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FINCH, FRANCIS OLIVER (_only child of Francis Finch of Friday st.
London, merchant, who d. 25 March 1805 aged 50_). _b._ Friday st.
22 Nov. 1802; pupil of John Varley 1814–19; studied at Sass’s life
academy and produced some portraits; exhibited 14 landscapes at
R.A. 1817–32; associate of S.P.W.C. 11 Feb. 1822, mem. 4 June
1827; a musician and a poet; lost the use of his limbs 10 Oct.
1861; author of _An Artist’s Dream_; _Sonnets_ 1863. _d._
Highfield villas, London 27 Aug. 1862. _Memorials of the late F.
O. Finch_ [_by his widow_] 1865, _portrait_.

FINCH, GEORGE. _b._ 1794; M.P. for Lymington, Hants. 1818–19, for
Stamford 1833–37, for Rutland 1846–47. _d._ 41 South st. London 29
June 1870.

FINCH, JOHN (_4 son of 4 Earl of Aylesford 1751–1812_). _b._ 13
March 1793; cornet 15 dragoons 5 Oct. 1809; major Royal West India
Rangers 5 March 1818 to 25 June 1819 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 20
Feb. 1855; col. 24 foot 19 June 1856 to death; C.B. 26 Dec. 1818.
_d._ Dover 25 Nov. 1861.

FINCHAM, JOHN. Master shipwright of Portsmouth dockyard 2 Oct. 1844
to 2 July 1852; superintendent of school of naval architecture
Portsmouth; built the celebrated “Arrogant” the first screw
frigate in the British navy 1850; author of _A history of naval
architecture_ 1851; _A treatise on masting ships_ 1854. _d._
Highland lodge near Portsmouth 15 Dec. 1859 aged 74.

FINDEN, EDWARD FRANCIS. _b._ 1791; pupil and coadjutor of William
Finden sharing his successes and fortunes; among his separate
works were etchings for Duppa’s _Miscellaneous Opinions on the
Continent_ 1825 and _Illustrations of the Vaudois_ 1831;
illustrator of annuals, books of beauty and other sentimental
works; among his separate engravings were Gainsborough’s Harvest
Waggon, Collins’ As Happy as a King, Westall’s Princess Victoria.
_d._ St. John’s Wood, London 9 Feb. 1857 aged 65.

FINDEN, WILLIAM (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 1787; apprentice
to James Mitan engraver; he worked chiefly in conjunction with his
brother E. F. Finden; made engravings illustrating the books
published by Sharpe, Sutton and others; established a school of
pupils who worked under their directions and executed much of the
work which goes by their name, they themselves giving the
finishing touches; produced illustrations to H. Ellis’ ed. of
Dugdale’s _History of St. Paul’s_ 1818 and Dibdin’s _Ædes
Althorpianæ_ 1822; with his brother engraved Elgin marbles for
British museum; published on their own account the illustrations
to Moore’s _Life and works of Byron_ 1833; brought out The Royal
Gallery of British Art 1838–1840, Nos. 1–15, an admirable work in
which they lost all their money; engraved full length portrait of
George iv, after Sir T. Lawrence and other important single works;
the Crucifixion, after W. Hilton, Finden’s last work was purchased
by Art Union for £1470. _d._ 49 Camden st. Camden Town 20 Sep.
1852 in 65 year. _bur._ Highgate.

FINDLATER, ANDREW. _b._ Aberdour, Aberdeenshire 1810; educ. Aberdeen
univ. LLD. 1864; sch. master at Tillydesk; head master Gordon’s
hospital, Aberdeen; commenced a life long connection with W. and
R. Chambers 1853; edited _Information for the People 1857;
Chambers’s Encyclopædia_ 1860; prepared for the Educational
Course, manuals on language, astronomy, physical geography and
physiography, edited their _Etymological Dictionary_ 1882;
contributed an essay on Epicurus to _Encyclopædia Metropolitana_,
and articles in the _Scotsman_. _d._ 15 Rillbank terrace,
Edinburgh 1 Jany. 1885. _London Figaro 17 Jany. 1885 p._ 4,
_portrait_.

FINDLAY, ALEXANDER. Entered the army as private; ensign 2 West India
regiment 27 July 1814, captain 24 Oct. 1821 to 28 Dec. 1826; major
royal African corps 28 Dec. 1826 to 19 March 1829 when placed on
h.p.; governor of Sierra Leone; fort major at Fort George,
Inverness, Feb. 1847 to death; K.H. 1836. _d._ Fort George 10 May
1851.

FINDLAY, ALEXANDER GEORGE (_son of Alexander Findlay b. London 1790,
an original F.R.G.S. 1830, made an atlas sheet of environs of
London 1829 to a distance of 32 miles from St. Paul’s ½ inch
scale, d. 1870_). _b._ London 9 Jany. 1812; geographer and
hydrographer succeeding on death of John Purdy in 1843 to the
first position in this business; produced six nautical directories
invaluable to the maritime world; received Soc. of Arts medal for
dissertation on the English lighthouse system; F.R.G.S. 1844,
member of Arctic committee and instrumental in government sending
out Alert and Discovery expedition 1875; succeeded to Laurie’s
geographical and print publishing business in 1858 and on
dispersal of navigating business of Van Kenlen of Amsterdam in
1885 it became the oldest firm in Europe for charts and nautical
works; foreign hon. memb. of Società Geografica Italiana 1870;
author of _A directory for the navigation of the Pacific Ocean 2
vols._ 1851 and many other books. _d._ East Cliff, Dover 3 May
1875.

FINGALL, ARTHUR JAMES PLUNKETT, 9 Earl of (_only son of 8 Earl of
Fingall 1759–1836_). _b._ Geneva 29 March 1791; M.P. for co. Meath
1830–32; P.C. Ireland 1834; K.P. 12 Oct. 1846; lord lieut. of co.
Meath 1849 to death. _d._ 47 Montagu sq. London 21 April 1869.

FINLAISON, JOHN (_son of Donald Finlaison d. 1790_). _b._ Thurso,
Caithness 27 Aug. 1783; factor to Sir B. Dunbar 1802; employed by
board of naval revision London, July 1805, first clerk 1805–8,
invented systems for reforming victualling department and
arranging admiralty records 1809; keeper of records and librarian
of admiralty 1809–22; compiled the original account of the enemy’s
naval forces 1811; investigated abuse of sixpenny revenue at
Greenwich hospital 1811; founded a system for the salaries in the
admiralty 1813; compiled first official navy list 1814 and edited
it monthly to 1821; his plan for fund for widows and orphans of
civil department of navy established 17 Sep. 1819; connected with
London Life Assurance Co. and other offices as actuary; made
improvements on Northampton tables of mortality 1829; computed the
annuity for the naval and military half pay and pensions, being
the only person who could do it 1823; actuary and accountant of
check department national debt office 1 Jany. 1822 to Aug. 1851;
president of Institution of Actuaries 1847 to death. _d._ 15
Lansdowne crescent, Notting hill, London 13 April 1860. _Assurance
magazine, April 1862_, 147–69; _Walford’s Insurance cyclopædia
iii_, 300–303 (1874).

NOTE.—In 1833 he computed the duration of Slave and Creole
life, with reference to the emancipation of slaves on the West
Indian plantations, preliminary to raising a loan of
£15,000,000 to compensate the slave owners, which was carried
out and 770,280 slaves became free on 1 Aug. 1834.

FINLAY, ALEXANDER STRUTHERS. _b._ 21 July 1806; ed. at Harrow and
Glasgow Univ.; M.P. for Argyllshire 1857–68; author of _Our
monetary system_ 1864. _d._ Castle Toward, Greenock 9 June 1886.

FINLAY, FRANCIS DALZELL (_son of John Finlay, tenant farmer_). _b._
Newtownards, co. Down 12 July 1794; apprentice to a printer at
Belfast; master printer 1820; founded _Northern Whig_ 1824; often
prosecuted for press offences; imprisoned 3 months in 1826 and his
newspaper suspended Aug. 1826 to May 1827; imprisoned 3 months in
1832 and fined £50; a friend of D. O’Connell but not an advocate
of repeal. _d._ Glenarm, co. Antrim 10 Sep. 1857. _Freeman’s
Journal 12 Sept. 1857 p._ 4.

FINLAY, GEORGE (_son of John Finlay, captain R.E., F.R.S., who d.
1802_). _b._ Faversham, Kent 21 Dec. 1799; studied law in Glasgow,
at univ. of Göttingen 1821; went to Greece in 1823 where he was
very intimate with Byron; joined Odysseus in an expedition into
the Morea 1824, fought in the war of 1824–27; purchased an estate
in Attica 1828 in which he lost his money; studied the history of
Greece for many years; author of _Greece under the Romans_ 1844;
_The history of Greece to its conquest by the Turks_ 1851; _The
history of Greece under the Ottoman and Venetian domination_ 1856;
_History of the Greek Revolution_ 1861, all republished
collectively as _A History of Greece, ed. H. F. Tozer 7 vols._
1877. _d._ Athens 26 Jany. 1875.

FINLAY, SIR THOMAS (_youngest son of David Finlay_). _b._ 1803; high
sheriff of co. Cavan 1837; knighted 1837. _d._ 19 Adelaide road
north, Hampstead 22 Oct. 1869.

FINLAYSON, JOHN. _b._ Scotland 1770; a writer at Cupar-Fife and then
in Edinburgh; a house agent in London 1798; became a believer in
Richard Brothers 1797; obtained Brothers’s release from Fisher
house asylum Islington 14 April 1806, Brothers resided in
Finlayson’s house Upper Baker st. Marylebone 1815 to his decease
25 Jany. 1824; claimed from the government £5710 for Brothers’s
maintenance, but all he received was £270 Brothers’s naval half
pay 4 Mch. 1830; reduced to poverty and lived on a parish
allowance; author of _An admonition to the people of all
countries_ [_in support of Richard Brothers_], _Edin._ 1797; _An
essay_ [_on the First Resurrection_] 1798; _The last trumpet and
the flying angel, the true system as given by God to R. Brothers
and myself_ 1849 and other works; engraved 9 sheets of the ground
plan of the New Jerusalem and 12 sheets of views of its public
buildings for Brothers’ publications; _found dead_ 14 Paradise st.
Marylebone 20 Sept. 1854. _bur._ in Brothers’ grave at St. John’s
Wood.

FINLAYSON, REV. THOMAS (_2 son of Thomas Finlayson of Coldock, Blair
Drummond, Perthshire, farmer_). _b._ Coldock 22 Dec. 1809;
licensed by presbytery of Stirling and Falkirk as a preacher of
the gospel April 1835; min. of Union st. congregation Greenock,
Nov. 1835 to Sep. 1847; min. of Rose st. church, Edinburgh, Sep.
1847 to death; moderator of supreme court of his church 1867; D.D.
Univ. of Edin. 1867 or 1868; edited _Beattie’s Poems_ 1864;
_Goldsmith’s Poems_ 1871. _d._ of heart disease at Campbeltown 17
Oct. 1872. _bur._ Grange cemetery, Edinburgh 22 Oct. _Memorials of
Rev. Thomas Finlayson, D.D. Edinburgh_ 1873; _John Smith’s Our
Scottish clergy 2 series_ (1849) 295–301.

FINNELLY, WILLIAM. Barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1827; author with Charles
Clark of _Reports of cases in the House of Lords on appeals and
writs of error 1831–1846_, _12 vols._ 1835–47, and of _House of
Lords cases on appeals and writs of error, claims of peerage and
divorces 1847–1850_, _2 vols._ 1849–51; found dead on the floor of
his sitting room at 20 Old sq. Lincoln’s Inn 23 Nov. 1851 aged 52.
_Law Times 29 Nov. 1851 p. 103._

FINNIS, THOMAS QUESTED (_son of Robert Finnis of Hythe, Kent_). _b._
Hythe, Jany. 1801; partner in firm of Finnis and Fisher 79 Great
Tower st. London, provision merchants; the first pioneer of
commerce to port of Bussorah; alderman of Lower Ward 18 Jany.
1848; sheriff of London 1848–49, lord mayor 1856–57. _d._ Park
Gate, Wanstead, Essex 29 Nov. 1883. _J. E. Ritchie’s Famous city
men_ (1884) 96–105; _Illust. news of the world ii_, 333 (1858),
_portrait_; _I.L.N. xxix_, 479 (1856), _portrait_, _lxxxiii_, 581
(1883), _portrait_.

NOTE.—His brother John Finnis, lieut. col. 11 Bengal N.I. was
the first English officer killed in the Sepoy mutiny, at
Meerut 10 May 1857 in 54 year, memorial tablet in church of
St. Dunstan in the East, London.

FIRBANK, JOSEPH. _b._ Bishop Auckland 1819; worked in a colliery
1826; executed works for North Western railway 1848; contractor
for maintenance of Monmouthshire railway 1854–61; railway
contractor in South Wales 30 years; contractor for widening of
London and North Western railway near London 1859–66, for Midland
Company’s Bedford and London extension 1864–68 and their Settle
and Carlisle extension 1870; built St. Pancras goods depot for
Midland 1884; promoted the interest of his workmen; J.P. and D.L.
for co. Monmouth. _d._ St. Julian’s, Newport 29 June 1886. _Mc.
Dermott’s Life of J. Firbank_ (1887).

FIRTH, JOSEPH FIRTH BOTTOMLEY- (_eld. son of Joseph Bottomley of
Matlock_). _b._ near Huddersfield 21 Feb. 1842; barrister M.T. 6
June 1866; pres. of Municipal reform league; assumed additional
surname of Firth by r.l. Feb. 1873; LL.B. Univ. of London 1875;
member of London school board (Chelsea division) 1876–79; M.P. for
Chelsea 1880–85, for Dundee 1888 to death; contested North
Kensington 1885, received invitations from 13 of the London
boroughs to stand for parliament at general election 1886; member
of London county council 17 Jany. 1889, deputy chairman 12 Feb.
1889 to death; author of _Gas supply of London_ 1874; _Municipal
London_ 1876. _d._ whilst ascending the Flégère mountain near
Chamounix 3 Sep. 1889. _Graphic xxv_, 153 (1882), 2 _portraits_;
_I.L.N. 14 Sep. 1889 pp._ 325, 326, _portrait_.

FIRTH, MARK (_elder son of Thomas Firth of Sheffield, steel
manufacturer, who d. 1848_). _b._ Sheffield 25 April 1819; worked
as a steel smelter for 20/- a week; a steel manufacturer at
Sheffield with his father and brother Thomas 1843, they erected
the Norfolk works covering 13 acres 1849; master cutler 1867–69;
mayor of Sheffield 1875; erected the Mark Firth almshouses at
Ranmoor, Sheffield at cost of £30,000, 1869; gave the Firth park
of 36 acres to town of Sheffield, park was opened by Prince of
Wales 16 Aug. 1875; erected and fitted up Firth college, Sheffield
at cost of £20,000, opened by Prince Leopold 20 Oct. 1879, he also
endowed it at cost of £5000; famous for castings for gun blocks,
and for their refined steel; cast the steel cores for the
government great guns; supplied to Italian government a 100 ton
gun. _d._ Oakbrook, Sheffield 28 Nov. 1880, personalty sworn under
£600,000, Jany. 1881. _Practical mag. vi_, 289–91 (1876),
_portrait_; _I.L.N. lxvii_, 208 (1875), _portrait_.

FISCHER, JOHN GEORGE PAUL. _b._ Hanover 16 Sep. 1786; pupil of John
Henry Ramberg, court painter 1800 when he painted portraits and
theatrical scenery; went to England 1810, painted miniatures of
Queen Charlotte, produced a series of military costumes for the
Prince Regent, painted Queen Victoria 1819 and 1820; exhibited 80
paintings at R.A. and 17 at Suffolk st., chiefly portraits in
miniature 1817–52. _d._ 4 Upper Spring st. Marylebone 12 Sep.
1875.

FISH, THOMAS LIVERSEDGE (_son of Mr. Fish, magistrate at Union hall
police office, London_). Lived at Knowle cottage, Sidmouth, Devon;
known as the “Golden Fish” from his immense wealth, having no less
than 400 public houses; author of _Guide to Knowle Cottage_ 1837.
_d._ 18 Penton row, Walworth road, Newington, London 22 March 1861
aged 79.

FISH, WILLIAM. _b._ Norwich 1775; violinist Norwich theatre; studied
under Sharp oboist, and Bond pianist and organist; organist of St.
Andrew’s, Norwich; kept a music warehouse; he wrote _Sonata for
pianoforte, Op. i_, 1800; _The Morning Star_ 1842 a ballad, words
by the composer, an oboe concerto and some fantasias for the harp.
_d._ 90 Rose lane, Conisford, Norwich 15 March 1866.

FISHBOURNE, EDMUND GARDINER. _b._ 1811; entered navy 1 Feb. 1824;
captain 25 Feb. 1853, retired 1 March 1866; retired admiral 2 Aug.
1879; C.B. 23 June 1859; hon. sec. to Royal patriotic fund and to
Naval and military Bible Soc. many years; one of most active of
Lord Shaftesbury’s colleagues in work of evangelizing the masses
of London; author of _Current fallacies in naval architecture_
1871; _Our ironclads and merchant ships_ 1874; _Stability the
seaman’s safeguard_ 1878 and 20 other books. _d._ 26 Hogarth road,
Kensington, London 12 May 1887.

FISHER, CHARLES (_2 son of David Fisher, manager of Suffolk circuit,
who d. 6 Aug. 1832 aged 71_). Educ. at Cambridge; trained in
singing, dancing, fencing and the drama by his father; good in
tragedy, comedy and melodrama, acted in Norfolk and Suffolk;
appeared at Drury Lane in Lionel and Clarissa 1818; manager of
theatres on Norwich circuit 1832 to 1843; violinist, violoncellist
and player of double bass; a fine organist; leader of band Norwich
theatre 1843; violoncellist in various theatres. _d._ Glasgow 17
April 1869 aged 76. _Theatre i_, 193–99 (1880); _Era 25 April
1869, p. 10, col. 1_.

FISHER, DAVID (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 1788; manager on
the Suffolk circuit; first appeared in London at Drury Lane as
Macbeth 3 Dec. 1817, the original Titus in Howard Payne’s _Brutus_
3 Dec. 1818, and Angelo in Buck’s _Italians_ 3 April 1819; played
at Bath 1823; built theatres at Bungay, Beccles, Halesworth, Eye,
Lowestoft, Dereham, North Walsham and other places; leader of
Norwich choral concerts; retired about 1838 to Woodbridge,
Suffolk. _d._ Woodbridge 20 Aug. 1858. _Theatrical Inquisitor xi_,
479, 481 (1818).

FISHER, DAVID (_son of the preceding_). _b._ East Dereham, Norfolk
1816; violinist at local concerts; acted at Prince’s theatre,
Glasgow 1849–53; appeared in London at Princess’s theatre as
Victor in _The Lancers_ 2 Nov. 1853, remained at Princess’s 6
years where he played in his own piece _Music hath charms_ in June
1858; acted at Adelphi as Abbé Latour in _The Dead Heart_ 1859;
gave an entertainment _Facts and Fancies_ at Hanover sq. rooms and
St. James’ hall 1863; played at Princess’s 1863, at Haymarket 1865
and at Ampitheatre and Alexandra theatres, Liverpool 1866–68, at
opening of Globe theatre, London 28 Nov. 1868 played Major
Treherne in Byron’s _Cyril’s Success_; appeared at Drury Lane,
Olympic, Globe, Opera Comique, Criterion, Mirror, Princess’s and
Lyceum to 1884. _d._ St. Augustine’s road, Camden Town, London 4
Oct. 1887. _The Players ii_, 73 (1860), _portrait_; _Saturday
Programme 5 Feb. 1876_, _portrait_; _London Figaro 15 Oct. 1887 p.
14, col. 2_, _portrait_.

FISHER, VEN. EDMUND HENRY. _b._ 31 Jany. 1835; ed. at Rugby and
Trin. coll. Cam., fellow 1860; 20 wrangler 1858; B.A. 1858, M.A.
1861; assistant master at Marlborough 1860; V. of St. Mark,
Kennington, London 1869 to death; chaplain to Abp. of Canterbury
1869 to death; hon. canon of Winchester cathedral 1874 to death;
archdeacon of Southwark 1878 to death; author of _The Goth and the
Saracen_ 1859. _d._ Monk’s Eleigh rectory 6 May 1879. _bur._
Barnes cemetery 10 May.

FISHER, REV. GEORGE. _b._ Sunbury, Middlesex 31 July 1794; clerk in
Westminster insurance office 1808; entered St. Cath. coll. Cam.
1817; B.A. 1821, M.A. 1825; astronomer to ships Dorothea and Trent
in Arctic expedition 1818; chaplain and astronomer to Parry’s
expedition to discover North West passage 1821–23; C. of
Stanstead, Essex 1825–27; C. of Ampthill, Beds. 1827; F.R.S. 27
Jany. 1825; F.R.A.S. 1827, mem. of council 1835–63; chaplain to
H.M.’s ships Spartiate and Asia 1827–32; retired on h.p. 1832;
principal and chaplain of Greenwich hospital school 2 Dec. 1834 to
4 Sep. 1863; made experiments on pendulums, chronometers, velocity
of sound, liquefaction of gases and refraction; author of papers
in _Phil. Trans., Proc. of Royal Soc._ and other journals. _d._ 19
Hillmorton road, Rugby 14 May 1873. _Monthly notices of Royal
Astronom. Soc. xxxiv_, 140–44 (1875).

FISHER, SIR JAMES HURTLE (_son of James Fisher of London,
architect_). _b._ 1790; attorney in partnership with Thomas Rhodes
in Davies st. Cavendish sq. London 1811–32; resident comr. for
crown lands in South Australia 1836; the first mayor of Adelaide
1840 and 4 times afterwards; member for West Adelaide 1853–55;
speaker of the legislative council 1855–56; first pres. of the
legislative council 1856–65 when he retired from office and
parliament; knighted by patent 24 May 1860. _d._ Adelaide 28 Jany.
1875.

FISHER, SIR JOHN WILLIAM (_son of Peter Fisher of Perth_). _b._
London 30 Jany. 1787; M.R.C.S. 1809, F.R.C.S. 1836, member of
council 1843; surgeon to Bow st. patrol 1821; surgeon-in-chief to
Metropolitan police 1829–65; M.D. Erlangen 1841; knighted at
Osborne 2 Sep. 1858. _d._ 33 Park lane, London 22 March 1876.
_Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. viii_, 173–4 (1876); _I.L.N.
lxviii_, 335, 527 (1876).

FISHER, ROBERT ALEXANDER. Barrister M.T. 25 Jany. 1850; deputy judge
of City of London court; secretary of the Judicature commission 25
Nov. 1872 to Sep. 1874 when last report was issued; judge of
county courts (circuit 54) Somerset 1 Oct. 1874 to death; author
of _Digest of the reported decisions of the courts of common law,
bankruptcy, probate, admiralty and divorce from 1756_, _5 vols._
1870, _new ed. by J. Mews 7 vols._ 1884 and other books. _d._
Glanmorfa, Clifton 30 Sep. 1879.

FISHER, WALTER DAVID (_3 son of David Fisher 1816–87_). _b._ Norwich
1845; first appeared on stage at T.R. Glasgow 1852; played in the
provinces; acted at Athenée theatre in Paris 1873; first appeared
in London at Haymarket theatre as Moses in _The school for
scandal_, July 1875; acted Potain in Cora at Globe theatre March
1877; played with Doyly Carte’s provincial company 1880; acted in
Germany with the Gilbert and Sullivan répertoire company 1887;
played Shadbolt in _The Yeomen of the Guard_ at Court theatre,
Liverpool 15 May 1889. _d._ 15 Seymour st. Liverpool 25 May 1889.

FISHER, WILLIAM (_2 son of John Fisher of Yarmouth, Norfolk_). _b._
18 Nov. 1780; midshipman R.N. 18 Aug. 1795; surveyed the
Mozambique channel 1809–10; employed in suppression of slave trade
on coast of Guinea 1816–17; commanded Asia in Mediterranean
1836–41; received Turkish gold medal; good service pension awarded
him 1 July 1842; R.A. 2 Dec. 1847; suggested to Admiralty plan of
watering ships generally adopted; author of _The Petrel, or love
on the ocean_ 1850; _Ralph Rutherford, a nautical romance_ 1851.
_d._ 38 Blandford sq. London 30 Sep. 1852.

FISHER, WILLIAM RICHARD (_2 son of John Goate Fisher of Great
Yarmouth_). _b._ 14 Aug. 1824; barrister L.I. 13 June 1851; author
of _The law of mortgage as applied to the redemption, foreclosure
and sale in equity of incumbered property_ 1856, _4 ed._ 1884;
_The forest of Essex, its history, laws, administration and
ancient customs_ 1887. _d._ Guildford, Surrey 17 Nov. 1888.

FISHER, WILLIAM WEBSTER. _b._ Westmoreland 1798; studied medicine at
Montpellier, M.D. 1825; of Trin. coll. Cam. 1827, of Downing
coll., fellow to 1841; Downing professor of medicine 1841 to
death; lectured 1841–68; M.B. Cam. 1834, M.D. 1841; univ. examiner
of students in medicine and member of univ. board of medical
studies; physician to Addenbrooke hospital; had large private
practice at Cam.; fellow of Cambridge Philos. Soc. and contributed
to its Transactions. _d._ East lodge, Downing coll. 4 Oct. 1874 in
76 year. _Brit. Med. Journ. 10 Oct. 1874_, 481.

FISK, WILLIAM (_son of a farmer at Can hall, Essex_). _b._
Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex 1796; educ. Colchester; in mercantile house
in London 1815–25; commenced historical compositions 1834 in which
he accurately reproduced portraits and costumes, among these were
Lady Jane Grey in the Tower 1834, Leonardo da Vinci expiring in
the arms of Francis i. 1838, Conspiracy of the Pazzi, attempt to
assassinate Lorenzo de Medici 1839 for which in 1840 was awarded
gold medal of Manchester Institution; painted 5 pictures connected
with reign of Charles i. 1840–44; exhibited 25 paintings at R.A.,
17 at B.I. and 45 at Suffolk st. 1818–48. _d._ Danbury, Essex 8
Nov. 1872.

FISK, WILLIAM HENRY (_son of the preceding_). _b._ 1827; pupil of
his father and student of R. Acad.; anatomical draughtsman to
royal coll. of Surgeons; teacher of drawing and painting at Univ.
coll. sch. London; made a series of drawing of trees for the
queen; lectured on art in London and the provinces; exhibited 11
landscapes at R.A., 7 at B.I. and 5 at Suffolk st. 1846–73. _d._
Hampstead 13 Nov. 1884.

FISKEN, REV. WILLIAM. _b._ Gelleyburn farm near Crieff, Perthshire;
taught a school at Alyth; minister at Stamfordham near Newcastle
1847 to death; governor and sec. of endowed schools at
Stamfordham; with his brother Thomas invented the steam plough;
invented a potato-sowing machine, a safety steam boiler, a
propeller, apparatus for heating churches and the steam tackle for
the steam plough July 1855; author of _The cheapest system of
steam cultivation and steam cartage_; _On the comparative methods
of steam tackle_. _d._ Stamfordham manse 28 Dec. 1883 aged upwards
of 70.

FITCH, WILLIAM STEVENSON. _b._ 1793; postmaster Ipswich 1838 to
death; founder of West Suffolk archæological assoc.; made
collections for a history of Suffolk, which were dispersed at his
death, but _30 vols._ of them are in Suffolk archæol. assoc.
museum at Bury St. Edmunds; author of _A catalogue of Suffolk
manorial registers, Great Yarmouth_ 1843; _Ipswich and its early
mints, Ipswich_ 1848. _d._ Ipswich 17 July 1859. _C. R. Smith’s
Retrospections i_, 245–8 (1883).

FITTON, MICHAEL. _b._ Gawsworth, Cheshire 1766; entered navy June
1780; served in Mediterranean 1782, in West Indies 1799–1802,
1803–4; lieut. 9 March 1804 his highest rank; captured or
destroyed 40 of the enemy’s ships, received the thanks of the
admiralty and a sword value £50 from the Patriotic Soc.; served in
the Baltic 1811–15; lieut. of the ordinary at Plymouth 22 Feb.
1831 to 1834; admitted into Greenwich hospital 20 April 1835; one
of the bravest and most active officers in the navy. _d._ Peckham
31 Dec. 1852.

FITTON, WILLIAM HENRY (_son of Nicholas Fitton of Dublin_). _b._
Dublin, Jany. 1780; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, senior scholar
1798, B.A. 1799; studied at Edin. Univ. 1808, in London 1809–12;
M.D. Edin. 12 Sep. 1810, incorporated at Cam. 1815; candidate of
royal coll. of phys. 1815, fellow 1816; practised at Northampton
1811–19 when he removed to London and devoted himself to
scientific researches; F.R.S. 9 Nov. 1815; F.G.S. 18 , sec. 18 ,
pres. 1827, the first to deliver an annual address 15 Feb. 1828,
established publication of proceedings 1827, Wollaston medallist
1852; wrote 21 papers on geological subjects 1811–57; author of _A
geological sketch of Hastings_ 1833; wrote many articles in
_Edinburgh Review_ 1817–41. _d._ Sussex gardens, London 13 May
1861. _Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xviii_, 30–34 (1862);
_Proc. of Royal Soc. of London xii_, 4–6 (1861).

FITZADAM, JOHN THOMPSON (_eld. son of Adam Fitz Adam of Birmingham,
barrister_). _b._ 1833; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1859; recorder of
Wigan, April 1880 to death; alderman of Wigan many years. _d._ 5
Phillimore gardens, Kensington, London 19 April 1886 in 53 year.

FITZBALL, EDWARD, originally called Edward Ball. _b._ Burwell,
Cambs. 1792; attempted to establish a printing office at Norwich;
dramatist in London many years; author of _Edda_; _The Pilot_
1825; _The Innkeeper of Abbeville_ 1826; _The Floating Beacon_
1826; _The Inchcape Bell_ 1828; _The Flying Dutchman_ 1829 and
many other successful dramas; wrote all the librettos of Balfe’s
early operas, libretto of Wallace’s _Maritana_, and many librettos
for other Composers; wrote _My Pretty Jane_ 1828 and many other
songs. _d._ near Chatham 27 Oct. 1873. _E. Fitzball’s Thirty five
years of a dramatic author’s life 2 vols._ 1859, _portrait_;
_I.L.N. lxiii_, 445 (1873), _portrait_.

FITZCLARENCE, LORD ADOLPHUS (_7 child and 3 son of William iv.
1765–1837 by Dorothea natural dau. of Francis Bland of Kerry, she
was known on the stage as Mrs. Jordan 1762–1816_). _b._ 18 Feb.
1802; entered R.N. 26 May 1814; captain 24 Dec. 1824; commander of
Royal George yacht 1830; captain of Victoria and Albert yacht 1
Jany. 1851 to 21 Oct. 1852 and commodore of her 21 Oct. 1852 to 17
Sep. 1853; aide de camp to Victoria 12 Feb. 1848 to death; groom
of the robes to Will. iv. 24 July 1830; granted rank of younger
son of a marquis 24 May 1831; G.C.H. 24 Feb. 1832; a lord of the
bedchamber 5 Jany. 1833; R.A. 17 Sep. 1853. _d._ Newburgh park
near Easingwold, Yorkshire 17 May 1856. _Lennox’s Celebrities 2
series i_, 208–12 (1877).

FITZCLARENCE, REV. LORD AUGUSTUS (_brother of the preceding_), _b._
1 March 1805; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.C.L. 1832, D.C.L. 1835;
R. of Mapledurham, Oxon. 1829 to death; chaplain in ordinary to
his father 1829–37, to Queen Victoria 1837 to death; granted rank
of younger son of a marquis 24 May 1831. _d._ Mapledurham 14 June
1854.

FITZCLARENCE, LORD FREDERICK (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 9
Dec. 1799; ensign Coldstream guards 12 May 1814, assisted at
arrest of Cato st. conspirators 23 Feb. 1820; lieut. col. 7 foot 2
June 1825 to 24 Aug. 1832 when placed on h.p.; granted rank of
younger son of a marquis 24 May 1831; G.C.H. 1831; military
governor of Portsmouth 1840; col. 36 foot 23 July 1851 to death;
L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; commander in chief at Bombay 1852 to death,
assumed command 22 Nov. 1852; author of _A manual of out-post
duties_ 1851 and other works. _d._ Poorundhur near Poonah 30 Oct.
1854, body embalmed and _bur._ at Ford, Northumberland 10 Feb.
1855.

FITZGERALD, JOHN DAVID FITZGERALD, 1 Baron (_son of David Fitzgerald
of Dublin, merchant_). _b._ Dublin 1816; ed. at Trin. coll.
Dublin; called to bar in Ireland 1838; Q.C. 15 Feb. 1847; bencher
of King’s Inns 1855; leader of the Munster circuit; M.P. for Ennis
1852–60; solicitor general for Ireland, Feb. 1855 to April 1856,
attorney general April 1856 to March 1858 and 1859 to Feb. 1860;
P.C. Ireland 1856; comr. of national education Ireland 1863 to
death; justice of Queen’s Bench, Ireland, Feb. 1860 to May 1882;
principal judge at great state trials of Messrs. Parnell, Biggar
and others Jany. 1881; a lord of appeal in ordinary May 1882 to
death; created Baron Fitzgerald of Kilmarnock, co. Dublin 23 June
1882; P.C. 29 June 1882; bencher of Gray’s Inn 21 Dec. 1883;
author of _Report on trial of A. M. Sullivan and R. Pigott for
seditious libels_ 1868. _d._ 22 Fitzwilliam place, Dublin 16 Oct.
1889. _Law magazine and law review v_, 267–69 (1858); _Graphic 16
Nov. 1889 p._ 597, _portrait_.

FITZGERALD and VESEY, VERY REV. HENRY VESEY-FITZGERALD, 3 Baron.
_b._ 1800; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1821, M.A. 1827; dean
of Emly 6 July 1818 to 1825; dean of Kilmore 16 March 1825 to
death; succeeded his brother as 3 Baron 11 May 1843. _d._
Danesfort, co. Cavan 30 March 1860.

FITZGERALD, CHARLES (_son of Robert Fitzgerald of Kilkee, co.
Clare_). Entered navy 1809; governor of British settlements on the
Gambia 1844 to 1847; governor of Western Australia Aug. 1848 to
June 1855; captain 1 April 1856; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857. _d._ Geraldine
house, Kilkee, co. Clare 29 Dec. 1887 in 96 year. _I.L.N. xxx_,
59, 60 (1857), _portrait_.

FITZGERALD, EDWARD (_3 son of John Purcell who took name of
Fitzgerald_). _b._ Bredfield house near Woodbridge, Suffolk 31
March 1809; ed. at Bury St. Edmund’s gram. sch. and Trin. coll.
Cam., B.A. 1830; a friend of Spedding, Donne and Thackeray;
resided at Farlingay hall near Woodbridge (where Carlyle visited
him in 1855) 1853–60, at Woodbridge 1860–74, at Little Grange 1874
to his death; issued _Euphranor, a dialogue on youth_ 1851,
_Polonius, a collection of Wise Saws_ 1852, _Six dramas of
Calderon_ 1853 the only book to which he put his name, it was
withdrawn from circulation; translated the Agamemnon of Æschylus
1876 and the Œdipus Tyrannus and Œdipus Coloneus of Sophocles, the
Quatrains of Omar Khayyám 1859, the Salámán and Absál of Jami
1856; author of a translation of Attar’s Mantik-ut-tair which he
called the Bird Parliament MS.; Tennyson’s poem Tiresias 1884
contains a birthday ode to Fitzgerald. _d._ while on a visit to
Merton rectory, Norfolk 14 June 1883. _W. Aldis Wright’s Letters
and remains of E. Fitzgerald 3 vols._ 1889, _portrait_.

FITZGERALD, JAMES. Entered Madras army 1820; commandant at Malabar
19 Feb. 1858 to 17 Jany. 1862; col. 42 Madras N.I. 12 Dec. 1862 to
1869; L.G. 25 June 1870. _d._ Kildare house, Lyndall’s park,
Clifton 14 Nov. 1871.

FITZGERALD, SIR JOHN FORSTER (_4 son of Edward Fitzgerald of
Carrigoran, co. Clare, who d. 1815_). _b._ about 1785; ensign 29
Oct. 1793; major 60 foot 1809; commandant of Quebec and afterwards
of Montreal 1818–24; lieut. col. 20 foot 1824–30; commanded
divisions in Madras and Bombay 1838–41; col. of 62 foot 1843, of
18 foot 1850 to death; general 20 June 1854, field marshal 29 May
1875; K.C.B. 1831, G.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862; M.P. for co. Clare
1852–57. _d._ Tours, France 24 March 1877. _bur._ with military
honours in St. Symphorien cemetery, Tours 27 March. _Times 29
March 1877 p. 9, col. 6._

FITZGERALD, OTHO AUGUSTUS (_3 son of 3 Duke of Leinster 1791–1874_).
_b._ Carton, Maynooth 10 Oct. 1827; M.P. for co. Kildare 1865–74;
master of the horse to viceroy of Ireland 1855 and 1858–59;
gentleman of the bedchamber 1859–62; treasurer of H.M.’s household
8 May 1866 to July 1866, comptroller 1868–74; P.C. 11 June 1866.
_d._ Oakley court, Windsor 19 Nov. 1882.

FITZGERALD, SIR PETER GEORGE, 1 Baronet (_5 son of Maurice
Fitzgerald, P.C., M.P., knight of Kerry 1774–1849_). _b._ 15 Sep.
1808; clerk to David Digges la Touche & Co. bankers, Dublin; vice
treasurer of Ireland 1841, nineteenth knight of Kerry 1849;
sheriff of Kerry 1849 and of Carlow 1875; improved his estates and
built better homesteads for his tenants 1849; created a baronet 8
July 1880. _d._ Glanlearn, island of Valentia 6 Aug. 1880.

FITZGERALD, ROBERT ALLAN (_2 son of Thomas Fitzgerald of Shalstone,
Bucks., who d. 1860_). _b._ 1 Oct. 1834; ed. at Harrow and Trin.
coll. Cam., B.A. 1858, M.A. 1861; played in Harrow and Cambridge
cricket elevens; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1860; sec. to Marylebone
cricket club 1864–76; captain of amateur eleven who visited Canada
and United States 1872; author of _Jerks in from short-leg, By
Quid_ 1866; _Wickets in the West, or the twelve in America_ 1873.
_d._ Charleywood, Herts. 28 Oct. 1881. _Illust. sp. and dr. news
i_, 277 (1874), _portrait_.

FITZGERALD, RIGHT REV. WILLIAM (_son of Maurice Fitzgerald, M.D. of
Lifford, Limerick_). _b._ Lifford 3 Dec. 1814; ed. at Middleton,
co. Cork and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1833, B.A. 1835, M.A.
1848, B.D. and D.D. 1853, fellow of his college, professor of
moral philosophy there 1847–52 and of ecclesiastical history
1852–57; C. of Lackagh, Kildare 1838–46; C. of Clontarf, Dublin
1846–48; V. and preb. of Donoghmore, Dublin 16 Feb. 1848; V. of
St. Anne’s, Dublin 1851–55; P.C. of Monkstown, Dublin 13 May 1855;
preb. of Timothan, Dublin 1855; archdeacon of Kildare 1855; bishop
of Cork, Cloyne and Ross 7 Feb. 1857, consecrated at St. Patrick’s
cath. Dublin 8 March, enthroned 14 March; translated to Killaloe 3
Feb. 1862; edited Bishop Butler’s _Analogy with notes and a life
of the author_, _Dublin_ 1849, _reprinted_ 1860; chief contributor
to _The Cautions for the Times_, a series of papers ed. by R.
Whately 1853; author of _Episcopacy, tradition and the sacraments
considered in reference to the Oxford Tracts_ 1839 and 20 other
works. _d._ Clarisford house, Killaloe 24 Nov. 1883. _Brady’s
Records i_, 302, iii, 87–8; _Dublin Univ. Mag. xlix_, 416–26
(1857).

FITZGERALD, SIR WILLIAM ROBERT SEYMOUR VESEY- (_eld. son of William
Fitzgerald of Dublin_). _b._ 1818; matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 21
Feb. 1833, of Oriel coll., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1844, Newdigate
prizeman 1835, D.C.L. 1863; barrister L.I. 29 Jany. 1839; M.P.
Horsham 1848 but unseated, M.P. Horsham 1852 to 1865 and 1874–5;
under sec. of state foreign affairs 26 Feb. 1858 to June 1859;
governor of Bombay 19 Nov. 1866 to March 1872; P.C. 28 Dec. 1866;
K.C.S.I. 22 Oct. 1867, G.C.S.I. 8 Dec. 1868; chief commissioner of
charities 30 Nov. 1875 to 1885; took names of Seymour Vesey. _d._
29 Warwick sq. London 28 June 1885. _I.L.N. l_, 117 (1867),
_portrait_.

FITZ-GIBBON, ABRAHAM COATES (_2 son of lieut. Philp Fitz-Gibbon,
R.N., d. 1826_). _b._ Mount Eagle, Kilworth, co. Cork 23 Jany.
1823; apprentice to Sir Charles Lanyon 1837–43; agent and manager
for W. Dargan 1847–52; in U.S. America 1852–56, in Ceylon 1857–60,
in New Zealand 1860–62, in Queensland 1863–68, in all these
countries he surveyed and constructed railway lines; M.I.C.E. 9
Jany. 1866; adopted a 3 foot 6 in. gauge in Queensland; with his
brother Maurice Fitz-Gibbon published in Journal of R. Hist. and
Archæol. Assoc. of Ireland “Unpublished Geraldine Documents” which
with additions were reprinted in four parts by Rev. Samuel Hayman,
Dublin 1870–81. _d._ Moorside, Bushey Heath, Herts. 4 April 1887.
_Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxix_, 466–70 (1887).

FITZGIBBON, EDWARD (_son of a land agent d. 1817_). _b._ Limerick,
Aug. 1803; came to London 1817; articled to a surgeon 1819–20;
classical tutor in the provinces 1820–23; at Marseilles 1824–30
studying the language and literature; parliamentary reporter for
_Morning Chronicle_ 1830; wrote on angling for _Bell’s Life_ under
pseudonym of Ephemera; wrote for the _Observer_ and acted as a
theatrical critic; from 1830 his writings gave great impulse to
the art of fishing, were the means of improving fishing tackle and
of increasing the rents of rivers; he once killed 52 salmon on the
Shin river in 55 hours fishing; author of _Handbook of Angling, By
Ephemera_ 1847, _3 ed._ 1853; _The book of the Salmon_ 1850;
author with W. Shipley of _A true treatise on the art of fly
fishing_ 1838, and with A. Young of _Natural History of the
Salmon_ 1854; ed. The _Compleat Angler of Walton and Cotton_ 1853.
_d._ 19 Nov. 1857. _bur._ Highgate cemetery 25 Nov. _Baron
Nicholson’s Autobiography_ (1860) 334–6; _Bell’s Life in London 22
Nov. 1857 p. 8, 29 Nov. p. 5_.

FITZGIBBON, GERALD (_4 son of Mr. Fitzgerald of co. Limerick, tenant
farmer_). _b._ Glin, Limerick 1 Jany. 1793; employed in W.
Jameson’s distillery, Dublin 1814; entered univ. of Dublin 1817,
B.A. 1825, M.A. 1832, maintained himself by teaching 1817–30;
called to Irish bar Jany. 1830; Q.C. 17 Aug. 1841; counsel for Dr.
John Gray in state trial of Daniel O’Connell and his 7 fellow
prisoners 15 Jany. to 12 Feb. 1844 during which on 30 Jany. he was
challenged to a duel by the attorney general Thos. Bury Cusack
Smith, when he brought the matter under notice of the Court and
Mr. Smith apologised; the greatest commercial lawyer of his day;
bencher of King’s Inns 1858; third serjeant at law 1859–60;
receiver-master in Chancery 1860 to April 1878; author of _Ireland
in 1868 the battle field for English party strife_ 1868, _2 ed._
1868; _Roman Catholic priests and National Schools_ 1871, _2 ed._
1872 and other works. _d._ Larkfield, Clondalkin 27 Sep. 1882. _O.
J. Burke’s Anecdotes of Connaught circuit_ (1885) 328–30; _Irish
Law Times xvi_, 494 (1882).

FITZ GIBBON, JAMES. _b._ 1780; enlisted in the army 1797; served in
war against Napoleon and in American war 1812–15; captain of
Glengarry light infantry fencibles 1813–16 when placed on h.p.;
assistant adjutant general of militia Upper Canada; saved city of
Toronto during Mackenzie rebellion 1837 for which he was awarded
5000 acres of land and received thanks of parliament, the grant of
land was subsequently disallowed; chief clerk of lower house of
Canadian parliament 1816–29, clerk of the upper house 1829–35;
created a military knight of Windsor 1850; author of _An appeal to
the people of Upper Canada, Montreal_ 1847. _d._ Lower Ward,
Windsor Castle 12 Dec. 1863.

FITZHARDINGE, WILLIAM FITZHARDINGE BERKELEY, 1 Earl of (_eld. son of
5 Earl of Berkeley 1745–1810_). _b._ 26 Dec. 1786; lieut. South
Gloucestershire militia 6 July 1803, col. 22 Aug. 1810 to death;
kept a pack of hounds in Gloucestershire 1808 to death, not
excelled by any in England; M.P. for Gloucestershire 1810; his
claim to Berkeley peerage disallowed by House of Lords 28 June
1811; created Baron Segrave of Berkeley Castle 10 Sep. 1831 and
Earl Fitzhardinge 17 Aug. 1841; lord lieut. of Gloucestershire 3
Feb. 1836 to death. _d._ Berkeley Castle about midnight 10 Oct.
1857. _Sporting Review xxxviii_, 319–22, 389–95 (1857); _Cecil’s
Records of the Chase_ (1877) 181–5; _My life and recollections by
G. F. Berkeley_ (1865) _i_, 370–83 _and vol. ii passim_.

NOTE.—He is drawn as Fitzalleyne of Berkeley in Fitzalleyne of
Berkeley, a romance of the present times by Bernard
Blackmantle [Charles Molloy] _2 vols._ 1825, who also makes
him one of the characters in his book The English Spy _2
vols._ 1826.

FITZHARDINGE, MAURICE FREDERICK FITZHARDINGE BERKELEY, 1 Baron
(_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 3 Jany. 1788; entered navy June
1802, captain 7 June 1814, admiral 15 Jany. 1862; M.P. for
Gloucester 1831–33, 1835–37 and 1841–57; contested Gloucester
1833, 1837 and 1857; a comr. of admiralty 1833–34, 1837–39,
1846–52 and 1852–57; K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 28 June 1861; P.C.
13 Aug. 1855; master of the Berkeley hounds 1857 to death; claimed
Barony of Berkeley 1857; created Baron Fitzhardinge of city and
county of Bristol 5 Aug. 1861. _d._ Berkeley castle 17 Oct. 1867.
_Baily’s Mag. vi_, 217–19 (1863), _portrait_; _Sporting Review
lviii_, 417–20 (1867).

FITZMAURICE, JOHN G. Second lieut. 95 foot 25 April 1811; captain
rifle brigade 19 Dec. 1826 to 30 March 1832 when placed on h.p.;
granted service reward 13 March 1855; M.G. 7 May 1861; lieut. of
Yeomen of the Guard, Dec. 1861 to death; K.H. 1831. _d._ Drayton
green, Ealing 24 Dec. 1865 aged 72.

FITZMAURICE, WILLIAM EDWARD (_younger son of John Fitzmaurice,
Viscount Kirkwall 1778–1820_). _b._ 22 March 1805; ed. at Oriel
coll. Ox.; captain 9 lancers 26 Feb. 1828; captain 2 life guards
1831–40 when placed on h.p.; M.P. for Bucks. 1842–47; author of _A
cruise to Egypt, Palestine and Greece_ 1834. _d._ Brussels 18 June
1889.

FITZPATRICK, JAMES COLEMAN. _b._ Ireland about 1818; Educ. at Trin.
coll. Dublin; called to Irish bar 1844; barrister L.I. 6 June
1857; chief justice of the Gold Coast 1857–61; judge of British
Kaffraria 20 July 1861 to 1872; judge of supreme court of Cape of
Good Hope 1872–79 when he retired on pension; author of _The Pope,
his rights and duties_ 1860. _d._ Wynberg, British Kaffraria 6
Feb. 1880.

FITZROY, CHARLES (_2 son of 4 Duke of Grafton 1760–1844_). _b._ 28
Feb. 1791; ed. at Harrow and Great Marlow; ensign 1 foot guards 25
June 1807; major 55 foot 27 Jany. 1820 to 11 Jany. 1821 when
placed on h.p.; sold out 1834; M.P. for Thetford 1818–32, for Bury
1832–47; vice chamberlain of the household 29 June 1835 to 2 May
1838; P.C. 1 July 1835. _d._ Elm lodge, Hampton 17 June 1865.

FITZROY, SIR CHARLES AUGUSTUS (_only son of general Charles Fitzroy
1764–1829_). _b._ 10 June 1796; attached to staff of Sir Hussey
Vivian at Waterloo 1815; captain royal horse guards 27 April 1820
to 23 June 1825 when placed on h.p.; M.P. for Bury St. Edmunds,
June 1831 to Dec. 1832; lieut. governor of Prince Edward Island 19
March 1837; governor of Leeward Islands 3 Aug. 1841; governor of
New South Wales 3 Aug. 1846 to 17 Jany. 1855; his wife Lady Mary
Fitzroy killed at Parramatta being thrown from her carriage 7 Dec.
1847; governor general of all the Australian colonies 1850; act
for separation of Victoria passed 5 Aug. 1850; constitution act of
N.S.W. passed 1853; presented with purse of 2000 guineas 28 Jany.
1856; knighted by Wm. iv. at St. James’s palace 1 June 1837;
K.C.B. 12 June 1854. _d._ Half Moon st. Piccadilly, London 16 Feb.
1858. _W. Gisborne’s New Zealand Rulers_ (1886), 36–42; _Rev. J.
Buller’s Forty years in New Zealand_ (1878) 377–82; _Therry’s
Reminiscences_, _2 ed._ (1863) 376–80; _Heads of the people i_, 65
(1847), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxix_, 479 (1856), _portrait_.

FITZROY, HENRY (_younger son of 2 Baron Southampton 1761–1810_).
_b._ Great Stanhope st. London 2 May 1807; ed. at Magd. coll. Ox.
and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. Cam. 1828; M.P. Great Grimsby 10 Aug.
1831 to 3 Dec. 1832; contested Lewes 1835, M.P. Lewes 21 April
1837 to death; a lord of the Admiralty 12 Feb. 1845 to 13 July
1846; lieut. col. of the Artillery company 1848 to death; under
sec. of state for home department Dec. 1852 to Feb. 1855; P.C. 8
Feb. 1855; chairman of committees of House of Commons 16 April
1855 to 1859; chief comr. of board of works 1859 to death. _d._
Sussex sq. Kemp Town, Brighton 22 Dec. 1859.

FITZROY, ROBERT (_brother of Sir C. A. Fitzroy, 1796–1858_). _b._
Ampton hall, Suffolk 5 July 1805; entered navy 19 Oct. 1819;
captain 3 Dec. 1834; commander of Beagle on surveys of Straits of
Magellan etc. 1828–30, 1831–36, when he ran a chronometric line
round the world; F.R.G.S. 1830, gold medallist 1837; an elder
brother of Trinity house 1839; M.P. Durham 1841–43; acting
conservator of river Mersey 21 Sep. 1842 to 1843; governor of New
Zealand 3 April 1843, superseded Nov. 1845 as he did not agree
with the colonists; retired from active service 1850; R.A. 1857,
V.A. on half pay 12 Sep. 1863; F.R.S. 5 June 1851; superintendent
of Meteorological department of board of trade 1854; invented
Fitzroy barometer; instituted a system of storm warnings 1862
which developed into the daily forecasts of the weather 1872;
author of _Narrative of voyages of Adventurer and Beagle and the
Beagle’s circumnavigation of the globe 3 vols._ 1839; _Weather
Book, a manual of practical meteorology_ 1863, _2 ed._ 1863 and
other works; committed suicide by cutting his throat, at his
residence Lyndhurst house, Norwood, Surrey 29 April 1865. _Proc.
of Royal Soc. xv_, 21–23 (1867); _Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. ix_,
215–8 (1865); _Good Words vii_, 406–13 (1866).

FITZROY, SIR WILLIAM (_3 son of 3 Duke of Grafton 1735–1811_). _b._
1 June 1782; entered navy 21 April 1794; captain 3 March 1804;
admiral 2 April 1853; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 4 July 1840. _d._
East Sheen near Richmond 13 May 1857.

FITZWALTER, SIR BROOK WILLIAM BRIDGES, 1 Baron (_elder son of Sir
Brook Wm. Bridges, 4 bart. 1767–1829_). _b._ Goodneston park, Kent
2 June 1801; ed. at Winchester and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1822,
M.A. 1827; succeeded his father 21 April 1829; M.P. for East Kent,
Feb. to July 1852 and April 1857 to April 1868; created Baron
Fitzwalter 17 April 1868. _d._ Goodneston park 6 Dec. 1875.
_I.L.N. xxx_, 478 (1857), _portrait_, _lxvii_, 614, 629 (1875),
_portrait_.

FITZWILLIAM, CHARLES WILLIAM WENTWORTH, 5 Earl (_only child of 4
Earl Fitzwilliam 1748–1833_). _b._ Grosvenor sq. London 4 May
1786; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; M.P. for Yorkshire 20 May 1807 to
24 July 1830 as Viscount Milton; M.P. for Northamptonshire 23 May
1831 to March 1833; pres. of Yorkshire Philosophical Soc. 1830 to
death; K.G. 4 Nov. 1851; took surname of Wentworth by r.l. 20 Aug.
1856; author of _First, second and third addresses on the Corn
laws_ 1839 and other books; edited with Sir Richard Bourke
_Correspondence of Edmund Burke 4 vols._ 1844. _d._ Wentworth
house, Rotherham 4 Oct. 1857. _Waagen’s Treasures of art iii_,
337–42 (1854).

FITZWILLIAM, EDWARD. _b._ near Holborn, London 8 Aug. 1788; actor at
Southend, Hythe and Gosport 1806–8; first appeared in London as
Hodge in _Love in a village_, at West London theatre 1812; acted
at Olympic 1813 and at Royal Circus; his best parts were
Leporello, Dumbiedykes in the _Heart of Midlothian_, Patch,
Partridge in _Tom Jones_ and Humphry Clinker; went to Drury Lane
10 Nov. 1821; became a comic vocalist at city entertainments;
generally known as Little Fitz; retired on an annuity from Drury
Lane theatrical fund 1845. _d._ Regent st. London 30 March 1852.
_Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography ii_, 267–76 (1825), _portrait_;
_Cumberland’s Minor Theatre_, _vol. 2_, _portrait_.

FITZWILLIAM, EDWARD FRANCIS (_son of the preceding_). _b._ Deal,
Kent 2 Aug. 1824; composed a Stabat Mater performed at Hanover
square rooms, London 15 March 1845; musical director of Lyceum
theatre Oct. 1847 to 1849; musical director of Haymarket theatre
Easter 1853 to death; composed _The Queen of the day_, a comic
opera, _A summer night’s love_, an operetta; author of _O
Incomprehensible Creator_, a cantata 1850; _Dramatic songs for 4
voices_ 1856 and other works; his music to the songs _As I laye a
thynkynge_ 1846, _The maid with the milking pail_ 1846, and _The
jug of Punch_ 1845 was very popular. _d._ 9 Grove place, Brompton,
London 19 Jany. 1857. _Era 25 Jany. 1857 p. 9, col. 3._

FITZWILLIAM, ELLEN (_eld. dau. of Thomas Acton Chaplin, d. Nov.
1859_). First appeared in London at Adelphi as Wilhelm in _Die
Hexen am Rhein_ 7 Oct. 1841; member of Haymarket company under J.
B. Buckstone 22 years; went to Australia 1877. (_m._ 31 Dec. 1853
Edward Francis Fitzwilliam 1824–57). _d._ Auckland, New Zealand 19
Oct. 1880 aged 58. _Theatrical Times 18 Nov. 1848 p._ 439,
_portrait_.

FITZWILLIAM, FANNY ELIZABETH (_dau. of Robert Copeland, manager of
Dover circuit_). _b._ Dover theatre 1801; was on the stage at 3
years of age; as Norah in the _Poor Soldier_ played at Dover
theatre 1815; first appeared in London at Haymarket as Lucy in
_The Review_ 1817; went to the Olympic and the Surrey; first seen
at Drury Lane as Fanny in _Maid or Wife_ 5 Dec. 1821; commenced
engagement at Adelphi 10 Oct. 1825, the original Kate Plowden in
_The Pilot_ 31 Oct. 1825 and Bella in _The Wreck Ashore_ 21 Oct.
1830; manager of Sadler’s Wells 1832; gave a monologue _The Widow
Wiggins_ at Adelphi during Lent 1835; in 1837 was at Haymarket
under B. Webster; went to America and made her debut at Park
theatre, New York as Peggy in _The Country Girl_, Oct. 1839;
played at Adelphi, London 1844 and afterwards at Haymarket; was
good in Lady Teazle, country girls and Irish peasants. (_m._ 2
Dec. 1822 Edward Fitz William, actor 1788–1852). _d._ of cholera
at Richmond lodge, Putney 11 Sep. 1854. _Ireland’s Records of the
New York stage i_, 302–4 (1867); _Tallis’s Drawing room table
book_ (1851) 3–5, _2 portraits_; _Actors by daylight i_, 145–6
(1838), _portrait_; _Theatrical Times ii_, 73 (1847), _portrait_;
_Actors by gaslight_ (1838) 25, _portrait_.

FITZWILLIAM, GEORGE WENTWORTH (_3 son of 5 Earl Fitzwilliam
1786–1857_). _b._ Grosvenor place, London 3 May 1817; ed. at Eton
and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1838; M.P. for Richmond 1841, for
Peterborough 1841–59; sheriff of Northampton 1866; master of the
Fitzwilliam hounds. _d._ Milton hall, Peterborough 4 March 1874.

FITZWILLIAM, WILLIAM JOHN WENTWORTH (_5 son of 6 Earl Fitzwilliam,
b. 1815_). _b._ 7 Aug. 1852; ed. at Eton and Magd. coll. Cam.,
B.A. 1874; M.P. for Peterborough 29 Oct. 1878 to death. _d._
Wentworth house near Rotherham 11 Sep. 1889. _Pictorial World 3
Oct. 1889 p._ 416, _portrait_.

FITZWILLIAM, WILLIAM WENTWORTH (_brother of the preceding_). _b._
Grosvenor sq. London 27 July 1839; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll.
Cam.; M.P. for South West Yorkshire 1865–72. _d._ 17 Jany. 1877.

FLAHERTY, WILLIAM EDWARD. Apprenticed to J. G. Barnard of London,
printer; worked for Messrs. Bradbury and Evans 1834; went to
Harrisons 1840; assisted Thomas Duffus Hardy in various works;
compiled _The annals of England 3 vols._ 1855–7, anon.; edited
_The Gentleman’s Magazine_, Jany. 1861 to Dec. 1865; revised
several handbooks for John Murray. _d._ 33 Hassett road, Homerton
16 June 1878 aged 71. _Bookseller, July 1878 p._ 585.

FLANAGAN, REV. THOMAS. _b._ 1814; educ. Sedgley park sch.
Staffordshire and at Oscott coll.; ordained at Oscott 1842,
professor and prefect of studies there to 1851 and again July 1853
to 1854; V.P. of Sedgley park sch. 1851 and president Aug. 1851 to
July 1853; canon of the chapter of Birmingham 1850; resident
priest Blackmore park 1854–60; priest at St. Chad’s cath.
Birmingham 1860 to death; author of _A manual of British and Irish
history_ 1847; _A history of the church in England to the
re-establishment of the hierarchy in 1850_, _2 vols._ 1857 and
other works. _d._ Kidderminster 21 July 1865. _bur._ in crypt of
St. Chad’s cathedral. _Gillow’s English Catholics ii_, 291 (1885).

FLATMAN, ELNATHAN. _b._ Holton, Suffolk 1810; apprenticed to Wm.
Cooper of Newmarket, trainer; won the Goodwood cup on Glencoe
1834, the One thousand guineas on Preserve 1835, the Derby on
Orlando 1844, the St. Leger on Surplice 1848; won 104 races in
1848. _d._ Newmarket 20 Aug. 1860. _Sporting Times 25 July 1885
p._ 2; _Sporting Review xxx_, 10–13 (1853), _portrait_, _xliv_,
162, 225 (1860); _Rice’s British turf i_, 263–65 (1879); _I.L.N.
xxii_, 416 (1853), _portrait_.

FLEETWOOD, SIR PETER HESKETH, 1 Baronet (_son of Robert Hesketh of
Rossall, Lancashire_). _b._ Wennington hall near Lancaster 9 May
1801; ed. at Trin. coll. Ox., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826; sheriff of
Lancashire 1830; M.P. Preston 1832–47; projected and commenced to
build town and port of Fleetwood on river Wyre 1836; created
baronet 20 July 1838; assumed name of Fleetwood by r.l. 5 March
1851; translator of Victor Hugo’s _Last days of a condemned_ 1840.
_d._ 127 Piccadilly, London 12 April 1866.

FLEMING, ALEXANDER. _b._ Edinburgh 1824; M.D. Edin. 1844; F.R.C.P.
Lond.; his essay on the physiological and medicinal properties of
Aconitum Napellus 1845 led to the introduction of a tincture of
aconite known as Fleming’s tincture; edited _Monthly retrospect of
medical science 2 vols._ 1848–9; professor of materia medica
Queen’s coll. Cork to 1858; hon. physician to Queen’s hospital,
Birmingham 1858–73. _d._ Brixton, London 21 Aug. 1875.

FLEMING, ANN CUTHBERT. _b._ Scotland; went to Canada 1815 or 1816;
kept a school at Montreal several years; author of _Home, a poem,
Edinburgh_ 1815; _A year in Canada and other poems, By A. C.
Knight, Edinburgh_ 1816; _Views of Canadian scenery_ and other
books. (_m._ (1) Mr. Knight, _m._ (2) James Fleming). _d._ 1860.

FLEMING, CHRISTOPHER. _b._ Boardstown, co. Westmeath 14 July 1808;
educ. Dublin univ., B.A. 1821, M.D. 1838; L.C.S.I. 1824, member
1826, president 1859–60; surgeon House of Industry hospitals,
Dublin 1851; M.R.I.A.; author of _Clinical records of injuries and
diseases of genito-urinary organs_ 1877; _Remarks on application
of chloroform to surgical purposes_ 1851. _d._ Donnybrook near
Dublin 30 Dec. 1880.

FLEMING, EDWARD CARY. Ensign 31 foot 1803; lieut. col. of 2 Ceylon
regiment 12 Aug. 1819, of 53 foot 24 Feb. 1820, of 24 foot 6 Nov.
1823 to 1 March 1833; C.B. 19 July 1838; col. 27 foot 19 Sep. 1853
to death; L.G. 20 June 1854. _d._ Gloucester sq. Hyde park, London
23 April 1860.

FLEMING, HENRY. Assistant sec. poor law board 3 Feb. 1848 to 5 July
1859, permanent sec. 5 July 1859 to 19 Aug. 1871. _d._ 2 Charles
St. Berkeley sq. London 28 Feb. 1876.

FLEMING, JAMES (_eld. son of Valentine Fleming of Tuam, co.
Galway_). Barrister M.T. 10 June 1836; Q.C. 9 Jany. 1858; chief
comr. of West Indian incumbered estates court 17 Feb. 1865 to
death; chancellor of county palatine of Durham 21 March 1871 to
death; author of _Rules and orders Chancery Court_, Durham 1878.
_d._ 12 Dorset sq. London 23 July 1887.