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BAIRD, REV. WILLIAM. Ed. at Linc. coll. Ox., B.A. 1859, M.A. 1861;
V. of St. Barnabas, Homerton 1870 to death; author of _Hallowing
of our common life, sermons_ 1867, _3 ed._ 1874; _Inheritance of
our fathers, the book of common prayer_ 1868; _Days that are past,
early church history_ 1870. _d._ Coleshill st. Eaton sq. London 5
Dec. 1875.

BAKER, ANNE ELIZABETH. _b._ 16 June 1786; wrote the geological and
botanical part of her brother George Baker’s _History and
antiquities of Northamptonshire_; author of _Glossary of
Northamptonshire words and phrases 2 vols._ 1854. _d._ Gold st.
Northampton 22 April 1861.

BAKER, ANTHONY ST. JOHN. Consul general in the U.S. of America 6
Jany. 1816 to 5 Jany. 1832 when office abolished. _d._ Mount
Calverley lodge, Tunbridge Wells 16 May 1854.

BAKER, B. B. Director of the college at Corfu; professor of English
literature in the Ionian University. _d._ Malta 20 Feb. 1868.

BAKER, REV. DAVID BRISTOW. Ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1829,
M.A. 1832; Inc. of Claygate, Surrey 1841–52; author of _A treatise
on the nature of doubt in religious questions [by D.B.B.]_ 1831;
_Discourses and Sacramental addresses to a village congregation_
1832. _d._ Parliament st. Westminster 24 July 1852 aged 49.

BAKER, D. S. Deaf and dumb heraldic artist; drew for many years the
arms for the obituary notices in the Illustrated London News;
painted heraldic paintings on panels and doors of state carriage
of Lord Mayor of London. _d._ 1 Sep. 1877 aged 53.

BAKER, SIR EDWARD BAKER, 2 Baronet. _b._ Dublin 4 Nov. 1806; ed. at
Ch. Ch. Ox.; succeeded 4 March 1825. _d._ 51 Upper Brook st.
London 29 March 1877.

BAKER, REV. FRANKLIN. _b._ Birmingham 1801; M.A. Univ. of Glasgow;
minister of Presbyterian chapel Bolton 14 Dec. 1823; ordained 23
Sep. 1824; author of _The rise and progress of Nonconformity in
Bolton_ 1854. _d._ Birmingham 25 May 1867.

BAKER, GEORGE. _b._ Northampton; mayor 1837; issued proposals for a
history of Northamptonshire 1815; published the first part 1822,
the second 1826, the third completing the first volume 1830, the
fourth part 1836 and about one third of the fifth part 1841, the
manuscripts were eventually purchased by Sir Thomas Phillipps.
_d._ May Fair, Northampton 12 Oct. 1851 aged 70. _G.M. xxxvi_,
551–52, 629 (1851).

BAKER, GEORGE. _b._ 8 Jany. 1794; cornet 16 light dragoons 6 July
1809; captain 19 Oct. 1820 to 18 July 1826, when placed on h.p.;
English comr. for defining boundary frontier between Turkey and
Greece 1830; F.R.G.S. 1830. _d._ Grosvenor place, Bath 22 Dec.
1859. _Journal of Royal Geographical society xxx, c-cii_ (1860).

BAKER, GEORGE. _b._ Cobham near Gravesend 31 May 1838; a bowler at
Lord’s cricket ground, London 1862–64; started the United north
and south of England Eleven 1866, sec. to that body which soon
became extinct; kept a cricket and newspaper shop at Stratford,
Essex about 1864 to death; a left handed bowler and batsman. _d._
Lydd, Kent 2 June 1870.

BAKER, SIR HENRY LORAINE, 2 Baronet. _b._ Nancy in Lorraine 3 Jany.
1787; captain R.N. 13 June 1815; retired V.A. 9 July 1857;
succeeded as 2 Bart. 4 Feb. 1826; C.B. 4 June 1815. _d._ Dunstable
house, Richmond 2 Nov. 1859.

BAKER, REV. SIR HENRY WILLIAMS, 3 Baronet (_elder son of the
preceding_). _b._ London 27 May 1821; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1844, M.A. 1854; C. of Great Horkesley Essex 1842–51; V. of
Monkland, Hereford 1851 to death; originated the most popular hymn
book ever compiled, _Hymns ancient and modern_ 1860, of which 20
million copies have been sold, author of several of these hymns.
_d._ Horkesley house, Monkland 12 Feb. 1877.

BAKER, REV. JAMES. _b._ Lincoln; ed. at Winchester; fellow of New
college Ox. 1807–18, B.A. 1811. M.A. 1815; chancellor of diocese
of Durham 1818 to death; R. of Nuneham Courtenay, Oxon 1825 to
death. _d._ Nuneham Courtenay 6 Sep. 1854 aged 66.

BAKER, JAMES. _b._ York 4 Oct. 1851; the first editor of a
periodical entitled _Bachelors’ Papers_ Liverpool 1870; studied at
Univ. of Edin. 1872; M.B. 1876; resident phys. Royal infirmary
Edin. 1876; pres. of Royal medical society. _d._ Royal infirmary
Edin. 17 April 1877. _The annual monitor for 1878 pp._ 15–29.

BAKER, JAMES VASHON. _b._ 1798; entered navy 1811; captain 10 July
1843; admiral on h.p. 30 July 1875. _d._ Neen-Sollars rectory,
Shropshire 14 Oct. 1875.

BAKER, JOHN. One of the pioneers of South Australia; one of its
foremost public men; member of Legislative Council. _d._ Morialta,
South Australia 18 May 1872 aged 59.

BAKER, JOSEPH. _b._ Great new st. Fetter lane London about 1766; map
engraver; employed by the Board of Ordnance; a liveryman of
company of stationers 1787, one of the court of assistants 1825,
master of the company 1832 and 1833, a stockkeeper for management
of business concerns of the company 1840 to death. _d._ Warren st.
Pentonville, London 2 March 1853.

BAKER, SIR RICHARD (_eld. son of John Baker of Cott house, New
Totnes, Devon_). _b._ Cott house 1782; army and navy clothier
Dublin; sheriff of Dublin 1833; knighted by Marquess Wellesley
1833; alderman of Dublin 1838–41. _d._ Mount Errol, Donnybrook,
co. Dublin 1 June 1853.

BAKER, ROBERT. _b._ Terling, Essex Nov 1793; a tenant farmer at
Writtle; founded Society for protection of agriculture 17 Feb.
1844; author of _A lecture on the economy of farming_ 1852; edited
J. S. Bayldon’s _Art of valuing rents and tillages_ 1856. _d._ 24
Dec. 1859.

BAKER, ROBERT. Member of medical profession; sub-inspector of
factories 1834; inspector 18 June 1858; C.B. 27 Oct. 1877. _d._
Leamington 6 Feb. 1880 in 77 year.

BAKER, REV. ROBERT GEORGE. Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1810, M.A.
1813; V. of Fulham 1834–71; Preb. of St. Paul’s 1846 to death;
rural dean 1851–71; author of _Account of benefactions and
charities of Fulham_; _The olden characters of Fulham_ 1847. _d._
Ivy cottage, Fulham 21 Feb. 1878 in 90 year.

BAKER, THOMAS. _b._ 8 Oct. 1809; landscape painter in Midland
counties; known as Baker of Leamington; exhibited at the R.A.
1831. _d._ 10 Aug. 1869.

BAKER, THOMAS (_son of a farmer at Old Park, Durham_). A civil
engineer; invented method of laying down railway curves; laid out
Stockton and Darlington railway the first line in the kingdom,
opened 27 Sep. 1825; laid out atmospheric line from Dublin to
Kingstown, opened 17 Dec. 1834; author of _Rudimentary treatise on
mensuration_ 1850; _Principles and practice of statics and
dynamics_ 1851; _The mathematical theory of the steam engine_
1862. _d._ Charter house hospital London Sep. or Oct. 1871.

BAKER, THOMAS ELD. _b._ Margate 1791; M.R.C.S. 1813; surgeon Bengal
army 1814 to 23 Aug. 1838 when he retired; treasurer of Royal
humane society; author of _The art of preserving health in India_
1829; _An appeal to the common sense of the people of England in
favour of anatomy_ 1832. _d._ 76 Porchester Terrace, London 23
July 1868.

BAKER, THOMAS PALMER. Chief engineer Chatham dockyard 11 Nov. 1856
to Dec. 1868 when office abolished; chief inspector of machinery
afloat 6 July 1866; C.B. 2 June 1869. _d._ 170, Lewisham high
road, Newcross 6 Oct. 1876 in 69 year.

BAKER, WILLIAM (_son of Mr. Baker of Eastover, Bridgwater,
butcher_). _b._ Eastover 3 March 1787; apprenticed to Mr. Tuthill
of Bridgwater, currier Sep. 1800; worked in London and Glasgow
1807–1809; a currier in Fore st. Bridgwater 1809; alderman; F.G.S.
Nov. 1842; sec. to Somersetshire Archæological and natural history
society. _d._ Bridgwater 8 Oct. 1853. _A brief memoir of Wm. Baker
by John Bowen_ 1854.

BAKER, WILLIAM (_elder son of George Wingfield of Cotham who d.
1774_). Barrister L.I. 23 Nov. 1797, bencher 1818 to death; M.P.
for Bodmin 1 Nov. 1806 to 29 April 1807; chief justice of Brecon
circuit; a comr. of bankrupts; K.C. 1818; master in Chancery 19
March 1819 to March 1849; assumed surname of Baker in lieu of
Wingfield by R.L. 29 Dec. 1849. _d._ Sherborne castle, Dorset 21
March 1858.

BAKER, WILLIAM. _b._ 1784; an attorney in London; coroner for east
division of Middlesex; author of _A practical compendium of the
recent statutes, cases and decisions affecting the office of
coroner_ 1851. _d._ 12 Chester terrace, Regent’s Park 22 Feb.
1859.

BAKER, WILLIAM. _b._ 19 May 1817; articled to G. W. Buck, C.E.
1834–39; engineer upon southern division of London and north
western railway 1852–59, chief engineer of that line Oct.
1859–1878, during which time he carried out a great extent of
railway works; M.I.C.E. 7 May 1848; member of council 1877 to
death. _d._ 7 March 1878. _Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E.
lv_, 315–17 (1879).

BAKER, SIR WILLIAM ERSKINE (_son of Joseph Baker, capt. R.N._) _b._
Leith 1808; 2 lieut. Bengal engineers 15 Dec. 1826, col.
commandant 10 March 1857; military sec. at India office 1858;
member of council of India 1861–1875; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed
on retired list 29 Nov. 1878; K.C.B. 1 Feb. 1870. (_m._ 1837
Frances Gertrude 3 dau. of major general A. Duncan). _d._ the
Castle, Banwell 16 Dec. 1881.

BAKER, REV. WILLIAM RICHARD. _b._ Waltham abbey, Essex 3 Sep. 1798;
agent of Home missionary society at Ramsey, Isle of Man 1822–28;
minister of independent chapel at Shepton Mallet, Somerset
1828–38; sec. of New British and Foreign Temperance Society
1838–41; minister of Portland chapel St. John’s Wood, London
1841–51; a founder of United Kingdom temperance and general
provident Institution 1840, resident director 1852; author of _The
curse of Britain_ 1838; _The idolatry of Britain_ 1840; _Our state
church_ 1850; _Anti-mysticism_ 1855. _d._ Down house near Sutton,
Surrey 28 Sep. 1861. _Life of the late Rev. W. R. Baker, edited by
his sister Mrs. E. L. Edmunds_ 1865.

BALD, ROBERT. _b._ Culross, Perthshire 1776; engaged in the Mar
collieries; a mining engineer at Edin. about 1820; much employed
in Scotland, England and Wales; reported on coalfields of Sweden
for the Swedish government; F.R.S. Edin. 1817; author of _A
general view of the coal trade of Scotland_ 1812; of the article
_Mine_ in the _Edinburgh Encyclopædia_ and of many papers. _d._
Alloa 28 Dec. 1861.

BALD, WILLIAM, _b._ Burnt Island, Fifeshire; a civil engineer 1803;
made a territorial survey of co. Mayo about 1810, his map on a
scale of 4 inches to a mile was one of the finest maps ever
constructed; a draftsman at the Admiralty; resident engineer to
trustees of the river Clyde 1839–45; examined the river Seine
1845. _d._ 1857. _Quarterly journal of Geological Society xiv_,
42–43 (1858).

BALDERS, CHARLES WILLIAM MORELY (_eld. son of Charles Morely Balders
of West Barsham, Norfolk_). _b._ Sunderland 4 Feb. 1804; cornet 3
dragoons 10 Nov. 1825, and major 1845–48; major 5 dragoon guards
1848–54; lieut. col. 12 lancers 8 Jany. 1858 to 31 Aug. 1860; col.
17 lancers 4 Feb. 1867 to death; L.G. 28 Oct. 1869; C.B. 24 May
1847. _d._ 11 Adelaide crescent, Brighton 21 Sep. 1875.

BALDERSON, ABRAHAM THOMAS. _b._ 1804; ed. at Guy’s hospital; L.S.A.
1826; assistant to Sir Astley Cooper 1825–41; examiner of
lunatics, parish of St. James, Westminster. _d._ 37 Woburn sq.
London 3 Feb. 1872

BALDOCK, EDWARD HOLMES. _b._ 1812; M.P. for Shrewsbury 30 July 1847
to 21 March 1857. _d._ 8 Grosvenor place, London 15 Aug. 1875 from
effect of walking through a plate glass window in Alexander
Collie’s house, 12 Kensington palace gardens.

BALDOCK, ROBERT (_youngest son of Thomas Baldock of Burwash Sussex,
surgeon_). _b._ Burwash July 1789; bookseller at 85 High Holborn,
London 1814 to death. _d._ 85 High Holborn 5 Nov. 1861.

BALDOCK, THOMAS. Midshipman R.N. 25 Oct. 1806; superintended packet
service at Dover 19 Aug. 1846 to Sep. 1852; captain on h.p. 9
Jany. 1854; retired R.A. 10 Sep. 1869; K.T.S. 1 May 1837. _d._
Hastings 11 March 1871 aged 81.

BALDWIN, AUGUSTUS. Entered navy May 1794: captain 1 Jany. 1817;
retired admiral 10 Nov. 1862. _d._ Toronto 5 Jany. 1866.

BALDWIN, CHARLES (_3 son of Henry Baldwin of London, printer, who
founded the St. James’s Chronicle 1761_). _b._ 1774; sole
proprietor of _St. James’s Chronicle_ and _Morning Herald_;
founded the _Standard_ evening paper 21 May 1827, published in it
the news of the surrender of Varna 11 Oct. 1828 a fortnight before
arrival of the Government couriers; contested Lambeth Aug. 1837
and July 1841; master of the Stationers’ company 1842 and 1843;
retired from business 1844; probably oldest volunteer in the
kingdom. _d._ 27 Sussex gardens, Hyde park, London 18 Feb. 1869 in
95 year. _Reg. and mag. of biog. i_, 313–15 (1869).

BALDWIN, CHARLES BARRY (_eld. son of Charles Baldwin, lieut. col. of
Kings county militia_). _b._ 1789; barrister I.T. 26 Nov 1824;
secretary to comrs. for claims on France, sole comr. to 1830; M.P.
for Totnes 1830–32 and 1839–52. _d._ Paris 13 April 1859.

BALDWIN, CONNELL JAMES (_son of James Baldwin of Clohina, co.
Cork_). _b._ Clohina; ensign 87 foot 23 July 1807; captain 50 foot
10 Feb. 1820 to 22 Feb. 1827 when placed on h.p.; served in the
Peninsula for which he received a medal and 10 clasps; raised a
regiment at Cork for Emperor of Brazil but brought the men back
again on being ordered to the interior of Brazil as settlers; went
to Canada about 1828; raised a regiment of Militia for defence of
the frontier in troubles of 1837–38. _d._ Toronto 14 Dec. 1861.
_H. J. Morgan’s Sketches of eminent Canadians_ (1862) 733–35.

BALDWIN, EDWARD. _b._ Waterford; a pugilist 6 feet 5 inches in
height; beaten by Andrew Marsden 21 Oct. 1863; beat George Iles 19
Feb. 1866; beat A. Marsden 25 Sep. 1866; matched to fight Joseph
Wormald for Championship 29 April 1867 but forfeited his stakes;
matched to fight James Mace for Championship 15 Oct. 1867 but Mace
was arrested; fought J. Wormald at Lynnfield Massachusetts 1868
for Championship and 2,500 dollars when police interfered, he was
awarded the stakes as Wormald declined to renew the fight; shot
dead in the United States Sep. 1875. _Modern Boxing by Pendragon_
(1879) 83–89; _Illust. Sporting News v_, 97 (1866), _portrait_.

BALDWIN, GEORGE WALTER. Major 31 foot 1863–64; major 20 foot 1864 to
death; murdered by Japanese at Kamahura, about 17 miles from
Yokohama 21 Nov. 1864. _R. Lindau’s Erzählungen und Novellen i_,
15–54. (1871); _F. O. Adams’s History of Japan i_, 485–98 (1874),
_ii_, 1–5 (1875).

BALDWIN, HENRY. Called to bar in Ireland 1826; Q.C. 17 Aug. 1841;
law adviser of the Castle during state trials 1848–49; comr. of
insolvent court 1850 to death. _d._ Dublin 24 May 1854.

BALDWIN, MARTIN. _b._ Coalbrookdale Shropshire 22 Nov. 1788; an
engine factor at Bradley near Bilston 1809; carried on the Lower
Bovereux colliery; invented many improvements in the construction
of engines and machinery. _d._ Newbridge crescent, Wolverhampton
16 Feb. 1872.

BALDWIN, ROBERT (_only son of Benjamin Baldwin of Faringdon,
Berkshire surgeon_). Printer and bookseller in Bridge st.
Blackfriars 1806–10, and in Paternoster row 1810; united his
business with that of another firm under name of Baldwin, Cradock
and Joy; started the _London Magazine_ Jany. 1820, in opposition
to _Blackwood’s Mag._ transferred it to Messrs. Taylor and Hessey
1821; became insolvent; a stock keeper of Company of Stationers
1834 to death. _d._ Cumberland place, Westbourne grove north, 29
Jany. 1858 aged 78.

BALDWIN, ROBERT (_son of Wm. Warren Baldwin of Toronto, lawyer who
d. 8 Jany. 1844_). _b._ Toronto 1804; partner with his father
1825–48; member of Assembly of Upper Canada 1829; executive
councillor 18 Feb. 1836 for short time; solicitor general 1840;
attorney general for Upper Canada Sep. 1842 and Feb. 1848 to July
1851; C.B. 23 June 1854. _d._ Spadina near Toronto 9 Dec. 1858.
_H. J. Morgan’s Sketches of eminent Canadians_ (1862) 397–405.

BALDY, JOHN PATEY. M.R.C.S. 1814; private teacher of anatomy and
surgery. _d._ 23 Pembroke st. Devonport 6 Sep. 1861 aged 67.

BALE, CHARLES SACKVILLE. Made a splendid collection of pictures at
71 Cambridge terrace, Edgeware road, London. _d._ 71 Cambridge
terrace 28 Nov. 1880 aged 89. _Waagen’s Treasures of art ii_,
329–32 (1854); _Waagen’s Galleries of art_ (1857) 116–21.

BALFE, MICHAEL WILLIAM (_only son of Balfe of Dublin, violinist
1783–1823_). _b._ 10 Pitt st. Dublin 15 May 1808; played the
violin at a concert in Royal Exchange, Dublin, May 1816; first
violinist in Drury Lane orchestra 1823; chief baritone at Italian
opera, Paris 1827–29; sang in Italy 1829–35; lessee of English
opera house Lyceum 9 March 1841 to 13 May 1841; conductor at Her
Majesty’s theatre 3 March 1846 to 1852 when house closed; went to
St. Petersburg 1852; purchased Rowney Abbey, Ware, Herts and
turned gentleman farmer 1864; chevalier of Legion of honour 22
March 1870; composed _Rivals_ 1829, _Siege of Rochelle_ 1835,
_Bohemian Girl_ 1843 (produced at Drury Lane 27 Nov. 1843,
performed in almost every European country), _Rose of Castille_
1857, _Puritan’s daughter_ 1861, _Il Talismano_ produced at Her
Majesty’s theatre 1874; arranged _Moore’s Irish Melodies_ as duets
and quartets. (_m._ Lina Rozer a Hungarian prima donna). _d._
Rowney Abbey 20 Oct. 1870. _Balfe, his life and work by W. A.
Barrett_ 1882, _portrait_; _A memoir of M. W. Balfe by C. L.
Kenny_ 1875; _Illust. Review v_, 671–77, _portrait_;
_Recollections of J. R. Planché i_, 241 (1872), _portrait by
Thackeray_.

NOTE.—A statue of him was placed in the vestibule of Drury
Lane theatre 24 Sep. 1874, his memorial window in St.
Patrick’s cathedral, Dublin, was uncovered 14 April 1879, and
his memorial tablet in Westminster Abbey was unveiled 20 Oct.
1882.

BALFE, VICTOIRE (_2 dau. of the preceding_). _b._ Rue de la
Victoire, Paris 1 Sep. 1837; made her first appearance in London
at Lyceum Theatre 28 May 1857 as Amina in opera of _La
Sonnambula_; sang with great success in England, Italy and at St.
Petersburg 1857–59. (_m._ (1) 31 March 1860 Sir John Fiennes
Twisleton Crampton 2 Baronet, marriage was annulled on her
petition 20 Nov. 1863, she _m._ (2) 1864 Duc de Frias and _d._
Madrid 22 Jany. 1871.) _bur._ Burgos cathedral. _Illust. news of
the world iii_, 328 (1859), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxxi_, 116 (1857),
_portrait, lviii_, 115 (1871).

BALFOUR, BLAYNEY TOWNLEY. _b._ 28 May 1769; sheriff of Louth 1792;
M.P. for Belturbet in Irish parliament 1797–98. _d._ Townley hall
near Drogheda 22 Dec. 1856.

BALFOUR, BLAYNEY TOWNLEY (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ 1799;
lieutenant governor of the Bahamas 1833 to 1834; sheriff of co.
Louth 1841. _d._ Townley hall 5 Sep. 1882.

BALFOUR, CLARA LUCAS (_dau. of Mr. Liddell_). _b._ in the New Forest
21 Dec. 1808; signed the pledge at a chapel in St. George’s road,
Pimlico 16 Oct. 1837 being the 9th person to do so in Chelsea
district; edited _Temperance Beacon_ and _Teetotal Magazine_; a
public lecturer 1841–70; author of _Women of Scripture_ 1850;
_Happy evenings_ 1851, _3 ed._ 1877; _Sketches of English
literature_ 1852; _Moral heroism_ 1854, _new ed._ 1877; _Family
Honour_ 1880; wrote in many periodicals. (_m._ 1828 James
Balfour). _d._ London road, Croydon 3 July 1878. _Home makers by
the late Mrs. C. L. Balfour with a biographical sketch of the
author by the Rev. C. Bullock_ 1878, _portrait_.

BALFOUR, FRANCIS MAITLAND (_3 son of James Maitland Balfour of
Whittingham, East Lothian 1820–56_). _b._ Queen st. Edinburgh 11
Nov. 1851; ed. at Harrow 1865–70 and Trin. coll. Cam.; natural
science scholar 1871; B.A. 1873, M.A. 1877; studied at Professor
Dohrn’s Zoological station, Naples; fellow of his college Oct.
1874 and lecturer on natural science 1875; F.R.S. 1878, member of
council 1881 to death, royal medallist 1881; pres. of Cambridge
Philosophical society Nov. 1881; professor of Animal Morphology in
Univ. of Cam. 31 May 1882 to death; LLD. Glasgow 1880; edited with
E. R. Lankester _The quarterly journal of Microscopical science_;
author of _Monograph on the development of Elasmobranch fishes_
1878; _Treatise on Comparative Embryology_ _2 vols._ 1880–81; left
Courmayeur 18 July 1882 to ascend Aiguille Blanche a peak of Mont
Blanc his body was found 23 July on Fresnay glacier at foot of the
Penteret. _bur._ at Whittingham 5 Aug. 1882. _Fortnightly Review
xxxii_, 568–80 (1882); I.L.N. lxxxi, 197 (1882), _portrait_;
_Report of British Assoc. 1882 meeting pp._ 555–58.

BALFOUR, JAMES. _b._ Russell st. Covent Garden 16 Oct. 1796; served
in the navy 5 years; a temperance advocate in London many years;
employed in the Ways and Means office of House of Commons 1853.
(_m._ 1828 Clara Lucas Liddell). _d._ London road, Croydon 22 Dec.
1884.

BALFOUR, JAMES MELVILLE (_youngest son of Rev. Lewis Balfour,
minister of Colinton near Edin. who d. 24 April 1860 aged 82._)
_b._ Manse of Colinton 2 June 1831; ed. at high school and Univ.
of Edin; marine engineer to province of Otago, New Zealand 1863–65
and to government of N.Z. 1865 to death; invented the Refraction
Protractor for lighthouses; designed many lighthouses in N.Z.,
also the dry dock at Port Chalmers; M.I.C.E. 15 May 1866; drowned
off Timaru N.Z. 18 Dec. 1869. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E.
xxxi_, 200–202 (1871.)

BALFOUR, JOHN HUTTON. _b._ 15 Buccleuch place, Edin. 15 Sep. 1808;
ed. at high school and Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1832, M.A., LLD.;
apprenticed to Sir George Ballingall; a pres. of Royal Medical
Society 1831–33; LLD. Glasgow and St. Andrew’s; M.R.C.S. Edin.
1833, F.R.C.S. 1835; practised at Edin. 1834–41; Botanical Society
of Edin. was founded at his house 15 Dundas st. 8 Feb. 1836; a
lecturer on botany in Surgeon sq. 1840; professor of botany in
Univ. of Glasgow 1841, and in Univ. of Edin. 22 Oct. 1845 to Feb.
1879; regius keeper of Royal botanic garden, and Queen’s botanist
for Scotland 1845–79; F.R.S. Edinburgh 1835, F.L.S. 1844, F.R.S. 5
June 1856; dean of the Medical faculty; an editor of _Annals of
natural history_ 1842–57 and of _Edinburgh New philosophical
journal_ 1855–66; author of _Class book of botany_ 1854, _5 ed._
1875; _Introduction to study of Palæontological botany_ 1872. _d._
Inverleith house, Edin. 11 Feb. 1884. _The Biograph i_, 430–38
(1882).

BALFOUR, LOWRY VESEY TOWNLEY. _b._ 1819; secretary of the order of
St. Patrick 1853 to death. _d._ Dublin 12 Feb. 1878.

BALFOUR, ROBERT FREDERICK. _b._ Balbirnie Fifeshire 30 April 1846;
ensign Grenadier guards 9 Aug. 1865; major 1 April 1882 to death;
served in Egypt 1882; wounded at battle of Tel-el-Kebir 9 Sep.
1882. _d._ 24 Belgrave sq. London 23 Oct. 1882. _I.L.N. lxxxi_,
497 (1882), _portrait_; _Graphic xxvi_, 605 (1882), _portrait_.

BALGUY, JOHN (_eld. son of John Balguy of Darwent hall, Derbyshire,
recorder of Derby who d. 14 Sep. 1833_). _b._ 14 Sep. 1782;
barrister M.T. 14 June 1805, bencher 1833; recorder of Derby 1830
to death; Q.C. 1833; chairman of Derbyshire quarter sessions 1837;
bankruptcy comr. at Birmingham 21 Oct. 1842 to death. _d._
Duffield hall near Derby 16 Dec. 1858.

BALL, CHARLES ASHBY. _b._ Albury, Surrey 1809; entered the paper
business 1826; purchased with his father the Guerres works near
Dieppe 1829; founded the Doullens works 1836; purchased the
Valvernes works near Dieppe; manufactured paper from esparto and
bleached straw; founded the Fort Andemer works 1844; sold his
business to La Compagnie des Establishments de la Risle 1869;
perfected many important improvements in manufacture of paper.
_d._ Sainte Addresse near Havre 27 March 1885.

BALL, FRANCES (_6 and youngest child of John Ball of Dublin,
merchant who d. 1808_). _b._ Eccles st. Dublin 9 Jany. 1794;
joined the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Mickle Bar
convent York 11 June 1814; introduced this Institution into
Ireland 1821; assumed name of Sister Mary Theresa 8 Sep. 1814;
founded in various parts of the world 37 convents tenanted by
about 800 nuns. _d._ Rathfarnham Abbey near Dublin 19 May 1861.
_Life by H. J. Coleridge_ 1881, _portrait_; _Life by Wm. Hutch,
D.D._ 1879.

BALL, NICHOLAS (_son of John Ball of Dublin, silk mercer_). _b._
Dublin 1791; ed. at Stonyhurst and Trin. coll. Dub., B.A. 1812;
called to Irish bar 1814; K.C. 1830; bencher of King’s Inns 1836;
M.P. for Clonmel 1836–39; third Serjeant at law 10 Nov. 1836 to 11
July 1838; attorney general 11 July 1838 to 23 Feb. 1839; P.C.
Ireland 1838; justice of Irish Court of Common Pleas 23 Feb. 1839
to death. _d._ 85 Stephens Green, Dublin 15 Jany. 1865.

BALL, RICHARD. Lived at Bridgewater, Bristol and Taunton
successively; a Friend; joined the Plymouth Brethren; author of
_Holy Scripture the test of truth_ 1835; _Christianity in China_
1850; _Horæ Sabbaticæ or the Sabbatic cycle the divine
chronometer_ 1853. _d._ Aberdeen terrace, Clifton 10 May 1862 aged
68. _Smith’s Friends’ Books i_, 161–63 (1867).

BALL, ROBERT (_son of Bob Stawel Ball_). _b._ Cove of Cork 1 April
1802; clerk in under secretary’s office in Dublin 1827–52; F.R.S.
Dublin 1834; M.R.I.A. 23 Feb. 1835, treasurer 1845 to death;
member of Geol. soc. of Ireland 1835, pres. 1852; sec. to
Zoological society of Dub. 1837 to death; director of museum of
Trinity college Dub. 1844, presented his valuable private
collection to the college; hon. LLD. Dub. 1850; sec. to Queen’s
Univ. in Ireland 1851; founded University zoological and botanical
association 1853. (_m._ 21 Sep. 1837 Amelia Gresley dau. of Thomas
Hellicar of Bristol, merchant, she was granted a civil list
pension of £100 4 Oct. 1858). _d._ Dublin 30 March 1857. _Natural
history review v_, 1–34 (1858), _portrait_.

BALL, SAMUEL. Member of East India Company’s establishment at Canton
1804–26; author of _Observations on expediency of opening a second
port in China_ 1817; _An account of the cultivation and
manufacture of tea in China_ 1848. _d._ Sion house, Wolverley 5
March 1874 in 94 year.

BALL, THOMAS GERRARD (_son of Abraham Ball of Chester_). _b._
Chester 24 Jany. 1791; served in navy 1801–1807; ensign 34 foot 17
Sep. 1807; lieut. col. 8 foot 2 Oct. 1835 to 25 Oct. 1842 when
placed on h.p.; col. 46 foot 24 April 1860 and of 8 foot 17 June
1861 to death; general 10 Jany. 1870. _d._ 7 Stanley place,
Chester 18 Dec. 1881.

BALL, WILLIAM (_son of Richard Ball of Bridgwater who d. 1834_).
_b._ Bridgwater 1 Jany. 1801; solicitor at Bristol 1828–35; a
minister of Society of Friends 1846 to death. (_m._ 1834 Anne
Dale, she _d._ 1861). Author of _Nugæ Sacræ or psalms and hymns
and spiritual songs_ [_anon._] 1825; _The Transcript and other
poems_ 1855; _Hymns or lyrics_ 1864; _Verses composed since 1870_,
1875. _d._ at an hotel in Aberdeen 30 July 1878. _Annual Monitor
for 1879 pp._ 8–54.

BALL, WILLIAM. _b._ 1785; composed hundreds of comic and sentimental
songs, his song _Jack’s lament for the loss of his tail_ was one
of the most popular songs of the day ever written; his Drawing
room concerts in 1829 were very successful; adapted to English
words librettos of Masses of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, Mozart’s
_Requiem_, Spohr’s _God thou art great_, Rossini’s _Stabat Mater_
and Mendelssohn’s _St. Paul_ and _Lobgesang_; edited with N. Mori
_The musical gem_, _2 vols._ 1831–32; edited _The London Spring
annual lyrical and pictorial_ 1834. _d._ London 14 May 1869.

BALL, SIR WILLIAM KEITH, 2 Baronet (_only child of Sir Alexander
John Ball, 1 Baronet_). _b._ Greenwich 27 Oct. 1791; succeeded 25
Oct. 1809. _d._ Spernall hall, Warwickshire 9 March 1874.

BALL-HUGHES, EDWARD HUGHES (_said to be son of a slop seller in
Ratcliffe highway, London_). _b._ 1799. Ed. at Eton and Trin.
coll. Cam.; cornet 7 hussars 28 Aug. 1817 to 11 Feb. 1819 when
placed on h.p.; took additional name of Hughes by royal license 7
Aug. 1819 on coming into a fortune of £40,000 per annum from his
uncle Admiral Sir Edward Hughes; one of the leading dandies of his
day, known as the Golden Ball; lost £45,000 in one night at
Wattier’s club, Piccadilly 1819, lost three quarters of his
fortune at play, the greatest gambler of his day; bought Oatlands
near Weybridge 1827, which he sold to Lord Francis Egerton; lived
at St. Germain near Paris for some years before his death. (_m._
22 March 1823 Mercandotti the opera dancer, natural dau. or
protégée of 4 Earl of Fife, she was then aged 16). _d._ St.
Germain 13 March 1863. _R. H. Gronow’s Celebrities_ (1865) 112–17.

BALLANTINE, JAMES. _b._ The West Port, Edinburgh 11 June 1808; a
house painter at Edin. 1830; one of the first to revive the art of
glass painting; executed the 12 stained glass windows in the House
of Lords, Westminster, representing kings and queens both regnant
and consort of the U.K.; sec. of committee of Burns centenary
1859; grand bard of Scottish Grand lodge of Freemasons about 1862
to death; contributed about 50 songs to _Whistle-Binkie or the
piper of the party_ 1832; author of _The Gaberlunzie’s wallet_
1843; _A treatise on painted glass_ 1845; _Poems_ 1856; _Chronicle
of the hundredth birthday of Robert Burns_ 1859, which contains
reports of 872 Burns’ centenary meetings held all over the world
25 Jany. 1859; _The Provost’s daughter_, a musical farce in 2 acts
performed at T.R. Edin. 1855; _The Gaberlunzie_, a drama in 3 acts
1858. _d._ Warrender lodge, Edinburgh 18 Dec. 1877.
_Whistle-Binkie ii, xiv-xxvii_ (1878); _History of the lodge of
Edinburgh by D. M. Lyons_ (1873) 50, 363, _portrait_.

BALLANTINE, WILLIAM. Barrister I.T. 5 Feb. 1813; magistrate at
Thames police court 1821–48. _d._ 89 Cadogan place, Chelsea 14
Dec. 1852 in 74 year. _I.L.N. ix_, 317 (1846), _portrait_.

BALLANTYNE, JAMES ROBERT. _b._ Kelso 13 Dec. 1813; ed. at Edinburgh
new academy and college; teacher of Hindi and Sanskrit at Naval
and military academy Edin. 1839; principal of College of Benares
1845–61; librarian of India office library Cannon row, Westminster
1861 to death; author of _Lectures on the sub-divisions of
knowledge, Sanskrit and English_ 1848; _The Mahabhashya or great
commentary on the aphorisms of Panini_ 1856; _Christianity
contrasted with Hindu philosophy_ 1859 and 14 other works. _d._ 16
Feb. 1864. _Journal of Royal Asiatic Society i, v-vii_ (1865).

BALLANTYNE, ROBERT MICHAEL. _b._ Edinburgh 24 April 1825; in the
Hudson Bay Company’s service 1841–47; author of _Hudson’s Bay or
every day life in the wilds of North America_ 1848, 3 ed. 1859;
_Coral island, a tale of the Pacific ocean_ 1857; _Deep down, a
tale of the Cornish mines_ 1868, and many other tales. _d._ 1871.

BALLANTYNE, THOMAS. _b._ Paisley 1806, a weaver there; edited
_Bolton Free Press_; edited _Manchester Guardian_; printer,
publisher and one of the 4 original proprietors of _Manchester
Examiner_; editor of _Liverpool Journal_ and _Liverpool Mercury_;
edited the _Leader_ in London; started the _Statesman_, edited it
till its close; edited _St. James’s Chronicle_; author of
_Passages selected from writings of T. Carlyle_ 1855; _Essays in
mosaic_ 1870. _d._ Tufnell park, Holloway 30 Aug. 1871.

BALLARD, EDWARD GEORGE (_only child of Edward Bollard, alderman of
Salisbury who d. 6 March 1827_). _b._ Salisbury 29 April 1791;
clerk in the Stamp and Excise offices London 1809–17; wrote most
of the poetry and critiques for the _Weekly Review_; author of _A
new series of original poems_ [_anon._] 1825; _Microscopic
amusements_ 1829; wrote part of a continuation of _Strype’s
Ecclesiastical annals_ in _The Surplice_ weekly paper 1848. _d._
Compton terrace, Islington 14 Feb. 1860.

BALLARD, JOHN ARCHIBALD. _b._ 1829; 2 lieut. Bombay Engineers 8 Dec.
1848 and lieut. col. 10 Nov. 1869 to 31 Dec. 1878; lieut. col.
Turkish army 1854; served in campaigns on the Danube 1854–55, in
Crimea 1855, and in Mingrelia 1855–56; assistant quartermaster
general of Persian expeditionary force 1856–57, and of Rajpootana
field force and Malwa division in Indian mutiny 1858–59; C.B. 10
May 1856; mint master Bombay 1862–78; general 31 Dec. 1878. _d._
Pass of Thermopylæ near Livadia Greece 1 April 1880.

BALLARD, THOMAS. _b._ Mayfair London; studied at St. George’s
hospital; fellow of Royal Med. and Chir. society 1849; author of
_New and rational explanation of the diseases peculiar to infants
and mothers_ 1860; _On the convulsive diseases of infants_ 1863;
_An enquiry into constitutional syphilis in the infant_ 1874. _d._
10 Southwick place, Hyde park 11 Sep. 1874 aged 56.

BALLINGALL, DAVID JAMES. Midshipman R.N.; served at Copenhagen 1801;
2 lieut. R.M. 1 July 1803; col. commandant 19 Nov. 1851 to 10
Jany. 1852 when he retired on full pay. _d._ Southsea 31 March
1854.

BALLINGALL, SIR GEORGE (_son of Rev. Robert Ballingall, minister of
Forglen, Banffshire_). _b._ in the manse of Forglen 2 May 1780;
ed. at Univs. of St. Andrews and Edin.; M.D. Edin. 1803, M.R.C.S.
Edin. 15 Aug. 1820; assistant surgeon 1 foot 10 July 1806; surgeon
of 33 foot 1815–18 when placed on h.p., retired 1831; professor of
military surgery in Univ. of Edin. 18 Jany. 1823 to death;
knighted by Wm. iv at St. James’s palace 4 Aug. 1830; F.R.S.;
author of _Introductory lectures to a course of military surgery_
1830; _Outlines of military surgery, 5 ed._ 1855. _d._ Altamont
near Blairgowrie 4 Dec. 1855.

BALNEAVIS, HENRY. Ensign 16 foot 3 Jany. 1797; captain 27 foot
1805–24 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 20 June 1854; colonel 65 foot 18
Jany. 1855 to death; C.M.G. 17 July 1833; K.H. 1836. _d._ Malta 17
July 1857 aged 77.

BALVAIRD, WILLIAM. Major Rifle brigade 1814–18; major 99 foot
1824–26, retired from the army 27 Aug. 1841; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831.
_d._ Edinburgh 7 Sep. 1853.

BALY, WILLIAM. _b._ Lynn, Norfolk 1814; L.S.A. 1834, M.R.C.S. 1834;
studied in Paris, Heidelberg and Berlin; M.D. Berlin 1836;
practised in London 1836; L.R.C.P. 1841, F.R.C.P. 1846, a censor
1858; phys. to Milbank penitentiary 1841–60; lecturer on forensic
medicine at St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1841–54, assistant phys.
there 1854 and lecturer on medicine 1855; Gulstonian lecturer Feb.
1847; F.R.S. 15 April 1847; phys. extraordinary to the Queen 18
April 1859; member of general council of medical education and
registration 1 Aug. 1860 to death; author with W. S. Kirke of
_Advances in physiology of motion_ 1848, and with W. G. Gull of
_Reports on epidemic cholera_ 1854; killed in the train on the
South Western railway about 7 miles from London at the junction
with the Epsom line 28 Jany. 1861. _Medical Critic ii_, 334–40
(1861); _I.L.N. xxxviii_, 111, 122 (1861), _portrait_.

BAMFORD, SAMUEL. _b._ Middleton 28 Feb. 1788; ed. at Manchester gr.
sch.; a handloom weaver at Middleton; secretary to the Hampden
club at Middleton 1816; examined before Privy Council on a charge
of high treason April 1817 when set free with a warning; took part
in reform meeting at Peterloo 16 Aug. 1819, tried at York assizes
March 1820 when found guilty of a seditious misdemeanour,
sentenced in Court of King’s Bench, London 15 May 1820 to 1 year’s
imprisonment in Lincoln gaol; employed in Inland Revenue Office
London 1849–58; author of _Miscellaneous poetry_ 1821; _Passages
in the life of a Radical 2 vols._ 1840–44; _Early days_ 1849 _2
ed._ 1859; _Walks in South Lancashire 2 vols._; _Talk o Seawth
Lankeshur by Samhul Beamfort_ 1850, in this volume he professes to
correct the dialect in Tim Bobbin; _Life of Amos Ogden of
Middleton_ 1853. _d._ Moston, Harpurhey near Manchester 13 April
1872; monument in Middleton cemetery, unveiled 6 Oct. 1877. _F.
Espinasse’s Lancashire Worthies 2 series_ 1877, _pp._ 462–91;
_Procter’s Memorials of bygone Manchester_ (1881) 220–25.

BAMFORD, WILLIAM. Surgeon at Rugely Staffs 1803 to death; one of
principal witnesses at trial of Wm. Palmer the poisoner 1856. _d._
Rugely 17 April 1859 in 84 year.

BAMPTON, AUGUSTUS HAMILTON. _b._ London 13 March 1823; civil
engineer at Plymouth 1844; chief surveyor to the corporation
1849–54; engineer to South Devon and Tavistock railway 1852 to
death; M.I.C.E. 1849; author of _The drainage of towns_ 1849. _d._
North hill Devon 4 March 1857. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E.
xvii_, 92–94 (1858).

BANCALARI, PETER. _b._ 1806; a noted cricket, umpire at Oxford many
years. _d._ Oxford 31 Oct. 1869.

BANDINEL, REV. BULKELEY (_eld. son of Rev. James Bandinel V. of
Netherbury Dorset who d. 25 Nov. 1804 aged 92_). _b._ Oxford 21
Feb. 1781; ed. at Reading and Winchester; scholar of New college
Ox. 1800, fellow, B.A. 1805, M.A. 1807, B.D. and D.D. 1823;
chaplain in the Victory 1808; under librarian Bodleian library Ox.
1810, librarian 25 Aug. 1813 to Sep. 1860; published Catalogue of
the printed books _4 vols._ 1843–50; proctor Univ. of Ox. 1814; R.
of Haughton-le-Skerne, Durham 1823–60; author of _Catalogue of
books relating to British topography and Saxon and Norman
literature bequeathed to the Bodleian library by Richard Gough_
1814; author with John Caley and Henry Ellis of new editions of
_Dugdale’s Monasticon Anglicanum_ 1817–30 crown folio 6 vols. in
8, and 1846, folio, _8 vols;_ edited _Clarendon’s History of the
rebellion_ 1826. _d._ Oxford 6 Feb. 1861.

BANDON, JAMES BERNARD, 2 Earl of (_eld. son of Francis Bernard 1
Earl of Bandon 1755–1830_). _b._ Castle Bernard, Bandon co. Cork
14 June 1785; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; M.A. 1806; M.P. for
Bandon 1820–26 and 1830; succeeded as 2 Earl 26 Nov. 1830;
recorder of Bandon; a representative peer of Ireland 31 July 1835;
lord lieutenant of Cork 1842; F.R.S. 5 June 1845. _d._ Castle
Bernard 31 Oct. 1856.

BANDON, FRANCIS BERNARD, 3 Earl of (_eld. son of the preceding_).
_b._ Grosvenor st. London 3 Jany. 1810; ed. at Eton and Oriel
coll. Ox., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1834; M.P. for Bandon 1831–32 and
1842–56; a representative peer of Ireland 21 Aug. 1858; lord
lieutenant of Cork 2 Nov. 1874. _d._ Castle Bernard 17 Feb. 1877.

BANGOR, EDWARD WARD, 4 Viscount. _b._ London 23 Feb. 1827; succeeded
1 Aug. 1837; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1848;
representative peer for Ireland 9 Jany. 1855. _d._ Brighton 14
Sep. 1881.

BANIM, MICHAEL (_eld. son of Michael Banim of Kilkenny,
shopkeeper_). _b._ Kilkenny 5 Aug. 1796, postmaster there 1852–73;
contributed _Crohoore_, _The Croppy_, _The ghost hunter_, _The
mayor of Windgap_, _Father Connell_ and other tales to _The tales
by the O’Hara family 24 vols._ _d._ Booterstown, co. Dublin 30
Aug. 1874. _P. J. Murray’s Life of John Banim_ 1857.

BANKES, GEORGE (_3 son of Henry Bankes of Kingston hall, Dorset
1757–1834_). _b._ 1788. Ed. at Westminster and Trin. hall, Cam.;
fellow; LL.B. 1812; bankruptcy comr. 1822; recorder of Weymouth 25
Aug. 1823; cursitor Baron of the Exchequer 6 July 1824 to death
when office abolished; M.P. for Corfe Castle 1816–23 and 1826–32
and for Dorset 1841 to death; sec. to Board of control 2 May 1829
to 16 Feb. 1830 and comr. of same board 24 Feb. 1830 to 6 Dec.
1830; a junior lord of the Treasury 24 April to 24 Nov. 1830; P.C.
27 Feb. 1852; judge advocate general 28 Feb. to Dec. 1852; author
of _The story of Corfe Castle and of many who have lived there_
1853. _d._ 5 Old palace yard Westminster 6 July 1856. _Waagen’s
Galleries of art_ (1857) 374–83; _I.L.N. xxiv_, 97 (1854).

BANKES, WILLIAM JOHN (_elder brother of the preceding_). Ed. at
Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811; M.P. for Truro 1810–12,
for Cambridge Univ. 1821–25, for Marlborough 1829–32 and for
Dorset 1833–34; a great friend of Lord Byron; travelled in the
East with Giovanni Finati whose life he translated from the
Italian _2 vols._ 1830. _d._ Venice 15 April 1855. _A.R._ 1826
49–56.

BANKHEAD, CHARLES. _b._ Antrim; ed. at Londonderry and Univ. of
Edin., M.D. 24 June 1790; surgeon to the Londonderry militia;
L.C.P. 25 June 1807; practised at Brighton; physician
extraordinary to Prince Regent 24 Feb. 1816, removed to London;
physician extraordinary to George 4th 30 March 1821; practised
many years at Florence. _d._ Florence 26 Nov. 1859 in 92 year.

BANKHEAD, CHARLES. Minister plenipotentiary to Mexican republic 24
Nov. 1843 to 6 April 1851. _d._ 8 St. James’s st. London 11 March
1870.

BANKS, GEORGE LINNÆUS (_4 son of John Banks of Birmingham,
horticulturist_). _b._ Bull Ring, Birmingham 2 March 1821; began
lecturing 29 Dec. 1846; promoted Mechanics’ Institutes in
Yorkshire and Durham; edited the Advertiser at Harrogate 1848,
Mercury at Birmingham, Daily Express at Dublin, Chronicle at
Durham, Royal Standard at Windsor, and the Sussex Mercury 1864;
wrote the popular negro melody _Dandy Jim of Caroline_; author of
_Blossoms of poesy_ 1841; _Staves for the human ladder, poems_
1850; _All about Shakspere_ 1864; _The Swiss father_ a drama
produced at T.R. Liverpool 1846 and _Better late than never_ a
comedy produced at Durham theatre 1858. _d._ Dalston, London 3 May
1881. _Illustrated Review vi_, 261–63, _portrait_.

BANKS, JOHN. _b._ 1 Sep. 1752 at 11.30 p._m._, a period marked by
the change of style which conducted him 11 days onward in his
journey half an hour after his birth. _d._ Easingwold 24 Nov.
1852.

BANKS, JOHN SHERBROOKE. _b._ 1811; ensign 33 Bengal N.I. 1829, major
1857 to death; succeeded Sir Henry Lawrence as chief comr. of
Lucknow; shot through the head while examining an outpost at
Lucknow 21 July or 1 Aug. 1857.

BANKS, THOMAS CHRISTOPHER (_eld. child of Thomas Banks one of the
gentlemen pensioners_). Genealogist at 5 Lyons Inn London 1813–20,
at the dormant peerage office John st. Pall Mall 1820; sent to
North America by Alexander Humphrys to publish his rights as Earl
of Stirling and to search for evidence 1826, returned 1828, sent
to Ireland 1828–29, created baronet by Humphrys 1831 but resigned
the rank about 1834; knight of holy order of St. John of
Jerusalem; author of _Dormant and extinct baronage of England 3
vols._ 1807–1809; _History of the ancient noble family of Marmyun_
1817; _Stemmata Anglicana_ 1825. _d._ Greenwich 30 Sep. 1854 in 90
year. _T. C. Banks’s Baronia Anglica vol. i_, (1844), _preface_;
_S. Warren’s Miscellanies ii_, 169–291 (1855); _G.M. xliii_,
206–208 (1855).

BANKS, WILLIAM STOTT. _b._ Wakefield, March 1820; admitted solicitor
Jany. 1851; partner with J. M. Ianson at Wakefield 1853; clerk to
the borough justices March 1870 to death; author of _List of
provincial words in use at Wakefield_ 1865; _Walks in Yorkshire 2
vols._ 1866–72. _d._ Northgate, Wakefield 25 Dec. 1872. _Yorkshire
Archæol. and Topog. Journal ii_, 459–60 (1873).

BANNAN, JOSEPH. A schoolmaster at Plymouth down to 1832 when his
school was ruined by the cholera; edited the _South Devon Monthly
Museum_ 7 vols., Plymouth 1833–36; cashier and chief accountant of
the _Western Times_ newspaper at Exeter 1836 to death. _d._ Exeter
28 May 1865 aged 60.

BANNATYNE, ANDREW (_eld. son of Dugald Bannatyne of Glasgow,
merchant_). _b._ 1798; ed. at Univs. of Glasgow and Heidelberg;
member of faculty of procurators in Glasgow; dean of the faculty;
member of University court Glasgow. _d._ 1871.

BANNATYNE, REV. ARCHIBALD. _b._ Rothesay; licensed by presbytery of
Ayr 1835; minister at Oban 1842–53 and at John Knox’s Free church
Glasgow 1853 to death. _d._ 18 May 1863. _Truth in love, a few
memorials of the Rev. Archibald Bannatyne_ 1864.

BANNER, REV. BENJAMIN HOLFORD. _b._ 26 Nov. 1798; ed. at Merchant
Taylor’s and St. John’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824; precentor
of Cashel 26 Aug. 1826 to death; chancellor of Emly, Tipperary 2
April 1835 to death. _d._ 1874.

BANNERMAN, SIR ALEXANDER (_son of Thomas Bannerman of Aberdeen, wine
merchant who d. Jany. 1820 aged 77_). _b._ Aberdeen 7 Oct. 1788,
shipowner, merchant and banker there; M.P. for Aberdeen 1832–47;
dean of faculty in Marischal college Aberdeen 1837; a comr. of
Greenwich hospital 1841; governor of Prince Edward island 3 Feb.
1851, of the Bahamas 8 May 1854 and of Newfoundland 9 Feb. 1857 to
1863; knighted by the Queen at Buckingham palace 3 Feb. 1851. _d._
Louth cottage, Chorley 30 Dec. 1864. _I.L.N. xix_, 236 (1851),
_portrait_.

BANNERMAN, SIR ALEXANDER, 9 Baronet. _b._ Aberdeen 6 April 1823;
succeeded 18 June 1851. _d._ 46 Grosvenor place, London 21 April
1877.

BANNERMAN, SIR CHARLES, 8 Baronet. _b._ 18 Aug. 1782; succeeded 31
May 1840. _d._ Clarges st. Piccadilly, London 18 June 1851.

BANNERMAN, REV. JAMES (_son of Rev. James Patrick Bannerman,
minister of Cargill, Perthshire_). _b._ manse of Cargill 9 April
1807; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.A. 1826; minister of Ormiston,
Midlothian 1833–43 when he left the Established for the Free
church; professor of apologetics and pastoral theology in New
college Edin. 1849 to death; took a leading part in Free church
movement; D.D. Princeton college New Jersey 1850; author of _The
prevalent forms of unbelief_ 1849; _Apologetical theology_ 1851;
_Inspiration_ 1865; _The Church 2 vols._ 1868. _d._ Edinburgh 27
March 1868.

BANNISTER, CHARLES WILLIAM (_son of Charles George Bannister of
London, solicitor 1796–1858_). _b._ 1826; ed. at Charterhouse;
captain 2 Bombay light cavalry 24 April 1854 to 10 April 1861;
governor of Maidstone gaol. _d._ 20 April 1874.

BANNISTER, REV. JOHN (_son of David Bannister of York 1788–1854_).
_b._ York 25 Feb. 1816; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub., B.A. 1844, M.A.
1853, LL.B. and LLD. 1866; P.C. of Bridgehill, Derbyshire 1846–57;
P.C. of St. Day, Cornwall 13 Dec. 1857 to death; author of _A
glossary of Cornish names, 20,000 Celtic and other names now or
formerly in use in Cornwall with derivations and significations_
(1871). _d._ St. Day 30 Aug. 1873. _Bibl. Cornub. i_, 9 (1874),
_iii_, 1047 (1882).

BANNISTER, SAXE. _b._ Bidlington house Steyning, Sussex 27 June
1790; ed. at Lewes, Tunbridge and Queen’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1813,
M.A. 1815; raised a company and volunteered for the army 1813;
captain on h.p. 25 Dec. 1813; barrister L.I. 25 Nov. 1819;
attorney general of New South Wales 5 April 1824 to April 1826
when removed from office; printed a statement of his ‘claims’ 1853
after presenting many petitions to the Government; gentleman bedel
of Royal College of Physicians London 1849–50; author of _Records
of British enterprise beyond sea vol. 1_ 1849; _William Paterson,
his life and trials_ 1858; _The writings of Wm. Paterson 3 vols._
1859; _Classical and prehistoric influences upon British history,
2 ed._ 1871. _d._ Thornton lodge, Thornton Heath 16 Sep. 1877.
_Dict. of Nat. Biog. iii_, 142 (1885).

BANON, AWLY PATRICK. F.R.C.S. Ireland 1844, vice president June 1866
to death; M.D. St. Andrew’s 1851; F.R.C.P. Edin. 1852; author of
_Observations on hermaphroditism illustrated by a remarkable case_
1852. _d._ 37 Fitzwilliam sq. Dublin 28 May 1867.

BANTING, WILLIAM. _b._ 1797; an undertaker at 27 St. James’s st.
Piccadilly, London 1820–70; made Duke of Wellington’s funeral car
Oct. 1852; reduced his weight from 202 lbs. to 156 lbs. in 12
months Aug. 1862 to Aug. 1863 by abstaining from bread, butter,
milk, sugar, beer, and potatoes; author of _Letter on corpulence
addressed to the public_ 1863 _4 ed._ 1869; Thousands of people
adopted the course he advised, which became known as “banting.”
_d._ 4 The Terrace, Kensington 16 March 1878. _Blackwood’s Mag.
xcvi_, 607–17 (1864); _Tanner’s Practice of medicine i_, 148
(1875).

BANTRY, RICHARD WHITE, 1 Earl of (_eld. son of Simon White of
Bantry_). _b._ 6 Aug. 1767; created a peer of Ireland as Baron
Bantry 31 March 1797 on account of exertions in repelling the
French invasion at Bantry bay 27 Jany. 1797, Viscount Bantry 29
Dec. 1800 and Viscount Berehaven and Earl of Bantry 22 Jany. 1816.
_d._ Glengariffe lodge, co. Cork 2 May 1851.

BANTRY, RICHARD WHITE, 2 Earl of. _b._ St. Finbar, Cork 16 Nov.
1800; a representative peer for Ireland 1 July 1854. _d._ Exbury
house, Hants 16 July 1868.

BANTRY, WILLIAM HENRY HARE WHITE, 3 Earl of. _b._ Dublin 16 Nov.
1801; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., M.A. 1823; sheriff of Cork
1848; lieut. col. commandant West Cork artillery militia 1854–73;
a representative peer for Ireland 6 July 1869. _d._ Bantry house,
Cork 15 Jany. 1884.

BAPTIST, JOHN THOMAS. A well known florist at Sydney N.S.W. _d._ The
Gardens, Surrey hills, Sydney 15 Sep. 1873 aged 69.

BARBER, CHARLES. _b._ Birmingham; teacher of drawing in Royal
Institution, Liverpool; assisted to found the Architectural and
Archæological association; a landscape painter; exhibited 3
pictures at the R.A. and many pictures at local exhibitions; pres.
of the Liverpool Academy. _d._ Liverpool Jany. 1854.

BARBER, CHARLES CHAPMAN. ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., 9 wrangler
1833, B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; pupil of Lewis Duval the conveyancer;
barrister L.I. 3 May 1833; member of chancery procedure commission
1853; junior counsel for defendant in ejectment action of
Tichborne _v._ Lushington 11 May 1871 to 6 March 1872; junior
counsel for the Crown in prosecution of Roger Tichborne for
perjury 23 April 1873 to 28 Feb. 1874; engaged in court 103 days
in the ejectment case, and 188 days in the perjury case; judge of
county courts for circuit No. 6 East Riding of Yorkshire Feb. 1874
to March 1874 when he resigned and resumed practice. _d._ 71
Cornwall gardens London 5 Feb. 1882.

BARBER, FAIRLESS (_2 son of Joseph Barber of Brighouse, solicitor_).
_b._ Castle hill, Rastrick 11 Jany. 1835; ed. at St. Peter’s
school York; admitted a solicitor 1859; practised at Brighouse;
member of Huddersfield Archæological and Topographical Association
1866, sec. Sep. 1866, it became mainly through him in 1870 the
Yorkshire Archæological and Topographical Association; F.S.A. 26
May 1870; edited _The Yorkshire Archæological and Topographical
journal_ _6 vols._ 1876–81. _d._ Pinner 3 March 1881. _Yorkshire
Arch. and Topog. journal vii_, 1–5 (1882).

BARBER, JAMES. A very extensive proprietor of coaches between London
and Edinburgh; senior partner in firm of Barber and Co. of York,
wholesale jewellers; sheriff of York 1826; lord mayor 1833,
elected again 1844 but paid the fine to be excused serving. _d._
Tang hall near York 10 March 1857 aged 73.

BARBER, JAMES (_son of a cutlery manufacturer at Sheffield_). Made a
large sum of money by cards and billiards at Manchester; went to
Paris, where he purchased famous race horse Chanticleer which won
the Northumberland plate, Goodwood stakes, and Doncaster cup 1848;
in partnership with Joseph Saxon as racing men; won Great Northern
handicap at York with Ben Webster 1860, and the Oaks with Brown
Duchess 1861; at one period one of richest men on the turf. _d._
Sheffield 18 April 1885 in 69 year.

BARBER, JOHN. _b._ West Runham, Norfolk; drayman in firm of Truman
and Co., London 8 years; purveyor of pigeons and sparrows at 27
Sclater st. Bethnal Green 1821 to death; attended all the chief
shooting matches in England for 40 years; his blue rock pigeons
well known all over the world. _d._ 27 Sclater st. 18 June 1860
aged 71.

BARBER, JONATHAN. Frame work knitter at Nottingham; leader of the
infidels there, held public discussions with Rev. J. W. Brooks of
Nottingham. _d._ Nottingham 17 Jany. 1859. _The apology for
renouncing infidel opinions of Jonathan Barber_ 1859.

BARBER, JONATHAN. _b._ England 1784; M.R.C.S.; practised in
Scarborough and London; went to United States about 1820; taught
elocution in Yale and Harvard Univs., became the best teacher in
America; lectured on phrenology; went to Montreal 1836; resumed
medical practice as a homœopath about 1845; professor of oratory
in McGill univ. Montreal down to 1862; author of _The
Elocutionist_ 1829; _A grammar of elocution_ 1830. _d._ near
Montreal 11 May 1864.

BARBER, MARY ANN SERRETT (_daughter of Thomas Barber_). Wrote many
articles in the _Church of England Magazine_ and _Charlotte
Elizabeth’s Christian lady’s magazine_; edited _Children’s
Missionary magazine_ afterwards called _The Coral Missionary mag._
1847 to death; author of _Redemption in Israel or narratives of
conversions among the Jews_ 1844, _The sorrows of the streets_
1855, _Castle Rag and its dependencies or the sins and sorrows of
the poor_ 1858, _Du Bourg or the Mercuriale_ 1851 and many other
books. _d._ 9 Sussex sq. Brighton 9 March 1864 aged 63.
_Bread-winning or the Ledger and the Lute an Autobiography by M.
A. S. Barber_ 1865.

BARBER, WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ about 1807; clerk to Messrs. Scoones of
Tonbridge, Kent, solicitors 1819–36; established Literary and
Scientific institution there 1837; solicitor in London 1837;
partner with Merrick Bircham; founded The legal discussion
society, sec. and treasurer; founded with Lord Brougham and George
Birkbeck, Adult instruction society; tried at Central Criminal
Court April 1844 for uttering a will of one Anne Slack knowing
same to be a forgery when sentenced to be transported for life;
arrived at Norfolk Island 9 Nov. 1844; moved to Tasman’s Peninsula
March 1847 on breaking up of Norfolk Island establishment; granted
conditional pardon by royal warrant dated 12 Nov. 1846 and a free
pardon 3 Nov. 1848; arrived in Paris May 1848 and in London Nov.
1848; applied for his annual certificate as a solicitor 31 Jany.
1849, certificate refused him 6 July 1850; petition for inquiry
and redress presented to House of Commons 5 April 1852; granted a
certificate 21 Nov. 1855; practised in London, ceased to practice
1862. _The case of Mr. W. H. Barber_, _8 ed._ 1853; _Central
criminal court, minutes of evidence by H. Buckler xix_, 778–850
(1844); _I.L.N. iv_, 80, 249 (1844), 2 _portraits_.

BARBOUR, ROBERT. _b._ Renfrewshire 1797; one of the merchant princes
of Manchester down to about 1864 when he retired; member of the
first Synod of English Presbyterian church about 1834; endowed at
cost of £12,000 a chair which bears his name in Presbyterian
college; purchased Bolesworth castle near Chester 1857; sheriff of
Cheshire 1866. _d._ Bolesworth castle 17 Jany. 1885, will proved
at Chester 14 April 1885, value of personalty upwards of £472,000.

BARCLAY, ANDREW WHYTE (_son of John Barclay, captain R.N._) _b._
Dysart, Fifeshire 17 July 1817; ed. at high sch. and univ. of
Edin.; M.D. 1839; studied at Caius coll. Cam. 1843, and St.
George’s hospital, London; M.B. 1847, M.D. 1852; medical registrar
at St. George’s many years; F.R.C.P. 1851, examiner, councillor
and censor, Lumleian lecturer 1864, Harveian orator 1881,
treasurer 1884; fellow of Royal Med. and Chir. soc, pres.;
assistant phys. at St. George’s 1857, phys. 1862–82; the first
medical officer of health at Chelsea 1856; author of _Manual of
medical diagnosis_ 1857 _3 ed._ 1870. _d._ Whitney Wood,
Stevenage, Herts 28 April 1884. _British Medical Journal i_, 932
(1884).

BARCLAY, ARTHUR KETT (_eld. son of Charles Barclay of Bury hill near
Dorking, Surrey 1780–1855_). _b._ 20 June 1806; ed. at Harrow;
head of firm of Barclay, Perkins and Co., brewers; built an
observatory at Bury hill 1848; F.R.G.S. 1840, F.R.S. 3 June 1852;
paralysed 1855. (_m._ 20 Dec. 1836 Maria Octavia dau. of Ichabod
Wright of Mapperley, Notts). _d._ 20 Nov. 1869.