HESLOP, Thomas Pretious (son of Mr. Heslop a Scotchman and major R.A.) b. West Indies 1823; apprenticed to Thomas Underhill, M.D. of Tipton, Staffs.; studied at Universities of Dublin and Edin., M.D. Edin. 1848; M.R.C.P. 1859, F.R.C.P. 1872; practised at Birmingham 1848 to death, house physician general hospital 1848 to Jany. 1852; professor of physiology at Queen’s college 1853–58 and senior phys. 1870–82; the chief consultant phys. in Midland counties many years; founded the Free hospital for children opened in Steel house lane, Birmingham 1861, the Women’s hospital 1871 and the Skin and Lock hospital 1880; founded the Midland Medical Society 1848; a trustee of Mason college 1873, president of the council 1884 to death, gave 11,000 volumes to the library; author of The realities of medical attendance on the sick children of the poor. Birmingham 1869; The abuse of alcohol in the treatment of acute diseases 1872. d. the Devil’s Elbow, 3 miles south of Braemar 17 June 1885. bur. at Dublin 20 June. Birmingham Weekly Post 20 June 1885 p. 4 col. 7.

HESSEY, Rev. Francis (2 son of James Augustus Hessey of St. Bride’s, London). b. 10 April 1816; ed. at Merchant Taylors and St. John’s coll. Ox., scholar and fellow 1834–61; S.C.L. 1837, B.C.L. 1839, D.C.L. 1844; C. of Kentish town, London 1839–40; principal of Huddersfield coll. sch. 1840–43; head master of Kensington sch. 1843–53; V. of St. Barnabas, Kensington 1853 to Oct. 1881; author of Hints to district visitors, By F. H. 1858; Confirmation questions 1859, 7 ed. 1866, Second series 1862; Catechetical lessons on book of Common prayer 1868; A few parochial sermons preached at St. Barnabas, Kensington 1882. d. Midhurst, Sussex 10 Aug. 1882.

HETHERINGTON, Rev. William Maxwell. b. in parish of Troqueer near Dumfries 4 June 1803; a gardener; ed. at Edin. Univ. 1822; presbyterian minister of Torphichen, Linlithgow 1836–43; a free ch. minister to students at St. Andrews 1843–8; minister at St. Paul’s, Edin. 1848; edited the Free Church Magazine 1844–8; professor of systematic theology in Glasgow Free Church coll. 1857; LLD. and D.D. of an American university; author of Twelve dramatic sketches founded on the pastoral poetry of Scotland 1829; The minister’s family 1838, 12 ed. 1880; History of the Church of Scotland 1842, 7 ed. 2 vols. 1852; History of Westminster assembly of divines 1843, 4 ed. 1878; The anti-christian system or popery as predicted in Scripture 1851. d. 23 May 1865. bur. Grange cemet. Edin. Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881); The apologetics of the Christian faith By W. H. Hetherington 1867, with a Memoir pp. xiii-xv; Scott’s Fasti vol. i, pt. i, p. 204.

HEWETSON, Charles. Entered Madras army 1811; col. 49 Madras N.I. 21 July 1861 to 1869; L.G. 25 June 1870. d. Madras 4 Feb. 1873.

HEWETT, Sir Prescott Gardiner, 1 Baronet (son of Wm. Nathan Wrighte Hewett of Bilham hall near Doncaster). b. 3 July 1812; ed. at St. George’s hospital and in Paris; M.R.C.S. 1836, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843, professor of human anatomy and surgery, member of council 1867, vice pres. 1875, pres. 1876; surgeon extraord. to the Queen 14 Oct. 1867, sergeant surgeon extraord. 19 Feb. 1877; surgeon in ord. to Prince of Wales 10 March 1874; pres. of Clinical Soc. 1873; F.R.S. 4 June 1874; retired from practice Nov. 1883; created baronet 6 Aug. 1883. d. Chestnut lodge, Horsham, Sussex 19 June 1891. bur. Brompton cemetery, London 25 June.

HEWETT, Sir William Nathan Wrighte (2 son of Dr. William Wrighte Hewett). b. Brighton 12 Aug. 1834; entered the navy March 1847; shewed great presence of mind and courage in a battery before Sebastopol and at Inkerman 1854, lieut. 20 Oct.; V.C. 24 Feb. 1857; commodore and commander in chief on west coast of Africa during Ashantee war 1873–76, and present at capture of Coomassie; K.C.B. 31 March 1874, Ashantee medal with clasp; commander in chief in East Indies 1882–5; occupied Suez and seized the Canal 1882; defended Suakim 6 Feb. 1884, governor for the Khedive 10 Feb.; went on a mission to king John of Abyssinia, April 1884; commander of Channel squadron 18 March 1886 to 17 April 1888; known as the fighting admiral; K.C.S.I. 17 Nov. 1882. d. Haslar hospital, Portsmouth 13 May 1888. Times 15 May 1888 p. 8, 16 May pp. 11, 16, 18 May p. 5; I.L.N. xxxix 41 (1861), portrait, lxxxiv 172 (1884), portrait.

HEWITSON, William Chapman. b. Newcastle-upon-Tyne 9 Jany. 1806; ed. at York; land surveyor, sometime under George Stephenson on London and Birmingham railway, came into a fortune and gave up business; resided at Bristol, at Hampstead and from 1848 at Oatlands park, Surrey; made a study of birds’ eggs and collected specimens in Norway 1833; made a collection of diurnal lepidoptera, paid travellers to search for them in all parts of the world and gave £350 for a single specimen 1848, etc.; member of Entomological soc. 1846, the Zoological 1859 and the Linnean 1862; author of British Oology being illustrations of the eggs of British birds with figures of each species Newcastle 3 vols. 1833–42; Coloured illustrations of the eggs of British birds 2 vols. 1846, 3 ed. 2 vols. 1856; Illustrations of diurnal lepidoptera 2 vols. 1863–78; Description of 100 new species of hesperediæ 1867. d. Oatlands park 28 May 1878. bur. Walton-on-Thames. Left his lepidoptera, stuffed birds, pictures and water colours to Br. Museum, now in Cromwell road; his books and £30,000 to Nat. Hist. Soc. Newcastle, and money to the Müller institute Bristol. Academy 8 June 1878 p. 512; Nature xviii, 196–7 (1878).

HEWITT, Daniel Chandler. b. Scotland 1789; author of New analysis of music, a theory of melody, harmony and modulation 1828; The true science of music 1860 and 1864. d. London 1869.

HEWITT, John. b. Lichfield 1807; organist St. Mary’s ch. Lichfield; in war office, London; resided at Woolwich; wrote articles in magazines under name of Sylvanus Swanquill; author of The tower of London, its history 1841; Ancient armour and weapons in Europe 3 vols. 1855–60; Official catalogue of the Tower armories 1859; Old Woolwich 1860; Handbook for the city of Lichfield 1874, 2 ed. 1884 and other works. d. Lichfield 10 Jany. 1878. bur. in cathedral close 15 Jany. Reliquary xviii, 228–30 (1877–8).

HEWITT, William Henry. b. 1791; entered Bengal army 1806; col. 27 Bengal N.I. 1850 to death; L.G. 30 Dec. 1859. d. Westfield house, Bath 16 April 1863 aged 72.

HEWLETT, Thomas (2 son of Thomas Hewlett of Oxford). b. Oxford 16 March 1845; of Magd. hall Ox., B. Mus. 22 June 1865; organist Duke of Buccleuch’s chapel, Dalkeith; teacher and organist in Edin.; accompanyist Edin. Sacred harmonic soc.; organist Newington park ch. Edin.; wrote Are other eyes, Madrigal 1864; The good old days, A Christmas song 1865; Introduction, offertoire and fuge for the organ 1867; Second offertoire for the organ 1872 and Third 1872. d. 2 Hope park crescent, Edinburgh 1 April 1874.

HEWLETT, Thomas Gillham. b. 1832; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1853; assist. surgeon Bombay army 20 Jany. 1854, surgeon 20 Jany. 1865; served during Indian mutiny 1857–8; deputy assay master Bombay mint; health officer Bombay when he organized the public health department; sanitary commissioner for Bombay presidency; deputy surgeon general Bombay 1 Nov. 1879; C.I.E. 1 Jany. 1878; author of Reports on leprosy in the Bombay presidency 1879; Report on enteric fever 1883. d. of heart disease at Finchley road station, Metropolitan railway 8 Oct. 1889. Times 29 Oct. 1889 p. 9, 31 Oct. p. 10.

HEWSON, Rev. William (son of William Hewson, banker’s clerk). b. 12 April 1806. bapt. St. Margaret’s, Westminster 29 Dec.; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. and St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833; C. of Bishop Burton, Yorks. 1830–3; C. of Spofforth 1834–5; head master of Sherburn gram. sch. Yorks. 1835–8 and of St. Peter’s sch. York 1838–47; P.C. of Goatland 1848 to death; author of The key of David or the mystery of the 7 sealed books of Jewish prophecy 1855; The oblation and temple of Ezekiel’s prophetic visions 5 parts 1858; Thy kingdom come 1859; Christianity in relation to Judaism and Heathenism 1860; The Hebrew and Greek scriptures compared with Oriental history, dialling, science and mythology 7 parts 1870. d. 1 St. Hilda ter. Whitby 23 April 1870. bur. York cemet. Smales’ Whitby authors (1867) 104, 171–6, 217; Whitby Times 29 April 1870 p. 4.

HEY, William (son of William Hey 1772–1844 surgeon). b. Leeds 23 Dec. 1796; M.R.C.S., F.R.C.S.; succeeded his father at Leeds 1844; surgeon Leeds infirmary 1830–51, consulting surgeon 1864; a founder of Leeds school of medicine, and lecturer on surgery there 1831–57; president surgical section British Med. Assoc. at Leeds, July 1869; V.P. Leeds Philos. and Lit. Soc. 1835 and 1839. d. Gledhow Wood, Leeds 10 May 1875. British Medical Journal, i, 763 (1875).

HEY, Ven. William (son of Rev. Samuel Hey, vicar of Ockbrook, Derbyshire). b. Ockbrook 1811; ed. at Sherborne and at St. John’s coll. Cam., fellow 1836, B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; head master St. Peter’s sch. York 1844–64; V. of St. Helen, Stonegate 1854–77; preb. of Weighton, York cath. 1854–81 and succentor canonicorum 1871–81; canon residentiary of York cath. 1864; precentor and preb. of Duffield 1881; archdeacon of Cleveland 1874 to death; examining chaplain to Archbp. of York 1874; V. of St. Olave with St. Giles’, York 1877 to death; select preacher Cam. 1879. d. The Residence, Minster yard, York 22 Nov. 1882. Church portrait journal, Jany. 1880 pp. 5–8, portrait.

HEYGATE, James. b. West Haddow, Northampton; M.R.C.S. 1823, M.D. Edin. 1836; in practice at Hanslope, Bucks., at Derby 1837 to death; senior physician Derbyshire general infirmary; F.R.S.; V.P. British medical assoc.; author of Tic doloureux, An essay 1836 and of papers in medical journals. d. Little Eaton, Derby 4 Aug. 1872. Medical Times 31 Aug. 1872 p. 243.

HEYSHAM, Thomas Coulthard (eld. son of Dr. John Heysham). b. 1792; mayor of Carlisle 1839; J.P. for Cumberland; made extensive collections in entomology, ornithology and botany; his name given to some species of coleoptera. d. Fisher st. Carlisle 6 April 1857. Carlisle Journal 10 April 1857 p. 8, 17 April p. 8.

HEYTESBURY, William A’Court, 1 Baron (eld. son of Sir William Pierce Ashe A’Court, 1 Baronet 1747–1817). b. Salisbury 11 July 1779; ed. at Eton; sec. of legation at Naples 31 July 1801; sec. to special mission at Vienna 20 April 1807; first commissioner of affairs, Malta 1812; envoy extraord. to Barbary states 5 Jany. 1813, to Naples 5 July 1814 and to Spain 5 April 1822; ambassador to Portugal 22 Sep. 1824 and to Russia 5 April 1828, pensioned 18 Aug. 1832; succeeded as 2 baronet 22 July 1817; P.C. 30 Dec. 1817; G.C.B. 20 Sep. 1819; cr. baron Heytesbury of Heytesbury, Wilts. 23 Jany. 1828; nominated governor general of India 28 Jany. 1835 but the ministry resigned and he never took office; lord lieut. of Ireland 26 July 1844 to 11 July 1846; governor of the Isle of Wight to 1857. d. Heytesbury 31 May 1860. F. O. List (1860) 145; I.L.N. v, 60 (1844), portrait; Eton portrait gallery (1876) 346–8; Waagen’s Galleries of art (1857) 386–90.

HEYTESBURY, William Henry Ashe A’Court-Holmes, 2 Baron (son of the preceding). b. London 1809; ed. at Eton and St. John’s coll. Camb., M.A. 1831. m. 2 Oct. 1833 Elizabeth Woosley, eld. dau. of Sir Leonard Worsley Holmes, bart., and assumed name of Holmes on 14 Oct.; M.P. for Isle of Wight 1837–47; succeeded as 2 Baron 31 May 1860. d. Heytesbury 21 April 1891.

HEYWOOD, Sir Benjamin, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Nathaniel Heywood of Manchester, banker, d. 1815). b. St. Ann’s sq. Manchester 12 Dec. 1793; ed. at univ. of Glasgow 1809–11; banker at Manchester 1814, sole proprietor 1828, retired 1860; chief founder of Manchester mechanics’ institution 1824, president 1824–44; M.P. for Lancashire 1831–1832; baronet 28 July 1838; F.R.S. 1843; gave £1000 toward Manchester public park 1844; vice pres. of British association at Manchester 1842 and 1861; author of Address delivered at Manchester mechanics’ institution 1843. d. Claremont near Manchester 11 Aug. 1865. bur. St. John’s Islam’s o’ the Height; personalty sworn under £400,000, 14 Oct. 1865. Grindon’s Manchester banks (1877) 79–86; T. Heywood’s Memoir of Sir B. Heywood (1888), portrait.

HEYWOOD, John. b. 1804; hand loom weaver to 1837; a ruler to his brother Abel Heywood 1839–46; a stationer Deansgate st. Manchester from 1846, the largest copy book maker in the world, bookseller and newsagent, employed 120 hands; member of Manchester city council 1860–61; chairman of Chorlton guardians. d. Manchester 7 Oct. 1864. The Bookseller 26 Feb. 1861, p. 105.

HEYWOOD, John (son of the preceding). b. 1832; errand boy in a solicitor’s office; succeeded to his father’s book, news and stationery establishment, Manchester 1864; made a central depot for the small local booksellers, and a book saloon for the exhibition of educational appliances; had 30,000 customers’ names in his books, and employed 30 carts to distribute books and newspapers; his Excelsior printing and bookbinding works, Hulme hall road, Manchester, opened 4 July 1870; employed 750 workmen; printed a series of books called J. Heywood’s Pocket guides 1869 etc., and many other works. d. The Grange, Derbyshire lane, Stretford, Manchester 10 May 1888. Bookseller, June 1888 pp. 573–4.

HEYWOOD, John Joseph (son of R. Heywood of Glencrutchery near Douglas). b. 1789; first deemster or chief justice of Isle of Man 1821 to death. d. Bomahague, Douglas 26 May 1855 aged 66. bur. Kirk Onchar ch. yard. Hardwicke’s Annual Biog. (1856) 355.

HEYWOOD, Thomas (brother of Sir B. Heywood). b. Manchester 3 Sep. 1797; ed. at Manchester gram. sch. 1811; partner in Heywood, Bros. & Co. bankers, St. Ann’s sq. Manchester, retired 1828; collected a remarkable library of local books at Swinton, they were sold Manchester 22–3 April 1835; boroughreeve of Salford 1826; sheriff of Herefordshire 1840; F.S.A.; member of council of Chetham soc. for which he edited The Norris Papers 1846 and 5 other works; author of The earls of Derby and the verse writers of the 16th and 17th centuries. Manchester 1826; The most pleasant song of Lady Bessy 1829. d. Hope End near Ledbury 20 Nov. 1866; his general library sold Manchester, Nov. 1868. Manchester sch. reg. iii, 74–6 (1874).

HEYWORTH, Lawrence (4 son of Peter Heyworth, woollen manufacturer, d. 1799). b. Greensnook, Bacup 1786; ed. at Hipperholme gram. sch. near Halifax 1799–1802; woollen manufacturer with his brothers at Bacup 1802; established business connections with Portuguese and Spanish 1805 and with South America 1808; in S. America 1809–16; established agencies in Liverpool and Hamburg; firm became Heyworth, Brothers & Co., retired 1836; purchased Yew Tree estate near Liverpool 1819; chairman Liverpool Free trade association; M.P. Derby 1848–57; author of On the corn laws and other legislative restrictions, 7 ed. 1843; On economic fiscal legislation 1845; The expansion of the suffrage and accession of blessings God has in store for all classes through the wise exercise of the franchise 1861. d. Yew Tree, West Derby, Liverpool 19 April 1872. I.L.N. 22 June 1850 pp. 443–4, portrait; Newbigging’s Forest of Rossendale (1868) 181–88.

HIBBERD, James Shirley (son of a master mariner). b. St. Dunstan, Stepney, London 1825; apprentice to a bookseller at Stepney; editor of Floral World 1858, which he managed to 1875; editor Gardener’s Magazine 1861 to death; a practical writer on agriculture, experimented on fruit trees and vegetables, especially on potatoes; temperance advocate and a vegetarian; a popular lecturer, lectured at Wylde’s Great Globe; F.R.H.S.; author of Brambles and Bayleaves. Essays 1855, 3 ed. 1873; Profitable gardening 1863; Familiar garden flowers 5 vols. 1879–87; Water-cresses without sewage 1878 and 25 other books. d. 1 Priory road, The Green, Kew 16 Nov. 1890. Gardener’s Mag. 22 Nov. 1890, portrait; I.L.N. 29 Nov. 1890 p. 678, portrait.

HIBBERD, Samuel. b. 1839; jockey; won the Cambridgeshire on Malacca 1856, Cesarewitch on Lecturer 1866, the Chester Cup on One Act in 1856 and on Dalby in 1865 and 1866. d. Newmarket 21 Feb. 1888. Times 29 Feb. 1888 p. 9.

HIBBERT, John (son of John Hibbert of Braywick lodge, Maidenhead, d. 1855). b. 29 Jany. 1811; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Cam., scholar, fellow; B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; barrister I.T. 29 April 1836; chairman of Cookham board of guardians; built a ch. for the poor of the Maidenhead and Cookham union; founded and endowed a ward in Royal Windsor infirmary. d. Braywick lodge, Maidenhead 28 March 1888.

HIBBS, Rev. Richard. b. 1812; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., scholar; B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844; C. of Bishop Hatfield 1841–3; C. of Corton near Lowestoft 1843–8; teacher and preacher at Lowestoft 1848–52; C. of St. Paul’s, Covent Garden 1852; assist. minister St. John’s chapel, Edin. 1852–4, a controversy with the incumbent led him to establish the New Church of England chapel, St. Vincent st. Edin. 1854; C. of Market Lavington 1874–6; chaplain at Lisbon; chaplain at Rotterdam and Utrecht 1876–8; author of The substance of a series of discourses on baptism 1848; Scottish episcopal Romanism, or popery without a pope 1856; Truth vindicated or some account of the New Church of England chapel 1858, 4 ed. 1859; Prussia and the poor, or the systematized relief of the poor at Elberfeld in contrast with that of England 1876, 4 ed. 1883. d. 13 St. Lawrence road, North Kensington, London 26 March 1886. Academy 10 April 1886 pp. 255–6.

HICKEY, Rev. William (eld. son of Rev. Ambrose Hickey, rector of Murragh, co. Cork 1796 to his death in 1826). b. 1787 or 1788; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin 1804–5, B.A. 1809, M.A. 1832; pensioner St. John’s coll. Cam. 7 March 1806, B.A. 1809; C. of Dunleckny, Leighlin 1811; V. of Bannow, Ferns 1820; founded an agricultural soc. on a farm of 40 acres; a founder of South Wexford agricultural soc., the first of its kind in Ireland; R. of Kilcormuick 1826; R. of Wexford 1831; R. of Mulrankin 1834 to death; endeavoured to improve the husbandry of small farms; author of State of the poor in Ireland 1817; member of R. Dublin soc, gold medallist; civil list pension of £80, 6 Oct. 1853; had pension from R. Literary fund; under the pseudonym of Martin Doyle he wrote Hints to small farmers 1830, numerous editions; Hints on emigration to Upper Canada 1831, 3 ed. 1834; Practical gardening 1833, 2 ed. 1836; A cyclopædia of practical husbandry 1839, new editions 1844, 1851; The farmer’s manual 1868; with Edmund Murphy he conducted the Irish Farmer’s and Gardener’s Magazine 9 vols. 1834–42. d. Mulrankin 24 Oct. 1875. Dublin Univ. Mag., April 1840 pp. 374–6, portrait; Wexford Independent 27 and 30 Oct. 1875.

HICKLEY, Victor Grant (son of J. A. Hickley of Purbrook, Hants.) b. 1823 or 1824; sub-lieut. R.N. 18 Aug. 1842; captain 1 April 1858, retired 8 June 1868; retired admiral 12 April 1886. d. Taunton railway station 27 Jany. 1888.

HICKLIN, John. b. England; editor of Nottingham Journal, and of Chester Courant; author of Church and state. Historic facts ancient and modern. Torquay 1873; Literary recreations. d. 13 Jany. 1877.

HICKS, Agnes Ross (dau. of J. Boss of Campsie, Stirlingshire). b. 1850; ed. under Warwick Jordan, Mus. Bac. organist of St. Stephen’s, Lewisham; soprano singer; first appeared in public at Public hall, Lee, Kent 1875; sang at St. James’ hall, London, her old ballads being in much favor; well known by her singing of Gounod’s ‘Worker.’ (m. George Hicks), she d. 32 Henrietta st. Covent Garden, London 13 March 1886. bur. Norwood cemet. 17 March. The Era, March 1886 p. 13.

HICKS, Edward (only son of Edward Simpson of Lichfield). b. 10 Aug. 1814; ed. at Charterhouse and C.C. coll. Cam., B.A. 1836; student of Inner Temple 1837; assumed surname of Hicks on succeeding his kinsman Rev. James Hicks 1835; sheriff of Cam. 1862; master of harriers; M.P. Cambs. 1879–85; contested Newmarket division 1885. d. Wilbraham Temple, Cambridge 13 Jany. 1889.

HICKS, Sir Francis (youngest son of John Hicks of Southwark, London). b. Southwark 1821; treasurer of St. Thomas’s hospital, London 1865 to death; knighted at St. James’s palace 21 June 1871 on opening of new St. Thomas’s hospital. d. Margate 1 Sep. 1877 in 57 year. Times 4 Sep. 1877 p. 9.

HICKS, George. Entered Bengal army 7 Sep. 1808; col. 70 Bengal N.I. 7 May 1854 to 1869; L.G. 28 Oct. 1868; C.B. 3 April 1846. d. 24 Oct. 1873.

HICKS, Mary (dau. of John and Sarah Roden). bapt. Broseley, Salop 14 Nov. 1773; she however said she was dau. of Samuel and Mary Roden and bapt. Broseley 15 Feb. 1767. (m. at Isleworth, John Hicks who d. 1848). d. Brentford workhouse 24 Nov. 1870 aged 97. W. J. Thoms’ Longevity (1879) 236–42.

HICKS, Newton Tree (son of Cecil Hicks, who d. 15 March 1866). b. 4 Sep. 1811; appeared as Richard 3rd at Royalty theatre, London 1824; played at the Coburg, the New Brunswick and Surrey theatres; in the provinces 6 or 7 years; made the round of metropolitan theatres; known by sobriquet of Bravo or Brayvo Hicks; some of his characters were Fabian in The Black Doctor; Monte Christo at the Surrey, June 1848; Sir Thomas Clifford in The Hunchback, and Leopold in The Jewess; retired from the stage about 1863; lived in Hogarth’s house, Hogarth lane, Chiswick. d. 21 Feb. 1873. Theatrical Times, ii 17 (1847), portrait, iii 209 (1848), portrait; Era 2 March 1873 p. 11.

Note.—His brother Cecil Hicks pianist at the Canterbury, Cambridge and Foresters’ music halls, d. 19 Jany. 1888. bur. Ilford cemet. 29 Jany.

HICKS, William. b. 29 April 1831; ensign 24 Bombay N.I. 3 March 1851; served in India in campaign of 1857–9, with Panjâb movable column, in Rohilkand campaign and under Lord Clyde; captain Bombay Staff Corps 29 Dec. 1861; brigade major in 1 div. in Abyssinian campaign 1867–8; lieut.-col. B.S.C. 29 Dec. 1875 to 1 July 1880; A.A.G. Bombay 3 Dec. 1877 to 1 July 1880; commander of Egyptian army in the Sûdân to suppress the Mahdi’s revolt Feb. 1883 and known as Hicks Pasha, joined his troops at Khartûm, ascended the White Nile to Duem and advanced across the desert to El’Obeyd Sep. 1883, betrayed into an ambuscade and killed with most of his troops at the battle of Kashgil 4 Nov. 1883. J. Colborne’s With Hicks Pasha in the Soudan (1884), portrait; I.L.N. lxxxiii, 521 (1883), portrait; Graphic xxviii, 529 (1883), portrait.

HICKS, William Robert (son of William Hicks, schoolmaster, Bodmin, d. 1833). b. Bodmin 1 April 1808; schoolmaster Bodmin 1832–40; clerk of Bodmin board of guardians 1834; domestic superintendent Cornwall county lunatic asylum 1840–60, with the medical officers introduced a more humane treatment of the patients; mayor of Bodmin 1865; a well known story teller, familiar in London as the Yorick of the West; was a proficient in the Cornish and Devonshire dialects, and in miners’ talk. d. Westheath, Bodmin 5 Sep. 1868. Collier’s W. R. Hicks, a memoir (1888), portrait.

HICKSON, George Blake. Called to the bar in Ireland 1819; Q.C. 1 July 1837. d. 2 Aug. 1869.

HICKSON, William Edward (son of William Hickson, boot manufacturer, London). b. 7 Jany. 1803; boot maker, partner with his father, retired 1840; a pioneer of national education and of popular musical culture; on the royal commission on condition of handloom weavers 1837, when he visited seats of industry in Great Britain and Ireland; studied national school systems in Holland, Belgium and Germany 1839; editor and proprietor of Westminster Review, vols. 34–45, 1840–52; author of The singing master, instructions for teaching singing in schools and families, 3 parts 1836; Dutch and German schools 1840; Part singing or vocal harmony for choral societies, 4 parts 1842; Time and faith, an enquiry into the data of ecclesiastical history 2 vols. 1857; A musical gift containing 24 new songs 1859. d. Fairseat, Sevenoaks, Kent 22 March 1870.

HIGGIN, Right Rev. William (4 son of John Higgin of Greenfield, governor of Lancaster castle 1783–1833). b. Lancaster 27 Sep. 1793; ed. at Lancaster gram. sch., Manchester gram. sch., and Trin. coll. Cam., 13 wr. 1817, B.A. 1817; M.A. of Trin. coll. Dublin 1835, D.D. 1849; C. of Clifton 1817–20; chaplain Richmond general penitentiary, Dublin 1820–8; R. of Roscrea 1828–45; vicar general of Killaloe 1828–45; dean of Limerick, instituted 25 Jany. 1845; bishop of Limerick 1849; translated to Derry 7 Dec. 1853, enthroned 20 Dec.; comr. of national education 1853; an ecclesiastical comr. for Ireland 1866; author of Ministerial fidelity and zeal. A sermon 1839, and other sermons and charges 1849–67. d. the Palace, Londonderry 12 July 1867. bur. in ground of St. Columba cath. Manchester school register, iii, 62–5 (1874).

HIGGINBOTTOM, John (son of a solicitor). b. Ashton under Lyne 14 June 1788; studied at Edin.; M.R.C.S. 1818, F.R.C.S. 1844; F.R.S. 3 June 1852; practised at Nottingham 1812 to death; temperance advocate, gave no alcohol to his patients; wrote in scientific journals on tritons, tadpoles and frogs 1850–62; author of An essay on the application of lunar caustic in the case of wounds and ulcers 1826, 3 ed. 1865; Mothers, doctors and nurses. A dialogue on paralysis and apoplexy 1850. d. St. Alban’s villas, Gill st. Nottingham 7 April 1876. The Lancet 29 April 1876 p. 652.

HIGGINS, Most Rev. Andrew. b. Killarney 1834; dean of Kerry; bishop of Kerry 5 Feb. 1882 to death. d. The palace, Kerry 1 May 1889. bur. in the cathedral 3 May. Tablet 4 May 1889 p. 702, 11 May p. 736.

HIGGINS, Charles. b. 1805 or 1806; M.D. Edin. 1825; knight of legion of honour; author of Observations on climate, diet and medical treatment in France and England 1835; Notes sur l’emploi des altérants dans les maladies, aigues et chroniques. Paris 1859. d. 212 Rue de Rivoli, Paris 27 July 1866.

HIGGINS, Charles Longuet (1 son of John Higgins of Turvey abbey, Beds., d. 1846). b. Turvey abbey 30 Nov. 1806; pensioner of Trin. coll. Cam. 14 Nov. 1825; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1834; student of Lincoln’s inn 16 Nov. 1830, withdrew his name 2 Nov. 1847; studied medicine at St. Bartholomew’s 1836–8; in practice at Turvey 1838; visited Egypt and the Holy Land 1848; restored Turvey ch. 1852–4, built schools 1847, a village museum 1852 and better cottages 1849 etc.; projected a hymn book for general use in Ch. of England, and printed Hymnology, a paper read before the church congress Nottingham. Oxford 1871. d. Turvey 23 Jany. 1885. J. W. Burgon’s Lives of twelve good men (1888) ii, 343–422.

HIGGINS, George Gore Ouseley (2 son of Fitzgerald Higgins of Westport, co. Mayo). b. 15 Oct. 1818; ed. at Brussels and Trin. coll. Dublin; in C.S. in Jamaica; M.P. for Mayo 1850 to 1857; lieut.-col. North Mayo militia 5 Feb. 1855 to 1 Oct. 1861. d. 6 Wilton place, London 8 May 1874. I.L.N. xvii, 169 (1850), portrait.

HIGGINS, Matthew James (only son of Matthew Higgins of Benown castle, Westmeath). b. Benown castle 4 Dec. 1810; ed. at Eton; matric. from New coll. Ox. 22 May 1828; went to British Guiana 1838 and 1846 where he owned an estate; contributed an article called ‘Jacob Omnium the Merchant Prince’ to New Monthly Magazine, Aug. 1845; agent for the British Association for the relief of the destitute Irish 1847; contested Westbury 31 July 1847; one of chief writers on Morning Chronicle 1848; contributed to The Times on all kinds of questions under pseudonym of Jacob Omnium, J.O., Civilian, Paterfamilias, West Londoner, A Belgravian Mother, Mother of six, A thirsty soul, John Barleycorn, Providus, and many others till 1863; contributed to the Edinburgh Rev., the Cornhill and the Pall Mall Gazette; author of Is cheap sugar the triumph of free trade? A letter to Lord J. Russell 1847, Second Letter 1848, Third Letter 1848; Light horse 1855; The story of the Mhow court-martial 1864 and other books. d. Kingston house near Abingdon 14 Aug. 1868. bur. in R.C. cemet. Fulham 21 Aug. Essays on social subjects by M. J. Higgins, with memoir by Sir W. S. Maxwell (1875); Cornhill, xviii, 507–12 (1868); The Mask (1868), 42 portrait.

HIGGINS, Thomas Gordon. b. 1789; Second lieut. R.A. 4 Oct. 1806, col. 20 June 1854 to 24 Jany. 1857, col. commandant 20 Sep. 1865 to death; L.G. 26 Dec. 1865; commandant of garrison of Quebec 5 years, presented with a piece of plate by inhabitants of Quebec 30 April 1853. d. 83 Sloane st. Chelsea 20 June 1871 aged 82. I.L.N. xxii, 341 (1853), picture of testimonial.

HIGGINSON, Rev. Edward (eld. son of Rev. Edward Higginson, unitarian minister, d. 1832). b. Heaton Norris, Lancs. 9 Jany. 1807; ed. at Manchester coll. York 1823–8; unitarian minister Bowl alley lane chapel, Hull 1828–46, at Westgate chapel, Wakefield 1846–58, and at High st. chapel, Swansea 1858–76; president Royal Institution, South Wales 1877–9; author of Orthodoxy and unbelief 1832; The sacrifice of Christ 1833, 2 ed. 1848; The spirit of the Bible 2 vols. 1853–5, 2 ed. 1863; Ecce Messias 1871; with his wife Emily dau. of George Thomas he wrote The fine arts in Italy 1859. d. 2 Glanmore ter. Swansea 12 Feb. 1880. Autobiographical sketch in Christian Reformer (1856) 192, (1857) 528; Christian Life 21 Feb. 1880 pp. 86–7, portrait.

HIGGINSON, George Powell. b. 1787; ensign 1 foot guards 6 Nov. 1805, captain 26 Oct. 1820 to 11 April 1834 when placed on h.p.; col. 94 foot 29 Jany. 1855 to death; general 9 Nov. 1862. d. Cannes 19 April 1866 aged 79.

HIGGINSON, Sir James Macaulay (son of James Higginson, major 10 foot). b. 1805; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; entered Bengal army 1824; private sec. to Lord Metcalfe in India, Jamaica and Canada 1835–46; governor of Antigua and the Leeward island 1846–50; governor of Mauritius 1 Oct. 1850 to 11 Sep. 1857; C.B. 1 March 1851, K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1857. d. Tulfaris, co. Wicklow 28 June 1885.

HIGGS, William Alpheus (3 son of William Higgs of Tiverton, Somerset). b. Luckington near Frome 1838; head of firms of W. A. Higgs & Co. and Barber & Co. tea merchants, London; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1887–8; accompanied Lord mayor Polydore de Keyser to Belgium on his visit to his native country 1888; F.R.G.S.; of Willenhall park, New Barnet; a breeder of prize stock. d. suddenly at Hotel Victoria, Northumberland avenue, London when starting to attend lord mayor’s ball 23 Dec. 1889. City Press 28 Dec. 1889 p. 5.

HIGHTON, Edward. b. Leicester 13 Aug. 1817; resident engineer of Taff Vale dock and railway 1845; telegraphic engineer to London and North Western railway co. 1846; A.I.C.E. 1847; received large gold medal of Society of Arts for his inventions in electric telegraphy 1849; author of The electric telegraph, its history and progress 1852; Highton’s Mathematical arrangement of code for telegraph purposes 1857. d. 5 Gloucester road, Regent’s park, London 13 Nov. 1859.

HIGHTON, Rev. Henry (1 son of Henry Highton). b. Leicester 19 Jany. 1816; ed. at Rugby and Queen’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840; Mitchel fell. of his coll. 1840–1; assistant master of Rugby 1841–56; principal of Cheltenham coll. March 1859 to 1862; silver medallist of Soc. of Arts for paper on Telegraphy without insulation 1 May 1872; patented 4 improvements in galvanic batteries 1871–2 and 3 improvements in electric telegraphs 1873–4; invented artificial stone much used for paving and building; author of A letter to Sir M. Montefiore on address presented by 1500 continental Jews 1842; A catechism of the Second Advent 1851; A revised translation of the New Testament 1862; Letter on repeal of the Act of uniformity 1863; Dean Stanley and Saint Socrates, the ethics of the philosopher and the philosophy of the divine 1873. d. The Cedars, Putney 23 Dec. 1874.

HIGMAN, Rev. John Philips. b. 1793; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., 3rd wrangler 1816; B.A. 1816, M.A. 1819; fellow and tutor of his coll.; R. of Fakenham, Norfolk 1834 to death; F.R.S. 23 May 1820; F.R.A.S.; author of A syllabus of the differential and integral calculus 1826. d. Cambridge ter. Hyde park, London 7 Aug. 1855.

HIGSON, John (eld. son of Daniel Higson). b. Whiteley Farm, Gorton, Lancs. 25 July 1825; ed. at Ardwick and Gorton old sch.; cashier of Victoria mills, Droylsden; cashier of Springhead spinning co. Droylsden; author of The Gorton historical recorder or a history of the Mesne manor and its inhabitants 1852; A history of Droylsden 1859; Explosions in coal mines 1878; commenced a newspaper at Droylsden which was a failure; contributed to Ashton Reporter under signature of H. d. Birch cottage, Lees near Oldham 13 Dec. 1871. bur. Droylsden ch. yard. Procter’s Manchester streets (1874) 288–91; Ashton Reporter 16 Dec. 1871.

HILDIGE, James Graham. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1852; L.K.Q.C.P.I. 1853; F.R.C.S.I. 1859; lecturer on ophthalmic surgery Carmichael sch. of medicine; author of Medical sketches in Austria, Prussia and Italy, with remarks on the Campagna and the conquered provinces in Italy and Hungary. Dublin 1859; writer of papers in medical journals. d. 7 Upper Merrion st. Dublin 14 May 1871.

HILDITCH, Sir Edward (son of John Frederick Hilditch of Hammersmith). b. 1805; studied at St. George’s hospital; M.R.C.S. 1826; M.D. Aberdeen 1859; entered navy 1826, on West India station 1830–55; inspector general of hospitals and fleets 6 Feb. 1854 to 13 Jany. 1870 when he retired; in charge of Royal hospital, Plymouth 1855–61, of Greenwich hospital 1861–65; knighted at Windsor castle 20 Nov. 1865; hon. physician to the Queen 1868 to death. d. 18 Arundel gardens, Bayswater, London 24 Aug. 1876.

HILDYARD, Rev. James (8 son of Rev. Wm. Hildyard 1762–1842, R. of Winstead in Holderness, Yorkshire). b. Winstead 11 April 1809; ed. at Shrewsbury 1820–29, was head of the sch. from 1826, headed a rebellion in the sch. known as the Beef Row, April 1829; pensioner at Ch. coll. Cam. Oct. 1829, Tancred divinity student 1829, sen. opt. in mathematics, second in the first class of the class. tripos and chancellor’s medallist Jany. 1833; B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836, B.D. 1846; fellow of his coll. 1833 and classical lecturer and tutor; Cambridge preacher at Chapel royal, Whitehall 1843, 1844; senior proctor 1843; R. of Ingoldsby, Lincoln, June 1846 to death; author of M. A. Plauti Menæchmi cum notis 1836; Five sermons on the parable of the rich man and Lazarus 1841; The university system of private tuition examined 1844; Reply to the bishops in convocation, on Lord Ebury’s motion for a revision of the liturgy. Signed Ingoldsby 1858, 4 ed. 2 vols. 1879. d. Ingoldsby 27 Aug. 1887. The Biograph, May 1881 pp. 472–77; William Smith’s Old Yorkshire (1883) pp. 142–46, portrait; Church portrait journal, April 1877, 49–50, portrait.

HILDYARD, John (brother of the preceding). b. 1796 or 1797; ed. at Shrewsbury, head boy there; went to St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; barrister L.I. 10 July 1821; recorder of Stamford, Grantham and Leicester 1835–54; judge of county courts, circuit 20 (Leicestershire), March 1847 to death. d. the King’s hotel, Loughborough 13 Feb. 1855. bur. in Townshend vault, All Saints’ church, Hertford 21 Feb.

Note.—His father lived to see 9 sons masters of arts in Cambridge university, and 6 of them fellows of their respective colleges.

HILDYARD, Robert Charles (brother of the preceding). b. Winstead 1800; ed. at Oakham sch. and Cath. hall, Cam., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, fellow of his coll.; barrister L.I. 25 May 1827; admitted ad eundem at I.T. 1833, bencher 1844, reader 1857; counsel to duchy of Lancaster to 1846; Q.C. 1845; M.P. for Whitehaven 28 July 1847 to death. d. 24 Lowndes st. London 7 Dec. 1857.

HILDYARD, Thomas Blackborne Thoroton- (son of colonel Thomas B. Thoroton-Hildyard of Flintham hall, Notts., d. 1830). b. 8 April 1821; ed. at Eton; matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 16 Oct. 1839; sheriff of Notts. 1862; M.P. South Notts. 1846–52 and 1866–85; chairman Notts. quarter sessions 6 April 1874. d. 11 Moreton gardens, South Kensington 19 March 1888.

Note.—His fellow member for South Notts. 1874–85 George Storer d. Thornton hall, Notts, the same day 19 March.

HILDYARD, Rev. William (son of Rev. John Hildyard of Monk’s Eleigh, Suffolk). Matric. from Trin. coll. Ox. 24 May 1808 aged 17, scholar 1812–5, B.A. 1812, M.A. 1817; assist. P.C. Beverley minster 1820; R. of Hameringham cum Scrayfield, Lincoln 1837–66; author of Thoughts on Sunday schools. Beverley 1827; Specimens of composition 1832; A manual of ancient geography for the use of schools 1835; A letter to the Rev. A. J. Carr respecting a sermon preached by him in St. John’s chapel, Beverley 1843. d. Market Deeping, Lincs. 11 Feb. 1875. I.L.N. lxvi, 211 (1875).

HILES, John. b. 1810; organist at Shrewsbury 1835–53, at Portsmouth 1853–60, and at Brighton 1860–74; organist Christ church, Gipsy hill, London 1874–81; author of A catechism for the pianoforte student 1871, 18 ed. 1882, circulated 65,000 copies; A complete dictionary of 12,500 musical terms 1871, 7 ed. 1882; Short Voluntaries for the organ 4 series 1854–75; Catechism of the organ 1876; revised The Amateur organist. By E. Travis 1872, and composed many pieces of music. d. 51 Elsham road, Kennington, London 4 Feb. 1882. Musical Directory (1883) p. xviii.

HILL, Rowland Hill, 2 Viscount (eld. son of John Hill 1769–1814, colonel in the army). b. 10 May 1800; ed. at Oriel coll. Ox., M.A. 1820; cornet royal horse guards 1820–24; M.P. for Shropshire 1821–32, for North Shropshire 1832–42; succeeded his grandfather as 4 baronet 21 May 1824, and his uncle as 2 viscount 10 Dec. 1842; lieut.-col. North Salop yeomanry cavalry 18 Aug. 1824; lord lieut. of Shropshire 20 Nov. 1845 to death; col. Shropshire militia 8 June 1849 to Aug. 1852. d. Hawkstone park, Salop 2 Jany. 1875. I.L.N. iv, 65 (1811), portrait.

HILL, Rev. Alexander (son of George Hill, D.D. 1750–1819, principal of St. Andrews univ.) b. St. Andrews 19 July 1785; ed. at St. Andrews, B.A. 1804, D.D. 1828; licensed as a presbyterian preacher Sep. 1806; minister of Colmonell, Ayrshire 1815–16 and of Dailly 1816–40; professor of divinity Glasgow univ. 1840–62; moderator of the general assembly 1845; author of The practice in the judicatories of the church of Scotland 2 ed. 1830, 5 ed. 1851; Practical hints to young ministers; Counsels regarding the pastoral office. d. 24. Wellington sq. Ayr 27 Jany. 1867. John Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy 3rd series (1851) 364–9; Scott’s Fasti ii, part i, p. 108.

HILL, David Octavius (son of Thomas Hill, bookseller, Perth). b. Perth 1802; studied under Andrew Wilson, Edin.; landscape painter; sec. Soc. of Arts, Edin. 1830, which became R. Scottish academy, sec. 1838–70; R.S.A.; the first to apply photography to portraiture and to use calotype; a commissioner of the board of manufacturers 1850; originated Art Union of Edin. 183-, the first institution of the kind; exhibited 4 pictures at R.A., 1 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1832–68 and many at R.S.A.; commenced in 1843 his picture, Signing the deed of demission, which contains 500 portraits, finished 1865, now in Free Ch. assembly hall, Edin.; published 60 pictures of the Scenery of the Land of Burns 1841. d. Edinburgh 17 May 1870. Redgrave’s Dictionary of Artists (1878) 211; Edinburgh Evening Courant 18 May 1870 p. 8.

HILL, Sir Dudley St. Leger (eld. son of Dudley Hill). b. co. Carlow 1790; ensign 82 foot 27 Aug. 1804; captain royal West India rangers 1810–14; major attached to Portuguese and Spanish army 1814 to 25 Dec. 1816 when placed on h.p.; major 95 foot 1823 to 19 Jany. 1826 when placed on h.p.; served in South America 1806–8 and in the Peninsula 1808–14, being wounded 7 times; K.T.S. 20 Nov. 1816; knighted 25 Nov. 1816; governor of St. Lucia 15 April 1834 to 21 Dec. 1847; general on staff in Bengal 10 April 1848 to death; colonel of 50 regt. 28 March 1849 to death; M.G. 23 Nov. 1841; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 2 March 1848. d. Umballa, Bengal 21 Feb. 1851. I.L.N. xviii, 329 (1851).

HILL, Edward Rowley (2 son of Hugh Hill 1770–1850, colonel battle axe guards, Dublin castle). b. 29 Dec. 1795; ensign 43 foot 23 Feb. 1813; lieut. col. 1 West India regiment 1 Jany. 1847 to 7 Sep. 1855; lieut. col. 68 foot 7 Sep. 1855 to 10 Sep. 1858 when placed on h.p.; col. 5 foot 21 Feb. 1868 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. Brighton 10 Sep. 1878.

HILL, Edwin (2 child of Thomas Wright Hill of Birmingham 1763–1851). b. Birmingham 25 Nov. 1793; manager Fazeley st. rolling mills, Birmingham to 1827; with his bro. Sir Rowland Hill kept a school at Bruce castle, Tottenham 1827; supervisor of the stamps department, Somerset house 1840, remodelled the machinery in use, thus effecting a saving of many thousands a year; with W. De la Rue invented machine for folding envelopes 1840; author of Principles of currency. Means of ensuring uniformity of value and adequacy of supply 1856; Criminal capitalists, pamphlets 1870–2. d. 1 St. Mark’s sq. Regent’s park, London 6 Nov. 1876. G. B. Hill’s Life of Sir Rowland Hill (1880) i, 37, ii, 99, 503.

HILL, Ellen (dau. of Mr. Shaw). b. 1803; an actress of some note at the minor theatres; played leading business at the Royalty, the Marylebone and the City of London theatres; acted in a drama with the young Roscius, W. H. Betty and Charles Kean; retired from stage 1840. (m. William John Hill, leader and composer d. Dublin, Jany. 1851). d. London 9 Dec. 1866 aged 63. Era 23 Dec. 1866 p. 12.

HILL, George. b. co. Wexford 1809; printer; contributed articles on the scenery and antiquities of Wexford and Kilkenny to Dublin Penny Journal, illustrated by his own drawings; reporter to the Waterford Mail, Wexford Independent, Drogheda Conservative, Liverpool Herald, Rochdale Pilot and the Bacup and Rossendale News. d. Bacup, Lancs. 8 July 1869. Newspaper Press 2 Aug. 1869 p. 181.

HILL, George Augusta (5 son of 2 marquis of Downshire 1753–1801). b. 9 Dec. 1801; lieut. royal horse guards 20 July 1820; captain 8 hussars 1825 to 6 July 1830 when placed on h.p.; M.P. for Carrickfergus 1831–2; sheriff of Donegal 1845; author of Facts from Gweedore with useful hints to Donegal tourists. Dublin 2 parts 1845, 3 ed. 1854. d. Ballyane house near Ramelton, co. Donegal 6 April 1879.

HILL, Henry. b. Manchester 1807; first betted at Newmarket 1829; in partnership with John Gully; factotum for Lord George Bentinck for many years; cleared some thousands on Bloomsbury winning the Derby 1839; discovered the Running Rein fraud 1844; kept race horses; won heavily on Pyrrhus the First, winner of Derby 1846; won the Two Thousand with Pitsford 1850; with Rogerthorpe won Goodwood cup 1856; the largest better on the Derby except W. E. Davies the Leviathan; lost £40,000 in one year on the Stock Exchange; purchased Ackworth near Pomfret from John Gully. d. 52 Queen’s gate ter. Kensington 1 Feb. 1881 aged 74. Sporting Rev., April 1858 pp. 295–8; W. Day’s Reminiscences (1886) 63–76.

HILL, Rev. Henry Thomas. b. 1815; ed. at C.C. coll. Cam., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840; P.C. of Lye, Worcs. 1839–43; C. of Wolverley 1843–51; R. of Felton 1851 to death; V. of Preston Wynne, Hereford 1858–76; diocesan inspector of schools 1870–72; preb. of Nonnington in Hereford cath. 1870 to death; author of Church restoration, What is it? Whence is it? 1864; Thoughts on churches and church yards 1856, 3 ed. 1862. d. Felton 11 Jany. 1882.

HILL, Sir Hugh (2 son of James Hill of Graig, co. Cork 1771–1850). b. Graig 1802; entered Trin. coll. Dublin, Nov. 1816, B.A. 1821; at King’s Inns, Dublin; practised in London as a special pleader below the bar 1827–41; barrister M.T. 29 Jany. 1841, bencher Dec. 1851; Q.C. July 1851; serjeant at law May 1858; judge of court of Queen’s Bench 29 May 1858 to 3 Dec. 1861; knighted at Buckingham palace 18 April 1859. d. Royal crescent hotel, Brighton 12 Oct. 1871.

HILL, Sir James (eld. son of James Haylock Hill of Newbold Firs, Leamington). bapt. at St. Thomas, Winchester 6 Feb. 1814; ed. at Winchester and New coll. Ox., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1840; fellow of his coll.; barrister I.T. 3 May 1839; second charity estate comr. 24 Oct. 1853, chief charity estate comr. 7 Dec. 1872 to death; knighted at Windsor castle 5 May 1873; published A practical treatise on the law relating to trustees, their powers, duties, privileges and abilities 1845. d. Folkestone 23 Oct. 1875. Law Times, lx, 60 (1875); I.L.N. lxvii, 447 (1875), lxviii, 22 (1876).

HILL, James Frederick. b. Norwich 1817; conductor; composer of Old Friends met together, part song, printed in J. P. Hullah’s The Singer’s Library 1859. d. St. Giles ter. Bethel st. Norwich 9 March 1877.

HILL, James John (son of Daniel Hill of Birmingham). b. Broad st. Birmingham 1810; ed. at Hazlewood sch.; pupil of John Vincent Barber of Birmingham, artist; a portrait painter in Birmingham to 1839; moved to London 1839; member of Society of British artists 1842; exhibited 10 pictures at R.A., 5 at B.I. and 109 at Suffolk st. 1842–80. d. Sutton house, West Hill, Highgate 27 Jany. 1882. Birmingham Weekly Post 4 Feb. 1882.

HILL, Sir John. b. 1774; entered navy 25 Sep. 1781, present in battle of the Nile; an agent for transports 24 March 1813–1819; captain 28 Oct. 1815; captain superintendent of victualling yard at Deptford 1820–1838; superintendent of dockyard at Sheerness 9 March 1838–41, at Deptford 11 Dec. 1841 to 16 April 1851; rear admiral 2 April 1851; knighted at St. James’s palace 31 Aug. 1831. d. Walmer lodge, Deal 20 Jany. 1855 aged 81.

HILL, Rev. John (son of John Hill of London). b. 1787; ed. at St. Edmund hall, Ox., B.A. 1809, M.A. 1812, B.D. 1844; vice principal of his hall 1812–51; city lecturer at Oxford 1851; R. of Wyke Regis, Dorset 1851 to death; editor of Artis Logicæ Rudimenta by H. Aldrich. With observations 1849; author of a few sermons. d. Wyke Regis 22 Feb. 1855. bur. St. Peter’s in the East, Oxford.

HILL, Rev. John Harwood (son of Robert Hill of Leamington). b. Louth, Lincs. 1809; pensioner Peter house, Cam. 30 June 1830, B.A. 1834; R. of Cranoe, Leics. 1837 to death, and V. of Welham 1841 to death; F.S.A. 12 Jany. 1871; local sec. Leicestershire Architect, and Archæol. Soc. and a contributor to its transactions; author of The chronicle of the christian ages or records of events ecclesiastical, civil and military. Uppingham 2 vols. 1859; The history of the parish of Langton. Leicester 1867; The history of Market Harborough. Leicester 1875. d. Cranoe rectory 3 Dec. 1886. Proc. Soc. of Antiquaries, xi, 371 (1885–7); Academy 18 Dec. 1886 p. 411.

HILL, Ven. Justly (youngest son of colonel William Hill of St. Boniface, Isle of Wight). bapt. Bonchurch, I. of W. 16 Dec. 1781; ed. at Winchester and New coll. Ox., scholar, B.A. 1805, M.A. 1808; fellow of his coll. 1802–20; R. of Shanklin and Bonchurch, Isle of Wight 1809 to death; R. of Tingewick, Bucks. 1818 to death; archdeacon and commissary of Buckingham 1825; author of Two charges delivered to the clergy and churchwardens of the archdeaconry of Buckingham. Eton, 2 ed. 1847, and other charges and sermons. d. Shanklin 18 March 1853.

HILL, Matthew Davenport (eld. child of Thomas Wright Hill of Birmingham 1763–1851). b. Suffolk st. Birmingham 6 Aug. 1792; ed. at Wolverhampton and in his father’s school, Birmingham; assisted in his father’s school to 1815; barrister L.I. 18 Nov. 1819, went Midland circuit, quitted it 1846; defended wife of Richard Carlile on charge of selling a libel 1820; leading counsel for Nottingham rioters 1831, for Canadian prisoners 1839, for Rebecca rioters 1843, and for D. O’Connell 1844; for the plaintiffs in Braintree ch. rate case 1848, for the crown in Dr. Hampden’s case 1848; for many years in parliament and in the courts engaged in Baron de Bode’s case; established with Bentham and Brougham the Soc. for Diffusion of useful knowledge, Jany. 1827; M.P. for Hull 1832–35; Q.C. 7 July 1834; recorder of Birmingham, April 1839, resigned Jany. 1866; one of commissioners of court of bankruptcy for Bristol district 24 March 1851 to 31 Dec. 1869 when office was abolished, granted sum of £1800; author of Suggestions for repression of crime 1857; Our exemplars. Biographical sketches 1861. d. Heath house, Stapleton, Gloucs. 7 June 1872. The Recorder of Birmingham, a memoir of M. D. Hill, By R. and F. D. Hill (1878), portrait; Law mag. and review, July 1872 pp. 515–29.

HILL, Rev. Pascoe Grenfell (son of major Thomas Hill). b. Marazion, Cornwall 15 May 1804; ed. at Mill Hill sch. Middlesex and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1836; chaplain R.N. 1836–45; chaplain Westminster hospital 1852–7; R. of St. Edmund the King and martyr with St. Nicholas Acons, Lombard st. London 26 Jany. 1863 to death; the first to introduce a surpliced choir into a city ch.; author of Fifty days on board a slave ship 1843, 3 ed. 1853; A voyage to the slave coasts 1849; A journey through Palestine 1852; Life of Napoleon 3 vols. 1869. d. the rectory house 32 Finsbury sq. London 28 Aug. 1882. bur. Ilford cemetery. City Press 2 Sep. 1882 p. 5; Boase & Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i, 240.

HILL, Percy. b. 24 Dec. 1817; ensign 68 foot 26 June 1835; lieut. colonel rifle brigade 22 June 1855 to 6 March 1868; served in Russian war 1854–6 and in Indian mutiny 1857–8; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; colonel 85 foot 27 Sep. 1879 to death; C.B. 26 July 1858. d. 24 April 1880.

HILL, Rev. Richard Humphry (2 son of Rev. Richard Hill of Wolverton, Somerset). b. Wolverton 21 Oct. 1824; chorister Magd. coll. Ox. 1834–42, demy 1842–51, matric. from Ex. coll. 2 June 1842; B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849, D.C.L. 1854; head master of Beaumaris gr. sch. 1850–64 and of Magd. coll. sch. Ox. Jany. 1865 to 23 July 1876 which he raised to the level of a first-rate public school; precentor and canon of Bangor 31 Dec. 1864 to death; R. of Stanway near Colchester 22 Dec. 1874 to death. d. Stanway rectory 26 Feb. 1891. J. R. Bloxam’s Register of Magdalen College, i 219, vii 353–6.

HILL, Sir Robert Chambre (4 son of Sir John Hill of Hawkstone, Salop, 3 bart. 1740–1824). b. 25 March 1778; ed. at Rugby; cornet royal horse guards 11 June 1794, lieut. colonel 13 May 1813 to 24 July 1823; knighted by the prince regent at Carlton house 29 May 1812; served in the Peninsula and at Waterloo; C.B. 22 June 1815. d. Prees hall, Salop 5 March 1860. The case of J. Jebb with charges against Sir R. Hill (1830).

HILL, Robert Gardiner (son of Robert Hill of Leamington). b. Louth, Lincs. 26 Feb. 1811; M.R.C.S. 1834; L.C.P. Edin. 1859; resident house surgeon of Lincoln lunatic asylum July 1835; proprietor with Richard Sutton Harvey of Eastgate House private asylum, Lincoln 1840–63; presented with a testimonial at Lincoln 29 Oct. 1851 as the author and originator of the non-restraint system in lunacy; mayor of Lincoln 1852–3; F.S.A. 17 Feb. 1853; resident medical proprietor of Earl’s Court house, Old Brompton, London, Oct. 1863 to death; author of A concise history of the entire abolition of medical restraint in the treatment of the insane 1857; Lunacy, its past and its present 1870. d. Earl’s Court House, London 30 May 1878. Robertson’s Photographs of eminent medical men (1868) ii, 65–8, portrait; Medical Circular 7 Sep. 1853 pp. 187–9, portrait, and 23 Nov. pp. 522–3; I.L.N. 3 Jany. 1852 pp. 13–14, view of testimonial.

HILL, Sir Rowland (3 son of Thomas Wright Hill 1763–1851). b. Kidderminster 3 Dec. 1795; a teacher in his father’s schools at Birmingham and Tottenham 1808–28; established the Hazelwood system of school management 1812; undertook the management of his father’s money affairs from 1812; invented a rotatory printing press; sec. to the South Australian commission 1835–9; published Post office reform, its importance and practicability 1836; described his adhesive postage stamp 13 Feb. 1837; attached to the Treasury to introduce cheap postage 1839–42, dismissed by Sir R. Peel, Sep. 1842, penny postage established 10 Jany. 1840; director of London and Brighton railway 1843, chairman 1845–6, introduced system of express and excursion trains; presented by public subscription with £13,000, 17 June 1846; sec. to post-master-general Nov. 1846; permanent sec. of post office, April 1854 to 4 March 1864; had a grant from parliament of £20,000, 1864; F.R.S. 11 June 1857, member of council 1867; D.C.L. of Ox. 9 June 1864; K.C.B. 10 Feb. 1860; F.R.A.S.; presented with freedom of city of London 6 June 1879; author of Home colonies, plan for extinction of pauperism 1832; Post office reform 1837, 3 ed. 1837; The state and prospects of penny postage 1844; Results of postal reform 1864. d. Bertram house, Hampstead 27 Aug. 1879. bur. St. Paul’s chapel, Westminster abbey 4 Sep. G. B. Hill’s Life of Sir R. Hill 2 vols. 1880, portrait; W. Lewin’s Her Majesty’s Mails (2 ed. 1865) 168–97, portrait; Walford’s Photographic portraits, No. 12, April 1857, portrait; H. J. Nichol’s Great movements (1881) 189–220, portrait.

Note.—Sir R. Hill’s statue at corner of Royal exchange, London, was unveiled 17 June 1882.—Other statues have been erected at Kidderminster and Birmingham.

HILL, Right Rev. Rowley (3 son of Sir George Hill, 3 bart. 1804–45). b. 22 Feb. 1836; ed. at Christ’s hospital, Lond. and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1859, M.A. 1863; C. of Ch. Ch. Dover 1860–61; C. of St. Mary, Marylebone 1861–63; P.C. of St. Luke’s, Marylebone 1863–68; R. of Frant, Sussex 1868–71; V. of St. Michael’s, Chester sq. London 1871–73; V. of Sheffield 1873–77; preb. of York cath. 1876–77; bishop of Sodor and Man 17 July 1877 to death, consecrated in York Minster 24 Aug.; author of Sunday school lessons: the collects 1866, 2 ed. 1867; Sunday school lessons: the gospels 1866; The titles of our Lord 1870. d. 10 Hereford sq. Old Brompton, London 27 May 1887. Church Portrait Journal ii, 25 (1878), portrait.

HILL, Thomas. b. 1794; at Royalty theatre; clown at Drury Lane, especially known in the pantomime of Jack of Spades under R. W. Elliston’s management. d. 26 May 1851 aged 57. bur. St. Peter’s ch. Walworth road. Era 8 June 1851 p. 11.

HILL, Rev. Thomas. b. 1808; ed. at Clare coll. Cam., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833; assist. classical master of Mercer’s sch. London 1832–50; P.C. of Holy Trin. Minories, London 1850 to death; author of The harmony of the Latin and Greek languages 1842; The history of the parish of Holy Trinity Minories 1851. d. 30 Little Trinity lane, London 13 Feb. 1865.

HILL, Ven. Thomas. Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813, B.D. 1822; V. of Badgeworth, Gloucs. 1821; V. of Chesterfield, Derby 1822–46; archdeacon of Derby 4 Jany. 1847 to 1873; canon res. with prebendal stalls of Offley and Flixton annexed, in Lichfield cath. 1851–63; P.C. of Hasland, Derby 1851–63; author of The doctrine of the Trinity 1820; Letters and memoirs of W. A. Shirley, bishop of Sodor and Man 1849; The life of L. Saunders 1858. d. Harrogate 14 Sep. 1875.

HILL, Thomas Wright (son of James Hill, baker and dealer in horse corn). b. Kidderminster 24 April 1763; ed. at Kidderminster gram. sch.; apprentice to a brass founder; discovered the distinction between vocal and whisper letters; said to have edited the Hazelwood Magazine 1824–30; invented a system of philosophic short-hand; devised scheme for representation of minorities; a manufacturer of woollen stuffs; founded a school at Hill Top, Birmingham 1803, with his sons removed it to Hazelwood near Birmingham 1819 and to Bruce castle, Tottenham, Middlesex 1827; F.R. Astronom. Soc.; a volume of Selections from his papers was printed in 1860. d. Bruce terrace, Tottenham 13 June 1851. M. D. Hill’s Remains of T. W. Hill (1859); Edin. Rev. xli, 315–35 (1825); Monthly Notices R. Astronom. Soc. 1852 pp. 90–93; Life of Sir R. Hill (1880) i, 2 et seq., portrait.

HILL, William. b. 1806; salesman and book keeper with Daniel Lee & Co., calico printers, Manchester; mnemonicalist; author of Fifteen lessons on the analogy and syntax of the language 1833; The rational school grammar and entertaining class book; The complete English exposition and comprehensive spelling book; The educational monitor, which will enable the student to fix knowledge rapidly in the mind 1847; How to teach the alphabet in a few hours 1865; Memories for the million 1875. d. Rose Bank, Patricroft near Salford 2 April 1881. Gillow’s English catholics, iii, 310–11 (1887).

HILL, Sir William (son of Daniel Hill, member of council, Antigua). b. 1805; entered military service of E.I.C. 1821; commanded garrison of 500 men at Pegu Pagoda, which he held against 6000 men 1852; commanded the Gwalior contingent 1853; commanded the Nizam’s contingent during the Indian mutiny 1857; col. in the army 1859; retired with rank of M.G. 31 Dec. 1861; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1867. d. Southsea 20 Aug. 1886.

HILL, William John. Composer of Our Saviour’s farewell. A devotional canzonette 1839. (m. Ellen Shaw d. 9 Dec. 1866 aged 63). d. Dublin, Jany. 1851.

HILL, William Jones, stage name of William Hill Jones. b. 14 Jany. 1834; a musician; appeared as an actor at Court theatre, London 25 Jany. 1871 as Nicodemus Nobbs in Turn him out, as John Brodie in Dotheboys’ Hall, as the manager in Vesta’s Temple 14 Nov. 1872, in The Happy Land made up as Robert Lowe 3 March 1873, as Uncle Bopeddy in The Wedding March 15 Nov. 1873, in Peacock’s Holiday 16 April 1874; at the Criterion in Betsy 6 Aug. 1879; as Mr. Cattermole in Private Secretary at Prince’s theatre 29 March 1884; as the Baillie in Les cloches de Corneville at Folly theatre Feb. 1878 to 1879; acted Irascible Fizzleton in Nita’s First at Novelty up to 11 April 1888. d. Birchmore villa, 29 Ampthill sq. London 13 April 1888. bur. Highgate cemet. Illust. Sport. and Dram. News, xiv, 397 (1881), portrait; Theatre, v, 95 (1885), portrait, xi, 281 (1888); Saturday Programme 25 Nov. 1876 pp. 10–11, portrait; Era 14 April 1888 p. 8, 21 April p. 9.

HILLIER, George (eld. son of William Hillier, commander R.N.) b. Kennington 1815; made collections for the History and antiquities of the Isle of Wight, engraved the plates himself and printed part of it in his own house; discovered the Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Chessel Down and excavated the graves; author of The topography of the Isle of Wight 1850; A narrative of the attempted escape of Charles I. from Carisbrook 1852; The sieges of Arundel castle 1854; The stranger’s guide to Reading 1859. d. Ryde, Isle of Wight 1 April 1866.

HILLIER, Thomas. b. 1831; ed. at Univ. coll. London, M.B. Lond. 1845, B.A. 1849, M.D. 1855; M.R.C.S. 1852; F.R.C.P. 1867; resident medical officer Univ. coll. hospital; medical officer of health St. Pancras 12 years; physician hospital for sick children, Great Ormond st.; lectured on diseases of skin at University coll.; author of Hand-book of skin diseases 1865; Diseases of children 1868 and other books. d. 32 Queen Anne st. London 7 Nov. 1868. Medical Times 14 Nov. 1868 p. 573; Proc. Med. and Chir. Soc. vi, 154 (1871).

HILLMAN, William Augustus (eld. son of William Hillman, surgeon R.N., d. 1865). b. 1819; ed. at London univ.; M.R.C.S. 1841, F.R.C.S. 1845, student in human and comparative anatomy there 1841–4; assist. surgeon Westminster hospital and lecturer on physiology and general anatomy there 10 years; surgeon Westminster hospital 1869–71; author of The study of physic and surgery 1846. d. 2 Argyle st. Regent st. London 11 Dec. 1873. Medical Times 20 Dec. 1873 p. 705.

HILLS, James. b. 1800; whip of the old Surrey hounds 7 seasons; first whip of Lord Ducie’s hounds; huntsman of the Heythrop hounds at Heythrop near Didcot many years from 1835. Scott and Sebright, By The Druid (1862) 359–72, portrait; Cecil’s Records of the Chase (1877) 163–7.

HILLS, Tom. b. 1793; huntsman of the Old Surrey hounds 1812–62; landlord of the Plough at Bletchingly. d. Feb. 1873. Sporting Rev. June 1859 pp. 394–7; Baily’s Mag. March 1873 pp. 161–4.

HILLYAR, Sir Charles Farrell (2 son of Sir James Hillyar 1769–1843, rear admiral). b. 1818; cadet R.N. 24 July 1828; served in South America 1837; severely wounded at Lagos 1851; captain 20 Feb. 1852; served at blockade of Sebastopol 1854–5; commander in chief in China 31 Aug. 1877 to 26 Sep. 1878; C.B. 2 June 1869, K.C.B. 21 June 1887; admiral 26 Sep. 1878, retired 9 June 1882. d. Torre house, Torpoint, Cornwall 14 Dec. 1888.

HILLYAR, Robert Purkis. Inspector of hospitals and fleets 23 Nov. 1841; K.H. 1 Jany. 1837; C.B. 17 Aug. 1850. d. Little Green near Gosport 23 March 1855.

HILLYER, William Richard (son of an innkeeper). b. Leybourne, Kent 5 March 1813; played with Town Malling club from 1830; first round armed bowler of his time, known as ‘the best of all bowlers’; his balls took a curl and uprooted the middle stump; the finest short-slip ever seen; first played at Lord’s 27 July 1835; practice bowler to Marylebone club to 1851; in his last match 7 June 1855 broke his thumb; had a benefit at the Oval 1858 which produced £300. d. Wheeler st. Maidstone 8 Jany. 1861. bur. Leybourne. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores, ii, 334 (1862), vol. v, page xv (1876).

HILLYERD, Rev. Samuel John (son of Nicholas John Hillyerd). b. 20 Feb. 1784; National schoolmaster Farnley Tyas, Yorks. to 1819; raised himself by education and was ordained as a literate 1819; C. of Denby Penistone, Yorks. 1819, C. of Farnley Tyas 1821, C. of Primrose hill, Great Horton, Bradford 1823; P.C. of Tattersall, Lincs. 1823–46; V. of Semperingham, Lincs. 1846 to death; a brilliant preacher. d. Semperingham 29 June 1861. Hulbert’s Suppl. Annals of Almondbury (1885) 16; Correspondence between C. G. Selleck and S. J. Hillyerd on universal salvation (1835).

HILTON, Hilda. b. 1853; actress and vocalist; played with success in the provinces; acted at Criterion as Little Loo in Orange Blossom 1877; at Globe as Mrs. Honeyton in The Happy Pair; at the Strand as Ruth in Ruth’s Romance; at the Gaiety as Juliana in The Honeymoon 1880; at the Princess’ as Martha Gibbs in All that glitters is not gold; at Sadler’s Wells 1881; at the Globe as Frou Frou; lessee of Opera Comique 1883 when she produced Bondage 31 March; she wrote Princess Carlo’s plot drama in 3 acts adapted from Ouida’s Afternoon, brought out at Novelty theatre 31 Jany. 1887. d. Florence 13 June 1888 aged 35. The Theatre 1 Aug. 1881 p. 125, portrait; Illust. Sport. and Dram. News 8 Jany. 1881 pp. 401, 419, portrait.