ELLESMERE, Francis Egerton, 1 Earl of (younger son of 1 Duke of Sutherland 1758–1833). b. Arlington st. Piccadilly, London 1 Jany. 1800; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; M.P. for Bletchingley, Surrey 1822–26, for Sutherlandshire 1826–30, for South Lancashire 1834–46; a lord of the Treasury 1827; under sec. of state for Colonies, Jany. to May 1828; chief sec. to Marquis of Anglesey, lord lieut. of Ireland 1828–30; P.C. 28 June 1828; P.C. Ireland 9 Aug. 1828; sec. at war 30 July to 22 Nov. 1830; rector of Univ. of Aberdeen, Oct. 1838; created Earl of Ellesmere of Ellesmere, Salop, and Viscount Brackley of Brackley, Northamptonshire 1 July 1846; K.G. 7 Feb. 1855; lord lieut. of Lancashire 9 April 1856; author of Translations from the German and original poems 1824; Mediterranean sketches 1843; The pilgrimage and other poems 1856. d. Bridgewater house, St. James’s, London 18 Feb. 1857. Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xiv, 184–6 (1858); Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xiv, pp. xlv-xlvii (1858); Fraser’s Mag. July 1835 p. 43, portrait; I.L.N. viii, 60 (1846), portrait, xxxvii, 563, 568 (1860), portrait.

ELLESMERE, George Granville Francis Egerton, 2 Earl of. b. Albemarle st. Piccadilly, London 15 June 1823; M.P. for North Staffs. 1847–51; succeeded 18 Feb. 1857. d. Balbirnie, Fifeshire 19 Sep. 1862.

ELLICE, Sir Charles Henry (2 son of general Robert Ellice 1784–1856). b. Florence 10 May 1823; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign Coldstream guards 10 May 1839; lieut. col. 24 foot 8 Aug. 1851 to 8 July 1862 when placed on h.p.; quarter master general 1 April 1871 to 30 March 1876; adjutant general 1 Nov. 1876 to March 1882; col. of 49 foot 7 Sep. 1874, of 24 foot 6 April 1884 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 1 April 1887; C.B. 1 Jany. 1858, K.C.B. 24 May 1873, G.C.B. 15 April 1882. d. Brook house, Horringer, Bury St. Edmunds 12 Nov. 1888.

ELLICE, Edward (eld. son of Alexander Ellice, managing director of the Hudson’s Bay Company). b. Montreal 1781; ed. at Winchester sch. and Marischal coll. Aberdeen, M.A. 1800; settled in London as member of firm of Inglis and Ellice, West India and America house; M.P. for Coventry 1818–1826 and 1830 to death; sec. to the Treasury 26 Nov. 1830 to 10 Aug. 1832 when he resigned; sec. of war 4 April 1833 to 16 Dec. 1834; P.C. 3 April 1833; original chairman of Reform club, London mainly established by his influence 1836; hon. D.C.L. St. Andrews 1862. d. Ardochy, Glengary 17 Sep. 1863. Fagan’s Reform club (1887) 33, 37, 123, portrait; I.L.N. xliii, 335, 337 (1863), portrait.

ELLICE, Edward (only son of the preceding). b. London 19 Aug. 1810; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1831; contested Inverness 1834; M.P. for Huddersfield 1836–37, for St. Andrew’s district 1837–80; author of A Letter in reply to A Report on the Poor Law in the Highlands 1855. d. on board his yacht Ita off Portland during the night of 2 Aug. 1880. bur. at Tor-na-cairidh on Lochgarry, Invernessshire.

ELLICE, Robert (2 son of Alexander Ellice, managing director of the Hudson’s Bay Company). b. 1784; cornet 12 light dragoons 8 Nov. 1798; major 6 dragoons 25 June 1812 to 30 Nov. 1820 when placed on h.p.; col. 24 foot 2 Nov. 1842 to death; general 20 June 1854. d. Upper Norwood, Surrey 18 June 1856.

ELLICOMBE, Sir Charles Grene (brother of Rev. H. T. Ellacombe 1790–1885). b. Alphington rectory 3 Aug. 1783; first lieut. R.E. 1 July 1801, brigade major 1821 to Dec. 1842, col. commandant 30 May 1856 to death; served in Peninsula, Nov. 1811 to end of the war; general 20 April 1861; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862. d. Worthing 7 June 1871. United Service Mag. July 1871 pp. 407–409.

ELLIOT, Sir Charles (youngest son of Hugh Elliot 1752–1830, governor of Madras). b. Dresden 1801; entered navy 26 March 1815; captain 28 Aug. 1828; protector of slaves in British Guiana 1830–33; British plenipotentiary in China 1840–41; consul general in Texas 1841–46; governor of Bermuda 1846–54; governor of Trinidad 1854–56; governor of St. Helena 20 May 1863 to 1 Feb. 1870 when he retired on pension; retired admiral 12 Sep. 1865; K.C.B. 19 July 1856; is drawn by Sir Henry Taylor in the poem Edwin the Fair 1845 as Earl Athulf. d. Withycombe near Exmouth 9 Sep. 1875. Autobiography of H. Taylor i, 164–69, 345–75 (1885).

ELLIOT, Charles Morgan (9 child of John Elliot, F.R.S.) b. Pimlico lodge, Westminster 27 April 1815; ed. at Eton and Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Madras engineers 1832, lieut. 11 Sep. 1841 to death; superintendent of magnetic observatory at Singapore 1840–45; made a magnetic survey of Eastern Archipelago, Jany. 1846 to Oct. 1849; F.R.S. 5 June 1851. d. Masulipatam 4 Aug. 1852.

ELLIOT, Lady Charlotte (eld. dau. of Sir James Carnegie, 5 baronet 1799–1849). b. 22 July 1839; raised to rank of an Earl’s daughter 1855 on her brother becoming Earl of Southesk; author of Stella and other poems By Florenz 1867; Medusa and other poems 1878. (m. (1) 16 June 1860 Thomas Frederick Scrymsoure Fothringham, who d. 7 March 1864; m. (2) 17 Dec. 1868 Frederick Boileau Elliot, barrister 1826–80). d. 15 Jany. 1880. Athenæum 24 Jany. 1880 p. 124.

ELLIOT, Sir George (2 son of 1 Earl of Minto 1751–1814). b. Swanage, Dorset 1 Aug. 1784; entered navy 4 June 1794; a naval aide-de-camp to Wm. iv, 1830–37; a junior lord of the Admiralty 1835–37; commander in chief at Cape of Good Hope 1837–40; commander of fleet in East Indies 15 Feb. 1840 to Nov. 1840; admiral 5 March 1853; pensioned 3 Oct. 1855; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831, K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862. d. 4 Prince’s terrace, Knightsbridge, London 24 June 1863.

ELLIOT, Sir Henry Miers (brother of Charles Morgan Elliot 1815–52). b. 1808; ed. at Winchester; entered Bengal civil service 1826; sec. for foreign department to governor general in council 1847; K.C.B. for service during Sikh war 5 June 1849; author of Supplement to the glossary of Indian terms [Compiled in 1842 by H. H. Wilson] A-J. 1860, no more printed; Bibliographical index to the historians of Muhammedan, India, vol. i, 1849; The History of India as told by its own historians, edited by J. Dowson 8 vols. 1867–77 and other books. d. Simon’s Town, Cape of Good Hope 20 Dec. 1853.

ELLIOT, John Edmund (youngest son of 1 Earl of Minto 1751–1814). b. 30 March 1788; in the Bengal civil service to 1830; M.P. for co. Roxburgh 1837–1841 and 1847–1859; sec. of Board of Control 26 Jany. 1849 to March 1852; author of Letter to the Teviotside Farmer 1841. d. 29 Cadogan place, London 4 April 1862.

ELLIOT, Sir Thomas Frederick (brother of Sir Charles Eliot 1801–75). b. London, July 1808; ed. at Harrow; clerk in colonial office London 5 July 1825; sec. to commission of enquiry into state of Canada, July 1835; agent general of emigration April 1837; chairman of board of advice and management over colonial land and emigration 1840–1847; assistant under sec. of state for colonies 1847 to Dec. 1868 when he retired on pension; K.C.M.G. 30 June 1869. d. Shepherd’s hotel, Cairo 12 Feb. 1880.

ELLIOT, Sir Walter (eld. son of James Elliot of Wolfelee, Roxburghshire). b. Edinburgh 16 Jany. 1803; writer Madras civil service 1821; third member of Board of Revenue 1844, second 1848, first 1851; comr. of the Northern Circars 1848–54; member of council and pres. of revenue and marine boards 1855–56 and 1857 to 27 Dec. 1859 when he resigned the service; a scholar in the Tamil and Hindustani languages; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1866; F.R.S. 6 June 1878; hon. LLD. Edin. 22 April 1878; author of Carnacta translation of Esop’s Fables 1840; Flora Andhrica, a list of plants in the Telegu district 1859, and of many papers on archæology in Indian Antiquary, Madras Journal of Literature and Science, Journal of Royal Asiatic Society and other periodicals. d. Wolfelee 1 March 1887. Journal of Royal Asiatic Society, July 1887 pp. 519–24; Biograph i, 251–54 (1882).

ELLIOTSON, John (eld. son of Thomas Elliotson of 106 High st. Southwark, druggist). b. High st. Southwark 24 Oct. 1791; spent 5 years at Univ. of Edin. 1805–10, M.D. 24 June 1810; L.R.C.P. London 22 Dec. 1810; spent 3 years at Jesus coll. Cam. 1813–16, M.B. 1816, M.D. 4 July 1821; candidate of R.C.P. 1 Oct. 1821, a fellow 30 Sep. 1822, censor 1825, consiliarius 1836, Gulstonian lecturer 1824, Lumleian lecturer 1829–30, Harveian orator 1846; assist. phys. to St. Thomas’s hospital 1817, phys. 1823–34; professor of medicine at London University 1832 to Dec. 1838; senior phys. to University hospital 1834 to Dec. 1838; began practise of Mesmerism 1837; founded Phrenological Society of London, pres.; founded London Mesmeric infirmary in Weymouth st. 1849; established The Zoist, a journal of cerebral physiology and mesmerism 1844 which ran to 13 vols.; broke up his establishment and quitted his house in Conduit st. 1865; pres. of Royal Med. and Chir. Soc.; author of The principles and practice of medicine 1839; Treatise on human physiology, Fifth ed. 1835–40, another ed. 1856 and other books. d. 2 Davies st. Berkeley sq. London 29 July 1868. J. Ashburner’s Notes and Studies (1867) 59–68; Medical Circular iv, 403–4, 419–21, 432–3 (1854); Physic and Physicians ii, 273–85 (1839).

ELLIOTT, Charles. Entered Bengal civil service 1797; senior member of Board of Revenue in Bengal; agent to governor general in Western provinces, retired on annuity 1826; F.R.S. 1832; F.R.G.S.; treasurer of Asiatic Society some years; author of The life of Hafiz-ool-Moolk Hafiz Rehmab Khan 1831. d. Portland place, London 4 May 1856 aged 79.

ELLIOTT, Rev. Charles. b. Greenconway, Donegal 16 May 1792; went to the U.S. about 1815; presiding elder of Wesleyan, Ohio district 4 years; professor of languages in Madison college, Uniontown, Panama 4 years; edited Pittsburg Conference Journal; edited Western Christian Advocate to 1848 and 1852–56; professor of Biblical literature in and pres. of Iowa Wesleyan Univ. 1856–60; author of Treatise on Baptism 1834; Delineation of Roman Catholicism 2 vols. 1842, third ed. 1851; Life of Bishop Roberts 1853 and other books. d. Mount Pleasant, Iowa 6 Jany. 1869.

ELLIOTT, Rev. Charles Boileau (eld. son of Charles Elliott, who d. 4 May 1856). b. 1803; ed. at Harrow and Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1837; V. of Godalming, Surrey 1833–38; R. of Tattingstone near Ipswich 1838 to death; F.R.G.S.; F.R.S. 5 April 1832; author of Letters from the North of Europe 1832; Travels in the three great empires of Austria, Russia and Turkey 2 vols. 1838 and other books. d. Geneva 1 July 1875.

ELLIOTT, Rev. Charles John. b. 7 July 1818; ed. at St. Cath. coll. Cam., Crosse Univ. scholar 1840, Tyrwhitt Univ. scholar 1842, B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843; V. of Winkfield near Windsor 1844 to death; surrogate 1872; hon. canon of Ch. Ch. Ox. 1873; select preacher at Cambridge 1877; member of Old Testament revision company; author of Enquiry into the doctrine of the Church of England on private confession and absolution 1859 and other books; contributed to the Bible Educator 1872, the S.P.C.K. Commentary, Smith’s Dictionary of Biography and Antiquities, Edinburgh Review, &c. d. Winkfield vicarage 11 May 1881.

ELLIOTT, Charlotte (3 dau. of Charles Elliott of Clapham and Brighton). b. 17 March 1789; lived at Torquay 1845–57, at Brighton 1857 to death; edited Christian Remembrancer Pocket Book 1834–59; edited The Invalid’s Hymn book, 6 ed. 1854, to this collection she contributed 112 hymns including “Just as I am, without one plea,” a hymn dated 1836 which has been translated into almost every living language, she also wrote “My God and Father while I stray” 1834 in the same collection; author of Hymns for a week 1837, 40th thousand 1871; Hours of Sorrow 1836 and many later editions; Poems by C. E. 1863. d. 10 Norfolk terrace, Brighton 22 Sep. 1871. Selections from the poems of Charlotte Elliott with a memoir by her sister E. B. (Mrs. E. Babington) 1873, portrait; Just as I am, by C. Elliott 1884 with memoir by H. L. L. 1885; Miller’s singers and songs of the church 1869, 461–62.

ELLIOTT, Rev. Edward Bishop (brother of the preceding). b. 24 July 1793; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., fellow 1817–24, B.A. 1816, M.A. 1819; wrote Seatonian prize poems 1821 and 1822; V. of Tuxford, Notts. 1824–40; preb. of Salisbury 1853; P.C. of St. Mark’s chapel, Brighton 1853 to death; author of The Question “What is the image of the Beast?” answered 1838; Horæ Apocalyptica, or a commentary on the Apocalypse critical and historical 3 vols. 1844; Vindiciæ Horariæ 1848 and 6 other books. d. 30 July 1875.

ELLIOTT, George Percy (eld. son of Rev. Luther Graves Elliott of Ottery St. Mary, Devon). b. Silverton 1800; ed. at Winchester and St. Mary hall, Ox.; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; barrister M.T. 29 May 1829; magistrate at Lambeth police court 1845 to 20 Sep. 1870 when he retired; author of A practical treatise on the qualifications of Parliamentary electors 1839; ed. for the Camden Soc. Diary of Dr. E. Lake and Autobiography of Dr. Taswell. d. Egland, Honiton, Devon 12 July 1874.

ELLIOTT, Rev. Henry Venn (brother of Charlotte Elliott 1789–1871). b. 17 Jany. 1792; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., fellow 1 Oct. 1816; 14 wrangler and 2 chancellor’s medallist 1814; C. of Ampton, Suffolk 1823–25; prior of St. John’s, Wilton near Salisbury 1826–32; P.C. of St. Mary’s, Brighton 18 Jany. 1827 to death, this chapel was built by his father for about £10,000 in 1826; founded St. Mary’s hall, Brighton opened 1 Aug. 1836; author of Psalms and Hymns 1835, fourteenth thousand 1858 and of many sermons. d. 31 Brunswick sq. Brighton 24 Jany. 1865. Life of Rev. H. V. Elliott by Josiah Bateman 1868, portrait.

ELLIOTT, Samuel Mackenzie. b. Inverness 9 April 1811; graduated at College of surgeons, Glasgow 1828; studied in Cincinnati and Philadelphia 1833–35; an oculist in New York 1835–74 where he gained a high reputation; lieut. col. of 79 regiment of New York volunteers in civil war 1861; raised the Highland brigade; author of The U.S. Highland Brigade, New York 1861. d. New Brighton, Staten Island, New York 1 May 1873.

ELLIOTT, Sir William Henry (younger son of John Elliott, captain R.N.) b. Elliott house near Ripon 1792; ensign 51 foot 6 Dec. 1809, lieut. col. 27 June 1838 to 13 Feb. 1855 when placed on h.p.; commanded Madras brigade in second Burmese war 1852–53; commandant at Rangoon 1853–55; col. of 55 foot 15 Nov. 1861, of 51 foot 1 June 1862 to death; general 25 Oct. 1871; K.H. 19 July 1837; K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862, G.C.B. 24 May 1873. d. 20 Cambridge sq. Hyde park, London 27 March 1874. I.L.N. lxiv, 331 (1874).

ELLIS, Rev. Arthur Ayres (son of Charles Ellis of Birmingham). b. Birmingham 1830; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1852, M.A. 1855, fell. of his coll. 1854; senior classical master Liverpool coll. 1853–57; junior dean of Trin. coll. Cam. and divinity lecturer in Ch. coll. Cam. 1859–60; V. of Stotfold, Beds. 1860 to death; published Bentleii Critica Sacra 1862. d. 22 March 1887.

ELLIS, Sir Barrow Helbert (son of S. Helbert Ellis of London). b. London 24 Jany. 1823; ed. at Univ. coll. school and Haileybury; matric. at Univ. of London 1839; entered Bombay civil service 26 July 1843; assistant comr. in Sind 1851–55; ordinary member of Bombay council 1865, member of governor general’s council 2 May 1870 to 27 April 1875; member of council of secretary of state, July 1875 to 1885; K.C.S.I. 5 Oct. 1875; vice pres. of Jews’ college, London where there is a portrait of him; edited G. Stack’s Dictionary of Sindhi and English, Bombay 1855. d. Evian-les-Bains, Savoy 20 June 1887. bur. Jewish cemetery, Willesden, Middlesex 28 June. Journal of Royal Asiatic Soc. xix, 688–90 (1887).

ELLIS, Charles Willats (eld. son of Rev. Thomas Ellis, V. of Great Milton, Oxon.) Ed. at Westminster; matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 22 Oct. 1807 aged 17; B.A. 1811, M.A. 1814; barrister L.I. 21 Nov. 1817; published A treatise on the pleadings in suits for tithes in equity 1821; A treatise on the law of debtor and creditor 1822; The clergyman’s assistant ed. by C. Ellis 1822, new ed. 1828; A collection of acts and records of parliament by Sir H. Gwillim, second ed. with notes by G. Ellis 1825; The law of fire and life insurance and annuities 1832, second ed. 1846. d. 42 Kensington sq. London 17 July 1868.

ELLIS, Edward Shipley (eld. son of John Ellis 1789–1862). b. 1817; chairman of Midland railway company, May 1873 to death. d. The Newark, Leicester 3 Dec. 1879.

ELLIS, Edwin. Solo violinist at Cremorne Gardens, London 1841; member of orchestra of Princess’s theatre; member of orchestra at Adelphi theatre 1860, conductor 1867 to death; published selections from Flotow’s Alessandro Stradella, Thomas’s Le Caid and Offenbach’s La Belle Hélène and a few songs. d. St. Thomas’s hospital, London 25 Oct. 1878 aged 35.

ELLIS, George Cressall. Director of Her Majesty’s dramatic performances at Windsor castle many years. d. Park road east, West Brompton, London 23 June 1875 in 66 year.

ELLIS, Sir Henry. b. 1777; private sec. to pres. of Bengal board of control at Calcutta 1812–14; minister plenipotentiary ad interim in Persia 18 April 1814 to 1815; clerk of the Pells 1825–1834 when office was abolished; comr. of board of control 6 Dec. 1830 to 20 Dec. 1834; P.C. 11 July 1832; a comr. for affairs of India 13 Dec. 1832; ambassador to Persia 1 July 1835 to Nov. 1836; sent on an extraordinary and special mission to the Brazils 20 Sep. 1842; K.C.B. 27 April 1848; F.R.S. 11 June 1819, F.G.S.; author of Journal of the proceedings of the late embassy to China 1817. d. Brighton 28 Sep. 1855.

ELLIS, Sir Henry (younger son of John Ellis, master of the free school in Primrose st. Bishopsgate st. London, who d. 1812). b. Primrose st. 29 Nov. 1779; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s school and St. John’s coll. Ox., fellow 1802–5; B.C.L. 1802; assistant librarian at Bodleian library 1797–1800; temporary assistant in British Museum library 1800, assistant keeper of printed books 1805, keeper 1806–12, keeper of the manuscripts 1812–27, secretary 1814–27, principal librarian 20 Dec. 1827 to Feb. 1856; F.S.A. 15 Jany. 1807, one of the secs. 1813 to 1 Dec. 1853, director 1 Dec. 1853 to 7 Dec. 1857; F.R.S. 30 May 1811; K.H. 21 July 1832; knighted at St. James’s palace 22 Feb. 1833; author of History of the parish of Saint Leonard, Shoreditch 1798; edited Original letters illustrative of English history 3 series 1824, 1827, 1846 and other books. d. 24 Bedford sq. London 15 Jany. 1869. Fagan’s Life of Panizzi i, 142–43 (1880), portrait; Cowtan’s Memories of the British Museum (1872) 230–32; Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. 2 series iv, 303–305 (1869); I.L.N. liv, 99, 141 (1869), portrait.

ELLIS, James. Managed Cremorne gardens, London 1845–51; arrived in Melbourne, Oct. 1852; established Salle Valentino there also Cremorne gardens. d. Melbourne 9 Jany. 1874 in 62 year. Era 22 March 1874 p. 7, col. 4.

ELLIS, John (eld. son of Joseph Ellis of Sharman’s lodge near Leicester, farmer). b. Frisk house near Leicester 1789; farmer at Beaumont Leyes near Leicester 1807–47; founded at Leicester firm of Ellis, Everington and Co. 1826; projected the third line of railway in England namely from Swannington to Bagworth, opened July 1832; M.P. for Leicester 1848–52; chairman of Midland railway company 1849–58. d. Belgrave near Leicester 26 Oct. 1862. Charlotte Ellis’s Sketch of one branch of the Ellis family, privately printed; The Midland railway by F. S. Williams (1876) 166–68.

ELLIS, Rev. Robert. b. Tyn-y-meini, Denbighshire 3 Feb. 1810; began preaching 5 Oct. 1834; baptist minister at Llanelian 1837, at Sirhowy, Monmouthshire 1847, at Carnarvon 1862–75; author of Lectures on Baptism 1841; The principles of Biblical Exegesis 1854; Memoir of John Williams 1871 and other books. d. Gartheryr 20 Aug. 1875. Rev. J. S. James’s Biography of Rev. R. Ellis 1877.

ELLIS, Rev. Robert. Member of St. John’s coll. Cam. 9 April 1836, scholar 5 Nov. 1839, fellow 30 March 1841 to 2 April 1872; fifth wrangler 1840; B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843; B.D. 1850; chiefly known by his controversy with W. J. Law on route followed by Hannibal over the Alps; author of A Treatise on Hannibal’s passage of the Alps 1853; Contributions to the ethnography of Italy and Greece 1858; The Armenian origin of the Etruscans 1861 and 6 other books. d. 3 Higher Summerlands, Exeter 20 Dec. 1885 aged 65. The Eagle, the St. John’s college magazine (1886).

ELLIS, Robert Leslie (youngest child of Francis Ellis of Bath). b. Bath 25 Aug. 1817; pensioner of Trin. coll. Cam. Oct. 1836, senior wrangler 1840; B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843; fell. of his coll. Oct. 1840 to 1849; edited Cambridge mathematical journal; seized with rheumatic fever at S. Remo 1849. d. Anstey hall, Trumpington 12 May 1859. The mathematical and other writings of R. L. Ellis, edited by W. Walton, with a biographical memoir by Very Rev. H. Goodwin (1863) pp. ix-xxxvi, portrait.

ELLIS, Robert Staunton. Entered Madras civil service 1844; member of council Madras 1875 to 16 March 1877; member of India office council 1877 to death; C.B. 21 April 1875; found dead in his bed at 141 Gloucester road, Kensington, London 9 Oct. 1877 aged 52.

ELLIS, Sir Samuel Burdon (son of Charles Ellis, captain R.N.) b. 1787; 2 lieut. R.M. 1 Jany. 1804; commanded Chatham division of R.M. 1851–1855; col. of Portsmouth division 28 March 1863 to death; general 1862; C.B. 1841, K.C.B. 18 May 1860. d. Old Charlton, Kent 10 March 1865. Memoirs and services of Sir S. B. Ellis, edited by Lady Ellis 1866.

ELLIS, Sarah (dau. of William Stickney of Ridgmont near Hull, farmer, who d. 9 July 1848 aged 84). b. 1812; brought up as a Quaker, but became a Congregationalist 1837; author of Pictures of private life, 3 series 3 vols. 1833–37; The poetry of life 2 vols. 1835; Home, or the iron rule, a story 3 vols. 1836; The women of England, their social duties and domestic habits 1839, more than 20 eds.; The sons of the soil, a poem 1839; Family Secrets, or hints to those who would make home happy 3 vols. 1841 and numerous other books. (m. 1837 William Ellis 1794–1872). d. Rose Hill, Hoddesdon, Herts. 16 June 1872. Fisher’s Drawing Room scrap book 1844–5, portrait; S. Ellis’s Self Deception vol. i, portrait.

ELLIS, Sydney (youngest son of Edward Shipley Ellis 1817–79). b. Leicester 12 Dec. 1850; educ. at Brighton and at Tottenham; member of a firm of worsted spinners; lectured to his work people on physical and natural science; took great interest in chemistry, geology and anthropology; member of British Assoc. 1874 and of Literary and Philosophical Soc. of Leicester; author of Leila Marston, a tale 1861. d. from accidentally inhaling poisonous gas while investigating the composition of ferro-prussiate of potash 26 Oct. 1877, left legacies of £1000 each to Anthropological Instit., the Royal, Chemical and Geological societies. Journal of Anthropological Institute ix, 441–42 (1880).

ELLIS, Thomas Flower. b. 1796; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., fellow; B.A. 1818; barrister L.I. 6 Feb. 1824; Q.C. within county palatine of Lancaster; a municipal corporation comr. 1831; recorder of Leeds, May 1839 to death; attorney general of Duchy of Lancaster to death; edited with J. L. Adolphus Reports in court of King’s Bench 12 vols. 1835–42 and Queen’s Bench reports, new series, 18 vols. 1842–56; with Colin Blackburn Reports in court of Queen’s Bench 8 vols. 1852–58; with C. Blackburn and F. Ellis Reports in court of Queen’s Bench 1858; with F. Ellis Reports in court of Queen’s Bench 3 vols. 1858–61; acted as Lord Macaulay’s executor, and edited the posthumous vol. of his works. d. 15 Bedford place, Russell sq. London 5 April 1861. Trevelyan’s Life of Lord Macaulay (1878) i, 182, 253, 345, ii, 95, 220, 284; Pollock’s Personal Remembrances i, 91, 100.

ELLIS, Rev. William (2 child of William Ellis of London). b. Charles st. Long Acre, London 29 Aug. 1794; employed as a gardener at Wisbeach; removed to London 1811; missionary of the London missionary society in the South Sea Islands 1816–25; travelling agent at home 1825–31; foreign sec. of L.M.S. 1831–41; edited The Christian Keepsake an annual; pastor of Congregational church at Hoddesdon, Herts. 1847–52; missionary to Madagascar 1853, 1856 and 1861–65; author of History of Madagascar 2 vols. 1838; Polynesian Researches 2 vols. 1829, second ed. 3 vols. 1832–34, another ed. 1848, 4 vols. 1853 and other books. d. Rose hill, Hoddesdon 9 June 1872. bur. Abney park cemetery 14 June. J. E. Ellis’s Life of W. Ellis 1873; I.L.N. lx, 625, 630 (1872), portrait.

ELLIS, William (son of Andrew Ellis De Vezian, an underwriter at Lloyds, London, who took name of Ellis about 1801). b. Jany. 1800; assistant underwriter of Indemnity marine insurance company 1824, chief manager 1827; founded at his own expense five schools 1848–52, naming them Birkbeck after George Birkbeck; gave lectures to the royal children at Buckingham Palace; author of Outlines of social economy 1846; Education as a means of preventing destitution 1851; Philo-Socrates 1861 a series of papers, and other books. d. 6 Lancaster terrace, Regent’s park, London 18 Feb. 1881. Good Words, Aug. 1881 p. 543, portrait.

ELLIS, Rev. William Webb (2 son of James Ellis of Manchester). b. Nov. 1807; ed. at Rugby and Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1831; C. of St. George’s, Albemarle st. London 1836–55; R. of St. Clement Danes, Strand 1843–55; R. of Laver Magdalen, Essex 1855 to death; author of A concise view of prophecy which relates to the Messiah 1832; Sermons at St. George’s 1838; Dangerous errors of Romanism 1853. d. 24 Jany. 1872. I.L.N. xxiv, 400 (1854), portrait.

ELLIS, Wynn (son of Thomas Ellis of Oundle, Northamptonshire). b. Oundle, July 1790; hosier and mercer at 16 Ludgate st. City of London 1812, wholesale silk merchant 1830–71 latterly the largest in London; M.P. for Leicester 1831–34 and 1839–47; sheriff of Herts. 1851–52. d. 30 Cadogan place, Sloane st. London 20 Nov. 1875. bur. at Whitstable, personalty sworn under £600,000, 8 Jany. 1876. I.L.N. lxviii, 35, 37, 38 (1876), portrait.

Note.—He bequeathed all his pictures by the old masters 402 in number to the National Gallery, but the trustees selected only 44 of them which have since been exhibited as the Wynn Ellis collection. Among his modern pictures was a portrait of the Duchess of Devonshire purchased by Thomas Agnew and Sons for £10,605 the largest sum ever obtained for a picture at public auction, after being exhibited for a short time at 39 B Old Bond st., it was on the night of 26 May 1876 cut out of the stretching frame and stolen.

ELLIS-McTAGGART, Francis (son of Thomas Flower Ellis 1796–1861). b. 13 Dec. 1823; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849; barrister I.T. 4 May 1849; edited with T. F. Ellis and C. Blackburn Reports in court of Queen’s Bench 1858; with T. F. Ellis Reports in court of Queen’s Bench 3 vols. 1858–61; judge of circuit 34 (Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire) 4 May 1861 to Dec. 1871; judge of circuit 43 (Marylebone, London), Dec. 1871 to death; assumed additional name of McTaggart 1868. d. 28 Norfolk sq. London 15 March 1872.

ELLIS-NANNEY, Owen Jones. b. 1790; contested Carnarvon district 15 Dec. 1832, seated on petition 6 March 1833, unseated on counter petition 23 May 1833; contested Carnarvon district 12 Jany. 1835; sheriff of Carnarvon 1861. d. 27 Oct. 1870. Perry and Knapp’s Cases of controverted elections (1833) 106–11, 435–61; Cockburn and Rowe’s Cases (1833) 127–38, 550–60.

ELLISON, Cuthbert Edward. Educ. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843; barrister I.T. 31 Jany. 1845; stipendiary magistrate at Newcastle 25 Jany. 1854, at Manchester 4 May 1860, at Worship st. police court, London 14 June 1864, at Lambeth police court, Sep. 1870 to death. d. 7 Chester st. Grosvenor place, London 26 May 1883.

ELLISON, Nathaniel (son of Rev. Nathaniel Ellison, Incumbent of St. Andrew, Newcastle upon Tyne). b. Newcastle 19 March 1786; ed. at Durham gr. sch.; admitted commoner of Univ. coll. Ox. 18 Oct. 1802; B.A. 1806, M.A. 1810; fellow of Merton coll. 1807–23; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1811; one of comrs. of bankrupts in London; comr. of court of bankruptcy at Newcastle upon Tyne 21 Oct. 1842 to death. d. Jesmond near Newcastle 12 Dec. 1861.

ELLISTON, Henry Twiselton (2 son of Robert Wm. Elliston the comedian 1774–1831). b. about 1801; established with his brother Wm. a library at Leamington, afterwards known as the County library; erected the music hall in Bath st. Leamington, lessee of the royal assembly rooms, organist at the parish church to death, librarian of the free public library Sep. 1863; wrote four services. d. Leamington 19 April 1864 aged 63.

ELMES, James (son of Samuel Elmes). b. London 15 Oct. 1782; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s school; exhibited 36 architectural designs at R.A. 1801–42; vice pres. of Royal Architectural Society 1809–48; surveyor of port of London 1809–48; edited The Annals of the Fine Arts 1816–20; author of Hints for the improvement of prisons 1817, 3 ed. 1829; Lectures on Architecture 1823; Memoirs of Sir Christopher Wren 1823, 2 ed. 1852; The Arts and Artists 3 vols. 1825; Survey of the harbour and port of London 1838. d. Greenwich 2 April 1862.

ELMORE, Alfred. b. Clonakilty, co. Cork 18 June 1815; historical painter; exhibited 72 pictures at R.A., 9 at B.I. and 9 at Suffolk st. gallery 1834–80; his picture ‘Origin of the Guelph and Ghibelline quarrel’ was sold in 1845 for £300; A.R.A. 1845, R.A. 1857. d. 1 St. Alban’s road, Kensington, London 24 Jany. 1881. Sandby’s History of Royal Academy ii, 302–4 (1862); I.L.N. lxxviii, 125, 126 (1881), portrait; Ottley’s Dict. of painters 1866 p. 61.

ELMSLEY, John (son of John Elmsley 1762–1805, speaker of legislative council of Lower Canada). b. Elmsley house, Toronto 1801; entered British navy 1815, lieut. 1824; member of legislative council of Upper Canada until union of two provinces 1840; joined Church of Rome; established House of Providence at Toronto, and the first Roman Catholic school in Upper Canada; chief founder of College of St. Michael in Toronto. d. Toronto 8 Aug. 1863.

ELMSLEY, William. b. 1797; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; barrister M.T. 11 Nov. 1825; Q.C. 1851; bencher of his inn, Dec. 1851, treasurer and master of the library 1861; judge of county courts circuit 19 (Derbyshire) 16 April 1862 to death. d. Derby 20 Dec. 1866.

ELMSLIE, William Jackson (2 child of James Elmslie). b. Aberdeen 29 June 1832; a shoemaker to 1848; at Aberdeen gram. sch. 1848, at King’s coll. Aberdeen 1853, at Free ch. divinity coll. 1858; medical student in Edinburgh 1862; M.R.C.S. 1864; medical missionary in Kashmir 1864 to death; author of A vocabulary of the Kashmírí language 1872. d. Goojerat 16 Nov. 1872. Seed time in Kashmir, a memoir of W. J. Elmslie 1875, portrait.

ELPHINSTONE, John, 13 Baron Elphinstone (only son of 12 baron Elphinstone, who d. 21 May 1813). b. Cumbernauld house, Dumbartonshire 23 June 1807; cornet royal horse guards 28 Jany. 1826, captain 4 Dec. 1832 to 21 Nov. 1836 when placed on h.p.; governor of Madras 6 March 1837 to 24 Sep. 1842; a lord in waiting to the Queen, Dec. 1847 to Feb. 1852 and Jany. to Oct. 1853; governor of Bombay Oct. 1853 to May 1860, took his seat 26 Dec. 1853; representative peer for Scotland; G.C.H. 1836; P.C. 3 Aug. 1836; G.C.B. 31 March 1859; created baron of the U.K. as Baron Elphinstone of Elphinstone 21 May 1859. d. King st. St. James’s, London 19 July 1860. Kaye and Malleson’s History of the Indian mutiny (1888–89) i, 309 etc.

ELPHINSTONE, Sir James Dalrymple Horn, 2 Baronet (son of Sir Robert Elphinstone, 1 baronet 1766–1848). b. Logie, Elphinstone, Aberdeenshire 20 Nov. 1805; captain in navy of H.E.I.Co.; M.P. for Portsmouth, April 1857 to July 1865 and Dec. 1868 to March 1880; a lord of the Treasury, Feb. 1874 to March 1880. d. Uplands, Bridgwater 26 Dec. 1886.

ELPHINSTONE, Mountstuart (youngest son of 11 baron Elphinstone 1737–94). b. 6 Oct. 1779; went to Calcutta 1796; resident at Nagpur 1803–8; envoy to King of Cabool 13 Oct. 1808; political resident at Poona 1810–18; governor of Bombay 7 Oct. 1818 to 17 Jany. 1827 where a college bearing his name was founded; author of An account of the kingdom of Caubul 1815; History of India 2 vols. 1841, 5 ed. 1866 and other books. d. Hookward park near Limpsfield, Surrey 20 Nov. 1859. Life of M. Elphinstone by Sir T. E. Colebrooke 2 vols. 1884, 2 portraits.

ELSLEY, Charles Heneage (2 son of Rev. Heneage Elsley 1746–1833). b. 14 Aug. 1792; ed. at St. Peter’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816; barrister M.T. 29 Jany. 1819; a comr. of bankrupts for Whitby, Scarborough and Northallerton; clerk of the peace for west riding of Yorkshire 1827 to death; recorder of Richmond, Yorkshire 1827 to death, of York 1834 to death, of Scarborough 1836 to death; judge of county courts March 1847–1854 when he resigned; author of Reports of Cases by Sir W. Blackstone, revised 1828; Essay on the relation between the English and French languages 1858. d. York 3 Aug. 1865.

ELT, Charles Henry. b. about 1805; a chartist; chairman of building act committee; member of Metropolitan Board of Works 1866 to death. d. 41 Gibson sq. Islington 20 May 1882.

ELTON, Sir Arthur Hallam, 7 Baronet (3 son of the succeeding). b. Belle Vue place, Clifton 19 April 1818; lieut. 14 foot 1840–41 when he sold out; sheriff of Somerset 1857; M.P. for Bath 28 March 1857 to 23 April 1859; author of Poems of past years 1856; Below the surface 3 vols. 1857; Herbert Chauncey, a novel 3 vols. 1860. d. Clevedon court near Bristol 14 Oct. 1883. I.L.N. xxx, 478 (1857), portrait.

ELTON, Sir Charles Abraham, 6 Baronet (eld. son of Rev. Sir Abraham Elton, 5 baronet 1755–1842). b. Bristol 31 Oct. 1778; ed. at Eton; ensign 4 foot Nov. 1796, captain 1799–1802 when placed on h.p.; captain 48 foot 1803–4; retired July 1825; lieut.-col. 2 Somerset militia; author of Poems 1804; Tales of romance with other poems 1810; The remains of Hesiod translated into English verse 1815; Specimen of the classic poets in a chronological series from Homer to Tryphiodorus translated into English verse 3 vols. 1814; A History of the Roman emperors 1825. d. at house of his son-in-law Rev. E. D. Tinling at Bath 1 June 1853.

ELTON, James Frederic (2 son of Roberts W. Elton, lieut. col. Bengal army). b. 3 Aug. 1840; entered Bengal army 1857; aide-de-camp to Sir Hugh Rose, commander in chief; captain 98 foot; served on staff of French army in Mexico 1866; vice consul at Zanzibar 15 Dec. 1874; consul for Portuguese possessions on east coast of Africa 8 March 1875 to death; F.R.G.S.; author of With the French in Mexico 1867. d. near Usekhe in Ugogo on an exploring expedition to Lake Nyassa 19 Dec. 1877. J. F. Elton’s Travels and researches among the lakes and mountains of Eastern and Central Africa 1879, portrait.

ELVEY, Stephen (eld. son of John Elvey of Canterbury). b. Canterbury, June 1805; lay clerk at Canterbury cathedral; Mus. Bac. Ox. 1831, Mus. Doc. 1838; organist of New coll. Ox. 1830 to death; organist of St. John’s coll. Ox. 1856 to death; deputy professor of music at Ox. to 1847; choragus in Univ. of Ox. 1848 to death; published The Oxford Psalm Book 1852; The Psalter printed for chanting upon a new principle 1856; The Canticles 1858. d. Oxford 6 Oct. 1860.

ELY, John Henry Loftus, 3 Marquis of (eld. son of 2 Marquis of Ely 1770–1845). b. Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 19 Jany. 1814; contested Gloucester 29 July 1841; M.P. for Woodstock 1 May 1845 to 26 Sep. 1845 when he succeeded. d. 63 Eaton place, London 15 July 1857.

EMDEN, William Samuel. Prompter at Covent Garden theatre under Madame Vestris 1839, subsequently acting manager; partner with F. Robson at Olympic theatre 1857–64; acting manager of St. James’s theatre; treasurer of Covent Garden theatrical fund 1869 to death; wrote The evil May Day, The head of the family, Lives labyrinth and The rear admiral, printed in Duncombe and Lacy’s plays. d. 18 Upper park road, Haverstock hill, London 4 Jany. 1872 aged 71.

EMERY, Samuel Anderson (son of John Emery, actor 1777–1822). b. Hyde st. Bloomsbury, London 10 Sep. 1817; first appeared on the stage at Fitzroy theatre, May 1834 as Dan in John Bull; played at Lyceum 1843 and 1844–47; stage manager at Surrey theatre 1848–9; played at Drury Lane 1850; the original Fouché in Tom Taylor’s Plot and Passion at Olympic 17 Oct. 1853; manager of Marylebone theatre 1857–58; first appeared in America 30 March 1863, at Barnum’s Old Museum, New York; returned to England, Sep. 1863; played at nearly all the west end theatres; played in Australia 1880–81. d. 3 King William st. Strand, London 19 July 1881. Tallis’s Drawing room table book (1851) 45–6, portrait; Theatre n.s. iii, 70–2 (1884); Theatrical Times ii, 57 (1847), portrait; Touchstone 13 July 1878 p. 3, portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news, xv, 464 (1881), portrait.

EMMETT, Anthony. Educ. at Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.E. 16 Feb. 1808, col. 11 Nov. 1851 to 21 May 1855 when placed on retired full pay as M.G.; served in Peninsula 1809–12; held various commands at St. Helena 1815–21, at Bermuda and in the Mediterranean. d. Brighton 27 March 1872.

EMMETT, Robert (son of Thomas Addis Emmett, Irish patriot 1764–1827). b. Ireland about 1792; went to New York with his father 1804, admitted to New York bar; a justice of state superior court; one of the directory formed in New York for purpose of aiding contemplated Irish insurrection of 1848. d. New Rochelle, New York 15 Feb. 1873.

EMPSON, William. Educ. at Winchester and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1812, M.A. 1815; began to contribute to Edinburgh Review 1823, wrote more than 60 articles upon law, politics and literary topics 1823–49, editor Feb. 1847 to death; professor of general polity and the laws of England in Haileybury college near Hertford 2 July 1824 to death. d. Haileybury 10 Dec. 1852 aged 62. Cockburn’s Life of Lord Jeffrey (1852) i, 374, ii, 232, 310 etc.; Selections from the correspondence of Macvey Napier (1879) pp. 62, 547.

ENFIELD, Edward (3 son of Henry Enfield, town clerk of Nottingham). b. Nottingham 15 May 1811; one of the moneyers of the Mint, London to 1851 when he retired on pension; member of council of University college, London, and of its committee of management 1858 to death; chairman of committee of management and treasurer of University college hospital 1867 to death; pres. of senate of the college 1878 to death; pres. of Manchester New college, London to death. d. 19 Chester terrace, Regents park, London 21 April 1880. N. H. Nixon’s North London hospital, a history (1882) 40; In Memoriam, Edward Enfield 1880.

ENGEL, Carl. b. Hanover 1818; author of Pianist’s Handbook 1853; The music of the most ancient nations 1864; Musical myths and facts 2 vols. 1876; hanged himself at 54 Addison road, Kensington, London 17 Nov. 1882.

ENGLAND, Poole Vallancey. Second lieut. R.A. 10 May 1805, col. 17 Feb. 1854, col. commandant 27 Feb. 1866 to 1 Oct. 1877 when placed on retired list; general 29 March 1873. d. 41 Marine parade, Dover 6 Nov. 1884 in 97 year.

ENGLAND, Sir Richard (son of lieut. general Richard England of Lifford near Ennis, co. Clare). b. Detroit, Upper Canada 13 May 1793; ed. at Winchester and Marlow; ensign 5 foot 25 Feb. 1808; lieut. col. 75 foot 6 July 1826 to 7 July 1837; lieut. col. 4 foot 7 July 1837 to 10 July 1837; lieut. col. 41 foot 10 July 1837 to 22 July 1845; brigadier general Madras 5 Feb. 1839 to Oct. 1840; commanded third division in Crimea 21 Feb. 1854 to 17 Aug. 1855; col. of 50 foot 20 Sep. 1854 to 20 April 1861; major general division Curragh 15 Aug. 1856 to 31 March 1859; col. 41 foot 20 April 1861 to death; general 6 July 1863; placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877; K.H. 1835; K.C.B. 27 Sep. 1843, G.C.B. 5 July 1855; grand officer of legion of honour 1856. d. St. Margaret’s, Titchfield, Hants. 19 Jany. 1883. Once a week, xxvii, 7, 39, 53 (1872); Nolan’s Russian War, ii, 405, portrait.

ENGLISH, Henry. b. 1803; proprietor and editor of The Mining Journal 1835 to death; edited The quarterly mining review 4 vols. 1830–37; F.R.G.S.; author of A compendium of information relating to companies formed for working British mines 1826; A Glossary of mining terms used in Mexico, Columbia, Peru and other parts of South America, also those used in the mining districts of Cornwall and Derbyshire 1830; The mining almanack 3 vols. 1849–51. d. Islington, London 28 April 1855.

ENNIS, Sir John, 1 Baronet (only son of John Ennis of Ballinahowen court near Athlone, who d. 31 March 1834). b. Dublin 15 Aug. 1800; ed. at Stonyhurst college; merchant in Dublin; sheriff of Westmeath 1837, of co. Dublin 1849; contested Athlone, April 1856, M.P. for Athlone, April 1857 to July 1865; a comr. of charitable bequests to death; governor of Bank of Ireland to death; created baronet 27 July 1866. d. 9 Merrion sq. east, Dublin 8 Aug. 1878.

ENNIS, Sir John James, 2 Baronet (eld. son of the preceding). b. 6 April 1842; ed. at Oscott and Ch. Ch. Ox.; sheriff of Westmeath 1866; M.P. for Athlone 1868–74 and 1880 to death. d. Curzon st. Mayfair, London 28 May 1884.

ENNISKILLEN, William Willoughby Cole, 3 Earl of (eld. son of 2 Earl of Enniskillen 1768–1840). b. Dover st. Piccadilly, London 25 Jany. 1807; M.P. for Fermanagh 1831 to 31 March 1840 when he succeeded his father as 3 earl of Enniskillen and 2 baron Grinstead; hon. col. Fermanagh militia 1875 to death; F.R.S. 15 Jany. 1829; F.G.S. d. Florence court, Fermanagh 12 Nov. 1886.

EPPS, Ellen (dau. of John Frederick Elliott). b. 1809; author of Labour and live, a story 1848, anon.; Practical Observations on health and long life 1855; Blenham, a story, By the author of Labour and live 1858; Living among the dead, a story, By the author of Blenham 1860. (m. 24 Aug. 1831 John Epps 1805–69), she d. 7 July 1876.

EPPS, George Napoleon (son of John Epps of Ashford, Kent, who d. 1835). b. 22 July 1815; pupil and assistant of his brother John Epps; M.R.C.S. 1845; surgeon to Homœopathic hospital in Hanover sq. London 1845; very successful in treating spinal curvatures and deformities; author of Spinal curvature, its theory, its cure 1849; On deformities of the Spine and on Club Foot 1859. d. 28 May 1874.

EPPS, John (half-brother of the preceding). b. Blackheath, Kent 15 Feb. 1805; ed. at Mill Hill school and Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1826; practised in London 1827 to death, latterly as a homœopath; lecturer on materia medica at Homœopathic hospital 1851; joint editor of the London Medical and Surgical Journal 1828–9; published The Christian physician and Anthropological magazine 1835–9; edited Journal of health and disease 1845–52; Notes of a new truth 1856–69; contested Northampton as a Chartist 30 July 1847; author of The Devil 1842, anon.; Constipation, its theory and cure 1854; Consumption, its nature and treatment 1859. d. 89 Great Russell st. Bloomsbury, London 12 Feb. 1869. Diary of the late John Epps, edited by Mrs. Epps 1875; J. F. Clarke’s Autobiographical Recollections (1874) 137–40.

ERCK, John Caillard. Ecclesiastical comr. for Ireland; author of The Irish ecclesiastical register for the year 1817 By J. C. E. Dublin 1817; Records of patent rolls of Chancery, Ireland 2 vols. 1847–50. d. Dublin 2 June 1851.

ERLE, Peter (4 son of Rev. Christopher Erle of Gillingham, Dorset). b. 1795; ed. at New college, Ox., fellow 1812–25, B.A. 1816, M.A. 1821; barrister M.T. 1 June 1821; chief charity estate comr. 24 Oct. 1853 to 1872; Q.C. 10 July 1854; bencher of his inn 22 Nov. 1854, treasurer 1864; P.C. 27 Nov. 1872. d. 12 Park crescent, Regent’s park, London 29 Jany. 1877.

ERLE, Sir William (brother of the preceding). b. Fifehead-Magdalene, Dorset 1 Oct. 1793; ed. at Winchester and New coll. Ox.; B.C.L. 1818, D.C.L. 1857; fellow of his college 1811–34, hon. fellow 1870 to death; barrister M.T. 26 Nov. 1819; admitted barrister at I.T. 11 June 1822, bencher 18 Nov. 1834, reader 1843, treasurer 1844; K.C. 1834; M.P. for city of Oxford 26 July 1837 to 23 June 1841; counsel for Bank of England 1844; serjeant-at-law 7 Nov. 1844; justice of Court of Common Pleas 6 Nov. 1844; transferred to Court of Queen’s Bench, Oct. 1846; chief justice of Court of Common Pleas 24 June 1859 to 26 Nov. 1866; knighted 23 April 1845; P.C. 6 July 1859; F.R.S. 22 Nov. 1860; member of Trades Union commission 1867–8; author of The law relating to Trades Unions 1869. d. Bramshott Grange near Liphook, Hants. 28 Jany. 1880. I.L.N. lxxvi, 157 (1880), portrait.

ERLE-DRAX, John Samuel Wanley Sawbridge- (eld. son of Samuel Elias Sawbridge of Olantigh tower, Ashford, Kent). b. 6 Oct. 1800; captain in East Kent militia 35 years; maintained a troop of yeomanry known as the Charborough troop; assumed name of Erle-Drax 1828; M.P. for Wareham 1841–57, 1859–65 and 1868–80; contested Wareham 1857 and 1865. d. Holnest park, Sherborne 5 Jany. 1887. The book of sports ii, 61 (1843), portrait; New sporting mag. xiii, 262 (1837), portrait.

ERRINGTON, Most Rev. George (2 son of Thomas Errington of Clintz near Richmond, Yorkshire). b. Clintz 14 Sep. 1804; ed. at Ushaw 1814–21 and English college, Rome 1821–24; sub-deacon 1825, deacon 1826, priest 22 Dec. 1827; D.D. cum præmio 1827; vice rector of English college, Rome 29 May 1832 to 1843; travelled in France and Spain 1832–40; presided over the studies in St. Mary’s coll. Oscott 1843–47; employed at Liverpool and Salford 1848–51; bishop of newly created see of Plymouth 27 June 1851 to March 1855; consecrated in church of St. John, Salford by Abp. Wiseman 25 July 1851; coadjutor to Cardinal Wiseman with title of Archbishop of Trebizond in partibus March 1855 to 2 July 1862; administrator of diocese of Clifton, Oct. 1855 to Feb. 1857; assistant at pontifical throne 5 Dec. 1869; held charge of missions in Isle of Man 1865–8; undertook tuition of young theological students at St. Paul’s college, Prior Park, Bath, Oct. 1870 to death; author of Four lectures on the hierarchy of the Catholic Church 1850; The Irish land question 1880. d. Prior Park 19 Jany. 1886. M. Brady’s Episcopal Succession, iii, 376, 436, 437, 473 (1877).

ERRINGTON, John Edward (eld. son of John Errington). b. Hull 29 Dec. 1806; a resident engineer on Grand Junction railway to 1837; joint engineer with Joseph Locke of Lancaster and Carlisle railway 1843; constructed Caledonian railway 1848; engineer to London and South Western railway 1856–60; A.I.C.E. 1831, M.I.C.E. 22 Jany. 1839, mem. of council 1850, vice pres. 1861–62. d. 6 Pall Mall east, London 4 July 1862. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxii, 626–29 (1863).

ERSKINE, David Montagu Erskine, 2 Baron (eld. son of 1 Baron Erskine 1750–1823). Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1797, LLD. 1811; barrister L.I. 20 Nov. 1802; M.P. for Portsmouth 19 Feb. to July 1806; min. plenipo. to United States, July 1806 to 1809, at Stuttgard 1825–28; ambassador at Munich, Feb. 1828 to Nov. 1843 when he retired on pension. d. Butler’s Green near Lewes 19 March 1855 aged 79.

ERSKINE, Edward Morris (4 son of the preceding). b. Brighton 28 March 1817; attaché at Munich 25 Sep. 1835; envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at Athens 7 May 1864 to 24 July 1872, at Stockholm 24 July 1872 to 1 May 1881 when he retired on a pension; C.B. 25 Feb. 1873. d. Neville house, Twickenham 19 April 1883.

ERSKINE, Very Rev. Henry David (2 son of 1 Baron Erskine 1750–1823). Ed. at Univ. of Edin. and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. Cam. 1809; D.D. Columbia coll. New York 1852; R. of Swithland, Leics. 1817–41; R. of Kirby Underdale, Yorkshire 1840 to death; preb. of York cath. 28 Oct. 1845, dean of Ripon 23 Sep. 1847 to death. d. Ripon 27 July 1859 aged 72.

ERSKINE, John Elphinstone (son of David Erskine of Cardross, Stirling). b. 13 July 1806; entered navy 1819; captain 28 June 1838; M.P. for Stirlingshire, July 1865 to 26 Jany. 1874; R.A. 4 Nov. 1857; commanded a division of Channel Squadron 1859–61, admiral 10 Sep. 1869; author of A short account of the discoveries of gold in Australia 1851; Journal of a cruise among the islands of the Western Pacific 1853. d. 1 Albany, Piccadilly, London 23 June 1887.

ERSKINE, Thomas (3 son of 1 Baron Erskine 1750–1823). b. 10 Serjeant’s Inn, Fleet st. London 12 March 1788; ed. at Harrow; entered at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. as a peer’s son without residence or examination 1811; secretary of presentations 1806; practised as special pleader 1810–13; barrister L.I. 20 May 1813; K.C. Nov. 1827; chief judge of Court of Review in Bankruptcy 2 Dec. 1831 to Nov. 1842; P.C. 1831; a judge of Court of Common Pleas 9 Jany. 1839 to Nov. 1844; pres. of Trinitarian Bible Society 1840. d. Bournemouth 9 Nov. 1864.

ERSKINE, Thomas (youngest son of David Erskine of Linlathen, Forfarshire, who d. 5 April 1791). b. Edinburgh 13 Oct. 1788; an advocate in Edin. 1810–16; a friend of Dr. Chalmers and Thomas Carlyle; author of Remarks on the internal evidence of the truth of revealed religion 1820, 10 ed. 1878; An essay on faith 1822; The unconditional freeness of the Gospel 1828; The doctrine of election and its connection with Christianity 1837, 2 ed. 1878 and 8 other books. d. Edinburgh 20 March 1870. Letters of Thomas Erskine of Linlathen edited by W. Hanna 1878.

ESCOTT, Bickham Sweet. b. 1802; barrister M.T. 17 June 1825; M.P. for Winchester 1841–47; contested West Somerset at general elections of 1832, 1835 and 1847; author of A letter on the reform question 1831 and other works on same subject. d. Hartrow manor, Somerset 4 Nov. 1853.

ESDAILE, James. b. Montrose 6 Feb. 1808; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1830; assistant surgeon Bengal army 1831; presidency surgeon at Calcutta 1848, marine surgeon 1850 to 1 June 1851; began practising mesmerism 1845; author of Letters from the Red Sea, Egypt and the Continent, Calcutta 1839; Mesmerism in India and its practical application in surgery and medicine 1846; Natural and mesmeric clairvoyance with the practical application of mesmerism in surgery and medicine 1852 and other books. d. Elm bank, Lawrie road, Sydenham 10 Jany. 1859.

ESMONDE, Sir John, 9 or 10 Baronet. b. Kilmanock, co. Wexford 16 May 1826; ed. at Clongowes Wood and Trin. coll. Dublin; called to Irish bar 1850; M.P. for co. Waterford 1852 to death; sheriff of Wexford 1866, of Wicklow 1875. d. 9 Dec. 1876.

ESMONDE, Sir Thomas, 8 or 9 Baronet. b. 10 Dec. 1786; succeeded his uncle 19 Dec. 1803; M.P. for Wexford 1841–47; P.C. Ireland 1847. d. 31 Dec. 1868.

ESPINASSE, James (only son of Isaac Espinasse of Bexley, Kent, who d. 14 Feb. 1834 aged 76). b. 1798; ed. at Balliol coll. Ox., B.A. 1820; barrister G.I. 27 June 1827; recorder of Rochester 1842 to death; judge of county courts, circuit 49 (West Kent), March 1847 to death; author of A treatise on the law of bankrupts 1823. d. The college, Maidstone 16 March 1867.

ESSEX, Catharine Capel-Coningsby, Countess of (dau. of Edward Stephens of London, carver and gilder). b. London 18 Sep. 1791; sang under name of Miss Young at many concerts in the provinces; sang in Italian opera at the Pantheon, London 1812 as Catharine Stephens; first appeared at Covent Garden as Mandane in Arne’s opera Artaxerxes Sep. 1813; played Polly in The Beggar’s Opera and Clara in The Duenna; sang at Drury Lane 1822–26; sang at concerts and in oratorios; one of the finest soprano singers; her voice reached to the high D; retired from the stage 1831. (m. 19 April 1838 George Capel-Coningsby 5 Earl of Essex 1757–1839), she d. 9 Belgrave sq. London 22 Feb. 1882, mural monument erected in Watford church, Herts. March 1885. Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography ii, 123–36 (1825), portrait; Mrs. C. B. Wilson’s Our Actresses i, 276–87 (1844), portrait; E. C. Clayton’s Queens of song ii, 33–44 (1865); Theatrical Inquisitor iii, 259–61 (1813), portrait; Musical Gem (1832), 2–3, portrait.

ESSEX, William. Enamel painter; sole exponent of the art after death of H. P. Bone 1855; painted many miniature copies of pictures by Correggio, Guido, Wilkie and others; exhibited 109 enamels at R.A., 20 at B.I. and 17 at Suffolk st. gallery 1818–64; enamel painter to the Queen 1839 to death; a private exhibition of his works was held in 1839, of which a catalogue was printed. d. Brighton 29 Dec. 1869 aged 85.

ESTCOURT, Rev. Edgar Edmund (eld. son of Rev. Edmund William Estcourt of Newnton, Wilts.) b. 7 Feb. 1816; ed. at Ex. coll. Ox., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1840; C. of Cirencester, Gloucs. 1842–45; received into Church of Rome at Prior Park, Dec. 1845; ordained priest 1848; œconomus of diocese of Birmingham 1850; canon of St. Chad’s cathedral, Birmingham to death; author of The dogmatic teaching of the Book of Common Prayer on the subject of the Holy Eucharist 1868; The question of Anglican orders discussed 1873; The memoir of Jane Dormer, Duchess of Feria, edited by Rev. J. Stevenson 1887. d. Leamington 16 April 1884. bur. Kenilworth.

ESTCOURT, James Bucknall (2 son of the succeeding). b. Edward st. Portman sq. London 12 July 1802; ed. at Harrow; ensign 44 foot 13 July 1820, second in command in Euphrates valley expedition 1834–36; major 43 foot 21 Oct. 1836 to 25 Aug. 1843 when placed on h.p.; adjutant general in the Crimea 21 Feb. 1854 to death; granted distinguished service reward 25 Oct. 1854; M.G. 12 Dec. 1854; M.P. for Devizes 1848–52; named a K.C.B. in London Gazette 10 July 1855. d. of cholera in camp before Sebastopol 23 June 1855.

ESTCOURT, Thomas Grimston Bucknall (eld. son of Thomas Estcourt of Estcourt, Gloucs. 1748–1818). b. 3 Aug. 1775; ed. at C.C. coll. Ox., M.A. 1796; hon. D.C.L. 1827; barrister L.I. 20 June 1820; recorder of Devizes; chairman of Wiltshire general quarter sessions to 1837; M.P. for Devizes 1805–26, for Univ. of Ox. 1826–47. d. Estcourt 26 July 1853.

ESTCOURT, Thomas Henry Sutton Sotheron (eld. son of the preceding). b. 4 April 1801; ed. at Harrow and Oriel coll. Ox.; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, D.C.L. 1857; M.P. for Marlborough 1829–1832, for Devizes 1835–1844, for North Wilts, 1844 to 1865; pres. of Poor law board 8 March 1858 to 9 March 1859; P.C. 1858; sec. of state for home department 3 March 1859 to June 1859. d. Estcourt 6 Jany. 1876. I.L.N. xxxii, 312 (1858), portrait, lxviii, 70, 76, 83, 287 (1876), portrait.

ESTLIN, John Bishop (son of John Prior Estlin of Bristol, schoolmaster 1747–1817). b. St. Michael’s hill, Bristol 26 Dec. 1785; M.C.S. 1806, F.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon at Bristol 1808 to death, where he established a dispensary for treatment of diseases of the eye 1812 which he managed 1812–49; one of the chief ophthalmic surgeons; author of On prayer and divine aid 1825; Remarks on Mesmerism 1845. d. Park st. Bristol 10 June 1855. Memoir of J. B. Estlin By W. James 1855.

ETHERIDGE, Most Rev. James. b. Redmarley, Worcs. 19 Oct. 1808; ed. at Stonyhurst coll.; ordained priest 1836; rector of Mount St. Mary’s coll. 1842; minister at Hodder 1842; minister of St. Wilfred’s, Preston 1855; bishop of Torona and vicar apostolic of British Guiana 1858 to death; consecrated by Cardinal Wiseman in London 17 Oct. 1858. d. on his passage from Barbadoes to Georgetown, Demerara 1 Jany. 1878.

ETHERIDGE, Rev. John Wesley. b. Youngwoods near Newport, Isle of Wight 24 Feb. 1804; Wesleyan minister at Hull 1827, London 1829, in Cornwall 1833–37 and 1853 to death; Ph.D. Heidelberg 1847; a scholar in many languages; author of The Syrian churches, their history, liturgies and literature with translation of the Four Gospels from the Peschito 1846; The Life of Dr. Adam Clarke 1858; The Life of Dr. Thomas Coke 1860 and other books. d. Camborne 24 May 1866. Rev. T. Smith’s Memoirs of Rev. J. W. Etheridge 1871.

ETWALL, Ralph. b. in or near Andover 1804; M.P. for Andover 1831–47; kept a racing stud 1832 to about 1849; one of the best known coursers in south of England. d. Connaught st. Hyde Park, London 15 Dec. 1882. William Day’s Reminiscences of the turf, 2 ed. 1886, pp. 241–46.

EUING, William. b. Partick near Glasgow 20 May 1788; ed. at Glasgow gr. sch. and univ.; an underwriter and insurance broker at Glasgow 1819; founded a music lectureship at Anderson’s college, Glasgow by deed dated 1866; left his valuable musical library (of which a catalogue was printed) to Anderson’s college, with £1000 for its maintenance. d. Glasgow 12 May 1874. T. Mason’s Public and private libraries of Glasgow 1885 pp. 176–93, 437; Rev. C. Rogers’s Leaves from my autobiography (1876) p. 331; Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxxi, 231–2 (1875).

EUSTACE, Sir John Rowland (youngest son of Charles Eustace of Robertstown, co. Kildare). b. 1795; ed. at St. Peter’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1816; captain Grenadier guards 5 July 1827 to 24 April 1840 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 2 April 1859; knighted 1816; K.H. 1835; sheriff of Kildare 1848. d. Bouverie sq. Folkestone 7 Aug. 1864.

EUSTACE, Sir William Cornwallis (brother of the preceding). Lieut. 32 foot 27 Sep. 1783; lieut. col. Chasseurs Britanniques 23 Aug. 1810 to 1814 when placed on h.p. regiment being disbanded; captain Grenadier guards 25 March 1818 to 18 May 1826 when placed on h.p.; col. 60 Rifles 7 April 1843 to death; general 20 June 1854; C.B. 4 June 1815; K.C.H. 1832. d. Sampford hall, Essex 9 Feb. 1855 aged 73.

EVANS, Rev. Alfred Bowen. b. Finsbury sq. London 1816; C. of Enfield, Middlesex 1854–61; R. of St. Mary-le-Strand, London 1861 to death; a powerful and original preacher; D.D. by Abp. of Canterbury 1863; author of Dissent and its inconsistences 1841; Christianity in its homely aspects 2 vols. 1852–4; Lectures on the book of Job 1856 and 30 other books. d. 23 Gloucester crescent, Regent’s park, London 6 Nov. 1878. Rev. C. M. Davies’s Orthodox London (1874) 176–85.

EVANS, Anne (dau. of the succeeding). b. 4 June 1820; resided at Britwell court near Burnham, then at Bosworth, afterwards at 16 Kensington sq. London; a friend of Thackeray and his daughters; poet and musician. d. 16 Kensington sq. London 19 Feb. 1870. Anne Evans’ Poems and music, with memorial preface by Anne Thackeray Ritchie 1880, portrait.

EVANS, Rev. Arthur Benoni (2 son of Rev. Lewis Evans 1755–1827, V. of Froxfield, Wilts.) b. Compton-Beauchamp, Berks. 25 March 1781; ed. at Gloucester and St. John’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1804, M.A. 1820, B.D. and D.D. 1828; C. of Hartpury, Gloucs. 1804; professor of classics and history in royal military college, Great Marlow 1805–12 when he removed with the college to Sandhurst, resigned 1822; C. of Burnham, Bucks. 1822–29; master of Market Bosworth free gr. sch. 1829 to death; C. of Bosworth Carlton and Cadeby successively 1829–41; author of Synopses for the use of the students in the royal military academy; The Curate and other poems 1810; Leicestershire words, phrases and proverbs 1848, and 16 other books. d. Market Bosworth 8 Nov. 1854. G.M. xliii, 100–102 (1855).

EVANS, Brooke (son of Thomas Evans of Birmingham, tailor). b. Bull st. Birmingham 1797; manufacturer of fire arms in the United States; indigo planter and merchant; glass and lead merchant at Stratford-on-Avon 6 years; partner with Charles Askin as manufacturers of nickel and cobalt at Birmingham 1835–47 when Askin died, managed the business (which gained a European reputation) 1847 to death. d. Birmingham 15 Sep. 1862.

EVANS, Caleb. b. 25 July 1831; clerk in Chancery pay office, London 1852–82; collected fossils near London 1858–83; a founder of Geologists’ Association of London 1857; F.G.S. 1867; author of 11 papers on geological subjects, some of which were published separately; constructed several excellent geological models or relief maps. d. 16 Sep. 1886.

EVANS, Charles (eld. son of Rev. Benjamin Evans, assistant master at Harrow). b. Harrow 1798; ed. at Eton and Pemb. coll. Cam., 12 wrangler 1819; B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; fell. of his coll. 1821; barrister L.I. 4 Feb. 1823; revising barrister for Norwich 1832 to death; comr. of bankrupts for Norwich; chancellor of diocese of Norwich 1845 to death; pres. of directors of Norwich Union Fire office. d. Norwich 21 Oct. 1868.

EVANS, Charles John. Entered British Museum 1858; compiled the catalogue of music which occupied him 15 years; wrote many articles in Grove’s Dictionary of Musicians 3 vols. 1879–82; played the fagotto or bassoon in the Wandering Minstrels Orchestra. d. 150 King’s road, Chelsea 8 Dec. 1884.

EVANS, Daniel Thomas (eld. son of Thomas Evans of Taunton). b. Cain’s Cross, Gloucs.; barrister M.T. 19 Nov. 1847; sub-editor of The Law Times 1843–46; joint editor of Wise and Evans’s Digest 1846–55, sole editor 1855–73 when it ceased. d. London 6 Nov. 1885 in 73 year.

EVANS, David Morier (son of Joshua Lloyd Evans of Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire). b. London, 1819; assistant city correspondent of The Times 1846–57; manager of Morning Herald 1857, of Standard 1857–72; started The Hour, daily morning paper, March 1873; became bankrupt 19 Dec. 1873; editor and part proprietor of Banker’s Mag., and Banker’s Almanac and Bullionist; author of The commercial crisis of 1847–48, 1849; City men and city manners 1856; Revelations of facts, failures and frauds 1861. d. Albion house, King Edward’s road, South Hackney, London 1 Jany. 1874.

EVANS, Edward David (eld. son of Edward Evans of London, printseller, who d. 24 Nov. 1835 aged 46). Printseller at 1 Great Queen st., Lincoln’s Inn Fields with his mother and brother 1835–53, then at 403 Strand 1853 to death. d. 3 Circus road, St. John’s Wood, London 15 Aug. 1860 aged 42.

EVANS, Rev. Evan. b. Gellillyndy, Llanddewibrefi, Cardiganshire 8 March 1804; Calvinistic preacher 1825; joined the Independents 1847; went to America 1869; collected a small Welsh church in Arkansas 1881, in charge of it to his death; author of numerous works in the Welsh language. d. 29 Oct. 1886.

EVANS, Evan William. b. near Swansea 1827; graduated at Yale Univ. 1851; principal of Delaware institute, Franklin, New York; a tutor in Yale 1855–57; professor of natural philosophy and astronomy in Marietta college, Ohio 1857–64; a mining engineer 1864–67; professor of mathematics in Cornell Univ. 1868–72; regarded as the best Celtic scholar in the United States. d. Ithaca, New York 22 May 1874.

EVANS, Frederick John (son of John Evans, gas engineer). b. 1818; chief consulting engineer of Gas light and coke company, London 1863–72, the works at Beckton, opposite Woolwich, finest establishment of the kind in the world were opened 1871; this company absorbed 7 other companies 1870–76, in 1881 it made about two-thirds of the whole metropolitan supply; discovered valuable properties of oxide of iron for gas purification which revolutionised conduct of that process; A.I.C.E. 10 March 1840; M.I.C.E. 9 Feb. 1864. d. Clayponds, Brentford 8 July 1880. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxiii, 311–13 (1881).