HOPE, James. b. 28 May 1803; writer to the signet 1828; deputy keeper of the signet 1828 to death. d. Avenel, Edinburgh 14 Feb. 1882. Law Times, lxxii, 305 (1882).

HOPE, Sir James Archibald (son of lieut.-col. Erskine Hope). b. 1785; ensign 26 foot 12 Jany. 1800, captain 1805–14; captain 3 foot guards 25 July 1814, major 10 Jany. 1837 to 1 Nov. 1839, when placed on h.p.; M.G. on the staff in Lower Canada 1841–7; colonel 9 foot 18 Feb. 1848 to death; general 12 June 1859; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 28 June 1861. d. Balgowan house, Cheltenham 30 Dec. 1871.

HOPE, Sir John, 11 Baronet. b. Pinkie house, Midlothian 13 April 1781; succeeded 26 June 1801; M.P. for Midlothian 1845 to death. d. 104 Gloucester terrace, Hyde park, London 5 June 1853. bur. Inveresk churchyard 11 June.

HOPE, John (eld. son of Charles Hope of Granton 1763–1851). b. Edinburgh 26 May 1794; admitted advocate 23 Nov. 1816; solicitor general for Scotland Nov. 1822 to 1830; dean of faculty of advocates 17 Dec. 1830 to 1841; lord justice clerk 1841 to death; P.C. 17 April 1844; author of A letter to Francis Jeffery, Esq., editor of the Edinburgh Review, By an Anti-Reformist 1811 and two other letters. d. 20 Moray place, Edinburgh 15 June 1858, bur. at Ormiston near Tranent; portraits in national gallery of Scotland, in the Parliament house and in Scottish national portrait gallery. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 73–4, portrait.

HOPE, Sackett. Entered navy 2 Nov. 1814; present at bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre 1840; captain 4 Nov. 1840; V.A. on half pay 2 April 1866; granted pension for wounds 7 Nov. 1843. d. 9 Widcomb crescent, Bath 25 May 1868.

HOPE, William Williams (youngest child of John Williams Hope of Amsterdam, banker 1757–1813). b. 1802; reassumed name of Williams before that of Hope by r.l. 14 July 1826; purchased Rushton hall near Kettering for £140,000 in 1828, sold it for £165,000 Sep. 1854; sheriff of Northamptonshire 1832; lived latterly in Paris, built a large house at 131 Rue St. Dominique, Faubourg St. Germain, played a prominent part in Parisian society, noted for his eccentricity and his collection of diamonds; found dead in his bed at 131 Rue St. Dominique, Paris 21 Jany. 1855. Gronow’s Last Recollections (1866) 129–33; Boase’s Collect. Cornub. (1890) 1262–4.

HOPE-JOHNSTONE, John James (1 son of Sir William Hope-Johnstone, G.C.B. 1766–1831). b. 29 Nov. 1796; M.P. for co. Dumfries 1830–47, and 1857–65; keeper of Lockmaben; claimed dormant earldom of Annandale. d. Raehills, Dumfriesshire 11 July 1876.

HOPE-SCOTT, James Robert (3 son of general the hon. Sir Alexander Hope, G.C.B. 1769–1837). b. Great Marlow, Bucks. 15 July 1812; ed. at Eton 1825–28 and at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1832, B.C.L. 1838, D.C.L. 1842; fellow of Merton 13 April 1833; commenced a friendship with W. E. Gladstone 1837 and corresponded with him on “The State in its relation with the Church” 1838; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1838, reader 1862; a promoter of Glenalmond college, Perthshire 1841; chancellor of diocese of Salisbury 1840 to 10 Feb. 1845; Q.C. April 1849; paid fees of £20,000 by London and north western railway for 25 bills 1860; received into R.C. church at Farm st. London 6 April 1851; lived at Abbotsford 1853 to death; assumed additional name of Scott 1853; spent winters of 1863–70 at the Villa Madonna Hyères which he bought 1859; visited by Queen Victoria at Abbotsford 22 Aug. 1867; built church of Our Lady and St. Andrew at Galashiels at cost of £10,000, opened 2 Feb. 1858; purchased estate of Lochshiel for £24,000, 1855; author of The bishopric of the United Church of England and Ireland at Jerusalem 1841, 2 ed. 1842. d. 7 Hyde park place, London 29 April 1873. bur. in the vaults of St. Margaret’s convent, Bruntsfield, Edin. 7 May. Memoirs of J. R. Hope-Scott, By Robert Ornsby 2 vols. 1884.

HOPETOUN, John Alexander Hope, 6 Earl of (only son of 5 earl of Hopetoun 1803–43). b. Edinburgh 22 March 1831; ed. at Harrow; cornet and sub-lieut. 1 life guards 1851–2; succeeded 8 April 1843; lord lieut. of Linlithgowshire 30 Sep. 1863 to death. d. Florence 1 April 1873. Baily’s Mag. xvi, 159–61 (1869), portrait.

HOPKINS, Sir Francis, 2 Baronet (only son of Sir F. J. Hopkins, M.P.) b. Athboy, co. Meath 28 May 1813; succeeded 19 Sep. 1814; ed. at Eton, matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 27 June 1830; knight of the Burning Tower at the Eglinton tournament 28–30 Aug. 1839; sheriff of Westmeath 1855. d. Madeira 11 May 1860. J. H. Nixon’s Eglinton tournament p. 6 and plate xiv (1843).

HOPKINS, Rev. Gerard Manley (1 son of Manley Hopkins of Stratford, Essex). b. Essex 1845; ed. at Ball. coll. Ox., exhibitioner 1863–8, B.A. 1868; fellow of royal univ. of Ireland 1885 (which was created by letters patent 22 April 1880), professor of classical literature there 1885 to death; member of Society of Jesus about 1868. d. of typhoid fever at University college, Stephen’s Green, Dublin 8 June 1889. bur. Glasnevin cemet. 11 June. Freeman’s Journal 10 June 1889 p. 5.

HOPKINS, John Baker. b. London 10 April 1830; began his career as a journalist 1858; editor of Atlas paper; joint editor with Henry Hotze of The Index, English organ of Confederate States, No. i. 1 May 1862, at the end of the war the paper ceased; London correspondent to Paris Correspondence Havas 1864–8; on Standard paper Sep. 1865 to 1868; on Law Journal 1867; contributed to Morning Post and Vanity Fair under pseudonym of Esse quam videri; chief leader writer on London Figaro, July 1870; author of The Yogi’s daughter, a tragedy 1854; Elviré, a reminiscence of Paris 1855; Not at all nervous, a farce 1860; Making the worst of it, a novel 2 vols. 1874; Jack Oakum, a play 1877; The true history of Nihilism, a novel 1880. d. 14 Russell road, Holloway 20 Dec. 1888. Cartoon portraits (1873) 140–43, portrait.

HOPKINS, Right Rev. John Henry. b. Dublin 30 Jany. 1792; emigrated to U.S. of A. 1801, an iron manufacturer in Pennsylvania 1810–17 when he failed; admitted to Pittsburgh bar 1817, practised to 1823; R. of Trinity ch. Pittsburgh 1824–31; assistant minister Trinity ch. Boston 1831; professor of divinity in theol. seminary of Massachusetts 1831; first bishop of Vermont 31 Oct. 1832; R. of St. Paul’s, Burlington 1832–56; seventh presiding bishop of ch. in U.S. 1865, attended Lambeth conference 1867; D.C.L. Ox. 3 Dec. 1867; author of Christianity vindicated 1833; Essay on Gothic architecture 1836; Twelve canzonets, words and music 1839; The history of the confessional 1850, and 30 other books. d. Rock Point, Vermont 9 Jany. 1868. A sketch book of American episcopate. By K. G. Batterson (1878) 104–106; Appleton’s American Biog. iii, 254–6 (1887).

HOPKINS, John Larkin. b. Westminster 25 Nov. 1819; chorister boy in the abbey; organist of Rochester cathedral 1841–56; Mus. Bac. Cam. 1842, Mus. Doc. 1857; organist of Trin. coll. Cam. 1856 to death; composed Five glees and a madrigal 1842, and Cathedral Services in C flat and E flat 1857; author of A new vocal tutor 1855. d. Ventnor, Isle of Wight 25 April 1873.

HOPKINS, Sir John Paul (eld. son of Capt. John Hopkins, killed on board the “Bellerophon” in the battle of the Nile). Ensign 43 foot 1804; served in the Peninsula and in campaign of 1815; major 98 foot 25 June 1829, retired 18 Oct. 1831; K.H. 1836; governor of military knights of Windsor 1865 to death; knighted at Windsor castle 11 Dec. 1867. d. Windsor 9 March 1875.

HOPKINS, William (only son of William Hopkins of Kingston, Derbyshire, farmer). b. Kingston 2 Feb. 1793; farmed, without success near Bury St. Edmunds; entered at Peterhouse, Cam. 1822, 7 wrangler 1827, B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; a private tutor at Cam. from 1827 and known as the senior wrangler maker; esquire bedel of Univ. of Cam. 1827 to death; F.G.S. 18—, Wollaston medallist 1850, president 1851–3; pres. of British Assoc. at Hull 1853; F.R.S. 1 June 1837; author of Elements of trigonometry 1833; An abstract of a memoir on physical geology 1836. d. Parker’s Piece, Cambridge 13 Oct. 1866, portrait in hall of Peterhouse. Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxiii, pp. xxix-xxxii (1867); I.L.N. xxiii, 225 (1853), portrait.

HOPKINS, Rev. William Bonner. Ed. at Gonville and Caius coll. Cam., second wrangler, second Smith’s prizeman and B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847, B.D. 1854; fellow and tutor of St. Cath. hall 1848–54; V. of St. Peter, Wisbech 1854–66; V. of Littleport near Ely 1866 to death; hon. canon of Ely 1865 to death, rural dean 1868; Dean Stanley said he was “the incarnation of sound common sense”; author of Apostolic missions. Five sermons preached before the university 1853; The words spoken by Christ upon the Cross. Seven sermons 1866; The position and duty of non-abstainers 1874, 2 ed. 1875. d. Littleport vicarage 24 March 1890.

HOPKINSON, Sir Charles (son of B. Hopkinson of Highbury park, Middlesex). b. Grantham 1784; ed. at Woolwich; lieut. R.A. 1799; served in Mahratta war 1803; commanded the artillery against the Poligars and at Hyderabad; lieut.-col. 1824; commanded Madras artillery; served in war in Ava 1825; retired through deafness 1829; C.B. 1826; knighted by Wm. iv. at St. James’s palace 26 April 1837; author of Hints to cadets and others proceeding to India 1850. d. 2a King st. St. James’s sq. London 17 Dec. 1864.

HOPKINSON, William (son of Rev. Samuel Edmund Hopkinson, R. of Morton-cum-Haconby). b. 1784; coroner for the Soke of Peterborough; solicitor at Bourn and Stamford; purchased Little Gidding manor, Hunts. 700 acres 1853 and restored the church to the Caroline style in which it had been left by Nicholas Ferrar in 1637. d. Stamford 1 Sep. 1865. Rivington’s Ecclesiastical Year-book (1866) 334.

HOPLEY, Edward William John. b. 1816; painter of domestic subjects and portraits; exhibited 15 pictures at R.A., 26 at B.I. and 7 at Suffolk st. 1844–69; his picture, The birth of a pyramid, shown 1859; invented a trigonometrical system of facial measurement for the use of artists. d. 14 South Bank, Regent’s Park, London 30 April 1869.

HOPPER, Ven. Augustus Macdonald (son of Walter Carles Hopper of Walworth, co. Durham). b. 11 Aug. 1816; ed. at Shrewsbury and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842, fellow of St. John’s 1841–5; R. of Starston, Norfolk 1845 to death; hon. canon of Norwich 1854–72; archdeacon of Norwich 1868 to death; author of Two Charges 1869 and 1870. d. Starston rectory 7 Jany. 1878.

HOPPER, Clarence (son of Thomas Hopper of Reading, surgeon d. 1856). b. Granthan, Wilts 17 May 1817; ed. at Reading gram. sch.; palæographer of British Archæol. Assoc. 1862; an expert in deciphering ancient writings; employed in Record office; edited London Chronicle of Hen. VII. and Hen. VIII. 1859, and Sir F. Drake’s service against the Spaniards 1863, in vols. 4 and 5 of Camden Miscellany; author of A descriptive account of churchwardens’ presentments Stratford-on-Avon 1867; A catalogue of books illustrative of Shakespeare 1868. d. Brighton 10 June 1868. Journal of B.A. Assoc. xxv, 316 (1869).

HOPPER, Thomas (son of Mr. Hopper of Rochester, surveyor). b. Rochester 6 July 1776; architect and surveyor 40 Connaught ter. London; made alterations at Carlton House, London 1807; surveyor of Essex 40 years; built Arthur’s club, St. James’s st., Atlas fire office, Cheapside and St. Mary’s hospital, Paddington 1843; competed for erection of General Post Office 1820, for rebuilding of Royal Exchange 1839, and for Houses of parliament 1840; published A letter to viscount Duncannon on competitors for building houses of parliament 1837; Designs for the houses of parliament 1842. d. 1 Bayswater Hill, London 11 Aug. 1856.

HOPPUS, Rev. John (only son of Rev. John Hoppus, independent minister, Yardley, Hastings). b. London 1789; ed. at Rotherham and Univs. of Edin. and Glasgow, M.A. Glasgow 1823, LLD. 1839; minister of independent chapel, Carter lane, London 1823–5; professor of the philosophy of mind and logic in London Univ. 1829–66; F.R.S. 20 May 1841; author of An account of Lord Bacon’s Novum Organum Scientiarum 1827; Sketches on the Continent in 1835 2 vols. 1836; The crisis of popular education 1847 and 12 other books. d. 26 Camden st. Camden town, London 29 Jany. 1875. Congregational Year-book (1876) 341–3.

HORAN, Edward John. b. Quebec, Canada 1817; ed. in the Seminary of Quebec, priest 1842, a director of the Seminary; principal of the normal sch. Quebec; bishop of Kingston 1858, resigned; assistant of the pontifical throne; present at Vatican council 1870. d. Canada 16 Feb. 1875. Appleton’s American Biog. iii, 262 (1887).

HORAN, Mary Austin. b. Ireland 1820; entered the Convent of Mercy, Dublin; assisted in founding the Institution of Mercy, New York 1846; first mistress of novices in St. Catherine’s convent, New York and trainer of the early members; built St. Joseph’s Industrial institute for children. d. New York city 14 June 1874. Appleton’s American Biog. iii, 262 (1887).

HORDERN, Rev. Joseph (son of Rev. Joseph Hordern of Prestwich, Lancs.) b. 1794; ed. at Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1816, M.A. 1820; V. of Rostherne, Cheshire 1821–54; R. of Burton Agnes with Harpham, Yorks. 1854 to death; author of Plain directions for reading to the sick 1826, 4 ed. 1830; Sermons 1830; The armour of light, sermons 1851. d. Knutsford, Cheshire 12 Aug. 1876. F. Ross’ Celebrities of the Wolds (1878) 76.

HORMAN, George Helier (son of Philip Horman of St. Saviour’s, Jersey). b. 1817; practised as a solicitor in Jersey, one of the six advocates of the royal court there 1848; Her Majesty’s advocate general for Jersey 23 July 1866 to death; chairman of the Channel islands bank 1858–74. d. The Terrace, St. Heliers, Jersey 29 May 1879.

HORN, Henry (son of Frederick Jacob Horn of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire). b. 23 Sep. 1806; ed. at M.T. school and St. John’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; fellow of Magdalen coll. 1831–4; barrister M.T. 11 Jany. 1833; recorder of Hereford 1847 to death; edited Woodfall’s Practical treatise on law of landlord and tenant, 7 ed. 1856; with E. T. Hurlstone published Reports in court of exchequer upon writs of error to exchequer chamber 2 vols. 1840; while attending the corpse of his father in law J. S. Gowland shot himself in the head at Cagebrook near Hereford 29 Nov. 1857. Hereford Journal 2 Dec. 1857 p. 5.

HORN, Marion (dau. of Mr. Horton, manufacturer of silver plate ware). b. Birmingham 1811; sang small parts in English operas and served as a substitute for Emma Romer; studied under Marco Bordogni in Paris; had a mezzo soprano voice; appeared as Cinderella at Old Park theatre, New York 16 Sep. 1836 and then as Rosina, Amina, and Susanna; sang in operas throughout United States; (m. 1839 Charles Edward Horn 1786–1849, the writer of Cherry Ripe 1825, and I know a bank 1830); taught in New York many of best known American singers. d. Morrisania co. Winchester, New York, Jany. 1887. Ireland’s New York Stage, ii, 176 (1867).

HORN, Robert (youngest son of William Horn, farmer). b. Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire 24 May 1810; ed. at Glasgow univ.; passed at Scotch bar 1834; hon. memb. Speculative Soc. Edin.; a commissioner of the board of manufacturers 1866; vice dean of Faculty of Advocates 1874 and dean 1876; helped in preparing Catalogue of Faculty of Advocate’s Library 1873. d. 7 Randolph crescent, Edinburgh 2 Jany. 1878. Journ. of Jurisprudence, xxii, 93–7 (1878).

HORNBLOWER, Jane Elizabeth (dau. of William Roscoe 1753–1831 historian). b. Liverpool 1797; (m. Francis Hornblower); author of Poems 1820; Poems 1821; Poems 1843. d. Liverpool 2 Aug. 1853.

HORNBY, Edmund (eld. son of Rev. Geoffry Hornby, R. of Winwick, Lancs. d. 1812). b. 16 June 1773; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1794, M.A. 1797; barrister I.T. 22 June 1798; chairman of Lancaster court of quarter sessions many years; M.P. for Preston 1812–26; sheriff of Westmoreland 1828. d. Dalton hall near Burton, Westmoreland 18 Nov. 1857.

HORNBY, Edmund George (son of the preceding). b. 6 Nov. 1799; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1820; M.P. for Warrington 1832–5; constable of Lancaster castle. d. Dalton hall 26 or 27 Feb. 1865.

HORNBY, Louisa (sister of Edmund Hornby 1773–1857). b. Winwick 5 April 1788; author of Bible Stories; Universal Reform; The Full Loom and other books. d. Winwick 6 Jany. 1873.

HORNBY, Sir Phipps (brother of the preceding). b. Winwick 27 April 1785; ed. at Sunbury; entered navy 19 May 1797, captain 16 Feb. 1810; as commander of the Volage took part in action off Lissa 1811, gold medal; superintendent of royal naval hospital and victualling yard at Plymouth 1832 to 6 Jany. 1838; superintendent of Woolwich dockyard 6 Jany. 1838 to 16 Dec. 1841; controller general of the coastguard 16 Dec. 1841 to Nov. 1846; commander in chief in the Pacific 1847–50; a lord of the admiralty 28 Feb. to 30 Dec. 1852; admiral 25 June 1858; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 6 April 1852, G.C.B. 28 June 1861. d. Little Green near Petersfield 19 March 1867.

HORNBY, Robert Vernon Atherton. b. Atherton 6 Nov. 1805; author of Statistical account of Winwick 1837; Vale: a poem 1854. d. Wansfell, Windermere 25 Aug. 1857.

HORNBY, William Henry (3 son of John Hornby of Blackburn). b. Blackburn 2 July 1805; founded the Brookhouse cotton mills, Blackburn 1828; first mayor of Blackburn 1851; M.P. Blackburn 1857–69 when he was unseated. d. Pool hall, Nantwich, Cheshire 5 Sep. 1884. Puseley’s Commercial Companion (1858) 114–5.

HORNCASTLE, James Henry. b. London 26 May 1801; appeared as first witch in Macbeth at Drury Lane 1820; first appeared at Chestnut street theatre, Philadelphia 28 Jany. 1839; at National theatre, New York with Louisa Pyne’s troupe 1854 and at Broadway theatre 1855; attached to Princess’ theatre, London; musician, actor, author and composer; an annuitant on General theatrical fund. d. West Malvern 6 May 1869. Ireland’s New York stage, ii, 231, 629 (1867).

HORNE, James. b. 1790; experimented on steam locomotives on roads; F.R.S. 6 Feb. 1834; A.I.C.E. 20 Feb. 1835, auditor 1840; applied warming and ventilating apparatus to halls of the City companies. d. London 26 Oct. 1856. Min. of Proc. Instit. of C.E. xvii, 102 (1858).

HORNE, Lenox (younger brother of the succeeding). Baritone singer at Surrey theatre under name of Mr. Lennox 1849–51; lecturer at the Polytechnic Institution London; wrote Two heads are better than one, A farce, produced at Lyceum theatre Dec. 1854; The baronet abroad; The tale of a comet. d. Clapham road, Kennington 20 Nov. 1874.

HORNE, Richard Henry or Hengist. b. London 31 Dec. 1802; ed. at Sandhurst; midshipman in Mexican navy, served in war against Spain 1829; edited the Monthly Repository July 1836 to June 1837; sub.-comr. to report on employment of children in mines 1843; went with Wm. Howitt to Australia 1852; commander of the gold escort between Ballarat and Melbourne 1852; comr. of crown lands for the gold fields 1853–4; territorial magistrate 1855 &c.; took name of Hengist instead of Henry 1864; returned to England 1869; granted civil list pension of £50, 19 June 1874, and another of £50, 28 April 1880; author of Cosmo de Medici 1837, a tragedy; The death of Marlowe 1837, a tragedy; The history of Napoleon 2 vols. 1841, new ed. 1879; Orion, an epic poem 1843, 10 ed. 1874, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd eds. were issued at a farthing; A new spirit of the age 2 vols. 1844; The poor artist 1850, 2 ed. 1871; Sithron the Star-stricken 1883, and 15 other books. d. Margate 13 March 1884. R. H. Horne’s Australian facts and prospects (1859) 1–44; H. B. Forman’s Our living poets (1871) 427–46; Athenæum 22 March 1884 pp. 374–5; I.L.N. lxxxiv, 301 (1884), portrait.

HORNE, Rev. Thomas Hartwell (son of William Horne of London, barrister’s clerk). b. Chancery lane, London 20 Oct. 1780; ed. at Christ’s hospital 1789–95; barrister’s clerk 1796–1806; sec. to Joseph Butterworth, M.P. 1806–9; sub-librarian to Surrey institution 1809–23; C. of Ch. Ch. Newgate st. London 1819–25; senior assist. librarian British museum 1824–60; assist. minister at Welbeck chapel, London 1825–33; F.S.A. 1828; F.R.S.L.; B.D. Cambridge 1829, D.D. Univ. of Pennsylvania; preb. of St. Paul’s 1831 to death; R. of St. Edmund the King with St. Nicholas Acons, Lombard st. 25 Nov. 1833 to death; author of An introduction to the critical study and knowledge of the Holy Scriptures 3 vols. 1818, 11 ed. 1860; Outlines for the classification of a library submitted to the trustees of the British museum 1825; A compendious introduction to the study of the Bible 1827, 10 ed. 1862; Manual of parochial psalmody 1829, 41 ed. 1861 and about 50 other books. d. 47 Bloomsbury sq. London 27 Jany. 1862. G. M. Turpin’s The Rev. T. H. Horne (1862), portrait; Reminiscences of T. H. Horne, by his daughter S. A. Cheyne (1862); Cowtan’s Memories of British Museum (1872) 105–9.

HORNE, Sir William (2 son of Rev. Thomas Horne, schoolmaster at Chiswick). b. 1774; barrister L.I. 23 June 1798, bencher 6 Nov. 1818; comr. of bankrupts 1806–18; K.C. Nov. 1818; attorney general to queen Adelaide 24 July 1830; solicitor general 26 Nov. 1830 to 23 Nov. 1832, attorney general 26 Nov. 1832 to Feb. 1834; appointed a baron of the Exchequer but declined the office 1834; master in chancery 23 July 1839, resigned 1853; M.P. for Helston 1812–18, for Bletchingley 1831, for Newton, Isle of Wight 1831–2, for Marylebone 12 Dec. 1832 to 29 Dec. 1834; knighted by Wm. IV. at St. James’s palace 24 Nov. 1830. d. 49 Upper Harley st. London 13 July 1860. Mrs. Hardcastle’s Life of Lord Campbell (1881) ii, 18–41; Lord Brougham’s Life and times, iii, 341–54, 426–9.

HORNEGOLD or HORNIGOLD, William 1797–1867, artist. See Hornygold, W. ante col. 1523.

HORNER, Leonard (youngest son of John Horner of Edinburgh, linen merchant). b. Edinburgh 17 Jany. 1785; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edin.; partner in a branch of his father’s business in London 1804–17; F.G.S. 1808, sec. 1810, pres. 1846 and 1860; F.R.S. 1813, vice pres. 1857; warden of London Univ. 1827–31; inspector under the Factories act 1833–60; published Works of Francis Horner 1843; Memoirs of Francis Horner 1848, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1853; a translation of Villari’s History of Savonarola 1863. d. 60 Montague sq. London 5 March 1864. Quarterly Journal of Geol. soc. xxi, 30–40 (1865); Proc. of Royal soc. xiv, 5–10 (1865); Macmillan’s Mag. x, 319–26 (1864).

HORRABIN, Rev. Richard. b. Garstang near Preston; ed. at Old Hall Green coll.; chaplain Virginia st. chapel, Ratcliffe highway, London 1815–39, and 1841–54; chaplain St. Mary, Moor fields 1839–41; gave evidence before house of commons on education of lower orders 1816; published The New Testament, ed. by Marlow J. F. Sidney and revised by the Rev. R. Horrabin 1818. d. Houndsditch, London 13 Dec. 1859. Gillow’s English Catholics iii, 403–4 (1887).

HORSBURGH, John. b. Prestonpans near Edinburgh 1791; apprenticed to Robert Scott the engraver 1805; engraved several plates after J. M. W. Turner for Scott’s Poetical and Prose Works and other publications; engraved several single plates including Prince Charlie reading a despatch and 2 portraits of Sir Walter Scott; undertook gratuitously duties of pastor in Scottish Baptist church. d. 16 Buccleuch place, Edinburgh 24 Sep. 1869. Pastoral addresses of J. Horsburgh with memoir 1869.

HORSEY, George (4 son of Charles Horsey of St. John st., London). b. 29 Sep. 1819; barrister G.I. 22 May 1850; equity draughtsman and conveyancer; author of A practical analysis of the Trustees Act 1850; The probate and administration act 1858; The court of Probate acts 3 ed. 1859; Law of property and trustees relief act 1860. d. Colne villa, New Southgate, Middlesex 16 Sep. 1889.

HORSFALL, Thomas Berry. b. Liverpool 1805; a merchant in Liverpool, mayor of Liverpool 1847–48; M.P. Derby 8 July 1852, unseated 9 March 1853; M.P. Liverpool 9 July 1853 to Nov. 1868; president Liverpool chamber of commerce on its foundation 1849. d. Torquay 22 Dec. 1878.

HORSFIELD, Thomas. b. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 12 May 1773; ed. Univ. of Pennsylvania, M.D. 1798; studied natural history in Java 1799–1819; in service of Dutch government in Java and Sumatra to 1811 and of H.E.I.Co. 1811–20; keeper of museum, India House, London 1820 to death; F.L.S. 1820; F.R.S. 1828; author of Zoological Researches in Java 1824; Descriptive catalogue of Lepidoptera in the H.E.I.C. museum, 2 parts 1828–9 and other books. d. Chalcott villas, Camden town, London 24 July 1859. Proc. of Royal Society x, 19–21 (1860); Proc. Linnean Soc. (1859–60) 25–6.

HORSFORD, Sir Alfred Hastings (son of general George Horsford, d. 1840). b. Bath 3 April 1818; 2 lieut. rifle brigade 12 July 1833, lieut.-col. 9 March 1855 to 1 Jany. 1868, col. commandant 2 battalion 21 Nov. 1880 to death; served in Kaffir wars 1847–8 and 1852–3, Crimean war 1854–5 and Indian mutiny 1857–8; D.A.G. at horse guards 1860–6; brigadier general at Aldershot 1866–9; military sec. at Horse Guards 1874–80; col. 79 foot 17 March 1876, col. 14 foot 1 Jany. 1879 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 3 April 1883; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 8 May 1860, G.C.B. 29 May 1875. d. Munlochy near Inverness 13 Sep. 1885. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 19 Sep.

HORSFORD, Sir Robert Marsh (eld. son of Paul Horsford, chief justice of Antigua, d. 1850). b. Boswell court, Lincoln’s inn, London 1798; ed. at Winchester; matric. from Ex. coll. Ox. 7 Dec. 1816; barrister M.T. 17 May 1822; settled in island of Antigua, solicitor general there 1825–46, attorney general 1846 to Nov. 1847, chief justice 19 Nov. 1847, retired Aug. 1856; knighted at Buckingham palace 25 Jany. 1841; C.B. 15 Nov. 1852. d. 11 Delamere terrace, Westbourne park, London 23 May 1875.

HORSLEY, Charles Edward (son of the succeeding). b. 24 Queen’s buildings, Knightsbridge, London 16 Dec. 1822; pupil of Moscheles, Hauptmann, Spohr and Mendelssohn; teacher of music in London 1846; organist of St. John’s, Notting hill 19 Sep. 1853 to June 1857; went to Melbourne 1868, then to New York 1872, choir master St. John’s chapel 1872 to death; composed for Liverpool Philharmonic Soc. two oratorios David 1849 and Joseph 1852; wrote the cantata Comus 1854; produced oratorio Gideon at Glasgow musical festival 1860; wrote an ode Euterpe for opening of Melbourne town hall 1870, and about 35 other pieces; author of A text book of harmony 1876. d. New York city 28 Feb. 1876.

HORSLEY, William H. b. London 15 Nov. 1774; articled to Theodore Smith, pianist 1790–4; organist of Ely chapel, Holborn 1794–8; member of Royal Soc. of Musicians 15 June 1797; founded with J. W. Callcott the Concentores Sodales a club for encouragement of glee and canon writing, June 1798 which existed till 1847; assistant organist Asylum for female orphans about 1798, organist 1802–54; Mus. Bac. Oxford 18 June 1800; organist at Belgrave chapel, Halkin st. 1812–37 and at the Charterhouse 1838; had few equals as a composer of glees; published Five collections of glees 1801–27; An introduction to the study of practical harmony and modulation 1847; The musical treasury 1853 and about 60 pieces of music; his best known glees were By Celia’s Arbour 1807 and Mine be a cot. d. 1 High row, Kensington, London 12 June 1858. G.M. lxxxiii, 82, 565 (1813); Grove’s Dictionary of music, i, 753–4 (1879).

HORSMAN, Charlotte (dau. of Mr. Gardiner). b. Dublin 1827; (m. 1847 Charles Horsman, actor b. Welchpool, Montgomeryshire 21 Oct. 1825); a prominent actress at Lyceum, Strand, Sadler’s Wells and Holborn theatres; a member of the Pygmalion and Galatea co.; her last appearance was at Bradford as Meg Merrilies 14 May 1877. d. 2 William st. Bradford 4 June 1878. bur. Undercliffe cemet. 7 June. The Era 9 June 1878 p. 12.

HORSMAN, Edward (son of William Horsman d. 22 March 1845 aged 86). b. 8 Feb. 1807; ed. at Rugby and Trin. coll. Cam.; admitted advocate at Scottish bar 1832; M.P. Cockermouth Feb. 1836 to 1 July 1852; M.P. Stroud 29 June 1853 to Nov. 1868; M.P. Liskeard 11 May 1869 to death; fought a duel at Wormwood Scrubbs with James Bradshaw, M.P. 1840; comr. of Church Inquiry in Scotland; a lord of the Treasury June to Sep. 1841; chief sec. of state for Ireland March 1855, resigned May 1857; P.C. 10 March 1855; on 13 March 1866 Bright described Horsman as retiring “into his political cave of Adullam,” hence his party became known as “the cave”; author of Five speeches on ecclesiastical affairs 1849. d. Biarritz 30 Nov. 1876. H. D. Traill’s The new Lucian (1884) 183–401; I.L.N. xxx, 478 (1857), portrait; Graphic xiv, 592, 595 (1876), portrait.

HORT, Sir Josiah William, 2 Baronet (1 son of Sir John Hort d. 1807). b. 6 July 1791; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1812; succeeded 23 Oct. 1807; M.P. co. Kildare 1831–2. d. Ebury st. Eaton square, London 24 Aug. 1876.

HORT, Sir John Josiah, 3 Baronet (1 son of the preceding). b. Dublin 14 Jany. 1824; ensign 61 foot 20 Nov. 1840; captain 4 foot 27 May 1847, lieut.-col. 1 Feb. 1856 to 10 Nov. 1856 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. 36 foot 15 May 1857 to 28 Dec. 1866; lieut.-col. 44 foot 28 Dec. 1866 to 10 Nov. 1869 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. brigade depot 1 April 1873; L.G. 10 Aug. 1878; C.B. 24 May 1873; knight of Malta. d. 35 Merrion sq. east, Dublin 5 Jany. 1882. The case of maltreatment by Capt. Hort, fourth King’s own regiment, of lieut. A. V. D. Harris. Plymouth 1851.

HORT, Sir William Fitzmaurice Josiah, 4 Baronet (brother of the preceding). b. Boulogne-sur-mer 28 Jany. 1827; ed. at R.M.A. Woolwich; called to bar in Ireland 1852; paid resident magistrate at Kilkenny 1858, at Tuam co. Galway 1858–83. d. St. Canice’s cottage, Kilkenny 18 Sep. 1887.

HORWITZ, Bernard. b. Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg 1807; learnt chess from Mendheim at Berlin; one of the 7 great Berlin players known as the Pleiades; spent sometime at Hamburg; lived in England about 1845 to death; took part in nearly all the tournaments held in England before 1862; author of Chess studies and end-games systematically arranged 1884; author with J. Kling of Chess Studies 1851 three editions, and of a periodical called The Chess Player 4 vols. 1851–3. d. 27 Parkhurst road, Bowes Park, London 29 Aug. 1885. I.L.N. viii, 100 (1846), portrait; Chess Monthly, vii, 8; Fortnightly Review, Dec. 1886 p. 754.

HORWOOD, Alfred John (younger son of Thomas Horwood of the Middle Temple, London, conveyancer). b. Camberwell, Surrey 1821; barrister M.T. 22 Nov. 1844; inspector under royal commission on historical manuscripts 1869 to death; edited Year books of the reign of Edward the First. Rolls Series 1858; A catalogue of the manuscripts belonging to Gray’s inn 1869; A common place book of John Milton 1876. d. 1 New Court, Temple, London 7 July 1881. Law Times, lxxi, 255 (1881).

HOSACK, John (3 son of John R. Hosack of Glenaher, Dumfriesshire). b. Glenaher 1809; barrister M.T. 29 Jany. 1841, bencher 22 April 1875; magistrate at Clerkenwell police court 5 June 1877 to death; author of A treatise on the conflict of laws of England and Scotland 1847; The rights of British and neutral commerce as affected by recent royal declarations and orders in council 1854; Mary Queen of Scots and her accusers, London 1869, 2 ed. 2 vols. Edin. 1870–4 and other books. d. 172 Finborough road, West Brompton, London 3 Nov. 1887. bur. Lytham, Lancs. 8 Nov.

HOSKEN, James (son of James Hosken, gunner in navy, d. Penryn 20 June 1848 aged 92). b. Plymouth 6 Dec. 1798; midshipman R.N. 1810, lieut. 1828; captain of the Great Western specially built for ocean steam navigation 1837, she left Bristol 8 April 1838 and reached New York 23 April, made 64 voyages in Great Western; captain of the Great Britain 1844, made 3 or 4 trips to New York in her, she was stranded in Dundrum bay 22 Sep. 1846; harbour master, postmaster and chief magistrate at Labuan 1848–9; commanded the Belle-Isle hospital ship in the Baltic 1854–5; captain R.N. 15 June 1857, retired 8 Jany. 1868, retired V.A. 2 Aug. 1879. d. 32 Highfield road, Ilfracombe 2 Jany. 1885. Autobiographical Sketch. Edited by his widow. Privately printed 1889.

HOSKING, William (eld. son of John Hosking, woollen manufacturer). b. Buckfastleigh, Devon 26 Nov. 1800; apprenticed to a builder and surveyor in New South Wales; articled to W. Jenkins of Red Lion square, London, architect 1820–23; exhibited 1 drawing at R.A. and 9 at Suffolk st. 1825–9; F.S.A. 11 Feb. 1830; F.I.B.A. 16 Jany. 1835, member of council 1842–3; engineer of Birmingham, Bristol and Thames Junction railway 1834; superintended formation of Abney Park cemetery, Stoke Newington, London 30 acres 1839–40; professor of Art of construction in King’s coll. London 1840, and of Principles and practice of architecture 1841 to death; an official referee under Metropolitan building act 3 Sep. 1844 to 1855; published Preliminary essay on bridges 1841, 2 ed. 1842; Theory, practice and architecture of bridges 1842; Some observations upon the recent addition of a reading room to the British museum 1858, he claimed to have suggested the Circular reading room for which Panizzi has the credit. d. 23 Woburn sq. London 2 Aug. 1861. G. Pycroft’s Art in Devonshire (1883) 70; The Builder 17 Aug. 1861 p. 560.

HOSKINS, Samuel Elliott (son of Samuel Hoskins of Guernsey). b. Guernsey Feb. 1799; ed. at Guy’s and St. Thomas’s hospitals 1818–20; L.S.A. 1821; M.R.C.S. 1822; L.R.C.P. 1834, F.R.C.P. 1859; physician in Guernsey 1827–59; F.R.S. 25 May 1843; author of A Stethoscopic Chart. Guernsey 1830; Home resorts for invalids in the climate of Guernsey 1852; Louis le Grand or Fontainebleau and Versailles, a comedy in three acts 1852; Charles the Second in the Channel Islands 2 vols. 1854; and other books. d. York place, Candie road, Guernsey 12 Oct. 1888. Lancet 20 Oct. 1888 p. 797, 27 Oct. p. 845.

HOSKINS, William (3 son of Abraham Hoskins of Newton park, Derbyshire). b. Norton, Derbyshire 1816; ed. at Camb. univ.; an actor in the provinces 1834; member of Phelps’s company at Sadler’s Wells 1844; then at Olympic; went to Australia 1856, played at Queen’s theatre, Melbourne; manager Ballarat theatre 1858, of Theatre royal, Melbourne 1863, and of Haymarket, Melbourne; rebuilt Theatre Royal, Christ Church, New Zealand; teacher of elocution, Melbourne 1884 to death; (m. (1) 1850 Julia Harland, actress d. New Zealand; m. (2) Florence Colville, actress, she d. about 1881; m. (3) Miss Bowman). d. Melbourne 28 Sep. 1886. Tallis’ Drawingroom Table book, Parts 8 and 12, two portraits; Theatrical Times ii, 297 (1847), portrait; Era 13 Oct. 1886 p. 9.

HOSKYNS, Chandos Wren (2 son of Sir Hungerford Hoskyns, 7 baronet 1776–1862). b. Hereford 15 Feb. 1812; ed. at Shrewsbury and Balliol coll. Ox., B.A. 1834; barrister I.T. 4 May 1838; assumed additional surname of Wren by royal license 15 April 1837; a co.-editor of Journal of R. Agricultural Soc.; M.P. for Hereford 1869–74; contributed Anomalies of Agriculture and many other papers to Agricultural Gazette 1844, &c.; author of Talpa, or the chronicles of a clay farm 1852, 4 ed. 1857; Occasional Essays 1866; Systems of land tenure in various countries 1870. d. 41 Eccleston sq. London 28 Nov. 1876. Journal of the Royal Agricultural Soc. 1877 p. xli; Agricultural Gazette 4 Dec. 1876 p. 544.

HOTHAM, Beaumont Hotham, 3 Baron (elder son of Beaumont Hotham 1768–99, captain Coldstream guards). b. Lullingstone castle, Dartford, Kent 9 Aug. 1794; ed. at Westminster; ensign Coldstream guards 27 June 1810, lieut. 25 Dec. 1813 to 14 Oct. 1819 when placed on h.p.; succeeded his grandfather 4 March 1814; served in the Peninsula 1812–14; general 12 Jany. 1865; M.P. Leominster 1820–41; M.P. East Yorkshire 1841–68. d. Sand Hutton near York 13 Dec. 1870. bur. in family vault at South Dalton 20 Dec., personalty sworn under £500,000, 21 Jany. 1871.

HOTHAM, Sir Charles (1 son of Hon. and Rev. Frederick Hotham 1774–1854, R. of Dennington, Suffolk). b. Dennington 14 Jany. 1806; entered navy 6 Nov. 1818, captain 28 June 1833; served in South America 1845–6; K.C.B. 9 March 1846; commander in chief West coast of Africa 1846–9; min. plenipo. to Argentine Confederation 17 April 1852; lieut. governor of colony of Victoria 6 Dec. 1853, governor in chief there 1 Feb. 1855 to death. d. Toorak, Melbourne 31 Dec. 1855.

HOTHAM, William (eld. child of lieut.-col. George Hotham 1770–1823). b. 30 July 1794; entered navy June 1803, commanded a flotilla in the river Po 1813–14; captain 4 April 1825; K.H. 25 Jany. 1836; retired on half pay 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 30 Nov. 1863. d. Clifton, York 22 Feb. 1873.

HOTTEN, John Camden, originally named John William Hotten (son of Wm. Hotten of Clerkenwell, London, carpenter). b. 45 St. John’s sq. Clerkenwell 12 Sep. 1832; placed with John Petheram, bookseller 71 Chancery lane 1846; in the United States 1848–56; a bookseller and publisher at 151B Piccadilly, London 1856 to death, and at 74–5 Piccadilly 1863 to death; published Dictionary of modern slang, cant and vulgar words 1859; A. C. Swinburne’s Poems and ballads 1866 which Moxon had withdrawn from circulation; the first to introduce into England the works of J. R. Lowell, Artemus Ward, O. W. Holmes, C. G. Leland and Bret Harte 1864 &c. d. 4 Maitland park villas, Haverstock hill, Hampstead 14 June 1873. bur. Highgate cemet. 21 June. Bookseller 31 Aug. 1873 pp. 491–3; Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. 255, 1237.

HOUGH, Rev. George. b. London 1797; ordained 1824; studied Hebrew under Dr. Wolff 1836; C. of Earl’s Heaton, Dewsbury 1827–8; V. of South Crosland near Huddersfield 1829 to death; originator and sec. of the Almondbury clerical soc. 1828–78; gave considerable sums to church works and charities; author of Annual new year addresses to the parishioners of Almondbury 1840–79; A brief exposition of the book of Revelation. Huddersfield 1878. d. South Crosland 6 June 1879. Hulbert’s Annals of Almondbury (1882) 76, 306–12, 506–7.

HOUGH, William. Entered Bengal army 1805; captain 48 Bengal N.I. to 1 Oct. 1840 when invalided; lieut. col. July 1864; author of Case book of European and native courts martial. Calcutta 1821; On the E.I.Co.’s mutiny acts 1838; Chronological exposition of opinions of writers on military law 1839; A narrative of the army of the Indies in the expedition to Afghanistan 1841; Political and military events in British India 2 vols. 1853. d. Tenterden st. Hanover sq. London 3 Jany. 1865 aged 75.

HOUGHTON, Richard Monckton Milnes, 1 Baron (only son of Robert Pemberton Milnes, M.P. 1784–1858). b. London 19 June 1809; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1831, hon. fellow of his coll. April 1876; M.P. Pontefract 1837–63; D.C.L. Ox. 1854; cr. Baron Houghton of Great Houghton, Yorks. 20 Aug. 1863; F.R.S. 10 Dec. 1868; president Social Science congress, Aug. 1873; hon. LLD. Edin. 23 April 1878; a trustee of British museum 1881; author of Memorials of a tour in Greece 1834; Memorials of many scenes 1840; Poems legendary and historical 1844; Palm leaves 1844; Monographs, personal and social 1873. d. Vichy, France 11 Aug. 1885. Reid’s Life and letters of lord Houghton 2 vols. 1890, 2 portraits; Poetical works of lord Houghton 2 vols. 1876, portrait.

HOUGHTON, Arthur Boyd (4 son of Capt. M. Houghton of H.E.I.C. service). b. 1836; illustrator of the Graphic and Fun; exhibited 10 pictures at R.A., 4 at B.I., and 3 at Suffolk st. 1861–72; associate of Soc. of painters in water colours 1871; illustrated Dalziel’s Arabian Nights 1864–5; Adventures of Don Quixote 1866 and many other works; author of The gods on peace and war, as applicable to the eastern struggle 1877. d. 162 King Henry’s road, South Hampstead, London 23 Nov. 1875. Redgrave’s Dictionary of artists (1878) 225; Art Journal 1876 p. 47.

HOUGHTON, Rev. Henry Hall (3 son of Jeremiah Houghton). b. Dublin 10 Dec. 1823; ed. at Sherborne and at Pemb. coll. Ox., scholar 1841–5, B.A. 1845, M.A. 1848; clerk of Magdalen coll. 1847–68; C. of St. Peter’s, Cheltenham 1849–52; with his uncle rev. John Hall, canon of Bristol, founded at Oxford the Canon Hall and Hall-Houghton prizes for knowledge of Greek Testament, Septuagint and Syriac versions 1868–71 at cost of £11,000; on death of his uncle took name of Hall 1871; gave Church Missionary soc. £4,500 for instruction of native young men in the scriptures; gave hospital for sick Jews at Jerusalem £3,000. d. Melmerby hall, Cumberland 4 Sep. 1889. Record 20 Sept. 1889 p. 922.

HOUGHTON, Rev. William (son of Thomas Houghton, governor of Preston house of correction). b. Preston 17 May 1812; C. of St. Sennen and St. Levan, Cornwall 1848–65; V. of Manaccan, Cornwall 1865 to death; author of Calvinism scripturally examined 1836; Rationalism in the church of England 1863 and 4 other books. d. Manaccan Vicarage 25 Dec. 1870. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i, 256.

HOULDSWORTH, John. b. Whitehall, Glasgow 12 April 1807; one of the founders of the Coltness and Dalmellington iron works in Lanarkshire and Ayrshire about 1835; senior partner of various establishments for machine making, iron founding, cotton spinning and weaving; the last provost of burgh of Anderston before it was incorporated with Glasgow; A.I.C.E. 1844. d. Bath st. Glasgow 18 Oct. 1859. Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E., xix, 189 (1860).

HOULDSWORTH, Thomas (2 son of Henry Houldsworth of Gonalston, Notts.) b. 13 Sep. 1771; a merchant and cotton spinner at Manchester and Pontefract; M.P. Pontefract 1818–30; M.P. Newton, Lancs. 1830–2; M.P. North Notts. 1832–52. d. Portland place, Manchester 1 Sep. 1852.

HOULSTON, Thomas (son of Edward Houlston of Wellington, Salop, printer). b. 1804; traveller for his father 1821–35; bookseller at 154 Strand, London 1835–44; partner with John Stoneman at 65 Paternoster row 1844 to 5 April 1856 when the latter died aged 64; partner with Henry Wright at 65 Paternoster row 1857 to death. d. Ryde, Isle of Wight 28 Aug. 1869. Bookseller, Nov. 1869 p. 938; Reg. and Mag. of Biog. Oct. 1869 p. 204.

HOULTON, Sir George (youngest son of Joseph Houlton of Farley castle near Bath, d. 1806). b. Carmarthen 1791; ensign 43 foot 20 Nov. 1806, captain 2 Nov. 1815 to 25 March 1817 when placed on h.p.; received war medal and 10 clasps for service in Peninsular war 1808–14; ensign of yeomen of the guard 25 Sep. 1835 to death; knighted 1835 or 1838, but name never in London Gazette. d. Farley castle 16 Sep. 1862.

HOULTON, Joseph. b. 1789; M.R.C.S. 1811, M.D. Erlangen 1840; surgeon East Norfolk militia; practised at Saffron Walden 1817, at Lisson grove, London 1823; professor of botany to Medical botanical society; with J. Davies edited The London medical and surgical journal 1828; translated F. Magendie’s Formulary for preparation of new remedies 1828. d. 12 Blomfield st. Westbourne terrace, London 14 Jany. 1861.

HOUSMAN, Francis (son of William Housman of St. John’s Wood, London). b. London 3 Jany. 1829; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s sch. 1838 &c.; barrister L.I. 7 June 1852; recorder of Rangoon 1871 to death; author of A selection of precedents in conveyancing 1861. d. Calcutta 19 July 1873.

HOUSTON, John Adam. b. Gwydir castle near Llanwrst, Wales 25 Dec. 1812; ed. at Edin. sch. of design; studied in Paris and Germany; a portrait painter in London some years; exhibited 45 pictures at R.A., 21 at B.I. and 3 at Suffolk st. 1840–8; resided in Edin. from 1841 to 1858 when he began contributing to the Scottish academy; returned to London 1858; exhibited Gallantry, London 1859; Lights and shadows of the wayside 1861; Prospero and Miranda, Edin. 1865. d. 10 Upper Phillimore place, Kensington 2 Dec. 1884. Art Journal (1869) 69–71, 127.

HOUSTON, Rev. Thomas. b. Donegore 1803; teacher in a sch. at Leyhmore near Ballymena 1818; ed. at Academical instit. Belfast 1819; reformed presbyterian minister Knockbraken 8 April 1828 to death; took part in the Arian separation from the synod of Ulster; professor of theology in Reformed presbyterian Theological hall, Belfast 1855 to death; went to U.S. America 1856 where he took a D.D. degree; edited The Covenanter 1830; author of A practical treatise on christian baptism, Paisley 1853; The dominion and glory of the Redeemer. Discourses 1880 and 7 other books. d. Royal hospital, Belfast 27 March 1882. bur. Knockbraken 30 March. Belfast News-Letter 28 March 1882 p. 5.

HOUSTOUN, Sir Robert (5 son of colonel Andrew Houstoun). b. Jordan hill, co. Renfrew 1780; entered Bengal army 1794 and served 25 years; col. 9 regiment light cavalry 1 May 1824 to 1858; col. 4 European light cavalry 1858 to death; governor of Addiscombe coll. 10 years; general 20 June 1854; K.C.B. 10 March 1837. d. Torquay 5 April 1862.

HOUSTOUN, Wallace (son of the preceding). b. 1811; entered navy 2 Dec. 1824; captain 23 July 1847; R.A. 5 May 1865, retired 1 April 1870; retired admiral 1 Aug. 1877. d. 42 Eaton sq. London 17 May 1891.

HOVELL, William Hilton. b. Yarmouth 26 April 1786; a marine trader on coasts of Australia and New Zealand 1813–19; farmer at Narellan 1819; accompanied Hamilton Hume in his overland journey from Sydney to Port Philip 1824–5; one of the first settlers at Western Port 1826; resided at Goulburn from 1829; author of Reply to “A brief statement in connection with an expedition from Lake George to Port Philip. By Hamilton Hume.” Sydney 1855. d. Sydney 1876. Heaton’s Australian Dict. of Dates (1879) 97.

HOWARD DE-WALDEN, Charles Augustus Ellis, 6 Baron (elder son of C. Rose Ellis, 1 Baron Seaford 1771–1845). b. London 5 June 1799; ed. at Eton 1811–14; succeeded his maternal great grandfather as 6 Baron 8 July 1803, claim admitted 1806; under sec. of state for foreign affairs 5 July 1824; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. at Stockholm 2 Oct. 1832, at Lisbon 22 Nov. 1833 and at Brussels 10 Dec. 1846 to death; G.C.B. 19 July 1838; K.T.S. 1841; succeeded as 2 Baron Seaford 1 July 1845. d. Lesve chateau, Namur, Belgium 29 Aug. 1868.

HOWARD, OF GLOSSOP, Edward George Fitzalan Howard, 1 Baron (2 son of 16 Duke of Norfolk 1791–1856). b. 21 St. James’s sq. London 20 Jany. 1818; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; M.P. Horsham, Sep. 1848 to 1 July 1852; M.P. Arundel, July 1852 to Dec. 1868 when the borough was disfranchised; P.C. 8 July 1846; vice chamberlain 8 July 1846 to Feb. 1852; had charge of the Norfolk estates as trustee of his nephew 1861–8 and acted as deputy earl marshal of England 4 Feb. 1861 to Dec. 1868; cr. baron Howard of Glossop 9 Dec. 1869; chairman of Catholic poor school committee 1869–77. d. 19 Rutland gate, London 1 Dec. 1883. bur. in R.C. church of St. Charles of Borromeo at Hadfield near Glossop 11 Dec. Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 422–6 (1887).

HOWARD, Charles Wentworth George (5 son of 6 Earl of Carlisle 1773–1848). b. Chiswick, Middlesex 27 March 1814; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1836; M.P. for East Cumberland, July 1840 to death. d. Holker house, Lancs. 11 April 1879.

HOWARD, Edward Henry (3 son of Very Rev. H. E. J. Howard 1795–1868). b. 7 June 1832; ed. at Eton 1844; entered navy 21 June 1845; served in the Baltic 1855; captain 16 Feb. 1864; naval attaché at maritime courts of Europe, Sep. 1874 to Dec. 1876; A.D.C. to the queen 1878–9; V.P. Ordnance committee 1881–4; V.A. 26 Nov. 1885, retired 29 Nov. 1889. d. 16 Granville park, Lewisham, Kent 18 Jany. 1890. Pictorial World, xvi, 147, 165 (1890), portrait.

HOWARD, Frank (son of Henry Howard 1769–1847, R.A., professor of painting to R.A.) b. Poland st. London 1805; ed. at Ely; pupil and assistant to Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A.; consulting designer and modellist to Storr and Mortimer of London, silversmiths; exhibited 43 paintings at R.A., 26 at B.I. and 9 at Suffolk st. 1824–46; obtained prize for “Una coming to seek the assistance of Gloriana,” Westminster hall competition 1843; removed to Liverpool about 1847; published The spirit of the plays of Shakspeare, a series of outline plates 5 vols. 1827–33; author of The sketcher’s manual 1837, 7 ed. 1860; The science of drawing 1839–40. d. Liverpool 29 June 1866.

HOWARD, Greville Theophilus (2 son of 17 Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire 1804–76). b. 22 Dec. 1836; matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 30 May 1855; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1863; commissioner in lunacy 17 June 1873 to 1877. d. Castle Rising near Lynn, Norfolk 28 July 1880.

HOWARD, Henry. b. 25 July 1802; ed. at Harrow; M.P. Steyning 1824–6; M.P. Shoreham 1826–32; sheriff of Cumberland 1834. d. Thornbury castle, Gloucester 7 Jany. 1875.

HOWARD, Very Rev. Henry Edward John (youngest child of 5 Earl of Carlisle 1748–1825). b. Castle Howard, Yorkshire 14 Dec. 1795; ed. Eton 1805–11 and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1822, B.D. 1834, D.D. 1838; V. of Stainton, Yorks. 5 July 1820; succentor of York cath. with stall of Holme annexed 27 Nov. 1822; R. of Slingsby 1823–33; V. of Sutton in the Forest 1824–33; dean of Lichfield with R. of Tattenhill, Staffs, annexed 27 Nov. 1833 to death; R. of Donington, Salop 11 Feb. 1834 to death; author of Translations from Claudian 1823; The books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy according to the lxx, translated with notes 3 vols. 1855–7 and 5 other books. d. Donington rectory 8 Oct. 1868. Guardian 14 Oct. 1868 p. 1148; Burke’s Portrait gallery, ii, 99 (1833), portrait.

HOWARD, Henry Thomas (2 son of 16 earl of Suffolk 1776–1851). b. 16 Jany. 1808; M.P. Cricklade, Wilts. 1841–7. d. Beauchamp near Gloucester 29 Jany. 1851.

HOWARD, James (2 son of John Howard 1790–1878). b. Bedford 16 Oct. 1821; head of firm of James and Frederick Howard, makers of agricultural instruments at Britannia works, Bedford 1851; member of R. Agric. Soc., on council; member of Farmers’ club; an originator and first president of Farmers’ Alliance 1879; a promoter and director of Agricultural hall, London 1861; M.P. Bedford 1868–74; M.P. Bedfordshire 1880–5; mayor of Bedford 1863 and 1864; sheriff of Bedfordshire 1878; champion of Tenant’s rights 1873; farmed Clapham farm estate, Bedford 1862; took out upwards of 60 patents for agricultural machinery; author of Steam cultivation, its history 1862; Agricultural implement manufacture, its rise and progress 1879 and 20 other works. d. Midland hotel, St. Pancras, London 25 Jany. 1889. bur. Clapham, Beds. 30 Jany. Agricultural Gazette 28 Jany., 4 Feb. 1889; London Figaro 2 Feb. 1889 p. 10, portrait; Farmers’ Mag. xviii, 1–7 (1860), portrait.

HOWARD, James Kenneth (4 son of 16 earl of Suffolk 1776–1851). b. 5 March 1814; précis writer to viscount Palmerston 1835–40 and private sec. to him 6 Jany. 1840 to 2 Sep. 1841; M.P. Malmesbury 1841–52; commissioner of woods and forests March 1855 to death. d. Hajelby near Newbury 7 Jany. 1882.

HOWARD, John (son of John Moore Howard, farmer). b. Bedford 1790; builder and land speculator; erected the Britannia foundry for manufacture of agricultural implements about 1838; invented an improved plough 1839; made over his business to his sons 1851; mayor of Bedford 1858–61, 1863–4 and 1871. d. Caldwell priory 23 Dec. 1878. Times 24 Dec. 1878 p. 7, col 6.

HOWARD, John. b. Burnley Wood, Lancs. 24 June 1824; champion long distance jumper using dumb bells, jumped 28 feet 6 inches Chester race course 1854; jumped 29 feet 7 inches at Lancaster and leaped over a billiard table lengthwise for a wager 1854; the greatest pedestrian of his time, beat Bob Coates 120 yards, Hyde park, Sheffield 1839; beat John Flockton of Leeds 120 yards at Garrick Corner; beat John Walker the Delemere forest stag 120 yards for £25 at Bellevue, Manchester, when 25,000 paid for admission; beat Robert Low of Heywood 100 yards for £25 at Bellevue, time 9–3/4 seconds up hill; beat the Demon, J. Whitehead alias Clark of Oldham 110 yards for £50 at Bellevue. d. suddenly, Dublin hotel, Bradford 14 Oct. 1875. Bell’s Life 16 Oct. 1875 p. 8; Illust. Sporting News (1862) 68, 76–7, 116, 3 portraits.

HOWARD, John Eliot (son of Luke Howard, F.R.S. 1772–1864). b. Plaistow, Essex 11 Dec. 1807; manufacturing chemist with his father at Stratford; studied history of febrifuge alkaloids; purchased a collection of specimens of Peruvian bark at Madrid 1858; mem. Pharmaceutical soc. 1853; F.L.S. 1857; F.R.S. 4 June 1874; V.P. Victoria institute; received thanks of government for his aid in cinchona cultivation in India 1876; author of Eight lectures on the scriptural truths most opposed to Puseyism, 1845, 2 ed. 1847; Illustrations of the Nueva Quinologia of Pavon 1859–62; The Quinology of the East India plantations 3 parts 1869–76; The Epistle to the Hebrews. A translation 1872 and 9 other books. d. Lord’s Mead, Tottenham, Middlesex 22 Nov. 1883. Graphic 29 Dec. 1883 pp. 634, 637, portrait; Trans. Essex Field club, iv, 8–11, portrait.

HOWARD, John Morgan (eld. son of John J. Howard of Swansea). b. Nov. 1837; barrister M.T. 30 April 1858, bencher 16 Nov. 1877; Q.C. 6 July 1874; an editor of the New Reports 1862 to 1865; contested Lambeth 1868, 1874 and 1880; M.P. for Camberwell, Dulwich division 1885–7; recorder of Guildford 15 March 1875 to death; judge of circuit No. 59 (Cornwall), Nov. 1887 to death. d. Chelston Dene, Torquay 10 April 1891. I.L.N. 18 April 1891 p. 499, portrait; Graphic x, 223, 224 (1874), portrait.

HOWARD, Luke (son of Robert Howard, introducer of the Argand lamp, d. Jany. 1812). b. London 28 Nov. 1772; apprentice to a chemist at Stockport 1786; chemist in London 1793, partner with William Allen 1796–1803; chemist at Stratford 1805; made observations on the clouds 1802 and first used the terms cirrus, cumulus and stratus and nimbus or rain cloud; kept a meteorological register from 1806; F.R.S. 1821; corresponded with Goethe 1822 who sent him a poem entitled Howard’s Ehrengedächtniss; author of A few notes on a letter to the Archbishops and on a charge relative to Joseph Lancaster’s plan for education. By Eccletus 1806; The climate of London 2 vols. 1818–20, 2 ed. 3 vols. 1833; Essay on the modification of clouds 1830, 3 ed. 1865; Cowper’s English version of the Odyssey with a commentary. By Outis 1843; Barometrographia, twenty years’ variation of the barometer 1847 and 10 other books. d. at res. of his son R. Howard, Bruce grove, Tottenham 21 March 1864. Proc. Royal Soc. xiv, 10–12 (1865); J. Bell and T. Redwood’s Pharmacy (1880) 331.

HOWARD, Philip Henry (eld. son of Henry Howard of Corby castle near Carlisle 1757–1842). b. Edinburgh 22 April 1801; ed. at Oscott coll. and Stonyhurst; M.P. for Carlisle 1830–47 and 1848–52 being the second Roman Catholic returned to parliament; F.S.A. 8 Dec. 1842; sheriff of Cumberland 1860; wrote miscellaneous poems and other articles in Edinburgh Catholic Mag. and other periodicals. d. Ventnor, Isle of Wight 1 Jany. 1883. Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 441–2 (1888).

HOWARD, Sir Ralph, 1 Baronet (elder son of Hugh Howard, comr. of stamp office, d. 3 Nov. 1840 aged 80). b. 1801; M.P. co. Wicklow 1829–47 and 1848–52; contested Evesham 1847; colonel of Wicklow militia 1 Oct. 1834 to 11 Dec. 1871; created baronet 26 July 1838. d. 15 Aug. 1873.

HOWARTH, Rev. Henry (son of Wm. Howarth, of Manchester, bath-keeper). b. Manchester 12 Jany. 1801; ed. at Manchester sch. and St. John’s coll. Cam., fellow 1823–33; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, B.D. 1833; Hulsean lecturer 1835–36; R. of Meppershall, Beds. 1833–45; R. of St. George’s, Hanover sq. London 1845 to death; chaplain in ord. to the Queen 14 May 1855 to death; author of The truth and obligation of revealed religion. Discourses 1836; Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ of God. Discourses 1837; The liturgy as it is. Sermons 1843 and 11 other books. d. Tunbridge Wells 25 Aug. 1876. I.L.N. xxiv, 400 (1854), portrait.

HOWDEN, John Hobart Caradoc 2 Baron (only child of 1st Baron Howden 1762–1839). b. Dublin 16 Oct. 1799; ensign Grenadier Guards 13 July 1815; A.D.C. to Duke of Wellington in Paris, to Viscount Beresford in Portugal, and to Sir Thomas Maitland in the Mediterranean; major on half pay 9 June 1825; L.G. 26 Dec. 1859; sold out 29 Oct. 1861; M.P. for Dundalk 1830–31; succeeded his father as 2 Baron July 1839; attaché at Berlin 1824, at Paris 1825; wounded in battle of Navarino; military commissioner with French army at siege of Antwerp 1832, and with Spanish Army in Portugal 1834; envoy extraord. and minister plenipo. to Brazil 25 Jany. 1847 to 1850; minister plenipo. to Spain 14 May 1850 to March 1858; K.C.B. 23 Feb. 1852, G.C.B. 5 March 1858; K.H. 1830; equerry to Duchess of Kent 1841 to 1861. d. Caradoc near Bayonne 9 Oct. 1873. Foreign office list July 1873 p. 117.

HOWDEN, James Adam. b. 1803; entered Madras army 1819, M.G. 28 Nov. 1854; colonel 52 Madras N.I. 28 June 1855 to death. d. Devonshire place, Portland place, London 22 March 1869.

HOWE, Richard William Penn Curzon-Howe 1 Earl (only son of the hon. Penn Assheton Curzon 1757–97). b. Gopsall house, Leics. 11 Dec. 1796; capt. Leics. regt. of yeomanry 21 May 1818, lieut.-col. 1831–60; succeeded his grandfather as 2 viscount and baron Curzon 21 March 1820; took name of Howe 7 July 1821; cr. Earl Howe 15 July 1821; G.C.H. 1830; lord chamberlain to queen Adelaide 1830–31, when he was dismissed by earl Grey the prime minister, again lord chamberlain 1834–49; P.C. 31 Jany. 1831; succeeded his mother as 2 baron Howe 3 Dec. 1835; vice lieut. co. Leicester 27 Oct. 1863. d. Curzon house, South Audley st., London 12 May 1870. Portraits of eminent conservatives (1836) 1 Series, portrait 23.

HOWE, George Augustus Frederick Louis Curzon Howe, 2 Earl (1 son of the preceding). b. Brook st. London 16 Jany. 1821; styled viscount Curzon 1821–70; ed. at Eton; matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 30 May 1838; cornet Leics. regt. of yeomanry 1838, lieut.-col. 15 Nov. 1860, lieut.-col. commandant 15 March 1870 to death; M.P. South Leics. 1857–70; master of the Atherstone hounds some years; succeeded as 2 earl Howe 12 May 1870. d. Gopsall hall, Leics. 4 Feb. 1876, personalty sworn under £250,000, 13 May 1876. I.L.N. lxviii, 167, 479 (1876); Baily’s Mag. xii, 217–8 (1867), portrait.

HOWE, Joseph (son of John Howe 1752–1835, King’s printer at Halifax, Nova Scotia). b. in a cottage on banks of North-west Arm, Halifax 13 Dec. 1804; a printer 1817–27; editor and proprietor of a paper called the Nova Scotian 1828; M.P. for co. of Halifax, Nov. 1836; member of the executive council 1840; speaker of house of assembly 1840; provincial sec. 4 years; sec. of state for lower provinces in Dominion of Canada 1870–3; governor of Nova Scotia, May 1873; author of Speech on the importance to Great Britain of her North American colonies 1851; Confederation considered in relation to the interests of the empire 1866; The organization of the empire 1866 and 4 other books. d. Halifax 1 June 1873. W. Annand’s Speeches and letters of Joseph Howe 2 vols. (1858).

HOWE, William. b. West Auckland, co. Durham 3 March 1814; a mechanic with R. Stephenson & Co., Newcastle; perfected Williams’ valve gear known as the link motion, in the form in which it has been universally applied to locomotives, Aug. 1842; invented the three-cylinder locomotive engine 1846; engineer at Stephenson’s Clay Cross collieries and iron works Nov. 1846 to death; designed the self-acting fence now universally used at top of colliery winding shafts; M.I.M.E. 1860. d. Clay Cross, Chesterfield 16 Jany. 1879. N. P. Burgh’s Link motion (1870) pp. i-xvi; D. K. Clark’s Railway machinery (1855) 26; Engineer, xlvii, 67 (1879).

HOWELL, Arthur (eld. son of James Howell 1811–79, contra-bassist). b. London 1836; contra-bassist and bass singer; stage manager Carl Rosa opera co.; went on an Australian tour with his wife 1879; (m. 1874 Rose Hersee, soprano opera and concert singer). d. 32 Lawford road, Kentish Town, London 16 April 1885.

HOWELL, Francis (brother of the preceding). b. London 1834; wrote 2 oratorios The Captivity 1860, The Land of Promise 1870 and many songs and ballads. d. 1882.

HOWELL, James, b. Plymouth 1811; student R. Acad. of music, June 1825 to Dec. 1830; learnt double-bass under signor Anfossi; professor of double-bass at R. Acad. of music 1830; M.R.A.M.; double-bass player at the Ancient and Philharmonic concerts and R. Italian opera; the successor of Domenico Dragonetti as the best double-bass player 1846. d. London 5 Aug. 1879. Cazalet’s R. Acad. of Music (1854) 296–7; Grove’s Dict. of Music, i, 754 (1879).

HOWELL, John. b. Old Lauriston, Edinburgh 1788; bookbinder in Thistle st. Edin., invented the ‘plough’ for cutting edges of books; polyartist, curiosity dealer and china and picture repairer at 22 Frederick st., then at 110 Rose st. Edin.; broke one of his legs while using a flying machine in Edin.; introduced manufacture of Pompeian plates for dentists; author of An essay on the war-galleys of the ancients. Edin. 1826; The life and adventures of Alexander Selkirk. Edin. 1829; edited The life of Alexander Alexander. Edin. 1830; wrote several of Wilson’s Tales of the Borders. d. 110 Rose st. Edinburgh 4 April 1863. Notes and Queries, 3rd ser. ii 491, iii 19, 78, 379, 4th ser. ii 393, 500.

HOWELL, John (son of Mr. Howell, army packer, Mark Lane). b. London 1807; apprentice to his father; chief clerk to Ellis and Everington, haberdashers, hosiers and silk mercers, 3 St. Paul’s ch. yard, London 1835, admitted a partner 1841, firm became Ellis, Howell & Co. 1857 and in 1871 John Howell & Co. limited, with J. Howell as chairman to his death; gave evidence before three parliamentary committees on laws of limited liability 1851 etc.; author of Partnership-law legislation and limited liability reviewed 1869. d. Rutland house, Kingston on Thames 3 Nov. 1888. Warehouseman and Drapers’ Trade Journal (1888) 345–6, portrait, and 1049–50.

HOWELL, Matthew. b. 14 Feb. 1796; appeared as the child in Pizarro with George Frederick Cooke at Liverpool; made first appearance in London at Sadler’s Wells 1810; played at the Coburg; came out at Drury Lane as harlequin in pantomime of The Flying Chest, Dec. 1823 and was for more than 20 years the recognised harlequin there; last appeared as harlequin at the Marylebone in 1847; played pantaloon some years. d. 1 Dec. 1873.

HOWELL, Sir Thomas (son of Thomas Howell of Clapham common, Surrey). b. London 1802; ed. at Charterhouse 1815–16; in business in London to 1855; director of contracts at War Office 1855–74; knighted at Windsor castle 27 June 1876; author of A day of business in the port of London 1850; A few stray thoughts upon Shakspeare 1867. d. 2 Uplands, St. Leonards-on-Sea 23 April 1883.