FABER, Rev. Frederick William (7 child of Thomas Henry Faber, who d. 1833, sec. to Dr. Barrington, bishop of Durham). b. Calverley vicarage, Yorkshire 28 June 1814; ed. at Shrewsbury, Harrow and Ball. coll. Ox.; scholar of Univ. coll. Ox. 1834, fellow 1837, Newdigate prizeman 1836; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; Johnson divinity scholar 1837; R. of Elton, Hunts. 1843–45; admitted into R.C. church at Northampton by Bishop Wareing 17 Nov. 1845; entered Monastery of St. Wilfrid, Colmore terrace, Birmingham 26 May 1846; rector of oratory of St. Philip Neri, 24 and 25 King William st. Strand, London opened 31 May 1849, Father Superior 12 Oct. 1850 to death, the oratory removed to Brompton, March 1854; created D.D. 9 July 1854; edited The Saints and Servants of God, continued by the Congregation of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri 42 vols. 1847–56; author of The Cherwell water lily and other poems 1840 and about 30 other books. d. the Oratory, Brompton 26 Sep. 1863. bur. in burial ground of St. Mary’s, Sydenham 30 Sep. J. E. Bowden’s Life and letters of F. W. Faber 1869; A brief sketch of the early life of F. W. Faber, by his only surviving brother [Rev. F. A. Faber] 1869; Gillow’s English Catholics ii, 207–18; I.L.N. xxiv, 289, 290 (1854), portrait.

FABER, Rev. George Stanley (eld. son of Rev. Thomas Faber, V. of Calverley, Yorkshire). b. Calverley parsonage 25 Oct. 1773; ed. at Happenholme gr. sch. and Univ. coll. Ox., B.A. 1793, M.A. 1796, B.D. 1803; fell. and tutor of Linc. coll. 1793–1803; proctor 1801; Bampton lecturer 1801; C. of Calverley 1803–1805; V. of Stockton upon Tees 1805–1808; V. of Redmarshall, Durham 1808–11; V. of Longnewton, Durham 1811–32; Preb. of Salisbury 1831; master of Sherburn hosp. near Durham 1832 to death; author of Horæ Mosaicæ, or a view of the Mosaical records 2 vols. 1801, 2 ed. 1818; Dissertation on the prophesies 2 vols. 1807, 5 ed. 3 vols. 1814–18; The difficulties of Romanism 1826, 3 ed. 1853; The sacred calendar of prophecy 3 vols. 1828, 2 ed. 1844 and many other works. d. Sherburn hospital 27 Jany. 1854. The many mansions in the house of the Father, by G. S. Faber with memoir by F. A. Faber 1854; Christian Remembrancer xxix, 310–31 (1855); H. Heaviside’s Annals of Stockton on Tees (1865) 101–104.

FABER, William Raikes (son of the preceding). Second lieut. 60 rifles 10 April 1826; lieut. col. 2 West India foot 15 Dec. 1848 to 21 Feb. 1851 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. 53 foot 9 Jany. 1857 to 13 July 1858 when placed on h.p.; col. 17 foot 30 April 1871 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 29 May 1875. d. Staplegrove lodge, Taunton 24 June 1879 aged 73.

FADDY, Peter. Second lieut. R.A. 8 Sep. 1803; lieut. col. 10 Aug. 1839 to 3 Sep. 1845 when he retired on full pay; general 7 Feb. 1870; author of Essay on the defence of Great Britain at home and abroad 1848. d. Charleville, co. Cork 17 July 1879.

FAGAN, William Trant (eld. son of James Fagan of Cork). b. Cork 1801; ed. at Southall park, Middlesex; a merchant at Cork, alderman, mayor; M.P. for city of Cork 1847–1851 and 1852 to death; author of The life and times of Daniel O’Connell 2 vols. 1847–8. d. 9 or 16 May 1859. I.L.N. xiv, 205 (1849), portrait; Fitzpatrick’s O’Connell (1888) ii, 453.

FAGGE, Charles Hilton (son of Charles Fagge, surgeon). b. Hythe, Kent 30 June 1838; ed. at Guy’s hospital; M.D. 1863; M.R.C.P. 1864, F.R.C.P. 1870; medical registrar of Guy’s hospital 1866, assistant phys. 1867, phys. 1880; edited Guy’s Hospital Reports some years; author of Principles and practice of medicine 1886, 2 ed. 1888. d. 76 Grosvenor st. London 18 Nov. 1888.

FAHEY, James. b. Paddington 16 April 1804; sec. of New Society of Painters in watercolours 1838–74; drawing master at Merchant Taylor’s school 1856–83; exhibited 13 landscapes at R.A., 1 at B.I. and 5 at Suffolk st. gallery 1825–36. d. The Grange, Shepherd’s Bush Green, London 11 Dec. 1885. I.L.N. 26 Dec. 1885 p. 667, portrait.

FAIR, Alexander. Entered Madras army 1792; col. 27 Madras N.I. 1837 to death; general 20 June 1854. d. South crescent, Bedford sq. London 29 Jany. 1861 aged 85.

FAIRBAIRN, Rev. Patrick (son of John Fairburn of Hallyburton, Greenlaw, Berwickshire, farmer). b. Hallyburton 28 Jany. 1805; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; licensed to preach 1826; minister of parish of North Ronaldshay, Orkney islands 1830–36; minister of Bridgeton, Glasgow 1836–40; minister of Salton, East Lothian 1840–43; minister of free church Salton 1843–53; professor of divinity in free church theological college, Aberdeen 1853–56; transferred to free church college, Glasgow 1856, principal 4 Nov. 1856; moderator of general assembly 1865; member of Old Testament revision company; edited The Imperial Bible Dictionary 2 vols. 1866; author of The typology of Scripture 2 vols. 1845–47, 5 ed. 1870 and 7 other books. d. 6 Aug. 1874. Pastoral Theology, by Rev. P. Fairbairn, with biog. sketch by Rev. James Dodds 1875.

FAIRBAIRN, Sir Peter (youngest son of Andrew Fairbairn of Kelso, Roxburghshire). b. Kelso, Sep. 1799; machine maker at Glasgow 1823–28, at Leeds 1828 to death; invented many new machines; member of town council Leeds 1836–42, alderman 1854 to death, mayor 1857–59; knighted by the Queen at Leeds 7 Sep. 1858; there is a portrait of him by Sir Francis Grant in the council chamber Leeds and a bronze statue by Noble in the town. d. Woodsley house, Leeds 4 Jany. 1861. Fortunes made in business ii, 252–79 (1884); Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis (1865) 491–96; Illust. news of the world ii, 181 (1858), portrait, vii, 29 (1861), portrait.

FAIRBAIRN, Sir William, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Andrew Fairbairn of Smailhome, co. Roxburgh 1758–1844). b. Kelso, co. Roxburgh 19 Feb. 1789; manufacturing engineer at Manchester 1817 to death; M.I.C.E. 20 April 1830; established an iron shipbuilding yard at Millwall near London 1835; built and designed nearly 100 bridges; F.R.S. 6 June 1850, Royal Medallist 1860; correspondent of National Institute of France 11 May 1852; pres. of Institution of Mechanical Engineers 1854–55; pres. of Manchester literary and philosophical society 1855–60; pres. of British Association at Manchester 1861; declined knighthood 23 Oct. 1861; created Baronet 7 Oct. 1869; author of Useful information for Engineers 1856, 4 ed. 1864; Iron, its history 1861, 3 ed. 1869 and other books. d. Moor park near Farnham, Surrey 18 Aug. 1874. bur. Prestwick parish church, Manchester. The life of Sir W. Fairbairn, edited by W. Pole 1877; Fortunes made in business ii, 240–50 (1884); Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxix, 251–64 (1875); Practical Mag. iv, 241, portrait; I.L.N. xl, 215, 225 (1862), portrait, lxv, 205, 212, 332 (1874), portrait.

FAIRFAX, Sir Henry, 1 Baronet (youngest son of vice-admiral Sir Wm. George Fairfax 1739–1813). b. Edinburgh 3 Feb. 1790; ensign 49 foot 8 June 1809; major 85 foot 17 July 1823 to 6 Nov. 1827 when placed on h.p.; retired from the army 1844; created baronet in consideration of his father’s distinguished naval services 21 Feb. 1836. d. Edinburgh 3 Feb. 1860.

FAIRFAX, John. b. Warwick 1804; printer and bookseller at Leamington; librarian to the Australian subscription library in Sydney 26 Sep. 1838; bought the Sydney Morning Herald a biweekly paper 1841, converted it into a daily morning paper which soon became leading journal of New South Wales, sole proprietor of the paper 1853; member of council of education 1870; member of legislative council 1874 to death; author of The Colonies of Australia 1852. d. Ginahgulla near Rose Bay, Port Jackson 16 June 1877.

FAIRHOLT, Frederick William (16 child of a German named Fahrholz, who Anglicised his name to Fairholt). b. London 1814; employed in a tobacco factory 14 years; assistant to S. Sly the wood engraver 1835; made many hundreds of drawings on wood to illustrate Charles Knight’s publications; illustrated many important works; F.S.A. 1844; draughtsman to British Archæol. Assoc. 1845–52; author of Costume in England 1846, 3 ed. 2 vols. 1885 and 5 other books. d. 22 Montpelier square, Brompton 3 April 1866. C. R. Smith’s Retrospections i, 218–26, 307–21 (1883).

FAIRLAND, Thomas. Pupil of Charles Warren; a lithographer, afterwards a portrait painter; his best work, one of the best ever executed in lithography, was the cartoon of the Virgin and Child by Raphael known as the Rogers Madonna; published a volume of Comic Sketches after W. Hunt 1844 which was very popular. d. of consumption Oct. 1852 in 49 year. G.M. Jany. 1853 p. 102.

FAIRLIE, Robert Francis. b. Scotland, March 1831; civil engineer in Gracechurch st. London; patented the double-bogie engine 1864, first of which was built for Neath and Brecon railway 1866; these engines were introduced into many foreign countries; the Czar of Russia had a special gold medal struck in honour of Fairlie; author of Railways or no railways, narrow gauge v. broad gauge 1872. d. the Woodlands, Clapham common, London 31 July 1885.

FALCIERI, Giovanni Battista, the faithful servant of Lord Byron. Entered service of Isaac D’Israeli; messenger at the India office, superannuated on pension of £140. d. Ramsgate 22 Dec. 1874; Sarah his widow was granted civil list pension of £50, 5 March 1875.

FALCONAR, Chesborough Grant. Ensign 36 foot 1 Sep. 1795; major 78 foot 26 June 1823 to 22 Oct. 1825 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. 22 foot 25 Nov. 1828 to 18 Oct. 1839; inspecting field officer 18 Oct. 1839 to 11 Nov. 1851; col. 73 foot 11 Feb. 1857 to death; L.G. 20 July 1858; K.H. 1837. d. Hazelbank near Edinburgh 10 Jany. 1860.

FALCONER, Edmund, stage name of Edmund O’Rourke. b. Dublin 1814; acted in the provinces many years; lessee with B. Webster of Lyceum theatre, London, Aug. 1858 to April 1859; played Danny Man in The Colleen Bawn at Adelphi theatre 231 nights from 18 July 1860; lessee of Lyceum again 1861 where his Irish drama Peep o’ Day ran from 9 Nov. 1861 to Dec. 1862; lessee with F. B. Chatterton of Drury Lane 1863 to 26 Sep. 1866 where he lost all his money; played in America 1867–70; author of Memories, poems 1863; Murmurings in the May and Summer of Manhood, O’Ruark’s Bride and Man’s Missions, poems 1865 and of many dramas, librettos and songs. d. 28 Keppel st. Russell sq. London 29 Sep. 1879. Pascoe’s Dramatic List (1879) 116–20; Illust. sporting and dramatic news 4 Dec. 1875 pp. 233–4.

FALCONER, Forbes (2 son of Gilbert Falconer of Braeside, Fifeshire). b. Aberdeen 10 Sep. 1805; ed. at Aberdeen gr. sch. and Marischal college; teacher of Oriental languages in London; professor of Oriental languages in Univ. college, London; author of Selections from the “Bôstan of Sâdi” in Persian 1838; Persian Grammar, 2 ed. 1848. d. 40 Dorset st. Portman sq. London 7 Nov. 1853.

FALCONER, Hugh (youngest child of David Falconer of Forres, Elginshire). b. Forres 29 Feb. 1808; ed. at Forres gr. sch. and King’s coll. Aberdeen, M.A. 1826; studied medicine at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1829; assist. surgeon in the H.E.I.Co.’s service 1830; superintendent of Botanic garden at Suharunpoor, North Western provinces 1832; awarded Wollaston medal of Geol. Society 1837; returned to England on sick leave 1842, went out again 20 Dec. 1847; superintendent of Calcutta botanic garden, and professor of botany in the medical college, June 1847 to 1855; F.G.S. 1842, foreign sec. 1861 to death; F.R.S. 13 Feb. 1845; author of Descriptive catalogue of the fossil remains from the Sewalik hills, Calcutta 1859. d. Park crescent, London 31 Jany. 1865. C. Murchison’s Palæontological memoirs and notes of the late Hugh Falconer (1868) vol. 1, pp. xxiii-liii, portrait; Proc. of Royal Soc. xv, 14–20 (1867); Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxi, 45–49 (1865).

FALCONER, Randle Wilbraham (youngest son of Rev. Thomas Falconer of Bath 1772–1839). b. 29 Circus, Bath 1816; studied at Edin., M.D. 1839; practised at Tenby 1839–47, at Bath 1847 to death; physician of Bath united hospital 12 Feb. 1849; physician of Bath mineral water hospital 28 Feb. 1856; mayor of Bath 1857–59; author of The baths and mineral waters of Bath, 6 ed. 1880, and other books. d. Bennett st. Bath 6 May 1881.

FALCONER, Thomas (brother of the preceding). b. 25 June 1805; barrister L.I. 8 Feb. 1830; revising barrister for boroughs of Finsbury, Tower Hamlets and Marylebone 1837–1840; one of arbitrators to settle boundary of Canada and New Brunswick, Oct. 1850; colonial sec. of Western Australia 29 July 1851; judge of county courts circuit 30, (Brecknock and Glamorgan) 22 Dec. 1851 to Dec. 1881 when he retired on pension; aided in abolishing Duke of Beaufort’s gaol at Swansea; author of On Surnames and the rules of law affecting their change, Cardiff 1862 privately printed, 2 ed. London 1862, Supplement 1863 and 7 other books. d. Royal crescent, Bath 28 Aug. 1882 in 77 year. T. Falconer’s Bibliography of the Falconer family (1866) 20–30; The Red Dragon ii, 193–98 (1882), portrait.

FALCONER, Rev. William (brother of the preceding). b. Corston, Somerset 27 Dec. 1801; ed. at Oriel coll. Ox.; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1827; fellow of Exeter coll. 30 June 1827 to 18 July 1839, public examiner 1832–3 and 1836–8; R. of Bushey, Herts. 26 Jany. 1839 to death; translated with H. C. Hamilton for Bohn’s Classical Library The Geography of Strabo 3 vols. 1854–57. d. Bushey rectory 9 Feb. 1885.

FALKLAND, Lucius Bentinck Cary, 10 Viscount (eld. child of Charles John Cary, 9 Viscount Falkland 1768–1809). b. 5 Nov. 1803; succeeded his father who d. of wounds received in a duel 2 March 1809; a lord of the bedchamber to Wm. iv, Dec. 1830; a representative peer for Scotland 1831–32; G.C.H. 1831; created Baron Hunsdon of Skutterskelfe, co. York in peerage of the U.K. 15 May 1832; P.C. 1 March 1837; governor of Nova Scotia 1840–1846; captain of yeomen of the guard 24 July 1846 to 16 Feb. 1848; governor of Bombay 1 Feb. 1848 to Dec. 1853, took his seat 1 May 1848. d. Montpellier, France 12 March 1884.

FALKNER, George. b. Edinburgh 1817; edited Bradshaw’s Manchester Journal from first number 1 May 1841; typographer and lithographer at Manchester to death; published his own Notes on Algiers 1852, and A pilgrimage to the shrine of Our Lady of Loreto 1882. d. The Oaklands, Timperley near Manchester 31 Dec. 1882.

FALLON, James Thomas. b. Athlone 1823; went to Sydney, N.S.W. 1842; bought a vineyard at Albury about 1859; his wines took first prize at Vienna exhibition 1873 and London exhibition 1875; made champagne from Australian grapes 1876; had largest vineyards and cellars in Australia; member of legislative assembly of N.S.W. 1869–72. d. Manly near Sydney 27 May 1886.

FALLOON, Rev. Daniel. b. Ireland; minister of Church of England in Canada; author of An historical view of the Church of England 2 vols. Dublin 1830; The Apostolic Church 1837; History of Ireland, civil and ecclesiastical from the earliest times to the death of Henry ii, edited by Rev. John Irwin, Montreal 1863. d. Montreal, Sep. 1862.

FALMOUTH, George Henry Boscawen, 2 Earl of (only child of Edward Boscawen, 1 Earl of Falmouth 1787–1841). b. Woolhampton house near Newbury, Berks. 8 July 1811; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; B.A. 1833, M.A. 1835; M.P. for West Cornwall 8 July 1841 to 29 Dec. 1841 when he succeeded his father as 2 Earl; high steward of Wallingford 1845 to death. d. 2 St. James’s square, Westminster 28 Aug. 1852.

FALSHAW, Sir James, 1 Baronet (son of Wm. Falshaw of Leeds). b. Leeds 21 March 1810; assisted Stephenson in construction of Caledonian and other railways; constructed with Brassey the northern lines of railway from Inverness; lord provost of Edinburgh 1876; created baronet 17 Aug. 1876; deputy chairman of North British railway co. 1881, chairman 3 Aug. 1882 to 1887. d. 14 Belgrave crescent, Edinburgh 14 June 1889. Graphic x, 490, 501 (1874), portrait; I.L.N. lxix, 253 (1876), portrait.

FANE, Henry Edward Hamlyn (eld. son of Rev. Edward Fane of Fulbeck, Lincs. 1783–1862). b. Fulbeck hall 5 Sep. 1817; ed. at Charterhouse; ensign 90 foot 1 Aug. 1834; major 4 light dragoons 1846–50 when he sold out; lieut. col. South Lincoln militia 20 April 1854 to death; assumed name of Hamlyn by r.l. 1865; M.P. for South Hants. 1865–68; author of Five years in India 1842. d. Avon Tyrrel, Ringwood, Hants. 27 Dec. 1868.

FANE, John William. b. 1 Sep. 1804; sheriff of Oxfordshire 1854; lieut. col. of Oxford militia 18 July 1862 to 22 May 1872; M.P. for Oxfordshire 1862–1868. d. 34 Cavendish sq. London 19 Nov. 1875.

FANE, Julian Henry Charles (5 son of 11 Earl of Westmoreland 1784–1859). b. Florence 2 Oct. 1827; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; M.A. 1850; attaché at Berlin 1844; sec. of embassy at Vienna 23 Nov. 1860, at Paris 30 Dec. 1865 to 7 June 1868 when he resigned; published Poems 1852; Poems by Heinrich Heine, translated by Julian Fane 1854; author with Edward Lytton of Tannhäuser, or the battle of the bards, a poem by Neville Temple [J. C. Fane] and Edward Trevor [E. R. Bulwer-Lytton] 1861. d. 29 Portman sq. London 19 April 1870. Lytton’s Julian Fane, a memoir (1871), portrait; Jerningham’s Reminiscences of an attaché (1886) 16–20.

FANE, Mildmay (5 son of Henry Fane 1739–1842, M.P. for Lyme Regis). b. Sep. 1794; ensign 59 foot 11 June 1812; lieut. col. 98 foot 25 March 1824 to 24 Dec. 1829; lieut. col. 54 foot 24 Dec. 1829 to 11 Nov. 1851; col. 96 foot 11 Aug. 1855 to 27 Dec. 1860; col. 54 foot 27 Dec. 1860 to death; general 27 March 1863. d. Fulbeck 12 March 1868.

FANE, Robert George Cecil (brother of the preceding). b. 8 May 1796; ed. at Charterhouse and Balliol coll. Ox.; B.A. 1817, M.A. 1819; a demy and fellow of Magd. coll. Ox. 1824–35; barrister L.I. 1 June 1821; a bankruptcy comr. 1823, one of the six bankrupt comrs. 2 Dec. 1831 to death; author of Bankrupt Reform, Letters i-vii, 2 vols. 1838 and 8 other books. d. Burdon hotel, Weymouth 4 Oct. 1864.

FANQUE, Pablo, assumed name of William Darby. b. Norwich; apprenticed to Wm. Batty, circus proprietor; a negro rope-dancer; circus proprietor 1841 to death. d. Britannia inn, Stockport 4 May 1871 aged 67 or 75. I.L.N. x, 189 (1847), portrait.

FANSHAWE, Sir Arthur (youngest son of Robert Fanshawe, Capt. R.N. 1740–1823). b. 1794; entered navy 8 Feb. 1804; captain 17 Oct. 1816; commander in chief North America and West Indies 23 Nov. 1853 to 25 Nov. 1856; R.A. 18 June 1851, V.A. 9 July 1857, admiral 4 Oct. 1862; C.B. 18 Dec. 1840, K.C.B. 18 May 1860. d. 32 Chester terrace, Regent’s park, London 14 June 1864 aged 70.

FARADAY, Michael (younger son of James Faraday of Newington, Surrey, blacksmith 1761–1810). b. Newington 22 Sep. 1791; chemical assistant at royal institution 1 March 1813; travelled as amanuensis with Sir Humphrey Davy in France, Italy and Switzerland 1813–1815; F.R.S. 8 Jany. 1824, Copley medallist 1832 and 1838, royal medallist 1835 and 1846, Rumford medallist 1846; began his lectures to children 29 Dec. 1827; began his ‘Electrical researches’ 29 Aug. 1831; discovered magneto-electricity 1831, electro-chemical decomposition 1833; professor of chemistry at royal institution Jany. 1833 to 1865; granted civil list pension of £300 a year 1835; senator of univ. of London 1836; an elder of the Sandemanian church for 3½ years from 1840; discovered magnetisation of light 1845, diamagnetism 1845 and magnetic character of oxygen 1847; received 95 honorary titles and marks of merit; lived in one of the Queen’s houses Hampton Court Green 1858 to death; author of Chemical manipulation, instructions to students 1827, 3 ed. 1842 and other works. d. Hampton Court Green 25 Aug. 1867. bur. Highgate cemetery 30 Aug. Bence Jones’s Life and letters of Faraday 2 vols. 1870, portrait; J. F. Clarke’s Autobiographical recollections of the medical profession (1874) 399–409; Illustrated Review v, 29–39, portrait; Illust. news of the world i (1858), portrait; Proc. of Royal Soc. xvii, 1–68 (1868).

FARDELL, John. b. 4 May 1784; F.S.A. 15 June 1809; barrister M.T. 2 July 1824; M.P. for city of Lincoln 1830–1831. d. Sprotborough rectory, Yorkshire 5 Feb. 1854.

FAREY, John (son of John Farey of Woburn, geologist 1766–1826). b. Lambeth 20 March 1791; ed. at Woburn; made drawings for illustrative plates of many scientific works; invented machine for drawing ellipses 1813 for which gold medal of Society of Arts was awarded him; constructed ironworks in Russia 1819–21; a lace manufacturer in Devonshire 1821–23; consulting C.E. in London 1826 to death; M.I.C.E. 1826; author of A treatise on the steam engine vol. i, 1827. d. the Common, Sevenoaks 17 July 1851. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xi, 100–102 (1852).

FARGUS, Frederick John (eld. son of Frederick Charles Fargus of Bristol, auctioneer, who d. 14 April 1868). b. Bristol 26 Dec. 1847; auctioneer at Bristol 1868–83; author of Called Back 1883, 350,000 copies of it were sold and it was at once translated into 6 European languages, his dramatic version of it was played at Prince’s theatre, London nearly 200 nights from 20 May 1884; all his stories were published under pseudonym of Hugh Conway. d. Monte Carlo 15 May 1885. bur. Nice cemetery 18 May. Called Back, by H. Conway (1885) pp. vii-xiii, portrait; The Lute, June 1885 p. 125; I.L.N. 30 May 1885 p. 559, portrait.

FARIS, William. Second lieut. R.E. 1 Jany. 1814, lieut. col. 6 Aug. 1849 to 24 Nov. 1851 when placed on retired list; general 8 June 1871. d. 17 Pall Mall, London 4 Dec. 1874 aged 80.

FARLEY, Charles. b. London 1771; first appeared on the stage at Covent Garden 1782; supervised dramatic spectacles at Covent Garden 1806–34; author of The Magic Oak, a Christmas pantomime 1799; Aggression, or the heroine of Yucatan 1805 and other pieces; instructed Grimaldi to whose Orson when he made his appearance in the character 10 Oct. 1806 he played Valentine; the best theatrical machinist of his time. d. 42 Ampthill square, Hampstead road, London 28 Jany. 1859. British stage ii, 145 (1818), portrait.

FARLEY, James Lewis (only son of Thomas Farley of Meiltran, co. Cavan). b. Dublin 9 Sep. 1823; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; chief accountant of Beyrout branch of Ottoman Bank 1856; accountant general of state bank of Turkey at Constantinople 1860; consul for Turkey at Bristol 1870–84; author of The massacres in Syria 1861; The Druses and the Maronites 1861; Turks and Christians, a solution of the Eastern question 1876 and other books. d. Bayswater, London 12 Nov. 1885.

FARNBOROUGH, Sir Thomas Erskine May, 1 Baron. b. London 8 Feb. 1815; ed. at Bedford gr. sch.; assistant librarian House of Commons 1831; barrister M.T. 4 May 1838, bencher 21 May 1873; taxing master in Parliament 1847–56; clerk assistant of House of Commons 1856–71, clerk Jany. 1871 to death; member of Statute law committee 1868, chairman; C.B. 1860, K.C.B. 6 July 1866; created Baron Farnborough of Farnborough in the county of Southampton 10 May 1886; author of Constitutional history of England 1760–1860, 2 vols. 1861–2, new ed. 3 vols. 1871; Law privileges, proceedings and usage of Parliament 1844, 9 ed. 1883; Democracy in Europe 2 vols. 1877. d. Speaker’s Court, Houses of Parliament 17 May 1886. Biograph, Jany. 1882 pp. 14–20.

FARNCOMB, Thomas. b. Sussex; proprietor of one of the largest wharfs on Surrey side of the Thames for about 50 years; a merchant and shipowner; one of earliest promoters of London and Westminster bank 1834, and long a director of it; sheriff of London 1840, alderman for ward of Bassishaw 1841–59, lord mayor 1849–50. d. Rose hill, Forest hill, Surrey 23 Sep. 1865 aged 86.

FARNHAM, Henry Maxwell, 7 Baron (eld. child of Rev. Henry Maxwell, 6 Baron Farnham 1773–1838). b. Dublin 9 Aug. 1799; M.P. for co. Cavan 1824–38; succeeded 19 Oct. 1838; an Irish representative peer 2 July 1839 to death; K.P. 1845; killed near Abergele, Denbighshire on the London and north western railway 20 Aug. 1868. I.L.N. liii, 210 (1868).

FARNHAM, Somerset Richard Maxwell, 8 Baron (brother of the preceding). b. Dublin 18 Oct. 1803; M.P. for Cavan 1838–40; sheriff of Cavan 1844. d. Farnham house, Cavan 1 June 1884.

FARNHAM, Edward Basil. b. 19 April 1799; M.P. for North Leicestershire 1837–59; sheriff of Leics. 1870. d. Quorndon house near Loughborough 13 May 1879.

FARNIE, Henry Brougham. b. Fifeshire; ed. at Univs. of St. Andrews and Cambridge; edited the Fifeshire Journal; edited in London a musical weekly called The Orchestra 1863, also the Paris Times, Sock and Buskin 1867 and Cramer’s Opera Bouffe Cabinet 1874; his song The Last Stirrup-cup became very popular; wrote librettos of many operettas and burlesques; translated and adapted most of the more successful modern French comic operas, most popular of which were Genevieve de Brabant produced at Philharmonic theatre 11 Nov. 1871, Nemesis at Strand theatre 17 April 1873, La Fille de Madame Angot at Gaiety theatre 10 Nov. 1873 and Les Cloches de Corneville at Folly theatre 23 Feb. 1878; 20 of his adaptations were printed 1850–87. d. Paris 22 Sep. 1889. Law Reports 5 P.D. 153, 6 P.D. 35, 8 Appeal Cases 43.

FARQUHAR, Thomas Newman. b. 1809; solicitor in London 1830 to death; one of the nine purchasers of the Crystal Palace for £70,000, 24 May 1852, one of the original directors of the Co. at Sydenham. d. Sydenham, Kent 30 July 1866.

FARQUHARSON, Francis (son of Rev. Robert Farquharson of Allarque, co. Aberdeen). b. 1787; entered Bombay army 1802; col. 9 Bombay N.I. 8 March 1845 to 1869; general 6 Jany. 1863. d. Clifton 20 March 1872.

FARQUHARSON, James John (only son of James Farquharson of Littleton, Dorset 1728–95). b. 9 Oct. 1784; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; B.A. 1828; student of L.I. 1829; kept a pack of foxhounds in Dorset at his own expense 1806 to 1858 when he sold the pack; kept a small racing stud; sheriff of Dorset 1809. d. 9 March 1871. Sporting Review xxxviii, 355–58 (1857), xxxix, 440–42 (1858), portrait; Baily’s Mag. xi, 113–18 (1866), portrait.

FARQUHARSON, Robert, stage name of Robert Farquharson Smith. b. 1820; articled to Harris of Drury Lane, chorus master; sang at coronation of William iv, 1838; sang in opera at Drury Lane and Surrey theatres, also at concerts; member of the Sims Reeves opera troupe; went to Australia 1856, sang there in opera and concerts; sang at the Opera Comique, London. d. 2 Wilberforce road, Finsbury park, London 12 Feb. 1880.

FARR, William. b. Kenley, Shropshire 30 Nov. 1807; studied medicine in Paris 1829–31; L.S.A. 1832; practised in London 1833–38; compiler of abstracts in registrar general’s office 1838; an assistant comr. for censuses of 1851 and 1861 and a comr. for that of 1871; wrote greater part of the reports on each census; F.S.S. 1839, treasurer 1855–67, vice-pres. 1869–70, pres. 1871–2; F.R.S. 7 June 1855 to 1882; C.B. 10 April 1880; gold medallist of British Association 1880; author of A medical guide to Nice 1841 and of many papers in the Lancet and other periodicals. d. 78 Portsdown road, Maida Vale, London 14 April 1883. Biographical notice of W. Farr by F. A. C. Hare 1883; W. Farr’s Vital Statistics 1885 with biographical sketch by N. A. Humphreys, portrait.

FARRAR, Rev. John (youngest son of Rev. John Farrar, Wesleyan minister, who d. 1837). b. Alnwick 29 July 1802; Wesleyan min. Aug. 1822; resident minister successively at Sheffield, Huddersfield, Macclesfield and London; classical tutor at Wesleyan theological institution, Richmond, Surrey 1843–58; governor and chaplain of Woodhouse Grove school near Leeds 1858–68; governor of Headingley college, Leeds 1868–76; pres. of Wesleyan conference at Birmingham 1854 and at Burslem 1870; author of The proper names of the Bible 1839, 2 ed. 1844; A biblical and theological dictionary illustrative of the Old and New Testament 1851 and 3 other books. d. Headingley, Leeds 19 Nov. 1884. bur. Abney Park cemetery, London 25 Nov. Slugg’s Woodhouse Grove school (1885) pp. 14, 79–84, 135, 257; I.L.N. 6 Aug. 1870 p. 149, portrait.

FARRE, Arthur (younger son of John Richard Farre 1775–1862). b. London 6 March 1811; ed. at Charterhouse sch. and Caius coll. Cam.; M.B. 1833, M.D. 1841; F.R.S. 2 May 1839; F.R.C.P. 1843, Harveian orator 1872; professor of obstetric medicine at King’s college, and phys. accoucheur to King’s college hospital 1841–62; examiner in midwifery to royal college of surgeons 1852–75; pres. of Royal Microscopical Society 1851–2; phys. extraordinary to the Queen 30 Aug. 1875 to death; pres. of Obstetrical Society 1875; author of The Uterus and its appendages forming parts 49 and 50 of Todd’s Cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology 1858. d. 18 Albert Mansions, Victoria st. Westminster 17 Dec. 1887.

FARRE, Frederick John (brother of the preceding). b. Charterhouse sq. London 16 Dec. 1804; ed. at Charterhouse, gold medallist 1821, captain 1822; foundation scholar at St. John’s coll. Cam., 32 wrangler 1827; M.A. 1830, M.D. 1837; lecturer on botany at St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1831–54, on materia medica 1854–76, assistant phys. 1836, phys. 1854; phys. to Royal London Ophthalmic hospital 1843 to death; F.R.C.P. 1838, lecturer on materia medica 1843–5, treasurer 1868–83, vice pres. 1885; one of the editors of first British Pharmacopœia 1864, and of an abridgment of Pereira’s Materia Medica 1865, new eds. 1872 and 1874. d. 35 Elsham road, Kensington, London 9 Nov. 1886.

FARRE, John Richard (son of Richard John Farre of Barbadoes, surgeon). b. Barbadoes 31 Jany. 1775; student at United Borough hosps. London 1792; spent two years at Edinburgh; M.D. Aberdeen 22 Jany. 1806; L.C.P. 31 March 1806; physician in London 1806; joint founder with J. C. Saunders of Royal London Ophthalmic hospital 1806, physician there 1806–56; edited Journal of Morbid Anatomy, ophthalmic medicine and pharmaceutical analysis 1828; author of The morbid anatomy of the liver 1812–15, Pathological researches on malformations of the human heart 1814. d. Pentonville road, London 7 May 1862.

FARRELL, Francis. Entered Bombay army 1818; col. 28 Bombay N.I. 15 March 1851 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. d. Hyde lodge, Winchester 17 July 1869 aged 69.

FARREN, Henry (eld. son of Wm. Farren 1786–1861). b. 1825; made his first appearance on the stage at Haymarket theatre as Charles Surface 1848; played leading comedy parts at Strand 1847–50 and Olympic 1850–53; manager of Brighton theatre short time; played in the U.S. 1854 to death; manager of theatre at St. Louis. d. St. Louis 8 Jany. 1860.

FARREN, Harriet Elizabeth (dau. of Mr. Diddear, provincial theatrical manager). b. Penzance, Cornwall 31 July 1789; made her first appearance in London at Covent Garden theatre 7 Oct. 1813 as Desdemona; played leading characters in tragedy and comedy at Covent Garden and Drury Lane; retired about 1837. (m. (1) 1805 John Faucit Saville actor, he d. 1 Nov. 1853. m. (2) Jany. 1856 William Farren 1786–1861). d. 23 Brompton sq. London 16 June 1857. Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography iii, 127–35 (1825), portrait; Theatrical inquisitor x, 83–86 (1817), portrait.

FARREN, William (3 son of Wm. Farren of Covent Garden theatre, London, actor, who d. 9 May 1795 aged 41). b. 13 May 1786; made his first appearance on the stage as Sir Archy Macsarcasm in Love à la Mode at Plymouth theatre about 1806; played in Ireland; appeared in London at Covent Garden theatre as Sir Peter Teazle 10 Sep. 1818; played at Covent Garden winter seasons 1818–28, at the Haymarket summer seasons 1818–28; played at Drury Lane 1828–1837, at Covent Garden again 1837, at the Haymarket 1837–47; lessee of the Strand 1847–50, of the Olympic 2 Sep. 1850 to 22 Sep. 1853; took final farewell of the stage at the Haymarket theatre 16 July 1855; famous for his old men characters. d. 23 Brompton sq. London 24 Sep. 1861. Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography iii, 37–47 (1825), portrait; Metropolitan mag. xviii, 85–91 (1837); Theatrical inquisitor xiii, 323 (1818), portrait; I.L.N. i, 188 (1842), portrait, xxvii, 99, 100 (1855), portrait.

FARRER, James (eld. son of the succeeding). b. London 8 May 1812; ed. at Winchester and New coll. Ox.; M.P. for South Durham 1847–57 and 1859–65. d. Ingleborough near Settle, Yorkshire 13 June 1879.

FARRER, James William (eld. son of James Farrer). b. 11 May 1785; ed. at Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1806, M.A. 1809; barrister L.I. 11 Feb. 1811; a master in chancery 9 March 1824 to 30 June 1852 when office was abolished by 15 & 16 Vict. c. 80, and he retired on full pay; author of Observations on the offices of the Masters in Chancery 1848. d. Ingleborough 9 Nov. 1863.

FARRIER, Robert. b. Chelsea 1796; exhibited 35 pictures at R.A., 50 at B.I. and 32 at Suffolk st. gallery 1818–72 many of which were engraved; one of his pictures ‘The Parting’ is in the South Kensington Museum. d. Holly villa, Hayes, Uxbridge 19 April 1879.

FAULKNER, George. b. Oldham st. Manchester about 1790; partner in a firm of silk, cotton and linen manufacturers at Manchester 1812; the first chairman of trustees of Owens college, Manchester 1851 to Aug. 1858; a liberal benefactor to the college. d. Limebank, Crumpsall, Manchester 21 Feb. 1862. Thompson’s Owen’s College, Manchester (1886) pp. 52–8; Manchester Courier 1 March 1862 p. 7.

FAULKNER, Thomas. b. Fulham near London; bookseller and stationer in Paradise row, Chelsea; contributed essays and reviews to Gent. Mag. for more than half a century from Oct. or Nov. 1797; published histories of Chelsea, Fulham, Kensington, Hammersmith, Brentford, Chiswick and Ealing 1810–45. d. Smith st. Chelsea 26 May 1855 in 79 year. G.M. xliv, 215–16 (1855).

FAUSSETT, Rev. Godfrey (son of Henry Godfrey Faussett of Nackington near Canterbury, who d. 1825). Matric. from C.C. coll. Ox. 7 July 1797 aged 16, scholar 1797; B.A. 1801, M.A. 1804, B.D. 1822, D.D. 1827; probationary fellow of Magd. coll. July 1802; select preacher 1809, 1813, 1824 and 1835; Bampton lecturer 1820; Lady Margaret’s professor of divinity in Univ. of Ox. 1827 to death; preb. of Worcester 1827–40; canon of Ch. Ch. Ox. 1840 to death; V. of Cropthorne, Worcs. 1840 to death; author of The claims of the established church, Oxford 1820; The Thirty-nine articles considered with reference to No. 90 of Tracts for the Times 1841 and other works. d. Christ Church, Oxford 28 June 1853.

FAUSSETT, Thomas Godfrey (6 son of the preceding). b. Oxford 1829; ed. at C.C. coll. Ox., B.A. 1851, M.A. 1854, fellow of his coll. 1857–64; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1863; chapter clerk and auditor of Canterbury cathedral 1866 to death; district registrar of Court of Probate at Canterbury 1871 to death; F.S.A. March 1859; hon. sec. of Kent Archæological Soc. 1863–73; author of many articles on antiquity and archæology; wrote the article Canterbury in Encyclopædia Britannica, 9 ed. d. The Precincts, Canterbury 26 Feb. 1877. Rev. W. J. Loftie’s Memorials of T. G. Faussett 1878.

FAUVET, Pierre Adolphe Duhart-. Lived in London nearly 50 years; head French master at Working men’s college North London and other institutions; author of Champ de Roses 1847; Poésies Françaises 1870, 2 ed. 1870; wrote Soyer’s Pantropheon, or history of food and its preparations 1853. d. 8 Arlingford road, Brixton, London 15 Oct. 1882 aged 75.

FAVANTI, Rita, stage name of Margaret Edwards. Educ. at Royal Academy of Music, Aug. 1836 to May 1840; appeared as Mademoiselle Favanti at Her Majesty’s theatre in Cenerentola 23 March 1844; had a compass of voice of almost 3 octaves. d. 28 Abingdon villas, Kensington 19 Aug. 1867 aged 39. H. F. Chorley’s Thirty years musical recollections i, 244–50 (1862); I.L.N. iv, 189 (1844), portrait.

FAWCETT, Charles. b. Leicester; acted at Hull; author of plays entitled The Irish Farmer and Cousin Sophy played by Barney Williams; The Irish American played by John Drew, Roderick the King of the Goths and Napoleon the Third. d. Philadelphia 23 July 1867.

FAWCETT, Henry (son of William Fawcett of Salisbury, draper 1793–1887). b. Salisbury 26 Aug. 1833; ed. at King’s coll. London and Trin. Hall, Cam., 7 wrangler 1856; B.A. 1856, M.A. 1859; student at L.I. 26 Oct. 1854; fell. of his coll. Dec. 1856; totally blinded by his father when shooting 17 Sep. 1858; professor of political economy in Univ. of Cam. 27 Nov. 1863 to death; contested Cambridge 1862, Brighton 1863 and 1874; M.P. for Brighton, July 1865 to 26 Jany. 1874, M.P. for Hackney 24 April 1874 to death; postmaster general 3 May 1880 to death, established the parcels post 1 Aug. 1883; P.C. 3 May 1880; lord rector of Glasgow Univ. 1883; a correspondent of French academy 1884; author of Manual of political economy 1863, 6 ed. 1883 and 10 other books. d. 18 Brookside, Cambridge 6 Nov. 1884, monument placed in Westminster Abbey by national subscription. bur. Trumpington churchyard 10 Nov. Life of Henry Fawcett by Leslie Stephen (1885), 2 portraits; Times 7 Nov. 1884 p. 10, cols. 3–6.

FAWCETT, John (son of a shoemaker at village of Wennington, Lancashire). b. Wennington 8 Dec. 1789, shoemaker there to 1825; organist and professor of music at Bolton 1825 to death; his compositions are said to number 200; his chief works are The Seraphic Choir 1840; The Cherub Lute 1845; Music for thousands 1845; The Lancashire vocalist 1854; The temperance minstrel 1856; Chanting made easy 1857; The universal chorister 1863; The temperance harmonist 1864. d. Bolton 26 Oct. 1867. J. Fawcett’s Harp of Zion, portrait.

FAWCETT, John (3 son of the preceding). b. Bolton 1824; organist of St. John’s church, Farnworth, Lancs. 1825–1842, of Bolton parish church 1842 to death; obtained degree of Mus. Bac. Ox. 3 Nov. 1852, his exercise a sacred cantata Supplication and Thanksgiving was published by subscription 1856. d. Manchester 1 July 1857.

FAWCETT, Rev. Joshua (2 son of Richard Fawcett of Bradford, worsted manufacturer). b. Bradford 9 May 1809; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1836; P.C. of Holy Trinity, Wibsey, Yorkshire 17 Feb. 1833 to death; hon. canon of Ripon, Sep. 1860 to death; edited The Village Churchman afterwards incorporated with The Churchman and continued under title of The Churchman’s Magazine 8 vols. 1838–45; author of A harmony of the Gospels 1836 and other books. d. suddenly while walking on Low Moor, Bradford 21 Dec. 1864. J. James’s Bradford (1866) 263–64.

FAWKNER, John Pascoe. b. London 20 Aug. 1792; went out to Port Phillip, Australia 1803; a publican at Launceston, Van Diemen’s Land; brought out the Launceston Advertiser 1830; founded Melbourne, Victoria 29 Aug. 1835; brought out the Melbourne Advertiser the first newspaper in Victoria 1 Jany. 1838, the Port Phillip Patriot 5 March 1838 converted it into the Daily News; member of first legislative council Oct. 1851; member of the upper house, Nov. 1856 to death. d. Melbourne 4 Sep. 1869. Labilliere’s Early history of Victoria ii, 88–95 (1878).

FAWSITT, Amy, stage name of Mary Ann Fawsitt (dau. of William Fawsitt of the Manchester exchange, who d. 1843). b. London 1836; ed. for a governess at Abbeville and Milan; first appeared on stage at Edinburgh 1865; first appeared in London at Holborn theatre as Flora Grainger in The Mistress of the Mill 1 May 1869; played Lottie in Albery’s Two Roses at Vaudeville theatre 400 times from 4 June 1870; played Lady Teazle at same theatre 412 times from 18 July 1872; came out at Fifth Avenue theatre New York 27 Sep. 1876. (m. 27 May 1871 Edward Menzies of Perth and Belgrave sq. London). d. 8th Avenue, New York 26 Dec. 1876. bur. Marble cemetery, New York 29 Dec. Illustrated sporting and dramatic news i, 217, 219 (1874), portrait; London Figaro 29 Sep. 1877, pp. 10–12.

FEARON, Ven. Henry (son of Rev. J. F. Fearon, V. of Cuckfield, Sussex). b. 20 June 1802; ed. at Winchester and Em. coll. Cam., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; fellow of Em. coll.; R. of Loughborough 1848 to death; archdeacon of Leicester 1863–84; author of Old Dame Walder, a tale of Suffolk life 1847; What to learn and what to unlearn, Lectures 1860 and other books. d. Loughborough 12 June 1885.

FEARON, Robert Bryce. Ensign 31 foot June 1795, lieut. col. 8 May 1823; lieut. col. 64 foot 12 Jany. 1826; lieut. col. 6 foot 1 May 1828; lieut. col. 40 foot 23 Nov. 1838 to death; commanded troops on board ship ‘Kent’ burnt in Bay of Biscay 1 March 1825, C.B. for his services on this occasion 2 April 1825; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846; committed suicide by shooting himself at residence of his daughter Lady Palmer at Much Hadham, Herts. 26 Jany. 1851.

FEARON, Samuel Turner. M.R.C.S. 1848; M.D. St. Andrews 1851; professor of Chinese literature, King’s college, London. d. Abercrombie house, Southampton st. Fitzroy sq. London 18 Jany. 1854 aged 35.

FEATHERSTON, Isaac Earl (4 son of Thomas Featherston of Cotfield house, Durham). b. 21 March 1813; studied medicine at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1836; went to New Zealand 1840; superintendent of province of Wellington 1853–71; member of general assembly for Wanganui and afterwards for city of Wellington; agent general for New Zealand in England 1871 to death. d. 60 York road, Brighton 19 June 1876. W. Gisborne’s New Zealand Rulers (1886), 83, portrait.

FEATHERSTONHAUGH, George William. b. London 1780; went to U.S. America 1807 where he married and resided; geologist of U.S.A. in journeys through Mexico and Arkansas 1834–5; commissioner to determine boundary between U.S.A. and British North America 1839; British consul at Havre 29 Oct. 1844 to death; instrumental in bringing Louis Philippe and his queen to England 3 March 1848; F.R.S. 2 April 1835; edited the monthly American journal of geology from 1831; author of The Republic of Cicero, translated 1829; Excursion through the slave states 2 vols. 1844; A canoe voyage up the Minnay Sotor 2 vols. 1847 and other books. d. Havre 27 Sep. 1866. Quarterly Journal of Geological Soc. xxiii, pp. xliii-v (1867).

FECHTER, Charles Albert (son of Jean Maria Guillaume Fechter, sculptor). b. Hanway yard, Oxford st. London 23 Oct. 1824; made his début at Comedíe Française, Paris, Dec. 1844; played at St. James’s theatre, London 1847; played at Vaudeville theatre, Paris 1852–58; joint director of Odéon theatre 1857; the leading jeune premier in France; appeared as Ruy Blas in Victor Hugo’s drama Ruy Blas at Princess’s theatre 27 Oct. 1860, and as Hamlet 20 March 1861 with great success; lessee of Lyceum theatre, Dec. 1862 to Nov. 1867; played at Adelphi theatre 1867–69 and 1872; first appeared in New York 10 Jany. 1870; opened Globe theatre, New York 12 Sep. 1870; opened Park theatre, New York 15 April 1874; broke his leg 1876 when he retired from the stage. d. at his farm, Richmond, Bucks. county, Philadelphia 5 Aug. 1879. Kate Field’s C. A. Fechter (1882), 4 portraits; A. Brereton’s Some famous Hamlets (1884) 45–50; Pascoe’s Dramatic List (1879) 127–36; Tallis’s Illustrated life in London (1864) 104, 105, 138, 2 portraits; Theatre iii, 70, 132 (1879), portrait.

FEDERICI, Frederick, stage name of Frederick Baker. Sang frequently in London at St. James’s hall and Monday popular concerts; played all the baritone parts in Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic operas in America and England; went to Australia, June 1887; played Mephistopheles in Faust at Princess’s theatre, Melbourne 3 March 1888. d. in the green-room of the theatre at 12.10 a.m. 4 March 1888. Illustrated sporting and dramatic news 26 May 1888 pp. 321, 322, portrait.

FEENEY, Patrick. b. Galway 1800; ran away from home at 9 years of age; a strolling showman or performer of feats of strength and agility, he balanced coach wheels, a plank 21 feet long and a live donkey on a ladder; always known as Old Malabar; made the round of all the fairs in England and Scotland; an account of his life was written and published by David Prince Miller; performed in streets of Glasgow 5 Nov. 1883. d. 9 M’Pherson st. Glasgow 6 Nov. 1883. Era 10 Nov. 1883 p. 4, col. 4.

FEENEY, Patrick. b. Rosscommon 19 Nov. 1850; first appeared on the stage at Birmingham as an Irish comic singer; first appeared in London 1876; sang in all chief music halls in London and the provinces; the leading Irish comic singer for some years before his death; spent 40 weeks in the United States 1888. d. Kennington park road, London 13 May 1889.

FEENEY, Right Rev. Thomas. Professor in Maynooth college; bishop of Ptolemais and administrator apostolic of Killala, July 1839, consecrated 13 Oct. 1839; bishop of Killala 12 Dec. 1847 to death. d. Killala 9 June 1873.

FEILD, Right Rev. Edward (3 son of James Feild). b. Worcester 7 June 1801; ed. at Rugby and Queen’s coll. Ox., Michel scholar, Michel fellow 1827–33; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, D.D. 1844; R. of English Bicknor, Gloucs. 1834–44; the first inspector of schools under National Society, May 1840; bishop of Newfoundland 22 March 1844 to death; consecrated at Lambeth palace 28 April; author of addresses, sermons and charges. d. the bishop’s palace, Bermuda 8 June 1876. Tucker’s Memoir of E. Field (1877), portrait.

FEILDEN, Henry Master (eld. son of the succeeding). b. Witton park, Blackburn 21 Feb. 1818; M.P. for Blackburn 30 March 1869 to death. d. Lytham, Lancashire 5 Sep. 1875.

FEILDEN, Joseph. b. Blackburn 1792; sheriff of Lancs. 1818; M.P. for Blackburn 15 Aug. 1865 to 16 March 1869 when unseated on petition. d. Wilton park near Blackburn 29 Aug. 1870.

FEIST, Charles (son of Rev. Peter Feist who became a dissenting minister). b. Beverley, Yorkshire 12 April 1795; educ. Beverley gram. sch.; in solicitor’s office London; member of Norfolk and Suffolk circuits under David Fisher 5 years; proprietor of a sch. at Swaffham, Norfolk 7 years, of a sch. in London 1 year, of a sch. in Newmarket 18 years where he educated many of the jockeys; correspondent of Sunday Times at Newmarket; came to London 1842 in connection with Sunday Times; author of Breathings of the Woodland Lyre 1815; Useful rhymes for youths betimes 1837; Spring blossoms, dialogues on subjects entertaining to children, 4 ed. 1844. d. 10 Granville sq. Clerkenwell, London 10 July 1856. Sporting Review xxxvi, 391–4 (1856).

FEIST, Henry Mort. Editor of The Sporting Life 16 March 1859 to decease, wrote in it under name of Augur; no man understood racing and racing men more thoroughly; reporter and sporting prophet for Daily Telegraph under pseudonym of Hotspur; amateur actor and good in the role of a clown. d. Croydon 18 Dec. 1874 aged 37, a fund raised for his wife and children, admiral Rous president. Sporting Times 26 Dec. 1874 pp. 157–8, portrait; Sporting Life 19 Dec. 1874, p. 2, 26 Dec. p. 2; Illust. sporting and dramatic news ii, 327, 333 (1875), portrait.

FELIX, Nicholas, assumed name of Nicholas Wanostrocht (son of Vincent Wanostrocht of Camberwell, Surrey, schoolmaster, who d. 1824). b. Camberwell 5 Oct. 1804; kept a school at Peckham road, Camberwell 1824–32 when he leased it to Royal Naval School; studied cricket under Harry Hampton at Camberwell; invented the Catapulta with which he practised; left hand batsman; slow underhand left hand bowler; played first match at Lord’s 23 Aug. 1828; played in the Gentlemen v. Players matches 1831–52; kept a school at Blackheath; afterwards lived at Montpellier road, Brighton; subscription raised for him 1858; portrait, animal and landscape painter; inventor of the tubular india rubber gloves; a player of fives and billiards; author of Felix on the bat 1845, 3 ed. 1855. d. Wimborne Minster, Dorset 3 Sep. 1876. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores ii, 61 (1862), vii, p. xi (1877).

FELLOWES, Charles (son of Sir Thomas Fellowes 1778–1853). b. 19 Oct. 1823; entered navy 14 May 1836; captain 26 Feb. 1858; R.A. 18 June 1876; admiral superintendent of Chatham dockyard 1876–79; V.A. 31 Dec. 1880; C.B. 20 May 1871; commanded channel squadron 3 July 1885 to death. d. Gibraltar 8 March 1886.

FELLOWES, Sir James (3 son of Wm. Fellowes, M.D. of Leicester, physician to George iv). b. Edinburgh 1772; ed. at Rugby; entered at Peterhouse, Cam., removed to Caius as a Tancred scholar; fellow of Caius; studied medicine in London and Edinburgh; M.B. Cam. 1797, M.D. 5 July 1803; F.R.C.P. 30 Sep. 1805; hospital assist. June 1794; one of phys. to the Forces 28 Oct. 1795; knighted by George 3rd at the Queen’s palace 21 March 1810; inspector general of military hospitals 29 April 1813 to 1815 when he retired; F.R.S. 29 Feb. 1816; author of Reports of the pestilential disorder of Andalusia which appeared at Cadiz in the years 1800, 1804, 1810 and 1813, 1815. d. Langstone cottage near Havant 30 Dec. 1857.

FELLOWES, Sir Thomas (brother of the preceding). b. Minorca 1778; midshipman in service of H.E.I.C.; master’s mate R.N. 1797; C.B. 4 June 1815; K.C. 22 Feb. 1822; knighted 13 Feb. 1828; naval A.D.C. to the Queen 1841–47; superintendent of royal naval hospital and victualling yard, Plymouth 6 Feb. 1843 to 1 Sep. 1847; R.A. 26 July 1847. d. Great Bedwyn vicarage, Wilts. 12 April 1853.

FELLOWS, Sir Charles (son of John Fellows of Nottingham). b. Nottingham, Aug. 1799; made the 13th recorded ascent of Mont Blanc 25 July 1827; discovered Xanthus and Tlos, Asia Minor 1838 and 13 other ancient cities there 1840; brought home the Lycian marbles 1844; knighted at St. James’s palace 7 May 1845; author of A journal written during an excursion in Asia Minor 1839; An account of discoveries in Lycia 1841 and other books. d. 4 Montagu place, Russell sq. London 8 Nov. 1860. C. Brown’s Lives of Nottinghamshire Worthies (1882) 352–3.

FELLOWS, Thomas Howard (eld. son of Thomas Fellows of Moneyhill, Herts., solicitor). b. 1823; ed. at Eton; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1852; went to Melbourne 1853; member of legislative assembly of Victoria 1855–58 and 1867–72; member of legislative council 1858–67; solicitor general 1856–57 and 1857–58; attorney general 25 Feb. 1857 to 24 March 1857; postmaster general 14 Oct. 1863 to 24 March 1864; minister of justice and leader of the Assembly, May to July 1868; judge of supreme court of Victoria 18 Dec. 1872 to death; author of The law of costs 1847; Convocation, its origin, progress and authority 1852. d. Melbourne 8 April 1878 in 56 year.

FENN, Rev. Joseph Finch (son of Rev. Joseph Fenn, minister of Blackheath park chapel, Kent). b. 1820; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., fellow 1844–7; B.A. 1842, M.A. 1845, B.D. 1877; V. of Stotfold, Beds. 1847–60; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Cheltenham 1860 to death; chaplain to bishop of Gloucester and Bristol 1877 to death; hon. canon of Gloucester 1879 to death; proctor in convocation 1880 to death; promoter of free library system in Cheltenham; author of a vol. of sermons entitled Lenten Teachings. d. Cheltenham 22 July 1884.

FENNELL, John Greville. b. at sea between Ireland and England 1807; artist, naturalist and angler; drew pictures of tournament at Eglinton Castle for Illustrated London News; wrote on fishing in The Field 1853 to death; contributed to Fishing Gazette under name of Creel, and other sporting papers; author of The Rail and the Rod 1867; The book of the Roach 1870. d. Jessamine cottage, Henley 13 Jany. 1885. Fishing Gazette x, 24, 51, 61, 220, 264 (1885), portrait.

FENTON, Charles Gill (son of James Gill Fenton, stage director to Edmund Kean, who d. 20 Aug. 1877 aged 83). Played small parts in pantomimes 1831; played Shakesperian parts and principal parts in pantomimes at Sadler’s Wells theatre 1844–59; actor and scene painter at Strand theatre about 1863–73; acted at Vaudeville theatre 1873–74. d. Shelburne road, Islington 15 Feb. 1877 aged 56.

FENTON, Edward Dyne. Ensign 53 foot 1847, lieut. 1849–57 when placed on h.p.; captain 14 foot 1858; captain 86 foot 1860–70 when he sold out; author of Sorties from Gib in quest of sensation and sentiment 1872; Military men I have met 1872; Eve’s Daughters 1873; B. an autobiography 3 vols. 1874 a novel. d. Scarborough 29 July 1880.

FENWICK, Edward Matthew (son of Edward James Reid of Jamaica). b. Jamaica 1812; barrister M.T. 1 May 1854; assumed name of Fenwick in lieu of Reid, June 1851; contested Lancaster 30 April 1859; M.P. for Lancaster 13 April 1864, re-elected 1 Feb. 1866, election was declared void 23 April 1866 and writ was suspended till passing of Reform bill 1867 when borough was disfranchised. d. Burrow hill, Kirkby Lonsdale 16 Oct. 1877.

FENWICK, Henry (eld. son of Thomas Fenwick of Southill, co. Durham). b. 1820; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1842, M.A. 1845; barrister L.I. 6 May 1845; contested Sunderland, July 1852 and Durham, Dec. 1852; M.P. for Sunderland 1855–66. d. Lansdowne house, Richmond, Surrey 18 April 1868.

FENWICK-BISSET, Mordaunt (only son of Ven. Maurice George Fenwick-Bisset 1797–1879, archdeacon of Raphoe, Ireland). b. Raphoe 27 Feb. 1825; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; master of Devon and Somerset stag hounds 1855–80; assumed additional name of Bisset 1853; sheriff of Somerset 1872; M.P. for West Somerset, April 1880 to Feb. 1884. d. Bagborough house near Taunton 7 July 1884. Covert side sketches by J. N. Fitt (1870) 219–22; Fores’s Sporting Notes, Oct. 1884, portrait.

FERGUSON, Sir Adam (eld. son of Adam Ferguson 1723–1816, professor of moral philosophy in Univ. of Edin.) b. Edinburgh 1771; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; captain 101 foot 1808–16 when placed on h.p.; prisoner of war in France 1812–14; deputy keeper of Regalia of Scotland 1818 to death, the Regalia were discovered 5 Feb. 1818; knighted by George iv at Edin. 29 Aug. 1822. d. Edinburgh 1 Jany. 1855 in 84 year. Lockhart’s Life of Sir Walter Scott (1837) iv, 223, 249, 272.

FERGUSON, George. b. 1786; entered navy July 1798; captain 6 June 1814; admiral on half pay 11 Feb. 1861; M.P. for Banff 1832–37. d. 37 Charles st. Berkeley sq. London 15 March 1867.

FERGUSON, James. b. Perthshire 31 Aug. 1797; taken to the United States 1800; assistant civil engineer on Erie canal 1817; first assistant of U.S. coast survey 1833–47; assistant astronomer of U.S. naval observatory 1847 to death; discovered three asteroids; contributed to Gould’s Astronomical Journal, Astronomische Nachrichten, Episcopal Church Review and other magazines. d. Washington, D.C. 26 Sep. 1867.

FERGUSON, James Frederic (son of Jacques Frédéric Jaquemain, who assumed name of Ferguson 1793, deputy postmaster of Beaufort in South Carolina). b. Charleston 1807; went to Dublin 1820; indexed the entire body of Exchequer records; clerk and sec. to commission for arranging records of the Irish courts 1850; in charge of the Exchequer records to death; contributed to Gent. Mag., Notes and Queries, Topographer and Genealogist and Transactions of the Kilkenny archæological society; translated Norman French chronicle of conquest of Ireland, edited by M. Michel. d. Dublin 26 Nov. 1855.

FERGUSON, John (son of William Ferguson of Irvine, Ayrshire, shipmaster). b. Irvine 28 Feb. 1787; ed. at Ayr; in a banker’s office; went to America; settled at Irvine 1810; left by his will £80,000 for educational and religious objects in Scotland, and about £375,000 called the Ferguson Bequest Fund interest of which is spent in building churches and schoolhouses, &c. d. 8 Jany. 1856.

FERGUSON, John Creery. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1823, M.B. 1827, M.A. 1833; licentiate of K.Q.C.P. Ireland 1827, fellow 1829, hon. fellow 1846; professor of practice of medicine, school of physic, Trin. coll. Dublin; professor of practice of medicine Queen’s college, Belfast to death. d. 14 Howard st. Belfast 24 June 1865.

FERGUSON, Robert (son of Robert Ferguson of Indian civil service). b. India 15 Nov. 1799; studied medicine in London, Heidelberg and Univ. of Edin., M.D. Edin. 1 Aug. 1823; resident medical officer of Marylebone infirmary; L.R.C.P. 22 Dec. 1824, F.R.C.P. 3 July 1837, censor 1844 and 1845, consiliarius 1857–59; phys. to Westminster Lying-in-hospital; professor of midwifery at King’s coll. 1831–39 or 40; physician accoucheur to the Queen 16 July 1840; phys. extraordinary to the Queen 14 March 1857; contributed numerous articles to Quarterly Review; published Essay on diseases of women, Puerperal Fever 1839. d. Ascot cottage, Winkfield near Windsor 25 June 1865. Munk’s Roll of the royal college of physicians (1878) iii, 295.

FERGUSON, Sir Robert Alexander, 2 Baronet. b. Londonderry 1795; succeeded his father 1811; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1817; M.P. for city of Derry 1830 to death; lord lieut. of Londonderry 1840 to death; col. of Derry militia 24 June 1839 to death. d. Dublin 13 March 1860.

FERGUSON, Robert Munro. b. 20 Aug. 1802; ed. at Eton and Univ. of Edin.; ensign 43 foot 24 Feb. 1820; lieut. col. 79 foot 13 March 1835 to 29 Oct. 1841; M.P. for Kirkaldy burghs 1841–62. d. Raith house near Kirkaldy 28 Nov. 1868.

FERGUSON, Sir Samuel (3 son of John Ferguson of Collon house, co. Antrim). b. Belfast 10 March 1810; ed. at Belfast and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1826, M.A. 1832, hon. LLD. 1864; called to Irish bar 1838; Q.C. 16 June 1859; deputy keeper of public records of Ireland 1867; knighted 17 March 1878; pres. of Royal Irish Academy 1882; contributed from 1833 to Dublin Univ. Mag.; wrote many tales and poems in Blackwood’s Mag.; author of Lays of the Western Gael 1865; Congal, an epic poem in five books 1872; Poems 1880; Ogham inscriptions in Ireland, Wales and Scotland, edited by Lady Ferguson 1887. d. Strand lodge, Howth, co. Dublin 9 Aug. 1886. bur. Donegore, co. Antrim. O’Hagan’s Poetry of Sir S. Ferguson 1887; A. P. Graves’s Has Ireland a national poet?; Blackwood’s Mag. Nov. 1886 pp. 621–41.

FERGUSON, William. Entered Ceylon civil service 1839; lived in Ceylon, Dec. 1839 to death; author of The Palmyra Palm, Borassus flabelliformis, Colombo 1850; A plan of the summit of Adam’s Peak; Scripture botany of Ceylon and 4 other books. d. Ceylon 31 July 1887.

FERGUSON-DAVIE, Sir Henry Robert, 1 Baronet. b. 2 May 1797; cornet 9 Lancers 18 March 1818; major 34 foot 28 Dec. 1826, lieut. col. 1828–29; captain Grenadier guards 1830, major 1844–47; col. 73 foot 17 Feb. 1865 to death; general 25 June 1866; took additional surname of Davie 9 Feb. 1846; M.P. for Haddington burghs 1846–78; created baronet 9 Jany. 1847. d. Creedy park near Crediton 1 Dec. 1885.

FERGUSSON, Sir James (son of Charles Fergusson). b. 17 March 1787; ensign 18 foot 20 Aug. 1801; lieut. col. 3 foot 16 May 1814 to 1815 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. of 88 foot 12 Aug. 1819, of 52 foot 2 June 1825 to 10 May 1839 when he retired on h.p.; A.D.C. to the Sovereign 1830–41; col. 62 foot 9 March 1850 to 26 March 1850; col. 43 foot 26 March 1850 to death; commanded troops at Malta, May 1852 to July 1855; governor of Gibraltar 26 July 1855 to 1859; general 13 Feb. 1860; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831, K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 18 May 1860. d. Bath 4 Sep. 1865.

FERGUSSON, James (2 son of Wm. Fergusson, M.D. 1773–1846). b. Ayr 22 Jany. 1808; an indigo manufacturer in India; member of Royal Asiatic Soc. 1840; general manager of Crystal palace, Sydenham, Feb. 1856 to 1858; F.R.S. 4 June 1863; sec. to first comr. of public works 1869; inspector of public buildings 1870–74; awarded by Institute of British Architects royal gold medal for architecture 1871; author of Illustrations of rock cut temples of India 1845; Illustrations of ancient architecture in Hindostan 1847; History of architecture in all countries from the earliest times to the present day 3 vols. 1865–7 and other books. d. 20 Langham place, London 9 Jany. 1886.

FERGUSSON, William. Second lieut. R.M. 10 Sep. 1798, col. 9 Nov. 1846, col. commandant of Plymouth division 25 April 1849 to 26 Feb. 1851 when he retired on full pay; L.G. 6 Feb. 1857. d. Princes st. Hanover sq. London 26 Dec. 1861 aged 82.

FERGUSSON, Sir William, 1 Baronet (youngest son of James Fergusson of Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire). b. Preston-pans, East Lothian 20 March 1808; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edin., L.R.C.S. Edin. 1828, F.R.C.S. 1829; M.R.C.S. London 1840, F.R.C.S. 1844; professor of surgery King’s college, London, May 1840 to April 1870; surgeon at King’s college hospital May 1840 to death; surgeon extraord. to the Queen 18 Dec. 1855, one of serjeant surgeons in ordinary 11 Oct. 1867; F.R.S. Edin. 1839; F.R.S. 9 June 1848; created baronet 10 Jany. 1866; the greatest operative surgeon in Great Britain or probably in Europe; author of A system of practical surgery 1842, 5 ed. 1870; Lectures on the progress of anatomy and surgery during the present century 1867 and other books. d. 16 George st. Hanover sq. London 10 Feb. 1877. bur. West Linton, Peebleshire 16 Feb. H. Smith’s Sir W. Fergusson 1877; Medical Circular i, 395–7 (1852), portrait; I.L.N. xlviii, 176 (1866), portrait; Graphic xv, 172 (1877), portrait.

FERMOR-HESKETH, Sir Thomas George, 5 Baronet. b. Rufford hall near Ormskirk 11 Jany. 1825; succeeded his father 10 Feb. 1843; sheriff of Lancashire 1848; colonel 2 Lancashire militia 1 March 1852 to death; M.P. for Preston 4 April 1862 to death; assumed name of Fermor by royal license 8 Nov. 1867. d. Rufford hall 20 Aug. 1872.

FERMOY, Edmund Burke Roche, 1 Baron (only son of Edward Roche of Trabolgan, co. Cloyne 1771–1855). b. Aug. 1815; M.P. for co. Cork 1837–55, for Marylebone 1859–65; lord lieutenant of Cork 1856; created Baron Fermoy in the county of Cork 10 Sep. 1856. d. Trabolgan 17 Sep. 1874. I.L.N. xxxv, 82 (1859), portrait.

FERNELEY, John (son of Mr. Ferneley of Thrussington, Leics., wheelwright). b. Thrussington 18 May 1782; pupil of Ben Marshal the animal painter; painted some large hunting pictures for Assheton Smith 1806; an animal painter at Melton Mowbray 1814 to death; enjoyed an unlimited patronage for about 50 years; many of his pictures were engraved in the Sporting Magazine and other similar works. d. Thrussington 4 June 1860. Sporting Review xliv, 4–6 (1860).

FERREY, Benjamin. b. Christchurch, Hants. 1 April 1810; ed. at Wimborne gr. sch.; articled to Augustus Pugin 1825; practised as an architect 1832 to death; designed oldest part of present town of Bournemouth 1837; diocesan architect of Bath and Wells 1841 to death; restored Wells cathedral 1842; designed many churches mainly Gothic; F.R.I.B.A. 1839; F.S.A. 1863; author of Recollections of A. N. W. Pugin and of A. Pugin 1861; author with E. W. Brayley of Antiquities of the priory church of Christchurch, Hants. 1834. d. 55 Inverness terrace, Bayswater, London 22 Aug. 1880.