HENDERSON, William. Called to Irish bar 1825; Q.C. 26 May 1858. d. 1875.

HENDERSON, William. b. Biggar, Lanarkshire 5 Aug. 1831; compositor with firm of T. & A. Constable, Edinburgh; a type-music printer with Novello, Ewer & Co. London 1860; partner with James Cossar Rait at 30 Penton st. Pentonville, and also with Montague Spalding, as type music printers 1861, they acquired a world-wide reputation, they moved to Winsley st. Oxford st. 1864, then to Berners st., afterwards to 3 Marylebone lane and Dyott house, Holborn; a composer of some ability. d. suddenly at Ipswich 22 May 1891. Stationery Trades Journal 30 May 1891 p. 254.

HENDERSON, William Wilmott. Entered navy May 1799, captain 9 Oct. 1815, R.A. 21 March 1851; commander in chief on south east coast of America 19 July 1851 to 1 May 1854; K.H. 13 Jany. 1835; C.B. 18 Dec. 1840. d. at sea returning to England 12 July 1854.

HENDREN, Most Rev. Joseph William. b. Birmingham 19 Oct. 1791; received Franciscan habit 2 Aug. 1806; a teacher at Baddesley school 1812–16; priest 28 Sep. 1815; a teacher at Perthyre 1816–18, at Aston 1818–23; president Baddesley academy 1823–26; served mission at Abergavenny 1826–39; confessor and spiritual director to the nuns and pensioners of Franciscan convent at Taunton Lodge 1839–48; vicar apostolic of western district, and bishop of Uranopolis in partibus 28 July 1848, consecrated at Clifton by bishop Ullathorne 10 Sep. 1848; translated to newly created See of Clifton 29 Sep. 1850; translated to See of Nottingham 27 June 1851, resigned 26 Dec. 1852; bishop of Martyropolis in partibus 25 Feb. 1853, resided at Birmingham, May 1853 to death. d. Birmingham 14 Nov. 1866. Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 266–7 (1887); Brady’s Episcopal succession, iii, 317, 333, 357, 406, 432 (1877).

HENDRICKEN, Most Rev. Thomas Francis. b. Kilkenny, Ireland 5 May 1827; ed. at St. Kyran’s coll. Kilkenny and at Maynooth; ordained in Dublin, R.C. priest 29 April 1853; pastor at Winsted, Conn., U.S. America 1854; pastor at Waterbury 1855–72 where he built the church of the Immaculate Conception; Pius ix. created him D.D. 1868; first bishop of new diocese of Providence, R.I., consecrated 28 April 1872, built a cathedral and an episcopal residence. d. Providence 11 June 1886. Appleton’s American Biography, iii, 165 (1887).

HENEAGE, Edward (2 son of George Robert Heneage of Hainton, Lincolnshire, d. 1833). b. 24 July 1802; M.P. for Great Grimsby 7 Jany. 1835 to 1 July 1852; contested Great Grimsby 8 July 1852. d. Stag’s End, Hemel Hempstead 25 June 1880.

HENEAGE, George Fieschi (brother of preceding). b. 22 Nov. 1800; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1826; M.P. Great Grimsby 1826–30; M.P. Lincoln 1831–4 and 1852–62; sheriff of Lincolnshire 1839. d. Hainton 11 May 1868.

HENFREY, Arthur (3 son of Henry Antram Henfrey). b. Aberdeen 1 Nov. 1819; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital; M.R.C.S. 1843; lecturer on botany at Middlesex and St. George’s hospitals 1847; professor of botany King’s coll. 1853; F.L.S. 1844; F.R.S. 3 June 1852; edited The Botanical Gazette 3 vols. 1849–51, the Photographic Journal, vols. 1, 2, 1853; author of Outlines of structural and physiological botany 1847; The vegetation of Europe, its conditions and causes 1852; An elementary course of botany 1857, 4 ed. 1884, besides many translations from the German and other books. d. 12 Heathfield ter. Turnham green, Middlesex 7 Sep. 1859. Proc. Royal Soc. x, 18 (1860).

HENFREY, Henry William (eld. son of preceding). b. London 5 July 1852; ed. at Brighton coll.; member Numismatic soc. 1868, on council; contributed 12 papers to Numismatic Chronicle; member British Archæol. Assoc. 1870 and wrote in its proceedings; author of A guide to the study of English coins 1870, 2 ed. 1885; Numismata Cromwelliana 1877; edited Henfrey’s Journal, St. Albans 1864. d. Widmore cottage, Bromley, Kent 31 July 1881. Numismatic Chronicle, ii, 21–2 (1882).

HENGLER, Edward Henry (son of Henry Hengler, tight rope dancer of Vauxhall gardens). b. 1819; tight rope dancer; kept a riding school with his brother John Milton Hengler at Elizabeth st. Pembroke place, Liverpool. d. Liverpool 8 Jany. 1865. Era 15 Jany. 1865 p. 14.

HENGLER, Frederick Charles (brother of the preceding). b. Cambridge 1820; taught the circus business by his father; violin and trumpet player in James Wild’s theatre, Bradford 1841; business manager of Price and Powell’s circus, afterwards purchased the circus with which he travelled; built circuses in Liverpool 1857, Glasgow and Dublin 1863, Hull 1866, Bristol 1867, Birmingham 1868 and London 1871; introduced spectacular pieces played by children; taught riding to several members of the royal family; a great horse tamer and exhibitor of trained animals. d. Cambridge house, 27 Fitzjohn’s avenue, Hampstead, Middlesex 28 Sep. 1887. bur. Pauntley, Gloucestershire, left £59,665 2s. 5d. Frost’s Circus Life (1876) 48 etc.; The Era 15 Jany. 1865 and 1 Oct. 1887; Judy 13 Dec. 1882 p. 280, portrait.

Note.—His eldest son and successor Frederick Charles Hengler was b. 4 Aug. 1855 and d. 7 May 1889.

HENLAND, Henry. b. Germany 1778; scientific dealer in minerals in London 1807, having purchased Old Humphrey’s collection; supplied the British Museum with greater part of their collection of minerals; formed a mineralogical cabinet for C. H. Turner of Rooks Nest, Surrey, an account of which was printed in 3 volumes with an atlas of 83 plates of forms of crystals; foreign secretary Geological soc. some years. d. Hastings 16 Nov. 1856.

HENLEY, Joseph Warner (only son of Joseph Henley, merchant, London). b. Putney, Surrey 3 March 1793; ed. at Fulham and Magd. coll. Ox., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1834, hon. D.C.L. 1854; in his father’s office 1815–17; M.P. for Oxfordshire 1841–78; president of board of trade 27 Feb. to 17 Dec. 1852 and 25 Feb. 1858 to March 1859; P.C. 27 Feb. 1852; author of A Conservative’s opinion on the contagious diseases act. Nottingham 1878. d. Waterperry, Oxfordshire 8 Dec. 1884. The drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages 2 series (1859), portrait; The statesmen of England (1862), portrait; St. James’ Mag. March 1870 pp. 771–4, portrait.

HENLEY, William Thomas. b. Midhurst, Sussex 1814; a leather dresser, a light porter 1829 and a dock labourer; a philosophical instrument maker 1838; assisted Sir C. Wheatstone and made his electrical apparatus 1836; took out 13 patents for improvements in electric telegraphs, &c. 1848–71; founded the British and Irish magnetic telegraph co.; made 14,000 miles of submarine cables; made electric light apparatus 1849; had manufactories at North Woolwich 1859 and iron works and colleries in Wales employing 2000 men and making a profit of £80,000 a year; failed for £500,000 in 1874; director of Henley’s Telegraph works 1880 to death. d. Chesterton house, Plaistow, Essex 13 Dec. 1882. bur. Kensal green 18 Dec. Times 15 Dec. 1882 p. 5; The Electrician 23 Dec. 1882 p. 136.

HENN, Jonathan (2 son of William Henn of Paradise, co. Clare, master of Irish court of chancery, d. 1822). b. 1789; ed. at Lucan and at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1808; called to Irish bar 1811; went Connaught circuit, joined Munster circuit; defended D. O’Connell in the Repeal prosecutions 1843; K.C. 7 Feb. 1835; engaged for the Crown in the case of John Mitchell 1849; assistant barrister for co. of Donegal; retired from practice about 1850; a brilliant orator. d. Clifton villa, Bray, co. Dublin 22 July 1873. J. R. O’Flanagan’s Irish bar (1879) 225–31; Law mag. and law review, ii, 233–35 (1857).

HENN, Thomas Rice (3 son of Thomas Rice Henn, Q.C., recorder of Galway). b. Dublin 2 Nov. 1849; ed. at Windermere coll. and R. Milit. acad. Woolwich 1866; lieut. Bombay engineers 7 July 1869, commanded 2 company in Afghan war 1880; present in Bolan pass and at Candahar; brigade major R.E. 1879–80; killed while covering the retreat of the army at the battle of Maiwand 27 July 1880, window to his memory placed in Rochester cath. Shadbolt’s Afghan campaign. Biog. Division (1882) 107–9, portrait.

HENN, William (brother of Jonathan Henn, d. 1873). Called to Irish bar 1808; bencher of King’s Inns, Dublin 1822, master in chancery 1822 to death. d. Dublin 8 March 1857. O’Flanagan’s Irish bar (1879) 224.

HENNEDY, Roger. b. Carrickfergus near Belfast, Aug. 1809; a block cutter for calico printers; learnt to draw on stone and made designs for textiles; a teacher of botany at Glasgow 1848; in business with a partner 1851–7; professor of botany Andersonian univ. Glasgow 1863 to death; author of The Clydesdale Flora, plants and ferns of the Clyde district, Glasgow 1865, 4 ed. 1878. d. Whitehall near Bothwell, Lanarkshire 22 Oct. 1877.

HENNEN, John (son of John Hennen, M.D., d. Gibraltar 3 Nov. 1828). M.R.C.S. Edin. 1820; M.D. Edin. 1821; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1843; in medical department of army 1824; physician R. Milit. asylum, Southampton 1828–40; in practice at 24 Upper Southwick st. Hyde park, London 1847; F. Med. and Chir. soc. 1844, librarian 1848–50, compiled an Index to the Society’s Transactions 1851; translated C. J. Nitzsch’ System of christian doctrine 1849; edited his father’s Sketches of medical topography of the Mediterranean 1830. d. Tunbridge Wells, June 1871 aged 71. Proc. Med. Chir. Soc. vii, 38 (1875).

HENNESSY, William Maunsell. b. Castle Gregory, co. Kerry 1829; resided for some time in U.S. America; in the Lunatic asylum office 1855; wrote for Irish newspapers; chief clerk Public Record office, Dublin 1868, assist. deputy keeper 1886 to his death; Todd professor R. Irish acad. 1822–4; the best Irish scholar of his day; contributed to The Academy, La Revue Celtique, etc.; edited Chronicon Scotorum. A chronicle of Irish affairs 1866; The annals of Loch Cé. A chronicle of Irish affairs 1871; J. Graves’ Pedigree of the White Knight 1881; J. C. Mangan’s The poets and poetry of Munster 1883 and many other works. d. 71 Pembroke road, Dublin 13 Jany. 1889. Academy 26 Jany. 1889 p. 56.

HENNIKER, John Henniker-Major, 4 Baron (eld. son of 3 Baron Henniker 1777–1832, who in 1822 assumed additional surname of Major). b. Stratford Green, Essex 3 Feb. 1801; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; barrister L.I. 28 May 1824; M.P. for East Suffolk 1832–47 and 1856 to 13 July 1866 when created Baron Hartismere of Hartismere, co. Suffolk; sheriff of Suffolk 1853; F.S.A. 16 Dec. 1852. d. 6 Grafton st. Bond St. London 16 April 1870. I.L.N. xxx, 479 (1857), portrait.

HENNIKER, Aldborough (eld. son of Aldborough Brydges John Henniker of Catcott, Somerset 1797–1880). b. 6 July 1821; ed. at the Charterhouse; barrister G.I. 1 May 1844, bencher 7 July 1874, treasurer 1877 to death; Q.C. 6 July 1874; member of council of legal education. d. 26 Leinster sq. Bayswater, London 28 Jany. 1880 from injuries received by falling down the staircase at King’s Cross station of Metropolitan railway.

HENNIKER, Rev. Robert (brother of the preceding). b. 1 June 1833; ed. at Trin. coll. Ox., Johnson’s Theol. sch. 1856, B.A. 1856, M.A. 1860; C. of St. Michael, Alnwick 1858–60; P.C. of South Charlton near Alnwick 1860–69; head master of Rossall school 1869–75; V. of Frocester near Stroud 1875 to death; author of Stories from English history for young children 1861; Trifles for travellers 1864. d. Frocester vicarage 1 Feb. 1880.

HENNING, John (son of Samuel Henning, carpenter). b. Paisley 2 May 1771; carpenter; modeller of wax figures 1800; a modeller at Glasgow; studied in Trustees’ academy, Edin. 1802; went to London 1811; made models of the Parthenon and Phigaleian friezes with the missing parts restored 1811–23; made models in relief of cartoons of Raphael; exhibited 17 sculptures at R.A., 8 at B.I. and 37 at Suffolk st. 1816–52; executed busts of Princess Charlotte of Wales and Mrs. Siddons; a founder of Soc. of British Artists 1847; presented with freedom of Paisley 1846; executed the relievi on the gate at Hyde park corner and those on the Athenæum club. d. 17 Lower Belgrave place, Pimlico, London 8 April 1851. bur. St. Pancras cemet. Finchley.

HENNINGSEN, Charles Frederick (son of a Swede). b. England 1815; in Carlist army in Spain, lieut.-col. 1834; served in Russian army in Circassia; commander of fortress of Comorn under Kossuth in Hungary 1849; commander of the artillery under William Walker in Nicaragua, America 1856, major general; colonel of 3 regt. of Wise’s brigade in Confederate army and served in Virginia; superintended construction of first Minié rifle made in U.S. America; author of Revelations of Russia. Paris 1845; The most striking events of a twelve months’ campaign with Zumalacarregui 2 vols. 1836; The White slave 3 vols. 1845; Personal recollections of Nicaragua, and other works. d. Washington, D.C. 14 June 1877. Appleton’s American Biography, iii, 169 (1887).

HENRADE, Mary (3 dau. of Thomas Young of Melbourne, Australia). b. 1842; appeared in original cast of Our American Cousin at Haymarket theatre, London 11 Nov. 1861; played at Lyceum theatre, Oct. 1864, and at chief west end theatres. (m. Stephen Demetrius Pitzipios a Greek merchant and general agent at 17 Throgmorton st. London). d. Duncroft house, 3 Grove end road, London 11 March 1876 aged 34. Era 19 March 1876 p. 10 col. 4.

HENRY, Alexander. b. Loughbrickland, co. Down 1783; came from U.S. America and settled in Palace st. Manchester as an American house doing an export trade in cotton and woollen goods 1804; crossed the Atlantic 30 times; opened houses at Leeds, Huddersfield, Bradford, Leicester, Nottingham, Glasgow and Belfast; member of Anti-Corn law league 1838; M.P. South Lancashire 20 Dec. 1847 to June 1852; entertained Kossuth 1850; lost his sight many years before his death. d. Harrogate 4 Oct. 1862. London Society (Nov. 1880) 446–62; Hunt’s Merchant’s Mag. xix, 63–67 (1848), xxxiv, 36–45 (1856).

HENRY, Chaplin, assumed name of Henry Charles Stroud. b. 1826; bookseller; had a fine bass voice; attached to choir of Surrey chapel, Blackfriars road, London; an early member of Henry Leslie’s choir 1856; chief bass at Foundling chapel; a singer at the banquets at the City of London halls; author of O write me a song of my father, Ballad 1869. d. Peckham 12 Jany. 1888. Musical Times 1 Feb. 1888 p. 92.

HENRY, George Fitzgerald (brother of Sir Thomas Henry 1807–76). b. 1827; entered service of P. and O.S.N. Co. 1847, commander on the China line, superintendent of service at Bombay; connected with Bank of Bombay and the Port Trust board; member of the Bombay corporation; thrown out of his carriage at Bombay and killed 23 Feb. 1877. The Graphic 5 May 1877 pp. 407, 408, portrait.

HENRY, James (1 son of Robert Henry, woollen draper). b. Dublin 13 Dec. 1798; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1819, M.A. and M.B. 1822, M.D. 1832; a physician in Dublin with a large practice 1822–45 charging a five shilling fee instead of the usual guinea; from 1841 the study of Virgil became the object of his life, began walking through Europe with his wife and daughter making Virgilian researches 1846; wife Anne Jane dau. of John Patton d. Arco, Tyrol and was cremated; crossed the Alps 17 times; dau. Katharine Olivia b. 20 Nov. 1830 assistant to her father in his travels and studies, d. 7 Dec. 1872; author of Miliaria accuratius descripta. Dublin 1832; The Eneis, books i and ii rendered into English blank Iambic by J. H. 1845; Notes of a twelve years’ voyage of discovery in the first six books of the Eneis. Dresden 1853; Poems, chiefly philosophical. Dresden 1856, with a portrait; Thalia Petasata, a foot journey from Carlsruhe to Bassano. Dresden 1859; Æneidea, remarks on the Æneis, with collation of principal editions 2 vols. 1873–9. d. Dalkey lodge, Dalkey near Dublin 14 July 1876. The Academy 12 Aug. 1876 pp. 162–3.

HENRY, John. Entered Madras army 1800; col. 51 Madras N.I. 15 March 1842 to death; L.G. 3 Aug. 1855. d. Holles st. Cavendish sq. London 17 Dec. 1860.

HENRY, Michael (son of a merchant, d. April 1840). b. Kennington, London 19 Feb. 1830; ed. at City of London sch. 1840–44; assisted in editing Mechanics’ Mag. 1846–57; a patent agent in London 1857 to death; edited Jewish Chronicle 1868 to death; founded General Benevolent Assoc. 1847, hon. sec. to death; hon. sec. Stepney Jewish schools to death; A.I.C.E.; author of The Inventor’s almanac 1858; A defence of the present patent laws 1866; his clothes caught fire when he was in his office 68 Fleet St., d. from the burns at 6 Argyle sq. Euston sq. London 16 June 1875. bur. Willesden cemet. 21 June. Jewish Chronicle 25 June 1875 pp. 205–6; Times 18 June 1875 p. 13, 19 June p. 7.

HENRY, Sir Thomas (eld. son of David Henry of Stephens green, Dublin, government contractor). b. Dublin 1807; ed. at Von Feinaigles sch. and at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; barrister M.T. 23 Jany. 1829; magistrate at Lambeth st. police court near Whitechapel, April 1840, removed to Bow st. 1846, chief mag. at Bow st. 6 July 1864 to death; knighted at Windsor castle 30 Nov. 1864. d. 23 Hanover sq. London 16 June 1876. I.L.N. 14 March 1846 p. 172, portrait, 24 June 1876 p. 623, 1 July pp. 3, 4, portrait; Graphic, xiii, 614, 628 (1876), portrait.

HENRY, Walter. b. Donegal, Ireland 1 Jany. 1791; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin; hospital assistant in 66 foot April 1811, served in the Peninsula to 1814, in Nepaulese war 1816–7, in St. Helena 1817–21, prepared bulletin of post mortem appearance of body of Napoleon; in Canada 1827–41; staff surgeon 1839, inspector general of hospitals in Canada 1852, retired 1856; wrote in periodicals under pseudonyms of Miles, Piscator, and Scrutator; author of Trifles from my Portfolio, or recollections of 29 years military service, By a Staff Surgeon. Quebec 2 vols. 1839; Events of a military life 2 vols. 1843. d. Belleville, Upper Canada 27 June 1860. Morgan’s Bibl. Canadensis (1867) 182–3.

HENRY, William Alexander. b. Halifax, Nova Scotia 30 Dec. 1816; barrister N.S. Nov. 1840; Q.C. 1849; member of Nova Scotia Assembly 1840 for many years; mayor of Halifax; solicitor general 3 times; provincial secretary and attorney general; puisne judge of supreme court of Canada, Oct. 1875 to death. d. Ottawa 3 May 1888.

HENSLOW, Rev. John Stevens (1 son of John Prentis Henslow, solicitor, Enfield, d. 1854). b. Rochester, Kent 6 Feb. 1796; ed. at free gram. sch. Rochester and St. John’s coll. Cam., 16 wr. 1818, B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; F.L.S. 1818; F.G.S. 1819; founded with Adam Sedgwick, the Cambridge Phil. Soc. 15 Nov. 1819; prof. of mineralogy at Cam. 1822 to March 1827; P.C. of St. Mary the Less, Cam. 1824–32; prof. of botany at Cam. June 1825 to death, his enthusiasm rendered botany popular, Darwin and others were his pupils; V. of Cholsey, Berks. 1832–7; R. of Hitcham, Suffolk 1837 to death; established study of botany in his schools; for tithe dinners substituted excursions; discovered beds of phosphatic nodules in the Suffolk Crag 1843 much used for manure; a founder of the Ipswich museum 1848; author of Catalogue of British plants 1829, 2 ed. 1835; The principles of descriptive and physiological botany 1836; An account of Roman antiquities found at Rougham, Bury St. Edmunds 1843; A dictionary of botanical terms 1856 and other books. d. Hitcham rectory house 16 May 1861, his collections divided between Ipswich, Cambridge and Kew museums. Jenyns’ Memoir of J. S. Henslow (1862), portrait; Popular Science Monthly, iii, 159–72 (1873), portrait; Longman’s Mag. June 1883 pp. 147–59.

HENSMAN, Rev. John (son of Thomas Hensman of Birmingham). b. Bedford 22 Sep. 1780; ed. at C.C. coll. Cam., 9 wr. 1801, B.A. 1801, M.A. 1804; fellow of his coll. 1801; C. to Rev. Charles Simeon at Cam. 1801; C. of Wraxall, Somerset 1803–9; C. in charge of Clifton parish ch. Bristol 1809–22; C. of Dowry chapel, Clifton 1822–30; incumb. of Trinity ch. Hotwells 1830–44; P.C. of Christ Church, Clifton 1844–7; R. of Clifton 1847 to death; St. James’ chapel, Clifton commonly known as the Hensman memorial church was consecrated Dec. 1862; hon. canon of Bristol cath. 1858; well known member of evangelical party; prime mover in building 4 churches in Clifton. d. Clifton hill 23 April 1864. Bristol Times 30 April 1864 p. 6.

HENSOM, Gravener. b. Nottingham 1785; engaged in hosiery trade and in point and bobbin net manufacture; had a practical knowledge of all kinds of looms; wandered about the coasts of England, Scotland and France discovering and exposing the tricks of the smugglers; imprisoned in Coldbath-fields prison for his connection with Luddite riots; gave evidence before parliamentary committee; author of List of 100 inventions and alterations in the stocking and lace machines 1828; Civil, political and mechanical history of the frame-work knitting and lace trades 1831 which was never finished. d. Broad st. Nottingham 15 Nov. 1852. Felkin’s History of hosiery (1867) pp. xv-xvii; Wylie’s Nottingham (1853) 234–5.

HENTY, Edward (6 son of Thomas Henty, landowner and banker, West Tarring, Sussex, who went to Tasmania 1831). b. West Tarring, Sussex 10 March 1809; emigrated to Tasmania 1831; one of the three founders of the colony of Victoria, Australia; the first settler in Portland Bay, Victoria 19 Nov. 1834 where he had a whaling station; imported pure merino sheep 1835; ploughed the first land ever turned up in Victoria 1835; went inland and took up large sheep runs; member for Normanby in legislative assembly 1856–61; held Muntham station, Victoria. d. Offington, St. Kilda road, Melbourne 14 Aug. 1878. Times 28 Sep. 1878 p. 10; Men of the Time. Victorian Series (1878) 86–8; R. Henty’s Australiana (1886) 26 etc.

HENTY, William (brother of the preceding). b. England 1808; emigrated to Tasmania 1831; solicitor at Launceston, Tasmania; member of legislative assembly, Tasmania; colonial secretary, Tasmania 1857–62; returned and settled in England 1863; author of Our improvements in cottage husbandry. Launceston 1850. d. 12 Medina villas, Brighton 11 July 1881. Times 14 July 1881 p. 9.

HENWOOD, William Jory (eld. son of John Henwood of Perran-wharf near Truro). b. Perran-wharf 16 Jany. 1805; clerk to Fox & Co. at Perran 1822–7; first went underground 1825; assay master and supervisor of tin for duchy of Cornwall 1832–8; Telford medallist of Instit. of C.E. for paper On pumping engines 1837; made special study of metalliferous deposits; F.G.S. 1828, Murchison medallist 27 Feb. 1875; F.R.S. 27 Feb. 1840; in charge of Gongo-Soco mines, Brazil 1843–53; reported on the metals in Kumaon and Gurhwal for Indian government 1855; president R. Instit. of Cornwall 1869–71, delivered three valuable addresses; author of On the metalliferous deposits of Cornwall and Devon. Subterranean temperature, Water and Electric currents, being vol. v. of Trans. R. Geol. Soc. of Cornwall 1843, and Observations on metalliferous deposits and on Subterranean temperature vol. vi. 1871, and other books and numerous papers. d. 3 Clarence place, Penzance 5 Aug. 1875. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. 230–3, 1227; Times 10 Aug. 1875 p. 3 by W. P. Courtney.

HEPBURN, henry Poole (1 son of Francis K. Hepburn, major general). b. 24 Jany. 1822; ensign Scots Fusilier guards 19 Feb. 1841, lieut.-col. 21 March 1874 to 10 Oct. 1874 when placed on h.p.; served in Crimean campaign 1854–5, wounded at battle of Alma, medal with 2 clasps, Turkish medal and 5 class of Medjidie; L.G. 1 July 1881; C.B. 2 June 1869; maintained an orphanage for daughters of soldiers of the Scots guards. d. The Hooke, Chailey, Lewes 26 Oct. 1888. Times 29 Oct. 1888 p. 6.

HEPPEL, John Mortimer (eld. son of George Hastings Heppel of Taplow, Bucks., paper maker). b. Taplow 23 Dec. 1817; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s sch. and London univ.; established with Moser an engineering factory at Aix la Chapelle, partnership dissolved 1847; chief engineer on Madras railway, May 1857 to 1861; engineer to Peruvian railway 1865; A.I.C.E. 20 April 1835, M.I.C.E. 11 Feb. 1851; invented a water meter and other pieces of mechanism. d. 2 Storey’s gate, Westminster 21 March 1872. Min. of Proc. of C.E. xxxvi, 265–68 (1873).

HERAPATH, John (son of a maltster). b. Bristol 30 May 1790; a maltster with his cousin William Herapath at Bristol; conducted a mathematical school, taking candidates for the navy 1815; Royal Soc. refused to publish his paper “A mathematical enquiry into the causes of heat, gases, gravitation, &c.” 1820, which was then printed in Annals of Philosophy and a controversy with Royal Soc. ensued; mathematical tutor at Cranford, Middlesex 1820–32; removed to Kensington 1832; one of first advocates of atmospheric railway system 1839; part proprietor and manager Railway Magazine 1835, called The Railway magazine and Annals of Science 1836–39, then Herapath’s Railway Journal, became sole proprietor; printed numerous mathematical papers; author of Mathematical physics 2 vols. 1847. d. Catford bridge, Lewisham, Kent 24 Feb. 1868. G.M. April 1868 pp. 544–5; Herapath’s Railway Journal 29 Feb. 1868 p. 234.

HERAPATH, Spencer (2 son of the preceding). b. 1822; ed. in a college in Indiana, U.S. America; connected with Herapath’s Railway Journal; sec. to Admiral Laws manager Lancashire and Yorkshire railway; sec. of Sheffield, Barnsley and Wakefield railway to 1865; A.I.C.E. 5 March 1867; head of firm of Spencer Herapath & Co., stock brokers, London 1844; member of committee of Spanish bondholders; director of Buenos Ayres Great southern railway 11 Jany. 1868; F.G.S.; F.A.S.; F.S.S. d. 18 Upper Phillimore gardens, Kensington 13 March 1884. Min. of Proc. of C.E. lxxviii, 447–8 (1884).

HERAPATH, William (son of Mr. Herapath of Bristol, maltster). b. Bristol 26 May 1796; a maltster, Bristol; one of the founders of the Bristol Medical sch. 1828, professor of chemistry there 1828; president of Bristol Political Union 1831; one of the founders of Chemical Soc. of Lond. 23 Feb. 1841; F.C.S.; employed as analytical chemist in cases of Mary Ann Burdock of Bristol 1835 and of W. Palmer of Rugeley 1856; member of Bristol town council 1833 and senior magistrate. d. Manor house, Old Park st. Bristol 13 Feb. 1868. Gent. Mag. v, 404, 544 (1868); Herapath’s Railway Journal 22 Feb. 1868 p. 205.

HERAPATH, William Bird (1 son of the preceding). b. 1820; L.S.A. 1843, M.R.C.S. 1844; ed. at Univ. of London, M.B. 1844, M.D. 1851; surgeon Queen Elizabeth’s hospital, Bristol; president Bristol microscopical soc.; F.R.S.; made many chemical and toxicological discoveries; contributed numerous papers to scientific journals; discoverer and manufacturer of artificial tourmalines; author of A few words on the Bristol and Clifton Hotwells 1854; The handbook for visitors to the Bristol and Clifton Hotwells 1864. d. 32 Old Market st. Bristol 12 Oct. 1868. I.L.N. 24 Oct. 1868 p. 411; Times 15 Oct. 1868 p. 5.

HERAUD, John Abraham (son of Abraham Heraud, law stationer, d. 1846). b. St. Andrew’s, Holborn, London 5 July 1799; friend of Coleridge, Southey, Wordsworth and Carlyle; assistant editor of Fraser’s Mag. 1830–3; edited The Sunbeam 1838–9, the Monthly Mag. 1839–42 and the Christian monthly mag.; contributor and dramatic critic to the Athenæum 1843–68; dramatic critic Illust. London News 1849–79; a brother of the Charterhouse 21 July 1873 to death; wrote Videna, a tragedy, Marylebone theatre 1854, Wife and no Wife, and Medea; author of The legend of St. Loy 1820; The descent into hell 1830, 2 ed. 1835; The judgment of the flood 1834, new ed. 1857; The life and times of G. Savonarola 1843; The sibyl among the tombs 1886. d. Charterhouse, Charterhouse sq. London 20 April 1887. Athenæum 23, 30 April (1887); I.L.N. 30 April 1887 p. 485.

HERBERT OF LEA, Sidney Herbert, 1 Baron (younger son of 11 Earl of Pembroke 1759–1827). b. Richmond, Surrey 16 Sep. 1810; ed. at Harrow and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1831; M.P. for South Wilts., Dec. 1832 to Jany. 1861; sec. of board of control Jany. to April 1835; joint sec. of the admiralty 10 Sep. 1841 to 13 Feb. 1845; sec. of state for war 4 Feb. 1845 to 6 July 1846, 29 Dec. 1852 to 8 Feb. 1855 and 18 June 1859 to July 1861; sec. of state for the colonies Feb. 1855 to 15 May 1855; P.C. 3 Feb. 1845; first president National Volunteer assoc. 16 Nov. 1859; cr. Baron Herbert of Lea, Wilts. 15 Jany. 1861; made great sanitary reforms in the army; author of Proposal for the better application of cathedral institutions to their intended use 1849; The conduct of the war. A speech 1854; Military education. A speech 1856. d. Wilton house, Salisbury 2 Aug. 1861, his statue in front of war office, Pall Mall, London, unveiled 1 June 1867. The British Cabinet in 1853, 276–86; H. Martineau’s Biog. sketches (1876) 78–90; Fraser’s Mag. lxv, 198 (1861); I.L.N. iv, 136 (1844), portrait.

Note.—With Lord Lincoln afterwards the duke of Newcastle, he became interested in the Morning Chronicle, which was the organ of the Peelites from 21 Feb. 1848 under the editorship of John Douglas Cook.—In the autumn of 1854 the paper was sold to Serjeant William Glover.—Lord Herbert is said to have lost £116,000 in this undertaking.—Bourne’s English newspapers, ii, 152–8.

HERBERT, Alfred (son of Thomas Herbert, waterman). Apprentice to a boat-builder; painter of coast scenes with fishing boats and figures and views in the reaches of the Thames; exhibited 14 pictures at R.A., 3 at B.I. and 26 at Suffolk st. 1844–60; obliged to sell his pictures to dealers at low prices; 2 of his pictures are at South Kensington. d. Jany. 1861. Redgrave Dict. of Artists (1878) 209; Art Journal 1861 p. 56.

HERBERT, Algernon (youngest son of 1 Earl of Carnarvon 1741–1811). b. 12 July 1792; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., removed to Exeter coll., B.A. 1813, M.A. 1825; fellow of Merton coll. 1814–31, subwarden 1826, dean 1828; barrister I.T. 27 Nov. 1818; published Nimrod, a discourse upon certain passages of history and fable, By A. H. part i. 1826, reprinted, remodelled and republished in 2 vols. 1828, a 3 vol. 1828, vol. 4 part i. 1829, part ii. 1830; Britannia after the Romans, By the Hon. A. H. 2 vols. 1836–41; Cyclops Christianus, or an argument to disprove the antiquity of the Stonehenge and other Megalithic erections in England and Britanny 1849. d. Ickleton, Cambs. 11 June 1855. G.M. xliv, 649–50 (1855).

HERBERT, Charles. b. 1783; entered Madras army 1803; colonel 16 Madras N.I. 29 June 1842 to death; general 26 April 1866; C.B. 20 July 1838. d. Morland lodge, Croydon 17 Jany. 1867 aged 84.

HERBERT, Charles. b. 1805; ensign 66 foot 10 Dec. 1825; lieut. col. 75 foot 2 June 1857 to 7 Dec. 1858; lieut. col. 54 foot 7 Dec. 1858 to 27 July 1866 when he retired on full pay; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 1 Jany. 1858. d. Boyle cottage, Thames Ditton 19 Sep. 1879.

HERBERT, Sir Charles Lyon. M.D.; knighted at St. James’s palace 19 Aug. 1836; (m. 1812 Anne dau. of Humphrey Jeffreys of Bristol, she d. Florence 28 Nov. 1860), he d. Lower Berkeley st. Manchester sq. London 1855.

HERBERT, Cyril Wiseman (youngest son of John Rogers Herbert 1810–90). b. Gloucester road, Old Brompton, London 30 Sep. 1847; godson of Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman; ed. in France, at St. Mary’s coll. Oscott and King’s coll. London; studied in Italy 1868; exhibited 5 pictures at R.A, 1870–5; some of his paintings were Homeward after labour. Roman cattle driven home 1870; Returning to the fold. Welsh sheep driven home 1874, in Walker art gallery, Liverpool; curator of antique school in Royal Academy 1882. d. The Chimes, Kilburn 2 July 1882. Academy 8 July 1882 p. 38; Art Journal 1882 p. 256.

HERBERT, Dennis. Inspecting field officer of militia, Nova Scotia 28 Jany. 1808 to 17 March 1817 when placed on h.p.; general 20 June 1854. d. Exeter 19 Sep. 1861.

HERBERT, Edward Charles Hugh (younger son of 2 Earl of Carnarvon 1772–1833). b. 30 March 1802; M.P. for Callington, Cornwall 1831–32. d. 30 May 1852.

HERBERT, Edward Gilbert. Ed. at Univ. college, London; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1862; equity draftsman and conveyancer; lecturer on law at Univ. of London; brought out with other writers a volume of essays entitled Religious Republics 1869 in which he wrote The Congregational Character pp. 91–132; wrote on art in public journals. d. Nottingham 12 March 1871.

HERBERT, Edward Henry Charles (only son of E. C. H. Herbert 1802–52). b. 1 Sep. 1837; ed. at Ball. coll. Ox., scholar 1855–61, B.A. 1859, M.A. 1865; 3 sec. of legation at Athens 16 Nov. 1868 to death; while on an excursion to the plains of Marathon, taken prisoner by Greek brigands and murdered at Oropos Sykamenos 21 April 1870, bur. Burghclere ch. yard 15 May. Times 14 April 1870 p. 5, 7 May p. 12, 17 May p. 6; I.L.N. lvi, 491, 557 (1870); Parl. Papers 1870 and 1871.

HERBERT, Henry Arthur (elder son of Charles John Herbert of Muckross abbey, co. Kerry, d. 1836). b. Muckross 1815; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; M.P. for co. Kerry 9 Aug. 1847 to death; chief sec. to lord lieut. of Ireland, June 1857 to Feb. 1858; P.C. 25 June 1857; sheriff of Kerry 1836; lord lieut. of Kerry 1853 to death; hon. colonel of Kerry militia 9 Jany. 1854 to death. d. Adare manor, Limerick 26 Feb. 1866. I.L.N. xxv, 616 (1854), portrait.

HERBERT, Henry William (elder son of Hon. and Rev. William Herbert 1778–1847, dean of Manchester). b. 10 Poland st. Oxford st. London 3 April 1807; ed. at Eton and at Caius coll. Cam., B.A. 1830; classical master in Rev. R. T. Huddart’s sch. New York 1831–9; with A. D. Patterson established the American Monthly Mag. 1833; made much money but was improvident and quarrelled with his friends; lived at The Cedars on the Passaic 1846–58; author of Cromwell, a novel 2 vols. 1837; The Roman traitor 3 vols. 1846; The knights of England, France and Scotland 1852; Memoirs of Henry VIII of England and his six wives 1858; under the pseudonym of Frank Forester he wrote My Shooting Box 1846; Frank Forester and his friends 3 vols. 1849; The Deerstalker 1850; Horse and horsemanship of the United States and British provinces 2 vols. 1857 and other books; shot himself through the head at Stevens house, Broadway, New York 17 May 1858. Judd’s Life of F. Forester 2 vols. (1882), portrait; Picton’s Life of F. Forester (1881); Appleton’s American Biog. iii, 179–80 (1877), portrait.

HERBERT, John (son of Wm. Herbert 1771–1851, librarian Guildhall library, city of London). b. Walcot place, Lambeth 28 Feb. 1814; appeared as Romeo in the Catherine st. theatre 1831; a comic singer at Vauxhall, Cremorne and Rosherville 1833 etc.; played in dramatic companies at Brighton 1837–8, at York 1839–40, at Newcastle 1840, at Sadler’s Wells 1841, at the Victoria 1843, at City of London 1844–7; a low comedian of much ability, his best character was Paulo in Plot and Counterplot; acted at Royal theatre, Edinburgh 1851–2. d. Edinburgh 6 April 1852. Theatrical Times, ii, 217, 226 (1847), portrait; J. C. Dibdin’s Edinburgh Stage (1888) 434, 436.

HERBERT, John Maurice (son of John Lawrence Herbert of New hall, Montgomeryshire). b. 15 July 1808; ed. at cathedral school, Hereford and St. John coll. Cam., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833; fellow of his college 1830–40; barrister L.I. 8 May 1835; assistant tithe and copyhold comr.; comr. for enfranchising assessionable manors of duchy of Cornwall; judge of county courts, circuit No. 24 (South Wales) 12 March 1847 to death; F.G.S. d. Rocklands near Ross 3 Nov. 1882. I.L.N. lxxxi, 569 (1882), portrait; Red Dragon, iii, 1 (1883), portrait.

HERBERT, John Rogers (son of the controller of customs, Maldon, Essex). b. Maldon 23 Jany. 1810; student R. Acad. London 1826; exhibited 69 pictures at R.A., 26 at B.I. and 7 at Suffolk st. 1830–80; studied in Italy 1835; joined the Church of Rome 1840; A.R.A. 1841, R.A. 1846, retired 1886; a master of the School of design, Somerset house 1837; decorated the peers’ robing room, house of lords with 9 pictures, the best being, Moses bringing the tables of the law, executed in the water glass process and taking 14 years to complete; commenced painting religious subjects with, Introduction of Christianity into Britain 1842; some of his best known works are, Sir Thomas More and his daughter 1844; The acquittal of the seven bishops 1846; Our Saviour subject to his parents at Nazareth 1847; Laborare est orare 1862; The sower of good seed 1865; The bay of Salamis 1869; The adoration of the Magi 1874. d. The Chimes, Kilburn 17 March 1890. bur. Kensal green. Sandby’s Hist. of R. Academy, ii, 179–81 (1862); Sherer’s Gallery of British artists, i, 39–46; I.L.N. 29 March 1890 p. 390, portrait; Pictorial World 3 April 1890 pp. 423, 441, portrait; Times 20 March 1890 p. 10.

HERBERT, Sir Percy Egerton (2 son of 2 Earl of Powis 1785–1848). b. Powis castle, Montgomeryshire 15 April 1822; ed. at Eton and Sandhurst; ensign 43 foot 17 Jany. 1840; served in Kaffir war 1851–3, Russian war 1854–6 and wounded at the Alma, Indian mutiny 1857–8; A.D.C. to the Queen 29 June 1855 to 28 Jany. 1868; lieut.-col. 82 foot 19 Feb. 1858 to 16 Nov. 1860 when placed on h.p.; deputy quartermaster general 1 Nov. 1860 to 28 April 1865; L.G. 22 Sep. 1875; colonel 74 highlanders April 1876; M.P. Ludlow 1854–60; M.P. South Shropshire 1865 to death; treasurer of H.M.’s household 27 Feb. 1867 to Dec. 1868; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 2 June 1869; P.C. 19 March 1867. d. Styche, Market Drayton 7 Oct. 1876.

HERBERT, St. Leger Algernon (1 son of Frederick Charles Herbert 1819–68, commander in navy). b. Kingston, Canada 16 Aug. 1850; ed. at naval sch. New Cross, Kent and at Wadham coll. Ox., scholar 1869–74; in Canadian C.S. 1875–8; private sec. to Sir Garnet Wolseley in Cyprus 1878 and in South Africa 1879; at the storming of Sekokoeni’s Mountain and for his services C.M.G. 1880; a correspondent of The Times from 1878; sec. to Sir F. Roberts in Africa, Feb. 1881; sec. to Transvaal commission 1881; special correspondent for Morning Post in Egypt from Sep. 1883, shot through the leg at Tamai; on staff of Sir H. Stewart in Egypt 1884, killed at battle of Gubat near Metammeh in the Soudan 19 Jany. 1885; monument to memory of 7 journalists who died in Soudan, in crypt of St. Paul’s. Morning Post 29 Jany. 1885 p. 5; I.L.N. lxxxvi, 171 (1885), portrait.

HERBERT, Sir Thomas (2 son of Richard Townshend Herbert of Cahirnane, M.P. co. Kerry 1783–90). b. Cahirnane, Feb. 1793; entered navy 23 July 1803; captain 25 Nov. 1822; served in China during war operations in Canton river 1840–41; commodore on south east coast of America 11 Jany. 1847 to 21 June 1849; a junior lord of admiralty, Feb. to Dec. 1852; V.A. 8 Dec. 1857; sheriff of Kerry 1829; C.B. 29 June 1841, K.C.B. 14 Oct. 1841; M.P. for Dartmouth 1852–57. d. 74 Cadogan place, London 4 Aug. 1861.

HERBERT, Rev. Thomas Martin (son of Thomas Herbert of Nottingham). b. Nottingham 18 Oct. 1835; ed. at Mill Hill sch., Spring Hill coll., Lancashire coll. and at Univ. coll. London, B.A. London, M.A.; congregational minister at Nether chapel, Sheffield to 1867, at Cheadle 1868–76; professor of philosophy and church history, Lancashire coll. 1876 to death; author of The external relations of Congregationalism, printed in Religious Republics 1869; Difficulties in the way of religious education by the state 1874; The realistic assumptions of modern science 1879. d. Ottringham near Manchester 28 Nov. 1877. The Congregationalist, vii, 33–40 (1878); Congregational Year Book (1879) 320–21.

HERBERT, William. b. 1771; librarian Guildhall library, city of London 1828–45; author of Antiquities of the inns of court and chancery 1804; Select views of London and its environs 2 vols. 1804–5; The history of the twelve great livery companies of London 2 vols. 1836–7; with E. W. Brayley he wrote Syr Reginalde or the Black tower, a romance 1803; History of Lambeth palace 1806; with Robert Wilkinson Londina illustrata 2 vols. 1819–25. d. 40 Brunswick st. Haggerston, London 18 Nov. 1851.

HERBISON, David (son of an innkeeper, d. 1827). b. Ballymena, co. Antrim 14 Oct. 1800; a hand loom linen weaver 1814–27 and 1830 to death; resided in Canada 1827–30; known as The Bard of Dunclug; author of The fate of Mc. Quillan and O’Neill’s daughter, poems, Belfast 1841; Midnight musings 1848; Woodland wanderings 1858; The Snow wreath 1869, with Autobiography of the author; The children of the year 1876. d. Dunclug near Ballymena 26 May 1880, monu. at Ballymena. Collected works of D. Herbison, ed. by Rev. D. Mc. Meekin (1883), with memoir.

HERDMAN, Robert (4 son of Rev. William Herdman, minister of Rattray, Perthshire, d. 1838). b. Rattray 17 Sep. 1829; ed. at Madras coll. St. Andrews 1838, and at Univ. of St. Andrews; studied art in Trustees’ acad. Edin. 1847 and in Italy 1854–6 and 1868; A.R. Scottish Acad. 1858, Academician 1863; portrait, figure and landscape painter; exhibited at R. Scottish Acad. 1850 to death; exhibited 32 pictures at R.A. Lond. and 2 at B.I. 1861–80; some of his paintings were, After the battle, a scene in covenanting times 1870, in National gallery, Scotland; Charles Edward seeking shelter in the house of an adherent 1876; Landless and homeless 1887; author of Address to the students of the Board of manufacturers’ Art School 1888; found dead in his studio from heart disease, Edinburgh 10 Jany. 1888. Times 12 Jany. 1888 p. 6.

HERDMAN, William Gawin (son of a corn merchant). b. Liverpool 13 March 1805; art teacher Liverpool; member of Liverpool academy till 1857 when he was expelled for his opposition to pre-Raphaeliteism; established an Art school in Liverpool 1857; exhibited 5 pictures at R.A. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1834–61; the reformation of perspective occupied much of his time; the founder of shilling art-unions; F.S.A.; published Views of Fleetwood-on-Wyre 1838; Studies from the folio of W. G. H. 1838; Pictorial relics of ancient Liverpool 1843; A treatise on the curvilinear perspective of nature 1853; Thoughts on speculative cosmology and the principles of art 1870; found dead in his bed at 41 St. Domingo vale, Liverpool 29 March 1882. Bryan’s Dictionary of painters (1886) 645; Liverpool Mercury 1 April 1882 p. 5.

HERING, George Edwards (younger son of a German bookbinder). b. London 1805; studied in Munich art sch. 1829 and in Italy 1830 etc.; landscape painter; exhibited 88 pictures at R.A., 86 at B.I. and 10 at Suffolk st. 1836–80; among his paintings were The ruins of the palace of the Cæsars at Rome 1836; Amalfi 1841 and Capri 18—, both in the Royal collection; Bridge over a stream 1847, in South Kensington museum; published Sketches on the Danube, in Hungary and Transilvania 1838; The mountains and lakes in Switzerland, the Tyrol and Italy, twenty coloured lithographs 1847. d. 45 Grove end road, St. John’s Wood, London 18 Dec. 1879, his wife a well known painter, exhibited landscapes 1853–8. Art Journal, xxxii, 83; Clement and Hutton’s Artists (1879) 348.

HERIOT, Frederick Lewis Maitland. b. 6 Feb. 1818; barrister 1839, advocate depute; sheriff of Forfarshire 21 Feb. 1862 to death; edited The Scottish jurist, containing reports of cases decided in the courts of session. d. Paris 7 March 1881. Journal of Jurisprudence, xxv, 204 (1881).

HERMAN, George Frederic. Joined British auxiliary legion in Spain as a captain in the Rifle corps 11 July 1835 and was present during all the fighting 1835–8, lieut.-col. 1 Oct. 1836; went out to Syria as assistant adjutant general on staff of Sir Charles Smith 1840 and served through Syrian campaign, receiving Sultan’s gold medal; vice consul at Bengazi 31 March 1848; consul at Tripoli 1 Jany. 1852 and consul general there 26 March 1856 to 13 Jany. 1865, retired on a pension 18 July 1865. d. 2 Aug. 1873. Foreign Office List (1873) 111–12.

HERMON, Edward (son of Richard Hermon). b. London about 1821; member of firm of Horrocks, Miller and Co. cotton spinners, Preston; M.P. Preston 1868–81; gave money for prizes, for Essays on the prevention of explosions and accidents in coal mines 1874. d. Berkeley sq. London 6 May 1881, personalty sworn to be £588,000 on 25 June 1881, his pictures were sold for £37,116 4s. 6d. on 13 May 1882.

HERON, Denis Caulfield (eld. son of W. Heron). b. Dublin 1826; ed. at St. Gregory’s Downside and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1845, LL.B. and LLD. 1857; obtained a university scholarship 1845 but precluded from enjoying it on account of being a Roman Catholic; called to Irish bar 1848; professor of jurisprudence in Queen’s college, Galway 1849–59; Q.C. 4 July 1860; law adviser at Dublin Castle, April to July 1866; bencher of King’s Inns 1872; M.P. for Tipperary 1870–74; third serjeant at law Oct. 1880 to death; author of The constitutional history of the university of Dublin 1847; Should the tenant of land possess the property in the improvements made by him? 1852; An introduction to the history of jurisprudence 1860; The principles of jurisprudence 1873. d. while salmon fishing on the river Corrib at Galway 15 April 1881. bur. Glasnevin cemetery, Dublin 19 April. Case of D. C. Heron against the provost and senior fellows of Trinity college, Dublin (1846).

HERON, Sir Joseph (son of James Holt Heron, merchant). b. Manchester 1809; ed. at Moravian sch. at Fairfield; admitted attorney and solicitor 1830; town clerk of Manchester, Dec. 1838 to death, an able administrator, instrumental in obtaining the act for the Thirlmere water scheme for Manchester 1879; knighted at Windsor castle 9 July 1869. d. Cannes, France 23 Dec. 1889. Times 25 Dec. 1889 p. 4; Law Journal, xxv, 14 (1890).

HERON, Matilda. b. Labby vale, Londonderry, Ireland 1 Dec. 1830; studied in Philadelphia, U.S. America under Peter Richings; first appeared at Walnut st. theatre as Bianca in Fazio 17 Feb. 1851; played at St. Louis 1852, in San Francisco 1853, in New York 1854 and 1857 when she acted as Camille her most successful character. (m. 24 Dec. 1857 Robert Stoepel, musical director, from whom she separated 1862, sued for a divorce March 1869); appeared at Lyceum, London as Rosalie Lee in New Year’s Eve 1 April 1861 but met with little success; returned to U.S. America, made last appearance as Medea in April 1876; teacher of elocution New York 1876 to death; published Camille. Adapted from the French of A. Dumas [by M. H.] 1856; Medea, a tragedy by G. J. B. E. W. Legouvé, translated 1857. d. New York city 7 March 1877. Appleton’s American Biog. iii, 184 (1887), portrait; Soulé’s Annals of San Francisco (1855) 661, portrait.

HERON, Sir Robert, 2 Baronet (only son of Thomas Heron of Chilham castle, Kent). b. Newark 27 Nov. 1765; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; succeeded his uncle Sir R. Heron 18 Jany. 1805; came into large property on death of his uncle Rev. Robert Heron 19 Jany. 1813; M.P. Grimsby 1812–18; contested Lincolnshire 1818; M.P. Peterborough 1819–47; built the nave and tower of Stubton ch. Lincolnshire; author of Notes. Grantham 1850, reprinted 1851. d. Stubton hall near Newark 29 May 1854. G.M. July 1854 pp. 74–5.

HERRIES, Sir Charles John (eld. son of succeeding). b. 1815; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840; barrister I.T. 20 Nov. 1840; commissioner of excise 22 Nov. 1842; dep. chairman of board of inland revenue 1856, chairman 15 Aug. 1877, retired 1881 on a pension of £1353; C.B. 1871, K.C.B. 27 Oct. 1880; author of Memoir of Rt. Hon. J. C. Herries 2 vols. 1880. d. St. Julian’s, Sevenoaks 14 March 1883. Times 16 March 1870 p. 8.

HERRIES, John Charles (eld. son of Charles Herries of London, merchant, d. 1819). b. Nov. 1778; ed. at Cheam and at Univ. of Leipsic; clerk in the treasury 5 July 1798; private sec. to Nicholas Vansittart when secretary of the treasury 1801–1802, to Spencer Perceval when prime minister 1810–12; secretary and registrar to order of the Bath, Jany. 1809, resigned 1822; comptroller of army accounts 1811; commissary in chief 1 Oct. 1811 to 24 Oct. 1816 when office was abolished and he retired on pension of £1350; auditor of the civil list 29 Oct. 1816 to 1821; financial sec. to the treasury 7 Feb. 1823 to 4 Sep. 1827; chancellor of the exchequer 17 Aug. 1827 to 26 Jany. 1828; P.C. 17 Aug. 1827; master of the mint 12 Feb. 1828 to 14 Dec. 1830; president of board of trade 2 Feb. 1830 to 22 Nov. 1830; secretary at war 16 Dec. 1834 to 20 April 1835; president of board of control 28 Feb. to Dec. 1852; member of the India board 28 Feb. 1852; M.P. for Harwich 1823–41; contested Ipswich 3 July 1841; M.P. for Stamford 1847–53; translated Frederick Gentz’s work On the state of Europe before and after the French revolution 1803. d. St. Julian’s, Sevenoaks 24 April 1855. E. Herries’ Memoir of J. C. Herries 2 vols. 1880; Portraits of eminent conservatives and statesmen 2 series (1846); I.L.N. xiv, 269 (1849), portrait.

HERRIES, Sir William Lewis (brother of the preceding). b. Amiens, France 1785; cornet 19 dragoons 23 Jany. 1801; served in South America, at Walcheren, at siege of Flushing and in Peninsula; lost his leg before Bayonne 1814; permanent assistant quartermaster general 28 July 1814 to 31 July 1817 when placed on h.p.; chairman of board of comrs. for auditing public accounts; lieut.-col. on half pay 13 Aug. 1830 to 9 Nov. 1846; a comr. of Chelsea hospital; col. of 68 foot 17 April 1854 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854; K.C.H. 1826; knighted at Carlton house 29 May 1826; C.B. 19 July 1831. d. 14 Bolton st. Piccadilly, London 3 June 1857.

HERRING, John Frederick (son of Mr. Herring, fringe maker, Newgate st. London). b. Surrey 1795; coach painter at Doncaster 1814; driver of the Nelson coach from Wakefield to Lincoln 1814–6, then of the Doncaster and Halifax coach, and later on of the Highflyer coach between London and York; painted Filho da Puta the winner of the St. Leger 1815, and the winners for 32 years in succession; painted Mameluke the winner of the Derby 1827 and the winners for 18 years following; at Doncaster till 1830, at Six mile bottom, Newmarket 1830–33, settled at Camberwell 1833; exhibited 22 pictures at R.A., 44 at B.I. and 82 at Suffolk st. 1818–68; member of Soc. of British Artists 1841–52; animal painter to duchess of Kent; among his pictures were, A frugal meal, now in National gallery; A group of ducks, in the Glasgow gallery, and A black horse drinking from a trough, in National gallery, Dublin; many of his paintings were engraved, and published by Fores, Fuller and Graves; he published The Horse, 12 plates. d. Meopham park near Tunbridge Wells 23 Sep. 1865. Memoir of J. F. Herring. Sheffield (1848), portrait; Scott and Sebright, By the Druid (1862) 88–93; I.L.N. xlvii, 360, 361 (1865), portrait.

HERRING, Paul, stage name of William Smith. b. 20 Sep. 1800; clown at Richardson’s show playing 12 times a day and also taking part in the outside parade; acted Bob Logic in the original cast of Tom and Jerry at the royal amphitheatre 17 Sep. 1821; in H. Brading’s dramatic co. at Albert saloon, Shepherd fields, London where he was the hero in The imp of the devil’s gorge 1841; clown at Victoria theatre under Daniel Webster Osbaldiston; played clown last time at St. James’ theatre 1859; pantaloon from 1859, played in The White Cat at Drury Lane 1877. d. 32 North st. Hercules buildings, Lambeth, London 18 Sep. 1878. bur. Tooting cemetery 25 Sep. The Era 22 and 29 Sep. 1878; Illust. S. and D. News, ii, 268 (1874); Tinsley’s Mag., July 1883 pp. 72–6.

HERRING, Richard. b. 1829; paper agent and wholesale stationer Finsbury pavement, London; made a study of telegraphy; author of Paper and paper making, ancient and modern 1855, 3 ed. 1863; A letter on the collection of rags for paper making 1860; A few personal recollections of the Rev. George Croly 1861; Mr. Herring and the telegraphs 1874, 4 ed. 1875 and other books. d. 27 St. Mary’s road, Islington 5 Oct. 1886. The Bookseller 8 Oct. 1886 p. 949.

HERSCHEL, Sir John Frederick William, 1 Baronet (only child of Sir Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel, astronomer 1738–1822). b. Slough, Bucks. 7 March 1792; ed. at Hitcham, Eton and St. John’s coll. Cam., senior wrangler, Smith’s prizeman and fellow of his coll. 1813; B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816; F.R.S. 27 May 1813, member of council, one of secretaries 1824–7, royal medallist 1833, 1836 and 1840; a founder of R. Astronomical soc. 1820, wrote the inaugural address, first foreign secretary 1824–7, medallist 1826, 1836, president 1827; discovered 525 new nebulae; discovered double stars; made researches and discoveries in light, heat and photography, one of the greatest men since Sir Isaac Newton; K.H. 12 Oct. 1831; baronet 17 July 1838; lord rector of Marischal college, Aberdeen, March 1842; master of the mint 13 Dec. 1850, resigned Feb. 1855; president of British association at Cambridge meeting 1845; one of the 8 foreign members of Institute of France 23 July 1855; wrote upwards of 150 scientific papers; author of Results of astronomical observations made 1834–8 at Cape of Good Hope being the completion of a survey of the heavens 1847; A manual of scientific enquiry, for the use of the navy 1849, 5 ed. 1886; Outlines of astronomy 1849, 10 ed. 1869; Familiar lectures on scientific subjects 1866; The Iliad of Homer translated into accentuated hexameters 1866. d. Collingwood, Hawkhurst, Kent 11 May 1871. bur. Westminster abbey 19 May. Dunkin’s Obituary notices of astronomers (1879) 47–85; Martineau’s Biog. sketches (1876) 449–67; Monthly notices R. Astronom. soc. xxxii, 122–42 (1872); Illust. News of World, ix (1862), portrait; Year book of facts (1846), portrait.

HERSCHELL, Helen S. (dau. of William Mowbray of Edinburgh). A Latin, Greek, Hebrew and German scholar; a friend of Rev. Edward Irving 1834–8. (m. 1831 the succeeding); wrote The Bystander, a series of papers in The Christian Ladies’ magazine; author of The child’s help to self-examination and prayer 1835; The voice from the fire 1839. d. Bonn, Germany 31 Dec. 1853. bur. Kensal green 12 Jany. 1854. Far above rubies. Memoir of Helen S. Herschell (1854).

HERSCHELL, Rev. Ridley Haim (son of a Jew). b. Strzelno, Prussian Poland 7 April 1807; ed. at Berlin univ. 1822; baptized in England by bishop of London 1830; missionary among the Jews; in charge of Lady Olivia Sparrow’s schools and mission work at Leigh, Essex and Brampton, Hunts. 1835–8; opened an unsectarian chapel in London 1838, removed to Trinity chapel, John st. Edgware road 1846; a founder of British soc. for propagating gospel among Jews; one of first to establish school excursions; a founder of Evangelical Alliance 1845; author of A brief sketch of the state and expectations of the Jews 3 ed. 1834; Plain reasons why I a Jew have become a catholic and not a Roman catholic 1842; A visit to my fatherland. Notes of a journey to Syria and Palestine 1844; edited The voice of Israel conducted by Jews who believe that Jesus is the Messiah, vols. 1–2, 1845–7, and other books. d. Brighton 14 April 1864.

HERSEE, William. b. Coldwaltham, Sussex 1786; a ploughman; bookseller with Cooper at Bunhill row, London 1813; accountant in Inland revenue office, London 1809–26; edited the Warwick Advertiser 1831 to March 1852; published Poems, rural and domestic. Chichester 1810; The battle of Vittoria, a poem 1813; The spirit of the orders issued by the board of excise for the guidance of officers 1829 and other books. d. Warwick 6 Aug. 1854.

HERSHON, Paul Isaac. b. Galicia 1817; early converted to Christianity; a missionary for promoting christianity among the Jews in England; director of the house of industry for Jews at Jerusalem, and then of the model farm at Jaffa, retired 1859; author of Extracts from the Talmud 1860; The Pentateuch according to the Talmud. Genesis 1878; A Talmudic miscellany 1880; Treasures of the Talmud 1882; translated the New Testament into Judæo-Polish for the use of the Continental Jews. d. 9 Park avenue, Wood Green, Middlesex 14 Oct. 1888. Times 15 Oct. 1888 p. 10.

HERTFORD, Maria Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of (dau. of the Marchese Fagniani an Italian). b. 1771; known as Mie Mie; lived with George Selwyn as his adopted dau. at Matson hall, Gloucester 1779–91 when he died leaving her £30,000; a public singer. (m. 18 May 1798 Francis, Earl of Yarmouth who in 1822 became 3 Marquis of Hertford 1777–1842); travelled on the continent as the acknowledged mistress of Marshal Andoche Junot, duc d’Abrantes 1802–4; the 4th Duke of Queensberry (’Old Q’) bequeathed to her by will in 1810 a sum of £100,000. d. 3 Rue Taitbout, Paris, March 1856 aged 85. P. Fitzgerald’s Kings and Queens of an hour, ii, 355–70 (1883); The Croker Papers, By L. J. Jennings, i, 235–6 (1884).

HERTFORD, Richard Seymour-Conway, 4 Marquis of (elder son of 3 Marquis of Hertford 1777–1842). b. 22 Feb. 1800; styled viscount Beauchamp 1800–22, earl of Yarmouth 1822–42; attaché of embassy at Paris 1817; cornet 2 dragoons 24 Feb. 1820, captain 25 March to 17 April 1823 when placed on h.p.; M.P. co. Antrim 1821–26; captain of Cape corps of cavalry 1823; attaché of embassy at Constantinople 1829; succeeded his father 1 March 1842; K.G. 19 Jany. 1846; commander of Legion of Honour for encouragement given to the arts 14 Nov. 1855; known by the nickname of Bagatelle. d. 6 Rue Lafitte, Paris 25 Aug. 1870. bur. Père Lachaise cemetery, personalty sworn under £500,000, 8 July 1871. Irish Reports. Common Law series, vi, 196–220, 343–410 (1873); Some professional recollections [By C. R. Williams] (1883) 75–92; Waagen’s Treasures of art, ii, 154–61 (1854); Waagen’s Galleries of art (1857) 79–92; Lippincott’s Mag. xiii, 191–6 (1874).

HERTFORD, Francis Hugh George Seymour, 5 Marquis of (son of Sir George Francis Seymour, G.C.B. 1787–1870). b. 11 Feb. 1812; ensign 3 foot guards 12 July 1827, captain 28 Nov. 1845 to 10 Dec. 1847; groom of the robes to the Queen 1837–70; state steward to lord lieut. of Ireland 1843–46; equerry to Prince Albert 1846–58, to the Queen 1858–70; deputy ranger of Windsor great park 1850–70; succeeded his cousin 25 Aug. 1870; lord chamberlain of the household 21 Feb. 1874 to 7 May 1879; P.C. 2 March 1874; general 10 Feb. 1876; G.C.B. 24 Jany. 1879. d. Ragley hall near Alcester, Warws. 25 Jany. 1884. Graphic, xxix, 100 (1884), portrait; I.L.N. lxxxiv, 97 (1884), portrait.

HERTSLET, Lewis. b. Nov. 1787; sub-librarian in foreign office, London 5 Feb. 1801, librarian and keeper of the papers 6 Jany. 1810 to 20 Nov. 1857 when he retired on pension; superintendent of queen’s messengers and comptroller of their accounts for three secretaries of state offices 30 June 1824 to 30 June 1854 when office abolished; author of A complete collection of the treaties between Great Britain and foreign powers and of the laws concerning the same 11 vols. 1827–66. d. 16 Great college st. Westminster, London 15 March 1870.

HERTZEN or GERTSEN, Aleksandr Ivanovich (son of Mr. Yakovlef, d. 1846). b. Moscow 1812; ed. at Moscow univ.; imprisoned in 1835, in Siberia 1835–7; editor of Vladimir gazette 1837; in office of minister of interior, Moscow 1840; in France, Switzerland and Italy 1846; came to England 1848, established a printing office in Paternoster row, edited the Free Russian Press; The Polar Star; Kolokol [The Bell], ed. by Iskander, 196 numbers 1857–63, it was afterwards published at Geneva; lost his influence by taking the side of the Polish insurgents; author of Imprimerie Russe á Londres 1855; La France ou l’Angleterre. Par Iscander 1858; Le monde Russe et la Révolution 2 parts 1860–62 and many other works in French, Russian and Polish. d. Paris 21 Jany. 1870. Temple Bar, April 1870 pp. 44–58, by W. R. S. Ralston; A. Hertzen’s My exile to Siberia 2 vols. (1855).

HERVEY, Alfred (youngest son of 1 marquis of Bristol 1769–1859). b. St. James’ sq. London 25 June 1816; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1837, LLD. 1864; barrister I.T. 27 Jany. 1843; M.P. for Brighton 1842–57, for Bury St. Edmunds 1859–65; a lord of the treasury Dec. 1852 to Feb. 1855; keeper of privy seal to Prince of Wales 4 Feb. 1853 to 1855; receiver general of inland revenue 1871 to death. d. Lowndes st. London 15 April 1875. I.L.N. lxvi, 402 (1875).

HERVEY, Andrew. Entered Bengal army 1805; col. 52 Bengal N.I. 8 March 1849 to death; L.G. 23 July 1861; C.B. 9 June 1849. d. England 14 June 1862.

HERVEY, Augustus Henry Charles (2 son of 2 marquis of Bristol 1800–64). b. Ickworth park, Bury St. Edmunds 2 Aug. 1837; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1859; attaché at St. Petersburg 31 July 1862, at Dresden 19 Feb. 1863, resigned 24 Jany. 1865; M.P. West Suffolk 8 Dec. 1864 to death. d. at res. of his brother 6 St. James’ sq. London 28 May 1875.

HERVEY, Thomas Kibble (son of James Hervey of Manchester, drysalter). b. Paisley 4 Feb. 1799; ed. at Manchester free gr. sch.; articled to Sharp, Eccles & Co. solicitors, Manchester; studied for the bar; at Trin. coll. Cam. 1818–20; edited the Friendship’s Offering 1826–7; migrated to Paris 1827 but soon returned to London; edited The Amaranth 1839; a leading contributor to the Athenæum from 1828, editor 23 May 1846, resigned Dec. 1853; contributed to the Art Journal 1855–9. (m. 17 Oct. 1843 Eleanor Louisa dau. of George Conway Montagu, she is an author and poetess); author of Australia with other poems 1824; The poetical sketch book 1829; The book of Christmas 1837; The English Helicon 1841. d. Kentish town, London 27 Feb. 1859. bur. Highgate cemet. The poems of T. K. Hervey, Ed. by Mrs. Hervey with a memoir (1866), portrait; Manchester sch. register, iii, 284 (1874).

HERZ, James. b. 1807; founder of the Cheque Bank opened Pall Mall east, London 23 July 1873, the payment of all cheques drawn being guaranteed by the Bank. d. Coburg hotel 14 Charles st. Grosvenor sq. London 23 Feb. 1880. Times 1 April 1873 p. 10, 25 Sep. p. 5, 26 Sep. p. 4; Banker’s Mag. xxxiii, 651, 930 (1873).

HESKETH, Sir Thomas George Fermor, 5 Baronet. b. Rufford hall near Ormskirk, Lancs. 11 Jany. 1825; succeeded 10 Feb. 1843; sheriff of Lancs. 1848; lieut. col. commandant 2 royal Lancashire militia 1 March 1852 to 25 Sep. 1872; M.P. for Preston 4 April 1862 to death; assumed name of Fermor by royal license 8 Nov. 1867. d. Rufford hall 20 Aug. 1872. I.L.N. lxi, 215, 571 (1872).

HESKETH-FLEETWOOD, Sir Peter, 1 Baronet (3 son of Robert Hesketh of Rossall, Lancs. 1764–1824). b. Wennington hall near Lancaster 9 May 1801; ed. at Trin. coll. Ox., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826; sheriff of Lancashire 1830; assumed by r.l. additional name of Fleetwood, March 1831; M.P. for Preston 10 Dec. 1832 to July 1847; cr. a Baronet 20 July 1838; projected and commenced building town of Fleetwood, Lancashire on his estate at Rossall at mouth of river Wyre 1836; published a translation of Victor Hugo’s Last days of a condemned, to which he prefixed Observations on capital punishment 1840. d. 127 Piccadilly, London 12 April 1866. G.M. i, 908 (1866); I.L.N. xlviii, 426 (1866); Herald and genealogist, iv, 371 (1866–7).

HESLEDEN, William Smith. b. 1773; Assoc. British Archæol. Assoc. 1845; wrote An account of ancient earth works at Barton and on the site of the battle of Brunanburgh in the time of Athelstan; published A sketch of the properties of Sutton patent gravitated sails for windmills 1807. d. Barton-upon-Humber 24 Dec. 1854. Journ. B. Archæol. Assoc. xi, 162 (1855).

HESLOP, Rev. George Henry (1 son of Rev. Alfred Heslop of Keswick, Cumb.) b. 1822; ed. at Queen’s coll. Ox., scholar 1842–8, fellow 1848–51; B.A. 1846, M.A. 1846; head master of St. Bees gram. sch. 1854–79; hon. canon of Carlisle 1875; R. of Church Oakley, Hants. 1879 to death; one of the most exact and correct scholars of his time; in the Catena Classicorum series, Rivingtons, London, he edited Demosthenes’ Orationes publicae 1868 and Demosthenes’ De Falsa legatione. d. Oakley rectory, Basingstoke 30 Jany. 1887.