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BOUTFLOWER, Rev. Henry Crewe (son of John Johnson Boutflower of Salford, Manchester, surgeon). b. Salford 25 Oct. 1796; ed. at Manchester school 1807–15, and St. John’s coll. Cam., Hulsean theological prizeman 1816, B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; C. of Elmdon near Birmingham 15 April 1821; head master of Bury sch. Lancs. 6 May 1823 to 1857; P.C. of St. John’s Bury 1832–57; R. of Elmdon 1857 to death; author of The doctrine of atonement is agreeable to reason 1817, and of sermons; collected materials for a history of Bury. d. West Felton vicarage, Salop 4 June 1863. Admission register of Manchester school iii, 13–15 (1874).

BOUTFLOWER, Venerable Samuel Peach (eld. son of Charles Boutflower of Colchester, surgeon). b. 1815; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., scholar, 22 wrangler 1838, B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; P.C. of Brathay 1839–42 and 1856–67; C. of Seaforth 1842–56; V. of St. Lawrence Appleby 1867 to death; archdeacon and canon res. of Carlisle 1867 to death. d. The Abbey, Carlisle 22 Dec. 1882.

BOUVERIE, Rev. Edward (2 son of hon. Bartholomew Bouverie 1753–1835, M.P. for Downton). b. 15 Aug. 1783; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807; V. of Coleshill, Berks. 1808 to death; chaplain in ord. to the Sovereign 1819 to death; preb. of Preston in Sarum cathedral 16 Feb. 1826 to death. d. Coleshill vicarage 22 July 1874.

BOUVERIE, Everard William (eld. son of Edward Bouverie of Delapré abbey near Northampton 1767–1858). b. 13 Oct. 1789; ed. at Harrow and St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1812, M.A. 1816; cornet Royal horse guards 2 April 1812, lieut. col. 16 Sep. 1845 to Sep. 1853 when placed on h.p.; colonel 15 Hussars 17 July 1859 to death; general 9 April 1868; author of The horse-buyer’s guide, shewing the tricks of dealers 1853. d. Delapré abbey 18 Nov. 1871. Annual Register (1862) 149–53.

BOUVERIE, Rev. Frederick William Bryon. Educ. at College Bourbon, Paris 1844; C. of St. Peter Port. Guernsey 1850–57; Incumb. of St. Paul, Aberdeen 1858–69; Incumb. of French Anglican church of St. John, Bloomsbury st. London 1869 to death; author of Force et Faiblesse 1859; Life and its lessons, a tale 1859; Six short stories for short people 1861, new ed. 1868; Herbert Lovell 1862. d. 1884.

BOUVERIE, Sir Henry Frederick (youngest son of Edward Bouverie 1738–1810, M.P. for New Sarum). b. 11 July 1783; ed. at Eton; ensign 2 Foot Guards 23 Oct. 1799, major 18 Jany. 1820 to 27 May 1825; assistant adjutant general to 4 division of the army 1810; governor of Malta 1 Oct. 1836 to 14 June 1843; L.G. 28 June 1838; col. of 1 West India regiment 13 May 1842 and of 97 Foot 21 Nov. 1843 to death; K.C.B. 5 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 6 April 1852, G.C.M.G. 28 Sep. 1836. d. Woolbeding house near Midhurst, Sussex 14 Nov. 1852.

BOUVERIE, Venerable William Arundell (brother of Rev. Edward Bouverie). b. 6 Feb. 1797; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820, B.D. 1829; fellow of Merton coll.; R. of West Tytherley, Hants. 1829–39; R. of Denton, Norfolk 1839 to death; hon. canon of Norwich 1847 to death; archdeacon of Norfolk 20 Dec. 1850 to 1869. d. Denton rectory 23 Sep. 1877.

BOUVIER, Augustus Jules (son of Jules Bouvier of London, painter 1800–67). Painter of figure subjects in water colours in London; member of New Society of Painters in water colours 1853; exhibited 55 pictures at Suffolk st. gallery 1845–65. d. 56 Alexandra road, St. John’s Wood, London 20 Jany. 1881 aged 54.

BOVILL, George Hinton (son of Benjamin Bovill of Durnsford lodge, Wimbledon who d. 1864). b. London 1821; member of firm of Swayne and Co. of Millwall, makers of railway wheels and machinery; introduced important improvements in grinding of corn by use of an air blast and exhaust between the millstones 1849; connected with Millwall iron works; constructed the iron forts at Plymouth; took out a patent dated 5 June 1849 for ‘Improvements in the manufacture of flour,’ there was a very long litigation about this patent which lasted 12 years 1856–68 and cost £60,000, the judges not being able to settle meaning of the words “my invention relates only to sucking away the plenum of dusty air forced through the stones.” d. Malvern 9 May 1868. W. W. Wynne’s The Bovill patent 1873.

BOVILL, Sir William (brother of the preceding). b. Allhallows, Barking, London 26 May 1814; articled in office of Willis and Co. solicitors Tokenhouse yard; pupil of Wm. Fry Channell; practised as special pleader; barrister M.T. 15 Jany. 1841, bencher 1855, treasurer 1866; went the Home circuit; largely engaged in commercial cases in which he was unsurpassed; Q.C. 1855; M.P. for Guildford 28 March 1857 to 29 Nov. 1866; Petition of right act 23 and 24 Vict. cap. 34 and Partnership law amendment act 28 and 29 Vict. cap. 86 are known as Bovill’s acts; solicitor general 10 July 1866; knighted at Osborne 26 July 1866; serjeant at law 29 Nov. 1866; lord chief justice of Court of Common Pleas 29 Nov. 1866 to death; P.C. 28 Dec. 1866; F.R.S. 9 May 1867; hon. D.C.L. Ox. 1870; tried ejectment case of Tichborne v. Lushington 11 May 1871 to 6 March 1872 when he ordered the plaintiff to be indicted for perjury; he is one of the three clerks drawn by John Oxenford in his first dramatic piece My fellow clerks 1835. d. Combe house, near Kingston on Thames 1 Nov. 1873. I.L.N. xlix, 569 (1866), portrait, lxiii, 447, 614 (1873).

BOVILL, William John (only son of Wm. Bovill of Upper Tooting, Surrey, solicitor.) b. Dec. 1810; solicitor at Upper Tooting 1833–5 and at 24 Essex st. Strand, London 1835–46; barrister M.T. 29 Jany. 1847; admitted ad eundem at L.I. 31 Jany. 1850; Q.C. 8 Feb. 1872; bencher of L.I. 8 May 1872. d. Bath 3 March 1882.

BOWATER, Sir Edward (only son of Edward Bowater of Hampton Court Middlesex, admiral R.N.) b. St. James’s palace, London 13 July 1787; ed. at Harrow; ensign 3 Foot Guards 31 March 1804, major 12 Oct. 1826 to 10 Jany. 1837; served in Peninsula and at Waterloo; equerry to William iv, 1831–37; equerry to Prince Albert 1840–46; groom in waiting in ordinary to the Queen 3 March 1846; colonel 49 Foot 24 April 1846 to death; general 20 June 1854, K.C.H. 1837. d. Cannes, France 14 Dec. 1861. Miscellanea geneal. et herald. n.s. ii, 177–9; Martin’s Life of the Prince Consort v, 405, 417.

BOWDEN, Hannah (dau. of John Finch Marsh of Croydon). b. London 1823; wrote poetry in The Peace Advocate. (m. Sep. 1857 James Bowden, recording clerk of Society of Friends). d. Croydon 3 July 1859. Poetical remains of Hannah Bowden edited by her sister [Priscilla Marsh] 1860.

BOWDEN, Rev. John Edward (eld. son of John Wm. Bowden, of Wimbledon, Surrey who d. 15 Sep. 1844 aged 46). b. London 24 April 1829; ed. at Eton 1841–6 and Trin. coll. Ox.; joined Church of Rome 1848; novice at Oratory of St. Wilfrid’s Cotton hall, Staffs. 2 Feb. 1849, went to King Wm. st. Strand, London with the other Fathers May 1849; ordained priest 1852; edited Notes on doctrinal and spiritual subjects by F. W. Faber 2 vols. 1866; The spiritual works of Louis of Blois 1871; author of The life and letters of Frederick Wm. Faber 1869. d. the Oratory, Brompton, London 14 Dec. 1874.

BOWDICH, Edward Hope Smith (son of Thomas Edward Bowdich, African traveller 1791–1824). b. 16 Feb. 1822; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school 1829–38; entered Bombay army 1838; served in Persian campaign under Sir James Outram 1856–7, and Indian mutiny 1857–9; commandant 7 Bombay N.I. 1 Jany. 1862 to 31 Dec. 1874 when he retired on full pay; M.G. 23 Jany. 1875. d. 58 Harley st. London 5 Feb. 1882.

BOWDLER, Henry. Entered Madras army 1797; col. 21 N.I. 24 Dec. 1835 to death; M.G. 28 June 1838. d. Dublin 6 June 1851.

BOWDLER, Rev. Thomas (eld. son of John Bowdler of Eltham, Kent 1746–1823). b. 13 March 1780; ed. at Hyde Abbey sch. near Winchester and St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1803, M.A. 1806; C. of Leyton, Essex 1803–6; Incumbent of Hopton-Wafers, Salop 1806, of Ash, Kent 1809, of Ridley, Kent 1809, of Addington, Kent to 1832, and of St. Bartholomews, Sydenham 1832–43; sec. to Incorporated Church building society 1846 to death; preb. of St. Paul’s 7 Dec. 1849 to death; author of A pastor’s address to his flock 1818, 4 ed. 1822; Sermons on the nature, offices and character of Jesus Christ 2 vols. 1818–20; Quid Romæ faciam 1841, 2 ed. 1842; Sermons on the privileges, responsibilities and duties of members of the Gospel covenant 2 vols. 1845–46. d. 2 Onslow sq. Brompton, London 11 Nov. 1856. An account of a memorial to the late Rev. T. Bowdler with memoir 1858; G.M. ii, 241–2 (1857).

BOWEN, Francis Nathaniel Burton (son of Edward Bowen, chief justice of Canada). b. Canada 1822; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.B. 1854; assistant surgeon Coldstream Guards 22 Dec. 1854 to 2 Dec. 1859 when placed on h.p.; surgeon in Military school Dublin; practised in London 1862 to death; assisted Spencer Wells in his private practice; published some interesting papers 1866 on Cancer of the Peritoneum and Fatty degeneration of the walls of Ovarian Cysts. d. 28 Oct. 1868.

BOWEN, Herbert. Entered Bengal army 1795; lieut. col. commandant 51 N.I. 28 Nov. 1826; col. 34 N.I. 5 Jany. 1829 to 2 April 1834; col. 55 N.I. 2 April 1834 to 1842 and col. 19 N.I. 1842 to death; M.G. 28 June 1838; C.B. 20 July 1838. d. Montagu sq. London 16 Oct. 1851 aged 70.

BOWEN, Rev. Jeremiah. Educ. at All Souls’ coll. Ox., B.A. 1825; R. of West Lynn, Norfolk 1830–63; R. of Walton-Lewes, Norfolk 24 Feb. 1863 to death; author of The Resurrection defended against the objections of the Mental improvement society 1838; The war abroad and the Church at home 1854; Starlight and other poems by Walton Lewes pseud. 1869; St. Cross and other poems by Walton Lewes 1872. d. 1875.

BOWEN, Right Rev. John (son of Thomas Bowen, captain 85 Foot who d. 1844.) b. Court near Fishguard, Pembrokeshire 21 Nov. 1815; ed. at Haverfordwest; went to Canada April 1835; farmed land at Dunville on shores of Lake Erie 1835–42; entered at Trin. coll. Dublin Jany. 1843, B.A. 1847, LL.B. and LLD. 1857; ordained deacon in Ripon Cathedral 20 Sep. 1846, and priest 19 Sep. 1847; C. of Knaresborough 1848–50; R. of Orton Longueville, Hunts. 1853–57; Bishop of Sierra Leone 10 Aug. 1857 to death; consecrated at Lambeth 21 Sep. 1857; sailed for his diocese 26 Nov. 1857. d. Freetown, Sierra Leone 28 May 1859. Memorials of John Bowen compiled from his letters and journals by his sister 1862; G. M. vii, 187–8 (1859).

BOWER, George Henry Kerr. b. 1817; entered navy March 1828; commanded the Osborne yacht 1856–64; master attendant Gosport victualling yard 1 Dec. 1864 to 1869; retired captain 15 June 1870; knight of the Legion of Honour; C.B. 13 March 1867; author of Drops from the ocean, or life under the Pennant 1879. d. York crescent Lower Norwood 26 Aug. 1883.

BOWER, Harold Elyott. Paris correspondent of Morning Post 1848 to 1852 and of Morning Advertiser 1852 to death; killed Saville Morton, Paris correspondent of Morning Advertiser by stabbing him in Paris 1 Oct. 1852, tried in Paris for murder 27 Dec. 1852 when acquitted. d. 142 Rue de la Tour, Passy, Paris 8 Dec. 1884 aged 69. Annual Register (1852) 402–407.

BOWER, Joshua. Crown and bottle glass manufacturer at Hunslet near Leeds; one of the largest toll farmers in England, having at one time nearly all turnpikes between Leeds and London besides numerous others; took a conspicuous part in most of the political movements of his time; contested Leeds 17 Feb. 1834; a member of Leeds town council 1835 to death, and alderman Nov. 1844 to death; proprietor of extensive coal mines. d. Hillidge house Hunslet 7 Sep. 1855 aged 82.

BOWERBANK, James Scott (son of Edward Bowerbank of Bishopsgate, London, rectifying distiller). b. Bishopsgate July 1797; rectifying distiller in Bishopsgate 1817–47; a founder of London Clay Club 1836, Microscopical Society 1839, Ray Society 1844 and Palæontographical Society 1847; F.R.S. 17 Nov. 1842; built a museum at Highbury 1846; his magnificent natural history collection was sold to British Museum 1864; author of A history of the fossil fruits and seeds of the London clay 1840; A monograph of the British Spongiadæ 3 vols. 1864, and of 45 papers in scientific periodicals. d. 2 East Ascent, St. Leonards-on-Sea 9 March 1877. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xxxviii, 144–7 (1878).

BOWERS. Charles Robert. Cornet 13 Dragoons 18 Jany. 1810; captain 23 Foot 30 Dec. 1818 to 5 April 1820 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 10 March 1866. d. Little Tew Lodge, Oxfordshire 9 Oct. 1870.

BOWERS, Very Rev. George Hull (son of Francis Bowers). b. Staffordshire 1794; ed. at Pembroke gr. sch. and Clare coll. Cam., B.A. 1819, B.D. 1829, D.D. 1849; P.C. of Elstow Beds. 1819–32; select preacher to Univ. of Cam. 1830; R. of St. Paul’s Covent Garden, London 1831–47; joint founder with Rev. Charles Eaton Plater of Marlborough college 1843; dean of Manchester 19 June 1847 to 24 Sep. 1872; author of Sermons preached before the University of Cambridge 1830; A scheme for the foundation of schools for the sons of clergymen and others 1842; Pew rents injurious to the Church 1865. d. Leamington 27 Dec. 1872 in 79 year. R. Parkinson’s Old church clock 5 ed. 1880 p. lxxiv.

BOWERS, Rev. John. b. Chester 19 July 1796; Wesleyan minister in London 1834–40; a chief founder of Theological college at Didsbury near Manchester 1842, and governor 1843–64: Pres. of Wesleyan conference 1858–59. d. Southport 30 May 1866. Wesl. Meth. Mag. lxxxix, pt. 2, 942–3 (1866); J. Evan’s Lancashire authors (1850) 38–42.

BOWERYEM, George. b. England; went to United States 1854; a correspondent of The Tribune at Charleston and subsequently of Philadelphia Press with the army of the Potomac; published melodies of considerable merit; drowned near Newport News 12 July 1864 aged about 33.

BOWES, James Stuart. Edited Galignani’s Messenger in Paris 40 years; wrote Deeds of dreadful note and many other dramatic pieces for the London stage under pseudonym of Alfred Dubois. d. Paris 24 May 1864 aged 75.

BOWES, John (son of John Bowes of Swineside Coverdale, parish of Coverham, Yorkshire 1779–1853). b. Swineside 12 June 1804; joined Wesleyan Methodists 1817, and Primitive Methodists Dec. 1821; went from town to town preaching in the open air; pastor of the first church of Christian Mission in Dundee 20 April 1831; one of English representatives at Brussels peace congress 20–21 Sep. 1848; published two monthly magazines entitled The Christian Magazine and The truth promoter; author of Treatise on Christian Union 1835; The New Testament translated from the purest Greek 1870, and 220 Gospel and other tracts to instruct Christians. d. Westfield house, Dundee 23 Sep. 1874. The autobiography or history of the life of John Bowes 1872, portrait.

BOWES, John (natural son of John Bowes-Lyon 10 Earl of Strathmore 1769–1820). b. 19 July 1811; ed. at Eton; M.P. for South Durham 24 Dec. 1832 to 23 July 1847; began racing 1834, won Derby with Mundig 1835, gaining £19,000 besides stakes of £6,000, won Two thousand guineas with Meteor 1842, same race and Derby with Cotherstone 1843, Derby with Daniel O’Rourke 1852, and Two thousand guineas Derby and St. Leger with West Australian 1853, won Ascot cup with same horse 1854; the luckiest man on the turf and one of best judges of yearlings; oldest member of Jockey club; sheriff of Durham 1854; erected at Barnard Castle, Durham in memory of his first wife the “Josephine and John Bowes museum and park” at cost of £80,000 and gave art treasures to the museum, (m. (1) 1872 Josephine Benoite, Countess of Montalbo who d. 1874, m. (2) 1877 Alphonsina Marie de St. Amand, Comtesse de Courten of the Valais, Switzerland). d. Streatlam Castle near Gateshead 9 Oct. 1885. Sporting Review xl, 114–8 (1858); Illust. sp. and dr. news xxiv, 107, 114 (1885).

BOWES, Robert Aitken (son of John Bowes 1804–74). Editor of the Bolton Guardian. d. 7 Nov. 1879 aged 42.

BOWIE, James, b. London; entered service of Royal gardens, Kew 1810; botanical collector to the gardens 1814; collected plants and seeds in Brazil 1815–17, and in South Africa 1817–23; enriched gardens of Europe with greater variety of succulent plants than had ever been discovered by any traveller; gardener to Baron Ludwig of Ludwigsberg, Cape of Good Hope about 1829–41; made journeys into interior of South Africa to collect plants for sale. d. 1853.

BOWLBY, Thomas William (eld. child of Thomas Bowlby, captain R.A.) b. Gibraltar about 1817; articled to Russell Bowlby of Sunderland solicitor; member of firm of Lawrence, Crowdy and Bowlby solicitors 25 Old Fish st. Doctors Commons London 1846–54; arranged performances abroad for L. G. Jullien the musician; special correspondent of Times at Berlin 1848 and in China 1860 to death; shipwrecked in the Malabar at Point de Galle 22 May 1860; went with Admiral Hope to Tang-chow Aug. 1860; captured by Tartar general Sanko-lin-sin 18 Sep. 1860; died from effects of torture inflicted by Chinese, 22 Sep. 1860. bur. in Russian cemetery outside Antin gate of Pekin 17 Oct. Boulger’s History of China iii, 499–521 (1884); I.L.N. xxxvii, 615–6 (1860), portrait.

BOWLER, Thomas William b. in the Vale of Aylesbury; assistant astronomer under Sir T. Maclear at Cape Town 1833–7; an artist and teacher of drawing at Cape Town; painted a panorama of the district; made a number of drawings in Mauritius 1866; published Four views of Cape Town 1844; South African sketches 1854; The Kafir wars a series of 20 views 1865. d. England 24 Oct. 1869. Art Journal ix, 107 (1870).

BOWLES, Sir George (2 son of Wm. Bowles of Heale house, Wilts.) b. Heale house 1787; Ensign Coldstream Guards 20 Dec. 1804, major 31 Dec. 1839 to 30 May 1843 when placed on h.p.; served in the Peninsula 1808–14, in Flanders and France 1814–18, in the West Indies 1820–25, and in Canada 1837–43; commanded the troops in Lower Canada during rebellion of 1838; comptroller of household of Viceroy of Ireland 1843–5; master of the Queen’s household 4 April 1845 to July 1851; lieutenant of Tower of London 16 July 1851 to death; K.C.B. 22 July 1851, G.C.B. 24 May 1873; col. of 1 West India regiment 9 Sep. 1855 to death; general 9 Nov. 1862. d. 9 Berkeley St. Piccadilly London 24 May 1876. I.L.N. lxviii, 551 (1876), lxix, 255.

BOWLES, Rev. Henry Matthew John. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1846, M.A. 1851, M.A. Ox. 1856; C. of St. John Cheltenham 1851–54; R. of Framilode Gloucs. 21 Sep. 1854 to 1867; R. of St. Aldate’s Gloucester 15 April 1867 to death; author of Prayers for the dead 1873; Fasting communion 1873; Lawlessness 1874. d. Cathedral house, College gardens, Gloucester 6 Jany. 1884.

BOWLES, Rev. Joseph. Educ. at Magd. hall Ox., B.A. 1835, M.A. 1836, LLD. 1837, D.D. 1841; R. of Woodstock 1841–7; V. of Stanton-Lacey, Shropshire 1847 to death; author of Elegy on the death of the Princess Charlotte; Monody on the death of Sir John Throckmorton; Letters in vindication of the appointment of the Bishop of Hereford. d. 1879.

BOWLES, Sir William (eld. son of Wm. Bowles of Heale house, Wilts.) b. Heale house 1780; entered navy 9 Sep. 1796, captain 13 Oct. 1807; commander in chief on South American station 1816–20; comptroller general of the Coastguard July 1822 to Nov. 1841; a lord of the Admiralty 13 May 1844 to 13 July 1846; M.P. for Launceston 20 May 1844 to 1 July 1852; admiral 28 Nov. 1857; commander in chief at Portsmouth 1 March 1859 to 1 March 1860; admiral of the fleet 15 Jany. 1869 to death; C.B. 18 April 1839, K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862, F.R.G.S. 1833; author of Thoughts on national defence; Considerations on the late naval war 1856. d. 8 Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 2 July 1869. Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xl, pp. cxl-cxlii, (1870).

BOWLEY, Robert Kanzow (son of Mr. Bowley of Charing Cross, London, bootmaker). b. 13 May 1813; brought up to the bootmaking business; conductor of Benevolent society of musical amateurs; organist of an independent chapel near Leicester sq. about 1834; joined the Sacred harmonic society 1834, librarian 1837–54, treasurer 1854–70: originated in 1856 plan of the gigantic Handel festivals which have been held every three years at Crystal Palace since 1857; general manager of Crystal Palace 8 April 1858 to death; committed suicide by jumping into the Thames from a steamboat at Greenwich 25 Aug. 1870.

BOWLY, Samuel (son of Mr. Bowly of Bibury, Gloucs., miller). b. Cirencester 23 March 1802; a cheese factor at Gloucester 1829; chairman of many local companies; took a prominent part in agitation against the corn laws and against slavery; a founder of British and ragged schools in Gloucester; formed a teetotal society at Gloucester 30 Dec. 1835; pres. of National temperance league. d. Gloucester 23 March 1884. Sessions’s Life of S. Bowly 1884, portrait; The Public Good, Sep. and Oct. 1851, portrait.

BOWMAN, Eddowes (eld. son of John Eddowes Bowman of Wrexham, bank manager 1785–1841). b. Nantwich 12 Nov. 1810; ed. at Hazelwood near Birmingham; sub-manager of Varteg iron works near Pontypool about 1835–40; studied in Univ. of Glasgow and at Berlin; professor of classical literature and history in Manchester New College 1846 to 1853 when college was removed to London as a purely theological institution; F.R.A.S. 1864; built an observatory at Manchester; author of Arguments against the divine authority of the Sabbath considered and shown to be inconclusive 1842; On the Roman governors of Syria at the time of the birth of Christ 1855 and of many papers in the Christian Reformer. d. Victoria park, Manchester 10 July 1869. Unitarian Herald 16 July 1869; Hall’s History of Nantwich (1883) 505.

BOWMAN, Henrietta (dau. of Rev. John Bowman, P.C. of Burscough near Ormskirk Lancs.) b. Cumberland 1838; taught Bible classes for young ladies at Clifton and Southport; author of Life, its duty and discipline 1859; Christian daily life 1860, new ed. 1877; Our village girls 1863; Thoughts for workers and sufferers 1868; The autobiography of Elsie Ellis 1869, in which she describes her own childhood and girlhood; Lily Hope and her friends 1885. d. Southport 13 Feb. 1872. Songs amid the shadows by the late Hetty Bowman 2 ed. 1872; Woman’s Work in the great harvest field i, 137–40 (1872).

BOWMAN, John Eddowes (brother of Eddowes Bowman 1810–69). b. Welchpool 7 July 1819; ed. at King’s college London; demonstrator of chemistry at the college 1845 and professor of practical chemistry there 1851 to death; one of founders of Chemical society of London 1841; author of A lecture on steam boiler explosions 1845; An introduction to practical Chemistry 1848, 6 ed. 1871; A practical Handbook of medical chemistry 1850, 4 ed. 1862. d. 10 Feb. 1854. Chem. Soc. Journ. ix, 159 (1857).

BOWNESS, William. b. Kendal 1809; portrait and figure painter in London 1830; exhibited his ‘Keepsake’ at Royal Academy 1836 and about one picture annually until his death; exhibited 26 pictures at British Institution and 86 pictures at Suffolk st. gallery; author of Rustic studies in the Westmoreland dialect with other scraps from the sketch-book of an artist 1868. d. Charlotte st. Fitzroy sq. London 27 Dec. 1867.

BOWRING, Algernon Charles. b. Hackney, London 19 March 1828; ed. at London Univ. and Trin. coll. Cam.; joined Church of Rome 1850; entered Society of Jesus at Hodder 24 March 1850; professor of rhetoric at Stonyhurst college 1854; studied theology at St. Beuno’s college and then in the Roman college at Rome 1855 to death. d. the Roman College 18 Nov. 1857.

BOWRING, Sir John (eld. son of Charles Bowring of Larkbear Devon, serge manufacturer). b. Exeter 17 Oct. 1792; set up in business in London 1815; travelled abroad 1819–20; joint editor of Westminster Review 1824 and then sole editor; examined and reported on public accounts of Holland 1828 and France 1831; LLD. Univ. of Groningen 31 Jany. 1829; sec. to Commission for inspecting accounts of United Kingdom 1831; contested Blackburn 1832, M.P. for Kilmarnock 1835–37 and for Bolton 1841–49; British consul at Canton 10 Jany. 1849; plenipotentiary to China 24 Dec. 1853 to 17 April 1857; governor of Hong Kong 10 Jany. 1854; sent on special mission to Siam 12 March 1855; retired on a superannuation allowance 17 July 1859; knighted at Buckingham Palace 16 Feb. 1854; F.R.S. 5 June 1856; one of greatest linguists on record; author of Specimens of the Russian poets translated 1820; Minor morals for young people illustrated in tales and travels 2 vols. 1834–35; The kingdom and people of Siam 2 vols. 1857; The Oak, original tales and sketches 1869 and many other books. d. Claremont near Exeter 23 Nov. 1872. Bowring, Cobden and China a memoir by L. Moor 1857; Autobiographical recollections of Sir J. Bowring with a brief memoir by L. B. Bowring 1877; Sir J. Bowring’s The kingdom and people of Siam ii, 248–340 (1857), portrait; Illustrated Review i, 161–65, portrait; Dict. of Nat. Biog. vi, 76–80 (1886).

BOWSTEAD, Rev. John. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; V. of Messingham, Lincs. 1840–62; R. of St. Olave’s Southwark, London 1862 to death; author of The village wake 1846; Practical sermons 2 vols. 1856; Regeneration not salvation, a letter to Mr. Spurgeon 1864. d. 29 Jany. 1875 aged 64.

BOWYER, Cornelius. Entered Bengal army 1799, lieut. col. 9 July 1825, retired 20 May 1829; C.B. 26 Dec. 1826. d. Ostend 12 Feb. 1855.

BOWYER, Sir George, 6 and 2 Baronet. b. Radley house near Abingdon, Berkshire March 1783; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807; succeeded his father 6 Dec. 1799; M.P. for Malmesbury 8 May 1807 to Jany. 1810, for Abingdon 24 June 1811 to 10 June 1818; author of The resolution of the House of Commons in the last session of the late Parliament relative to the adjustment of the claims of the Roman Catholics considered 1813. d. Dresden 1 July 1860.

BOWYER, Sir George, 7 and 3 Baronet (eld. son of the preceding). b. Radley house 8 Oct. 1811; barrister M.T. 7 June 1839, reader 1850; hon. M.A. Ox. 1839, hon. D.C.L. 1844; contested Reading 1849; M.P. for Dundalk 1852–68, and for co. Wexford 1874–80; expelled from Reform Club by a vote of two-thirds at a general meeting 23 June 1876 for his frequent voting against Liberal party; joined Church of Rome 1850; chamberlain to Pope Pius ix; built church of St. John of Jerusalem Great Ormond st. Bloomsbury, London; a knight of Malta; knight grand cross of order of St. Gregory the Great; author of A dissertation on the statutes of the cities of Italy 1838; Commentaries on the modern civil law 1848; Lombardy, the Pope and Austria 1848; Commentaries on universal public law 1854; Friends of Ireland in council—Sir George Bowyer, W. H. Wilberforce, J. P. Hennessey 1864; Introduction to the study and use of the civil law 1874; found dead in his bed at 13 King’s Bench Walk Temple, London 7 June 1883. Rev. T. Mozley’s Reminiscences ii, 231–5 (1882); I.L.N. xxxvi, 548 (1860), portrait.

BOWYER, Henry George (brother of the preceding). b. 3 Jany. 1813; inspector of schools 28 Sep. 1847. d. Leamington 26 Sep. 1883.

BOWYER, James. Member of many private clubs in London such as the Blenheim, the Socials, the Watsonians’ and the Hollywoods’; a well known whist player of the very old school. d. 17 Tavistock sq. London 11 Jany. 1871 aged 72.

BOWYER, John. b. Mitcham, Surrey 18 June 1790; a print cutter at Mitcham where he lived all his life; came out as a professional cricketer in the match Surrey against England at Lords 16–18 July 1810 where he played in many great matches till 1828; played in 6 matches of England against an eleven whose names all began with B.; played at Mitcham till 1838. d. Mitcham 3 Feb. 1880. F. Gale’s Echoes from old cricket fields (1871) 20–29; Illust. sporting and dramatic news ix, 483 (1878), portrait.

BOWYER, William Bohun. b. 1 Aug. 1789; entered navy 9 May 1803; inspecting commander in coast guard 14 Feb. 1817 to April 1828; captain 17 Feb. 1830; retired R.A. 9 July 1855. d. Southampton 8 Oct. 1859.

BOX, Thomas. b. Ardingly, Sussex 7 Feb. 1809; played cricket 1825–54, 30 seasons; first played at Lords 25 June 1832 in Sussex against England; played in 43 great matches 1851; the best wicket keeper in England; kept the Hanover Arms and Ground in Lewes road Brighton, then the Egremont hotel in Western road Brighton, then Brunswick cricket ground and hotel at Hove; ground keeper at Prince’s cricket ground London from date of formation of that club to death. d. suddenly on Prince’s cricket ground 12 July 1876. W. Denison’s Cricket (1846) 16–17; I.L.N. iii, 45 (1843), portrait.

BOXALL, Sir William (son of Thomas Boxall of Oxford, Clerk to the Collector of Excise). b. Oxford 29 June 1800; ed. at Abingdon gr. sch. and Royal Academy 1819–27; lived in Italy 1827–9; exhibited 86 pictures at R.A. 1823–80; designed several illustrations for Waverley novels; painted portraits of many literary and artistic celebrities; many of his portraits of females were engraved in art publications; A.R.A. 1851, R.A. 1863; director of National Gallery Dec. 1865 to Feb. 1874; knighted at Windsor Castle 24 March 1871. d. 14 Welbeck st. Cavendish sq. London 6 Dec. 1879. Fortnightly Review xxvii, 177–89 (1880); Waagen’s Galleries of art (1857) 196–8; I.L.N. xliii, 80, 94 (1863), portrait.

BOXER, Edward. b. Dover 1784; entered navy 1 July 1798; captain 23 June 1823; C.B. 18 Dec. 1840; agent for transports and harbour master at Quebec 24 Aug. 1843 to 5 March 1853; R.A. 5 March 1853; admiral superintendent in the Bosphorus 7 April 1854 and at Balaklava 18 Dec. 1854 to death; gazetted K.C.B. 10 July 1855. d. of cholera on Board H.M.S. Jason outside harbour of Balaklava 4 June 1855 in 72 year. I.L.N. xxvi, 644 (1855).

BOYCE, Rev. James. b. Ardagh, co. Longford; ed. at St. John’s coll. Fordham New York, ordained priest 1854; pastor of St. Mary’s Roman Catholic church N.Y. 1854–63 and of St. Teresa’s church 21 June 1863 to death; founded St. Teresa’s Male academy at 10 Rutgers st. N.Y. 1865 and established a convent for girls at 139 Henry st. 1872. d. New York 9 July 1876 aged 50. J. G. Shea’s Catholic churches of New York city (1878) 674–8.

BOYCE, Joseph (3 son of James Boyce of Kilcason, Ferns, co. Wexford). b. 1795; a merchant at Dublin; lord mayor of Dublin 1855; sheriff of city and county of Dublin 1865. d. 1875.

BOYD, Very Rev. Archibald (son of Archibald Boyd of Gortlee and Derry, treasurer of Donegal). b. Londonderry 1803; ed. at diocesan college Londonderry and Trin. coll. Dub., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1832, B.D. and D.D. 1868; C. and preacher in Derry Cathedral 1827–42; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Cheltenham 1842–59; hon. canon of Gloucester cath. 1857–67; P.C. of Paddington 1859–67; rural dean 1860–67; dean of Exeter 11 Nov. 1867 to death; author of Sermons on the Church 1838; Episcopacy and Presbytery 1841; The history of the Book of Common Prayer 1850; Turkey and the Turks 1853; Baptism and baptismal regeneration 1865. d. the deanery Exeter 11 July 1883. Bequeathed nearly £40,000 to societies and institutions in diocese of Exeter. A golden decade of a favoured town by Contem Ignotus (1884) 70–102.

BOYD, Benjamin (2 son of Edward Boyd of Merton hall, Wigtonshire who d. 1846). b. about 1796; a stockbroker in City of London 1824–39; went out to Sydney to organise various branches of Royal Banking Company of Australia 1840–41; speculated largely in whaling also in shipping cattle to Tasmania and New Zealand; founded Boyd Town, Twofold Bay N.S.W.; the largest squatter in Australia having in 1847 estates of his own amounting to 381,000 acres; went to California 1850; murdered by the natives at Gaudalcanar one of the islands in the Solomon Group 1851. Heads of the people i, 21 (1847), portrait; J. H. Heaton’s Australian dictionary of dates (1879) 23–4.

BOYD, Charles. Commissioner of customs in Ireland; surveyor general of customs for the United Kingdom 1840 to 1855. d. Brixton, London 7 May 1857 aged 76.

BOYD, David. Superintending surgeon Madras army 8 Dec. 1837, surgeon genl. 19 Aug. 1846 to 1 Aug. 1850 when he retired. d. 26 Drummond place, Edin. 25 Oct. 1854 aged 61.

BOYD, Sir Harley Hugh, 5 Baronet. b. Drumawillen house, co. Antrim 2 Nov. 1853; succeeded 7 Aug. 1857. d. 2 June 1876.

BOYD, Rev. James (son of Mr. Boyd of Paisley, glover). b. Paisley 24 Dec. 1795; ed. at Paisley and Univ. of Glasgow; licensed to preach by Presbytery of Dumbarton May 1822; House Governor of Heriot’s hospital Edinburgh 1825 to 29 Aug. 1829; one of Classical masters in high sch. Edin. 19 Aug. 1829 to death; sec. to Edinburgh Society of teachers many years. d. George sq. Edinburgh 18 Aug. 1856. W. S. Dalgleish’s Memorials of the high school of Edinburgh (1857) 31, 46–7, portrait; History of Dr. Boyd’s fourth High school class with biographical sketch of Dr. Boyd by James Colston, 2 ed. 1873.

BOYD, Rev. James. Licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 28 June 1815; ordained 11 Feb. 1818; minister of Auchinleck 24 Nov. 1818, of Ochiltree 27 March 1833 and of Tron church Glasgow 28 March 1844 to death; D.D. Glasgow 1845. d. 27 March 1865 in 79 year. Our Scottish Clergy, (2 series 1849) 51–58.

BOYD, James. b. Drogheda, Ireland; proprietor and editor of the Panama Star and Herald 1865 to death. d. Panama 25 April 1882 aged 43.

BOYD, Sir John, 3 Baronet. b. 5 June 1786; ensign 5 Foot 8 July 1808; lieut. 1 Garrison battalion 1811–1814 when placed on h.p.; succeeded 30 May 1815. d. Boulogne 19 Jany. 1855.

BOYD, John (son of John Boyd of Belle Isle, co. Antrim). b. Rose-yard, co. Antrim 1789; M.P. for Coleraine 18 Feb. 1843 to March 1852 and 30 March 1857 to death. d. 2 Jany. 1862.

BOYD, Sir John Augustus Hugh, 4 Baronet. b. 30 July 1819; succeeded 19 Jany. 1855. d. 7 Aug. 1857.

BOYD, John M’Neill (brother of Very Rev. Archibald Boyd). b. Londonderry 1812; entered navy 1825; second captain of Royal George 120 guns 1853–6; served in the Baltic campaign; captain 10 May 1856, captain of Ajax 60 guns coastguard ship at Kingstown 1 Feb. 1858 to death; author of A manual for naval cadets 1857. Drowned while attempting to rescue crew of a vessel wrecked near Kingstown harbour 9 Feb. 1861. Life in death a sermon preached on board H.M.S. Ajax on Sunday Feb. 17, 1861 by the Lord Bishop of Labuan with a memoir of J. M. Boyd by his brother 1861.

BOYD, Mark (4 son of Edward Boyd of Merton hall, Wigtonshire who d. 1846). b. Surrey 1805; director in London of a Scotch Insurance Office; engaged in colonization of Australia and New Zealand 1843–53; author of Reminiscences of fifty years 1871; Social Gleanings 1875. (m. 23 Sep. 1848 Emma Anne widow of Robert Coates, better known as Romeo Coates the eccentric actor, she d. 1872). d. 16 St. George’s place, Hyde park, London 12 Sep. 1879.

BOYD, Mossem. Entered Bengal army 1795; lieut. col. commandant 65 N.I. 13 May 1825; colonel of 5 N.I.; colonel of 53 N.I. to death; general 9 April 1856. d. 6 Dawson place Bayswater, London 8 April 1865 aged 84.

BOYD, Percy. Great friend of Dickens and Thackeray; author of A book of ballads from the German 1848. d. London 1 Jany. 1876.

BOYD, Robert. M.R.C.S. 1830, M.D. Edin. 1831, L.R.C.P. 1836, F.R.C.P. 1852; resident phys. at Marylebone workhouse infirmary; phys. and superintendent of Somerset county lunatic asylum; proprietor and manager of Southall Park private asylum; pres. of Med. Psychol. Assoc. 1870; contributed 16 papers to the Journal of Mental Science and papers to Royal medical and chirurgical transactions, Edinburgh Medical Journal and the Lancet; lost his life in a fire which destroyed his asylum at Southall Park 14 Aug. 1883. Lancet ii, 352–3 (1883); Medical times and gazette ii, 249–50 (1883).

BOYD, William. Called to Irish bar 1818; Q.C. 7 Feb. 1849; recorder of Londonderry to death. d. 1855.

BOYD, William (3 son of Richard Keown of Downpatrick). b. Dublin March 1816; sheriff of co. Down 1849; M.P. for Downpatrick 5 Aug. 1867 to 26 Jany. 1874; assumed name of Boyd 1873. d. Carrowdore castle, co. Down 19 Jany. 1877.

BOYES, John Frederick (son of Benjamin Boyes of Charterhouse sq. London). b. 10 Feb. 1811; entered Merchant Taylors’ school Oct. 1819; scholar of Linc. coll. Ox. 1828; Andrews’ civil law exhibitioner at St. John’s coll. 1829, B.A. 1833, M.A. 1835; second master of proprietary school Walthamstow, then head master; author of Illustrations of tragedies of Æschylus and Sophocles from the Greek, Latin and English poets 1844; English repetitions in prose and verse 1849; Life and Books, a record of thought and reading 1859; Lacon in council 1865. d. 10 St. James’s terrace, Harrow road, London 26 May 1879. Preface and appendix to Sermon by Rev. J. G. Tanner 1879.

BOYLE, Alexander (2 son of David Boyle lord chief justice of Scotland). b. 9 March 1810; entered navy 4 Sep. 1823; commander of Thunderbolt steam sloop at Cape of Good Hope 27 Dec. 1845, lost his ship in Algoa Bay Feb. 1847 for which he was dismissed service 4 May 1847 but restored Jany. 1849; captain 8 Aug. 1857; retired V.A. 2 Aug. 1879. d. 17 Prince’s Gardens London 8 June 1884.

BOYLE, Caroline Courtenay. b. 26 May 1803; maid of honour to Queen Adelaide many years; granted civil list pension of £100, 30 Oct. 1850. d. 23 Jany. 1883.

BOYLE, Courtenay Edmund William. b. 3 Aug. 1800; entered navy 7 Sep. 1816; captain 27 May 1830; groom of the chamber to Prince Albert 1840; retired captain 1 Oct. 1850; retired R.A. 27 Sep. 1855. d. Rue Faubourg St. Honoré Paris 11 Feb. 1859.

BOYLE, David (2 son of Patrick Boyle of Shewalton, Ayrshire who d. 26 Feb. 1798.) b. Irvine, Ayrshire 26 July 1772; ed. at Univ. of Edin; member of Faculty of Advocates 14 Dec. 1793; solicitor general for Scotland 9 May 1807; M.P. for Ayrshire 5 June 1807 to Feb. 1811; a lord of Session and Justiciary 23 Feb. 1811; lord justice clerk 15 Oct. 1811; P.C. 11 April 1820; lord justice general of Scotland and lord president of Court of Session 9 Oct. 1841 to May 1852; distinguished for his personal appearance, there are full-length portraits of him by Sir J. W. Gordon at Faculty of Advocates and at Society of Writers to the Signet Edinburgh. d. Shewalton 30 Jany. or 6 Feb. 1853. I.L.N. xxii, 76, 134 (1853), portrait.

BOYLE, John (2 son of Edmund Boyle 8 Earl of Cork 1767–1856). b. Wimpole st. London 13 March 1803; ed. at Winchester and Ch. Ch. Ox, B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; M.P. for co. Cork 4 Dec. 1827 to 24 July 1830, and for Cork city 11 Aug. 1830 to 3 Dec. 1832. d. Rock Wood, Torquay 6 Dec. 1874.

BOYLE, Robert (son of Mr. Boyle of Hamilton Lanarkshire, surgeon). b. Hamilton 1821; started a bakery for manufacture of pure bread at Glasgow; lectured for missionary purposes in Scotland; invented a new description of detonating powder 1866 which was reported upon favourably by principal military authorities; invented an ink which is perfectly inerasable; invented the Self-Acting Air-pump ventilator which was awarded highest and only prize given to roof ventilators by judges at International Medical and Sanitary Exhibition 1881. d. 2 Sep. 1878. Robert Boyle inventor and philanthropist a biographical sketch by L. Saunders 1885, portrait.

BOYLE, Robert Edward (brother of John Boyle 1803–74). b. London March 1809; ensign 68 Foot 14 Nov. 1826; captain Coldstream guards 10 Dec. 1847 to death; secretary to Order of St. Patrick 1837–53; groom in waiting to the Queen 1846–52 and 1853 to death; secretary to master general of the Ordnance Dec. 1853 to death; M.P. for Frome 30 July 1847 to death. d. Varna 3 Sep. 1854.

BOYLE, Robert Frederick. b. 13 June 1841; ed. at Ball. coll. Ox., B.A. 1864, M.A. 1866; fellow of All Souls’ coll.; barrister M.T. 17 Nov. 1866; inspector of schools 16 May 1871. d. Florence 15 May 1883.

BOYLE, William. b. 25 Jany. 1821; ensign 15 Foot 6 Dec. 1838; lieut. col. 89 Foot 13 Oct. 1858 to death; C.B. 20 May 1871. d. 10 Craven hill gardens, London 14 Feb. 1874.

BOYLE, William George. b. Dublin 12 Aug. 1830; 2 lieut. 21 Foot 9 Feb. 1849; captain Coldstream guards 24 Nov. 1863 to 1867; lieut. col. 2 Somerset militia 23 March 1868 to 12 Sep. 1870; M.P. for Frome 23 July 1856 to 21 March 1857; F.C.S., F.G.S. d. San Francisco 22 April 1880.

BOYLE, William Robert Augustus. Barrister L.I. 24 Nov. 1835; author of A practical treatise on the law of charities 1837; Inspiration of book of Daniel 1863; The tribute of Assyria to biblical history 1868; Literature under the shade of Great Britain 1870, 2 ed. 1870. d. 7 Church st. Kensington 20 May 1875.

BOYNE, Gustavus Hamilton, 6 Viscount. b. 12 April 1777; succeeded 29 Feb. 1816. d. 22 Belgrave sq. London 30 March 1855.

BOYNE, Gustavus Hamilton-Russell, 7 Viscount (son of the preceding). b. Downton hall near Ludlow 11 May 1797; assumed name of Russell by r.l. 1850; created Baron Brancepeth of Brancepeth, co. palatine of Durham 31 Aug. 1866. d. Brancepeth castle, co. Durham 29 Oct. 1872.

BOYNTON, Sir Henry, 9 Baronet. b. St. James’s st. Westminster 22 March 1778; succeeded 17 Nov. 1832. d. Burton Agnes, Yorkshire 29 Aug. 1854.

BOYNTON, Sir Henry, 10 Baronet. b. Nafferton hall, Yorkshire 2 March 1811; succeeded 29 Aug. 1854. d. Burton Agnes 25 June 1869.

BOYS, Edward (son of John Boys of Betteshanger, Kent, agriculturist 1749–1824). b. 1785; entered navy 1796; a prisoner in France 1803–9; superintendent of Deal dockyard 16 Sep. 1837 to 1841; retired captain 1 July 1851; author of Narrative of a captivity and adventures in France and Flanders 1827, which is the source from which Captain Marryat in his novel Peter Simple drew much of the account of his hero’s escape; Remarks on the practicability and advantages of a Sandwich or Downs harbour 1831. d. 14 Blomfield terrace, Harrow road, London 6 June 1866 in 82 year.

BOYS, Henry, b. 1806; composed a few glees and songs, best known being Friar Tuck a glee for 3 voices 1842. d. Margate 1851.

BOYS, Rev. Richard (brother of Edward Boys 1785–1866). b. 1783; ed. at King’s school Canterbury and C.C. coll. Cam., B.A. 1807, M.A. 1818; chaplain at St. Helena 1811–29; P.C. of Platt, Kent 1849–54; P.C. of Loose, Kent 1854 to death; author of Elements of Christian knowledge 1838; Primitive obliquities 1851. d. Loose 13 Feb. 1866.

BOYS, Rev. Thomas (son of Thomas Boys of Sandwich, Kent, rear admiral R.N.) b. Sandwich 1792; ed. at Tonbridge gr. sch. and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1813, M.A. 1817; attached to the military chest in the Peninsula under Wellington 1813; wounded in 3 places at battle of Toulouse 10 April 1814; teacher of Hebrew to Jews at Hackney college 1830–2; professor of Hebrew at Missionary college Islington 1836; Inc. of Holy Trinity, Hoxton 22 Feb. 1848 to death; translated the Bible into Portugese 1813, his version has been adopted both by Protestants and Roman Catholics; author of Tactica Sacra 1824; Plain exposition of the New Testament 1827. d. 23 Leighton road, Kentish town, London 2 Sep. 1880.

BOYS, Thomas Shotter. b. Pentonville, London 2 Jany. 1803; articled to George Cooke, engraver; a member of Institute of Painters in water colours; exhibited 2 pictures at Royal Academy and 14 at Suffolk st. gallery 1824–58; lithographed the works of David Roberts and Clarkson Stanfield 1837; published Picturesque architecture in Paris 1839 which was much admired; Original views of London as it is 1843; drew illustrations to Blackie’s History of England; etched some plates for Ruskin’s Stones of Venice. d. of paralysis at 30 Acacia road, Marylebone, London 10 Oct. 1874.

BRABAZON, Luke (elder son of Hugh Higgins of Brabazon park, co. Mayo who d. 26 April 1864 aged 63). b. 23 March 1832; 2 Lieut. R.A 20 June 1849; second captain 23 Aug. 1855 to death; deputy assistant quartermaster general; changed his name to Brabazon 1854; author of Soldiers and their science 1860; went with admiral Hope to Tang-chow, China Aug. 1860, captured by Tartar general San-ko-lin-sin 18 Sep. 1860; executed by the Chinese on the bridge at Palikao 21 Sep. 1860. Boulger’s History of China iii, 499–521 (1884).

BRACEBRIDGE, Charles Holte (only son of Abraham Bracebridge of Atherstone hall, Atherstone, Warws. who d. 21 Aug. 1832). b. 19 March 1799; ed. at Merton coll. Ox.; went with Florence Nightingale to Constantinople Oct. 1854; author of A letter on the affairs of Greece 1850; Shakespeare no deerstealer, or a short account of Fulbroke park near Stratford-on-Avon 1862. d. of heart disease at Atherstone hall 13 July 1872.

BRACKENBURY, Sir Edward (2 son of Richard Brackenbury of Aswardby, co. Lincoln). b. 1785; ensign 61 Foot 1803, served in Peninsula 1809–14; attached to Portuguese and Spanish army 1814–16; major 28 Foot 1 Nov. 1827 to 31 Jany. 1828 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. 10 Jany. 1837; retired from the service 1847; K.T.S. 1824, K.S.F.; knighted at Windsor Castle 26 Aug. 1836. d. Skendleby hall near Spilsby, co. Lincoln 1 June 1864.

BRACKENBURY, Rev. Joseph. b. Langton, Lincolnshire 1788; a student at C.C. coll. Cam. 28 Oct. 1808, B.A. 1811, M.A. 1819; chaplain Madras establishment 1812–19; chaplain and secretary to Magdalen hospital Blackfriars road London 1828–56; R. of Quendon, Essex 1862 to death; author of Natale solum and other poetical pieces 1810. d. Quendon rectory 31 March 1864.

BRACKENRIDGE, George Weare (eld. son of George Brackenridge of Brislington near Bristol, merchant). b. Hanover county, Virginia 4 Jany. 1775; ed. at Dr. Estlin’s school Bristol, England; partner in a leading West India firm; lived at Brislington 1824 to death; formed a good collection of Coleoptera and organic remains; gave greater portion of building fund for Christchurch, Clevedon, also a permanent endowment for church which was consecrated 1839. d. Brislington 11 Feb. 1856. Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. of London xiv, 60–62 (1858).

BRADBURY, Henry (eld. son of the succeeding). A pupil at Imperial printing office Vienna 1850 where he learnt process of Nature printing which he claimed afterwards to have invented; founded a business in Fetter lane, London which he moved to Farringdon st. and carried on under name of Bradbury, Wilkinson and Co.; produced nature printed plates to Moore and Lindley’s Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland 1855 and Johnstone’s British sea weeds 4 vols. 1860–1; author of Printing, it’s dawn, day, and destiny 1858; Autotypography or art of nature printing 1860; Specimens of bank note engraving 1860; committed suicide by drinking prussic acid in Cremorne gardens, London 1 Sep. 1860 aged 30.

BRADBURY, William. Printer at 76 Fleet st. London 1824; publisher with F. M. Evans in Whitefriars st. 1830; published The Christmas carol 1843; Punch 1843 to death, the Daily News 1846 to death; joint proprietor with C. Dickens, J. Forster and W. H. Wills of Household Words 1850–59; proprietor of Gent. Mag. 1866–70. d. 13 Upper Woburn place, London 11 April 1869 in 70 year. Reg. and mag. of biog. i, 485 (1869); C. Beavan’s Reports of cases in chancery xxvii, 53–61 (1861).

BRADDYLL, Edward Stanley Bagot Richmond Gale. b. 1803; contested North Durham 21 Dec. 1832; fought a duel with Russell Bowlby at Offerton lane near Herrington, Durham 27 Sep. 1832 and another with Sir Hedworth Williamson, Bart. at the Hare and Hounds on the Sedgefield road same day. d. Windermere Bank, Bowness, Ambleside 2 Sep. 1874 aged 71. Sykes’s Local Records ii, 397–8 (1833).

BRADEN, Rev. William. b. Marylebone, London 22 Nov. 1840; ed. at Maida Hill gr. sch. and Cheshunt coll.; Congregational minister at St. Alban’s 1861 at Hillhouse chapel Huddersfield 1866 and at the King’s Weigh house chapel, London Jany. 1871 to death; edited the English Independent; author of The beautiful gleaner, A Hebrew pastoral story 1872; Our social relationships 1876. d. Clapton, London 20 July 1878. Sermons by the Rev. W. Braden, edited by Agnes Braden 1880; J. Waddington’s Congregational history v, 598–602 (1878).

BRADFIELD, Henry Joseph Steele (son of Thomas Bradfield of Derby st. Westminster, coal merchant). b. Derby st. Westminster 18 May 1805; left England in the schooner Unicorn as surgeon under Lord Cochrane 26 April 1826; sous lieutenant in Bataillon Etranger of Belgium 1 Sep. 1832; stipendiary magistrate in Tobago 31 Dec. 1835, removed to Trinidad 13 May 1836, re-appointed to the Southern or Cedros district 13 April 1839; private sec. to Lieutenant Governor of Dominica 1841, colonial sec. in Barbados 1842; author of Waterloo or the British minstrel a poem 1825; The Athenaid or modern Grecians a poem 1830; Tales of the Cyclades and other poems 1830; committed suicide by drinking a bottle of prussic acid in coffee room of St. Albans hotel, 12 Charles st. St. James’s sq. London 11 Oct. 1852. G.M. xxxix, 102 (1853); Morning Post 13 Oct. 1852 p. 4 and 15 Oct. p. 6.

BRADFORD, George Augustus Frederick Henry Bridgeman, 2 Earl of. b. 23 Oct. 1789; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1810; succeeded 7 Sep. 1825. d. Weston park Shiffnal, Salop 22 March 1865.

BRADFORD, Sir Thomas (son of Thomas Bradford of Ashdown park, Sussex). b. 1 Dec. 1777; ensign of an Independent company 20 Oct. 1793; commanded a brigade of Portuguese army 1810–13, and a division 1813–14; lieut. col. of 34 Foot 18 May 1809, and of 82 Foot 21 Dec. 1809 to 1815; commanded seventh division of the army of occupation in France 1815–17; commanded the troops in Scotland 1819–25; colonel of 94 Foot 1 Dec. 1823, of 30 Foot 16 April 1829 and of 4 Foot 7 Feb. 1846 to death; commander in chief in Bombay 20 July 1825 to 17 May 1829, assumed command 3 May 1826; general 23 Nov. 1841; K.C.B. 5 Jany. 1815; G.C.B. 15 Feb. 1838; G.C.H. 1831. d. 13 Eaton sq. London 28 Nov. 1853. United Service Mag. 1854 part 1 p. 157.

BRADFORD, Rev. William. R. of Storrington, Sussex 1811 to death; chaplain in ordinary to the Sovereign 1821 to death. d. Storrington rectory 13 June 1857 aged 77.

BRADLEY, Rev. Charles (elder son of Thomas Bradley of Wallingford). b. Halstead, Essex Feb. 1789; took pupils 1810–25; a member of St. Edmund hall Ox.; C. of High Wycombe, Bucks. 1812–25; V. of Glasbury, Brecknockshire 1825 to death; P.C. of St. James’s Clapham, London 1829–53; very eminent as a preacher; author of Sermons 1818, 11 ed. 1854; Sermons 1825, 9 ed. 1854; Practical sermons 2 vols. 1836–8; Sacramental sermons 1842; Sermons on the Christian life 1853. d. Cheltenham 16 Aug. 1871 aged 82. A selection from the sermons of Rev. C. Bradley, edited by Rev. G. J. Davies 1884; Guardian 22 March 1882, 421–2.

BRADLEY, George. b. Whitby, Yorkshire 1816; a reporter on York Herald; editor of Sunderland and Durham County Herald; editor and one of proprietors of Newcastle Guardian about 1848 to death; author of A concise and practical system of short-hand writing 1843. d. Newcastle 14 Oct. 1863.

BRADLEY, Rev. Richard Beadon. b. Minehead, Somerset 1803; P.C. of Ash Priors near Taunton 1834 to death; P.C. of Cothelstone, Somerset 1835 to death; author of The portion of Jezreel, a sacred drama 1843; Pauperism. Whence does it arise? how may it be remedied 1846; The expected budget, or how to save more than twelve millions a year 1850. d. Teignmouth 22 March 1851 aged 48.

BRADLEY, Robert Greene (only son of Robert Bradley of Slyne near Lancaster who d. 1825). b. 14 April 1788; barrister G.I. 22 June 1814, bencher 26 April 1837, treasurer 30 Aug. 1839; comr. of bankrupts for Lancaster. d. of paralysis at Slyne 16 Oct. 1869.

BRADLEY, Samuel Messenger. b. 2 June 1841; ed. at Manchester school of medicine, M.R.C.S. 1862, F.R.C.S. 1869; demonstrator of anatomy at Manchester school of medicine 1865, and lecturer on anatomy 1866; professor of physiology at Stonyhurst college several years; assistant surgeon to Manchester Royal infirmary 1873 and surgeon 1876 to death; lecturer on practical surgery at Owens college school of medicine 1876 to death; author of Manual of comparative anatomy and physiology 1869, 3 ed. 1875; Notes on Syphilis 1872; Injuries and diseases of the lymphatic system 1879. d. Ramsgate 27 May 1880. Medical times and gazette i, 625–6 (1880).

BRADLEY, William. b. Manchester 16 Jany. 1801; a painter and teacher of drawing at Manchester 1817; a portrait painter in London 1822–47; exhibited 13 portraits at Royal Academy, 21 at Free Society of artists, and 8 at British Institution 1823–46. d. Manchester 4 July 1857.

BRADSHAW, George (only son of Thomas Bradshaw of Windsor Bridge, Pendleton, Salford). b. Windsor Bridge 29 July 1801; an engraver and printer at Belfast 1820–21, and at Manchester 1821; projected engraved and published maps of the English counties 1827; published Bradshaw’s Railway map 1838; Railway time tables 1839; Monthly railway guide Dec. 1841 to death; Continental railway guide June 1847 to death; General railway directory 1849–53; attempted to establish an ocean penny postage; A.I.C.E. Feb. 1842. d. of Asiatic cholera near Christiania, Norway 6 Sep. 1853. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xiii, 145–9 (1854); Manchester Guardian 17 Sep. 1853, p. 7.

BRADSHAW, Henry (son of J. H. Bradshaw of London). b. London 2 Feb. 1831; ed. at East Sheen and Eton; scholar of King’s coll. Cam. 1847, fellow 1854 to death, B.A. 1854, M.A. 1857; assistant master at St. Columba’s college near Dublin for a year; principal library assistant in Cambridge Univ. library March 1857 to Dec. 1858, superintendent of the manuscripts 1859–67, librarian 8 March 1867 to death; pres. of Library Association at the Cambridge meeting 5–8 Sep. 1882; F.S.A. 26 March 1860; author of 17 papers in Antiquarian Communications of Cambridge Antiquarian Society, and of a series of pamphlets which he called Memoranda, most important being The University library 1881; found dead in his rooms at King’s coll. Cam. 11 Feb. 1886, having died about 11 p.m. 10 Feb. The library chronicle iii, 25–36 (1886); Book-lore April 1886, pp. 141–5.

BRADSHAW, James Hill (eld. son of J. F. Bradshaw, manager of Quebec branch of Bank of Upper Canada). b. Hillsborough, co. Down 21 Aug. 1834; ed. at Quebec; ensign 52 Foot 29 Feb. 1856, lieutenant 11 July 1856 to death; shot through the heart at Delhi 14 Sep. 1857. H. J. Morgan’s Sketches of celebrated Canadians (1862) 712–19.

BRADSHAW, Joseph. Ensign 37 Foot 12 May 1825; lieut. col. 60 Rifles 9 May 1845 to death; C.B. 9 June 1849. d. Kussowlie, North Western provinces of India 18 Oct. 1851.

BRADSHAW, Lawrence. Ensign 46 Foot 25 Sep. 1780; lieut. col. 13 Foot 1 Sep. 1795 to 2 Feb. 1803; major 1 Life Guards 2 Feb. 1803 to 1 March 1812 when he sold out; a comr. of military inquiry 1806–12; M.G. 25 July 1810, retired 1826. d. Harley st. London 10 Jany. 1853 aged 84.

BRADSHAW, Thomas Joseph Cavendish (eld. son of Joseph Hoare Bradshaw of London, banker who d. 24 May 1845 aged 61). b. 17 Oct. 1824; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1853; secretary to Royal commission on judicature 1867–71; judge of county courts of Northumberland (Circuit No. 1) 27 Oct. 1871 to death. d. in a room adjoining town hall, Newcastle 17 Dec. 1884.

BRADSTREET, Sir Simon, 4 Baronet. b. Upper Leeson st. Dublin 25 Nov. 1772; succeeded March 1791; a member of Repeal association many years. d. Clontarf near Dublin 25 Oct. 1853.

BRADWELL, Edmund (son of Wm. Bradwell of Covent Garden theatre London, mechanician who d. 4 Aug. 1849). Theatrical decorator and mechanician in London; introduced some extraordinary mechanical changes into Tom Dibdin’s pantomime of Guy, Earl of Warwick at Victoria theatre Dec. 1833; mechanician at Olympic, Lyceum, Her Majesty’s and other theatres. d. 11 Magdala terrace, Lordship lane Dulwich 25 July 1871 aged 72. Era 30 July 1871, p. 11, col. 4.

BRADY, Sir Antonio (eld. son of Anthony Brady, storekeeper at Royal William victualling yard, Plymouth). b. Deptford 10 Nov. 1811; junior clerk in Royal Victoria victualling yard Deptford 29 Nov. 1828; clerk in accountant general’s office London 26 June 1844; registrar of contracts 1864; superintendent of purchase and contract department 13 April 1869 to 31 March 1870 when he retired on a special pension; knighted at Windsor Castle 23 June 1870; promoted the Plaistow mission and East London museum; pres. of Inventors’ Institute; a judge in Verderer’s Court for forest of Epping; made a collection of fossil Mammalia which is now in Natural history museum Kensington; author of The Church’s work and its hindrances with suggestions for church reform 1869; Catalogue of Pleistocene Mammalia from Ilford, Essex 1874. d. Maryland point, Forest lane, Stratford Essex 12 Dec. 1881. Geological Mag. 1882, p. 93.

BRADY, Elizabeth (2 dau. of Jacob Hutchinson of Islington, London). b. Islington 1803; ed. at Islington school where she was successively apprentice, teacher, and governess, head mistress there 1838–42; superintendent of the York Girls’ school 1842–46; conducted a school for daughters of Friends at Edgbaston Birmingham 1848–69. (m. 1828 Edward Foster Brady head master of Islington school who d. 1838). d. Edgbaston 22 May 1874. The Annual Monitor for 1876, pp. 20–25.

BRADY, Sir Francis (son of James Brady of Navan, Meath). b. 1809; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub., B.A. 1835; called to Irish bar 1836; chief justice of Newfoundland and judge of vice admiralty court 15 Oct. 1847 to 1865; knighted by patent 24 May 1860. (m. 1839 Kate dau. of David Lynch of Dublin, she d. 16 Jany. 1880). d. 59 Burlington road, Bayswater London 29 Dec. 1871.

BRADY, Sir Maziere, 1 Baronet (2 son of Francis Tempest Brady of Dublin, gold and silver thread manufacturer 1763–1821). b. Dublin 20 July 1796; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub. 1812–16, scholar 1814, B.A. 1816; called to Irish bar 1819; barrister I.T. 1835; solicitor general for Ireland 1837; attorney general 1839; P.C. Ireland 1839; chief baron of Court of Exchequer 11 Aug. 1840 to 1846; lord chancellor of Ireland 1846 to Feb. 1852, Jany. 1853 to 1858 and 1859 to 28 June 1866; vice chancellor of Queen’s Univ. Ireland 1850 to death. d. 26 Upper Pembroke st. Dublin 13 April 1871. O. J. Burke’s Lord chancellors of Ireland (1879) 270–7.

BRAE, Andrew Edmund. Practised as dentist at Leeds to 1872; lived in Guernsey 1872 to death; author of Literary cookery with reference to matter attributed to Coleridge and Shakespeare 1855; Electrical communication in railway trains 1865; The treatise on the Astrolabe of G. Chaucer, edited by A. E. B. 1870; wrote many papers on Shakespeare and Chaucer in first series of Notes and Queries under signature of A. E. B. d. London 10 Dec. 1881. bur. Mont Durand, Guernsey. Notes and Queries, 6 series vi, 323 (1882).

BRAGGE, William (3 son of Thomas Perry Bragge of Birmingham, manufacturing jeweller). b. Birmingham 31 May 1823; a civil engineer; constructed the first railway line in Brazil namely from Rio Janeiro to Petropolis; knighted and made a chevalier by Emperor of Brazil; partner with John Brown in Atlas Steel works, Sheffield 1858–64 when works were sold to a limited company and he received sum of £50,000, managing director of the company 1864–72; established works at Birmingham for manufacture of watches by machinery 1876 which became English Watch company in 1882; M.I.M.E. 1854, F.S.A. 1870; sold his collection of illuminated manuscripts for £12,272, June 1878, and his collection of 13000 pipes and smoking apparatus for £4,000 Feb. 1882; author of Bibliotheca Nicotiana, a catalogue of books about tobacco 1880. d. 59 Hall road, Handsworth, Birmingham 6 June 1884.

BRAHAM, Charles Bampfylde (son of the succeeding). b. 20 Dec. 1823; made his first appearance on stage at Princess’s theatre London 26 Oct. 1848 as Adelmar in Leoline; sang in Italy and Portugal with great success. d. 103 Ebury st. Pimlico, London 11 June 1884.

BRAHAM, John (son of John Abraham of Goodman’s Fields, London, a German Jew). b. Goodman’s Fields 20 June 1773; pupil of Myer Lyon otherwise Leoni; made his début at Bagnigge Wells assembly rooms; changed his name to Braham 1787; sang at Bath 1794–6, Drury Lane 1796, in Paris 1797 and Italy 1798–1801,at Covent Garden 1801–5 and Drury Lane 1805–24; sang in Italian opera at King’s theatre London 1804–6 and 1816; made £14,000 per annum 1801–24; built St. James’s theatre London in 14 weeks at cost of £36,000 Sep.-Dec. 1835, managed it 1835–9; sang in New York Nov. 1840; composed music to The Cabinet 1801; Family Quarrells 1802 and 10 other dramas. d. The Grange, Brompton, London 17 Feb. 1856. Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography iii, 145–59 (1825), portrait; Metropolitan Mag. xviii, 130–42 (1837); Stirling’s Old Drury Lane ii, 91–5 (1881); I.L.N. xx, 245–6 (1852), portrait; P. Fitzgerald’s Life of C. Lamb iii, 226, vi, 145.

BRAID, George Ross. b. May 1813; made his first appearance in London at Adelphi theatre 29 Sep. 1843; acted at Haymarket theatre many years. d. Holly house, Kennington road London 18 Feb. 1878.

BRAID, James (son of Mr. Braid of Rylaw, Fifeshire). b. Rylaw about 1795; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; M.R.C.S. Edin.; surgeon at Manchester; investigated subject of mesmerism 1841; author of Neurypnology or the rationale of nervous sleep 1843; The power of the mind over the body 1846; Magic, witchcraft, animal magnetism, hypnotism and electro-biology 3 ed. 1852. d. 25 March 1860. Med. Times and Gaz. i, 355, 386 (1860); Manchester Courier 31 March 1860.

BRAIDWOOD, James (son of Mr. Braidwood of Edinburgh, builder). b. Edinburgh 1800; ed. at the High sch.; engaged in his father’s business; superintendent of Edinburgh fire engines 1823; published his work “On the construction of Fire Engines and Apparatus, the training of firemen and the method of proceeding in cases of Fire” 1830; superintendent of London Fire Engine establishment formed by 8 of the Insurance companies 1 Jany. 1833; A.I.C.E. 1833; read many papers on subject of fires at Institute of Civil Engineers and Society of Arts; killed in great fire at Cotton’s wharf, Tooley st. London 22 June 1861 which continued burning for a month and destroyed property of the value of £2,000,000. J. Braidwood’s Fire prevention with memoir of the author (1866), portrait; Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxi, 571–8 (1862).

BRAITHWAITE, Rev. George. b. Kendal 15 April 1818; ed. at Sedbergh sch. and Queen’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843; C. of Perry Barr, Staffs. 1847–51; V. of St. Peter the Great, Chichester 1851–68; sub-dean of Chichester cathedral 1853–68; author of Sonnets and other poems 1851, 2 ed. 1875. d. Beechfield, Carnforth, Lancashire 2 April 1875. Sonnets by the late Rev. G. Braithwaite, 2 ed. 1875 preface.

BRAITHWAITE, John (3 son of John Braithwaite of London, engineer who d. June 1818). b. 1 Bath place, New road London 19 March 1797; engineer in London 1818–44; ventilated House of Lords by means of air pumps 1820; constructed the first practical steam fire engine; engineer of Eastern Counties railway 1836–43; joint founder with J. C. Robertson of the Railway Times 1837, sole proprietor 1837–45 when his affairs were wound up; surveyed lines in France 1844–46; F.S.A. 1819, M.I.C.E. 1838; author of Supplement to Capt. Sir John Ross’s Narrative of a second voyage in search of a North-West passage 1835. d. 8 Clifton gardens, Paddington London 25 Sep. 1870. Mechanic’s Mag. xiii, 235–7, 377–88, 417–9 (1830), portrait; Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxi, 207–11 (1871).

BRAME, Benjamin. Attorney at Ipswich 1798 to death; bailiff of Ipswich 1820 and 1822; the first mayor of Ipswich 1835. d. 21 July 1851 aged 78. G.M. xxxvi, 332 (1851).

BRAMSTON, Thomas William (elder son of Thomas Gardiner Bramston of Skreens, Essex 1770–1831, M.P. for Essex). b. 30 Oct. 1796; ed. at Winchester and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1823; fellow of All Souls’ college; M.P. for South Essex 19 Jany. 1835 to 6 July 1865. d. 30 Eccleston sq. London 21 May 1871.

BRAMWELL, John (son of Rev. Wm. Bramwell, Wesleyan minister who d. 1818). b. 24 April 1794; attorney at Durham 1815; alderman of Durham 1835–52; mayor 1840, 41, 45, 52 and 1853; undersheriff of co. Durham 1840; recorder of Durham and steward of Court Leet and Court Baron of city of Durham March 1860 to death. d. Framwell gate, Durham 25 Nov. 1882.

BRANCKER, Sir Thomas (eld. child of Peter Whitfield Brancker of Liverpool 1750–1836). b. Liverpool 17 Sep. 1783; sugar refiner at Liverpool; mayor of Liverpool 1830; knighted at St. James’s palace, London 13 Sep. 1831. d. Mount Pleasant, Liverpool 13 Feb. 1853.

BRANCKER, William Godefroy (son of W. Brancker of Erbstock hall, Ruabon). b. 27 March 1834; ed. at Em. coll. Cam.; lieut. R.A. 6 March 1856; lieut. col. 4 Oct. 1882 to death; instructor in artillery at Woolwich 1872–80; C.B. 18 Nov. 1882. d. Ipswich 22 May 1885.

BRAND, Sir Christoffel Joseph (son of Johannes Henricus Brand, member of Court of Justice in Cape Colony). b. 1797; ed. at Leyden, doctor in philosophy and law 1820; admitted advocate in Court of Justice, Cape of Good Hope 1821; member of legislative council 1850; speaker of house of assembly 1854 to death; knighted by patent 24 May 1860. d. 20 May 1875.

BRAND, Ferdinand. Comptroller of Bridge house estates, City of London 1839 to Dec. 1878, and of the Chamber, City of London 1854 to Dec. 1878. d. Craigmillar, Avenue road, Crouch End 1 Nov. 1880 in 80 year.

BRAND, George. b. Arbuthnott, Aberdeenshire 1816; ed. at King’s coll. Aberdeen, B.A., M.A.; vice consul at Loanda 27 Dec. 1844 to 31 July 1856; author of various Reports including a very able one on the Decree of the Portuguese government for registration and emancipation of slaves in the Colonial possessions of Portugal; consul at Lagos, West Africa 10 June 1859 to death. d. on board H.M.’s steamer Alecto 16 June 1860.

BRAND, John. b. Armenia; lived some time there; compiled a dictionary of the Armenian language, shutting himself up in a convent for that purpose; had an estate at Sutton near Ipswich; a successful batsman for about 15 seasons in great cricket matches, played his first match at Lords 31 May 1815; one of the very best amateur boxers and chess-players. d. in a private lunatic asylum at Ticehurst, Sussex April 1856 aged 66.

BRAND, William Allan. Editor of the Montrose Review. d. Inchbridge near Montrose 7 Feb. 1869 aged 31.

BRAND, William. b. Blackhouse parish of Peterhead 1807; a writer to the signet 1834; partner in firm of Scott and Balderston of Edinburgh; secretary to Union Bank of Scotland, Edin. 1846 to death; a founder of Botanical Society of Edin. 8 Feb. 1836, treasurer 17 March 1836, contributed many papers, enriched its herbarium with many thousand specimens of plants; discovered several rare and new plants in Scotland. d. Edinburgh 15 Oct. 1869. Trans. of Botanical Soc. of Edin. x, 284–8 (1870).

BRANDARD, Robert. b. Birmingham 1805; landscape engraver in London 1826 to death; engraved plates for Turner’s England and Rivers of England and other books, also for the Art Journal; produced some etchings from his own designs, one series of which was published by the Art Union 1864; painted both in oils and water-colours; exhibited 3 pictures at R.A., 21 at British Institution and 32 at Suffolk st. gallery 1831–58. d. Campden hill, Kensington, London 7 Jany. 1862.

BRANDE, Everard Augustus (eld. son of Augustus Everard Brande of Arlington st. London, apothecary to George iii.) b. Arlington st. 1776; ed. at Westminster sch.; studied at St. George’s hospital 1795; apothecary to George iii and Queen Charlotte 1801; apothecary to William iv and Queen Adelaide 1830–33 when he retired from practice; a member of first Court of Examiners of Society of Apothecaries 1815; presented to College of Phys. valuable collection of Materia Medica made by Dr. Burgess. d. Sulhamstead house, Turnham-Green, London 11 Dec. 1868. Reg. and mag. of biog. i, 312 (1869).

BRANDE, George William (brother of the preceding). Chief clerk of the Treasury many years. d. Exeter 18 June 1854 aged 69.

BRANDE, William Thomas (brother of the preceding). b. Arlington st. 11 Jany. or Feb. 1788; ed. at Westminster; began lecturing on chemistry 1808; F.R.S. 13 April 1809, Copley medallist 1813, one of secretaries 1816–26; professor of chemistry to Apothecaries company 4 Nov. 1812 and professor of materia medica 1813, master of the Company 1851; professor of chemistry at Royal Institution May 1813 to 1854; superintendent of die department of Mint 1825 and of coining department 1854; edited with M. Faraday Quarterly journal of science and arts 1816–36; author of Outlines of geology 1817, 2 ed. 1829; A manual of chemistry 1819, 6 ed. 2 vols. 1848; A manual of pharmacy 1825, 3 ed. 1833; edited A dictionary of science literature and art 1842, 3 ed. 1853. d. Tunbridge Wells 11 Feb. 1866. Proc. of Royal Society xvi, 2–6 (1868); S. Muspratt’s Chemistry vol. 1 (1853), portrait.

BRANDLING, John James. Second lieut. R.A. 19 March 1839; lieut. col. 8 March 1860 to death; C.B. 5 July 1855. d. Woodsley house, Leeds 16 April 1860 aged 39.

BRANDON, John Raphael. b. 1817; articled to W. Parkinson, architect 1836; practised at Beaufort buildings, Strand, London with his brother Joshua Arthur Brandon 1841–7 when the latter died; joint architect with Robert Ritchie of Catholic Apostolic church, Gordon sq. London, opened 1 Jany. 1854; architect of St. Peter’s church, Great Windmill st. Piccadilly 1861; one of the 11 architects who competed for Royal Courts of Justice, London 1867; author with his brother of Analysis of Gothick architecture 2 vols. 1847; Views of English ecclesiastical structures 1848, new ed. 2 vols. 1858; Open timber roofs of the middle ages 1849; Railways and the Public 1868, 8 ed. 1871; shot himself at his chambers 17 Clement’s Inn, Strand, London 8 Oct. 1877.

BRANDRETH, Thomas Alston. Second lieut. R.A. 19 July 1797; colonel 23 Nov. 1841 to death; served in the Peninsula 1812–14; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831. d. Chudleigh, Devon 24 Sep. 1851 aged 72.

BRANDRETH, Thomas Shaw (2 son of Joseph Brandreth M.D. of Liverpool, physician 1746–1815). b. 24 July 1788; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., 2 wrangler, 2 Smith’s prizeman and chancellor’s medallist 1810, B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813; fellow of his college 1811; barrister I.T. 5 June 1818; revising barrister for Liverpool, Bolton and other towns in Lancashire many years; invented a logometer or ten-foot gunter, a friction wheel, and a double-check clock escapement, all of which he patented; invented a machine in which the weight of a horse was utilised on a moving platform, this invention was used where steam power proved too expensive as in Lombardy and in some parts of the United States where it is still employed; F.R.S. 8 March 1821; author of Homer’s Iliad with notes 2 vols. 1841 in which the Digamma was restored throughout for sake of the metre; A dissertation on the metre of Homer 1844; Homer’s Iliad, translated 2 vols. 1846. d. The Steyne, Worthing 27 May 1873.

BRANDT, Francis Frederick (eld. son of Rev. Francis Brandt R. of Gawsworth Cheshire who d. 1870). b. Gawsworth rectory 1819; ed. at Macclesfield gr. sch.; practised as special pleader; barrister I.T. 30 April 1847; leader of Chester and Knutsford sessions; reported for the Times in Court of Common Pleas; contributed to Bells Life in London; author of Habet, a short treatise on the law of the land as it effects pugilism 1857; Fur and feathers 1859; Frank Marland’s Manuscripts 1859; Games, gaming and gamester’s law 1871, 2 ed. 1873. d. 8 Fig tree court, Temple London 6 Dec. 1874.

BRANDT, Robert. Barrister L.I. 1 June 1821; went northern circuit; commissioner in Bankruptcy for Manchester; judge of Bury Court of Requests; judge of Manchester county court March 1847 to death. d. Pendleton near Manchester 15 April 1862. Law Times xxxvii, 321 (1862).

BRANKS, Rev. William. Minister of parish of Torpichen; published anonymously Heaven our Home 1861, new ed. 1864, sale of which reached considerably over 100,000 copies; Zion’s King 1859; preserved anonymous character of his works to the last. d. Torpichen 18 Feb. 1879.

BRANSON, William Scholes. Member of company of T.R. Liverpool 1847 or before; manager of Adelphi theatre Liverpool; author of many plays. d. Fairfield, Liverpool Jany. 1884 aged 74.

BRANT, James. Vice consul at Trebizond 31 March 1830; consul at Erzeroom 27 April 1836 and at Damascus Sep. 1856 to 2 Nov. 1860 when he retired on a pension; C.B. 31 Oct. 1860. d. Cliftonville, Brighton 24 Nov. 1861.

BRANT, Rev. William Holt. Consular chaplain at St. Michael’s in the Azores 11 Nov. 1834 to 25 April 1865. d. Lisbon 20 April 1867 aged 90.

BRANWHITE, Charles (son of Nathan Branwhite of Bristol, miniature painter). b. Bristol 1817; landscape painter especially of frost scenes; exhibited 9 pictures at R.A., 25 at British Institution and 2 at Suffolk st. gallery 1845–57. d. Bramford house, Westfield park, Redland, Bristol 15 Feb. 1880. I.L.N. lxxvi, 285 (1880), portrait.

BRASIER, James. Entered navy 3 Dec. 1799; captain 10 Jany. 1837; V.A. on h.p. 14 Nov. 1863. d. Bradney near Bridgnorth 28 July 1864 aged 80.

BRASSEY, Thomas (son of John Brassey of Buerton, Aldford, Cheshire, farmer). b. Buerton 7 Nov. 1805; land surveyor at Birkenhead 1826; railway contractor in London 1836; made line from Paris to Rouen 1841–3 and from Rouen to Havre 1843–5; contractor for Great Northern railway 1847–51, railways in Italy 1850–3, Grand Trunk railway of Canada 1852–9 and railways in Australia 1859–63; established with E. T. Betts and M. Peto Canada works at Birkenhead 1853. d. Hastings 8 Dec. 1870. Life by Arthur Helps 1872, portrait; J. Devey’s Life of Joseph Locke (1862) 145–54; Work and wages practically illustrated, by T. Brassey, M.P. 1872.

Note.—He laid out £78,000,000 of other people’s money and upon that outlay retained £2,500,000 being as nearly as possible three per cent.; he had in his employ at one time upwards of 30,000 men on railways in Europe; his will was proved in London 7 Feb. 1871, personalty being sworn under £3,200,000.

BRAVO, Charles Delauney Turner (only son of Charles Turner of the Isle of Jersey). b. 39 Upper Charlotte st. Tottenham Court road, London 30 Nov. 1845; ed. at King’s coll. London and Trin. coll. Ox., admitted gentleman commoner 16 Jany. 1864, B.A. 1866, M.A. 1868; barrister M.T. 30 April 1870, went Home circuit; changed his name to Bravo 1868 or 1869. (m. 7 Dec. 1875 Florence eld. dau. of Robert Campbell of Buscot park near Reading, she was b. 5 Sep. 1845, m. (1) 21 Sep. 1864 Alexander Lewis Ricardo, Ensign Grenadier Guards (who d. 19 April 1871), she d. at Lumps villa Southsea 17 Sep. 1878 and was bur. at Farringdon, Berkshire 21 Sep.) C. D. T. Bravo d. suddenly and mysteriously from taking tartar emetic at The Priory Bedford hill road, Balham Surrey 21 April 1876. bur. Lower Norwood cemetery 1 May. The Balham mystery or the Bravo poisoning case 7 numbers 56 pages (1876), portraits.

Note.—There was a coroner’s inquest held at which no conclusion was arrived at as to how the poison was administered, a renewed inquest was opened by the Coroner for East Surrey 11 July 1876 which lasted till 11 Aug. when the coroner’s jury returned the following verdict, “We find that the deceased did not commit suicide, but that he was wilfully murdered by the administration of tartar emetic, but there is not sufficient evidence to fix the guilt upon any person or persons.” In consequence of this decision the Government offered a reward of £250 for information leading to the conviction of the murderer, but nothing more was ever found out.

BRAY, Anna Eliza (only dau. of John Kemp of the Mint, London, bullion porter 1748–1823). b. St. Mary Newington, Surrey 25 Dec. 1790; author of Traditions, legends, superstitions and sketches of Devonshire, the Tamar and the Tavy 3 vols. 1838; Trelawnie of Trelawne or the prophecy 3 vols., 2 ed. 1845; Henry de Pomeroy or the eve of St. John 3 vols. 1842, new ed. 1846; Handel, his life personal and professional 1857; Joan of Arc 1874. (m. (1) Feb. 1818 Charles Alfred Stothard, historical draughtsman who d. 28 May 1821, m. (2) 1822 Rev. Edward Atkyns Bray, V. of Tavistock who d. 1857). She d. 40 Brompton Crescent, London 21 Jany. 1883. Mrs. Bray’s Autobiography 1844, portrait; Library Chronicle i, 126–9 (1884); I.L.N. lxxxii, 197 (1883), portrait.

BRAY, Charles (son of Mr. Bray of Coventry, ribbon manufacturer who d. 1835). b. Coventry 31 Jany. 1811; ribbon manufacturer at Coventry 1835–56; helped to establish Coventry Labourers’ and Artisans’ Society 1843 which developed into a co-operative society of which he was president; started a working man’s club 1845; purchased The Coventry Herald and Observer 1846 which he sold to J. M. Scott 1874; author of Education of the feelings 1838, 4 ed. 1872; Philosophy of necessity 2 vols. 1841, 2 ed. 1863; Outlines of social systems and communities 1844; A manual of anthropology 1871, 2 ed. 1883; Psychological and ethical definitions on a physiological basis 1879 and a number of pamphlets. d. 5 Oct. 1884. C. Bray’s Phases of opinion and experience during a long life (1884), portrait; George Eliot’s Life, by J. W. Cross 1885.

BRAY, Rev. Edward Atkyns (only son of Edward Bray of Tavistock, solicitor). b. the Abbey house, Tavistock 18 Dec. 1778; a student at M.T. 1801, barrister M.T. 1806; ordained by bishop of Norwich about 1811; entered at Trin. coll. Cam. 1812, B.D. 1822; V. of Tavistock 1812 to death; P.C. of Brent Tor, Devon 1812 to death; author of Sermons from the works of the most eminent divines 1818; Discourses from tracts and treatises of eminent divines 1821; Discourses on Protestantism 1829; Poetical remains 2 vols. 1859. d. Tavistock 17 July 1857. Poetical remains of the late E. A. Bray i, pp. ix-lii, (1859), portrait.

BRAY, Edward William. Ensign 67 Foot 12 Jany. 1805; major 39 Foot 9 Nov. 1841 to 7 Aug. 1846 when he retired on full pay; C.B. 2 May 1844. d. Montpellier villas, Brighton 3 Dec. 1859 aged 70.

BRAY, George Frederick Campbell. b. 23 April 1826; ensign 39 Foot 22 March 1844; lieut. col. 96 Foot 14 Sep. 1870 to 13 March 1878 when placed on h.p.; assistant adjutant general second division Abyssinian expedition 11 Nov. 1867 to 7 June 1868; deputy A.A.G. Bombay 20 Sep. 1872 to 15 Nov. 1873; A.A.G. and Q.M.G. southern district 15 March 1878 to 31 March 1883; hon. M.G. 26 Sep. 1883. d. 16 Kidbrook Green, Blackheath 26 Sep. 1884.

BRAY, Reginald (son of Edward Bray of Shere near Guildford 1768–1814, treasurer of Society of Antiquaries). b. 26 Jany. 1797; solicitor in London 1818 to death; F.S.A. 26 Nov. 1829; printed many papers on reforms of the law; author of Concise directions for obtaining Lord Chancellors orders for election and removal of coroners of counties 1831. d. Shere 9 Sep. 1879.

BRAYBROOK, Richard Griffin Neville, 3 Baron (eld. son of Richard Aldworth Neville Griffin, 2 Baron Braybrook 1750–1825). b. Stanlake, Berks. 26 Sep. 1783; ed. at Sunbury, Eton and Magd. coll. Cam., M.A. 1811, D.C.L. Ox. 1810; M.P. for Thirsk 1805–1806, for Saltash 1806–1807, for Buckingham 1807–1812 and for Berkshire (after a 15 days poll) 12 Oct. 1812 to 28 Feb. 1825 when he succeeded as 3 Baron; recorder of Saffron Walden to 1835; pres. of Camden Society and of Surtees Society; edited Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys 2 vols. 1825, 4 ed. 4 vols. 1854; Life of Jane Lady Cornwallis 1842; author of History of Audley End and Saffron Walden 1835. d. Audley End 13 March 1858.

BRAYBROOK, Richard Cornwallis Neville, 4 Baron (eld. son of the preceding). b. St. George’s parish, Hanover sq. London 17 March 1820; ed. at Eton; ensign Grenadier guards 2 June 1837, lieut. 31 Dec. 1841 to 1842 when he sold out; F.S.A. 25 March 1847; succeeded 13 March 1858; author of Saxon Obsequies discovered in Cambridgeshire 1852. d. Audley End 22 Feb. 1861.

BRAYBROOKE, Samuel. Second lieut. 1 Ceylon regiment 17 Dec. 1812, lieut. col. 26 Jany. 1844 to 11 June 1859; col. 99 Foot 26 Jany. 1866 to death; general 16 April 1875. d. 3 Gledhow gardens, South Kensington, London 7 Oct. 1880 aged 84.

BRAYBROOKE, William Leman (2 son of the preceding). Ensign 90 Foot 29 March 1844; ensign 15 Foot 6 June 1845; ensign Ceylon Rifles 11 July 1845, lieut. 10 Jany. 1847 to death, adjutant 7 April 1848 to 1854; served with and carried colours of 95 Foot in Crimean war 1854. d. on board H.M.S. Vulcan in Black Sea 21 Sep. 1854 from wounds received at battle of the Alma 20 Sep. The diary of the late W. L. Braybrooke 1855.

BRAYE, Sarah Otway-Cave, Baroness. b. July 1767. (m. 25 Feb. 1790 Henry Otway who was b. 1769 and d. 13 Sep. 1815); barony of Braye in abeyance since 1557 was revived in her favour 3 Oct. 1839. d. 14 Great Stanhope st. London 21 Feb. 1862.

BRAYLEY, Edward Wedlake. b. Lambeth, Surrey 1773; apprenticed to an enameller at Clerkenwell; prepared enamel plates for Henry Bone; edited with John Britton The beauties of England and Wales 10 vols. 1801–14; sec. and librarian to Russell Institution 55 Great Coram st. London 1826 to death; F.S.A. 1823; author of The history and antiquities of the abbey church of St. Peter Westminster 2 vols. 1818; Historical and descriptive account of the theatres of London 1826; Londiniana, or reminiscences of the British metropolis 4 vols. 1829; The graphic and historical illustrator, a periodical July 1832 to Nov. 1834; A topographical history of the county of Surrey 5 vols. 1841–8 and many other books. d. 55 Great Coram st. London 23 Sep. 1854. Memoir by John Britton privately printed 1855; G.M. xlii, 538, 582 (1854).

BRAYLEY, Edward William (eld. son of the preceding). b. London 1801; studied science at London and Royal Institutions; joint librarian of the London Institution 1834 where he also lectured, sole librarian 1865 to death, and professor of physical geography and meteorology 1865 to death; an original member of Zoological society 1826 and of Chemical society of London 1841; F.R.S. 1 June 1854; F.R.A.S. Nov. 1866; one of the editors 1822–45 of Annals of philosophy, Zoological journal, and Philosophical Magazine to all of which he contributed papers; author of Ancient castles of England and Wales 2 vols. 1825. d. 53 Oakley road, London 1 Feb. 1870. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xxxii, 111 (1872).

BREADALBANE, John Campbell, 2 Marquis of (only son of John Campbell, 1 Marquis of Breadalbane 1762–1834). b. Nethergate, Dundee 26 Oct. 1796; ed. at Glasgow college; M.P. for Okehampton 1820–26; M.P. for Perthshire 29 Dec. 1832 to 29 March 1834 when he succeeded as 2 Marquis; F.R.S. 5 June 1834; K.T. 21 March 1838; lieut. and sheriff principal of Argyllshire 5 Dec. 1839; presided over meeting of British Association at Glasgow 1840; lord rector of Univ. of Glasgow 1841; received Queen Victoria at Taymouth Castle, Perthshire on her first visit to Scotland 8 Sep. 1842; lord chamberlain of the household 1848–52 and 1853–58; P.C. 4 Sep. 1848; colonel of Argyll and Bute militia 18 Sep. 1854 to death. d. Lausanne 8 Nov. 1862. P. R. Drummond’s Perthshire in bygone days (1879) 6–17.

BREADALBANE, John Alexander Gavin Campbell, 6 Earl of. b. London 30 March 1824; ensign 79 Foot 2 Aug. 1842; captain 1 Foot 4 Aug. 1854 to 12 Jany. 1855 when he sold out; succeeded 8 Nov. 1862, confirmed as 6 Earl by Court of Session 1866 and by House of Lords 1867; a frequent correspondent of The Field; a great salmon fisher. d. 4B The Albany, Piccadilly, London 20 March 1871. J. Paterson’s Breadalbane succession case 1863.

BREEKS, James Wilkinson. b. Edengate, Warcop, Westmoreland 5 March 1830; entered Madras civil service 1849, private sec. to Sir W. T. Denison governor of Madras 1861–64; comr. of the Nilagiris, principal sanatorium of South of India to death; made a complete collection of arms, ornaments, dresses and implements in use among four aboriginal tribes of the Nilagiris and of contents of many cairns and cromlechs; author of An account of the primitive tribes and monuments of the Nilagiris 1873. (m. 19 Feb. 1863 Susan Maria eld. dau. of Sir. W. T. Denison). d. Madras 6 June 1872.

BREEN, James (2 son of Hugh Breen who superintended Lunar reductions at Royal Observatory, Greenwich). b. Armagh 5 July 1826; a calculator at Royal Observatory, Greenwich Aug. 1842 to Aug. 1846 and at Cambridge Observatory Aug. 1846 to Dec. 1858; observed the total eclipse of the sun at Camuesa in Spain 18 July 1860; F.R.A.S. 10 June 1862; author of The Planetary Worlds, the topography and telescopic appearance of the sun, planets, moon and comets 1854; contributed to Popular Science Review and other periodicals generally anonymously. d. 25 Aug. 1866. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xxvii, 104 (1867).

BREESE, Edward. b. 13 April 1835; ed. at Lewisham, Kent; admitted solicitor 1857; practised at Dolgelly to death; clerk of the peace for Merionethshire; F.S.A. 21 March 1872; author of Kalendars of Gwynedd, or chronological lists of lords-lieutenant, sheriffs and knights of the shire for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon and Merioneth 1873. d. Morva lodge, Portmadoc, Carnarvonshire 10 March 1881. Law Times lxx, 357, 413 (1881).

BREFFIT, Edgar. b. Cromford near Matlock 12 June 1810; founded a glass bottle manufactory in City of London which became the leading house, trading as Aire and Calder glass bottle company at Castleford Yorkshire and Free trade wharf London; took out patents for stoppered bottles and for making large bottles with taps for drawing off the contents; member of court of common council for Dowgate ward 1865; sheriff of London 1875–6; alderman of ward of Cheap 1877 to death. d. The Glebe, Lee Kent 18 Oct. 1882. I.L.N. lxvii, 475 (1875), portrait; Graphic xi, 446 (1875), portrait.

BREMNER, James. b. Keiss, parish of Wick, Caithnessshire 25 Sep. 1784; shipbuilder at Wick 1809 to death; designed and constructed many harbours and piers on north coast of Scotland; raised 236 wrecked vessels between Aberdeenshire and Isle of Skye; removed steamer Great Britain off strand in Dundrum bay 1847, she was stranded 22 Sep. 1846 and floated 27 Sep. 1847; author of Treatise on the planning and constructing of harbours in deep water 1845. d. Harbour place, Pulteney Town, Wick 20 Aug. 1856. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xvi, 113–20 (1857).

BREMRIDGE, Richard. b. Barnstaple 1803; solicitor at Barnstaple 1825; M.P. for Barnstaple 1847–52, re-elected 8 July 1852 but election declared void; M.P. for Barnstaple 1863–65. d. Exmouth 15 June 1878.

BRENNAN, Very Rev. Patrick. b. Carlow; one of the Superiors of Carlow college 1812–20; priest of parish of Kildare 1820; Penitentiary of dioceses of Kildare and Leighlin. d. Kildare 1864.

BRENT, John (eld. son of John Brent of Rotherhithe, Kent, shipbuilder 1786–1867). b. Rotherhithe 21 Aug. 1808; a miller at Canterbury; alderman; city treasurer; F.S.A. 7 April 1853; author of The sea wolf, a romance 1834; Lays and legends of Kent 1840, 2 ed. 1851; The battle cross, a romance of the fourteenth century 3 vols. 1845; Canterbury in the olden time 1860, 2 ed. 1879; Village bells and other poems 1865, 2 ed. 1868 and of many papers in antiquarian magazines. d. 8 Dane John grove, Canterbury 23 April 1882. C. R. Smith’s Retrospections i, 259, 303 (1883); Journal of Brit. Archæol. Assoc. xxxviii, 235–6 (1882).

BRENT, William Brent. Barrister L.I. 19 Nov. 1813; comr. of bankrupts to 1831; steward of Marshalsea Court and Palace Court, Great Scotland yard, Westminster 16 Sep. 1825 to 31 Dec. 1849 when they were abolished by 12 & 13 Vict. c. 101, s. xiii; probably dead.

BRENTON, John. b. 28 Aug. 1782; entered navy 28 Aug. 1798; captain 26 Dec. 1822; retired V.A. 5 Jany. 1858; knight of Russian order of St. Vladimir. d. Ryde, Isle of Wight 17 Sep. 1859.

BRENTON, Sir Lancelot Charles Lee, 2 Baronet (younger son of Vice Admiral Sir Jahleel Brenton, 1 Baronet 1770–1844). b. 1807; ed. at Hyde abbey sch. Winchester, and Oriel college Oxford; ordained 1830; seceded from Church of England Dec. 1831; took a small chapel at Bath and set up a new sect which died out with its founder; succeeded 21 April 1844; author of The Septuagint version of the Old Testament according to the Vatican text translated into English 2 vols. 1844; Cardiphonia Latina, 3 ed. 1850; Diaconia, or thoughts on the subject of Ministry 1852; Psalms: Bible and Prayer book version, parallel 1860. d. Montagu house, Ryde 13 June 1862. Memoir of Sir Jahleel Brenton re-edited by his son [Rev. L. C. L. Brenton] 1855, preface vii-cxxv; Rev. T. Mozley’s Reminiscences ii, 114–20 (1882).

BRERETON, Rev. Charles David (eld. son of Rev. Charles David Brereton, R. of Little Massingham, Norfolk). b. 19 April 1820; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1846; C. of St. James Piccadilly 1848–49; R. of St. Edmund Norwich 1849–52; consular chaplain at Malaga, Spain 27 Aug. 1850 to 30 April 1859; R. of Bixley with Framlingham Earl, Norfolk 1863 to death; author of Lectures for travellers 1854; Verses and lectures 1868. d. Lowestoft 15 April 1876.

BRERETON, Sir William (son of major Robert Brereton who fought at Culloden). b. 1789; 2 lieut. R.A. 10 May 1805; lieut. col. 17 Aug. 1843 to 16 Dec. 1854; served in Spain, France and the Netherlands; granted service reward 1 April 1856; head of Irish constabulary short time; K.H. 1837; C.B. 19 July 1838; K.C.B. 28 June 1861; L.G. 27 June 1864; author of The British fleet in the Black Sea while under the command of Vice Admiral J. W. D. Dundas, privately printed 1857. d. 3E Albany, Piccadilly, London 27 July 1864. I.L.N. xlv, 154, 299 (1864).

BRERETON, William Westropp (4 son of Arthur Brereton of Ballyadams Queen’s county). b. 1810; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1832, M.A. 1856; called to Irish bar 1836; went Munster circuit; Q.C. 9 Nov. 1852; assistant barrister for co. Kerry 1858; chairman of quarter sessions for co. Galway 1858 to death. d. Fitzwilliam sq. north, Dublin 13 Dec. 1867. Law mag. and law review v, 260 (1855).

BRETT, Harry Augustus. Writer Madras civil service 1831; collector of Salem 1860; member of Board of Revenue 1862–65; pres. of Income tax commission 1862–67; resigned the service 27 May 1867. d. 20 Dec. 1867.

BRETT, John Watkins (son of Wm. Brett of Bristol, cabinet maker). b. Bristol 1805; Telegraphic engineer; laid a gutta percha wire between Dover and Cape Grisnez 1850 by which the first submarine message was sent from England to France; laid cables between Dover and Calais 1851, Dover and Ostend 1853, and Sardinia and France 1854; mainly instrumental in forming Atlantic Telegraph Company 1856; director of Submarine Telegraph Co.; made a splendid collection of works of art; author of On the origin and progress of the Oceanic telegraph 1858. d. Lunatic asylum, Coton Hill, Stafford 3 Dec. 1863 bequeathing one tenth of his large property to charity. Notes and Queries 3 S. viii, 203 (1865).

BRETT, Robert. b. at or near Luton Beds. 11 Sep. 1808; ed. at St. George’s hospital London, M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1830; assistant to Samuel Reynolds of Stoke Newington surgeon, partner with him 1860 to death; founded the Guild of St. Luke, a band of medical men who co-operate with the clergy; vice pres. of London Union on church matters 1850; one of founders and vice pres. with Dr. Pusey of English Church Union 1860; author of The Churchman’s guide to faith and piety by R. B. 1862, 5 ed. 1871; Scripture history for the young 1845; Devotions for the sick room 1843; Companion for the sick room 1844; Thoughts during sickness, 4 ed. 1870 and 11 other books. d. Stoke Newington 3 Feb. 1874. Robert Brett. In memoriam reprints from the principal church journals including a sermon by Rev. J. W. Belcher 1874.

BRETT, William Freeland. b. 19 Oct. 1821; ensign 54 Foot 1 April 1842, major 14 Aug. 1857; major 61 Foot 27 Sep. 1861; lieut. col. brigade depot 26 Jany. 1876; M.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 1 July 1881. d. Colchester 10 Nov. 1884.

BRETT, Rev. William Henry. b. Dover; left Dover on his first journey to Demerara as missionary from S.P.G. 10 Feb. 1840; ordained deacon 1843 and priest 1844; chaplain to Bishop of Guiana and R. of Holy Trinity Essequibo 1851–79; author of The Indian tribes of Guiana 1852; Legends and myths of the aboriginal Indians of British Guiana 1880; Mission work among the Indian tribes in the forests of Guiana 1881. d. Bowruma, Totnes road, Paignton, Devon 10 Feb. 1886 aged 67.

BRETTELL, Rev. Jacob (only son of Rev. Jacob Brettell, Independent minister at Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts who d. 19 March 1810). b. Sutton-in-Ashfield 16 April 1793; ed. at Manchester college York 1809–14; Unitarian minister at Cockey Moor (now called Ainsworth) Lancs. July 1814 and at Rotherham Sep. 1816 to June 1859; author of The country minister, a poem in 4 cantos 1821; The country minister part second, a poem in 3 cantos 1825; The country minister, a poem in 7 cantos with additional poems and notes 1827; contributed hundreds of hymns and political and patriotic pieces to Christian Reformer, Sheffield Iris, and other periodicals. d. Rotherham 12 Jany. 1862. Christian Reformer xviii, 128, 191 (1862).

BRETTLE, Robert. b. Portobello near Edinburgh 6 Dec. 1831; a glassblower in the hardware districts; fought B. Malpas for £50 a side 14 Feb. 1854 when stakes were drawn; fought Sam. Simmonds for £200 a side 3 June 1856, and Job Cobley for £100 a side 4 Aug. 1857 and beat them both; fought Bob Travers for £100 a side 26 Jany. 1858 when he won after 100 rounds in 2 hours; fought James Mace for £100 a side 21 Sep. 1858 when he won; fought Tom Sayers who staked £400 to Brettle’s £200, 20 Sep. 1859 when Sayers won; fought James Mace again 9 Sep. 1860 when Mace won; fought Jack Rooke for £200 a side 31 Dec. 1861, 1 Jany. 1862 and 11 March 1862 when stakes were drawn; kept the White Lion, Digbeth, Birmingham 1857 to about 1868 when he went to the United States; trained and brought out some of the best light-weight pugilists. d. 56 Upper Windsor st. Birmingham 7 April 1872. The championship of England by the editor of Bell’s Life in London [Francis Dowling] 1860 pp. 70–4; Illust. sporting news 1862 p. 9, portrait; H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica iii, 451–60 (1881).

BREWER, George. b. Gosport 7 Aug. 1773; entered navy 19 March 1793; joined the ‘Robust’ 15 Feb. 1795; discharged incurable 17 May 1799; a waterman at Gosport. d. in a court in Havant st. Portsea 7 Sep. 1871 aged 98 but generally reputed to be 106. Thoms’s Human longevity (1873) 185–6.

BREWER, Rev. John Sherren (eld. son of John Sherren Brewer of Eaton, Norwich, schoolmaster). b. 1810; ed. at Queen’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1835; chaplain of workhouse of St. Giles’s in the Fields and St. George’s Bloomsbury 17 Dec. 1837 to July 1845; lecturer in classical literature at King’s college London 1839–60, professor of English language and literature there 1855 and of English literature and modern history 1865–77; reader at the Rolls chapel Chancery lane 1857–62, and preacher 1862 to death; hon. fellow of Queen’s coll. Ox. Nov. 1870; head of Working mens’ college in Great Ormond st. 1872; R. of Toppesfield Essex 16 Sep. 1876 to death; edited the Standard for short time in 1860; edited Aristotle’s Ethics 1836; Book of the Church by R. Field 3 vols. 1843; Lectures to ladies on practical subjects 1855; and Letters and papers foreign and domestic of the reign of Henry viii, 4 vols. d. Toppesfield rectory 16 Feb. 1879. Rev. J. S. Brewer’s English Studies (1881) vii-xl.

BREWER, Thomas. b. 1807; entered office of Town Clerk of City of London 1823; secretary of City of London school 1837 to death; a founder of Sacred Harmonic Society 1832, secretary 1832–70, pres. Nov. 1870 to death; author of Memoir of John Carpenter, town clerk of London 1836, 2 ed. 1856; Memoir of Walter Scott, citizen and plaisterer of London privately printed 1858. d. City of London school, Milk st. London 25 Dec. 1870.

BREWER, William (brother of Rev. John Sherren Brewer). Ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D., L.R.C.S. Edin. 1834; M.D. St. Andrew’s 1834; M.R.C.P. London 1841, F.R.C.P. 1872; M.P. for Colchester 18 Nov. 1868 to 26 Jany. 1874; member of Metropolitan Board of Works for St. George’s Hanover square 1870; chairman of Metropolitan Asylums Board; author of The family medical reference book 1840; Beatrice Sforza or the progress of truth 3 vols. 1863; translated A. Tavernier’s Treatise on the treatment of deformities of the spine 1842. d. 21 George st. Hanover sq. London 3 Nov. 1881.

BREWSTER, Abraham (eld. son of Wm. Bagenal Brewster of Ballinulta, co. Wicklow). b. Ballinulta April 1796; ed. at Kilkenny coll. and Univ. of Dublin, B.A. 1817, M.A. 1847; called to Irish bar 1819, went Leinster circuit; K.C. 13 July 1835, legal adviser to lord lieut. of Ireland 10 Oct. 1841; bencher of King’s Inns Dublin 1846; solicitor general for Ireland 2 Feb. 1846 to 16 July 1846; attorney general 10 Jany. 1853 to 10 Feb. 1855; P.C. Ireland Jany. 1853; lord justice of Court of Appeal in Ireland July 1866; lord chancellor of Ireland March 1867 to 17 Dec. 1868. d. 26 Merrion square south, Dublin 26 July 1874. Burke’s Lord Chancellors of Ireland (1879) 307–11; I.L.N. lxv, 115, 427 (1874).

BREWSTER, Sir David (2 son of James Brewster, rector of Jedburgh gr. sch. who d. 1815). b. Canongate, Jedburgh 10 or 11 Dec. 1781; ed. at Jedburgh gr. sch. and Univ. of Edin.; licensed by Presbytery of Edin. 1804; LLD. Aberdeen 1807, M.A. Cam. 1807; F.R.S. Edin. 1808, pres. 1864; F.R.S. 4 May 1815, Copley medallist 1815, Rumford medallist 1818, Royal medallist 6 times; founded Scottish Society of Arts 1821; invented polyzonal lens for lighthouses 1811, Kaleidoscope 1816 and lenticular stereoscope; procured establishment of British Association 1831; K.H. 1831; knighted at St. James’s Palace 8 March 1832 fees of £109 were never demanded from him; principal of Univ. of St. Andrew’s Jany. 1838 to Oct. 1859; a chevalier of Order of Merit 1847; one of the 8 foreign associates of French Institute 1849; president of Peace congress at Exeter hall London 22–24 July 1851; principal of Univ. of Edin. 28 Oct. 1859 to death; author of Treatise on the Microscope 1837, new ed. 1851; Lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler 1841, new ed. 1874; More worlds than one 1854, new ed. 1874; History of the Stereoscope 1856 and many other books. d. Allerley near Melrose 10 Feb. 1868, centenary of his birth celebrated at Jedburgh 10 Dec. 1881. The home life of Sir D. Brewster by his daughter Mrs. Gordon 1869, portrait; Proc. of Royal Soc. xvii, 69–74 (1869); Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxvi, 194–200 (1871); Grant’s Story of Univ. of Edin. ii, 274–8 (1884), portrait; Maclise Portrait Gallery (1883) 143–7, portrait; I.L.N. xvii, 121 (1850), portrait, lii, 189 (1868), portrait.

BREWSTER, Rev. Patrick (brother of the preceding). b. 20 Dec. 1788; licensed by Presbytery of Fordoun 26 March 1817; minister of Abbey church Paisley Aug. 1817 to death; ordained 10 April 1818; had but few equals as a preacher for elegance of style and purity of diction; took an active share in chartist agitation; author of An essay on passive obedience 1836; The rights of the poor of Scotland vindicated against the misrepresentations of the editor of the Glasgow Post and Reformer 2 parts; The seven Chartist and military discourses libelled by the Marquis of Abercorn and other heritors of the Abbey parish 1843. d. Craigie Linn near Paisley 26 March 1859, monument to his memory erected by public subscription in Paisley cemetery 1863. John Smith’s Our Scottish clergy, 2 series 1849, 162–6.

BREWSTER, William Bagenal. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1846; rowed No. 4 in Oxford boat against Cambridge 1842 when Oxford gained her first victory on the Putney to Mortlake course; ensign 1 battalion Rifle brigade 7 July 1846, captain 29 Dec. 1854 to 1858 when he sold out; served in Kaffir war 1852–3; lieut. col. 23 Middlesex Volunteers (Inns of Court) 9 April 1860 to death. d. 75 Warwick sq. Belgrave road, London 7 July 1864 in 45 year. Saturday Review xviii, 81–2 (1864).

BRICE, Edward. Second lieut. Madras Artillery 16 June 1826, colonel 25 Sep. 1861 to death; C.B. 1 March 1861. d. Harley st. London 9 June 1868.

BRIDELL, Frederick Lee (son of Mr. Bridell of Southampton, builder). b. Southampton 7 Nov. 1831; apprenticed to a picture dealer 1846–53; studied painting at Munich 1854–7; his chief works are ‘Sunset on the Atlantic,’ exhibited at Liverpool Nov. 1857; ‘Temple of Venus’ painted in emulation of Turner 1858 and ‘The Coliseum by moonlight’ painted at Rome 1858, exhibited at the R.A. 1859 and at International Exhibition 1862; his patron James Wolff of Southampton acquired so many of his works that he formed a ‘Bridell gallery’ which was sold for nearly £4,000. d. Aug. 1863. Art Journal n.s. iii, 12 (1864).

BRIDGE, Rev. John Brice. b. Liverpool 2 Nov. 1793; ed. at Stonyhurst college; admitted to Society of Jesus at Hodder 7 Sep. 1814; ordained priest at Dublin July 1819; spiritual father and superior of seminary Stonyhurst June 1838; minister of Stonyhurst college Nov. 1841; superior of residence of St. Michael, Yorkshire many years; missioner at Allerton Park, Yorkshire 18 July 1842 to death; compiler of the Ordo S. J. 1844 to death. d. Allerton park 20 Feb. 1860.

BRIDGEMAN, Charles Orlando (2 son of 1 Earl of Bradford 1762–1825). b. 5 Feb. 1791; entered navy 18 June 1804; captain 2 Sep. 1819, captain of the Rattlesnake in Mediterranean 1827–30; retired captain 1 Oct. 1846; retired V. A. 10 Sep. 1857. d. Knockin near Oswestry 13 April 1860.

BRIDGER, Charles. Clerk in Heralds’ College London; assistant of Stephen Tucker, Somerset Herald; author of An index to printed pedigrees contained in county and local histories 1867; The family of Leete edited by J. C. Anderson privately printed 1881. d. 17 Selwood terrace, South Kensington, London 27 May 1879 in 54 year.

BRIDGER, William. Solicitor at Guildford, Surrey 1854 to death; travelled in Australia; formed one of the best known collections of birds eggs; F.R.Z.S. d. Stoke near Guildford 15 Oct. 1870 aged 38.

BRIDGER, William Milton. Educ. at Winchester and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1814, M.A. 1818; barrister M.T. 20 June 1817; recorder of Chichester 1821 to death; recorder of Petworth d. from an accident in London 12 Aug. 1863.

BRIDGES, Rev. Charles. Educ. at Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1831; V. of Old Newton, Suffolk 1823–49, rural dean 1844–9; R. of Melcombe Regis, Dorset 1849–55; R. of Hinton Martell, Dorset 1855 to death; author of An exposition of Psalm cxix, 1827, 27 ed. 1873; The Christian ministry 1830, 7 ed. 1849; Memoir of Miss M. J. Graham 1832, 3 ed. 1833; An exposition of the book of Proverbs 1846; Scriptural studies 9 ed. 1884. d. Hinton Martell rectory 2 April 1869 aged 75. Reg. and mag. of biog. i, 399 (1869).

BRIDGES, Sir Henry (son of Alexander Bridges of Ewell, Surrey). b. Ewell 1786; sheriff of Surrey 1813–14; knighted on presenting an address to Prince Regent at Carlton house 11 May 1814. (m. 1808 Frances dau. of general Wm. Tombes Dalrymple, she d. 6 Feb. 1859). d. Beddington house near Croydon 29 Oct. 1861.

BRIDGMAN, Frederick (eld. son of Frederick Horatio Bridgman). b. 1837; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1860; went South Eastern circuit 1860–82; Queen’s Advocate for Gold Coast Colony 7 Oct. 1882 to death, acting chief justice 1883 to death. d. Cape Coast 5 May 1883.

BRIDPORT, Samuel Hood, 2 Baron. b. Catherington, Hants. 7 Dec. 1788; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1809; succeeded 3 May 1814. d. Cricket St. Thomas, Chard, Somerset 6 Jany. 1868.

BRIDSON, Thomas Ridgway (son of Paul Bridson of Douglas, Isle of Man who d. 1820). b. 1795; owner of bleach works near Bolton foremost establishment of the kind in the world; invented the patent “stenter” or elastic finishing machine which much advanced mechanism of the trade; mayor of Bolton 1847–8. d. 24 Jany. 1863. H. Mayhew’s Shops of London i, 127–38 (1865).

BRIGGS, Augustus. b. 7 May 1813; member of House of Assembly, Barbados many years, speaker 1868–75; member of Legislative council 1878 and president 1881 to death. d. Maynards, Barbados 17 May 1882.

BRIGGS, George. Second lieut. Madras artillery 16 Dec. 1824; colonel 18 Feb. 1861 to 6 May 1867; M.G. 6 May 1867. d. Cambridge st. Pimlico, London 29 July 1875 in 80 year.

BRIGGS, Right Rev. John. b. Manchester 20 May 1788; ed. at St. Cuthbert’s college Ushaw; sub-deacon 1812, deacon 1813 and priest 1814; had charge of Chester 1818–32; pres. of Ushaw 28 March 1832 to 11 Aug. 1836; co-adjutor of Bishop Penswick in Northern district Jany. 1833; consecrated as Bishop of Trachis in Thessalia 29 Jany. 1833; vicar apostolic of Northern district Feb. 1836 and of Yorkshire district July 1840; bishop of Beverley 29 Sep. 1850 to 7 Nov. 1860 when he resigned; enthroned in St. George’s church York 13 Feb. 1851; a Count of the Holy Roman empire. d. at his house York 4 Jany. 1861. Brady’s Episcopal succession iii, 396–8 (1877); The Lamp iii, 163 (1851), portrait.

BRIGGS, John (eld. child of James Briggs, physician general Madras, who d. about 1830). b. Madras 18 Sep. 1785; ed. at Eton 1794–9; lieut. 15 Madras N.I. 10 July 1801; resident at Sattara Jany. 1823 to Jany. 1827; senior comr. in Mysore 1831 to 13 Nov. 1832; resident at Nagpore Dec. 1832 to March 1835; colonel 13 Madras N.I. 16 Nov. 1836 to 1869; general 6 Feb. 1861; took the chair at meeting of Anti-corn-law league in Covent Garden theatre 22 May 1844; contested Exeter April 1844 and July 1845; F.R.S. 22 Nov. 1838. d. Bridge Lodge, Burgess Hill, Sussex 27 April 1875. Memoir of John Briggs by Evans Bell 1885, portrait.

BRIGGS, John Joseph (son of John Briggs of King’s Newton near Melbourne, Derbyshire, farmer 1777–1864). b. King’s Newton 6 March 1819; apprenticed to W. Bemrose of Derby, printer 1834; farmer at King’s Newton about 1840 to death; originated ‘The Naturalists’ column’ in the Field newspaper 1855; author of Melbourne, a sketch of its history and antiquity 1839; History of Melbourne 1852; The Trent and other poems 1857; The Peacock at Rowsley 1869; Guide to Melbourne 1871; History and antiquities of Hemington, Leicestershire, 12 copies privately printed 1873. d. King’s Newton 23 March 1876. Reliquary xvii, 49–54 (1877).

BRIGGS, Sir John Thomas (son of Wm. Briggs). b. London 4 June 1781; sec. to Commission for revising civil affairs of navy 1806; assistant sec. of Victualling Board 1809–30; private sec. to Sir James Graham, first lord of Admiralty 1830; comr. of Victualling Board 1831–2; accountant general of navy 1832 to Feb. 1854; knighted at St. James’s Palace 26 Feb. 1851; author of several pamphlets on naval administration. d. 4 Royal Crescent, Brighton 3 Feb. 1865. Morning Post 8 Feb. 1865 and 3 Jany. 1874; Daily Telegraph 6 Jany. 1874.

BRIGGS, Sir Thomas (7 son of Stephen Briggs, chief surgeon at Madras). b. Southampton 1780; entered navy 10 Sep. 1791; captain of Queen Charlotte 100 guns 1818–21; resident comr. of naval yard at Bermuda 1823 and at Malta 1829–32; superintendent of Malta dockyard 1832–38; G.C.M.G. 26 June 1833; admiral 2 Sep. 1850; commander in chief at Portsmouth 18 Sep. 1851 to death. d. Admiralty house, Portsmouth 16 Dec. 1852.

BRIGHAM, Rev. Henry. b. Manchester 23 June 1796; ed. at Stonyhurst college; entered Society of Jesus at Hodder 7 Sep. 1813; ordained priest 1 June 1822; missioner at Hereford 10 Dec. 1827; removed to Preston 2 Oct. 1834 and to Bury St. Edmunds 23 July 1836; superior of College of Holy Apostles 1842–3; served missions of Pontefract, Teignmouth and Ugbrooke; professor of elocution at St. Stanislaus’ college Beaumont near Windsor 1865. d. St. Stanislaus’ college 26 May 1881.

BRIGHT, Henry (son of Richard Bright of Bristol, merchant). West India Merchant at Bristol; M.P. for Bristol 1820–30. d. Malvern 26 March 1869 aged 83.

BRIGHT, Henry (son of Jerome Bright of Saxmundham, Suffolk who d. 1846). b. Saxmundham 1814; apprenticed to a chemist at Woodbridge; studied painting in London; a member of Institute of Painters in Water Colours and of the Graphic Society; very popular as a teacher of painting; exhibited 12 pictures at R.A., 26 at B.I. and 7 at Suffolk st. gallery 1836–73. d. Ipswich 21 Sep. 1873, Art Journal Oct. 1873; I.L.N. lxiii, 389 (1873), portrait.

BRIGHT, Henry Arthur (eld. son of Samuel Bright of Liverpool, shipowner 1799–1870.) b. Liverpool 9 Feb. 1830; ed. at Rugby and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1857 (being with James Heywood first nonconformist to take a degree at Cam.) M.A. 1860; partner in firm of Gibbs, Bright and Co. shipowners 1857; contributed largely to Athenæum 1871 to death; published A year in a Lancashire garden 1879, which he wrote in Gardeners’ Chronicle 1874, and privately printed 50 copies 1875; The English flower garden 1881 and 5 other books. d. Ashfield, Knotty Ash near Liverpool 5 May 1884. H. A. Bright’s The Brights of Colwall (1872), p. 11; Christian Life 10 and 17 May 1884; N. Hawthorne and his wife ii, 21–7 (1885).

BRIGHT, Jacob (youngest son of Jacob Bright). Learnt handloom weaving at New Mills Derbyshire 1790–6; bookkeeper to J. and W. Holme of Rochdale, partner with them; cotton spinner at Hanging road factory Rochdale, at Greenbank mill Cronkeyshaw 1809, had 7000 spindles at work 1823; retired from business 1839. d. 7 July 1851 aged 76. Fortunes made in business ii, 181–97 (1884).

BRIGHT, John. b. Derbyshire 1782; ed. at Wad. coll. Ox., B.A. 1801, M.A. 1804, M.B. 1806, M.D. 1808; practised at Birmingham; removed to London; candidate of R.C.P. 30 Sep. 1808, Fellow 30 Sep. 1809, Censor 1813, 1822, 1833 and 1840, Harveian orator 1830, Consiliarius 1839, an Elect 25 June 1839; Physician to Westminster hospital 1822–43; a Metropolitan Commissioner in Lunacy 1 Sep. 1836. d. 19 Manchester sq. London 1 Feb. 1870. Munk’s Roll of physicians iii, 79 (1878).

BRIGHT, Rev. Mynors (son of John Bright, physician 1783–1870). b. 1818; ed. at Shrewsbury; entered Magd. coll. Cam. 3 July 1835, B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843, Tyrwhitt Hebrew scholar 1843, foundation fellow, and tutor of his college, president 1853 to 1873; proctor of Univ. of Cam. 1853; re-edited Lord Braybrook’s edition of Pepys’s Diary published simultaneously in 4º. and 8º. 6 vols. 1879 for which he redeciphered the whole of Pepys’s Diary from the original M.S. in Magd. coll. library. d. 23 Sussex place, Regent’s Park, London 23 Feb. 1883.

BRIGHT, Richard (3 son of Richard Bright of Bristol, merchant). b. Queen sq. Bristol 28 Sep. 1789; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 13 Sep. 1813; L.R.C.P. 23 Dec. 1816; assistant phys. to Guy’s hospital 1820–4, phys. 1824–43; F.R.S. 8 March 1821; F.R.C.P. 25 June 1832, Gulstonian lecturer 1833, Lumleian lecturer 1837, Censor 1836 and 1839, Consiliarius 1838 and 1843; phys. extraordinary to Queen Victoria 8 Aug. 1837; the leading consulting phys. in London; discovered several affections of the kidney, dependent upon an altered condition of the blood, called after him Bright’s disease or nephritis; author of Travels from Vienna through Lower Hungary 1818; Reports of medical cases, selected with a view of illustrating the symptom and cure of diseases by a reference to morbid anatomy 3 parts 1827–31. d. 11 Savile Row, London 16 Dec. 1858. Munk’s Roll of physicians iii, 155–60 (1878); Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery vol. 2 (1840), portrait; Proc. of Royal Soc. x, 1–4 (1860); Morbus Brighti von Joseph Buchner, Leipzig 1870.

BRIGHT, Richard (son of the succeeding). b. Abbots Leigh near Bristol 14 April 1822; ed. at Rugby and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1843; barrister I.T. 21 Nov. 1851; M.P. for East Somerset 19 Nov. 1868 to death. d. 28 Feb. 1878.

BRIGHT, Robert (brother of Richard Bright 1789–1858). b. 1795; partner in great mercantile house of Gibbs and Bright of Bristol, Liverpool and London, owners of the Eagle line of packets and of Great Britain steamship; took chief part in freeing port of Bristol from heavy dues levied on its commerce 1848 for which he was presented with a service of plate worth £1,000 at Bristol March 1855. d. Abbots Leigh near Bristol 19 Sep. 1869. I.L.N. xxvi, 325–6 (1855).

BRIGHTWELL, Cecilia Lucy (eld. child of the succeeding). b. Thorpe near Norwich 27 Feb. 1811; pupil of John Sell Cotman, etcher; etched many landscapes and subjects; author of Memorials of the life of Amelia Opie 1854, 2 ed. 1855; Palissy, the Huguenot potter a true tale 1858, 2 ed. 1877; Heroes of the laboratory and the workshop 1859, 2 ed. 1860 and 18 other books. d. Norwich 17 April 1875.

BRIGHTWELL, Thomas (son of Thomas Brightwell of Ipswich, tanner). b. 18 March 1787; articled to S. Daniell of Colchester, attorney; practised at Norwich 1810; partner with Thomas Bignold; mayor of Norwich 1837; F.L.S. 1821; made a fine collection of Insects especially Coleoptera, which he gave to the Norwich museum about 1844; author of Notes on the Pentateuch selected from the exegetical parts of Rosenmuller’s Scholia 1840. d. Norwich 17 Nov. 1868. Memorials of the life of Mr. Brightwell of Norwich by his daughter C. L. Brightwell 1869, portrait.

BRIGSTOCKE, Thomas. b. 1809; studied at Sass’s drawing school London; pupil of H. P. Briggs, R.A. and J. P. Knight, R.A.; spent 8 years in Paris and Italy; made a copy of Raphael’s ‘Transfiguration’ in the Vatican which was purchased for Christ Church, Albany st. Regent’s Park; went to Egypt 1847; painted an historical picture entitled ‘The prayer for victory’; exhibited 16 pictures at R.A. and 2 at B.I. 1843–65; author of The mutual scourges, or France and her neighbours, an historical drama in 4 acts 1871. d. 11 March 1881.

BRIMLEY, George (son of Mr. Brimley of Cambridge). b. Cambridge 29 Dec. 1819; ed. at Totteridge, Herts. 1830–5; entered at Trin. coll. Cam. Oct. 1838, scholar 1841, librarian 4 June 1845 to 1857; contributed articles to the Spectator and Fraser’s Mag. 1851 to death; one of the finest critics of his day. d. Cambridge 29 May 1857. Essays by the late G. Brimley edited by W. G. Clark, 3 ed. 1882, portrait.

BRINCKMAN, Sir Theodore Henry Lavington, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Theodore Henry Broadhead of Holly grove, Windsor, M.P. 1767–1820.) b. London 17 Jany. 1798; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.; M.P. for Yarmouth 17 Jany. 1821 to 2 June 1826; created baronet 30 Sep. 1831; assumed by royal licence original family surname of Brinckman 5 July 1842. d. St. Leonards near Windsor 9 Feb. 1880.

BRIND, Frederick. Colonel Bengal army 20 June 1854; C.B. 9 June 1849. d. Sealkote Bengal 10 July 1857 aged 55.

BRINDLE, Very Rev. Thomas. b. Walton-le-Dale, Lancs. 18 Dec. 1791; ed. at Benedictine coll. Ampleforth, Yorks.; ordained priest Sep. 1815; administrator of Western diocese and Grand Vicar March 1829 to 1830; regent of college at Prior park, Bath 1830 to Nov. 1849; vicar general of diocese of Clifton 1850 an office which he held at various periods for 21 years; provost of the Cathedral Chapter 1852; domestic prelate to Pope Gregory xvi, 1854; received many persons into R.C. church during Tractarian movement. d. Bath 13 Dec. 1871. Tablet 23 Dec. 1871.

BRINE, George (3 son of James Brine, admiral R.N. who d. 1814). Entered navy Feb. 1797; captain 7 Dec. 1818; retired 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 23 March 1863. d. Richmond, Surrey 16 Nov. 1864 aged 79.

BRINTON, William (2 son of Henry Brinton of Kidderminster, carpet manufacturer who d. about 1856). b. Kidderminster 20 Nov. 1823; matric. at Univ. of London 1843, M.B. 1847, M.D. 1848; M.R.C.P. 1849, F.R.C.P. 1854, Croonian lecturer 1859; medical tutor at King’s college, London 1850–3; lecturer on forensic medicine at St. Thomas’s hospital 1853; phys. to Royal free hospital 1852–60 and to St. Thomas’s hospital 1860 to Nov. 1864; member of Alpine Club; F.R.S. 1864; author of Bürger’s Leonora, Englished [by W.B.] 1850; On the medical selection of lives for insurance 1856, 3 ed. 1861; The diseases of the stomach 1859. d. 24 Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London 17 Jany. 1867. Proc. of Royal Soc. xvi, 6–8 (1865).

BRISBANE, Sir Thomas Macdougall (eld. son of Thomas Brisbane of Largs, Ayrshire who d. 1812 aged 92). b. Brisbane house, Largs 23 July 1773; ensign 38 Foot 9 April 1789; lieut. col. 69 Foot 4 April 1800 to 30 May 1805 when placed on h.p.; commanded 1 brigade of 3 division in Peninsula 1812 to end of the war; commanded brigade in Canada 1813 and a brigade in army of occupation in France and afterwards the second division there; governor of New South Wales 1 Dec. 1821 to 1 Dec. 1825; colonel 34 Foot 16 Dec. 1826 to death; general 23 Nov. 1841; fought in 14 general actions and 23 other battles; erected an observatory near Brisbane house 1808, another at Paramatta near Sydney opened 2 May 1822 and a third at Makerstown near Kelso 1826 to which he added a magnetic station 1841 only one in Scotland; F.R.S. 10 May 1810; F.R.S. Edin. 1811, pres. 1832; gold medallist of Royal Astronom. Soc. 1828; F.G.S. 1833; pres. of British Assoc. at Edin. 1834; G.C.H. 1831; baronet 22 Feb. 1836; G.C.B. 6 Feb. 1837. d. Brisbane house 27 Jany. 1860. Reminiscences of Sir T. M. Brisbane privately printed 1860; Proc. of Royal Soc. xi, 3–7 (1860); Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xxi, 98–100 (1861); G.M. viii, 298–302 (1860).

BRISCO, Sir Robert, 3 Baronet. b. Crofton hall, Carlisle 17 Sep. 1808; succeeded 1 Oct. 1862; became a pledged abstainer 1858, vice pres. of United Kingdom Alliance, lectured frequently on temperance. d. Crofton hall 23 Dec. 1884.

BRISCO, Sir Wastell, 2 Baronet. b. 17 May 1778; succeeded 27 Dec. 1806; sheriff of Cumberland 1813. d. Crofton hall 1 Oct. 1862.

BRISCOE, John Ivatt (son of John Briscoe of Cross Deep, Twickenham). b. Twickenham 1791; ed. at Ealing and Univ. coll. Ox., B.A. 1812, M.A. 1815; M.P. for Surrey 1830–32, for East Surrey 1832–34, for Westbury 1837–41 and for West Surrey 1857 to death. d. 60 Eaton place, London 16 Aug. 1870.

BRISCOE, Joseph. b. Wilmount, co. Kilkenny; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; went to United States 1854; connected as civil engineer with many important public works in Pennsylvania coalfields; enlisted in First New York Volunteers at outbreak of the civil war; chief of the staff of Tenth army corps; colonel of 199 regiment Pennsylvania volunteers; commanded a brigade at capture of Petersburg; stormed Fort Gregg for which he was brevetted general; pres. of Examining board for officers in regular army. d. New York 24 May 1869 aged 35.

BRISTOL, Frederick William Hervey, 1 Marquis of (younger son of Right Rev. Frederic Augustus Hervey, bishop of Derry, 4 Earl of Bristol 1730–1803). b. 2 June 1769; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., M.A. 1788, LLD. 1811; ensign 1 Foot Guards 1788–92; M.P. for Bury St. Edmunds 27 May 1796 to 8 July 1803 when he succeeded; under sec. of state for foreign affairs 20 Feb. 1801 to 8 Nov. 1803; F.R.S. 23 May 1805; created Marquis of Bristol and Earl Jermyn of Horning’s Heath, Suffolk 30 June 1826. d. 6 St. James’s sq. London 15 Feb. 1859. Doyle’s Official baronage of England i, 242 (1886), portrait.

BRISTOL, Frederick William Hervey, 2 Marquis of (eld. son of the preceding). b. Portland place, London 15 July 1800; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1822, LLD. 1862; M.P. for Bury St. Edmunds 12 June 1826 to 15 Feb. 1859 when he succeeded; treasurer of Royal household 9 Sep. 1841 to 6 July 1846; P.C. 6 Oct. 1841; colonel of West Suffolk militia 25 March 1846 to death. d. Ickworth park, Bury St. Edmunds 30 Oct. 1864.

BRISTOW, Alfred Rhodes (youngest son of Isaac Bristow of Greenwich, government contractor). b. Greenwich 20 Dec. 1819; ed. at King’s college London; admitted solicitor 1842, head of firm of Bristow and Tarrant of London and Greenwich; represented Greenwich and Deptford at Metropolitan Board of Works 1856–62; solicitor to the Admiralty 1862 to death; barrister G.I. 17 Nov. 1868; M.P. for Kidderminster 30 April 1859 to May 1862; treasurer of Westminster Chess Club Oct. 1870 to death; fell down dead on leaving railway station at Sydenham 5 April 1875. Westminster Papers viii, 14 (1876), portrait.

BRISTOW, Henry. b. 1786; cornet 1 Life Guards 14 Feb. 1805; major 11 Foot 20 Jany. 1814 to 27 April 1815 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 20 June 1854. d. Madrid 22 Nov. 1874.

BRISTOWE, Edmund (son of Mr. Bristowe of Windsor, heraldic printer). b. Windsor 1 April 1787; made sketches of public characters in Eton and Windsor; exhibited 7 pictures at R.A., 12 at B.I. and 8 at Suffolk st. gallery 1809–38; some of his works are in the royal collection at Windsor. d. Eton 12 Feb. 1876.

BRITTAIN, Thomas. b. Sheffield 2 Jany. 1806; a professional accountant; lived at Manchester about 1842 to death; lectured on natural science at mechanics’ and similar institutions; vice. pres. of Manchester Microscopical Society 1879, then pres.; author of Half a dozen songs by Brittannicus 1846 privately printed; Micro-fungi, when and where to find them 1882; Whist, how to play and how to win 1882. d. Manchester 23 Jany. 1884. Axon’s Field Naturalist (1882), p. 148; Unitarian Herald 1 Feb. 1884.

BRITTON, John (eld. son of Mr. Britton of Kington St. Michael near Chippenham Wilts., farmer). b. Kington St. Michael 7 July 1771; author of The beauties of Wiltshire 3 vols. 1801–25; The architectural antiquities of Great Britain 4 vols. 1805–14; Cathedral antiquities of England 14 vols. 1814–35; Dictionary of the architecture and archæology of the middle ages 4 parts 1830–8; edited with E. W. Brayley The beauties of England and Wales 10 vols. 1801–14; granted civil list pension of £75, 5 April 1852. d. Burton cottage Burton st. London 1 Jany. 1857. Autobiography of John Britton 1850; G.M. ii, 126, 185–92, 258 (1857).

BRIZZI, Signor, stage name of Francesco Achille Scipione Bisteghi (son of Giovanni Bisteghi, general in army of Napoleon I). b. Milan 16 April 1810; pupil at Royal Academy of Music, London Sep. 1828 to Dec. 1831; fought in Piedmontese army against the Austrians 1848; greatly assisted Benjamin Lumley in organising new company for Her Majesty’s theatre London 1855, director of the company on its Continental tour 1856. d. 47 Grove road, Regent’s park, London 24 Aug. 1884. Illust. sporting and dramatic news xxii, 27 (1884).

BROADBRIDGE, William, b. Duncton near Petworth, Sussex 1 Oct. 1790; a farmer there; played in cricket matches 1813–40; played his first match at Lords (Sussex v. Epsom) 2–6 July 1817 when 1047 runs were made altogether, being largest number ever made down to 1861 or later; a good batsman and wicket keeper; in a match Sussex v. Hampshire and Surrey 7 Aug. 1826 he performed extraordinary feat of stumping 7 men and catching 2. d. Duncton 19 April 1860.

BROADHEAD, Henry (6 son of Theodore Henry Broadhead of Holly Grove, Windsor, M.P. 1767–1820). b. 25 April 1806; entered navy 6 April 1820; captain 27 June 1846; admiral on half pay 1 Aug. 1877. d. Walton on Thames 20 May 1878.

BROADHEAD, William. Secretary of Saw Grinders Union at Sheffield from 1848 in connection with which a great many outrages were committed; treasurer of United Kingdom Alliance of organised trades; kept an inn in Carver st. Sheffield to 22 Aug. 1867 when magistrates refused to renew his license; went to America Nov. 1869 but failed to find employment there; lectured upon his own career; a grocer in Meadow st. Sheffield to death; he is the villain under name of Grotait of Charles Reade’s novel Put yourself in his place. d. Meadow st. Sheffield 15 March 1879 aged about 60. Sheffield Daily Telegraph 17 March 1879 p. 4, col. 2; Trades unions commission, Sheffield outrages inquiry vol. 2 Minutes of evidence (1867) 222–51.

BROADLEY, Henry, b. 1793; chairman of Hull and Selby railway 1836–43; M.P. for east riding of Yorkshire 10 Aug. 1837 to death. d. 3 Charles st. St. James’s square, London 8 Aug. 1851 in 58 year. bur. Holy Trinity church Hull 16 Aug.

BROCK, Thomas Saumarez. Entered navy 9 Feb. 1815; captain 13 Nov. 1850; held possession of Eupatoria against the Russians 15 Sep. 1854 to 25 Dec. 1854; superintendent agent of transports at Genoa 15 March 1855; retired R.A. 20 March 1867; C.B. 5 July 1855; knight of St. Maurice and Lazare 1856. d. The hermitage, Guernsey 28 April 1873 in 73 year.

BROCK, Rev. William (eld. child of Wm. Brock of Honiton, Devon, Unitarian baptist who d. 20 June 1811). b. Honiton 14 Feb. 1807; ed. at Culmstock and Honiton; apprenticed to a watchmaker at Sidmouth Sep. 1820 to March 1828; a journeyman watchmaker at Hertford 1828–29; studied at Derby and Stepney baptist college; pastor of baptist chapel in parish of St. Mary’s Norwich 1833–48; pastor of Bloomsbury chapel London 5 Dec. 1848 to 30 Sep. 1872; D.D. Harvard 1859; held his first service in London theatres, at the Britannia theatre Hoxton 18 Dec. 1859; pres. of London Baptist association Nov. 1865; went to the United States 1866; pres. of Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland 1869; author of Fraternal appeals to young men; Sacramental religion 1850; A biographical sketch of Sir Henry Havelock 1858; Midsummer morning sermons 1872. d. Orwell house, St. Leonards 13 Nov. 1875. Life of W. Brock by C. M. Birrell 1878, portrait; W. Brock by G. W. M’Cree 1876; Rev. C. M. Davies’s Unorthodox London (1873) 81–88; I.L.N. lxvii, 537, 590 (1875), portrait; Graphic xi, 518, 533 (1875), portrait.

BROCK, Rev. William John (eld. son of John Brock of George st. Portman sq. London). b. about 1818; ed. at Magd. hall Ox.; C. of St. George’s, Barnsley 1852; P.C. of Hayfield, Derbyshire 1856 to death; author of Wayside verses 1848; Twenty seven sermons 1855, 2 ed. 1858; The rough wind stayed 1867; The bright light in the clouds 1870. d. Hayfield 27 April 1863 aged 45.

BROCKEDON, William (only child of Mr. Brockedon of Totnes, Devon, watchmaker who d. Sep. 1802). b. Totnes 13 Oct. 1787; watchmaker at Totnes 1802–7; studied at R.A. London 1809–15; painted “The resurrection of the widow’s son” which obtained premium of £105 from British Institution 1818 and was presented by him to Dartmouth church; patented plan of using drilled gems in wire drawing 1819 universally adopted; founded Graphic Society 1831 an association of 100 artists of reputation; F.R.S. 18 Dec. 1834; exhibited 36 pictures at R.A. and 29 at B.I. 1812–37; author of Illustrations of the passes of the Alps 2 vols. 1828–9; Journals of excursions in the Alps 1833; Italy classical historical and picturesque 1842–4; edited Illustrated road book from London to Naples 1835. d. 29 Devonshire st. Queen sq. Bloomsbury, London 29 Aug. 1854. G.M. xlii, 521–3 (1854); Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xxv, 84 (1855).

BROCKET, Stanes Brockett (eld. son of Stanes Chamberlayne of the Ryes, Essex who d. 12 April 1834 in 89 year). b. 9 April 1782; barrister M.T. 29 May 1812, bencher 1841 to death; assumed surname of Brocket, May 1834; sheriff of Essex 1844. d. Spain’s hall near Ongar 2 March 1873.

BROCKETT, William Henry (youngest son of John Brockett of Newcastle). b. Jany. 1804; merchant at Gateshead; mayor of Gateshead 1839; sole proprietor of Gateshead Observer; sec. to Newcastle and Gateshead Chamber of commerce; author of The tradesmens tokens of Durham and Northumberland 1851; The tradesmens tokens of Cumberland and Westmoreland 1853; The tradesmens tokens of Derbyshire 1857. d. Gateshead 15 Jany. 1867. G.M. iii, 264 (1867).

BROCKLEHURST, John (son of John Brocklehurst of Jordan gate house Macclesfield). b. 30 Oct. 1788; a silk manufacturer and banker at Macclesfield; pres. of Macclesfield institution; M.P. for Macclesfield 14 Dec. 1832 to 11 Nov. 1868. d. London 13 Aug. 1870. Personalty sworn under £800,000, 22 Oct. 1870.

BROCKMAN, Edward Drake (youngest child of James Drake Brockman of Beachborough near Hythe, Kent who d. 28 June 1832). Barrister I.T. 29 June 1819; recorder of Folkestone 1833; M.P. for Hythe 31 July 1847 to 21 March 1857. d. Beachborough 7 Nov. 1858.

BROCKY, Charles. b. Temeswar in the Banat Hungary 1807; studied painting in Vienna and Paris; portrait and subject painter in London; exhibited 43 pictures at R.A. and 16 at B.I. 1839–54; painted portraits of the Queen, Prince Consort, Lord Melbourne and other celebrities; left 5 pictures to his native country which are in the Musée at Pesth. d. London 8 July 1855. N. Wilkinson’s Sketch of the life of C. Brocky 1870.

BRODERIP, Frances Freeling (2 dau. of Thomas Hood the poet 1798–1845). b. Winchmore Hill, Middlesex 1830; granted civil list pension of £50, 4 Oct. 1847; author of Wayside Fancies 1857; Funny fables for little folks 1860; Chrysal, or a story with an end 1861 and many other childrens’ books. (m. 10 Sep. 1849 Rev. John Somerville Broderip R. of Cossington Somerset, he was b. 1814 and d. 10 April 1866). d. Clevedon, Somerset 3 Nov. 1878.

BRODERIP, William John (eld. child of Wm. Broderip of Bristol, surgeon). b. Princes st. Bristol 21 Nov. 1789; ed. at Bristol and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1812; pupil of Godfrey Sykes; barrister L.I. 12 May 1817; magistrate at Thames police court 1822–46, and at Westminster police court 1846 to Dec. 1855; bencher of Grays Inn 30 Jany. 1850, treasurer 29 Jany. 1851; F.L.S. 1824; F.G.S. 1825, co-secretary to 1830; a founder of Zoological Society 1826; F.R.S. 14 Feb. 1828; his unrivalled conchological cabinet was purchased by British Museum; edited with P. Bingham Reports of cases in the Court of Common Pleas and other courts 3 vols. 1820–2; author of Zoological recreations 1847; Leaves from the note book of a naturalist 1852. d. 2 Raymond’s buildings, Grays Inn, London 27 Feb. 1859. Berger’s W. J. Broderip, ancien magistrat, naturaliste, litterateur, Paris 1856; Fraser’s Mag. lix, 485–8 (1859); I.L.N. ix, 317 (1846) portrait, xxviii, 253 (1856), portrait; Law mag. and law review viii, 174–8 (1859).

BRODIE, Alexander (son of Wm. Brodie of Chesterhill, Roxburghshire). Author of A history of the Roman government 1810; The prophetess, a tale of the last century in Italy 3 vols. [anon.] 1826. d. The Whim house, Peebleshire 13 March 1858.

BRODIE, Alexander (younger son of John Brodie of Aberdeen, mariner). b. Aberdeen 1830; apprenticed in foundry of Messrs. Blaikie Brothers of Aberdeen brass-finishers; sculptor at Aberdeen about 1858 to death; very successful in bust-portraiture and medallions; his best known statues are those of Duke of Richmond at Huntly and Queen Victoria at Aberdeen. d. Aberdeen 30 May 1867.

BRODIE, Sir Benjamin Collins, 1 Baronet (3 son of Rev. Peter Bellinger Brodie 1742–1804, R. of Winterslow, Wilts.) b. Winterslow 9 June 1783; studied at St. George’s hospital London 1803–5, assistant surgeon 1808 and surgeon 1822 to Jany. 1840; teacher of anatomy in Windmill st. school 1805–12 and lecturer on surgery 1808–29; F.R.S. 15 Feb. 1810, Copley medallist 1811 and pres. 1858–61; professor of comparative anatomy and physiology at College of Surgeons 1819–23 and pres. 1844; surgeon to George iv, 11 Aug. 1828; serjeant surgeon to Wm. iv, 5 Sep. 1832; presented his pathological museum to St. George’s hospital 1829; created baronet 30 Aug. 1834; author of Pathological and surgical observations on diseases of the joints 1818, 3 ed. 1834; Lectures on the diseases of the urinary organs 1832, 4 ed. 1849 and many other books. d. Broome park, Surrey 21 Oct. 1862. Autobiography of the late Sir B. C. Brodie 1865; Proc. of royal society xii, 42–56 (1863); Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery ii, (1840), portrait; Taylor’s National portrait gallery i, 41 (1846), portrait.

BRODIE, Sir Benjamin Collins, 2 Baronet (eld. son of the preceding). b. Sackville st. Piccadilly, London 5 Feb. 1817; ed. at Harrow and Ball. coll. Ox., B.A. 1838, hon. D.C.L. 1872; studied chemistry at Giessen 1845; propounded doctrine of polarity of chemical elements 1847; sec. of Chemical Soc. of London 1850–4, pres. 1859–61; F.R.S. 7 June 1849, Royal medallist 1850; lecturer at Royal Institution 1851; Aldrichian prof. of chemistry at Ox. 1855–66 when professorship was suppressed, and Waynflete prof. of chemistry 1865–72; discovered graphitic acid. d. Torquay 24 Nov. 1880. Journal of Chemical Soc. xxxix, 182–5 (1881).

BRODIE, George (youngest son of Wm. Brodie of Chesterhill, East Lothian, farmer). b. Chesterhill 1786; ed. at high sch. and Univ. of Edin.; member of faculty of advocates 1811; historiographer royal of Scotland 1836 to death; author of A history of the British empire from the accession of Charles I to the Restoration 4 vols. 1822, new ed. 3 vols. 1866; edited Stair’s Institutes of the law of Scotland. d. Percy house, Randolph road, London 22 Jany. 1867.

BRODIE, James Campbell John. b. 26 March 1843; ed. at Rugby and St. Andrew’s; lord lieutenant of Nairnshire 26 June 1873 to death. d. Moss close, Manor road, Bournemouth 25 Feb. 1880.

BRODIE, John. b. Edinburgh; served at hospital Scutari during Russian war; went to New York 1869; city editor of New York Dispatch; contributed largely to columns of the Spirit of the Times. d. New York 29 Jany. 1873 aged 32.

BRODIE, Peter Bellinger (brother of Sir B. C. Brodie, 1 Baronet). b. Winterslow, Wilts. 20 Aug. 1778; pupil of Charles Butler; a conveyancer; barrister I.T. 5 May 1815; drew charter of King’s College London 1829; a real property comr. 1828, drew the part relating to Fines and Recoveries of first report made May 1829, the part relating to Probate of wills of second report made June 1830, and the part relating to Copyhold and Ancient Demesne made April 1833; drew bill for abolishing Fines and Recoveries which became law 1833; author of A treatise on a tax on successions to real as well as personal properly 1850. d. 49 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London 8 Sep. 1854. Law Review xxi, 348–54 (1855).

BRODIE, William. b. 2 July 1799; ed. at King’s coll. Aberdeen; lord lieutenant of Nairnshire 1824 to death. d. Brodie castle, Forres, Morayshire 6 June 1873.

BRODIE, William (brother of Alexander Brodie 1830–67). b. Banff 22 Jany. 1815; studied in the Trustees school of design, Edinburgh 1846–52; an associate of Royal Scottish Academy 1857, member 1859, sec. 8 Nov. 1876; executed portrait busts of most of the celebrities of his day; executed 4 busts of the Queen, colossal statue of Prince Consort at Perth, and one of the representative groups in bronze, for Scottish memorial to Prince Consort in Edin. d. Douglas lodge, Edin. 30 Oct. 1881. Biograph ii, 218 (1879).

BRODIE, William Bird. b. 26 Sep. 1780; a banker at Salisbury; M.P. for Salisbury 14 Dec. 1832 to April 1843. d. Swanage, Dorset 24 Oct. 1863.

BRODRIBB, William Perrin. Pupil of Abernethy at St. Bartholomew’s hospital London; L.S.A. 1822, M.R.C.S. 1823, L.R.C.P. Edin. 1859; surgeon to Magdalen hospital, London; chairman of court of examiners of Society of Apothecaries 1860–1, sec. to the court 1865 to death. d. 7 Bloomsbury sq. London 8 Jany. 1869 aged 68.

BROGDEN, Rev. James. Educ. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833; R. of Great Henny, Essex 1841–5; C. of St. Michaels, St. Albans 1845–8; V. of Deddington, Oxon 1848 to death; author of Illustrations of the liturgy and ritual of the united church of England and Ireland 3 vols. 1842; Catholic safeguards against the errors, novelties, and corruptions of the church of Rome 3 vols. 1851. d. Deddington 11 Feb. 1864 aged 58.

BROKE, Sir Arthur Brooke de Capell, 2 Baronet (elder son of Sir Richard Brooke-Supple, 1 baronet 1758–1829). b. Bolton st. Piccadilly, London 22 Oct. 1791; ed. at Magd. coll. Ox., B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816; captain 17 Dragoons 26 Feb. 1818 placed on h.p. same date; changed his name from Brooke to Broke; F.R.S. 29 May 1823; founded the Raleigh Club, (forerunner of Royal Geographical Society), first regular meeting took place at the Thatched house 7 Feb. 1827, in 1854 the name of Raleigh was dropped and it became Geographical club; succeeded 27 Nov. 1829; sheriff of Northamptonshire 1843; author of Travels through Sweden, Norway and Finmark to the North Cape 1823; A winter in Lapland and Sweden 1827; Sketches in Spain and Morocco 2 vols. 1831. d. Oakley hall near Kettering 6 Dec. 1858. C. Markham’s Fifty years work of the Royal Geographical Society (1881) 15–18.

BROKE, Charles Acton. b. 30 June 1818; 2 lieut. R.E. 18 June 1836, captain 17 Feb. 1854 to death; quartered in island of Zante; well known to all H.M.’s ships, merchantships and yachts as “Signal Broke” as he challenged all vessels passing Zante from the signal posts and extracted news from them; supported 40 or 50 starving families in Zante during winters of 1852–54. d. Ayr 7 Sep. 1855.

BROKE, Horatio George. b. 4 June 1790; captain 58 Foot 18 March 1813 to 25 Feb. 1816 when placed on h.p.; permanent assistant quartermaster general 4 July 1823; deputy quartermaster general Nova Scotia 20 July 1830 to 12 Sep. 1834; aide-de-camp to the Queen 23 Nov. 1841 to 20 June 1854; colonel 88 Foot 24 Dec. 1858 to death; L.G. 15 June 1860. d. Gloucester place, Portman sq. London 30 Aug. 1860.

BROKE, Sir Philip Vere, 2 Baronet. b. 15 Jany. 1804; entered navy Dec. 1819; captain 12 Sep. 1835; succeeded 2 June 1841; sheriff of Suffolk 1844. d. Broke hall near Ipswich 24 Feb. 1855.

BROKE, Sir William de Capell, 3 Baronet. b. Deal, Kent 12 June 1801; ed. at Rugby and Brasn. coll. Ox., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1835; barrister I.T. 25 May 1827; sheriff of Rutland 1852; succeeded 6 Dec. 1858. d. The Elms, Market Harborough 8 March 1886. Law Times lxxx, 364 (1886).

BROMBY, Rev. John Healey. b. 1771; ed. at Hull gr. sch. and Sid. Suss. coll. Cam., 17 wrangler 1792, B.A. 1792, M.A. 1795, fellow of his coll.; V. of Trinity, Hull 1797–1866; V. of Cheswardine, Salop 1821–67; master of the Charterhouse, Hull 1849 to death; author of various sermons, essays and lectures published in Hull. d. Hull 25 March 1868, the oldest clergyman in Church of England.

BROME, Frederick. Governor of military prison on Windmill hill, Gibraltar 1846 to Dec. 1868, and of military prison at Weedon Northampton 1869 which was abolished same year; well known as a palæontologist. d. 4 March 1870. Nature i, 509 (1870).

BROMEHEAD, Rev. William Crawford (youngest son of Rev. A. C. Bromehead of Newbold, Warws.) Educ. at Repton and Trin. coll. Cam., scholar, B.A. 1849, M.A. 1853, B.D. 1879, chaplain of his college 1857–9; chaplain in Bengal 1859–79; one of founders of Indian church aid association and the first hon. sec.; chaplain in ord. at Kensington palace, London 8 July 1879 to death; author of A short account of the lives of the bishops of Calcutta 1876; Step by step or the devout communicant led through the Church to the vision of God 1878. d. Kensington palace 6 May 1884 aged 59.

BROMFIELD, William Arnold (son of Rev. John Arnold Bromfield of Boldre in the New Forest who d. 1801). b. Boldre 1801; entered Univ. of Glasgow 1821, M.D. 1823; travelled through Germany, Italy and France 1826–30; went to West Indies 1844 and to North America 1846; embarked for the East, Sep. 1850; author of List of plants likely to be found wild in the Isle of Wight 1840; Botanico-topographical map of the Isle of Wight 1850; Letters from Egypt and Syria 1856. d. of malignant typhus fever at Damascus 9 Oct. 1851. Hooker’s Kew garden miscell. iii, 373–82 (1851); Proc. of Linnæan Soc. ii, 182–3 (1855); W. A. Bromfield’s Flora Vectensis 1856, portrait.

BROMHEAD, Sir Edmund Gonville, 3 Baronet. b. Birch grove, Ballinasloe 22 Jany. 1791; ensign 8 Foot 18 Jany. 1808; lieut. 54 Foot 23 March 1809; captain 19 Foot 21 Nov. 1822 to 13 May 1826 when placed on h.p. as major; served in Walcheren expedition, the Peninsula and at Waterloo; led the forlorn hope at Cambray 24 June 1815; succeeded 14 March 1855. d. Thurlby hall near Lincoln 25 Oct 1870.

BROMHEAD, Sir Edward Thomas Ffrench, 2 Baronet (eldest son of Sir Gonville Bromhead, 1 baronet 1758–1822). b. Dublin 26 March 1789; ed. at Gonville and Caius. coll. Cam., B.A. 1812, M.A. 1815; barrister I.T. 28 May 1813; succeeded 11 May 1822; F.R.S. 13 March 1817, F.L.S. 1844. d. Thurlby hall 14 March 1855.

BROMLEY, Sir Richard Madox (2 son of Samuel Bromley, Surgeon R.N. who d. 1835). b. 11 June 1813; ed. at Lewisham gr. sch.; entered Admiralty department of Civil service 1829; sec. to Comrs. for auditing public accounts 6 June 1848 to Feb. 1854; accountant general of the Navy Feb. 1854 to March 1863; comr. of Greenwich hospital 28 March 1863 to death; C.B. 13 Sep. 1854, K.C.B. 6 Sep. 1858. d. The Marina, St. Leonard’s-on-Sea 30 Nov. 1865.

BROMLEY, Sir Robert Howe, 3 Baronet (only son of Sir George Smith, 2 baronet 1753–1808, who assumed surname of Bromley 1778). b. Stoke near Newark 28 Nov. 1778; entered navy 26 Dec. 1791; captain 28 April 1802; placed on h.p. 1809; admiral 17 Aug. 1851; succeeded his father 17 Aug. 1808. d. Stoke 8 July 1857.

BROMLEY, Valentine Walter (eld. son of Wm. Bromley of St. John’s Wood, London). b. London 14 Feb. 1848; contributed many illustrations to Illustrated London News; an associate of Institute of painters in water colours; exhibited 5 pictures at R.A. and 22 at Suffolk st. gallery 1865–77; his picture of Troilus and Cressida is engraved in Art Journal 1873. d. Fallows Green, Harpenden 30 April 1877. I.L.N. lxx, 469 (1877), portrait.

BROMLEY-DAVENPORT, William (eld. son of Rev. Walter Davenport-Bromley of Wooton hall, Staffs. 1787–1862). b. Capesthorn near Crewe 20 Aug. 1821; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox.; lieut. col. Staffordshire yeomanry cavalry 13 July 1864 to death; M.P. for North Warwickshire Dec. 1864 to death; assumed name of Bromley-Davenport in lieu of Davenport-Bromley 1868; aide-de-camp to the Queen 15 Aug. 1883 to death; author of many hunting songs and of an article entitled Fox hunting in The Nineteenth Century June 1883. d. Lichfield 15 June 1884. Waagen’s Treasures of art iii, 371–80 (1854); I.L.N. lxxxv, 629 (1884), portrait; Baily’s Mag. xlii, 385 (1884).

BRONTE, Charlotte Mary Hood, Duchess of (only dau. of Wm. Nelson, 1 Earl Nelson 1757–1835). b. 20 Sep. 1787; succeeded her father as Duchess of Bronte in Sicily 28 Feb. 1835. (m. 3 July 1810 Samuel Hood, 2 Baron Bridport 1788–1868). d. Cricket, St. Thomas 29 Jany. 1873. Earl Nelson v. Lord Bridport, 6 Beavan, Reports in Chancery 295–305 (1845); 7 Beavan 195–202 (1846); 8 Beavan 527–74 (1847).

BRONTE, Charlotte (3 child of the succeeding). b. Hartshead 21 April 1816; ed. at Cowan’s Bridge, Yorkshire 1824–5, and at Miss Wooler’s school Roehead, Yorkshire 1831–2 where she was teacher 29 July 1835 to Dec. 1837; learnt French in Brussels 1842–3. (m. 19 June 1854 Rev. Arthur Bell Nicholls, C. of Haworth); author with her sisters Emily and Anne of Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell 1846; Jane Eyre an autobiography edited by Currer Bell 3 vols. 1847; Shirley, a tale by Currer Bell 3 vols. 1849; Villette by Currer Bell 3 vols. 1853; The professor, a tale [edited by A. B. Nicholls] 2 vols. 1857. d. Haworth parsonage 31 March 1855. Mrs. Gaskell’s Life of C. Bronte 2 vols. 1857, portrait; C. Bronte, a monograph by T. W. Reid 1877; The Bronte family by F. A. Leyland 1886; G. B. Smith’s Poets and novelists (1875) 207–50; W. Smith’s Old Yorkshire (1883) 124–30, portrait; P. Bayne’s Two great Englishwomen (1881) 155–340; Illust. Review iv, 257–65, portrait.

BRONTE, Rev. Patrick (son of Hugh Prunty of Ahaderg, Downshire). b. Ahaderg 17 March 1777; opened a school at Drumgooland, Downshire 1793; changed his name to Bronte about 1801; entered St. John’s coll. Cam. Oct. 1802, B.A. 1806; ordained to a curacy in Essex; C. of Hartshead, Yorkshire 1811; P.C. of Thornton near Bradford 1814–20; Inc. of Haworth near Bradford 25 Feb. 1820 to death; author of Cottage poems 1811; The rural minstrel 1813 and of a tract called, The cottage in a wood, or the art of becoming rich and happy 1818 reprinted 1859, he is partly represented as Mr. Helstone in his daughter’s novel Shirley. d. Haworth parsonage 7 June 1861. Dict, of nat. biog. vi, 406–13 (1886).

BROOK, Charles (son of James Brook of Huddersfield, banker and cotton spinner at Meltham). b. Upperhead row, Huddersfield 18 Nov. 1814; partner with his father 1840; made many improvements in machinery; founded Convalescent Home at Huddersfield at cost of £40,000 where there is a portrait of him by Samuel Howell; purchased Enderby hall near Leicester 1865 at cost of £150,000; rebuilt Enderby church 1865. d. Enderby hall 10 July 1872.

BROOKE, Sir Arthur Brinsley, 2 Baronet. b. 1797; succeeded 24 March 1834; M.P. for co. Fermanagh 30 April 1840 to death. d. Colebrooke, co. Fermanagh 20 Nov. 1854.

BROOKE, Charles. b. in the Mint Exeter 8 Aug. 1777; ed. at English academy Liege; took part in emigration to Stonyhurst 1794; ordained at Maynooth 12 June 1802; entered Society of Jesus at Hodder Place near Stonyhurst 26 Sep. 1803; missioner at Clayton, Enfield Sep. 1817; provincial 1826–32; superior of Seminary adjacent to Stonyhurst college 30 July 1834; visitor of Ireland June 1842 to July 1843; rector of St. Aloysius’ college 1843–5; sent to Exeter 11 Sep. 1845 to gather materials for continuation of history of English province of Society of Jesus from 1635. d. in same room in which he had been born at Exeter 6 Oct. 1852.

BROOKE, Charles (son of Henry James Brooke 1771–1857). b. 30 June 1804; ed. at Chiswick, Rugby and St. John’s coll. Cam., 23 wrangler 1827, B.A. 1827, B.M. 1828, M.A. 1853; M.R.C.S. 1834, F.R.C.S. 1844; pres. of Meteorological and Microscopical Societies; invented the bead suture, a great improvement in treatment of deep wounds; invented self recording meteorological instruments which register their variations by means of photography; fellow of Royal Med. and Chir. Soc. 1844, councillor, librarian and vice. pres. successively; F.R.S. 4 March 1847; author of A synopsis of the principal formulæ and results of pure mathematics 1829; edited Golding Bird’s Elements of natural philosophy 4 ed. 1854, 5 ed. 1860, and 6 ed. 1867. d. Weymouth 17 May 1879. Proc. of Royal Soc. xxx, 1–2 (1880).

BROOKE, Edward Basil. b. 1799; 2 lieut. R.A. 15 Dec. 1817; lieut. col. 67 Foot 9 Nov. 1846 to 31 Dec. 1858; inspecting field officer 31 Dec. 1858; M.G. 1 May 1861. d. London 1 Dec. 1868.

BROOKE, Edwin Harcourt, stage name of Edward James Macdonald Brook. b. Buckinghamshire 12 June 1843; ed. at City of London School; made his first appearance in London at Princess’s theatre 10 July 1862 as Lord Chamberlain in Henry the Eighth; acted at Sadlers Wells theatre, Prince’s theatre Manchester, Glasgow 2 seasons, Alexandra theatre Liverpool nearly 3 years; played Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice at Prince of Wales’s theatre London April 1875; played at Lyceum theatre 2 years where he acted Simon Renard in Tennyson’s Queen Mary April 1876; played title role in The Silver King in the provinces more than 400 times 1883–4; author of Gustave produced at Alexandra theatre Liverpool about 1876; of a comedietta called Bessie produced at Royalty theatre; and of an adaptation of David Copperfield. d. 1 Bullen road, Clapham Junction, London 30 Nov. 1884. Biograph vi, 582–4 (1881).

BROOKE, Francis Capper (only son of Rev. Charles Brooke of Ufford, Suffolk 1765–1836). b. 18 Sep. 1810; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1831; sheriff of Suffolk 1869; one of earliest contributors to Notes and Queries under initials F.C.B.: collected a fine library of 20,000 volumes at Ufford; author of Sepulchral memorials of the Cobham family 1874. d. Ufford 13 Jany. 1886.

BROOKE, Sir George. b. 1793; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery 8 Sep. 1808, col. commandant 21 July 1851 to 1 Oct. 1877 when placed on retired list; general 24 May 1870; C.B. 3 April 1846, K.C.B. 13 March 1867. d. Charles st. St. James’s London 31 Dec. 1882. I.L.N. lxxxii, 149 (1883), portrait.

BROOKE, George William. Secretary of London, Chatham and Dover railway company 1868 to death. d. West hill, Sydenham 21 Feb. 1876.

BROOKE, Gustavus Vaughan (son of Gustavus Vaughan Brooke of Dublin). b. Hardwick place, Dublin 25 April 1818; ed. at Edgeworthstown; first appeared on the stage, at T.R. Dublin 9 April 1833 as William Tell; played in Ireland and Scotland; first appeared in London, at Victoria theatre as Virginius 1837; acted in United States 1851–3; manager of Astor place opera house New York May 1852; played in Australia and New Zealand at large salary of £100 a night 1855–7; partner with George Coppin in T.R. Melbourne and Melbourne Cremorne in which he lost all his money, they dissolved partnership Feb. 1859; drowned in the London in Bay of Biscay on his way to Australia 10 Jany. 1866. Longman’s Mag. March 1885, 490–501; Theatrical times iii, 18, 49 (1848), portrait; Tallis’s Drawing room table book (1851) 41–2, 2 portraits; Tallis’s Illust. Life in London (1864) 120, 126, 2 portraits; I.L.N. xii, 12, 91 (1848), 2 portraits.

BROOKE, Henry Francis (eld. son of George Brooke of Ashbrooke, co. Fermanagh). b. 3 Aug. 1836; ensign 48 Foot 6 June 1854; served in Crimea and China; adjutant general Bombay army 23 Nov. 1877 to 28 March 1880; brigadier general in command of second infantry brigade in Kandahar 28 March 1880 to death; killed at Maiwand in a sortie from Kandahar 16 Aug. 1880, bur. in family vault at Colebrooke 14 Dec. Shadbolt’s Afghan campaign (1882) 24–6, portrait; I.L.N. lxxvii, 289 (1880), portrait.

BROOKE, Henry James (son of Mr. Brooke of Exeter, broadcloth manufacturer). b. Exeter 25 May 1771; a trader in Spanish wool in London 1802; established companies to work mines of South America; actuary and sec. to London Life association to 1843; F.G.S. 1815; F.L.S. 1818; F.R.S. 22 April 1819, member of council 1842–44; his unrivalled collection of minerals was presented to Univ. of Cam.; discovered 13 new mineral species; author of A familiar introduction to Crystallography 1823; edited with extensive alterations and additions An elementary introduction to Mineralogy by W. Phillips 1852. d. Clapham Rise, Surrey 26 June 1857. Proc. of Royal Soc. ix, 41–4 (1857); Quarterly Journal of Geological Soc. xiv, 44–45 (1858).

BROOKE, Henry Vaughan. b. 11 Nov. 1808; ensign 32 Foot 12 July 1827, lieut. col. 13 Sep. 1848 to 24 July 1857; C.B. 9 June 1849; aide-de-camp to the Queen 20 June 1854 to death. d. Holyhead 15 Sep. 1858.

BROOKE, Sir James (2 son of Thomas Brooke of Widcombe crescent, Bath who d. 1835). b. Secrole now called Secrore the European suburb of Benares 29 April 1803; ed. at Norwich gr. sch.; in the Bengal army 1819–30; sailed for Borneo in a schooner of his own 16 Dec. 1838; subdued insurrection in Borneo 1840–1; created Rajah of Sarawak 24 Sep. 1841, formerly installed at Kuching 18 Aug. 1842; suppressed piracy in Malayan Archipelago 1843–9; founded settlement of Labuan in Borneo 2 Dec. 1846; comr. and consul general in Borneo 23 July 1847 to 9 Aug. 1855; admitted to freedom of City of London 29 Oct. 1847; governor of Labuan 27 Nov. 1847 to Feb. 1856; D.C.L. Ox. 25 Nov. 1847; K.C.B. 27 April 1848; left Sarawak April 1863. d. Burrator, close to Sheepstor, Dartmoor, Devon 11 June 1868 an estate which was purchased for him by public subscription 1859. The private letters of Sir J. Brooke edited by J. C. Templer 3 vols. 1853; The life of Sir J. Brooke by S. St. John 1879, portrait; G. L. Jacob’s Rajah of Sarawak 2 vols. 1876, portrait; Illust. news of the world ii, 380 (1858), portrait; I.L.N. xi, 233 (1847), portrait.

BROOKE, James Croft. Ensign 31 Foot 31 Oct. 1831; major 8 Foot 2 Oct. 1849 to 15 Oct. 1861 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 6 March 1868; C.B. 24 May 1873. d. Hastings terrace, Jersey 27 April 1875.

BROOKE, John. Called to Irish bar 1819; Q.C. 1 July 1837; bencher of King’s Inns 1859. d. 1877.

BROOKE, John Brooke Johnson (eld. son of Rev. Francis Charles Johnson, V. of White Lackington, Somerset who d. 22 Dec. 1874 aged 78). Ensign 88 Foot 11 Oct. 1839, captain 18 Jany. 1848 to Jany. 1853 when he retired; joined his uncle Sir James Brooke in Sarawak 1848; took his uncle’s name of Brooke 1848; member of council of state Sarawak 1855–63; carried on government of Sarawak as Rajah Muda during his uncle’s illness 1858; distinguished for energy with which he suppressed piracy on coast of Borneo. d. Hounslow 1 Dec. 1868 aged 45. Reg. and mag. of biog. i, 128 (1869).

BROOKE, Richard (son of Richard Brooke of Liverpool who d. 15 June 1852 aged 91). b. Liverpool 1791; solicitor and notary at Liverpool 1814; member of Liverpool Literary and Philosophical society 12 Nov. 1855, member of council 1860 to death; F.S.A.; author of Observations illustrative of the accounts given by the ancient historical writers of the battle of Stoke Field 1825; A treatise on the office and practice of a Notary of England 1839, 4 ed. 1876; Liverpool as it was during the last quarter of the eighteenth century 1853; Visits to fields of battle in England of the fifteenth century 1857. d. Liverpool 14 June 1861.

BROOKE, Sir Richard, 6 Baronet. b. Norton Priory, Cheshire 18 Aug. 1785; succeeded 6 March 1795; sheriff of Cheshire 1817. d. Norton Priory 11 Nov. 1865.

BROOKE, Rev. Richard Sinclair. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1827, M.A. 1858, B.D. and D.D. 1860; minister of Mariners’ church Kingstown, Dublin 1835–62; R. of Wyton, Hunts. 1862–77; author of The sheaf of corn, or mornings with a scripture class 1850; Poems illustrative of Grace-Creation-Suffering 1852; Recollections of the Irish church 1877. d. 11 Herbert st. Dublin 6 Aug. 1882 aged 80.

BROOKE, Thomas (2 son of Sir Richard Brooke, 6 Baronet 1785–1865). b. Norton Priory 2 April 1816; ensign 12 Foot 31 Oct. 1834, lieut. col. 19 May 1854 to 22 Feb. 1861 when placed on h.p.; col. 28 Foot 30 Sep. 1878 to death; general 27 April 1879. d. 13 Manson place, Queen’s gate, London 4 Nov. 1880.

BROOKE, William. b. Burnham Market, Norfolk 1 Aug. 1795; kept a school at Norwich 1820–65; supplied records of his meteorological observations to local papers and scientific journals 1829 to death; F.R.A.S. 1849. d. Upper Surrey st. Norwich 1 Aug. 1867. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xxviii, 77 (1868).

BROOKE, William (eld. son of Wm. Brooke, M.D. of Dublin). b. Dublin 22 July 1796; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1812, B.A. 1814; called to Irish bar 1817; Q.C. 7 Feb. 1835; bencher of King’s Inns 1846; a master in court of chancery 1846–74; a comr. of the Great Seal Feb. 1874; P.C. June 1874. d. Taney hill house, Dundrum, co. Dublin 19 Aug. 1881.

BROOKE, William Henry. b. 1781; clerk in bank of John Trotter in London who established first bazaar in this country namely in Soho sq. 1816; pupil of Samuel Drummond, A.R.A. who in his etching from his own painting of “The death of Nelson” has introduced a portrait of Brooke as one of the sailors; exhibited 9 pictures at the R.A., 6 at the B.I. and 9 at Suffolk st. gallery 1808–33; portrait painter in London 1798; contributed drawings to the Satirist 1812 to Sep. 1813; illustrated Moore’s Irish Melodies 1822; Keightley’s Greek and Roman Mythology 1831 and many other popular books; many of his drawings on wood were engraved by Thomson, Branston and other eminent xylographers. d. Chichester 12 Jany. 1860. C. R. Smith’s Collectanea Antiqua v, 273–6 (1861); C. R. Smith’s Retrospections i, 281–5 (1883).

BROOKES, Warwick. b. Birtles’ sq. Greengate, Salford 1806; entered print works of John Barge near Broughton Bridge, Salford; artist at Manchester. d. Egerton grove, Stretford new road, Manchester 11 Aug. 1882. Manchester City News 26 Aug. 1882 and following weeks.

BROOKFIELD, Rev. William Henry (2 son of Charles Brookfield of Sheffield, solicitor). b. Sheffield 31 Aug. 1809; ed. at Sheffield, Leeds and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; C. of Maltby near Bawtry Dec. 1834; C. of St. Luke’s Berwick st. London 1841; inspector of elementary church schools 11 Feb. 1848 to 1865; R. of Somerby near Grantham 1861 to death; hon. chaplain in ord. to the Queen 24 March 1862, chaplain in ord. 1 Jany. 1867 to death; chaplain of Rolls chapel, Chancery lane 1866 to death; preb. of St. Paul’s cath. 1868 to death; he is described in Thackeray’s Curates Walk as Frank Whitestock; author of Paris exhibition Reports on classes. Printing and books, class vi, (reprinted in Illustrated London News 17 Aug. 1867). d. 16 Hereford sq. West Brompton, London 12 July 1874. Sermons by the late Rev. W. H. Brookfield edited by Mrs. Brookfield 1875, portrait.

BROOKS, Charles William Shirley (son of Wm. Brooks of London, architect who d. 11 Dec. 1867 aged 80). b. 52 Doughty st. London 29 April 1816; articled to his uncle Charles Sabine of Oswestry, solicitor 1832–7; wrote parliamentary summary in Morning Chronicle 1848–52, special correspondent for it in Russia, Syria and Egypt 1853; contributed to Punch 1851 to death, editor June 1870 to death, wrote Punch’s Essence of parliament; edited Literary Gazette 1858–9 and Home News 1867; author of The Creole or love’s fetters, produced at Lyceum theatre 8 April 1847; The daughter of the stars, produced at New Strand theatre 5 Aug. 1850; Aspen Court, a story of our own time 3 vols. 1854; The gordian knot 1859; The silver cord 3 vols. 1861. d. 6 Kent terrace, Regent’s park, London 23 Feb. 1874. G.M. xii, 561–9 (1874); Illust. review iii, 545–50 (1872), portrait; E. Yates’s Recollections ii, 143–9 (1884); Cartoon portraits (1873) 128–33, portrait.

BROOKS, George Benjamin. Entered Bombay army 1799; colonel 20 Bombay N.I. 8 Oct. 1839 to death; commanded the field force in Upper Scinde 1840; general 30 Aug. 1860. d. Clewer hill, Windsor 4 Oct. 1862. The memorial of G. B. Brooks to the Honorable the Court of directors of the East India Company 1842.

BROOKS, John (only son of Rev. John Brooks, R. of Walton-le-Dale, Lancs.) b. 7 April 1856; ed. at Harrow and Merton coll. Ox., B.A. 1878; barrister I.T. 29 June 1881; M.P. for Altrincham division of Cheshire 27 Nov. 1885 to death. d. Eaton place, London 8 March 1886.

BROOKS, Ven. Jonathan (son of Mr. Brooks of Liverpool, merchant). b. Oldhall st. Liverpool 1 Sep. 1775; ed. at Macclesfield sch. and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1798, M.A. 1802; C. of Walton on the hill, C. of St. James’s Liverpool, and C. of St. George’s Liverpool successively; senior R. of Liverpool 7 Oct. 1829 to death; archdeacon of Liverpool 29 Sep. 1848 to death; chairman of Liverpool quarter sessions many years. d. Everton road, near Liverpool 29 Sep. 1855. G.M. xliv, 543–4 (1855).

BROOKS, Rev. Joshua William. Curate of East Retford 1821–7; V. of Clareborough 1827–43; R. of Grove 1837–43; V. of St. Mary’s Nottingham 1843–64; rural dean 1855–64; preb. of Linc. cath. 1858 to death; R. of Great Ponton 1864 to death; author of Elements of prophetical interpretation 1836; History of the Hebrew nation 1841; edited Abdiel’s Essays on the Advent of Christ 1844; Proverbs of Solomon 1860. d. 17 Feb. 1882 aged 92.

BROOKS, Robert. b. 1799; merchant and shipowner in London; M.P. for Weymouth 30 April 1859 to 11 Nov. 1868. d. 5 June 1882. Personalty sworn under £370,000, 15 July 1882.

BROOKS, Samuel (son of Wm. Brooks of Manchester, banker who d. about 1846). b. Great Harwood 1792; calico printer in Manchester; opened a bank at Manchester as a branch of Cunliffe’s bank Blackburn; a great land improver, purchased estates at Moss Side, Baguley, Sale, Timperley and Partington; chairman of original meeting of promoters of Lancashire and Yorkshire railway 18 Oct. 1830. d. Whalley house, Whalley range, Manchester 7 June 1864. L. H. Grindon’s Manchester Banks (1877) 197–214.

BROOKS, Vincent. Purchased large establishment of Day and Sons, lithographers, Gate st. Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London 1867, carried on the business under style of Vincent Brooks, Day and Son 1867 to death. d. of apoplexy in counting house of Spalding and Hodge, Drury Lane 29 Sep. 1885 in 70 year.

BROOKS, William Alexander (son of Wm. Brooks of London, architect). b. London 25 March 1802; engineer officer with Sir Robert Wilson in Spain 1822; resident engineer to Tees Navigation company 1828; engineer to corporation of Newcastle 1842–58; practised in London 1858 to death; made 4 journeys to Honduras 1870–6; sent out to investigate feasibility of a ship canal across Isthmus of Darien 1876; M.I.C.E. 10 June 1834, Telford medallist 1852; author of Treatise on the improvement of the navigation of rivers 1841; Honduras and the Inter-Oceanic railway 1874. d. Paya, in the Isthmus of Darien 26 Jany. 1877. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. l, 172–5 (1877).

BROOM, Herbert (only son of Herbert Broom of Kidderminster). b. Kidderminster 1815; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., 40 wrangler 1837, B.A. 1837, M.A. 1854, LLD. 1864; barrister I.T. 20 Nov. 1840; professor of common law to council of legal education Jany. 1873 to 1875; author of Practical rules for determining parties to actions 1843, 2 ed. 1846; A selection of legal maxims 1845, 6 ed. 1884; Commentaries on the common law 1856, 7 ed. 1884; Constitutional law 1866, 2 ed. 1885, and of 2 novels The missing will 3 vols. 1877 and The unjust steward 2 vols. 1879. d. The Priory, Orpington, Kent 2 May 1882.

BROOME, Arthur. Second lieut. Bengal artillery 13 Dec. 1827, colonel 29 April 1861 to death; controller general of military expenditure Bengal 1 April 1864 to death; M.G. 6 March 1868; C.S.I. 1869. d. at sea on passage from India 27 March 1871.

BROOME, Henry Alfred. b. Birmingham 1826; beat Fred. Mason (the Bulldog) £50 a side 11 Oct. 1843; fought Joe Rowe £50 a side 10 Dec. 1844, beat him at renewed fight 13 May 1845; fought Ben Terry £100 a side 3 Feb. 1846; fought Wm. Perry (the Tipton Slasher) £200 a side and the championship at Mildenhall near Newmarket 29 Sep. 1851 and beat him; fought Harry Orme near Brandon 18 April 1853 £250 a side when Broome won after 31 rounds in 2 hours 18 minutes, this was the best fight for the championship ever seen; paid £180 forfeit to Tom Paddock 20 Feb. 1855 who beat Broome £200 a side 19 May 1856; landlord of the Opera tavern, Haymarket London 1851–56; kept the Albion tavern, Warblington st. Portsmouth 1856; kept the Crown and Cushion, Little Russell st. London; a public caterer at principal race meetings. d. 30 Frith st. Soho, London 2 Nov. 1865. H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica iii, 308–39 (1881), portrait; Fights for the championship by Francis Dowling (1860) 234–55; Illust. sporting news iv, 561 (1865), portrait.

BROOME, John (brother of the preceding). b. Birmingham 14 March 1818; fought 7 prize fights all of which he won 1834–40; fought Jack Hannan £500 a side at New park farm Oxfordshire 26 Jany. 1841 when he beat him after 47 rounds; fought Bungaree the Australian £300 a side at Mildenhall 27 April 1842 when Broome won after 42 rounds; presented with a golden belt at Castle tavern Holborn, London 27 Jany. 1842; landlord of the Rising Sun, Air st. Piccadilly 1841; invented a gun capable of carrying a ball of 50lb. weight 2 miles; cut his throat at the Wrekin tavern, Broad Court, Bow st. London 31 May 1855. Fights for the championship by Francis Dowling (1860) 370–8; The new Tom Spring’s Life in London (1844) 137, portrait.

BROPHEY, Rev. George (son of Mr. Brophey who was executed after battle of Vinegar Hill 1798). b. near Kilkenny Aug. 1775; ed. at Carlow college; studied theology in Paris; ordained priest 1798; went to America 1843; pastor of St. Paul’s R.C. church Harlem, New York 1853–66; settled in Iowa 1866. d. Mercy hospital, Davenport, Iowa 16 Oct. 1880 in 106 year.

BROS, Thomas. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1831; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1831; recorder of Abingdon 30 March 1852 to April 1878. d. Springfield, Upper Clapton, London 16 May 1883 aged 79.

BROTHERHOOD, Rowland. Railway contractor; proprietor of large iron and wagon works at Chippenham where some of the best iron bridges ever sent to India were made; constructed Bristol and South Wales Union railway and piers; Assoc. Inst. C.E. 1 May 1866. d. Everton villa, Chertsey road, Bristol 5 March 1883.

BROTHERTON, Edward. b. Manchester 1814; engaged in the silk trade; wrote letters on popular education in Manchester Guardian which led to formation of Education Aid Society and paved the way for Education Act of 1870; author of Mormonism its rise and progress 1846; Spiritualism, Swedenborg and the New Church 1860; editor and chief writer of first vol. of a monthly periodical The Dawn (Manchester 1861–2); wrote Outlines of my mental history in the Intellectual Repository 1849 and many articles under pseudonyms of Libra and Pilgrim in Swedenborgian periodicals. d. Cornbrook, Manchester 23 March 1866.

BROTHERTON, Joseph (son of John Brotherton of Manchester, cotton spinner). b. Whittington, Derbyshire 22 May 1783; cotton spinner at Manchester 1802–19; joined Bible Christian church 1805, pastor about 1818; M.P. for Salford (the first) 20 Dec. 1832 to death, his expenses being paid by his constituents; chairman of private bills committee; active member of Anti-Corn law league. d. suddenly while travelling in an omnibus from his residence Rosehill, Pendleton into Manchester 7 Jany. 1857, his statue by M. Noble in Peel park was uncovered 6 Aug. 1858. J. B. Robinson’s Derbyshire gatherings (1866) 42–4, portrait; Book-lore ii, 78–82 (1885); Illust. news of the world ii, 117 (1858), portrait; I.L.N. viii, 309 (1846), portrait, xxxiii, 210 (1858).

BROTHERTON, Sir Thomas William. b. 1785; ensign Coldstream Guards 24 Jany. 1800; captain 14 Dragoons 4 June 1807, major 26 March 1812 to Oct. 1820; served in Egypt 1801, in Germany 1805 and during Peninsular war 1808–14; lieut. col. 12 Lancers 26 Oct. 1820 to 24 May 1827 when placed on h.p.; aide-de-camp to the Sovereign 22 July 1830 to 23 Nov. 1841; lieut. col. 16 Lancers 10 Feb. 1832 to 23 Nov. 1841; inspector general of cavalry 1844; colonel of 15 Hussars 18 May 1849, and of 1 Dragoon Guards 17 July 1859 to death; general 1 April 1860; C.B. 3 Feb. 1817, K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 28 June 1861; received the war medal with 8 clasps. d. at his son’s house near Esher 20 Jany. 1868.

BROUGH, Annie (dau. of Thomas Romer of Liverpool). b. Liverpool 19 Dec. 1827; ed. at Royal academy of Music Sep. 1843 to June 1846; made her first appearance in London at Princess’s theatre as Adalgisa in Norma 1847; sang at Haymarket theatre; prima donna at the Surrey theatre 1850. (m. April 1851 Wm. Brough the dramatist 1826–70). d. 71 Gower st. London 1 Feb. 1852. Musical World xxx, 94 (1852).

BROUGH, Barnabas. Brewer and wine merchant at Pontypool; one of the principal witnesses for the Crown in trial of John Frost the Chartist 1840, which made him very unpopular and ruined his business; auctioneer and accountant at Manchester 1843–5; accountant in office of Illustrated London News London 1845 to death; author under name of Barnard de Burgh of several dramatic pieces, one of which I wont go or how to keep a place was acted in London by Tyrone Power. d. 4 South Lambeth place, Lambeth, London 30 Oct. 1854 aged 59.

BROUGH, John Cargill (son of the preceding). b. Pontypool, Monmouthshire 11 Feb. 1834; clerk in audit office of London and South Western railway 1852–8; wrote articles in many periodicals; an original member of the Savage club 1857; edited The Chemist and Druggist 1860–70; F.C.S. 1864; started The Laboratory, a weekly record of scientific research April 1867; published with two friends Exeter Change a humourous brochure during meeting of British Association at Exeter Aug. 1869; librarian and superintendent of London Institution, Finsbury Circus July 1870 to death, started and edited Journal of London Institution, gave a course of lectures there on Philosophy of Magic 1871–2; author of The fairy tales of science 1858, 2 ed. 1865; one of the editors of England’s Workshops 1864 and of Year book of Pharmacy 1870–2. d. Esher 7 Sep. 1872. Chemist and Druggist (1872) 287, 305, 340.

BROUGH, Mary Ann. Nurse to Prince of Wales; murdered 6 of her children at Esher 9 June 1854 and attempted to destroy herself; tried for murder at Guildford assizes 9 Aug. 1854, when found not guilty on ground of insanity. d. Bethlem hospital, London about 20 March 1861. Annual Register (1854) 93–7;

BROUGH, Redmond William. Ensign 56 Foot 10 March 1807, lieut. 15 July 1808 to 10 Jany. 1822 when placed on h.p.; captain 2 Foot 7 Oct. 1824, lieut. col. 27 Nov. 1841 to 2 March 1846 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 26 Oct. 1858. d. Charles st. St. James’s London 29 Feb. 1860 aged 68.

BROUGH, Richard Secker. First lieut. R.A. 2 Sep. 1794, colonel 21 Nov. 1833 to 1841, col. commandant 17 Aug. 1846 to death; general 16 Dec. 1856. d. Onslow sq. London 15 Jany. 1859 aged 85.

BROUGH, Richard Secker (younger son of Thompson Brough, M.D. of Kiltegan, co. Wicklow). b. Kiltegan 17 Oct. 1846; a fourth grade assistant superintendent Indian telegraph service 30 Oct. 1869; assistant to superintendent electrician at Calcutta March 1871 to death; author of Telegraph construction; edited Schwendler’s Instructions for testing lines, batteries and instruments. d. from cholera at Calcutta 3 April 1879. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. lix, 315–17 (1880).

BROUGH, Robert Barnabas (brother of John Cargill Brough). b. London 10 April 1828; ed. at Newport; started the Liverpool Lion comic weekly paper 1847, edited it 1847–8; wrote burlesques with his brother William first of which The enchanted isle was produced at Amphitheatre Liverpool 1848 and reproduced at Adelphi theatre London 20 Nov. 1848; edited the Atlas a short time and the Welcome Guest; author of Life of Sir John Falstaff 1858; Miss Brown, a romance and other tales 1860. d. Boundary st. Manchester 26 June 1860. Marston Lynch by R. B. Brough with portrait, and a memoir of the author by G. A. Sala 1860 this work contains the story of Brough’s own life; E. Yates’s Recollections i, 312–18 (1884).

BROUGH, William (brother of the preceding). b. London 28 April 1826; apprenticed to a printer at Brecon; author of a series of papers called Hints upon heraldry in the Liverpool Lion; wrote with his brother Robert the Christmas and Easter pieces for Adelphi and Haymarket theatres 1848–54; author of many “Entertainments” for Mr. and Mrs. German Reed and John Parry; wrote many burlesques including The field of the cloth of gold which was produced at Strand theatre 11 April 1868 and played till 27 March 1869, 298 times. d. 37 Maitland park road, Haverstock hill 13 March 1870.

BROUGH, William Francis. b. Wexford 1798; made his first appearance on the stage in Sussex 1818; acted at Haymarket theatre London 3 years; first appeared in America at Park theatre New York 4 Sep. 1835; made his début in Philadelphia 18 Jany. 1836, at Chestnut st. theatre as Cedric in opera of The Maid of Judith. d. while on his passage to England 21 May 1867. bur. in Brooklyn cemetery New York Feb. 1868.

BROUGHAM, Henry Peter Brougham, 1 Baron (eld. son of Henry Brougham of Brougham near Penrith 1742–1810). b. 19 St. Andrew’s sq. Edin. 19 Sep. 1778; ed. at high sch. and univ. Edin.; admitted advocate 10 June 1800; one of founders of Edinburgh Review Oct. 1802, chief contributor to it; F.R.S. 3 March 1803; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1808; M.P. for Camelford 1810–12, for Winchelsea 1815–30 and for West Riding of Yorkshire 5 Aug. 1830 to 23 Nov. 1830; attorney general to Queen Caroline 22 April 1820 to her death 7 Aug. 1821; lord rector of Univ. of Glasgow 1825; K.C. 1827, received patent of precedence 1827; lord chancellor 22 Nov. 1830 to 22 Nov. 1834; created Baron Brougham and Vaux of Brougham, Westmoreland 22 Nov. 1830 and by another patent dated 22 March 1860, created Baron Brougham and Vaux of Brougham and of Highhead Castle, Cumberland; foreign associate of Institute of France 1833; pres. of Social science association 1857 and 1860–5; chancellor of Univ. of Edin. 1859. d. Chateau Eleanor Louise, Cannes 7 May 1868. Life and times of Lord Brougham 3 vols. 1871, portrait; Lord Campbell’s Lives of the Chancellors viii, 213–596; Law mag. and law review xxiv, 177–236 (1868); W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery i. 62–5 (1846), portrait; Maclise Portrait gallery (1883) 81–7, portrait; A bibliographical list of Lord Brougham’s publications, by the author of The handbook of fictitious names [Ralph Thomas] 1873.

Note.—The result of Queen Caroline’s trial made him extraordinarily popular and the Brougham’s Head became a common tavern sign; at time of passing of the Reform bill plaster casts of his head were sold by tens of thousands. His quarrel with Canning in the House of Commons 17 April 1823 was paraphrased by Dickens in the opening chapter of Pickwick. All the morning papers except the Times of Tuesday 22 Oct. 1839 contained leading articles on the sudden death of Lord Brougham with biographical sketches of him. He is depicted by Disraeli as ‘Foaming Fudge’ in Vivian Grey 1827, and by T. L. Peacock as ‘the learned friend’ in Crotchet Castle 1831.

BROUGHAM, William Brougham, 2 Baron (brother of the preceding). b. 26 Sep. 1795; ed. at Edin. and Jesus coll. Cam., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; barrister L.I. 9 May 1823; master in chancery 29 March 1831 to 2 Nov. 1852, when granted pension of £3225 on abolition of his office by 15 and 16 Vict. cap. 80; M.P. for Southwark 29 April 1831 to 29 Dec. 1834; contested Leeds 9 Jany. 1835; succeeded 7 May 1868. d. Brougham hall near Penrith 3 Jany. 1886. Law Times lxxx, 175 (1886).

BROUGHAM, John. b. Dublin 9 May 1814; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub.; made his début at Tottenham st. theatre London in extravaganza of Tom and Jerry July 1830; played at Olympic and Covent Garden; manager of Lyceum 1840–2; managed Niblo’s Garden New York; opened a new theatre in Broadway N.Y. called Brougham’s Lyceum 15 Oct. 1850; lessee of Bowery theatre N.Y. 7 July 1856; played in London 1860–5 and in America 1865–79; opened Brougham’s theatre 25 Jany. 1869; edited a comic paper in New York called The Lantern 1852; author of nearly 80 dramatic pieces; said to have been original of Harry Lorrequer in Lever’s novel. d. 60 East Ninth st. New York 7 June 1880. Life of J. Brougham edited by W. Winter 1881, portrait; Ireland’s Records of New York stage ii, 178, 210, 384, 594, 655 (1867); The Oddfellow i, 65 (1839), portrait.

BROUGHTON, John Cam Hobhouse, 1 Baron (eld. son of Sir Benjamin Hobhouse, 1 baronet 1757–1831). b. Redland near Bristol 27 June 1786; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811; visited Greece and Turkey with Lord Byron 1809–10 who dedicated to him fourth canto of Childe Harold for which he wrote the explanatory notes; F.R.S. 19 May 1814; imprisoned in Newgate 14 Dec. 1819 to 29 Jany. 1820 for publishing a pamphlet called The trifling mistake; M.P. for Westminster 1820–33 for Nottingham 1834–47 and for Harwich 1848–51; active member of the Greek Committee in London 1823–24; one of the 6 founders of Royal Geographical Society 1830; sec. of state for war 1 Feb. 1832 to 4 April 1833; chief sec. for Ireland 28 March to 17 May 1833; first comr. of woods and forests 19 July to 31 Dec. 1834; pres. of Board of control 29 April 1835 to 9 Sep. 1841 and 10 July 1846 to Feb. 1852; P.C. 6 Feb. 1832; colonel of Wilts. militia 8 Feb. 1840 to death; created Baron Broughton of Broughton de Gyfford, Wilts. 26 Feb. 1851; G.C.B. 23 Feb. 1852; author of Imitations and translations from the classics, with original poems 1809; Journey through Albania and other provinces of Turkey with Lord Byron 1812, 2 ed. 1818; Substance of some letters written by an Englishman resident at Paris during the last reign of Napoleon 2 vols. 1816. d. 42 Berkeley sq. London 3 June 1869. Personalty sworn under £250,000 14 Aug. 1869. Recollections of a long life by the late Lord Broughton De Gyfford 5 vols. privately printed 1865; Edinburgh Review cxxxiii, 287–337 (1871); Maclise Portrait gallery (1883) 372–8, portrait; I.L.N. liv, 602, 624 (1869), portrait.

BROUGHTON, Rev. Sir Henry Delves, 8 Baronet. b. 10 Jany. 1777; ed. at Jesus coll. Cam., B.A. 1801, M.A. 1805; P.C. of Broughton Staffs. 1803 to death; succeeded 9 Aug. 1847. d. Broughton hall, Staffs. 3 Nov. 1851.

BROUGHTON, Robert Edwards. Barrister I.T. 6 May 1825; police magistrate at Worship st. London 1827–54, and at Marylebone 1854 to death; F.R.S. 17 Feb. 1842. d. 33 Dorset sq. London 29 June 1860 aged 79.

BROUGHTON, William Edward Delves (2 son of Thomas Broughton of Ham Common, Surrey who d. 24 Jany. 1846). b. 30 April 1802; 2 Lieut. R.E. 6 Aug. 1825; comr. to survey northern boundaries of British possessions in North America June 1840 to 31 March 1845; colonel R.E. 18 April 1860; colonel commandant 19 June 1872 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. 8 Crescent, Surbiton, Surrey 5 April 1880.

BROUGHTON, Right Rev. William Grant (eld. son of Grant Broughton). b. Bridge st. Westminster 22 May 1788; ed. at Barnet gr. sch. and King’s sch. Canterbury; clerk in treasury department of East India house 1807–12; resident member of Pemb. hall Cam. Oct. 1814, 6 wrangler 1818, B.A. 1818, M.A. 1823, D.D. 1836; C. of Hartley Wespall, Hants. 1818–27; C. of Farnham 1827; chaplain of Tower of London 6 Oct. 1828 to 24 June 1829; archdeacon of New South Wales 7 Dec. 1828, sworn into office 17 Sep. 1829; bishop of Australia 18 Jany. 1836, consecrated in Lambeth palace chapel 14 Feb. 1836; installed in St. James’s church Sydney 2 June 1836; bishop of Sydney and metropolitan of Australasia 25 June 1847 to death. d. 11 Chester st. Belgrave sq. London 20 Feb. 1853. bur. south aisle of Canterbury cath. 26 Feb. Sermons on the Church of England by the Right Rev. W. G. Broughton edited with prefatory memoir by B. Harrison 1857; G.M. xxxix, 431–6 (1853); J. Bonwick’s Curious facts of old colonial days (1870) 34–56.

BROUN, John Allan (son of Mr. Broun of Dumfries, schoolmaster who d. about 1837). b. Dumfries 21 Sep. 1817; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; director of Sir T. M. Brisbane’s magnetic observatory at Makerstoun, co. Dumfries 1842–9; director of observatory at Trevandrum, South India Jany. 1852 to April 1865; built an observatory on the Agustia Malley 6200 feet above the sea 1855; discovered that changes in daily mean horizontal force are nearly the same all over the globe, his researches contributed largely to establish meteorology on a scientific basis; F.R.S. 2 June 1853, Royal medallist 1878; author of Observations of magnetic declination made at Trevandrum and Agustia Malley 1873 and of more than 50 papers in scientific journals. d. 9 Abercorn place, London 22 Nov. 1879. Proc. of Royal Soc. xxx, 3–6 (1880).

BROUN, Sir Richard, 8 Baronet (eld. son of Sir James Broun of Colston park, Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire, 7 Baronet who d. 30 Nov. 1844). b. Lochmaben 22 April 1801; a knight of St. John of Jerusalem 28 July 1835, registrar 8 March 1837, sec. of the Langue of that order in England 24 June 1839, K.C.J.J. and G.C.J.J. 24 June 1841; hon. sec. of Committee of the baronetage for sustaining rights and privileges of the Order 15 July 1840 to death; demanded inauguration as a knight on account of being eldest son of a baronet, on the Lord Chamberlain’s refusal to present him to the Queen for this purpose, he assumed title of Sir and addition of “Eques auratus” June 1842; projected The London Necropolis and national mausoleum at Woking 1849 which was incorporated 1852. d. Sphinx lodge, Chelsea, London 10 Dec. 1858.

BROUN, Sir William, 9 Baronet. b. July 1804; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; admitted procurator 1829; dean of Faculty of procurators for county of Dumfries; succeeded 10 Dec. 1858. d. 7 Irving st. Dumfries 10 June 1882.

BROWELL, Rev. William Robert. Educ. at Pemb. coll. Ox., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831, fellow and tutor of his college; public examiner 1834; R. of Beaumont-cum-Mose Essex 1839 to death; translated Count Carnot’s Reflexions on the metaphysical principles of the infinitesimal analysis 1832; edited Carwithen’s History of the Church of England 1849. d. Beaumont rectory 15 Aug. 1867.

BROWN, Rev. Andrew Morton. b. parish of Loudown, Ayrshire 12 March 1812; ed. at Univs. of Glasgow and Edin.; Congregational minister at Overton, Hants.; minister at Poole 1837–43; minister of Highbury chapel Cheltenham 8 Jany. 1843 to death; chairman of Congregational Union of England and Wales 1854; author of The leader of the Lollards, his times and trials 1848; Salvation and the way to secure it, 3 ed. 1851; Evenings with the prophets, a series of memoirs and meditations 1854; Peden the prophet a tale of the covenanters founded on fact 1859. d. Bridport 17 July 1879. Waddington’s Congregational history v, 596–8 (1880); Congregational year book (1880) 310–12.

BROWN, Charles Philip (son of Rev. David Brown 1763–1812, provost of Calcutta College). b. Calcutta 1798; ed. at Haileybury college; entered Madras civil service 1817; Persian translator to Madras government 1838; postmaster general and Telugu translator 1846–55; presented his fine collection of manuscripts including over 2000 Sanskrit and Telugu works to Madras Literary Society 1845; one of the foremost South Indian scholars; author of Prosody of the Telugu and Sanskrit languages 1826; Dictionaries of Telugu-English and English-Telugu 2 vols. Madras 1852; Grammar of the Telugu language 1840, 2 ed. 1857, and many other works some of which were translated into Tamil, Canarese and Hindustani. d. 22 Kildare gardens, Paddington, London 12 Dec. 1884. Some account of the literary life of C. P. B. privately printed 1866.

BROWN, Eleanor (dau. of Mr. Fairlam of city of London, jeweller). b. near Regent’s Park London 22 March 1829; landscape painter; exhibited 1 picture at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. gallery 1857–72; author of a fairy tale entitled Muriel’s Dreamland 1871. (m. 22 March 1849 J. W. Brown of London, estate agent). d. 17 Feb. 1878. E. C. Clayton’s English female artists ii, 177–83 (1876).

BROWN, George. b. Stoughton, Sussex 27 April 1783; a tailor at Emsworth, Hants.; moved to Brighton 1825; lessee of Royal Brighton Cricket ground 1831 to about 1840; kept a lodging house at 71 Middle st. Brighton to Sep. 1856; played his first cricket match at Lords 30 July 1818; the fastest bowler who ever played in great cricket matches; threw a cricket ball 137 yards on Walderton Common about 1819, the longest throw on record; one of the Sussex eleven till about 1838. d. Sompting, Sussex 25 June 1857.

BROWN, Sir George (3 son of George Brown, provost of Elgin). b. Linkwood near Elgin 3 July 1790; ensign 43 Foot 23 Jany. 1806; lieut. col. Rifle brigade 5 Feb. 1824 to 23 Nov. 1841; deputy adjutant general 23 Nov. 1841; adjutant general 8 April 1850 to 12 Dec. 1853; colonel 77 Foot 11 April 1851 to 22 Dec. 1854; commanded Light division during Crimean war 1854–55, invalided home 28 June 1855; colonel commandant Rifle brigade 18 Jany. 1855, colonel in chief 18 April 1863 to death; general 7 Sep. 1855; commander of the forces in Ireland 1 April 1860 to April 1865; P.C. Ireland 1860; colonel 32 Foot 1 April 1863 to death; K.H. 1831, C.B. 19 July 1838, K.C.B. 6 April 1852, G.C.B. 5 July 1855. d. Linkwood 27 Aug. 1865. E. H. Nolan’s Russian war i, 203, 384 (1857), portrait; G. Ryan’s Our heroes of the Crimea (1855) 58–61; Kinglake’s Invasion of the Crimea, 6 ed. vols. 2–7 (1877–83).

BROWN, George (son of Peter Brown 1784–1863). b. Edinburgh 29 Nov. 1818; went to New York 1838 and to Toronto 1843; founded the Daily Globe at Toronto 1844 and the Canada Farmer 1864; member of legislative assembly of Canada for county Kent Dec. 1851, for Lambton 1854, for city of Toronto 1857, and for South Oxford March 1863 to the Union 27 May 1867; formed a ministry in Aug. 1858 which only lasted 2 days; member of the Senate 16 Dec. 1873 to death; joint plenipotentiary with Sir E. Thornton at Washington to arrange a commercial treaty with United States 1874; gazetted K.C.M.G. 24 May 1879 but declined the honour. d. Toronto 9 May 1880 having been shot by a discharged employé 25 March 1880. Morgan’s Sketches of eminent Canadians (1862) 769–73; Dominion annual register (1879) 210, 352, (1880) 393–5; I.L.N. xlv, 496 (1864), portrait.

BROWN, George Granville (son of Charles Ferdinand D’Artois Duc de Berri 1778–1820 by his first wife Amy dau. of Rev. Joseph Brown 1784–1876, V. of All Saints church Maidstone, Kent). b. London 1805; brought up at Ouchy near Lausanne; served in army of King of Naples; naturalised in France about 1843; lived at Mantes-sur-Seine near Paris about 1843 to death. d. Mantes 5 July 1882. Illust. Lon. News lxxxi, 62 (1882).

BROWN, Right Rev. George Hilary (son of Wm. Brown of Clifton in the Fylde, Lancs.) b. 13 Jany. 1786; entered St. Cuthbert’s college Ushaw 25 Sep. 1799, left it 8 April 1819; ordained deacon 1808, priest 1810; in charge of mission at Lancaster 1819–40; Vicar Apostolic of Lancashire district 1840; consecrated Bishop of Bugia in partibus, at Liverpool 24 Aug. 1840; translated to Tloa in partibus 1842; assistant at Pontifical throne 1843; bishop of Liverpool 29 Sep. 1850 to death; author of A supplement to the Diurnal adapted to the English mission 1833. d. Catherine st. Liverpool 25 Jany. 1856.

BROWN, Henry. Educ. at London hospital, London; L.S.A. 1827, M.R.C.S. 1832; surgeon at Windsor; medical attendant on the Queen and royal household at Windsor 1838 to death. d. Neet st. Windsor 24 Oct. 1868 aged 66.

BROWN, Hugh. Hand loom weaver in Ayrshire; a schoolmaster 1828–70; author of a poem to the memory of Lord Byron in the Scots Magazine 1825; published The Covenanters and other poems 1838. d. Glasgow 27 Aug. 1885 aged 85.

BROWN, Isaac Baker (son of Mr. Brown of Colne Engaine, Essex). b. Colne 8 June 1812; studied at Guy’s Hospital; L.S.A. and M.R.C.S. 1834, F.R.C.S. 1848; partner with Samuel Griffith of Edgware road London 1834–40; removed to Oxford sq. 1845; gave up general practice for that of surgeon accoucheur 1847; surgeon and accoucheur to St. Mary’s hospital, Paddington 1850–8; founded London Surgical Home 1858; fellow of Obstetrical Society 1859 to 3 April 1867; pres. of Medical Soc. of London 1865; author of On Scarlatina and its successful treatment by the Acidum aceticum dilutum of the Pharmacopœia 1846, 2 ed. 1857; On some diseases of women admitting of surgical treatment 1854, 3 ed. 1866; On ovarian dropsy 1862, 2 ed. 1868. d. 88 Albany st. Regent’s park London 3 Feb. 1873. J. F. Clarke’s Autobiographical recollections of the medical profession (1874) 495–503; Medical Circular i, 261, 301–3 (1852), portrait; British Medical Journal i, 395–410 (1867).

BROWN, James. b. near Montrose; mate of the brig Pomona, built by him and his elder brother; taken by a French privateer 1808 and imprisoned at Verdun 1808–14; ship builder at Perth 1814; built 99 vessels including the steam-boat Tourist one of the first sea-going steamers constructed; raised many sunken ships in all parts of Europe including the Comet, boiler of which exploded in the Clyde off Greenock 1820; inspector of steam vessels for Dundee district. d. Dundee 19 Jany. 1861 in 77 year. W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 194–6.

BROWN, James. Flax spinner in Dundee; dean of Guild 1824; the first pres. of Watt institution 1824; provost of Dundee 1844–7; contributed many articles to the Caledonian and other periodicals; author of a small volume of poetry privately printed. d. 6 Jany. 1869 in 82 year.

BROWN, James (only son of James Brown of Leeds, merchant). b. 12 April 1814; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1840; sheriff of Yorkshire 1852; M.P. for Malton 1857–68. d. 43 Upper Grosvenor st. London 19 April 1877. Personalty sworn under £250,000, 14 July 1877.

BROWN, Right Rev. James. b. Wolverhampton 11 Jany. 1812; ed. at Sedgley park school 1820–6 and St. Mary’s college Oscott 1826–37; ordained priest 18 Feb. 1837; professor and prefect of studies at Oscott 1837–44; pres. of Sedgley park school 1844–51; bishop of Shrewsbury 27 June 1851 to death, consecrated in St. George’s cath. Southwark 27 July 1851; one of bishops assistant at Pontifical throne 17 April 1870; silver jubilee of his episcopate celebrated in Shrewsbury cath. 27 July 1876. d. St. Mary’s Grange near Shrewsbury 14 Oct. 1881. A sermon preached on the occasion of the silver jubilee of the Bishop of Shrewsbury by the Rev. John Morris 1876.

BROWN, Rev. James Baldwin (elder son of James Baldwin Brown 1785–1843, judge of court of requests at Oldham). b. 10 Harcourt buildings, Inner Temple, London 19 Aug. 1820; ed. at Univ. coll. London, B.A. London 1839; student at Inner Temple 1839–41; studied at Highbury college 1841; minister of London road independent chapel Derby 1843; minister of Clayland’s chapel Clapham road London 1846, removed to new chapel built for him at Brixton July 1870; chairman of Congregational union of England and Wales 1878; author of The soul’s exodus and pilgrimage 1862, 3 ed. 1867; First principles of ecclesiastical truth 1870; The higher life 1874, 5 ed. 1879; The doctrine of annihilation 1875, 2 ed. 1878 and many other works. d. Coombe, Surrey 23 June 1884. In memoriam James Baldwin Brown edited by Elizabeth Baldwin Brown 1884, portrait; Leisure hours by a journalist (1878) 91–102; Biograph v, 154–8 (1881).

BROWN, Jane (dau. of John Hemsworth of Strokestown, co. Roscommon). Roman Catholic bookseller, printer and publisher with George Keating in Duke st. Grosvenor sq. London Feb. 1837 to 1840 when they dissolved partnership; in business at 10 Duke st. Manchester sq. 1840; published The Penny Catholic Magazine 7 Sep. 1839 to 1840; The Laitys Directory 1838 and 1839 when it ceased. (m. Richard Brown of Duke st. Grosvenor sq., principal R.C. publisher in London who d. 25 Feb. 1837 aged 60). She d. 23 March 1860 aged 73.

BROWN, Sir John. Ensign 18 Foot 27 May 1795; lieut. col. 1 Greek light infantry 1813–15; lieut. col. 21 Dragoons 1815–20; lieut. col. 13 Dragoons 1820–30; colonel 8 Hussars 4 April 1843 to death; general 20 June 1854; K.T.S. 25 June 1813; knighted by patent 24 Aug. 1814; K.C.H. 1831. d. 118 Pall Mall London 16 Nov. 1855 aged 80. bur. at Beckenham, Kent.

BROWN, Rev. John (eld. son of Rev. John Brown 1754–1832, minister of the Burgher Secession congregation in Whitburn). b. Burnhead, Whitburn 12 July 1784; ed. at Whitburn parish school, and Edinburgh Univ. 1797–1800; taught a school in village of Elie, Fife 1800–1803; licensed by Presbytery of Stirling and Falkirk to preach the gospel 12 Feb. 1805; minister of Biggar 6 Feb. 1806; translated to Rose st. ch. Edinburgh 1 May 1822; inducted to Broughton place ch. Edin. 20 May 1829; received degree of D.D. from Jefferson college Pensylvania 1830; professor of exegetical theology to United Presbyterian church 1834–57; engaged with ardour in Apocrypha, Voluntary, and Atonement controversies 1835–43; promoted union of Secession and Relief bodies; jubilee of his ministry celebrated April 1856; author of Expository discourses on 1 Peter 2 vols. 1848, 2 ed. 1849; Discourses and sayings of our Lord Jesus Christ 3 vols. 1850; Discourses suited to the Lords Supper 1816, 3 ed. 1853; Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews 2 vols. 1862. d. Newington, Edinburgh 13 Oct. 1858. John Cairns’s Memoir of John Brown 1860, portrait; John Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1848) 272–80.

BROWN, John. b. Dover 2 Aug. 1797; in the East Indian merchant service 1811–15; wholesale goldsmith and diamond merchant in London; advocated expeditions in search of Sir John Franklin and made collections illustrative of Arctic adventure; F.R.G.S. 1837; a founder of Ethnological Soc. 1843; author of The north west passage and the plans for the search for Sir John Franklin a review 1858, 2 ed. 1860. d. Scaleby lodge, Camden road, London 7 Feb. 1861. Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xxxi, 116 (1861); G.M. x, 571–3 (1861).

BROWN, John. b. Barnwell near Cambridge 4 Aug. 1796; brought up as a shoemaker; entered the army but deserted; became a strolling player; served in the navy; worked as a shoemaker; acted in London and the provinces; proprietor of University billiard rooms and racket court, Ram yard, Bridge st. Cambridge for many years before his death; town councillor of Cambridge. d. Cambridge 22 Aug. 1863. Sixty years gleanings from life’s harvest by John Brown 1858, portrait.

BROWN, John (son of Rev. John Brown 1784–1858). b. Biggar, Lanarkshire 22 Sep. 1810; ed. at high sch. and univ. Edin.; apprenticed to James Syme the eminent surgeon 1828–33; M.D. Edin. 1833; physician at Edin. 1833 to death; author of Horæ Subsecivæ 3 vols. 1858–82. d. 23 Rutland st. Edin. 11 May 1882. Good Words for 1882 pp. 446–51, portrait: Macmillan’s Mag. xlvii, 281–95 (1883); I.L.N. lxxx, 508 (1882), portrait.

BROWN, John. b. Crathie near Balmoral, Aberdeenshire 8 Dec. 1826; personal attendant on Queen Victoria Dec. 1865 to death. d. Clarence tower, Windsor Castle 27 March 1883. bur. Crathie cemetery 5 April. Life of J. Brown by H. L. Williams 1883; More leaves from the journal of a life in the Highlands (1884) 31, portrait; I.L.N. lxxxii, 332 (1883), portrait.

BROWN, John A. (3 son of Alexander Brown of Baltimore, banker). b. Ballymena, co. Antrim 21 May 1788; went to United States about 1800; manager of his father’s bank at Philadelphia 1818, succeeded to the business; retired about 1839 with a large fortune; gave to charities sum of 500,000 dollars 300,000 of them to Presbyterian hospital of Philadelphia. d. Philadelphia 31 Dec. 1872.

BROWN, John Charles. b. Glasgow 1805; landscape painter in London, Glasgow and Edin.; associate of Royal Scottish Academy; drew views for John Wilson’s Scotland illustrated 1845; his picture ‘The last of the Clan’ was engraved for Royal Association of Fine Arts Scotland 1851. d. 10 Vincent st. Edin. 8 May 1867.

BROWN, John Hoskins. Entered navy 25 July 1805; registrar general of seamen 1835 to April 1851; captain 20 March 1863; C.B. 8 April 1862; author of The Shipmasters’ guide 1844, new ed. 1855; edited The mercantile navy list 1850 etc. d. Brixton, London 29 June 1864 aged 72.

BROWN, John Tatton Butler. b. 1 Oct. 1833; 2 lieut. R.A. 18 June 1851, lieut. col. 9 Nov. 1876 to 29 Oct. 1881 when he retired with hon. rank of M.G.; C.B. 27 Nov. 1879. d. Park Mount, Kent road, Southsea 19 Aug. 1885.

BROWN, John Wright (son of Rev. Charles J. Brown of Edinburgh). b. Edin. 19 Jany. 1836; assistant in herbarium connected with Botanic garden Edin.; an associate of Edinburgh Botanical Society to which he contributed a list of the plants of Elie, Fifeshire. d. 39 George sq. Edinburgh 23 March 1863. Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. vii, 519–20 (1863).

BROWN, Rev. Joseph. Educ. at Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1833; P.C. of St. Matthias, Bethnal Green, London 1844–9; R. of Ch. Ch. Southwark 1849 to death; originator of Homes for servants out of place, and the Albert Institution Blackfriars; practically created Cholera orphan house, Ham common, since called National orphan home; author of Narratives and sermons for schools 1856; Hymns and psalms for divine worship 1859. d. Richmond hill, Surrey 13 Aug. 1867 aged 67. I.L.N. xxvi, 269 (1855), portrait.

BROWN, Joseph (7 son of George Brown of North Shields). b. North Shields Sep. 1784; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; entered army medical service, attached to Wellington’s staff in Peninsular war; resumed his studies at Edin., M.D. 2 Aug. 1819; practised at Sunderland 1819 to death, medical officer of the Infirmary 1822 to death; mayor of Sunderland 1840, alderman 1841; author of Medical essays on fever, inflammation and rheumatism 1828; A defence of revealed religion 1851; Memories of the past and thoughts on the present age 1863; The food of the people 1865. d. Villiers st. Sunderland 19 Nov. 1868. Munk’s Roll of physicians iii, 284 (1878); Medical times and gazette ii, 683–4 (1868).

BROWN, Lewis George. b. 23 Feb. 1838; ensign 5 Bombay N.I. 13 July 1854; wing commander 8 Bombay N.I. 30 June 1877 to death; lieut. col. staff corps 9 June 1880 to death. d. Sibi, Afghanistan 11 Aug. 1880. I.L.N. lxxvii, 309 (1880), portrait.

BROWN, Oliver Madox (son of Ford Madox Brown of London, historical painter). b. Finchley 20 Jany. 1855; ed. at Univ. coll. London; exhibited 2 water colours at Dudley Gallery 1869–70; exhibited a water colour “Exercise” at the R.A. 1870, “Prospero and the infant Miranda” at International exhibition South Kensington 1871 and “Silas Marner” at Society of French artists 1872; published a story entitled Gabriel Denver 5 Nov. 1873. d. Fitzroy sq. London 5 Nov. 1874. O. M. Brown, a biographical sketch by H. Ingram (1883), 2 portraits; The Dwale Bluth and other literary remains of O. M. Brown 2 vols. 1876, 2 portraits; Scribner’s Mag. xii, 425–8 (1876).

BROWN, Peter. Ensign 82 Foot 7 Dec. 1799; major 23 Foot 20 July 1815 to 25 July 1816 when placed on h.p.; commandant of Royal military asylum at Chelsea 15 Dec. 1843 to 1851; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846; served in the Peninsula 1810 to end of the war. d. Gosport 3 Jany. 1853.

BROWN, Peter. b. Perth; editor of the Dundee Advertiser about 1835; edited the Dundee Herald originally called Dundee Chronicle; a reporter on the Morning Post in London to death. d. 5 April 1855.

BROWN, Peter. b. Scotland 29 June 1784; merchant in Edinburgh; went to New York 1838; editor and proprietor of the British Chronicle; removed to Toronto 1843 where he established The Banner 18 Aug. 1843 and edited it; author of The fame and glory of England vindicated, by Libertas 1842. d. Toronto 30 June 1863. Morgan’s Bibl. Canad. (1867) p. 51.

BROWN, Rawdon Lubbock. b. 1803; lived at Venice 1833 to death; commissioned by Lord Palmerston to calendar Venetian state papers treating of English history 1862 for which purpose he examined twelve million packets of documents in North Italy; author of Calendar of state papers and manuscripts relating to English affairs existing in the archives and collections of Venice and of other libraries of Northern Italy 8 vols. 1864–84. d. Casa della Vida, Venice 25 Aug. 1883. Times 29 Aug., 8 Sep. and 13 Sep. 1883; Athenæum 8 Sep. 1883 p. 307.

BROWN, Robert (2 son of Rev. James Brown, Episcopalian minister of Montrose). b. Montrose 21 Dec. 1773; ed. at Marischal coll. Aberdeen and Univ. of Edin.; naturalist to H.M.S. Investigator under Flinders 1801–5 when he collected nearly 4000 species of dried plants; librarian to Linnæan Society 1805–20; custodian of library and collections of Sir Joseph Banks 1810–20; keeper of Banksian botanical collection at British Museum 1827 to death; F.R.S. 12 Dec. 1811, Copley medallist 1839; F.L.S. 1822, pres. 1849 to May 1853; one of the 8 foreign associates of French Academy of Sciences 1833; an honorary member of every academy in Europe; granted a civil list pension of £200, 14 Sep. 1843; author of Prodromus Floræ Novæ Hollandiæ et insulæ Van Diemen 1810; Vermischte botanische Schriften, ed. by C. G. Nees von Esenbeck 5 vols. 1825–34. d. 17 Dean st. Soho, London 10 June 1858. Proc. of Royal Soc. ix, 527–32 (1858); Proc. of Linnæan Soc. (1859) 25–30; Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xxix, 115–19 (1859); I.L.N. xxxiii, 29 (1858), portrait.

BROWN, Rev. Robert Christopher Lundin (son of Rev. Robert Brown, minister of Largo). ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.A. 1854; missionary in British Columbia 1860–5; V. of Lineal Salop 1869–74; P.C. of Rhodes near Manchester 1874–5; author of British Columbia 1863; The dead in Christ 1868; Klatsassan 1873; The life of Peace 1876. d. 26 Grafton sq. Clapham, London 16 April 1876.

BROWN, Sir Samuel (eld. son of Wm. Brown of Borland, co. Galloway). b. London 1776; entered navy 8 June 1795; commander 1 Aug. 1811; retired captain 18 May 1842; invented iron chain cables, described in Philosophical Magazine Oct. 1814; built Union suspension bridge over the Tweed near Berwick 1820; erected chain pier at Brighton 1823; K.H. 13 Jany. 1835; knighted at St. James’s palace 21 Feb. 1838; took out patents for chains and chain cables and ten other patents. d. Vanbrugh lodge, Blackheath 15 March 1852. G.M. xxxvii, 519–20 (1852).

BROWN, Samuel. Cornet 6 Dragoons 15 March 1798; assistant quartermaster general to the army in Egypt 1801; major York light infantry 25 Sep 1807 to 19 March 1817 when placed on h.p.; general 20 June 1854. d. Bromley, Kent 2 March 1855.

BROWN, Samuel (4 son of Samuel Brown of Haddington, founder of itinerating libraries). b. Haddington 23 Feb. 1817; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edin., M.D. 1839; delivered a course of lectures on philosophy of the sciences at Edin. 1840–1, and 4 lectures on the Atomic theory 1843; contested chair of chemistry in Univ. of Edin. 1843; experimented on the atomic constitution of bodies; author of The tragedy of Galileo Galilei in 5 acts and in verse 1850; Lectures on the atomic theory and essays scientific and literary 2 vols. 1858, and of many articles in North British Review and other periodicals. d. Canaan grove, Morningside, Edin. 20 Sep. 1856. Macmillan’s Mag. xii, 74–82 (1865); North British Review Nov. 1856.

BROWN, Samuel. b. 1812; actuary of Mutual life office 1850 and of Guardian insurance company 1855; advocated uniform weights and measures throughout commercial world; an active founder of Institute of Actuaries 1848, pres. 1867–70, instituted the Brown prize; joint editor of Journal of Institute of Actuaries; pres. over section of Economic Science and Statistics at British Association in Norwich 1868; author of numerous papers in Assurance Magazine 1850 to death and in Journal of Statistical Society. d. The Elms 42 Lark hall rise, Clapham, London 20 March 1875. C. Walford’s Insurance Cyclopædia i, 395–6 (1871).

BROWN, Thomas. Midshipman R.N. 1787; captain 22 Jany. 1806; commanded the Ordinary at Sheerness 1816–19; commanded Vigo 74 guns, Tartar 42 guns, Talavera 74 guns and Caledonia 120 guns, successively May 1833 to Oct. 1835 when placed on h.p.; admiral on h.p. 4 July 1855. d. Southampton 17 June 1857 aged 79.

BROWN, Thomas (son of Christopher Brown, member of firm of Longmans, publishers, London who d. 1807). b. near Paternoster Row, London 1778; ed. at Christ’s hospital; apprenticed in his father’s firm Dec. 1792; a partner 1811 to June 1859; a liveryman of Stationers Company 1804, warden and upper warden 1856–8; gave a stained glass west window to St. Paul’s cathedral which was uncovered 19 March 1867; left by his will £10,000 to Booksellers Provident Institution, £10,000 to Booksellers Retreat and £10,000 to Christ’s hospital. d. 39 Ludgate hill, London 24 March 1869. W. H. Blanch’s Famous blue-coat boys (1880) 59–83; Reg. and mag. of biog. i, 480–2 (1869).

BROWN, Right Rev. Thomas Joseph. b. Bath 2 May 1798; received Benedictine habit at the college Acton Burnell near Shrewsbury 19 April 1813, removed with the college to St. Gregory’s college Downside near Bath where he was professed 28 Oct. 1814, professor of theology there 1823–40, prior of the college 18 July 1834 to 3 July 1840; ordained priest in London 12 March 1823; cathedral prior of Winchester 1833–40; D.D. 24 July 1834; vicar Apostolic of newly created Welsh district 3 July 1840; consecrated in St. John’s chapel Bath, Bishop of Apollonia in Archdiocese of Thessalonica 28 Oct. 1840; bishop of Newport and Menevia 29 Sep. 1850 to death; assistant at pontifical throne 29 Nov. 1854; author of various pamphlets and letters in defence of doctrines of Church of Rome. d. Bullingham near Hereford 12 April 1880. M. Brady’s Episcopal succession iii, 337, 354, 424–6 (1877); Downside Review July 1880 pp. 4–16.

BROWN, Rev. Thomas Richard (son of Richard Brown of Cambridge). b. 1791; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1820; V. of Southwick near Oundle, Northamptonshire 1834 to death; author of English terminations 1838; Hebrew hieroglyphs 1840; Etymological dictionary 2 vols. 1843; Essentials of Sanscrit grammar 1851. d. Southwick 1 Sep. 1875.

BROWN, William (son of a small farmer at Foxford, co. Mayo). b. Foxford 22 June 1777; went to Pennsylvania 1786; commanded an English merchant ship; commodore in navy of Buenos Ayres Feb. 1814; destroyed Spanish fleets at Martin Garcia and Monte Video 1814 and in Pacific ocean and Caribbean sea 1815–18; commanded Buenos Ayres fleet in war against Brazil 12 Jany. 1826 to 1828; assumed reins of government on breaking out of civil war 1842. d. Barracas near Buenos Ayres 3 May 1857. M. G. Mulhall’s English in South America (1878) 144–69, portrait.

BROWN, William (4 son of James Brown of Cononsyth, flax-spinner). Flax-spinner with his brother James at East Ward mill Dundee 1809–56, in 1811 every mill in Dundee was stopped except their mill and the Dens mill; author of Reminiscences of flax-spinning 1862 and of a volume of poetry. d. 14 Nov. 1864 aged 73. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 245–8.

BROWN, Rev. William. Professor of Biblical criticism and theology at St. Andrews University Scotland 14 June 1851 to death; author of The scientific character of the Scottish universities viewed in connection with religious belief and their educational use 1856. d. St. Andrews 19 July 1868 aged 68.

BROWN, Sir William, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Alexander Brown of Ballymena, co. Antrim, linen merchant 1764–1834). b. Ballymena 30 May 1784; ed. at Catterick, Yorkshire; went to the United States 1800; partner in firm of Alexander Brown and Sons of Baltimore, linen merchants; founded firm of Brown, Shipley and Co. at Liverpool 1810 which became leading house in American trade; alderman of Liverpool 1831–8; M.P. for South Lancashire 21 July 1846 to 23 April 1859; raised and equipped a corps of artillery which ranks as the 1 brigade of Lancashire artillery volunteers 1859; a director of Atlantic telegraph company Dec. 1856, chairman; erected at a cost of £40,000 Free public library and Derby museum at Liverpool opened 8 Oct. 1860; created a baronet 24 Jany. 1863; sheriff of Lancashire 1863. d. Richmond hill, Liverpool 3 March 1864. Personalty sworn under £900,000, 21 May 1864. H. R. F. Bourne’s English merchants ii, 307–20 (1866); I.L.N. xix, 70 (1851), portrait.

BROWN, Sir William (son of Richard Brown, chief examiner of accounts at the War Office London). b. 1812; a temporary clerk in office of Secretary at war Dec. 1828; a first class clerk on the consolidation of War office Jany. 1856; assistant accountant general Oct. 1857; accountant general Aug. 1860 to 1 April 1870 when he retired on a pension of £800 a year; C.B. 7 Dec. 1868; knighted at Windsor Castle 18 May 1870. d. Hillside, Parkstone, Dorset 19 May 1884.

BROWN, William Gustavus. b. 5 Feb. 1809; ensign 24 Foot 7 July 1825, lieut. col. 21 Dec. 1849 to 1 Sep. 1861 when placed on h.p.; brigadier general Bengal 28 July 1858 to 15 Nov. 1859 and 5 Sep. 1860 to 2 April 1861; brigadier general Aldershot 1 Sep. 1861 to 28 Feb. 1863; colonel 83 Foot 29 May 1873 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. Sydenham 27 Nov. 1883.

BROWN, William Robert Henry. Projector and one of founders of Morning Advertiser, first number issued 8 Feb. 1794 and of Licensed Victuallers schools at Kennington 1794; projected Golden Lane brewery in which 600 persons were proprietors Sep. 1804; common councilman for ward of Cripplegate 1807; one of founders of Hope Life Insurance Company, the first chairman; governor of Newgate 1817 to 1822 when he resigned; warden of the Fleet prison in city of London and keeper of the old and new palaces in county of Middlesex (alias Westminster Hall) 13 April 1822 to 31 May 1842 when appointment was abolished by act of Parliament 5 and 6 Vict. c. 22 and the prisoners were transferred to Queen’s Bench prison. d. 3 Doughty st. London 15 Feb. 1853 aged 86.

BROWN, Rev. Wilse. Educ. at Em. coll. Cam., scholar; B.A. 1833; P.C. of Eggleston, Durham 1835–57; R. of Whitstone near Exeter 1857 to death; private in Exeter Rifle Corps 1862 to death being only clergyman in England serving in Volunteer Corps, gained many prizes at Wimbledon. d. Whitstone rectory 22 Jany. 1883 aged 72.

BROWN-GREIVE, John Tatton. Second lieut. R.M. 21 May 1811, lieut. col. 13 Dec. 1852, col. commandant 30 Oct. 1855 to 1 April 1870 when he retired on full pay; granted good service pension 1 April 1857; general 13 Feb. 1867; C.B. 2 June 1869. d. Orde house near Berwick-on-Tweed 4 Nov. 1880 aged 85.

BROWNBILL, Rev. Francis. b. Gillmoss, Lancs. 5 Nov. 1793; entered Society of Jesus at Hodder 7 Sep. 1813; ordained priest in Dublin Dec. 1819; superior of St. George’s Residence Worcester and of College of St. Francis Xavier 1838–42; superior at the Seminary Stonyhurst 1847; missioner at Newhall, Chelmsford 1843–63; superior at the Little college Hodder Dec. 1864. d. Stonyhurst college 13 May 1875.

BROWNBILL, Rev. James (brother of the preceding). b. Gillmoss 31 July 1798; entered Society of Jesus 7 Sep. 1815; ordained priest at Stonyhurst 30 July 1829; rector of Stonyhurst college 15 May 1836; minister of Stonyhurst 29 May 1839; rector of college of St. Ignatius London 1841–54; missioner to Bury St. Edmunds 1854. d. Newhall, Chelmsford 14 Jany. 1880.

BROWNE, Alexander. b. Langlands parish of Twynholm 1800; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; hospital assistant in the army 16 June 1825; assistant surgeon 23 foot 3 Aug. 1826; went on a medical mission to Emperor of Morocco 1827 whom he cured of ague; surgeon to 37 foot 22 Nov. 1839 to 2 Aug. 1850 when placed on h.p.; d. Langlands 15 April 1872. Medical times and gazette i, 613 (1872).

BROWNE, Andrew. b. 6 June 1820; Ensign 28 foot 30 April 1841; lieut. col. 44 foot 10 Nov. 1869 to 27 Sep. 1871 when placed on h.p.; C.B. 28 Feb. 1861; granted a service reward 9 Sep. 1878; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 July 1881. d. Dublin 8 April 1883.

BROWNE, Charles Alfred (son of Wm. Loder Browne of Kennington, London, merchant). Entered Madras army 1826; sec. to military department 4 Feb. 1845 to 1860; M.G. 6 April 1862; a leading member of Church Missionary Society. d. King’s head court, St. Martin’s le grand, London 14 Feb. 1866 aged 65.

BROWNE, Charles Farrar. b. Waterford, Maine 26 April 1834; a printer in Maine, Boston and Cincinnati; wrote in the Cleveland, Plaindealer a letter purporting to come from a travelling showman signing it with nom de plume of Artemus Ward; edited Vanity Fair the leading comic paper in New York 1861; gave his first lecture in New York at Clinton hall 23 Dec. 1861; went to California and Utah 1862; went to England 1866; contributed to Punch 1866; lectured at the Egyptian hall, Piccadilly 13 Nov. 1866 to 23 Jany. 1867. d. Radley’s hotel, Southampton 6 March 1867. The genial showman by E. P. Hingston 1871; Essays by E. S. Nadal 1882 16–41; Illust. sporting news v, 705 (1866), portrait.

BROWNE, Charles Thomas. b. Wellington, Somerset 1825; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; engaged on a London daily paper 1857 to death; author of Astrello or the prophet’s vision 1850; Life of Southey 1854; The United States constitution and powers 1856 and under pseudonym of Alexander de Comyne of a poem entitled Irene 1844. d. Basingstoke 7 Oct. 1868.

BROWNE, Fielding. Ensign 40 Foot 7 March 1800; major 19 Jany. 1815 to 22 June 1820 when placed on h.p.; C.B. 22 June 1815; colonel 10 Jany. 1837. d. Gloucester crescent, Regent’s park, London 22 July 1864 aged 79.

BROWNE, George. Captain 37 Foot 24 March 1825 to 29 Aug. 1826 when placed on h.p.; chief commissioner of Dublin Metropolitan police 1837–58; C.B. 13 June 1857. d. Clifton gardens, Folkestone 12 July 1879 aged 91.

BROWNE, George (2 son of John Browne of Hall court, Herts, attorney general of Jamaica who d. 1828). b. Jamaica 1825; ed. at Jesus coll. Cam., B.A. 1848; barrister I.T. 4 May 1849; a revising barrister 1868; recorder of Ludlow 22 Jany. 1873 to death; Q.C. 24 March 1880; author of A treatise on the principles and practice of the court for divorce and matrimonial causes 1864, 4 ed. 1880; A treatise on the principles and practice of the court of probate 1873, 2 ed. 1881. d. Calverley park, Tunbridge Wells 19 Sep. 1880.

BROWNE, Right Rev. George Joseph Plunket. b. about 1790; ed. at Maynooth; parish priest of Athlone many years; bishop of Galway 6 Aug. 1831, consecrated by Abp. of Tuam 23 Oct. 1831; translated to Elphin 26 March 1844. d. 1 Dec. 1858 in 68 year. W. M. Brady’s Episcopal succession ii, 208, 231–2 (1876).

BROWNE, Hablot Knight (9 son of Wm. Loder Browne of Kennington, London, merchant). b. Lower Kennington lane, London 15 June 1815; apprenticed to Wm. Finden the line engraver; illustrated Dickens’s Sunday as it is, by Timothy Sparks 1836, published at 1/- but now worth more than its weight in gold; illustrated under pseudonym of Phiz Pickwick papers, Martin Chuzzlewit and many other of Dickens’s novels; exhibited many water-colours at Brit. Instit. and Soc. of Brit. artists; illustrated many of Lever’s and Ainsworth’s novels; contributed about 350 sketches to Judy July 1869 to death. d. Hove, Brighton 8 July 1882. D. C. Thomson’s Life and labours of H. K. Browne 1884, portrait; Phiz, a memoir by J. G. Kitton 1882, portrait; Graphic xxvi, 132 (1882), portrait; G. Everitt’s English Caricaturists (1886) 336–54, 412–16.

BROWNE, Rev. Henry (son of Rev. John Henry Browne, R. of Crownthorpe, Norfolk who d. 1 May 1843 aged 75). b. 1804; ed. at C.C. coll. Cam.; Bell Univ. scholar 1823, B.A. 1826, M.A. 1830; V. of Rudgwick, Sussex 1831; R. of Earnley, Sussex 1833; principal of diocesan theol. coll. Chichester 1842–7; preb. of Chichester cath. 9 Dec. 1842; chaplain to bishop of Chichester 1847–70; P.C. of St. Bartholomew’s Chichester 1850–4; R. of Pevensey 1854 to death; author of Ordo sæculorum 1844; Remarks on Mr. Greswell’s Fasti Catholici 1852; translated with C. L. Cornish for the ‘Library of the Fathers’ 17 short treatises of St. Augustine. d. Pevensey 19 June 1875.

BROWNE, Very Rev. Henry Montague (2 son of 2 Baron Kilmaine 1765–1825). b. 3 Oct. 1799; dean of cathedral church of St. Carthagh, Lismore 1850 to death. d. Bredon rectory, Worcs. 24 Nov. 1884.

BROWNE, Right Rev. James. b. Mayglass, Forth, co. Wexford 1786; ed. at Maynooth college; dean of Maynooth 1814–6, professor of Sacred Scriptures 1816–27; bishop of Kilmore 20 March 1827 to death; consecrated to see of Magida in partibus 10 June 1827; d. Cavan 11 April 1865. Battersby’s Catholic directory (1866) 389–92.

BROWNE, James Solomon. b. Paddington, London 6 Aug. 1791; ed. at Eton; clerk in Prerogative office Doctors Commons 1802; played Harlequin to Grimaldi at Birmingham; played at Liverpool 1813–23 and 1826–38; first appeared in London at Drury Lane 7 Oct. 1823 as Lord Foppington in A trip to Scarborough; became most versatile actor of the day; acted in America 1838, at Olympic theatre London 1845, afterwards in New York; the original Robert Macaire in the drama of that name; retired from the stage 1858. d. New York 28 Nov. 1869. Oxberry’s Dramatic biography ii, 177–88 (1825), portrait.

BROWNE, Ven. John Henry. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; R. of Cotgrave near Nottingham 1811 to death; archdeacon of Ely 23 Sep. 1816 to death; preb. of Ely 26 June 1817. d. Cotgrave 2 Nov. 1858 aged 79.

BROWNE, John Ross. b. Ireland 1817; passed his youth in state of Kentucky; went to California 1849; went to Europe as a newspaper correspondent 1851; inspector of custom houses on northern frontier of the U.S.; reported on the mineral resources of the country west of the Rocky Mountains for the Government 1866 and 1868; United States minister in China 1868–9; author of Etchings of a whaling cruise 1846; Crusoe’s Island 1864; An American family in Germany 1866; The land of Thor 1867. d. Oakland near San Francisco 7 Dec. 1875.

BROWNE, John Samuel (eld. son of John Browne of London, landscape engraver who d. 2 Oct. 1801 in 60 year). b. St. Saviour’s, Southwark 15 Sep. 1782; clerk in the East India house 1801; author of A catalogue of bishops containing the succession of archbishops and bishops of Canterbury and York from 1688 to the present time 1812; contributed to Gentlemen’s Mag. and Morning Herald. d. Walworth, Surrey 6 June 1858. Gent. Mag. v, 198 (1858).

BROWNE, Peter, b. 1794; M.P. for Rye 18 June 1818 to 2 June 1826; chargé d’affaires at Copenhagen 8 times during the period 1823–52; retired on a pension 6 Jany. 1853. d. Pallanza 7 April 1872.

BROWNE, Philip, b. 16 Sep. 1772; entered navy 1 July 1777; captain 19 June 1810; captain of the Hermes 20 guns 1811–14 when placed on h.p.; V.A. on h.p. 15 April 1854. d. Parkstone near Poole, Dorset 25 Jany. 1860.

BROWNE, Rev. Samuel (son of Rev. John W. Browne, Independent minister). b. England 19 March 1788; went to Cincinnati with his father 1798; a minister of the United Brethren; joined presbytery of Cincinnati about 1868; accumulated a large fortune by the rise of real estate in Cincinnati; bequeathed sum of 150,000 dollars for establishment of a university to bear his name also land whereon to erect the building and an endowment for professorships, d. Harrison junction, Ohio 10 Sep. 1872.

BROWNE, Thomas. Entered navy 5 April 1782; captain 29 April 1802; V.A. 11 Dec. 1846. d. Clifton 7 April 1851 in 83 year. O’Byrne’s Naval biog. dict. (1849) 136.

BROWNE, Sir Thomas Henry (elder son of George Browne of Liverpool, Tuscan consul). b. Liverpool 8 Sep. 1787; ensign 23 foot 28 Oct. 1805, captain 15 April 1813 to 25 Dec. 1814 when placed on h.p.; received war medal with 8 clasps; aide-de-camp to Marquis of Londonderry at head quarters of Russian and Austrian armies 1815; L.G. 20 June 1854; colonel 80 foot 19 Aug. 1854 to death; sheriff of Flintshire 1824; K.C.H. 1826. d. London 11 March 1855.

BROWNE, Walter John. Ensign Bombay army 17 Sep. 1819; col. 14 N.I. 22 Aug. 1857–1869; general 29 Aug. 1873; C.B. 4 July 1843. d. Warkworth 31 Oct. 1881 aged 81.

BROWNE, Walter Raleigh (3 son of Rev. Thomas Murray Browne, V. of Almondsbury, Gloucs.) b. Standish, Gloucs. 1842; ed. at home and Trin. coll. Cam., scholar 1863, 19 wrangler and tenth classic 1865, B.A. 1865; fellow of his coll. 1867; managing director of Bridgewater Engineering company 1874–8; M.I.M.E. 1869, sec. 1878 to Jany. 1884; M.I.C.E. 27 May 1879, Telford medallist 1871 and 1876; F.G.S.; F.R.G.S.; one of founders of Society for Psychical Research 1882; lectured frequently for Christian evidence society; author of Facts and fallacies of pauper education 1878; The inspiration of the New Testament 1880; The foundations of mechanics 1882; The students mechanics 1883. d. from typhoid fever in the general hospital, Montreal 4 Sep. 1884. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxix, 362–6 (1885).

BROWNE, William, b. 1 Nov. 1791; M.P. for co. Kerry 19 July 1841 to 23 July 1847. d. at his house in London 4 Aug. 1876.

BROWNE, William Alexander Francis. b. near Stirling 1805; ed. in Edinburgh high school and Univ., M.D. 1826; L.R.C.S. Edin. 1826; studied in France 1826–30; physician at Stirling 1830; superintendent of Montrose lunatic asylum; superintendent of Crichton Instit. at Dumfries 1839; paid Comr. in lunacy for Scotland 23 Sep. 1857 to 1870; the first phys. in Scotland who adopted new system of treating the insane; author of What asylums were, are, and ought to be. d. Crindan, Dumfries 2 March 1885 aged 79.

BROWNE, William Cheselden. b. 1805; entered navy 1816; captain 9 Jany. 1854; retired admiral 9 Jany. 1880; sec. to Royal yacht club at Cowes 1853–60. d. Townsend house, West Cowes 6 April 1881.

BROWNE, Ven. William Henry. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin; archdeacon of Launceston, Tasmania 1870 to death. d. Launceston 18 June 1877 aged 77.

BROWNE, William Henry James (son of Mr. Browne, harbour master at Dublin). Served in merchant service; 2 lieut. of the Enterprise 1848–9; led a sledge party from Port Leopold to east coast of Prince Regent’s Inlet; 2 lieut. of the Resolute 1850–1; his sketches of Arctic scenery at Port Leopold were published by Ackerman 1849; assisted in painting the Arctic panorama in Leicester square London; retired commander 1 July 1864. d. Woolwich March-June 1871.

BROWNE, William Meredith. Assistant sec. of Westminster Fire Office 1831, sec. 1838 to death; a founder of Mutual Life Office 1834; founded Westminster and General Life Office 1839, actuary 1839–69; hon. sec. of London Fire Engine Establishment 1832–65, when the work was undertaken by Metropolitan Board of Works. d. Clarendon road, Putney 30 March 1880 aged 74.

BROWNING, Colin Arrott. Surgeon in the navy 8 Feb. 1817; surgeon of the Surrey, convict ship 1831 and of six other convict ships 1834–46; retired deputy inspector of hospitals 30 June 1856; author of England’s exiles 1842; The Convict ship 1844; The convict ship and England’s exiles, 6 ed. 1855. d. Woolwich 26 Oct. 1856.

BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett (eld. dau. of Edward Moulton of Burn hall, Durham). b. Burn hall 6 March 1809; lived at 74 Gloucester place London many years; lived at Florence 1847 to death, (m. 9 Sep. 1846 Robert Browning the poet). author of An essay on mind, with other poems, anon. 1826; Casa Guidi Windows a poem 1851; Aurora Leigh 1857, 18 ed. 1884 and many other poems. d. Casa Guidi, Florence 30 June 1861. The poetical works of E. B. Browning, complete with a memoir 2 vols. New York 1871; P. Bayne’s Two great Englishwomen (1881), 1–154; Macpherson’s Memoirs of the life of Anna Jameson (1878) 191–263; G. B. Smith’s Poets and novelists (1875) 57–110; M. R. Mitford’s Recollections of a literary life (1859), 154–68; T. H. Ward’s English poets, 2 ed. (1883) iv, 562–80.

BROWNING, George. Secretary of Society for promoting the fine arts; author of Footprints, poems translated and original 1871; A memoir of the late Emperor Napoleon iii, and a political poem entitled Rip Van Winkle, 2 ed. 1873; The Edda, songs and sagas of Iceland, a lecture, 2 ed. 1876. d. 21 Kildare gardens, London 20 Dec. 1878 in 65 year.

BROWNING, William Shergold (uncle of Robert Browning the poet). author of Leisure hours 1801; The history of the Huguenots during the sixteenth century 2 vols. 1829, new ed. 1845; Hoel Morvan or the court and camp of Henry v, 3 vols. 1844. d. 4 March 1874.

BROWNLOW, John Cust, 1 Earl (eld. son of Brownlow Cust, 1 baron Brownlow 1744–1807). b. 19 Aug. 1779; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1801, LLD. 1835; created D.C.L. at Ox. 10 June 1834; M.P. for Clitheroe 6 July 1802 to Jany. 1808; colonel of Royal Lincoln militia; succeeded 25 Dec. 1807; lord lieut. of Lincolnshire 1 March 1809; created Viscount Alford and Earl Brownlow 27 Nov. 1815; recorder of Boston 12 Dec. 1820; G.C.H. 1834; pres. of Archæological Institute at Lincoln 1848; F.L.S. 1828, F.R.S. 8 May 1838. d. Belton house, Grantham 15 Sep. 1853. Portraits and memoirs of eminent Conservatives, portrait; Waagen’s Treasures of art ii, 313–16 (1854).

BROWNLOW, John William Spencer Brownlow Egerton Cust, 2 Earl. b. Carlton gardens, London 28 March 1842; succeeded 15 Sep. 1853. d. Mentone 20 Feb. 1867. bur. at Belton 2 March. Good words viii, 373 (1867), a poem by G. Massey; I.L.N. li, 609 (1867), portrait.

BROWNLOW, Emma Sophia Cust, Countess (eld. dau. of Richard Edgcumbe, 2 Earl of Mount Edgcumbe 1764–1839). b. Portugal st. London 28 July 1791; one of the 6 ladies of the bedchamber to Queen Adelaide July 1830 to 2 Dec. 1849 when the Queen died; author of Slight reminiscences of a septuagenarian 1867, 3 ed. 1868. (m. 17 July 1828 1 Earl Brownlow). d. Belton lodge, Torquay 28 Jany. 1872. I.L.N. lxi, 139, 434 (1872).

BROWNLOW, Francis (eld. son of Wm. Brownlow). b. 19 July 1836; ed. at Harrow; ensign 72 Foot 8 Sep. 1854, lieut. col. 15 Aug. 1877 to death; C.B. 19 Nov. 1879; served in Crimean war, Indian mutiny and Afghan war; killed at battle with Ayab Khan’s army in Kandahar 1 Sep. 1880. Shadbolt’s Afghan campaign (1882) 27–8, portrait; I.L.N. lxxvii, 309 (1880), portrait.

BROWNLOW, Very Rev. John. Ordained 1832; R. of Ardbraccan, Navan 1843 to death; dean of Clonmacnois, Meath 1862 to death, d. Ardbraccan rectory 24 May 1882 aged 77.

BROWNRIGG, Charles James. b. 19 Nov. 1836; captain R.N. 18 Sep. 1873; captain of Euphrates, Indian troop ship 22 April 1878; captain of London, store ship 8 June 1880 to death; killed by the crew of a slave dhow off Zanzibar 3 Dec. 1881. I.L.N. lxxix, 650 (1881), portrait; Graphic xxv, 45 (1882), portrait.

BROWNRIGG, Sir Henry John (eld. son of general Thomas Brownrigg who d. May 1826). b. 18 June 1798; 2 lieut. Rifle brigade 6 Dec. 1813, lieut. 23 Dec. 1819 to 23 April 1826 when placed on h.p.; entered Irish Constabulary 1826, inspector general 1858 to 1865; C.B. 13 June 1857; knighted by Earl of Eglinton lord lieutenant of Ireland 1858. d. 12 Talbot sq. Hyde park, London 25 Nov. 1873.

BROWNRIGG, John Studholme. b. 17 March 1786; a merchant in London; M.P. for Boston 9 Jany. 1835 to 23 July 1847. d. Ashford lodge, Middlesex 21 Sep. 1853.

BROWNRIGGE, Sir Robert William Colebrook, 2 Baronet. b. Audley square, London 29 July 1817; succeeded 27 May 1833. d. 12 Eaton place West, London 6 Aug. 1882.

BROWNSMITH, John Leman. b. Westminster 1809; chorister at Westminster Abbey; organist of St. John’s church Waterloo road, London 1829–53; lay vicar of Westminster Abbey 1838; organist to Sacred harmonic society 1848; organist at Handel festivals Crystal palace 1857, 1859, 1862 and 1865; organist of St. Gabriel, Pimlico 1853 to death; published The psalms and hymns in the morning and evening services with the pointing completed for chanting 1839; A course of Psalms 1848. d. 104 Cambridge st. Pimlico, London 14 Sep. 1866.

BRUCE, Alexander (2 son of Henry Bruce of London). Educ. at Univ. coll. London 1858–64; lecturer on anatomy and assistant surgeon to Wesminster hospital Dec. 1867 to death; invented the gas cautery which has proved very successful; author of Observations in the military hospitals of Dresden 1866; An epitome of the Venereal diseases 1868. d. 6 Albert terrace, Regent’s park, London 11 April 1869 aged 27. Reg. and mag. of biog. i, 406 (1869).

BRUCE, David. b. Scotland 1770; went to New York 1793; started with his brother George a book printing office at corner of Pearl st. New York 1806, removed to Sloat lane 1809 where they had 9 presses at work; learnt art of stereotyping in England 1812 which he established in America, retired from business 1822; published Specimens of printing types New York 1815. d. New York 1857.

BRUCE, Eyre Evans. Entered Madras army 1827; colonel 35 Madras N.I. 5 July 1854 to 1869; general 3 Sep. 1871. d. Doneraile, Ireland 10 April 1874.

BRUCE, Sir Frederick William Adolphus (3 son of Thomas Bruce, 7 Earl of Elgin 1766–1841). b. Broomhall, Dunfermline 14 April 1814; colonial sec. at Hong Kong 9 Feb. 1844; lieut. governor of Newfoundland 27 June 1846; consul general in Bolivia 23 July 1847; chargé d’affaires in Uruguay 29 Aug. 1851; agent and consul general in Egypt 3 Aug. 1853; principal sec. to 8 Earl of Elgin British ambassador in China April 1857; envoy extraord. and minister plenipo. to Emperor of China 2 Dec. 1858; chief superintendent of British trade in China 1 March 1859; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to the United States 1 March 1865 to death; C.B. 28 Sep. 1858, K.C.B. 12 Dec. 1862, G.C.B. 17 March 1865. d. Boston, United States 19 Sep. 1867. bur. Dunfermline abbey 8 Oct. D. C. Boulger’s History of China iii, (1884); G.M. iv, 677–8(1867).

BRUCE, George (brother of David Bruce 1770–1857). b. Edinburgh 26 June 1781; a type founder in New York 1816 to death; harmonised and graduated size of different bodies of type as they ranged in the 11 series from pearl to canon; introduced the body called “agate” which is largely used by American newspapers; pres. of New York Type founders association 1863 to death; invented with his nephew David Bruce type-casting machine which was in general use many years. d. New York 6 July 1866.

BRUCE, Sir Henry William (3 son of Rev. Sir Henry Hervey Aston Bruce, 1 Baronet who d. 17 Oct. 1822). b. 2 Feb. 1792; entered navy 1803; captain 16 Nov. 1821; commodore on West Coast of Africa 5 March 1851; commander in chief in the Pacific 25 Nov. 1854 to 8 July 1857 and at Portsmouth 1 March 1860 to 1 March 1863; admiral 27 April 1863; K.C.B. 28 June 1861. d. Fairfield near Liverpool 14 Dec. 1863.

BRUCE, Herbert. Entered Bombay army 1842; captain 2 European regiment 27 March 1855 to death; C.B. 26 July 1858. d. on board Messageries Imperiales steamer, near Suez 26 Feb. 1866 aged 39.

BRUCE, James. b. Aberdeen 1808; editor of the Fifeshire Journal at Cupar; edited successively Madras Athenæum, Newcastle Chronicle and Belfast Northern Whig; author of The black kalendar of Aberdeen 1840; Lives of eminent men of Aberdeen 1841; Table talk 1845; Classic and historic portraits 1853; Scenes and sights in the East 1856. d. Belfast 19 Aug. 1861.

BRUCE, Sir James Lewis Knight (3 son of John Knight of Fairlinch, Devon who d. 1799). b. Barnstaple, Devon 15 Feb. 1791; ed. at Bath gr. sch. and Sherborne 1799–1805; articled to B. C. Williams of Lincoln’s Inn Fields solicitor 1807–12; barrister L.I. 21 Nov. 1817, bencher 6 Nov. 1829, treasurer 1842–3, laid foundation stone of the new hall 20 April 1843; practised in Court of Chancery; K.C. Nov. 1829; recorder of Brecon; M.P. for Bishop’s Castle 30 April 1831 to 3 Dec. 1832; contested borough of Cambridge Aug. 1837; spoke for 7 days in case of Small v. Attwood Nov 1831; leader in Sir Lancelot Shadwell’s court 1834; made £18,000 a year 1835–41; assumed by royal license additional surname of Bruce 4 Sep. 1837; vice chancellor 28 Oct. 1841; knighted at Windsor Castle 15 Jany. 1842; P.C. 15 Jany. 1842; chief judge in bankruptcy Nov. 1842; exercised jurisdiction of the old Court of Review, after it’s abolition 1847; senior lord justice of appeal in chancery 8 Oct. 1851 to Oct. 1866; F.R.S. 18 March 1829, D.C.L. Ox. 1834. d. The Priory, Roehampton, Surrey 7 Nov. 1866. Law mag. and law review v, 244–50 (1858), xxii, 278–93 (1867); London Society xi, 181–8 (1867), portrait; The bench and the bar, part 1, portrait.

BRUCE, John. b. London 1802; a founder of Camden Society 2 March 1838, director 19 years; edited the first and 12 other volumes for the Society; F.S.A. 1830, treasurer 1849–54; edited Gent. Mag. some years; edited Calendars of state papers, domestic series Charles i 1625–39, 12 vols. 1858–71; contributed many papers to the Archæologia. d. suddenly in Montagu sq. London 28 Oct. 1869, his library was sold at Sotheby’s 27 April to 2 May 1870. Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. 2 series iv, 472–5 (1870).

BRUCE, Sir Michael, 7 Baronet. b. 31 March 1796; succeeded 1827. d. Scotstown, Aberdeen 14 Dec. 1862.

BRUCE, Michael. b. 16 May 1823; ensign Grenadier guards 15 Dec. 1840, lieut. col. 16 May 1865 to 22 Sep. 1875; L.G. 31 Oct. 1880; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881. d. Glenelg, Bournemouth 29 Sep. 1883.

BRUCE, Robert (3 son of Thomas Bruce, 7 Earl of Elgin 1766–1841). b. 15 March 1813; ensign Grenadier guards 18 June 1830, major 16 Sep. 1856 to 7 Dec. 1858 when placed on h.p.; military secretary to his brother Lord Elgin in Jamaica 1841–47, in Canada 1847–54; surveyor general of the ordnance 1855; governor to Prince of Wales 9 Nov. 1858 to death; M.G. 7 Dec. 1859. d. St. James’s palace, London 27 June 1862. I.L.N. xli, 58, 61 (1862), portrait.

BRUCE, Robert (eld. son of Alexander Bruce of Kennet, co. Clackmannan). b. 8 Dec. 1795; ed. at Eton; ensign 1 Foot guards 9 Dec. 1813, lieut. 1820–24 when he sold out; served in the Peninsula and at Waterloo; M.P. for Clackmannan 27 March 1820 to July 1824; vice lieut. and convener of Clackmannan 1853; chairman of Scottish Central railway board; claimed Scottish peerage of Balfour of Burley which was allowed to his son by committee for privileges in House of Lords 23 July 1868. d. Kennet house near Alloa 13 Aug. 1864. M. F. Conolly’s Biog. dict. of eminent men of Fife (1866) 88–90.

BRUCE, Rev. William (2 son of Rev. Wm. Bruce of Belfast, Presbyterian minister 1757–1841). b. Belfast 16 Nov. 1790; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 2 July 1804, B.A. 1809; licensed by presbytery of Antrim 25 July 1811; presbyterian minister at Belfast 19 Jany. 1812 to 21 April 1867; professor of Classics and Hebrew in Belfast Academical Instit. 27 Oct. 1821 to 1825 and of classics only 1825 to Nov. 1849; moderator of northern presbytery of Antrim 4 April 1862. d. 25 Oct. 1868.

BRUCE, William. Captain 79 foot 14 March 1811; served in Peninsula 1812–4 and at Waterloo; major 75 foot 31 Dec. 1827 to 27 Nov. 1828 when placed on h.p.; K.H. 1837; lieut. col. 23 Nov. 1841. d. Grosvenor hotel, London 28 Nov. 1868.

BRUCE, William Downing (eld. son of Samuel Barwick Bruce of Ripon, surgeon 1786–1853). b. 14 Aug. 1824; barrister L.I. and M.T. 30 April 1853; consul in Scotland for Monte Video 1856; recorder of Wallingford June 1863 to 1869; counsel in Yelverton appeal case; district judge at Spanish Town, Jamaica 1869 to death; author of Chronological tables 1847; An account of the ecclesiastical courts 1852; How the ecclesiastical courts rob the public 1856. d. Jamaica 1875.

BRUEN, Henry. M.P. for county Carlow 30 Oct. 1812 to 23 April 1831; colonel commandant of Carlow militia to death. d. Oak park, co. Carlow 5 Nov. 1852 in 62 year.

BRUNEL, Isambard Kingdom (only son of Sir Mark Isambard Brunel, civil engineer 1769–1849). b. Portsmouth 9 April 1806; engineer of Great Western Railway 7 March 1833 which was completed 30 June 1841; constructed the station at Paddington 1849–54; constructed South Devon railway 1844–6, where his system of atmospheric propulsion failed; constructed Royal Albert bridge at Saltash 1853–9; designed Great Western Steamship launched 19 July 1837 and the Great Britain the first large iron steamship, launched 19 July 1843; designed the Great Eastern steamship 1852, she was floated 31 Jany. 1858; conducted experiments for Admiralty with screw propeller 1841–4; F.R.S. 10 June 1830. d. 18 Duke st. Westminster 15 Sep. 1859. Life of I. K. Brunel by I. Brunel 1870, portrait; Drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages 2 series 1859, portrait; Proc. of Royal Soc. x, 7–11 (1860); Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xix, 169–73 (1860).

BRUNKER, James Robert. Ensign 91 foot 9 April 1825; deputy adjutant general in Ceylon 24 Aug. 1852 to 6 Aug. 1858; major 15 foot 2 Oct. 1854 to 2 Feb. 1855 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 10 March 1866; commanded forces in China 16 Dec. 1867 to death. d. Hong Kong 24 March 1869.

BRÜNNOW, Ernst Philipp Ivanovitch, Count de. b. Dresden 31 Aug. 1797; Russian envoy and minister in London 1840 to 8 Feb. 1854 and 4 Feb. 1861 to July 1874; raised to the rank of Count, April 1871. d. Darmstadt 11 April 1875. Illust. News of the World iii, (1859), portrait.

BRUNSWICK and LUNEBURG, Karl Friedrich August Wilhelm Herzog von. b. Brunswick 30 Oct. 1804; lived at Vauxhall in London 1809–15; laid foundation stone of Vauxhall bridge 1814; entered on exercise of his authority as Duke of Brunswick 30 Oct. 1823; fled to England 7 Sep. 1830, abdicating in favour of his brother William; was much libelled in the Age and Satirist 1843; crossed to France in Green’s balloon the Victoria in 5 hours 31 March 1851; lived in Paris at 52 Champs Elysees and in London at Brunswick house, New road; bequeathed all his property including his collection of valuable diamonds to city of Geneva. d. Geneva 18 Aug. 1873, his decorations consisting of various orders of principal European courts enriched with jewels were sold at Debenhams in London 25 June 1874. Temple Bar lxxiii, 353–63 (1885); Life of T. S. Duncombe ii, 44–99 and 162–90 (1868).

BRUNTON, Rev. Alexander. b. Edinburgh 1772; minister of parish of Bolton 1797–1803, of New Greyfriars church Edin. 1803–9 and of the Tron church Edin. 23 Nov. 1809 to death; professor of Oriental languages in Univ. of Edin. 19 May 1813 to death; D.D. Edin. 17 Dec. 1813; moderator of General Assembly 22 May 1823; author of Sermons and lectures 1818; Outlines of Persian grammar with extracts 1822; Forms for public worship in the Church of Scotland 1848. d. Jordonstone house, Coupar Angus 9 Feb. 1854. W. B. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882), portrait.

BRUNTON, Robert. b. Lockwinnock N.B. 10 Feb. 1796; chief assistant to his brother W. Brunton 1823; engaged by Banks & Co. of Bilston; principal assistant of Isaac Dodds at the Horsley iron works Staffs.; in service of Indian iron company 1835 to death; constructed and managed works at Porto Nuovo on coast of Coromandel; acting engineer of Maestaeg iron works Glamorganshire to death; M.I.C.E. 1842; author of A compendium of mechanics or text book for engineers, millwrights, machine makers 1824, 2 ed. 1825. d. Maestaeg iron works 6 July 1852. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xii, 149 (1853).

BRUNTON, William (eld. son of Robert Brunton of Dalkeith, watch maker). b. Dalkeith 26 May 1777; partner in and manager of Eagle foundry Birmingham 1815–25; civil engineer in London 1825–35; partner in Cwm Avon tin works Glamorganshire 1835–8; had a large share in introduction of steam navigation; invented the Calciner used in nearly all Cornish tin mines and Mexican silver mines, and a walking machine called the Steam Horse which was used at Butterley 1813–5 when it exploded and killed 13 persons; took out many patents. d. Camborne, Cornwall 5 Oct. 1851. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xi, 95–9 (1852).

BRUNTON, William (3 son of the preceding). b. Birmingham 3 April 1817; resident engineer of West Cornwall railway 1847; invented the apparatus for washing and separating ores from their matrix known as “Brunton’s endless cloth”; invented a fuse making machine of most ingenious construction, this process has never been divulged, its introduction at once reduced the selling price of fuse by 75 per cent.; chief engineer of the Punjab railway 1865; leaseholder of a sheeprun of 30000 acres in New Zealand; district engineer of railways in Southland, N.Z. 1871; M.I.C.E. 7 March 1854. d. Wellington, N.Z. 13 June 1881.

BRUSHFIELD, Thomas (2 son of George Brushfield of Ashford-in-the-Water, Derbyshire who d. 25 Feb. 1825 aged 52). b. Ashford-in-the-Water 16 Feb. 1798; kept an oil and colour shop at 28 Union st. Spitalfields, London 1821–55; played under an assumed name at City of London theatre 1827; chairman of Whitechapel board of guardians 1839–48; member for Whitechapel of Metropolitan Board of Works 1865 to death; contributed many papers to The Reliquary, quarterly archæological journal and review 1861 to death. d. 5 Church st Spitalfields, London 1 Sep. 1875. Reliquary xvi, 209–16 (1876).

BRUTON, James. Author of a few dramatic pieces and of many songs. d. Palace road, Westminster 5 March 1867 aged 52.

BRYAN, George Leopold. b. Ballyduff house 29 Nov. 1828; sheriff of Kilkenny 1852; M.P. for co. Kilkenny 24 July 1865 to 24 March 1880. d. 29 June 1880.

BRYCE, David. b. Scotland; private secretary to Benjamin D’Israeli; a publisher in Paternoster Row, London; employed by W. H. Smith the bookseller; compiled The confessional unmasked from Petrus Dens’s Theologia moralis et dogmatica 8 tomes 1832. d. 1 May 1875 aged 56.

BRYCE, David (son of Mr. Bryce of Edinburgh, builder). b. Edin. 3 April 1803; partner with Wm. Burn leading architect in Edin. to 1844; became leading architect in Scotland; designed important works in all styles in most of chief towns in Scotland; revived the picturesque French Gothic now naturalised in Scotland under name of Baronial; A.R.S.A. 1835, R.S.A. 1836, F.R.I.B.A., F.R.S. Edin. 1856; grand-architect to grand lodge of Masons in Scotland 1850 to death; built Fettes College, Royal Infirmary, and Bank of Scotland, all in Edinburgh. d. Edinburgh 7 May 1876. Builder xxxiv, 508 (1876); D. M. Lyon’s Lodge of Edinburgh (1873) 30, 341, portrait; Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. ix, 216–8 (1878).

BRYCE, Rev. James (son of John Bryce of Airdrie, Lanarkshire). b. Airdrie 5 Dec. 1767; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow; ordained minister of Scottish Antiburgher Secession church 1795; minister of Antiburgher congregation at Killaig, co. Londonderry 1805; founded a branch of the Presbyterian church which took name of the Associate Presbytery of Ireland; this body was ultimately united with Scottish united presbyterian church. d. Killaig 24 April 1857.

BRYCE, Rev. James. Minister of Church of Scotland in Bengal 11 April 1814 to 30 May 1842; D.D. Edin. 12 Aug. 1818; author of Sketch of the state of British India 1810; On the ecclesiastical establishment of the Church of Scotland 1815; Ten years of the Church of Scotland 2 vols. 1850. d. Edinburgh 11 March 1866 in 82 year.

BRYCE, James (3 son of Rev. James Bryce 1767–1857). b. Killaig 22 Oct. 1806; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow, B.A. 1828, hon. LLD. 1858; mathematical master in Belfast academy; master in high school Glasgow 1846–74; F.G.S., Dublin; pres. of Philosophical Soc. of Glasgow; author of First principles of geography and astronomy 1848; General gazetteer 1859; Library gazetteer 1859; Geology of Arran 1864; killed by accident at Inverfarigaig on shores of Loch Ness 11 July 1877. Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. ix, 514 (1878).

BRYDGES, Sir John William Egerton, 2 Baronet. b. Canterbury Nov. 1791; succeeded 8 Sep. 1837. d. Lee priory, Canterbury 15 Feb. 1858.

BRYDON, William. b. London 9 Oct. 1811; assistant surgeon Bengal army 9 July 1835, surgeon 14 Nov. 1849, retired 1 Nov. 1859; C.B. 16 Nov. 1858. d. Westfield, Rossshire 20 March 1873. Kaye’s History of war in Afghanistan, 3 ed. (1874) 389; I.L.N. lxii, 369 (1873), portrait; J. McCarthy’s A history of our own times, new ed. (1882) i, 161–95, iii, 8.

Note.—He was the one solitary individual of the 13000 soldiers and camp followers composing the army of General Elphinstone who was neither killed nor taken prisoner in the terrible disaster of January 1842, it was also his singular fate to be shut up with Sir Henry Lawrence at Lucknow and to pass uninjured through that long and trying siege. Mrs. Thompson-Butler painted a portrait of him appearing under the walls of Jellalabad in her picture “Remnant of an army” exhibited at Royal Academy 1881 and engraved 1883.

BRYDSON, Rev. Thomas. b. Glasgow 1806; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow and Edin.; minister of Levern chapel near Paisley 1839–42; minister of Kilmalcolm 1842 to death; author of Poems 1829; Pictures of the past 1832; contributed to Edinburgh Literary Journal and Republic of letters, Glasgow. d. Kilmalcolm 28 Jany. 1855. The modern Scottish minstrel by Charles Rogers iv, 172–3 (1857).

BRYMER, Ven. William Thomas Parr. Educ. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; R. of Charlton Mackrell, Somerset 1821 to death; archdeacon of Bath 6 March 1839 to death; canon res. of Wells 1840 to death; superintended affairs of the entire diocese during incapacity of Bishop Law. d. Charlton Mackrell 19 Aug. 1852. G.M. xxxviii, 544 (1852).

BRYSON, Alexander. b. Edinburgh 12 Oct. 1816; clock and watch maker at Edin. 1840 to death; F.R.S. Edin. 1858; pres. of Royal Soc. of Arts 1860; pres. of Royal Physical Soc. 1863; F.G.S. London and Edin.; author of many papers on geology. d. Hawkhill 7 Dec. 1866.

BRYSON, Alexander. Assistant surgeon R.N. 7 Feb. 1827; inspector general of hospitals and fleets 30 June 1855; hon. physician to the Queen 1859 to death; director general of medical department of navy 1864–9; F.R.S. 1 June 1854; C.B. 7 June 1865. d. The Heritage, Barnes, Surrey 12 Dec. 1869 aged 67.

BUCCLEUCH, Walter Francis Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 5 Duke of. (2 son of 4 Duke of Buccleuch 1772–1819). b. Dalkeith house near Edinburgh 25 Nov. 1806; ed. at Eton and St. John’s coll. Cam., M.A. 1827, LLD. 1842, D.C.L. Ox. 1834; succeeded 20 April 1819; lord lieut. of Midlothian 5 March 1828 to death, of Roxburghshire 2 Dec. 1841 to death; K.T. 5 Nov. 1830; K.G. 23 Feb. 1835; pres. of Royal Archers 1837–9, captain general 1839 to death; lord privy seal 2 Feb. 1842 to 21 Jany. 1846; P.C. 2 Feb. 1842; colonel of Edinburgh militia 6 Jany. 1842 to death; lord pres. of the council 21 Jany. 1846 to 6 July 1846; chancellor of Univ. of Glasgow 24 April 1878; constructed harbour and port of Granton 1835. d. Bowhill house, co. Selkirk 16 April 1884, will proved in London 30 Oct. 1884, personalty in England £475,000 in Scotland £435,000. Sir H. Nicolas’s Court of Queen Victoria (1845) 55–63; J. B. Paul’s History of royal company of archers (1875), portrait; R. C. Dudgeon’s History of Edinburgh militia (1882), portrait; Graphic xxix, 400 (1884), portrait.

BUCHAN, Henry David Erskine, 12 Earl of. b. July 1783; succeeded 19 April 1829. d. 8 St. Agnes Villas, Bayswater, London 13 Sep. 1857.

BUCHAN, Peter. b. Peterhead 1790; a printer there 1816 to death; author of The recreation of leisure hours being songs and verses in the Scottish dialect 1814; Annals of Peterhead 1819; Treatise proving that brutes have souls and are immortal 1824; Ancient ballads and songs of the North of Scotland hitherto unpublished 2 vols. 1828 and many other works. d. London 19 Sep. 1854. W. Anderson’s Scottish nation iii, 691–3 (1863).

BUCHANAN, Sir Andrew, 1 Baronet (only son of James Buchanan of Blairvadock Ardinconnal, co. Dumbarton 1776–1860). b. 7 May 1807; attached to embassy at Constantinople 10 Oct. 1825; minister plenipotentiary to Swiss confederation 12 Feb. 1852; envoy extraordinary and min. plenipo. to king of Denmark 9 Feb. 1853; transferred to Madrid 31 March 1858; transferred to the Hague 11 Dec. 1860; ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to King of Prussia 28 Oct. 1862; P.C. 3 Feb. 1863; ambassador extraord. and plenipo. to Russia 15 Sep. 1864, to Austria 16 Oct. 1871 to 16 Feb. 1878 when he retired on a pension; C.B. 23 May 1857, K.C.B. 25 Feb. 1860, G.C.B. 6 July 1866; created a baronet 14 Dec. 1878. d. Craigend castle near Glasgow 12 Nov. 1882.

BUCHANAN, George (3 son of David Buchanan of Montrose, printer 1745–1812). b. Montrose about 1790; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; a land surveyor about 1812 then a civil engineer; engaged in all the important salmon fishing cases in Scotland; built chimney nearly 400 feet high for Edinburgh gasworks 1848; F.R.S. Edin.; pres. of Royal Scottish Society of Arts 1847–8; author of Report on the theory and application of Leslie’s Photometer 1824 and of the article “Furnaces” in 8 ed. of Encyclopædia Britannica. d. 30 Oct. 1852.

BUCHANAN, Gilbert John Lane. Second lieut. R.A. 16 Dec. 1831, colonel 16 July 1862 to 2 April 1870; commanded at Fort William, Bengal 10 Sep. 1867 to 2 April 1870; M.G. 6 March 1868. d. Cambridge st. Hyde park sq. London 13 April 1875.

BUCHANAN, Rev. James. b. Paisley 1804; minister of Roslin near Edin. 1827; minister of North Leith 1828; attained great fame as a preacher; D.D. Princeton college, New Jersey 1844; LLD. Glasgow; minister of high church Edin. 1840, of St. Stephens free church Edin. 1843; professor of apologetics in New college Edin. 1845 and of systematic theology 1847–68; author of Comfort in affliction 1837; Faith in God and modern atheism compared 2 vols. 1855; Analogy considered as a guide to truth, 2 ed. 1867. d. 1870.

BUCHANAN, Robert. b. Ayr 1813; a schoolmaster, a lecturer advocating socialistic views of Robert Owen and a journalist successively; author of The religion of the past and present society 1839; The origin and nature of ghosts 1840; Concise history of modern priestcraft 1840; The past, the present and the future 1840. d. Bexhill, Sussex 4 March 1866.

BUCHANAN, Rev. Robert. b. Callander 1785; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow, LLD. 1869; licensed as a preacher of Church of Scotland 1812; minister of parish of Peebles 1813; assistant professor of logic Univ. of Glasgow 1824, professor 1827–64, the Buchanan prizes were instituted 1866 in commemoration of his services, he bequeathed by his will £10,000 for founding of Buchanan bursaries; author of Fragments of the table round 1860; Vow of Glentreuil and other poems 1862; Tragic dramas from Scottish history 1868 and Wallace, a tragedy 1856 performed twice at Prince’s theatre Glasgow March 1862. d. Ardfillayne, Dunoon 2 March 1873.

BUCHANAN, Rev. Robert (son of Mr. Buchanan of St. Ninians near Stirling, brewer and farmer). b. St. Ninians 15 Aug. 1802; ed. at Univs. of Glasgow and Edin.; licensed by presbytery of Dunblane; minister of Gargunnock near Stirling Oct. 1826; ordained 6 March 1827; minister of Salton, East Lothian 1829; minister of Tron church Glasgow 22 Aug. 1833; D.D. Glasgow 1840; minister of Free college church Glasgow 26 December 1857; pres. of Sustentation fund committee 1847–75; moderator of the Assembly 1860; presented with sum of £4,200 in Queen’s hotel, Glasgow 8 Aug. 1864; member of Glasgow school board 1872 to death; author of History of the ten years conflict 2 vols. 1849; Notes of a clerical furlough 1859; Book of Ecclesiastes 1859. d. 25 Via dell’ Angelo Custode Rome 31 March 1875. Robert Buchanan, D.D. an ecclesiastical biography by the Rev. L. N. Walker 1877, portrait; Good Words xix, 15–20 (1878), portrait; J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1878) 17–23.

BUCHANAN, Walter. b. Glasgow 1797; a merchant in Glasgow; M.P. for Glasgow 1 April 1857 to 6 July 1865. d. Plas Newton, Chester 21 May 1883.

BUCHANAN, William (son of David Buchanan of Montrose, printer and publisher 1745–1822). b. Montrose 1781; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; called to Scottish bar 1806; an elder of the Glasite church 1823 to death; Queen’s advocate and solicitor of teinds or tithes 1856; author of Reports of certain remarkable cases in the court of session and trials in the high court of justiciary 1813; Treatise on the law of Scotland on the subject of teinds 1862. d. Edinburgh 18 Dec. 1863.

BUCHANAN, William. b. Glasgow 1777; picture dealer in London; author of Memoirs of painting with a chronological history of the importation of pictures by the Great Masters into England since the French revolution 2 vols. 1824. d. Glasgow 19 Jany. 1864 aged 86.

BUCHANAN, Rev. William. Licentiate of Church of Scotland; editor of Ayr Observer and subsequently of Edinburgh Courant and Glasgow Courier; author of Verses serious, humorous and satirical 1866. d. Ayr July 1866.

BUCK, Henry. b. Yorkshire; wrote on racing in the Sportsman in London and on billiards under pseud. of “Spot Stroke”; wrote on racing in Daily Telegraph under pseud. of “Hotspur”; a large betting commission agent. d. 25 Jany. 1884.

BUCK, Lewis William (2 son of George Stucley Buck of Moreton, Devonshire). b. 1784; M.P. for Exeter 1826 to 1832, and for North Devon 1839 to 1857; sheriff of Devon 1826. d. 12 Norfolk st. Park lane, London 25 April 1858.

BUCK, Zachariah. b. Norwich 10 Sep. 1798; teacher of the pianoforte; assistant organist of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich 1818–21; organist of Norwich cathedral and master of the choristers 1819–77; Mus. Doc. by Abp. of Canterbury 1853; composed many services, anthems and chants. d. Newport, Essex 5 Aug. 1879.

BUCKINGHAM, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 2 Duke of (only child of 1 Duke of Buckingham 1776–1839). b. Pall Mall, London 11 Feb. 1797; ed. at Eton; M.P. for Bucks. 22 June 1818 to 17 Jany. 1839 when he succeeded; introduced into reform act 1832 the tenant at will clause; G.C.H. 1835; lord privy seal 3 Sep. 1841 to 2 Feb. 1842; P.C. 3 Sep. 1841; K.G. 1842; D.C.L. Cam. 1842; received Queen Victoria at Stowe 15 Jany. 1845; Stowe was taken possession of by bailiffs 31 Aug. 1847; sold part of his estates 10 May 1848 for £263,000; author of Memoirs of the court and cabinets of George iii 3 vols. 1853–5; Memoirs of the court of England during the Regency 1811–20 2 vols. 1856; Memoirs of the court of George iv 2 vols. 1859; Memoirs of the courts and cabinets of William iv and Victoria 2 vols. 1861. d. Great Western railway hotel, Paddington 29 July 1861. G. Lipscomb’s History of Bucks, iii, 87–108 (1847); G. H. Francis’s Orators of the age (1847) 217–23; I.L.N. i, 496 (1842), portrait.

BUCKINGHAM, James Silk (youngest child of Christopher Buckingham of Barnstaple who d. 1794). b. Flushing near Falmouth 25 Aug. 1786; commander of merchant ships 1807–13; established Calcutta Journal at Calcutta which appeared 2 Oct. 1818 to 26 April 1823 when it was suppressed and he was expelled from India; started Jany. 1824 Oriental herald and colonial review which ceased Dec. 1829; edited The Sphynx a weekly journal 1827–9; started The Athenæum 2 Jany. 1828; M.P. for Sheffield 15 Dec. 1832 to 17 July 1837; travelled in America 1837–41; resident director of British and foreign institute Hanover sq. London 1843–6; pres. of London temperance league 1851; granted civil list pension of £200 per annum 1 Sep. 1851; travelled through the country delivering lectures many years; author of Travels in Palestine 1822; America historical descriptive and statistic 3 vols. 1841; The eastern and western states of America 3 vols. 1842 and 16 other books, also about 40 pamphlets on social and political subjects. d. Stanhope lodge, Upper Avenue road, St. John’s Wood, London 30 June 1855. Autobiography of J. S. Buckingham 2 vols. 1855, portrait; Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i, 44–8 (1874), iii, 1098–9 (1882).

BUCKINGHAM, Leicester Silk (youngest son of the preceding). b. 11 Cornwall terrace, Regent’s park, London 29 June 1825; wrote and delivered explanatory description of views of various countries at the Panopticon Leicester sq. 1854; manager of Strand theatre short time; dramatic and musical critic of the Morning Star 1857–67; author of Memoir of Mary Stuart Queen of Scotland 1844 and other books and of about 35 burlesques, comedies and farces. d. Margate 15 July 1867. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i, 48–9 iii, 1099.

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, Rev. Augustus Edward Hobart-Hampden, 6 Earl of. b. Ripon 1 Nov. 1793; ed. at Westminster and Brasn. coll. Ox., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; R. of Bennington, co. Lincoln 14 Dec. 1817; R. of Walton-on-the-Wolds Leics. 5 July 1820 to 1847; preb. of Wolverhampton 1844 to death; succeeded 1 Feb. 1849; assumed additional name of Hampden by r.l. 5 Aug. 1878. d. Hampden house, Great Missenden, Bucks. 13 Oct. 1885.

BUCKLAND, Francis Trevelyan (eld. son of Very Rev. Wm. Buckland 1784–1856). b. Christ Church, Oxford 17 Dec. 1826; ed. at Winchester 1839–44 and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1848; studied at St. George’s hospital London 1848–51, house surgeon May 1852 to June 1853; assistant surgeon 2 life guards 14 Aug. 1854 to 1863; discovered coffin of John Hunter in vaults of St. Martin’s church, Charing Cross 22 Feb. 1859, the remains were buried in Westminster Abbey 28 March 1859; wrote largely in the Field newspaper 1856–65; started Land and Water 27 Jany. 1866; inspector of salmon fisheries for England and Wales 6 Feb. 1867 to death; the highest authority on subject of pisciculture; scientific referee to South Kensington Museum May 1865, where he established a large collection of fish-hatching apparatus and the like which expanded into International Fisheries Exhibition of 1883; author of Curiosities of natural history, 4 vols. 1857–72; Logbook of a fisherman and zoologist 1875; Natural history of British fishes 1881; edited White’s Natural history of Selbourne with original notes 1875. d. 37 Albany st. Regent’s park, London 19 Dec. 1880. Life of Frank Buckland by G. C. Bompas 1885, portrait; Macmillan’s Mag. xliii, 303–9 (1881); Graphic xxiii, 45 (1881), portrait.

BUCKLAND, Very Rev. William (eld. son of Rev. Charles Buckland, R. of Templeton, Devon who d. 1829). b. Axminster 12 March 1784; ed. at Tiverton, Winchester and C. C. coll. Ox., Devon scholar 1801, B.A. 1805, M.A. 1808, B.D. 1816, D.D. 1825, fellow of his college 1809–25; reader in mineralogy Univ. of Ox. 1813, and reader in geology 1819; F.G.S. 1813, pres. 1824–5 and 1840–1, Wollaston medallist 1848; F.R.S. 26 Feb. 1818, Copley medallist 1822, F.L.S. 1821; R. of Stoke Charity, Hants. 1825–46; canon of Ch. Ch. cathedral Ox. 1825–46; pres. of British Assoc. at Ox. 1832; dean of Westminster 27 Nov. 1846 to death; R. of Islip, Oxon. 1846 to death; a trustee of British Museum 1847; author of Geology and mineralogy considered with reference to natural theology 2 vols. 1836, 4 ed. 2 vols. 1869–70; Reliquiæ Diluvianæ 1823, 2 ed. 1824. d. Clapham, London 14 Aug. 1856. Geology and mineralogy by the late Very Rev. W. Buckland, edited by F. T. Buckland, 2 vols. 1858; Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xiii, 27–45 (1857); Proc. of Royal Soc. viii, 264–8 (1856); I.L.N. vii, 336 (1845), portrait.

BUCKLE, Henry Bruges. Assistant surgeon Bengal medical department 18 March 1844; surgeon 16 Sep. 1857; principal medical storekeeper 1866–70; deputy surgeon general 4 Oct. 1870; C.B. 29 May 1865. d. Clarges st. Piccadilly 12 Dec. 1874.

BUCKLE, Henry Thomas (only son of Thomas Henry Buckle of London, shipowner 1779–1840). b. Lee, Kent 24 Nov. 1821; travelled in Belgium, Germany, Holland, Italy and France 1840–1; lectured at Royal Instit. London on the “Influence of women on the progress of knowledge” 19 March 1858, published in Fraser’s Mag. April 1858; author of History of civilisation in England 2 vols. 1857–61, republished as History of civilisation in England, France, Spain and Scotland 3 vols. 1869; won the chess tournament at Strand divan London 1849; one of the best chess, whist, and backgammon players in Europe; knew 19 different languages, 7 of them well; left Southampton for Alexandria 20 Oct. 1861. d. from typhoid fever at Damascus 29 May 1862. The life and writings of H. T. Buckle by A. H. Huth 2 vols. 1880, 2 portraits; Miscellaneous and posthumous works of H. T. Buckle vol. 1 (1872); Chess player’s magazine ii, 33–45 (1864), portrait.

BUCKLE, Matthew (only son of Matthew Buckle, admiral R.N. who d. 7 July 1784 aged 68). b. Nork house, Banstead 3 May 1770; entered navy 4 Feb. 1777; captain 29 April 1802; superintendent of Portsmouth district of Sea fencibles 2 May 1804 to Feb. 1810 when corps was discharged; captain of the Adamant 44 guns, 16 Aug. 1810 to 14 Sep. 1813; admiral on h.p. 30 July 1852. d. Bath 8 April 1855.

BUCKLE, William. b. Alnwick Castle 1794; superintended arrangements of visit of George iv to Ireland; held a responsible post in Soho works of Boulton and Watt at Birmingham to 1851; built first locomotive engine which made journey from Liverpool to Manchester 15 Sep. 1830; an officer in coining department of Royal Mint, London 1851 to death. d. Royal Mint, London 30 Sep. 1863.

BUCKLER, John (son of Edward Buckler 1741–92). b. Calbourne, Isle of Wight 30 Nov. 1770; an architect in London to 1826; contributed water colour drawings yearly to Royal Academy 1796–1849; F.S.A. 1810. d. Rockingham row, New Kent road, London 6 Dec. 1851.

BUCKLER, William. b. Newport, Isle of Wight 13 Sep. 1814; studied at Royal Academy where he exhibited 1836–56, 62 pictures chiefly portraits in water-colour; lived at Emsworth, Hampshire about 1848 to death; contributed to Entomologist’s Weekly intelligencer; Weekly Entomologist and Entomologist’s monthly magazine. d. Lumley, Emsworth, Hants. 9 Jany. 1884. Entomologist’s Monthly Mag. xx, 216, 229–36 (1884).

BUCKLEY, Cecil William. Entered navy 1845; served in White Sea and Black Sea during Russian war 1854–6; landed and fired a quantity of stores at Genitchi 29 May 1855, and the stores and government buildings at Taganrog June 1855; decorated with Victoria cross on institution of that order 27 Feb. 1856; captain 16 April 1862; commanded Pylades on Pacific station 1868–70, and Valiant coastguard ship in the Shannon Dec. 1871 to Oct. 1872. d. Madeira Dec. 1872.

BUCKLEY, Edward Pery (eld. son of Edward Pery Buckley of New hall near Salisbury 1760–1840). b. Audley sq. London 7 Nov. 1796; ed. at Harrow and Marlow; ensign 1 foot guards 24 June 1812, captain 12 April 1827 to 9 Nov. 1830 when placed on h.p.; equerry to the Queen 1837–58; colonel 83 foot 17 Aug. 1865 to death; general 17 Aug. 1865; M.P. for Salisbury 15 Nov. 1853 to 6 July 1865. d. 12 South Audley st. London 28 May 1873.

BUCKLEY, Joseph (son of George Buckley of Maer, Staffs.) b. Maer 13 May 1804; joined Society of Friends 26 June 1829; a minister 9 Feb. 1843; a cotton spinner at Preston 1834, removed to Manchester 1837; went on a mission to Norway 1856 and 1866; travelled in Germany 1863. d. Sale near Manchester 27 Sep. 1868. Memoirs of Joseph Buckley edited by his daughter 1874, portrait.

BUCKLEY, R. Bishop. b. England; entered the minstrel profession in Boston, U.S. 1843 in a band organised by his father under title of Buckley’s Minstrels; the chief performer in the band 1843 to death. d. of paralysis at Quincy, Massachusetts 6 June 1867.

BUCKLEY, Rev. Theodore Alois William. b. 27 July 1825; servitor at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1849; chaplain of his college; translated classics for H. G. Bohn; edited and wrote numerous works for Routledge; author of The great cities of the ancient world 1852; A history of the council of Trent 1852; The great cities of the middle ages 1853; edited L. Apuleii de Deo Socratis, liber singularis 1844. d. London 30 Jany. 1856. G.M. xlv, 314–6 (1856).

BUCKLEY, William. b. Moreton near Macclesfield, Cheshire 1780; brought up a bricklayer; served in the 4th Regt. the King’s Own 1799; sentenced to transportation for life for mutiny, he with 6 others having turned out to shoot the Duke of Kent at Gibraltar 24 Dec. 1802; escaped from Port Phillip, Victoria 27 Dec. 1803; resided among the natives of Port Phillip without ever seeing a white man for 32 years; received a pardon from Governor Arthur 28 Aug. 1835; resided in Tasmania 1837 to death; died from being thrown out of a cart at Hobart Town 2 Feb. 1856. Morgan’s Life and adventures of Buckley, Hobart Town 1852, portrait; Labilliere’s Early history of Victoria ii, 64–87 (1878); Progress iii, 166, 238, 311, 273 (1884).

BUCKLEY-MATHEW, Sir George Benvenuto (eld. son of George Mathew of Fabians, Essex 1760–1846). b. 1807; ensign 52 foot 7 July 1825; lieut. Coldstream guards 26 July 1833; captain 85 foot 17 June 1836 to 23 Sep. 1836 when placed on h.p.; retired from army 9 April 1841; M.P. for Athlone 1835–7, for Shaftesbury 1837–41; governor of Bahama islands 1844–50; minister plenipotentiary to the republics in Central America 21 Aug. 1861, to Argentine republic 13 April 1866, to republic of Paraguay 6 Dec. 1866, to Brazil 19 Sep. 1867 to 1 April 1879 when he retired on pension; changed his Christian name from Byam to Benvenuto 1836; assumed additional surname of Buckley by r.l. 9 May 1865; C.B. 7 Aug. 1863; K.C.M.G. 24 May 1879. d. Suffolk st. Pall Mall, London 22 Oct. 1879 in 73 year.

BUCKMAN, James (son of John Buckman). b. Cheltenham 1814; curator and resident professor at Birmingham Philosophical Instit. 1842–8; professor of geology and botany at Royal Agricultural college Cirencester 1848–63; conducted a farm on scientific principles at Bradford Abbas near Sherborne 1863 to death; a recognised authority on all agricultural matters; presented collections of Roman antiquities and fossils to Cirencester; F.L.S.; F.G.S.; F.S.A.; author of Remains of Roman art at Cirencester 1851; Science and practice in farm cultivation 1865; edited The practical farmer’s chronicle 1861; author of many papers on archæology, botany and geology. d. Bradford Abbas 23 Nov. 1884.

BUCKSTONE, John Baldwin. b. Hoxton, London 14 Sep. 1802; made his début in London at Surrey theatre as Ramsay in The fortunes of Nigel 30 Jany. 1823; acted at Coburg theatre 1824–7, at Adelphi theatre winter seasons of 1827–39 and at Haymarket theatre summer seasons of 1833–9; played in United States 1840–2; lessee and manager of Haymarket theatre 28 March 1853 to 1877; author of 150 comedies, dramas and farces best known being The wreck ashore, produced at Adelphi theatre 21 Oct. 1830, The green bushes, produced there 27 Jany. 1845 and The flowers of the forest, produced there 11 March 1847; one of the best low comedians of his time, his best parts were Sir Andrew Aguecheek, Bob Acres and Tony Lumpkin; cleared £20,000 by Our American cousin 1861–2; adjudicated bankrupt 27 March 1878. d. Bell green lodge, Lower Sydenham 31 Oct. 1879. Maclise Portrait gallery (1883) 411–6, portrait; The Theatre iii, 261–7 (1879); Illust. Review n.s. i, 161–3; J. E. Mayall’s Celebrities of the London stage; Cartoon portraits (1873) 116–7, portrait; Pascoe’s Dramatic list, 2 ed. (1880) 66–72; I.L.N. i, 384 (1842), portrait, lxxv, 457 (1879), portrait.

BUDD, Cordelia Georgiana (youngest dau. of Wm. James Turquand of Bengal civil service). Composed many musical pieces under nom de plume of “Dewdrop” and afterwards under initials C.B. (m. 4 May 1844 Samuel Budd of Exeter, physician who d. 21 May 1885 in 79 year). d. 1 Charleville road, West Kensington, London 3 May 1886 aged 61.

BUDD, Edward Hayward. b. Great Missenden, Bucks. 23 Feb. 1785; a clerk in War Office 1801 to Dec. 1817 when he retired on pension of £180 a year; played his first cricket match at Lord’s 13 Sep. 1802; played in all the great matches of Marylebone cricket Club 1805–25; played his last cricket match 16 June 1852; one of the best batsmen, bowlers and amateur boxers of his time; lived at Wroughton, Wilts. 1825 to death. d. Rose cottage Wroughton 29 March 1875. C. A. Wheeler’s Sportascrapiana, 2 ed. 1868, portrait; Baily’s Mag. xxvii, 9–16 (1875).

BUDD, George (3 son of Samuel Budd of North Tawton, Devon, surgeon). b. North Tawton Feb. 1808; ed. at St. John’s and Caius colleges Cam., 3 wrangler 1831, B.A. 1831, M.B. 1835, M.D. 1840; fellow of Caius coll. 1831–54, hon. fellow 1880; studied at Middlesex hospital London; practised in London 1840–67; F.R.S. 21 Jany. 1836; F.R.C.P. 1841, Gulstonian lecturer 1843, Croonian lecturer 1847, censor 1845–7; physician to Dreadnought hospital ship 1837–40; professor of medicine in King’s college London 1840–63; phys. to King’s college hospital 1840–63; author of On diseases of the liver 1845, 3 ed. 1857; On the organic diseases and functional disorders of the stomach 1855. d. Ashleigh, Barnstaple 14 March 1882. Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxiv, 1–3 (1883); Medical Circular i, 458–9 (1852); Van Kaathoven’s Collection vol. 2, portrait.

BUDD, Rev. Henry (son of Richard Budd of London, physician 1746–1821). b. Newbury, Berkshire 25 Sep. 1774; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1798, M.A. 1801; chaplain of Bridewell hospital 1801 to April 1831 when he resigned; R. of White Roothing, Essex 18 March 1808 to death; a founder of Prayer book and homily society 21 May 1812; author of Infant baptism the means of national regeneration 1827, 3 ed. 1841; Helps for the young 2 vols. 1832–9. d. White Roothing rectory 27 June 1853. A memoir of Rev. Henry Budd 1855; Christian Observer lvi 194–211 (1856).

BUDD, Richard. b. 1795; ensign 16 Madras N.I. 11 June 1812; commandant of Southern division 10 May 1857 to 1862; colonel of 2 European regiment 27 Jany. 1858, of 32 Madras N.I. 1860 to 1869; general 8 July 1874. d. Belfont, The Park, Cheltenham 22 Jany. 1885.

BUDD, William (brother of George Budd 1808–82). b. North Tawton Sep. 1811; ed. in London, Edinburgh, and Paris; M.D. Edin. 1838; practised at Bristol 1842–73; physician to Bristol royal infirmary 1847–62; F.R.S. 8 June 1871; the greatest authority on zymotic diseases; author of Scarlet fever and its prevention 1869, 4 ed. 1870; Typhoid fever its nature, mode of spreading and prevention 1873 and of many articles in medical papers. d. Clevedon, Somerset 9 Jany. 1880. British Med. Jour. (1880) i, 163–6.

BUDGE, Rev. Edward (son of John Budge). b. Devonshire 1800; ed. at Saffron Walden and Ch. coll. Cam., B.A. 1824; C. of Launcells, Cornwall 1834–9; V. of Manaccan, Cornwall 1839–46; R. of Bratton Clovelly, Devon 1846 to death; author of The mirror of history 1851; translated the Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the statues for Dr. Pusey’s Library of the Fathers; supplied many articles to Geol. Soc. and Royal Instit. of Cornwall. d. Bratton Clovelly 3 Aug. 1865. Life prefixed to Rev. E. Budge’s Posthumous gleanings 1866.

BUDGETT, Samuel. b. Wrington, Somerset 27 July 1794; provision dealer at Kingswood near Bristol 1816 to about 1838 and at Bristol about 1838 to death; founded greatest house in provision trade in West of England; gave £2,000 a year in charity for some time before his death. d. Kingswood 29 April 1851. The Successful merchant by W. Arthur 1885.

BUIST, George (eld. son of Rev. John Buist, minister of Tannadice, Forfarshire who d. 8 Dec. 1845 in 92 year). b. Tannadice 17 Nov. 1805; ed. at St. Andrew’s univ. 1817–24, and at Univ. of Edin.; edited Dundee Courier 1834; established Dundee Guardian 1834; edited Perth Constitutional 1835, and Fifeshire Journal 1837–9, and Bombay Times at Bombay 1840–58; started Bombay Standard 1858; F.R.S. 29 Jany. 1846; founded Bombay Reformatory School of Industry 1850; superintendent of government printing press Allahabad 1859 to death; author of Index to books and papers on the physical geography antiquities and statistics of India 1852. d. Calcutta 1 Oct. 1860. Memoir of G. Buist, Cupar 1846; W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 190–2.

BULL, Rev. John (eld. son of John Bull of Oxford, surgeon). b. Oxford; ed. at Ruthin gr. sch. and Westminster; student at Ch. Ch. Ox. 1808, Rhetoric reader, censor, and librarian of his house; B.A. 1812, M.A. 1814, B.D. 1821, D.D. 1825; public examiner 1817–8, Proctor 1820; preb. of Fenton in York cathedral 1 June 1826 to death; V. of Staverton, Northamptonshire 1830 to death; canon of Exeter 26 March 1823 to death; archdeacon of Cornwall 6 Feb. 1826 to 6 May 1826, of Barnstaple 6 May 1826 to 10 March 1830; canon of Ch. Ch. Ox. 15 March 1830 to death; endowed vicarage of St. Mary Magdalen, Oxford with £2,000. d. at his lodgings in Ch. Ch. Oxford 21 Feb. 1858 aged 68.

BULLAR, Henry (son of John Bullar, of Basset Wood near Southampton). b. 25 Feb. 1815; a special pleader 1839–53; barrister L.I. 6 June 1853; recorder of Poole Oct. 1864 to death; a judge of Court of record of Poole Oct. 1864 to death; published with Joseph Bullar A winter in the Azores 2 vols. 1841; Prætors or pleaders. d. Basset Wood 5 Jany. 1870.

BULLEN, Sir Charles (son of John Bullen, surgeon general R.N.) b. Newcastle 10 Sep. 1769; entered navy 16 Feb. 1779; captain 29 April 1802; commodore on coast of Africa 12 Dec. 1823 to 1827; superintendent of Pembroke dockyard and captain of Royal Sovereign yacht 22 July 1830 to 10 Jany. 1837; admiral 30 July 1852; C.B. June 1815, K.C.B. 18 April 1839, G.C.B. 6 April 1852, K.C.H. 13 Jany. 1835; knighted at St. James’s palace 25 Feb. 1835; granted 12 July 1843 good service pension of £300. d. Shirley near Southampton 2 July 1853. Portrait of him in painted hall at Greenwich.