BALFE, Victoire (2 dau. of the preceding). b. Rue de la Victoire, Paris 1 Sep. 1837; made her first appearance in London at Lyceum Theatre 28 May 1857 as Amina in opera of La Sonnambula; sang with great success in England, Italy and at St. Petersburg 1857–59. (m. (1) 31 March 1860 Sir John Fiennes Twisleton Crampton 2 Baronet, marriage was annulled on her petition 20 Nov. 1863, she m. (2) 1864 Duc de Frias and d. Madrid 22 Jany. 1871.) bur. Burgos cathedral. Illust. news of the world iii, 328 (1859), portrait; I.L.N. xxxi, 116 (1857), portrait, lviii, 115 (1871).

BALFOUR, Blayney Townley. b. 28 May 1769; sheriff of Louth 1792; M.P. for Belturbet in Irish parliament 1797–98. d. Townley hall near Drogheda 22 Dec. 1856.

BALFOUR, Blayney Townley (eld. son of the preceding). b. 1799; lieutenant governor of the Bahamas 1833 to 1834; sheriff of co. Louth 1841. d. Townley hall 5 Sep. 1882.

BALFOUR, Clara Lucas (dau. of Mr. Liddell). b. in the New Forest 21 Dec. 1808; signed the pledge at a chapel in St. George’s road, Pimlico 16 Oct. 1837 being the 9th person to do so in Chelsea district; edited Temperance Beacon and Teetotal Magazine; a public lecturer 1841–70; author of Women of Scripture 1850; Happy evenings 1851, 3 ed. 1877; Sketches of English literature 1852; Moral heroism 1854, new ed. 1877; Family Honour 1880; wrote in many periodicals. (m. 1828 James Balfour). d. London road, Croydon 3 July 1878. Home makers by the late Mrs. C. L. Balfour with a biographical sketch of the author by the Rev. C. Bullock 1878, portrait.

BALFOUR, Francis Maitland (3 son of James Maitland Balfour of Whittingham, East Lothian 1820–56). b. Queen st. Edinburgh 11 Nov. 1851; ed. at Harrow 1865–70 and Trin. coll. Cam.; natural science scholar 1871; B.A. 1873, M.A. 1877; studied at Professor Dohrn’s Zoological station, Naples; fellow of his college Oct. 1874 and lecturer on natural science 1875; F.R.S. 1878, member of council 1881 to death, royal medallist 1881; pres. of Cambridge Philosophical society Nov. 1881; professor of Animal Morphology in Univ. of Cam. 31 May 1882 to death; LLD. Glasgow 1880; edited with E. R. Lankester The quarterly journal of Microscopical science; author of Monograph on the development of Elasmobranch fishes 1878; Treatise on Comparative Embryology 2 vols. 1880–81; left Courmayeur 18 July 1882 to ascend Aiguille Blanche a peak of Mont Blanc his body was found 23 July on Fresnay glacier at foot of the Penteret. bur. at Whittingham 5 Aug. 1882. Fortnightly Review xxxii, 568–80 (1882); I.L.N. lxxxi, 197 (1882), portrait; Report of British Assoc. 1882 meeting pp. 555–58.

BALFOUR, James. b. Russell st. Covent Garden 16 Oct. 1796; served in the navy 5 years; a temperance advocate in London many years; employed in the Ways and Means office of House of Commons 1853. (m. 1828 Clara Lucas Liddell). d. London road, Croydon 22 Dec. 1884.

BALFOUR, James Melville (youngest son of Rev. Lewis Balfour, minister of Colinton near Edin. who d. 24 April 1860 aged 82.) b. Manse of Colinton 2 June 1831; ed. at high school and Univ. of Edin; marine engineer to province of Otago, New Zealand 1863–65 and to government of N.Z. 1865 to death; invented the Refraction Protractor for lighthouses; designed many lighthouses in N.Z., also the dry dock at Port Chalmers; M.I.C.E. 15 May 1866; drowned off Timaru N.Z. 18 Dec. 1869. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxi, 200–202 (1871.)

BALFOUR, John Hutton. b. 15 Buccleuch place, Edin. 15 Sep. 1808; ed. at high school and Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1832, M.A., LLD.; apprenticed to Sir George Ballingall; a pres. of Royal Medical Society 1831–33; LLD. Glasgow and St. Andrew’s; M.R.C.S. Edin. 1833, F.R.C.S. 1835; practised at Edin. 1834–41; Botanical Society of Edin. was founded at his house 15 Dundas st. 8 Feb. 1836; a lecturer on botany in Surgeon sq. 1840; professor of botany in Univ. of Glasgow 1841, and in Univ. of Edin. 22 Oct. 1845 to Feb. 1879; regius keeper of Royal botanic garden, and Queen’s botanist for Scotland 1845–79; F.R.S. Edinburgh 1835, F.L.S. 1844, F.R.S. 5 June 1856; dean of the Medical faculty; an editor of Annals of natural history 1842–57 and of Edinburgh New philosophical journal 1855–66; author of Class book of botany 1854, 5 ed. 1875; Introduction to study of Palæontological botany 1872. d. Inverleith house, Edin. 11 Feb. 1884. The Biograph i, 430–38 (1882).

BALFOUR, Lowry Vesey Townley. b. 1819; secretary of the order of St. Patrick 1853 to death. d. Dublin 12 Feb. 1878.

BALFOUR, Robert Frederick. b. Balbirnie Fifeshire 30 April 1846; ensign Grenadier guards 9 Aug. 1865; major 1 April 1882 to death; served in Egypt 1882; wounded at battle of Tel-el-Kebir 9 Sep. 1882. d. 24 Belgrave sq. London 23 Oct. 1882. I.L.N. lxxxi, 497 (1882), portrait; Graphic xxvi, 605 (1882), portrait.

BALGUY, John (eld. son of John Balguy of Darwent hall, Derbyshire, recorder of Derby who d. 14 Sep. 1833). b. 14 Sep. 1782; barrister M.T. 14 June 1805, bencher 1833; recorder of Derby 1830 to death; Q.C. 1833; chairman of Derbyshire quarter sessions 1837; bankruptcy comr. at Birmingham 21 Oct. 1842 to death. d. Duffield hall near Derby 16 Dec. 1858.

BALL, Charles Ashby. b. Albury, Surrey 1809; entered the paper business 1826; purchased with his father the Guerres works near Dieppe 1829; founded the Doullens works 1836; purchased the Valvernes works near Dieppe; manufactured paper from esparto and bleached straw; founded the Fort Andemer works 1844; sold his business to La Compagnie des Establishments de la Risle 1869; perfected many important improvements in manufacture of paper. d. Sainte Addresse near Havre 27 March 1885.

BALL, Frances (6 and youngest child of John Ball of Dublin, merchant who d. 1808). b. Eccles st. Dublin 9 Jany. 1794; joined the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Mickle Bar convent York 11 June 1814; introduced this Institution into Ireland 1821; assumed name of Sister Mary Theresa 8 Sep. 1814; founded in various parts of the world 37 convents tenanted by about 800 nuns. d. Rathfarnham Abbey near Dublin 19 May 1861. Life by H. J. Coleridge 1881, portrait; Life by Wm. Hutch, D.D. 1879.

BALL, Nicholas (son of John Ball of Dublin, silk mercer). b. Dublin 1791; ed. at Stonyhurst and Trin. coll. Dub., B.A. 1812; called to Irish bar 1814; K.C. 1830; bencher of King’s Inns 1836; M.P. for Clonmel 1836–39; third Serjeant at law 10 Nov. 1836 to 11 July 1838; attorney general 11 July 1838 to 23 Feb. 1839; P.C. Ireland 1838; justice of Irish Court of Common Pleas 23 Feb. 1839 to death. d. 85 Stephens Green, Dublin 15 Jany. 1865.

BALL, Richard. Lived at Bridgewater, Bristol and Taunton successively; a Friend; joined the Plymouth Brethren; author of Holy Scripture the test of truth 1835; Christianity in China 1850; Horæ Sabbaticæ or the Sabbatic cycle the divine chronometer 1853. d. Aberdeen terrace, Clifton 10 May 1862 aged 68. Smith’s Friends’ Books i, 161–63 (1867).

BALL, Robert (son of Bob Stawel Ball). b. Cove of Cork 1 April 1802; clerk in under secretary’s office in Dublin 1827–52; F.R.S. Dublin 1834; M.R.I.A. 23 Feb. 1835, treasurer 1845 to death; member of Geol. soc. of Ireland 1835, pres. 1852; sec. to Zoological society of Dub. 1837 to death; director of museum of Trinity college Dub. 1844, presented his valuable private collection to the college; hon. LLD. Dub. 1850; sec. to Queen’s Univ. in Ireland 1851; founded University zoological and botanical association 1853. (m. 21 Sep. 1837 Amelia Gresley dau. of Thomas Hellicar of Bristol, merchant, she was granted a civil list pension of £100 4 Oct. 1858). d. Dublin 30 March 1857. Natural history review v, 1–34 (1858), portrait.

BALL, Samuel. Member of East India Company’s establishment at Canton 1804–26; author of Observations on expediency of opening a second port in China 1817; An account of the cultivation and manufacture of tea in China 1848. d. Sion house, Wolverley 5 March 1874 in 94 year.

BALL, Thomas Gerrard (son of Abraham Ball of Chester). b. Chester 24 Jany. 1791; served in navy 1801–1807; ensign 34 foot 17 Sep. 1807; lieut. col. 8 foot 2 Oct. 1835 to 25 Oct. 1842 when placed on h.p.; col. 46 foot 24 April 1860 and of 8 foot 17 June 1861 to death; general 10 Jany. 1870. d. 7 Stanley place, Chester 18 Dec. 1881.

BALL, William (son of Richard Ball of Bridgwater who d. 1834). b. Bridgwater 1 Jany. 1801; solicitor at Bristol 1828–35; a minister of Society of Friends 1846 to death. (m. 1834 Anne Dale, she d. 1861). Author of Nugæ Sacræ or psalms and hymns and spiritual songs [anon.] 1825; The Transcript and other poems 1855; Hymns or lyrics 1864; Verses composed since 1870, 1875. d. at an hotel in Aberdeen 30 July 1878. Annual Monitor for 1879 pp. 8–54.

BALL, William. b. 1785; composed hundreds of comic and sentimental songs, his song Jack’s lament for the loss of his tail was one of the most popular songs of the day ever written; his Drawing room concerts in 1829 were very successful; adapted to English words librettos of Masses of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, Mozart’s Requiem, Spohr’s God thou art great, Rossini’s Stabat Mater and Mendelssohn’s St. Paul and Lobgesang; edited with N. Mori The musical gem, 2 vols. 1831–32; edited The London Spring annual lyrical and pictorial 1834. d. London 14 May 1869.

BALL, Sir William Keith, 2 Baronet (only child of Sir Alexander John Ball, 1 Baronet). b. Greenwich 27 Oct. 1791; succeeded 25 Oct. 1809. d. Spernall hall, Warwickshire 9 March 1874.

BALL-HUGHES, Edward Hughes (said to be son of a slop seller in Ratcliffe highway, London). b. 1799. Ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.; cornet 7 hussars 28 Aug. 1817 to 11 Feb. 1819 when placed on h.p.; took additional name of Hughes by royal license 7 Aug. 1819 on coming into a fortune of £40,000 per annum from his uncle Admiral Sir Edward Hughes; one of the leading dandies of his day, known as the Golden Ball; lost £45,000 in one night at Wattier’s club, Piccadilly 1819, lost three quarters of his fortune at play, the greatest gambler of his day; bought Oatlands near Weybridge 1827, which he sold to Lord Francis Egerton; lived at St. Germain near Paris for some years before his death. (m. 22 March 1823 Mercandotti the opera dancer, natural dau. or protégée of 4 Earl of Fife, she was then aged 16). d. St. Germain 13 March 1863. R. H. Gronow’s Celebrities (1865) 112–17.

BALLANTINE, James. b. The West Port, Edinburgh 11 June 1808; a house painter at Edin. 1830; one of the first to revive the art of glass painting; executed the 12 stained glass windows in the House of Lords, Westminster, representing kings and queens both regnant and consort of the U.K.; sec. of committee of Burns centenary 1859; grand bard of Scottish Grand lodge of Freemasons about 1862 to death; contributed about 50 songs to Whistle-Binkie or the piper of the party 1832; author of The Gaberlunzie’s wallet 1843; A treatise on painted glass 1845; Poems 1856; Chronicle of the hundredth birthday of Robert Burns 1859, which contains reports of 872 Burns’ centenary meetings held all over the world 25 Jany. 1859; The Provost’s daughter, a musical farce in 2 acts performed at T.R. Edin. 1855; The Gaberlunzie, a drama in 3 acts 1858. d. Warrender lodge, Edinburgh 18 Dec. 1877. Whistle-Binkie ii, xiv-xxvii (1878); History of the lodge of Edinburgh by D. M. Lyons (1873) 50, 363, portrait.

BALLANTINE, William. Barrister I.T. 5 Feb. 1813; magistrate at Thames police court 1821–48. d. 89 Cadogan place, Chelsea 14 Dec. 1852 in 74 year. I.L.N. ix, 317 (1846), portrait.

BALLANTYNE, James Robert. b. Kelso 13 Dec. 1813; ed. at Edinburgh new academy and college; teacher of Hindi and Sanskrit at Naval and military academy Edin. 1839; principal of College of Benares 1845–61; librarian of India office library Cannon row, Westminster 1861 to death; author of Lectures on the sub-divisions of knowledge, Sanskrit and English 1848; The Mahabhashya or great commentary on the aphorisms of Panini 1856; Christianity contrasted with Hindu philosophy 1859 and 14 other works. d. 16 Feb. 1864. Journal of Royal Asiatic Society i, v-vii (1865).

BALLANTYNE, Robert Michael. b. Edinburgh 24 April 1825; in the Hudson Bay Company’s service 1841–47; author of Hudson’s Bay or every day life in the wilds of North America 1848, 3 ed. 1859; Coral island, a tale of the Pacific ocean 1857; Deep down, a tale of the Cornish mines 1868, and many other tales. d. 1871.

BALLANTYNE, Thomas. b. Paisley 1806, a weaver there; edited Bolton Free Press; edited Manchester Guardian; printer, publisher and one of the 4 original proprietors of Manchester Examiner; editor of Liverpool Journal and Liverpool Mercury; edited the Leader in London; started the Statesman, edited it till its close; edited St. James’s Chronicle; author of Passages selected from writings of T. Carlyle 1855; Essays in mosaic 1870. d. Tufnell park, Holloway 30 Aug. 1871.

BALLARD, Edward George (only child of Edward Bollard, alderman of Salisbury who d. 6 March 1827). b. Salisbury 29 April 1791; clerk in the Stamp and Excise offices London 1809–17; wrote most of the poetry and critiques for the Weekly Review; author of A new series of original poems [anon.] 1825; Microscopic amusements 1829; wrote part of a continuation of Strype’s Ecclesiastical annals in The Surplice weekly paper 1848. d. Compton terrace, Islington 14 Feb. 1860.

BALLARD, John Archibald. b. 1829; 2 lieut. Bombay Engineers 8 Dec. 1848 and lieut. col. 10 Nov. 1869 to 31 Dec. 1878; lieut. col. Turkish army 1854; served in campaigns on the Danube 1854–55, in Crimea 1855, and in Mingrelia 1855–56; assistant quartermaster general of Persian expeditionary force 1856–57, and of Rajpootana field force and Malwa division in Indian mutiny 1858–59; C.B. 10 May 1856; mint master Bombay 1862–78; general 31 Dec. 1878. d. Pass of Thermopylæ near Livadia Greece 1 April 1880.

BALLARD, Thomas. b. Mayfair London; studied at St. George’s hospital; fellow of Royal Med. and Chir. society 1849; author of New and rational explanation of the diseases peculiar to infants and mothers 1860; On the convulsive diseases of infants 1863; An enquiry into constitutional syphilis in the infant 1874. d. 10 Southwick place, Hyde park 11 Sep. 1874 aged 56.

BALLINGALL, David James. Midshipman R.N.; served at Copenhagen 1801; 2 lieut. R.M. 1 July 1803; col. commandant 19 Nov. 1851 to 10 Jany. 1852 when he retired on full pay. d. Southsea 31 March 1854.

BALLINGALL, Sir George (son of Rev. Robert Ballingall, minister of Forglen, Banffshire). b. in the manse of Forglen 2 May 1780; ed. at Univs. of St. Andrews and Edin.; M.D. Edin. 1803, M.R.C.S. Edin. 15 Aug. 1820; assistant surgeon 1 foot 10 July 1806; surgeon of 33 foot 1815–18 when placed on h.p., retired 1831; professor of military surgery in Univ. of Edin. 18 Jany. 1823 to death; knighted by Wm. iv at St. James’s palace 4 Aug. 1830; F.R.S.; author of Introductory lectures to a course of military surgery 1830; Outlines of military surgery, 5 ed. 1855. d. Altamont near Blairgowrie 4 Dec. 1855.

BALNEAVIS, Henry. Ensign 16 foot 3 Jany. 1797; captain 27 foot 1805–24 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 20 June 1854; colonel 65 foot 18 Jany. 1855 to death; C.M.G. 17 July 1833; K.H. 1836. d. Malta 17 July 1857 aged 77.

BALVAIRD, William. Major Rifle brigade 1814–18; major 99 foot 1824–26, retired from the army 27 Aug. 1841; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831. d. Edinburgh 7 Sep. 1853.

BALY, William. b. Lynn, Norfolk 1814; L.S.A. 1834, M.R.C.S. 1834; studied in Paris, Heidelberg and Berlin; M.D. Berlin 1836; practised in London 1836; L.R.C.P. 1841, F.R.C.P. 1846, a censor 1858; phys. to Milbank penitentiary 1841–60; lecturer on forensic medicine at St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1841–54, assistant phys. there 1854 and lecturer on medicine 1855; Gulstonian lecturer Feb. 1847; F.R.S. 15 April 1847; phys. extraordinary to the Queen 18 April 1859; member of general council of medical education and registration 1 Aug. 1860 to death; author with W. S. Kirke of Advances in physiology of motion 1848, and with W. G. Gull of Reports on epidemic cholera 1854; killed in the train on the South Western railway about 7 miles from London at the junction with the Epsom line 28 Jany. 1861. Medical Critic ii, 334–40 (1861); I.L.N. xxxviii, 111, 122 (1861), portrait.

BAMFORD, Samuel. b. Middleton 28 Feb. 1788; ed. at Manchester gr. sch.; a handloom weaver at Middleton; secretary to the Hampden club at Middleton 1816; examined before Privy Council on a charge of high treason April 1817 when set free with a warning; took part in reform meeting at Peterloo 16 Aug. 1819, tried at York assizes March 1820 when found guilty of a seditious misdemeanour, sentenced in Court of King’s Bench, London 15 May 1820 to 1 year’s imprisonment in Lincoln gaol; employed in Inland Revenue Office London 1849–58; author of Miscellaneous poetry 1821; Passages in the life of a Radical 2 vols. 1840–44; Early days 1849 2 ed. 1859; Walks in South Lancashire 2 vols.; Talk o Seawth Lankeshur by Samhul Beamfort 1850, in this volume he professes to correct the dialect in Tim Bobbin; Life of Amos Ogden of Middleton 1853. d. Moston, Harpurhey near Manchester 13 April 1872; monument in Middleton cemetery, unveiled 6 Oct. 1877. F. Espinasse’s Lancashire Worthies 2 series 1877, pp. 462–91; Procter’s Memorials of bygone Manchester (1881) 220–25.

BAMFORD, William. Surgeon at Rugely Staffs 1803 to death; one of principal witnesses at trial of Wm. Palmer the poisoner 1856. d. Rugely 17 April 1859 in 84 year.

BAMPTON, Augustus Hamilton. b. London 13 March 1823; civil engineer at Plymouth 1844; chief surveyor to the corporation 1849–54; engineer to South Devon and Tavistock railway 1852 to death; M.I.C.E. 1849; author of The drainage of towns 1849. d. North hill Devon 4 March 1857. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xvii, 92–94 (1858).

BANCALARI, Peter. b. 1806; a noted cricket, umpire at Oxford many years. d. Oxford 31 Oct. 1869.

BANDINEL, Rev. Bulkeley (eld. son of Rev. James Bandinel V. of Netherbury Dorset who d. 25 Nov. 1804 aged 92). b. Oxford 21 Feb. 1781; ed. at Reading and Winchester; scholar of New college Ox. 1800, fellow, B.A. 1805, M.A. 1807, B.D. and D.D. 1823; chaplain in the Victory 1808; under librarian Bodleian library Ox. 1810, librarian 25 Aug. 1813 to Sep. 1860; published Catalogue of the printed books 4 vols. 1843–50; proctor Univ. of Ox. 1814; R. of Haughton-le-Skerne, Durham 1823–60; author of Catalogue of books relating to British topography and Saxon and Norman literature bequeathed to the Bodleian library by Richard Gough 1814; author with John Caley and Henry Ellis of new editions of Dugdale’s Monasticon Anglicanum 1817–30 crown folio 6 vols. in 8, and 1846, folio, 8 vols; edited Clarendon’s History of the rebellion 1826. d. Oxford 6 Feb. 1861.

BANDON, James Bernard, 2 Earl of (eld. son of Francis Bernard 1 Earl of Bandon 1755–1830). b. Castle Bernard, Bandon co. Cork 14 June 1785; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; M.A. 1806; M.P. for Bandon 1820–26 and 1830; succeeded as 2 Earl 26 Nov. 1830; recorder of Bandon; a representative peer of Ireland 31 July 1835; lord lieutenant of Cork 1842; F.R.S. 5 June 1845. d. Castle Bernard 31 Oct. 1856.

BANDON, Francis Bernard, 3 Earl of (eld. son of the preceding). b. Grosvenor st. London 3 Jany. 1810; ed. at Eton and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1834; M.P. for Bandon 1831–32 and 1842–56; a representative peer of Ireland 21 Aug. 1858; lord lieutenant of Cork 2 Nov. 1874. d. Castle Bernard 17 Feb. 1877.

BANGOR, Edward Ward, 4 Viscount. b. London 23 Feb. 1827; succeeded 1 Aug. 1837; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1848; representative peer for Ireland 9 Jany. 1855. d. Brighton 14 Sep. 1881.

BANIM, Michael (eld. son of Michael Banim of Kilkenny, shopkeeper). b. Kilkenny 5 Aug. 1796, postmaster there 1852–73; contributed Crohoore, The Croppy, The ghost hunter, The mayor of Windgap, Father Connell and other tales to The tales by the O’Hara family 24 vols. d. Booterstown, co. Dublin 30 Aug. 1874. P. J. Murray’s Life of John Banim 1857.

BANKES, George (3 son of Henry Bankes of Kingston hall, Dorset 1757–1834). b. 1788. Ed. at Westminster and Trin. hall, Cam.; fellow; LL.B. 1812; bankruptcy comr. 1822; recorder of Weymouth 25 Aug. 1823; cursitor Baron of the Exchequer 6 July 1824 to death when office abolished; M.P. for Corfe Castle 1816–23 and 1826–32 and for Dorset 1841 to death; sec. to Board of control 2 May 1829 to 16 Feb. 1830 and comr. of same board 24 Feb. 1830 to 6 Dec. 1830; a junior lord of the Treasury 24 April to 24 Nov. 1830; P.C. 27 Feb. 1852; judge advocate general 28 Feb. to Dec. 1852; author of The story of Corfe Castle and of many who have lived there 1853. d. 5 Old palace yard Westminster 6 July 1856. Waagen’s Galleries of art (1857) 374–83; I.L.N. xxiv, 97 (1854).

BANKES, William John (elder brother of the preceding). Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811; M.P. for Truro 1810–12, for Cambridge Univ. 1821–25, for Marlborough 1829–32 and for Dorset 1833–34; a great friend of Lord Byron; travelled in the East with Giovanni Finati whose life he translated from the Italian 2 vols. 1830. d. Venice 15 April 1855. A.R. 1826 49–56.

BANKHEAD, Charles. b. Antrim; ed. at Londonderry and Univ. of Edin., M.D. 24 June 1790; surgeon to the Londonderry militia; L.C.P. 25 June 1807; practised at Brighton; physician extraordinary to Prince Regent 24 Feb. 1816, removed to London; physician extraordinary to George 4th 30 March 1821; practised many years at Florence. d. Florence 26 Nov. 1859 in 92 year.

BANKHEAD, Charles. Minister plenipotentiary to Mexican republic 24 Nov. 1843 to 6 April 1851. d. 8 St. James’s st. London 11 March 1870.

BANKS, George Linnæus (4 son of John Banks of Birmingham, horticulturist). b. Bull Ring, Birmingham 2 March 1821; began lecturing 29 Dec. 1846; promoted Mechanics’ Institutes in Yorkshire and Durham; edited the Advertiser at Harrogate 1848, Mercury at Birmingham, Daily Express at Dublin, Chronicle at Durham, Royal Standard at Windsor, and the Sussex Mercury 1864; wrote the popular negro melody Dandy Jim of Caroline; author of Blossoms of poesy 1841; Staves for the human ladder, poems 1850; All about Shakspere 1864; The Swiss father a drama produced at T.R. Liverpool 1846 and Better late than never a comedy produced at Durham theatre 1858. d. Dalston, London 3 May 1881. Illustrated Review vi, 261–63, portrait.

BANKS, John. b. 1 Sep. 1752 at 11.30 p.m., a period marked by the change of style which conducted him 11 days onward in his journey half an hour after his birth. d. Easingwold 24 Nov. 1852.

BANKS, John Sherbrooke. b. 1811; ensign 33 Bengal N.I. 1829, major 1857 to death; succeeded Sir Henry Lawrence as chief comr. of Lucknow; shot through the head while examining an outpost at Lucknow 21 July or 1 Aug. 1857.

BANKS, Thomas Christopher (eld. child of Thomas Banks one of the gentlemen pensioners). Genealogist at 5 Lyons Inn London 1813–20, at the dormant peerage office John st. Pall Mall 1820; sent to North America by Alexander Humphrys to publish his rights as Earl of Stirling and to search for evidence 1826, returned 1828, sent to Ireland 1828–29, created baronet by Humphrys 1831 but resigned the rank about 1834; knight of holy order of St. John of Jerusalem; author of Dormant and extinct baronage of England 3 vols. 1807–1809; History of the ancient noble family of Marmyun 1817; Stemmata Anglicana 1825. d. Greenwich 30 Sep. 1854 in 90 year. T. C. Banks’s Baronia Anglica vol. i, (1844), preface; S. Warren’s Miscellanies ii, 169–291 (1855); G.M. xliii, 206–208 (1855).

BANKS, William Stott. b. Wakefield, March 1820; admitted solicitor Jany. 1851; partner with J. M. Ianson at Wakefield 1853; clerk to the borough justices March 1870 to death; author of List of provincial words in use at Wakefield 1865; Walks in Yorkshire 2 vols. 1866–72. d. Northgate, Wakefield 25 Dec. 1872. Yorkshire Archæol. and Topog. Journal ii, 459–60 (1873).

BANNAN, Joseph. A schoolmaster at Plymouth down to 1832 when his school was ruined by the cholera; edited the South Devon Monthly Museum 7 vols., Plymouth 1833–36; cashier and chief accountant of the Western Times newspaper at Exeter 1836 to death. d. Exeter 28 May 1865 aged 60.

BANNATYNE, Andrew (eld. son of Dugald Bannatyne of Glasgow, merchant). b. 1798; ed. at Univs. of Glasgow and Heidelberg; member of faculty of procurators in Glasgow; dean of the faculty; member of University court Glasgow. d. 1871.

BANNATYNE, Rev. Archibald. b. Rothesay; licensed by presbytery of Ayr 1835; minister at Oban 1842–53 and at John Knox’s Free church Glasgow 1853 to death. d. 18 May 1863. Truth in love, a few memorials of the Rev. Archibald Bannatyne 1864.

BANNER, Rev. Benjamin Holford. b. 26 Nov. 1798; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s and St. John’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824; precentor of Cashel 26 Aug. 1826 to death; chancellor of Emly, Tipperary 2 April 1835 to death. d. 1874.

BANNERMAN, Sir Alexander (son of Thomas Bannerman of Aberdeen, wine merchant who d. Jany. 1820 aged 77). b. Aberdeen 7 Oct. 1788, shipowner, merchant and banker there; M.P. for Aberdeen 1832–47; dean of faculty in Marischal college Aberdeen 1837; a comr. of Greenwich hospital 1841; governor of Prince Edward island 3 Feb. 1851, of the Bahamas 8 May 1854 and of Newfoundland 9 Feb. 1857 to 1863; knighted by the Queen at Buckingham palace 3 Feb. 1851. d. Louth cottage, Chorley 30 Dec. 1864. I.L.N. xix, 236 (1851), portrait.

BANNERMAN, Sir Alexander, 9 Baronet. b. Aberdeen 6 April 1823; succeeded 18 June 1851. d. 46 Grosvenor place, London 21 April 1877.

BANNERMAN, Sir Charles, 8 Baronet. b. 18 Aug. 1782; succeeded 31 May 1840. d. Clarges st. Piccadilly, London 18 June 1851.

BANNERMAN, Rev. James (son of Rev. James Patrick Bannerman, minister of Cargill, Perthshire). b. manse of Cargill 9 April 1807; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.A. 1826; minister of Ormiston, Midlothian 1833–43 when he left the Established for the Free church; professor of apologetics and pastoral theology in New college Edin. 1849 to death; took a leading part in Free church movement; D.D. Princeton college New Jersey 1850; author of The prevalent forms of unbelief 1849; Apologetical theology 1851; Inspiration 1865; The Church 2 vols. 1868. d. Edinburgh 27 March 1868.

BANNISTER, Charles William (son of Charles George Bannister of London, solicitor 1796–1858). b. 1826; ed. at Charterhouse; captain 2 Bombay light cavalry 24 April 1854 to 10 April 1861; governor of Maidstone gaol. d. 20 April 1874.

BANNISTER, Rev. John (son of David Bannister of York 1788–1854). b. York 25 Feb. 1816; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub., B.A. 1844, M.A. 1853, LL.B. and LLD. 1866; P.C. of Bridgehill, Derbyshire 1846–57; P.C. of St. Day, Cornwall 13 Dec. 1857 to death; author of A glossary of Cornish names, 20,000 Celtic and other names now or formerly in use in Cornwall with derivations and significations (1871). d. St. Day 30 Aug. 1873. Bibl. Cornub. i, 9 (1874), iii, 1047 (1882).

BANNISTER, Saxe. b. Bidlington house Steyning, Sussex 27 June 1790; ed. at Lewes, Tunbridge and Queen’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1813, M.A. 1815; raised a company and volunteered for the army 1813; captain on h.p. 25 Dec. 1813; barrister L.I. 25 Nov. 1819; attorney general of New South Wales 5 April 1824 to April 1826 when removed from office; printed a statement of his ‘claims’ 1853 after presenting many petitions to the Government; gentleman bedel of Royal College of Physicians London 1849–50; author of Records of British enterprise beyond sea vol. 1 1849; William Paterson, his life and trials 1858; The writings of Wm. Paterson 3 vols. 1859; Classical and prehistoric influences upon British history, 2 ed. 1871. d. Thornton lodge, Thornton Heath 16 Sep. 1877. Dict. of Nat. Biog. iii, 142 (1885).

BANON, Awly Patrick. F.R.C.S. Ireland 1844, vice president June 1866 to death; M.D. St. Andrew’s 1851; F.R.C.P. Edin. 1852; author of Observations on hermaphroditism illustrated by a remarkable case 1852. d. 37 Fitzwilliam sq. Dublin 28 May 1867.

BANTING, William. b. 1797; an undertaker at 27 St. James’s st. Piccadilly, London 1820–70; made Duke of Wellington’s funeral car Oct. 1852; reduced his weight from 202 lbs. to 156 lbs. in 12 months Aug. 1862 to Aug. 1863 by abstaining from bread, butter, milk, sugar, beer, and potatoes; author of Letter on corpulence addressed to the public 1863 4 ed. 1869; Thousands of people adopted the course he advised, which became known as “banting.” d. 4 The Terrace, Kensington 16 March 1878. Blackwood’s Mag. xcvi, 607–17 (1864); Tanner’s Practice of medicine i, 148 (1875).

BANTRY, Richard White, 1 Earl of (eld. son of Simon White of Bantry). b. 6 Aug. 1767; created a peer of Ireland as Baron Bantry 31 March 1797 on account of exertions in repelling the French invasion at Bantry bay 27 Jany. 1797, Viscount Bantry 29 Dec. 1800 and Viscount Berehaven and Earl of Bantry 22 Jany. 1816. d. Glengariffe lodge, co. Cork 2 May 1851.

BANTRY, Richard White, 2 Earl of. b. St. Finbar, Cork 16 Nov. 1800; a representative peer for Ireland 1 July 1854. d. Exbury house, Hants 16 July 1868.

BANTRY, William Henry Hare White, 3 Earl of. b. Dublin 16 Nov. 1801; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., M.A. 1823; sheriff of Cork 1848; lieut. col. commandant West Cork artillery militia 1854–73; a representative peer for Ireland 6 July 1869. d. Bantry house, Cork 15 Jany. 1884.

BAPTIST, John Thomas. A well known florist at Sydney N.S.W. d. The Gardens, Surrey hills, Sydney 15 Sep. 1873 aged 69.

BARBER, Charles. b. Birmingham; teacher of drawing in Royal Institution, Liverpool; assisted to found the Architectural and Archæological association; a landscape painter; exhibited 3 pictures at the R.A. and many pictures at local exhibitions; pres. of the Liverpool Academy. d. Liverpool Jany. 1854.

BARBER, Charles Chapman. ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., 9 wrangler 1833, B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; pupil of Lewis Duval the conveyancer; barrister L.I. 3 May 1833; member of chancery procedure commission 1853; junior counsel for defendant in ejectment action of Tichborne v. Lushington 11 May 1871 to 6 March 1872; junior counsel for the Crown in prosecution of Roger Tichborne for perjury 23 April 1873 to 28 Feb. 1874; engaged in court 103 days in the ejectment case, and 188 days in the perjury case; judge of county courts for circuit No. 6 East Riding of Yorkshire Feb. 1874 to March 1874 when he resigned and resumed practice. d. 71 Cornwall gardens London 5 Feb. 1882.

BARBER, Fairless (2 son of Joseph Barber of Brighouse, solicitor). b. Castle hill, Rastrick 11 Jany. 1835; ed. at St. Peter’s school York; admitted a solicitor 1859; practised at Brighouse; member of Huddersfield Archæological and Topographical Association 1866, sec. Sep. 1866, it became mainly through him in 1870 the Yorkshire Archæological and Topographical Association; F.S.A. 26 May 1870; edited The Yorkshire Archæological and Topographical journal 6 vols. 1876–81. d. Pinner 3 March 1881. Yorkshire Arch. and Topog. journal vii, 1–5 (1882).

BARBER, James. A very extensive proprietor of coaches between London and Edinburgh; senior partner in firm of Barber and Co. of York, wholesale jewellers; sheriff of York 1826; lord mayor 1833, elected again 1844 but paid the fine to be excused serving. d. Tang hall near York 10 March 1857 aged 73.

BARBER, James (son of a cutlery manufacturer at Sheffield). Made a large sum of money by cards and billiards at Manchester; went to Paris, where he purchased famous race horse Chanticleer which won the Northumberland plate, Goodwood stakes, and Doncaster cup 1848; in partnership with Joseph Saxon as racing men; won Great Northern handicap at York with Ben Webster 1860, and the Oaks with Brown Duchess 1861; at one period one of richest men on the turf. d. Sheffield 18 April 1885 in 69 year.

BARBER, John. b. West Runham, Norfolk; drayman in firm of Truman and Co., London 8 years; purveyor of pigeons and sparrows at 27 Sclater st. Bethnal Green 1821 to death; attended all the chief shooting matches in England for 40 years; his blue rock pigeons well known all over the world. d. 27 Sclater st. 18 June 1860 aged 71.

BARBER, Jonathan. Frame work knitter at Nottingham; leader of the infidels there, held public discussions with Rev. J. W. Brooks of Nottingham. d. Nottingham 17 Jany. 1859. The apology for renouncing infidel opinions of Jonathan Barber 1859.

BARBER, Jonathan. b. England 1784; M.R.C.S.; practised in Scarborough and London; went to United States about 1820; taught elocution in Yale and Harvard Univs., became the best teacher in America; lectured on phrenology; went to Montreal 1836; resumed medical practice as a homœopath about 1845; professor of oratory in McGill univ. Montreal down to 1862; author of The Elocutionist 1829; A grammar of elocution 1830. d. near Montreal 11 May 1864.

BARBER, Mary Ann Serrett (daughter of Thomas Barber). Wrote many articles in the Church of England Magazine and Charlotte Elizabeth’s Christian lady’s magazine; edited Children’s Missionary magazine afterwards called The Coral Missionary mag. 1847 to death; author of Redemption in Israel or narratives of conversions among the Jews 1844, The sorrows of the streets 1855, Castle Rag and its dependencies or the sins and sorrows of the poor 1858, Du Bourg or the Mercuriale 1851 and many other books. d. 9 Sussex sq. Brighton 9 March 1864 aged 63. Bread-winning or the Ledger and the Lute an Autobiography by M. A. S. Barber 1865.

BARBER, William Henry. b. about 1807; clerk to Messrs. Scoones of Tonbridge, Kent, solicitors 1819–36; established Literary and Scientific institution there 1837; solicitor in London 1837; partner with Merrick Bircham; founded The legal discussion society, sec. and treasurer; founded with Lord Brougham and George Birkbeck, Adult instruction society; tried at Central Criminal Court April 1844 for uttering a will of one Anne Slack knowing same to be a forgery when sentenced to be transported for life; arrived at Norfolk Island 9 Nov. 1844; moved to Tasman’s Peninsula March 1847 on breaking up of Norfolk Island establishment; granted conditional pardon by royal warrant dated 12 Nov. 1846 and a free pardon 3 Nov. 1848; arrived in Paris May 1848 and in London Nov. 1848; applied for his annual certificate as a solicitor 31 Jany. 1849, certificate refused him 6 July 1850; petition for inquiry and redress presented to House of Commons 5 April 1852; granted a certificate 21 Nov. 1855; practised in London, ceased to practice 1862. The case of Mr. W. H. Barber, 8 ed. 1853; Central criminal court, minutes of evidence by H. Buckler xix, 778–850 (1844); I.L.N. iv, 80, 249 (1844), 2 portraits.

BARBOUR, Robert. b. Renfrewshire 1797; one of the merchant princes of Manchester down to about 1864 when he retired; member of the first Synod of English Presbyterian church about 1834; endowed at cost of £12,000 a chair which bears his name in Presbyterian college; purchased Bolesworth castle near Chester 1857; sheriff of Cheshire 1866. d. Bolesworth castle 17 Jany. 1885, will proved at Chester 14 April 1885, value of personalty upwards of £472,000.

BARCLAY, Andrew Whyte (son of John Barclay, captain R.N.) b. Dysart, Fifeshire 17 July 1817; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edin.; M.D. 1839; studied at Caius coll. Cam. 1843, and St. George’s hospital, London; M.B. 1847, M.D. 1852; medical registrar at St. George’s many years; F.R.C.P. 1851, examiner, councillor and censor, Lumleian lecturer 1864, Harveian orator 1881, treasurer 1884; fellow of Royal Med. and Chir. soc, pres.; assistant phys. at St. George’s 1857, phys. 1862–82; the first medical officer of health at Chelsea 1856; author of Manual of medical diagnosis 1857 3 ed. 1870. d. Whitney Wood, Stevenage, Herts 28 April 1884. British Medical Journal i, 932 (1884).

BARCLAY, Arthur Kett (eld. son of Charles Barclay of Bury hill near Dorking, Surrey 1780–1855). b. 20 June 1806; ed. at Harrow; head of firm of Barclay, Perkins and Co., brewers; built an observatory at Bury hill 1848; F.R.G.S. 1840, F.R.S. 3 June 1852; paralysed 1855. (m. 20 Dec. 1836 Maria Octavia dau. of Ichabod Wright of Mapperley, Notts). d. 20 Nov. 1869.

BARCLAY, Charles. b. 26 Dec. 1780; M.P. for Southwark 1815–1818, for Dundalk 1826–1830 and for west Surrey 1835–1837; head of firm of Barclay, Perkins and Co.; pres. of Guy’s hospital; sheriff of Surrey 1842; F.R.G.S., F.S.A. d. Bury hill, Surrey 5 Dec. 1855.

BARCLAY, Hugh b. Glasgow 18 Jany. 1799; member of Glasgow faculty of procurators 1820; sheriff substitute of West Perthshire 1829, and of Perthshire 1833; sheriff of Perthshire 1883 to death; author of A digest of the law of Scotland 2 vols. 1852–53 4 ed. 1880; Thoughts on Sabbath schools 1855; The Sinaitic inscriptions 1866. d. Early bank Craigie near Perth 1 Feb. 1884.

BARCLAY, Right Rev. Joseph (only son of John Barclay of Strabane, co. Donegal who d. 9 Dec. 1845). b. Strabane 12 Aug. 1831; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin 16 Oct. 1849 to 1854, B.A. 1854, M.A. 1857, LLD. 1865, D.D. 1880; C. of Bagnalstown 1854–58; missionary at Constantinople 1858–61; incumbent of Ch. Jerusalem 1861–70; R. of Stapleford, Herts 29 March 1873; bishop of Jerusalem June 1879 to death, consecrated in St. Paul’s 25 July 1879, installed 24 Feb. 1880; held 2 ordinations and 5 confirmations; author of Talmud, Selection of treatises translated from the Mishna 1878. d. the bishop’s palace, Jerusalem 23 Oct. 1881. Joseph Barclay a missionary biography 1883, portrait.

BARCLAY, Lydia Ann (dau. of Robert Barclay of Clapham). Edited Selections from the writings of Patrick Livingstone 1847; Memoirs and letters of Richard and Elizabeth Shackleton 1849; A journal of the life and gospel labours of John Conran 1850. d. Cockermouth 31 Jany. 1855 aged 55. A short memoir of L. A. Barclay by Wm. Hodgson, junior 1855; A selection from the letters of L. A. Barclay 1862.

BARCLAY, Sir Robert, 9 Baronet. b. Dungannon 1819; succeeded 14 Aug. 1839. d. Dungannon 19 May 1859.

BARCLAY, Robert (younger son of John Barclay, a minister in Society of Friends who d. 11 May 1838 aged 41). b. Croydon 4 Aug. 1833; a manufacturing stationer in London 1855; patented March 1860 an indelible writing paper for prevention of forgery; author of The inner life of the religious societies of the Commonwealth 1876, reissued 1877 and 1878. d. Hillside, Reigate 11 Nov. 1876. Sermons by Robert Barclay with a brief memoir edited by his widow 1878, portrait.

BARCLAY, Very Rev. Thomas (son of Rev. James Barclay, minister of Unst, Shetland). b. Unst June 1792; ed. at King’s coll. Aberdeen, M.A. 1812; taught elocution at Aberdeen; a parliamentary reporter for the Times 1818–22; licensed by presbytery of Lerwick 27 June 1821; ordained 12 Sep. 1822 to parish of Dunrossness, Shetland; minister of Lerwick 13 Dec. 1827; clerk of the synod of Shetland 27 Apl. 1831; minister of Peterculter Sep. 1843, and of Currie July 1844; principal of Univ. of Glasgow 13 Feb. 1858 to death; one of the best Scandinavian scholars. d. the college, Gillmore hill, Glasgow 23 Feb. 1873. Scott’s Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ pt. v, 422, 426.

BARCLAY, William. b. London 1797; miniature painter; made many copies from works of Italian masters in the Louvre Paris; exhibited portraits and copies in water-colours at the Salon 1831–59 and at Royal Academy 1832–56. d. 1859.

BARDELIN, Auguste de. b. Aix in Provence; member of the Garde-du-Corps of Louis xvi; emigrated to Italy, Germany and Belgium; taught French and Italian at Norwich about 1792–1814; accompanied Louis xviii to Paris 1814; lived there till 1848 when he went to Provence. (m. 1815 or 1816 Miss Sutton). d. Nice 8 May 1852 in 85 year.

BARDIN, George Gregory. Chief inspector of machinery afloat 6 Aug. 1870; C.B. 15 Aug. 1868. d. about May 1875.

BARDSLEY, Sir James Lomax (2 son of Edward Bardsley of Nottingham). b. Nottingham 7 July 1801; ed. at Univs. of Glasgow and Edin.; M.D. Edin. 1823; physician at Manchester 1823 to death; physician to Manchester royal infirmary 1824–43; member of Manchester medical society 1834, pres. 1838–42 and 1845–47; knighted by the Queen at Buckingham palace 8 Aug. 1853; F.R.C.P. 1859; lecturer on principles and practice of physic at Royal school of medicine Manchester 1825–43; author of Hospital facts and observations 1830 and of the articles Diabetes and Hydrophobia in the Cyclopædia of practical medicine 1833. d. The Orchard Greenheys, Manchester 10 July 1876. Photographs of eminent medical men ii, 95–98 (1868), portrait.

BARDSLEY, Samuel Argent. b. Kelvedon, Essex 27 April 1764; apprenticed to a surgeon at Nottingham; studied at Leyden Univ. 1786–89; M.D. 1789; physician at Manchester 1790; phys. to Manchester infirmary 1790 to Aug. 1823; author of Critical remarks on the tragedy of Pizarro 1800; Medical reports of cases and experiments 1807. d. near Hastings 25 May 1851.

BAREZ, Rev. Henry. Minister of the French protestant episcopal church of St. Martin Orgars formerly in Cannon st. London; granted civil list pension of £100 23 July 1840 in consideration of having taught Queen Victoria German. d. Leicester square, London 26 Dec. 1867 aged 79.

BARFF, Samuel. b. England? about 1793; lived at Zante 1816 to death, an eminent merchant and banker there; took an active part in the struggle for independence carried on by the Greek nation 1823–24. d. Zante 1 Sep. 1880 aged 87. Moore’s Life of Lord Byron; Trikoupes’ Ἰστορια τῆς Ἐλληνικῆς Ἐπαναστασεως 4 vols. 1853–57.

BARHAM, Charles Foster (4 son of Thomas Foster Barham of Penzance, Cornwall 1766–1844). b. Truro 9 March 1804; ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam.; foundation scholar May 1823; studied in Paris and Italy 1825–28; M.B. Cam. 1827, M.D. 1860; physician Tavistock dispensary 1832–35; phys. at Truro Aug. 1837 to death; senior phys. Royal Cornwall infirmary 1838–73; pres. Royal Instit. of Cornwall 1859–61; mayor of Truro 1862; author of Report on the sanitary state of the labouring classes in the town of Truro 1842 and of many papers on meteorology and other subjects in Reports and Journal of Royal Instit. of Cornwall and other publications. d. 11 Strangways terrace, Truro 20 Oct. 1884. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i, 10 (1874), iii, 1048 (1882).

BARHAM, Rev. Charles Henry (youngest son of Joseph Foster Barham, M.P.) b. London 1808; ed. at Charterhouse and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; M.P. for Appleby 24 May 1832 to 3 Dec. 1832; R. of Barming, Kent about 1838–47; R. of Kirkby Thore, Westmoreland 1847–52. d. Trecwn, Pembrokeshire 15 Aug. 1878.

BARHAM, Francis Foster (5 son of Thomas Foster Barham, of Penzance). b. Leskinnick, Penzance 31 May 1808; solicitor in London 1831; joint proprietor and editor with J. A. Heraud of The new monthly Magazine and humorist 1 July 1839 to 26 May 1840; lived at Clifton 1844–54, and at Bath 1854 to death; member of Anglo Biblical Instit. 1852; a vegetarian many years; author of The Adamus Exul of Grotius or the prototype of Paradise lost, now first translated from the Latin 1839; The ecclesiastical history of Great Britain by Jeremy Collier, new ed. with a life of the author 9 vols. 1840; The Alist or divine, a message to our times 1840; The political works of Cicero translated 2 vols. 1841–42; Socrates, a tragedy in 5 acts 1842; The life and times of John Reuchlin or Capnion 1843; The new Bristol guide, a poem 1850 and many other books. d. 8 St. Mark’s place, Bath 9 Feb. 1871. A memorial of Francis Barham, edited by Isaac Pitman 1873 pp. lv. and 495 printed in the phonetic character; Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i, 11, iii, 1048.

Note.—He advocated at one period the formation of a religious association to be called Alists or Godists, some of his works on this subject have A. F. Barham or Alist Francis Barham on the title page.

BARHAM, Thomas Foster (eld. son of Thomas Foster Barham of Penzance). b. Hendon, Middlesex 10 Sep. 1794; ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam., M.B. 1820; phys. at Penzance 1820 and at Exeter about 1830–49; lived at Newton Abbot, Devon 1849 to death; author of Introduction to Greek grammar 1829; Greek roots in English rhymes 1837; Philadelphia or claims of humanity 1858; contributed to transactions of Cornish scientific societies. d. Castle Dyke, Highweek, Newton Abbot 3 March 1869. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i, 13, iii, 1050.

BARING, Right Rev. Charles Thomas (youngest son of Sir Thomas Baring, 2 Baronet 1772–1848). b. 11 Jany. 1807; ed. privately and at Ch. Ch. Ox.; double first class 1829, B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; student of his college; C. of St. Ebbe Ox. 1830–44; select preacher before Univ. of Ox. 1846 and 1855; R. of All Souls Marylebone 28 Sep. 1847; chaplain in ord. to the Queen 7 Feb. 1851; R. of Lympsfield Surrey 1855–56; Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol July 1856, consecrated at Lambeth 10 Aug. 1856, translated to Durham 6 Nov. 1861, resigned 2 Feb. 1879; 102 new parishes were formed and 119 new churches built in diocese of Durham 1861–78. d. Cecil house, Wimbledon 14 Sep. 1879. Durham Diocesan calendar 1880 pp. 184–89.

BARING, Henry Bingham. b. York place, London 4 March 1804; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1825; M.P. for Callington 31 July 1830 to 3 Dec. 1832, and for Marlborough 11 Dec. 1832 to 11 Nov. 1868; a lord of the treasury 6 Sep. 1841 to 6 July 1846. d. Nice 25 April 1869.

BARING, Thomas (2 son of Sir Thomas Baring 2 Baronet 1772–1848). b. 7 Sep. 1800; ed. at Winchester; joined banking house of Hope and Co. at Amsterdam; entered house of Baring Brothers and Co. merchants 8 Bishopgate st. London 1828, head of the firm to 1871; chairman of Lloyds 1830 to March 1868; pres. of London institution 1835 to death; M.P. for great Yarmouth 1835–37 and for Huntingdon 1844 to death; a director of Bank of England 1848–67; declined Chancellorship of the Exchequer offered him by Earl of Derby 1852 and 1858; one of the 5 comrs. of Great Exhibition 1862. d. Fontmell lodge, Bournemouth 18 Nov. 1873, personalty sworn under £1,500,000 Dec. 1873. I.L.N. iii, 265 (1843), portrait, xl, 215 (1862), portrait, lxiii, 501, 639 (1873); Waagen’s Treasures of art ii, 174–92, iv, 93–100.

BARKER, Alexander. Lived at 103 Piccadilly, London; made a fine collection of pictures chiefly by great painters of 15th century which was sold at Christie’s 6 June 1874 for sum of £38,591, his library was sold 24–25 June 1874 for £4,019. d. Hatfield near Doncaster 24 Oct. 1873. Waagen’s Treasures of art ii, 125–29, iv, 71–79.

BARKER, Bernard. Editor of literary portion of The Bazaar; author of a novel called Elliot the younger 3 vols. 1878. d. 13 Sep. 1882.

BARKER, Francis. b. Waterford; ed. at Univs. of Dublin and Edinburgh, B.A. Dublin 1793, M.B. and M.D. 1810; practised at Waterford 5 years, where he opened the first fever hospital in Ireland; professor of chemistry Univ. of Dublin 1808; started first medical paper in Ireland with Dr. Todd; sec. of Irish board of health 1820–52; published with Dr. Cheyne a treatise on Epidemic fevers in Ireland 2 vols. 1821; edited the Dublin Pharmacopœia 1826. d. Wellington road, Dublin 8 Oct. 1859 aged 86.

BARKER, Right Rev. Frederic (5 son of Rev. John Barker, V. of Baslow, Derbyshire who d. 6 June 1824). b. Baslow 17 March 1808; ed. at Grantham and Jesus coll. Cam., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1839, D.D. 1854; P.C. of Upton, Cheshire 24 April 1831 to 28 Sep. 1834; P.C. of St. Mary’s Edge hill, Liverpool 1835–54; V. of Baslow Jany. 1854; bishop of Sydney Aug. 1854 to death; created Metropolitan of Australia 19 Oct. 1854, consecrated at Lambeth 30 Nov. 1854, arrived in Sydney May 1855; pres. of the Synod of the diocese of Sydney which first met 5 Dec. 1866; author of Thirty-six psalms with commentary 1854. d. San Remo, Italy 6 April 1882. bur. Baslow 18 April. I.L.N. lxxx, 452, (1882), portrait; Graphic xxv, 448 (1882), portrait.

BARKER, George. Entered navy 1 June 1771; captain 8 June 1799; admiral on h.p. 27 Dec. 1847. d. Spring Vale, Isle of Wight 25 Dec. 1851 in 92 year.

BARKER, George Arthur. b. 1812; Tenor singer and vocal composer; his song “The White Squall” 1835 has passed through many editions and is still frequently sung. d. Aylestone near Leicester 2 March 1876.

BARKER, Sir George Robert (youngest son of John Barker, deputy storekeeper general). b. London 1817; ed. at Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 21 June 1834; lieut. col. 1 June 1855 to death; served in Crimean war and Indian mutiny; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 16 May 1859 for capturing stronghold of Birwah. d. Simla, India 27 July 1861.

BARKER, Henry Aston (younger son of Robert Barker of Leicester square, London, reputed inventor of panoramas 1739–1806). b. Glasgow 1774; pupil at Royal Academy; assisted his father in his panoramas 1789–1806; carried on the business in Leicester square 1806–20; opened a building occupying site of present Strand theatre as Reinagle and Barker’s New Panorama 1820; exhibited a series of panoramas here with his pupil John Burford to 1826; realised £10,000 by his panorama of battle of Waterloo 1842. (m. 1802 Harriet Maria eld. dau. of Wm. Bligh, admiral R.N., she d. 26 Feb. 1856). d. Bitton near Bristol 19 July 1856. G.M. i, 515–18 (1856); Art Journal ix, 47 (1857).

BARKER, John. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, M.B. 1846, M.D. 1863; L.R.C.S. Ireland 1846, M.R.C.S. 1863; demonstrator of anatomy Univ. of Dublin; curator of museum of Royal college of surgeons Dublin; M.R.I.A. and F.R.S. Dublin; author of Cryptogamic part of Steele’s Handbook of field botany 1847. d. 83 Waterloo road, Dublin 2 Feb. 1879 aged 63.

BARKER, John Henry. b. Ashford hall, Derbyshire 1806; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1834; barrister L.I. 3 May 1836; magistrate at Worship st. police court, London July 1860 and at Clerkenwell police court Jany. 1863 to 3 Aug. 1874. d. East lodge, Bakewell Derbyshire 28 Jany. 1876.

BARKER, Joseph. b. Bramley near Leeds 11 May 1806; a travelling preacher of Methodist new connexion at Hanley 1829; stationed on Sheffield and Mossley circuits successively; edited Evangelical Reformer a weekly periodical 1837–40; expelled from the above Society 1841 on ground that he had denied divine appointment of baptism; pastor of a congregation of Barkerites at Newcastle; edited The Christian Investigator 2 vols. 1842–43; became a Unitarian 1845; presented with a steam press at Wortley, Leeds 6 July 1846; issued a library of 300 volumes being cheapest books then ever issued; edited The People 1846, 20,000 copies of which were sold weekly; a town councillor at Leeds 1848; tried as a Chartist but acquitted 1848; emigrated to Central Ohio 1851; a leading abolitionist; lectured in United States 1857–59; sailed for England 11 Jany. 1860; edited Barker’s Review 3 vols. 1862–63; joined the Primitive Methodists at Tunstall; a local preacher to 1868 when he went to America; author of many books. d. Omaha, Nebraska 15 Sep. 1875. Life of Joseph Barker 1880, portrait; Methodist new connexion mag. July 1842, Sep. 1843 and Dec. 1875.

BARKER, Peter. b. 10 July 1808; lost his sight 1812; a skilful performer on the violin; a carpenter at Hampsthwaite, Yorkshire; sang in the church choir; one of the bell ringers, curfew bell is rung at Hampsthwaite at 8 every evening. d. in his cottage near churchyard gate, Hampsthwaite 18 Feb. 1873. Life of Peter Barker, Pately Bridge 1873; S. Baring-Gould’s Yorkshire Oddities i, 177–82 (1874).

BARKER, Rev. Ralph. Ed. at St. Peter’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1821; V. of Pagham near Chichester 1850 to death; rural dean of Chichester 1858 to death; co-editor of The Protestant Guardian 1827–29, and of The Quarterly educational magazine 2 vols. 1847–49; author of sermons, pamphlets and reviews. d. 1871.

BARKER, Thomas. b. Carlton near Nottingham 15 Nov. 1798; a lace maker there; professional cricketer at Cambridge 1822 and 1841–45; a practice bowler at Lord’s cricket ground, London about 1835–41; an umpire at Cambridge 1846 and in London 1856. d. Nottingham 2 March 1877.

BARKER, Thomas Herbert. b. Dunstable 31 Oct. 1814; studied at Univ. coll. London 1834–35; L.S.A. 1837, M.R.C.S. 1842, F.R.C.S. 1851; M.B. London 1845, M.D. 1847; practised at Bedford; one of the very best general practitioners in England; recorded for many years a series of meteorological observations which were incorporated in reports of the Registrar General; F.R.S. Edin.; author of Practical observations on the diet of infancy and childhood 1850; On the hygienic management of infants and children 1859. d. Harpur place, Bedford 24 Oct. 1865. Photographs of eminent medical men i, 117–23 (1866), portrait; British Medical Journal ii, 481–84 (1865).

BARKER, Thomas Jones (eld. son of Thomas Barker of Bath, painter 1769–1847). b. Bath 1815; pupil of Horace Vernet in Paris; exhibited many pictures at the Salon where he gained 3 gold medals; painted several pictures for Louis Philippe; returned to England 1845; gained appellation of the ‘English Horace Vernet’; exhibited 29 pictures at the R.A., 34 at British Institution and 15 at Suffolk st. gallery 1844–76; painted many pictures in France during the German war 1870. d. Avon house, Steele’s road, Haverstock hill, London 27 March 1882. Times 29 March 1882, p. 10, col. 1.

BARKER, Thomas Rawson. b. Bakewell, Derbyshire 9 April 1812; a lead merchant at Sheffield; mayor of Sheffield 1848; played in many great cricket matches; a right-handed batsman but a left round-armed bowler. d. The Edge, Sheffield 26 April 1873.

BARKER, Thomas Richard. b. London 30 Nov. 1799; ed. at Christ’s Hospital 1807–16; entered Homerton old college 1821; independent minister at Alresford Hants 1822, at Harpenden Herts 1824 and at Uxbridge 1833–38; tutor in classics at Spring Hill college Birmingham 1838 to death. d. near the College 12 Nov. 1870. Congregational year book 1871 pp. 302–304.

BARKER, William (only son of Francis Barker, M.D., professor of chemistry in Univ. of Dublin). Assistant to his father many years; prof. of natural philosophy to Royal Society of Dublin 1848; prof. of chemistry R.C.S. Ireland 1850 to death; edited Parkes’s Chemical Catechism 1837 and 1854; M.R.I.A. 25 Jany. 1836. d. Hatch st. Dublin 11 Sep. 1873 aged 63.

BARKER, William Burckhardt (son of John Barker 1771–1849, British consul general in Egypt). b. Aleppo about 1810; taken to England 1819; resided at Tarsus in an official capacity many years; professor of the Arabic Turkish, Persian and Hindustani languages at Eton; chief superintendent of British land transport depot at Sinope 1855 to death; author of Lares and Penates or Cilicia and its governors 1853; Odessa and its inhabitants 1855; A short historical account of the Crimea 1855. d. Sinope 28 Jany. 1856 aged 45. E. B. Barker’s Syria and Egypt 2 vols. 1876.

BARKER, William Gideon Michael Jones. b. 27 Aug. 1817; author of The three days of Wensleydale, the valley of the Yore 1854. d. Leeds 10 April 1855.

BARKLEY, John Trevor. b. Yetminster, Dorset 12 Oct. 1826; resident engineer on Whitehaven and Furness railway; manager of coalfields of Heraclea in Turkey 1850–55; constructed Danube and Black Sea railway 40 miles long (which was sold to Roumanian government Nov. 1882) and several other lines in east of Europe, also upwards of 20 bridges chiefly on the Bucharest and Varna line; returned to England about 1869; member of Iron and Steel Institute 1873. d. 8 Jany. 1882. Journal of Iron and Steel institute No. 2, 1882 651–53.

BARLEE, Sir Frederick Palgrave (son of Rev. Edward Barlee 1788–1853, R. of Worlingworth, Suffolk). b. 1827; served in ordnance department 1844–55; colonial sec. of Western Australia 1855–77; member of legislative council to Nov. 1875; lieut. governor of British Honduras 1877–1883; left England to administer the government of Trinidad 2 June 1884; C.M.G. 30 May 1877, K.C.M.G. 24 May 1883. (m. 2 April 1851 Jane youngest dau. of Edward Oseland of Coleraine). d. Trinidad 8 Aug. 1884.

BARLING, John. b. Weymouth 11 Aug. 1804; congregationalist minister at Square Chapel, Halifax 1829–34; Unitarian minister at Northgate end, Halifax Jany. 1854 to Jany. 1858; author of A review of Trinitarianism 1847; Leaves from my writing desk by an old student 1872. d. Leeds 20 Aug. 1883.

BARLOW, Charles Anstruther. b. 5 Feb. 1800; entered navy 1812; commanded the Nimrod 20 guns 1839–41; captain 8 June 1841; C.B. 14 Oct. 1841. d. Hammersmith 31 Dec. 1855.

BARLOW, Rev. Edward William (only son of Dr. Barlow, M.D. of New Sydney Place, Bath). ed. at Ex. Coll. Ox., B.A. 1834, M.A. 1836, D.D. 1865; C. of Rochford, Essex; author of A brief manual on writing Latin 1834; A treatise on the state of the soul 1843; The Apocrypha, its use and abuse 1850; Clerical manual 2 parts 1852; A compilation on Dilapidations 1853. d. Cleveland villa, Bath 13 Feb. 1869 aged 57.

BARLOW, George Hilaro (4 son of Rev. Thomas Wm. Barlow 1760–1821 preb. of Bristol). b. 2 May 1806; midshipman R.N.; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832, M.D. 1841; studied at Univ. of Edin. and Guy’s hospital; M.R.C.P. 1834, F.R.C.P. 1842; assistant phys. to Guy’s hospital 1840, phys. 1843; one of editors of Guy’s hospital reports; chairman of New Equitable life assurance company 1856, and of the Briton medical and general life association 1862. d. Longton lodge, Sydenham 13 Oct. 1866. Lancet ii, 454–55 (1866).

BARLOW, Henry Clark (only child of Henry Barlow of Newington Butts, London 1783–1858). b. 6, Churchyard row, Newington Butts 12 May 1806; studied at Royal Academy and Univ. of Edin., M.D. 3 Aug. 1837; spent 5 years in Italy 1841–45; F.G.S. 1864; took a prominent part in Dante festival at Florence 14–16 May 1865; Cavalier of order of the Saints Maurice and Lazarus June 1865; author of Industry on Christian principles 1851; Francesca da Rimini her lament and vindication 1859 2 ed. 1875; Essays on Symbolism 1866. d. Salzburg 8 Nov. 1876. A brief memoir of H. C. Barlow, privately printed 1868; Quarterly journal of Geological society xxxiii, 60–62 (1877).

Note.—He left by will £1,000 consols to University College London for the endowment of an annual course of lectures on the ‘Divina Commedia’ as well as all the books and prints in his library which related to Dante and Italian history and literature; he also left £500 consols to the Geological Society for the furtherance of geological science.

BARLOW, John. b. the Oak farm, Chorley, Cheshire 20 Sep. 1815; studied at Veterinary college Edin. 1842; assistant professor and lecturer on Zootomy at same college 1845 to death; member of Physiological Society. d. 1 Pilrig st. Edin. 29 Jany. 1856. A memoir of John Barlow 1858.

BARLOW, Rev. John. Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; F.R.S. 18 Dec. 1834; sec. of Royal Institution 1842–60; chaplain in ordinary at Kensington palace 12 Oct. 1854 to Sep. 1867. d. 5 Berkeley st. Piccadilly 8 July 1869 aged 70.

BARLOW, Maurice. Ensign 85 foot 21 July 1814; lieut. col. 14 foot 25 Dec. 1847 to 27 Jany. 1857 when placed on h.p.; brigadier general in the Crimea 30 July 1855; col. of 3 West India regiment 8 June 1863 and of 14 foot 9 Aug. 1870 to death; general 21 March 1874. d. Florence 12 April 1875.

BARLOW, Peter. b. parish of St. Simon, Norwich 13 Oct. 1776; mathematical master at Royal military academy Woolwich 1801; mathematical professor there to 1847 when he retired on full pay; gold medallist of Society of Arts 1821; F.R.S. 29 May 1823, Copley medallist 1825 for his discoveries in magnetism; F.S.A. 1829, F.R.A.S. 1829; a corresponding member of Academies of Brussells and Paris; one of Irish railway comrs. 19 Oct. 1836; invented method of compensating compass errors in ships whereby difficulty of navigation was in a great measure overcome, for which he received from board of longitude a grant of £500; contributed largely to Encyclopædia Metropolitana and Rees’s Encyclopædia; author of A new mathematical and philosophical dictionary 1814; Essay on the strength of timber and other materials 1817, 6 ed. 1867; Essay on magnetic attractions 1820, 2 ed. 1823. d. Old Charlton, Kent 1 March 1862. Proc. of Royal Society xii, 33–34 (1863); Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxii, 615–18 (1863).

BARLOW, Peter William (elder son of the preceding). b. 1800; A.I.C.E. 1826, M.I.C.E. 1845, Telford medallist 1845; engaged upon construction of Liverpool and Birmingham canal and the New London docks; resident engineer on London and Dover since called South Eastern railway; planned and executed Reading and Reigate and Tonbridge and Hastings branches 1841–46; designed and constructed Lambeth bridge opened 11 Nov. 1862, cheapest bridge in London, cost only £30,000; planned the Tower Subway opened Feb. 1870; F.R.S. 20 Nov. 1845. d. 56 Lansdowne road, Notting hill, London 20 May 1885.

BARLOW, Sir Robert, 2 Baronet. b. Calcutta 24 Sep. 1797; in the Bengal civil service 1817 to death; succeeded 18 Dec. 1846. d. Hanover square, London 21 Jany. 1857.

BARLOW, Thomas Worthington (only son of Wm. Worthington Barlow of Cranage, Cheshire). barrister G.I. 14 June 1848; practised at Manchester; Queen’s advocate at Sierra Leone April 1856 to death; F.L.S. April 1848; author of The mystic number, a glance at the system of nature 1852; Memoir of W. Broome 1855; edited The Cheshire and Lancashire historical collector 2 vols. 1853–55. d. Freetown, Sierra Leone 10 Aug. 1856 aged 33.

BARLOW, Sir William Owen, 8 Baronet (only son of Wm. Owen, a brigadier general). b. 11 April 1775; barrister M.T. 22 Nov. 1799, bencher 1838; tubman of Court of Exchequer 1809, postman 1815–1837; succeeded his uncle 4 Jany. 1817; attorney general for Carmarthen circuit many years; took name of Barlow 1844; lived in Fig tree court Temple 1799 to death. d. 5 Fig tree court 25 Feb. 1851. G.M. xxxv, 433 (1851).