HAYMAN, Rev. Samuel (eld. son of Matthew Hayman of South Abbey, Youghal, co. Cork). b. Youghal 27 July 1818; ed. Clonmel and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1839; C. of Glanworth 1841–47; C. of Youghal 1849–63; R. of Ardnageehy, Cork 1863–7; R. of Doneraile 1867–72; R. of Carrigaline, Cork 1872–5; R. of Douglas, Cork 1875 to death; canon of Cork 18—to death; author of The handbook for Youghal, with historical annals of the town 3 series. Youghal 1852; Illustrated guide to the Blackwater and Ardmore 1861; About Footsteps, in twelve chapters 1869; Criteria, or the divine examen. Dublin 1873 and many other books. d. Douglas rectory 15 Dec. 1876. Journal of Royal Hist. and archæol. assoc. of Ireland 4 series, viii, 165–70.

HAYNAU, Julius Jakob, Baron Von. b. Cassel in Hesse 14 Oct. 1786; entered Austrian army 1801; field marshal lieutenant 1844; his flogging of women at capture of Brescia, North Italy 30 March 1849 gained him name of the “Hyæna of Brescia”; commander in chief of Austrian army in Hungary 1849–50, committed many cruelties; dismissed the service July 1850; visited London, assaulted at Barclay and Perkins’ brewery 4 Sep. 1850 barely escaped alive, Austrian ambassador demanded reparation for the assault 22 Sep. but did not get any. d. Vienna 14 March 1853. Life of Haynau, By Baron Schönhals, Gratz 1852; I.L.N. xv, 373 (1849) portrait, xvii, 221 (1850) attack on; Times 5, 6, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19, 23, 25, 27 Sep. 1850.

HAYNES, Freeman Oliver (eld. son of Henry Haynes, captain R.N.) b. Clifton 1818; ed. at Paris and Caius coll. Cam., fellow, 15 wrangler 1840, B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843; barrister L.I. 6 May 1845; published Outlines of equity. Cambridge 1858, 5 ed. 1880 and other books. d. Donhead lodge, Wimbledon, Surrey 12 July 1880.

HAYNES, John Bishop. b. 1803; ed. at Guy’s hospital; L.S.A. 1825, M.R.C.S. 1826, F.R.C.S. 1852; demonstrator of anatomy at Guy’s; in practice at Whitchurch, Hants., settled at Evesham 1832, mayor of Evesham 1846; founder with Sir C. Hastings of Provincial medical association at Worcester 1832; author of How to supply the agricultural labourer with good beer at a low price. Evesham 1865. d. Battleton lodge, Evesham 17 Feb. 1873.

HAYNES, Joseph. b. Ireland 1788; an editor of Morning Herald; wrote two tragedies Conscience and Mary Stuart 1840. d. Norwood, Surrey 24 Jany. 1851 aged 63. I.L.N. 22 Feb. 1851 p. 166.

HAYNES, Matthew Priestman. b. Husband’s Bosworth, Leicestershire; ed. St. Mary’s coll. Oscott; teacher at St. Peter’s R.C. sch. Birmingham; political orator in reform movement; a journalist; editor of Mayo Telegraph 1831; started Penny Catholic Mag. London 7 Sep. 1839 which came to an end in 1840; author of An interesting account of the teetotal galas at Dyrham park 1840; The position of the Jews as affected by the return of Baron Leopold de Rothschild 1847. dead. Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 231–2 (1887).

HAYNES, Robert (eld. son of Richard Haynes of Barbadoes). b. Barbadoes 1769; in militia during threatened French invasion 1805; received thanks of council and assembly of Barbadoes for his military services on occasion of Negro insurrection 1816; had local rank of lieut.-general; speaker of Barbadoes House of assembly 182-. d. Reading 18 April 1851 in 82 year.

HAYTER, Sir George (son of Charles Hayter, miniature painter 1761–1835). b. St. James’ st. London 17 Dec. 1792; ed. at Royal academy; midshipman R.N. 1808; exhibited 48 pictures at R.A., 40 at B.I. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1809–59; painter of miniatures and portraits to Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold 1815; received 200 guineas from British institution for his picture The Prophet Ezra 1815; studied in Rome 1816–19, in Paris 1826–31; member of academies of Parma, Florence, Bologna and Venice 1826; portrait and historical painter to Victoria 1837, and principal painter in ordinary 12 June 1841; knighted at St. James’ palace 1 June 1842; some of his paintings were The duke of Wellington standing by his horse Copenhagen 1821; The trial of queen Caroline 1823; The trial of lord William Russell 1825; The queen on the throne in the house of lords 1838; The christening of the prince of Wales 1859; author of An essay on colours, in App. to Hortus Ericæus Woburnensis 1825. d. 238 Marylebone road, London 18 Jany. 1871. Redgrave’s Dict. of Artists (1878) p. 205; Art Journal, March 1871 p. 79; I.L.N. lviii, 91 (1871); Times 23 Jany. 1871 p. 9.

HAYTER, Sir William Goodenough, 1 Baronet (son of John Hayter of Winterbourne Stoke). b. Winterbourne Stoke 28 Jany. 1792; ed. at Winchester and Trin. coll. Ox., B.A. 1814; barrister L.I. 23 Nov. 1819, bencher 15 April 1839, treasurer 1853; Q.C. 21 Feb. 1839, retired from practice 1839; M.P. for Wells 24 July 1837 to July 1865; judge advocate general 30 Dec. 1847 to 30 May 1849; P.C. 11 Feb. 1848; financial sec. to treasury 22 May 1849 to July 1850; parliamentary and patronage sec. July 1850 to March 1852 and Dec. 1852 to March 1858; cr. baronet 19 April 1858; a service of plate presented to him at Willis’s rooms by lord Palmerston and 365 members of house of commons in remembrance of his services as Liberal “whip” 27 Feb. 1861; found drowned in a lake in grounds of South hill park, Easthampstead, Berkshire 26 Dec. 1878. I.L.N. xvii, 64 (1850), portrait.

HAYTHORNE, Sir Edmund (son of John Haythorne of Hill house, Gloucester). b. Bristol 28 May 1818; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign 98 foot 12 May 1837, lieut. col. 12 May 1854, lieut. col. 1 foot 6 June 1855 to 26 June 1866 when placed on h.p.; brigadier general Chusan field force 1843, in Punjaub campaign 1848–9; served in the Crimea 1855; A.G. of British forces in Bengal 1860–65; K.C.B. 24 May 1873; col. 55 foot 11 March 1878; col. 37 foot 3 Feb. 1879 to death; general 15 March 1879. d. Silchester house near Reading 18 Oct. 1888. I.L.N. 10 Nov. 1888 pp. 546, 547 portrait.

HAYWARD, Abraham (1 son of Joseph Hayward of Wilton near Salisbury, author of The science of horticulture, d. 1844). b. Kingsbury square, Wilton 22 Nov. 1801; ed. Tiverton gram. sch. 1811–17; admitted a solicitor 29 Oct. 1824; barrister I.T. 15 June 1832; founded Law Magazine 1828, editor 1828–44; contributed to Edinburgh Rev. 1844, Quarterly Rev. 1869, Fraser, etc.; Q.C. 22 Feb. 1845, but Inner Temple refused to elect him a bencher; a writer on the Morning Chronicle 1848, Saturday Rev. 1855, Times 1858; sec. poor law board Dec. 1854; a good and original talker and a social raconteur; drawn as Venom Tuft in Ten thousand a year 1841; author of The statutes founded on the common law reports 1832; Faust, a dramatic poem, translated 1833, 3 ed. 1855; The art of dining [By A. H.] 1852, 3 ed. 1883; Lord Chesterfield and George Selwyn 1854; Biographical and critical essays 5 vols. 1858–74; Short rules for modern whist [By A. H.] 1878; Sketches of eminent statesmen and writers 2 vols. 1880. d. 8 St. James st. 2 Feb. 1884. bur. Highgate cemet. 6 Feb. Selections from Correspondence of A. Hayward 2 vols. 1886; H. R. F. Bourne’s English newspapers ii, 153, 246, 248, 400 (1887); Vanity Fair 27 Nov. 1875 p. 301, portrait; Times 4 Feb. 1884 pp. 8, 9; I.L.N. lxxxiv, 157 (1884), portrait.

HAYWARD, Daniel. b. Mitcham, Surrey 25 Aug. 1808; gardener; played with Mitcham eleven from 1825; resided at Cambridge and was in the town eleven; a showy and effective batsman and a fast field; his first match at Lord’s was Marylebone v. Cambridge 2, 3 July 1832; with M.C.C. 1841; one of Surrey eleven 1846. d. Cambridge 29 May 1852. Lillywhite’s Cricket scores ii, 180 (1862); Denison’s Cricket (1846), 32.

HAYWARD, Henry. b. Broseley, Shropshire 1814; one of most remarkable violinists of the century; pupil of Spagnoletti, but an accurate reproducer of Paganini’s performances and known as the English Paganini; first appeared Hanover sq. rooms, London 19 June 1839; played several times at Windsor Castle; teacher and music seller at Wolverhampton 1839 to death; published Pizzicato rondo for the violin 1850; Hayward’s Violin solos with pianoforte accompaniment 7 numbers 1885 and other pieces. d. 12 Queen st. Wolverhampton 12 Nov. 1884. The Musical Directory (1886), p. xix.

HAYWARD, Thomas (2 son of Daniel Hayward 1808–52). b. Chatteris near March, Cambs. 21 March 1835; gardener; professional cricketer at Richmond, Yorkshire 1853, 1855 and 1856, at Newport, Pagnell 1854, at Bishop’s Auckland 1857 and 1858; his first match at Lord’s, United England eleven v. All England eleven 6, 7 June 1859; the best all-round cricketer in England; made 200 in one innings at Cambridge 12 May 1859; one of the English eleven in America and Canada 1859, and in Australia 1864; had 2 benefits 21 May and 1 June 1868; keeper of All England ale stores, Cambridge 1875. d. Clarendon st. Cambridge 21 July 1876. Lillywhite’s Cricket scores vi, 204 (1876), vii, p. xiii (1877); Illust. Sporting News (1862) 113, portrait. W. G. Grace’s Cricket (1891) 107, portrait, 321.

HAZLETON, Victor Isaac. Landlord of Duke’s Arms and lessee of Bower saloon or theatre, Stangate, 43 Lambeth Upper Marsh, London 1851–75. d. London 14 June 1890.

HAZLEWOOD, Colin Henry. b. 1823; low comedian on Lincoln, York and Western circuits; played at Surrey theatre 1851; at City of London theatre 10 years; wrote for the weekly penny publications; wrote a great number of dramas, farces and burlesques chiefly for the Britannia and Pavilion theatres for which he was paid at the rate of about 50s. an act; thirty of his pieces printed in Lacy’s Acting edition 1853–9. d. 44 Huntingdon st. Haggerston, London 31 May 1875. Era Almanack 1869 pp. 18, 45.

HEAD, Charles. In service of telegraph co. 1845; the largest bookmaker in the ring; made £12,000 when Lozenge won the Cambridgeshire 1867; made the largest book on St. Leger of 1870; lost £10,000 when Glenlivat won Chester cup 1871; proprietor of Philharmonic theatre, Islington 1880, name changed to New Grand theatre 1882, lessee to 1885. d. 97b Regent st. London 26 May 1889. Sporting Times 24 Oct. 1874 p. 84, portrait.

HEAD, Sir Edmund Walker, 8 Baronet (only son of Rev. Sir John Head, 7 baronet 1773–1838). b. Wiarton place near Maidstone 16 Feb. 1805; ed. at Winchester and Oriel coll. Ox.; B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830, D.C.L. 1862; fellow of Merton coll. 1830–37; assistant poor law comr. 1836, poor law comr. 1841–47; lieut. governor of New Brunswick 26 Oct. 1847 to Sep. 1854; governor general of Canada 19 Sep. 1854 to Oct. 1861; P.C. 27 Aug. 1857; K.C.B. 11 Dec. 1860; civil service comr. 29 April 1862; chairman of Hudson’s Bay co. 1862 to death; F.R.S. April 1863; author of A Handbook of Spanish and French schools of painting 1848; Shall and Will or two chapters on auxiliary verbs 1856, new ed. 1858; Ballads and other poems 1868 and other books. d. 29 Eaton sq. London 28 Jany. 1868. Proc. of Royal Soc. xvi, 71–8 (1868); Appleton’s Cyclop. of American Biog. iii, 151 (1887), portrait.

HEAD, Sir Francis Bond, 1 Baronet (4 son of James Roper Head of the Hermitage near Rochester, d. 1814). b. the Hermitage 1 Jany. 1793; 1 lieut. R.E. 13 March 1811; captain royal staff corps 1827 to 23 Dec. 1828 when placed on h.p., sold out 1838; lieut. governor of Canada, Nov. 1835 to Jany. 1838; K.C.H. 27 Nov. 1835; cr. baronet 14 July 1838; granted civil list pension of £100, 6 Oct. 1853; P.C. 20 Dec. 1867; author of Bubbles from the Brunnen of Nassau 1834, 7 ed. 1866; A faggot of French sticks 2 vols. 1851, 3 ed. 1855; Descriptive essays contributed to the Quarterly Review 2 vols. 1857 and many other books. d. Duppa’s hall, Croydon 20 July 1875. The speeches of Sir F. B. Head and a biographical sketch. Toronto (1836) 15–20; I.L.N. lxvii, 109, 119 (1875), portrait; Graphic, xi, 123 (1875), portrait.

HEAD, Sir George (brother of the preceding). b. the Hermitage near Rochester 1782; ed. at the Charterhouse; captain West Kent militia 1808; a commissariat clerk 1809; served in the Peninsula 1809–14; asst. commissary general 25 Dec. 1814, placed on half pay 1823; deputy knight marshal at coronation of William iv. 1831; knighted at St. James’s palace 12 Oct. 1831; deputy knight marshal to Queen Victoria; published Forest scenery and incidents in the wilds of North America 1829, 2 ed. 1838; A home tour through the manufacturing districts of England in the summer of 1835, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1840; A home tour through various parts of the United Kingdom 1832; Rome, a tour of many days 3 vols. 1849. d. Cockspur st. London 2 May 1855 aged 73. Sir G. Head’s Memoirs of an assistant commissary general (1832).

HEAD, Rev. Henry Erskine (brother of the preceding). b. 9 Jany. 1797; ed. at St. Mary hall, Ox., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; R. of Feniton, Devon 1838 to death; had controversies with the bishops of Exeter and London and printed many books on these matters 1838–41; author of Observations on early rising and early prayer 1828; Sermons on spiritual comfort and assurance 1832; Sermons on the first principles of the oracles of God 1840; Dialogues on the Apocalypse 1841. d. Feniton 16 May 1860.

HEAD, John (eld. son of Jeremiah Head of Ipswich). b. Ipswich 8 Feb. 1832; erected pumping engines and pumps to supply city of Warsaw with water from the Vistula 1853; manager of works of Evans, Lilpop and Ran of Warsaw, engineers; when on outbreak of war in 1854 all Englishmen were ordered to leave Russia, an exception was made in his favour; partner of Messrs. Ransome at Ipswich 1857 to death; author of A few notes on the portable steam engine 1877. d. Ipswich 19 May 1881. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxvii, 397–99 (1882).

HEAD, William. Huntsman to the Cheshire hounds to 1831 and the Donnington hounds from 1831; on retiring lived at Leicester and then at Kegworth, Leicestershire. d. Kegworth 19 Nov. 1865 in 85 year. Sporting Review, Dec. 1865 pp. 401–2.

HEADFORT, Thomas Taylour, 2 Marquis of (elder son of 1 Marquis of Headfort 1757–1829). b. 4 May 1787; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1811; lord lieut. of Cavan 1831 to death; col. of Meath militia 1831 to death; cr. Baron Kenlis of Kenlis, co. Meath in peerage of U.K. 10 Sep. 1831; P.C. Ireland 1835; lord in waiting to the Queen 1837–41; K.P. 15 April 1839. d. Headfort house, Kells, co. Meath 6 Dec. 1870.

HEADLAM, Edward (3 son of the succeeding). b. 1824; ed. at Durham gr. sch. and St. John’s coll. Cam., fellow, 12th wrangler 1847, B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850; barrister I.T. 30 April 1856; civil service comr. 1855; director of examinations 1876 to death. d. 24 Norfolk sq. Hyde park, London 26 Oct. 1882.

HEADLAM, Ven. John (son of Thomas Emerson Headlam of Gateshead). Matric. from Lincoln coll. Ox. 1 April 1786 aged 16, B.A. 1790, M.A. 1792; R. of Wycliffe, Yorkshire 1793 to death; archdeacon of Richmond 30 Dec. 1826 to death; chancellor of Ripon 1846 to death; author of Letters to the Rt. Hon. Robert Peel on prison labour 2 vols. 1823–4; Observations on church rates, tithes and church reform, Richmond 1838, and of charges and single sermons. d. Wycliffe, Yorkshire 4 May 1854 aged 85.

HEADLAM, Thomas Emerson (eld. son of preceding). b. Wycliffe rectory, Yorkshire 25 June 1813; ed. at Shrewsbury and Trin. coll. Cam., 16 wr. 1836, B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; barrister I.T. 3 May 1839, bencher 1851, reader 1866, treasurer 1867; M.P. for Newcastle-on-Tyne 1847–74; carried through parliament the Trustee act 1850; Q.C. 1851; chancellor of diocese of Ripon May 1854, of Durham 1854; judge advocate general June 1859 to July 1866; P.C. 18 June 1859; F.R.G.S.; edited The practice of the high court of chancery by E. R. Daniell, 2 ed. 1845, 3 ed. 1857; Pleadings and practice of the high court of chancery by E. R. Daniell, 2 ed. 1851; A supplement to Daniell’s Chancery practice 1851; author of The Trustees’ Act 1850, 3 ed. 1855. d. Calais 3 Dec. 1875. I.L.N. lxvii, 590, 629 (1875), portrait.

HEADLAND, Edward. b. Tonbridge 1803; ed. at St. George’s hospital; studied anatomy under Joshua Brookes; L.S.A. 1823, M.R.C.S. 1848; in practice at Featherstone buildings, Holborn, at Guilford st. and at 6 Upper Portland place; one of the first to claim payment for his services and not for physic; the leading general practitioner of his time; fellow and then president of Medical soc. of London where he took important part in the debates. d. 6 Upper Portland place, London 8 Dec. 1869. J. F. Clarke’s Autobiographical Recollections (1874), 393–8.

HEADLAND, Rev. Edward (younger son of Edward Headland of Portland place, London). b. 1831; ed. at Caius coll. Cam., 14 wrangler 1855 B.A. 1855, M.A. 1859, fellow of his coll.; C. of St. Mary’s, Bury St. Edmunds 1855–57; C. of St. Marylebone church, London 1857–61; R. of Bincombe with Broadwey, Dorset 1861; author of The happy sufferer. A narrative 1860; The epistles to the Thessalonians, Introduction by E. Headland 1863; The truth and office of the Christian ministry 1868. d. 6 Cavendish crescent, Bath 8 July 1876 aged 45.

HEADLAND, Thomas Hughes. Accompanied C. Dickens on his first American tour as secretary 1842; silversmith 13 Great Sutton st. Clerkenwell, London 1842–59; kept Sussex hotel at Eastbourne about 1869–72. d. Merton lodge, 17 Bolton road, Eastbourne 2 Jany. 1888 aged 82. Forster’s C. Dickens i, 278 (1872); Eastbourne Chronicle 7 Jany. 1888 pp. 4 5.

HEADLEY, Winn Charles Allanson, 3 Baron. b. 25 June 1810; succeeded his uncle 1840; a representative peer for Ireland 26 Sep. 1868 to death. d. Ennismore gardens, Kensington, London 30 July 1877.

HEALD, Henry George. b. 1822; well known to Sunday school teachers in all parts of the world; secretary of Church of England Sunday school institute 1855–72; lecturer at Sunday schools 1872 to death. d. 90 Albert road, Peckham Rye, Surrey 25 Nov. 1881 aged 59. bur. Brompton cemetery 30 Nov.

HEALD, James (2 son of James Heald, merchant). b. Portwood near Stockport 1 March 1796; ed. Rochdale; in his father’s business at Brinnington and Disley, Cheshire, became a partner and made a fortune; resided at Parr’s Wood near Didsbury, Manchester 1825 to death; M.P. Stockport 1847–52; treasurer Wesleyan missionary soc., the most prominent layman in the connection and a preacher; founded and chiefly maintained Stockport infirmary. d. Parr’s Wood 26 Oct. 1873. bur. Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire, personalty sworn under £350,000, 3 Jany. 1874. Manchester Examiner 29 Oct. 1873 p. 8.

HEALE, Rev. Edmund Markham (2 son of Markham Heale of Calne, Wilts.) b. 12 May 1825; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ sch. and Queen’s coll. Ox., Boden Sanskrit scholar 1844, B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850; professor of classics in royal military coll. Sandhurst, June 1851 to 1859; C. of Woolavington, Somerset 1859–60; R. of Yelling near Huntingdon 1860 to death; author of Manual of Geography 1853, 3 ed. 1863. d. Yelling rectory 7 Dec. 1874.

HEALE, James Newton. b. 1810; L.S.A. 1834; M.R.C.S. 1835, F.R.C.S. 1845, M.R.C.P. 1846; M.B. London 1850, M.D. 1850; phys. royal free hospital, London; phys. Hants. county hospital; author of Treatise on vital causes 1859; A treatise on the physiological anatomy of the lungs 1862. d. Hollington lodge near St. Leonards-on-Sea 16 April 1891.

HEALES, Richard (son of an ironmonger). b. London; apprentice to a coachmaker; went to Victoria, Australia 1842; a day labourer, became proprietor of his master’s business; councillor for Gipps ward, Melbourne 1849;. member of legislative assembly for East Bourke 1857 to death; chief sec. 26 Nov. 1860 to 14 Nov. 1861; president of board of lands and works and comr. of crown lands 27 June 1863 to death. d. Melbourne 19 June 1864.

HEAPHY, Charles (son of Thomas Heaphy water colour painter 1775–1835). b. 1818; draughtsman to New Zealand co. 1839, exploring in N.Z. 1839, road making 1843; draughtsman to N.Z. government Aug. 1848; commissioner Coromandel gold fields 1852; surveyor for government of N.Z. 1854, chief surveyor 1864; was in third Maori war, wounded 11 Feb. 1864, major in militia 11 Feb. 1864, V.C. 8 Feb. 1867; member N.Z. house of representatives 1867–70, comr. of government insurance and judge of native land courts 1878, retired June 1881; author of Narrative of a residence in various parts of New Zealand 1842. d. Brisbane 3 Aug. 1881 aged 63. O’Byrne’s Victoria Cross (1880) 174.

HEAPHY, Thomas (brother of the preceding). b. St. John’s Wood, London 2 April 1813; assumed additional Christian name of Frank, but dropped it before 1850; exhibited 51 pictures at R.A., 8 at B.I. and 36 at Suffolk st. 1831–74; member soc. of British Artists to 1867; among his best known paintings are Lord Burleigh showing his bride her new home 1865 and Lizzie Farren after Countess of Derby waiting at the prison bars with her father’s breakfast 1872; visited Rome several times to investigate origin of likeness of Christ; author of The likeness of Christ, an enquiry into the verisimilitude of the received likeness of our Blessed Lord 1880, 2 ed. 1886; A wonderful ghost story, Mr. Heaphy’s own narrative 1882. d. 46 Sussex st. Pimlico, London 7 Aug. 1873. Bryan’s Dict. of Painters, i, 636 (1886).

HEARD, Jacob or James. b. 1799; went to Russia where he introduced the Lancaster schools; wrote a large number of Russian school books and several very popular novels; author of A practical grammar of the Russian language. St. Petersburg 1827; Key to the themes contained in Beard’s Russian grammar. St. Petersburg 1827; Phraseology of the Russian language. St. Petersburg 1840; An edition of Oliver Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield in Russian 1846. d. 28 Sep. 1875.

HEARD, John Isaac. b. Kinsale, co. Cork 1787; ed. at Peterhouse coll. Cam., B.A. 1808; sheriff of Cork 1849; M.P. for Kinsale 1852 to 1859. d. Kinsale 1 Sep. 1862.

HEARDER, Jonathan Nash (eld. son of Jonathan Hearder). b. Plymouth 24 Dec. 1809; practical chemist and electrician at Plymouth; devised improvements with induction coil and application of electricity to medical purposes; constructed an electro-dynamic coil 1846; patented improvements in submarine telegraph cables 1858; a popular lecturer in West of England; electrician to South Devon hospital; D.Sc., Ph.D., F.C.S.; became blind in 1831 but continued his researches in electricity; author of Guide to the fishing of Plymouth and neighbourhood 18—. d. 13 Princess sq. Plymouth 16 July 1876. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. 225, 1225.

HEARN, Patrick. Owner of 100 cabs, 20 omnibuses and 1000 barrows; known as the Wheel King of London. d. 20 Feb. 1889 aged 47.

HEARN, William Edward (son of Rev. W. E. Hearn, vicar of Killague). b. Belturbet, co. Cavan 22 April 1826; ed. at Enniskillen and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1845, B.A. 1847, LL.B., LLD. and M.A. 1863; professor of Greek, Queen’s coll. Galway 1849–54; first prof. of modern history, Melbourne univ. 1854–73, dean of the faculty of law 1873, chancellor May to Oct. 1886; called to the Irish bar 1853 and to bar of Victoria 1860; Q.C. 1886; member of legislative council for Central province 1878, introduced bills for the codification of the laws; author of The Cassell prize essay on the condition of Ireland 1851; The government of England, its structure and its development 1867, 2 ed. 1887; The Aryan household, its structure and its developement 1879; The theory of legal duties and rights 1885. d. Melbourne 23 April 1888. Men of the Time. Victoria 1878 p. 86; Australasian 28 April 1888.

HEARNE, Rev. Daniel. b. Ireland; ed. at Maynooth; priest of St. Patrick’s chapel, Manchester 1832, removed by Dr. Brown bishop of Liverpool 1846, his removal led to a series of brawls in the church 1846; brought an action for libel against Rev. Hugh Stowell 1840; stabbed in his arm and wrist while walking in the Corso, Rome, Aug. 1848; took charge of the mission at Bootle near Liverpool from 25 March 1849 to 5 Oct. 1851; went to U.S. America 1851; fell from the scaffolding of a church and was killed U.S. America about 1852. Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 232–8 (1888); Adolphus and Ellis Reports, xii, 719–33 (1842).

HEARSEY, Sir John Bennett. b. 1793; entered Bengal army 14 Sep. 1808, commanded Presidency division 11 Aug. 1856 to 12 April 1861; L.G. 15 June 1862; col. 21 hussars 30 Sep. 1862 to death; C.B. 9 June 1849, K.C.B. 4 July 1857 for his services during Sepoy mutiny. d. Boulogne, France 23 Oct. 1865.

HEATH, Caroline (dau. of Francis Heath). b. July 1835; ed. at Miss Richardson’s school, Blackheath; made her début at Princess’s theatre, London 18 Sep. 1852 as Stella in Boucicault’s The Prima Donna; played Ophelia at same house Jany. 1858, Cordelia 17 April 1858; played Juliet at Sadler’s Wells 16 Sep. 1859 and Fiordelisa in Tom Taylor’s The Fool’s Revenge, Oct. 1859; played The Queen of Spain in Ruy Blas at Princess’s 27 Oct. 1860; acted in the provinces; played Jane Shore in W. G. Wills’ drama Jane Shore at Princess’s, Oct. 1876 to March 1877, in the provinces March to Dec. 1877 and at Princess’s again; played Clotilde in Fernande at Court theatre 20 Sep. 1879; private reader to the Queen. (m. 31 July 1866 William Henry Barrett known as Wilson Barrett, actor). d. Worthing 26 July 1887. Pascoe’s Dramatic List, 2 ed. (1880) 170–3; I.L.N. xxxv, 571, 584 (1859), portrait, lxix, 524 (1876); Illust. Sport. and Dr. News, vi, 59, 68–9, 84 (1876), portrait; Theatre, iii, 189 (1879), portrait, ii, 11 (1883); The Players, i, 1 (1860), portrait.

HEATH, Christopher (son of John Heath, dentist). b. London 26 March 1802; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. 1813–7; a dentist in London to 1835; angel or minister of the Irvingite or catholic apostolic ch. 14 Newman st. London 1835, removed to a new ch. in Gordon sq. 1853 where he was the angel to his death; latterly he was in receipt of £1000 a year; visited the branch churches on the continent. d. 28 Gordon sq. London 1 Nov. 1876. Miller’s Irvingism, i, 152, 268, 318 (1878).

HEATH, Rev. Dunbar Isidore. b. 1816; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., fellow 1840–7; 5 wrangler 1838, B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; V. of Brading, Isle of Wight, Dec. 1846 to 6 June 1862 when deprived of his benefice by judicial committee of privy council for expressions derogatory to the 39 articles used in his sermons 1859; edited Journal of Anthropology 1870; author of A brief account of the Scottish and Italian missions to the Anglo-Saxons 1845; The future human Kingdom of Christ, or man’s heaven to be this earth 2 vols. 1852–3; Sermons on important subjects 1860 and other books. d. Esher, Surrey 27 May 1888 aged 72. A defence of my professional character, By D. I. Heath [1862].

HEATH, George (1 son of a farmer). b. Gratton in Horton parish, Staffs. 9 March 1844; farm labourer, an apprentice to a carpenter to 1864; became consumptive 1864; known as the Moorland poet; author of Preludes 1865, Second ed. called Simple poems 1866; Heart strains 1866; The poems of George Heath (1870), portrait; The poems of G. Heath (1880), portrait. d. Gratton 5 May 1869. Good Words 1871 pp. 170–77, portrait.

HEATH, George Craufurd. Ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1807, M.A. 1810, fellow of King’s coll. 1807 to death; F.R.S. d. 18 July 1860.

HEATH, George Thomas, b. 1778; barrister I.T. 13 Nov. 1807; serjeant at law 22 Nov. 1830, received patent of precedence 1834; deputy judge of county court of Middlesex. d. 34 Montagu place, Russell sq. London 21 Jany. 1852.

HEATH, John Benjamin (son of John Heath of Genoa, merchant). b. Genoa 6 June 1790; ed. at Harrow 1798–1806; fag to Lord Byron; consul general for Kingdom of Sardinia 10 May 1817–61, for Kingdom of Italy 1861 to death; a merchant and foreign banker in London to death; a director of Bank of England 1823–72, deputy governor 1843–4, governor 1846–7; master of Grocers company 1829; F.S.A. 12 Jany. 1832; F.R.S. 2 Feb. 1843; baron Heath in the Kingdom of Italy 26 May 1867; author of Some account of the Company of Grocers 1829, 2 ed. 1854. d. 66 Russell sq. London 16 Jany. 1879, personalty sworn under £250,000, 8 March 1879. Proc. of Royal Soc. xxix, 6 (1879); Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. viii, 101 (1881).

HEATH, Rev. Richard Ford (only son of Richard Ford Heath of Uxbridge, Middlesex). b. 1833; matric. at Univ. of London 1850, B.A. 1853; matric. at Univ. of Oxford 17 Feb. 1873, B.A. 1876, M.A. 1879; C. of St. Philip and St. James, Oxford 1875–8; head master of Bideford gr. sch. 1879–80; V. of Bishopswood, Staffs. 1880 to death; author of Albrecht Dürer and Titian 2 vols. 1879 in Illustrated biographies of Great Artists. d. Bideford 11 March 1888 aged 55.

HEATH, Thomas, b. Sutton in Ashfield, Notts. 10 Dec. 1808; played with the Nottingham eleven 1828–45; could throw a ball 107 yards; a good cover point and middle wicket; lacemaker, emigrated to France where he remained 1839–44; resided at Nottingham 1844 to death. d. while on a visit to Sutton 16 Oct. 1872. bur. Nottingham. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores, ii, 66 (1862), v, p. xiv (1876).

HEATHCOAT, John (son of Francis Heathcoat of Long Whatton, Leics., farmer). b. Duffield near Derby 7 Aug. 1783; a setter up of hosiery and warp frames at Nottingham, at Hathern 1803, at Loughborough 1805; inventor of lace making machinery by patenting a bobbin net machine 1809 which he called Old Loughborough; partner with Charles Lacy 1809–16, partner with John Boden at Tiverton 1816–21; retired from business 1843; M.P. for Tiverton 12 Dec. 1832 to 23 April 1859; built British schools at Tiverton, opened 1843. d. Bollam house, Tiverton 18 Jany. 1861. W. Felkin’s History of Hosiery (1867) 180–270, portrait; Bevan’s British manufacturing industries, Hosiery, By W. Felkin (1877) 56–73; Mozley’s Reminiscences, i, 239–42 (1885).

HEATHCOTE, Arthur (son of Sir Gilbert Heathcote 1773–1851). b. 22 June 1829; had private races in Durdans park; a perpetual steward of Epsom races to which he contributed an annual plate; master Surrey stag hounds to death. d. Durdans, Epsom 18 March 1869. Sporting Rev. Feb. 1863 p. 165, portrait; Sporting Gazette 20 March 1869 p. 199.

HEATHCOTE, Edmund (3 son of Rev. Samuel Heathcote of Red house, Hursley, d. 27 Nov. 1846 aged 73). b. 1814; entered navy June 1827, captain 15 Dec. 1852; commander in chief at Queenstown 20 May 1871 to 1 Jany. 1874; V.A. 1 Jany. 1874, retired 30 Jany. 1879; retired admiral 15 June 1879. d. Fritham lodge, New Forest 29 Oct. 1881.

HEATHCOTE, Sir Gilbert, 4 Baronet (eld. son of Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 3 baronet). b. Oct. 1773; succeeded 4 Dec. 1785; M.P. for Lincolnshire 1796–1807, for Rutland 1812–1841; won the Derby with Amato 1838. d. Durdans, Epsom 27 March 1851. W. Day’s Reminiscences 2 ed. (1886) 155; I.L.N. xviii, 273 (1851); Thoughts of a Lincolnshire freeholder. With a dialogue between Sir G. Heathcote and a Lincolnshire freeholder, 3 ed. 1796.

HEATHCOTE, Sir Henry (4 son of Sir William Heathcote, 3 bart., of Hursley park, Hants., M.P. 1746–1819). b. 20 Jany. 1777; entered navy 3 July 1790, captain 5 Feb. 1798; knighted 20 July 1819 at request of Sir Gore Ouseley and Mirza Abdul Hassan the Persian ambassador whom he conveyed to Persia 1808; R.A. 27 May 1825, V.A. 10 Jany. 1837, admiral on h.p. 9 Nov. 1846; awarded a service pension 1 July 1851; published Treatise on stay-sails, and the superiority of stay-sails invented by Sir H. Heathcote 1824. d. Ingouville near Havre 16 Aug. 1851.

HEATHCOTE, Sir William, 5 Baronet (only son of Rev. Wm. Heathcote 1772–1802, preb. of Winchester). b. Worting, Hants. 17 May 1801; ed. at Winchester and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1821, B.C.L. 1824, D.C.L. 1830; fellow of All Souls coll. 1822–5, hon. fellow 1858; succeeded 22 Feb. 1825; M.P. for Hants. 1826–32, for North Hants. 1837–49 and for Oxford Univ. 1854–68; chairman of Hants. quarter sessions; P.C. 9 Aug. 1870. d. Hursley park near Winchester 18 Aug. 1881.

HEATHCOTE, Rev. William Beadon (3 son of Rev. Gilbert Heathcote of Winchester). bapt. at St. Thomas, Winchester 14 Jany. 1813; ed. at Winchester and New coll. Ox., fellow 1832–53; B.C.L. 1839, M.A. 1859; tutor and dean of canon law 1839, subwarden 1840, bursar 1845, dean of civil law 1846; warden of Radley; precentor of Salisbury cath. 1854 to death; preb. of Salisbury cath. 1856 to death; V. of Sturminster Marshall 1858–62; R. of Compton Bassett 1862 to death; author of The psalter with the Gregorian tones, By W. B. H. 1845; Harmonized Gregorian tones for the Psalter 1849. d. London 21 Aug. 1862.

HEATHER, John Fry. Mathematical master at royal military academy, Woolwich many years; lecturer at Royal Artillery Institute; author of A treatise of mathematical instruments 1849, 7 ed. 1864, new ed. 3 vols. 1871; The elements of mathematical drawing 1872 and other works. d. Stroud-green road, Finsbury park, London 13 Nov. 1886.

HEATHERINGTON, Alexander. Opened in 1867 at Halifax, Nova Scotia, the International Mining agency; associated with the Canadian mines bureau 30 Moorgate st. London; started the Mining Gazette, No. 1 Halifax 10 Jany. 1868 and was the editor; F.G.S.; author of The gold yield of Nova Scotia 1860–9, continued as The mining industries of Nova Scotia 1870–4; A practical guide for persons interested in gold fields of Nova Scotia 1868. d. Toronto, Canada 8 March 1878. Geological Mag. v, 336 (1878).

HEATHORN, Catherine (dau. of Robert Heathorn, brewer, Maidstone). bapt. All Saints’ ch. Maidstone 17 April 1783. d. at res. of her grand niece Mrs. A. E. Rowcroft 2 Craven place, Maidstone 2 Feb. 1888 aged nearly 105 years. I.L.N. 27 Oct. 1883 p. 416, portrait.

HEATON, Clement (son of Rev. James Heaton, wesleyan minister, d. 1862). b. Bradford, Wilts. 1824; glass painter and designer, Warwick 1850; founded firm of Heaton and Butler, glass painters and church decorators, London 1857; his chief works were decorating Trinity coll. chapel, Cambridge, Eaton hall, the town halls at Rochdale and Manchester, and churches at Banbury, Ascot, West Newton and Sandringham. d. Feb. 1882.

HEATON, John Deakin (son of John Heaton, bookseller and printer, Leeds). b. 7 Briggate, Leeds 23 Nov. 1817; ed. at Leeds gram. sch. 1830–4; studied at Leeds sch. of medicine 1835, at Caius coll. Cam. 1839, at Univ. coll. Lond. 1840 and in Paris 1842; M.B. Univ. of Lond. 1841, M.D. 1843, F.R.C.P. Lond. 1848; senior physician Leeds general infirmary 1843; lecturer on practice of medicine Leeds sch. of medicine 1844; physician Leeds infirmary 1850 to death; established Yorkshire college of Science 1874; member of Leeds Philosophical and literary soc. 1843, member of council 1845, president; mem. of Leeds sch. board 29 Nov. 1870. d. 2 East Parade, Leeds 28 March 1880. Reid’s Memoir of J. D. Heaton (1883), portrait.

HEATON, Mary Margaret (eld. dau. of James Keymer, silk printer). b. 15 May 1836. (m. 1863 Charles William Heaton, professor of chemistry); contributed to The Academy 1869 to death; author of Masterpieces of Flemish art 1869; History of life of Albrecht Dürer 1870, 2 ed. 1881; A concise history of painting 1873; Leonardo da Vinci and his works 1874; Happy springtime. With rhymes for mothers and children 1874. d. St. Leonards-on-Sea 1 June 1883. Academy 9 June 1883 p. 408.

HEAVISIDES, Henry, b. Darlington 29 Nov. 1791; journeyman printer at Stockton from 1814, presented with a public testimonial March 1847; contributed to periodicals; author of Pleasures of home and other poems 1837, 3 ed. 1849; The minstrelsy of Britain, poetry and poets from Elizabeth to the present time. Stockton 1860; Courtship and marriage, their lights and shades 1864; The annals of Stockton-on-Tees, with biographical notices 1865. d. before 1879. Annals of Stockton (1865) 176–80, portrait.

HEAVYSEGE, Charles, b. Liverpool 2 May 1816; went to Canada and took up his residence at Montreal 1853, worked in a machine shop; a reporter to the Daily Witness, Montreal 1860; author of The revolt of Tartarus 1852; Saul, a drama [by C. H.] 1857, 2 ed. 1859, contains 10,000 lines of verse; Count Filippi or the unequal marriage, a drama 1860; Jephthah’s daughter 1865; Ode for tercentenary of Shakespeare’s birth 1864; The Advocate, a novel 1865. d. Montreal 1876. The Atlantic Monthly, Oct. 1865 pp. 412–18, 250–54; The Canadian Monthly, x, 127–34; Morgan’s Bibl. Canad. 1867 p. 181.

HEBB, Christopher Henry. b. 1771; M.R.C.S.; surgeon and apothecary at Worcester; medical attendant to prince Lucien Bonaparte and his household at Thorngrove near Worcester; one of the originators of Provincial medical and surgical association 1832; the first mayor of Worcester after the municipal reform act 1833, chairman of the charity trustees there to 1846; founded almshouses at Worcester for decayed aldermen and councillors and their widows 1853; translated Corvisart’s Diseases of the heart; published An account of all the public charities in the city of Worcester that are under the management of the Worcester charity trustees 1842, 3 ed. 1860. d. Britannia sq. Worcester 26 Oct. 1861 aged 90.

HEBDITCH, Rev. Samuel (son of a manufacturer). b. Lopen, Somerset 22 March 1821; ed. at Highbury coll. 1843–8; congregational minister at Ashburton 1848–53, Woolwich 1853–5, Bristol 1855–72 and Clapton park, Hackney 1872–85; minister Collins’ st. congregational ch. Melbourne, Victoria 1880–81; organised the Young Christians’ Band, London 1881; minister Brougham palace ch. North Adelaide, South Australia 1885 to death; chairman Congregational union, S.A. 1887–8; a very successful preacher; author of Genuine revival, An address 1872. d. Adelaide 5 May 1888. Congregational Year Book (1889) 181–6.

HEBERT, Rev. Charles. Scholar of C.C.C. Cam. 1827; scholar of Trin. coll. 1828; 35 wrangler and first class in classics 1830; B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834, B.D. 1872, D.D. 1874; V. of Lechlade 1844–51; R. of Burslem 1851–58; V. and then R. of Lowestoft 1862–70; V. of Ambleside 1875–78; author of Neology not true and truth not new 1861; On clerical subscription 1862; Faith and doubt 1872; The Lord’s supper, uninspired teaching 2 vols. 1879; The New Testament scriptures, a translation of the six primary epistles 1882. d. 1 Marine ter. Silloth, Cumb. 23 June 1890 in 83 year.

HECHT, Edouard (son of Heinrich Hecht, musician, Frankfort). b. Dürkheim-on-the-Haardt, Rhenish Bavaria 28 Nov. 1832; came to England, Nov. 1854, settled at Manchester as a music master; conductor of Manchester Liedertafel 1859–78, of St. Cecilia choral soc. 1860 and of Stretford choral soc. 1879; chorus master for Sir Charles Hallé at his concerts 1870 and then sub-conductor; lecturer on harmony and composition, Owen’s coll. 1875; conductor of Bradford and Halifax musical soc.; wrote The charge of the light brigade, a chorus; Impromptu for the pianoforte 1872; Eric the Dane, a cantata 1882 and 23 other pieces of music. d. Ravenswood, Spath road, Palatine road, Didsbury, Manchester 6 March 1887. Grove’s Dict. of Music, iv, 670; Manchester Evening News 7 March 1887.

HECKFORD, Nathaniel (son of Capt. N. Heckford). b. Calcutta 24 April 1842; student London hospital 1859; M.R.C.S. 1863; L.R.C.P. Edin. 1865, L.S.A. 1867; consulting surgeon Broad st. buildings, City of London 1863; established and endowed East London hospital for children and Dispensary for women, Ratcliff Cross 28 Jany. 1868, where he was the active surgeon to his death; a good diagnoser and a brilliant operator; revived the operation of paracentesis capitis; sec. Beaumont medical soc.; author of very numerous medical papers. d. Ramsgate 14 Dec. 1871. bur. Woking. Medical Times 6 Jany. 1872 p. 25; The story of the East London hospital for children. By Mrs. N. Heckford 1887.

HEDLEY, Oswald Dodd (son of Wm. Hedley of Wylam-on-Tyne). Author of a work entitled Who invented the Locomotive engine 1858, in which he claimed that his father William Hedley who had the direction of the Wylam colleries and d. 184-, invented the locomotive and took out a patent 13 March 1813. d. Beckenham, Kent 1 April 1882.

HEDLEY, Thomas (brother of the preceding). b. 1805 or 1808; barrister G.I. 29 Jany. 1831, went Northern circuit; a coal owner at 75 Quay side, Newcastle. d. 66 Jesmond road, Newcastle-on-Tyne 5 Aug. 1877.

Note.—He left a legacy of £200,000 for purpose of founding and endowing the see of a bishop of the Reformed Anglican church for the county of Northumberland.

HEELIS, Stephen. b. 1811; solicitor at Manchester 1826 to death; promoted Manchester law association formed Dec. 1838, pres. of it 18—and 1867; alderman of Salford 1853–57, mayor 1855–57; declined knighthood 1857. d. Above Beck, Grasmere 26 Aug. 1871 aged 60. Law Times, li, 339, 356 (1871).

HEENAN, John Camel (son of Timothy Heenan, an Irishman). b. West Troy, New York 2 May 1835; a machinist at Benicia, California 1852–4; a miner 1854–7; went to New York 1857; fought John Morrissey for 5000 dollars a side and the championship of America at Long Point, Canada 20 Oct 1858 when Morrissey won in 11 rounds lasting 21 minutes; proclaimed champion of America as Morrissey declined to fight again; landed at Liverpool 16 Jany. 1860; fought Tom Sayers for £200 a side and the champion belt near Farnborough railway station on the borders of Hants and Surrey 17 April 1860, after fighting 37 rounds in 2 hours the referee left the ring, the battle was declared drawn and both men were presented with silver belts at the Alhambra, London 30 May 1860; sailed for New York 4 July 1860; returned to England 3 April 1862; fought Tom King for £1000 a side and the championship at Wadhurst, Kent 10 Dec. 1863 when King won in 24 rounds lasting 35 minutes; always known as the “Benicia Boy,” stood 6 feet 2½ inches, and weighed 260 pounds. (m. near New York 3 April 1859 Adah Isaacs Menken the actress, he obtained a divorce in Indiana 1862), he d. Green River Station, Wyoming Territory 28 Oct. 1873. Modern Boxing by Pendragon [Henry Sampson] (1878) 57–78; W. E. Harding’s Champions of the American prize ring (1888) 12–14, portrait; H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica (1881) iii, frontispiece, and pp. 415–43, portrait; Illust. sporting news i, 29, 41, 193 (1862), 3 portrait.

Note.—He is one of the characters in Edward Jenkins’s novel Lisa Lena 2 vols. 1880. A poem entitled “The Combat of Sayerius and Heenanus, a lay of ancient London” appeared in Punch, April 28, 1860; the poem is a paraphrase of Lord Macaulay’s lay “Horatius” in the “Lays of Ancient Rome”; the author of it was said to be William Makepeace Thackeray.

HEGINBOTHAM, Henry. Mayor of Stockport, Cheshire twice; author of Stockport, ancient and modern 1877. d. Stockport 26 April 1891.

HEINKE, John William (son of a Pole, a coppersmith). b. London 1816; established himself as a submarine engineer at 79 Great Portland st. London 1845; invented an improved diving dress and air pump, obtained medal at Great Exhibition of 1851; removed the vessels sunk in Sebastopol harbour 1856; reported on the possible raising of the Lutine frigate from off Terschelling 1858; recovered the watches stolen from Walker’s shop, 63 Cornhill, and thrown over Blackfriar’s bridge Feb. 1865; A.I.C.E. 2 Dec. 1856. d. 9 Regent’s park villas, Regent’s park, London 12 April 1870. Min. of Proc. of I.C.E. xxxi, 247–8 (1871).

HELLER, Robert, stage name of William Henry Palmer (son of Henry Palmer, musician, Canterbury). b. Canterbury 1830; ed. at R. Academy of music, London 1845–6, King’s scholar; appeared as a conjurer at Rochester; landed in America 15 Sept. 1852, made his début as a conjurer at Museum, Albany N.Y.; appeared in Chinese assembly room, Broadway, New York; a teacher of Music in Washington D.C. under his own name of Palmer; opened the French theatre No. 585 Broadway, New York, which he called Heller’s Salle Diabolique 11 April 1864; gave performances in Polygraphic hall, King William st. London 27 Jany. to Feb. 1868; his half sister assisted him in his second-sight séances from 1868; visited Australia, Java, India and California; opened the Globe theatre, New York as Heller’s Wonder theatre 15 Nov. 1876; opened Fifth-avenue hall, New York 10 Dec. 1877, and Concert hall, Philadelphia 25 Nov. 1878 being his last appearance; improved on Houdin and became a most finished clairvoyant entertainer; composer of Sophie galop, New York 1863 and other pieces of music; left nearly £80,000. d. Continental hotel, Philadelphia 28 Nov. 1878. T. A. Brown’s American stage (1870) 168, portrait; W. I. Bishop’s Second-sight explained, as exhibited by R. Houdin and R. Heller (1880).

HELMORE, Rev. Holloway. Chief of the Makololo Mission which started about middle of 1859 from coast of Africa for a journey of 1000 miles to the tribes on north of the Zambesi, this journey was accomplished 1859. d. Linyanti 21 April 1860. Waddington’s Congregational history v, 229–64 (1880).

HELMORE, Rev. Thomas (son of Thomas Helmore). b. Kidderminster 7 May 1811; ed. at Magd. hall Ox., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1845; C. of St. Michael, Lichfield; priest vicar in Lichfield cath. 1840–2; vice-principal of St. Mark’s coll. Chelsea 1842–6 and precentor 1846, retired 1877 when National Soc. gave him a pension; master of the choristers chapel royal St. James’ 1846 to death; priest in ordinary to the Queen 1847 to death; R. of Beverstone, Gloucs. 1872, resigned 1872; precentor at Bedford chapel, Bloomsbury; hon. precentor of Motett choir, and of London Gregorian choral association; author and writer of The psalter noted 1849; A manual of plain song 1850; Carols for Christmas tide set to ancient melodies 1853; A treatise on choir and chorus singing 1855; St. Mark’s chant book 1863; A catechism of music 1878 and other pieces of music. d. 72 St. George’s sq. Pimlico, London 6 July 1890. Pictorial World 17 July 1890 p. 76, portrait.

HELPS, Sir Arthur (1 son of Thomas Helps of Balham, Surrey). b. Streatham, Surrey 10 July 1813; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1835, M.A. 1839; D.C.L. of Oxford 8 June 1864; private sec. to Spring Rice (Lord Monteagle) chancellor of exchequer; private sec. to lord Morpeth chief sec. for Ireland 1839; comr. of French, Danish and Spanish claims; clerk of privy council 9 June 1860 to death; employed by Queen to revise Prince Albert’s Speeches 1862, and with the preparation of Leaves of our Life in the Highlands 1868, and Mountain, Loch and Glen 1869; C.B. 30 June 1871, K.C.B. 18 July 1872; author of Thoughts in the cloister and the crowds 1835 anon.; Catherine Douglas a drama 1843 anon.; Friends in council 2 vols. 1847, 2nd series 2 vols. 1857, both anon.; The conquerors of the New World 1848; Spanish conquest in America 4 vols. 1855–61; Realmah a novel 1868. d. 13 Lower Berkeley st. London 7 March 1875. bur. Streatham cemet. 12 March. His widow Bissel dau. of Capt. Edward Fuller granted civil list pension of £200, 4 May 1875. Graphic 8 May 1875 pp. 436, 450, portrait.

HEMANS, Charles Isidore (youngest son of Felicia Dorothea Hemans, poetess 1793–1835). b. 1817; settled in Rome and made Roman history and archæology his chief study; originated the Roman Advertiser, first English paper in Rome 1846; hon. sec. and librarian of English archæological soc. in Rome; author of Catholic Italy 1860; The story of monuments in Rome 2 parts 1864–5; A history of christianity and sacred art 3 vols. 1866–72. d. at Baths of Lucca 26 Oct. 1876. Times 3 Nov. 1876 p. 9.

HEMANS, George Willoughby (brother of the preceding). b. St. Asaph, Wales 27 Aug. 1814; ed. at military coll. Sarèze, France; pupil to Sir John Macneill, C.E., London; chief engineer of Midland G.W. railway, Ireland 1845–51; constructed a greater number of railways in Ireland than any other engineer 1845–53; railway and sewerage engineer in London 1854 to death; engineer in chief for province of Canterbury, N.Z. 1870 and then engineer in chief for N.Z. to his death; F.R.G.S., F.G.S.; A.I.C.E. 1837, M.I.C.E. 18 May 1845, member of council 1856, V.P. 1872–5; author with R. Hassard of On the future water supply of London 1866; seized with paralysis Sep. 1872 and never spoke again. d. 11 Roland gardens, South Kensington, London 29 Dec. 1885. I.L.N. xix, 208 (1851); Min. of Proc. of C.E. lxxxv, 394–99 (1886).

HEMING, Dempster (youngest son of George Heming of Weddington near Nuneaton, Warws.) b. about 1778; ed. at Univ. of St. Andrews; barrister M.T. 27 May 1808; practised with great success at Madras; registrar of supreme court at Calcutta; contested North Warwickshire 26 Dec. 1832; sheriff of Warws. 1840; F.R.A.S. d. 7 Hubert terrace, Dover 24 Dec. 1874. bur. in family burial place in Warws.

Note.—He was the oldest barrister in the law list, his exact age was unknown to his relatives.

HEMPEL, Carl or Charles Frederic (eld. son of the succeeding). b. Truro, Sep. 1811; teacher of music at Truro, organist of St. Mary’s ch. there 1844–57; introduced into Cornwall choral performances on a large scale; matric. from Magd. hall, Ox. 11 Feb. 1855, B.M. 15 Feb.; his oratorio The Seventh Seal performed at Oxford 19 March 1862, D.M. 20 March; organist and choirmaster St. John’s episcopal ch. Perth 1857 to death; conductor of Perth choral union, and of the Euterpean soc.; printed portions of The Seventh Seal 1864 etc., and many pieces of light music. d. Perth 25 April 1867. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. 227–8, 1226; Boase’s Collect. Cornub. p. 349; The Choir, v, 360 (1867).

HEMPEL, Charles William. b. Chelsea 28 Aug. 1777; played organ in King’s German chapel, St. James’ 1785; studied at Leipsic and Dresden 1793–4; organist of St. Mary’s ch. Truro, May 1804 to 1844; removed to Exeter 1844; composer and writer of Psalms from the New Version 1805; Sacred melodies 1812; A morning and evening service 1820; An introduction to the pianoforte 1822; he also was author of The Commercial tourist or gentleman traveller, a poem 1822, 3 ed. 1832; a banker’s clerk in London 1854–5. d. in the workhouse, Prince’s road, Lambeth, London 14 March 1855. Dictionary of Musicians, i, 359–60 (1827).

HEMPHILL, Andrew T. Ensign 29 foot 7 April 1825, lieut.-colonel 8 Dec. 1846 to 8 March 1848; lieut.-colonel 26 foot 8 March 1848 to 31 July 1860 when placed on h.p.; commander first infantry brigade at Dublin 1 July 1861 to death; M.G. 10 Nov. 1861. d. 11 Burlington road, Dublin 31 March 1863.

HEMPHILL, Barbara (youngest dau. of Rev. Patrick Hare, rector of Golden, Tipperary). (m. John Hemphill of Rathkeany, Tipperary, who d. 26 Sep. 1833); author of Lionel Deerhurst, or fashionable life under the Regency 3 vols. 1846; The priest’s niece 3 vols. 1855; Freida the Jongler 3 vols. 1857. d. Dublin 5 May 1858.

HEMSLEY, John. Chairman of Implement committee of R. Agric. soc. of England 1876 to death, member of council 22 May 1874 to death; a frequent judge of steam cultivation, implements, etc. at the annual meetings, steward of implements 1886; author of Report on the trial of agricultural implements at Taunton 1875. d. Shelton, Newark, Dec. 1888. Agricultural Gazette 1888.

HEMY, Henry Frederick. b. Newcastle 12 Nov. 1818; resided Newcastle to 1885; removed to West Hartlepool 1885; pianist to the Earl of Ravensworth; musical instructor at Ushaw coll. Durham; engaged upon A history of the organ, when he died; composer of upwards of 100 pieces of music including Drawing room melodies 1851; Melodies of the Tyne and Wear 1857; Thirteen sacred songs 1869; God save the Prince of Wales, song 1876; set to music a number of Longfellow’s poems; author of The royal modern tutor for the pianoforte 1854, copyright of which was sold for £500, 1867 and for £3000, 1879. d. suddenly at 10 Regent st. Hartlepool 10 June 1888. bur. Moor Edge cemet. Newcastle. Northern Daily Mail 11 June 1888 p. 3, 14 June p. 3.

HENCHY, David O’Connor. b. Rutland sq. west, Dublin 1810; M.P. for co. Kildare 1852–59. d. 1 Dec. 1876.

HENDERSON, Alexander. b. Aberdeenshire 1780; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 12 Sep. 1803; L.C.P. 22 Dec. 1808; resided at 6 Curzon st. London; published A sketch of the revolutions of medical science by P. J. G. Cabanis, translated from the French 1806; An examination of the imposture of Ann Moore the fasting woman of Tutbury 1813; The history of ancient and modern wines 1824. d. Caskieben, Aberdeenshire 16 Sep. 1863. Munk’s Roll of Physicians, iii, 69 (1878).

HENDERSON, Alexander. b. 1828 or 1829; in service of Post office; sec. to Edward Askew Sothern the comedian; lessee and manager Prince of Wales’ theatre, Liverpool 1861? to 8 Feb. 1868; lessee of Criterion theatre, London 1876–9; lessee of Folly theatre 1876–9; lessee of Globe theatre 1878–81; opened the Comedy theatre with La Mascotte comic opera 15 Oct. 1881, lessee to 1885; lessee of Avenue theatre 1885 to decease. (m. (1) Miss Moon of Liverpool; m. (2) Lydia Thompson, actress). d. Prince of Wales’ hotel, Cannes 1 Feb. 1886 aged 57. bur. 2 Feb. The Era 6 Feb. 1886 p. 8, 19 Jany. 1889 p. 16; A. Brereton’s Dramatic Notes (1887) 15–17.

HENDERSON, Andrew (son of John Henderson of Shetland). b. Liverpool 10 Jany. 1800; in the navy 1813–16; commanded ships for Palmer & Co.; formed with Lord William Bentinck and Auber the East India steam navigation co. and the Assam co.; commanded the India 1840 first steamer that went round the Cape; conveyed first mails between Calcutta and Suez; A.I.C.E. 1840; invented a bow and stern rudder. d. 20 Feb. 1868. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxx, 472–75 (1870).

HENDERSON, Rev. Anketell Matthew. b. Anketell grove, Monaghan, Ireland 1820; Wesleyan minister in Ireland 1841–52; Congregational minister at Cork 1852–6, at Claremont chapel, Pentonville, London 1856–65; wrote articles in the Patriot, the British Quarterly and the London Quarterly Reviews 1856–65; president of Congregational coll. Melbourne, Australia 1865 to death; pastor of Collins’ st. ch. 1866 to death, built a new ch. at cost of £23,000 which was opened free of debt 1868; an eloquent preacher; preached in Theatre Royal during rebuilding of his church; edited The preacher’s manual, By S. J. Sturtevant 1866. d. in house of his nephew John Garvin, Toronto, Canada 23 June 1876. Heaton’s Australian Dictionary (1879) 89; Congregational Year Book (1877) 374–76; J. Jones’ Sermon on death of A. M. Henderson (1876).

HENDERSON, Charles Cooper (younger son of John Henderson, amateur artist). b. Abbey house, Chertsey 14 June 1803; ed. at Winchester; studied for the bar; painted sporting pictures and sketches, horses and coaching scenes, many of which were engraved and published by Messrs. Fores, London; exhibited 2 pictures at R.A. 1840–8. d. Lower Halliford-on-Thames 21 Aug. 1877.

HENDERSON, Rev. Ebenezer (youngest son of George Henderson, agricultural labourer). b. The Linn, parishes of Saline and Dunfermline 17 Nov. 1784; clock and watch maker 1794, kept cows, then a boot and shoemaker 1799; ed. at Robert Haldane’s seminary, Edinburgh 1803–5; engaged founding Bible societies in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland and Russia 1805 etc.; minister at Elsinore 1806–7, at Gothenburg 1807; formed first Congregational ch. in Sweden 6 Oct. 1811; visited Iceland and distributed Bibles 1814; at St. Petersburg printed the Bible in 10 dialects 1816, resided in Russia to 1825; tutor at Gosport, Hoxton and Highbury colleges 1825–50; minister Sheen Vale independent chapel, Mortlake, Surrey 1852–3; author of Iceland, a residence in that island 2 vols. 1818; The Book of the Twelve minor Prophets translated 1845; The Vaudois, a tour to the valleys of Piedmont 1845; The Book of Isaiah translated 1840, 2 ed. 1857 and many other works. d. Mortlake 16 May 1858. Memoir of E. Henderson by Thalia S. Henderson (1859), portrait.

HENDERSON, Ebenezer (son of John Henderson, watch and clock maker). b. Dunfermline, Feb. 1809; made an orrery and an astronomical clock 1827; clerk to his brother a tanner at St. Helens 1829; curator Liverpool Astronomical instit.; member of 13 scientific societies in England, LLD. of an American coll.; F.R.A.S.; received freedom of Elgin 1850 and of Dunfermline 1859; made a combination of wheels to show and check sidereal time 1850; restored old market cross of Dunfermline 1868 and queen Margaret’s stone; author of An historical treatise on horology 1836; A treatise on astronomy 1843, 3 ed. 1848; Life of James Ferguson 1867, 2 ed. 1870; The annals of Dunfermline and vicinity 1879. d. Muckhart, Perthshire 2 Nov. 1879.

HENDERSON, George (son of Capt. Henderson of 4 foot). b. Newton, Aberdeenshire 4 June 1783; 2 lieut. R.E. March 1800; served in Ceylon 1803–12, in the Peninsula 1812–14; lieut.-col. R.E. 30 Dec. 1824, retired from the service 9 April 1825; general superintendent London and South Western railway co. 1830, a director to death; A.I.C.E. May 1837; chairman London Equitable gas co., and Southampton gas co. to death. d. 11 Anglesea place, Southampton 21 April 1855. Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xv, 100–101 (1856).

HENDERSON, George. b. 1785 or 1786; entered navy 1 March 1794; captain 1 Aug. 1811; retired admiral 1 Nov. 1860. d. Middle Deal, Kent 23 Jany. 1864 aged 78. O’Byrne p. 493.

HENDERSON, George Augustus. Ensign 2 foot 1 Oct. 1794; inspecting field officer of militia, Nova Scotia 24 Aug. 1815 to 10 Feb. 1817 when placed on h.p.; col. 59 foot 27 April 1852 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854; K.H. 1836. d. Kempsey, Worcs. 7 Sep. 1857 aged 78.

HENDERSON, Gilbert. b. Colquitt st. Liverpool 8 Aug. 1797; ed. at Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1817; barrister L.I. 12 Nov. 1824; a leader on the northern circuit; recorder of Liverpool 24 July 1843 to death. d. Hyde park sq. London 5 Dec. 1861. The Liverpool Courier 7 Dec. 1861 p. 5.

HENDERSON, James (son of a labourer). b. Scotland 1829; worked on a farm for 50s. a year 1843–5; butler to Mr. Grant Duff 1847–52; ed. at Surgeons’ hall, Edin. 1855–8, surgeon 1858; M.D. of St. Andrew’s univ. 1859; medical missionary Shanghai, China 1860–5, in charge of the Chinese hospital 1860–5; author of Shanghai Hygiene, or hints for preservation of health in China 1863; edited Reports of the Chinese hospital, Shanghai 1860–63. d. Nagasaki, Japan 30 July 1865. Memorials of J. Henderson (1868), portrait; Good Words (1878) 784–90.

HENDERSON, J. Scott. b. Berwickshire 1838; a banker at Paisley; edited the Ayr Observer some years, the Times and Mirror at Bristol, the Edinburgh Courant 1867–72 and the Bullionist in London; translated H. C. L. Von Sybel’s Clerical policy in the nineteenth century 1875. d. Oaklands, St. Mark’s road, Notting hill, London 18 Sep. 1883.

HENDERSON, John (son of John Henderson, gardener at Brechin castle). b. Brechin 14 June 1804; carpenter Brechin; architect Edinburgh making a special study of gothic; designed and built many episcopal and other churches in Scotland 1831–65; Trinity college, Glenalmond, Perth with its decorated chapel is his best work 1847. d. 7 Greenhill park, Edinburgh 27 June 1865. Dictionary of Architecture, iv, 43.

HENDERSON, John (son of Robert Henderson, merchant and shipowner). b. Borrowstounness, Linlithgowshire 1780; drysalter Glasgow; East India merchant London; gave from £30,000 to £40,000 a year to religious and charitable schemes; maintained several religious newspapers; spent £4000 in sending copy of a publication to all railway servants to tell them of the sinfulness of Sunday labour; stopped for sometime Sunday railway travelling in Scotland; maintained mission churches in Glasgow; a founder of Evangelical Alliance 1845. d. Park Inchinnan, Renfrewshire 1 May 1867. Glasgow Daily Herald 2 May 1867 p. 2.

HENDERSON, John (son of John Henderson the actor). b. London 1822; apprenticed to Sanders the equestrian; performed as an equestrian artiste in every capital in Europe; returned to England 1862, equestrian director 1862 to death. (m. 1843 Agnes Selina Hengler). d. Ipswich 10 May 1867. bur. Highgate cemetery 3 July. Illustrated sporting news, ii, 428 (1862), portrait, iv, 641 (1865), portrait; Era 19 May 1867 p. 14 col. 3.

HENDERSON, John (brother of Charles Cooper Henderson 1803–77). b. Adelphi ter. London 1797; ed. at Ball. coll. Ox., B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820; studied for the bar; spent his life in collecting works of art, which he kept at his residence 3 Montague st. Bloomsbury, London; F.S.A. 11 March 1858; left to Univ. of Oxford his Greek and Roman vases and Egyptian antiquities, to British Museum his water-colour drawings, enamels, porcelain, glass, metal work, arms and MSS., to National Gallery some water-colour drawings and paintings. d. 3 Montague st. London 20 Nov. 1878. Waagen’s Galleries of art (1857) 202–13; Proc. of Soc. of Antiquaries, viii, 105 (1881); Academy 30 Nov. 1878 p. 531; Works of art in pottery, glass and metal in collection of J. Henderson 1868.

HENDERSON, John (son of Gilbert Henderson). b. Durham 2 May 1811; ed. Durham gram. sch.; carpet manufacturer and coal owner, Durham; M.P. Durham city 1864–74; M.P. Durham 5 Feb. 1874 but election declared void. d. Bournemouth 4 April 1884. Times 10 April 1884 p. 7.

HENDERSON, John Irving. b. Dumfriesshire 1781; in R.N.; advocate of the Scotch bar 1812; sheriff substitute of Dundee district, of Forfarshire 1832, resigned 1860. d. Blackness crescent, Dundee 24 Dec. 1860; his daughter erected schools to his memory which were opened by the Bishop of Brechin 2 Aug. 1862 but shortly afterwards finally closed. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 193; Dundee Advertiser 25 Dec. 1860 p. 3.

HENDERSON, Peter. b. Pathhead near Edinburgh 25 June 1823; apprentice to a gardener 1839; went to U.S. America 1843; greenhouse horticulturist Jersey City, and seedsman in New York, the largest business of its kind in America; author of Gardening for profit 1867, circulated 100,000 copies; Practical floriculture 1869; Gardening for pleasure 1875; Henderson’s Handbook of plants 1881; Garden and farm topics 1884; How the farm pays 1884. d. Jersey City Heights, Jany. 1890. Appleton’s American Biog. iii, 164 (1887).

HENDERSON, Peter Lindsay. b. Glasgow 1831, ed. at high school there; master in the merchant service; owner and manager of a line of steamers between Copenhagen and Germany 1857; established whale fisheries in Iceland, using steamships with harpoon guns; proprietor of the Greenwich and Poplar horse ferry; A.I.C.E. 7 Feb. 1871. d. Woodfield, Hendon 20 Feb. 1881. Proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxiv, 341–2 (1881).

HENDERSON, William (4 son of William Henderson, sheriff substitute of Caithness). b. Thurso 17 Jany. 1810; ed. at univ. of Edin., M.D. 1831; physician fever hospital, Edin. 1832; pathologist Royal infirmary, resigned 1845; made clinical studies on the heart and blood vessels 1835–7; F.R.C.P. Edin. 1838; professor of general pathology, Univ. of Edin. 1842, resigned 1869; adopted homœopathy 1845 when professor Syme, Sir John Forbes and others withdrew from associating with him, and he was expelled from the Med. Chir. Soc. of Edin. in Dec. 1851, wrote many works on homœopathy in reply to his adversaries 1845–53; author also of Letter to lord provost on charges against Queen’s college 1840; A dictionary of names of persons and places in Old and New Testaments 1869. d. 19 Ainslie place, Edinburgh 1 April 1872. Grant’s University of Edinburgh, ii, 451 (1884); British Journal of Homœopathy, xxx, 617–23 (1872).