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HESLEDEN, WILLIAM SMITH. _b._ 1773; Assoc. British Archæol. Assoc.
1845; wrote _An account of ancient earth works at Barton and on
the site of the battle of Brunanburgh in the time of Athelstan_;
published _A sketch of the properties of Sutton patent gravitated
sails for windmills_ 1807. _d._ Barton-upon-Humber 24 Dec. 1854.
_Journ. B. Archæol. Assoc. xi_, 162 (1855).

HESLOP, REV. GEORGE HENRY (_1 son of Rev. Alfred Heslop of Keswick,
Cumb._) _b._ 1822; ed. at Queen’s coll. Ox., scholar 1842–8,
fellow 1848–51; B.A. 1846, M.A. 1846; head master of St. Bees
gram. sch. 1854–79; hon. canon of Carlisle 1875; R. of Church
Oakley, Hants. 1879 to death; one of the most exact and correct
scholars of his time; in the Catena Classicorum series,
Rivingtons, London, he edited _Demosthenes’ Orationes publicae_
1868 and _Demosthenes’ De Falsa legatione_. _d._ Oakley rectory,
Basingstoke 30 Jany. 1887.

HESLOP, THOMAS PRETIOUS (_son of Mr. Heslop a Scotchman and major
R.A._) _b._ West Indies 1823; apprenticed to Thomas Underhill,
M.D. of Tipton, Staffs.; studied at Universities of Dublin and
Edin., M.D. Edin. 1848; M.R.C.P. 1859, F.R.C.P. 1872; practised at
Birmingham 1848 to death, house physician general hospital 1848 to
Jany. 1852; professor of physiology at Queen’s college 1853–58 and
senior phys. 1870–82; the chief consultant phys. in Midland
counties many years; founded the Free hospital for children opened
in Steel house lane, Birmingham 1861, the Women’s hospital 1871
and the Skin and Lock hospital 1880; founded the Midland Medical
Society 1848; a trustee of Mason college 1873, president of the
council 1884 to death, gave 11,000 volumes to the library; author
of _The realities of medical attendance on the sick children of
the poor_. _Birmingham_ 1869; _The abuse of alcohol in the
treatment of acute diseases_ 1872. _d._ the Devil’s Elbow, 3 miles
south of Braemar 17 June 1885. _bur._ at Dublin 20 June.
_Birmingham Weekly Post 20 June 1885 p._ 4 _col._ 7.

HESSEY, REV. FRANCIS (_2 son of James Augustus Hessey of St.
Bride’s, London_). _b._ 10 April 1816; ed. at Merchant Taylors and
St. John’s coll. Ox., scholar and fellow 1834–61; S.C.L. 1837,
B.C.L. 1839, D.C.L. 1844; C. of Kentish town, London 1839–40;
principal of Huddersfield coll. sch. 1840–43; head master of
Kensington sch. 1843–53; V. of St. Barnabas, Kensington 1853 to
Oct. 1881; author of _Hints to district visitors, By F. H._ 1858;
_Confirmation questions_ 1859, _7 ed._ 1866, _Second series_ 1862;
_Catechetical lessons on book of Common prayer_ 1868; _A few
parochial sermons preached at St. Barnabas, Kensington_ 1882. _d._
Midhurst, Sussex 10 Aug. 1882.

HETHERINGTON, REV. WILLIAM MAXWELL. _b._ in parish of Troqueer near
Dumfries 4 June 1803; a gardener; ed. at Edin. Univ. 1822;
presbyterian minister of Torphichen, Linlithgow 1836–43; a free
ch. minister to students at St. Andrews 1843–8; minister at St.
Paul’s, Edin. 1848; edited the _Free Church Magazine_ 1844–8;
professor of systematic theology in Glasgow Free Church coll.
1857; LLD. and D.D. of an American university; author of _Twelve
dramatic sketches founded on the pastoral poetry of Scotland_
1829; _The minister’s family_ 1838, _12 ed._ 1880; _History of the
Church of Scotland_ 1842, _7 ed. 2 vols._ 1852; _History of
Westminster assembly of divines_ 1843, _4 ed._ 1878; _The
anti-christian system or popery as predicted in Scripture_ 1851.
_d._ 23 May 1865. _bur._ Grange cemet. Edin. _Wylie’s Disruption
Worthies_ (1881); _The apologetics of the Christian faith By W. H.
Hetherington_ 1867, _with a Memoir pp. xiii-xv_; _Scott’s Fasti
vol. i, pt. i, p._ 204.

HEWETSON, CHARLES. Entered Madras army 1811; col. 49 Madras N.I. 21
July 1861 to 1869; L.G. 25 June 1870. _d._ Madras 4 Feb. 1873.

HEWETT, SIR PRESCOTT GARDINER, 1 Baronet (_son of Wm. Nathan Wrighte
Hewett of Bilham hall near Doncaster_). _b._ 3 July 1812; ed. at
St. George’s hospital and in Paris; M.R.C.S. 1836, hon. F.R.C.S.
1843, professor of human anatomy and surgery, member of council
1867, vice pres. 1875, pres. 1876; surgeon extraord. to the Queen
14 Oct. 1867, sergeant surgeon extraord. 19 Feb. 1877; surgeon in
ord. to Prince of Wales 10 March 1874; pres. of Clinical Soc.
1873; F.R.S. 4 June 1874; retired from practice Nov. 1883; created
baronet 6 Aug. 1883. _d._ Chestnut lodge, Horsham, Sussex 19 June
1891. _bur._ Brompton cemetery, London 25 June.

HEWETT, SIR WILLIAM NATHAN WRIGHTE (_2 son of Dr. William Wrighte
Hewett_). _b._ Brighton 12 Aug. 1834; entered the navy March 1847;
shewed great presence of mind and courage in a battery before
Sebastopol and at Inkerman 1854, lieut. 20 Oct.; V.C. 24 Feb.
1857; commodore and commander in chief on west coast of Africa
during Ashantee war 1873–76, and present at capture of Coomassie;
K.C.B. 31 March 1874, Ashantee medal with clasp; commander in
chief in East Indies 1882–5; occupied Suez and seized the Canal
1882; defended Suakim 6 Feb. 1884, governor for the Khedive 10
Feb.; went on a mission to king John of Abyssinia, April 1884;
commander of Channel squadron 18 March 1886 to 17 April 1888;
known as the fighting admiral; K.C.S.I. 17 Nov. 1882. _d._ Haslar
hospital, Portsmouth 13 May 1888. _Times 15 May 1888 p._ 8, _16
May pp._ 11, 16, _18 May p._ 5; _I.L.N. xxxix_ 41 (1861),
_portrait_, _lxxxiv_ 172 (1884), _portrait_.

HEWITSON, WILLIAM CHAPMAN. _b._ Newcastle-upon-Tyne 9 Jany. 1806;
ed. at York; land surveyor, sometime under George Stephenson on
London and Birmingham railway, came into a fortune and gave up
business; resided at Bristol, at Hampstead and from 1848 at
Oatlands park, Surrey; made a study of birds’ eggs and collected
specimens in Norway 1833; made a collection of diurnal
lepidoptera, paid travellers to search for them in all parts of
the world and gave £350 for a single specimen 1848, etc.; member
of Entomological soc. 1846, the Zoological 1859 and the Linnean
1862; author of _British Oology being illustrations of the eggs of
British birds with figures of each species Newcastle 3 vols._
1833–42; _Coloured illustrations of the eggs of British birds 2
vols._ 1846, _3 ed. 2 vols._ 1856; _Illustrations of diurnal
lepidoptera 2 vols._ 1863–78; _Description of 100 new species of
hesperediæ_ 1867. _d._ Oatlands park 28 May 1878. _bur._
Walton-on-Thames. Left his lepidoptera, stuffed birds, pictures
and water colours to Br. Museum, now in Cromwell road; his books
and £30,000 to Nat. Hist. Soc. Newcastle, and money to the Müller
institute Bristol. _Academy 8 June 1878 p._ 512; _Nature xviii_,
196–7 (1878).

HEWITT, DANIEL CHANDLER. _b._ Scotland 1789; author of _New analysis
of music, a theory of melody, harmony and modulation_ 1828; _The
true science of music_ 1860 _and_ 1864. _d._ London 1869.

HEWITT, JOHN. _b._ Lichfield 1807; organist St. Mary’s ch.
Lichfield; in war office, London; resided at Woolwich; wrote
articles in magazines under name of Sylvanus Swanquill; author of
_The tower of London, its history_ 1841; _Ancient armour and
weapons in Europe 3 vols._ 1855–60; _Official catalogue of the
Tower armories_ 1859; _Old Woolwich_ 1860; _Handbook for the city
of Lichfield_ 1874, _2 ed._ 1884 and other works. _d._ Lichfield
10 Jany. 1878. _bur._ in cathedral close 15 Jany. _Reliquary
xviii_, 228–30 (1877–8).

HEWITT, WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ 1791; entered Bengal army 1806; col. 27
Bengal N.I. 1850 to death; L.G. 30 Dec. 1859. _d._ Westfield
house, Bath 16 April 1863 aged 72.

HEWLETT, THOMAS (_2 son of Thomas Hewlett of Oxford_). _b._ Oxford
16 March 1845; of Magd. hall Ox., B. Mus. 22 June 1865; organist
Duke of Buccleuch’s chapel, Dalkeith; teacher and organist in
Edin.; accompanyist Edin. Sacred harmonic soc.; organist Newington
park ch. Edin.; wrote _Are other eyes, Madrigal_ 1864; _The good
old days, A Christmas song_ 1865; _Introduction, offertoire and
fuge for the organ_ 1867; _Second offertoire for the organ_ 1872
_and Third_ 1872. _d._ 2 Hope park crescent, Edinburgh 1 April
1874.

HEWLETT, THOMAS GILLHAM. _b._ 1832; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1853; assist.
surgeon Bombay army 20 Jany. 1854, surgeon 20 Jany. 1865; served
during Indian mutiny 1857–8; deputy assay master Bombay mint;
health officer Bombay when he organized the public health
department; sanitary commissioner for Bombay presidency; deputy
surgeon general Bombay 1 Nov. 1879; C.I.E. 1 Jany. 1878; author of
_Reports on leprosy in the Bombay presidency_ 1879; _Report on
enteric fever_ 1883. _d._ of heart disease at Finchley road
station, Metropolitan railway 8 Oct. 1889. _Times 29 Oct. 1889 p._
9, _31 Oct. p._ 10.

HEWSON, REV. WILLIAM (_son of William Hewson, banker’s clerk_). _b._
12 April 1806. _bapt._ St. Margaret’s, Westminster 29 Dec.; ed. at
St. Paul’s sch. and St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833;
C. of Bishop Burton, Yorks. 1830–3; C. of Spofforth 1834–5; head
master of Sherburn gram. sch. Yorks. 1835–8 and of St. Peter’s
sch. York 1838–47; P.C. of Goatland 1848 to death; author of _The
key of David or the mystery of the 7 sealed books of Jewish
prophecy_ 1855; _The oblation and temple of Ezekiel’s prophetic
visions 5 parts_ 1858; _Thy kingdom come_ 1859; _Christianity in
relation to Judaism and Heathenism_ 1860; _The Hebrew and Greek
scriptures compared with Oriental history, dialling, science and
mythology 7 parts_ 1870. _d._ 1 St. Hilda ter. Whitby 23 April
1870. _bur._ York cemet. _Smales’ Whitby authors_ (1867) 104,
171–6, 217; _Whitby Times 29 April 1870 p._ 4.

HEY, WILLIAM (_son of William Hey 1772–1844 surgeon_). _b._ Leeds 23
Dec. 1796; M.R.C.S., F.R.C.S.; succeeded his father at Leeds 1844;
surgeon Leeds infirmary 1830–51, consulting surgeon 1864; a
founder of Leeds school of medicine, and lecturer on surgery there
1831–57; president surgical section British Med. Assoc. at Leeds,
July 1869; V.P. Leeds Philos. and Lit. Soc. 1835 and 1839. _d._
Gledhow Wood, Leeds 10 May 1875. _British Medical Journal, i_, 763
(1875).

HEY, VEN. WILLIAM (_son of Rev. Samuel Hey, vicar of Ockbrook,
Derbyshire_). _b._ Ockbrook 1811; ed. at Sherborne and at St.
John’s coll. Cam., fellow 1836, B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; head master
St. Peter’s sch. York 1844–64; V. of St. Helen, Stonegate 1854–77;
preb. of Weighton, York cath. 1854–81 and succentor canonicorum
1871–81; canon residentiary of York cath. 1864; precentor and
preb. of Duffield 1881; archdeacon of Cleveland 1874 to death;
examining chaplain to Archbp. of York 1874; V. of St. Olave with
St. Giles’, York 1877 to death; select preacher Cam. 1879. _d._
The Residence, Minster yard, York 22 Nov. 1882. _Church portrait
journal, Jany. 1880 pp._ 5–8, _portrait_.

HEYGATE, JAMES. _b._ West Haddow, Northampton; M.R.C.S. 1823, M.D.
Edin. 1836; in practice at Hanslope, Bucks., at Derby 1837 to
death; senior physician Derbyshire general infirmary; F.R.S.; V.P.
British medical assoc.; author of _Tic doloureux, An essay_ 1836
and of papers in medical journals. _d._ Little Eaton, Derby 4 Aug.
1872. _Medical Times 31 Aug. 1872 p._ 243.

HEYSHAM, THOMAS COULTHARD (_eld. son of Dr. John Heysham_). _b._
1792; mayor of Carlisle 1839; J.P. for Cumberland; made extensive
collections in entomology, ornithology and botany; his name given
to some species of coleoptera. _d._ Fisher st. Carlisle 6 April
1857. _Carlisle Journal 10 April 1857 p._ 8, _17 April p._ 8.

HEYTESBURY, WILLIAM A’COURT, 1 Baron (_eld. son of Sir William
Pierce Ashe A’Court, 1 Baronet 1747–1817_). _b._ Salisbury 11 July
1779; ed. at Eton; sec. of legation at Naples 31 July 1801; sec.
to special mission at Vienna 20 April 1807; first commissioner of
affairs, Malta 1812; envoy extraord. to Barbary states 5 Jany.
1813, to Naples 5 July 1814 and to Spain 5 April 1822; ambassador
to Portugal 22 Sep. 1824 and to Russia 5 April 1828, pensioned 18
Aug. 1832; succeeded as 2 baronet 22 July 1817; P.C. 30 Dec. 1817;
G.C.B. 20 Sep. 1819; cr. baron Heytesbury of Heytesbury, Wilts. 23
Jany. 1828; nominated governor general of India 28 Jany. 1835 but
the ministry resigned and he never took office; lord lieut. of
Ireland 26 July 1844 to 11 July 1846; governor of the Isle of
Wight to 1857. _d._ Heytesbury 31 May 1860. _F. O. List_ (1860)
145; _I.L.N. v_, 60 (1844), _portrait_; _Eton portrait gallery_
(1876) 346–8; _Waagen’s Galleries of art_ (1857) 386–90.

HEYTESBURY, WILLIAM HENRY ASHE A’COURT-HOLMES, 2 Baron (_son of the
preceding_). _b._ London 1809; ed. at Eton and St. John’s coll.
Camb., M.A. 1831. _m._ 2 Oct. 1833 Elizabeth Woosley, eld. dau. of
Sir Leonard Worsley Holmes, bart., and assumed name of Holmes on
14 Oct.; M.P. for Isle of Wight 1837–47; succeeded as 2 Baron 31
May 1860. _d._ Heytesbury 21 April 1891.

HEYWOOD, SIR BENJAMIN, 1 Baronet (_eld. son of Nathaniel Heywood of
Manchester, banker, d. 1815_). _b._ St. Ann’s sq. Manchester 12
Dec. 1793; ed. at univ. of Glasgow 1809–11; banker at Manchester
1814, sole proprietor 1828, retired 1860; chief founder of
Manchester mechanics’ institution 1824, president 1824–44; M.P.
for Lancashire 1831–1832; baronet 28 July 1838; F.R.S. 1843; gave
£1000 toward Manchester public park 1844; vice pres. of British
association at Manchester 1842 and 1861; author of _Address
delivered at Manchester mechanics’ institution_ 1843. _d._
Claremont near Manchester 11 Aug. 1865. _bur._ St. John’s Islam’s
o’ the Height; personalty sworn under £400,000, 14 Oct. 1865.
_Grindon’s Manchester banks_ (1877) 79–86; _T. Heywood’s Memoir of
Sir B. Heywood_ (1888), _portrait_.

HEYWOOD, JOHN. _b._ 1804; hand loom weaver to 1837; a ruler to his
brother Abel Heywood 1839–46; a stationer Deansgate st. Manchester
from 1846, the largest copy book maker in the world, bookseller
and newsagent, employed 120 hands; member of Manchester city
council 1860–61; chairman of Chorlton guardians. _d._ Manchester 7
Oct. 1864. _The Bookseller 26 Feb. 1861, p._ 105.

HEYWOOD, JOHN (_son of the preceding_). _b._ 1832; errand boy in a
solicitor’s office; succeeded to his father’s book, news and
stationery establishment, Manchester 1864; made a central depot
for the small local booksellers, and a book saloon for the
exhibition of educational appliances; had 30,000 customers’ names
in his books, and employed 30 carts to distribute books and
newspapers; his Excelsior printing and bookbinding works, Hulme
hall road, Manchester, opened 4 July 1870; employed 750 workmen;
printed a series of books called _J. Heywood’s Pocket guides_ 1869
etc., and many other works. _d._ The Grange, Derbyshire lane,
Stretford, Manchester 10 May 1888. _Bookseller, June 1888 pp._
573–4.

HEYWOOD, JOHN JOSEPH (_son of R. Heywood of Glencrutchery near
Douglas_). _b._ 1789; first deemster or chief justice of Isle of
Man 1821 to death. _d._ Bomahague, Douglas 26 May 1855 aged 66.
_bur._ Kirk Onchar ch. yard. _Hardwicke’s Annual Biog._ (1856)
355.

HEYWOOD, THOMAS (_brother of Sir B. Heywood_). _b._ Manchester 3
Sep. 1797; ed. at Manchester gram. sch. 1811; partner in Heywood,
Bros. & Co. bankers, St. Ann’s sq. Manchester, retired 1828;
collected a remarkable library of local books at Swinton, they
were sold Manchester 22–3 April 1835; boroughreeve of Salford
1826; sheriff of Herefordshire 1840; F.S.A.; member of council of
Chetham soc. for which he edited The Norris Papers 1846 and 5
other works; author of _The earls of Derby and the verse writers
of the 16th and 17th centuries_. _Manchester_ 1826; _The most
pleasant song of Lady Bessy_ 1829. _d._ Hope End near Ledbury 20
Nov. 1866; his general library sold Manchester, Nov. 1868.
_Manchester sch. reg. iii_, 74–6 (1874).

HEYWORTH, LAWRENCE (_4 son of Peter Heyworth, woollen manufacturer,
d. 1799_). _b._ Greensnook, Bacup 1786; ed. at Hipperholme gram.
sch. near Halifax 1799–1802; woollen manufacturer with his
brothers at Bacup 1802; established business connections with
Portuguese and Spanish 1805 and with South America 1808; in S.
America 1809–16; established agencies in Liverpool and Hamburg;
firm became Heyworth, Brothers & Co., retired 1836; purchased Yew
Tree estate near Liverpool 1819; chairman Liverpool Free trade
association; M.P. Derby 1848–57; author of _On the corn laws and
other legislative restrictions_, _7 ed._ 1843; _On economic fiscal
legislation_ 1845; _The expansion of the suffrage and accession of
blessings God has in store for all classes through the wise
exercise of the franchise_ 1861. _d._ Yew Tree, West Derby,
Liverpool 19 April 1872. _I.L.N. 22 June 1850 pp._ 443–4,
_portrait_; _Newbigging’s Forest of Rossendale_ (1868) 181–88.

HIBBERD, JAMES SHIRLEY (_son of a master mariner_). _b._ St.
Dunstan, Stepney, London 1825; apprentice to a bookseller at
Stepney; editor of _Floral World_ 1858, which he managed to 1875;
editor _Gardener’s Magazine_ 1861 to death; a practical writer on
agriculture, experimented on fruit trees and vegetables,
especially on potatoes; temperance advocate and a vegetarian; a
popular lecturer, lectured at Wylde’s Great Globe; F.R.H.S.;
author of _Brambles and Bayleaves. Essays_ 1855, _3 ed._ 1873;
_Profitable gardening_ 1863; _Familiar garden flowers 5 vols._
1879–87; _Water-cresses without sewage_ 1878 and 25 other books.
_d._ 1 Priory road, The Green, Kew 16 Nov. 1890. _Gardener’s Mag.
22 Nov. 1890_, _portrait_; _I.L.N. 29 Nov. 1890 p._ 678,
_portrait_.

HIBBERD, SAMUEL. _b._ 1839; jockey; won the Cambridgeshire on
Malacca 1856, Cesarewitch on Lecturer 1866, the Chester Cup on One
Act in 1856 and on Dalby in 1865 and 1866. _d._ Newmarket 21 Feb.
1888. _Times 29 Feb. 1888 p._ 9.

HIBBERT, JOHN (_son of John Hibbert of Braywick lodge, Maidenhead,
d. 1855_). _b._ 29 Jany. 1811; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Cam.,
scholar, fellow; B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; barrister I.T. 29 April
1836; chairman of Cookham board of guardians; built a ch. for the
poor of the Maidenhead and Cookham union; founded and endowed a
ward in Royal Windsor infirmary. _d._ Braywick lodge, Maidenhead
28 March 1888.

HIBBS, REV. RICHARD. _b._ 1812; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.,
scholar; B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844; C. of Bishop Hatfield 1841–3; C. of
Corton near Lowestoft 1843–8; teacher and preacher at Lowestoft
1848–52; C. of St. Paul’s, Covent Garden 1852; assist. minister
St. John’s chapel, Edin. 1852–4, a controversy with the incumbent
led him to establish the New Church of England chapel, St. Vincent
st. Edin. 1854; C. of Market Lavington 1874–6; chaplain at Lisbon;
chaplain at Rotterdam and Utrecht 1876–8; author of _The substance
of a series of discourses on baptism_ 1848; _Scottish episcopal
Romanism, or popery without a pope_ 1856; _Truth vindicated or
some account of the New Church of England chapel_ 1858, _4 ed._
1859; _Prussia and the poor, or the systematized relief of the
poor at Elberfeld in contrast with that of England_ 1876, _4 ed._
1883. _d._ 13 St. Lawrence road, North Kensington, London 26 March
1886. _Academy 10 April 1886 pp._ 255–6.

HICKEY, REV. WILLIAM (_eld. son of Rev. Ambrose Hickey, rector of
Murragh, co. Cork 1796 to his death in 1826_). _b._ 1787 or 1788;
ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin 1804–5, B.A. 1809, M.A. 1832; pensioner
St. John’s coll. Cam. 7 March 1806, B.A. 1809; C. of Dunleckny,
Leighlin 1811; V. of Bannow, Ferns 1820; founded an agricultural
soc. on a farm of 40 acres; a founder of South Wexford
agricultural soc., the first of its kind in Ireland; R. of
Kilcormuick 1826; R. of Wexford 1831; R. of Mulrankin 1834 to
death; endeavoured to improve the husbandry of small farms; author
of _State of the poor in Ireland_ 1817; member of R. Dublin soc,
gold medallist; civil list pension of £80, 6 Oct. 1853; had
pension from R. Literary fund; under the pseudonym of Martin Doyle
he wrote _Hints to small farmers_ 1830, _numerous editions_;
_Hints on emigration to Upper Canada_ 1831, _3 ed._ 1834;
_Practical gardening_ 1833, _2 ed._ 1836; _A cyclopædia of
practical husbandry_ 1839, _new editions_ 1844, 1851; _The
farmer’s manual_ 1868; with Edmund Murphy he conducted the _Irish
Farmer’s and Gardener’s Magazine_ _9 vols._ 1834–42. _d._
Mulrankin 24 Oct. 1875. _Dublin Univ. Mag., April 1840 pp._ 374–6,
_portrait_; _Wexford Independent 27 and 30 Oct. 1875_.

HICKLEY, VICTOR GRANT (_son of J. A. Hickley of Purbrook, Hants._)
_b._ 1823 or 1824; sub-lieut. R.N. 18 Aug. 1842; captain 1 April
1858, retired 8 June 1868; retired admiral 12 April 1886. _d._
Taunton railway station 27 Jany. 1888.

HICKLIN, JOHN. _b._ England; editor of _Nottingham Journal_, and of
_Chester Courant_; author of _Church and state. Historic facts
ancient and modern_. _Torquay_ 1873; _Literary recreations_. _d._
13 Jany. 1877.

HICKS, AGNES ROSS (_dau. of J. Boss of Campsie, Stirlingshire_).
_b._ 1850; ed. under Warwick Jordan, Mus. Bac. organist of St.
Stephen’s, Lewisham; soprano singer; first appeared in public at
Public hall, Lee, Kent 1875; sang at St. James’ hall, London, her
old ballads being in much favor; well known by her singing of
Gounod’s ‘Worker.’ (_m._ George Hicks), she _d._ 32 Henrietta st.
Covent Garden, London 13 March 1886. _bur._ Norwood cemet. 17
March. _The Era, March 1886 p._ 13.

HICKS, EDWARD (_only son of Edward Simpson of Lichfield_). _b._ 10
Aug. 1814; ed. at Charterhouse and C.C. coll. Cam., B.A. 1836;
student of Inner Temple 1837; assumed surname of Hicks on
succeeding his kinsman Rev. James Hicks 1835; sheriff of Cam.
1862; master of harriers; M.P. Cambs. 1879–85; contested Newmarket
division 1885. _d._ Wilbraham Temple, Cambridge 13 Jany. 1889.

HICKS, SIR FRANCIS (_youngest son of John Hicks of Southwark,
London_). _b._ Southwark 1821; treasurer of St. Thomas’s hospital,
London 1865 to death; knighted at St. James’s palace 21 June 1871
on opening of new St. Thomas’s hospital. _d._ Margate 1 Sep. 1877
in 57 year. _Times 4 Sep. 1877 p._ 9.

HICKS, GEORGE. Entered Bengal army 7 Sep. 1808; col. 70 Bengal N.I.
7 May 1854 to 1869; L.G. 28 Oct. 1868; C.B. 3 April 1846. _d._ 24
Oct. 1873.

HICKS, MARY (_dau. of John and Sarah Roden_). _bapt._ Broseley,
Salop 14 Nov. 1773; she however said she was dau. of Samuel and
Mary Roden and _bapt._ Broseley 15 Feb. 1767. (_m._ at Isleworth,
John Hicks who _d._ 1848). _d._ Brentford workhouse 24 Nov. 1870
aged 97. _W. J. Thoms’ Longevity_ (1879) 236–42.

HICKS, NEWTON TREE (_son of Cecil Hicks, who d. 15 March 1866_).
_b._ 4 Sep. 1811; appeared as Richard 3rd at Royalty theatre,
London 1824; played at the Coburg, the New Brunswick and Surrey
theatres; in the provinces 6 or 7 years; made the round of
metropolitan theatres; known by sobriquet of Bravo or Brayvo
Hicks; some of his characters were Fabian in _The Black Doctor_;
Monte Christo at the Surrey, June 1848; Sir Thomas Clifford in
_The Hunchback_, and Leopold in _The Jewess_; retired from the
stage about 1863; lived in Hogarth’s house, Hogarth lane,
Chiswick. _d._ 21 Feb. 1873. _Theatrical Times, ii_ 17 (1847),
_portrait_, _iii_ 209 (1848), _portrait_; _Era 2 March 1873 p._
11.

NOTE.—His brother Cecil Hicks pianist at the Canterbury,
Cambridge and Foresters’ music halls, _d._ 19 Jany. 1888.
_bur._ Ilford cemet. 29 Jany.

HICKS, WILLIAM. _b._ 29 April 1831; ensign 24 Bombay N.I. 3 March
1851; served in India in campaign of 1857–9, with Panjâb movable
column, in Rohilkand campaign and under Lord Clyde; captain Bombay
Staff Corps 29 Dec. 1861; brigade major in 1 div. in Abyssinian
campaign 1867–8; lieut.-col. B.S.C. 29 Dec. 1875 to 1 July 1880;
A.A.G. Bombay 3 Dec. 1877 to 1 July 1880; commander of Egyptian
army in the Sûdân to suppress the Mahdi’s revolt Feb. 1883 and
known as Hicks Pasha, joined his troops at Khartûm, ascended the
White Nile to Duem and advanced across the desert to El’Obeyd Sep.
1883, betrayed into an ambuscade and _killed_ with most of his
troops at the battle of Kashgil 4 Nov. 1883. _J. Colborne’s With
Hicks Pasha in the Soudan_ (1884), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxxiii_,
521 (1883), _portrait_; _Graphic xxviii_, 529 (1883), _portrait_.

HICKS, WILLIAM ROBERT (_son of William Hicks, schoolmaster, Bodmin,
d. 1833_). _b._ Bodmin 1 April 1808; schoolmaster Bodmin 1832–40;
clerk of Bodmin board of guardians 1834; domestic superintendent
Cornwall county lunatic asylum 1840–60, with the medical officers
introduced a more humane treatment of the patients; mayor of
Bodmin 1865; a well known story teller, familiar in London as the
Yorick of the West; was a proficient in the Cornish and Devonshire
dialects, and in miners’ talk. _d._ Westheath, Bodmin 5 Sep. 1868.
_Collier’s W. R. Hicks, a memoir_ (1888), _portrait_.

HICKSON, GEORGE BLAKE. Called to the bar in Ireland 1819; Q.C. 1
July 1837. _d._ 2 Aug. 1869.

HICKSON, WILLIAM EDWARD (_son of William Hickson, boot manufacturer,
London_). _b._ 7 Jany. 1803; boot maker, partner with his father,
retired 1840; a pioneer of national education and of popular
musical culture; on the royal commission on condition of handloom
weavers 1837, when he visited seats of industry in Great Britain
and Ireland; studied national school systems in Holland, Belgium
and Germany 1839; editor and proprietor of _Westminster Review_,
_vols._ 34–45, 1840–52; author of _The singing master,
instructions for teaching singing in schools and families_, _3
parts_ 1836; _Dutch and German schools_ 1840; _Part singing or
vocal harmony for choral societies_, _4 parts_ 1842; _Time and
faith, an enquiry into the data of ecclesiastical history 2 vols._
1857; _A musical gift containing 24 new songs_ 1859. _d._
Fairseat, Sevenoaks, Kent 22 March 1870.

HIGGIN, RIGHT REV. WILLIAM (_4 son of John Higgin of Greenfield,
governor of Lancaster castle 1783–1833_). _b._ Lancaster 27 Sep.
1793; ed. at Lancaster gram. sch., Manchester gram. sch., and
Trin. coll. Cam., 13 wr. 1817, B.A. 1817; M.A. of Trin. coll.
Dublin 1835, D.D. 1849; C. of Clifton 1817–20; chaplain Richmond
general penitentiary, Dublin 1820–8; R. of Roscrea 1828–45; vicar
general of Killaloe 1828–45; dean of Limerick, instituted 25 Jany.
1845; bishop of Limerick 1849; translated to Derry 7 Dec. 1853,
enthroned 20 Dec.; comr. of national education 1853; an
ecclesiastical comr. for Ireland 1866; author of _Ministerial
fidelity and zeal. A sermon_ 1839, and other sermons and charges
1849–67. _d._ the Palace, Londonderry 12 July 1867. _bur._ in
ground of St. Columba cath. _Manchester school register, iii_,
62–5 (1874).

HIGGINBOTTOM, JOHN (_son of a solicitor_). _b._ Ashton under Lyne 14
June 1788; studied at Edin.; M.R.C.S. 1818, F.R.C.S. 1844; F.R.S.
3 June 1852; practised at Nottingham 1812 to death; temperance
advocate, gave no alcohol to his patients; wrote in scientific
journals on tritons, tadpoles and frogs 1850–62; author of _An
essay on the application of lunar caustic in the case of wounds
and ulcers_ 1826, _3 ed._ 1865; _Mothers, doctors and nurses. A
dialogue on paralysis and apoplexy_ 1850. _d._ St. Alban’s villas,
Gill st. Nottingham 7 April 1876. _The Lancet 29 April 1876 p._
652.

HIGGINS, MOST REV. ANDREW. _b._ Killarney 1834; dean of Kerry;
bishop of Kerry 5 Feb. 1882 to death. _d._ The palace, Kerry 1 May
1889. _bur._ in the cathedral 3 May. _Tablet 4 May 1889 p._ 702,
_11 May p._ 736.

HIGGINS, CHARLES. _b._ 1805 or 1806; M.D. Edin. 1825; knight of
legion of honour; author of _Observations on climate, diet and
medical treatment in France and England_ 1835; _Notes sur l’emploi
des altérants dans les maladies, aigues et chroniques_. _Paris_
1859. _d._ 212 Rue de Rivoli, Paris 27 July 1866.

HIGGINS, CHARLES LONGUET (_1 son of John Higgins of Turvey abbey,
Beds., d. 1846_). _b._ Turvey abbey 30 Nov. 1806; pensioner of
Trin. coll. Cam. 14 Nov. 1825; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1834; student of
Lincoln’s inn 16 Nov. 1830, withdrew his name 2 Nov. 1847; studied
medicine at St. Bartholomew’s 1836–8; in practice at Turvey 1838;
visited Egypt and the Holy Land 1848; restored Turvey ch. 1852–4,
built schools 1847, a village museum 1852 and better cottages 1849
etc.; projected a hymn book for general use in Ch. of England, and
printed _Hymnology, a paper read before the church congress
Nottingham_. _Oxford_ 1871. _d._ Turvey 23 Jany. 1885. _J. W.
Burgon’s Lives of twelve good men_ (1888) _ii_, 343–422.

HIGGINS, GEORGE GORE OUSELEY (_2 son of Fitzgerald Higgins of
Westport, co. Mayo_). _b._ 15 Oct. 1818; ed. at Brussels and Trin.
coll. Dublin; in C.S. in Jamaica; M.P. for Mayo 1850 to 1857;
lieut.-col. North Mayo militia 5 Feb. 1855 to 1 Oct. 1861. _d._ 6
Wilton place, London 8 May 1874. _I.L.N. xvii_, 169 (1850),
_portrait_.

HIGGINS, MATTHEW JAMES (_only son of Matthew Higgins of Benown
castle, Westmeath_). _b._ Benown castle 4 Dec. 1810; ed. at Eton;
matric. from New coll. Ox. 22 May 1828; went to British Guiana
1838 and 1846 where he owned an estate; contributed an article
called ‘Jacob Omnium the Merchant Prince’ to _New Monthly
Magazine_, Aug. 1845; agent for the British Association for the
relief of the destitute Irish 1847; contested Westbury 31 July
1847; one of chief writers on _Morning Chronicle_ 1848;
contributed to _The Times_ on all kinds of questions under
pseudonym of Jacob Omnium, J.O., Civilian, Paterfamilias, West
Londoner, A Belgravian Mother, Mother of six, A thirsty soul, John
Barleycorn, Providus, and many others till 1863; contributed to
the _Edinburgh Rev._, the _Cornhill_ and the _Pall Mall Gazette_;
author of _Is cheap sugar the triumph of free trade? A letter to
Lord J. Russell_ 1847, _Second Letter_ 1848, _Third Letter_ 1848;
_Light horse_ 1855; _The story of the Mhow court-martial_ 1864 and
other books. _d._ Kingston house near Abingdon 14 Aug. 1868.
_bur._ in R.C. cemet. Fulham 21 Aug. _Essays on social subjects by
M. J. Higgins, with memoir by Sir W. S. Maxwell_ (1875);
_Cornhill_, _xviii_, 507–12 (1868); _The Mask_ (1868), 42
_portrait_.

HIGGINS, THOMAS GORDON. _b._ 1789; Second lieut. R.A. 4 Oct. 1806,
col. 20 June 1854 to 24 Jany. 1857, col. commandant 20 Sep. 1865
to death; L.G. 26 Dec. 1865; commandant of garrison of Quebec 5
years, presented with a piece of plate by inhabitants of Quebec 30
April 1853. _d._ 83 Sloane st. Chelsea 20 June 1871 aged 82.
_I.L.N. xxii_, 341 (1853), _picture of testimonial_.

HIGGINSON, REV. EDWARD (_eld. son of Rev. Edward Higginson,
unitarian minister, d. 1832_). _b._ Heaton Norris, Lancs. 9 Jany.
1807; ed. at Manchester coll. York 1823–8; unitarian minister Bowl
alley lane chapel, Hull 1828–46, at Westgate chapel, Wakefield
1846–58, and at High st. chapel, Swansea 1858–76; president Royal
Institution, South Wales 1877–9; author of _Orthodoxy and
unbelief_ 1832; _The sacrifice of Christ_ 1833, _2 ed._ 1848; _The
spirit of the Bible 2 vols._ 1853–5, _2 ed._ 1863; _Ecce Messias_
1871; with his wife Emily dau. of George Thomas he wrote _The fine
arts in Italy_ 1859. _d._ 2 Glanmore ter. Swansea 12 Feb. 1880.
_Autobiographical sketch in Christian Reformer_ (1856) 192, (1857)
528; _Christian Life 21 Feb. 1880 pp._ 86–7, _portrait_.

HIGGINSON, GEORGE POWELL. _b._ 1787; ensign 1 foot guards 6 Nov.
1805, captain 26 Oct. 1820 to 11 April 1834 when placed on h.p.;
col. 94 foot 29 Jany. 1855 to death; general 9 Nov. 1862. _d._
Cannes 19 April 1866 aged 79.

HIGGINSON, SIR JAMES MACAULAY (_son of James Higginson, major 10
foot_). _b._ 1805; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; entered Bengal army
1824; private sec. to Lord Metcalfe in India, Jamaica and Canada
1835–46; governor of Antigua and the Leeward island 1846–50;
governor of Mauritius 1 Oct. 1850 to 11 Sep. 1857; C.B. 1 March
1851, K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1857. _d._ Tulfaris, co. Wicklow 28 June
1885.

HIGGS, WILLIAM ALPHEUS (_3 son of William Higgs of Tiverton,
Somerset_). _b._ Luckington near Frome 1838; head of firms of W.
A. Higgs & Co. and Barber & Co. tea merchants, London; sheriff of
London and Middlesex 1887–8; accompanied Lord mayor Polydore de
Keyser to Belgium on his visit to his native country 1888;
F.R.G.S.; of Willenhall park, New Barnet; a breeder of prize
stock. _d._ suddenly at Hotel Victoria, Northumberland avenue,
London when starting to attend lord mayor’s ball 23 Dec. 1889.
_City Press 28 Dec. 1889 p._ 5.

HIGHTON, EDWARD. _b._ Leicester 13 Aug. 1817; resident engineer of
Taff Vale dock and railway 1845; telegraphic engineer to London
and North Western railway co. 1846; A.I.C.E. 1847; received large
gold medal of Society of Arts for his inventions in electric
telegraphy 1849; author of _The electric telegraph, its history
and progress_ 1852; _Highton’s Mathematical arrangement of code
for telegraph purposes_ 1857. _d._ 5 Gloucester road, Regent’s
park, London 13 Nov. 1859.

HIGHTON, REV. HENRY (_1 son of Henry Highton_). _b._ Leicester 19
Jany. 1816; ed. at Rugby and Queen’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1837, M.A.
1840; Mitchel fell. of his coll. 1840–1; assistant master of Rugby
1841–56; principal of Cheltenham coll. March 1859 to 1862; silver
medallist of Soc. of Arts for paper on Telegraphy without
insulation 1 May 1872; patented 4 improvements in galvanic
batteries 1871–2 and 3 improvements in electric telegraphs 1873–4;
invented artificial stone much used for paving and building;
author of _A letter to Sir M. Montefiore on address presented by
1500 continental Jews_ 1842; _A catechism of the Second Advent_
1851; _A revised translation of the New Testament_ 1862; _Letter
on repeal of the Act of uniformity_ 1863; _Dean Stanley and Saint
Socrates, the ethics of the philosopher and the philosophy of the
divine_ 1873. _d._ The Cedars, Putney 23 Dec. 1874.

HIGMAN, REV. JOHN PHILIPS. _b._ 1793; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., 3rd
wrangler 1816; B.A. 1816, M.A. 1819; fellow and tutor of his
coll.; R. of Fakenham, Norfolk 1834 to death; F.R.S. 23 May 1820;
F.R.A.S.; author of _A syllabus of the differential and integral
calculus_ 1826. _d._ Cambridge ter. Hyde park, London 7 Aug. 1855.

HIGSON, JOHN (_eld. son of Daniel Higson_). _b._ Whiteley Farm,
Gorton, Lancs. 25 July 1825; ed. at Ardwick and Gorton old sch.;
cashier of Victoria mills, Droylsden; cashier of Springhead
spinning co. Droylsden; author of _The Gorton historical recorder
or a history of the Mesne manor and its inhabitants_ 1852; _A
history of Droylsden_ 1859; _Explosions in coal mines_ 1878;
commenced a newspaper at Droylsden which was a failure;
contributed to _Ashton Reporter_ under signature of H. _d._ Birch
cottage, Lees near Oldham 13 Dec. 1871. _bur._ Droylsden ch. yard.
_Procter’s Manchester streets_ (1874) 288–91; _Ashton Reporter 16
Dec. 1871_.

HILDIGE, JAMES GRAHAM. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; M.R.C.S. Eng.
1852; L.K.Q.C.P.I. 1853; F.R.C.S.I. 1859; lecturer on ophthalmic
surgery Carmichael sch. of medicine; author of _Medical sketches
in Austria, Prussia and Italy, with remarks on the Campagna and
the conquered provinces in Italy and Hungary_. _Dublin_ 1859;
writer of papers in medical journals. _d._ 7 Upper Merrion st.
Dublin 14 May 1871.

HILDITCH, SIR EDWARD (_son of John Frederick Hilditch of
Hammersmith_). _b._ 1805; studied at St. George’s hospital;
M.R.C.S. 1826; M.D. Aberdeen 1859; entered navy 1826, on West
India station 1830–55; inspector general of hospitals and fleets 6
Feb. 1854 to 13 Jany. 1870 when he retired; in charge of Royal
hospital, Plymouth 1855–61, of Greenwich hospital 1861–65;
knighted at Windsor castle 20 Nov. 1865; hon. physician to the
Queen 1868 to death. _d._ 18 Arundel gardens, Bayswater, London 24
Aug. 1876.

HILDYARD, REV. JAMES (_8 son of Rev. Wm. Hildyard 1762–1842, R. of
Winstead in Holderness, Yorkshire_). _b._ Winstead 11 April 1809;
ed. at Shrewsbury 1820–29, was head of the sch. from 1826, headed
a rebellion in the sch. known as the Beef Row, April 1829;
pensioner at Ch. coll. Cam. Oct. 1829, Tancred divinity student
1829, sen. opt. in mathematics, second in the first class of the
class. tripos and chancellor’s medallist Jany. 1833; B.A. 1833,
M.A. 1836, B.D. 1846; fellow of his coll. 1833 and classical
lecturer and tutor; Cambridge preacher at Chapel royal, Whitehall
1843, 1844; senior proctor 1843; R. of Ingoldsby, Lincoln, June
1846 to death; author of _M. A. Plauti Menæchmi cum notis_ 1836;
_Five sermons on the parable of the rich man and Lazarus_ 1841;
_The university system of private tuition examined_ 1844; _Reply
to the bishops in convocation, on Lord Ebury’s motion for a
revision of the liturgy_. _Signed Ingoldsby_ 1858, _4 ed. 2 vols._
1879. _d._ Ingoldsby 27 Aug. 1887. _The Biograph, May 1881 pp._
472–77; _William Smith’s Old Yorkshire_ (1883) _pp._ 142–46,
_portrait_; _Church portrait journal, April 1877_, 49–50,
_portrait_.

HILDYARD, JOHN (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 1796 or 1797; ed.
at Shrewsbury, head boy there; went to St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A.
1818, M.A. 1821; barrister L.I. 10 July 1821; recorder of
Stamford, Grantham and Leicester 1835–54; judge of county courts,
circuit 20 (Leicestershire), March 1847 to death. _d._ the King’s
hotel, Loughborough 13 Feb. 1855. _bur._ in Townshend vault, All
Saints’ church, Hertford 21 Feb.

NOTE.—His father lived to see 9 sons masters of arts in
Cambridge university, and 6 of them fellows of their
respective colleges.

HILDYARD, ROBERT CHARLES (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Winstead
1800; ed. at Oakham sch. and Cath. hall, Cam., B.A. 1823, M.A.
1826, fellow of his coll.; barrister L.I. 25 May 1827; admitted ad
eundem at I.T. 1833, bencher 1844, reader 1857; counsel to duchy
of Lancaster to 1846; Q.C. 1845; M.P. for Whitehaven 28 July 1847
to death. _d._ 24 Lowndes st. London 7 Dec. 1857.

HILDYARD, THOMAS BLACKBORNE THOROTON- (_son of colonel Thomas B.
Thoroton-Hildyard of Flintham hall, Notts., d. 1830_). _b._ 8
April 1821; ed. at Eton; matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 16 Oct. 1839;
sheriff of Notts. 1862; M.P. South Notts. 1846–52 and 1866–85;
chairman Notts. quarter sessions 6 April 1874. _d._ 11 Moreton
gardens, South Kensington 19 March 1888.

NOTE.—His fellow member for South Notts. 1874–85 George Storer
_d._ Thornton hall, Notts, the same day 19 March.

HILDYARD, REV. WILLIAM (_son of Rev. John Hildyard of Monk’s Eleigh,
Suffolk_). Matric. from Trin. coll. Ox. 24 May 1808 aged 17,
scholar 1812–5, B.A. 1812, M.A. 1817; assist. P.C. Beverley
minster 1820; R. of Hameringham cum Scrayfield, Lincoln 1837–66;
author of _Thoughts on Sunday schools_. _Beverley_ 1827;
_Specimens of composition_ 1832; _A manual of ancient geography
for the use of schools_ 1835; _A letter to the Rev. A. J. Carr
respecting a sermon preached by him in St. John’s chapel_,
_Beverley_ 1843. _d._ Market Deeping, Lincs. 11 Feb. 1875. _I.L.N.
lxvi_, 211 (1875).

HILES, JOHN. _b._ 1810; organist at Shrewsbury 1835–53, at
Portsmouth 1853–60, and at Brighton 1860–74; organist Christ
church, Gipsy hill, London 1874–81; author of _A catechism for the
pianoforte student_ 1871, _18 ed._ 1882, circulated 65,000 copies;
_A complete dictionary of 12,500 musical terms_ 1871, _7 ed._
1882; _Short Voluntaries for the organ 4 series_ 1854–75;
_Catechism of the organ_ 1876; revised _The Amateur organist_. _By
E. Travis_ 1872, and composed many pieces of music. _d._ 51 Elsham
road, Kennington, London 4 Feb. 1882. _Musical Directory_ (1883)
_p. xviii_.

HILL, ROWLAND HILL, 2 Viscount (_eld. son of John Hill 1769–1814,
colonel in the army_). _b._ 10 May 1800; ed. at Oriel coll. Ox.,
M.A. 1820; cornet royal horse guards 1820–24; M.P. for Shropshire
1821–32, for North Shropshire 1832–42; succeeded his grandfather
as 4 baronet 21 May 1824, and his uncle as 2 viscount 10 Dec.
1842; lieut.-col. North Salop yeomanry cavalry 18 Aug. 1824; lord
lieut. of Shropshire 20 Nov. 1845 to death; col. Shropshire
militia 8 June 1849 to Aug. 1852. _d._ Hawkstone park, Salop 2
Jany. 1875. _I.L.N. iv_, 65 (1811), _portrait_.

HILL, REV. ALEXANDER (_son of George Hill, D.D. 1750–1819, principal
of St. Andrews univ._) _b._ St. Andrews 19 July 1785; ed. at St.
Andrews, B.A. 1804, D.D. 1828; licensed as a presbyterian preacher
Sep. 1806; minister of Colmonell, Ayrshire 1815–16 and of Dailly
1816–40; professor of divinity Glasgow univ. 1840–62; moderator of
the general assembly 1845; author of _The practice in the
judicatories of the church of Scotland_ _2 ed._ 1830, _5 ed._
1851; _Practical hints to young ministers_; _Counsels regarding
the pastoral office_. _d._ 24. Wellington sq. Ayr 27 Jany. 1867.
_John Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy 3rd series_ (1851) 364–9;
_Scott’s Fasti ii, part i, p._ 108.

HILL, DAVID OCTAVIUS (_son of Thomas Hill, bookseller, Perth_). _b._
Perth 1802; studied under Andrew Wilson, Edin.; landscape painter;
sec. Soc. of Arts, Edin. 1830, which became R. Scottish academy,
sec. 1838–70; R.S.A.; the first to apply photography to
portraiture and to use calotype; a commissioner of the board of
manufacturers 1850; originated Art Union of Edin. 183-, the first
institution of the kind; exhibited 4 pictures at R.A., 1 at B.I.
and 2 at Suffolk st. 1832–68 and many at R.S.A.; commenced in 1843
his picture, Signing the deed of demission, which contains 500
portraits, finished 1865, now in Free Ch. assembly hall, Edin.;
published 60 pictures of the Scenery of the Land of Burns 1841.
_d._ Edinburgh 17 May 1870. _Redgrave’s Dictionary of Artists_
(1878) 211; _Edinburgh Evening Courant 18 May 1870 p._ 8.

HILL, SIR DUDLEY ST. Leger (_eld. son of Dudley Hill_). _b._ co.
Carlow 1790; ensign 82 foot 27 Aug. 1804; captain royal West India
rangers 1810–14; major attached to Portuguese and Spanish army
1814 to 25 Dec. 1816 when placed on h.p.; major 95 foot 1823 to 19
Jany. 1826 when placed on h.p.; served in South America 1806–8 and
in the Peninsula 1808–14, being wounded 7 times; K.T.S. 20 Nov.
1816; knighted 25 Nov. 1816; governor of St. Lucia 15 April 1834
to 21 Dec. 1847; general on staff in Bengal 10 April 1848 to
death; colonel of 50 regt. 28 March 1849 to death; M.G. 23 Nov.
1841; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 2 March 1848. _d._ Umballa, Bengal
21 Feb. 1851. _I.L.N. xviii_, 329 (1851).

HILL, EDWARD ROWLEY (_2 son of Hugh Hill 1770–1850, colonel battle
axe guards, Dublin castle_). _b._ 29 Dec. 1795; ensign 43 foot 23
Feb. 1813; lieut. col. 1 West India regiment 1 Jany. 1847 to 7
Sep. 1855; lieut. col. 68 foot 7 Sep. 1855 to 10 Sep. 1858 when
placed on h.p.; col. 5 foot 21 Feb. 1868 to death; general 1 Oct.
1877. _d._ Brighton 10 Sep. 1878.

HILL, EDWIN (_2 child of Thomas Wright Hill of Birmingham
1763–1851_). _b._ Birmingham 25 Nov. 1793; manager Fazeley st.
rolling mills, Birmingham to 1827; with his bro. Sir Rowland Hill
kept a school at Bruce castle, Tottenham 1827; supervisor of the
stamps department, Somerset house 1840, remodelled the machinery
in use, thus effecting a saving of many thousands a year; with W.
De la Rue invented machine for folding envelopes 1840; author of
_Principles of currency. Means of ensuring uniformity of value and
adequacy of supply_ 1856; _Criminal capitalists, pamphlets_
1870–2. _d._ 1 St. Mark’s sq. Regent’s park, London 6 Nov. 1876.
_G. B. Hill’s Life of Sir Rowland Hill_ (1880) _i_, 37, ii, 99,
503.

HILL, ELLEN (_dau. of Mr. Shaw_). _b._ 1803; an actress of some note
at the minor theatres; played leading business at the Royalty, the
Marylebone and the City of London theatres; acted in a drama with
the young Roscius, W. H. Betty and Charles Kean; retired from
stage 1840. (_m._ William John Hill, leader and composer _d._
Dublin, Jany. 1851). _d._ London 9 Dec. 1866 aged 63. _Era 23 Dec.
1866 p._ 12.

HILL, GEORGE. _b._ co. Wexford 1809; printer; contributed articles
on the scenery and antiquities of Wexford and Kilkenny to _Dublin
Penny Journal_, illustrated by his own drawings; reporter to the
_Waterford Mail_, _Wexford Independent_, _Drogheda Conservative_,
_Liverpool Herald_, _Rochdale Pilot_ and the _Bacup and Rossendale
News_. _d._ Bacup, Lancs. 8 July 1869. _Newspaper Press 2 Aug.
1869 p._ 181.

HILL, GEORGE AUGUSTA (_5 son of 2 marquis of Downshire 1753–1801_).
_b._ 9 Dec. 1801; lieut. royal horse guards 20 July 1820; captain
8 hussars 1825 to 6 July 1830 when placed on h.p.; M.P. for
Carrickfergus 1831–2; sheriff of Donegal 1845; author of _Facts
from Gweedore with useful hints to Donegal tourists_. _Dublin 2
parts_ 1845, _3 ed._ 1854. _d._ Ballyane house near Ramelton, co.
Donegal 6 April 1879.

HILL, HENRY. _b._ Manchester 1807; first betted at Newmarket 1829;
in partnership with John Gully; factotum for Lord George Bentinck
for many years; cleared some thousands on Bloomsbury winning the
Derby 1839; discovered the Running Rein fraud 1844; kept race
horses; won heavily on Pyrrhus the First, winner of Derby 1846;
won the Two Thousand with Pitsford 1850; with Rogerthorpe won
Goodwood cup 1856; the largest better on the Derby except W. E.
Davies the Leviathan; lost £40,000 in one year on the Stock
Exchange; purchased Ackworth near Pomfret from John Gully. _d._ 52
Queen’s gate ter. Kensington 1 Feb. 1881 aged 74. _Sporting Rev.,
April 1858 pp._ 295–8; _W. Day’s Reminiscences_ (1886) 63–76.

HILL, REV. HENRY THOMAS. _b._ 1815; ed. at C.C. coll. Cam., B.A.
1837, M.A. 1840; P.C. of Lye, Worcs. 1839–43; C. of Wolverley
1843–51; R. of Felton 1851 to death; V. of Preston Wynne, Hereford
1858–76; diocesan inspector of schools 1870–72; preb. of
Nonnington in Hereford cath. 1870 to death; author of _Church
restoration, What is it? Whence is it?_ 1864; _Thoughts on
churches and church yards_ 1856, _3 ed._ 1862. _d._ Felton 11
Jany. 1882.

HILL, SIR HUGH (_2 son of James Hill of Graig, co. Cork 1771–1850_).
_b._ Graig 1802; entered Trin. coll. Dublin, Nov. 1816, B.A. 1821;
at King’s Inns, Dublin; practised in London as a special pleader
below the bar 1827–41; barrister M.T. 29 Jany. 1841, bencher Dec.
1851; Q.C. July 1851; serjeant at law May 1858; judge of court of
Queen’s Bench 29 May 1858 to 3 Dec. 1861; knighted at Buckingham
palace 18 April 1859. _d._ Royal crescent hotel, Brighton 12 Oct.
1871.

HILL, SIR JAMES (_eld. son of James Haylock Hill of Newbold Firs,
Leamington_). _bapt._ at St. Thomas, Winchester 6 Feb. 1814; ed.
at Winchester and New coll. Ox., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1840; fellow of
his coll.; barrister I.T. 3 May 1839; second charity estate comr.
24 Oct. 1853, chief charity estate comr. 7 Dec. 1872 to death;
knighted at Windsor castle 5 May 1873; published _A practical
treatise on the law relating to trustees, their powers, duties,
privileges and abilities_ 1845. _d._ Folkestone 23 Oct. 1875. _Law
Times, lx_, 60 (1875); _I.L.N. lxvii_, 447 (1875), _lxviii_, 22
(1876).

HILL, JAMES FREDERICK. _b._ Norwich 1817; conductor; composer of
_Old Friends met together, part song_, printed in J. P. Hullah’s
_The Singer’s Library_ 1859. _d._ St. Giles ter. Bethel st.
Norwich 9 March 1877.

HILL, JAMES JOHN (_son of Daniel Hill of Birmingham_). _b._ Broad
st. Birmingham 1810; ed. at Hazlewood sch.; pupil of John Vincent
Barber of Birmingham, artist; a portrait painter in Birmingham to
1839; moved to London 1839; member of Society of British artists
1842; exhibited 10 pictures at R.A., 5 at B.I. and 109 at Suffolk
st. 1842–80. _d._ Sutton house, West Hill, Highgate 27 Jany. 1882.
_Birmingham Weekly Post 4 Feb. 1882._

HILL, SIR JOHN. _b._ 1774; entered navy 25 Sep. 1781, present in
battle of the Nile; an agent for transports 24 March 1813–1819;
captain 28 Oct. 1815; captain superintendent of victualling yard
at Deptford 1820–1838; superintendent of dockyard at Sheerness 9
March 1838–41, at Deptford 11 Dec. 1841 to 16 April 1851; rear
admiral 2 April 1851; knighted at St. James’s palace 31 Aug. 1831.
_d._ Walmer lodge, Deal 20 Jany. 1855 aged 81.

HILL, REV. JOHN (_son of John Hill of London_). _b._ 1787; ed. at
St. Edmund hall, Ox., B.A. 1809, M.A. 1812, B.D. 1844; vice
principal of his hall 1812–51; city lecturer at Oxford 1851; R. of
Wyke Regis, Dorset 1851 to death; editor of _Artis Logicæ
Rudimenta by H. Aldrich_. _With observations_ 1849; author of a
few sermons. _d._ Wyke Regis 22 Feb. 1855. _bur._ St. Peter’s in
the East, Oxford.

HILL, REV. JOHN HARWOOD (_son of Robert Hill of Leamington_). _b._
Louth, Lincs. 1809; pensioner Peter house, Cam. 30 June 1830, B.A.
1834; R. of Cranoe, Leics. 1837 to death, and V. of Welham 1841 to
death; F.S.A. 12 Jany. 1871; local sec. Leicestershire Architect,
and Archæol. Soc. and a contributor to its transactions; author of
_The chronicle of the christian ages or records of events
ecclesiastical, civil and military_. _Uppingham 2 vols._ 1859;
_The history of the parish of Langton. Leicester_ 1867; _The
history of Market Harborough. Leicester_ 1875. _d._ Cranoe rectory
3 Dec. 1886. _Proc. Soc. of Antiquaries, xi_, 371 (1885–7);
_Academy 18 Dec. 1886 p._ 411.

HILL, VEN. JUSTLY (_youngest son of colonel William Hill of St.
Boniface, Isle of Wight_). _bapt._ Bonchurch, I. of W. 16 Dec.
1781; ed. at Winchester and New coll. Ox., scholar, B.A. 1805,
M.A. 1808; fellow of his coll. 1802–20; R. of Shanklin and
Bonchurch, Isle of Wight 1809 to death; R. of Tingewick, Bucks.
1818 to death; archdeacon and commissary of Buckingham 1825;
author of _Two charges delivered to the clergy and churchwardens
of the archdeaconry of Buckingham_. _Eton, 2 ed._ 1847, and other
charges and sermons. _d._ Shanklin 18 March 1853.

HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (_eld. child of Thomas Wright Hill of
Birmingham 1763–1851_). _b._ Suffolk st. Birmingham 6 Aug. 1792;
ed. at Wolverhampton and in his father’s school, Birmingham;
assisted in his father’s school to 1815; barrister L.I. 18 Nov.
1819, went Midland circuit, quitted it 1846; defended wife of
Richard Carlile on charge of selling a libel 1820; leading counsel
for Nottingham rioters 1831, for Canadian prisoners 1839, for
Rebecca rioters 1843, and for D. O’Connell 1844; for the
plaintiffs in Braintree ch. rate case 1848, for the crown in Dr.
Hampden’s case 1848; for many years in parliament and in the
courts engaged in Baron de Bode’s case; established with Bentham
and Brougham the Soc. for Diffusion of useful knowledge, Jany.
1827; M.P. for Hull 1832–35; Q.C. 7 July 1834; recorder of
Birmingham, April 1839, resigned Jany. 1866; one of commissioners
of court of bankruptcy for Bristol district 24 March 1851 to 31
Dec. 1869 when office was abolished, granted sum of £1800; author
of _Suggestions for repression of crime_ 1857; _Our exemplars.
Biographical sketches_ 1861. _d._ Heath house, Stapleton, Gloucs.
7 June 1872. _The Recorder of Birmingham, a memoir of M. D. Hill,
By R. and F. D. Hill_ (1878), _portrait_; _Law mag. and review,
July 1872 pp._ 515–29.

HILL, REV. PASCOE GRENFELL (_son of major Thomas Hill_). _b._
Marazion, Cornwall 15 May 1804; ed. at Mill Hill sch. Middlesex
and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1836; chaplain R.N. 1836–45; chaplain
Westminster hospital 1852–7; R. of St. Edmund the King and martyr
with St. Nicholas Acons, Lombard st. London 26 Jany. 1863 to
death; the first to introduce a surpliced choir into a city ch.;
author of _Fifty days on board a slave ship_ 1843, _3 ed._ 1853;
_A voyage to the slave coasts_ 1849; _A journey through Palestine_
1852; _Life of Napoleon 3 vols._ 1869. _d._ the rectory house 32
Finsbury sq. London 28 Aug. 1882. _bur._ Ilford cemetery. _City
Press 2 Sep. 1882 p._ 5; _Boase & Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i_,
240.

HILL, PERCY. _b._ 24 Dec. 1817; ensign 68 foot 26 June 1835; lieut.
colonel rifle brigade 22 June 1855 to 6 March 1868; served in
Russian war 1854–6 and in Indian mutiny 1857–8; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877;
colonel 85 foot 27 Sep. 1879 to death; C.B. 26 July 1858. _d._ 24
April 1880.

HILL, REV. RICHARD HUMPHRY (_2 son of Rev. Richard Hill of
Wolverton, Somerset_). _b._ Wolverton 21 Oct. 1824; chorister
Magd. coll. Ox. 1834–42, demy 1842–51, matric. from Ex. coll. 2
June 1842; B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849, D.C.L. 1854; head master of
Beaumaris gr. sch. 1850–64 and of Magd. coll. sch. Ox. Jany. 1865
to 23 July 1876 which he raised to the level of a first-rate
public school; precentor and canon of Bangor 31 Dec. 1864 to
death; R. of Stanway near Colchester 22 Dec. 1874 to death. _d._
Stanway rectory 26 Feb. 1891. _J. R. Bloxam’s Register of Magdalen
College, i_ 219, _vii_ 353–6.

HILL, SIR ROBERT CHAMBRE (_4 son of Sir John Hill of Hawkstone,
Salop, 3 bart. 1740–1824_). _b._ 25 March 1778; ed. at Rugby;
cornet royal horse guards 11 June 1794, lieut. colonel 13 May 1813
to 24 July 1823; knighted by the prince regent at Carlton house 29
May 1812; served in the Peninsula and at Waterloo; C.B. 22 June
1815. _d._ Prees hall, Salop 5 March 1860. _The case of J. Jebb
with charges against Sir R. Hill_ (1830).

HILL, ROBERT GARDINER (_son of Robert Hill of Leamington_). _b._
Louth, Lincs. 26 Feb. 1811; M.R.C.S. 1834; L.C.P. Edin. 1859;
resident house surgeon of Lincoln lunatic asylum July 1835;
proprietor with Richard Sutton Harvey of Eastgate House private
asylum, Lincoln 1840–63; presented with a testimonial at Lincoln
29 Oct. 1851 as the author and originator of the non-restraint
system in lunacy; mayor of Lincoln 1852–3; F.S.A. 17 Feb. 1853;
resident medical proprietor of Earl’s Court house, Old Brompton,
London, Oct. 1863 to death; author of _A concise history of the
entire abolition of medical restraint in the treatment of the
insane_ 1857; _Lunacy, its past and its present_ 1870. _d._ Earl’s
Court House, London 30 May 1878. _Robertson’s Photographs of
eminent medical men_ (1868) _ii_, 65–8, _portrait_; _Medical
Circular 7 Sep. 1853 pp._ 187–9, _portrait_, _and 23 Nov. pp._
522–3; _I.L.N. 3 Jany. 1852 pp._ 13–14, _view of testimonial_.

HILL, SIR ROWLAND (_3 son of Thomas Wright Hill 1763–1851_).
_b._ Kidderminster 3 Dec. 1795; a teacher in his father’s
schools at Birmingham and Tottenham 1808–28; established the
Hazelwood system of school management 1812; undertook the
management of his father’s money affairs from 1812; invented a
rotatory printing press; sec. to the South Australian
commission 1835–9; published _Post office reform, its
importance and practicability_ 1836; described his adhesive
postage stamp 13 Feb. 1837; attached to the Treasury to
introduce cheap postage 1839–42, dismissed by Sir R. Peel,
Sep. 1842, penny postage established 10 Jany. 1840; director
of London and Brighton railway 1843, chairman 1845–6,
introduced system of express and excursion trains; presented
by public subscription with £13,000, 17 June 1846; sec. to
post-master-general Nov. 1846; permanent sec. of post office,
April 1854 to 4 March 1864; had a grant from parliament of
£20,000, 1864; F.R.S. 11 June 1857, member of council 1867;
D.C.L. of Ox. 9 June 1864; K.C.B. 10 Feb. 1860; F.R.A.S.;
presented with freedom of city of London 6 June 1879; author
of _Home colonies, plan for extinction of pauperism_ 1832;
_Post office reform_ 1837, _3 ed._ 1837; _The state and
prospects of penny postage_ 1844; _Results of postal reform_
1864. _d._ Bertram house, Hampstead 27 Aug. 1879. _bur._ St.
Paul’s chapel, Westminster abbey 4 Sep. _G. B. Hill’s Life of
Sir R. Hill 2 vols._ 1880, _portrait_; _W. Lewin’s Her
Majesty’s Mails_ (_2 ed._ 1865) 168–97, _portrait_; _Walford’s
Photographic portraits, No. 12, April 1857_, _portrait_; _H.
J. Nichol’s Great movements_ (1881) 189–220, _portrait_.

NOTE.—Sir R. Hill’s statue at corner of Royal exchange,
London, was unveiled 17 June 1882.—Other statues have been
erected at Kidderminster and Birmingham.