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BARRY, RIGHT REV. JOHN. _b._ Barony of Forth, co. Wexford about
1799; studied at Charleston; ordained in cathedral of St. Finbar
24 Sep. 1825; pastor of church of the Holy Trinity at Augusta,
Georgia 1826–54; vicar general of diocese of Charleston and
superior of the theological seminary 1844; vicar general of
diocese of Savannah 1853; bishop of Savannah 1857 to death;
consecrated in Baltimore cathedral 2 Aug. 1857; sailed from New
York 2 July 1859. _d._ Convent of the Brothers’ Hospitalers of St.
John of God at Paris 19 Nov. 1859. _R. H. Clarke’s Lives of
deceased bishops ii_, 551–54 (1872).

BARRY, JOHN O’BRIEN MILNER. _b._ 1815; B.L. Univ. of Paris 1834;
M.D. Edin. 1837; L.R.C.S. Edin. 1838; M.R.C.P. 1859, F.R.C.P.
1876; physician at Laugharne, at Totnes and at Tunbridge Wells
1852 to death; author of essays on ‘Cystine’ and ‘Leucocythemia’
in the _Medical Archives_ 1858–60. _d._ Tunbridge Wells 15 Sep.
1881.

BARRY, JOHN THOMAS. _b._ 1789; entered house of Allen Hanbury and
Barry of Plough court, Lombard st., chemists and druggists about
1804, one of the managers; introduced method of evaporation in
vacuo for preparation of medicinal extracts; an original member of
Pharmaceutical Society 15 April 1841. _d._ Hornsey March 1864.

BARRY, MARTIN (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Fratton, Hants 28
March 1802; studied medicine in Univs. of Edin. Paris, Erlanger,
Heidelberg and Berlin; M.R.C.S. Edin.; M.D. Edin. 1833; F.R.S.
Edin.; F.R.C.P. Edin.; ascended Mont Blanc 16 Sep. 1834 being 16th
ascent then made; F.R.S. 13 Feb. 1840; royal medallist 30 Nov.
1839; made important discovery of presence of Spermatozoa within
the ovum 1843; house surgeon Royal maternity hospital Edinburgh
1844; lived abroad 1849–53; author of _Ascent to the summit of
Mont Blanc_ 1836; _Researches in embryology 3 series_ 1839–40.
_d._ Beccles, Suffolk 27 April 1855. _Edinburgh Medical journal
i_, 81–91 (1856); _Proc. of Royal Society viii_, 577–82 (1855);
_Annual Monitor for 1856, pp._ 13–18.

BARRY, PHILIP. _b._ 1789; 2nd lieut. R.E. 10 Feb. 1809; col. R.E. 17
Feb. 1854 to 13 Jan. 1855; M.G. 13 Jany. 1855. _d._ Guernsey 17
April 1869.

BARRY, SIR REDMOND (_3 son of major general Henry Green Barry of
Ballyclough, co. Cork who d. 14 May 1838 aged 68_). _b._ Air hill,
co. Cork 1813; ed. at Hall place Kent and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A.
1837, LLD. 1876; called to Irish bar 1838; went to Sydney 1839;
comr. of court of requests at Melbourne 1842; solicitor general of
Victoria 1850; judge of supreme court of Victoria 25 Aug. 1851;
chancellor of univ. of Melbourne 7 May 1853; pres. of trustees of
Melbourne public library 1856; knighted by patent 24 May 1860;
represented colony of Victoria at great exhibitions in London 1862
and in Philadelphia 1876; LL.B. and M.A. univ. of Melbourne 1863;
administered government of Victoria 3 Jany. 1875 to 10 Jany. 1875;
K.C.M.G. 30 May 1877. _d._ Melbourne 23 Nov. 1880. _Men of the
time in Australia_ (1878) 10–11.

BARRY, THOMAS. _b._ Ireland; performed with Samwell’s circus 1842;
clown to the ring at Astley’s amphitheatre London 1843–48 and
1851–56; kept the Clown tavern 40 Bridge road, Lambeth 1848–50 and
March 1856 to 1857. (_m._ Mrs. Campbell of City of London
theatre). _d._ 26 March 1857 aged 47. _bur._ Norwood cemetery.
_Autobiography of Baron Nicholson_ (1860) 348–52; _H. Valentine’s
Behind the curtain_ (1848) 76–78; _I.L.N. v_, 193 (1844),
_portrait, xxiii_, 460 (1853), _portrait_.

BARRY, WILLIAM WHITTAKER (_3 son of Rev. Henry Barry, R. of Draycott
Cerne, Wilts who d. 10 Aug. 1850 aged 60_). Gained first law
studentship awarded by the Inns of Court Jany. 1853; barrister
L.I. 30 April 1853; author of _A treatise on the statutory
jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery_ 1861; _A walking tour round
Ireland in 1865 by an Englishman_ 1867; _A walking tour in
Normandy_ [_anon._] 1868. _d._ on the Krimmler Tavern pass in the
Tyrol 1 Oct. 1875.

BARRY, WILLIAM WIGRAM (_brother of Sir Redmond Barry_). _b._ 28 May
1827; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 May 1846; col. 1 Oct. 1877 to death;
brigadier general Bombay 23 July 1877 to 4 April 1879; M.G. 1 May
1880; granted service reward 1 Oct. 1882; C.B. 28 Feb. 1861. _d._
Hotel Royal, Naples 19 April 1883.

BARRYMORE, MRS. (_dau. of Mr. Adams_). _b._ 1783; dancer at the old
Royal Circus now Surrey Theatre, London 1803; the most graceful
dancer in London for some years; her power of pantomimic
expression as the dumb girl Finella contributed much to success of
Auber’s opera Massaniello when first produced at Drury Lane 4 May
1829; made her début in America at the Park Theatre, New York 21
Aug. 1831; taught dancing at Boston to 1846. (_m._ William
Barrymore of London, dramatist who _d._ Boston 16 Feb. 1845). _d._
London 6 Jany. 1863.

BARSTOW, JAMES PULTENEY (_eld son of Nathaniel Barstow, of Wetherby,
Yorkshire_). Barrister G.I. 18 Nov. 1824; bencher 1 May 1854;
treasurer 30 Jan. 1856. _d._ Sandgate, Folkestone 8 Sep. 1873.

BARTER, CHARLES. Worked in Royal botanic gardens, Kew 1849–51;
foreman of Royal botanic society Regents Park 1851–57; botanist to
Niger expedition under W. B. Baikie 1857 to death; author of _The
Dorp and the Veld or six months in Natal_ 1852. _d._ Rabba on the
Niger 15 July 1859.

BARTER, RICHARD. _b._ Cooldaniel, co. Cork 1802; M.R.C.S. 1828;
Physician of Dispensary Inniscana, Cork; opened St. Anne’s water
cure establishment at Blarney; set up the first hot-air baths in
Ireland, also the first hot-air baths without vapour—the so-called
Turkish bath. _d._ Blarney 3 Oct. 1870. _Recollections of the late
Dr. Barter, Dublin_ 1875.

BARTER, REV. ROBERT SPECCOTT (_youngest son of Rev. Charles Barter
V. of Cornworthy near Totnes, Devon, 71 years who d. 26 April 1846
aged 97_). _b._ Cornworthy 3 July 1790; ed. at Tiverton gr. sch.
Winchester and New coll. Ox.; B.C.L. 1815; commoner tutor at
Winchester to Dec. 1814; tutor of New college 1815–30 when he
resigned; Bursar 1817, Poser 1817, Sub-warden 1820; Warden of
Winchester 18 May 1822 to death. _d._ College st. Winchester 8
Feb. 1861. _Rev. H. C. Adams’s History of Winchester college_
(1878) _pp._ 322–42.

BARTER, REV. WILLIAM BRUDENELL (_elder brother of the preceding_).
_b._ Jany. 1788; ed. at Tiverton, Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox.,
B.A. 1809, M.A. 1813; Fellow of Oriel coll. 1811; tutor in family
of Lord Carnarvon; R. of Highclere, Hants 1825 to death; R. of
Burghclere, Hants 1825 to death; published many letters and
pamphlets on the topics of the day. _d._ Burghclere 16 Nov. 1858.

BARTH, HEINRICH. _b._ Hamburg 16 Feb. 1821; ed. at Univ. of Berlin;
a lecturer in the Univ.; went with James Richardson to Central
Africa 1849, returned 1855; C.B. 17 Nov. 1858; foreign associate
of Royal Geographical Society; pres. of Geographical society of
Berlin; professor extraordinary at Univ. of Berlin; author of
_Travels in North and Central Africa_ 1857. _d._ Berlin 25 Nov.
1865. _Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xxxvi_, 134–36 (1866);
_Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie ii_, 96–99 (1875).

BARTHELÉMY, EMANUEL. Shot a gensdarme in Paris; condemned to the
galleys for life, set free 1830; greatly distinguished himself in
revolution of June 1848; fled to England 1848; shot Cournet a
French political exile in a duel at Englefield Green near Egham 19
Oct. 1852; murdered George Moore and Charles Collard at 73 Warren
st. Fitzroy square, London 8 Dec. 1854; tried at Central criminal
court 4 Jany. 1855, found guilty and sentenced to death; executed
at Newgate 22 Jany. 1855. _A.R._ (1852) 170, (1854) 206–212,
(1855) 14–16; _Central criminal court trials xli_, 298–307 (1855).

BARTHOLOMEW, ANNE CHARLOTTE (_dau. of Arnol Fayerman_) _b._ Loddon,
Norfolk 28 March 1800; member of Society of Female artists and of
Society of Water colour painters; exhibited 29 pictures at the
R.A. and 39 at Suffolk St. gallery 1841–62; author of _Its only my
aunt_, a farce 1825, first acted at Marylebone theatre May 1849;
_Songs of Azrael_ 1840 and _The ring or the farmer’s daughter_, a
drama 1845. (_m._ (1) 1827 Walter Turnbull, musical composer, he
_d._ 1838. _m._ (2) 30 July 1840 Valentine Bartholomew). _d._ 23
Charlotte st. Rathbone place 18 Aug. 1862. _E. C. Clayton’s
English female artists i_, 398–400 (1876).

BARTHOLOMEW, VEN. JOHN (_son of Rev. John Bartholomew, head master
of Exeter Gr. Sch._) _b._ Exeter Oct. 1790; ed. at Exeter Gr.
Sch., Winchester and C. C. Coll. Ox.; Scholar, B.A. 1813, M.A.
1820; P.C, of Withycombe Rawleigh, Devon 1817; P.C. of Sowton
1819; R. of Lympstone 1820; R. of Morchard Bishop, Devon 1831;
Preb. of Exeter Cath. 9 May 1831; Canon Res. of Exeter Cath. Sep.
1840 to death; Archdeacon of Barnstaple 3 Aug. 1847 to death. _d._
Morchard Bishop Rectory 24 Sep. 1865.

BARTHOLOMEW, VALENTINE (_son of Josiah Bartholomew of Clerkenwell,
watchmaker 1766–1847_). _b._ 18 Jany. 1799; flower painter; member
of Water Colour Society 1835 to death; exhibited 20 pictures at
the R.A. and 27 at Suffolk st. gallery 1826–56; flower painter in
ordinary to Duchess of Kent and to Queen Victoria, (_m._ (1) 1827
Evelina Charlotte Adelaide only dau. of Joseph Nicholas
Hullmandel, musician, she _d._ 1 Jany. 1839. _m._ (2) 30 July 1840
A. C. Turnbull). _d._ 23 Charlotte st. Rathbone place 21 March
1879.

BARTHOLOMEW, WILLIAM. _b._ London 1793; chemist, violin player and
flower painter; translated or adapted the words of most of
Mendelssohn’s vocal works; received gold medal of merit from king
of Prussia for the Antigone; wrote English words for Méhul’s
Joseph, Spohr’s Jessonda, and Costa’s Eli, Naaman, and The Dream,
(_m._ 1853 Ann Sheppard Mounsey, vocal composer). _d._ London 18
Aug. 1867.

BARTLETT, JOHN SHERREN. _b._ Dorset; surgeon R.N. 1812; a prisoner
of war at Boston U.S. 1812–13; surgeon at Boston 1813; removed to
New York; founded _The Albion_ weekly paper 1822; edited it
1822–47; founded _The Anglo-Saxon_ weekly paper at Boston 1847;
published _The European_ at Liverpool; British consul at Baltimore
1857. _d._ New Jersey 24 Aug. 1863 aged 73.

BARTLETT, LAVINIA STRICKLAND. _b._ Preston Andover 27 Nov. 1806; a
baptist 26 Oct. 1828; a teacher of the New Park st. chapel Sunday
schools London 1859 to death. _d._ 2 Aug. 1875. _Mrs. Bartlett and
her class by her son E. H. Bartlett_ 1877, _portrait_.

BARTLETT, ROBERT. _b._ Patcham near Brighton 1782; huntsman to the
Brookside harriers, to Duke of Dorset’s hounds at Knowle in Kent,
on the Duke’s death in 1815 they were sold to Charles Shard of
Winkfield, Berks where Bartlett was huntsman several seasons;
huntsman to Colonel Wyndham at Singleton, Sussex to 1825; whip to
the Royal hounds 1825–53. _d._ near the royal kennels, Ascot Heath
12 Nov. 1856.

BARTLETT, REV. SYMEON TAYLOR. Ed. at Clare coll. Cam., LL.B. 1840,
LLD. 1846; R. of Everley, Wilts 1857 to death; edited _Cicero’s
Letters to his friends, Xenophon’s Anabasis, Horace’s Satires,
Cicero de Oratore_ and _Cicero de Senectute_. _d._ 1877.

BARTLETT, THOMAS. _b._ 7 July 1818; worked under Thomas Brassey the
railway contractor; constructed the Victor Emmanuel railway
between France and Italy; executed works on Bilboa railway, Spain;
invented an automatic tunnel boring machine, preceding in date
that used in the Mont Cenis tunnel; A.I.C.E. 1845, M.I.C.E. 1852.
_d._ Lisbon 23 July 1864.

BARTLETT, REV. THOMAS. _b._ 1789; ed. at St. Edmund’s hall Ox.; B.A.
1813, M.A. 1816; R. of Kingstone, Kent 1816–51; R. of Chevening,
Kent 1851–54; V. of Luton, Beds. 1854–57; R. of Burton Latimer
1857 to death; author of _Memoir of Bishop Butler_ 1839; _An index
to Butler’s Analogy_ 1842, and of many pamphlets, letters and
sermons maintaining evangelical tenets. _d._ Burton Latimer 28 May
1872.

BARTLETT, WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ Kentish town, London 26 March 1809;
articled to John Britton the architect 1822–29; made 6 journeys to
the East 1834–54, and 4 journeys to America 1836–52; edited
_Sharpe’s London Magazine_ March 1849 to June 1852; author of
_Forty days in the desert on the track of the Israelites_ 1848 _3
ed._ 1849; _The Nile boat, or glimpses of the land of Egypt_ 1849
_2 ed._ 1850; _Gleanings pictorial and antiquarian on the overland
route_ 1851. (_m._ 6 July 1831 Susanna Moon, she was granted a
civil list pension of £75 4 Oct. 1858). _d._ on board French
steamer Egyptus off Malta 13 Sep. 1854. _bur._ in the sea 14 Sep.
_Brief memoir by Wm. Beattie M.D._ 1855, _portrait_; _Notice by J.
Britton in Art journal_ 1855, _pp._ 24–26, _reprinted privately_
1855.

BARTLEY, GEORGE (_younger son of Mr. Bartley, box-keeper of the Bath
theatre_). _b._ Bath 1782; a strolling player; made his début in
London at Drury Lane as Orlando in As you like it 18 Dec. 1802;
joined Incledon in his entertainment at the Lyceum theatre called
A voyage to India 24 April 1807; manager at Glasgow theatre
1809–11, also at Dundee and Perth; made his début in New York as
Falstaff 18 Nov. 1818; played at Covent Garden and Lyceum; stage
manager of former house about 1830–40; took his farewell of the
stage at Princess’s theatre 18 Dec. 1852. _d._ 11 Woburn sq.,
London 22 July 1858. _bur._ in St Mary’s churchyard Oxford 30
July. _Metropolitan Mag. xvii_, 366–69 (1836); _I.L.N. i_, 405
(1842), _portrait xxii_, 141 (1853), _portrait_.

BARTON, CHARLES JAMES. 2 Lieut. Bombay artillery 12 Dec. 1845;
lieut. col. 26 April 1866 to 1 Aug. 1872; M.G. 1 Aug. 1872. _d._
Norfolk, Virginia, U.S. 19 Nov. 1879 aged 52.

BARTON, EZEKIEL. Entered Bengal army 1799; col. 71 N.I. 11 March
1841 to 8 Feb. 1843; col. 46 N.I. 8 Feb. 1843 to death; L.G. 11
Nov. 1851. _d._ Irthlingborough house near Higham Ferrers 4 June
1855 aged 73.

BARTON, RALPH. Entered navy 2 March 1812; captain 9 Nov. 1846;
retired admiral 1 Aug. 1877. _d._ South hill cottage, Southport 14
Jany, 1881 aged 83.

BARTON, RICHARD BOLTON (_eld. son of John Barton of Dublin_). _b._
1819; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1844, LLD. 1868; barrister
G.I. 30 Jany. 1850; went to India about 1855; chief magistrate,
coroner and chief comr. of insolvency at Bombay. _d._ Stour lodge,
Bradfield Essex 27 Dec. 1882.

BARTON, SIR ROBERT (_5 son of Wm. Barton of Grove, co. Tipperary_).
_b._ Fethard, co. Tipperary 1770; volunteer in French national
guard 1790; major 2 life guards 14 June 1805 to 28 April 1814;
major 60 foot 28 April 1814 to 25 March 1816 when placed on h.p.;
general 11 Nov. 1851; K.C.H. 1 March 1837. _d._ 2 Montague place,
Montague sq. London 17 March 1853.

BARTON, SAMUEL. _b._ 23 April 1789; pupil of Abernethy at St.
Bartholomew’s hospital; surgeon at Manchester 1811; surgeon to the
Eye hospital 1815; made a splendid collection of pictures and
engravings. _d._ Whalley Range near Manchester 18 April 1871.
Personalty sworn under £100,000 May 1871.

BARTON, WILLIAM HENRY (_eld son of Sir John Barton, treasurer to
Queen Adelaide, he d. 25 Aug. 1834 aged 63_). _b._ 1802; connected
with the Mint 38 years; deputy master and comptroller 1851 to
death. _d._ the Cottage, Bushey park, Teddington 25 Aug. 1868.

BARTON, WILLIAM WHITTLE. _b._ Liverpool; pastor of Methodist new
connexion at Rochdale, the chapel in Zachary Rochdale was opened 2
June 1822; town surveyor of Rochdale 1818–58. _d._ 1859.

BARWELL, LOUISA MARY (_dau. of Richard Mackenzie Bacon of Norwich,
journalist 1775–1844_). _b._ parish of St. Peter, Mancroft,
Norwich 4 March 1800; assisted her father to edit _Quarterly
Musical Magazine_ 1818; contributed frequently to _Quarterly
journal of Education_ from about 1831; great friend of Lady Noel
Byron; author of _Little lessons for little learners_ 1833 (in
monosyllables) and 14 subsequent editions; _The value of time_
1834 and 14 other books. (_m._ John Barwell of Norwich, wine
merchant 1798–1876.) _d._ Norwich 2 Feb. 1885.

BASDEN, JAMES LEWIS. Ensign Scotch brigade 12 Jany. 1800; lieut.
col. 89th foot 6 July 1838 to 16 June 1843 when he retired on full
pay; C.B. 26 Dec. 1818. _d._ Newton villa, Westbourne grove,
London 22 May 1856.

BASEVI, JAMES PALLADIO (_son of George Basevi of London, architect
1794–1845_). _b._ 23 Feb. 1832; ed. at Rugby, Cheltenham and
Addiscombe; 2 lieut. R.E. 12 Dec. 1851, captain 15 Feb. 1861;
assistant in great trigonometrical survey of India 18 Jany. 1856,
surveyor 1st grade 1 April 1866 to death. (_m._ Charlotte Louisa,
she was granted a civil list pension of £100 29 April 1874). _d._
at east end of Changchenmo valley in the Himalayas 17 July 1871.
_Journal of Royal Geog. soc. xlii_, 163–67 (1872); _Monthly
notices of Royal astron. soc. xxxii_, 109–11 (1872).

BASHAM, WILLIAM RICHARD. _b._ Diss, Norfolk 1804; clerk in a bank;
studied at Westminster hospital; M.D. Edin. 1834; M.R.C.P. 1838,
F.R.C.P. 1850, Censor 1864–66 and 1873 and Croonian lecturer 1864;
phys. to Westminster hospital 1843, and lecturer on medicine
1849–71; author of _On dropsy connected with disease of the
kidneys_ 1858, _2 ed._ 1862; _Renal diseases_ 1870; _Aids to the
diagnosis of diseases of the kidneys_ 1872. _d._ 17 Chester st.
Belgrave sq. 16 Oct. 1877.

BASIRE, JAMES. _b._ 1796; engraver; engraved some pretty plates of
Sussex country houses. _d._ London 17 May 1869.

BASS, CHARLES (_first cousin to Wm. Evans Burton the comedian_).
_b._ London 5 March 1803; manager of Caledonian theatre Edinburgh
about 1829; acted at the old Park theatre New York 1844–45;
director of the American Dramatic fund; resided at Hamilton, Upper
Canada; published _Lectures on Canada_ 1863. _d._ Hamilton 5 May
1863. _Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis_ (1867) 20–21.

BASS, MICHAEL THOMAS (_eld. son of Michael Thomas Bass of
Burton-on-Trent, brewer 1760–1827_). _b._ Burton-on-Trent 6 July
1799; brewer at Burton; M.P. for Derby 1848–83; introduced and
carried a bill by which house-holders might require street
musicians to quit neighbourhood of their houses; built and endowed
church of St. Paul at Burton; gave to town of Derby a large
recreation ground, public swimming baths, a free library opened 28
June 1879 and an art gallery. _d._ Rangemoor Burton-on-Trent 29
April 1884. _Fortunes made in business ii_, 407–50 (1884);
_Graphic xxix_, 457 (1884), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxxiv_, 440
(1884), _portrait_.

BASSANO, ALFRED. _b._ 25 June 1826; ensign 32 foot 3 April 1846;
commanded the troops in China 28 July 1877 to 3 June 1878; M.G. 12
Dec. 1877; C.B. 24 May 1873. _d._ 2 Inverness place, Bayswater 12
Sep. 1882.

BASSET, FRANCES BASSET, Baroness. _b._ 30 April 1781; succeeded 5
Feb. 1835. _d._ Tehidy park, Redruth, Cornwall 22 Jany. 1855.

BASTARD, JAMES STOKES. 2 Lieut. R.A. 15 Nov. 1800; col. 9 Nov. 1846
to 20 June 1854; L.G. 24 Jany. 1857. _d._ Charlton 10 June 1871
aged 87.

BATCHELDOR, THOMAS (_2 son of Robert Batcheldor of Cholesbury,
Bucks, farmer_). _b._ 23 July 1796; student of Gray’s Inn 14 Nov.
1827; practised as a conveyancer; registrar of Eton College 1827
to death; chapter clerk to dean and canons of Windsor 1843 to
death; steward of the courts of Eton College; F.S.A. 21 June 1855.
_d._ The Cloisters, Windsor Castle 24 July 1866.

BATE, WILLIAM THORNTON (_son of Wm. Bate, governor of Ascension
island_). _b._ 1820; ed. at royal naval college Portsmouth
1833–35; midshipman R.N. 1835; mate of the Blenheim 74 guns 19
March 1841; captain of the Actæon surveying vessel 6 Feb. 1857 to
death; F.R.A.S. 9 March 1849; killed at storming of Canton 29 Dec.
1857. _Memoir by Rev. John Baillie, 3 ed._ 1862, _portrait_.

BATEMAN, CHARLES PHILIP BUTLER (_son of Nathaniel Bateman, Captain
R.N._) _b._ Wormley Herts 1776; Captain R.N. 25 Sep. 1806; Admiral
on h.p. 18 June 1857. _d._ Corston near Bath 23 Nov. 1857.

BATEMAN, COLTHURST. _b._ 2 Oct. 1780; sheriff of co. Kerry 1832–40.
_d._ Sherborne 2 Aug. 1859.

BATEMAN, HEZEKIAH LINTHICUM. _b._ Baltimore 6 Dec. 1812; an actor
1832; played in the leading juvenile business; manager of the St.
Louis theatre 1855–59; first appeared in England at Adelphi
theatre, London 12 June 1865 as David of Ruthin in _Geraldine_;
lessee of Lyceum theatre, London 11 Sep. 1871 to death; produced
_The Bells_ a version by Leopold Lewis of Erckmann-Chatrian’s Le
Juif Polonais 25 Nov. 1871, and Hamlet 30 Oct. 1874 which ran till
29 June 1875, the longest run on record. (_m._ 10 Nov. 1839 Sidney
Frances Cowell). _d._ Rutland lodge, South place, Knightsbridge,
London 22 March 1875.

BATEMAN, JAMES. _b._ Lancaster 9 Oct. 1805; entered Society of Jesus
at Mont-Rouge, France 7 Sep. 1826; ordained priest 24 Sep. 1836; a
Spiritual Coadjutor 2 Feb. 1845; rector of St. Aloysius’ college
Lancs. 13 March 1858 to Nov. 1861; missioner at Blackpool 1865, at
Bournemouth 1874 and at Newhall 1877 to death. _d._ Newhall 17
June 1879.

BATEMAN, JOHN. _b._ 1792; Sheriff of Kerry 1820; M.P. for Tralee 7
Aug. 1837 to 12 March 1838. _d._ 1863.

BATEMAN, JOSEPH (_son of William Bateman of Selby, sailor_). _b._
Selby 4 March 1797; clerk in Board of Excise, London 1829–46;
assistant solicitor to the Excise 4 July 1846 to 6 Jany. 1849 when
department of stamps and taxes was amalgamated with the Excise;
barrister L.I. 27 Jany. 1847; author of _The general turnpike
acts_ 1828, _4 ed._ 1852; _Precedents of private acts of
Parliament_ 1829; _A practical treatise on the law of auctions_
1838, _6 ed._ 1882; _The laws of Excise_ 1843, _3 ed._ 1865. _d._
Walthamstow, Essex 10 Nov. 1863.

BATEMAN, SIDNEY FRANCES (_dau. of Joseph Cowell of New York,
comedian 1792–1863_). _b._ New York 29 March 1823; author of a
drama called ‘_Self_’ produced at People’s Theatre St. Louis 6
April 1857; _Geraldine or the master passion_ produced at
Philadelphia 1859, afterwards at Adelphi theatre London 12 June
1865; lessee of Lyceum theatre 22 March 1875 to Aug. 1878, of
Sadlers Wells theatre 1879 to death, rebuilt the interior and
opened it 9 Oct. 1879. (_m._ 10 Nov. 1839 Hezekiah Linthicum
Bateman). _d._ Taviton st. Gordon sq. London 13 Jany. 1881.

BATEMAN, THOMAS (_only child of Wm. Bateman of Middleton by
Youlgreave, Derbyshire 1787–1835_). _b._ Rowsley 8 Nov. 1821; made
an extensive series of excavations in the tumuli of Yorkshire,
Staffordshire and Derbyshire; fellow of Ethnological society;
author of _Vestiges of the antiquities of Derbyshire_ 1848; _Ten
years diggings in Celtic and Saxon grave-hills_ 1861; contributed
largely to antiquarian periodicals. _d._ Lomberdale house near
Bakewell 28 Aug. 1861. _Reliquary ii_, 87–97 (1862), _portrait_;
_Journal Brit. Archæol. Assoc. xviii_, 362–7 (1862).

BATEMAN, THOMAS HUDSON. Barrister M.T. 24 Nov. 1815; comr. of
bankrupts for Halifax; judge of borough court, Lancaster. _d._
1881.

BATEMAN, THOMAS OSBORNE (_4 son of Richard Bateman, sheriff of
Derbyshire who d. 1821_). _b._ Foston hall, Derbyshire 1 March
1809; ed. at Newark gr. sch., Harrow and St. John’s coll. Cam.;
B.A. 1834; student at Lincoln’s Inn; restored ancient stained
glass windows in Morley church 1847; bought Hartington hall
Derbyshire from Duke of Devonshire 1857; built mansion of
Breadsall Mount 1864; author of many pamphlets and letters. _d._
14 Jany. 1874. _Reliquary xv_, 97–101 (1875).

BATES, REV. JOHN ELLISON. Ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox.; student of Ch. Ch.;
rowed No. 3 in Oxford boat against Cambridge 1829; B.A. 1831, M.A.
1833; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Litherland Jany. 1842; P.C. of Ch. Ch.
Hougham in Dover 1844 to death. _d._ Priory Gate 17 Feb. 1856.

BATES, JOSHUA (_only son of Colonel Joshua Bates of Weymouth near
Boston U.S._) _b._ Weymouth 1788; merchant at Boston 1809–12; sent
to London 1812 by W. R. Gray of Boston, largest shipowner in
America; banker with John Baring in London 1826–28 when they
became partners in bank of Baring brothers; naturalised by private
act of parliament 5 and 6 Vict. c. 49.; gave sum of 50,000 dollars
to Boston public library 1852, also nearly 27,000 books, library
was opened 1854 and the large hall named after him, the Bates
hall. _d._ New lodge, Windsor Forest 24 Sep. 1864. Personalty
sworn under £600,000 Jany. 1865.

BATES, THOMAS. _b._ 1810; ed. at Jesus coll. Cam., 8 Wrangler 1834;
fellow of his college; barrister L.I. 3 May 1839. _d._ Heddon,
Northumberland 30 Jany. 1882.

BATES, REV. WILLIAM (_4 son of John Moore Bates of Heddon,
Northumberland_). Ed. at Ch. coll. Cam., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839,
B.D. 1847, D.D. 1858; fellow, dean, lecturer and tutor of his
college; R. of Burnham Westgate, Norfolk 1849 to death; author of
_College lectures on ecclesiastical history_ 1844, _2 ed._ 1848;
_College lectures on Christian antiquities and the ritual of the
English church_ 1845, _2 ed._ 1852. _d._ Burnham rectory 22 Nov.
1877.

BATES, WILLIAM. B.A. London 1857; a teacher of languages; professor
of classics in Sydenham medical college Birmingham; professor of
classics in Queen’s college Birmingham to death; M.R.C.S. 1874;
medical officer to Birmingham borough fever hospital 1875–84;
author of _George Cruikshank the artist_ 1878; _The Maclise
portrait gallery of illustrious literary characters with memoirs_
1873, _new ed._ 1883. _d._ 19 The Crescent, Birmingham 24 Sep.
1884 aged about 60. _Edgbastonia Oct. 1884, portrait_.

BATESON, SIR ROBERT, 1 Baronet (_only son of Thomas Bateson
1752–1811_). _b._ 13 March 1780; sheriff of county Down 1809;
created a baronet 18 Dec. 1818; M.P. for Londonderry 16 Aug. 1830
to May 1842. _d._ Belvoir park, Belfast 21 April 1863.

BATESON, SIR ROBERT HARVEY, 2 Baronet. _b._ 1787; succeeded his
uncle 1825. _d._ Castruse, co. Donegal 15 April 1870.

BATESON, REV. WILLIAM HENRY (_son of Richard Bateson of Liverpool,
merchant_). _b._ Liverpool 3 June 1812; ed. at Shrewsbury and St.
John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839, B.D. 1846, D.D. 1857;
fellow of his college Feb. 1837, senior bursar 1846 to 2 Feb.
1857, master 2 Feb. 1857 to death; V. of Madingley, Cambs.
1843–47; public orator 26 Oct. 1848 to 2 Feb. 1857; sec. of a
commission to inquire into state of Univ. of Cam. 1850; vice
chancellor 1858. _d._ St. John’s college lodge, Cambridge 27 March
1881. _The Eagle, No. lxv_, (1881); _Cambridge Review ii_, 258
(1881).

BATHER, LUCY ELIZABETH (_dau. of Right Rev. Charles James Blomfield
1786–1857 bishop of London_). _b._ Fulham 31 March 1836; author of
_Footprints on the sands of time, Biographies for young people_
1860 and a number of stories for children under pseudonym of Aunt
Lucy. (_m._ 29 Aug. 1861 Arthur Henry Bather of Meole Brace,
Shropshire). _d._ The hall Meole Brace 5 Sep. 1864.

BATHGATE, REV. WILLIAM (_youngest son of Wm. Bathgate of
Buckholmside, Galashiels, engineer_). _b._ Buckholmside 28 Sep.
1820; studied at Glasgow Univ. and Theological academy 1840–44;
expelled from the academy May 1844 for opinions supposed to be
heretical; minister of Independent church at Stair 6 Dec. 1844, of
Bridgeton church Glasgow 1846, of church at Ayr 1847, of church at
Forres 1849, of Evangelical Union church Clerk’s lane, Kilmarnock
Aug. 1847 to Nov. 1860 and of Winton place ch. Kilmarnock 11 Nov.
1860 to death; author of _The moral character of God_ 1849;
_Æternitas_ 1851; _The Soul’s Arena_ 1852; _Essays on a superior
popular literature_ 1854; _Christ and man_ 1865. _d._ Kilmarnock
28 Dec. 1879. _Progressive religion, Sermons and selections from
the manuscripts of Wm. Bathgate, D.D._ 1884.

BATHURST, HENRY GEORGE BATHURST, 4 Earl (_eld. child of Henry
Bathurst, 3 Earl Bathurst 1762–1834_). _b._ Apsley house,
Piccadilly 24 Feb. 1790; comr. of the India board 1812–18; M.P.
for Weobley 15 Jany. 1812 to 29 Sep. 1812 and for Cirencester 12
Oct. 1812 to 27 July 1834, when he succeeded as 4 Earl. _d._
Cirencester 25 May 1866.

BATHURST, WILLIAM LENNOX BATHURST, 5 Earl. _b._ George st.
Westminster 14 Feb. 1791; ed. at Eton and All Souls coll. Ox.,
B.A. 1812, M.A. 1817; fellow of All Souls college 1812; M.P. for
Weobley 1812–16; barrister L.I. 6 Feb. 1821; joint sec. to Privy
Council 1827–60; succeeded his brother as 5 Earl 25 May 1866. _d._
38 Half Moon st. Piccadilly 24 Feb. 1878. _I.L.N. lxxii_, 245
(1878), _portrait_.

BATHURST, REV. WILLIAM HILEY. _b._ 28 Aug. 1796; author of _Roman
antiquities found at Lydney park, Gloucestershire_ 1879. _d._
Lydney park 25 Nov. 1877.

BATTERSBY, GEORGE (_eld. son of Thomas Battersby of Newcastle, co.
Meath 1767–1839_). _b._ 8 Sep. 1802; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin,
B.A. 1824, LL.B. and LLD. 1832; called to Irish bar 1826; Q.C. 2
Nov. 1844, bencher of King’s Inns 1861; judge of Consistorial
court of Dublin 1862–67, and of Provincial court of Dublin
1867–71; chancellor of archdiocese of Dublin 1871 to death, _d._
20 Lower Leeson st. Dublin 9 June 1880.

BATTHYANY, GUSTAVUS THEODORE ANTHONY, Count. _b._ Hungary 8 Dec.
1803; naturalised in England by private act of parliament 1 and 2
Vict. cap. 48 (1838); won the Derby with Galopin 1875. _d._ in the
grand stand at Newmarket 25 April 1883. _bur._ Highland road
cemetery Portsmouth 2 May. _Graphic xxvii_, 477 (1883),
_portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxxii_, 432 (1883), _portrait_; _Baily’s Mag.
xl_, 371–72 (1883).

BATTINE, WILLIAM. Lieut. col. Bengal artillery 1 Dec. 1834, colonel
6 July 1843 to death; M.G. 23 Nov. 1841; commander at Barrackpore
26 April 1850 to death; C.B. 20 July 1838. _d._ Lahore 21 July
1851 aged 63.

BATTLEY, RICHARD (_2 son of John Battley of Wakefield, architect_).
_b._ Wakefield about 1770; studied at St. Thomas’s and Guy’s
hospitals; assist. surgeon in the Navy; apothecary in St. Paul’s
churchyard, London; assisted in founding the London Infirmary for
curing diseases of the Eye 1804; Pharmaceutical chemist in Fore
st. Cripplegate about 1812; introduced many important improvements
in pharmaceutical operations. _d._ Reigate 4 March 1856. _G.M.
xlv_, 534 (1856).

BATTY, GEORGE. Proprietor of a menagerie, retired about 1859; lived
in Jersey. _d._ Raune, France 5 June 1867 aged 64.

BATTY, WILLIAM (_only brother of the preceding_). Proprietor of a
large circus with which he travelled all over Great Britain and
Ireland; converted Lambeth baths, London, into a circus which he
opened Nov. 1841 as the Olympic Arena; opened the Surrey theatre
Whitsuntide 1842; rebuilt Astley’s and opened it 17 April 1843,
lessee 1843–55 and 1861–62. _d._ Neville lodge, Grove end road,
St. John’s Wood 7 Feb. 1868 in 68 year. _H. Valentine’s Behind the
curtain_ (1848) 73–76; _I.L.N. ii_, 222 (1843).

BATTYE, JAMES. _b._ Huddersfield 1803; composer of glees and
anthems; published a set of _Twelve glees_ 1854. _d._ Huddersfield
10 Oct. 1858.

BATTYE, WIGRAM (_8 son of George Wyngard Battye of Bengal civil
service_). _b._ Kensington, London 13 May 1842; ensign 6 Bengal
European regiment 1859; wing officer, adjutant and commandant of
cavalry of the Corps of Guides successively 1863 to death;
accompanied as a noncombatant the army led by Crown prince of
Germany against the French 1870; killed at Futtehabad, Afghanistan
when leading the Guides against the Kugiani Afghans 31 March 1879.
_S. H. Shadbolt’s Afghan campaigns_ (1882) 12–14, _portrait_.

BAUDERET, FRANCIS HENRY ABRAM. Master of Brooks’s club London 50
years. _d._ Brooks’s club 31 Jany. 1880 in 83 year.

BAUGH, THOMAS FOLLIOT. Entered navy 1784; captain 21 Oct. 1810,
retired R.A. 1 Oct. 1846. _d._ 3 Higher Mount Radford terrace,
Exeter 19 Aug. 1857 aged 84.

BAUMANN, JEAN FRANÇOIS, _b._ Belgium; lived in London for 25 years
before his death; the best player on the bassoon. _d._ Albert st.
Regent’s park, London 25 Aug. 1856 aged 52. _I.L.N. iv_, 29
(1844), _portrait_.

BAUME, PIERRE HENRI JOSEPH. _b._ Marseilles 1797; private secretary
to Ferdinand I, king of the two Sicilies 1815; went to London
about 1825; naturalised 1832; a preacher of doctrine of reforming
optimism; a theatrical manager; proprietor of some model
experimental gardens near Holloway, and a promoter in Manchester
of public houses without intoxicating drinks about 1850; bought a
large estate at Colney Hatch valued at £40,000; organised Sunday
lectures in Manchester; lived at Douglas Isle of Man 1857 to
death. _d._ Duke st. Douglas 28 Oct. 1875. Left all his property
in trust for philanthropic purposes in Isle of Man. _G. J.
Holyoakes History of co-operation i_, 349–51 (1875), _ii_, 400–405
(1879).

BAUMGARDT, JOHN GREGORY. Ensign 91 foot 1 Aug. 1798; lieut. col. of
31 foot 12 Jany. 1826 and of 2 foot 24 Dec. 1829 to 1 Jany. 1847;
inspecting field officer of Bristol recruiting district 1 Jany.
1847 to 11 Nov. 1851; M.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 6 June 1840. _d._
Rue de L’Oratoire, Champs Elysées, Paris 7 May 1855 aged 72.

BAXENDALE, JOSEPH (_eld. son of Josiah Baxendale of Lancaster,
surgeon who d. 1834_). _b._ Lancaster Sep. 1785; partner in firm
of Pickford & Co. carriers 1817 to death; chairman of South
eastern railway to 1844; A.I.C.E. 8 Feb. 1839. _d._ Woodside,
Whetstone, Middlesex 24 March 1872.

BAXTER, CHARLES. _b._ Little Britain, London March 1809; a painter
chiefly of miniatures and portraits; exhibited 45 pictures at the
R.A, 1834–72; member of Society of British Artists 1842, exhibited
127 pictures there 1842–79. _d._ Lewisham 10 Jany. 1879. _Art
Journal_ (1864) 145–7, (1879) 73; _I.L.N. lxxiv_, 72 (1879),
_portrait_.

BAXTER, CRICHTON M. Poet, painter and chess problem composer; lived
at Dundee. _d._ Feb. 1881. _Chess problems by the late C. M.
Baxter_ 1883, _portrait_.

BAXTER, SIR DAVID (_2 son of Wm. Baxter of Balgavies, Forfarshire,
export merchant_). _b._ Dundee 13 Feb. 1793; partner in linen
manufacturing firm of Baxter brothers 1825 which became one of
largest houses in the world; purchased estates of Kilmaron 1856
and Balgavies 1863; created baronet 1 Jany. 1863; founded 4
scholarships in the Univ. of Edin. and a chair of engineering
which he endowed with sum of £6,000; gave with his sisters Eleanor
and Mary Ann the Baxter park to Dundee opened 9 Sep. 1863. _d._
Kilmaron castle 13 Oct. 1872. Personalty sworn under £1,098,000
Dec. 1872. _W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 400–407; _J.
Thomson’s History of Dundee_ (1874) 385–90.

BAXTER, EDWARD. Merchant at Manchester; took a prominent part in
every movement in favour of popular rights; brought up the great
Manchester address on the Reform bill to Lord Grey; offered the
first seat in Parliament for new borough of Manchester but
declined; retired from business about 1834. _d._ 27 July 1856 aged
77.

BAXTER, EDWARD (_eld. son of Wm. Baxter of Balgavies, export
merchant_). _b._ 3 April 1791; partner with his father about
1813–26; export merchant at Dundee 1826 to death; vice consul for
the U.S. at Dundee 9 Oct. 1818; dean of guild 1831; one of the
merchant princes of Dundee. _d._ Kincaldrum, Forfarshire 26 July
1870. _W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 368–74.

BAXTER, EVAN BUCHANAN (_son of James Baxter, director of the English
school at St. Petersburg_). _b._ St. Petersburg 1844; ed. at
King’s college London; gained an open scholarship at Lincoln coll.
Ox. 1862; became a positivist; entered medical department of
King’s college London Oct. 1864; L.S.A. 1868, M.R.C.S. 1869; house
phys. King’s college hospital 1868–69, and Sambrooke medical
registrar 1870–71; B.A. London 1865, M.B. 1869, M.D. 1870; medical
tutor at King’s college 1871–74, and professor of materia medica
and therapeutics 1874–84; M.R.C.P. 1872, F.R.C.P. 1877; phys. to
Royal free hospital 1881; translated for the New Sydenham Society,
_Rindfleisch’s Pathological histology 2 vols._ 1872–73; edited
_Garrod’s Essentials of materia medica_ _4 ed._ 1874. _d._ 28
Weymouth st. Portland place, London 14 Jany, 1885. _Lancet 24
Jany. 1885 p._ 181.

BAXTER, FRANCIS WILLOUGHBY (_younger son of Wm. Edward Baxter of
Dundee, merchant_). _b._ Dundee; partner in mercantile firm of
Guthrie and Baxter; contributed to _Tait’s Magazine_ and other
periodicals; edited the _Dundee Advertiser_; author of _Percy
Lockhart or the hidden will 2 vols._ 1872. _d._ Broughty Ferry,
near Dundee June 1870 aged 64. _W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_
(1873) 358–60.

BAXTER, GEORGE (_2 son of John Baxter of Lewes 1781–1858_). A wood
engraver in London; invented oil colour picture printing 1836,
employed 20 different blocks in some of the illustrations to the
“Pictorial Album” 1836. _d._ The Retreat Sydenham 11 Jany. 1867
aged 62.

BAXTER, GEORGE R. WYTHEN. Author of _Modern refinement_ 1834;
_Humour and pathos_ 1838; _The book of the Bastiles_ 1841; edited
_Don Juan Junior, a poem by Byron’s Ghost_ 1839. _d._ Bryn,
Montgomeryshire 17 Jany. 1854.

BAXTER, JOHN. _b._ Rickhurst Surrey 21 Oct. 1781; printer and
publisher at Lewes down to Jany. 1858; the first printer in
England who used the inking roller; made paper from the common
nettle; published _Library of practical agriculture_ 1846, _4 ed.
2 vols._ 1851; wrote first book laying down rules of cricket
published as _Lambert’s Cricketer’s Guide_; established _Sussex
Agricultural Express_ 1837. _d._ Lewes 12 Nov. 1858. _M. A.
Lower’s Worthies of Sussex_ (1865) 283–84, _portrait_.

BAXTER, JOHN BOYD (_son of Wm. Baxter of Balgavies, merchant_). _b._
1796; pres. of general council of procurators for Scotland several
times; dean of faculty of procurators and solicitors at Dundee
1825 to death. _d._ Craig Tay, Dundee 4 Aug. 1882.

BAXTER, MARY ANN. Gave with the preceding in 1881 sum of £130,000
for founding a college in Dundee which was opened 5 Oct. 1883.
_d._ Ellangowan, Dundee 19 Dec. 1884. Personalty amounted to
upwards of £283,000.

BAXTER, ROBERT DUDLEY (_eld. son of Robert Baxter of Westminster,
solicitor_). _b._ Doncaster 3 Feb. 1827; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.,
B.A. 1849, M.A. 1852; admitted a solicitor 1852; partner in firm
of Baxter, Rose and Norton, Westminster; A.I.C.E. 4 Dec. 1866;
author of _The national income_ 1868; _The taxation of the United
Kingdom_ 1869; _English parties and conservatism_ 1870; _The
national debts of the various states of the world_ 1871. _d._ 13
Oak hill, Frognal, Hampstead 20 May 1875. _Min. of Proc. of
instit. of C.E. xlii_, 259–61 (1875); _I.L.N. lxvi_, 547 (1875),
_portrait_.

BAXTER, WILLIAM. Curator of botanic garden at Oxford 1813–54;
established a library for the use of Oxford gardeners; F.L.S.
1817; author of _British phænogamous botany, or figures and
descriptions of the genera of British flowering plants 6 vols._
1834–43. _d._ Oxford 1 Nov. 1871 in 84 year.

BAXTER, WILLIAM RALEIGH. L.R.C.S. 1840, LLD. Aberdeen 1843; senior
surgeon Osmanli horse artillery 1854; volunteer surgeon major in
French army at Constantinople; author of _A treatise on certain
abnormal sounds of the heart; A handbook of chemistry_ 1851;
edited _Medical Record_. _d._ Emsworth, Hants 26 Oct. 1875 aged
63.

BAYES, CORDELIA (_dau. of Thomas Williams of Cambridge_). _b._
Cambridge 1797; admitted into membership with Society of Friends
1825; a Minister 1837; laboured amongst the very poor in the
lowest parts of London 1840–45; visited United States and Canada
1851–53. (_m._ 1820 James Kirbell Bayes he _d._ 1842). _d._ Stoke
Newington, London 11 April 1865. _Annual Monitor for 1866 pp._
8–34.

BAYLEE, REV. JOSEPH. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; B.A. 1834, M.A.
1848, B.D. and D.D. 1852; P.C. of Holy Trinity, Birkenhead,
Liverpool 1842–64; founder of St. Aidan’s theological college
Birkenhead 1846, and principal 1846–69, present college building
opened 1856; V. of Shepscombe, Gloucs. 1871 to death; author of
_The institutions of the Church of England are of divine origin_,
_3 ed._ 1838; _Unitarianism a rejection of the word of God_ 1852;
_The intermediate state of the blessed dead_ 1864; _Introduction
to the study of the Bible 2 ed. 3 vols._ 1870; _The Apocalypse
with an exegetical commentary_ 1876. _d._ Shepscombe vicarage 7
July 1883 in 76 year.

BAYLEY, CHARLES JOHN. Ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.; scholar
1839, B.A. 1839, M.A. 1844; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1844; colonial
sec. of Mauritius 1849; governor of Bahama islands Feb. 1857 to
1864; C.B. 23 July 1862. _d._ 6 July 1873.

BAYLEY, SIR EDWARD CLIVE (_son of Edward Clive Bayley of St.
Petersburg_). _b._ St. Petersburg 17 Oct. 1821; entered Bengal
civil service 1841; barrister M.T. 12 June 1857; sec. to
government of India, home department March 1862 to 1872; vice
chancellor of Univ. of Calcutta 1869–74; member of council of
Governor general of India 19 April 1873 to April 1878 when he
retired upon the annuity fund; pres. of Bengal Asiatic Society 5
times, and of Royal Asiatic Society 3 years; K.C.S.I. 1 Jany.
1877. (_m._ 6 March 1850 Emily Anne Theophila, eld. dau. of Sir
Theophilus Metcalfe, Baronet). _d._ Wilmington lodge, Keymer
Sussex 30 April 1884. _Annual report of Royal Asiatic Society_
1884.

BAYLEY, FREDERICK WILLIAM NAYLOR. _b._ Ireland; went to Barbadoes
1825, returned 1829; literary dramatic and musical critic on the
_Morning Post_ about 1831; started and edited the _National
Omnibus_, a penny weekly paper; edited the _Illustrated London
News_ May 1842 to 1848; author of _Four years residence in the
West Indies_ 1830; _Scenes and stories by a clergyman in debt 3
vols._ 1835; _Tales of the late revolutions_ 1831; issued a series
of songs set to music under the title of _The Nosegay_ 1832; wrote
many popular songs including _The Newfoundland dog_; author of
_New tale of a tub_ 1841; _Comic nursery rhymes_ 1842; _The model
of the earth_ 1851. _d._ from delirium tremens New Bull’s Head
Inn, Digbeth, Birmingham 1 Dec. 1852 aged 40. _Rev. J.
Richardson’s Recollections of the last half century ii_, 197–203
(1855).

BAYLEY, HENRY VINCENT (_eld. son of Wm. Butterworth Bayley, who d.
29 May 1860 aged 78_). _b._ 1815; ed. at Eton; entered Bengal
civil service 1834; judge of high court of judicature at Calcutta
13 May 1862 to death. _d._ Calcutta 2 Feb. 1873.

BAYLEY, JOHN. _b._ Upper Green, Mitcham, Surrey 17 May 1794; a
tailor there; a practice bowler at Lord’s cricket ground London
1823–54; played in many great matches; a slow round-armed bowler;
lived at Mitcham all his life. _d._ Upper Green, Mitcham 7 Nov.
1874.

BAYLEY, SIR JOHN EDWARD GEORGE, 2 Baronet. _b._ London 23 Dec. 1793;
barrister M.T. 6 May 1835; clerk of assize northern circuit 1836
to death; succeeded 10 Oct. 1841. _d._ Stanhope lodge, Kensington
Gore, London 23 Dec. 1871.

BAYLEY, JOHN WHITCOMB (_2 son of John Bayley of Hempstead, Gloucs.,
farmer_). A junior clerk in Record office, Tower of London, chief
clerk 1819; sub-commissioner on the public records to May 1834;
edited _Calendars of the proceedings in Chancery in the reign of
Queen Elizabeth 3 vols. fol. 1827–32_, for which he received
£2,739; student of Inner Temple Aug. 1815; author of _History and
antiquities of the Tower of London 2 parts_ 1821–25; F.S.A. 1819,
F.R.S. 1823. _d._ Paris 25 March 1869.

BAYLEY, ROBERT. Ed. at Highbury theological college; independent
minister at Howard st. chapel Sheffield 1835–45, at Ratcliff
Highway, London 1845–57 and at Hereford 1857 to death; started a
monthly periodical called _The people’s college journal_ 1846;
author of _A history of Louth_; _Nature considered as a
revelation_ 1836; _Lectures on the early history of the Christian
church_; _A new concordance to the Hebrew Bible juxta editionem
Hooghtianam_. _d._ Hereford 14 Nov. 1859.

BAYLEY, WILLIAM. _b._ 1810; vicar choral at St. Paul’s and organist
of St. John’s Southwark; composed some beautiful cavatinas
including _Softly ring ye gay bluebells_ and _Come sister come_.
_d._ London Nov. 1858.

BAYLEY, WILLIAM BUTTERWORTH (_6 son of Thomas Butterworth Bayley of
Hope hall, Eccles 1744–1802_). _b._ 1782; ed. at Eton, and the
college Fort William, Calcutta; sec. in revenue and judicial
department 1814; chief sec. to supreme government of India
1819–25; member of the council 1825 to 11 Nov. 1830; governor
general of India 13 March to 4 July 1828; a director of East India
company 23 July 1833, deputy chairman 1839, chairman 1840. _d._
St. Leonard’s on Sea 29 May 1860.

BAYLIS, ALEXANDER JOHN. _b._ 1812; undersheriff of London 1846 and
1869; solicitor to Comrs. of Sewers Dec. 1862 to death, _d._ at an
hotel near Redhill railway station 16 May 1882.

BAYLIS, CHARLES OLIVES. _b._ Jany. 1815; M.R.C.S. Edin. 1837, F.S.A.
1839, M.R.C.S. England 1843; practised at Birkenhead; medical
officer of health there 1866–73; medical officer for new combined
district of West Kent 1873–83. _d._ 62 Windsor road, Southport,
Lancs. 12 Dec. 1884.

BAYLIS, EDWARD. Clerk in Alliance insurance office; founded between
1838 and 1854 a series of life offices all of which have
disappeared except the English and Scottish Law office; went to
Cape of Good Hope about 1859; author of _The arithmetic of
annuities and life assurances or compound interest simplified_
1844. _d._ Cape of Good Hope 12 Sep. 1861 aged about 70.

BAYLIS, THOMAS HUTCHINSON (_son of the preceding_). Manager of the
Trafalgar life insurance office 1850; founded Unity general life
insurance office and the Unity bank about 1852, manager of them
both to Oct. 1856; founded British foreign and colonial insurance
association 1857 and the Consols life association 1858; invented
the Positive life assurance, an ingenious form of life policy
1869. _d._ 17 Vere St. Cavendish sq. 17 Nov. 1876 aged 53.

BAYLY, SIR HENRY (_2 son of Zachary Bayly of Bideford_). _b._ Bath
1790; ensign 51 foot 30 April 1807; captain 24 April 1817 to 15
Aug. 1826 when placed on h.p.; K.H. 1835; knighted by the Queen at
St. James’s palace 18 July 1838. _d._ Burly, Lyme Regis, Dorset 31
Jany. 1867.

BAYLY, THOMAS DAVIS (_4 son of Charles Bayly of Frome Selwood,
Somerset, solicitor_). _b._ 1805; barrister G.I. 27 Jany. 1836;
comr. in Court of bankruptcy Dorset and Somerset 1838–43; bencher
of his inn 1 March 1875. _d._ 20 Aug. 1879.

BAYNES, SIR EDWARD STUART. Deputy assistant commissary general 16
Dec. 1813; secretary general of Ionian islands April 1828–1838;
Consul at St. Petersburgh 24 April 1838 to Sep. 1849; British
agent and consul general in regency of Tunis 25 Oct. 1849 to
death; C.M.G. 9 Feb. 1833, K.C.M.G. 26 June 1833. _d._ Tunis 23
July 1855 aged 64.

BAYNES, EDWIN DONALD. _b._ 1828; colonial sec. and treasurer of
Montserrat 1850–54; colonial sec. of Antigua 1863; acting lieut.
governor of Dominica 1871; colonial sec. of Leeward islands, and
pres. of Antigua 1872; lieut. governor of Leeward islands 1876–84;
C.M.G. 1877. _d._ St. John’s, Antigua 1 Nov. 1884 in 57 year.

BAYNES, SIR ROBERT LAMBERT (_youngest son of Thomas Baynes,
commander R.N. who d. 1818_). _b._ 1796; entered navy 19 April
1810; captain 8 July 1828; commander in chief on Pacific station 8
July 1857 to 5 May 1860; admiral 5 May 1865; C.B. 13 Nov. 1827,
K.C.B. 18 May 1860. (_m._ 8 July 1846 Frances 4 dau. of Thomas
Denman 1 Baron Denman she was _b._ 17 Sep. 1812). _d._ Upper
Norwood 7 Sep. 1869.

BAYNES, SIMCOE. Midshipman R.N. 1810; ensign royal Corsican rangers
24 June 1812; lieut. col. royal Malta fencible regiment 23 July
1852 to 26 Oct. 1858; colonel 35 foot 27 March 1863 to death;
general 14 Dec. 1873. _d._ Tarxien Malta 10 Sep. 1875 aged 77.

BAYNES, SIR WILLIAM, 2 Baronet. _b._ 28 Nov. 1789; succeeded 16
March 1837. _d._ 25 Portland place London 1 Jany. 1866.

BAYNING, REV. HENRY WILLIAM POWLETT, 3 Baron. _b._ London 8 June
1797; ed. at Eton and St. John’s coll. Cam.; succeeded 2 Aug.
1823. _d._ Honingham hall near Norwich 5 Aug. 1866.

BAYS, PETER PAYNE. _b._ Cambridge; a sailing master in the merchant
service; a schoolmaster at Cambridge; auditor of Cambridge Union;
author of _A narrative of the wreck of the Minerva whaler of Port
Jackson_ 1831. _d._ New York 7 Feb. 1864 aged 80.

BAZLEY, SIR THOMAS (_eld. son of Thomas Bazley of Gilnow near
Bolton, Lancs. 1773–1845_). _b._ Gilnow 27 May 1797; ed. at Bolton
gr. sch.; cotton spinner and merchant at Bolton 1818–26 when he
removed to Manchester, retired from business 1862; member of the
Anti-Corn Law Assoc. and of the Council of the League; director of
Manchester Chamber of Commerce, vice pres., pres. 1845–59; one of
Royal comrs. of Great Exhibition 1851; M.P. for Manchester 17 Nov.
1858 to 24 March 1880; created Baronet 7 Oct. 1869. _d._
Riversleigh Lytham, Lancs. 18 March 1885. _I.L.N. xix_, 487, 508,
523 (1851), _portrait_; _Touchstone 19 April 1879_, _portrait_.

BEACH, SIR MICHAEL HICKS, 8 Baronet, _b._ Netheravon house, Wilts 25
Oct. 1809; succeeded 23 Oct. 1834; lieut. col. of North Gloucester
militia 10 Feb. 1844 to death; M.P. for East Gloucs. 9 Jany. 1854
to death. _d._ Williamstrip park, Gloucs. 29 Nov. 1854.

BEACH, WILLIAM. _b._ 24 July 1783; M.P. for Malmesbury 13 Oct. 1812
to Feb. 1817. _d._ Oakley hall near Basingstoke 22 Nov. 1856.

BEACONSFIELD, BENJAMIN DISRAELI, 1 Earl of (_eld. son of Isaac
Disraeli of London 1766–1848_). _b._ London 21 Dec. 1804; baptised
in parish church of St. Andrew, Holborn 31 July 1817; articled to
Wm. Stevens of 6 Frederick’s place Old Jewry, solicitor 10 Nov.
1821; student of Lincoln’s Inn 18 Nov. 1824 to 25 Nov. 1831; M.P.
for Maidstone 1837–1841, for Shrewsbury 1841–1847 and for Bucks.
1847–1876; chancellor of the exchequer Feb. 1852 to Dec. 1852,
Feb. 1858 to June 1859 and July 1866 to Feb. 1868; P.C. March
1852; introduced and carried Representation of the people act
1867; first lord of the Treasury 29 Feb. 1868 to 2 Dec. 1868 and
21 Feb. 1874 to 27 April 1880; lord rector of Glasgow University
1871–1875, installed 19 Nov. 1873; F.R.S. 10 Feb. 1876; lord privy
seal 12 Aug. 1876 to Feb. 1878; created Earl of Beaconsfield and
Viscount Hughenden of Hughenden Manor, Bucks. 21 Aug. 1876; first
British plenipotentiary at Berlin congress 13 June to 13 July
1878; K.G. 22 July 1878; admitted to freedom of City of London 3
Aug. 1878; author of _Vivian Grey 4 vols._ 1827; _The young duke 3
vols._ 1831; _Alroy 3 vols._ 1833; _Contarini Fleming_ 1833; _The
Revolutionary Epick, a poem_ 1834; _Henrietta Temple 3 vols._
1836; _Venetia 3 vols._ 1837; _Alarcos a tragedy_ 1839 which was
produced on the stage at Astley’s; _Coningsby or the new
generation 3 vols._ 1844; _Sybil or the two nations 3 vols._ 1845;
_Tancred or the new crusade 3 vols._ 1847; _Political biography of
Lord George Bentinck_ 1851; _Lothair 3 vols._ 1870; _Endymion 3
vols._ 1880. _d._ 19 Curzon st. Mayfair London 19 April 1881.
_bur._ Hughenden churchyard 26 April. _Maclise Portrait gallery by
W. Bates_ (1883) 164–72, _portrait_; _Lord Beaconsfield, a
biography by T. P. O’Connor_, _6 ed._ 1884; _The public life of
Lord Beaconsfield by F. Hitchman, 3 ed._ 1884; _An appreciative
life of Lord Beaconsfield, edited by C. Brown, 2 vols._ 1882,
_portrait_.

NOTE.—He is the hero of ‘Vivian Grey’ the first edition of
which novel has whole chapters not found in subsequent
editions; he figures almost by name in Lady Bulwer Lytton’s
novel “Behind the Scenes” 3 vols. 1854. His statue in
Parliament sq. was unveiled 19 April 1883, Primrose day.

BEACONSFIELD, MARY ANNE DISRAELI, Viscountess (_only dau. of John
Viney Evans, Captain R.N. of Branceford park, Devon_). _b._ 1795.
(_m._ (1) 1811 Wyndham Lewis, M.P. for Maidstone who _d._ 14 March
1838, _m._ (2) 28 Aug. 1839 Benjamin Disraeli, 1 Earl of
Beaconsfield). Created Viscountess Beaconsfield of Beaconsfield 30
Nov. 1868. _d._ Hughenden, Bucks 15 Dec. 1872. _Heath’s Book of
beauty_ 1841 _p._ 236, _portrait_.

BEADON, SIR CECIL (_youngest son of Richard Beadon who d. 6 April
1858 aged 76_). _b._ Wells 1816; ed. at Eton and Shrewsbury; under
secretary to government of Bengal 1843 and secretary 1852;
secretary to government of India home department 1854 and foreign
department 1859; member of Governor general’s council 1860;
lieutenant governor of Bengal 1862–1866; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1866.
_d._ Latton, Wilts 18 July 1880. _Fortnightly Review viii_, 180–91
(1867).

BEADON, REV. FREDERICK (_3 son of Rev. Edward Beadon, R. of North
Stoneham, Hants who d. 17 Dec. 1810_). _b._ London 6 Dec. 1777;
ed. at Charter house and Trin. coll. Ox., B.A. 1800, M.A. 1804; R.
of Weston-super-Mare 1801–11; preb. of Wells cathedral 26 May
1809, canon residentiary 1812–1875 and chancellor 13 Aug. 1823 to
death; V. of Titley near Hereford 1811–1876; R. of Sulham, Berks
1814–1823; R. of North Stoneham Jany. 1811 to death. _d._ North
Stoneham rectory 10 June 1879 aged 101 years and 6 months.
_Norman’s Memoir privately printed_ 1879; _Graphic xx_, 108
(1879), _portrait_.

BEADON, WILLIAM FREDERICK (_eld. son of Richard Beadon who d. 6
April 1858_). _b._ 1808; ed. at Eton and St. John’s coll. Cam.,
B.A. 1829, M.A. 1833; barrister I.T. 1 May 1835; police magistrate
at Wandsworth and Hammersmith 1847, and at Marlborough st. police
court 1856 to death. _d._ Stratford place, Cavendish sq. 30 March
1862.

BEAGLEY, THOMAS. _b._ Farringdon near Alton, Hants 5 Oct. 1789; a
builder there to Nov. 1850; professional cricketer; a splendid bat
and long-stop; played for his county many years. _d._ 27 Alfred
road, Harrow road, London 21 Feb. 1858.

BEAL, ABRAHAM. _b._ Chatham about 1803; a great advocate of total
abstinence; acquired title of “the Prisoner’s friend”; emigrated
to the United States 1848; general agent of New York prison
association 1863 to death; more than 10000 prisoners were released
or pardoned through his active agency. _d._ Brooklyn New York 25
Feb. 1872. _American Annual Cyclopædia xii_, 59–60 (1873).

BEAL, REV. WILLIAM. _b._ Devonport 4 May 1785; Wesleyan minister
1808 to death; at Liskeard, Cornwall 1857 to death; the first
Sunday school teacher in Cornwall; author of _The fathers of the
Wesley family and references to their times_ 1833, _2 ed._ 1862;
_Britain and the Gael_ 1855 _2 ed._ 1860. _d._ Liskeard 18 June
1872.

BEAL, REV. WILLIAM (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ Sheffield 9
Dec. 1815; ed. at King’s coll. London and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A.
1841, LLD. Aberdeen 1845, F.S.A. 1850; head master of Tavistock
gr. sch. 1837–47; V. of Brooke Norfolk 1847 to death; originated
at Brooke the Parochial harvest home 1854; diocesan inspector of
schools 1855 to death; edited the _West of England magazine_
1840–47; author of _First book in chronology_ 1840; _Church
Unions_ 1848; _Peoples Colleges_ 1851. _d._ Aigle, canton Vaud
Switzerland 20 April 1870.

BEALE, LIONEL JOHN. _b._ Falmouth Oct. 1796; M.R.C.S. 1815;
practised in London about 1831 to death; medical officer of health
to parish of St. Martin-in-the-Fields 1856 to death; author of _On
spinal diseases_ 1830; _The laws of health in relation to mind and
body_ 1851; _Health and longevity_ 1854; _On personal and domestic
hygiene_ 1855. _d._ 108 Long Acre London 23 June 1871. _Medical
Times and gazette ii_, 24 (1871).

BEALE, SAMUEL (_son of William Beale of Camphill, Birmingham_). _b._
Birmingham 1803; an iron master; M.P. for Derby 28 March 1857 to 6
July 1865; chairman of Midland railway 1858–1864. _d._ Warfield
grove, Bracknell Berkshire 11 Sep. 1874. Personalty sworn under
£350,000 Oct. 1874.

BEALE, THOMAS WILLIAM. Clerk in office of Board of Revenue at Agra
many years; author of _Miftahu-t-Tawarikh or Key of history_
lithographed at Agra 1849; _The Oriental biographical dictionary
edited by the Asiatic Society of Bengal_ 1881. _d._ summer of 1875
very old. _Sir H. M. Elliott’s History of India viii_, 441–44
(1877).

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