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ELLICE, EDWARD (_only son of the preceding_). _b._ London 19 Aug.
1810; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1831; contested
Inverness 1834; M.P. for Huddersfield 1836–37, for St. Andrew’s
district 1837–80; author of _A Letter in reply to A Report on the
Poor Law in the Highlands_ 1855. _d._ on board his yacht Ita off
Portland during the night of 2 Aug. 1880. _bur._ at Tor-na-cairidh
on Lochgarry, Invernessshire.

ELLICE, ROBERT (_2 son of Alexander Ellice, managing director of the
Hudson’s Bay Company_). _b._ 1784; cornet 12 light dragoons 8 Nov.
1798; major 6 dragoons 25 June 1812 to 30 Nov. 1820 when placed on
h.p.; col. 24 foot 2 Nov. 1842 to death; general 20 June 1854.
_d._ Upper Norwood, Surrey 18 June 1856.

ELLICOMBE, SIR CHARLES GRENE (_brother of Rev. H. T. Ellacombe
1790–1885_). _b._ Alphington rectory 3 Aug. 1783; first lieut.
R.E. 1 July 1801, brigade major 1821 to Dec. 1842, col. commandant
30 May 1856 to death; served in Peninsula, Nov. 1811 to end of the
war; general 20 April 1861; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862.
_d._ Worthing 7 June 1871. _United Service Mag. July 1871 pp._
407–409.

ELLIOT, SIR CHARLES (_youngest son of Hugh Elliot 1752–1830,
governor of Madras_). _b._ Dresden 1801; entered navy 26 March
1815; captain 28 Aug. 1828; protector of slaves in British Guiana
1830–33; British plenipotentiary in China 1840–41; consul general
in Texas 1841–46; governor of Bermuda 1846–54; governor of
Trinidad 1854–56; governor of St. Helena 20 May 1863 to 1 Feb.
1870 when he retired on pension; retired admiral 12 Sep. 1865;
K.C.B. 19 July 1856; is drawn by Sir Henry Taylor in the poem
_Edwin the Fair_ 1845 as Earl Athulf. _d._ Withycombe near Exmouth
9 Sep. 1875. _Autobiography of H. Taylor i_, 164–69, 345–75
(1885).

ELLIOT, CHARLES MORGAN (_9 child of John Elliot, F.R.S._) _b._
Pimlico lodge, Westminster 27 April 1815; ed. at Eton and
Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Madras engineers 1832, lieut. 11 Sep. 1841 to
death; superintendent of magnetic observatory at Singapore
1840–45; made a magnetic survey of Eastern Archipelago, Jany. 1846
to Oct. 1849; F.R.S. 5 June 1851. _d._ Masulipatam 4 Aug. 1852.

ELLIOT, LADY CHARLOTTE (_eld. dau. of Sir James Carnegie, 5 baronet
1799–1849_). _b._ 22 July 1839; raised to rank of an Earl’s
daughter 1855 on her brother becoming Earl of Southesk; author of
_Stella and other poems By Florenz_ 1867; _Medusa and other poems_
1878. (_m._ (1) 16 June 1860 Thomas Frederick Scrymsoure
Fothringham, who _d._ 7 March 1864; _m._ (2) 17 Dec. 1868
Frederick Boileau Elliot, barrister 1826–80). _d._ 15 Jany. 1880.
_Athenæum 24 Jany. 1880 p._ 124.

ELLIOT, SIR GEORGE (_2 son of 1 Earl of Minto 1751–1814_). _b._
Swanage, Dorset 1 Aug. 1784; entered navy 4 June 1794; a naval
aide-de-camp to Wm. iv, 1830–37; a junior lord of the Admiralty
1835–37; commander in chief at Cape of Good Hope 1837–40;
commander of fleet in East Indies 15 Feb. 1840 to Nov. 1840;
admiral 5 March 1853; pensioned 3 Oct. 1855; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831,
K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862. _d._ 4 Prince’s terrace, Knightsbridge,
London 24 June 1863.

ELLIOT, SIR HENRY MIERS (_brother of Charles Morgan Elliot
1815–52_). _b._ 1808; ed. at Winchester; entered Bengal civil
service 1826; sec. for foreign department to governor general in
council 1847; K.C.B. for service during Sikh war 5 June 1849;
author of _Supplement to the glossary of Indian terms [Compiled
in 1842 by H. H. Wilson] A-J._ 1860, no more printed;
_Bibliographical index to the historians of Muhammedan, India,
vol. i_, 1849; _The History of India as told by its own
historians_, _edited by J. Dowson 8 vols._ 1867–77 and other
books. _d._ Simon’s Town, Cape of Good Hope 20 Dec. 1853.

ELLIOT, JOHN EDMUND (_youngest son of 1 Earl of Minto 1751–1814_).
_b._ 30 March 1788; in the Bengal civil service to 1830; M.P. for
co. Roxburgh 1837–1841 and 1847–1859; sec. of Board of Control 26
Jany. 1849 to March 1852; author of _Letter to the Teviotside
Farmer_ 1841. _d._ 29 Cadogan place, London 4 April 1862.

ELLIOT, SIR THOMAS FREDERICK (_brother of Sir Charles Eliot
1801–75_). _b._ London, July 1808; ed. at Harrow; clerk in
colonial office London 5 July 1825; sec. to commission of enquiry
into state of Canada, July 1835; agent general of emigration April
1837; chairman of board of advice and management over colonial
land and emigration 1840–1847; assistant under sec. of state for
colonies 1847 to Dec. 1868 when he retired on pension; K.C.M.G. 30
June 1869. _d._ Shepherd’s hotel, Cairo 12 Feb. 1880.

ELLIOT, SIR WALTER (_eld. son of James Elliot of Wolfelee,
Roxburghshire_). _b._ Edinburgh 16 Jany. 1803; writer Madras civil
service 1821; third member of Board of Revenue 1844, second 1848,
first 1851; comr. of the Northern Circars 1848–54; member of
council and pres. of revenue and marine boards 1855–56 and 1857 to
27 Dec. 1859 when he resigned the service; a scholar in the Tamil
and Hindustani languages; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1866; F.R.S. 6 June
1878; hon. LLD. Edin. 22 April 1878; author of _Carnacta
translation of Esop’s Fables_ 1840; _Flora Andhrica, a list of
plants in the Telegu district_ 1859, and of many papers on
archæology in _Indian Antiquary_, _Madras Journal of Literature
and Science_, _Journal of Royal Asiatic Society_ and other
periodicals. _d._ Wolfelee 1 March 1887. _Journal of Royal Asiatic
Society, July 1887 pp._ 519–24; _Biograph i_, 251–54 (1882).

ELLIOTSON, JOHN (_eld. son of Thomas Elliotson of 106 High st.
Southwark, druggist_). _b._ High st. Southwark 24 Oct. 1791; spent
5 years at Univ. of Edin. 1805–10, M.D. 24 June 1810; L.R.C.P.
London 22 Dec. 1810; spent 3 years at Jesus coll. Cam. 1813–16,
M.B. 1816, M.D. 4 July 1821; candidate of R.C.P. 1 Oct. 1821, a
fellow 30 Sep. 1822, censor 1825, consiliarius 1836, Gulstonian
lecturer 1824, Lumleian lecturer 1829–30, Harveian orator 1846;
assist. phys. to St. Thomas’s hospital 1817, phys. 1823–34;
professor of medicine at London University 1832 to Dec. 1838;
senior phys. to University hospital 1834 to Dec. 1838; began
practise of Mesmerism 1837; founded Phrenological Society of
London, pres.; founded London Mesmeric infirmary in Weymouth st.
1849; established _The Zoist_, a journal of cerebral physiology
and mesmerism 1844 which ran to 13 vols.; broke up his
establishment and quitted his house in Conduit st. 1865; pres. of
Royal Med. and Chir. Soc.; author of _The principles and practice
of medicine_ 1839; _Treatise on human physiology_, _Fifth ed._
1835–40, _another ed._ 1856 and other books. _d._ 2 Davies st.
Berkeley sq. London 29 July 1868. _J. Ashburner’s Notes and
Studies_ (1867) 59–68; _Medical Circular iv_, 403–4, 419–21, 432–3
(1854); _Physic and Physicians ii_, 273–85 (1839).

ELLIOTT, CHARLES. Entered Bengal civil service 1797; senior member
of Board of Revenue in Bengal; agent to governor general in
Western provinces, retired on annuity 1826; F.R.S. 1832; F.R.G.S.;
treasurer of Asiatic Society some years; author of _The life of
Hafiz-ool-Moolk Hafiz Rehmab Khan_ 1831. _d._ Portland place,
London 4 May 1856 aged 79.

ELLIOTT, REV. CHARLES. _b._ Greenconway, Donegal 16 May 1792; went
to the U.S. about 1815; presiding elder of Wesleyan, Ohio district
4 years; professor of languages in Madison college, Uniontown,
Panama 4 years; edited _Pittsburg Conference Journal_; edited
_Western Christian Advocate_ to 1848 and 1852–56; professor of
Biblical literature in and pres. of Iowa Wesleyan Univ. 1856–60;
author of _Treatise on Baptism_ 1834; _Delineation of Roman
Catholicism 2 vols._ 1842, _third ed._ 1851; _Life of Bishop
Roberts_ 1853 and other books. _d._ Mount Pleasant, Iowa 6 Jany.
1869.

ELLIOTT, REV. CHARLES BOILEAU (_eld. son of Charles Elliott, who d.
4 May 1856_). _b._ 1803; ed. at Harrow and Queen’s coll. Cam.,
B.A. 1833, M.A. 1837; V. of Godalming, Surrey 1833–38; R. of
Tattingstone near Ipswich 1838 to death; F.R.G.S.; F.R.S. 5 April
1832; author of _Letters from the North of Europe_ 1832; _Travels
in the three great empires of Austria, Russia and Turkey 2 vols._
1838 and other books. _d._ Geneva 1 July 1875.

ELLIOTT, REV. CHARLES JOHN. _b._ 7 July 1818; ed. at St. Cath. coll.
Cam., Crosse Univ. scholar 1840, Tyrwhitt Univ. scholar 1842, B.A.
1840, M.A. 1843; V. of Winkfield near Windsor 1844 to death;
surrogate 1872; hon. canon of Ch. Ch. Ox. 1873; select preacher at
Cambridge 1877; member of Old Testament revision company; author
of _Enquiry into the doctrine of the Church of England on private
confession and absolution_ 1859 and other books; contributed to
the _Bible Educator_ 1872, _the S.P.C.K. Commentary_, _Smith’s
Dictionary of Biography and Antiquities_, _Edinburgh Review_,
_&c._ _d._ Winkfield vicarage 11 May 1881.

ELLIOTT, CHARLOTTE (_3 dau. of Charles Elliott of Clapham and
Brighton_). _b._ 17 March 1789; lived at Torquay 1845–57, at
Brighton 1857 to death; edited _Christian Remembrancer Pocket
Book_ 1834–59; edited _The Invalid’s Hymn book_, _6 ed._ 1854, to
this collection she contributed 112 hymns including “Just as I am,
without one plea,” a hymn dated 1836 which has been translated
into almost every living language, she also wrote “My God and
Father while I stray” 1834 in the same collection; author of
_Hymns for a week_ 1837, _40th thousand_ 1871; _Hours of Sorrow_
1836 and many later editions; _Poems by C. E._ 1863. _d._ 10
Norfolk terrace, Brighton 22 Sep. 1871. _Selections from the poems
of Charlotte Elliott with a memoir by her sister E. B._ (_Mrs. E.
Babington_) 1873, _portrait_; _Just as I am, by C. Elliott_ 1884
_with memoir by H. L. L._ 1885; _Miller’s singers and songs of the
church_ 1869, 461–62.

ELLIOTT, REV. EDWARD BISHOP (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 24
July 1793; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., fellow 1817–24, B.A. 1816,
M.A. 1819; wrote Seatonian prize poems 1821 and 1822; V. of
Tuxford, Notts. 1824–40; preb. of Salisbury 1853; P.C. of St.
Mark’s chapel, Brighton 1853 to death; author of _The Question
“What is the image of the Beast?” answered_ 1838; _Horæ
Apocalyptica, or a commentary on the Apocalypse critical and
historical 3 vols._ 1844; _Vindiciæ Horariæ_ 1848 and 6 other
books. _d._ 30 July 1875.

ELLIOTT, GEORGE PERCY (_eld. son of Rev. Luther Graves Elliott of
Ottery St. Mary, Devon_). _b._ Silverton 1800; ed. at Winchester
and St. Mary hall, Ox.; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; barrister M.T. 29
May 1829; magistrate at Lambeth police court 1845 to 20 Sep. 1870
when he retired; author of _A practical treatise on the
qualifications of Parliamentary electors_ 1839; ed. for the Camden
Soc. _Diary of Dr. E. Lake_ and _Autobiography of Dr. Taswell_.
_d._ Egland, Honiton, Devon 12 July 1874.

ELLIOTT, REV. HENRY VENN (_brother of Charlotte Elliott 1789–1871_).
_b._ 17 Jany. 1792; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., fellow 1 Oct. 1816;
14 wrangler and 2 chancellor’s medallist 1814; C. of Ampton,
Suffolk 1823–25; prior of St. John’s, Wilton near Salisbury
1826–32; P.C. of St. Mary’s, Brighton 18 Jany. 1827 to death, this
chapel was built by his father for about £10,000 in 1826; founded
St. Mary’s hall, Brighton opened 1 Aug. 1836; author of _Psalms
and Hymns_ 1835, _fourteenth thousand_ 1858 and of many sermons.
_d._ 31 Brunswick sq. Brighton 24 Jany. 1865. _Life of Rev. H. V.
Elliott by Josiah Bateman_ 1868, _portrait_.

ELLIOTT, SAMUEL MACKENZIE. _b._ Inverness 9 April 1811; graduated at
College of surgeons, Glasgow 1828; studied in Cincinnati and
Philadelphia 1833–35; an oculist in New York 1835–74 where he
gained a high reputation; lieut. col. of 79 regiment of New York
volunteers in civil war 1861; raised the Highland brigade; author
of _The U.S. Highland Brigade, New York_ 1861. _d._ New Brighton,
Staten Island, New York 1 May 1873.

ELLIOTT, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (_younger son of John Elliott, captain
R.N._) _b._ Elliott house near Ripon 1792; ensign 51 foot 6 Dec.
1809, lieut. col. 27 June 1838 to 13 Feb. 1855 when placed on
h.p.; commanded Madras brigade in second Burmese war 1852–53;
commandant at Rangoon 1853–55; col. of 55 foot 15 Nov. 1861, of 51
foot 1 June 1862 to death; general 25 Oct. 1871; K.H. 19 July
1837; K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862, G.C.B. 24 May 1873. _d._ 20 Cambridge
sq. Hyde park, London 27 March 1874. _I.L.N. lxiv_, 331 (1874).

ELLIS, REV. ARTHUR AYRES (_son of Charles Ellis of Birmingham_).
_b._ Birmingham 1830; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1852, M.A.
1855, fell. of his coll. 1854; senior classical master Liverpool
coll. 1853–57; junior dean of Trin. coll. Cam. and divinity
lecturer in Ch. coll. Cam. 1859–60; V. of Stotfold, Beds. 1860 to
death; published _Bentleii Critica Sacra_ 1862. _d._ 22 March
1887.

ELLIS, SIR BARROW HELBERT (_son of S. Helbert Ellis of London_).
_b._ London 24 Jany. 1823; ed. at Univ. coll. school and
Haileybury; matric. at Univ. of London 1839; entered Bombay civil
service 26 July 1843; assistant comr. in Sind 1851–55; ordinary
member of Bombay council 1865, member of governor general’s
council 2 May 1870 to 27 April 1875; member of council of
secretary of state, July 1875 to 1885; K.C.S.I. 5 Oct. 1875; vice
pres. of Jews’ college, London where there is a portrait of him;
edited G. Stack’s _Dictionary of Sindhi and English, Bombay_ 1855.
_d._ Evian-les-Bains, Savoy 20 June 1887. _bur._ Jewish cemetery,
Willesden, Middlesex 28 June. _Journal of Royal Asiatic Soc. xix_,
688–90 (1887).

ELLIS, CHARLES WILLATS (_eld. son of Rev. Thomas Ellis, V. of Great
Milton, Oxon._) Ed. at Westminster; matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 22
Oct. 1807 aged 17; B.A. 1811, M.A. 1814; barrister L.I. 21 Nov.
1817; published _A treatise on the pleadings in suits for tithes
in equity_ 1821; _A treatise on the law of debtor and creditor_
1822; _The clergyman’s assistant ed. by C. Ellis_ 1822, _new ed._
1828; _A collection of acts and records of parliament by Sir H.
Gwillim, second ed. with notes by G. Ellis_ 1825; _The law of fire
and life insurance and annuities_ 1832, _second ed._ 1846. _d._ 42
Kensington sq. London 17 July 1868.

ELLIS, EDWARD SHIPLEY (_eld. son of John Ellis 1789–1862_). _b._
1817; chairman of Midland railway company, May 1873 to death. _d._
The Newark, Leicester 3 Dec. 1879.

ELLIS, EDWIN. Solo violinist at Cremorne Gardens, London 1841;
member of orchestra of Princess’s theatre; member of orchestra at
Adelphi theatre 1860, conductor 1867 to death; published
selections from Flotow’s Alessandro Stradella, Thomas’s Le Caid
and Offenbach’s La Belle Hélène and a few songs. _d._ St. Thomas’s
hospital, London 25 Oct. 1878 aged 35.

ELLIS, GEORGE CRESSALL. Director of Her Majesty’s dramatic
performances at Windsor castle many years. _d._ Park road east,
West Brompton, London 23 June 1875 in 66 year.

ELLIS, SIR HENRY. _b._ 1777; private sec. to pres. of Bengal board
of control at Calcutta 1812–14; minister plenipotentiary ad
interim in Persia 18 April 1814 to 1815; clerk of the Pells
1825–1834 when office was abolished; comr. of board of control 6
Dec. 1830 to 20 Dec. 1834; P.C. 11 July 1832; a comr. for affairs
of India 13 Dec. 1832; ambassador to Persia 1 July 1835 to Nov.
1836; sent on an extraordinary and special mission to the Brazils
20 Sep. 1842; K.C.B. 27 April 1848; F.R.S. 11 June 1819, F.G.S.;
author of _Journal of the proceedings of the late embassy to
China_ 1817. _d._ Brighton 28 Sep. 1855.

ELLIS, SIR HENRY (_younger son of John Ellis, master of the free
school in Primrose st. Bishopsgate st. London, who d. 1812_). _b._
Primrose st. 29 Nov. 1779; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s school and St.
John’s coll. Ox., fellow 1802–5; B.C.L. 1802; assistant librarian
at Bodleian library 1797–1800; temporary assistant in British
Museum library 1800, assistant keeper of printed books 1805,
keeper 1806–12, keeper of the manuscripts 1812–27, secretary
1814–27, principal librarian 20 Dec. 1827 to Feb. 1856; F.S.A. 15
Jany. 1807, one of the secs. 1813 to 1 Dec. 1853, director 1 Dec.
1853 to 7 Dec. 1857; F.R.S. 30 May 1811; K.H. 21 July 1832;
knighted at St. James’s palace 22 Feb. 1833; author of _History of
the parish of Saint Leonard, Shoreditch_ 1798; edited _Original
letters illustrative of English history 3 series_ 1824, 1827, 1846
and other books. _d._ 24 Bedford sq. London 15 Jany. 1869.
_Fagan’s Life of Panizzi i_, 142–43 (1880), _portrait_; _Cowtan’s
Memories of the British Museum_ (1872) 230–32; _Proc. of Soc. of
Antiq. 2 series iv_, 303–305 (1869); _I.L.N. liv_, 99, 141 (1869),
_portrait_.

ELLIS, JAMES. Managed Cremorne gardens, London 1845–51; arrived in
Melbourne, Oct. 1852; established Salle Valentino there also
Cremorne gardens. _d._ Melbourne 9 Jany. 1874 in 62 year. _Era 22
March 1874 p. 7, col. 4._

ELLIS, JOHN (_eld. son of Joseph Ellis of Sharman’s lodge near
Leicester, farmer_). _b._ Frisk house near Leicester 1789; farmer
at Beaumont Leyes near Leicester 1807–47; founded at Leicester
firm of Ellis, Everington and Co. 1826; projected the third line
of railway in England namely from Swannington to Bagworth, opened
July 1832; M.P. for Leicester 1848–52; chairman of Midland railway
company 1849–58. _d._ Belgrave near Leicester 26 Oct. 1862.
_Charlotte Ellis’s Sketch of one branch of the Ellis family,
privately printed_; _The Midland railway by F. S. Williams_ (1876)
166–68.

ELLIS, REV. ROBERT. _b._ Tyn-y-meini, Denbighshire 3 Feb. 1810;
began preaching 5 Oct. 1834; baptist minister at Llanelian 1837,
at Sirhowy, Monmouthshire 1847, at Carnarvon 1862–75; author of
_Lectures on Baptism_ 1841; _The principles of Biblical Exegesis_
1854; _Memoir of John Williams_ 1871 and other books. _d._
Gartheryr 20 Aug. 1875. _Rev. J. S. James’s Biography of Rev. R.
Ellis_ 1877.

ELLIS, REV. ROBERT. Member of St. John’s coll. Cam. 9 April 1836,
scholar 5 Nov. 1839, fellow 30 March 1841 to 2 April 1872; fifth
wrangler 1840; B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843; B.D. 1850; chiefly known by
his controversy with W. J. Law on route followed by Hannibal over
the Alps; author of _A Treatise on Hannibal’s passage of the Alps_
1853; _Contributions to the ethnography of Italy and Greece_ 1858;
_The Armenian origin of the Etruscans_ 1861 and 6 other books.
_d._ 3 Higher Summerlands, Exeter 20 Dec. 1885 aged 65. _The
Eagle, the St. John’s college magazine_ (1886).

ELLIS, ROBERT LESLIE (_youngest child of Francis Ellis of Bath_).
_b._ Bath 25 Aug. 1817; pensioner of Trin. coll. Cam. Oct. 1836,
senior wrangler 1840; B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843; fell. of his coll.
Oct. 1840 to 1849; edited _Cambridge mathematical journal_; seized
with rheumatic fever at S. Remo 1849. _d._ Anstey hall,
Trumpington 12 May 1859. _The mathematical and other writings of
R. L. Ellis, edited by W. Walton, with a biographical memoir by
Very Rev. H. Goodwin_ (1863) _pp. ix-xxxvi_, _portrait_.

ELLIS, ROBERT STAUNTON. Entered Madras civil service 1844; member of
council Madras 1875 to 16 March 1877; member of India office
council 1877 to death; C.B. 21 April 1875; found dead in his bed
at 141 Gloucester road, Kensington, London 9 Oct. 1877 aged 52.

ELLIS, SIR SAMUEL BURDON (_son of Charles Ellis, captain R.N._) _b._
1787; 2 lieut. R.M. 1 Jany. 1804; commanded Chatham division of
R.M. 1851–1855; col. of Portsmouth division 28 March 1863 to
death; general 1862; C.B. 1841, K.C.B. 18 May 1860. _d._ Old
Charlton, Kent 10 March 1865. _Memoirs and services of Sir S. B.
Ellis, edited by Lady Ellis_ 1866.

ELLIS, SARAH (_dau. of William Stickney of Ridgmont near Hull,
farmer, who d. 9 July 1848 aged 84_). _b._ 1812; brought up as a
Quaker, but became a Congregationalist 1837; author of _Pictures
of private life_, _3 series 3 vols._ 1833–37; _The poetry of life
2 vols._ 1835; _Home, or the iron rule, a story 3 vols._ 1836;
_The women of England, their social duties and domestic habits_
1839, more than 20 eds.; _The sons of the soil, a poem_ 1839;
_Family Secrets, or hints to those who would make home happy 3
vols._ 1841 and numerous other books. (_m._ 1837 William Ellis
1794–1872). _d._ Rose Hill, Hoddesdon, Herts. 16 June 1872.
_Fisher’s Drawing Room scrap book_ 1844–5, _portrait_; _S. Ellis’s
Self Deception vol. i_, _portrait_.

ELLIS, SYDNEY (_youngest son of Edward Shipley Ellis 1817–79_). _b._
Leicester 12 Dec. 1850; educ. at Brighton and at Tottenham; member
of a firm of worsted spinners; lectured to his work people on
physical and natural science; took great interest in chemistry,
geology and anthropology; member of British Assoc. 1874 and of
Literary and Philosophical Soc. of Leicester; author of _Leila
Marston, a tale_ 1861. _d._ from accidentally inhaling poisonous
gas while investigating the composition of ferro-prussiate of
potash 26 Oct. 1877, left legacies of £1000 each to
Anthropological Instit., the Royal, Chemical and Geological
societies. _Journal of Anthropological Institute ix_, 441–42
(1880).

ELLIS, THOMAS FLOWER. _b._ 1796; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., fellow;
B.A. 1818; barrister L.I. 6 Feb. 1824; Q.C. within county palatine
of Lancaster; a municipal corporation comr. 1831; recorder of
Leeds, May 1839 to death; attorney general of Duchy of Lancaster
to death; edited with J. L. Adolphus _Reports in court of King’s
Bench 12 vols._ 1835–42 and _Queen’s Bench reports, new series_,
_18 vols._ 1842–56; with Colin Blackburn _Reports in court of
Queen’s Bench 8 vols._ 1852–58; with C. Blackburn and F. Ellis
_Reports in court of Queen’s Bench_ 1858; with F. Ellis _Reports
in court of Queen’s Bench 3 vols._ 1858–61; acted as Lord
Macaulay’s executor, and edited the posthumous vol. of his works.
_d._ 15 Bedford place, Russell sq. London 5 April 1861.
_Trevelyan’s Life of Lord Macaulay_ (1878) _i_, 182, 253, 345, ii,
95, 220, 284; _Pollock’s Personal Remembrances i_, 91, 100.

ELLIS, REV. WILLIAM (_2 child of William Ellis of London_). _b._
Charles st. Long Acre, London 29 Aug. 1794; employed as a gardener
at Wisbeach; removed to London 1811; missionary of the London
missionary society in the South Sea Islands 1816–25; travelling
agent at home 1825–31; foreign sec. of L.M.S. 1831–41; edited _The
Christian Keepsake_ an annual; pastor of Congregational church at
Hoddesdon, Herts. 1847–52; missionary to Madagascar 1853, 1856 and
1861–65; author of _History of Madagascar 2 vols._ 1838;
_Polynesian Researches 2 vols._ 1829, _second ed. 3 vols._
1832–34, _another ed._ 1848, _4 vols._ 1853 and other books. _d._
Rose hill, Hoddesdon 9 June 1872. _bur._ Abney park cemetery 14
June. _J. E. Ellis’s Life of W. Ellis_ 1873; _I.L.N. lx_, 625, 630
(1872), _portrait_.

ELLIS, WILLIAM (_son of Andrew Ellis De Vezian, an underwriter at
Lloyds, London, who took name of Ellis about 1801_). _b._ Jany.
1800; assistant underwriter of Indemnity marine insurance company
1824, chief manager 1827; founded at his own expense five schools
1848–52, naming them Birkbeck after George Birkbeck; gave lectures
to the royal children at Buckingham Palace; author of _Outlines of
social economy_ 1846; _Education as a means of preventing
destitution_ 1851; _Philo-Socrates_ 1861 a series of papers, and
other books. _d._ 6 Lancaster terrace, Regent’s park, London 18
Feb. 1881. _Good Words, Aug. 1881 p._ 543, _portrait_.

ELLIS, REV. WILLIAM WEBB (_2 son of James Ellis of Manchester_).
_b._ Nov. 1807; ed. at Rugby and Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1829,
M.A. 1831; C. of St. George’s, Albemarle st. London 1836–55; R. of
St. Clement Danes, Strand 1843–55; R. of Laver Magdalen, Essex
1855 to death; author of _A concise view of prophecy which relates
to the Messiah_ 1832; _Sermons at St. George’s_ 1838; _Dangerous
errors of Romanism_ 1853. _d._ 24 Jany. 1872. _I.L.N. xxiv_, 400
(1854), _portrait_.

ELLIS, WYNN (_son of Thomas Ellis of Oundle, Northamptonshire_).
_b._ Oundle, July 1790; hosier and mercer at 16 Ludgate st. City
of London 1812, wholesale silk merchant 1830–71 latterly the
largest in London; M.P. for Leicester 1831–34 and 1839–47; sheriff
of Herts. 1851–52. _d._ 30 Cadogan place, Sloane st. London 20
Nov. 1875. _bur._ at Whitstable, personalty sworn under £600,000,
8 Jany. 1876. _I.L.N. lxviii_, 35, 37, 38 (1876), _portrait_.

NOTE.—He bequeathed all his pictures by the old masters 402 in
number to the National Gallery, but the trustees selected only
44 of them which have since been exhibited as the Wynn Ellis
collection. Among his modern pictures was a portrait of the
Duchess of Devonshire purchased by Thomas Agnew and Sons for
£10,605 the largest sum ever obtained for a picture at public
auction, after being exhibited for a short time at 39 B Old
Bond st., it was on the night of 26 May 1876 cut out of the
stretching frame and stolen.

ELLIS-McTAGGART, FRANCIS (_son of Thomas Flower Ellis 1796–1861_).
_b._ 13 Dec. 1823; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849;
barrister I.T. 4 May 1849; edited with T. F. Ellis and C.
Blackburn _Reports in court of Queen’s Bench_ 1858; with T. F.
Ellis _Reports in court of Queen’s Bench 3 vols._ 1858–61; judge
of circuit 34 (Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire) 4 May 1861 to
Dec. 1871; judge of circuit 43 (Marylebone, London), Dec. 1871 to
death; assumed additional name of McTaggart 1868. _d._ 28 Norfolk
sq. London 15 March 1872.

ELLIS-NANNEY, OWEN JONES. _b._ 1790; contested Carnarvon district 15
Dec. 1832, seated on petition 6 March 1833, unseated on counter
petition 23 May 1833; contested Carnarvon district 12 Jany. 1835;
sheriff of Carnarvon 1861. _d._ 27 Oct. 1870. _Perry and Knapp’s
Cases of controverted elections_ (1833) 106–11, 435–61; _Cockburn
and Rowe’s Cases_ (1833) 127–38, 550–60.

ELLISON, CUTHBERT EDWARD. Educ. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1840, M.A.
1843; barrister I.T. 31 Jany. 1845; stipendiary magistrate at
Newcastle 25 Jany. 1854, at Manchester 4 May 1860, at Worship st.
police court, London 14 June 1864, at Lambeth police court, Sep.
1870 to death. _d._ 7 Chester st. Grosvenor place, London 26 May
1883.

ELLISON, NATHANIEL (_son of Rev. Nathaniel Ellison, Incumbent of St.
Andrew, Newcastle upon Tyne_). _b._ Newcastle 19 March 1786; ed.
at Durham gr. sch.; admitted commoner of Univ. coll. Ox. 18 Oct.
1802; B.A. 1806, M.A. 1810; fellow of Merton coll. 1807–23;
barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1811; one of comrs. of bankrupts in London;
comr. of court of bankruptcy at Newcastle upon Tyne 21 Oct. 1842
to death. _d._ Jesmond near Newcastle 12 Dec. 1861.

ELLISTON, HENRY TWISELTON (_2 son of Robert Wm. Elliston the
comedian 1774–1831_). _b._ about 1801; established with his
brother Wm. a library at Leamington, afterwards known as the
County library; erected the music hall in Bath st. Leamington,
lessee of the royal assembly rooms, organist at the parish church
to death, librarian of the free public library Sep. 1863; wrote
four services. _d._ Leamington 19 April 1864 aged 63.

ELMES, JAMES (_son of Samuel Elmes_). _b._ London 15 Oct. 1782; ed.
at Merchant Taylor’s school; exhibited 36 architectural designs at
R.A. 1801–42; vice pres. of Royal Architectural Society 1809–48;
surveyor of port of London 1809–48; edited _The Annals of the Fine
Arts_ 1816–20; author of _Hints for the improvement of prisons_
1817, _3 ed._ 1829; _Lectures on Architecture_ 1823; _Memoirs of
Sir Christopher Wren_ 1823, _2 ed._ 1852; _The Arts and Artists 3
vols._ 1825; _Survey of the harbour and port of London_ 1838. _d._
Greenwich 2 April 1862.

ELMORE, ALFRED. _b._ Clonakilty, co. Cork 18 June 1815; historical
painter; exhibited 72 pictures at R.A., 9 at B.I. and 9 at Suffolk
st. gallery 1834–80; his picture ‘Origin of the Guelph and
Ghibelline quarrel’ was sold in 1845 for £300; A.R.A. 1845, R.A.
1857. _d._ 1 St. Alban’s road, Kensington, London 24 Jany. 1881.
_Sandby’s History of Royal Academy ii_, 302–4 (1862); _I.L.N.
lxxviii_, 125, 126 (1881), _portrait_; _Ottley’s Dict. of
painters_ 1866 _p._ 61.

ELMSLEY, JOHN (_son of John Elmsley 1762–1805, speaker of
legislative council of Lower Canada_). _b._ Elmsley house, Toronto
1801; entered British navy 1815, lieut. 1824; member of
legislative council of Upper Canada until union of two provinces
1840; joined Church of Rome; established House of Providence at
Toronto, and the first Roman Catholic school in Upper Canada;
chief founder of College of St. Michael in Toronto. _d._ Toronto 8
Aug. 1863.

ELMSLEY, WILLIAM. _b._ 1797; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A.
1819, M.A. 1822; barrister M.T. 11 Nov. 1825; Q.C. 1851; bencher
of his inn, Dec. 1851, treasurer and master of the library 1861;
judge of county courts circuit 19 (Derbyshire) 16 April 1862 to
death. _d._ Derby 20 Dec. 1866.

ELMSLIE, WILLIAM JACKSON (_2 child of James Elmslie_). _b._ Aberdeen
29 June 1832; a shoemaker to 1848; at Aberdeen gram. sch. 1848, at
King’s coll. Aberdeen 1853, at Free ch. divinity coll. 1858;
medical student in Edinburgh 1862; M.R.C.S. 1864; medical
missionary in Kashmir 1864 to death; author of _A vocabulary of
the Kashmírí language_ 1872. _d._ Goojerat 16 Nov. 1872. _Seed
time in Kashmir, a memoir of W. J. Elmslie_ 1875, _portrait_.

ELPHINSTONE, JOHN, 13 Baron Elphinstone (_only son of 12 baron
Elphinstone, who d. 21 May 1813_). _b._ Cumbernauld house,
Dumbartonshire 23 June 1807; cornet royal horse guards 28 Jany.
1826, captain 4 Dec. 1832 to 21 Nov. 1836 when placed on h.p.;
governor of Madras 6 March 1837 to 24 Sep. 1842; a lord in waiting
to the Queen, Dec. 1847 to Feb. 1852 and Jany. to Oct. 1853;
governor of Bombay Oct. 1853 to May 1860, took his seat 26 Dec.
1853; representative peer for Scotland; G.C.H. 1836; P.C. 3 Aug.
1836; G.C.B. 31 March 1859; created baron of the U.K. as Baron
Elphinstone of Elphinstone 21 May 1859. _d._ King st. St. James’s,
London 19 July 1860. _Kaye and Malleson’s History of the Indian
mutiny_ (1888–89) _i_, 309 _etc._

ELPHINSTONE, SIR JAMES DALRYMPLE HORN, 2 Baronet (_son of Sir Robert
Elphinstone, 1 baronet 1766–1848_). _b._ Logie, Elphinstone,
Aberdeenshire 20 Nov. 1805; captain in navy of H.E.I.Co.; M.P. for
Portsmouth, April 1857 to July 1865 and Dec. 1868 to March 1880; a
lord of the Treasury, Feb. 1874 to March 1880. _d._ Uplands,
Bridgwater 26 Dec. 1886.

ELPHINSTONE, MOUNTSTUART (_youngest son of 11 baron Elphinstone
1737–94_). _b._ 6 Oct. 1779; went to Calcutta 1796; resident at
Nagpur 1803–8; envoy to King of Cabool 13 Oct. 1808; political
resident at Poona 1810–18; governor of Bombay 7 Oct. 1818 to 17
Jany. 1827 where a college bearing his name was founded; author of
_An account of the kingdom of Caubul_ 1815; _History of India 2
vols._ 1841, _5 ed._ 1866 and other books. _d._ Hookward park near
Limpsfield, Surrey 20 Nov. 1859. _Life of M. Elphinstone by Sir T.
E. Colebrooke 2 vols._ 1884, _2 portraits_.

ELSLEY, CHARLES HENEAGE (_2 son of Rev. Heneage Elsley 1746–1833_).
_b._ 14 Aug. 1792; ed. at St. Peter’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1813, M.A.
1816; barrister M.T. 29 Jany. 1819; a comr. of bankrupts for
Whitby, Scarborough and Northallerton; clerk of the peace for west
riding of Yorkshire 1827 to death; recorder of Richmond, Yorkshire
1827 to death, of York 1834 to death, of Scarborough 1836 to
death; judge of county courts March 1847–1854 when he resigned;
author of _Reports of Cases by Sir W. Blackstone_, _revised_ 1828;
_Essay on the relation between the English and French languages_
1858. _d._ York 3 Aug. 1865.

ELT, CHARLES HENRY. _b._ about 1805; a chartist; chairman of
building act committee; member of Metropolitan Board of Works 1866
to death. _d._ 41 Gibson sq. Islington 20 May 1882.

ELTON, SIR ARTHUR HALLAM, 7 Baronet (_3 son of the succeeding_).
_b._ Belle Vue place, Clifton 19 April 1818; lieut. 14 foot
1840–41 when he sold out; sheriff of Somerset 1857; M.P. for Bath
28 March 1857 to 23 April 1859; author of _Poems of past years_
1856; _Below the surface 3 vols._ 1857; _Herbert Chauncey, a novel
3 vols._ 1860. _d._ Clevedon court near Bristol 14 Oct. 1883.
_I.L.N. xxx_, 478 (1857), _portrait_.

ELTON, SIR CHARLES ABRAHAM, 6 Baronet (_eld. son of Rev. Sir Abraham
Elton, 5 baronet 1755–1842_). _b._ Bristol 31 Oct. 1778; ed. at
Eton; ensign 4 foot Nov. 1796, captain 1799–1802 when placed on
h.p.; captain 48 foot 1803–4; retired July 1825; lieut.-col. 2
Somerset militia; author of _Poems_ 1804; _Tales of romance with
other poems_ 1810; _The remains of Hesiod translated into English
verse_ 1815; _Specimen of the classic poets in a chronological
series from Homer to Tryphiodorus translated into English verse 3
vols._ 1814; _A History of the Roman emperors_ 1825. _d._ at house
of his son-in-law Rev. E. D. Tinling at Bath 1 June 1853.

ELTON, JAMES FREDERIC (_2 son of Roberts W. Elton, lieut. col.
Bengal army_). _b._ 3 Aug. 1840; entered Bengal army 1857;
aide-de-camp to Sir Hugh Rose, commander in chief; captain 98
foot; served on staff of French army in Mexico 1866; vice consul
at Zanzibar 15 Dec. 1874; consul for Portuguese possessions on
east coast of Africa 8 March 1875 to death; F.R.G.S.; author of
_With the French in Mexico_ 1867. _d._ near Usekhe in Ugogo on an
exploring expedition to Lake Nyassa 19 Dec. 1877. _J. F. Elton’s
Travels and researches among the lakes and mountains of Eastern
and Central Africa_ 1879, _portrait_.

ELVEY, STEPHEN (_eld. son of John Elvey of Canterbury_). _b._
Canterbury, June 1805; lay clerk at Canterbury cathedral; Mus.
Bac. Ox. 1831, Mus. Doc. 1838; organist of New coll. Ox. 1830 to
death; organist of St. John’s coll. Ox. 1856 to death; deputy
professor of music at Ox. to 1847; choragus in Univ. of Ox. 1848
to death; published _The Oxford Psalm Book_ 1852; _The Psalter
printed for chanting upon a new principle_ 1856; _The Canticles_
1858. _d._ Oxford 6 Oct. 1860.

ELY, JOHN HENRY LOFTUS, 3 Marquis of (_eld. son of 2 Marquis of Ely
1770–1845_). _b._ Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 19 Jany. 1814;
contested Gloucester 29 July 1841; M.P. for Woodstock 1 May 1845
to 26 Sep. 1845 when he succeeded. _d._ 63 Eaton place, London 15
July 1857.

EMDEN, WILLIAM SAMUEL. Prompter at Covent Garden theatre under
Madame Vestris 1839, subsequently acting manager; partner with F.
Robson at Olympic theatre 1857–64; acting manager of St. James’s
theatre; treasurer of Covent Garden theatrical fund 1869 to death;
wrote _The evil May Day_, _The head of the family_, _Lives
labyrinth_ and _The rear admiral_, printed in Duncombe and Lacy’s
plays. _d._ 18 Upper park road, Haverstock hill, London 4 Jany.
1872 aged 71.

EMERY, SAMUEL ANDERSON (_son of John Emery, actor 1777–1822_). _b._
Hyde st. Bloomsbury, London 10 Sep. 1817; first appeared on the
stage at Fitzroy theatre, May 1834 as Dan in _John Bull_; played
at Lyceum 1843 and 1844–47; stage manager at Surrey theatre
1848–9; played at Drury Lane 1850; the original Fouché in Tom
Taylor’s _Plot and Passion_ at Olympic 17 Oct. 1853; manager of
Marylebone theatre 1857–58; first appeared in America 30 March
1863, at Barnum’s Old Museum, New York; returned to England, Sep.
1863; played at nearly all the west end theatres; played in
Australia 1880–81. _d._ 3 King William st. Strand, London 19 July
1881. _Tallis’s Drawing room table book_ (1851) 45–6, _portrait_;
_Theatre n.s. iii_, 70–2 (1884); _Theatrical Times ii_, 57 (1847),
_portrait_; _Touchstone 13 July 1878 p._ 3, _portrait_; _Illust.
sp. and dr. news, xv_, 464 (1881), _portrait_.

EMMETT, ANTHONY. Educ. at Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.E. 16 Feb. 1808, col.
11 Nov. 1851 to 21 May 1855 when placed on retired full pay as
M.G.; served in Peninsula 1809–12; held various commands at St.
Helena 1815–21, at Bermuda and in the Mediterranean. _d._ Brighton
27 March 1872.

EMMETT, ROBERT (_son of Thomas Addis Emmett, Irish patriot
1764–1827_). _b._ Ireland about 1792; went to New York with his
father 1804, admitted to New York bar; a justice of state superior
court; one of the directory formed in New York for purpose of
aiding contemplated Irish insurrection of 1848. _d._ New Rochelle,
New York 15 Feb. 1873.

EMPSON, WILLIAM. Educ. at Winchester and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A.
1812, M.A. 1815; began to contribute to _Edinburgh Review_ 1823,
wrote more than 60 articles upon law, politics and literary topics
1823–49, editor Feb. 1847 to death; professor of general polity
and the laws of England in Haileybury college near Hertford 2 July
1824 to death. _d._ Haileybury 10 Dec. 1852 aged 62. _Cockburn’s
Life of Lord Jeffrey_ (1852) _i_, 374, _ii_, 232, 310 _etc._;
_Selections from the correspondence of Macvey Napier_ (1879) _pp._
62, 547.

ENFIELD, EDWARD (_3 son of Henry Enfield, town clerk of
Nottingham_). _b._ Nottingham 15 May 1811; one of the moneyers of
the Mint, London to 1851 when he retired on pension; member of
council of University college, London, and of its committee of
management 1858 to death; chairman of committee of management and
treasurer of University college hospital 1867 to death; pres. of
senate of the college 1878 to death; pres. of Manchester New
college, London to death. _d._ 19 Chester terrace, Regents park,
London 21 April 1880. _N. H. Nixon’s North London hospital, a
history_ (1882) 40; _In Memoriam, Edward Enfield_ 1880.

ENGEL, CARL. _b._ Hanover 1818; author of _Pianist’s Handbook_ 1853;
_The music of the most ancient nations_ 1864; _Musical myths and
facts 2 vols._ 1876; hanged himself at 54 Addison road,
Kensington, London 17 Nov. 1882.

ENGLAND, POOLE VALLANCEY. Second lieut. R.A. 10 May 1805, col. 17
Feb. 1854, col. commandant 27 Feb. 1866 to 1 Oct. 1877 when placed
on retired list; general 29 March 1873. _d._ 41 Marine parade,
Dover 6 Nov. 1884 in 97 year.

ENGLAND, SIR RICHARD (_son of lieut. general Richard England of
Lifford near Ennis, co. Clare_). _b._ Detroit, Upper Canada 13 May
1793; ed. at Winchester and Marlow; ensign 5 foot 25 Feb. 1808;
lieut. col. 75 foot 6 July 1826 to 7 July 1837; lieut. col. 4 foot
7 July 1837 to 10 July 1837; lieut. col. 41 foot 10 July 1837 to
22 July 1845; brigadier general Madras 5 Feb. 1839 to Oct. 1840;
commanded third division in Crimea 21 Feb. 1854 to 17 Aug. 1855;
col. of 50 foot 20 Sep. 1854 to 20 April 1861; major general
division Curragh 15 Aug. 1856 to 31 March 1859; col. 41 foot 20
April 1861 to death; general 6 July 1863; placed on retired list 1
Oct. 1877; K.H. 1835; K.C.B. 27 Sep. 1843, G.C.B. 5 July 1855;
grand officer of legion of honour 1856. _d._ St. Margaret’s,
Titchfield, Hants. 19 Jany. 1883. _Once a week_, _xxvii_, 7, 39,
53 (1872); _Nolan’s Russian War_, _ii_, 405, _portrait_.

ENGLISH, HENRY. _b._ 1803; proprietor and editor of _The Mining
Journal_ 1835 to death; edited _The quarterly mining review 4
vols._ 1830–37; F.R.G.S.; author of _A compendium of information
relating to companies formed for working British mines_ 1826; _A
Glossary of mining terms used in Mexico, Columbia, Peru and other
parts of South America, also those used in the mining districts of
Cornwall and Derbyshire_ 1830; _The mining almanack 3 vols._
1849–51. _d._ Islington, London 28 April 1855.

ENNIS, SIR JOHN, 1 Baronet (_only son of John Ennis of Ballinahowen
court near Athlone, who d. 31 March 1834_). _b._ Dublin 15 Aug.
1800; ed. at Stonyhurst college; merchant in Dublin; sheriff of
Westmeath 1837, of co. Dublin 1849; contested Athlone, April 1856,
M.P. for Athlone, April 1857 to July 1865; a comr. of charitable
bequests to death; governor of Bank of Ireland to death; created
baronet 27 July 1866. _d._ 9 Merrion sq. east, Dublin 8 Aug. 1878.

ENNIS, SIR JOHN JAMES, 2 Baronet (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._
6 April 1842; ed. at Oscott and Ch. Ch. Ox.; sheriff of Westmeath
1866; M.P. for Athlone 1868–74 and 1880 to death. _d._ Curzon st.
Mayfair, London 28 May 1884.

ENNISKILLEN, WILLIAM WILLOUGHBY COLE, 3 Earl of (_eld. son of 2 Earl
of Enniskillen 1768–1840_). _b._ Dover st. Piccadilly, London 25
Jany. 1807; M.P. for Fermanagh 1831 to 31 March 1840 when he
succeeded his father as 3 earl of Enniskillen and 2 baron
Grinstead; hon. col. Fermanagh militia 1875 to death; F.R.S. 15
Jany. 1829; F.G.S. _d._ Florence court, Fermanagh 12 Nov. 1886.

EPPS, ELLEN (_dau. of John Frederick Elliott_). _b._ 1809; author of
_Labour and live, a story_ 1848, anon.; _Practical Observations on
health and long life_ 1855; _Blenham, a story, By the author of
Labour and live_ 1858; _Living among the dead, a story, By the
author of Blenham_ 1860. (_m._ 24 Aug. 1831 John Epps 1805–69),
she _d._ 7 July 1876.

EPPS, GEORGE NAPOLEON (_son of John Epps of Ashford, Kent, who d.
1835_). _b._ 22 July 1815; pupil and assistant of his brother John
Epps; M.R.C.S. 1845; surgeon to Homœopathic hospital in Hanover
sq. London 1845; very successful in treating spinal curvatures and
deformities; author of _Spinal curvature, its theory, its cure_
1849; _On deformities of the Spine and on Club Foot_ 1859. _d._ 28
May 1874.

EPPS, JOHN (_half-brother of the preceding_). _b._ Blackheath, Kent
15 Feb. 1805; ed. at Mill Hill school and Univ. of Edin., M.D.
1826; practised in London 1827 to death, latterly as a homœopath;
lecturer on materia medica at Homœopathic hospital 1851; joint
editor of the _London Medical and Surgical Journal_ 1828–9;
published _The Christian physician and Anthropological magazine_
1835–9; edited _Journal of health and disease_ 1845–52; _Notes of
a new truth_ 1856–69; contested Northampton as a Chartist 30 July
1847; author of _The Devil_ 1842, anon.; _Constipation, its theory
and cure_ 1854; _Consumption, its nature and treatment_ 1859. _d._
89 Great Russell st. Bloomsbury, London 12 Feb. 1869. _Diary of
the late John Epps, edited by Mrs. Epps_ 1875; _J. F. Clarke’s
Autobiographical Recollections_ (1874) 137–40.

ERCK, JOHN CAILLARD. Ecclesiastical comr. for Ireland; author of
_The Irish ecclesiastical register for the year 1817 By J. C. E.
Dublin_ 1817; _Records of patent rolls of Chancery, Ireland 2
vols._ 1847–50. _d._ Dublin 2 June 1851.

ERLE, PETER (_4 son of Rev. Christopher Erle of Gillingham,
Dorset_). _b._ 1795; ed. at New college, Ox., fellow 1812–25, B.A.
1816, M.A. 1821; barrister M.T. 1 June 1821; chief charity estate
comr. 24 Oct. 1853 to 1872; Q.C. 10 July 1854; bencher of his inn
22 Nov. 1854, treasurer 1864; P.C. 27 Nov. 1872. _d._ 12 Park
crescent, Regent’s park, London 29 Jany. 1877.

ERLE, SIR WILLIAM (_brother of the preceding_). _b._
Fifehead-Magdalene, Dorset 1 Oct. 1793; ed. at Winchester and New
coll. Ox.; B.C.L. 1818, D.C.L. 1857; fellow of his college
1811–34, hon. fellow 1870 to death; barrister M.T. 26 Nov. 1819;
admitted barrister at I.T. 11 June 1822, bencher 18 Nov. 1834,
reader 1843, treasurer 1844; K.C. 1834; M.P. for city of Oxford 26
July 1837 to 23 June 1841; counsel for Bank of England 1844;
serjeant-at-law 7 Nov. 1844; justice of Court of Common Pleas 6
Nov. 1844; transferred to Court of Queen’s Bench, Oct. 1846; chief
justice of Court of Common Pleas 24 June 1859 to 26 Nov. 1866;
knighted 23 April 1845; P.C. 6 July 1859; F.R.S. 22 Nov. 1860;
member of Trades Union commission 1867–8; author of _The law
relating to Trades Unions_ 1869. _d._ Bramshott Grange near
Liphook, Hants. 28 Jany. 1880. _I.L.N. lxxvi_, 157 (1880),
_portrait_.

ERLE-DRAX, JOHN SAMUEL WANLEY SAWBRIDGE- (_eld. son of Samuel Elias
Sawbridge of Olantigh tower, Ashford, Kent_). _b._ 6 Oct. 1800;
captain in East Kent militia 35 years; maintained a troop of
yeomanry known as the Charborough troop; assumed name of Erle-Drax
1828; M.P. for Wareham 1841–57, 1859–65 and 1868–80; contested
Wareham 1857 and 1865. _d._ Holnest park, Sherborne 5 Jany. 1887.
_The book of sports ii_, 61 (1843), _portrait_; _New sporting mag.
xiii_, 262 (1837), _portrait_.

ERRINGTON, MOST REV. GEORGE (_2 son of Thomas Errington of Clintz
near Richmond, Yorkshire_). _b._ Clintz 14 Sep. 1804; ed. at Ushaw
1814–21 and English college, Rome 1821–24; sub-deacon 1825, deacon
1826, priest 22 Dec. 1827; D.D. cum præmio 1827; vice rector of
English college, Rome 29 May 1832 to 1843; travelled in France and
Spain 1832–40; presided over the studies in St. Mary’s coll.
Oscott 1843–47; employed at Liverpool and Salford 1848–51; bishop
of newly created see of Plymouth 27 June 1851 to March 1855;
consecrated in church of St. John, Salford by Abp. Wiseman 25 July
1851; coadjutor to Cardinal Wiseman with title of Archbishop of
Trebizond in partibus March 1855 to 2 July 1862; administrator of
diocese of Clifton, Oct. 1855 to Feb. 1857; assistant at
pontifical throne 5 Dec. 1869; held charge of missions in Isle of
Man 1865–8; undertook tuition of young theological students at St.
Paul’s college, Prior Park, Bath, Oct. 1870 to death; author of
_Four lectures on the hierarchy of the Catholic Church_ 1850; _The
Irish land question_ 1880. _d._ Prior Park 19 Jany. 1886. _M.
Brady’s Episcopal Succession_, _iii_, 376, 436, 437, 473 (1877).

ERRINGTON, JOHN EDWARD (_eld. son of John Errington_). _b._ Hull 29
Dec. 1806; a resident engineer on Grand Junction railway to 1837;
joint engineer with Joseph Locke of Lancaster and Carlisle railway
1843; constructed Caledonian railway 1848; engineer to London and
South Western railway 1856–60; A.I.C.E. 1831, M.I.C.E. 22 Jany.
1839, mem. of council 1850, vice pres. 1861–62. _d._ 6 Pall Mall
east, London 4 July 1862. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxii_,
626–29 (1863).

ERSKINE, DAVID MONTAGU ERSKINE, 2 Baron (_eld. son of 1 Baron
Erskine 1750–1823_). Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1797, LLD.
1811; barrister L.I. 20 Nov. 1802; M.P. for Portsmouth 19 Feb. to
July 1806; min. plenipo. to United States, July 1806 to 1809, at
Stuttgard 1825–28; ambassador at Munich, Feb. 1828 to Nov. 1843
when he retired on pension. _d._ Butler’s Green near Lewes 19
March 1855 aged 79.

ERSKINE, EDWARD MORRIS (_4 son of the preceding_). _b._ Brighton 28
March 1817; attaché at Munich 25 Sep. 1835; envoy extraordinary
and minister plenipotentiary at Athens 7 May 1864 to 24 July 1872,
at Stockholm 24 July 1872 to 1 May 1881 when he retired on a
pension; C.B. 25 Feb. 1873. _d._ Neville house, Twickenham 19
April 1883.

ERSKINE, VERY REV. HENRY DAVID (_2 son of 1 Baron Erskine
1750–1823_). Ed. at Univ. of Edin. and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. Cam.
1809; D.D. Columbia coll. New York 1852; R. of Swithland, Leics.
1817–41; R. of Kirby Underdale, Yorkshire 1840 to death; preb. of
York cath. 28 Oct. 1845, dean of Ripon 23 Sep. 1847 to death. _d._
Ripon 27 July 1859 aged 72.

ERSKINE, JOHN ELPHINSTONE (_son of David Erskine of Cardross,
Stirling_). _b._ 13 July 1806; entered navy 1819; captain 28 June
1838; M.P. for Stirlingshire, July 1865 to 26 Jany. 1874; R.A. 4
Nov. 1857; commanded a division of Channel Squadron 1859–61,
admiral 10 Sep. 1869; author of _A short account of the
discoveries of gold in Australia_ 1851; _Journal of a cruise among
the islands of the Western Pacific_ 1853. _d._ 1 Albany,
Piccadilly, London 23 June 1887.

ERSKINE, THOMAS (_3 son of 1 Baron Erskine 1750–1823_). _b._ 10
Serjeant’s Inn, Fleet st. London 12 March 1788; ed. at Harrow;
entered at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. as a peer’s son without
residence or examination 1811; secretary of presentations 1806;
practised as special pleader 1810–13; barrister L.I. 20 May 1813;
K.C. Nov. 1827; chief judge of Court of Review in Bankruptcy 2
Dec. 1831 to Nov. 1842; P.C. 1831; a judge of Court of Common
Pleas 9 Jany. 1839 to Nov. 1844; pres. of Trinitarian Bible
Society 1840. _d._ Bournemouth 9 Nov. 1864.

ERSKINE, THOMAS (_youngest son of David Erskine of Linlathen,
Forfarshire, who d. 5 April 1791_). _b._ Edinburgh 13 Oct. 1788;
an advocate in Edin. 1810–16; a friend of Dr. Chalmers and Thomas
Carlyle; author of _Remarks on the internal evidence of the truth
of revealed religion_ 1820, _10 ed._ 1878; _An essay on faith_
1822; _The unconditional freeness of the Gospel_ 1828; _The
doctrine of election and its connection with Christianity_ 1837,
_2 ed._ 1878 and 8 other books. _d._ Edinburgh 20 March 1870.
_Letters of Thomas Erskine of Linlathen edited by W. Hanna_ 1878.

ESCOTT, BICKHAM SWEET. _b._ 1802; barrister M.T. 17 June 1825; M.P.
for Winchester 1841–47; contested West Somerset at general
elections of 1832, 1835 and 1847; author of _A letter on the
reform question_ 1831 and other works on same subject. _d._
Hartrow manor, Somerset 4 Nov. 1853.

ESDAILE, JAMES. _b._ Montrose 6 Feb. 1808; ed. at Univ. of Edin.,
M.D. 1830; assistant surgeon Bengal army 1831; presidency surgeon
at Calcutta 1848, marine surgeon 1850 to 1 June 1851; began
practising mesmerism 1845; author of _Letters from the Red Sea,
Egypt and the Continent_, _Calcutta_ 1839; _Mesmerism in India and
its practical application in surgery and medicine_ 1846; _Natural
and mesmeric clairvoyance with the practical application of
mesmerism in surgery and medicine_ 1852 and other books. _d._ Elm
bank, Lawrie road, Sydenham 10 Jany. 1859.

ESMONDE, SIR JOHN, 9 or 10 Baronet. _b._ Kilmanock, co. Wexford 16
May 1826; ed. at Clongowes Wood and Trin. coll. Dublin; called to
Irish bar 1850; M.P. for co. Waterford 1852 to death; sheriff of
Wexford 1866, of Wicklow 1875. _d._ 9 Dec. 1876.

ESMONDE, SIR THOMAS, 8 or 9 Baronet. _b._ 10 Dec. 1786; succeeded
his uncle 19 Dec. 1803; M.P. for Wexford 1841–47; P.C. Ireland
1847. _d._ 31 Dec. 1868.

ESPINASSE, JAMES (_only son of Isaac Espinasse of Bexley, Kent, who
d. 14 Feb. 1834 aged 76_). _b._ 1798; ed. at Balliol coll. Ox.,
B.A. 1820; barrister G.I. 27 June 1827; recorder of Rochester 1842
to death; judge of county courts, circuit 49 (West Kent), March
1847 to death; author of _A treatise on the law of bankrupts_
1823. _d._ The college, Maidstone 16 March 1867.

ESSEX, CATHARINE CAPEL-CONINGSBY, Countess of (_dau. of Edward
Stephens of London, carver and gilder_). _b._ London 18 Sep. 1791;
sang under name of Miss Young at many concerts in the provinces;
sang in Italian opera at the Pantheon, London 1812 as Catharine
Stephens; first appeared at Covent Garden as Mandane in Arne’s
opera _Artaxerxes_ Sep. 1813; played Polly in _The Beggar’s Opera_
and Clara in _The Duenna_; sang at Drury Lane 1822–26; sang at
concerts and in oratorios; one of the finest soprano singers; her
voice reached to the high D; retired from the stage 1831. (_m._ 19
April 1838 George Capel-Coningsby 5 Earl of Essex 1757–1839), she
_d._ 9 Belgrave sq. London 22 Feb. 1882, mural monument erected in
Watford church, Herts. March 1885. _Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography
ii_, 123–36 (1825), _portrait_; _Mrs. C. B. Wilson’s Our Actresses
i_, 276–87 (1844), _portrait_; _E. C. Clayton’s Queens of song
ii_, 33–44 (1865); _Theatrical Inquisitor iii_, 259–61 (1813),
_portrait_; _Musical Gem_ (1832), 2–3, _portrait_.

ESSEX, WILLIAM. Enamel painter; sole exponent of the art after death
of H. P. Bone 1855; painted many miniature copies of pictures by
Correggio, Guido, Wilkie and others; exhibited 109 enamels at
R.A., 20 at B.I. and 17 at Suffolk st. gallery 1818–64; enamel
painter to the Queen 1839 to death; a private exhibition of his
works was held in 1839, of which a catalogue was printed. _d._
Brighton 29 Dec. 1869 aged 85.

ESTCOURT, REV. EDGAR EDMUND (_eld. son of Rev. Edmund William
Estcourt of Newnton, Wilts._) _b._ 7 Feb. 1816; ed. at Ex. coll.
Ox., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1840; C. of Cirencester, Gloucs. 1842–45;
received into Church of Rome at Prior Park, Dec. 1845; ordained
priest 1848; œconomus of diocese of Birmingham 1850; canon of St.
Chad’s cathedral, Birmingham to death; author of _The dogmatic
teaching of the Book of Common Prayer on the subject of the Holy
Eucharist_ 1868; _The question of Anglican orders discussed_ 1873;
_The memoir of Jane Dormer, Duchess of Feria_, _edited by Rev. J._
Stevenson 1887. _d._ Leamington 16 April 1884. _bur._ Kenilworth.

ESTCOURT, JAMES BUCKNALL (_2 son of the succeeding_). _b._ Edward
st. Portman sq. London 12 July 1802; ed. at Harrow; ensign 44 foot
13 July 1820, second in command in Euphrates valley expedition
1834–36; major 43 foot 21 Oct. 1836 to 25 Aug. 1843 when placed on
h.p.; adjutant general in the Crimea 21 Feb. 1854 to death;
granted distinguished service reward 25 Oct. 1854; M.G. 12 Dec.
1854; M.P. for Devizes 1848–52; named a K.C.B. in London Gazette
10 July 1855. _d._ of cholera in camp before Sebastopol 23 June
1855.

ESTCOURT, THOMAS GRIMSTON BUCKNALL (_eld. son of Thomas Estcourt of
Estcourt, Gloucs. 1748–1818_). _b._ 3 Aug. 1775; ed. at C.C. coll.
Ox., M.A. 1796; hon. D.C.L. 1827; barrister L.I. 20 June 1820;
recorder of Devizes; chairman of Wiltshire general quarter
sessions to 1837; M.P. for Devizes 1805–26, for Univ. of Ox.
1826–47. _d._ Estcourt 26 July 1853.

ESTCOURT, THOMAS HENRY SUTTON SOTHERON (_eld. son of the
preceding_). _b._ 4 April 1801; ed. at Harrow and Oriel coll. Ox.;
B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, D.C.L. 1857; M.P. for Marlborough 1829–1832,
for Devizes 1835–1844, for North Wilts, 1844 to 1865; pres. of
Poor law board 8 March 1858 to 9 March 1859; P.C. 1858; sec. of
state for home department 3 March 1859 to June 1859. _d._ Estcourt
6 Jany. 1876. _I.L.N. xxxii_, 312 (1858), _portrait_, _lxviii_,
70, 76, 83, 287 (1876), _portrait_.

ESTLIN, JOHN BISHOP (_son of John Prior Estlin of Bristol,
schoolmaster 1747–1817_). _b._ St. Michael’s hill, Bristol 26 Dec.
1785; M.C.S. 1806, F.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon at Bristol 1808 to
death, where he established a dispensary for treatment of diseases
of the eye 1812 which he managed 1812–49; one of the chief
ophthalmic surgeons; author of _On prayer and divine aid_ 1825;
_Remarks on Mesmerism_ 1845. _d._ Park st. Bristol 10 June 1855.
_Memoir of J. B. Estlin By W. James_ 1855.

ETHERIDGE, MOST REV. JAMES. _b._ Redmarley, Worcs. 19 Oct. 1808; ed.
at Stonyhurst coll.; ordained priest 1836; rector of Mount St.
Mary’s coll. 1842; minister at Hodder 1842; minister of St.
Wilfred’s, Preston 1855; bishop of Torona and vicar apostolic of
British Guiana 1858 to death; consecrated by Cardinal Wiseman in
London 17 Oct. 1858. _d._ on his passage from Barbadoes to
Georgetown, Demerara 1 Jany. 1878.

ETHERIDGE, REV. JOHN WESLEY. _b._ Youngwoods near Newport, Isle of
Wight 24 Feb. 1804; Wesleyan minister at Hull 1827, London 1829,
in Cornwall 1833–37 and 1853 to death; Ph.D. Heidelberg 1847; a
scholar in many languages; author of _The Syrian churches, their
history, liturgies and literature with translation of the Four
Gospels from the Peschito_ 1846; _The Life of Dr. Adam Clarke_
1858; _The Life of Dr. Thomas Coke_ 1860 and other books. _d._
Camborne 24 May 1866. _Rev. T. Smith’s Memoirs of Rev. J. W.
Etheridge_ 1871.