN (_eld. son of Very Rev. Wm. Buckland
1784–1856_). _b._ Christ Church, Oxford 17 Dec. 1826; ed. at
Winchester 1839–44 and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1848; studied at St.
George’s hospital London 1848–51, house surgeon May 1852 to June
1853; assistant surgeon 2 life guards 14 Aug. 1854 to 1863;
discovered coffin of John Hunter in vaults of St. Martin’s church,
Charing Cross 22 Feb. 1859, the remains were buried in Westminster
Abbey 28 March 1859; wrote largely in the _Field_ newspaper
1856–65; started _Land and Water_ 27 Jany. 1866; inspector of
salmon fisheries for England and Wales 6 Feb. 1867 to death; the
highest authority on subject of pisciculture; scientific referee
to South Kensington Museum May 1865, where he established a large
collection of fish-hatching apparatus and the like which expanded
into International Fisheries Exhibition of 1883; author of
_Curiosities of natural history_, _4 vols._ 1857–72; _Logbook of a
fisherman and zoologist_ 1875; _Natural history of British fishes_
1881; _edited White’s Natural history of Selbourne with original
notes_ 1875. _d._ 37 Albany st. Regent’s park, London 19 Dec.
1880. _Life of Frank Buckland by G. C. Bompas_ 1885, _portrait_;
_Macmillan’s Mag. xliii_, 303–9 (1881); _Graphic xxiii_, 45
(1881), _portrait_.

BUCKLAND, VERY REV. WILLIAM (_eld. son of Rev. Charles Buckland, R.
of Templeton, Devon who d. 1829_). _b._ Axminster 12 March 1784;
ed. at Tiverton, Winchester and C. C. coll. Ox., Devon scholar
1801, B.A. 1805, M.A. 1808, B.D. 1816, D.D. 1825, fellow of his
college 1809–25; reader in mineralogy Univ. of Ox. 1813, and
reader in geology 1819; F.G.S. 1813, pres. 1824–5 and 1840–1,
Wollaston medallist 1848; F.R.S. 26 Feb. 1818, Copley medallist
1822, F.L.S. 1821; R. of Stoke Charity, Hants. 1825–46; canon of
Ch. Ch. cathedral Ox. 1825–46; pres. of British Assoc. at Ox.
1832; dean of Westminster 27 Nov. 1846 to death; R. of Islip,
Oxon. 1846 to death; a trustee of British Museum 1847; author of
_Geology and mineralogy considered with reference to natural
theology 2 vols._ 1836, _4 ed. 2 vols._ 1869–70; _Reliquiæ
Diluvianæ_ 1823, _2 ed._ 1824. _d._ Clapham, London 14 Aug. 1856.
_Geology and mineralogy by the late Very Rev. W. Buckland, edited
by F. T. Buckland_, _2 vols._ 1858; _Quarterly Journal of Geol.
Soc. xiii_, 27–45 (1857); _Proc. of Royal Soc. viii_, 264–8
(1856); _I.L.N. vii_, 336 (1845), _portrait_.

BUCKLE, HENRY BRUGES. Assistant surgeon Bengal medical department 18
March 1844; surgeon 16 Sep. 1857; principal medical storekeeper
1866–70; deputy surgeon general 4 Oct. 1870; C.B. 29 May 1865.
_d._ Clarges st. Piccadilly 12 Dec. 1874.

BUCKLE, HENRY THOMAS (_only son of Thomas Henry Buckle of London,
shipowner 1779–1840_). _b._ Lee, Kent 24 Nov. 1821; travelled in
Belgium, Germany, Holland, Italy and France 1840–1; lectured at
Royal Instit. London on the “Influence of women on the progress of
knowledge” 19 March 1858, published in _Fraser’s Mag._ April 1858;
author of _History of civilisation in England 2 vols._ 1857–61,
republished as _History of civilisation in England, France, Spain
and Scotland 3 vols._ 1869; won the chess tournament at Strand
divan London 1849; one of the best chess, whist, and backgammon
players in Europe; knew 19 different languages, 7 of them well;
left Southampton for Alexandria 20 Oct. 1861. _d._ from typhoid
fever at Damascus 29 May 1862. _The life and writings of H. T.
Buckle by A. H. Huth 2 vols._ 1880, 2 _portraits_; _Miscellaneous
and posthumous works of H. T. Buckle vol. 1_ (1872); _Chess
player’s magazine ii_, 33–45 (1864), _portrait_.

BUCKLE, MATTHEW (_only son of Matthew Buckle, admiral R.N. who d. 7
July 1784 aged 68_). _b._ Nork house, Banstead 3 May 1770; entered
navy 4 Feb. 1777; captain 29 April 1802; superintendent of
Portsmouth district of Sea fencibles 2 May 1804 to Feb. 1810 when
corps was discharged; captain of the Adamant 44 guns, 16 Aug. 1810
to 14 Sep. 1813; admiral on h.p. 30 July 1852. _d._ Bath 8 April
1855.

BUCKLE, WILLIAM. _b._ Alnwick Castle 1794; superintended
arrangements of visit of George iv to Ireland; held a responsible
post in Soho works of Boulton and Watt at Birmingham to 1851;
built first locomotive engine which made journey from Liverpool to
Manchester 15 Sep. 1830; an officer in coining department of Royal
Mint, London 1851 to death. _d._ Royal Mint, London 30 Sep. 1863.

BUCKLER, JOHN (_son of Edward Buckler 1741–92_). _b._ Calbourne,
Isle of Wight 30 Nov. 1770; an architect in London to 1826;
contributed water colour drawings yearly to Royal Academy
1796–1849; F.S.A. 1810. _d._ Rockingham row, New Kent road, London
6 Dec. 1851.

BUCKLER, WILLIAM. _b._ Newport, Isle of Wight 13 Sep. 1814; studied
at Royal Academy where he exhibited 1836–56, 62 pictures chiefly
portraits in water-colour; lived at Emsworth, Hampshire about 1848
to death; contributed to _Entomologist’s Weekly intelligencer_;
_Weekly Entomologist_ and _Entomologist’s monthly magazine_. _d._
Lumley, Emsworth, Hants. 9 Jany. 1884. _Entomologist’s Monthly
Mag. xx_, 216, 229–36 (1884).

BUCKLEY, CECIL WILLIAM. Entered navy 1845; served in White Sea and
Black Sea during Russian war 1854–6; landed and fired a quantity
of stores at Genitchi 29 May 1855, and the stores and government
buildings at Taganrog June 1855; decorated with Victoria cross on
institution of that order 27 Feb. 1856; captain 16 April 1862;
commanded Pylades on Pacific station 1868–70, and Valiant
coastguard ship in the Shannon Dec. 1871 to Oct. 1872. _d._
Madeira Dec. 1872.

BUCKLEY, EDWARD PERY (_eld. son of Edward Pery Buckley of New hall
near Salisbury 1760–1840_). _b._ Audley sq. London 7 Nov. 1796;
ed. at Harrow and Marlow; ensign 1 foot guards 24 June 1812,
captain 12 April 1827 to 9 Nov. 1830 when placed on h.p.; equerry
to the Queen 1837–58; colonel 83 foot 17 Aug. 1865 to death;
general 17 Aug. 1865; M.P. for Salisbury 15 Nov. 1853 to 6 July
1865. _d._ 12 South Audley st. London 28 May 1873.

BUCKLEY, JOSEPH (_son of George Buckley of Maer, Staffs._) _b._ Maer
13 May 1804; joined Society of Friends 26 June 1829; a minister 9
Feb. 1843; a cotton spinner at Preston 1834, removed to Manchester
1837; went on a mission to Norway 1856 and 1866; travelled in
Germany 1863. _d._ Sale near Manchester 27 Sep. 1868. _Memoirs of
Joseph Buckley edited by his daughter_ 1874, _portrait_.

BUCKLEY, R. BISHOP. _b._ England; entered the minstrel profession in
Boston, U.S. 1843 in a band organised by his father under title of
Buckley’s Minstrels; the chief performer in the band 1843 to
death. _d._ of paralysis at Quincy, Massachusetts 6 June 1867.

BUCKLEY, REV. THEODORE ALOIS WILLIAM. _b._ 27 July 1825; servitor at
Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1849; chaplain of his college; translated
classics for H. G. Bohn; edited and wrote numerous works for
Routledge; author of _The great cities of the ancient world_ 1852;
_A history of the council of Trent_ 1852; _The great cities of the
middle ages_ 1853; edited _L. Apuleii de Deo Socratis, liber
singularis_ 1844. _d._ London 30 Jany. 1856. _G.M. xlv_, 314–6
(1856).

BUCKLEY, WILLIAM. _b._ Moreton near Macclesfield, Cheshire 1780;
brought up a bricklayer; served in the 4th Regt. the King’s Own
1799; sentenced to transportation for life for mutiny, he with 6
others having turned out to shoot the Duke of Kent at Gibraltar 24
Dec. 1802; escaped from Port Phillip, Victoria 27 Dec. 1803;
resided among the natives of Port Phillip without ever seeing a
white man for 32 years; received a pardon from Governor Arthur 28
Aug. 1835; resided in Tasmania 1837 to death; died from being
thrown out of a cart at Hobart Town 2 Feb. 1856. _Morgan’s Life
and adventures of Buckley, Hobart Town_ 1852, _portrait_;
_Labilliere’s Early history of Victoria ii_, 64–87 (1878);
_Progress iii_, 166, 238, 311, 273 (1884).

BUCKLEY-MATHEW, SIR GEORGE BENVENUTO (_eld. son of George Mathew of
Fabians, Essex 1760–1846_). _b._ 1807; ensign 52 foot 7 July 1825;
lieut. Coldstream guards 26 July 1833; captain 85 foot 17 June
1836 to 23 Sep. 1836 when placed on h.p.; retired from army 9
April 1841; M.P. for Athlone 1835–7, for Shaftesbury 1837–41;
governor of Bahama islands 1844–50; minister plenipotentiary to
the republics in Central America 21 Aug. 1861, to Argentine
republic 13 April 1866, to republic of Paraguay 6 Dec. 1866, to
Brazil 19 Sep. 1867 to 1 April 1879 when he retired on pension;
changed his Christian name from Byam to Benvenuto 1836; assumed
additional surname of Buckley by r.l. 9 May 1865; C.B. 7 Aug.
1863; K.C.M.G. 24 May 1879. _d._ Suffolk st. Pall Mall, London 22
Oct. 1879 in 73 year.

BUCKMAN, JAMES (_son of John Buckman_). _b._ Cheltenham 1814;
curator and resident professor at Birmingham Philosophical Instit.
1842–8; professor of geology and botany at Royal Agricultural
college Cirencester 1848–63; conducted a farm on scientific
principles at Bradford Abbas near Sherborne 1863 to death; a
recognised authority on all agricultural matters; presented
collections of Roman antiquities and fossils to Cirencester;
F.L.S.; F.G.S.; F.S.A.; author of _Remains of Roman art at
Cirencester_ 1851; _Science and practice in farm cultivation_
1865; edited _The practical farmer’s chronicle_ 1861; author of
many papers on archæology, botany and geology. _d._ Bradford Abbas
23 Nov. 1884.

BUCKSTONE, JOHN BALDWIN. _b._ Hoxton, London 14 Sep. 1802; made his
début in London at Surrey theatre as Ramsay in _The fortunes of
Nigel_ 30 Jany. 1823; acted at Coburg theatre 1824–7, at Adelphi
theatre winter seasons of 1827–39 and at Haymarket theatre summer
seasons of 1833–9; played in United States 1840–2; lessee and
manager of Haymarket theatre 28 March 1853 to 1877; author of 150
comedies, dramas and farces best known being _The wreck ashore_,
produced at Adelphi theatre 21 Oct. 1830, _The green bushes_,
produced there 27 Jany. 1845 and _The flowers of the forest_,
produced there 11 March 1847; one of the best low comedians of his
time, his best parts were Sir Andrew Aguecheek, Bob Acres and Tony
Lumpkin; cleared £20,000 by _Our American cousin_ 1861–2;
adjudicated bankrupt 27 March 1878. _d._ Bell green lodge, Lower
Sydenham 31 Oct. 1879. _Maclise Portrait gallery_ (1883) 411–6,
_portrait_; _The Theatre iii_, 261–7 (1879); _Illust. Review n.s.
i_, 161–3; _J. E. Mayall’s Celebrities of the London stage;
Cartoon portraits_ (1873) 116–7, _portrait_; _Pascoe’s Dramatic
list_, _2 ed._ (1880) 66–72; _I.L.N. i_, 384 (1842), _portrait_,
_lxxv_, 457 (1879), _portrait_.

BUDD, CORDELIA GEORGIANA (_youngest dau. of Wm. James Turquand of
Bengal civil service_). Composed many musical pieces under nom de
plume of “Dewdrop” and afterwards under initials C.B. (_m._ 4 May
1844 Samuel Budd of Exeter, physician who _d._ 21 May 1885 in 79
year). _d._ 1 Charleville road, West Kensington, London 3 May 1886
aged 61.

BUDD, EDWARD HAYWARD. _b._ Great Missenden, Bucks. 23 Feb. 1785; a
clerk in War Office 1801 to Dec. 1817 when he retired on pension
of £180 a year; played his first cricket match at Lord’s 13 Sep.
1802; played in all the great matches of Marylebone cricket Club
1805–25; played his last cricket match 16 June 1852; one of the
best batsmen, bowlers and amateur boxers of his time; lived at
Wroughton, Wilts. 1825 to death. _d._ Rose cottage Wroughton 29
March 1875. _C. A. Wheeler’s Sportascrapiana_, _2 ed._ 1868,
_portrait_; _Baily’s Mag. xxvii_, 9–16 (1875).

BUDD, GEORGE (_3 son of Samuel Budd of North Tawton, Devon,
surgeon_). _b._ North Tawton Feb. 1808; ed. at St. John’s and
Caius colleges Cam., 3 wrangler 1831, B.A. 1831, M.B. 1835, M.D.
1840; fellow of Caius coll. 1831–54, hon. fellow 1880; studied at
Middlesex hospital London; practised in London 1840–67; F.R.S. 21
Jany. 1836; F.R.C.P. 1841, Gulstonian lecturer 1843, Croonian
lecturer 1847, censor 1845–7; physician to Dreadnought hospital
ship 1837–40; professor of medicine in King’s college London
1840–63; phys. to King’s college hospital 1840–63; author of _On
diseases of the liver_ 1845, _3 ed._ 1857; _On the organic
diseases and functional disorders of the stomach_ 1855. _d._
Ashleigh, Barnstaple 14 March 1882. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxiv_,
1–3 (1883); _Medical Circular i_, 458–9 (1852); _Van Kaathoven’s
Collection vol._ 2, _portrait_.

BUDD, REV. HENRY (_son of Richard Budd of London, physician
1746–1821_). _b._ Newbury, Berkshire 25 Sep. 1774; ed. at St.
John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1798, M.A. 1801; chaplain of Bridewell
hospital 1801 to April 1831 when he resigned; R. of White
Roothing, Essex 18 March 1808 to death; a founder of Prayer book
and homily society 21 May 1812; author of _Infant baptism the
means of national regeneration_ 1827, _3 ed._ 1841; _Helps for the
young 2 vols._ 1832–9. _d._ White Roothing rectory 27 June 1853.
_A memoir of Rev. Henry Budd_ 1855; _Christian Observer lvi_
194–211 (1856).

BUDD, RICHARD. _b._ 1795; ensign 16 Madras N.I. 11 June 1812;
commandant of Southern division 10 May 1857 to 1862; colonel of 2
European regiment 27 Jany. 1858, of 32 Madras N.I. 1860 to 1869;
general 8 July 1874. _d._ Belfont, The Park, Cheltenham 22 Jany.
1885.

BUDD, WILLIAM (_brother of George Budd 1808–82_). _b._ North Tawton
Sep. 1811; ed. in London, Edinburgh, and Paris; M.D. Edin. 1838;
practised at Bristol 1842–73; physician to Bristol royal infirmary
1847–62; F.R.S. 8 June 1871; the greatest authority on zymotic
diseases; author of _Scarlet fever and its prevention_ 1869, _4
ed._ 1870; _Typhoid fever its nature, mode of spreading and
prevention_ 1873 and of many articles in medical papers. _d._
Clevedon, Somerset 9 Jany. 1880. _British Med. Jour._ (1880) _i_,
163–6.

BUDGE, REV. EDWARD (_son of John Budge_). _b._ Devonshire 1800; ed.
at Saffron Walden and Ch. coll. Cam., B.A. 1824; C. of Launcells,
Cornwall 1834–9; V. of Manaccan, Cornwall 1839–46; R. of Bratton
Clovelly, Devon 1846 to death; author of _The mirror of history_
1851; translated the _Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the
statues_ for Dr. Pusey’s Library of the Fathers; supplied many
articles to Geol. Soc. and Royal Instit. of Cornwall. _d._ Bratton
Clovelly 3 Aug. 1865. _Life prefixed to Rev. E. Budge’s Posthumous
gleanings_ 1866.

BUDGETT, SAMUEL. _b._ Wrington, Somerset 27 July 1794; provision
dealer at Kingswood near Bristol 1816 to about 1838 and at Bristol
about 1838 to death; founded greatest house in provision trade in
West of England; gave £2,000 a year in charity for some time
before his death. _d._ Kingswood 29 April 1851. _The Successful
merchant by W. Arthur_ 1885.

BUIST, GEORGE (_eld. son of Rev. John Buist, minister of Tannadice,
Forfarshire who d. 8 Dec. 1845 in 92 year_). _b._ Tannadice 17
Nov. 1805; ed. at St. Andrew’s univ. 1817–24, and at Univ. of
Edin.; edited _Dundee Courier_ 1834; established _Dundee Guardian_
1834; edited _Perth Constitutional_ 1835, and _Fifeshire Journal_
1837–9, and _Bombay Times_ at Bombay 1840–58; started _Bombay
Standard_ 1858; F.R.S. 29 Jany. 1846; founded Bombay Reformatory
School of Industry 1850; superintendent of government printing
press Allahabad 1859 to death; author of _Index to books and
papers on the physical geography antiquities and statistics of
India_ 1852. _d._ Calcutta 1 Oct. 1860. _Memoir of G. Buist,
Cupar_ 1846; _W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 190–2.

BULL, REV. JOHN (_eld. son of John Bull of Oxford, surgeon_). _b._
Oxford; ed. at Ruthin gr. sch. and Westminster; student at Ch. Ch.
Ox. 1808, Rhetoric reader, censor, and librarian of his house;
B.A. 1812, M.A. 1814, B.D. 1821, D.D. 1825; public examiner
1817–8, Proctor 1820; preb. of Fenton in York cathedral 1 June
1826 to death; V. of Staverton, Northamptonshire 1830 to death;
canon of Exeter 26 March 1823 to death; archdeacon of Cornwall 6
Feb. 1826 to 6 May 1826, of Barnstaple 6 May 1826 to 10 March
1830; canon of Ch. Ch. Ox. 15 March 1830 to death; endowed
vicarage of St. Mary Magdalen, Oxford with £2,000. _d._ at his
lodgings in Ch. Ch. Oxford 21 Feb. 1858 aged 68.

BULLAR, HENRY (_son of John Bullar, of Basset Wood near
Southampton_). _b._ 25 Feb. 1815; a special pleader 1839–53;
barrister L.I. 6 June 1853; recorder of Poole Oct. 1864 to death;
a judge of Court of record of Poole Oct. 1864 to death; published
with Joseph Bullar _A winter in the Azores 2 vols._ 1841; _Prætors
or pleaders_. _d._ Basset Wood 5 Jany. 1870.

BULLEN, SIR CHARLES (_son of John Bullen, surgeon general R.N._)
_b._ Newcastle 10 Sep. 1769; entered navy 16 Feb. 1779; captain 29
April 1802; commodore on coast of Africa 12 Dec. 1823 to 1827;
superintendent of Pembroke dockyard and captain of Royal Sovereign
yacht 22 July 1830 to 10 Jany. 1837; admiral 30 July 1852; C.B.
June 1815, K.C.B. 18 April 1839, G.C.B. 6 April 1852, K.C.H. 13
Jany. 1835; knighted at St. James’s palace 25 Feb. 1835; granted
12 July 1843 good service pension of £300. _d._ Shirley near
Southampton 2 July 1853. Portrait of him in painted hall at
Greenwich.

BULLEN, EDWARD (_son of Robert Bullen of Taunton, solicitor_). _b._
Taunton 3 April 1813; ed. at Benedictine college, Douay; law
student at Lincoln’s Inn; practised in London as a certificated
special pleader 1836 to death; author of _A practical treatise on
the law of distress for rent and of things damage feasant_ 1842;
author with S. M. Leake of _Precedents of pleadings in common law_
1860, _3 ed._ 1868. _d._ 82 Belsize park gardens, London 19 July
1868.

BULLEN, JOSEPH (_2 son of Rev. John Bullen, R. of Kennet, Cambs._)
_b._ 14 April 1761; midshipman on board “Pallas” 36 guns 1774;
commanded Lynn Regis district of Sea Fencibles 26 Sep. 1804 to
1810 when corps was disbanded; admiral on h.p. 23 Nov. 1841. _d._
Bath 17 July 1857.

BULLER, SIR ANTHONY (_youngest son of John Buller of Morval,
Cornwall 1744–90_). _b._ Antony house, Torpoint 26 July 1780; ed.
at Westminster; barrister L.I. 12 May 1803; M.P. for West Looe
1812–16 and 1831–32; appointed a puisne justice at Madras 6 Sep.
1815, but was transferred to Calcutta March 1816 and it is
believed never took his seat on the Madras bench; knighted by
Prince Regent at Carlton house 23 April 1816. _d._ Marytavy
rectory, Devon 27 June 1866.

BULLER, SIR ARTHUR WILLIAM (_2 son of Charles Buller of Bengal civil
service 1774–1848_). _b._ Calcutta 5 Sep. 1808; ed. at Edin. and
Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1834; pupil of Thomas Carlyle;
barrister L.I. 10 June 1834; Queen’s advocate in Ceylon 19 Oct.
1840 to July 1848; judge of supreme court at Calcutta July 1848 to
1858 when he retired; M.P. for Devonport 17 Aug. 1859 to June
1865, and for Liskeard 21 June 1865 to death. _d._ 6 Half Moon st.
Piccadilly, London 30 April 1869.

BULLER, FREDERICK WILLIAM. Ensign 37 foot 20 Jany. 1790; lieut. col.
88 foot 28 Aug. 1804 and 1 foot 27 Feb. 1806 to 1 Dec. 1808;
captain Coldstream guards 1 Dec. 1808 to 1814; aide de camp to
George iii, 25 July 1810 to 4 June 1813; L.G. 27 May 1825; retired
1833. _d._ Bury st. St. James’s, London 8 Nov. 1855 aged 83.

BULLER, SIR GEORGE (_3 son of Frederick Wm. Buller of Pelynt,
Cornwall who d. 8 Nov. 1855_). _b._ 30 May 1800; ensign 23 foot 2
March 1820; lieut. col. Rifle brigade 27 Aug. 1841 to 12 Dec.
1854, col. commandant 13 Oct. 1860 to death; commanded 2 brigade
of light division in Crimea 21 Feb. 1854 to 11 Dec. 1854;
commanded a brigade and then a division in first Kaffir war 1847;
commanded a division in second Kaffir war 30 Aug. 1852 to 31 Oct.
1853; commanded division in Ionian Isles 1856–62 and troops at
Portsmouth 1865–70; C.B. 26 Dec. 1848; K.C.B. 5 July 1855; G.C.B.
2 June 1869. _d._ 23 Bruton st. Berkeley sq. London 12 April 1884.

BULLER, JAMES WENTWORTH (_eld. son of James Buller of Downes near
Crediton 1766–1827, M.P. for Exeter_). _b._ Downes 1 Oct. 1798;
ed. at Harrow and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1819, B.C.L. 1824, D.C.L.
1829; fellow of All Souls coll.; M.P. for Exeter 29 July 1830 to
29 Dec. 1834, for North Devon 6 April 1857 to death; colonel 1st
Devon yeomanry cavalry 5 Aug. 1842 to death; chairman of Bristol
and Exeter railway. _d._ 109 Jermyn st. Piccadilly, London 13
March 1865.

BULLEY, REV. FREDERIC (_3 son of John Bulley of Reading_). Demy of
Magd. coll. Ox. July 1825, probationer fellow 1837, served offices
of dean of arts, bursar, vice pres., dean of divinity and college
tutor successively, B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832, B.D. 1840, D.D. 1856;
pres. of his college Jany. 1855 to death; author of _A tabular
view of the varieties in the communion and baptismal offices of
the Church of England_ 1842. _d._ Marston hill near Fairford 3
Sep. 1885 aged 75.

BULLIONS, REV. PETER. _b._ Moss Side near Perth Dec. 1791; ed. at
Univ. of Edin. 1810–13; licensed by presbytery of Edin. June 1817;
pastor of presbyterian church at Argyle in Washington county, New
York March 1818; professor of languages in Albany academy Nov.
1824 to 1848; pastor of United presbyterian church at Troy, New
York 1834–52 and Dec. 1853 to death; author of _Practical lessons
in English grammar_ 1844, _new ed._ 1853; _An analytical and
practical grammar of the English language_, _21 ed._ 1853, and
many other books. _d._ Troy 13 Feb. 1864.

BULLOCH, JOHN. _b._ 1805; a working brass-finisher at Aberdeen;
contributed several articles on decimal coinage to the _Athenæum_;
suggested a number of textual emendations which were introduced
into notes of _W. G. Clark’s Cambridge Shakespeare_ 1863; author
of _Studies of the text of Shakespeare_ 1878. _d._ Aberdeen at end
of Dec. 1882.

BULLOCK, EDWARD (_eld. son of Edward Bullock of Jamaica_). Educ. at
Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; barrister I.T. 26 Nov.
1824; judge of Sheriff’s Court of London and comr. at Old Bailey
1840–50; common serjeant of City of London 1850 to Dec. 1855. _d._
Upfield near Stroud, Gloucs. 27 Dec. 1857 aged 57.

BULLOCK, FREDERICK (_son of James Bullock, commander R.N._) Entered
navy 28 Nov. 1804; captain 28 June 1838; granted pension for
wounds 11 Nov. 1864; admiral on half pay 10 Sep. 1869; F.R.G.S.
1830. _d._ 6 Feb. 1874 in 87 year.

BULLOCK, RALPH. _b._ Morpeth 1841; apprenticed to Thomas Dawson of
Tupgill 1851; rode his first race at Harrowgate 1853; won the
Derby on Colonel Townley’s Kettledrum 1861; won Ascot vase and
Goodwood and Doncaster cups on Tim Whiffler 1862; one of the very
best jockeys in England; won 212 races 1854–62. _d._ Tupgill 23
Jany. 1863. _Sporting Review xlix_, 86, 203–5 (1863), _portrait_.

BULLOCK, REV. WILLIAM THOMAS (_2 son of John Bullock of London_).
_b._ London 1818; ed. at Magd. Hall Ox., B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850; C.
of St. Anne, Westminster 1847–50; assist. sec. S.P.G. June 1850,
sec. 1865 to death; chaplain at Kensington Palace 13 Sep. 1867 to.
death; preb. of Oxgate in St. Paul’s cathedral 1875 to death;
author of _Sermons on missions and other subjects_ 1879, of
_Ecclesiastes_ in the _Speaker’s Commentary_ 1880 and of about 70
articles in Smith’s _Dictionary of the Bible_. _d._ Mentone 27
Feb. 1879.

BULMER, HENRY TAYLOR. Artist at Preston where he painted the
altar-piece at St. Augustine’s church 1840; decorated St.
Cuthbert’s, North Shields, and several other churches; painted
many portraits. _d._ Brook hill, Sheffield 6 Dec. 1857 aged 46.

BULTEEL, HENRY BELLENDEN (_son of Thomas Bulteel of Plymstock,
Devon_). _b._ Bellevue near Plymouth 1800; Educ. at Brasn. coll.
Ox., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1824; fellow of Ex. coll. 30 June 1823 to 6
Oct. 1829; C. of St. Ebbe’s Oxford 1826 to 10 Aug. 1831 when his
license was revoked by Bishop of Oxford for fraternising with
dissenters and preaching in their chapels; built a large chapel
behind Pembroke college, Oxford, his congregation were called
Bulteelers; preached a sermon on 1 Corinthians ii, 12 before Univ.
of Ox. at St. Mary’s 6 Feb. 1831 which created great excitement in
Oxford and when printed went to 6 editions; author of _The
doctrine of the miraculous interference of Jesus on behalf of
believers_ 1832 in which he narrated how by means of prayer and
intercession he had cured and restored to health 3 women; _The
Oxford Argo by an Oxford divine_ 1845, an anonymous denunciation
of the Puseyite party. _d._ The Crescent, Plymouth 28 Dec. 1866
aged 66. _Cox’s Oxford_ (1868) 244, 248; _Mozley’s Reminiscences_
(1882) _i_, 228, 350.

BUNBURY, SIR CHARLES JAMES FOX, 8 Baronet. _b._ Messina in Sicily 4
Feb. 1809; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; contested Bury St. Edmunds
1835 and 1837; F.R.S. 5 June 1851; succeeded 13 April 1860;
sheriff of Suffolk 1868. _d._ 18 June 1886.

BUNBURY, SIR HENRY EDWARD, 7 Baronet (_younger son of Henry Wm.
Bunbury the caricaturist 1750–1811_). _b._ London 4 May 1778; ed.
at Westminster; ensign Coldstream guards 14 Jany. 1795;
quartermaster general in Mediterranean 1805–9; lieut. col. Royal
Newfoundland fencible infantry 1805–14; under secretary of state
for war 1809–16; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815; L.G. 22 July 1830; succeeded
his uncle as 7 Baronet 31 March 1821; M.P. for Suffolk 11 Aug.
1830 to 3 Dec. 1832, the county had been uncontested for 40 years
before 1830; author of _Narrative of the campaign in North
Holland_ 1849; _Narrative of certain passages in the late war with
France_ 1852. _d._ Barton hall, Bury St. Edmunds 13 April 1860.
_Memoir and literary remains_, _edited by his son Sir C. J. F.
Bunbury P.P._ (1868).

BUNBURY, HENRY WILLIAM ST. Pierre (_3 son of the preceding_). _b._
Brompton, London 2 Sep. 1812; ensign 43 foot 29 June 1830; lieut.
col. 23 foot 9 March 1855 to 10 Jany. 1857 when placed on h.p.;
C.B. 5 July 1855. _d._ Marchfield house, Bracknell 18 Sep. 1875.

BUNBURY, THOMAS. Ensign 46 foot 25 March 1804; lieut. col. Rifle
corps 5 Feb. 1824 to 24 April 1835; lieut. col. 67 foot 24 April
1835 to 9 Nov. 1846; L.G. 20 June 1854; colonel commandant Rifle
corps 9 Feb. 1855 to death; K.H. 1835. _d._ London 13 April 1857.

BUNBURY, THOMAS. Ensign 3 foot 13 Aug. 1807; major 80 foot 21 Nov.
1834 to 26 July 1844; C.B. 3 April 1846; K.T.S. _d._ 11 St.
James’s terrace, Regent’s park, London 25 Dec. 1861.

BUNN, ALFRED. _b._ 8 April 1796; a junior clerk in army medical
department; stage manager of Drury Lane theatre 1823; manager of
T.R. Birmingham 1819 to May 1825; one of 7 managers of Drury Lane
one season; managed Drury Lane and Covent Garden theatres 1833;
introduced orchestra stalls first used at Drury Lane 5 Feb. 1833;
lessee of Drury Lane 1835–48; purchased for £2,000 dignity of a
gentleman at arms formerly called gentleman pensioner 14 March
1836; bankrupt 17 Dec. 1840; adapted a great number of pieces for
the stage; made his début in America at Niblo’s Saloon, New York
in a literary and dramatic entertainment 11 Oct. 1852; said to be
the original of Mr. Dolphin the manager in Thackeray’s
_Pendennis_; (_m._ 1819 the succeeding). author of _The stage both
before and behind the curtain, 3 vols._ 1840; _A word with Punch_
1847; _Old England and New England_, _2 vols._ 1853; edited _The
Vauxhall papers_ 1841. _d._ of apoplexy at Boulogne 20 Dec. 1860.
_J. R. Planche’s Reminiscenses, vol. i_, (1872); _Dents Old and
New Birmingham_ (1880) 385–7, 432, _portrait_; _I.L.N. iv_, 220
(1844), _portrait, xvi_, 141 (1850), _portrait_.

BUNN, MARGARET AGNES (_eld. dau. of John Somerville of Marylebone,
London, biscuit baker_). _b._ Lanark 26 Oct. 1799; made her first
appearance on the stage at Drury Lane theatre 9 May 1816 as
Imogine in Maturin’s tragedy of _Bertram_; created character of
Bianca in Dean Milman’s _Fazio_ at Bath 6 Jany. 1818; played at
Drury Lane 1816–18 and 1823–24, Covent Garden 1818–19. (_m._ 1819
the preceding). _d._ Blue Earth city, Minnesota Jany. 1883.
_Oxberry’s Dramatic biog. v._ 163–74 (1826), _portrait_; _T.
Marshall’s Lives of actors_ (1848) 73–8.

BUNNETT, FANNY ELIZABETH. Author of _The golden balance or the false
and the real_ 1859; _Nature’s school or lessons in the garden and
the field_ 1859; _Louise Juliane, Electress palatine and her
times_ 1862; _Linked at last_ 1871; translated _Shakespeare
commentaries by G. G. Gervinus_ 1863, _3 ed._ 1877; _W. Luebke’s
History of art_ 1868, and many other books. _d._ Budleigh
Salterton near Exmouth 19 Feb. 1875 in 43 year.

BUNNEY, JOHN COOPER. Established with Theodore Hook, _John Bull_
weekly paper 1820, published it 1820–50. _d._ Clerkenwell 22 June
1867.

BUNNEY, JOHN WHARLTON. _b._ Charlotte st. Fitzroy sq. London 20 June
1828; apprenticed to a stationer in city of London; employed by
Messrs. Smith and Elder, publishers to 1859; gave lessons in
drawing; made drawings for John Ruskin in Switzerland and Italy;
painted at Florence 1863–70 and at Venice 1870 to death; painted a
picture of St. Mark’s Venice for J. Ruskin 1876–80; exhibited 8
pictures at the R.A., 2 at the B.I. and 10 at Suffolk St. Gallery
1853–81. _d._ Venice 23 Sep. 1882. _Catalogue of the exhibition of
pictures and drawings of Venice, also a memoir of the late J.
Bunney by A. Wedderburn_ 1882.

BUNNING, JAMES BUNSTONE. _b._ London 6 Oct. 1802; architect in
London; surveyor of Foundling hospital estates 1825; erected City
of London school opened 2 Feb. 1837; surveyor to London cemetery
company 1839; laid out Nunhead cemetery; clerk of the City of
London’s works 23 Sep. 1843 to death; built Coal Exchange 1849,
City prison Holloway 1852, Billingsgate market 1853, Metropolitan
cattle market Copenhagen fields opened 15 June 1855; F.S.A. 1848,
F.R.I. B.A. _d._ 6 Gloucester terrace, Regent’s park, London 7
Nov. 1863.

BUNNY, ARTHUR. _b._ 5 May 1825; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery 8 Dec.
1843; brigade major siege artillery Lucknow Feb. 1858 to April
1858; col. R.A. 1 Oct. 1877 to 1879; L.G. 1 Oct. 1882; C.B. 24 May
1873, placed on retired list 26 July 1883. _d._ 40 Addison gardens
north, Kensington 9 Nov. 1883.

BUNSEN, FRANCES, Baroness de (_eld. dau. of Benjamin Waddington of
Llanover, Monmouthshire who d. 19 Jany. 1828 in 80 year_). _b._
Dunston park, Berkshire 4 March 1791. (_m._ 1 July 1817 Christian
Charles Josiah Baron de Bunsen, German ambassador in London
1841–54); published _A memoir of Baron Bunsen drawn chiefly from
family papers by his widow 2 vols._ 1868, she _d._ Carlsruhe,
Baden 23 April 1876. _A. J. C. Hare’s Life of Baroness Bunsen 2
vols._ 1882; _F. M. Muller’s Biographical essays_ (1884) 311–62;
_Contemporary Review xxviii_, 948–69 (1876).

BUNTING, REV. JABEZ (_only son of Wm. Bunting of Manchester,
tailor_). _b._ Newton lane, Manchester 13 May 1779; Wesleyan
minister at Oldham st. chapel Manchester 1803, stationed at London
1803, 1815 and 1833 to death, at Manchester 1805 and 1824, and
Liverpool 1809 and 1830; sec. to the Conference 1814, president
1820, 1828, 1836 and 1844; senior sec. of Missionary Society 1833;
pres. of Theological Institute 1835; M.A. Aberdeen 1818; D.D.
Middleton Univ. U.S.A. 1835; superintended the Connexional
literature 1821–4; his conduct in some of the Society’s affairs
gave rise to the expression “Bunting Methodism.” _d._ 30 Myddleton
sq. London 16 June 1858. _Life by T. P. Bunting_ (1859), 2
_portraits_; _Rev. W. H. De Puy’s Threescore years and beyond, New
York_ 1873; _I.L.N. ii_, 208 (1843), _portrait, xxxii_, 642
(1858); _Illust. news of the world ii_, 37 (1858), _portrait_.

BUNTING, REV. WILLIAM MACLARDIE (_eld. child of the preceding_).
_b._ Manchester 23 Nov. 1805; Wesleyan minister at Salford 1824–7,
Manchester 1827–9 and 1838–41, Huddersfield 1829–32, Halifax
1832–5, London 1835–38 and 1841 to death; edited _Select letters
of Mrs. Agnes Bulmer_ 1842; contributed to _Wesleyan Methodist
Mag._ _d._ at his residence Highgate Rise 13 Nov. 1866. _Memorials
of the late Rev. W. M. Bunting, edited by Rev. G. S. Rowe_ 1870,
_portrait_.

BURANELLI OR BURINELLI, LUIGI. _b._ Ancona, Italy; officer of
dragoons in the Pope’s army; valet to Stewart Drummond a monk
known as the Abbé Stewart who was assassinated whilst bathing;
servant to John Craufurd of 12 Grafton st. Bond st. London; a
tailor at Penshurst near Tunbridge Wells; shot Joseph Latham dead
at 5 Foley place, Regent st. London 7 Jany. 1855 after which he
shot himself; tried for murder at Central criminal court 12 April
1855; hanged at Newgate 30 April 1855 aged 32. _The law on its
trial by A. H. Dymond_ (1865) 178–94; _Central criminal court
trials xli_, 633–61 (1855).

BURCHAM, THOMAS BORROW. Educ. at Trin. coll. Cam., fellow 1832 to
death, B.A. 1830; barrister I.T. 27 Jany. 1843; recorder of
Bedford 1848–1856; magistrate of Southwark police court 1856 to
death. _d._ Chingford, Essex 27 Nov. 1869 aged 62.

BURCHELL, WILLIAM JOHN (_son of Matthew Burchell of Fulham,
nurseryman_). _b._ Fulham 1783; schoolmaster at St. Helena
1805–10; explored South Africa 1811–15; explored Brazil 1825–30;
executed at Rio Janeiro a series of views from which R. Burford’s
panorama of that city was painted; F.L.S. 15 Feb. 1808; hon.
D.C.L. Ox. 1834; lived at Fulham 1830 to death; his name is
perpetuated in scientific names of many animal and plant species
discovered by him; author of _Travels in Southern Africa 2 vols._
1822. _d._ Churchfield house, Fulham 23 March 1863. _Journal of
Royal Geog. Soc. xxxiii_, 124 (1864).

BURCHETT, RICHARD. _b._ Brighton 30 Jany. 1815; entered school of
design at Somerset House about 1841, assistant master 1845, head
master 1851 to death; exhibited 5 historical pictures at Royal
Academy 1847–73; assisted in decoration of dome of Great
Exhibition 1862; author of _Practical geometry_ 1855; _Linear
perspective_ 1856. _d._ Dublin 27 May 1875. _Graphic xi_, 606, 621
(1875), _portrait_.

BURDEN, HENRY. _b._ Dunblane, Scotland 1791; went to America 1819;
maker of agricultural implements; invented the first cultivator
1820; invented a machine for making hook-headed spikes 1840, which
are used on every railroad in United States; devised a machine for
making horseshoes June 1857 which is self-acting, and produces 60
shoes per minute from iron bars. _d._ Woodside Troy, New York 19
Jany. 1871.

BURDER, REV. GEORGE BERNARD (_son of Rev. George Burder 1752–1832,
editor of Evangelical magazine_). ed. at Magd. coll. Ox.; C. of
Ruardean, Gloucs.; received into Church of Rome at Oscott college
24 Jany. 1846; ordained priest; joined the Cistercians at Mount
St. Bernard’s abbey, Leics. where he filled offices of sub-prior,
prior, and abbot; author of the following translations from the
French _The souls in purgatory by Bouguets_ 1873; _The consoler by
Lambilotte_ 1873; _St. Bernard and his work by Caussette_ 1874;
_Confidence in the mercy of God by Languet de Villeneuve de Gergy_
1876; _The Christian life and virtues considered in the religious
state by C. Gay_ 1878. _d._ 26 Sep. 1881.

BURDER, REV. HENRY FORSTER (_brother of the preceding_). _b._
Coventry 27 Nov. 1783; ed. at Hoxton academy and Glasgow Univ.;
assistant minister at Independent chapel St. Thomas sq. Hackney 31
Oct. 1811, minister 2 March 1814 to 1852; professor of philosophy
and mathematics at Hoxton college 1810–30; chairman of
Congregational union of England and Wales 1844; author of _Mental
discipline or hints on the cultivation of intellectual and moral
habits_ 1822; _A collection of psalms and hymns_ 1826, _3 ed._
1845 and other books. _d._ Hatcham park, Surrey 29 Dec. 1864.
_Evangelical Mag. March 1865 pp._ 129–34.

BURDER, WILLIAM CORBETT (_son of Rev. John Burder_). _b._ Stroud,
Gloucs. 30 Oct. 1822; connected as a meteorologist with Glaisher’s
corps of observers; discovered 2 new comets 28 March 1854 and 30
June 1861; author of _A motto or apophthegm for every day in the
year selected by W.C.B._ 1859; _The meteorology of Clifton_ 1863;
published with J. Hine and W. Godwin _The architectural
antiquities of Bristol and its neighbourhood_ 1851. _d._ Clifton
16 Oct. 1865.

BURDETT, SIR ROBERT, 2 Baronet. _b._ Piccadilly 26 April 1796; major
10th hussars 11 Oct. 1827 to 8 March 1831, when placed on h.p.;
retired from army 1846; succeeded 23 Jany. 1844; sheriff of
Derbyshire 1848. _d._ G. 2 Albany, Piccadilly, London 7 June 1880.
Personalty sworn under £300,000 4 Sep. 1880.

BURFORD, ROBERT. _b._ 1791; exhibited 4 landscapes at Royal Academy
1812–16; exhibited panoramas with H. A. Barker on site of present
Strand theatre to 1827 when he moved to Leicester square, where he
exhibited a succession of panoramas of chief places of interest in
Europe. _d._ 35 Camden road villas, London 30 Jany. 1861. _T.
Taylor’s Leicester Square_ (1874) 467–71.

BURGES, REV. GEORGE. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1787; V.
of Halvergate, Norfolk 1812 to death; V. of Moulton, Norfolk 1813
to death; author of _An address to the people of Great Britain_
1798; _Remarks on the leading arguments in favour of Catholic
emancipation 1812_, _2 ed._ 1813; _Reflections on the nature and
tendency of the present spirit of the times in a letter to the
freeholders of Norfolk_ 1819, _2 ed._ 1820. _d._ Whittlesea 24
Jany. 1853 aged 89.

NOTE.—In Watt’s Bibliotheca Britannica the classical
publications of George Burges, M.A., of Trin. coll. Cam., who
_d._ 11 Jany. 1864, are erroneously added to those of the Rev.
George Burges.

BURGES, GEORGE. _b._ Bengal about 1786; ed. at Charter house and
Trin. coll. Cam., scholar 1803, B.A. 1807; M.A. 1810; started two
coaches which plied up and down the New Road London; constructed a
machine for aerial conveyance of passengers from Dover to Calais;
maker of a new kind of stays called ‘corsets à la Vénus’; gave a
series of public lectures upon ancient and modern literature; kept
a lodging house at Ramsgate 1856 to death; granted civil list
pension of £100 per annum 7 June 1841; author of a play in 5 acts
called _The son of Erin or the cause of the Greeks by an Asiatic
liberal_ 1823; published the _Troades of Euripides_ 1807 and the
_Phœnissæ_ 1809; the _Supplices and Prometheus of Æschylus_ 1831
and other classical works. _d._ Ramsgate 11 Jany. 1864 aged 78.

BURGES, WILLIAM (_son of Wm. Burges of London, civil engineer_).
_b._ 2 Dec. 1827; ed. at King’s coll. London 1839–44; pupil of
Edward Blore, architect 1844–9; gained first award in
international competition for Lille cathedral 1856; Cantor
lecturer at Society of Arts 1862; designed cathedral at Brisbane,
Queensland 1859, cathedral at Cork 1862; rebuilt Cardiff Castle
1865; prepared designs for new law courts in Strand, London;
F.R.I.B.A. 1860, A.R.A. 28 Jany. 1881; author of _Art applied to
industry, a series of lectures_ 1865; _Architectural drawings with
descriptive letterpress_ 1870. _d._ 9 Melbury road, Kensington,
London 20 April 1881. _Trans. of Royal Instit. of British
Architects_ (1882) 17–30, 183–95; _I.L.N. lxxviii_, 429 (1881),
_portrait_; _Graphic xxiii_, 456 (1881), _portrait_.

BURGESS, REV. HENRY. _b._ 1808; ed. at Stepney college; LLD. Glasgow
1851; Ph.D. Gottingen 1852; P.C. of Clifton Reynes, Bucks.
1854–61; V. of St. Andrew, Whittlesea, Cambs. 1861 to death;
edited _Journal of sacred literature_ 1848; _Clerical journal_
1854–68; author of _Poems_ 1850; _Select metrical hymns and
homilies of Ephraem translated_ 1853; _The festal epistles of St.
Athanasius translated from the Syriac_ 1852. _d._ 10 Feb. 1886.

BURGESS, JOHN CART. _b._ 1798; painter of flowers and fruit in water
colours; exhibited 31 pictures at the R.A., 7 at the B.I., and 15
at Suffolk st. gallery 1812–37; taught painting in London; author
of _A practical essay on the art of flower painting_ 1811; _An
easy introduction to perspective_, _6 ed._ 1835. _d._ Leamington
20 Feb. 1863.

BURGESS, JOSEPH TOM. _b._ Cheshunt, Herts. 1828; reporter on
_Leicester Journal_ 1844; edited _Clare Journal_ at Ennis; edited
_Bury Guardian_ 7 years; _Leamington Spa Courier_ 1865–78;
_Barrow’s Worcester Journal_ 5 years; F.S.A. 1 June 1876; author
of _Life scenes and social sketches_ 1862; _Old English wild
flowers_ 1868; _Harry Hope’s holidays_ 1871; _Historic
Warwickshire_ 1876; _A handbook to the cathedral of Worcester_
1884. _d._ Leamington 4 Oct. 1886.

BURGESS, REV. RICHARD. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam, B.D. 1835; R.
of Upper Chelsea 1836–69; preb. of St. Paul’s cath. 1851 to death;
R. of Horningsheath, Suffolk 27 Dec. 1869 to death; lectured at
early meetings of British Architects in Covent Garden and
Grosvenor st. London; author of _A treatise on the ludi circenses_
1828; _Topography and antiquities of Rome 2 vols._ 1831; _Greece
and the Levant 2 vols._ 1835. _d._ Brighton 12 April 1881 in 85
year. _I.L.N. xxvi_, 268 (1855), _portrait_.

BURGESS, RIGHT REV. THOMAS. _b._ near Preston 1 Oct. 1791; ed. at
Benedictine college, Ampleforth where he was professed 13 Oct.
1807; prior of Ampleforth July 1818 to 1830 when he left
Benedictine order and became secularized in order to raise up a
new collegiate establishment at Prior park, Bath; opened Portland
chapel, Queen st. Bath 26 May 1832; kept a school at Monmouth;
bishop of Clifton 27 June 1851 to death; consecrated in St.
George’s cathedral, Southwark 27 July 1851. _d._ the Convent,
Westbury on Trym 27 Nov. 1854. _Catholic Directory_ (1860) 258–61,
_portrait_.

BURGESS, THOMAS HENRY. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin; M.R.C.S. England
1835; M.D. Edin. 1837; practised in London 1838 to death; phys. to
Blenheim st. dispensary 1841; fellow of Med. and Chir. Soc. 1839;
author of _The physiology and mechanism of blushing_ 1839;
_Eruptions of the face and hands_ 1849; _The climate of Italy in
relation to pulmonary consumption_ 1852; translated Cazenave and
Schedel’s _Practical treatise on diseases of the skin_ 1832. _d._
Southsea 17 Dec. 1865. _Medical Circular i_, 491 (1852).

BURGOYNE, HUGH TALBOT (_only son of the succeeding_). _b._ Dublin 19
July 1833; entered navy 18 Jany. 1853; captain of ‘Constance’ 35
guns 1867–9; captain of armour plated turret ship ‘Captain’ 6 guns
30 April 1870 to death; V.C. 24 Feb. 1857; lost in the ‘Captain’
which foundered off Cape Finisterre about 2 a._m._ 7 Sep. 1870.
_I.L.N. lvii_, 302, 307, 312 (1870), _portrait_.

BURGOYNE, SIR JOHN FOX, 1 Baronet (_elder natural son of John
Burgoyne 1723–92, commander in chief in Ireland_). _b._ Queen st.
Soho, London 24 July 1782; ed. at Eton and Woolwich 1796–8; 2
lieut. R.E. 29 Aug. 1798; commanding engineer of expedition to New
Orleans 1814; chairman of board of Public works in Ireland
1831–45; a founder of Instit. of Civil Engineers of Ireland and
first pres. 5 Aug. 1835; inspector general of fortifications in
England July 1845 to 1 Jany. 1868 when he retired on full pay;
pres. of Irish famine relief commission 10 Feb. 1847; sent to
Constantinople to report on defence of Turkey Jany. 1854;
conducted siege of Sebastopol Oct. 1854 to Feb. 1855; col.
commandant R.E. 22 Nov. 1854 to death; general 5 Sep. 1855;
created baronet 18 March 1856; F.R.S. 6 June 1856; constable of
Tower of London 8 April 1865 to death; field marshal 1 Jany. 1868;
granted a pension of £1,500 a year; K.C.B. 19 July 1838; G.C.B. 6
April 1852; admitted to freedom of City of London 22 Oct. 1868;
author of _Our defensive forces_ 1869, _3 ed._ 1870. _d._ 5
Pembridge sq. Bayswater, London 7 Oct. 1871. _bur._ in Tower of
London 17 Oct. _Life and correspondence of Sir J. F. Burgoyne 2
vols._ 1873, _portrait_; _A sketch of the life of Sir J. Burgoyne
by Sir F. Head_ 1872; _Papers on subjects connected with duties of
the Corps of Royal Engineers n.s. xx, ix-xlii_, (1872); _Graphic
iv_, 387, 392 (1871), _portrait_.

BURGOYNE, SIR JOHN MONTAGU, 9 Baronet. _b._ Sutton park,
Bedfordshire 17 Oct. 1796; ensign 68 foot 17 Oct. 1816; captain
grenadier guards 5 June 1835 to 1847; succeeded 11 Aug. 1817;
sheriff of Beds. 1852. _d._ 17 March 1858.

BURKE, JAMES SAINT GEORGE (_2 son of John, French Burke_). _b._
1804; barrister M.T. 20 Nov. 1846; counsel to London, Chatham and
Dover railway; Q.C. 2 Dec. 1862; bencher of his inn 27 April 1863;
retired from practice about 1869. _d._ The Auberies near Sudbury
25 Feb. 1881. Personalty sworn under £250,000, 30 April 1881.

BURKE, SIR JOHN CHARLES, 4 Baronet. _b._ 7 Feb. 1858; succeeded 9
Dec. 1875. _d._ 16 April 1880.

BURKE, SIR JOHN LIONEL, 12 Baronet. _b._ Glinsk Castle, co.
Roscommon 26 Nov. 1818; succeeded 30 Oct. 1865. _d._ 21 July 1884.

BURKE, SIR JOSEPH, 11 Baronet. _b._ Ardfry, co. Galway 31 Jany.
1786; succeeded 1845. _d._ 30 Oct. 1865.

BURKE, PETER (_elder son of John Burke of London, genealogist
1787–1848_). _b._ London 7 May 1811; ed. at Caen college,
Normandy; barrister I.T. 7 June 1838; Q.C. of county palatine of
Lancaster 1858; serjeant at law 11 Jany. 1860; director of Society
of Antiquaries of Normandy 1866–7; author of _Celebrated trials
connected with the aristocracy_ 1849; _The romance of the forum 4
vols._ 1852–61; _The public and domestic life of Edmund Burke_
1853; _Celebrated naval and military trials_ 1866. _d._ Coleherne
road, South Kensington, London 26 March 1881.

BURKE, ROBERT O’HARA. _b._ St. Cleram near Galway 1820; entered
Austrian army 1840; served in Irish constabulary 1848; emigrated
to Australia 1853; inspector of Melbourne police; commanded
expedition fitted out to explore centre of Australia which started
from Melbourne 20 Aug. 1860; reached Cooper’s Creek 11 Nov. 1860;
crossed the continent and reached Gulf of Carpentaria 10 Feb.
1861; returned to Cooper’s Creek 21 April 1861 where he _d._ of
starvation 28 June 1861. _bur._ with a public funeral at Melbourne
21 Jany. 1863. Bronze statue erected in Collins st. Melbourne 1864
at cost of £4,000. _The Burke and Wills exploring expedition_
1861; _W. Howitt’s History of discovery in Australia ii_, 190–310
(1865); _Illust. news of the world ix_, 65 (1862), _portrait_.

BURKE, THOMAS. Ensign 83 foot 23 July 1794; major 4 foot 22 July
1813 to 25 Feb. 1816 when placed on h.p.; colonel 10 foot 11 April
1860 to death; L.G. 18 Jany. 1861. _d._ Prospect villa,
Ringaskiddy, Cork 4 Feb. 1863.

BURKE, THOMAS HENRY (_2 son of Wm. Burke of Knocknagur, co.
Galway_). _b._ 25 May 1829; private secretary to Sir Thomas
Redington under secretary for Ireland April 1851; under secretary
for Ireland May 1869 to death; stabbed to death in Phœnix park,
Dublin 6 May 1882 by members of a secret society called the
Invincibles; memorial window in Dominican church, Dublin erected
by Earl Spencer, Viceroy of Ireland. _I.L.N. lxxx_, 453 (1882),
_portrait_; _Graphic xxv_, 464 (1882), _portrait_.

BURKE, SIR THOMAS JOHN, 3 Baronet. _b._ 7 June 1813; succeeded 14
Sep. 1847; M.P. for co. Galway 17 May 1847 to 6 July 1865. _d._
Marble hill, Loughrea, co. Galway 9 Dec. 1875. _Burke’s Portrait
gallery i_, 92 (1833).

BURKE, VERY REV. THOMAS NICHOLAS (_son of Walter Burke of Galway who
d. 29 Nov. 1872_). _b._ Galway 8 Sep. 1830; entered order of St.
Dominic at Perugia 29 Dec. 1847; ordained priest 26 March 1853;
superintendent of novices at Tallaght near Dublin 1857–64; rector
of Irish Dominican college of San Clemente, Rome Sep. 1864; went
to America as visitor of his order Oct. 1871 where he acquired
extraordinary popularity as a preacher and lecturer; author of
_English misrule in Ireland_ 1873; _Ireland’s case stated in reply
to Mr. Froude_ 1873; _Lectures and sermons_ 1873; _Lectures on
faith and fatherland_ 1874. _d._ Tallaght 2 July 1883. _The life
of the Very Rev. T. N. Burke by W. J. Fitzpatrick 2 vols._ 1885,
_portrait_.

BURKE, THOMAS WILLIAM ASTON HAVILAND. _b._ near London Aug. 1795;
ed. at Westminster; barrister L.I. 18 Nov. 1819; chairman of
Middlesex hospital 1848 to death; made a collection of prints
supposed to be finest of its kind, it was very strong in works of
Woollett, Strange and Sharpe, and in plates by and after Turner.
_d._ 27 Gloucester place, Marylebone, London 3 April 1852. _G.M.
xxxvii_, 624–6 (1852).

BURLTON, WILLIAM. _b._ 1793; entered Bengal army 1807; commissary
general 12 April 1837 to 10 Feb. 1848; lieut. col. of 7 light
cavalry 1843, of 10 light cavalry 1848, of 8 light cavalry 1849,
of 2 light cavalry 1850 to 10 Aug. 1850; C.B. 3 April 1846; author
of _A few brief comments on Sir C. Napier’s letter to Sir J.
Hobhouse, “On the baggage of the Indian army”_ 1849. _d._
Oaklands, Shepherd’s Bush, London 10 Nov. 1870.

BURMESTER, ARNOLD EDWARD. Ensign 59 foot 31 Aug. 1830, lieut. col.
12 Oct. 1860 to 23 Sep. 1862 when he retired on full pay with rank
of M.G.; C.B. 1 March 1861. _d._ 11 St. Stephen’s sq. Bayswater,
London 3 Oct. 1877.

BURN, GEORGE. Surgeon R.N. 21 April 1829; inspector general of
hospitals and fleets 17 Sep. 1858 to 1 April 1870 when he retired;
C.B. 2 June 1869. _d._ The Cedars, Shirley, Southampton 20 Feb.
1881 aged 70.

BURN, JACOB HENRY. Assistant to Wm. Hone the bookseller in London
about 1820, helped to compile _The every day book 3 vols._ 1826–7;
bookseller in Maiden lane, afterwards in King st. Covent Garden;
edited _Willis’s Current notes 7 vols._ 1851–7; author of _A
descriptive catalogue of the London traders tavern and
coffee-house tokens current in the seventeenth century presented
to the Corporation library by H. B. H. Beaufoy_ 1853, _2 ed._
1855, these tokens were collected by him for Beaufoy; _Catalogue
of a collection of early newspapers and essayists presented to the
Bodleian library by Rev. F. W. Hope_ 1865, formed chiefly by Burn
1830–4. _d._ St. Mary’s hospital, Paddington, London 19 Feb. 1869
aged 76. _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_, 317–8 (1869).