HOLDING, Frederick (son of Henry Holding, painter). b. 1817; painter at Manchester; illustrated Southey’s Battle of Blenheim 1864 and other books; scene painter Theatre royal and Prince’s theatre, Manchester. d. 1874. Manchester City News 3 May 1890.

HOLDING, Henry James (brother of preceding). b. Salford, Lancs., Nov. 1833; a calico printer’s pattern designer; a painter of marine and torrent scenery in oil and water colours; exhibited in Manchester, Liverpool and London; his chief works were, Finding the body of Rufus by the charcoal burners 1862 and Bettwys-y-Coed 1872. d. Paris 2 Aug. 1872.

HOLE, Lewis (son of Rev. Wm. Hole, archdeacon of Barnstaple, d. 26 Oct. 1791 aged 82). b. Strodeley, Devon 16 Jany. 1779; entered R.N. 1793, first lieut. of the Revenge at Trafalgar; captain 4 Dec. 1813; retired R.A. 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 11 Feb. 1861. d. Newport near Barnstaple 16 July 1870. I.L.N. lvii, 131 (1870); O’Byrne (1849) 529.

HOLKER, Sir John (son of Samuel Holker of Bury, Lancs.) b. Bury 24 March 1828; ed. at Bury gr. sch.; barrister G.I. 9 June 1854, bencher 15 April 1868, treasurer 1875; practised at Manchester 1854–64; removed to London 1864; Q.C. 21 Feb. 1868; much engaged in patent cases; M.P. Preston 1872–82; solicitor general 20 April 1874; knighted at Windsor Castle 12 Dec. 1874; attorney general 25 Nov. 1875 to May 1880, his income during 1875–77 was £22,000 a year; lord justice of court of appeal 14 Jany. 1882, resigned 19 May 1882. d. 46 Devonshire st. Portland place, London 24 May 1882. bur. St. Cuthbert’s church, Lytham 30 May. A generation of Judges, By Their Reporter (1886) 119–27; I.L.N. lxiv, 493 (1874), portrait; Times 25 May 1882 p. 9, cols. 3–4.

HOLL, Charlton. b. 1805; entered Madras army 1820; colonel 15 Madras N.I. 11 July 1861 to 1864; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. 39 Royal crescent, Notting hill, London 4 Dec. 1878.

HOLL, Francis (4 son of William Holl, engraver 1771–1838). b. Bayham st. Camden Town, London 23 March 1815; pupil of his father; engaged 25 years engraving pictures belonging to the Queen; exhibited 17 engravings at R.A. 1856–79; A.R.A. Jany. 1883; his principal works were, The Stocking Loom by A. Elmore, and The coming of age in the olden time, and The railway station, both by W. P. Frith; portraits of him by his son Frank Holl were exhibited at the R.A. 1868 and 1884. d. Elm house, Milford near Godalming 14 Jany. 1884. bur. Highgate cemetery 19 Jany.

HOLL, Francis Montague, known as Frank Holl (eld. son of the preceding). b. 7 St. James’s terrace, Kentish Town, London 4 July 1845; studied at R.A. schools, silver medallist 1862–3, gold medallist 1863, travelling student of R.A. 1868–9; worked for The Graphic 1874–6; portrait painter 1876 to death, painted 198 portraits including nearly all celebrated men of the day 1879–88; A.R.A. 19 June 1878, R.A. 29 March 1883; associate of Royal Soc. of painters in water-colours 26 March 1883. d. The Three Gables, 6 Fitzjohn’s Avenue, London 31 July 1888. Universal Review 15 Aug. 1888 pp. 478–93, portrait; Graphic 3 May 1879, portrait, and 11 Aug. 1888, portrait.

HOLL, Henry (brother of Francis Holl 1815–84). b. July 1811; first appeared on stage as prince Arthur in King John at Drury Lane 1828; acted in the provinces; for many years a member of Haymarket Co.; wrote for the stage Grace Huntley, Adelphi 1833, Wapping Old Stairs, Haymarket 18 Nov. 1837, Louise or the White Scarf, Victoria 1838, The Forest keeper, Drury Lane 15 Feb. 1860, and Caught in a trap, Princess’s 8 Feb. 1860; a reader at Hanover square rooms about 1874; author of The King’s mail 3 vols. 1863; The Old house in Crosby square 2 vols. 1863; More secrets than one 3 vols. 1864. d. 1 Horbury crescent, Notting hill, London 20 Nov. 1884. Theatrical Times, iii, 17, 50 (1848), portrait; N. & Q. 6 S. x 487 (1884).

HOLL, William (brother of the preceding). b. Plaistow, Essex, Feb. 1807; pupil of his father; engraved many portraits for Lodge’s Portraits 1834, Knight’s Gallery of Portraits 1833–36, &c.; engraved W. P. Frith’s An English Merrymaking, The village pastor, &c.; engraved pictures after J. Absolom, A. Elmore, B. West and others; F.G.S.; exhibited 22 engravings at R.A. 1860–71. d. 174 Adelaide road, Haverstock hill, London 30 Jany. 1871.

HOLLAND, Henry Edward Vassall, 4 Baron (only son of 3 Baron Holland 1773–1840). b. 7 March 1802; sec. of legation at Turin 24 July 1832, at Vienna 3 July 1835; minister plenipotentiary to Germanic confederation 17 April 1838, and to Florence 6 Dec. 1838 to 8 June 1846; succeeded 22 Oct. 1840; edited Foreign reminiscences of Henry Richard 3 Baron Holland 1850; Memoirs of the Whig party, By H. R. 3 Baron Holland 1852. d. Naples 18 Dec. 1859. Saunders’s Portraits of reformers (1840) 191, portrait.

HOLLAND, Charles. b. 1802; M.D. Edin. 1824; L.R.C.S. Lond. 1828; F.R.S. 19 Jany. 1837; president Roy. Med. Soc. Edin. d. St. Chads, Lichfield 21 March 1876.

HOLLAND, Edward (eld. son of Samuel Holland, merchant, London). b. 1806; M.P. East Worcestershire 1835–7, contested E. Worcs. 4 Aug. 1837; contested East Gloucestershire 9 Jany. 1854; M.P. Evesham 1855–68. d. Dumbleton hall near Evesham 5 Jany. 1875.

HOLLAND, Rev. Frederick Whitmore. b. Dumbleton near Evesham 1837; ed. at Eton and Trin coll. Cam., B.A. 1860, M.A. 1864; V. of All Saints with St. Lawrence, Evesham 1872 to death; revisited the peninsula of Sinai in 1861 and 1865; joint hon. sec. of Palestine exploration fund 1866 to death; a founder of the Sinai survey fund, and accompanied Sir C. W. Wilson’s expedition to Sinai 1868; again went to Sinai 1878; F.R. Geog. Soc. 1867, wrote many papers on Palestine in its Journal; author of Sinai and Jerusalem, or scenes from Bible lands 1870. d. on the Nissen, near Thun, Switzerland 27 Aug. 1880. Proc. R. Geographical Soc. iii, 670–1 (1881).

HOLLAND, George. b. Lambeth, London 6 Dec. 1791; clerk in a silk warehouse, London; appeared at Drury Lane in a small part 1817; first appeared at Bowery theatre, New York 12 Sep. 1827 as Jerry in The Day after the Fair; treasurer of the St. Charles theatre, New Orleans 1834; connected with Mitchell’s Olympic theatre, New York 1843–9; with Wood and Christy’s negro minstrels under an assumed name 1849–52; member of Wallack’s Co. 1852–7; made his last appearance at Daly’s Fifth Avenue theatre 15 May 1870; in his performances he brought in numerous eccentricities, ventriloquial diversions and imitations of men and animals. d. New York city 20 Dec. 1871; 15,000 dollars subscribed for his wife and family. Thos. H. Morrell’s Life of G. Holland 1871; Ireland’s New York Stage, i 560, ii 421, 620 (1866–7).

HOLLAND, George Calvert. b. Pitsmoor, Sheffield 28 Feb. 1801; apprentice to a hairdresser; ed. at Edinburgh univ., M.D. 1827; in practice at Manchester 1829, removed to Sheffield; became a director of railways and banks and was ruined; resided in London 1849–51; returned to Sheffield as a homœopathic practitioner 1851; alderman of Sheffield 1862 to death; author of The physiology of the fœtus, liver and spleen 1831; The vital statistics of Sheffield 1843; The nature and cure of consumption 1850; The domestic practice of homœopathy 1859 and 15 other books; conducted The Sheffield Homœopathic Lancet 1853. d. Sheffield 7 March 1865. G.M. xviii, 653 (1865).

HOLLAND, Sir Henry, 1 Baronet (son of Peter Holland of Knutsford, Cheshire, surgeon). b. Knutsford 27 Oct. 1788; ed. at Newcastle upon Tyne 1799–1803, at Bristol 1804, and at Glasgow univ. 1804–6; studied medicine at Edin. Univ., M.D. 12 Sep. 1811; domestic physician to Caroline, princess of Wales 1814; L.R.C.P. 1816, F.R.C.P. 1828 and V.P., Gulstonian lecturer 1830, censor 1832, 1836 and 1842, consiliarius 1836, 1839, 1844–46, 1850–52 and 1869; physician extraordinary to William iv. 16 April 1835; one of H.M.’s physicians extraordinary 8 Aug. 1837; one of prince Albert’s physicians extraordinary 1840; one of H.M.’s physicians in ordinary 22 Dec. 1852; cr. baronet 10 May 1853; F.G.S. 1809, F.R.S. 19 Jany. 1815; D.C.L. Ox. 1856; a manager of Royal Institution 4 Feb. 1861, president; author of Travels in the Ionian islands, Albania, Thessaly, Macedonia 1815, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1819; Medical notes and reflections 1839, 3 ed. 1855; Recollections of past life 1872, 2 ed. 1872 and 6 other books. d. 25 Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London 27 Oct. 1873. Munk’s Roll of Physicians, iii, 144–9 (1878); Barker’s Photographs of Medical men (1865) 65–8, portrait; J. F. Clarke’s Autobiographical Recollections (1874) 458–95; Graphic, viii, 460, 466 (1873), portrait.

Note.—His 2 wife Saba whom he m. 20 March 1834, d. 2 Nov. 1866, she wrote A memoir of her father the Rev. Sydney Smith 2 vols. 1855, 4 ed. 1855.

HOLLAND, James (son of a potter). b. Burslem 17 Oct. 1800; painter of flowers on pottery and porcelain; went to London 1819; painter in water colours and oil; exhibited 32 pictures at R.A., 91 at B.I. and 108 at Suffolk st. 1815–67; Assoc. Soc. Painters in water colours 1835–43; member of Soc. of British Artists 1843–8; member Water Colour Soc. 1856; paid many visits abroad from 1830; drew for the Landscape and other annuals 1839 etc.; one of the finest colourists of the English school; his views in Venice fetch large prices; several of his pictures are at South Kensington. d. London 12 Feb. or Dec. 1870. Redgrave’s Dict. of Artists (1878) 219; Bryan’s Dict. of painters, i, 671 (1886).

HOLLAND, John (son of John Holland of Richmond hill, Handsworth, Yorkshire, optical instrument maker). b. in Sheffield Park 14 March 1794; edited the Sheffield Iris 1825–32, the Newcastle Courant 1832–3; joint editor of Sheffield Mercury 1835–48; presented by ten gentlemen of Sheffield with an annuity of £100, 1870; author of Sheffield Park, a descriptive poem. Sheffield 1820; The history of the town and parish of Worksop, Nottingham 1826; The Psalmists of Britain 1843, and 15 other books; author with James Everett of Memoirs of the life and writings of James Montgomery 7 vols. 1854–6. d. in Sheffield Park 28 Dec. 1872. W. Hudson’s Life of John Holland (1874), portrait; Reliquary, xv, 145.

HOLLAND, John (son of a house painter and picture dealer). b. 15 Vernon st. Nottingham 14 Dec. 1829; a self taught artist; resided in Todmorden district, Lancs., then in London, afterwards at Trebray lodge, Tintagel, Cornwall; sent 3 pictures The Storm, After the Storm, and The Wreckers to the exhibition at the Nottingham Castle Art museum 1868; a most rapid painter, only excelled in speed by Smith the painter of waterfalls. d. Trebray lodge, Feb. 1886.

HOLLAND, Rev. Samuel (son of Nicholas Holland of Greenwich, Kent). b. Greenwich 1772; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. and at Worc. coll. Ox., B.A. 1792, M.A. 1795, M.B. 1796, M.D. 1799; candidate of college of physicians 30 Sep. 1799, fellow 30 Sep. 1800, censor 1803; physician to the Middlesex hospital 15 Jany. 1801 to 1806 when he quitted the profession; ordained deacon and priest 1806; R. of Poynings, Sussex 1806–46; R. of Beaudesert, Warcs. 1806 to death; preb. of Thorney, Chichester cath. 1817; precentor of Chicester cath. and preb. of Oving 1825 to death; author of The preaching of the regular clergy, illustrated and defended 1813, 6 ed. 1817 and of several sermons. d. 33 Regency square, Brighton 16 April 1857 aged 85. Munk’s Roll of Physicians, ii, 470 (1878).

HOLLAND, Rev. Thomas Agar (eld. son of the preceding). b. 16 Jany. 1803; ed. at Westminster sch. and Worcester coll. Ox., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; V. of Oving, Sussex 1827–38; R. of Greatham, Hants. 1838–46; R. of Poynings, Sussex 1846 to death; author of Dryburgh Abbey and other poems 1826, 4 ed. 1884 and of a History of Poynings in the Trans. of Sussex Archæological Society for 1863. d. Poynings Rectory 18 Oct. 1888.

HOLLAND, Thomas Seward. b. 1827; M.D. Edin. 1850; M.R.C.S. England 1850; assist. physician Renkioi hospital in the Dardanelles 1855–6; author of Pathological anatomy considered in its relations to medical science 1852, and papers in medical journals. d. at his lodgings, Lambeth 16 June 1856.

HOLLINGS, James Francis. b. 1806; second master proprietary sch. Leicester 1837; proprietor and editor of Leicestershire Mercury 7 years; member of town council Leicester, and Mayor; one of the founders of Leicester Literary and Philos. Soc., president several times; barrister M.T. 21 Nov. 1851; author of The life of Gustavus Adolphus 1838; The life of Marcus Tullius Cicero 1839; The history of Leicester during the civil war 1840; Roman Leicester 1855; Lord Macaulay 1860; hanged himself at Stonygate, Leicester 15 Sep. 1862. Leicestershire Mercury 20 Sep. 1862 p. 5.

HOLLINGWORTH, Ven. John Banks. b. 1779; ed. at Peterhouse, Cam., B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807, B.D. 1814; fellow of his coll. 1804; assistant preacher at Lincoln’s Inn 1806; R. of St. Margaret, Lothbury and St. Christopher le Stocks, London 1814 to death; Norrisian professor of Div. at Cam. 1824–38; archdeacon of Huntingdon 25 Feb. 1828 to death; author of Heads of lectures on divinity delivered in the university of Cambridge 1825, 3 ed. 1835, and charges and sermons. d. Rectory house, St. Margaret’s, Lothbury 9 Feb. 1856. G.M. xlv, 430–1 (1856).

HOLLINS, John (son of Thomas Hollins, a painter on glass). b. Birmingham 1 June 1798; exhibited 101 pictures at R.A., 35 at B.I. and 6 at Suffolk st. 1819–55; removed to London 1822; studied in Italy 1825–7; A.R.A. 1842; historical, figure, and landscape painter, introduced portraits into some of his historical pictures. d. 47 Berners st., London 7 March 1855. Redgrave’s Dict. of Artists (1878) 220; Literary Gazette 17 March 1855 p. 170.

HOLLINS, Peter (eld. son of William Hollins, architect and sculptor 1754–1843). b. Birmingham 1800; ed. as a sculptor and assisted his father; in Chantrey’s studio; exhibited 44 pieces of sculpture at R.A. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1822–71; resided Old Bond st. London 1828–43, then returned to Birmingham where he erected statues of Sir R. Peel and Sir Rowland Hill; V.P. of Soc. of Arts, Birmingham. d. 17 Great Hampton st. Birmingham 16 Aug. 1886, portrait in Birmingham Art gallery.

HOLLINWORTH, John Ibbetson. Entered navy June 1795; retired captain 3 April 1811; retired admiral 9 June 1860. d. Southsea 28 Dec. 1861 aged 79.

HOLLOND, Rev. Edmund (eld. son of William Hollond of H.E.I.C.) Ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; succeeded his uncle 1845; lord of manor of Middleton Austin; resided at Benhall lodge, Saxmundham, Suffolk; a great Evangelical; author of Israel’s pre-millenial future or the testimony of scripture as to Israel’s return and what awaits him in his own land 1875; patron of 8 livings. d. 33 Hyde park gardens, London 18 March 1884 in 83 year.

HOLLOND, Ellen Julia (dau. of Thomas Teed of Stanmore hall, Middlesex). b. Madras 1822. (m. 18 March 1840 Robert Hollond, M.P. for Hastings, d. 1877); her salon in Paris frequented by the leading liberals 1840–77; started the first crèche in London 1844; founded an English nurses’ home in Paris with a branch at Nice; sat for the head of Monica in Ary Scheffer’s picture of St. Augustine and his mother 1846; her portrait by Scheffer painted 1852 is in National gallery; author of Channing, sa vie and ses œuvres 1857; La vie de village en Angleterre 1862; Les Quakers, études sur les premiers Amis et leur société 1870. d. Stanmore hall 29 Nov. 1884. Journal des Débats 6 Dec. 1884.

HOLLOND, Robert (youngest son of William Hollond of Grosvenor place, London, and Bengal civil service, d. 14 Feb. 1836). b. 5 Jany. 1808; ed. at C.C. coll. Cam., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; barrister L.I. 24 Nov. 1834; M.P. for Hastings 1837–52; in company with Charles Green and Monck Mason made at his own expense a voyage in the Nassau balloon from London to Weilburg, Nassau 7–8 Nov. 1836; John Hollins painted a picture of the 3 persons with the balloon in the back ground 1836. d. Paris 26 Dec. 1877, personalty sworn under £350,000, 16 Feb. 1878. Hatton Turnor’s Astra Castra (1865) 139–58; Monck Mason’s Aeronautica (1838) 1–98, portrait.

HOLLOWAY, James Lewis (son of Benjamin Holloway of Lee place, Charlbury, Oxon.) b. 2 July 1824; M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1847; assistant surgeon 17 March 1848; principal medical officer at Cape of Good Hope; surgeon general 12 March 1882 to death; C.B. 27 Nov. 1879. d. Netley 19 April 1883.

HOLLOWAY, Sir Thomas (brother of the preceding). b. 1810; 2 lieut. R.M. 17 March 1825; at siege of Sebastopol 1854–5; served in China 1857 when he was wounded; A.D.C. to the Queen 27 Feb. 1857 to 1 July 1863; colonel 2nd commandant R.M. 25 Feb. 1858, colonel commandant 21 Nov. 1859 to death; general 1 April 1870; C.B. 18 June 1858, K.C.B. 13 March 1867. d. Farlington near Portsmouth 21 July 1875.

HOLLOWAY, Thomas (son of Mr. Holloway, baker and publican). b. Devonport 22 Sep. 1800; ed. at Camborne and Penzance; removed to London 1828; merchant and foreign agent 1836; commenced advertising his pills and ointment 15 Oct. 1837, was spending £50,000 a year in advertising 1883; directions for use of his medicines were printed in almost all known languages; at 244 Strand, London 1838, removed to 533 New Oxford st. 1867; employed 100 people; made a large fortune; built and endowed at cost of £700,000 Holloway coll. for ladies at Mount Lee, Egham hill, Surrey, opened 30 June 1866; erected a sanatorium for mentally afflicted of lower middle class, opened 15 June 1885. d. Tittenhurst, Sunninghill, Berks. 26 Dec. 1883. I.L.N. 5 Jany. 1884 p. 24, portrait; Graphic 5 Jany. 1884 p. 5, portrait; Some memories as to the origin of Holloway coll. (1886).

HOLM, John Diederick. A well known phrenologist; executor of J. G. Spurzheim the German phrenologist (b. 1776, d. 1832). d. High st. Highgate 24 Oct. 1856 aged 84.

HOLMAN, Mrs. (dau. of Mr. Lattimer). b. England 1798; appeared at Charleston theatre 1817. (m. (1) 22 Aug. 1817 Joseph George Holman, actor, who d. 24 Aug. 1817, the writer of numerous plays); appeared in New York singing The soldier tired of war’s alarms, and Bishop’s Echo song 8 July 1817; (m. (2) March 1819 Isaac Star Clawson); (m. (3) in 1824 Charles W. Sandford, lawyer and general of militia); appeared at her husband’s house, the Lafayette theatre, Oct. 1826; last played in Park theatre, New York as Maria in Of age to-morrow, June 1832. d. New York city 1 Sep. 1859. T. A. Brown’s American stage (1870) 181; Ireland’s New York stage, i, 290 336 (1866).

HOLMAN, James (son of Mr. Holman of Fore st. Exeter, chemist and druggist). b. Exeter 15 Oct. 1786; entered navy 7 Dec. 1798, lieut. 27 April 1807, served till Nov. 1810 when he was invalided and became totally blind; a naval knight of Windsor 29 Sep. 1812; travelled over greater part of Europe 1819–24 and round the world 1827–32; F.R.S.; author of A narrative of a journey through France, Italy, Savoy, &c. 1822, with portrait; Travels through Russia, Siberia, Poland, Austria, &c. 2 vols. 1825, with portrait, 4 ed. 2 vols. 1834. d. at his lodgings near the Minories, London 28 July 1857. Reynolds’ Miscellany, x, 9 (1853), portrait; Proc. of Linnæan Soc. (1858) 26–30; People’s Journal, iv, 213, portrait.

HOLMAN, John. Steeple chaser; won royal birthday steeple chase at Worcester on The Page 1843; bred a large number of successful steeple chasers. d. Cheltenham, Jany. 1888. Baily’s Mag., Feb. 1888 pp. 488–9.

HOLME, Bryan (son of Wm. Holme of Thurland castle, Lancs.) baptised at Tunstal, Lancs. 29 Dec. 1776; articled to John Baldwin of Lancaster, solicitor; admitted solicitor Jany. 1800; a managing clerk in office of Bleasdale and Alexander of Hatton court, London about 1803, a partner in the firm at Hatton court and New Inn 1806–16; partner with Alexander at New Inn 1816–21, with Frampton and Loftus 1821–36, with Loftus and Young 1836 to death; projected “The Law Institution,” Chancery Lane 2 June 1825, which became “The Incorporated Law Society” by a new charter granted 5 June 1845; a whole length portrait of him by H. W. Pickersgill, R.A. was placed in the Society’s hall about 1836. d. 13 Brunswick sq. London 15 July 1856. Legal Observer 23 Aug. 1856 pp. 281–5.

HOLME, Thomas Winn (son of Thomas Holme). b. Kendal 3 March 1828; ed. at Ackworth sch. 1841–3, and at Manchester art sch.; managed a woollen mill near Kendal, and then powder mills at Sedgwick, near Leven’s Park; a painter; author of Poems and prose 1874. d. Kendal 20 May 1876. Nodal’s Bibliog. of Ackworth sch. (1889) 16.

HOLMES, Alfred (son of Thomas Holmes of Lincoln). b. London 9 Nov. 1837; learnt the violin from his father; with his brother Henry Holmes made a series of concert tours in Belgium 1855, Germany 1856, Austria 1857, Sweden 1857–9, Denmark 1860, Holland 1861; settled in Paris 1864, where he established a quartet party; produced at St. Petersburg his symphony Jeanne d’ Arc April 1868, which was performed in 1870 at Théâtre Italien, Paris, and at Crystal Palace, Sydenham 27 Feb. 1875; composed symphonies The Youth of Shakespeare, The siege of Paris 1870, Robin Hood, Charles XII, and Romeo and Juliet; an opera in 5 acts called Inez de Castro 1869; overtures The Cid and The Muses; Two nocturnes for the violin and piano, Leipzig 1857. d. Paris 4 March 1876. I.L.N. lxviii, 315 (1876), portrait.

HOLMES, Rev. Arthur. Ed. at Shrewsbury and St. John’s coll. Cam., Bell sch. 1856, Craven sch. 1856, B.A. 1859, M.A. 1862; fellow of his coll. 1860–62; C. of All Saint’s, Cam. 1860–61; lecturer of St. John’s coll. 1860–73 and of Clare coll. 1864–73; senior fellow and dean of Clare coll. 1873 to death; deputy public orator of Cam. 1867, Lady Margaret preacher 1868, select preacher 1868–69; Cambridge preacher at chapel royal 1869–71; general editor of the Catena Classicorum series 1867 etc.; published The Midias of Demosthenes with notes 1862; Demosthenes De Corona 1867; The Nemeian odes of Pindar 1867; cut his throat at Clare coll. Cambridge 17 April 1875. Cambridge Chronicle 24 April 1875 p. 6.

HOLMES, Edward. b. 1797; ed. at Enfield; apprenticed to R. B. Seeley, bookseller; studied music under Vincent Novello; taught the piano in schools; wrote musical criticisms for The Atlas from 1829 and later for The Spectator; wrote articles in Fraser’s Mag. and Musical Times; author of A ramble among the musicians of Germany 1828, 3 ed. 18  ; The life of Mozart 1845; Analytical and thematic index of Mozart’s pianoforte works 1852; A critical essay on the Requiem of Mozart 1854; Life of H. Purcell. d. 4 Sep. 1859.

HOLMES, James. b. 1777; apprenticed to an engraver; member of Soc. of Painters in Water-colours 1813–22; assisted to establish Soc. of British Artists, member 1829–50; also a miniature painter; 2 of his portraits of Lord Byron were engraved; a personal friend of George iv. d. Shropshire 24 Feb. 1860. Redgrave’s Dict. of Artists (1878) 221.

HOLMES, James. b. Exeter 1789 or 1790; ed. at Exeter gr. sch.; apprenticed to Thomas Besley of Exeter, printer 16 Sep. 1806; printer at 4 Took’s court, Chancery lane, London, March 1825 to 1869; started the Court Journal with Henry Colburn 25 April 1829; bought The Athenæum for £200, 7 Jany. 1830, joint proprietor with C. W. Dilkie 20 Sep. 1831, printed it 1829–69. d. 4 July 1873. bur. Kensal green cemetery 11 July.

HOLMES, John (son of Nathaniel Holmes d. Derby 18 Dec. 1840). b. Deptford, Kent 17 July 1800; bookseller Derby; temporary assistant MSS. department Br. Museum 15 Jany. 1830, senior assistant April 1837, assistant keeper 6 May 1850 to death; adviser of 4 earl of Ashburnham in formation of his collection of MSS. which was sold 1883–4; author of A catalogue of manuscripts, maps, charts in the British Museum 1844. d. 4 Park ter. Highgate, London 1 April 1854, his library sold 15 June 1854. G.M. ii, 87–8 (1854).

HOLMES, John. b. Rossshire, Scotland, March 1789; emigrated to Nova Scotia 1803; sat in Nova Scotia assembly 1836–47, 1851–8, in legislative council 1858–67; senator in Dominion parliament 1867. d. 1870. Appleton’s American Biography iii, 242 (1887).

HOLMES, Rev. Joseph. b. 1789; ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam., 3 wrangler 1812, B.A. 1812, M.A. 1815, B.D. 1840, fellow and tutor of his coll. to 1819; head master Leeds gram. sch. 1830–53; C. of Trinity ch. Leeds 1830–45; author of The duty of a Christian state to support a national church establishment 1834. d. Leeds 14 June 1854. Taylor’s Biog. Leodiensis (1865) 454–5.

HOLMES, Rev. Peter (1 son of Walter Holmes of Bickleigh, Plymouth). b. Bickleigh 1815; ed. at Plymouth gram. sch. and at Magd. hall Ox., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1844, D.D. 1859; C. of Sheepstor, Devon 1840–3; head master Plymouth gram. sch. 1840–54; diocesan inspector of schools, deanery of Plympton 7 years; kept a private school at Plymouth; F.R.A.S. Dec. 1841; author of Observations on the standard of doctrine in the Church of England 1848; Bishop Bull’s Defensio fidei Nicænæ. A translation 2 vols. 1851–2; contributed to Anglo-Catholic library, Christian Remembrancer, Kitto’s Biblical Cyclopædia, Clark’s Ante-Nicene Christian library. d. Wellington villa, Mannamead, Plymouth 11 Oct. 1878; left a valuable library. Academy ii, 428 (1878).

HOLMES, Robert (son of Mr. Holmes of Belfast). b. Dublin 1765; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1787; called to bar in Ireland 1795; imprisoned some months, being suspected of complicity with his brother-in-law, Robert Emmet’s rising 1803; had the largest practice in the Irish courts, made upwards of £100,000; refused offices of crown prosecutor, King’s counsel, and solicitor general; author of A demonstration of the necessity of the legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland 1799; The case of Ireland stated 1847. d. 37 Eaton place, Belgrave sq. London 30 Nov. 1859. Dublin Univ. Mag., Jany. 1848 pp. 122–33, portrait; O’Flanagan’s Irish Bar (1879) 273–87.

HOLMES, Rev. Samuel (son of John Holmes of Feversham, Kent). b. 1826; ed. at Magd. hall, Ox., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1845; P.C. of Sidcup 1844–50; R. of North Cray 1850–5; V. of Huddersfield 1855–66; canon residentiary of Ripon cath. 1863 to death; V. of St. Paul, Dorking 1866–81; author of sermons. d. 18 Park parade, Harrogate 9 Nov. 1890.

HOLMES, William (5 son of Thomas Holmes of co. Sligo, brewer). b. co. Sligo 1779; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1795; D.C.L. of Oxford univ. 5 July 1810; military sec. to Sir Thomas Hislop in West Indies; M.P. for Grampound 1808–12, for Tregony 1812–18, for Totnes 1819–20, for Bishop’s Castle 1820–30, for Haslemere 1830–2; contested Ipswich 1835; M.P. Berwick on Tweed 1837–41; contested Stafford 1841; whipper-in to the Tory party 30 years; treasurer of the ordnance 1820–30; was close to Spencer Perceval when he was assassinated 1812 and near to Wm. Huskisson when he was killed 1830. d. Grafton st. Bond st. London 26 Jany. 1851. Portraits of eminent conservatives 2nd series (1846), portrait.

HOLMES, Sir William Henry (3 son of Alexander Holmes of Athgarven, co. Kildare). b. 1817; private sec. to Sir Henry Light when governor of Guiana 1838–47; provost marshal of Guiana 1847, adjutant general of militia there; comr. from Guiana to Paris exhibition 1855; knighted at Buckingham palace 4 April 1856; author of Report of an expedition to explore a route to the gold fields of Caratal 1857; Free cotton, how and where to grow it 1862. d. 5 Osborne villas, Stoke, Devonport 9 Aug. 1868.

HOLMES, William Henry. b. Sudbury, Derbyshire 8 Jany. 1812; student at R.A. of music 1822, sub-professor of pianoforte 1826, afterwards professor; the teacher of W. S. Bennett, J. W. Davison, G. A. and W. Macfarren; appeared as a pianist at Philharmonic Soc. concert 24 March 1851; composer of The Elfin of the Lake, an opera 1850, of very numerous pieces left in MS. and of 130 printed pieces for the piano 1835–81. d. 23 April 1885. bur. Brompton cemet. 27 April. Cazalet’s Hist. of R. Acad. of music (1854) 295; Grove’s Dict. of music, i, 744 (1879).

HOLMES, Sir William Richard (son of William Henry Holmes of Kilrea, co. Londonderry). b. London 1821; entered consular service at Erzeroum, Oct. 1841; vice consul at Batoom, Asia Minor 17 March 1846; consul at Diarbekir 23 Nov. 1852; consul in Bosnia 12 Jany. 1860; British delegate to commission for pacification of Herzegovina 1861; knighted at Osborne 13 Aug. 1877; retired from the service 1 Sep. 1877 on a pension; author of Sketches on the shores of the Caspian 1845. d. Yewhurst, Belvedere, Kent 19 Jany. 1882.

HOLMS, John (son of James Holms of Saucel Bank, Paisley). b. Saucel Bank 21 Sep. 1830; partner in firm of W. Holms and Brothers, spinners, Glasgow; M.P. Hackney, London 1868–85; a lord of the treasury April 1880 to May 1882; parliamentary sec. of board of trade 1882–5; author of The British army in 1875, its administration and organization 1875; Our military difficulty. d. 16 Cornwall gardens, Queen’s gate, London 31 March 1891. I.L.N. lxvi, 199, 200 (1875), portrait, 11 April 1891 p. 467, portrait.

HOLROYD, Edward (3 son of Sir George Sowley Holroyd 1758–1831, justice of court of Queen’s Bench). b. 24 July 1794; ed. at Charterhouse and Trin. coll. Cam.; admitted at Gray’s inn 26 Nov. 1812; special pleader under the bar 7 years; barrister G.I. 26 April 1826; a comr. of bankrupts Nov. 1828; a comr. of bankruptcy court Oct. 1831 to 31 Dec. 1869 when granted sum of £2000 on abolition of office; author of Observations upon the case of A. Thornton tried for the murder of Mary Ashford 1819. d. Elland lodge, Wimbledon 29 Jany. 1881.

HOLT, Alfred Henry (son of Henry Josiah Holt, pugilist 1792–1844). Reported prize fights for The Era, Morning Advertiser, Bell’s Life in London and Sportsman. d. 20 Nov. 1865 aged 39. bur. Nunhead cemetery.

HOLT, David. b. Chorlton upon Medlock, Manchester 13 Nov. 1828; assistant sec. of Lancashire and Yorkshire railway co. to death; author of Poems, rural and miscellaneous 1846; Lays of hero worship and other poems 1850; Janus, Lake sonnets and other poems 1853; Poems 1868. d. Altrincham, Cheshire 15 March 1880.

HOLT, Elise. b. London 11 July 1847; appeared as a comic singer, Surrey gardens, London 1863; pupil of Mdlle. Louise, danseuse 1863, and came out at the Victoria theatre as a dancer, and then as Cupid 26 Dec. 1864; played in burlesques at the Strand theatre 1865–8; appeared at Olympic theatre, Boston, U.S. America in burlesque of Lucretia Borgia 21 Dec. 1868 and at Waverly theatre, New York 18 Feb. 1869; visited California; (m. Henry Palmer). d. about 1873. T. A. Brown’s American stage (1870) 182, portrait.

HOLT, Thomas (son of a wool merchant, Leeds). b. Horbury, Yorkshire 1811; with his father at Leeds 1825–8, partner 1832; a wool buyer in London 1828–31; a wool buyer in Australia 1842–55; purchased large estates in Queensland and New South Wales; member for Stanley boroughs in legislative assembly, N.S.W. 1856 and for Newtown to 1866; colonial treasurer 6 June to 25 Aug. 1856; member of legislative council 1868; member of council on education 1873; author of Two speeches on the subject of education in New South Wales 1857. d. Halcot, Bexley, Kent 5 Sep. 1888. Heaton’s Australian Dict. of dates (1879) 95.

HOLT, Thomas Littleton. b. 1794 or 1795; known as Raggedy Holt; projected Weekly Chronicle; proprietor of Iron Times started during the railway mania 1845; edited Morning Chronicle; started many papers in London with G. A. A’Beckett; projected The Novel newspaper; started Ryland’s Iron trade circular at Birmingham; edited a weekly paper called Chat 1846; took an active part in popularising cheap literature and in the abolition of the paper duty; advertisement duty repealed partly owing to him 1853; edited The Sixpenny magazine 1863; John Horsleydown or the confessions of a thief 1860. d. The Burrows, Hendon 14 Sep. 1879. Reminiscences of an old Bohemian, ii, 35–46 (1882).

HOLYOAKE-GOODRICKE, Sir Francis Lyttelton, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Francis Holyoake of Tettenhall, Staffs. 1766–1835). b. Tettenhall 13 Nov. 1797; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1819; assumed name of Goodricke by r.l. 12 Dec. 1833; sheriff of Warwickshire 1834; M.P. for Stafford, Feb. to May 1835, for South Stafford, May 1835 to 1837; created baronet 31 March 1835; master of Quorn hounds in Leicestershire 1834–5; one of the very best riders after hounds of his time. d. Sherborne house, Malvern Wells 29 Dec. 1865. Burke’s Vicissitudes of families, ii, 398–9 (1869).

HOMAN, Sir William Jackson, 1 Baronet (2 son of Rev. Philip Homan). b. 1771; cr. baronet 1 Aug. 1801. d. Dromeroe, Cappoquin, co. Waterford 2 March 1852 aged 80. G.M. xxxvii, 406 (1852).

HOME, Cospatrick Alexander Ramey Home, 11 Earl of (eld. son of 10 Earl 1769–1841). b. Dalkeith house, N.B. 27 Oct. 1799; attaché to embassy at St. Petersburgh 1822–3; précis writer in foreign office 1824–7; under sec. of state for foreign affairs 9 June 1828 to 25 Nov. 1830; succeeded 12 Oct. 1841; a Scotch representative peer 1842–74; keeper of great seal of Scotland May 1853; cr. baron Douglas of Douglas co. Lanark in peerage of the U.K. 11 June 1875. d. near the Hirsel, Coldstream, Berwick 4 July 1881. bur. in church of St. Brides at Douglas 12 July. F.O. list 1882 p. 213.

HOME, Daniel Dunglas (son of William Home of the family of the earl of Home). b. near Edinburgh 20 March 1833; taken by his aunt to Greenville, Connecticut about 1842 where he became famous for his mysterious raps, guitar playing without hands, etc.; came to London April 1855 where he held private spiritual séances; held séances before emperor of the French, King of Prussia, and Queen of Holland 1857–8; expelled from Rome as a sorcerer Jany. 1864; gave a series of public readings in America 1864; founded in London with John Elliotson and S. C. Hall the Spiritual Athenæum, a society for the propagation of spiritualism 1866, lived as sec. at the Society’s rooms 22 Sloane st.; assumed name of Lyon-Home on being adopted as her son by a widow named Jane Lyon, who gave him £30,000 and assigned to him a mortgage security of £30,000, both sums were restored to her by the Court of Chancery 22 May 1868; gave public readings in the provinces 1869–70; author of Incidents in my life 1863, 2nd series 1872; Lights and Shadows of Spiritualism 1877. d. Auteuil, near Paris 21 June 1886. bur. at St. Germain-en-Laye. Annual register (1868) 187–206; The Mask (1868) 141–6, portrait; T. A. Trollope’s What I remember, i, 376–81; Nineteenth century, April 1890 pp. 577–81.

Note.—Robert Browning’s poem Mr. Sludge the medium is understood to be a study of Home.

HOME, David Milne (1 son of admiral Sir David Milne, d. 1845). b. 1804; ed. at Edin. univ., B.A. 1829, LLD. 1870; called to Scotch bar 1831; advocate depute 1841; succeeded to the family estate and took name of Home 1845; F.R.G.S.; tried to prevent appointment of Dr. Robert Wallace of the Old Greyfriars to the professorship of church history 1873, one of the last “heresy hunts” in the Church of Scotland; author of Our Social reforms needed in Scotland 1867; Scotch poor houses and English work houses 1873; The salmon Fisheries of Scotland 1882. d. Milne Graden, Coldstream 19 Sep. 1890. Times 23 Sep. 1890.

HOME, Francis (eld. son of James Home, professor of materia medica in Univ. of Edin.) b. Edin. 1800; ed. at high school and univ. of Edin.; advocate 1825; sheriff substitute of co. Kinross 1838 and of co. Linlithgow 1838 to death. d. Main’s house near Linlithgow 20 Jany. 1882.

HOME, Sir James Everard, 2 Baronet (elder son of Sir Everard Home, 1 bart., serjeant surgeon to George III.) b. 25 Oct. 1798; entered navy 10 April 1810; succeeded 31 Aug. 1832; captain 5 Dec. 1837; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842; captain of the “Calliope” 26 guns 28 Nov. 1850 to death; F.R.S. d. Sydney 2 Nov. 1853. bur. Camperdown cemetery, Sydney 4 Nov.

HOME, John. Entered Bengal army 1803; colonel 57 Bengal native infantry 1854 to death; M.G. 20 June 1854. d. Weston, Bath 12 April 1860.

HOME, John Home (son of John Home of Bassenleau, co. Berwick). b. 1797; ensign 1 foot guards 19 Jany. 1813, lieut. col. 15 April 1845 to 1 April 1849 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 22 Sep. 1858; colonel 56 foot 17 Oct. 1859 to death. d. Pall Mall, London 22 April 1860.

HOME, North Dalrymple. b. Long Ashton, Aug. 1856; ed. at Bristol gram. sch. at Montreux and Paris; engaged in London and Westminster bank 2 years; student R. Acad. of music; tenor singer in German Reed’s Co.; played in W. S. Gilbert’s Ages Ago, and in The Friar operetta by Comyns Carr 15 Dec. 1886. d. Clifton 3 July 1887. The Era, July 1887 p.

HOME, Richard. b. 1789; entered Bengal army 1804; colonel 43 Bengal N.I. 7 April 1851 to 1861; colonel 6 Bengal N.I. 1861 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. d. Brighton 19 April 1862 aged 73.

HOME, Robert (eld. son of James Home, captain 30 foot). b. Antigua 29 Dec. 1837; 1 lieut. R.E. 7 April 1856, major 25 Aug. 1873 to death; deputy assistant Q.M.G. at Aldershot 1865–70; commander of R.E. on the Ashantee expedition 1873; C.B. 31 March 1874; assistant Q.M.G. at head quarters 1 April 1876; sent to Turkey to report on defence of Constantinople 1876; British comr. for delimitation of boundaries of Bulgaria 1877; contributed to Quarterly Rev. and Macmillan’s Mag.; translated Baron Stoffel’s Military Reports 1872; author of The law of recruiting 1872 and A précis of modern tactics 1873 the best English book on the subject. d. 21 Regent’s park terrace, London 29 Jany. 1879; Anne Josephine his widow (dau. of J. Hunt) granted civil list pension of £300, 21 April 1879. Graphic xix, 372 (1879), portrait; I.L.N. lxxiv, 185 (1879), portrait.

HOMER, John James. b. Wandsworth 1809; educated for a solicitor; proprietor of Dolphin tavern, Mare st. Hackney; was the means of abolishing a brewers’ impost known as butt-money 1836; hon. treasurer of the London Licensed Victuallers’ Protection Soc. 1838 to death; governor of Incorporated Soc. of Licensed victuallers 1850; doubled the size of the Morning Advertiser 1850; common councilman for ward of Cornhill 1866; contested Hackney 18 Nov. 1868; wine and spirit merchant 2 Royal Exchange buildings, London 1852 to death; author of A summary of the laws relating to licensed victuallers 1839; Monarch fire and life insurance co., Scenes at the election for a director 1852. d. at res. of his son-in-law Dr. William Slimon 4 York place, Bow road, London 3 March 1888. Licensed Victuallers’ Almanack (1862) 95–9, portrait; Licensed Victuallers’ Year book (1875) 70–1, portrait.

HONE, Ven. Richard Brindley (2 son of Joseph Terry Hone of Faringdon, Berks.) b. 1805; ed. at Brasen. coll. Ox., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1831; R. of Halesowen, Worcs. 1836 to death; hon. canon of Worcester 10 Nov. 1845 to death, archdeacon 7 Nov. 1849 to death; author of Lives of eminent Christians 4 vols. 1834–43, 19 charges and 41 New Year’s addresses. d. Halesowen rectory 5 May 1881.

HONEY, George Alfred (mother Mrs. Down d. 27 Nov. 1881 aged 90). b. 25 May 1823; call-boy Adelphi theatre 1841; made debut in London at Princess’s theatre Nov. 1848 as Pan in Midas; member of Pyne and Harrison company at Covent Garden 1858 etc.; played in Macfarren’s opera Robin Hood at Her Majesty’s 1860; played Eccles in Caste at Prince of Wales’s 1867, 1871 and 1879; Graves in Money at Holborn 1869 and at Prince of Wales’s 1872, 1875 and 1879; Our Mr. Jenkins in The Two Roses at Vaudeville 1870; visited U.S. of America 1878; seized with a fit of paralysis while performing at Prince of Wales’s 1879. d. 127 Camden road, London 28 May 1880. Pascoe’s Dramatic List (1880) 183–4; Illust. Sport, and Dram. News, x 468–9 (1879) portrait, xiii 281 (1880), portrait, xvii 125 (1882), view of tomb; The Era 30 May 1880 p. 6, 6 June p. 7; Mr. and Mrs. Bancroft On and off the stage 7th ed. (1889) 107, 156, 274, 281–3.

HONNER, Maria (dau. of Eugene Macarthy, actor, d. Dramatic coll. 1886 aged 78). b. Enniskillen Ireland 21 Dec. 1812; played with Kean and Macready in Ireland; chief star at Pavilion theatre, London 1831–2; at Coburg theatre 1833, at Sadler’s Wells 1838–43, at Surrey theatre 1845, at City of London theatre 1845; excellent in Shakespearean parts, in Julia, in the Hunchback, and other roles; (m. (1) 21 May 1836 Robert W. Honner 1809–52; m. (2) Frederick Morton, stage manager); she d. 4 Jany. 1870. Actors by gaslight 4 Aug. 1838 pp. 121–2, portrait; Theatrical Times 10 Oct. 1846 pp. 137–8, portrait.

HONNER, Robert William (youngest son of John Honner of Soho, London, solicitor, d. about 1817). b. 24 Percy st. Tottenham court road, London 18 Jany. 1809; apprenticed to Charles Leclercq, ballet master 1817–20; made his debut at Sans Pareil theatre in a ballet 1818; actor at Coburg 1825; stage manager at Surrey 1835–38, manager 1842–46; lessee of Sadler’s Wells 1838–41 and of City of London theatre 1846; stage manager of Standard theatre 1848 to death, d. Nichols sq. Hackney road, London 31 Dec. 1852. Theatrical Times 27 March 1847 pp. 89–90, portrait.

HONNER, Sir Robert William. Entered Bombay army 1820; lieut. 4 Bombay N.I. 1 May 1824, lieut. col. 15 Sep. 1855 to 1861; commander of Nussurabad 6 March 1858 to 24 Oct. 1862; commander of Scinde division 28 March 1863 to 26 May 1866, C.B. 21 Jany. 1858, K.C.B. 28 March 1865; M.G. 17 Sep. 1861. d. Lower Berkeley st., Portman sq., London 8 Nov. 1868.

HONY, Ven. William Edward (2 son of Rev. Wm. Hony, V. of Liskeard, Cornwall 1778–95). b. Liskeard 7 Feb. 1788; fellow of Ex. coll. Ox. 30 June 1808 to 3 July 1827, B.A. 1811, M.A. 1812, B.D. 1823; V. of South Newington, Oxon. 24 Oct. 1818 to 1827; R. of Baverstock 4 June 1827 to death; preb. of Salisbury 29 July 1841; archdeacon of Salisbury 3 Aug. 1846 to death, and canon residentiary 1857 to death; F.G.S. 1831; author of Church Rates 1859. d. The Canonry, Salisbury 7 Jany. 1875. I.L.N. lxvi 403 (1875).

HORNYGOLD, William, b. 1797; an artist; lived in parish of St. Clement Danes, London; known for his drawings of theatrical characters for the toy theatre, to which he added sketches of the scenery incidental to the pieces performed; his portrait of C. Kemble as Hen. viii. is No. 55 in Skelt’s portraits: drew the illustrations for comic songs; fell down intoxicated outside the ‘Fountain,’ 4 Clare Market, London, taken to the Strand union workhouse, where he d. 12 Feb. 1867 aged 69. J. Diprose’s Some account of parish of St. Clement Danes i, 165–6 (1868).

HONYMAN, Sir George Essex, 4 Baronet (eld. son of Sir Ord Honyman, 3 Bart. 1794–1863). b. Strawberry hill, Middlesex 22 Jany. 1819; pupil of Martineau, Malton and Trollope, solicitors, London 1838–40; pupil of Sir Fitzroy Kelly and David O. Gibbons, the special pleader 1840, etc.; practised as a pleader 1842–9; barrister M.T. 8 June 1849, bencher Nov. 1866; best commercial lawyer of his day; Q.C. 23 July 1866; sergeant at law 23 Jany. 1873; judge of court of common pleas 23 Jany. 1873, resigned 21 Feb. 1875. d. Tunbridge Wells 16 Sep. 1875. Law mag. and law review i, 122–27 (1875); I.L.N. lxvii, 319, 333, 566, (1875), portrait.

HONYWOOD, Rev. Philip James (3 son of William Honywood of Siston, Kent). b. 1809; matric. from Trin. coll. Ox. 29 May 1827 aged 18, B.A. 1831; R. of Markshall, Essex 23 Dec. 1838 to 1866; R. of Bradwell next Coggeshall, Essex 27 March 1840 to 1845; R. of Colne-Wake, Essex 1866 to death; kept beagles at Markshall 1851–3 which were always followed on foot, sold his hounds 1853; injured himself hunting on foot three days a week d. Colne-Wake 19 Nov. 1874 aged 65. Baily’s Mag. xxix, 150–5 (1877).

HOOD, Sir Alexander, 2 Baronet (only son of Alexander Hood, capt. R.N., slain on board his ship the ‘Mars’ 1798). b. Wootton, Somerset 5 July 1793; ed. at Ex. coll. Ox., M.A. 1814; K.C.B. 22 May 1812 as proxy for his uncle Sir S. Hood; succeeded as 2 baronet 24 Dec. 1814; M.P. West Somerset 1847 to death. d. 43 Wimpole st. London 7 March 1851.

HOOD, Charles. b. 18 Sep. 1825; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign 3 foot 26 June 1844, captain 1851 to 8 Jany. 1856; led the ladder party in the attack on the Redan 8 Oct. 1855; major 58 foot 28 Jany. 1859, lieut. col. 23 Nov. 1860 to 23 May 1874 when placed on h.p.; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 July 1881. d. 8 Feb. 1883.

HOOD, Charles (son of William Hood, an ironmaster 18 Earl st. Blackfriars). b. 1805; ironmaster with his brother in London; made researches into chemistry of combustion of coal, silver medal of Soc. of Arts; F.R.S. 7 Dec. 1843; F.R.A.S.; F.S.S.; chairman of British home for incurables 1861–6; author of A practical treatise on warming buildings by hot water, to which are added Remarks on ventilation 1837, 5 ed. 1879. d. 10 Leinster gardens, Bayswater, London 10 Dec. 1889.

HOOD, Rev. Edwin Paxton (son of a sailor in the navy). b. at house of bishop Porteous 34 Half Moon st. Piccadilly, London 24 Oct. 1820; began to lecture on temperance and peace about 1840; Congregational minister at North Nibley, Gloucs. 1852–7, at Offord road, Islington 1857–62 and 1873, at Queen sq. church, Brighton 1862–73, at Cavendish st. Manchester 1877 to 1880, at Falcon sq. Aldersgate st. London 1882 to death; editor of the Eclectic and Congregational Review, of the Argonaut and The Preacher’s Lantern; author of Old England 1851; William Wordsworth, a biography 1856; The Peerage of Poverty 1 series 1859, 3 ed. 1859, 2 series 1861, 5 ed. 1870 and 50 other books. d. suddenly at Paris 12 June 1885. Congregational Year-Book (1886) 178–82.

HOOD, Francis Grosvenor (2 son of lieut. col. Francis Wheler Rood, killed in action 2 March 1814). b. 4 March 1809; ensign grenadier guards 30 April 1827, captain 31 Dec. 1841, major of 3 battalion 20 June 1854 to death; leading his battalion gallantly contributed to defeat of the enemy at battle of the Alma 20 Sep. 1854; killed in the trenches before Sebastopol 18 Oct. 1854. Kinglake’s Invasion of the Crimea 6 ed. iii 220–2, 239 et seq. iv 442.

HOOD, Peter. b. Gateshead 1808; ed. at St. George’s hospital; L.S.A. 1831, M.D. St. Andrews 1863; practised in London among the upper classes; discouraged the practice of blood letting; a keen sportsman, fly fisher and whist player; treasurer of Fisheries’ preservation soc.; president West Herts. medical assoc.; author of Practical observations on diseases fatal to children 1845; The successful treatment of scarlet fever 1857; A treatise on gout, rheumatism and the allied affections 1871, 3 ed. 1885. d. Watford, Herts. 18 Sep. 1890. Lancet 27 Sep. 1890 p. 699.

HOOD, Rev. Samuel. b. Devizes 27 Dec. 1782; received episcopal ordination at Stirling, May 1826; minister of congregation in Trinity house, Dundee 1826–37; restored episcopacy at Rothesay and was minister there 1838, helped to establish seven churches in his district; dean of diocese of Argyle and the Isles 1847 to death; D.D. by archbishop of Canterbury 1870. d. Rothesay 30 May 1872. Norrie’s Dundee celebrities (1873) 392.

HOOD, Samuel. b. Moyle, co. Donegal 1800; emigrated to Philadelphia 1826, a member of the bar there; author of Practical treatise on the laws relating to registers, registers’ courts, guardians and trustees in Pennsylvania 1847; A practical treatise on the law of decedents in Pennsylvania 1847; A brief account of the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick 1844. d. Philadelphia 1875.

HOOD, Thomas (only son of Thomas Hood the poet 1798–1845). b. Lake house, Wanstead, Essex 19 Jany. 1835; granted a civil list pension of £50, 4 Oct. 1847; commoner at Pemb. coll. Ox. 1853; edited the Liskeard Gazette 1858–59; clerk in the war office 11 July 1860 to May 1865; edited a periodical called Saturday Night 1862; edited Fun, May 1865 to death; Tom Hood’s Comic Annual first issued 1867; author of Captain Master’s children 3 vols. 1865; A golden heart 3 vols. 1868; Rules of rhyme, a guide to English versification 1869 and many other books. d. Gloucester cottage, Peckham Rye, Surrey 20 Nov. 1874. Poems by Thomas Hood the younger, with a memoir by his sister Frances Freeling Broderip 1877; Cartoon portraits (1873) 64–65, portrait; Illust. sporting news, iv, 357 (1865), portrait.

HOOD, Thomas H. Cockburn. b. 1820; in Australia and New Zealand to 1877; inherited Walton hall, Kelso from a relative; author of The Rutherfords of that ilk 188-; The house of Cockburn, with anecdotes of the times in which many of them played a part, Edin. 1888, and of many scientific papers. d. Edinburgh 16 Jany. 1889. The Bookseller 6 March 1889 p. 228.

HOOD, Sir William Charles (only son of Dr. William Chamberlayne Hood, d. Berners st. hotel, London 16 Dec. 1879 aged 89). b. South Lambeth 1824; ed. at Brighton and Trin. coll. Dublin; M.D. St. Andrews 1846; F.R.C.P. Edin. 1850; F.R.C.P. London 1863; treasurer of Bridewell and Bethlehem hospital July 1868 to death; lord chancellor’s visitor in lunacy to death; knighted at Windsor castle 7 July 1868. d. Bridewell royal hospital, London 4 Jany. 1870.

HOOF, William. b. 1788; a railway contractor. d. Madeley house, Kensington 11 Aug. 1855, leaving property exceeding half a million.

HOOK, Anna Delicia (dau. of John Johnson, physician, Birmingham). b. 1812; author of Some Meditations for every day in the year 1864; The Cross of Christ 1855 which was edited by her husband; (m. June 1829 Rev. Walter Farquhar Hook 1798–1875). d. 5 May 1871 aged 59 bur. churchyard of Mid Lavant near Chichester 11 May.

HOOK, Very Rev. Walter Farquhar (eld. child of Very Rev. James Hook 1771–1828, dean of Worcester). b. Conduit st. London 13 March 1798; ed. at Hertford, Tiverton, Winchester, and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824, B.D. and D.D. 1837, student of Ch. Ch. 1817; C. of Whippingham, Isle of Wight 1821–25; P.C. of Moseley near Birmingham 1826–31; chaplain in ord. to the sovereign 1827 to death; V. of Holy Trin. Coventry 1828 to 1837; preb. of Linc. cath. 1832 to 1859; select preacher univ. of Ox. 1833–34 and 1858–59; V. of Leeds 1837 to 1859; preached his famous sermon Hear the Church before the Queen 17 June 1838, 31 ed. 1841, circulated 100,000 copies; dean of Chichester 24 Feb. 1859 to death, installed 19 March 1859; F.R.S. 5 June 1862; author of A Church Dictionary 1842, 14 ed. 1887; An ecclesiastical biography 8 vols. 1845–52; Lives of the archbishops of Canterbury 12 vols. 1860–76 and about 70 other books. d. the deanery, Chichester 20 Oct. 1875, memorial church at Leeds consecrated 29 Jany. 1880. Life and letters of W. F. Hook By W. R. W. Stephens 2 vols. 1878; Illust. news of the world, iii, (1859), portrait; Dent’s Birmingham (1880) 427, portrait; Graphic xii, 447, 448 (1875), portrait.

HOOKER, Sir William Jackson (son of Joseph Hooker of Exeter). b. Norwich 6 July 1785; ed. at Norwich gram. sch.; travelled for scientific purposes 1806–14; F.L.S. 1806; F.R.S. 9 Jany. 1812; lived at Halesworth, Suffolk 1815–20; regius prof. of botany Glasgow 1820–41; K.H. 1836; knighted at St. James’ palace 20 April 1836; director of royal gardens, Kew 1841 to death, chief agent in building the palm house and the temperate house, and a founder of the museum of economic botany; LLD. of Glasgow; D.C.L. of Ox. 1845; author of Exotic flora, 3 vols. 1823–7; Icones plantarum 10 vols. 1827–54; The Botanical Mag. 38 vols. 1827–65; British flora 2 vols. 1830–1, many editions; Species filicum 5 vols. 1846–64 and 35 other books and many papers. d. Kew 12 Aug. 1865. Proc. of R. Soc. xv, 25–30 (1867); Proc. Med. and Chir. Soc. v, 150, 162 (1867); Jerdan’s National Portrait gallery (1834) v, portrait; Taylor’s National Portrait gallery ii, 95, portrait.

HOOLE, Elijah (son of Holland Hoole, shoe maker). b. Manchester 3 Feb. 1798; ed. at Manchester gr. sch. 1809–13; Wesleyan methodist missionary in Madras 1820–8 during which time he published a number of translations in Tamil; a superintendent of schools in Ireland 1829–34; assistant sec. in London of Wesleyan Missionary Soc. 1834, one of the general secretaries 1836 to death; author of Personal narrative of a mission to the south of India from 1820–8, 1829, 2 ed. 1844; The year-book of missions 1847. d. 30 Russell sq. London 17 June 1872. T. F. Smith’s Manchester School Reg. iii, pt. 1, pp. 45, 290.

HOOPER, Edward. b. 1795; officer in navy; first appeared at Drury Lane as Colonel Briton, Sep. 1826; acting manager at Olympic 1832; lessee of St. James’s 1839; manager of Strand 1848; proprietor of Cambridge theatre to death. (m. Miss Brothers, she was b. 1800, first appeared at Drury Lane as Mrs. Haller 19 Feb. 1827 and was a well-known actress at St. James’s theatre). d. Cambridge 27 Jany. 1865 aged 70.

HOOPER, Edward. b. London 24 May 1829; ed. in London; member of firm of Bobbett and Hooper, wood engravers 1850 to death; an originator of the American water colour soc.; exhibited water colours at the Academy of design; engraved illustrations for Festivals of song, By F. Saunders 1866. d. Brooklyn, New York 13 Dec. 1870.

HOOPER, Frederic Edward Eden. b. 1842; clerk in the Admiralty, London; wrote many verses on Christmas and other cards; author of The Indian revolt. A poem, part i, 1858. d. 12 Feb. 1886.

HOOPER, George. b. Oxford 1824; a journalist in London 1848–86; helped to start The Leader weekly paper 1850; wrote for The Globe and The Spectator; edited Bombay Gazette at Bombay 1868–71; on staff of Daily Telegraph, London 1872–86; author of The Italian campaigns of general Bonaparte 1859; Waterloo, the downfall of the first Napoleon 1862, new ed. 1890; The campaign of Sedan 1887; Wellington, a memoir 1889. d. Southsea 15 May 1890. I.L.N. 31 May 1890 p. 680, portrait; Pictorial World 29 May 1890 p. 697, portrait.

HOOPER, John. b. Oxford 1802; went to U.S. of America 1839 and devoted himself to natural science; made collection of marine algæ which he left to Long island historical soc. d. Brooklyn, New York 26 April 1869. Appleton’s American Biog. iii, 252 (1887).

HOOPER, John Kinnersley (3 son of Richard Hooper of Queenhithe and Limpsfield, Surrey). b. 1791; wine merchant as Richard Hooper and Sons, 20 Queenhithe, London to death; alderman of Queenhithe ward 1840 to death, sheriff 1842–43, lord mayor 1847–48; received the French national guard at the mansion house 23 Oct. 1848; pres. of St. Bartholomew’s hospital. d. St. Leonards-on-Sea 17 April 1854. I.L.N. xi, 309 (1847), portrait.

HOOPER, William. b. 1819; a chemist; manufacturer of india-rubber goods 7 Pall Mall East, London and at Mitcham, Surrey 1857–78; inventor and manufacturer of india rubber insulated telegraph cables which he patented 19 March 1868; founder of Hooper’s Telegraph Co. in London 1870. d. Beechwood, Clapham common, Surrey 25 Sep. 1878. Journal Soc. of Arts 1 Nov. 1878 p. 964.

HOOPER, William Hulme. b. 1827; mate of the Plover, R.N. Nov. 1847 and lieut. 12 May 1849, in the expedition to search for Sir John Franklin, sailed from Plymouth 30 Jany. 1848, reached Port Providence 16 Oct. 1848, led a party along the coast as far as Cape Atcheen, learned the language of the natives, returned to England Oct. 1851; author of Ten months among the tents of the Tuski, with incidents of an Arctic boat expedition in search of Sir John Franklin 1853. d. Brompton, London 19 May 1854.

HOPE, Adrian (6 son of 4 Earl of Hopetown 1765–1823). b. Hopetown house, Linlithgowshire 3 March 1821; 2 lieut. 60 rifles 23 Nov. 1838, served in Kafir war 1851–3; major 1855; lieut. col. 93 Highlanders 25 Jany. 1856 to death; commanded brigade in Crimea 1854–5; C.B. 24 March 1858; killed in attack on fort at Rowas 14 April 1858. Martin’s Indian empire, ii, 493 (1876), portrait.

HOPE, Alexander James Beresford Beresford- (youngest son of Thomas Hope of Deepdene, Surrey 1770–1831). b. 25 Jany. 1820; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844, D.C.L. 1848, hon. LLD. 1864; LLD. Washington and Tennessee 1879, LLD. Dublin 1881; M.P. for Maidstone 1841–52 and 1857–65; contested Univ. of Cam. 1859 and Stoke-upon-Trent 1862; M.P. for Stoke 1865–8, M.P. for Univ. of Cam. 1868 to death; bought St. Augustine’s abbey, Canterbury as a college for missionary clergy 1844; built All Saints’ church, Margaret st. London 1849; joint owner of Saturday Review with John Douglas Cook 1855; took additional surname of Beresford 30 May 1854; P.C. 20 April 1880; possessed a collection of pictures and objects of art at 1 Connaught place, London; author of Poems 1843; Essays 1844; The English cathedral of the nineteenth century 1861; A popular view of the American civil war 1861, 3 ed. 1861; Worship in the Church of England 1874, 2 ed. 1875; Strictly tied up 3 vols. 1880, a novel, anon. 3 ed. 1881; The Brandreths 3 vols. 1882, a novel, and 24 other books. d. Bedgebury park, Cranbrook, Kent 20 Oct. 1887. C. Brown’s Life of Beaconsfield (1882) i, 194, portrait; Waagen’s Galleries of art (1857) 189–92; I.L.N. 16 May 1857 pp. 477, 479, portrait.

HOPE, Anne (2 dau. of John Williamson Fulton of Calcutta, merchant). b. Calcutta 1809. (m. 10 March 1831 James Hope, physician 1801–41); joined Church of Rome, Nov. 1850; author of The acts of the early martyrs 1855; The lives of the early martyrs 1857; Life of St. Philip Neri 1859; Conversion of the Teutonic race 2 vols. 1872; Franciscan martyrs in England 1878; wrote many articles in Dublin Review 1872–9. d. St. Marychurch, Torquay 2 Feb. 1887. Gillow’s English Catholics iii, 375.

HOPE, Charles, Lord Granton (eld. son of John Hope of London, merchant 1739–85). b. 29 June 1763; admitted advocate 11 Dec. 1784; a depute advocate 1786; sheriff of Orkney 5 June 1792; lord advocate June 1801 to Nov. 1804; M.P. for Dumfries district 1802–3, for city of Edin. 1803–4; a lord of session and lord justice clerk 20 Nov. 1804, assumed title of lord Granton; lord pres. of court of session 12 Nov. 1811 to 1841; P.C. Scotland 17 Aug. 1822, lord justice general Dec. 1836 to 1841; lieut. general of royal archers of Scotland; author of Notes by the lord president on the subject of hearing counsel in the Inner House 1826. d. Moray place, Edinburgh 30 Oct. 1851. Omond’s Lord Advocates of Scotland ii, 205–23; Kay’s Original Portraits ii, 246–55 (1885), 3 portraits; Lockhart’s Peter’s Letters to his kinsfolk, ii, 102–8 (1819).

HOPE, Charles Webley. b. 21 April 1829; entered navy 1842; captain 15 May 1861; A.D.C. to the Queen 12 Feb. 1873 to 1 Aug. 1877; R.A. 1 Aug. 1877; superintendent of Devonport dockyard 1 Feb. 1879 to death; F.R.G.S.; author of The education and training of naval officers 1869. d. Devonport dockyard 13 Feb. 1880.

HOPE, Rev. Frederick William (2 son of John Thomas Hope of Netley, Salop 1761–1854). b. 37 Upper Seymour st. Portman sq. London 3 Jany. 1797; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823, hon. D.C.L. 1855; C. of Frodesley, Salop 1823; F.R.S. to 1851 when he withdrew; F.L.S. 5 March 1822; one of founders of Zoological Soc. 1826, of Entomological Soc. 1833, president 1835–37; resided at Naples and Nice 1840–62; executed in 1849 a deed of gift giving his collection of fishes, crustacea, birds, shells, books and 230,000 engravings to Univ. of Oxford, his fishes, etc. were removed to the New Museum and his engravings to Radcliffe library 1861; founded and endowed a professorship of zoology in the Univ. of Ox. 1861; author of Buprestidae 1835; The Coleopterist’s Manual 3 parts 1837–40 and of about 60 papers on entomological subjects. d. 37 Upper Seymour st. London 15 April 1862. Journal British Archæol. Assoc. xix, 157–62 (1863); Proc. Linnæan society (1862) 90–93; J. O. Westwood’s Thesaurus Entomologicus Oxon. (1874) pp. xvii-xxiv.

HOPE, George (2 son of Robert Hope, tenant farmer). b. Fenton, East Lothian 2 Jany. 1811; farmer at Fenton Barns to 1875; did much to improve the agriculture of East Lothian, his farm was well-known in America and on the continent; gained a prize of £30 offered by the Anti-Corn-law league for an essay on Agriculture and the corn laws 1842; contributed Hindrances to agriculture from a tenant farmer’s point of view to Recess Studies, Edited by Sir A. Grant, Edinburgh 1870; contested Haddingtonshire 1865 and East Aberdeenshire 1875. d. Broadlands, Berwickshire 1 Dec. 1876. Memoir of George Hope, By His Daughter (1881).

HOPE, George William (2 son of general the hon. Sir Alexander Hope 1769–1837). b. Blackheath 4 July 1808; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1830; barrister L.I. 28 Jany. 1831; M.P. for Weymouth 1837 to 1841 when unseated on petition; M.P. for Southampton 1842–6; M.P. for New Windsor 1859 to death; under sec. of state for the colonies 8 Sep. 1841 to 8 Jany. 1846. d. Luffness, Haddingtonshire 18 Oct. 1863. I.L.N. vi, 184 (1845), portrait.

HOPE, Sir Henry (eld. child of Charles Hope, captain R.N., d. 10 Sep. 1808). b. 1787; entered navy 2 April 1798, captain 24 May 1808, captain of the Endymion May 1813, captured the American frigate President 15 Jany. 1815; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 5 July 1855; A.D.C. to the sovereign 1831–46; admiral 20 Jany. 1858. d. Holly hill, Hants. 23 Sep. 1863.

HOPE, Henry Thomas (eldest bro. of Alexander J. B. Hope 1820–87). b. 1808; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1829; M.P. East Looe 1830–2; M.P. Gloucester 1833–41 and 1847–52; a great patron of architectural art; erected a residence 116 Piccadilly, now known as the Junior Athenæum club; sold Trenant park, Cornwall and purchased Castle Blaney, Ireland; possessed a collection of marble statues, vases and Italian and Dutch pictures. d. 116 Piccadilly, London 4 Dec. 1862, personalty sworn under £300,000, 17 Jany. 1863. Waagen’s Treasures of Art, ii, 112–24 (1854); I.L.N. xxxii, 352 (1858).

HOPE, Sir James (only son of Sir George Hope, K.C.B. 1767–1818). b. 3 March 1808; entered royal naval college 1 Aug. 1820; captain 28 June 1838; commander in chief East Indies 25 Jany. 1859 to 8 Feb. 1862, in North America and West Indies 7 Jany. 1864 to 10 Jany. 1867, and at Portsmouth 25 Feb. 1869 to 1 March 1872; admiral 21 Jany. 1870, retired March 1878, admiral of the fleet 15 June 1879; principal naval A.D.C. to the Queen 8 Feb. 1873; C.B. 3 April 1846, K.C.B. 9 Nov. 1860, G.C.B. 28 March 1865; grand cross of legion of honour 1861. d. Carriden house, Bowness, Linlithgowshire 9 June 1881, portrait by Sydney Hodges in painted hall at Greenwich. D. C. Boulger’s History of China, vol. iii, passim (1884).