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ETWALL, RALPH. _b._ in or near Andover 1804; M.P. for Andover
1831–47; kept a racing stud 1832 to about 1849; one of the best
known coursers in south of England. _d._ Connaught st. Hyde Park,
London 15 Dec. 1882. _William Day’s Reminiscences of the turf_, _2
ed._ 1886, _pp._ 241–46.

EUING, WILLIAM. _b._ Partick near Glasgow 20 May 1788; ed. at
Glasgow gr. sch. and univ.; an underwriter and insurance broker at
Glasgow 1819; founded a music lectureship at Anderson’s college,
Glasgow by deed dated 1866; left his valuable musical library (of
which a catalogue was printed) to Anderson’s college, with £1000
for its maintenance. _d._ Glasgow 12 May 1874. _T. Mason’s Public
and private libraries of Glasgow_ 1885 _pp._ 176–93, 437; _Rev. C.
Rogers’s Leaves from my autobiography_ (1876) _p._ 331; _Journal
of British Archæol. Assoc. xxxi_, 231–2 (1875).

EUSTACE, SIR JOHN ROWLAND (_youngest son of Charles Eustace of
Robertstown, co. Kildare_). _b._ 1795; ed. at St. Peter’s coll.
Cam., B.A. 1816; captain Grenadier guards 5 July 1827 to 24 April
1840 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 2 April 1859; knighted 1816; K.H.
1835; sheriff of Kildare 1848. _d._ Bouverie sq. Folkestone 7 Aug.
1864.

EUSTACE, SIR WILLIAM CORNWALLIS (_brother of the preceding_). Lieut.
32 foot 27 Sep. 1783; lieut. col. Chasseurs Britanniques 23 Aug.
1810 to 1814 when placed on h.p. regiment being disbanded; captain
Grenadier guards 25 March 1818 to 18 May 1826 when placed on h.p.;
col. 60 Rifles 7 April 1843 to death; general 20 June 1854; C.B. 4
June 1815; K.C.H. 1832. _d._ Sampford hall, Essex 9 Feb. 1855 aged
73.

EVANS, REV. ALFRED BOWEN. _b._ Finsbury sq. London 1816; C. of
Enfield, Middlesex 1854–61; R. of St. Mary-le-Strand, London 1861
to death; a powerful and original preacher; D.D. by Abp. of
Canterbury 1863; author of _Dissent and its inconsistences_ 1841;
_Christianity in its homely aspects 2 vols._ 1852–4; _Lectures on
the book of Job_ 1856 and 30 other books. _d._ 23 Gloucester
crescent, Regent’s park, London 6 Nov. 1878. _Rev. C. M. Davies’s
Orthodox London_ (1874) 176–85.

EVANS, ANNE (_dau. of the succeeding_). _b._ 4 June 1820; resided at
Britwell court near Burnham, then at Bosworth, afterwards at 16
Kensington sq. London; a friend of Thackeray and his daughters;
poet and musician. _d._ 16 Kensington sq. London 19 Feb. 1870.
_Anne Evans’ Poems and music, with memorial preface by Anne
Thackeray Ritchie_ 1880, _portrait_.

EVANS, REV. ARTHUR BENONI (_2 son of Rev. Lewis Evans 1755–1827, V.
of Froxfield, Wilts._) _b._ Compton-Beauchamp, Berks. 25 March
1781; ed. at Gloucester and St. John’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1804, M.A.
1820, B.D. and D.D. 1828; C. of Hartpury, Gloucs. 1804; professor
of classics and history in royal military college, Great Marlow
1805–12 when he removed with the college to Sandhurst, resigned
1822; C. of Burnham, Bucks. 1822–29; master of Market Bosworth
free gr. sch. 1829 to death; C. of Bosworth Carlton and Cadeby
successively 1829–41; author of _Synopses for the use of the
students in the royal military academy_; _The Curate and other
poems_ 1810; _Leicestershire words, phrases and proverbs_ 1848,
and 16 other books. _d._ Market Bosworth 8 Nov. 1854. _G.M.
xliii_, 100–102 (1855).

EVANS, BROOKE (_son of Thomas Evans of Birmingham, tailor_). _b._
Bull st. Birmingham 1797; manufacturer of fire arms in the United
States; indigo planter and merchant; glass and lead merchant at
Stratford-on-Avon 6 years; partner with Charles Askin as
manufacturers of nickel and cobalt at Birmingham 1835–47 when
Askin died, managed the business (which gained a European
reputation) 1847 to death. _d._ Birmingham 15 Sep. 1862.

EVANS, CALEB. _b._ 25 July 1831; clerk in Chancery pay office,
London 1852–82; collected fossils near London 1858–83; a founder
of Geologists’ Association of London 1857; F.G.S. 1867; author of
11 papers on geological subjects, some of which were published
separately; constructed several excellent geological models or
relief maps. _d._ 16 Sep. 1886.

EVANS, CHARLES (_eld. son of Rev. Benjamin Evans, assistant master
at Harrow_). _b._ Harrow 1798; ed. at Eton and Pemb. coll. Cam.,
12 wrangler 1819; B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; fell. of his coll. 1821;
barrister L.I. 4 Feb. 1823; revising barrister for Norwich 1832 to
death; comr. of bankrupts for Norwich; chancellor of diocese of
Norwich 1845 to death; pres. of directors of Norwich Union Fire
office. _d._ Norwich 21 Oct. 1868.

EVANS, CHARLES JOHN. Entered British Museum 1858; compiled the
catalogue of music which occupied him 15 years; wrote many
articles in _Grove’s Dictionary of Musicians 3 vols._ 1879–82;
played the fagotto or bassoon in the Wandering Minstrels
Orchestra. _d._ 150 King’s road, Chelsea 8 Dec. 1884.

EVANS, DANIEL THOMAS (_eld. son of Thomas Evans of Taunton_). _b._
Cain’s Cross, Gloucs.; barrister M.T. 19 Nov. 1847; sub-editor of
_The Law Times_ 1843–46; joint editor of _Wise and Evans’s Digest_
1846–55, sole editor 1855–73 when it ceased. _d._ London 6 Nov.
1885 in 73 year.

EVANS, DAVID MORIER (_son of Joshua Lloyd Evans of Llanidloes,
Montgomeryshire_). _b._ London, 1819; assistant city correspondent
of _The Times_ 1846–57; manager of _Morning Herald_ 1857, of
_Standard_ 1857–72; started _The Hour_, daily morning paper, March
1873; became bankrupt 19 Dec. 1873; editor and part proprietor of
_Banker’s Mag._, and _Banker’s Almanac_ and _Bullionist_; author
of _The commercial crisis of 1847–48_, 1849; _City men and city
manners_ 1856; _Revelations of facts, failures and frauds_ 1861.
_d._ Albion house, King Edward’s road, South Hackney, London 1
Jany. 1874.

EVANS, EDWARD DAVID (_eld. son of Edward Evans of London,
printseller, who d. 24 Nov. 1835 aged 46_). Printseller at 1 Great
Queen st., Lincoln’s Inn Fields with his mother and brother
1835–53, then at 403 Strand 1853 to death. _d._ 3 Circus road, St.
John’s Wood, London 15 Aug. 1860 aged 42.

EVANS, REV. EVAN. _b._ Gellillyndy, Llanddewibrefi, Cardiganshire 8
March 1804; Calvinistic preacher 1825; joined the Independents
1847; went to America 1869; collected a small Welsh church in
Arkansas 1881, in charge of it to his death; author of numerous
works in the Welsh language. _d._ 29 Oct. 1886.

EVANS, EVAN WILLIAM. _b._ near Swansea 1827; graduated at Yale Univ.
1851; principal of Delaware institute, Franklin, New York; a tutor
in Yale 1855–57; professor of natural philosophy and astronomy in
Marietta college, Ohio 1857–64; a mining engineer 1864–67;
professor of mathematics in Cornell Univ. 1868–72; regarded as the
best Celtic scholar in the United States. _d._ Ithaca, New York 22
May 1874.

EVANS, FREDERICK JOHN (_son of John Evans, gas engineer_). _b._
1818; chief consulting engineer of Gas light and coke company,
London 1863–72, the works at Beckton, opposite Woolwich, finest
establishment of the kind in the world were opened 1871; this
company absorbed 7 other companies 1870–76, in 1881 it made about
two-thirds of the whole metropolitan supply; discovered valuable
properties of oxide of iron for gas purification which
revolutionised conduct of that process; A.I.C.E. 10 March 1840;
M.I.C.E. 9 Feb. 1864. _d._ Clayponds, Brentford 8 July 1880. _Min.
of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxiii_, 311–13 (1881).

EVANS, SIR FREDERICK JOHN OWEN (_son of John Evans, master R.N._)
_b._ 9 March 1815; entered navy 1828; superintendent of compass
department of navy 1855; Chief Naval Assistant to the hydrographer
to the admiralty 1865, hydrographer to the admiralty 1874–84;
captain 1872; C.B. 8 May 1873; K.C.B. 24 May 1881; F.R.S. 5 June
1862, vice pres. 1876; author of _Chart of curves of equal
magnetic declination_ 1858; _Report on compass deviations in the
royal navy_ 1860; edited with Archibald Smith, _Admiralty manual
for ascertaining deviations of the compass_ 1862, _3 ed._ 1869.
_d._ 21 Dawson place, Bayswater, London 20 Dec. 1885. _Proc. of
Royal Soc. xl_, 1–7 (1886).

EVANS, SIR GEORGE DE LACY (_son of John Evans of Miltown_). _b._
Moig, co. Limerick 7 Oct. 1787; ensign 22 foot 1 Feb. 1807;
captain 5 West India regiment 1815–17 when placed on h.p.; M.P.
for Rye 1830–31, for Westminster 1833–41 and 1846–65; contested
Westminster and Rye, Dec. 1832; commanded British legion of 9,600
men in Spain, June 1835 to June 1837; col. 21 foot 29 Aug. 1853 to
death; commanded 2nd division of British army in Crimea 1854–55;
general 10 March 1861; K.C.B. 13 Feb. 1838, G.C.B. 5 July 1855;
granted distinguished service reward 1 Sep. 1848; grand officer of
Legion of Honour 1856; author of _Facts relating to the capture of
Washington_ 1829 and other books. _d._ 6 Great Cumberland st. Hyde
park, London 9 Jany. 1870. _G. Ryan’s Our Heroes_ (1855) 13–36;
_G. Mackay’s Leaders of the Host_ 1854; _Diprose’s St. Clements
i_, 64–68 (1869); _E. H. Nolan’s Russian war i_, 661 (1857),
_portrait_; _Duncan’s The English in Spain_ (1877) 41, 342.

NOTE.—The thanks of the House of Commons were voted to him “in
his place” 2 Feb. 1855 and so the seat from which he heard the
thanks read out became his all the rest of the time he sat in
the House.

EVANS, GEORGE HENRY. _b._ Bromyard, Herefordshire 25 March 1805;
went to the United States 1820, one of the earliest land reformers
there; advocated inalienable homesteads, general bankrupt laws and
laborers’ liens; edited and published _The Man_, at Ithaca, New
York about 1822; the _Working Man’s Advocate_, in New York 1830;
The _Daily Sentinel_ 1837; and _Young America_, in New York and
then at Rahway, New Jersey 1853. _d._ Granville, New Jersey 2 Feb.
1855.

EVANS, JOHN (_only son of John Evans of Haverfordwest,
Pembrokeshire_). Ed. at univ. of Glasgow and Geneva; barrister
I.T. 16 June 1820; Q.C. 1837; bencher of his inn 1837, reader
1849, treasurer 1850; M.P. for Haverfordwest 1847–52; F.S.A. 3
Feb. 1853. _d._ Buxton 17 Oct. 1864 aged 68.

EVANS, VEN. JOHN. _b._ Carmarthen; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.,
B.D. 1830; V. of Llanboidy, Carmarthenshire 1827 to death; R. of
Llanglydwen, Carmarthenshire 1832 to death; archdeacon of
Carmarthen 1858 to death. _d._ Nantyr-Eglwys, St. Clear’s 7 Feb.
1865.

EVANS, REV. JOHN. _b._ Ty Mawr, North Wales 23 July 1814; Welsh poet
and Calvinistic methodist minister; better known as I. D. Fpaid;
author of _History of the Jews_ 1830 in Welsh; translated into
Welsh _Young’s Night Thoughts_ and _Milton’s Paradise Lost_;
contributed prose and verse to Welsh periodicals. _d._ 4 March
1876.

EVANS, REV. JOHN (_son of John Evans of Wellington, Somerset_).
Matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 13 Oct. 1814 aged 18; P.C. of Whixhall,
Salop 1844 to death; author of _Compendious view of the
authenticity and inspiration of the Old and New Testament_ 1828;
_Statutes of the fourth general council of the Lateran_ 1843 and
many other books. _d._ Whixhall vicarage 7 March 1889.

EVANS, REV. LEWIS (_4 son of Thomas Simpson Evans of St. Botolphs,
London_). Matric. from Wadham coll. Ox. 30 June 1832 aged 17; B.A.
1836, M.A. 1842; fell. of his coll. 1839–46; head master of
Sandbach free gr. sch. 1850 to death; edited _Marshall’s
Penitential Discipline_ 1844; _Bishop Beveridge’s Sermons 8
vols._; author of _The satires of Juvenal Persius, Sulpicia and
Lucillius literally translated into English prose with notes_
1848; author with Rev. J. G. Sheppard of _Notes upon Thucydides
Books i and ii_, 1857. _d._ Gloucester 28 March 1869.

EVANS, RICHARD. Portrait painter and copyist; pupil and assistant to
Sir Thomas Lawrence; lived at Rome many years; exhibited 42
pictures at R.A. 1816–59. _d._ Southampton, Nov. 1871 aged 87.

EVANS, ROBERT HARDING (_son of Thomas Evans of London, bookseller
1742–84_). Ed. at Westminster school; apprenticed to Thomas Payne
bookseller at the Mewsgate; general bookseller in Pall Mall
1804–12; auctioneer at sale of Roxburghe and many other famous
libraries 1812–47; edited _Bishop Burnet’s History of his own time
4 vols._ 1808–9; _Hakluyt’s Collection of early voyages of the
English nation 5 vols._ 1809–12 and other books; author with
Thomas Wright of _Historical account of the caricatures of James
Gillray_ 1851. _d._ Edward st. Hampstead road, London 25 April
1857 in 80 year. _Dibdin’s Bibliographical Decameron iii_, 51
(1817), _portrait_; _G.M. ii_, 734–5 (1857).

EVANS, VEN. ROBERT WILSON (_2 son of John Evans, M.D. of
Shrewsbury_). _b._ the council house, Shrewsbury 30 Aug. 1789; ed.
at Shrewsbury and Trin. coll. Cam., 7th wrangler 1811; B.A. 1811,
M.A. 1814, B.D. 1842; fellow of his college 1813, classical tutor
1814; V. of Tarvin, Cheshire 1836–42; V. of Heversham,
Westmoreland 1842 to death; archdeacon of Westmoreland 1856 to
Jany. 1865; author of _The Bishopric of Souls_ 1842, _5 ed._ 1877;
_The rectory of Valehead_ 1830, _12 ed._ 1842; _Tales of the
ancient British church_ 1840, _3 ed._ 1859 and 25 other works.
_d._ Heversham vicarage 10 March 1866. _E. Bickersteth’s ed. of
Bishopric of Souls_ (1877) _v-xiv_, _portrait_; _The Church of
England Photographic portrait gallery_ (1859), _portrait_ 33.

EVANS, THOMAS. Ensign 113 foot 3 Dec. 1794; lieut.-col. 70 foot 24
Sep. 1829 to 28 June 1838; col. 81 foot 12 July 1847 to death;
general 18 May 1855; C.B. 4 June 1815. _d._ Quebec 11 Feb. 1863.

EVANS, THOMAS. _b._ Cardigan 1840; a collier at Aberdare; won 20
prizes for his poems at Eisteddfodau; his poetical works were
published with a short memoir in 1866. _d._ 29 April 1865.

EVANS, REV. THOMAS SAUNDERS. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam.,
scholar; B.A. 1839, M.A. 1845, M.A. Durham 1862, D.D. Edin. 1885;
assistant master of Rugby 1847–62; canon of Durham 1862 to death;
professor of Greek in Univ. of Durham, May 1862 to death; proctor
for chapter of Durham 1864 to death; author of _Tennyson’s Œnone
translated into Latin hexameters_ 1873; _Notes on i. Corinthians_
in _The Speaker’s Commentary_ 1881; _The Nihilist in the Hayfield,
a Latin poem_ 1882. _d._ Weston-super-Mare 16 May 1889.

EVANS, WILLIAM. _b._ Carana, Ireland 22 Nov. 1786; went to Canada
1819; sec. to the first Agricultural Society founded in Montreal;
established the _Canadian Quarterly_ and the _Agriculturalist and
Industrial Magazine_; edited in Toronto _British American
Cultivator_ 1842; founded at Montreal the _Canadian Agricultural
Journal_ 1843, edited it 1843–56; sec. and treasurer of board of
agriculture in Lower Canada 1853; author of _Theory and practice
of agriculture_, _Montreal_ 1835, _supplement_ 1836. _d._ Montreal
1857.

EVANS, WILLIAM. _b._ North Wales about 1810; painted scenery in
North Wales down to 1852 when he went to Italy; associate member
of Old Society of Painters in water-colours. _d._ Marylebone road,
London 7 Dec. 1858.

EVANS, WILLIAM (_son of Samuel Evans of Flintshire, landscape
painter, who d. about 1835_). _b._ Eton 4 Dec. 1798; ed. at Eton;
drawing master at Eton 1818, resigned 1856; associate of Old
Society of Painters in water-colours 1828, member 1830; exhibited
a great number of paintings; head of one of the houses at Eton
1856 to death. _d._ Eton 31 Dec. 1877. _I.L.N. lxxii_, 103, 107
(1878), _portrait_.

EVANS, REV. WILLIAM EDWARD (_son of John Evans, M.D. of
Shrewsbury_). _b._ Shrewsbury 8 June 1801; ed. at Shrewsbury and
Clare hall, Cam., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826; P.C. of Criggion,
Montgomeryshire 1829–32; C. of Monkland, Herefordshire 1832–50;
preb. and prælector of Hereford 1841–61; V. of Madley near
Hereford 1850 to death; canon of Hereford 1861 to death; author of
_The song of the birds, or analogies of animal and spiritual life_
1845 and other books. _d._ The Close, Hereford 21 Nov. 1869.

EVATT, HENRY. Second lieut. R.E. 11 July 1788; col. commandant 6
April 1832 to death; L.G. 28 June 1838. _d._ Fordwich near
Canterbury 27 Jany. 1851 aged 83.

EVELEGH, HENRY. Second lieut. R.A. 24 April 1793, col. commandant 6
Feb. 1845 to death; general 20 June 1854. _d._ Standen, Newport,
Isle of Wight 24 Sep. 1859 aged 86.

EVERARD, HARRIETTE EMILY. _b._ 12 March 1844; first appeared at T.R.
Exeter about 1860; in London at royal Alfred theatre 1869; acted
at Queen’s, Princess’s, Royalty, St. James’s and Drury Lane
theatres; played Little Buttercup in _H.M.S. Pinafore_ at Opera
Comique 25 May 1878 to March 1880. (_m._ George Wm. Darley
Beswick). _d._ 22 Feb. 1882. _bur._ Highgate cemetery 28 Feb.

EVERARD, MATHIAS. Ensign 2 foot 28 Sep. 1804; led the forlorn hope
at storming of Monte Video 3 Feb. 1807 when out of 32 men 22 were
killed or wounded; lieut.-col. 14 foot 12 July 1831 to 25 Dec.
1847 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 26 Sep. 1826;
K.H. 1831. _d._ Southsea 20 April 1857.

EVEREST, SIR GEORGE (_eld. son of Tristram Everest of Gwernvale,
Breconshire_). _b._ Gwernvale 4 July 1790; 2 lieut. Bengal
engineers 4 April 1806; superintendent of trigonometrical survey
at Hyderabad 1823–43; surveyor general of India 1830–43; retired
with rank of lieut.-col. 16 Dec. 1843; C.B. 26 Feb. 1861; knighted
at St. James’s palace 13 March 1861; F.R.S. 8 March 1827, mem. of
council 1863–65; the loftiest peak of Himalayan range is called
Mount Everest after him; author of _An account of the measurement
of two sections of the meridional arc of India_ 1830 and 1847 and
other books. _d._ 10 Westbourne st. Hyde park gardens, London 1
Dec. 1866. _F. W. Stubbs’ History of Bengal artillery ii_, 251–54
(1877); _Proc. of Royal Soc. xvi_, _pp. xi-xiv_ (1868).

EVERETT, EDWARD (_4 son of Joseph Everett of Salisbury, banker_).
_b._ 13 May 1798; ed. at Winchester and Ball. coll. Ox.; B.A.
1820, M.A. 1824; a barrister M.T. 28 May 1824; a conveyancer at
Salisbury; judge of court of requests at Salisbury; judge of
Dorset county courts (circuit 56), March 1847 to Dec. 1867 when he
resigned. _d._ Clifton 24 Jany. 1870.

EVERETT, REV. JAMES (_2 son of John Everett of Alnwick_). _b._
Alnwick 16 May 1784; Wesleyan minister at Shields 1807, in
Derbyshire 1808–10, in Yorkshire 1810–22, at Newcastle 1834–39, at
York 1839–42; bookseller at Sheffield 1823–25, at York 1839–42;
expelled from Wesleyan conference 7 Aug. 1849 being suspected of
authorship of the _Fly Sheets_ reflecting on leading men of the
conference; lived at Newcastle 1853–59, at Sunderland 1859 to
death; pres. of United Methodist Free Churches, July 1857; author
of _Adam Clarke portrayed 3 vols._ 1843 and 17 other works. _d._
Sunderland 10 May 1872. _James Everett, a biography by Richard
Chew_ 1875; _G. Gilfillan’s Remoter Stars_ 1867 _pp._ 14–25;
_I.L.N. xv_, 188 (1849), _portrait_.

EVERITT, ALLEN EDWARD (_son of Edward Everitt of Birmingham, art
dealer_). _b._ Birmingham 1824; a painter there all his life;
member of Royal Soc. of Artists of Birmingham 1857, hon. sec. 1858
to death; taught drawing in midland counties; hon. curator of
Birmingham free art gallery, June 1880 to death; illustrated
Davidson’s _History of the Holtes of Aston_ 1854, and _History of
Old St. Martin’s, Birmingham_ 1875. _d._ The Grove, Frederick
road, Edgbaston 11 June 1882. _Edgbastonia ii_, 108 (1882),
_portrait_.

EVERSLEY, CHARLES SHAW-LEFEVRE, 1 Viscount (_eld. son of Charles
Shaw-Lefevre, M.P. for Reading, who d. 27 April 1823_). _b._
Bedford sq., London 22 Feb. 1794; ed. at Winchester and Trin.
coll. Cam.; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1819; barrister L.I. 12 May 1819;
bencher 29 May 1839; M.P. for Downton, Wilts. 1830–31, for
Hampshire 1831–32, for North Hants. 1832–57; speaker of House of
Commons 27 May 1839 to 20 March 1857; P.C. 3 June 1839; second
comr. of church estates 24 Aug. 1850; created Viscount Eversley of
Heckfield co. Southampton 11 April 1857; governor of Isle of Wight
31 Oct. 1857; an ecclesiastical comr. for England 2 Aug. 1859.
_d._ Heckfield place, Winchfield, Hants. 28 Dec. 1888. _bur._
Kensal Green cemetery 2 Jany. 1889. _J. A. Manning’s Lives of the
speakers_ (1850), 494–96; _I.L.N. xxx_, 109 (1857), _portrait_, _5
Jany. 1889, p._ 8, _portrait_.

EWART, JOHN FREDERICK. _b._ Berlin 28 July 1786; ensign 52 foot 1
Nov. 1803; lieut. col. York Chasseurs 15 Sep. 1814 to 8 May 1817;
lieut. col. 67 foot 5 Feb. 1818 to June 1826; inspecting field
officer of Coventry recruiting district 1826–37; col. 67 foot 30
Oct. 1852 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854; C.B. 24 Oct. 1818. _d._ 1^A
Wellington road, St. John’s Wood, London 23 Oct. 1854.

EWART, JOSEPH CHRISTOPHER (_2 son of Wm. Ewart of Liverpool,
merchant_). _b._ Liverpool 1799; ed. at Eton; a merchant at
Liverpool; a founder of Peninsular and Oriental steam navigation
company; M.P. for Liverpool 1855–65. _d._ Broadleas near Devizes
14 Dec. 1868.

EWART, WILLIAM (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Liverpool 1 May
1798; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; Newdigate prizeman 1820; B.A.
1821; barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1827; M.P. for Bletchingly 1828–30,
for Liverpool 1830–37, for Wigan 1839–41, for Dumfries district
1841–68; author of _The Temple of Diana at Ephesus_ 1820. _d._
Broadleas 23 Jany. 1869. _Reg. and mag. of biography i_, 209–10,
522 (1869); _I.L.N. 25 July 1846, p. 53_, _portrait_, _6 March
1869, p. 237_, _portrait_.

EWBANK, THOMAS. _b._ Barnard castle, Durham 11 March 1792; maker of
cases for preserved meats in London 1812–19; manufacturer of lead,
tin and copper tubing in New York 1820–36; comr. of patents in
Washington 1849–52; a founder and pres. of American Ethnological
Society; author of _A descriptive and historical account of
hydraulic and other machines for raising water_ 1842, _17 ed._
1876; _The world a workshop, or the physical relationship of man
to the earth_ 1855; _Life in Brazil, or the land of the cocoa and
the palm_ 1856 and other books all published at New York. _d._ 140
East Thirty-first st. New York 16 Sep. 1870.

EWING, RIGHT REV. ALEXANDER (_eld. son of John Ewing, advocate of
Shelagreen, Aberdeenshire 1790–1827_). _b._ Castle st. Aberdeen 25
March 1814; ed. at Chelsea 1830–31, Edin. univ. 1831 and 1834–35;
incumbent of Forres 1841–47; bishop of Argyll and the Isles 28
Oct. 1847 to death; provost of Cumbrae 28 June 1854 to 28 Dec.
1866; D.C.L. Ox. 1851; author of _Revelation considered as light_
1873, _new ed._ 1874; _The relations of the church of England with
foreign churches_ 1866 and 15 other books. _d._ Westmill rectory,
Herts. 22 May 1873. _Memoir of Right Rev. A. Ewing by A. J. Ross_
1879, _portrait_.

EWING, JAMES (_son of Walter Ewing who assumed name of Maclae,
arbitrator, d. 22 Oct. 1814_). _b._ Glasgow 7 Dec. 1775; educ.
High sch. Glasgow and univ. of Glasgow, D.C.L. 1835; West India
merchant; lord dean of Guild 10 Oct. 1816; helped to establish
first Provident or Savings bank in Glasgow of which he was deputy
governor 19 June 1815; president of the Andersonian univ. 1817;
gave an annual silver medal to Glasgow high sch.; lord provost of
Glasgow 1820; a founder of the Royal Exchange and the Fir park;
M.P. Glasgow 19 Dec. 1832 to 30 Dec. 1834, contested Glasgow 17
Jany. 1835; author of a _History of the Merchants’ House_; left
£70,000 to Glasgow charities. _d._ Glasgow 29 Nov. 1853. _Mackay’s
Memoir of James Ewing_ 1866, _portrait_; _Bourne’s English
Merchants ii_, 321–39 (1866).

EWING, JULIANA HORATIA (_2 dau. of Rev. Alfred Gatty, V. of
Ecclesfield, Yorkshire b. 1813_). _b._ Ecclesfield 3 Aug. 1841;
wrote many stories in _Aunt Judy’s Magazine_ 1861–85; author of
_Melchior’s Dream and other tales_ 1862; _Mrs. Overtheway’s
Remembrances_ 1868, _3 ed._ 1880; _A Flat-iron for a farthing_
1873; _Passages in life of an only son_ 1872; _Lob Lie-by-the-Fire
and other tales_ 1874 and many other books for children. (_m._ 1
June 1867 Alexander Ewing, major army pay department). _d._ Bath
13 May 1885. _J. H. Ewing and her books_, _by H. K. T. Gatty_
(1885), _portrait_.

EXALL, WILLIAM. _b._ Godalming, Surrey, May 1808; partner with his
uncle Barrett in the Katesgrove foundry, Reading; invented patent
safety cylindrical horse gear, and endless-band sawing machine;
the first to apply the double acting air pump or box shaped
condenser to horizontal engines; the pioneer of steam cultivation,
having made first set of machinery on roundabout system for H. J.
Hannam of Buscot park, Oxfordshire 1849; constructed the first
hand-power threshing machine 1844 of which his firm made
thousands; A.I.C.E. 3 Dec. 1850; alderman of Reading 1854 to
death, mayor 1854–5. _d._ Holy Bank house, Reading 14 July 1881.
_Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxvii_, 405–7 (1882).

EXETER, BROWNLOW CECIL, 2 Marquis of (_2 son of 1 Marquis of Exeter
1754–1804_). _b._ Burghley house near Stamford 2 July 1795; ed. at
Eton and St. John’s coll. Cam., M.A. 1814, LLD. 1835; recorder of
Stamford 1816; lord lieut. of Rutland 1826; K.G. 10 May 1827;
groom of the stole to Prince Albert 1841–46; P.C. 14 Sep. 1841;
lord lieut. of Northampton 1842; lord chamberlain of Queen’s
household 27 Feb. to 28 Dec. 1852; lord steward of Queen’s
household 26 Feb. 1858 to 18 June 1859; bred one of largest studs
in England 1815–55; won the Oaks 1821, 1829 and 1832 and Two
thousand guineas 1825, 1829, 1830 and 1852. _d._ Burghley house 16
Jany. 1867. _Rice’s British Turf i_, 311–17 (1879); _Baily’s Mag.
i_, 311–15 (1860), _portrait_; _Sporting Review lvii_, 82–85
(1867); _Waagen’s Treasures of art iii_, 402–9 (1854).

EXLEY, THOMAS. _b._ Gowdall near Snaith, Yorkshire; a mathematical
teacher at Bristol about 1811–47; author of _A vindication of Dr.
Adam Clarke, Bristol_ [1817]; _Principles of natural philosophy_
1829; _Physical Optics_ 1834 and other books; author with Rev. W.
M. Johnson of _The Imperial Encyclopædia 4 vols._ [1812]. _d._
Cotham, Clifton, Bristol 17 Feb. 1855 aged 80.

EYRE, CHARLES. _b._ 1784; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1807;
proprietor of 3 liberal newspapers printed at Colchester; managed
a large farm; author of _An illustration of the Epistles of St.
Paul including an entirely new translation 2 vols._ 1832; _The
fall of Adam from Milton’s Paradise Lost_ 1852; hanged himself at
his residence Upper Park, Dedham, Essex 28 Sep. 1864.

EYRE, HENRY. Ensign 98 foot 10 Dec. 1824, lieut. col. 17 March 1843
to 28 April 1843 when placed on h.p.; commandant at Chatham
1858–59; commandant of Chatham district 1859–64; col. 59 foot 23
March 1865 to death; general 23 Sep. 1874; author of _Light
Infantry Drill_ 1868. _d._ Middleton-Tyas, Richmond, Yorkshire 10
April 1889 aged 83.

EYRE, SIR JAMES (_eld. son of Rev. Wm. Eyre, V. of Padbury and
Hillesden, Bucks., who d. 18 March 1830 aged 76_). _b._ 14 Feb.
1792; M.R.C.S. 20 May 1814; surgeon in Hereford 1814 to 1834, in
London 1834 to death; mayor of Hereford 1829–30; knighted by Wm. 4
at St. James’s palace 4 Aug. 1830 on presenting an address from
city of Hereford on his accession; M.D. Edinburgh 1 Aug. 1834;
physician accoucheur to St. George’s and St. James’s dispensary
1834–1851, consulting phys. 30 Oct. 1851; L.R.C.P. 1836; published
_Practical remarks on some exhausting diseases_ 1845, _2 ed._
1851; _The stomach and its difficulties_ 1852, _8 ed._ 1877. _d._
Lauriston house, Clapham 19 June 1857. _Medical Circular i_,
353–55 (1852), _portrait_.

EYRE, SIR VINCENT (_3 son of Henry Eyre_). _b._ Portsdown near
Portsmouth 22 Jany. 1811; ed. at Norwich gr. sch. and Addiscombe;
2 lieut. Bengal Artillery 12 Dec. 1828, col. 24 Nov. 1862 to 1
Sep. 1863 when he retired on full pay; rendered great service
during Indian mutiny; inspector general of ordnance at Calcutta
1861–62; retired L.G. Oct. 1863; member of army amalgamation
commission 1861; C.B. 5 Feb. 1858; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1867; author of
_The military operations at Cabul_ 1843; _A Fortnight’s tour among
French ambulances_ 1870; _Lays of a Knight Errant_ 1874 and other
books. _d._ Villa des Acacias, Aix les Bains 22 Sep. 1881. _bur._
Kensal Green cemetery 1 Oct. _C. R. Low’s Soldiers of the
Victorian age i_, 284–347 (1880); _G. B. Malleson’s Recreations of
an Indian official_ (1872) 249–329; _Army and navy mag. iii_, 97
(1882), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxxi_, 380 (1857), _portrait_.

EYRE, SIR WILLIAM (_younger son of vice admiral Sir George Eyre
1769–1839_). _b._ Hatfield 21 Oct. 1805; ed. at Rugby; ensign 6
foot 17 April 1823; served in both Caffre wars 1851–2; lieut. col.
73 foot 12 Nov. 1847 to 14 April 1854; A.D.C. to the Queen
1853–1854; commanded second brigade of third division in Crimea
1854, commanded third division there 1854; commanded troops in
Canada 1856–59; M.G. 12 Dec. 1854; K.C.B. 5 July 1855. _d._ Bilton
hall near Rugby 8 Sep. 1859. _Naval and military records of
Rugbeians_ (1865) 53–4; _Kinglake’s Invasion of the Crimea_ (1877)
_iii_, 278, _vi_ 54, _ix_ 203–17, 270.

EYTON, PETER ELLIS. _b._ Flint 1827; solicitor at Flint 1853 to
death; M.P. for district of Flint 6 Feb. 1874 to death; author of
_A trip to the Isle of Man_. _d._ Englefield house, Rhyl, North
Wales 17 or 19 June 1878.

EYTON, REV. ROBERT WILLIAM (_3 son of Rev. John Eyton, V. of
Wellington, Shropshire_). _b._ Wellington vicarage 21 Dec. 1815;
ed. at Rugby and Ch. Ch. Ox.; B.A. 1839, M.A. 1845; R. of Ryton,
Shropshire 1841–63; author of _The antiquities of Shropshire 12
vols._ 1861; _A Key to Domesday, an analysis and digest of the
Dorset survey_ 1878; _Court, household and itinerary of Henry ii_,
1878 and other books. _d._ Winchfield house near Basingstoke 8
Sep. 1871.

EYTON, THOMAS CAMPBELL (_son of Thomas Eyton 1777–1855, recorder of
Wenlock_). _b._ Eyton hall near Wellington, Shropshire 10 Sep.
1809; edited the Herd book of Hereford cattle 1842–60; formed at
Eyton one of the finest collections of skins and skeletons of
birds in Europe; author of _History of the rarer British birds_
1836; _A history of the oyster and the oyster fisheries_ 1858;
_Osteologia Avium_ 1871. _d._ Eyton hall 25 Oct. 1880.

F

FABER, REV. FREDERICK WILLIAM (_7 child of Thomas Henry Faber, who
d. 1833, sec. to Dr. Barrington, bishop of Durham_). _b._
Calverley vicarage, Yorkshire 28 June 1814; ed. at Shrewsbury,
Harrow and Ball. coll. Ox.; scholar of Univ. coll. Ox. 1834,
fellow 1837, Newdigate prizeman 1836; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839;
Johnson divinity scholar 1837; R. of Elton, Hunts. 1843–45;
admitted into R.C. church at Northampton by Bishop Wareing 17 Nov.
1845; entered Monastery of St. Wilfrid, Colmore terrace,
Birmingham 26 May 1846; rector of oratory of St. Philip Neri, 24
and 25 King William st. Strand, London opened 31 May 1849, Father
Superior 12 Oct. 1850 to death, the oratory removed to Brompton,
March 1854; created D.D. 9 July 1854; edited _The Saints and
Servants of God_, continued by the Congregation of the Oratory of
St. Philip Neri _42 vols._ 1847–56; author of _The Cherwell water
lily and other poems_ 1840 and about 30 other books. _d._ the
Oratory, Brompton 26 Sep. 1863. _bur._ in burial ground of St.
Mary’s, Sydenham 30 Sep. _J. E. Bowden’s Life and letters of F. W.
Faber_ 1869; _A brief sketch of the early life of F. W. Faber, by
his only surviving brother_ [_Rev. F. A. Faber_] 1869; _Gillow’s
English Catholics ii_, 207–18; _I.L.N. xxiv_, 289, 290 (1854),
_portrait_.

FABER, REV. GEORGE STANLEY (_eld. son of Rev. Thomas Faber, V. of
Calverley, Yorkshire_). _b._ Calverley parsonage 25 Oct. 1773; ed.
at Happenholme gr. sch. and Univ. coll. Ox., B.A. 1793, M.A. 1796,
B.D. 1803; fell. and tutor of Linc. coll. 1793–1803; proctor 1801;
Bampton lecturer 1801; C. of Calverley 1803–1805; V. of Stockton
upon Tees 1805–1808; V. of Redmarshall, Durham 1808–11; V. of
Longnewton, Durham 1811–32; Preb. of Salisbury 1831; master of
Sherburn hosp. near Durham 1832 to death; author of _Horæ Mosaicæ,
or a view of the Mosaical records 2 vols._ 1801, _2 ed._ 1818;
_Dissertation on the prophesies 2 vols._ 1807, _5 ed. 3 vols._
1814–18; _The difficulties of Romanism_ 1826, _3 ed._ 1853; _The
sacred calendar of prophecy 3 vols._ 1828, _2 ed._ 1844 and many
other works. _d._ Sherburn hospital 27 Jany. 1854. _The many
mansions in the house of the Father, by G. S. Faber with memoir by
F. A. Faber_ 1854; _Christian Remembrancer xxix_, 310–31 (1855);
_H. Heaviside’s Annals of Stockton on Tees_ (1865) 101–104.

FABER, WILLIAM RAIKES (_son of the preceding_). Second lieut. 60
rifles 10 April 1826; lieut. col. 2 West India foot 15 Dec. 1848
to 21 Feb. 1851 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. 53 foot 9 Jany.
1857 to 13 July 1858 when placed on h.p.; col. 17 foot 30 April
1871 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 29 May 1875. _d._
Staplegrove lodge, Taunton 24 June 1879 aged 73.

FADDY, PETER. Second lieut. R.A. 8 Sep. 1803; lieut. col. 10 Aug.
1839 to 3 Sep. 1845 when he retired on full pay; general 7 Feb.
1870; author of _Essay on the defence of Great Britain at home and
abroad_ 1848. _d._ Charleville, co. Cork 17 July 1879.

FAGAN, WILLIAM TRANT (_eld. son of James Fagan of Cork_). _b._ Cork
1801; ed. at Southall park, Middlesex; a merchant at Cork,
alderman, mayor; M.P. for city of Cork 1847–1851 and 1852 to
death; author of _The life and times of Daniel O’Connell 2 vols._
1847–8. _d._ 9 or 16 May 1859. _I.L.N. xiv_, 205 (1849),
_portrait_; _Fitzpatrick’s O’Connell_ (1888) _ii_, 453.

FAGGE, CHARLES HILTON (_son of Charles Fagge, surgeon_). _b._ Hythe,
Kent 30 June 1838; ed. at Guy’s hospital; M.D. 1863; M.R.C.P.
1864, F.R.C.P. 1870; medical registrar of Guy’s hospital 1866,
assistant phys. 1867, phys. 1880; edited _Guy’s Hospital Reports_
some years; author of _Principles and practice of medicine_ 1886,
_2 ed._ 1888. _d._ 76 Grosvenor st. London 18 Nov. 1888.

FAHEY, JAMES. _b._ Paddington 16 April 1804; sec. of New Society of
Painters in watercolours 1838–74; drawing master at Merchant
Taylor’s school 1856–83; exhibited 13 landscapes at R.A., 1 at
B.I. and 5 at Suffolk st. gallery 1825–36. _d._ The Grange,
Shepherd’s Bush Green, London 11 Dec. 1885. _I.L.N. 26 Dec. 1885
p._ 667, _portrait_.

FAIR, ALEXANDER. Entered Madras army 1792; col. 27 Madras N.I. 1837
to death; general 20 June 1854. _d._ South crescent, Bedford sq.
London 29 Jany. 1861 aged 85.

FAIRBAIRN, REV. PATRICK (_son of John Fairburn of Hallyburton,
Greenlaw, Berwickshire, farmer_). _b._ Hallyburton 28 Jany. 1805;
ed. at Univ. of Edin.; licensed to preach 1826; minister of parish
of North Ronaldshay, Orkney islands 1830–36; minister of
Bridgeton, Glasgow 1836–40; minister of Salton, East Lothian
1840–43; minister of free church Salton 1843–53; professor of
divinity in free church theological college, Aberdeen 1853–56;
transferred to free church college, Glasgow 1856, principal 4 Nov.
1856; moderator of general assembly 1865; member of Old Testament
revision company; edited _The Imperial Bible Dictionary 2 vols._
1866; author of _The typology of Scripture 2 vols._ 1845–47, _5
ed._ 1870 and 7 other books. _d._ 6 Aug. 1874. _Pastoral Theology,
by Rev. P. Fairbairn, with biog. sketch by Rev. James Dodds_ 1875.

FAIRBAIRN, SIR PETER (_youngest son of Andrew Fairbairn of Kelso,
Roxburghshire_). _b._ Kelso, Sep. 1799; machine maker at Glasgow
1823–28, at Leeds 1828 to death; invented many new machines;
member of town council Leeds 1836–42, alderman 1854 to death,
mayor 1857–59; knighted by the Queen at Leeds 7 Sep. 1858; there
is a portrait of him by Sir Francis Grant in the council chamber
Leeds and a bronze statue by Noble in the town. _d._ Woodsley
house, Leeds 4 Jany. 1861. _Fortunes made in business ii_, 252–79
(1884); _Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis_ (1865) 491–96; _Illust.
news of the world ii_, 181 (1858), _portrait_, _vii_, 29 (1861),
_portrait_.

FAIRBAIRN, SIR WILLIAM, 1 Baronet (_eld. son of Andrew Fairbairn of
Smailhome, co. Roxburgh 1758–1844_). _b._ Kelso, co. Roxburgh 19
Feb. 1789; manufacturing engineer at Manchester 1817 to death;
M.I.C.E. 20 April 1830; established an iron shipbuilding yard at
Millwall near London 1835; built and designed nearly 100 bridges;
F.R.S. 6 June 1850, Royal Medallist 1860; correspondent of
National Institute of France 11 May 1852; pres. of Institution of
Mechanical Engineers 1854–55; pres. of Manchester literary and
philosophical society 1855–60; pres. of British Association at
Manchester 1861; declined knighthood 23 Oct. 1861; created Baronet
7 Oct. 1869; author of _Useful information for Engineers_ 1856, _4
ed._ 1864; _Iron, its history_ 1861, _3 ed._ 1869 and other books.
_d._ Moor park near Farnham, Surrey 18 Aug. 1874. _bur._ Prestwick
parish church, Manchester. _The life of Sir W. Fairbairn, edited
by W. Pole_ 1877; _Fortunes made in business ii_, 240–50 (1884);
_Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxix_, 251–64 (1875);
_Practical Mag. iv_, 241, _portrait_; _I.L.N. xl_, 215, 225
(1862), _portrait_, _lxv_, 205, 212, 332 (1874), _portrait_.

FAIRFAX, SIR HENRY, 1 Baronet (_youngest son of vice-admiral Sir Wm.
George Fairfax 1739–1813_). _b._ Edinburgh 3 Feb. 1790; ensign 49
foot 8 June 1809; major 85 foot 17 July 1823 to 6 Nov. 1827 when
placed on h.p.; retired from the army 1844; created baronet in
consideration of his father’s distinguished naval services 21 Feb.
1836. _d._ Edinburgh 3 Feb. 1860.

FAIRFAX, JOHN. _b._ Warwick 1804; printer and bookseller at
Leamington; librarian to the Australian subscription library in
Sydney 26 Sep. 1838; bought the _Sydney Morning Herald_ a biweekly
paper 1841, converted it into a daily morning paper which soon
became leading journal of New South Wales, sole proprietor of the
paper 1853; member of council of education 1870; member of
legislative council 1874 to death; author of _The Colonies of
Australia_ 1852. _d._ Ginahgulla near Rose Bay, Port Jackson 16
June 1877.

FAIRHOLT, FREDERICK WILLIAM (_16 child of a German named Fahrholz,
who Anglicised his name to Fairholt_). _b._ London 1814; employed
in a tobacco factory 14 years; assistant to S. Sly the wood
engraver 1835; made many hundreds of drawings on wood to
illustrate Charles Knight’s publications; illustrated many
important works; F.S.A. 1844; draughtsman to British Archæol.
Assoc. 1845–52; author of _Costume in England_ 1846, _3 ed. 2
vols._ 1885 and 5 other books. _d._ 22 Montpelier square, Brompton
3 April 1866. _C. R. Smith’s Retrospections i_, 218–26, 307–21
(1883).

FAIRLAND, THOMAS. Pupil of Charles Warren; a lithographer,
afterwards a portrait painter; his best work, one of the best ever
executed in lithography, was the cartoon of the Virgin and Child
by Raphael known as the Rogers Madonna; published a volume of
_Comic Sketches_ after W. Hunt 1844 which was very popular. _d._
of consumption Oct. 1852 in 49 year. _G.M. Jany. 1853 p._ 102.

FAIRLIE, ROBERT FRANCIS. _b._ Scotland, March 1831; civil engineer
in Gracechurch st. London; patented the double-bogie engine 1864,
first of which was built for Neath and Brecon railway 1866; these
engines were introduced into many foreign countries; the Czar of
Russia had a special gold medal struck in honour of Fairlie;
author of _Railways or no railways, narrow gauge v. broad gauge_
1872. _d._ the Woodlands, Clapham common, London 31 July 1885.

FALCIERI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA, the faithful servant of Lord Byron.
Entered service of Isaac D’Israeli; messenger at the India office,
superannuated on pension of £140. _d._ Ramsgate 22 Dec. 1874;
Sarah his widow was granted civil list pension of £50, 5 March
1875.

FALCONAR, CHESBOROUGH GRANT. Ensign 36 foot 1 Sep. 1795; major 78
foot 26 June 1823 to 22 Oct. 1825 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col.
22 foot 25 Nov. 1828 to 18 Oct. 1839; inspecting field officer 18
Oct. 1839 to 11 Nov. 1851; col. 73 foot 11 Feb. 1857 to death;
L.G. 20 July 1858; K.H. 1837. _d._ Hazelbank near Edinburgh 10
Jany. 1860.

FALCONER, EDMUND, stage name of Edmund O’Rourke. _b._ Dublin 1814;
acted in the provinces many years; lessee with B. Webster of
Lyceum theatre, London, Aug. 1858 to April 1859; played Danny Man
in _The Colleen Bawn_ at Adelphi theatre 231 nights from 18 July
1860; lessee of Lyceum again 1861 where his Irish drama _Peep o’
Day_ ran from 9 Nov. 1861 to Dec. 1862; lessee with F. B.
Chatterton of Drury Lane 1863 to 26 Sep. 1866 where he lost all
his money; played in America 1867–70; author of _Memories, poems_
1863; _Murmurings in the May and Summer of Manhood, O’Ruark’s
Bride and Man’s Missions, poems_ 1865 and of many dramas,
librettos and songs. _d._ 28 Keppel st. Russell sq. London 29 Sep.
1879. _Pascoe’s Dramatic List_ (1879) 116–20; _Illust. sporting
and dramatic news 4 Dec. 1875 pp._ 233–4.

FALCONER, FORBES (_2 son of Gilbert Falconer of Braeside,
Fifeshire_). _b._ Aberdeen 10 Sep. 1805; ed. at Aberdeen gr. sch.
and Marischal college; teacher of Oriental languages in London;
professor of Oriental languages in Univ. college, London; author
of _Selections from the “Bôstan of Sâdi” in Persian_ 1838;
_Persian Grammar_, _2 ed._ 1848. _d._ 40 Dorset st. Portman sq.
London 7 Nov. 1853.

FALCONER, HUGH (_youngest child of David Falconer of Forres,
Elginshire_). _b._ Forres 29 Feb. 1808; ed. at Forres gr. sch. and
King’s coll. Aberdeen, M.A. 1826; studied medicine at Univ. of
Edin., M.D. 1829; assist. surgeon in the H.E.I.Co.’s service 1830;
superintendent of Botanic garden at Suharunpoor, North Western
provinces 1832; awarded Wollaston medal of Geol. Society 1837;
returned to England on sick leave 1842, went out again 20 Dec.
1847; superintendent of Calcutta botanic garden, and professor of
botany in the medical college, June 1847 to 1855; F.G.S. 1842,
foreign sec. 1861 to death; F.R.S. 13 Feb. 1845; author of
_Descriptive catalogue of the fossil remains from the Sewalik
hills, Calcutta_ 1859. _d._ Park crescent, London 31 Jany. 1865.
_C. Murchison’s Palæontological memoirs and notes of the late Hugh
Falconer_ (1868) _vol. 1_, _pp. xxiii-liii_, _portrait_; _Proc. of
Royal Soc. xv_, 14–20 (1867); _Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc.
xxi_, 45–49 (1865).

FALCONER, RANDLE WILBRAHAM (_youngest son of Rev. Thomas Falconer of
Bath 1772–1839_). _b._ 29 Circus, Bath 1816; studied at Edin.,
M.D. 1839; practised at Tenby 1839–47, at Bath 1847 to death;
physician of Bath united hospital 12 Feb. 1849; physician of Bath
mineral water hospital 28 Feb. 1856; mayor of Bath 1857–59; author
of _The baths and mineral waters of Bath_, _6 ed._ 1880, and other
books. _d._ Bennett st. Bath 6 May 1881.

FALCONER, THOMAS (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 25 June 1805;
barrister L.I. 8 Feb. 1830; revising barrister for boroughs of
Finsbury, Tower Hamlets and Marylebone 1837–1840; one of
arbitrators to settle boundary of Canada and New Brunswick, Oct.
1850; colonial sec. of Western Australia 29 July 1851; judge of
county courts circuit 30, (Brecknock and Glamorgan) 22 Dec. 1851
to Dec. 1881 when he retired on pension; aided in abolishing Duke
of Beaufort’s gaol at Swansea; author of _On Surnames and the
rules of law affecting their change, Cardiff_ 1862 _privately
printed_, _2 ed. London_ 1862, _Supplement_ 1863 and 7 other
books. _d._ Royal crescent, Bath 28 Aug. 1882 in 77 year. _T.
Falconer’s Bibliography of the Falconer family_ (1866) 20–30; _The
Red Dragon ii_, 193–98 (1882), _portrait_.

FALCONER, REV. WILLIAM (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Corston,
Somerset 27 Dec. 1801; ed. at Oriel coll. Ox.; B.A. 1823, M.A.
1827; fellow of Exeter coll. 30 June 1827 to 18 July 1839, public
examiner 1832–3 and 1836–8; R. of Bushey, Herts. 26 Jany. 1839 to
death; translated with H. C. Hamilton for Bohn’s Classical Library
_The Geography of Strabo 3 vols._ 1854–57. _d._ Bushey rectory 9
Feb. 1885.

FALKLAND, LUCIUS BENTINCK CARY, 10 Viscount (_eld. child of Charles
John Cary, 9 Viscount Falkland 1768–1809_). _b._ 5 Nov. 1803;
succeeded his father who _d._ of wounds received in a duel 2 March
1809; a lord of the bedchamber to Wm. iv, Dec. 1830; a
representative peer for Scotland 1831–32; G.C.H. 1831; created
Baron Hunsdon of Skutterskelfe, co. York in peerage of the U.K. 15
May 1832; P.C. 1 March 1837; governor of Nova Scotia 1840–1846;
captain of yeomen of the guard 24 July 1846 to 16 Feb. 1848;
governor of Bombay 1 Feb. 1848 to Dec. 1853, took his seat 1 May
1848. _d._ Montpellier, France 12 March 1884.

FALKNER, GEORGE. _b._ Edinburgh 1817; edited _Bradshaw’s Manchester
Journal_ from first number 1 May 1841; typographer and
lithographer at Manchester to death; published his own _Notes on
Algiers_ 1852, and _A pilgrimage to the shrine of Our Lady of
Loreto_ 1882. _d._ The Oaklands, Timperley near Manchester 31 Dec.
1882.

FALLON, JAMES THOMAS. _b._ Athlone 1823; went to Sydney, N.S.W.
1842; bought a vineyard at Albury about 1859; his wines took first
prize at Vienna exhibition 1873 and London exhibition 1875; made
champagne from Australian grapes 1876; had largest vineyards and
cellars in Australia; member of legislative assembly of N.S.W.
1869–72. _d._ Manly near Sydney 27 May 1886.

FALLOON, REV. DANIEL. _b._ Ireland; minister of Church of England in
Canada; author of _An historical view of the Church of England 2
vols. Dublin_ 1830; _The Apostolic Church_ 1837; _History of
Ireland, civil and ecclesiastical from the earliest times to the
death of Henry ii, edited by Rev. John Irwin, Montreal_ 1863. _d._
Montreal, Sep. 1862.

FALMOUTH, GEORGE HENRY BOSCAWEN, 2 Earl of (_only child of Edward
Boscawen, 1 Earl of Falmouth 1787–1841_). _b._ Woolhampton house
near Newbury, Berks. 8 July 1811; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.;
B.A. 1833, M.A. 1835; M.P. for West Cornwall 8 July 1841 to 29
Dec. 1841 when he succeeded his father as 2 Earl; high steward of
Wallingford 1845 to death. _d._ 2 St. James’s square, Westminster
28 Aug. 1852.

FALSHAW, SIR JAMES, 1 Baronet (_son of Wm. Falshaw of Leeds_). _b._
Leeds 21 March 1810; assisted Stephenson in construction of
Caledonian and other railways; constructed with Brassey the
northern lines of railway from Inverness; lord provost of
Edinburgh 1876; created baronet 17 Aug. 1876; deputy chairman of
North British railway co. 1881, chairman 3 Aug. 1882 to 1887. _d._
14 Belgrave crescent, Edinburgh 14 June 1889. _Graphic x_, 490,
501 (1874), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxix_, 253 (1876), _portrait_.

FANE, HENRY EDWARD HAMLYN (_eld. son of Rev. Edward Fane of Fulbeck,
Lincs. 1783–1862_). _b._ Fulbeck hall 5 Sep. 1817; ed. at
Charterhouse; ensign 90 foot 1 Aug. 1834; major 4 light dragoons
1846–50 when he sold out; lieut. col. South Lincoln militia 20
April 1854 to death; assumed name of Hamlyn by r.l. 1865; M.P. for
South Hants. 1865–68; author of _Five years in India_ 1842. _d._
Avon Tyrrel, Ringwood, Hants. 27 Dec. 1868.

FANE, JOHN WILLIAM. _b._ 1 Sep. 1804; sheriff of Oxfordshire 1854;
lieut. col. of Oxford militia 18 July 1862 to 22 May 1872; M.P.
for Oxfordshire 1862–1868. _d._ 34 Cavendish sq. London 19 Nov.
1875.

FANE, JULIAN HENRY CHARLES (_5 son of 11 Earl of Westmoreland
1784–1859_). _b._ Florence 2 Oct. 1827; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.;
M.A. 1850; attaché at Berlin 1844; sec. of embassy at Vienna 23
Nov. 1860, at Paris 30 Dec. 1865 to 7 June 1868 when he resigned;
published _Poems_ 1852; _Poems by Heinrich Heine, translated by
Julian Fane_ 1854; author with Edward Lytton of _Tannhäuser, or
the battle of the bards, a poem by Neville Temple_ [_J. C. Fane_]
and Edward Trevor [E. R. Bulwer-Lytton] 1861. _d._ 29 Portman sq.
London 19 April 1870. _Lytton’s Julian Fane, a memoir_ (1871),
_portrait_; _Jerningham’s Reminiscences of an attaché_ (1886)
16–20.

FANE, MILDMAY (_5 son of Henry Fane 1739–1842, M.P. for Lyme
Regis_). _b._ Sep. 1794; ensign 59 foot 11 June 1812; lieut. col.
98 foot 25 March 1824 to 24 Dec. 1829; lieut. col. 54 foot 24 Dec.
1829 to 11 Nov. 1851; col. 96 foot 11 Aug. 1855 to 27 Dec. 1860;
col. 54 foot 27 Dec. 1860 to death; general 27 March 1863. _d._
Fulbeck 12 March 1868.

FANE, ROBERT GEORGE CECIL (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 8 May
1796; ed. at Charterhouse and Balliol coll. Ox.; B.A. 1817, M.A.
1819; a demy and fellow of Magd. coll. Ox. 1824–35; barrister L.I.
1 June 1821; a bankruptcy comr. 1823, one of the six bankrupt
comrs. 2 Dec. 1831 to death; author of _Bankrupt Reform, Letters
i-vii_, _2 vols._ 1838 and 8 other books. _d._ Burdon hotel,
Weymouth 4 Oct. 1864.

FANQUE, PABLO, assumed name of William Darby. _b._ Norwich;
apprenticed to Wm. Batty, circus proprietor; a negro rope-dancer;
circus proprietor 1841 to death. _d._ Britannia inn, Stockport 4
May 1871 aged 67 or 75. _I.L.N. x_, 189 (1847), _portrait_.

FANSHAWE, SIR ARTHUR (_youngest son of Robert Fanshawe, Capt. R.N.
1740–1823_). _b._ 1794; entered navy 8 Feb. 1804; captain 17 Oct.
1816; commander in chief North America and West Indies 23 Nov.
1853 to 25 Nov. 1856; R.A. 18 June 1851, V.A. 9 July 1857, admiral
4 Oct. 1862; C.B. 18 Dec. 1840, K.C.B. 18 May 1860. _d._ 32
Chester terrace, Regent’s park, London 14 June 1864 aged 70.

FARADAY, MICHAEL (_younger son of James Faraday of Newington,
Surrey, blacksmith 1761–1810_). _b._ Newington 22 Sep. 1791;
chemical assistant at royal institution 1 March 1813; travelled as
amanuensis with Sir Humphrey Davy in France, Italy and Switzerland
1813–1815; F.R.S. 8 Jany. 1824, Copley medallist 1832 and 1838,
royal medallist 1835 and 1846, Rumford medallist 1846; began his
lectures to children 29 Dec. 1827; began his ‘Electrical
researches’ 29 Aug. 1831; discovered magneto-electricity 1831,
electro-chemical decomposition 1833; professor of chemistry at
royal institution Jany. 1833 to 1865; granted civil list pension
of £300 a year 1835; senator of univ. of London 1836; an elder of
the Sandemanian church for 3½ years from 1840; discovered
magnetisation of light 1845, diamagnetism 1845 and magnetic
character of oxygen 1847; received 95 honorary titles and marks of
merit; lived in one of the Queen’s houses Hampton Court Green 1858
to death; author of _Chemical manipulation, instructions to
students_ 1827, _3 ed._ 1842 and other works. _d._ Hampton Court
Green 25 Aug. 1867. _bur._ Highgate cemetery 30 Aug. _Bence
Jones’s Life and letters of Faraday 2 vols._ 1870, _portrait_; _J.
F. Clarke’s Autobiographical recollections of the medical
profession_ (1874) 399–409; _Illustrated Review v_, 29–39,
_portrait_; _Illust. news of the world i_ (1858), _portrait_;
_Proc. of Royal Soc. xvii_, 1–68 (1868).

FARDELL, JOHN. _b._ 4 May 1784; F.S.A. 15 June 1809; barrister M.T.
2 July 1824; M.P. for city of Lincoln 1830–1831. _d._ Sprotborough
rectory, Yorkshire 5 Feb. 1854.

FAREY, JOHN (_son of John Farey of Woburn, geologist 1766–1826_).
_b._ Lambeth 20 March 1791; ed. at Woburn; made drawings for
illustrative plates of many scientific works; invented machine for
drawing ellipses 1813 for which gold medal of Society of Arts was
awarded him; constructed ironworks in Russia 1819–21; a lace
manufacturer in Devonshire 1821–23; consulting C.E. in London 1826
to death; M.I.C.E. 1826; author of _A treatise on the steam engine
vol. i_, 1827. _d._ the Common, Sevenoaks 17 July 1851. _Min. of
proc. of Instit. of C.E. xi_, 100–102 (1852).

FARGUS, FREDERICK JOHN (_eld. son of Frederick Charles Fargus of
Bristol, auctioneer, who d. 14 April 1868_). _b._ Bristol 26 Dec.
1847; auctioneer at Bristol 1868–83; author of _Called Back_ 1883,
350,000 copies of it were sold and it was at once translated into
6 European languages, his dramatic version of it was played at
Prince’s theatre, London nearly 200 nights from 20 May 1884; all
his stories were published under pseudonym of Hugh Conway. _d._
Monte Carlo 15 May 1885. _bur._ Nice cemetery 18 May. _Called
Back, by H. Conway_ (1885) _pp. vii-xiii_, _portrait_; _The Lute,
June 1885 p._ 125; _I.L.N. 30 May 1885 p._ 559, _portrait_.

FARIS, WILLIAM. Second lieut. R.E. 1 Jany. 1814, lieut. col. 6 Aug.
1849 to 24 Nov. 1851 when placed on retired list; general 8 June
1871. _d._ 17 Pall Mall, London 4 Dec. 1874 aged 80.

FARLEY, CHARLES. _b._ London 1771; first appeared on the stage at
Covent Garden 1782; supervised dramatic spectacles at Covent
Garden 1806–34; author of _The Magic Oak, a Christmas pantomime_
1799; _Aggression, or the heroine of Yucatan_ 1805 and other
pieces; instructed Grimaldi to whose Orson when he made his
appearance in the character 10 Oct. 1806 he played Valentine; the
best theatrical machinist of his time. _d._ 42 Ampthill square,
Hampstead road, London 28 Jany. 1859. _British stage ii_, 145
(1818), _portrait_.

FARLEY, JAMES LEWIS (_only son of Thomas Farley of Meiltran, co.
Cavan_). _b._ Dublin 9 Sep. 1823; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; chief
accountant of Beyrout branch of Ottoman Bank 1856; accountant
general of state bank of Turkey at Constantinople 1860; consul for
Turkey at Bristol 1870–84; author of _The massacres in Syria_
1861; _The Druses and the Maronites_ 1861; _Turks and Christians,
a solution of the Eastern question_ 1876 and other books. _d._
Bayswater, London 12 Nov. 1885.

FARNBOROUGH, SIR THOMAS ERSKINE MAY, 1 Baron. _b._ London 8 Feb.
1815; ed. at Bedford gr. sch.; assistant librarian House of
Commons 1831; barrister M.T. 4 May 1838, bencher 21 May 1873;
taxing master in Parliament 1847–56; clerk assistant of House of
Commons 1856–71, clerk Jany. 1871 to death; member of Statute law
committee 1868, chairman; C.B. 1860, K.C.B. 6 July 1866; created
Baron Farnborough of Farnborough in the county of Southampton 10
May 1886; author of _Constitutional history of England 1760–1860_,
_2 vols._ 1861–2, new ed. _3 vols._ 1871; _Law privileges,
proceedings and usage of Parliament_ 1844, _9 ed._ 1883;
_Democracy in Europe 2 vols._ 1877. _d._ Speaker’s Court, Houses
of Parliament 17 May 1886. _Biograph, Jany. 1882 pp._ 14–20.

FARNCOMB, THOMAS. _b._ Sussex; proprietor of one of the largest
wharfs on Surrey side of the Thames for about 50 years; a merchant
and shipowner; one of earliest promoters of London and Westminster
bank 1834, and long a director of it; sheriff of London 1840,
alderman for ward of Bassishaw 1841–59, lord mayor 1849–50. _d._
Rose hill, Forest hill, Surrey 23 Sep. 1865 aged 86.

FARNHAM, HENRY MAXWELL, 7 Baron (_eld. child of Rev. Henry Maxwell,
6 Baron Farnham 1773–1838_). _b._ Dublin 9 Aug. 1799; M.P. for co.
Cavan 1824–38; succeeded 19 Oct. 1838; an Irish representative
peer 2 July 1839 to death; K.P. 1845; killed near Abergele,
Denbighshire on the London and north western railway 20 Aug. 1868.
_I.L.N. liii_, 210 (1868).

FARNHAM, SOMERSET RICHARD MAXWELL, 8 Baron (_brother of the
preceding_). _b._ Dublin 18 Oct. 1803; M.P. for Cavan 1838–40;
sheriff of Cavan 1844. _d._ Farnham house, Cavan 1 June 1884.

FARNHAM, EDWARD BASIL. _b._ 19 April 1799; M.P. for North
Leicestershire 1837–59; sheriff of Leics. 1870. _d._ Quorndon
house near Loughborough 13 May 1879.