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FOULKES, WILLIAM DECIMUS INGLETT (_youngest son of Rev. Peter
Foulkes, V. of Shebbear, Devon_). Ed. at Bedford gr. sch.;
barrister M.T. 6 June 1871; a reporter on _The Law Journal
Reports_ 1875; edited _The Law Journal_ newspaper 1879 to death;
author of _An elementary view of the proceedings in an action in
the supreme court_ 1876, _3 ed._ 1884; _A Generation of Judges. By
Their Reporter_ 1886; author with J. M. Lely of _The Judicature
acts ... with notes_ 1875, _4 ed._ 1883 and other books. _d._ 25
Half Moon st. Piccadilly, London 17 Feb. 1890 in 42 year.
FOUNTAIN, JOSEPH. Theatrical artist at Leeds many years; the pioneer
of the now extensive industry of designing and printing theatrical
posters. _d._ 31 Brunswick terrace, Leeds 11 Oct. 1887 in 60 year.
FOURACRES, CHARLES. _b._ Devonshire; enlisted in 1st Madras
fusiliers; sub-engineer Godavery Delta irrigation works; engaged
on Sone irrigation works 1869, resigned 1879; invented an
excavator for which government gave him 10,000 rupees; invented
the hydraulic-brake shutter for the Sone weir and the
vertical-action bucket steam dredger 1878; engineer of the Seebpur
engineering factory Calcutta 1879, retired 1884 when he was
awarded a bonus of 15,000 rupees; M.I.C.E. 2 Dec. 1879. _d._
Bristol 14 July 1884. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxviii_,
418–24 (1884).
FOURDRINIER, HENRY. _b._ Lombard st. London 11 Feb. 1766; succeeded
his father as a paper maker and wholesale stationer; patented with
his brother Sealy (who _d._ 1847) invention of paper making
machine 1801, perfected their machine for making continuous paper
1807; became bankrupt 1810; £7000 voted by Parliament to Messrs.
Fourdrinier as compensation for their loss by defective state of
law of patents 8 May 1840. _d._ Mavesyn, Rydware, Staffs. 3 Sep.
1854. _G.M. xliv_, 102–103 (1855); _I.L.N. xxv_, 345, 354 (1854),
_portrait_.
FOWKE, FRANCIS. _b._ Belfast, July 1823; 2 lieut. R.E. 18 June 1842,
captain 17 Feb. 1854 to death; inspector of Science and Art
department, London 1857, architect and engineer to same
department; sec. to English commission attached to Paris
exhibition 1855–57; designed Museum of science and art, Edinburgh,
opened 19 May 1866; planned buildings for International Exhibition
1862; Albert hall was chiefly designed by him; author of _A
description of the buildings at South Kensington for the reception
of the Sheepshanks pictures_ 1858; _Some account of the buildings
designed for the International Exhibition of 1862_, 1861. _d._ The
Museum, South Kensington 4 Dec. 1865, bust by Woolner in the
Museum. _Papers on professional subjects, Corps. of R.E. xxv_, 9;
_Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxx_, 468–70 (1866); _I.L.N.
xl_, 431, 433 (1862), _portrait_.
FOWKE, SIR FREDERICK GUSTAVUS, 1 Baronet (_3 son of Sir Thomas
Fowke, knt., who d. 30 Nov. 1786_). _b._ 24 Jany. 1782; created
baronet 7 Feb. 1814. _d._ Leamington 17 May 1856.
FOWLER, CHARLES. _b._ Collumpton 17 May 1792; apprentice to a
builder at Exeter; erected court of bankruptcy, Basinghall st.
London; gained first premium in a design for London bridge 1822;
rebuilt Covent Garden market 1829–30; built Hungerford market
opened July 1833; restored Powderham castle, Devon; built churches
at Charmouth, Buckley and Honiton and Devon county lunatic asylum
at Exminster 1845. _d._ Great Marlow 26 Sep. 1867. _Pycroft’s Art
in Devon_ (1883) _p._ 45.
FOWLER, FRANK. Lecturer in Willis’ rooms, London; engaged on a
London daily paper; lecturer in Sydney 1855; started the _Month_,
first respectable magazine in Sydney, July 1857 last issue Dec.
1858; contested Sydney for legislative assembly receiving 2000
votes; edited a London newspaper; founded The Library Co. London
1860, sec. of it to death; author of _Southern lights and shadows_
1859 and other books. _d._ Oakley cottage, Hammersmith 22 Aug.
1863 aged 30. _Frank Fowler’s Last Gleanings_ (1864) _pp.
vii-xvii_.
FOWLER, GEORGE. Formerly of Collumpton; author of _Three years in
Russia 2 vols._ 1841; _Lives of the sovereigns of Russia_ 1858;
_Turkey, a history of the Ottoman empire_ 1854; _History of the
war between Turkey and Russia_ 1855; _Mary Markland the cottager’s
daughter_, _2 ed._ 1861. _d._ Victoria terrace, Bayswater, London
20 April 1858.
FOWLER, JOHN. _b._ Melksham, Wiltshire 11 July 1826; entered works
of Gilke, Wilson & Co. at Middlesbrough 1847; drained Hainault
Forest, Essex by use of his patent drainage plough about 1851;
invented with Jeremiah Head a steam plough which gained prize of
£500 at Chester show of Royal Agricultural Society 1858; invented
double engine tackle 1860; established with Kitson and Hewitson,
manufacturing works at Hunslet, Leeds 1860. _d._ Ackworth,
Yorkshire 4 Dec. 1864. _Trans. of Soc. of Engineers for 1868 pp._
299–318; _Practical Mag._ (1875) 257–62, _portrait_.
FOWLER, SIR JOHN DICKENSON. Solicitor, High Bailiff of Burton upon
Trent 1818; knighted by Prince Regent at Beaudesert 8 Nov. 1818
but never gazetted. _d._ Burton 5 Feb. 1839 aged 70 but name
remained in Knightages to 1864.
FOWLER, LYDIA. _b._ Nantucket, Massachusetts 1823; a graduate of
Syracuse medical college; the first female professor of obstetrics
in America; lived in London 1863 to death; author of _Familiar
lessons on phrenology and physiology_ 1847; _Familiar lessons on
astronomy_ 1848; _The pet of the household and how to save it_
1865; _Heart melodies, poems_ 1870 and 14 other books. (_m._
Lorenzo Niles Fowler of London, phrenologist). _d._ 62 St.
Augustine’s road, Camden sq. London 26 Jany. 1879.
FOWLER, RICHARD. _b._ London 28 Nov. 1765; ed. at Univ. of Edin.,
M.D. 1793; L.C.P. London 1796; practised at Salisbury from 1796;
phys. to Salisbury infirmary 1796–1841; F.R.S. 1 April 1802;
purchased and endowed ground for Salisbury and South Wiltshire
museum to which he gave a large part of his books and collections
1862; author of _Some Observations on the mental state of the
blind and deaf and dumb, Salisbury_ 1843, _2 ed._ 1860; _An
attempt to detect the physiological process by which thinking is
effected, Salisbury_ 1849, _2 ed._ 1852. _d._ Milford near
Salisbury 13 April 1863 having attained a greater age than had any
other member of the Royal Coll. of Phys. from its foundation.
_Proc. of Royal Soc. xiii, pp. iii-v_ (1864); _Munk’s Roll, 2 ed.
vol. ii_, p. 447.
FOX, CAROLINE (_2 dau. of Robert Were Fox 1789–1877_). _b._ Falmouth
24 May 1819; kept a journal from 1835 to 1871 which has rendered
her celebrated; friend of John Sterling, John Stuart Mill and
other eminent men. _d._ Penjerrick near Falmouth 12 Jany. 1871.
_Memories of old friends, extracts from journals of Caroline Fox
1835 to 1871, ed. by H. N. Pym_ 1881, _portrait_, _3 ed. 2 vols._
1882.
FOX, SIR CHARLES (_youngest son of Francis Fox of Derby,
physician_). _b._ Derby 11 March 1810; assistant engineer on
London and Birmingham railway 1830–35; a civil and consulting
engineer in London 1857 to death; introduced the switch into
railway practice 1838; erected with John Henderson the building
for Great Exhibition in Hyde Park 1850–1; erected Crystal Palace,
Sydenham 1852–54; carried out the East Kent and other railways;
erected bridges over Thames at Barnes, Richmond, and Staines and
many other large bridges; M.I.C.E. 13 Jany. 1838; knighted at
Windsor Castle 23 Oct. 1851. _d._ Blackheath, Kent 14 June 1874.
_Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxix_, 264–6 (1875); _Graphic
ix_, 15, 17 (1874), _portrait_; _Practical Mag. vi_, 129–33,
_portrait_.
FOX, CHARLES (_7 son of Robert Were Fox of Falmouth_). _b._ Falmouth
22 Dec. 1797; partner in firm of G. C. and R. W. Fox and Co.
merchants, Falmouth; partner in Perran foundry co., manager
1824–47; one of founders of royal Cornwall polytechnic soc. 1833,
pres. 1871–72; with Sir Charles Lemon introduced man engines into
Cornish mines 1842; pres. of Miners’ Association of Cornwall and
Devon 1861–63; pres. of royal geological soc. of Cornwall 1864–67.
_d._ Trebah near Falmouth 18 April 1878. _Boase and Courtney’s
Bibl. Cornub._ 160–61, 1186; _Joseph Foster’s Descendants of
Francis Fox_ (1872) 11.
FOX, CHARLES RICHARD (_natural son of 3 Baron Holland 1773–1840_).
_b._ 6 Nov. 1796; in the navy 1809–13; ensign Grenadier guards
1815, captain 1830 to 1836 when placed on h.p.; A.D.C. to the
Sovereign 1832–1846; surveyor general of Ordnance 5 Dec. 1832 to
12 Jany. 1835; general 6 March 1863; col. of 57 foot 5 Sep. 1865
to death; M.P. for Calne, Wilts. 1831–32, for Tavistock 1832–34,
for Stroud 1835, for Tower Hamlets 1841–47; had finest private
collection of Greek coins in the world, purchased by Royal Museum
at Berlin 1873. _d._ 1 Addison road, Kensington, London 13 April
1873. _Numismatic Chronicle xiv_, 16–19 (1874); _Waagen’s
Galleries of Art_ (1857) 232–4; _I.L.N. lxii_, 393, 451 (1873).
FOX, EBENEZER. _b._ England; chief reporter on the _Manchester
Guardian_ several years; went to Dunedin, New Zealand; on staff of
_Otago Daily Times_ 1862; confidential clerk and secretary to
treasury New Zealand 1870 to death; wrote articles in _New Zealand
Times_ on denudation of the forests which attracted much
attention. _d._ Wellington, Jany. 1886.
FOX, EDWARD. Author of _Poetical Tentatives, By Lynn Erith_ 1854;
_Pleasure paths of travel_ 1857; _Amian and Bertha and other
poems_ 1858; drowned while bathing in the Avon at Keynsham,
Somerset 9 Aug. 1862 aged 33.
FOX, HENRY HAWES. _b._ Bristol 5 Jany. 1788; ed. at Glasgow and St.
John’s coll. Cam.; pres. of royal medical society, Edin.;
practised at Bristol 1811–32, phys. to infirmary there 1816–32;
M.D. Cam. 1826; bought estate of Northwood, Gloucs. 1832 where he
built an asylum for the insane; originated a method of fire proof
construction now known as Fox and Barrett’s. _d._ Northwood 12
Oct. 1851.
FOX, REV. JOHN (_son of Henry Fox of St. Bees, Cumberland_). _b._
St. Bees; ed. at St. Bees; matric. from Queen’s coll. Ox. 4 Dec.
1794 aged 20, tabarder 1798, fellow 1808–27; B.A. 1798, M.A. 1812,
B.D. 1827, D.D. 1827; master of Northleach sch. 1826–27; provost
of Queen’s coll. Ox. 1827 to death. _d._ Oxford 11 Aug. 1855.
_bur._ Sherborne.
FOX, RICHARD MAXWELL. _b._ Raheny Glebe, co. Dublin 1816; M.P. for
co. Longford 13 Aug. 1847 to death. _d._ St. Leonard’s on Sea 26
April 1856.
FOX, ROBERT WERE (_brother of Charles Fox 1797–1878_). _b._ Falmouth
26 April 1789; made researches upon internal temperature of the
earth from 1815, the first to prove that the heat increased with
the depth; a founder of Royal Polytechnic Soc. 1833; F.R.S. 9 June
1848; contributed 52 papers to scientific periodicals. _d._
Penjerrick near Falmouth 25 July 1877. _A catalogue of the works
of R. W. Fox with A sketch of his life, By J. H. Collins, Truro_
1878; _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i_, 162–5 (1874), _iii_,
1188 (1882).
FOX, SACKVILLE WALTER LANE. _b._ 1800; M.P. for Helston 1831–34, for
Beverley 1840–41 and 1847–52, for Ipswich 1842–47. _d._ 22 Pall
Mall, London 18 Aug. 1874.
FOX, SAMUEL. _b._ Bradwell, North Derbyshire 1815; a steel maker at
Stockbridge near Sheffield; patented Fox’s paragon frame for
umbrellas 6 April 1852 by which he made a fortune; established
large works at Lille, France; chairman of Samuel Fox and Co.,
Stockbridge works, Deepcar near Sheffield to death. _d._ The
Lodge, North Cliffe near Market Weighton, Yorkshire 25 Feb. 1887.
FOX, SARAH HUSTLER (_only dau. of Wm. Hustler of Apple hall,
Bradford, Yorkshire_). _b._ Apple hall 8 Aug. 1800. (_m._ 20 Dec.
1825 Charles Fox 1797–1878.) Author of _A metrical version of the
book of Job_ 1852–4; _Poems original and translated_ 1863; _Catch
who can, or hide and seek, original double acrostics_ 1869. _d._
Trebah near Falmouth 19 Feb. 1882.
FOX, REV. WILLIAM JOHNSON. _b._ Uggeshall farm near Wrentham,
Suffolk 1 March 1786; Independent minister at Fareham 1810;
Unitarian minister at Chichester 1812–17; minister of Parliament
court chapel, London 1817, of a chapel built for him in South
place, Finsbury 1824–52; edited the _Monthly Repository_ 1833 to
1836; a leading orator of the Anti-Corn-law League; M.P. for
Oldham 1847–52, 1852–57 and 1857–62; contested Oldham 1852 and
1857; author of _Lectures to the working classes 4 vols._ 1845–49
and 30 other books. _d._ 3 Sussex place, Regent’s park, London 3
June 1864. _Memorial edition of collected works of W. J. Fox, vol.
12_ (1868); _John Evans’s Lancashire authors_ (1850) 92–96;
_People’s Journal iii_, 69 (1848), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xii_, 298
(1848), _portrait_.
FOX, WILLIAM TILBURY (_son of Luther Owen Fox, M.D. of Broughton,
Winchester_). _b._ 1836; ed. at Univ. coll. London; M.B. London
1857, M.D. 1858; phys. accoucheur to Farringdon General
Dispensary; a specialist on dermatology; phys. to skin departments
of Charing Cross and University college hospitals; one of editors
of the _Lancet_; author of _Skin diseases, their description,
pathology, diagnosis and treatment_ 1864, _3 ed._ 1873; _Atlas of
skin diseases_ 1875–7 and 12 other books. _d._ Paris 7 June 1879.
_bur._ Willesden cemetery 14 June.
FOX, WILSON. _b._ Wellington, Somerset 2 Nov. 1831; B.A. London
1850, M.B. 1854, M.D. 1855; phys. at Newcastle-under-Lyme 1859–61;
professor of pathological anatomy at Univ. coll. London 1861;
assistant phys. Univ. coll. hospital 1862, phys. 1867; F.R.C.P.
1866; Holme professor of clinical medicine Univ. coll. hospital
1867; phys. extraord. to the Queen 16 Aug. 1869, phys. in ordinary
18 Dec. 1882 to death; F.R.S. 6 June 1872; author of _On the
diagnosis and treatment of the varieties of Dyspepsia_ 1867, _3
ed._ under the title of _The diseases of the stomach_ 1872, and
other books. _d._ Preston, Lancs. 3 May 1887. _bur._ Taunton 6
May, bust in shire hall, Taunton unveiled 25 Oct. 1888.
FRADELLE, HENRY JOSEPH. _b._ Lille, France 1778; historical painter
in London from 1816; exhibited 11 pictures at R.A., 36 at B.I. and
2 at Suffolk st. gallery 1817–54. _d._ 36 Weymouth st. Portland
place, London 14 March 1865.
FRAIL, JOHN FREDERICK. _b._ Shrewsbury 1 May 1804; hairdresser
Shrewsbury; a local actor; electioneering agent to the Carlton
club in Shropshire; clerk of the course, Shrewsbury 1843;
organised many race meetings; entertained at dinner and presented
with plate worth £350, 1854; town councillor 1854, mayor. _d._
Shrewsbury 9 March 1879. _Sporting Review xxxix_, 361–3 (1858);
_Sporting Times 24 July 1875 p._ 396, _portrait_; _Illust. sp. and
dr. news vi_, 403, 419 (1877), _portrait_, _x_, 620, 627 (1879),
_portrait_.
FRANCATELLI, CHARLES ELMÉ. _b._ London 1805; studied cookery under
Carème; chef to Earl of Chesterfield, Earl of Dudley, Lord
Kinnaird and Rowland Errington successively; managed St. James’s
club, London; chief cook and maitre d’hotel to the Queen 1840–42;
lessee of Coventry House club; chef at the Reform club 1854–61;
managed St. James’s hotel, Berkeley st. Piccadilly 1863–70, and
Freemason’s tavern, Great Queen st. 1870–76; author of _The modern
cook_ 1846, _12 ed._ 1865 and other books. _d._ Eastbourne 10 Aug.
1876. _A. Hayward’s Art of dining, new ed._ (1883) 75–6.
FRANCE, VEN. FRANCIS. Educ. at Shrewsbury and St. John’s coll. Cam.;
B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843, B.D. 1850; fellow tutor and pres. of his
college; archdeacon of Ely, Dec. 1859 to death; author of _The
example of Christ_ 1861. _d._ Cambridge 14 April 1864.
FRANCILLON, JAMES (_6 son of Francis Francillon of Harwich, Essex_).
_b._ 21 Nov. 1802; admitted attorney; conveyancing clerk to
Messrs. Wilton at Gloucester 1824; barrister G.I. 20 Nov. 1833;
judge of county courts, circuit 54 (Gloucestershire), March 1847
to death; author of _Lectures elementary and familiar on English
law 2 series_ 1860–1. _d._ of cholera at Lausanne 3 Sep. 1866.
FRANCIS, FRANCIS (_son of Captain Morgan, R.N._) _b._ Seton, Devon
1822; changed his name from Morgan to Francis 1843; angling editor
of _The Field_ 25 years; established the Thames Rights defence
association; suggested plan of the National fish-culture
association; a member of the commission on oyster culture 1868–70;
author of _Pickackifax, a novel in rhyme_ 1854; _Newton Dogvane, a
novel 3 vols._ 1859 and 14 other books. _d._ The Firs, Twickenham
24 Dec. 1886. _F. Francis’s A Book on Angling_, _6 ed._ (1887),
_portrait_; _The Field 1 Jany. 1887 p. 9, cols. 1–3_.
FRANCIS, GEORGE (_2 son of George Francis of Maidstone, Kent_). _b._
20 Aug. 1824; barrister G.I. 16 Jany. 1850, bencher 26 May 1880,
treasurer 1886; recorder of Faversham, March 1864 to Nov. 1872;
recorder of Canterbury, Nov. 1872 to Aug. 1883; master in Q.B.
division, July 1878, master of supreme court of judicature 1879 to
death. _d._ 12 Carlton hill, Maida vale, London 20 Jany. 1890.
FRANCIS, GEORGE GRANT (_eld. son of John Francis of Swansea_). _b._
Swansea, Jany. 1814; mayor of Swansea 1853–4; col. of 1st
Glamorgan artillery volunteers raised by his exertions 1859;
author of _The free grammar school Swansea, Swansea_ 1849; _The
smelting of copper in the Swansea district, privately printed
Swansea_ 1867, published 1881, and other books on Welsh history
and topography. _d._ 9 Upper Phillimore place, Kensington, London
21 April 1882. _bur._ Swansea cemetery 26 April. _Athenæum 28
April 1882 pp._ 510–11.
FRANCIS, GEORGE HENRY. _b._ about 1817; edited _Morning Post_,
_Atlas_, _Dublin Daily Express_; manager and assistant editor of
the _Press_; edited _Morning Chronicle_; author of _Orators of the
age_ 1847 and other books. _d._ Paris 28 Aug. 1866.
FRANCIS, GEORGE WILLIAM. _b._ London 1800; edited _Magazine of
science and school of arts 5 vols._ 1840–5; went to Australia
1849; director of Adelaide botanic garden to death; author of
_Catalogue of British plants and ferns_ 1835, _5 ed._ 1840; _An
analysis of British ferns_ 1837, _5 ed._ 1855; _Electrical
experiments 8 ed._ 1855 and 8 other books. _d._ Adelaide 9 Aug.
1865.
FRANCIS, JAMES GOODALL. _b._ London 1819; went to Van Diemen’s Land
1834; partner with Mr. Macpherson in a business at Hobart Town
1847; managed a branch business in Melbourne 1853; vice pres. of
chamber of commerce N.S.W. 1856, pres. 1857; member for Richmond
in Victorian legislative assembly 1859–74; comr. of trade and
customs 1863–68; treasurer of Victoria 1870–71; prime minister
1872–74; passed a free education act 1874; member for Warrnambool
in Victorian assembly 1878–82. _d._ Queenscliff, Victoria 25 Jany.
1884.
FRANCIS, JOHN. _b._ Lincolnshire 3 Sep. 1780; pupil of Francis
Chantrey in London; executed by command of the Queen a bust in
marble of Prince Albert 1844; exhibited 71 sculptures at the R.A.
1820–57. _d._ 56 Albany st. Regent’s park, London 30 Aug. 1861.
FRANCIS, JOHN. _b._ Bermondsey, London 18 July 1811; junior clerk in
office of the _Athenæum_, Sep. 1831, business manager and
publisher of that paper 4 Oct. 1831 to death; did more than any
man to procure repeal of duty on newspaper advertisements 1853, of
stamp duty on newspapers 1855 and of the paper duty 1861. _d._ 20
Wellington st. Strand, London 6 April 1882. _John Francis,
publisher of the Athenæum, By J. C. Francis_ (1888) _i_, 1–19,
45–7, 226, ii, 173 _et seq._ 545–50, _portrait_; _H. J. Nicoll’s
Great Movements_ (1881) 269–339.
FRANCIS, SIR PHILIP. _b._ 1822; barrister M.T. 21 Nov. 1845; judge
of supreme consular court of the Levant and consul general at
Constantinople 16 Sep. 1867 to death; knighted by patent 7 Dec.
1868; author of _The law of Charities_ 1854; _The new common law
procedure acts_ 1854. _d._ on board H.M.S. Antelope between Besika
and Smyrna 9 Aug. 1876. _Graphic xiv_, 257, 261 (1876),
_portrait_.
FRANCKLYN, JOHN HENRY. _b._ 8 Jany. 1812; 2 lieut. R.A. 26 July
1831, col. commandant 20 Dec. 1878 to death; general 13 Nov. 1880;
C.B. 2 Jany. 1857. _d._ The Wigwam, Dacres road, Forest hill 12
Feb. 1881.
FRANKLAND, CHARLES COLVILLE (_3 son of Rev. Roger Frankland, R. of
Yarlington, Somerset, who d. 25 March 1826_). _b._ Bath 10 Feb.
1797; entered navy 13 Jany. 1813, captain 23 Nov. 1841; retired
admiral 30 July 1875; published _Travels to and from
Constantinople 2 vols._ 1829; _Narrative of a visit to the courts
of Russia and Sweden 2 vols._ 1832. _d._ 2 Royal crescent, Bath 13
April 1876.
FRANKLIN, LADY JANE (_2 dau. of John Griffin of Bedford place,
London_). _b._ 1792; travelled in the East, Van Diemen’s Land and
New Zealand 1828–44; the first lady who travelled overland from
Melbourne to Sydney; sent out at her own expense to the Arctic
regions 5 ships in search of her husband Sir John Franklin
1850–57; received gold medal of Royal Geog. Soc. 1860. (_m._ at
Great Stanmore 5 Nov. 1828 John Franklin, captain R.N. who _d._
Victory point, King William Land 11 June 1847, his name is in the
navy list down to April 1854); author of _A letter to Viscount
Palmerston_ 1857, _2 editions_. She _d._ 45 Phillimore gardens,
London 18 July 1875. _Graphic xi_, 157, 163 (1875), _portrait_.
FRANKLYN, GEORGE WOODROFFE. _b._ Bristol 1800; a merchant at
Bristol; mayor of Bristol 1842–43; M.P. for Poole 1852–65. _d._
Lovel hill, Winkfield, Berks. 5 Nov. 1870.
FRANKS, SIR JOHN (_2 son of Thomas Franks of Ballymagooly, co. Cork
1729–87_). _b._ Loher Cannon near Tralee, co. Kerry 1769; ed. at
Trin. coll. Dublin; B.A. 1788, M.A. 1791; called to Irish bar
1792; K.C. 25 Nov. 1822; one of judges of supreme court, Calcutta
1825–1834 when he resigned; knighted at Carlton house 20 April
1825; resided at Roebuck near Dublin 1835 to death; bencher of
King’s Inns, Dublin 1840. _d._ St. Bridgets, Clonkeagh, co. Dublin
11 Jany. 1852.
FRANKS, SIR THOMAS HARTE (_2 son of Wm. Franks of Carrig castle near
Mallow, co. Cork_). Ensign 10 foot 7 July 1825, lieut. col. 28
March 1845 to 20 July 1858; commanded 4th infantry division during
Indian mutiny 1858; M.G. 20 July 1858; C.B. 27 June 1846, K.C.B.
27 July 1858. _d._ Ibstone house, Tetsworth, Oxon. 5 Feb. 1862.
FRASER, ALEXANDER. _b._ Edinburgh 7 April 1786; painter in Edin. to
1813, in London 1813–59; painted the details and still life in
David Wilkie’s pictures for about 20 years; A.R.S.A. 1840;
exhibited 32 pictures at R.A., 97 at B.I. and 37 at Suffolk st.
gallery 1810–59. _d._ Wood Green, Middlesex 15 Feb. 1865.
FRASER, HASTINGS. Ensign 74 foot 9 April 1788; lieut. col. 86 foot
18 April 1805 to 31 Aug. 1826; col. 83 foot 30 Sep. 1835, col. 61
foot 1 Sep. 1848 to death; general 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 4 June 1815.
_d._ Bury st. St. James’s, London 29 Sep. 1852 aged 81.
FRASER, SIR HUGH (_son of Wm. Fraser, commissary of Inverness_).
Entered military service of H.E.I. Co. 1790; col. of 5 Madras N.I.
1 May 1834 to death; L.G. 23 Nov. 1841; K.C.B. 7 April 1832 for
commanding troops at assault of Copaul Droog. _d._ Braclangwell,
co. Cromarty 6 Oct. 1851 aged 78.
FRASER, RIGHT REV. JAMES (_eld. son of James Fraser of Prestbury,
Gloucs._) _b._ Prestbury 18 Aug. 1818; ed. at Bridgnorth and
Shrewsbury; scholar of Lincoln coll. Ox. 1836; Ireland scholar
1839; B.A. 1840, M.A. 1842; fellow of Oriel coll. 1840–60, tutor
1842–47, sub-dean and librarian 1844; R. of Cholderton, Wiltshire
1847–60; select preacher at Oxford 1851, 1861, 1871, 1877 and
1885; R. of Ufton Nervet, Berkshire 1860–70; preb. of Salisbury
1861–70; bishop of Manchester 18 Jany. 1870 to death, consecrated
at Manchester cathedral 25 March 1870. _d._ Bishop’s Court, Higher
Broughton, Manchester 22 Oct. 1885. _bur._ at Ufton Nervet.
_Memoir of James Fraser. By Thomas Hughes, Q.C._ 1887, _portrait_;
_J. W. Diggle’s The Lancashire life of Bishop Fraser_ 1889,
_portrait_; _Dublin univ. mag. xcv_, 452–64 (1880), _portrait_;
_Church portrait gallery i_, 47 (1880), _portrait_; _Our Bishops
and Deans. By Rev. F. Arnold ii_, 119–30 (1875); _Rev. C. M.
Davies’s Orthodox London 2 series_ (1874) 94–107, 393.
FRASER, JAMES BAILLIE (_eld. son of Edward Satchell Fraser of
Reelick, Invernessshire_). _b._ Reelick 11 June 1783; travelled in
the Himalayas 1815, in Persia 1821–2; took charge of the Persian
princes when they visited England 1835–6; author of _Narrative of
the Persian princes in London 2 vols._ 1838; _Travels in
Koordistan, Mesopotamia, &c. 2 vols._ 1840; _The dark falcon, a
tale of the Attruck 4 vols._ 1844 and 14 other books. _d._ Reelick
24 Jany. 1856. _G.M. xlv_, 307–8 (1856).
FRASER, JAMES STUART (_youngest son of Charles Fraser, col. Madras
army, who d. 5 May 1795_). _b._ Edinburgh 1 July 1783; lieut. 18
Madras N.I. 15 Dec. 1800; commandant at Pondicherry 1816–28; col.
36 Madras N.I. 26 Sep. 1835 to death; resident at Hyderabad 31
Dec. 1839 to 1852; general 2 June 1860. _d._ Twickenham park,
Twickenham 22 Aug. 1869. _H. Fraser’s Memoir of J. S. Fraser_
(1885), _portrait_.
FRASER, SIR JOHN (_3 son of Wm. Mackenzie Fraser, M.D. of
Balnairn_). _b._ Bath 1792; ed. at Eton; aide-de-camp and Persian
interpreter to commander-in-chief in India; retired from army
1827; sec. to lord high comr. of Ionian Islands to 1854; K.C.M.G.
1853. _d._ Bath 26 Dec. 1864.
FRASER, JOHN FARQUHAR. Barrister L.I. 13 May 1817; judge of county
courts, circuit 46 (Surrey), March 1847 to death; author of _The
reports of Sir E. Coke in 13 parts, 10 parts by J. F. F._ 1826;
resided at 104 Eaton place, Belgrave sq. London. _d._ Feb. 1865.
FRASER, PATRICK, Lord Fraser (_son of Patrick Fraser of Perth,
merchant_). _b._ Pitlochry near Perth 1819; ed. at Perth gr. sch.
and univ. of St. Andrews; called to the bar 1843; sheriff of
Renfrewshire 3 Feb. 1862; LLD. Edin. 1871; dean of Faculty of
Advocates 16 Jany. 1878; Q.C. 1880; a lord of session with title
of Lord Fraser 4 Feb. 1881 to death; lord ordinary in exchequer
cases 15 Nov. 1881 to death; author of _A treatise on the law of
Scotland as applicable to the personal and domestic relations 2
vols. Edin._ 1846; _The conflict of laws in cases of divorce,
Edin._ 1860 and 5 other books; found dead in his study chair at
Gattonside near Melrose 27 March 1889. _Juridical Review i_,
178–83 (1889), _portrait_.
FRASER, ROBERT SAMUEL. _b._ North Shields 26 Oct. 1829; apprentice
to William Clark, engineer, Sunderland 1843; manager of the s.s.
Chasseur floating factory in Balaclava harbour 1855–56 for the
government; assistant to inspector of machinery in the Arsenal,
Woolwich 1856; manager of royal gun factories, Woolwich 1859,
deputy assist. superintendent 1866; invented the service gun known
as the Fraser 1867 but since called the Woolwich gun and still in
use; presented by government on two occasions with £5000 each
time; changed spelling of his name from Frazer to Fraser 1866;
M.I.C.E. 6 Dec. 1864. _d._ of consumption Arbory cottage, Sydenham
road, Croydon 12 July 1884. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E.
lxxviii_, 424–9 (1884).
FRASER, REV. ROBERT WILLIAM (_son of captain Robert Fraser_). _b._
Perth 1810; licensed to preach by Edinburgh presbytery 1840;
minister of parish of Burntisland 1843–7; minister of St. John’s
ch. Edin. 1847 to death; author of _Moriah, or sketches of the
sacred rites of ancient Israel_, _Edinburgh_ 1849 and many other
books. _d._ 19 Lauriston st. Edinburgh 10 Sep. 1876. _Scotsman 12
Sep. 1876 p. 4._
FRASER, THOMAS. Took a leading part in Parisian political life which
he described in racy articles, sent to the _Morning Chronicle_
1835–55; sec. to Hudson Bay Co. London 1855. _d._ Florence 2 Nov.
1869. _Newspaper Press 1 Dec. 1869 p._ 15.
FRASER, THOMAS (_son of vice admiral Alexander Fraser, who d. 29
Dec. 1829_). _b._ May 1796; entered navy 11 Nov. 1811; commander
22 July 1826; captain on h.p. 23 Nov. 1841; V.A. on h.p. 1870.
_d._ 19 Brighton place, Portobello 28 Oct. 1870. _Crombie’s Modern
Athenians_ (1882), p. 139, _portrait_.
FRASER, MOST REV. WILLIAM. _b._ Scotland about 1790; R.C. vicar
apostolic of Nova Scotia with title of bishop of Fanes 1821;
devoted himself to Scottish members of his flock in Antigonish,
northern part of the peninsula and neglected the Irish; the Pope
divided province of Nova Scotia into two dioceses, Antigonish
being united to Cape Breton and erected into diocese of Arishat
with W. Fraser as titular bishop. _d._ Antigonish 4 Oct. 1857.
FRASER, REV. WILLIAM (_eld. son of Wm. Fraser of St. George’s,
Southwark, London_). Matric. from Worcester coll. Ox. 9 June 1841
aged 17; B.A. 1845, M.A. 1848, B.C.L. 1848, D.C.L. 1861; C. of
Alton, Staffs. 1853–58, V. 1858 to death; P.C. of Cotton, Staffs.
1862 to death; author of _Parish Sermons 2 series_ 1855–60; _A
plain commentary of the Book of Psalms, chiefly founded on the
Fathers 2 vols._ 1857 and other books. _d._ Alton vicarage 26 Nov.
1877.
FRASER, REV. WILLIAM. _b._ Cullen, Banffshire 1817; a master in
Normal seminary, Glasgow; pastor of the Free Middle congregation,
Paisley 1849 to death; LLD. Glasgow 1872; member of Paisley school
board; author of _The state of our educational enterprises_ 1858;
_Blending lights, or the relations of natural science, archæology
and history to the Bible_ 1873. _d._ Free Middle manse, Paisley 21
Sep. 1879. _Renfrewshire Independent 27 Sep. 1879 p._ 4.
FRASER, WILLIAM CHARLES. Entered Madras army 1797; col. 14 Madras
N.I. 1848 to death; general 20 June 1854. _d._ Stanley place,
Paddington, London 4 March 1859 aged 74.
FRAZER, JOHN JAMES, stage name of John James Fricker. Principal
tenor singer in London 1843; went to the United States about 1851.
_d._ Philadelphia 18 June 1863 in 59 year.
FREAKE, SIR CHARLES JAMES, 1 Baronet (_eld. son of Charles Freake of
St. George’s, Hanover sq. London_). _b._ 7 April 1814; contested
Chelsea 17 Nov. 1868; built Cromwell road and other streets in
Kensington; created baronet 23 May 1882. _d._ 1 Cromwell houses,
Kensington, London 6 Oct. 1884.
FREDERICK, CHARLES (_2 son of lieut. colonel Thomas Frederick, who
d. 28 May 1844 aged 80_). _b._ 7 May 1797; entered navy 5 June
1810; captain 23 Oct. 1842; member of Irish relief committee 1847;
member of Board of Admiralty, June 1859; senior officer on coast
of Ireland 31 March 1865 to 8 Oct. 1867; retired admiral 30 July
1875. _d._ 13 Victoria st. Westminster 23 Dec. 1875.
FREDERICK, EDWARD (_son of col. Charles Frederick_). _b._ 23 June
1784; entered Bombay army 1799; col. 10 Bombay N.I. 28 June 1838
to death; general 26 June 1860; C.B. 28 July 1838. _d._ Shawford
house, Hants. 5 Dec. 1866.
FREEBURN, JAMES. _b._ parish of St. Cuthbert’s, Midlothian 1808;
enlisted in 7th battalion of R.A. 1825, serjeant-major April 1844,
quartermaster of 10th battalion 1 April 1846 to 21 April 1856 when
he retired with hon. rank of captain; invented an elaborate series
of metal and wood fuzes for exploding live shells 1846, his fuzes
were adopted in the army 1847. _d._ Plumstead, Woolwich 5 Aug.
1876.
FREEMAN, VEN. PHILIP (_son of Edmund Freeman of The Cedars, Combs,
Suffolk_). _b._ The Cedars 3 Feb. 1818; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.,
scholar 1835; Craven univ. scholar 1838; B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842;
fellow of St. Peter’s coll. 1842–53; principal of theological
coll. Chichester 1846–55; canon and reader in theology in Cumbrae
coll. Scotland 1855–58; V. of Thorverton, Devon 1858–74; preb. of
Exeter 1861–64; canon of Exeter 1864 to death; archdeacon of
Exeter, April 1865 to death; author of _Proportion in Gothic
architecture_ 1848; _The principles of divine service 2 parts_
1855–62 and 17 other books. _d._ 1 Northumberland terrace,
Primrose hill, London 24 Feb. 1875 from effects of an accident at
Chalk Farm railway station 18 Feb.
FREEMAN, SAMUEL. Engraver of portraits; worked chiefly in stipple;
engraved numerous portraits and other illustrations for Rev. T. F.
Dibdin’s _Northern Gallery_, Jones’s _National Gallery_ and other
books. _d._ 22 Jeffrey’s st. Camden Town, London 27 Feb. 1857 aged
84.
FREEMAN, WILLIAM DEANE. Called to bar in Ireland 1817; Q.C. 17 Aug.
1841; assistant barrister for Galway to death. _d._ Galway 13 Oct.
1852. _Law magazine and law review ii_, 236–40 (1857).
FREEMAN, REV. JOSEPH JOHN. _b._ Thames st. London 7 Oct. 1794;
Congregational minister at Chelmsford 21 May 1816; minister for
London missionary soc. in Madagascar 1826–35; minister at
Walthamstow 1836; one of foreign secretaries of London Missionary
Soc. 1841 and home sec. 1846; visited missionary stations in
Guiana and Jamaica 1842–43; took charge of Malagasy refugees when
in England 1848; visited mission churches at the Cape and in the
Mauritius 1849–51; author of _The Holy Bible in the Malagasy
language_ 1830; _A Tour to South Africa_ 1851 and 9 other works.
_d._ Homburg 8 Sep. 1851. _Congregational Year Book_ (1852) pp.
215–16; _Waddington’s Congregational history v_, 51–9 (1880).
FREER, JOHN CHARLES. _b._ Malta 1802; appeared on stage at
Portsmouth about 1824; played at theatres in east of London with
success; kept a public house in Shoreditch which failed; went to
Philadelphia; appeared at Park theatre, New York as Richard III.
18 May 1839; lessee of Richmond hill theatre, New York; stage
manager of Chatham theatre, New York 10 years. Cut his throat at a
coffee house, Bridge court, Cannon row, Westminster bridge, London
24 Dec. 1857. _d._ Westminster hospital same day. _bur._ Working
30 Dec. _Theatrical times iii_, 89 (1848), _portrait_; _Era 27
Dec. 1857 p._ 11.
FREER, VEN. RICHARD LANE (_son of Rev. Thomas Lane Freer, R. of
Handsworth, Staffs., who d. 1835 aged 57_). _b._ 1806; ed. at
Westminster and Ch. Ch., Ox., B.A. 1828, D.D. 1858; R. of
Bishopstone, Herefordshire 1830 to death; preb. of Hereford cath.
1847 to death; archdeacon of Hereford, April 1852 to death;
prelector of Hereford cath. 1861 to death. _d._ Bishopstone
rectory 11 Aug. 1863. _Memoir of Ven. R. L. Freer_ [_by his
widow_], _privately printed_ 1866, _portrait_.
FREESTUN, SIR WILLIAM LOCKYER (_2 son of Edward Freestun of Primrose
hill, co. Waterford_). _b._ May park, Waterford 1804; ensign 5
foot 4 June 1812; on the staff of British legion under Sir De Lacy
Evans 1835–37; served on the staff in Syria as assistant adjutant
general with rank of major 15 Dec. 1840 to 1842; M.P. for Weymouth
1847–59; knighted at St. James’s palace 20 June 1860. _d._ 22
Gloucester sq. Hyde park, London 16 April 1862.
FREETH, SIR JAMES (_youngest son of Sampson Freeth of Birmingham_).
_b._ Birmingham 1786; ensign royal staff corps 25 Dec. 1806,
captain 1814 to 1830 when placed on h.p.; A.Q.M.G. 1826–1851,
Q.M.G. 1 Feb. 1851 to 13 Aug. 1855; col. 64 foot 13 Aug. 1855 to
death; general 9 March 1865; K.H. 1833; K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862. _d._
80 Coleshill st. Eaton sq. London 19 Jany. 1867.
FREILIGRATH, FERDINAND. _b._ Detmold, North Germany 17 June 1810;
clerk in a bank at Amsterdam 1831–36; a merchant’s clerk in City
of London 1846–48; imprisoned at Düsseldorf 2 months in 1848 for
publishing a poem entitled _The Dead to the Living_ 1848; clerk in
a bank in City of London 1851–67; naturalised in England 16 Oct.
1858; lived in Germany 1867 to death; a most popular modern German
poet; his collected works were published in _6 vols._ at Stuttgart
1877. _d._ Cannstadt near Stuttgart 17 March 1876. _W. Buchner’s
F. Freiligrath, ein Dichterleben 2 vols._ (1882), _2 portraits_.
FREMANTLE, SIR CHARLES HOWE (_2 son of admiral Sir Thomas Francis
Fremantle 1765–1819_). _b._ 1 June 1800; midshipman R.N. 12 Dec.
1812; captain 4 Aug. 1826; admiral superintendent in Balaklava 18
June 1855; commander-in-chief at Devonport, Oct. 1863 to Oct.
1866; admiral 9 Feb. 1864; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1857, G.C.B. 13 March
1867. _d._ 57 Grosvenor st. London 25 May 1869.
FRENCH, Queen of the, MARIE AMELIE DE BOURBON (_2 dau. of Ferdinand
I. 1751–1825, king of the Two Sicilies_). _b._ Caserte palace near
Naples 26 April 1782. (_m._ at Palermo 25 Nov. 1809 Louis Philippe
De Bourbon _b._ Paris 6 Oct. 1773 king of the French 1830–48, _d._
Claremont, Surrey 26 Aug. 1850); lived at Claremont, March 1848 to
death. _d._ Claremont 24 March 1866. _bur._ in mausoleum at
Weybridge 3 April. _Mrs. Challis’s Illustrious women of France_
(1873) 215–320, _portrait_; _I.L.N. xii_, 147 (1848), _portrait_;
_G.M. i_, 741–3 (1866).
FRENCH, MOST REV. EDMUND (_son of Rev. Dr. Ffrench, protestant
warden of Galway_). Educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; Catholic warden of
Galway to 1831 when office was abolished; R.C. Bishop of
Kilmacduagh and Kilfenora 26 July 1824 to death; consecrated 13
March 1825. _d._ Gort, co. Galway 14 July 1852.
FRENCH, FITZSTEPHEN (_youngest son of Arthur French of French park,
co. Roscommon, who d. 24 Nov. 1820_). _b._ 7 Dec. 1801; ed. at
Trin. coll. Dublin; M.P. for co. Roscommon 7 Dec. 1832 to death;
col. Roscommon militia 23 Dec. 1854 to death; P.C. Ireland 1866;
author of _The Question Are the Government entitled to the support
of the Irish liberal members?_ 1839. _d._ 68 Warwick sq. London 4
June 1873.
FRENCH, GEORGE (_3 son of Arthur French of French park, co.
Roscommon, M.P. for that county_). _b._ 23 Nov. 1771; called to
Irish bar 1795; K.C. 18 Feb. 1822; assistant barrister co.
Longford; crown prosecutor Connaught circuit. _d._ Seamont,
Malhide 26 Oct. 1860. _O. J. Burke’s Anecdotes of Connaught
circuit_ (1885) 278.
FRENCH, GEORGE. Educ. at Shrewsbury and Caius coll. Cam.; barrister
L.I. 11 June 1844; edited _The Equity Reports vol._ 3, 1853; judge
of mixed courts at Sierra Leone 16 Aug. 1871; returned to England
1875; judge of supreme court for China at Shanghae 10 Dec. 1877;
chief justice of supreme court for China and Japan at Shanghae 30
Oct. 1878 to death. _d._ Kobe, Japan 13 Nov. 1881.
FRENCH, GEORGE RUSSELL. _b._ London 1803; surveyor and architect to
Ironmonger’s Company; mem. of council and vice pres. of London and
Middlesex Archæological Soc.; author of _Ancestry of Victoria and
Albert_ 1841; _Genealogical and biographical history of England_
1847 and other books. _d._ London 1 Nov. 1881.
FRENCH, GILBERT JAMES (_son of James French of Edinburgh, shawl
manufacturer_). _b._ 4 Nicholson square, Edinburgh 18 April 1804;
apprenticed to a draper in Edinburgh; partner with John Cross,
draper of Bolton, Lancashire; a church furnisher in Manchester
road, Bolton; pres. of Bolton mechanics institution 1857–58; life
member of Society of Antiquaries 9 Feb. 1860; author of _Practical
remarks on some of the minor accessories to the service of the
church_ 1844; _The life and times of Samuel Crompton_ 1859 and 9
other books. _d._ Newport sq. Bolton 4 May 1866.
FRENCH, HENRY JOHN. Ensign 90 foot 27 Aug. 1812; major 85 foot 23
May 1836 to 31 July 1846 when placed on h.p.; col. 80 foot 3 Sep.
1867 to death; L.G. 9 Aug. 1870. _d._ 17 Belgrave road, Eccleston
sq. London 25 Jany. 1874 aged 77.
FRENCH, SYDNEY. Edited _Weekly Despatch_; acting editor of _Licensed
Victuallers’ Gazette_ to death. _d._ Alresford house, Stansfield
road, Stockwell 27 Oct. 1878 aged 42. _bur._ Kensal Green cemetery
1 Nov.
FRENCH, THOMAS. A jockey; rode St. Albans in the Great Metropolitan
stakes 1861; won the Derby on Kingcraft 1870, on Favonius 1871;
accomplished unprecedented feat of riding 6 winners in one day at
Newmarket July meeting 1869. _d._ Newmarket 30 Aug. 1873 in 29
year. _Illust. sp. and dramatic news i_, 255, 256 (1874),
_portrait_; _Baily’s mag. xviii_, (1870), _portrait_.
FRERE, BARTHOLOMEW (_5 son of John Frere of Roydon, Norfolk, F.R.S.
1740–1807_). _b._ 30 Nov. 1776; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A.
1799, M.A. 1806; sec. of legation at Lisbon 1801; sec. of legation
at Constantinople 1807–8, 1811–15 and 1817–20, minister
plenipotentiary ad interim there 1815–17 and 1820–21; retired on
pension Aug. 1821. _d._ 23 Old Burlington st. London 29 May 1851.
FRERE, GEORGE EDWARD (_2 son of Edward Frere of Llanelly,
Brecknockshire_). _b._ 29 Jany. 1807; ed. at Charterhouse and
Univ. of Edin.; barrister M.T. 8 Nov. 1851; F.R.S. 8 June 1837.
_d._ Roydon hall near Diss, Norfolk 3 Dec. 1887.
FRERE, SIR HENRY BARTLE EDWARD, 1 Baronet (_6 son of Edward Frere of
Llanelly_). _b._ Clydach, Brecknockshire 29 March 1815; entered
Indian civil service 15 Jany. 1834; resident at Sattara 1 May
1847; comr. to Scinde 2 Dec. 1850; member of council at Calcutta
21 Dec. 1859; governor of Bombay 24 April 1862 to 6 March 1867;
member of council of India 12 Nov. 1866; P.C. 4 Aug. 1873;
presented with freedom of city of London 16 July 1874; baronet 19
May 1876; governor of Cape of Good Hope 5 March 1877 to July 1880;
K.C.B. 20 May 1859, G.C.B. 17 May 1876; G.C.S.I 12 Feb. 1866;
F.R.S. 3 May 1877; author of _Eastern Africa as a field for
missionary labour_ 1874 and other books. _d._ Wressil lodge,
Wimbledon 29 May 1884. _bur._ St. Paul’s cath. 5 June, statue
erected on Thames embankment 1888. _G. B. Malleson’s Recreations_
(1872) 388–437; _Escott’s Pillars of the empire_ (1879) 92–7;
_Army and navy mag. i_, 474–78 (1881), _portrait_.
FRERE, JAMES HATLEY (_brother of Bartholomew Frere 1776–1851_). _b._
1779; introduced a phonetic system for teaching the blind to read
about 1838; author of _A combined view of the prophecies of
Daniel, Esdras and S. John_ 1815; _The art of teaching to read by
elementary sounds_ 1840 and 10 other books. _d._ Shillington
vicarage, Beds. 8 Dec. 1866.
FRERE, REV. JOHN ALEXANDER (_3 son of James Hatley Frere of army pay
office 1779–1866_). _b._ 9 May 1814; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A.
1838, M.A. 1841; fellow, tutor and senior dean of his college
1840–47; Whitehall preacher 1847–8; Christian advocate of Univ. of
Cam. 1848–50; V. of Shillington, Beds. 1853 to death; author of
_On the incarnation_ 1853 and other books. _d._ Achenkirch,
Austrian Tyrol 27 Aug. 1877.
FRERE, PHILIP HOWARD (_eld. son of Wm. Frere 1775–1836, master of
Downing coll. Cam._) _b._ 1813; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.,
B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; fellow of Downing coll. 1837, tutor and
bursar 1839; edited _Journal of Royal Agricultural Society_ 1862
to death, in which he wrote many papers on agriculture. _d._
Panton house, Cambridge 12 May 1868.
FRESHFIELD, JAMES WILLIAM (_eld. son of James Freshfield of
Chertsey, Surrey_). _b._ Windsor 1775; pensioner at Peterhouse
coll. Cam.; admitted solicitor 1795; solicitor to Bank of England
1812–40; M.P. for Penryn and Falmouth 1830–32, 1835–41 and
1852–57; M.P. for Boston 1851–52; barrister G.I. 16 Nov. 1842;
chairman of Surrey quarter sessions; sheriff of Surrey 1850;
chairman of the Divorce Committee 1856–57; F.R.S. 10 April 1834;
author of _County Rates_ 1854. _d._ 6 Devonshire place, London 27
June 1864.
FREWEN, CHARLES HAY. _b._ 1813; M.P. for East Sussex 1846–57;
sheriff of Leics. 1866. _d._ Cold Overton hall, Oakham 1 Sep.
1878.
FREWEN, THOMAS (_brother of preceding_). _b._ Cold Overton hall 26
Aug. 1811; M.P. for South Leics. 1835–36; sheriff of Sussex 1839.
_d._ Brickwall house, Northiam 14 Oct. 1870.
FRISWELL, JAMES HAIN (_son of Wm. Friswell of 93 Wimpole st. London,
attorney_). _b._ Newport, Shropshire 8 May 1825; founded in London
the Friday Knights, a social society, January 1858, the name was
changed to the Urban club 15 November 1858; edited _The Censor, a
weekly review_ 23 May to 7 November 1868; edited the Bayard series
and the Gentle Life series; author of _The gentle life_ 1864
anon., _21 ed._ 1879, _2nd series_ 1868, _11 ed._ 1879, and 34
other books. _d._ Fair home, Bexley Heath, Kent 12 March 1878.
_Graphic 30 March 1878 pp._ 320, 332, _portrait_; _Pictorial World
6 April 1878 pp._ 82, 84, _portrait_.
FRITH, JOHN WHARTON. Ensign 12 foot 17 July 1804; lieut. col. 58
foot 1836–1842; inspecting field officer 30 Dec. 1842; col. 2 West
India regiment 1860, col. 3 foot 1863 to death; L.G. 13 Aug. 1862.
_d._ 85 Waterloo road, Dublin 8 Sep. 1864 aged 74.
FROME, EDWARD CHARLES. _b._ Gibraltar 7 Jany. 1802; 2 lieut. R.E.
1825, col. 1859, col. commandant 1871 to death; surveyor general
of South Australia 1839–49, of Mauritius 1851–58; inspector
general of engineers at head quarters 1868–9; lieut. governor of
Guernsey 1 May 1869 to 30 April 1874; general 21 Nov. 1874;
F.R.A.S.; author of _Outlines of the method of conducting a
trigonometrical survey_ 1840, _4 ed._ 1873. _d._ Ewell, Surrey 12
Feb. 1890.
FROPIER, SIR GABRIEL PIERRE JULES. Member of legislative council of
Mauritius; knighted by patent 31 Oct. 1862. _d._ 1882.
FROST, CHARLES (_son of Thomas Frost of Kingston-upon-Hull,
solicitor_). _b._ Kingston-upon-Hull 1781 or 1782, solicitor there
to death; solicitor to Hull dock company 33 years; F.S.A. 2 May
1822; pres. of Hull literary and philos. soc. 10 times; vice pres.
of British Assoc. at Hull meeting 1853; author of _Notices
relative to the early history of the town of Hull_ 1827 and other
books. _d._ Hull 5 Sep. 1862. _R. W. Corlass’s Sketches of Hull
authors_ (1879) 33–4; _I.L.N. xxiii_, 225, 226 (1853), _portrait_.
FROST, JOHN (_son of John Frost of Mill st. Newport, Monmouthshire,
publican_). Tailor and draper at Newport 1811, member of town
council of Newport, magistrate 1835, mayor 1836; elected 1838 as
delegate to represent Chartists of Monmouthshire at national
convention of working classes which met in London 4 Feb. 1839 and
was dissolved 14 Sep.; led a large body of working men into
Newport and attacked the Westgate hotel 4 Nov. 1839, tried at
Monmouth 10 Dec. 1839, Frost, Williams and Jones sentenced to be
hung, drawn and quartered 16 Jany. 1840 being the last persons in
this country so sentenced, transported to Van Diemen’s Land 1840,
obtained a conditional pardon 1854, a free pardon May 1856; author
of _The horrors of convict life_ 1856. _d._ Stapleton near Bristol
29 July 1877 aged 93. _Gurney’s Trial of John Frost for high
treason_ (1840); _W. C. Townsend’s Modern state trials_ (1850)
_i_, 1–101; _The rise and fall of Chartism in Monmouthshire_
(1840) _p. 6 et seq. portrait_; _Century Mag. xxiii_, 428 (1882),
_portrait_.
FROST, WILLIAM EDWARD. _b._ Wandsworth, Surrey, Sep. 1810; student
at the R.A. 1829; painter of portraits and allegorical pictures;
A.R.A. Nov. 1846, R.A. 30 Dec. 1870 to June 1876 when he resigned;
exhibited 77 pictures at R.A. and 33 at B.I. 1836–78. _d._ 40
Fitzroy sq. London 4 June 1877. _Sandby’s History of Royal
Academy_ (1862) _ii_, 219–21; _Art Journal_ (1849) _p._ 184,
_portrait_, (1857) _pp._ 5–7, (1877) _pp._ 234, 280; _I.L.N. xxx_,
419, 420 (1857), _portrait_, _and lviii_, 61, 63 (1871),
_portrait_.
FROUDE, VEN. ROBERT HURRELL (_son of Robert Froude of Walkhampton,
Devon_). Matric. from Oriel coll. Ox. 28 Jany. 1788 aged 17, B.A.
1792, M.A. 1795; R. of Denbury, Devon 1798 to death; R. of
Dartington, Devon 1799 to death; archdeacon of Totnes 30 May 1820
to death. _d._ Dartington 23 Feb. 1859.
FROUDE, WILLIAM (_4 son of the preceding_). _b._ Dartington
parsonage 28 Nov. 1810; ed. at Westminster and Oriel coll. Ox.,
B.A. 1832, M.A. 1837; worked under I. K. Brunel on Bristol and
Exeter railway 1837 to May 1844 when line was opened; lived at
Paignton near Torquay 1859–67, at Chelston Cross, Torquay which he
built, 1867 to death; conducted at the Admiralty establishment,
Torquay, experiments on resistance and propulsion of ships 1870 to
death; M.I.C.E. 1846, mem. of council 1877; F.R.S. 2 June 1870,
royal medallist 1876. _d._ Admiralty house, Simon’s Town, Cape of
Good Hope 4 May 1879. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lx_,
395–404 (1880); _Nature xx_, 148–50, 169–73 (1879); _Proc. of
Royal Soc. xxix_, _pp. ii-vi_ (1879); _Rev. T. Mozley’s
Reminiscences_ (1882) _ii_, 14–17.
FRY, FRANCIS (_2 son of Joseph Storrs Fry 1769–1835_). _b._
Westbury-on-Trym near Bristol 28 Oct. 1803; partner in firm of J.
S. Fry & Sons, cocoa and chocolate manufactures, Bristol; a
director of Bristol and Gloucester railway 1839–45, of Bristol and
Exeter, South Devon and other railways; his collection of British
bibles said to be finest in the world became property of the Bible
Society, March 1890; F.S.A. 13 Feb. 1863; published _A description
of the Great Bible 1539, and the six editions of Cranmer’s Bible
1540 and 1541 printed by Grafton and Whitchurch_ 1865 and 11 other
books. _d._ Tower house, Cotham, Bristol 12 Nov. 1886. _A brief
memoir of F. Fry. By his son T. Fry, privately printed_ (1887),
_portrait_.
FULCHER, GEORGE WILLIAMS. Bookseller, stationer and printer at
Sudbury, Suffolk; started the _Sudbury Pocket Book_ 1825, edited
it 1825 to death; author of _The village paupers and other poems_
1845; _Life of Thomas Gainsborough_ 1856 and other books. _d._
Sudbury 19 June 1855 in 60 year.
FULFORD, RIGHT REV. FRANCIS (_2 son of Baldwin Fulford of Great
Fulford, Devon_). _b._ Sidmouth, Devon 3 June 1803; ed. at
Tiverton gr. sch. and Ex. coll. Ox., fellow 1824–30; B.A. 1827,
M.A. 1838, hon. D.D. 1850; R. of Trowbridge, Wilts. 1832–42; R. of
Croydon, Cambs. 1842–45; min. of Curzon chapel, Hanover sq. London
1845–50; bishop of Montreal 19 July 1850 to death, consecrated in
Westminster Abbey 25 July; metropolitan bishop of Canada 9 July
1860 to death; edited _Colonial church chronicle and missionary
journal_ 1848–50; author of _A course of plain sermons on the
Church of England 2 vols._ 1837–40 and 10 other books. _d._ See
house, Montreal 9 Sep. 1868. _F. Taylor’s Last three bishops
appointed by the Crown for the Anglican church of Canada_ (1870)
23–130, _portrait_; _I.L.N. 24 Aug. 1850 p._ 168, _portrait_, _29
Nov. 1862 pp._ 576, 587, _portrait_.
FULFORD, JOHN (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 16 Feb. 1809;
entered navy 1821; captain 1848; R.A. 1866; retired admiral 5 Aug.
1877. _d._ Bemerton, Salisbury 15 Feb. 1888.
FULLER, CHARLES FRANCIS. Sculptor at Florence; exhibited 28
sculptures at the R.A. 1859–75. _d._ Florence 10 March 1875 aged
45.
FULLER, FRANCIS. _b._ Coulsdon, Surrey 29 June 1807; surveyor to
London, Brighton and South Coast railway 25 years; constructed
line from Caterham Junction to Caterham at his own cost and
without aid of act of parliament; promoted with Sir Henry Cole and
Scott Russell the Great Exhibition of 1851; declined knighthood;
managing director of Crystal Palace co. 1852; saw the race for the
Derby at Epsom 1821–84, 64 years, a fact unparalleled in turf
history; author of _Alexandra Park_ 1873. _d._ 63 St. Aubyn’s,
Hove, Brighton 27 May 1887. _The Field 4 June 1887 p._ 769;
_I.L.N. xix_, 487, 508 (1851), _portrait_.
FULLER, HENRY PETER. _b._ 1785; a surgeon in London 1807–59; a
governor of St. George’s hospital 1817 to death, visiting
apothecary there 1819 to death, raised in 1830 sum of £20,000 for
rebuilding the hospital, where one of the wards is named after
him. _d._ Sarratt hall, Rickmansworth, Herts. 28 Aug. 1866.
FULLER, RIGHT REV. THOMAS BROCK. _b._ Kingston, Upper Canada 16 July
1810; R. of St. George’s, Toronto 1853–67; archdeacon of Toronto
1867–75; bishop of Niagara 1875 to death. _d._ Bishophurst,
Hamilton, Canada 17 Dec. 1884.
FULLERTON, LADY GEORGIANA CHARLOTTE (_younger dau. of 1 Earl
Granville 1773–1846_). _b._ Tixall hall, Staffs. 23 Sep. 1812;
admitted into R.C. church 29 March 1846; enrolled herself in the
third order of St. Francis 1856; founded with Miss Taylor a
religious community called the Poor Servants of the Mother of God
Incarnate 1868; author of _Ellen Middleton, a tale 3 vols._ 1844;
_Too strange not to be true, a tale 3 vols._ 1864 and 33 other
books. (_m._ 13 July 1833 Alexander George Fullerton of Ballingtoy
castle, co. Antrim). _d._ Ayrfield, Bournemouth 19 Jany. 1885.
_bur._ in cemetery of convent of Sacred Heart, Roehampton, Surrey
23 Jany. _Life of Lady Georgiana Fullerton, from the French of
Mrs. Madame Augustus Craven. By H. J. Coleridge_ (1888),
_portrait_.
FULLERTON, JOHN (_son of Wm. Fullerton of Carstairs_). _b._ 16 Dec.
1775; an advocate Feb. 1798; a lord of session with title of Lord
Fullerton 7 Feb. 1829 to Nov. 1853 when he retired. _d._ Edinburgh
3 Dec. 1853.
FULLOM, STEPHEN WATSON. edited _United Service Mag._ many years;
resided at Torquay; author of _The King and the countess 3 vols._
1849; _The great highway 3 vols._ 1854; _History of woman 2 vols._
1855; _The last days of Jerusalem, a song_ 1871 and 11 other
books. _d._ in a cab at Liverpool 13 July 1872 aged 54.
FULTON, HAMILTON HENRY (_son of Hamilton Fulton, C.E., state
engineer to North Carolina and Georgia 1819–29, who d. 1834_).
_b._ Charles st. London 1813; pupil to his father 1829–39;
M.I.C.E. 6 May 1845; an engineer in London from 1846; engineer of
West London and Crystal palace railway, of Ryde and Ventnor
railway, and of Salisbury and Dorset junction railway 1860;
projected a railway bridge over the Severn 1863 and a scheme for
Manchester ship canal 1882; author of _London Water Supply_ 1869.
_d._ Bedford house, Chiswick 10 Aug. 1886. _Min. of proc. of
Instit. of C.E. lxxxvii_, 418–22 (1886).
FURLEY, ROBERT (_3 son of Robert Furley of Canterbury_). _b._ 1811;
solicitor at Ashford, Kent 1832–69; F.S.A. 12 Jany. 1871; author
of _A history of the Weald of Kent 2 vols._ 1871–74. _d._ Ashford,
Kent 9 Sep. 1887.
FURNELL, MICHAEL CUDMORE. _b._ 1 July 1829; M.R.C.S. 1851, F.R.C.S.
1870; M.D. St. Andrews 1877; assistant surgeon H.E.I. Co. 7 Feb.
1855; surgeon to governor of Madras 1871–73; principal and
professor of medicine, Medical college, Madras 1875–80; surgeon
general Madras, April 1885 to death. _d._ Monte Carlo 24 May 1888.
FURNER, WILLIAM (_eld. son of John Furner of Brighton_). _b._
Brighton 1791; admitted attorney 1815; member of firm of Hill,
Fitzburgh and Furner at Brighton 30 years; comr. of bankrupts for
Brighton district; judge of local courts of request at Brighton
and Shoreham 1840–47; judge of county courts, circuit 50 (Sussex),
March 1847 to 20 Sep. 1877 when he resigned; barrister G.I. 7 May
1851. _d._ 18 Palmeira sq. Brighton 25 Nov. 1877.
FURNESS, RICHARD (_son of Samuel Furness of Eyam, Derbyshire,
farmer_). _b._ Eyam 2 Aug. 1791; a currier at Eyam 1813;
schoolmaster in free school at Dore, Derbyshire 1821; author of
_The Rag Bag_ 1832 a satirical poem; _Medicus-Magus, a poem in
three cantos, Sheffield_ 1836, title was afterwards altered to
_The Astrologer_. _d._ Eyam 13 Dec. 1857. _The poetical works of
R. Furness with a sketch of his life, By G. C. Holland, M.D._
(1858).
FURTADO, TERESA ELIZABETH (_dau. of Charles Furtado of London,
professor of music, by Annie Flanagan_). _b._ 12 a._m._ at 19
Edward st. Hampstead road, London 6 June 1845; made her début on
the stage at New Royalty theatre 8 Feb. 1864 as Mercury in
Burnand’s burlesque _Ixion_; leading actress at Olympic theatre
1865–6, then at Adelphi theatre where she played Esmeralda in
_Notre Dame_ 10 April 1872. (_m._ 10 Aug. 1873 John Clarke,
comedian, who _d._ 20 Feb. 1879 aged 49). _d._ 77 Mornington road,
Regent’s park, London 9 Aug. 1877. _Illust. sp. and dr. news 17
Oct. 1874 p._ 49, _portrait_, and _p._ 75; _Era 12 Aug. 1877 p. 4,
col. 2, 19 Aug. p. 5, col. 2._
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