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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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