FERRIER, James Frederick (son of John Ferrier of Edinburgh, writer to the signet). b. Edinburgh 16 June 1808; ed. at univ. of Edin. and Magd. coll. Ox., B.A. Ox. 1832; called to Scottish bar 1832; prof. of civil history in univ. of Edin. 1842–45; prof. of moral philosophy and political economy in univ. of St. Andrews 1845 to death; author of The institutes of metaphysics 1854, 2 ed. 1856 and other books. d. St. Andrews 11 June 1864. Lectures on Greek philosophy by J. F. Ferrier 1, pp. vii-xliv, 1866; G. Gilfillan’s Remoter Stars (1867) 139–46.

FERRIER, Susan Edmonstone (youngest child of James Ferrier of Edinburgh, writer to the signet 1744–1829). b. Edinburgh 7 Sep. 1782; author of Marriage, a novel 3 vols. 1818, anon.; The Inheritance 3 vols. 1824, and Destiny, or the chief’s daughter 3 vols. 1831. d. at house of her brother Walter Ferrier in Edinburgh 5 Nov. 1854. Works of S. E. Ferrier (1881), i, 1–38; Edinburgh Review lxxiv, 498–505 (1842).

FESTING, Benjamin Morton (5 son of Henry Festing, commander R.N., who d. 1807). b. Andover, Hants., April 1794; entered navy 2 May 1805; inspector in the coast guard 11 July 1837–1840; captain on half pay 27 Sep. 1851; K.H. 1 Jany. 1837 for services on coast of Italy in 1812–13. d. Weymouth 10 May 1865.

FESTING, Sir Francis Worgan (2 son of the preceding), b. High Littleton, Somerset 24 July 1833; 2 lieut. R.M. 3 July 1850; served in the Baltic 1854–5, in the China expedition 1857–9; served in Ashantee war 1873–4 for which he received thanks of both Houses of Parliament 30 March 1874; A.A.G. of R.M. 1876–1883; A.D.C. to the Queen 7 July 1879; col. commandant R.M.A. 3 Sep. 1886; C.B. 31 March 1874; K.C.M.G. 8 May 1874. d. Donnington lodge, Newbury 21 Nov. 1886. bur. Eastney cemetery, Portsmouth 26 Nov. Brackenbury’s Ashantee war (1874) i, 72–100; Graphic 2 May 1874, pp. 413, 415, 420, portrait.

FESTING, Robert Worgan George (brother of B. M. Festing 1794–1865). Entered navy 22 Feb. 1799; captain 9 Oct. 1811; retired admiral 1 Nov. 1860; C.B. 20 July 1838. d. Maiden Bradley near Frome 16 July 1862 aged 73.

FEVERSHAM, William Duncombe, 2 Baron. b. London 14 Jany. 1798; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; M.P. for Yorkshire 1826–30, for North riding of Yorkshire 1832 to 16 July 1841 when he succeeded to the peerage; a breeder of short horn cattle. d. 3 Hyde park gate, London 11 Feb. 1867. bur. Helmsley church 19 Feb. Sporting Review lvii, 158 (1867).

FEW, Robert (eld. son of Charles Few of Henrietta st. Covent Garden, London, solicitor). b. 1807; ed. at old gr. sch. Marlborough; solicitor in London 1828 to death; settled with Rev. John Hodgson basis of Clergy Mutual Insurance Co. 1829, member of the board 40 years, deputy chairman 1872 to death; one of the founders of Marlborough college 1843, mem. of council many years; deputy steward of Westminster 1873 to death; author of History of St. John’s house 1884. d. Wolsey grange, Esher, Surrey 24 Oct. 1887 in 80 year.

FFARINGTON, William. b. 1777; entered navy 13 Oct. 1785; captain 18 Sep. 1815; retired admiral 4 Oct. 1862. d. Woodvale, Cowes 4 May 1868.

FFENNELL, William Joshua (eld. son of Joshua William Ffennell of Ballybrado near Cahir). b. Ballybrado 16 Aug. 1799; sec. of river Suir Preservation Society 1837; fishery inspector under Board of Works 1845; commissioner to enquire into salmon fisheries of England and Wales 30 July 1860; inspector of fisheries Oct. 1861 to Oct. 1864; com. under Salmon fisheries of Scotland act 1861, 25 Sep. 1862; the act commonly called ‘Ffennell’s act’ was passed 1848 being the first modern salmon fishery act; started with F. T. Buckland Land and Water 27 Jany. 1866. d. London 12 March 1867.

FFOULKES, Ven. Henry Powell (2 son of John Powell Ffoulkes of Eriviatt, co. Denbigh, who d. 2 Dec. 1826 aged 56). b. 2 Jany. 1815; ed. at Ball. coll. Ox., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840; C. of St. Matthew, Buckley, Flints. 1840–57; R. of Llandyssil, Montgomery 1857–59; R. of Whittington, Salop 1859 to death; archdeacon of Montgomery and canon res. of St. Asaph, Feb. 1861 to death. d. the Canonry, St. Asaph 26 Jany. 1886.

FIDDES, Thomas. Entered Bengal army 1804; col. of 45 Bengal N.I. 9 Aug. 1843, of 1 European fusiliers 1853, of 42 Bengal light infantry 1854, of 5 Bengal N.I. 1861 to death; L.G. 15 Sep. 1856. d. Oakfield, Cheltenham 13 April 1863 aged 81.

FIELD, Charles Frederick. Chief inspector of Metropolitan detective police to 1851 when he retired on pension; inquiry agent at Eldon chambers, Devereux court, Strand, London; figures prominently in Dickens’s novel Bleak House under name of Inspector Bucket. d. 2 Gertrude st. Chelsea, London 27 Sep. 1874. Publisher’s Circular 1874 p. 738.

FIELD, Edwin Wilkins (eld. child of Rev. Wm. Field 1767–1851). b. Leam near Warwick 12 Oct. 1804; ed. at his father’s school; admitted an attorney and solicitor Nov. 1826; partner with Wm. Sharpe 1827, they became partners in firm of Taylor and Roscoe 1835; secretary to royal commission to prepare a plan for new law courts 1865; a great law reformer, also amateur artist; author of Memoir of Edgar Taylor, privately printed 1839; Observations of a solicitor on defects in the system of the equity courts 1840 and 17 other pamphlets; drowned in the Thames near Goring 30 July 1871. bur. Highgate cemetery 4 Aug., statue by T. Woolner at solicitors’ entrance to the Law courts in Carey st. Edwin Wilkins Field, a memorial sketch by T. Sadler 1872, portrait; Law magazine and law review i, 35–50 (1872).

FIELD, Frederick (2 son of Charles Field of London, candle maker). b. Lambeth, London 2 Aug. 1826; an original member of Chemical Soc. of London 1846; chemist to some copper-smelting works at Coquimbo, Chili 1848, manager of the works 1852; British vice consul at Caldera near Coquimbo 1853–56; chemist and sub-manager to smelting works at Guayacan 1856–59; lecturer on chemistry at St. Mary’s hospital, London 1860; professor of chemistry in London Institution 1862; a partner in firm of J. C. and J. Field, candle makers 1866 to death; F.R.S. 4 June 1863; F.R.S. Edin.; M.R.I.A.; wrote 43 papers on scientific subjects. d. Oakfield, Addlestone 3 April 1885.

FIELD, Rev. Frederick (son of Henry Field of London, apothecary 1755–1837). b. London 20 July 1801; ed. at Christ’s hosp. and Trin. coll. Cam.; Tyrwhitt’s Hebrew scholar and tenth wrangler 1823; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, hon. LLD. 1875; fell. of his coll. 1824–43, hon. fell. of his coll. 1876 to death; R. of Reepham, Norfolk 1842–63; edited S. Joannis Chrysostomi Homiliæ in Matthæum 3 vols. 1839; S. Joannis Chrysostomi Interpretatio omnium epistolarum Paulinarum per homilias facta 7 vols. 1849–62; Origenis Hexaplorum, quæ supersunt 2 vols. 1874–5 and many other patristic works; member of Old Testament revision company 1870 to death. d. Carlton terrace, Heigham, Norwich 19 April 1885. Origenis Hexaplorum 1874, preface; Cambridge Review 6 May 1885.

FIELD, George. b. Berkhampstead, Herts. about 1777; grew Madder in his own garden from which he produced specimens of the colouring matter more beautiful than any before seen; invented the pereolator by atmospheric pressure for reducing the madder to its finest consistence 1816; author of Chromatography, or a treatise on colours and pigments 1835, 3 ed. 1885; Outlines of analogical philosophy 2 vols. 1839; Rudiments of the painter’s art, or a grammar of colouring 1850 and 5 other books. d. Syon hill, Park cottage, Isleworth, Surrey 28 Sep. 1854.

FIELD, Henry William (4 son of John Field 1764–1845, umpire at Royal Mint, London). b. 23 March 1803; entered Royal Mint 1818, probationer assayer 1836, Queen’s assay master 1851 to 1871; made chemically pure gold and brought the coin of the realm up to mathematical precision; exhibited 8 designs or models for coins at R.A. 1822–27. d. 10 Chesham place, Brighton 9 June 1888. bur. Nunhead cemetery, London 14 June. J. Waylen’s House of Cromwell (1880) p. 49.

FIELD, Joseph M. b. London 1810; ed. in New York; first appeared on the stage in New York 1843; performed in most of the large cities; manager of Field’s Varieties, St. Louis, Mo. 1852; established at St. Louis the Reveille a daily paper, one of the editors and chief proprietor; dramatized and produced many local plays; wrote many humorous sketches for the New Orleans Picayune, signed Straws which were widely quoted; proprietor of theatre in Mobile to death; author of The drama of Pokerville, Philadelphia 1847. d. Mobile 30 Jany. 1856.

FIELD, Joshua (son of Mr. Field of Lower Thames st. London, corn and seed merchant). b. Hackney 1786; ed. at Harlow, Essex 1793–1802; employed by Maudslay marine engine maker 1804–22, a partner 1822; one of the 6 founders of Institution of Civil engineers and, the first chairman 6 Jany. 1818, vice pres. 1837–48, pres. 1848–50; F.R.S. 3 March 1836. d. Balham hill house, Surrey 11 Aug. 1863. Pusely’s Commercial Companion, 2 ed. (1860) 123–4; Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxiii, 488–92 (1864).

FIELD, Rev. William (son of John Field of Stoke Newington, London, surgeon). b. Stoke Newington 7 Jany. 1768; ed. for Calvinist ministry at Homerton and Daventry; pastor of presbyterian chapel, High st. Warwick 1789–1843; founded the Warwick Advertiser 4 Jany. 1806; schoolmaster at Leam near Warwick many years; pastor of presbyterian chapel, Kenilworth 1828–50; published An historical account of town and castle of Warwick 1815; Memoirs of the life of the Rev. S. Parr 2 vols. 1826 and many sermons, tracts, letters and pamphlets. d. Leam 16 Aug. 1851. Spears’s Record of Unitarian Worthies (1877); J. Waylen’s House of Cromwell (1880) p. 51.

FIELDEN, Joshua (son of John Fielden 1784–1849, M.P. for Oldham). b. 1827; member of firm of Fielden Brothers, cotton spinners of Todmorden and Manchester, and of firm of Fielden Brothers & Co. of London, merchants; M.P. for eastern division of West Riding of Yorkshire 1868–80; author of A Letter showing the effects of the malt tax 1865. d. Hotel Monte Huri, Cannes 9 March 1887 in 60 year, personalty declared of value of £503,598.

FIELDEN, Thomas (4 son of Joshua Fielden, who d. 1811). Member of firm of Joshua Fielden and Sons, cotton spinners, Todmorden; manager of the Manchester warehouse, firm became Fielden Brothers; erected gas works 1830; firm became Fielden Brothers & Co. 1837. d. Manchester 7 Dec. 1869, personalty sworn under £1,300,000, 12 March 1870. Fortunes made in business i, 411–56 (1884).

FIELDING, Antony Vandyke Copley (2 son of Nathan Theodore Fielding, painter). b. 1787; pupil of John Varley; member of Society of Painters in water-colours 1813, treasurer 1817, sec. 1818, pres. 1831 to death; exhibited 17 pictures at R.A. and 100 at B.I. 1811–55; awarded a medal at Paris Salon 1824. d. Worthing 3 March 1855 in 68 year. Redgrave’s Century of painters ii, 509–13 (1866); J. Sherer’s Gallery of British Artists ii, 57–8.

FIELDING, Henry Borron (only son of Henry Fielding of Myerscough house near Garstang, Lancs.) Devoted himself to study of plants; bought herbarium of Dr. Steudel 1836; bought Prescott collection of 28,000 plants 1837; F.L.S. 1838; bequeathed his herbarium to Univ. of Oxford. d. Lancaster 21 Nov. 1851.

FIELDING, Newton Smith (brother of Antony V. C. Fielding 1787–1855). b. Huntingdon 1799; worked in water colours, etching, aquatint and lithography; best known for his paintings and engravings of animals; taught painting to family of Louis Philippe in Paris; published Subjects after nature 1836; Lessons on fortification 1853; A dictionary of colour containing 750 tints 1854; How to sketch from nature, or perspective and its application, 2 ed. 1856 and other books, d. Paris 12 Jany. 1856.

FIELDING, Theodore Henry Adolphus (brother of the preceding). Painter and engraver; exhibited 18 pictures at R.A., 21 at B.I. and 27 at Suffolk st. gallery 1799–1837; teacher of drawing and perspective at Addiscombe college; published numerous sets of engravings in aquatint; author of Index of colours and mixed tints 1830; On the theory of painting 1836; The art of engraving with the various modes of operation 1844 and other books. d. Croydon 11 July 1851 aged 70.

FIFE, James Duff, 4 Earl of (elder son of Alexander Duff, 3 Earl of Fife 1731–1811). b. 6 Oct. 1776; served with great distinction in Spanish army during Peninsular war, major general; M.P. for Banffshire 1818–27; succeeded as 4 Earl 7 April 1811; lord lieut. of Banffshire 1811–56; vice pres. of Antiquarian society, Scotland; G.C.H. 1823; K.T. 3 Sep. 1827; created Baron Fife 27 April 1827. d. Duff house, Banffshire 9 March. 1857. W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery iv, 86 (1848), portrait; Jerdan’s National portrait gallery ii, (1831), portrait.

FIFE, James Duff, 5 Earl of (elder son of General Sir Alexander Duff, G.C.H. 1777–1851). b. Edinburgh 6 July 1814; attached to the embassy at Paris; M.P. for Banffshire 1837 to 1 Oct. 1857 when he was created Baron Skene of Skene; lieut. and sheriff principal of Elginshire 26 May 1851; lord lieut. of Banffshire 1857 to death; succeeded his uncle as 5 Earl 9 March 1857; K.T. 2 March 1860. d. Mar lodge, Braemar, Aberdeenshire 7 Aug. 1879.

FIFE, George (son of Wm. Fife of Newcastle, surgeon). M.D. and L.R.C.P. Edin. 1827; surgeon to Northern public dispensary, Edin.; phys. to Queen’s hospital and professor of clinical medicine and materia medica and therapeutics at Queen’s college, Birmingham to death; translated Coster’s Manual of operative surgery 1831; author of Observations on Influenza 1833; Treatise on Cholera 1849 and other books; died from taking morphia at his lodgings Surrey st. Strand, London 10 May 1857 aged 50.

FIFE, Sir John (brother of the preceding). b. Newcastle 1795; surgeon at Newcastle 1815; member of Newcastle corporation 1835, alderman 1835, mayor 1838–9 and 1842–3; knighted at St. James’s palace 1 July 1840 for his exertions in repressing Chartist disturbances 1840; F.R.C.S. 1844; senior surgeon to Newcastle infirmary; lieut. col. commandant 1 Newcastle rifle volunteers 1860–68; author of Practical remarks on the Continental cholera, Newcastle 1831. d. Reedsmouth house, North Tyne 15 Jany. 1871.

FIFE, William Wallace (son of Peter Fife of Dundee, baker). b. Dundee 28 March 1816; one of staff of the Dundee Warder; edited North British Agriculturist short time; edited Nottingham Daily Guardian to death. d. Hound’s Gate, Nottingham 25 Sep. 1867.

FIGGINS, James (son of Vincent Figgins of Smithfield, London, type founder, who d. Dec. 1860 or Jany. 1861). b. West st. Smithfield, London 16 April 1811; a type founder in Smithfield; sheriff of London 1865–6; M.P. for Shrewsbury 1868–74; alderman of Farringdon without, 9 June 1873 to 1882. d. 12 Russell sq. London 12 June 1884.

FILDES, John. b. Dorton, Lancs. 18 Dec. 1811; M.P. for Great Grimsby 1865–68. d. Stanley house, Oxford road, Manchester 6 July 1875.

FILLANS, James. b. Wilsontown, Lanarkshire 27 March 1808; apprenticed to a stonemason at Paisley; a sculptor at Glasgow, moved to London 1836; his best works are The Blind teaching the Blind, Grief, a Madonna, busts of Sir James Shaw and John Wilson; exhibited 25 sculptures at R.A. 1837–50. d. 95 Montrose st. Glasgow 27? Sep. 1852. James Paterson’s Memoir of James Fillans 1854, portrait.

FILLEUL, Rev. Philip (son of Philip Filleul of Jersey). Matric. from Pemb. coll. Ox. 6 Dec. 1813 aged 20, scholar; B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820; R. of St. Brelade, Jersey 1818–29; R. of St. Peter, Jersey 1828–48; vice dean of Jersey 1838; R. of St. Saviour, Jersey 1848–50; R. of St. Heliers, Jersey 1850 to death; author of Défense des Missions 1821; Christ est-il divisé? Guernsey 1825; Infant baptism and confirmation, Jersey 1855 and other books. d. St. Heliers, Jersey 13 Oct. 1875.

FILMER, Sir Edmund, 8 Baronet. b. 14 June 1809; succeeded his uncle 15 July 1834; M.P. for West Kent 1838 to death. d. East Sutton place near Maidstone 8 Jany. 1857.

FILMER, Sir Edmund, 9 Baronet (eld. son of the preceding). b. 11 July 1835; ed. at Eton; M.P. for West Kent 1859–65, for Mid Kent 1880–84; sheriff of Kent 1870. d. Brighton 17 Dec. 1886.

FINCH, Francis Oliver (only child of Francis Finch of Friday st. London, merchant, who d. 25 March 1805 aged 50). b. Friday st. 22 Nov. 1802; pupil of John Varley 1814–19; studied at Sass’s life academy and produced some portraits; exhibited 14 landscapes at R.A. 1817–32; associate of S.P.W.C. 11 Feb. 1822, mem. 4 June 1827; a musician and a poet; lost the use of his limbs 10 Oct. 1861; author of An Artist’s Dream; Sonnets 1863. d. Highfield villas, London 27 Aug. 1862. Memorials of the late F. O. Finch [by his widow] 1865, portrait.

FINCH, George. b. 1794; M.P. for Lymington, Hants. 1818–19, for Stamford 1833–37, for Rutland 1846–47. d. 41 South st. London 29 June 1870.

FINCH, John (4 son of 4 Earl of Aylesford 1751–1812). b. 13 March 1793; cornet 15 dragoons 5 Oct. 1809; major Royal West India Rangers 5 March 1818 to 25 June 1819 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 20 Feb. 1855; col. 24 foot 19 June 1856 to death; C.B. 26 Dec. 1818. d. Dover 25 Nov. 1861.

FINCHAM, John. Master shipwright of Portsmouth dockyard 2 Oct. 1844 to 2 July 1852; superintendent of school of naval architecture Portsmouth; built the celebrated “Arrogant” the first screw frigate in the British navy 1850; author of A history of naval architecture 1851; A treatise on masting ships 1854. d. Highland lodge near Portsmouth 15 Dec. 1859 aged 74.

FINDEN, Edward Francis. b. 1791; pupil and coadjutor of William Finden sharing his successes and fortunes; among his separate works were etchings for Duppa’s Miscellaneous Opinions on the Continent 1825 and Illustrations of the Vaudois 1831; illustrator of annuals, books of beauty and other sentimental works; among his separate engravings were Gainsborough’s Harvest Waggon, Collins’ As Happy as a King, Westall’s Princess Victoria. d. St. John’s Wood, London 9 Feb. 1857 aged 65.

FINDEN, William (brother of the preceding). b. 1787; apprentice to James Mitan engraver; he worked chiefly in conjunction with his brother E. F. Finden; made engravings illustrating the books published by Sharpe, Sutton and others; established a school of pupils who worked under their directions and executed much of the work which goes by their name, they themselves giving the finishing touches; produced illustrations to H. Ellis’ ed. of Dugdale’s History of St. Paul’s 1818 and Dibdin’s Ædes Althorpianæ 1822; with his brother engraved Elgin marbles for British museum; published on their own account the illustrations to Moore’s Life and works of Byron 1833; brought out The Royal Gallery of British Art 1838–1840, Nos. 1–15, an admirable work in which they lost all their money; engraved full length portrait of George iv, after Sir T. Lawrence and other important single works; the Crucifixion, after W. Hilton, Finden’s last work was purchased by Art Union for £1470. d. 49 Camden st. Camden Town 20 Sep. 1852 in 65 year. bur. Highgate.

FINDLATER, Andrew. b. Aberdour, Aberdeenshire 1810; educ. Aberdeen univ. LLD. 1864; sch. master at Tillydesk; head master Gordon’s hospital, Aberdeen; commenced a life long connection with W. and R. Chambers 1853; edited Information for the People 1857; Chambers’s Encyclopædia 1860; prepared for the Educational Course, manuals on language, astronomy, physical geography and physiography, edited their Etymological Dictionary 1882; contributed an essay on Epicurus to Encyclopædia Metropolitana, and articles in the Scotsman. d. 15 Rillbank terrace, Edinburgh 1 Jany. 1885. London Figaro 17 Jany. 1885 p. 4, portrait.

FINDLAY, Alexander. Entered the army as private; ensign 2 West India regiment 27 July 1814, captain 24 Oct. 1821 to 28 Dec. 1826; major royal African corps 28 Dec. 1826 to 19 March 1829 when placed on h.p.; governor of Sierra Leone; fort major at Fort George, Inverness, Feb. 1847 to death; K.H. 1836. d. Fort George 10 May 1851.

FINDLAY, Alexander George (son of Alexander Findlay b. London 1790, an original F.R.G.S. 1830, made an atlas sheet of environs of London 1829 to a distance of 32 miles from St. Paul’s ½ inch scale, d. 1870). b. London 9 Jany. 1812; geographer and hydrographer succeeding on death of John Purdy in 1843 to the first position in this business; produced six nautical directories invaluable to the maritime world; received Soc. of Arts medal for dissertation on the English lighthouse system; F.R.G.S. 1844, member of Arctic committee and instrumental in government sending out Alert and Discovery expedition 1875; succeeded to Laurie’s geographical and print publishing business in 1858 and on dispersal of navigating business of Van Kenlen of Amsterdam in 1885 it became the oldest firm in Europe for charts and nautical works; foreign hon. memb. of Società Geografica Italiana 1870; author of A directory for the navigation of the Pacific Ocean 2 vols. 1851 and many other books. d. East Cliff, Dover 3 May 1875.

FINGALL, Arthur James Plunkett, 9 Earl of (only son of 8 Earl of Fingall 1759–1836). b. Geneva 29 March 1791; M.P. for co. Meath 1830–32; P.C. Ireland 1834; K.P. 12 Oct. 1846; lord lieut. of co. Meath 1849 to death. d. 47 Montagu sq. London 21 April 1869.

FINLAISON, John (son of Donald Finlaison d. 1790). b. Thurso, Caithness 27 Aug. 1783; factor to Sir B. Dunbar 1802; employed by board of naval revision London, July 1805, first clerk 1805–8, invented systems for reforming victualling department and arranging admiralty records 1809; keeper of records and librarian of admiralty 1809–22; compiled the original account of the enemy’s naval forces 1811; investigated abuse of sixpenny revenue at Greenwich hospital 1811; founded a system for the salaries in the admiralty 1813; compiled first official navy list 1814 and edited it monthly to 1821; his plan for fund for widows and orphans of civil department of navy established 17 Sep. 1819; connected with London Life Assurance Co. and other offices as actuary; made improvements on Northampton tables of mortality 1829; computed the annuity for the naval and military half pay and pensions, being the only person who could do it 1823; actuary and accountant of check department national debt office 1 Jany. 1822 to Aug. 1851; president of Institution of Actuaries 1847 to death. d. 15 Lansdowne crescent, Notting hill, London 13 April 1860. Assurance magazine, April 1862, 147–69; Walford’s Insurance cyclopædia iii, 300–303 (1874).

Note.—In 1833 he computed the duration of Slave and Creole life, with reference to the emancipation of slaves on the West Indian plantations, preliminary to raising a loan of £15,000,000 to compensate the slave owners, which was carried out and 770,280 slaves became free on 1 Aug. 1834.

FINLAY, Alexander Struthers. b. 21 July 1806; ed. at Harrow and Glasgow Univ.; M.P. for Argyllshire 1857–68; author of Our monetary system 1864. d. Castle Toward, Greenock 9 June 1886.

FINLAY, Francis Dalzell (son of John Finlay, tenant farmer). b. Newtownards, co. Down 12 July 1794; apprentice to a printer at Belfast; master printer 1820; founded Northern Whig 1824; often prosecuted for press offences; imprisoned 3 months in 1826 and his newspaper suspended Aug. 1826 to May 1827; imprisoned 3 months in 1832 and fined £50; a friend of D. O’Connell but not an advocate of repeal. d. Glenarm, co. Antrim 10 Sep. 1857. Freeman’s Journal 12 Sept. 1857 p. 4.

FINLAY, George (son of John Finlay, captain R.E., F.R.S., who d. 1802). b. Faversham, Kent 21 Dec. 1799; studied law in Glasgow, at univ. of Göttingen 1821; went to Greece in 1823 where he was very intimate with Byron; joined Odysseus in an expedition into the Morea 1824, fought in the war of 1824–27; purchased an estate in Attica 1828 in which he lost his money; studied the history of Greece for many years; author of Greece under the Romans 1844; The history of Greece to its conquest by the Turks 1851; The history of Greece under the Ottoman and Venetian domination 1856; History of the Greek Revolution 1861, all republished collectively as A History of Greece, ed. H. F. Tozer 7 vols. 1877. d. Athens 26 Jany. 1875.

FINLAY, Sir Thomas (youngest son of David Finlay). b. 1803; high sheriff of co. Cavan 1837; knighted 1837. d. 19 Adelaide road north, Hampstead 22 Oct. 1869.

FINLAYSON, John. b. Scotland 1770; a writer at Cupar-Fife and then in Edinburgh; a house agent in London 1798; became a believer in Richard Brothers 1797; obtained Brothers’s release from Fisher house asylum Islington 14 April 1806, Brothers resided in Finlayson’s house Upper Baker st. Marylebone 1815 to his decease 25 Jany. 1824; claimed from the government £5710 for Brothers’s maintenance, but all he received was £270 Brothers’s naval half pay 4 Mch. 1830; reduced to poverty and lived on a parish allowance; author of An admonition to the people of all countries [in support of Richard Brothers], Edin. 1797; An essay [on the First Resurrection] 1798; The last trumpet and the flying angel, the true system as given by God to R. Brothers and myself 1849 and other works; engraved 9 sheets of the ground plan of the New Jerusalem and 12 sheets of views of its public buildings for Brothers’ publications; found dead 14 Paradise st. Marylebone 20 Sept. 1854. bur. in Brothers’ grave at St. John’s Wood.

FINLAYSON, Rev. Thomas (2 son of Thomas Finlayson of Coldock, Blair Drummond, Perthshire, farmer). b. Coldock 22 Dec. 1809; licensed by presbytery of Stirling and Falkirk as a preacher of the gospel April 1835; min. of Union st. congregation Greenock, Nov. 1835 to Sep. 1847; min. of Rose st. church, Edinburgh, Sep. 1847 to death; moderator of supreme court of his church 1867; D.D. Univ. of Edin. 1867 or 1868; edited Beattie’s Poems 1864; Goldsmith’s Poems 1871. d. of heart disease at Campbeltown 17 Oct. 1872. bur. Grange cemetery, Edinburgh 22 Oct. Memorials of Rev. Thomas Finlayson, D.D. Edinburgh 1873; John Smith’s Our Scottish clergy 2 series (1849) 295–301.

FINNELLY, William. Barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1827; author with Charles Clark of Reports of cases in the House of Lords on appeals and writs of error 1831–1846, 12 vols. 1835–47, and of House of Lords cases on appeals and writs of error, claims of peerage and divorces 1847–1850, 2 vols. 1849–51; found dead on the floor of his sitting room at 20 Old sq. Lincoln’s Inn 23 Nov. 1851 aged 52. Law Times 29 Nov. 1851 p. 103.

FINNIS, Thomas Quested (son of Robert Finnis of Hythe, Kent). b. Hythe, Jany. 1801; partner in firm of Finnis and Fisher 79 Great Tower st. London, provision merchants; the first pioneer of commerce to port of Bussorah; alderman of Lower Ward 18 Jany. 1848; sheriff of London 1848–49, lord mayor 1856–57. d. Park Gate, Wanstead, Essex 29 Nov. 1883. J. E. Ritchie’s Famous city men (1884) 96–105; Illust. news of the world ii, 333 (1858), portrait; I.L.N. xxix, 479 (1856), portrait, lxxxiii, 581 (1883), portrait.

Note.—His brother John Finnis, lieut. col. 11 Bengal N.I. was the first English officer killed in the Sepoy mutiny, at Meerut 10 May 1857 in 54 year, memorial tablet in church of St. Dunstan in the East, London.

FIRBANK, Joseph. b. Bishop Auckland 1819; worked in a colliery 1826; executed works for North Western railway 1848; contractor for maintenance of Monmouthshire railway 1854–61; railway contractor in South Wales 30 years; contractor for widening of London and North Western railway near London 1859–66, for Midland Company’s Bedford and London extension 1864–68 and their Settle and Carlisle extension 1870; built St. Pancras goods depot for Midland 1884; promoted the interest of his workmen; J.P. and D.L. for co. Monmouth. d. St. Julian’s, Newport 29 June 1886. Mc. Dermott’s Life of J. Firbank (1887).

FIRTH, Joseph Firth Bottomley- (eld. son of Joseph Bottomley of Matlock). b. near Huddersfield 21 Feb. 1842; barrister M.T. 6 June 1866; pres. of Municipal reform league; assumed additional surname of Firth by r.l. Feb. 1873; LL.B. Univ. of London 1875; member of London school board (Chelsea division) 1876–79; M.P. for Chelsea 1880–85, for Dundee 1888 to death; contested North Kensington 1885, received invitations from 13 of the London boroughs to stand for parliament at general election 1886; member of London county council 17 Jany. 1889, deputy chairman 12 Feb. 1889 to death; author of Gas supply of London 1874; Municipal London 1876. d. whilst ascending the Flégère mountain near Chamounix 3 Sep. 1889. Graphic xxv, 153 (1882), 2 portraits; I.L.N. 14 Sep. 1889 pp. 325, 326, portrait.

FIRTH, Mark (elder son of Thomas Firth of Sheffield, steel manufacturer, who d. 1848). b. Sheffield 25 April 1819; worked as a steel smelter for 20/- a week; a steel manufacturer at Sheffield with his father and brother Thomas 1843, they erected the Norfolk works covering 13 acres 1849; master cutler 1867–69; mayor of Sheffield 1875; erected the Mark Firth almshouses at Ranmoor, Sheffield at cost of £30,000, 1869; gave the Firth park of 36 acres to town of Sheffield, park was opened by Prince of Wales 16 Aug. 1875; erected and fitted up Firth college, Sheffield at cost of £20,000, opened by Prince Leopold 20 Oct. 1879, he also endowed it at cost of £5000; famous for castings for gun blocks, and for their refined steel; cast the steel cores for the government great guns; supplied to Italian government a 100 ton gun. d. Oakbrook, Sheffield 28 Nov. 1880, personalty sworn under £600,000, Jany. 1881. Practical mag. vi, 289–91 (1876), portrait; I.L.N. lxvii, 208 (1875), portrait.

FISCHER, John George Paul. b. Hanover 16 Sep. 1786; pupil of John Henry Ramberg, court painter 1800 when he painted portraits and theatrical scenery; went to England 1810, painted miniatures of Queen Charlotte, produced a series of military costumes for the Prince Regent, painted Queen Victoria 1819 and 1820; exhibited 80 paintings at R.A. and 17 at Suffolk st., chiefly portraits in miniature 1817–52. d. 4 Upper Spring st. Marylebone 12 Sep. 1875.

FISH, Thomas Liversedge (son of Mr. Fish, magistrate at Union hall police office, London). Lived at Knowle cottage, Sidmouth, Devon; known as the “Golden Fish” from his immense wealth, having no less than 400 public houses; author of Guide to Knowle Cottage 1837. d. 18 Penton row, Walworth road, Newington, London 22 March 1861 aged 79.

FISH, William. b. Norwich 1775; violinist Norwich theatre; studied under Sharp oboist, and Bond pianist and organist; organist of St. Andrew’s, Norwich; kept a music warehouse; he wrote Sonata for pianoforte, Op. i, 1800; The Morning Star 1842 a ballad, words by the composer, an oboe concerto and some fantasias for the harp. d. 90 Rose lane, Conisford, Norwich 15 March 1866.

FISHBOURNE, Edmund Gardiner. b. 1811; entered navy 1 Feb. 1824; captain 25 Feb. 1853, retired 1 March 1866; retired admiral 2 Aug. 1879; C.B. 23 June 1859; hon. sec. to Royal patriotic fund and to Naval and military Bible Soc. many years; one of most active of Lord Shaftesbury’s colleagues in work of evangelizing the masses of London; author of Current fallacies in naval architecture 1871; Our ironclads and merchant ships 1874; Stability the seaman’s safeguard 1878 and 20 other books. d. 26 Hogarth road, Kensington, London 12 May 1887.

FISHER, Charles (2 son of David Fisher, manager of Suffolk circuit, who d. 6 Aug. 1832 aged 71). Educ. at Cambridge; trained in singing, dancing, fencing and the drama by his father; good in tragedy, comedy and melodrama, acted in Norfolk and Suffolk; appeared at Drury Lane in Lionel and Clarissa 1818; manager of theatres on Norwich circuit 1832 to 1843; violinist, violoncellist and player of double bass; a fine organist; leader of band Norwich theatre 1843; violoncellist in various theatres. d. Glasgow 17 April 1869 aged 76. Theatre i, 193–99 (1880); Era 25 April 1869, p. 10, col. 1.

FISHER, David (brother of the preceding). b. 1788; manager on the Suffolk circuit; first appeared in London at Drury Lane as Macbeth 3 Dec. 1817, the original Titus in Howard Payne’s Brutus 3 Dec. 1818, and Angelo in Buck’s Italians 3 April 1819; played at Bath 1823; built theatres at Bungay, Beccles, Halesworth, Eye, Lowestoft, Dereham, North Walsham and other places; leader of Norwich choral concerts; retired about 1838 to Woodbridge, Suffolk. d. Woodbridge 20 Aug. 1858. Theatrical Inquisitor xi, 479, 481 (1818).

FISHER, David (son of the preceding). b. East Dereham, Norfolk 1816; violinist at local concerts; acted at Prince’s theatre, Glasgow 1849–53; appeared in London at Princess’s theatre as Victor in The Lancers 2 Nov. 1853, remained at Princess’s 6 years where he played in his own piece Music hath charms in June 1858; acted at Adelphi as Abbé Latour in The Dead Heart 1859; gave an entertainment Facts and Fancies at Hanover sq. rooms and St. James’ hall 1863; played at Princess’s 1863, at Haymarket 1865 and at Ampitheatre and Alexandra theatres, Liverpool 1866–68, at opening of Globe theatre, London 28 Nov. 1868 played Major Treherne in Byron’s Cyril’s Success; appeared at Drury Lane, Olympic, Globe, Opera Comique, Criterion, Mirror, Princess’s and Lyceum to 1884. d. St. Augustine’s road, Camden Town, London 4 Oct. 1887. The Players ii, 73 (1860), portrait; Saturday Programme 5 Feb. 1876, portrait; London Figaro 15 Oct. 1887 p. 14, col. 2, portrait.

FISHER, Ven. Edmund Henry. b. 31 Jany. 1835; ed. at Rugby and Trin. coll. Cam., fellow 1860; 20 wrangler 1858; B.A. 1858, M.A. 1861; assistant master at Marlborough 1860; V. of St. Mark, Kennington, London 1869 to death; chaplain to Abp. of Canterbury 1869 to death; hon. canon of Winchester cathedral 1874 to death; archdeacon of Southwark 1878 to death; author of The Goth and the Saracen 1859. d. Monk’s Eleigh rectory 6 May 1879. bur. Barnes cemetery 10 May.

FISHER, Rev. George. b. Sunbury, Middlesex 31 July 1794; clerk in Westminster insurance office 1808; entered St. Cath. coll. Cam. 1817; B.A. 1821, M.A. 1825; astronomer to ships Dorothea and Trent in Arctic expedition 1818; chaplain and astronomer to Parry’s expedition to discover North West passage 1821–23; C. of Stanstead, Essex 1825–27; C. of Ampthill, Beds. 1827; F.R.S. 27 Jany. 1825; F.R.A.S. 1827, mem. of council 1835–63; chaplain to H.M.’s ships Spartiate and Asia 1827–32; retired on h.p. 1832; principal and chaplain of Greenwich hospital school 2 Dec. 1834 to 4 Sep. 1863; made experiments on pendulums, chronometers, velocity of sound, liquefaction of gases and refraction; author of papers in Phil. Trans., Proc. of Royal Soc. and other journals. d. 19 Hillmorton road, Rugby 14 May 1873. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xxxiv, 140–44 (1875).

FISHER, Sir James Hurtle (son of James Fisher of London, architect). b. 1790; attorney in partnership with Thomas Rhodes in Davies st. Cavendish sq. London 1811–32; resident comr. for crown lands in South Australia 1836; the first mayor of Adelaide 1840 and 4 times afterwards; member for West Adelaide 1853–55; speaker of the legislative council 1855–56; first pres. of the legislative council 1856–65 when he retired from office and parliament; knighted by patent 24 May 1860. d. Adelaide 28 Jany. 1875.

FISHER, Sir John William (son of Peter Fisher of Perth). b. London 30 Jany. 1787; M.R.C.S. 1809, F.R.C.S. 1836, member of council 1843; surgeon to Bow st. patrol 1821; surgeon-in-chief to Metropolitan police 1829–65; M.D. Erlangen 1841; knighted at Osborne 2 Sep. 1858. d. 33 Park lane, London 22 March 1876. Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. viii, 173–4 (1876); I.L.N. lxviii, 335, 527 (1876).

FISHER, Robert Alexander. Barrister M.T. 25 Jany. 1850; deputy judge of City of London court; secretary of the Judicature commission 25 Nov. 1872 to Sep. 1874 when last report was issued; judge of county courts (circuit 54) Somerset 1 Oct. 1874 to death; author of Digest of the reported decisions of the courts of common law, bankruptcy, probate, admiralty and divorce from 1756, 5 vols. 1870, new ed. by J. Mews 7 vols. 1884 and other books. d. Glanmorfa, Clifton 30 Sep. 1879.

FISHER, Walter David (3 son of David Fisher 1816–87). b. Norwich 1845; first appeared on stage at T.R. Glasgow 1852; played in the provinces; acted at Athenée theatre in Paris 1873; first appeared in London at Haymarket theatre as Moses in The school for scandal, July 1875; acted Potain in Cora at Globe theatre March 1877; played with Doyly Carte’s provincial company 1880; acted in Germany with the Gilbert and Sullivan répertoire company 1887; played Shadbolt in The Yeomen of the Guard at Court theatre, Liverpool 15 May 1889. d. 15 Seymour st. Liverpool 25 May 1889.

FISHER, William (2 son of John Fisher of Yarmouth, Norfolk). b. 18 Nov. 1780; midshipman R.N. 18 Aug. 1795; surveyed the Mozambique channel 1809–10; employed in suppression of slave trade on coast of Guinea 1816–17; commanded Asia in Mediterranean 1836–41; received Turkish gold medal; good service pension awarded him 1 July 1842; R.A. 2 Dec. 1847; suggested to Admiralty plan of watering ships generally adopted; author of The Petrel, or love on the ocean 1850; Ralph Rutherford, a nautical romance 1851. d. 38 Blandford sq. London 30 Sep. 1852.

FISHER, William Richard (2 son of John Goate Fisher of Great Yarmouth). b. 14 Aug. 1824; barrister L.I. 13 June 1851; author of The law of mortgage as applied to the redemption, foreclosure and sale in equity of incumbered property 1856, 4 ed. 1884; The forest of Essex, its history, laws, administration and ancient customs 1887. d. Guildford, Surrey 17 Nov. 1888.

FISHER, William Webster. b. Westmoreland 1798; studied medicine at Montpellier, M.D. 1825; of Trin. coll. Cam. 1827, of Downing coll., fellow to 1841; Downing professor of medicine 1841 to death; lectured 1841–68; M.B. Cam. 1834, M.D. 1841; univ. examiner of students in medicine and member of univ. board of medical studies; physician to Addenbrooke hospital; had large private practice at Cam.; fellow of Cambridge Philos. Soc. and contributed to its Transactions. d. East lodge, Downing coll. 4 Oct. 1874 in 76 year. Brit. Med. Journ. 10 Oct. 1874, 481.

FISK, William (son of a farmer at Can hall, Essex). b. Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex 1796; educ. Colchester; in mercantile house in London 1815–25; commenced historical compositions 1834 in which he accurately reproduced portraits and costumes, among these were Lady Jane Grey in the Tower 1834, Leonardo da Vinci expiring in the arms of Francis i. 1838, Conspiracy of the Pazzi, attempt to assassinate Lorenzo de Medici 1839 for which in 1840 was awarded gold medal of Manchester Institution; painted 5 pictures connected with reign of Charles i. 1840–44; exhibited 25 paintings at R.A., 17 at B.I. and 45 at Suffolk st. 1818–48. d. Danbury, Essex 8 Nov. 1872.

FISK, William Henry (son of the preceding). b. 1827; pupil of his father and student of R. Acad.; anatomical draughtsman to royal coll. of Surgeons; teacher of drawing and painting at Univ. coll. sch. London; made a series of drawing of trees for the queen; lectured on art in London and the provinces; exhibited 11 landscapes at R.A., 7 at B.I. and 5 at Suffolk st. 1846–73. d. Hampstead 13 Nov. 1884.

FISKEN, Rev. William. b. Gelleyburn farm near Crieff, Perthshire; taught a school at Alyth; minister at Stamfordham near Newcastle 1847 to death; governor and sec. of endowed schools at Stamfordham; with his brother Thomas invented the steam plough; invented a potato-sowing machine, a safety steam boiler, a propeller, apparatus for heating churches and the steam tackle for the steam plough July 1855; author of The cheapest system of steam cultivation and steam cartage; On the comparative methods of steam tackle. d. Stamfordham manse 28 Dec. 1883 aged upwards of 70.

FITCH, William Stevenson. b. 1793; postmaster Ipswich 1838 to death; founder of West Suffolk archæological assoc.; made collections for a history of Suffolk, which were dispersed at his death, but 30 vols. of them are in Suffolk archæol. assoc. museum at Bury St. Edmunds; author of A catalogue of Suffolk manorial registers, Great Yarmouth 1843; Ipswich and its early mints, Ipswich 1848. d. Ipswich 17 July 1859. C. R. Smith’s Retrospections i, 245–8 (1883).

FITTON, Michael. b. Gawsworth, Cheshire 1766; entered navy June 1780; served in Mediterranean 1782, in West Indies 1799–1802, 1803–4; lieut. 9 March 1804 his highest rank; captured or destroyed 40 of the enemy’s ships, received the thanks of the admiralty and a sword value £50 from the Patriotic Soc.; served in the Baltic 1811–15; lieut. of the ordinary at Plymouth 22 Feb. 1831 to 1834; admitted into Greenwich hospital 20 April 1835; one of the bravest and most active officers in the navy. d. Peckham 31 Dec. 1852.

FITTON, William Henry (son of Nicholas Fitton of Dublin). b. Dublin, Jany. 1780; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, senior scholar 1798, B.A. 1799; studied at Edin. Univ. 1808, in London 1809–12; M.D. Edin. 12 Sep. 1810, incorporated at Cam. 1815; candidate of royal coll. of phys. 1815, fellow 1816; practised at Northampton 1811–19 when he removed to London and devoted himself to scientific researches; F.R.S. 9 Nov. 1815; F.G.S. 18  , sec. 18  , pres. 1827, the first to deliver an annual address 15 Feb. 1828, established publication of proceedings 1827, Wollaston medallist 1852; wrote 21 papers on geological subjects 1811–57; author of A geological sketch of Hastings 1833; wrote many articles in Edinburgh Review 1817–41. d. Sussex gardens, London 13 May 1861. Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xviii, 30–34 (1862); Proc. of Royal Soc. of London xii, 4–6 (1861).

FITZADAM, John Thompson (eld. son of Adam Fitz Adam of Birmingham, barrister). b. 1833; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1859; recorder of Wigan, April 1880 to death; alderman of Wigan many years. d. 5 Phillimore gardens, Kensington, London 19 April 1886 in 53 year.

FITZBALL, Edward, originally called Edward Ball. b. Burwell, Cambs. 1792; attempted to establish a printing office at Norwich; dramatist in London many years; author of Edda; The Pilot 1825; The Innkeeper of Abbeville 1826; The Floating Beacon 1826; The Inchcape Bell 1828; The Flying Dutchman 1829 and many other successful dramas; wrote all the librettos of Balfe’s early operas, libretto of Wallace’s Maritana, and many librettos for other Composers; wrote My Pretty Jane 1828 and many other songs. d. near Chatham 27 Oct. 1873. E. Fitzball’s Thirty five years of a dramatic author’s life 2 vols. 1859, portrait; I.L.N. lxiii, 445 (1873), portrait.

FITZCLARENCE, Lord Adolphus (7 child and 3 son of William iv. 1765–1837 by Dorothea natural dau. of Francis Bland of Kerry, she was known on the stage as Mrs. Jordan 1762–1816). b. 18 Feb. 1802; entered R.N. 26 May 1814; captain 24 Dec. 1824; commander of Royal George yacht 1830; captain of Victoria and Albert yacht 1 Jany. 1851 to 21 Oct. 1852 and commodore of her 21 Oct. 1852 to 17 Sep. 1853; aide de camp to Victoria 12 Feb. 1848 to death; groom of the robes to Will. iv. 24 July 1830; granted rank of younger son of a marquis 24 May 1831; G.C.H. 24 Feb. 1832; a lord of the bedchamber 5 Jany. 1833; R.A. 17 Sep. 1853. d. Newburgh park near Easingwold, Yorkshire 17 May 1856. Lennox’s Celebrities 2 series i, 208–12 (1877).

FITZCLARENCE, Rev. Lord Augustus (brother of the preceding), b. 1 March 1805; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.C.L. 1832, D.C.L. 1835; R. of Mapledurham, Oxon. 1829 to death; chaplain in ordinary to his father 1829–37, to Queen Victoria 1837 to death; granted rank of younger son of a marquis 24 May 1831. d. Mapledurham 14 June 1854.

FITZCLARENCE, Lord Frederick (brother of the preceding). b. 9 Dec. 1799; ensign Coldstream guards 12 May 1814, assisted at arrest of Cato st. conspirators 23 Feb. 1820; lieut. col. 7 foot 2 June 1825 to 24 Aug. 1832 when placed on h.p.; granted rank of younger son of a marquis 24 May 1831; G.C.H. 1831; military governor of Portsmouth 1840; col. 36 foot 23 July 1851 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; commander in chief at Bombay 1852 to death, assumed command 22 Nov. 1852; author of A manual of out-post duties 1851 and other works. d. Poorundhur near Poonah 30 Oct. 1854, body embalmed and bur. at Ford, Northumberland 10 Feb. 1855.

FITZGERALD, John David Fitzgerald, 1 Baron (son of David Fitzgerald of Dublin, merchant). b. Dublin 1816; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; called to bar in Ireland 1838; Q.C. 15 Feb. 1847; bencher of King’s Inns 1855; leader of the Munster circuit; M.P. for Ennis 1852–60; solicitor general for Ireland, Feb. 1855 to April 1856, attorney general April 1856 to March 1858 and 1859 to Feb. 1860; P.C. Ireland 1856; comr. of national education Ireland 1863 to death; justice of Queen’s Bench, Ireland, Feb. 1860 to May 1882; principal judge at great state trials of Messrs. Parnell, Biggar and others Jany. 1881; a lord of appeal in ordinary May 1882 to death; created Baron Fitzgerald of Kilmarnock, co. Dublin 23 June 1882; P.C. 29 June 1882; bencher of Gray’s Inn 21 Dec. 1883; author of Report on trial of A. M. Sullivan and R. Pigott for seditious libels 1868. d. 22 Fitzwilliam place, Dublin 16 Oct. 1889. Law magazine and law review v, 267–69 (1858); Graphic 16 Nov. 1889 p. 597, portrait.

FITZGERALD and VESEY, Very Rev. Henry Vesey-Fitzgerald, 3 Baron. b. 1800; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1821, M.A. 1827; dean of Emly 6 July 1818 to 1825; dean of Kilmore 16 March 1825 to death; succeeded his brother as 3 Baron 11 May 1843. d. Danesfort, co. Cavan 30 March 1860.

FITZGERALD, Charles (son of Robert Fitzgerald of Kilkee, co. Clare). Entered navy 1809; governor of British settlements on the Gambia 1844 to 1847; governor of Western Australia Aug. 1848 to June 1855; captain 1 April 1856; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857. d. Geraldine house, Kilkee, co. Clare 29 Dec. 1887 in 96 year. I.L.N. xxx, 59, 60 (1857), portrait.

FITZGERALD, Edward (3 son of John Purcell who took name of Fitzgerald). b. Bredfield house near Woodbridge, Suffolk 31 March 1809; ed. at Bury St. Edmund’s gram. sch. and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1830; a friend of Spedding, Donne and Thackeray; resided at Farlingay hall near Woodbridge (where Carlyle visited him in 1855) 1853–60, at Woodbridge 1860–74, at Little Grange 1874 to his death; issued Euphranor, a dialogue on youth 1851, Polonius, a collection of Wise Saws 1852, Six dramas of Calderon 1853 the only book to which he put his name, it was withdrawn from circulation; translated the Agamemnon of Æschylus 1876 and the Œdipus Tyrannus and Œdipus Coloneus of Sophocles, the Quatrains of Omar Khayyám 1859, the Salámán and Absál of Jami 1856; author of a translation of Attar’s Mantik-ut-tair which he called the Bird Parliament MS.; Tennyson’s poem Tiresias 1884 contains a birthday ode to Fitzgerald. d. while on a visit to Merton rectory, Norfolk 14 June 1883. W. Aldis Wright’s Letters and remains of E. Fitzgerald 3 vols. 1889, portrait.

FITZGERALD, James. Entered Madras army 1820; commandant at Malabar 19 Feb. 1858 to 17 Jany. 1862; col. 42 Madras N.I. 12 Dec. 1862 to 1869; L.G. 25 June 1870. d. Kildare house, Lyndall’s park, Clifton 14 Nov. 1871.

FITZGERALD, Sir John Forster (4 son of Edward Fitzgerald of Carrigoran, co. Clare, who d. 1815). b. about 1785; ensign 29 Oct. 1793; major 60 foot 1809; commandant of Quebec and afterwards of Montreal 1818–24; lieut. col. 20 foot 1824–30; commanded divisions in Madras and Bombay 1838–41; col. of 62 foot 1843, of 18 foot 1850 to death; general 20 June 1854, field marshal 29 May 1875; K.C.B. 1831, G.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862; M.P. for co. Clare 1852–57. d. Tours, France 24 March 1877. bur. with military honours in St. Symphorien cemetery, Tours 27 March. Times 29 March 1877 p. 9, col. 6.

FITZGERALD, Otho Augustus (3 son of 3 Duke of Leinster 1791–1874). b. Carton, Maynooth 10 Oct. 1827; M.P. for co. Kildare 1865–74; master of the horse to viceroy of Ireland 1855 and 1858–59; gentleman of the bedchamber 1859–62; treasurer of H.M.’s household 8 May 1866 to July 1866, comptroller 1868–74; P.C. 11 June 1866. d. Oakley court, Windsor 19 Nov. 1882.

FITZGERALD, Sir Peter George, 1 Baronet (5 son of Maurice Fitzgerald, P.C., M.P., knight of Kerry 1774–1849). b. 15 Sep. 1808; clerk to David Digges la Touche & Co. bankers, Dublin; vice treasurer of Ireland 1841, nineteenth knight of Kerry 1849; sheriff of Kerry 1849 and of Carlow 1875; improved his estates and built better homesteads for his tenants 1849; created a baronet 8 July 1880. d. Glanlearn, island of Valentia 6 Aug. 1880.

FITZGERALD, Robert Allan (2 son of Thomas Fitzgerald of Shalstone, Bucks., who d. 1860). b. 1 Oct. 1834; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1858, M.A. 1861; played in Harrow and Cambridge cricket elevens; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1860; sec. to Marylebone cricket club 1864–76; captain of amateur eleven who visited Canada and United States 1872; author of Jerks in from short-leg, By Quid 1866; Wickets in the West, or the twelve in America 1873. d. Charleywood, Herts. 28 Oct. 1881. Illust. sp. and dr. news i, 277 (1874), portrait.

FITZGERALD, Right Rev. William (son of Maurice Fitzgerald, M.D. of Lifford, Limerick). b. Lifford 3 Dec. 1814; ed. at Middleton, co. Cork and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1833, B.A. 1835, M.A. 1848, B.D. and D.D. 1853, fellow of his college, professor of moral philosophy there 1847–52 and of ecclesiastical history 1852–57; C. of Lackagh, Kildare 1838–46; C. of Clontarf, Dublin 1846–48; V. and preb. of Donoghmore, Dublin 16 Feb. 1848; V. of St. Anne’s, Dublin 1851–55; P.C. of Monkstown, Dublin 13 May 1855; preb. of Timothan, Dublin 1855; archdeacon of Kildare 1855; bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross 7 Feb. 1857, consecrated at St. Patrick’s cath. Dublin 8 March, enthroned 14 March; translated to Killaloe 3 Feb. 1862; edited Bishop Butler’s Analogy with notes and a life of the author, Dublin 1849, reprinted 1860; chief contributor to The Cautions for the Times, a series of papers ed. by R. Whately 1853; author of Episcopacy, tradition and the sacraments considered in reference to the Oxford Tracts 1839 and 20 other works. d. Clarisford house, Killaloe 24 Nov. 1883. Brady’s Records i, 302, iii, 87–8; Dublin Univ. Mag. xlix, 416–26 (1857).

FITZGERALD, Sir William Robert Seymour Vesey- (eld. son of William Fitzgerald of Dublin). b. 1818; matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 21 Feb. 1833, of Oriel coll., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1844, Newdigate prizeman 1835, D.C.L. 1863; barrister L.I. 29 Jany. 1839; M.P. Horsham 1848 but unseated, M.P. Horsham 1852 to 1865 and 1874–5; under sec. of state foreign affairs 26 Feb. 1858 to June 1859; governor of Bombay 19 Nov. 1866 to March 1872; P.C. 28 Dec. 1866; K.C.S.I. 22 Oct. 1867, G.C.S.I. 8 Dec. 1868; chief commissioner of charities 30 Nov. 1875 to 1885; took names of Seymour Vesey. d. 29 Warwick sq. London 28 June 1885. I.L.N. l, 117 (1867), portrait.

FITZ-GIBBON, Abraham Coates (2 son of lieut. Philp Fitz-Gibbon, R.N., d. 1826). b. Mount Eagle, Kilworth, co. Cork 23 Jany. 1823; apprentice to Sir Charles Lanyon 1837–43; agent and manager for W. Dargan 1847–52; in U.S. America 1852–56, in Ceylon 1857–60, in New Zealand 1860–62, in Queensland 1863–68, in all these countries he surveyed and constructed railway lines; M.I.C.E. 9 Jany. 1866; adopted a 3 foot 6 in. gauge in Queensland; with his brother Maurice Fitz-Gibbon published in Journal of R. Hist. and Archæol. Assoc. of Ireland “Unpublished Geraldine Documents” which with additions were reprinted in four parts by Rev. Samuel Hayman, Dublin 1870–81. d. Moorside, Bushey Heath, Herts. 4 April 1887. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxix, 466–70 (1887).

FITZGIBBON, Edward (son of a land agent d. 1817). b. Limerick, Aug. 1803; came to London 1817; articled to a surgeon 1819–20; classical tutor in the provinces 1820–23; at Marseilles 1824–30 studying the language and literature; parliamentary reporter for Morning Chronicle 1830; wrote on angling for Bell’s Life under pseudonym of Ephemera; wrote for the Observer and acted as a theatrical critic; from 1830 his writings gave great impulse to the art of fishing, were the means of improving fishing tackle and of increasing the rents of rivers; he once killed 52 salmon on the Shin river in 55 hours fishing; author of Handbook of Angling, By Ephemera 1847, 3 ed. 1853; The book of the Salmon 1850; author with W. Shipley of A true treatise on the art of fly fishing 1838, and with A. Young of Natural History of the Salmon 1854; ed. The Compleat Angler of Walton and Cotton 1853. d. 19 Nov. 1857. bur. Highgate cemetery 25 Nov. Baron Nicholson’s Autobiography (1860) 334–6; Bell’s Life in London 22 Nov. 1857 p. 8, 29 Nov. p. 5.

FITZGIBBON, Gerald (4 son of Mr. Fitzgerald of co. Limerick, tenant farmer). b. Glin, Limerick 1 Jany. 1793; employed in W. Jameson’s distillery, Dublin 1814; entered univ. of Dublin 1817, B.A. 1825, M.A. 1832, maintained himself by teaching 1817–30; called to Irish bar Jany. 1830; Q.C. 17 Aug. 1841; counsel for Dr. John Gray in state trial of Daniel O’Connell and his 7 fellow prisoners 15 Jany. to 12 Feb. 1844 during which on 30 Jany. he was challenged to a duel by the attorney general Thos. Bury Cusack Smith, when he brought the matter under notice of the Court and Mr. Smith apologised; the greatest commercial lawyer of his day; bencher of King’s Inns 1858; third serjeant at law 1859–60; receiver-master in Chancery 1860 to April 1878; author of Ireland in 1868 the battle field for English party strife 1868, 2 ed. 1868; Roman Catholic priests and National Schools 1871, 2 ed. 1872 and other works. d. Larkfield, Clondalkin 27 Sep. 1882. O. J. Burke’s Anecdotes of Connaught circuit (1885) 328–30; Irish Law Times xvi, 494 (1882).

FITZ GIBBON, James. b. 1780; enlisted in the army 1797; served in war against Napoleon and in American war 1812–15; captain of Glengarry light infantry fencibles 1813–16 when placed on h.p.; assistant adjutant general of militia Upper Canada; saved city of Toronto during Mackenzie rebellion 1837 for which he was awarded 5000 acres of land and received thanks of parliament, the grant of land was subsequently disallowed; chief clerk of lower house of Canadian parliament 1816–29, clerk of the upper house 1829–35; created a military knight of Windsor 1850; author of An appeal to the people of Upper Canada, Montreal 1847. d. Lower Ward, Windsor Castle 12 Dec. 1863.

FITZHARDINGE, William Fitzhardinge Berkeley, 1 Earl of (eld. son of 5 Earl of Berkeley 1745–1810). b. 26 Dec. 1786; lieut. South Gloucestershire militia 6 July 1803, col. 22 Aug. 1810 to death; kept a pack of hounds in Gloucestershire 1808 to death, not excelled by any in England; M.P. for Gloucestershire 1810; his claim to Berkeley peerage disallowed by House of Lords 28 June 1811; created Baron Segrave of Berkeley Castle 10 Sep. 1831 and Earl Fitzhardinge 17 Aug. 1841; lord lieut. of Gloucestershire 3 Feb. 1836 to death. d. Berkeley Castle about midnight 10 Oct. 1857. Sporting Review xxxviii, 319–22, 389–95 (1857); Cecil’s Records of the Chase (1877) 181–5; My life and recollections by G. F. Berkeley (1865) i, 370–83 and vol. ii passim.

Note.—He is drawn as Fitzalleyne of Berkeley in Fitzalleyne of Berkeley, a romance of the present times by Bernard Blackmantle [Charles Molloy] 2 vols. 1825, who also makes him one of the characters in his book The English Spy 2 vols. 1826.

FITZHARDINGE, Maurice Frederick Fitzhardinge Berkeley, 1 Baron (brother of the preceding). b. 3 Jany. 1788; entered navy June 1802, captain 7 June 1814, admiral 15 Jany. 1862; M.P. for Gloucester 1831–33, 1835–37 and 1841–57; contested Gloucester 1833, 1837 and 1857; a comr. of admiralty 1833–34, 1837–39, 1846–52 and 1852–57; K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 28 June 1861; P.C. 13 Aug. 1855; master of the Berkeley hounds 1857 to death; claimed Barony of Berkeley 1857; created Baron Fitzhardinge of city and county of Bristol 5 Aug. 1861. d. Berkeley castle 17 Oct. 1867. Baily’s Mag. vi, 217–19 (1863), portrait; Sporting Review lviii, 417–20 (1867).

FITZMAURICE, John G. Second lieut. 95 foot 25 April 1811; captain rifle brigade 19 Dec. 1826 to 30 March 1832 when placed on h.p.; granted service reward 13 March 1855; M.G. 7 May 1861; lieut. of Yeomen of the Guard, Dec. 1861 to death; K.H. 1831. d. Drayton green, Ealing 24 Dec. 1865 aged 72.

FITZMAURICE, William Edward (younger son of John Fitzmaurice, Viscount Kirkwall 1778–1820). b. 22 March 1805; ed. at Oriel coll. Ox.; captain 9 lancers 26 Feb. 1828; captain 2 life guards 1831–40 when placed on h.p.; M.P. for Bucks. 1842–47; author of A cruise to Egypt, Palestine and Greece 1834. d. Brussels 18 June 1889.

FITZPATRICK, James Coleman. b. Ireland about 1818; Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin; called to Irish bar 1844; barrister L.I. 6 June 1857; chief justice of the Gold Coast 1857–61; judge of British Kaffraria 20 July 1861 to 1872; judge of supreme court of Cape of Good Hope 1872–79 when he retired on pension; author of The Pope, his rights and duties 1860. d. Wynberg, British Kaffraria 6 Feb. 1880.

FITZROY, Charles (2 son of 4 Duke of Grafton 1760–1844). b. 28 Feb. 1791; ed. at Harrow and Great Marlow; ensign 1 foot guards 25 June 1807; major 55 foot 27 Jany. 1820 to 11 Jany. 1821 when placed on h.p.; sold out 1834; M.P. for Thetford 1818–32, for Bury 1832–47; vice chamberlain of the household 29 June 1835 to 2 May 1838; P.C. 1 July 1835. d. Elm lodge, Hampton 17 June 1865.

FITZROY, Sir Charles Augustus (only son of general Charles Fitzroy 1764–1829). b. 10 June 1796; attached to staff of Sir Hussey Vivian at Waterloo 1815; captain royal horse guards 27 April 1820 to 23 June 1825 when placed on h.p.; M.P. for Bury St. Edmunds, June 1831 to Dec. 1832; lieut. governor of Prince Edward Island 19 March 1837; governor of Leeward Islands 3 Aug. 1841; governor of New South Wales 3 Aug. 1846 to 17 Jany. 1855; his wife Lady Mary Fitzroy killed at Parramatta being thrown from her carriage 7 Dec. 1847; governor general of all the Australian colonies 1850; act for separation of Victoria passed 5 Aug. 1850; constitution act of N.S.W. passed 1853; presented with purse of 2000 guineas 28 Jany. 1856; knighted by Wm. iv. at St. James’s palace 1 June 1837; K.C.B. 12 June 1854. d. Half Moon st. Piccadilly, London 16 Feb. 1858. W. Gisborne’s New Zealand Rulers (1886), 36–42; Rev. J. Buller’s Forty years in New Zealand (1878) 377–82; Therry’s Reminiscences, 2 ed. (1863) 376–80; Heads of the people i, 65 (1847), portrait; I.L.N. xxix, 479 (1856), portrait.

FITZROY, Henry (younger son of 2 Baron Southampton 1761–1810). b. Great Stanhope st. London 2 May 1807; ed. at Magd. coll. Ox. and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. Cam. 1828; M.P. Great Grimsby 10 Aug. 1831 to 3 Dec. 1832; contested Lewes 1835, M.P. Lewes 21 April 1837 to death; a lord of the Admiralty 12 Feb. 1845 to 13 July 1846; lieut. col. of the Artillery company 1848 to death; under sec. of state for home department Dec. 1852 to Feb. 1855; P.C. 8 Feb. 1855; chairman of committees of House of Commons 16 April 1855 to 1859; chief comr. of board of works 1859 to death. d. Sussex sq. Kemp Town, Brighton 22 Dec. 1859.

FITZROY, Robert (brother of Sir C. A. Fitzroy, 1796–1858). b. Ampton hall, Suffolk 5 July 1805; entered navy 19 Oct. 1819; captain 3 Dec. 1834; commander of Beagle on surveys of Straits of Magellan etc. 1828–30, 1831–36, when he ran a chronometric line round the world; F.R.G.S. 1830, gold medallist 1837; an elder brother of Trinity house 1839; M.P. Durham 1841–43; acting conservator of river Mersey 21 Sep. 1842 to 1843; governor of New Zealand 3 April 1843, superseded Nov. 1845 as he did not agree with the colonists; retired from active service 1850; R.A. 1857, V.A. on half pay 12 Sep. 1863; F.R.S. 5 June 1851; superintendent of Meteorological department of board of trade 1854; invented Fitzroy barometer; instituted a system of storm warnings 1862 which developed into the daily forecasts of the weather 1872; author of Narrative of voyages of Adventurer and Beagle and the Beagle’s circumnavigation of the globe 3 vols. 1839; Weather Book, a manual of practical meteorology 1863, 2 ed. 1863 and other works; committed suicide by cutting his throat, at his residence Lyndhurst house, Norwood, Surrey 29 April 1865. Proc. of Royal Soc. xv, 21–23 (1867); Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. ix, 215–8 (1865); Good Words vii, 406–13 (1866).

FITZROY, Sir William (3 son of 3 Duke of Grafton 1735–1811). b. 1 June 1782; entered navy 21 April 1794; captain 3 March 1804; admiral 2 April 1853; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 4 July 1840. d. East Sheen near Richmond 13 May 1857.

FITZWALTER, Sir Brook William Bridges, 1 Baron (elder son of Sir Brook Wm. Bridges, 4 bart. 1767–1829). b. Goodneston park, Kent 2 June 1801; ed. at Winchester and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1827; succeeded his father 21 April 1829; M.P. for East Kent, Feb. to July 1852 and April 1857 to April 1868; created Baron Fitzwalter 17 April 1868. d. Goodneston park 6 Dec. 1875. I.L.N. xxx, 478 (1857), portrait, lxvii, 614, 629 (1875), portrait.

FITZWILLIAM, Charles William Wentworth, 5 Earl (only child of 4 Earl Fitzwilliam 1748–1833). b. Grosvenor sq. London 4 May 1786; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; M.P. for Yorkshire 20 May 1807 to 24 July 1830 as Viscount Milton; M.P. for Northamptonshire 23 May 1831 to March 1833; pres. of Yorkshire Philosophical Soc. 1830 to death; K.G. 4 Nov. 1851; took surname of Wentworth by r.l. 20 Aug. 1856; author of First, second and third addresses on the Corn laws 1839 and other books; edited with Sir Richard Bourke Correspondence of Edmund Burke 4 vols. 1844. d. Wentworth house, Rotherham 4 Oct. 1857. Waagen’s Treasures of art iii, 337–42 (1854).

FITZWILLIAM, Edward. b. near Holborn, London 8 Aug. 1788; actor at Southend, Hythe and Gosport 1806–8; first appeared in London as Hodge in Love in a village, at West London theatre 1812; acted at Olympic 1813 and at Royal Circus; his best parts were Leporello, Dumbiedykes in the Heart of Midlothian, Patch, Partridge in Tom Jones and Humphry Clinker; went to Drury Lane 10 Nov. 1821; became a comic vocalist at city entertainments; generally known as Little Fitz; retired on an annuity from Drury Lane theatrical fund 1845. d. Regent st. London 30 March 1852. Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography ii, 267–76 (1825), portrait; Cumberland’s Minor Theatre, vol. 2, portrait.

FITZWILLIAM, Edward Francis (son of the preceding). b. Deal, Kent 2 Aug. 1824; composed a Stabat Mater performed at Hanover square rooms, London 15 March 1845; musical director of Lyceum theatre Oct. 1847 to 1849; musical director of Haymarket theatre Easter 1853 to death; composed The Queen of the day, a comic opera, A summer night’s love, an operetta; author of O Incomprehensible Creator, a cantata 1850; Dramatic songs for 4 voices 1856 and other works; his music to the songs As I laye a thynkynge 1846, The maid with the milking pail 1846, and The jug of Punch 1845 was very popular. d. 9 Grove place, Brompton, London 19 Jany. 1857. Era 25 Jany. 1857 p. 9, col. 3.

FITZWILLIAM, Ellen (eld. dau. of Thomas Acton Chaplin, d. Nov. 1859). First appeared in London at Adelphi as Wilhelm in Die Hexen am Rhein 7 Oct. 1841; member of Haymarket company under J. B. Buckstone 22 years; went to Australia 1877. (m. 31 Dec. 1853 Edward Francis Fitzwilliam 1824–57). d. Auckland, New Zealand 19 Oct. 1880 aged 58. Theatrical Times 18 Nov. 1848 p. 439, portrait.