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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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