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AVONMORE, BARRY NUGENT YELVERTON, 5 Viscount. _b._ 1 Randolph cliff,
Edinburgh 11 Feb. 1859; 2 lieut. 37 foot 30 Jany. 1878; lieut. 20
Feb. 1879 to death; succeeded 1 April 1883. _d._ of enteric fever
at Kerbekan in the Soudan 13 Feb. 1885. _I.L.N. lxxxvi_, 431
(1885) _portrait_.

AVORY, HENRY. _b._ 1826; articled to John Clark of London,
solicitor; clerk of indictments home circuit 1845; admitted a
solicitor Nov. 1857; deputy clerk of assize home circuit 1858 to
death; clerk of arraigns at central criminal court May 1860 to
death. _d._ 26 Ladbroke gardens, London 5 April 1881.

NOTE.—He figures in W. P. Frith’s series The race for wealth
in the 4th picture “Judgment.”

AWDRY, SIR JOHN WITHER (_2 son of John Awdry of Notton house,
Chippenham 1766–1844_). _b._ Swindon 21 Oct. 1795; ed. at
Winchester and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820, D.C.L. 1844;
fellow of Oriel coll. 1820–1830; barrister M.T. 22 Nov. 1822;
puisne judge and comr. of insolvent debtor’s court Bombay
1830–1839; knighted by patent 18 June 1830; chief justice of
supreme court of Bombay 1839–1841 when he resigned; chairman of
Wilts quarter sessions 1848 to 1866. _d._ Notton house 31 May
1878.

AYCKBOURN, HUBERT (_youngest son of Thomas Harman Ayckbourn,
barrister who d. 31 Dec. 1870 aged 94_). author of _The practice
of the high court of Chancery_ 1844, _9 ed._ 1870; _The
jurisdiction and practice of the supreme court of judicature_ 1874
_2 ed._ 1876; committed suicide 2 or 3 May 1880 aged 56.

AYLEN, JONATHAN (_son of John Aylen of Portsea_). _b._ Portsmouth 22
May 1798; entered navy 13 Feb. 1813; master 5 Sep. 1823; master
attendant at Sheerness dockyard 25 May 1849 to March 1856;
examiner in navigation and seamanship at Hull May 1856; retired
captain 25 May 1858; made several important inventions in anchors,
his improvement on the Admiralty anchor was successfully tested at
trial of anchors of all nations 1852. _d._ Welton near Brough,
Yorkshire 9 Oct. 1874. _O’Byrne_ (1861) 31–32.

AYLES, JOHN GEORGE AUGUSTUS. _b._ 1808; 2 lieut. R.M. 13 May 1828;
col. commandant 16 May 1862 to 4 Nov. 1864; M.G. 4 Nov. 1864; _d._
Clevelands Basset, Southampton 25 Nov. 1883.

AYLESFORD, HENEAGE FINCH, 5 Earl of, (_eld. son of Heneage Finch 4
Earl of Aylesford 1751–1812_). _b._ 24 April 1786; succeeded 20
Oct. 1812. _d._ Packington hall, Coventry 3 Jany. 1859.

AYLESFORD, HENEAGE FINCH, 6 Earl of. _b._ Packington hall, 24 Dec.
1824; M.P. for south Warwickshire 7 June 1849 to 21 March 1857.
_d._ Grosvenor st. London 10 Jany. 1871.

AYLESFORD, HENEAGE FINCH, 7 Earl of. _b._ Upper Brook st. London 21
Feb. 1849; entertained Prince of Wales at Packington hall Nov.
1874; a prize fight and a cock fight took place there in 1876;
effected 56 policies of insurance on his life to amount £204,830.
_d._ the Big Springs cattle ranch, Texas 13 Jany. 1885.

AYLMER, FREDERICK WHITWORTH AYLMER, 6 Baron. _b._ Twyford near
Southampton 12 Oct. 1777; captain R.N. 18 May 1805; commanded
Severn 50 guns at battle of Algiers 27 Aug. 1816; naval
aide-de-camp to Wm. iv 1830–37; V.A. 9 Nov. 1846, pensioned 1 July
1851; admiral on half pay 11 Sep. 1854; C.B. 19 Sep. 1816, K.C.B.
5 July 1855, K.F.M.; succeeded as 6 Baron 23 Feb. 1850. _d._ 20
Dawson place, Westbourne grove 5 March 1858. _O’Byrne_ (1861) p.
32.

AYLMER, SIR GERALD GEORGE, 9 Baronet. _b._ Carnarvon 15 Sep. 1798;
succeeded 23 May 1816. _d._ Donadea castle Kilcock, co. Kildare 8
Feb. 1878.

AYLMER, SIR GERALD GEORGE, 10 Baronet. _b._ Dublin 26 May 1830. _d._
25 June 1883.

AYLMER, SIR JUSTIN GERALD, 11 Baronet. _b._ 17 Nov. 1863; ed. at
Harrow and Trin. coll. Cambridge. _d._ Trinity college 15 March
1885 the result of a fall from a bicycle 3 days before.

AYLMER, SIR ARTHUR PERCY, 12 Baronet. _b._ 31 Aug. 1801; ed. at
Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826; student L.I. _d._ Cork 7
May 1885.

AYLMER, THOMAS BRABAZON. Ensign 20 foot 9 Aug. 1797; major 9 foot 4
Sep. 1807 to 25 Feb. 1816 when placed on h.p.; general 25 Sep.
1856; colonel 45 foot 25 Sep. 1856 to death. _d._ Worthing 19 July
1858 aged 76.

AYLWARD, WILLIAM. A student at R.A. of Music, gained a King’s
scholarship; professor of violoncello there; member of
Philharmonic society and of Royal Italian opera band; taught music
at Slough. _d._ 12 March 1878.

AYRE, REV. JOHN. _b._ Feb. 1801; ed. at Caius coll. Cam., B.A. 1823,
M.A. 1827; Incumbent of St. John’s chapel, Downshire hill
Hampstead; dom. chap. to Earl of Roden; general secretary and
librarian of Parker Society 1840–53; edited for Parker Society
_Sermons of Edwin Sandys, archbishop of York_ 1841; _Works of
Thomas Becon 3 vols._ 1843–44; _Works of John Jewel, bishop of
Salisbury 4 vols._ 1845–50; _Works of John Whitgift, archbishop of
Canterbury 3 vols._ 1851–53; author of _Treasury of Bible
knowledge_ 1866. _d._ Church row, Hampstead 20 May 1869.

AYRE, JOSEPH. _b._ Lynn, Norfolk 1781; sent to sea 1800; studied
medicine at Guy’s hospital and Univ. of Edin.; M.D. 24 June 1807;
practised at Hull 1808–24, in London 1824–31, and at Hull again
1831 to death; L.R.C.P. 1824, F.R.C.P. 1859; author of _Practical
observations on bilious complaint_ 1821; _Researches into the
nature and treatment of dropsy_ 1825. _d._ Hull 15 Jany. 1860.

AYRES, JOHN. _b._ 1807; clerk of the Royal Society of Literature
more than 30 years. _d._ 4 St. Martin’s place, London 9 July 1881.

AYRES, PHILIP BURNARD. _b._ Thame, Oxon 12 Dec. 1813; entered Univ.
college London Oct. 1833; L.S.A. 1836, M.R.C.S. 25 April 1836;
M.D. London 9 Dec. 1841 where he won 7 medals; practised nearly 10
years at Thame; lecturer on chemistry at Charing Cross hospital;
phys. to Islington dispensary 1851; edited _Pharmaceutical Times_;
patented a method of utilising sewage as manure 1847;
superintendent of quarantine in Mauritius 5 Jany. 1856 to death.
_d._ Champ de Mars, Port Louis, Mauritius 30 April 1863.

NOTE.—His widow presented his herbarium of Mauritius plants to
royal gardens at Kew.

AYRIS, HENRY. _b._ 12 Dec. 1805; whipper-in to the Berkeley hounds
1826; huntsman of same pack down to Dec. 1865, when presented with
a purse of 500 guineas, and granted an annuity of £100 by Lord
Fitzhardinge; the best huntsman of his day. _d._ Ham near Berkeley
28 April 1874.

AYRTON, EDWARD NUGENT. _b._ Richmond, Surrey 1815; ed. at Ealing and
Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1840; barrister L.I. 20 Nov.
1845; wrote in the Law Times. _d._ Bexhill, Sussex 28 Nov. 1873.

AYRTON, FREDERICK (_elder brother of preceding_.) _b._ London 20
March 1812; ed. at Ealing and Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Bombay
artillery 1828; captain June 1843 to 11 Sep. 1843, when he retired
on a pension; barrister M.T. 30 Jany. 1846; sec. to Abbas Pasha
viceroy of Egypt 1851 to 13 July 1854 when he died, educated
Ilhami Pasha his only son, sec. to him 1854 to his death 1861;
A.I.C.E. 9 June 1835; received title of Bey from the Khedive. _d._
Arundel gardens, Notting hill London 20 June 1873. _Min. of proc.
of Instit. of C.E. xxxviii_, 306–308 (1874).

NOTE.—He formed a magnificent collection of Arabic calligraphs
and MSS. which he bequeathed to the nation, but unfortunately
the conditions with which the bequest was accompanied,
prevented the Trustees of the British Museum accepting it.

AYRTON, MATILDA (_dau. of Mr. Chaplin._) _b._ Honfleur 1846; passed
preliminary examination at the Apothecaries’ Hall 1869 but was
refused admission to the later examination on ground of her sex;
matriculated at Univ. of Edin.; completed her education at Paris;
lived in Japan 1873–77; taught midwifery to a class of Japanese
women; M.D. Paris Dec. 1879; a licentiate of the King and Queen’s
College of Physicians in Ireland, when she came out first in the
examination; author of _Child life in Japan_ 1879; contributed
many articles to periodicals. (_m._ 1872 Wm. Edward Ayrton
professor in Imperial college of engineering, Japan). _d._ Sloane
st. London 19 July 1883. _The Englishwoman’s Review 15 Aug. 1883._

AYRTON, WILLIAM (_younger son of Edmund Ayrton 1734–1808, Master of
the chapel royal to George iii_). _b._ London 22 Feb. 1777;
Captain in Queen’s royal volunteers Westminster; musical and
literary critic of the _Morning Chronicle_ 1813–1826; chief
originator of Philharmonic society 1813; manager of Opera house
London 1817 and 1821; produced Mozart’s Don Giovanni for first
time in England 12 April 1817; edited and wrote much in the
_Harmonicon_ 1823–33; wrote the musical articles in the _Penny
Cyclopædia_ 1833–44; edited the _Sacred Minstrelsy_ 1834–35 and
the _Musical library_ 1834–36; one of the original members of
Royal institution and of the Athenæum club; F.R.S. 1 June 1837;
_d._ 9 Bridge st. Westminster 8 May 1858.

AYRTON, WILLIAM SCROPE (_only son of the preceding_). _b._ 28 April
1804; ed. at Loughborough house school; barrister M.T. 26 Nov.
1830; a registrar of Court of Bankruptcy Aug. 1838 to July 1847;
comr. of Leeds district Court of Bankruptcy 5 July 1847 to 31 Dec.
1869 when granted sum of £1800 on abolition of his office; F.S.A.
21 May 1840; author with Basil Montagu of _Reports of cases in
Bankruptcy 3 vols._ 1834–39 and of _The law and practice in
Bankruptcy 2 vols._ 1837. _d._ Cliffden, Saltburn-by-the-Sea 3 May
1885.

AYSCOUGH, JOHN (_son of John Ayscough, Capt. R.N._) _b._ on board
H.M.S. “Swan” during an action on the way from North America 1775;
captain R.N. 18 April 1806; protected Sicily against invasion of
Joachim Murat 1810; superintended the ordinary at Plymouth
1822–25; Comr. of dockyards at Jamaica and Bermuda; admiral 3 Oct.
1855; awarded good service pension, _d._ Norwood, Surrey 2 Dec.
1863. _O’Byrne_ (1861) 33–34.

AYTOUN, ROBERT. _b._ Edinburgh 1799; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; a writer
to the Signet; member of Royal Scottish society of arts 1826; read
many papers; A.I.C.E. 1839; invented a safety cage for mines
exhibited at great exhibition 1862. _d._ 9 Sep. 1876.

AYTOUN, WILLIAM EDMONDSTOUNE. _b._ 21 Abercromby place, Edin. 21
June 1813; ed. at academy and univ. of Edin.; M.A. 1849; a writer
to the Signet 1835; an advocate 1840; on the staff of Blackwood’s
magazine 1839 to death, contributed more than 120 articles;
professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in Univ. of Edin. 22 Oct.
1845 to 1864, during which time he raised number of students from
30 to 1850; sheriff of Orkney and Zetland 29 May 1852; delivered 6
lectures on poetry and dramatic literature at Willis’s Rooms,
London 1853; presided at Burns centenary festival at Ayr 25 Jany.
1859; hon. pres. of associated societies of Univ. of Edin. 1860;
author of _Poland, Homer and other poems_ [_anon._] 1832; _Lays of
the Scottish cavaliers and other poems_ 1848, _29 ed._ 1883;
_Firmilian or the student of Badajoz, a spasmodic tragedy by T.
Percy Jones_ [_pseud._] 1854; _Bon Gaultier ballads_ (with T.
Martin) 1855, _13 ed._ 1877; _Bothwell, a poem in six parts_ 1856;
edited _The ballads of Scotland 2 vols._ 1858, 4 ed. 1870. _d._
Blackhills near Elgin 4 Aug. 1865. _Theodore Martin’s Memoir of W.
E. Aytoun_ 1867, _portrait_; _Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ 1882,
_portrait_.

B

BABBAGE, BENJAMIN HERSCHELL (_eld. son of the succeeding_).
Geologist of colony of South Australia; examined the country north
and east of Adelaide for gold 1856; commanded an exploring party
sent by Parliament of South Australia to Lake Torrens Feb. 1858 to
5 Nov. 1858. _d._ Adelaide 22 Oct. 1878 aged 63. _W. Howitt’s
History of discovery ii_, 311–24 (1865); _Rev. J. E. T. Wood’s
History of discovery ii_, 260–79 (1865).

BABBAGE, CHARLES (_son of Benjamin Babbage of London, banker_). _b._
near Teignmouth, Devon 26 Dec. 1792; ed. at Enfield and Trinity
and Peterhouse colleges Cam., B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817; F.R.S. 14
March 1816; a founder of Royal Astronomical Society 1820, one of
its secs. 1820–24, vice pres., foreign sec and member of council
successively; began his calculating machine 1823, suspended its
construction 1833, after spending on it about £6,000 besides
£17,000 granted him by Government; Lucasian professor of
mathematics at Cambridge 1828–39 but delivered no lectures; a
founder of British Association 1831, a trustee 1832–38, originated
the statistical section at Cambridge meeting 1833; contested
Finsbury as a radical Dec. 1832 and June 1834; chief founder of
Statistical Society 15 March 1834, chairman 1835; author of _Table
of logarithms of the natural numbers from 1 to 108,000_, 1827;
_The decline of science in England_ 1830; _On the economy of
manufactures_ 1832, _4 ed._ 1835; _The ninth Bridgewater treatise_
1837, _2 ed._ 1838. _d._ 1 Dorset st. Portman sq. 18 Oct. 1871.
_Babbage’s Passages from the life of a philosopher_ 1864; _Monthly
notices of R. Astronom. soc. xxxii_, 101–109 (1872); _C. R. Weld’s
History of royal society ii_, 369–91 (1848); _Edinburgh Review
lix_, 263–327 (1834); _Journal of statistical soc. xxxiv_, 411–15
(1871); _I.L.N. lix_, 423 (1871), _portrait_; _Graphic iv_, 495
(1871), _portrait_.

BABER, REV. HENRY HERVEY (_son of Thomas Baber of London,
barrister_). _b._ 22 Aug. 1775; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. and All
Soul’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1799, M.A. 1805; sub librarian of the
Bodleian 1796; assistant librarian at British Museum 1807 and
keeper of Printed books 1812–37; vice principal of St. Mary’s hall
Ox. 1805; C. of St. Mary the Virgin Ox. 1805; R. of Stretham with
Thetford, Cambridge 1827; F.R.S. 23 May 1816; one of founders of
Royal society of literature 2 June 1823 which received a charter
13 Sep. 1826; editor of _Vetus testamentum Græcum e codice MS.
Alexandrino_, _4 vols._ 1816–28. _d._ Stretham rectory 28 March
1868.

BABINGTON, BENJAMIN GUY (_son of Wm. Babington of London, physician
1756–1833_). _b._ Guy’s Hospital 1794; ed. at the Charterhouse
1803–1807; midshipman R.N., served at Walcheren and Copenhagen
1809; in the Madras medical service 1812–19; studied at Guy’s
Hospital and Pemb. coll. Cam., M.B. 1825, M.L. 1827, M.D. 1830,
F.R.C.P. 1831; delivered Croonian and Lumleian lectures; F.R.S. 13
March 1828, on the council 1861–63; assistant phys. to Guy’s
Hospital 1837 and phys. 1840–55; a founder of Sydenham Society
1843, treasurer 1843–58 when society was dissolved; chief founder
of Epidemiological society Aug. 1850, pres. 1850–64; pres. of
Royal Medical and Chirurgical society 1861; invented the
Laryngoscope, made for him by an optician called Elsworthy and
exhibited at Hunterian Society 18 March 1829; took out patents for
pens 1843, and for preventing incrustation of boilers 1850; author
of _Passing thoughts in sonnet_ [_anon._] 1855. _d._ 31 George st.
Hanover sq. 8 April 1866 in 73 year. _Trans. of Epidemiological
Society ii_, 160–67 _and_ 471–76 (1865–67).

BABINGTON, CORNELIUS METCALFE STUART. _b._ India 1816; M.R.C.S.
1838, M.R.C.P. 1849, F.R.C.P. 1857; surgeon accoucheur to St.
George’s and St. James’s dispensary London; phys. to Queen
Charlotte’s Lying-in-hospital 1850 to death; a founder of
Obstetrical Society 16 Dec. 1858, vice pres. 2 Jany. 1861. _d._
Hertford st. London 25 Jany. 1862. _Proc. of Royal Med. and Chir.
society iv_, 86–88 (1864).

BABINGTON, DAVID. Entered Madras army 1820; brigadier general in
command of Malabar and Canara 17 Jany. 1862 to 3 Feb. 1865; L.G.
16 May 1872. _d._ Clifton 12 Aug. 1874.

BABINGTON, GEORGE GISBORNE. _b._ 22 Jany. 1794; M.R.C.S. 1816,
F.R.C.S. 1843; practised at Golden sq. London; surgeon to St.
George’s hospital; delivered Hunterian oration at Royal college of
surgeons 14 Feb. 1842. _d._ 13 Queen’s gardens, Hyde park 1 Jany.
1856.

BABINGTON, WILLIAM KNOX. Brigadier general commanding northern
district of Madras 29 Nov. 1867 to 1 Dec. 1868; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877.
_d._ 48 Oxford terrace, Hyde Park 31 July 1878.

BABY, DANIEL. Ensign 24 foot 9 Nov. 1797; captain 6 Aug. 1806 to 1
June 1826 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 31 Aug. 1855. _d._ 15 April
1858.

BACHE, FRANCIS EDWARD (_eld. child of the succeeding_). _b._
Birmingham 14 Sep. 1833; pupil of Alfred Mellon; played violin in
orchestra at Birmingham festivals 1846 and 1847; organist at All
Saint’s Church Gordon sq. London Oct. 1850 to Oct. 1853; his first
Overture was performed at Adelphi theatre Nov. 1850; composed many
pianoforte pieces and songs; designed the organ in Hope st.
church, Liverpool. _d._ Frederick st. Edgbaston, Birmingham 24
Aug. 1858. _The Christian Reformer xiv_, 713–19 (1858).

BACHE, REV. SAMUEL. _b._ Bridgnorth 24 Dec. 1804; assistant in
school of Rev. Lant Carpenter at Bristol; ed. at Manchester
college, York 1826–29; unitarian minister at the old meeting
Dudley 1829–32 and at the new meeting Moor st. Birmingham 1832–62
when it was sold and congregation moved to Church of the Messiah,
Broad st. where he was minister 1862–68; kept a school at
Birmingham many years; author of _Harmony of science and
revelation_ 1839; _Exposition of Unitarian views of Christianity_
1854; _Miracles the credentials of the Christ_ 1863 and 19 other
publications, none of which are mentioned in _The English
catalogue of books_, or _Allibone’s Dictionary_. _d._ Gloucester 7
Jany. 1876. _Beale’s Memorials of old meeting house Birmingham_
1882.

BACHHOFFNER, GEORGE HENRY. _b._ London 13 April 1810; originated and
suggested scheme of Royal Polytechnic Institution, which was
opened 6 Aug. 1838, principal in department of natural and
experimental philosophy there, Aug. 1838 to Aug. 1855; one of
district registrars of Marylebone parish 1837, and superintendent
registrar 1853 to death; lessee and manager of Royal Colosseum,
Dec. 1856 to 16 Feb. 1864, when it closed for ever; professor of
natural philosophy at Elizabeth college, Guernsey; invented the
Polytechnic gas fire 1850; author of _Chemistry as applied to the
fine arts_ 1837. _d._ 78 The Grove, Hammersmith 22 July 1879.

BACK, SIR GEORGE (_son of John Back of Stockport, Cheshire_). _b._
Stockport 6 Nov. 1796; midshipman R.N. Sep. 1808; a prisoner at
Verdun in France 1809–14; went with Franklin to the Spitzbergen
seas 1818, along Arctic coast of America 1819–22, and to Mackenzie
river 1825–27; conducted overland Arctic expedition 1833–35, when
he travelled 7500 miles, and discovered the Back or Great Fish
river; captain by order in council 30 Sep. 1835, an honour which
no other officer in the navy had received except William iv;
commanded the Terror in expedition to the frigid zone 1836–37;
knighted by the Queen at St. James’s palace 6 March 1839; F.R.G.S.
1836, Founder’s gold medallist 1836; F.R.S. 7 Jany. 1847; gold
medallist of Geographical Society of Paris; pres. of the Raleigh
club 1844; awarded good service pension 21 Jany. 1854; D.C.L.
Oxford 28 June 1854; admiral on h.p. 18 Oct. 1867; author of
_Narrative of the Arctic land expedition to the mouth of the Great
Fish river_ 1836; _Narrative of an expedition in H.M.S. Terror_
1838. (_m._ 13 Oct. 1846 Theodosia Elizabeth, widow of Anthony
Hammond of Savile row, London, she _d._ 6 Jany. 1861). _d._ 109
Gloucester place, Portman sq. 23 June 1878. _Geographical mag. v_,
179–81 (1878); _I.L.N. lxxii_, 4 (1878) _portrait_; _Graphic
xviii_, 116 (1878) _portrait_.

BACK, WILLIAM. _b._ Surrey; ed. at Guy’s hosp. and Univ. of Edin.;
M.D. 24 June 1808; L.C.P. 22 Dec. 1814; Physician to Guy’s hosp.
17 March 1819 to 1840. _d._ New Park road, Clapham park 6 Nov.
1856 aged 74.

BACKHOUSE, EDWARD (_son of Edward Backhouse of Darlington_). _b._
Darlington 1808; a banker at Sunderland, and a partner in
colleries; an Elder of Society of Friends 1854 to death; erected a
large mission hall at Sunderland; author of _The religious society
of Friends_ 1870. _d._ Hastings 22 May 1879. _Early church history
compiled by the late E. Backhouse, edited by C. Tylor_ 1884,
_portrait_.

BACKHOUSE, GEORGE CANNING. Clerk in the Foreign Office 5 April 1838;
commissary judge at Havannah 16 Dec. 1852 to death; murdered at
Havannah 30 Aug. 1856 aged 37; a civil list pension of £100
granted his widow 15 Nov. 1856.

BACKHOUSE, JAMES. _b._ 8 July 1794; ed. at Leeds; minister of
Society of Friends 1824; missionary to Australia and South Africa
1831–41; author of _A narrative of a visit to the Australian
colonies_ 1843; _A narrative of a visit to the Mauritius and South
Africa_ 1844 and many small books. _d._ Holdgate house, York 20
Jany. 1869. _Memoir of James Backhouse by his sister_ 1870;
_Smith’s Friends’ Books i_, 152–56 (1867).

BACON, ANTHONY. Cornet 16 Lancers 13 Aug. 1812; lieut. 13 Dragoons
1818–1821 when placed on h.p.; commanded the whole cavalry of
Queen Dona Maria of Portugal 1832–34; created General on field of
battle at Loures by Emperor Don Pedro in person 12 Oct. 1833;
K.T.S. _d._ Crondall near Farnham 2 July 1864 aged 68. _Sketches
in Portugal by J. E. Alexander_ (1835) 120, 245.

BACON, CHARLOTTE MARY (_2 dau. of Edward Harley, 5 Earl of Oxford
1773–1848_). _b._ Harley st. London 12 Dec. 1801; Lord Byron
dedicated his _Childe Harold_ to her under name of Ianthe 1812.
(_m._ 1823 general Anthony Bacon). _d._ 13 Stanhope place, Hyde
park 9 March 1880. _Finden’s Illustrations of Lord Byron vol. ii_,
(1833), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxvi_, 292 (1880), _portrait_.

BACON, SIR EDMUND, 9 Baronet of Redgrave and 10 Baronet of
Mildenhall. _b._ Raveningham, Beccles, Norfolk 16 July 1779;
succeeded his father as Premier Baronet of England 5 Sep. 1820.
_d._ Raveningham 30 May 1864.

BACON, GEORGE PETER (_younger son of R. M. Bacon of Norwich, editor
of the Norwich Mercury_). Bought the Sussex Advertiser 1843, wrote
all the leading articles and edited the paper to his death; sec.
of Hop excise duty repeal association 1858 to April 1862 when duty
which yielded £750,000 a year was taken off. _d._ 64 High st.
Lewes 15 March 1878 in 72 year. _I.L.N. xlii_, 641 (1863).

BACON, SIR HENRY HICKMAN, 10 and 11 Baronet. _b._ Blundeston near
Lowestoft 5 April 1820; succeeded 30 May 1864; sheriff of Lincoln
1867. _d._ Thonock hall, Gainsborough 14 Nov. 1872.

BACON, JOHN (_2 son of John Bacon, R.A. sculptor 1740–99_). _b._
Newman st. Oxford st. London March 1777; completed his father’s
works; exhibited 64 sculptures at the R.A. 1792–1824; executed
statue of Wm. iii in St. James’s sq. 1808; 6 monuments in St.
Paul’s and 11 monuments in Westminster Abbey. _d._ Bathwick hill
near Bath 14 July 1859.

BACON, REV. ROBERT. ed. at Univ. of Glasgow LLD. 1800, and Em. coll.
Cam. LL.B. 1806; C. of Hunstanton 1802–42; C. of Sedgeford
1809–32; P.C. of Fring, Norfolk 16 Feb. 1809 to death; R. of
Wolverton, Norfolk 1836 to death; author of _Poems_, 1790;
_Treatise on Baptism_ 1827; _Theological essays_ 1829. _d._ 1861.

BACOT, JOHN. _b._ 29 May 1781; M.R.C.S. 1801, F.R.C.S. 1843;
assistant surgeon Grenadier Guards 1803–20; practised in London
1820; edited with Roderick Mc Cleod _Medical and Physical
journal_; chairman of Court of examiners of Society of
Apothecaries 1832–38, master of the company 1845–46; member of
General board of Health 1854; author of _Observations on the use
and abuse of friction_ 1822 and _A treatise on Syphilis_ 1829.
_d._ 4 Portugal st. Park lane 4 Sep. 1870. _Medical Circular i_,
130 (1852).

BADDELEY, JOHN. _b._ at sea in Bay of Bengal 22 Jany. 1846; taken to
England 1851; ed. at Bonn and Univ. of Edin.; M.B. 1867; founded
Athletic club of Univ. of Edin. May 1867, pres. 1867–68; fellow of
Botanical society of Edin. 14 Dec. 1865; member of Royal Medical
Society 23 Nov. 1866. _d._ Royal Infirmary Edin. 29 Feb. 1868.
_Transactions of Botanical Society ix_, 304–12 (1868).

BADDELEY, WILLIAM. Civil engineer; made many improvements in manual
fire engines 1820–62; invented portable cistern used by London
Fire Brigade. _d._ March 1867 aged 61.

BADELEY, EDWARD LOWTH (_son of John Badeley M.D. of Leighs hall,
near Chelmsford 1742–1831_). _b._ 1803; ed. at Brasen. coll. Ox.;
B.A. 1823, M.A. 1828; barrister I.T. 29 Jany. 1841; counsel for
Bishop of Exeter in Gorham case before judicial committee of P.C.
17–18 Dec. 1849; joined Church of Rome 1850; author of _The
privilege of religious confessions in English courts of justice_
1865. _d._ 29 March 1868. _Memoir of J. R. Hope Scott 2 vols._
1884.

BADELEY, JOHN CARR (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 1794; ed. at
the Charterhouse and Caius coll. Cam.; M.B. 1817, M.D. 1822;
F.R.C.P.; phys. to Asylum for health Lisson Grove, London; phys.
to Chelmsford dispensary 20 years; inspecting phys. to lunatic
asylums of Essex; Harveian orator 1849; poisoned himself
accidentally at Guy Harlings, Chelmsford 22 Sep. 1851.

BADEN, MAUDIT OR MARDIT. _b._ Pewsey, Wilts Feb. 1763 or 1773. _d._
Oare, parish of Wilcot, Wilts 11 May 1869. _Human longevity by W.
J. Thoms_ (1873) 129–31.

BADGER-EASTWOOD, Thomas Smith (_eld son of Thomas Badger of
Rotherham, solicitor 1793–1862_). _b._ 1823; ed. at Doncaster gr.
sch. and Trin. hall Cam., B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849; barrister M.T. 29
Jany. 1847; reader on real property law to 4 Inns of Court 1856 to
death; assumed surname of Eastwood 1863; edited _Concise forms of
wills by W. Hayes and T. Jarman 5 ed._ 1860. _d._ 28 Gloucester
place, Hyde park gardens 30 May 1866.

BADGLEY, FRANCIS. L.R.C.S. Edin. 1827, M.D. Edin. 1829, L.S.A. 1830;
M.R.C.P. London 1860; a phys. at Kensington 1829–42, at Montreal
1842–59 and at Malvern 1860 to death; fellow of Royal medical and
chirurgical society 1838; M.D. Univ. of Toronto 1851; professor of
medical jurisprudence in Mc Gill college; professor of medicine in
medical school of Montreal; professor of medicine in Univ. of
Toronto 1851; founded _Montreal Medical Gazette_ 1844, edited it
1844–45. _d._ Holyrood house, Great Malvern 24 Dec. 1863 aged 56.

BADGLEY, W. _b._ Montreal 1801; called to Canadian bar 1823; sec. of
Constitutional Association of Montreal district 1836–38; one of
three delegates of this Association to England 1837–38; comr. of
bankrupts for district of Montreal 1840 to April 1847; circuit
judge July 1844 to April 1847; attorney general for Lower Canada
April 1847; member of the provincial parliament May 1847 to 1855;
puisne judge Lower Canada Jany. 1855 to 1876; Grand master of
Freemasons for Montreal. _d._ 1876. _H. J. Morgan’s Sketches of
eminent Canadians_ (1862) 492–97.

BADHAM, REV. CHARLES. ed. at Em. coll. Cam., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1846;
V. of All Saints Sudbury, Suffolk 1847 to death; author of
_Selections from Robert Hall_ 1840; _Aids to devotion_ 1843;
_History of All Saints, Sudbury_ 1852. _d._ All Saints vicarage,
Sudbury 15 April 1874.

BADHAM, REV. CHARLES (_son of Charles Badham 1780–1845, Regius
professor of physics in Univ. of Glasgow_). _b._ Ludlow 18 July
1813; ed. by Jean Henri Pestalozzi; at Eton 1826; scholar of
Wadham coll. Ox. 1830, B.A. 1837, M.A. 1839; studied in Germany
and Italy 7 years; incorporated M.A. at Cam. as member of St.
Peter’s college 1847, D.D. Cam. 1852; headmaster of Birmingham
proprietary school 1854–67; professor of classics and logic in
Univ. of Sydney 1867 to death; one of greatest scholars of his
time; author of _Criticism applied to Shakespeare_ 1846; published
editions with notes of the _Ion of Euripides_ 1851, 1853 and 1861;
and of the _Philebus of Plato_ 1855 and 1878. _d._ Sydney 26 Feb.
1884. _Saturday Review lvii_, 540 (1884).

BADHAM, REV. CHARLES DAVID (_brother of preceding_). _b._ London
1806; ed. at Eton and Em. coll. Cam., B.A. 1826; incorporated B.A.
at Ox. as mem. of Pemb. coll. 1829, M.A. 1829, M.B. 1830, M.D.
1833; travelling fellow of Univ. of Ox. 1829; M.R.C.P., F.R.C.P.;
practised at Rome and Paris long time; returned to England 1845;
ordained deacon at Norwich by Bishop Stanley; C. of East Bergholt,
Suffolk 1849–55; author of _Insect life_ 1845; _The esculent
funguses of England_ 1847; _Prose Halieutics or ancient and modern
fish tattle_ 1854; contributed much to _Blackwood_ and _Fraser_.
_d._ East Bergholt 14 July 1857 in 52 year. _Fraser’s Mag. lvi_,
162–63 (1857).

BAGEHOT, WALTER (_only son of Thomas Watson Bagehot of Herds Bill
Langport, Somerset 1796–1881_). _b._ Langport 3 Feb. 1826; ed. at
Bristol and Univ. coll. London, B.A. 1846, M.A. 1848, mathematical
scholar 1846, gold medallist 1848; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1852;
edited the _National Review_ with R. H. Hutton July 1855 to Nov.
1864; edited the _Economist_ 1860 to death; examiner in political
economy in Univ. of London; author of _Estimates of some
Englishmen and Scotchmen_ 1858; _The English constitution_ 1867;
_Physics and Politics_ 1872. (_m._ 21 April 1858 Eliza eld. dau.
of James Wilson, M.P.) _d._ Herds Hill 24 March 1877. _Literary
studies by the late W. Bagehot, edited by R. H. Hutton, 3 ed. i,
ix-lxvii_ (1884), _portrait_; _Dictionary of Nat. Biog. ii_,
393–96 (1885).

BAGG, WILLIAM. Surgical artist; illustrated many medical books. _d._
20 Dec. 1869 in his 66 year.

BAGGE, REV. HENRY THEODORE JAMES (_only son of the succeeding_).
_b._ 28 Feb. 1824; ed. at Rugby and Downing coll. Cam., B.A. 1851;
C. of Weyhill, Hants 1851–54; author of _Toleratio intolerabilis
or the free development of the Romish system_ 1851; _St. Paul’s
Epistle to the Galatians, the text revised and illustrated_ 1856.
_d._ Munich 19 Nov. 1861.

BAGGE, REV. JAMES. ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; B.A. 1814, M.A.
1818; R. of Crux-Easton near Newbury 1843 to death; author of
_Twelve sermons_ 1835; _The Gawthorne correspondence and the Rev.
W. B. Barter_ 1852, and other Sermons and Pamphlets. _d._ 1877.

BAGGE, SIR WILLIAM, 1 Baronet (_eld. son of Thomas Philip Bagge of
Stradsett hall, Norfolk 1771–1827_). _b._ Stradsett hall 17 June
1810; ed. at the Charterhouse and Ball. coll. Ox.; M.P. for West
Norfolk 1837–57 and 1865 to death; created baronet 13 April 1867.
_d._ Stradsett hall 12 Feb. 1880.

BAGGE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY ERNEST, 2 Baronet. _b._ Stradsett hall 9
Aug. 1840. _d._ Heatherside, Woking 23 Oct. 1881.

BAGLEY, JAMES. _b._ Ireland 1822; went to the U.S.; commanded 69th
Regiment 1862–66; alderman of New York; Sachem of the Tammany
society to death. _d._ New York 21 Dec. 1876.

BAGLEY, JOHN WOODHOUSE. Made many important improvements in the
bobbin net machine for which he took out patents 1844, 1850 and
1851; his productions were shewn in the London exhibition of 1851
and the Paris exhibition of 1855. _d._ 1859 aged about 50. _W.
Felkin’s History of hosiery_ (1867) 371–75.

BAGNALL, CHARLES. _b._ West Bromwich, Staffs. 1827; an ironmaster;
M.P. for Whitby 1865–68. _d._ Brighton 25 Feb. 1884.

BAGNALL, JOHN NOCK. _b._ Hateley Heath, West Bromwich 30 May 1826;
member of firm of John Bagnall and Sons of the Gold’s Hill Iron
works (where most of the rails used on foreign lines were made)
1844–61; captain of Bilston rifle corps which he raised 26 Jany.
1860, commanded Wolverhampton battalion 9 Nov. 1868 to March 1884;
pres. of South Staffordshire branch of the English Church Union;
licensed by Bishop Selwyn as a lay deacon in diocese of Lichfield
1872, took charge of St. Mary’s, Hateley Heath; sheriff of Staffs.
1875–76; author of _A history of Wednesbury in the county of
Stafford [anon.]_ 1854. _d._ The Moss Shenstone, Staffs. 18 Oct.
1884. _John Nock Bagnall A memoir by his daughter Mary Willett_
1885, _portrait_.

BAGNOLD, MICHAEL. Entered Bombay army 1803; colonel 29 Bombay N.I.
21 Jany. 1846 to death; M.G. 20 June 1854. _d._ Upper Hamilton
terrace, St. John’s Wood, London 1 Dec. 1857 aged 71.

BAGOT, WILLIAM BAGOT, 2 Baron (_3 son of Wm. Bagot, 1 Baron Bagot
1728–98_). _b._ Bruton st. London 11 Sep. 1773; ed. at Westminster
and Ch. Ch. Ox.; succeeded 22 Oct. 1798; author of _Memorials of
the Bagot family_ 1823. _d._ Blithfield near Stafford 12 Feb.
1856. _Memorials of the Bagot family_ 1823, _portrait_.

BAGOT, ALAN (_2 son of the succeeding_). _b._ 1 June 1856; M.I.M.E.,
F.C.S., F.S.A.; invented several apparatus for saving life and
preventing accidents in mines; author of _Accidents in mines_
1878; _The principles and practice of colliery ventilation_ 1879,
_2 ed._ 1882; _Principles of civil engineering_ 1885. _d._
Bournemouth April 1885.

BAGOT, CHARLES. _b._ 20 May 1808; captain grenadier guards 15 May
1840; lieut. col. 3 Stafford militia 5 April 1853 and col. 27
March 1858 to death; assistant master of ceremonies in Royal
household 1861 to death. _d._ 49 Cadogan place, London 20 Feb.
1881.

BAGOT, REV. CHARLES WALTER (_3 son of Right Rev. Richard Bagot
1782–1854_). _b._ 11 Feb. 1812; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1834,
M.A. 1842; fellow of All Souls college 1842–46; R. of
Castle-Rising, Norfolk 1846 to death; chancellor of diocese of
Bath and Wells 1851 to death. _d._ 10 Sep. 1884.

BAGOT, HENRY. _b._ 12 July 1810; entered navy 13 May 1823; admiral
on h.p. 22 Jany. 1877. _d._ Brewood hall, Stafford 30 Nov. 1877.

BAGOT, RIGHT REV. RICHARD (_6 son of Wm. Bagot, 1 Baron Bagot
1728–98_). _b._ Daventry 22 Nov. 1782; ed. at Rugby and Ch. Ch.
Ox. B.A. 1803, M.A. 1806, D.D. by diploma 30 Nov. 1829; fellow of
All Souls college 1804–1806; R. of Leigh, Staffs. 1806; R. of
Blithfield 1807; canon of Worcester 16 July 1817; canon of Windsor
25 March 1822; dean of Canterbury 2 Sep. 1827 to Nov. 1845;
elected Bishop of Oxford 13 July 1829, confirmed 22 and
consecrated 23 Aug.; Bishop of Bath and Wells 6 Nov. 1845 to
death; his see was administered for a time by Right Rev. James
Henry Monk, bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. _d._ Brighton 15 May
1854. _Rev. W. Palmer’s Events connected with publication of
Tracts for the times_ 1883.

BAGSHAW, HENRY RIDGARD (_2 son of Sir Wm. Chambers Darling
afterwards Bagshaw of Sheffield, physician 1771–1832_). _b._ 1
Nov. 1799; ed. at Oakham and Richmond gr. schs. and Trin. coll.
Cam., B.A. 1822; barrister M.T. 25 Nov. 1825, bencher Dec. 1854,
treasurer 1864–65; Q.C. Dec. 1854; judge of county courts of
Cardigan, Carmarthen and Pembroke (circuit 31) 30 Oct. 1861 and of
Clerkenwell district (circuit 41) June 1868 to death. _d._ 21
Fellow’s road, Eton park south Hampstead 16 May 1870.

BAGSHAW, JOHN. _b._ 1784; ed. at Rugby; a banker and merchant at
Calcutta; M.P. for Sudbury 1835 to 1837 and for Harwich 1847 to
1852 and 1853 to 1859; high steward of Harwich, _d._ Norwood 20
Dec. 1861.

BAGSHAW, ROBERT JOHN. _b._ 1803; a merchant at Calcutta; M.P. for
Harwich 9 Dec. 1857 to 23 April 1859; sheriff of Essex 1873 _d._
42 Gloucester square, London 11 Aug. 1878.

BAGSHAWE, WILLIAM LEONARD GILL. _b._ 18 Oct. 1828; ed. at Eton and
Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1851; rowed No. 5 in Cambridge boat against
Oxford 29 March 1849 and 15 Dec. 1849; the best oarsman on the
river Cam.; killed by poachers at Wormhill hall, near Tideswell 20
July 1854. _Annual Register_ (1854) 430–34.

BAGSTER, SAMUEL (_2 son of George Bagster of Beaufort buildings,
Strand, London_). _b._ 26 Dec. 1772; bookseller in the Strand
1794–1816, in Paternoster Row 1816 to death; published _The
English version of the polyglott Bible_ 1816; _Biblia sacra
polyglotta Bagsteriana_, 4 vols. 1817–28; _The English Hexapla_
1841 giving six most important English versions of New Testament;
and many Bibles and Prayer Books in foreign languages. (_m._ 19
Dec. 1797 Eunice Birch, she was _b._ 23 Aug. 1777 and _d._ 22 Aug.
1877). _d._ Old Windsor 28 March 1851.

BAGWELL, JOHN (_eld son of Very Rev. Richard Bagwell, dean of
Clogher who d. 25 Dec. 1825_). _b._ Clogher, co. Tyrone 3 April
1811; ed. at Winchester; sheriff of Tipperary 1834; M.P. for
Clonmel 30 March 1857 to 26 Jany. 1874; a lord of the treasury
June 1859 to July 1861. _d._ Marlfield, Clonmel 2 March 1883.

BAIGRIE, ROBERT (_son of John Baigrie of Fearn, Rossshire_). Entered
Bombay army 3 Feb. 1848; major staff corps 3 Feb. 1868;
quartermaster general Bombay army to 1874; commandant 28 N.I. 20
May 1876 to death; C.B. 24 May 1873. _d._ Poona 25 Sep. 1877.
_I.L.N. lxxi_, 481, 482 (1877), _portrait_.

BAIKIE, WILLIAM BALFOUR (_eld son of John Baikie captain R.N._).
_b._ Kirkwall, Orkney 27 Aug. 1825; ed. at Kirkwall gr. sch. and
Univ. of Edin., M.D.; assistant surgeon R.N. 1848; surgeon and
naturalist to expedition to the river Niger 1854; commanded
expedition to river Niger 1 April 1857; author of _Narrative of an
exploring voyage up the river Niger_ 1856. _d._ at house of
Charles Heddle, Sierra Leone 12 Dec. 1864. _Journal of royal
geographical society xxxv_, 123 (1865); _I.L.N. xlvi_, 88 (1865),
_portrait_.

BAILES, WILLIAM HAIGH. _b._ 1821; solicitor at Boston 1843 to death;
member of Boston town council 1863–72, alderman 1872, mayor 1873.
_d._ 14 April 1885.

BAILEY, REV. BENJAMIN. V. of Dallington, Northampton 1819; senior
chaplain in Ceylon; archdeacon of Colombo 1852 to death. _d._
Nottingham place, Marylebone 25 June 1853 aged 62.

BAILEY, CRAWSHAY. _b._ Wenham, Suffolk 24 Oct. 1789; an ironmaster
in South Wales; sheriff of Brecon 1835, of Monmouth 1850; took out
a patent for railway rails 1843; M.P. for Monmouth 1852–68. _d._
Llanfoist near Abergavenny 9 Jany. 1872.

BAILEY, FANNY (_dau. of John Mitchell of Ferring, Sussex, farmer_).
_b._ Ferring 7 Aug. 1777. _d._ Christchurch schools, Worthing 6
April 1881 aged 103 years and 8 months. _I.L.N. lxxviii_ 440
(1881), _portrait_; _N. and Q. 5 S. viii_, 265 (1877), _xii_, 407
(1879), 6 _S. iii_, 485 (1881).

BAILEY, JAMES. Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1814, M.A. 1823; head
master of Perse’s Free school Cam.; granted a Civil list pension
of £100, 30 Oct. 1850; edited _Forcellini’s Latin dictionary 2
vols._ 1826; author of _Comicorum Græcorum fragmenta_ 1840. _d._
London 13 Feb. 1864.

BAILEY, SIR JOSEPH, 1 Baronet (_elder son of Joseph Bailey of
Wakefield 1747–1813_). _b._ Great Wenham priory, Suffolk 21 Jany.
1783; an ironmaster in Brecknock and Monmouth; chairman of
Birkenhead docks company; sheriff of Monmouth 1823; M.P. for
Worcester 1835–47 and for Brecknockshire 1847 to death; created a
baronet 5 July 1852. _d._ Glanusk park, Brecknockshire 20 Nov.
1858.

BAILEY, SAMUEL. _b._ Sheffield 1791; one of the trustees of
Sheffield 1828; a founder of Sheffield Banking company 1831, and
chairman; contested Sheffield 14 Dec. 1832 and 12 Jany. 1835; his
supporters founded a Bailey club; pres. of Sheffield Literary and
Philosophical society several times; author of _Essays on the
formation and publication of opinions_ 1821, _3 ed._ 1831;
_Critical dissertation on the nature, measure, and causes of
Value_ 1825; _Maro or poetic irritability in four cantos [anon.]_
1845; _The theory of reasoning_ 1851, _2 ed._ 1852; _Letters on
the philosophy of the human mind_, _3 series_, 1855–1863. _d._
Norbury near Sheffield 18 Jany. 1870, left about £90,000 for
benefit of that town. _English psychology translated from the
French of T. Ribot_ (1873) 315–22; _British Controversialist July
1868 pp._ 1–25; _N. and Q. 5 S. ix_ 182–85, 216 (1878).

BAILEY, THOMAS. _b._ Nottingham 31 July 1785; a silk hosier there,
then a wine merchant; contested Nottingham July 1830; member of
town council 26 Dec. 1835 to 1843; proprietor and editor of
_Nottingham Mercury_ 1846–52; author of _What is life, and other
poems_ 1820; _Recreations in retirement_ 1836; _Annals of
Nottinghamshire 4 vols._ 1852–55, originally published in 32
shilling parts; _Records of Longevity_ 1857, and 9 other books.
_d._ Old Bassford near Nottingham 23 Oct. 1856. _C. Brown’s
Nottinghamshire Worthies_ (1882) 341–50.

NOTE.—While connected with the Independents, he was one of
three individuals chosen to take part in a public disputation
arranged to be held in Nottingham between the friends of
Christianity and Richard Carlisle, the champion of infidelity
who _d._ 10 Feb. 1843 aged 52.

BAILHACHE, REV. CLEMENT. _b._ St. Heliers Jersey 11 Dec. 1830; ed.
at Stepney college 1851; minister of Baptist chapel, South parade,
Leeds 1855; minister at Watford 1859, at Cross st. Islington 1864;
association sec. of Baptist mission Oct. 1870; sec. of Baptist
missionary society 1876 to death. _d._ 6, Leigh road, Highbury 13
Dec. 1878. _Baptist handbook_ (1879) 296–98.

BAILLIE, ALFRED. _b._ London 22 June 1830; hon. sec. of Marylebone
cricket club May 1858 to 12 Feb. 1863. _d._ May or June 1867.

BAILLIE, AGNES (_elder sister of Joanna Baillie_). _b._ 24 Sep.
1760. _d._ Hollybush hill, Hampstead 27 April 1861 aged 100 years
and 7 months.

BAILLIE, EDWARD. _b._ Gateshead; a glass painter; exhibited at Great
Exhibition of 1851 “Shakespeare reading a play to Queen
Elizabeth.” _d._ London 21 Sep. 1856 aged 43.

BAILLIE, GEORGE ALEXANDER. _b._ 1804; ensign 15 Madras N.I. 6 April
1820; lieut. col. of 52 N.I. 9 June 1853, of 14 N.I. 15 Sep. 1855,
and of 26 N.I. 1857–64; col. 15 N.I. 9 June 1865 to 1 Oct. 1877;
general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ 92 Westbourne park road, London 3 March
1882.

BAILLIE, HUGH DUNCAN. _b._ 1777; M.P. for Rye 1830–31 and for
Honiton 1835–47; Lieutenant and sheriff principal of Rossshire 22
March 1843 to death. _d._ 65 Rutland gate, London 21 June 1866.

BAILLIE, JOANNA (_youngest child of Rev. James Baillie, minister of
Bothwell, Lanarkshire_). _b._ Manse of Bothwell 11 Sep. 1762;
lived with her only brother Matthew Baillie in London 1783–91;
lived at Hampstead 1802 to death; published anonymously _A Series
of plays in which it is attempted to delineate the stronger
passions of the mind_, _3 vols._ 1798–1812, of these plays _De
Montford, a tragedy on hatred_ was produced at Drury Lane theatre
29 April 1800 and ran 11 nights, _The Election, a comedy_ was
produced as an opera at English Opera house June 1817,
_Constantine Paleologus, a tragedy_ produced at Surrey theatre as
a melodrama under title of _Constantine and Valeria The Family
legend, a tragedy_ produced at T.R. Edin. 1810 and at Drury Lane
29 May 1815, _The Separation_ and _Henriquez_ have been also
acted; author of _Miscellaneous Plays_, _3 vols._ 1836. _d._
Hollybush hill, Hampstead 23 Feb. 1851. _The songstresses of
Scotland by Tytler & Watson ii_, 180–334 (1871); _Chambers Biog.
dict. of eminent Scotsmen i_, 53 (1868), _portrait_; _W. Howitt’s
Homes and haunts of the most eminent British poets ii_, 248–56
(1847); _T. H. Ward’s English poets_, _2 ed. iv_, 221–26 (1883);
_The living and the dead by a country curate, i.e. Rev. Erskine
Neale_ (1827) 177–91.

BAILLIE, SIR WILLIAM, 1 Baronet. _b._ Edinburgh July 1784; created
Baronet by patent dated 14 Nov. 1823. _d._ Perth 28 Jany. 1854.

BAILLIE-HAMILTON, CHARLES (_2 son of George Baillie-Hamilton, M.P.
of Mellerstain, Berwickshire 1763–1841_). _b._ Mellerstain 3 Nov.
1804; admitted advocate at Scottish bar 1830; advocate depute 1844
to 1846 and 1852; sheriff of Stirlingshire 2 March 1853; solicitor
general for Scotland 17 March 1858; Lord advocate for Scotland 10
July 1858; raised to rank of an Earl’s son 5 July 1859; M.P. for
Linlithgowshire 7 Feb. 1859 to 15 April 1859; a judge of Court of
Session 15 April 1859 to April 1874; assumed courtesy title of
Lord Jerviswood 1859; assessor of Univ. of St. Andrew’s 1861; a
lord of justiciary 17 June 1862 to April 1874. _d._ Dryburgh
house, St. Boswell’s 23 July 1879.

BAILLIE-HAMILTON, CHARLES JOHN. _b._ 4 Jany. 1800; M.P. for
Aylesbury 31 July 1839 to 23 July 1847. _d._ Ronco near Genoa 25
Aug. 1865.

BAILLIÈRE, HIPPOLYTE. Came to London about 1827; opened first shop
in London for sale of French medical works at 219 Regent st. 1830;
collected books for royal college of surgeons; publisher. _d._ 219
Regent st. 11 May 1867 aged 58.

BAILY, CHARLES. _b._ 10 April 1815; assistant to the City Architect,
London; built St. John’s church East Dulwich; restored Barnard’s
Inn Hall and Leigh church Kent; F.S.A. 1844; master of the
Ironmongers Company 1874–75; author with G. R. French of
_Catalogue of the Antiquities and works of art exhibited at
Ironmongers hall London in 1861_, _2 vols._ 1869. _d._ Reigate 2
Oct. 1878.

BAILY, EDWARD HODGES. _b._ Bristol 10 March 1788; pupil of Flaxman
in London 1807–14; student of R.A. 1809, gained silver and gold
medals 1809 and 1811, A.R.A. 1817, R.A. 1821, retired 1863;
executed the bassi-relievi on the south or park side of the Marble
Arch 1821; executed sculptures of Apollo 1815, Eve at the fountain
1818, Eve listening to the voice 1841, The Graces seated 1849 and
statues of Sir Richard Fletcher and Thomas Telford in Westminster
Abbey. _d._ 99 Devonshire road, Holloway 22 May 1867. _Scott’s
British school of sculpture_ (1871) 123–28; _Sandby’s History of
Royal Academy ii_, 57–59 (1862); _Walford’s Photographic portraits
of living celebrities_ (1859), _portrait_.

BAILY, JOHN (_eld. son of John Baily of Blandford sq. Marylebone_).
_b._ London April 1805; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s sch. and St.
John’s coll. Cam., 2 wrangler and junior Smith’s prizeman 1828;
fellow of his college 29 March 1830; barrister L.I. 10 May 1832,
bencher 3 Nov. 1851; Q.C. 11 July 1851; leader in V.C.
Kindersley’s Court to 1867; counsel to Univ. of Cam. _d._ Stoney
Hills, Esher Surrey 19 June 1877.

BAILY, JOHN WALKER. _b._ Kent road, London 9 Jany. 1809; head of
firm of Wm. Baily and Sons, ironmongers 71 Gracechurch st.; master
of the Ironmongers company 1862–63; member of British
Archæological Association 6 Dec. 1865, on the council May 1869;
formed an important collection of Romano-British and mediæval
remains found in London 1862–72, this collection was purchased by
Corporation of London 1881; his collection of arms and armour was
bought by Baron de Cosson of Chertsey 1881. _d._ 4 March 1873.
_Journal of British Archæological Association xxx_, 349–51 (1874).

BAIN, ALEXANDER. _b._ Thurso 1810; a journeyman clockmaker in London
1837; made electrical experiments on the Serpentine; invented
electrical clocks, patented 11 Jany. 1841 and exhibited at Royal
Polytechnic 28 March 1841; constructed the earth battery 1843;
patented apparatus for registering progress of ships 1844, and
electro-chemical telegraph 1846; invented automatic method of
transmitting signals; devised electrical methods of playing keyed
instruments at a distance. _d._ in the Home for incurables
Kirkintilloch near Glasgow 2 Jany. 1877. _J. Finlaison’s An
account of some remarkable applications of the electric fluid to
the useful arts by Mr. Alexander Bain_ 1843.

BAIN, DONALD. _b._ Fordyce, Banffshire; author of _The patriot or
Wallace, a historical tragedy_ 1806; _Olden times, a comedy_ 1841,
_2 ed._ 1845. _d._ April 1865.

BAIN, EDWIN SANDYS (_eld. son of Lieut. Col. William Bain of
Livelands near Stirling_). _b._ 1804; barrister M.T. 19 June 1829;
went northern circuit; serjeant at law 12 Nov. 1845. _d._
Livelands 30 Dec. 1874.

BAIN, HENDERSON. Entered navy 4 Sep. 1793; captain 6 April 1813;
retired admiral 11 Feb. 1861. _d._ Esher, Surrey 18 Jany. 1862
aged 86.

BAIN, JAMES. A bookseller at the Mews Gate, Charing Cross, London
1819; at 1 Haymarket 1831 to death, _d._ Highgate 10 Dec. 1866
aged 72.

BAIN, SIR WILLIAM. _b._ Culross, Perthshire 1771; Master R.N. 1811;
commanded steamers for general steam navigation company; harbour
master of Granton on the Firth of Forth 10 years; knighted by the
Queen at St. James’s palace 20 March 1844; author of _An essay on
the variation of the compass_ 1817. _d._ The Grange, Romford 11
Sep. 1853.

BAINBRIDGE, EDWARD THOMAS. _b._ 1798; a banker in London; M.P. for
Taunton 6 Aug. 1830 to Feb. 1842. _d._ 30 Medina villas Brighton
30 Sep. 1872.

BAINBRIDGE, JOHN NATHAN. Studied at St. Thomas’ and Guy’s
hospitals; M.R.C.S. 1820, F.R.C.S. 1852, L.S.A. 1821; bought a
practice in St. Martin’s lane 1824; medical officer of St.
Martin’s-in-the-Fields workhouse 1835; M.D. St. Andrew’s 1842;
prescribed for 1669 cases with only 27 deaths during prevalence
of cholera 1849 for which, Board of Guardians gave him £200;
surgeon to London Friendly Institution. _d._ 86 St. Martin’s
lane 16 April 1863 aged 63. _Medical Circular i_ 131, 169 (1852)
_portrait_.

BAINBRIDGE, WILLIAM (_only son of Wm. Bainbridge of Alston,
Northumberland, solicitor_). Barrister I.T. 23 Nov. 1838; author
of _A treatise on the law of mines and minerals_ 1841, _4 ed._
1878; _Lionel Merval a novel [anon.] 3 vols._ 1866. _d._ Cliffe
house, Cullercoats 13 Dec. 1869 aged about 60.

BAINBRIGGE, JOHN HANKEY (_2 son of Philip Bainbrigge of Ashbourne,
Derbyshire 1756–99_). _b._ 1791; ensign 20 foot 25 March 1808;
lieut. 9 March 1809 to 25 Dec. 1814; town major Guernsey 29 Nov.
1839 to 30 May 1861; general 1 Oct. 1877; _d._ Robais manor,
Guernsey 15 March 1881.

BAINBRIGGE, SIR PHILIP (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ London
1786; entered navy 1799; ensign 20 foot 30 June 1800; permanent
assistant quartermaster general 15 Oct. 1812 to 23 Nov. 1841;
deputy quartermaster general Ireland 23 Nov. 1841 to 9 Nov. 1846;
commanded the forces in Ceylon 1852–54; col. of 26 foot 31 March
1854 to death; general 24 Aug. 1861; granted service reward 15
Nov. 1848; C.B. 19 July 1838, K.C.B. 18 May 1860; invented a
protracting pocket sextant 1809. _d._ St. Margaret’s Litchfield,
Hants 20 Dec. 1862. _G.M. xiv._ 236–37 (1863); _Annual Register_
(1850) 323–31.

BAINES, REV. EDWARD. _b._ Cainham vicarage, Shropshire 1 Aug. 1801;
ed. at Shrewsbury head præpositor; at Christ’s coll. Cam., Bell
Univ. scholar, and Browne medallist for Latin and Greek epigrams
1821, B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; fellow classical lecturer and tutor of
his college; R. of Clipston 1840–43; R. of Bluntisham, Hants
1843–59; V. of Yalding, Kent 1859 to death; author of _First form
Latin grammar_ 1855; _Visit to the Vaudois of Piedmont_ 1855. _d._
San Remo 20 April 1882. _Sermons by the late Rev. Edward Baines
edited with memoir by Alfred Barry, D.D._ 1883.

BAINES, REV. JOHN. Ed. at St. John’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1843; V. of
Little Marlow, Bucks 1859 to death; author of _Tales of the
Empire_ 1851; _Life of Archbishop Laud_ 1855; _Twenty sermons_
1857; _Hints for harvest services_ 1866. _d._ 63 Abingdon villas
Kensington, London 20 May 1880 aged 58.

BAINES, MATTHEW TALBOT (_eld. child of Edward Baines 1774–1848, M.P.
for Leeds_). _b._ Leeds 17 Feb. 1799; ed. at Richmond gr. sch. and
Trin. coll. Cam. scholar, B.A. 1820; barrister I.T. 6 May 1825,
bencher 1841, reader 1854, treasurer 1855; recorder of Hull
1837–47; Q.C. 1841; M.P. for Hull 1847–1852 and for Leeds
1852–1859; pres. of Poor law board 1 Jany. 1849 to 2 March 1852
and 1 Jany. 1853 to 13 Aug. 1855; P.C. 30 July 1849; mem. of
committee of council on education 10 March 1855; chancellor of
Duchy of Lancaster with a seat in the cabinet 7 Dec. 1855 to 26
Feb. 1858. _d._ 13 Queen’s square, Westminster 22 Jany. 1860.
_Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis_ (1865) 482–86; _Illust. News of
the World 24 Nov. 1860_, _portrait_.

NOTE.—He was the first dissenter admitted to a seat in the
Cabinet.

BAINES, THOMAS. _b._ Kings Lynn 1822; went to Cape Colony 1842;
painted pictures and taught drawing; went through Kafir wars
1846–54; explored North West Australia under Augustus Gregory
1855–56; artist and store keeper to the Livingstone Zambesi
Expedition 1858, his series of pictures of scenes on the Zambesi
has been exhibited at the Crystal palace, Dublin exhibition and
Alexandra palace; lectured in England 1864–68; F.R.G.S. 1857;
author of _Explorations in South Western Africa_ 1864. _d._ D’
Urban, Port Natal 8 April 1875. _The gold regions of South Eastern
Africa, by the late Thomas Baines_ 1877, _portrait_; _Illust. News
of the World i_, 64 (1858), _portrait_.

BAINES, THOMAS (_3 son of Edward Baines 1774–1848 M.P. for Leeds_).
_b._ Leeds 1806; edited _Liverpool Times_ 1829–59; a parliamentary
agent in London 1859; author of _History of commerce and town of
Liverpool_ 1852; _Lancashire and Cheshire past and present_ 1867;
_Yorkshire past and present_ 1875. _d._ Seaforth hall near
Liverpool 31 Oct. 1881.

BAIRD, ANDREW WOOD. _b._ Colchester; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D.
1823; L.R.C.S. Edin. 1821, M.R.C.P. 1827; a phys. at Ipswich
1824–52, at Dover 1852 to death; phys. to Dover hospital. _d._ 7
Camden Crescent, Dover 10 Jany. 1882.

BAIRD, SIR DAVID, 2 Baronet. _b._ 1795; succeeded 18 Aug. 1829. _d._
9 Jany. 1852.

BAIRD, FRANCIS (_2 son of Charles Baird, founder of the ‘Baird
Works’ at St. Petersburg who d. 10 Dec. 1843 in his 77 year_).
_b._ 16 Feb. 1802; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; joined his father’s
Works 1819; sole proprietor 1843 to death; M.I.C.E. 25 Feb. 1823;
executed the 4 bas-reliefs, eagles and candelabra, and colossal
figure of the angel on the Alexander column in the Winter Palace
St. Petersburg, also the St. Nicholas bridge, first permanent
bridge across the Neva. _d._ St. Petersburg 25 March 1864; _Min.
of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxx_ 428 (1870).

BAIRD, JAMES (_4 son of Alexander Baird of Kirkwood, Lanarkshire
farmer 1765–1833_). _b._ Kirkwood 5 Dec. 1802; an ironmaster at
Gartsherrie works near Airdrie 1829 which became largest iron
works in the world except those at Dowlais; largely assisted J. B.
Neilson in perfecting his invention of the hot blast; M.P. for
Falkirk burghs 1851–57; bought estate of Muirkirk Ayrshire 1863
for £135,000; founded Baird lectures for defence of orthodoxy
1871, and Baird Trust in connection with Church of Scotland at
cost of £500,000 July 1873. _d._ Cambusdoon near Ayr 20 June 1876.
Personalty sworn under £1,190,000 Aug. 1876. _Practical Mag. i_,
241–48 (1873) _portrait_; _Burke’s Vicissitudes of families_ _2
ed._ 1859, _pp._ 40–46; _Graphic xiv_, 12 (1876), _portrait_.

BAIRD, REV. JOHN (_eld. son of Rev. James Baird, minister of
Swinton, Berwickshire who d. 11 Feb. 1814_). _b._ Manse of Eccles
17 Feb. 1799; ed. at Whitsome and Kelso and Univ. of Edin.;
founded the Plinian Society at Edin. 1823, which was eventually
incorporated with Botanical Society of Edin.; minister of Yetholm
near Kelso June 1829 to death; established a school at Yetholm for
Gipsies 1843, this was the first ragged school in Scotland; a
founder of Berwickshire Naturalists’ Club 22 Sep. 1831, pres.
1837; author of _Scottish Gipsies Advocate_ 1839; _Account of the
parish of Yetholm_ in the _New Statistical account of Scotland
iii_, 159–76 (1845). _d._ Yetholm 29 Nov. 1861. _Memoir of the
late Rev. John Baird by W. Baird M.D._ 1862.

BAIRD, ROBERT. _b._ 1806; an ironmaster at Glasgow; lord dean of
guild Glasgow 1855. _d._ Cawdor house, Glasgow 7 Aug. 1856.

BAIRD, THOMAS. Wrote much in _Western Times_ Exeter newspaper under
pseudonym of Nathan Hogg; author of _Letters in the Devonshire
dialect in verse by Nathan Hogg_ 1847. _d._ St. Thomas’s hospital
London May 1881.

BAIRD, WILLIAM (_elder brother of James Baird_). _b._ 1796; senior
partner in Gartsherrie iron works; M.P. for Falkirk 1841–45;
bought estate of Elie, Fifeshire for £145,000. _d._ Edinburgh 8
March 1864, leaving a fortune of £2,000,000 sterling.

BAIRD, WILLIAM (_younger brother of Rev. John Baird_). _b._ the
Manse of Eccles Berwickshire 1803; ed. at Edin. Dublin and Paris;
surgeon H.E.I. Co’s. navy 1823–33; practised in London 1833–41;
assistant in Zoological department of the British Museum Sep. 1841
to death; F.R.S. 6 June 1867; author of _The natural history of
the British Entomostraca_ published by Ray Society 1850;
_Cyclopædia of natural sciences_ 1858. _d._ 38 Burlington road,
Westbourne park 27 Jany. 1872.