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ALDRIDGE, IRA FREDERICK, known as the African Roscius (_son of Rev.
Daniel Aldridge, minister of Calvinistic chapel, Green st. New
York who d. Sep. 1840_). _b._ Bell Air, Harford, Maryland 1804;
ed. at Schenectady college near New York and the Univ. of Glasgow;
made his first appearance on the stage at the Royalty theatre
London as Othello 1826; played 7 weeks at the Coburg theatre
London in 1826, then in the provinces Scotland and Ireland; acted
Othello at Covent garden 10 April 1833; acted Aaron in Titus
Andronicus at Britannia theatre 15 March 1852, first time acted
since 1721; played with great success in Germany 1852–55; received
large gold medal of Art and Science from the King of Prussia 25
Jany. 1853, the only other persons who had been so distinguished
being Humboldt, Spontini and Liszt; played in Sweden 1857, made
several tours in Russia; naturalised in England 7 Nov. 1863. _d._
Lodez, Poland 7 Aug. 1867. _Theatrical times iii_, 121–23 (1848),
_portrait_; _Tallis’s Drawing room table book_ (1851) 15–16, 2
_portraits_; _N. and Q. 4 series x_, 132, 373 (1872).

ALEX, EPHRAIM. _b._ Cheltenham Dec. 1800; a dentist at 35 Brook st.
Grosvenor sq. London; founded Jewish board of guardians for the
relief of Jewish poor 1859; the first pres. of it 1859–69, this
board was really the pioneer of charitable organisation societies
in England; warden of the great synagogue. _d._ 5 Chichester st.
Harrow road, London 13 Nov. 1882. _bur._ Willesden cemetery 16
Nov.

ALEXANDER, ALEXANDER (_only son of Wm. Humphrys of Birmingham,
merchant, who d. 1 May 1807, by Hannah youngest child of Rev. John
Alexander of Dublin, presbyterian clergyman, she d. 12 Sep.
1814_). _b._ 21 June 1783; went abroad with his father 1802;
detained prisoner in France till 1814; kept a school called
Netherton house academy near Worcester 1815; assumed name of
Alexander by royal license 8 March 1824; took title of Earl of
Stirling and Dovan 7 Feb. 1826; tried at Edinburgh 29 April to 4
May 1839 for forging documents to prove his title, when acquitted.
(_m._ 4 Jany. 1812 Fortunata Maria Gertrude only dau. of Giovanni
Bartoletti of Naples). _d._ 1859. _W. C. Townsend’s Modern state
trials i_, 403–68 (1859).

ALEXANDER, ANDREW. Professor of Greek in the University of St.
Andrews 1820 to death; M.A. St. Andrews 1846. _d._ St. Andrews 5
June 1859.

ALEXANDER, CHARLES CARSON. 2nd lieut. R.E. 20 July 1813;
superintended exhuming body of Napoleon at St. Helena 15 Oct.
1840; lieut. col. R.E. 2 Feb. 1848 to death; commanded the R.E. in
the Crimea 22 Sep. 1854 to death. _d._ of apoplexy in his tent
before Sebastopol 19 Oct. 1854.

ALEXANDER, CHARLES REVANS, Educ. at Eton; M.R.C.S. 1840; constructed
many chess problems. _d._ 6 Cork st. London 9 Sep. 1871.

ALEXANDER, HENRY. M.R.C.S. 1805, F.R.C.S. 1844; F.R. Med. and Chir.
soc. 1813; surgeon to the Eye infirmary Cork st. London; surgeon
oculist to Queen Victoria 1838 to death; F.R.S. 22 April 1847.
_d._ 6 Cork st. London 17 Jany. 1859 aged 76.

ALEXANDER, HENRY. _b._ 9 April 1787; a director of the H.E.I.Co. 8
March 1826; M.P. for Barnstaple (tory) 10 June 1826 to 24 July
1830. _d._ Belmont, Herts 14 Jany. 1861.

ALEXANDER, REV. JOHN (_son of Rev. Wm. Alexander_). _b._ Lancaster
19 Dec. 1792; entered Hoxton academy 13 Aug. 1814; a chapel was
built for him at Norwich which was opened 1 Dec. 1819; ordained 31
May 1820; pastor of this chapel to April 1866; chairman of
Congregational Union of England and Wales 1853; author of sermons
entitled _The preacher from the press, 2 vols._ 1838. _d._ Norwich
31 July 1868. _bur._ the Rosary cemetery, Norwich 4 Aug. _The
Congregational year book 1869_, _pp._ 234–36.

NOTE.—He was to Norwich what John Angell James was to
Birmingham and Thomas Raffles to Liverpool.

ALEXANDER, JOHN HENRY. _b._ Dunbar, July 1796; actor at Queen’s
theatre, Glasgow 1810; member of Murray’s company in Edinburgh
1816; managed the Caledonian theatre, Edinburgh; Lessee of
Dumfries and Carlisle theatres; stage manager at Newcastle;
manager of Dunlop st. theatre, Glasgow and of theatres at Carlisle
and Dumfries, and Adelphi theatre, Edin. 1822–29; proprietor of
Dunlop st. theatre, Glasgow, the most elegant in Scotland (which
he built) 1829–1851; the best actor of Scottish characters, except
Charles Mackay. _d._ Glasgow 15 Dec. 1851.

NOTE.—On 17 Feb. 1849, 65 persons were killed in attempting to
escape from the gallery of his theatre, an alarm having spread
that it was on fire.

ALEXANDER, JOHN HOBHOUSE INGLIS. _b._ 1832; captain R.N. 16 Aug.
1863; naval aide-de-camp to the Queen 21 April 1875 to death; C.B.
30 Nov. 1864. _d._ Mentone 22 Nov. 1875.

ALEXANDER, NATHANIEL. _b._ Hillsborough, co. Down, Aug. 1815; M.P.
for co. Antrim (conserv.) 14 April 1841 to 1 July 1852. _d._
Ardimersey cottage, Islay 5 Jany. 1853.

ALEXANDER, ROBERT. _b._ Paisley; ed. at Paisley gr. sch.; conducted
_Clydesdale journal_ at Hamilton and at Glasgow; conducted the
_Western luminary_ at Exeter, about 2 years; edited the _Watchman_
in London; managed the _Morning journal_ to 1830, when he was
prosecuted for libel, and condemned to one year’s imprisonment in
Newgate, and fined £300, 10 Feb. 1830; edited the _Liverpool
Standard_; founded the _Liverpool Mail_ 1836, edited it 1836 to
death. _d._ Great Crosby near Liverpool 9 Feb. 1854 in his 59
year. _G.M. xli_, 429–30 (1854).

ALEXANDER, SIR ROBERT, 2 Baronet. _b._ 16 Dec. 1769; succeeded 1809.
_d._ 35 St. James’s place, London 1 Dec. 1859.

ALEXANDER, ROBERT. In the navy 1810–19; ensign Madras army 12 June
1819; adjutant general 24 Sep. 1839 to 15 Aug. 1849; col. 24 N.I.
16 Aug. 1851 to 1869; general 25 June 1870, retired 31 Dec. 1877.
_d._ 6 Marloes road South Kensington 16 May 1879 in his 81 year.

ALEXANDER, ROBERT. _b._ 2 July 1813; in the Bengal civil service
1832–61; C.B. 18 May 1860. _d._ Schuls, Lower Engadine 16 Aug.
1882.

ALEXANDER, THOMAS. _b._ Preston-pans near Edinburgh; entered army
medical service 10 Oct. 1834; served in the west Indies, Nova
Scotia, Canada, Cape of Good Hope, Turkey, the Crimea and Canada;
had charge of the light division throughout the Crimean war;
inspector general (local rank) 21 July 1856; director general of
army medical department 22 June 1858 to death; hon. surgeon to the
Queen 16 Aug. 1859 to death; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856. (_m._ Mary Alice
eld. sister of T. Heath Haviland, lieutenant governor of Prince
Edward island, she _d._ 12 April 1881). _d._ 26 Norfolk square
Hyde Park, London 1 Feb. 1860.

NOTE.—A statue of him by Wm. Brodie was unveiled at
Preston-pans by Lord Elcho Sep. 1862.

ALEXANDER, WILLIAM. Lieut. col. 2 Bengal light cavalry 21 Aug. 1849
to death; C.B. 9 June 1849. _d._ Dorundah, Bengal 2 Oct. 1851.

ALEXANDER, REV. WILLIAM. _b._ Chapel Rosan, parish of Stoneykirk,
Wigtonshire 21 Feb. 1763; a carpenter in Lancaster 1783–1802;
pastor of Independent ch. at Prescot near Liverpool 1802–10;
ordained 23 Oct. 1805; pastor at Leigh 20 Jany. 1811; pastor at
Church Town 1 May 1825 to death. _d._ Southport 23 Jany. 1855.
_Memoir of Rev. W. Alexander, by Rev. John Alexander_ 1856;
_Evangelical mag. March 1823_, _portrait_.

ALEXANDER, WILLIAM. _b._ 1794; a writer to the signet in Edin. 1819;
principal clerk and registrar of Commissary Court of Edin. 21 Dec.
1849 to death; author of _Abridgment of acts of Sederunt_ 1838;
_An abridgment of acts of parliament of Scotland_ 1841; _Plan and
description of the original electro-magnetic telegraph by the
inventor_ 1851. _d._ 21 Dec. 1859.

ALEXANDER, WILLIAM. In Nelson’s fleet 1805; surveyor of shipping to
the underwriters and Mersey dock and harbour board, Liverpool
nearly 50 years. _d._ 4 Mount Vernon Green, Liverpool 11 Feb.
1884, in 97 year.

ALEXANDER, SIR WILLIAM JOHN, 3 Baronet _b._ 1 April 1797; ed. at
Trin. coll. Dub. and Trin. coll. Cam.; B.A. Dub. 1817, incorp.
B.A. Cam. 1825, M.A. 1825; barrister M.T. 8 Feb. 1825; went Oxford
circuit; Q.C. 10 July 1844; Bencher of his inn 1844; attorney
general to Prince of Wales 24 June 1853; succeeded as 3 baronet 1
Dec. 1859; one of council of Prince of Wales 27 Jany. 1864. _d._
22 St. James’s place, London 31 March 1873. _I.L.N. xlii_, 400
(1863) _portrait_.

ALEXANDER, REV. WILLIAM LINDSAY. _b._ Edinburgh 24 Aug. 1808; ed. at
univs. of Edin. and St. Andrew’s; classical tutor in Lancashire
college 1828; minister of Newington chapel, Liverpool 2 years;
pastor of Augustine church, Edin.; principal of theological hall
of Scottish congregational churches; member of Old Testament
revision company 1870; author of the 3 articles _Moral philosophy,
Scripture, and Theology in 8 ed. of Encyclopedia Britannica_;
F.R.S. Edin. _d._ Pinkieburn near Edin. 20 Dec. 1884. _Our
Scottish clergy, 2 series_ 1849, _pp._ 199–204.

ALFORD, REV. HENRY (_3 son of Rev. Samuel Alford, Dean of St.
Burian, Cornwall, who d. 15 Aug. 1799_). _b._ Curry Rivell
Vicarage 3 Dec. 1782; ed. at Crewkerne, Bridgwater and Tiverton
schools; entered Wad. Coll. Ox. 1800; B.A. 1804, M.A. 1811; Fellow
of his college; barrister I.T. 22 Nov. 1811; ordained at Quebec
chapel, Lon. to curacy of Steeple Ashton, Wilts 13 June 1813; R.
of Ampton, Suffolk 1826–42; R. of Winkfield 1833–35; R. of Aston
Sandford, Bucks July 1836 to 1850. (_m._ (1) 20 Dec. 1809 Sarah
Eliza 3 dau. of Thomas Bradley Paget of Tamworth, Staffs. banker.
_m._ (2) 11 Aug. 1831 Susanna eld. dau. of Thomas Barber of
Stukeley, Hunts). _d._ Tunbridge 22 Sep. 1852. _Memorial of Rev.
Henry Alford by Henry Alford, B.D._ 1855.

ALFORD, VERY REV. HENRY (_only child of the preceding by his first
wife_). _b._ 25 Alfred place Bedford sq. London 7 Oct. 1810; ed.
at Charmouth in Dorset and Ilminster gr. school; matric. from
Trin. coll. Cam. 13 Nov. 1828; scholar 1830, Bell scholar March
1831; 34 wrangler and 8 classic 1832; B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835, B.D.
1849, D.D. 1859; ordained at Exeter Cathedral to curacy of Ampton,
Suffolk 27 Oct. 1833; fellow of his college 1 Oct. 1834; ordained
priest at St. Margaret’s, Westminster 6 Nov. 1834; V. of Wymeswold
Leics. 11 March 1835; Hulsean lecturer in Univ. of Cam. 1841–42;
examiner in logic and moral philosophy in Univ. of London 1841–57;
minister of Quebec chapel Portman sq. 1853; lived at 6 Upper
Hamilton terrace, St. John’s Wood 26 Sep. 1853 to 19 June 1857;
dean of Canterbury 18 March 1857 to death; one of the revisers of
the New Testament; edited _Contemporary Review_ Dec. 1866; author
of _Poems and poetical fragments_ 1831; _Chapters on the poets of
Greece_ 1841; _Greek Testament_ _5 vols._ 1849–61, and 40 more
volumes besides 104 articles in reviews. (_m._ 10 March 1835
Frances Oke dau. of Rev. Samuel Alford, P.C. of Muchelney,
Somerset, she _d._ 18 Nov. 1878 aged 67). _d._ The Deanery,
Canterbury 12 Jany. 1871. _bur._ churchyard of St. Martin’s,
Canterbury 17 Jany. _Life of Henry Alford edited by his widow_
1873, _portrait_; _Illustrated Review i_, 295–98, _portrait_;
_I.L.N. xxvi_, 269 (1855), _lviii_, 67 (1871), _portrait_.

NOTE.—The statue erected to his memory in a niche of the west
front of Canterbury Cathedral was unveiled 17 Oct. 1871.

ALFORD, STEPHEN SHUTE. M.R.C.S. 1843, F.R.C.S. 1858, L.S.A. 1844;
hon. sec. to Society for promoting legislation for control and
cure of habitual drunkards; author of _A few words on drink
craving_; _Dipsomania its prevalence, causes and treatment_. _d._
61 Haverstock hill, London 5 July 1881 aged 60.

ALICE MAUD MARY, Princess of the United kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland (_3 child and 2 dau. of Queen Victoria_). _b._ Buckingham
palace 25 April 1843. _m._ at Osborne 1 July 1862 Frederick Wm.
Louis Charles afterwards Louis iv grand duke of Hesse-Darmstadt,
he was _b._ 12 Sep. 1837; founded the Women’s Union for nursing
the sick and wounded in war called after her name. _d._ the palace
Darmstadt 14 Dec. 1878. _bur._ in the mausoleum at Rosenhohe near
Darmstadt 18 Dec. _Alice grand duchess of Hesse, biographical
sketch of_ 1884, _2 portraits_; _Martin’s Life of the Prince
Consort v_, 252 (1880), _portrait_.

ALISON, SIR ARCHIBALD, 1 Baronet (_younger son of Rev. Archibald
Alison 1757–1839 prebendary of Sarum_). _b._ Kenley, Salop 29 Dec.
1792; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; advocate 8 Dec. 1814; advocate depute
1823–30; wrote his History of Europe 1 Jany. 1829 to 7 June 1842;
sheriff of Lanarkshire Dec. 1834 to death; lived at Possil house
near Glasgow 1835 to death; lord rector of Marischal college,
Aberdeen March 1845, beating Macaulay by 48 votes; lord rector of
Univ. of Glasgow 15 Jany. 1852; created baronet 25 June 1852;
D.C.L. at Oxford July 1852; author of _History of Europe during
the French revolution_, _10 vols._ 1833–42, _7 ed._ _20 vols._
1847–48; in 1853 the book was stereotyped; _The military life of
John Duke of Marlborough_ 1848, _2 ed._ _2 vols._ 1852. _d._
Possil house at 11.30 p._m._ 23 May 1867. _bur._ Dean cemetery,
Edinburgh 30 May. _Some account of my life and writings by Sir A.
Alison, edited by Lady Alison_, _2 vols._ 1883, _2 portraits_.

NOTE.—He is drawn by Disraeli in Coningsby as Mr. Wordy.

ALISON, CHARLES. Envoy extraord. and minister plenipo. at Tehran,
Persia 7 April 1860; C.B. 28 Nov. 1860. _d._ Tehran 29 April 1872.

ALISON, SOMERVILLE SCOTT. _b._ Edin. 1812; M.D. Edin. 1833; M.R.C.P.
1844, F.R.C.P. 1859; practised at Tranent 1833–40, in London 1840
to death; author of _Inquiry into propagation of contagious
poisons_ 1839; _Medication of the larynx and trachea_ 1853;
_Morbid throat and pulmonary consumption_ 1869. _d._ 85 Park st.
Grosvenor sq. 11 June 1877.

ALISON, WILLIAM PULTENEY (_elder son of Rev. Archibald Alison
1757–1839_). _b._ Boroughmuirhead near Edin. 1790; M.D. Edin.
1811; ascended Mont Blanc 1814; professor of medical jurisprudence
in Univ. of Edin. 1820–22, of institutes of medicine 1822–42; and
of practice of physic 1842–56; physician to the Queen in Scotland
3 Feb. 1847; hon. D.C.L. Oxford 1850; granted civil list pension
of £100, 10 Nov. 1856; presided over meeting of British Medical
Association at Edin. Aug. 1858; author of _Outlines of physiology_
1831; _Outlines of pathology_ 1833; _Observations on the
management of the poor in Scotland_ 1840, this book caused the
appointment of the Board of Supervision under the act of 1845.
(_m._ 11 Aug. 1832 Margaret dau. of James Gregory, M.D. of
Edinburgh). _d._ Woodville, Colington, Edinburgh 22 Sep. 1859.
_Edin. Medical Journal v_, 469–86 and 597–603 (1860).

ALLAN, ALEXANDER STEWART. _b._ 1822; employed in financial
department, Bengal 1859–73; supplied many of the notes to the
publications of the Grampian club; wrote many articles in _Notes
and Queries_, signed A.S.A. _d._ Kincardine, Richmond, Surrey 20
Dec. 1881.

ALLAN, BRYCE. _b._ Greenock; founded at Liverpool a branch of the
Allan shipping company with his brothers Alexander and James (who
_d._ Skelmorlie 1 Sep. 1880 aged 71). _d._ 16 Holly road
Fairfield, Liverpool 24 May 1874.

NOTE.—His personalty was sworn under £250,000 Sept. 1874.

ALLAN, SIR HUGH (_2 son of Alexander Allan, commander of ships
trading between the Clyde and Montreal_). _b._ Saltcoats, Ayrshire
29 Sep. 1810; clerk in house of Wm. Kerr and Co. Montreal 1826–29;
partner in firm of Millar and Edmonstone of Montreal, shipowners
1835; partner with Edmonstone 1 May 1839; established April 1856 a
line of steamers from Montreal to Liverpool, called the Montreal
Ocean steamship company, afterwards the Allan line; knighted by
patent 24 July 1871. (_m._ 13 Sep. 1844 Matilda Caroline 2 dau. of
John Smith of Montreal, she _d._ 11 June 1881 aged 63). _d._ 27
St. Andrew sq. Edinburgh 9 Dec. 1882. _bur._ Montreal 27 Dec. _H.
J. Morgan’s Sketches of celebrated Canadians_ 1862, _pp._ 669–74;
_W. S. Lindsay’s History of merchant shipping iv_, 260–64 (1876).

ALLAN, JAMES. Major 94 foot 20 July 1809 to 25 Dec. 1818, when
placed on h. p. regiment being disbanded; served in Peninsular war
1810–14; lieut. col. 57 foot 20 March 1828 to 9 Nov. 1846; M.G. 9
Nov. 1846; col. 50 foot 11 Oct. 1852 to death; C.B. 19 July 1838.
_d._ Cheltenham 17 Feb. 1853.

ALLAN, JAMES. _b._ Aberdeen; sec. to Peninsular steam navigation
company when first formed 1837; this was first company which ran
steamers to distant foreign ports, the Iberia first steamer
despatched with Peninsular mails in Sep. 1837; the first sec. of
Peninsular and Oriental company 1840; one of the 3 managing
directors 1848 to death; A.I.C.E. 4 Dec. 1849. _d._ Camp’s hill,
Lewisham near London 15 Sep. 1874 aged 63. _Minutes of proc. of
Instit. of C.E. xxxix_, 283–85 (1875).

ALLARDICE, ROBERT BRIDGES BARCLAY, known as Captain Barclay (_eld.
son of Robert Barclay of Ury, Kincardineshire 1731–97, founder of
town of Stonehaven, who assumed name of Allardice 1776_). _b._ Ury
25 Aug. 1779; kept a pack of fox hounds at Ury 1807; walked from
London to Birmingham viâ Cambridge 150 miles in 2 days Dec. 1799;
walked 100 miles in 19 hours Dec. 1801; captain 71 foot 13 March
1806; major 20 Jany. 1814 to 31 March 1814 when he resigned;
lieut. col. Kincardineshire militia; walked 1000 miles in 1000
successive hours at the rate of a mile in each and every hour at
Newmarket 1 June to 12 July 1809, when about £100,000 changed
hands on the result; trained Tom Cribb at Ury July-Aug. 1811 for
his great fight with Tom Molineaux the Black, which Cribb won 28
Sep. 1811; a great agriculturist and cattle breeder; claimed the
Earldom of Airth 1839 and the Earldoms of Strathern and Monteith
1840. (_m._ 19 July 1819 Mary dau. of Alexander Dalgarno of Wales
st. Aberdeen, she _d._ 30 Aug. 1820 aged 23). Found dead in his
bed at Ury 1 May 1854. _bur._ in family burying ground called the
Houff, which contains an account of the family from year 1110. _H.
H. Dixon’s Field and fern (North)_ 1865 _pp._ 196–210;
_Pugilistica by H. D. Miles i_, 435–39 (1880), _portrait_;
_Pedestrianism_ [_by Walter Thom_] _Aberdeen_ 1813, _portrait_;
_The eccentric mag. i_, 133–50 (1812), _portrait_.

NOTE.—The coach called the Defiance (of which he was one of
the 5 proprietors) ran from Edinburgh to Aberdeen and was the
fastest and best conducted coach in the United Kingdom, it
performed the journey 126 miles in 12 hours; it ran its first
journey 1 July 1829 and its last Oct. 1849. The 1000 mile feat
has never been performed by any other man, although many
persons are _stated_ to have done it.

ALLASON, THOMAS. _b._ London 31 July 1790; architect in London 1817;
employed in landscape gardening; a comr. of Board of Metropolitan
Sewers; author of _Picturesque views of the antiquities of Pola in
Istria_ 1819. _d._ 9 April 1852.

ALLCROFT, JEREMIAH MACKLIN. _b._ 1791; partner in firm of Dent,
Allcroft and Co. of Wood st. London and Worcester, glovers;
chamberlain of Worcester 1832–33. _d._ Worcester 6 July 1867.

ALLEN, CHARLES, calling himself Charles Edward Lewis Casimir Stuart,
Count d’Albanie (_only son of Charles Manning Allen 1799–1880_).
Col. in the Austrian army. (_m._ 15 May 1874 Alice Mary Emily 3
and youngest dau. of the 17 Earl of Errol, she was _b._ 7 July
1835 and _d._ 7 June 1881.) _d._ 8 May 1882 aged 57, thus ending
this dynasty of modern pretenders.

ALLEN, CHARLES. _b._ 1808; a member of Financial council, Calcutta;
alderman of Tenby; mayor 2 or 3 times; sheriff of co. Pembroke
1876. _d._ Tenby 5 Nov. 1884.

ALLEN, CHARLES MANNING, calling himself Charles Edward Stuart, Count
d’Albanie (_younger son of Thomas Gatehouse Allen 1772–1851, by
Katharine Matilda dau. of Rev. Owen Manning, V. of Godalming,
Surrey. T. G. Allen called himself James Stuart, Count d’Albanie
and affirmed that he was son of Charles Stuart the young Pretender
by the Princess Louisa of Stolberg-Gädern_). _b._ Versailles 4
June 1799; served in advanced guard of Napoleon’s army at
Waterloo; assumed Christian name of Stuart 1822; changed his name
to Allan-Hay; changed again to Stuart; lived with his brother John
at Edin. then at Glasgow then at Eile-an-Aigais near Inverness;
author with his brother John of _The costume of the clans_ 1845;
_Tales of the century_ 1847; _Lays of the deer forest_, _2 vols._
1848. (_m._ 9 Oct. 1822 Anne dau. of John Beresford, M.P. for co.
Waterford, and widow of Charles Gardiner). _d._ on board the
Rainbow steamer at Pauillac near Bordeaux 25 Dec. 1880. _J. H.
Ingram’s Claimants to royalty_ (1882) 252–59; _Quarterly Review
lxxxi_, 57–85 (1847); _Edinburgh Review cxiv_, 145–82 (1861);
_Western Antiquary Sep. 1884_, 67–72; _Doran’s London in Jacobite
times ii_, 390–412 (1877).

ALLEN, GEORGE. _b._ London Nov. 1800; attorney and solicitor of
supreme court at Sydney 1822; mayor of Sydney 1844; member of
legislative council N.S.W. 1845 and 1856 to death; chairman of
committees 1856–73. _d._ Toxteth park, Glebe, N.S.W. 3 Nov. 1877.

ALLEN, GEORGE JOHN (_eld. son of Right Rev. Joseph Allen, bishop of
Ely who d. 20 March 1845 aged 75_). _b._ 1810; warden of the
college of God’s Gift in Dulwich 1843 to 31 Dec. 1857 when that
Corporation was dissolved by 20 and 21 Vict. c. 84, and he was
granted an annuity of £1015. _d._ The Mount, Budleigh Salterton,
Devon 19 July 1883.

ALLEN, HENRY ROBINSON. _b._ Cork 1809; ed. at R.A. of Music; made
his début at the English Opera as Elvino in La Sonnambula;
A.R.A.M.; tenor vocalist and ballad composer, his song “Maid of
Athens” was much sung. _d._ Shepherd’s Bush, London 27 Nov. 1876.

ALLEN, REV. HUGH. _b._ Cork July 1806; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub.;
scholar 1834, B.A. 1835, M.A., B.D. and D.D. 1861; minister of an
episcopal chapel at Douglas, Isle of Man, Aug. 1835; C. of St.
John’s ch. Bury, Lancs. 1838–48; Inc. of St. Jude’s Whitechapel
1848–59; lecturer of St. Olave’s, Old Jewry 1856–59; R. of St.
George the Martyr Southwark 1859 to death; edited the _London
Messenger_ 1862. _d._ 231 New Kent road, London 20 June 1877.

NOTE.—He was the Sunday afternoon lecturer at church of St.
George-in-the-East, London where disturbances began 21 Aug.
1859 in consequence of the Rector the Rev. Bryan King adopting
an elaborate ritual and refusing to allow time for the
lecture, the riots lasted till 25 June 1860.

ALLEN, JAMES BAYLIS. _b._ Birmingham 18 April 1803; employed by W.
and E. Finden, engravers in London 1824; engraved many of Turner’s
water colour drawings 1830–45, and many large views for the Art
Journal. _d._ Camden Town, London 11 Jany. 1876.

ALLEN, JAMES MOUNTFORD (_son of Rev. John Allen, V. of Bleddington,
Gloucs._) _b._ Crewkerne, Somerset 14 Aug. 1809; an architect in
London to 1856, at Crewkerne 1856 to death; built many churches,
rectory houses and schools. _d._ 27 Feb. 1883.

ALLEN, JAMES PEARCE. Spent 5 years in India 1836–41; a publisher in
London 1855 to death. _d._ Grove lodge, Clapham Common 2 Nov. 1878
in 61 year.

ALLEN, JOHN (_elder son of Admiral John Carter Allen who d. 2 Oct.
1800_). _b._ 1774; captain R.N. 29 April 1802; admiral on h. p. 30
July 1852. _d._ Torpoint near Plymouth 4 June 1853.

ALLEN, JOHN. _b._ Dublin; a woollen draper at 36 College green;
committed to Tower of London on a charge of high treason 6 March
1798, tried at Maidstone 21 and 22 May 1798 when acquitted; an
associate of Robert Emmett in the insurrection of 23 July 1803;
fled to France and became sous-lieutenant in the army Dec. 1803;
led the storming party at capture of Ciudad Rodrigo in Spain 10
July 1810; chef de bataillon March 1814; retired on half pay after
the Irish regiment was disbanded Sep. 1815; lived at Tours then at
Caen. _d._ Caen 10 Feb. 1855. _R. R. Madden’s The united Irishmen,
3rd series iii_, 135–39 (1846); _Howell’s State Trials xxvi_,
1193–1432 (1819), and _xxvii_, 1–142 (1820).

ALLEN, JOHN. _b._ Liskeard, Cornwall 26 Sep. 1790; author of _State
churches and the kingdom of Christ_ 1853; _History of the borough
of Liskeard and its vicinity_ 1856. _d._ Liskeard 15 Feb. 1859.
_Annual Monitor for 1860_ _pp._ 3–26.

ALLEN, JOHN CARTER HAY, calling himself John Sobieski Stolberg
Stuart (_elder son of Thomas Gatehouse Allen 1772–1851_). Said to
have received cross of the Légion d’honneur from hands of Napoleon
for bravery on field of Waterloo; lived with his brother Charles
at Edinburgh, at Glasgow, at Eile-an-Aigais near Inverness; author
of _Poems_ 1822; edited the _Vestiarium Scoticum_ 1842. (_m._ 29
Oct. 1845 Georgiana eld. dau. of Edward Kendall of Cheltenham).
_d._ 52 Stanley st. St. George’s Hanover sq. 13 Feb. 1872.

ALLEN, JOHN ROY (_elder son of John Allen of Lyngford, Somerset_).
_b._ 1799; ed. at Pemb. coll. Cam.; B.A. 1821, M.A. 1825;
barrister I.T. 10 Feb. 1826; recorder of Taunton, Andover and
Bridgwater. _d._ Weston super Mare 10 March 1875.

ALLEN, JOSEPH. Chairman of Brighton bench of magistrates many years;
one of the gentlemen of H.M. privy chamber 1838 to death. _d._
Podstream house Wivelsfield, Sussex 9 Dec. 1851 aged 78.

ALLEN, JOSEPH. Military superintendent of halls, &c. at Greenwich
hospital 1 Sep. 1833 to death; edited Allen’s “New Navy List”;
newspaper writer on professional topics. _d._ Greenwich Hospital
21 Oct. 1864 aged 54.

ALLEN, JOSEPH WILLIAM. _b._ Paradise row, Lambeth 1803; usher at a
school at Taunton; theatrical scene painter in London; a founder
of “The Society of British Artist” 1823; professor of drawing at
city of London school from its opening 2 Feb. 1837 to death. _d._
Hammersmith 26 Aug. 1852.

ALLEN, PETER. _b._ Dec. 1826; M.D. Aberdeen 1849; L.S.A. and
M.R.C.S. Eng. 1849; F.R.C.S. Edin. 1868; surgeon at Yealand
Conyers 1856–68, and in London 1868 to death; aural surgeon to St.
Mary’s hospital; author of _Practical observations on deafness_
1853; _Aural Catarrh_ 1870. _d._ 117 Harley st. Cavendish sq.
London 18 Jany. 1874.

ALLEN, ROBERT (_3 son of Samuel Allen of Rue St. Honoré, Paris_). An
actor; a schoolmaster; barrister G.I. 18 Nov. 1835; went Oxford
circuit; serjeant at law 3 July 1845, received patent of
precedence. _d._ Bessborough st. London 17 Feb. 1854.

ALLEN, REV. SAMUEL JAMES. _b._ near Tower of London 16 June 1798;
ed. at Merchant Taylor’s school 1808–16 and Pemb. coll. Cam.; B.A.
1820, M.A. 1824; University preacher at Cam.; V. of Easingwold,
Yorkshire 1838 to death; completed _Whitaker’s History of
Richmondshire_ 1823 in which some of the chapters were entirely
written by him; author of _Lectures in defence of the church of
England_. _d._ Easingwold vicarage 29 April 1856.

ALLEN, WILLIAM. _b._ Weymouth Nov. 1792; entered navy 2 Oct. 1805;
accompanied Richard Lander’s expedition up the river Niger 1832;
returned to England April 1834 being one of the nine survivors;
commanded steamer Wilberforce in expedition to Niger 1840–42;
captain 31 Jany. 1842, retired R.A. 12 April 1862; F.R.G.S. 1835,
F.R.S. 18 April 1844; author of _The narrative of expedition sent
to river Niger_ 1848; _The Dead Sea, a new route to India_ 1855;
exhibited landscape paintings at the R.A. 1828–47. _d._ Bank
house, Weymouth 23 Jany. 1864.

ALLEN, WILLIAM FERNELEY (_son of Wm. Houghton Allen of London,
publisher who d. 22 Jany. 1855 aged 67_). _b._ 31 Oct. 1816; a
publisher in London 1855 to death; sheriff 1857–58; alderman for
ward of Cheap 1858 to death, and Lord Mayor 1867–68. _d._ 13
Waterloo place, London 22 May 1877. _bur._ in family vault at
Sevenoaks, Kent 26 May. _I.L.N. li_, 517 (1867), _portrait_.

ALLEN, WILLIAM HENRY. Solicitor in London 1826 to death; principal
of Clifford’s Inn 13 May 1833 to death. _d._ 20 Oct. 1854 aged 71.

ALLEN, WILLIAM PHILIP. _b._ near town of Tipperary April 1848; a
carpenter in Cork, Dublin and Chester; helped to rescue Colonel
Kelly the Fenian from a prison van at Manchester 18 Sep. 1867; in
the mêlée, a police sergeant named Brett was killed; executed at
the old prison Manchester 23 Nov. 1867. _Speeches from the dock._
_Dublin_ 1868.

ALLEYNE, SIR REYNOLD ABEL, 2 Baronet. _b._ 10 June 1789; ed. at
Eton; succeeded his father 1801; member of council in Barbados 30
years; col. of 2 regiment of militia there. _d._ Burton under
Needwood 14 Feb. 1870.

ALLEYNE, SARAH FRANCES. _b._ Clifton 15 Oct. 1836; organised courses
of lectures for women; member of council of Clifton high school
for girls; sec. of Oxford local examination at Clifton; translated
E. Zeller’s _Plato and the older Academy_ 1876 and M. Duncker’s
_History of Greece_ 1883. _d._ London 16 Aug. 1884. _bur._ Redland
Green churchyard 21 Aug.

ALLIES, JABEZ (_2 son of Wm. Allies of Alfrick in Lusley co.
Worcester_). _b._ Alfrick 22 Oct. 1787; a solicitor in London;
author of _The causes of planetary motion_ 1838; _The antiquities
and folk lore of Worcestershire_ _2 ed._ 1852, the best work on
local field names ever published. _d._ Tivoli house, Cheltenham 29
Jany. 1856.

ALLIOTT, REV. RICHARD (_son of Rev. Richard Alliott, pastor of
congregational church in Castle Gate, Nottingham_). _b._ 1 Sep
1804; ed. at Homerton college and Glasgow univ.; LLD. 1840;
assistant minister to his father 1828; co-pastor with him 1830–40;
ordained Jany. 1830; pastor of same church 1840; of church in York
road, Lambeth, London 1843–49; pres. of Western college, Plymouth
1849–57; pres. of Cheshunt college 1857; chairman of
Congregational union of England and Wales 1858; professor of
dogmatic and general theology and philosophy at Spring Hill
college, Birmingham, Sep. 1860 to death; pastor of church at
Acock’s Green near Birmingham 1860 to death; author of _Psychology
and Theology_ 1854. _d._ Acock’s Green 20 Dec. 1863.

ALLMAN, THOMAS. Bookseller in Princes st. Hanover sq. 1817; at
Holborn hill 1830–59, when he retired. _d._ 2 Clifton villas,
Maida hill, London 3 Dec. 1870 aged 78.

ALLOCK, JON JUNIM. _b._ China; brought to England by Andrew Ducrow
the equestrian about 1819; a great attraction at Astley’s, London
as a Chinese juggler; travelled with Ducrow all over Europe and
America; fell from a horse and broke his thigh about 1841; lived
at Glasgow about 1845 to death. _d._ Glasgow 9 Aug. 1859 aged
nearly 80.

ALLOM, THOMAS. _b._ London 13 March 1804; articled to Francis
Goodwin, architect; furnished the drawings for many illustrated
works published by Virtue & Co. and Heath and Co.; exhibited
drawings at the R.A.; made for Sir Charles Barry the drawings of
new Houses of Parliament which were presented to Nicholas Czar of
Russia. _d._ 1 Lonsdale road, Barnes, Surrey 21 Oct. 1872.

ALLSOP, THOMAS. _b._ Stainsborough hall near Wirksworth, Derbyshire
10 April 1795; a stockbroker in London; the favourite disciple of
Samuel Taylor Coleridge; great friend of Charles Lamb, Robert Owen
and other eminent men; author of _Letters, conversations and
recollections of S. T. Coleridge, 2 vols._ 1836; _California and
its gold mines in 1852–3_. _d._ Exmouth, Devon 12 April 1880.
_bur._ Woking cemetery 17 April. _Dictionary of national biography
i_, 337–39 (1885).

ALMOND, EMMA (_dau. of Mr. Romer_). _b._ 1814; first appeared on
stage at Covent Garden 16 Oct. 1830 as Donna Clara in _The
Duenna_; the original Zerlina in Auber’s opera _Fra Diavolo_ at
C.G. 3 Nov. 1831; original singer of title parts in Barnett’s
_Mountain Sylph_ and _Fair Rosamond_; chief singer at English
opera house; sang at Westminster Abbey festival 1834; sang at
Drury Lane 1836; manager of the Surrey theatre 1852, where she
brought out a series of operas in English. (_m._ 1836 George
Almond of Bond st. hatter, he _d._ Nov. 1863). _d._ Clifton
terrace, Margate 14 April 1868. _bur._ Brompton cemetery 21 April.
_Actors by daylight ii_, 57 (1839), _portrait_.

ALSBURY, GEORGE. Stipendiary magistrate and pres. of island of
Anguilla, Caribbee islands 26 Nov. 1863 to 28 Jany. 1868. _d._ St.
Heliers, Jersey 10 Nov. 1879.

ALSTON, EDWARD GRAHAM. Ed. at St. Paul’s sch. and Trin. coll. Cam.;
B.A. 1855; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1857; registrar general of
Vancouver island Feb. 1861, of British Columbia 1 June 1870;
attorney general of Sierra Leone 13 May 1871 to death, and Queen’s
advocate July 1871 to death. _d._ Sierra Leone 12 Sep. 1872 in 40
year.

ALSTON, EDWARD RICHARD. _b._ Stockbriggs near Lesmahagow 1 Dec.
1845; zoological sec. of Linnæan society 1880 to death;
contributed to the _Proceedings of Zoological society_ 1874–80;
author of the division Mammalia in Salvin and Godman’s _Biologia
Centrali-Americana_ 1879. _d._ 14 Maddox st. London 7 March 1881.

ALTHANS, JOHN (_son of Henry Althans the friend of popular
education_). Connected with Religious tract society 47 years and
trade manager the last 6 years. _d._ West lodge, White Hart lane,
Tottenham 15 Dec. 1882 aged 66.

ALVANLEY, RICHARD PEPPER ARDEN, 3 Baron. _b._ the Rolls house,
Chancery lane, 8 Dec. 1792; major 84 foot 26 Sep. 1822 to 30 Oct.
1823 when placed on h.p.; succeeded his brother 9 Nov. 1849. _d._
12 Bruton st. London 24 June 1857.

NOTE.—His library was sold by Sotheby 15–20 Feb. 1858.

ALVES, JOHN. _b._ Elgin 1787; captain 74 foot 2 Nov. 1830 to 17 Aug.
1841 when placed on half pay; granted a service reward 27 Jany.
1854; M.G. 5 Dec. 1856; sergeant at arms to the Queen 1855 to
death. _d._ 14 King st. St. James’s, London 18 Sep. 1860.

AMBROSE, GEORGE JAMES. Lieut. col. 3 Foot 31 Dec. 1857 to death;
C.B. 1 March 1861. _d._ Brislington 19 July 1862 aged 38.

AMCOTTS, WESTON CRACROFT. _b._ 9 March 1815; ed. at Eton; sheriff of
Lincolnshire 1861; M.P. for Mid-Lincolnshire (Lib.) 1868–74. _d._
Harrogate 14 July 1883.

AMESBURY, JOSEPH (_youngest child of Joseph Amesbury of Huntspill,
Somerset who d. about 1802_). _b._ Huntspill 15 Oct. 1795;
M.R.C.S. 4 Aug. 1820; a surgeon in London 1820–58; opened a
private spinal establishment at 59 Burton crescent 1838; lived at
26 Fitzroy sq. 1847–58; invented apparatus for cure of stiff
joints, spinal curvature, and other deformities for which he took
out 3 patents; author of _Practical remarks on nature and
treatment of fractures of the trunk and extremities_ 2 vols. 1831.
_d._ 93 Lansdowne place, Brighton 27 March 1864.

AMEUNEY, ANTONIUS GEORGE (_son of Georgius Ameuney of Latakia_).
_b._ Latakia 1821; went to England 1840; studied at King’s
college; went with J. B. Thompson, M.D. on a mission to Damascus
1844; surveyed the Jordan and Dead Sea with captain Lynch of the
U.S. navy 1848; worked for the London Arabic literary fund 1859;
professor of Arabic at King’s college, London Jany. 1865 to death;
author of _Notes from the life of a Syrian, with an appeal on
behalf of 80,000,000 of the human family_ 1860. _d._ 87 Seymour
st. London 16 Sep. 1881.

AMHERST, WILLIAM PITT AMHERST, 1 Earl of (_only son of Wm. Amherst
1732–81, governor of Newfoundland_). _b._ Bath 14 Jany. 1773; ed.
at Ch. Ch. Ox.; B.A. 1793, M.A. 1797; succeeded his uncle as 2
Baron Amherst 3 Aug. 1797; envoy to Naples 1809–11; P.C. 30 Dec.
1815; ambassador extraordinary to China 8 Feb. 1816 to 30 July
1817; visited Napoleon at St. Helena 1817; governor general of
India 23 Oct. 1822 to 10 March 1828; declared war against Burmah
24 Feb. 1824; created Viscount Holmesdale and Earl Amherst of
Arracan in the East Indies 19 Dec. 1826; appointed governor
general of Canada but never took office; granted a pension of
£3,000 a year; G.C.H. 1834. _d._ Knole house near Sevenoaks 13
March 1857. _bur._ in Sevenoaks church. _Jerdan’s National
portrait gallery vol. 1_ (1830), _portrait_; _Waagen’s Galleries
of art_ (1857) 337–41; _Ellis’s Journal of the proceedings of the
late embassy to China_ 1817; _Mill’s History of British India, by
H. H. Wilson, vol. iii_, 1848.

AMHERST, RIGHT REV. FRANCIS KERRIL (_eld. son of Wm. Kerril Amherst
of Parndon, Essex, by Mary Louisa youngest dau. of Francis
Fortescue Turvile of Bosworth hall co. Leicester_). _b._ London 21
March 1819; ed. at Oscott; ordained priest by bishop Wiseman 6
June 1846; professor at Oscott, Nov. 1855 to Oct. 1856; served the
mission of Stafford, Oct. 1856 to May 1858; bishop of Northampton
14 May 1858 to 1879; consecrated 4 July 1858; assistant at
pontifical throne 8 June 1862; preconised to titular see of Sozusa
1880; author of _Lenten thoughts_ 1873, _4 ed._ 1880. _d._
Fieldgate house, Kenilworth 21 Aug. 1883. _bur._ R.C. cathedral,
Northampton 28 Aug.

AMHERST, G. A. _b._ London 1776; first appeared on the stage 14 July
1817 in _The blue devils_ at Haymarket theatre; visited United
states as director of Cooke’s Equestrian company 1838; made his
début in Philadelphia as the Castillian in _Mazeppa_ 2 April 1838;
author of many plays. _d._ in the Philadelphia Almshouse 12 Aug.
1851.

AMOS, ANDREW (_son of James Amos of Devonshire sq. London, Russian
merchant_). _b._ India 1791; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.; 5
wrangler 1813, B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816; fellow of his college
1815–23; barrister L.I. 24 Nov. 1818; went Midland circuit
1818–37; professor of English law in Univ. of London 1829–37;
recorder of Banbury, Nottingham and Oxford; member of first
criminal law commission 1834–43; 4th ordinary member of supreme
council of India 11 Oct. 1837 to 15 Feb. 1843; judge of county
courts for Brentford, Brompton and Marylebone, circuit 44, March
1847 to Sep. 1852; Downing professor of laws of England in Univ.
of Cam. 1848 to death; author of _A treatise on the law of
fixtures_ 1827, _3 ed._ 1883; _The English constitution in the
reign of Charles ii_, 1857; _Martial and the Moderns_ 1858. (_m._
1 Aug. 1826 Margaret eld. dau. of Rev. Wm. Lax Lowndes professor
of astronomy at Cambridge, she _d._ 13 April 1882). _d._ Downing
college, Cambridge 18 April 1860. _Law Times_ xxxv, 117–18 (1860).

NOTE.—There is a marble bust of him in University college,
London.

AMOS, CHARLES EDWARDS. _b._ March, Cambs. 27 Nov. 1805; a millwright
at Wandsworth, Surrey 1835–66; patented several inventions in
manufacture of paper; invented dynamometer brought out and
designed for Atlantic cable 1857; M.I.C.E. 22 May 1855. _d._
Cedars road, Clapham common 12 Aug. 1882. _Minutes of proc. of
instit. of C.E. lxxi_, 387–95 (1883).

AMOTT, JOHN. Organist at Gloucester cathedral 1832 to death. _d._
College Green, Gloucester 3 Feb. 1865 in 67 year.

AMPHLETT, SIR RICHARD PAUL (_eld. son of Rev. Richard Holmden
Amphlett, R. of Hadsor, Worcs., who d. 8 March 1842 in 60 year_).
_b._ Salop 24 May 1809; ed. at Brewood gr. sch. and St. Peter’s
coll. Cam.; 6 wrangler 1831, B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; fellow of his
college 1832–40; hon. fellow 6 Nov. 1882; student of L.I. 5 Feb.
1831, barrister 6 June 1834, bencher, Jany. 1858; Q.C. Jany. 1858;
M.P. for East Worcester (Conserv.) 24 Nov. 1868 to Jany. 1874;
pres. of Legal education association, Oct. 1872; serjeant at law,
and baron of Court of Exchequer 24 Jany. 1874; knighted by the
Queen at Osborne 27 Jany. 1874; judge of court of appeal 27 Oct.
1876 to Nov. 1877; P.C. 28 Nov. 1876; struck with paralysis 3
April 1877. _d._ 32 Wimpole st. London 7 Dec. 1883. _bur._ at
Hadsor 13 Dec. _I.L.N. lxiv_, 120, 129 (1874) _portrait_.

NOTE.—His was the first instance of nomination of an equity
practitioner to a common law judgeship since the appointment
of Sir Robert Rolfe in Nov. 1839.

AMPTHILL, ODO WILLIAM LEOPOLD RUSSELL, 1 Baron (_youngest son of
Lord George Wm. Russell, G.C.B._) _b._ Florence 20 Feb. 1829; ed.
at Westminster; attaché at Vienna 15 March 1849; employed on
special service at Rome, Nov. 1860 to 9 Aug. 1870; ambassador
extraord. and plenipo. at Berlin 16 Oct. 1871 to death; P.C. 5
Feb. 1872, G.C.B. 21 Feb. 1874, G.C.M.G. 24 May 1879; created
Baron Ampthill of Ampthill, Beds. 7 March 1881. _d._ Potsdam 25
Aug. 1884. _bur._ in family vault in parish church of St. Michael,
Chenies, Bucks 3 Sep. _I.L.N. lxxxv_, 220 (1884) _portrait_.

AMSINCK, HENRY. _b._ 1798; served in navy 1811–44; retired commander
22 March 1876; sec. to the Railway commission 1844; went to
Melbourne 1853; M.P. for West Bourke. _d._ Hawthorne, Victoria 17
Dec 1878.

ANCELL, HENRY (_son of Mr. Ancell of Carshalton, Surrey, cotton
miller_). _b._ Croydon 23 Jany. 1802; walked through the United
States 1823–25; L.S.A. 1828, M.R.C.S. 1831; surgeon to
Metropolitan police; lectured at Lane’s school next St. George’s
hospital 1837; sec. to National association of general
practitioners 1845–47; author of _A treatise on Tuberculosis_
1852; _Lectures on the blood and Commentaries on Liebig_. _d._ 3
Norfolk crescent Hyde Park 19 Nov. 1863.

ANDERDON, JAMES HUGHES. _b._ 1790; collected many pictures of
British School; bought Hogarth’s Sigismunda for £56 (which he
bequeathed to National Gallery), and his _portrait_ of Sarah
Malcolm the murderess. _d._ 23 Upper Grosvenor st. London 24 Jany.
1879.

ANDERDON, JOHN LAVICOUNT (_3 son of John Proctor Anderdon_). _b._
Bristol 5 April 1792; ed. at Ealing and Harrow; a West India
merchant in London 1816–54; contested Penryn 1818; author of _The
river Dove_ 1847; _The life of bishop Ken, by a Layman 2 vols._
1851; _The Messiah_ 1861. (_m._ 4 March 1816 Anna Maria 2 dau. of
Wm. Manning, M.P., she _d._ 1 May 1880 in 84 year). _d._ Brighton
8 March 1874. _Geron, the old man in search of paradise, by J. L.
Anderdon with a biographical notice, by Rev. G. Williams_ 1877.

ANDERDON, THOMAS OLIVER. Barrister L.I. 20 Nov. 1822; equity
draftsman; Q.C. 1841; bencher of his inn 1841. _d._ Horsendon
house Bucks 31 July 1856 aged 70.

ANDERSON, ADAM, Lord Anderson (_2 son of Samuel Anderson of Moredun,
co. Edinburgh_). _b._ Edin. 1797; ed. at Univ. of Edin; advocate
1818; solicitor general Nov. 1834 to April 1835; sheriff of
Perthshire 1835–1842; solicitor general for Scotland 8 Nov. 1842
to 1846; Dean of Faculty of Advocates 28 Feb. 1852; Advocate for
Scotland 28 Feb. 1852; one of Lords of Session and of Justiciary
18 May 1852 to death. _d._ 55 Upper Brook st. London 28 Sep. 1853.
_bur._ under St. John’s episcopal chapel Edin. _B. W. Crombie’s
Modern Athenians_ (1882) 112, _portrait_.

ANDERSON, ALEXANDER. _b._ near Stirling 1762; assistant surgeon R.N.
1784; served in North America and West Indies; surgeon 15 Oct.
1790; retired on h.p. 1803; practised at Knightsbridge, London
1803–35; the last medical officer who belonged to Lord Nelson’s
fleet. _d._ Clarence terrace, New Hampton, Middlesex 6 Sep. 1859.

ANDERSON, ALEXANDER. _b._ 7 May 1807; 2 Lieut. R.M. 13 May 1823;
col. commandant 21 Nov. 1859 to death; general 1 April 1870; C.B.
2 June 1869. _d._ St. Alban’s place, St. James’s London 21 Nov.
1877.

ANDERSON, REV. ALEXANDER. _b._ Peterhead 1808; ed. at St. Andrew’s;
founder and head of Chanonry house school (the Gymnasium) Old
Aberdeen. _d._ Aboyne 25 Oct. 1884.

ANDERSON, ALEXANDER DUNLOP (_son of Andrew Anderson of Greenock,
merchant_). _b._ Greenock 1794; M.R.C.S. 1816, M.D. Edin. 1819;
asst. surgeon 49 foot 22 June 1815 to 25 Dec. 1818, when placed on
half pay; practised in Glasgow; surgeon to royal infirmary 1822
and phys. 1837; pres. of faculty of phys. and surgeons 1852–55;
pres. of Med. Chir. society of Glasgow. _d._ 159 St. Vincent st.
Glasgow 13 May 1871.

ANDERSON, ALFRED. Celebrated Australian pianist. _m._ at Sydney 29
Dec. 1875 Ilma de Murska, the “Hungarian nightingale.” _d._
Melbourne 22 March 1876 aged 28.

ANDERSON, ANDREW. A stocking weaver. Champion draught player of
Scotland; author of _The Game of Draughts_ 1848, _2 ed._ 1852, 3
ed. 1878. _d._ Braidwood near Carluke, Lanarkshire 1 March 1861.

ANDERSON, ARTHUR (_eld. son of Robert Anderson of Grimaster,
Shetland_). _b._ Grimaster, Feb. 1792; midshipman R.N. 1810; a
merchant in London 1823; superintended naval portion of expedition
to Portugal under Don Pedro 1831–32; started a line of steamers to
the Peninsula 1836; formed fishery establishment in Orkney and
Shetland 1838; member of Anti-corn law league formed at Manchester
18 Sep. 1838, took an active part in it; a founder of Peninsular
and Oriental steam navigation company incorporated 1840; their
first boat the Hindostan was started Sep. 1842; chairman of the
company; chairman of Union steamship company and of Crystal palace
company; M.P. for Orkney (lib.) 1 Sep. 1847 to 1 July 1852;
F.S.A.; author of _Communication with India, China, &c._ 1843;
_National defence_ 1852. _d._ Norwood, Surrey 28 Feb. 1868.
_I.L.N. xviii_, 232 (1851), _portrait_.

ANDERSON, CHARLES ABERCROMBY. Inspector general of hospitals and
fleets 12 April 1869 to death; C.B. 17 June 1871. _d._ London 25
Feb. 1872.

ANDERSON, CHRISTOPHER (_youngest son of William Anderson of Edin.
ironmonger 1744–1804_). _b._ West Bow, Edin. 19 Feb. 1782; clerk
in the Friendly Insurance Office 1800–1804; ordained pastor of
English baptists in Edin. 21 Jany. 1808; originated the Edinburgh
Bible Society Oct. 1810, the Gaelic School Society Nov. 1810;
author of _The annals of the English bible, 2 vols._ 1845, _2 ed._
1862. _d._ Edinburgh 18 Feb. 1852. _The life and letters of
Christopher Anderson, by his nephew Hugh Anderson_ 1854,
_portrait_.

ANDERSON, SIR GEORGE CAMPBELL (_son of John Anderson_). _b._ 1804 or
1805; admitted attorney in Bahama 1827; speaker of House of
Assembly, Bahama 1831 to 1868; attorney general 1837; knighted by
patent 16 Sep. 1874; chief justice 11 Oct. 1875; president of
legislative council 1875; acting chief justice, Ceylon 1875–77;
chief justice of Leeward islands 27 March 1877–1880. _d._
Kingston, Jamaica 1 March 1884.

ANDERSON, GEORGE FREDERICK. _b._ Carlton palace, London 1793; member
of royal private band 1819, conductor 1847–48; master of the Music
1848–70; band changed by Prince Albert from a mere wind band to a
full orchestra 24 Dec. 1840; treasurer of Philharmonic society,
and of Royal Society of musicians. (_m._ 1820 Lucy Philpot). _d._
34 Nottingham place, London 14 Dec. 1876. _bur._ Kensal Green 20
Dec.

ANDERSON, SIR GEORGE WILLIAM (_son of Robert Anderson of London,
merchant_). _b._ London 1791; ed. at Haileybury; entered Bombay
civil service 1806; senior judge of the Sudder Dewanee 1833;
member of council 8 March 1838; governor of Bombay 27 April 1841
to 28 July 1842, of the Mauritius 9 Feb. 1849 to Oct. 1850, of
Ceylon Oct. 1850 to Feb. 1855; knighted by the Queen at St.
James’s palace 22 Feb. 1849; C.B. 22 March 1849, K.C.B. 22 Nov.
1850. (_m._ (1) 1813 Caroline 2 dau. of John Proby Kensington of
Lime Grove, Putney. _m._ (2) 1833 Jane dau. of Archibald Wight of
Ormiston, East Lothian). _d._ 99 Westbourne terrace, London 17
March 1857. _G. M. ii_, 493–94 (1857).

ANDERSON, SIR HENRY LACON (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ Surat,
East Indies 1817; ed. at St. Paul’s, at St. John’s coll. Ox. and
Haileybury; entered Bombay civil service 1840; judge of Kandeish
1853; sec. to government of Bombay in political and judicial
departments 1854; chief sec. to government 1860; mem. of council
of India for making laws and regulations 1863–1865, when he
retired; sec. to India Board in judicial, public and sanitary
departments 1866; K.C.S.I. for long service in Bombay 24 May 1867.
(_m._ 1841 Anne Grace 4 dau. of Hope Stewart of Ballechin,
Perthshire, she _d._ 19 Feb. 1885). _d._ 46 Leinster gardens,
London 7 April 1879 aged 62.

ANDERSON, REV. JAMES. _b._ Newburgh; ed. at St. Andrew’s Univ.;
B.D., D.D.; author of _The Course of creation_ 1846; _Dura Den, a
monograph_ 1859. _d._ Nice 16 March 1864 aged 65.

ANDERSON, SIR JAMES (_son of John Anderson of Stirling, merchant_).
_b._ Stirling 1800; a manufacturer at Glasgow; lord provost
1848–49; knighted by the Queen at Glasgow 14 Aug. 1849; M.P. for
Stirling (lib.) 13 July 1852 to 23 April 1859. (_m._ 1831 Janet
only dau. of Robert Hood of Glasgow). _d._ Blairvadick,
Dumbartonshire 8 May 1864.

ANDERSON, JAMES. _b._ Cumberland; went to Rome before 1839; became
well known there as a photographer under name of Isaac Atkinson.
_d._ Rome 28 Feb. 1877. _Law Reports xxi Chancery division_
100–104 (1882).

ANDERSON, JAMES. _b._ 1797; entered navy 17 Sep. 1808; captain 1
Nov. 1849; retired admiral 21 March 1878. _d._ Teignmouth, Devon 7
March 1882 in 85 year.

ANDERSON, REV. JAMES. ed. at Univ. of Aberdeen; lived at Morpeth
1844 to death; the first moderator of Presbyterian church of
England; D.D. St. Andrew’s 12 Feb. 1878. _d._ The Manse, Morpeth
17 May 1882 in 87 year.

ANDERSON, SIR JAMES CALEB, 1 Baronet (_elder son of John Anderson of
Fermoy co. Cork, merchant, by his 2 wife Elizabeth only dau. of
James Semple, of Waterford, she d. 3 April 1830_). _b._ Waterford
21 July 1792; created a baronet 22 March 1813 as a mark of
approbation of the services rendered to Ireland by his father, who
advanced the civilization of Ireland fully 50 years; improved
steam locomotion. (_m._ 1815 Caroline 4 dau. of Robert Shaw of
Dublin, she _d._ 1859). _d._ London 4 April 1861. _D. O. Madden’s
Revelations of Ireland_ (1848) 268–85.

ANDERSON, SIR JAMES EGLINTON (_eld. son of W. Anderson of Glasgow,
merchant, by a dau. of James Eglinton_). _b._ 1788; ed. Univ. of
Glasgow; M.D. Edin. and Dublin; entered medical department of the
navy 1808; surgeon 19 Aug. 1811; Surgeon to one of royal yachts
1827 to Nov. 1833, when he retired from the service; M.R.C.P.;
Physician in ord. to Lord Lieut. of Ireland; knighted by him 1829;
M.R.I.A. (_m._ 1819 Jane 3 dau. of Rev. W. Learmont of Luce Abbey,
she _d._ 20 Sep. 1857). _d._ 7 Harley st. London 29 Feb. 1856.

ANDERSON, REV. JAMES STUART MURRAY. ed. at Ball. coll. Ox.; B.A.
1821, M.A. 1823; P.C. of St. George’s, Brighton 1831–51; chaplain
in ord. to the Queen 1844; preacher of Lincoln’s Inn 1844–1859; R.
of Tormarton, Gloucs. 1851; hon. canon of Bristol 1856; British
chaplain at Bonn 1859; author of _The history of the church of
England in the colonies and foreign dependencies of the British
empire, 3 vols._ 1845–56, _2 ed._ 1856; _Addresses on
miscellaneous subjects_ 1849, _2 ed._ 1858, and many sermons. _d._
Bonn 22 Sep. 1869. _I.L.N. xxvi_, 269 (1855) _portrait_.

ANDERSON, REV. JOHN. _b._ Craig farm, parish of Kilpatrick-Durham,
Galloway 23 May 1805; ed. at Univ. of Edin; ordained a minister of
church of Scotland 13 July 1836; sent out to Madras as a
missionary 1836; baptised his first converts 20 June 1841; joined
the Free Church at the disruption 1 July 1843; the mission was
then carried on in connection with that church; established many
schools both for boys and girls; published the _Native Herald_, a
bimonthly periodical 2 Oct. 1841. _d._ Madras 25 March 1855. _Rev.
John Braidwood’s True Yoke-fellows in the mission field_ 1862,
_portrait_.

ANDERSON, JOHN. Col. 43 Madras N.I. 7 Jan. 1843 to 7 Feb. 1848; col.
37 Madras N.I. 7 Feb. 1848 to death; L.G. 23 Sep. 1857. _d._
Folkestone 22 July 1858.

ANDERSON, JOHN (_son of Wm. Anderson of Green st. London, horse
dealer_). Partner with his father many years; the first man to
direct attention to the value of action in horses; Anderson’s
Steppers were known all over Europe; kept steppers in Green st.,
hacks in Bryanston st. and hunters at Mapesbury farm, Willesden
lane, which is minutely described in Edmund Yates’s first novel;
_Broken to harness_ 1865. _d._ Jany. 1864 aged 55. _Sporting
Gazette 11 Feb. 1865_, _p._ 113.

NOTE.—His horses were sold 7–9 Feb. 1865 for sum of £20898
average £205 each horse, which exceeded in value any previous
sale of horses in this country.

ANDERSON, JOHN. Col. 61 Bengal N.I. 7 July 1842 to death; General 14
Jan. 1864. _d._ Norwood, Surrey 25 April 1866 aged 84.

ANDERSON, REV. JOHN HENRY. _b._ Oakham 4 July 1841; Wesleyan
Methodist minister 1862 to death. _d._ on board the “Lorraine” in
latitude 28°31 S. longitude 61°46 E. in the Indian ocean 3 Jany.
1880. _Memorials of Rev. J. H. Anderson_ 1882, _portrait_.

ANDERSON, JOHN HENRY, known as Professor Anderson the Wizard of the
North (_eld. child of Mr. Anderson of Aberdeen, mason_). _b._
estate of Craigmyle parish of Kincardine, Aberdeenshire 14 July
1814; call boy in Ryder’s theatrical company in Scotland 1824;
first performed as a conjuror in small towns of north of Scotland
1831; performed in Waterloo rooms, Edinburgh 100 nights in 1837;
erected a building called The Temple of Magic at Glasgow, seated
for 2000 spectators, and performed in it 200 nights in 1838 and
1839; first appeared in London at Strand theatre 1840, when he
displayed finest collection of apparatus that had ever been seen
in London, performed there 4 months; converted St. James’s bazaar
in St. James’s street, into a Temple of Magic 1840; performed in
Ireland 1840; built theatre at Glasgow which was burnt; performed
at Alexandrisky theatre, St. Petersburg, and in all chief cities
of central Europe; at Covent Garden 1846, at the Strand 1848; in
America 1851–53; before the Queen at Balmoral 1853; lessee of
Lyceum theatre, London, Sep. 1855; of Covent Garden 24 Dec. 1855
where he produced a pantomime and the drama of Rob Roy in which he
acted Rob Roy; the theatre was burnt down 5 March 1856; performed
at Sadler’s Wells 1856; abroad 1856–64, at St. James’s hall,
London 1864–65; went to India and Australia. _d._ Fleece hotel,
Darlington 3 Feb. 1874. _bur._ St. Nicholas churchyard, Aberdeen 7
Feb. _Frost’s Lives of the conjurors_ (1876) 228–60; _The Era 8
Feb. 1874, p. 4, col. 1_; _15 Feb. p. 4, col. 3_.

ANDERSON, JOSEPH JOCELYN. _b._ 1789; ensign 78 foot 27 June 1805;
served in Peninsula 1809–12; lieut. col. 50 foot 1 April 1841 to
19 Sep. 1848 when he sold out; military commander and civil
superintendent of convicts Norfolk Island; commanded a brigade in
Gwalior campaign 1843; a squatter on the Goulburn Victoria; member
of legislative council 1852; K.H. 1837, C.B. 2 May 1844. _d._
Fairlie house, South Yarra 18 July 1877. _bur._ St. Kilda cemetery
21 July. _I.L.N. lxxi_, 347, 348 (1877), _portrait_.

ANDERSON, LUCY (_dau. of John Philpot of Bath_). _b._ Bath Dec.
1790; made her début at Philharmonic Society’s concerts 1822;
Pianist to Queen Adelaide 1832; Pianist to Queen Victoria 1837;
gave her last concert 30 May 1862 in Her Majesty’s theatre;
granted a civil list pension of £100 23 July 1840. (_m._ 1820
George Frederick Anderson). _d._ 34 Nottingham place, London 24
Dec. 1878. _bur._ Kensal Green cemetery 31 Dec. _I.L.N. xli_, 77
(1862), _portrait_.