B (part 4)

BULLEN, Edward (son of Robert Bullen of Taunton, solicitor). b. Taunton 3 April 1813; ed. at Benedictine college, Douay; law student at Lincoln’s Inn; practised in London as a certificated special pleader 1836 to death; author of A practical treatise on the law of distress for rent and of things damage feasant 1842; author with S. M. Leake of Precedents of pleadings in common law 1860, 3 ed. 1868. d. 82 Belsize park gardens, London 19 July 1868.

BULLEN, Joseph (2 son of Rev. John Bullen, R. of Kennet, Cambs.) b. 14 April 1761; midshipman on board “Pallas” 36 guns 1774; commanded Lynn Regis district of Sea Fencibles 26 Sep. 1804 to 1810 when corps was disbanded; admiral on h.p. 23 Nov. 1841. d. Bath 17 July 1857.

BULLER, Sir Anthony (youngest son of John Buller of Morval, Cornwall 1744–90). b. Antony house, Torpoint 26 July 1780; ed. at Westminster; barrister L.I. 12 May 1803; M.P. for West Looe 1812–16 and 1831–32; appointed a puisne justice at Madras 6 Sep. 1815, but was transferred to Calcutta March 1816 and it is believed never took his seat on the Madras bench; knighted by Prince Regent at Carlton house 23 April 1816. d. Marytavy rectory, Devon 27 June 1866.

BULLER, Sir Arthur William (2 son of Charles Buller of Bengal civil service 1774–1848). b. Calcutta 5 Sep. 1808; ed. at Edin. and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1834; pupil of Thomas Carlyle; barrister L.I. 10 June 1834; Queen’s advocate in Ceylon 19 Oct. 1840 to July 1848; judge of supreme court at Calcutta July 1848 to 1858 when he retired; M.P. for Devonport 17 Aug. 1859 to June 1865, and for Liskeard 21 June 1865 to death. d. 6 Half Moon st. Piccadilly, London 30 April 1869.

BULLER, Frederick William. Ensign 37 foot 20 Jany. 1790; lieut. col. 88 foot 28 Aug. 1804 and 1 foot 27 Feb. 1806 to 1 Dec. 1808; captain Coldstream guards 1 Dec. 1808 to 1814; aide de camp to George iii, 25 July 1810 to 4 June 1813; L.G. 27 May 1825; retired 1833. d. Bury st. St. James’s, London 8 Nov. 1855 aged 83.

BULLER, Sir George (3 son of Frederick Wm. Buller of Pelynt, Cornwall who d. 8 Nov. 1855). b. 30 May 1800; ensign 23 foot 2 March 1820; lieut. col. Rifle brigade 27 Aug. 1841 to 12 Dec. 1854, col. commandant 13 Oct. 1860 to death; commanded 2 brigade of light division in Crimea 21 Feb. 1854 to 11 Dec. 1854; commanded a brigade and then a division in first Kaffir war 1847; commanded a division in second Kaffir war 30 Aug. 1852 to 31 Oct. 1853; commanded division in Ionian Isles 1856–62 and troops at Portsmouth 1865–70; C.B. 26 Dec. 1848; K.C.B. 5 July 1855; G.C.B. 2 June 1869. d. 23 Bruton st. Berkeley sq. London 12 April 1884.

BULLER, James Wentworth (eld. son of James Buller of Downes near Crediton 1766–1827, M.P. for Exeter). b. Downes 1 Oct. 1798; ed. at Harrow and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1819, B.C.L. 1824, D.C.L. 1829; fellow of All Souls coll.; M.P. for Exeter 29 July 1830 to 29 Dec. 1834, for North Devon 6 April 1857 to death; colonel 1st Devon yeomanry cavalry 5 Aug. 1842 to death; chairman of Bristol and Exeter railway. d. 109 Jermyn st. Piccadilly, London 13 March 1865.

BULLEY, Rev. Frederic (3 son of John Bulley of Reading). Demy of Magd. coll. Ox. July 1825, probationer fellow 1837, served offices of dean of arts, bursar, vice pres., dean of divinity and college tutor successively, B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832, B.D. 1840, D.D. 1856; pres. of his college Jany. 1855 to death; author of A tabular view of the varieties in the communion and baptismal offices of the Church of England 1842. d. Marston hill near Fairford 3 Sep. 1885 aged 75.

BULLIONS, Rev. Peter. b. Moss Side near Perth Dec. 1791; ed. at Univ. of Edin. 1810–13; licensed by presbytery of Edin. June 1817; pastor of presbyterian church at Argyle in Washington county, New York March 1818; professor of languages in Albany academy Nov. 1824 to 1848; pastor of United presbyterian church at Troy, New York 1834–52 and Dec. 1853 to death; author of Practical lessons in English grammar 1844, new ed. 1853; An analytical and practical grammar of the English language, 21 ed. 1853, and many other books. d. Troy 13 Feb. 1864.

BULLOCH, John. b. 1805; a working brass-finisher at Aberdeen; contributed several articles on decimal coinage to the Athenæum; suggested a number of textual emendations which were introduced into notes of W. G. Clark’s Cambridge Shakespeare 1863; author of Studies of the text of Shakespeare 1878. d. Aberdeen at end of Dec. 1882.

BULLOCK, Edward (eld. son of Edward Bullock of Jamaica). Educ. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; barrister I.T. 26 Nov. 1824; judge of Sheriff’s Court of London and comr. at Old Bailey 1840–50; common serjeant of City of London 1850 to Dec. 1855. d. Upfield near Stroud, Gloucs. 27 Dec. 1857 aged 57.

BULLOCK, Frederick (son of James Bullock, commander R.N.) Entered navy 28 Nov. 1804; captain 28 June 1838; granted pension for wounds 11 Nov. 1864; admiral on half pay 10 Sep. 1869; F.R.G.S. 1830. d. 6 Feb. 1874 in 87 year.

BULLOCK, Ralph. b. Morpeth 1841; apprenticed to Thomas Dawson of Tupgill 1851; rode his first race at Harrowgate 1853; won the Derby on Colonel Townley’s Kettledrum 1861; won Ascot vase and Goodwood and Doncaster cups on Tim Whiffler 1862; one of the very best jockeys in England; won 212 races 1854–62. d. Tupgill 23 Jany. 1863. Sporting Review xlix, 86, 203–5 (1863), portrait.

BULLOCK, Rev. William Thomas (2 son of John Bullock of London). b. London 1818; ed. at Magd. Hall Ox., B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850; C. of St. Anne, Westminster 1847–50; assist. sec. S.P.G. June 1850, sec. 1865 to death; chaplain at Kensington Palace 13 Sep. 1867 to. death; preb. of Oxgate in St. Paul’s cathedral 1875 to death; author of Sermons on missions and other subjects 1879, of Ecclesiastes in the Speaker’s Commentary 1880 and of about 70 articles in Smith’s Dictionary of the Bible. d. Mentone 27 Feb. 1879.

BULMER, Henry Taylor. Artist at Preston where he painted the altar-piece at St. Augustine’s church 1840; decorated St. Cuthbert’s, North Shields, and several other churches; painted many portraits. d. Brook hill, Sheffield 6 Dec. 1857 aged 46.

BULTEEL, Henry Bellenden (son of Thomas Bulteel of Plymstock, Devon). b. Bellevue near Plymouth 1800; Educ. at Brasn. coll. Ox., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1824; fellow of Ex. coll. 30 June 1823 to 6 Oct. 1829; C. of St. Ebbe’s Oxford 1826 to 10 Aug. 1831 when his license was revoked by Bishop of Oxford for fraternising with dissenters and preaching in their chapels; built a large chapel behind Pembroke college, Oxford, his congregation were called Bulteelers; preached a sermon on 1 Corinthians ii, 12 before Univ. of Ox. at St. Mary’s 6 Feb. 1831 which created great excitement in Oxford and when printed went to 6 editions; author of The doctrine of the miraculous interference of Jesus on behalf of believers 1832 in which he narrated how by means of prayer and intercession he had cured and restored to health 3 women; The Oxford Argo by an Oxford divine 1845, an anonymous denunciation of the Puseyite party. d. The Crescent, Plymouth 28 Dec. 1866 aged 66. Cox’s Oxford (1868) 244, 248; Mozley’s Reminiscences (1882) i, 228, 350.

BUNBURY, Sir Charles James Fox, 8 Baronet. b. Messina in Sicily 4 Feb. 1809; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; contested Bury St. Edmunds 1835 and 1837; F.R.S. 5 June 1851; succeeded 13 April 1860; sheriff of Suffolk 1868. d. 18 June 1886.

BUNBURY, Sir Henry Edward, 7 Baronet (younger son of Henry Wm. Bunbury the caricaturist 1750–1811). b. London 4 May 1778; ed. at Westminster; ensign Coldstream guards 14 Jany. 1795; quartermaster general in Mediterranean 1805–9; lieut. col. Royal Newfoundland fencible infantry 1805–14; under secretary of state for war 1809–16; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815; L.G. 22 July 1830; succeeded his uncle as 7 Baronet 31 March 1821; M.P. for Suffolk 11 Aug. 1830 to 3 Dec. 1832, the county had been uncontested for 40 years before 1830; author of Narrative of the campaign in North Holland 1849; Narrative of certain passages in the late war with France 1852. d. Barton hall, Bury St. Edmunds 13 April 1860. Memoir and literary remains, edited by his son Sir C. J. F. Bunbury P.P. (1868).

BUNBURY, Henry William St. Pierre (3 son of the preceding). b. Brompton, London 2 Sep. 1812; ensign 43 foot 29 June 1830; lieut. col. 23 foot 9 March 1855 to 10 Jany. 1857 when placed on h.p.; C.B. 5 July 1855. d. Marchfield house, Bracknell 18 Sep. 1875.

BUNBURY, Thomas. Ensign 46 foot 25 March 1804; lieut. col. Rifle corps 5 Feb. 1824 to 24 April 1835; lieut. col. 67 foot 24 April 1835 to 9 Nov. 1846; L.G. 20 June 1854; colonel commandant Rifle corps 9 Feb. 1855 to death; K.H. 1835. d. London 13 April 1857.

BUNBURY, Thomas. Ensign 3 foot 13 Aug. 1807; major 80 foot 21 Nov. 1834 to 26 July 1844; C.B. 3 April 1846; K.T.S. d. 11 St. James’s terrace, Regent’s park, London 25 Dec. 1861.

BUNN, Alfred. b. 8 April 1796; a junior clerk in army medical department; stage manager of Drury Lane theatre 1823; manager of T.R. Birmingham 1819 to May 1825; one of 7 managers of Drury Lane one season; managed Drury Lane and Covent Garden theatres 1833; introduced orchestra stalls first used at Drury Lane 5 Feb. 1833; lessee of Drury Lane 1835–48; purchased for £2,000 dignity of a gentleman at arms formerly called gentleman pensioner 14 March 1836; bankrupt 17 Dec. 1840; adapted a great number of pieces for the stage; made his début in America at Niblo’s Saloon, New York in a literary and dramatic entertainment 11 Oct. 1852; said to be the original of Mr. Dolphin the manager in Thackeray’s Pendennis; (m. 1819 the succeeding). author of The stage both before and behind the curtain, 3 vols. 1840; A word with Punch 1847; Old England and New England, 2 vols. 1853; edited The Vauxhall papers 1841. d. of apoplexy at Boulogne 20 Dec. 1860. J. R. Planche’s Reminiscenses, vol. i, (1872); Dents Old and New Birmingham (1880) 385–7, 432, portrait; I.L.N. iv, 220 (1844), portrait, xvi, 141 (1850), portrait.

BUNN, Margaret Agnes (eld. dau. of John Somerville of Marylebone, London, biscuit baker). b. Lanark 26 Oct. 1799; made her first appearance on the stage at Drury Lane theatre 9 May 1816 as Imogine in Maturin’s tragedy of Bertram; created character of Bianca in Dean Milman’s Fazio at Bath 6 Jany. 1818; played at Drury Lane 1816–18 and 1823–24, Covent Garden 1818–19. (m. 1819 the preceding). d. Blue Earth city, Minnesota Jany. 1883. Oxberry’s Dramatic biog. v. 163–74 (1826), portrait; T. Marshall’s Lives of actors (1848) 73–8.

BUNNETT, Fanny Elizabeth. Author of The golden balance or the false and the real 1859; Nature’s school or lessons in the garden and the field 1859; Louise Juliane, Electress palatine and her times 1862; Linked at last 1871; translated Shakespeare commentaries by G. G. Gervinus 1863, 3 ed. 1877; W. Luebke’s History of art 1868, and many other books. d. Budleigh Salterton near Exmouth 19 Feb. 1875 in 43 year.

BUNNEY, John Cooper. Established with Theodore Hook, John Bull weekly paper 1820, published it 1820–50. d. Clerkenwell 22 June 1867.

BUNNEY, John Wharlton. b. Charlotte st. Fitzroy sq. London 20 June 1828; apprenticed to a stationer in city of London; employed by Messrs. Smith and Elder, publishers to 1859; gave lessons in drawing; made drawings for John Ruskin in Switzerland and Italy; painted at Florence 1863–70 and at Venice 1870 to death; painted a picture of St. Mark’s Venice for J. Ruskin 1876–80; exhibited 8 pictures at the R.A., 2 at the B.I. and 10 at Suffolk St. Gallery 1853–81. d. Venice 23 Sep. 1882. Catalogue of the exhibition of pictures and drawings of Venice, also a memoir of the late J. Bunney by A. Wedderburn 1882.

BUNNING, James Bunstone. b. London 6 Oct. 1802; architect in London; surveyor of Foundling hospital estates 1825; erected City of London school opened 2 Feb. 1837; surveyor to London cemetery company 1839; laid out Nunhead cemetery; clerk of the City of London’s works 23 Sep. 1843 to death; built Coal Exchange 1849, City prison Holloway 1852, Billingsgate market 1853, Metropolitan cattle market Copenhagen fields opened 15 June 1855; F.S.A. 1848, F.R.I. B.A. d. 6 Gloucester terrace, Regent’s park, London 7 Nov. 1863.

BUNNY, Arthur. b. 5 May 1825; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery 8 Dec. 1843; brigade major siege artillery Lucknow Feb. 1858 to April 1858; col. R.A. 1 Oct. 1877 to 1879; L.G. 1 Oct. 1882; C.B. 24 May 1873, placed on retired list 26 July 1883. d. 40 Addison gardens north, Kensington 9 Nov. 1883.

BUNSEN, Frances, Baroness de (eld. dau. of Benjamin Waddington of Llanover, Monmouthshire who d. 19 Jany. 1828 in 80 year). b. Dunston park, Berkshire 4 March 1791. (m. 1 July 1817 Christian Charles Josiah Baron de Bunsen, German ambassador in London 1841–54); published A memoir of Baron Bunsen drawn chiefly from family papers by his widow 2 vols. 1868, she d. Carlsruhe, Baden 23 April 1876. A. J. C. Hare’s Life of Baroness Bunsen 2 vols. 1882; F. M. Muller’s Biographical essays (1884) 311–62; Contemporary Review xxviii, 948–69 (1876).

BUNTING, Rev. Jabez (only son of Wm. Bunting of Manchester, tailor). b. Newton lane, Manchester 13 May 1779; Wesleyan minister at Oldham st. chapel Manchester 1803, stationed at London 1803, 1815 and 1833 to death, at Manchester 1805 and 1824, and Liverpool 1809 and 1830; sec. to the Conference 1814, president 1820, 1828, 1836 and 1844; senior sec. of Missionary Society 1833; pres. of Theological Institute 1835; M.A. Aberdeen 1818; D.D. Middleton Univ. U.S.A. 1835; superintended the Connexional literature 1821–4; his conduct in some of the Society’s affairs gave rise to the expression “Bunting Methodism.” d. 30 Myddleton sq. London 16 June 1858. Life by T. P. Bunting (1859), 2 portraits; Rev. W. H. De Puy’s Threescore years and beyond, New York 1873; I.L.N. ii, 208 (1843), portrait, xxxii, 642 (1858); Illust. news of the world ii, 37 (1858), portrait.

BUNTING, Rev. William Maclardie (eld. child of the preceding). b. Manchester 23 Nov. 1805; Wesleyan minister at Salford 1824–7, Manchester 1827–9 and 1838–41, Huddersfield 1829–32, Halifax 1832–5, London 1835–38 and 1841 to death; edited Select letters of Mrs. Agnes Bulmer 1842; contributed to Wesleyan Methodist Mag. d. at his residence Highgate Rise 13 Nov. 1866. Memorials of the late Rev. W. M. Bunting, edited by Rev. G. S. Rowe 1870, portrait.

BURANELLI OR BURINELLI, Luigi. b. Ancona, Italy; officer of dragoons in the Pope’s army; valet to Stewart Drummond a monk known as the Abbé Stewart who was assassinated whilst bathing; servant to John Craufurd of 12 Grafton st. Bond st. London; a tailor at Penshurst near Tunbridge Wells; shot Joseph Latham dead at 5 Foley place, Regent st. London 7 Jany. 1855 after which he shot himself; tried for murder at Central criminal court 12 April 1855; hanged at Newgate 30 April 1855 aged 32. The law on its trial by A. H. Dymond (1865) 178–94; Central criminal court trials xli, 633–61 (1855).

BURCHAM, Thomas Borrow. Educ. at Trin. coll. Cam., fellow 1832 to death, B.A. 1830; barrister I.T. 27 Jany. 1843; recorder of Bedford 1848–1856; magistrate of Southwark police court 1856 to death. d. Chingford, Essex 27 Nov. 1869 aged 62.

BURCHELL, William John (son of Matthew Burchell of Fulham, nurseryman). b. Fulham 1783; schoolmaster at St. Helena 1805–10; explored South Africa 1811–15; explored Brazil 1825–30; executed at Rio Janeiro a series of views from which R. Burford’s panorama of that city was painted; F.L.S. 15 Feb. 1808; hon. D.C.L. Ox. 1834; lived at Fulham 1830 to death; his name is perpetuated in scientific names of many animal and plant species discovered by him; author of Travels in Southern Africa 2 vols. 1822. d. Churchfield house, Fulham 23 March 1863. Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xxxiii, 124 (1864).

BURCHETT, Richard. b. Brighton 30 Jany. 1815; entered school of design at Somerset House about 1841, assistant master 1845, head master 1851 to death; exhibited 5 historical pictures at Royal Academy 1847–73; assisted in decoration of dome of Great Exhibition 1862; author of Practical geometry 1855; Linear perspective 1856. d. Dublin 27 May 1875. Graphic xi, 606, 621 (1875), portrait.

BURDEN, Henry. b. Dunblane, Scotland 1791; went to America 1819; maker of agricultural implements; invented the first cultivator 1820; invented a machine for making hook-headed spikes 1840, which are used on every railroad in United States; devised a machine for making horseshoes June 1857 which is self-acting, and produces 60 shoes per minute from iron bars. d. Woodside Troy, New York 19 Jany. 1871.

BURDER, Rev. George Bernard (son of Rev. George Burder 1752–1832, editor of Evangelical magazine). ed. at Magd. coll. Ox.; C. of Ruardean, Gloucs.; received into Church of Rome at Oscott college 24 Jany. 1846; ordained priest; joined the Cistercians at Mount St. Bernard’s abbey, Leics. where he filled offices of sub-prior, prior, and abbot; author of the following translations from the French The souls in purgatory by Bouguets 1873; The consoler by Lambilotte 1873; St. Bernard and his work by Caussette 1874; Confidence in the mercy of God by Languet de Villeneuve de Gergy 1876; The Christian life and virtues considered in the religious state by C. Gay 1878. d. 26 Sep. 1881.

BURDER, Rev. Henry Forster (brother of the preceding). b. Coventry 27 Nov. 1783; ed. at Hoxton academy and Glasgow Univ.; assistant minister at Independent chapel St. Thomas sq. Hackney 31 Oct. 1811, minister 2 March 1814 to 1852; professor of philosophy and mathematics at Hoxton college 1810–30; chairman of Congregational union of England and Wales 1844; author of Mental discipline or hints on the cultivation of intellectual and moral habits 1822; A collection of psalms and hymns 1826, 3 ed. 1845 and other books. d. Hatcham park, Surrey 29 Dec. 1864. Evangelical Mag. March 1865 pp. 129–34.

BURDER, William Corbett (son of Rev. John Burder). b. Stroud, Gloucs. 30 Oct. 1822; connected as a meteorologist with Glaisher’s corps of observers; discovered 2 new comets 28 March 1854 and 30 June 1861; author of A motto or apophthegm for every day in the year selected by W.C.B. 1859; The meteorology of Clifton 1863; published with J. Hine and W. Godwin The architectural antiquities of Bristol and its neighbourhood 1851. d. Clifton 16 Oct. 1865.

BURDETT, Sir Robert, 2 Baronet. b. Piccadilly 26 April 1796; major 10th hussars 11 Oct. 1827 to 8 March 1831, when placed on h.p.; retired from army 1846; succeeded 23 Jany. 1844; sheriff of Derbyshire 1848. d. G. 2 Albany, Piccadilly, London 7 June 1880. Personalty sworn under £300,000 4 Sep. 1880.

BURFORD, Robert. b. 1791; exhibited 4 landscapes at Royal Academy 1812–16; exhibited panoramas with H. A. Barker on site of present Strand theatre to 1827 when he moved to Leicester square, where he exhibited a succession of panoramas of chief places of interest in Europe. d. 35 Camden road villas, London 30 Jany. 1861. T. Taylor’s Leicester Square (1874) 467–71.

BURGES, Rev. George. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1787; V. of Halvergate, Norfolk 1812 to death; V. of Moulton, Norfolk 1813 to death; author of An address to the people of Great Britain 1798; Remarks on the leading arguments in favour of Catholic emancipation 1812, 2 ed. 1813; Reflections on the nature and tendency of the present spirit of the times in a letter to the freeholders of Norfolk 1819, 2 ed. 1820. d. Whittlesea 24 Jany. 1853 aged 89.

Note.—In Watt’s Bibliotheca Britannica the classical publications of George Burges, M.A., of Trin. coll. Cam., who d. 11 Jany. 1864, are erroneously added to those of the Rev. George Burges.

BURGES, George. b. Bengal about 1786; ed. at Charter house and Trin. coll. Cam., scholar 1803, B.A. 1807; M.A. 1810; started two coaches which plied up and down the New Road London; constructed a machine for aerial conveyance of passengers from Dover to Calais; maker of a new kind of stays called ‘corsets à la Vénus’; gave a series of public lectures upon ancient and modern literature; kept a lodging house at Ramsgate 1856 to death; granted civil list pension of £100 per annum 7 June 1841; author of a play in 5 acts called The son of Erin or the cause of the Greeks by an Asiatic liberal 1823; published the Troades of Euripides 1807 and the Phœnissæ 1809; the Supplices and Prometheus of Æschylus 1831 and other classical works. d. Ramsgate 11 Jany. 1864 aged 78.

BURGES, William (son of Wm. Burges of London, civil engineer). b. 2 Dec. 1827; ed. at King’s coll. London 1839–44; pupil of Edward Blore, architect 1844–9; gained first award in international competition for Lille cathedral 1856; Cantor lecturer at Society of Arts 1862; designed cathedral at Brisbane, Queensland 1859, cathedral at Cork 1862; rebuilt Cardiff Castle 1865; prepared designs for new law courts in Strand, London; F.R.I.B.A. 1860, A.R.A. 28 Jany. 1881; author of Art applied to industry, a series of lectures 1865; Architectural drawings with descriptive letterpress 1870. d. 9 Melbury road, Kensington, London 20 April 1881. Trans. of Royal Instit. of British Architects (1882) 17–30, 183–95; I.L.N. lxxviii, 429 (1881), portrait; Graphic xxiii, 456 (1881), portrait.

BURGESS, Rev. Henry. b. 1808; ed. at Stepney college; LLD. Glasgow 1851; Ph.D. Gottingen 1852; P.C. of Clifton Reynes, Bucks. 1854–61; V. of St. Andrew, Whittlesea, Cambs. 1861 to death; edited Journal of sacred literature 1848; Clerical journal 1854–68; author of Poems 1850; Select metrical hymns and homilies of Ephraem translated 1853; The festal epistles of St. Athanasius translated from the Syriac 1852. d. 10 Feb. 1886.

BURGESS, John Cart. b. 1798; painter of flowers and fruit in water colours; exhibited 31 pictures at the R.A., 7 at the B.I., and 15 at Suffolk st. gallery 1812–37; taught painting in London; author of A practical essay on the art of flower painting 1811; An easy introduction to perspective, 6 ed. 1835. d. Leamington 20 Feb. 1863.

BURGESS, Joseph Tom. b. Cheshunt, Herts. 1828; reporter on Leicester Journal 1844; edited Clare Journal at Ennis; edited Bury Guardian 7 years; Leamington Spa Courier 1865–78; Barrow’s Worcester Journal 5 years; F.S.A. 1 June 1876; author of Life scenes and social sketches 1862; Old English wild flowers 1868; Harry Hope’s holidays 1871; Historic Warwickshire 1876; A handbook to the cathedral of Worcester 1884. d. Leamington 4 Oct. 1886.

BURGESS, Rev. Richard. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam, B.D. 1835; R. of Upper Chelsea 1836–69; preb. of St. Paul’s cath. 1851 to death; R. of Horningsheath, Suffolk 27 Dec. 1869 to death; lectured at early meetings of British Architects in Covent Garden and Grosvenor st. London; author of A treatise on the ludi circenses 1828; Topography and antiquities of Rome 2 vols. 1831; Greece and the Levant 2 vols. 1835. d. Brighton 12 April 1881 in 85 year. I.L.N. xxvi, 268 (1855), portrait.

BURGESS, Right Rev. Thomas. b. near Preston 1 Oct. 1791; ed. at Benedictine college, Ampleforth where he was professed 13 Oct. 1807; prior of Ampleforth July 1818 to 1830 when he left Benedictine order and became secularized in order to raise up a new collegiate establishment at Prior park, Bath; opened Portland chapel, Queen st. Bath 26 May 1832; kept a school at Monmouth; bishop of Clifton 27 June 1851 to death; consecrated in St. George’s cathedral, Southwark 27 July 1851. d. the Convent, Westbury on Trym 27 Nov. 1854. Catholic Directory (1860) 258–61, portrait.

BURGESS, Thomas Henry. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin; M.R.C.S. England 1835; M.D. Edin. 1837; practised in London 1838 to death; phys. to Blenheim st. dispensary 1841; fellow of Med. and Chir. Soc. 1839; author of The physiology and mechanism of blushing 1839; Eruptions of the face and hands 1849; The climate of Italy in relation to pulmonary consumption 1852; translated Cazenave and Schedel’s Practical treatise on diseases of the skin 1832. d. Southsea 17 Dec. 1865. Medical Circular i, 491 (1852).

BURGOYNE, Hugh Talbot (only son of the succeeding). b. Dublin 19 July 1833; entered navy 18 Jany. 1853; captain of ‘Constance’ 35 guns 1867–9; captain of armour plated turret ship ‘Captain’ 6 guns 30 April 1870 to death; V.C. 24 Feb. 1857; lost in the ‘Captain’ which foundered off Cape Finisterre about 2 a.m. 7 Sep. 1870. I.L.N. lvii, 302, 307, 312 (1870), portrait.

BURGOYNE, Sir John Fox, 1 Baronet (elder natural son of John Burgoyne 1723–92, commander in chief in Ireland). b. Queen st. Soho, London 24 July 1782; ed. at Eton and Woolwich 1796–8; 2 lieut. R.E. 29 Aug. 1798; commanding engineer of expedition to New Orleans 1814; chairman of board of Public works in Ireland 1831–45; a founder of Instit. of Civil Engineers of Ireland and first pres. 5 Aug. 1835; inspector general of fortifications in England July 1845 to 1 Jany. 1868 when he retired on full pay; pres. of Irish famine relief commission 10 Feb. 1847; sent to Constantinople to report on defence of Turkey Jany. 1854; conducted siege of Sebastopol Oct. 1854 to Feb. 1855; col. commandant R.E. 22 Nov. 1854 to death; general 5 Sep. 1855; created baronet 18 March 1856; F.R.S. 6 June 1856; constable of Tower of London 8 April 1865 to death; field marshal 1 Jany. 1868; granted a pension of £1,500 a year; K.C.B. 19 July 1838; G.C.B. 6 April 1852; admitted to freedom of City of London 22 Oct. 1868; author of Our defensive forces 1869, 3 ed. 1870. d. 5 Pembridge sq. Bayswater, London 7 Oct. 1871. bur. in Tower of London 17 Oct. Life and correspondence of Sir J. F. Burgoyne 2 vols. 1873, portrait; A sketch of the life of Sir J. Burgoyne by Sir F. Head 1872; Papers on subjects connected with duties of the Corps of Royal Engineers n.s. xx, ix-xlii, (1872); Graphic iv, 387, 392 (1871), portrait.

BURGOYNE, Sir John Montagu, 9 Baronet. b. Sutton park, Bedfordshire 17 Oct. 1796; ensign 68 foot 17 Oct. 1816; captain grenadier guards 5 June 1835 to 1847; succeeded 11 Aug. 1817; sheriff of Beds. 1852. d. 17 March 1858.

BURKE, James Saint George (2 son of John, French Burke). b. 1804; barrister M.T. 20 Nov. 1846; counsel to London, Chatham and Dover railway; Q.C. 2 Dec. 1862; bencher of his inn 27 April 1863; retired from practice about 1869. d. The Auberies near Sudbury 25 Feb. 1881. Personalty sworn under £250,000, 30 April 1881.

BURKE, Sir John Charles, 4 Baronet. b. 7 Feb. 1858; succeeded 9 Dec. 1875. d. 16 April 1880.

BURKE, Sir John Lionel, 12 Baronet. b. Glinsk Castle, co. Roscommon 26 Nov. 1818; succeeded 30 Oct. 1865. d. 21 July 1884.

BURKE, Sir Joseph, 11 Baronet. b. Ardfry, co. Galway 31 Jany. 1786; succeeded 1845. d. 30 Oct. 1865.

BURKE, Peter (elder son of John Burke of London, genealogist 1787–1848). b. London 7 May 1811; ed. at Caen college, Normandy; barrister I.T. 7 June 1838; Q.C. of county palatine of Lancaster 1858; serjeant at law 11 Jany. 1860; director of Society of Antiquaries of Normandy 1866–7; author of Celebrated trials connected with the aristocracy 1849; The romance of the forum 4 vols. 1852–61; The public and domestic life of Edmund Burke 1853; Celebrated naval and military trials 1866. d. Coleherne road, South Kensington, London 26 March 1881.

BURKE, Robert O’Hara. b. St. Cleram near Galway 1820; entered Austrian army 1840; served in Irish constabulary 1848; emigrated to Australia 1853; inspector of Melbourne police; commanded expedition fitted out to explore centre of Australia which started from Melbourne 20 Aug. 1860; reached Cooper’s Creek 11 Nov. 1860; crossed the continent and reached Gulf of Carpentaria 10 Feb. 1861; returned to Cooper’s Creek 21 April 1861 where he d. of starvation 28 June 1861. bur. with a public funeral at Melbourne 21 Jany. 1863. Bronze statue erected in Collins st. Melbourne 1864 at cost of £4,000. The Burke and Wills exploring expedition 1861; W. Howitt’s History of discovery in Australia ii, 190–310 (1865); Illust. news of the world ix, 65 (1862), portrait.

BURKE, Thomas. Ensign 83 foot 23 July 1794; major 4 foot 22 July 1813 to 25 Feb. 1816 when placed on h.p.; colonel 10 foot 11 April 1860 to death; L.G. 18 Jany. 1861. d. Prospect villa, Ringaskiddy, Cork 4 Feb. 1863.

BURKE, Thomas Henry (2 son of Wm. Burke of Knocknagur, co. Galway). b. 25 May 1829; private secretary to Sir Thomas Redington under secretary for Ireland April 1851; under secretary for Ireland May 1869 to death; stabbed to death in Phœnix park, Dublin 6 May 1882 by members of a secret society called the Invincibles; memorial window in Dominican church, Dublin erected by Earl Spencer, Viceroy of Ireland. I.L.N. lxxx, 453 (1882), portrait; Graphic xxv, 464 (1882), portrait.

BURKE, Sir Thomas John, 3 Baronet. b. 7 June 1813; succeeded 14 Sep. 1847; M.P. for co. Galway 17 May 1847 to 6 July 1865. d. Marble hill, Loughrea, co. Galway 9 Dec. 1875. Burke’s Portrait gallery i, 92 (1833).

BURKE, Very Rev. Thomas Nicholas (son of Walter Burke of Galway who d. 29 Nov. 1872). b. Galway 8 Sep. 1830; entered order of St. Dominic at Perugia 29 Dec. 1847; ordained priest 26 March 1853; superintendent of novices at Tallaght near Dublin 1857–64; rector of Irish Dominican college of San Clemente, Rome Sep. 1864; went to America as visitor of his order Oct. 1871 where he acquired extraordinary popularity as a preacher and lecturer; author of English misrule in Ireland 1873; Ireland’s case stated in reply to Mr. Froude 1873; Lectures and sermons 1873; Lectures on faith and fatherland 1874. d. Tallaght 2 July 1883. The life of the Very Rev. T. N. Burke by W. J. Fitzpatrick 2 vols. 1885, portrait.

BURKE, Thomas William Aston Haviland. b. near London Aug. 1795; ed. at Westminster; barrister L.I. 18 Nov. 1819; chairman of Middlesex hospital 1848 to death; made a collection of prints supposed to be finest of its kind, it was very strong in works of Woollett, Strange and Sharpe, and in plates by and after Turner. d. 27 Gloucester place, Marylebone, London 3 April 1852. G.M. xxxvii, 624–6 (1852).

BURLTON, William. b. 1793; entered Bengal army 1807; commissary general 12 April 1837 to 10 Feb. 1848; lieut. col. of 7 light cavalry 1843, of 10 light cavalry 1848, of 8 light cavalry 1849, of 2 light cavalry 1850 to 10 Aug. 1850; C.B. 3 April 1846; author of A few brief comments on Sir C. Napier’s letter to Sir J. Hobhouse, “On the baggage of the Indian army” 1849. d. Oaklands, Shepherd’s Bush, London 10 Nov. 1870.

BURMESTER, Arnold Edward. Ensign 59 foot 31 Aug. 1830, lieut. col. 12 Oct. 1860 to 23 Sep. 1862 when he retired on full pay with rank of M.G.; C.B. 1 March 1861. d. 11 St. Stephen’s sq. Bayswater, London 3 Oct. 1877.

BURN, George. Surgeon R.N. 21 April 1829; inspector general of hospitals and fleets 17 Sep. 1858 to 1 April 1870 when he retired; C.B. 2 June 1869. d. The Cedars, Shirley, Southampton 20 Feb. 1881 aged 70.

BURN, Jacob Henry. Assistant to Wm. Hone the bookseller in London about 1820, helped to compile The every day book 3 vols. 1826–7; bookseller in Maiden lane, afterwards in King st. Covent Garden; edited Willis’s Current notes 7 vols. 1851–7; author of A descriptive catalogue of the London traders tavern and coffee-house tokens current in the seventeenth century presented to the Corporation library by H. B. H. Beaufoy 1853, 2 ed. 1855, these tokens were collected by him for Beaufoy; Catalogue of a collection of early newspapers and essayists presented to the Bodleian library by Rev. F. W. Hope 1865, formed chiefly by Burn 1830–4. d. St. Mary’s hospital, Paddington, London 19 Feb. 1869 aged 76. Reg. and mag. of biog. i, 317–8 (1869).

BURN, James. b. Darlington, Durham 15 March 1804; apprenticed to a skinman at Newcastle; fought and beat O’Neal £25 a side 26 July 1824; beaten by Ned Neale £100 a side 19 Dec. 1824 and by Philip Sampson £50 a side 14 June 1825; beat Pat Magee £100 a side 25 July 1826; beat Ned Baldwin £100 a side 24 April 1827, beaten by him 3 July 1827 after 85 rounds in 90 minutes; beaten by Ned Neale again 13 Nov. 1827; landlord of the Red Horse, Bond St., the Queen’s Head, Windmill st. Haymarket, and the Rising Sun, Air st. Piccadilly, London successively. d. The Rising Sun 29 May 1862. H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica ii, 326–37 (1880); Illust. sporting news (1862) 265, portrait.

BURN, Robert. Second lieut. R.A. 17 Dec. 1812, colonel 6 Jany. 1855 to 27 June 1864, col. commandant 2 Aug. 1868 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. Cheltenham 19 Dec. 1878 aged 86.

BURN, William (son of Robert Burn of Edinburgh, builder). b. Edin. 20 Dec. 1789; pupil of Robert Smirke, architect; architect in Edin. 1816–44 and in London 1844 to death; consulting government architect for Scotland; designed mansions in nearly every county in United Kingdom. d. 6 Stratton st. Piccadilly, London 15 Feb. 1870.

BURNABY, Charles Herrick. b. 28 Oct. 1800; second lieut. R.A. 9 June 1825, lieut. col. 22 July 1853 to 28 Nov. 1854 when he retired on full pay; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. 20 Regent’s park terrace, London 11 Jany. 1879.

BURNABY, Edwyn Sherard (only son of Edwyn Burnaby of Baggrave hall near Leicester 1799–1867). b. 22 May 1830; ed. at Eton; ensign Grenadier guards 3 Nov. 1846, lieut. col. 1 Oct. 1877 to June 1880; served in Crimea Nov. 1854 to 28 July 1855; commanded British-Italian legion of 3500 men 1855–7; went on special duty to Syria 1861; commanded Metropolitan volunteers 1877–80; M.G. 29 April 1880; M.P. for North Leics. 12 April 1880 to death; author of An account of the right flank company of the third battalion Grenadier Guards at the battle of Inkerman 1857; John Bryant or the stag hunt by E. S. B. 1868. d. Palmeira sq. Hove, Brighton 31 May 1883. New monthly mag. cxviii, 421–5 (1880), portrait; Biograph iv, 510–3 (1880).

BURNABY, Frederick Gustavus (son of Rev. Gustavus Andrew Burnaby of Somerby hall near Oakham 1802–72). b. Bedford 3 March 1842; ed. at Bedford gr. sch. and Harrow; cornet Royal horse guards 30 Sep. 1859, lieut. col. 6 April 1881 to death; correspondent of the Times at Carlist camp in Spain Aug. to Oct. 1874; agent of Stafford house committee in Russo-Turkish war 1877–8; commanded fifth Turkish brigade at battle of Tashkesan 31 Dec. 1877; contested Birmingham April 1880; went to Egypt as a volunteer 10 Jany. 1884; made 19 balloon ascents, crossed English channel in balloon Eclipse 23 March 1882; author of A ride to Khiva 1876, 11 ed. 1877; On horseback through Asia Minor 2 vols. 1877; A ride across the channel 1882; killed by a spear wound at battle of Abu Klea in Soudan 17 Jany. 1885; obelisk to his memory in St. Philip’s churchyard, Birmingham unveiled 11 Nov. 1885. Life and times of Col. F. Burnaby by J. R. Ware and R. K. Mann 1885, portrait; Vanity Fair 7 Feb. 1885, portrait; I.L.N. lxxxvi, 103 (1885), portrait.

BURNABY, John Dick (eld. son of John Dick Burnaby of Evington, Leics. 1776–1852, captain Grenadier guards). b. Billesdon Coplow, Leics. 19 April 1802; ed. at Emm. coll. Cam., LLD. 1826; barrister I.T. 21 Nov. 1828; comr. of bankrupts for Leicester, Nottingham and district; judge of county courts circuit 34 (Leicestershire) March 1847 to death. d. Torquay 29 Dec. 1855.

BURNABY, Richard Beaumont (2 son of Rev. Thomas Burnaby 1761–1830, preb. of Lincoln). b. Misterton, Leics. 22 Feb. 1793; 2 lieut. R.A. 17 Dec. 1812, captain 9 Sep. 1834 to 9 April 1849; lieut. col. commandant Hampshire artillery 30 May 1853 to death; L.G. 10 Nov. 1868. d. Carlton crescent, Southampton 1 June 1871.

BURNABY, Sir William Crisp Hood, 3 Baronet (only son of Sir Wm. Chaloner Burnaby, 2 baronet who d. 19 Feb. 1794). Entered navy 11 Oct. 1806; commander of Ardent prison ship at Bermuda 26 May 1814 to May 1816. d. Bermuda 1 Aug. 1853.

BURNABY, Sir William Edward, 4 Baronet. b. July 1824; ed. at Exeter coll. Ox.; succeeded 1 Aug. 1853. d. Boulogne 19 Aug. 1881.

BURNARD, Nevill Northey (son of George Burnard of Alternun, Cornwall, mason). b. Alternun 1818; a mason; a carver in London; employed by Bailey, Marshall, Foley and other sculptors; executed statue of Richard Lander erected on the column in Lemon st. Truro about 1850, and statue of Ebenezer Elliott erected in Market place, Sheffield; executed many portrait busts of eminent men. d. the Infirmary, Redruth, Cornwall 27 Nov. 1878.

BURNE, John. b. Worcestershire; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; M.D. 1 Aug. 1821; L.R.C.P. 22 Dec. 1823, a Fellow 4 July 1838; phys. to Westminster hosp. 1835–42; removed to Tiverton about 1843; removed to Bath about 1850; author of A practical treatise on the Typhus or adynamic fever 1828; A treatise on the causes and consequences of habitual constipation 1840. d. the United hospital, Bath 3 April 1880 aged 86.

BURNELL, Arthur Coke (eld. son of Arthur Burnell of East India Company’s navy). b. St. Briavel’s, Gloucs. 11 July 1840; ed. at King’s college London; entered Indian civil service 1860; served in Madras 1860–80; C.I.E.; author of Specimens of South Indian dialects collected by A. C. B. 1873–8; Elements of South Indian palæography 1874, enlarged edition 1878; Classified index to the Sanskrit MSS. in the palace at Tanjore 1880. d. West Stratton, Hampshire 12 Oct. 1882. His library was sold at Sotheby’s 14–17 Jany. 1884 for £1,566. Hobson-Jobson being a glossary of Anglo-Indian colloquial words and phrases by H. Yule and the late A. C. Burnell (1886) xiii, portrait.

BURNELL, George Rowden. b. 1814; civil engineer in America, Belgium and Holland; assistant engineer on Paris and Rouen railway 1842–8; built Equity and Law life office Lincoln’s Inn Fields London; author of The rudiments of hydraulic engineering 1852; wrote for Weale’s Rudimentary Series, treatises on Acoustics; Sound in public and private buildings; Well-sinking, boring and pump-work; Hydraulic engineering; River engineering; Fluids; and Limes, mortars and concrete; edited Engineer and Architect’s pocket book and Builder’s and contractor’s price book; contributed many articles to Arts and Sciences division of English Cyclopædia, Proc. of Instit. of British Architects, Journal of Gas-lighting and Builder. d. 23 Kensington gardens terrace, Hyde park, London 23 July 1868 in 54 year.

BURNES, James (eld. son of James Burnes 1780–1852, town clerk of Montrose). b. Montrose 12 Feb. 1801; ed. at Montrose academy and Univ. of Edin.; entered Bombay medical service 1821; garrison surgeon of Bombay 1837; physician general in Bombay 15 Sep. 1848 to 20 Nov. 1849; provincial grand master of Western India 1836–46; grand master of Scottish lodge of Masons in India 1846–9; F.R.S. 2 April 1835; K.H. 1837; author of A narrative of a visit to the court of Scinde 1829; A sketch of the history of the Knights Templars 1837. d. Queen’s hotel, Manchester 19 Sep. 1862. Notes on his name and family by James Burnes 1851 PP.

BURNET, Rev. John. b. Methven st. Perth 13 April 1789; a shoemaker at Perth; Independent congregational minister at Cork 1815–30; pastor of Mansion house chapel Camberwell, London 12 Sep. 1830, of Camberwell Green chapel 1853 to death; took an active part in agitation for abolition of slave trade; one of committee of Bible Society; chairman of congregational Union of England and Wales 1845; author of Essay on the Deity of Christ 1835; The authority of pastors in the church. d. Camberwell 10 June 1862. W. H. Blanch’s Ye parish of Camberwell (1877) 234; Services on occasion of the death of Rev. John Burnet 1862.

BURNET, John (son of George Burnet, surveyor general of excise for Scotland). b. Musselburgh near Edin. 20 March 1784; apprenticed to Robert Scott, landscape engraver 7 years; painter and engraver in London 1806–60; engraved many of Wilkie’s pictures; exhibited 1 picture at the R.A., 30 at B.I. and 6 at Suffolk st. gallery 1808–62; F.R.S. 16 March 1837 to 1849 or 1850; granted civil list pension of £75, 19 April 1861; author of A practical treatise on painting in three parts 1822–7, new ed. 4 parts 1880; An essay on the education of the eye 1837; Landscape painting in oil colours 1849, 2 ed. 1861; Turner and his works 1852, 2 ed. 1859 and many other books. d. Victoria road, Stoke Newington, London 29 April 1868. I.L.N. lii, 504 (1868), portrait.

BURNETT, Sir Alexander, 9 Baronet. b. Crathes castle near Aberdeen 17 Dec. 1789; succeeded 16 Feb. 1849. d. Crathes castle 20 March 1856.

BURNETT, Sir James Horn, 10 Baronet. b. Crathes Castle 22 June 1801; succeeded 20 March 1856; lord lieut. of Kincardineshire 5 Jany. 1864 to death. d. Crathes castle 16 Sep. 1876.

BURNETT, Sir William (son of Wm. Burnett of Montrose). b. Montrose Jany. 1779; surgeon’s mate R.N. 1795, surgeon 1799; had charge of hospitals for prisoners of war at Portsmouth and Forton 1805–10; phys. and inspector of hospitals to Mediterranean fleet 26 May 1810 to 1813; a medical comr. of the navy 1822; L.R.C.P. 1825, F.R.C.P. 1836, consiliarius 1845–7; knighted at St. James’s palace 25 May 1831; K.C.H. 21 June 1831; F.R.S. 18 April 1833 to 1856 or 1857 when he withdrew; phys. general to the navy 1833 this designation was changed 1840 to that of inspector general of naval hospitals and fleets which gave way in 1844 to that of director general of medical department of the navy, a post which he held down to 1855 when he retired; phys. in ordinary to Wm. iv, 13 April 1835; K.C.B. 16 Aug. 1850; invented well-known disinfecting fluid 1838 and a fluid for preserving timber 1845; author of A practical account of the Mediterranean fever 1816. d. Chichester 16 Feb. 1861. Physic and physicians ii, 323–5 (1839); Munk’s Roll of physicians iii, 307–8 (1878); Lancet ii, 558–63 (1850), portrait.

BURNETT, William Farquharson. Entered navy 28 June 1838; captain 13 Nov. 1854; commodore on Australian station 21 July 1862 to death; C.B. 5 July 1855; lost in H.M.S. Orpheus off Manukan, New Zealand 7 Feb. 1863 when 190 lives were lost out of 260 on board, buried at Auckland. Annual Reg. (1863) 19–22.

BURNEY, Ven. Charles Parr (son of Rev. Charles Burney, preb. of Lincoln who d. 25 Dec. 1817). b. Chiswick, Middlesex 19 Oct. 1785; ed. by his father and at Merton coll. Ox., B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811, B.D. and D.D. 1822; kept school at Greenwich 1814–35; R. of Sible Hedingham, Essex March 1838 to 1848; archdeacon of St. Albans 16 Oct. 1840; archdeacon of Colchester 15 Aug. 1845 to death; R. of Wickham Bishops, Essex 1848 to death; gave sum of £6,000 to establish a Clergy relief fund for his diocese; F.R.S. 22 Dec. 1814; F.L.S. 21 Jany. 1823. d. Brighton 1 Nov. 1864.

BURNEY, James. Entered navy 6 Jany. 1807; captain 10 Dec. 1835, retired 1 July 1851; retired admiral 18 Oct. 1867. d. 1 Montpellier terrace, Teddington, Middlesex 30 Oct. 1884 aged 91.

BURNEY, Martin Charles (only son of James Burney, rear admiral R.N.) b. 1788; solicitor in London; assisted in drawing up population and poor law returns; barrister I.T. 20 June 1828; reported in Master of the Rolls court for The Times; a great friend of Charles Lamb. d. James st. Buckingham gate, Westminster 20 Oct. 1852.

BURNEY, William. Major Cape mounted riflemen 20 June 1834 to 16 Feb. 1844 when placed on retired full pay; K.H. 1837; colonel 28 Nov. 1854. d. Elgin crescent, Kensington park, London 1 Dec. 1879.

BURNS, Rev. Islay (6 child of Rev. Wm. Hamilton Burns 1779–1859, minister of Kilsyth, near Glasgow). b. Manse of Dun, Forfarshire 16 Jany. 1817; ed. at Aberdeen gr. sch. at Marischal coll. and the Univ., D.D. 1864; ordained to charge of St. Peter’s Dundee June 1843; professor of Apologetics and systematic theology in free church college Glasgow 1864 to death; author of History of the Church of Christ 1862 and of a series of essays on Tractarian and other movements in Church of England in the British and foreign evangelical review. d. 4 Sardinia terrace, Glasgow 20 May 1872. Select remains of Islay Burns D.D. 1874, portrait.

BURNS, Rev. Jabez. (son of Mr. Burns of Oldham, chemist). b. Oldham 18 Dec. 1805; joined Methodist New Connexion 1821; pastor of Baptist congregation at Perth 1830–5; of Baptist congregation in New church st. Marylebone, London June 1835; became a pledged abstainer May 1836; delivered 35 annual temperance sermons beginning 16 Dec. 1839; one of earliest members of Evangelical Alliance formed 1845; author of The Christian sketch book 1828, second series 1835; The golden pot of Manna 2 vols. 1837, in the 5 ed. title was altered to The Christian’s daily portion 1848; Original sketches and skeletons of sermons 11 vols.; edited Journal of New British and Foreign Society 1839–42 when society was dissolved; edited Christian ministers companion 4 vols. 1844. d. 17 Porteus road, Paddington, London 31 Jany. 1876. A retrospect of 45 years Christian ministry by Jabez Burns 1875; D. Burns’s Temperance dictionary (1861) 527–30; Illust. news of the world viii, (1861), portrait; Graphic xiii, 182, 188 (1876), portrait.

BURNS, James (brother of Rev. Islay Burns 1817–72). b. Manse of Dun 8 Nov. 1808; employed by Whitaker and Co. publishers in London 1832; bookseller at Duke st. Manchester sq. 1834, and at 17 Portman st.; published The Englishman’s library; The Fireside library; Poems and pictures 1845, first of the illustrated Christmas books; joined Church of Rome 1847; edited The Missal; The Vespers book; The paradise of the Christian soul; The path to heaven; published The Dublin Review July 1863 to death; Annals of the propagation of the faith 1861 to death; The Rambler a weekly journal 1 Jany. 1848 to Nov. 1859. d. 17 Portman st. London 11 April 1871. J. Gillow’s English Catholics i, 346–8 (1885); Illustrated Catholic family annual (1884), portrait.

BURNS, James (3 son of Rev. John Burns, minister of Barony church, Glasgow). b. Glasgow 9 June 1789; a shipowner with his brother George Burns; began to use steam navigation 1824; founded with Samuel Cunard and David Mac Iver, Cunard company for establishing a line of ocean steamers to America, first of which sailed from Liverpool 4 July 1840. d. Bloomhall, Dumbartonshire 6 Sep. 1871.

BURNS, Rev. James Drummond. b. Edinburgh 18 Feb. 1823; ed. at High sch. and Univ. of Edin.; minister of Free church Dunblane near Stirling Aug. 1845 to 4 Oct. 1848; spent 5 years in Madeira 1847–53; minister of English Presbyterian chapel Well walk, Hampstead 22 May 1855; author of The vision of prophecy and other poems 1854, 2 ed. 1858; The heavenly Jerusalem or glimpses within the gates 1856; contributed a series of papers on cities of the Bible to Rev. A. Cameron’s Family treasury and article Hymns to Encyclopædia Britannica, 8 ed. xii, 188–90 (1856). d. Mentone 27 Nov. 1864. bur. Highgate cemetery Dec. Rev. J. Hamilton’s Memoir and remains of Rev. J. D. Burns 1869, portrait; Reminiscences of Rev. J. D. Burns from Weekly Review of Dec. 17, 1864.

BURNS, Robert (eld. son of Robert Burns the poet 1759–96). b. Tarbolton, Ayrshire Sep. 1786; ed. at Dumfries academy; clerk in Stamp office, London 1804; an accomplished scholar, musician and artist; edited The Caledonian musical museum 1809. d. Dumfries 14 May 1857.

BURNS, Rev. Robert. b. Borrowstownness West Lothian 13 Feb. 1789; ordained to charge of Low church Paisley July 1811; sec. of Glasgow colonial society 1815–30; seceded with the Protestors 1843; sent by Free church to visit churches in U.S. and Canada 1844; pastor of Knox’s church Toronto 1845–56; Emeritus professor of church history in Knox college Toronto 1856; moderator of church in Canada twice; author of A historical dissertation on the law and practice of Great Britain with regard to the poor 1819; On Pluralities 1824; The Gareloch heresy tried 1830; edited Wodrow’s History of the sufferings of the Church of Scotland, new ed. 4 vols. 1828; edited Edinburgh Christian instructor 1838–40. d. Toronto 19 Aug. 1869. Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis (1867) 58–9.

BURNS, William. b. Saltcoats, Ayrshire Dec. 1809; a procurator in Glasgow 1844; head of firm of Burns, Alison and Aitken; engaged much in consideration of public bills and legal education; author of What’s in a name 1861; War of Scottish independence 2 vols. 1874. d. Moffat, Dumfriesshire 2 Aug. 1876.

BURNS, Rev. William Chalmers (brother of Rev. Islay Burns 1817–72). b. Manse of Dun 1 April 1815; licensed as a preacher by presbytery of Glasgow 27 March 1839; minister of St. Peters, Dundee; preached with great success in Scotland, north of England and Canada; sent to China as a missionary by Presbyterian church of England Nov. 1847, where he founded many native congregations of Christians; translated the Pilgrim’s Progress and many hymns into Chinese. d. at port of Nieu-chwang, China 4 April 1868. Memoir by Rev. Islay Burns, 3 ed. 1870, portrait; W. G. Blaikie’s Leaders in modern philanthropy (1884) 219–40, portrait.

BURNSIDE, Henry Edward Hillman. Ensign 61 foot 20 Jany. 1843; chief instructor at school of musketry Hythe, Kent 1873 to 1 Aug. 1875 when placed on h.p. as lieut. col.; C.B. 29 May 1875. d. Stogumber, Somerset 29 Nov. 1876.

BURR, Daniel Higford Davall (elder son of Daniel Burr, lieut. general H.E.I.C.S. who d. 19 Feb. 1828 aged 79). b. 24 March 1811; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; M.P. for Hereford 25 July 1837 to 23 June 1841; contested Salisbury 10 July 1852, and Abingdon 3 Dec. 1852; sheriff of Berks. 1851. d. 23 Eaton place, London 29 Nov. 1885.

BURRARD, Sir Charles, 2 Baronet. b. Dorking, Surrey 2 March 1793; succeeded 18 Oct. 1813; entered navy 13 July 1805; captain 29 Jany. 1822; flag captain in the Revenge 76 guns 20 March 1823 to April 1827; placed on retired half pay 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 27 April 1863. d. Holmefield, Lyndhurst, Hants. 12 July 1870.

BURRARD, Rev. Sir George, 3 Baronet. b. Lymington, Hampshire 6 April 1769; R. of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight 1801–41; Chaplain in ordinary 1801 to death; V. of Middleton-Tyas, Yorkshire 1804 to death; R. of Burton-Coggles, Lincs. 1822 to death; succeeded 7 Feb. 1840. d. Walhampton, Lymington 17 May 1856.

BURRARD, Sir George, 4 Baronet. b. 13 Oct. 1805; M.P. for Lymington 31 July 1828 to 3 Dec. 1832; succeeded 17 May 1856; drowned while bathing at Lyme Regis, Dorset 7 Sep. 1870.

BURRARD, Sir Harry, 5 Baronet. b. 13 Oct. 1818; succeeded 7 Sep. 1870. d. Hastings 15 April 1871.

BURRELL, Sir Charles Merrik, 3 Baronet (eld. son of Sir Wm. Burrell, 2 baronet 1732–96). b. Golden sq. London 21 May 1774; succeeded 20 Jany. 1796; M.P. for Shoreham 4 Nov. 1807 to death, the “father” of the House for some time before his death; Sussex agriculturists owe to him introduction of the white or Belgian carrot and valuable experiments in feeding and fattening cattle. d. Knepp castle, West Grinstead 4 Jany. 1862. Sporting Review xlvii, 108 (1862).

BURRELL, George. b. Long Houghton, Northumberland 26 Feb. 1777; ensign 15 foot 4 Feb. 1797; lieut. col. 18 foot 22 July 1830 to 22 Nov. 1841; C.B. 14 Oct. 1841; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; colonel 39 foot 11 Feb. 1852 to death. d. Alnwick 4 Jany. 1853.

BURRELL, John Palfrey (youngest son of Palfrey George Burrell of Alnwick). Barrister G.I. 2 July 1805, bencher 20 May 1829, treasurer 1833–4; police magistrate at Queen sq. office Westminster 1833–46 and at Vincent sq. office Westminster 1846–54. d. 1 Gray’s Inn sq. London 11 July 1859 aged 86.

BURRELL, Sir Percy, 4 Baronet. b. Grosvenor place, London 10 Feb. 1812; succeeded 4 Jany. 1862; M.P. for Shoreham 5 Feb. 1862 to death. d. 44 Berkeley sq. London 19 July 1876.

BURRELL, Sir Walter Wyndham, 5 Baronet. b. 26 Oct. 1814; barrister L.I. 1840; contested East Sussex 1865; M.P. for Shoreham 4 Aug. 1876 to 18 Nov. 1885; sheriff of Sussex 1871; succeeded 19 July 1876. d. West Grinstead park, Horsham 24 Jany. 1886. Law Times lxxx, 236 (1876).

BURRITT, Elihu. b. New Britain, Connecticut 8 Dec. 1810; a blacksmith at Worcester, Massachusetts 1837; translated all the Icelandic Sagas relating to discovery of America and obtained name of the “learned blacksmith”; public lecturer 1841; started Christian Citizen a weekly journal 1842; co-operated in England with English peace advocates 1846–9; developed basis of an international association known as the League of universal brotherhood 1848; prominent organiser of first Peace Congress at Paris 22 Aug. 1849; editor of Citizen of the World in Philadelphia 1852; walked from London to John O’Groats 1863 and from London to Land’s End 1864; United States consul at Birmingham 1867 to June 1869. d. New Britain 9 March 1879. The world’s workers by J. W. Kirton (1885) 65–94, portrait.

BURROUGHES, Henry Negus. b. 8 Feb. 1791; sheriff of Norfolk 1817; M.P. for East Norfolk 11 Aug. 1837 to 21 March 1857. d. 22 March 1872.

BURROUGHS, Watkins. b. England 1795; Manager of Surrey theatre, London Oct. 1822; stage manager at Astley’s theatre; lessee of Belfast theatre; first appeared in America 1825, at Park theatre, New York as Harry Dornton in The road to ruin; acting and stage manager of Lafayette theatre N.Y.; acted at Philadelphia 1825. d. Liverpool 12 July 1869.

BURROW, Ven. Edward John. Educ. at Magd. coll. Cam., B.A. 1805, M.A. 1808; incorporated M.A. at Trin. coll. Ox. 1820, B.D. and D.D. 1820; P.C. of Bempton, Yorkshire 1810–16; minister of Hampstead chapel near London 1816–23; domestic chaplain to bishop of Winchester 1823–35; principal of College school Mount Radford, Exeter July 1827 to Jany. 1828; civil chaplain of Gibraltar 1835–42; archdeacon of Gibraltar 1842–59; F.R.S. 26 Feb. 1818; author of Elements of conchology 1815, 2 ed. 1818; The Elgin marbles with an account of Athens 1817; A summary of Christian faith and practice 3 vols. 1822; Questions on the memorial scripture copies 1829, 3 ed. 1854. d. Honiton, Devon 8 Aug. 1861. A statement of the manner in which E. J. Burrow became connected with Mount Radford and of his removal 1828.

BURROWES, John Freckleton. b. London 23 April 1787; pupil of William Horsley, organist; organist of St. James’s church, Piccadilly, London about 1815 to death; an original member of Philharmonic Society 1813; author of The pianoforte primer containing the rudiments of music 1818, 48 ed. 1862; Thorough bass primer 1819, 37 ed. 1871; A companion to the thorough bass primer 1832. d. 13 Nottingham place, New road, London 31 March 1852.

BURROWES, Robert. b. Dublin 19 March 1810; sheriff of Cavan 1838; M.P. for co. Cavan 13 April 1855 to 21 March 1857. d. Stradone house, Cavan 30 Nov. 1881.

BURROWS. Sir John Cordy (eld. son of Robert Burrows of Ipswich, silversmith). b. Ipswich 5 Aug. 1813; M.R.C.S. 1836, F.R.C.S. 1852; practised at Brighton 1839 to death; projected Royal literary and scientific institution 1841, secretary 1841–57; mayor of Brighton 1857–9 and 1871–2; knighted at Osborne 5 Feb. 1873; a very great benefactor to town of Brighton. d. 62 Old Steyne, Brighton 25 March 1876. Statue of him in grounds of Royal Pavilion unveiled 14 Feb. 1878. Lancet i, 515, 548 (1876); I.L.N. lxii, 191 (1873), portrait, lxviii, 335 (1876), lxxii, 173 (1878).

BURSLEM, Charles. b. Manchester; a journalist; assistant editor of the North Eastern Daily Gazette some years; author of several serial tales in provincial journals; author of several successful pantomimes and of a farce entitled Third floor lodgers produced at Gaiety theatre West Hartlepool. d. Manchester Jany. 1886 aged 28.

BURSTAL, Edward. b. Devonport 1 Feb. 1818; entered navy Dec. 1832; commander 29 Sep. 1855; assisted in laying down first submarine telegraph cable between Dover and Calais 1852; laid cable from Orfordness to the Hague; secretary to conservators of river Thames 1857 to death; a member of Thames Embankment and other royal commissions; retired captain 29 Sep. 1870; F.R.G.S. 1857. d. Ramsgate 13 July 1886.

BURT, Sir Archibald Paul (2 son of George Henry Burt, speaker of house of assembly St. Christopher, West Indies). b. St. Christopher 1810; barrister M.T. 21 Nov. 1845; attorney general of St. Christopher 1849–60, member of legislative and executive councils, speaker of house of assembly; comr. of civil court in Western Australia July 1860, chief justice there 1861 to death; knighted at Windsor Castle 12 Dec. 1873. d. Strawberry hill, Perth, Western Australia 21 Nov. 1879.

BURTON, Adolphus William Desart. b. 1827; ensign 82 foot 8 Aug. 1845; major 7 dragoon guards 17 Sep. 1857 to 1863; C.B. 5 July 1855. d. Pau 11 Feb. 1882.

BURTON, Rev. Charles (youngest son of Daniel Burton of Rhodes hall, Middleton, Lancs. cotton manufacturer). b. Rhodes hall 18 Jany. 1793; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow and St. John’s coll. Cam., L.L.B. Cam. 1822, B.C.L. and D.C.L. Ox. 1829; Wesleyan minister; built church of All Saints, Chorlton-upon-Medlock, Manchester at cost of £18,000, R. of All Saints 1820 to death, greater part of church was destroyed by fire 6 Feb. 1850; F.L.S. for discovering in Anglesea a plant new to science; author of Horæ, Poeticæ 1815; The Bardiad, a poem in two cantos 1823, 2 ed. 1823; Lectures on the Millenium 1841; Lectures on the world before the flood 1844; Lectures on Popery 1851 and about 15 other books. d. Western lodge, Durham 6 Sep. 1866. Evans’s Lancashire authors and orators (1850) 47–51.

BURTON, Charles Edward (son of Rev. Edward Wm. Burton, B. of Rathmichael, co. Dublin). b. Barnton, Cheshire 16 Sep. 1846; assistant in Lord Rosse’s observatory at Parsonstown 1868–9; B.A. Dublin 1868; joined Sicilian expedition to observe total solar eclipse of 22 Dec. 1870; photographer to transit of Venus expedition 1874; worked at observatory of Dunsink near Dublin 1876–8; devised with Howard Grubb the ‘ghost micrometer’ described before Royal Dublin Society 15 Nov. 1880; F.R.A.S. 8 May 1874; author of numerous papers in scientific periodicals. d. Castle Knock church 9 July 1882. Astronomical Register xx, 173–4 (1883).

BURTON, Decimus (10 son of James Burton of London, builder). b. 30 Sep. 1800; architect in London 1821–69; designed the Colosseum in Regent’s Park 1823; carried out Hyde Park Corner improvements where he designed the facade and triumphal arch 1825; designed the Athenæum club 1827; laid out Calverley Park estate at Tunbridge Wells 1828–50; architect to Royal botanic society 1840–70; F.R.S. 6 Dec. 1832, F.R.I.B.A. d. The Cottage, St. Leonard’s-on-Sea 14 Dec. 1881. Proc. of Royal Soc. xxxiv, 8–10 (1883); Builder xli, 779–80 (1881); I.L.N. lxxix, 650 (1881), portrait.

BURTON, Edward Frederick (son of James Burton of London, solicitor who d. 1869). b. 1818; solicitor in London 1843 to death; member of council of Incorporated law society 1865 to death, vice pres. 1876–7, pres. 1877–8; member of judicature acts (legal offices) committee 1877. d. Eastbourne 11 July 1879.

BURTON, James Ryder. b. 1795; entered navy 12 May 1806; captain 23 Feb. 1824; granted good service pension 4 Nov. 1852; admiral on half pay 4 Nov. 1863; K.H. 1 Jany. 1837; invented a method for propelling ships of war during a calm 1819. d. 15 Park sq. east, Regent’s park, London 2 Aug. 1876.

BURTON, John Hill (2 son of Wm. Kinnimont Burton of Aberdeen who d. 1820). b. the Gallowgate, Aberdeen 22 Aug. 1809; ed. at Marischal coll. Aberdeen; called to Scottish bar 1831; contributed articles to Blackwood’s Mag. 1842 to death; sec. to general board of directors of prisons in Scotland 24 July 1854; manager of Perth prison 4 Jany. 1861 to Jany. 1878; historiographer royal of Scotland 1867; author of Law of bankruptcy in Scotland 2 vols. 1845; Life of D. Hume 2 vols. 1846; Lives of Lord Lovat and Duncan Forbes 1847; Narratives from criminal trials in Scotland 2 vols. 1852; History of Scotland 9 vols. 1853–70, 2 ed. 9 vols. 1873; The book hunter 1862, new ed. 1882; History of the reign of Queen Anne 3 vols. 1880; The Scot abroad 2 vols. 1881. d. Morton house, Lothianburn 10 Aug. 1881. The Bookhunter by J. H. Burton (1882) i-civ, portrait; Blackwood’s Mag. cxxx, 401–4 (1881); Graphic xxiv, 269 (1881), portrait.

BURTON, Sir Richard (son of Sir John Burton of Wakefield, Yorkshire). b. Westminster 1773; knighted at St. James’s palace 13 Sep. 1831. d. Sackett’s hill house, Margate 3 Sep. 1855.

BURTON, William Evans (son of Wm. Burton of London, printer 1774–1825). b. London Sep. 1802; ed. at St. Paul’s sch.; acted in Norwich circuit 7 years; first appeared in London at Pavilion theatre Feb. 1831 as Wormwood in The lottery ticket; acted at Haymarket 1833; first appeared in America at Arch st. theatre Philadelphia 3 Sep. 1834 as Doctor Ollapod in The Poor gentleman; lessee and manager of theatres in Philadelphia and Baltimore; leased Palma’s Opera house New York 1848 which he renamed Burton’s Theatre; manager of Metropolitan theatre Broadway which he renamed Burton’s New theatre Sep. 1856–8; wrote several plays best known being Ellen Wareham, a domestic drama, produced May 1833 when it was played at 5 London theatres at same time; edited Cambridge Quarterly Review and Philadelphia Literary Souvenir 1838–40; author of Waggaries and vagaries 1848; Cyclopædia of wit and humour 2 vols. 1857. d. 174 Hudson st. New York 9 Feb. 1860. Ireland’s Records of the New York stage ii, 235–8 (1867); Burton’s Cyclopædia (1857), portrait; T. A. Brown’s American stage (1870) 57, 66, portrait.

BURTON, William Martin. Second lieut. Madras artillery 1798, colonel 26 Feb. 1840 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. at his residence near London 13 Aug. 1853.

BURTON, William Paton (son of Wm. Paton Burton, captain Indian army). b. Madras 1828; ed. at Edinburgh; pupil of David Bryce, architect; a water colour painter; exhibited many landscapes at the R.A. and Suffolk st. gallery 1862–80. d. Cults, Aberdeen 31 Dec. 1883.

BURTON-PETERS, Henry. b. 1792; M.P. for Beverley 31 July 1830 to 17 July 1837. d. Bath 24 Nov. 1874.

BURTT, John. b. Fulbeck, Lincs.; published The young patriot and other poems by J. B. a friend of the Aborigines protection society 1846. d. Stockport, Cheshire 5 July 1859 aged 71. Annual Monitor for 1860 pp. 66–74.

BURTT, John. b. Knockmarlock, Ayrshire 1789; apprenticed to a weaver; pressed into navy 1807; served on board the Magnificent 5 years; taught in Kilmarnock and Paisley 1816; went to United States; studied at Princeton college; Presbyterian minister at Salem; professor of theology 1835. d. 24 March 1866.

BURTT, Joseph. b. St. Pancras, London 7 Nov. 1818; worked under Sir Francis Palgrave at Chapter house, Westminster Abbey 1832–40; clerk in Record Office 1840, a second class assistant keeper of records Aug. 1851, a first class June 1859 to death; sec. to Royal Archæol. Instit. 1862 to death; edited Archæological Journal; edited Household expenses of John of Brabant, and of Thomas and Henry of Lancaster for the Miscellany of Camden Society. d. Crofton lodge, Upper Tulse hill, Surrey 15 Dec. 1876. Archæological Journal xxxiv, 90–2 (1877).

BURY, Charlotte Susan Maria (dau. of 5 Duke of Argyll 1723–1806). b. Argyll house, Oxford st. London 28 Jany. 1775; lady in waiting to Princess of Wales, afterwards Queen Caroline 1809; published anonymously Poems on several occasions by a Lady 1797; Love 3 vols. 1837, 2 ed. 1860; Diary illustrative of the times of George the Fourth 4 vols. 1838–9; and with her name, The divorced 2 vols. 1837, 2 ed. 1858. (m. (1) 14 June 1796 John Campbell, M.P. for Ayr burghs who d. 15 March 1809. m. (2) 17 March 1818 Rev. Edward John Bury, R. of Lichfield, Hants, who d. May 1832 aged 42). d. 91 Sloane st. Chelsea 31 March 1861. Burke’s Portrait gallery i, 103 (1833), portrait; New monthly mag. xlix, 76–7 (1837), portrait.

BURY, Edward. b. Salford near Manchester 22 Oct. 1794; manufacturer of machinery at Liverpool; introduced a series of improved engines for steamboats employed on river Rhone; managed locomotive department of London and Birmingham railway for some years after opening Sep. 1838; managed locomotive department of Great Northern railway; F.R.S. 1 Feb. 1844 for great improvements which he had introduced in adjusting dimensions of cylinder and driving wheels of steam engines. d. Scarborough 25 Nov. 1858. Proc. of Royal Soc. x, 12 (1860).

BURY, George Butt. Second lieut. RM. 10 Nov. 1804, colonel 10 Jany. 1852, col. commandant 21 June 1854 to 1 Aug. 1854 when he retired on full pay; M.G. 20 June 1855. d. 25 Athenæum st. Plymouth 4 Jany. 1873 aged 87.

BURY, Thomas Talbot. b. 26 Sep. 1811; articled to Augustus Pugin, architect 1824; architect in Gerrard st. Soho, London 1830; very skilful in colouring architectural studies; designed with A. Pugin details of Houses of parliament; exhibited 18 drawings at the R.A. 1838–72; designed 35 churches and about 50 other large buildings; F.R.I.B.A. 1843, vice pres. 1876; F.S.A. 1863; author of Remains of ecclesiastical woodwork 1847; History and description of the styles of architecture of various countries 1849. d. 50 Welbeck st. London 23 Feb. 1877. Sessional papers read at Royal Instit. of British Architects (1877) 152–4.

BUSFEILD, William. b. 12 Feb. 1773; M.P. for Bradford 25 July 1837 to 23 June 1841 and 16 Sep. 1841 to death. d. 15 Bury st. St. James’s London 11 Sep. 1851.

BUSH, William. Cornet 2 Dragoon guards 7 Jany. 1808; lieut. col. 1 West India regiment 4 Sep. 1835 to 1 Jany. 1847; inspecting field officer of Leeds recruiting district 1 Jany. 1847, of London district 17 April 1852 to death; M.G. 20 June 1854; K.H. 1835. d. 66 Cadogan place, London 27 Aug. 1854. H. S. Smith’s Military obituary for 1854, 10–12.

BUSHNAN, John Stevenson (son of Joseph Bushnan who d. 21 Feb. 1831, controller of the Chamber, City of London 1803–31). b. The Guildhall, London 1810; M.R.C.S. Edin. 1830, F.R.C.S. 1839; M.R.C.P. Edin. 1830, M.D. Heidelberg 1836; practised at Castle Cary, Somerset 1837–41; travelled abroad 1841–8; practised in London 1848; edited Medical times and gazette 1849–52; author of Philosophy of instinct and reason 1847; Miss Martineau and her master 1851; Homœopathy and the homœopaths 1852 and other books. d. The Charterhouse, City of London 17 Feb. 1884. Medical Circular ii, 149–50 (1853).

BUSK, Hans (youngest son of Sir Wadsworth Busk 1730–1811, attorney general of Isle of Man). b. 28 May 1772; lived in Russia some years where he was a member of Empress Catherine’s celebrated Chevalier Guard; sheriff of Radnorshire 1837–8; author of Fugitive pieces in verse 1814; The Vestriad or the Opera, a mock epic poem 1819; The dessert, a poem to which is added The tea 1820; The lay of life, a poem 1834. d. 22 Great Cumberland place, Hyde park, London 8 Feb. 1862.

BUSK, Hans (eld. son of the preceding). b. 11 May 1815; ed. at King’s coll. London and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1844; formed a model rifle club at Cam. 1837; barrister M.T. 7 May 1841; sheriff of Radnorshire 1847; joined Royal Victoria rifle club London 1858 only volunteer corps then existing, captain 1860; delivered lectures instrumental in extending volunteer movement over whole kingdom; devised a steam life boat service 1869, the Petronelle first of the class was launched 1873; founded New Quarterly review 1874; author of The rifleman’s manual 1858, 7 ed. 1860; Rifle volunteers how to organize and drill them 1859, 7 ed. 1860; The navies of the world their present state and future capabilities 1859; Handbook for Hythe 1860; Maiden-hours and maiden-wiles designed by Beaujolais 1869. d. 21 Ashley place, Victoria st. Westminster 11 March 1882. I.L.N. lxxx, 284 (1882), portrait; Graphic xxv, 313 (1882), portrait.

BUSS, Robert William (son of Wm. C. Buss of 60 Jewin st. Cripplegate, London, engraver who d. 1832). b. London 4 Aug. 1804; apprenticed to his father; painted 15 theatrical portraits for Cumberland’s British Drama which were exhibited at Colosseum; exhibited 25 pictures at R.A., 20 at B.I. and 45 at Suffolk st. gallery 1826–59; contributed to Westminster competition a cartoon of Prince Henry and Judge Gascoigne; illustrated Charles Knight’s London, Chaucer, Shakespeare and Old England; painted 71 pictures, 25 of which were engraved; painted large frescoes representing Origin and triumph of music for Earl of Hardwicke at Wimpole hall; privately printed English graphic satire 1874; edited The fine art almanac, or artist’s remembrancer 1850–2. d. 14 Camden st. Camden Town, London 26 Feb. 1875. G. Everitt’s English Caricaturists (1886) 363–6; People’s Journal vi, 3 (1848); Notes and Queries 5 S. iii, 228, 257, 330, 419, 455, 473 (1875), iv, 15 (1875), vii, 138 (1877), 6 S. vi, 488 (1882), vii, 216 (1883).

BUTCHER, Most Rev. Samuel (eld. son of Samuel Butcher 1770–1849, vice admiral R.N.) b. Danesfort near Killarney 9 Oct. 1811; ed. at Cork and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1832, B.A. 1834, fellow 1837–52, tutor and lecturer, M.A. 1839, B.D. 1848, D.D. 1849; professor of ecclesiastical history in Univ. of Dublin April 1850, Regius professor of divinity Nov. 1852 to Aug. 1866; R. of Ballymoney, Cork 1854–66; bishop of Meath Aug. 1866 to death; P.C. Ireland 1866; author of The ecclesiastical calendar its theory and construction 1877; cut his throat at Ardbraccan house, Navan near Dublin 29 July 1876.

BUTE, Sophia Frederica Christina Crichton-Stuart, Marchioness of (2 dau. of 1 Marquis of Hastings 1754–1826). b. 1 Feb. 1809; gave the Sophia gardens to town of Cardiff; edited Poems of lady Flora Hastings 1841; Private journals of 1 Marquis of Hastings 2 vols. 1858. (m. 10 April 1845, John Crichton-Stuart, 2 Marquis of Bute 1793–1848). d. 120 George st. Edinburgh 28 Dec. 1859.

BUTLER, Charles Salisbury (eld. son of John Butler of Hackney, London). b. 1812; commissioner of taxes; M.P. for Tower Hamlets 8 July 1852 to 11 Nov. 1868; chairman of Quarter sessions of Tower Hamlets liberties to death. d. 48 Prince’s gate, Hyde park, London 11 Nov. 1870.

BUTLER, Sir Edward (5 son of 13 Baron Dunboyne 1780–1850). b. 29 Oct. 1811; lieut. of corps of gentlemen at arms 1839 to May 1845; knighted at St. James’s palace 19 Feb. 1840; contested Southampton, contest was protracted from Nov. 1856 to 11 Feb. 1857 when he was defeated by 32 votes; sheriff of Hants 1855. d. Marseilles 20 Oct. 1858.

BUTLER, Edward. b. Kilkenny 1824; re-established The Nation with C. G. Duffy 1849; went to New South Wales 1853; called to bar at Sydney 16 Oct. 1855, Q.C.; member of legislative assembly for Argyle 1869; attorney general 1872 to Nov. 1873; member of legislative council Oct. 1877 to death. d. Supreme court, Sydney 9 June 1879. Times 18 July 1879 p. 5, col. 6, 11 Aug. p. 11, col. 2.

BUTLER, Francis (son of Mr. Butler, trainer of horses to Duke of York who d. 1827). b. Sep. 1817; professional jockey 1839–53; won the Oaks on Poison 1843 at odds of 40 to 1, on Princess 1844, on Lady Evelyn 1849, on Rhedycina 1850, on Iris 1851 and on Songstress 1852; won St. Leger on The Baron 1845; won Derby on Daniel O’Rourke 1852 and Two thousand guineas, Derby and St. Leger on West Australian 1853. d. Newmarket 1 Feb. 1856. Sporting Review xxxi, 143–8 (1854), portrait; I.L.N. xxii, 416 (1853), portrait.

BUTLER, Francis. b. England 1810; professor of languages at several educational institutions in New York; a dog-trainer and fancier; author of Breeding, training, management and diseases of dogs 1857; The Spanish teacher and colloquial phrase book, 8 ed. 1857. d. from hydrophobia at Brooklyn, New York 17 June 1874.

BUTLER, Very Rev. George (2 son of Rev. Weeden Butler 1742–1823, Morning preacher at Charlotte st. Chapel Pimlico, London). b. Pimlico 5 July 1774; foundation scholar of Sid. Sus. coll. Cam.; Senior Wr. and first Smith’s prizeman Jany. 1794; B.A. 1794, M.A. 1797, B.D. 1804, D.D. 1805; Fellow of his college 1794, mathematical lecturer and classical tutor; kept his terms at Lincolns Inn; one of the 8 select preachers before Univ. of Cam. 1805; Head master of Harrow school April 1805 to Easter 1829; R. of Gayton, Northampton 1814 to death; chancellor of Peterborough 1836–42; dean of Peterborough 3 Nov. 1842 to death, admitted Dean 25 Nov. 1842; author of Extracts from the communion service of the Church 1839, 2 ed. 1842; Statutes of Peterborough cathedral translated 1853; Harrow, a selection of the lists of the School 1849. d. the deanery Peterborough 30 April 1853. Monument erected in Harrow church July 1854. P. M. Thornton’s Harrow school (1885) 215–64.

BUTLER, George Slade (son of Richard Butler of Rye, Sussex, surgeon). b. Rye 4 March 1821; solicitor at Rye 1843 to death; town clerk 1875–81; registrar of county court; F.S.A. 6 March 1862; author of Topographica Sussexiana 1866, originally printed in Collections of Sussex Archæological Society to which he contributed many papers on antiquities of Rye. d. Rye 11 April 1882.

BUTLER, Henry Edward (2 son of 2 Earl of Carrick 1746–1813). b. 3 Dec. 1780; ensign 27 foot 15 Feb. 1800; major 2 garrison battalion 19 March 1812 to 25 Dec. 1816 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 20 June 1854; col. 94 foot 25 July 1854 and col. 55 foot 19 Jany. 1855 to death. d. Paris 7 Dec. 1856.

BUTLER, James Armar (4 son of the preceding). b. 1827; ensign 90 foot 13 Oct. 1843; captain Ceylon rifle regiment 6 May 1853 to May 1854 when placed on h.p.; conducted siege of Silistria, Turkey against the Russians May 1854 to death; gazetted brevet major 14 July 1854 and lieut. Coldstream guards 15 July 1854. d. Silistria of wounds received during the siege 22 June 1854 in 28 year. E. H. Nolan’s War against Russia i, 214–27 (1857); G. Ryan’s Our heroes of the Crimea (1855) 141–3.

BUTLER, James Arthur. b. 1795; ensign 1 foot guards 23 June 1813, captain 18 April 1816 to 25 Dec. 1818, carried the colours at Waterloo; captain 80 foot 31 July 1823 to 19 Nov. 1825 when placed on h.p.; general 5 Dec. 1871. d. Holt lodge, Kintbury, Berkshire 26 Feb. 1881.

BUTLER, Rev. Pierce (brother of James Armar Butler 1827–54). b. 27 Feb. 1826; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1849, M.A. 1852; explored peninsula of Sinai 1853–4; R. of Ulcombe, Kent 1861 to death; translated from the Danish Öhlenschläger’s Axel and Valborg, a tragedy in 5 acts 1874. d. Ulcombe rectory 8 Feb. 1868. Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xxxviii, pp. cxliv-cxlvi, (1868).

BUTLER, Pierce Somerset. b. 26 Jany. 1801; called to Irish bar 1832; M.P. for co. Kilkenny 1 Dec. 1843 to 1 July 1852. d. 28 July 1865. Annual Register (1854) 402–14.

BUTLER, Very Rev. Richard (eld. son of Rev. Richard Butler, V. of Burnchurch, co. Kilkenny who d. 1841). b. near Granard, co. Longford 14 Oct. 1794; ed. at Reading and Balliol coll. Ox., B.A. 1817; V. of Trim, co. Meath 1819 to death; dean of Clonmacnois Dec. 1847 to death; one of founders of Irish archæological Society 1840 (united with Celtic Society 1854), for which he edited Clyn and Dowling’s Annals of Ireland 1849; author of Some notices of the Castle and of the Abbies at Trim 1835, 2 ed. 1840. d. 17 July 1862.

BUTLER, Sir Richard Pierce, 9 Baronet. b. 4 March 1813; succeeded 8 Nov. 1861. d. 22 Nov. 1862.

BUTLER, Sir Thomas, 8 Baronet. b. 23 Oct. 1783; succeeded 16 Jany. 1817. d. 8 Nov. 1861.

BUTLER-CLARKE-SOUTHWELL-WANDESFORD, Charles Harward (4 son of 17 Earl of Ormonde who d. 30 Jany. 1796). b. 9 Nov. 1780; M.P. for city of Kilkenny 1802–9 and 1814–20; M.P. for county Kilkenny 1820–30. d. Mount Juliet, Kilkenny 7 Nov. 1860.

BUTLER-JOHNSTONE, Henry (3 son of 13 Baron Dunboyne 1780–1850). b. Dublin 28 Aug. 1809; M.P. for Canterbury 8 July 1852 to 21 Feb. 1853 when unseated on petition of the electors, M.P. again 1857–62; colonel commandant Dumfries militia 7 Feb. 1868 to 15 March 1873. d. 8 Seamore place, Mayfair, London 1 April 1879.

BUTT, George Medd (2 son of John Butt of Sherborne). b. Sherborne 1797; practised as special pleader; barrister I.T. 25 June 1830, bencher 1845, reader 1858, treasurer 1859; Q.C. 1845; M.P. for Weymouth 10 July 1852 to 21 March 1857. d. 17 Eaton square, London 11 Nov. 1860.

BUTT, Isaac (only son of Rev. Robert Butt R. of Stranorlar, co. Donegal). b. Glenfin, co. Donegal 6 Sep. 1813; ed. at Royal school Raphoe and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1832, B.A. 1835, LL.B. 1836, M.A. and LLD. 1840; Whately professor of political economy in Trin. coll. Dublin 1836–41; called to Irish bar Nov. 1838; alderman of Dublin 1840; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1859; carried on a counter agitation to that of the Repeal Association 1843; Q.C. 2 Nov. 1844; M.P. for Harwich 8 May 1852 to 1 July 1852, for Youghal 1852 to 1865 and for Limerick 1871 to death; leader of the Home Rule party 1871 to death; defended the Fenian prisoners 1865–9; pres. of Amnesty Association 1869; a founder of Dublin Univ. Mag. 1833, editor Aug. 1834 to 1838; established in Dublin a weekly newspaper called the Protestant Guardian afterwards amalgamated with the Warder; author of Ovid’s Fasti translated 1833; The history of Italy 1860; A practical treatise on the new law of compensation to tenants in Ireland 1871; Home government for Ireland 1874. d. Roebuck cottage near Dundrum, co. Dublin 5 May 1879. Dublin Univ. Mag. xciii, 710–15 (1879); Sullivan’s New Ireland (1877), ii, 306–10, 319; Graphic iv, 485 (1871), portrait, xix, 508 (1879), portrait; I.L.N. iv, 40 (1844), portrait.

BUTT, James Palmer. Educ. at school established in Somers Town, London by Abbé Carron and at Stonyhurst college; kept a school with his brother Wm. Henry Butt at Baylis house, Salt hill near Windsor about 1828 to death. d. Baylis house, Salt hill 2 May 1873 aged 84.

BUTTER, Donald. Surgeon Bengal army 28 Aug. 1833; superintending surgeon at Benares 31 Dec. 1854 to 23 April 1859 when placed on h.p. with rank of inspector general; author of Outline of the topography and statistics of the Southern districts of Oudh 1839; Snake bite curable and hydrophobia preventible 1873. d. Hazelwood, Upper Norwood 24 Dec. 1877 aged 78.

BUTTER, John. b. Woodbury, Devon 22 Jany. 1791; ed. at Exeter gr. sch.; surgeon at Plymouth 1814–20, physician there 1820–56 when he became blind; M.D. Edin. 1820; originated Plymouth Eye Dispensary 1821; F.L.S. 1817; F.R.S. 21 March 1822; author of Remarks on irritative fever commonly called the Plymouth dockyard disease 1845. d. 7 Windsor villas, Plymouth 13 Jany. 1877.

BUTTERWORTH, Henry (son of Henry Butterworth of Coventry, timber merchant). b. Coventry 28 Feb. 1786; law publisher at 7 Fleet st. London 1818 to death; representative of ward of Farringdon Without in Court of Common Council 1823–30; law publisher to the Queen 23 Nov. 1852 to death; F.S.A. 6 Jany. 1848. d. Upper Tooting, Surrey 2 Nov. 1860. Memoir of the late H. Butterworth (1861).

BUTTERWORTH, William John. Adjutant 38 Madras N.I. 1821; lieut. col. of 2 European regiment 1841–3 and 1846–51, of 10 Madras N.I. 1843–6; col. of 5 Madras N.I. 3 Dec. 1851 to death; C.B. 20 July 1838; governor of Prince of Wales island, Singapore and Malacca 14 June 1843 to 1855, presented with piece of plate value £700 by the inhabitants 1856; general 28 Nov. 1854. d. Millmead house, Guildford 4 Nov. 1856 aged 55. I.L.N. xxix, 105–6 (1856), portrait.

BUXTON, Bertha H. (dau. of Wm. Lenpold or Leupold of London, merchant). b. 26 July 1844; ed. at Queen’s college, Tufnell park, London; travelled in Holland, Germany and America; published Jennie of “The Prince’s,” a novel by B. H. B. 3 vols. 1876; Won, by the author of Jennie of the Prince’s 3 vols. 1877; Rosabella, a doll’s Christmas story by Auntie Bee 1877; More dolls by Auntie Bee 1878; the following books have her name on them Fetterless though bound together 3 vols. 1879, Great Grenfell gardens 3 vols. 1879, Nell—On and off the stage 3 vols. 1880, From the wings 3 vols. 1880, Many loves 3 vols. 1880, Little Pops a nursery romance 1881, Sceptre and king 1881. (m. at Hanwell parish church 22 Dec. 1860, Henry Buxton of Hanwell, merchant son of Edward Buxton, merchant). d. 12 St. Mary’s terrace, Kensington, London 31 March 1881. Biograph iv, 159–62 (1880); Carisbrooke Mag. April 1881, portrait; Tinsley’s Mag. xxviii, 499–500 (1881).

BUXTON, Charles (3 son of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1 Baronet 1786–1845). b. Cromer 18 Nov. 1822; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B. A. 1845, M.A. 1850; partner in firm of Truman, Hanbury and Co. of Spitalfields, London, brewers 1845; M.P. for Newport, Isle of Wight 1857–9, for Maidstone 1859–65, for East Surrey 1865 to death; member of the Ritual commission 1867–8; his secretary Arthur White attempted to shoot him at 7 Grosvenor crescent, Hyde Park 29 April 1870; author of Slavery and freedom in the British West Indies 1860; The ideas of the day on policy Dec. 1865. d. Lochearnhead hotel near Killin, Perthshire 10 Aug. 1871. Personalty sworn under £250,000, 28 Feb. 1872. Notes of thought by the late C. Buxton, 2 ed. (1883) 5–52; Graphic iv, 219, 237 (1871), portrait.

BUXTON, Sir Edward North, 2 Baronet (brother of the preceding). b. Earlham, Norfolk 16 Sep. 1812; succeeded 19 Feb. 1845; M.P. for South Essex 1847–52, for East Norfolk 6 April 1857 to death. d. Colne house, Cromer 11 June 1858.

BUXTON, Frederick. b. Bow lane, Cheapside, London; made his first appearance on the stage at York 1844 as Mr. Gillman in The happiest day of my life; made his début in London at Olympic theatre 1847 as David in The Rivals; first appeared in America at Louisville, Kentucky March 1850 as Peter in The Stranger. d. Chicago 17 Jany. 1858.

BUXTON, Richard (2 son of John Buxton of Sedgley hall farm, Prestwich, farmer). b. Sedgley hall farm 15 Jany. 1786; apprenticed to a bat maker 1798; botanised in Derbyshire, Yorkshire, and North Wales; frequently cited in J. B. Wood’s Flora Mancuniensis 1840 as the authority for many localities of the rarer plants; author of Botanical guide to the flowering plants found within 16 miles of Manchester 1849, 2 ed. 1859. d. Manchester 2 Jany. 1865. J. Cash’s Where there’s a will there’s a way (1873) 94–107; Seemann’s Journ. of Bot. iii, 71 (1865).

BYAM, Edward (younger son of Edward Byam of Cedar hill, Antigua 1767–95). b. 1795; ensign 38 foot 11 Nov. 1811; major 15 Hussars 16 June 1825 to 26 Sep. 1826 when placed on h.p.; colonel 18 Hussars 23 Feb. 1858 to death; L.G. 16 Nov. 1858. d. Byam house, Brighton 9 Sep. 1864.

BYAM, Sir William (brother of the preceding). b. 1792; ed. at Eton; lieut. 15 Hussars 17 Sep. 1812 to 1817; served in Peninsula, south of France and Waterloo; pres. of local council in Antigua; colonel of regiment of dragoons raised in Antigua; knighted by patent 6 July 1859. d. Westwood, Southampton 5 July 1869.

BYLES, Sir John Barnard (eld. son of Jeremiah Byles of Stowmarket, Suffolk, timber merchant). b. Stowmarket 11 Jany. 1801; a special pleader; barrister I.T. 18 Nov. 1831; recorder of Buckingham 1840 to Jany. 1858; serjeant-at-law 14 Feb. 1843; leader of Norfolk circuit 1845; received a patent of precedence 1846; Queen’s serjeant with serjeants Shee and Wrangham 27 Feb. 1857, this was last appointment of queen’s serjeants of whom he was the survivor; judge of Court of Common Pleas Jany. 1858 to Jany. 1873 when he retired on pension of £3,500; knighted at St. James’s palace 14 April 1858; P.C. 3 March 1873; author of A discourse on the present state of the law of England 1829; A practical treatise on the law of bills of exchange 1829, 14 ed. 1885; Observations on the usury laws 1845; Free trade and its so called sophisms examined by a barrister 1850; Foundations of religion in the mind and heart of man 1875. d. Harefield house, Uxbridge 3 Feb. 1884, Will proved 25 March 1884, personalty upwards of £201,000. A. Pulling’s Order of the Coif (1884) 41, 105, 182; A generation of judges by their Reporter 1886; Law Journal xix, 115, 255 (1884); Times 5 Feb. 1884 p. 7, col. 1.

BYNG, Gerald Frederick (youngest son of 5 Viscount Torrington 1741–1813). Page of honour to Prince of Wales 1791; cornet 27 light dragoons 1800; ensign 53 foot 1801–2 when place on h.p.; clerk in Foreign office 5 Jany. 1801 to 5 Nov. 1839 when he retired on a superannuation allowance; ensign St. George’s volunteer infantry 1803; attended on King and Queen of Sandwich Islands during their visit to England May to July 1824; one of gentlemen ushers of privy chamber 23 March 1831 to death; a comr. for inquiring into Smithfield market 28 Nov. 1849; joined ranks of Queen’s rifle volunteers 1859; presented to that corps colours of the St. George’s volunteer infantry 1860; generally known as Poodle Byng, a soubriquet given him by George Canning on account of his curly hair; lived at 5 Cleveland court, afterwards called 37 St. James’s place, Pall Mall, London 1831 to death. d. there 5 June 1871 aged 87. Life of G. Brummell by captain Jesse i, 110 (1886), portrait.

BYNG, Henry Dilkes (brother of the preceding). b. 1784; entered navy March 1798; captain 9 March 1814; held a command on lakes of Canada 15 years; captain of the Ordinary at Portsmouth 1833–6; commodore at Jamaica 1842–3; retired captain 1 Oct. 1846; retired V.A. 31 Jany. 1856. d. Queen’s terrace, Southsea 23 Sep. 1860.

BYRES, Patrick (younger son of Robert Byres of London, merchant). b. about 1778; entered Bengal army 1794; major 11 Bengal N.I. 5 Aug. 1816; colonel 20 Bengal N.I. 3 June 1825; colonel 33 Bengal N.I. 9 July 1840 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. Lonley, Aberdeenshire 1 Feb. 1854.

BYRNE, Right Rev. Andrew. b. Navan, Ireland 5 Dec. 1802; went to America 1820; deacon April 1827, priest 11 Nov. 1827; stationed at various places in Carolina; pastor of St. Mary’s R.C. church at Charleston 1830; vicar general of Bishop of Charleston; pastor of St. James’s church N.Y. 1 Sep. 1836, of St. Andrew’s church N.Y. 19 March 1842, of Church of the Nativity N.Y. 5 June 1842; bishop of Little Rock comprising state of Arkansas 1844 to death; consecrated at St. Patrick’s cath. N.Y. 10 March 1844; attended sixth provincial council at Baltimore, May 1846 and first provincial council at New Orleans 1856. d. 1862. R. H. Clarke’s Lives of deceased bishops ii, 264–71 (1872).

BYRNE, John. Ensign 22 foot 1 Oct. 1808; lieut. col. 31 foot 8 Oct. 1844 to 15 April 1846; lieut. col. 53 foot 15 April 1846 to 9 May 1851 when he sold out; C.B. 3 April 1846. d. 21 July 1851.

BYRNE, Miles. b. Monaseed, co. Wexford 20 March 1780; joined society of United Irishmen 1797; joined insurgents under Rev. John Murphy at Corrigua, co. Wexford 3 June 1798; clerk in timber yard in Dublin 1798–1803; lieutenant of infantry in Napoleon’s Irish legion Nov. 1803, commanded a bataillon d’elite of Irish troops 1810, chevalier of Legion of honour 18 June 1813, received cross of that order 1832; chef de bataillon in 56 regiment of the line 1830–5; served in Greece 1828–30; lived in Paris 1835 to death. d. Rue Montaigne, Paris 24 Jany. 1862. Monument in Montmartre cemetery. Memoirs of Miles Byrne 3 vols. 1863, portrait.

BYRNE, Oscar (son of James Byrne, dancer who d. 5 Burton crescent, London 4 Dec. 1844 aged 85). Made his first appearance as a dancer in a ballet at Drury Lane theatre 1803; spent some years in Ireland and abroad; ballet master at Princess’s theatre 1850–9, at Drury Lane 1862, at Her Majesty’s Nov. 1866; had an inexhaustible invention in designing new dances; taught most of the English dancers who gained distinction during his time. d. 22 Islip st. Kentish Town, London 4 Sep. 1867 aged 72.

Note.—His father James Byrne introduced in Powell’s pantomime Harlequin Amulet or the Magic of Mona at Drury Lane theatre Christmas 1799 an entirely new dress for the harlequin consisting of a white silk shape fitting without a wrinkle into which 308 variegated silk patches were woven, the whole being profusely covered with 48,000 spangles. He completely altered the manner of playing harlequin by making him a graceful and agile dancer instead of merely posturing on the stage in 5 positions. Harlequins before that time wore loose dresses.

BYRON, Anne Isabella, Baroness Wentworth (only child of Sir Ralph Milbanke, 6 Baronet who d. 19 March 1825 aged 78). b. Ellemore hall, Durham 17 May 1792 being first child after a marriage of 15 years. (m. 2 Jany. 1815 George Gordon Byron, 6 Baron Byron he was b. 22 Jany. 1788 and d. 19 April 1824, they separated by mutual consent Feb. 1816). Founded an industrial school for boys at Ealing on system of Fellenberg 1834, another at Leicester, a reformatory for girls and some village schools; became baroness Wentworth at decease of her cousin Lord Scarsdale 12 Nov. 1856 when abeyance of the barony ceased. d. 11 St. George’s terrace, Regent’s park, London 16 May 1860. Macpherson’s Memoirs of the life of Anna Jameson 1878 pp. 94, 163, 187, 188, 209 and 280; H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches, 4 ed. 1876 316–25; Lady Byron vindicated by H. B. Stowe 1870; Quarterly Review Oct. 1869, Jany. 1870 and July 1883.

BYRON, George Anson Byron, 7 Baron (only son of George Anson Byron 1758–93, captain R.N.) b. Bath 8 March 1789; entered navy as a volunteer Dec. 1800; captain 7 June 1814; admiral on h.p. 20 May 1862; succeeded his cousin the poet 19 April 1824. d. 44 Eaton place, London 2 March 1868.

BYRON, George Anson Byron, 8 Baron. b. Cheltenham 30 June 1818; succeeded 2 March 1868. d. 28 Nov. 1870.

BYRON, Henry James (eld. son of Henry Byron 1804–84, British consul at Port au Prince, Hayti). b. Manchester 8 Jany 1835; ed. at St. Peter’s College Eaton sq. London; admitted student at M.T. 14 Jany 1858; edited Fun from first number 21 Sep. 1861; edited Comic News 13 July 1863 to May 1864; edited Mirth Nov. 1877 to Oct. 1878 12 numbers only; manager with Marie Wilton of Prince of Wales’s theatre London 15 April 1865 to 1867; manager of Alexandra theatre Liverpool 1867, of the T.R. and Amphitheatre Liverpool; manager of Criterion theatre London when it opened 21 May 1874; made his début in London at Globe theatre 23 Oct. 1869 as Sir Simon Simple in his own comedy Not such a fool as he looks; author of about 120 burlesques, farces and comedies produced at West-end theatres, Cyril’s success was played at Globe theatre 28 Nov. 1868 to 27 March 1869 being longest run of any original 5 act play in modern times, and Our Boys a 3 act comedy was played at Vaudeville theatre from 16 Jany. 1875 to 18 April 1879 an unbroken run of 1362 times; author of Paid in full 3 vols. 1865. d. Rockelemont, Queen’s road, Clapham, London 12 April 1884. Illustrated Review vi, 441–3 (1874), portrait; Pascoe’s Dramatic list (1879) 61–68; W. Archer’s English dramatists of to-day (1882) 119–47; London Society xxvi, 121–9 (1874); Biograph (1880) 360–8; Theatre i, 212 (1878), portrait, v, 345–50 (1882), iii, 268–72 (1884).