INDEX.
This Index contains references to the most important, curious and interesting facts, to be found in the pages of this work.
A
Aberdeen, granite from first used in public works
1136
;
lives of eminent men of
451
;
Marischal coll. lord rectors
971
,
1448
,
Marischal coll., univ. of Aberdeen and King’s coll. fused
628
,
univ. chancellor
6
,
univ. lord rectors
76
,
976
,
1086
,
1586
,
univ. principal
533
.
Aberdeenshire, lords lieutenant
6
,
1599
.
Aberystwyth, university coll. burnt
1588
.
Abipones, account of the
675
.
Absolon, John, scene painter
1243
.
Absorption, the pressure of
1596
.
Abyssinia, king Theodore
522
,
Theodore’s general Bell
228
,
prince of, death of
9
,
travellers in
223
,
war in
522
.
Achilli, Giacinto, case of
1361
.
Achonry, bishop of
930
.
Acids, graphitic discovered
409
.
Aconite, tincture of
1067
.
Acting, rapid study
1285
.
Actors
see also
Circus proprietors, Clowns, Columbines, Conjurors, Dancers, Dramatists, Entertainers, Equestrian performers, Gymnasts, Harlequins, Jugglers, Lecturers, Lion tamers, Negro minstrels, Panoramas, Pantaloons, Pantomimists, Polander performers, Singers, Somersault throwers, Theatres, Theatrical managers, Tight-rope dancers, Trapeze performers, Ventriloquists and Wire walkers;
Barnes
172
,
Barnett
174
,
Bateman
190
,
Bedford
225
,
Belford
225
,
Belmore
236
,
Bennett, G. J.
241
,
Bennett, J.
242
,
Bennett, W.
244
,
Betty
265
,
Beverley, E.
267
,
Beverley, H.
267
,
Bland
308
,
Bone
1345
,
Booth, J. B.
338
,
Booth, Sarah
339
,
Boothby
340
,
Braid
378
,
Brooke
416
,
Brothers
1527
,
Browne
444
,
Buckstone
465
,
Bunn
473
,
Burton
495
,
Calvert, C. A.
519
,
Calvert, F. B.
520
,
Cartlitch
564
,
Celeste
579
,
Chatterley
579
,
Clark
630
,
Clarke
633
,
Colville
1546
,
Compton
689
,
Conway
696
,
Cony
697
,
Cooke, G.
701
,
Cooke, J.
702
,
Cooke, T. P.
703
,
Cooper
710
,
Coote
713
,
Cowell, J. L.
735
,
Cowell, S. H.
735
,
Cowle
737
,
Craven
752
,
Cushman
796
,
Dale
801
,
Daly
808
,
Davison
833
,
De Bar
844
,
De Walden
869
,
Dewar
869
,
Dickson
876
,
Dillon
879
,
Dinneford
880
,
Don
893
,
Donaldson
894
,
Donnelly
896
,
Dowton 910
bis.
,
Drake
914
,
Drew
917
,
Drift
925
,
Dyott
849
,
Eburn
955
,
Edgar
958
,
Edwin, E. R.
967
,
Edwin, J.
968
,
Eldred
973
,
Elliston
988
,
Emery
991
,
Everard
1006
,
Farley
1021
,
Farquharson
1023
,
Farren, H.
1025
,
Farren, H. E.
1025
,
Farren, W.
1025
,
Farren, W.
1025
,
Fechter
1030
,
Fenton
1033
,
Field
1042
,
Fisher, C.
1052
,
Fisher, D.
1052
,
Fisher, W. D.
1054
,
Fitzwilliam, Edward
1065
,
Fitzwilliam, Ellen
1065
,
Fitzwilliam F. E.
1065
,
Foote
1344
,
Freer
1104
,
Furtado
633
,
1113
,
Gardner
1122
,
Glover
1158
,
Glyn
805
,
1161
,
Gomersal
1169
,
Goodall, A. and I.
1172
,
Gourlay
1192
,
Grattan, H. P.
1209
,
Grattan, Mrs.
1209
,
Green
1224
,
Grimaldi
1254
,
Guerint
1254
,
Hale, C. B.
1277
,
Hale, C. F.
1278
,
Hall
1285
,
Hamblin
1297
,
Hamilton
1306
,
Harland
1546
,
Harley
1340
,
Harlowe
1340
,
Hartland
1361
,
Harvey
1366
,
Hatton
1377
,
Hazlewood
1403
,
Heath
1410
,
Henderson
1424
,
Hengler
1424
,
Herbert
1440
,
Heron
1445
,
Hicks
1461
,
Hill, E.
1470
,
Hill, T.
1475
,
Hilton
1478
,
Hodson
1499
,
Holl
1506
,
Holland
1508
,
Holman
1512
,
Holt
1518
,
Honey
1521
,
Honner, M.
1522
,
Honner, R. W.
1231
,
1522
,
Hooper
1527
,
Horncastle
1538
,
Horsman, Chas.
d.
1886,
1543
,
Horsman, Charlotte
1543
,
Hoskins
1545
,
Howell
1557
,
Hows
1561
,
Howson, F.
1561
,
Howson, J.
1561
,
Huddart
1565
,
Hudson
1567
,
Hudspeth
1568
,
Hughes, F.
1571
,
Hughes, J. C.
1575
,
Hughes, J. H.
1575
,
Hughes, T.
1576
,
Humby
1583
,
Huntley
1600
,
Hydes
1611
,
Jordan
1056
,
Kemble, C.
1523
,
Kemble, J. P.
869
,
Leclercq
1522
,
Macarthy
1522
,
Mackay
1192
,
Menken
1417
,
Nicholl
1349
,
Nisbett
340
,
Nye
597
,
O’Neill
215
,
Paul
1072
,
Phelps
1231
,
Power
1567
,
Ristori
1483
,
Russell
1565
,
Saville
1025
,
Sothern
1421
,
Thompson
1421
,
Vokes
944
,
Warner
1565
,
Wild
1428
.
Actors, Singers and others. Stage names, Given names,
etc.
See also
Names.
Addison, Edward P.
i.e.
E. P. Haddy
22
.
Addison, Laura
i.e.
L. Wilmshurst
23
.
African Roscius
i.e.
Ira F. Aldridge
41
.
Agnesi, Louis F. L.
i.e.
L. F. L. Agniez
29
.
Arnold, Henry Thomas
i.e.
Henry Thomas Arden
82
.
Artois, The flying wonder
i.e.
John Lilley
92
.
Barrett, Wilson
i.e.
William Henry Barrett
1410
.
Beatrice, Mademoiselle
i.e.
Marie Beatrice Binda
209
.
Belmore, George
i.e.
George Belmore Garstin
236
.
Beverley, Edward
i.e.
E. Dickenson
267
.
Beverley, Henry
i.e.
H. Roxby
267
.
Braham, John
i.e.
John Abraham
378
.
Brizzi, Signor
i.e.
Francesco A. S. Bisteghi
404
.
Brooke, Edwin Harcourt
i.e.
Edwin J. M. Brook
415
.
Calcraft, John William
i.e.
John W. Cole
513
.
Caradori-Allan, Maria C. R.
i.e.
M. C. R. de Munck
541
.
Celeste, Madame
i.e.
Celeste Elliott
579
.
Chew, Mr.
i.e.
James Henry Chute
620
.
Christoff, George
i.e.
George Christopher
617
.
Clements, Frank
i.e.
Robert Menti
644
.
Clifton, Harry
i.e.
Henry Robert Clifton
649
.
Collins, Sam
i.e.
Samuel Thomas Collins Vagg
680
.
Compton, Henry
i.e.
Charles Mackenzie
689
.
Conquest, Benjamin Oliver
i.e.
Benjamin Oliver
695
.
Cowper, John Curtis
i.e.
John Curtis
739
.
Cox, Harry
i.e.
Oliver James Bussley
742
.
Crosmond, Rosa
i.e.
Helen Turner
770
.
Cure, The Perfect
i.e.
James Hurst Stead
312
.
Diavolo, Joel Il, also known as Joel Benedict
870
.
Diavolo, Joel Il
i.e.
John Delany
870
.
Dibdin, Charles
i.e.
Charles I. M. Pitt
871
.
Dog Star, The
i.e.
Barkham Cony
697
.
Drake, Samuel
i.e.
Samuel Bryant
914
.
Dunn, John
i.e.
John Bampton
938
.
Eagle, George Barnardo
i.e.
G. Barnard Eagle
950
.
Falconer, Edmund
i.e.
E. O’Rourke
1016
.
Fanque, Pablo
i.e.
William Darby
1020
.
Farquharson, Robert
i.e.
R. Farquharson Smith
1023
.
Favanti, Rita
i.e.
Margaret Edwards
1027
.
Fawsitt, Amy
i.e.
Mary Ann Fawsitt
1028
.
Federici, Frederick
i.e.
Frederick Baker
1030
.
Fitz, Little
i.e.
W. Fitzwilliam
1065
.
Flexmore, Richard
i.e.
R. Flexmore Geatter
1070
.
Forrester, Henry
i.e.
Henry Frost
1083
.
Frazer, John James
i.e.
J. J. Fricker
1103
.
Gentleman George
i.e.
George Barrett
177
.
Giovanelli, Edward
i.e.
Edward Edwards
1152
.
Grattan, Henry Plunkett
i.e.
H. Willoughby G. Plunkett
1209
.
Harcourt, Charles
i.e.
Charles Parker Hillier
1323
.
Harris, Augustus
i.e.
Augustus Glossop
1345
.
Haywell, Frederick
i.e.
Frederick Hawley
1391
.
Heller, Robert
i.e.
William Henry Palmer
1418
.
Henrade, Mary
i.e.
Mary Young
1431
.
Henry, Chaplin
i.e.
Henry Charles Stroud
1432
.
Herring, Paul
i.e.
William Smith
1447
.
Hicks, Bravo
i.e.
Newton Tree Hicks
1461
.
Hill, William Jones
i.e.
William Hill Jones
1476
.
Lennox, Mr.
i.e.
Lenox Horne
1539
.
Leoni, Mr.
i.e.
Myer Lyon
378
.
Lester, Thomas
i.e.
T. Lester Donnelly
896
.
Lucchesini, Mddlle.
i.e.
Marie Beatrice Binda
209
.
Lunardini, Giuseppe
i.e.
James Goulston
1192
.
Mordaunt, Louisa
i.e.
Louisa C. Macnamara
340
.
Nye, Henry
i.e.
Henry Nye Chart
597
.
Old Malabar
i.e.
Patrick Feeney
1030
.
Plunkett, Henry
i.e.
H. Willoughby Grattan Plunkett
1209
.
Romer, Emma
i.e.
Emma Almond
54
.
Roscius, The Young
i.e.
W. H. Betty
1470
.
Simpson, Miss
i.e.
Mary Barnes
172
.
Singing mouse, The
i.e.
John Bull Binge
278
.
Voullaire, Andrew Leonard
i.e.
A. Voullaire Campbell
527
.
Actuaries, Ansell
72
.
Addington, John Gellibrand Hubbard,
1
Baron
1563
.
Addiscombe college, Surrey, first principal
67
.
Adelaide, Queen
d.
1849, her lord chamberlain
1555
.
Admiralty, funds for widows and orphans
1048
,
half pay and pensions
1048
,
lithography introduced into
765
,
navy list
1048
,
records
1048
,
salaries
1048
.
Admiralty first lords, Briggs
398
,
Corry
724
,
De Grey
848
,
Ellenborough
975
,
Graham
1196
,
Haddington
1271
,
Hunt
1590
,
Pakington
1312
,
Wood
1281
.
Adullam, the cave of
1543
.
Adventure and Beagle’s surveying voyage
819
,
1064
.
Advertisements, duty on
1099
,
duty abolished
1518
,
Holloway spending £50,000 a year on
1512
.
Æginetan and Phigaleian marbles discovered
664
.
Aeronautism
See also
Balloons, carburetted hydrogen gas used
1222
,
guide rope invented
1223
,
height of ascent
1223
,
navigation improvements in
39
,
persons killed
1192
,
1291
.
Aeronauts, Burges
477
,
Burnaby
483
,
Cocking
1228
,
Green
1222
,
Hall
1291
,
Lunardini
1192
.
Africa, Burchell’s explorations
475
,
Capetown, first bishop
1218
,
excavations at Utica
832
,
metropolitan of South Africa
1218
.
Agricultural implement makers.
Garrett
1125
,
Green
1224
,
Howard, Jas.
1552
,
Howard, John
1553
.
Agriculturalists, Buckman
465
,
Corrie
722
,
Hannam
1010
.
Agriculture, cultivation by steam, cultivators
476
,
922
,
farming agreements
1583
,
farming machinery on roundabout system
1010
,
farms, scientific
465
,
feeding cattle experiments
491
,
khol-rabi introduced
762
,
manuring machines
1126
,
Pearson’s drain plough
1491
,
plough improved
1553
,
ploughing, self propelling engine
1284
,
steam threshing machine the first
1284
,
white carrot introduced
491
.
Ainsworth, William Harrison
d.
1882,
author
33
,
Dunmow flitch of bacon
598
,
illustrations of his works
444
.
Air beds
627
.
Air pump ventilator for roofs
369
.
Aire and Calder glass bottle co.
389
.
Albert
d.
1861,
prince consort
38
,
memorial in Hyde park, Cockerell’s design for
664
,
history of 799 and sculptures on
1073
,
his treasurer and private sec.
1240
,
mausoleum built
1583
.
Albert Edward, prince of Wales
b.
1841,
anthem for his recovery
1187
,
banquet to in Dublin
104
,
Dr. Gull attends him
1257
,
entertained at Packington hall
112
,
God bless the P. of Wales, song
1575
,
God save the P. of Wales, song
1421
,
governor to
452
,
his nurse
424
,
Sandringham rebuilt
1583
,
taught billiards
926
,
tutors
282
,
1182
.
Aldermen, alms houses for
1415
.
Alexander I.
d.
1825,
czar of Russia, his physicians
760
,
761
.
Algæ, collectors of, Harvey
1368
,
Hooper
1528
.
Algiers, Dey of, his passes to navigate the Mediterranean
1142
.
Alloa, town and parish, memorials of
754
.
Alma, battle of the
1524
,
first gun taken at the battle
227
.
Alpaca wool used
1089
.
Alpine climbers, Hinchliff
1479
,
Hodgkinson
1493
,
Hudson
1566
.
Alps, the higher, photographs of
896
.
Alton, Hants., British sch.
776
,
Crowley’s brewery
776
.
America, United States of, acts relating to
569
,
American coll. at Rome
1574
,
blockade running
1487
,
Bruce’s type casting machine
450
,
canal boy who became president
1120
,
Caroline rebel steamer sent burning over Niagra
916
,
Corcoran’s legion
718
,
crossing the Atlantic thirty times
1431
,
crossing one hundred and eighty times
1356
,
death of president Lincoln
338
,
female professor of obstetrics
1093
,
Minié rifle, the first
1431
,
Odd-fellows, grand master
36
,
ordinations in
569
,
President frigate taken
1530
,
recruiting soldiers for England
750
,
stereotyping introduced
449
,
treaty of Washington
662
,
types, Bruce’s harmony of
450
,
Washington’s head engraved for postage stamp
1587
,
Washington, portraits of
1285
.
America, U.S. of Baltimore, Cooke’s circus burnt
704
.
America, U.S. of Cincinnati, Browne university
445
.
America, U.S. of Illinois, African slavery not legal
1071
,
colony founded
1071
.
America, U.S. of Memphis, first theatre at
1209
.
America, U.S. of New Orleans, gas introduced
515
.
America, U.S. of New York, archbishop of
1574
,
Bowery theatre burnt
1297
,
Brougham’s theatres
427
,
Burton’s theatres
495
,
Columbia coll.
996
,
merchants’ exchange burnt
1576
,
Methodist ch. the first pewed
1284
,
old Chinese buildings
68
,
Park theatre burnt
1297
,
seedsman at
1425
.
America, U.S. of Philadelphia, Brown’s bank
435
.
America, U.S. of Washington, Franklin’s printing press
1344
.
Anderson bay, Victoria land named
65
.
Anderson, John
d.
1796,
M.D., his university at Glasgow
778
,
1000
,
1009
.
Anemometer, a new
1560
.
Anglesey, lords lieutenant of 70
bis.
71
.
Anglesey, W. H. Paget, marquis of
d.
1854, loss of his leg
71
.
Anglo Saxon, grammar
345
,
professor of
949
.
Aniline dyes
1290
.
Annuals, introduced into Germany and Russia
95
.
Anthropology, a department at British Assoc.
1591
.
Antrim, lord lieutenant
894
.
Antiquary, A professional, Harrod
1358
.
Apoplexy, mechanical cure for
1170
.
Approach caused by vibration, discovered
1264
.
Aquaria, tank for
964
.
Arabic, collection of calligraphs
114
,
scholars Chenery 602 and Gendell
1120
.
Arabs, murder of W. Gill by
1149
.
Arch, a tied brick arch
629
.
Architects, Bryce
455
,
Burn
483
,
Burton
494
,
Cockerell, C. R.
664
,
Cockerell, F. P.
664
,
Cresy
759
,
Deane
842
,
Devey
868
,
Dobson
886
,
Donaldson
894
,
Elmes
988
,
Fergusson
1037
,
Ferrey
1038
,
Fowke
1092
,
French
1106
,
Geary
1133
,
Godwin
1163
,
Goldie
1166
,
Good
1171
,
Gough
1190
,
Gregan
1232
,
Griffith
1246
,
Gwilt, J. S.
1267
,
Gwilt, Jos.
1267
,
Habbershon
1269
,
Hadfield
1272
,
Hakewill, E. C.
1276
,
Hakewill,
J. H.
1276
,
Hansom
1321
,
Hardwick
1330
,
Haviland
1382
,
Henderson
1424
,
Hopper
1536
,
Hosking
1545
,
Huggins
1569
,
Humbert
1583
,
Reeks
1583
.
Architecture, architectural decorator
746
,
Gothic, revival of
1272
.
Arctic explorers, Austin
109
,
Back
119
,
Beechey
220
,
Belcher
224
,
Bellot
235
,
Bird
284
,
Brown
447
,
Collinson
682
,
Cresswell
758
,
Davis
831
,
Franklin
682
,
1490
,
1528
,
Hobson
1490
,
Hooper
1528
,
M’Clintock
1490
,
Parry
1053
,
Ross
831
.
Arctic exploring vessels, Alert and Discovery
1047
,
Dorothea and Trent
1053
,
Investigator and Enterprise
65
,
Plover
1528
,
Terror
831
.
Arctic regions, collections illustrative of
434
.
Ardagh, bishops of
560
,
695
.
Argentine confederation founded
864
.
Argyll and the Isles, bishops of
931
,
1009
.
Armagh, archbishops of, Beresford
251
,
252
,
Cullen 780 and Dixon
883
,
cathedral restored 251–
52
.
Armenian dictionary
380
.
Armour plates, manufacture of
525
.
Arms and armour, collections of Baily
130
,
Breeks
388
,
Colnaghi
684
,
Meyrick
684
.
Arms, school of
611
.
Army, Blueviad a poem
1190
,
commander in chief
1328
,
Crawley, court martial on
756
,
diseases of soldiers
1131
,
Enfield rifle manufacture
1230
,
field marshals Gomm
1169
, Grosvenor 1251 and Hardinge
1328
,
Freeburn’s fuzes
1103
,
guards’ chapel, Wellington barracks
1075
,
guns, Gardner’s machine
1123
,
gymnastics introduced
647
,
Hart’s army list
1359
,
helmets reduced in weight
1229
,
historical records of
537
,
Hythe sch. of musketry
1281
,
libraries for noncommissioned officers
1361
,
medals of the army
563
,
military critics
603
,
military education commission
654
,
military prison at Weedon abolished
411
,
mortar practice, treaty on
764
,
Netley hospital army medical sch.
846
,
ordnance survey
849
,
précis of modern tactics
1521
,
private soldiers becoming officers
636
,
643
,
purchase system abolished
543
,
regiments, historical records of
563
,
regimental hospitals established
341
,
short service
543
,
sanitary reforms made
1438
,
savings bank, the first
1361
,
service of eighty four years
943
,
sketching and shading of plans
839
,
sword exercise, superintendent of
70
,
united service museum originated
1292
.
Art, art union of London founded
1164
,
department of practical art S. Kensington
671
.
Art collections, Bernal
255
,
Bohn
326
,
Bone
332
,
Hope
1529
.
Art dealers, Agnew
29
,
Burland
29
,
Zannetti
29
.
Asia minor, on horseback through
1306
.
Askin, Charles
d.
1847,
nickel manufacturer
1001
.
Assassinated persons, Bourke
350
,
Burke
481
,
Cavendish
575
,
Perceval
908
.
Associations
See also
Institutions and Societies,
Anglo Jewish founded
239
,
1167
,
1222
,
anti-state church founded
1191
,
booksellers protection founded
808
,
British founded
394
,
1078
,
1325
,
chancery reform, secretary
556
,
commercial union founded
1323
,
evangelical alliance founded
951
,
financial reform founded
715
,
for promoting welfare of blind, instituted
1144
,
for repeal of taxes on knowledge, president
1142
,
general benevolent founded
1433
,
Jewish for diffusion of religious knowledge
1222
,
legal education, president
58
,
London life association, president
1595
,
mercantile association founded
243
,
miners of Cornwall and Devon instituted
1592
,
national, for protection of industry and capital, dissolved
223
,
national for vindication of Scottish rights founded
1203
,
northern architectural, president
886
,
Palestine archæological founded
294
,
provincial medical founded
1400
,
provincial medical and surgical originators of 1415 founded
1372
,
royal for promoting fine arts in Scotland, purchases pictures
755
,
royal hist. and archæol. of Ireland established
1211
,
royal Scottish academy instituted
1469
,
Scottish unitarian founded
1347
,
vocal formed
238
,
west Suffolk archæological
1055
,
Worth clerical founded
1486
,
Yorkshire archæol. and topog. founded
156
.
Astronomers, Aytoun
1204
,
Birmingham
288
,
Bishop
837
,
Breen
388
,
Brisbane
402
,
Broun
428
,
Burder
476
,
Burton
493
,
Carrington
558
,
Challis
582
,
Chary
597
,
Chevallier
607
,
Cooper
709
,
Dawes
837
,
Demainbray, S. C. T.
854
,
Demainbray, S. G. F. T.
854
,
Glaisher
476
,
Grant
1204
,
Hamilton
1307
,
Herschel
1447
,
Hodgson
1497
,
Holden
1504
.
Astronomy, Antares and his companion
1204
,
astronomical instrument maker
1423
,
double stars
1448
,
meteoroscope
582
,
nebulae
1448
,
transit reducer
582
,
trophy telescope
1204
,
used to fix dates in ancient history
781
.
Athens, ten days in
723
.
Atlantic ocean, crossing it 180 times
1356
,
crossing it 30 times
1431
.
Atmosphere, atmospheric recorder invented
891
,
atmospheric waves
288
.
Atomic theory, the
438
.
Attorney General’s devil
82
.
Auriol, Jean Baptiste
d.
29 Aug. 1881, clown
1070
.
Aurist, Harvey
1368
.
Auscultation, science of
734
.
Australia, book, the first printed in
176
,
Claxton’s exhibition of pictures
639
,
emigration
612
,
gold discovered by Clarke
636
,
gold discovery, history of
996
,
gold fields
1234
,
governor general
1063
,
merino sheep introduced
1435
,
Murray river discovered 1585 and navigated
509
,
overland journey from Sydney to Port Philip
1585
,
pearl fisheries
1234
,
Sophia Jane the first steam vessel
172
,
wines
1018
.
Australia, New South Wales, acts and ordinances of
517
,
Boyd town founded
365
,
Buckley the convict
465
,
duke of Edinburgh shot
99
,
floods
89
,
Hunt keeper of Bathurst assize court
1592
,
jew boy gang of bushrangers
840
,
oaten hay introduced
311
,
statue, the first erected
350
.
Australia, Queensland, Cooper’s creek
708
.
Australia South, foundation of
69
,
1482
.
Australia South, Adelaide, botanic garden
1098
,
first mayor
1053
,
Hart’s flour mills
1360
,
university founded
1577
.
Australia, Victoria, Black Wednesday
878
,
Berry ministry did away with county court judges
278
,
colonel commandant of all the volunteers
67
,
Eureka stockade rioters
99
,
land, the first ploughed up
1435
,
Roman catholic priest the first
1135
,
separated from N.S.W.
1063
,
sugar beet introduced
670
.
Australia, Victoria, Melbourne, archbishop
1191
,
city founded
1028
,
1435
,
city of Melbourne screw steamer
670
,
Cole’s wharf
670
,
first newspaper
1028
.
Australia, Western, Hardman mountains
1329
.
Australian explorers, Babbage
116
,
Barrallier
176
,
Borradaile
341
,
Burke
481
,
Cadell
509
,
Calvert
521
,
Gregory
1234
,
Haverfield
1380
,
Hovell
1550
,
Hume
1550
,
1585
,
Leichhardt
521
,
Meehan
1585
,
Permain
341
,
Sturt
1585
.
Autographs, collection of
896
.
Autotypography or nature printing
372
.
Ayrshire, lord lieutenant
31
.
Azimuth tables
831
.
B
Backgammon player, Buckle
463
.
Bagshot park, Surrey, lent to Sir James Clark
626
.
Baker, a learned
871
.
Baker, Valentine
d.
1887, colonel, travelled in Persia
1149
.
Bala college
966
.
Balaklava, charge at
542
.
Balham mystery or the Bravo poisoning case
384
.
Ballet masters, Byrne
506
,
Leclercq
1522
.
Balloons
See also
Aeronautism.
Crestadoro’s metallic
758
,
Eclipse
484
,
Florence Nightingale
1291
,
Great Nassau
1222
,
1268
,
1512
,
Victoria
453
.
Ballot, motion in favor of
1251
.
Banffshire, lord lieutenant 1044
bis.
Bankers, Batten
552
,
Call
516
,
Cohen
668
,
Currie 792
bis.
,
De Sterne
867
,
Digges
1059
,
Drummond
919
,
Garfit
1123
,
Gibson
1139
,
Gosling
1207
,
Grote
1251
,
Gurney
1260
,
1261
,
1262
,
Handley
1315
,
Hankey
1316
,
Heywood
1457
,
1458
,
Hoare
1485
,
1486
,
Hodgson
1494
.
Banking, bank manager Gilbart
1144
,
bank notes, machine for printing
77
,
cheque bank founded
1451
,
clearing house
576
,
joint stock banks established
641
.
Bank of England, architect of
664
,
doors first marked In and Out
1561
,
one pound notes
77
,
physician
827
,
printing of bank notes
77
,
printing machinery
739
,
solicitor
1108
.
Bankruptcy, country district courts abolished
9
,
seventy commissioners
1074
.
Banks, Sir Joseph
d.
1820, naturalist, his collections
437
.
Banting, William
d.
1878, undertaker
155
,
his medical man
1368
,
banting system introduced
155
,
173
.
Banwell hill, Somerset, bone caves at
208
.
Barbary, captives in
875
.
Bark trade, the
1281
.
Barnard Castle, Durham, Josephine and John Bowes, museum and park
358
.
Barometers, aneroids used in mountain expeditions
1493
,
Fitzroy barometer
1064
,
mountain barometer, an improved
1560
.
Baronetage, assuming an extinct
1136
,
baronetage declined
814
,
1291
,
baronetage not taken up
588
,
committee for sustaining rights of
429
,
designation taken
152
,
666
,
1307
,
1588
,
eldest sons claim and obtain knightage
727
,
844
,
extinct
733
,
first engineer made a baronet
1170
,
premier baronet of England
120
,
sham baronet presented to William iv.
1588
.
Barrister making £22,000 a year
1506
.
Bashi Bazouks organised
210
,
1577
.
Bassoon player, Baumann
195
.
Bateman, Thomas
d.
1861, author
191
,
1160
.
Bath, Portland chapel
479
,
Prior park R.C. coll.
479
,
1609
,
Sir L. C. L. Brenton’s chapel
390
,
W. Hunt mayor
1594
.
Batho, Mr. proprietor of a circulating library
1607
.
Baths, fumigating established
1225
.
Batteries, iron cased floating
914
.
Bayeux tapestry, account of
721
.
Bayley, Jonathan, Swedenborgian minister
1611
.
Beaufoy, Henry B. H.
d.
1851, F.R.S.
212
,
his collection of tokens
482
.
Bedford, Britannia foundry
1553
.
Bedford level canal
1311
.
Bedfordshire, lord lieutenant
218
.
Bedouin Arab troops
870
.
Beds, air
627
.
Beer, method of testing gravities
886
.
Beethoven, Ludwig von
d.
1827, Israel in Egypt performed
1160
,
Pastoral symphony performed with illustrations
1160
.
Beetroot, spirit distilled from
263
.
Belcher, John
b.
1841, architect, designed Goss memorial
1187
.
Belfast hospitals founded
240
.
Bell, John, proprietor of a circulating library
1607
.
Bellingham, John executed 1812, assassin, his arrest
908
.
Bells, chiming hammers
975
,
writers on
975
.
Belt, Richard Claude, sculptor, Belt
v.
C. Lawes
1565
.
Benedictine order, Acton Burnell coll.
439
,
St. Gregory’s coll.
439
.
Bentham, Jeremy
d.
1832 philosopher, his amanuensis
732
.
Bentinck, Lord George F. C.
d.
1848 politician, his betting factotum
1470
.
Berkeley, Colonel, connection with Maria Foote
1344
.
Berkeley, G. C. Grantley F.
d.
1881, M.P.
254
,
his huntsman
561
.
Berkshire, lord lieutenant 8
bis.
Berlin, Victoria Lyceum founded
81
.
Bermuda, slaves emancipated
593
.
Bernard’s opera co.
1489
.
Berry, Charles, Duc de assassinated 1820, his English wife
431
,
his son
431
,
marriage annulled
258
,
See also
Brown, Charlotte and Louise
post. col.
1628
.
Beryllium, atomic weight of
1588
.
Berwick on Tweed, town major
1072
.
Betting, Leviathan better
829
,
lists originated 829 and declared illegal
829
.
Betting men, Davies
829
,
Head
1404
,
Hill
1470
.
Bettws-y-coed, a sketching resort
740
.
Bewick, Thomas
d.
1828 and John Bewick
d.
1795, collections of their works and wood blocks
1579
.
Bey, title of given to, Ayrton, F.
114
.
Bible, Fry’s collection of bibles
1111
,
Haydock’s bible
1396
,
list of English editions
728
,
monopoly of printing
531
,
pentateuch critically examined 673 and Colenso adversely criticised
674
,
speakers’ commentary, contributors to
628
,
1005
,
trinitarian bible soc.
996
,
Wycliffe’s version
1084
.
Bible, New Testament in Judæo-Polish
1449
,
revisers of
46
,
950
,
1588
.
Bible, Old Testament, revisers of
45
,
628
,
825
,
980
,
1014
,
1041
,
1133
,
1188
,
1352
,
paragraph bible
825
.
Bidwell, Austin, forger
1396
.
Biggar, Joseph Gillis
d.
1890 M.P., his trial
1057
.
Bill discounters, Overend, Gurney & Co.
1261
,
1262
.
Billiard players, Dufton
926
,
Felix
1032
,
Hughes
1578
.
Billiards, handicap billiards
926
,
writer on
460
.
Bills of exchange, law of
505
.
Bimetallism
578
.
Birds, collections of
1012
,
1262
,
1530
,
eggs
396
,
1454
,
voice organs of
1079
.
Birkbeck, George
d.
1841 M.D., Birkbeck schools
986
.
Birkbeck, Morris
d.
1825, founded New Albion in Illinois
1071
.
Birkenhead, St. Aidan’s coll. founded
199
.
Birmingham, Atlas steel works
377
,
Calthorpe park opened
518
,
commissioners of street acts
509
,
English watch co.
378
,
free art gallery
1007
,
free libraries
585
,
Hazelwood sch.
1474
,
1476
,
Holden’s music hall
1505
,
Mason coll.
1453
,
musical festivals
725
,
queen’s coll.
743
,
queen’s hospital
743
,
royal school of medicine
740
,
743
,
St. Andrew’s ch.
555
,
St. Stephen’s ch.
555
,
watches made by machinery
377
.
Birth, change of style, affecting age
152
.
Birnie, Sir Richard
d.
1832, magistrate Bow st., captured Cato st. conspirators
1115
.
Biscuits, steam machinery for making
1206
.
Black bottle quarrel
542
.
Blackburn, Cunliffe’s bank opened
421
,
the first mayor
1538
.
Blacksmiths learned
491
,
1601
.
Blarney, St. Anne’s water cure establishment opened
184
.
Bleaching, Barlow’s works
1589
,
Bridson’s works
397
,
stenter or elastic finishing machine invented
397
.
Blessington, Charles John Gardiner
d.
1829 earl of, acquaintance with comte D’Orsay
899
,
his wife
899
.
Blind, money left for
1122
,
phonetic system of teaching to read
1108
.
Blind persons, Barker
165
,
Fawcett
1027
,
Gilbert
1144
,
Hamilton
1303
,
Hearder
1409
,
Holman
1513
.
Blow pipe, oxy-hydrogen, invented
1261
,
use in chemical analysis
610
.
Blue ribband movement
711
.
Board of Control presidents, Dalhousie
803
,
Ellenborough
975
,
Glenelg
1157
,
Halifax
1281
,
Herries
1446
,
Hobhouse
421
,
Wood
1281
.
Board of Trade presidents, Cardwell
543
,
Clarendon
623
,
Dalhousie
803
,
Donoughmore
897
,
Gibson
1142
,
Glenelg
1157
,
Henley
1428
,
Herries
1446
.
Boats, Denham’s rowlocks
856
,
outrigger invention of
638
.
Bobbing net Trade
592
,
machines improved
124
.
Bode, Baron de, his case 1472–
3
.
Bogardus, James
d.
1874 inventor, field, cover and trap shooting
1089
.
Bohn, Henry publisher
1243
.
Bolton, Lancashire, Chadwick’s orphanage
581
,
Chadwick’s statue
581
.
Bonaparte, Jerome Napoleon
d.
1870 at Baltimore
330
.
Bonaparte, Joseph
d.
1844 king of Spain, his friend
1208
.
Bonaparte, Louis Lucien
d.
1891 linguist, his medical attendant
1415
.
Bonaparte, Napoleon E. L. J. J. in 1879 killed
330
,
his tutor
1606
.
See also
Napoleon.
Bone, Henry P.
d.
1855 enamel painter
332
,
his successor
998
.
Bone setters, Hutton, R.
1609
,
Hutton, R. H.
1609
.
Bonnetts of embossed paper
851
.
Bookbinders, Bedford
218
,
Clarke
218
,
Hayday
1395
,
Howell
1557
,
Lewis
218
.
Book binding, embossed cloth for
851
,
plough for cutting edges
1557
.
Books, bookseller with thirty thousand customers
1458
,
copyrights foreign
336
,
Crane’s coloured toy books
751
,
Grenville’s diary expurgated
1239
,
Mrs. Mary Ann Clarke’s Narrative suppressed
634
,
O. H. B. Hyman tore up his books when he had read them
1612
,
Orion a poem published at a farthing
1539
,
remainders sale of
326
.
Booksellers, Arch
80
,
Baldock
140
,
Baldwin
141
,
Bell
229
,
Bickers, H.
270
,
Bickers, H. Junr.
270
,
Bohn
326
,
Brown
433
,
Burn
482
,
Burns
488
,
Bush
270
,
Carpenter, J.
556
,
Carpenter, W. H.
556
,
Cottle
727
,
Dalton
808
,
Darling
815
,
Delf
853
,
Diprose
881
,
Dolby
891
,
Drakard
914
,
Evans
1004
,
Farran
1245
,
Faulkner
1026
,
Fulcher
1111
,
Gilpin
1152
,
Gowans
1193
,
Griffin C.
1243
,
Griffin J. J.
1244
,
Griffith
1245
,
Hall
1287
,
Hodgson
1494
,
Hotten
1547
,
Houlston
1549
,
Hughes
1577
,
Hulbert
1579
,
Hunter
1598
,
Johnson
1598
,
Payne
1004
,
Stoneman
1549
,
Trubner
853
,
Wright
1549
.
Boot makers, Hickson
1462
,
Hoby
1490
.
Boring machine, automatic tunnel machine invented
187
.
Borneo, Brooke’s government in
417
.
Botanists, Arnott
89
,
Atkinson
419
,
Bohler
325
,
Borrer
341
,
Bowie
359
,
Bromfield
412
,
Brown, J. W.
435
,
Brown, R.
437
,
Buxton
504
,
Calvert
519
,
Champion
589
,
Daubeny
820
,
Dickie
874
,
Dickson
875
,
Dillwyn
880
,
Drummond
920
,
Falconer
1017
,
Fielding
1043
,
Forbes
1076
,
Francis
1098
,
Gardiner
1122
,
Gourlie
1192
,
Greville
1240
,
Hance
1313
,
Henfrey
1427
,
Hennedy
1429
,
Hooker
1526
,
Prescott
1043
,
Steudel
1043
.
Botany, herbarium of Mauritius plants at Kew
113
.
Bottles, bottle washing machines
1569
,
stoppered
389
,
with taps
389
.
Bows and arrows, Clay’s
640
.
Boxers, Amateur, Brand
380
,
Budd
466
.
See also
Pugilists.
Boyd, Archibald
d.
1883 dean of Exeter
365
,
his controversy on episcopacy
1189
.
Brachiopoda
824
.
Bradlaugh, Charles
d.
1891 M.P. kept out of house of commons
1188
.
Bradshaw, George
d.
1853 publisher
375
,
Bradshaw’s Manchester Journal
1018
,
railway maps and guides
20
,
375
.
Bradshaw, James, M.P.
1543
.
Braintree, Essex, church rate case
733
.
Brass founder, Guest
1254
.
Bravo, Charles D. Turner
d.
in 1876 suddenly
384
,
1257
.
Brazil, exploration of
475
,
first railway
377
,
regiment raised for
140
,
Thayer expedition
1363
.
Bread, aerated
821
,
Dauglish’s patent
821
,
unfermented
815
.
Brechin, bishop of
1075
,
seat of bishoprick removed to Dundee
1075
.
Bremer, Frederika
d.
1865 Swedish novelist, works introduced into England
1559
.
Brewers, Allsopp
834
,
1481
,
Barclay, A. K.
158
,
Barclay, C.
158
,
Bass
189
,
Buxton
503
,
Crowley
776
,
Findlater
834
,
Flower
1071
,
Guinness
1256
,
Hanbury 1313
bis.
,
Hoare
1485
,
Hodgson
1495
,
Ind Coope
707
,
Meux
847
,
Truman
834
,
Whitbread
309
.
Breweries, Barclay, Perkins & Co.’s men assault Haynau
1400
,
butt-money
1521
.
Brett, Charles a police sergeant killed in 1867 at Manchester
53
.
Bridges, Forth railway bridge commenced
347
,
lattice bridges
316
,
845
,
Royal Albert at Saltash
453
,
taperchain suspension
1175
,
Tay railway bridge and its fall
316
.
Bright, John
d.
1889 M.P., the cave of Adullam
1543
.
Brighton, Brighton and London coach
729
,
Burrows and his statue
492
,
chain pier
438
,
court of request
1113
,
Davies’ bequest
829
,
Dick Gregory
1234
,
master of ceremonies
972
,
Old Ship hotel
701
,
poor, gift to, on St. Thomas’ day
274
,
Preston park
829
,
royal literary and scientific institution
492
,
St. Mary’s ch.
981
,
St. Mary’s hall
982
,
St. Paul’s ch.
555
,
stipendiary magistrate the first
274
,
theatre
597
.
Bristol, bull baiting at
540
,
court of conscience
1340
,
orphan house, Ashley down
749
,
Plymouth brethren
749
,
port freed from dues
400
,
reformatory
554
,
555
,
sch. industrial
555
,
sch. ragged
554
.
British museum, Christy ethnological collection
618
,
Cuming collection of shells
1218
,
Elgin marbles
1046
,
engravings, Cousins’ collection
734
,
gift refused Ayrton’s Arabic calligraphs
114
,
keeper of antiquities
1387
,
keeper of manuscripts
1084
,
keeper of prints and drawings
556
,
keepers of zoological department
610
,
1216
,
librarian the principal
983
,
oriental cylinders and seals, collection of
781
,
Persian manuscripts
1076
,
persons forbidden to enter reading room
1295
,
1353
,
reading room, claimant to suggestion of
1545
,
reading room superintendent
570
,
the ninety one cataloguing rules
965
.
Bromsgrove sch. Worcestershire, master Collis
683
,
chapel
683
,
St. John the Baptist ch.
683
,
tercentenary
683
.
Brothers, Richard
d.
1824 fanatic, his friends
1049
.
Brown, Charlotte Marie Augustine (
dau. of duc de Berri
) comtesse d’Issoudun
d.
1886 aged 79,
m.
1823 Prince de Faucigny Lucinge.
Brown, Louise Marie Charlotte (
dau. of duc de Berri
) comtesse de Vierzon
d.
Brittany 26 Dec. 1891,
m.
1826 Baron de Charette.
Browning, Robert
d.
1890 poet, his wife
447
.
Brunel, Isambard K.
d.
1859, C.E.
453
,
1259
.
Brunswick, Karl
d.
1873, duke of
453
,
1233
.
Buckenham, Old, Norfolk, Cocks’ almshouses
665
.
Buckland, Francis T.
d.
1880 naturalist, Land and Water
1040
.
Bude light invented
1261
.
Builders, Cubitt T.
779
,
Cubitt W.
780
,
Grainger
1199
,
Grissell
1249
,
Peto
1249
.
Bull baiting put down
540
.
Bullion broker, Goldsmid
1168
.
Bunya bunya tree discovered
274
.
Bunyan, John
d.
1688 baptist minister, Pilgrim’s Progress in Chinese
490
.
Burford, Robert
d.
1861 his panoramas
477
,
571
.
Burial clubs and infanticide
640
.
Burns, Robert
d.
1796 poet, centenary festival
115
,
facts about
1597
,
his punch bowl
1371
,
his son
489
,
memorial at Alloway
1305
,
monument Edin.
1305
.
Button maker, Hardman
1329
.
Byron, Anne I.
d.
1860 Lady
507
,
gave prize for essay on juvenile delinquency
722
.
Byron, George Gordon
d.
1824 Lord, Allegra his dau.
621
,
Childe Harold, dedication of
427
,
Clara M. J. Clairmont
621
,
Don Juan
627
,
friends
151
,
852
,
1049
,
1342
,
1345
,
1495
,
1591
,
Guiccioli, countess
1255
,
his fag
1411
,
his servant
1016
,
Hours of idleness reviewed
1592
,
Parisina, dedication of
828
,
portraits
1213
,
1370
,
swam with S. B. Davies
828
,
wife 507 and separation from
1495
.
C
Cables, iron chain cables invented
438
,
manufacturer of
730
.
Cabs, Chapman’s patent
592
,
Hansom’s patent
592
,
1322
,
Hearn a cab owner
1409
,
safety cabriolet and two wheel carriage Co.
592
.
Cahusac, the misses, school mistresses Highgate
1146
.
Calculating machine
116
,
calculating phenomenon
272
.
Calico printers, Brooks
421
,
Cobden
659
,
Crum
778
,
Dalglish
803
,
Grafton
1195
.
Cambridge, Anglo-Saxon professorship founded
345
,
annals of
708
,
apostles’ club
305
,
B.A. without taking the oath
1362
,
Brown’s billiard rooms
434
,
chancellor of the university
39
,
Christian advocate
1108
,
council of the senate
706
,
Cripp’s gift of statues
762
,
Disney professorship of archæology
882
,
Fitzwilliam museum first stone laid
32
,
grenadier company of volunteers
616
,
nonconformists first take degrees
399
,
observatory
582
,
peer’s son entering without residence or examination
996
,
plan for colonial coll.
776
,
Powis, Earl of stood for chancellorship
39
,
school of art founded
208
,
Sunday schools
586
,
university boat club
616
,
university library first stone laid
32
,
university commission
662
.
Cambridge. Magdalen coll. song, Sicut lilium carmen hortativum
336
,
model rifle club
497
.
Cambridge. Trinity coll. first jew a senior wrangler
1362
,
Halliwell accused of taking MSS, from
1295
.
Cambridgeshire lord lieut.
1331
.
Cambronne, Pierre Jaques Etienne
d.
1842 general, taken prisoner at Waterloo
1282
.
Camels and elephants in harness
1571
.
Camp meetings, first in England
655
.
Campbell, Thomas
d.
1844 poet, his manuscripts
1167
.
Canada. Bytown renamed Gloucester
277
,
Caroline steamer burnt
1500
,
governor general
1404
,
grants of land given to fifty seven rectories
265
,
metropolitan bishop
1111
,
paper mill the first
768
,
peat fuel manufactured
1491
,
rebellion suppressed
91
,
Victoria bridge
1491
,
wheat and flour, first load sent from Upper Canada to Montreal
768
.
Canada. Montreal, first daily paper, Daily Advertiser
591
.
Canada. Toronto, The Banner established
437
,
Mackenzie’s rebellion
1061
,
royal grenadier regiment
782
,
university built
782
.
Canals, cases relating to
560
.
Candle makers, Field
1041
,
Hale
1278
.
Caning, boy caned three times a day for seven years
772
.
Canning, George
d.
1827 statesman, Brougham’s quarrel with
426
.
Cannon, Dove’s rifled cannon
905
,
Gardner’s quick firing
1123
.
Canterbury, arches court
890
,
cath. the six preachers
1084
,
cath. windows
632
,
musical doctor’s degree first since reformation
1131
,
prerogative court abolished
890
,
St. Augustine’s abbey
1528
.
Canvas maker, Gaskell
1128
.
Cape Coast castle defended
916
.
Cape Town, bishop of, Grey
673
,
Sir G. Grey’s library
311
.
Carbolic acid first manufactured
520
.
Cardinal, Cullen
781
.
Cardiff, castle rebuilt
478
,
Sophia gardens
499
.
Cards, makers of
851
.
Caricatures, collection of
1387
.
Caricaturists, Bennett
240
,
Cruikshank, G.
777
,
Cruikshank, I.
777
,
Cruikshank, I. R.
778
,
Doyle
912
.
Carisbrook castle, Isle of Wight, custodian of
859
.
Carlile, Richard
d.
1843 bookseller, disputation with
128
,
wife charged with selling a libel
1472
.
Carlisle, aerated bread made at
821
.
Carlyle, Thomas
d.
1881 historian, his friends
996
,
1058
,
1591
.
Carlow lord lieutenant
261
.
Carmarthenshire lord lieutenant
948
.
Caroline
d.
1821 queen of Great Britain, attorney general to
426
,
solicitor general to
859
.
Carpet manufacturers, Crossley
772
,
Henderson
1425
.
Carriers of goods, law of
613
.
Carron, Guy T. J.
d.
1821 Abbé, established school at Somers Town, London
502
.
Carthage, excavations at
832
.
Cashel, Emly, Waterford and Lismore, bishop of
809
.
Casks, cleansing of
834
.
Catalani, Angelica
d.
1849 singer, concerts
621
.
Cats, a painter of
1497
.
Cattle, breeders of
173
,
257
,
294
,
307
,
328
,
337
,
338
,
1039
–
40
,
Fasque pure bred polled
1155
,
plague
1342
.
Cawthorne, George
d.
1833 of circulating library
1607
.
Celtic scholar, Evans
1002
.
Cemeteries, London cemetery co. founded
1133
, London Necropolis projected
429
,
Woking, national mausoleum at
429
,
See also
Cremation.
Census of 1851,
assistant of registrar
1308
.
Centenarians and reputed centenarians, Baden
121
,
Bailey
127
,
Baillie
128
,
Beadon
204
,
Brewer
392
,
Clark
628
,
Coxeter
744
,
Edwards
964
,
Fletcher
1069
,
Gardner
1123
,
Geeran
1133
,
Gibson
1140
,
Heathorn
1413
,
Hicks
1461
,
Howes
1558
,
Howlison
1561
.
Ceremonies, master of to the Queen
796
.
Cetywayo
d.
1881 Zulu chief, his friends
673
.
Chadwick suit
280
.
Chalmers, Rev. Thomas
d.
1847 D.D., appointed to Tron. ch. Glasgow
681
,
his friends
996
.
Chamberlains, hereditary grand, Cholmondeley, G. H. C.
613
,
Cholmondeley, W. H. H.
613
.
Chambers, Robert
d.
1871 and William Chambers
d.
1883 publishers
587
,
588
,
editor of their works
1047
.
Chancellors of the exchequer, Baring declined
162
,
Disraeli
203
,
Goulburn
1190
,
Halifax
1281
,
Herries
1441
,
Hunt
1590
.
Chancellors, Lord, Brougham
426
,
Cairns
512
,
Campbell
525
,
Chelmsford
601
,
Cottenham
726
,
Cranworth
751
,
Hatherley
1376
.
Chancery, the cat in chancery
1224
.
Changes of Names,
See
Names.
Chapeau bras, the last wearer of the
254
.
Channel islands criminal law commission
625
.
Characters, illustrious, collector of memorials of
276
.
Charity estate commissioner
954
.
Charlotte Augusta
d.
1817 princess, elegy on death of
360
,
portrait
1166
.
Chartists, Elt
990
,
Epps
954
,
Frost
424
,
1109
,
Gammage
1119
,
people’s petition
105
,
932
.
Chatterton, Frederick B.
d.
1886,
theatrical manager
599
,
1016
.
Chaucer, Geoffrey
d.
1400 poet, his astrolabe
377
.
Cheddar, Somerset, St. Michael’s home founded
1138
.
Chelsea, botanical gardens
1088
,
five fields built over
779
,
hospital, history of
1607
,
Whiteland’s training coll.
853
.
Chemistry, polarity of chemical elements
409
,
royal coll. of chemistry founded
807
.
Chemists, Calvert
1589
,
Faraday
1020
,
Field
1041
,
Gregory
1234
,
Hadow
1273
,
Hanbury
1312
,
Howard J. E.
1553
,
Howard Luke
1554
,
Hunt
1589
,
Hunt
1592
.
Cherry ripe, a song
1537
.
Chess, early invention of
1076
,
games at
578
,
Indian problem
583
,
London chess club
578
,
The Pleiades at Berlin
1544
.
Chess players, Alexander
42
,
Anderssen
67
,
Barnes
173
,
Baxter
196
,
Brand
380
,
Buckle
463
,
Horwitz
1544
,
Kling
1544
.
Chessel Down, Anglo Saxon cemetery at
1477
.
Chester, bridge at
1362
.
Chestnuts sold in the streets
1130
.
Chevalier, person assuming designation of
846
.
Children, employment commission
1070
,
Faraday’s lectures to
1020
,
mental culture of
600
,
preacher to
329
.
Chimneys, children chimney sweeps
1568
,
very high chimneys
458
,
sweeping machine invented
1155
.
China, Bellot’s collection of coins
236
,
Chinese Gordon
1178
,
Chinese scholars
1029
,
1338
,
Christian union to propagate gospel
1263
,
Ever victorious army
1178
,
execution of Brabazon
371
,
medical missionary soc.
676
,
missionaries to
825
,
Pilgrim’s Progress in Chinese
490
,
presbyterian ch. of England in
490
,
Taiping rebellion
1178
.
China manufacturer, Minton
528
.
Chloroform used as a local anæsthetic
1333
.
Chocolate manufacturers, Fry
1110
,
Gatti
1130
.
Cholera, acrostic by Charles Lambe on Asbury’s treatment of cholera
93
,
cholera in 1849
col.
131
,
cholera in 1832 in London
302
,
324
,
first visitation of
651
,
what to do
582
.
Chorlton-upon-Medlock, Manchester, All Saints’ ch. built 493 burnt
493
.
Christmas cards, originated
671
,
verses for
1527
.
Chromatrope invented
609
.
Chronometer makers, Arnold
861
,
Barraud
861
,
Carter
562
,
Dent
861
,
Vulliamy
861
.
Chronometric line run round the world
1064
.
Chrysanthemum exhibition
802
.
Chunee the elephant shot
770
.
Churches, apparatus for heating
1055
,
church furnisher
1107
.
Cigars made by women
715
.
Cinque ports, lord warden
803
.
Circassian committee, chairman of
206
.
Circle, reflecting, Douglas’
902
.
Circles, automatic graduation of
703
.
Circus proprietors, Cooke J.
702
,
Cooke T. Thomas
702
,
Cooke William
704
,
Fanque
1020
,
Hengler
1428
,
Howes and Cushing
762
,
Hughes
1570
,
Price and Powell
1428
,
Sanger
762
.
Cirencester, Roman antiquities at
465
.
Cistercian order re-established
854
.
Cities and boroughs, plans of
839
.
Civil list pensioners, A’Beckett
5
,
Ainsworth
33
,
Alder
40
,
Alison
47
,
Anderson
64
,
Anster J.
74
,
Anster E.
74
,
Atherstone
101
,
Atkinson
104
,
Austin
109
,
Backhouse
119
,
Bailey
127
,
Ball
146
,
Barez
160
,
Barnard
171
,
Bartlett
187
,
Basevi
189
,
Batty
195
,
Beke
223
,
Bell
230
,
Belzoni
237
,
Bigsby
276
,
Bingham
278
,
Blakey
306
,
Bleek W. H. I.
311
,
Bleek J. C.
311
,
Bloomfield
316
,
Boole
335
,
Boyle
368
,
Britton
404
,
Broderip
407
,
Brown
437
,
Buckingham
461
,
Burnet
486
,
Burges
477
,
Carpenter
554
,
Carleton
547
,
Cattermole
572
,
Chisholm
612
,
Clifford
649
,
Colby
669
,
Cole
671
,
Coles
675
,
Collier
677
,
Cooke Sir W. F.
705
,
Cooke Anna L.
705
,
Cooley
706
,
Corbaux
717
,
Costello D.
725
,
Costello L. S.
725
,
Cross
770
,
Cruikshank
777
,
Curtis
793
,
Dalton
807
,
Daly
808
,
De Morgan A.
855
,
De Morgan S. E.
855
,
Dick
872
,
Donaldson
893
,
Doo
898
,
Edward
963
,
Falcieri
1016
,
Faraday
1020
,
Forbes
1078
,
Gavin
1131
,
Godkin
1163
,
Gordon
1177
,
Graves
1211
,
Haas
1268
,
Hall A. M.
1283
,
Hall S. C.
1289
,
Hamilton W. R.
1307
,
Hamilton W. S.
1308
,
Harris
1351
,
Hawker
1385
,
Haydn
1396
,
Haydon
1396
,
Head
1404
,
Helps
1419
,
Hickey
1460
,
Hincks
1480
,
Hind
1481
,
Hogan
1500
,
Hogg
1502
,
Home
1521
,
Horne
1539
,
Howitt M.
1559
,
Howitt W.
1559
,
Hughes
1570
,
Hullah
1581
,
Hunt J. H. L.
1591
.
Civil service, first commissioner Packington
1312
.
Clackmannan, lord lieutenant of
6
.
Claimants, Allen Charles
49
,
Allen C. M.
50
,
Allen J. C. H.
52
,
Goode
1172
,
Tichbourne
662
.
Clairvoyant, Heller
1418
.
Clapham park, Surrey, houses built on
779
.
Claremont, Surrey, residence of Orleans princes
856
,
1106
.
Claviole or finger keyed viol
1389
.
Clevedon, Somerset, Christ Church built and endowed
372
.
Clewer near Oxford, female penitentiary opened
84
.
Clifton, bishops of, Burgess 479 and Hendren
1426
,
Hensman memorial ch.
1434
.
Clocks, astronomical
703
,
double check clock escapement
382
,
electrical
130
.
Clonfert, bishop of
865
.
Cloth dresser, Hirst
1484
.
Clothier, Harrison
1352
.
Clouds, cirrus, cumulus, stratus and nimbus
1554
,
observations on
1554
.
Clowns
See also
Actors
col.
1617
,
Auriol
1070
,
Barnes
173
,
Barry
183
,
Boleno
328
,
Delevanti
853
,
Diavolo
870
,
Flexmore
1070
,
Grimaldi
1021
,
Huline
1580
.
Clubs.
Amateur athletic founded
586
.
Arthur’s built
1536
.
Athenæum designed
494
,
relievi on the exterior
1431
.
Athletic club of univ. of Edin. founded
121
.
Bailey club, Sheffield, commenced
127
.
Badminton originated
1601
.
Bannatyne founded
747
.
British and foreign institute founded
461
.
Brooks’s, the master of
195
.
Concentores Sodales founded and ceased
1542
.
Coventry house lessee
1097
.
Friday knights founded
1109
.
Garrick founded
943
,
manager
1297
.
Geographical founded
411
.
Grillion’s founded
11
.
Junior Athenæum in Piccadilly
1531
.
Literary dining founded
701
.
London chess, president
578
.
London clay
357
.
Lowtonian, secretary of
635
.
Manchester literary founded
1330
.
Metropolitan red lions founded
1077
.
Pitt, president of
972
.
Political economy founded
578
.
Quekett microscopical, founder
1331
,
president
1090
.
Raleigh founded
410
.
Red house at Battersea
73
.
Reform, chairmen
207
,
977
,
chef
1097
,
erected
181
,
founded
654
,
977
,
member expelled
363
,
secretaries
717
,
1280
.
Savage founded
1294
.
Star, memorials of
1083
.
Travellers’ erected
181
.
Tyneside Naturalists’ Field founded
39
,
1314
.
Urban founded
1109
.
Victoria yacht founded
10
.
Coach drivers, Cotton
729
,
Herring
1446
.
Coach proprietors, Barber
156
,
Chaplin
591
,
Hadley
1272
,
Halcomb
1276
.
Coaches, coachmakers
68
,
revival of coaching
70
.
Coal, Bidder’s safety lamp for mines
272
,
coal exchange opened
927
,
coal factor
927
,
combustion of
1524
,
machine for weighing invented
888
,
quantity still remaining in England
1592
,
Small coal man, a political song
1573
.
Coates, Robert
d.
1848 known as Romeo Coates, his widow
367
.
Coats, Chesterfield the
605
,
Petersham the
1344
.
Cock fighting
112
.
Cocking, Robert
killed
1837, aeronaut
1223
.
Coins, collectors of, Bergne
253
,
Borrell
341
,
Christmas
617
,
Coats
657
,
Cuff
780
,
Fox
1094
,
Guthrie
1264
,
Harvey
1368
,
Hawkins E.
1387
,
Hawkins W.
1390
,
Henfrey
1427
.
Colenso, William John
d.
1883 bishop of Natal, deposed by bishop Gray
1219
.
Coleoptera, Brackenridge’s collection
372
,
Brightwell’s collection
400
.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
d.
1834 poet, Cottle’s recollections of
728
,
literary cookery with reference to matters attributed to
377
.
Colleges.
Agricultural at Cirencester established
1288
.
College of arms, report on
233
.
College of doctors of law
1571
.
Crook hall removed to Ushaw
228
.
Didsbury near Manchester founded
358
.
Exeter diocesan founded
1337
.
London coll. of divinity at Kilburn
348
.
Manchester new coll. removed to London
361
.
Marlborough founded
357
,
1235
.
St. Columba, Beresford’s gift to
251
.
St. John’s hall, Highbury, principal
348
.
Training at Highbury founded
1235
.
Collier, a poetical
1005
.
Collieries, Clay cross
1556
,
self acting fence for winding shafts
1556
.
Colonies, Secretaries of state for colonies, Aberdeen
6
,
Cardwell
543
,
Glenelg
1157
,
Grey
1241
,
Herbert
1437
,
Hobart
1487
,
Pakington
1312
,
Stanley
863
.
Colston, Edward
d.
1721 merchant, life of
1125
.
Columbine, Boleno
328
.
Coming K., The authors of
221
.
Commons, House of, best dressed man in
932
,
call of the house, the last
1364
,
clerk
1022
,
chiltern hundreds refused to a member
510
,
member expelled
934
,
person committed to custody of serjeant at arms
677
,
seat from which member hears thanks given him, remains his while member
1003
,
speakers
935
,
1008
,
speakership, contests for
1191
,
1376
,
thanks given to celebrated men
1003
,
1039
.
Compasses, Caithness gravitation compass
512
,
method of compensating errors invented
168
.
Compensation refused by government to Douglas
904
.
Concerts, of ancient music
290
,
promenade
770
,
1308
.
Confectioner, Gunter
1259
.
Confessional unmasked, The
455
.
Conjurors, Anderson
63
,
1482
,
Blitz
314
,
Eagle
950
,
Heller
1418
.
Conservatory at Surrey zoological gardens
7
.
Control, board of,
See
Board of Control
col.
1626
.
Conveyancer, Hodgkin
1492
.
Convicts, Buckley the convict
465
,
how convicts are made
555
.
Cooke, Sir W. F.
d.
1879, electrician
705
,
partner with Wheatstone
1383
.
Cooks and cookery, Francatelli
1097
,
Kettner’s manual
805
.
Cooper, Sir Astley Preston
d.
1841, his anatomical preparations
1225
,
life
708
.
Cooper, Thompson, F.S.A. author
708
.
Copper, Cwmavon copper works, Glamorgan
1259
,
Kapunda mine, South Australia
944
,
smelting copper in Swansea district
1098
.
Coppin, George
b.
1819, actor & theatrical manager
416
.
Copybooks, Darnell’s
817
,
largest maker of in the world
1458
.
Coral, Jane
d.
1858, painter
1601
.
Cork, bishop of
851
,
great exhibition at
842
,
lord lieutenant
1038
,
St. Finbarre cath.
1233
,
water works
246
.
Cork, Cloyne and Ross, bishops of
1060
,
1233
.
Corn, corn merchant
1378
,
drilling machines
1126
,
grinding corn, improvements in
353
.
Corn. Anti-corn law league, A B C of the
98
,
founders of
98
,
1272
,
final meeting
98
,
lecturers, members of and speakers
11
,
361
,
659
,
1096
,
1141
,
meeting in Covent Garden
397
,
secretary
1589
.
Cornwall, assay master
1435
,
Cornish dolls
346
,
duchy, enquiry into revenues of
700
,
fauna
731
,
folk lore
731
,
glossary of words
731
,
Pendeen church built
36
,
Sunday sch. teacher the first
205
,
typhus fever
550
.
Coromandel, the seven pagodas
557
.
Corona Borealis, discovery of a new star in
288
.
Coroners’ inquests
615
.
Corsets,
corset à la Vénus
477
.
Costumes peculiar worn by F. Boott
340
.
Cotehele house, Cornwall, account of
691
.
Cottage allotment system
578
.
Cotton, machinery exported
794
,
spinning machines, improvements in
325
.
Cotton spinners, Armitage
83
,
Ashworth
97
,
98
,
Bazley
202
,
Bright
399
,
Brook
414
,
Callender
517
,
Crompton
767
,
Cross
771
,
Fielden 1043
bis.
,
Garnett
1124
,
Greg
1232
,
Hall
1287
,
Holms
1517
,
Hornby
1538
,
Horrocks
1444
,
Houldsworth
1549
,
Hoyle
1562
,
Hulbert
1579
,
Hutton
1608
.
County Guy, a song
1196
.
Coursers, Campbell
530
,
Etwall
1000
.
Coursing, Ashdown hill meetings
752
,
Craven
752
.
Courvoisier, F. Benjamin
hanged
1840, his trial
1488
.
Craggan castle, Clare, restoration of
98
.
Crape manufacturer, Courtauld
733
.
Creche, the first in London
1511
.
Cree North American Indians, books for
1595
.
Cremation, first in England
1316
,
crematorium at Manston house
1316
,
persons cremated Collins
679
,
Hanham E. M.
1316
,
Hanham E. D.
1316
,
Hanham T. B. 1316 and Henry
1432
.
Creosote, properties of
720
.
Cricket, All England matches
636
,
an eleven all of whose names began with B.
364
,
Beaudesert ground
71
,
catapulta
1032
,
glove, tubular india rubber
1032
,
I. Zingari
1249
,
Kennington oval
1249
,
large score
405
,
Lord’s proprietors
814
,
Marylebone club bowlers 1253 and sec.
1059
,
Prince’s ground
364
,
rules of, first book on
198
,
Surrey eleven
1249
,
wicket keepers’ feats
405
.
Cricketers, Anstead
73
,
Baker
136
,
Bancalari
150
,
Barker T.
165
,
Barker T. R.
166
,
Bayley
200
,
Beagley
205
,
Beldham
225
,
Biddulph
273
,
Blackman
298
,
Bowyer
364
,
Box
364
,
Brand
380
,
Broadbridge
405
,
Brown
430
,
Budd
466
,
Caldecott
514
,
Chamberlayne
586
,
Clarke
636
,
Cotton
729
,
Dark
814
,
Davies
828
,
Ede
596
,
Felix
1032
,
Fitzgerald
1059
,
Grace G. F. and H. M.
1194
,
Grace W. G.
1558
,
Grimston E. H.
1248
,
Grimston F. S.
1248
,
Grimston R.
1249
,
Grundy
1253
,
Guy
1266
,
Halliwell
1295
,
Harenc
1335
,
Hayward D.
1403
,
Hayward T.
1403
,
Heath
1411
,
Hillyer
1478
,
Hoare
1485
,
Hodgson
1495
,
Hodson
1499
,
Howitt
1558
,
Humphrey
1587
,
Hunter
1597
,
Pilch
1266
,
Shaw
1597
,
Wenman
1266
.
Criminals, Bravo
384
,
Buranelli
475
,
Burdock
1437
,
Chesham
603
,
Courvoisier
513
,
Cross
772
,
Dove
513
,
905
,
Flowery Land pirates
513
,
Good
513
,
Greenacre
513
,
Manning
513
,
Muller
513
,
Palmer
150
,
526
,
662
,
1437
,
Roupell
579
,
Rush
513
,
Tawell
513
,
Wilson
513
.
Crinoids, collection of
277
.
Crown cases reserved, Court of
662
.
Cruikshank, George
d.
1878, artist
777
,
his friend
1600
.
Crusoe, Robinson, Crusoe’s island
445
.
Crustacea, collections of
963
,
1530
.
Crystal palace, Sydenham, origin of
1023
,
erected
1094
,
Gibson’s statues
1141
,
Handel festivals
360
,
725
,
managers
361
,
1037
,
managing director
1111
,
organist
735
,
railway
112
.
See also
Exhibition,
col.
1641
.
Cullen, Paul
d.
1878, cardinal
780
,
his secretary
695
.
Cuneiform inscriptions, decipherer of
1480
.
Cure, The Perfect
i.e.
J. H. Stead
312
.
Curfew bells at Hampswaite
165
.
Customs, acts consolidated
848
.
Cygnus, red star discovered in
288
.
Cyrenaica, report on antiquities of
220
.
Cystideans, collection of
277
.
D
Dallas, Eneas S.
d.
1879,
author
805
,
1161
.
Dampier, Thomas
d.
1812 bp. of Ely, his library
869
.
Dancers, Barrymore
184
,
Blasis
310
,
Byrne
506
,
D’Albert
801
,
Duncombe
932
,
Flexmore
1070
,
Louise
1518
,
Mercandotti
147
.
Dancing, clog dancing invented
1398
,
jig dancing
1398
,
quadrilles and waltzes introduced
1250
.
Dandies, Ball-Hughes
147
,
Chesterfield
605
,
Dorsay
899
,
Gronow
1250
,
Petersham
1344
.
Danson, George
d.
1881, painter
612
,
large pictures by
770
.
Dante Alighieri
d.
1321 poet, lectures on Divina Comedia founded
168
.
Danube, suspension bridge Pesth to Buda
630
.
Darling, Grace
d.
1843, her boat
816
.
Darlington, nuns at, libel on
1130
.
Darien, isthmus of, canal across
421
.
Dartmoor, hereditary deputy ranger of
1346
.
Dartmouth ch., Brockedon’s painting in
406
.
Darwin, Charles Robert
d.
1882 naturalist, pupil of Henslow
1434
.
Davids, Louisa
d.
1853, writer on Sunday schools
822
.
Davy, Sir Humphry
d.
1829 chemist, his amanuensis
1020
.
Day, William, lithographer
1274
.
Dead body stolen, Crawford
754
.
Deafness, deaf and dumb heraldic artist
135
,
surgeon specialist 925–
6
.
Death, condemned to, Hoare
1486
.
Deaths, premature announcement of, Brougham
426
.
Deaths under peculiar circumstances, at railway stations
1228
,
1455
,
1460
,
by explosion of gunpowder half a mile away
1606
,
drinking prussic acid
372
,
373
,
drowned in Liffey salmon leap
864
,
entering hotel in Paris
1141
,
fall down stairs
1342
,
fall down stairs at railway station
1430
,
fall from a balloon
1192
,
fall from a bicycle
112
,
fall from an elephant
942
,
fall from scaffold of a ch.
1409
,
fall on the Matterhorn
1273
,
1566
,
fall over a precipice
1330
,
found dead in a water tank
1398
,
fractured skull in fox hunting
1335
,
grief at refusal of sculpture at Royal Academy
951
,
in a cab
1112
,
in an earthquake
1225
,
in an omnibus
1182
,
1205
,
in a pulpit
213
,
in a railway accident
149
,
in same room as birth
1224
,
inhaling poisonous gas
985
,
jumping down area
24
,
jumping overboard
944
,
1488
,
missed during passage from Newhaven to Dieppe
1134
,
murdered by Greek brigands
1439
,
on birthday
1238
,
on board a yacht
1142
,
police magistrate in a workhouse
1252
,
rupture of liver falling on stairs
1609
,
shot by bushrangers
1585
,
shot himself at a supper
1440
,
sitting in chairs
306
,
1101
,
stabbed in street at Malta
1213
,
sting of wasp in carotid artery
754
,
taking cyanide of potassium
173
,
taking laudanum for a black draught
1609
,
taking morphia
1044
,
1211
,
taking strychnine
711
,
walking through plate glass window
140
,
while ascending the Flégère
1050
,
while grouse shooting
1183
,
while salmon fishing
1444
,
while walking on sea shore
1155
.
Debt, national, check department
1048
.
Delafield, Edward, lessee of Covent Garden
1268
.
Decimal coinage
470
.
Defences, our national
675
.
Denmark, Copenhagen, first tramway there
1208
.
Denison, George Anthony
b.
1805, archdeacon of Taunton, prosecuted
882
.
Denominations,
See
Religious denominations.
Denbighshire, lord lieutenant
273
.
Dentists, Cartwright
565
,
Groves
1252
.
Dentistry, Pompeian plates
1557
.
Derby, Bass’ gifts to
190
.
Derby race, a visitor to for 64 years
1112
.
Derby, Edward Smith
d.
1851, earl of
863
, his museum
949
.
Derbyshire, lord lieutenant
869
.
Dermatology
1096
.
Derry, bishop of
1463
.
Derwentwater estates
865
.
Desicating Co.
834
.
Detonating powder, Boyle’s
369
.
Devil, Pedigree of the
1284
.
Devonport, name given to Plymouth dock
22
,
wrestling at
536
.
Devonshire, Bibliotheca Devoniensis
823
,
lace manufacture
1021
,
landslip in
697
,
lord lieutenant
1088
.
Devonshire, Georgiana
d.
1806 duchess of, portrait stolen
987
.
Diamonds, a diamond collector
1532
,
a diamond merchant
434
,
diamond cement invented
835
.
Diarists, Greville C. C. F.
1239
,
Greville H.
1240
.
Dickens, Charles
d.
1870,
novelist
872
,
bibliography of his writings
699
,
C. Dickens and Rochester
1580
,
Chimes dramatised
4
,
friends
367
,
1182
,
Hard Times in French
1578
,
illustrations of his works
443
,
Little Emly a drama
973
,
lives of
1085
,
Oliver Twist, statue of
1576
,
Pickwick a drama
547
,
Pickwick, examination papers on
518
,
Sam Weller a drama
1285
,
sec. in his American tour
1407
,
sketches by Boz
1129
.
Dickson, John, surgeon to Lord Nelson
875
.
Dictionaries, Murray’s New English
674
.
Dilston castle, Northumberland, disputed ownership
865
.
Diner out, Davies
828
.
Dipsomania, its treatment
46
.
Diseases, Addison’s disease, discovery of
23
,
Bright’s disease
400
,
consumption, cure of by vapour of tar
760
,
granular degeneration of kidneys
617
,
Hodgkin’s disease
1492
,
phthisis, treatment of
324
.
Disappearance, Congreve
691
.
Disinfecting fluids, Burnett’s
487
,
carbolic acid
520
.
Disintegrator, the
557
.
Disraeli, Benjamin
d.
1881 earl of Beaconsfield
203
,
Clay travels with him in Holy Land
640
,
Eldred much like him in appearance
973
,
friend
1346
,
Henrietta Temple, dedication of
900
,
life of
1485
,
private secretaries
455
,
951
,
servant
1016
.
Disraeli, Isaac
d.
1848 author, his controversy with Bolton Corney
721
.
Dissenters, the first in the Cabinet, Baines
133
.
Dissolving views invented
609
.
Diving, air pump and dress
1417
,
apparatus, Bethell’s patent
263
.
Doctor advertising, Culverwell
781
.
Dogs, dog stealers’ act
291
,
dog trainer
499
,
performing dogs
697
,
sporting dogs
685
.
Dominican community 1292–
3
.
Doncaster, mayor the first
705
.
Donne, William Bodham
d.
1882,
examiner of plays
896
,
his friend
1058
.
Donovan’s solution invented
897
.
Doors, In and Out first marked on
1560
.
Dorking, St. Barnabas at Ranmore built
779
.
Double bass players, Dragonetti
1557
,
Howell
1556
.
Douranee order
2
.
Dover, castle, constable of
803
,
Shakespeare cliff
1491
.
Dowb
i.e.
M. H. Dowbiggin “Take care of Dowb”
906
.
Down and Connor, bishop of
899
.
Drainage, arterial
578
.
Dramas, at 50s. an act
1403
,
performed in a boat
1306
.
Dramatic coll. at Woking, Cooke’s bequest to
73
.
Dramatists, A’Beckett
4
,
Addison
22
,
Bernard
256
,
Brooks
420
,
Brough R. B. and W.
425
,
Byron
507
,
Carpenter
554
,
Coyne
744
,
Dance
810
,
De Walden
869
,
Du Terreaux
943
,
Dutnall
944
,
Ebsworth J.
955
,
Ebsworth M. E.
955
,
Farnie
1022
,
Fawcett
1027
,
Fitzball
1056
,
Glengall
1157
,
Godwin
1164
,
Green
1223
,
Greenwood
1231
,
Halliday
1294
,
Heraud
1437
.
See also
Actors.
Drapery, fancy trade in originated
250
.
Draughts, champion player in Scotland
60
.
Drawing without instruments
823
.
Dredgers, bucket steam dredger
1091
,
1598
,
excavators
1091
.
Druids, head of the
826
.
Drunkenness, the bottle 8 plates
777
,
drunkard’s children 8 plates
777
,
drunkard’s children a drama
777
,
worship of Bacchus a picture
777
,
See also
Temperance.
Drummond, Edward
assassinated
25 Jany. 1843, sec. to Sir R. Peel
877
.
Drummond light discovered
1261
.
Dublin, archbishops of
27
,
251
,
781
,
battle axe guards at the Castle
1469
,
Berwick art club established
260
,
chancery court, registrar of affidavits in
622
,
convent of sisters of charity
29
,
dean of St. Patrick’s, disputed election
808
,
exchequer records indexed
1035
,
freedom of city conferred
702
,
great exhibition
245
,
842
,
high sheriff sent to prison
1215
,
lord mayor
942
,
lord lieut.
1562
,
Lucan spa house
679
,
natural history soc. founded
69
,
Park st. sch. of medicine
796
,
Phœnix park murders
575
,
police, chief commissioner
443
,
Richmond sch. of medicine, foundation of
17
,
R. coll. of surgeons, presidents
17
,
796
,
R. Irish academy
1036
,
St. Patrick’s cath. restored
1256
,
telegraph to Galway
212
,
theatre royal burnt
969
.
Ducrow, Andrew
d.
1842,
equestrian performer
54
,
his Grecian statues
517
,
his rival
702
.
Duelling, essay on
522
,
sin of
584
.
Duels.
Aston and Allen
100
.
Barthelémy and Cournet
185
.
Beaumont and Moore
213
.
Berkeley and Boldero
253
,
328
.
Berkeley and Maginn
254
.
Black and Roebuck
293
.
Bland and a Purser
309
.
Bland and Randall
309
.
Boswell and Stuart
345
.
Braddyll and Bowlby
372
.
Braddyll and Williamson
372
.
Cardigan and Tuckett
542
.
Christie and Scott
615
.
Dillon and De Gramont-Caderousse
880
.
Donaldson and Mitchell
894
.
Falkland killed in a duel
1018
.
Fawcett and Munroe
782
,
1257
.
Forbes and Thomson
1075
.
Hayes and Bric
1399
.
Horsman and Bradshaw
1543
.
Smith, Thomas B. C. challenges Fitzgerald
1061
.
Duffy, Charles Gavan
b.
1816, politician, established the Nation
499
.
Dulwich, God’s Gift coll. dissolved
50
.
Dundee, Baxter park
196
,
Baxter college
198
,
burgh records
824
,
Christian mission ch.
358
,
Dundee and London, steamers between
929
,
flax mills stopped
440
,
Henderson schools
1425
,
nine incorporated trades
583
,
postage stamps invented at
583
,
St. Paul’s cath.
1075
.
Dunmow flitch of bacon
598
.
Durham, Halmote court
833
,
Palatinate chancery court abolished
833
,
Ushaw coll.
1151
.
Duval, Lewis
d.
1844 conveyancer, his pupil
1283
.
Dyeing, Crum’s process
778
,
improvements in
580
.
Dynamometer, invention of a
57
.
Dwarf, Calvert
520
.
E
Ear, aural surgeon, so called
793
,
cephaloscope
794
,
R. Dispensary for diseases of ear
793
,
tympanum, instrument for puncture of
92
.
Earl Marshal, deputy earl marshal
1551
.
Earth, rotundity of the, bet as to its flatness
1311
.
Easthope, Sir John
d.
1865,
bart.
953
,
purchased Morning Post
644
.
East India Co., bugles, fifes and drums for
676
,
chairman the last
791
,
directors
533
,
573
,
729
,
954
,
monopoly, abolition of
105
,
printers to
742
,
volunteer band
1343
,
See also
India.
Ebonite invented
1315
.
Eccentric characters, Acland
10
,
Ady
25
,
Cochrane
660
,
Cotton
729
.
Ecclesiastical commission
315
,
608
.
Ecclesiastical metal workers
1329
.
Edinburgh, art union originated
1469
,
bank of Scotland built
455
,
bible soc. originated
60
,
bishop of
727
,
botanical soc. founded
381
,
castle chapel restored
277
,
castle regalia discovered
1035
,
circus first established
704
,
city’s last appointment to a professorship
754
,
eye infirmary founded
226
,
Fettes coll. built
455
,
Free high ch.
89
,
Gaelic sch. soc. originated
60
,
John Knox memorial ch.
527
,
merchant co.
1143
,
new coll.
536
,
royal infirmary built
455
,
royal medical society president
23
,
St. Margaret’s convent founded
1150
,
soc. of arts founded
394
,
veterinary coll. founded
872
.
Edinburgh university, Carlyle bursaries at
549
,
chancellor
426
,
Dunlip scholarships
937
,
English substituted for Latin in examinations in univ.
601
,
principal
394
.
Edinburgh, Alfred, duke of
b.
1844, shot by O’Farrell
99
,
Hokilika theatre named after him
1611
.
Education, act of 1870
col.
423
,
aid soc. formed
423
.
Eglinton tournament, accounts of
30
,
912
,
knights at
102
,
752
,
970
,
1533
,
lord Eglinton
971
,
page at
893
,
pictures of
1034
.
Egremont, George, Third Earl
d.
1837, Carew’s claim on his estate
544
.
Egypt, explorers in Belzoni
237
,
Bonomi 334 and Hay
1394
,
obelisk in New York
1186
,
student of its antiquities
781
.
Elections, agents for
1096
,
large sum spent in
255
.
Electricians, Cooke
705
,
Cumming
784
,
Harris
1351
,
Hearder
1409
,
Henley
1429
,
Wheatstone
705
.
Electricity, applied to machinery
578
,
applied to medical purposes
1409
,
apparatus for registering progress of ships
130
,
automatic method of transmitting signals
130
,
clocks invented
130
,
discoveries in
1020
,
earth batteries constructed
130
,
electro-chemical telegraph
131
,
electro-dynamics
784
,
electric telegraph co.
835
,
experiments in
835
,
experiments on the Serpentine
130
,
induction coil
1409
,
playing keyed instruments at a distance
131
,
stratification of discharge discovered
1130
,
used for organs
1131
.
Electro biology
378
.
Electro crystallization
772
.
Electro platers and electro gilders
974
.
Elephants, Chunee shot
770
,
hunting of
1377
,
in harness
1571
.
Elgin marbles, account of
492
,
removed from Athens
1307
.
Elginshire, lord lieutenant of
924
.
Eliot, George
i.e.
Mary Ann Cross
771
,
her books
300
.
Ellenborough, Edward Law
d.
1871,
first earl of
878
.
Ellipses, machine for drawing
1020
.
Elliptograph, an invention
952
.
Ellis, Edward Shipley
d.
1879,
railway chairman
932
,
983
.
Elliotson, John
d.
1868,
mesmerist
979
,
a founder of Spiritual Athenæum
1519
.
Elocution, professor of, Hows
1561
.
Elphin, bishops of
443
,
560
.
Elphinstone, George W. Keith
d.
1842 general, his entire army destroyed
456
.
Embalming bodies
1298
.
Embroideress, Dolby
890
.
Emmett, Robert
executed
1803 in Ireland, brother in law
1516
,
friend of
868
,
his rebellion
51
.
Enamellers, Bone
332
,
Bott
346
.
Enamelling of womens faces, the
770
.
Encyclopædia Britannica
292
,
742
.
Encyclopædia Metropolitana published
794
,
1243
,
1244
.
Engineers, Brunel
453
,
Davies
825
,
De Bergue
845
,
Downing
909
,
Doyne
913
,
Errington
995
,
Evans
1002
,
Exall
1009
,
Fairbairn
1014
,
Fairlie
1016
,
Falshaw
1018
,
Farey
1020
,
Field
1042
,
Fitz-Gibbon
1060
,
Forster F.
1084
,
Forster T. E.
1085
,
Fouracres
1091
,
Fowler
1092
,
Fox
1094
,
Fraser
1102
,
Fuller
1111
,
Fulton
1112
,
Gisborne
1154
,
Glynn
1161
,
Godwin
1164
,
Gooch
1171
,
Gordon
1182
,
Grant
1204
,
Grantham
1208
,
Gravatt
1210
,
Greaves
1221
,
Green
1224
,
Griffiths
1245
,
Griffiths
1247
,
Guppy
1259
,
Hall
1290
,
Harding
1327
,
Harrison
1356
,
Havilland
1383
,
Heinke
1417
,
Hemans
1419
,
Heppel
1436
,
Highton
1465
,
Hodges
1491
,
Howe
1556
,
Humber
1582
,
Hunter
1598
,
Husband
1602
.
Engineering, dumpy the
1211
,
level staff
1211
,
nadir a
1211
,
slide rule
1392
.
Engines
see
Steam engines.
England, Regent of, Albert
38
.
English channel, designed iron tunnel across
583
.
Engravers, Archer
81
,
Artlett
92
,
Bell
231
,
Brandard
381
,
Bentley
249
,
Garter
561
,
Cooke G.
706
,
Cooke W. B.
705
,
Cooke W. J.
706
,
Cousen
734
,
Cousins
734
,
Davenport
822
,
Doo
897
,
Dudley
923
,
Edwards
967
,
Fairholt
1015
,
Finden E. F.
1046
,
Finden W.
1046
,
Forrest
1082
,
Freeman
1104
,
Garner
1124
,
Golding
1166
,
Goodall
1171
,
Grainger
1200
,
Graves
1212
,
Hall
1285
,
Harvey
1368
,
Hawkins
1389
,
Hinchliff
1479
,
Holl
1507
,
Hooper
1527
,
Horsburgh
1541
,
Humphreys
1587
,
Lines
1124
,
Mitan
1046
.
Engravings, publishers of
1497
,
Rembrandt’s portrait of Tholinx
1247
,
steel improvements in
706
.
Engravings, collectors of, Burke
482
,
Cousins
734
,
Edwards
967
,
Griffiths
1247
,
Hope
1530
.
Entertainers, Carpenter
554
,
Carter
561
,
Cowell
735
,
Cumming-Gordon
785
,
Distin quintet
882
,
Douglas troupe
903
,
Du Val
944
,
Fisher
1052
,
Fitzwilliam
1065
,
Hudson
1567
,
Parry
425
,
Reed
425
,
Ward, Artemus
443
.
Entozoa
659
.
Envelopes, first used in stationery office
645
,
folding machine for
1470
.
Epigrams, analytically arranged
544
.
Epsom races, a visitor to for sixty four years
1112
,
perpetual steward of
1412
.
Equestrian performers,
Cooke
702
,
Delevanti
853
,
Ducrow
328
,
See also
Circus proprietors
col.
1631
.
Essex, Dunmow flitch of bacon
33
,
nonconformists in
822
,
silk throwing introduced
733
.
Ethnological collection, Christy
618
.
Eton montem suppressed
1392
.
Europe, Alison’s History of
47
.
Evangelical alliance founded
488
.
Evans, W, C.
d.
1855,
music hall proprietor
1224
.
Evaporation in vacuo invented
182
.
Everest, Mount, on Himalayan range
1007
.
Everett, James
d.
1872, expelled Wesleyan minister
939
,
1007
.
Exchequer, baron of the, office declined
1540
.
Exchequer, chancellors of, Bexley
268
,
Goulburn
1191
,
Herries
1446
,
Hunt
1590
,
Wood
1281
.
Exchequer court, clerk of the errors
959
.
Excise, stamps and taxes amalgamated with
191
.
Executioner, Calcraft
513
.
Executions, last public execution Barrett
178
.
Exeter, Boyd’s bequests to the diocese of
365
,
commissioner of bankruptcy, the last
68
.
Exeter Change a brochure
424
.
Exhibition of 1851,
The Great, Cole sir H.
671
,
construction of
779
,
erected
1094
,
glass used for
1361
,
official publications of
655
,
organisers of
39
,
original idea of the
36
,
promoters of
1111
,
specimens of imports
81
,
See also
Crystal palace
col.
1635
.
Exhibition of 1862,
The, Cole sir C.
671
,
designer of the building
1092
,
dome decorated
476
,
iron work for
180
.
Exmouth, Edward
d.
1833 viscount, expedition to Algiers
875
.
Eye, London ophthalmic hospital founded
1025
, ophthalmology, congress on
762
,
ophthalmology, modern
785
.
Oculists,
Barnes
850
,
Bickerton
270
,
Cooper
713
,
Critchett
762
,
Delagarde 850 and Estlin
999
.
F
Facial measurement, a system of
1535
.
Fairs, Richardson’s theatre
564
.
Faith healing
472
.
Families, large, nineteen children
704
,
twenty
290
,
twenty two
41
,
twenty four
903
,
918
,
thirty nine
225
.
Farmers, Angas
69
,
Arkwright
83
,
Grey
1242
,
Hall
1284
,
Hobbs
1488
,
Hope
1530
.
Fashion, leaders of,
See
Dandies
col.
1635
.
Fasting man, Moore
1421
.
Fat man, Campbell
535
.
Fenianism, Burke J. F. murdered
481
,
545
,
Cavendish Lord F. murdered
545
,
Invincibles
481
,
Kilclooney wood, fight in
776
,
Knockadoon coast guard station, attack on
776
.
Fenians, Barrett
178
,
Carey
545
,
Crowley
776
,
Duffy
925
,
Harris
1350
,
O’Donnel
545
.
Ferns, collections of
1211
.
Ferrar, Nicholas
d.
1637, of Little Gidding
1535
.
Field marshals, Albert
38
,
Anglesey
71
,
Blakeney
304
,
Burgoyne
480
,
Clyde
657
,
Combermere
689
,
Fitzgerald
1059
.
Field names
54
.
Fines and recoveries abolished
409
.
Fire arms, improvements in
1385
.
Fires, Braidwood
379
,
Cotton’s wharf
379
,
Covent Garden
1268
,
Cubitt’s factory
779
,
engines and apparatus for extinguishing
379
,
fire brick makers
736
,
fire damp indicator
72
,
fire proof constructions
1095
,
firemen, training of
379
,
Hadley’s flour mills
1268
,
London establishment transferred to Metropolitan board of works
447
,
London fire engine establishment
379
,
portable cistern for fire brigade
121
,
steam fire engine invented
379
.
Fireworks, maker of
726
,
at Surrey gardens
770
,
at Vauxhall
726
.
Fish, Fisheries and Fishing, Buckland
462
,
Couch
731
,
Ffennell’s act
1040
,
fish, collection of
1530
,
fish hatching apparatus
462
,
fisheries exhibition
462
,
fossil fish
871
,
970
,
national fish culture association
1097
,
oyster culture
1097
,
Thames right defence association
1097
.
Fishermen, Blakey
306
,
Breadalbane
388
,
Ffennell
1034
,
Fitzgibbon
1061
.
Fives players, Clarke
636
,
Felix
1032
.
Flaxman, John
d.
1826, his sculptures completed
1479
.
Flax spinner, Brown
440
.
Fleetwood, Lancashire, town and port built
1067
,
1452
.
Floor cloth manufacturer
1334
.
Floors, inlaid
1138
.
Flora, collection of
871
.
Florence, Lord Burghersh’s operas at
640
.
Florin, design for the
946
.
Florist, Baptist
155
.
Flour mills, Catt’s mills
571
,
Hadley’s mills burnt
1268
,
on the disintegrator principle
557
,
steam mills
1284
.
Flower, Sarah
d.
1848, writer of poems and hymns
19
.
Flying machine, Howell
1557
.
Foley estate, Worcestershire, sold for £900,000
col.
923
.
Folk lore, books on
857
.
Foreign affairs, secretaries of state for, Aberdeen
6
,
Clarendon
623
.
Forfarshire, lord lieutenant
803
.
Forster, John
d.
1876, author
1084
,
his friend
1591
.
Fort Augusta, Gordon-Cumming’s exhibition at
785
.
Foscolo, Ugo
d.
1827, his Essays on Petrarch
798
.
Fossils, bones
860
,
palæozoic in Cornwall
1165
.
Fountains, optical chromatic
811
.
France, Cobden’s commercial treaty
659
,
737
,
domicile of Englishmen in
672
,
Franco-German war, Chesney’s report on
603
,
methodism
700
,
national guard in London
1528
,
prohibition of trade with
105
,
Sunday schools
700
.
France, Paris, Ambulance Anglaise
720
,
Hope’s residence in
1532
,
hospital for indigent English
1117
,
Paris, first news of surrender
1350
,
salon, Mrs. Hollond’s
1511
.
France. The Rhone, improved engines for steam boats
on
496
.
France. Tours, death and funeral of sir J. F. Fitzgerald at
1059
.
France. Vezere, remains in the caves of
618
.
Frankincense tree
812
.
Frankland, Edward
b.
1825, professor of chemistry
941
.
Franklin, Sir John
d.
1847 arctic explorer, expeditions in search of
434
,
1099
,
See also
Arctic explorers
1622
.
Free chant, a system of recitative
774
.
Freemasons, freemasons’ hall, London
664
,
Hugenot lodge founded
1153
,
India, Western, grand master
485
,
Orange lodges
709
,
Scotland, grand masters
1082
,
1298
,
Scottish lodge in India, grand master
485
.
French, teachers of, De Beauvoisin
844
,
De Porquet
862
,
Fauvet
1027
.
Frias, Duke of
143
, civil governor of the province of Madrid,
d.
Spain May 1888.
Friction wheel, invention of a
382
.
Frith, William Powell
b
1819 painter, his Railway Station
1506
.
Froude, Rev. Richard Hurrell
d.
1836, resigned fellowship
1388
.
Fruit dealer, Hanson
1322
.
Fuel, Grant’s patent
1206
.
Fungi, collection of
790
.
Furniture, collection of
255
.
Fust, Sir Herbert Jenner
d.
1852, judge of court of arches
1185
.
G
Gaelic, dictionary
86
,
lexicographer
86
.
Galvanism used to explode gunpowder in blowing down Round Downcliff
779
.
Galway, bishop of
443
.
Gambler, Ball-Hughes
147
.
Games and gaming, law on
383
.
Gardeners, Dale Jas.
801
,
Dale Joseph
802
,
Forbes
1077
,
Fortune
1088
,
Gordon
1179
,
Harrison
1354
.
Garibaldi, Giuseppe
d.
1882 patriot, British volunteer officers with
944
.
Garston near Liverpool, coal drops at
800
.
Garter, knights of the, Aberdeen
7
,
Ailesbury
31
,
Albert
38
,
Anglesey
70
,
Camden
521
,
Canning
537
,
Cleveland
647
,
Derby
863
,
Derby
863
,
Devonshire
869
,
Exeter
1010
,
Fitzwilliam
1064
,
Fortescue
1088
,
Hanover, king of
1321
,
Hertford
1449
.
Garter, a knight of, allowed to retain the Thistle
7
.
Gas, coal gas manufacture
643
,
engineers
1002
,
gas light and coke co.
1002
,
lime purifiers
643
,
oxide of iron used for purification
1002
,
polytechnic gas fire
119
,
portable gas
1176
,
system of compressing
1176
,
water meter
643
.
Gasses, absorption of by charcoal
1596
,
law of diffusion of discovered
1198
,
transpirability of
1198
.
Gentlemen at arms, a dignity to be had by purchase
473
,
corps of gentlemen at arms
1585
.
Geographers, Findlay
1047
,
Laurie
1047
,
Purdy
1047
,
Van Kenlen
1047
.
Geologists, Ansted
73
,
Boase
322
,
Buckland
462
,
Clarke
636
,
Daintree
800
,
Davidson
824
,
De La Beche
849
,
Evans
1001
,
Gray
1219
,
Greenough
1229
,
Hawkins
1390
,
Henland
1428
,
Henwood
1435
,
Hunt
1592
,
Turner
1428
.
Geology, geological museum
849
,
geological soc. Bigsby’s gold medal
275
,
geological survey
849
,
mineral veins, electrical phenomena in
1592
.
George III.
d.
1820,
compared to a German hog butcher
1498
,
dau. Mary duchess of Gloucester
1158
,
his boot maker
1490
,
master of chapel royal to
114
,
pistol boy to
829
.
George IV.
d.
1830,
Carlton house alterations at
1536
,
coronation at
948
,
coronation, cupbearer at
8
,
coronation, pugilists engaged to act as pages
224
,
Croly’s life of
766
,
his bonds not paid
1308
,
his friends
1515
,
his jockey Chifney
608
,
609
,
libels on
1364
,
1591
,
visit to Ireland
463
.
Germany, Francis II. at Catau Cambresis
1207
,
Kissingen, fashion set of drinking its waters
1208
.
Ghosts, micrometer
494
,
origin and nature of
459
.
Giants, Bethune
264
,
Cross
762
,
Hales
1279
.
Gilbert, William Schwenck
b.
1836 dramatist, as an illustrator
1146
.
Gillray, James
d.
1815,
his caricatures
777
,
1005
.
Gipsies, advocate
745
,
Borrow’s books about
342
,
friend
745
,
kings of 320
bis.
,
school for at Yetholm
134
.
Giraffes exhibited
770
.
Girtin, Thomas
d.
1802 panorama painter, drawings by
1283
.
Gladstone, William Ewart
b.
1809, action for libel against
963
,
election committee at Oxford
1271
,
election committees
1238
,
his friend Hope-Scott
1532
.
Glasgow, Anderson’s univ.
778
,
1000
,
1009
,
Anderston incorporated with
1548
,
Chalmers and the Tron ch.
681
,
churches, scheme for building twenty
534
,
681
,
Dollar institution
755
,
Dunlop st. theatre
43
,
Fir park
1009
,
John st. ch. built
66
,
manufactory of pure bread at
369
,
provident bank the first
1009
,
royal exchange
1009
,
sabbath sch.
681
,
statue of lord Clyde
657
,
temple of magic
63
.
Glasgow University, Buchanan bursaries
459
,
Buchanan prizes instituted
459
,
Clark scholarships
626
,
lord rectors
426
,
803
,
863
,
971
,
973
,
1027
.
Glass, crown glass made with sulphate of soda
1361
,
cylindrical, machine for cutting
638
,
French glass
638
,
German sheet glass
1361
,
glass blower, a
392
,
Hartley’s rolled plate
1361
,
thimble used instead of iron bar in blowing
1361
.
Glass, designers and painters on, Baillie
128
,
Clarke
632
,
Cottingham
727
,
Heaton
1414
.
Glass manufacturers, Glazebrook
1156
,
Hardman
1329
,
Hartley
1361
.
Gloucester, British ragged schools founded
361
,
eye institution founded
1611
,
Sunday sch. the first
24
,
tea total soc. founded
361
.
Gloucester, William Frederick
d.
1834, duke of
1158
.
Gloucestershire lord lieutenant
1062
.
Glovers, Allcroft
49
,
Dent
861
.
Glue, method of drying
557
.
God save the king, the anthem of
627
.
Goddard, Arabella
b.
1836, pianist
833
.
Godwin, William
d.
1836, his wife
621
.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
d.
1832, poem by
1554
.
Goffres sold in the streets
1130
.
Gold, automatic weighing machine for
730
,
bullion robbery
1396
,
cause of high price of
701
,
chemically pure made
1042
,
dust robbery
1396
,
gold thread manufacture
377
,
gold medal specially struck
550
.
Golfers and golfing, Glennie
1157
,
Hay
1395
,
score of 88
col.
1157
.
Gorham, Rev. G. C.
d.
1857, his case
121
,
1185
.
Gothic architecture, revival of
886
,
953
.
Governesses, An appeal on behalf of, a poem
3
.
Grace, For these and all thy mercies
1487
.
Grahamstown, bishop of
727
.
Grant, Mrs. Anne
d.
1838, of Laggan
1140
.
Granton harbour constructed
457
.
Graphitic acid discovered
409
.
Gravesend town pier
630
.
Gray, Sir John
d.
1875, M.P.
1216
,
his trial
1061
.
Greece, coins of discovered
341
,
committee for in London
427
,
Englishmen who fought in
1049
,
swimming across Hellespont
1611
.
Greenock, Comet steamboat boiler exploded
432
.
Greenwich hospital, Bellot’s monument
235
,
estates
1242
,
governors
13
,
799
,
1180
,
sixpenny revenue
1048
.
Gretna green post boy
1198
.
Griffith, Rev. William
d.
1883, expelled Wesleyan ministry
939
,
1245
.
Groves, Anthony Norris
d.
1853, missionary
1252
,
preacher in Dublin
691
,
tutor in his family
749
.
Guano islands, monopoly of
1138
.
Guernsey, bailiff of
546
.
Gunpowder manufactories
610
,
793
.
Guns, breech loading
914
,
castings for
1051
,
cores
1051
,
discharged by percussion powder
875
,
Fraser gun
1102
,
gun of 100 tons
1051
,
gun to carry a 50lb ball 2 miles
422
,
Monstre 22 tons
641
,
percussion caps adapted to flint guns
1284
,
Woolwich gun
1102
.
Gun cotton, Crum’s formula
778
.
Gunpowder, monster charges
779
.
Gunter, a ten foot
382
.
Gymnastics, gymnasia
611
,
polymachinon
611
.
Gymnastics, professors of, Chiosso
611
,
Clias
647
,
Hanlon
1317
.
H
Hainault forest, Essex drained
1093
.
Hair, electric brush to prevent greyness
1247
.
Hales place near Canterbury, nunnery
1279
.
Halifax, Crossley almshouses
773
,
Crossley orphan house and school
773
,
foundation of carpet manufacture
3
,
people’s park
773
.
Halkett, Samuel
d.
1871, librarian
1282
,
1352
.
Hallé, Sir Charles
b.
1819 composer, his chorus master
1416
.
Hamel, Joseph Von
d.
1862 M.D., ascent of Mont Blanc
899
.
Hamilton palace, mausoleum at
1298
.
Hammersmith suspension bridge
630
.
Hampden, John
d.
1643 patriot, collections for life of
1310
.
Hampden, Renn Dickson
d.
1868, bp. of Hereford
1311
,
opposed in Bow ch. and in queen’s bench
1600
.
Hampshire, Andover union, iniquitous practices
4
,
New forest, Girlingites in the
1153
.
Hampton court, tennis court at
252
.
Handel, George Frederic
d.
1759 composer, festivals in London 725 and originator of
360
.
Handloom enquiry commission
1070
.
Handsworth, convent of Our Lady of Mercy at
1329
.
Hanging, drawing and quartering, the last sentence of
1110
.
Hanover incorporated with Prussia
1321
.
Hanover, Ernest Augustus
d.
1851, king of
1320
.
Hanover, George, F. A. C. E. A.
d.
1878, king of
1321
,
created one baron only
1362
.
Hanwell asylum in Middlesex
694
.
Handwriting, expert in, Chabot
579
.
Harlequins, Byrne
506
,
Howell
1557
,
harlequin’s dress
506
,
Sam Spangle, history of a harlequin
745
.
Harpists, Bochsa
322
,
871
,
Chatterton
600
,
Chipp
611
.
Harris, A. V. D. lieutenant, ill-treated by Hort
1543
.
Harvest homes, originated at Brooke
205
.
Haslam, Rev. William, his converts
857
.
Hastings, Warren
d.
1818 statesman, his Persian secretary
835
.
Hats, cocked hat, last wearer of a
254
,
hints on hats
900
,
straw made in London
851
,
the Petersham
1344
.
Hawking, Berners
257
.
Hawks and owls, collection of
860
.
Haydon, Benjamin R.
d.
1846 painter, his assassination of Dentatus
1368
,
his widow
1396
,
his sons
1396
.
Hayne, Joseph called Pea-Green Hayne, Maria Foote’s action for breach of promise
1344
.
Hazard player, Cotton
729
.
Head, turning round on without holding
1571
.
Hear the church. A sermon
1526
.
Heat, polarisation of
1078
.
Hebrew scholars, Boys
370
,
Duncan
929
,
Harrison
1352
,
1369
.
Heligoland, lieut. governor of
1482
.
Helminthology
659
.
Hemans, Felicia Dorothea
d.
1835, poet
1419
.
Herbarium in univ. of Aberdeen
930
.
Heralds’ college, portcullis pursuivant
676
,
report on
233
,
rouge croix pursuivant
733
,
Somerset herald
733
.
Hereford, Ledbury hospital
1599
.
Hertford, Richard S. C.
d.
1870 marquis of, his factotum Croker
764
.
Hertfordshire, flora of
673
.
Hesse-Darmstadt, Alice
d.
1878, grand duchess of
46
.
Hesse-Homburg, Princess Elizabeth
d.
1840 landgravine of, her physician
909
.
Hewley, Lady Sarah, her charities
1272
.
Hexham, bishops of
581
,
1501
.
High Cross, Herts., St. Giles’ ch. founded
1148
.
High treason, persons accused of, Bamford
149
,
Binns
281
.
Hindustani scholars, Dowton
910
,
Elliot
979
,
Forbes
1076
,
Goldsmid
1167
.
Historical eminence, gold medals for
1293
.
Historical MSS. commission founders
1347
.
Hobart, Augustus C.
d.
1886, admiral
1486
,
took Harvey to Crete to advise on international law
1367
.
Hogarth, George
d.
1870, musical critic
1501
,
dau.
m.
C. Dickens
873
.
Hogarth, William
d.
1764 painter, his house
1461
,
Sarah Malcolm
58
,
Sigismunda
58
,
sketches by
1283
.
Hogg, James
d.
1835,
Ettrick shepherd, his widow
1502
.
Holden should be Holder, Henry
1505
.
Holland, Haarlem lake drained
1602
.
Holloway college and sanatorium
1512
.
Home department, sec. of state for, Estcourt
999
,
Goulburn
1191
,
Graham
1197
,
Grey
1241
,
Herbert
1438
.
Homœopathic doctors, Epps
994
,
Hall
1290
.
Homœopathists, persecution of
1426
.
Hone, William
d.
1842 publisher, Every day book
482
,
his pamphlets illustrated by Cruikshank
777
.
Hooper, Robert, M.D., his pathological museum
28
.
Hope, Rev. Frederick W.
d.
1862,
F.R.S.
1530
,
collection of early newspapers
482
.
Hops, excise duty taken off
120
,
hop merchants Gibbons 1137 and Wood
1376
.
Horse breaker, Greenwood
1229
.
Horse breeders, Blenkiron
312
,
Garrett
1126
.
Horse corn, dealer in
1476
.
Horse tamer, Hengler
1428
.
Horse trainers,
See also
Jockeys, Day J.
840
,
Day J. B.
841
.
Horses, Anderson’s steppers
63
,
Anderson’s horses sold
63
,
bearing reins
1071
,
bits
625
,
bots
625
,
driving thirty two in hand
1571
,
feet of
625
,
gag bits
1071
,
horse shot and ear buried in master’s grave
829
,
race horse worked in a cab
1248
,
riding schools
1145
,
shoes, machine for making
476
,
trotting horses of America
1089
,
weight of a horse utilised on a moving platform
382
.
Horses sold for large sums, Blink Bonny
312
,
Blair Athol
312
,
Gladiateur
312
.
Horsman, Charles actor
1543
,
d.
5 Aug. 1886.
cf.
E. L. Blanchard’s Life ii
594
,
708
(1891).
Hose frames, circular invented
83
,
See also
Stocking frames.
Hot blast, invention of
134
.
Houghton, Richard Monckton Milnes
d.
1885, first baron
1547
,
befriends D. Gray poet 1214–
5
.
Houlton, Sir George
d.
1862, knighted 1835 or 1836 but objecting to pay the fees for registration he was never registered. There was an erroneous impression in existence that members of H.M. household were exempt from paying fees.
Hounds, masters of, Arkwright
83
,
Barnett
173
,
Beaufort
212
,
Bedford
218
,
Bentinck
248
,
Berkeley
254
,
Bessborough
261
,
Chaplin
591
,
Cope
714
,
Drake
915
,
Ducie
922
,
Farquharson
1023
,
Fenwick-Bisset
1034
,
Fitzhardinge, Earl of
1062
,
Fitzhardinge, Baron
1062
,
Fitzwilliam
1066
,
Foljambe
1073
,
Forester
1081
,
Galway
1118
,
Grant
1204
,
Greaves
1221
,
Guilford
1255
,
Hall
1286
,
Harris
1346
,
Harvey
1366
,
Hastings, marquis of
1372
,
Hastings, baron
1372
,
Hawke
1384
,
Heathcote
1412
,
Hicks
1461
,
Hobson
1489
,
Hodgson
1498
,
Holyoake-Goodricke
1519
,
Honywood
1523
,
Hood
1525
,
Howe
1556
,
Huntingdon
1598
,
Lambton
1588
,
Ridley
1589
,
Suffield
1589
.
House decorators, Garrett
1125
,
Hay
1393
.
Huddersfield, Convalescent home founded
414
.
Hudson bay co., secretary
1102
.
Hull, adventures of James Acland at
10
,
convent of our Lord of Mercy
679
,
grammar school founded
1612
.
Hulsean lecturer, the first, Benson
245
.
Hume, Joseph
d.
1855, M.P.
1586
,
his private secretary
679
,
speech wilfully misreported
677
.
Humming birds, Gould’s collection of
1191
.
Hungate family estates
1588
.
Hunter, John
d.
1793 surgeon, his coffin
462
.
Hunting, D’ ye ken John Peel, a song
1212
,
on foot
1373
,
1523
.
Hunting parsons, Anderson
65
,
Honywood
1523
.
Huntsmen, Ayris
114
,
Bartlett
186
,
Carter
561
,
Christian
615
,
Davis
829
,
Goodall
1172
,
Head
1405
,
Hills J.
1477
,
Hills T.
1478
,
Hunnum
1588
.
Huskisson, William
killed
1830 statesman, person present at his death
1516
.
Hussars, The Eleventh, crack regiment
542
.
Hydraulic engineer, Beardmore
209
.
Hydropathy, practiser of
1257
.
Hydrostatic beds invented
90
.
Hygrometer, a self registering
1183
.
Hymns, ancient and modern, originator of
136
,
ancient and modern, writers in
948
,
hymns as a substitute for Dr. Watts
684
,
invalids hymn book
981
,
Just as I am without one plea
981
,
Much in sorrow, oft in woe
685
,
My God and Father while I stray
981
.
Hymn tunes, Burnham
628
,
Joyful
276
,
Kilmarnock
901
,
Pembroke
628
,
Queenborough
628
.
Hymn writer, Havergal 1380–
81
.
Hypnotism
378
,
1260
.
I
Ice merchant, Gatti
1130
.
Iceland, Iceland and its volcanoes, large picture of
770
,
Icelandic dictionary
643
.
Ilford, pleistocene mammalia found at
376
.
I know a bank, a duet
1537
.
I’ll hang my harp on a willow tree, a song
1254
.
Illuminated manuscripts, Bragge’s collection
378
,
copying of
725
.
Impostors, Ady
25
,
Aitken
36
,
Fletcher
1069
.
Imprisoned eight years for refusing to give up deeds
1564
.
Income tax introduced
1124
.
India, Arnold medals in the Punjab
88
,
commander in chief
73
,
cinchona cultivation
1553
,
Delhi princes shot
1500
,
Euphrates route
604
,
flora of
66
,
fossil mammalia
574
,
Ganges canal
574
,
governors general Amherst
56
,
Canning
537
,
Dalhousie
803
,
Elgin
973
,
Ellenborough 975 and Hardinge
1328
,
Great Indian peninsular railway
592
,
Hobson-Jobson a glossary of colloquial words
485
,
Hodson’s horse
1500
,
irrigation scheme
592
,
Indian church aid association founded
412
,
Kutcherry technicalities
553
,
land revenue of N.W. provinces
286
,
Mhow court martial
756
,
Nagpore annexed
803
,
Nilagiris, collection of their arms, dresses, etc.
388
,
order of star of
537
,
Oudh annexed
803
,
Pathan companies raised
1610
,
Pegu annexed
803
,
Punjaub annexed
803
,
railway system initiated 254–
55
,
Sanscrit proverbs
557
,
sec. of state Cranborne, afterwards marquis of Salisbury,
954
and Wood
1281
,
Sikh regt. the first
1496
,
Syrian route to
604
,
Telegu proverbs
557
,
tea plant introduced
1088
,
vernacular characters passing through post office
1605
.
India, Bangalore, Cubbon park and statue
778
.
India, Bengal, middle class schools
728
,
stud department
873
.
India, Bombay, conservator of forests
1139
,
Elphinstone coll.
989
,
gas introduced
792
,
reformatory school of industry founded
468
.
India, Calcutta, bishop Cotton
728
,
cathedral
1079
,
Calcutta journal established
461
,
drainage and water works
629
,
mint
1079
,
1610
,
schools for native females of higher class established
264
.
India, Madras, army commander of
73
,
female school of industry
612
.
India rubber, manufacturers
1528
,
masticator invented for
1315
,
vulcanised india rubber
1315
,
waterproof garments
1315
.
Initialism,
See also
Names and Pseudonyms.
A., H. A. S.
i.e.
Henry Adams Sergison Atwood
106
.
A., S. A.
i.e.
Alexander Stewart Allen
48
.
B., A. C.
i.e.
Arthur Coke Burnell
485
.
B., B. H.
i.e.
Bertha H. Buxton
503
.
B., A. E.
i.e.
Andrew Edmund Brae
377
.
B., C.
i.e.
Cordelia Georgiana Budd
466
.
B., E.
i.e.
Mrs. E. Babington
981
.
B., E. S.
i.e.
Edwyn Sherard Burnaby
483
.
B., F. C.
i.e.
Francis Capper Brooke
415
.
B., G. C.
i.e.
George Clement Boase
321
.
B., J. a friend of the Aborigines Protection Soc.
i.e.
John Burtt
495
.
B., W.
i.e.
William Borrows
343
.
B., W.
i.e.
William Brinton
402
.
B., W. C.
i.e.
William Corbett Burder
476
.
C.
i.e.
James Crossley
773
.
C., C.
i.e.
Charles Chorley
614
.
C., E. J. M.
i.e.
Edward James Mortimer Collins
680
.
C., F.
i.e.
Frances Collins
679
.
C., F. D.
i.e.
Frances Dorothy Cartwright
565
.
C., F. L.
i.e.
Frederick Leigh Colvile
687
.
C., F. P.
i.e.
F. Percy Cotton
679
.
C., J.
i.e.
James Clay
640
.
C., R. H.
i.e.
Robert Henry Clive
653
.
C., W. L.
i.e.
William Lucas Collins
682
.
D.
i.e.
Charles Dyson
949
.
D., J. N.
i.e.
John Nelson Darby
813
.
D—. G—.
i.e.
George Daniel
811
.
E., J. C.
i.e.
John Caillard Erck
994
.
G., A.
i.e.
Alexander Gardner
1122
.
G., E.
i.e.
Edward Grubb
1252
.
G., J.
i.e.
Joseph Gurney
1262
.
G., R. P.
i.e.
Robert Pierce Gillies
1150
.
H., A.
i.e.
Abraham Hayward
1402
.
H., A.
i.e.
Algernon Herbert
1438
.
H., C.
i.e.
Chambers Hall
1283
.
H., C.
i.e.
Charles Hardwick
1330
.
H., C.
i.e.
Charles Heavysege
1414
.
H., E.
i.e.
Elizabeth Hadfield
1272
.
H., E. S. J.
i.e.
Ellen St. John Hunt
1589
.
H., F.
i.e.
Francis Hessey
1453
.
H., F. C.
i.e.
Frederick Charles Husenbeth
1602
.
H., F. T.
i.e.
Frederic Thomas Hall
1284
.
H., H.
i.e.
Herbert Haines
1275
.
H., J. D.
i.e.
James Dibden Hubbarde
1564
.
H., M.
i.e.
Matilda Heron
1445
.
H., R.
i.e.
Richard Harvey
1366
.
J., E.
i.e.
Miss E. Jolly
886
.
N., R.
i.e.
John Hunter
1596
.
O., J.
i.e.
Matthew James Higgins
1464
.
Ink, an inerasable
369
,
printing
851
.
Innocent person condemned, Barber
157
.
Inquests, 4000 held by De Lasaux
852
.
Inquiry agent, Field
1040
.
Insane, Conolly’s system of treatment
694
,
moral control of
594
,
new system of treatment adopted in Scotland
446
.
Insect life in metallic solutions, discovery of
772
.
International exhibitions, original idea of
705
.
Institutions.
Actuaries founded
438
,
1332
,
president
1048
.
Albert originated
436
.
Anglo Biblical founded
294
.
British architects, president
848
.
British philosophical and literary founded
697
.
Cholera orphan house commenced
436
.
Chronological of London founded
294
.
Civil engineers founded
97
,
1042
.
Glandular founded
41
.
Home for convalescent women patients
590
.
Home for servants out of place started
436
.
Institution of Irish architects, president
843
.
Inventors’ institute, president
376
.
Iron and steel, foreign sec.
1076
.
Law projected
1513
.
Licensed victuallers’ sch. founded
441
.
London infirmary for disease of the skin closed
9
.
London university founded
741
.
Manchester mechanics founded
1457
.
National hospital for paralysed and epiplectic opened
590
.
National orphan home founded
436
.
National philanthropic, president
660
.
Naval architects founded
1208
.
North London eye infirmary founded
713
.
North of England instit. of mining engineers, president
1085
.
Philosophical, Edinburgh, founded
1352
.
Plymouth eye dispensary originated
502
.
Polytechnic opened
118
,
609
.
Royal General theatrical fund founded
781
.
Samaritan society founded
590
.
Solicitors’ benevolent founded
67
.
Insurance, fire policies
836
,
life insurance for £300,000
col.
923
,
life policies, fifty six on earl of Aylesford’s life
112
,
life tables
961
,
Northampton tables
1048
,
positive life insurance, a form of life policy
201
,
union policy for tariff offices devised
348
.
Insurance offices.
Albert, great losers in
211
.
Alliance, British and foreign, actuary
1169
.
Amicable life actuary
1118
.
Atlas fire office built
1536
.
British foreign and colonial founded
201
.
Clergy mutual, founded
1040
.
Consols life started
201
.
English and Scottish law founded
201
.
Equity society tables
826
.
Equity and law life offices built
485
.
Hope founded
441
.
Law life projected
67
.
Liverpool fire and life founded
348
,
became Liverpool and London
348
,
became Liverpool, London and Globe
348
.
London life, actuary
1048
.
Mutual, actuary
1332
.
Mutual life founded
447
.
National provident, bonus investigation
72
.
New equitable life founded
206
.
Positive life founded
229
.
Unity general life commenced
201
.
Universal life founded
344
.
Westminster and general life founded
447
.
Inventor’s claim on the government, Clare
623
.
Inverness, St. Andrew’s cathedral founded
958
.
Ipswich, Cobbold’s bank
658
,
Cobbold’s brewery
658
,
first mayor
379
.
Ireland, alnager the great
845
,
amnesty association
502
,
Arian separation from synod of Ulster
1550
,
benefactors to
62
,
Bianconi’s cars 268–
9
,
catholic univ. at Drumcondra
781
,
Celtic soc.
501
,
church, disestablishment of the
1216
,
coast guard introduced
891
,
congregation of the Oblates
703
,
constabulary, head of
390
,
Emmett the patriot
992
,
famine
667
,
famine, money raised in Calcutta for relief of
524
,
famine, relief commission
479
,
fasti ecclesiæ Hibernicæ
729
,
flora
69
,
Griffith’s valuation
1245
,
home rule party
502
,
hot air baths instituted
184
,
institute of Blessed Virgin Mary introduced into
145
,
institution of civil engineers
479
,
insurrection act in Limerick & Clare
296
,
Irish archæological soc.
501
,
Irish coll. at Rome
481
,
Irish confederation
74
,
Irish legion in France
506
,
Irish soc., governor
1586
,
land league mobbed King’s county hounds
1598
,
lord high treasurer
7
,
Murphy’s insurgents
506
,
national association founded
879
,
national gallery
814
,
orangeism
709
,
Parnell, Biggar and others, trial of
1057
,
peasantry, traits and stories of
547
,
poor law act
698
,
popular songs of
765
,
railway the first
814
,
railways, commission on
635
,
royal university created
1533
,
Sandymount convent, the superior of
29
,
South Wexford agricultural soc. founded
1460
,
survey of
669
,
synod of Ulster
304
,
tenant league originated
1231
,
three F’s, the
1231
,
Turkish baths established
184
,
united Irishmen
506
.
Ireland, Belfast, Belfast bottoms
1339
,
horticultural exhibition
1302
.
Ireland, Dublin, crown and hanaper office
1315
,
exhibition
814
.
Ireland, chief secretaries, Bexley
268
,
Carlisle
548
,
Cavendish
575
,
Derby 1863,
Ellesmere
976
,
Forster
1086
,
Goulburn
1191
,
Glenelg
1157
,
Hardinge
1328
,
Hobhouse
427
,
Horsman
1543
,
Stanley
863
,
Walhouse or Littleton
1376
.
Ireland, lord chancellors, Blackburne
296
,
Brady
377
,
Brewster
394
,
Brooke 418 and Campbell
526
.
Ireland, lords lieutenants, Anglesey
71
,
Carlisle
548
,
Clarendon
623
,
De Grey
848
,
Eglinton
971
,
Fortescue
1088
,
Haddington
1271
,
Heytesbury
1457
.
Irish scholars, Connellan O.
693
,
Connellan T.
693
,
Doudney
901
,
Foley
1073
,
Hennessy
1430
.
Iron manufactory, blowing machine
551
,
cold blast pig
75
,
Coltness’ brand of iron
1595
,
fan blast
351
,
Hodgkinson’s beams
1493
,
hopper and spout kilns invented
342
,
iron chain cables invented
438
,
wrought iron rails, patent for
287
.
Iron masters, Beale
205
,
Bolckow
327
,
Crawshay
756
,
Fletcher
1069
,
Geach
1132
,
Guest
1255
,
Harley
1340
,
Hood
1524
,
Houldsworth
1548
,
1595
.
Irving, Rev. Edward
d.
1834 presbyterian, his friend
1448
.
Irving, John Henry Brodribb
b.
1838 actor, first appearance
830
.
Isle of Wight, governor
1008
,
history of
1477
.
Italy, British Italian legion
483
,
Italian antiquities, Disney collection
882
.
J
Jaffa, model farm at
1449
.
Jamaica, insurrection of the slaves
731
.
Japanese scholar, Greey
1231
.
Javelin men, fine paid for not providing them
80
.
Jeannette and Jeannot, a song
1158
.
Jerdan, William
d.
1869 journalist, originated Literary gazette
669
.
Jerrold, Douglas William
d.
1857 dramatist, Housekeeper
1584
,
Rent day
1584
,
Time works wonders
1584
.
Jersey, the six advocates of the royal court
1537
.
Jerusalem, Anglican cathedral
1269
,
bishops of
159
,
1162
,
hospital for sick jews
1548
,
house of industry at
1449
.
Jesus Christ, likenesses of
1408
.
Jews, Bevis Marks congregation
866
,
board of deputies
668
,
committee of seven elders
668
,
great synagogue, London
668
,
first called to the bar
1167
,
first created baronet
1168
,
jewish board of guardians
42
,
668
,
jews’ coll. London
982
,
ministers in London
866
,
united synagogue London
668
.
Jim Crow sung in England
938
.
Jockeys, Bullock
471
,
Butler
499
,
Chaloner
585
,
Chapple
593
,
Charlton
596
,
Chifney S.
608
,
Chifney W.
609
,
Constable
696
,
Day J.
840
,
Day J. B.
841
,
Day S.
841
,
Ede
956
,
Flatman
1067
,
Fordham
1080
,
French
1107
,
rode six winners in one day
1107
,
Green
1223
,
Grimshaw
1248
,
Hibberd
1459
.
Jon Duan, authors of
221
.
Jordan, Mrs. Dorothy
d.
1816 actress, her sons
1056
,
1057
bis.
Judge removed from office, Boothby B.
339
.
Jumping, Howard the jumper
1553
,
jumping 29 ft. 7 in.
col.
1553
,
over a billiard table
1553
.
Junot, Andoche
d.
1813 duc d’Abrantes, his mistress
1449
.
Juggler, Allock
54
.
Jullien, Louis G. Antoine J.
d.
1860 composer, concerts at Covent garden
882
,
concerts at Surrey gardens
770
,
opera at Drury Lane
1268
.
Junius, authorship of his letters
732
,
945
,
his hand writing
579
.
K
Kaleidoscope invented
394
.
Kashmiri scholar
989
.
Kean, Charles John
d.
1868 actor, his secretary
513
.
Kean, Edmund
d.
1833 actor, his stage director
1034
.
Keats, John
d.
1821 poet, his friend
1591
.
Kelly, Colonel, the Fenian, rescue of
53
.
Kent, fossils of
1351
.
Kent, Edward Augustus
d.
1820 duke of, conspiracy to shoot
465
.
Kent, Victoria M. L.
d.
1861 duchess of, comptrollers of her household
696
,
732
,
mausoleum built
1583
.
Kerry, bishop of
968
,
lord lieutenant
1439
.
Kew, observatory given up
854
,
observatory given to Royal soc.
1130
.
Kew gardens, Bentham collection of books at
247
.
Champion’s collection of plants
589
,
director of
1526
.
Keyser, Polydore de, lord mayor of London
1465
.
Keythorpe hall, Leicestershire, built
257
.
Keyzor, Louis, murdered in 1869 at Whitton
1226
.
Khol-rabi introduced
762
.
Kildare and Leighlin, bishop of
1297
.
Killala, bishops of
1031
,
1060
.
Kilmacduagh, bishop of
1106
.
Kilmore, bishops of
444
,
560
,
815
.
Kincardineshire, lords lieutenant
79
,
1155
.
King’s champion
948
.
Kingsley, Charles
d.
1875 V. of Eversley, music for his songs
1581
.
Kinrossshire lord lieutenant
13
.
Kirkcudbright lord lieutenant
1118
.
Kiva, a ride to
484
.
Knaresborough, history of
521
.
Knights and knighthood, first knight created by Victoria
1321
,
knighthood declined by Brown
431
,
Carr
557
,
Cattermole
572
,
Fairbairn
1015
,
Fuller
1111
,
Hall 1291 and Heelis
1416
,
name still in knightage forty six years after death
1093
,
prefix Sir assumed
429
,
prefix Sir not used
588
,
refusal to pay the knightage fees
665
.
Knights bachelor, A’Beckett
5
,
Agar
27
,
Alderson E. H.
40
,
Alderson J.
40
,
Allan
48
,
Amphlett
58
,
Anderson C. G.
60
,
Anderson G. W.
61
,
Anderson J. E.
62
,
Archibald
82
,
Armitage
83
,
Arney
87
,
Arrow
90
,
Arthur
91
,
Ashworth
97
,
Atherton
101
,
Atkinson H. E.
103
,
Atkinson J.
104
,
Austen
108
,
Awdry
111
,
Back
119
,
Bain
181
,
Baker
137
,
Bannerman
153
,
Bardsley
160
,
Barry C.
181
,
Barry R.
183
,
Bayly
201
,
Bell
231
,
Bellairs
232
,
Benedict
238
,
Bennett
244
,
Benson
245
,
Bent
246
,
Betham
262
,
Bethune
264
,
Biddlecombe
272
,
Bignold
275
,
Bishop
290
,
Bisset
291
,
Blaikie
301
,
Boag
321
,
Bodkin
324
,
Bogle
325
,
Bouch
346
,
Bovill
354
,
Bowring
362
,
Boxall
364
,
Brady A.
376
,
Brady F.
377
,
Brancker
380
,
Brand
380
,
Brewster
394
,
Bridges
396
,
Briggs
398
,
Brown
441
,
Brownrigg
449
,
Bruce
451
,
Buller A.
469
,
Buller A. W.
469
,
Burrows
492
,
Burt
493
,
Burton
495
,
Butler
499
,
Byam
504
,
Byles
504
,
Campbell G.
529
,
Campbell Jas.
530
,
Carey
545
,
Carr
558
,
Carroll
559
,
Carswell
560
,
Carter
562
,
Causton
574
,
Chalk
581
,
Channell
590
,
Chapman
593
,
Chetham
606
,
Church
618
,
Claridge
624
,
Clark
630
,
Clarke
631
,
Clarke R. B.
635
,
Cleasby
643
,
Cockburn
662
,
Coey
666
,
Coffin
667
,
Colebrooke
672
,
Coleridge
675
,
Collings
678
,
Colvile
687
,
Comyn
690
,
Cooke
702
,
Cooke
705
,
Cooper
708
,
Cormack
720
,
Costa
724
,
Cotter
727
,
Cowen
736
,
Cox
743
,
Coxe
744
,
Creasy
757
,
Cresswell
758
,
Crichton
700
,
Crichton
761
,
Crompton
767
,
Crosley
769
,
Crowder
774
,
Crowe
775
,
Cubitt
779
,
Currie
792
,
Curteis
792
,
Daly
808
,
Darvill
818
,
Darwin
819
,
Davies
825
,
Davison
832
,
Davison
832
,
Davy
835
,
Deane
842
,
Deas
843
,
De Butts
846
,
De Gex
847
,
De La Beche
849
,
De La Saussaye
852
,
Denham
856
,
Denison
858
,
Desanges
866
,
Dickinson D. J.
874
,
Dickinson J. N.
874
,
Dickson
876
,
Dodson
889
,
Doherty
890
,
Dombrain
891
,
Donaldson
894
,
Donovan
897
,
Doratt
898
,
Douglas
901
,
Douglas J. A.
904
,
Douglas N.
904
,
Downie
909
,
Downman
909
,
Doyle
912
,
Doyle
913
,
Dry
922
,
Dundas
932
,
Dwarris
945
,
Eastlake
953
,
Edwards
964
,
Ellis
983
,
Erie
994
,
Everest
1007
,
Eyre
1011
,
Fairbairn
1014
,
Fellowes
1032
,
Fellows
1033
,
Ferguson
1035
,
Ferguson
1036
,
Fife
1044
,
Finlay
1049
,
Fisher J. H.
1053
,
Fisher J. W.
1053
,
Fleming
1068
,
Forbes
1078
,
Fowler
1093
,
Fox
1093
,
Francis
1099
,
Franks
1099
,
Freestun
1105
,
Fropier
1109
,
Gambier
1118
,
Gibbes
1137
,
Gibbs
1137
,
Giffard
1142
,
Glass
1156
,
Goodman
1174
,
Gordon J.
1181
,
Gordon J. W.
1181
,
Gosselin
1187
,
Gough
1189
,
Gowans
1193
,
Grant
1202
,
Grant
1204
,
Grant
1205
,
Grattan
1209
,
Gray
1216
,
Green
1224
,
Grey
1240
,
Gurney
1261
,
Gyll
1268
,
Haberfield
1269
,
Hackett W.
1270
,
Hackett W. B.
1270
,
Hagan
1273
,
Halkett
1281
,
Hall
1283
,
Hall
1286
,
Halliburton
1294
,
Hamilton
1302
,
Hamilton
1303
,
Hamilton
1306
,
Hamilton
1307
,
Hancock
1314
,
Hansler
1321
,
Hanson
1322
,
Harding
1327
,
Hardman
1329
,
Hardy
1333
,
Hardy
1334
,
Hare
1334
,
Harris
1350
,
Harris
1351
,
Harrison E. S.
1352
,
Harrison G.
1352
,
Hart A. S.
1359
,
Hart H.
1359
,
Harvey
1365
,
Harvey
1366
,
Hastings
1372
,
Hastings
1374
,
Hawker
1386
,
Hay
1393
,
Hayes
1397
,
Hayter
1401
,
Head
1404
,
Heathcote
1412
,
Henry
1433
,
Herbert
1439
,
Heron
1445
,
Herries
1446
,
Hicks
1461
,
Hilditch
1466
,
Hill
1469
,
Hill H.
1471
,
Hill J.
1471
,
Hill J.
1471
,
Hill
1473
,
Hill
1474
,
Hindmarsh
1482
,
Hodges
1492
,
Hodgkinson
1493
,
Hodgson
1497
,
Hoffmeister
1500
,
Holker
1505
,
Holmes
1516
,
Holmes
1517
,
Hood
1525
,
Hooker
1526
,
Hopkins
1534
,
Hopkinson
1535
,
Horne
1540
,
Horsford
1542
,
Houlton
1549
,
Howell
1557
,
Howley
1561
,
Hoyles
1563
,
Huddleston
1565
,
Hughes
1577
,
Hume
1585
,
Humphreys
1587
,
Hunt
1690
,
Huntley
1599
.
Khondistan, human sacrifices in
532
.
Knurr and spell player
1495
.
Kossuth, Louis
b.
1802, banquet to
69
,
entertained by Henry
1432
,
his friends
837
,
1232
.
L
Laboratories
941
.
Lace, gassing of
1289
,
machine for making
83
,
made from mohair
287
,
manufacturers of
287
,
1412
,
Old Loughborough machine
1412
,
patent for making
275
.
Lacrosse player, Glover
1160
.
Ladies’ faces, enamelling of
770
.
Laing, Rev. John
d.
1880, librarian
1282
.
Lamb, Charles
d.
1834 essayist, attacked by cholera
93
,
his friends
487
,
1591
.
Lambeth, degrees
557
,
1494
,
palace librarian
1225
.
Lamps, Argand introduced
1554
,
lamp of life, invention and explosion of
10
.
Lampeter castle turned into St. David’s college
1336
.
Lancaster duchy, chancellors of
6
,
133
,
623
,
1241
,
1358
,
duke of, claimant to the title
1353
,
records
1334
.
Lanarkshire, lords lieutenant
226
,
976
,
1298
bis.
Land surveyor, Hodgson
1498
.
Langalibalele, Caffre chief, treatment of
673
.
Latin, hexameter verses, machine for composing
627
.
Laurie, Sir Peter
d.
1861, lord mayor
26
,
27
.
Lavalette, Antoine M. C., comte de
d.
1830, his escape
897
.
Law, common law procedure act
1272
,
inns of court commission
675
,
John Doe and Richard Roe
1398
,
king’s bench filazer
18
,
large incomes made at the bar
451
,
law courts commission
675
,
law courts, design for
478
,
law courts, opening of the new
848
,
papers copied at three pence a page
1596
,
qualification for offices abolition act
1272
,
refusal to call to the bar
1364
.
Law, Incorporated Law Society, law institute projected
1513
,
incorporated law soc., charter of
1513
,
presidents
330
,
494
,
635
,
918
,
1080
,
1089
.
Law, William John
d.
1869 barrister, on route of Hannibal over Alps
984
.
Lawrence, Sir Thomas
d.
1830 P.R.A., funeral of
318
,
his assistant
1004
.
Leamington, county library
988
,
music hall
988
.
Leather manufacturer, Hackett
1270
.
Lecturers, Bellew
234
,
Dawson
837
,
Gilfillan
1148
,
Gordon-Cumming
785
,
Grossmith
1250
.
Lee, James Prince
d.
1869 bp. of Manchester, his confirmation opposed
1265
.
Leechdoms
661
.
Leeds, musical festivals
725
,
St. Saviour’s vicar of
1075
.
Leicester, Mount St. Bernard abbey
476
.
Leinster, Augustus Frederick
d.
1874 third duke of, his son
1059
.
Lemon, Mark
d.
1870, dramatised the Chimes
4
.
Leopold I.
d.
1805 king of the Belgians, his equerry
796
,
master of his household
796
.
Leopold, prince
d.
1884,
duke of Albany
38
.
Lepidoptera, collections of
900
,
1454
,
specimen costing £350
col.
1454
.
Letter copying machines, pentagraph
1389
,
Wedgwood’s manifold writer
1389
.
Letters refused, the writer liable for the postage
26
.
Letters, vocal and whisper
1476
.
Leucocythemia or white cell blood discovered
242
.
Lever, Charles James
d.
1872 novelist, illustrators of his works
444
.
Lewes, George Henry
d.
1878 philosopher, Mary Ann Cross
771
,
studentships founded in his name
771
.
Lewin, Thomas
d.
1843 of H.E.I.C.S.
1251
.
Librarians, Atkinson
104
,
Bandinel
150
,
Bradshaw
375
,
Brayley E. Wedlake
387
,
Brayley E. William
387
,
Brimley
401
,
Brough
424
,
Caulfield
573
,
Cochrane
660
,
Coxe
743
,
Crestadoro
758
,
Dalton
808
,
Deutsch
867
,
Edwards
965
,
Halkett
1282
,
Hall
1290
,
Hennen
1430
,
Herbert
1440
,
1442
,
Hertslet
1450
,
Hitchcock
1484
,
Holmes
1515
,
Horne
1540
,
Hulton
1582
.
Libraries, Adamson
21
,
Ainsworth
34
,
Alvanley
55
,
Ashburnham
93
,
Aspland
99
,
Atkinson
103
,
Barker
162
,
Beaufoy
212
,
Bedford
218
,
Bennis
245
,
Bentham
247
,
Black
293
,
Bohn
326
,
Blood
315
,
Brooke
415
,
Bruce
451
,
Burnett
485
,
Chetham
773
,
circulating, first in London
1607
,
Clerical
815
,
Colburn
669
,
Corney
721
,
Corser
724
,
Craig
747
,
Crawford
753
,
Crossley
773
,
Currer
790
,
Dampier
869
,
Denny
861
,
Dyce
946
,
Eastlake
953
,
Faculty of advocates
1537
,
Fry
1111
,
Great seal patent office
104
,
Greswell
1238
,
Grey
311
,
Hardiman
1325
,
Hardy
1332
,
Hartley
1362
,
Hawley
1391
,
Heywood
1458
,
Hibbert
80
,
Holden
1504
,
Holmes
1515
,
Hope
1530
,
Hunter
1597
,
Huth
1606
,
Hutt
1607
,
Jewish, the
866
,
London institution
80
,
779
,
London library
549
,
660
,
London library co.
1092
,
Metropolitan library
815
,
Napoleon library
311
,
Perkins
80
,
Stowe collection
93
.
Libraries, catalogues on Crestadoro’s plan
758
,
circulating
669
,
1607
,
itinerating founded
438
.
Library Association, Oxford meeting
744
,
president
375
.
Liebig, Justus von, baron
d.
1873 chemist, letters on chemistry
1122
.
Life boats, Beeching’s
220
,
steam life boat service
498
.
Light, magnetism of
1020
.
Lighthouses, keeper of
816
,
polyzonal lens invented
394
,
refraction protractor invented
144
.
Lightning conductors for ships
1351
.
Likenesses, machine for taking
1389
.
Lilley, John, a sergeant arrested by Col. Crawley and
d.
1863 in confinement
756
.
Limerick, bishops of
1243
,
1463
,
lord lieutenant
940
.
Lind, Jenny
d.
1887 singer, Benedict travels with her in United States
238
,
her friend
1251
.
Lindsays, Lives of the
753
.
Linen manufacturer, Dick
872
.
Linguists, Bowring
362
,
Buckle
463
,
Cianchetti
621
,
Hamilton
1307
.
Linlithgowshire lord lieutenant
1533
.
Lion tamer, Crockett
762
.
Liquids, diffusion of, discovered
1198
.
Lisbon, British hospital
1602
,
English coll. at
1602
,
mint at
643
.
Lithotomists, Crichton
761
,
Cusack
796
,
Green
1225
.
Lithographer, Day
421
.
Lithotint invented
1326
.
Liverpool, bishop of
1186
,
chamber of commerce founded
1541
,
Cope’s tobacco manufactory
715
,
court of passage
769
,
Eagle line of packets
400
,
free public library and Derby museum
440
,
Gibbs, Bright & Co. ship owners
399
,
400
,
Great Britain steamship
389
,
400
,
insurance offices
348
,
Liverpool collegiate institution
697
,
parliamentary debating soc.
715
,
R.C. bishop
431
,
salvage committee
348
,
zoological gardens dismantled
102
.
Livingstone, David
d.
1873 explorer, Stanley’s search for
242
.
Locksmith, Chubb
618
.
Logarithms
1212
.
Logic, quantification of the predicate, discovery of
247
.
Logometer or ten foot gunter
382
.
London.
Abney park cemetery formed
1545
,
Agricultural hall built
1552
,
Albert gate, Hudson’s residence
1566
,
Albert hall designed
1092
,
alderman not admitted lord mayor
1341
,
Almack’s quadrilles and waltzes introduced
1250
,
armourers co. hall
1171
,
Barnard’s inn ball restored
130
,
Battle bridge, now King’s cross
1133
,
bazaars, queen’s bazaar 1308 and royal
1308
,
Billingsgate market built
474
,
bishops of London
315
,
639
,
Bishop’s observatory
837
,
Blackfriars bridge opened
574
,
779
,
Blacksmiths’ co.
834
,
Bow St. magistrates
1072
,
1080
,
1433
,
Bow st. officers
1115
,
Braidwood superintendent of fire engine establishment
379
,
British diorama
1308
,
Buckingham palace completed
317
,
garden pavilion, Scotch views in
805
,
Caldwell’s dancing rooms
515
,
Carlton house, alterations at
1536
,
Cato street conspiracy
1057
,
1115
,
1226
,
1353
,
chapels royal, sub dean
1121
,
Charing cross station built
1130
,
Chelsea
see col.
1631
,
church of St. John of Jerusalem built
363
,
city marshal
528
,
city of London school founded
1278
,
gift to
212
,
opened
474
,
city prison Holloway
474
,
Cleopatra’s needle
712
,
Clerkenwell house of detention, explosion at by Fenians
178
,
Clifford’s inn, principals of
53
,
82
,
clothworkers’ hall opened
318
,
coaches plying on the New Road
477
,
coal exchange built
474
,
college of St. Ignatius
442
,
common serjeants of the city
471
,
859
,
congregation of Oblates
703
,
controller of the chamber of the city
497
,
corps of gentlemen at arms standard bearer
1341
,
Cotton’s wharf, fire at
379
,
Covent garden market built
1092
,
Crace collection of prints and drawings
746
,
Cromwell road built
1103
,
Crosby hall, account of
548
,
crystal palace Sydenham
See
Crystal palace
1635
,
Cubitt’s Thames Bank factory
779
,
Culverwell’s baths
782
,
east end, earliest workers in
1187
,
Euston station and hotel built
1331
,
Exeter change menagerie
770
,
faculty office
538
,
fine arts commission
669
,
Finsbury chapel
1069
,
fire engine establishment
379
,
Fleet prison warden
441
,
freedom of city granted to Brooke
417
,
Burgoyne
480
,
Campbell Lord Clyde
657
,
Cobden
659
,
Cockburn
662
,
Frere
1107
,
freemasons’ hall
664
,
French gloves sold in London
638
,
gin palace, first in London
1133
,
goldsmiths’ hall built
1331
,
Gordon boys’ home founded
1178
,
Gower’s walk free school
832
,
guildhall librarian
39
,
guild of St. Luke founded
391
,
Guy’s hospital separated from St. Thomas’s
1352
,
halls in city warmed and ventilated
1539
,
Hancock’s steam carriages
1315
,
Highgate cemetery laid out
1133
,
Holborn viaduct opened
574
,
Hotels, Claridge’s
624
,
Freemasons’ tavern
1097
,
Hampshire hog tavern
695
,
Mivart’s
624
,
St. Albans 373 and St. James’
1097
,
Hungerford market opened
1092
,
pulled down
1130
,
Hyde park corner arch built
494
,
Hyde park, relievi on the entrance gate
1431
,
Kensington gram. sch. founded
1560
,
Kensington palace, chaplains at
168
,
1211
,
gardener
37
,
Kensington South, fountains in exhibition garden
811
,
museum, Foster’s pictures and books
1085
,
King’s college charter
409
,
King’s Weighhouse chapel
280
,
Knightsbridge, memorials of
830
,
Lambeth bridge opened
169
,
Lambeth ragged sch. opened
212
,
land registry office, registrar of
1074
,
Leicester sq. Savile house exhibition of hydraulic figures
1254
,
lent oratorios
323
,
life in London by Pierce Egan
778
,
Lincoln’s inn hall and library foundation stone laid
451
,
finished
1331
,
London bridge, account of
548
,
design for
1092
,
drawings of
701
,
stones of old bridge used to build Ingress park
1341
,
London Pneumatic despatch Co., iron tubes for
180
,
London university founded
1251
,
lord mayor in 1852 had no procession or dinner
581
,
lord mayor’s carriage, paintings on
135
,
lord mayor’s show, Grace Darling’s boat
816
,
lord mayors, Allen
53
,
Besley
261
,
Carroll
559
,
Carter
562
,
Challis
582
,
Combe
687
,
Copeland
716
,
Cubitt
780
,
Curtis
793
,
Duke
927
,
Farncomb
1022
,
Finnis
1050
,
Gibbons
1137
,
Hale
1278
,
Hooper
1528
,
Humphery
1586
,
Hunter
1595
,
Hunter
1598
,
Laurie
26
, and Moon
1253
,
lord mayorship not granted
1273
,
Manchester new college president
992
,
marble arch, bassi relievi on
130
,
Marshalsea, prisoners in
873
,
1130
,
Middle Temple chrysanthemum exhibition
802
,
library
945
,
metropolitan board of works, last of original members
808
,
metropolitan cattle market built
474
,
metropolitan improvement commission
669
,
Middlesex hospital, Cropper’s devise to
768
,
Mincing lane, the millionaire of
725
,
mint, master of
1198
,
mint works reformed
1342
,
national gallery, director of
364
,
national Scottish church, Covent Garden
784
,
Nelson’s column, bas reliefs on
544
,
Newgate, governor of
441
,
Nunhead cemetery laid out
474
,
Pantheon exhibition of pictures
1073
,
turned into wine vaults
1146
,
Pimlico district created
779
,
police commissioner of city
1364
,
queen’s college teacher of theology
1121
,
ragged school founded
9
,
Regent’s park, electric wire laid in
835
,
ice accident
885
,
remembrancer of city
723
,
Romano-British remains, collection of
130
,
St. Alban’s, Holborn built
1564
,
St. Clement Danes parish, account of
881
,
St. George in the East, disturbances at
51
,
St. James’ chapel royal, master of choristers
1418
,
St. John’s gate restored
1246
,
St. Katharine docks opened
35
,
St. Martin’s hall burnt
1581
,
St. Mary Magdalen ch. Munster sq. built
555
,
St. Mary’s hospital built
1536
,
St. Michael’s, Cornhill, registers of
605
,
St. Pancras parish divided into 20 incumbencies
802
,
St. Paul’s cathedral, painted windows
439
,
person buried in
596
,
St. Paul’s, Covent garden, charitable institutions
1608
,
St. Paul’s, Knightsbridge, erected
786
,
St. Peter’s, Newington, built
581
,
St. Thomas’ hospital opened
1461
,
secondary of the city
849
,
sewerage works
1204
,
Smithfield market, enquiry into
505
,
Soane museum curator
334
,
Soho square bazaar established
419
,
Somers Town, abbé Carron’s school
502
,
Southwark, bishops of
667
,
811
,
1206
,
stamps department Somerset house remodelled
1470
,
surpliced choir the first in the city
1473
,
Thames defences
553
,
Thames embankment
1154
,
1204
,
Thames tunnel
1390
,
engineer of
207
,
theatres
See
Theatres,
tower of London, catholic memories of
703
,
constables of
689
,
798
,
1169
,
deputy lieut. office abolished
864
,
persons committed to
51
,
653
,
tower subway opened
169
,
traders’ tavern tokens
482
,
trees, planting of
802
,
Trinity house, master of
39
,
University coll. diseased structures, drawings of
560
,
gymnasium
611
,
University hall Gordon sq.
654
,
Vauxhall, bridge foundation stone laid
453
,
embankment made
779
,
Holy Trinity ch. built
248
,
Victoria docks formed
272
,
Walworth, Clayton schools
642
,
West London infirmary renamed Charing Cross hospital
1166
,
Whitechapel ch. rebuilt
707
,
wool exchange erected
765
,
yeomen of the guard, exon of
1314
,
York college commenced
1128
,
zoological gardens, Regent’s park, established
1247
,
animals fed in public
1247
,
zoological gardens, the Surrey
7
,
770
.
Londonderry, lords lieutenant
839
,
1036
,
Magee college
769
.
Looms, power looms
1089
.
Long, Rev. W. deprived of his license by Bp. of Capetown
1218
.
Lords chancellor, Brougham
426
,
Cairns
512
,
Campbell
526
,
Chelmsford
602
,
Cottenham
726
,
Cranworth
751
,
Hatherley
1376
.
Lords chief justice of England, Campbell
526
,
Cockburn
662
,
Denman
858
.
Lord high steward, Anglesey
71
.
Lords privy seal, Buckingham
460
,
Buccleugh
457
,
Clanricarde
622
,
Clarendon
623
,
Disraeli
203
,
Ellenborough
975
,
Haddington
1271
,
Halifax
1281
,
Hardwicke
1331
,
Harrowby
1358
.
Lords, house of, cartoons in
946
,
chief justice of England sitting without his robes
859
,
league for abolition of
1386
.
Lotteries, abolished
559
,
prizes in
1268
.
Louis XVIII.
d.
1824 king of France, conducted from Ghent to Paris
702
.
Louis Philippe
d.
1857 king of the French, flight to England
1030
,
his queen
1105
,
his son
856
,
painting taught to his family
1043
,
sent present of china to Harding
1326
.
Louth, lord lieutenant
234
.
Lowe, Robert
b.
1811 first viscount Sherbrooke, caricatured in burlesque of Happy Land
1476
.
Luddite riots
1434
.
Lunacy, non restraint system originated
1128
,
1474
.
Lycian marbles, discovered
1033
,
Harpy tomb, the
1390
.
Lyon, Mrs. Jane, her action against Daniel D. Home
1519
.
Lytton-Bulwer, Edward G.
d.
1873 baron Lytton, Devereux in French
1578
.
M
Macaire, Robert, original delineator of the character
444
.
McAll protestant mission in Paris
888
.
Macaulay, Thomas Babington
d.
1859 baron, defeated in contest for rectorship of Marischal college
47
,
his executor
986
.
Machine makers, Dyer
947
,
Fairbairn
1014
.
Machines, boring
551
,
for pressing goods
528
,
planing
551
,
shaping
551
.
Mackenzie, Alexander Campbell
b.
1847 his operas
1569
.
Mackintosh & Co., air beds
627
,
india rubber works
799
.
Madder grown and manufactured in England
1042
.
Magazines and other Periodicals,
See also
Newspapers.
Agricultural and industrial magazine editor
577
.
Ainsworth’s magazine editor
33
.
All the year round commenced
872
.
American monthly established
1440
.
Anthropological review editor
1591
.
Anti-slavery pilot established
83
.
Argonaut editor
1524
.
Artist, The commenced
774
.
Art union journal established
1289
.
Astronomical register established
1186
.
Aunt Judy’s magazine editor
1131
.
Bachelors’ papers, Liverpool, established
136
.
Band of hope review editor
1120
.
Band of mercy editor
1120
.
Bankers’ magazine editor
1002
.
Bankers’ almanac editor
1002
.
Barker’s review commenced
164
.
Bentley’s miscellany commenced
249
,
editor of
33
,
sale of
33
.
Bentley’s quarterly review started
249
.
Bent’s literary advertiser founded
246
.
Blackwood’s magazine, contributor to
1156
.
Bombay quarterly review commenced
65
.
Botanical magazine, editor
1526
,
proprietor
794
.
British and foreign evangelical rev. editors
788
.
British and foreign medical rev. founded
619
,
1078
.
British workman editors
522
,
1120
.
Calvert’s mechanics’ almanac founded
521
.
Canadian naturalist established
277
.
Carpenter’s monthly political editor
556
.
Celt founded
536
.
Chambers’ Edinburgh journal founded
588
.
Channel islands magazine commenced
680
.
Chess player, authors of
1544
.
Child’s companion editor
771
.
Childrens’ journal projected
853
.
Christian advocate review editor
1250
.
Christian, publisher
358
.
Christian herald editor
1485
.
Christian monthly editor
1437
.
Christian observer editor
787
.
Christian physician and anthropological magazine
994
.
Christian pioneer editor
1347
.
Christian reformer discontinued
100
.
Christian remembrancer, editors
1121
,
1292
.
Christian teacher commenced
208
.
Chrono-thermalist began
877
.
Church, editor
1130
.
Churchman’s magazine editor
1028
.
Churchman’s quarterly magazine projected
88
.
Churchman’s monthly companion commenced
88
.
Church musician started
1131
.
Citizen, The, at Dublin
1568
.
Comic news editor
507
.
Cope’s tobacco plant first issued
715
.
Congregational review editor
1524
.
Court journal originated
669
.
Critica biblica editor
555
.
Critical review editor
1592
.
Dawn, The, Manchester, commenced
423
.
Dibdin’s penny trumpet proprietor
4
.
Dublin journal of medical science, started
1213
,
editor
1303
.
Dublin university magazine founded
502
.
Eagle, St. John’s coll. magazine
984
.
Eclectic review editors
690
,
1524
.
Ecclesiastical art review editor
1208
.
Edinburgh literary journal commenced
227
.
Edinburgh medical and surgical journal editor
747
.
Edinburgh review founded
426
,
editor
992
.
Etcetera editor
670
.
Evangelical penny magazine proprietor
4
.
Evening news, Sydney, started
243
.
Figaro proprietor
4
.
Figaro in London, editor
4
.
Floricultural cabinet and florists’ magazine
1354
.
Foreign quarterly review founded
1150
,
editor
1084
.
Fraser’s magazine, contributor to
1156
,
editor fights a duel
254
.
Free church magazine, Edinburgh, editor
1453
.
Fun, artist on
1218
,
editor
507
.
Gallery of terrors proprietor
4
.
Gardener’s chronicle founded
879
.
Gardener’s magazine editor
1459
.
Gentleman’s magazine, editors
451
,
1066
,
proprietor
372
.
Germ, The
682
.
Ghost proprietor
4
.
Hardwicke’s science gossip commenced
1331
.
Hazlewood magazine editor
1476
.
Hebrew christian editor
832
.
Hogg’s weekly instructor editor
1502
.
Household words, proprietors
372
,
discontinued
872
.
Howitt’s journal editor
1560
.
Hunt’s London journal editor
1589
.
Hunt’s yachting magazine founded
10
.
Illustrated London magazine
84
.
Intelligencer founded at Belleville
239
.
Journal of health and disease, editor
994
.
Journal of industry started
930
.
Journal of London institution commenced
424
.
Journal of morbid anatomy, editor
1025
.
Journal of philosophy founded
629
.
Journal of royal agricultural society, editor
1108
.
Journal of statistical society, editor
1266
.
Jurist founded
1074
.
Laboratory, The, started
424
.
Law magazine founded
1402
.
Leigh Hunt’s journal published
1591
.
Leigh Hunt’s London journal, editor
1591
.
Leisure moments, editor
781
.
Literary gazette originated
669
.
Literary news, Sydney, editor
5
.
Liverpool lion commenced
425
.
Liverpool medical journal editor
1257
.
London magazine started
141
,
editor
878
.
London medical and surgical journal editors
994
,
1549
.
London medical repository editor
936
.
London medical review editor
1496
.
London photographic society journal editor
870
.
London quarterly review editor
1133
.
London society projected
1502
.
Lover, proprietor
4
.
Magazine of science and school of arts, editor
1098
.
Mirth, editor
507
.
Month commenced
1092
.
Monthly magazine editor
1437
.
Monthly magazine of holy rosary, editor
1082
.
Monthly repository editors
1539
,
1591
.
Montreal medical gazette founded
122
.
Museum criticum established
315
.
Musical world editors
833
,
1131
.
National miscellany founded
84
.
Natural history review editor
791
.
Nautical magazine commenced
215
.
New monthly magazine, editor
1289
,
sold
33
.
New monthly magazine and humorist commenced
161
.
New quarterly review founded
498
,
editor
1568
.
North British review editors
1318
.
Notes and Queries editor
898
,
writer in
1603
.
Numismatic journal started
37
.
Once a week editor
805
.
Orchestra editor
1022
.
Oriental herald and colonial review commenced
461
.
Panoply, The, founded
1077
.
Penny catholic magazine started
1401
,
published
433
.
People’s journal proprietors
1560
.
People’s penny picture proprietor
4
.
Photographic art journal projected
853
.
Phrenological journal editor
742
.
Political letters issued
556
.
Political magazine commenced
556
.
Poor Richard’s journal proprietor
4
.
Porcupine founded
715
.
Portfolio started
10
,
11
.
Post magazine and insurance monitor proprietor
1362
.
Preacher’s lantern editor
1524
.
Primitive methodist magazine commenced
350
.
Prison proverbs commenced
11
.
Quarterly journal of foreign medicine and surgery established
1180
.
Quarterly mining review editor
993
.
Quarterly review founded
764
.
Railway magazine proprietor
1436
.
Rambler, publisher
488
.
Reflector, editor
1591
.
Retrospective review, contributor to
773
.
Royal ladies’ magazine editor
1157
.
St. James’ magazine editor
1283
.
Saturday night editor
1525
.
Saturday review, contributors to
787
,
805
,
editor
700
.
Scripture magazine editor
555
.
Sharpe’s London magazine editor
1283
.
Social notes editor
1289
.
Sock and buskin editor
1022
.
Sphynx begun
461
.
Sporting review editor
546
.
Squib, The editor of
1209
.
Statistical journal editors
1070
.
Student begun
34
.
Sunbeam, editor
1437
.
Sunday magazine editor
1265
.
Ten hours advocate
1205
.
Terrific penny magazine proprietor
4
.
Theological critic established
88
.
Thief, proprietor
4
.
Tonic sol-fa reporter started
795
.
Tract magazine editor
771
.
Unitarian herald commenced
208
,
editor
1129
.
United service magazine originated
669
,
editor
1112
.
Westminster review, contributor to
1168
,
proprietor
1462
.
Willis’s current notes, editor
482
.
Winter wreath begun
614
.
Young England founded
249
.
Youth’s magazine founded
1263
.
Zoist established
980
.
Magic, history of
378
,
lectures on
424
.
Magic lanterns made
609
,
slides for
609
.
Magnetism, animal
378
,
686
,
discoveries in
168
.
Maidstone, Charles museum
594
.
Mail coaches, Edinburgh to Aberdeen
49
.
Majuba hill, battle of
677
.
Malagasy scholars, Freeman
1104
,
Griffiths
1246
.
Malt, malster, a
1436
,
raising and conveying of malt
834
.
Malta, knights of, Arbuthnot
78
,
Bowyer
363
,
Hort
1543
.
Man, most popular man in the three kingdoms
971
.
Man, Isle of, Baume’s property left to
196
.
Manchester, Athenæum
773
,
banquet to W. Harrison Ainsworth
33
,
botanical guide
504
,
carbolic acid, manufacture of
520
,
chartist riots
83
,
Chetham soc.
773
,
Chetham library
773
,
Geological soc. founded
280
,
great exhibition
842
,
incorporated law assoc.
773
,
Kersal moor great meeting
658
,
law assoc.
1416
,
library of local books
1458
,
Lunardini’s fall from a balloon
1192
,
Manchester coll. at Manchester and London
100
,
Manchester political union
658
,
New college removed to London
361
,
observatory at
361
,
Owen’s coll. endowment of professorships 268 and trustees of
1026
,
Peterloo meeting
150
,
681
,
rescue of Kelly the Fenian
53
,
royal institution founded
519
,
ship canal
1113
,
Thirlmere water scheme
1445
,
theatre royal
519
,
unity of odd fellows, grand master
1330
,
York college
1128
.
Mandarin, Gordon
1178
.
Manuscripts, Ashburnham collection
1515
,
Bragge’s illuminated
378
,
historical commission on
1333
.
Map makers, Arrowsmith
91
,
Cruchley
777
.
Marble quarrier, Goad
1162
.
March, George Edward of the Foreign office, writer of librettos
1115
.
Margate, hall by the sea, manager
1483
.
Marlborough college founded
1040
,
reorganized
728
.
Marriages, four times married
105
,
878
,
four times repeated
540
,
five times married
823
,
remarkable consanguineous marriage
12
.
Martineau, Harriet
d.
1876 author, cured by mesmerism
1290
.
Marryat, Capt. Frederick
d.
1848 novelist, Peter Simple
370
.
Mary Blane, a song
1254
.
Mastodon fossils
755
.
Matamoros, Manuel a prisoner in Spain
7
.
Matthews, Charles
d.
1835 actor, his gallery of theatrical portraits
943
.
Mathematician, Hamilton
1307
.
Matterhorn, Switzerland, deaths on
902
,
1566
.
Mayhew, Henry
d.
1887 author, a writer in Punch
1209
.
Maynooth, synod at
781
.
Mayor who paid fine not to serve, Barber
156
.
Mazzini, Guiseppe
d.
1872 political agitator, his friend
837
.
Meats preserved, cases for
1008
.
Meath, bishop of
498
,
lord lieutenant
1048
.
Mecca, Bicknell’s pilgrimage to the shrine of Mohammed
271
.
Medals, for young persons for industry
1390
,
gold medal specially struck
550
.
Medicine, Aldersgate st. sch.
732
,
clinical lectures established
276
,
college of physicians, president
40
,
fevers, modern treatment of
1213
,
Fleming’s tincture
1067
,
name removed from medical register
1257
,
physician charging a five shilling fee
1432
,
podophyllin introduced
1122
,
practical teaching at the bedside
276
,
prussic acid used for chest affections
1208
,
scarlatina, its treatment
432
,
spirometer, use of
1605
.
Medulla oblongata, reflex function of
1288
.
Memory, systems of acquiring
1476
,
teacher of the art of
239
.
Men, handsome men, Boyle
368
,
D’Orsay
899
.
Menageries, Atkins
290
,
Batty
195
,
Bostock
345
,
Cross
770
,
Exeter change
770
,
King’s Mews menagerie
770
,
Knowsley park
863
,
Liverpool
102
,
Regent’s park
1247
,
Surrey Zoological gardens
7
,
770
,
Wingeworth hall
1588
,
Wombwell, painted show cloth for
670
.
See also
Zoological gardens.
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix
d.
1847,
works performed at Windsor
39
,
his friend
1251
,
Lobgesang first performed
1384
.
Mer de Glace surveyed
1078
.
Merest, J. D.
m.
Maria B. Hawes
1384
.
Mesmerism, Harriet Martineau cured by
1290
,
London mesmeric infirmary 979–
80
,
Zoist
980
.
Mesmerists, Ashburner
93
,
Braid
378
,
Elliotson
979
,
Esdaile
997
,
Gibson
1142
,
Hall
1290
.
Metallic solutions, insect life in
772
.
Meteorology, account of meteorites
1071
,
Greaves’ observatory
1221
,
meteorologists
418
,
429
,
meteorological department of board of trade
1064
,
meteorological registers
1554
,
self recording instruments invented
415
.
Mexico, Tampico city taken
597
.
Meyerbeer, Jacob
d.
1864 composer,
Le Prophète
produced in London
1253
.
Microscopes, achromatic
216
,
cheap and good
811
,
used for study of rocks
1076
.
Middle level, commission on the
862
.
Middlesborough, Albert park
327
,
first mayor
327
.
Midwifery, use of anæsthetics
1220
.
Milk, country milk sent to London
1284
.
Mill, John Stuart
d.
1873 philosopher, his friend
1093
.
Milier, Hugh
d.
1856 geologist, his dau.
823
,
old red sandstone
871
.
Millers, Catt
571
,
Hadley
1273
.
Milton, John
d.
1674 poet, Fall of Adam
1010
,
his commonplace book
1544
,
Milton prize at St. Paul’s sch.
632
,
Paradise lost, the prototype of
161
.
Mind, power of over body
378
.
Mine be a cot, a glee
1543
.
Miniatures, on marble
558
,
painters of
725
.
Minerals, cadmium sulphate of
570
,
collections of
416
,
552
,
greenockite
570
.
Mines and Mining, accidents in, life saving apparatus
125
,
Brunton’s endless cloth
455
,
calciner, Brunton’s
454
,
fuse, Brunton’s
455
,
man engines
1094
,
oscillating cylinder stamps
1602
,
safety cage invented
115
.
Mint, The, assay master
1042
,
coins made with mathematical precision
1042
,
commission of enquiry
667
,
Ipswich mints
1055
,
masters of
645
,
935
,
1446
,
1448
,
models for coins
1042
,
pure gold
1042
.
Miraculous healing
91
.
Mitchell, John
d.
1875 Irish politician, his prosecution
1429
.
Mohair used
1089
.
Modeller, Henning
1431
.
Mollusca, internal structure of
1314
.
Moneyers, Company of, provosts of
103
,
104
,
dissolved
104
.
Moneyrea where there is one God and no devil
304
.
Mont Blanc,
ascents of by Alison
47
,
Auldjo
107
,
Barry
182
,
Fellows
1033
,
Hamel 1298 and Hudson
1566
,
ascent of without guides
1566
,
astronomical observations made on summit
1493
,
fatalities on,
Arkwright
82
,
Balfour 143 and Hamel
1298
.
Moon, Sir Francis G.
d.
1871,
print seller
1253
.
Moore, George
d.
1876,
philanthropist
1252
,
limb set by Hutton
1609
.
Moore, Thomas
d.
1852 poet, his friends
828
,
1591
.
Moray, Ross and Caithness, bishop of
958
.
Morocco, emperor of, medical mission to
442
.
Morphia, muriate of
1235
.
Mortmain, statute of, the hospitals exempt from provisions of
768
.
Moths, sugaring for
900
.
Mount Sinai, the position of determined
223
.
Mount Vesuvius, large picture of
770
.
Mozart, Johann C. W. A.
d.
1791 composer, Don Giovanni produced in England
114
.
Muller, George
b.
1805 a Prussian, founder of orphan houses
749
.
Munich, Gibson’s statues at
1141
.
Muntz, George Frederick
d.
1857 M.P., libelled by Gutteridge
1265
.
Mural paintings by fictile vitrification
528
.
Murchison, Sir Robert I.
d.
1871 geologist, Dick’s assistance to him
871
.
Murderers,
Barthelémy
185
,
Green
1226
,
Mc Lauchlan
1143
,
Miller
1569
,
Thurtell
1592
.
Murray, James A. H. his New English dictionary
674
.
Music, Bass’ act on street musicians
189
,
catalogue of
1011
,
Concentores sodales
1187
,
conducting with a baton
724
,
contrapuntist soc.
1072
,
free chant
774
,
Hullah classes for teaching
1581
,
library of
1000
,
musical glasses
1261
,
music librarian
1175
,
musician the first knighted
290
,
new code staff notation
751
,
publishers
665
,
676
,
749
,
823
,
1309
,
reading from the score
628
,
Società Armonica
1077
,
sol-faing system
1159
,
thorough bass
492
,
tonic sol-fa system and coll.
795
,
type music printer
1426
,
Vogler’s system of cadences
1072
,
writer on
992
.
Music Halls, Cider cellars
1224
,
Collins’
681
,
Evans’
1224
,
Hungerford hall built
1130
,
Lansdowne proprietor
681
,
Marylebone proprietor
681
,
Mogul singing at
680
,
Royal, musical director
722
,
Weston’s, musical director
722
,
York at Southampton
1612
.
Musical composers, Bache
118
,
Benedict
238
,
Bennett
244
,
Bexfield
268
,
Bilby
276
,
Blockley
314
,
Blagrove
301
,
Blewitt
312
,
Calkin
516
,
Calcott W.
517
,
Callcott W. H.
517
,
Campana
525
,
Cianchetti
621
,
Coote
713
,
Corri
722
,
Costa
724
,
D’Albert
801
,
Davison
833
,
Dempster
856
,
Dibdin
871
,
Donaldson
893
,
Dougal
901
,
Dunne
940
,
Ellerton
976
,
Ellis
983
,
Elvey
991
,
Fawcett J.
1028
,
Fawcett J.
1028
,
Fish
1051
,
Fitzwilliam
1065
,
Flowers
1072
,
Forbes
1077
,
Gabriel
1115
,
Glover C. W.
1158
,
Glover S.
1160
,
Glover W. H.
1160
,
Godfrey A. F. and C.
1163
,
Goss
1186
,
Graham
1196
,
Greatheed
1220
,
Gutteridge
1266
,
Haite
1276
,
Harper
1343
,
Hart
1359
,
Hatton
1377
,
Havergal
1381
,
Hecht
1415
,
Helmore
1418
,
Hempel
1420
,
Hemy
1421
,
Hickson
1462
,
Hill J. F.
1471
,
Hill W. J.
1476
,
Hime
1479
,
Hobson
1489
,
Holmes A.
1514
,
Holmes W. H.
1517
,
Horn
1537
,
Horsley C. E.
1542
,
Horsley W. H.
1542
,
Howell
1556
,
Hughes
1576
,
Hullah
1581
,
Hume
1585
,
Hutcheson
1604
,
Lodge
976
,
Mackenzie
1569
,
Stoepel
1445
,
See also
Pianists.
Muskets, stadiometer improved
1560
.
Myriorama, invention of
627
.
Myxoedema first described
1257
.
N
Names, Fancy.
Admiral, The fighting
i.e.
Sir W. N. W. Hewett
1454
.
Apostle of ragged school movement
i.e.
T. Guthrie
1265
.
Arsenic Sal
i.e.
Sarah Chesham
603
.
Attorney General for unstamped newspapers
i.e.
George Edmonds
960
.
Auchterless John Pounds
i.e.
James Beattie
210
.
Bagatelle
i.e.
Richard 4 marquis of Hertford
1449
.
Bankers’ Bankers
i.e.
Overend, Gurney & Co.
1262
.
Bard of Dunclug, The
i.e.
David Herbison
1442
.
Bendigo
i.e.
William Thompson
237
,
573
.
Bishop of Bond street, The
i.e.
William Bishop
291
.
Blacksmith, The learned
i.e.
Elihu Burritt
491
.
Bowlers, The best of all
i.e.
W. R. Hillyer
1478
.
Brassey
i.e.
John Leechman
237
,
573
.
Calculating phenomenon, The
i.e.
George P. Bidder 271–
72
.
Cornish Pilgrim, The
i.e.
Richard Hampton
1312
.
Cure, The perfect
i.e.
James Hurst Stead
312
.
Cuvier of England
i.e.
Robert Edmond Grant
1206
.
Delemere forest stag
i.e.
John Walker
1553
.
Demon, The
i.e.
George Fordham
1080
.
Demon pedestrian
i.e.
J. Whitehead
1553
.
Dick, Foolish
i.e.
Richard Hampton
1312
.
Dragon, The
i.e.
Bindon Blood
315
.
Dutch Sam
i.e.
Elias Samuels
224
.
English Horace Vernet
i.e.
Thomas Jones Barker
165
.
Flower of Haddington, The
i.e.
Jane Baillie Welsh
549
.
Fordham of Amateurs
i.e.
George Matthews Ede
956
.
Game Chicken
i.e.
Henry Pearce
1258
.
Genial Showman, The
i.e.
Charles Farrar Browne
443
.
Gipsy’s Friend, The
i.e.
Rev. James Crabb
745
.
Hyæna of Brescia
i.e.
J. J. Baron Von Haynau
1400
.
Iron king of Wales
i.e.
Robert Thompson Crawshay
756
.
Kempferhausen
i.e.
Robert Pierce Gillies
1150
.
King of Pine Growers
i.e.
James Dale
801
.
King Richard
i.e.
Richard Tapper Cadbury
509
.
Lancashire Giant
i.e.
Bob Gregson
1258
.
Leviathan, The
i.e.
William Edmond Davies
829
.
Lyndhurst of the Turf
i.e.
John Barham Day
841
.
Mezzofanti, The English
i.e.
Edward C. Hawtrey
1392
.
Moorland poet, The
i.e.
George Heath
1411
.
Mr. Ralph’s Great coat
i.e.
Robert Hunnum
1588
.
Old Q’
i.e.
William 4 duke of Queensberry
1449
.
Paganini, The English
i.e.
Henry Hayward
1403
.
Perfect Cure, The
i.e.
James Hurst Stead
312
.
Pocket Hercules, The
i.e.
James Grimshaw
1248
.
Prisoner’s friend, The
i.e.
Abraham Beal
205
.
Queen of the Radicals
i.e.
Harriet Grote
1251
.
Right arm of British power in America
i.e.
Ogle Robert Gowan
1193
.
Roscius, The Young
i.e.
William Henry West Betty
265
.
Rydal, The painter of
i.e.
William Hull
1580
.
Senior wrangler maker, The
i.e.
William Hopkins
1534
.
Sherwood forest patriarch
i.e.
Samuel Hall
1289
.
Sherwood forester
i.e.
Spencer Timothy Hall
1290
.
Stalybridge infant
i.e.
Samuel Hurst
1602
.
True Conservative, A
i.e.
Edmund Gilling Hallewell
1293
.
University Corporal
i.e.
Joseph Dornford
898
.
Vampire, The
i.e.
Bindon Blood
315
.
Wheel king of London
i.e.
Patrick Hearn
1409
.
Yorick of the West, The
i.e.
William R. Hicks
1462
.
Yorkshire woollen trade, Father of
i.e.
W. Hirst
1484
.
Names, Titles, etc. Changed, Given and Taken,
See also
Actors’ Stage Names and Pseudonyms.
Addington, Baron
i.e.
John G. Hubbard
1563
.
Angell Cherry
i.e.
John Benedict Angell
70
.
Anson, George
i.e.
George Adams
72
.
Arundell, Thomas
i.e.
Thomas Arundell Tagg
92
.
Baker, William
i.e.
William Wingfield
138
.
Barclay, Capt.
i.e.
Robert B. Barclay Allardice
48
.
Barlow, Sir William Owen
i.e.
William Owen
169
.
Barr, Blithe Jamie
i.e.
James Barr
175
.
Barrett-Lennard, Sir Thomas
i.e.
Thomas Thomas
178
.
Beaconsfield, Earl of
i.e.
Benjamin Disraeli
203
.
Beauregard, Countess de
i.e.
Elizabeth Hargett
214
.
Becher, William
i.e.
William Wrixon
215
.
Behram Pacha
i.e.
Robert Cannon
537
.
Beke, Charles T.
i.e.
Charles Tilstone Beck
223
.
Bellew, Thomas A. Grattan
i.e.
T. A. Bellew 234–
5
.
Belper, Baron
i.e.
Edward Strutt
236
.
Bernard, Herman Hedwig
i.e.
H. Bernard
255
.
Berri, Duchesse de
i.e.
Amy Brown
258
.
Bethune, C. R. Drinkwater
i.e.
C. R. Bethune
264
.
Binning, Lord
i.e.
Thomas H. earl of Haddington
1271
.
Booker-Blakemore, Thomas W.
i.e.
T. W. Booker
335
.
Bottomley-Firth, J. F.
i.e.
J. P. Bottomley
1050
.
Bouchier, Barton
i.e.
Barton Boucher
347
.
Boyd, William
i.e.
W. Keown
367
.
Brabazon, Luke
i.e.
Luke Higgins
371
.
Brancepeth, Baron
i.e.
G. H. Russell-Boyne
370
.
Brand-Trevor, H. O.
i.e.
H. O. Brand, baron Dacre
798
.
Bravo, Charles D. T.
i.e.
Charles D. Turner
384
.
Brinckman, Sir T. H. L.
i.e.
Sir T. H. L. Broadhead
401
.
Brocket, Stanes Brockett
i.e.
Stanes B. Chamberlayne
407
.
Broke, Sir A. B. de Capell
i.e.
Sir A. B. de Capell Brooke
410
.
Broke, Signal
i.e.
Charles Acton Broke
411
.
Bromley, Sir George
i.e.
Sir George Smith
413
.
Bromley-Davenport, William
i.e.
W. Davenport-Bromley
413
.
Bronte, Duchess of
i.e.
Charlotte Mary Hood
413
.
Bronte, Patrick
i.e.
Patrick Prunty
414
.
Brooke, John Brooke Johnson
i.e.
John B. Johnson
417
.
Bruce, Sir James L. Knight
i.e.
Sir James L. Knight
451
.
Buckley-Mathew, Sir G. Benvenuto
i.e.
Sir George Byam Mathew
465
.
Budavolgy, Count de
i.e.
Max Greger
1233
.
Burton, James
i.e.
James Haliburton
1280
.
Byng, Poodle
i.e.
Gerald Frederick Byng
505
.
Calverley, Charles S.
i.e.
Charles S. Blayds
518
.
Capua, Princess of
i.e.
Penelope Smyth
540
.
Carington, Robert John, Baron Carington
i.e.
Robert J. Smith
546
.
Carr-Boyle, James, earl of Glasgow
i.e.
James Carr
1155
.
Champain, Sir J. N. Bateman
i.e.
Sir J. N. Champain
589
.
Chetham-Strode, Sir E.
i.e.
Sir E. Chetham
606
.
Cholmley, Sir George
i.e.
Sir George Strickland
613
.
Christopher, Robert Adam
i.e.
Robert A. Dundas
618
.
Christopher, R. A. Nisbet Hamilton
i.e.
Robert A. Christopher
618
.
Clarges, Sir Richard Goddard
i.e.
Sir R. G. Hare
624
.
Clark, D’Orsay
i.e.
Edward Rawson Clark
625
.
Clark, Little
i.e.
William H. Clark
630
.
Clark, Waterloo
i.e.
John Clark
627
.
Clarke, Lame
i.e.
John Clarke
633
.
Clark-Kennedy, Sir A. Kennedy
i.e.
Sir A. Kennedy Clark
630
.
Clarke-Jervoise, Sir Samuel
i.e.
Sir Samuel Clarke
637
.
Clarke-Travers, Sir W. H. St. Lawrence
i.e.
Sir W. H. St. Lawrence Clarke
637
.
Cockayne-Cust, H. F.
i.e.
H. F. Cust
797
.
Cockburn-Campbell, Sir A. T.
i.e.
Sir A. T. Cockburn
664
.
Coffin, Rev. John
i.e.
Rev. John Pine
667
.
Colley, Sir George Pomeroy Pomeroy
i.e.
Sir G. Pomeroy Colley
677
.
Collins, Mortimer
i.e.
Edward J. Mortimer Collins
679
.
Combe, Richard Thomas
i.e.
Richard Thomas Maddison
688
.
Cooper, Wilbye
i.e.
John Wilbye Cooper
711
.
Corbaux, Fanny
i.e.
Marie F. C. Doetter Corbaux
717
.
Corbett, Joseph
i.e.
Joseph Plymley
718
.
Corbett-Winder, Uvedale
i.e.
Uvedale Corbett
718
.
Courten, Comtesse de
i.e.
Alphonsina Marie de St. Amand
358
.
Cowell-Stepney, Sir John Stepney
i.e.
Sir John Stepney Cowell
736
.
Crackanthorpe, Christopher
i.e.
Christopher Cookson
746
.
Cradock, Rev. Edward Hartopp
i.e.
Edward Hartopp Grove
747
.
Cresswell, Francis
i.e.
Francis Easterby
757
.
Crompton-Stansfield, William Rookes
i.e.
William R. Crompton
767
.
Crosse, Thomas Bright
i.e.
Thomas B. Ikin
772
.
Cuffe, Sir Richard
i.e.
Sir R. Wheeler
780
.
Cumming-Bruce, C. L.
i.e.
C. L. Cumming
785
.
D’Aeth, William
i.e.
G. W. Hughes
799
.
Dalling and Bulwer, baron
i.e.
W. H. L. E. Bulwer
806
.
Davies, James
i.e.
James Banks
827
.
Davis, Pope
i.e.
John Philip Davis
831
.
Dawson-Damer, G. L.
i.e.
G. L. Dawson
839
.
De Beauvoir, Sir J. E.
i.e.
Sir J. E. Browne
844
.
De Grey, T. P.
i.e.
T. P. Weddell
848
.
De Havilland, John V. S.
i.e.
J. V. S. Haviland
1383
.
De La Saussaye, Sir R.
i.e.
Sir R. Sausse
852
.
De Lisle, A. L. M. Phillipps
i.e.
A. L. M. Phillipps
854
.
Denison, John
i.e.
Johe Wilkinson
858
.
De Porquet, L. P. R. F.
i.e.
L. P. R. Fenwick
862
.
De Quincey, Thomas
i.e.
Thomas Quincey
862
.
De Trafford, Sir T. J.
i.e.
Sir T. J. Trafford
867
.
Dinorben, Baron
i.e.
W. L. Hughes
881
.
Dinsdale, Frederick
i.e.
F. Trotter
881
.
Dod, Charles R. P.
i.e.
C. R. P. Dodd
887
.
Dollond, George
i.e.
George Huggins
891
.
Domvile, Charles
i.e.
Charles Pocklington
892
.
Drake, Sir T. T. Fuller-Eliott
i.e.
Sir T. T. Fuller
915
.
Duckett, Sir George
i.e.
Sir G. Jackson
923
.
Dunbar, George
i.e.
George Orr
928
.
Dundas, Sir J. W. Deans
i.e.
Sir J. W. Deans
933
.
Dunlop, Alexander Murray
i.e.
A. Dunlop
937
.
Dunlop, Alexander Colquhoun Stirling Murray
i.e.
A. Murray Dunlop
937
.
Dyce-Sombre, David O.
i.e.
David O. Dyce
946
.
Eardley, Sir Culling E.
i.e.
Sir C. E. Smith
951
.
East, Sir E. G. Clayton
i.e.
Sir E. G. Clayton
952
.
Eastwood, Thomas S.
i.e.
Thomas Smith Badger
122
.
Egerton, John Hume
i.e.
J. H. Cust
970
.
Ellacombe, Henry T.
i.e.
Henry T. Ellicombe
975
.
Ellerton, John L.
i.e.
John L. Lodge
976
.
Ellis, Andrew Ellis
i.e.
A. Ellis De Vezian
986
.
Ellis-McTaggart, Francis
i.e.
F. Ellis
987
.
Erle-Drax, J. S. W. Sawbridge
i.e.
J. S. W. Sawbridge
995
.
Eversley, Charles S., viscount
i.e.
C. Shaw-Lefevre
1007
.
Fairholt, F. W.
i.e.
F. W. Fahrholz
1015
.
Fane, H. E. Hamlyn
i.e.
H. E. Fane
1019
.
Farnborough, Thomas, baron
i.e.
Sir T. E. May
1021
.
Fenwick, Edward M.
i.e.
E. M. Reid
1034
.
Fenwick-Bisset, M.
i.e.
M. Fenwick
1034
.
Ferguson, J. F.
i.e.
J. F. Jaquemain
1035
.
Ferguson-Davie, Sir H. E.
i.e.
Sir H. R. Ferguson
1037
.
Fermor-Hesketh, Sir T. G.
i.e.
Sir T. G. Hesketh
1038
.
Fish, The Golden
i.e.
Thomas Liversedge Fish
1051
.
Fitzball, Edward
i.e.
Edward Ball
1056
.
Fitzgerald, John
i.e.
John Purcell
1058
.
Fitzwilliam, C. W. Wentworth
i.e.
C. W. Fitzwilliam
1064
.
Fitzwilliam, Ellen
i.e.
E. Chaplin
1065
.
Fitzwilliam, Fanny E.
i.e.
F. E. Copeland
1065
.
Fleetwood, Sir P. Hesketh
i.e.
Sir P. Hesketh
1067
.
Fleming, Ann C.
i.e.
A. C. Knight
1067
.
Forbes-Leslie, Jonathan
i.e.
Jonathan Forbes
1079
.
Francis, Francis
i.e.
Francis Morgan
1097
.
Fraser, Robert S.
i.e.
Robert S. Frazer
1102
.
Gardiner, Robert
i.e.
Robert Hallowell
1121
.
Giles-Puller, Christopher W.
i.e.
C. W. Giles
1148
.
Gladstone, Sir John
i.e.
Sir John Gladstones
1154
.
Godwin-Austen, Robert A. C.
i.e.
Robert A. C. Austen
1165
.
Gordon, Chinese
i.e.
Charles George Gordon
1178
.
Gordon, Francis
i.e.
Francis Grant
1177
.
Gough, Frederick, Baron Calthorpe
i.e.
F. Calthorpe
518
.
Graham, James Gillespie
i.e.
James Gillespie
1196
.
Graham-Gilbert, John
i.e.
John Gilbert
1199
.
Granton, Lord
i.e.
Charles Hope
1529
.
Granville, Augustus Bozzi
i.e.
Augustus Bozzi
1208
.
Gratwicke, William
i.e.
William Kindlesides
1210
.
Graves-Sawle, Sir Joseph S.
i.e.
Sir Joseph S. Sawle
1214
.
Green, Thomas Hiden
i.e.
Thomas Hiden
1226
.
Greenhough, George Bellas
i.e.
George Bellas
1229
.
Grenville, George Neville
i.e.
George Neville
1236
.
Grenville, Ralph Neville
i.e.
Ralph Neville
1237
.
Gurdon-Rebow, John
i.e.
John Gurdon
1260
.
Halford, Sir Henry
i.e.
Sir Henry Vaughan
1280
.
Haliburton, James
i.e.
James Burton
1280
.
Hall, Nemesis
i.e.
Sir William H. Hall
1291
.
Halliday, Andrew
i.e.
Andrew Halliday Duff
1294
.
Halliwell-Phillipps James Orchard
i.e.
J. O. Phillipps
1295
.
Hallyburton, John F. Gordon
i.e.
John F. Gordon
1296
.
Hampden, Augustus E. Hobart, Earl of Buckinghamshire
i.e.
Augustus E. Hobart
461
.
Harrington, Earl of
i.e.
Lord Petersham
1344
.
Harris, Christopher Arthur Mohun
i.e.
C. A. Harris
1346
.
Harris, Isaac
i.e.
Isaac Donnithorne
1346
.
Harrison, Devil
i.e.
William G. Harrison
1357
.
Hartismere, Baron
i.e.
John H. M. Henniker
1430
.
Hartley, Leonard Lawrie
i.e.
Leonard L. Campbell
1362
.
Hastings, Sir Charles Abney
i.e.
Sir Charles Hastings
1373
.
Hatherley, Baron
i.e.
Sir William P. Wood
1376
.
Hayne, Pea-Green
i.e.
Joseph Hayne
538
,
1344
.
Hertford, Francis, marquis of
i.e.
the Earl of Yarmouth
1449
.
Hesketh, Sir T. G. Fermor
i.e.
Sir T. G. Hesketh
1451
.
Hesketh-Fleetwood, Sir P.
i.e.
Sir P. Hesketh
1452
.
Heytesbury, W. H. A’Court-Holmes 2 baron
i.e.
W. H. A’Court Heytesbury 2 baron
1457
.
Hick, Edward
i.e.
Edward Simpson
1461
.
Hicks Pasha
i.e.
William Hicks
1462
.
Hindlip, Henry A., Baron
i.e.
H. A. Allsopp
1481
.
Hodgetts, Foley John Hodgetts
i.e.
J. H. Foley
1492
.
Holyoake-Goodricke, Sir F. L.
i.e.
Sir F. L. Holyoake
1518
.
Hobart Pasha
i.e.
A. C. Hobart
1487
.
Holt, Raggedy
i.e.
Thomas L. Holt
1518
.
Home, David Milne
i.e.
David Milne
1520
.
Hope, William Williams
i.e.
William Hope
1532
.
Horne, Richard Hengist
i.e.
Richard Henry Horne
1539
.
Hoskyns, Chandos Wren
i.e.
Chandos Hoskyns
1546
.
Hotten, John Camden
i.e.
John William Hotten
1547
.
Houghton, Henry Hall
i.e.
Henry Houghton
1548
.
Howard de Walden, Charles A. E. Baron
i.e.
Charles A. Ellis
1550
.
Howard, Miss
i.e.
Elizabeth Hargett
214
.
Howland, Baron
i.e.
Francis R. Bedford
218
.
Howe, Richard Penn Curzon
i.e.
Richard P. Curzon
1555
.
Hudson, Hurry
i.e.
Sir James Hudson
1567
.
Hughes, Edward Hughes Ball
i.e.
E. H. Ball
147
.
Hughes, Gentleman
i.e.
William Edward Hughes
1578
.
Hughes, Little
i.e.
William Edward Hughes
1578
.
Hughes, William Hughes
i.e.
William Hughes Hewitt
1578
.
Humphreys, Alexander
i.e.
Alexander Alexander
42
.
Hutchinson, Lavalette
i.e.
John, Earl of Donoughmore
897
.
Hyett, William Henry
i.e.
William Henry Adams
1611
.
Jerviswood, Lord
i.e.
C. Baillie Hamilton
129
.
Kenlis, Baron
i.e.
Thomas T. marquis of Headfort
1405
.
Khourschid Pasha
i.e.
Richard Debaufre Guyon
1267
.
Lyon-Home, Daniel Dunglas
i.e.
D. D. Home
1519
.
Maclae, Walter
i.e.
Walter Ewing
1009
.
Manor, Lord
i.e.
G. Dundas
933
.
Maurice, Leon
d.
1826
i.e.
lord Maurice Drummond de Melfort
827
.
Medwyn, Lord
i.e.
J. H. Forbes
1078
.
Meredyth, Baron
i.e.
W. M. S. Baron Athlumney
102
.
Milan, Count of
i.e.
Sir H. J. Caldwell
515
.
Milner-Gibson, Thomas
i.e.
Thomas Gibson
1141
.
Montalbo, Countess de
i.e.
Josephine Benoite
358
.
Myddleton, Robert
i.e.
Robert Biddulph
273
.
Noel-Fearn, Henry
i.e.
Rev. H. Christmas
617
.
Nicholls, Charlotte
i.e.
Charlotte Bronte
413
.
Nugent, Fulke Southwell Greville-
i.e.
Fulke Southwell Greville
1239
.
Osborne, George H.
i.e.
George 6 earl of Aberdeen
8
.
Osborne, Ralph Bernal
i.e.
Ralph Bernal
255
.
Pakington, John Somerset
i.e.
John Somerset Russell
1311
.
Paget, Baron
i.e.
H. P. Anglesey
71
.
Pyndar, John R. Beauchamp
i.e.
John, earl Beauchamp
211
.
Richardson-Currer, Henry
i.e.
Henry Richardson
790
.
Ridley-Colborne, Nicholas W.
i.e.
Nicholas W. Ridley
669
.
Russell-Boyne, Gustavus H. earl Brancepeth
i.e.
G. H. Boyne 369–
70
.
Sackville West, G. J.
i.e.
G. J. West
852
.
Seymour-Vesey-Fitzgerald, Sir W. R.
i.e.
Sir W. R. Fitzgerald
1060
.
Solly-Flood, Frederick
i.e.
Frederick Solly
1071
.
Stanley, Henry Morton
i.e.
John Rowlands
242
.
Stewart, The Abbé
i.e.
Stewart Drummond
475
.
Vernon family, The, took name of Harcourt
1324
.
Watson-Gordon, Sir J.
i.e.
Sir John Gordon
1181
.
Weddell, Thomas P. 2 earl de Grey
i.e.
T. P. Robinson
848
.
Yarde Buller, John
i.e.
John Buller Yarde
620
.
Napoleon I.
d.
1821, conveyed to St. Helena
663
,
exhumation of his body
42
,
medical attendant at St. Helena
89
,
on board Bellerophon
914
,
person present at his death
764
,
post mortem appearance of his body
1433
,
representations of him in dramas
1169
,
visitor at Elba
746
,
visitors at St. Helena
56
,
1088
,
went in the Undaunted to Elba
1374
.
Napoleon III.
d.
1873, escape from Ham
932
,
his mistress the countess de Beauregard
214
,
subsidizes the Morning Chronicle
1160
.
Nash, John
d.
1835, architect
847
.
Nassau, first bishop of
572
.
Natal, bishop of
673
,
Majuba hill, battle of
677
.
National Debt, money left for reduction of
844
.
National Gallery, Wynn Ellis pictures
987
.
Natural history, Bowerbank’s collection of
357
.
Naturalists, Audubon
107
,
Burchell
475
.
Naturalisations, Albano
37
,
Albert, prince
38
,
Aldridge
42
,
Appold
78
,
Arntz
90
,
Bates
192
,
Batthyany
194
,
Baume
196
,
Beyer
268
,
Bianconi
269
,
Biber
269
,
Cavagnari
575
,
Chatelain
598
,
Costa
724
,
Crestadoro
758
,
Dallmeyer
806
,
Dellagana
854
,
Freiligrath
1105
,
Huth
1606
.
Nature printing
372
.
Navarino, battle of
665
.
Navy, anchor, Hall’s patent
1292
,
armour plating of ships
623
,
675
,
bilge-tank, an iron
1292
,
boys’ training ships
1350
,
captains by order in council
119
,
Cowper Cole’s system
675
,
feats of daring
1300
,
first screw frigate
1046
,
forces of the enemy
1048
,
Graham’s novices
1350
,
Keppel’s action, last survivor of
1275
,
mounting guns on ships
675
,
nautical almanac office
1317
,
naval cadets
1350
,
pay office abolished
878
,
round war ships
972
,
screw ship the first
1289
,
target for defence of ships
583
.
Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, his name found on a monument
1480
.
Negro minstrels, Buckley minstrels
464
,
Christy minstrels
1399
,
1489
,
Moor and Burgess
1489
.
Nelson, Horatio
killed
1805 admiral, officer at his funeral
1224
.
Newcastle, bishop of
581
,
chartist disturbances
1044
,
chemical soc.
622
,
literary and philosophical soc.
622
,
typographical soc.
20
,
Walker alkali works
622
.
Newmarket, middle park plate founded
312
,
school for jockeys
1031
.
Newman, John Henry
d.
1889 cardinal, Achilli case
1361
,
his solicitor
1361
,
resigned fellowship
1388
,
tract ninety
1247
.
Newport, bishop of
439
,
chartist riots
1110
.
Newsagent, Berger
252
.
Newspaper correspondents, Borrow G. H.
342
,
Bower H. E. tried for murder
356
,
Boweryem G.
358
,
Bowlby, T. W.
359
,
Cameron
524
,
Morton Saville
killed
in Paris
356
.
Newspapers, church and country newspaper co.
1114
,
early papers, collection of
482
,
newspaper press college
1114
,
stamp duty on
1099
.
Newspapers,
See also
Magazines.
Academy founded
77
,
assistant editor
1568
.
Albion, New York, founded
186
.
Anglo-Saxon, Boston, established
186
.
Antidote, Dublin, editor
1193
.
Athenæum commenced
461
,
editors
878
,
884
,
898
,
1451
,
manager
1098
,
owners
103
,
1515
,
dramatic critic
1437
,
musical critic
1253
.
Atlas editors
1098
,
1533
.
Australian town and country journal commenced
243
.
Banner of Ulster founded
1142
.
Bath express editor
1378
.
Belfast morning news, proprietor
1215
.
Bell’s life in London, proprietor
644
,
editors
907
,
908
.
Bombay standard commenced
468
.
Britannia founded
732
.
British luminary, editor
1157
.
Builder founded
1322
,
editor
1164
.
Bullionist, editors
1002
,
1424
.
Cambridge independent press, proprietor
1375
.
Catholic layman, Dublin, editor
1132
.
Censor, editor
1109
.
Cerberus established
709
.
Chat, editor
1518
.
Chat of the week, editor
1591
.
Christian advocate, editor
1120
.
Christian observer, editor
1173
.
Commercial gazette founded
243
.
Companion, The, editor
1591
.
Constitutional, sub-editor
1593
.
Cornish telegraph, editor
1123
.
Cornubian, editor
1124
.
Country, The, established
741
.
County courts chronicle established
741
.
Court journal started
1515
.
Daily express, Dublin, editor
1163
.
Daily News, editors
872
,
1084
,
1589
,
manager
878
,
musical critic
1501
,
parliamentary reporter
1574
.
Daily telegraph, acting editor
1593
.
Dundee guardian commenced
468
.
Edinburgh courant, editor
1424
.
Edinburgh evening courant, editor
1319
.
Elgin courier founded
1202
.
Empire, proprietors
1303
.
Enquirer, The, editor
1481
.
Era, theatrical art critic
1574
.
Evening mail, Dublin, originated
1395
.
Evening sun, parliamentary reporter
1574
.
Examiner started
1591
,
libel in
1591
,
editors of
1074
,
1084
.
Exchange and mart, proprietor of
741
.
Falkirk liberal commenced
288
.
Family Herald commenced
275
.
Felix Farley’s Bristol journal, proprietor
1263
.
Field, editor
1097
,
proprietor
741
,
the naturalists’ column in
398
.
Free Russian press, editor
1450
.
Freeman’s journal, proprietors
1216
.
French paper, first in England
34
.
Fun, editor
1525
,
illustrator of
1548
.
Galignani’s messenger founded
1117
,
editor
358
.
Garden journal, editor
1157
.
Gardener’s gazette, editor
1157
.
Glenny’s journal, editor
1157
.
Globe, editor
1322
.
Grant’s London journal, conductor
1202
.
Graphic, illustrator of
1548
.
Guardian projected
1271
,
founded
256
.
Guide, editor
671
.
Hampshire chronicle, editor
1484
.
Herapath’s railway journal, proprietor
1436
,
reporter
1270
.
Hereford times founded
76
.
Horticultural journal started
1157
.
Hour commenced
1002
.
Illustrated London news, dramatic critic
1437
,
musical critic
1501
,
sub editor
1589
.
Indicator, editor
1591
.
Inverness courier, editor
560
.
Irish times, commissioner of
1163
.
Iron times started
1518
.
Jeride Hawades, editor
619
.
Jewish chronicle, editor
1433
.
John Bull established
473
,
editor
709
.
Journal of public health, editor
1131
.
Judy, illustrator of
444
.
Jullien’s military band journal, editor
1163
.
Kentish mercury, proprietor
1362
.
Kolokol (The Bell), editor
1450
.
Lancet, editors
708
,
1096
,
publisher
619
.
Land and water commenced
462
,
1040
.
Law journal, editor
1091
.
Law times established
741
.
Leader started
1527
,
1593
.
Leeds patriot, proprietor
1090
.
Leeds times, proprietor
1489
.
Leicestershire mercury, proprietor
1510
.
Le mercure de Londres begun
598
.
Le petit mercure begun
598
.
Liberal, The, editor
1591
.
Licensed victuallers’ gazette, editor
1107
.
Literary gazette, editor
1175
.
Literary examiner, editor
1591
.
Literary Observer, editor
1289
.
Liverpool mail founded
44
.
London Figaro, chief leader writer
1533
.
London gazette, printer
1356
.
London Saturday journal, conductor
1202
.
Maidstone journal, proprietor
1287
.
Manchester city news, editor
1272
.
Manchester courier, editor
1484
.
Manchester examiner originated
148
.
Manchester guardian commenced
1124
,
chief of reporting staff
1339
.
Manx sun, proprietor
1236
.
Medical times projected
1589
.
Medical times and gazette, editor
918
.
Mining journal, proprietor
993
.
Monmouthshire Merlin established
313
.
Montreal pilot started
1480
.
Morning advertiser founded
441
,
doubled in size
1521
,
editor
1202
.
Morning chronicle, editors
293
,
1098
,
1438
,
1501
,
1518
,
manager
910
,
money lost in
1438
,
parliamentary reporter
1574
,
proprietors
644
,
953
,
1160
,
1438
,
1601
,
sold to emperor Napoleon
1160
.
Morning herald, editor
1002
.
Morning journal started
1263
,
prosecuted for libel
44
.
Morning post, correspondent
1253
,
editors
1098
,
1330
,
musical critic
1161
,
pigeon express
1253
,
reporter
1129
,
war correspondent shot
1442
.
Morning register, Dublin, founded
178
.
Morning star, editor
1303
.
Musical review, editor
1568
.
Musical standard, proprietor
1309
.
Musical world, editor
1568
.
Nation re-established
499
.
National omnibus started
199
.
New Brunswick reporter, editor
1501
.
New York globe started
242
.
New York herald commenced
242
.
Nonsuch a farrago of something, commenced
329
.
North British daily mail, editor
66
.
Northampton mercury, editor
870
,
proprietor
871
.
Observer, manager
910
,
proprietor
644
,
theatrical critic
1061
.
Official gazette, Oxford, editor
1374
.
Paisley and Renfrewshire gazette, editor
699
.
Paris sun commenced
11
.
Paris times, editor
1022
.
Parthenon, editor
1175
.
Patriot, editor
690
.
Pembrokeshire herald, editor
1123
.
People’s college journal commenced
200
.
Pilot newspaper, Dublin, established
178
.
Polar star, editor
1450
.
Politician started
306
.
Post circular, editor
671
.
Practical florist, editor
1157
.
Press, manager
1098
.
Protestant guardian established
502
.
Puck projected
600
,
artists on
1162
.
Punch, artists on
912
,
1083
,
contributors
4
,
5
,
745
,
editor
419
,
originators of
1490
,
persons caricatured in
34
,
printer of
372
,
word with, by Bunn
473
,
writers of first number
1209
.
Queen, proprietor
741
.
Racing times projected
678
.
Railway times founded
379
,
proprietor
274
.
Record, editor
1120
,
publisher
1181
.
Republican argus established
281
.
Representative, The, publisher
715
.
Roman advertiser originated
1419
.
St. James’s chronicle founded
140
,
editor
1143
.
Satirist or censor of the times established
1233
.
Saturday review, editor
1370
,
owners of
1529
.
Sentinel, Dublin, editor
1193
.
Sheffield mercury, editor
1509
.
Sheffield times, proprietor
1355
.
South American journal founded
1272
.
Sporting life, editor
1032
.
Standard founded
140
,
editors
1002
,
1143
.
Statesman founded
148
.
Statesman and patriot, Dublin, instituted
1395
.
Statesman or weekly true sun established
1364
.
Sunday times established
1364
,
editor
1129
.
Sussex agricultural express established
198
.
Tatler, The, editor
1591
.
Teetotal times started
568
.
Theatrical journal founded
262
,
ceased
262
.
Times, correspondent
1441
,
counsel to
1586
,
editors
602
,
851
,
exposed the railway mania
851
,
express Alexandria to London, Waghorn’s
851
,
financial manager
851
,
foreign correspondent
1329
,
musical critics
833
,
1568
,
parliamentary reporter
1574
,
printing presses
77
,
738
,
739
,
publishers
715
,
1174
,
railway correspondent
1270
,
reporter
1090
,
staff
1250
,
stereotyped
854
.
Toronto daily chronicle, editor
1500
.
Toronto examiner founded
1480
.
True sun, dramatic critic
1084
,
proprietor
1364
.
Truth promoter, publisher
358
.
Universal news, editor
1342
.
Warden, Dublin, and Protestant guardian
502
.
Warwick advertiser, editor
1449
.
Watchman, libel in
1130
.
Weekly chronicle projected
1518
.
Weekly dispatch, editor
1107
,
proprietors
878
,
1341
.
West Surrey times, proprietor
1574
.
Weymouth gazette, proprietor
1371
.
World incorporated with the Patriot
351
.
York herald, proprietor
1337
.
Neurypnology or nervous sleep
378
.
New Zealand, Canterbury colony founded
1163
,
Haast the explorer
1269
,
Hokilika theatre built
1611
,
surrender of W. Thompson
545
,
Wellington chosen the capital
1258
.
Nicholas
d.
1855 emperor of Russia, his coronation
869
,
visit to England
869
.
Nickel and cobalt manufacturers
1001
.
Niger river, explorers of, Allen
53
,
Baikie
126
,
Beecroft
221
,
Glover
1159
.
Nodules, phosphatic, used for manure
1434
.
Nonconformists, first to take degrees at Cambridge
399
.
Northfleet, Kent, Huggens’ college
1569
.
Norfolk, list of sheriffs of
819
.
Northampton, bishop
57
,
lord lieutenant
1010
.
North-west passage discovered and effected
758
.
Northumberland, Meldon park purchased
706
.
Norwich, Alexander’s chapel
43
,
Brightwell’s collection of coleoptera
401
.
Nottingham, bishop of
1426
,
Trent bridge cricket ground
636
.
Novels
etc.
, Characters represented in.
Amicus in Davy’s Angler and his friends
i.e.
George Gulliver
1257
.
Anticant, Dr. Pessimist in Trollope’s The Warden
i.e.
Thomas Carlyle
550
.
Athulf, Earl in Taylor’s Edwin the Fair
i.e.
Sir C. Elliot
978
.
Baynham, Fred in Thackeray’s The Newcombes
i.e.
W. P. Bolland
329
.
Bowker, Will. in Yates’ Land at Last
i.e.
W. P. Bolland
329
.
Bucket, Inspector in Dickens’ Bleak House
i.e.
C. F. Field 1040–
41
.
Burney, Canon in Tabor’s The Master of Marton and The diary of a novelist
i.e.
T. Binney
281
.
C. in The Theatre, in Ainsworth’s December Tales
i.e.
James Crossley
773
.
Cælebs in Moor’s Cælebs in search of a wife
i.e.
J. S. Harford
1335
.
Cann, A. in Kingsley’s Recollection of Geoffry Hamlyn
i.e.
Abraham Cann
536
.
Castlemaine in Lawrence’s Sans Merci
i.e.
James Clay
640
.
Chesterlane, earl of, in D’Horsay
i.e.
George, earl of Chesterfield
605
.
Clerks, One of the three in Oxenford’s My Fellow clerks
i.e.
Sir W. Bovill
354
.
Conyers, Eglington in Hay’s The club and the drawing room
i.e.
J. Hannay
1320
.
Crawley, Councillor in Morgan’s Florence Macarthy
i.e.
J. W. Corker
764
.
D’Horsay
i.e.
Comte D’Orsay
900
.
Disraeli in Lady Lytton’s Behind the scenes
i.e.
B. Disraeli
204
.
Dolphin, Mr. in Thackeray’s Pendennis
i.e.
Alfred Bunn
473
.
Fitzalleyne of Berkeley in Molloy’s Fitzalleyne of Berkeley
i.e.
William, earl Fitzhardinge
1062
.
Foaming Fudge in Disraeli’s Vivian Grey
i.e.
Lord Brougham
426
.
Foker, Harry in Thackeray’s Pendennis
i.e.
A. Arcedeckne
80
.
Friend, The Learned in Peacock’s Crotchet Castle
i.e.
Lord Brougham
426
.
Gray, Mr. in Ward’s Robert Elsmere
i.e.
Thomas H. Green
1227
.
Grey, Vivian
i.e.
Benjamin Disraeli
204
.
Grimston, R. in Melville’s Capt. Digby Grand
i.e.
R. Grimston
1249
.
Grotait in Reade’s Put yourself in his place
i.e.
W. Broadhead
405
.
Gullson, Dr. in Reade’s It is never too late to mend
i.e.
J. M. Gully
1257
.
Hamilton, Percy by Lennox
i.e.
S. Beazley
214
.
Helstone, Mr. in Bronte’s Shirley
i.e.
P. Bronte
414
.
Heenan in Jenkins’ Lisa Lena
i.e.
J. C. Heenan
1417
.
Heron, Roderick in Pinero’s Lady Bountiful
i.e.
J. H. Leigh Hunt
1591
.
Ianthe in About’s
Grèce Contemporaine
i.e.
Jane Elizabeth Digby
878
.
La Croasse in Brougham’s Albert Lunel
i.e.
J. W. Croker
764
.
Létorière, le marquis de by Sue
i.e.
Count D’Orsay
900
.
Lorrequer, Harry by Lever
i.e.
John Brougham
427
.
Maidens, One of the, in Wordsworth’s Trias
i.e.
Sara Coleridge
675
.
Mauprat by G. Sand
i.e.
William baron Dalling and Bulwer
806
.
Micawber in Dickens’ David Copperfield
i.e.
J. Dickens
873
.
Millbank, Mr. in Disraeli’s Coningsby
i.e.
E. Ashworth
97
.
Mirabel, Count in Disraeli’s Henrietta Temple
i.e.
Count D’Orsay
900
.
Missionary, The, in Richmond’s Dairyman’s Daughter
i.e.
Rev. James Crabb
745
.
Papaverius in Burton’s The Book Hunter
i.e.
T. De Quincy
862
.
Popular Sentiment, Mr. in Trollope’s The Warden
i.e.
C. Dickens
873
.
Rigby in Disraeli’s Coningsby
i.e.
J. W. Croker
764
.
Sampson, Dr. in Reade’s Hard Cash
i.e.
S. Dickson
877
.
Serpleton, Oliver in Brown’s The Dwale Bluth
i.e.
Charles B. Cayley
577
.
Skimpole, Harold in Dickens’ Bleak house
i.e.
J. H. Leigh Hunt
1591
.
Sludge, Mr. the medium by Browning
i.e.
Daniel D. Home
1519
.
Squire, The, in Hughes’ The scouring of the White Horse
i.e.
E. M. Atkins
102
.
Steyne, Marquis of, in Thackeray’s Vanity Fair
i.e.
Marquis of Hertford
764
.
Tallboys in Wilson’s
Noctes Ambrosianæ
i.e.
H. G. Bell
228
.
Tremaine, Canon in M. Collins’ Sweet and Twenty
i.e.
R. S. Hawker
1385
.
Tuft, Venom in Warren’s Ten thousand a year
i.e.
Abraham Hayward
1402
.
Vivida Vis in Disraeli’s Vivian Grey
i.e.
J. W. Croker
764
.
Whitestock, Frank in Thackeray’s Curates Walk
i.e.
W. H. Brookfield
419
.
Wordy, Mr. in Disraeli’s Coningsby
i.e.
Sir A. Alison
47
.
Young Master, The, in Hughes’ Tom Brown’s school days
i.e.
G. E. L. Cotton
728
.
Nursing sisterhoods, account of
850
.
O
Oboe player, Barrett
176
.
O’Brien, William Smith
d.
1864 politician, his monster petition to the commons
1241
.
Observatories, Adie’s
25
,
Barclay’s
158
,
Bishop’s
289
,
Churt, Surrey
559
,
Clabury
1497
,
Drew’s
917
,
Elchies’
1204
,
Gorton’s
1186
,
Hawkwood
1497
,
Makerstoun
428
,
Markree castle
709
,
Melbourne reflector
1252
,
Oakshaw hill
657
,
Parsonstown speculum
1252
,
Penmaenmawr erected
1155
.
Obelisks, Egyptian in New York
1186
.
O’Connell, Daniel
d.
1847 patriot, challenged to a discussion
702
,
friend
1048
,
his newspapers
178
,
imprisoned
1216
,
trial
1061
,
1429
,
1472
.
O’Farrell, Henry James
executed
1878 fenian, shot the duke of Edinburgh
99
.
Offices, etc. abolished, army accounts office
256
,
bankruptcy, commissioners of
1517
,
bankruptcy court Bristol, commissioners of
1473
,
bankruptcy court Newcastle
1142
,
Bristol court of conscience
1340
,
chancery, masters in
426
,
1026
,
1587
,
chancery, official examiner of court of
214
,
chancery court, Ireland, registrar of
110
,
Chatham dockyard, chief engineer
138
,
commissary in chief in army
1446
,
consul general in U.S. America
135
,
court of review
451
,
duke of Beaufort’s gaol at Swansea
1017
,
esquire bedel at Oxford
1358
,
exchequer, cursitor baron of the
151
,
exchequer, lord chief baron of
935
,
foreign office agencies
253
,
Holyrood park, keeper of
1271
,
Leeds, commissioner of court of bankruptcy
115
,
Lincolnshire, receiver general for
1114
,
lord mayor’s court, privileged attorney of
93
,
marshalsea court
390
,
martello towers, superintendent of
1494
,
mission to Tuscany
8
,
palace court
390
,
530
,
ordnance, principal storekeeper of
1374
,
palatinate chancery court at Durham
833
,
pells, clerk of the
983
,
queen’s messengers, superintendent of
1450
,
subpœna office, patentee of the
868
,
review, court of
451
,
tower of London, deputy lieut.
864
,
Tamworth recordership
1594
,
Westminster, keeper of old and new palaces in county of Middlesex
i.e.
Westminster hall
441
.
O’Hara, Charles, major general and lieutenant governor of Gibraltar, engaged to Mary Berry
259
.
Oilmen, Cross and Blackwell
299
.
Omnibus owner, Hearn
1409
.
Open air preacher, Bowes
358
.
Opera, English, attempt to establish
1357
.
Opium eaters, Coleridge
862
,
De Quincy
862
.
Optical delusions, Pepper’s ghost
881
.
Opticians, Cooke
703
,
Dancer
811
,
Dollond
891
,
Grubb
1252
.
Organ builders, Abbey
1
,
Havergal
1381
.
Organists, Brownsmith
449
,
Buck
460
,
Camidge
525
,
Clark
626
,
Cooper G.
710
,
Cooper J. T.
711
,
Corfe A. T.
719
,
Corfe C. W.
719
,
Corfe J. D.
719
,
Coward
735
,
Gauntlett
1131
,
Greatorex
1221
,
Harris
1349
,
Hart
1359
,
Hewlett
1455
,
Hiles
1468
,
Hodges
1490
,
Holden
1503
,
Hopkins
1534
.
Orientalists, congress of in London
283
,
oriental translation fund
103
,
789
.
Ornithologists, Edmondston
962
,
Forbes
1079
,
Gray
1219
,
Hancock
1314
,
See also
Birds
1626
.
Otter hounds
102
.
Owen, Robert Dale in Indiana
818
.
Oxford, Aldrichian professorship of chemistry suppressed
409
,
Ashmolean museum, keeper
930
,
bible press
688
,
bishop
125
,
boat race, first eight oared
967
,
boat race, first victory Putney to Mortlake
395
,
boat race with Cambridge, the first
1125
,
Bodleian lib.
743
,
Bulteel’s chapel
471
,
Buller of Brasenose
1573
,
chancellor
863
,
Clarendon press
688
,
coffee tavern established
1227
,
crew of seven oars beat Camb. eight oars
1571
,
double first class
162
,
708
,
895
,
1182
,
1604
,
drinking, a synopsis of
569
,
esquire bedel office abolished
1084
,
1358
,
Fielding’s herbarium
1043
,
Grinfield lectureship on septuagint
1249
,
Hall and Houghton prizes
1548
,
high steward of univ.
868
,
Hope collections
1530
,
how to be plucked
569
,
Keble coll. chapel built
1138
,
Magdalen coll. school
1473
,
master of arts by examination
651
,
matriculation registers
605
,
New inn hall joined to Balliol coll.
721
,
Oriel grace cup song
1573
,
Oxford Spy, the
335
,
Oxford to Rome, From
1347
,
recollections of
741
,
Radcliffe infirmary
688
,
St. Barnabas, Jericho
688
,
Taylor buildings
664
,
Union society
692
,
University coll. Hogg expelled
1503
.
Oxfordshire, Ewelme rectory, debate about
1369
,
lord lieutenant
821
.
Oxygen, magnetic character of
1020
.
P
Paganini, Niccolo
d.
1840, his last concert
871
.
Painters, Ballantine
147
,
Bewick T.
267
,
Bewick W.
267
,
Biddle
272
,
Binyon
282
,
Blacklock
298
,
Boddington
323
,
Bond
331
,
Bonnar
333
,
Bough
347
,
Bouvier
353
,
Bowness W.
362
,
Boxall
364
,
Branwhite
383
,
Bridell
395
,
Bright
398
,
Brockedon
406
,
Brocky
407
,
Bromley
413
,
Burnet
486
,
Bunny
473
,
Burgess
478
,
Buss
498
,
Caldecott
513
,
Callow
518
,
Calvert
519
,
Carmichael
551
,
Carpenter
554
,
Carrick
558
,
Cary
566
,
Cassie
568
,
Cattermole
572
,
Chalmers
582
,
Chalon A. E.
584
,
Chalon J. J.
584
,
Charretie
596
,
Chase
597
,
Childe
609
,
Clater
638
,
Claxton
639
,
Clay
639
,
Clint A.
650
,
Clint G.
650
,
Cole
670
,
Cook R.
700
,
Cook S.
700
,
Cooke
701
,
Cooper
707
,
Coral
1601
,
Corbaux
717
,
Cotman
726
,
Cowen
737
,
Cox D.
739
,
Cox D. junior
740
,
Crawford E. T.
754
,
Crawford W.
755
,
Creswick
759
,
Cross
770
,
Crowley
776
,
Cruikshank G.
777
,
Cruikshank F.
1149
,
Cruikshank I. R.
778
,
Danby F.
810
,
Danby J. F.
810
,
Danby T.
810
,
Danson
812
,
Davis
831
,
Davis R. B.
832
,
Davis W.
832
,
Dawson
838
,
Deane
843
,
De La Motte 850–
51
,
Derby
863
,
Docharty
887
,
Dodgson
889
,
Dove
905
,
Drummond
920
,
Duncan
929
,
Duval
945
,
Eastlake
953
,
Edwards
965
,
Egg
970
,
Egley
971
,
Elder
972
,
Elen
973
,
Elmore
988
,
Essex
998
,
Evans R.
1004
,
Evans S.
1006
,
Evans W.
1006
,
Evans W.
1006
,
Everitt
1007
,
Fahey
1013
,
Fairland
1015
,
Farrier
1026
,
Ferneley
1038
,
Fielding A.
1043
,
Fielding N.
1043
,
Fielding T.
1044
,
Finch
1045
,
Fischer
1051
,
Fisk W.
1055
,
Fisk W. H.
1055
,
Foggo G.
1072
,
Foggo J. 1072–
73
,
Foster
1089
,
Fradelle
1096
,
Fraser
1100
,
Frost
1110
,
Fyfe
1114
,
Gastineau
1130
,
Gavin
1131
,
Gendall
1134
,
Gibson D. C.
1139
,
Gibson J.
1140
,
Gilbert J.
1199
,
Gilbert J. F.
1145
,
Giles
1147
,
Gillies
1149
,
Glew
1157
,
Goddard
1162
,
Good
1171
,
Goodall E., F. T., H. and W. 1171–
72
,
Gordon J. W.
1181
,
Graham
1199
,
Grant Sir F.
1202
,
Grant W. A. I.
1207
,
Grant W. J.
1207
,
Gray
1218
,
Green B. R.
1222
,
Green J.
1222
,
Haghe
1274
,
Hall H.
1285
,
Hall J.
1286
,
Hall W.
1291
,
Hall W.
1291
,
Halliday
1295
,
Hamilton
1302
,
Hammersley
1308
,
Harding G. P.
1326
,
Harding J. D.
1326
,
Hardwick C.
1330
,
Hardwick P.
1330
,
Harraden
1343
,
Harley
1340
,
Harrison
1354
,
Hart
1360
,
Harvey
1365
,
Haslem
1370
,
Haussmann
1379
,
Havell
1379
,
Havers
1381
,
Haverty
1381
,
Hayes J.
1398
,
Hayes M. A.
1398
,
Hayter
1401
,
Heaphy
1408
,
Henderson
1422
,
Herbert A.
1438
,
Herbert C. W.
1439
,
Herbert J. B.
1441
,
Herdman R.
1443
,
Herdman W. G.
1443
,
Hering
1443
,
Herring
1446
,
Hill D. O.
1469
,
Hill J. J.
1471
,
Hodgson
1497
,
Holding F.
1505
,
Holding H. J.
1505
,
Holl F.
1506
,
Holl F. M.
1506
,
Holland Jas.
1509
,
Holland John
1509
,
Hollins
1511
,
Holmes
1514
,
Hopley
1535
,
Houghton
1548
,
Houston
1549
,
Howard
1551
,
Huard
1563
,
Huggins S.
1570
,
Huggins W.
1570
,
Hughes
1572
,
Hull
1580
,
Hulme
1581
,
Humphreys
1587
,
Hunt A.
1589
,
Hunt W. H.
1594
,
Hunter
1596
,
Hurdis
1600
,
Hurlstone
1601
,
Landseer
228
,
Maclise
1171
,
Reynolds
730
,
Stanfield
1171
,
Turner
1171
,
Varley
1043
,
Wilkie
1100
.
Painting and Paintings, grammar of colouring
1042
,
Harding’s papers
1326
,
lithotint invented
1326
,
machine for taking faces
1089
,
pictures by masters imported
460
,
Pre-Raphaeliteism
628
,
946
,
1295
,
1443
,
printing in oil colours invented
197
,
repairer of
1557
,
shilling art unions established
1443
,
Somerset house sch. of design
941
,
Westminster hall competition
1551
,
See also
Pictures.
Paisley, Clark scholarships
626
,
Coat’s statue
657
,
Fountain’s gardens
657
,
Oakshaw hill observatory
657
,
town hall
626
.
Palestine, exploration fund
884
,
914
,
1507
,
travellers in Ameuney 56
and Buckingham
461
.
Pali scholar, Childers
610
.
Palmerston, Henry John, viscount
d.
1865, banquet to
255
,
correspondent
865
,
government defeated
1564
,
opposed by Anstey
74
,
Palmerston, what has he done
692
,
pistol fired at
825
,
resignation of his ministry
1141
.
Panama railway
571
.
Panics, The three
660
.
Panizzi, Sir Antonio
d.
1879 author, British museum reading room
1545
.
Panoramas and Dioramas, Arctic regions
447
,
1243
,
Baalbec
571
,
Barker’s
164
,
477
,
Burford’s
477
,
Colosseum designed
494
,
theatrical portraits exhibited at
498
,
finally closed
119
,
Crimean war
1243
,
Jerusalem
571
,
Ocean mail
1243
,
Overland route
1243
,
Reinagle and Barker’s panorama
164
,
Rio Janiero
475
,
Thebes
571
,
Waterloo
164
.
Pantomimists, Fairbrother
955
,
Hartland
1361
,
Herring
1447
,
Hill
1475
,
See also
Clowns
1632
,
Harlequins 1645
and Pantaloons
1680
.
Pantaloons, Barnes
173
,
Blanchard
308
,
Howell
1557
.
Paper and paper making, bleached straw used
145
,
continuous paper
1091
,
duties on
1099
,
1518
,
esparto used for
145
,
fibres used for making
767
,
Fourdrinier
1091
,
Harding’s tinted
1326
,
iridescent films on
851
,
machines for making
895
,
1091
,
makers of
767
,
874
,
1124
,
1490
,
nettles made into
198
,
note paper put up in 5 quire packets
645
,
straw and grass made into
645
,
writing paper, indelible, for prevention of forgery
159
.
Parafin oil manufacturer
280
.
Parish registers, Chester’s collection
605
.
Parliament
See also
Commons and Lords, false declaration as to member’s qualification
1159
,
great speaker
1586
,
long contest at an election
499
,
member unseated for bribery, re-elected and sitting in same parliament
640
,
members who never took their seats
251
,
573
,
minorities, representation of
1476
,
person committed to custody of serjeant at arms
677
,
serjeant at arms
1188
,
suffrage, female, first advocated
818
,
thanks given to members
107
,
251
,
1003
,
1039
,
1159
,
1188
,
1189
,
1251
.
Parliament, houses of, drawings of
54
,
erected
181
,
lighting of
1261
,
pictures in
1441
,
stained glass windows
147
,
ventilation of
379
.
Parnell, Charles Stewart
d.
1891 M.P., his trial
1057
.
Parry, John Orlando
d.
1879, entertainments written for
425
.
Pashas.
Behram Pasha
i.e.
R. Cannon
537
.
Gordon Pasha
i.e.
C. G. Gordon
1178
.
Hicks Pacha
i.e.
W. Hicks
1462
.
Hobart Pasha
i.e.
A. C. Hobart
1487
.
Khourschid Pasha
i.e.
R. D. Guyon
1267
.
Pawn broker, Hodgkinson
1493
.
Patents, Edmunds scandal case
963
,
the law of
557
,
litigation respecting Bovill’s flour patent
353
.
Patent medicine vendor, Holloway
1512
.
Pathological collections
408
,
782
.
Paul, Sir John Dean, bart.
d.
1868, banker
1184
.
Paymasters general, Adams
14
,
Ashburton
94
,
Cave
575
,
Colchester
670
,
Donoughmore
897
,
Hutt
1608
.
Peace, congress in Brussels
358
,
in London 394
and in Paris
491
,
lord Hamond’s opinion on peace
1309
.
Pedestrians, Allardyce
49
,
Ancell
58
,
Andrews
68
,
Barclay
49
,
Burritt
491
,
Chambers
586
,
Howard
1553
.
Peebles, Chambers’ institution
588
.
Peel, John
d.
1854 hunter, D’ye ken John Peel
1212
.
Peel, Sir Robert
d.
1850 baronet, dismisses Rowland Hill
1474
,
his surgeon
1496
.
Peerage claims,
Airth
49
,
Annandale
1532
,
Annesley
72
,
Antrim
76
,
Ashtown
96
,
Balfour
452
,
Barry
182
,
Beaumont
213
,
Berkeley 1062
bis
,
Borthwick
343
,
Braye
387
,
Breadalbane
388
,
Bridgewater
1283
,
Buttevant
182
,
Camoys
525
,
Carlyle
550
,
Chesterfield
606
,
Crawford
753
,
Derwentwater
865
,
Hastings
1372
,
Huntley
1599
,
Hyndford
551
,
Mar
753
,
Montrose
753
,
Shrewsbury
1283
,
Stirling
42
,
152
,
Strathern
49
,
Wentworth
507
.
Peers, trial of Cardigan
542
,
vice chancellor made a peer
751
,
who never assumed title
253
,
who never took their seats
38
,
253
,
566
.
Pelargoniums, grower of, Beck
216
.
Pencils, ever pointed invented
1389
.
Pens, iridium pointed
1389
, patent
117
.
Pensions declined and resigned, Anglesey
71
,
Fydell
1114
,
Hallam
1293
.
Penzance, Carne museum of minerals
552
,
Elizabeth schools
552
,
guide to
734
.
Pepys, Samuel
d.
1703 sec. of admiralty, his diary
386
,
399
.
Perfumer, Atkinson
103
.
Perceval, Spencer
assassinated
1812,
person present at his death
1516
.
Persia, Nassr-ed-Dīn, Shah of
b.
1839, his physician
876
,
sword of honour given by
589
,
visit to England
876
.
Persian princes in England
1101
.
Persian scholars,
Brown
430
,
Brunton
454
,
Falconer
1016
,
Forbes
1076
,
Fraser
1101
,
Goldney
1166
,
Goldsmid
1167
,
Hughes
1577
.
Perth, St. Ninian’s cathedral
1075
.
Peruvian bark, collection of
1553
.
Peschito scholar
999
.
Peter Parley’s tales of the sun, by rev. S. Clark
628
.
Peter Simple, account of his escape drawn from Boys’ Narrative of captivity in France
370
.
Petersham, Lord
d.
1851 earl of Harington, his great coat, hat, blacking and snuff
1344
,
marriage to Maria Foote
1344
.
Peto, Sir Samuel Morton
d.
1889 railway contractor, his partner Betts
265
.
Phantasmagoria invented
783
.
Phillis is my only joy, a song
1487
.
Phillpotts, Henry
d.
1869 bp. of Exeter, refuses to institute Gorham
1185
.
Phosphoric acid, polybasic character of
1198
.
Photography,
applied to portraiture
1469
,
calotype used
1469
,
camera
81
,
cardboard photographic portrait
870
,
collodion applied to
81
,
daguerreotype, improvements in
1497
,
first portrait from life
915
,
gelatine process
81
,
lens
81
,
lens improved
806
,
lens, triple
81
,
moon, first photograph of
915
,
photographic exhibition
524
,
self recording meteorological instruments
415
.
Photographers, Anderson
62
,
Archer
81
,
Cameron
524
,
Claudet
638
.
Photometer, Leslie’s
458
.
Phrenology, Combe
688
,
consistent with science
735
,
Fowler
1093
,
Holm
1512
,
phrenological soc.
688
.
Physicians,
Baly
149
,
Bankhead
152
,
Bright
400
,
Chambers
588
,
Christison
617
,
Clark
626
,
Clarke
631
,
Clutterbuck
656
,
Cormack
720
,
Corrigan
723
,
Craigie
747
,
Crichton
760
,
Dickson J. R.
876
,
Dickson Sir J. R. L.
876
,
Dickson R.
876
,
Dickson S.
877
,
Dickinson
875
,
Doratt
898
,
Downie
909
,
Druitt
918
,
Dumbreck
927
,
Dunglison
936
,
Edwards
965
,
Epps
954
,
Eyre
1011
,
Fagge
1013
,
Falconer
1017
,
Farre A.
1024
,
Farre F. J.
1024
,
Farre J. R.
1024
,
Fellowes
1032
,
Ferguson J. C.
1035
,
Ferguson R.
1036
,
Fife
1044
,
Fisher J. W.
1053
,
Fisher W. W.
1054
,
Fleming A.
1067
,
Fleming C.
1067
,
Fleming J. G.
1068
,
Forbes
1075
,
Forsyth
1087
,
Fothergill
1090
,
Fowler
1093
,
Fox H. H.
1095
,
Fox W. T.
1096
,
Fox, Wilson
1096
,
Froude
1110
,
Furnell
1113
,
Fyfe
1114
,
Gairdner J.
1116
,
Gairdner W.
1116
,
Gavin
1131
,
Gibb
1136
,
Grant
1205
,
Granville
1208
,
Gream
1220
,
Greenhow
1228
,
Gull
1257
,
Gully
1257
,
Guy
1266
,
Habershon
1269
,
Haldane
1276
,
Hall C. R.
1283
,
Hall Sir J.
1286
,
Hall M.
1288
,
Hardwicke
1331
,
Hardy
1332
,
Harris
1347
,
Harrison
1355
,
Harty
1363
,
Harvey
1364
,
Hastings
1372
,
Haviland
1382
,
Hawkins
1388
,
Heaton
1414
,
Henderson
1426
,
Henry
1432
,
Heslop
1452
,
Hilditch
1466
,
Hillier
1477
,
Hodgkin
1492
,
Hoffmeister
1500
,
Holland G. C.
1508
,
Holland H.
1508
,
Hood
1525
,
Hudson
1565
,
Hue
1568
,
Hull
1580
,
Hume
1585
,
Hunt
1590
,
Hunter A.
1594
,
Hutton
1608
.
Pianists,
See also
Musical Composers
1665
,
Anderson
60
,
Anderson
64
,
Ascher
93
,
Bertini
260
,
Cramer
749
,
Hicks
1461
.
Piano, hand moulds for
1385
,
pianoforte makers,
Clementi
676
,
Collard 676 and Graddon
1138
,
portable grand invented
1389
.
Pickford & Co. carriers
196
.
Picquet player, Hughes
1578
.
Pictures, Collections of,
Ashburnham
93
,
Bale
142
,
Barker
162
,
Barry
182
,
Barton
188
,
Bell
228
,
231
,
Bicknell
271
,
Blake
303
,
Bolckow
327
,
Bridell
395
,
Duncan
929
,
Eardley
951
,
Essex
998
,
Etty
1151
,
Fletcher
1070
,
Gillott
1151
,
Hermon
1444
,
Hope
1529
,
Hope
1531
,
Sheepshanks
1092
,
Turner
1151
,
Wolff
395
,
See also
Painting
col.
1679
.
Pigeons, Barber’s blue rocks
156
,
purveyor of
156
,
shooting
73
.
Pigott, Richard
d.
1889 forger,
his trial
1058
.
Pigs, Fisher Hobbs’ pigs
1488
.
Pill maker, Holloway
1512
.
Pin manufacturer, Charleton
595
.
Piper, Cameron
523
.
Pipes and smoking apparatus, Bragge’s collection
378
.
Piquet player, Clay
640
.
Pitsligo press, Burntisland, founded
1077
.
Planché, James Robinson
d.
1880 Somerset herald, Fortunio
1567
,
The Irish post
1567
.
Plants, collectors of, Cuming
783
,
Haslam
1370
.
Plate, collection of Bernal
255
.
Plate glass window, death from walking through
140
.
Plesiosaurus, a genus of reptilia
697
.
Pleistocene mammalia found at Ilford
376
.
Ploughs,
drainage
1093
,
steam
1055
,
1093
,
See also
Agriculture
1620
.
Plymouth, bishop of
995
,
Blue friars’ soc.
1351
,
Cotton library
730
,
eye dispensary
502
,
iron forts constructed
353
,
Plymouth dock, name changed to Devonport
22
,
Plymouth dockyard disease
502
.
Poems, long,
Israel in Egypt
101
,
Saul, a drama
1414
.
Poland, national league for independence of
206
.
Polander performer, Hughes
1570
.
Police detectives Brett and Haydon
1396
,
inspectors
1040
,
new system
908
.
Polperro, history of
731
.
Polyartist, a
1557
.
Ponsonby, Spencer, cured by Hutton bone setter
1609
.
Poole, court of record
468
.
Poor law board presidents,
Baines
132
,
Estcourt
999
,
Gibson
1142
.
Poor servants of the Mother of God incarnate
1112
.
Poplin manufacturer, Atkinson
104
.
Population, census of
1023
.
Porcelain manufacturers, Blore
317
,
Copeland
716
.
Portland cement, experiments on
1204
.
Portugal, Dom Pedro’s expedition to
1491
,
sum given to sufferers by Massena’s invasion
763
.
Positivist, Baxter
197
.
Post office, adhesive stamps introduced
1474
,
cheap postage introduced
1474
,
ocean penny postage
375
,
parcels post established
1027
,
penny postage established
1474
,
physician general
1131
,
stamps, designs for
583
,
stamps invented at Dundee
583
,
stamp perforator
81
.
Postmasters General, Canning
536
,
Clanricarde
622
,
Colchester
670
,
Conyngham
698
,
Elgin
973
,
Fawcett
1027
,
Hardwicke
1331
.
Potato, potato sowing machine
1055
,
potato spirit
240
.
Potters, Dillwyn
880
,
Doulton
904
.
Power loom, invention of
565
.
Prayer, healing by means of
472
.
Press prosecutions, Dolby
891
,
Drakard
914
,
Finlay
1048
,
Hobhouse
427
.
Presses, screw and side lever
528
.
Preston, Lancashire, money left to
1346
,
St. Walburge’s ch. spire
1322
.
Pretenders,
See
Claimants
1632
.
Prime ministers,
Aberdeen
6
,
Derby
863
,
Disraeli
203
,
Grey
1555
,
Palmerston
1564
.
Primrose day, first kept
204
,
primrose league, founders of
1329
.
Prince consort created
39
,
See also
Albert
1621
.
Print dealers,
Colnaghi
684
,
Evans
1002
,
Graves
1211
,
Halsted
1296
.
Printers,
Applegath
77
,
Clay
640
,
Clowes
655
,
Cox & Son
742
,
Cox & Wyman
742
,
Dunkin
936
,
Gardner
1122
,
Gilbert
1145
,
Harrild
1344
,
Harrison
1356
,
Heavysides
1414
,
Holmes
1515
,
Howe
1556
.
Printing,
ball and roller
77
,
bank note machine
77
,
Bigg’s charity for printers
275
,
cast words, use of
239
,
colour printing machine
77
,
composition balls and printing roller
895
,
1344
,
Cowper’s machines
738
,
Figgins type founder
1045
,
Franklin’s printing press
1344
,
ink distributing machine
739
,
inking rollers first used
198
,
machinery, improvements in
895
,
machinery for printing and composing type
239
,
nature printing
372
,
printing press, four cylinder
77
,
739
,
printing press, steam
77
,
printing presses,
Applegath’s
738
,
739
,
Cowper’s 738 and Walter’s
738
,
queen’s printers’ patent
610
,
rotatory printing press
1474
,
silk printing
77
, type founder
261
,
type-high stereotype columns in newspapers
1355
,
type setting machine
1377
,
type setting without copy
1290
,
typographical gazetteer
729
,
vertical machine
77
.
Printing presses, private,
Botfield
346
,
Gorton
1186
.
Prisons and Prisoners,
chaplain
640
,
diseases and mortality of
345
,
improved prisons
1382
,
prisoners of war, hospital for
486
,
treadmill invented
779
.
Private secretary, a comedy
1477
.
Privy councillor, nominated but not sworn in
590
.
Privy seal, lords keeper of the,
Buccleugh
457
,
Buckingham
460
,
Clanricarde
621
,
Clarendon
623
,
Disraeli
203
,
Ellenborough
975
,
Haddington
1271
,
Halifax
1281
,
Hardwicke
1331
,
Harrowby
1358
.
Probate and divorce court, Cresswell judge
758
,
established
758
.
Probate duty, large amount
779
.
Probert, William
hanged
1825 for horse stealing
1592
.
Property, real property commission
409
.
Provision merchants, Budgett 467 and Finnis
1050
.
Psalms, free chant system of reciting
774
.
Pseudonyms,
See also
Actors’ stage names
1619
,
Initialism
1648
,
Names 1665 and Novels
1675
.
* * *
i.e.
Arthur Gerald Geoghegan
1135
.
Alazon
i.e.
Richard William Barnes
172
.
Aleph
i.e.
William Harvey
1368
.
Amicus Curiæ
i.e.
John Payne Collier
677
.
Anglo-American
i.e.
Sir Brenton Halliburton
1294
.
Anti-Reformist
i.e.
John Hope
1532
.
Asiatic Liberal, An
i.e.
George Burges
477
.
Atkinson, Isaac
i.e.
James Anderson
62
.
Augur
i.e.
Henry Mort Feist
1032
.
Aunt Effie
i.e.
Ann Hawkshaw
1391
.
Aunt Lucy
i.e.
Lucy Elizabeth Bather
193
.
Auntie B.
i.e.
Bertha H. Buxton
503
.
Author of “Contrasts”
i.e.
William Gilbert
590
.
Author of “Handbook of fictitious names”
i.e.
Ralph Thomas
426
.
Ayrton, J. C.
i.e.
Mary Francis Chapman
592
.
B., H.
i.e.
John Doyle
911
.
Balance, A
i.e.
Thomas Binney
281
.
Barleycorn, John
i.e.
Matthew James Higgins
1464
.
Barnard de Burgh
i.e.
Barnabas Brough
424
.
Beaujolais
i.e.
Hans Busk
498
.
Beemaster
i.e.
Rev. John Cumming
784
.
Bell, Acton
i.e.
Anne Bronte
413
.
Bell, Currer
i.e.
Charlotte Bronte
413
.
Bell, Ellis
i.e.
Emily Bronte
413
.
Belgravian Mother, A
i.e.
Matthew J. Higgins
1464
.
Bellew, John C. M.
i.e.
John Chippendale Montesquieu Higgin
234
.
Bernhardt, J. Karl
i.e.
Thomas Crampton
751
.
Bible student, A
i.e.
John Hyde
1611
.
Blackmantle, Bernard
i.e.
Charles Molloy
1062
.
Brancassine, R. F.
i.e.
Hughes Halle
1293
.
Britannicus
i.e.
Thomas Brittain
404
.
Brooke, Arthur
i.e.
John Chalk Claris
624
.
Brother, A
i.e.
George Clement Boase
321
.
Brother and Sister
i.e.
Frances Collins and F. Percy Cotton
679
.
Brown, John
i.e.
T. J. Hogg
1503
.
Brown Redivivus, Thomas
i.e.
Caroline Frances Cornwallis
722
.
Buller of Brasenose
i.e.
John Hughes
1573
.
Byron’s Ghost
i.e.
G. R. Wythen Baxter
198
.
C., V. S.
i.e.
Sir Richard D. Hanson
1322
.
Captain of the Undine
i.e.
Edmund G. Harvey
1365
.
Carwinley
i.e.
William Graham
1198
.
Ceiriog
i.e.
John Hughes
1575
.
Censor
i.e.
George Caldwell
514
.
Cerny, Frederick
i.e.
Frederick Guthrie
1264
.
Childers
i.e.
George Caldwell
514
.
Civilian
i.e.
Matthew James Higgins
1464
.
Claribel
i.e.
Charlotte Alington Barnard
170
.
Cock of the Steeple, The
i.e.
Alexander Birnie
288
.
Cœlebs
i.e.
Edward Augustus Carlyon
550
.
Comyne, Alexander de
i.e.
Charles T. Browne
443
.
Conway, Hugh
i.e.
Frederick John Fargus
1021
.
Cornelie de B, Baronne
i.e.
Clara de Chatelain
598
.
Cotton, Robert Turner
i.e.
Mortimer Collins
680
.
Country Curate, A
i.e.
Rev. Erskine Neale
245
.
Cousin Kate
i.e.
Catherine Douglas Bell
227
.
Craven
i.e.
John William Carleton
546
.
Creature of an Hour
i.e.
Charles Girdlestone
1153
.
Cristion
i.e.
Hugh Hughes
1572
.
Croker, Thomas Crofton
i.e.
Marianne Croker
765
.
Crowquill, Alfred
i.e.
A. H. and C. R. Forrester
1083
.
Czapek, P. B.
i.e.
John Liptrot Hatton
1378
.
D. A. Y.
i.e.
David Elisha Davy
834
.
Daly, John
i.e.
John Bessemeres
260
.
Denarius
i.e.
Sir Henry Cole
671
.
Detector
i.e.
Francis Burdett Courtenay
733
.
Dewdrop
i.e.
Cordelia Georgiana Budd
466
.
Dixon, Gerald
i.e.
William Jerrold Dixon
885
.
Dolores
i.e.
Ellen Dickson
876
.
Doyle, Martin
i.e.
William Hickey
1460
.
Druid, The
i.e.
Henry Hall Dixon
883
.
Dubois, Alfred
i.e.
James Stuart Bowes
358
.
Eccletus
i.e.
Luke Howard
1554
.
Edwards, Mr.
i.e.
George Matthews Ede
956
.
Elgate, Arthur de Cripp
i.e.
Thomas Gray
1220
.
Eliot, George
i.e.
Mary Ann Evans
771
.
Englishman, A
i.e.
William Whittaker Barry
183
.
Eos Glan Twrch
i.e.
John Edwards
966
.
Ephemera
i.e.
Edward Fitzgibbon 1060–
61
.
Erith, Lynn
i.e.
Edward Fox
1094
.
Esse quam videri
i.e.
John Baker Hopkins
1533
.
Ex-Madras Civilian
i.e.
James Dewar Bourdillon
349
.
Father Thomas
i.e.
Thomas Doyle
913
.
Felix, Nicholas
i.e.
Nicholas Wanostrocht
1032
.
Fiat Justitia
i.e.
Rev. Thomas Binney
280
.
Fisher, P.
i.e.
William Andrew Chatto
600
.
Flag Officer, A
i.e.
Edward Hawker
1385
.
Florenz
i.e.
Charlotte Elliot
978
.
Forester, Frank
i.e.
Henry William Herbert
1440
.
Fpaid, I. D.
i.e.
John Evans
1004
.
Gentleman in Black, The
i.e.
Charles Clarke
631
.
Gershom
i.e.
Julius Edmund Goodwyn
1175
.
Goggle, Mungo Coulter
i.e.
Robert D. Hamilton
1304
.
Gohebydd Llandain
i.e.
John Griffiths
1247
.
Grant, Gerald
i.e.
Gertrude Elizabeth Grant
1202
.
Grinn, The Brothers
i.e.
E. L. Blanchard and Thomas L. Greenwood
1231
.
Henry, D. S.
i.e.
Henry Dircks
881
.
Hertfordshire incumbent, An
i.e.
Joseph Williams Blakesley
305
.
Hieover Harry
i.e.
Charles Bindley
277
.
Hogg, Nathan
i.e.
Thomas Baird
134
.
Holdreth, Lionel H.
i.e.
Percy Greg
1231
.
Holt, Sestertius
i.e.
William White Cooper
713
.
Hotspur
i.e.
Henry Buck
460
.
Hotspur
i.e.
Henry Mort Feist
1032
.
Ianthe
i.e.
Charlotte Mary Bacon
120
.
Ingoldsby
i.e.
James Hildyard
1467
.
Ion
i.e.
Ellen St. John Hunt
1589
.
Ishmael
i.e.
Josiah Harris
1349
.
Ismael
i.e.
Christopher A. M. Harris
1346
.
Iskander
i.e.
Aleksandr I. Hertzen
1450
.
Jack
i.e.
Marianne Elizabeth Godwin
1165
.
Jones, T. Percy
i.e.
William Edmondstone Aytoun
116
.
Junius Redivivus
i.e.
William Bridges Adams
19
.
Knot, Maple
i.e.
Ebenezer Clemo
645
.
L. S. E.
i.e.
Michael Augustus Gathercole
1130
.
Lady, A
i.e.
Charlotte Susan Maria Bury
496
.
Lady in the Country
i.e.
Anna Gurney
1260
.
Layman, A
i.e.
Thomas Carlyle
550
.
Layman, A
i.e.
John Sibbald Edison
959
.
Layman, A
i.e.
Sir Walter Scott
1179
.
Layman, A Protestant
i.e.
William Harty
1363
.
Layman of the church of England, A
i.e.
W. A. I. Grant
1207
.
Lee, Gibbons
i.e.
William Bennett
244
.
Lewes, Walton
i.e.
Jeremiah Bowen
356
.
Libertas
i.e.
Peter Brown
437
.
Libra
i.e.
Edward Brotherton
423
.
Manchester manufacturer
i.e.
Richard Cobden
659
.
Martel, Charles
i.e.
Thomas Delf
853
.
Member of University of Oxford
i.e.
W. M. Hutton
1609
.
Miles
i.e.
Henry Walter
1433
.
Mother of Six
i.e.
Matthew James Higgins
1464
.
Myfyr Morganwg
i.e.
Evan Davies
826
.
Myrtle, Harriet
i.e.
Mary Gillies
1150
.
Neil, Ross
i.e.
Isabella N. Harwood
1369
.
Nemo
i.e.
Aaron Levy Green
1222
.
Nimrod
i.e.
Charles James Apperley
76
.
Nordmann, Rudolph
i.e.
George F. Harris
1348
.
Old Follower of Sir H. D. Chad’s
i.e.
Montagu Burrows
580
.
Oliver, Stephen the younger
i.e.
William Andrew Chatto
600
.
Omnium, Jacob
i.e.
Matthew James Higgins
1464
.
O’Reilly, Miles
i.e.
Charles Graham Halpine
1296
.
Outis
i.e.
Luke Howard
1554
.
Owl, the figure of an
i.e.
Clement Henry Bennett
240
.
Oxford Divine, A
i.e.
Henry Bellenden Bulteel
472
.
P——. P——. poet laureate
i.e.
George Daniel
811
.
Page, H. A.
i.e.
A. H. Japp
1502
.
Pamphilius
i.e.
David Mitchell Aird
34
.
Parallax
i.e.
Samuel Birley Rowbotham
1311
.
Pariah, A
i.e.
Caroline Frances Cornwallis
722
.
Parley, Peter
i.e.
Samuel Clark
628
.
Paterfamilias
i.e.
Matthew James Higgins
1464
.
Phiz
i.e.
Hablot Knight Browne
443
.
Pilgrim
i.e.
Edward Brotherton
423
.
Piscator
i.e.
William Hughes
1578
.
Piscator
i.e.
Henry Walter
1433
.
Pobman
i.e.
John Griffiths
1247
.
Pollock, Guy
i.e.
Robert Douglas Hamilton
1304
.
Powdavie
i.e.
Peter Robert Drummond
921
.
Providus
i.e.
Matthew James Higgins
1464
.
Punjabee
i.e.
William Delafield Arnold
88
.
Quid
i.e.
Robert Allan Fitzgerald
1059
.
Reader in British Museum
i.e.
Andrea Crestadoro
758
.
Reuben
i.e.
Robert Stephen Hawker
1385
.
Roberts, Captain
i.e.
A. C. Hobart
1487
.
Rustum
i.e.
Sir Henry Lindesay Bethune
264
.
Santa Croce, Rosalia
i.e.
Clara de Chatelain
598
.
Scriblerus Redivivus
i.e.
Edward Caswall
569
.
Scrutator
i.e.
Walter Henry
1433
.
Search, John
i.e.
Thomas Binney
281
.
Septuagenarian, A.
i.e.
James Booth
337
.
Sister Mary Theresa
i.e.
Frances Ball
145
.
Slick, Sam
i.e.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
1280
.
Smitheram, T.
i.e.
Thomas H. Harvey
1367
.
Sparks, Timothy
i.e.
Charles Dickens
443
.
Sportsman, A
i.e.
Charles Clarke
631
.
Spot Stroke
i.e.
Henry Buck
460
.
Staff Surgeon
i.e.
Henry Walter
1433
.
Straws
i.e.
Joseph M. Field
1042
.
Student of the Middle Temple, A
i.e.
J. Beldam
225
.
Student of University of Glasgow
i.e.
William Hamilton Drummond
921
.
Summerly, Felix
i.e.
Sir Henry Cole
671
.
Summerly, Mrs. Felix
i.e.
Sir H. Cole
671
.
Swanquill, Sylvanus
i.e.
John Hewitt
1455
.
Templar, Claude
i.e.
John W. G. L. Daugars
820
.
Temple, Neville
i.e.
Julian Henry Charles Fane
1019
.
Thirsty Soul, A
i.e.
Matthew James Higgins
1464
.
Tradleg, Nitram
i.e.
Edmund Martin Geldart
1134
.
Traveller, A Companion
i.e.
F. E. S. Harris
1347
.
Trevor, Edward
i.e.
E. R. Bulwer-Lytton
1019
.
Tuvar, Lorenzo
i.e.
Wilson Armistead
83
.
Two Brothers
i.e.
A. W. and J. C. Hare
1334
.
University Professor, A
i.e.
Alexander Harvey
1364
.
V.
i.e.
Caroline Clive
652
.
Vega, Senor Juan de
i.e.
Charles Cochrane
660
.
Veritas
i.e.
Joseph Hughes
1575
.
Von Beck, The Baroness
i.e.
Wilhelmina Racidula
215
.
Walker, Patricius
i.e.
William Allingham
736
.
Ward, Artemus
i.e.
Charles F. Browne
442
,
1482
.
Wattie
i.e.
Walter Chisholm
612
.
West Londoner, A
i.e.
Matthew James Higgins
1464
.
Wittitterly, John Altrayd
i.e.
E. C. T. Carne
552
.
Wmffra, Edward
i.e.
John Griffiths
1247
.
Wray, Leopold
i.e.
Clara de Chatelain
598
.
Yendys, Sydney
i.e.
Sydney Thompson Dobell
886
.
Y Gohebydd
i.e.
John Griffiths
1247
.
Ziska, Leopoldine
i.e.
Clara de Chatelain
598
.
Zoophilus
i.e.
Edward Blyth
320
.
Public health, first lecturer on
1228
.
Public houses, clergyman obtaining a license for a house which was not in existence
279
,
four hundred houses owned by one person
1051
.
Publishers,
Adams
1305
,
Bentley
249
,
669
,
Blackett
669
,
Brown
439
,
Butterworth
502
,
Cassell
568
,
Chambers 587–
88
,
Churchill
619
,
Colburn
669
,
Constable
696
,
Dolman
891
,
Gall
1117
,
Galpin
568
,
Gammon
1119
,
Green
1222
,
Hamilton
1305
,
Hardwicke
1331
,
Hodgson
1494
,
Hogg
1502
,
Hurst
669
,
1602
,
Miles
1305
,
Ogle
1305
,
Petter
568
.
Pugilism,
Bendigo turned preacher
238
,
Fistiana
907
,
908
,
Habet or the law on pugilism
383
.
Pugilists,
Baldwin
141
,
Belcher
224
,
Bendigo
237
,
Brettle
392
,
Broome H. A.
422
,
Broome John
422
,
1319
,
Burn
482
,
Cannon
537
,
Caunt
573
,
Crawley
756
,
Cribb
49
,
Garrett
1126
,
Gully
1258
,
Hannan
1319
,
Hayes
1399
,
Heenan
907
,
1416
,
Holden
1504
,
Holt
1517
,
Hurst
1602
,
King
1417
,
Mace
392
,
1602
,
Molineaux
49
,
Morrissey
1417
,
Paddock
1602
,
Sayers
392
,
907
,
1417
.
Pugin, Augustus
d.
1832 architect, his articled pupils
497
,
1038
.
Pugin, Augustus W. N.
d.
1852 architect, his friend
1196
.
Pumps, centrifugal rotary invented
78
,
double action air invented
888
.
Punch and Judy, account of
678
.
Purchas, Rev. John
d.
1872 of Brighton, ritualist
1144
.
Pusey, Rev. Edward Bouverie
d.
1882,
a founder of Pusey scholarship
976
,
assisted Forbes in “An explanation of 39 articles”
1075
.
Q
Quacks and quackery, revelations of
733
.
Quadrille band, Coote
713
.
Quakers,
See
Friends
1690
.
Quaternions invented
1307
.
Queen’s Bench prison, prisoners received from Westminster hall
441
.
Queensberry, William duke of
d.
1810, his will
1449
.
Queen’s county, lord lieutenant
867
.
Quin, Edwin R. W. W.
d.
1871, earl of Dunraven
940
.
R
Rachel, Madame
d.
1880, enameller of ladies’ faces
770
.
Racing, Derby, paintings of winners of
1285
,
intelligence agent
1356
,
judge of
627
,
marquis of Hastings’ career
1372
,
race horse, life of a
911
,
Running Rein fraud
1470
.
Racing men,
Anglesey
71
,
Barber
156
,
Bowes
358
,
Chesterfield
605
,
Clark
625
,
Cleveland
647
,
Clifden
647
,
Craven
753
,
Derby
863
,
Durham
942
,
Eastwood
955
,
Eglinton
971
,
Etwall
999
,
Exeter
1010
,
Farquharson
1023
,
Glasgow
1155
,
Graham
1198
,
Gratwicke
1210
,
Greville
1239
,
Gully
1258
,
Hargreaves
1337
,
Hastings
1371
,
Hawley
1391
,
Howth
1562
,
Hughes
1577
.
Raft, Cookesley’s
706
.
Ragged schools, early promoters of
1235
,
popularised by Guthrie
1265
.
Railways,
atmospheric
137
,
453
,
732
,
axles, lubricating mixture for
337
,
breaks, continuous first suggested
219
,
buffers, patent
92
,
buffers, spring
337
,
888
,
carriage builders
94
,
cases relating to
560
,
compensation for personal injury
1288
,
coupling screws
337
,
curves, laying down of
137
,
director, the oldest
107
,
electrical communication in trains
377
,
excursion and express trains introduced
1474
,
fall in 1847 of value of shares
1566
,
fish joint
19
,
floating
346
,
hook headed spikes
476
,
Hudson’s frauds
1566
,
iron permanent way
845
,
lattice girders for bridges
346
,
locomotive for an incline
888
,
locomotive, the star
888
,
mania of 1845 notice of
851
,
parallel rail and pedestal
800
,
person who attended turning first sod of every new railway
1337
,
rails improved
127
,
rails, steel
889
,
railway king
1566
,
signals, self acting
793
,
swing bridges
272
,
switch invented
1094
,
switch, self acting
888
,
three foot six inch guage
1060
,
ticket system invented
962
,
ticket printing establishment
962
,
turn table
888
.
Railway lines.
Abergele accident
260
,
611
,
1022
.
Bolton and Leigh made
800
.
Bristol and South Wales union made
423
.
Great Western constructed
581
,
Paddington station built
453
,
manager
1242
,
stock, price of
1242
.
Lancashire and Yorkshire, original meeting
421
.
Leeds and Selby made
107
.
Liverpool and Manchester, promoters of
336
,
opened
1171
.
London and North Western, fees to counsel for bills
1532
,
medical officer
1354
.
Midland chairmen
983
,
984
,
1605
.
South Eastern constructed
779
,
Round Down cliff near Dover blown down
779
.
Stockton and Darlington the first line opened
137
.
Swannington and Bagworth opened
984
,
Wigan accident
73
.
Railway contractors,
Brassey
384
,
Brotherhood
423
,
Crawley
756
,
Cubitt J.
779
,
Cubitt Sir W.
779
,
Dargan
814
,
Eassie
952
,
Fairbank
1050
,
Gowans
1193
,
Hoof
1526
.
Ramhurst gunpowder mills
610
.
Rams, steam
914
.
Ramsay, G. M. R. Dalhousie
d.
1880, first baron
804
.
Raphael
d.
1520 Raffaello Sanzio, drawings by
1283
.
Rarey, John S.
d.
1866, horse tamer
1145
.
Ravenstone castle, Wigtonshire, purchased
343
.
Rawlinson, Sir Henry Creswicke
b.
1810, discovers cuneiform vowel system
1480
.
Reading, look and say method of learning
795
,
phonetic method of teaching
711
.
Readers, public,
Bellew
234
,
973
,
Dickens
872
,
Holl
1506
.
Reaping machine, Bell’s
230
.
Rebecca riots
1090
,
1472
.
Records, public,
account of
709
,
arrangement of
1488
,
destruction of valueless documents
1334
,
made accessible to public
1333
,
record commission
709
.
Reform Bill,
boundary act
747
,
Croker’s opposition to
764
,
Roman catholic peer voted against reform bill
92
,
tenant at will clause
460
.
Reform league, president of
206
,
the league dissolved
206
.
Reform solicitor, the
4
.
Refraction, conical, discovered
1307
.
Religious communities, collection of works of instructions authorised by
648
.
Religious Denominations.
Associate presbytery of Ireland founded
456
.
Baptists, college in Regent’s park
825
,
immersion in the harbour of St. John, New Brunswick
928
,
missionary soc.
741
.
Barkerites at Newcastle
164
.
Bible Christian minister
1119
.
Brentonites at Bath
390
.
Bulteelers at Oxford
472
.
Caffin’s religious society at Blackheath
511
.
Campbellites in America
526
.
Catholic apostolic church,
Albury ch. at
919
,
Albury, consultation at
541
,
angel
1410
,
apostles
85
,
541
,
550
,
906
,
919
,
apostolic lordship
1207
,
bishop of Scotland
321
,
Gordon square ch. opened
382
,
1410
,
Irving
541
,
Newman st. ch.
541
.
Children of God founded
1153
.
Church of Christ at Finchingfield
296
.
Church of England
See also
Ritualism
1691
,
baptismal regeneration
1185
,
bishop excommunicated
673
,
bishop resigned
106
,
ch. defence association founded
208
,
ch. congresses originated
208
,
ch. extension association founded
32
,
ch. of E. in Wales, the most popular preacher
1574
,
ch. rates, Braintree case
733
,
clergyman, oldest in England
964
,
court of arches
1185
,
crisis or the signs of the times, a sermon
99
,
election of bp. Hampden opposed by 13 bishops
1311
,
guilds commenced
586
,
harvest thanksgivings instituted
1385
,
hear the church, a sermon
1526
,
holy orders relinquished by Bellew
234
,
Clark 629 and Hoblyn
1489
,
liturgy, petition to parliament for reform of
1581
,
living of great value
817
,
priestly absolution, letters on
276
,
register books, false entries in
1147
,
ruridecanal synods instituted
1385
,
weekly offertories instituted
1385
.
Congregational Union of England and Wales
296
.
Darbyism originated
813
.
Disciples of Christ in America
526
.
Episcopal church of Scotland, primate
1156
.
Freethinking Christians in London
96
.
French protestant church
820
.
Friends, deputation to emperor of Russia
595
,
missionaries
1086
,
origin of
718
,
plea for liberty of conscience
595
,
tent meetings
540
.
Girlingites in the New Forest
1153
.
Glassites, musical manual for
1585
.
Irvingites,
See
Catholic Apostolic church
col.
1689
.
Jews,
college
1222
,
converts from Judaism
1449
,
first jew a senior wrangler
1362
,
rabbi
1222
,
synagogues in London
1222
,
Talmud Torah sch.
1222
.
Latter day Saints or Mormonites
1611
.
Moravian bishop
1089
.
Mormonism, account of
423
,
mormonism and its author
569
,
mormonites at Salt Lake city
1611
.
New Jerusalem church or Swedenborgians
1611
.
Plymouth Brethren,
Ball R.
145
,
Congleton, Baron
691
,
founders of
1252
,
history of
1202
,
Orchard St. chapel London
691
,
Welbeck st. chapel London
691
,
works on the doctrine of
769
.
Presbyterian church, The English
62
,
158
.
Presbyterian ch. in Scotland, a heresy hunt
1520
,
first missionary to India
924
,
See also
Row
1691
.
Presbyterian Free ch. minister
1453
.
Primitive Methodists Connection founded
350
,
655
.
Reformed Anglican church bishopric
1416
.
Reformed Episcopal church minister
1491
.
Reformed Presbyterian minister
1550
.
Roman Catholics, Brompton oratory
802
,
1012
,
Jesuits obtain Hales place
1279
,
London oratory
802
,
mayor, the first roman catholic
1505
,
Moorfields’ chapel ceiling and altarpiece
28
,
oratory London
1605
,
parliament, second member sent to
1554
,
St. George’s cathedral built
913
,
scholarships could not be held by
1444
,
society of Jesus, ordo compiled
395
,
solicitor, the first admitted
177
.
Roman Catholic church, converts to,
Anstey
74
,
Badeley
121
,
Bellasis
233
,
Bellew
234
,
Bowden
355
,
Bowring
362
,
Bowyer
363
,
Burder
476
,
Burns
488
,
Caswall
569
,
Chatterton
599
,
Coffin
667
,
Dalgairns
802
,
Digby
878
,
Dodsworth
890
,
Elmsley
988
,
Estcourt
998
,
Faber
1012
,
Fielding
1150
,
Flowers
1072
,
Formby
1082
,
Forster
1086
,
Fullerton
1112
,
Garside
1126
,
Gilpin
1151
,
Grant
1203
,
Haigh
1274
,
Hamilton
1299
,
Hawker
1385
,
Herbert
1441
,
Hope
1529
,
Hope-Scott
1532
,
Hopkins
1533
,
Howitt
1599
,
Hutchison W. A.
1605
,
Hutchison W. C.
1606
.
Sandemanian ch.
1020
.
Seventh day Baptists
294
.
Shakers in London
1153
.
Swedenborgians,
account of
423
,
church in London
1611
,
minister
1194
.
Unitarians, home missionary board founded
208
,
works on unitarianism
1144
.
United presbyterian church founded
1343
.
United secession church minister
1342
.
Welsh calvinist ch. London, expels a member
1572
.
Welsh calvinist methodist ch. ministers
1573
.
Wesleyan Methodists,
Bunting Methodism
474
,
475
,
Didsbury theological instit.
776
,
777
,
Fletcher the imposter
1069
,
fly sheet controversy
939
,
1007
,
1245
,
Kingswood sch.
776
,
persons expelled
350
,
1007
,
Wesley banner
939
,
Woodhouse Grove sch.
776
.
Religious services in theatres
406
.
Religious Tract Soc., its publications
771
.
Renfrewshire, lord lieutenant
1155
.
Reptiles, excreta used as medicine
1374
.
Resin, distilling without decomposition
1589
.
Retort manufacturer, Cowen
736
.
Reynell, Charles Weatherby, printer
1591
,
d.
Chatfield house, Putney 13 Jany. 1892 aged
94
.
Rhinoceros, a one horned
770
.
Ribbon manufacturer, Bray
385
.
Rice, Thomas D.
d.
1860 actor, original Jim Crow
938
.
Richardson, John
d.
1836, his theatre
564
,
1447
.
Richmond, Charlotte Lennox
d.
1842 duchess of, ball at Brussels
1239
.
Rides and riding,
1400
miles in 14 days
1367
,
riding from Holland to Naples
1168
.
Ritualism, bishop censured
1075
,
bishop Hamilton’s charge
1335
,
first ritualistic ch.
1075
,
Oxford Argo, the
472
,
tracts for the times, remarks on
1168
,
writers in
957
,
1352
and works on
1026
,
See also
Religious denominations
1689
.
Rivers, pollution of, enquiry
858
.
Road roller, steam, patented
629
.
Roberts, David
d.
1864 painter, his sketches in Holy Land
1253
,
1274
.
Roof ventilators
369
.
Rolls, master of the, Cottenham
726
.
Roman antiquities, at Cirencester
465
,
at Gariononum
326
.
Romney in Kent, liberty of
847
.
Rope dancers, Christoff
617
,
Hengler
1428
.
Roscoe, Thomas junr.
d.
1871, his writings
244
.
Roscoe, William
d.
1831 historian, his dau.
1538
.
Rosetta stone recovered from the French
1307
.
Rosicrucians
1339
.
Rossall sch. Lancashire
1430
.
Rossetti, William Michael
b.
1829 art critic, his friend
1146
.
Rous, Henry John
d.
1877 admiral, action for libel against
840
.
Row parish heresy case
91
,
533
,
550
.
Rowing, long slow stroke introduced
587
,
See also
Scullers
1694
.
Royal academicians,
See
Painters
1678
,
Baily
130
,
Barry
181
,
Boxall
364
,
Cook
700
,
Cooke
701
,
Cooke
701
,
Cooper
707
,
Doo
897
,
Dyce
946
,
Eastlake
953
,
Egg
970
,
Elmore
988
,
Foley
1073
,
Frost
1110
,
Gibson
1141
,
Gordon
1171
,
Grant
1202
,
Hart
360
,
Herbert
1441
,
Holl
1506
,
Howard
1551
.
Royal Academy, Cousin’s benefaction
734
,
Gibson’s bequest
1141
.
Royal Society, Kew observatory given to
1130
,
refuses to print Herapath’s papers
1436
.
Royal Society Fellows,
Alexander
43
,
Arnott
90
,
Babbage
116
,
Babington
117
,
Back
119
,
Balfour F. M.
143
,
Balfour J. H.
144
,
Baly
149
,
Barclay
158
,
Barlow
168
,
Barry
181
,
Beaconsfield
203
,
Beamish N. L.
207
,
Beamish R.
207
,
Beaufort
212
,
Beck
216
,
Beechey
220
,
Bell C.
230
,
Bell T.
232
,
Bentham
247
,
Bigsby
275
,
Billing
276
,
Binney
280
,
Bird
285
,
Bishop
290
,
Blakiston
306
,
Bland
309
,
Blore
317
,
Boase
322
,
Boole
335
,
Bovill
354
,
Bowerbank
357
,
Bowring
362
,
Brandreth
382
,
Brayley
387
,
Breadalbane
387
,
Briggs
397
,
Bright
400
,
Brinton
402
,
Brisbane
402
,
Bristol
403
,
Brockedon
406
,
Brodie Sir B. C. 408–
9
,
Broke
410
,
Bromhead
412
,
Brooke Charles
415
,
Brooke Henry J.
416
,
Brougham
426
,
Broughton
428
,
Broun
429
,
Brown
437
,
Brownlow
448
,
Bruce
451
,
Brunel
453
,
Bryson
457
,
Buckland
462
,
Budd G.
466
,
Budd W.
467
,
Bunbury
472
,
Burgoyne
480
,
Burnes
485
,
Burnet J.
486
,
Burnett Sir W.
486
,
Burney
487
,
Burrow
492
,
Burton
494
,
Bury
496
,
Butter
502
,
Cabbell
508
,
Caithness
512
,
Caldcleugh
513
,
Callender
517
,
Calvert
520
,
Cameron
524
,
Cape
539
,
Carington
546
,
Carleton
547
,
Carlisle
548
,
Carne
552
,
Carpenter
556
,
Carrington
559
,
Cartwright
565
,
Cautley
574
,
Cawdor
576
,
Challis
582
,
Chambers R.
587
,
Chambers W. F.
588
,
Chandler
590
,
Chelmsford
602
,
Chesney
604
,
Children
610
,
Christie J. R.
615
,
Christie S. H.
616
,
Christmas
617
,
Christy
618
,
Clark W.
629
,
Clark W. T.
630
,
Clarke Sir C. M.
632
,
Clarke J. A. L.
632
,
Clarke W. B.
636
,
Claudet
638
,
Clerk
645
,
Clifford
649
,
Cobbold
659
,
Cockburn
663
,
Codrington
665
,
Cole
993
,
Colquhoun
685
,
Colvile
687
,
Connell
693
,
Conybeare
697
,
Cook
700
,
Cooke
701
,
Cooper B. B.
708
,
Cooper C. P.
709
,
Cooper E. J.
709
,
Copeland
715
,
Copland
716
,
Corbaux
717
,
Cotton
730
,
Cox
743
,
Crampton
750
,
Crawford
755
,
Crichton
760
,
Croft
763
,
Croker
764
,
Cubitt
779
,
Crum
778
,
Cumming
784
,
Curling
790
,
Currey
790
,
Dalrymple
807
,
Daubeny
820
,
Davidson
824
,
Davies
826
,
Davis
831
,
Davy
834
,
Dawes
837
,
De La Beche
849
,
De Morgan
855
,
Denham
857
,
Denison
858
,
De Ros
864
,
Dickie
874
,
Dickinson John
874
,
Dickinson Joseph
875
,
Dillwyn
880
,
Disney
882
,
Dixon
884
,
Dollond
891
,
Donkin B.
895
,
Donkin W. F.
895
,
Doo
898
,
Douglas
902
,
Drummond
919
,
Duckett
923
,
Dundas
933
,
Dunraven
940
,
Duppa
941
,
Dwarris
945
,
Dyce
946
,
Eastlake
953
,
Eastwick
954
,
Egerton
970
,
Elliot W.
979
,
Elliott C.
980
,
Elliott C. B.
980
,
Ellis H.
983
,
Ellis H.
984
,
Enniskillen
993
,
Erle
995
,
Evans
1003
,
Everest
1007
,
Fairbairn
1014
,
Falconer
1017
,
Faraday
1020
,
Farr
1023
,
Farre
1024
,
Featherstonhaugh
1029
,
Fellowes
1033
,
Fergusson J.
1037
,
Fergusson Sir W.
1037
,
Field F.
1041
,
Field J.
1042
,
Finlay
1048
,
Fisher
1053
,
Fitton
1056
,
Fitzroy
1064
,
Fletcher
1069
,
Flight
1071
,
Forbes
1076
,
Forbes E.
1077
,
Forbes J. D.
1077
,
Forbes Sir J.
1078
,
Forshall
1083
,
Fortescue
1087
,
Fowler
1093
,
Fox R. W.
1095
,
Fox W.
1096
,
Frere G. E.
1107
,
Frere H. B. E.
1107
,
Freshfield
1108
,
Froude
1110
,
Galloway
1118
,
Garrod
1126
,
Gaskin
1129
,
Gassiot
1130
,
Gibbes
1137
,
Gilbart
1144
,
Glynn
1162
,
Godwin
1164
,
Godwin-Austen
1165
,
Goldsmid
1168
,
Gompertz
1169
,
Gordon H. P. and J. A.
1180
,
Gordon J. W.
1181
,
Gosse
1187
,
Gould
1191
,
Graham Sir J. R. G.
1196
,
Graham T.
1198
,
Grainger
1199
,
Grant R. E.
1206
,
Grant Sir T. T.
1206
,
Granville
1208
,
Gravatt
1210
,
Graves J. T.
1212
,
Graves R. J.
1213
,
Gray G. R.
1215
,
Gray H.
1215
,
Gray J. E.
1216
,
Green
1225
,
Greenhow
1228
,
Greig
1236
,
Greswell
1238
,
Griess
1243
,
Griffith
1244
,
Grubb
1253
,
Guest J.
1254
,
Guest J. J.
1255
,
Gull
1257
,
Gulliver
1257
,
Gunn
1258
,
Gurney
1261
,
Guthrie F.
1264
,
Guthrie G. J.
1264
,
Guy
1266
,
Haast
1269
,
Haig
1274
,
Haldane
1276
,
Hall M.
1288
,
Hall T. H.
1291
,
Halliwell
1295
,
Hamilton, duke of
1298
,
Hamilton H. P.
1301
,
Hamilton J.
1303
,
Hamilton W. J.
1306
,
Hamilton W. R.
1307
,
Hanbury
1312
,
Hansler
1321
,
Harcourt
1325
,
Harding
1327
,
Hardwick J.
1330
,
Hardwick P.
1331
,
Hardy
1332
,
Harford
1335
,
Hargreave
1336
,
Harkness
1338
,
Harris
1351
,
Harrison
1352
,
Harvey
1367
,
Harvey
1369
,
Hasted
1371
,
Hatherley
1376
,
Hatherton
1376
,
Hawkins C. H.
1386
,
Hawkins E.
1387
,
Hawkins J. H.
1389
,
Head
1404
,
Heath G. C.
1411
,
Heath J. B.
1411
,
Henfrey
1427
,
Henwood
1435
,
Herapath
1437
,
Herschel
1447
,
Hewett
1454
,
Heygate
1456
,
Heywood
1457
,
Higginbottom
1463
,
Higman
1466
,
Hogg
1502
,
Hill Sir R.
1474
,
Hilton
1479
,
Hobhouse
427
,
Hoblyn
1489
,
Hodgkinson
1493
,
Hodgson
1496
,
Holland C.
1507
,
Holland H.
1508
,
Holman
1513
,
Home
1520
,
Hood
1524
,
Hook
1526
,
Hooker
1526
,
Hope
1530
,
Hopkins
1534
,
Hoppus
1536
,
Horne
1539
,
Horner
1540
,
Horsfield
1541
,
Hoskins
1545
,
Houghton
1547
,
Howard J. E.
1553
,
Howard L.
1554
,
Hume
1586
,
Hunt G.
1590
,
Hunt R.
1592
,
Hunter
1594
,
Hyett
1611
,
Hymers
1612
,
Quin
940
,
Wood
1376
.
Royal warrant
1147
.
Rugby, rebellion at
731
.
Rugeley poisoning case
1565
.
Runic literature
1275
.
Rural deans, account of
812
.
Ruskin, John
b.
1819 art critic, employs J. W. Bunny
474
.
Russia, blank passes in
104
,
Lancaster schools introduced
1408
,
Mennonites emigrate to Canada
1367
,
peace with
737
,
Sebastopol, siege of
479
.
Russia, St. Petersburg, Baird works founded
133
,
Alexander column bas reliefs
133
,
St. Nicholas bridge built
133
.
S
Sabbath question, collection of books on the
742
.
Sacred heart, society of the
797
.
Sailors homes established
1226
,
1292
.
St. Albans, Harriet Beauclerk
d.
1837 duchess of, Spanish dances composed for
310
.
St. Andrew’s university, principal 394 and rector
76
,
only place where degree can be obtained without residence
285
.
St. Helens foundries
800
.
St. John of Jerusalem, order of
429
,
prior of
948
.
Safe maker, Chubb
618
.
Salford, first member of parliament
423
,
Peel park given to
29
.
Salisbury, bishop of
858
,
Blackmore museum
299
,
Salisbury and south Wiltshire museum
1093
.
Salmon, killing fifty two in fifty five hours
1061
.
Salvage committee, the first formed
348
.
Sands, Dick
b.
1840 clog dancer
1399
.
Sandwich islands, king and queen of in England
317
,
505
.
San Remo, climate of
820
.
Sanskrit scholars,
Brown
430
,
Goldstuecker
1168
,
Haas
1268
.
Saws and sawing, endless band machine
1009
,
inventions and improvements in saws
882
.
Sax horns, improvements in
882
.
Scandinavian scholar, Barclay
159
.
Scene painters,
Bough
347
,
Danson
812
,
Fenton
1034
,
Greenwood
1231
,
Telbin
1243
.
Scheffer, Ary
d.
1858 painter, his model for Monica
1511
.
Schools,
agricultural
961
,
farm sch. system
1070
,
Fellenberg’s system of industrial schools
507
,
Hazelwood system of management
1474
,
school excursions established
1448
,
seven pupils drowned
1070
.
Sciography or examples of shadows
1267
.
Scotland, Aberdeen, Udney sch. near
291
,
baronial architecture
455
,
church courts
700
,
churches, scheme for building two hundred
534
,
congregational union founded
320
,
education of women
1300
,
etymological dictionary of the language
755
,
Ferguson bequest founded
1035
,
Glasgow, first provost of
1199
,
Glenalmond coll.
1319
,
1424
,
1532
,
great seal, keeper of
1519
,
historiographer royal
409
,
494
,
jesuits introduced
1150
,
legitimate king of
1298
,
Lockmaben, keeper of
1532
,
locomotive engine the first
551
,
lunacy commission
744
,
poor, board of supervision
47
,
premier earl on union roll
753
,
Roman catholic bp.
1150
,
Rothesay, episcopacy restored in
1525
,
royal archers
1529
,
royal assoc. for promoting fine arts
755
,
secretary of state
804
,
Sunday travelling stopped
1424
,
Tay bridge, fall of
346
,
tramway the first
1193
,
Wellington school for criminals
644
.
Scott, Sir Walter
d.
1832, Abbotsford
317
,
1393
,
1532
,
Greig much like him
1235
,
his library
660
,
his friends
1150
,
1502
,
his legal adviser
1141
,
sermons by
1179
,
Waverley, authorship of
25
,
Waverley, MS. of
1286
,
Waverley novels,
printing of
738
,
Waverley novels, transcriber of
1179
,
works purchased by Black
292
.
Screw propellers, experiments with
453
.
Scullers,
Bagshawe
126
,
Bates
192
,
Casamajor
567
,
Chambers J. G.
586
,
Chambers R.
587
,
Clasper
637
,
Coombes
707
.
Sculptors,
Behnes
223
,
Brodie
408
,
Burnard
484
,
Campbell
534
,
Carew
544
,
Durham
943
,
Earle
951
,
Fillans
1045
,
Foley
1073
,
Forrest
1082
,
Francis
1098
,
Fuller
1111
,
Gatley
1130
,
Gibson J.
1140
,
Gibson S.
1141
,
Gott
1189
,
Henning
1431
,
Hinchliff
1479
,
Hogan
1500
,
Hollins
1511
,
Hughes
1576
.
Sea, deep sea dredging
1596
,
sea water, composition of
1596
.
Secularist, Greg
1231
.
Selby, St. James’ ch. erected
107
.
Selkirk, Alexander
d.
1723 prototype of Robinson Crusoe, life of
1557
.
Sellis
d.
1810 attempts to murder Duke of Cumberland
1320
.
Selwyn, George Augustus
d.
1791 M.P., his adopted dau.
1449
.
Sennacherib
d.
680 B.C. king of Assyria, his name discovered on a monument
1480
.
Serjeants at law,
Adams
16
,
Alderson
40
,
Allen
52
,
Amphlett
58
,
Archibald
82
,
Bellasis
233
,
Bovill
354
,
Burke
480
,
Byles
504
,
Campbell
526
,
Channell
590
,
Clarke
635
,
Cleasby
643
,
Cox
741
,
Cresswell
758
,
Cross
770
,
Crowder
774
,
Doyley
913
,
Erle
954
,
Gaselee
1128
,
Glover
1160
,
Glynn
1161
,
Goulburn
1190
,
Halcomb
1276
,
Hayes
1398
,
Heath
1411
,
Hill
1471
,
Honyman
1523
,
Huddleston
1565
,
Storks
1190
,
peer made a serjeant
526
.
Sermons remarkable
99
,
472
,
1526
.
Serpents, serpent myths
712
, worship of
842
.
Sewage, method of utilising
113
.
Sewing machine, Singer, original suggestion for the
214
,
introduced to Bombay
792
.
Sextant,
improved
831
,
protracting pocket
132
.
Shaftesbury, Anthony A.
d.
1885 seventh earl, his colleagues
1052
.
Shakespeare, William
d.
1616, before St. Thomas Lucy
1365
,
catalogue of plays in all languages
1391
,
chair
1164
,
clowns, representations of
690
,
dramas produced at Sadler’s Wells
1231
,
New Place purchased
1295
,
no deerstalker
371
,
literary cookery with reference to matters attributed to
377
,
Shakspeare soc.
1295
,
Stratford library, librarian
1391
,
tercentenary
1071
,
1349
,
twelve plays produced in Dublin
1349
,
works in all languages, collection of
1578
.
Shakespeare, William, editions of his works,
The Cambridge
629
,
Cassell’s illustrated
631
,
Clarke’s edition
631
,
Collier’s editions
678
,
Collier’s reported forgeries
677
,
facsimile of the quartos
1295
,
Harness’ edition
1342
,
Perkin’s folio
678
.
Shakespeare, William, his plays, Hamlet, long run of
191
,
King Richard ii. Greek version
1558
,
Midsummer night’s dream, music for
703
,
Titus Andronicus acted
42
,
Winter’s tale acted
102
,
Winter’s tale, music for
703
.
Shakespeare scholars,
Bulloch
471
,
Clarke
631
,
Collier
678
,
Dyce
946
,
Halliwell
1295
,
Harness
1342
,
Perkins
678
.
Shakespearian readers,
Bellew
234
,
Betham
262
,
Glyn
1161
.
Shawls, knitted, manufactory for
1350
,
shawl manufacturers
626
,
1106
.
Sheep breeders,
Berners
257
,
Garrett
1126
,
Hall
1286
.
Sheffield, Mark Firth almshouses
1051
,
Firth park
1051
,
Firth college
1051
,
money left to
127
,
saw grinders union
405
.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
d.
1822 poet, eloped with Clara M. J. Clairmont
621
,
his friends
1503
,
1568
,
1591
,
the necessity of atheism
1503
.
Shells, collections of,
Broderip
408
,
Carpenter
555
,
Cuming
783
,
1218
,
Dyson
949
,
Hope
1530
.
Sheriff, declining to serve as, Carne
552
.
Ship builders,
Elder
972
,
Fincham
1046
,
Harland
1339
.
Ship owners,
Burns
488
,
Cunard
489
,
Green
1226
,
Guion
1256
,
Hartley
1361
,
Henderson
1425
,
Hodgkinson
1493
,
Mac Iver
489
.
Shipping Companies,
Allan founded 48
bis.
,
British and North American founded
786
,
Cunard
489
,
785
–
86
,
East India steam navigation
1422
,
Great Eastern
1170
,
Guion line
1256
,
Henderson line
1425
,
Montreal Ocean founded
48
,
Peninsular and O.S.N. Co. formation of
48
,
60
,
See also
Steam ships.
Ships and Shipping,
anchors, inventions in
112
,
boats, safety rods for
10
,
bow and stern rudder
1422
,
Boxer’s rocket
859
,
cellular system of building
1259
,
Denham’s jury tiller
856
,
Dennett’s life saving rocket
859
,
diagonal system of building
914
,
iron ships sheathed with copper
1208
,
Juanita built in 70 days
824
,
load line committee
861
,
resistance and propulsion of
1110
,
screw trenail fastenings
914
,
stay sails
1413
,
to propel during a calm
494
,
water tight bulkheads, invention of
224
,
watering, plan of
1054
,
wrecked ships, raising of
389
.
Shipwrecks,
Arctic
727
,
Brazen
1322
,
Captain
479
,
675
,
General Outram
557
,
Great Britain
389
,
Kent
1029
,
1334
,
London
915
,
Lutine frigate
1417
,
Orion
634
,
Orpheus
487
,
Pacific
571
,
Princess Alice
564
,
Psyche
649
,
Reynard
746
,
Thetis
875
.
Shoemakers learned,
Beattie
210
,
Brown
434
,
Burnet
485
,
Crocker
762
,
Edwards
963
,
Elmslie
989
,
Fawcett
1028
,
Gammage
1119
,
Hall
1289
,
Hunter
1596
,
Pounds
210
.
Short-hand, Bradley’s system
374
,
philosophic shorthand
1476
.
Short-hand writers,
Gurney J.
1262
,
Gurney W.
1263
,
Harland
1339
.
Showmen,
Bishop
290
,
Feeney
1031
,
Richardson
564
,
1447
.
Shrewsbury, bishop of
433
.
Shrewsbury school, captain of
1588
,
the beef row
1467
.
Sicily, Eclipse expedition to
1351
.
Silk, merchants
987
,
1256
,
1557
,
silk printing
77
,
silk throwing
733
.
Siliad, The, authors of
221
.
Silver, to extract from it ore without mercury
610
.
Silver Cross, order of the
1232
.
Silver smiths, Hamlet
1308
,
Storr and Mortimer
1551
.
Simeon, Rev. Charles
d.
1836 of Cambridge, his curate
1434
.
Sinai, exploration of peninsula of
601
,
survey fund founded
1507
.
Singers,
See also
Actors
1617
,
Aspull
100
,
Binge
878
,
Bishop
1561
,
Bosio
344
,
Braham
378
,
Brough
424
,
Caradori-Allan
541
,
Collins
679
,
Comer J.
689
,
Comer T.
689
,
Cooper
711
,
Crivelli
762
,
Crosmond
770
,
Donnadieu
896
,
Drayton
916
,
Fagniani
1449
,
Favanti
1027
,
Fearon
1345
,
Frazer
1103
,
Gibbs
1138
,
Giuglini
1154
,
Graddon
1138
,
Green
1226
,
Grisi
1249
,
Harrison
1356
,
Hawes
1384
,
Hayes
1397
,
Henry
1432
,
Hersee
1556
,
Hicks
1461
,
Hobbs
1487
,
Home
1520
,
Horn
1537
,
Howell
1556
,
Huddart
1565
,
Hunt J.
1592
,
Hunt W.
1594
,
Lennox
1539
,
Lind
1158
,
Murska
60
,
Paton
1138
,
Paul
1072
,
Pyne
1539
,
Romer
424
,
1537
,
Stephens 997–
8
,
1138
,
Thillon
1567
,
Young
997
.
Singers, comic, Clifton
649
,
Collins
680
,
Cowell
736
,
Coyne
744
,
Feeney
1031
,
Fitzwilliam
1065
,
Herbert
1440
.
Sinner’s friend, a tract
1287
.
Siskin’s nest, a
801
.
Skelt, publisher of the Toy theatre
1523
.
Sketching on wood with a hot iron
1576
.
Skulls and skeletons, collection of
831
.
Slaves and slavery,
abolitionists
361
,
1074
,
duration of life
1048
,
emancipation of in West Indies
635
,
freeing of the slaves
1048
,
slaves in Tennessee
818
.
Sleep,
nervous sleep
378
,
sleep and dreams, a monograph of
741
,
to procure at will
281
.
Sligo, lord lieutenant
339
,
Markree castle observatory
709
.
Small coal man, a political song
1573
.
Smee, Alfred, M.D.
1606
.
Smith, Assheton, pictures painted for
1038
.
Smith, Rev. Sydney
d.
1845 canon of St. Paul’s, memoir of
1509
.
Soap, resin used in making
1589
,
soap makers
900
,
1383
.
Smoking apparatus, Bragge’s collection
378
.
Snake bites, cures for
502
.
Snuff, Petersham mixture
1344
.
Sobieski, Amelia A. G. princess of
865
.
Societies,
See also
Associations
col.
1623 and Institutions
col.
1649
.
Actors’ fund founded
1209
.
Adult instruction founded
157
.
Æsthetic, Edin. founded
1393
.
Alists contemplated
161
.
Almondbury clerical founded
1547
.
Anastatic founded
1237
.
Anthropological and Ethnological
299
.
Anthropological founded
1591
.
Animals’ friend founded
1086
,
1170
.
Anti Piratical, gold medal
875
.
Antique academy Birmingham, founded
1124
.
Architects benevolent fund originators
1276
,
property left to
1073
.
Ashmolean founded
1238
.
Astronomical founded
1169
,
1447
.
Athenian founded
6
.
Aurelian founded
783
.
Bach founded
244
.
Bath and west of England soc., journal of
1175
.
Birmingham political union founded
105
.
Blue Friars established
1351
.
Botanical established
1247
.
Botanical of Edinburgh founded
144
.
British and foreign bible, founded
1316
.
British and foreign sch. soc. training coll.
793
.
British and foreign temperance founded
681
.
British artists established
1515
,
president
1601
.
British, for propagating gospel among Jews
1448
.
British madrigal conductor
719
.
Cambridge antiquarian projected
1295
,
founded
723
.
Cambridge philosophical founded
1434
.
Cambridge university musical founded
948
.
Camden founded
451
.
Cavendish founded
1198
.
Cavendish philological and chemical members
580
.
Celtic union originated
536
.
Chemical, London, founded
361
,
1198
,
1228
,
1244
,
1437
.
Chetham projected
724
,
773
.
Christian instruction originated
296
.
Colonial missionary founded
280
.
Communist propaganda founded
169
.
Congregational union merged in Missionary Soc.
9
.
Conservative land founded
1253
.
Contrapuntists founded
1072
.
Corresponding founded
217
.
Coventry labourers’ and artisans’ established
385
.
De Quincey founded
1160
.
Dublin historical originated
231
.
Dublin, models left to
1073
.
Dublin university zoological and botanical founded
146
.
English church union founded
391
.
Entomological founded
783
,
1530
.
Epidemiological, chief founder
117
.
Ethnological
299
,
434
,
755
.
Evening sketching founded
584
.
Fanny Wright founded
818
.
Farmers’ alliance originated
1552
.
Folk lore founded
713
.
Freed slaves aid originated
795
.
Friends of Italy founded
96
.
Geological, foundation of
29
,
1229
.
Godists advocated
161
.
Granger founded
1326
.
Graphic society of artists founded
406
.
Harleian founded
605
.
Historical of Lancashire and Cheshire founded
1584
.
Holbein founded
1223
,
publications
99
.
Home missionary originated
9
.
Horticultural, collector for in Brazil
893
,
sec. of
247
.
Huguenot founded
1153
.
Hunterian president
734
.
Ilam Anastatic drawing and Anastatic soc.
1237
.
Incorporated law instituted
1513
.
India reform founded
874
.
Juridical, sec. of
625
.
Kilkenny archæological established
1211
.
Lambeth chemical established
783
.
League of universal brotherhood developed
491
.
Legal discussion founded
157
.
Liberal registration, sec. of
717
.
Linnean, black ball J. E. Gray
1216
.
London and Middlesex archæological founded
1579
.
London astrological, last survivor of
1270
.
London city mission, sec.
1127
.
London corresponding chairman
281
.
London organ school founded
626
.
London professional chorus founded
1348
.
London surgical home formed
432
.
Manx established
1357
.
Mathematical president
1169
.
Metaphysical, a member of
649
.
Metropolitan soc. of florists and amateurs started
1157
.
Microscopical founded
357
.
Middlesex archæological founded
352
.
Midland medical founded
1453
.
Moslem missionary founded
87
.
Motett founded
946
.
Musomanik, at Anstruther founded
1214
.
National founded
730
,
money raised for
1238
.
Natural history, Glasgow, founded
1219
.
New British and foreign dissolved
488
.
Newcastle literary and philosophical founded
232
.
Northumberland and Durham natural history founded
39
.
Numismatic first meeting
37
.
Odontological first president
565
.
Oxford churchmen’s union founded
1284
.
Paleontographical founded
357
.
Parker secretary and librarian
113
.
Patagonian missionary founded
1121
.
Patriotic, rewards by
1056
.
Peace, first congress
491
.
Penzance natural history and antiquarian curator
731
.
People’s international league founded
96
.
Pharmaceutical originated
1313
,
founded
228
.
Philharmonic, chief originator of
114
,
725
.
Philobiblon secretary
853
.
Philological founded
1254
,
member of
674
.
Philological school, principal of
2
.
Photographic founded
1090
.
Phrenological founded
688
,
979
.
Physical of London founded
1264
.
Plinian, Edinburgh, founded
134
.
Polytechnic, Liverpool, founded
1208
.
Prayer book and homily founded
467
.
Psychological founded
741
.
Ray founded
357
.
Record first president
773
.
Religious book and tract founded
959
.
Royal agricultural of England founded
1126
,
sec.
1567
.
Royal Birmingham soc. of artists founded
1124
.
Royal college of chemistry founded
1122
.
Royal Cornwall polytechnic founders
1094
,
1095
.
Royal general theatrical fund founded
737
.
Royal geographical founded
410
,
427
.
Royal geological of Cornwall curator
731
.
Royal historical first council
605
.
Royal horticultural gardens at Chiswick
1088
.
Royal medical and chirurgical presidents
23
,
790
,
980
.
Royal physical, Edinburgh, reformed
1219
,
president
670
.
Royal society of literature founded
117
,
sec.
572
.
Sacred harmonic founded
393
,
conductor
725
,
dissolved
1603
.
Sanskrit text
1168
.
Selenographical established
288
.
Silk conditioning, originator of
579
.
Società armonica
conductor
1077
.
Soc. for diffusion of useful knowledge established
1473
.
Soc. for Irish ch. missions to R. Catholics founded
804
.
Soc. for obtaining free access to museums founded
1072
.
Soc. for propagation of gospel, secretary
1388
.
Soc. for protection of agriculture founded
137
.
Soc. for protection of ancient buildings founded
1569
.
Soc. for psychical research founded
446
,
1260
.
Soc. for suppression of mendacity, secretary
324
.
Soc. of antiquaries of Newcastle founded
229
,
232
.
Soc. of arts secretary
1090
.
Soc. of arts, Edinburgh, secretary
1469
.
Soc. of arts for Scotland, president
809
.
Soc. of biblical archæology founded
712
.
Soc. of British artists founded
52
.
Soc. of British musicians, member of
611
.
Soc. of Hebrew literature founded
239
.
Soc. of Noviomagus founded
765
,
president
1289
.
Speculative, Edinburgh, history of
644
,
member
1537
.
Spencer president
773
.
Spiritual athenæum founded
1519
.
Spitalfields mathematical, member of
580
.
Statistical and social enquiry of Ireland
1315
.
Statistical, founders of
116
,
1293
.
Sunday school union founded
1263
.
Surtees vice president
773
.
Sussex archæological founder
292
.
Swedenborg society, house for
651
.
Sydenham dissolved
117
.
Thames marine officers training ship
1226
.
United Irish, member of
653
.
Universal communitarian founded
169
.
Wernerian dissolved
670
.
Western madrigal, conductor of
735
.
Westminster medical president
615
.
Zoological society founded
408
,
1530
.
Soda, pyrophosphate of discovered
628
.
Somersault thrower, Delevanti
853
.
Somnambulism
686
.
Soutar, Charles stole Earl Crawford’s body
754
.
Southall park asylum Middlesex, burnt
367
.
Southey, Robert
d.
1843 poet, Cottle’s connection with
728
.
Soyer, Alexis
d.
1858 cook, his Pantropheon
1027
.
Spain, archives at Simancas
252
,
Badajoz, storming of
1132
,
British legion in
685
,
1003
,
handbook of
1080
,
plays, collection of
614
.
Sparrows, purveyor of, Barber
156
.
Speaking with tongues
91
.
Species, origin of
819
.
Spedding, James
d.
1874 barrister, his friend
1058
.
Speech, stammering, cure of
578
,
1590
,
1593
,
treatment of impediments
290
.
Spermatozoa within the ovum first discovered
183
.
Spinal complaints, establishment for
56
.
Spirits, method of levying duties on
886
.
Spiritualists,
Cox
741
,
Crowe
775
,
Gibson
1142
,
Greg
1231
,
Hall
1289
,
Home
1519
,
1559
,
Howitt
1559
.
Sporting prophet, Hotspur
1032
.
Staffordshire lords lieutenant
71
,
1376
.
Stammering, curers of
290
,
578
,
1590
,
1593
.
Stamps and taxes amalgamated with the excise
191
.
Stanley, Henry Morton
i.e.
John Rowlands
b.
1841, search for Livingstone
242
.
Star fishes, collection of
277
.
Stars,
circumpolar
559
,
near the ecliptic
709
,
red
288
,
starcraft
661
.
Stationers,
Causton
574
,
Herring
1447
.
Statuary, collections of
182
,
1531
,
tinted
1141
.
Statues and Busts,
Acland
12
,
Addison
23
,
Albert
410
,
943
,
1073
,
1097
,
Alexander
44
,
Alford
46
,
Amos
57
,
Attwood
106
,
Balfe
142
,
Beaconsfield
204
,
Bennett
243
,
Black
292
,
Borghese
534
,
Bourke
350
,
Brotherton
423
,
Buccleuch
534
,
Burke
481
,
Burrows
492
,
Campbell
528
,
Canning
1073
,
Carlyle
550
,
Carmichael
551
,
Cavendish
576
,
Chadwick
581
,
Clyde
657
,
Combermere
689
,
Cooke
702
,
Crossley
773
,
Cubbon
778
,
Dargan
814
,
Darwin
819
,
Earle
952
,
Elliott
484
,
Fairburn
1014
,
Ferguson
1082
,
Field
1041
,
Fletcher
130
,
Fowke
1092
,
Fox
1096
,
Frere
1108
,
Galignani
1117
,
George iv.
1133
,
Gilbert
1145
,
Goodenough
1173
,
Gordon
1178
,
Gray
1216
,
Greenough
1229
,
Guinness
1256
,
Hall
1288
,
Hampden
1073
,
Harding
1073
,
Herbert
1438
,
Hill
1475
,
Hoste
534
,
Humfrey
1586
,
Hunt
1593
,
Huskisson
544
,
Knox
1082
,
Lander
484
,
Melville
1082
,
Napoleon, prince imperial
330
,
Outram
1073
,
Richmond
408
,
Selden
1073
,
Telford
130
,
Victoria
408
,
410
,
534
,
1141
,
Whittington
544
,
William iii.
120
.
Stead, James Hurst
d.
1886 singer and dancer, the perfect cure
312
.
Steam engines, air pump condenser for horizontal
1010
,
boiler, a safety
1055
,
boilers, incrustation of
117
,
boilers, multitubular suggested
336
,
compound high and low pressure
972
,
fusible plug for boiler
888
,
high pressure used
1261
,
portable invented
1126
,
steam jet invented
1261
.
Steam locomotives, car to travel on ordinary roads
512
,
Dart locomotive at Liverpool
1171
,
dimensions of cylinders and driving wheels
496
,
double bogie engine
1016
,
fixed eccentrics
1392
,
first in Scotland
551
,
first between Liverpool and Manchester
463
,
flexible steam bags used
1315
,
Hancock’s steam engine
1315
,
improver of
62
,
inventor of
1416
,
link motion
1556
,
locomotives on roads
1539
,
permanent way for railways
512
,
three cylinder engine
1556
.
Steam road rollers invented
110
.
Steam ships, builder of
860
,
first going around the Cape
1422
,
iron ship building yard
1014
,
navigation introduced by Brunton
454
,
steamships to distant foreign ports the first
48
,
twin boats
551
.
Steam vessels,
City of Melbourne
670
,
Great Britain
453
,
1259
,
1544
,
Great Eastern
453
,
1170
,
1356
,
Great Western
453
,
1259
,
1544
,
Tourist
432
.
Steel, puddled
641
,
steel manufacturers
1051
,
1095
.
Steel pen maker, Gillott
1151
.
Steeple chasers,
Angell
70
,
Bean
208
,
Becher
215
,
Holman
1513
.
Stereoscope, lenticular invented
394
.
Stereotyping, Dellagana process
854
,
papier mâché
854
,
See also
Printing
1683
.
Sterling, John
d.
1844 essayist, his friend
1093
.
Sterne, Laurence
d.
1768 humorist, letters by
712
.
Stevenson, William
d.
1829 keeper of treasury records
1128
.
Stiff, George
d.
1875 newspaper proprietor
1160
.
Stock brokers,
Antrobus
539
,
Durrant
943
,
Easthope
953
,
Gray
1215
.
Stock jobbing fraud
934
.
Stockings, frames for
83
,
manufacturer of
1122
.
Stone, artificial
1466
,
expansion of by heat
25
.
Stone implements from America
298
.
Storm warnings
1064
.
Story teller, Hicks
1462
.
Stoves, Arnott’s
90
.
Stowe, Buckinghamshire, art collections sold
460
.
Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher
b.
1812,
payment to by Beeton
221
,
vindication of lady Byron
507
.
Stowell, Rev. Hugh
d.
1865 canon of Chester, action for libel against
1409
.
Straham, Paul and Bates, bankers, prosecution of
1244
.
Stratford-on-Avon,
See also
Shakespeare, William
1694
,
1695
,
churchwardens’ presentments
1536
,
Trinity coll. sch. founded
683
.
Strength, feats of, balancing a wheel, a plank and a donkey on a ladder
1030
.
Stuart, pretenders to the heirship of the family of
49
,
50
,
52
.
Sudeley castle, Gloucestershire, restored
861
.
Suffolk, materials for history of
834
.
Sugar, crystals of diabetic sugar discovered
1136
,
sugar refiner
380
.
Sullivan, Alexander Martin
b.
1830 M.P., his trial
1057
.
Sullivan, Arabella Jane
d.
1839 author
798
.
Sun, solar rays, researches on
1592
,
spots on the sun
559
,
sunshine recorder invention of
532
,
registration of sunshine
1493
.
Sunderland, banquet to Hudson
1566
,
bridge over Wear
1136
.
Surgeons,
Abraham
9
,
Acton
12
,
Adams
17
,
Aldis
41
,
Alexander
43
,
Amesbury
56
,
Asbury
92
,
Aulsebrook
107
,
Babington
118
,
Barton
188
,
Becket
216
,
Bell
232
,
Bellot
236
,
Bent
246
,
Bird
285
,
Blair
302
,
Braid
378
,
Brett
391
,
Brodie
408
,
Callender
517
,
Cobbold
659
,
Cooper
708
,
Coote
714
,
Copeland
715
,
Copland
716
,
Coulson
732
,
Cox
734
,
Crampton
750
,
Critchett
762
,
Curtis
793
,
Diamond
870
,
Dunlop
937
,
Dunn
939
,
Epps
954
,
Fergusson
1038
,
Fife
1044
,
Fletcher
1070
,
Forster
1085
,
Fuller
1112
,
Gamgee
1119
,
Gaskoin G.
1129
,
Gaskoin J. S.
1129
,
Gay
1132
,
Grainger
1199
,
Green
1225
,
Gregory
1234
,
Griffiths
1247
,
Gulliver
1257
,
Hargrave
1336
,
Harvey
1368
,
Hawkins
1386
,
Heckford
1416
,
Hewett
1453
,
Higginbottom
1463
,
Hildige
1466
,
Hill
1474
,
Hillman
1477
,
Hilton
1479
,
Hinton
1483
,
Hodgson
1496
,
Houlton
1549
,
Hughes
1573
,
Hunt
1590
,
Hurman
1601
.
Surgeons, veterinary,
Cherry
603
,
Clark
625
,
Dick
872
,
Gamgee
1119
,
Gresswell
1237
.
Surgery,
apparatus for exploring internal cavities of the body invented
110
,
bead suture invented
415
,
blood letting discouraged
1524
,
chest, instrument for examination of
41
,
cleft palate, operation for
110
,
dissections reproduced in wax
1479
,
first surgeon to claim payment for advice
1406
,
gas cautery invented
449
,
gastrotomy, operation for
1085
,
Grainger’s school of anatomy Southwark
179
,
hydrocephalus, tapping for
695
,
iliac artery first tied successfully
33
,
instrument for making deep sutures invented
214
,
laryngoscope invented
117
,
lithotrite for crushing stone in bladder
1264
,
lost limbs, substitutes for
274
,
os calsis removed and foot retained
1314
,
ovariotomy
284
,
paracentesis capitis
1416
,
renal aneurism the first case
1188
,
spinal curvatures
954
,
tumours from the larynx removed by the mouth
1136
,
varicose veins, their treatment
591
.
Surrey, Camberwell, St. George’s chapel opened
18
,
zoological gardens
516
,
770
,
812
.
Sussex, coins found in
1368
,
provincialism in use
712
,
white carrot introduced
491
.
Swansea, duke of Beaufort’s gaol abolished
1017
.
Swartzenburgh, Felix, prince and lady Ellenborough
878
.
Swimming, plate swimming
938
.
Swinburne, Algernon Charles
b.
1837 poet, Hotten publishes his poems when Moxon refuses
1547
.
Switzerland, blind asylum at Lausanne
1277
,
Clias’ gift to Berne
647
.
Sydenham,
See
Crystal palace
1635
.
Sympiesometer, invention of
25
.
Synonyms, English
745
.
T
Tailors, Carter
561
,
Doudney
901
.
“Take care of Dowb”
906
.
Talbot family picture
831
.
Tamil scholars, Elliot
979
,
Hoole
1527
.
Tamworth, the last recorder of
1594
.
Tape worms
659
.
Taper bars, rolling of
641
.
Tebbutt, Rev. Francis indicted Joseph Ady
26
.
Telegraphs and Telegraphy,
See also
Electricity
1639
,
Clark’s projected telegraph
627
,
Croll, the pioneer of
765
,
electro telegraph co.
705
,
electric telegraph, invention of
705
,
Highton’s code
1465
,
india rubber insulated telegraph cables
1528
,
single needle apparatus
705
,
magnetic telegraph needle
705
,
telegraph Paddington and West Drayton
705
,
telegraph construction and maintenance co.
1156
,
1170
,
telegraphy without insulation
1466
,
the study of
1447
,
twisted iron wires introduced
1156
,
United Kingdom electric telegraph co.
765
.
Telegraphs, Submarine,
Anglo American co.
1156
,
Atlantic cable
1156
,
Atlantic telegraph co.
78
,
391
,
440
,
British and Irish co. founded
1429
,
Dover and Calais
493
,
1156
,
Dover and Cape Grisnez
391
,
Dover and Ostend
391
,
Hoarder’s improvement
1409
,
Hooper’s co.
1528
,
Orfordness to the Hague
493
,
Sardinia and France
391
,
Submarine electric co.
855
,
Submarine telegraph co.
391
.
Telescopes,
See also
Observatories
1677
,
Cooke’s telescope at Gateshead the largest in England
703
,
manufacturers of large telescopes
806
.
Teloogoo or Telugu, language
527
,
scholar
430
.
Temperance,
bottle, the, eight plates
777
,
Bradford temperance soc. the first in England
213
,
British and foreign temperance soc.
681
,
drunkard’s children, eight plates
777
,
licensed victuallers’ testimonial to Berkeley for opposing temperance
253
,
temperance dictionary
488
,
worship of Bacchus, a picture
777
.
Temperance advocates,
Brisco
402
,
Burns
488
,
Cassell
567
,
Collins
681
,
Edgar
959
,
Edwards
967
,
Gough
1190
,
Grubb
1252
,
Guest
1254
,
Hall
1292
,
Hoyle
1562
.
Temperature, internal of the earth
1095
.
Ten hours’ bill
1205
.
Tennis players, Cox
743
,
Davies
828
,
tennis court
743
.
Tennyson; Alfred
b.
1809 poet laureate, his friend
1058
,
May queen set to music
856
,
Œnone in Latin hexameters
1005
,
Tiresias
1058
.
Tent, an improved
911
.
Thackeray, William Makepeace
d.
1863 novelist, combat of Sayerius and Heenanus
1417
,
his friends
1000
,
1058
,
1182
,
Newcomes, illustrations to
912
,
studies on Thackeray
1320
.
Theatres,
companies in Germany
1054
,
Cumberland’s British theatre
782
,
811
,
891
,
Dolby’s British theatre
891
,
dramatic, equestrian and musical sick fund founded
73
,
dramatic burial ground
73
,
dramatic coll.
73
,
examiner of plays
896
,
London theatres, Bray’s account of
387
,
orchestra stalls introduced
473
,
religious services in
406
,
scene painters
347
,
812
,
1034
,
1231
,
1243
,
theatrical mechanician
376
,
theatrical posters
1091
,
theatrical portraits
943
,
toy theatre, characters and scenery for
1523
.
Theatres and other places of Amusement,
See also
Actors 1617 and Music halls
1665
.
Adelaide gallery, entertainment at
561
.
Albert saloon, manager
1447
.
Alexandra built
1152
.
Astley’s, lessee
704
,
rebuilt
195
,
renamed the Westminster theatre
903
.
Avenue lessee
1421
.
Bower saloon lessee
1403
.
City of London lessee
1522
.
Coburg built
1345
,
drama at
955
.
Comedy lessee
1421
.
Court acting manager
1609
.
Covent garden burnt
64
,
1268
,
1482
,
converted into an opera house
38
,
lessees
1268
,
1345
,
1356
,
manager
473
,
musical director
1158
,
opera of 1846 organised
1253
,
reconstructed
181
,
scene painter
1243
,
stage manager
1345
.
Cremorne gardens, manager
984
,
proprietors
15
,
Bradley commits suicide in
372
.
Criterion, lessee
1421
,
managers
507
,
1483
.
Drury lane burnt down
290
,
great city, run of
1294
,
Hughes’ circus at
1571
,
Jullien at
1268
,
lessees
473
,
599
bis.
,
1011
,
managers
329
,
473
,
money lost in
599
,
Monte Christo row
736
,
musical director
1158
,
scene painter
1243
,
theatrical fund
1340
.
English opera house
i.e.
Lyceum
87
.
Fitzroy theatre manager
4
.
Floral hall opened
181
.
Folly, drama at
1023
,
lessee
1421
.
Garrick burnt
1169
,
proprietor
695
.
Globe lessee
1421
.
Grecian lessee
695
.
Haymarket lessee
466
,
proprietor
955
.
Hengler’s circus built
1428
.
Her Majesty’s lessee
1356
.
Highbury barn proprietor
1152
.
Lyceum burnt and rebuilt
87
,
lessees
879
,
1016
,
1030
,
1268
,
1356
.
Marionette theatre, entertainment at
561
.
Marylebone lessees
958
,
1323
,
manager
991
.
Negro minstrels
1489
.
New grand, proprietor
1404
.
Olympic, decoration of
28
,
lessees
991
,
1025
,
little Emily, run of
1295
,
Tom and Jerry at
1231
.
Opera comique lessee
1483
.
Panopticon, Leicester square
72
,
461
,
611
.
Pantheon, decoration of
28
,
turned into wine vaults
1146
.
Pavilion manager
1575
.
Philharmonic, opera at
1022
,
proprietor
1404
.
Polytechnic institution founded
1177
.
Prince of Wales, manager
507
.
Princess’s built
1308
,
conductor
1377
,
manager
1345
.
Punch’s play house or Strand theatre, actor at
1568
,
manager
716
.
Queen’s, Tottenham st., actor at
1568
,
lessee of
22
,
musical director
1158
.
Royal Alfred manager
1152
.
Sadler’s Wells interior rebuilt
191
,
lessee
1522
,
manager
1575
.
San Souci, Douglas troupe at
903
,
drama at
938
.
St. James’ bazaar, a temple of magic
64
.
St. James’ theatre built
378
,
acting manager
1609
,
lessees
599
,
1527
.
Standard burnt down
903
,
manager
903
.
Strand, Kenilworth, run of
1294
,
lessee
1025
,
managers
716
,
1285
,
1527
,
Punch’s play house
1568
.
Surrey burnt down
944
,
lessee
958
,
manager
1522
,
Thurtell’s gig shown in The Gambler
1592
.
Surrey zoological gardens, large pictures shown at 812–
13
,
lessee
516
,
originated
770
.
Temple of magic, the
64
.
Tottenham st. theatre, Tom and Jerry at
427
.
Vaudeville, opening piece
1295
.
Vauxhall gardens, Great Nassau balloon
1223
,
Joel Il Diavolo at
870
,
lessee
1268
,
musical directors of
290
,
312
.
Victoria lessee
1447
.
Welsh Harp at Hendon
681
.
Westminster theatre or Astley’s, lessee
903
.
Theatrical managers,
See also
Actors
1617
,
Brading
1447
,
Chatterton
599
,
1016
,
Duckenfield
36
,
Greenwood
1231
,
Harvey
1366
,
Hatch
1375
,
Swanborough
1571
.
Thermometers accurate
811
.
Thistlewood, Arthur
executed
1820,
traitor
1226
.
Thought, laws of
335
.
Thread manufacturer, Coats
657
.
Threshing machines, hand power
1010
,
patent machines 1126
bis.
Throws, long
430
.
Tichborne, Roger or Thomas Castro or Arthur Orton, Cobbett’s action against the judges
658
,
Cockburn judge in the case
662
,
counsel 155–
56
,
1216
,
Tichborne v. Lushington
354
,
witness
1279
.
Tight rope dancers, Christoff
617
,
Hengler
1428
.
Tilbury fort, Essex, monstre gun at
641
.
Timber,
creosoted
263
,
edifices
642
,
fluid for preserving
488
,
timber merchant
1308
.
Tipperary lord lieutenant
897
.
Tithes and rent charges
307
,
tithe dinners, excursions substituted for
1434
.
Toast master, Harker
1338
.
Tobacco,
See also
Pipes and Smoking apparatus
378
,
Bibliotheca Nicotiana
378
,
manufacturer
715
,
pipes sent out to the Crimea
80
.
Toll farmer, Bower
357
.
Tom and Jerry a drama
1231
,
1447
.
Tongue, diseases of the
637
.
Tortoise shell, workers in
1291
.
Totnes, Devon, antiquities of
730
.
Tourmalines, artificial discovered
1437
.
Traction engines with single cylinder
110
.
Trade, Board of,
See
Board of Trade
1626
.
Trade unions reports
337
.
Traitors, Allen
51
,
Cato st.
1226
,
Frost
1110
,
Sheares
85
.
Tramways, steam cars
1208
.
Trapeze performer, Artois
92
.
Treadmill invented
779
.
Treasury, first lord,
See
Prime ministers
1683
.
Trees, watering with chymical solutions
1611
.
Trelawny, Sir Jonathan, bp. of Bristol
d.
1721, And shall Trelawny die, a ballad
1385
.
Trifling mistake, The, Broughton imprisoned for publishing
427
.
Trumpet players, Distin
882
,
Harper
1343
.
Trustees, lord Cottenham’s act
727
.
Tuckett, Capt. Harvey G. P. duellist
542
.
Tumuli of Yorkshire, Staffordshire and Derbyshire
191
.
Turkey, admiralty board president
1487
,
mushir of the empire
1487
,
printing improved
619
,
siege and storming of Khartoum
1178
,
Silistria, siege of
500
,
sultan’s visit to England
619
,
Varna, surrender of, early news of
140
,
See also
Pashas
1680
.
Turner, Joseph M. W.
d.
1851 painter, engravings by
482
,
liber studiorum prints
1296
,
pictures, account of
799
,
works
486
.
Turnip drill introduced into England
301
.
Turnpikes, toll farmer
357
.
Tuscany, mission to, abolished
8
.
Tyntesfield, Somerset, convalescent home founded
1138
.
Tyne improvement commission
736
.
U
Umbrellas, Fox’s paragon frame
1095
.
Underwriter, Euing
1000
.
Unstamped publications, person tried for issuing
556
.
Urania’s mirror, invention of
627
.
Urdú, professor of
954
.
Used up, a farce
1584
.
Utilitarianism unmasked
683
.
V
Valves, balance valve for water works
1602
,
four beat pump valve
1602
.
Vapours, absorption of mixed
1596
.
Varley, John
d.
1842 water colour artist, pupil of
1046
.
Vases, collection of
1531
.
Vaudois valley in Piedmont, schools established in
217
.
Venice, exhibition of pictures of
474
,
state papers relating to English history
437
.
Ventilators, Arnott’s
90
.
Ventriloquists, Blitz
314
,
Holland
1508
.
Venus transit expedition
494
,
597
.
Vessels,
See
Ships
1695
.
Vestiges of natural history of creation
587
,
774
.
Victoria cross given to Anson
72
,
Bourchier
349
,
Buckley
464
,
Goodlake
1174
,
Hamilton
1305
,
Heaphy
1408
,
Hewett
1454
.
Victoria, Queen
b.
1819,
ancestry of
1106
,
Cameron declines to become her piper
523
,
controller of her household
567
,
coronation cricket match
1266
,
coronation, state band at
301
,
Davis’ testimonial left to
829
,
dramatic performances at Windsor
983
,
1584
,
Goode uses threatening language to
1172
,
Hales the giant introduced to her
1279
,
head engraved for postage stamp
1587
,
hear the church, a sermon before
1526
,
her cook
1097
,
her drawing master
847
,
her tutor
836
,
Hughes’ circus performs before
1571
,
John Brown
435
,
knight, the first created by her
1321
,
lecturer to her children
986
,
lord chamberlain of household
71
,
marriage
38
,
opened Blackfriar’s bridge
779
,
portraits of
28
,
584
,
1166
,
royal private band
61
,
Sir Arthur Helps edits Leaves of our life
1419
,
statues of
408
,
410
,
534
,
1141
,
Victoria and Albert yacht
1057
,
visits Abbotsford
1532
,
visits Haddo
7
,
visits Stowe
460
,
visits Taymouth castle
388
.
Village blacksmith, a song
1377
.
Violins, account of
922
,
collection of
1151
.
Violinists,
Cooper
710
,
Dun
928
,
Ella
974
,
Hayward
1403
.
Virgil
d.
19
B.C.
, an ardent student of his works
1432
.
Vivisection, commission on
543
.
Volunteers, clergyman a volunteer
441
,
Elcho shield
1295
,
Lancashire artillery volunteers
440
,
lectures on
498
,
royal Victoria rifle club
498
.
Vulcanite invented
1315
.
W
Waghorn, Thomas
d.
1850 lieutenant, his express
851
.
Wakefield, Edward G.
d.
1862, a founder of Canterbury colony
1163
,
his marriage case
1198
.
Wakley, Thomas
d.
1862 coroner, action against
708
.
Wales, competitors at Eisteddfods
1572
,
1575
,
Cyfarthfa ironworks
756
,
iron king of
756
.
Wales, Caroline, princess of
d.
1821 queen, chamberlain to
753
.
Wales, prince of,
See
Albert Edward
col.
1621
.
Walhalla near Ratisbon, Gibson’s statue in
1141
.
Walhouse, Edward J. L.
d.
1863 cr. Baron Hatherton
1376
.
Walking machine called the steam horse
454
.
Walking sticks and canes, collection of
1340
.
Walks, long, London to Birmingham
49
,
London to John O’Groats
491
,
London to Land’s End
491
,
one hundred miles
49
,
one thousand miles
49
,
Paris to Rome
598
,
seventy two miles
1373
,
through England
759
.
Walkers,
See
Pedestrians
1680
.
Wallace, Alfred Russell, contest with Hampden on rotundity of globe
1311
.
Walpole, Horace
d.
1797 earl of Orford, gifts to Mary Berry
259
.
Walsh, John Henry, umpire on rotundity of earth contest
1311
.
War, secretaries at, Beresford
252
,
Dalhousie
803
,
Ellesmere
976
,
Ellice
977
,
Hardinge
1327
,
Herbert
1437
,
Herries
1446
.
War, secretaries of state for, Aberdeen
6
,
Cardwell
543
,
Dalhousie
803
,
Derby
863
,
Glenelg
1157
,
Herbert
1437
,
Hobhouse
427
,
Pakington
1312
,
Palmerston
825
.
Warburton, Eliot B. G.
d.
1852 author, his friend
1182
.
Ward, Artemus
i.e.
Charles Farrer Browne
d.
1867, in England
1482
, his works
1483
.
Wardle, Gwyllym Lloyd
d.
1834 colonel, life of
914
.
Warehouseman, Groucock
1252
.
Warwick, Birmingham industrial exhibition at Bingley house
36
.
Wasp stinging a person in carotid artery
754
.
Watches,
English watch co.
378
,
first engine turned case
1254
,
watches made by machinery
378
,
watches stolen, rescued from the Thames
1417
.
Water,
chalk water to soften
628
,
fresh distilled from the sea
1206
,
instrument for purifying
578
,
tests for
628
,
sea water, composition of
1596
.
Water beds invented
90
.
Waterford, Sir Henry de la Poer
d.
1859,
3
rd marquis, at Eglinton tournament
970
.
Waterford and Lismore, bishop of
1075
.
Waterton, Charles
d.
1865 naturalist, his friend
1489
.
Weare, William
murdered
1823 by Thurtell
1592
.
Weather, daily forecasts of
1064
.
Weatherhead, Hume, an author
793
.
Weaver, Duncan
930
.
Wedding, golden, Howitt
1559
.
Weights and measures, uniform throughout the world
438
.
Wellington, Arthur, duke of
d.
1852,
anthem for his funeral
1187
,
death of
582
,
duel with earl of Winchelsea
1328
,
funeral car made
155
,
his physician
1586
,
his private sec.
1239
,
letter to from Joseph Ady
26
.
Welsh scholars,
Edwards J.
966
,
Edwards L.
966
,
Edwards R.
967
,
Edwards T.
967
,
Evans E.
1002
,
Evans J.
1004
,
Griffiths
1246
,
Hughes
1575
.
West Indies, Jamaica, great sea light at Morant point
1176
.
Westmeath lord lieutenant
1239
.
Westminster,
cartoon exhibition
639
,
clock in Westminster palace
861
,
hospital
768
,
school, arms over doorway
844
.
Westminster abbey,
burials in
657
,
873
,
registers
605
,
stone arches painted
650
.
Weybridge, Surrey, mortuary chapel of Orleans family
856
,
1106
.
Whale fisheries, establishment
1360
,
harpoon gun used
1425
.
Wharfingers,
Farncomb
1022
,
Humphery
1586
.
What to eat, drink and avoid
782
.
Whately, Richard
d.
1863 archbp. of Dublin, edited The Cautions for the Times
1060
.
What’s in a name
489
.
Wheat improved
1488
.
Wheatstone, Sir Charles
d.
1875 physicist, partner with Cooke
705
,
1383
,
the maker of his electrical apparatus
1429
.
Wheel, invention of a friction
382
.
Whewell, William
d.
1866 master of Trinity coll. Cambridge, his bequest to the coll.
1310
.
Whist, blue peter or call for trumps invented
248
,
laws of
550
,
640
.
Whist players,
Baldwin
640
,
Barnes
173
,
Bentinck
248
,
Bowyer
363
,
Brittain
404
,
Buckle
463
,
Clay
640
,
Hood
1524
,
Hughes
1578
.
White, Arthur, attempted to shoot Charles Buxton
503
.
White, Henry Kirke
d.
1806 poet, Much in sorrow, oft in woe
685
.
Wigan, Lancashire, cotton mill the first
800
.
Wilberforce, Robert Isaac
d.
1857 of Oriel coll., resigned fellowship
1388
.
Wilhelm, Guillaume L. B.
d.
1842 composer, method of teaching music
1581
.
William iv.
d.
1837,
Mrs. Jordan
853
,
his dau. Sophia
853
,
sham baronet presented to
1588
,
sons
1056
,
1057
bis.
Wills, in prerogative office Dublin, index to
263
,
longest on record
779
.
Wills proved for large amounts.
£50,000
col.
275
.
£59,000
col.
1428
.
£70,000
col.
12
.
£80,000
cols.
1070
,
1418
.
£100,000
col.
188
.
£140,000
cols.
108
,
649
.
£160,000
cols.
284
,
299
.
£180,000
cols.
80
,
715
,
1213
.
£200,000
cols.
505
,
732
,
1222
.
£250,000
cols.
48
,
427
,
433
,
480
,
504
,
525
,
578
,
622
,
648
,
863
,
941
,
1073
,
1151
,
1272
,
1411
,
1556
.
£280,000
col.
792
.
£283,000
col.
198
.
£300,000
cols.
8
,
76
,
217
,
227
,
477
,
753
,
786
,
1122
,
1531
.
£344,023
col.
1257
.
£350,000
cols.
96
,
205
,
217
bis.
,
318
,
575
,
971
,
974
,
1146
,
1226
,
1407
,
1502
,
1512
.
£370,000
col.
420
.
£400,000
cols.
83
,
94
,
110
,
221
,
1167
,
1457
,
1497
.
£483,000
col.
1138
.
£500,000
cols.
698
,
931
,
942
,
1450
,
1526
,
1546
,
1606
.
£503,000
col.
1043
.
£542,000
col.
707
.
£588,000
col.
1444
.
£600,000
cols.
192
,
218
,
987
,
1051
.
£700,000
col.
733
.
£800,000
cols.
83
,
407
,
773
,
1138
.
£900,000
col.
441
.
£910,000
col.
457
.
£1,000,000
col.
779
.
£1,026,000
col.
923
.
£1,098,000
col.
197
.
£1,100,000
cols.
1256
,
1261
.
£1,190,000
col.
134
.
£1,200,000
col.
756
.
£1,300,000
col.
1043
.
£1,500,000
col.
162
.
£1,700,000
col.
949
.
£2,000,000
cols.
134
,
756
.
£3,200,000
col.
384
.
£3,540,000
col.
867
.
Wilson, Sir Robert Thomas
d.
1849 general, escape of Lavalette
897
.
Wiltshire lord lieutenant
31
.
Wimpole hall, Cambridgeshire, frescoes at
498
.
Winchester,
Cranbury cricket ground
586
,
Cranbury stables
586
,
St. Cross hospital and earl of Guildford
1255
.
Winchelsea, Sussex, history of
712
.
Wind instruments, catechism of
632
.
Windmills, self regulating sails invented
779
.
Window tax repealed
535
.
Windsor castle, governor of
38
.
Windsor, Old, novitiate at Beaumont lodge
635
.
Wines,
British largest maker of
289
,
Douro river, survey of
1083
,
port, a word or two on
1083
,
Hungarian introduced
1233
,
wine flagon system
1233
.
Wine merchants,
Gassiot
1130
,
Gilbey
1146
,
Hooper
1528
,
Husenbeth
1602
,
Max Greger
1233
.
Wire drawing, drilled gems used in
406
.
Wire walker, Diavolo
870
.
Wiseman, Nicholas P. S.
d.
1865 cardinal, his coadjutor archbp.
995
, his godson
1439
.
Wizards,
See
Conjurors
1634
.
Wolff, Joseph
d.
1862 missionary, teaches Hebrew
1547
.
Wood carver, Davy
835
.
Woods and Forests, etc., first commissioner of, Canning
536
,
Carlisle
548
,
Fitzroy
1063
,
Hobhouse
427
,
Howard
1552
.
Woodward, Samuel
d.
1838 of Norwich, his manuscripts
1261
.
Wool,
broker
1167
,
buyer
1518
,
grower
230
.
Woollen manufacturers,
Ellis
985
,
Forster
1086
,
Foster
1089
,
Goodman
1174
,
Heyworth
1458
.
Women,
doctor
114
,
employed to make cigars
715
,
enamelling of their faces
770
,
flogged by Haynau
1400
,
influence on progress of knowledge
463
,
marrying an uncle
12
,
passing for a man
181
,
women of England by S. Ellis
985
.
Words and idioms, collection of
674
.
Wordsworth, William
d.
1850 poet, Cottle’s connection with
728
,
his friend
1150
.
Worcestershire lord lieutenant
1073
.
Workhouse system, inquiry into
75
.
Wort-cunning
661
.
Wren, Sir Christopher
d.
1747,
his churches
642
.
Wrestlers,
Cann
536
,
Graham
1198
,
Gundry
1258
,
Hurst
1602
,
Polkinghorne
536
,
Warren
536
.
Wright, Fanny
d.
1852,
socialist
818
.
Wright, Mr. opened first circulating library
1607
.
Writings, ancient, decipherer of
1535
.
X
Xanthus in Lycia, marbles discovered at
1033
.
Y
Yachts and yacht clubs,
Arrow
586
,
Royal London club
80
,
yachtsmen
1142
,
1277
.
Yarn merchant, Harper
1343
.
Yelverton, Maria Theresa
d.
Pietermaritzburg, Natal,
13
Sep. 1881, divorce case, settlement of
111
.
Yeomen of the guard
792
.
York, castle, Hudson confined in
1566
,
Roman remains found
1337
.
York, Frederick duke of
d.
1827, his bonds not paid
1308
,
his friend
73
,
Mary Ann Clarke
634
.
Yorke, Rt. Hon. Sir C. E.
d.
1834, his son
901
.
Yorkshire,
arterial drainage
578
,
college of science established
1414
,
excavations in the tumuli
191
,
flora of
1275
,
manuscripts, Hailstone’s collection
1275
,
West Riding lord lieutenant
1335
.
Yucatan peninsula, Mexico, explored
571
.
Z
Zante, Ionian islands, Signal Broke resident at
411
.
Zoological gardens,
See also
Menageries
1663
,
Knowsley hall
863
,
Liverpool
102
,
Regent’s park
1247
,
Surrey
516
,
770
,
812
.
Zoologist, Fleming
1068
.
Zulu-Kaffir language
673
.
Zymotic diseases
467
.