HUMBLE, William. b. 1797; M.D.; F.G.S.; author of A practical treatise on sea bathing. Worthing 1838; Dictionary of geology and mineralogy 1840, 3 ed. 1860. d. Cliff lodge, Ramsgate 23 April 1878.

HUMBY, Anne (dau. of Mr. Ayre of London, law stationer). b. London 1800; first appeared on the stage at Hull as Rosina; appeared at Bath 4 Nov. 1818 as Rosetta in Love in a village; played at Dublin 1821–5; first appeared in London at Haymarket theatre 18 April 1825 as Cowslip in The Agreeable Surprise; played at Haymarket 1825–30, then at Drury Lane; unrivalled as an actress of chambermaids, &c.; the original exponent of Polly Briggs in Douglas Jerrold’s Rent Day 25 Jany. 1832, of Sophy Hawes in Jerrold’s Housekeeper at the Haymarket 17 July 1833, of Chicken in Jerrold’s Time Works Wonders at the Haymarket 26 April 1845, and of Lady Clutterbuck in Boucicault’s Used up at the Haymarket 6 Feb. 1844, and was seen in the same character at Windsor castle 4 Jany. 1849; made her last appearance on the stage, at Lyceum theatre as a Damsel in Barbadoes in Drop the Curtain 28 Nov. 1849; (m. (1) about 1817 William Henry Humby actor in the Hull circuit, subsequently a dentist London 1831 to 1847, d. Guernsey 15 June 1850 aged 58; m. (2) 3 April 1854 at Episcopal chapel, St. Peter’s, Hammersmith, Joseph Hammon of Bridge road, Hammersmith, builder then aged 43); she lived at 198 Piccadilly, London 1848–51, at 3 Castlenau cottages, Barnes 1854–60 or 61 and must be dead, but her name cannot be found in register of deaths at Somerset house between 1866 and 1887. The Oddfellow, i, 81 (1839).

HUME, Rev. Abraham (son of Thomas F. Hume). b. Hillsborough, co. Down 9 Feb. 1814; ed. at Royal Belfast coll., Glasgow univ., LL.B. and LLD. 1851, and Trin. coll. Dublin; B.A. Dublin 1843, LLD. Cam. 1856, D.C.L. Ox. 1857; C. of St. Augustines, Everton 1844–47; prof. of English literature in collegiate institution, Liverpool 1844–7; V. of Vauxhall, Liverpool 1847 to death; surveyed Chili and Peru for South American Missionary Soc. 1867; chief founder of Hist. Soc. of Lancs. and Cheshire 1848, pres. 1869–75; sec. of church congress at Liverpool 1869; sec. of British association at Liverpool 1870; vice chairman of Liverpool school board 1870–6; sec. of Liverpool bishopric committee 1873–80; hon. canon of Chester 1874–80, of Liverpool 1880 to death; F.S.A. 14 March 1844; author of The learned societies and printing clubs of the United Kingdom 1847, new ed. 1853; Ancient Meols, or some account of the antiquities found on the sea-coast of Cheshire 2 parts 1863–66 with portrait of author; Remarks on the Irish dialect of the English language 1878, and more than 100 other books. d. All Soul’s vicarage, 6 Rupert lane, Liverpool 21 Nov. 1884. J. C. Morley’s Memoir of Rev. A. Hume, Liverpool 1887; Crockford’s Clerical Directory (1876) 474.

HUME, Alexander (son of Walter Hume, a retail trader). b. Kelso 1 Feb. 1809; a strolling player in England 1822 or 1823; employed by London agents of Berwick & Co. brewers, Edinburgh 1827–40; London agent for Messrs. Lane, brewers, Cork 1841–7; author of Scottish songs 1835; English songs and ballads 1838; Songs and poems, chiefly Scottish 1845. d. Northampton, May 1851. Rogers’s Modern Scottish Minstrel, ii, 182–94 (1856).

HUME, Alexander. b. Edinburgh 17 Feb. 1811; tenor singer in St. Paul’s episcopal ch. Edin.; chorus master in theatre royal, Edin.; arranged musical manual for the Glassites; cabinet maker at Glasgow about 1855; very successful in setting tunes to Scottish lyrics and songs of his own; edited The lyric gems of Scotland, Glasgow 1856, to which he made 50 contributions. d. Glasgow 4 Feb. 1859.

HUME, Alexander Hamilton (son of Andrew Hamilton Hume 1762–1849, Australian settler). b. Paramatta, New South Wales 18 June 1797; with his brother John Kennedy Hume (shot by bush rangers Jany. 1840) discovered Bong Bong and Berrima, Aug. 1814; accompanied surveyor Meehan in the discovery of Goulburn plains 1817, rewarded with grant of 300 acres near Appin; made the first overland journey from Sydney to Port Philip 2 Oct. to 16 Dec. 1824, discovered the Hume now called Murray river 16 Nov. 1824, rewarded with grant of 1200 acres of land valued at half a crown an acre 1825; accompanied Charles Sturt in his Macquarie and Darling river expedition 1828–9; F.R.G.S. 1860; author of A brief statement of an overland expedition from Lake George to Port Philip 1855, 3 ed. 1874. d. Fort George, Yass, N.S.W. 19 April 1873, monumental pillar at Albury on the Murray. Heaton’s Australian Dictionary (1879) 98; Bonwick’s Port Philip Settlement (1883) 80–93, portrait.

HUME, Sir Gustavus (2 son of Rev. Robert Hume of Dublin, d. 1849). b. 25 Feb. 1826; ensign 38 foot 30 May 1843, captain 21 Sep. 1852 to 22 June 1858 when placed on h.p.; served in Crimean war 1854–5 and in Indian mutiny 1857–8; assistant inspector of volunteers 1860–65; lieut.-col. in the army 17 March 1863; member of corps of gentlemen-at-arms, Dec. 1872, adjutant 1 Jany. 1876, lieut. 20 Nov. 1878 to death; a knight of Legion of Honour; knighted at Windsor Castle 1 Dec. 1880. d. 21 Royal York crescent, Clifton 16 June 1891.

HUME, John Robert. b. Renfrewshire 1781 or 1782; received medical education at Glasgow 1795, 98 and 99, and at Edinburgh 1796–97; entered medical department of army, inspector general 3 Dec. 1818 to 25 April 1821 when placed on h.p.; M.D. St. Andrews 12 Jany. 1816; L.R.C.P. London 22 Dec. 1819, F.R.C.P. 9 July 1836; settled in London; private physician to duke of Wellington many years; D.C.L. Ox. 13 June 1834; one of metropolitan comrs. in lunacy 1 Sep. 1836 to death; C.B. 16 Aug. 1850. d. 9 Curzon st. London 1 March 1857. Munk’s Coll. of physicians, iii, 212 (1878).

HUME, Joseph (son of James Hume of Montrose, shipmaster). b. Montrose 22 Jany. 1777; apprenticed to a surgeon of Montrose 1790; M.R.C.S. Edin. 1796; M.R.C.S. Lond. 2 Feb. 1797; assistant surgeon in marine service of East India Co.; Persian interpreter in army during Mahratta war 1802–1807; commissary general 1807, resigned and returned to England with £40,000, 1808; M.P. Weymouth, Jany. 1812; M.P. Aberdeen district of burghs 1818–30; M.P. Middlesex 1830–37; M.P. Kilkenny 1837–41; contested Leeds 1841; M.P. Montrose district of burghs 1842 to death; leader of the radical party 30 years, he spoke longer and oftener than any other private member, many of his speeches were printed; lord rector of Univ. of Aberdeen 1824 and 1828; F.R.S.; F.R.A.S. d. Burnley hall, Norfolk 20 Feb. 1855. bur. Kensal Green cemetery. Joseph Hume a memorial [a poem]. By J. B. Hume (1855); H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches, 4 ed. (1876) 64–70; Reminiscences of 50 years. By Mark Boyd (1871) 281–92; J. Grant’s Memoir of Sir G. Sinclair (1870) 66–79; St. Stephens. By Mask (1839) 198–210; Saunders’s Portraits of reformers (1840), 55 portrait; Fagan’s Reform club (1887) 29–31, portrait.

HUMFREY, Lebbeus Charles (eld. son of Rev. Lebbeus Charles Humfrey, R. of Laughton, Leics. d. 1833). b. about 1798; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; barrister L.I. 17 June 1823, bencher 1845; went Midland circuit of which he became leader; counsel to Times newspaper; Q.C. Feb. 1845; marble bust of him by E. H. Bailey exhibited at the R.A. 1852. d. 11 Great Queen st. Westminster 11 May 1852. bur. beneath chapel of Lincoln’s inn. G.M. xxxviii, 95–6 (1852).

HUMPHERY, John (eld. son of John Humphery of Shadwell, London). b. 30 May 1794; a wharfinger and merchant at Hay’s wharf, Tooley st. Southwark; M.P. for Southwark 1832–52; governor of Irish Society 1843 to death; alderman of Aldgate ward 1835 to death; sheriff of London 1832–3, lord mayor 1842–3. d. Battersea Rise, north side of Clapham common 28 Sep. 1863. I.L.N. ii, 279 (1843), portrait.

HUMPHREY, Thomas. b. Mitcham, Surrey 16 Jany. 1839; one of the best batsmen of his day, especially good at cutting, made 1000 runs during a season several times; played for Surrey many years; a first-class fieldsman especially at long-leg and long-on; had a benefit at Kennington Oval 26–28 July 1876. d. the Asylum, Brookwood, Surrey 3 Sep. 1878. bur. Woking cemet. 9 Sep. Illust. sp. and dram. news, v, 401, 402, 430 (1876), portrait; Bell’s Life in London 7 Sep. 1878 pp. 3, 4, and 14 Sep. p. 4; W. G. Grace’s Cricket (1891) 329–30.

HUMPHREYS, Henry Noel (son of James Humphreys of Birmingham). b. Birmingham 4 Jany. 1810; resided in Italy about 1828–40; illustrated Westwood’s British butterflies 1841; Loudon’s British Wild Flowers 1856 and other books; author of The Coins of England 1846; The coin-collector’s manual 2 vols. 1847; The origin and progress of the art of writing 1853; A history of the art of printing 1867 and 20 other books. d. 7 Westbourne sq. London 10 June 1879. Academy 21 June 1879 p. 550.

HUMPHREYS, Sir John (son of John Humphreys of Upper Clapton, Middlesex). b. Upper Clapton 1814; a solicitor and parliamentary agent in London 1842–59; coroner for East Middlesex 1859 to death; knighted at Osborne 18 Aug. 1881. d. 20 Devonshire st. Portland place, London 20 Nov. 1886.

HUMPHREYS, William. b. Dublin 1794; learnt engraving from George Murray at Philadelphia; engraved small plates for annuals, &c.; returned to England 1822; engraved steel plate head of Queen Victoria on postage stamps, also head of Washington for U.S. stamps; engraved Murillo’s Spanish peasant boy 1833, C. R Leslie’s Sancho and the Duchess 1838, and other large plates. d. at Alfred Novello’s residence, Villa Novella, Genoa 21 Jany. 1865. W. S. Baker’s American Engravers (1875) 84–86.

HUMPHRY, Joseph. b. 1795 or 1796; barrister L.I. 6 July 1821; Q.C. 1846 to 28 Nov. 1850; master in chancery 28 Nov. 1850 to 8 Aug. 1860 when he retired. d. Brighton 18 Nov. 1861.

Note.—He was the last master in chancery appointed, the office was abolished in 1852 by 15 & 16 Vict. cap. 80 having been in existence since 1272.

HUMPHRY, Rev. William Gilson (eld. son of Wm. Wood Humphry, barrister). b. Sudbury, Suffolk 30 Jany. 1815; ed. at Shrewsbury, captain of the school; entered Trin. coll. Cam. 1833, Pitt scholar 1835, fellow 1839, senior classic and 27th wrangler 1837, B.A. 1837; proctor of Univ. of Cam. 1845–6, Hulsean lecturer 1849–51, Boyle lecturer 1857–9; exam. chaplain to bishop Blomfield of London 1847–55; V. of Northolt, Middlesex 1852–5; preb. of St. Paul’s 1852 to death; V. of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London 1855 to death; one of revisers of New Testament 1870; a treasurer of S.P.C.K. 30 years; author of A commentary on the Acts of the Apostles 1847, 2 ed. 1854; An historical treatise on the book of common prayer 1853, 6 ed. 1885; A commentary on the revised version of the New Testament for English readers 1882, 2 ed. 1888 and 20 other books. d. 6 St. Martin’s place, Trafalgar sq. London 10 Jany. 1886.

HUMPIDGE, Thomas Samuel. b. Gloucester 23 July 1853; ed. at Royal school of mines 1874, Jodrell scholar 1875; B. Sc. London 1875; Ph.D. Heidelberg 1878; science master Fellenberg instit. Hofwyl near Berne 1878; prof. of natural science Univ. coll. Aberystwyth, Sep. 1879 to death; made discoveries in the atomic weight of beryllium, towards the cost of which the Royal Soc. made grants, all his apparatus burnt in the college July 1885; sent papers to Philos. Trans. and Proceedings; translated H. Kolbe’s A short text-book of inorganic chemistry 1884. d. The college, Aberystwyth 30 Nov. 1887. Journal Chemical soc. (1888) 513–18.

HUNGATE, William Anning. b. 7 Sep. 1786; entered navy 10 July 1803, lieut. on h.p. 2 March 1815 to death; claimed to be descended from and to be entitled to estates of the Hungate family of Yorkshire, brought actions of ejectment to obtain possession of estates 1831 and 1832 but failed; assumed title of baronet and was presented to Wm. iv. as Sir W. A. Hungate, by Earl of Denbigh 27 April 1831. d. 18 Feb. 1852.

HUNLOKE, Sir Henry John Joseph, 6 Baronet. b. 29 Sep. 1812; succeeded 19 June 1816; formed a menagerie of rare animals at Wingeworth hall, Derbyshire, which was sold by auction after his death. d. Grafton st. London 8 Feb. 1856.

HUNNUM, Robert (son of Fenwick Hunnum, purveyor to the Lambton kennel). b. Durham 1795; second horseman to Mr. Ralph John Lambton of Merton house, Durham 1809 and known by name of ‘Mr. Ralph’s Great Coat’; second whip 1818; first whipper-in 1829 till the Lambton hounds were sold to Lord Suffield; a man of great courage and endurance; huntsman to Sir Matthew White Ridley in Northumberland 1843, whose hounds were sold by auction in London 30 June 1845 for £773, after which the hunt was kept up by subscription. The Book of Sports, ii, 42–6 (1843), portrait; New Sporting Mag. v, 4–5 (1833), portrait.

HUNT, Andrew. b. Erdington near Birmingham 1790; pupil of Samuel Lines the engraver; landscape painter and teacher of drawing at Liverpool; member of Liverpool Academy and exhibitor there. d. 31 Oxford st. 22 July 1861.

HUNT, Edward (son of Thomas Hunt). b. Hammersmith, Middlesex 29 Sep. 1829; ed. at Univ. coll. London, B.A. London 1850; assistant to Crace Calvert, royal institution laboratory, Manchester 1851; discovered process for distilling resin without decomposition 1857; took out patent for treatment of resin in making soap 1858; partner with Samuel Barlow and H. D. Pochin as Samuel Barlow & Co. in bleaching and dyeing works Stakehill near Middleton, Lancs. 1861 to death; F.C.S. Dec. 1851. d. Whalley range, Manchester 12 Aug. 1883. Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 476–7 (1887).

HUNT, Ellen St. John. b. Norwich 27 Nov. 1837; a contributor to The Bible class mag. and to The Sunday school teachers’ mag. under pseudonym of Ion; author of Thoughts of sunshine in sorrow. By E.S.J.H. 1862, Second series 1866. d. Norwich 11 March 1864. Memoir pp. v-xlvii in Thoughts of sunshine (1866).

HUNT, Frederick Knight. b. Buckinghamshire, April 1814; employed in printing office of Morning Herald 1830; clerk to a barrister in the Temple 1830; sec. to London Anti-Corn-law league 1836; studied medicine at Middlesex hospital, M.R.C.S. 13 Nov. 1840; projected the Medical Times which he edited 28 Sep. 1839; surgeon of a union in Norfolk; sub-editor of Illustrated London News; sub-editor of Pictorial Times; edited Hunt’s London Journal 1844; assistant editor Daily News Jany. 1846, and editor 1851 to death; author of The book of art 1846; The Rhine, its scenery and associations 1845; The fourth estate, contributions towards a history of newspapers 2 vols. 1850. d. Forest hill, Sydenham 18 Nov. 1854. John Francis, publisher of the Athenæum. By J. C. Francis, i, 224, 226, 410–13 (1888); Diprose’s St. Clements, i, 245 (1868).

HUNT, Rev. George (son of Nehemiah Augustus Hunt of Plymouth). b. 1789; ed. at Trin. coll. Ox., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813; V. of Egg Buckland near Plymouth 26 May 1818 to death; F.R.S.; edited Specimens of lithography as applied to eastern literature 1819; translated The book of Job 1825; Himyaric inscriptions of Hisn Ghoráb 1848. d. Egg Buckland 20 Feb. 1861.

HUNT, George Ward (eld. son of Rev. George Hunt of Buckhurst, Berks.) b. Buckhurst 30 July 1825; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1848, M.A. 1851, D.C.L. 1870; barrister I.T. 21 Nov. 1851, bencher 23 May 1873; contested Northampton 1852 and 1857; M.P. for North Northamptonshire 16 Dec. 1857 to death; chairman of quarter sessions for Northamptonshire, April 1866; financial sec. to treasury, July 1866 to Feb. 1868; chancellor of the exchequer 29 Feb. to Dec. 1868; P.C. 29 Feb. 1868; first lord of the admiralty 21 Feb. 1874 to death. d. Homburg 29 July 1877. bur. Homburg 30 July. C. Brown’s Life of Beaconsfield, ii, 93, 162 (1882), portrait; Graphic 4 Aug. 1877 pp. 99, 113, portrait.

HUNT, Henry. Educ. at St. Bartholomew’s hospital and Paris; M.R.C.P. 1840, F.R.C.P. 1859; fellow of Royal Med. Chir. Soc.; practised at 68 Brook st. Hanover sq. London from 1840; phys. to Dispensary for Children; author of On the nature and treatment of tic-douloureux, sciatica and other neuralgic disorders 1844; On the severer forms of heartburn and indigestion 1854. d. 25 May 1877 aged 75.

HUNT, Sir Henry Arthur (son of James Hunt of Westminster). b. 1810; consulting surveyor to H.M. commissioners of works and buildings 1856–86; receiver-general for dean and chapter of Westminster to 1886; partner in firm of Hunt, Stephenson and Jones, surveyors, 45 Parliament st. Westminster; A.I.C.E. 4 March 1851; C.B. 5 Aug. 1871; knighted at Osborne 21 July 1876. d. The Lees, Folkestone 13 Jany. 1889.

HUNT, Holdsworth (youngest son of Wm. Chollwill Hunt, M.D. of Dartmouth). b. Dartmouth 1806; ed. at Crediton and in Paris; barrister I.T. 12 June 1833, bencher 1865 to death, reader 1879, treasurer 1880; member of council of legal education; member of French Institute 1851. d. 20 Park crescent, Portland place, London 26 April 1883.

HUNT, James (son of Thomas Hunt 1802–51). b. Swanage, Dorset 1833; Ph.D. of Giessen 1855 and M.D. 1867; succeeded his father as a specialist in curing stammering, had a house at Hastings where he received many patients; member of Ethnological soc. of London 1854, hon. sec. 1859–62, hon. fellow 1862; founded Anthropological soc. of London 1863, president 1863–8, director 1867; edited Anthropological Rev. 1863; agitated for making Anthropology a department at British Assoc. meetings which was done in 1883; F.S.A.; F.R.S.L. 1854; author of A manual of the philosophy of voice and speech 1859; Stammering and stuttering, their nature and treatment 1861, 7 ed. 1870 and 7 other books. d. Ore Court near Hastings 29 Aug. 1869. Reg. and mag. of biog., ii, 198–200 (1869).

HUNT, James Henry Leigh (son of Rev. Isaac Hunt, d. 1809 aged 57). b. Southgate, Middlesex 19 Oct. 1784; ed. at Christ hospital 1792–99; started with his brother John, The Examiner a weekly paper 1808, editor 1808–21; edited a quarterly mag. called The Reflector which ran to 4 numbers 1810; tried for a libel in The Examiner on the prince regent, and imprisoned in Surrey gaol 3 Feb. 1813 to 3 Feb. 1815; great friend of Byron, Shelley, Keats, C. Lamb, T. Moore, J. Forster and T. Carlyle; edited The Indicator, Oct. 1820 to 1822, 77 numbers; was in Italy 1822–5; edited The Liberal 1822–3, 2 vols.; The Literary Examiner, 27 numbers; The Companion 1828, 28 numbers; The Chat of the Week 1830, 13 numbers; The Tatler a daily sheet entirely written by himself 4 Oct. 1830 to 13 Feb. 1832, 59 numbers; Leigh Hunt’s London Journal 1834 to 26 Dec. 1835, and The Monthly Repository July 1837 to March 1838; produced A Legend of Florence at Covent Garden 7 Feb. 1840; civil list pension of £200, 4 Oct. 1847; published Leigh Hunt’s Journal 1850 to March 1851; author of Lord Byron and some of his contemporaries 1828; The Town 2 vols. 1848; The autobiography of L. Hunt 1850, 3 vols. new ed. 1860; Table talk 1851 and very numerous other books. d. at res. of Charles W. Reynell, Chatfield house, (now 84) High st. Putney, Surrey 28 Aug. 1859. bur. Kensal Green cemet. Sep., monument by Joseph Durham, A.R.A. placed on the spot 19 Oct. 1869. The Correspondence of Leigh Hunt 2 vols. (1862); Leigh Hunt’s Lord Byron, 2 ed. (1828) 55–408, portrait; W. Howitt’s Homes and haunts of British poets, ii, 347–67 (1847); T. H. Ward’s English poets, 2 ed. (1883) iv, 340–7; J. A. Langford’s Prison books (1861) 316–33, portrait; Maclise Portrait Gallery (1883) 242–56, portrait; L. Hutton’s Literary landmarks of London, 4 ed. (1888) 144–9; F. E. Baines’ Hampstead (1890) 358, portrait.

Note.—He is drawn in Bleak House 1853 as Harold Skimpole and in A. W. Pinero’s play Lady Bountiful 1891 as Roderick Heron. His dau. Julia Trelawney Leigh Hunt was granted civil list pension of £75, 19 April 1861 and d. Hammersmith 3 Feb. 1872.

HUNT, Rev. John Higgs. b. 1780; ed. at Charterhouse and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1801, M.A. 1804; edited The Critical Review, reviewed Byron’s Hours of Idleness in it Sep. 1807; V. of Weedon Beck, Northamptonshire 20 March 1823 to death; published Tasso’s Jerusalem delivered, with notes and occasional illustrations 2 vols. 1818, reprinted in E. Sanford’s The works of the British poets, vols. 48, 49 (1819); said to have written a work upon Cosmo the Great. d. Weedon Beck 17 Nov. 1859.

HUNT, Joseph. Kept a tavern in London; a public singer at Naval Coffee house, St. Martin’s lane, London; William Probert and John Thurtell murdered William Weare at Gill’s hill lane near Elstree, Herts. 24 Oct. 1823, Hunt was found guilty as an accessory before the murder and sentenced to death 7 Jany. 1824 but eventually transported for life; court keeper of assize court, Bathurst, N.S.W. 1839–59; living at Bathurst 1859; father of a famous female singer living in 1864. Narrative of murder of Mr. W. Weare, the confession of Hunt and the execution of Thurtell (1824), portrait.

Note.—John Thurtell was hanged at Hertford 9 Jany. 1824, Wm. Probert escaped by turning King’s evidence, but was hanged at the Old Bailey 20 June 1825 for horse-stealing; Thurtell’s gig used by him in going to Gill’s hill lane, was exhibited in a piece called The Gamblers produced at the Surrey theatre, Jany. 1824.

HUNT, Robert (son of Robert Hunt lost in H.M.S. Mocheron 1807). b. Plymouth Dock (now Devonport) 6 Sep. 1807; studied medicine in London; chemist and druggist Chapel st. Penzance 1833–4; sec. of Royal Cornwall Polytechnic soc. 1840–5, pres. 1859; keeper of the mining records office 1845 till it was abolished 1883; lecturer on mechanical science in Royal school of mines 1851–3, lecturer on experimental physics 1853; F.R.S. 1 June 1854; The Miners’ Assoc. of Cornwall and Devon was instituted at a meeting called by him 1859 and opened 1861; a comr. on inquiry on quantity of coal remaining 1866; made researches on solar rays, electrical phenomena in mineral veins and photography; edited Ure’s Dictionary of arts, manufactures and mines 1859, 1867 and 1875, three editions; author of A popular treatise on the art of photography 1841; Researches on light 1844, 2 ed. 1854; Elementary physics 1851, new ed. 1855; Popular romances of West of England 2 vols. 1865; British mining 1884, 2 ed. 1887; compiler and editor of annual blue books on Mineral statistics 1855–84. d. 26 St. Leonard’s ter. Chelsea 17 Oct. 1887. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. 259–60, 1238; Athenæum 22 Oct. 1887 pp. 541–2; Times 20 Oct. 1887 p. 5.

HUNT, Thomas. b. Dorset 1802; ed. at Winchester and Trin. coll. Cam.; invented a method of curing stammering, which he practised at 224 Regent st. London 1827 to death; Sir John Forbes sent him pupils 1828–51; his pupils subscribed for his bust in marble which was modelled by Joseph Durham and exhibited in the R.A. 1849. d. Godlingstone near Swanage, Dorset 18 Aug. 1851. James Hunt’s Treatise on stammering, with memoir of T. Hunt (1854) 27–69, portrait; Fraser’s Mag. July 1859 pp. 1–14, By Charles Kingsley.

HUNT, Thomas Newman. b. 1806; merchant of firm of Newman, Hunt & Co. 12 New Broad st. city of London; a director of Bank of England 1856–83, deputy governor 1866–7, governor 1867–9; chairman of Public works loan commission. d. 79 Portland place, London 17 Jany. 1884.

HUNT, Thornton Leigh (eld. son of J. H. Leigh Hunt 1784–1859). b. London 10 Sep. 1810; studied drawing and painting; sub-editor of The Constitutional, morning paper 15 Sep. 1836 which lasted to 1 July 1837; edited the North Cheshire Reformer at Chester; The Argus at Glasgow to 1840; one of chief contributors to Spectator 1840–60; one of founders of Leader 1850; one of chief contributors to Globe; on the Daily Telegraph as acting editor 1855–72; author of The Foster Brother 1845; The rationale of railway administration 1846; Unity of the iron network, the argument for the break of gauge 1846; edited his father’s Autobiography 1860, Works 1860, and Correspondence 1862. d. 41 Victoria road, Kilburn, Middlesex 25 June 1873. Athenæum 28 June 1873 p. 825; Bourne’s English newspapers, ii, 98, 235, 241, 267 (1887).

HUNT, Vere Dawson De Vere (son of Vere Hunt). b. 7 July 1829; captain inland transport corps; author of The horse and its master, with hints on breeding, breaking, etc. 1859; England’s horses for peace and war 1874. d. 9 Dec. 1878.

HUNT, William. b. 1766; ed. at Rugby and King’s coll. Cam., scholar 1784, fellow 1787 to death; B.A. 1789, M.A. 1792; barrister L.I. 27 June 1794; went Norfolk circuit, leader of it long time; assessor to the vice chancellor in the university courts 1805 to death; recorder of Tamworth (the last) 1817–42. d. King’s college, Cambridge 6 Jany. 1852.

HUNT, William (son of Thomas Hunt). b. Bath 1801; in business with his brother at Bath; a great supporter of Reform 1832; one of first members of Bath reformed corporation 1836, alderman 1841–7, 1848 to death; mayor of Bath 1840, 47, 54, 67 and 73; presented with a silver salver and his portrait 16 June 1869; J.P. for Bath 2 Sep. 1847 to death. d. 72 Pulteney st. Bath 17 Sep. 1885. Keene’s Bath Journal 19 Sep. 1885 p. 4.

HUNT, Very Rev. William. b. East Hendred, Berks. 15 June 1803; ordained priest 1830; professor at St. Edmund’s coll. Ware 1830–2; missioner at Southampton 1832–41; minister St. James’ chapel, Spanish place, Manchester sq. London 1842, resigned 1883; provost of the chapter of Westminster 1865. d. 6 Spanish place 9 Jany. 1889.

HUNT, William George Lennon. b. 1842; a baritone; before he was 21 he had appeared in 20 different operas in Madrid; musical composer, dramatist, author; director of Philharmonic soc. of Madrid; consul at Loanda, South Africa 10 June 1878 to death. d. Loanda 30 Aug. 1879. Illust. sp. and dr. news, xii, 101, 102 (1879), portrait.

HUNT, William Henry (son of John Hunt, tinplate worker). b. 8 Old Belton st. (now Endell st.), Long Acre, London 28 March 1790; apprenticed to John Varley, artist 1804–11; painted in oils 1807–24, in water colours 1824–63; associate exhibitor of Watercolour soc. 1824, member 1826; member of Amsterdam royal academy 1856; exhibited 14 pictures at R.A., 6 at B.I. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1807–29; his Roses in a Jar in the Wade collection 1872 sold for five hundred guineas. d. 62 Stanhope st. Hampstead road, London 10 Feb. 1864. Redgrave’s Century of painters, ii, 502–9 (1866); Fraser’s Mag. lxxii, 525–36 (1865).

HUNTER, Adam. b. Greenock 20 June 1791; ed. at Glasgow and Edin. univs., M.D. Edin. 1813; physician Edin. 1815 to death; F.R.S. Edin. 1839; made a report to Scottish national insurance co. on the lives insured; author of The fruits of amalgamation exhibited in the correspondence of a Palladium policy holder with C. Jellicoe. Edin. 1865. d. 18 Abercromby place, Edinburgh 24 June 1870. Proc. Royal Soc. of Edin. vii, 240–2 (1872).

HUNTER, Sir Claudius Stephen, 1 Baronet (younger son of Henry Hunter of Beech hill, Berks., barrister 1739–89). b. Beech hill 24 Feb. 1775; student, of the Inner Temple; solicitor in London 1797 to Jany. 1811; alderman of ward of Bassishaw, Sep. 1804 to 1835; alderman of ward of Bridge without 1835 to death; lieut. col. of Royal east regiment of London militia 1806 and col. of royal west regt. 10 Jany. 1810 to death; sheriff of London 1808–9, lord mayor 1811–12 when he revived ancient ceremonies; created baronet 11 Dec. 1812; hon. D.C.L. Ox. 23 June 1819; president of London Life association 1835 to death. d. Mortimer hill, Berkshire 20 April 1851. European Mag. lxii, 177–84 (1812), portrait; G.M. xxxvi, 88–90 (1851); Thornbury’s London, i, 116, 329–30, (1872).

HUNTER, Sir Claudius Stephen Paul, 2 Baronet. b. Ghazepore, East Indies 21 Sep. 1825; ed. at Eton and St. John’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1849, M.A. 1850; student of Inner Temple 1848; succeeded his grandfather 20 April 1851; captain royal London militia 1846–50; founder of 1st Berkshire volunteer regt. and capt. commandant 31 March 1860, lieut.-col. 2 Nov. 1872 to Dec. 1885; sheriff of Berks. 1860. d. Mortimer hill near Reading 7 Jany. 1890.

HUNTER, George. Entered Bengal army 1800; colonel 1 European regt. of light infantry 1843 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 26 Dec. 1826. d. Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire 11 Nov. 1854.

HUNTER, Ven. James (son of John Hunter). b. Barnstaple 1817; clerk to Charles Roberts, solicitor, Barnstaple; a master in Tavistock sch.; ed. at Ch. Miss. coll. Islington to 1843; archdeacon of Cumberland, Rupert’s Land 1854–67; V. of St. Matthew, Bayswater, London 1867 to death; M.A. 1855 and D.D. 1876 by Archbishop of Canterbury; author of The Book of common prayer, Translated into the language of the Cree Indians 1859; The gospels of St. Matthew, St. Mark and St. John in Cree; The faith and duty of a Christian in Cree; with J. Mason and others The Bible translated into the language of the Knisteneaux or Cree North American Indians 2 parts 1861–2. d. 52 Leinster sq. London 12 Feb. 1882. bur. Highgate cemet. 18 Feb.

HUNTER, James. b. Muirkirk, Ayrshire 1818; manager Coltness iron works 1839 and then a partner (Houldsworth & Co.), retired 1885, increased the works from 2 to 12 furnaces; the Coltness brand of iron became known all over the world; D.L. for Ayrshire; A.I.C.E. 4 April 1854. d. Newman’s House by Motherwell, Edinburgh 5 Oct. 1886. Min. of Proc. I.C.E. lxxxix, 494–5 (1887).

HUNTER, Rev. John (youngest son of Rev. Andrew Hunter, minister of Tron ch. Edin., d. 1809). b. Edin. 1788; presbyterian minister of Swinton, Berwickshire 1814–32; assistant minister of Tron ch. Edin. after a contest with the kirk session which was decided in house of lords Oct. 1832, minister of Tron ch. to death; D.D. of univ. of Edin. 29 May 1847. d. 9 Regent ter. Edinburgh 21 June 1866. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 27–8, portrait; Scott’s Fasti, i part i, p. 61.

HUNTER, John (son of professor Andrew Hunter). In a writer’s office copying law papers at 3d. a page; a writer to the signet 1826; auditor of court of session to 1866; author of Miscellanies in verse. By N.R. i.e. J. Hunter 1843. d. Craigcrook 3 Dec. 1869. Journal of jurisprudence, xiv, 42–5 (1870).

HUNTER, John (only son of John Hunter, physician). b. Belfast 23 March 1843; ed. at Queen’s coll. Belfast and Queen’s univ., B.A. 1863, M.A. 1864; assistant professor of chemistry Queen’s coll. 1865–70; professor of mathematics and natural philosophy King’s coll. Windsor, Nova Scotia 1870–1; accompanied the Deep Sea dredging expedition in H.M.S. Porcupine 1869; made researches on the absorption of gases by charcoal, the absorption of mixed vapours, pressure of absorption and the composition of sea water. d. Enniscrone, Mayo 13 Sep. 1872. Proc. of royal soc. of Edin. viii, 322–4 (1875).

HUNTER, John (2 son of John Hunter, d. 3 Dec. 1869). Advocate 1857; sheriff substitute of Peebleshire 1868 to death; member of Speculative soc. d. Kingsmuir, Peebles 29 Sep. 1872. Journal of Jurisprudence, xvi, 603–5 (1872).

HUNTER, John Charles. b. 20 Aug. 1799; L.S.A. 1821; M.R.C.S. 1821; L.R.C.P. 1863; inspector National Vaccine establishment; author of 63rd vol. of the Family library Sketches of imposture, deception and credulity 1837. d. 30 Wilton place, Belgrave sq. London 19 Dec. 1871.

HUNTER, John Kelso. b. Dunkeith, Ayrshire 15 Dec. 1802; a herd boy; shoemaker at Kilmarnock; removed to Glasgow; painted and exhibited portrait of himself at R.A. London 1847; author of The retrospect of an artist’s life 1868; Life studies of character 1871, containing facts about Robert Burns; Memorials of west country men and manners. d. Pollokshields near Glasgow 3 Feb. 1873. Times 6 Feb. 1873 p. 7.

HUNTER, Rev. Joseph (son of Michael Hunter of Sheffield, cutler 1759–1831). b. Sheffield 6 Feb. 1783; minister of a Presbyterian congregation at Bath 1809–33; a sub-comr. of public records in London 1833, an assistant keeper of the first class 1838 to death; F.S.A., mem. of council and vice pres. 1855; author of Hallamshire. The history of the parish of Sheffield 1819, new ed. by Rev. A. Gatty 1869; South Yorkshire. The history of the deanery of Doncaster 2 vols. 1828–31; The diary of Ralph Thoresby, F.R.S. 2 vols. 1830 and 30 other books; his library was sold at Sothebys, Dec. 1861 for £1105; his MS. collections were purchased by Br. Museum 1862. d. 30 Torrington sq. London 9 May 1861. bur. Ecclesfield near Sheffield 15 May. A brief memoir [by Sylvester Hunter] 1861, privately printed; Proc. of Soc. of Antiquaries, ii, 106–8 (1861).

HUNTER, Joseph. b. Scarborough 21 Oct. 1857; became known in the match County Eleven v. Surrey at Sheffield 15 July 1878; member of Yorkshire Eleven 1881; played against Australian team in 1883; member of Shaw’s English team in Australia 1884; had no superior as a wicket keeper; wicket keeper to the Yorkshire Eleven to 1889. d. at his residence the Wheat Sheaf hotel, Rotherham 4 Jany. 1891. Illust. S. and D. News, xxiii, 661, 662 (1885), portrait.

HUNTER, Robert (only child of an East India merchant, d. 1793). b. near Edinburgh 8 July 1791; ed. at High sch. Edin. to 1804 and at Edin. univ.; member of Scottish bar 1814; sheriff of Buteshire 1837 to death; sheriff of Dumbartonshire 1853 to death; author of A treatise on the law of landlord and tenant. Edin. 1833, 4 ed. 2 vols. 1876. d. 67 Northumberland st. Edinburgh 23 Dec. 1871. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 16, portrait; Journal of Jurisprudence, xvi, 93–6 (1872).

HUNTER, Robert Hope Alston (3 son of Rev. William Hunter). b. 1805; hospital assistant in army 10 Jany. 1827; surgeon of 57 regt. at Madras 1843–47; surgeon major 30 July 1847; placed on h.p. 10 Feb. 1852; author of Statistical review of the climate of the principal stations for European troops in the Bombay presidency; The medical history of the queen’s royal regiment during the campaign in Afghanistan. d. Dollar 22 June 1867. Medical Times 3 Aug. 1867 pp. 135–6.

HUNTER, Rowland, b. 1774; extensive bookseller at 72 St. Paul’s churchyard (where he succeeded his uncle Joseph Johnson) 1815–36. d. the Charterhouse 18 Jany. 1864.

HUNTER, Walter. b. parish of Newbattle near Edin. 1772; worked as a millwright under Watt and Rennie; adapted steam power to move dredging buckets and ladders; partner with Wm. English as millwrights and engineers at 28 High st. south, Bow, London 1807 or 1808 to death; M.I.C.E. 1827. d. Bow 8 Feb. 1852. Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xii, 161 (1853).

HUNTER, William (son of Andrew Hunter of Bury St. Edmunds). b. Bury St. Edmunds; of 76 Coleman st. City of London; member of ward of Coleman st. London 1823 and alderman 1843 to death, sheriff 1844–5, lord mayor 1851–52. d. 13 Westbourne terrace, Hyde park, London 22 Sep. 1856 aged 75. I.L.N. xix, 605 (1851), portrait.

HUNTER, William Frederick. b. 1841; ed. at Edin. univ., M.A., LL.B.; at Heidelberg and Berlin univ., D.C.L.; examiner in law, Edin. univ.; advocate in Scotland 1865; barrister L.I. 30 April 1875; inherited Hafton estate, Argyleshire on death of his brother; wrote article on Canon Law in Encyclop. Brit. v. 15–22 (1876). d. Madeira 28 April 1880. Journal of Jurisprudence, xxiv, 320–1 (1880).

HUNTER-BLAIR, Sir David, 3 Baronet. b. Edinburgh 1777; midshipman H.M.S. Hyacinth; succeeded his brother 24 May 1800; col. of Ayrshire militia during the war; convener of Ayrshire 1822 to 1855; vice lieut. of Ayrshire 1822 to death. d. Blairquhan, Ayr 26 Dec. 1857.

HUNTER-BLAIR, James (1 son of preceding). b. Milton, Ayrshire 22 March 1817; ensign Scots fusilier guards 24 April 1835, captain 31 March 1848 to death; M.P. Ayrshire 22 July 1852 to death; killed when commanding his battalion at Inkerman 5 Nov. 1854.

HUNTINGDON, Francis Power Plantagenet Hastings, 13 Earl of (eld. child of 12 Earl of Huntingdon 1808–75). b. Gaultier cottage, Waterford 4 Dec. 1841; styled Lord Hastings 1841–75; matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 20 Jany. 1860; succeeded 13 Sep. 1875; master of harriers at Whitechurch, Waterford 1867–8, of fox hounds 1868–71; master of the Ormond and King’s county hunt 1872–5 and of the King’s county alone from 1875, the Land League ultimately mobbed his hounds and he sold the pack to a Canadian; speculated in land in Florida and visited that country. d. Shanavogue, King’s county 20 May 1885. Baily’s Mag. xxxi, 63–4 (1878), portrait, xliv, 295 (1885).

HUNTINGFORD, Rev. Henry (son of Rev. Thomas Huntingford, master of Warminster school, Wilts.) b. Warminster 19 Sep. 1787; ed. at Winchester and New coll. Ox., fellow 1807–14; fellow of Winchester 5 April 1814 to his death; B.C.L. 1814; prebendary of Colwall in Hereford cath. Dec. 1817; R. of Hampton Bishop, Herefordshire 1822 to death; canon residentiary of Hereford cath. 1822 to death; master of Ledbury hospital, Hereford 1867; published Pindari Carmina juxta examplar Heynianum...et Lexicon Pindaricum ex integro Dammii opere etymologico excerptum 1814, another ed. 1821; translated Romanist Conversations [By B. Pictet] 1826. d. Goodrest, Great Malvern 2 Nov. 1867. bur. Hampton Bishop. F. T. Havergal’s Fasti Herefordenses (1869) 61.

HUNTLY, George Gordon, 9 Marquis of (only son of 4 Earl of Aboyne 1726–94). b. Edinburgh 28 June 1761; ensign 1 foot guards; lieut. col. 35 foot April 1789 to 15 June 1789; captain Coldstream guards 15 June 1789 to 1792 when he sold out; col. of Aberdeenshire militia 1798 to death; succeeded his father as 5 Earl of Aboyne 28 Dec. 1794; a representative peer of Scotland 1796–1815; cr. baron Meldrum of Morven, co. Aberdeen in peerage of the U.K. 11 Aug. 1815; K.T. 10 May 1827; succeeded as 9 marquis of Huntly by decision of House of Lords 22 June 1838 on death of his kinsman the 8 Marquis 28 May 1836. d. 24 Chapel st. Grosvenor sq. London 17 June 1853.

HUNTLY, Charles Gordon, 10 Marquis of (eld. child of the preceding). b. Orton near Peterborough 11 Jany. 1792; styled Lord Strathaven 1792–1853; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., M.A. 1812; M.P. East Grinstead 1818–30; M.P. Hunts. 1830–31, contested Hunts. 1831; lord lieut. of Aberdeenshire 14 Feb. 1861 to death. d. Orton Longueville near Peterborough 17 Sep. 1863.

HUNTLEY, Sir Henry Vere (3 son of Rev. Richard Huntley of Boxwell court, Gloucs. 1776–1831). b. 1795; entered navy 10 March 1809; accompanied Napoleon to St. Helena in the Northumberland 8 Aug. to 15 Oct. 1815; employed in suppressing slave trade 1826–37; commander 28 June 1838; lieut. gov. of settlements on river Gambia 23 Dec. 1839; lieut. gov. of Prince Edward’s Island 20 Aug. 1841 to 26 Oct. 1847; knighted by patent 9 Oct. 1841; consul at Loanda, Aug. 1858; consul at Santos, Brazil, May 1862 to death; author of Peregrine scramble, or thirty years’ adventures of a bluejacket 2 vols. 1849; Observation on free trade policy in connection with the Sugar act 1846; Seven years’ service on the Slave coast 2 vols. 1850; California, its gold and its inhabitants 2 vols. 1856. d. Santos, Brazil 7 May 1864.

HUNTLEY, John. b. London 25 March 1805; a packer of bale goods; went to U.S. America 1832; prompter Richmond hill theatre, New York; acted in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Richmond, Cincinnati and Pittsburg, when he first undertook old men characters; stage manager for Ludlow and Smith at St. Louis 1848–53; travelled in America as an actor, prompter and manager 1853–63. Brown’s American stage (1870) 190.

HUNTLEY, Rev. Richard Webster (brother of Sir H. V. Huntley). b. 1793; ed. at Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1819; fellow of All Souls 1815–31, proctor 1824; V. of Alderbury, Salop 20 Jany. 1829 to death; R. of Boxwell and Leighterton 3 Dec. 1831 to death; one of the 3 priests who opposed Dr. R. D. Hampden’s election to bishopric of Hereford, both in Bow ch. 11 Jany. 1848 and in the queen’s bench 1 Feb.; rural dean of Hawkesbury and Bitton 1840–51; author of A letter to the archbishop of Canterbury on the ecclesiastical commission and the suppression of a bishoprick in North Wales 1843; A glossary of the Cotswold dialect illustrated by examples from ancient authors. Gloucester 1868. d. Boxwell court, Gloucs. 4 April 1857. The Year of the Church. By R. W. Huntley (1860). Memoir pp. vii-xviii.

HURDIS, James Henry (elder son of James Hurdis, poet 1763–1801). b. 1800 probably at Bishopston, Berks.; ed. at Southampton; spent a few years in France; articled to Charles Heath the engraver; lived at Newick near Lewes; etched many portraits of local notabilities and views of buildings in Sussex, some of which are in the Sussex Archæological Society’s collections; a friend of George Cruikshank. d. Southampton 30 Nov. 1857. M. A. Lower’s Worthies of Sussex (1865) 170.

HURDLE, Sir Thomas (son of James Hurdle). b. 1797; 2 lieut. R.M. 24 April 1812, lieut. col. 15 Aug. 1853; served at Navarino 1827, in Greece 1828, commanded brigade of R.M. in Crimea 1854–6; aide-de-camp to the queen 1855–7; col. commandant 20 Feb. 1857; retired on full pay 17 Nov. 1859; hon. major general 2 Dec. 1859; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 2 June 1877. d. Porchester, Fareham, 7 June 1889.

HURLSTONE, Edwin Tyrrell. b. 1806; barrister I.T. 31 Jany. 1834, went South-Eastern circuit; a revising barrister to death; author with John Gordon of Exchequer Reports 1854–56, 2 vols. 1855–56; with J. P. Norman of Reports of cases in the courts of Exchequer and Exchequer Chamber 1856–62, 7 vols. 1857–62; with F. J. Coltman of Reports of cases in the Courts of Exchequer and Exchequer Chamber 1862–65, 3 vols. 1863–66 and other Reports. d. Thanet place, Temple, London 29 Sep. 1881.

HURLSTONE, Frederick Yeates (1 son of Thomas Yeates Hurlstone a proprietor of the Morning Chronicle). b. London 1800 or 1801; pupil of Sir W. Beechey and Sir T. Lawrence; student of the R.A. 1820, silver medallist 1822, gold medallist 1823; exhibited 37 pictures at R.A., 19 at B.I. and 326 at Suffolk st. 1821–70; member of Society of British artists 1831, president 1835 and 1840 to death; awarded a gold medal at Paris exhibition 1855; 11 of his best works were re-exhibited at Soc. of British Artists 1870; author with others of Protest against the Report from the committee of the National gallery 1855; (m. 1836 Jane Coral an artist, who exhibited 6 pictures at R.A. and 23 at Suffolk st. 1846–56 and d. 2 Oct. 1858); he d. 9 Chester st. Belgrave sq. London 10 June 1869.

HURMAN, William. Studied at Univ. coll. London; pupil of Robert Liston; M.R.C.S. 1846; house surgeon Univ. coll. hospital; in practice at Windsor, Brighton and London; surgeon to 3rd Middlesex militia 11 Aug. 1865 to death; one of the best known men in the hunting, coaching and racing world; originator of the Badminton club, 100 Piccadilly, London 1876. d. 83 Grand parade, Brighton, Dec. 1883. Baily’s Mag. Jany. 1884 pp. 429–30.

HURST, Rev. Blythe. b. Winlaton, Durham 6 July 1801; a blacksmith at Winlaton; ordained by Bishop Maltby at Auckland castle, July 1842; C. of Alston, Cumberland 1844–6; V. of Collierley near Newcastle 1854 to death; taught himself French, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Syriac and Arabic; published Four sermons, Christianity no priestcraft 1840. d. Collierley 24 June 1882. Newcastle Weekly Chronicle 1 July 1882 p. 7 col. 5; I.L.N. lxxxi, 56 (1882), portrait.

HURST, Daniel, b. 1802 or 1803; publisher with Henry Blackett at 13 Great Marlborough st. London 1854 to death. d. Mitcham, Surrey 6 July 1870.

HURST, Samuel, b. Stalybridge, Lancashire 1832; champion wrestler of Lancashire; known as “The Stalybridge Infant”; 6 feet 2½ inches high and 15 stone in weight; matched with J. C. Heenan 1860 but engagement fell through; fought Tom Paddock for £200 a side near Aldermaston, Berkshire 5 Nov. 1860 when Hurst won in 5 rounds and obtained the champion belt; broke his leg by a fall 19 Nov. 1860; fought James Mace for £200 a side on one of the islands up the river Medway 18 June 1861 when Mace won in 8 rounds lasting 50 minutes and obtained the belt; kept the Wilton Arms tavern 4 Mayes st. Manchester about 1861–5, the Glass House tavern, Oldham road, Manchester about 1865–70. d. Mayfield cottage, Manchester 22 May 1882. Illust. sporting news (1862) 249, portrait; F. W. J. Henning’s Some recollections of the prize ring (1888) 140–9.

HURST, Rev. Thomas (son of Joseph Hurst). b. Lancashire about 1775; ordained a priest at Lisbon; priest in the English coll. at Lisbon when used for secular education 1807, professor 1813, procurator of the restored college 1834 to death; a minister in the British and Portuguese hospitals in Lisbon 1807–14; confessor to the Bridgettine nuns at Lisbon. d. Lisbon 31 March 1855. Gillow’s English Catholics iii, 490–1 (1887).

HUSBAND, William (eld. son of James Husband, surveyor for Lloyd’s Register at Falmouth d. 1857). b. Mylor near Falmouth 13 Oct. 1822; apprenticed to Harvey & Co. of Hayle, Cornwall, engineers 1839–43; mechanical engineer in charge of steam machinery on drainage works Haarlem lake, Holland 1845–9, planned and erected the half-weg engine, the lake when drained added 47,000 acres of rich soil to Holland; manager of business of firm of Harvey & Co. in London 1852–4, and at Hayle 1854–63, a partner 1863 to death; patented balance valve for water-work purposes, four-beat pump valve, Husband’s oscillating cylinder stamps, &c.; M.I.C.E. 1 May 1866; originated 8th Cornwall artillery volunteers 1860, captain 2 April 1860 to 6 May 1865. d. 26 Sion hill, Clifton 10 April 1887. bur. St. Erth, Cornwall 16 April. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. (1887) lxxxix 470–3.

HUSENBETH, Rev. Frederick Charles (son of Frederick Charles Husenbeth of Bristol, wine-merchant). b. Bristol 30 May 1796; ed. at Sedgly Park sch. Staffs. and St. Mary’s coll. Oscott; ordained R.C. priest 25 Feb. 1820; chaplain at Cossey hall, Norfolk 7 July 1820; missioner of St. Walstan’s chapel, Cossey 1841 to death; grand vicar of the Midland district 1827; created D.D. by Pius ix. 7 July 1850; provost of the chapter and vicar-general of diocese of Northampton 24 June 1852; wrote 1305 articles under initials of F.C.H. in Notes and Queries 4 Feb. 1854 to 2 Nov. 1872; published Breviarium Romanum suis locis interpositis officiis sanctorum Angliæ 4 vols. 1830; The Missal for the use of the laity 1837; Emblems of Saints by which they are distinguished in works of art 1850, 3 ed. 1882; The Holy Bible translated from the Latin Vulgate 2 vols. 1853 and 50 other books. d. the presbytery adjoining St. Walstan’s chapel at Cossey 31 Oct. 1872. Gillow’s English Catholics (1887) iii, 492–507.

HUSK, William Henry. b. London 4 Nov. 1814; clerk to Manning and Dalston and their successors, solicitors, London 1833–86; member of Sacred Harmonic Soc. Oct. 1834, hon. librarian 1853–82 when society was dissolved, wrote prefaces to word-books of Oratorios performed at Society’s concerts; author of Catalogue of library of Sacred Harmonic Society 1862, new ed. 1872; Account of the musical celebrations on St. Cecilia’s day in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries 1857; edited Songs of the Nativity [1866]; wrote many articles in Grove’s Dictionary of Music. d. 20 Westmoreland place, Pimlico, London 12 Aug. 1887.

HUSKISSON, Samuel (3 son of Wm. Huskisson of Oxley, Staffs). b. 1773; cornet 29 light dragoons 17 May 1799; served in Bengal 1799–1803; major 8 foot 4 July 1805; lieut.-col. 1 West India reg. 28 May 1807; lieut.-col. 9 garrison batallion 25 Sep. 1807 to May 1808; lieut.-col. 67 foot 16 June 1808 to 8 July 1824; general 11 Nov. 1851. d. 10 Mount st. Grosvenor sq. London 30 Dec. 1854.

HUSSEY, Rev. James Mc.Connell (5 son of William Hussey of Glasgow). b. 1819 or 1820; ed. at Exeter coll. Ox., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1857; C. of Atherstone, Warwickshire 1846–8; P.C. of St. James, Kennington, London 1848–54; afternoon preacher at the Foundling hospital 1854–61; V. of Ch. Ch. North Brixton 1855 to death; hon. canon of Rochester Jany. 1878 to death; rural dean of Kennington 1879–87 and 1889 to death; D.D. by archbp. of Canterbury Jany. 1881; author of Joy for the sorrowful or comfort in sickness 1855, 2 ed. 1856; Home. An essay 1878; Scandal and scandal-mongers 1879. d. Ch. Ch. vicarage, Cancel road, Vassal road, Brixton 19 May 1891. Daily Graphic 22 May 1891 p. 9, portrait.

HUSSEY, Rev. Robert (4 son of Rev. Wm. Hussey, R. of Sandhurst, Kent). b. 7 Oct. 1801; ed. at Westminster (King’s scholar 1816) and Ch. Ch. Ox., student 1821–46; double first class 1824, B.A. 1825, M.A. 1827, B.D. 1837; Greek reader 1832, censor and librarian 1835, catechist 1836, select preacher 1831 and 1846, proctor 1836, Whitehall preacher 1841–3; regius prof. of ecclesiastical history in univ. of Ox. 23 April 1842 to death; P.C. of Binsey near Oxford 1845 to death; author of An essay on the ancient weights and money 1836; An account of the Roman road from Alchester to Dorchester 1841; Sermons, mostly academical 1849; edited the histories of Socrates 1844, Evagrius 1844, Bæda 1846 and Sozomen 3 vols. 1860 and 15 other works. d. Beaumont st. Oxford 2 Dec. 1856. bur. Sandford on Thames. The Rise of the Papal power. Ed. by Jacob Ley (1863), Memoir pp. viii-xxvii.

HUTCHESON, Charles. b. Scotland 1792; taught music in Glasgow; published Christian Vespers, Glasgow 1832, containing Hymn tunes harmonised in 3 and 4 parts, and An essay on church music. d. Glasgow 1856.

HUTCHESON, Francis Deane. b. 1800; entered navy 13 Oct. 1813; captain 23 Nov. 1841; retired admiral 30 July 1875. d. 76 Shaftesbury road, West Hammersmith 21 Dec. 1875.

HUTCHESSON, Thomas. b. 1781; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 Dec. 1797; colonel 1 batt. R.A. 23 Nov. 1841 to 30 Aug. 1854; col. commandant 30 Aug. 1854 to death; L.G. 14 June 1856. d. Clarence lawn, Dover 28 Aug. 1857.

HUTCHINS, Edward John (eld. son of Edward Hutchins of Briton Ferry, co. Glamorgan). b. 1809; ed. at Charterhouse and St. John’s coll. Cam.; M.P. Penryn 23 Jany. 1840 to 23 June 1841; M.P. Lymington 30 April 1850 to 20 March 1857; contested Southampton 2 July 1841 and Poole 31 July 1847. d. Hastings 11 Feb. 1876. I.L.N. lxviii, 215 (1876).

HUTCHINSON, Charles Henry. Second lieut. Madras artillery 13 June 1834 and colonel 9 June 1868 to 5 Feb. 1870 when he retired on full pay; M.G. 5 Feb. 1870. d. 20 Westbourne park, London 27 Oct. 1873.

HUTCHINSON, Charles Waterloo, b. 18 June 1824; 2 lieut. Bengal engineers 9 June 1843; col. R.E. 1 April 1874, col. commandant 17 Dec. 1881 to death; general 28 Nov. 1885; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 16 Sep. 1886; author of Specimens of various vernacular characters passing through the post office in India, photozincographed. Calcutta 1877. d. 13 Kildare gardens, Bayswater, London 27 March 1890.

HUTCHINSON, George Rowan. Second lieut. R.E. 29 May 1832, captain 13 Dec. 1847 to death; superintendent of new harbour works at Holyhead, killed by explosion of powder there 25 Feb. 1851 though half a mile from where it took place. A.R. (1864) 14.

HUTCHINSON, John. b. Newcastle 1811; ed. at London univ.; assistant phys. to Hospital for consumption, Brompton; author of The spirometer and stethoscope and scale-balance, their use in discriminating diseases of the chest and their value in life-offices 1852. d. Fiji, Sandwich islands, July 1861.

HUTCHINSON, John Dyson. b. Halifax, Yorkshire 6 July 1822; ed. at Hipperholme gram. sch.; in business at Halifax, retired 1870; mayor of Halifax 1868 and 1871; M.P. Halifax 21 Feb. 1877, accepted the Chiltern hundreds Aug. 1882. d. 25 Redcliffe sq. South Kensington, London 25 Aug. 1882.

HUTCHINSON, William Evans, b. 1806; superintendent of Midland counties line to July 1840; a director of Midland railway 1837 and chairman 1864–70; presented with a testimonial at a complimentary dinner 20 Dec. 1870. d. Oadby hall, Leicester 6 Dec. 1882. F. S. Williams’ Midland railway (1888) 181–4, 195, 236, 243.

HUTCHISON, Rev. Æneas Barkly (eld. son of Robert Hutchison of London, merchant). b. London 1819; ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam., B.D. 1855, B.D. Oxford 1856; P.C. of St. James, Devonport 21 Aug. 1850 to death; author of Memorials of the abbey of Dundrennan, Galloway 1857; A monograph of the history of St. Mary, Callington 1861. d. Harrogate 25 Dec. 1866.

HUTCHISON, Rev. William [Antony] (son of George Hutchison, a cashier in Bank of England, who d. 1833). b. London 27 Sep. 1822; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam. 1843–5; received into R.C. church at Birmingham 21 Dec. 1845, confirmed by bishop Walsh, receiving name of Antony 29 Dec. 1845; ordained priest 15 Aug. 1847; a member of the Oratory, London, to the institution of which he largely contributed 1849 to death; established ragged schools and other charities; author of Loreto and Nazareth: two lectures containing the result of personal investigation of the two sanctuaries 1863. d. The Oratory, Brompton 12 July 1863. Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 511–4 (1887).

Note.—He left by his will dated 7 July 1860 all his property to the Brompton oratory, will disputed by his brother in law Dr. Alfred Smee but its validity affirmed in case of Knox v. Smee, Court of Probate 1864. Annual Register (1864) 232–41.

HUTCHISON, Rev. William Corston (2 son of Robert Hutchison of Fincham, Norfolk). Matric. from Worcester coll. Ox. 6 May 1841 aged 19; Curate of St. Mary’s, Devonport 1848–50; Curate of St. Endellion, Cornwall 1850–1; joined Church of Rome Aug. 1851; lived chiefly abroad rest of his life; tutor to Prince Imperial of France; a member of the third order of St. Francis; a chevalier of Holy Cross of Jerusalem; private chamberlain to Pius ix. and Leo xiii.; had a great share in production of Dr. Fan di Bruno’s Catholic Belief. d. Holly Place, Hampstead 9 Sep. 1883 aged 63. bur. Leytonstone cemet. Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 514–5 (1887).

HUTH, Frederick. b. Hanover 1777; settled at Corunna, landed in England 1809, naturalized by act 59 Geo. iii. cap. 90 (1819); founded house of F. Huth and Co. merchants, City of London 1816; one of most eminent merchants of City of London; had order of Charles iii. of Spain. d. 33 Upper Harley st. London 14 Jany. 1864, personalty sworn under £500,000, 5 March.

HUTH, Henry (3 son of the preceding). b. London 1815; ed. at Rusden’s sch. Leith hill, Surrey to 1833; travelled in Germany, France and the U.S. of A. 1836–9; joined a firm in Mexico 1840; in a firm at Hamburg 1844–9; merchant in London 1849 to death; purchased books at all the important sales, also daily at chief booksellers; with the single exception of Lord Spencer had finest private library then known; member of Philobiblon Society 1863, of Roxburgh club 1866; treasurer and pres. of royal hospital for incurables 1861; printed Ancient ballads and broadsides 1867; Inedited poetical miscellanies 1584–1700. 1870; Fugitive Tracts 1493–1700. 2 vols. 1875 and other books. d. 30 Prince’s gate, London 10 Dec. 1878. bur. Bolney ch. yard, Sussex. Times 14 Dec. 1878 p. 9; Athenæum 21 Dec. 1878 p. 803; Academy 21 Dec. 1878 p. 583; The Huth library. A catalogue of books, manuscripts, letters and engravings, collected by H. Huth 5 vols. (1880).

HUTHERSAL, Rev. Cort (son of John Huthersal of Ardwick green, Manchester, schoolmaster). Ed. at Manchester school and St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; C. of St. Mary’s, Manchester; C. of All Saints, Leamington to about 1837, lived at Leamington rest of his life; author of Synopsis of the various administrations for the government of England from the year 1756 to 1842. London 1842, anon. d. Leamington 14 Sep. 1859.

HUTHWAITE, Sir Edward (eld. son of William Huthwaite, draper, Nottingham). bapt. St. Peter’s, Nottingham 24 June 1793; ed. at military academy Woolwich; second lieut. Bengal artillery 12 Nov. 1810, lieut.-col. 3 July 1845, col. commandant 23 Jany. 1854 to death; L.G. 6 March 1868; C.B. 3 April 1846, K.C.B. 2 June 1869; served in India 1810 to his death, and was present at Sobraon, Chillianwalla and Goojrat. d. Sherwood, Nynee Tal, India 5 April 1873. I.L.N. lxii, 475 (1873).

HUTHWAITE, Henry. b. 1769; entered Bengal army 1795; colonel 15 Bengal N.I. 1837–52; colonel 42 Bengal N.I. 1852 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. Hoveringham, Notts. 5 Dec. 1853.

HUTT, Sir George (son of Richard Hutt of Appley Towers, Ryde, Isle of Wight). b. 1809; lieut. Bombay artillery 28 Sep. 1827, major 12 Sep. 1855 to 9 Nov. 1858 when he retired; served during Scinde and Afghan campaigns 1839–44, in Persia 1857, and Indian mutiny 1857–8; M.G. 18 Jany. 1859; sec. to comrs. of Chelsea hospital 6 March 1865 to 13 March 1885; C.B. 26 Feb. 1846, K.C.B. 21 June 1887; edited Papers illustrative of the history of the royal hospital at Chelsea 1872. d. Appley Towers, Ryde, Isle of Wight 27 Sep. 1889. Times 31 Oct. 1889 p. 10.

HUTT, Richard. b. 1803; assistant to George Cawthorne of the circulating library 24 Cockspur st., London May 1825, managed the business for the widow 1833–50, and was partner with her son 1850–74 when the latter retired. d. 24 Cockspur st. 8 Nov. 1876 aged 73. Bookseller Dec. 1876 p. 1143; Publisher’s Circular Dec. 1876 p. 920.

Note.—This was the first circulating library in London, it was commenced at 132 Strand in 1740 by Wright, who was succeeded by Batho. John Bell next became the proprietor of the business and was followed by G. Cawthorne who removed to Cockspur st. in 1807.

HUTT, Sir William (brother of Sir George Hutt, 1809–89). b. 2 Chester place, Lambeth, Surrey 6 Oct. 1801; ed. at St. Mary’s hall, Ox. Feb. to Aug. 1820 and at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1831; M.P. Hull 1832–41; M.P. Gateshead 1841–74; V.P. of board of trade and paymaster general 22 Feb. 1860 to Nov. 1865; P.C. 22 Feb. 1860; negotiated a treaty of commerce between Great Britain and Austria 27 Feb. 1865 etc.; member of mixed commission at Vienna to examine into Austrian Tariff 1 March 1865; K.C.B. 27 Nov. 1865. d. Appley Towers, Ryde, Isle of Wight 24 Nov. 1882.

HUTTON, Edward. b. 1797; L.R.C.S. Ireland 1819, F.R.C.S. 1824, president 1852, sec. June 1853 to June 1865; M.B. Dublin 1822, M.D. 1842; president of pathological society of Dublin; M.R.I.A.; contributed to Dublin medical journal and other periodicals. d. 5 Merrion square south, Dublin 24 Nov. 1865.

HUTTON, Frederick. b. 1801; entered navy 28 Jany. 1813; captain 3 July 1844; governor of Ascension 12 Nov. 1846; R.A. 1 April 1863. d. Tunbridge Wells 6 March 1866.

HUTTON, George. Entered Madras army 1811; colonel 22 Madras N.I. 1860 to death; M.G. 4 July 1856. d. Vizianagram, Madras 28 Aug. 1861.

HUTTON, Henry. Called to the bar in Ireland 1822, Q.C. 7 Feb. 1849; chairman of quarter sessions, co. Roscommon to death. d. 1859.

HUTTON, Rev. Henry (son of lieut. general Henry Hutton, d. 1827). b. Moate, Westmeath 1808; ed. at Wad. coll. Ox., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833; C. of Lidlington, Beds. 1832; P.C. of Woburn, Beds. 1834–49; chaplain to duke of Bedford 1839; R. of St. Paul’s, Covent Garden, London 1849 to death; author of Lectures, doctrinal, explanatory and practical on the English liturgy. Woburn 1848; An account of the charitable institutions in parish of Saint Paul, Covent Garden 1858. d. 7 Henrietta st. Covent Garden 23 June 1863. Sermons on the Lord’s Prayer. By H. Hutton (1863), Memoir pp. i-xlviii.

HUTTON, James Frederick (son of Wm. M. Hutton). b. London 1826; an African merchant and manufacturer of cotton goods at Manchester; Belgian consul at Manchester 11 Aug. 1887 to death; pres. of Manchester chamber of commerce; F.R.G.S.; M.P. for North division of Manchester 1885 to 1886. d. Cairo 1 March 1890.

HUTTON, Rev. Peter. b. Holbeck near Leeds 29 June 1811; ed. at Benedictine college, Ampleforth; studied at Univ. of Louvain 1836–9; ordained priest 24 Sep. 1839; pres. of St. Peter’s college, Prior Park near Bath, and professor of Latin and Greek there Sep. 1839 to July 1841; entered the Order of Charity at Loughborough, Leics. 5 July 1841; rector of the college of Order of Charity near village of Ratcliffe-on-the-Wreak near Leicester 23 Nov. 1844, vice pres. 2 July 1850, pres. 1 Nov. 1851 to death; translated all the Latin and Greek authors read in the schools at Ratcliffe. d. Ratcliffe college 2 Sep. 1880. J. Hirst’s Brief memoir of Father Hutton. Market Weighton, St. William’s press (1886); Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 517–21 (1887).

HUTTON, Robert Howard (son of Robert Hutton). b. Soulby, Westmoreland 26 July 1840; farmer Milnthorpe 1863–9; bone setter at 74 Gloucester place, Portman sq. London 1871–9, at 36 Queen Anne st. Cavendish sq. 1879 to death; had an extensive practice and made much money; a well known huntsman at Melton Mowbray. d. University coll. hospital, London from taking laudanum in error for a black draught 16 July 1887.

Note.—His uncle Richard Hutton was a bone setter at Wyndham place, Crawford st. London for many years and d. Gilling lodge, Watford 6 Jany. 1871 aged 70. Among his successful cures were the Hon. Spencer Ponsonby in 1865 and George Moore the philanthropist in 1869.

HUTTON, Rev. Wyndham Madden (son of Rev. John Hutton of Granby, Notts.) Matric. from St. Edmund hall, Ox. 7 July 1849 aged 18; at St. Bees 1854; V. of St. Paul, Tipton, Staffs. 1861–9; V. of Kirk-Christ-Lezayre, Isle of Man 1869–77; V. of Twyford with Hungarton and Thorpe-Satchville, Leics. 1877 to death; author of Poems. By A member of the university of Oxford. Oxford 1851; Gottfried’s pilgrimage: an allegory 1866, 3 ed. 1868; Bertha’s Dream and other tales. Frome Selwood 1868; The unconquered island. Ramsay 1873. d. Hungarton vicarage 18 Jany. 1882.

HUY, John. Acting manager of Court theatre, London under Marie Litton, Jany. 1871 to March 1875 and under John Hare, March 1875 to 19 July 1879; acting manager of St. James’s theatre, London under John Hare and W. H. Kendall 4 Oct. 1879 to 21 July 1888; ruptured his liver by falling on the stone stairs at his residence 3 Langham place, Regent st. London 29 Nov. 1891. d. 30 Nov. 1891 aged 57. The Era 5 Dec. 1891 p. 9 col. 4.

HUYSHE, Alfred (youngest son of Rev. John Huyshe of Exeter 1772–1851). b. 1811; ed. at Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery 13 Dec. 1827; col. R.A. 29 April 1861 to 31 Oct. 1867; inspector general of artillery in India 1867–73; general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 2 June 1877. d. 46 Onslow sq. London 25 Feb. 1880 in 69 year. Graphic xxii, 196 (1880), portrait.

HUYSHE, George (brother of the preceding). b. 1804; ensign 13 Bengal N.I. 22 March 1820; col. Bengal infantry 15 Nov. 1853; general 19 Feb. 1872; C.B. 27 Sep. 1843. d. Guernsey 6 Oct. 1881.