MUSTERS, George Chaworth (son of John George Musters of Wiverton hall, Notts., d. 1842). b. Naples 13 Feb. 1841; entered the navy 1854; served in the Algiers, 74 guns, in the Black Sea, received English and Turkish Crimean medals 1856; lieut. of the Stromboli on coast of South America Dec. 1861 to June 1866; retired commander 10 June 1871; started sheep-farming at Montevideo 1866; lived with the Patagonian aboriginies, who treated him as a king 1869–70; received a gold watch from Royal Geog. soc. 1872; travelled with his wife in Bolivia and adjacent countries Feb. 1874 to Sept. 1876; appointed consul for the Mozambique 23 Sept. 1878; author of At home with the Patagonians, a year’s wanderings on untrodden ground from the Straits of Magellan to the Rio Negro 1871, 2 ed. 1873. d. London 25 Jany. 1879. Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. i 397–8 (1879).

MUSTOXIDI, Sir Andrea. b. Corfu 1785; created doctor at Padua 1807; historiographer to the French government under ministry of duke de Feltre in the Ionian Islands 1807; member of legislative assembly of Ionian Islands 1817, then president; president of municipality of Corfu; minister of public instruction in the Ionian Islands, and chancellor of the univ. of Corfu 1823; historiographer of the Ionian Islands 1811, sir Thomas Maitland deprived him of the title 1820; K.C.M.G. 1857; author of many editions of the classical authors and of works on Greece, published at Corfu, Malta, Milan, Padua, and Venice 1811–48. d. Corfu 17 July 1860. G.M. Nov. 1860 p. 554; Didot’s Nouvelle Biog. Générale xxxvi 73 (1863); Larousse’s Grand Dictionnaire xi 732 (1874).

MUSURUS, Constantine (son of Paul Musurus). b. Constantinople 18 Feb. 1807; a Greek christian; sec. to Stefanaki Beg Vogorides, afterwards prince of Samos 1832, whose daughter Anne he married in 1839, she was b. 1819 and d. in London 19 July 1867; Turkish minister at Athens 1840, and at Vienna 1848; minister in London April 1851, raised to the rank of ambassador 30 Jany. 1856 with the title of Pasha, on the Sultan’s visit to London July 1867; retired 7 Dec. 1885; resided 1 Bryanston sq. London. d. Constantinople 12 Feb. 1891. The Graphic 21 Feb. 1891 p. 209 portrait; I.L.N. 21 Feb. 1891 p. 235 portrait; Pictorial World 21 Feb. 1891 p. 241 portrait.

MUTRIE, Annie Feray (sister of the succeeding). b. Ardwick, Manchester 6 March 1826; exhibited 46 flower pictures at R.A. and 6 at B.I. 1851–80, her pictures praised by John Ruskin in his Notes on the Royal academy 1855; removed to London 1854; sent pictures to Manchester exhibition of 1857, and to the International exhibition of 1862. d. 26 Lower Rock gardens, Brighton 28 Sept. 1893. bur. Brompton cemet. The Times 10 Oct. 1893 p. 9.

MUTRIE, Martha Darley (elder dau. of Robert Mutrie, who settled at Manchester in the cotton trade). b. Ardwick, Manchester 26 Aug. 1824; exhibited flower pictures at Royal Manchester Institution during some years; resided in London 1854 to death; exhibited 43 pictures at R.A. and 1 at B.I. 1853–78; a Group of Camellias by her is in the South Kensington museum. d. 36 Palace gardens’ terrace, Kensington 30 Dec. 1885. bur. Brompton cemet. Athenæum 9 Jany. 1886 p. 75.

MUTTLEBURY, George. b. 1775; ensign 55 foot Jany. 1795, captain 21 Feb. 1798; captain 69 foot 5 Dec. 1802, lieut. col. 10 Aug. 1815, placed on h.p. 25 Nov. 1816; lieut. col. 69 foot again 3 July 1817, retired 3 Oct. 1826; C.B. 22 June 1815. d. Maida hill, London 11 Jany. 1854.

MYBURGH, Philip Albert (5 son of François Gerard Myburgh of Cape of Good Hope civil service, d. 21 Jany. 1868). b. 24 Feb. 1841; educ. South African college; matric. univ. of London 1858, B.A. 1860; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1862, bencher Jany. 1886 to death; Q.C. 18 Jany. 1882; her majesty’s standing counsel in supreme court, China and Japan; practised in the admiralty court, London. d. 31 Queen’s gate gardens, London 4 July 1892.

MYCROFT, William. b. Brimington, near Chesterfield 1 Feb. 1841; a miner at Brimington; professional cricketer; engaged at Birkenhead 1871, at Derby by the South Derbyshire club 1872–3; first played at Lord’s in All England v. the United South 22–3 May 1876, when he put out 9 of the latter and hit W. G. Grace for three 4’s in one over; a fast left hand bowler; in the Players v. Gentlemen at Lord’s and at Prince’s 1877; engaged by lord Sheffield to help Alfred Shaw in training Sussex players; on ground staff at Lord’s 1876–93. d. Derby 19 June 1894. Marylebone Club cricket scores xiii 823 (1880).

MYERS, Arthur Thomas (eld. son of rev. Frederick Myers of Keswick, Cumberland). b. 1841; educ. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1873, M.A. 1876, M.D. 1881; L.S.A. 1879; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1882; house physician St. George’s hospital 1879–80, medical registrar 1880–4; physician Belgrave hospital for children 1887 to death; contributed to Clinical society transactions. d. from effects of a dose of some narcotic at 2 Manchester sq. London 10 Jany. 1894.

MYERS, Frederick (son of Thomas Myers 1774–1834, professor of mathematics at royal military academy, Woolwich.) b. Blackheath 20 Sept. 1811; scholar of Clare hall, Camb. 1829, Crosse scholar 1833, fellow 1833; B.A. 1833; Tyrwhitt Hebrew scholar 1836; C. of Ancaster, Lincs. 1835; P.C. of St. John’s, Keswick 1838 to death; author of Catholic Thoughts, privately printed, in 4 books 1834–48, published 1873 in the series of Present-day papers, edited by Bishop Ewing, issued again in 1883; Four sermons preached before the university of Cambridge, Keswick 1846; Six lectures on great men 1848. d. Clifton 20 July 1851. bur. Keswick churchyard 26 July. The life of Wm. Whewell, By Mrs. Stair Douglas (1881) passim.

MYERS, James Washington. b. Providence, Rhode island, U.S. of America 1823; an equestrian apprentice to Aaron Turner and Sons 1832; the first person who did a double somersault over horses; proprietor of a circus and menagerie 1844, travelled in United States 7 years, sold his establishment to James Nixon and P. T. Barnum 1851; came to England and performed before the queen at Windsor Castle 1851; travelled with Howes and Cushing’s circus 17 months; circus proprietor performing in the English provinces and on the Continent; had a very large establishment in Paris; his circus was at Crystal palace, Sydenham, summer of 1876; opened at the Agricultural hall, Islington 12 Jany. 1879; sold his circus, horses, lions, and elephants for about £5,000 at North Woolwich gardens 18 Oct. 1882; travelled with Hengler’s circus to death. d. Bristol 1 Dec. 1892. Era 21 Oct. 1882 p. 7, cols. 3–4; Graphic xxvi 501 (1882); Illust. Sp. and Dr. news xviii 145 (1882).

MYERS, William. Apprenticed to a land surveyor; acted under Mr. Thornhill at Bilston, then at Birmingham; played under Charles Kean’s management; acted Buckingham in Richard iii, and Appius Claudius in Virginius; played Quasimodo in Notre Dame in Jersey and was complimented by Victor Hugo; acted with W. C. Macready; last appeared as the Baillie in Rob Roy at Jersey; was the successor to T. P. Cooke in the character of William in Black-eyed Susan; correspondent of The Era in Guernsey. d. Guernsey 31 Dec. 1891, left a daughter Katherine Myers, professionally known as Kate Maynard.

MYERS, William. b. Norwich 5 March 1836; at Shrewsbury walked 300 miles in 6 days 1853; jumped 500 hurdles, 10 yards apart, in 30 minutes at Huntingdon 30 Dec. 1856; won a gold cup over 500 hurdles at Aldershot 1858; won a silver cup in a distance of 34 miles at Brompton; walked Bailey of Oxford st. London for £10 a side at Brompton; won a 3 mile handicap at Holloway grounds; beat W. Priestly for the championship £25 a side on Good Friday 1861; beat T. Beeston 7 miles £25 a side at Chalk farm, Primrose hill, London. Illust. sporting news (1862) 45 portrait.

MYLES, James. b. parish of Liff, Scotland 1819; worked as a mason several years; a public speaker on the people’s rights; bookseller in the Overgate, Dundee to death; published A Feast of literary crumbs, By Foo Foozle and friends; author of Chapters in the life of a Dundee factory boy, reprinted from Northern Warder newspaper; Rambles in Forfarshire, or sketches in town and country 1850, mostly reprinted from Dundee Courier; issued prospectus of a periodical entitled Myles’s Forfarshire telegraph and monthly advertiser, shortly before his death. d. Dundee 26 Feb. 1851. W. Norries’ Dundee Celebrities (1873) 132–3.

MYLES, Percy Watkins (son of rev. T. P. Myles, rector of Kilmore, co. Cork). b. Kilmore Feb. 1849; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1872; C. of St. John, Wednesbury, Staffs. 1871–4; Senior C. of Holy Trinity, Upper Chelsea 1874–8; C. of Hillingdon, Middlesex 1878–82; C. of St. George, Old Brentford 1882–4; C. of St. Stephen, Ealing 1884 to death; agent of Additional curates aid soc.; F.L.S.; his lecture before Rudy institute, Paris on Contemporary English literature Jany. 1890, printed as a pamphlet March 1890; a writer in The Academy; edited for the Selbourne Society, its monthly magazine Nature notes 1890 to death. d. 1 Argyll road, Castle Hill, Ealing 7 Oct. 1891. Academy 10 Oct. 1891 p. 335.

MYLNE, Robert William (son of the succeeding). b. 14 June 1817; assisted his father for about 20 years; engineer to Limerick water company some years; obtained a supply of water from a sunk fort in the sea off Portsmouth; surveyor to the Stationers’ company 1861 to death; F.R.I.B.A. 1849–89; F.G.S. 1848, member of council 1854–68; F.S.A. 8 Feb. 1849; author of On the supply of water from Artesian wells in the London basin 1840; Account of the ancient basilica of San Clemente at Rome 1845; Sections of the London strata with a block plan of the metropolis 1850; Topographical map of London and its environs 1851 and 1855; Map of the geology and contours of London and its environs 1856; Map of London shewing the districts supplied by the waterworks 1856. d. Home lodge, Great Amwell, Herts. 2 July 1890. Proc. of Royal Soc. xlviii pp. xx–xxi (1891); Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xiii 317 (1890).

MYLNE, William Chadwell (2 son of Robert Mylne, architect and engineer 1734–1811). b. London 6 April 1781; assistant engineer to the New River company 1804, engineer 1811–61; designed and executed water works for Lichfield 1821, and for Stamford 1836; laid out 50 acres of land for building purposes near Islington, and designed St. Mark’s ch. Myddelton sq. 1826–8; constructed many settling reservoirs at Stoke Newington 1828; surveyor to the Stationers’ company 1811–61; F.R.A.S. 1821; F.R.S. 16 March 1826; F.R.I.B.A. 1834; M.I.C.E. 1842, member of council 1844–8; treasurer to Smeatonian society of engineers 41 years. d. Amwell, Herts. 25 Dec. 1863. R. S. Mylne’s Master masons to the crown of Scotland (1893) 284–98 portrait; Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxx 448–51 (1870).

MYNN, Alfred (4 son of Wm. Mynn, farmer). b. Twisdon lodge, Goudhurst, Kent 19 Jany. 1807; a hop merchant with his brother at 12 Counter st. Borough, London 1833; played with lord Sondes’ club at Leeds court from 1825; first appeared at Lord’s in Gentlemen v. Players 27 Aug. 1832; served with the Gentlemen 20 times; played for county of Kent regularly till 1854; in 1836 he scored 283 runs in 4 consecutive innings, besides being twice not out; on an average he made about 30 runs in an hour; member of All England eleven 1846–54; a second Kent and England match was played in his honor at Lord’s 1847, when he got most runs, most wickets, and also hit the winning ball; the champion single wicket player of England, and beat, twice each, Thomas Hills in 1832, James Dearman in 1838, and N. Felix in 1846, all of whom had challenged him; a fast and ripping round armed bowler; resided at Harrietsham from 1825, removed to Thurnham and then to London. d. Merrick sq. Borough, London 1 Nov. 1861. Denison’s Cricket (1846) 3–11 and 74–6; Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores ii 200–1 (1862); R. Daft’s Kings of cricket (1893) 28–32, 203, 3 portraits; W. G. Grace’s Cricket (1891) 29 portrait; Illust. sporting news (1862) 137 portrait.

MYNN, Walter Parker (brother of preceding). b. 24 Nov. 1805; member of the Kent eleven, a steady bat, generally going in first; played at Lord’s first time in Sixteen gentlemen v. Eleven players 8 July 1833; long stop to his younger brother, A. Mynn’s tremendous bowling, and was much hurt about his hands in consequence; height upwards of six feet. d. 19 South Grove, Peckham, London 17 Oct. 1878. bur. Forest Hill. Lillywhite’s Cricket scores ii 221 (1862).

MYTTON, Richard Herbert (only son of rev. Richard Mytton of Garth, near Welshpool, Montgomeryshire, d. 21 Feb. 1828). b. 2 Dec. 1808; ed. at Eton and Haileybury; judge of the Sudder, or high court of appeal at Calcutta, retired 1853; sheriff of Montgomeryshire 1856; chairman of quarter sessions. d. Garth 12 May 1869.

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NADEN, Constance Caroline Woodhill (only child of Thomas Naden, architect). b. 15 Francis road, Edgbaston, Birmingham 24 Jany. 1858; lived with Mrs. Woodhill at Edgbaston till 1 June 1887, from whom she inherited a handsome fortune; a disciple of Robert Lewins, M.D. from 1876, the doctrine he taught is called hylo-idealism, and is monistic positivism; studied physics, chemistry, botany, flower painting, German, French, Latin, and Greek under private tutors, and at the Midland institute, and at Mason’s coll. Birmingham 1879–1887; lectured at Mason’s coll. 1889; edited the Mason college magazine; a member of the Aristotelian society; travelled in the East 1887–8; purchased 114 Park st. Grosvenor sq. London Nov. 1888; endeavoured to form a Spencer society 1819; wrote scientific papers with the signatures of C. N., Constance Arden, and C. A.; author of Songs and sonnets of spring time 1881; A modern apostle, the elixir of life, and other poems 1887; Further reliques of C. Naden, ed. by George M. McCrie 1891; Selections from the works of C. C. W. Naden 1893. d. from an internal complaint 114 Park st. London 23 Dec. 1889. bur. in Old cemet. Warstone lane, Birmingham; Dr. Lewin founded a Naden gold medal at Mason college, and gave her bust in marble to the library 1890. Induction and deduction by C. C. W. Naden (1890) memoir pp. vii–xvii portrait; W. R. Hughes’ C. Naden (1890) portrait; Mason coll. mag. Feb. 1890 pp. 47–55; Midland Institute mag. Feb. 1890 p. 223, March p. 240; Edgbastonia Feb. 1890 pp. 17–23 portrait; A. H. Miles’ Poets of the century, viii 571–8 (1893); E. C. Brewer’s Constance Naden and hydro-idealism (1891); Contemporary review April 1891 pp. 508–22; The Speaker No. 2 Jany. 11 1890 p. 35, by W. E. Gladstone, where he praises her Pantheistic song of immortality.

NAFTEL, Maud (only dau. of the succeeding). b. 1 June 1856; studied at Slade school of art in London, and in Paris under Carolus Duran; exhibited 8 drawings at the Dudley gallery 1877–82, and at the Dudley Gallery art soc. 2 drawings 1883–5; was noted for her paintings of flowers; associate of the Old Society of painters in water-colours March 1887, where she exhibited 16 drawings; exhibited 2 flower pieces at R.A. 1875–8; author of Flowers and how to paint them 1886. d. 76 Elm park road, Chelsea 18 Feb. 1890. J. L. Roget’s Old water colour society ii 352, 428–9 (1891).

NAFTEL, Paul Jacob (son of Paul Naftel of Guernsey). b. Guernsey 10 Sept. 1817; professor of drawing at Elizabeth college, Guernsey; associate of the Old Society of Painters in water-colours 11 Feb. 1856, member 13 June 1859, exhibited 550 works; a landscape drawing-master in water-colours, London 1870 to death; resided at 4 St. Stephen’s sq. Westminster 1870–83, and then at 76 Elm park road; designed the illustrations for Ansted and Latham’s The Channel Islands 1862. d. 1 Walpole gardens, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham 13 Sept. 1891. J. L. Roget’s Old water colour society ii 352–4 (1891).

Note.—His wife exhibited 6 pictures at R.A., and 9 at Suffolk st. 1857–79.

NAGHTEN, Arthur Robert (son of Thomas Naghten of Crofton house, Titchfield, Hants). b. 23 April 1829; educ. Eton and Worcester coll. Oxf., B.A. 1852, M.A. 1853; M.P. Winchester 3 Feb. 1874 to 24 March 1880; captain Hampshire artillery 3 Aug. 1859, major 1872–5; a director of Southampton dock co. d. Blightmont, Southampton 7 Aug. 1881.

NAGLE, James. b. co. Cork; sessional crown prosecutor in East Riding of co. Cork 1836–53; master of the crown office in Ireland, queen’s coroner and attorney and clerk of the crown 1853 to death. d. 90 Pembroke road, Dublin 11 Sept. 1875. Irish Law Times ix 470, 535 (1875).

NAIRN, William Edward (1 son of Wm. Nairn, major 46 foot). b. Lynecombe, Somerset 1812; matric. from Queen’s coll. Oxf. 21 Jany. 1830; scholar of Lincoln coll. 1830–4; B.A. 1833; went with sir John Franklin to Van Diemen’s Land 1837; secretary to board of education 1839; clerk to the executive and legislative councils 1841; assistant colonial secretary 1842; deputy controller general of convicts 1843, controller general 1855; sheriff of Van Diemen’s Land 1855; member for Meander of legislative council 1856–69; president of the council Sept. 1859 to Aug. 1868. d. Hobart Town 9 July 1869.

NAIRNE, Charles Murray. b. Perth 15 April 1808; graduated at Univ. of St. Andrews 1830, and afterwards at Edinburgh; assistant to Dr. Thomas Chalmers at Glasgow; taught at College Hill, Poughkeepsie, New York 1847; established a private school in New York; professor of moral and intellectual philosophy and literature in Columbia college 1857–81, emeritus professor 1881 to death; received degree of L.H.D. from the regents of New York 1865; author of Two lectures of the annual psychological course in Columbia college, New York 1866, and of many pamphlets. d. Warrenton, Virginia 28 May 1882.

NAIRNE, Robert. Educ. Edinb. and at Trin. coll. Camb., M.B. 1832, M.L. 1836, M.D. 1837; F.R.C.P. Lond. 1838; physician to St. George’s hospital 1839, then senior physician and lecturer on medicine; a comr. in lunacy April 1857 to July 1883, hon. comr. 1883 to death. d. Mossley, Beckenham 5 Nov. 1886. The Lancet 13 Nov. 1886 p. 955, 20 Nov. p. 1005.

NAISH, John (2 son of Carrol Naish of Ballycullen, co. Limerick). b. 1841; ed. at Jesuit school of Clongowes Wood in Kildare, and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar in science 1861, B.A. 1863; won the studentship given by inns of court, London; called to Irish bar 1865; Q.C. 28 Feb. 1880; bencher of King’s Inns 1883; law adviser to Dublin castle 1880–3; solicitor general for Ireland 9 Jany. 1883, attorney general 19 Dec. 1884 to 21 May 1885; contested Mallow 25 June 1883; P.C. Ireland Jany. 1885; lord chancellor of Ireland 21 May to 1 July 1885, being the second Roman Catholic chancellor since the reformation; lord justice of appeal Aug. 1885 to Feb. 1886, and June 1886 to death; lord chancellor again Feb. to July 1886. d. Ems 17 Aug. 1890. bur. at Ems. Our judges, By Rhadamanthus (1890) 45–9 portrait; Irish law times xxiv 446–7 (1890); Law Journal 23 Aug. 1890 p. 514.

NAISH, William (son of Francis Naish, silversmith). b. High st. Bath 9 March 1785; haberdasher at 37 Gracechurch st. London 1823–34; published many tracts and pamphlets in favour of the anti-slavery movement which he sold at his shop 1829–30; resided sometime at Maidstone; author of The negroe’s remembrancer, 13 numbers; The negroe’s friend, 26 numbers; Reasons for using East Indian sugar 1828; The negro slave, a tale 1830; Sketches from the history of Pennsylvania 1845; The fulfilment of the prophecy of Isaiah 1853, and of a number of 4 page Quaker tracts. d. Bath 4 March 1860. bur. Friends burial ground at Widcombe Hill near Bath. J. Smith’s Catalogue ii 210–14 (1867).

Note.—His son Arthur John Naish, b. 1816, founded with Paul Bevan the valuable Bevan-Naish library of Friend’s books, now deposited in the library, Dr. Johnson passage, Birmingham, he d. 1889.

NALLY, Patrick W. b. co. Mayo 1857; tried Dec. 1883 and again in 1884 at Cork, and sentenced to 10 years penal servitude for being concerned in the Crossmolins conspiracy to murder case; detained in Mountjoy prison, Dublin from 1882–6, in Downpatrick gaol and 1886, again at Mountjoy; preparation had been made for a Nally testimonial on his expected release from prison on 27 Nov. 1891. d. Mountjoy prison, Dublin 9 Nov. 1891. bur. Glasnevin cemet. 14 Nov., when a large number of people attended. The Freeman’s Journal 10 Nov. 1891 p. 5, 16 Nov. p. 5.

NAPIER OF MAGDALA, Robert Cornelis Napier, 1 Baron (son of Charles Frederick Napier, major R.A. d. 1812). b. Colombo, Ceylon 6 Dec. 1810; ed. at Addiscombe 1824–6; 2 lieut. Bengal engineers 15 Dec. 1826; laid out the new settlement of Dargiling 1838–42; served at battles of Ferozeshah 21 Dec. 1845, and Sobraon 10 Feb. 1846; served in the second Sikh war 1848–9; civil engineer to board of administration of the Punjab 1849–56 where he carried out important public works; officiating chief engineer of Bengal 1857; military secretary and chief of the adjutant general’s department in Oudh, and at relief of Lucknow 1857, severely wounded at second relief of Lucknow 17 Nov. 1857, commanded a brigade of engineers at siege of Lucknow 21 March 1858; commanded the Central India force May 1858, defeated Tantia Topee in June, commanded the Gwalior division 29 June, captured the rebel leaders Man Singh and Tantia Topee 7 April 1859; commanded the second division in the expedition to China Jany. 1860, took the Peiho forts 21 Aug. 1860; military member of council of governor general of India Jany. 1861 to Jany. 1865; commander-in-chief of the Bombay army Jany 1865; commanded the expedition to Abyssinia which landed at Zoulah 2 Jany. 1868, defeated the troops of King Theodore 10 April and stormed Magdala 13 April; C.B. 24 March 1858, K.C.B. 27 July 1858, G.C.B. 27 April 1868; G.C.S.I. 16 Sept. 1867; created baron Napier of Magdala in Abyssinia and of Caryngton in the county palatine of Cheshire 14 July 1868; received freedom of cities of London 21 July 1868 and of Edinburgh 15 Sept. 1868; hon. colonel of 3rd London rifle corps 22 July 1868 to death; F.R.S. 16 Dec. 1869; commander-in-chief in India Jany. 1870 to 10 April 1876; col. commandant of the R.E. 1 April 1874 to death; general 1 April 1874; governor of Gibraltar 30 June 1876 to 1 Jany. 1883; field marshal 1 Jany. 1883; constable of Tower of London 6 Jany. 1887 to death. d. 63 Eaton sq. London 14 Jany. 1890. bur. St. Paul’s cathedral 21 Jany. equestrian statue by Boehm erected in Calcutta 1876, a replica of which was unveiled in Waterloo place, London 8 July 1891. C. R. Low’s Soldiers of the Victorian age (1870) 308–71; T. H. S. Escott’s Pillars of the empire (1879) 228–35; C. R. Markham’s History of Abyssinian expedition (1869) 140 et seq.; E. H. Nolan’s Indian mutiny iii 71 portrait; I.L.N. li 349, 350 (1867) portrait, 18 July 1891 p. 67 view of statue; Graphic xvii 293 (1878) portrait.

Note.—He is depicted under the name of general Sutton in the novel called Chronicles of Dustypore, a tale of modern Anglo-Indian society. By the author of Wheat and Tares (H. S. Cunningham). 2 vols. 1875.

NAPIER, Alexander (6 son of Macvey Napier 1776–1847, editor of the Edinburgh Review 1829–47). b. Edinburgh 1814; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1847; V. of Holkham, Norfolk 1847 to death; chaplain and librarian to earl of Leicester; R. of Egmere with Waterden 1847 to death; edited Isaac Barrow’s Theological Works, 9 vols. Camb. 1859; Life of Samuel Johnson, by J. Boswell, 5 vols. 1884, 2 ed. 6 vols. 1884; translated and edited J. A. W. Neander’s The epistle to the Philippians and the general epistle of James 1851; Karl Elze’s Lord Byron 1872; Julius Payer’s New lands within the Arctic circle, 2 vols. 1876; A. T. F. Michaelis’ The Holkham bust of Thucydides 1878; his wife Robina Napier translated Memoirs of prince Metternich 1773–1815, edited by prince Richard Metternich, 5 vols. 1880–4; he d. Holkham vicarage 24 Aug. 1887. Quarterly Review Oct. 1869 pp. 353–81.

NAPIER, Sir Charles (eld. son of Charles Napier of Merchiston hall, Stirlingshire, captain in the navy 1731–1807). b. Merchiston hall 6 March 1786; entered navy 1 Nov. 1799, captain 22 May 1809; lost his fortune in an attempt to promote iron steamers on the Seine 1819–27; vice-admiral, major general of the Portuguese navy and commander-in-chief of the fleet in the cause of Donna Maria and Dom Pedro 8 June to 15 Oct. 1833; defeated the squadron of Dom Miguel off Cape St. Vincent 3 July 1833; promoted to rank of admiral and created viscount Cape St. Vincent in peerage of Portugal July 1833; granted grand cross of order of the Tower and Sword and created count Cape St. Vincent by Dom Pedro; captain H.M.S. Powerful, 84 guns, 1 Jany. 1839; commanded a squadron off Syria June 1840, took Beyrout from the Egyptians 10 Oct. 1840, and Acre 3 Nov.; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 2 Dec. 1840, received orders of Maria Theresa of Austria, of St. George of Russia, of the Red Eagle of Prussia, and the first class of the Medjidie; presented with freedom of city of London 23 Sept. 1841; captain on h.p. 1841; naval A.D.C. to the queen 30 Nov. 1841 to 9 Nov. 1846; R.A. 9 Nov. 1846; commanded the channel fleet May 1847 to April 1849; V.A. 28 May 1853; commanded the fleet in the Baltic sea 25 Feb. 1854 to 19 Feb. 1855, where he blockaded all the Russian ports; admiral 6 March 1858; contested Portsmouth 14 Dec. 1832 and Greenwich 1837; M.P. Marylebone 1841–7; M.P. Southwark 1855–60; author of An account of the war in Portugal between Don Pedro and Don Miguel, 2 vols. 1836; The life of sir C. Napier, chiefly by himself, 3 ed. 1841 portrait; The war in Syria, 2 vols, 1842; The history of the Baltic campaign 1857. d. Merchiston hall, Horndean, Hants. 6 Nov. 1860. bur. at Catherington; portrait by T. M. Joy in painted hall at Greenwich, and another portrait by John Simpson in National portrait gallery, Edinburgh. E. D. H. E. Napier’s Life of sir C. Napier, 2 vols. (1862) portrait; Men of the time (1857) 558–64; G.M. x 209–16 (1861); E. H. Nolan’s Russian war i 310 (1855) portrait; Sporting Review xxxii 205–7 (1854) portrait; Fagan’s Reform club (1887) 93–101, 121 portrait; I.L.N. ii 175 (1843) portrait, xxiv 207, 208 (1854) portrait.

NAPIER, Sir Charles James (eld. son of colonel the hon. George Napier 1751–1804). b. Whitehall, London 10 Aug. 1782; ensign 33 foot 31 Jany. 1794; lieut. 89 foot 8 May 1794; captain in the staff corps 22 Dec. 1803; major 50 foot 6 Nov. 1806 to 27 June 1811; served in Spain, was wounded five times at battle of Corunna 16 Jany. 1809, a prisoner at Corunna Jany. 1809 to Jany. 1810; lieut. col. 102 foot 27 June 1811 to 2 Sept. 1813; commanded a brigade against U.S. of America May 1813 for some months; lieut. col. 50 foot 2 Sept. 1813, placed on h.p. Dec. 1814; served as a volunteer against Napoleon 1815; inspecting field officer in the Ionian Islands 30 July 1818, placed on h.p. 1 March 1832; resident of Cephalonia March 1822 to 1830; commanded troops in northern district, India April 1839, and at Poona 12 Dec. 1841; commanded the Sinde and Beloochistan division 24 Aug. 1842 to 17 Dec. 1846; won the battle of Meanee with 2,700 men against more than 20,000 men 17 Feb. 1843; defeated Shir Muhammad, the Lion of Mirpur, at Haidarabad 24 March 1843; Sinde finally annexed 24 May 1844; col. of 22 foot 21 Nov. 1843 to death; captured Bega Khan Dumki, the leading hill chief 9 March 1845; L.G. 9 Nov. 1846; commander-in-chief in India 7 March 1849 to 6 Dec. 1850; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 19 July 1838, G.C.B. 4 July 1843; author of Memoir on the roads of Cephalonia 1825; The colonies, treating of their value generally, of the Ionian islands in particular 1833; Remarks on military law and flogging 1837; A letter on the baggage of the Indian army 1849; A letter on the defence of England by volunteers and militia 1852. d. Oaklands, near Portsmouth 29 Aug. 1853. bur. in ground attached to garrison chapel at Landport; bronze statue by G. G. Adams in Trafalgar sq. London, unveiled 26 Nov. 1856. W. F. P. Napier’s Life of sir C. J. Napier, 4 vols. (1857) 4 portraits; W. N. Bruce’s Life of general sir C. Napier (1885) portrait; J. J. Higginbotham’s Men whom India has known (1874) 316–21; E. H. Nolan’s Illust. history of British empire in India ii 669 (1860) portrait; G.M. xl 410–6 (1853); Men of the time (1853) 330–3; I.L.N. ii 255 (1843) portrait, xiv 145, 146 (1849) 2 portraits, xxiii 191, 192, 229, 230, 431 (1853) portrait.

Note.—He was the first general who recorded in his despatches the names of private soldiers who had distinguished themselves side by side with officers. A portrait of him photographed by W. E. Kilburn on 24 March 1849, has been engraved in line by Joseph Skelton. He was called in the army “Old Fagin” from his strong likeness to the Jew in Oliver Twist.

NAPIER, David. b. 1790; founded with his cousin Robert Napier, the firm of Napier and Sons, shipbuilders and marine engineers, Govan, Glasgow; introduced coasting steamers for the post office service 1818; established regular steam communication between Greenock and Belfast, and in 1822 between Liverpool, Greenock, and Glasgow; constructed machinery for the United Kingdom 1826, the largest vessel then designed; invented the steeple engine; tried the application of the surface condenser in marine engines; proposed a plan for removal of the Glasgow sewage by means of barges. d. 8 Upper Phillimore gardens, Kensington, London 23 Nov. 1869. Glasgow daily herald 27 Nov. 1869 pp. 4, 5; Engineering 3 Dec. 1869 p. 365.

NAPIER, Edward Delaval Hungerford Elers (elder son of Edward Elers, lieutenant R.N., d. 1814). b. 1808; took additional name of Napier from his mother’s second husband, admiral sir Charles Napier; ensign 46 foot 11 Aug. 1825, major 11 Oct. 1839, retired on h.p. 14 Oct. 1842; served in India 1830–3; obtained release of Syrian troops detained by Mahomet Ali, and conducted them to Beyrout, May to Sept. 1841; commanded bodies of irregulars during the Kaffir war 1846–7; colonel of 61 foot 3 Oct. 1864, and of 46 foot 22 Feb. 1870 to death; L.G. 3 Oct. 1864; author of Scenes and sports in foreign lands, 2 vols. 1840; Excursions along the shores of the Mediterranean, 2 vols. 1842; Reminiscenses of Syria, 2 vols. 1843; Wild sports in Europe, Asia, and Africa, 2 vols. 1844; Excursions in Southern Africa, 2 vols. 1849; The life of admiral sir Charles Napier, 2 vols. 1862. d. Westhill, Shanklin, Isle of Wight 19 June 1870. Colburn’s United service mag. Aug. 1870 pp. 484–92.

NAPIER, George (son of George Napier, solicitor). b. 1802; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edinb.; advocate 1823; advocate depute 1830–4 and 1835–40; sheriff of Peebleshire 1840 to death. d. Coates hall, Haymarket terrace, Edinburgh 29 Aug. 1883.

NAPIER, Sir George Thomas (brother of sir Charles James Napier 1782–1853). b. Whitehall, London 30 June 1784; cornet 24 light dragoons 25 Jany. 1800; lieut. 52 foot 25 Dec. 1802, major 27 June 1811; served in Sicily, Sweden, and Portugal, and in the Peninsular campaigns 1809–11; lost his right arm at assault on Ciudad Rodrigo 19 Jany. 1812; deputy adjutant general of the York district 1812; lieut. col. 71 foot 24 March 1814; captain 3 foot guards 25 July 1814; lieut. col. 44 foot 22 Feb. 1821, placed on h.p. 19 April 1821; governor and commander-in-chief at Cape of Good Hope 4 Oct. 1837 to 12 Dec. 1843, where he enforced the abolition of slavery, and abolished inland taxation; declined command of Sardinian army 1849; col. of 1 West India regiment 29 Feb. 1844 to death; general 20 June 1854; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 19 July 1838; author of Passages in the early military life of general sir G. T. Napier, edited by W. C. E. Napier 1884, 2 ed. 1886. d. Geneva 8 Sept. 1855, his body was brought to England July 1881 and bur. in family vault at Cosham near Portsmouth. Passages in the early military life of Sir G. T. Napier (1886) portrait.

NAPIER, George Thomas Conolly (eld. son of the preceding). b. 1815; ensign 52 foot 7 Sept. 1832; lieut. Cape mounted riflemen 23 Feb. 1839, lieut. col. 17 May 1850 to 28 Jany. 1853, when placed on h.p.; A.D.C. to the queen 20 June 1854 to Dec. 1861; deputy quartermaster general North America 1 July 1859 to 6 Dec. 1861; M.G. on the staff in Canada 6 Dec. 1861 to 1 Jany. 1867; col. 96 foot 14 June 1869 to 10 May 1872; col. 22 foot 10 May 1872 to death; L.G. 30 April 1871; C.B. 31 May 1853. d. Morpeth terrace, Victoria st. Westminster 5 May 1873.

NAPIER, Henry Alfred (youngest son of 8 baron Napier 1758–1823). b. 20 June 1797; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1822; R. of Swyncombe, near Henley 13 Oct. 1826 to death; author of Historical notices of the parishes of Swyncombe and Ewelme, Oxfordshire 1858, 4to. 63/-, published by himself at Oxford. d. Swyncombe rectory 20 Nov. 1871. I.L.N. lix 531 (1871).

NAPIER, Henry Edward (brother of sir George Thomas Napier 1784–1855). b. 5 March 1789; entered navy 20 Sept. 1806; served in the East Indies 1808–11; lieutenant 4 May 1810; commanded the Goree, 18 guns, 7 June 1814, and afterwards the Rifleman, 18 guns, in the Bay of Fundy; placed on h.p. Aug. 1815, captain on h.p. 31 Dec. 1830; F.R.S. 18 May 1820; author of Florentine history, from the earliest authentic records to the accession of Ferdinand the third, 6 vols. 1846–7. d. 62 Cadogan place, London 13 Oct. 1853.

NAPIER, James. b. Partick, Glasgow June 1810; apprenticed to a dyer; studied at Glasgow univ.; lived in London and Swansea several years; returned to Glasgow about 1849–50, where he became closely associated with Anderson’s college and the technical school founded by James Young; author of A manual of electro-metallurgy 1851, 5 ed. 1876; A manual of the art of dyeing, Glasgow 1853; A manual of dyeing receipts 1855, 3 ed. 1875; The ancient workers in metal, from references in the Old Testament 1856; Stonehaven and its historical associations, 2 ed. 1870; Notes relating to Partick 1873; Manufacturing arts in ancient times 1874; Folk lore or superstitious beliefs in the West of Scotland 1879; illustrated J. Mac Arthur’s The antiquities of Arran 1861, 2 ed. 1873. d. Bothwell, Lanarkshire 1 Dec. 1884.

NAPIER, James Robert (son of Robert Napier of Shandon 1791–1876). b. Camlachie 12 Sept. 1821; educ. Glasgow high sch. and univ.; managed his father’s ship building at Govan 1841; invented plan of working outside plating of ships in alternate in and out strakes; a partner in firm of R. Napier and sons 1853–7; a shipbuilder on his own account a few years; engaged in West Scotland fishery co.; invented the graphic method of correcting deviations of a ship’s compass known as Napier’s Diagram 1851; invented Napier’s Glass coffee apparatus; took out many patents; a founder of Institution of engineers in Scotland, president 1863; F.R.S. 6 June 1867; M.I.N.A.; wrote 17 scientific papers; contributed to Macquorn Rankine’s Shipbuilding, theoretical and practical 1866; edited Francis Napier’s Australian notes. d. 22 Blythswood sq. Glasgow 13 Dec. 1879. Maclehose’s Glasgow Men (1886) 115, 118, 237–40, 243, 270 portrait; Nature xxi 206.

NAPIER, Sir Joseph, 1 Baronet (youngest son of Wm. Napier of Belfast, merchant, d. 1830). b. Belfast 26 Dec. 1804; ed. at Belfast academical institution; entered Trin. coll. Dublin Nov. 1820; B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828, LL.B. and LL.D. 1851; D.C.L. Oxford 1853; revived the Old College historical society, president 1854 to death; student at Gray’s Inn 1828; called to Irish bar 1831; the only lawyer in Dublin who had pupils; delivered lectures on the common law, and established a law institute in Dublin; Q.C. 6 Nov. 1844; much employed in appeals before the house of lords; contested univ. of Dublin 9 Aug. 1847; M.P. univ. of Dublin 1848–58; introduced and carried through the house of commons the ecclesiastical code, afterwards known as Napier’s ecclesiastical code; bencher of King’s Inns 1852; attorney general of Ireland March to Dec. 1852; P.C. Ireland 1852; a comr. on registration of title to land 18 Jany. 1854; lord chancellor of Ireland 10 March 1858 to June 1859; created baronet 26 March 1867; the special champion of the Irish church; vice-chancellor of Dublin univ. 1867 to Dec. 1879; one of the 26 members of the ritual commission June 1867; P.C. 11 Nov. 1868; member of judicial committee of privy council 11 Nov. 1868 to Jany. 1881; chief comr. of the great seal Ireland 11 March 1874 to 1 January 1875; edited with John C. Alcock Reports of cases argued in the courts of King’s Bench and exchequer chamber in Ireland 1831–3, Dublin 1834; author of A manual of precedents of forms and declarations on bills of exchange and promissory notes 1831; Digest of the civil bill and manor courts statutes, Dublin 1836, 2 ed. 1843; Essay on the communion service of the church of England or Rome, which shall govern Ireland 1851, 2 ed. 1851; and many Addresses and Speeches 1854–73. d. St. Leonard’s-on-Sea 9 Dec. 1882. bur. Mount Jerome cemetery, Dublin, memorial tablets in mortuary chapel of the cemetery and in St. Patrick’s cathedral. A. C. Ewald’s Life of Sir Joseph Napier (1887) portrait; O. J. Burke’s Lord chancellors of Ireland (1879) 293–307; Sir Joseph Napier’s Lectures, essays, and letters (1888) portrait; I.L.N. xiv 405 (1849) portrait, xxxiii 394 (1858) portrait; Graphic xxvii 60 (1883) portrait.

NAPIER, Macvey (son of Macvey Napier 1776–1847, editor of the Edinburgh Review 1829–47). b. 1807 or 1808; edited Selections from the correspondence of the late Macvey Napier 1879. d. 7 Pembroke villas, Richmond, Surrey 8 July 1893.

NAPIER, Mark (only son of Francis Napier of Edinburgh, writer to the signet). b. 24 July 1798; ed. at high school and univ. of Edinb.; advocate at Scottish bar 1820; sheriff depute of Dumfriesshire 4 Nov. 1844 to death, and of Galloway to death; author of Memoirs of John Napier of Merchiston 1834; History of the partition of the Lennox 1835; Montrose and the covenanters, 2 vols. 1838; Commentaries on the law of prescription in Scotland 1839, 2 ed. 1854; Memoirs of the Marquis of Montrose, 2 vols. 1856. d. 6 Ainslie place, Edinburgh 23 Nov. 1879. Journal of jurisprudence xxiii 652 (1880).

NAPIER, Peter. b. Dumbarton 1793; educ. Glasgow univ., M.A., D.D. 1847; assistant presbyterian minister at Port Glasgow 1815; minister of St. George’s in the Fields, Glasgow 1824; minister of Blackfriars ch. Glasgow 1845 to death; author of A course of lectures on infidelity 1842; Grace exhibited, grace communicated 1845. d. Glasgow 12 March 1865. H. Scott’s Fasti ii, part 1 p. 35 (1868); J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1848) 315–22.

NAPIER, Robert (son of James Napier, blacksmith and millwright). b. Dumbarton 18 June 1791; apprenticed to his father 1807–12; blacksmith in Greyfriars’ Wynd, Glasgow 1815; ironfounder and engineer at the Camlachie works in Gallowgate 1821, constructed his first marine engine 1823 for the Leven; took extensive works, the Vulcan foundry in Washington st. 1828, and the Lancefield foundry on Anderston quay 1835, the works were sold 14 March 1877; engined all the paddle-wheel ships of the Cunard company 1840–55; took his sons into partnership 1853; opened a shipbuilding yard at Govan 1841, built his first ship the Vanguard 1843; began constructing iron ships 1850; built the Persia of 3,300 tons for the Cunard co. 1854; a juror at Paris exhibition 1855, received gold medal and legion of honour; built more than 300 vessels for the government and great companies 1856 to death; built men-of-war for the French, Turkish, Danish, and Dutch governments; M.I.C.E. 31 March 1840; M.I.M.E. 1856, president 1863–5. d. West Shandons, Glasgow 23 June 1876. Maclehose’s Glasgow Men (1886) 241–4 portrait; Engineering (1867) 594–7 portrait, (1876) 554–5; Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xlv 246–51 (1876) with list of all the vessels engined or built by him; Practical Mag. iii 1 (1874) portrait; Graphic xiv 44 (1876) portrait.

NAPIER, Robert D. (son of David Napier 1790–1869). b. Glasgow 1821; engineer with his father and his brother, Frank Napier, at Glasgow to 1837, then with them as engineers Millwall, London from 1837, where they built numerous steamships; went to New South Wales; dredged Sydney harbour; invented the self-holding brake; returned to Glasgow 1870, partner with his brother John D. Napier as Napier Brothers; manufactured self-holding brakes for ships’ windlasses, etc.; contributed to The Engineer and to Trans. of Institution of Engineers, Glasgow; author of On the velocity of steam and other gases 1866. d. Glasgow 8 May 1885. The Engineer 15 May 1885 p. 387.

NAPIER, Sir Robert John Milliken, 9 Baronet (eld. son of sir William John Milliken Napier, 8 baronet 1788–1852). b. Milliken house, near Johnstone, Renfrewshire 7 Nov. 1818; ensign 79 foot 7 Aug. 1835, captain 12 April 1844, sold out 9 June 1846; succeeded his father 4 Feb. 1852; deputy lieut. of Renfrewshire 1845, and convener 1859–65; lieut. col. commandant of Renfrewshire militia 31 March 1854, hon. col. 19 Jany. 1878 to death. d. 32 Moray place, Edinb. 4 Dec. 1884.

NAPIER, Sir Thomas Erskine (brother of sir Charles Napier 1786–1860). b. 10 May 1790; ensign 52 foot 3 July 1805; captain in the Chasseurs Britanniques 27 Oct. 1809, placed on h.p. 1814, when the corps was disbanded; served in Sicily and Spain 1812–3; A.D.C. to sir John Hope in the Peninsula 1813, lost his left arm at battle of the Nive 11 Dec. 1813; assistant adjutant general in Ireland to 1843, deputy adjutant general 1843–6; governor of Edinburgh castle and commander of the troops in Scotland May 1852 to 20 June 1854; colonel of 16 foot 28 Jany 1854 and of 71 foot 16 May 1857 to death; general 20 Sept. 1861; C.B. 19 July 1838, K.C.B. 18 May 1860; granted distinguished service reward 1 June 1849. d. Polton house, Lasswade, near Edinburgh 5 July 1863.

NAPIER, Sir William Francis Patrick (brother of sir George Thomas Napier 1784–1855). b. Celbridge, co. Kildare 17 Dec. 1785; ensign royal Irish artillery 14 June 1800; ensign 62 foot 1800, lieut. 1801, placed on h.p. 1802; captain 43 foot 11 Aug. 1804, major 14 May 1812, placed on h.p. 17 June 1819; served at siege of Copenhagen 1807, in Spain 1808–9, and in Portugal 1809–13; granted £150 per annum for his distinguished services 29 May 1841; lieutenant-governor of Guernsey Feb. 1842 to Dec. 1847; colonel of 27 foot 5 Feb. 1848, and of 22 foot 19 Sept. 1853 to death; general 17 Oct. 1859; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 27 April 1848; author of History of the war in the Peninsula and in the south of France, from the year 1807 to the year 1814, 6 vols. 1828–40, 5 ed. 6 vols. 1851, upwards of 15 works appeared in reference to these volumes; The conquest of Scinde, 2 vols. 1845; The life and opinions of general sir C. J. Napier, 4 vols. 1857, 2 ed. 1857. d. Scinde house, King’s road, Clapham park, London 10 Feb. 1860. bur. Norwood; statue by G. G. Adams in north transept of St. Paul’s cathedral. H. A. Bruce’s Life of sir W. F. P. Napier, 2 vols. (1864) 2 portraits; H. Martineau’s Biog. Sketches, 4 ed. (1876) 199–212; I.L.N. xxxvi 172, 186 (1860) portrait.

NAPLETON, John Charles (9 son of rev. Timothy Napleton, R. of Powderham, Devon, d. 1816). b. 1811; ed. Worcester coll. Oxf., Bible clerk 1830–2; B.A. 1833; P.C. of Hatfield, Herefordshire 1844–58, and P.C. of Grendon Bishop 1849–58; P.C. of All Saints’, Lambeth 1858 to death; author of Daily services in the cottage 1848, new ed. 1877; The present condition of the working classes 1855; A letter to C. H. Spurgeon, touching his sermon on baptismal regeneration 1864. d. Bayswater, London 13 April 1867.

NAPOLEON III, Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French (3 son of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte 1778–1847, king of Holland). b. Rue Cérutti, now Rue Lafitte, Paris 20 April 1808; became heir to the French empire 22 July 1832; arrived in London from America 10 July 1837; went to Arenenberg to attend his mother’s death bed 5 Oct. 1837; resided in London at Fenton’s hotel, 63 St. James’s st. from 24 Oct. 1838, at Waterloo place, at Carlton ter. to Dec. 1839, and at Carlton gardens to Aug. 1840; one of the ten knight visitors at the Eglinton tournament 28–30 Aug. 1839, tilted on foot with Charles Lamb in the ball room on 29 Aug.; attended on Wimbledon common 3 March 1840 to fight a duel with count Leon, a reputed son of Napoleon I, the police interfered and carried the parties to Bow st. where they were bound over to keep the peace; went from Margate to Boulogne and attempted to seize the government of France 6 Aug. 1840, condemned to perpetual imprisonment 6 Oct. 1840, sent to Ham, North France 10 Oct., escaped to England 25 May 1846; living at the Brunswick hotel, 52 Jermyn st. 27 May 1846; resided in Bath 1846; leased 3a King st. St. James, now 10 King st., from 1 Feb. 1847 at £300 a year, his furniture, etc. sold by auction 22 May 1849; charged Charles Pollard of Essex st. London with stealing two bills of exchange of £1,000 each, prisoner acquitted on technical grounds 3 July 1847; a special constable in London on day of Chartists’ procession 10 April 1848; author of Des Idées Napoleoniennes, London 1839, and of Canal of Nicaragua to connect the Atlantic with the Pacific, London 1846; president of the French republic 20 Dec. 1848; emperor of the French 2 Dec. 1852; m. 29 Jany. 1853 Eugénie Marie de Guzman, countess of Téba, b. 5 May 1826; with the empress visited the queen at Windsor and Buckingham palace 16–21 April 1855; K.G. 18 April 1855; entertained by city of London 19 April 1855; with the empress visited the queen at Osborne 6–9 Aug. 1857; hon. M.I.C.E. 23 May 1869; declared war against Prussia 15 July 1870, taken prisoner at Sedan 2 Sept., deposed at Paris 4 Sept., confined at Wilhelmshöhe near Cassel 5 Sept., released and landed at Dover 20 March 1871, resided at Camden place, Chislehurst, Kent to his death 9 Jany 1873. bur. St. Mary’s ch. Chislehurst 15 Jany., the remains removed to a mausoleum built by the empress at Farnborough, Surrey 9 Jany. 1888. Blanchard Jerrold’s Life of Napoleon III, 4 vols. (1874–82) seven portraits; Victor Hugo’s Napoleon le Petit (1852); Fagan’s Reform club (1887) 94 portrait: Passing Events 18 Jany. 1873 portrait and other plates; I.L.N. 6 June 1846 pp. 364–5 portrait, 23 Dec. 1848 p. 385 portrait, 21 April to 5 May 1855 pp. 371 et seq. portraits, 15 Aug. 1857 p. 154, 25 March 1871 p. 283, 18 and 25 Jany. 1873 p. 65 et seq. portraits; J. H. Nixon’s Eglinton tournament (1843) plates xviii, xx, and xxi; P. Larousse’s Grand Dictionnaire xi 819–33 (1874).

Note.—His real father was Charles Henri Verhuel a well-known Dutch admiral, his mother was Hortense de Beauharnais, dau. of the empress Josephine, by her first marriage. He is depicted under the name of Porphyro in the novel entitled Rumour, By the author of Charles Auchester, Counterparts, &c., &c. [Miss Elizabeth S. Sheppard] 3 vols. 1858. He was known in France under the sobriquets of Badinguet, Boustrapa, The Man of December, and The Man of Sedan.