HOWELL, Thomas Jones (son of Thomas Bayly Howell 1768–1815, editor of the State Trials). b. 24 Dec. 1793; edited a Complete collection of State Trials vols. 22–33, 1815–26; barrister L.I. 17 May 1822; judge advocate and judge of vice-admiralty court at Gibraltar 1822; sec. to comrs. of colonial inquiry 1830; comr. for West India Islands relief 1832; inspector of factories 1833. d. 6 Eaton place west, London 4 June 1858.

HOWELLS, Rev. John. b. 21 Sep. 1777; C. of Tipton, Staffs. 1803–37; P.C. of Holy Trinity, Coventry 1837 to death; author of A selection of psalms, hymns, anthems and choruses for public and private use. Tipton 1831. d. Coventry 31 Dec. 1856. monu. in Holy Trinity ch. which says d. 1 Jany. 1857. I.L.N. xxxiv, 260 (1859), view of monu.

HOWES, Edward (2 son of Rev. George Howes, R. of Spixworth, Norfolk). b. Spixworth 7 July 1813; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. and Trin. coll. Cam., fellow 1836–42; B.A. 1835, M.A. 1838; barrister L.I. 7 June 1839; chairman of Norfolk quarter sessions 1848; M.P. East Norfolk 1859–68; M.P. South Norfolk 1868 to death; a church estates comr. 4 Aug. 1866; author of King Richard II, Act 3 Sc. 2 with Greek version in Prolusiones Academicæ. Cantab. 1834 pp. 25–29. d. Morningthorpe, Norfolk 26 March 1871.

HOWES, Joseph. Landlord of the Blue Boar and Wellington castle inns, Leicester; on his retirement lived at Evington lodge near Leicester. d. at residence of Mr. Read, Morledge st. Leicester 13 Dec. 1853 in 102 year. Willis’ Current Notes (1856) 27.

HOWIE, Very Rev. James. Dean of Cloyne 17 Jany. 1851 to death; R. of Farriley 23 Oct. 1851. d. Barnabrow house, Cloyne 6 Dec. 1884.

HOWITT, George. b. Old Lenton, Notts. 14 March 1843; fast left-hand, round-arm bowler; went to London 1860; played for Middlesex and then for Notts.; bowled W. G. Grace for a brace of ducks at Neath in 1868; a member of the ground staff at Lord’s 1870; went a voyage to Australia for his health 1880. d. Nottingham 19 Dec. 1881. W. G. Grace’s Cricket (1891) 329.

HOWITT, Herbert Charlton (younger son of William Howitt). b. Esher, Feb. 1838; visited Australia with his father 1852–4; went to Canterbury, New Zealand, Nov. 1860; employed in an expedition to discover gold 1862 and then in cutting a horse track over the mountains between Christchurch and the western coast 1 Jany. 1863 to death; drowned in crossing the Brunner Lake 27 June 1863, his body was not found. W. Howitt’s History of discovery in Australia, ii, 443–58 (1865); M. Howitt, an autobiography, i, 277, ii, 133–6 (1889).

HOWITT, Mary (dau. of Samuel Botham). b. Coleford, Gloucs. 12 March 1799; wrote verse at an early age; (m. 16 April 1821 William Howitt 1792–1879); wrote many books with her husband 1827–64; civil list pension of £100, 21 April 1879; joined R.C. ch., received by the Pope 10 Jany. 1888; edited The drawing room scrap book 1832–54, and Pictorial calendar of the seasons 1854; translated Frederika Bremer’s Novels 18 vols. 1842–63, works she then made known to English readers; author of Sketches of natural history 1834; Little coin, much care 1842; The Heir of West Waylen 1847; A popular history of the United States 2 vols. 1859; M. Howitt’s Illustrated library for the young 1861, two series; The cost of Caergwyn 3 vols. 1864; Tales for all seasons 1881; her name is attached to upwards of 110 volumes. d. 38 Via Gregoriana, Rome 30 Jany. 1888. M. Howitt’s Life of Mary Howitt (1889), two portraits; Alaric Watts’ Life, ii, 1–15 (1884); Graphic 18 Feb. 1888 p. 168, portrait.

HOWITT, Richard (son of Thomas Howitt of Heanor, Derbyshire, farmer). b. Heanor 1799; chemist and druggist at Parliament st. Nottingham 1823–39; farming in Australia 1839–44; farmer near Southwell 1846 to death; author of Antediluvian Sketches and other poems 1830; The Gipsy King and other poems 1840; Impressions of Australia Felix, notes of a voyage round the world, Australian poems, &c. 1845; Wasps’ Honey, or poetic gold and gems of poetic thought 1868. d. at his farm Edingley, Notts. 5 Feb. 1869. bur. in Friends’ cemetery, Mansfield. The Reliquary, x 209–16, xi 17–22, 103–8, 141–4 (1869–71); S. T. Hall’s Biographical Sketches (1873) 308–11.

HOWITT, William (brother of the preceding). b. Heanor, Derbyshire 18 Dec. 1792; ed. at Ackworth sch. 1802–6; chemist and druggist Nottingham 1823–36; alderman of Nottingham 1833; resided at Esher 1836–9, at Heidelberg 1840–3, at Clapton 1843–8, St. John’s Wood, London 1848–52, in Australia 1852–4, at Highgate 1854–66, at Esher again 1866–70, at Rome 1870 to death; a spiritualist, friend of D. D. Home, and contributor to Spiritual Mag.; civil list pension of £140, 19 June 1865; (m. 1821 Mary Botham 1799–1888); celebrated his golden wedding 16 April 1871; part proprietor of People’s Journal 1847, edited Howitt’s Journal 1847–8; translated Peter Schlemihl’s Wundersame Geschichte 1843 and other works; in conjunction with his wife he wrote The literature and romances of Northern Europe 1852; Stories of English and foreign life 1853; Ruined abbeys and castles of Great Britain 1862–4; his own chief works were The book of the seasons 1831 which after being refused by 4 publishing houses ran to 7 editions; The rural life of England 2 vols. 1838; Visits to remarkable places 1840, second series 1842; Rural and domestic life of Germany 1842; Land, labour and gold, or two years in Victoria 2 vols. 1855; Popular history of England 5 vols. 1856–62, seven editions; The northern heights of London 1869. d. 55 Via Sistina, Rome 3 March 1879. R. H. Horne’s New spirit of the age, i 177–98 (1844), portrait; S. C. Hall’s Retrospect of a long life, ii, 126–31 (1883); The Naturalist, iv 366–73 (1839), portrait; I.L.N. 29 March 1879 pp. 297, 298, portrait.

HOWLETT, Rev. John Henry (son of John Howlett). b. 10 June 1781; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ sch. 1796–1800 when he became Parkin’s exhibitioner to Pemb. coll. Cam.; 14 wrangler and B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807; fellow of his coll. 1806–7; V. of Hollington, Sussex 25 Nov. 1812 to 1834; morning reader at chapel royal, Whitehall 1809 to death; R. of Foston, Leics. 30 April 1834 to death; founder and sec. of Kensington gram. sch. 1831; author of Metrical chronology 1824, 6 ed. 1865; Instruction in reading the liturgy of the United church of England and Ireland 1826, 3 ed. 1866. d. 9 Young st. Kensington, London 10 Oct. 1867.

HOWLETT, Samuel Burt (only son of Samuel Howlett of Gracechurch st. London). b. 10 July 1794; cadet and officer in corps of royal military surveyors and draughtsmen 1808 to 1817 when corps was reduced; assistant surveyor and draughtsman to board of ordnance 1824, chief military surveyor 1830, draughtsman in charge of plans, &c. in inspector general of fortifications office 1838–56; made improvements in mountain barometer and in the stadiometer used in school of musketry; invented an anemometer; author of A treatise on perspective 1828; Tables for determining altitude with the mountain barometer 1844; Description of a barometer that requires no correction either for zero or for temperature 1844. d. 46 Palace grove, New Bromley, Kent 24 Jany. 1874.

Note.—The words “In” and “Out” which are now seen on the doors of every public office were suggested by him; they were first used at the Bank of England in consequence of a written communication made by him to the authorities.

HOWLEY, Sir John (1 son of John Howley of Rich Hill, co. Limerick). b. Rich Hill 1789; ed. at Oscott coll. and Trin. coll. Dublin; called to the Irish bar 1815; chairman of quarter sessions for co. Tipperary 1835–65; K.C. 13 July 1835, third serjeant Sept. 1843, second serjeant July 1848; queen’s first serjeant in Ireland June 1851 to death; bencher of King’s Inns 1843; knighted by lord lieut. at Dublin Castle 14 Aug. 1865. d. 32 Upper Fitzwilliam st. Dublin 13 Feb. 1866.

HOWLISON, Robert (2 son of a miller at Channelkirk, Berwickshire). Said to have been b. Channelkirk on Handsel Monday (Jany.) 1769, but no proof of this; ploughman, and then a shepherd. d. West Linton, Peebleshire 30 Oct. 1871 said to be 103. W. J. Thoms’ Longevity of Man (1879) 186–92.

HOWORTH, Rev. William (2 son of Rev. Wm. Howorth). b. 1806; ed. at Caius coll. Cam., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; R. of Whitton with Thurleston, Suffolk 3 Nov. 1835 to death; hon. canon of Norwich cath. 1863 to death; author of Sermons doctrinal and practical 1839; The Redeemer, a poem 1840; Life and the issue of it 1869. d. Whitton rectory 13 Dec. 1875.

HOWS, John William Stanhope. b. London 1797; appeared as Shylock, Park theatre, New York 16 Feb. 1834; professor of elocution, Columbia, Carolina 1843–57; dramatic critic New York Albion 7 years; author of The practical elocutionist 1849, 6 ed. 1856; The Shakspearian reader 1850, 3 ed. 1870; Golden leaves from the British and American dramatic poets 1865; Golden leaves from the American poets 1866; The ladies’ book of reading and recitations 1870. d. New York city 27 July 1871. Appleton’s American Biog. iii, 288 (1887).

HOWSON, Frank. b. London 1817; in a lancer regt. fought in Carlist war in Spain 1836; an artist in Australia 1842; the father of opera in the colonies; manager and stage director for Anna Bishop when appearing in operas in Australia 1854–6; with his sons and daus. produced plays and operas at San Francisco 1866. d. Omaha, Nebraska 16 Sep. 1869.

HOWSON, John (2 son of the preceding). b. Hobart Town, Tasmania 17 Nov. 1844; first appeared on the stage at Royal Victoria theatre, Sydney; left Australia with his family for San Francisco 1866, played there 1866–9; first appeared in New York at Wood’s Museum, Nov. 1869; played in the U.S. of A. 1869–77; first appeared in England at Brighton 3 Sep. 1877 as Commodore Patatras in La Créole, played same part at Folly theatre, London 15 Sep.; acted the Marquis in Les Cloches de Corneville at same house 23 Feb. 1878 and at the Globe July 1879. d. 16 Dec. 1888. C. E. Pascoe’s Dramatic List (1880) 189–90.

HOWSON, Rev. John. b. Giggleswick, Yorkshire 1787; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1811, M.A. 1813; second master Giggleswick gr. school 1814 to death; F.L.S. 1822; author of The gain of Godliness 1840. d. Giggleswick 23 Jany. 1859.

HOWSON, Very Rev. John Saul (son of the preceding). b. Giggleswick 5 May 1816; ed. at Giggleswick gr. sch. and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840, D.D. 1862; senior classical master Liverpool collegiate institute 1845 and principal 1849–65; exam. chaplain to bishop of Ely 1866–73; V. of St. Peter’s, Wisbech 1866–7; dean of Chester 12 June 1867 to death, continued the repairing of the cath. and reopened it 25 Jany. 1872; instrumental in building and endowing the King’s sch., the Queen’s sch. and the museum, Chester; a contributor to the Quarterly Review, The Speaker’s Commentary, etc.; author of Sunday evenings. Short sermons 1849; Sermons to schoolboys 1858–66, 2 series; The character of St. Paul 1862, 4 ed. 1884; The companions of St. Paul 1871 and about 35 other works; with the Rev. J. Conybeare, The life and epistles of St. Paul 2 vols. 1852, many editions. d. Bournemouth 15 Dec. 1885. bur. the cloister garden, Chester 19 Dec. I.L.N. lxxxvii 667 (1885), portrait; Guardian, Dec. 1885 pp. 1892, 1951; Times, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 23, 31 Dec. 1885.

HOWTH, Thomas St. Lawrence, 3 Earl of. b. 16 Aug. 1803; succeeded his father 4 April 1822; vice admiral of province of Leinster; K.P. 22 July 1835; lord lieut. of co. Dublin 1851 to death; trained his horses with W. Day at Danebury, won the Chester cup with Peep o’ Day Boy in 1848; a flat race rider 1830–50. d. Cannes 4 Feb. 1874. W. Day’s Reminiscences (1886) 236–8; Sporting Times 12 Sep. 1885 pp. 2–3.

HOYLE, William. b. valley of Rossendale, Lancs. 1831; a cotton spinner with his father at Brooksbottom near Bury, Lancs. 1851–9; cotton spinner at Tollington near Bury 1859 to death; a temperance reformer, a Good Templar and a vegetarian; contested Dewsbury 1880; wrote an annual letter to The Times on the “national drink bill of successive years”; built a residence at Claremont near, Bury; author of Hoyle’s Hymns and songs for temperance societies and bands of hope 1869; Our national resources and how they are wasted 1871, four editions; Crime in England and Wales in the nineteenth century 1876 and of 13 other books. d. Southport, Lancs. 26 Feb. 1886. Manchester Guardian 1 March 1886 p. 8.

HOYLES, Sir Hugh William (son of Newman Wright Hoyles, colonial treasurer of Newfoundland). b. St. John’s, Newfoundland, Jany. 1814; called to bar in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland 1837; member of assembly there 1848; acting solicitor general of Newfoundland 1854, attorney general and leader of the government 1861; chief justice of Newfoundland 4 March 1865 to 1880; knighted by patent 13 Feb. 1869. d. 18 Morris st. Halifax, Nova Scotia 1 Feb. 1888.

HUARD, Louis. b. in South of France 1813; studied at Antwerp; came to London 1854 and was connected with Illust. London news till his death; exhibited 2 figure paintings at British institution 1857; illustrated Souvenirs de la fête donnée aux artistes exposants 1849; Sir S. W. Baker’s Cast up by the sea 1869; A. and E. Keary’s The heroes of Asgard 1871 and other books. d. 37 Onslow sq. London 19 Sep. 1874. I.L.N. 10 Oct. 1874 p. 345, portrait.

HUBBACK, Catherine Anne (dau. of admiral Sir Francis Wm. Austen, G.C.B. 1774–1865). (m. 25 Aug. 1842 John Hubback 1811–85); author of The younger sister 3 vols. 1850; The wife’s sister 3 vols. 1851; Life and its lessons 3 vols. 1851; Malvern or the three marriages 3 vols. 1855; May and December, a tale 3 vols. 1855; The old vicarage 3 vols. 1856; Agnes Milbourne 2 vols. 1856; The Rival suitors 3 vols. 1857; The stage and the company 3 vols. 1858; The mistake of a life 3 vols. 1863.

HUBBACK, John (2 son of Joseph Hubback of Berwick-on-Tweed). b. Berwick-on-Tweed 1811; barrister I.T. 12 June 1835; author of A treatise on the evidence of succession to real and personal property and peerages 1844. d. Brislington, Somerset 24 Feb. 1885.

HUBBARD, John Gellibrand, 1 Baron Addington (1 son of John Hubbard, Russian merchant d. 1847). b. 21 March 1805; ed. at Bordeaux 1816–20 in his father’s business 1821; Russia merchant 4 St. Helen’s place, London; director of Bank of England 1838–41; chairman public works loan commission 1853 to death; M.P. Buckingham 1859–68; defeated lord Palmerston’s government in making a motion for an enquiry into the income tax 1861; M.P. city of London 1874–87; P.C. 6 Aug. 1874; F.R.G.S.; gave much attention to the income tax, the coinage, ecclesiastical affairs and education; built and endowed St. Alban’s ch. Holborn, consecrated 26 Feb. 1863; cr. baron Addington of Addington, Bucks. 22 July 1887; author of Vindication of a fixed duty on corn 1842; The currency and the country 1843; The church and church rates 1861, 2 ed. 1861; A census of religion. Denominational worship. The national church. Essays 1882; Gladstone on the income tax 1885 and 10 other pamphlets. d. Addington manor, Winslow, Bucks. 28 Aug. 1889. I.L.N. lxiv, 551, 552 (1874), portrait; Touchstone 5 April 1879 pp. 1–2, portrait.

HUBBARD, Thomas. b. 1789; framework knitter; obtained possession of some property in Nottinghamshire and under the impression that he was the heir at law retained the ownership 6 years, a will was then found giving the property to a person named Holland; Hubbard under the belief that the will was forged refused to give up the deeds of the estate, and in July 1856 was imprisoned for contempt of court; he remained in the debtors’ prison, Nottingham till his death 23 Jany. 1864. G.M. April 1864 p. 534.

HUBBARDE, James Dibden. b. 1803; proprietor of Wakefield Journal to 1850; connected with and editor of Hampshire Advertiser 1850 to death; president of Ornithological association; author of Pencil notes of five days’ tour from Wakefield to Matlock. By J. D. H. 1839. d. Wick cottage, Avenue road, Southampton 28 Jany. 1870. Newspaper Press 1 March 1870 p. 82; Hampshire Advertiser 29 Jany. 1870 pp. 4, 5.

HUCKIN, Rev. Henry Robert (son of John Huckin, fishmonger, Islington). b. 11 Oct. 1841; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ sch. 1850–60, Andrew’s exhib. to St. John’s coll. Ox. 1860; B.A. 1864, M.A. 1867, D.D. 1874; assist. master at Haileybury 1865–8; a master at M.T. sch. 1869–74; head master Repton gram. sch. March 1874 to death; Townsend lecturer St. Magnus-the-Martyr, city of London 1871–3; ed. of Milton. Comus, Lycidas. With notes 1871; author of The analogy of religion. Dialogues founded upon Butler’s Analogy of religion 1873. d. Repton 30 July 1882.

HUDDART, Fanny (niece of Mary Amelia Warner the actress, d. 1854). A contralto singer, played the chief contralto parts in all the Italian operas and also in English operas, was the original Azucena when the English version of Il Trovatore was produced at Drury Lane May 1855; sang the contralto parts in Handel’s and Mendelssohn’s oratorios at Sacred harmonic society’s concerts; played the leading roles in Shakespearean dramas and modern comedies; (m. John Russell of Covent Garden theatre). d. 28 June 1880. Era 4 July 1880 p. 6.

HUDDLESTON, Sir John Walter (1 son of Thomas Huddleston, captain in merchant service). b. Dublin 8 Sep. 1815; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin; barrister G.I. 7 May 1839; was with Cockburn in Rugeley poisoning case 1856; Q.C. June 1857; bencher of his inn 4 Nov. 1857; contested Worcester 1852, Shrewsbury 1857 and Kidderminster 1859 and 1861; M.P. Canterbury 1865–8; contested Norwich 1870, M.P. 1874–5; counsel to the admiralty and judge advocate of the Fleet Nov. 1865 to 22 Feb. 1875; serjeant at law and justice of court of common pleas 22 Feb. 1875, transferred to court of exchequer 12 May 1875; knighted at Windsor castle 13 May 1875; created the last baron of the exchequer; judge of queen’s bench division of high court of justice 26 Feb. 1881; tried the libel action Belt v. Lawes lasting 43 days 1881–2; entertained by the French bar in Paris 1868. d. 43 Ennismore gardens, South Kensington 5 Dec. 1890, cremated at Woking 12 Dec. Pump Court, i, frontispiece and p. 135 (1884), portrait; Vanity Fair xxxv, 325 (1886); I.L.N. lxvi, 229 (1875), portrait; Graphic 13 Dec. 1890 p. 667, portrait.

HUDSON, Alfred. b. 15 Nov. 1808; ed. Dublin univ., M.B. 1834, M.D. 1861; M.R.C.S. England 1834; F.K.Q.C.P. Ireland 1857, censor 1858–9; M.R.I.A.; physician Adelaide hospital, Dublin; a physician in ordinary to queen in Ireland 21 Jany. 1878; member of general council of medical education and registration of U.K. for Ireland 14 May 1877 to death; a contributor to Dublin medical journal and Dublin quarterly journal; author of Lectures on the study of fever 1867, new ed. 1872; edited W. Stokes’ A treatise on diseases of the chest 1882. d. Loweville near Dublin 19 Nov. 1880. Times 23 Nov. 1880 p. 6; Medical Times ii, 660 (1880).

HUDSON, Rev. Charles. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1851, M.A. 1854; chaplain in the Crimea 1854–6; C. of St. Mary’s, Bridgnorth 1856–7; V. of Shillington, Lincs. 1859 to death; the best Alpine amateur climber of his time, organized the party of 7 who ascended Mont Blanc without guides 14–15 Aug. 1855; author of An Ascent of Mont Blanc and two ascents of Monte Rosa 1856; Narrative of the accident on the Col de Miage in July 1861 in Peaks and Passes, i, 208–24 (1862); killed by a fall while descending the Matterhorn 14 July 1865. bur. Zermatt. E. Whymper’s Ascent of the Matterhorn (1880) 273–95; Times 20, 21, 22 July and 12 Aug. 1865.

HUDSON, Corrie. b. 1822; clerk in legacy and succession duty department of inland revenue office 1845–72, a principal clerk 1872 to death; author of A practical guide to the payment of legacy and succession duties 1867, 7 ed. 1888. A practical guide to making and proving wills and obtaining letters of administration 1876, 2 ed. 1878. d. 67 Bessborough st. Pimlico, London 6 Nov. 1880.

HUDSON, Very Rev. Edward Gustavus. Educated Dublin univ., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813; dean of Armagh 1841 to death, patent dated 1 Sep. 1841, instituted 5 March 1842. d. Glenville, co. Cork 14 Aug. 1851.

HUDSON, George (son of a farmer and constable, d. 1806). b. Howsham near York, March 1800; apprentice to Bell and Nicholson, drapers, York 1815, a partner, firm became Nicholson and Hudson; originator and manager York banking co. 1833; chairman of York and West riding railway 1837, Newcastle and Darlington 1842, Midland 1843, Eastern counties 1846 and many other lines; known as the railway king; resided at Albert gate, Knightsbridge, London 1846–52 which he bought with sum of £15000 presented to him 1846; lord mayor of York 1837 and 1846; M.P. Sunderland 1845–59; many of his transactions in railway shares were of a questionable nature; the great fall in railway shares in 1847 ruined him; resided much abroad from 1852; committed to York castle by sheriff of Yorkshire for contempt of court of exchequer in not paying £23,989 5s., released 7 Oct. 1865; friends raised £4800 and invested it in an annuity for him 1868; entertained at a banquet in Sunderland 1869. d. 37 Churton st. Belgrave road, London 14 Dec. 1871. bur. Scrayingham, Yorks. 21 Dec. Evans’ Facts, failures and frauds (1859) 6–73; Lennox’s Celebrities I have known 2 Ser. i, 184–92 (1877); Fraser’s Mag. Aug. 1847 pp. 215–22; Richardson’s The mysteries of Hudson’s railway frauds (1850); Williams’ Midland railway (1877) 99–124, 132; I.L.N. 6 Sep. 1845 p. 157, portrait; Graphic 27 Aug. 1881 pp. 223, 229, portrait; Times 16, 22 Dec. 1871.

HUDSON, James. Assistant sec. to royal society 1829–38; secretary Royal agricultural society from its foundation 27 June 1838 to death. d. Norton terrace, Longsight near Manchester 28 June 1859 aged 55.

HUDSON, James. b. Aungier st. Dublin, March 1811; student R. Dublin soc. 1821; articled to a portrait painter Dublin; an actor in the provinces; appeared at Hawkins st. theatre, Dublin 1834; came out at Drury Lane as Gratiano in Merchant of Venice 1841; played King Alfourite in Planché’s Fortunio 17 April 1843; acted Rory O’More in The Irish Post at the Haymarket, expressly written for him by Planché 28 Feb. 1846; considered the successor of Tyrone Power (drowned in President 1841); made his American debut Walnut st. theatre, Philadelphia as Pandeen O’Rafferty in Born to good luck 15 Oct. 1849; played in New York 1850; appeared in a drawing room entertainment with Anna Thillon; retired from the stage 1858. d. 6 March 1878. bur. Highgate cemet. 9 March. Tallis’ Drawing room Scrap book (1851) 21–2; Theatrical Times ii, 233 (1847), portrait; Planché’s Extravaganzas ii, 179, (1879), portrait; Ireland’s New York Stage ii, 549–50; Era Almanack (1879) 39; Era 10 March 1878 p. 11.

HUDSON, Sir James (son of Harrington Hudson of Bessingby hall, Bridlington, Yorkshire). b. 1810; ed. at Rugby, Westminster, Paris and Rome; assistant private sec. to Wm. IV. 1830–37; resident gentleman usher to queen Adelaide 21 Nov. 1831; known as “Hurry Hudson” from the speed with which he travelled to Italy to summon Peel home 1834; sec. of legation at Washington 1838, at the Hague 1843, at Rio de Janeiro 1845; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to Emperor of Brazil 14 May 1850, to Grand Duke of Tuscany 29 Aug. 1851, but did not proceed there; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to King of Sardinia 19 Jany. 1852 to 20 Oct. 1863 when he retired on a pension of £1300; C.B. 1 March 1851, K.C.B. 2 May 1855, G.C.B. 11 Aug. 1863. d. Strasburg 20 Sep. 1885 in 76 year. F. Ross’s Celebrities of Yorkshire Wolds (1878); Elliot’s Sir J. Hudson and Earl Russell 1886; Times 24 Sep. 1885 p. 7, cols. 3–5.

HUDSON, John Corrie (son of Thomas Hudson of the Stamp office). b. 1796; ed. St. Paul’s sch. 1804 etc.; an advanced liberal; chief clerk in legacy duty office, Somerset house?; friend of Horne Tooke, Godwin, Shelley, Hazlitt, Charles Lamb, T. Hood, and Hamilton Reynolds; author of A letter on the cruelty of employing children in sweeping chimneys in The Pamphleteer xxii, 407–30 (1823). d. April 1879. Athenæum i, 506 (1879).

HUDSON, ROBERT. b. 1801; F.G.S., F.L.S., F.Z.S., vice president; F.R.S. 10 April 1834; writer on Fossil shells, Mag. Nat. Hist. ix, 103–5 (1836); resided Clapham common. d. Bournemouth 9 Feb. 1883.

HUDSON, William Eliot (son of a professional man). An enthusiast about Irish antiquities and well known in Irish literary circles; took an active part in the publication of The Citizen, a monthly journal, Dublin 1840–1. d. south of Ireland July or Aug. 1853.

HUDSPETH, John. b. Manchester 21 Nov. 1806; apprentice in a mercantile house; an actor at Manchester and in Scotland and Ireland; first appeared in London at Pavilion theatre 1839; played at Strand theatre when William Copeland rechristened it Punch’s playhouse 1851; at Queen’s theatre, Tottenham court road 3 years; a favourite in David Dump in The Irish Rebellion. d. 2 Oct. 1866. Theatrical Times, iii, 357, 366 (1818), portrait; Era 7 Oct. 1866 p. 11.

HUE, Clement (son of John Hue, merchant, St. Heliers, Jersey). b. St. Heliers 1779; ed. at Abingdon and Pemb. coll. Ox.; B.A. 1801, M.A. 1803, M.B. 1804, M.D. 1807; fellow of his coll.; candidate of college of physicians 30 Sep. 1807, fellow 30 Sep. 1808, censor 1812, registrar 1815 to 4 Feb. 1824, Harveian orator 1829, elect 13 April 1835, consiliarius 1836; physician to Foundling hospital 1815–37, governor and vice pres. many years; physician to St. Bartholomew’s hospital 23 May 1823 to 1861; registrar of national vaccine establishment 1824 to death. d. 9 Bedford sq. London 23 June 1861. Munk’s College of physicians, iii, 66 (1878).

HÜFFER, Francis or Franz (son of a banker). b. Münster 22 May 1845; ed. at Münster, Leipzig and Berlin; Ph.D. Göttingen, July 1869; came to London 1869; assistant editor of The Academy about 1871; editor of the New Quarterly Mag. about 1876; musical critic to The Times, April 1879 to death; naturalised 18 Jany. 1882; edited The Musical Review 1883, The Musical World 1886; author of Richard Wagner and the music of the future 1874; The Troubadours: a history of Provençal life and literature in the middle ages 1878; Half a century of music in England 1889 and other books; edited a series of biographies of The Great Musicians 1881–4; wrote the libretti for A. C. Mackenzie’s two operas produced at Drury Lane, Colomba 1883 and The Troubadour 1885. d. 90 Brook green, Hammersmith 19 Jany. 1889. Grove’s Dict. of music, iv, 680, 819 (1888); Times 21, 25 Jany. 1889.

HUELIN, Rev. Elias. b. 1786; French protestant clergyman; owner of house property in London; assistant chaplain at Brompton cemetery; resided 15 Paulton sq. Chelsea; murdered and robbed by Walter Miller at 25 Wellington square, Chelsea 9 May 1870 and buried there. Walter Miller who had also murdered the housekeeper Ann Boss at 15 Paulton sq. was executed at the Old Bailey 1 Aug. 1870. Annual Register (1870) pp. 47, 95.

HUGGENS, John. b. 29 April 1776; founded Huggens’s college, 40 almshouses and a chapel at Northfleet, Kent which he himself superintended. d. Crown quay, Sittingbourne, Kent 11 Aug. 1865. bur. Northfleet churchyard.

HUGGINS, Hastings Charles. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1858; practised in Island of Nevis, Q.C. Nevis, solicitor general Nevis, speaker of House of Assembly; attorney general British Honduras 1861; stipendiary mag. British Guiana to death; author of The laws of Nevis from 1681 to 1861 inclusive, with appendices and index 1862. d. Georgetown, Demerara 27 March 1883.

HUGGINS, Horatio James (eld. son of Horatio Nelson Huggins of the island of St. Vincent). b. 1811; barrister L.I. 1838; acting attorney general St. Vincent 1857 and 1858; Queen’s advocate at Sierra Leone 9 May 1863 to 1880, chief justice there 1876 to 1880; manufacturer of bottle washing machines at Pentonville and Hornsey 1881, bankrupt 18 Feb. 1882. d. Staplehay, Hornsey 20 Jany. 1886. bur. Bedford cemetery.

HUGGINS, Samuel. b. Deal, Kent 1811; lived at Liverpool most of his life; an architect from 1846; member of Liverpool Architectural Soc. 1849, president 1856–8, read a paper On so-called restorations of our cathedral and abbey churches 1871 which led to formation of Soc. for protection of ancient buildings 1877; published Chart of the history of architecture 1863; compiled Catalogue of the Liverpool free public library 1872. d. Christleton near Chester 10 Jany. 1885. Biograph, i, 406 (1879).

HUGGINS, William (brother of the preceding). b. Liverpool 1820; member of Liverpool Academy; painter at Chester 1861 to death; his horses, cattle and poultry pictures were his best work; exhibited 31 pictures at R.A., 8 at B.I. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1842–75; exhibited many pictures at Liverpool, Manchester, Dublin, Edinburgh and Glasgow. d. Christleton near Chester 25 Feb. 1884. Biograph, Feb. 1882 pp. 217–23; Liverpool Mercury 28 Feb. 1884 p. 6.

Note.—His sister Sarah Huggins, a painter of flowers and fruit and then of architectural views in Chester and Liverpool, d. Liverpool, May 1869. The Builder 8 May 1869 p. 369.

HUGHES, Christopher (youngest son of Henry Hughes of Northampton, solicitor). b. Northampton 1815; articled to Hughes and Britten of Northampton, solicitors; admitted Trinity term 1837; clerk of the peace for borough of Northampton 1858 to death; translated The odes, epodes, Carmen seculare, and the first satire of Horace 1867. d. 60 Waterloo, Northampton 20 Oct. 1877. Law Times, lxiv, 53 (1877).

HUGHES, Rev. David. b. Cefn-uchaf, Llanddeiniolen, Carnarvonshire 1813; B.A., M.A.; member of Bethel independent church, Arfon, began preaching 1832; studied at Hackney coll. and Glasgow univ.; ordained 14 Sep. 1841, pastor of two small congregations in Flintshire; pastor at St. Asaph 1845, at Manchester 1846, at Bangor 1846 and at Tredegar, Monmouthshire 1 Nov. 1855 to death; author of Geiriadur Ysgrythyrol o Duwinyddol, i.e. A scriptural and theological dictionary 2 vols. 1852–55, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1876–9; contributed to the Gwyddoniadur or Welsh Cyclopædia; edited and enlarged An English and Welsh dictionary. By T. Edwards of Caerfallwch 1864. d. Tredegar 3 June 1872.

HUGHES, Edward. b. Ireland 1819; second master of lower school, Greenwich hospital 4 Nov. 1841 and head master of royal naval school there 1844 to death; A.I.C.E. 1848; F.R.A.S.; F.R.G.S.; author of A manual of explanatory arithmetic 1849, 2 ed. 1855; Outlines of physical geography 1849, 5 ed. 1855; Geography for elementary schools 1851, new ed. 1873; Select English poetry 1851, 5 ed. 1856 and other school books. d. Greenwich hospital 30 July 1859.

Note.—His widow Sarah, youngest dau. of James Oliphant Bell, M.D., granted civil list pension of £100, 18 June 1863, she d. 9 Jany. 1884 aged 68.

HUGHES, Edwin (son of a steel toy manufacturer). b. Birmingham 2 Oct. 1813; member of Batty & Sons’ circus; the best polander performer in England, the first to introduce turning round on his head without holding; had a company of his own at Donnybrook fair two years; at Cheltenham established Hughes’ Great mammoth equestrian circus; appeared before the Queen at Drury Lane under A. Bunn’s management 22 April 1847; retired after nine seasons with a handsome fortune 1847; the first to drive thirty-two horses in hand; the first to introduce camels and elephants in harness. d. Welby house, Lower Norwood, Surrey 7 Dec. 1867. bur. Smithdown cemet. Liverpool 12 Dec. Era 22 Dec. 1867 p. 6; Frost’s Circus life (1876) 97, 216.

HUGHES, Edwin (eld. son of Edwin Hughes of The Farm, Smithdown road, Wavertree near Liverpool). b. Dublin 1 Feb. 1837; articled to Avison and Pritt of Liverpool, solicitors; admitted Jany. 1858; went to America, joined Federal army in which he became major; served under Garibaldi in Italy; a solicitor in Liverpool 1869 to death; captain 1 Lancashire artillery volunteers 21 Jany. 1874 to death; member of council of Financial reform association. d. 13 Elm vale, Fairfield, Liverpool 12 May 1879. bur. Smithdown cemetery, Liverpool. Law Times, lxvii, 105 (1879).

HUGHES, Fanny. b. 1843; educated for a singer; an actress in comedies and burlesques at Strand theatre when under Mrs. Swanborough’s management 1862–72; played Orozembo in L. S. Buckingham’s burlesque Pizarro, or the Leotard of Peru 24 April 1862; played Anne Boleyn in Wm. Brough’s extravaganza The field of the cloth of gold, produced 11 April 1868; (m. Edward Swanborough of the Strand theatre). d. 5 Neville st. Onslow gardens, London 12 Jany. 1888.

HUGHES, George Edward (1 son of John Hughes of Uffington, Berks.) b. Uffington 18 Sep. 1821; ed. at Rugby and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1845, M.A. 1849, D.C.L. 1850; stroke of Ox. univ. crew of 7 oars which beat Camb. crew of 8 oars 1843; a student of Lincoln’s inn 1848; member of college of doctors of law 12 Nov. 1850, practised in the ecclesiastical courts; member of Pen and Pencil club at Pau; violoncello player. d. Hoylake, Cheshire 2 May 1872. Memoirs of a brother. By Thomas Hughes (1873), portrait.

HUGHES, George Martin. b. Maidstone 1827; a solicitor; investigated Romano-British topography of the south of England; author of A history of Windsor forest, Sunninghill and the Great park 1890. d. Kingswick, Sunninghill, Berkshire 9 Sep. 1891.

HUGHES, Henry George (eld. son of James Hughes of Dublin, solicitor). b. Capel st. Dublin 22 Aug. 1810; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; called to Irish bar, Nov. 1834; Q.C. 2 Nov. 1844; bencher of King’s Inns 1850; solicitor general for Ireland 26 Sep. 1850 to Feb. 1852 and Feb. 1858 to July 1859; baron of court of exchequer July 1859 to death; contested Cavan 1855; M.P. for co. Longford 1856–7; author of Practice of the Court of chancery, Ireland. Dublin 1837. d. Bray, Wicklow 22 July 1872. Irish law times, vi, 404 (1872).

HUGHES, Hugh (son of Thomas Hughes). b. Pwllygwichiad. bapt. Llandudno 20 Feb. 1790; apprentice to an engraver in Liverpool; studied oil painting in London; exhibited 4 landscapes at B.I. and 6 at Suffolk st. 1827–51; spent 3 years at Meddiant working at his Beauties of Cambria 60 views published Carmarthen 1823, drew 58 of the views and engraved all of them; a printer at Carnarvon where he published Y Papur Newydd Cymraeg; expelled from Welsh Calvinistic ch. London for signing petition in favor of catholic emancipation 1828; joined the Independents, then the Plymouth brethren; had a controversy with Rev. Evan Evans and published pamphlets under name of Cristion 1832; author of Hynafion Cymreig, a work on Welsh antiquities. Carmarthen 1823 and other books in Welsh language. d. Great Malvern 11 March 1863. Red Dragon, May 1887 xi 457–66, 576 (1887).

HUGHES, Rev. Hugh (son of Mr. Hughes, deacon of independent church at Cororion). b. Cilgeraint, Llandegai, Carnarvonshire 1805; pastor of independent churches at Rhos-y-lan, Tabor, and Llanystymdwy, at Jackson st. Manchester, at Capelhelyg, Chwilog and Abererch in Carnarvonshire; set up a printing-press at Abererch and edited Yr Arweinydd a penny monthly many years; pastor of the new church at Bethel, Aberdare 1859 to death; competed frequently and successfully at Eisteddfods; most voluminous Welsh writer of his day; author of Rhesymeg. Wrexham 1856; d. Aberdare 8 Dec. 1864. J. T. Jones’s Geiriadur Bywgraffydol, i, 567–70.

HUGHES, Rev. Hugh. Educ. at St. Peter’s coll. Cam., B.D. 1842, D.D. 1847; R. of St John, Clerkenwell, London 13 Dec. 1839 to death; author of Female characters of holy writ, in a course of sermons. 3 series 1845, 6, 7; The remarkable scenes of the bible 1860, new ed. 1879. d. 18 Chadwell st. Myddleton sq. London 1870.

HUGHES, Rev. James. b. Carlow, March 1810; R.C. priest June 1833; professor of natural philosophy St. Patrick’s coll. Carlow 1835–6; in charge of Carlow classical academy; C. of Maryborough; C. of Kilcock 1837; dean of coll. of St. Patrick’s 1841–55; administrator of Carlow parish 1855–8; priest in charge of Naas, Dec. 1858 to death; author of A practical exposition of the ceremonies to be observed at solemn mass. Dublin 1843; The ceremonies of low mass, 4 ed. 1858; The ceremonies of high mass; Pontifical ceremonies. d. Naas, May 1876. M. Comerford’s Collections of Kildare and Leighlin (1883) 229.

HUGHES, James Stannus. L.R.C.S. Ireland 1838, F.R.C.S. 1844, examiner in surgery, joint professor of surgery, sec. of council; M.D. Queen’s univ. 1864; surgeon Jervis st. hospital, Dublin; surgeon in ordinary to Dublin castle; edited Sir H. Marsh’s Clinical lectures 1869; author of On diseases of the prostate gland 1863, 2 ed. 1870, and of contributions to Dublin medical press and Dublin hospital gazette. d. 1 Merrion sq. west, Dublin 1 June 1884. Medical Times 7 June 1884 p. 771.

HUGHES, John (only child of Rev. Thomas Hughes, canon of St. Paul’s, d. 6 Jany. 1833 aged 77). b. 2 Jany. 1790; ed. at Westminster and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1812, M.A. 1815; author of the macaronic Oriel grace-cup song ‘Exultet mater Oriel’; author of Pompeii 1820, an ode; An Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone with etchings by the author 1822; Lays of past days 1850; edited The Boscobel Tracts 1830, 2 ed. 1857; published a song called The small coal man attacking Lord Durham, long attributed to Theodore Hook and R. H. Barham; wrote for the magazines under pseud. of Buller of Brasenose; celebrated in John Wilson’s Christopher in the tent in the Noctes Ambrosianæ. d. 7 Boltons, West Brompton, London 13 Dec. 1857. G.M. iv, 225 (1858); Miss Mitford’s Recollections (1859) 462–4.

HUGHES, Rev. John (son of Hugh Hughes of Adwy’r Clawdd near Wrexham, carpenter). b. Adwy’r Clawdd 11 Feb. 1796; a carpenter to 1815; began preaching in Calvinistic methodist church at Adwy’r 1813; kept a school at Wrexham to 1835; authorised as a regular preacher to visit all parts of Wales, Feb. 1821; ordained at Bala 17 June 1829; a flour merchant 1835–8; co-pastor of Welsh Calvinistic churches of Liverpool 1838 to death; author of History of Welsh Calvinistic Methodism 3 vols. Wrexham 1851–6 and other books in the Welsh language. d. Abergele 8 Aug. 1860. Sermons of Rev. John Hughes, with memoir and portrait (1862).

HUGHES, Ven. John (son of John Hughes of Llwyn Glas near Aberystwyth). b. 1787; C. at Llandrillo yn Rhôs near Conway 1811–17; P.C. of Aberystwyth 16 May 1827 to death; V. of Llanbadern-Fawr 14 June 1834 to death; preb. of Nantgunllo in Brecon coll. ch. to death; archdeacon of Cardigan 1859 to death; most popular preacher of Church of England in Wales; author of The domestic ruler’s monitor 1821; Ruth and her kindred 1839; Esther and her people. Sermons 1842 and other books. d. 1 Nov. 1860. J. Hughes’s Sermons with biography by his son. Liverpool (1864).

HUGHES, Most Rev. John (son of Patrick Hughes, farmer, d. 1837). b. Annalogham, co. Tyrone 24 June 1797; a gardener and day labourer in U.S. of America 1817–9; ed. at Mount St. Mary’s coll. Emmitsburg, Maryland 1819–26; ordained R.C. priest 1825; minister at St. Augustine’s 1825 and then at St. Joseph’s churches, Philadelphia, built ch. of St. John there which he served 1832; coadjutor to bishop John Dubois of New York Jany. 1838 and succeeded him as bishop 1842; founded St. John’s coll. at Fordham 1841; archbishop of New York 3 Oct. 1850 to death; one of the founders of the American coll. at Rome 1858; author of Controversy between Rev. Messrs. Hughes and Breckenridge on the subject “Is the protestant religion the religion of Christ?” Philadelphia 3 ed. 1833; The church and the world. A lecture 1850, and other theological works. d. New York city 3 Jany. 1864; remains removed from old cath. of St. Patrick to crypt beneath high altar in new cath. 30 Jany. 1883. Hassard’s Life of Most Rev. J. Hughes (1866), portrait; Clarke’s Lives of bishops of catholic church in U.S. ii, 73–125 (1872); Appleton’s American Biog. iii, 303–5 (1887), portrait; Complete works of J. Hughes. Ed. by L. Kehoe 2 vols. 1866.

HUGHES, John (youngest son of Thomas Hughes, civil engineer). b. Linlithgow near Edin. 1823; ed. at Marischal coll. Aberdeen; parliamentary reporter for Evening Sun, London 1842, for Times 1844, for Morning Chronicle, for Daily News, and for Times again to 1860; theatrical art critic for the Era; purchased the West Surrey Times, Godalming 1860 and removed it to Guildford where he edited it to his death. d. 18 High st. Guildford 2 Nov. 1868. The Newspaper Press 1 Dec. 1868 p. 18.

HUGHES, John (youngest son of William Hughes of Pen y Clawdd, Denbighshire). b. 1805; ed. at univ. of Edin.; barrister I.T. 3 May 1839; sec. to commission for settlement of claims of Portuguese government on British legion under Sir De L. Evans 1844–9; twice went to Sweden for Overend, Gurney & Co. and then to Copenhagen to claim money advanced before Danish-German war; a Welsh scholar and a writer on Cambrian archæology. d. 34 Abingdon villas, Kensington 11 July 1883. Law Times 28 July 1883 p. 249.

HUGHES, John, known as Ceiriog (youngest child of Richard Hughes). b. Penbryn, Llanarmon-Dyffryn Ceiriog, Denbighshire 25 Sep. 1832; clerk in an office in London road, Manchester 1849–65; stationmaster on the Cambrian railway at Llanidloes 1865, at Towyn 1870, at Trefeglwys 1871, at Caersws 1871 to death; won many prizes for poetry at Eisteddfods; the best lyric poet of Wales; author of Oriau’r Hwyr (Evening Hours) Ruthyn 1860, 2 ed. 1861 of which 25,000 copies were sold and of 7 other vols. of poetry 1862–88; wrote 50 songs for Brinley Richards’s Songs of Wales 1873, among them is ‘God bless the Prince of Wales.’ d. Caersws, Montgomeryshire 23 April 1887. Memoir of J. C. Hughes. By Llyfrbryf i.e. Isaac Foulkes. Liverpool.

HUGHES, John Charles. b. Hatton garden, London 23 Dec. 1789; appeared at Cheltenham 1806; manager Woolwich theatre; acted at Richmond; at Drury Lane 1818; good in old men and country clowns. Theatrical Inquisitor, Oct. 1818 pp. 251–3, portrait.

HUGHES, Right Rev. Joshua (son of Caleb Hughes of Newport, Pembrokeshire). b. Nevern, Pembrokeshire 7 Oct. 1807; ed. at Ystradmeirig gr. sch. and St. David’s coll. Lampeter; C. of Aberystwith 1830; C. of St. David’s, Carmarthen; V. of Abergwilly to 1846; V. of Llandingat 1846–70; D.D. Lambeth; bishop of St. Asaph 25 March 1870 to death, consecrated 8 May 1870; author of several charges, sermons and pamphlets, one of the latter on The University of Brecknock. By Veritas, was much discussed. d. Crieff, Perthshire 21 Jany. 1889. I.L.N. lvi, 449 (1870), portrait, and 2 Feb. 1889 pp. 135, 158, portrait.

HUGHES, Julio Henry (son of Henry Hughes, proprietor of Exeter theatre, and grandson of Mr. Hughes manager of Sadler’s Wells). b. in residence attached to Devonport theatre 1810; under scene painter at Vauxhall gardens; held a share in the Exeter, Devonport and Guernsey theatres; first appeared in London at Pavilion theatre under management of Mr. Gladstones; leading actor at the Surrey 1840–6; played at Princess’s 1847, at Sadler’s Wells. d. 11 Oct. 1872. Theatrical Times, ii, 129, 138, portrait.

HUGHES, Mary (dau. of Mr. Robson). m. 1817 Thomas Hughes of Dundee; went to U.S. of America 1817; kept a school for young ladies at Philadelphia 1818–39; with her husband commenced farming at Doylestown, Bucks county 1839; contributed to the Church Tract Soc. London 1824; author of The alchemist, a tale 1818; The orphan girl 1819; The rebellious school girl 1821; The life of W. Penn 1822, another ed. Philadelphia 1828; Pleasing and instructive stories 1830; Sickroom dialogues, 4 ed. 1836; The twin brothers 1839; Village dialogues 1839. See Hale’s Woman’s Record (1855) 845.

Note.—She also wrote Aunt Mary’s tales, Ornaments discovered, Metamorphosis, Emma Mortimer, The two schools, Julia Ormond, Buds and Blossoms, The ivy wreath.

HUGHES, Philip. Conducted musical choirs in Manchester and the neighbourhood; gave much time to musical services of R.C. ch.; composer of music to many hymns such as The hymn to St. Albans; The green boughs meet; O turn to Jesus’ Mother turn; Jesus, dulcis memoria, and others. d. West Gorton, Manchester 10 Feb. 1880. Gillow’s English catholics, iii, 469 (1887).

HUGHES, Robert Ball (brother of Julio Henry Hughes 1810–72). b. London 19 Jany. 1806; pupil of E. H. Bailey the sculptor 7 years; gained gold medal at R.A. 1823 for a bas-relief, ‘Pandora brought by Mercury to Epimetheus,’ exhibited 4 sculptures at R.A. 1822–8; went to U.S. of America 1829 where his chief works were statue of Alexander Hamilton for Merchants’ Exchange, New York, destroyed by fire 1835; bronze statue of Nathaniel Bowditch now at Mount Auburn; and monument to bishop Hobart in Trin. ch. New York; sent a statue of Oliver Twist to Great exhibition in London 1851; lectured on art and made sketches on wood with a hot iron. d. Boston 5 March 1868.

HUGHES, Samuel (5 son of Richard Hughes, barrister). b. 1801; barrister I.T. 28 Jany. 1831; author with T. Coventry of An analytical digested index to the common law reports 1827; furnished an index and notes to Sir B. Shower’s Reports of cases in court of king’s bench 1836. d. Skipper’s hill, Mayfield, Sussex 29 Nov. 1887.

HUGHES, Thomas (brother of Robert Ball Hughes 1806–68). b. 3 Dec. 1808; studied with E. H. Bailey, sculptor; first appeared at Queen’s theatre, London 1825; at the St. James’s theatre under Edward Hooper’s management when he appeared in a series of original parts 1839; broke his leg and was unable to resume his profession. d. London 7 Sep. 1857. The Era 13 Sep. 1857 p. 11.

HUGHES, Thomas. Connected with the turf 40 years; an early patron of Fred Archer the jockey; won the Chester cup with Our Mary Ann 1870; the Shobden cup twice with Oxonian which he sold for £3000; retired from the turf 1886. d. Aldford near Eaton hall about 25 Feb. 1890.

HUGHES, Thomas. b. Chester 1827; apprentice to a printer; connected with the press at Plymouth; partner in firm of Minshull and Hughes, booksellers, Eastgate row, Chester, retired 1880; sheriff of Chester 1873; F.S.A. 7 June 1866; had great knowledge of antiquities of Chester and its neighbourhood; edited D. King’s The vale royal of England 1852; George Batenham’s Ancient Chester 1880; author of The stranger’s handbook to Chester 1856, 2 ed. 1857. d. The Grove, Chester 30 May 1890. The Bookseller 6 June 1890 p. 584.

HUGHES, Thomas Elliott. b. 6 Jany. 1830; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery 8 June 1849; commander of a mountain train battery on N.W. frontier of India, present at storming of Laloo and capture of Umbeylah; lieut.-colonel R.A. 16 Jany. 1875, colonel 24 Jany. 1880 to death; M.G. 11 Feb. 1885; A.A.G., R.A. at head quarters 1878–82; director general of ordnance in India 1884–5. d. Simla 24 May 1886.

HUGHES, Thomas Fiott (1 son of Rev. Thomas Smart Hughes, V. of Edgware, d. 1847). Student attaché at Constantinople 16 May 1845; instrumental in raising the Bashi-Bazouks during the Crimean war 1854; consul at Erzeroom 29 May 1856; oriental sec. at Constantinople 6 Feb. 1859; commissioner for the dedicated monasteries in the United Principalities; retired from public service on a pension of £700, 12 Nov. 1875; great linguist and eastern scholar; translated Arabian Nights into Persian but not printed. d. Cheltenham 18 June 1887 aged 62.

HUGHES, Sir Walter Watson (3 son of Thomas Hughes of Pittenweem, Fife). b. 1803; master in mercantile marine; settled in South Australia, engaged in mining and pastoral pursuits 1841; shared in expenses of exploring expeditions and was a promoter of several new industries; ‘father’ of the Univ. of Adelaide; knighted at Windsor castle 16 Dec. 1880; purchased Fan Court, Lyne near Chertsey, Surrey 1883. d. Fan Court 1 Jany. 1887.

HUGHES, William (4 son of Rev. Sir Robert Hughes, bart., d. 1814). b. Maker vicarage, Cornwall 2 March 1803; barrister G.I. 11 June 1833; auditor of poor law union district of Cornwall and Devon; author of Practical instructions for drawing wills 1833; The practical angler. By Piscator 1842; The three students of Gray’s inn, A novel 1846; The practice of conveyancing 2 vols. 1856–7 and other books. d. 2 Millbay grove, Plymouth 20 Aug. 1861. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i, 258.

HUGHES, William. b. 1817; assistant in library of Br. Museum, cataloguing the geographical collection 1841, resigned Dec. 1843; F.R.G.S.; editor of Maunder’s Treasury of geography 1856; author of Atlas of constructive geography 1841; A class book of modern geography 1859, 3 ed. 1885; A class book of physical geography 1861, 4 ed. 1886; A treatise on the construction of maps, 3 ed. 1864, and about 30 other school books. d. 198 Adelaide road, Hampstead, London 21 May 1876. Cowtan’s British Museum (1872) 321–2.

HUGHES, William Bulkeley. b. 26 July 1797; ed. at Harrow; barrister L.I. 21 May 1824; M.P. for Carnarvon district of boroughs 1837–59 and 1865 to death; sheriff of Anglesea 1861. d. Plas Coch near Llanfair, Isle of Anglesea 9 March 1882. Law Times, lxxii, 376 (1882).

HUGHES, William Edward (2 son of Michael Hughes of Sherdley hall, Lancs. d. 1825). b. 16 July 1823; ed. at Eton 1838–42; member of Turf club; a player at whist, picquet and billiards; won a race with Sophistry; known as Gentleman Hughes and as Little Hughes. d. Brussels 17 Dec. 1885. Sporting Rev. Aug. 1858 p. 118–19.

HUGHES, William Hughes (son of John Hewitt). b. 1792; barrister L.I. 26 June 1827; contested Oxford 1832 and 1837; M.P. for Oxford 18 March 1833 to 18 July 1837; sheriff of Hants.; assumed name of Hughes 25 May 1825; alderman of London 1832; contributed preface and notes to J. L. De Lolme’s The constitution of England 1834. d. Ilkley Wells house, Yorkshire 10 Oct. 1874.

HUGHES, William Little (son of Wm. Hughes of Dublin). b. Dublin 1822; clerk in foreign press department of ministry of the interior, Paris about 1857, chief clerk to death; a collector of works on Shakespeare in all languages; translated and published Les temps difficiles. Par C. Dickens 1857; Devereux. Par Sir E. B. Lytton 1859; Histoire d’ une chandelle. Par M. Faraday 1865; Œuvres choisies d’ Edgar Poe 1885; Les aventures de Huck Finn. Par M. Twain 1886 and other works. d. Paris 5 Jany. 1887.

HUGO, Rev. Thomas (eld. son of Charles Hugo, M.D. of Taunton). b. Taunton 1820; ed. at Worc. coll. Ox., B.A. 1842; C. of Walton-le-Dale, Lancs. 1842–44; V. of Halliwell, Lancs. 1850–52; V. of St. Botolph’s, Bishopsgate 1852–58; P.C. of All Saints, Bishopsgate 1858–68; R. of West Hackney 1868 to death; F.S.A. 24 Feb. 1853; founder of London and Middlesex archæol. soc. 1855; made collection of works of the Brothers Bewick of Newcastle, and had many of their wood-blocks; contributed to Hymns ancient and modern 1860; author of The charters of Cleeve abbey 1856; Varus, a tragedy 1864; The Bewick collector. A catalogue of the works of T. and J. Bewick 1866; The Bewick collector. A supplement 1868; Bewick’s Woodcuts 1870 and 15 other books. d. West Hackney rectory 31 Dec. 1876. bur. Highgate cemet. 6 Jany. 1877. Guardian 3 Jany. 1877 p. 12.

HUISH, Mark. b. 1808; sec. and general manager Glasgow and Greenock railway 1839 or 40, of grand junction railway 1841–45, of Liverpool and Manchester and Bolton railway 1845–46, and of London and north western railway 1846 to Nov. 1858; A.I.C.E. 6 April 1852. d. Combe Wood, Bonchurch 18 Jany. 1867. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxvii, 600–602 (1868); I.L.N. xxxiii, 517–8 (1858), portrait; Railway Management. Two letters to G. C. Glyn by J. Whitehead and M. Huish 1848.

HULBERT, Charles (son of Thomas Hulbert of Hulbert Green near Cheadle, Cheshire). b. Manchester 18 Feb. 1778; manager of print works at Middleton 1800; cotton manufacturer at Swinton near Manchester, then at Coleham near Shrewsbury 1803–13; bookseller and printer, Shrewsbury 1813–27 and at Hadnal near Shrewsbury 1827 to death; printed Salopian Mag. 1815–7; his house and library burnt 7 Jany. 1839; author of The select museum of the world 4 vols. 1822–5; The history of Salop 1837; Cheshire Antiquities 1838; Memoirs of seventy years of an eventful life 1848–52, with portrait, and many other books. d. Hadnal near Shrewsbury 7 Oct. 1857. Obituary of C. Hulbert. By C. A. Hulbert, 2 ed. (1860); Shrewsbury Chronicle 6 Nov. 1857.

HULBERT, Rev. Charles Augustus (eld. son of the preceding). b. Coleham near Shrewsbury 31 Dec. 1804 or 1805; ed. at Shrewsbury and Sid. Sus. coll. Cam., B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; C. of St. Mary’s, Islington 1834–9; P.C. of Slaithwaite, Yorkshire 1839–67; V. of Almondbury near Huddersfield 26 Feb. 1867 to death; hon. canon of Ripon, Oct. 1866 to death; author of Poetical recreations 1828; Theotokos, or the song of the Virgin 1842; Annals of the church in Slaithwaite 1864; Annals of the church and parish of Almondbury 1882, Supplementary Annals 1885, and other books; (Mary his wife dau. of James Lacy of Islington d. 2 May 1884 aged 75). d. 5 March 1888. C. A. Hulbert’s Annals of Almondbury (1883) 96, 592, portrait; Supplementary Annals (1885) 62–8, portrait of his wife.

HULINE, James. b. about 1816; played clown in pantomime of The Maid and the Magpie, at Princess’s theatre, London, Dec. 1854; in pantomime of Harlequin and the House that Jack built, at Drury Lane Dec. 1861; in pantomime of Ladybird or Harlequin Lord Dundreary, at Astley’s Dec. 1862; father of the well known brothers Huline clowns. d. 31 Jany. 1890. Illust. sp. and dram. news 19 Dec. 1874 p. 268, portrait.

HULL, Rev. Edward. b. 1789; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1814; minister of St. Mary’s attached to Blind sch. Liverpool 1819–57; author of The institution and abuses of ecclesiastical property 1831; The tractarian and the prayer book 1853. d. Waterloo road, Liverpool 6 Jany. 1867.

HULL, Robert. b. 1795; M.R.C.S. 1816, Ext. L.R.C.P.; M.D. Lambeth; physician Norfolk and Norwich eye infirmary; author of Cursory notes on the morbid eye 1840; Essay on determination of blood to the head 1842; A few suggestions on consumption 1849. d. St. Michael-at-Plea, Norwich 13 April 1856.

HULL, William (son of a small farmer). b. Graffham, Hunts. 6 May 1820; ed. at Moravian settlements, Ockbrook near Derby, Wellhouse, Yorkshire, and Grace Hill near Ballymena, Ireland 1834–40; travelled in France, Germany and Holland 1841–4; an artist at Manchester 1844–70; exhibited at Manchester academy of fine arts, Royal Manchester Instit. and the Black and white exhibitions held 1877–80; illustrated R. Langton’s Charles Dickens and Rochester 1880; settled at Rydal, Westmoreland 1870 and became known as The painter of Rydal. d. Rydal 15 March 1880. bur. Grasmere ch. yard. Portfolio, Jany. 1886 pp. 15, 21; Papers of Manchester Literary Club (1880) 308–10; Catalogue of water colour drawing, etc. by W. Hull, exhibited at Manchester Lit. Club 1886.

HULL, William Winstanley (son of John Hull, M.D., botanist 1761–1843). b. Blackburn 15 March 1794; ed. at Manchester and Macclesfield gr. schs. and Brasenose coll. Ox., fellow 1816–20; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1817; barrister L.I. 16 June 1820; practised at chancery bar to 1846; with his brother Rev. John Hull drew up a petition praying for revision of the liturgy, presented to House of Lords 26 May 1840; author of Occasional papers on church matters 1848; A collection of prayers for household use, with some hymns and other poems 1852; A letter concerning the revision of the book of common prayer 1860. d. The Knowle, Hazlewood, Derbyshire 28 Aug. 1873. Manchester School Register, iii, 37, 289.

HULLAH, John Pyke. b. Worcester 27 June 1812; studied music under Wm. Horsley and at royal academy of music 1832; his opera The Village Coquette produced at St. James’s theatre, London 5 Dec. 1836 ran for 60 nights; organist of Croydon church 1837; his operas The Barbers of Bassora and The Outpost produced at Covent Garden 1837 and 1838 were unsuccessful; formed classes at Exeter Hall for teaching music to large numbers of persons on Wilhelm’s method 1841, his classes removed to St. Martin’s hall, Oct. 1849, formally opened 11 Feb. 1850, burnt down 26 Aug. 1860; organist to the Charterhouse 1858 to death; composed music for Kingsley’s songs The Sands of Dee and The Three Fishers; conducted concerts of R.A. of music 1870–3; bankrupt Oct. 1860; musical inspector of training schools for United Kingdom, March 1872; LLD. Edin. 1876; granted civil list pension of £150, 13 Oct. 1880; edited Part music 2 vols. 1842–5, another ed. 1868; The song book 1866; author of Wilhelm’s Method of teaching singing 1841, 3 ed. 1854; A grammar of musical harmony 1852; A grammar of counterpoint 1864 and about 100 pieces of music. d. 17 Grosvenor mansions, Victoria st. London 21 Feb. 1884. bur. Kensal green 26 Feb. Life of John Hullah (1886); Dublin Univ. Mag. March 1880 pp. 323–33, portrait; I.L.N. i, 69, 76 (1842) portrait, x 405 (1847), xvi 117 (1850); Graphic xxix, 229 (1884), portrait.

HULLETT, Rev. John. b. 1815; ed. at St. Cath. hall, Cam., B.A. 1838; P.C. of Allestree, Derby 1849 to death; author of Sermons preached for the most part in the church of Allestree 1858, Second series 1859; The true light and other poems 1861. d. Toft near Knutsford 25 April 1865.

HULME, Frederick William (son of an artist). b. Swinton, Yorkshire 1816; landscape painter; teacher of drawing and painting in London; exhibited 36 pictures at R.A., 5 at B.I. and 5 at Suffolk st. 1845–80; published A graduated series of drawing copies on landscape subjects for use of schools 4 parts 1850. d. 8 St. Alban’s road, Kensington, London 14 Nov. 1884. I.L.N. lxxxv, 556 (1884), portrait; Athenæum 22 Nov. 1884 p. 666.

HULME, John Walter. Barrister M.T. 23 Jany. 1829; chief justice of Hong Kong 9 Feb. 1844 to Jany. or Feb. 1860. d. Brighton 1 March 1861 in 57 year.

HULTON, Rev. Campbell Basset Arthur Grey (4 son of Henry Hulton of Preston 1765–1831, treasurer of co. of Lancaster). b. Ballalhick, Isle of Man 3 May 1813; ed. at Manchester sch. and Brasenose coll. Ox., scholar 1831–4; B.A. 1835, M.A. 1838; Ellerton theological prizeman 1837; C. of St. Mary’s, Manchester 1839–44; Chetham’s librarian at Manchester 1839–45; R. of St. Paul’s, Manchester 1844–60; R. of Emberton, Bucks. 1860 to death; author of A catechetical help to bishop Butler’s Analogy 1854, another ed. 1859. d. Emberton rectory 30 April 1878. Manchester sch. register, iii, 176 (1874).

HULTON, William Adam (brother of the preceding). b. Preston 18 Oct. 1802; ed. at Manchester gr. sch.; barrister I.T. 29 June 1827; treasurer of county Lancaster 1831–49; assessor of Lancaster Sheriff’s Court to 1847; judge of county courts, circuit No. 5 (Bolton, &c.), 13 March 1847; judge of circuit No. 6 (Liverpool), 31 Dec. 1859; judge of circuit No. 4 (Preston, &c.) 1863 to April 1886; edited and printed with his own hands A Pedigree of the Hulton family about 1847; member of council of Chetham Soc. 1848, edited for the Soc. The Coucher book, or chartulary of Whalley Abbey 4 vols. 1847–50, Documents relating to the Priory of Penwortham 1853; author of A treatise on the law of convictions with the statutes and forms applicable to summary convictions by justices of the peace 1835. d. Hurst Grange near Preston 3 March 1887. Law Times 19 March 1887 p. 367.

HUMBER, William. b. 1821; pupil of G. Watson 1835–39; one of Thomas Brassey’s staff 1847–52; practised as civil engineer 1852 to death; A.I.C.E. 6 May 1856; author of A complete treatise on cast and wrought iron bridge construction 2 vols. 1857, 3 ed. 1870; A record of the progress of modern engineering 1863–66, 4 vols. 1870; A handy book for the calculation of strains in girders 1868, 4 ed. 1885; A comprehensive treatise on the water supply of cities and towns 1876. d. 1 Portland villas, Brixton hill, Surrey 14 April 1881.

HUMBERSTON, Philip Stapleton (only son of Philip Humberston of Chester). b. 1812; ed. at Westminster; M.P. for Chester 1859–65; sheriff of Cheshire 1878; hon. col. of 2 volunteer battalion of Cheshire regiment 20 May 1876 to death; member of council of Royal Agricultural Soc., proposed the use of a special form of Farming agreements 1855. d. Glan-y-Wern near Denbigh 16 Jany. 1891.

HUMBERT, Albert Jenkins. b. 1822; partner with Charles Frederick Reeks, architect, designed Carlisle parade and Robertson terrace, Hastings, and rebuilt the church at Bodiam; had premium for designs for new government offices 1856; rebuilt Whippingham ch. Isle of Wight 1860; designed mausoleum of duchess of Kent 1861 and that of Prince Consort 1862, both at Frogmore near Windsor; designed and superintended rebuilding of Sandringham house for prince of Wales 1869–71; F.R.I.B.A. d. Castle Mona, Douglas, Isle of Man 24 Dec. 1877.

HUMBLE, Rev. Henry. Ed. at Univ. coll. Durham, B.A. 1837, M.A. 1842; C. of Newburn, Northumberland 1842–53; canon and precentor of St. Ninian’s cath. Perth 1853 to death; author of A letter to the bishop of St. Andrews on his recent charge 1859; The recent episcopal decisions. A review of the transactions at the episcopal synod 1858; Remarks on a debate in convocation in reference to the Scottish liturgy 1862; The rights of laymen in the church of Christ 1870; The administration of canon law, a review of proceedings in the case of Humble and others v. the bishop of St. Andrews 1873. d. San Remo, Italy 7 Feb. 1876.

HUMBLE, Rev. Michael Maughan. b. 1811; ed. at Em. coll. Cam., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1860; C. of Felton, Northumberland 1835–9; R. of Sutton cum Duckmanton, Derbyshire 2 July 1839 to death; author of Methodistic Catholicism 1852; The church of England and the fathers 1854; Credenda 1875; Family Prayers 1879. d. Sutton rectory 3 Feb. 1889.