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HORSLEY, WILLIAM H. _b._ London 15 Nov. 1774; articled to Theodore
Smith, pianist 1790–4; organist of Ely chapel, Holborn 1794–8;
member of Royal Soc. of Musicians 15 June 1797; founded with J. W.
Callcott the Concentores Sodales a club for encouragement of glee
and canon writing, June 1798 which existed till 1847; assistant
organist Asylum for female orphans about 1798, organist 1802–54;
Mus. Bac. Oxford 18 June 1800; organist at Belgrave chapel, Halkin
st. 1812–37 and at the Charterhouse 1838; had few equals as a
composer of glees; published _Five collections of glees_ 1801–27;
_An introduction to the study of practical harmony and modulation_
1847; _The musical treasury_ 1853 and about 60 pieces of music;
his best known glees were _By Celia’s Arbour_ 1807 and _Mine be a
cot._ _d._ 1 High row, Kensington, London 12 June 1858. _G.M.
lxxxiii_, 82, 565 (1813); _Grove’s Dictionary of music, i_, 753–4
(1879).

HORSMAN, CHARLOTTE (_dau. of Mr. Gardiner_). _b._ Dublin 1827; (_m._
1847 Charles Horsman, actor _b._ Welchpool, Montgomeryshire 21
Oct. 1825); a prominent actress at Lyceum, Strand, Sadler’s Wells
and Holborn theatres; a member of the Pygmalion and Galatea co.;
her last appearance was at Bradford as Meg Merrilies 14 May 1877.
_d._ 2 William st. Bradford 4 June 1878. _bur._ Undercliffe cemet.
7 June. _The Era 9 June 1878 p._ 12.

HORSMAN, EDWARD (_son of William Horsman d. 22 March 1845 aged 86_).
_b._ 8 Feb. 1807; ed. at Rugby and Trin. coll. Cam.; admitted
advocate at Scottish bar 1832; M.P. Cockermouth Feb. 1836 to 1
July 1852; M.P. Stroud 29 June 1853 to Nov. 1868; M.P. Liskeard 11
May 1869 to death; fought a duel at Wormwood Scrubbs with James
Bradshaw, M.P. 1840; comr. of Church Inquiry in Scotland; a lord
of the Treasury June to Sep. 1841; chief sec. of state for Ireland
March 1855, resigned May 1857; P.C. 10 March 1855; on 13 March
1866 Bright described Horsman as retiring “into his political cave
of Adullam,” hence his party became known as “the cave”; author of
_Five speeches on ecclesiastical affairs_ 1849. _d._ Biarritz 30
Nov. 1876. _H. D. Traill’s The new Lucian_ (1884) 183–401; _I.L.N.
xxx_, 478 (1857), _portrait_; _Graphic xiv_, 592, 595 (1876),
_portrait_.

HORT, SIR JOSIAH WILLIAM, 2 Baronet (_1 son of Sir John Hort d.
1807_). _b._ 6 July 1791; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1812;
succeeded 23 Oct. 1807; M.P. co. Kildare 1831–2. _d._ Ebury st.
Eaton square, London 24 Aug. 1876.

HORT, SIR JOHN JOSIAH, 3 Baronet (_1 son of the preceding_). _b._
Dublin 14 Jany. 1824; ensign 61 foot 20 Nov. 1840; captain 4 foot
27 May 1847, lieut.-col. 1 Feb. 1856 to 10 Nov. 1856 when placed
on h.p.; lieut.-col. 36 foot 15 May 1857 to 28 Dec. 1866;
lieut.-col. 44 foot 28 Dec. 1866 to 10 Nov. 1869 when placed on
h.p.; lieut.-col. brigade depot 1 April 1873; L.G. 10 Aug. 1878;
C.B. 24 May 1873; knight of Malta. _d._ 35 Merrion sq. east,
Dublin 5 Jany. 1882. _The case of maltreatment by Capt. Hort,
fourth King’s own regiment, of lieut. A. V. D. Harris._ _Plymouth_
1851.

HORT, SIR WILLIAM FITZMAURICE JOSIAH, 4 Baronet (_brother of the
preceding_). _b._ Boulogne-sur-mer 28 Jany. 1827; ed. at R.M.A.
Woolwich; called to bar in Ireland 1852; paid resident magistrate
at Kilkenny 1858, at Tuam co. Galway 1858–83. _d._ St. Canice’s
cottage, Kilkenny 18 Sep. 1887.

HORWITZ, BERNARD. _b._ Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg 1807; learnt chess
from Mendheim at Berlin; one of the 7 great Berlin players known
as the Pleiades; spent sometime at Hamburg; lived in England about
1845 to death; took part in nearly all the tournaments held in
England before 1862; author of _Chess studies and end-games
systematically arranged_ 1884; author with J. Kling of _Chess
Studies_ 1851 three editions, and of a periodical called _The
Chess Player 4 vols._ 1851–3. _d._ 27 Parkhurst road, Bowes Park,
London 29 Aug. 1885. _I.L.N. viii_, 100 (1846), _portrait_; _Chess
Monthly, vii_, 8; _Fortnightly Review, Dec. 1886 p._ 754.

HORWOOD, ALFRED JOHN (_younger son of Thomas Horwood of the Middle
Temple, London, conveyancer_). _b._ Camberwell, Surrey 1821;
barrister M.T. 22 Nov. 1844; inspector under royal commission on
historical manuscripts 1869 to death; edited _Year books of the
reign of Edward the First. Rolls Series_ 1858; _A catalogue of the
manuscripts belonging to Gray’s inn_ 1869; _A common place book of
John Milton_ 1876. _d._ 1 New Court, Temple, London 7 July 1881.
_Law Times, lxxi_, 255 (1881).

HOSACK, JOHN (_3 son of John R. Hosack of Glenaher, Dumfriesshire_).
_b._ Glenaher 1809; barrister M.T. 29 Jany. 1841, bencher 22 April
1875; magistrate at Clerkenwell police court 5 June 1877 to death;
author of _A treatise on the conflict of laws of England and
Scotland_ 1847; _The rights of British and neutral commerce as
affected by recent royal declarations and orders in council_ 1854;
_Mary Queen of Scots and her accusers_, _London_ 1869, _2 ed._ 2
_vols. Edin._ 1870–4 and other books. _d._ 172 Finborough road,
West Brompton, London 3 Nov. 1887. _bur._ Lytham, Lancs. 8 Nov.

HOSKEN, JAMES (_son of James Hosken, gunner in navy, d. Penryn 20
June 1848 aged 92_). _b._ Plymouth 6 Dec. 1798; midshipman R.N.
1810, lieut. 1828; captain of the Great Western specially built
for ocean steam navigation 1837, she left Bristol 8 April 1838 and
reached New York 23 April, made 64 voyages in Great Western;
captain of the Great Britain 1844, made 3 or 4 trips to New York
in her, she was stranded in Dundrum bay 22 Sep. 1846; harbour
master, postmaster and chief magistrate at Labuan 1848–9;
commanded the Belle-Isle hospital ship in the Baltic 1854–5;
captain R.N. 15 June 1857, retired 8 Jany. 1868, retired V.A. 2
Aug. 1879. _d._ 32 Highfield road, Ilfracombe 2 Jany. 1885.
_Autobiographical Sketch. Edited by his widow. Privately printed_
1889.

HOSKING, WILLIAM (_eld. son of John Hosking, woollen manufacturer_).
_b._ Buckfastleigh, Devon 26 Nov. 1800; apprenticed to a builder
and surveyor in New South Wales; articled to W. Jenkins of Red
Lion square, London, architect 1820–23; exhibited 1 drawing at
R.A. and 9 at Suffolk st. 1825–9; F.S.A. 11 Feb. 1830; F.I.B.A. 16
Jany. 1835, member of council 1842–3; engineer of Birmingham,
Bristol and Thames Junction railway 1834; superintended formation
of Abney Park cemetery, Stoke Newington, London 30 acres 1839–40;
professor of Art of construction in King’s coll. London 1840, and
of Principles and practice of architecture 1841 to death; an
official referee under Metropolitan building act 3 Sep. 1844 to
1855; published _Preliminary essay on bridges_ 1841, _2 ed._ 1842;
_Theory, practice and architecture of bridges_ 1842; _Some
observations upon the recent addition of a reading room to the
British museum_ 1858, he claimed to have suggested the Circular
reading room for which Panizzi has the credit. _d._ 23 Woburn sq.
London 2 Aug. 1861. _G. Pycroft’s Art in Devonshire_ (1883) 70;
_The Builder 17 Aug. 1861 p._ 560.

HOSKINS, SAMUEL ELLIOTT (_son of Samuel Hoskins of Guernsey_). _b._
Guernsey Feb. 1799; ed. at Guy’s and St. Thomas’s hospitals
1818–20; L.S.A. 1821; M.R.C.S. 1822; L.R.C.P. 1834, F.R.C.P. 1859;
physician in Guernsey 1827–59; F.R.S. 25 May 1843; author of _A
Stethoscopic Chart_. _Guernsey_ 1830; _Home resorts for invalids
in the climate of Guernsey_ 1852; _Louis le Grand or Fontainebleau
and Versailles, a comedy in three acts_ 1852; _Charles the Second
in the Channel Islands 2 vols._ 1854; and other books. _d._ York
place, Candie road, Guernsey 12 Oct. 1888. _Lancet 20 Oct. 1888
p._ 797, _27 Oct. p._ 845.

HOSKINS, WILLIAM (_3 son of Abraham Hoskins of Newton park,
Derbyshire_). _b._ Norton, Derbyshire 1816; ed. at Camb. univ.; an
actor in the provinces 1834; member of Phelps’s company at
Sadler’s Wells 1844; then at Olympic; went to Australia 1856,
played at Queen’s theatre, Melbourne; manager Ballarat theatre
1858, of Theatre royal, Melbourne 1863, and of Haymarket,
Melbourne; rebuilt Theatre Royal, Christ Church, New Zealand;
teacher of elocution, Melbourne 1884 to death; (_m._ (1) 1850
Julia Harland, actress _d._ New Zealand; _m._ (2) Florence
Colville, actress, she _d._ about 1881; _m._ (3) Miss Bowman).
_d._ Melbourne 28 Sep. 1886. _Tallis’ Drawingroom Table book_,
_Parts 8 and 12_, _two portraits_; _Theatrical Times ii_, 297
(1847), _portrait_; _Era 13 Oct. 1886 p._ 9.

HOSKYNS, CHANDOS WREN (_2 son of Sir Hungerford Hoskyns, 7 baronet
1776–1862_). _b._ Hereford 15 Feb. 1812; ed. at Shrewsbury and
Balliol coll. Ox., B.A. 1834; barrister I.T. 4 May 1838; assumed
additional surname of Wren by royal license 15 April 1837; a
co.-editor of Journal of R. Agricultural Soc.; M.P. for Hereford
1869–74; contributed _Anomalies of Agriculture_ and many other
papers to _Agricultural Gazette_ 1844, &c.; author of _Talpa, or
the chronicles of a clay farm_ 1852, _4 ed._ 1857; _Occasional
Essays_ 1866; _Systems of land tenure in various countries_ 1870.
_d._ 41 Eccleston sq. London 28 Nov. 1876. _Journal of the Royal
Agricultural Soc. 1877 p. xli_; _Agricultural Gazette 4 Dec. 1876
p._ 544.

HOTHAM, BEAUMONT HOTHAM, 3 Baron (_elder son of Beaumont Hotham
1768–99, captain Coldstream guards_). _b._ Lullingstone castle,
Dartford, Kent 9 Aug. 1794; ed. at Westminster; ensign Coldstream
guards 27 June 1810, lieut. 25 Dec. 1813 to 14 Oct. 1819 when
placed on h.p.; succeeded his grandfather 4 March 1814; served in
the Peninsula 1812–14; general 12 Jany. 1865; M.P. Leominster
1820–41; M.P. East Yorkshire 1841–68. _d._ Sand Hutton near York
13 Dec. 1870. _bur._ in family vault at South Dalton 20 Dec.,
personalty sworn under £500,000, 21 Jany. 1871.

HOTHAM, SIR CHARLES (_1 son of Hon. and Rev. Frederick Hotham
1774–1854, R. of Dennington, Suffolk_). _b._ Dennington 14 Jany.
1806; entered navy 6 Nov. 1818, captain 28 June 1833; served in
South America 1845–6; K.C.B. 9 March 1846; commander in chief West
coast of Africa 1846–9; min. plenipo. to Argentine Confederation
17 April 1852; lieut. governor of colony of Victoria 6 Dec. 1853,
governor in chief there 1 Feb. 1855 to death. _d._ Toorak,
Melbourne 31 Dec. 1855.

HOTHAM, WILLIAM (_eld. child of lieut.-col. George Hotham
1770–1823_). _b._ 30 July 1794; entered navy June 1803, commanded
a flotilla in the river Po 1813–14; captain 4 April 1825; K.H. 25
Jany. 1836; retired on half pay 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 30
Nov. 1863. _d._ Clifton, York 22 Feb. 1873.

HOTTEN, JOHN CAMDEN, originally named John William Hotten (_son of
Wm. Hotten of Clerkenwell, London, carpenter_). _b._ 45 St. John’s
sq. Clerkenwell 12 Sep. 1832; placed with John Petheram,
bookseller 71 Chancery lane 1846; in the United States 1848–56; a
bookseller and publisher at 151B Piccadilly, London 1856 to death,
and at 74–5 Piccadilly 1863 to death; published _Dictionary of
modern slang, cant and vulgar words_ 1859; A. C. Swinburne’s
_Poems and ballads_ 1866 which Moxon had withdrawn from
circulation; the first to introduce into England the works of J.
R. Lowell, Artemus Ward, O. W. Holmes, C. G. Leland and Bret Harte
1864 &c. _d._ 4 Maitland park villas, Haverstock hill, Hampstead
14 June 1873. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 21 June. _Bookseller 31 Aug.
1873 pp._ 491–3; _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub._ 255, 1237.

HOUGH, REV. GEORGE. _b._ London 1797; ordained 1824; studied Hebrew
under Dr. Wolff 1836; C. of Earl’s Heaton, Dewsbury 1827–8; V. of
South Crosland near Huddersfield 1829 to death; originator and
sec. of the Almondbury clerical soc. 1828–78; gave considerable
sums to church works and charities; author of _Annual new year
addresses to the parishioners of Almondbury_ 1840–79; _A brief
exposition of the book of Revelation_. _Huddersfield_ 1878. _d._
South Crosland 6 June 1879. _Hulbert’s Annals of Almondbury_
(1882) 76, 306–12, 506–7.

HOUGH, WILLIAM. Entered Bengal army 1805; captain 48 Bengal N.I. to
1 Oct. 1840 when invalided; lieut. col. July 1864; author of _Case
book of European and native courts martial_. _Calcutta_ 1821; _On
the E.I.Co.’s mutiny acts_ 1838; _Chronological exposition of
opinions of writers on military law_ 1839; _A narrative of the
army of the Indies in the expedition to Afghanistan_ 1841;
_Political and military events in British India 2 vols._ 1853.
_d._ Tenterden st. Hanover sq. London 3 Jany. 1865 aged 75.

HOUGHTON, RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES, 1 Baron (_only son of Robert
Pemberton Milnes, M.P. 1784–1858_). _b._ London 19 June 1809; ed.
at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1831, hon. fellow of his coll. April
1876; M.P. Pontefract 1837–63; D.C.L. Ox. 1854; cr. Baron Houghton
of Great Houghton, Yorks. 20 Aug. 1863; F.R.S. 10 Dec. 1868;
president Social Science congress, Aug. 1873; hon. LLD. Edin. 23
April 1878; a trustee of British museum 1881; author of _Memorials
of a tour in Greece_ 1834; _Memorials of many scenes_ 1840; _Poems
legendary and historical_ 1844; _Palm leaves_ 1844; _Monographs,
personal and social_ 1873. _d._ Vichy, France 11 Aug. 1885.
_Reid’s Life and letters of lord Houghton 2 vols._ 1890, 2
_portraits_; _Poetical works of lord Houghton 2 vols._ 1876,
_portrait_.

HOUGHTON, ARTHUR BOYD (_4 son of Capt. M. Houghton of H.E.I.C.
service_). _b._ 1836; illustrator of the _Graphic_ and _Fun_;
exhibited 10 pictures at R.A., 4 at B.I., and 3 at Suffolk st.
1861–72; associate of Soc. of painters in water colours 1871;
illustrated _Dalziel’s Arabian Nights_ 1864–5; _Adventures of Don
Quixote_ 1866 and many other works; author of _The gods on peace
and war, as applicable to the eastern struggle_ 1877. _d._ 162
King Henry’s road, South Hampstead, London 23 Nov. 1875.
_Redgrave’s Dictionary of artists_ (1878) 225; _Art Journal_ 1876
_p._ 47.

HOUGHTON, REV. HENRY HALL (_3 son of Jeremiah Houghton_). _b._
Dublin 10 Dec. 1823; ed. at Sherborne and at Pemb. coll. Ox.,
scholar 1841–5, B.A. 1845, M.A. 1848; clerk of Magdalen coll.
1847–68; C. of St. Peter’s, Cheltenham 1849–52; with his uncle
rev. John Hall, canon of Bristol, founded at Oxford the Canon Hall
and Hall-Houghton prizes for knowledge of Greek Testament,
Septuagint and Syriac versions 1868–71 at cost of £11,000; on
death of his uncle took name of Hall 1871; gave Church Missionary
soc. £4,500 for instruction of native young men in the scriptures;
gave hospital for sick Jews at Jerusalem £3,000. _d._ Melmerby
hall, Cumberland 4 Sep. 1889. _Record 20 Sept. 1889 p._ 922.

HOUGHTON, REV. WILLIAM (_son of Thomas Houghton, governor of Preston
house of correction_). _b._ Preston 17 May 1812; C. of St. Sennen
and St. Levan, Cornwall 1848–65; V. of Manaccan, Cornwall 1865 to
death; author of _Calvinism scripturally examined_ 1836;
_Rationalism in the church of England_ 1863 and 4 other books.
_d._ Manaccan Vicarage 25 Dec. 1870. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl.
Cornub. i_, 256.

HOULDSWORTH, JOHN. _b._ Whitehall, Glasgow 12 April 1807; one of the
founders of the Coltness and Dalmellington iron works in
Lanarkshire and Ayrshire about 1835; senior partner of various
establishments for machine making, iron founding, cotton spinning
and weaving; the last provost of burgh of Anderston before it was
incorporated with Glasgow; A.I.C.E. 1844. _d._ Bath st. Glasgow 18
Oct. 1859. _Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E., xix_, 189 (1860).

HOULDSWORTH, THOMAS (_2 son of Henry Houldsworth of Gonalston,
Notts._) _b._ 13 Sep. 1771; a merchant and cotton spinner at
Manchester and Pontefract; M.P. Pontefract 1818–30; M.P. Newton,
Lancs. 1830–2; M.P. North Notts. 1832–52. _d._ Portland place,
Manchester 1 Sep. 1852.

HOULSTON, THOMAS (_son of Edward Houlston of Wellington, Salop,
printer_). _b._ 1804; traveller for his father 1821–35; bookseller
at 154 Strand, London 1835–44; partner with John Stoneman at 65
Paternoster row 1844 to 5 April 1856 when the latter died aged 64;
partner with Henry Wright at 65 Paternoster row 1857 to death.
_d._ Ryde, Isle of Wight 28 Aug. 1869. _Bookseller, Nov. 1869 p._
938; _Reg. and Mag. of Biog. Oct. 1869 p._ 204.

HOULTON, SIR GEORGE (_youngest son of Joseph Houlton of Farley
castle near Bath, d. 1806_). _b._ Carmarthen 1791; ensign 43 foot
20 Nov. 1806, captain 2 Nov. 1815 to 25 March 1817 when placed on
h.p.; received war medal and 10 clasps for service in Peninsular
war 1808–14; ensign of yeomen of the guard 25 Sep. 1835 to death;
knighted 1835 or 1838, but name never in _London Gazette_. _d._
Farley castle 16 Sep. 1862.

HOULTON, JOSEPH. _b._ 1789; M.R.C.S. 1811, M.D. Erlangen 1840;
surgeon East Norfolk militia; practised at Saffron Walden 1817, at
Lisson grove, London 1823; professor of botany to Medical
botanical society; with J. Davies edited _The London medical and
surgical journal_ 1828; translated F. Magendie’s _Formulary for
preparation of new remedies_ 1828. _d._ 12 Blomfield st.
Westbourne terrace, London 14 Jany. 1861.

HOUSMAN, FRANCIS (_son of William Housman of St. John’s Wood,
London_). _b._ London 3 Jany. 1829; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s sch.
1838 &c.; barrister L.I. 7 June 1852; recorder of Rangoon 1871 to
death; author of _A selection of precedents in conveyancing_ 1861.
_d._ Calcutta 19 July 1873.

HOUSTON, JOHN ADAM. _b._ Gwydir castle near Llanwrst, Wales 25 Dec.
1812; ed. at Edin. sch. of design; studied in Paris and Germany; a
portrait painter in London some years; exhibited 45 pictures at
R.A., 21 at B.I. and 3 at Suffolk st. 1840–8; resided in Edin.
from 1841 to 1858 when he began contributing to the Scottish
academy; returned to London 1858; exhibited _Gallantry_, _London_
1859; _Lights and shadows of the wayside_ 1861; _Prospero and
Miranda_, _Edin._ 1865. _d._ 10 Upper Phillimore place, Kensington
2 Dec. 1884. _Art Journal_ (1869) 69–71, 127.

HOUSTON, REV. THOMAS. _b._ Donegore 1803; teacher in a sch. at
Leyhmore near Ballymena 1818; ed. at Academical instit. Belfast
1819; reformed presbyterian minister Knockbraken 8 April 1828 to
death; took part in the Arian separation from the synod of Ulster;
professor of theology in Reformed presbyterian Theological hall,
Belfast 1855 to death; went to U.S. America 1856 where he took a
D.D. degree; edited _The Covenanter_ 1830; author of _A practical
treatise on christian baptism_, _Paisley_ 1853; _The dominion and
glory of the Redeemer. Discourses_ 1880 and 7 other books. _d._
Royal hospital, Belfast 27 March 1882. _bur._ Knockbraken 30
March. _Belfast News-Letter 28 March 1882 p._ 5.

HOUSTOUN, SIR ROBERT (_5 son of colonel Andrew Houstoun_). _b._
Jordan hill, co. Renfrew 1780; entered Bengal army 1794 and served
25 years; col. 9 regiment light cavalry 1 May 1824 to 1858; col. 4
European light cavalry 1858 to death; governor of Addiscombe coll.
10 years; general 20 June 1854; K.C.B. 10 March 1837. _d._ Torquay
5 April 1862.

HOUSTOUN, WALLACE (_son of the preceding_). _b._ 1811; entered navy
2 Dec. 1824; captain 23 July 1847; R.A. 5 May 1865, retired 1
April 1870; retired admiral 1 Aug. 1877. _d._ 42 Eaton sq. London
17 May 1891.

HOVELL, WILLIAM HILTON. _b._ Yarmouth 26 April 1786; a marine trader
on coasts of Australia and New Zealand 1813–19; farmer at Narellan
1819; accompanied Hamilton Hume in his overland journey from
Sydney to Port Philip 1824–5; one of the first settlers at Western
Port 1826; resided at Goulburn from 1829; author of _Reply to “A
brief statement in connection with an expedition from Lake George
to Port Philip. By Hamilton Hume.”_ _Sydney_ 1855. _d._ Sydney
1876. _Heaton’s Australian Dict. of Dates_ (1879) 97.

HOWARD DE-WALDEN, CHARLES AUGUSTUS ELLIS, 6 Baron (_elder son of C.
Rose Ellis, 1 Baron Seaford 1771–1845_). _b._ London 5 June 1799;
ed. at Eton 1811–14; succeeded his maternal great grandfather as 6
Baron 8 July 1803, claim admitted 1806; under sec. of state for
foreign affairs 5 July 1824; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. at
Stockholm 2 Oct. 1832, at Lisbon 22 Nov. 1833 and at Brussels 10
Dec. 1846 to death; G.C.B. 19 July 1838; K.T.S. 1841; succeeded as
2 Baron Seaford 1 July 1845. _d._ Lesve chateau, Namur, Belgium 29
Aug. 1868.

HOWARD, OF GLOSSOP, EDWARD GEORGE FITZALAN HOWARD, 1 Baron (_2 son
of 16 Duke of Norfolk 1791–1856_). _b._ 21 St. James’s sq. London
20 Jany. 1818; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; M.P. Horsham, Sep. 1848 to
1 July 1852; M.P. Arundel, July 1852 to Dec. 1868 when the borough
was disfranchised; P.C. 8 July 1846; vice chamberlain 8 July 1846
to Feb. 1852; had charge of the Norfolk estates as trustee of his
nephew 1861–8 and acted as deputy earl marshal of England 4 Feb.
1861 to Dec. 1868; cr. baron Howard of Glossop 9 Dec. 1869;
chairman of Catholic poor school committee 1869–77. _d._ 19
Rutland gate, London 1 Dec. 1883. _bur._ in R.C. church of St.
Charles of Borromeo at Hadfield near Glossop 11 Dec. _Gillow’s
English Catholics_, _iii_, 422–6 (1887).

HOWARD, CHARLES WENTWORTH GEORGE (_5 son of 6 Earl of Carlisle
1773–1848_). _b._ Chiswick, Middlesex 27 March 1814; ed. at Eton
and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1836; M.P. for East Cumberland, July
1840 to death. _d._ Holker house, Lancs. 11 April 1879.

HOWARD, EDWARD HENRY (_3 son of Very Rev. H. E. J. Howard
1795–1868_). _b._ 7 June 1832; ed. at Eton 1844; entered navy 21
June 1845; served in the Baltic 1855; captain 16 Feb. 1864; naval
attaché at maritime courts of Europe, Sep. 1874 to Dec. 1876;
A.D.C. to the queen 1878–9; V.P. Ordnance committee 1881–4; V.A.
26 Nov. 1885, retired 29 Nov. 1889. _d._ 16 Granville park,
Lewisham, Kent 18 Jany. 1890. _Pictorial World_, _xvi_, 147, 165
(1890), _portrait_.

HOWARD, FRANK (_son of Henry Howard 1769–1847, R.A., professor of
painting to R.A._) _b._ Poland st. London 1805; ed. at Ely; pupil
and assistant to Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A.; consulting designer
and modellist to Storr and Mortimer of London, silversmiths;
exhibited 43 paintings at R.A., 26 at B.I. and 9 at Suffolk st.
1824–46; obtained prize for “Una coming to seek the assistance of
Gloriana,” Westminster hall competition 1843; removed to Liverpool
about 1847; published _The spirit of the plays of Shakspeare, a
series of outline plates 5 vols._ 1827–33; author of _The
sketcher’s manual_ 1837, _7 ed._ 1860; _The science of drawing_
1839–40. _d._ Liverpool 29 June 1866.

HOWARD, GREVILLE THEOPHILUS (_2 son of 17 Earl of Suffolk and
Berkshire 1804–76_). _b._ 22 Dec. 1836; matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox.
30 May 1855; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1863; commissioner in lunacy
17 June 1873 to 1877. _d._ Castle Rising near Lynn, Norfolk 28
July 1880.

HOWARD, HENRY. _b._ 25 July 1802; ed. at Harrow; M.P. Steyning
1824–6; M.P. Shoreham 1826–32; sheriff of Cumberland 1834. _d._
Thornbury castle, Gloucester 7 Jany. 1875.

HOWARD, VERY REV. HENRY EDWARD JOHN (_youngest child of 5 Earl of
Carlisle 1748–1825_). _b._ Castle Howard, Yorkshire 14 Dec. 1795;
ed. Eton 1805–11 and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1822, B.D. 1834,
D.D. 1838; V. of Stainton, Yorks. 5 July 1820; succentor of York
cath. with stall of Holme annexed 27 Nov. 1822; R. of Slingsby
1823–33; V. of Sutton in the Forest 1824–33; dean of Lichfield
with R. of Tattenhill, Staffs, annexed 27 Nov. 1833 to death; R.
of Donington, Salop 11 Feb. 1834 to death; author of _Translations
from Claudian_ 1823; _The books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus,
Numbers and Deuteronomy according to the lxx, translated with
notes 3 vols._ 1855–7 and 5 other books. _d._ Donington rectory 8
Oct. 1868. _Guardian 14 Oct. 1868 p._ 1148; _Burke’s Portrait
gallery, ii_, 99 (1833), _portrait_.

HOWARD, HENRY THOMAS (_2 son of 16 earl of Suffolk 1776–1851_). _b._
16 Jany. 1808; M.P. Cricklade, Wilts. 1841–7. _d._ Beauchamp near
Gloucester 29 Jany. 1851.

HOWARD, JAMES (_2 son of John Howard 1790–1878_). _b._ Bedford 16
Oct. 1821; head of firm of James and Frederick Howard, makers of
agricultural instruments at Britannia works, Bedford 1851; member
of R. Agric. Soc., on council; member of Farmers’ club; an
originator and first president of Farmers’ Alliance 1879; a
promoter and director of Agricultural hall, London 1861; M.P.
Bedford 1868–74; M.P. Bedfordshire 1880–5; mayor of Bedford 1863
and 1864; sheriff of Bedfordshire 1878; champion of Tenant’s
rights 1873; farmed Clapham farm estate, Bedford 1862; took out
upwards of 60 patents for agricultural machinery; author of _Steam
cultivation, its history_ 1862; _Agricultural implement
manufacture, its rise and progress_ 1879 and 20 other works. _d._
Midland hotel, St. Pancras, London 25 Jany. 1889. _bur._ Clapham,
Beds. 30 Jany. _Agricultural Gazette 28 Jany._, _4 Feb. 1889_;
_London Figaro 2 Feb. 1889 p._ 10, _portrait_; _Farmers’ Mag.
xviii_, 1–7 (1860), _portrait_.

HOWARD, JAMES KENNETH (_4 son of 16 earl of Suffolk 1776–1851_).
_b._ 5 March 1814; précis writer to viscount Palmerston 1835–40
and private sec. to him 6 Jany. 1840 to 2 Sep. 1841; M.P.
Malmesbury 1841–52; commissioner of woods and forests March 1855
to death. _d._ Hajelby near Newbury 7 Jany. 1882.

HOWARD, JOHN (_son of John Moore Howard, farmer_). _b._ Bedford
1790; builder and land speculator; erected the Britannia foundry
for manufacture of agricultural implements about 1838; invented an
improved plough 1839; made over his business to his sons 1851;
mayor of Bedford 1858–61, 1863–4 and 1871. _d._ Caldwell priory 23
Dec. 1878. _Times 24 Dec. 1878 p._ 7, _col_ 6.

HOWARD, JOHN. _b._ Burnley Wood, Lancs. 24 June 1824; champion long
distance jumper using dumb bells, jumped 28 feet 6 inches Chester
race course 1854; jumped 29 feet 7 inches at Lancaster and leaped
over a billiard table lengthwise for a wager 1854; the greatest
pedestrian of his time, beat Bob Coates 120 yards, Hyde park,
Sheffield 1839; beat John Flockton of Leeds 120 yards at Garrick
Corner; beat John Walker the Delemere forest stag 120 yards for
£25 at Bellevue, Manchester, when 25,000 paid for admission; beat
Robert Low of Heywood 100 yards for £25 at Bellevue, time 9–3/4
seconds up hill; beat the Demon, J. Whitehead alias Clark of
Oldham 110 yards for £50 at Bellevue. _d._ suddenly, Dublin hotel,
Bradford 14 Oct. 1875. _Bell’s Life 16 Oct. 1875 p._ 8; _Illust.
Sporting News_ (1862) 68, 76–7, 116, 3 _portraits_.

HOWARD, JOHN ELIOT (_son of Luke Howard, F.R.S. 1772–1864_). _b._
Plaistow, Essex 11 Dec. 1807; manufacturing chemist with his
father at Stratford; studied history of febrifuge alkaloids;
purchased a collection of specimens of Peruvian bark at Madrid
1858; mem. Pharmaceutical soc. 1853; F.L.S. 1857; F.R.S. 4 June
1874; V.P. Victoria institute; received thanks of government for
his aid in cinchona cultivation in India 1876; author of _Eight
lectures on the scriptural truths most opposed to Puseyism_, 1845,
_2 ed._ 1847; _Illustrations of the Nueva Quinologia of Pavon_
1859–62; _The Quinology of the East India plantations 3 parts_
1869–76; _The Epistle to the Hebrews. A translation_ 1872 and 9
other books. _d._ Lord’s Mead, Tottenham, Middlesex 22 Nov. 1883.
_Graphic 29 Dec. 1883 pp._ 634, 637, _portrait_; _Trans. Essex
Field club, iv_, 8–11, _portrait_.

HOWARD, JOHN MORGAN (_eld. son of John J. Howard of Swansea_). _b._
Nov. 1837; barrister M.T. 30 April 1858, bencher 16 Nov. 1877;
Q.C. 6 July 1874; an editor of the _New Reports_ 1862 to 1865;
contested Lambeth 1868, 1874 and 1880; M.P. for Camberwell,
Dulwich division 1885–7; recorder of Guildford 15 March 1875 to
death; judge of circuit No. 59 (Cornwall), Nov. 1887 to death.
_d._ Chelston Dene, Torquay 10 April 1891. _I.L.N._ 18 April 1891
_p._ 499, _portrait_; _Graphic x_, 223, 224 (1874), _portrait_.

HOWARD, LUKE (_son of Robert Howard, introducer of the Argand lamp,
d. Jany. 1812_). _b._ London 28 Nov. 1772; apprentice to a chemist
at Stockport 1786; chemist in London 1793, partner with William
Allen 1796–1803; chemist at Stratford 1805; made observations on
the clouds 1802 and first used the terms cirrus, cumulus and
stratus and nimbus or rain cloud; kept a meteorological register
from 1806; F.R.S. 1821; corresponded with Goethe 1822 who sent him
a poem entitled _Howard’s Ehrengedächtniss_; author of _A few
notes on a letter to the Archbishops and on a charge relative to
Joseph Lancaster’s plan for education_. _By Eccletus_ 1806; _The
climate of London 2 vols._ 1818–20, _2 ed. 3 vols._ 1833; _Essay
on the modification of clouds_ 1830, _3 ed._ 1865; _Cowper’s
English version of the Odyssey with a commentary_. _By Outis_
1843; _Barometrographia, twenty years’ variation of the barometer_
1847 and 10 other books. _d._ at res. of his son R. Howard, Bruce
grove, Tottenham 21 March 1864. _Proc. Royal Soc. xiv_, 10–12
(1865); _J. Bell and T. Redwood’s Pharmacy_ (1880) 331.

HOWARD, PHILIP HENRY (_eld. son of Henry Howard of Corby castle near
Carlisle 1757–1842_). _b._ Edinburgh 22 April 1801; ed. at Oscott
coll. and Stonyhurst; M.P. for Carlisle 1830–47 and 1848–52 being
the second Roman Catholic returned to parliament; F.S.A. 8 Dec.
1842; sheriff of Cumberland 1860; wrote miscellaneous poems and
other articles in _Edinburgh Catholic Mag._ and other periodicals.
_d._ Ventnor, Isle of Wight 1 Jany. 1883. _Gillow’s English
Catholics, iii_, 441–2 (1888).

HOWARD, SIR RALPH, 1 Baronet (_elder son of Hugh Howard, comr. of
stamp office, d. 3 Nov. 1840 aged 80_). _b._ 1801; M.P. co.
Wicklow 1829–47 and 1848–52; contested Evesham 1847; colonel of
Wicklow militia 1 Oct. 1834 to 11 Dec. 1871; created baronet 26
July 1838. _d._ 15 Aug. 1873.

HOWARTH, REV. HENRY (_son of Wm. Howarth, of Manchester,
bath-keeper_). _b._ Manchester 12 Jany. 1801; ed. at Manchester
sch. and St. John’s coll. Cam., fellow 1823–33; B.A. 1823, M.A.
1826, B.D. 1833; Hulsean lecturer 1835–36; R. of Meppershall,
Beds. 1833–45; R. of St. George’s, Hanover sq. London 1845 to
death; chaplain in ord. to the Queen 14 May 1855 to death; author
of _The truth and obligation of revealed religion. Discourses_
1836; _Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ of God. Discourses_ 1837;
_The liturgy as it is. Sermons_ 1843 and 11 other books. _d._
Tunbridge Wells 25 Aug. 1876. _I.L.N. xxiv_, 400 (1854),
_portrait_.

HOWDEN, JOHN HOBART CARADOC 2 Baron (_only child of 1st Baron Howden
1762–1839_). _b._ Dublin 16 Oct. 1799; ensign Grenadier Guards 13
July 1815; A.D.C. to Duke of Wellington in Paris, to Viscount
Beresford in Portugal, and to Sir Thomas Maitland in the
Mediterranean; major on half pay 9 June 1825; L.G. 26 Dec. 1859;
sold out 29 Oct. 1861; M.P. for Dundalk 1830–31; succeeded his
father as 2 Baron July 1839; attaché at Berlin 1824, at Paris
1825; wounded in battle of Navarino; military commissioner with
French army at siege of Antwerp 1832, and with Spanish Army in
Portugal 1834; envoy extraord. and minister plenipo. to Brazil 25
Jany. 1847 to 1850; minister plenipo. to Spain 14 May 1850 to
March 1858; K.C.B. 23 Feb. 1852, G.C.B. 5 March 1858; K.H. 1830;
equerry to Duchess of Kent 1841 to 1861. _d._ Caradoc near Bayonne
9 Oct. 1873. _Foreign office list July_ 1873 _p._ 117.

HOWDEN, JAMES ADAM. _b._ 1803; entered Madras army 1819, M.G. 28
Nov. 1854; colonel 52 Madras N.I. 28 June 1855 to death. _d._
Devonshire place, Portland place, London 22 March 1869.

HOWE, RICHARD WILLIAM PENN CURZON-HOWE 1 Earl (_only son of the hon.
Penn Assheton Curzon 1757–97_). _b._ Gopsall house, Leics. 11 Dec.
1796; capt. Leics. regt. of yeomanry 21 May 1818, lieut.-col.
1831–60; succeeded his grandfather as 2 viscount and baron Curzon
21 March 1820; took name of Howe 7 July 1821; cr. Earl Howe 15
July 1821; G.C.H. 1830; lord chamberlain to queen Adelaide
1830–31, when he was dismissed by earl Grey the prime minister,
again lord chamberlain 1834–49; P.C. 31 Jany. 1831; succeeded his
mother as 2 baron Howe 3 Dec. 1835; vice lieut. co. Leicester 27
Oct. 1863. _d._ Curzon house, South Audley st., London 12 May
1870. _Portraits of eminent conservatives_ (1836) 1 _Series_,
_portrait_ 23.

HOWE, GEORGE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK LOUIS CURZON HOWE, 2 Earl (_1 son of
the preceding_). _b._ Brook st. London 16 Jany. 1821; styled
viscount Curzon 1821–70; ed. at Eton; matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 30
May 1838; cornet Leics. regt. of yeomanry 1838, lieut.-col. 15
Nov. 1860, lieut.-col. commandant 15 March 1870 to death; M.P.
South Leics. 1857–70; master of the Atherstone hounds some years;
succeeded as 2 earl Howe 12 May 1870. _d._ Gopsall hall, Leics. 4
Feb. 1876, personalty sworn under £250,000, 13 May 1876. _I.L.N.
lxviii_, 167, 479 (1876); _Baily’s Mag. xii_, 217–8 (1867),
_portrait_.

HOWE, JOSEPH (_son of John Howe 1752–1835, King’s printer at
Halifax, Nova Scotia_). _b._ in a cottage on banks of North-west
Arm, Halifax 13 Dec. 1804; a printer 1817–27; editor and
proprietor of a paper called the _Nova Scotian_ 1828; M.P. for co.
of Halifax, Nov. 1836; member of the executive council 1840;
speaker of house of assembly 1840; provincial sec. 4 years; sec.
of state for lower provinces in Dominion of Canada 1870–3;
governor of Nova Scotia, May 1873; author of _Speech on the
importance to Great Britain of her North American colonies_ 1851;
_Confederation considered in relation to the interests of the
empire_ 1866; _The organization of the empire_ 1866 and 4 other
books. _d._ Halifax 1 June 1873. _W. Annand’s Speeches and letters
of Joseph Howe 2 vols._ (1858).

HOWE, WILLIAM. _b._ West Auckland, co. Durham 3 March 1814; a
mechanic with R. Stephenson & Co., Newcastle; perfected Williams’
valve gear known as the link motion, in the form in which it has
been universally applied to locomotives, Aug. 1842; invented the
three-cylinder locomotive engine 1846; engineer at Stephenson’s
Clay Cross collieries and iron works Nov. 1846 to death; designed
the self-acting fence now universally used at top of colliery
winding shafts; M.I.M.E. 1860. _d._ Clay Cross, Chesterfield 16
Jany. 1879. _N. P. Burgh’s Link motion_ (1870) _pp. i-xvi_; _D. K.
Clark’s Railway machinery_ (1855) 26; _Engineer_, _xlvii_, 67
(1879).

HOWELL, ARTHUR (_eld. son of James Howell 1811–79, contra-bassist_).
_b._ London 1836; contra-bassist and bass singer; stage manager
Carl Rosa opera co.; went on an Australian tour with his wife
1879; (_m._ 1874 Rose Hersee, soprano opera and concert singer).
_d._ 32 Lawford road, Kentish Town, London 16 April 1885.

HOWELL, FRANCIS (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ London 1834;
wrote 2 oratorios _The Captivity_ 1860, _The Land of Promise_ 1870
and many songs and ballads. _d._ 1882.

HOWELL, JAMES, _b._ Plymouth 1811; student R. Acad. of music, June
1825 to Dec. 1830; learnt double-bass under signor Anfossi;
professor of double-bass at R. Acad. of music 1830; M.R.A.M.;
double-bass player at the Ancient and Philharmonic concerts and R.
Italian opera; the successor of Domenico Dragonetti as the best
double-bass player 1846. _d._ London 5 Aug. 1879. _Cazalet’s R.
Acad. of Music_ (1854) 296–7; _Grove’s Dict. of Music, i_, 754
(1879).

HOWELL, JOHN. _b._ Old Lauriston, Edinburgh 1788; bookbinder in
Thistle st. Edin., invented the ‘plough’ for cutting edges of
books; polyartist, curiosity dealer and china and picture repairer
at 22 Frederick st., then at 110 Rose st. Edin.; broke one of his
legs while using a flying machine in Edin.; introduced manufacture
of Pompeian plates for dentists; author of _An essay on the
war-galleys of the ancients_. _Edin._ 1826; _The life and
adventures of Alexander Selkirk. Edin._ 1829; edited _The life of
Alexander Alexander_. _Edin._ 1830; wrote several of Wilson’s
_Tales of the Borders_. _d._ 110 Rose st. Edinburgh 4 April 1863.
_Notes and Queries, 3rd ser. ii_ 491, _iii_ 19, 78, 379, _4th ser.
ii_ 393, 500.

HOWELL, JOHN (_son of Mr. Howell, army packer, Mark Lane_). _b._
London 1807; apprentice to his father; chief clerk to Ellis and
Everington, haberdashers, hosiers and silk mercers, 3 St. Paul’s
ch. yard, London 1835, admitted a partner 1841, firm became Ellis,
Howell & Co. 1857 and in 1871 John Howell & Co. limited, with J.
Howell as chairman to his death; gave evidence before three
parliamentary committees on laws of limited liability 1851 etc.;
author of _Partnership-law legislation and limited liability
reviewed_ 1869. _d._ Rutland house, Kingston on Thames 3 Nov.
1888. _Warehouseman and Drapers’ Trade Journal_ (1888) 345–6,
_portrait_, _and_ 1049–50.

HOWELL, MATTHEW. _b._ 14 Feb. 1796; appeared as the child in
_Pizarro_ with George Frederick Cooke at Liverpool; made first
appearance in London at Sadler’s Wells 1810; played at the Coburg;
came out at Drury Lane as harlequin in pantomime of _The Flying
Chest_, Dec. 1823 and was for more than 20 years the recognised
harlequin there; last appeared as harlequin at the Marylebone in
1847; played pantaloon some years. _d._ 1 Dec. 1873.

HOWELL, SIR THOMAS (_son of Thomas Howell of Clapham common,
Surrey_). _b._ London 1802; ed. at Charterhouse 1815–16; in
business in London to 1855; director of contracts at War Office
1855–74; knighted at Windsor castle 27 June 1876; author of _A day
of business in the port of London_ 1850; _A few stray thoughts
upon Shakspeare_ 1867. _d._ 2 Uplands, St. Leonards-on-Sea 23
April 1883.

HOWELL, THOMAS JONES (_son of Thomas Bayly Howell 1768–1815, editor
of the State Trials_). _b._ 24 Dec. 1793; edited a _Complete
collection of State Trials vols._ 22–33, 1815–26; barrister L.I.
17 May 1822; judge advocate and judge of vice-admiralty court at
Gibraltar 1822; sec. to comrs. of colonial inquiry 1830; comr. for
West India Islands relief 1832; inspector of factories 1833. _d._
6 Eaton place west, London 4 June 1858.

HOWELLS, REV. JOHN. _b._ 21 Sep. 1777; C. of Tipton, Staffs.
1803–37; P.C. of Holy Trinity, Coventry 1837 to death; author of
_A selection of psalms, hymns, anthems and choruses for public and
private use_. _Tipton_ 1831. _d._ Coventry 31 Dec. 1856. _monu._
in Holy Trinity ch. which says _d._ 1 Jany. 1857. _I.L.N._
_xxxiv_, 260 (1859), _view of monu._

HOWES, EDWARD (_2 son of Rev. George Howes, R. of Spixworth,
Norfolk_). _b._ Spixworth 7 July 1813; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. and
Trin. coll. Cam., fellow 1836–42; B.A. 1835, M.A. 1838; barrister
L.I. 7 June 1839; chairman of Norfolk quarter sessions 1848; M.P.
East Norfolk 1859–68; M.P. South Norfolk 1868 to death; a church
estates comr. 4 Aug. 1866; author of _King Richard II, Act 3 Sc. 2
with Greek version_ in _Prolusiones Academicæ_. _Cantab._ 1834
_pp._ 25–29. _d._ Morningthorpe, Norfolk 26 March 1871.

HOWES, JOSEPH. Landlord of the Blue Boar and Wellington castle inns,
Leicester; on his retirement lived at Evington lodge near
Leicester. _d._ at residence of Mr. Read, Morledge st. Leicester
13 Dec. 1853 in 102 year. _Willis’ Current Notes_ (1856) 27.

HOWIE, VERY REV. JAMES. Dean of Cloyne 17 Jany. 1851 to death; R. of
Farriley 23 Oct. 1851. _d._ Barnabrow house, Cloyne 6 Dec. 1884.

HOWITT, GEORGE. _b._ Old Lenton, Notts. 14 March 1843; fast
left-hand, round-arm bowler; went to London 1860; played for
Middlesex and then for Notts.; bowled W. G. Grace for a brace of
ducks at Neath in 1868; a member of the ground staff at Lord’s
1870; went a voyage to Australia for his health 1880. _d._
Nottingham 19 Dec. 1881. _W. G. Grace’s Cricket_ (1891) 329.

HOWITT, HERBERT CHARLTON (_younger son of William Howitt_). _b._
Esher, Feb. 1838; visited Australia with his father 1852–4; went
to Canterbury, New Zealand, Nov. 1860; employed in an expedition
to discover gold 1862 and then in cutting a horse track over the
mountains between Christchurch and the western coast 1 Jany. 1863
to death; _drowned_ in crossing the Brunner Lake 27 June 1863, his
body was not found. _W. Howitt’s History of discovery in
Australia, ii_, 443–58 (1865); _M. Howitt, an autobiography, i_,
277, _ii_, 133–6 (1889).

HOWITT, MARY (_dau. of Samuel Botham_). _b._ Coleford, Gloucs. 12
March 1799; wrote verse at an early age; (_m._ 16 April 1821
William Howitt 1792–1879); wrote many books with her husband
1827–64; civil list pension of £100, 21 April 1879; joined R.C.
ch., received by the Pope 10 Jany. 1888; edited _The drawing room
scrap book_ 1832–54, and _Pictorial calendar of the seasons_ 1854;
translated _Frederika Bremer’s Novels 18 vols._ 1842–63, works she
then made known to English readers; author of _Sketches of natural
history_ 1834; _Little coin, much care_ 1842; _The Heir of West
Waylen_ 1847; _A popular history of the United States 2 vols._
1859; _M. Howitt’s Illustrated library for the young_ 1861, _two
series_; _The cost of Caergwyn 3 vols._ 1864; _Tales for all
seasons_ 1881; her name is attached to upwards of 110 volumes.
_d._ 38 Via Gregoriana, Rome 30 Jany. 1888. _M. Howitt’s Life of
Mary Howitt_ (1889), _two portraits_; _Alaric Watts’ Life, ii_,
1–15 (1884); _Graphic 18 Feb. 1888 p._ 168, _portrait_.

HOWITT, RICHARD (_son of Thomas Howitt of Heanor, Derbyshire,
farmer_). _b._ Heanor 1799; chemist and druggist at Parliament st.
Nottingham 1823–39; farming in Australia 1839–44; farmer near
Southwell 1846 to death; author of _Antediluvian Sketches and
other poems_ 1830; _The Gipsy King and other poems_ 1840;
_Impressions of Australia Felix, notes of a voyage round the
world, Australian poems, &c._ 1845; _Wasps’ Honey, or poetic gold
and gems of poetic thought_ 1868. _d._ at his farm Edingley,
Notts. 5 Feb. 1869. _bur._ in Friends’ cemetery, Mansfield. _The
Reliquary_, _x_ 209–16, _xi_ 17–22, 103–8, 141–4 (1869–71); _S. T.
Hall’s Biographical Sketches_ (1873) 308–11.

HOWITT, WILLIAM (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Heanor,
Derbyshire 18 Dec. 1792; ed. at Ackworth sch. 1802–6; chemist and
druggist Nottingham 1823–36; alderman of Nottingham 1833; resided
at Esher 1836–9, at Heidelberg 1840–3, at Clapton 1843–8, St.
John’s Wood, London 1848–52, in Australia 1852–4, at Highgate
1854–66, at Esher again 1866–70, at Rome 1870 to death; a
spiritualist, friend of D. D. Home, and contributor to _Spiritual
Mag._; civil list pension of £140, 19 June 1865; (_m._ 1821 Mary
Botham 1799–1888); celebrated his golden wedding 16 April 1871;
part proprietor of _People’s Journal_ 1847, edited _Howitt’s
Journal_ 1847–8; translated _Peter Schlemihl’s Wundersame
Geschichte_ 1843 and other works; in conjunction with his wife he
wrote _The literature and romances of Northern Europe_ 1852;
_Stories of English and foreign life_ 1853; _Ruined abbeys and
castles of Great Britain_ 1862–4; his own chief works were _The
book of the seasons_ 1831 which after being refused by 4
publishing houses ran to 7 editions; _The rural life of England 2
vols._ 1838; _Visits to remarkable places_ 1840, second series
1842; _Rural and domestic life of Germany_ 1842; _Land, labour and
gold, or two years in Victoria_ _2 vols._ 1855; _Popular history
of England_ _5 vols._ 1856–62, seven editions; _The northern
heights of London_ 1869. _d._ 55 Via Sistina, Rome 3 March 1879.
_R. H. Horne’s New spirit of the age_, _i_ 177–98 (1844),
_portrait_; _S. C. Hall’s Retrospect of a long life_, _ii_, 126–31
(1883); _The Naturalist_, _iv_ 366–73 (1839), _portrait_; _I.L.N.
29 March 1879 pp._ 297, 298, _portrait_.

HOWLETT, REV. JOHN HENRY (_son of John Howlett_). _b._ 10 June 1781;
ed. at Merchant Taylors’ sch. 1796–1800 when he became Parkin’s
exhibitioner to Pemb. coll. Cam.; 14 wrangler and B.A. 1804, M.A.
1807; fellow of his coll. 1806–7; V. of Hollington, Sussex 25 Nov.
1812 to 1834; morning reader at chapel royal, Whitehall 1809 to
death; R. of Foston, Leics. 30 April 1834 to death; founder and
sec. of Kensington gram. sch. 1831; author of _Metrical
chronology_ 1824, _6 ed._ 1865; _Instruction in reading the
liturgy of the United church of England and Ireland_ 1826, _3 ed._
1866. _d._ 9 Young st. Kensington, London 10 Oct. 1867.

HOWLETT, SAMUEL BURT (_only son of Samuel Howlett of Gracechurch st.
London_). _b._ 10 July 1794; cadet and officer in corps of royal
military surveyors and draughtsmen 1808 to 1817 when corps was
reduced; assistant surveyor and draughtsman to board of ordnance
1824, chief military surveyor 1830, draughtsman in charge of
plans, &c. in inspector general of fortifications office 1838–56;
made improvements in mountain barometer and in the stadiometer
used in school of musketry; invented an anemometer; author of _A
treatise on perspective_ 1828; _Tables for determining altitude
with the mountain barometer_ 1844; _Description of a barometer
that requires no correction either for zero or for temperature_
1844. _d._ 46 Palace grove, New Bromley, Kent 24 Jany. 1874.

NOTE.—The words “In” and “Out” which are now seen on the doors
of every public office were suggested by him; they were first
used at the Bank of England in consequence of a written
communication made by him to the authorities.

HOWLEY, SIR JOHN (_1 son of John Howley of Rich Hill, co.
Limerick_). _b._ Rich Hill 1789; ed. at Oscott coll. and Trin.
coll. Dublin; called to the Irish bar 1815; chairman of quarter
sessions for co. Tipperary 1835–65; K.C. 13 July 1835, third
serjeant Sept. 1843, second serjeant July 1848; queen’s first
serjeant in Ireland June 1851 to death; bencher of King’s Inns
1843; knighted by lord lieut. at Dublin Castle 14 Aug. 1865. _d._
32 Upper Fitzwilliam st. Dublin 13 Feb. 1866.

HOWLISON, ROBERT (_2 son of a miller at Channelkirk, Berwickshire_).
Said to have been _b._ Channelkirk on Handsel Monday (Jany.) 1769,
but no proof of this; ploughman, and then a shepherd. _d._ West
Linton, Peebleshire 30 Oct. 1871 said to be 103. _W. J. Thoms’
Longevity of Man_ (1879) 186–92.

HOWORTH, REV. WILLIAM (_2 son of Rev. Wm. Howorth_). _b._ 1806; ed.
at Caius coll. Cam., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; R. of Whitton with
Thurleston, Suffolk 3 Nov. 1835 to death; hon. canon of Norwich
cath. 1863 to death; author of _Sermons doctrinal and practical_
1839; _The Redeemer, a poem_ 1840; _Life and the issue of it_
1869. _d._ Whitton rectory 13 Dec. 1875.

HOWS, JOHN WILLIAM STANHOPE. _b._ London 1797; appeared as Shylock,
Park theatre, New York 16 Feb. 1834; professor of elocution,
Columbia, Carolina 1843–57; dramatic critic _New York Albion_ 7
years; author of _The practical elocutionist_ 1849, _6 ed._ 1856;
_The Shakspearian reader_ 1850, _3 ed._ 1870; _Golden leaves from
the British and American dramatic poets_ 1865; _Golden leaves from
the American poets_ 1866; _The ladies’ book of reading and
recitations_ 1870. _d._ New York city 27 July 1871. _Appleton’s
American Biog. iii_, 288 (1887).

HOWSON, FRANK. _b._ London 1817; in a lancer regt. fought in Carlist
war in Spain 1836; an artist in Australia 1842; the father of
opera in the colonies; manager and stage director for Anna Bishop
when appearing in operas in Australia 1854–6; with his sons and
daus. produced plays and operas at San Francisco 1866. _d._ Omaha,
Nebraska 16 Sep. 1869.

HOWSON, JOHN (_2 son of the preceding_). _b._ Hobart Town, Tasmania
17 Nov. 1844; first appeared on the stage at Royal Victoria
theatre, Sydney; left Australia with his family for San Francisco
1866, played there 1866–9; first appeared in New York at Wood’s
Museum, Nov. 1869; played in the U.S. of A. 1869–77; first
appeared in England at Brighton 3 Sep. 1877 as Commodore Patatras
in _La Créole_, played same part at Folly theatre, London 15 Sep.;
acted the Marquis in _Les Cloches de Corneville_ at same house 23
Feb. 1878 and at the Globe July 1879. _d._ 16 Dec. 1888. _C. E.
Pascoe’s Dramatic List_ (1880) 189–90.

HOWSON, REV. JOHN. _b._ Giggleswick, Yorkshire 1787; ed. at Trin.
coll. Dublin, B.A. 1811, M.A. 1813; second master Giggleswick gr.
school 1814 to death; F.L.S. 1822; author of _The gain of
Godliness_ 1840. _d._ Giggleswick 23 Jany. 1859.

HOWSON, VERY REV. JOHN SAUL (_son of the preceding_). _b._
Giggleswick 5 May 1816; ed. at Giggleswick gr. sch. and Trin.
coll. Cam., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840, D.D. 1862; senior classical
master Liverpool collegiate institute 1845 and principal 1849–65;
exam. chaplain to bishop of Ely 1866–73; V. of St. Peter’s,
Wisbech 1866–7; dean of Chester 12 June 1867 to death, continued
the repairing of the cath. and reopened it 25 Jany. 1872;
instrumental in building and endowing the King’s sch., the Queen’s
sch. and the museum, Chester; a contributor to the _Quarterly
Review_, _The Speaker’s Commentary_, etc.; author of _Sunday
evenings_. _Short sermons_ 1849; _Sermons to schoolboys_ 1858–66,
_2 series_; _The character of St. Paul_ 1862, _4 ed._ 1884; _The
companions of St. Paul_ 1871 and about 35 other works; with the
Rev. J. Conybeare, _The life and epistles of St. Paul_ _2 vols._
1852, many editions. _d._ Bournemouth 15 Dec. 1885. _bur._ the
cloister garden, Chester 19 Dec. _I.L.N. lxxxvii_ 667 (1885),
_portrait_; _Guardian_, _Dec. 1885 pp._ 1892, 1951; _Times, 16,
17, 18, 19, 21, 23, 31 Dec. 1885_.

HOWTH, THOMAS ST. LAWRENCE, 3 Earl of. _b._ 16 Aug. 1803; succeeded
his father 4 April 1822; vice admiral of province of Leinster;
K.P. 22 July 1835; lord lieut. of co. Dublin 1851 to death;
trained his horses with W. Day at Danebury, won the Chester cup
with Peep o’ Day Boy in 1848; a flat race rider 1830–50. _d._
Cannes 4 Feb. 1874. _W. Day’s Reminiscences_ (1886) 236–8;
_Sporting Times 12 Sep. 1885 pp._ 2–3.

HOYLE, WILLIAM. _b._ valley of Rossendale, Lancs. 1831; a cotton
spinner with his father at Brooksbottom near Bury, Lancs. 1851–9;
cotton spinner at Tollington near Bury 1859 to death; a temperance
reformer, a Good Templar and a vegetarian; contested Dewsbury
1880; wrote an annual letter to _The Times_ on the “national drink
bill of successive years”; built a residence at Claremont near,
Bury; author of _Hoyle’s Hymns and songs for temperance societies
and bands of hope_ 1869; _Our national resources and how they are
wasted_ 1871, four editions; _Crime in England and Wales in the
nineteenth century_ 1876 and of 13 other books. _d._ Southport,
Lancs. 26 Feb. 1886. _Manchester Guardian 1 March 1886 p._ 8.

HOYLES, SIR HUGH WILLIAM (_son of Newman Wright Hoyles, colonial
treasurer of Newfoundland_). _b._ St. John’s, Newfoundland, Jany.
1814; called to bar in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland 1837; member
of assembly there 1848; acting solicitor general of Newfoundland
1854, attorney general and leader of the government 1861; chief
justice of Newfoundland 4 March 1865 to 1880; knighted by patent
13 Feb. 1869. _d._ 18 Morris st. Halifax, Nova Scotia 1 Feb. 1888.

HUARD, LOUIS. _b._ in South of France 1813; studied at Antwerp; came
to London 1854 and was connected with Illust. London news till his
death; exhibited 2 figure paintings at British institution 1857;
illustrated _Souvenirs de la fête donnée aux artistes exposants_
1849; _Sir S. W. Baker’s Cast up by the sea_ 1869; _A. and E.
Keary’s The heroes of Asgard_ 1871 and other books. _d._ 37 Onslow
sq. London 19 Sep. 1874. _I.L.N. 10 Oct. 1874 p._ 345, _portrait_.

HUBBACK, CATHERINE ANNE (_dau. of admiral Sir Francis Wm. Austen,
G.C.B. 1774–1865_). (_m._ 25 Aug. 1842 John Hubback 1811–85);
author of _The younger sister 3 vols._ 1850; _The wife’s sister 3
vols._ 1851; _Life and its lessons_ _3 vols._ 1851; _Malvern or
the three marriages 3 vols._ 1855; _May and December, a tale 3
vols._ 1855; _The old vicarage 3 vols._ 1856; _Agnes Milbourne 2
vols._ 1856; _The Rival suitors 3 vols. 1857_; _The stage and the
company 3 vols. 1858_; _The mistake of a life 3 vols. 1863_.

HUBBACK, JOHN (_2 son of Joseph Hubback of Berwick-on-Tweed_). _b._
Berwick-on-Tweed 1811; barrister I.T. 12 June 1835; author of _A
treatise on the evidence of succession to real and personal
property and peerages_ 1844. _d._ Brislington, Somerset 24 Feb.
1885.

HUBBARD, JOHN GELLIBRAND, 1 Baron Addington (_1 son of John Hubbard,
Russian merchant d. 1847_). _b._ 21 March 1805; ed. at Bordeaux
1816–20 in his father’s business 1821; Russia merchant 4 St.
Helen’s place, London; director of Bank of England 1838–41;
chairman public works loan commission 1853 to death; M.P.
Buckingham 1859–68; defeated lord Palmerston’s government in
making a motion for an enquiry into the income tax 1861; M.P. city
of London 1874–87; P.C. 6 Aug. 1874; F.R.G.S.; gave much attention
to the income tax, the coinage, ecclesiastical affairs and
education; built and endowed St. Alban’s ch. Holborn, consecrated
26 Feb. 1863; cr. baron Addington of Addington, Bucks. 22 July
1887; author of _Vindication of a fixed duty on corn_ 1842; _The
currency and the country_ 1843; _The church and church rates_
1861, _2 ed._ 1861; _A census of religion. Denominational worship.
The national church. Essays_ 1882; _Gladstone on the income tax_
1885 and 10 other pamphlets. _d._ Addington manor, Winslow, Bucks.
28 Aug. 1889. _I.L.N. lxiv_, 551, 552 (1874), _portrait_;
_Touchstone 5 April 1879 pp._ 1–2, _portrait_.

HUBBARD, THOMAS. _b._ 1789; framework knitter; obtained possession
of some property in Nottinghamshire and under the impression that
he was the heir at law retained the ownership 6 years, a will was
then found giving the property to a person named Holland; Hubbard
under the belief that the will was forged refused to give up the
deeds of the estate, and in July 1856 was imprisoned for contempt
of court; he remained in the debtors’ prison, Nottingham till his
_death_ 23 Jany. 1864. _G.M. April 1864 p._ 534.

HUBBARDE, JAMES DIBDEN. _b._ 1803; proprietor of _Wakefield Journal_
to 1850; connected with and editor of _Hampshire Advertiser_ 1850
to death; president of Ornithological association; author of
_Pencil notes of five days’ tour from Wakefield to Matlock. By J.
D. H._ 1839. _d._ Wick cottage, Avenue road, Southampton 28 Jany.
1870. _Newspaper Press 1 March 1870 p._ 82; _Hampshire Advertiser
29 Jany. 1870 pp._ 4, 5.

HUCKIN, REV. HENRY ROBERT (_son of John Huckin, fishmonger,
Islington_). _b._ 11 Oct. 1841; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ sch.
1850–60, Andrew’s exhib. to St. John’s coll. Ox. 1860; B.A. 1864,
M.A. 1867, D.D. 1874; assist. master at Haileybury 1865–8; a
master at M.T. sch. 1869–74; head master Repton gram. sch. March
1874 to death; Townsend lecturer St. Magnus-the-Martyr, city of
London 1871–3; ed. of _Milton. Comus, Lycidas. With notes_ 1871;
author of _The analogy of religion. Dialogues founded upon
Butler’s Analogy of religion_ 1873. _d._ Repton 30 July 1882.

HUDDART, FANNY (_niece of Mary Amelia Warner the actress, d. 1854_).
A contralto singer, played the chief contralto parts in all the
Italian operas and also in English operas, was the original
Azucena when the English version of Il Trovatore was produced at
Drury Lane May 1855; sang the contralto parts in Handel’s and
Mendelssohn’s oratorios at Sacred harmonic society’s concerts;
played the leading roles in Shakespearean dramas and modern
comedies; (_m._ John Russell of Covent Garden theatre). _d._ 28
June 1880. _Era 4 July 1880 p._ 6.