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HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS, JAMES ORCHARD (_3 son of Thomas Halliwell_).
_b._ Sloane st. Chelsea 21 June 1820; matric. from Trin. coll.
Cam. 1837, removed to Jesus coll. 1838; LLD. of Edin. univ. 1883;
F.S.A. 14 Feb. 1839; F.R.S. 30 May 1839; projected Cambridge
Antiquarian soc. and was the sec. 1840; settled with his father in
London 1840; became connected with Shakespeare soc. 1840; accused
of taking MSS. from library of Trin. coll. Cam. 1844; forbidden to
enter Br. Museum library 10 Feb. 1845; presented his Shakespearian
library to Univ. of Edin. Feb. 1872; bought theatre Stratford on
Avon, March 1872; was the means of buying Shakespeare’s residence
New place, Stratford 1863, conveyed it to the corporation of
Stratford by deed dated 8 April 1876; author of _Dictionary of
archaic and provincial words_ 1846, _10 ed._ 1881; _Life of
William Shakespeare_ 1848; _Shakespeare 16 vols._ 1853–63;
_Lithographed facsimiles of the Shakespearean quartos 48 vols._
1862–71 of which there are only 15 complete sets. (_m._ 9 Aug.
1842 Henrietta E. M. eld. dau. of Sir Thomas Phillipps, baronet,
she _d._ 25 March 1879); discontinued name of Halliwell and
assumed name of Phillips by r.l. 29 Feb. 1872, prefixed former
name of Halliwell to name of Phillips by deed inrolled in chancery
28 May 1879. _d._ Hollingbury Copse near Brighton 3 Jany. 1889.
_I.L.N. 12 Jany. 1889 p._ 36, _portrait_.

HALLOWES, JOHN. Entered navy July 1803; captain 5 Dec. 1842; R.A. on
half pay 20 May 1862; admiral on half pay 30 July 1875. _d._
Milton house near Portsmouth 11 Jany. 1883 aged 91.

HALLYBURTON, JOHN FREDERICK GORDON- (_3 son of 9th Marquis of
Huntly, d. 1853_). _b._ 15 Aug. 1799; entered navy Feb. 1813,
captain 4 Aug. 1836; G.C.H. 22 Aug. 1836; known as Lord J. F.
Gordon from 1838; admiral on half pay 8 April 1868; assumed name
of Hallyburton 1843; M.P. for Forfar 1841–52. _d._ Hallyburton
house, Coupar Angus 29 Sep. 1878.

HALPIN, REV. ROBERT CRAWFORD. Boy volunteer in Canadian rebellion
1839; ensign 14 foot 1840; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1843,
M.A. 1868; chaplain in army 1849; served in Crimean campaign,
medal, 4 clasps and Turkish medal; in China war 1860; chaplain to
household brigade 1863, retired 1 July 1880; reward for
distinguished service 1 April 1875; chaplain hospital for women
Soho, London 1880. _d._ 22 Belsize sq. London 19 March 1889.

HALPINE, CHARLES GRAHAM (_son of Rev. Nicholas John Halpine
1790–1850, editor of the Dublin Evening Mail_). _b._ Oldcastle,
co. Meath, Nov. 1829; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin to 1846; emigrated
to U.S. America 1851; assist. editor _Boston Post_ 1852; editor
_New York Leader_ 1857; served in Federal army April 1861 to 1864;
assist. adjutant general and colonel 1862; editor of _New York
Citizen_ 1864; registrar of the county of New York 1867; author
under name of Miles O’Reilly of _Life and adventures of Private
Miles O’Reilly_ 1864; _Baked meats of the funeral by Private
Miles_ O’Reilly 1866. _d._ from taking undiluted chloroform at New
York city 3 Aug. 1868. _Poetical works of C. G. Halpine_ (1869),
_portrait_.

HALSEY, THOMAS PLUMER (_1 son of Joseph T. W. Halsey of Gaddesden
park, Herts. d. 1818_). _b._ 26 Jany. 1815; M.P. for co. Hertford,
Jany. 1846 to death; _lost_ in the ‘Ercolano’ steamer off Villa
Franca on her way from Genoa to Marseilles 24 April 1854. _G.M.
xli_, 649 (1854); _A.R. 1854 pp._ 68, 292.

HALSTED, FRANCIS. Printseller Bond st., then at 13 Rathbone place,
Oxford st. London; great authority on Turner before Ruskin’s era
commenced; formed the collection of Liber Studiorum prints which
Mr. Stokes bequeathed to Miss Mary Constance Clark; formed similar
collections for J. L. Taylor proprietor of _Manchester Guardian_,
and Sir John Hippesley. _d._ St. John’s Wood, Aug. 1879 aged 72.

HALY, RIGHT REV. FRANCIS. _b._ Doonane parish, Queen’s county 1781;
ed. at Maynooth 1807–12; C. of Rathvilly 1812–3; administrator of
Mountrath 1813–22; parish priest of Kilcock 1822; bp. of Kildare
and Leighlin, consecrated 25 March 1838; visited Rome 1844. _d._
Carlow 19 Aug. 1855 aged 74, left his library to Carlow coll.
_Comerford’s Collections_ (1883) 140–50, _portrait_.

HALY, SIR WILLIAM O’GRADY (_son of Aylmer Haly of Wadhurst castle,
Sussex_). _b._ 1810; ensign 4 foot 17 June 1828; lieut. col. 38
foot 4 Feb. 1859 to 12 Jany. 1865; colonel of 106 foot 17 May
1874, of 47 foot 2 Nov. 1875 to death; served Eastern campaign of
1854–55; commanded forces in Canada 6 May 1873 to death; general 1
Oct. 1877; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 29 May 1875. _d._ Halifax,
Nova Scotia 19 March 1878.

HAMBLET, HENRY. Steward and practically manager of Garrick club 35
King st. Covent Garden, London for many years down to 17 May 1862.
_d._ London 1863. _W. Ballantine’s Experiences_ (1883) 151; _Lord
W. P. Lennox’s My Recollections_ (1874) _i_, 144.

HAMBLETON, REV. JOHN (_5 son of John Hambleton of St. Mary’s,
Wallingford_). _b._ 1799; ed. at St. Edm. hall, Ox., B.A. 1825,
M.A. 1829; minister of Holloway episcopal chapel, Holloway road,
London 1830 to death; author of _Christ the good physician, a
sermon 1829, 7 ed. 1847_; _A brief history of the soul 1833_, _7
ed._ 1847; _A help to preparation for death, judgment and
eternity_ 1839; _Seven lectures on the Bible as the word of God_
1861. _d._ 21 Compton ter. Upper st. Islington, London 22 Oct.
1865.

HAMBLIN, THOMAS SOWERBY. _b._ Pentonville, London 14 May 1800;
ballet dancer Adelphi theatre at 6s. a week; first acted at
Sadler’s Wells 1819, at Drury Lane 26 Dec. 1819 as Truman in
_George Barnwell_; appeared at Park theatre, New York as Hamlet,
Oct. 1825; lessee of Bowery theatre, New York, Aug. 1830, theatre
burnt 16 Sep. 1836; played at Covent Garden 1836–7; lessee of
Bowery 1838, again burnt 1845, lessee again 1847 to death; lessee
of Park theatre, New York 1848, theatre burnt 16 Dec. 1848; his
chief characters were Hamlet, The Stranger, William Tell,
Virginius, Rolla and Petruchio. _d._ of brain fever Broome st. New
York 8 Jany. 1853, left 100,000 dollars. _Ireland’s New York
Stage, i_, 459–61 (1866); _Appleton’s Cyclop. of American Biog.
iii_, 55 (1887), _portrait_.

HAMEL, JOSEPH VON. _b._ Sarepta on the Volga 1788; member of
Imperial academy of sciences, St. Petersburgh 1828; ascended Mont
Blanc when 3 of his guides perished 20 Aug. 1820; travelled and
resided much in England from 1814 onwards; reported to his
government on progress of science and arts in England; author of
_England and Russia, the voyage of J. Tradescant to the White sea_
1854; _Historical account of Galvanic and electro-magnetic
telegraph_ 1859; _Bishop Watson and the electric telegraph_ 1861
and works in Russian and German. _d._ Duke st. St. James’, London
22 Sep. 1862. _G.M. xiii_, 510, 788 (1862).

HAMERTON, JOHN MILLET. Ensign 44 foot 31 Oct. 1792, lieut. col. 31
March 1814 to 24 Jany. 1816 when placed on h.p.; col. 55 foot 7
Dec. 1848 to death; general 20 June 1854; C.B. 22 June 1815. _d._
Orchardstown house near Clonmel 27 Jany. 1855 aged 77.

HAMILTON, ALEXANDER HAMILTON-DOUGLAS 10 Duke of (_elder son of 9
Duke of Hamilton 1740–1819_). _b._ St. James’s sq. London 5 Oct.
1767; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., M.A. 1789; styled Marquis of Douglas
1799–1819; M.P. for Lancaster 1802–6; col. of royal Lanarkshire
militia 1802–34; lord lieut. of Lanarkshire 13 Nov. 1803 to death;
ambassador to St. Petersburgh 28 May 1806 to July 1812; P.C. 18
June 1806; called to House of Lords by writ in his father’s barony
of Dutton 4 Nov. 1806; F.R.S. 14 Jany. 1808; F.R.S. Edin.,
president; succeeded 16 Feb. 1819; lord high steward at
coronations of Wm. iv. and of Victoria; K.G. 5 Feb. 1836. _d._ 12
Portman sq. London 18 Aug. 1852.

NOTE.—He cherished an idea that he was the legitimate King of
Scotland; at his death his body was embalmed, deposited in a
sarcophagus brought from the Pyramids of Egypt, and buried in
a mausoleum 120 feet high which he had erected near Hamilton
palace at cost of £130,000.

HAMILTON, WILLIAM ALEXANDER ANTHONY ARCHIBALD HAMILTON-DOUGLAS, 11
Duke of (_only son of the preceding_). _b._ Grosvenor place,
London 18 Feb. 1811; Marquis of Douglas 1819–52; ed. at Ch. Ch.
Oxf., B.A. 1832; col. 1 royal Lanark militia 23 Jany. 1834 to
death; knight marischall of Scotland, June 1846; major commandant
Glasgow yeomanry 1848–56; lord lieutenant of Lanarkshire, Aug.
1852 to death; grand master of freemasons of Scotland; lived
chiefly at Paris and Baden. _d._ Paris 15 July 1863.

HAMILTON, ALEXANDER. _b._ 27 Jany. 1774; called to Irish bar 1795;
K.C. 25 Nov. 1822. _d._ Oct. 1852.

HAMILTON, VEN. ANTHONY (_2 son of Ven. Anthony Hamilton 1739–1812,
archdeacon of Colchester_). _b._ 12 July 1778; ed. at St. John’s
coll. Oxf, B.A. 1800, M.A. 1803; R. of Loughton, Essex 1805 to
death; preb. of Warminster in Wells cath. 1810–27; chaplain in
ord. to the Sovereign 1812–37; R. of St. Mary Le Bow with St.
Pancras, Soper Lane and All Hallows, Honey Lane, London 1820 to
death; archdeacon of Taunton and preb. of Milverton prima in Wells
cath. 5 Dec. 1827 to death; precentor and first residentiary canon
Lichfield cath. 1831 to 1850. _d._ Loughton rectory 10 Sep. 1851.

HAMILTON, ARTHUR PHILIP. Entered navy Oct. 1800; on 28 Sep. 1810 in
a boat attack captured 2 brigs from under the battery of Pointe du
Ché near Rochelle; captain 31 May 1816; retired admiral 4 Oct.
1862. _d._ 2 Dorset sq. London 2 Sep. 1877.

HAMILTON, CHARLES. _b._ 1801; ed. at Addiscombe; ensign Bengal army
27 Jany. 1818; lieut.-col. Bengal infantry 19 Jany. 1843, served
in Gwalior campaign 1843, commanded 2 grenadier N.I. at battle of
Maharajpore and same regt. in Sutlej campaign 1845–6 including
actions of Moodkee and Ferozeshah and capture of Kote Kangra 1846;
C.B. 22 May 1843; general 16 May 1872; retired 1 Oct. 1877. _d._
19 Sussex gardens, London 27 Oct. 1889.

HAMILTON, CHARLES GEORGE ARCHIBALD (_2 son of 11 duke of Hamilton
1811–63_). _b._ Connaught place, London 18 May 1847; cornet 11
hussars 1866–69; served in German army at siege of Strasbourg
1870; his vagaries were the talk of Paris and the German spas
about 1870; joined the Church of Rome 1885; resided at Biarritz
1876–86. _d._ Nice 2 May 1886, having been nursed by his intended
wife Mdlle. Pignatelli. _bur._ in Hamilton palace mausoleum 12
May.

HAMILTON, CHARLES JAMES (_elder son of Charles Powell Hamilton
1747–1825, admiral R.N._) _b._ 29 July 1779; minister plenipo. to
French court 3 March 1832 to 19 April 1833 at Buenos Ayres 5 July
1834; envoy extrad. and min. plen. at Rio Janiero 2 Oct. 1835 to 9
Feb. 1847 when he was pensioned. _d._ 15 Dec. 1856.

HAMILTON, CHARLES WILLIAM. Entered Bengal army 1799; col. 40 Bengal
N.I. 1850 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. _d._ Home Mead, Lymington
22 July 1866 aged 82.

HAMILTON, CLAUD (_2 son of James Hamilton, Viscount Hamilton
1786–1814_). _b._ Lower Grosvenor st. London 27 July 1813; ed. at
Harrow and Trin. coll. Cam.; M.P. for co. Tyrone 1835–37 and
1839–74; treasurer of the household 27 Feb. 1852 to Dec. 1852 and
26 Feb. 1858 to June 1859; P.C. 27 Feb. 1852; vice chamberlain of
the household 10 July 1866 to Dec. 1868; lieut.-col. commandant
Donegal militia 19 July 1867 to death. _d._ 83 Portland place,
London 3 June 1884. _bur._ at Elton 12 June.

HAMILTON, SIR EDWARD, 1 Baronet (_2 son of Sir John Hamilton, 1
baronet, d. 1784_). _b._ 12 March 1772; entered navy 21 May 1799;
cut out Spanish frigate ‘Hermione’ from port of Puerto Cabello 25
Oct. 1799, a feat unsurpassed in naval annals; captain 3 June
1797; knighted by patent 3 June 1800; received freedom of city of
London 25 Oct. 1800; commanded royal yacht Mary 1806–19; K.C.B. 2
Jany. 1815; baronet 26 Jany. 1819; admiral 9 Nov. 1846. _d._ 17
Cumberland terrace, Regent’s park, London 20 March 1851.

HAMILTON, ELIZA MARY (_5 child of Archibald Hamilton of Dublin,
attorney 1778–1819_). _b._ 4 April 1807; author of _Poems, Dublin_
1838. _d._ Dublin 14 May 1851.

HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (_dau. of Sir W. S. Hamilton 1788–1856_). A
promoter of university education of women in Scotland; wrote
memoir of her father for _Encyclopædia Britannica_; author of
_Microcosmus by H. Lotze, a translation_ 1885. _d._ 30 Northampton
park, Canonbury, London 2 March 1882 aged 42.

HAMILTON, FREDERIC DOUGLAS (_5 son of Capt. Augustus Barrington P.
A. P. Hamilton_). _b._ 12 May 1815; attaché at Buenos Ayres
1834–6, at Rio de Janiero 1836, paid attaché there 1844; first
paid attaché at Vienna 1852; sec. of legation at Stuttgardt
1853–8, at Athens 1859, at Frankfort 1859, at Stockholm 1862;
chargé d’affaires and consul general at Quito, Ecuador 1867,
minister resident and consul general there 1872, retired 17 Nov.
1883. _d._ Tunbridge Wells 15 May 1887.

HAMILTON, SIR FREDERICK WILLIAM (_son of William Richard Hamilton
1777–1859_). _b._ 8 July 1815; page of honour to George iv. and
William iv. 1826–31; ensign Grenadier guards 12 July 1831,
adjutant 1836–46, lieut. col. 19 June 1860; col. 21 fusiliers 10
Jany. 1870 to death; general 21 Nov. 1876, retired 1881; served
with the grenadier guards 1854–5, present at Alma, Balaklava and
Inkerman; commanded divisions of the army in the trenches at
Sebastopol; C.B. 29 Dec. 1856, K.C.B. 24 May 1873; military
attaché at Berlin 1860–62; V.P. of council on military education
1862–6; commander of forces in Scotland 1866–8; commanded brigade
of guards 1868–70; author of _The origin and history of the First
Grenadier guards 3 vols._ 1874–7. _d._ Pitcorthie, Fife 4 Oct.
1890. _I.L.N. 18 Oct. 1890 p._ 433, _portrait_.

HAMILTON, GEORGE ALEXANDER (_elder son of Rev. George Hamilton of
Tyrellas, co. Down, who d. March 1833_). _b._ Tyrellas 29 Aug.
1802; ed. at Rugby, Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1821, M.A. 1832,
LL.B. and LLD. 1851, and Trin. coll. Ox., B.A. 1822, D.C.L. 1853;
contested city of Dublin 1826, 1830, 1832 and 1837; M.P. for city
of Dublin 1835–7; M.P. for univ. of Dublin 1843–59; financial sec.
of the Treasury, March to Dec. 1852, March 1858 to Jany. 1859,
permanent sec. Jany. 1859; a comr. of church temporalities in
Ireland 1870; P.C. 7 Aug. 1869. _d._ Kingstown near Dublin 17 Sep.
1871. _Portraits of eminent conservatives 2 series_ (1846),
_portrait_; _I.L.N. xxi_, 517, 518 (1852), _portrait_.

HAMILTON, HANS HENRY (_4 son of Henry Hamilton of Ballymacool,
Meath_). _b._ 1801; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1820, M.A.
1832; called to Irish bar 1823; Q.C. 9 Nov. 1852; chairman of
quarter sessions for co. Galway 1852–8, for co. Armagh 1858 to
death. _d._ 28 Fitzwilliam place, Dublin 20 April 1875. _Irish Law
Times, ix_, 208 (1875).

HAMILTON, VERY REV. HENRY PARR (_son of Alexander Hamilton of
Edinburgh, M.D. 1739–1802_). _b._ 3 April 1794; ed. at Trin. coll.
Cam.; 9th wrangler 1816, B.A. 1816, M.A. 1819; fell. of his coll.
1816; R. of Wath near Ripon 1830–50; P.C. of St. Mary the Great,
Cam. 1833–44; rural dean 1847; dean of Salisbury 17 April 1850 to
death; F.R.S. 17 Jany. 1828; F.R.A.S.; F.G.S.; author of _The
principles of analytical geometry, Cambridge_ 1826; _An analytical
system of conic sections, Cambridge_ 1828, _5 ed._ 1843; _The
church and the education question_ 1848; _Scheme for the reform of
their cathedral by the dean and chapter of Salisbury_ 1855. _d._
the Deanery, the Close, Salisbury 7 Feb. 1880. _Monthly notices of
Royal Astronom. Soc. xli_, 184–7 (1881).

HAMILTON, REV. JAMES (_son of Rev. William Hamilton 1780–1835,
minister of St. Andrew’s, Dundee_). _b._ Lonend, Paisley 27 Nov.
1814; ed. at Glasgow univ., B.A. 1835, and at Edin. univ., D.D.;
assist. presbyterian minister St. George’s ch. Edin. 1838,
minister at Abernyte 1839, at Roxburgh ch. Edin. 1841, at National
Scotch ch. Regent sq. London 1841 to death; author of _Life in
earnest_ 1845; _Memoirs of Richard Williams_ 1854; _A morning
beside the lake of Galilee_ 1863; _Excelsior, helps to progress 6
vols._ 1854; _Works 6 vols._ 1869–73; editor of _Presbyterian
Messenger_ 1849 and of _Evangelical Christendom_ 1864. _d._ 48
Euston sq. London 24 Nov. 1867. _W. Arnot’s Life of J. Hamilton_
(1870), _portrait_; _Illust. news of the world, ix_, (1862),
_portrait_.

HAMILTON, REV. JAMES. _b._ county Kerry about 1813; ed. at Carlow
coll., professor of classics there 1835 and of natural philosophy
1842–51; ordained priest 20 Dec. 1836; missioner in the parishes
of Mountrath, Bagenalstown and Rathvilly to 1842, and in Tullow
1851–7; military chaplain at the Curragh camp Dec. 1857, at
Woolwich, at Bermuda 1865–7, at Aldershot 1868–73, held rank as a
major; delivered 4 lectures on the ‘Structure of the Heavens’ in
the Rotunda, Dublin, Jany. 1856. _d._ at the house of his brother
Dr. W. Hamilton at Tarbert 20 Dec. 1873. _Comerford’s Collections_
(1883) 214–24.

HAMILTON, JAMES. _b._ Ireland 1819; drawing master in Philadelphia;
illustrated _Life of Rear admiral J. Paul Jones_ 1845, Kane’s
_Arctic Explorations_ 1856, _The Arabian Nights_, Coleridge’s
_Ancient Mariner_, and other popular works; painted many pictures
especially marine views. _d._ 10 March 1878.

HAMILTON, SIR JAMES (_son of Rev. George Hamilton of Armagh_). _b._
Warrenpoint, co. Down 1815; ed. at Belfast academical instit.;
chairman of Belfast harbour commission 1867 to death; knighted by
lord lieut. earl Spencer, on opening of horticultural exhibition
at Belfast 9 Aug. 1872. _d._ West view, Bangor, co. Down 26 Oct.
1882. _Times 10 Aug. 1872, p._ 12, _21 Aug. p._ 7.

HAMILTON, SIR JAMES JOHN, 2 Baronet (_only son of Sir John Hamilton,
1 baronet, G.C.S.I. 1755–1835_). _b._ Londonderry 1 March 1802;
ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1822; 2 lieut. rifle brigade
10 July 1823, served during Canadian rebellion 1837–8; major on
h.p. 8 Oct. 1838, sold out May 1852; M.P. for Sudbury, Suffolk 25
July to Dec. 1837; contested Marylebone, July 1841 and July 1847;
sheriff of Pembrokeshire 1857, of Tyrone 1859. _d._ 6 Portman sq.
London 12 Jany. 1876. _I.L.N. lxviii_, 95, 215 (1876).

HAMILTON, JANET (_dau. of a shoemaker called Thomson_). _b._
Carshill, Shotts parish, Lanarkshire 12 Oct. 1795; a yarn spinner;
learnt to write 1848; wrote for Cassell’s _Working Man’s Friend_
1849; became blind 1855; author of _Poems and songs_ 1863; _Poems
of purpose and sketches_ 1865; _Poems and Ballads_ 1868; _Poems,
essay and sketches_ 1880. (_m._ 1809 John Hamilton, shoemaker),
she _d._ Langloan, Lanarkshire 27 Oct. 1873, Memorial fountain
erected at Langloan. _Poems, sketches and essays by J. Hamilton_
(1885), _portrait_; _Good Words, Feb. 1884 pp._ 118–24,
_portrait_.

HAMILTON, SIR JOHN. _b._ Dover 1765; captain in H.M.’s packet
service; communicated to admiral Duncan intelligence of the Dutch
fleet being at sea which led to victory at Camperdown 11 Oct.
1797; knighted at St. James’s palace 5 March 1845. _d._ at Capt.
Luke Smithett’s house, 17 Snargate st. Dover 1 Feb. 1858.

HAMILTON, JOHN. _b._ Dumfriesshire; a newspaper reporter at Preston;
edited the _Aylesbury News_ 7 years; formed a church at Aylesbury;
edited the _Empire_ in London, joint proprietor of it with George
Thompson; edited the _Morning Star_ to 1860; F.R.S. _d._ Howe
villa, Windermere 14 Oct. 1860 aged 39.

HAMILTON, JOHN. _b._ 1809; M.R.C.S. Ireland, F.R.C.S. 1844, V.P.
1874; edited _The Dublin Journal of medical and chemical science_
1832; visiting surgeon Richmond hospital 1844–75; surgeon in
ordinary to the queen 1874; governor of House of Industry
hospitals 1875; president Dublin pathological soc.; author of _An
essay on syphilitic sarcocele_ 1849; _The restoration of a lost
nose_ 1864; _Lectures on syphilitic osteitis and periostitis_
1874. _d._ 14 Merrion sq. North, Dublin 2 Nov. 1875. _Medical
Times 13 Nov. 1875 p._ 561.

HAMILTON, JOHN POTTER. Cornet Scotch Greys 1793; commanded a
battalion at battle of Castalla, May 1813; lieut.-col. 83 foot 3
June 1813; captain 3 foot guards 1814, retired Aug. 1819; special
commissioner to Colombia 10 Oct. 1823, signed treaty of amity 18
April 1825; K.H. 1836; author of _Travels through Colombia_ 1827;
_Reminiscences of an old sportsman 2 vols._ 1860. _d._ Bodleyfryd,
Wrexham 28 Jany. 1873 aged 95.

HAMILTON, REV. JOSEPH HARRIMAN. Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; 27 wrangler
and B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; chaplain of his coll. 1824; C. of St.
Michael, Chester sq. Pimlico, London 1848–71; prebendary of
Chiswick in St. Paul’s cath. 1859–72; R. of Frant, Sussex 1871 to
1879; canon residentiary of Rochester 1872 to death. _d._ the
precincts, Rochester 17 Aug. 1881 aged 81.

HAMILTON, KER BAILLIE (_4 son of Ven. Charles Baillie-Hamilton
1764–1820, archdeacon of Cleveland_). _b._ 13 July 1804; entered
H.E.I.C.S. 1822; clerk of council and acting colonial sec. Cape of
Good Hope 1829; lieut. governor of Grenada 1846–52; administrator
of Barbadoes and the Windward islands 1851–2; governor of
Newfoundland 1852–5; governor in chief of Antigua and Leeward
islands 1855 to Jany. 1863; C.B. 23 July 1862; retired 1867;
author of _Our saddle horses_ 1865. _d._ 43 Broadwater Down,
Tunbridge Wells 6 Feb. 1889.

HAMILTON, NICHOLAS. Ensign 5 foot 15 June 1796; inspecting field
officer 10 June 1813 to 11 Nov. 1851; colonel 82 foot 10 Dec. 1856
to death; L.G. 11 Jany. 1858. _d._ 35 Lower Bagot st. Dublin 13
Dec. 1859 in 78 year.

HAMILTON, RICHARD. _b._ 18 Dec. 1810; ensign 1 Madras N.I. 25 Aug.
1828, major 21 May 1858; lieut.-col. Madras staff corps 18 Feb.
1861, placed on retired list 18 Dec. 1880; general 23 Aug. 1884;
C.B. 29 May 1875. _d._ Nethway, Torquay 1 March 1888.

HAMILTON, ROBERT DOUGLAS (_son of a stone mason and farmer_). _b._
Muirhead, Lanarkshire 16 Jany. 1783; ed. at Glasgow and Edin.
universities; assist. surgeon in H.M. hospital ship ‘Tromp’ at
Falmouth, April 1808 to Nov. 1809; surgeon at St. Mawes 1809–12;
served as a surgeon with the army in the Peninsula; emigrated to
U.S. America 1827; settled at Scarborough near Toronto, Upper
Canada 1830; contributed to newspapers and periodicals under name
of Guy Pollock; author of _Essays, Truro_ 1812; _Craignethan
castle. A poem, Edin._ 1817, anon.; _The principles of medicine,
vol. i_, 1821; _Dr. Shaddow of Gostlington, By Mungo Coulter
Goggle_. _d._ Scarborough 2 April 1857. _Morgan’s Bibl.
Canadensis_ (1867) 174.

HAMILTON, SIR ROBERT NORTH COLLIE, 6 Baronet (_1 son of Sir
Frederick Hamilton, 5 baronet, d. 1853_). _b._ Benares, India 7
April 1802; of H.E.I.C.S. 1819; judge of Benares March 1829; sec.
to the government in N.W. provinces March 1842, and resident with
Holkar at Indore 1844; governor general’s agent for Central India
1854–9; served during the mutiny 1857–8; retired 1860; member of
supreme council 1859–60; K.C.B. 18 May 1860; sheriff of
Warwickshire 1866; contested S. Warwickshire 1868. _d._ Avon
Cliffe, Stratford-on-Avon 31 May 1887.

HAMILTON, THOMAS. _b._ Edinburgh 1784; apprentice to his father a
carpenter; architect and builder at Edinburgh; designed Burns’
memorial at Alloway near Ayr 1818, completed 1823, Knox monument
Glasgow 1825, Edinburgh high sch. 1825–9, George iv. bridge 1827,
Ayr town buildings 1828, Burns’ monument Edin. 1830, Dr. Guthrie’s
ch. 1840 and the Martyrs’ monument on the Calton hill 1844; author
of _Observations on completing the college of Edinburgh_ 1816;
_Report relative to improvements on the earthen mound_ 1830. _d._
9 Howe st. Edinburgh 24 Feb. 1858. _Crombie’s Modern Athenians_
(1882) 142–4, _portrait_.

HAMILTON, THOMAS. _b._ Longridge, parish of Stonehouse, Lanarkshire
4 Feb. 1783; partner with Robert and John Ogle at 37 Paternoster
row, London 1 Jany. 1808 to 1813; wholesale bookseller at 33
Paternoster row 1813–50 when he retired, joined by Wm. Adams 1824,
by Joseph Johnson Miles 1833; published some important books,
chiefly religious, the works of W. Jay of Bath, Rev. J. A. James
and Rev. C. Bradley; lived at Windmill place, Clapham common from
1850, _d._ there 27 Dec. 1877. _bur._ Beddington churchyard 2
Jany. 1878. _Bookseller_ (1878) _p._ 7.

HAMILTON, WALTER FERRIER (_1 son of Col. John Hamilton of Cairn
hill, Ayrshire_). _b._ Cairn hill 31 May 1818; M.P. for
Linlithgowshire 1859–65. _d._ Cathlow house, Torphichen,
Linlithgowshire 8 April 1872.

HAMILTON, RIGHT REV. WALTER KERR (_elder son of Ven. Anthony
Hamilton 1778–1851_). _b._ London 16 Nov. 1808; ed. at Eton and
Ch. Ch. Ox., student 1827–32, B.A. 1831, M.A. 1833, D.D. 1854;
fellow of Merton 1832–42; C. of Wolvercot, Oxf. 1833; V. of St.
Peter’s-in-the-East, Oxf. 1837–41; canon of Salisbury, June 1841,
precentor 1843; bishop of Salisbury 27 March 1854 to death,
consecrated at Lambeth 14 May; established a theological coll. at
Salisbury 1861; an extreme high churchman, his episcopal charge
1867 gave rise to discussion in house of lords; author of _Morning
and evening services for every day in the week_ 1842; _Cathedral
reform_ 1855; _A charge_ 1867 to which there were 9 published
replies. _d._ the palace, Salisbury 1 Aug. 1869. _W. K. Hamilton,
bishop of Salisbury, By H. P. Liddon_ (1869); _Register and Mag.
of Biog. ii_, 143–4 (1869).

HAMILTON, WALTER RICHARD POLLOCK (_4 son of Alexander Hamilton of
Inistioge, Ireland_). _b._ 18 Aug. 1856; sub-lieut. 70 foot 28
Feb. 1874; with the Guide cavalry in Bengal; served in
Jowaki-Afridi expedition 1877–8, in Afghan campaign 1878, Victoria
cross for gallantry at Futtehabad 2 April 1879 when as the last
officer he had to assume command of Guide cavalry; accompanied Sir
Louis Cavagnari to Kabul where he was killed 3 Sep. 1879.
_Shadbolt’s Afghan campaign, Biographical division_ (1882) 98–100,
_portrait_.

HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (_son of W. Hamilton_). _b._ 14 Feb. 1790;
entered royal navy 1803; a prisoner of war in France 1805–14; vice
consul at Flushing and Middleburg 1817, at Antwerp 1818, at Ostend
1818, at Nieuport 1820, at Boulogne 1822, consul there 28 June
1826 to 1 April 1873 when he retired on pension; knighted by
patent 21 Feb. 1873. _d._ 113 Grande rue, Boulogne 14 Feb. 1877.
_I.L.N. lxii_, 369, 370 (1873), _portrait_.

HAMILTON, WILLIAM ALEXANDER BAILLIE- (_brother of Ker Baillie
Hamilton 1804–89_). _b._ Normanby, Yorkshire 6 June 1803; entered
navy 28 Aug. 1816; captain 9 Aug. 1828; private sec. to first lord
of the Admiralty 1841, sec. of the Admiralty Jany. 1845 to 1855
when granted a pension of £1000; comr. of patriotic fund 1865–81;
admiral on h.p. 12 Sep. 1865. _d._ Portree, Isle of Skye 1 Oct.
1881.

HAMILTON, WILLIAM BISHOP. _b._ London 1810; went to U.S. of A. 1827;
traversed Mississippi river on a flat boat giving dramatic
performances at chief towns several years; acted at Burton’s
Chambers st. theatre New York; went to California 1851; lessee of
Jenny Lind theatre, San Francisco, afterwards of San Francisco
Hall, the American theatre and Metropolitan, all in San Francisco;
returned to New York 1859. _d._ London 3 Dec. 1868.

HAMILTON, WILLIAM JOHN (_1 son of William Richard Hamilton
1777–1859_). _b._ London 5 July 1805; ed. at Charterhouse and
Univ. of Gottingen; F.G.S. 1831, sec. 1832–54, pres. 1854, 1865–6;
with H. Strickland explored the Levant and the volcanic region of
the Katakekaumene 1835; went on horseback through Asia Minor 1836;
F.R.G.S., pres. 1837, 1841, 1842, 1847, founder’s medallist 1843;
F.R.S.; M.P. for Newport, Isle of Wight 1841–47; director of Great
Indian peninsular railway 1849 to death; author of _Researches in
Asia Minor, Pontus and Armenia 2 vols._ 1842. _d._ 23 Chesham
place, London 27 June 1867. _Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc.
xxiv_, 29–33 (1867).

HAMILTON, WILLIAM RICHARD (_son of Rev. Anthony Hamilton 1739–1812,
archdeacon of Colchester_). _b._ London 9 Jany. 1777; ed. at
Harrow where he was lamed for life; sec. to lord Elgin at
Constantinople 1799, sent to Egypt 1801 when he recovered the
Rosetta stone from the French; aided in collecting and removing
the Elgin marbles from Athens 1802; F.S.A. 1804, director 1809–10,
under sec. of state for foreign affairs 1809–22; minister at
Naples 1822–4; treasurer of Royal institution 1832–49; F.R.S.; a
trustee of Br. Museum 1838–58; author of _Ægyptiaca or the ancient
and modern state of Egypt_ 1809; _Memorandum on the earl of
Elgin’s pursuits in Greece_ 1811. _d._ 12 Bolton row, London 11
July 1859. _Chambers’ Eminent Scotsmen, ii_, 229 (1869).

HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (_4 child of Archibald Hamilton of
Dublin, attorney 1778–1819_). _b._ 29 Dominick st. Dublin at
midnight 3–4 Aug. 1805; was acquainted with 9 languages in 1819;
student of Trin. coll. Dublin 1823, B.A. 1827, M.A. 1837, LL.B.
and LLD. 1839; Andrews professor of astronomy, astronomer royal
for Ireland and superintendent of Dublin observatory at Dunsink
near Dublin 1827 to death; knighted by lord lieutenant Lord
Mulgrave in library of Trin. coll. 15 Aug. 1835; M.R.I.A. 1832,
president 1837; granted civil list pension of £200, 27 April 1844
which was continued to his widow; discovered conical refraction
1824; invented quaternions 1843; author of _Lectures on
quaternions_ 1853; _The elements of quaternions_ 1866. _d._
Dunsink observatory 2 Sep. 1865. _R. P. Graves’ Life of Sir W. R.
Hamilton 3 vols._ 1882–89, _3 portraits_; _Dublin Univ. Mag.,
xix_, 94–110 (1842), _portrait_; _Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. v_,
473 (1866).

HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM STIRLING, 3 Baronet (_elder son of Wm.
Hamilton 1758–90, professor of anatomy in univ. of Glasgow_). _b._
Glasgow univ. 8 March 1788; ed. at Glasgow and Edin. univs.;
student of Balliol coll. Ox. 1807, B.A. 1811, M.A. 1814; D.D. of
Leyden 1840; called to Scottish bar 1813; styled himself a
baronet, under the decision of an Edinburgh jury 1816; H.M.’s
solicitor for Teinds in Scotland 1832; professor of universal
history Univ. of Edin. 1821, professor of logic and metaphysics
there 1836 to death; contributed articles on metaphysics to
_Edinburgh Review_ 1829–39; F.R.S. Edin., resigned 1835; published
an edition of the works of Thomas Reid 1846 and of Dugald Steward
10 vols. 1854–8; author of _Discussions on philosophy and
literature, education and university reform_ 1852, _3 ed._ 1866;
_Lectures on metaphysics and logic 4 vols._ 1859–60, _2 ed._
1861–66; a civil list pension granted to Lady Hamilton 13 Oct.
1849. _d._ 16 Great King st. Edinburgh 6 May 1856, his bust placed
in senate hall of Edin. university Dec. 1867, his library of 9000
volumes purchased and given to Glasgow univ. _Veitch’s Memoir of
Sir W. Hamilton_ (1869), _portrait_; _Sir W. Hamilton, By W. H. S.
Monck_ (1881); _De Quincey’s Works, xvi_, 114–79 (1871); _Sir A.
Grant’s Story of Univ. of Edin. ii_, 332–35 (1884).

HAMLET, THOMAS. _b._ Boughton, Cheshire 1770; silversmith and
jeweller at 1 and 2 Princes st. Soho, London 1801–1841; built the
Royal bazaar, British diorama and exhibition of works of art,
opened at 73 Oxford st. about April 1828, it was burned down 27
May 1829, loss £50,000, rebuilt 1830 renamed the Queen’s Bazaar
1834, converted it into the Princess’s theatre at cost of £47,000
which opened with promenade concerts 30 Sep. 1840; bankrupt 20
March 1841; sold the theatre for £14,500; considered a millionaire
at one time, but greatly reduced by being unable to recover on
certain bonds of the Prince Regent and Duke of York. _d._ 5 Park
place, St. James’s, London 21 Feb. 1853.

HAMLEY, FRANCIS GILBERT (_eld. son of Joseph Hamley, d. 1854_). _b._
1815; ensign 12 foot 7 Aug. 1835; major 50 foot 8 Jany. 1858 to
1873; governor general of South Australia 19 Feb. 1868 to 16 Feb.
1869; M.G. 9 Aug. 1873. _d._ Cheltenham 12 Jany. 1876.

HAMMACK, JOHN GEORGE (_younger son of John Hammack of London_).
Timber merchant 30 Cannon st. road, Commercial road, London;
surveyor in city of London; retained in almost every case coming
under provisions of the Lands Clauses Consolidation act; returning
officer for Tower Hamlets borough; chairman of city of London and
Tower Hamlets cemetery co.; chairman of Ratcliff gas light co. 25
years; one of the two chief assistants of registrar general in
taking census in 1861. _d._ Boxlands near Dorking 4 Oct. 1861 aged
70.

HAMMERSLEY, JAMES ASTBURY. _b._ Burslem, Staffs. 1815; exhibited 3
pictures at R.A., 3 at B.I. and 10 at Suffolk st. 1842–52; head
master Manchester sch. of design 1849–62; president Manchester
acad. of fine arts 1857–61; among his paintings were Mountain and
clouds, Loughrigg Fell 1850 in Manchester art gallery; The castle
of Rosenau in the collection at Windsor; author of _The condition
of the continental schools of art_ 1850. _d._ Manchester about
1868.

HAMMICK, SIR STEPHEN LOVE, 1 Baronet (_eld. son of Stephen Hammick
of Plymouth, alderman_). _b._ Plymouth 28 Feb. 1777; M.C.S. 1799;
hon. fellow R.C.S. 1843; surgeon of Royal naval hospital at
Plymouth 1803–29; surgeon extraordinary to George iv. 1820–30, to
Wm. iv. 1830–37; practised 36 Cavendish sq. London 1829–56;
baronet 25 July 1834; author of _Practical remarks on amputation,
fractures and stricture of the urethra_ 1830. _d._ The Crescent,
Plymouth 15 June 1867.

HAMMILL, JOHN (_only son of Martin Hammill of Liverpool_). _b._ 13
April 1803; ed. at Macclesfield gr. sch. and Trin. coll. Cam.,
B.A. 1825, M.A. 1832; barrister I.T. 30 Jany. 1832; one of
boundary comrs. of boroughs 16 July 1835; comr. of bankruptcy in
Liverpool 1840; police magistrate at Worship st. London 1847, at
Marylebone Jany. 1860 to death. _d._ 34 Sussex gardens, Hyde park,
London 30 July 1860.

HAMMOND, EDMUND HAMMOND, 1 Baron (_3 son of George Hammond, d.
1853_). _b._ London 25 June 1802; ed. at Eton, Harrow and Univ.
coll. Ox., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, scholar 1824–8, fellow 1828–46;
clerk privy council office 1823–4; in foreign office 1824, chief
of the oriental department 1830–41; permanent under sec. of state
for foreign affairs 10 April 1854, retired 10 Oct. 1873 on his
full pay of £2500; P.C. 11 June 1866; cr. baron Hammond of Kirk
Ella, Kingston-on-Hull 22 Feb. 1874; assured Lord Granville that
the world was profoundly at peace 27 June 1870, French and
Prussian war broke out 15 July. _d._ Mentone, France 29 April
1890. _I.L.N. lxiii_, 413, 414 (1873), _portrait_; _Graphic 24 May
1890 p._ 583, _portrait_.

HAMMOND, ALFRED WILLIAM. Music seller and publisher at 9 New Bond
st. and then at 214 Regent st. London 1850–62; projector,
proprietor and many years editor of _Musical Standard_, No. 1,
Aug. 2, 1862; composer of _As o’er the past my mem’ry strays, a
hymn_ 1857; _When all thy mercies O my God, a hymn_ 1857. _d._
Belvedere near Erith, Kent 18 Dec. 1875.

HAMMOND, GEORGE (_younger son of William Hammond_). _b._ 1763;
matric. from Merton coll. Ox. 16 March 1780 aged 17, B.A. 1784,
M.A. 1788, D.C.L. 1810; sec. to David Hartley in Paris when
conducting peace negotiations with France and America 1783; chargé
d’ affaires at Vienna 1788–90, at Madrid 1791; minister plenipo.
to U.S. America 1791–5; under sec. foreign office, London
1795–1806, 1807–9; a comr. for British claims on France, Sep. 1814
to July 1828 when pensioned; connected with the _Anti-Jacobin_
1797 and the _Quarterly Rev._ 1809. _d._ 22 Portland place, London
22 April 1853 aged 90.

HAMMOND, JAMES LEMPRIERE. _b._ 1828; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A.
1852, M.A. 1855, fellow, tutor and bursar; executor of Dr. Wm.
Whewell 1866 when he superintended the additions to Trin. coll.,
completed under Whewell’s will at cost of £100,000 in 1868;
assistant Endowed schools commissioner; assistant Charity
commissioner for England and Wales; sec. to D. of Devonshire,
chancellor of Cambridge; on the governing bodies of Christ’s
hospital and Westminster school; author of _Carmen Latinum.
Cantab._ 1849. _d._ Clyde villa, Hammersmith, Middlesex 23 July
1880 in 52 year. _Times 28, 30, 31 July 1880._

HAMMOND, JOHN (_youngest son of Lempriere Hammond of Jersey_). _b._
1801; solicitor general of Jersey 1848–58; bailiff of Jersey and
pres. of The States 16 Feb. 1858 to death. _d._ Royal court house,
Jersey 14 Feb. 1880.

HAMOND, SIR GRAHAM EDEN, 2 Baronet (_only son of Sir Andrew Snape
Hamond 1738–1828, captain R.N., 1 baronet_). _b._ Newman st.
London 30 Dec. 1779; entered R.N. 1785, captain 30 Nov. 1798;
present at battle of Copenhagen 1801; knight commander of Tower
and Sword 1825; commander in chief on South American station
1834–8; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 13 Sep. 1831, G.C.B. 5 July 1855;
admiral 22 Jany. 1847, admiral of the fleet 10 Nov. 1862. _d._
Norton lodge, Freshwater, Isle of Wight 20 Dec. 1862.

HAMOND, HORACE EDWARD. Cornet 1 life guards 18 Feb. 1828, lieut.
1831, sold out 12 Sep. 1834; aide-de-camp to king of Hanover some
time; precis writer to earl of Malmesbury sec. of state foreign
affairs 28 Feb. 1852; consul at Cherbourg 1 April 1852 to death;
K.H. _d._ 8 Feb. 1876.

HAMPDEN, JOHN (_brother of Right Rev. R. D. Hampden_). _b._ 27 Oct.
1798; ed. at Univ. coll. Ox.; collector of pictures, coins and
medals; collected materials for life of John Hampden the patriot.
_d._ 4 Clarence ter. Warwick st. Leamington 13 Nov. 1860.
_Numismatic Chronicle, xxi, Proceedings_ 11–12 (1861).

HAMPDEN, JOHN (_1 son of Rev. John Hampden, R. of Hinton Martel,
Dorset 1829–47_). Matric. from St. Mary hall, Ox. 14 Feb. 1839
aged 19; author of _The rampart of steel or a fancys (sic) for a
permanent coast militia and an army of reserve, Canterbury_ 1852;
_John Hampden’s Monthly. The truth seeker’s oracle and scriptural
science review, Nos. 1–3 May-July_ 1876; _Description of J.
Hampden’s improvements in artillery_ 1876; _The new manual of
Biblical Cosmography_ 1877; _The earth in its creation and the
portion adapted to man’s occupation_ 1880; published _John
Hampden’s Circular map of the world_ 1875; _John Hampden’s
Chronometrical Dial-plate_ 1876; edited _Cosmos_. _A Geographical
Review_ 1883. _d._ from bronchitis at 3 Park st. Croydon 22 Jany.
1891. _Daily Graphic 27 Jany. 1891 p. 6 col. 2._

NOTE.—He inserted an advertisement in _Scientific Opinion_ 12
Jany. 1870 offering £500 to anyone proving that the earth is
round. This challenge was accepted by Alfred Russel Wallace;
Hampden and Wallace each deposited £500 in the hands of John
Henry Walsh who decided in favour of Wallace as having “proved
the curvature to and fro of the Bedford Level canal between
Witney bridge and Welsh’s dam (6 miles) to the extent of 5
feet more or less.” Walsh paid the £1000 to Wallace 1 April
1870 although Hampden instructed him not to do so, Hampden
brought an action against Walsh to recover his £500, which was
tried in the Queen’s Bench division 17 Jany. 1876 when the
judges held that Hampden having demanded his deposit money
back before it had been paid over by Walsh, was entitled to
judgment. _Law Reports i, Q.B. division_ (1876) 189–98;
_Experimental proofs that the surface of standing water is not
convex but horizontal with an examination of the question, Is
the earth a globe or a plane? between J. Hampden and A. R.
Wallace. By Parallax_ [_Samuel Birley Rowbotham_] 1870.

HAMPDEN, RIGHT REV. RENN DICKSON (_eld. son of Renn Hampden, colonel
of militia_). _b._ Barbadoes 29 March 1793; ed. at Oriel coll.
Ox., double first class 1813, B.A. 1814, M.A. 1816, B.D. and D.D.
1833, fellow 1814–7, tutor 1832, Bampton lecturer 1832; C. of
Newton near Bath 1816; principal of St. Mary hall, Ox., April
1833–48; professor of moral philosophy 1834–36; canon of Ch. Ch.
Ox. and regius professor of divinity 17 Feb. 1836 to 1848; R. of
Ewelme, Oxfs. 1836–48; bp. of Hereford 28 Dec. 1847 to death, his
election opposed by 13 bishops and the dean of Hereford,
consecrated at Lambeth palace 26 March 1848; author of _The
Scholastic philosophy considered in its relation to Christian
theology_ 1833 and of essays, lectures, sermons and charges. _d._
107 Eaton place, London 23 April 1868. _Memorials by his daughter_
(1871), _portrait_; _Mozley’s Reminiscences, i_, 350–86 (1882);
_I.L.N. xii_, 22 (1848), _portrait_.

HAMPSON, JOHN. _b._ 1790; master of Bury st. academy, Manchester
1810–60; author of _The Monitory and Epistolary Exercise book for
schools_ 1841. _d._ Ardwick, Manchester, Oct. 1878 in 88 year.

HAMPTON, JOHN SOMERSET PAKINGTON, 1 Baron (_younger son of Wm.
Russell of Powick court, Worcs., who d. 9 Dec. 1812_). _b._ Powick
court 20 Feb. 1799; ed. at Eton and Oriel coll. Ox., D.C.L. 7 June
1853; assumed name of Pakington 1830; chairman of Worcs. quarter
sessions 1834–54; M.P. for Droitwich 1837–74; sec. of state for
the colonies 27 Feb. to Dec. 1852; P.C. 27 Feb. 1852; first lord
of the admiralty Feb. 1858 to June 1859 and June 1866 to March
1867; sec. of state for war 8 March 1867 to Dec. 1868; first civil
service commissioner Nov. 1875; baronet 13 July 1846; G.C.B. 15
June 1859; created Baron Hampton of Hampton Lovett and of
Westwood, co. Worcester 6 March 1874. _d._ 9 Eaton sq. London 9
April 1880. _bur._ in family mausoleum Hampton Lovett church,
Worcs. 15 April. _The drawing room portrait gallery of eminent
personages, second series_ 1859, _portrait_; _The statesmen of
England_ (1862), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xx_, 321 (1852), _xxi_, 237
(1852), _portrait_.

HAMPTON, RICHARD. _b._ Nancekuke down, Illogan, Cornwall 4 April
1782; a worker at a stamping mill; first preached at Redruth 1811;
itinerated in Devon and Cornwall as a Wesleyan, known as the
Cornish pilgrim preacher 1813–58. _d._ Porth Towan, Illogan 2
April 1858. _Foolish Dick, an autobiography of Richard Hampton_
1873, _portrait_.

HAMPTON, WILLIAM PHILIP. _b._ 21 Sep. 1810; ensign 30 Bengal N.I. 4
Nov. 1828, commandant 2 Bengal N.I. 1 Jany. 1864 to 1 March 1870;
L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ 65 Haverstock hill, London 23 Jany. 1881.

HANBURY, BENJAMIN. _b._ Wolverhampton 13 May 1778; in Bank of
England 1803–59; deacon of Congregational ch. Union st. London
1819–57; treasurer of Congregational Union 1831 to death; author
of _An historical research concerning the Congregational church in
England_ 1820; _Historical memorials relating to the Independents
3 vols._ 1839–44; edited Hooker’s _Ecclesiastical Polity 3 vols._
1830. _d._ 16 Gloucester villas, Brixton, Surrey 12 Jany. 1864.
_Evangelical Mag. 1864 p._ 166.

HANBURY, DANIEL (_1 son of Daniel Bell Hanbury of firm of Allen and
Hanbury, chemists, Plough court, Lombard st. London_). _b._ London
11 Sep. 1825; partner in firm of Allen and Hanbury to 1870;
student at Pharmaceutical soc. 1844, member 1857, examiner
1860–72; F.L.S. 1855, treasurer to death; F. Chem. soc. 21 Jany.
1858, and F.R. Micros. soc. 1867; F.R.S. 6 June 1867, member of
council 1872–5; studied the materia medica of the Chinese; visited
Greece and the Holy Land 1860; the cucurbitaceous genus Hanburya
named after him 1870; author with professor Friedrich A. Flückiger
of _Pharmacographia_ 1874. _d._ Clapham common, Surrey 24 March
1875. _Science papers, ed. by J. Ince_ 1876, _memoir pp._ 3–40,
_portrait_; _Proc. of Royal soc._ _xxiv_, 2–3 (1876); _Nature_,
_xi_, 428 (1875).

HANBURY, DANIEL BELL (_1 son of Capel Hanbury_). _b._ 8 Feb. 1794;
with Allen and Hanbury 1808, partner, retired 1868; an originator
of Pharmaceutical soc. 1841, treasurer 1852–67; assisted to make
index for _Pharmacographia_ 1874. _d._ Hollywood, Clapham common
12 Feb. 1882. _Pharmaceutical Journal_, _xii_, 698 (1881–82).

HANBURY, SIR JOHN (_2 son of Wm. Hanbury of Kelmarsh,
Northamptonshire_). _b._ Kelmarsh 1782; ed. at Eton; ensign 58
foot 20 July 1799; served in Egypt 1801, in Peninsula 1808–9,
1813–4, in Portugal 1826–7; major grenadier guards 25 July 1821 to
22 July 1830; colonel 99 foot 6 Oct. 1851 to death; general 20
June 1854; K.C.H. and K.B. 1832; K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862. _d._ 15
Charles st. Berkeley sq. London 7 June 1863.

HANBURY, ROBERT (_2 son of Osgood Hanbury of Holfield Grange, Essex
1765–1852_). _b._ 2 July 1796; clerk with Truman, Buxton & Co.
brewers 1815, partner 1820, managing partner of business in London
and at Burton on Trent; sheriff of Herts. 1854; had large gardens
and conservatories at Poles near Ware; built and endowed
Thundridge ch. Herts. 184-and Christ Church, Ware 1858. _d._
Poles, Ware 20 Jany. 1884. _Licensed Victuallers’ Gazette 16 Jany.
1875 pp._ 64, 67, _portrait_; _Licensed Victuallers’ Year Book
1876 pp._ 83–5, _portrait_.

HANBURY, ROBERT CULLING (_1 son of the preceding_). _b._ London 19
March 1823; partner in Truman, Hanbury and Co. brewers, London;
M.P. for Middlesex 29 April 1857 to death. _d._ 10 Upper Grosvenor
st. London 29 March 1867. _bur._ in churchyard of Thundridge,
Herts. _I.L.N. xxx_, 479 (1857), _portrait_.

HANCE, HENRY FLETCHER. _b._ Old Brompton, London 4 Aug. 1827;
entered Hong-kong C.S. 1 Sep. 1844; 4 assistant in superintendency
of trade at Hong-kong 1 May 1854, 1 assistant 1857; vice consul at
Whampoa near Canton 1861–78; consul Canton 1878, 1881, 1883;
acting consul at Amoy, May 1886; spent his life in study of botany
of China. _d._ Amoy 22 June 1886, his herbarium 22,000 species
offered to British Museum.

HANCOCK, ALBANY (_son of John Hancock, saddler, Newcastle-on-Tyne_,
_d._ 1812). _b._ Bridge End, Newcastle 24 Dec. 1806; solicitor
Newcastle 1830–2; a founder of the Tyneside Naturalists’ Field
club 1846; F.L.S. 1862; wrote over 70 papers on birds, shells,
mollusca, etc. 1836 etc., the first to examine carefully the
internal structures of mollusca 1843, gold medallist of Royal soc.
1858; with J. Alder wrote _A monograph of the British
Nudibranchiate mollusca_ 7 _parts_ 1845–55. _d._ 4 St. Mary’s ter.
Newcastle 24 Oct. 1873. _Trans. Northumberland Nat. Hist. Soc. v_,
118, (1875), _portrait_; _Monthly Chronicle of North country lore,
Dec. 1890 pp._ 568–70, _portrait_.

HANCOCK, HENRY. Entered Bombay army 18 June 1819; adjutant general 1
May 1848 to 15 Sep. 1856; col. 19 Bombay N.I. 1856–69; L.G. 30
March 1869. _d._ Friedenfels, Upper Maize hill, St. Leonards on
Sea, Sussex 30 Dec. 1872 aged 70.

HANCOCK, HENRY (_son of Samuel Hancock of London, merchant_). _b._
Bread st. hill, London 6 Aug. 1809; M.R.C.S. 1834, F.R.C.S. 1843,
prof. of human anat. 1865, president 1872, Hunterian orator 1873;
house surgeon Westminster hospital, demonstrator of anatomy
1834–8; lecturer on anatomy and physiology Charing Cross hospital
1838, assist. surgeon 1839, surgeon to 1875, lecturer on surgery;
surgeon Westminster ophthalmic hospital to 1875; the first to
remove the os calsis and retain the foot; author of _On the
operation for strangulated hernia_ 1850; _On the operative surgery
of the foot and ankle-joint_ 1873. _d._ Standen house, Chute,
Wilts. 1 Jany. 1880. _Medical Times 10 Jany. 1880 p._ 53; _Lancet_
(1853) _ii_, 578, _portrait_.

HANCOCK, JOHN (_brother of Albany Hancock 1806–73_). _b._ about
1808; saddler and ironmonger at Newcastle; formed finest
collection of British birds in the Kingdom and presented it to
Museum of Natural History Soc. Barras bridge, Newcastle 1881;
author of _A catalogue of the birds of Northumberland and Durham_
in Natural History Trans. 1874 and of other papers in same work
and in Trans. of Tyneside Naturalists’ Field Club. _d._ 4 St.
Mary’s terrace, Newcastle 11 Oct. 1890. _Monthly chronicle of
North country lore, Dec. 1890 pp._ 566–9, 2 _portraits_; _Graphic
25 Oct. 1890 p._ 460, _portrait_.

HANCOCK, SIR SAMUEL (_brother of Henry Hancock 1809–80_). _b._ 3
June 1805; exon of the yeomen of the guard 1832–47; knighted at
St. James’s palace 12 May 1841. _d._ 5 Paragon buildings,
Cheltenham 7 Aug. 1886.

HANCOCK, THOMAS (_2 son of James Hancock, timber merchant_). _b._
Marlborough, Wilts. 8 May 1786; invented the masticator by which
india rubber was pressed into blocks or rolled into sheets 1820;
india rubber manufacturer Goswell road, London 1821, works burnt
down 11 April 1834, Manchester works burnt 1838; partner with
Charles Macintosh maker of waterproof garments London and
Manchester; patented vulcanised india rubber and vulcanite or
ebonite 1843; took out 16 patents 1820–47. _d._ Woodberry vale,
Stoke Newington 26 March 1865. _Personal Narrative of India-rubber
manufacture in England, By T. Hancock_ (1857), _portrait_.

HANCOCK, WALTER (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Marlborough 16
June 1799; engineer Stratford, Essex; invented steam engine in
which the cylinder and piston were replaced by flexible steam
bags, ran it on the road from Stratford to London Feb. 1831, built
10 similar machines up to 1840; associated with Thomas Hancock in
manufacture of india rubber 1841; author of _Narrative of twelve
years experiments of steam carriages on common roads_ 1838. _d._
West Ham, Essex 14 May 1852.

HANCOCK, WILLIAM NEILSON (_2 son of Wm. John Hancock of Lisburn,
Antrim_). _b._ Castle st. Lisburn 1820; ed. at Dungannon and Trin.
coll. Dublin, B.A. 1843, LL.B. 1846, LLD. 1849; barrister King’s
inns 1844; Q.C. 1859; professor of political economy at Trin.
coll.; professor of political economy and jurisprudence Queen’s
coll. Belfast; founded Statistical and social inquiry Soc. of
Ireland 1847; sec. to Univ. of Dublin commission, Irish railway
commission and other commissions; clerk of the Crown and Hanaper
office, Dublin. _d._ at residence of Sir Wm. Thomson, Glasgow 10
July 1888. _bur._ Mount Jerome cemetery, Dublin 17 July.

HAND, GEORGE SUMNER. _b._ 1807; entered navy 5 Feb. 1821, captain 6
Sep. 1852, retired admiral 15 June 1879; C.B. 20 May 1859;
F.R.G.S.; served in Ava 1825, West Indies 1829–31, on coast of
Africa 1844–9. _d._ I. 4 The Albany, Piccadilly, London 1 Dec.
1883.

HANDLEY, JOHN. _b._ Stoke, Notts. 1807; a banker at Newark and
Sleaford as Handley, Peacock & Co.; M.P. for Newark 1857–65;
sheriff of Notts. 1869. _d._ North gate, Newark 8 Dec. 1880.

HANDYSIDE, ROBERT (_son of William Handyside, writer to the
signet_). _b._ Edinburgh 1798; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; advocate at
Scottish bar 1822; deputy of the lord advocate 1835; sheriff
depute of co. Stirling 9 July 1840; solicitor general for Scotland
17 Jany. 1853; a lord of session and justiciary with courtesy
title of Lord Handyside 15 Nov. 1853 to death. _d._ Kennet,
Edinburgh 18 April 1858. _Journal of jurisprudence ii_, 245
(1858).

HANHAM, THOMAS BARNABAS (_youngest son of Rev. Sir James Hanham, 7
baronet, d. 2 April 1849, m. Eliza Dean dau. of William Patey, she
d. Wimborne, Dorset 5 June 1877 aged 90_). _b._ 11 June 1825;
sub-lieut. R.N. 6 Aug. 1845, lieut. 1847, retired 1864, commander
30 April 1879; Provincial S.G.W. of Dorset. _d._ Manston house,
Blandford, Dorset 27 Nov. 1883, cremated Manston 4 Dec. when a
masonic ritual was used which had not been employed in England
during the century. _m._ as his third wife 1 Dec. 1868 Edith Mary
widow of major John Swinburne 18 regt., she _d._ 30 July 1876.

NOTE.—He erected in the private grounds of Manston house a
crematorium, and having disinterred the remains of his third
wife and his mother, had them cremated there on the 8 and 9
Oct. 1882. These were the first cremations in England in
modern times. _Times 12 Oct. 1882 p._ 4, _5 Dec. 1883 p._ 7,
_6 Dec. p._ 7; _Trans. Cremation Soc._ 1885 _p._ 48 _with view
of the Crematorium_.

HANKEY, SIR FREDERICK (_3 son of John Hankey_). Ensign 90 foot Sep.
1800; major of 50 foot 1808, of 2 Ceylon regiment 1809, of 15 foot
1815 to 25 March 1816 when placed on h.p.; sec. to order of St.
Michael and St. George 17 Nov. 1818 to 20 June 1833; col. in the
army 27 Nov. 1825, retired Aug. 1826; sec. to government of Malta
1825 to 1838; G.C.M.G. 4 May 1833 for his services in Malta, _d._
7 Montagu sq. London 13 March 1855 aged 81.

HANKEY, HENRY AITCHISON (_son of John Peter Hankey_). _b._ 6 Oct.
1805; ensign 10 foot 26 June 1823; lieut. col. 1 dragoon guards 19
Jany. 1844 to 12 Nov. 1852; col. of 3 hussars 12 Jany. 1866, of 1
dragoon guards 1 Jany. 1872 to death; general 7 Dec. 1871. _d._
Cliff house, Sandgate 24 June 1886.

HANKEY, WILLIAM ALERS. _b._ London 15 Aug. 1771; ed. at univ. of
Edin.; head of the firm of Hankeys & Co. bankers, 7 Fenchurch st.
London; assisted in proceedings of Religious tract society
1801–1808; one of founders and conductors of British and foreign
Bible society 1804, treasurer 1801–32; A.I.C.E. 1820, treasurer
1820–45; gave evidence on slavery before house of commons 1833;
author of _Letters to Joseph Sturge relating to the Arcadia estate
in Jamaica_ 1838. _d._ 5 Hyde park gardens, London 23 March 1859.
_Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xx_, 134 (1861).

HANKINSON, MOST REV. MICHAEL ADRIAN. _b._ Warrington 29 Sep. 1817;
ordained priest at St. Edmund’s Benedictine college, Douay 1841,
sub-prior there to 1851, prior 1854–63; bishop of Port Louis,
Mauritius 1863 to death, during which time an epidemic carried off
one-sixth of the population in 3 years. _d._ Douay 21 Sep. 1870.
_Gillow’s English Catholics_ (1888) _iii_, 111–2.

HANKINSON, VEN. ROBERT EDWARDS. _b._ 1798; ed. at C.C. coll. Cam.,
B.A. 1820, M.A. 1824; R. of Halesworth, Suffolk 1850–63;
archdeacon of Norwich 1857 to death; R. of North Creake, Norfolk
1863 to death; author of _The Communion of believers, a course of
lectures_ 1838; _The call of Abraham, a Seatonian poem_ 1841. _d._
North Creake 27 March 1868 aged 70.

HANLON, THOMAS, _b._ Manchester 1836; first appeared in public as a
gymnast at the Colosseum, Liverpool; organised with his 5 brothers
gymnastic performances that have made them famous in Europe and
America; performed in U.S. of America 1858–62 and 1865–6, in
California, South America and Europe 1862–4; performed in London
and at the Exposition in Paris 1867; committed suicide at
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 5 April 1868.

HANMER, JOHN HANMER, 1 Baron (_1 child of Thomas Hanmer 1781–1818,
lieut.-col. Flintshire militia_). _b._ 22 Dec. 1809; ed. at Eton
and Ch. Ch. Ox.; succeeded his grandfather as 3 baronet 1828;
sheriff of Flintshire 1832; M.P. Shrewsbury 1832–37; M.P. Hull
1841–47; M.P. Flint district 1847–72; cr. Baron Hanmer of Hanmer
and of Flint 1 Oct. 1872; author of _Poems on various subjects_
1836; _Fra Cipolla and other poems_ 1839; _Sonnets_ 1840; _A
memoir of the family and parish of Hanmer_ 1877. _d._ Knotley
hall, Kent 8 March 1881. _St. Paul’s, x_, 368–77 (1872); _I.L.N.
lxi_, 340, 342 (1872), _portrait_.

HANMER, HENRY (_6 child of Sir Thomas Hanmer, d. 1828_). _b._ 30
April 1789; cornet royal horse guards 6 Oct. 1808, major 1826 to 4
Dec. 1832; M.P. for Aylesbury 1832–36; sheriff of Bucks. 1854;
K.H. 1837. _d._ Stockgrove near Leighton Buzzard 2 Feb. 1868.

HANN, JAMES (_son of a colliery smith_). _b._ Washington, co. Durham
1799; engineer in a Tyne towing vessel; kept schools at Gateshead
and at Friar’s Green near Newcastle; accountant in office of Isaac
Dodds, Gateshead; calculator in Nautical almanac office; writing
master King’s coll. sch. London and then mathematical master there
to death; A.I.C.E. 13 June 1843; author of _Mathematics for
practical men_ 1833; _A short treatise on the steam engine_ 1847;
_Examples on the integral calculus_ 1850 and other works. _d._
King’s coll. hospital, London 17 Aug. 1856.