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ABBEY, John. b. Whilton, Northants 22 Dec. 1785; employed by James David and then by Hugh Russell organ-builders London; worked for Sebastian Erard in Paris 1826; an organ-builder in Paris; built choir organs for cathedrals of Rheims, Nantes, Versailles, and Evreux, large organs for cathedrals of Rochelle, Rennes, Viviers, Tulle, Bayeux and Amiens, many organs for South America, and an organ for the opera-house in Rue Lepelletier, Paris, destroyed by fire with the house, 28 Nov. 1873; introduced into French organs English mechanism, and the bellows invented by Alexander Cumming. d. Versailles 19 Feb. 1859.
ABBISS, James. b. Wallsworth near Hitchin in Herts 3 June 1812; tea-dealer in Gracechurch st. London 1835; chairman of City of London Union 1857 to death; alderman for ward of Bridge 1859–67; sheriff of London 1860–61. d. The Shrubbery, Chase Side, Enfield 7 July 1882. bur. Edmonton ch. yard 11 July.
ABBISS, Rev. John (son of John Abbiss of Wandsworth, Surrey). b. 12 July 1789; matric. Trin. Coll. Ox. 10 Oct. 1810, B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817; R. of St. Bartholomew the Great, city of London 1819 to death. d. 41 Myddelton sq. Clerkenwell 8 July 1883. bur. Stoke d’Abernon near Leatherhead 13 July.
ABBOTT, Augustus (eld. son of Henry Alexius Abbott, of Calcutta, merchant). b. London 7 Jan. 1804; ed. at Warfield in Berks, Winchester, and Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery 16 April 1819; commanded the artillery in defence of Jellalabad, Nov. 1841 to April 1842; Col. 14 Nov. 1858 to death; served in Afghan war 1838–42; principal commissary of ordnance 12 Dec. 1847 to 9 Feb. 1855; inspector-general of ordnance and magazines Bengal 9 Feb. 1855–18 Jan. 1858; commander at Meerut 27 Jan. 1858; M.G. 13 April 1860; Douranee order conferred on him Nov. 1840, but he never wore it; C.B. 11 Oct. 1842; one of the finest artillery officers of his time. d. 4 Paragon buildings, Cheltenham 25 Feb. 1867. The Afghan War, 1838–1842, from the Journal of the late Augustus Abbott. By C. R. Low. 1879.
ABBOTT, Rev. Edward Singleton. Preb. of St. Michael’s in Ch. Ch. cathedral, Dublin 13 Aug. 1844; preb. of St. John’s 11 Mch. 1845; preb. of St. Michan’s 12 Feb. 1854–55; R. of St. Mary’s, Dublin 1855 to death; sub.-dean of chapel royal Dublin 1858 to death; committed suicide by shooting himself at 7 North Frederick st. Dublin 12 June 1865 aged 63.
ABBOTT, Edwin. b. London 12 May 1808; principal of Philological school 248 Marylebone road, London 1827–72; and secretary 1872 to death; one of the first to advocate a more thorough English training in schools; author of A second Latin book 1858; Greek tragic iambics 1864; Complete concordance to works of Alexander Pope 1875. d. 18 Palace sq. Upper Norwood 27 May 1882. bur. Kensal Green 31 May.
ABBOTT, John (son of Robert Abbott of Halifax, carpet manufacturer, who founded the carpet trade in Halifax with Mr. Crossley, and d. 1825). b. Halifax 20 July 1796; a woolstapler there; took a leading part in all matters of social improvement and left charitable bequests of £61,500. d. Halifax 13 May 1870.
ABBOTT, Rev. Joseph. b. Cumberland 1789; ed. at Bampton sch. and Marischal coll. Aberdeen; Missionary of the S.P.G. at St. Andrew’s, Grenville, Lower Canada 1818–47, when he retired; wrote The Emigrant to North America from memoranda of a settler in Canada, first published in the Quebec Mercury 1842, republished in many leading Canadian papers and in several English papers, including Emigration Gazette, and in pamphlet form by the Emigration agent. 2nd ed. 1843, it was also pub. in a more extended form by John Murray in the Home and Colonial library, under the title of Philip Musgrave or the adventures of a Missionary in Canada; contributed many tales to Canadian periodicals. d. Montreal, Jany. 1863. Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis (1867) pp. 3–4.
ABBOTT, Thomas Eastoe. b. East Dereham, Norfolk 1779; author of Peace; a lyric poem 1814; The triumph of Christianity 1819; The soldier’s friend 1828. d. Darlington 18 Feb. 1854.
ABDY, Maria. b. London; wrote in the New Monthly, The Metropolitan and the Annuals; privately printed Poems 8 series, 8 vols. 1830–62; An appeal on behalf of governesses, her longest poem gained first prize offered for literary productions on that subject, (m. Rev. John Channing Abdy, R. of St. John’s Southwark who d. 27 Jany. 1845 aged 52.) d. 7 Upper Marine terrace, Margate 19 July 1867 aged 70. bur. St. Peter’s church yard Isle of Thanet.
ABDY, Sir Thomas Neville, 1 Baronet (only son of Anthony Thomas Abdy, captain R.N. who d. 9 June 1838, by Grace dau. of admiral Sir Thomas Rich). b. 21 Dec. 1810; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1833; M.P. for Lyme Regis, (lib.) 30 July 1847–1 July 1852; cr. baronet 8 Jan. 1850; sheriff of Essex 1875. (m. 19 Oct. 1841 Harriet 2nd dau. of Rowland Alston, M.P. of Pishiobury, Herts, she d. 8 July 1877.) d. 6 Grosvenor place, London 20 July 1877.
ABDY, Sir William, 7 Baronet. b. 1779; succeeded 21 July 1803. d. 20b. Hill st. London 15 Apl. 1868.
A’BECKETT, Arthur Martin (youngest son of Wm. A’Beckett of Golden square, London, long known as the Reform solicitor, who d. 23 Feb. 1855 aged 77, by his 1 wife Sarah who d. 25 Aug. 1817). b. Golden square, London 1812; ed. at London univ. 1834 and at Paris; M.R.C.S. 9 March 1838, F.R.C.S. 13 Dec. 1855, M.D.; Staff surgeon to British legion in Spain; on staff of Sir De Lacy Evans 1835–37; arrived in Sydney 1838; practised there 1838–58; member of legislative council of N.S.W. to 1858; knight of San Ferdinand; F.R.G.S. 1860. (m. 15 May 1838 Emma Louisa 1 dau. of Marsham Elwin of Thirning, Norfolk, she was b. 26 Aug. 1814). d. Sydney 23 May 1871. Medical Times and Gazette, ii, 263 (1871); Heads of the people, ii, 83 (1848) pt.
A’BECKETT, Gilbert Abbot (2 son of Wm. A’Beckett of Golden sq.) b. The Grange, Haverstock hill, London 9 Jany. 1811. ed. at Westminster school; sole proprietor of following periodicals, The terrific penny magazine, The Ghost, The Lover, The gallery of terrors, The Figaro monthly newspaper, and The Figaro caricature gallery; proprietor with Thomas Littleton Holt of following periodicals, The evangelical penny magazine, Dibdin’s penny trumpet, The thief, Poor Richard’s journal, and The people’s penny pictures; student at Gray’s Inn 25 Apl. 1828; dramatic critic of the Weekly Despatch; edited Figaro in London comic weekly paper, 160 numbers 1 Dec. 1831 to 27 Dec. 1834; joint manager with Edward Mayhew of the Fitzroy theatre, Fitzroy st. Tottenham court road, London 1834 where he produced his first burlesque Glaucus and Scylla; edited The Wag 1837, and The Squib 1842, comic weekly papers; one of the original staff of Punch or the London Charivari, which appeared 17 July 1841, wrote in it from number 4 to his death; wrote leading articles in The Times one year, and in Morning Herald; wrote humorous articles in Pictorial Times; barrister G.I. 27 Jany 1841; poor Law comr. to inquire into iniquities practised in Andover union, March 1846; magistrate at Greenwich and Woolwich police court, Feb. 1849, and at Southwark, Dec. 1849 to death; went to Boulogne 17 July 1856; author of Scenes from the rejected comedies, a series of parodies upon living dramatists 1844; The quizziology of the British drama 1846; The comic Blackstone 1846; The comic history of England, 2 vols. 1847–8; The comic history of Rome 1852; wrote more than 50 plays; dramatised with Mark Lemon, Dickens’s novel “The Chimes,” produced at Adelphi theatre 19 Dec. 1844. (m. about 1836 Mary Anne eld. dau. of Joseph Glossop, she was granted a civil list pension of £100, 23 Oct. 1856. She m. (2) George Jones, barrister, and d. 11 Dec. 1863 aged 46). d. of typhus fever at Rue Neuve Chaussée, Boulogne 30 Aug. 1856, body removed to Highgate cemetery. The Critic, xv. 436 (1856); Mr. Punch, his origin and career 1870; Alfred Bunn’s A word with Punch 1847, pp. 5–7 pt.; I.L.N. xxx, 570 (1857), view of his tomb in Highgate cemetery.
Note.—There is a portrait of him by Leech in his two page cartoon, called “Mr. Punch’s fancy ball” in Punch 9 Jany. 1847, where he is represented as playing the violin in the orchestra between the double bass and the clarionet. His first contribution to Punch, entitled “The above bridge navy,” appeared in No. 4, 7 Aug. 1841 with John Leech’s earliest cartoon, “Foreign Affairs.”
A’BECKETT, Sir William (eld. son of Wm. A’Beckett of Golden square). b. London 28 July 1806; ed. at Westminster; barrister L.I. 30 June 1829; went to Sydney 1837; solicitor general of New South Wales 1841; a judge of court of N.S.W. 24 Nov. 1845; resident judge at Port Philip 3 Feb. 1846; chief justice and judge of admiralty court of Victoria 25 Aug. 1851; knighted by patent 19 Nov. 1852; returned to England 1858; author of great part of The Georgian Era 4 vols. 1832–34; of Universal biography 3 vols. 1840; and of The Earl’s choice and other poems 1863. (m. (1) 1832 Emily dau. of E. Hayley, she d. 1 June 1841. m. (2) 1849 Matilda dau. of E. Hayley, she d. 8 Aug. 1879 aged 64). d. Abbotsville, Upper Norwood, Surrey 27 June 1869.
Note.—He edited at Sydney from 1837–38 a periodical called the Literary News, of which no copies are supposed to be now in existence.
ABELL, Lucia Elizabeth (2 dau. of Wm. Balcombe, navy agent, purveyor to Napoleon Bonaparte at St. Helena, and afterwards the colonial treasurer of N.S.W. who d. 19 March 1829). Author of Recollections of the Emperor Napoleon during the first three years of his captivity on the island of St. Helena 1848, including the time of his residence at her father’s house, “the Briars.” (m. Edward Abell). d. 18 Chester terrace, Eaton sq. London 29 June 1871. Recollections of the Emperor Napoleon 3rd ed. 1873, pt. Of Mrs. Abell.
ABERCROMBY, George Ralph Abercromby, 3 Baron. b. Edinburgh 30 May 1800; M.P. for Clackmannan, (whig) 13 July 1824–2 June 1826, 10 Aug. 1830–23 April 1831, and 6 July 1841–18 Feb. 1842; M.P. for Stirlingshire 30 April 1838–23 June 1841; major 3 dragoon guards 22 June 1826–21 Nov. 1828; succeeded 14 Feb. 1843; lord lieutenant of Clackmannan 1843 to death; was blind. d. Airthney castle, Stirling 25 June 1852.
ABERCROMBY, The Honble. Alexander, b. 4 March 1784; ensign 52 foot 16 Aug. 1799; lieut. col. 28 foot 8 Dec. 1808–25 July 1814; commanded a brigade at battle of Albuera 16 May 1811; captain Coldstream guards 25 July 1814–25 Oct. 1821, when placed on half pay on reduction of regiment; C.B. 4 June 1815; K.M.T.; K.T.S.; K.S.G.; M.P. for co. Clackmannan 11 April 1817–10 June 1818. d. at his country seat in Scotland 27 Aug. 1853. Napier’s Peninsular War, book xii, chapters 6 and 7.
ABERCROMBY, Sir George Samuel, 6 baronet. b. Edinburgh 22 May 1824; succeeded 6 July 1855. d. Forglen house, Turriff Banffshire 15 Nov. 1872.
ABERCROMBY, Sir Robert, 5 baronet. b. Forglen house, Banffshire 4 Feb. 1784; M.P. for Banffshire 2 Nov. 1812–10 June 1818; succeeded 18 July 1831. d. Forglen house 6 July 1855.
ABERDEEN, George Hamilton Gordon, 4 Earl of (1 son of George Gordon, styled Lord Haddo 1764–91, by Charlotte, youngest dau. of Wm. Baird of Newbyth, co. Haddington, she d. 8 Oct. 1795). b. Edinburgh 28 Jany. 1784; ed. at Harrow, and St. John’s coll. Cam., M.A. 1804; succeeded his grandfather 13 Aug. 1801; visited Greece, Turkey and Russia; founded Athenian society 1804, of which no one might be a member who had not visited Athens; rep. peer Scotland 15 Dec. 1806–1 June 1814; K.T. 16 March 1808; ambassador to Vienna 29 July 1813–April 1814, when he prevailed with the Emperor to join the allied sovereigns against Napoleon by treaty of Toplitz 9 Sep. 1813; present at battles of Dresden and Leipsic; signed treaty of peace at Paris 1 June 1814; created a peer of the U.K. as Viscount Gordon of Aberdeen, co. Aberdeen 1 June 1814; P.C. 23 July 1814; took name of Hamilton before that of Gordon by royal license 13 Nov. 1818; chancellor of univ. of Aberdeen 1827; chancellor of duchy of Lancaster 26 Jan. 1828–2 June 1828; sec. of state for foreign affairs 2 June 1828–2 Nov. 1830 and 2 Sep. 1841–5 July 1846; sec. of state for the colonies 5 June 1834–18 April 1835; ranger of Greenwich park 1 Feb. 1845; lord lieut. of Aberdeenshire 23 April 1846; first lord of the treasury 28 Dec. 1852–1 Feb. 1855; an elder brother of Trinity house Nov. 1853–54; a comr. for executing office of treasurer of exchequer of Great Britain, and lord high treasurer of Ireland 6 Mch. 1854; president of Society of Antiquaries 1812–46; F.R.S. 28 April 1808, F.R.G.S. 1830, K.G. 7 Feb. 1855; visited by the Queen at Haddo house, 15 Oct. 1857; author of Inquiry into principles of beauty in Grecian architecture, 1822. (m. (1) 28 July 1805 Catherine Elizabeth, 3 dau. of John James Hamilton, 1 Marquess of Abercorn, she was b. 10 Jan. 1784, and d. 29 Feb. 1812. m. (2) 8 July 1815 Harriet, 2 dau. of honble. John Douglas and widow of James Hamilton, eld. son of 1 Marquess of Abercorn, she was b. 8 June 1792, and d. 26 Aug. 1833). d. 7 Argyll st. Regent st. London 14 Dec. 1860. bur. in family vault at Stanmore 21 Dec. Correspondence of Earl of Aberdeen 1850–53, privately printed 1880; Edinburgh Review, clviii, 547–77 (1883); Thirty years of foreign policy 1854; Proc. of Royal Society of Edin. iv, 477–83 (1862); The British cabinet in 1853, pp. 7–43, pt.; Jerdan’s National portrait gallery, vol. 3, pt.; I.L.N. i, 461 (1842), xx, 1, (1853) xxxvii, 635 (1860) pts.; A.R. (1860) 376–83.
Note.—Lord Byron in his “English bards and Scotch reviewers,” refers to him as “The travelled Thane, Athenian Aberdeen.” He was allowed the very rare distinction of being permitted to retain the order of the Thistle, together with that of the Garter. Exclusive of royalty, 12 Knights of the Thistle (since the re-establishment of the order in 1687), have been elected to the Garter, of these 12 only 4 have retained both orders.
ABERDEEN, George John James Hamilton-Gordon, 5 Earl of. b. Bentley priory, Stanmore 28 Sep. 1816; ed. privately, and at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1837; attaché at Constantinople 1837; M.P. Aberdeenshire (lib.) 22 Aug. 1854–14 Dec. 1860, when he succeeded; went to Egypt, Sep. 1854, and June 1860; went to Madrid, May 1863 to petition Queen of Spain for a remission of sentence on Manuel Matamoros, (who was sentenced to 9 years penal servitude for preaching Protestantism, he was eventually exiled from Spain, he was b. Malaga, Oct. 1834 and d. Lausanne, 31 July 1866.) d. Haddo house, Aberdeenshire 22 March 1864. bur. Methlie churchyard 29 March. Memoir of Lord Haddo by Rev. E. B. Elliott, 6 ed. 1873; The true nobility by Alexander Duff 1868; I.L.N. xxiv, 265 (1854) pt.
ABERDEEN, George Hamilton-Gordon, 6 Earl of. b. 10 Dec. 1841; succeeded 22 March 1864; one of the Scotch 8 in rifle competition at Wimbledon for Elcho challenge shield 1864 and 1865; dropped his title and adopted name of George H. Osborne about 22 May 1866; sailor in American merchant service June 1866 to death; sailed from Boston for Melbourne in the ship “Hera” 21 Jany. 1870, washed overboard and drowned in latitude 40˝10´, longitude 58˝14´, 27 Jany. 1870. Memoir of Lord Haddo, by Rev. E. B. Elliott, 6 ed. 1873, 315–28; Sir Bernard Burke’s Reminiscences (1882) 201–26.
ABERGAVENNY, Rev. William Nevill, 4 Earl of. b. 28 June 1792; succeeded 12 April 1845. d. Birling manor near Maidstone 17 Aug. 1868.
Note.—His personalty was sworn under £300,000 Oct. 1868.
ABINGDON, Montagu Bertie, 5 Earl of. b. 30 April 1784; succeeded 26 Sept. 1799; cupbearer at coronation of George iv 19 July 1821; lord lieut. of Berkshire 1828 to death. d. Wytham abbey, Berkshire 16 Oct. 1854. bur. at Rycote 24 Oct.
ABINGDON, Montagu Bertie, 6 earl of. b. Dover st. Piccadilly 19 June 1808; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1829, D.C.L. Ox. 1834; M.P. Oxfordshire (tory) 5 Aug. 1830–23 April 1831, and 17 Dec. 1832–1 July 1852, for Abingdon 3 Dec. 1852–16 Oct. 1854, when he succeeded; lord lieut. of Berkshire 13 Feb. 1855–1881. d. 18 Grosvenor st. London 8 Feb. 1884. bur. Wytham abbey 13 Feb.
ABINGER, Robert Campbell Scarlett, 2 Baron. b. London 5 Sep. 1794; barrister I.T. 27 Nov. 1818; M.P. Norwich (conserv.) 7 Jany. 1835–17 July 1837, for Horsham 28 June 1841–7 April 1844, when he succeeded; envoy ex. and min. plen. to Tuscany 13 Dec. 1859–22 March 1860, when mission was abolished on annexation of Tuscany to Sardinia. d. Abinger hall near Dorking 24 June 1861.
ABINGTON, Leonard James. b. London 27 Nov. 1785; edited The Pottery Mercury at Hanley Staffordshire 1824; pastor of New st. baptist chapel, Hanley 1836–63. d. Northwood, Hanley 7 Aug. 1867. Personal recollections of late L. J. Abington 1868, pt.
ABRAHALL, Theophilus Bennett Hoskyns (2 son of Rev. John Hoskyns Abrahall, C. of Badgworth, Somerset). Barrister I.T. 25 June 1830; went western circuit; sec. of commissions of the peace to lord chancellor; revising barrister S. Lancashire and Northumberland; deputy registrar of London court of bankruptcy 1844–54, registrar 1854–14 Dec. 1861; comr. of Newcastle district court of bankruptcy 14 Dec. 1861–31 Dec. 1869, when country district courts were abolished, d. Wonford house lunatic asylum, Heavitree, Exeter 2 Aug. 1874 aged 72.
ABRAHAM, George Frederick, admitted solicitor Nov. 1805; practised in London to death; originated with Thomas Thompson of the Stock Exchange the Home Missionary Society 11 Aug. 1819, the Congregational Union was merged in it 1827. d. 3 Mansfield st. Portland place, London 3 Jany. 1870 aged 88.
ABRAHAM, Robert, b. Cumberland; ed. for medical profession at Univ. of Edin.; served on the press in Cumberland; edited a leading Liverpool journal; went to Canada about 1843; Proprietor of the Montreal Gazette, editor to Dec. 1848, when it was sold; admitted an advocate of Lower Canada; edited the Transcript 1849 to death; edited the Lower Canada Agricultural Journal to death. d. Montreal 10 Nov. 1854. Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis (1867) pp. 4–5.
ABRAHAM, Thomas, b. Bampton, Devon 1807; ed. at Blundell’s gr. sch. Tiverton; apprenticed to Edward Acton at Grundisburgh, Suffolk; studied at Guy’s hospital, London; L.S.A. Dec. 1833, M.R.C.S. April 1834; began practise in Old Broad st. 1834; surgeon to parish of Allhallows on the Wall for 3 years from Jany. 1835; surgeon to London infirmary for diseases of the skin 1836 to its close in 1837; member of Health of London association 1847; a comr. of sewers to his death; M.D. Erlangen 1851; M.D. Edin. 1859; a governor of Dulwich college 1861 to death and of Bridewell and Bethlehem hospitals; one of a sub committee of 4 who drew up “Report of health of London association on sanitary condition of Metropolis”; member of council of Hunterian society; helped to found Ragged school in Foster st. city of London; treasurer of London philanthropic society, d. Marsden villa, Haverstock hill 16 July 1864 in 57 year. bur. Kensal Green 21 July. Medical Circular i, 10, 25 (1852) pt.
ABYSSINIA, Alam-ayahu, Prince of. (son of Theodore King of Abyssinia 1818–68). b. Debra Tabor 23 April 1861; arrived in England 14 July 1868; ed. at Cheltenham, Rugby and Sandhurst, d. Headingley, Leeds 14 Nov. 1879.
ACKERLEY, Charles Henry (younger son of John Hawksey Ackerley, barrister, who d. 18 May 1842 aged 73, by Elizabeth dau. of Rev. John Chamberlayne of Maugersbury house, Gloucester). Entered navy 1 Feb. 1810; lieut. 20 Nov. 1822; commander on half pay 1 July 1864; presented with large silver medal of Society of arts for his safety rods for ships’ boats 2 June 1828; invented a lamp which he called the lamp of life; tried at Swansea 27 Feb. 1851 for causing death of a miner named Dingle by the use of this lamp, and found not guilty; author of A plan for the better security of vessels navigating the river Thames 1834. d. at residence of his sister Mrs. Peter Brown at Dover 22 Nov. 1865.
ACKERS, George Holland, b. 10 Aug. 1812; commodore of royal Victoria yacht club 1850–62, this club was founded at Ryde, Isle of Wight 24 May 1845, its admiralty warrant is dated 29 July 1845; sheriff of Cheshire 1852; author of Universal yacht signals 1847, of which he gave the copyright to Robert Henry Hunt who at his suggestion started Hunt’s Yachting Magazine Aug. 1852. d. 15 Hyde park terrace, London 20 Jan. 1872.
ACKERS, James, b. 1811; M.P. for Ludlow (conserv.) 3 July 1841–23 July 1847; purchased estate of Prinknash, Gloucestershire 1847. d. 27 Sep. 1868.
ACLAND, James (son of Mr. Acland of London, Government contractor). b. city of London 21 March 1799; ed. at Alfred house academy, Camberwell; joined Phillimore’s theatrical company at Chew Magna; clerk in office of Hullett Brothers & Company, South American merchants, Austin Friars; leading tragedian of Royalty theatre, Wellclose square; taught English at Calais; a penny a liner in London; sub editor of the British Traveller; took lodgings in Queen st. Hull 1831; started a publication called The Portfolio, or memoirs and correspondence of an editor, Aug. 1831; printed it himself at 23 Queen st.; erected a stall in the market place and refused to pay usual fee for it; ran a packet called the “Magna Charta” from Hull to Barton on Humber, charging less than half fares; ran a light cart over all bridges in the town and refused to pay bridge toll, great alarm being created, the Mayor swore in 800 special constables, corporation began action against him in court of King’s Bench, Jany. 1832; tried at York 31 March 1832 for infringement of Barton ferry, when verdict went against him with damages one farthing, his costs amounting to £270, he barricaded his house for several months to prevent anyone entering to arrest him, his Portfolio being sold through a crevice in the window; elected churchwarden of Holy Trinity, Hull, Easter Monday 1832; taken to gaol for not paying his costs; a candidate for office of chamberlain of Hull, Sep. 1832; a grocer at 23 Queen st., to which house he gave name of “Anti-corporate castle;” confined in the King’s Bench prison, Nov. 1832; sentenced to 18 months imprisonment in gaol of Bury St. Edmunds for libel; served the full term; contested Hull as a liberal 13 Dec. 1832, polled only 433 votes; last number of the Portfolio issued 13 July 1833, a few sheets followed, which he styled Prison Proverbs. Proprietor with Richard and Anthony Dugdale of Paris Sun, “the largest continental journal and the only English paper in the world, published daily throughout the year,” was director and editor of it at 7 Rue Vivienne, Paris 1 Jany. 1837; only number of it in British Museum library is headed “Vol. 2, No. 54, Thursday morning, Feb. 23, 1837, 10 sous,” the proprietors were condemned by the president of 6th chamber of correctional police to a fine to government of 2000 francs, and to payment of 1000 francs to proprietors of an opposition paper for libel 22 Feb. 1837; lecturer of Anti-corn law league 1838–46; convened and addressed farm labourers of every village in Devon and Cornwall; an election and parliamentary agent 1846 to death; a very good speaker on nearly any subject; author of True patriotism, a poem 1817, The Imperial poll book of all elections from 1832 to 1864, Second ed. 1869. d. 14 Ellerslie terrace, Clapham, London 21 June 1876. The Bristolian Nos. 1–7, 23 Feb.–11 May 1872; W. A. Gunnell’s Sketches of Hull celebrities 1876, 460–64.
ACLAND, Sir Peregrine Fuller Palmer, 2 Baronet, b. 10 Nov. 1789; succeeded 23 Feb. 1831. d. Fairfield, Bridgwater 25 Oct. 1871.
ACLAND, Sir Thomas Dyke, 10 Baronet (1 son of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 9 baronet, who d. 17 May 1794, by Henrietta Anne only dau. of Sir Richard Hoare, baronet, she d. 2 Sep. 1841). b. London 29 March 1787; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1808, M.A. 1814, D.C.L. 1831; one of the founders of Grillion’s club 1812, which met at Grillion’s hotel, 7 Albemarle st. London; M.P. Devon (tory) 17 Oct. 1812–10 June 1818 and 18 March 1820–23 April 1831; M.P. for North Devon 29 July 1837–21 March 1857; head of religious party in House of Commons; F.G.S. 1818, F.R.G.S. 1830, F.R.S. 20 June 1839. (m. 7 April 1808 Lydia Elizabeth only dau. of Henry Hoare of Fleet st. London, banker, she d. 23 June 1856 aged 69). d. Killerton, Broad Clyst, Devon 22 July 1871. J. B. Sweet’s Life of Henry Hoare 1870; I.L.N. lix, 99, 116, 121, 362 (1871) pt. Grillion’s Club by P. G. E. privately printed 1880 pt.
Note.—His personalty was sworn under £70,000; a statue of him by E. B. Stephens, A.R.A., was erected on Northernhay, Exeter 1861.
ACTON, Eliza (eld. dau. of John Acton of Hastings, brewer). b. Battle, Sussex 17 April 1799; published Poems 500 copies 1826, 2 ed. 1827; lived some time in France; at Tunbridge 1837; at Hampstead; author of The voice of the North, a poem 1842; Modern Cookery in all its branches 1845, 6 ed. 1855; The English bread book 1857. d. Snowdon house, John st. Hampstead 13 Feb. 1859.
ACTON, Marianne Lady Acton (elder dau. of general Joseph Edward Acton). b. 1782. m. 1796 by dispensation of the Pope, her uncle Sir John Francis Edward Acton, 6 baronet, prime minister of Naples several years, he was b. 1736 and d. 12 Aug. 1811. d. Buckland 18 March 1873.
ACTON, William. b. 1789; sheriff of Wicklow 1820; M.P. for co. Wicklow (conserv.) 17 July 1841–27 April 1848. d. Westaston Rathdrum, co. Wicklow 10 April 1854.
ACTON, William, b. Shillingstone rectory 15 Sep. 1814; placed under care of Dr. Mant in London 1830; articled pupil of Charles Wheeler, (Apothecary to St. Bartholomew’s hospital) 1830–35; Externe at female venereal hospital Paris; Secretary of the Parisian medical society 1839; returned to London Oct. 1840; M.R.C.S. June 1840; practised in George st. Hanover square 1840–43; removed to 46 Queen Anne st. Cavendish square March 1843; surgeon to Islington dispensary; author of A practical treatise on diseases of the urinary and generative organs 1841, 3 ed. 1860; Prostitution considered in its moral, social and sanitary aspects in London and other large cities 1857, 2 ed. 1870. d. 17 Harley st. London 7 Dec. 1875. Medical Circular i, 11–12 (1852).
ADAIR, Sir Robert (son of Robert Adair, sergeant surgeon to George III, who d. 16 March 1790, by Caroline Keppel, 1737–69 elder dau. of Wm. Anne 3 Earl of Albemarle). b. London 24 May 1763; ed. at Westminster and Univ. of Gottingen; called to the bar at L.I. 27 April 1785; M.P. Appleby, (whig) 18 June 1799–29 June 1802, for Camelford 7 July 1802–29 Sep. 1812; minister to court of Vienna 7 May 1806–14 May 1807; minister to Constantinople 5 July 1808, and ambassador 14 April 1809; sent on a special mission to the Low Countries 1831–35; P.C. 23 July 1828; G.C.B. 3 Aug. 1831 for negotiating peace between Great Britain and Ottoman Porte in 1809; author of Historical memoir of a mission to court of Vienna in 1806 with a selection from despatches, 1844; The negotiations for the peace of the Dardanelles in 1808–1809, 2 vols. 1845. (m. 1805 Angélique Gabrielle dau. of Marquess d’Hazincourt). d. 11 Chesterfield st. Mayfair, London 3 Oct. 1855. G.M., xliv, 535 (1855); Lord John Russell’s Memorials of C. J. Fox, vol. ii, appendix.
Note.—At his death he was the senior knight of the order of the Bath, and the last survivor of those who were knights before its enlargement in 1814.
ADAIR, Sir Robert Shafto, 1 Baronet (eld. son of W. Adair of Ballymena, co. Antrim 1754–1844, by Camilla dau. of Robert Shafto of Benwell, Northumberland, she d. 18 Nov. 1787). b. 26 June 1786; created Baronet 2 Aug. 1838; sheriff of Suffolk 1846; F.S.A. 16 May 1861. (m. (1) 17 Sep. 1810 Elizabeth Maria dau. of Rev. James Strode of Berkhampstead, Herts, she d. 1 Sep. 1853. m. (2) 3 Oct. 1854 Jane Anne eld dau. of Rev. Townley Clarkson, V. of Hinxton, Cambs, she d. 18 March 1873). d. Flixton hall, Suffolk 24 Feb. 1869.
ADAM, Sir Charles (eld. son of Wm. Adam 1751–1839, lord chief comr. of jury court of Scotland by Eleanora Elphinstone 1749–1800 2 dau. of Charles, 10 baron Elphinstone). b. Brighton 6 Oct. 1780; entered navy 15 Dec. 1790; captain 12 June 1799; captain of Invincible, 74 guns 1811–1813; of Royal Sovereign yacht 15 Dec. 1814–7 Feb. 1816, and 20 July 1821–27 May 1825; R.A. 27 May 1825, V.A. 10 Jany. 1837; commander in chief, North America and West Indies 17 Aug. 1841–May 1845, when placed on half pay; admiral 8 June 1848; M.P. Kinrossshire (lib.) 20 May 1831–3 Dec. 1832; M.P. for Clackmannan and Kinross 24 Dec. 1832–23 June 1841; Lord Lieut. of Kinross 1 April 1839 to death; 1st naval Lord of Admiralty 25 April 1835–8 Sep. 1841, and 24 July 1846–20 July 1847; one of elder brethren of Trinity House 1839–41; Governor of Greenwich hospital 10 July 1847 to death; K.C.B. 10 Aug. 1835. (m. 4 Oct. 1822 Elizabeth dau. of Patrick Brydone of Lennell, F.R.S., she d. 1871). d. Greenwich hospital 16 Sep. 1853, bur. there 21 Sep.
ADAM, Sir Frederick (younger son of above named Wm. Adam 1751–1839). b. 1781; ed. at Woolwich; ensign 26 foot 4 Nov. 1795; lieut. col. 5 garrison battalion Aug. 1804 to 5 Jany 1805; lieut. col. 21 foot 5 Jany 1805 to 4 June 1814; served in Sicily 1806–11; Aide de camp to Prince Regent 8 Feb. 1811; commanded a brigade in Spain 1813; the third British brigade at Waterloo 1815; and a division at Malta 1817–22; K.C.B. 22 June 1815; G.C.B. 20 June 1840; G.C.M.G. 27 Dec. 1821; invested at Corfu 15 Jany. 1822; grand master; lord high commissioner of Ionian islands 7 April 1824–8 Sep. 1832; P.C. 29 June 1831; governor of Madras 25 Oct. 1832–4 March 1837. (m. (1) at Corfu 23 June 1820 Diamantino Pallatiano, she d. at Rome 1 June 1844. m. (2) at Kensington 24 July 1851, Ann Lindsay dau. of John Maberly). d. at Greenwich railway station 17 Aug. 1853. Siborne’s War in France and Belgium 1848; Napier’s Peninsular War, book xx, chapter 4 and book xxi, chapter 2.
ADAM, James, b. Paisley 1809; worked at the loom; went to London 1834; edited the Aberdeen Herald 1834 to death; author of The knowledge qualification: a plan for the reciprocal extension of education and the franchise 1837. d. Old Aberdeen 10 Nov. 1862.
ADAM, William Patrick (elder son of Admiral Sir Charles Adam, Governor of Greenwich Hospital). b. 14 Sep. 1823; ed. at Rugby and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1846; called to bar at Inner Temple 4 May 1849; went home circuit; Sec. to Baron Elphinstone, Governor of Bombay Dec. 1853–Sep. 1858; M.P. for Clackmannanshire and Kinrossshire (lib.) 2 May 1859–Oct. 1880; a Lord of the Treasury April 1865–July 1866, and Dec. 1868–Aug. 1873; first Commissioner of Works and Buildings, and Paymaster General 11 Aug. 1873–Feb. 1874, and April 1880–Nov. 1880; P.C. 9 Aug. 1873; governor of Madras 11 Oct. 1880 to death; whip of liberal party April 1874–April 1880; left for India 27 Nov. 1880. (m. 23 Feb. 1856 Emily Eliza dau. of Sir Wm. Wyllie, K.C.B., she was raised to rank of a baronet’s wife 22 May 1882). d. Ootacamund, Madras 24 May 1881. bur. there 26 May. Fraser’s Mag. civ, 113–22 (1881); Graphic xxiii, 589 (1881) pt.; I.L.N. lxxvii, 564 (1880) pt.
ADAMS, Alexander Maxwell, L.R.C.S. Edin. 1835, F.F.P.S. Glasgow 1840; M.D. King’s college Aberdeen 1849; professor of Institutes of medicine in Anderson’s university Glasgow; senior surgeon Lock hospital Glasgow; went to Lanark about 1852; provost of Lanark 1860 to death; author of Essay on Scarlet Fever. d. Bloomgate st. Lanark 24 July 1867 aged 50.
ADAMS, Andrew Leith (2 son of Francis Adams of Belfield house, Banchory, co. Aberdeen). Assistant surgeon 64 foot 22 Dec. 1848; surgeon major 20 Oct. 1868–23 Jany. 1875, when he retired with honorary rank of deputy surgeon general; professor of zoology, Royal college of science, Dublin 1873–78; professor of natural history, Queen’s college, Cork, Nov. 1878 to death; F.G.S. 1870, LLD. Aberdeen 1871, F.R.S. 6 June 1872; author of Wanderings of a naturalist 1867; Notes of a Naturalist 1870. (m. 26 Oct. 1859 Bertha Jane, eld. dau. of Frederick Grundy of The Avenue, Hardwick). d. Queenstown 29 July 1882.
ADAMS, Arthur. Assistant surgeon R.N. 13 Oct. 1841; surgeon 14 April 1853; employed in the Actæon on surveying service, on coast of China and Tartary, Aug. 1856; fleet surgeon 27 May 1865; retired 27 July 1871; M.R.C.S. 1848; author of The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Samarang 1850; Travels of a naturalist in Japan and Manchuria 1870. d. Stoke villa, Honor Oak Kent 16 Oct. 1878 aged 58.
ADAMS, Arthur Robarts (fourth son of Henry Cadwallader Adams of Anstey Hall, Warwickshire 1779–1842 by Emma eld. dau. of Sir Wm. Curtis, Lord mayor of London, 1st Bart., she d. 22 June 1857 aged 76). b. 16 Aug. 1812; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ sch. 1822–30, and at St. John’s coll. Ox. 1830–35; B.C.L. 1835, D.C.L. 1840; Fell. of his coll. 1835 to death; called to bar at Mid. Temple 11 Jan. 1839; went Midland circuit; Recorder of Birmingham 20 Jan. 1866 to death; Q.C. 22 June 1869, Bencher of his Inn 27 Jan. 1870; Assessor of Chancellor’s court, Oxford, Nov. 1871–1876. d. suddenly while out shooting in Bagley Wood near Oxford 13 Dec. 1877. bur. Anstey near Coventry 20 Dec. 1877.
ADAMS, Edward Moore. Practised as a surgeon; Sec. to proprietors of Cremorne gardens, London for 30 years before 5 Oct. 1877, when they closed; d. Bristol 2 June 1881 in 78 year. bur. Arno’s Vale cemetery 6 June.
ADAMS, Frances Matilda. Exhibited pictures of flowers at the Royal Academy from 1816; water colour painter extraordinary to Queen Adelaide. d. 24 Oct. 1863 aged 79.
ADAMS, Francis, b. Lumphanan, co. Aberdeen 13 March 1796; ed. at Aberdeen; M.R.C.S. 1 Dec. 1815; practised at Banchory-Ternan 1816 to death; translated Paulus Ægineta, 3 vols. 1844–47, being the only English translation; Hippocrates 2 vols. 1849, and Aretæus 1856; author of Arundines Devœ, or poetical translations on a new principle 1853. d. Banchory-Ternan 26 Feb. 1861. Scotsman 27 Feb. and 9 March 1861.
ADAMS, Frank. b. 1809; ensign 28 foot 30 Dec. 1826; lieut. col. 28 foot 16 July 1852–4 March 1866; commanded Mhow division of Bombay army 9 Jan. 1866–1869; C.B. 5 July 1855. d. at sea, on board the Tanjore, on his way home from India 19 Sep. 1869.
ADAMS, George, physician general Madras army 6 Feb. 1841–31 Jan. 1846. d. 148 New Bond st. London 11 July 1852.
ADAMS, Sir George Pownoll (younger son of Wm. Adams 1752–1811, of Bowdon near Totnes, Devon, M.P. for Totnes, by Anna Maria dau. of Richard Dacres of Leatherhead, Surrey, she d. Bowdon 19 April 1830). b. Bowdon 1778; Cornet 2nd dragoon guards 5 Oct. 1795; lieut. col. 25th dragoons 8 Dec. 1804–25 Dec. 1818; commanded the troops at Bangalore 1810–1814; Colonel of 6th dragoons 26 Oct. 1840 to death; General 11 Nov. 1851; K.C.H. 1831; knighted by the king at St. James’s palace 28 Sep. 1831. (m. (1) at Totnes, Devon 28 Nov. 1804 Elizabeth Lovelace. m. (2) 23 July 1821 Elizabeth 2 dau. of Sir Wm. Elford, Bart., she d. 28 Feb. 1857). d. Temple hill, East Budleigh, Devon 10 June 1856.
ADAMS, Henry William b. 31 Jan. 1805; ensign 12th foot 31 July 1823; Lieut. col. 18th foot 13 March 1840–12 April 1844; Lieut. col. 49th foot 12 April 1844 to death; Brigadier general 21 Feb. 1854 to death; C.B. 14 Oct. 1841. (m. 28 Nov. 1843 his cousin Katherine 2 dau. of Rev. Thomas Coker Adams, V. of Anstey, Warwickshire, she was raised by royal warrant to the rank of the wife of a K.C.B. for which honour her husband was named in the London gazette 10 July 1855). d. Scutari 19 Dec. 1854.
ADAMS, John (3 and youngest son of Simon Adams of East Haddon, Northamptonshire, Recorder of Daventry who d. 10 March 1801, by Sarah dau. of Cadwallader Coker of Bicester, she d. 17 July 1833 aged 80). b. 1786; barrister M.T. 27 Nov. 1812; went the Midland circuit; Sergeant at law 5 July 1824, patent of precedence 24 April 1834; J.P. 14 Jan. 1836, steward of Coventry; Chairman of Middlesex magistrates March 1836; Assistant judge of Middlesex sessions 17 Aug. 1844 to death; author of A treatise on the principles and practice of the action of Ejectment and the remitting action of mesne profits 1812, 4 ed. 1846. (m. (1) 1811 Eliza only dau. of Wm. Nation of Exeter, she d. 12 Aug. 1814. m. (2) 1817 Jane dau. of Thomas Martin of Nottingham, she d. 19 June 1825. m. (3) 28 Dec. 1826 his cousin Charlotte Priscilla only dau. of John Coker of Bicester, Oxon). d. 9 Hyde park st. London 10 Jany. 1856 in his 70th year.
Note.—He had two sons by his 1 wife, namely John Adams, author of the Doctrine of equity who d. 18 Sep. 1848, and Rev, Wm. Adams, author of the Shadow of the cross who d. 17 Jan. 1848.
ADAMS, John, apprenticed to J. G. Andrews of London, surgeon; studied at the London hospital, M.R.C.S. 3 Oct. 1828, F.R.C.S. 11 Dec. 1843; assistant surgeon London hospital 1828; and lecturer there with James Luke on anatomy and physiology 1833; afterwards sole lecturer; senior surgeon, and ultimately consulting surgeon; known as “honest Jack Adams”; author of The anatomy and diseases of the prostate gland 1851. d. 2 Vanbrugh park road west, Blackheath 18 Jany. 1877 in his 72nd year.
ADAMS, Robert, b. Ireland about 1791; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1814, M.A. 1832, M.D. 1842; apprenticed to Wm. Hartigan, surgeon; L.R.C.S.I. 1815, F.R.C.S.I. 1818; surgeon to Jervis st. hospital, Dublin; surgeon to Richmond hospital, Dublin 1835–73; founded with R. Carmichael and E. Mac Dowel, the Richmond school of medicine, afterwards called the Carmichael school; where he was professor of surgery; surgeon to Richmond lunatic asylum; pres. of royal college of surgeons Ireland 3 times; surgeon to the Queen in Ireland 15 Nov. 1861; Regius professor of surgery in univ. of Dublin 1861; member of senate of Queen’s univ.; member of Society of surgery Paris; author of A treatise on rheumatic gout 1857, which became the work on the subject; Illustrations of the effects of rheumatic gout 1857. d. 22 Stephen’s Green north, Dublin 13 Jany. 1875. bur. Mount Jerome cemetery 19 Jany.
ADAMS, Very Rev. Samuel (3 son of rev. Benjamin Adams 1756–1840, R. of Kellinick, co. Cavan by Elizabeth dau. of John Clark, she d. 28 Feb. 1833 aged 77). b. 15 Feb. 1788; preb. of Tirbrien in Elphin cathedral 20 March 1813; dean of Cashel 10 Aug. 1829 to death; instituted and installed dean 29 Aug.; author of A comparative view of the Anglican and Roman Churches 1836. (m. 4 Jany. 1809 Frances youngest dau. of Capt. John Hervey of Killiam castle, co. Wexford). d. Northlands, co. Cavan 7 Dec. 1856.
ADAMS, Thomas. b. 5 Sep. 1785; studied music under Thomas Busby 1796; organist of Carlisle chapel, Lambeth 1802–14; of St. Paul’s, Deptford 22 March 1814–1824; and of St. George’s, Camberwell 1824 to death; St. George’s was opened 26 March 1824, when an anthem by him, for 5 voices was performed; organist of St. Dunstan in the West, Fleet st. 1833 to death; published many organ pieces, fugues and voluntaries, besides 90 interludes, several variations, and many vocal pieces. d. Addington place, Camberwell, London 15 Sep. 1858.
ADAMS, Thomas. b. Worksop 5 Feb. 1807; apprenticed to a draper at Newark 1821–28; entered house of Messrs. Boden; a lace merchant in Stoney st. Nottingham 1830; built new warehouse in Stoney st., to which he removed, 10 July 1855; converted his business into company of “Thomas Adams & Co., limited” 1862; chairman and managing director 1862 to death; lived at Lenton Firs 1844 to death. d. there 16 May 1873. bur. in cemetery, Nottingham 24 May; Memorials of T. Adams, by Rev. W. Milton 1874 portrait.
ADAMS, William (youngest son of Patience Thomas Adams of Bushey Grove, Herts, Filazer of Court of King’s Bench, who d. 2 May 1793, in his 57th year, by Martha only child of Thomas Marsh of London, she d. 19 Feb. 1795 in her 54th year). b. 39 Hatton Garden, London 13 Jany. 1772; ed. at Tunbridge school; matriculated at Trinity Hall, Cam. 17 Dec. 1788; Fell. of his hall to 1803; contested the mastership, Dec. 1815; admitted to college of Advocates 4 Nov. 1799, lived there 1799–1811; one of the Comrs. to prepare tables of fees, and regulate practice of Vice Admiralty Courts abroad 14 Nov. 1811; Comr. to negociate and conclude a treaty of peace with United States 30 July 1814; Comr. of Inquiry into duties of Courts of Justice in England 9 Feb. 1815–1824; one of the Plenipotentiaries to treat of, and conclude a convention of commerce between Great Britain and United States, June 1815; one of Counsel for Queen Caroline’s divorce bill 6 July 1820; retired from practice, Sep. 1825; resided at Thorpe in Surrey 1836 to death. (m. (1) at Kensworth, Herts 31 Aug. 1803 Sarah dau. of Rev. Thomas Scott, R. of King’s Stanley, Gloucs, she d. 3 Feb. 1806. m. (2) at Marylebone church 6 April 1811 Mary Anne 3 dau. of Hon. W. Cockayne of Rushton hall, Northamptonshire, she was raised by patent to the rank of a Viscount’s daughter 4 September 1831, she died 16 June 1873). d. Thorpe, Surrey 11 June 1851. bur. Thorpe churchyard 17 June. G.M. xxxvi, 197–200 (1851).
ADAMS, William. Member of firm of Hamilton, Adams & Co. publishers. d. The Limes, Clapham road 23 Feb. 1872 aged 75.
ADAMS, William Bridges. b. London 1797; a carriage builder in Long Acre; travelled over great part of Europe and America; pupil of John Farey civil engineer; invented the fish-joint for railway rails 1847, this joint is still universally used on railways; made many valuable improvements in rolling stock; manufactured railway plant at works at Bow, London but failed; patented improvements in carriages, in ship propulsion, guns and wood carving; took out no less than 32 patents; author of English pleasure carriages 1837; Railways and permanest way 1854; Roads and Rails 1862, and of very many articles in scientific and technical periodicals; wrote several political pamphlets under the pseudonym of Junius Redivivus. (m. 1834 Sarah dau. of Benjamin Flower of Great Harlow, Essex, she was b. 22 Feb. 1805, wrote many poems and hymns, and d. Aug. 1848). d. Broadstairs 23 July 1872. bur. at St. Peters. Engineering 26 July 1872 p. 63.
ADAMS, William Dacres. b. 16 Dec. 1775; confidential sec. to William Pitt during his last administration May 1804 to Feb. 1806; a comr. of woods and forests 31 July 1810 to 23 Aug. 1834. d. Sydenham 8 June 1862.
ADAMS, William Henry (second son of Thomas Adams of Norman Cross, Hunts, by Anna Maria dau. of W. Fair of Romsey, Hants). b. Norman Cross 1809; compositor in a printing office in London; manager of Lincolnshire Herald at Boston 1834; law reporter for the Morning Herald; barrister M.T. 24 Nov. 1843; went northern circuit; Auditor of the Poor law accounts for Lincoln, Nottingham and Rutland districts 1856; M.P. for Boston (lib. conserv.) 27 March 1857 to 23 April 1859; mayor of Boston twice; Recorder of Derby 10 Jan. 1859; Attorney General for colony of Hong Kong 19 April 1859; Mem. of legislative council there 2 Feb. 1860 and Chief Justice 5 July 1860. (m. (1) 1832 Anne dau. of Thomas Walford. m. (2) 1 June 1864 Ellen Williams eld. dau. of Edward Cobb of Kensington). d. Plas Llyssyn, Carno, Montgomeryshire 29 Aug. 1865. bur. Carno 6 Sep. I.L.N. xxxvii, 467 (1860) portrait.
ADAMS, William Henry. b. Malta; captain 36 foot 3 July 1840 to 7 June 1844, when placed on half pay; professor of fortification at R.M. college, Sandhurst 1845–70. d. Athenæum st. Plymouth 20 Dec. 1883 aged 79.
ADAMS, William James. b. London 1809; articled to a solicitor; London agent for Bradshaw’s railway map about 1838; published Bradshaw’s railway guide for the proprietors at 170 Fleet St. 1841–43 and at 59 Fleet st. 1843 to death; the 1st number is dated Dec. 1841, and consisted of about 38 pages; the continental Bradshaw was started 1847. d. 59 Fleet st. London 21 Dec. 1873. Athenæum 27 Dec. 1873; 17 Jany 1874, and 24 Jany 1874.
ADAMS, William Pitt. b. 11 Dec. 1804; chargé d’affaires and consul general to republic of Peru 30 Nov. 1842 to death. d. Lima 1 Sep. 1852.
ADAMSON, Rev. Henry Thomas; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.D. 1864; V. of Benthall Salop 1871–77; chaplain at Turin 1877–78; at Nervi 1880; author of The analogy of the faith 1869; The truth as it is in Jesus 1878; The three sevens 1880; The Millenium 1882. d. Lyons 29 May 1882 in 66 year.
ADAMSON, John (3 son of Cuthbert Adamson, lieut. R.N. by his 2 wife Mary dau. of John Huthwaite of Seaton Delaval near Newcastle). b. High st. Gateshead 13 Sep. 1787; ed. at Newcastle gr. sch.; articled to Thomas Davidson of Newcastle, attorney; practised at Newcastle 1808 to death; undersheriff there 1811–36; sec. to Newcastle and Carlisle railway company 1829 to death; member of Literary and philosophical society of Newcastle 1811, one of its secretaries 1825 to death; treasurer and sec. of “The Antiquarian society of Newcastle” 11 Feb. 1813 to death; one of the 4 founders of Typographical society of Newcastle; K.C. and K.T.S. of Portugal; F.L.S. 1823, F.S.A., F.R.G.S. 1830; author of Memoirs of life and writings of Luis de Camoens 1820, 2 vols; Lusitania illustrata notices of the history of Portugal, 2 parts 1842–46. (m. 3 Dec. 1812 Elizabeth dau. of Samuel Huthwaite of Seaton Delaval, she d. 5 July 1855). d. 9 Victoria terrace Jesmond road, Newcastle 27 Sep. 1855. bur. Jesmond cemetery 1 Oct. Dibdin’s Northern tour i, 369–91 (1838); Martin’s Catalogue of privately printed books 1834, 419–40.
Note.—His library which contained a probably unrivalled collection of books relating to Portugal was nearly entirely destroyed by fire 16 April 1849, the remainder was sold at Sotheby’s in London 22 May 1856.
ADCOCK, James. b. Eton 1778; chorister in St. George’s chapel Windsor and Eton college chapel 1786; lay clerk in St. George’s chapel 1797 and in Eton college chapel 1799; member of choirs of Trinity, St John’s and King’s colleges Cambridge; master of the choristers of King’s college; published several of his glees and The rudiments of singing, with about 30 solfeggi to assist persons wishing to sing at sight. d. Union road, Cambridge 30 April 1860.
ADDAMS, Jesse (son of Richard Addams of Rotherhithe, shipbuilder). b. 1 Jany. 1786; ed. Merchant Taylor’s sch. 1793; at St. John’s coll. Ox. 1804; B.C.L. 1810, D.C.L. 1814; admitted a proctor at Doctors Commons 3 Nov. 1814; Q.C. Jany. 1858; author of “Reports of cases argued and determined in the ecclesiastical courts at Doctors Commons and in the high court of delegates,” 3 vols. 1823–26. d. 224 Marylebone road, London 25 May 1871.
ADDERLEY, Arden, entered navy 4 June 1796; Captain 19 July 1814; went on half pay 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 16 June 1862. d. Hams lodge, Ryde, Isle of Wight 15 Jany 1864.
ADDINGTON, Henry Unwin (2 son of John Hiley Addington, M.P., P.C. who d. 11 June 1818, by Mary dau. of Henry Unwin, she d. 3 Sep. 1833). b. Blount’s Court near Henley on Thames 24 March 1790; ed. at Winchester; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. at Madrid 10 Oct. 1829 to 2 Nov. 1833; permanent under secretary of state for foreign affairs 4 March 1842 to 9 April 1854; P.C. 15 April 1854; F.R.G.S. 1861 and member of council 1861–70. (m. 17 Nov. 1836 Eleanor Anne Bucknall eld. dau. of Thomas Grimston Bucknall Estcourt of Estcourt Gloucs, she d. 17 Oct. 1877). d. 78 Eaton place London 6 March 1870.
ADDIS, Bernard. b. London 28 Feb. 1791; entered Society of Jesus at Hodder 14 Oct. 1817; ordained priest at Maynooth college 1 June 1822; procurator at Mount St. Mary’s college, Derbyshire 1852–59; assistant missioner at Skipton, Yorkshire 1863–73. d. the Novitiate, Manresa house, Roehampton, Surrey 1 Oct. 1879.
ADDISON, Rev. Berkeley (son of Rev. Joseph Addison of Weymouth); ed. at Reading gr. sch. and St. Peter’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842; R. of Collyhurst, Manchester 1855–60; domestic chaplain to Earl Caithness 1856 to death; surrogate 1861; V. of Jesmond, Northumberland 1861 to death; member of Newcastle upon Tyne school board 25 Jan. 1871 and vice chairman; hon. canon of Durham 1877 to death. d. Jesmond vicarage 13 Jany. 1882 in 67 year.
ADDISON, Charles Greenstreet (youngest son of Wm. Dering Addison of Newark house, Maidstone); barrister Inner Temple 10 June 1842; went home circuit; revising barrister for East Kent; author of The history of the knights templars, the Temple church and the Temple 1842, 3 ed. 1852; A treatise on the law of contracts, 2 vols. 1845–47, 8 ed. 1883; Wrongs and their remedies 1860, 5 ed. 1879. (m. 19 Nov. 1848 Frances Octavia 8 dau. of James Wolfe Murray, Lord Cringletie). d. 29 Alfred place west, Thurloe square London 19 Feb. 1866.
ADDISON, Edward Phillips, stage name of Edward Philip Haddy. b. Plymouth Dock (name changed to Devonport 1 Jany. 1824) 24 Feb. 1809; acted in the provinces; first appeared in London at Lyceum theatre 1 April 1839 in “Dark Events”; acted at Drury Lane, Olympic, Prince of Wales’s and Lyceum theatres; played Pickwick in Albery’s dramatic version of it at Lyceum theatre 23 Oct. 1871 to Nov. 1871; lessee of Doncaster theatre many years. d. Plymouth 16 April 1874. bur. there 19 April.
ADDISON, Henry Robert. b. Calcutta; cornet 2 dragoon guards 12 July 1827; lieut. 15 March 1831 to 21 June 1833 when placed on half pay; began writing for the stage 1830; author of about 60 dramas and farces; lessee of Queen’s theatre London Aug. 1836–1837; wrote many songs and articles in monthly magazines; edited Who’s Who 1849–50; special correspondent of a morning paper at Paris exhibition 1867; deputy chairman of London steamboat company; author of about 12 novels and stories. d. Albion st. Hyde park, London 24 June 1876 aged 71. Dublin Univ. Mag. xviii, 505 (1841) portrait.
ADDISON, John (son of John Addison of Preston, recorder of Clitheroe who d. 1837 in his 83 year, by Agnes dau. of Thomas Batty of Avenham house, Preston). b. Fishergate, Preston 21 April 1791; ed. at Blanchard’s school, Nottingham; articled with Aspden and Shuttleworth of Preston, solicitors; barrister Inner Temple 6 Feb. 1818; went northern circuit; recorder of Clitheroe 1837 to death; judge of county court number 4 circuit, Lancashire March 1847 to death; his first court was held at Blackburn 7 June 1847; presented with valuable piece of plate by registrars of his circuit 1857; alderman of Preston 25 Sep. 1832, again 27 Feb. 1846; mayor 1833 and 1843; councillor for St. John’s ward 1842. d. Winckley sq. Preston 14 July 1859. bur. St. Leonard’s ch. Balderston 20 July.
ADDISON, Joseph (youngest son of Rev. Wm. Addison, R. of Dinsdale, Durham). b. 1789; ed. at gr. sch. Richmond, Yorkshire and Lincoln coll. Ox., B.A. 1811, M.A. 1813; barrister Inner Temple 28 Jany. 1831; went northern circuit; bencher of his inn 1857. (m. 28 Dec. 1824 Jane 1 dau. of Thomas Beckett of Thornton le Moor near Northallerton). d. 7 Dean’s yard, Westminster 10 April 1858.
ADDISON, Laura, stage name of Laura Wilmshurst (dau. of Thomas Wilmshurst of Colchester, grocer). b. Colchester 15 Nov. 1822; first appeared on stage at Worcester theatre, Nov. 1843, as Lady Townley in The provoked husband; played at Glasgow, Dublin and Edinburgh; at Sadlers Wells theatre, London 26 Aug. 1846 to 1848; at Drury lane 26 Dec. 1849 to 1850; at the Haymarket 6 March 1851 to 31 July 1851; made her first appearance in New York, at the Broadway theatre 29 Sep. 1851, as Lady Teazle in The school for scandal. d. from congestion of the brain, on board the steamer Oregon, between Albany and New York 3 Sep. 1852, bur. in Second Avenue burying-ground, New York. Theatrical Times, i, 185 (1847) portrait; Tallis’s Drawing room table book (1851) 23–24, portrait.
ADDISON, Thomas (younger son of Joseph Addison of Long Benton, near Newcastle, grocer, who d. 1823 aged 67, by Sarah dau. of Mr. Shaw of Newcastle, grocer, she d. 1841 aged 80). b. Long Benton, April 1793; ed. at Newcastle gr. school, and Univ. of Edin.; M.D. 1 Aug. 1815; pres. of royal medical society of Edin. 1814; house surgeon to Lock hospital, London; L.R.C.P. 22 Dec. 1819 and F.R.C.P. 4 July 1838; a medical officer of general dispensary 8 years; assistant phys. at Guy’s hospital 1824 and phys. 1837–60; lecturer on Materia Medica there 1827–37; and on practice of medicine 1837–60; pres. of royal medico-chirurgical society 1849 and 1850; discovered disease of the supra renal capsules, called after him “Addison’s disease.” Author of The elements of the practice of medicine, vol. 1 only 1839; On the constitutional and local effects of disease of the supra renal capsules 1855. (m. 14 Sep. 1847 Elizabeth Catherine, widow of W. W. Hanxwell, she d. 30 May 1872 aged 72); placed under medical care, May 1860; attempted to destroy himself several times. d. 29 June 1860 at 15 Wellington villas, Brighton, from injuries caused by jumping down the area there, 27 June, buried near north eastern corner of Lanercost abbey churchyard 5 July; A collection of the published writings of the late Thomas Addison, M.D. 1868; H. Lonsdale’s Worthies of Cumberland, iv, 239–72 (1873) portrait; Munk’s Roll of physicians, 2 ed. iii, 205–211 (1878).
Note.—A bust of him by Joseph Towne, is in the pathological museum of “Guys,” one of the medical wards in new portion of the hospital is named after him, and in the chapel there is a marble tablet to his memory.
ADDISON, Thomas Batty (eld. son of John Addison of Preston, barrister who d. Nov. 1837 in 83 year, by Agnes dau. of Thomas Batty of Avenham house, Preston). b. Fishergate, Preston 17 June 1787; ed. at Charter house; barrister Inner Temple 1 July 1808; went northern circuit; recorder of Preston 1819 to death; a magistrate for Lancashire 1821; chairman of Preston quarter sessions 1821 to March 1874; commissioner of Bankrupts for Preston district. d. 23 Winckley square, Preston 6 June 1874.
ADDISON, William, L.S.A. 1824, M.R.C.S. 1825, F.R.S. 29 Jany. 1846, F.R.C.P. 1858; Gulstonian lecturer 1859; physician Brighton and Hove dispensary; author of A dissertation on the Malvern water 1828; Cell therapeutics 1856. d. 10 Albert road, Brighton 26 Sep. 1881 in 80 year.
ADEANE, Henry John. b. Babraham, Cambs. 9 June 1833; M.P. for Cambs. (lib.) 6 April 1857 to 6 July 1865. d. 8 Seamore place, London 17 Feb. 1870.
ADEY, Reverend John. b. Painswick, Gloucs. 15 May 1793; in business at Winslow, Bucks; began first voluntary Sunday school in Gloucester; founded a Sunday school at Great Horwood; ordained congregational minister there 1820; moved to Cranbrook, Kent then to Ramsgate; minister at Horselydown, Surrey 1836–58; at Bexley Heath, Kent 1858–68 when he retired; author of The eleventh hour 1835; The convert from popery 1851. d. Bexley Heath 16 Dec. 1869. bur. Abney Park cemetery.
ADIE, Alexander James. b. Edinburgh 1775; an optician there; much employed by all kinds of inventors to give their schemes a practical form; erected on his house in Merchant court an observatory, long before any public observatory existed in Edin.; invented the sympiesometer 1818 which contributed much to the safety of shipping; F.R.S. Edin. d. Canaan near Edinburgh 4 Dec. 1858.
ADIE, Alexander James (son of the preceding). b. Edinburgh 1808; ed. at the high school and univ.; apprenticed to James Jardine, C.E.; resident engineer of Bolton Chorley and Preston railway 1836; engineer and manager of Edinburgh and Glasgow railway to about 1863; made a series of important experiments on the expansion of stone by heat; M.R.S. Edin. 1846. d. Rockville near Linlithgow 1879.
ADOLPHUS, John Leycester (only son of John Adolphus 1768–1845, barrister, F.S.A., by Martha Elizabeth only dau. of Rev. Ralph Leycester of White place, Berks). b. 11 May 1795; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s school 1802–11, head monitor, elected to fellowship at St. John’s coll. Ox. 1811; Newdigate English verse prizeman 1814; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1819; visited Sir Walter Scott at Abbotsford; barrister Inner Temple 21 June 1822; went northern circuit; Bencher of his inn 1851; reported in Court of King’s Bench, first with Richard Vaughan Barnewall 1831–35, then with Thomas Flower Ellis 1835–52; solicitor general of county palatine of Durham; judge of county courts circuit 44 Marylebone, Oct. 1852 to death; sat for the first time 14 Oct. 1852; author of Letters to Richard Heber, Esq., containing critical remarks on the series of novels, beginning with “Waverley,” and an attempt to ascertain their author; author with Richard Vaughan Barnewall, of Reports in court of King’s Bench 1830–34, 5 vols. 1831–35; with Thomas Flower Ellis, of Reports in court of King’s Bench and Queen’s Bench 1834–41, 12 vols. 1835–42 and Queen’s Bench reports, new series 1841–52, 18 vols., 1842–56; Letters from Spain 1858, and of many metrical jeux d’esprit. (m. 10 Sep. 1822 Clara dau. of Rowland Richardson of Streatham, Surrey). d. 12 Hyde park sq. London 24 Dec. 1862. G.M. xiv, 246 (1863).
ADY, Joseph (son of John Ady of London, recording clerk of the Society of Friends, who d. 17 Nov. 1812 aged 68). b. London 1775 or 1776; a hatter and hosier at 6 Charlotte st. Wapping; hatter at 11 Circus, Minories 1831–33; accountant at same address 1833; was accustomed to examine lists of unclaimed dividends, estates and bequests, and to send letters always unstamped to all persons he could find who were called by any of the names mentioned in the lists, stating to each person that on his remitting a fee of 20/- he would be informed of something to his advantage. The Lord Mayor, Sir Peter Laurie, in 1833, publicly advertised people to be cautious of him, and the Court of Aldermen the same year directed measures to be taken against him. His lucrative trade was at last stifled by a new section in the Post Office Act, which made the writers of letters that were refused, liable for the postage; he then resorted to a new device, this was to post his letters really unstamped, but bearing marks on them as of stamps removed, so as to furnish ground for his asseveration that stamps had really been put on them. In the year 1835 he was indicted by the Rev. Francis Tebbutt for a misdemeanour, under statute 7 & 8, George iv, cap. 29 sec. 53, for obtaining a sovereign by various false pretences, he was tried at the Central criminal court 7 Feb. 1835, found guilty and sentenced to 7 years transportation, which was commuted to 1 year’s imprisonment in the House of Correction. He was sent to prison again in the year 1851 for a similar offence, but was released early in 1852 by order of the Home Secretary in consequence of his declining health. d. 89 Fenchurch st. London 17 July 1852 aged 77. bur. Friend’s burial ground, Whitechapel 22 July. Central criminal court minutes of evidence, by Henry Buckler, i, 646–52 (1835); De Quincey’s Works, vi, 258, 327 (1862). The epistle of which the following is an exact copy, was received by the Duke of Wellington 5 Dec. 1833, and sent by him to the Lord Mayor the next day: