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HODGKINSON, Eaton (son of Mr. Hodgkinson of Anderton, parish of Great Budworth, Cheshire, farmer, d. 1795). b. Anderton 26 Feb. 1789; ed. at Northwich gram. sch.; pawn broker, Salford, Manchester 1811; pupil of Dr. John Dalton of Manchester 1811; member of Manchester Lit. and Philos. society 1826, president 1848–50; F.R.S. 1841; professor of mechanical principles of engineering in Univ. coll. London 1847; hon. M.I.C.E. 1851; F.G.S.; experimented on strength and forms of iron beams and invented Hodgkinson’s beam; his paper on Strength of pillars of cast iron in Philos. Trans. obtained for him Royal soc. royal medal 1841; edited Practical essay on strength of cast iron, By T. Tredgold 5 ed. 1860. d. Eaglesfield house, Higher Broughton near Manchester 18 June 1861. Life of E. Hodgkinson in Memoirs Manchester Lit. and Philos. Soc. ii, 145 (1861); Proceedings of royal society, xii, 11–13 (1862); Minutes of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxi, 542–45 (1862).
HODGKINSON, Rev. George Christopher. b. 1816; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., 14 wrangler and B.A. 1837, M.A. 1842; principal R. Agric. coll. Cirencester; principal of York and Ripon Diocesan training institution to 1854; head master Louth gram. sch. 1854–76; sec. of National soc.; R. of Screveton, Notts. 1876 to death; an alpine climber; recommended use of aneroids in mountain expeditions; made astronomical observations on the summit of Mont Blanc; experimented on registering amount and intensity of sunshine; author of The doctrine of the church. And the statement of G. C. Hodgkinson of the Training school, York in his defence 1854; Drops for the cup of uniformity, unity and peace 1845. d. Car Colston, Notts. 25 April 1880.
HODGKINSON, Sir George Edmund (only son of George Hodgkinson). b. Southwell, Notts. 1817; ship owner, ship and insurance agent, 74 Cornhill, London; at one time in partnership with Sir John Pirie, bart.; sheriff of London 1850–51, after the Queen’s visit to the city 9 July 1851 was knighted at Buckingham palace 17 July 1851. d. Bournemouth 26 March 1886.
HODGKINSON, Grosvenor. b. Newark upon Trent 12 Feb. 1818; solicitor at Newark 1839–70; M.P. for Newark 1859–74. d. Newark 14 Feb. 1881.
HODGSON, Anthony. b. Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1780; ed. at Crook hall coll. and at Ushaw; hatter Newcastle, and bookseller dealing chiefly in R.C. books; a great student of English R.C. history; contributed many articles to Catholic Miscellany, Catholic Mag., Weekly Orthodox journal, and London and Dublin orthodox journal. d. Newcastle 10 Feb. 1869. Gillow’s English Catholics iii, 315–18 (1887).
HODGSON, Brian (son of Brian Hodgson, innkeeper, Buxton, d. 1827). bapt. Buxton 15 March 1767; partner in banking house of Hawkins, Mills & Co., Macclesfield 1787, the bank failed but paid 20s. in the pound; superintendent of Martello towers on coast of Essex, office abolished 1820; barrack master of the troops at Canterbury 1820–50. d. in Holland 31 Jany. 1858.
HODGSON, Christopher (eld. son of John Hodgson of Bishop Auckland, Durham). b. Bartlett’s buildings Holborn, London 1784; attorney and notary in Westminster 1805–71; chapter clerk to dean and chapter of St. Paul’s 1806; sec. to Abp. of Canterbury 1809; sec. to Bp. of London 1813; M.A. by Abp. of Canterbury 22 July 1820; sec. to governors of queen Anne’s bounty 15 Feb. 1822, resigned Jany. 1871; sec. to Abp. of York 1826; treasurer to queen Anne’s bounty 1839 to Jany. 1871; author of Instructions for the use of candidates for holy orders 1817, 9 ed. 1870; An account of the augmentation of small livings by the Governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne 2 parts 1826–35, 2 ed. 1845–56. d. Spring grove, Isleworth, Middlesex 7 Aug. 1874. bur. Norwood cemetery.
HODGSON, Christopher Pemberton. b. 1821; resided in New South Wales 1840–45 and accompanied several exploring expeditions; vice consul at Pau, France 1851–5; vice consul at Caen 1857–9; consul at Nagasaki, Japan 1859, and at Hakodadi 1859–61; author of Reminiscences of Australia 1846; El Ydaivur 1849; Pyrenaica, a history of the viscounts of Bèarn 1855; The Wanderer and other poems 1849; A residence at Nagasaki and Hakodadi 1861. d. Pau 11 Oct. 1865.
HODGSON, Edmund (son of a bookseller in Wimpole st. London). b. 1794; publisher with Robert Saunders at 39 Fleet st. London 1825–8; publisher at 192 Fleet st. 1829–55, at 2 Chancery lane 1856 to about 1867; pres. of Booksellers’ Provident Institution. d. 102 Lower Tulse hill, Brixton 3 May 1875. Publisher’s Circular (1875) 383–4.
HODGSON, Rev. Francis (2 son of Rev. James Hodgson, R. of Humber, co. Hereford, d. Oct. 1810). b. Croydon 16 Nov. 1781; ed. at Eton 1794–99, scholar King’s coll. Cam. 1799; B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807, B.D. 1840; fellow and tutor of his college 1808–14; friend of lord Byron whom he visited at Newstead 1808, corresponded with lady Byron about her separation; C. of Bradden, Northamptonshire 1815–16; V. of Bakewell, Derbyshire 1816–40; archdeacon of Derby 9 Sep. 1836 to 30 Dec. 1840; P.C. of Edensor in Chatsworth park 1838–40; provost of Eton college 5 May 1840 to death; R. of Cottesford, Oxon. 1842 to death; published The satires of Juvenal, A translation 1807; The Friends, a poem 1818; Mythology for versification 1831; Select portions of sacred history conveyed in sense for Latin verses 1828, 2 ed. 1833; Sacred lyrics adapted to Latin versification in the principal metres of Horace 1842; made considerable contributions in Latin to the Arundines Cami. d. The Lodge, Eton college 29 Dec. 1852. bur. in college chapel 4 Jany. 1853. Memoir of Rev. F. Hodgson by his son 2 vols. 1878, portrait; H. C. M. Lyte’s History of Eton college (1875) 413–73.
HODGSON, Rev. Francis. b. Duffield 13 Feb. 1805; settled at West Chester, Pa., U.S. America; minister of Methodist Episcopal ch. at Dauphin, Pa. 1828, at Philadelphia, New York, Hartford and New Haven; author of Examination into the new system of divinity 1829; The ecclesiastical polity of Methodism defended; The Calvinistic doctrine of predestination examined and refuted 1855. d. 16 April 1877. Appleton’s American biography, iii, 225 (1887).
HODGSON, Frederick. b. 1795; a brewer and merchant at Barnstaple; M.P. for Barnstaple 1824–30, 1831–2 and 1837–47. d. Paris 30 March 1854. E. Yates’s Recollections, i, 12 (1884).
HODGSON, Henry (son of Robert Hodgson). b. Congleton, Cheshire 24 Feb. 1781; entered Bengal army 1798; col. 51 Bengal N.I. 5 June 1829 to 1841; col. 12 Bengal N.I. 1841 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. Passy, Paris 8 March 1855.
HODGSON, Isaac. b. Bradford 15 Nov. 1828; a cricketer 1847; first played at Lord’s 16 July 1860; with C. Lawrence at Glasgow put the England Eleven out for 20 runs 20 Sep. 1860; bowler to Manchester Broughton club 1862; right hand batsman, but bowled left, round armed, slow with a twist; a good player at Knurr and Spell; had a benefit at Bradford 29 Aug. 1867; landlord of West End tavern, Lister hills, Bradford. d. Bradford 24 Nov. 1867. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores vi, 437–8 (1876).
HODGSON, John Studholme (2 son of John Hodgson 1757–1846, general in the army). b. Blake st. York May 1805; ed. at Woolwich; ensign 23 Bengal N.I. 3 Feb. 1822; served in campaign of 1845–6 and was wounded at Sobraon; raised first Sikh regt. embodied in British service which he commanded in second Sikh war 1848–9; as brigadier, organised Punjab irregular force 1850; in command of Peshawur frontier; lieut.-col. 12 Bengal N.I. 15 April 1858 to 1862; M.G. 23 July 1861; retired 1865. d. 10 Stanhope terrace, Hyde park, London 14 Jany. 1870.
HODGSON, Joseph (son of John Hodgson of Birmingham, merchant). b. Penrith, Cumberland 1788; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital; M.R.C.S. 1811, member of council 1849, examiner in surgery 1856–66, president 1864; in practice at King st. Cheapside 1811–18; edited London Medical Rev.; removed to Birmingham 1818; surgeon to general dispensary and general hospital to 1848; a founder of Birmingham eye infirmary 1824; returned to London 1849; examiner in surgery London univ.; president Medico-Chirur. Soc. 1851; very successful as a lithotomist; F.R.S. 14 April 1831; attended Sir Robert Peel on his death 2 July 1850; author of A treatise on the diseases of arteries and veins 1815 which was translated into German and Italian. d. 60 Westbourne ter. London 7 Feb. 1869. Reg. and Mag. of Biog. March 1869 pp. 211–2; J. F. Clarke’s Biog. Recollections (1874) 331–5.
HODGSON, Rev. Joseph Lowther (3 son of William Hodgson of Houghton house, Cumberland). b. 27 Sep. 1818; ed. at Pet. coll. Cam., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1844; P.C. of Wetheral with Warwick 1848 to death; hon. canon of Carlisle cath. 1858 to death; author of A simple catechism of the Lord’s prayer 1851; The village schools of Cumberland 1857. d. Harber Grange near Carlisle 29 March 1861.
HODGSON, Rev. Joseph Stordy (2 son of Joseph Hodgson). b. 1806; ed. at Caius coll. Cam., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1834; R. of Brinklow near Coventry 1840–58; R. of Aikton, Cumberland 1858–70; hon. canon of Carlisle cath. 1872, canon residentiary 1872 to death; author of Considerations in phrenology 1839; The duty of private judgment 1844. d. The Abbey, Carlisle 24 Jany. 1879.
HODGSON, Kirkman Daniel (eld son of John Hodgson of the Elms, Hampstead, d. 1858). b. London 1814; ed. at the Charterhouse 1826 etc.; partner in firm of Baring Brothers and Co. merchants; a director of Bank of England 1849–78, deputy governor 1862, governor 1863–4; M.P. for Bridport 1857–68, contested Penryn 1868; M.P. Bristol 1870 to 1878. d. Ash Grove, Sevenoaks 11 Sep. 1879, personalty sworn under £400,000 Nov. 1879.
HODGSON, Mary (dau. of Thomas Hodgson 1800–69). b. Bentham, Yorkshire 1835; ed. at Ackworth sch. near Pontefract 1846–50; student of Manchester sch. of Art 1874, and at Manchester Academy of art 1876; lady exhibitor 1882, associate 1884; landscape painter in oil and water colours; made studies of animals, especially of cats; author of A plea for the Alliance, in verse 1864; Vegetarian receipts for Christmas time 1883; illustrated H. Thompson’s History of Ackworth School 1879 with 12 drawings. d. York 13 Sep. 1886. J. H. Nodal’s Bibliography of Ackworth school (1889) 15, portrait.
HODGSON, Richard. b. Wimpole st. London 1804; partner in firm of Hodgson and Graves of Pall Mall, London, publishers to 1841; introduced many improvements in daguerreo type; built an observatory at Claybury in Essex 1852, removed it to Hawkwood near Chingford, Essex; F.R.A.S. 14 April 1848, mem. of council 12 Feb. 1858, hon. sec. 1863–67. d. Hawkwood 4 May 1872.
HODGSON, Sir Robert (son of Robert Hodgson, speaker of house of assembly, Prince Edward island). b. Charlotte town, Prince Edward island 1798; ed. at Collegiate sch. Windsor, Nova Scotia; admitted to bar of Nova Scotia and of Prince Edward island 1819; surrogate and judge of probate for P.E. island 1828, attorney general and advocate general 1828, president of legislative council 1840, and acting chief justice 1841; resigned all offices except surrogate and judge 1851; chief justice 1852, judge of vice admiralty court 1853; acting governor of P.E. island 1865, 1868 and 1873–4; lieut.-governor July 1874 to July 1879; knighted by patent 1 March 1869. d. Charlotte town 16 Sep. 1880.
HODGSON, Studholme John (son of general John Hodgson 1757–1846). b. 1 April 1805; ensign 50 regt. 30 Dec. 1819; served in 45, 39 and 19 regiments in Ceylon, India and the first Burmese war; commander of the forces in Ceylon 1865–69; commander of troops in Straits Settlement; administrator of civil government of Ceylon; colonel 54 regt. 13 March 1868; colonel 4 regt. 21 Nov. 1876 to death; general 2 Feb. 1876; retired 1 Oct. 1877. d. Argyll hall, Torquay 31 Aug. 1890.
HODGSON, Thomas. b. Lancaster, Jany. 1800; land surveyor, Lancaster 1821; made a survey of the county of Westmoreland 1823–5, concerning which he had a paper war with G. & J. Greenwood, map publishers; author of Plan of the county of Westmoreland 1828, another issue with the geological strata coloured by Adam Sedgwick is dated 1841. d. Lancaster 1869.
HODGSON, Thomas. Master Badsworth hounds for 3 seasons, of Holderness hounds 16 seasons and of Quorn hounds 2 seasons; registrar of deeds, West Riding of Yorkshire. d. Snydale hall, May 1863 aged 70. Sporting Rev., June 1863 pp. 461–3.
HODGSON, William. b. 1745; studied medicine and botany in Holland; M.D.; tried at Old Bailey 9 Dec. 1793 for proposing toast of The French Republic and comparing the king to a German hog butcher, imprisoned in Newgate 2 years; author of The picture of the Times 1795; The commonwealth of reason 1795; The case of W. Hodgson now confined in Newgate 1795; A critical grammar of the French and English language 1819; Flora’s cabinet in which the relation of chemistry to the flower garden is elucidated 1835; The life of Napoleon Bonaparte 1841. d. Hemingford ter. Islington 2 March 1851 aged 106. G.M. xxxv, 560 (1851); N. & Q. 14 June 1884 p. 475.
HODGSON, William Ballantyne (son of William Hodgson a working printer). b. Edinburgh 6 Oct. 1815; matric. at Edin. univ. Nov. 1829; a lecturer on literature, education and phrenology in Fifeshire; sec. Mechanics’ instit. Liverpool 1 June 1839; principal of Liverpool institute 1844; LLD. of Glasgow univ. 11 March 1846; principal Chorlton high sch. Manchester 1847–51; lectured on economic science R. Instit. London 1854; assist. comr. of inquiry into primary education 1858; professor of commercial law Edin. univ. 17 July 1871; author of Lectures on education 1837; The education of girls 1864–6, 2 ed. 1869; The true scope of economic science 1870; Turgot, his life, times and opinions 1870 and other works. d. at Brussels while attending educational congress 24 Aug. 1880. Meiklejohn’s Life and letters of W. B. Hodgson (1885), portrait; Grant’s University of Edinburgh, ii, 466–9 (1884).
HODGSON, William Nicholson (eld. son of Joseph Hodgson). b. Carlisle 14 Aug. 1801; M.P. Carlisle 1847–52, 1857–9 and 1865–8; M.P. East Cumberland 1868 to death; sheriff of Cumberland 1863. d. 33 Duke st. St. James’s, London 2 April 1876.
HODSON, Ven. George (youngest son of Mr. Hodson of Carlisle). b. 1787; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1810, of Magd. coll., M.A. 1813; Taxor of the university 1813; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Birmingham, Oct. 1824; archdeacon of Stafford, April 1829 to death; second residentiary canon and chancellor of Lichfield cath. 28 June 1833 to death; V. of St. Mary, Lichfield 1851 to death; author of Twelve sermons on Christian temper and experience 1825; Morning discourses at Christ Church, Birmingham 1832; The church of Rome’s traffic in pardons 1838; The finished course 1855. d. Riva on the Lago di Garda 13 Aug. 1855.
HODSON, George A. (son of George A. Hodson, musical composer of numerous pieces). b. Dublin 1822; first appeared on stage at Bath about 1839; actor of Irish characters; played Teddy the Tiler at Covent Garden 1841; lessee of Cheltenham theatre; lessee of theatre royal, Gloucester to his death. d. Bath 27 June 1869. Era 4 July 1869 p. 11 col. 4.
HODSON, James. b. Streat Place near Ditchling, Sussex 30 Oct. 1808; miller at Brighton; first played at Lord’s 10 June 1839 when he was no-balled for being too high; round armed bowler; resided at Hunston near Chichester from 1856. d. 17 March 1880. Lillywhite’s Cricket scores, ii, 495 (1862).
HODSON, Margaret (eld. dau. of Allen Holford of Davenham, by Margaret Wrench of Chester, authoress). b. 1778; author of Wallace or the fight of Falkirk, a romance 1809, 2 ed. 1810; Poems 1811; Margaret of Anjou 1816; Warbeck of Wolfstein 1820. (m. 16 Oct. 1820 Septimus Hodson, rector of Thrapston, Northamptonshire d. 12 Dec. 1833); a friend of Southey, Coleridge and Landor; also published The lives of Vasco Nunez de Balboa and Francisco Pizarro from the Spanish of Don Manuel Josef Quintana 1832. d. Sharrow cottage, Dawlish, Devon 11 Sep. 1852. N. & Q. 2 S. i 113, 4 S. ix 534, x 94, xi 411.
HODSON, William Stephen Raikes (3 son of Ven. George Hodson 1787–1855, archdeacon of Stafford). b. Maisemore court near Gloucester 19 March 1821; ed. at Rugby and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1844; entered H.E.I.C. service Sep. 1845; with the 2nd grenadiers engaged in Sikh war; adjutant of corps of guides 1847; assist. commissary at Umritsur in the Punjab 1849; commander of corps of guides Sep. 1852, removed 1855; two inquiries made as to his conduct, the last being favourable 1856; raised and commanded a regiment of irregular horse known throughout the mutiny of 1857 as Hodson’s horse; managed the intelligence department 1857; pursued and captured the king of Delhi 21 Sep. 1857; captured and shot with his own hands the 3 princes of Delhi 22 Sep. 1857; shot by a native in the begum’s palace at Lucknow 11 March 1858. d. Lucknow 12 March 1858. Twelve years of a soldier’s life in India, By W. R. Hodson 1859; Rev. G. H. Hodson’s Hodson of Hodson’s Horse (1883); R. B. Smith’s Life of Lord Lawrence, i 309, ii 14, 538; Kaye and Malleson’s Indian mutiny, vols. i-iv (1888–89).
HOFFMEISTER, Sir William Carter (son of Charles William Hoffmeister, collector of customs, Belfast). b. Portsmouth 6 July 1817; ed. at Glasgow univ., M.D. 1840; M.R.C.S. 1840, F.R.C.S. 1855; L.R.C.P. 1861; surgeon apothecary to the Queen at Osborne; surgeon Royal yacht squadron; knighted at Osborne 26 Aug. 1884. d. Clifton house, Cowes, Isle of Wight 29 July 1890.
HOGAN, John (son of a builder). b. Tallow, co. Waterford, Oct. 1800; with Sir Thomas Deane, architect Cork 1815–22; decorated R.C. chapel, Cork with 44 wooden figures of saints 1822; studied in Rome 1823–9; first works in marble, A shepherd boy 1824 and a Drunken Faun; retired to Ireland 1829; his ‘Dead Christ’ forms altar piece of R.C. chapel, Clarendon st. Dublin; patronised by R.C. clergy; made statues of D. O’Connell and others, and busts of Father Mathew, &c.; exhibited 4 sculptures at R.A. London 1833–50. d. Dublin 20 March 1858. His widow Cornelia granted civil list pension of £100, 4 Oct. 1858. Dublin Univ. Mag. xxxv, 72 (1850), portrait; Art Journal, ii, 376 (1850), portrait.
HOGAN, John Sheridan. b. near Dublin 1815; sent to Toronto, Canada 1826; newsboy for Canadian Wesleyan 1826, foreman, then on staff of writers; studied law, attorney 1844 in practice at Hamilton; sent articles on Canadian politics to Blackwood’s Edin. Mag. 1850; established United Empire newspaper at Toronto; accused of complicity in burning steamer Caroline, but discharged, brought a claim for indemnity which was not entertained; first prize for an essay on Canada and her resources, at Paris exhibition 1855; editor Toronto Daily Colonist 1856 and for some years; member for county of Grey in Canadian parliament 1857; murdered near Toronto, Dec. 1859. Morgan’s Bibl. Canad. (1867) 192; Appleton’s American Biog. iii, 229 (1887).
HOGARTH, George, b. Edinburgh 1783; a writer to the signet; a violinist and composer; a contributor to Edinburgh Courant; a writer on Morning Chronicle, London 1831, afterwards editor; musical critic to Daily News 1846–66 and also to Illust. London News; sec. to Philharmonic soc. 1850–64; compiled the Houseland Narrative 1850–61; author of Musical history, biography and criticism 1835; Memoirs of the opera in Italy, France, Germany and England 2 vols. 1851; his musical publications were The musical herald 2 vols. 1846; School music arranged for three voices 1852. d. at res. of his dau. Mrs. R. C. Roney, 10 Gloucester crescent, Regent’s park, London 12 Feb. 1870. Newspaper Press, iv, 81 (1870).
HOGARTH, Most Rev. William. b. Dodding Green, Kendal, Westmoreland 25 March 1786; entered catholic college at Crook hall near Consett 29 Aug. 1796, this college was subsequently removed to Ushaw; received tonsure and four minor orders at Durham 19 March 1807, ordained sub-deacon 2 April 1808, deacon 14 Dec. 1808, priest 20 Dec. 1809; a professor and general prefect at Ushaw college; chaplain at Cliffe hall 31 Oct. 1816 to 9 Nov. 1824; transferred to the mission at Darlington 9 Nov. 1824 where he remained to death; vicar general to bishops Briggs, Mostyn and Riddell; vicar apostolic of the northern district, and bishop of Samosata in partibus 28 July 1848, consecrated in St. Cuthbert’s chapel, Ushaw 24 Aug. 1848; bishop of Hexham and Newcastle 29 Sep. 1850 to death. d. Paradise row, Darlington 29 Jany. 1866. bur. St. Cuthbert’s coll. Ushaw 6 Feb. Brady’s Episcopal succession, iii, 346, 357, 410–13 (1877); Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 321–23 (1887).
HOGG, Henry (son of a manufacturer of hosiery). b. Nottingham 1831; solicitor at Nottingham to death; wrote a number of short poems in the Christian Miscellany, also wrote hymns and carols some of which he set to music; published Poems, Nottingham 1852; Songs for the Times 1856. d. Nottingham 1874. Wylie’s Old and New Nottingham (1853) 247.
HOGG, James. b. Leitrim, Ireland; contributed to Dublin University Mag. and New York Albion; editor and proprietor of New Brunswick Reporter at Fredericton to death; author of Poems. St. John, N.B. 1825; Poems, religious, moral and sentimental. d. Fredericton, New Brunswick 12 June 1866. Morgan’s Bibl. Canad. (1867) 192.
HOGG, James (son of James Hogg). b. near Edinburgh 26 March 1806; apprenticed to James Muirhead, printer, Edin. 1818; printer and publisher in Edin. 1837–58; edited Hogg’s Weekly Instructor, first number 1 March 1845, title changed to The Instructor 1849, afterwards to Titan, last number Dec. 1859 altogether 29 vols.; publisher in London 1858 to July 1867; published De Quincey’s Collected Works 14 vols. 1857, new ed. 15 vols. 1862; Churchman’s Family Mag. and London Society projected by his son Feb. 1862. d. The Acacia, Crescent road, St. John’s, Kent 14 March 1888. H. A. Page’s [i.e. A. H. Japp’s] Life of T. de Quincey (1877) i 396, ii 1–33, 339; Nicoll’s Landmarks of English literature (1883) 454–5.
HOGG, Sir James Weir, 1 Baronet (eld. son of William Hogg of Lisburn, co. Antrim 1754–1824). b. Stoneyford, co. Antrim 7 Sep. 1790; scholar of Trinity coll. Dublin 1808, B.A. 1810; student of Gray’s inn, London 20 May 1811; went to Calcutta 1814, practised at the bar to 1822; registrar in supreme court, Calcutta 1822–33; returned to England, June 1833 with a large fortune; M.P. Beverley 1835–47; M.P. Honiton 1847–57; director of H.E.I.C. 11 Sep. 1839, deputy chairman 1845–6, 1850–1 and 1851–2, chairman 1846–7 and 1852–3; cr. baronet 20 July 1846; member of council of India 21 Sep. 1858 to 1872, vice president 1860; P.C. 5 Feb. 1872. d. 11 Grosvenor crescent, London 27 May 1876, personalty sworn under £350,000, 8 July 1876. I.L.N. iv, 268 (1844), portrait; Times 29 May 1876 p. 12.
HOGG, John (2 son of John Hogg of Norton house near Stockton on Tees, barrister, d. 1840). b. 21 March 1800; ed. at Durham gr. sch. and St. Peter’s coll. Cam., scholar 1820, B.A. 1822, M.A. 1827, fellow 1827; barrister I.T. 27 Jany. 1832; F.L.S. 1823; F.R.S. 20 June 1839; mem. of Royal Soc. of Lit. 1843, foreign sec. and vice pres. 1866; F.R.G.S., sec. 1849–50; author of A catalogue of Sicilian plants 1842; Letters from abroad to a friend at Cambridge 1844, and 40 articles in periodical publications. d. Norton house 16 Sep. 1869. Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. xiv, 298–9.
HOGG, Margaret (dau. of Mr. Phillips of Langbridgemoor, Annandale, farmer). (m. 28 April 1820 James Hogg 1770–1835 the Eltrick shepherd); friend of Sir Walter Scott; received a present of £130 from Cincinnati 1853; civil list pension of £50, 3 Jany. 1854. d. Bellevue place, Linlithgow 15 Nov. 1870 aged about 80. C. Rogers’ Leaves from my autobiography (1876) 256, 265–78.
HOGG, Thomas Jefferson (brother of John Hogg 1800–69). b. Norton 24 May 1792; ed. at Durham gr. sch. and Univ. coll. Ox. from which he was expelled 25 March 1811 for declining to disavow a publication entitled The necessity of Atheism by Shelley; made acquaintance of Shelley at Oxford 1810, which he kept to his death 1822; barrister M.T. 28 Nov. 1817; a municipal corporation comr. for England and Wales 1833–34; revising barrister for Northumberland and Berwick 20 years; came into £2000 under Shelley’s will in 1844; author of Memoirs of Prince Alesy Haimatoff, Translated by John Brown, esq. [i.e. T. J. Hogg], A novel 1813; Two hundred and nine days, or the Journal of a traveller on the continent 2 vols. 1827; Life of P. B. Shelley 2 vols 1858, never completed. d. 33 Clifton road, St. John’s Wood, London 27 Aug. 1862. Durham County Advertiser 5 Sept. 1862 p. 5; G.M. xiii, 506, 643 (1862).
HOGGAN, John (4 son of major George Hoggan of Waterside, Dumfries). b. 1790; entered Bengal army 1807; colonel 45 Bengal N.I. 11 July 1853 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854; C.B. 9 June 1849. d. Delna, Bengal 13 Nov. 1861.
HOGGE, Charles. b. 1814; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery 11 Dec. 1829; colonel R.A. 20 Feb. 1860 to death; C.B. 17 June 1858. d. Erith 18 Sep. 1865.
HOGGINS, Christopher Argyle. b. 1793; barrister M.T. 12 Feb. 1830; went northern circuit; Q.C. March 1850; bencher of his inn 1850. d. 3 Plowden buildings, Temple 19 June 1871.
HOLBERTON, Ven. Robert (son of Robert Holberton of Torr house, Devon). b. 1800; ed. at Ex. coll. Ox., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1825; R. of St. John, Antigua 1827–50; archdeacon of Antigua 1843–50; V. of Norbiton, Surrey 1850–75; C. of Walton-on-the-Hill 1876–8. d. Devon lodge, Kew 14 June 1886.
HOLCROFT, Thomas (son of Thomas Holcroft, dramatist 1745–1809). Journalist in London 1822 to death; Paris correspondent for the Morning Herald; sec. to the Asiatic Society; edited an East Indian paper in India some years. d. 37 Woburn place, London 6 Feb. 1852. G.M. xxxvii, 425 (1852).
HOLDEN, George. b. 1800; professor of music; organist St. George’s ch. Liverpool to death; composer of anthems, songs, etc.; wrote Smiling Mirth. d. 22 Rodney st. Liverpool 5 Dec. 1856.
HOLDEN, Rev. George (son of Rev. George Holden, master of Horton-in-Ribblesdale gram. sch.) b. Horton 1783; ed. at univ. of Glasgow, B.A.; P.C. of Maghull near Liverpool 1811 to death; V. of Horton, 1821–5; author of An attempt towards an improved version of the Proverbs 1819; The christian expositor or guide to the New Testament 1830; An essay on the angels of the church 1862; and 13 other books. d. Maghull 19 March 1865; his library and half his property left to clergy of Ripon, library kept in palace at Ripon. G.M. xviii, 657 (1865).
HOLDEN, George. b. Walsall, Staffs. 29 Nov. 1821; beat C. Davis at Sutton Coldfield 24 Jany. 1843 in 73 rounds; beaten by Paddy Gill on Warwickshire Moor 29 Oct. 1844 in 21 rounds for £50; beat Bill Stevens at Calf Heath near Wolverhampton 14 July 1845 in 56 rounds for £25; beat Bob Smith at the Clock, Bickenhall 1 April 1846 in 84 rounds for £50; one of the gamest men who ever lived; licensed victualler, Wolverhampton; landlord of the Malt shovel inn, Walsall. d. Wood’s Fold, New st. Walsall 4 Feb. 1889. Sporting Life 9 Feb. 1889 p. 7.
Note.—He had 3 brothers Jem, Ted and John all pugilists, his son George Holden, junior, also was well known, he fought Charley Linch, Jack Lead and Peter Morris in London.
HOLDEN, George Kenyon. b. Worcester 1806; attorney and solicitor; emigrated to Sydney, Australia 1831; private sec. to Sir Richard Bourke 1831–7; crown prosecutor 1837; solicitor in practice at Sydney from 1838; member of legislative council 1861; examiner of titles 1862. d. Rockton, Sydney 16 April 1874. Heaton’s Australian Dict. of Dates (1879) 94.
HOLDEN, Rev. John. b. Bonds, Garstang, Lancs. 6 May 1797; ed. at Stonyhurst and Oscott colleges 1812–25; priest 6 Oct. 1825; missioner at Thetford, Norfolk 1825–39; member of Soc. of Jesus 21 Feb. 1840; missioner at Spinkhill, Derbyshire 1842, at Lowergate, Clitheroe, Lancs. 1843 and at Lincoln 1847–59; procurator at St. Bruno’s coll. St. Asaph 1859–61; author of A discharge of grape shot against “Authorities to prove that Church of Rome prohibits reading of the Scriptures.” By the Rev. T. D. Atkinson 1826. d. Mount St. Mary coll. Spinkhill, Derbyshire 30 June 1861. Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 339–40 (1887).
HOLDEN, Moses. b. Bolton 21 Nov. 1777; a landscape gardener, then a weaver; constructed an orrery and a magic lantern 1814–5; gave astronomical lectures in north of England from 1815; assisted in establishing Preston Institution; freedom of the borough given him 1834; published A small celestial atlas or maps of the visible heavens in the latitude of Britain 1818, 4 ed. 1840; An almanac 1835, &c. d. Preston 3 June 1864.
HOLDEN, Henry. b. 1810; a butcher at Birmingham; landlord of the Rodney inn, Coleshill st. Birmingham about 1840; built a small music hall there, which became the leading one in the Midlands, built a large music hall there, and a brewery 1857, managed his hall down to 1863 or 1864. d. Lansdowne house, Malvern 27 Jany. 1880. Era 1 Feb. 1880 p. 4.
HOLDFORTH, James (son of Joseph Holdforth, silk manufacturer Leeds). b. Leeds 14 June 1778; J.P. for Leeds 1836; mayor of Leeds Nov. 1838, first Roman catholic mayor since the Reformation; president of Leeds Catholic institute; supported a ragged school in Leeds. d. Burley hill, Leeds 13 July 1861. Gillow’s English Catholics iii, 346–7 (1887); Taylor’s Biog. Leodiensis (1865) 498.
HOLDING, Frederick (son of Henry Holding, painter). b. 1817; painter at Manchester; illustrated Southey’s Battle of Blenheim 1864 and other books; scene painter Theatre royal and Prince’s theatre, Manchester. d. 1874. Manchester City News 3 May 1890.
HOLDING, Henry James (brother of preceding). b. Salford, Lancs., Nov. 1833; a calico printer’s pattern designer; a painter of marine and torrent scenery in oil and water colours; exhibited in Manchester, Liverpool and London; his chief works were, Finding the body of Rufus by the charcoal burners 1862 and Bettwys-y-Coed 1872. d. Paris 2 Aug. 1872.
HOLE, Lewis (son of Rev. Wm. Hole, archdeacon of Barnstaple, d. 26 Oct. 1791 aged 82). b. Strodeley, Devon 16 Jany. 1779; entered R.N. 1793, first lieut. of the Revenge at Trafalgar; captain 4 Dec. 1813; retired R.A. 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 11 Feb. 1861. d. Newport near Barnstaple 16 July 1870. I.L.N. lvii, 131 (1870); O’Byrne (1849) 529.
HOLKER, Sir John (son of Samuel Holker of Bury, Lancs.) b. Bury 24 March 1828; ed. at Bury gr. sch.; barrister G.I. 9 June 1854, bencher 15 April 1868, treasurer 1875; practised at Manchester 1854–64; removed to London 1864; Q.C. 21 Feb. 1868; much engaged in patent cases; M.P. Preston 1872–82; solicitor general 20 April 1874; knighted at Windsor Castle 12 Dec. 1874; attorney general 25 Nov. 1875 to May 1880, his income during 1875–77 was £22,000 a year; lord justice of court of appeal 14 Jany. 1882, resigned 19 May 1882. d. 46 Devonshire st. Portland place, London 24 May 1882. bur. St. Cuthbert’s church, Lytham 30 May. A generation of Judges, By Their Reporter (1886) 119–27; I.L.N. lxiv, 493 (1874), portrait; Times 25 May 1882 p. 9, cols. 3–4.
HOLL, Charlton. b. 1805; entered Madras army 1820; colonel 15 Madras N.I. 11 July 1861 to 1864; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. 39 Royal crescent, Notting hill, London 4 Dec. 1878.
HOLL, Francis (4 son of William Holl, engraver 1771–1838). b. Bayham st. Camden Town, London 23 March 1815; pupil of his father; engaged 25 years engraving pictures belonging to the Queen; exhibited 17 engravings at R.A. 1856–79; A.R.A. Jany. 1883; his principal works were, The Stocking Loom by A. Elmore, and The coming of age in the olden time, and The railway station, both by W. P. Frith; portraits of him by his son Frank Holl were exhibited at the R.A. 1868 and 1884. d. Elm house, Milford near Godalming 14 Jany. 1884. bur. Highgate cemetery 19 Jany.
HOLL, Francis Montague, known as Frank Holl (eld. son of the preceding). b. 7 St. James’s terrace, Kentish Town, London 4 July 1845; studied at R.A. schools, silver medallist 1862–3, gold medallist 1863, travelling student of R.A. 1868–9; worked for The Graphic 1874–6; portrait painter 1876 to death, painted 198 portraits including nearly all celebrated men of the day 1879–88; A.R.A. 19 June 1878, R.A. 29 March 1883; associate of Royal Soc. of painters in water-colours 26 March 1883. d. The Three Gables, 6 Fitzjohn’s Avenue, London 31 July 1888. Universal Review 15 Aug. 1888 pp. 478–93, portrait; Graphic 3 May 1879, portrait, and 11 Aug. 1888, portrait.
HOLL, Henry (brother of Francis Holl 1815–84). b. July 1811; first appeared on stage as prince Arthur in King John at Drury Lane 1828; acted in the provinces; for many years a member of Haymarket Co.; wrote for the stage Grace Huntley, Adelphi 1833, Wapping Old Stairs, Haymarket 18 Nov. 1837, Louise or the White Scarf, Victoria 1838, The Forest keeper, Drury Lane 15 Feb. 1860, and Caught in a trap, Princess’s 8 Feb. 1860; a reader at Hanover square rooms about 1874; author of The King’s mail 3 vols. 1863; The Old house in Crosby square 2 vols. 1863; More secrets than one 3 vols. 1864. d. 1 Horbury crescent, Notting hill, London 20 Nov. 1884. Theatrical Times, iii, 17, 50 (1848), portrait; N. & Q. 6 S. x 487 (1884).
HOLL, William (brother of the preceding). b. Plaistow, Essex, Feb. 1807; pupil of his father; engraved many portraits for Lodge’s Portraits 1834, Knight’s Gallery of Portraits 1833–36, &c.; engraved W. P. Frith’s An English Merrymaking, The village pastor, &c.; engraved pictures after J. Absolom, A. Elmore, B. West and others; F.G.S.; exhibited 22 engravings at R.A. 1860–71. d. 174 Adelaide road, Haverstock hill, London 30 Jany. 1871.
HOLLAND, Henry Edward Vassall, 4 Baron (only son of 3 Baron Holland 1773–1840). b. 7 March 1802; sec. of legation at Turin 24 July 1832, at Vienna 3 July 1835; minister plenipotentiary to Germanic confederation 17 April 1838, and to Florence 6 Dec. 1838 to 8 June 1846; succeeded 22 Oct. 1840; edited Foreign reminiscences of Henry Richard 3 Baron Holland 1850; Memoirs of the Whig party, By H. R. 3 Baron Holland 1852. d. Naples 18 Dec. 1859. Saunders’s Portraits of reformers (1840) 191, portrait.
HOLLAND, Charles. b. 1802; M.D. Edin. 1824; L.R.C.S. Lond. 1828; F.R.S. 19 Jany. 1837; president Roy. Med. Soc. Edin. d. St. Chads, Lichfield 21 March 1876.
HOLLAND, Edward (eld. son of Samuel Holland, merchant, London). b. 1806; M.P. East Worcestershire 1835–7, contested E. Worcs. 4 Aug. 1837; contested East Gloucestershire 9 Jany. 1854; M.P. Evesham 1855–68. d. Dumbleton hall near Evesham 5 Jany. 1875.
HOLLAND, Rev. Frederick Whitmore. b. Dumbleton near Evesham 1837; ed. at Eton and Trin coll. Cam., B.A. 1860, M.A. 1864; V. of All Saints with St. Lawrence, Evesham 1872 to death; revisited the peninsula of Sinai in 1861 and 1865; joint hon. sec. of Palestine exploration fund 1866 to death; a founder of the Sinai survey fund, and accompanied Sir C. W. Wilson’s expedition to Sinai 1868; again went to Sinai 1878; F.R. Geog. Soc. 1867, wrote many papers on Palestine in its Journal; author of Sinai and Jerusalem, or scenes from Bible lands 1870. d. on the Nissen, near Thun, Switzerland 27 Aug. 1880. Proc. R. Geographical Soc. iii, 670–1 (1881).
HOLLAND, George. b. Lambeth, London 6 Dec. 1791; clerk in a silk warehouse, London; appeared at Drury Lane in a small part 1817; first appeared at Bowery theatre, New York 12 Sep. 1827 as Jerry in The Day after the Fair; treasurer of the St. Charles theatre, New Orleans 1834; connected with Mitchell’s Olympic theatre, New York 1843–9; with Wood and Christy’s negro minstrels under an assumed name 1849–52; member of Wallack’s Co. 1852–7; made his last appearance at Daly’s Fifth Avenue theatre 15 May 1870; in his performances he brought in numerous eccentricities, ventriloquial diversions and imitations of men and animals. d. New York city 20 Dec. 1871; 15,000 dollars subscribed for his wife and family. Thos. H. Morrell’s Life of G. Holland 1871; Ireland’s New York Stage, i 560, ii 421, 620 (1866–7).
HOLLAND, George Calvert. b. Pitsmoor, Sheffield 28 Feb. 1801; apprentice to a hairdresser; ed. at Edinburgh univ., M.D. 1827; in practice at Manchester 1829, removed to Sheffield; became a director of railways and banks and was ruined; resided in London 1849–51; returned to Sheffield as a homœopathic practitioner 1851; alderman of Sheffield 1862 to death; author of The physiology of the fœtus, liver and spleen 1831; The vital statistics of Sheffield 1843; The nature and cure of consumption 1850; The domestic practice of homœopathy 1859 and 15 other books; conducted The Sheffield Homœopathic Lancet 1853. d. Sheffield 7 March 1865. G.M. xviii, 653 (1865).
HOLLAND, Sir Henry, 1 Baronet (son of Peter Holland of Knutsford, Cheshire, surgeon). b. Knutsford 27 Oct. 1788; ed. at Newcastle upon Tyne 1799–1803, at Bristol 1804, and at Glasgow univ. 1804–6; studied medicine at Edin. Univ., M.D. 12 Sep. 1811; domestic physician to Caroline, princess of Wales 1814; L.R.C.P. 1816, F.R.C.P. 1828 and V.P., Gulstonian lecturer 1830, censor 1832, 1836 and 1842, consiliarius 1836, 1839, 1844–46, 1850–52 and 1869; physician extraordinary to William iv. 16 April 1835; one of H.M.’s physicians extraordinary 8 Aug. 1837; one of prince Albert’s physicians extraordinary 1840; one of H.M.’s physicians in ordinary 22 Dec. 1852; cr. baronet 10 May 1853; F.G.S. 1809, F.R.S. 19 Jany. 1815; D.C.L. Ox. 1856; a manager of Royal Institution 4 Feb. 1861, president; author of Travels in the Ionian islands, Albania, Thessaly, Macedonia 1815, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1819; Medical notes and reflections 1839, 3 ed. 1855; Recollections of past life 1872, 2 ed. 1872 and 6 other books. d. 25 Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London 27 Oct. 1873. Munk’s Roll of Physicians, iii, 144–9 (1878); Barker’s Photographs of Medical men (1865) 65–8, portrait; J. F. Clarke’s Autobiographical Recollections (1874) 458–95; Graphic, viii, 460, 466 (1873), portrait.
Note.—His 2 wife Saba whom he m. 20 March 1834, d. 2 Nov. 1866, she wrote A memoir of her father the Rev. Sydney Smith 2 vols. 1855, 4 ed. 1855.
HOLLAND, James (son of a potter). b. Burslem 17 Oct. 1800; painter of flowers on pottery and porcelain; went to London 1819; painter in water colours and oil; exhibited 32 pictures at R.A., 91 at B.I. and 108 at Suffolk st. 1815–67; Assoc. Soc. Painters in water colours 1835–43; member of Soc. of British Artists 1843–8; member Water Colour Soc. 1856; paid many visits abroad from 1830; drew for the Landscape and other annuals 1839 etc.; one of the finest colourists of the English school; his views in Venice fetch large prices; several of his pictures are at South Kensington. d. London 12 Feb. or Dec. 1870. Redgrave’s Dict. of Artists (1878) 219; Bryan’s Dict. of painters, i, 671 (1886).
HOLLAND, John (son of John Holland of Richmond hill, Handsworth, Yorkshire, optical instrument maker). b. in Sheffield Park 14 March 1794; edited the Sheffield Iris 1825–32, the Newcastle Courant 1832–3; joint editor of Sheffield Mercury 1835–48; presented by ten gentlemen of Sheffield with an annuity of £100, 1870; author of Sheffield Park, a descriptive poem. Sheffield 1820; The history of the town and parish of Worksop, Nottingham 1826; The Psalmists of Britain 1843, and 15 other books; author with James Everett of Memoirs of the life and writings of James Montgomery 7 vols. 1854–6. d. in Sheffield Park 28 Dec. 1872. W. Hudson’s Life of John Holland (1874), portrait; Reliquary, xv, 145.
HOLLAND, John (son of a house painter and picture dealer). b. 15 Vernon st. Nottingham 14 Dec. 1829; a self taught artist; resided in Todmorden district, Lancs., then in London, afterwards at Trebray lodge, Tintagel, Cornwall; sent 3 pictures The Storm, After the Storm, and The Wreckers to the exhibition at the Nottingham Castle Art museum 1868; a most rapid painter, only excelled in speed by Smith the painter of waterfalls. d. Trebray lodge, Feb. 1886.
HOLLAND, Rev. Samuel (son of Nicholas Holland of Greenwich, Kent). b. Greenwich 1772; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. and at Worc. coll. Ox., B.A. 1792, M.A. 1795, M.B. 1796, M.D. 1799; candidate of college of physicians 30 Sep. 1799, fellow 30 Sep. 1800, censor 1803; physician to the Middlesex hospital 15 Jany. 1801 to 1806 when he quitted the profession; ordained deacon and priest 1806; R. of Poynings, Sussex 1806–46; R. of Beaudesert, Warcs. 1806 to death; preb. of Thorney, Chichester cath. 1817; precentor of Chicester cath. and preb. of Oving 1825 to death; author of The preaching of the regular clergy, illustrated and defended 1813, 6 ed. 1817 and of several sermons. d. 33 Regency square, Brighton 16 April 1857 aged 85. Munk’s Roll of Physicians, ii, 470 (1878).
HOLLAND, Rev. Thomas Agar (eld. son of the preceding). b. 16 Jany. 1803; ed. at Westminster sch. and Worcester coll. Ox., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; V. of Oving, Sussex 1827–38; R. of Greatham, Hants. 1838–46; R. of Poynings, Sussex 1846 to death; author of Dryburgh Abbey and other poems 1826, 4 ed. 1884 and of a History of Poynings in the Trans. of Sussex Archæological Society for 1863. d. Poynings Rectory 18 Oct. 1888.
HOLLAND, Thomas Seward. b. 1827; M.D. Edin. 1850; M.R.C.S. England 1850; assist. physician Renkioi hospital in the Dardanelles 1855–6; author of Pathological anatomy considered in its relations to medical science 1852, and papers in medical journals. d. at his lodgings, Lambeth 16 June 1856.
HOLLINGS, James Francis. b. 1806; second master proprietary sch. Leicester 1837; proprietor and editor of Leicestershire Mercury 7 years; member of town council Leicester, and Mayor; one of the founders of Leicester Literary and Philos. Soc., president several times; barrister M.T. 21 Nov. 1851; author of The life of Gustavus Adolphus 1838; The life of Marcus Tullius Cicero 1839; The history of Leicester during the civil war 1840; Roman Leicester 1855; Lord Macaulay 1860; hanged himself at Stonygate, Leicester 15 Sep. 1862. Leicestershire Mercury 20 Sep. 1862 p. 5.
HOLLINGWORTH, Ven. John Banks. b. 1779; ed. at Peterhouse, Cam., B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807, B.D. 1814; fellow of his coll. 1804; assistant preacher at Lincoln’s Inn 1806; R. of St. Margaret, Lothbury and St. Christopher le Stocks, London 1814 to death; Norrisian professor of Div. at Cam. 1824–38; archdeacon of Huntingdon 25 Feb. 1828 to death; author of Heads of lectures on divinity delivered in the university of Cambridge 1825, 3 ed. 1835, and charges and sermons. d. Rectory house, St. Margaret’s, Lothbury 9 Feb. 1856. G.M. xlv, 430–1 (1856).
HOLLINS, John (son of Thomas Hollins, a painter on glass). b. Birmingham 1 June 1798; exhibited 101 pictures at R.A., 35 at B.I. and 6 at Suffolk st. 1819–55; removed to London 1822; studied in Italy 1825–7; A.R.A. 1842; historical, figure, and landscape painter, introduced portraits into some of his historical pictures. d. 47 Berners st., London 7 March 1855. Redgrave’s Dict. of Artists (1878) 220; Literary Gazette 17 March 1855 p. 170.
HOLLINS, Peter (eld. son of William Hollins, architect and sculptor 1754–1843). b. Birmingham 1800; ed. as a sculptor and assisted his father; in Chantrey’s studio; exhibited 44 pieces of sculpture at R.A. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1822–71; resided Old Bond st. London 1828–43, then returned to Birmingham where he erected statues of Sir R. Peel and Sir Rowland Hill; V.P. of Soc. of Arts, Birmingham. d. 17 Great Hampton st. Birmingham 16 Aug. 1886, portrait in Birmingham Art gallery.
HOLLINWORTH, John Ibbetson. Entered navy June 1795; retired captain 3 April 1811; retired admiral 9 June 1860. d. Southsea 28 Dec. 1861 aged 79.
HOLLOND, Rev. Edmund (eld. son of William Hollond of H.E.I.C.) Ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; succeeded his uncle 1845; lord of manor of Middleton Austin; resided at Benhall lodge, Saxmundham, Suffolk; a great Evangelical; author of Israel’s pre-millenial future or the testimony of scripture as to Israel’s return and what awaits him in his own land 1875; patron of 8 livings. d. 33 Hyde park gardens, London 18 March 1884 in 83 year.
HOLLOND, Ellen Julia (dau. of Thomas Teed of Stanmore hall, Middlesex). b. Madras 1822. (m. 18 March 1840 Robert Hollond, M.P. for Hastings, d. 1877); her salon in Paris frequented by the leading liberals 1840–77; started the first crèche in London 1844; founded an English nurses’ home in Paris with a branch at Nice; sat for the head of Monica in Ary Scheffer’s picture of St. Augustine and his mother 1846; her portrait by Scheffer painted 1852 is in National gallery; author of Channing, sa vie and ses œuvres 1857; La vie de village en Angleterre 1862; Les Quakers, études sur les premiers Amis et leur société 1870. d. Stanmore hall 29 Nov. 1884. Journal des Débats 6 Dec. 1884.
HOLLOND, Robert (youngest son of William Hollond of Grosvenor place, London, and Bengal civil service, d. 14 Feb. 1836). b. 5 Jany. 1808; ed. at C.C. coll. Cam., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; barrister L.I. 24 Nov. 1834; M.P. for Hastings 1837–52; in company with Charles Green and Monck Mason made at his own expense a voyage in the Nassau balloon from London to Weilburg, Nassau 7–8 Nov. 1836; John Hollins painted a picture of the 3 persons with the balloon in the back ground 1836. d. Paris 26 Dec. 1877, personalty sworn under £350,000, 16 Feb. 1878. Hatton Turnor’s Astra Castra (1865) 139–58; Monck Mason’s Aeronautica (1838) 1–98, portrait.
HOLLOWAY, James Lewis (son of Benjamin Holloway of Lee place, Charlbury, Oxon.) b. 2 July 1824; M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1847; assistant surgeon 17 March 1848; principal medical officer at Cape of Good Hope; surgeon general 12 March 1882 to death; C.B. 27 Nov. 1879. d. Netley 19 April 1883.
HOLLOWAY, Sir Thomas (brother of the preceding). b. 1810; 2 lieut. R.M. 17 March 1825; at siege of Sebastopol 1854–5; served in China 1857 when he was wounded; A.D.C. to the Queen 27 Feb. 1857 to 1 July 1863; colonel 2nd commandant R.M. 25 Feb. 1858, colonel commandant 21 Nov. 1859 to death; general 1 April 1870; C.B. 18 June 1858, K.C.B. 13 March 1867. d. Farlington near Portsmouth 21 July 1875.
HOLLOWAY, Thomas (son of Mr. Holloway, baker and publican). b. Devonport 22 Sep. 1800; ed. at Camborne and Penzance; removed to London 1828; merchant and foreign agent 1836; commenced advertising his pills and ointment 15 Oct. 1837, was spending £50,000 a year in advertising 1883; directions for use of his medicines were printed in almost all known languages; at 244 Strand, London 1838, removed to 533 New Oxford st. 1867; employed 100 people; made a large fortune; built and endowed at cost of £700,000 Holloway coll. for ladies at Mount Lee, Egham hill, Surrey, opened 30 June 1866; erected a sanatorium for mentally afflicted of lower middle class, opened 15 June 1885. d. Tittenhurst, Sunninghill, Berks. 26 Dec. 1883. I.L.N. 5 Jany. 1884 p. 24, portrait; Graphic 5 Jany. 1884 p. 5, portrait; Some memories as to the origin of Holloway coll. (1886).
HOLM, John Diederick. A well known phrenologist; executor of J. G. Spurzheim the German phrenologist (b. 1776, d. 1832). d. High st. Highgate 24 Oct. 1856 aged 84.
HOLMAN, Mrs. (dau. of Mr. Lattimer). b. England 1798; appeared at Charleston theatre 1817. (m. (1) 22 Aug. 1817 Joseph George Holman, actor, who d. 24 Aug. 1817, the writer of numerous plays); appeared in New York singing The soldier tired of war’s alarms, and Bishop’s Echo song 8 July 1817; (m. (2) March 1819 Isaac Star Clawson); (m. (3) in 1824 Charles W. Sandford, lawyer and general of militia); appeared at her husband’s house, the Lafayette theatre, Oct. 1826; last played in Park theatre, New York as Maria in Of age to-morrow, June 1832. d. New York city 1 Sep. 1859. T. A. Brown’s American stage (1870) 181; Ireland’s New York stage, i, 290 336 (1866).
HOLMAN, James (son of Mr. Holman of Fore st. Exeter, chemist and druggist). b. Exeter 15 Oct. 1786; entered navy 7 Dec. 1798, lieut. 27 April 1807, served till Nov. 1810 when he was invalided and became totally blind; a naval knight of Windsor 29 Sep. 1812; travelled over greater part of Europe 1819–24 and round the world 1827–32; F.R.S.; author of A narrative of a journey through France, Italy, Savoy, &c. 1822, with portrait; Travels through Russia, Siberia, Poland, Austria, &c. 2 vols. 1825, with portrait, 4 ed. 2 vols. 1834. d. at his lodgings near the Minories, London 28 July 1857. Reynolds’ Miscellany, x, 9 (1853), portrait; Proc. of Linnæan Soc. (1858) 26–30; People’s Journal, iv, 213, portrait.
HOLMAN, John. Steeple chaser; won royal birthday steeple chase at Worcester on The Page 1843; bred a large number of successful steeple chasers. d. Cheltenham, Jany. 1888. Baily’s Mag., Feb. 1888 pp. 488–9.
HOLME, Bryan (son of Wm. Holme of Thurland castle, Lancs.) baptised at Tunstal, Lancs. 29 Dec. 1776; articled to John Baldwin of Lancaster, solicitor; admitted solicitor Jany. 1800; a managing clerk in office of Bleasdale and Alexander of Hatton court, London about 1803, a partner in the firm at Hatton court and New Inn 1806–16; partner with Alexander at New Inn 1816–21, with Frampton and Loftus 1821–36, with Loftus and Young 1836 to death; projected “The Law Institution,” Chancery Lane 2 June 1825, which became “The Incorporated Law Society” by a new charter granted 5 June 1845; a whole length portrait of him by H. W. Pickersgill, R.A. was placed in the Society’s hall about 1836. d. 13 Brunswick sq. London 15 July 1856. Legal Observer 23 Aug. 1856 pp. 281–5.
HOLME, Thomas Winn (son of Thomas Holme). b. Kendal 3 March 1828; ed. at Ackworth sch. 1841–3, and at Manchester art sch.; managed a woollen mill near Kendal, and then powder mills at Sedgwick, near Leven’s Park; a painter; author of Poems and prose 1874. d. Kendal 20 May 1876. Nodal’s Bibliog. of Ackworth sch. (1889) 16.
HOLMES, Alfred (son of Thomas Holmes of Lincoln). b. London 9 Nov. 1837; learnt the violin from his father; with his brother Henry Holmes made a series of concert tours in Belgium 1855, Germany 1856, Austria 1857, Sweden 1857–9, Denmark 1860, Holland 1861; settled in Paris 1864, where he established a quartet party; produced at St. Petersburg his symphony Jeanne d’ Arc April 1868, which was performed in 1870 at Théâtre Italien, Paris, and at Crystal Palace, Sydenham 27 Feb. 1875; composed symphonies The Youth of Shakespeare, The siege of Paris 1870, Robin Hood, Charles XII, and Romeo and Juliet; an opera in 5 acts called Inez de Castro 1869; overtures The Cid and The Muses; Two nocturnes for the violin and piano, Leipzig 1857. d. Paris 4 March 1876. I.L.N. lxviii, 315 (1876), portrait.
HOLMES, Rev. Arthur. Ed. at Shrewsbury and St. John’s coll. Cam., Bell sch. 1856, Craven sch. 1856, B.A. 1859, M.A. 1862; fellow of his coll. 1860–62; C. of All Saint’s, Cam. 1860–61; lecturer of St. John’s coll. 1860–73 and of Clare coll. 1864–73; senior fellow and dean of Clare coll. 1873 to death; deputy public orator of Cam. 1867, Lady Margaret preacher 1868, select preacher 1868–69; Cambridge preacher at chapel royal 1869–71; general editor of the Catena Classicorum series 1867 etc.; published The Midias of Demosthenes with notes 1862; Demosthenes De Corona 1867; The Nemeian odes of Pindar 1867; cut his throat at Clare coll. Cambridge 17 April 1875. Cambridge Chronicle 24 April 1875 p. 6.
HOLMES, Edward. b. 1797; ed. at Enfield; apprenticed to R. B. Seeley, bookseller; studied music under Vincent Novello; taught the piano in schools; wrote musical criticisms for The Atlas from 1829 and later for The Spectator; wrote articles in Fraser’s Mag. and Musical Times; author of A ramble among the musicians of Germany 1828, 3 ed. 18 ; The life of Mozart 1845; Analytical and thematic index of Mozart’s pianoforte works 1852; A critical essay on the Requiem of Mozart 1854; Life of H. Purcell. d. 4 Sep. 1859.
HOLMES, James. b. 1777; apprenticed to an engraver; member of Soc. of Painters in Water-colours 1813–22; assisted to establish Soc. of British Artists, member 1829–50; also a miniature painter; 2 of his portraits of Lord Byron were engraved; a personal friend of George iv. d. Shropshire 24 Feb. 1860. Redgrave’s Dict. of Artists (1878) 221.
HOLMES, James. b. Exeter 1789 or 1790; ed. at Exeter gr. sch.; apprenticed to Thomas Besley of Exeter, printer 16 Sep. 1806; printer at 4 Took’s court, Chancery lane, London, March 1825 to 1869; started the Court Journal with Henry Colburn 25 April 1829; bought The Athenæum for £200, 7 Jany. 1830, joint proprietor with C. W. Dilkie 20 Sep. 1831, printed it 1829–69. d. 4 July 1873. bur. Kensal green cemetery 11 July.
HOLMES, John (son of Nathaniel Holmes d. Derby 18 Dec. 1840). b. Deptford, Kent 17 July 1800; bookseller Derby; temporary assistant MSS. department Br. Museum 15 Jany. 1830, senior assistant April 1837, assistant keeper 6 May 1850 to death; adviser of 4 earl of Ashburnham in formation of his collection of MSS. which was sold 1883–4; author of A catalogue of manuscripts, maps, charts in the British Museum 1844. d. 4 Park ter. Highgate, London 1 April 1854, his library sold 15 June 1854. G.M. ii, 87–8 (1854).
HOLMES, John. b. Rossshire, Scotland, March 1789; emigrated to Nova Scotia 1803; sat in Nova Scotia assembly 1836–47, 1851–8, in legislative council 1858–67; senator in Dominion parliament 1867. d. 1870. Appleton’s American Biography iii, 242 (1887).
HOLMES, Rev. Joseph. b. 1789; ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam., 3 wrangler 1812, B.A. 1812, M.A. 1815, B.D. 1840, fellow and tutor of his coll. to 1819; head master Leeds gram. sch. 1830–53; C. of Trinity ch. Leeds 1830–45; author of The duty of a Christian state to support a national church establishment 1834. d. Leeds 14 June 1854. Taylor’s Biog. Leodiensis (1865) 454–5.
HOLMES, Rev. Peter (1 son of Walter Holmes of Bickleigh, Plymouth). b. Bickleigh 1815; ed. at Plymouth gram. sch. and at Magd. hall Ox., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1844, D.D. 1859; C. of Sheepstor, Devon 1840–3; head master Plymouth gram. sch. 1840–54; diocesan inspector of schools, deanery of Plympton 7 years; kept a private school at Plymouth; F.R.A.S. Dec. 1841; author of Observations on the standard of doctrine in the Church of England 1848; Bishop Bull’s Defensio fidei Nicænæ. A translation 2 vols. 1851–2; contributed to Anglo-Catholic library, Christian Remembrancer, Kitto’s Biblical Cyclopædia, Clark’s Ante-Nicene Christian library. d. Wellington villa, Mannamead, Plymouth 11 Oct. 1878; left a valuable library. Academy ii, 428 (1878).
HOLMES, Robert (son of Mr. Holmes of Belfast). b. Dublin 1765; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1787; called to bar in Ireland 1795; imprisoned some months, being suspected of complicity with his brother-in-law, Robert Emmet’s rising 1803; had the largest practice in the Irish courts, made upwards of £100,000; refused offices of crown prosecutor, King’s counsel, and solicitor general; author of A demonstration of the necessity of the legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland 1799; The case of Ireland stated 1847. d. 37 Eaton place, Belgrave sq. London 30 Nov. 1859. Dublin Univ. Mag., Jany. 1848 pp. 122–33, portrait; O’Flanagan’s Irish Bar (1879) 273–87.
HOLMES, Rev. Samuel (son of John Holmes of Feversham, Kent). b. 1826; ed. at Magd. hall, Ox., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1845; P.C. of Sidcup 1844–50; R. of North Cray 1850–5; V. of Huddersfield 1855–66; canon residentiary of Ripon cath. 1863 to death; V. of St. Paul, Dorking 1866–81; author of sermons. d. 18 Park parade, Harrogate 9 Nov. 1890.
HOLMES, William (5 son of Thomas Holmes of co. Sligo, brewer). b. co. Sligo 1779; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1795; D.C.L. of Oxford univ. 5 July 1810; military sec. to Sir Thomas Hislop in West Indies; M.P. for Grampound 1808–12, for Tregony 1812–18, for Totnes 1819–20, for Bishop’s Castle 1820–30, for Haslemere 1830–2; contested Ipswich 1835; M.P. Berwick on Tweed 1837–41; contested Stafford 1841; whipper-in to the Tory party 30 years; treasurer of the ordnance 1820–30; was close to Spencer Perceval when he was assassinated 1812 and near to Wm. Huskisson when he was killed 1830. d. Grafton st. Bond st. London 26 Jany. 1851. Portraits of eminent conservatives 2nd series (1846), portrait.
HOLMES, Sir William Henry (3 son of Alexander Holmes of Athgarven, co. Kildare). b. 1817; private sec. to Sir Henry Light when governor of Guiana 1838–47; provost marshal of Guiana 1847, adjutant general of militia there; comr. from Guiana to Paris exhibition 1855; knighted at Buckingham palace 4 April 1856; author of Report of an expedition to explore a route to the gold fields of Caratal 1857; Free cotton, how and where to grow it 1862. d. 5 Osborne villas, Stoke, Devonport 9 Aug. 1868.
HOLMES, William Henry. b. Sudbury, Derbyshire 8 Jany. 1812; student at R.A. of music 1822, sub-professor of pianoforte 1826, afterwards professor; the teacher of W. S. Bennett, J. W. Davison, G. A. and W. Macfarren; appeared as a pianist at Philharmonic Soc. concert 24 March 1851; composer of The Elfin of the Lake, an opera 1850, of very numerous pieces left in MS. and of 130 printed pieces for the piano 1835–81. d. 23 April 1885. bur. Brompton cemet. 27 April. Cazalet’s Hist. of R. Acad. of music (1854) 295; Grove’s Dict. of music, i, 744 (1879).
HOLMES, Sir William Richard (son of William Henry Holmes of Kilrea, co. Londonderry). b. London 1821; entered consular service at Erzeroum, Oct. 1841; vice consul at Batoom, Asia Minor 17 March 1846; consul at Diarbekir 23 Nov. 1852; consul in Bosnia 12 Jany. 1860; British delegate to commission for pacification of Herzegovina 1861; knighted at Osborne 13 Aug. 1877; retired from the service 1 Sep. 1877 on a pension; author of Sketches on the shores of the Caspian 1845. d. Yewhurst, Belvedere, Kent 19 Jany. 1882.
HOLMS, John (son of James Holms of Saucel Bank, Paisley). b. Saucel Bank 21 Sep. 1830; partner in firm of W. Holms and Brothers, spinners, Glasgow; M.P. Hackney, London 1868–85; a lord of the treasury April 1880 to May 1882; parliamentary sec. of board of trade 1882–5; author of The British army in 1875, its administration and organization 1875; Our military difficulty. d. 16 Cornwall gardens, Queen’s gate, London 31 March 1891. I.L.N. lxvi, 199, 200 (1875), portrait, 11 April 1891 p. 467, portrait.
HOLROYD, Edward (3 son of Sir George Sowley Holroyd 1758–1831, justice of court of Queen’s Bench). b. 24 July 1794; ed. at Charterhouse and Trin. coll. Cam.; admitted at Gray’s inn 26 Nov. 1812; special pleader under the bar 7 years; barrister G.I. 26 April 1826; a comr. of bankrupts Nov. 1828; a comr. of bankruptcy court Oct. 1831 to 31 Dec. 1869 when granted sum of £2000 on abolition of office; author of Observations upon the case of A. Thornton tried for the murder of Mary Ashford 1819. d. Elland lodge, Wimbledon 29 Jany. 1881.
HOLT, Alfred Henry (son of Henry Josiah Holt, pugilist 1792–1844). Reported prize fights for The Era, Morning Advertiser, Bell’s Life in London and Sportsman. d. 20 Nov. 1865 aged 39. bur. Nunhead cemetery.
HOLT, David. b. Chorlton upon Medlock, Manchester 13 Nov. 1828; assistant sec. of Lancashire and Yorkshire railway co. to death; author of Poems, rural and miscellaneous 1846; Lays of hero worship and other poems 1850; Janus, Lake sonnets and other poems 1853; Poems 1868. d. Altrincham, Cheshire 15 March 1880.
HOLT, Elise. b. London 11 July 1847; appeared as a comic singer, Surrey gardens, London 1863; pupil of Mdlle. Louise, danseuse 1863, and came out at the Victoria theatre as a dancer, and then as Cupid 26 Dec. 1864; played in burlesques at the Strand theatre 1865–8; appeared at Olympic theatre, Boston, U.S. America in burlesque of Lucretia Borgia 21 Dec. 1868 and at Waverly theatre, New York 18 Feb. 1869; visited California; (m. Henry Palmer). d. about 1873. T. A. Brown’s American stage (1870) 182, portrait.
HOLT, Thomas (son of a wool merchant, Leeds). b. Horbury, Yorkshire 1811; with his father at Leeds 1825–8, partner 1832; a wool buyer in London 1828–31; a wool buyer in Australia 1842–55; purchased large estates in Queensland and New South Wales; member for Stanley boroughs in legislative assembly, N.S.W. 1856 and for Newtown to 1866; colonial treasurer 6 June to 25 Aug. 1856; member of legislative council 1868; member of council on education 1873; author of Two speeches on the subject of education in New South Wales 1857. d. Halcot, Bexley, Kent 5 Sep. 1888. Heaton’s Australian Dict. of dates (1879) 95.
HOLT, Thomas Littleton. b. 1794 or 1795; known as Raggedy Holt; projected Weekly Chronicle; proprietor of Iron Times started during the railway mania 1845; edited Morning Chronicle; started many papers in London with G. A. A’Beckett; projected The Novel newspaper; started Ryland’s Iron trade circular at Birmingham; edited a weekly paper called Chat 1846; took an active part in popularising cheap literature and in the abolition of the paper duty; advertisement duty repealed partly owing to him 1853; edited The Sixpenny magazine 1863; John Horsleydown or the confessions of a thief 1860. d. The Burrows, Hendon 14 Sep. 1879. Reminiscences of an old Bohemian, ii, 35–46 (1882).
HOLYOAKE-GOODRICKE, Sir Francis Lyttelton, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Francis Holyoake of Tettenhall, Staffs. 1766–1835). b. Tettenhall 13 Nov. 1797; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1819; assumed name of Goodricke by r.l. 12 Dec. 1833; sheriff of Warwickshire 1834; M.P. for Stafford, Feb. to May 1835, for South Stafford, May 1835 to 1837; created baronet 31 March 1835; master of Quorn hounds in Leicestershire 1834–5; one of the very best riders after hounds of his time. d. Sherborne house, Malvern Wells 29 Dec. 1865. Burke’s Vicissitudes of families, ii, 398–9 (1869).
HOMAN, Sir William Jackson, 1 Baronet (2 son of Rev. Philip Homan). b. 1771; cr. baronet 1 Aug. 1801. d. Dromeroe, Cappoquin, co. Waterford 2 March 1852 aged 80. G.M. xxxvii, 406 (1852).
HOME, Cospatrick Alexander Ramey Home, 11 Earl of (eld. son of 10 Earl 1769–1841). b. Dalkeith house, N.B. 27 Oct. 1799; attaché to embassy at St. Petersburgh 1822–3; précis writer in foreign office 1824–7; under sec. of state for foreign affairs 9 June 1828 to 25 Nov. 1830; succeeded 12 Oct. 1841; a Scotch representative peer 1842–74; keeper of great seal of Scotland May 1853; cr. baron Douglas of Douglas co. Lanark in peerage of the U.K. 11 June 1875. d. near the Hirsel, Coldstream, Berwick 4 July 1881. bur. in church of St. Brides at Douglas 12 July. F.O. list 1882 p. 213.
HOME, Daniel Dunglas (son of William Home of the family of the earl of Home). b. near Edinburgh 20 March 1833; taken by his aunt to Greenville, Connecticut about 1842 where he became famous for his mysterious raps, guitar playing without hands, etc.; came to London April 1855 where he held private spiritual séances; held séances before emperor of the French, King of Prussia, and Queen of Holland 1857–8; expelled from Rome as a sorcerer Jany. 1864; gave a series of public readings in America 1864; founded in London with John Elliotson and S. C. Hall the Spiritual Athenæum, a society for the propagation of spiritualism 1866, lived as sec. at the Society’s rooms 22 Sloane st.; assumed name of Lyon-Home on being adopted as her son by a widow named Jane Lyon, who gave him £30,000 and assigned to him a mortgage security of £30,000, both sums were restored to her by the Court of Chancery 22 May 1868; gave public readings in the provinces 1869–70; author of Incidents in my life 1863, 2nd series 1872; Lights and Shadows of Spiritualism 1877. d. Auteuil, near Paris 21 June 1886. bur. at St. Germain-en-Laye. Annual register (1868) 187–206; The Mask (1868) 141–6, portrait; T. A. Trollope’s What I remember, i, 376–81; Nineteenth century, April 1890 pp. 577–81.
Note.—Robert Browning’s poem Mr. Sludge the medium is understood to be a study of Home.
HOME, David Milne (1 son of admiral Sir David Milne, d. 1845). b. 1804; ed. at Edin. univ., B.A. 1829, LLD. 1870; called to Scotch bar 1831; advocate depute 1841; succeeded to the family estate and took name of Home 1845; F.R.G.S.; tried to prevent appointment of Dr. Robert Wallace of the Old Greyfriars to the professorship of church history 1873, one of the last “heresy hunts” in the Church of Scotland; author of Our Social reforms needed in Scotland 1867; Scotch poor houses and English work houses 1873; The salmon Fisheries of Scotland 1882. d. Milne Graden, Coldstream 19 Sep. 1890. Times 23 Sep. 1890.
HOME, Francis (eld. son of James Home, professor of materia medica in Univ. of Edin.) b. Edin. 1800; ed. at high school and univ. of Edin.; advocate 1825; sheriff substitute of co. Kinross 1838 and of co. Linlithgow 1838 to death. d. Main’s house near Linlithgow 20 Jany. 1882.
HOME, Sir James Everard, 2 Baronet (elder son of Sir Everard Home, 1 bart., serjeant surgeon to George III.) b. 25 Oct. 1798; entered navy 10 April 1810; succeeded 31 Aug. 1832; captain 5 Dec. 1837; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842; captain of the “Calliope” 26 guns 28 Nov. 1850 to death; F.R.S. d. Sydney 2 Nov. 1853. bur. Camperdown cemetery, Sydney 4 Nov.
HOME, John. Entered Bengal army 1803; colonel 57 Bengal native infantry 1854 to death; M.G. 20 June 1854. d. Weston, Bath 12 April 1860.
HOME, John Home (son of John Home of Bassenleau, co. Berwick). b. 1797; ensign 1 foot guards 19 Jany. 1813, lieut. col. 15 April 1845 to 1 April 1849 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 22 Sep. 1858; colonel 56 foot 17 Oct. 1859 to death. d. Pall Mall, London 22 April 1860.
HOME, North Dalrymple. b. Long Ashton, Aug. 1856; ed. at Bristol gram. sch. at Montreux and Paris; engaged in London and Westminster bank 2 years; student R. Acad. of music; tenor singer in German Reed’s Co.; played in W. S. Gilbert’s Ages Ago, and in The Friar operetta by Comyns Carr 15 Dec. 1886. d. Clifton 3 July 1887. The Era, July 1887 p.
HOME, Richard. b. 1789; entered Bengal army 1804; colonel 43 Bengal N.I. 7 April 1851 to 1861; colonel 6 Bengal N.I. 1861 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. d. Brighton 19 April 1862 aged 73.
HOME, Robert (eld. son of James Home, captain 30 foot). b. Antigua 29 Dec. 1837; 1 lieut. R.E. 7 April 1856, major 25 Aug. 1873 to death; deputy assistant Q.M.G. at Aldershot 1865–70; commander of R.E. on the Ashantee expedition 1873; C.B. 31 March 1874; assistant Q.M.G. at head quarters 1 April 1876; sent to Turkey to report on defence of Constantinople 1876; British comr. for delimitation of boundaries of Bulgaria 1877; contributed to Quarterly Rev. and Macmillan’s Mag.; translated Baron Stoffel’s Military Reports 1872; author of The law of recruiting 1872 and A précis of modern tactics 1873 the best English book on the subject. d. 21 Regent’s park terrace, London 29 Jany. 1879; Anne Josephine his widow (dau. of J. Hunt) granted civil list pension of £300, 21 April 1879. Graphic xix, 372 (1879), portrait; I.L.N. lxxiv, 185 (1879), portrait.
HOMER, John James. b. Wandsworth 1809; educated for a solicitor; proprietor of Dolphin tavern, Mare st. Hackney; was the means of abolishing a brewers’ impost known as butt-money 1836; hon. treasurer of the London Licensed Victuallers’ Protection Soc. 1838 to death; governor of Incorporated Soc. of Licensed victuallers 1850; doubled the size of the Morning Advertiser 1850; common councilman for ward of Cornhill 1866; contested Hackney 18 Nov. 1868; wine and spirit merchant 2 Royal Exchange buildings, London 1852 to death; author of A summary of the laws relating to licensed victuallers 1839; Monarch fire and life insurance co., Scenes at the election for a director 1852. d. at res. of his son-in-law Dr. William Slimon 4 York place, Bow road, London 3 March 1888. Licensed Victuallers’ Almanack (1862) 95–9, portrait; Licensed Victuallers’ Year book (1875) 70–1, portrait.
HONE, Ven. Richard Brindley (2 son of Joseph Terry Hone of Faringdon, Berks.) b. 1805; ed. at Brasen. coll. Ox., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1831; R. of Halesowen, Worcs. 1836 to death; hon. canon of Worcester 10 Nov. 1845 to death, archdeacon 7 Nov. 1849 to death; author of Lives of eminent Christians 4 vols. 1834–43, 19 charges and 41 New Year’s addresses. d. Halesowen rectory 5 May 1881.
HONEY, George Alfred (mother Mrs. Down d. 27 Nov. 1881 aged 90). b. 25 May 1823; call-boy Adelphi theatre 1841; made debut in London at Princess’s theatre Nov. 1848 as Pan in Midas; member of Pyne and Harrison company at Covent Garden 1858 etc.; played in Macfarren’s opera Robin Hood at Her Majesty’s 1860; played Eccles in Caste at Prince of Wales’s 1867, 1871 and 1879; Graves in Money at Holborn 1869 and at Prince of Wales’s 1872, 1875 and 1879; Our Mr. Jenkins in The Two Roses at Vaudeville 1870; visited U.S. of America 1878; seized with a fit of paralysis while performing at Prince of Wales’s 1879. d. 127 Camden road, London 28 May 1880. Pascoe’s Dramatic List (1880) 183–4; Illust. Sport, and Dram. News, x 468–9 (1879) portrait, xiii 281 (1880), portrait, xvii 125 (1882), view of tomb; The Era 30 May 1880 p. 6, 6 June p. 7; Mr. and Mrs. Bancroft On and off the stage 7th ed. (1889) 107, 156, 274, 281–3.
HONNER, Maria (dau. of Eugene Macarthy, actor, d. Dramatic coll. 1886 aged 78). b. Enniskillen Ireland 21 Dec. 1812; played with Kean and Macready in Ireland; chief star at Pavilion theatre, London 1831–2; at Coburg theatre 1833, at Sadler’s Wells 1838–43, at Surrey theatre 1845, at City of London theatre 1845; excellent in Shakespearean parts, in Julia, in the Hunchback, and other roles; (m. (1) 21 May 1836 Robert W. Honner 1809–52; m. (2) Frederick Morton, stage manager); she d. 4 Jany. 1870. Actors by gaslight 4 Aug. 1838 pp. 121–2, portrait; Theatrical Times 10 Oct. 1846 pp. 137–8, portrait.
HONNER, Robert William (youngest son of John Honner of Soho, London, solicitor, d. about 1817). b. 24 Percy st. Tottenham court road, London 18 Jany. 1809; apprenticed to Charles Leclercq, ballet master 1817–20; made his debut at Sans Pareil theatre in a ballet 1818; actor at Coburg 1825; stage manager at Surrey 1835–38, manager 1842–46; lessee of Sadler’s Wells 1838–41 and of City of London theatre 1846; stage manager of Standard theatre 1848 to death, d. Nichols sq. Hackney road, London 31 Dec. 1852. Theatrical Times 27 March 1847 pp. 89–90, portrait.
HONNER, Sir Robert William. Entered Bombay army 1820; lieut. 4 Bombay N.I. 1 May 1824, lieut. col. 15 Sep. 1855 to 1861; commander of Nussurabad 6 March 1858 to 24 Oct. 1862; commander of Scinde division 28 March 1863 to 26 May 1866, C.B. 21 Jany. 1858, K.C.B. 28 March 1865; M.G. 17 Sep. 1861. d. Lower Berkeley st., Portman sq., London 8 Nov. 1868.
HONY, Ven. William Edward (2 son of Rev. Wm. Hony, V. of Liskeard, Cornwall 1778–95). b. Liskeard 7 Feb. 1788; fellow of Ex. coll. Ox. 30 June 1808 to 3 July 1827, B.A. 1811, M.A. 1812, B.D. 1823; V. of South Newington, Oxon. 24 Oct. 1818 to 1827; R. of Baverstock 4 June 1827 to death; preb. of Salisbury 29 July 1841; archdeacon of Salisbury 3 Aug. 1846 to death, and canon residentiary 1857 to death; F.G.S. 1831; author of Church Rates 1859. d. The Canonry, Salisbury 7 Jany. 1875. I.L.N. lxvi 403 (1875).
HORNYGOLD, William, b. 1797; an artist; lived in parish of St. Clement Danes, London; known for his drawings of theatrical characters for the toy theatre, to which he added sketches of the scenery incidental to the pieces performed; his portrait of C. Kemble as Hen. viii. is No. 55 in Skelt’s portraits: drew the illustrations for comic songs; fell down intoxicated outside the ‘Fountain,’ 4 Clare Market, London, taken to the Strand union workhouse, where he d. 12 Feb. 1867 aged 69. J. Diprose’s Some account of parish of St. Clement Danes i, 165–6 (1868).
HONYMAN, Sir George Essex, 4 Baronet (eld. son of Sir Ord Honyman, 3 Bart. 1794–1863). b. Strawberry hill, Middlesex 22 Jany. 1819; pupil of Martineau, Malton and Trollope, solicitors, London 1838–40; pupil of Sir Fitzroy Kelly and David O. Gibbons, the special pleader 1840, etc.; practised as a pleader 1842–9; barrister M.T. 8 June 1849, bencher Nov. 1866; best commercial lawyer of his day; Q.C. 23 July 1866; sergeant at law 23 Jany. 1873; judge of court of common pleas 23 Jany. 1873, resigned 21 Feb. 1875. d. Tunbridge Wells 16 Sep. 1875. Law mag. and law review i, 122–27 (1875); I.L.N. lxvii, 319, 333, 566, (1875), portrait.
HONYWOOD, Rev. Philip James (3 son of William Honywood of Siston, Kent). b. 1809; matric. from Trin. coll. Ox. 29 May 1827 aged 18, B.A. 1831; R. of Markshall, Essex 23 Dec. 1838 to 1866; R. of Bradwell next Coggeshall, Essex 27 March 1840 to 1845; R. of Colne-Wake, Essex 1866 to death; kept beagles at Markshall 1851–3 which were always followed on foot, sold his hounds 1853; injured himself hunting on foot three days a week d. Colne-Wake 19 Nov. 1874 aged 65. Baily’s Mag. xxix, 150–5 (1877).
HOOD, Sir Alexander, 2 Baronet (only son of Alexander Hood, capt. R.N., slain on board his ship the ‘Mars’ 1798). b. Wootton, Somerset 5 July 1793; ed. at Ex. coll. Ox., M.A. 1814; K.C.B. 22 May 1812 as proxy for his uncle Sir S. Hood; succeeded as 2 baronet 24 Dec. 1814; M.P. West Somerset 1847 to death. d. 43 Wimpole st. London 7 March 1851.
HOOD, Charles. b. 18 Sep. 1825; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign 3 foot 26 June 1844, captain 1851 to 8 Jany. 1856; led the ladder party in the attack on the Redan 8 Oct. 1855; major 58 foot 28 Jany. 1859, lieut. col. 23 Nov. 1860 to 23 May 1874 when placed on h.p.; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 July 1881. d. 8 Feb. 1883.
HOOD, Charles (son of William Hood, an ironmaster 18 Earl st. Blackfriars). b. 1805; ironmaster with his brother in London; made researches into chemistry of combustion of coal, silver medal of Soc. of Arts; F.R.S. 7 Dec. 1843; F.R.A.S.; F.S.S.; chairman of British home for incurables 1861–6; author of A practical treatise on warming buildings by hot water, to which are added Remarks on ventilation 1837, 5 ed. 1879. d. 10 Leinster gardens, Bayswater, London 10 Dec. 1889.
HOOD, Rev. Edwin Paxton (son of a sailor in the navy). b. at house of bishop Porteous 34 Half Moon st. Piccadilly, London 24 Oct. 1820; began to lecture on temperance and peace about 1840; Congregational minister at North Nibley, Gloucs. 1852–7, at Offord road, Islington 1857–62 and 1873, at Queen sq. church, Brighton 1862–73, at Cavendish st. Manchester 1877 to 1880, at Falcon sq. Aldersgate st. London 1882 to death; editor of the Eclectic and Congregational Review, of the Argonaut and The Preacher’s Lantern; author of Old England 1851; William Wordsworth, a biography 1856; The Peerage of Poverty 1 series 1859, 3 ed. 1859, 2 series 1861, 5 ed. 1870 and 50 other books. d. suddenly at Paris 12 June 1885. Congregational Year-Book (1886) 178–82.
HOOD, Francis Grosvenor (2 son of lieut. col. Francis Wheler Rood, killed in action 2 March 1814). b. 4 March 1809; ensign grenadier guards 30 April 1827, captain 31 Dec. 1841, major of 3 battalion 20 June 1854 to death; leading his battalion gallantly contributed to defeat of the enemy at battle of the Alma 20 Sep. 1854; killed in the trenches before Sebastopol 18 Oct. 1854. Kinglake’s Invasion of the Crimea 6 ed. iii 220–2, 239 et seq. iv 442.
HOOD, Peter. b. Gateshead 1808; ed. at St. George’s hospital; L.S.A. 1831, M.D. St. Andrews 1863; practised in London among the upper classes; discouraged the practice of blood letting; a keen sportsman, fly fisher and whist player; treasurer of Fisheries’ preservation soc.; president West Herts. medical assoc.; author of Practical observations on diseases fatal to children 1845; The successful treatment of scarlet fever 1857; A treatise on gout, rheumatism and the allied affections 1871, 3 ed. 1885. d. Watford, Herts. 18 Sep. 1890. Lancet 27 Sep. 1890 p. 699.
HOOD, Rev. Samuel. b. Devizes 27 Dec. 1782; received episcopal ordination at Stirling, May 1826; minister of congregation in Trinity house, Dundee 1826–37; restored episcopacy at Rothesay and was minister there 1838, helped to establish seven churches in his district; dean of diocese of Argyle and the Isles 1847 to death; D.D. by archbishop of Canterbury 1870. d. Rothesay 30 May 1872. Norrie’s Dundee celebrities (1873) 392.
HOOD, Samuel. b. Moyle, co. Donegal 1800; emigrated to Philadelphia 1826, a member of the bar there; author of Practical treatise on the laws relating to registers, registers’ courts, guardians and trustees in Pennsylvania 1847; A practical treatise on the law of decedents in Pennsylvania 1847; A brief account of the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick 1844. d. Philadelphia 1875.
HOOD, Thomas (only son of Thomas Hood the poet 1798–1845). b. Lake house, Wanstead, Essex 19 Jany. 1835; granted a civil list pension of £50, 4 Oct. 1847; commoner at Pemb. coll. Ox. 1853; edited the Liskeard Gazette 1858–59; clerk in the war office 11 July 1860 to May 1865; edited a periodical called Saturday Night 1862; edited Fun, May 1865 to death; Tom Hood’s Comic Annual first issued 1867; author of Captain Master’s children 3 vols. 1865; A golden heart 3 vols. 1868; Rules of rhyme, a guide to English versification 1869 and many other books. d. Gloucester cottage, Peckham Rye, Surrey 20 Nov. 1874. Poems by Thomas Hood the younger, with a memoir by his sister Frances Freeling Broderip 1877; Cartoon portraits (1873) 64–65, portrait; Illust. sporting news, iv, 357 (1865), portrait.
HOOD, Thomas H. Cockburn. b. 1820; in Australia and New Zealand to 1877; inherited Walton hall, Kelso from a relative; author of The Rutherfords of that ilk 188-; The house of Cockburn, with anecdotes of the times in which many of them played a part, Edin. 1888, and of many scientific papers. d. Edinburgh 16 Jany. 1889. The Bookseller 6 March 1889 p. 228.
HOOD, Sir William Charles (only son of Dr. William Chamberlayne Hood, d. Berners st. hotel, London 16 Dec. 1879 aged 89). b. South Lambeth 1824; ed. at Brighton and Trin. coll. Dublin; M.D. St. Andrews 1846; F.R.C.P. Edin. 1850; F.R.C.P. London 1863; treasurer of Bridewell and Bethlehem hospital July 1868 to death; lord chancellor’s visitor in lunacy to death; knighted at Windsor castle 7 July 1868. d. Bridewell royal hospital, London 4 Jany. 1870.
HOOF, William. b. 1788; a railway contractor. d. Madeley house, Kensington 11 Aug. 1855, leaving property exceeding half a million.
HOOK, Anna Delicia (dau. of John Johnson, physician, Birmingham). b. 1812; author of Some Meditations for every day in the year 1864; The Cross of Christ 1855 which was edited by her husband; (m. June 1829 Rev. Walter Farquhar Hook 1798–1875). d. 5 May 1871 aged 59 bur. churchyard of Mid Lavant near Chichester 11 May.
HOOK, Very Rev. Walter Farquhar (eld. child of Very Rev. James Hook 1771–1828, dean of Worcester). b. Conduit st. London 13 March 1798; ed. at Hertford, Tiverton, Winchester, and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824, B.D. and D.D. 1837, student of Ch. Ch. 1817; C. of Whippingham, Isle of Wight 1821–25; P.C. of Moseley near Birmingham 1826–31; chaplain in ord. to the sovereign 1827 to death; V. of Holy Trin. Coventry 1828 to 1837; preb. of Linc. cath. 1832 to 1859; select preacher univ. of Ox. 1833–34 and 1858–59; V. of Leeds 1837 to 1859; preached his famous sermon Hear the Church before the Queen 17 June 1838, 31 ed. 1841, circulated 100,000 copies; dean of Chichester 24 Feb. 1859 to death, installed 19 March 1859; F.R.S. 5 June 1862; author of A Church Dictionary 1842, 14 ed. 1887; An ecclesiastical biography 8 vols. 1845–52; Lives of the archbishops of Canterbury 12 vols. 1860–76 and about 70 other books. d. the deanery, Chichester 20 Oct. 1875, memorial church at Leeds consecrated 29 Jany. 1880. Life and letters of W. F. Hook By W. R. W. Stephens 2 vols. 1878; Illust. news of the world, iii, (1859), portrait; Dent’s Birmingham (1880) 427, portrait; Graphic xii, 447, 448 (1875), portrait.
HOOKER, Sir William Jackson (son of Joseph Hooker of Exeter). b. Norwich 6 July 1785; ed. at Norwich gram. sch.; travelled for scientific purposes 1806–14; F.L.S. 1806; F.R.S. 9 Jany. 1812; lived at Halesworth, Suffolk 1815–20; regius prof. of botany Glasgow 1820–41; K.H. 1836; knighted at St. James’ palace 20 April 1836; director of royal gardens, Kew 1841 to death, chief agent in building the palm house and the temperate house, and a founder of the museum of economic botany; LLD. of Glasgow; D.C.L. of Ox. 1845; author of Exotic flora, 3 vols. 1823–7; Icones plantarum 10 vols. 1827–54; The Botanical Mag. 38 vols. 1827–65; British flora 2 vols. 1830–1, many editions; Species filicum 5 vols. 1846–64 and 35 other books and many papers. d. Kew 12 Aug. 1865. Proc. of R. Soc. xv, 25–30 (1867); Proc. Med. and Chir. Soc. v, 150, 162 (1867); Jerdan’s National Portrait gallery (1834) v, portrait; Taylor’s National Portrait gallery ii, 95, portrait.
HOOLE, Elijah (son of Holland Hoole, shoe maker). b. Manchester 3 Feb. 1798; ed. at Manchester gr. sch. 1809–13; Wesleyan methodist missionary in Madras 1820–8 during which time he published a number of translations in Tamil; a superintendent of schools in Ireland 1829–34; assistant sec. in London of Wesleyan Missionary Soc. 1834, one of the general secretaries 1836 to death; author of Personal narrative of a mission to the south of India from 1820–8, 1829, 2 ed. 1844; The year-book of missions 1847. d. 30 Russell sq. London 17 June 1872. T. F. Smith’s Manchester School Reg. iii, pt. 1, pp. 45, 290.
HOOPER, Edward. b. 1795; officer in navy; first appeared at Drury Lane as Colonel Briton, Sep. 1826; acting manager at Olympic 1832; lessee of St. James’s 1839; manager of Strand 1848; proprietor of Cambridge theatre to death. (m. Miss Brothers, she was b. 1800, first appeared at Drury Lane as Mrs. Haller 19 Feb. 1827 and was a well-known actress at St. James’s theatre). d. Cambridge 27 Jany. 1865 aged 70.
HOOPER, Edward. b. London 24 May 1829; ed. in London; member of firm of Bobbett and Hooper, wood engravers 1850 to death; an originator of the American water colour soc.; exhibited water colours at the Academy of design; engraved illustrations for Festivals of song, By F. Saunders 1866. d. Brooklyn, New York 13 Dec. 1870.
HOOPER, Frederic Edward Eden. b. 1842; clerk in the Admiralty, London; wrote many verses on Christmas and other cards; author of The Indian revolt. A poem, part i, 1858. d. 12 Feb. 1886.
HOOPER, George. b. Oxford 1824; a journalist in London 1848–86; helped to start The Leader weekly paper 1850; wrote for The Globe and The Spectator; edited Bombay Gazette at Bombay 1868–71; on staff of Daily Telegraph, London 1872–86; author of The Italian campaigns of general Bonaparte 1859; Waterloo, the downfall of the first Napoleon 1862, new ed. 1890; The campaign of Sedan 1887; Wellington, a memoir 1889. d. Southsea 15 May 1890. I.L.N. 31 May 1890 p. 680, portrait; Pictorial World 29 May 1890 p. 697, portrait.
HOOPER, John. b. Oxford 1802; went to U.S. of America 1839 and devoted himself to natural science; made collection of marine algæ which he left to Long island historical soc. d. Brooklyn, New York 26 April 1869. Appleton’s American Biog. iii, 252 (1887).
HOOPER, John Kinnersley (3 son of Richard Hooper of Queenhithe and Limpsfield, Surrey). b. 1791; wine merchant as Richard Hooper and Sons, 20 Queenhithe, London to death; alderman of Queenhithe ward 1840 to death, sheriff 1842–43, lord mayor 1847–48; received the French national guard at the mansion house 23 Oct. 1848; pres. of St. Bartholomew’s hospital. d. St. Leonards-on-Sea 17 April 1854. I.L.N. xi, 309 (1847), portrait.
HOOPER, William. b. 1819; a chemist; manufacturer of india-rubber goods 7 Pall Mall East, London and at Mitcham, Surrey 1857–78; inventor and manufacturer of india rubber insulated telegraph cables which he patented 19 March 1868; founder of Hooper’s Telegraph Co. in London 1870. d. Beechwood, Clapham common, Surrey 25 Sep. 1878. Journal Soc. of Arts 1 Nov. 1878 p. 964.
HOOPER, William Hulme. b. 1827; mate of the Plover, R.N. Nov. 1847 and lieut. 12 May 1849, in the expedition to search for Sir John Franklin, sailed from Plymouth 30 Jany. 1848, reached Port Providence 16 Oct. 1848, led a party along the coast as far as Cape Atcheen, learned the language of the natives, returned to England Oct. 1851; author of Ten months among the tents of the Tuski, with incidents of an Arctic boat expedition in search of Sir John Franklin 1853. d. Brompton, London 19 May 1854.
HOPE, Adrian (6 son of 4 Earl of Hopetown 1765–1823). b. Hopetown house, Linlithgowshire 3 March 1821; 2 lieut. 60 rifles 23 Nov. 1838, served in Kafir war 1851–3; major 1855; lieut. col. 93 Highlanders 25 Jany. 1856 to death; commanded brigade in Crimea 1854–5; C.B. 24 March 1858; killed in attack on fort at Rowas 14 April 1858. Martin’s Indian empire, ii, 493 (1876), portrait.
HOPE, Alexander James Beresford Beresford- (youngest son of Thomas Hope of Deepdene, Surrey 1770–1831). b. 25 Jany. 1820; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844, D.C.L. 1848, hon. LLD. 1864; LLD. Washington and Tennessee 1879, LLD. Dublin 1881; M.P. for Maidstone 1841–52 and 1857–65; contested Univ. of Cam. 1859 and Stoke-upon-Trent 1862; M.P. for Stoke 1865–8, M.P. for Univ. of Cam. 1868 to death; bought St. Augustine’s abbey, Canterbury as a college for missionary clergy 1844; built All Saints’ church, Margaret st. London 1849; joint owner of Saturday Review with John Douglas Cook 1855; took additional surname of Beresford 30 May 1854; P.C. 20 April 1880; possessed a collection of pictures and objects of art at 1 Connaught place, London; author of Poems 1843; Essays 1844; The English cathedral of the nineteenth century 1861; A popular view of the American civil war 1861, 3 ed. 1861; Worship in the Church of England 1874, 2 ed. 1875; Strictly tied up 3 vols. 1880, a novel, anon. 3 ed. 1881; The Brandreths 3 vols. 1882, a novel, and 24 other books. d. Bedgebury park, Cranbrook, Kent 20 Oct. 1887. C. Brown’s Life of Beaconsfield (1882) i, 194, portrait; Waagen’s Galleries of art (1857) 189–92; I.L.N. 16 May 1857 pp. 477, 479, portrait.
HOPE, Anne (2 dau. of John Williamson Fulton of Calcutta, merchant). b. Calcutta 1809. (m. 10 March 1831 James Hope, physician 1801–41); joined Church of Rome, Nov. 1850; author of The acts of the early martyrs 1855; The lives of the early martyrs 1857; Life of St. Philip Neri 1859; Conversion of the Teutonic race 2 vols. 1872; Franciscan martyrs in England 1878; wrote many articles in Dublin Review 1872–9. d. St. Marychurch, Torquay 2 Feb. 1887. Gillow’s English Catholics iii, 375.
HOPE, Charles, Lord Granton (eld. son of John Hope of London, merchant 1739–85). b. 29 June 1763; admitted advocate 11 Dec. 1784; a depute advocate 1786; sheriff of Orkney 5 June 1792; lord advocate June 1801 to Nov. 1804; M.P. for Dumfries district 1802–3, for city of Edin. 1803–4; a lord of session and lord justice clerk 20 Nov. 1804, assumed title of lord Granton; lord pres. of court of session 12 Nov. 1811 to 1841; P.C. Scotland 17 Aug. 1822, lord justice general Dec. 1836 to 1841; lieut. general of royal archers of Scotland; author of Notes by the lord president on the subject of hearing counsel in the Inner House 1826. d. Moray place, Edinburgh 30 Oct. 1851. Omond’s Lord Advocates of Scotland ii, 205–23; Kay’s Original Portraits ii, 246–55 (1885), 3 portraits; Lockhart’s Peter’s Letters to his kinsfolk, ii, 102–8 (1819).
HOPE, Charles Webley. b. 21 April 1829; entered navy 1842; captain 15 May 1861; A.D.C. to the Queen 12 Feb. 1873 to 1 Aug. 1877; R.A. 1 Aug. 1877; superintendent of Devonport dockyard 1 Feb. 1879 to death; F.R.G.S.; author of The education and training of naval officers 1869. d. Devonport dockyard 13 Feb. 1880.
HOPE, Rev. Frederick William (2 son of John Thomas Hope of Netley, Salop 1761–1854). b. 37 Upper Seymour st. Portman sq. London 3 Jany. 1797; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823, hon. D.C.L. 1855; C. of Frodesley, Salop 1823; F.R.S. to 1851 when he withdrew; F.L.S. 5 March 1822; one of founders of Zoological Soc. 1826, of Entomological Soc. 1833, president 1835–37; resided at Naples and Nice 1840–62; executed in 1849 a deed of gift giving his collection of fishes, crustacea, birds, shells, books and 230,000 engravings to Univ. of Oxford, his fishes, etc. were removed to the New Museum and his engravings to Radcliffe library 1861; founded and endowed a professorship of zoology in the Univ. of Ox. 1861; author of Buprestidae 1835; The Coleopterist’s Manual 3 parts 1837–40 and of about 60 papers on entomological subjects. d. 37 Upper Seymour st. London 15 April 1862. Journal British Archæol. Assoc. xix, 157–62 (1863); Proc. Linnæan society (1862) 90–93; J. O. Westwood’s Thesaurus Entomologicus Oxon. (1874) pp. xvii-xxiv.
HOPE, George (2 son of Robert Hope, tenant farmer). b. Fenton, East Lothian 2 Jany. 1811; farmer at Fenton Barns to 1875; did much to improve the agriculture of East Lothian, his farm was well-known in America and on the continent; gained a prize of £30 offered by the Anti-Corn-law league for an essay on Agriculture and the corn laws 1842; contributed Hindrances to agriculture from a tenant farmer’s point of view to Recess Studies, Edited by Sir A. Grant, Edinburgh 1870; contested Haddingtonshire 1865 and East Aberdeenshire 1875. d. Broadlands, Berwickshire 1 Dec. 1876. Memoir of George Hope, By His Daughter (1881).
HOPE, George William (2 son of general the hon. Sir Alexander Hope 1769–1837). b. Blackheath 4 July 1808; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1830; barrister L.I. 28 Jany. 1831; M.P. for Weymouth 1837 to 1841 when unseated on petition; M.P. for Southampton 1842–6; M.P. for New Windsor 1859 to death; under sec. of state for the colonies 8 Sep. 1841 to 8 Jany. 1846. d. Luffness, Haddingtonshire 18 Oct. 1863. I.L.N. vi, 184 (1845), portrait.
HOPE, Sir Henry (eld. child of Charles Hope, captain R.N., d. 10 Sep. 1808). b. 1787; entered navy 2 April 1798, captain 24 May 1808, captain of the Endymion May 1813, captured the American frigate President 15 Jany. 1815; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 5 July 1855; A.D.C. to the sovereign 1831–46; admiral 20 Jany. 1858. d. Holly hill, Hants. 23 Sep. 1863.
HOPE, Henry Thomas (eldest bro. of Alexander J. B. Hope 1820–87). b. 1808; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1829; M.P. East Looe 1830–2; M.P. Gloucester 1833–41 and 1847–52; a great patron of architectural art; erected a residence 116 Piccadilly, now known as the Junior Athenæum club; sold Trenant park, Cornwall and purchased Castle Blaney, Ireland; possessed a collection of marble statues, vases and Italian and Dutch pictures. d. 116 Piccadilly, London 4 Dec. 1862, personalty sworn under £300,000, 17 Jany. 1863. Waagen’s Treasures of Art, ii, 112–24 (1854); I.L.N. xxxii, 352 (1858).
HOPE, Sir James (only son of Sir George Hope, K.C.B. 1767–1818). b. 3 March 1808; entered royal naval college 1 Aug. 1820; captain 28 June 1838; commander in chief East Indies 25 Jany. 1859 to 8 Feb. 1862, in North America and West Indies 7 Jany. 1864 to 10 Jany. 1867, and at Portsmouth 25 Feb. 1869 to 1 March 1872; admiral 21 Jany. 1870, retired March 1878, admiral of the fleet 15 June 1879; principal naval A.D.C. to the Queen 8 Feb. 1873; C.B. 3 April 1846, K.C.B. 9 Nov. 1860, G.C.B. 28 March 1865; grand cross of legion of honour 1861. d. Carriden house, Bowness, Linlithgowshire 9 June 1881, portrait by Sydney Hodges in painted hall at Greenwich. D. C. Boulger’s History of China, vol. iii, passim (1884).
HOPE, James. b. 28 May 1803; writer to the signet 1828; deputy keeper of the signet 1828 to death. d. Avenel, Edinburgh 14 Feb. 1882. Law Times, lxxii, 305 (1882).
HOPE, Sir James Archibald (son of lieut.-col. Erskine Hope). b. 1785; ensign 26 foot 12 Jany. 1800, captain 1805–14; captain 3 foot guards 25 July 1814, major 10 Jany. 1837 to 1 Nov. 1839, when placed on h.p.; M.G. on the staff in Lower Canada 1841–7; colonel 9 foot 18 Feb. 1848 to death; general 12 June 1859; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 28 June 1861. d. Balgowan house, Cheltenham 30 Dec. 1871.
HOPE, Sir John, 11 Baronet. b. Pinkie house, Midlothian 13 April 1781; succeeded 26 June 1801; M.P. for Midlothian 1845 to death. d. 104 Gloucester terrace, Hyde park, London 5 June 1853. bur. Inveresk churchyard 11 June.
HOPE, John (eld. son of Charles Hope of Granton 1763–1851). b. Edinburgh 26 May 1794; admitted advocate 23 Nov. 1816; solicitor general for Scotland Nov. 1822 to 1830; dean of faculty of advocates 17 Dec. 1830 to 1841; lord justice clerk 1841 to death; P.C. 17 April 1844; author of A letter to Francis Jeffery, Esq., editor of the Edinburgh Review, By an Anti-Reformist 1811 and two other letters. d. 20 Moray place, Edinburgh 15 June 1858, bur. at Ormiston near Tranent; portraits in national gallery of Scotland, in the Parliament house and in Scottish national portrait gallery. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 73–4, portrait.
HOPE, Sackett. Entered navy 2 Nov. 1814; present at bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre 1840; captain 4 Nov. 1840; V.A. on half pay 2 April 1866; granted pension for wounds 7 Nov. 1843. d. 9 Widcomb crescent, Bath 25 May 1868.
HOPE, William Williams (youngest child of John Williams Hope of Amsterdam, banker 1757–1813). b. 1802; reassumed name of Williams before that of Hope by r.l. 14 July 1826; purchased Rushton hall near Kettering for £140,000 in 1828, sold it for £165,000 Sep. 1854; sheriff of Northamptonshire 1832; lived latterly in Paris, built a large house at 131 Rue St. Dominique, Faubourg St. Germain, played a prominent part in Parisian society, noted for his eccentricity and his collection of diamonds; found dead in his bed at 131 Rue St. Dominique, Paris 21 Jany. 1855. Gronow’s Last Recollections (1866) 129–33; Boase’s Collect. Cornub. (1890) 1262–4.
HOPE-JOHNSTONE, John James (1 son of Sir William Hope-Johnstone, G.C.B. 1766–1831). b. 29 Nov. 1796; M.P. for co. Dumfries 1830–47, and 1857–65; keeper of Lockmaben; claimed dormant earldom of Annandale. d. Raehills, Dumfriesshire 11 July 1876.
HOPE-SCOTT, James Robert (3 son of general the hon. Sir Alexander Hope, G.C.B. 1769–1837). b. Great Marlow, Bucks. 15 July 1812; ed. at Eton 1825–28 and at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1832, B.C.L. 1838, D.C.L. 1842; fellow of Merton 13 April 1833; commenced a friendship with W. E. Gladstone 1837 and corresponded with him on “The State in its relation with the Church” 1838; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1838, reader 1862; a promoter of Glenalmond college, Perthshire 1841; chancellor of diocese of Salisbury 1840 to 10 Feb. 1845; Q.C. April 1849; paid fees of £20,000 by London and north western railway for 25 bills 1860; received into R.C. church at Farm st. London 6 April 1851; lived at Abbotsford 1853 to death; assumed additional name of Scott 1853; spent winters of 1863–70 at the Villa Madonna Hyères which he bought 1859; visited by Queen Victoria at Abbotsford 22 Aug. 1867; built church of Our Lady and St. Andrew at Galashiels at cost of £10,000, opened 2 Feb. 1858; purchased estate of Lochshiel for £24,000, 1855; author of The bishopric of the United Church of England and Ireland at Jerusalem 1841, 2 ed. 1842. d. 7 Hyde park place, London 29 April 1873. bur. in the vaults of St. Margaret’s convent, Bruntsfield, Edin. 7 May. Memoirs of J. R. Hope-Scott, By Robert Ornsby 2 vols. 1884.
HOPETOUN, John Alexander Hope, 6 Earl of (only son of 5 earl of Hopetoun 1803–43). b. Edinburgh 22 March 1831; ed. at Harrow; cornet and sub-lieut. 1 life guards 1851–2; succeeded 8 April 1843; lord lieut. of Linlithgowshire 30 Sep. 1863 to death. d. Florence 1 April 1873. Baily’s Mag. xvi, 159–61 (1869), portrait.
HOPKINS, Sir Francis, 2 Baronet (only son of Sir F. J. Hopkins, M.P.) b. Athboy, co. Meath 28 May 1813; succeeded 19 Sep. 1814; ed. at Eton, matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 27 June 1830; knight of the Burning Tower at the Eglinton tournament 28–30 Aug. 1839; sheriff of Westmeath 1855. d. Madeira 11 May 1860. J. H. Nixon’s Eglinton tournament p. 6 and plate xiv (1843).
HOPKINS, Rev. Gerard Manley (1 son of Manley Hopkins of Stratford, Essex). b. Essex 1845; ed. at Ball. coll. Ox., exhibitioner 1863–8, B.A. 1868; fellow of royal univ. of Ireland 1885 (which was created by letters patent 22 April 1880), professor of classical literature there 1885 to death; member of Society of Jesus about 1868. d. of typhoid fever at University college, Stephen’s Green, Dublin 8 June 1889. bur. Glasnevin cemet. 11 June. Freeman’s Journal 10 June 1889 p. 5.
HOPKINS, John Baker. b. London 10 April 1830; began his career as a journalist 1858; editor of Atlas paper; joint editor with Henry Hotze of The Index, English organ of Confederate States, No. i. 1 May 1862, at the end of the war the paper ceased; London correspondent to Paris Correspondence Havas 1864–8; on Standard paper Sep. 1865 to 1868; on Law Journal 1867; contributed to Morning Post and Vanity Fair under pseudonym of Esse quam videri; chief leader writer on London Figaro, July 1870; author of The Yogi’s daughter, a tragedy 1854; Elviré, a reminiscence of Paris 1855; Not at all nervous, a farce 1860; Making the worst of it, a novel 2 vols. 1874; Jack Oakum, a play 1877; The true history of Nihilism, a novel 1880. d. 14 Russell road, Holloway 20 Dec. 1888. Cartoon portraits (1873) 140–43, portrait.
HOPKINS, Right Rev. John Henry. b. Dublin 30 Jany. 1792; emigrated to U.S. of A. 1801, an iron manufacturer in Pennsylvania 1810–17 when he failed; admitted to Pittsburgh bar 1817, practised to 1823; R. of Trinity ch. Pittsburgh 1824–31; assistant minister Trinity ch. Boston 1831; professor of divinity in theol. seminary of Massachusetts 1831; first bishop of Vermont 31 Oct. 1832; R. of St. Paul’s, Burlington 1832–56; seventh presiding bishop of ch. in U.S. 1865, attended Lambeth conference 1867; D.C.L. Ox. 3 Dec. 1867; author of Christianity vindicated 1833; Essay on Gothic architecture 1836; Twelve canzonets, words and music 1839; The history of the confessional 1850, and 30 other books. d. Rock Point, Vermont 9 Jany. 1868. A sketch book of American episcopate. By K. G. Batterson (1878) 104–106; Appleton’s American Biog. iii, 254–6 (1887).
HOPKINS, John Larkin. b. Westminster 25 Nov. 1819; chorister boy in the abbey; organist of Rochester cathedral 1841–56; Mus. Bac. Cam. 1842, Mus. Doc. 1857; organist of Trin. coll. Cam. 1856 to death; composed Five glees and a madrigal 1842, and Cathedral Services in C flat and E flat 1857; author of A new vocal tutor 1855. d. Ventnor, Isle of Wight 25 April 1873.
HOPKINS, Sir John Paul (eld. son of Capt. John Hopkins, killed on board the “Bellerophon” in the battle of the Nile). Ensign 43 foot 1804; served in the Peninsula and in campaign of 1815; major 98 foot 25 June 1829, retired 18 Oct. 1831; K.H. 1836; governor of military knights of Windsor 1865 to death; knighted at Windsor castle 11 Dec. 1867. d. Windsor 9 March 1875.
HOPKINS, William (only son of William Hopkins of Kingston, Derbyshire, farmer). b. Kingston 2 Feb. 1793; farmed, without success near Bury St. Edmunds; entered at Peterhouse, Cam. 1822, 7 wrangler 1827, B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; a private tutor at Cam. from 1827 and known as the senior wrangler maker; esquire bedel of Univ. of Cam. 1827 to death; F.G.S. 18—, Wollaston medallist 1850, president 1851–3; pres. of British Assoc. at Hull 1853; F.R.S. 1 June 1837; author of Elements of trigonometry 1833; An abstract of a memoir on physical geology 1836. d. Parker’s Piece, Cambridge 13 Oct. 1866, portrait in hall of Peterhouse. Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxiii, pp. xxix-xxxii (1867); I.L.N. xxiii, 225 (1853), portrait.
HOPKINS, Rev. William Bonner. Ed. at Gonville and Caius coll. Cam., second wrangler, second Smith’s prizeman and B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847, B.D. 1854; fellow and tutor of St. Cath. hall 1848–54; V. of St. Peter, Wisbech 1854–66; V. of Littleport near Ely 1866 to death; hon. canon of Ely 1865 to death, rural dean 1868; Dean Stanley said he was “the incarnation of sound common sense”; author of Apostolic missions. Five sermons preached before the university 1853; The words spoken by Christ upon the Cross. Seven sermons 1866; The position and duty of non-abstainers 1874, 2 ed. 1875. d. Littleport vicarage 24 March 1890.
HOPKINSON, Sir Charles (son of B. Hopkinson of Highbury park, Middlesex). b. Grantham 1784; ed. at Woolwich; lieut. R.A. 1799; served in Mahratta war 1803; commanded the artillery against the Poligars and at Hyderabad; lieut.-col. 1824; commanded Madras artillery; served in war in Ava 1825; retired through deafness 1829; C.B. 1826; knighted by Wm. iv. at St. James’s palace 26 April 1837; author of Hints to cadets and others proceeding to India 1850. d. 2a King st. St. James’s sq. London 17 Dec. 1864.
HOPKINSON, William (son of Rev. Samuel Edmund Hopkinson, R. of Morton-cum-Haconby). b. 1784; coroner for the Soke of Peterborough; solicitor at Bourn and Stamford; purchased Little Gidding manor, Hunts. 700 acres 1853 and restored the church to the Caroline style in which it had been left by Nicholas Ferrar in 1637. d. Stamford 1 Sep. 1865. Rivington’s Ecclesiastical Year-book (1866) 334.
HOPLEY, Edward William John. b. 1816; painter of domestic subjects and portraits; exhibited 15 pictures at R.A., 26 at B.I. and 7 at Suffolk st. 1844–69; his picture, The birth of a pyramid, shown 1859; invented a trigonometrical system of facial measurement for the use of artists. d. 14 South Bank, Regent’s Park, London 30 April 1869.
HOPPER, Ven. Augustus Macdonald (son of Walter Carles Hopper of Walworth, co. Durham). b. 11 Aug. 1816; ed. at Shrewsbury and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842, fellow of St. John’s 1841–5; R. of Starston, Norfolk 1845 to death; hon. canon of Norwich 1854–72; archdeacon of Norwich 1868 to death; author of Two Charges 1869 and 1870. d. Starston rectory 7 Jany. 1878.
HOPPER, Clarence (son of Thomas Hopper of Reading, surgeon d. 1856). b. Granthan, Wilts 17 May 1817; ed. at Reading gram. sch.; palæographer of British Archæol. Assoc. 1862; an expert in deciphering ancient writings; employed in Record office; edited London Chronicle of Hen. VII. and Hen. VIII. 1859, and Sir F. Drake’s service against the Spaniards 1863, in vols. 4 and 5 of Camden Miscellany; author of A descriptive account of churchwardens’ presentments Stratford-on-Avon 1867; A catalogue of books illustrative of Shakespeare 1868. d. Brighton 10 June 1868. Journal of B.A. Assoc. xxv, 316 (1869).
HOPPER, Thomas (son of Mr. Hopper of Rochester, surveyor). b. Rochester 6 July 1776; architect and surveyor 40 Connaught ter. London; made alterations at Carlton House, London 1807; surveyor of Essex 40 years; built Arthur’s club, St. James’s st., Atlas fire office, Cheapside and St. Mary’s hospital, Paddington 1843; competed for erection of General Post Office 1820, for rebuilding of Royal Exchange 1839, and for Houses of parliament 1840; published A letter to viscount Duncannon on competitors for building houses of parliament 1837; Designs for the houses of parliament 1842. d. 1 Bayswater Hill, London 11 Aug. 1856.
HOPPUS, Rev. John (only son of Rev. John Hoppus, independent minister, Yardley, Hastings). b. London 1789; ed. at Rotherham and Univs. of Edin. and Glasgow, M.A. Glasgow 1823, LLD. 1839; minister of independent chapel, Carter lane, London 1823–5; professor of the philosophy of mind and logic in London Univ. 1829–66; F.R.S. 20 May 1841; author of An account of Lord Bacon’s Novum Organum Scientiarum 1827; Sketches on the Continent in 1835 2 vols. 1836; The crisis of popular education 1847 and 12 other books. d. 26 Camden st. Camden town, London 29 Jany. 1875. Congregational Year-book (1876) 341–3.
HORAN, Edward John. b. Quebec, Canada 1817; ed. in the Seminary of Quebec, priest 1842, a director of the Seminary; principal of the normal sch. Quebec; bishop of Kingston 1858, resigned; assistant of the pontifical throne; present at Vatican council 1870. d. Canada 16 Feb. 1875. Appleton’s American Biog. iii, 262 (1887).
HORAN, Mary Austin. b. Ireland 1820; entered the Convent of Mercy, Dublin; assisted in founding the Institution of Mercy, New York 1846; first mistress of novices in St. Catherine’s convent, New York and trainer of the early members; built St. Joseph’s Industrial institute for children. d. New York city 14 June 1874. Appleton’s American Biog. iii, 262 (1887).
HORDERN, Rev. Joseph (son of Rev. Joseph Hordern of Prestwich, Lancs.) b. 1794; ed. at Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1816, M.A. 1820; V. of Rostherne, Cheshire 1821–54; R. of Burton Agnes with Harpham, Yorks. 1854 to death; author of Plain directions for reading to the sick 1826, 4 ed. 1830; Sermons 1830; The armour of light, sermons 1851. d. Knutsford, Cheshire 12 Aug. 1876. F. Ross’ Celebrities of the Wolds (1878) 76.
HORMAN, George Helier (son of Philip Horman of St. Saviour’s, Jersey). b. 1817; practised as a solicitor in Jersey, one of the six advocates of the royal court there 1848; Her Majesty’s advocate general for Jersey 23 July 1866 to death; chairman of the Channel islands bank 1858–74. d. The Terrace, St. Heliers, Jersey 29 May 1879.
HORN, Henry (son of Frederick Jacob Horn of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire). b. 23 Sep. 1806; ed. at M.T. school and St. John’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; fellow of Magdalen coll. 1831–4; barrister M.T. 11 Jany. 1833; recorder of Hereford 1847 to death; edited Woodfall’s Practical treatise on law of landlord and tenant, 7 ed. 1856; with E. T. Hurlstone published Reports in court of exchequer upon writs of error to exchequer chamber 2 vols. 1840; while attending the corpse of his father in law J. S. Gowland shot himself in the head at Cagebrook near Hereford 29 Nov. 1857. Hereford Journal 2 Dec. 1857 p. 5.
HORN, Marion (dau. of Mr. Horton, manufacturer of silver plate ware). b. Birmingham 1811; sang small parts in English operas and served as a substitute for Emma Romer; studied under Marco Bordogni in Paris; had a mezzo soprano voice; appeared as Cinderella at Old Park theatre, New York 16 Sep. 1836 and then as Rosina, Amina, and Susanna; sang in operas throughout United States; (m. 1839 Charles Edward Horn 1786–1849, the writer of Cherry Ripe 1825, and I know a bank 1830); taught in New York many of best known American singers. d. Morrisania co. Winchester, New York, Jany. 1887. Ireland’s New York Stage, ii, 176 (1867).
HORN, Robert (youngest son of William Horn, farmer). b. Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire 24 May 1810; ed. at Glasgow univ.; passed at Scotch bar 1834; hon. memb. Speculative Soc. Edin.; a commissioner of the board of manufacturers 1866; vice dean of Faculty of Advocates 1874 and dean 1876; helped in preparing Catalogue of Faculty of Advocate’s Library 1873. d. 7 Randolph crescent, Edinburgh 2 Jany. 1878. Journ. of Jurisprudence, xxii, 93–7 (1878).
HORNBLOWER, Jane Elizabeth (dau. of William Roscoe 1753–1831 historian). b. Liverpool 1797; (m. Francis Hornblower); author of Poems 1820; Poems 1821; Poems 1843. d. Liverpool 2 Aug. 1853.
HORNBY, Edmund (eld. son of Rev. Geoffry Hornby, R. of Winwick, Lancs. d. 1812). b. 16 June 1773; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1794, M.A. 1797; barrister I.T. 22 June 1798; chairman of Lancaster court of quarter sessions many years; M.P. for Preston 1812–26; sheriff of Westmoreland 1828. d. Dalton hall near Burton, Westmoreland 18 Nov. 1857.
HORNBY, Edmund George (son of the preceding). b. 6 Nov. 1799; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1820; M.P. for Warrington 1832–5; constable of Lancaster castle. d. Dalton hall 26 or 27 Feb. 1865.
HORNBY, Louisa (sister of Edmund Hornby 1773–1857). b. Winwick 5 April 1788; author of Bible Stories; Universal Reform; The Full Loom and other books. d. Winwick 6 Jany. 1873.
HORNBY, Sir Phipps (brother of the preceding). b. Winwick 27 April 1785; ed. at Sunbury; entered navy 19 May 1797, captain 16 Feb. 1810; as commander of the Volage took part in action off Lissa 1811, gold medal; superintendent of royal naval hospital and victualling yard at Plymouth 1832 to 6 Jany. 1838; superintendent of Woolwich dockyard 6 Jany. 1838 to 16 Dec. 1841; controller general of the coastguard 16 Dec. 1841 to Nov. 1846; commander in chief in the Pacific 1847–50; a lord of the admiralty 28 Feb. to 30 Dec. 1852; admiral 25 June 1858; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 6 April 1852, G.C.B. 28 June 1861. d. Little Green near Petersfield 19 March 1867.
HORNBY, Robert Vernon Atherton. b. Atherton 6 Nov. 1805; author of Statistical account of Winwick 1837; Vale: a poem 1854. d. Wansfell, Windermere 25 Aug. 1857.
HORNBY, William Henry (3 son of John Hornby of Blackburn). b. Blackburn 2 July 1805; founded the Brookhouse cotton mills, Blackburn 1828; first mayor of Blackburn 1851; M.P. Blackburn 1857–69 when he was unseated. d. Pool hall, Nantwich, Cheshire 5 Sep. 1884. Puseley’s Commercial Companion (1858) 114–5.
HORNCASTLE, James Henry. b. London 26 May 1801; appeared as first witch in Macbeth at Drury Lane 1820; first appeared at Chestnut street theatre, Philadelphia 28 Jany. 1839; at National theatre, New York with Louisa Pyne’s troupe 1854 and at Broadway theatre 1855; attached to Princess’ theatre, London; musician, actor, author and composer; an annuitant on General theatrical fund. d. West Malvern 6 May 1869. Ireland’s New York stage, ii, 231, 629 (1867).
HORNE, James. b. 1790; experimented on steam locomotives on roads; F.R.S. 6 Feb. 1834; A.I.C.E. 20 Feb. 1835, auditor 1840; applied warming and ventilating apparatus to halls of the City companies. d. London 26 Oct. 1856. Min. of Proc. Instit. of C.E. xvii, 102 (1858).
HORNE, Lenox (younger brother of the succeeding). Baritone singer at Surrey theatre under name of Mr. Lennox 1849–51; lecturer at the Polytechnic Institution London; wrote Two heads are better than one, A farce, produced at Lyceum theatre Dec. 1854; The baronet abroad; The tale of a comet. d. Clapham road, Kennington 20 Nov. 1874.
HORNE, Richard Henry or Hengist. b. London 31 Dec. 1802; ed. at Sandhurst; midshipman in Mexican navy, served in war against Spain 1829; edited the Monthly Repository July 1836 to June 1837; sub.-comr. to report on employment of children in mines 1843; went with Wm. Howitt to Australia 1852; commander of the gold escort between Ballarat and Melbourne 1852; comr. of crown lands for the gold fields 1853–4; territorial magistrate 1855 &c.; took name of Hengist instead of Henry 1864; returned to England 1869; granted civil list pension of £50, 19 June 1874, and another of £50, 28 April 1880; author of Cosmo de Medici 1837, a tragedy; The death of Marlowe 1837, a tragedy; The history of Napoleon 2 vols. 1841, new ed. 1879; Orion, an epic poem 1843, 10 ed. 1874, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd eds. were issued at a farthing; A new spirit of the age 2 vols. 1844; The poor artist 1850, 2 ed. 1871; Sithron the Star-stricken 1883, and 15 other books. d. Margate 13 March 1884. R. H. Horne’s Australian facts and prospects (1859) 1–44; H. B. Forman’s Our living poets (1871) 427–46; Athenæum 22 March 1884 pp. 374–5; I.L.N. lxxxiv, 301 (1884), portrait.
HORNE, Rev. Thomas Hartwell (son of William Horne of London, barrister’s clerk). b. Chancery lane, London 20 Oct. 1780; ed. at Christ’s hospital 1789–95; barrister’s clerk 1796–1806; sec. to Joseph Butterworth, M.P. 1806–9; sub-librarian to Surrey institution 1809–23; C. of Ch. Ch. Newgate st. London 1819–25; senior assist. librarian British museum 1824–60; assist. minister at Welbeck chapel, London 1825–33; F.S.A. 1828; F.R.S.L.; B.D. Cambridge 1829, D.D. Univ. of Pennsylvania; preb. of St. Paul’s 1831 to death; R. of St. Edmund the King with St. Nicholas Acons, Lombard st. 25 Nov. 1833 to death; author of An introduction to the critical study and knowledge of the Holy Scriptures 3 vols. 1818, 11 ed. 1860; Outlines for the classification of a library submitted to the trustees of the British museum 1825; A compendious introduction to the study of the Bible 1827, 10 ed. 1862; Manual of parochial psalmody 1829, 41 ed. 1861 and about 50 other books. d. 47 Bloomsbury sq. London 27 Jany. 1862. G. M. Turpin’s The Rev. T. H. Horne (1862), portrait; Reminiscences of T. H. Horne, by his daughter S. A. Cheyne (1862); Cowtan’s Memories of British Museum (1872) 105–9.
HORNE, Sir William (2 son of Rev. Thomas Horne, schoolmaster at Chiswick). b. 1774; barrister L.I. 23 June 1798, bencher 6 Nov. 1818; comr. of bankrupts 1806–18; K.C. Nov. 1818; attorney general to queen Adelaide 24 July 1830; solicitor general 26 Nov. 1830 to 23 Nov. 1832, attorney general 26 Nov. 1832 to Feb. 1834; appointed a baron of the Exchequer but declined the office 1834; master in chancery 23 July 1839, resigned 1853; M.P. for Helston 1812–18, for Bletchingley 1831, for Newton, Isle of Wight 1831–2, for Marylebone 12 Dec. 1832 to 29 Dec. 1834; knighted by Wm. IV. at St. James’s palace 24 Nov. 1830. d. 49 Upper Harley st. London 13 July 1860. Mrs. Hardcastle’s Life of Lord Campbell (1881) ii, 18–41; Lord Brougham’s Life and times, iii, 341–54, 426–9.
HORNEGOLD or HORNIGOLD, William 1797–1867, artist. See Hornygold, W. ante col. 1523.
HORNER, Leonard (youngest son of John Horner of Edinburgh, linen merchant). b. Edinburgh 17 Jany. 1785; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edin.; partner in a branch of his father’s business in London 1804–17; F.G.S. 1808, sec. 1810, pres. 1846 and 1860; F.R.S. 1813, vice pres. 1857; warden of London Univ. 1827–31; inspector under the Factories act 1833–60; published Works of Francis Horner 1843; Memoirs of Francis Horner 1848, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1853; a translation of Villari’s History of Savonarola 1863. d. 60 Montague sq. London 5 March 1864. Quarterly Journal of Geol. soc. xxi, 30–40 (1865); Proc. of Royal soc. xiv, 5–10 (1865); Macmillan’s Mag. x, 319–26 (1864).
HORRABIN, Rev. Richard. b. Garstang near Preston; ed. at Old Hall Green coll.; chaplain Virginia st. chapel, Ratcliffe highway, London 1815–39, and 1841–54; chaplain St. Mary, Moor fields 1839–41; gave evidence before house of commons on education of lower orders 1816; published The New Testament, ed. by Marlow J. F. Sidney and revised by the Rev. R. Horrabin 1818. d. Houndsditch, London 13 Dec. 1859. Gillow’s English Catholics iii, 403–4 (1887).
HORSBURGH, John. b. Prestonpans near Edinburgh 1791; apprenticed to Robert Scott the engraver 1805; engraved several plates after J. M. W. Turner for Scott’s Poetical and Prose Works and other publications; engraved several single plates including Prince Charlie reading a despatch and 2 portraits of Sir Walter Scott; undertook gratuitously duties of pastor in Scottish Baptist church. d. 16 Buccleuch place, Edinburgh 24 Sep. 1869. Pastoral addresses of J. Horsburgh with memoir 1869.
HORSEY, George (4 son of Charles Horsey of St. John st., London). b. 29 Sep. 1819; barrister G.I. 22 May 1850; equity draughtsman and conveyancer; author of A practical analysis of the Trustees Act 1850; The probate and administration act 1858; The court of Probate acts 3 ed. 1859; Law of property and trustees relief act 1860. d. Colne villa, New Southgate, Middlesex 16 Sep. 1889.
HORSFALL, Thomas Berry. b. Liverpool 1805; a merchant in Liverpool, mayor of Liverpool 1847–48; M.P. Derby 8 July 1852, unseated 9 March 1853; M.P. Liverpool 9 July 1853 to Nov. 1868; president Liverpool chamber of commerce on its foundation 1849. d. Torquay 22 Dec. 1878.
HORSFIELD, Thomas. b. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 12 May 1773; ed. Univ. of Pennsylvania, M.D. 1798; studied natural history in Java 1799–1819; in service of Dutch government in Java and Sumatra to 1811 and of H.E.I.Co. 1811–20; keeper of museum, India House, London 1820 to death; F.L.S. 1820; F.R.S. 1828; author of Zoological Researches in Java 1824; Descriptive catalogue of Lepidoptera in the H.E.I.C. museum, 2 parts 1828–9 and other books. d. Chalcott villas, Camden town, London 24 July 1859. Proc. of Royal Society x, 19–21 (1860); Proc. Linnean Soc. (1859–60) 25–6.
HORSFORD, Sir Alfred Hastings (son of general George Horsford, d. 1840). b. Bath 3 April 1818; 2 lieut. rifle brigade 12 July 1833, lieut.-col. 9 March 1855 to 1 Jany. 1868, col. commandant 2 battalion 21 Nov. 1880 to death; served in Kaffir wars 1847–8 and 1852–3, Crimean war 1854–5 and Indian mutiny 1857–8; D.A.G. at horse guards 1860–6; brigadier general at Aldershot 1866–9; military sec. at Horse Guards 1874–80; col. 79 foot 17 March 1876, col. 14 foot 1 Jany. 1879 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 3 April 1883; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 8 May 1860, G.C.B. 29 May 1875. d. Munlochy near Inverness 13 Sep. 1885. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 19 Sep.
HORSFORD, Sir Robert Marsh (eld. son of Paul Horsford, chief justice of Antigua, d. 1850). b. Boswell court, Lincoln’s inn, London 1798; ed. at Winchester; matric. from Ex. coll. Ox. 7 Dec. 1816; barrister M.T. 17 May 1822; settled in island of Antigua, solicitor general there 1825–46, attorney general 1846 to Nov. 1847, chief justice 19 Nov. 1847, retired Aug. 1856; knighted at Buckingham palace 25 Jany. 1841; C.B. 15 Nov. 1852. d. 11 Delamere terrace, Westbourne park, London 23 May 1875.
HORSLEY, Charles Edward (son of the succeeding). b. 24 Queen’s buildings, Knightsbridge, London 16 Dec. 1822; pupil of Moscheles, Hauptmann, Spohr and Mendelssohn; teacher of music in London 1846; organist of St. John’s, Notting hill 19 Sep. 1853 to June 1857; went to Melbourne 1868, then to New York 1872, choir master St. John’s chapel 1872 to death; composed for Liverpool Philharmonic Soc. two oratorios David 1849 and Joseph 1852; wrote the cantata Comus 1854; produced oratorio Gideon at Glasgow musical festival 1860; wrote an ode Euterpe for opening of Melbourne town hall 1870, and about 35 other pieces; author of A text book of harmony 1876. d. New York city 28 Feb. 1876.
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.
HUDDLESTON, Sir John Walter (1 son of Thomas Huddleston, captain in merchant service). b. Dublin 8 Sep. 1815; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin; barrister G.I. 7 May 1839; was with Cockburn in Rugeley poisoning case 1856; Q.C. June 1857; bencher of his inn 4 Nov. 1857; contested Worcester 1852, Shrewsbury 1857 and Kidderminster 1859 and 1861; M.P. Canterbury 1865–8; contested Norwich 1870, M.P. 1874–5; counsel to the admiralty and judge advocate of the Fleet Nov. 1865 to 22 Feb. 1875; serjeant at law and justice of court of common pleas 22 Feb. 1875, transferred to court of exchequer 12 May 1875; knighted at Windsor castle 13 May 1875; created the last baron of the exchequer; judge of queen’s bench division of high court of justice 26 Feb. 1881; tried the libel action Belt v. Lawes lasting 43 days 1881–2; entertained by the French bar in Paris 1868. d. 43 Ennismore gardens, South Kensington 5 Dec. 1890, cremated at Woking 12 Dec. Pump Court, i, frontispiece and p. 135 (1884), portrait; Vanity Fair xxxv, 325 (1886); I.L.N. lxvi, 229 (1875), portrait; Graphic 13 Dec. 1890 p. 667, portrait.
HUDSON, Alfred. b. 15 Nov. 1808; ed. Dublin univ., M.B. 1834, M.D. 1861; M.R.C.S. England 1834; F.K.Q.C.P. Ireland 1857, censor 1858–9; M.R.I.A.; physician Adelaide hospital, Dublin; a physician in ordinary to queen in Ireland 21 Jany. 1878; member of general council of medical education and registration of U.K. for Ireland 14 May 1877 to death; a contributor to Dublin medical journal and Dublin quarterly journal; author of Lectures on the study of fever 1867, new ed. 1872; edited W. Stokes’ A treatise on diseases of the chest 1882. d. Loweville near Dublin 19 Nov. 1880. Times 23 Nov. 1880 p. 6; Medical Times ii, 660 (1880).
HUDSON, Rev. Charles. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1851, M.A. 1854; chaplain in the Crimea 1854–6; C. of St. Mary’s, Bridgnorth 1856–7; V. of Shillington, Lincs. 1859 to death; the best Alpine amateur climber of his time, organized the party of 7 who ascended Mont Blanc without guides 14–15 Aug. 1855; author of An Ascent of Mont Blanc and two ascents of Monte Rosa 1856; Narrative of the accident on the Col de Miage in July 1861 in Peaks and Passes, i, 208–24 (1862); killed by a fall while descending the Matterhorn 14 July 1865. bur. Zermatt. E. Whymper’s Ascent of the Matterhorn (1880) 273–95; Times 20, 21, 22 July and 12 Aug. 1865.
HUDSON, Corrie. b. 1822; clerk in legacy and succession duty department of inland revenue office 1845–72, a principal clerk 1872 to death; author of A practical guide to the payment of legacy and succession duties 1867, 7 ed. 1888. A practical guide to making and proving wills and obtaining letters of administration 1876, 2 ed. 1878. d. 67 Bessborough st. Pimlico, London 6 Nov. 1880.
HUDSON, Very Rev. Edward Gustavus. Educated Dublin univ., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813; dean of Armagh 1841 to death, patent dated 1 Sep. 1841, instituted 5 March 1842. d. Glenville, co. Cork 14 Aug. 1851.
HUDSON, George (son of a farmer and constable, d. 1806). b. Howsham near York, March 1800; apprentice to Bell and Nicholson, drapers, York 1815, a partner, firm became Nicholson and Hudson; originator and manager York banking co. 1833; chairman of York and West riding railway 1837, Newcastle and Darlington 1842, Midland 1843, Eastern counties 1846 and many other lines; known as the railway king; resided at Albert gate, Knightsbridge, London 1846–52 which he bought with sum of £15000 presented to him 1846; lord mayor of York 1837 and 1846; M.P. Sunderland 1845–59; many of his transactions in railway shares were of a questionable nature; the great fall in railway shares in 1847 ruined him; resided much abroad from 1852; committed to York castle by sheriff of Yorkshire for contempt of court of exchequer in not paying £23,989 5s., released 7 Oct. 1865; friends raised £4800 and invested it in an annuity for him 1868; entertained at a banquet in Sunderland 1869. d. 37 Churton st. Belgrave road, London 14 Dec. 1871. bur. Scrayingham, Yorks. 21 Dec. Evans’ Facts, failures and frauds (1859) 6–73; Lennox’s Celebrities I have known 2 Ser. i, 184–92 (1877); Fraser’s Mag. Aug. 1847 pp. 215–22; Richardson’s The mysteries of Hudson’s railway frauds (1850); Williams’ Midland railway (1877) 99–124, 132; I.L.N. 6 Sep. 1845 p. 157, portrait; Graphic 27 Aug. 1881 pp. 223, 229, portrait; Times 16, 22 Dec. 1871.
HUDSON, James. Assistant sec. to royal society 1829–38; secretary Royal agricultural society from its foundation 27 June 1838 to death. d. Norton terrace, Longsight near Manchester 28 June 1859 aged 55.
HUDSON, James. b. Aungier st. Dublin, March 1811; student R. Dublin soc. 1821; articled to a portrait painter Dublin; an actor in the provinces; appeared at Hawkins st. theatre, Dublin 1834; came out at Drury Lane as Gratiano in Merchant of Venice 1841; played King Alfourite in Planché’s Fortunio 17 April 1843; acted Rory O’More in The Irish Post at the Haymarket, expressly written for him by Planché 28 Feb. 1846; considered the successor of Tyrone Power (drowned in President 1841); made his American debut Walnut st. theatre, Philadelphia as Pandeen O’Rafferty in Born to good luck 15 Oct. 1849; played in New York 1850; appeared in a drawing room entertainment with Anna Thillon; retired from the stage 1858. d. 6 March 1878. bur. Highgate cemet. 9 March. Tallis’ Drawing room Scrap book (1851) 21–2; Theatrical Times ii, 233 (1847), portrait; Planché’s Extravaganzas ii, 179, (1879), portrait; Ireland’s New York Stage ii, 549–50; Era Almanack (1879) 39; Era 10 March 1878 p. 11.
HUDSON, Sir James (son of Harrington Hudson of Bessingby hall, Bridlington, Yorkshire). b. 1810; ed. at Rugby, Westminster, Paris and Rome; assistant private sec. to Wm. IV. 1830–37; resident gentleman usher to queen Adelaide 21 Nov. 1831; known as “Hurry Hudson” from the speed with which he travelled to Italy to summon Peel home 1834; sec. of legation at Washington 1838, at the Hague 1843, at Rio de Janeiro 1845; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to Emperor of Brazil 14 May 1850, to Grand Duke of Tuscany 29 Aug. 1851, but did not proceed there; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to King of Sardinia 19 Jany. 1852 to 20 Oct. 1863 when he retired on a pension of £1300; C.B. 1 March 1851, K.C.B. 2 May 1855, G.C.B. 11 Aug. 1863. d. Strasburg 20 Sep. 1885 in 76 year. F. Ross’s Celebrities of Yorkshire Wolds (1878); Elliot’s Sir J. Hudson and Earl Russell 1886; Times 24 Sep. 1885 p. 7, cols. 3–5.
HUDSON, John Corrie (son of Thomas Hudson of the Stamp office). b. 1796; ed. St. Paul’s sch. 1804 etc.; an advanced liberal; chief clerk in legacy duty office, Somerset house?; friend of Horne Tooke, Godwin, Shelley, Hazlitt, Charles Lamb, T. Hood, and Hamilton Reynolds; author of A letter on the cruelty of employing children in sweeping chimneys in The Pamphleteer xxii, 407–30 (1823). d. April 1879. Athenæum i, 506 (1879).
HUDSON, ROBERT. b. 1801; F.G.S., F.L.S., F.Z.S., vice president; F.R.S. 10 April 1834; writer on Fossil shells, Mag. Nat. Hist. ix, 103–5 (1836); resided Clapham common. d. Bournemouth 9 Feb. 1883.
HUDSON, William Eliot (son of a professional man). An enthusiast about Irish antiquities and well known in Irish literary circles; took an active part in the publication of The Citizen, a monthly journal, Dublin 1840–1. d. south of Ireland July or Aug. 1853.
HUDSPETH, John. b. Manchester 21 Nov. 1806; apprentice in a mercantile house; an actor at Manchester and in Scotland and Ireland; first appeared in London at Pavilion theatre 1839; played at Strand theatre when William Copeland rechristened it Punch’s playhouse 1851; at Queen’s theatre, Tottenham court road 3 years; a favourite in David Dump in The Irish Rebellion. d. 2 Oct. 1866. Theatrical Times, iii, 357, 366 (1818), portrait; Era 7 Oct. 1866 p. 11.
HUE, Clement (son of John Hue, merchant, St. Heliers, Jersey). b. St. Heliers 1779; ed. at Abingdon and Pemb. coll. Ox.; B.A. 1801, M.A. 1803, M.B. 1804, M.D. 1807; fellow of his coll.; candidate of college of physicians 30 Sep. 1807, fellow 30 Sep. 1808, censor 1812, registrar 1815 to 4 Feb. 1824, Harveian orator 1829, elect 13 April 1835, consiliarius 1836; physician to Foundling hospital 1815–37, governor and vice pres. many years; physician to St. Bartholomew’s hospital 23 May 1823 to 1861; registrar of national vaccine establishment 1824 to death. d. 9 Bedford sq. London 23 June 1861. Munk’s College of physicians, iii, 66 (1878).
HÜFFER, Francis or Franz (son of a banker). b. Münster 22 May 1845; ed. at Münster, Leipzig and Berlin; Ph.D. Göttingen, July 1869; came to London 1869; assistant editor of The Academy about 1871; editor of the New Quarterly Mag. about 1876; musical critic to The Times, April 1879 to death; naturalised 18 Jany. 1882; edited The Musical Review 1883, The Musical World 1886; author of Richard Wagner and the music of the future 1874; The Troubadours: a history of Provençal life and literature in the middle ages 1878; Half a century of music in England 1889 and other books; edited a series of biographies of The Great Musicians 1881–4; wrote the libretti for A. C. Mackenzie’s two operas produced at Drury Lane, Colomba 1883 and The Troubadour 1885. d. 90 Brook green, Hammersmith 19 Jany. 1889. Grove’s Dict. of music, iv, 680, 819 (1888); Times 21, 25 Jany. 1889.
HUELIN, Rev. Elias. b. 1786; French protestant clergyman; owner of house property in London; assistant chaplain at Brompton cemetery; resided 15 Paulton sq. Chelsea; murdered and robbed by Walter Miller at 25 Wellington square, Chelsea 9 May 1870 and buried there. Walter Miller who had also murdered the housekeeper Ann Boss at 15 Paulton sq. was executed at the Old Bailey 1 Aug. 1870. Annual Register (1870) pp. 47, 95.
HUGGENS, John. b. 29 April 1776; founded Huggens’s college, 40 almshouses and a chapel at Northfleet, Kent which he himself superintended. d. Crown quay, Sittingbourne, Kent 11 Aug. 1865. bur. Northfleet churchyard.
HUGGINS, Hastings Charles. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1858; practised in Island of Nevis, Q.C. Nevis, solicitor general Nevis, speaker of House of Assembly; attorney general British Honduras 1861; stipendiary mag. British Guiana to death; author of The laws of Nevis from 1681 to 1861 inclusive, with appendices and index 1862. d. Georgetown, Demerara 27 March 1883.
HUGGINS, Horatio James (eld. son of Horatio Nelson Huggins of the island of St. Vincent). b. 1811; barrister L.I. 1838; acting attorney general St. Vincent 1857 and 1858; Queen’s advocate at Sierra Leone 9 May 1863 to 1880, chief justice there 1876 to 1880; manufacturer of bottle washing machines at Pentonville and Hornsey 1881, bankrupt 18 Feb. 1882. d. Staplehay, Hornsey 20 Jany. 1886. bur. Bedford cemetery.
HUGGINS, Samuel. b. Deal, Kent 1811; lived at Liverpool most of his life; an architect from 1846; member of Liverpool Architectural Soc. 1849, president 1856–8, read a paper On so-called restorations of our cathedral and abbey churches 1871 which led to formation of Soc. for protection of ancient buildings 1877; published Chart of the history of architecture 1863; compiled Catalogue of the Liverpool free public library 1872. d. Christleton near Chester 10 Jany. 1885. Biograph, i, 406 (1879).
HUGGINS, William (brother of the preceding). b. Liverpool 1820; member of Liverpool Academy; painter at Chester 1861 to death; his horses, cattle and poultry pictures were his best work; exhibited 31 pictures at R.A., 8 at B.I. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1842–75; exhibited many pictures at Liverpool, Manchester, Dublin, Edinburgh and Glasgow. d. Christleton near Chester 25 Feb. 1884. Biograph, Feb. 1882 pp. 217–23; Liverpool Mercury 28 Feb. 1884 p. 6.
Note.—His sister Sarah Huggins, a painter of flowers and fruit and then of architectural views in Chester and Liverpool, d. Liverpool, May 1869. The Builder 8 May 1869 p. 369.
HUGHES, Christopher (youngest son of Henry Hughes of Northampton, solicitor). b. Northampton 1815; articled to Hughes and Britten of Northampton, solicitors; admitted Trinity term 1837; clerk of the peace for borough of Northampton 1858 to death; translated The odes, epodes, Carmen seculare, and the first satire of Horace 1867. d. 60 Waterloo, Northampton 20 Oct. 1877. Law Times, lxiv, 53 (1877).
HUGHES, Rev. David. b. Cefn-uchaf, Llanddeiniolen, Carnarvonshire 1813; B.A., M.A.; member of Bethel independent church, Arfon, began preaching 1832; studied at Hackney coll. and Glasgow univ.; ordained 14 Sep. 1841, pastor of two small congregations in Flintshire; pastor at St. Asaph 1845, at Manchester 1846, at Bangor 1846 and at Tredegar, Monmouthshire 1 Nov. 1855 to death; author of Geiriadur Ysgrythyrol o Duwinyddol, i.e. A scriptural and theological dictionary 2 vols. 1852–55, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1876–9; contributed to the Gwyddoniadur or Welsh Cyclopædia; edited and enlarged An English and Welsh dictionary. By T. Edwards of Caerfallwch 1864. d. Tredegar 3 June 1872.
HUGHES, Edward. b. Ireland 1819; second master of lower school, Greenwich hospital 4 Nov. 1841 and head master of royal naval school there 1844 to death; A.I.C.E. 1848; F.R.A.S.; F.R.G.S.; author of A manual of explanatory arithmetic 1849, 2 ed. 1855; Outlines of physical geography 1849, 5 ed. 1855; Geography for elementary schools 1851, new ed. 1873; Select English poetry 1851, 5 ed. 1856 and other school books. d. Greenwich hospital 30 July 1859.
Note.—His widow Sarah, youngest dau. of James Oliphant Bell, M.D., granted civil list pension of £100, 18 June 1863, she d. 9 Jany. 1884 aged 68.
HUGHES, Edwin (son of a steel toy manufacturer). b. Birmingham 2 Oct. 1813; member of Batty & Sons’ circus; the best polander performer in England, the first to introduce turning round on his head without holding; had a company of his own at Donnybrook fair two years; at Cheltenham established Hughes’ Great mammoth equestrian circus; appeared before the Queen at Drury Lane under A. Bunn’s management 22 April 1847; retired after nine seasons with a handsome fortune 1847; the first to drive thirty-two horses in hand; the first to introduce camels and elephants in harness. d. Welby house, Lower Norwood, Surrey 7 Dec. 1867. bur. Smithdown cemet. Liverpool 12 Dec. Era 22 Dec. 1867 p. 6; Frost’s Circus life (1876) 97, 216.
HUGHES, Edwin (eld. son of Edwin Hughes of The Farm, Smithdown road, Wavertree near Liverpool). b. Dublin 1 Feb. 1837; articled to Avison and Pritt of Liverpool, solicitors; admitted Jany. 1858; went to America, joined Federal army in which he became major; served under Garibaldi in Italy; a solicitor in Liverpool 1869 to death; captain 1 Lancashire artillery volunteers 21 Jany. 1874 to death; member of council of Financial reform association. d. 13 Elm vale, Fairfield, Liverpool 12 May 1879. bur. Smithdown cemetery, Liverpool. Law Times, lxvii, 105 (1879).
HUGHES, Fanny. b. 1843; educated for a singer; an actress in comedies and burlesques at Strand theatre when under Mrs. Swanborough’s management 1862–72; played Orozembo in L. S. Buckingham’s burlesque Pizarro, or the Leotard of Peru 24 April 1862; played Anne Boleyn in Wm. Brough’s extravaganza The field of the cloth of gold, produced 11 April 1868; (m. Edward Swanborough of the Strand theatre). d. 5 Neville st. Onslow gardens, London 12 Jany. 1888.
HUGHES, George Edward (1 son of John Hughes of Uffington, Berks.) b. Uffington 18 Sep. 1821; ed. at Rugby and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1845, M.A. 1849, D.C.L. 1850; stroke of Ox. univ. crew of 7 oars which beat Camb. crew of 8 oars 1843; a student of Lincoln’s inn 1848; member of college of doctors of law 12 Nov. 1850, practised in the ecclesiastical courts; member of Pen and Pencil club at Pau; violoncello player. d. Hoylake, Cheshire 2 May 1872. Memoirs of a brother. By Thomas Hughes (1873), portrait.
HUGHES, George Martin. b. Maidstone 1827; a solicitor; investigated Romano-British topography of the south of England; author of A history of Windsor forest, Sunninghill and the Great park 1890. d. Kingswick, Sunninghill, Berkshire 9 Sep. 1891.
HUGHES, Henry George (eld. son of James Hughes of Dublin, solicitor). b. Capel st. Dublin 22 Aug. 1810; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; called to Irish bar, Nov. 1834; Q.C. 2 Nov. 1844; bencher of King’s Inns 1850; solicitor general for Ireland 26 Sep. 1850 to Feb. 1852 and Feb. 1858 to July 1859; baron of court of exchequer July 1859 to death; contested Cavan 1855; M.P. for co. Longford 1856–7; author of Practice of the Court of chancery, Ireland. Dublin 1837. d. Bray, Wicklow 22 July 1872. Irish law times, vi, 404 (1872).
HUGHES, Hugh (son of Thomas Hughes). b. Pwllygwichiad. bapt. Llandudno 20 Feb. 1790; apprentice to an engraver in Liverpool; studied oil painting in London; exhibited 4 landscapes at B.I. and 6 at Suffolk st. 1827–51; spent 3 years at Meddiant working at his Beauties of Cambria 60 views published Carmarthen 1823, drew 58 of the views and engraved all of them; a printer at Carnarvon where he published Y Papur Newydd Cymraeg; expelled from Welsh Calvinistic ch. London for signing petition in favor of catholic emancipation 1828; joined the Independents, then the Plymouth brethren; had a controversy with Rev. Evan Evans and published pamphlets under name of Cristion 1832; author of Hynafion Cymreig, a work on Welsh antiquities. Carmarthen 1823 and other books in Welsh language. d. Great Malvern 11 March 1863. Red Dragon, May 1887 xi 457–66, 576 (1887).
HUGHES, Rev. Hugh (son of Mr. Hughes, deacon of independent church at Cororion). b. Cilgeraint, Llandegai, Carnarvonshire 1805; pastor of independent churches at Rhos-y-lan, Tabor, and Llanystymdwy, at Jackson st. Manchester, at Capelhelyg, Chwilog and Abererch in Carnarvonshire; set up a printing-press at Abererch and edited Yr Arweinydd a penny monthly many years; pastor of the new church at Bethel, Aberdare 1859 to death; competed frequently and successfully at Eisteddfods; most voluminous Welsh writer of his day; author of Rhesymeg. Wrexham 1856; d. Aberdare 8 Dec. 1864. J. T. Jones’s Geiriadur Bywgraffydol, i, 567–70.
HUGHES, Rev. Hugh. Educ. at St. Peter’s coll. Cam., B.D. 1842, D.D. 1847; R. of St John, Clerkenwell, London 13 Dec. 1839 to death; author of Female characters of holy writ, in a course of sermons. 3 series 1845, 6, 7; The remarkable scenes of the bible 1860, new ed. 1879. d. 18 Chadwell st. Myddleton sq. London 1870.
HUGHES, Rev. James. b. Carlow, March 1810; R.C. priest June 1833; professor of natural philosophy St. Patrick’s coll. Carlow 1835–6; in charge of Carlow classical academy; C. of Maryborough; C. of Kilcock 1837; dean of coll. of St. Patrick’s 1841–55; administrator of Carlow parish 1855–8; priest in charge of Naas, Dec. 1858 to death; author of A practical exposition of the ceremonies to be observed at solemn mass. Dublin 1843; The ceremonies of low mass, 4 ed. 1858; The ceremonies of high mass; Pontifical ceremonies. d. Naas, May 1876. M. Comerford’s Collections of Kildare and Leighlin (1883) 229.
HUGHES, James Stannus. L.R.C.S. Ireland 1838, F.R.C.S. 1844, examiner in surgery, joint professor of surgery, sec. of council; M.D. Queen’s univ. 1864; surgeon Jervis st. hospital, Dublin; surgeon in ordinary to Dublin castle; edited Sir H. Marsh’s Clinical lectures 1869; author of On diseases of the prostate gland 1863, 2 ed. 1870, and of contributions to Dublin medical press and Dublin hospital gazette. d. 1 Merrion sq. west, Dublin 1 June 1884. Medical Times 7 June 1884 p. 771.
HUGHES, John (only child of Rev. Thomas Hughes, canon of St. Paul’s, d. 6 Jany. 1833 aged 77). b. 2 Jany. 1790; ed. at Westminster and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1812, M.A. 1815; author of the macaronic Oriel grace-cup song ‘Exultet mater Oriel’; author of Pompeii 1820, an ode; An Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone with etchings by the author 1822; Lays of past days 1850; edited The Boscobel Tracts 1830, 2 ed. 1857; published a song called The small coal man attacking Lord Durham, long attributed to Theodore Hook and R. H. Barham; wrote for the magazines under pseud. of Buller of Brasenose; celebrated in John Wilson’s Christopher in the tent in the Noctes Ambrosianæ. d. 7 Boltons, West Brompton, London 13 Dec. 1857. G.M. iv, 225 (1858); Miss Mitford’s Recollections (1859) 462–4.
HUGHES, Rev. John (son of Hugh Hughes of Adwy’r Clawdd near Wrexham, carpenter). b. Adwy’r Clawdd 11 Feb. 1796; a carpenter to 1815; began preaching in Calvinistic methodist church at Adwy’r 1813; kept a school at Wrexham to 1835; authorised as a regular preacher to visit all parts of Wales, Feb. 1821; ordained at Bala 17 June 1829; a flour merchant 1835–8; co-pastor of Welsh Calvinistic churches of Liverpool 1838 to death; author of History of Welsh Calvinistic Methodism 3 vols. Wrexham 1851–6 and other books in the Welsh language. d. Abergele 8 Aug. 1860. Sermons of Rev. John Hughes, with memoir and portrait (1862).
HUGHES, Ven. John (son of John Hughes of Llwyn Glas near Aberystwyth). b. 1787; C. at Llandrillo yn Rhôs near Conway 1811–17; P.C. of Aberystwyth 16 May 1827 to death; V. of Llanbadern-Fawr 14 June 1834 to death; preb. of Nantgunllo in Brecon coll. ch. to death; archdeacon of Cardigan 1859 to death; most popular preacher of Church of England in Wales; author of The domestic ruler’s monitor 1821; Ruth and her kindred 1839; Esther and her people. Sermons 1842 and other books. d. 1 Nov. 1860. J. Hughes’s Sermons with biography by his son. Liverpool (1864).
HUGHES, Most Rev. John (son of Patrick Hughes, farmer, d. 1837). b. Annalogham, co. Tyrone 24 June 1797; a gardener and day labourer in U.S. of America 1817–9; ed. at Mount St. Mary’s coll. Emmitsburg, Maryland 1819–26; ordained R.C. priest 1825; minister at St. Augustine’s 1825 and then at St. Joseph’s churches, Philadelphia, built ch. of St. John there which he served 1832; coadjutor to bishop John Dubois of New York Jany. 1838 and succeeded him as bishop 1842; founded St. John’s coll. at Fordham 1841; archbishop of New York 3 Oct. 1850 to death; one of the founders of the American coll. at Rome 1858; author of Controversy between Rev. Messrs. Hughes and Breckenridge on the subject “Is the protestant religion the religion of Christ?” Philadelphia 3 ed. 1833; The church and the world. A lecture 1850, and other theological works. d. New York city 3 Jany. 1864; remains removed from old cath. of St. Patrick to crypt beneath high altar in new cath. 30 Jany. 1883. Hassard’s Life of Most Rev. J. Hughes (1866), portrait; Clarke’s Lives of bishops of catholic church in U.S. ii, 73–125 (1872); Appleton’s American Biog. iii, 303–5 (1887), portrait; Complete works of J. Hughes. Ed. by L. Kehoe 2 vols. 1866.
HUGHES, John (youngest son of Thomas Hughes, civil engineer). b. Linlithgow near Edin. 1823; ed. at Marischal coll. Aberdeen; parliamentary reporter for Evening Sun, London 1842, for Times 1844, for Morning Chronicle, for Daily News, and for Times again to 1860; theatrical art critic for the Era; purchased the West Surrey Times, Godalming 1860 and removed it to Guildford where he edited it to his death. d. 18 High st. Guildford 2 Nov. 1868. The Newspaper Press 1 Dec. 1868 p. 18.
HUGHES, John (youngest son of William Hughes of Pen y Clawdd, Denbighshire). b. 1805; ed. at univ. of Edin.; barrister I.T. 3 May 1839; sec. to commission for settlement of claims of Portuguese government on British legion under Sir De L. Evans 1844–9; twice went to Sweden for Overend, Gurney & Co. and then to Copenhagen to claim money advanced before Danish-German war; a Welsh scholar and a writer on Cambrian archæology. d. 34 Abingdon villas, Kensington 11 July 1883. Law Times 28 July 1883 p. 249.
HUGHES, John, known as Ceiriog (youngest child of Richard Hughes). b. Penbryn, Llanarmon-Dyffryn Ceiriog, Denbighshire 25 Sep. 1832; clerk in an office in London road, Manchester 1849–65; stationmaster on the Cambrian railway at Llanidloes 1865, at Towyn 1870, at Trefeglwys 1871, at Caersws 1871 to death; won many prizes for poetry at Eisteddfods; the best lyric poet of Wales; author of Oriau’r Hwyr (Evening Hours) Ruthyn 1860, 2 ed. 1861 of which 25,000 copies were sold and of 7 other vols. of poetry 1862–88; wrote 50 songs for Brinley Richards’s Songs of Wales 1873, among them is ‘God bless the Prince of Wales.’ d. Caersws, Montgomeryshire 23 April 1887. Memoir of J. C. Hughes. By Llyfrbryf i.e. Isaac Foulkes. Liverpool.
HUGHES, John Charles. b. Hatton garden, London 23 Dec. 1789; appeared at Cheltenham 1806; manager Woolwich theatre; acted at Richmond; at Drury Lane 1818; good in old men and country clowns. Theatrical Inquisitor, Oct. 1818 pp. 251–3, portrait.
HUGHES, Right Rev. Joshua (son of Caleb Hughes of Newport, Pembrokeshire). b. Nevern, Pembrokeshire 7 Oct. 1807; ed. at Ystradmeirig gr. sch. and St. David’s coll. Lampeter; C. of Aberystwith 1830; C. of St. David’s, Carmarthen; V. of Abergwilly to 1846; V. of Llandingat 1846–70; D.D. Lambeth; bishop of St. Asaph 25 March 1870 to death, consecrated 8 May 1870; author of several charges, sermons and pamphlets, one of the latter on The University of Brecknock. By Veritas, was much discussed. d. Crieff, Perthshire 21 Jany. 1889. I.L.N. lvi, 449 (1870), portrait, and 2 Feb. 1889 pp. 135, 158, portrait.
HUGHES, Julio Henry (son of Henry Hughes, proprietor of Exeter theatre, and grandson of Mr. Hughes manager of Sadler’s Wells). b. in residence attached to Devonport theatre 1810; under scene painter at Vauxhall gardens; held a share in the Exeter, Devonport and Guernsey theatres; first appeared in London at Pavilion theatre under management of Mr. Gladstones; leading actor at the Surrey 1840–6; played at Princess’s 1847, at Sadler’s Wells. d. 11 Oct. 1872. Theatrical Times, ii, 129, 138, portrait.
HUGHES, Mary (dau. of Mr. Robson). m. 1817 Thomas Hughes of Dundee; went to U.S. of America 1817; kept a school for young ladies at Philadelphia 1818–39; with her husband commenced farming at Doylestown, Bucks county 1839; contributed to the Church Tract Soc. London 1824; author of The alchemist, a tale 1818; The orphan girl 1819; The rebellious school girl 1821; The life of W. Penn 1822, another ed. Philadelphia 1828; Pleasing and instructive stories 1830; Sickroom dialogues, 4 ed. 1836; The twin brothers 1839; Village dialogues 1839. See Hale’s Woman’s Record (1855) 845.
Note.—She also wrote Aunt Mary’s tales, Ornaments discovered, Metamorphosis, Emma Mortimer, The two schools, Julia Ormond, Buds and Blossoms, The ivy wreath.
HUGHES, Philip. Conducted musical choirs in Manchester and the neighbourhood; gave much time to musical services of R.C. ch.; composer of music to many hymns such as The hymn to St. Albans; The green boughs meet; O turn to Jesus’ Mother turn; Jesus, dulcis memoria, and others. d. West Gorton, Manchester 10 Feb. 1880. Gillow’s English catholics, iii, 469 (1887).
HUGHES, Robert Ball (brother of Julio Henry Hughes 1810–72). b. London 19 Jany. 1806; pupil of E. H. Bailey the sculptor 7 years; gained gold medal at R.A. 1823 for a bas-relief, ‘Pandora brought by Mercury to Epimetheus,’ exhibited 4 sculptures at R.A. 1822–8; went to U.S. of America 1829 where his chief works were statue of Alexander Hamilton for Merchants’ Exchange, New York, destroyed by fire 1835; bronze statue of Nathaniel Bowditch now at Mount Auburn; and monument to bishop Hobart in Trin. ch. New York; sent a statue of Oliver Twist to Great exhibition in London 1851; lectured on art and made sketches on wood with a hot iron. d. Boston 5 March 1868.
HUGHES, Samuel (5 son of Richard Hughes, barrister). b. 1801; barrister I.T. 28 Jany. 1831; author with T. Coventry of An analytical digested index to the common law reports 1827; furnished an index and notes to Sir B. Shower’s Reports of cases in court of king’s bench 1836. d. Skipper’s hill, Mayfield, Sussex 29 Nov. 1887.
HUGHES, Thomas (brother of Robert Ball Hughes 1806–68). b. 3 Dec. 1808; studied with E. H. Bailey, sculptor; first appeared at Queen’s theatre, London 1825; at the St. James’s theatre under Edward Hooper’s management when he appeared in a series of original parts 1839; broke his leg and was unable to resume his profession. d. London 7 Sep. 1857. The Era 13 Sep. 1857 p. 11.
HUGHES, Thomas. Connected with the turf 40 years; an early patron of Fred Archer the jockey; won the Chester cup with Our Mary Ann 1870; the Shobden cup twice with Oxonian which he sold for £3000; retired from the turf 1886. d. Aldford near Eaton hall about 25 Feb. 1890.
HUGHES, Thomas. b. Chester 1827; apprentice to a printer; connected with the press at Plymouth; partner in firm of Minshull and Hughes, booksellers, Eastgate row, Chester, retired 1880; sheriff of Chester 1873; F.S.A. 7 June 1866; had great knowledge of antiquities of Chester and its neighbourhood; edited D. King’s The vale royal of England 1852; George Batenham’s Ancient Chester 1880; author of The stranger’s handbook to Chester 1856, 2 ed. 1857. d. The Grove, Chester 30 May 1890. The Bookseller 6 June 1890 p. 584.
HUGHES, Thomas Elliott. b. 6 Jany. 1830; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery 8 June 1849; commander of a mountain train battery on N.W. frontier of India, present at storming of Laloo and capture of Umbeylah; lieut.-colonel R.A. 16 Jany. 1875, colonel 24 Jany. 1880 to death; M.G. 11 Feb. 1885; A.A.G., R.A. at head quarters 1878–82; director general of ordnance in India 1884–5. d. Simla 24 May 1886.
HUGHES, Thomas Fiott (1 son of Rev. Thomas Smart Hughes, V. of Edgware, d. 1847). Student attaché at Constantinople 16 May 1845; instrumental in raising the Bashi-Bazouks during the Crimean war 1854; consul at Erzeroom 29 May 1856; oriental sec. at Constantinople 6 Feb. 1859; commissioner for the dedicated monasteries in the United Principalities; retired from public service on a pension of £700, 12 Nov. 1875; great linguist and eastern scholar; translated Arabian Nights into Persian but not printed. d. Cheltenham 18 June 1887 aged 62.
HUGHES, Sir Walter Watson (3 son of Thomas Hughes of Pittenweem, Fife). b. 1803; master in mercantile marine; settled in South Australia, engaged in mining and pastoral pursuits 1841; shared in expenses of exploring expeditions and was a promoter of several new industries; ‘father’ of the Univ. of Adelaide; knighted at Windsor castle 16 Dec. 1880; purchased Fan Court, Lyne near Chertsey, Surrey 1883. d. Fan Court 1 Jany. 1887.
HUGHES, William (4 son of Rev. Sir Robert Hughes, bart., d. 1814). b. Maker vicarage, Cornwall 2 March 1803; barrister G.I. 11 June 1833; auditor of poor law union district of Cornwall and Devon; author of Practical instructions for drawing wills 1833; The practical angler. By Piscator 1842; The three students of Gray’s inn, A novel 1846; The practice of conveyancing 2 vols. 1856–7 and other books. d. 2 Millbay grove, Plymouth 20 Aug. 1861. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i, 258.
HUGHES, William. b. 1817; assistant in library of Br. Museum, cataloguing the geographical collection 1841, resigned Dec. 1843; F.R.G.S.; editor of Maunder’s Treasury of geography 1856; author of Atlas of constructive geography 1841; A class book of modern geography 1859, 3 ed. 1885; A class book of physical geography 1861, 4 ed. 1886; A treatise on the construction of maps, 3 ed. 1864, and about 30 other school books. d. 198 Adelaide road, Hampstead, London 21 May 1876. Cowtan’s British Museum (1872) 321–2.
HUGHES, William Bulkeley. b. 26 July 1797; ed. at Harrow; barrister L.I. 21 May 1824; M.P. for Carnarvon district of boroughs 1837–59 and 1865 to death; sheriff of Anglesea 1861. d. Plas Coch near Llanfair, Isle of Anglesea 9 March 1882. Law Times, lxxii, 376 (1882).
HUGHES, William Edward (2 son of Michael Hughes of Sherdley hall, Lancs. d. 1825). b. 16 July 1823; ed. at Eton 1838–42; member of Turf club; a player at whist, picquet and billiards; won a race with Sophistry; known as Gentleman Hughes and as Little Hughes. d. Brussels 17 Dec. 1885. Sporting Rev. Aug. 1858 p. 118–19.
HUGHES, William Hughes (son of John Hewitt). b. 1792; barrister L.I. 26 June 1827; contested Oxford 1832 and 1837; M.P. for Oxford 18 March 1833 to 18 July 1837; sheriff of Hants.; assumed name of Hughes 25 May 1825; alderman of London 1832; contributed preface and notes to J. L. De Lolme’s The constitution of England 1834. d. Ilkley Wells house, Yorkshire 10 Oct. 1874.
HUGHES, William Little (son of Wm. Hughes of Dublin). b. Dublin 1822; clerk in foreign press department of ministry of the interior, Paris about 1857, chief clerk to death; a collector of works on Shakespeare in all languages; translated and published Les temps difficiles. Par C. Dickens 1857; Devereux. Par Sir E. B. Lytton 1859; Histoire d’ une chandelle. Par M. Faraday 1865; Œuvres choisies d’ Edgar Poe 1885; Les aventures de Huck Finn. Par M. Twain 1886 and other works. d. Paris 5 Jany. 1887.
HUGO, Rev. Thomas (eld. son of Charles Hugo, M.D. of Taunton). b. Taunton 1820; ed. at Worc. coll. Ox., B.A. 1842; C. of Walton-le-Dale, Lancs. 1842–44; V. of Halliwell, Lancs. 1850–52; V. of St. Botolph’s, Bishopsgate 1852–58; P.C. of All Saints, Bishopsgate 1858–68; R. of West Hackney 1868 to death; F.S.A. 24 Feb. 1853; founder of London and Middlesex archæol. soc. 1855; made collection of works of the Brothers Bewick of Newcastle, and had many of their wood-blocks; contributed to Hymns ancient and modern 1860; author of The charters of Cleeve abbey 1856; Varus, a tragedy 1864; The Bewick collector. A catalogue of the works of T. and J. Bewick 1866; The Bewick collector. A supplement 1868; Bewick’s Woodcuts 1870 and 15 other books. d. West Hackney rectory 31 Dec. 1876. bur. Highgate cemet. 6 Jany. 1877. Guardian 3 Jany. 1877 p. 12.
HUISH, Mark. b. 1808; sec. and general manager Glasgow and Greenock railway 1839 or 40, of grand junction railway 1841–45, of Liverpool and Manchester and Bolton railway 1845–46, and of London and north western railway 1846 to Nov. 1858; A.I.C.E. 6 April 1852. d. Combe Wood, Bonchurch 18 Jany. 1867. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxvii, 600–602 (1868); I.L.N. xxxiii, 517–8 (1858), portrait; Railway Management. Two letters to G. C. Glyn by J. Whitehead and M. Huish 1848.
HULBERT, Charles (son of Thomas Hulbert of Hulbert Green near Cheadle, Cheshire). b. Manchester 18 Feb. 1778; manager of print works at Middleton 1800; cotton manufacturer at Swinton near Manchester, then at Coleham near Shrewsbury 1803–13; bookseller and printer, Shrewsbury 1813–27 and at Hadnal near Shrewsbury 1827 to death; printed Salopian Mag. 1815–7; his house and library burnt 7 Jany. 1839; author of The select museum of the world 4 vols. 1822–5; The history of Salop 1837; Cheshire Antiquities 1838; Memoirs of seventy years of an eventful life 1848–52, with portrait, and many other books. d. Hadnal near Shrewsbury 7 Oct. 1857. Obituary of C. Hulbert. By C. A. Hulbert, 2 ed. (1860); Shrewsbury Chronicle 6 Nov. 1857.
HULBERT, Rev. Charles Augustus (eld. son of the preceding). b. Coleham near Shrewsbury 31 Dec. 1804 or 1805; ed. at Shrewsbury and Sid. Sus. coll. Cam., B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; C. of St. Mary’s, Islington 1834–9; P.C. of Slaithwaite, Yorkshire 1839–67; V. of Almondbury near Huddersfield 26 Feb. 1867 to death; hon. canon of Ripon, Oct. 1866 to death; author of Poetical recreations 1828; Theotokos, or the song of the Virgin 1842; Annals of the church in Slaithwaite 1864; Annals of the church and parish of Almondbury 1882, Supplementary Annals 1885, and other books; (Mary his wife dau. of James Lacy of Islington d. 2 May 1884 aged 75). d. 5 March 1888. C. A. Hulbert’s Annals of Almondbury (1883) 96, 592, portrait; Supplementary Annals (1885) 62–8, portrait of his wife.
HULINE, James. b. about 1816; played clown in pantomime of The Maid and the Magpie, at Princess’s theatre, London, Dec. 1854; in pantomime of Harlequin and the House that Jack built, at Drury Lane Dec. 1861; in pantomime of Ladybird or Harlequin Lord Dundreary, at Astley’s Dec. 1862; father of the well known brothers Huline clowns. d. 31 Jany. 1890. Illust. sp. and dram. news 19 Dec. 1874 p. 268, portrait.
HULL, Rev. Edward. b. 1789; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1814; minister of St. Mary’s attached to Blind sch. Liverpool 1819–57; author of The institution and abuses of ecclesiastical property 1831; The tractarian and the prayer book 1853. d. Waterloo road, Liverpool 6 Jany. 1867.
HULL, Robert. b. 1795; M.R.C.S. 1816, Ext. L.R.C.P.; M.D. Lambeth; physician Norfolk and Norwich eye infirmary; author of Cursory notes on the morbid eye 1840; Essay on determination of blood to the head 1842; A few suggestions on consumption 1849. d. St. Michael-at-Plea, Norwich 13 April 1856.
HULL, William (son of a small farmer). b. Graffham, Hunts. 6 May 1820; ed. at Moravian settlements, Ockbrook near Derby, Wellhouse, Yorkshire, and Grace Hill near Ballymena, Ireland 1834–40; travelled in France, Germany and Holland 1841–4; an artist at Manchester 1844–70; exhibited at Manchester academy of fine arts, Royal Manchester Instit. and the Black and white exhibitions held 1877–80; illustrated R. Langton’s Charles Dickens and Rochester 1880; settled at Rydal, Westmoreland 1870 and became known as The painter of Rydal. d. Rydal 15 March 1880. bur. Grasmere ch. yard. Portfolio, Jany. 1886 pp. 15, 21; Papers of Manchester Literary Club (1880) 308–10; Catalogue of water colour drawing, etc. by W. Hull, exhibited at Manchester Lit. Club 1886.
HULL, William Winstanley (son of John Hull, M.D., botanist 1761–1843). b. Blackburn 15 March 1794; ed. at Manchester and Macclesfield gr. schs. and Brasenose coll. Ox., fellow 1816–20; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1817; barrister L.I. 16 June 1820; practised at chancery bar to 1846; with his brother Rev. John Hull drew up a petition praying for revision of the liturgy, presented to House of Lords 26 May 1840; author of Occasional papers on church matters 1848; A collection of prayers for household use, with some hymns and other poems 1852; A letter concerning the revision of the book of common prayer 1860. d. The Knowle, Hazlewood, Derbyshire 28 Aug. 1873. Manchester School Register, iii, 37, 289.
HULLAH, John Pyke. b. Worcester 27 June 1812; studied music under Wm. Horsley and at royal academy of music 1832; his opera The Village Coquette produced at St. James’s theatre, London 5 Dec. 1836 ran for 60 nights; organist of Croydon church 1837; his operas The Barbers of Bassora and The Outpost produced at Covent Garden 1837 and 1838 were unsuccessful; formed classes at Exeter Hall for teaching music to large numbers of persons on Wilhelm’s method 1841, his classes removed to St. Martin’s hall, Oct. 1849, formally opened 11 Feb. 1850, burnt down 26 Aug. 1860; organist to the Charterhouse 1858 to death; composed music for Kingsley’s songs The Sands of Dee and The Three Fishers; conducted concerts of R.A. of music 1870–3; bankrupt Oct. 1860; musical inspector of training schools for United Kingdom, March 1872; LLD. Edin. 1876; granted civil list pension of £150, 13 Oct. 1880; edited Part music 2 vols. 1842–5, another ed. 1868; The song book 1866; author of Wilhelm’s Method of teaching singing 1841, 3 ed. 1854; A grammar of musical harmony 1852; A grammar of counterpoint 1864 and about 100 pieces of music. d. 17 Grosvenor mansions, Victoria st. London 21 Feb. 1884. bur. Kensal green 26 Feb. Life of John Hullah (1886); Dublin Univ. Mag. March 1880 pp. 323–33, portrait; I.L.N. i, 69, 76 (1842) portrait, x 405 (1847), xvi 117 (1850); Graphic xxix, 229 (1884), portrait.
HULLETT, Rev. John. b. 1815; ed. at St. Cath. hall, Cam., B.A. 1838; P.C. of Allestree, Derby 1849 to death; author of Sermons preached for the most part in the church of Allestree 1858, Second series 1859; The true light and other poems 1861. d. Toft near Knutsford 25 April 1865.
HULME, Frederick William (son of an artist). b. Swinton, Yorkshire 1816; landscape painter; teacher of drawing and painting in London; exhibited 36 pictures at R.A., 5 at B.I. and 5 at Suffolk st. 1845–80; published A graduated series of drawing copies on landscape subjects for use of schools 4 parts 1850. d. 8 St. Alban’s road, Kensington, London 14 Nov. 1884. I.L.N. lxxxv, 556 (1884), portrait; Athenæum 22 Nov. 1884 p. 666.
HULME, John Walter. Barrister M.T. 23 Jany. 1829; chief justice of Hong Kong 9 Feb. 1844 to Jany. or Feb. 1860. d. Brighton 1 March 1861 in 57 year.
HULTON, Rev. Campbell Basset Arthur Grey (4 son of Henry Hulton of Preston 1765–1831, treasurer of co. of Lancaster). b. Ballalhick, Isle of Man 3 May 1813; ed. at Manchester sch. and Brasenose coll. Ox., scholar 1831–4; B.A. 1835, M.A. 1838; Ellerton theological prizeman 1837; C. of St. Mary’s, Manchester 1839–44; Chetham’s librarian at Manchester 1839–45; R. of St. Paul’s, Manchester 1844–60; R. of Emberton, Bucks. 1860 to death; author of A catechetical help to bishop Butler’s Analogy 1854, another ed. 1859. d. Emberton rectory 30 April 1878. Manchester sch. register, iii, 176 (1874).
HULTON, William Adam (brother of the preceding). b. Preston 18 Oct. 1802; ed. at Manchester gr. sch.; barrister I.T. 29 June 1827; treasurer of county Lancaster 1831–49; assessor of Lancaster Sheriff’s Court to 1847; judge of county courts, circuit No. 5 (Bolton, &c.), 13 March 1847; judge of circuit No. 6 (Liverpool), 31 Dec. 1859; judge of circuit No. 4 (Preston, &c.) 1863 to April 1886; edited and printed with his own hands A Pedigree of the Hulton family about 1847; member of council of Chetham Soc. 1848, edited for the Soc. The Coucher book, or chartulary of Whalley Abbey 4 vols. 1847–50, Documents relating to the Priory of Penwortham 1853; author of A treatise on the law of convictions with the statutes and forms applicable to summary convictions by justices of the peace 1835. d. Hurst Grange near Preston 3 March 1887. Law Times 19 March 1887 p. 367.
HUMBER, William. b. 1821; pupil of G. Watson 1835–39; one of Thomas Brassey’s staff 1847–52; practised as civil engineer 1852 to death; A.I.C.E. 6 May 1856; author of A complete treatise on cast and wrought iron bridge construction 2 vols. 1857, 3 ed. 1870; A record of the progress of modern engineering 1863–66, 4 vols. 1870; A handy book for the calculation of strains in girders 1868, 4 ed. 1885; A comprehensive treatise on the water supply of cities and towns 1876. d. 1 Portland villas, Brixton hill, Surrey 14 April 1881.
HUMBERSTON, Philip Stapleton (only son of Philip Humberston of Chester). b. 1812; ed. at Westminster; M.P. for Chester 1859–65; sheriff of Cheshire 1878; hon. col. of 2 volunteer battalion of Cheshire regiment 20 May 1876 to death; member of council of Royal Agricultural Soc., proposed the use of a special form of Farming agreements 1855. d. Glan-y-Wern near Denbigh 16 Jany. 1891.
HUMBERT, Albert Jenkins. b. 1822; partner with Charles Frederick Reeks, architect, designed Carlisle parade and Robertson terrace, Hastings, and rebuilt the church at Bodiam; had premium for designs for new government offices 1856; rebuilt Whippingham ch. Isle of Wight 1860; designed mausoleum of duchess of Kent 1861 and that of Prince Consort 1862, both at Frogmore near Windsor; designed and superintended rebuilding of Sandringham house for prince of Wales 1869–71; F.R.I.B.A. d. Castle Mona, Douglas, Isle of Man 24 Dec. 1877.
HUMBLE, Rev. Henry. Ed. at Univ. coll. Durham, B.A. 1837, M.A. 1842; C. of Newburn, Northumberland 1842–53; canon and precentor of St. Ninian’s cath. Perth 1853 to death; author of A letter to the bishop of St. Andrews on his recent charge 1859; The recent episcopal decisions. A review of the transactions at the episcopal synod 1858; Remarks on a debate in convocation in reference to the Scottish liturgy 1862; The rights of laymen in the church of Christ 1870; The administration of canon law, a review of proceedings in the case of Humble and others v. the bishop of St. Andrews 1873. d. San Remo, Italy 7 Feb. 1876.
HUMBLE, Rev. Michael Maughan. b. 1811; ed. at Em. coll. Cam., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1860; C. of Felton, Northumberland 1835–9; R. of Sutton cum Duckmanton, Derbyshire 2 July 1839 to death; author of Methodistic Catholicism 1852; The church of England and the fathers 1854; Credenda 1875; Family Prayers 1879. d. Sutton rectory 3 Feb. 1889.
HUMBLE, William. b. 1797; M.D.; F.G.S.; author of A practical treatise on sea bathing. Worthing 1838; Dictionary of geology and mineralogy 1840, 3 ed. 1860. d. Cliff lodge, Ramsgate 23 April 1878.
HUMBY, Anne (dau. of Mr. Ayre of London, law stationer). b. London 1800; first appeared on the stage at Hull as Rosina; appeared at Bath 4 Nov. 1818 as Rosetta in Love in a village; played at Dublin 1821–5; first appeared in London at Haymarket theatre 18 April 1825 as Cowslip in The Agreeable Surprise; played at Haymarket 1825–30, then at Drury Lane; unrivalled as an actress of chambermaids, &c.; the original exponent of Polly Briggs in Douglas Jerrold’s Rent Day 25 Jany. 1832, of Sophy Hawes in Jerrold’s Housekeeper at the Haymarket 17 July 1833, of Chicken in Jerrold’s Time Works Wonders at the Haymarket 26 April 1845, and of Lady Clutterbuck in Boucicault’s Used up at the Haymarket 6 Feb. 1844, and was seen in the same character at Windsor castle 4 Jany. 1849; made her last appearance on the stage, at Lyceum theatre as a Damsel in Barbadoes in Drop the Curtain 28 Nov. 1849; (m. (1) about 1817 William Henry Humby actor in the Hull circuit, subsequently a dentist London 1831 to 1847, d. Guernsey 15 June 1850 aged 58; m. (2) 3 April 1854 at Episcopal chapel, St. Peter’s, Hammersmith, Joseph Hammon of Bridge road, Hammersmith, builder then aged 43); she lived at 198 Piccadilly, London 1848–51, at 3 Castlenau cottages, Barnes 1854–60 or 61 and must be dead, but her name cannot be found in register of deaths at Somerset house between 1866 and 1887. The Oddfellow, i, 81 (1839).
HUME, Rev. Abraham (son of Thomas F. Hume). b. Hillsborough, co. Down 9 Feb. 1814; ed. at Royal Belfast coll., Glasgow univ., LL.B. and LLD. 1851, and Trin. coll. Dublin; B.A. Dublin 1843, LLD. Cam. 1856, D.C.L. Ox. 1857; C. of St. Augustines, Everton 1844–47; prof. of English literature in collegiate institution, Liverpool 1844–7; V. of Vauxhall, Liverpool 1847 to death; surveyed Chili and Peru for South American Missionary Soc. 1867; chief founder of Hist. Soc. of Lancs. and Cheshire 1848, pres. 1869–75; sec. of church congress at Liverpool 1869; sec. of British association at Liverpool 1870; vice chairman of Liverpool school board 1870–6; sec. of Liverpool bishopric committee 1873–80; hon. canon of Chester 1874–80, of Liverpool 1880 to death; F.S.A. 14 March 1844; author of The learned societies and printing clubs of the United Kingdom 1847, new ed. 1853; Ancient Meols, or some account of the antiquities found on the sea-coast of Cheshire 2 parts 1863–66 with portrait of author; Remarks on the Irish dialect of the English language 1878, and more than 100 other books. d. All Soul’s vicarage, 6 Rupert lane, Liverpool 21 Nov. 1884. J. C. Morley’s Memoir of Rev. A. Hume, Liverpool 1887; Crockford’s Clerical Directory (1876) 474.
HUME, Alexander (son of Walter Hume, a retail trader). b. Kelso 1 Feb. 1809; a strolling player in England 1822 or 1823; employed by London agents of Berwick & Co. brewers, Edinburgh 1827–40; London agent for Messrs. Lane, brewers, Cork 1841–7; author of Scottish songs 1835; English songs and ballads 1838; Songs and poems, chiefly Scottish 1845. d. Northampton, May 1851. Rogers’s Modern Scottish Minstrel, ii, 182–94 (1856).
HUME, Alexander. b. Edinburgh 17 Feb. 1811; tenor singer in St. Paul’s episcopal ch. Edin.; chorus master in theatre royal, Edin.; arranged musical manual for the Glassites; cabinet maker at Glasgow about 1855; very successful in setting tunes to Scottish lyrics and songs of his own; edited The lyric gems of Scotland, Glasgow 1856, to which he made 50 contributions. d. Glasgow 4 Feb. 1859.
HUME, Alexander Hamilton (son of Andrew Hamilton Hume 1762–1849, Australian settler). b. Paramatta, New South Wales 18 June 1797; with his brother John Kennedy Hume (shot by bush rangers Jany. 1840) discovered Bong Bong and Berrima, Aug. 1814; accompanied surveyor Meehan in the discovery of Goulburn plains 1817, rewarded with grant of 300 acres near Appin; made the first overland journey from Sydney to Port Philip 2 Oct. to 16 Dec. 1824, discovered the Hume now called Murray river 16 Nov. 1824, rewarded with grant of 1200 acres of land valued at half a crown an acre 1825; accompanied Charles Sturt in his Macquarie and Darling river expedition 1828–9; F.R.G.S. 1860; author of A brief statement of an overland expedition from Lake George to Port Philip 1855, 3 ed. 1874. d. Fort George, Yass, N.S.W. 19 April 1873, monumental pillar at Albury on the Murray. Heaton’s Australian Dictionary (1879) 98; Bonwick’s Port Philip Settlement (1883) 80–93, portrait.
HUME, Sir Gustavus (2 son of Rev. Robert Hume of Dublin, d. 1849). b. 25 Feb. 1826; ensign 38 foot 30 May 1843, captain 21 Sep. 1852 to 22 June 1858 when placed on h.p.; served in Crimean war 1854–5 and in Indian mutiny 1857–8; assistant inspector of volunteers 1860–65; lieut.-col. in the army 17 March 1863; member of corps of gentlemen-at-arms, Dec. 1872, adjutant 1 Jany. 1876, lieut. 20 Nov. 1878 to death; a knight of Legion of Honour; knighted at Windsor Castle 1 Dec. 1880. d. 21 Royal York crescent, Clifton 16 June 1891.
HUME, John Robert. b. Renfrewshire 1781 or 1782; received medical education at Glasgow 1795, 98 and 99, and at Edinburgh 1796–97; entered medical department of army, inspector general 3 Dec. 1818 to 25 April 1821 when placed on h.p.; M.D. St. Andrews 12 Jany. 1816; L.R.C.P. London 22 Dec. 1819, F.R.C.P. 9 July 1836; settled in London; private physician to duke of Wellington many years; D.C.L. Ox. 13 June 1834; one of metropolitan comrs. in lunacy 1 Sep. 1836 to death; C.B. 16 Aug. 1850. d. 9 Curzon st. London 1 March 1857. Munk’s Coll. of physicians, iii, 212 (1878).
HUME, Joseph (son of James Hume of Montrose, shipmaster). b. Montrose 22 Jany. 1777; apprenticed to a surgeon of Montrose 1790; M.R.C.S. Edin. 1796; M.R.C.S. Lond. 2 Feb. 1797; assistant surgeon in marine service of East India Co.; Persian interpreter in army during Mahratta war 1802–1807; commissary general 1807, resigned and returned to England with £40,000, 1808; M.P. Weymouth, Jany. 1812; M.P. Aberdeen district of burghs 1818–30; M.P. Middlesex 1830–37; M.P. Kilkenny 1837–41; contested Leeds 1841; M.P. Montrose district of burghs 1842 to death; leader of the radical party 30 years, he spoke longer and oftener than any other private member, many of his speeches were printed; lord rector of Univ. of Aberdeen 1824 and 1828; F.R.S.; F.R.A.S. d. Burnley hall, Norfolk 20 Feb. 1855. bur. Kensal Green cemetery. Joseph Hume a memorial [a poem]. By J. B. Hume (1855); H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches, 4 ed. (1876) 64–70; Reminiscences of 50 years. By Mark Boyd (1871) 281–92; J. Grant’s Memoir of Sir G. Sinclair (1870) 66–79; St. Stephens. By Mask (1839) 198–210; Saunders’s Portraits of reformers (1840), 55 portrait; Fagan’s Reform club (1887) 29–31, portrait.
HUMFREY, Lebbeus Charles (eld. son of Rev. Lebbeus Charles Humfrey, R. of Laughton, Leics. d. 1833). b. about 1798; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; barrister L.I. 17 June 1823, bencher 1845; went Midland circuit of which he became leader; counsel to Times newspaper; Q.C. Feb. 1845; marble bust of him by E. H. Bailey exhibited at the R.A. 1852. d. 11 Great Queen st. Westminster 11 May 1852. bur. beneath chapel of Lincoln’s inn. G.M. xxxviii, 95–6 (1852).
HUMPHERY, John (eld. son of John Humphery of Shadwell, London). b. 30 May 1794; a wharfinger and merchant at Hay’s wharf, Tooley st. Southwark; M.P. for Southwark 1832–52; governor of Irish Society 1843 to death; alderman of Aldgate ward 1835 to death; sheriff of London 1832–3, lord mayor 1842–3. d. Battersea Rise, north side of Clapham common 28 Sep. 1863. I.L.N. ii, 279 (1843), portrait.
HUMPHREY, Thomas. b. Mitcham, Surrey 16 Jany. 1839; one of the best batsmen of his day, especially good at cutting, made 1000 runs during a season several times; played for Surrey many years; a first-class fieldsman especially at long-leg and long-on; had a benefit at Kennington Oval 26–28 July 1876. d. the Asylum, Brookwood, Surrey 3 Sep. 1878. bur. Woking cemet. 9 Sep. Illust. sp. and dram. news, v, 401, 402, 430 (1876), portrait; Bell’s Life in London 7 Sep. 1878 pp. 3, 4, and 14 Sep. p. 4; W. G. Grace’s Cricket (1891) 329–30.
HUMPHREYS, Henry Noel (son of James Humphreys of Birmingham). b. Birmingham 4 Jany. 1810; resided in Italy about 1828–40; illustrated Westwood’s British butterflies 1841; Loudon’s British Wild Flowers 1856 and other books; author of The Coins of England 1846; The coin-collector’s manual 2 vols. 1847; The origin and progress of the art of writing 1853; A history of the art of printing 1867 and 20 other books. d. 7 Westbourne sq. London 10 June 1879. Academy 21 June 1879 p. 550.
HUMPHREYS, Sir John (son of John Humphreys of Upper Clapton, Middlesex). b. Upper Clapton 1814; a solicitor and parliamentary agent in London 1842–59; coroner for East Middlesex 1859 to death; knighted at Osborne 18 Aug. 1881. d. 20 Devonshire st. Portland place, London 20 Nov. 1886.
HUMPHREYS, William. b. Dublin 1794; learnt engraving from George Murray at Philadelphia; engraved small plates for annuals, &c.; returned to England 1822; engraved steel plate head of Queen Victoria on postage stamps, also head of Washington for U.S. stamps; engraved Murillo’s Spanish peasant boy 1833, C. R Leslie’s Sancho and the Duchess 1838, and other large plates. d. at Alfred Novello’s residence, Villa Novella, Genoa 21 Jany. 1865. W. S. Baker’s American Engravers (1875) 84–86.
HUMPHRY, Joseph. b. 1795 or 1796; barrister L.I. 6 July 1821; Q.C. 1846 to 28 Nov. 1850; master in chancery 28 Nov. 1850 to 8 Aug. 1860 when he retired. d. Brighton 18 Nov. 1861.
Note.—He was the last master in chancery appointed, the office was abolished in 1852 by 15 & 16 Vict. cap. 80 having been in existence since 1272.
HUMPHRY, Rev. William Gilson (eld. son of Wm. Wood Humphry, barrister). b. Sudbury, Suffolk 30 Jany. 1815; ed. at Shrewsbury, captain of the school; entered Trin. coll. Cam. 1833, Pitt scholar 1835, fellow 1839, senior classic and 27th wrangler 1837, B.A. 1837; proctor of Univ. of Cam. 1845–6, Hulsean lecturer 1849–51, Boyle lecturer 1857–9; exam. chaplain to bishop Blomfield of London 1847–55; V. of Northolt, Middlesex 1852–5; preb. of St. Paul’s 1852 to death; V. of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London 1855 to death; one of revisers of New Testament 1870; a treasurer of S.P.C.K. 30 years; author of A commentary on the Acts of the Apostles 1847, 2 ed. 1854; An historical treatise on the book of common prayer 1853, 6 ed. 1885; A commentary on the revised version of the New Testament for English readers 1882, 2 ed. 1888 and 20 other books. d. 6 St. Martin’s place, Trafalgar sq. London 10 Jany. 1886.
HUMPIDGE, Thomas Samuel. b. Gloucester 23 July 1853; ed. at Royal school of mines 1874, Jodrell scholar 1875; B. Sc. London 1875; Ph.D. Heidelberg 1878; science master Fellenberg instit. Hofwyl near Berne 1878; prof. of natural science Univ. coll. Aberystwyth, Sep. 1879 to death; made discoveries in the atomic weight of beryllium, towards the cost of which the Royal Soc. made grants, all his apparatus burnt in the college July 1885; sent papers to Philos. Trans. and Proceedings; translated H. Kolbe’s A short text-book of inorganic chemistry 1884. d. The college, Aberystwyth 30 Nov. 1887. Journal Chemical soc. (1888) 513–18.
HUNGATE, William Anning. b. 7 Sep. 1786; entered navy 10 July 1803, lieut. on h.p. 2 March 1815 to death; claimed to be descended from and to be entitled to estates of the Hungate family of Yorkshire, brought actions of ejectment to obtain possession of estates 1831 and 1832 but failed; assumed title of baronet and was presented to Wm. iv. as Sir W. A. Hungate, by Earl of Denbigh 27 April 1831. d. 18 Feb. 1852.
HUNLOKE, Sir Henry John Joseph, 6 Baronet. b. 29 Sep. 1812; succeeded 19 June 1816; formed a menagerie of rare animals at Wingeworth hall, Derbyshire, which was sold by auction after his death. d. Grafton st. London 8 Feb. 1856.
HUNNUM, Robert (son of Fenwick Hunnum, purveyor to the Lambton kennel). b. Durham 1795; second horseman to Mr. Ralph John Lambton of Merton house, Durham 1809 and known by name of ‘Mr. Ralph’s Great Coat’; second whip 1818; first whipper-in 1829 till the Lambton hounds were sold to Lord Suffield; a man of great courage and endurance; huntsman to Sir Matthew White Ridley in Northumberland 1843, whose hounds were sold by auction in London 30 June 1845 for £773, after which the hunt was kept up by subscription. The Book of Sports, ii, 42–6 (1843), portrait; New Sporting Mag. v, 4–5 (1833), portrait.
HUNT, Andrew. b. Erdington near Birmingham 1790; pupil of Samuel Lines the engraver; landscape painter and teacher of drawing at Liverpool; member of Liverpool Academy and exhibitor there. d. 31 Oxford st. 22 July 1861.
HUNT, Edward (son of Thomas Hunt). b. Hammersmith, Middlesex 29 Sep. 1829; ed. at Univ. coll. London, B.A. London 1850; assistant to Crace Calvert, royal institution laboratory, Manchester 1851; discovered process for distilling resin without decomposition 1857; took out patent for treatment of resin in making soap 1858; partner with Samuel Barlow and H. D. Pochin as Samuel Barlow & Co. in bleaching and dyeing works Stakehill near Middleton, Lancs. 1861 to death; F.C.S. Dec. 1851. d. Whalley range, Manchester 12 Aug. 1883. Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 476–7 (1887).
HUNT, Ellen St. John. b. Norwich 27 Nov. 1837; a contributor to The Bible class mag. and to The Sunday school teachers’ mag. under pseudonym of Ion; author of Thoughts of sunshine in sorrow. By E.S.J.H. 1862, Second series 1866. d. Norwich 11 March 1864. Memoir pp. v-xlvii in Thoughts of sunshine (1866).
HUNT, Frederick Knight. b. Buckinghamshire, April 1814; employed in printing office of Morning Herald 1830; clerk to a barrister in the Temple 1830; sec. to London Anti-Corn-law league 1836; studied medicine at Middlesex hospital, M.R.C.S. 13 Nov. 1840; projected the Medical Times which he edited 28 Sep. 1839; surgeon of a union in Norfolk; sub-editor of Illustrated London News; sub-editor of Pictorial Times; edited Hunt’s London Journal 1844; assistant editor Daily News Jany. 1846, and editor 1851 to death; author of The book of art 1846; The Rhine, its scenery and associations 1845; The fourth estate, contributions towards a history of newspapers 2 vols. 1850. d. Forest hill, Sydenham 18 Nov. 1854. John Francis, publisher of the Athenæum. By J. C. Francis, i, 224, 226, 410–13 (1888); Diprose’s St. Clements, i, 245 (1868).
HUNT, Rev. George (son of Nehemiah Augustus Hunt of Plymouth). b. 1789; ed. at Trin. coll. Ox., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813; V. of Egg Buckland near Plymouth 26 May 1818 to death; F.R.S.; edited Specimens of lithography as applied to eastern literature 1819; translated The book of Job 1825; Himyaric inscriptions of Hisn Ghoráb 1848. d. Egg Buckland 20 Feb. 1861.
HUNT, George Ward (eld. son of Rev. George Hunt of Buckhurst, Berks.) b. Buckhurst 30 July 1825; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1848, M.A. 1851, D.C.L. 1870; barrister I.T. 21 Nov. 1851, bencher 23 May 1873; contested Northampton 1852 and 1857; M.P. for North Northamptonshire 16 Dec. 1857 to death; chairman of quarter sessions for Northamptonshire, April 1866; financial sec. to treasury, July 1866 to Feb. 1868; chancellor of the exchequer 29 Feb. to Dec. 1868; P.C. 29 Feb. 1868; first lord of the admiralty 21 Feb. 1874 to death. d. Homburg 29 July 1877. bur. Homburg 30 July. C. Brown’s Life of Beaconsfield, ii, 93, 162 (1882), portrait; Graphic 4 Aug. 1877 pp. 99, 113, portrait.
HUNT, Henry. Educ. at St. Bartholomew’s hospital and Paris; M.R.C.P. 1840, F.R.C.P. 1859; fellow of Royal Med. Chir. Soc.; practised at 68 Brook st. Hanover sq. London from 1840; phys. to Dispensary for Children; author of On the nature and treatment of tic-douloureux, sciatica and other neuralgic disorders 1844; On the severer forms of heartburn and indigestion 1854. d. 25 May 1877 aged 75.
HUNT, Sir Henry Arthur (son of James Hunt of Westminster). b. 1810; consulting surveyor to H.M. commissioners of works and buildings 1856–86; receiver-general for dean and chapter of Westminster to 1886; partner in firm of Hunt, Stephenson and Jones, surveyors, 45 Parliament st. Westminster; A.I.C.E. 4 March 1851; C.B. 5 Aug. 1871; knighted at Osborne 21 July 1876. d. The Lees, Folkestone 13 Jany. 1889.
HUNT, Holdsworth (youngest son of Wm. Chollwill Hunt, M.D. of Dartmouth). b. Dartmouth 1806; ed. at Crediton and in Paris; barrister I.T. 12 June 1833, bencher 1865 to death, reader 1879, treasurer 1880; member of council of legal education; member of French Institute 1851. d. 20 Park crescent, Portland place, London 26 April 1883.
HUNT, James (son of Thomas Hunt 1802–51). b. Swanage, Dorset 1833; Ph.D. of Giessen 1855 and M.D. 1867; succeeded his father as a specialist in curing stammering, had a house at Hastings where he received many patients; member of Ethnological soc. of London 1854, hon. sec. 1859–62, hon. fellow 1862; founded Anthropological soc. of London 1863, president 1863–8, director 1867; edited Anthropological Rev. 1863; agitated for making Anthropology a department at British Assoc. meetings which was done in 1883; F.S.A.; F.R.S.L. 1854; author of A manual of the philosophy of voice and speech 1859; Stammering and stuttering, their nature and treatment 1861, 7 ed. 1870 and 7 other books. d. Ore Court near Hastings 29 Aug. 1869. Reg. and mag. of biog., ii, 198–200 (1869).
HUNT, James Henry Leigh (son of Rev. Isaac Hunt, d. 1809 aged 57). b. Southgate, Middlesex 19 Oct. 1784; ed. at Christ hospital 1792–99; started with his brother John, The Examiner a weekly paper 1808, editor 1808–21; edited a quarterly mag. called The Reflector which ran to 4 numbers 1810; tried for a libel in The Examiner on the prince regent, and imprisoned in Surrey gaol 3 Feb. 1813 to 3 Feb. 1815; great friend of Byron, Shelley, Keats, C. Lamb, T. Moore, J. Forster and T. Carlyle; edited The Indicator, Oct. 1820 to 1822, 77 numbers; was in Italy 1822–5; edited The Liberal 1822–3, 2 vols.; The Literary Examiner, 27 numbers; The Companion 1828, 28 numbers; The Chat of the Week 1830, 13 numbers; The Tatler a daily sheet entirely written by himself 4 Oct. 1830 to 13 Feb. 1832, 59 numbers; Leigh Hunt’s London Journal 1834 to 26 Dec. 1835, and The Monthly Repository July 1837 to March 1838; produced A Legend of Florence at Covent Garden 7 Feb. 1840; civil list pension of £200, 4 Oct. 1847; published Leigh Hunt’s Journal 1850 to March 1851; author of Lord Byron and some of his contemporaries 1828; The Town 2 vols. 1848; The autobiography of L. Hunt 1850, 3 vols. new ed. 1860; Table talk 1851 and very numerous other books. d. at res. of Charles W. Reynell, Chatfield house, (now 84) High st. Putney, Surrey 28 Aug. 1859. bur. Kensal Green cemet. Sep., monument by Joseph Durham, A.R.A. placed on the spot 19 Oct. 1869. The Correspondence of Leigh Hunt 2 vols. (1862); Leigh Hunt’s Lord Byron, 2 ed. (1828) 55–408, portrait; W. Howitt’s Homes and haunts of British poets, ii, 347–67 (1847); T. H. Ward’s English poets, 2 ed. (1883) iv, 340–7; J. A. Langford’s Prison books (1861) 316–33, portrait; Maclise Portrait Gallery (1883) 242–56, portrait; L. Hutton’s Literary landmarks of London, 4 ed. (1888) 144–9; F. E. Baines’ Hampstead (1890) 358, portrait.
Note.—He is drawn in Bleak House 1853 as Harold Skimpole and in A. W. Pinero’s play Lady Bountiful 1891 as Roderick Heron. His dau. Julia Trelawney Leigh Hunt was granted civil list pension of £75, 19 April 1861 and d. Hammersmith 3 Feb. 1872.
HUNT, Rev. John Higgs. b. 1780; ed. at Charterhouse and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1801, M.A. 1804; edited The Critical Review, reviewed Byron’s Hours of Idleness in it Sep. 1807; V. of Weedon Beck, Northamptonshire 20 March 1823 to death; published Tasso’s Jerusalem delivered, with notes and occasional illustrations 2 vols. 1818, reprinted in E. Sanford’s The works of the British poets, vols. 48, 49 (1819); said to have written a work upon Cosmo the Great. d. Weedon Beck 17 Nov. 1859.
HUNT, Joseph. Kept a tavern in London; a public singer at Naval Coffee house, St. Martin’s lane, London; William Probert and John Thurtell murdered William Weare at Gill’s hill lane near Elstree, Herts. 24 Oct. 1823, Hunt was found guilty as an accessory before the murder and sentenced to death 7 Jany. 1824 but eventually transported for life; court keeper of assize court, Bathurst, N.S.W. 1839–59; living at Bathurst 1859; father of a famous female singer living in 1864. Narrative of murder of Mr. W. Weare, the confession of Hunt and the execution of Thurtell (1824), portrait.
Note.—John Thurtell was hanged at Hertford 9 Jany. 1824, Wm. Probert escaped by turning King’s evidence, but was hanged at the Old Bailey 20 June 1825 for horse-stealing; Thurtell’s gig used by him in going to Gill’s hill lane, was exhibited in a piece called The Gamblers produced at the Surrey theatre, Jany. 1824.
HUNT, Robert (son of Robert Hunt lost in H.M.S. Mocheron 1807). b. Plymouth Dock (now Devonport) 6 Sep. 1807; studied medicine in London; chemist and druggist Chapel st. Penzance 1833–4; sec. of Royal Cornwall Polytechnic soc. 1840–5, pres. 1859; keeper of the mining records office 1845 till it was abolished 1883; lecturer on mechanical science in Royal school of mines 1851–3, lecturer on experimental physics 1853; F.R.S. 1 June 1854; The Miners’ Assoc. of Cornwall and Devon was instituted at a meeting called by him 1859 and opened 1861; a comr. on inquiry on quantity of coal remaining 1866; made researches on solar rays, electrical phenomena in mineral veins and photography; edited Ure’s Dictionary of arts, manufactures and mines 1859, 1867 and 1875, three editions; author of A popular treatise on the art of photography 1841; Researches on light 1844, 2 ed. 1854; Elementary physics 1851, new ed. 1855; Popular romances of West of England 2 vols. 1865; British mining 1884, 2 ed. 1887; compiler and editor of annual blue books on Mineral statistics 1855–84. d. 26 St. Leonard’s ter. Chelsea 17 Oct. 1887. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. 259–60, 1238; Athenæum 22 Oct. 1887 pp. 541–2; Times 20 Oct. 1887 p. 5.
HUNT, Thomas. b. Dorset 1802; ed. at Winchester and Trin. coll. Cam.; invented a method of curing stammering, which he practised at 224 Regent st. London 1827 to death; Sir John Forbes sent him pupils 1828–51; his pupils subscribed for his bust in marble which was modelled by Joseph Durham and exhibited in the R.A. 1849. d. Godlingstone near Swanage, Dorset 18 Aug. 1851. James Hunt’s Treatise on stammering, with memoir of T. Hunt (1854) 27–69, portrait; Fraser’s Mag. July 1859 pp. 1–14, By Charles Kingsley.
HUNT, Thomas Newman. b. 1806; merchant of firm of Newman, Hunt & Co. 12 New Broad st. city of London; a director of Bank of England 1856–83, deputy governor 1866–7, governor 1867–9; chairman of Public works loan commission. d. 79 Portland place, London 17 Jany. 1884.
HUNT, Thornton Leigh (eld. son of J. H. Leigh Hunt 1784–1859). b. London 10 Sep. 1810; studied drawing and painting; sub-editor of The Constitutional, morning paper 15 Sep. 1836 which lasted to 1 July 1837; edited the North Cheshire Reformer at Chester; The Argus at Glasgow to 1840; one of chief contributors to Spectator 1840–60; one of founders of Leader 1850; one of chief contributors to Globe; on the Daily Telegraph as acting editor 1855–72; author of The Foster Brother 1845; The rationale of railway administration 1846; Unity of the iron network, the argument for the break of gauge 1846; edited his father’s Autobiography 1860, Works 1860, and Correspondence 1862. d. 41 Victoria road, Kilburn, Middlesex 25 June 1873. Athenæum 28 June 1873 p. 825; Bourne’s English newspapers, ii, 98, 235, 241, 267 (1887).
HUNT, Vere Dawson De Vere (son of Vere Hunt). b. 7 July 1829; captain inland transport corps; author of The horse and its master, with hints on breeding, breaking, etc. 1859; England’s horses for peace and war 1874. d. 9 Dec. 1878.
HUNT, William. b. 1766; ed. at Rugby and King’s coll. Cam., scholar 1784, fellow 1787 to death; B.A. 1789, M.A. 1792; barrister L.I. 27 June 1794; went Norfolk circuit, leader of it long time; assessor to the vice chancellor in the university courts 1805 to death; recorder of Tamworth (the last) 1817–42. d. King’s college, Cambridge 6 Jany. 1852.
HUNT, William (son of Thomas Hunt). b. Bath 1801; in business with his brother at Bath; a great supporter of Reform 1832; one of first members of Bath reformed corporation 1836, alderman 1841–7, 1848 to death; mayor of Bath 1840, 47, 54, 67 and 73; presented with a silver salver and his portrait 16 June 1869; J.P. for Bath 2 Sep. 1847 to death. d. 72 Pulteney st. Bath 17 Sep. 1885. Keene’s Bath Journal 19 Sep. 1885 p. 4.
HUNT, Very Rev. William. b. East Hendred, Berks. 15 June 1803; ordained priest 1830; professor at St. Edmund’s coll. Ware 1830–2; missioner at Southampton 1832–41; minister St. James’ chapel, Spanish place, Manchester sq. London 1842, resigned 1883; provost of the chapter of Westminster 1865. d. 6 Spanish place 9 Jany. 1889.
HUNT, William George Lennon. b. 1842; a baritone; before he was 21 he had appeared in 20 different operas in Madrid; musical composer, dramatist, author; director of Philharmonic soc. of Madrid; consul at Loanda, South Africa 10 June 1878 to death. d. Loanda 30 Aug. 1879. Illust. sp. and dr. news, xii, 101, 102 (1879), portrait.
HUNT, William Henry (son of John Hunt, tinplate worker). b. 8 Old Belton st. (now Endell st.), Long Acre, London 28 March 1790; apprenticed to John Varley, artist 1804–11; painted in oils 1807–24, in water colours 1824–63; associate exhibitor of Watercolour soc. 1824, member 1826; member of Amsterdam royal academy 1856; exhibited 14 pictures at R.A., 6 at B.I. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1807–29; his Roses in a Jar in the Wade collection 1872 sold for five hundred guineas. d. 62 Stanhope st. Hampstead road, London 10 Feb. 1864. Redgrave’s Century of painters, ii, 502–9 (1866); Fraser’s Mag. lxxii, 525–36 (1865).
HUNTER, Adam. b. Greenock 20 June 1791; ed. at Glasgow and Edin. univs., M.D. Edin. 1813; physician Edin. 1815 to death; F.R.S. Edin. 1839; made a report to Scottish national insurance co. on the lives insured; author of The fruits of amalgamation exhibited in the correspondence of a Palladium policy holder with C. Jellicoe. Edin. 1865. d. 18 Abercromby place, Edinburgh 24 June 1870. Proc. Royal Soc. of Edin. vii, 240–2 (1872).
HUNTER, Sir Claudius Stephen, 1 Baronet (younger son of Henry Hunter of Beech hill, Berks., barrister 1739–89). b. Beech hill 24 Feb. 1775; student, of the Inner Temple; solicitor in London 1797 to Jany. 1811; alderman of ward of Bassishaw, Sep. 1804 to 1835; alderman of ward of Bridge without 1835 to death; lieut. col. of Royal east regiment of London militia 1806 and col. of royal west regt. 10 Jany. 1810 to death; sheriff of London 1808–9, lord mayor 1811–12 when he revived ancient ceremonies; created baronet 11 Dec. 1812; hon. D.C.L. Ox. 23 June 1819; president of London Life association 1835 to death. d. Mortimer hill, Berkshire 20 April 1851. European Mag. lxii, 177–84 (1812), portrait; G.M. xxxvi, 88–90 (1851); Thornbury’s London, i, 116, 329–30, (1872).
HUNTER, Sir Claudius Stephen Paul, 2 Baronet. b. Ghazepore, East Indies 21 Sep. 1825; ed. at Eton and St. John’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1849, M.A. 1850; student of Inner Temple 1848; succeeded his grandfather 20 April 1851; captain royal London militia 1846–50; founder of 1st Berkshire volunteer regt. and capt. commandant 31 March 1860, lieut.-col. 2 Nov. 1872 to Dec. 1885; sheriff of Berks. 1860. d. Mortimer hill near Reading 7 Jany. 1890.
HUNTER, George. Entered Bengal army 1800; colonel 1 European regt. of light infantry 1843 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 26 Dec. 1826. d. Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire 11 Nov. 1854.
HUNTER, Ven. James (son of John Hunter). b. Barnstaple 1817; clerk to Charles Roberts, solicitor, Barnstaple; a master in Tavistock sch.; ed. at Ch. Miss. coll. Islington to 1843; archdeacon of Cumberland, Rupert’s Land 1854–67; V. of St. Matthew, Bayswater, London 1867 to death; M.A. 1855 and D.D. 1876 by Archbishop of Canterbury; author of The Book of common prayer, Translated into the language of the Cree Indians 1859; The gospels of St. Matthew, St. Mark and St. John in Cree; The faith and duty of a Christian in Cree; with J. Mason and others The Bible translated into the language of the Knisteneaux or Cree North American Indians 2 parts 1861–2. d. 52 Leinster sq. London 12 Feb. 1882. bur. Highgate cemet. 18 Feb.
HUNTER, James. b. Muirkirk, Ayrshire 1818; manager Coltness iron works 1839 and then a partner (Houldsworth & Co.), retired 1885, increased the works from 2 to 12 furnaces; the Coltness brand of iron became known all over the world; D.L. for Ayrshire; A.I.C.E. 4 April 1854. d. Newman’s House by Motherwell, Edinburgh 5 Oct. 1886. Min. of Proc. I.C.E. lxxxix, 494–5 (1887).
HUNTER, Rev. John (youngest son of Rev. Andrew Hunter, minister of Tron ch. Edin., d. 1809). b. Edin. 1788; presbyterian minister of Swinton, Berwickshire 1814–32; assistant minister of Tron ch. Edin. after a contest with the kirk session which was decided in house of lords Oct. 1832, minister of Tron ch. to death; D.D. of univ. of Edin. 29 May 1847. d. 9 Regent ter. Edinburgh 21 June 1866. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 27–8, portrait; Scott’s Fasti, i part i, p. 61.
HUNTER, John (son of professor Andrew Hunter). In a writer’s office copying law papers at 3d. a page; a writer to the signet 1826; auditor of court of session to 1866; author of Miscellanies in verse. By N.R. i.e. J. Hunter 1843. d. Craigcrook 3 Dec. 1869. Journal of jurisprudence, xiv, 42–5 (1870).
HUNTER, John (only son of John Hunter, physician). b. Belfast 23 March 1843; ed. at Queen’s coll. Belfast and Queen’s univ., B.A. 1863, M.A. 1864; assistant professor of chemistry Queen’s coll. 1865–70; professor of mathematics and natural philosophy King’s coll. Windsor, Nova Scotia 1870–1; accompanied the Deep Sea dredging expedition in H.M.S. Porcupine 1869; made researches on the absorption of gases by charcoal, the absorption of mixed vapours, pressure of absorption and the composition of sea water. d. Enniscrone, Mayo 13 Sep. 1872. Proc. of royal soc. of Edin. viii, 322–4 (1875).
HUNTER, John (2 son of John Hunter, d. 3 Dec. 1869). Advocate 1857; sheriff substitute of Peebleshire 1868 to death; member of Speculative soc. d. Kingsmuir, Peebles 29 Sep. 1872. Journal of Jurisprudence, xvi, 603–5 (1872).
HUNTER, John Charles. b. 20 Aug. 1799; L.S.A. 1821; M.R.C.S. 1821; L.R.C.P. 1863; inspector National Vaccine establishment; author of 63rd vol. of the Family library Sketches of imposture, deception and credulity 1837. d. 30 Wilton place, Belgrave sq. London 19 Dec. 1871.
HUNTER, John Kelso. b. Dunkeith, Ayrshire 15 Dec. 1802; a herd boy; shoemaker at Kilmarnock; removed to Glasgow; painted and exhibited portrait of himself at R.A. London 1847; author of The retrospect of an artist’s life 1868; Life studies of character 1871, containing facts about Robert Burns; Memorials of west country men and manners. d. Pollokshields near Glasgow 3 Feb. 1873. Times 6 Feb. 1873 p. 7.
HUNTER, Rev. Joseph (son of Michael Hunter of Sheffield, cutler 1759–1831). b. Sheffield 6 Feb. 1783; minister of a Presbyterian congregation at Bath 1809–33; a sub-comr. of public records in London 1833, an assistant keeper of the first class 1838 to death; F.S.A., mem. of council and vice pres. 1855; author of Hallamshire. The history of the parish of Sheffield 1819, new ed. by Rev. A. Gatty 1869; South Yorkshire. The history of the deanery of Doncaster 2 vols. 1828–31; The diary of Ralph Thoresby, F.R.S. 2 vols. 1830 and 30 other books; his library was sold at Sothebys, Dec. 1861 for £1105; his MS. collections were purchased by Br. Museum 1862. d. 30 Torrington sq. London 9 May 1861. bur. Ecclesfield near Sheffield 15 May. A brief memoir [by Sylvester Hunter] 1861, privately printed; Proc. of Soc. of Antiquaries, ii, 106–8 (1861).
HUNTER, Joseph. b. Scarborough 21 Oct. 1857; became known in the match County Eleven v. Surrey at Sheffield 15 July 1878; member of Yorkshire Eleven 1881; played against Australian team in 1883; member of Shaw’s English team in Australia 1884; had no superior as a wicket keeper; wicket keeper to the Yorkshire Eleven to 1889. d. at his residence the Wheat Sheaf hotel, Rotherham 4 Jany. 1891. Illust. S. and D. News, xxiii, 661, 662 (1885), portrait.
HUNTER, Robert (only child of an East India merchant, d. 1793). b. near Edinburgh 8 July 1791; ed. at High sch. Edin. to 1804 and at Edin. univ.; member of Scottish bar 1814; sheriff of Buteshire 1837 to death; sheriff of Dumbartonshire 1853 to death; author of A treatise on the law of landlord and tenant. Edin. 1833, 4 ed. 2 vols. 1876. d. 67 Northumberland st. Edinburgh 23 Dec. 1871. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 16, portrait; Journal of Jurisprudence, xvi, 93–6 (1872).
HUNTER, Robert Hope Alston (3 son of Rev. William Hunter). b. 1805; hospital assistant in army 10 Jany. 1827; surgeon of 57 regt. at Madras 1843–47; surgeon major 30 July 1847; placed on h.p. 10 Feb. 1852; author of Statistical review of the climate of the principal stations for European troops in the Bombay presidency; The medical history of the queen’s royal regiment during the campaign in Afghanistan. d. Dollar 22 June 1867. Medical Times 3 Aug. 1867 pp. 135–6.
HUNTER, Rowland, b. 1774; extensive bookseller at 72 St. Paul’s churchyard (where he succeeded his uncle Joseph Johnson) 1815–36. d. the Charterhouse 18 Jany. 1864.
HUNTER, Walter. b. parish of Newbattle near Edin. 1772; worked as a millwright under Watt and Rennie; adapted steam power to move dredging buckets and ladders; partner with Wm. English as millwrights and engineers at 28 High st. south, Bow, London 1807 or 1808 to death; M.I.C.E. 1827. d. Bow 8 Feb. 1852. Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xii, 161 (1853).
HUNTER, William (son of Andrew Hunter of Bury St. Edmunds). b. Bury St. Edmunds; of 76 Coleman st. City of London; member of ward of Coleman st. London 1823 and alderman 1843 to death, sheriff 1844–5, lord mayor 1851–52. d. 13 Westbourne terrace, Hyde park, London 22 Sep. 1856 aged 75. I.L.N. xix, 605 (1851), portrait.
HUNTER, William Frederick. b. 1841; ed. at Edin. univ., M.A., LL.B.; at Heidelberg and Berlin univ., D.C.L.; examiner in law, Edin. univ.; advocate in Scotland 1865; barrister L.I. 30 April 1875; inherited Hafton estate, Argyleshire on death of his brother; wrote article on Canon Law in Encyclop. Brit. v. 15–22 (1876). d. Madeira 28 April 1880. Journal of Jurisprudence, xxiv, 320–1 (1880).
HUNTER-BLAIR, Sir David, 3 Baronet. b. Edinburgh 1777; midshipman H.M.S. Hyacinth; succeeded his brother 24 May 1800; col. of Ayrshire militia during the war; convener of Ayrshire 1822 to 1855; vice lieut. of Ayrshire 1822 to death. d. Blairquhan, Ayr 26 Dec. 1857.
HUNTER-BLAIR, James (1 son of preceding). b. Milton, Ayrshire 22 March 1817; ensign Scots fusilier guards 24 April 1835, captain 31 March 1848 to death; M.P. Ayrshire 22 July 1852 to death; killed when commanding his battalion at Inkerman 5 Nov. 1854.
HUNTINGDON, Francis Power Plantagenet Hastings, 13 Earl of (eld. child of 12 Earl of Huntingdon 1808–75). b. Gaultier cottage, Waterford 4 Dec. 1841; styled Lord Hastings 1841–75; matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 20 Jany. 1860; succeeded 13 Sep. 1875; master of harriers at Whitechurch, Waterford 1867–8, of fox hounds 1868–71; master of the Ormond and King’s county hunt 1872–5 and of the King’s county alone from 1875, the Land League ultimately mobbed his hounds and he sold the pack to a Canadian; speculated in land in Florida and visited that country. d. Shanavogue, King’s county 20 May 1885. Baily’s Mag. xxxi, 63–4 (1878), portrait, xliv, 295 (1885).
HUNTINGFORD, Rev. Henry (son of Rev. Thomas Huntingford, master of Warminster school, Wilts.) b. Warminster 19 Sep. 1787; ed. at Winchester and New coll. Ox., fellow 1807–14; fellow of Winchester 5 April 1814 to his death; B.C.L. 1814; prebendary of Colwall in Hereford cath. Dec. 1817; R. of Hampton Bishop, Herefordshire 1822 to death; canon residentiary of Hereford cath. 1822 to death; master of Ledbury hospital, Hereford 1867; published Pindari Carmina juxta examplar Heynianum...et Lexicon Pindaricum ex integro Dammii opere etymologico excerptum 1814, another ed. 1821; translated Romanist Conversations [By B. Pictet] 1826. d. Goodrest, Great Malvern 2 Nov. 1867. bur. Hampton Bishop. F. T. Havergal’s Fasti Herefordenses (1869) 61.
HUNTLY, George Gordon, 9 Marquis of (only son of 4 Earl of Aboyne 1726–94). b. Edinburgh 28 June 1761; ensign 1 foot guards; lieut. col. 35 foot April 1789 to 15 June 1789; captain Coldstream guards 15 June 1789 to 1792 when he sold out; col. of Aberdeenshire militia 1798 to death; succeeded his father as 5 Earl of Aboyne 28 Dec. 1794; a representative peer of Scotland 1796–1815; cr. baron Meldrum of Morven, co. Aberdeen in peerage of the U.K. 11 Aug. 1815; K.T. 10 May 1827; succeeded as 9 marquis of Huntly by decision of House of Lords 22 June 1838 on death of his kinsman the 8 Marquis 28 May 1836. d. 24 Chapel st. Grosvenor sq. London 17 June 1853.
HUNTLY, Charles Gordon, 10 Marquis of (eld. child of the preceding). b. Orton near Peterborough 11 Jany. 1792; styled Lord Strathaven 1792–1853; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., M.A. 1812; M.P. East Grinstead 1818–30; M.P. Hunts. 1830–31, contested Hunts. 1831; lord lieut. of Aberdeenshire 14 Feb. 1861 to death. d. Orton Longueville near Peterborough 17 Sep. 1863.
HUNTLEY, Sir Henry Vere (3 son of Rev. Richard Huntley of Boxwell court, Gloucs. 1776–1831). b. 1795; entered navy 10 March 1809; accompanied Napoleon to St. Helena in the Northumberland 8 Aug. to 15 Oct. 1815; employed in suppressing slave trade 1826–37; commander 28 June 1838; lieut. gov. of settlements on river Gambia 23 Dec. 1839; lieut. gov. of Prince Edward’s Island 20 Aug. 1841 to 26 Oct. 1847; knighted by patent 9 Oct. 1841; consul at Loanda, Aug. 1858; consul at Santos, Brazil, May 1862 to death; author of Peregrine scramble, or thirty years’ adventures of a bluejacket 2 vols. 1849; Observation on free trade policy in connection with the Sugar act 1846; Seven years’ service on the Slave coast 2 vols. 1850; California, its gold and its inhabitants 2 vols. 1856. d. Santos, Brazil 7 May 1864.
HUNTLEY, John. b. London 25 March 1805; a packer of bale goods; went to U.S. America 1832; prompter Richmond hill theatre, New York; acted in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Richmond, Cincinnati and Pittsburg, when he first undertook old men characters; stage manager for Ludlow and Smith at St. Louis 1848–53; travelled in America as an actor, prompter and manager 1853–63. Brown’s American stage (1870) 190.
HUNTLEY, Rev. Richard Webster (brother of Sir H. V. Huntley). b. 1793; ed. at Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1819; fellow of All Souls 1815–31, proctor 1824; V. of Alderbury, Salop 20 Jany. 1829 to death; R. of Boxwell and Leighterton 3 Dec. 1831 to death; one of the 3 priests who opposed Dr. R. D. Hampden’s election to bishopric of Hereford, both in Bow ch. 11 Jany. 1848 and in the queen’s bench 1 Feb.; rural dean of Hawkesbury and Bitton 1840–51; author of A letter to the archbishop of Canterbury on the ecclesiastical commission and the suppression of a bishoprick in North Wales 1843; A glossary of the Cotswold dialect illustrated by examples from ancient authors. Gloucester 1868. d. Boxwell court, Gloucs. 4 April 1857. The Year of the Church. By R. W. Huntley (1860). Memoir pp. vii-xviii.
HURDIS, James Henry (elder son of James Hurdis, poet 1763–1801). b. 1800 probably at Bishopston, Berks.; ed. at Southampton; spent a few years in France; articled to Charles Heath the engraver; lived at Newick near Lewes; etched many portraits of local notabilities and views of buildings in Sussex, some of which are in the Sussex Archæological Society’s collections; a friend of George Cruikshank. d. Southampton 30 Nov. 1857. M. A. Lower’s Worthies of Sussex (1865) 170.
HURDLE, Sir Thomas (son of James Hurdle). b. 1797; 2 lieut. R.M. 24 April 1812, lieut. col. 15 Aug. 1853; served at Navarino 1827, in Greece 1828, commanded brigade of R.M. in Crimea 1854–6; aide-de-camp to the queen 1855–7; col. commandant 20 Feb. 1857; retired on full pay 17 Nov. 1859; hon. major general 2 Dec. 1859; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 2 June 1877. d. Porchester, Fareham, 7 June 1889.
HURLSTONE, Edwin Tyrrell. b. 1806; barrister I.T. 31 Jany. 1834, went South-Eastern circuit; a revising barrister to death; author with John Gordon of Exchequer Reports 1854–56, 2 vols. 1855–56; with J. P. Norman of Reports of cases in the courts of Exchequer and Exchequer Chamber 1856–62, 7 vols. 1857–62; with F. J. Coltman of Reports of cases in the Courts of Exchequer and Exchequer Chamber 1862–65, 3 vols. 1863–66 and other Reports. d. Thanet place, Temple, London 29 Sep. 1881.
HURLSTONE, Frederick Yeates (1 son of Thomas Yeates Hurlstone a proprietor of the Morning Chronicle). b. London 1800 or 1801; pupil of Sir W. Beechey and Sir T. Lawrence; student of the R.A. 1820, silver medallist 1822, gold medallist 1823; exhibited 37 pictures at R.A., 19 at B.I. and 326 at Suffolk st. 1821–70; member of Society of British artists 1831, president 1835 and 1840 to death; awarded a gold medal at Paris exhibition 1855; 11 of his best works were re-exhibited at Soc. of British Artists 1870; author with others of Protest against the Report from the committee of the National gallery 1855; (m. 1836 Jane Coral an artist, who exhibited 6 pictures at R.A. and 23 at Suffolk st. 1846–56 and d. 2 Oct. 1858); he d. 9 Chester st. Belgrave sq. London 10 June 1869.
HURMAN, William. Studied at Univ. coll. London; pupil of Robert Liston; M.R.C.S. 1846; house surgeon Univ. coll. hospital; in practice at Windsor, Brighton and London; surgeon to 3rd Middlesex militia 11 Aug. 1865 to death; one of the best known men in the hunting, coaching and racing world; originator of the Badminton club, 100 Piccadilly, London 1876. d. 83 Grand parade, Brighton, Dec. 1883. Baily’s Mag. Jany. 1884 pp. 429–30.
HURST, Rev. Blythe. b. Winlaton, Durham 6 July 1801; a blacksmith at Winlaton; ordained by Bishop Maltby at Auckland castle, July 1842; C. of Alston, Cumberland 1844–6; V. of Collierley near Newcastle 1854 to death; taught himself French, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Syriac and Arabic; published Four sermons, Christianity no priestcraft 1840. d. Collierley 24 June 1882. Newcastle Weekly Chronicle 1 July 1882 p. 7 col. 5; I.L.N. lxxxi, 56 (1882), portrait.
HURST, Daniel, b. 1802 or 1803; publisher with Henry Blackett at 13 Great Marlborough st. London 1854 to death. d. Mitcham, Surrey 6 July 1870.
HURST, Samuel, b. Stalybridge, Lancashire 1832; champion wrestler of Lancashire; known as “The Stalybridge Infant”; 6 feet 2½ inches high and 15 stone in weight; matched with J. C. Heenan 1860 but engagement fell through; fought Tom Paddock for £200 a side near Aldermaston, Berkshire 5 Nov. 1860 when Hurst won in 5 rounds and obtained the champion belt; broke his leg by a fall 19 Nov. 1860; fought James Mace for £200 a side on one of the islands up the river Medway 18 June 1861 when Mace won in 8 rounds lasting 50 minutes and obtained the belt; kept the Wilton Arms tavern 4 Mayes st. Manchester about 1861–5, the Glass House tavern, Oldham road, Manchester about 1865–70. d. Mayfield cottage, Manchester 22 May 1882. Illust. sporting news (1862) 249, portrait; F. W. J. Henning’s Some recollections of the prize ring (1888) 140–9.
HURST, Rev. Thomas (son of Joseph Hurst). b. Lancashire about 1775; ordained a priest at Lisbon; priest in the English coll. at Lisbon when used for secular education 1807, professor 1813, procurator of the restored college 1834 to death; a minister in the British and Portuguese hospitals in Lisbon 1807–14; confessor to the Bridgettine nuns at Lisbon. d. Lisbon 31 March 1855. Gillow’s English Catholics iii, 490–1 (1887).
HUSBAND, William (eld. son of James Husband, surveyor for Lloyd’s Register at Falmouth d. 1857). b. Mylor near Falmouth 13 Oct. 1822; apprenticed to Harvey & Co. of Hayle, Cornwall, engineers 1839–43; mechanical engineer in charge of steam machinery on drainage works Haarlem lake, Holland 1845–9, planned and erected the half-weg engine, the lake when drained added 47,000 acres of rich soil to Holland; manager of business of firm of Harvey & Co. in London 1852–4, and at Hayle 1854–63, a partner 1863 to death; patented balance valve for water-work purposes, four-beat pump valve, Husband’s oscillating cylinder stamps, &c.; M.I.C.E. 1 May 1866; originated 8th Cornwall artillery volunteers 1860, captain 2 April 1860 to 6 May 1865. d. 26 Sion hill, Clifton 10 April 1887. bur. St. Erth, Cornwall 16 April. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. (1887) lxxxix 470–3.
HUSENBETH, Rev. Frederick Charles (son of Frederick Charles Husenbeth of Bristol, wine-merchant). b. Bristol 30 May 1796; ed. at Sedgly Park sch. Staffs. and St. Mary’s coll. Oscott; ordained R.C. priest 25 Feb. 1820; chaplain at Cossey hall, Norfolk 7 July 1820; missioner of St. Walstan’s chapel, Cossey 1841 to death; grand vicar of the Midland district 1827; created D.D. by Pius ix. 7 July 1850; provost of the chapter and vicar-general of diocese of Northampton 24 June 1852; wrote 1305 articles under initials of F.C.H. in Notes and Queries 4 Feb. 1854 to 2 Nov. 1872; published Breviarium Romanum suis locis interpositis officiis sanctorum Angliæ 4 vols. 1830; The Missal for the use of the laity 1837; Emblems of Saints by which they are distinguished in works of art 1850, 3 ed. 1882; The Holy Bible translated from the Latin Vulgate 2 vols. 1853 and 50 other books. d. the presbytery adjoining St. Walstan’s chapel at Cossey 31 Oct. 1872. Gillow’s English Catholics (1887) iii, 492–507.
HUSK, William Henry. b. London 4 Nov. 1814; clerk to Manning and Dalston and their successors, solicitors, London 1833–86; member of Sacred Harmonic Soc. Oct. 1834, hon. librarian 1853–82 when society was dissolved, wrote prefaces to word-books of Oratorios performed at Society’s concerts; author of Catalogue of library of Sacred Harmonic Society 1862, new ed. 1872; Account of the musical celebrations on St. Cecilia’s day in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries 1857; edited Songs of the Nativity [1866]; wrote many articles in Grove’s Dictionary of Music. d. 20 Westmoreland place, Pimlico, London 12 Aug. 1887.
HUSKISSON, Samuel (3 son of Wm. Huskisson of Oxley, Staffs). b. 1773; cornet 29 light dragoons 17 May 1799; served in Bengal 1799–1803; major 8 foot 4 July 1805; lieut.-col. 1 West India reg. 28 May 1807; lieut.-col. 9 garrison batallion 25 Sep. 1807 to May 1808; lieut.-col. 67 foot 16 June 1808 to 8 July 1824; general 11 Nov. 1851. d. 10 Mount st. Grosvenor sq. London 30 Dec. 1854.
HUSSEY, Rev. James Mc.Connell (5 son of William Hussey of Glasgow). b. 1819 or 1820; ed. at Exeter coll. Ox., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1857; C. of Atherstone, Warwickshire 1846–8; P.C. of St. James, Kennington, London 1848–54; afternoon preacher at the Foundling hospital 1854–61; V. of Ch. Ch. North Brixton 1855 to death; hon. canon of Rochester Jany. 1878 to death; rural dean of Kennington 1879–87 and 1889 to death; D.D. by archbp. of Canterbury Jany. 1881; author of Joy for the sorrowful or comfort in sickness 1855, 2 ed. 1856; Home. An essay 1878; Scandal and scandal-mongers 1879. d. Ch. Ch. vicarage, Cancel road, Vassal road, Brixton 19 May 1891. Daily Graphic 22 May 1891 p. 9, portrait.
HUSSEY, Rev. Robert (4 son of Rev. Wm. Hussey, R. of Sandhurst, Kent). b. 7 Oct. 1801; ed. at Westminster (King’s scholar 1816) and Ch. Ch. Ox., student 1821–46; double first class 1824, B.A. 1825, M.A. 1827, B.D. 1837; Greek reader 1832, censor and librarian 1835, catechist 1836, select preacher 1831 and 1846, proctor 1836, Whitehall preacher 1841–3; regius prof. of ecclesiastical history in univ. of Ox. 23 April 1842 to death; P.C. of Binsey near Oxford 1845 to death; author of An essay on the ancient weights and money 1836; An account of the Roman road from Alchester to Dorchester 1841; Sermons, mostly academical 1849; edited the histories of Socrates 1844, Evagrius 1844, Bæda 1846 and Sozomen 3 vols. 1860 and 15 other works. d. Beaumont st. Oxford 2 Dec. 1856. bur. Sandford on Thames. The Rise of the Papal power. Ed. by Jacob Ley (1863), Memoir pp. viii-xxvii.
HUTCHESON, Charles. b. Scotland 1792; taught music in Glasgow; published Christian Vespers, Glasgow 1832, containing Hymn tunes harmonised in 3 and 4 parts, and An essay on church music. d. Glasgow 1856.
HUTCHESON, Francis Deane. b. 1800; entered navy 13 Oct. 1813; captain 23 Nov. 1841; retired admiral 30 July 1875. d. 76 Shaftesbury road, West Hammersmith 21 Dec. 1875.
HUTCHESSON, Thomas. b. 1781; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 Dec. 1797; colonel 1 batt. R.A. 23 Nov. 1841 to 30 Aug. 1854; col. commandant 30 Aug. 1854 to death; L.G. 14 June 1856. d. Clarence lawn, Dover 28 Aug. 1857.
HUTCHINS, Edward John (eld. son of Edward Hutchins of Briton Ferry, co. Glamorgan). b. 1809; ed. at Charterhouse and St. John’s coll. Cam.; M.P. Penryn 23 Jany. 1840 to 23 June 1841; M.P. Lymington 30 April 1850 to 20 March 1857; contested Southampton 2 July 1841 and Poole 31 July 1847. d. Hastings 11 Feb. 1876. I.L.N. lxviii, 215 (1876).
HUTCHINSON, Charles Henry. Second lieut. Madras artillery 13 June 1834 and colonel 9 June 1868 to 5 Feb. 1870 when he retired on full pay; M.G. 5 Feb. 1870. d. 20 Westbourne park, London 27 Oct. 1873.
HUTCHINSON, Charles Waterloo, b. 18 June 1824; 2 lieut. Bengal engineers 9 June 1843; col. R.E. 1 April 1874, col. commandant 17 Dec. 1881 to death; general 28 Nov. 1885; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 16 Sep. 1886; author of Specimens of various vernacular characters passing through the post office in India, photozincographed. Calcutta 1877. d. 13 Kildare gardens, Bayswater, London 27 March 1890.
HUTCHINSON, George Rowan. Second lieut. R.E. 29 May 1832, captain 13 Dec. 1847 to death; superintendent of new harbour works at Holyhead, killed by explosion of powder there 25 Feb. 1851 though half a mile from where it took place. A.R. (1864) 14.
HUTCHINSON, John. b. Newcastle 1811; ed. at London univ.; assistant phys. to Hospital for consumption, Brompton; author of The spirometer and stethoscope and scale-balance, their use in discriminating diseases of the chest and their value in life-offices 1852. d. Fiji, Sandwich islands, July 1861.
HUTCHINSON, John Dyson. b. Halifax, Yorkshire 6 July 1822; ed. at Hipperholme gram. sch.; in business at Halifax, retired 1870; mayor of Halifax 1868 and 1871; M.P. Halifax 21 Feb. 1877, accepted the Chiltern hundreds Aug. 1882. d. 25 Redcliffe sq. South Kensington, London 25 Aug. 1882.