ARCHBOLD, John Frederick. Barrister L.I. 5 May 1814; author of The practice of the court of King’s Bench in personal actions and ejectment, 2 vols. 1819, 14 ed. 1885; A summary of the law relating to pleading and evidence in criminal cases, 19 ed. 1878; The parish officer 1852, 6 ed. 1881, and many other legal works. d. 15 Gloucester st. Regent’s park, London 28 Nov. 1870 aged 85. J. G. Marvin’s Legal bibliography (1847) 66–70.

ARCHBOLD, Robert. M.P. for co. Kildare (radical) 11 Aug. 1837 to 23 July 1847. d. Davidstown house near Castle Dermot, co. Kildare 9 March 1855.

ARCHDALL-GRATWICKE, Rev. George. b. Derbyshire 21 April 1787; ed. at Em. coll. Cam.; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818, B.D. 1825, D.D. 1835; fellow of his college; dean, bursar, prelector and steward; master May 1835 to death; vice chancellor of Cambridge 1835 and 1841; canon of Norwich 1842–67; took additional surname of Gratwicke by royal license 28 April 1863. (m. 1835 Jemima Elizabeth eld. dau. of Rev. Wm. Kinleside of Angmering, Sussex). d. the Lodge, Em. coll. Cambridge 16 Sep. 1871.

Note.—His personalty was sworn under £180,000 Oct. 1871, he left £6000 to his college.

ARCHER, Frederick Scott (2 son of Mr. Archer, of Bishop Stortford, butcher). b. 1813; assistant to Massey of Leadenhall st. London, silversmith; a sculptor; applied collodion to photography successfully 1850, first account of this process was in the Chemist, March 1851, it was in general use for 30 years till the gelatine process was discovered; photographer at 105 Great Russell st. Bloomsbury 1852 to death; invented a camera and a liquid lens; the first to use a triplet lens. d. 105 Great Russell st. 1 May 1857. Report of the jurors on class xiv (photography) of the International Exhibition 1862; N. and Q. 1 series vi, 277, 396, 426 (1852), vii, 92, 218 (1853).

ARCHER, Georgina (sister of James Archer). Went to Berlin 1859; Victoria Lyceum there was founded in 1867, mainly through her efforts. d. Montreux, Switzerland 22 Nov. 1882.

ARCHER, Henry. Invented and patented machine for perforating postage stamps 1848. d. Pau, France 2 April 1863.

ARCHER, John Wykeham. b. Newcastle 1808; apprenticed to John Scott of Coppice row, London, animal engraver; Engraver in London 1831 to death; Associate of New Society of Painters in Watercolours; author of Vestiges of old London 1851; Posthumous Poems 1873. d. Kentish town, London 25 May 1864. Pinks’s Clerkenwell (1865) 639–41.

ARCHER, Thomas Croxen. Clerk in Customs at Liverpool; collected, arranged and named the specimens of the imports into Liverpool for the Great Exhibition of 1851; a professor in the Liverpool institution; superintendent of Technological museum Edin. 26 June 1860, and director Jany. 1866 to death; joint executive comr. from Great Britain to American Centennial Exhibition 1876; F.R.S. Edin. d. London 19 Feb. 1885. Athenæum 28 Feb. 1885, p. 283. Graphic xiii, 542, 552 (1876), portrait.

ARCHIBALD, Charles Dickson (eld. son of Samuel George Wm. Archibald, Speaker of Assembly, Nova Scotia). b. Truro, Nova Scotia 31 Oct. 1802; author of A look towards the future of the British colonies 1854; F.R.S. 26 Nov. 1840. (m. 16 Sep. 1832 Bridget only child of Myles Walker of Rusland hall, Lancashire). d. 1868.

ARCHIBALD, Sir Edward Mortimer (brother of the preceding). b. 10 May 1810; chief clerk and registrar of supreme court of Newfoundland 8 Nov. 1832; attorney general 5 Nov. 1846; advocate general 15 April 1847 to May 1855; consul in state of New York 1 Oct. 1857; judge in mixed court New York for suppression of African slave trade 14 Oct. 1862 to 1 Oct. 1870; consul general for states of New York, &c. 9 Feb. 1871 to 1 Jany. 1883; C.B. 17 March 1865; K.C.M.G. 12 Aug. 1882. (m. 1834 Katherine dau. of A. Richardson of Halifax, Nova Scotia). d. 11 St. John’s terrace, Brighton 8 Feb. 1884.

ARCHIBALD, Sir Thomas Dickson (brother of the preceding). b. Truro, Nova Scotia 1817; attorney and barrister province of Nova Scotia 1837; a special pleader in London 1844–52; student of M.T. 11 Nov. 1840, barrister 30 Nov. 1852; drew Petition of Right act usually called Bovill’s act 1860; junior counsel to Treasury otherwise called Attorney general’s Devil Feb. 1868 to Nov. 1872; serjeant at law 20 Nov. 1872; judge of Court of Queen’s Bench 22 Nov. 1872 to Feb. 1875; knighted by the Queen at Osborne 5 Feb. 1873; judge of Court of Common Pleas Feb. 1875 to death. (m. 1841 Sarah only dau. of Richard Smith of The Priory Dudley). d. 7 Porchester gate, Hyde Park 18 Oct. 1876 in 60 year. Law magazine and law review ii, 177–88 (1877); I.L.N. lxii, 11, 13 (1873), portrait.

ARDEN, Henry Thomas, the assumed name of Henry Thomas Arnold; author of Princess Charming, The belle of the Barley-mow, The armourer’s daughter, The right-fall heir and many other burlesques and extravaganzas. d. 25 Nov. 1876 aged 36.

ARDEN, Joseph (eld. son of Joseph Arden of Islington). b. 10 May 1799; ed. at Merchant Taylors; barrister G.I. 18 Nov. 1840, bencher 1 March 1875; principal of Cliffords Inn 5 Feb. 1855 to death; F.S.A. 10 June 1847; author of The orations of Hyperides for Lycophron and Euxenippus now first printed in facsimile with a short account of the discovery of the original manuscript at Western Thebes in Upper Egypt in 1847. Cambridge 1853. d. 1 Cliffords Inn 30 Jany. 1879.

ARGUIMBAU, Lawrence. Captain 1 foot 1809–16 when placed on h.p.; Col. 80 foot 30 April 1853 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854; C.B. 22 June 1815. d. Mahon, Minorca 18 Aug. 1854.

ARKWRIGHT, George. b. 20 Aug. 1807; barrister L.I. 22 Nov. 1833; M.P. for Leominster 1842 to death. d. 2D The Albany Piccadilly, London 5 Feb. 1856.

ARKWRIGHT, Henry. b. 16 Dec. 1837; captain 84 foot 18 April 1865 to death; killed by fall of an avalanche when ascending Mont Blanc 13 Oct. 1866.

ARKWRIGHT, Rev. Joseph. b. 9 Aug. 1791; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1812; master of Essex foxhounds 1861 to death; built new kennels at Harlow; a celebrated horseman; one of largest farmers in Essex. d. 29 Feb. 1864. Personalty sworn under £400,000 April 1864.

ARKWRIGHT, Peter. b. 17 April 1784; sheriff of Derbyshire 1855. d. Willersley, Derbyshire 19 Sep. 1866. Personalty sworn under £800,000 Nov. 1866.

ARMENI, Sir Peter Braila. Greek envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. in London 24 April 1882 to death; G.C.M.G. 1882. d. 18 Queen’s gate terrace, South Kensington 15 Sep. 1884.

ARMISTEAD, Wilson. Author of A tribute for the Negro 1848; Select Miscellanies, 2 vols. 1851; The Anti-slavery pilot, 22 numbers 1855; Tales and legends of the English lakes and mountains, by Lorenzo Tuvar 1855. d. Virginia house, Leeds 18 Feb. 1868 aged 49. Joseph Smith’s Friends books i, 124–31 (1867); Annual Monitor for 1869 pp. 2–8.

ARMITAGE, Sir Elkanah (3 son of Elkanah Armitage of Newton, Lancs.) b. Failsworth Sep. 1794; a handloom weaver; founded firm of Armitage and Co. of London and Manchester, cotton spinners 1827, retired 1873; member of the first town council Manchester 1838; alderman 1841–65; mayor 1846–48; knighted by the Queen at Buckingham Palace 31 Jany. 1849 for his services during Chartist riots 1848; contested Salford March 1857; sheriff of county palatine of Lancaster 1866. d. Hope hall, Pendleton near Manchester 26 Nov. 1876. Graphic xiv, 592, 595 (1876), portrait.

ARMITAGE, George. Took a point net machine to Antwerp 1801, introducing manufacture of point net lace into Belgium; went to Paris where he effected many alterations in the stocking frame; invented the circular hose frame; went to Prussia then to Cambray; sent or took lace machines to Moscow; went to Australia about 1850. d. Australia 1857 aged 89.

ARMITAGE, Rev. Robert. R. of Easthope, Salop 1843 to death; published anonymously Doctor Hookwell or the Anglo-Catholic family, 3 vols. 1842; The Penscellwood papers comprising essays on the souls and future life of animals, 2 vols. 1846; Ernest Singleton 1848; Dr. Johnson his religious life and his death 1850. d. Easthope 2 Feb. 1852 aged 47.

ARMSTRONG, Alexander. 2 Lieutenant Royal Irish Artillery 7 July 1783; major 24 July 1800 to 1 April 1801 when he retired on full pay; general 30 June 1854. d. Green park, Bath 2 Dec. 1861 aged 94.

ARMSTRONG, Sir Andrew, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Edmund Armstrong of Gallen, King’s county 1754–1827). b. Gallen Priory 19 Oct. 1786; sheriff of King’s county 1811 and 1836; receiver general of stamps in Ireland 1831–41; M.P. for King’s county 1841–52; created baronet 18 Sep. 1841. d. Chester 27 Jany. 1863.

ARMSTRONG, Edmund John. b. Mornington house, Upper Merrion st. Dublin 23 July 1841; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; took 1st prize in Latin and Greek verse; pres. of the Undergraduate philosophical society; received gold medal of Royal historical society Nov. 1864; author of Poems 1865, new ed. 1877. d. Kingstown near Dublin 24 Feb. 1865. Life and letters of E. J. Armstrong, edited by G. F. Armstrong 1877, portrait.

ARMSTRONG, James Wells. Lieut, col. 4 depôt battalion 2 Oct. 1855 to 16 Oct. 1860 when placed on h.p.; deputy adjutant general 1 Nov. 1871 to 25 Nov. 1876; deputy adjutant general for auxiliary forces 25 Nov. 1876 to death; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857. d. 98 St. George’s sq. Westminster 12 April 1880.

ARMSTRONG, John. b. Ingram, Northumberland 13 Oct. 1775; a millwright and engineer at Bristol, city surveyor there 1831 to death; A.I.C.E. 1828. d. 17 March 1854.

ARMSTRONG, Right Rev. John (eld. son of John Armstrong of London, M.D.) b. Bishopwearmouth 22 Aug. 1813; ed. at Charterhouse 1827; Crewe exhibitioner at Linc. coll. Oxf. 1832; B.A. 1836; M.A. 1850; C. of Clifton 1838–41; priest vicar of Exeter cathedral 1841; R. of St. Paul’s, Exeter 1843; V. of Tidenham, Gloucs. 1845; originated female penitentiary which was opened at Clewer 1849; founded National Miscellany a monthly religious periodical 1853, it was united with the Illustrated London magazine 1855; bishop of Grahamstown, South Africa 25 October 1853; consecrated in St. Mary’s, Lambeth 30 Nov. 1853; suffragan to bishop of Cape Town 6 Dec. 1853; arrived at Grahamstown 26 Oct. 1854; author of Sermons on the festivals 1845; Parochial sermons 1854; wrote many and edited all the Tracts for the Christian seasons, 2 series 1848–50. (m. 22 Feb. 1843 Frances eld. dau. of Edward Whitmore). d. Grahamstown 16 May 1856. A memoir of John Armstrong, D.D. by Rev. T. T. Carter 1857, portrait; G. M. i, 376–82 (1856); Guardian 20 Dec. 1882 p. 1809.

ARMSTRONG, Very Rev. John (brother of Sir Andrew Armstrong). b. June 1791; archdeacon of Clonfert 24 June 1845; dean of Kilfenora Jany. 1847 to death. d. 16 June 1856.

ARMSTRONG, John. Provisional ensign Cape mounted rifles 19 March 1835; formed and commanded a corps of irregular horse known as “Armstrong’s Horse” during Kaffir war 1852–53; C.B. 13 March 1867, M.G. 6 July 1867. d. Stoulgrove house, near Chepstow 28 June 1874 aged 55.

ARMSTRONG, John Warneford. b. King’s county 28 Aug. 1770; captain King’s county militia 19 Jany. 1798; betrayed Henry and John Sheares barristers of Dublin to the Government 1798; they were hung for high treason 14 July 1798; received pension of £500 per annum 1798 to death. d. 1858. Howell’s State trials xxvii, 255–398 (1820).

ARMSTRONG, Joseph. b. Bewcastle Cumberland 21 Sep. 1816; engine driver on Liverpool and Manchester railway 1836–40; superintendent of locomotive carriage and wagon departments of Great Western Railway June 1864 to death; M.I.M.E. 1857, M.I.C.E. 1877. d. Matlock Bath 5 June 1877. Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xlix, 255–58 (1877).

ARMSTRONG, Rev. Nicholas. Rector of St. James’s, Dublin; an agent of the Reformation society 1831; the most powerful of Irish declaimers; an Irvingite apostle 18 Jany. 1834; apostle to Ireland and Greece 1838; author of Two letters to a friend in answer to the inquiry What is the use of the gifts of the spirit 1832; Sermons preached in the Catholic Apostolic church Gordon Square 1857; Homilies on the Epistles and Gospels 1870; Sermons on various subjects, 1870–79. d. Albury heath, Surrey 9 Oct. 1879 in 78 year. Rev. Edward Miller’s History and doctrines of Irvingism, vol. i; R. S. Brooke’s Recollections of the Irish church (1877) 25–27.

ARMSTRONG, Sir Richard (only son of lieut. col. Richard Armstrong of Lincoln.) b. 1782; ensign 24 foot 23 June 1796; served in Peninsula 1808–14; lieut. col. 1 foot 18 Oct. 1821, and of 26 foot 24 Jany 1829 to 13 Feb. 1835 when placed on h.p.; colonel 95 foot 29 March 1848 and of 32 foot 25 June 1850 to death; commander in chief at Madras 29 Sep. 1851 to 27 Oct. 1853; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 7 April 1852, K.T.S.; Knighted by Wm. IV. at St. James’s palace 28 Sept. 1831. d. on board the ship Barham on his voyage home from Madras 3 March 1854.

ARMSTRONG, Richard (eld. son of Wm. Armstrong, of Roxborough, co. Armagh, engineer.) b. Armagh 1815; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; called to Irish bar 1839, went Leinster circuit; Q.C. 28 Jany. 1854, bencher of King’s Inns 1861; third sergeant at law 1861–65, second 1865, and first 1866 to death; M.P. for Sligo 1865–68. (m. 1847 Elizabeth dau. of Edward Meurant.) d. 32 Stephen’s Green, Dublin 26 Aug. 1880. Irish law times xiv, 452 (1880.)

ARMSTRONG, Robert Archibald (eld. son of Robert Archibald of Kenmore, Perthshire). b. Kenmore 1788; ed at Univs. of Edin. and St. Andrews; Gaelic lexicographer in ordinary to George iv 1826; head master of South Lambeth gr. sch. 1830–52; author of A Gaelic dictionary 1825, which was the first ever published; wrote many scientific papers in the Arcana of science and art 1837 et seq. d. Choumert road, Peckham Rye 25 May 1867.

ARMSTRONG, Robert Baynes (eld. son of John Armstrong of Lancaster, merchant). b. Lancaster 1785; ed. at Clitheroe and Sedbergh schools and St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1807, M.A. 1810, fellow of his college; barrister I.T. 23 June 1814, bencher 1840, reader 1851; treasurer 1852; Q.C. 1840; recorder of Hull 1836–37, of Leeds 1837–39 and of Manchester and Bolton May 1848 to May 1865; M.P for Lancaster 1848–53. (m. Dec. 1842 Frances youngest dau. of Richmond Blamire of Thackwood, Cumberland, she d. 19 March 1862). d. 29 Chester sq. Pimlico, London 15 Jany. 1869.

ARMSTRONG, Thomas William De Butts. b. 1826; resident engineer on several important works in Mayo 1848–53; one of the first engineers sent to India in government service 1855; chief engineer of Central Provinces 1869 to death; M.I.C.E. 10 April 1866. d. on board P. and O. steamer Travancore off the Malabar coast 1 May 1877. Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. li, 261–65 (1878).

ARMSTRONG, William. Called to Irish bar 1819; Q.C. 17 Aug. 1841; chairman of quarter sessions co. Londonderry. d. 1866.

ARNEY, Sir George Alfred (6 son of Wm. Arney of The Close, Salisbury). b. Salisbury 3 Jany. 1806; ed. at Winchester and Brasn. coll. Ox., B.A. 1832; barrister L.I. 5 May 1837; recorder of Winchester Dec. 1856–1857; chief justice of New Zealand 1858–75; knighted by patent 18 July 1862. (m. 13 June 1833 Harriet dau. of Thomas Parr, captain R.N., she d. 18 April 1844). d. 17 Devonshire place, Portland place, London 7 April 1883.

ARNOLD, Rev. Charles Thomas. b. 26 Oct. 1817; ed. at Rugby and Magd. hall, Ox., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843; Assistant master at Rugby 1841–78. d. Rome 13 May 1878.

ARNOLD, Rev. Edward Penrose (3 son of Rev. Thomas Arnold 1795–1842, head master of Rugby). b. 28 Oct. 1826; ed. at Rugby and Ball. coll. Ox., B.A. 1848, M.A. 1851; Fellow of All Soul’s coll. Ox. 1852; assistant inspector of schools 15 April 1854; inspector 1866–77. d. Fox How, Ambleside 6 April 1878.

ARNOLD, James Robertson (2 son of general Benedict Arnold 1741–1801). b. New York 28 Aug. 1781; 2 Lieut. R.E. 29 Aug. 1798; served in the wars against France 1800–15; aide de camp to the Sovereign 1830–41; col. R.E. 1837–41; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; K.H. 1831; K.C. (m. 21 March 1807 Virginia 4 dau. of Bartlett Goodrich of Saling Grove, Isle of Wight). d. Onslow sq. London 27 Dec. 1854. I. N. Arnold’s Life of Benedict Arnold (1880) 407–17.

ARNOLD, Rev. John Müehleisen. b. Zell, Würtemberg 1817; C.M.S. missionary in Abyssinia and India; Chap. to Bishop of Gibraltar; Chap. to St. Mary’s hospital, Paddington 1852–61; founded Moslem mission society in England 1859, hon. sec. 1860–65; C. of East Ham, Essex 1861–65; Consular Chap. at Batavia 28 Oct. 1865, resigned 6 Aug. 1870 but continued his services till 30 June 1871; R. of St. Mary’s, Papendorf, Capetown, March 1876. d. Papendorf 9 Dec. 1881. Guardian 29 March 1882 p. 448, vol. 3.

ARNOLD, Samuel James (only son of Samuel Arnold 1740–1802, organist and composer to George 3). b. 1774; exhibited portraits at the R.A. 1800–1806; brought out a musical play called Auld Robin Gray at Haymarket theatre 1794; exhibited a panorama in Spring gardens; member of “Sublime society of beefsteaks” 15 April 1809; opened Lyceum theatre as an English opera house 26 June 1809; built new theatre on same site and opened it as the English opera house 15 June 1816, it was burnt down 16 Feb. 1830, he rebuilt it and opened it 14 July 1834; manager of Drury Lane theatre 1812–15; author of The Creole or haunted island 3 vols. 1796; The shipwreck, a comic opera in 2 acts 1796; Man and wife, comedy in 5 acts 1809, 8 ed. 1809. (m. 18 May 1802 Matilda Catherine younger dau. of Henry James Pye, poet laureate). d. Walton upon Thames 16 Aug. 1852 in 78 year. G.M. xxxviii, 538 (1852).

ARNOLD, Thomas James (eld. son of the preceding). b. Downing st. Westminster 1803; ed. at St. Paul’s school and univ. of Gottingen; barrister L.I. 24 Nov. 1829; commissioner of bankruptcy at Liverpool; stipendiary magistrate at Worship st. police court 27 Jany. 1847 and at Westminster police court Aug. 1851 to death; member of Numismatic Society 1862; F.S.A. 1869; author of A treatise on the law relating to municipal corporations 1852, 3 ed. 1883; Anacreon in English 1869; Faust, a tragedy translated in the original metres 1877. d. 1 Greville place, Kilburn priory 20 May 1877. Numismatic Chronicle xvii, 13–15 (1877).

ARNOLD, Rev. Thomas Kerchever (eld. son of Thomas George Arnold of Stamford, M.D.) b. 1800; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb.; B.A. 1821; M.A. 1824; fellow of his college; R. of Lyndon, Rutland 1830 to death; projected and edited Churchman’s Quarterly magazine 1837, Churchman’s Monthly Companion 1844 and Theological Critic 1851; author of Henry’s first Latin book 1839, 26 ed. 1883; The first Greek book 1849, new ed. 1883; The first Hebrew book 1851, 7 ed. 1883; Anticleptic gradus ad Parnassum 1852 and many other educational books. d. Lyndon rectory 9 March 1853. Fraser’s Mag. xlvii, 173–83 (1853); G.M. xxxix, 667 (1853).

ARNOLD, William Delafield (2 son of Rev. Thomas Arnold, D.D. 1795–1842, head master of Rugby). b. Laleham 7 April 1828; ed. at Rugby; student of Ch. Ch. Ox. 1847; ensign 58 Bengal N.I. 2 Dec. 1848; principal director of public education in the Punjab 1857 to death, where his name is perpetuated by an annual distribution of medals, bearing his likeness, to the best pupils in schools which he founded; author of a novel entitled Oakfield or fellowship in the East, by Punjabee, 2 vols. 1853; translated Wiese’s Letters on English education 1854. d. Gibraltar 9 April 1859. Prospective Review x, 274–303 (1854).

ARNOLD, William Munnings (2 son of Rev. Richard Arnold.) b. Ellough, Suffolk 1820; arrived in New South Wales 1839; settled near Maitland on the Paterson river; member of legislative assembly 1856; chairman of committees 1858; minister for public works 1860–63; speaker of the assembly 3 Oct. 1865 to death; drowned in the floods at Stradbroke, his estate on the Paterson river 2 March 1875.

ARNOT, Rev. William (7 and youngest child of Robert Arnot of Scone, farmer.) b. New Mains farm near Scone 6 Nov. 1808; matric. at Univ. of Glasgow 10 Oct. 1829; licensed as a preacher by presbytery of Glasgow 4 Oct. 1837; minister of Free Saint Peter’s Church, Glasgow 1 Jany. 1839 to 6 Oct. 1864; ejected from his church by a decision of the Court of Session Feb. 1849; opened a new church in Main st. Glasgow 26 May 1850; minister of Free high church Edinburgh 11 Oct. 1864 to death; author of Illustrations of the Book of Proverbs, 2 series 1856; Roots and fruits of Christian life 1860. 2 ed., 1864; This present world 1873. d. Edinburgh 3 June 1875; Autobiography of Rev. W. Arnot 1877, portrait.

ARNOT, William. b. Falkirk; a chemist; employed purifying the river North Esk 1868; opened large chemical works at Kirkintilloch 1873; delivered a course of 6 Cantor lectures on The technology of the paper trade at the Society of Arts 1877. d. Bridge of Allan 9 Feb. 1881 aged 38.

ARNOTT, Archibald. b. Kirkconnell hall, Ecclefechan, co. Dumfries 1771; surgeon 20 foot 23 Aug. 1799 to 25 Dec. 1826, when placed on h.p.; medical attendant of Napoleon at St. Helena 1 April 1821 to 5 May 1821, when he died at 5.49 p.m. with his right hand in that of Dr. Arnott; author of An account of the last illness decease and post mortem appearances of Napoleon Bonaparte 1822. d. Kirkconnell hall, 6 July 1855.

ARNOTT, Francis Short. b. 1805; surgeon Bombay army 5 June 1845; hon. surgeon to the Queen 1861 to death; C.B. 21 March 1859. d. Kirkconnell hall 16 Oct. 1879.

ARNOTT, George Arnott Walker (son of David Walker Arnott of Arlary near Kinross who d. 1822). b. Edinburgh 6 Feb. 1799; ed. at the High school and Univ. of Edin., M.A. 1818, LLD. Aberdeen 1837; advocate 1821; visited France, Spain and Russia; F.R.S Edin. 1822, F.L.S. 1825; worked with William Hooker the botanist at Glasgow 1830–40; member of Botanical society of Edin. 1836; professor of botany in Univ. of Glasgow 1845 to death; published descriptions of many new plants from Asia and America in various periodicals 1830–40; author of the article Botany in the Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 ed. vol. 5. d. Glasgow 17 June 1868. Trans. Botanic Society of Edin. ix, 414–26 (1868).

ARNOTT, Neil. b. Arbroath, Angusshire 15 May 1788; surgeon in H.E.I. Co’s. naval service 1807–11; practised in London 1811–55 when he retired; M.R.C.S. 1813; M.D. Aberdeen 15 Sep. 1814; L.R.C.P. 31 March 1817; invented his hydrostatic or water bed 1832; and Arnott stove and the ventilator; one of senate of Univ. of London 1836; founded an exhibition there for experimental physics 1875; phys. extraordinary to Queen Victoria 8 Aug. 1837; F.R.S. 25 Jany. 1838, Rumford medallist 1854; F.G.S. 1847; founded scholarships of natural philosophy at the 4 Scottish universities 1869; author of Elements of physics 1827, 7 ed. 1876; A survey of human progress 1861. d. Cumberland terrace, London 2 March 1874. Proc. of Royal Society xxv, 14–18 (1877); Medical Circular i, 92, 149 (1852), portrait; Graphic ix, 314, 328 (1874), portrait.

ARNTZ, Robert Richard. b. Erefeldt, Prussia 1815; taken to England 1819; articled to W. Herbert of London, builder 1831; naturalised 15 May 1848; surveyor to Westminster district board of works; A.I.C.E. 1856; F.S.A. 18 Dec. 1862. d. 17 Feb. 1882.

ARRAN, Philip Yorke Gore, 6 Earl of. b. Dublin castle 23 Nov. 1801; chargé d’Affaires at Buenos Ayres 17 Oct. 1832 to 18 Oct. 1834; succeeded his uncle 20 Jany. 1837; K.P. 6 May 1841. d. 27 Chesham st. London 25 June 1884.

ARRINDELL, Sir William. b. in one of the Virgin islands 1796; ed. in England; attorney general British Guiana 10 May 1845 to 1852; chief justice of Demerara 1852 to death; C.B. 30 Nov. 1858; knighted by patent 13 Dec. 1858. d. Demerara 27 Dec. 1862.

ARROW, Sir Frederick (2 son of Wm. Arrow, captain Indian Navy.) b. Calcutta 1818; ed. at Bath gr. sch.; in mercantile marine service June 1834 to Feb. 1859; an elder brother of Trinity House Feb. 1859, and deputy master June 1865 to death; knighted by patent 29 Aug. 1868; F.R.G.S. 1871; (m. 1850 Harriet 5 dau. of R. Stileman of the Friars, Winchelsea.) d. Pilgrims hall, South Weald, near Brentwood 17 July 1875; I.L.N. lxvi 95, 100 (1875) portrait.

ARROWSMITH, John. b. Winston near Barnard Castle, Durham 23 April 1790; joined his uncle Aaron Arrowsmith of Soho Square London, geographer 14 Feb. 1810; one of founders of Royal geographical society 1830, gold medallist 1862; produced London atlas of universal geography 1834, 3 ed. 1858; illustrated with maps Leichhardt’s journal of an overland expedition in Australia 1847, and many other books; bought 10 Soho Square 1839, carried on business there down to 1861 when he retired; F.R.A.S. d. 35 Hereford sq. Old Brompton 2 May 1873. Journal of geographical society xliii, 161–63 (1873.)

ARTHINGTON, Maria. Author of The little scholar’s first grammar 1828; Rhymes for Harry and his nursemaid 1851; Poetry of bye-gone days and other selected pieces not published 1861. d. 5 Oct. 1863.

ARTHUR, Sir Frederick Leopold, 2 Baronet. b. West Indies 20 Dec. 1816; captain 4 foot 8 June 1838 to 13 Dec. 1850, when placed on h.p.; retired from the army 1863; succeeded 19 Sep. 1854. d. United Service club Pall Mall London 1 June 1878.

ARTHUR, Sir George, 1 Baronet (3 and youngest son of John Arthur of Plymouth 1733–88.) b. 21 June 1784; governor of Honduras 1814–1822; lieut. col. 7 West India foot 1 June 1815; lieut. col. 5 West India foot 29 Aug. 1816, and lieut. col. York Chasseurs 8 May 1817 to 25 Oct. 1819, when placed on h.p.; governor of Van Diemen’s Land 14 May 1824 to 30 Oct 1836; lieut. governor of Upper Canada 23 March 1838 to April 1841; suppressed the rebellion Nov. 1838; governor of Bombay 27 April 1841 to 6 Aug. 1846; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846; col. 50 foot 28 Feb. 1853 to death; K.C.H. 1837; knighted by the Queen at St. James’s palace 19 July 1837; created baronet 5 June 1841; P.C. 17 June 1847; hon. D.C.L. Ox. 5 July 1848. d. Gloucester square, Hyde Park, London 19 Sep. 1854. J. Mac Mullen’s History of Canada 2 ed. 1868, pp. 461–94.

ARTHUR, Rev. John. b. Houston, Renfrewshire 1794; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow; Congregational minister at Helensburgh 1824 to 1866, this district was the scene of several movements that attracted much attention, such as “The Speaking with Tongues,” “Miraculous healing,” and the “Row Heresy case.” d. 17 May 1884.

ARTHUR, Richard. b. 10 Jany. 1779; captain R.N. 11 Jany. 1810; superintendent of Sheerness dockyard 23 Sep. 1844 to 9 Nov. 1846; V.A. 17 Sep. 1853; C.B. 28 July 1838. d. Plymouth 26 Oct. 1854.

ARTLETT, Richard Austin. b. 9 Nov. 1807; pupil of Robert Cooper and James Thomson; engraved in the dotted manner a few figure subjects and several portraits; distinguished as an engraver of sculpture, his plates of which in the Art Journal are executed with great taste and delicacy. d. 1 Sep. 1873.

ARTOIS, The Flying Wonder, stage name of John Lilley. b. Liverpool 12 July 1848; a performer on the flying trapeze 1866 to death; held a foremost rank in his profession; fell from his trapeze at the Star music hall Dublin 21 March 1882 and fractured his skull. d. Mercer’s hospital Dublin 21 March 1882. bur. Mount Jerome cemetery 24 March.

ARTOM, Rev. Benjamin. b. Asti near Pimont, Genoa 1835; minister of Jewish synagogues at Saluzzo, Genoa and Naples; Haham of Spanish and Portugese congregation of London 9 Aug. 1866 to death; inducted 16 Dec. 1866. (m. 10 Feb. 1875 Henrietta Hahaba widow of Solomon David of Bombay). d. 3 Marine parade Brighton 6 Jany. 1879. Jewish Chronicle 10 Jany. 1879 9–12; Graphic xix, 52 (1879), portrait.

ARUNDALE, Francis. b. London 9 Aug. 1807; articled to A. Pugin the elder; spent nine years in the East 1831–40; author of Edifices of Palladio 1832; Illustrations of Jerusalem and Mount Sinai 1837. d. Brighton 9 Sep. 1853.

ARUNDELL, Henry Benedict, 11 Baron Arundell of Wardour. b. Irnham hall, co. Lincoln 12 Nov. 1804; the only R.C. peer who voted against the Reform bill 1832; succeeded 21 June 1834; a count of the Holy Roman Empire. d. Wardour castle. Wilts 19 Oct. 1862.

ARUNDELL, Rev. Thomas, formerly called Thomas Arundell Tagg. Ed. at Merchant Taylor’s, St. Bees and St. John’s coll. Cam., B.D. 1868; C. of Ch. Ch. Blackfriars 1853–54; C. of All Saint’s Gordon square and Reader of Ch. Ch. Newgate st. Lond. 1854–56; P.C. of St. Peter Hammersmith 1856–60; V. of Hayton with Bielby, Yorks 1860; V. of St. John’s, Whetstone, Finchley Feb. 1876; author of Historical reminiscences of the City of London 1869; and of sermons and articles in periodicals. d. the vicarage Whetstone 5 Nov. 1880 in his 64 year.

ASBURY, Jacob Vale (son of Mr. Asbury of Stone, Staffs.) Surgeon at Enfield 1820 to death; invented a surgical instrument for puncture of the tympanum; took out patents for railway buffers 1853 and 1855. (m. 1820 Dorothy 3 dau. of Charles Jacomb of Guildford st. Russell square). d. Enfield 21 June 1871 in his 80 year. Medical times and gazette ii, 87 (1871).

Note.—Charles Lamb his friend and patient bore witness to his successful treatment of cholera in a witty acrostic on his name.

ASCHER, Joseph. b. London 1831; pupil of Ignaz Moscheles; court pianist to Empress Eugénie in Paris; composed above 100 mazurkas, gallops, nocturnes, études, and transcriptions. d. London 3 June 1869.

ASH, Edward. A minister of Society of Friends; M.D.; lived at Bristol; author of An inquiry into some parts of Christian doctrine and practice 1841; Four lectures on the Apocalypse 1848; Explanatory notes and comments on the New Testament, 3 vols. 1849–50. d. Cotham, Bristol 23 Dec. 1873 aged 76.

ASHBROOK, Henry Flower, 5 Viscount. b. 17 June 1806; succeeded his father 4 May 1847. d. Castle Durrow, co. Kilkenny 3 Aug. 1871.

ASHBROOK, Henry Jeffery Flower, 6 Viscount. b. 26 March 1829; ed. at Eton; sheriff of Queen’s county 1856; succeeded 3 Aug. 1871. d. Castle Durrow 14 Dec. 1882.

ASHBURNER, John (son of Mr. Ashburner of Bombay 1769–98, member of supreme council). b. Bombay 10 Jany. 1793; ed. at Dublin, Glasgow and Edin.; M.D. Edin. 1 Aug. 1816; physician in London 1816; L.R.C.P. 1818; physician to Small pox hospital 1818–24, when he went to India; lecturer on Midwifery at St. Thomas’s hospital; a great believer in Mesmerism; author of Dentition 1834; Notes and studies on the philosophy of animal magnetism and spiritualism 1867. d. 59 Cambridge place, London 13 Nov. 1878. Munk’s Roll iii, 181 (1878); Medical Circular i, 93 (1852).

ASHBURNHAM, Bertram Ashburnham, 4 Earl of (eld. son of George Ashburnham, 3 Earl of Ashburnham 1760–1830). b. 23 Nov. 1797; succeeded his father 27 Oct. 1830; sold his pictures at Christie’s 20 July 1850. d. Ashburnham place near Battle 22 June 1878.

Note.—He was the collector of an extensive library of early and rare books and of a vast assemblage of MSS. which comprised 4 divisions, the Libri collection, the Barrois collection, the Stowe collection and a portion known as The Appendix comprising his miscellaneous collections. In July 1883 the Government purchased the Stowe collection for £45,000; and in May 1884 the Italian Government bought for the Laurenzian library at Florence the larger portion of the Libri collection and the Dante MSS. from the Appendix for the sum of £23,000. A very full account of the contents of the whole of the Ashburnham MSS. will be found in the 8th Report of the Historical Manuscript Commission (1881) Appendix part 3 pp. 127.

ASHBURNHAM, Rev. Sir John, 7 Baronet. b. Scotland Yard Westminster 26 Dec. 1770; ed. at Clare hall Cam.; B.D. 1815; R. of Guestling, Sussex 1795 to death; Preb. of Chichester 2 May 1796 to death; Chancellor of Chichester 4 May 1796 to death; V. of Pevensey, Sussex 1816 to death; succeeded his brother the 6 Bart. 22 March 1843. d. Guestling rectory 1 Sep. 1854.

ASHBURNHAM, Thomas (4 son of George Ashburnham, 3 Earl of Ashburnham 1760–1830.) ensign Coldstream guards 30 Jany. 1823; lieut. col. 62 foot 7 Jan. 1842 to 21 Sep. 1847; commanded a brigade in Sutlej campaign 1845–46; aide de camp to the Queen 3 April 1846 to 20 June 1854; lieut. col. 29 foot 22 Nov. 1849 to 20 June 1854; col. 82 foot 13 Dec. 1859 to death; general 19 April 1868; C.B. 3 April 1846. d. 104 Park st. Grosvenor sq., London 3 March 1872.

ASHBURTON, William Bingham Baring, 2 Baron. (eld. son of Alexander Baring, 1 Baron Ashburton 1774–1848.) b. June 1799; ed. at Oriel coll. Ox.; B.A. 1821, M.A. 1836, hon. D.C.L. 1856; M.P. for Thetford 1826–30, for Callington 1830–31, for Winchester 1832–37, for North Staffs. 1837–41, and again for Thetford 1841–48; sec. of board of control 8 Sep. 1841 to 17 Feb. 1845; paymaster general of the forces and treasurer of the navy 25 Feb. 1845 to 12 July 1846; P.C. 30 June 1845; succeeded his father 13 May 1848; F.R.S. 27 April 1854; Commander of Legion of Honour 1855; pres. of geographical society 1860–62, vice pres. 1862 to death. d. the Grange, Alresford Hants 23 March 1864. Monographs by Lord Houghton (1873) 225–55; Waagen’s Treasures of art in Great Britain ii, 97–112 (1854).

ASHBURTON, Francis Baring, 3 Baron. b. 20 May 1800; M.P. for Thetford 1832–41 and 1848–57; succeeded 23 March 1864. d. Hazlewood near Watford 6 Sep. 1868.

ASHBURY, John. b. 31 Jany. 1806; a wheelwright at Manchester; began the large works at Openshaw near Manchester for building railway carriages and wagons 1847; constructed a railway wagon in 13 hours for the great exhibition of 1862; sold his works to a limited liability company 1862. d. 9 Sussex place, Hyde Park, London 2 Sep. 1866. Personalty sworn under £400,000 27 Oct. 1866.

ASHBY, Rev. John Eyre. b. 22 Jany. 1820; ed. at Univ. coll. school London, B.A. London 1840; a congregational minister in Arundel, Brighton and London; lectured on the higher mathematics in same places; kept a school at Enfield 1856 to death; F.R.A.S. 1843, LLD. Jena 1858. d. 22 Dec. 1863.

ASHER, Adolphus. b. Stettin 3 Sep. 1801; spent 5 years in England 1820–25; diamond merchant at St. Petersburgh; bookseller in Russia 1827–30, at Berlin 1830 to death; introduced the English annuals into Germany and Russia; foreign bookseller to British museum 1841 to death; published Travels of Benjamin of Tudela, Berlin 1840. d. Venice 2 Oct. 1853.

ASHLEY, Anthony John (4 son of Cropley Ashley, 6 Earl of Shaftesbury). b. 24 Grosvenor square, London 21 Dec. 1808; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1829; barrister I.T. 10 June 1836; Q.C. 9 Jany. 1866. (m. 17 March 1840 Julia eld. dau. of Henry John Conyers of Copt hall, Essex). d. Upper Brook st. London 1 Jany. 1867.

ASHLEY, Anthony William (brother of preceding). b. 24 Grosvenor square 4 Oct. 1803; attaché to embassy at Vienna 31 March 1830; treasurer and vice chamberlain to Queen Adelaide 28 Oct. 1834 to her death 2 Dec. 1849; master governor and keeper of royal hospital of St. Katherine in the Regents’ Park, London 23 May 1859 to death. (m. 8 March 1831 Maria Anne eld. dau. of Col. Hugh Duncan Baillie, M.P. of Tarradaile). d. Mentone 18 April 1877.

ASHLEY, Henry. b. 1790; an attorney in London 1816 to death; one of the 4 privileged attorneys of Lord Mayor’s court to 1853 when he received compensation on abolition of the privilege; erected independent chapel afterwards called Maberly chapel in Ball’s Pond road, Islington 1826; author of Doctrine and practice of attachment in Mayor’s court 1818. d. Greenhithe, Kent 20 May 1867.

ASHMORE, Charles. Lieut. col. 36 foot 22 May 1845 to 15 May 1857 when placed on h. p.; col. 30 foot 6 Jany. 1867 to death; general 19 Oct. 1875. d. 10 Granville place, Portman sq. 2 March 1881 in 88 year.

ASHPITEL, Arthur (eld. son of the succeeding). b. Hackney 15 Dec. 1807; ed. at Homerton; commenced practice as an architect in Crown Court Old Broad st. 1842; built church of St. Barnabas at Homerton 1845; partner with John Whichcord 1850; elected F.S.A. 7 Jan. 1847; F.R.I.B.A. 1841, Vice Pres. 1862; published with John Whichcord “Observations on baths and wash-houses with an account of their history” 1855; Town dwellings an essay on the erection of fire proof houses in flats 1855. d. 2 Poet’s Corner, Westminster Abbey 18 Jany. 1869. Reg. and Mag. of Biog. i, 212–15 (1869); Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. 2 series iv, 299–301.

ASHPITEL, William Hurst. b. 1776; pupil of Daniel Asher Alexander the architect of prisons at Dartmoor and Maidstone; assisted him in designs for the London docks; a pupil of John Rennie; largely concerned in Kenneth and Avon canal; partner with James Savage; J.P. for Middlesex; designed the first new church and extensive schools at South Hackney and many other buildings, besides several large engineering works. d. Clapton sq. London 23 April 1852 in 76 year.

ASHTON, Henry. b. London 1801; employed by Sir Jeffrey Wyattville to 1840; erected stables at Windsor and kennels at Frogmore; erected summer palace at the Hague for king of Holland; architect for Victoria st. improvements in London, and designed Victoria st. opened 6 Aug. 1851. d. 18 March 1872.

ASHTOWN, Frederick Mason Trench, 2 Baron. b. 25 Dec. 1804; succeeded 1 May 1840; his claim to the peerage was allowed 12 July 1855. d. Clonodfoy, co. Limerick 12 Sep. 1880. Personalty sworn under £350,000 April 1881.

ASHURST, William (son of the succeeding). b. 1819; admitted solicitor Jany. 1843; partner with his father; partner with John Morris about 1855–62; solicitor to the Post Office 1862 to death; a great friend of Garibaldi and Mazzini. d. 7 Prince of Wales’s Terrace, Kensington, London 14 July 1879 in 60 year.

ASHURST, William Henry. b. London 11 Feb. 1792; a solicitor in London; belonged to a small sect called ‘Freethinking Christians’; member of common council of city of London; undersheriff; a founder of the society of the ‘Friends of Italy,’ 1851 and of the ‘Peoples International League,’ 1852; took an active part in agitation against church rates; author of The Corporation Register 1832, which advocated reforms in the city. d. Wimbledon Park, Surrey 13 Oct. 1855.

ASHWELL, Rev. Arthur Rawson. b. Cheyne Walk Chelsea 9 Dec. 1824; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; scholar of Caius coll. 1846; 15 Wr. 1847, B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850; C. of Speldhurst Kent 1848–49; C. of St. Mary the less, Cam. 1849–50; vice principal of St. Mark’s college Chelsea Jany. 1851 to Nov. 1852; principal of Oxford diocesan training college at Culham Nov. 1852 to 1862; minister of Holy Trinity church Hanover square London 1862–64; principal of Durham training college 1865–70; canon res. of Chichester and principal of Chichester theological college 1870; R. of St. Andrew’s Chichester 1871–75; R. of St. Martin’s Chichester 1872–75; chancellor of Chichester cath. 1879 to death, installed 19 June 1879; edited the Literary Churchman 1864–76 and Sep. 1879 to death, and the Church quarterly review 1876. (m. 20 April 1854 Elizabeth eld. dau. of J. F. Fixsen of Blackheath.) d. Chichester 23 Oct. 1879. Literary Churchman xxv, 443–45, 501 (1879).

ASHWELL, James. b. Nottingham 1799. One of the six founders of the society afterwards known as the Institution of Civil engineers 2 Jany. 1818, it obtained a royal charter 3 June 1828; a fellow commoner at Jesus coll. Cam.; managing director and engineer in chief of the Great Luxembourg railway company 1847–52. d. Mildmay lodge, Weston-super-Mare 2 July 1881. Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxvi, 372–75 (1881.)

ASHWELL, Samuel. b. Nottingham 1798; studied at Guy’s Hospital, London 1817–20; general practitioner in Lime st. square 1821–30; obstetric asst. to Guy’s Hosp. 1820; obstetric physician and lecturer May 1834 to 1846; M.R.C.P. 1835; removed to the West end 1840; author of Practical treatise on parturition 1828; A practical treatise on the diseases peculiar to women 1848. d. 30 Brook st. Grosvenor sq. 21 Dec. 1857. Medical Circular i, 109–111 (1852), portrait.

ASHWORTH, Edmund. b. Birtwhistle near Bolton; partner with his brother Henry as spinners at Egerton Mill near Bolton; member of Anti-Corn-Law League 1839; member of Manchester chamber of commerce, a director 1868–78, pres. 1874–77; said to be original of Mr. Millbank in ‘Coningsby’; a magistrate for Bolton April 1847 to death; one of founders of Cotton supply association 1857; the first pres. of Bolton British school union. d. Southport 21 March 1881 in 81 year. Manchester Guardian 22 March 1881 p. 5, col. 4, and 26 March p. 11, col. 4.

ASHWORTH, Sir Frederick (2 son of Robert Ashworth of Dublin). b. Dublin 1783; ensign 58 foot 6 July 1799; major 22 Nov. 1810 to 20 Feb. 1817 when placed on h.p.; knighted by lord lieut. 1850; lieut. general 20 June 1854; colonel of 44 foot 8 Feb. 1855 to death. (m. 29 Oct. 1833 Harriet eld. dau. of Sir Bellingham Reginald Graham, 7 Bart., she was b. 1815 and m. (2) 26 Feb. 1862 George Hamilton Chichester, 3 Marquess of Donegal). d. 5 St. George’s place, Hyde park corner, London 1 Aug. 1858.

ASHWORTH, Henry. b. Birtwhistle near Bolton 4 Sep. 1794; ed. at Ackworth school; partner with his brother Edmund; a founder of “Anti-Corn Law Association” 10 Jany. 1839, afterwards called “The National Anti-Corn-Law League”; great friend of Bright and Cobden, the three were known as the A, B, C of the League, the final meeting of which was held in Manchester town hall 2 July 1846; author of Statistical illustrations of Lancashire 1842; A tour in the United States, Cuba and Canada 1861. d. Florence 17 May 1880. Recollections of Richard Cobden, by H. Ashworth, 2 ed. 1878, portrait.

ASHWORTH, John. Preached his trial sermon 8 Oct. 1837; founded a chapel for the destitute in Baillie st. Rochdale 4 Oct. 1858; representative of United Methodist Free churches at the Conference of Evangelical Christians held in New York Oct. 1873; author of Strange tales from humble life, 5 series 1863–74, these 61 tales were also published singly, upwards of 3,000,000 copies have been circulated. Simple Records, 2 series 1871–72. d. Broadfield, Rochdale 26 Jany. 1875. Life and labours of John Ashworth, by A. L. Calman 1875, portrait.

ASHWORTH, Rev. John Harvey (younger son of John Ashworth). b. Elland, Yorkshire 1795; ed. at Manchester gr. sch. and Univ. coll. Ox., scholar 1815, B.A. 1819, M.A. 1825; R. of Hethe, Oxon 1820–21; C. of St. Mary’s, Rochdale 1821; bought old castle of Craggan, co. Clare which he restored; V. of St. Mary’s, Staveley-in-Cartmel 1874 to death; author of Hurstwood, a tale 3 vols. 1823; Scenes and thoughts from secluded life 2 vols. 1827; The Saxon in Ireland 1851; The young curate or the quicksands of life [anon.] 1859, and Rathlynn [anon.] 3 vols. 1864. d. 4 Aug. 1882.

ASKEW, Richard Craster (5 son of John Askew of Pallinsburn, Northumberland who d. 28 Oct. 1794). b. 5 Sep. 1778; barrister L.I. 13 June 1807; recorder of Newcastle upon Tyne 1833–34. d. Pallinsburn 30 July 1851.

ASKEY, James Robert Roper. Chief clerk of the divorce registry 1858 to death. d. 14 Park village West, Gloucester gate, Regents’ park, London 30 Jany. 1866.

ASLETT, Thompson. 2 Lieut. R.M. 1 June 1796; col. commandant 9 Nov. 1846 to 17 Aug. 1848 when he retired on full pay. d. 27 Aug. 1851 aged 75.

ASLETT, William Stratton. 2 Lieut. R.M. 26 July 1837; brigade major in Crimean war; col. commandant 13 Feb. 1867 to death; M.G. 6 March 1868. d. Cury road, Gosport 28 July 1876.

ASPINALL, Butler Cole (son of Rev. James Aspinall, R. of Althorpe, Lincs.) b. Liverpool 7 Nov. 1830; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s; connected with Morning Chronicle; barrister M.T. 17 Nov. 1853; arrived in Victoria 1854; law reporter to the Argus paper 1854; practised at Melbourne 1854; M.L.A. for Talbot 1856; M.L.A. for Portland to 1870; member of the Heales government 1861, of the Macpherson government 1869; defended the Eureka stockade rioters 1855; defended H. J. O’Farrell who was tried 30–31 March 1868 for shooting Prince Alfred (Duke of Edinburgh) at Clontarf 12 March 1868; became insane 1871. d. England 4 April 1875.

ASPINALL, Rev. James (son of J. B. Aspinall of Cleongar hall, Cheshire). b. Liverpool; ed. at St. Mary hall Ox., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; C. of Rochdale 5 years; P.C. of St. Luke’s, Liverpool 1830 where he preached 5 June 1831 a remarkable sermon called The Crisis or the signs of the times with regard to the Church of England; R. of Althorpe, Lincs. 2 June 1839 to death; author of Roscoe’s library or old books and old times 1853; Parish sermons 2 series 1854–59. d. Althorpe rectory 15 Feb. 1861 aged 65.

ASPLAND, Alfred (son of Rev. Robert Aspland 1782–1845, pastor of the Unitarians at Hackney 40 years). b. 1815; ed. at King’s college, London; studied at Guy’s hospital; L.S.A. 1837, M.R.C.S. 1838, F.R.C.S. 1859; practised at Dukinfield, Cheshire till about 1870; editor of the Holbein Society publications; pres. of Manchester statistical society 1863–65; his large collection of books and drawings was sold at Sotheby’s Jany. 1885; author of Crime in Manchester 1868; edited for Holbein Society H. Burgmair’s Triumph of the Emperor Maximilian 1875; and The golden legend 1878. d. St. Helen’s Field, Dukinfield 24 Oct. 1880. Book-lore March 1885 p. 119.

ASPLAND, Rev. Robert Brook (brother of the preceding). b. Newport, Isle of Wight 19 Jany. 1805; Unitarian pastor of Crook’s lane chapel, Chester Aug. 1826; co-pastor with Lant Carpenter of Lewin’s Mead chapel, Bristol 1833; kept a boarding school at Bristol 1833–36; pastor at Dukinfield 1 Jany. 1837 and at Hackney 1858 to death; edited the Christian Reformer Jany. 1845 to Dec. 1863 when it ceased; one of secretaries of Manchester college 1846–57, which was moved from Manchester to London 1853; secretary to British and Foreign Unitarian Association 1859 to death. (m. 21 Oct. 1833 Jane dau. of Robert Hibbert of Brookside Godley, Cheshire). d. Well st. Hackney 21 June 1869. John Evans’s Lancashire authors (1850) 4–8; The Inquirer 3 July 1869 427–28.

ASPULL, William. b. Nottingham 1798; tenor singer; composed many vocal pieces. d. 192 Clapham road, London 16 Jany. 1875.

ASTLEY, Sir Francis Dugdale, 2 Baronet (only son of Sir John Dugdale Astley, 1 Baronet 1778–1842). b. 5 Nov. 1805; succeeded 19 Jany. 1842. d. Eastleigh lodge, Warminster 23 July 1873.

ASTLEY, Rev. Richard. b. Chesterfield 12 March 1785; Unitarian minister at Rochdale 1810, at Halifax 1812–26, at Gloucester 1826–31 and at Shrewsbury 1831–53; author of A selection of 500 hymns for public and private worship. d. Stourbridge 19 March 1855. The Christian Reformer xi, 265–73 (1855).

ASTON, Sir Arthur Ingram (younger son of Henry Hervey Aston of Aston, Cheshire, who d. Madras 23 Dec. 1798 aged 37 from a wound received in a duel with major Allen). b. London 23 Dec. 1798; ed. at Brasen. coll. Ox., created M.A. 18 June 1817; sec. of embassy at Paris 11 Jany. 1833; min. plenipo. there for short periods 9 times between 19 April 1833 and 14 Sep. 1838; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. at Madrid 13 Feb. 1840 to 13 Nov. 1843; G.C.B. 10 Nov. 1843; pensioned 8 March 1846; sheriff of Cheshire 1850. d. Aston hall, near Runcorn 5 May 1859.

ASTON, James Jones (2 son of Benjamin Richard Aston of 71 Banner st. Finsbury, coal merchant). b. 71 Banner st. 12 Dec. 1822; barrister M.T. 6 Nov. 1846; went Northern circuit; Q.C. for county palatine of Lancaster 1867; Q.C. 24 March 1880; author of Chancery practice of the county palatine of Lancaster 1852. (m. 7 Sep. 1854 Sarah Margaret eld. dau. of Thomas Eccles of Walton-le-dale, Lancs.) d. 13 Pembroke gardens, Kensington 17 Jany. 1885.

ASTON, John Partington (son of John Aston of Manchester, liquor merchant.) b. Manchester 9 Nov. 1805; ed. at Manchester gr. sch.; solicitor at Manchester 1829 to death; one of leading conveyancing and patent lawyers; solicitor and sec. of Owens college, Manchester; contributed prose and verse to periodicals; author with W. H. Ainsworth of Sir John Chiverton 1826. d. Higher Broughton, Manchester 11 May 1882. Admission register of Manchester school iii, 112 (1874).

ATHERLEY, Mark Ker (2 son of Arthur Atherley M.P. for Southampton who d. 21 Oct. 1844 aged 74). Ensign 15 foot 28 Aug. 1823; lieut. col. 92 foot 23 Nov. 1849 to 5 June 1863 when placed on h.p.; commanded a brigade in the Crimea 4 Nov. 1855 to 13 March 1856; brigadier general Malta 1863–68; col. of 109 foot 14 Feb. 1873, of 93 foot 30 Jany. 1880 and of 92 foot 5 April 1880 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. 11 March 1884 in 80 year.

ATHERSTONE, Edwin. b. Nottingham 17 April 1788; author of The fall of Nineveh, a poem, 2 vols. 1828–68; The Sea Kings in England, an historical romance, 3 vols. 1830; The handwriting on the wall, a story 3 vols. 1858; Israel in Egypt 1861 a poem of nearly 20,000 lines; granted civil list pension of £75 Oct. 4 1858 and another of £25 Jany. 16 1860. d. 19 Macaulay buildings, Bath 29 Jany. 1872.

ATHERTON, Charles (3 son of Nathan Atherton of Calne, Wilts attorney). b. Calne 1805; ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam.; 33 wrangler 1828, B.A. 1828; resident engineer of river Clyde 1832–34; manager of business of Claud Girdwood and Co. of Glasgow, ironfounders 1834–37; chief engineer at Woolwich dockyard 6 April 1847 to 31 Dec. 1848 and 8 Sep. 1851 to 26 July 1862; at Devonport dockyard 1 Jany. 1849 to 7 Sep. 1851; consulting engineer in London 1862–70; M.I.C.E. 19 Feb. 1828. d. Sandown, Isle of Wight 24 May 1875. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xlii, 252–55 (1875).

ATHERTON, Sir William (only son of Rev. Wm. Atherton of Battle Bridge Middlesex, Wesleyan minister 1775–1850). b. Glasgow October 1806; special pleader 1832–39; barrister I.T. 22 Nov. 1839, bencher 1851; went northern circuit of which he became leader; Q.C. July 1851; Q.C. for duchy of Lancaster 1851–60; M.P. for Durham 9 July 1852 to death; judge advocate of the fleet and counsel to the Admiralty 1854 to 16 Dec. 1859; solicitor general 16 Dec. 1859 and attorney general 4 July 1861 to Sep. 1863; knighted by the Queen at St. James’s palace 23 Feb. 1860. (m. 15 April, 1843 Agnes Mary younger dau. of Thomas James Hall, chief magistrate at Bow st. London, she d. 26 March 1866). d. 13 Westbourne terrace, Hyde Park 22 Jany. 1864.

ATHLUMNEY, William Meredyth Somerville, 1 Baron. b. 1802; ed. at Harrow; paid attaché at Berlin 1829–32; M.P. for Drogheda 1837–52 and for Canterbury 1854–65; under sec. of state for Home department 5 July 1846 to 22 July 1847; chief sec. for Ireland 22 July 1847 to Feb. 1852; P.C. 22 July 1847; raised to peerage of Ireland as Baron Athlumney 14 Dec. 1863 and to peerage of United Kingdom as Baron Meredyth 3 May 1866. d. Dover 7 Dec. 1873.

ATHOLE, George Augustus Frederick John Murray, 6 Duke of. b. Great Cumberland place, London 20 Sep. 1814; took part in the Eglinton tournament 28–30 Aug. 1839; grand master mason of Scotland 1843–63; succeeded his uncle as 6 Duke of Athole 14 Sep. 1846; K.T. 28 Oct. 1853; pres. of Highland and Agricultural Societies 1858–62; kept Otter hounds at Dunkeld. d. Blair castle, Perthshire 16 Jany. 1864.

ATKINS, Edward. b. 1818; played at T.R. Birmingham 1851–61; made his début in London at Drury Lane 28 Oct. 1861; played Jem Dalton in Tom Taylor’s drama The Ticket of leave man at Olympic theatre 27 May 1863 to 16 Sep. 1864 406 times, and more than 600 times afterwards in different theatres; played Autolycus in A winter’s tale at Drury Lane 28 Sep. 1878. d. 5 Carlton road west, Peckham 8 April 1883. Tallis’s Drawing room table book part 16, portrait.

ATKINS, Edwin. Manager with his brother John Atkins of Zoological gardens situated between Farnworth st. and Butler st. Liverpool which were established in 1832 by Thomas Atkins, keeper of a travelling menagerie, the gardens were eventually turned into a limited liability company, and in 1863 the place was dismantled and the land sold; started for interior of Africa 1852. d. on a small island of the White river, a branch of the Nile Jany. 1854.

ATKINS, Edwin Martin (eld. son of Atkins Edwin Martin-Atkins of Walcot in Bath). b. 1808; ed. at Rugby; matric. Magd. coll. Ox. 26 July 1825 aged 17, B.A. 1829; sheriff of Berkshire 1844; F.S.A. 10 Dec. 1857; the original of the Squire depicted by Tom Hughes in The scouring of the White Horse 1859. d. Weston super Mare 5 May 1859.

ATKINSON, Charles Caleb (eld. son of Caleb Atkinson of Hillingdon, Middlesex), b. 1793; barrister M.T. 6 June 1834; sec. of University college London 1835 to July 1867; sub editor of The Sphinx; owner of The Athenæum for short time. (m. 1831 Harriet dau. of George Swimley of Henley on Thames). d. Alexandra road, Kilburn, London 11 Jany. 1869.

ATKINSON, Fenton Robinson. b. Leeds 12 Nov. 1784; admitted attorney May 1810; practised at Manchester; a leading bankruptcy lawyer; sold his library Dec. 1817 and his other library of 13,000 volumes May 1858 a ten days sale; member of Chetham, Camden, Hakluyt, Shakspere and Percy Societies and Warton club; contributed to Bibliographiana, originally published in the Manchester Exchange Herald 1815–16 and afterwards as a small vol. of which only 24 copies were issued 1817. d. The Grove, Withington, Lancs. 9 June 1859. Law Times xxxiii, 212, 257 (1859).

ATKINSON, Sir Henry Esch (3 son of Henry Wm. Atkinson 1753–1834 provost of Company of moneyers). b. 1792; entered navy 2 Feb. 1807; commander 30 April 1827; employed in the Coast Guard 1835–38; retired captain 1 April 1856; knighted by lord lieutenant of Ireland 1836; superintendent of convicts in Van Diemen’s Land 1846. (m. 1819 Sarah dau. of John Randall of the Isle of Wight, she d. 1873). d. Hobart Town 1857.

ATKINSON, James. b. county of Durham 9 March 1780; assistant assay master at Calcutta mint 1813–28; superintendent of the government Gazette 1817–28; surgeon to 55 Bengal N.I. 1833; superintending surgeon to the army of the Indus 1838–41; a member of Bengal medical board 1845–47; author of The Shâh Nâmah translated and abridged 1832, which won gold medal of Oriental translation fund; The expedition into Afghanistan 1842; Sketches in Afghanistan 1842. d. 18 Dorset sq. London 7 Aug. 1852. Journal of Royal Asiatic Society xv, vi-ix, (1855).

ATKINSON, James. Perfumer in Old Bond st. London; lived at Village park, Ealing. d. 27 June 1853 aged 71.

ATKINSON, James Charles. b. Middlesex 1 May 1783; served in merchant service 1796–1803; joined R.N. as a volunteer 1803; master 29 Jany. 1814; staff commander on h.p. 11 June 1863. d. Southampton 27 Oct. 1882 aged 99 years and six months.

ATKINSON, Sir Jasper (son of Henry Wm. Atkinson 1753–1834, provost of Company of moneyers). b. Dulwich 1790; employed in the Mint 1804–51; provost of Company of moneyers 1 April 1848 to July 1851 when it was dissolved; knighted by patent 28 Nov. 1842 for services rendered to Ottoman, Russian and French governments. (m. 12 May 1819 Louisa Jane Grace only dau. of Wm. Gyll of Wyrardisbury house, Bucks, she was b. 21 July 1800 and m. (2) 1863 Percy Honey of Exchequer Office, Lincolns Inn). d. North Frith Haddow near Tonbridge Wells 6 Oct. 1856.

ATKINSON, Richard. b. Dublin 1796; a poplin manufacturer there 1820 to death; alderman of Dublin 1857 to death; mayor 1856 and 1861; gave a grand ball to Prince of Wales 11 Sep. 1861; a great philanthropist. d. 1867. I.L.N. xxxviii, 83 (1861) portrait.

ATKINSON, Solomon. b. Cumberland; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; senior wrangler and 2 Smith’s prizeman 1821; B.A. 1821; barrister L.I. 21 May 1827; author of County court extension act, 1850; Law and practice of county courts 1853. d. Mornington crescent, Hampstead road 12 Feb. 1865.

ATKINSON, Thomas Witlam. b. Cawthorne, Yorkshire 6 March 1799; employed in rebuilding St. Mary’s church Barnsley 1819 where he carved some very fine work; architect in London 1827–42 when he went to Hamburg; engaged in reconstruction of St. Nicholas church Hamburg 1845; went to Russia 1846; granted by Emperor of Russia rare privilege of a blank pass throughout his Asiatic dominions; travelled in Siberia and Mongolia; F.R.G.S. 1858, F.G.S. 1859; author of Explorations in Oriental and West Siberia 1857; Travels in the regions of the Upper and Lower Amoor 1860; (m. 1847 Lucy authoress of Recollections of Tartar Steppes 1863, she was granted a civil list pension of £100 18 June 1863). d. Lower Walmer, Kent 13 Aug. 1861.

ATKINSON, William Greene. b. Darlington 1810; barrister M.T. 19 Nov. 1841; librarian of the Great seal patent office, London Jany. 1854 to death; prepared manuscript of catalogue of the library which was printed in 2 vols. 4º. 1882–83; edited the Commissioners of patents journal Jany. 1854 to death, d. 59 Rowan road, Hammersmith 18 Sep. 1881.

ATKINSON, William Stephen (eld. son of Rev. T. D. Atkinson Rector of Rugeley, Staffs.) director of public instruction for Bengal. d. Rome 15 Jany. 1876 aged 55.

ATTHILL, Rev. William Lombe. b. 11 July 1807; scholar of Caius coll. Cam. 1825; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1851; sub-dean, canon and commissary of collegiate church of Middleham, Yorkshire 1839–51; P.C. of Horsham Norfolk 1851–63; V. of Horsford, Norfolk 1851–63; married 4 times; author of The way of Catechising 1840; History and antiquities of the collegiate church at Middleham 1847 and of articles in Burke’s Historic Lands of England 1849. d. Brandiston hall, Alderford, Norfolk 11 Dec. 1884.

ATTREE, William Wakeford. b. 1805; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; barrister M.T. 7 June 1833; assistant tithe comr.; recorder of Hastings and of Seaford about 1842 to death; author of Report of Braintree church rate case 1853. d. Queen’s Park, Brighton 28 Jany. 1862.

ATTWOOD, Benjamin (son of Matthias Attwood of Hales Owen, founder of bank of Attwoods in London and Birmingham). a manufacturer at Birmingham; came into a large fortune from his nephew Matthias Attwood; gave with greatest secrecy for many years sums of £1000 each to all manner of charities to amount of £375,000. d. Pengelly house, Cheshunt 22 Nov. 1874. I.L.N. lxvi 57 (1875) portrait; Graphic xi 67 (1875) portrait.

ATTWOOD Matthias (brother of the preceding). partner in bank of Attwoods; chairman of General steam navigation co.; M.P. for Callington 14 March 1820, for Boroughbridge 2 Aug 1830, and for Whitehaven 15 Dec. 1832 to 23 July 1847. d. Dulwich hill 11 Nov. 1851. G.M. xxxvii 192–93 (1852).

ATTWOOD, Thomas (brother of the preceding). b. Howe house, Hales Owen, 6 Oct. 1783; a banker and manufacturer at Birmingham and London; opposed orders in council of 1807 and 1809 prohibiting all trade between England and the ports occupied by the French, the orders were partly revoked June 1812; originated abolition of East India monopoly 1813; one of the 3 founders of Birmingham Political Union 1829 which contributed largely towards passing of the Reform bill; presented with freedom of city of London 23 May 1832; M.P. for Birmingham 12 Dec. 1832 to Jany. 1840; presented to House of Commons the Chartist petition signed by 1280000 people, 14 June 1839; author of Letters of a Scotch banker, first published anonymously in The Globe 1828. d. Great Malvern 6 March 1856. Dents Old and new Birmingham, section 2, (1880) 349–52.

Note.—There is a statue of him in Stephenson place New st. Birmingham, which was unveiled 7 June 1858. He is the “King Tom” of Cobbett’s Weekly Register.

ATWOOD, Rev. Henry Adams Sergison. b. St. Margaret’s Westminster 13 Jany. 1800; ed. at Queen’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1824; F.R.A.S. 1827; R. of Ashelworth, Gloucs. 1839 to death; author of A new version of the Book of Psalms in verse by H. A. S. A. 1834. d. Ashelworth rectory 22 June 1877.

AUBIN, John. One of the 11 judges of the Royal Court in Jersey 17 May 1862 to death. d. 27 Midvale road, St. Heliers 28 Jany. 1874 aged 78.

AUBREY, Thomas. b. Cefn-coed-y-cymer near Merthyr-Tydvil 13 May 1808; Wesleyan minister 1826 to death; chairman of North Wales district 1854–65. d. Rhyl 15 Nov. 1867. Wesl. Meth. Mag. xci, pt. 2 p. 845 (1868).

AUBREY, Sir Thomas Digby, 7 Baronet. b. Llanblythian, Glamorganshire 2 Dec. 1782; barrister L.I. 11 Feb. 1811; sheriff of Bucks 1815; succeeded 1 March 1826; chairman of Bucks quarter sessions some years, d. Oving house near Aylesbury 2 Sep. 1856.

AUCHMUTY, Sir Samuel Benjamin (2 son of Samuel Auchmuty of Bryanstown). b. Ireland 1781; major 7 foot 28 Oct. 1813 to 1 Aug. 1822 when placed on h.p.; aide de camp to the Sovereign 1831–41; granted service reward 3 Aug. 1845; col. of 65 foot 31 Jany. 1851 and of 7 foot 18 Jany. 1855 to death; general 19 June 1860; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1857, G.C.B. 28 June 1861. (m. 1817 Mary Anne Buchanan, she d. 2 Jany. 1869 aged 69). d. Pau 30 April 1868.

AUCKLAND, Right Rev. Robert John Eden, 3 Baron. b. Eden farm Beckenham, Kent 10 July 1799; ed. at Eton and Magd. coll. Cam., M.A. 1819, D.D. 1847; R. of Eyam 1823; R. of Huntingfordbury 1825; V. of Battersea 1835; chaplain to William iv 1831–37 and to Victoria 1837–47; Bishop of Sodor and Man 7 May 1847; consecrated 23 May 1847; installed at Castletown 29 June 1847; translated to see of Bath and Wells 2 June 1854; resigned his episcopal functions Oct. or Nov. 1869; succeeded his brother as 3 Baron 1 Jany. 1849. d. The palace, Wells 25 April 1870. I.L.N. lvi, 489, 490 (1870), portrait.

AUDLEY, George Edward Thicknesse-Touchet, 20 Baron. b. 26 Jany. 1817; succeeded 14 Jany. 1837. d. Homburg 18 April 1872. Burke’s Portrait gallery ii, 41 (1833).

AUDUBON, John James, b. New Orleans 4 May 1780; arrived at Liverpool 20 July 1826; lived in England 1826–29, 1830–31, 1834–36 and 1838–39; author of Birds of America published in 87 parts, elephant folio at price of 1000 dollars; F.L.S. 1828, F.R.S. 18 March 1830. d. New York Island 27 Jany. 1851. R. Buchanan’s Life of J. J. Audubon 1868, 2 portraits.