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ADY, Venerable William Brice (son of Wm. Ady, comr. of the Gun Wharf, Devonport). b. 1816; ed. at Eton; entered Ex. coll. Ox. 29 Oct. 1834, B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; V. of Little Baddow, Essex 1842–57 and Rector 1857 to death; archdeacon of Colchester Dec. 1864 to death. (m. 10 April 1844 Emilia 3 and youngest dau. of Rev. Brook Henry Bridges, R. of Danbury, Essex). d. Little Baddow 21 April 1882. bur. Little Baddow churchyard 27 April. Statute 29 & 30 Vict. cap. 111, sections 15 and 16.

AFFLECK, Sir Gilbert, 5 Baronet. b. 9 June 1804; succeeded 7 May 1851. d. Calverley park, Tunbridge Wells 18 Nov. 1854.

AFFLECK, Rev. Sir Robert, 4 Baronet. b. 27 Jany. 1765; ed. at Westminster, captain of the school 1782; and at Ch. Ch. Ox.; B.A. 1787, M.A. 1790; Preb. of York cathedral 8 May 1802 to death; V. of Doncaster 1807–17; V. of Silkstone near Barnsley 1817–37; succeeded 10 Aug. 1833. d. Dalham hall near Newmarket 7 May 1851.

AFFLECK, Sir Robert, 6 Baronet. b. Retford Notts 28 July 1805; succeeded 18 Nov. 1854; sheriff of Suffolk 1875. d. Dalham hall 9 Oct. 1882.

AGAR, Sir Emanuel Felix, lieutenant 1 life guards 15 Nov. 1804; major 2 life guards 28 April 1814 to April 1815; M.P. for Sudbury (lib.) 5 May 1807 to 29 Sep. 1812; knighted by the Prince Regent at Carlton house 18 July 1812. (m. 21 Aug. 1811 Margaret youngest dau. of Edward George Lind of Stratford place, London, she d. 10 Aug. 1863). d. 6 Langham st. Marylebone, London 28 Aug. 1866 aged 85.

AGAR, Honorable George Charles (2 son of Most Rev. Charles Agar 1736–1809, 1 Earl of Normanton Abp. of Dublin, by Jane eld. dau. of Wm. Benson of Downpatrick, she d. 25 Oct. 1826). b. 1 Aug. 1780; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., M.A. 1807; ensign 3 foot guards 21 Jany. 1804; lieut. 1 June 1809 to 5 Nov. 1811 when he retired; F.R.S. 7 June 1832. d. Ropley house Alresford, Hants 24 Jany. 1856.

AGAR, Honourable and Venerable James (3 son of Most Rev. Charles Agar, 1 Earl of Normanton). b. 10 July 1781; ed. at Westminster and at Ch. Ch. Ox.; preb. of Timothan in St. Patrick’s cathedral, Dublin 16 Nov. 1805; R. of St. Nicholas without, Dublin 1806; R. of Caningallen, Leitrim 1809; archdeacon of Kilmore 1810 to death. (m. 7 July 1829 Louisa youngest dau. of Samuel Thompson of Greenmount, co. Antrim). d. 6 Sep. 1866.

AGER, Joseph (son of Joseph Ager of London, apothecary). b. London; entered at Pembroke coll. Ox. 1 April 1800 aged 18, Ossulston scholar; B.A. 1803, M.A. 1807, M.B. 1807, M.D. 1810; fellow of his college; F.R.C.P. 30 Sep. 1811, Gulstonian lecturer 1812, and Censor 1815, 1825 and 1835; delivered the Materia Medica lectures 1827–28: F.R. Med. and Chir. soc. 1814; assistant phys. to Marylebone infirmary many years; greatly assisted Robert Hooper, M.D. in the formation of his pathological museum. d. 85 Great Portland st. London 17 July 1857 in 77 year.

AGLIO, Agostino. b. Cremona 15 Dec. 1777; painter at Rome 1797; went to England, Dec. 1803; painted scenery at the Opera house, London 1804, and at Drury Lane theatre 1806; largely employed in decoration of country mansions in England and Ireland; decorated Pantheon in Oxford st. 1811; ceiling of R.C. chapel in Moorfields 1819 where he also executed the altarpiece; produced many easel pictures about 1820; exhibited 22 pictures at British Institution, 8 at the Suffolk st. gallery 1825–56, and 13 at the R.A. 1830–46; painted 2 portraits of the Queen; decorated the Olympic theatre, which was reopened 26 Dec. 1849; published Mexican Antiquities 9 vols. 1830–48; drew many works in lithography. d. 87 Beresford st. Walworth 30 Jany. 1857. bur. Highgate cemetery.

AGLIONBY, Henry Aglionby. b. 28 Dec. 1790; M.P. for Cockermouth (lib.) 12 Dec. 1832 to death. d. The manor house, Caterham, Surrey 31 July 1854. I.L.N. vi, 184 (1845) portrait.

AGNESI, Louis Ferdinand Leopold, stage name of L. F. L. Agniez. b. Erpent, Belgium 17 July 1833; ed. at the Conservatoire, Brussels; a baritone singer of the first rank; member of Italian opera company at Drury Lane; sang at the fifth triennial Handel festival at Crystal palace 19–26 June 1874. d. 56 Loudoun road, Hampstead 2 Feb. 1875.

AGNEW, Thomas. b. Liverpool Dec. 1794; fellow student with John Gibson the sculptor; partner with Vittoria Zannetti of Market st. lane, Manchester 1816, who was then the only art dealer in the north of England except Burland of Liverpool; carried on business in Exchange st. Manchester 1826 to Oct. 1861 when he retired; published many works of art and not less than 1000 engravings; alderman of Salford from its incorporation 16 April 1844 and mayor 1850; gave many pictures and prints to the free museum and library at Peel park, Salford. d. Fair Hope, Eccles. Manchester 24 March 1871. bur. churchyard of St. Mark’s Worsley 29 March.

AHMUTY, James, 2 Lieut. Bengal artillery 7 Sep. 1791; colonel commandant 29 Aug. 1824 to death; general 15 Sep. 1855. d. 14 Chesham place, Belgrave sq. London 12 Jany. 1864 aged 89.

AIKENHEAD, Mary (eld. child of David Aikenhead of Cork, physician who d. 28 Dec. 1801, by Mary eld. dau. of Mr. Stacpole of Cork, merchant, she m. (2) Mr. Bernard of Palace Anne and d. 1809). b. Cork 19 Jany. 1787; received into R. C. church 6 June 1802 and confirmed 2 July 1802; took name of Sister Mary Augustine, June 1812; superior of the first convent of sisters of charity William st. Dublin Aug. 1815 to 1827; made her perpetual vows 9 Dec. 1816; superior of convent at Sandymount 16 Aug. 1831; superior general of the Irish foundation of Sisters of charity 1843; lived at convent of Our Lady’s Mount, Harold’s Cross, Dublin Sep. 1845 to death. d. Our Lady’s Mount, 22 July 1858. Mary Aikenhead by S.A. 2 ed. revised 1882, portrait.

AIKIN, Arthur (1 son of John Aikin, M.D. of Warrington, Lancs. 1747–1822 by Martha dau. of Arthur Jennings of Harlington, Bedford, she d. 1830 aged 83). b. Warrington 19 May 1773; ed. there and at Palgrave in Norfolk; studied classics under Gilbert Wakefield, and chemistry under Dr. Priestley; settled in London 1796; one of the founders of Geological Society of London 1807, which was incorporated 23 Apl. 1823; one of the secretaries and a member of council; lecturer on chemistry at Guy’s hospital 1816–52; secretary of Society for encouragement of arts, manufactures and commerce 1817–40, where he read more than 40 lectures; chairman of its committee of chemistry 1840; the first treasurer of Chemical Society 30 March 1841; F.L.S. 1818; the first hon. sec. of Institution of Civil Engineers 2 Jany. 1818; one of specially selected members of the Athenæum club; much employed in drawing specifications of patents for improvements in chemical manufactures, in which Lord Lyndhurst held him to excel all other persons; made many chemical analyses for patentees and public companies; lived at 19 John st. Adelphi 1817–40; at 7 Bloomsbury sq. 1840 to death; edited The annual review 1802–1806; author of Journal of a tour through north Wales, and part of Shropshire 1797; Manual of mineralogy 1814, 2 ed. 1815. d. 7 Bloomsbury sq. London 15 April 1854. J. Kendrick’s Profiles of Warrington worthies, 2 ed. 1854, portrait; European Mag. lxxv, 387 (1819) portrait; Proc. of Linnæan society, ii, 304–306 (1855); Minutes of proceedings of institution of civil engineers, xiv, 120–23 (1855).

AIKIN, Lucy (only dau. of John Aikin, M.D. of Harrington 1747–1822). b. Warrington 6 Nov. 1781; author of Epistles on women, a poem 1810, Lorimer, a tale 1814, Memoirs of the court of Queen Elizabeth, 2 vols. 1818; Memoirs of the court of King James I, 2 vols. 1822; Memoirs of the court of King Charles I, 2 vols. 1833; Life of Addison 1843; lived at Church row, Hampstead, June 1822 to 1830; at 18 Church row 1830–44; in London 1844–45; at Wimbledon 1845–50; at John st. Hampstead 1850 to death. d. Milford house, Hampstead 29 Jany. 1864. bur. near east end of old churchyard of Hampstead. Memoirs, miscellanies and letters of the late Lucy Aikin, edited by P. H. Le Breton 1864; J. Kendrick’s Profiles of Warrington worthies, 2 ed. 1854, portrait.

AIKMAN, James. A bookseller in Edinburgh; author of Poems, chiefly lyrical 1816; An account of the tournament at Eglinton 1839; The animal kingdom 1861; editor and proprietor of a weekly paper called The Star. d. Edinburgh 21 May 1860 aged 81.

AILESBURY, Charles Brudenell-Bruce, 1 Marquess of (3 and youngest son of Thomas Bruce 1 earl of Ailesbury 1729–1814, by his 1 wife Susanna dau. of Henry Hoare of Stourhead, Wilts and widow of honble. Charles Boyle, she d. 4 Feb. 1783). b. Seamore place Mayfair, London 12 Feb. 1773; M.P. for Marlborough (tory) as Charles B. B. Bruce commonly called Lord Bruce 30 May 1796 to 19 April 1814, when he succeeded; col. of Wiltshire yeomanry 1798–1811; col. commandant of Wiltshire militia 25 July 1811 to 1827; K.T. 20 May 1819; created Viscount Savernake of Savernake Forest co. Wilts, Earl Bruce of Whorlton co. York, and Marquess of Ailesbury co. Buckingham 17 July 1821. (m. (1) 10 April 1793 Henrietta Maria 1 dau. of Noel Hill, 1 baron Berwick, she d. 2 Jany. 1831. m. (2) 20 Aug. 1833 Maria Elizabeth youngest dau. of honble. Charles Tollemache and widow of Charles John Clarke, she was b. 27 Oct. 1809). d. Tottenham park near Marlborough 4 Jany. 1856. bur. in family vault in parish church of Great Bedwyn, Wilts 12 Jany.

AILESBURY, George Wm. Frederick Brudenell-Bruce, 2 Marquess of (elder son of the preceding). b. Lower Grosvenor st. London 20 Nov. 1804; ed. at Ch. Ch Ox.; lieut. col. commandant Wilts yeomanry cavalry 30 June 1837 and col. 1 April 1876 to death; summoned to house of Lords in his father’s barony of Bruce 10 July 1838; kept a racing stud 1840 to death; won the St. Leger with St. Albans 12 Sep. 1860; succeeded his father 4 Jany. 1856; aide de camp to the Queen with rank of colonel 13 March 1857 to death; P.C. 18 June 1859; master of the horse to the Queen 24 June 1859 to July 1866 and 16 Dec. 1868 to Feb. 1874; lord lieut. of Wilts 25 March 1863 to death; K.G. 23 May 1864; succeeded his cousin as 8 Earl of Cardigan 28 March 1868. (m. 11 May 1837 Mary Caroline 2 dau. of George Augustus Herbert, 11 Earl of Pembroke, she was b. 22 March 1813). d. Savernake park, Marlborough 6 Jany. 1878. Baily’s Mag. iv, 217–20 (1862) portrait.

AILSA, Archibald Kennedy, 2 Marquess of (1 son of Archibald Kennedy, styled Earl of Cassilis 1794–1832, by Eleanor only dau. of Alexander Allardyce of Dunottar, co. Kincardine, she d. 16 Nov. 1832). b. Dunottar, Aug. 1816; succeeded his grandfather 8 Sep. 1846; K.T. 7 March 1859; Lord. lieut. of Ayrshire 7 Dec. 1861 to death. (m. 10 Nov. 1846 Julia 2 dau. of Sir Richard Mounteney Jephson, 1 baronet). d. Culzean castle, Maybole, N.B. 20 March 1870 from injuries received in the hunting field.

AINGER, Rev. Thomas (youngest son of William Ainger of Whittlesea, Cambs.) b. Whittlesea 1 Aug. 1799; ed. at Norwich gr. school and St. John’s Coll. Cam.; B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824; C. of St. Giles ch. Reading 1 Sep. 1822; Asst. minister of St. Mary’s, Greenwich 1825; P.C. of Hampstead 28 March 1841 to death; founded in Hampstead, the Parochial Association in aid of the Society for the propagation of Gospel 1845; founded the Church Extension Association 1858; Preb. of St. Paul’s Cath., Aug. 1859; preached his last sermon Easter day 5 April 1863. (m. 4 Aug. 1828 Frances only dau. of Wm. Barnard of Deptford Green). d. the Parsonage, Hampstead 15 Nov. 1863. bur. in churchyard of parish church 20 Nov. The last sermons of the Rev. Thomas Ainger, M.A., with a memoir of the author prefixed 1864.

AINSLIE, Frederick George. 2 lieut. 21 foot 24 April 1828; lieut. col. 23 April 1852 to death. d. on board the “Andes” in Scutari harbour 14 Nov. 1854 aged 45, of wounds received at battle of Inkerman 5 Nov.

AINSLIE, Rev. Gilbert (youngest son of Henry Ainslie, M.D. of Hall Garth Lancashire, he was senior wrangler 1781 and d. 1834, by Agnes dau. of Wm. Ford of Coniston Water Head). b. 1793; ed. at Charterhouse and Pemb. coll. Cam. 8 wrangler and B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; foundation fellow of his college 1816; treasurer, tutor, bursar and lecturer; laid first stones of university library at Cam. Sep. 1837, and of the Fitzwilliam museum 2 Nov. 1837; Master of his college 15 Aug. 1828 to death; Vice Chancellor of the Univ. 1828 and 1836. (m. 2 Dec. 1829 Emily 2 dau. of Wm. Coxhead Marsh of Park hall, Essex). d. Pembroke college lodge 9 Jany. 1870. bur. at Over Kellet, Lancs. 14 Jany.

AINSLIE, Hugh. b. Bargeny Mains, parish of Dailly, Ayrshire 5 April 1792; emigrated to New York 1822; established several breweries, mills and factories in the western States; author of A pilgrimaqe to the land of Burns 1822; Scottish songs, ballads and poems 1855. d. Louisville Kentucky 11 March 1878.

AINSLIE, Sir Robert Sharp, 2 Baronet. b. 1777; M.P. for Mitchell, Cornwall 6 July 1802 to 24 Oct. 1806; succeeded 22 July 1812. d. Chingford, Essex 14 March 1858.

AINSWORTH, James (son of Jeremiah Ainsworth of Manchester). b. Manchester 5 March 1783; ed. at Manchester free gr. sch. and by Rev. Joshua Brookes; apprenticed at the infirmary Manchester 1798; studied at Univ. of Edin.; surgeon to the infirmary Manchester 1806; the first to commence anatomical lectures in Manchester; one of the ablest operators of his day, and the first who tied the internal iliac artery successfully; one of the founders of Natural history society, and of Botanical and horticultural society; member of Manchester literary and philosophical society Jany. 1805 to death; hon. F.R.C.S. 1843. d. Cliff point, Higher Broughton near Manchester 28 Oct. 1853. Admission Register of Manchester school ii, 202–204 (1868).

AINSWORTH, Peter, b. 24 Nov. 1790; M.P. for Bolton, (radical) 9 Jany. 1835 to 23 July 1847. d. Smithills hall, Bolton 18 Jany. 1870.

AINSWORTH, William Harrison (elder son of Thomas Ainsworth of Manchester, solicitor 1778–1824, by Ann Harrison 1778–1842 eld. dau. of Rev. Ralph Harrison of Manchester, Presbyterian minister). b. King st. Manchester 4 Feb. 1805; ed. at the free gr. sch. 1817–22; articled 1821 to Alexander Kay of Manchester, solicitor; a publisher in London 1826–27; edited Bentley’s Miscellany, March 1839 to Dec. 1841; author of Jack Sheppard, 3 vols. 1839 which was produced in dramatic form simultaneously, at Adelphi, Queen’s, Sadler’s Wells, Victoria and Pavilion theatres in London, Oct. 1839; received £1000 from the ‘Sunday Times’ for ‘Old St. Paul’s’ 1841, and another £1000 for the ‘Lancashire Witches’ 1848; edited Ainsworth’s Magazine, Feb. 1842 to 1854; purchased New monthly magazine from Henry Colburn 1845; purchased Bentley’s Miscellany 1854 and combined with it Ainsworth’s Magazine, Jany. 1855; gave the flitch of bacon at Dunmow in Essex 19 July 1855 and 25 July 1857; granted a civil list pension of £100 a year 10 Dec. 1868; entertained at a banquet in the town hall, Manchester by the mayor, Thomas Baker 15 Sep. 1881; lived at the Elms, Kilburn; at Kensal manor house; at Brighton; at Tunbridge Wells; at Reigate. (m. 11 Oct. 1826 Anne Frances younger dau. of John Ebers of John st. London, publisher, she d. 6 March 1838). d. St. Mary’s road, Reigate 3 Jany. 1882. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 9 Jany. Manchester quarterly, i, 136–55 (1882) portrait; Maclise portrait gallery (1883) 256–62, portrait; J. H. Friswell’s Modern men of letters (1870) 257–72; Illustrated Review, ii, 321–23 (1872) portrait; Horne’s New spirit of the age, ii, 215–22 (1844).

Note.—His novel Mervyn Clitheroe is autobiographical; in March 1878 he presented a life size portrait of himself, painted by H. W. Pickersgill, about 1841 to the Chetham Library Manchester; the best portrait of him is the figure in the vignette by Cruikshank, which forms the standing title to monthly editorial gossip in early numbers of Ainsworth’s magazine. He was caricatured unmercifully by Thackeray in Punch. His books and the MSS. of 18 of his novels were sold by Sotheby in London for £463, 21–22 Aug. 1882. He was the author of upwards of 40 works of fiction.

AIRD, David Mitchell. Compositor at The Sun newspaper office, London; started a bimonthly magazine called The Student which lasted 6 months; edited The Mirror 1843; printed for the Countess de Brunetiere Tallien the first daily French paper published in England 1851 which failed; barrister M.T. 11 June 1867; wrote several books under pseudonym of Pamphilius. d. 2 Sussex gardens, Hyde park, London 15 June 1876. Head and Heart legacy by Pamphilius 1861, portrait.

AIRD, Thomas (2 child of James Aird of Bowden, Roxburghshire, portioner or farmer who d. aged 86, by Isabella Paisley, she d. aged 86) b. Bowden 28 Aug. 1802; ed. there, at Melrose and at Univ. of Edinburgh; edited Edinburgh Weekly Journal 1833; Dumfriesshire and Galloway herald at Dumfries 1835–63; presided at Scott centenary at Dumfries 9 Aug. 1871; author of The old bachelor in the Scottish village 1845; Poetical works 1848, 5 ed. 1878; contributed poetry and prose to Blackwood’s Magazine, d. Dumfries 25 April 1876. bur. near Robert Burns in St. Michael’s churchyard 1 May. Poetical works of T. Aird with a memoir by Rev. J. Wallace, 5 ed. 1878, portrait.

AIREY, Richard Airey, 1 Baron, b. Newcastle April 1803; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign 34 foot 15 March 1821; lieut. col. 10 Feb. 1838 to 12 Feb. 1847 when placed on half pay; military sec. to commander in chief 1 Oct. 1852 to 17 April 1854; quartermaster general in the Crimea 1 Sep. 1854 to Nov. 1855; quartermaster general of the forces 26 Dec. 1855 to 31 Oct. 1865; governor and commander in chief at Gibraltar 10 Nov. 1856 to 4 Sep. 1870; col. 17 foot 20 July 1860 to 1 May 1868; col. 7 foot 1 May 1868 to death; adjutant general 1 Oct. 1870 to 31 Oct. 1876; general 9 April 1871; pres. of commission of inquiry into results of new short service system 1879; K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 13 March 1867; created Baron Airey of Killingworth, Northumberland 29 Nov. 1876. d. the Grange, Leatherhead 13 Sep. 1881. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 17 Sep. A. W. Kinglake’s History of the war in the Crimea (1863–75); Sir A. M. Tulloch’s The Crimean commission 1881; I.L.N. lxix, 500, (1876), portrait.

AIRLIE, David Graham Drummond, 5 or 7 Earl of. b. London 4 May 1826; succeeded 20 Aug. 1849; a representative peer for Scotland 18 March 1850 to death; F.R.G.S. 1859; K.T. 12 March 1862; high comr. to general assembly of Church of Scotland 1872–73. d. at an hotel in Denver city, Colorado 25 Sep. 1881. bur. Cortachy, Forfarshire 3 Nov.

AITCHISON, George. b. Leyton, Essex 21 Dec. 1792; student at Royal academy; clerk of the works to St. Katherine’s dock company 1827, docks were opened 25 Oct. 1828; A.I.C.E. 1828; district surveyor of Woolwich 1844. d. Muscovy court, Trinity square, London 12 June 1861. Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxi, 569–71 (1862).

AITCHISON, Sir John (3 son of Wm. Aitchison of Drummore, East Lothian, by Jane eld. dau. of James Mylne of Langridge, East Lothian). b. 1789; ensign Scots fusilier guards 25 Oct. 1805; lieut. col. 11 Aug. 1837 to 23 Nov. 1841; commanded Mysore division of Madras army 2 June 1845 to 1851; col. 72 foot 29 Dec. 1851 to 27 Aug. 1870; general 30 July 1860; col. Scots fusilier guards 27 Aug. 1870 to death; K.C.B. 21 June 1859; G.C.B. 13 March 1867. (m. 31 Oct. 1857 Ellen Elizabeth youngest dau. of Thomas Mayhew of Fairfield house, Suffolk). d. 4 Devonshire place, London 13 May 1875.

AITKEN, David. Educ. high school and univ. of Edinburgh; D.D. 8 July 1843; licensed by presbytery of Edin. 28 March 1821; minister of parish of Minto 14 Sep. 1827 to 16 Nov. 1864; lived in Edin. 1866 to death; corresponded with Georg Hegel the German philosopher; offered chair of church history in univ. of Edin. 1843; wrote an article on German literature in Edinb. Review, xlvi, 304–51 (1827); F.R.S. Edin. 1868. d. Charlotte square, Edin. 27 March 1875.

AITKEN, John. Member of Manchester geological society 1863, pres. twice; author of part of Thomas Newbigging’s History of the forest of Rossendale 1868, and of many papers in geological periodicals. d. Clifton villas, Urmston 29 July 1884 aged 64.

AITKEN, Rev. Robert (son of Robert Aitken). b. Crailing near Jedburgh 22 Jany. 1800; a schoolmaster in Sunderland; ordained deacon by Bishop Van Mildert 1823; minister of Wesleyan Zion chapel, Waterloo road, Liverpool to 20 Dec. 1840; C. of Perranuthnoe, Cornwall 1842–44; domestic chaplain to Earl of Caithness 1844–64; minister of Episcopalian church, Coatbridge about Oct. 1847 to 1848 or 1849; V. of Pendeen, Cornwall 1849 to death; the church, of which he was the architect, was built for him by his parishioners 1854; domestic chaplain to Earl of Seafield 1864 to death; well known throughout England as a preacher of almost unrivalled fervour; author of many sermons and pamphlets. d. on platform of Great Western railway station, Paddington 11 July 1873. bur. Pendeen 18 July. Boase and Courtney’s Bibliotheca Cornubiensis i, 2 and iii, 1025; John Smith’s Our Scottish clergy 2 Series 80–87 (1849); Church Times 6 Aug. to 24 Sep. 1875.

AITKEN, Robert Dickson. b. Hawick, Roxburghshire 8 May 1801; a gardener, then a horsebreaker; left Hawick 1857; purchased estate of Reston Mains, Berwickshire, worth many thousands; tried in the sheriff court at Greenlaw 31 May 1860, for making people of Dunse believe he was heir to a large estate, when found guilty and sentenced to 6 months imprisonment with hard labour; his career was dramatised by George Duckenfield, theatrical manager; he played the chief part in this drama at Berwick and other border towns; delivered a lecture in Hawick 31 May 1864 entitled “How I did the Dunse dunces.” d. the poor house, Hawick 30 April 1879.

AITKEN, William. b. Dunbar 1814; kept a school at Ashton-under-Lyne; went to the United States 1842; grand master of the Odd-fellows there 1846; author of A journey up the Mississipi river; and of articles in the Quarterly magazine of Odd-fellows; committed suicide at Ashton 27 Sep. 1869. Quarterly magazine of Odd-fellows i, 129–32 (1858) portrait.

AITKEN, William Costen. b. Dumfries 3 March 1817; worked for R. W. Winfield of Birmingham, brassfounder 1844–64; took out a patent for ornamenting cornice poles, &c. with porcelain or glass which was much used; manager at Skidmore’s Art manufacturing company, Coventry, retired 1872; chief organiser of Industrial Exhibition at Bingley house, Birmingham 1849, from which Prince Albert took the idea of Exhibition of 1851; contributed descriptive notes signed W.C.A. to Illustrated catalogue of Great Exhibition 1851; wrote about a third of Birmingham and the Midland hardware district 1865; wrote in the Art Journal. d. Birmingham 23 March 1875. Birmingham Daily Post 24 March 1875.

AITON, John (youngest son of Wm. Aiton 1760–1848, sheriff substitute of Lanarkshire). b. Strathaven, June 1797; studied theology at univ. of Edinburgh; licensed by presbytery of Hamilton 30 Nov. 1819; minister of parish of Dolphington 14 April 1825 to death; D.D. Glasgow, March 1836; author of Life and times of Alexander Henderson 1836; Clerical Economics 1842, 2 ed. 1846; The lands of the Messiah, Mahomet, and the Pope 1852; Manual of domestic economy 1857. d. Pyrgo park, Havering, Essex 15 May 1863.

AITON, John Townsend. Gardener at Kensington palace 1831 to death. d. Kensington palace 4 July 1851 aged 74.

AKERMAN, John Yonge (son of John Akerman of St. Mary Newington, Surrey who d. 2 Nov. 1835 aged 50). b. London 12 June 1806; F.S.A. 16 Jany. 1834; started the Numismatic Journal June 1836, the first English periodical devoted to the illustration of coins; one of the secretaries of Numismatic society 1836–60, the first regular meeting was held 22 Dec. 1836; edited Journal of Numismatic Society 1837–60; and Numismatic Chronicle 1838–60; gold medallist of French Institute; joint sec. with Sir Henry Ellis of Society of Antiquaries 2 May 1848 and sole sec. 1853–24 June 1860; lived at Abingdon 1860 to death; author of Numismatic Manual 1832; Descriptive catalogue of rare Roman coins, 2 vols. 1834; Legends of old London 1853 and 18 other books; author of many papers in the Archæologia and Numismatic Journal. d. Abingdon 18 Nov. 1873. Numismatic Chronicle xiv, 13–19 (1874).

AKHURST, William. b. Hammersmith 29 Dec. 1822; went to Australia 1850; sub-editor and musical critic on the Argus daily paper in Melbourne; wrote 14 pantomimes; wrote The siege of Troy burlesque which was performed 60 nights, a run without precedent in Australia; returned to England 1870; wrote pantomimes for Astley’s, Pavilion, and Elephant and Castle theatres. d. on board the “Patriarch” on his voyage to Sydney 7 June 1878.

ALABASTER, Harry. Interpreter in consulate Bangkok Siam 30 Nov. 1864 to 31 Dec. 1871; author of The modern Buddhist, translated by H.A. 1870; The wheel of the law, Buddhism, illustrated from Siamese sources 1871. d. Bangkok Siam 8 Aug. 1884.

ALBANO, Benedetto. b. in kingdom of Naples about 1796; fled to England at the Bourbon restoration 1815; employed by Messrs. Rennie in London; naturalised by 1 & 2 Vict. cap. 42, 9 May 1838; converted Covent garden theatre into an opera house at a cost of nearly £30,000, 1846; A.I.C.E. 1831, M.I.C.E. 1840. d. 75 Welbeck st. Cavendish sq. 7 Nov. 1881.

ALBANY, Leopold George Duncan Albert, 1 Duke of (8 child and 4 son of Queen Victoria). b. Buckingham palace 7 April 1853. K.G. 24 May 1869, K.T. 24 May 1871; matric. at Univ. of Ox. (Ch. Ch.) 1872; D.C.L. 1876; P.C. 1874; admitted by patrimony to freedom of city of London 25 Oct. 1875; a younger brother of the Trinity House 1875; an elder brother 1878; G.C.S.I. 25 Jany. 1877; a bencher of Lincoln’s Inn 18 June 1877; G.C.M.G. 24 May 1880; created Duke of Albany, Earl of Clarence, and Baron Arklow 24 May 1881. d. Villa Nevada, Cannes at 2 a.m. 28 March 1884. bur. royal tomb, St. George’s chapel, Windsor 5 April. Graphic, xxix, 317–22 and 341–61 (1884) 2 portraits; I.L.N. lxxxiv, 313–29 (1884), 4 portraits.

ALBEMARLE, Augustus Frederick Keppel, 5 Earl of. b. 2 June 1794; M.P. for Arundel (whig) as Viscount Bury 8 March 1820 to 2 June 1826; succeeded as 5 Earl 30 Oct. 1849, but never took his seat in House of Lords; declared to be of unsound mind on an inquisition Dec. 1849. d. Blacklands house asylum, King’s Road, Chelsea 15 March 1851.

ALBERT, Prince Consort of Queen Victoria. b. the Rosenau near Coburg 26 Aug. 1819; baptised in the Marble hall at the Rosenau 19 Sep. 1819 when he received the following names in the order in which they are given, Franz Karl August Albrecht Immanuel; ed. at Brussels and Bonn 1836–38; invested with the order of the Garter at Gotha 23 Jany. 1840; received the title of Royal Highness by patent 6 Feb. 1840; naturalized by act of parliament 3 and 4 Vict. cap. 2, 7 Feb. 1840; Field Marshal 8 Feb. 1840. m. at the chapel royal, St. James’s Palace, London 10 Feb. 1840 Queen Victoria; G.C.B. 6 March 1840, acting great master 31 May 1843; Colonel 11 Hussars 30 April 1840 to 25 April 1842; appointed Regent 4 Aug. 1840; admitted to the freedom of city of London 28 Aug. 1840; P.C. 11 Sep. 1840; ranger of Windsor park 6 April 1841; pres. of fine arts commission 22 Nov. 1841; lord warden of the Stannaries, and chief steward of the Duchy in Cornwall and Devon 16 April 1842; colonel Scots Fusilier guards 25 April 1842 to 25 Sep. 1852; governor and constable of Windsor castle 18 May 1843 to death; captain general and colonel of the Artillery company 20 Sep. 1843; elected chancellor of Univ. of Cam. 27 Feb. 1847, by a majority of 112 over Earl Powis, installed chancellor 6 July 1847; organised the Great Exhibition of 1851; colonel in chief of 60th or King’s Royal rifle corps 15 Aug. 1850 to 23 Sep. 1852; of the Rifle brigade 23 Sep. 1852 to death; master of the Trinity house 19 Oct. 1852 to death; colonel of Grenadier guards 23 Sep. 1852 to death; created Prince Consort by patent 25 June 1857; pres. of British Association at Aberdeen 14 Sep. 1859; G.C.S.I. 25 June 1861; composed many songs and chorales; the “Athalie” and “Œdipus” of Mendelssohn were first performed in this country at Windsor castle by his command. d. at Windsor castle at 10.50 p.m. 14 Dec. 1861. The life of The Prince Consort by Theodore Martin 5 vols. 1874–80, 5 portraits; The early homes of Prince Albert by Alfred Rimmer 1883; Medical Times and Gazette ii, 638–42 (1861).

ALCHIN, William Turner. b. St. Mary-at-Hill Billingsgate, London 1790; a solicitor at Winchester; compiled indexes to ecclesiastical registers of Winchester and Salisbury; librarian of Guildhall library, London 1845 to death; compiled indexes to the ancient records of the corporation of London; and calendar of the wills enrolled in the court of Hustings of London. d. Chelsea 3 Feb. 1865.

ALCOCK, Thomas Saint Leger. Major 95 foot 2 Feb. 1844 to 21 April 1846 when placed on half pay; lieut. colonel 1 or royal East Middlesex militia 30 Jany. 1851 to 21 July 1871; colonel 21 July 1871 to death. d. 22 Somerset st. Portman sq. 7 Aug. 1882.

ALDBOROUGH, Benjamin O’Neale Stratford, 6 Earl of. b. Dublin 10 June 1808; succeeded 4 Oct. 1849; took out 5 patents for Improvements in aerial navigation 1854–57. d. Alicante, Spain 19 Dec. 1875.

ALDER, Joshua (son of Mr. Alder of Newcastle, provision merchant who d. Nov. 1808). b. Dean st. Newcastle 7 April 1792; ed. at Tanfield school; member of Literary and Philosophical society of Newcastle Feb. 1815; a provision merchant at Newcastle to 1840; collected the large museum of shells and zoophytes which with his library was presented by Sir Wm. Armstrong to Natural history society of Northumberland and Durham; this society founded in 1839 and the Tyneside Naturalists Field Club founded in 1846 owed very much to Alder, pres. of this club 1849; granted a civil list pension of £70 18 June 1863; author with Albany Hancock of the great monograph On the British Nudibranchiate Mollusca 1845–55 (Ray, Society); wrote more than 50 papers all zoological in the chief natural history periodicals. d. Newcastle 21 Jany. 1867. Natural history trans. of Northumberland and Durham i, 324–37 (1867), portrait.

ALDERSON, Sir Edward Hall (eld. son of Robert Alderson, recorder of Norwich who d. 4 Dec. 1833 aged 80, by a dau. of Samuel Hurry of Yarmouth, she d. 1791). b. Yarmouth 11 Sep. 1787; ed. at Scarning Norfolk, the Charterhouse, and Caius coll. Cam.; Browne’s medallist 1807; senior wrangler, first Smith’s prizeman and first chancellor’s medallist Jany. 1809; B.A. 1809, M.A. 1812; fellow of his college 1809–23; barrister I. T. 28 June 1811; a comr. for amendment of the law 1828; sergeant at law 11 Nov. 1830; justice of court of Common Pleas 12 Nov. 1830; knighted by William iv at St. James’s palace 17 Nov. 1830; baron of court of Exchequer 29 April 1834 to death; published with R. V. Barnewall Reports of cases in court of King’s Bench, 5 vols. 1818–22. (m. 1823 Georgina 3 dau. of Rev. Edward Drewe of the Grange near Honiton, Devon, she d. 1871). d. Beechwood park Hemel Hempstead, Herts 27 Jany. 1857. bur. churchyard of Risby near Bury, Suffolk. Selections from the charges of Baron Alderson by C. Alderson 1858.

ALDERSON, Sir James (son of John Alderson, M.D. of Hull 1758–1829 by Sarah dau. of Christopher Scott). b. Hull 1800; ed. at Hull and Pembroke coll. Cam.; 6 wrangler 1822; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; fellow of his college 1823; incorporated M.A. at Magdalen hall, Ox. 1826; B.M. 1826, D.M. 1829, D.C.L. 1870; inceptor candidate college of physicians 26 June 1826; candidate 30 Sep. 1829; fellow 30 Sep. 1830; senior censor 1848 and 1856; treasurer 1854–67; pres. 1867–70; physician at Hull 1829–45; in London 1845 to death; F.R.S. 17 June 1841; senior physician of St. Mary’s hospital, Paddington 1851–67; consulting physician 1867; representative of Royal college of physicians at the general medical council 27 Jany. 1864 to 13 May 1867; knighted by the Queen at Windsor castle 11 Nov. 1869; one of Her Majesty’s physicians extraordinary 30 Aug. 1875; Lumleian lecturer 1852 and 1853; delivered Harveian oration 1854 and 1867; author of Diseases of the Stomach and alimentary canal 1847. (m. 24 June 1828 Mary Anne dau. of Peter Berthon of Glenadda, Carnarvon, she d. 5 March 1877). d. 17 Berkeley sq. London 13 Sep. 1882. Medical Circular i, 27 (1852) portrait.

ALDHAM, William Cornwallis. b. 21 Sep. 1809; Captain R.N. 9 May 1853; captain Greenwich hospital 12 Jan. 1863 to 1 Oct. 1865; retired V.A. 30 July 1875; C.B. 22 Sep. 1858. d. Assoint Upper Nile 27 Feb. 1878.

ALDIS, Sir Charles (7 son and one of 22 children of Daniel Aldis of Hoxne, Suffolk, surgeon). b. Dickleborough, Norfolk 1776; apprenticed to his father 1789; studied at Guy’s and Bartholomew’s hospitals; surgeon to the sick and wounded at the depôt for prisoners of war at Norman Cross, Hunts 1797–99; practised at Hertford 1800–1802; in London 1802; M.R.C.S. 1803; senior surgeon New Finsbury dispensary 1831; founded Glandular institution for the cure of cancer and scrofula in Clifford st. about 1820, surgeon there. d. 13 Old Burlington st. London 28 March 1863. Biographical memoirs of Sir Charles Aldis and Dr. Aldis, privately printed 1852, portrait.

ALDIS, Charles James Berridge (eldest son and survivor of 14 infants of the preceding). b. London 16 Jany. 1808; admitted into St. Paul’s school 9 May 1815; exhibitioner to Trinity coll. Cam. July 1827; B.A. 1831, M.B. 1832, M.A. and L.M. 1834, M.D. 1837; studied at St. George’s hospital, London; F.R.C.P. 1838, member of council, delivered Harveian oration 1859; physician to London dispensary 1839; lectured at Charlotte st. school of medicine 1841; phys. to Surrey dispensary 1843; physician to St. Paul and St. Barnabas dispensary which was founded 1848; medical officer of health for St. George’s Hanover square 1855 to death; superintended Hunterian school of medicine several years; invented an instrument for examination of the chest. (m. 9 Nov. 1835 Emily Arabella dau. of Rev. John Brome of Trinity college Cambridge). d. 45b Chester sq. London 26 July 1872. Biographical memoirs of Sir C. Aldis 1852, portrait.

ALDRIDGE, Ira Frederick, known as the African Roscius (son of Rev. Daniel Aldridge, minister of Calvinistic chapel, Green st. New York who d. Sep. 1840). b. Bell Air, Harford, Maryland 1804; ed. at Schenectady college near New York and the Univ. of Glasgow; made his first appearance on the stage at the Royalty theatre London as Othello 1826; played 7 weeks at the Coburg theatre London in 1826, then in the provinces Scotland and Ireland; acted Othello at Covent garden 10 April 1833; acted Aaron in Titus Andronicus at Britannia theatre 15 March 1852, first time acted since 1721; played with great success in Germany 1852–55; received large gold medal of Art and Science from the King of Prussia 25 Jany. 1853, the only other persons who had been so distinguished being Humboldt, Spontini and Liszt; played in Sweden 1857, made several tours in Russia; naturalised in England 7 Nov. 1863. d. Lodez, Poland 7 Aug. 1867. Theatrical times iii, 121–23 (1848), portrait; Tallis’s Drawing room table book (1851) 15–16, 2 portraits; N. and Q. 4 series x, 132, 373 (1872).

ALEX, Ephraim. b. Cheltenham Dec. 1800; a dentist at 35 Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London; founded Jewish board of guardians for the relief of Jewish poor 1859; the first pres. of it 1859–69, this board was really the pioneer of charitable organisation societies in England; warden of the great synagogue. d. 5 Chichester st. Harrow road, London 13 Nov. 1882. bur. Willesden cemetery 16 Nov.

ALEXANDER, Alexander (only son of Wm. Humphrys of Birmingham, merchant, who d. 1 May 1807, by Hannah youngest child of Rev. John Alexander of Dublin, presbyterian clergyman, she d. 12 Sep. 1814). b. 21 June 1783; went abroad with his father 1802; detained prisoner in France till 1814; kept a school called Netherton house academy near Worcester 1815; assumed name of Alexander by royal license 8 March 1824; took title of Earl of Stirling and Dovan 7 Feb. 1826; tried at Edinburgh 29 April to 4 May 1839 for forging documents to prove his title, when acquitted. (m. 4 Jany. 1812 Fortunata Maria Gertrude only dau. of Giovanni Bartoletti of Naples). d. 1859. W. C. Townsend’s Modern state trials i, 403–68 (1859).

ALEXANDER, Andrew. Professor of Greek in the University of St. Andrews 1820 to death; M.A. St. Andrews 1846. d. St. Andrews 5 June 1859.

ALEXANDER, Charles Carson. 2nd lieut. R.E. 20 July 1813; superintended exhuming body of Napoleon at St. Helena 15 Oct. 1840; lieut. col. R.E. 2 Feb. 1848 to death; commanded the R.E. in the Crimea 22 Sep. 1854 to death. d. of apoplexy in his tent before Sebastopol 19 Oct. 1854.

ALEXANDER, Charles Revans, Educ. at Eton; M.R.C.S. 1840; constructed many chess problems. d. 6 Cork st. London 9 Sep. 1871.

ALEXANDER, Henry. M.R.C.S. 1805, F.R.C.S. 1844; F.R. Med. and Chir. soc. 1813; surgeon to the Eye infirmary Cork st. London; surgeon oculist to Queen Victoria 1838 to death; F.R.S. 22 April 1847. d. 6 Cork st. London 17 Jany. 1859 aged 76.

ALEXANDER, Henry. b. 9 April 1787; a director of the H.E.I.Co. 8 March 1826; M.P. for Barnstaple (tory) 10 June 1826 to 24 July 1830. d. Belmont, Herts 14 Jany. 1861.

ALEXANDER, Rev. John (son of Rev. Wm. Alexander). b. Lancaster 19 Dec. 1792; entered Hoxton academy 13 Aug. 1814; a chapel was built for him at Norwich which was opened 1 Dec. 1819; ordained 31 May 1820; pastor of this chapel to April 1866; chairman of Congregational Union of England and Wales 1853; author of sermons entitled The preacher from the press, 2 vols. 1838. d. Norwich 31 July 1868. bur. the Rosary cemetery, Norwich 4 Aug. The Congregational year book 1869, pp. 234–36.

Note.—He was to Norwich what John Angell James was to Birmingham and Thomas Raffles to Liverpool.

ALEXANDER, John Henry. b. Dunbar, July 1796; actor at Queen’s theatre, Glasgow 1810; member of Murray’s company in Edinburgh 1816; managed the Caledonian theatre, Edinburgh; Lessee of Dumfries and Carlisle theatres; stage manager at Newcastle; manager of Dunlop st. theatre, Glasgow and of theatres at Carlisle and Dumfries, and Adelphi theatre, Edin. 1822–29; proprietor of Dunlop st. theatre, Glasgow, the most elegant in Scotland (which he built) 1829–1851; the best actor of Scottish characters, except Charles Mackay. d. Glasgow 15 Dec. 1851.

Note.—On 17 Feb. 1849, 65 persons were killed in attempting to escape from the gallery of his theatre, an alarm having spread that it was on fire.

ALEXANDER, John Hobhouse Inglis. b. 1832; captain R.N. 16 Aug. 1863; naval aide-de-camp to the Queen 21 April 1875 to death; C.B. 30 Nov. 1864. d. Mentone 22 Nov. 1875.

ALEXANDER, Nathaniel. b. Hillsborough, co. Down, Aug. 1815; M.P. for co. Antrim (conserv.) 14 April 1841 to 1 July 1852. d. Ardimersey cottage, Islay 5 Jany. 1853.

ALEXANDER, Robert. b. Paisley; ed. at Paisley gr. sch.; conducted Clydesdale journal at Hamilton and at Glasgow; conducted the Western luminary at Exeter, about 2 years; edited the Watchman in London; managed the Morning journal to 1830, when he was prosecuted for libel, and condemned to one year’s imprisonment in Newgate, and fined £300, 10 Feb. 1830; edited the Liverpool Standard; founded the Liverpool Mail 1836, edited it 1836 to death. d. Great Crosby near Liverpool 9 Feb. 1854 in his 59 year. G.M. xli, 429–30 (1854).

ALEXANDER, Sir Robert, 2 Baronet. b. 16 Dec. 1769; succeeded 1809. d. 35 St. James’s place, London 1 Dec. 1859.

ALEXANDER, Robert. In the navy 1810–19; ensign Madras army 12 June 1819; adjutant general 24 Sep. 1839 to 15 Aug. 1849; col. 24 N.I. 16 Aug. 1851 to 1869; general 25 June 1870, retired 31 Dec. 1877. d. 6 Marloes road South Kensington 16 May 1879 in his 81 year.

ALEXANDER, Robert. b. 2 July 1813; in the Bengal civil service 1832–61; C.B. 18 May 1860. d. Schuls, Lower Engadine 16 Aug. 1882.

ALEXANDER, Thomas. b. Preston-pans near Edinburgh; entered army medical service 10 Oct. 1834; served in the west Indies, Nova Scotia, Canada, Cape of Good Hope, Turkey, the Crimea and Canada; had charge of the light division throughout the Crimean war; inspector general (local rank) 21 July 1856; director general of army medical department 22 June 1858 to death; hon. surgeon to the Queen 16 Aug. 1859 to death; C.B. 4 Feb. 1856. (m. Mary Alice eld. sister of T. Heath Haviland, lieutenant governor of Prince Edward island, she d. 12 April 1881). d. 26 Norfolk square Hyde Park, London 1 Feb. 1860.

Note.—A statue of him by Wm. Brodie was unveiled at Preston-pans by Lord Elcho Sep. 1862.

ALEXANDER, William. Lieut. col. 2 Bengal light cavalry 21 Aug. 1849 to death; C.B. 9 June 1849. d. Dorundah, Bengal 2 Oct. 1851.

ALEXANDER, Rev. William. b. Chapel Rosan, parish of Stoneykirk, Wigtonshire 21 Feb. 1763; a carpenter in Lancaster 1783–1802; pastor of Independent ch. at Prescot near Liverpool 1802–10; ordained 23 Oct. 1805; pastor at Leigh 20 Jany. 1811; pastor at Church Town 1 May 1825 to death. d. Southport 23 Jany. 1855. Memoir of Rev. W. Alexander, by Rev. John Alexander 1856; Evangelical mag. March 1823, portrait.

ALEXANDER, William. b. 1794; a writer to the signet in Edin. 1819; principal clerk and registrar of Commissary Court of Edin. 21 Dec. 1849 to death; author of Abridgment of acts of Sederunt 1838; An abridgment of acts of parliament of Scotland 1841; Plan and description of the original electro-magnetic telegraph by the inventor 1851. d. 21 Dec. 1859.

ALEXANDER, William. In Nelson’s fleet 1805; surveyor of shipping to the underwriters and Mersey dock and harbour board, Liverpool nearly 50 years. d. 4 Mount Vernon Green, Liverpool 11 Feb. 1884, in 97 year.

ALEXANDER, Sir William John, 3 Baronet b. 1 April 1797; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub. and Trin. coll. Cam.; B.A. Dub. 1817, incorp. B.A. Cam. 1825, M.A. 1825; barrister M.T. 8 Feb. 1825; went Oxford circuit; Q.C. 10 July 1844; Bencher of his inn 1844; attorney general to Prince of Wales 24 June 1853; succeeded as 3 baronet 1 Dec. 1859; one of council of Prince of Wales 27 Jany. 1864. d. 22 St. James’s place, London 31 March 1873. I.L.N. xlii, 400 (1863) portrait.

ALEXANDER, Rev. William Lindsay. b. Edinburgh 24 Aug. 1808; ed. at univs. of Edin. and St. Andrew’s; classical tutor in Lancashire college 1828; minister of Newington chapel, Liverpool 2 years; pastor of Augustine church, Edin.; principal of theological hall of Scottish congregational churches; member of Old Testament revision company 1870; author of the 3 articles Moral philosophy, Scripture, and Theology in 8 ed. of Encyclopedia Britannica; F.R.S. Edin. d. Pinkieburn near Edin. 20 Dec. 1884. Our Scottish clergy, 2 series 1849, pp. 199–204.

ALFORD, Rev. Henry (3 son of Rev. Samuel Alford, Dean of St. Burian, Cornwall, who d. 15 Aug. 1799). b. Curry Rivell Vicarage 3 Dec. 1782; ed. at Crewkerne, Bridgwater and Tiverton schools; entered Wad. Coll. Ox. 1800; B.A. 1804, M.A. 1811; Fellow of his college; barrister I.T. 22 Nov. 1811; ordained at Quebec chapel, Lon. to curacy of Steeple Ashton, Wilts 13 June 1813; R. of Ampton, Suffolk 1826–42; R. of Winkfield 1833–35; R. of Aston Sandford, Bucks July 1836 to 1850. (m. (1) 20 Dec. 1809 Sarah Eliza 3 dau. of Thomas Bradley Paget of Tamworth, Staffs. banker. m. (2) 11 Aug. 1831 Susanna eld. dau. of Thomas Barber of Stukeley, Hunts). d. Tunbridge 22 Sep. 1852. Memorial of Rev. Henry Alford by Henry Alford, B.D. 1855.

ALFORD, Very Rev. Henry (only child of the preceding by his first wife). b. 25 Alfred place Bedford sq. London 7 Oct. 1810; ed. at Charmouth in Dorset and Ilminster gr. school; matric. from Trin. coll. Cam. 13 Nov. 1828; scholar 1830, Bell scholar March 1831; 34 wrangler and 8 classic 1832; B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835, B.D. 1849, D.D. 1859; ordained at Exeter Cathedral to curacy of Ampton, Suffolk 27 Oct. 1833; fellow of his college 1 Oct. 1834; ordained priest at St. Margaret’s, Westminster 6 Nov. 1834; V. of Wymeswold Leics. 11 March 1835; Hulsean lecturer in Univ. of Cam. 1841–42; examiner in logic and moral philosophy in Univ. of London 1841–57; minister of Quebec chapel Portman sq. 1853; lived at 6 Upper Hamilton terrace, St. John’s Wood 26 Sep. 1853 to 19 June 1857; dean of Canterbury 18 March 1857 to death; one of the revisers of the New Testament; edited Contemporary Review Dec. 1866; author of Poems and poetical fragments 1831; Chapters on the poets of Greece 1841; Greek Testament 5 vols. 1849–61, and 40 more volumes besides 104 articles in reviews. (m. 10 March 1835 Frances Oke dau. of Rev. Samuel Alford, P.C. of Muchelney, Somerset, she d. 18 Nov. 1878 aged 67). d. The Deanery, Canterbury 12 Jany. 1871. bur. churchyard of St. Martin’s, Canterbury 17 Jany. Life of Henry Alford edited by his widow 1873, portrait; Illustrated Review i, 295–98, portrait; I.L.N. xxvi, 269 (1855), lviii, 67 (1871), portrait.

Note.—The statue erected to his memory in a niche of the west front of Canterbury Cathedral was unveiled 17 Oct. 1871.

ALFORD, Stephen Shute. M.R.C.S. 1843, F.R.C.S. 1858, L.S.A. 1844; hon. sec. to Society for promoting legislation for control and cure of habitual drunkards; author of A few words on drink craving; Dipsomania its prevalence, causes and treatment. d. 61 Haverstock hill, London 5 July 1881 aged 60.

ALICE Maud Mary, Princess of the United kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (3 child and 2 dau. of Queen Victoria). b. Buckingham palace 25 April 1843. m. at Osborne 1 July 1862 Frederick Wm. Louis Charles afterwards Louis iv grand duke of Hesse-Darmstadt, he was b. 12 Sep. 1837; founded the Women’s Union for nursing the sick and wounded in war called after her name. d. the palace Darmstadt 14 Dec. 1878. bur. in the mausoleum at Rosenhohe near Darmstadt 18 Dec. Alice grand duchess of Hesse, biographical sketch of 1884, 2 portraits; Martin’s Life of the Prince Consort v, 252 (1880), portrait.

ALISON, Sir Archibald, 1 Baronet (younger son of Rev. Archibald Alison 1757–1839 prebendary of Sarum). b. Kenley, Salop 29 Dec. 1792; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; advocate 8 Dec. 1814; advocate depute 1823–30; wrote his History of Europe 1 Jany. 1829 to 7 June 1842; sheriff of Lanarkshire Dec. 1834 to death; lived at Possil house near Glasgow 1835 to death; lord rector of Marischal college, Aberdeen March 1845, beating Macaulay by 48 votes; lord rector of Univ. of Glasgow 15 Jany. 1852; created baronet 25 June 1852; D.C.L. at Oxford July 1852; author of History of Europe during the French revolution, 10 vols. 1833–42, 7 ed. 20 vols. 1847–48; in 1853 the book was stereotyped; The military life of John Duke of Marlborough 1848, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1852. d. Possil house at 11.30 p.m. 23 May 1867. bur. Dean cemetery, Edinburgh 30 May. Some account of my life and writings by Sir A. Alison, edited by Lady Alison, 2 vols. 1883, 2 portraits.

Note.—He is drawn by Disraeli in Coningsby as Mr. Wordy.

ALISON, Charles. Envoy extraord. and minister plenipo. at Tehran, Persia 7 April 1860; C.B. 28 Nov. 1860. d. Tehran 29 April 1872.

ALISON, Somerville Scott. b. Edin. 1812; M.D. Edin. 1833; M.R.C.P. 1844, F.R.C.P. 1859; practised at Tranent 1833–40, in London 1840 to death; author of Inquiry into propagation of contagious poisons 1839; Medication of the larynx and trachea 1853; Morbid throat and pulmonary consumption 1869. d. 85 Park st. Grosvenor sq. 11 June 1877.

ALISON, William Pulteney (elder son of Rev. Archibald Alison 1757–1839). b. Boroughmuirhead near Edin. 1790; M.D. Edin. 1811; ascended Mont Blanc 1814; professor of medical jurisprudence in Univ. of Edin. 1820–22, of institutes of medicine 1822–42; and of practice of physic 1842–56; physician to the Queen in Scotland 3 Feb. 1847; hon. D.C.L. Oxford 1850; granted civil list pension of £100, 10 Nov. 1856; presided over meeting of British Medical Association at Edin. Aug. 1858; author of Outlines of physiology 1831; Outlines of pathology 1833; Observations on the management of the poor in Scotland 1840, this book caused the appointment of the Board of Supervision under the act of 1845. (m. 11 Aug. 1832 Margaret dau. of James Gregory, M.D. of Edinburgh). d. Woodville, Colington, Edinburgh 22 Sep. 1859. Edin. Medical Journal v, 469–86 and 597–603 (1860).

ALLAN, Alexander Stewart. b. 1822; employed in financial department, Bengal 1859–73; supplied many of the notes to the publications of the Grampian club; wrote many articles in Notes and Queries, signed A.S.A. d. Kincardine, Richmond, Surrey 20 Dec. 1881.

ALLAN, Bryce. b. Greenock; founded at Liverpool a branch of the Allan shipping company with his brothers Alexander and James (who d. Skelmorlie 1 Sep. 1880 aged 71). d. 16 Holly road Fairfield, Liverpool 24 May 1874.

Note.—His personalty was sworn under £250,000 Sept. 1874.

ALLAN, Sir Hugh (2 son of Alexander Allan, commander of ships trading between the Clyde and Montreal). b. Saltcoats, Ayrshire 29 Sep. 1810; clerk in house of Wm. Kerr and Co. Montreal 1826–29; partner in firm of Millar and Edmonstone of Montreal, shipowners 1835; partner with Edmonstone 1 May 1839; established April 1856 a line of steamers from Montreal to Liverpool, called the Montreal Ocean steamship company, afterwards the Allan line; knighted by patent 24 July 1871. (m. 13 Sep. 1844 Matilda Caroline 2 dau. of John Smith of Montreal, she d. 11 June 1881 aged 63). d. 27 St. Andrew sq. Edinburgh 9 Dec. 1882. bur. Montreal 27 Dec. H. J. Morgan’s Sketches of celebrated Canadians 1862, pp. 669–74; W. S. Lindsay’s History of merchant shipping iv, 260–64 (1876).

ALLAN, James. Major 94 foot 20 July 1809 to 25 Dec. 1818, when placed on h. p. regiment being disbanded; served in Peninsular war 1810–14; lieut. col. 57 foot 20 March 1828 to 9 Nov. 1846; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846; col. 50 foot 11 Oct. 1852 to death; C.B. 19 July 1838. d. Cheltenham 17 Feb. 1853.

ALLAN, James. b. Aberdeen; sec. to Peninsular steam navigation company when first formed 1837; this was first company which ran steamers to distant foreign ports, the Iberia first steamer despatched with Peninsular mails in Sep. 1837; the first sec. of Peninsular and Oriental company 1840; one of the 3 managing directors 1848 to death; A.I.C.E. 4 Dec. 1849. d. Camp’s hill, Lewisham near London 15 Sep. 1874 aged 63. Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxix, 283–85 (1875).

ALLARDICE, Robert Bridges Barclay, known as Captain Barclay (eld. son of Robert Barclay of Ury, Kincardineshire 1731–97, founder of town of Stonehaven, who assumed name of Allardice 1776). b. Ury 25 Aug. 1779; kept a pack of fox hounds at Ury 1807; walked from London to Birmingham viâ Cambridge 150 miles in 2 days Dec. 1799; walked 100 miles in 19 hours Dec. 1801; captain 71 foot 13 March 1806; major 20 Jany. 1814 to 31 March 1814 when he resigned; lieut. col. Kincardineshire militia; walked 1000 miles in 1000 successive hours at the rate of a mile in each and every hour at Newmarket 1 June to 12 July 1809, when about £100,000 changed hands on the result; trained Tom Cribb at Ury July-Aug. 1811 for his great fight with Tom Molineaux the Black, which Cribb won 28 Sep. 1811; a great agriculturist and cattle breeder; claimed the Earldom of Airth 1839 and the Earldoms of Strathern and Monteith 1840. (m. 19 July 1819 Mary dau. of Alexander Dalgarno of Wales st. Aberdeen, she d. 30 Aug. 1820 aged 23). Found dead in his bed at Ury 1 May 1854. bur. in family burying ground called the Houff, which contains an account of the family from year 1110. H. H. Dixon’s Field and fern (North) 1865 pp. 196–210; Pugilistica by H. D. Miles i, 435–39 (1880), portrait; Pedestrianism [by Walter Thom] Aberdeen 1813, portrait; The eccentric mag. i, 133–50 (1812), portrait.

Note.—The coach called the Defiance (of which he was one of the 5 proprietors) ran from Edinburgh to Aberdeen and was the fastest and best conducted coach in the United Kingdom, it performed the journey 126 miles in 12 hours; it ran its first journey 1 July 1829 and its last Oct. 1849. The 1000 mile feat has never been performed by any other man, although many persons are stated to have done it.

ALLASON, Thomas. b. London 31 July 1790; architect in London 1817; employed in landscape gardening; a comr. of Board of Metropolitan Sewers; author of Picturesque views of the antiquities of Pola in Istria 1819. d. 9 April 1852.

ALLCROFT, Jeremiah Macklin. b. 1791; partner in firm of Dent, Allcroft and Co. of Wood st. London and Worcester, glovers; chamberlain of Worcester 1832–33. d. Worcester 6 July 1867.

ALLEN, Charles, calling himself Charles Edward Lewis Casimir Stuart, Count d’Albanie (only son of Charles Manning Allen 1799–1880). Col. in the Austrian army. (m. 15 May 1874 Alice Mary Emily 3 and youngest dau. of the 17 Earl of Errol, she was b. 7 July 1835 and d. 7 June 1881.) d. 8 May 1882 aged 57, thus ending this dynasty of modern pretenders.

ALLEN, Charles. b. 1808; a member of Financial council, Calcutta; alderman of Tenby; mayor 2 or 3 times; sheriff of co. Pembroke 1876. d. Tenby 5 Nov. 1884.

ALLEN, Charles Manning, calling himself Charles Edward Stuart, Count d’Albanie (younger son of Thomas Gatehouse Allen 1772–1851, by Katharine Matilda dau. of Rev. Owen Manning, V. of Godalming, Surrey. T. G. Allen called himself James Stuart, Count d’Albanie and affirmed that he was son of Charles Stuart the young Pretender by the Princess Louisa of Stolberg-Gädern). b. Versailles 4 June 1799; served in advanced guard of Napoleon’s army at Waterloo; assumed Christian name of Stuart 1822; changed his name to Allan-Hay; changed again to Stuart; lived with his brother John at Edin. then at Glasgow then at Eile-an-Aigais near Inverness; author with his brother John of The costume of the clans 1845; Tales of the century 1847; Lays of the deer forest, 2 vols. 1848. (m. 9 Oct. 1822 Anne dau. of John Beresford, M.P. for co. Waterford, and widow of Charles Gardiner). d. on board the Rainbow steamer at Pauillac near Bordeaux 25 Dec. 1880. J. H. Ingram’s Claimants to royalty (1882) 252–59; Quarterly Review lxxxi, 57–85 (1847); Edinburgh Review cxiv, 145–82 (1861); Western Antiquary Sep. 1884, 67–72; Doran’s London in Jacobite times ii, 390–412 (1877).

ALLEN, George. b. London Nov. 1800; attorney and solicitor of supreme court at Sydney 1822; mayor of Sydney 1844; member of legislative council N.S.W. 1845 and 1856 to death; chairman of committees 1856–73. d. Toxteth park, Glebe, N.S.W. 3 Nov. 1877.

ALLEN, George John (eld. son of Right Rev. Joseph Allen, bishop of Ely who d. 20 March 1845 aged 75). b. 1810; warden of the college of God’s Gift in Dulwich 1843 to 31 Dec. 1857 when that Corporation was dissolved by 20 and 21 Vict. c. 84, and he was granted an annuity of £1015. d. The Mount, Budleigh Salterton, Devon 19 July 1883.

ALLEN, Henry Robinson. b. Cork 1809; ed. at R.A. of Music; made his début at the English Opera as Elvino in La Sonnambula; A.R.A.M.; tenor vocalist and ballad composer, his song “Maid of Athens” was much sung. d. Shepherd’s Bush, London 27 Nov. 1876.

ALLEN, Rev. Hugh. b. Cork July 1806; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub.; scholar 1834, B.A. 1835, M.A., B.D. and D.D. 1861; minister of an episcopal chapel at Douglas, Isle of Man, Aug. 1835; C. of St. John’s ch. Bury, Lancs. 1838–48; Inc. of St. Jude’s Whitechapel 1848–59; lecturer of St. Olave’s, Old Jewry 1856–59; R. of St. George the Martyr Southwark 1859 to death; edited the London Messenger 1862. d. 231 New Kent road, London 20 June 1877.

Note.—He was the Sunday afternoon lecturer at church of St. George-in-the-East, London where disturbances began 21 Aug. 1859 in consequence of the Rector the Rev. Bryan King adopting an elaborate ritual and refusing to allow time for the lecture, the riots lasted till 25 June 1860.

ALLEN, James Baylis. b. Birmingham 18 April 1803; employed by W. and E. Finden, engravers in London 1824; engraved many of Turner’s water colour drawings 1830–45, and many large views for the Art Journal. d. Camden Town, London 11 Jany. 1876.

ALLEN, James Mountford (son of Rev. John Allen, V. of Bleddington, Gloucs.) b. Crewkerne, Somerset 14 Aug. 1809; an architect in London to 1856, at Crewkerne 1856 to death; built many churches, rectory houses and schools. d. 27 Feb. 1883.

ALLEN, James Pearce. Spent 5 years in India 1836–41; a publisher in London 1855 to death. d. Grove lodge, Clapham Common 2 Nov. 1878 in 61 year.

ALLEN, John (elder son of Admiral John Carter Allen who d. 2 Oct. 1800). b. 1774; captain R.N. 29 April 1802; admiral on h. p. 30 July 1852. d. Torpoint near Plymouth 4 June 1853.

ALLEN, John. b. Dublin; a woollen draper at 36 College green; committed to Tower of London on a charge of high treason 6 March 1798, tried at Maidstone 21 and 22 May 1798 when acquitted; an associate of Robert Emmett in the insurrection of 23 July 1803; fled to France and became sous-lieutenant in the army Dec. 1803; led the storming party at capture of Ciudad Rodrigo in Spain 10 July 1810; chef de bataillon March 1814; retired on half pay after the Irish regiment was disbanded Sep. 1815; lived at Tours then at Caen. d. Caen 10 Feb. 1855. R. R. Madden’s The united Irishmen, 3rd series iii, 135–39 (1846); Howell’s State Trials xxvi, 1193–1432 (1819), and xxvii, 1–142 (1820).

ALLEN, John. b. Liskeard, Cornwall 26 Sep. 1790; author of State churches and the kingdom of Christ 1853; History of the borough of Liskeard and its vicinity 1856. d. Liskeard 15 Feb. 1859. Annual Monitor for 1860 pp. 3–26.

ALLEN, John Carter Hay, calling himself John Sobieski Stolberg Stuart (elder son of Thomas Gatehouse Allen 1772–1851). Said to have received cross of the Légion d’honneur from hands of Napoleon for bravery on field of Waterloo; lived with his brother Charles at Edinburgh, at Glasgow, at Eile-an-Aigais near Inverness; author of Poems 1822; edited the Vestiarium Scoticum 1842. (m. 29 Oct. 1845 Georgiana eld. dau. of Edward Kendall of Cheltenham). d. 52 Stanley st. St. George’s Hanover sq. 13 Feb. 1872.

ALLEN, John Roy (elder son of John Allen of Lyngford, Somerset). b. 1799; ed. at Pemb. coll. Cam.; B.A. 1821, M.A. 1825; barrister I.T. 10 Feb. 1826; recorder of Taunton, Andover and Bridgwater. d. Weston super Mare 10 March 1875.

ALLEN, Joseph. Chairman of Brighton bench of magistrates many years; one of the gentlemen of H.M. privy chamber 1838 to death. d. Podstream house Wivelsfield, Sussex 9 Dec. 1851 aged 78.

ALLEN, Joseph. Military superintendent of halls, &c. at Greenwich hospital 1 Sep. 1833 to death; edited Allen’s “New Navy List”; newspaper writer on professional topics. d. Greenwich Hospital 21 Oct. 1864 aged 54.

ALLEN, Joseph William. b. Paradise row, Lambeth 1803; usher at a school at Taunton; theatrical scene painter in London; a founder of “The Society of British Artist” 1823; professor of drawing at city of London school from its opening 2 Feb. 1837 to death. d. Hammersmith 26 Aug. 1852.

ALLEN, Peter. b. Dec. 1826; M.D. Aberdeen 1849; L.S.A. and M.R.C.S. Eng. 1849; F.R.C.S. Edin. 1868; surgeon at Yealand Conyers 1856–68, and in London 1868 to death; aural surgeon to St. Mary’s hospital; author of Practical observations on deafness 1853; Aural Catarrh 1870. d. 117 Harley st. Cavendish sq. London 18 Jany. 1874.

ALLEN, Robert (3 son of Samuel Allen of Rue St. Honoré, Paris). An actor; a schoolmaster; barrister G.I. 18 Nov. 1835; went Oxford circuit; serjeant at law 3 July 1845, received patent of precedence. d. Bessborough st. London 17 Feb. 1854.

ALLEN, Rev. Samuel James. b. near Tower of London 16 June 1798; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s school 1808–16 and Pemb. coll. Cam.; B.A. 1820, M.A. 1824; University preacher at Cam.; V. of Easingwold, Yorkshire 1838 to death; completed Whitaker’s History of Richmondshire 1823 in which some of the chapters were entirely written by him; author of Lectures in defence of the church of England. d. Easingwold vicarage 29 April 1856.

ALLEN, William. b. Weymouth Nov. 1792; entered navy 2 Oct. 1805; accompanied Richard Lander’s expedition up the river Niger 1832; returned to England April 1834 being one of the nine survivors; commanded steamer Wilberforce in expedition to Niger 1840–42; captain 31 Jany. 1842, retired R.A. 12 April 1862; F.R.G.S. 1835, F.R.S. 18 April 1844; author of The narrative of expedition sent to river Niger 1848; The Dead Sea, a new route to India 1855; exhibited landscape paintings at the R.A. 1828–47. d. Bank house, Weymouth 23 Jany. 1864.

ALLEN, William Ferneley (son of Wm. Houghton Allen of London, publisher who d. 22 Jany. 1855 aged 67). b. 31 Oct. 1816; a publisher in London 1855 to death; sheriff 1857–58; alderman for ward of Cheap 1858 to death, and Lord Mayor 1867–68. d. 13 Waterloo place, London 22 May 1877. bur. in family vault at Sevenoaks, Kent 26 May. I.L.N. li, 517 (1867), portrait.

ALLEN, William Henry. Solicitor in London 1826 to death; principal of Clifford’s Inn 13 May 1833 to death. d. 20 Oct. 1854 aged 71.