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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. 159Jerusalem 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.

160BARDELIN, 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 161Queen’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 162Abbot, 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 163sold 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.

164BARKER, 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. 1651875. 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 1661870. 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 167line; 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 168Univ. 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; 169Essay 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).

BARMBY, John Goodwyn. b. Yoxford, Suffolk 1820; associated with revolutionists in London 1837; went to Paris 1840; founded the Communist Propaganda Society 1841, afterwards known as the Universal Communitarian Association; a practical preacher of Christian Socialism; Unitarian minister at Southampton, Topsham and Lancaster successively and at Wakefield 1858–79; edited a periodical called The Promethean 1701842; author of The poetry of home and childhood 1853; The return of the swallow and other poems 1864; Aids to devotion 1865; wrote many tracts and hymns and articles in periodicals. d. The Vines, Yoxford 18 Oct. 1881. Frost’s forty years recollections (1880) 54–75; Unitarian Herald xxi, 358 (1881).

BARNARD, Sir Andrew Francis (son of Rev. Dr. Henry Barnard of Bovagh, co. Londonderry). b. Fahan, co. Donegal 1773; ensign 90 foot 26 Aug. 1794; lieut. col. Rifle brigade 29 March 1810; commanded 2 brigade of light division in the Peninsula 16 Feb. 1814; commanded British division in Paris 1815; col. of 1 battalion Rifle Brigade 25 Aug. 1822 to death; clerk marshal of the King’s household 1830–37, of the Queen Dowager’s household 1837–49; lieut. governor of Chelsea hospital 26 Nov. 1849 to death; general 11 Nov. 1851; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 20 June 1840, G.C.H. 1834. d. Royal hospital Chelsea 17 Jany. 1855. Cope’s History of the rifle brigade 1877; Lord W. P. Lennox’s Celebrities I have known, 2 series i, 250–79.

BARNARD, Charlotte Alington. b. 23 Dec. 1830; composed about 100 popular ballads under pseudonym of Claribel 1858–69 two of the best known are “Come back to Erin” and “We’d better bide a wee”; author of Thoughts, verses and songs. (m. 18 May 1854 Rev. Charles Cary Barnard, R. of Brocklesby, Lincs.) d. Dover 30 Jany. 1869. The Choirmaster March 1869.

BARNARD, Edward. b. 14 March 1786; ed. at Eton; in the colonial office 1804 to death; agent general for Crown colonies 1825 to death; F.L.S. 17 Feb. 1818. d. 13 Dec. 1861.

BARNARD, Edward. Entered navy 12 May 1797; captain 4 July 1817; retired admiral 22 Nov. 1862. (m. Aug. 1811 Mary Parkins). d. Hipswell lodge, Richmond, Yorkshire 5 Oct. 1863 aged 82. O’Byrne 1861 p. 48.

BARNARD, Edward George. A shipbuilder at Deptford; M.P. for Greenwich 14 Dec. 1832 to death; purchased Gosfield hall, Essex from the Marquess of Buckingham. d. Gosfield hall 14 June 1851 aged 73. Wright’s Essex ii, 1 (1836).

BARNARD, Frederick Lamport. b. 20 Feb. 1813; entered navy 3 June 1827; captain 10 Oct. 1855; captain of the Mœander 10 guns 23 Feb. 1861 to 14 June 1864; retired V.A. 30 Jany. 1879. d. 28 July 1880.

171BARNARD, Sir Henry William (son of Rev. Wm. Barnard of Water Stratford, Bucks). b. Westbury, Bucks 1799; ed. at Westminster and Sandhurst; ensign 1 foot guards 9 June 1814, captain 1831–49 when placed on h.p.; commanded South Wales district 1852–54 and one of the brigades in Crimea 1854–55; chief of the staff in Crimea 28 June 1855; commanded 2nd division of British army in Crimea; commanded troops before Delhi June 1857 to death; C.B. 27 July 1855, K.C.B. 3 May 1856. (m. 17 Jany. 1828 Isabella Letitia 2 dau. of James Catlin Craufurd, brigadier general, she was granted a civil list pension of £200 15 Feb. 1858). d. of cholera before Delhi 5 July 1857. Kaye’s Sepoy war in India ii, 513–70, 678 (1870).

BARNARD, John. Fellow of King’s coll. Cam. 1818 to death; F.S.A. 3 May 1855. d. King’s coll. Cam. 16 Nov. 1878 aged 84.

BARNE, George Huxley (2 son of John Barne of Tiverton). ed. at Magd. coll. Ox; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1866; attorney general of Jamaica March 1874 to death. d. Kingston, Jamaica 8 March 1876.

BARNES, Christopher Hewetson. b. 7 Feb. 1833; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery 9 Dec. 1852; lieut. col. R.A. 31 Dec. 1878 to death; commanded R. A. in Egypt to death, d. Cairo 28 Sep. 1884. I.L.N. lxxxv, 373 (1881), portrait.

BARNES, George Carnac (eld. son of Ven. George Barnes 1784–1847, archdeacon of Barnstaple). ed. at Westminster 1833–35; comr. of the Cis-Sutlej States; foreign sec. at Calcutta 1861 to death; C.B. 18 May 1860. d. Hazareebagh, Bengal 13 May 1861.

BARNES, James. Lieutenant Royal horse guards 29 Aug. 1811 to 3 Nov. 1814 when he retired; major in command of Radnor Militia 15 Feb. 1828 to 21 March 1846. d. Portishead near Bristol June 1853 aged 64.

BARNES, James Hindmarsh. ed. at Charing Cross and Westminster Ophthalmic hospitals; M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1857; L.R.C.P. Edin. 1860; practised in London; visiting surgeon to the workhouse hospital, Liverpool 1874; superintendent registrar 1874 to death; author of Notes on surgical nursing. d. 57 Pembroke place, Liverpool 19 March 1880 aged 47. Medical Times and gazette i, 387 (1880).

BARNES, John (son of Thomas Barnes of Newcastle, coal viewer, who d. 1801). b. Walker colliery near Newcastle 12 Aug. 1798; in the Soho works of Boulton and Watt 1813–15; studied at univ. of Edin. 1815–17; manufacturing 172engineer with Joseph Miller in London 1822–35, made many engines for French steamers; constructed the Sophia Jane the first steam vessel ever employed in Australia 1831; manager of the works at La Ciotat near Marseilles 1845 to death; much improved the French steam navy; M.I.C.E. 1823. d. La Ciotat 24 Sep. 1852. bur. Long Benton near Newcastle. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xii, 140–48 (1853).

BARNES, Mary (dau. of Mr. Greenhill). b. London; acted in the provinces as Miss Simpson; acted at Haymarket and Drury Lane; made her first appearance in America at the Park theatre New York 17 April 1816 as Juliet; a great actress in tragedy, melodrama and pantomime; took farewell of the stage 2 Nov. 1841. (m. John Barnes a comedian who d. 28 Aug. 1841 aged 60). d. Vandam st. New York 26 Aug. 1864 in 84 year.

BARNES, Ralph (4 son of Rev. Ralph Barnes, archdeacon of Totnes, Devon who d. 20 May 1820 aged 87). b. 14 July 1781; ed. at Exeter gr. school; admitted attorney 25 Nov. 1802; practised at Exeter 1802 to death; chapter clerk there 15 Sep. 1810; sec. to bishops of Exeter April 1830 to death; author of An inquiry into equity practice 1827; The papal brief considered with reference to the laws of England 1850; edited Bishop Lacy’s Liber pontificalis 1847. d. Bellairs, Topsham road, Exeter 22 Feb. 1869. Reg. and mag. of biog. i, 306–308 (1869); Law Journal iv, 140–42 (1869).

BARNES, Rev. Richard William. b. Comercolly, Bengal; matric. from Edmund hall Ox. 27 June 1829, B.A. of Queen’s coll. 1834, M.A. 1841; R. of Dunchideock, Devon 1841–45; P.C. of East and West Looe, Cornwall 1845–49; V. of Probus, Cornwall 1849 to death; Preb. of Exeter Nov. 1853 to death; author of Public opinion considered in letters between one of his friends and R. W. Barnes 1855; Let well alone or removal of blemishes from church and state, by Alazon 1860 and many sermons. d. The Sanctuary, Probus 27 May 1885 aged 74.

BARNES, Robert. b. Manchester 1800; cotton spinner there with his brother Thomas Barnes; mayor 1851; gave £10,000 to Royal infirmary Sep. 1869; founded Convalescent hospital at Cheadle at cost of £40,000, and a certified industrial school at Heaton Mersey at cost of £20,000. d. Oakley, Fallowfield Manchester 25 Dec. 1871.

173BARNES, Samuel C. b. Ireland; went to the United States 1830; principal of a school at Brooklyn 1830–67; originator and secretary of East Brooklyn savings bank. d. Brooklyn 18 Feb. 1873 aged 60.

BARNES, Thomas. b. Wigton, Cumberland 1793; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1817; M.R.C.S. 1815; physician at Carlisle 1817; leading phys. in north of England down to 1850; founded Cumberland infirmary and Carlisle fever hospital; F.R.S. Edin. 1830. d. Bunker’s hill near Carlisle 31 March 1872.

BARNES, Thomas Wilson. The best chess player in London for a short period; an original whist player; reduced his weight from 16 stone to 7 stone 8 lbs. in 10 months Aug. 1873 to June 1874 by banting. d. Cambridge st. Eccleston sq. London 20 Aug. 1874 aged 49. Westminster Papers vii, 99–100 (1874), portrait.

BARNES, William Augustus. Pantomimist in London; made his first appearance in America at Philadelphia 4 Dec. 1846 as Grimaldi in pantomime of Magic Pills; played clown in pantomime of William the Conqueror at Olympic theatre London 26 Dec. 1848; pantaloon at Drury Lane theatre; photographer at 6 North st. Smith sq. Westminster; committed suicide at 6 North st. by taking cyanide of potassium 17 May 1868 in 59 year.

BARNETT, Charles (only son of major general Charles Barnett 1758–1804). b. Stratton, Beds. 31 Oct. 1796; ed. at Putney and Em. coll. Cam., fellow commoner 1815; sheriff of Beds. 1821; master of Cambridgeshire hounds many years from 1829; a great short horn breeder. d. Stratton park, Beds. 20 June 1876. Baily’s Mag. xi, 55–58 (1866), portrait.

BARNETT, Charles James. M.P. for Maidstone 1832–1835. d. 12 Chichester terrace, Brighton 31 Dec. 1882 in 85 year.

BARNETT, Charles John. Captain 3 Foot Guards 26 Oct. 1820 to 26 Oct. 1826; consul at Warsaw 31 May 1833; consul general in Egypt May 1841 to 17 Aug. 1846. d. Round Oak, Englefield 4 Aug. 1856 aged 66.

BARNETT, Edward. b. 1799; entered navy 3 Feb. 1811; captain 20 June 1846; admiral on h.p. 1 Aug. 1877. d. 14 Woburn square, London 7 Sep. 1879.

BARNETT, Henry N. Dramatist and critic; edited Sunday Times 13 years; occupied at 174one time the pulpit in South place vacated by J. W. Fox, M.P. d. Hammersmith 6 Jany. 1872 aged 42.

BARNETT, Humphrey. Acting manager at Lyceum theatre London 1862; acting manager for J. C. M. Bellew at St. George’s hall, Regent’s st. d. 24 Loudoun road, St. John’s Wood 30 April 1874.

BARNETT, John. Ensign 71 foot 25 Nov. 1813; lieut. 23 foot 1819–22; lieut. col. of 3 West York militia 28 Feb. 1846 to death. d. the Linen hall barracks Dublin 24 Feb. 1855.

BARNETT, Morris. b. London 16 Aug. 1799; lived in Paris; acted at Brighton and Bath; made his first appearance in London at Drury Lane 1833 as Captain O’Cutter; wrote and performed title rôle in Monsieur Jacques, a musical piece which created a furore at St. James’s theatre 1837; played at Princess’s theatre; musical critic of Morning Post and The Era nearly 7 years; gave a series of farewell performances at Adelphi theatre 1854; wrote many dramas best known being The Serious family, Lilian Gervais and Married and unmarried. d. Montreal, Canada 18 March 1856. Actors by gaslight (1838) p. 137, portrait; I.L.N. xxv, 305 (1854), portrait.

BARNETT, Robert. b. Macclesfield 1818; an industrious arranger of instrumental music. d. Windsor Oct. 1875.

BARNHAM, Hildebrand Barry. Ensign 15 foot 19 Nov. 1807; captain 28 Dec. 1832 to 1839 when he retired. d. 13 Camberwell park, London 12 July 1885 in 95 year.

BARNINGHAM, William. b. Arkingarthdale near Richmond, Yorkshire 1826; a blacksmith; employed on Paris and Rouen railway 1843; began a foundry at Manchester with 3 of his brothers which failed; a manufacturer of railway switches and crossings at Middlesborough; founded ironworks at Pendleton and Albert hill, Darlington; the latter were transferred to a limited liability company 1873. d. Pendleton 3 Nov. 1881. Journal of iron and steel institute, No. 2, 1882 657–58.

BARNSTON, James. M.D. Edin.; professor of botany in McGill college Montreal. d. Montreal 28 May 1858 aged 28.

BARON, James. b. Blackburn 1817; ed. at Stonyhurst; held professorships at Prior Park Bath and the Luso-British college Lisbon; kept a school at Lytham in the Fylde, Lancashire for many years from 1849. d. St. Helens 23 Feb. 1883.

175BARON, John. b. St. Andrews 26 May 1786; ed. at Univs. of St. Andrews and Edin., M.D. Edin. July 1805; physician at Gloucester 1807–33; phys. of Gloucester infirmary 1809 to 21 Feb. 1833; lived at Cheltenham 1833 to death; F.R.S. 13 Feb. 1823; author of Enquiry illustrating the nature of tuberculated accretions of serous membranes 1819 and 2 other books on Tubercle Life of Edward Jenner, M.D. 2 vols. 1838. d. 1 St. Margaret’s terrace, Cheltenham 2 Oct. 1851. Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery vol. 2 (1840) 12 pages, portrait; Taylor’s National portrait gallery iii, 43–44 (1847), portrait.

BARON, John. b. Blackpool 2 Sep. 1807; entered the Society of Jesus at Hodder 21 Sep. 1827, master of the school in London 1831–32 and 1833–35; ordained priest at Stonyhurst 19 Sep. 1841; vice rector of Mount St. Mary’s college 17 Oct. 1848 and rector 17 Oct. 1851–1854; missioner at Wakefield 1854–70. d. Holywell 11 July 1878.

BARR, David. Entered Bombay army 1803; col. 24 Bombay N.I. 4 July 1844 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. Cheltenham 21 Nov. 1862 aged 78.

BARR, Henry James. b. 8 April 1815; ensign 8 Bombay N.I. 22 May 1834; lieut. col. Bombay staff corps 18 Feb. 1861 to death; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. d. Apsleytown, East Grinstead 17 May 1881.

BARR, Rev. Hugh. b. Bridge of Weir, Renfrewshire 2 April 1825; an apprentice tailor; studied at Univ. of Glasgow; an agent of Glasgow city mission; minister of United Presbyterian church at Kingskettle 28 Sep. 1854 to death. d. Kingskettle 9 Nov. 1873. Too late for martyrdom Memorials of the Rev. Hugh Barr by Rev. T. Dunlop 1875, portrait.

BARR, James. b. Kilbarchan near Paisley 1779; a friend of Robert Tannahill the poet who has immortalized him as “Blithe Jamie Barr”; harmonized a few airs as glees; well known at various glee clubs in Glasgow; went to America 1834; living at Govan near Glasgow 1859.

BARR, Robert. b. 3 Sep. 1794; attorney at Leeds 1823; coroner of Leeds 1824; clerk to the Leeds borough magistrates 3 Dec. 1836 to death. d. Mount Pleasant, Leeds 18 Oct. 1871.

BARR, Samuel. b. Glasgow 1807; a self taught musician of strong native genius; his song “Naebody kens ye” possesses much merit; author of Art of singing at first sight simplified 1847. d. Glasgow 16 May 1866.

176BARRALLIER, Francis Louis. Ensign in New South Wales corps (afterwards 102nd foot) 14 Aug. 1800; surveyed Bass’s Straits in the Lady Nelson schooner 1801–1803; attempted to cross the Blue Mountains 1802; captain 101 foot 6 July 1809 to 7 Jany. 1817 when placed on h.p.; made an elaborate survey of island of Barbadoes 1812–17; captain 73 foot 4 Oct. 1831 to 9 Aug. 1833 when placed on h.p.; brevet lieut. col. 9 Nov. 1846. d. 24 Bedford square, Commercial road, London 11 June 1853 aged 80. New South Wales general orders 1791–1806; Sydney 1802–1806 the first book printed in Australia; United Service Mag. 1853 part 2, p. 632.

BARRATT, Alfred (eld. son of James Barratt of Manchester, solicitor). b. Heald Grove near Manchester 12 July 1844; ed. at Sandbach and Rugby where he gained 29 prizes; a commoner of Balliol college Ox. 1862; won the first Balliol scholarship 1862; gained unprecedented distinction of 5 first classes 2 classical, 2 mathematical and 1 law and modern history; fellow of Brasenose coll. 1867; Eldon law scholar 1870; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1872; sec. to the Oxford university commission 1880; author of Physical Ethics or the science of action 1869. d. 18 May 1881. Physical Metempiric by the late A. Barratt 1883, portrait.

BARRAUD, Henry. b. 1811; painted many portraits with horses and dogs, also subject pictures such as ‘The Pope blessing the animals’ 1842; exhibited at British Institution and Society of British Artists 1831–68 and at R.A. 1833–59; his pictures ‘We praise thee O God’; ‘The London Season’; ‘Lord’s cricket ground’; and ‘The lobby of the House of Commons’ have all been engraved or autotyped. d. London 17 June 1874.

BARRELL, Justinian. Entered navy Aug. 1791; commander 21 March 1815; captain 19 March 1852; the last surviving officer of Lord Howe’s victory of 1 June 1794. d. Holloway 23 Nov. 1869 aged 87. O’Byrne (1861) p. 52.

BARRETT, Apollon Marie Rose. b. South of France 1804; pupil of Vogt at Conservatoire, Paris 1823; solo oboe player at the Odéon, and at Opéra Comique 1827, and at Italian Opera in London 1829–74; professor of the oboe at R.A. of music; author of A complete method for the Oboe. d. Paris 8 March 1879.

177BARRETT, Rev. Basil Richard (7 child of John Briant Barrett of Milton house near Abingdon). b. Milton house 11 May 1781; sent to St. Omer’s college Aug. 1790; joined the refugees from Douay college at Crook hall, Durham June 1795; ordained priest about July 1806; lived at Froidemont in Belgium an establishment for the care of invalid priests; author of Pretensions to a final analysis of the nature and origin of sublimity, style, beauty, genius and taste 1812; The life of Cardinal Ximenes 1813 and of a work in manuscript entitled A mathematical treatise showing how the circle can be squared. d. Froidemont 3 May 1858. Gillow’s English Catholics i, 144 (1885).

BARRETT, George. b. Exeter 9 June 1794; made his début on the stage at Park theatre New York as one of the children in Dunlap’s version of The Stranger 10 Dec. 1798; stage manager of Bowery theatre N.Y. 1828; acting manager of Broadway theatre N.Y. 1847; the best light comedian in America, known as “Gentleman George”; took farewell of the stage at Academy of Music N.Y. 20 Nov. 1855. d. New York 5 Sep. 1860.

BARRETT, Henry Michael. Member of company of T.R. Liverpool; made his début in London at Drury Lane theatre as Falstaff in Henry the Fourth 31 Dec. 1850; played at Sadlers Wells, Drury Lane and Princess’s theatres; played Polonius in Hamlet at the Princess’s 15 June 1871. d. in a cab on his way home from the theatre 15 June 1871 aged 68.

BARRETT, James William (brother of Rev. Basil Richard Barrett). The first Roman catholic admitted a solicitor after passing of the act by which Roman catholics were enabled to practise as solicitors in England; one if not the last of the survivors of the English college at Douay. d. Speen hill near Newbury, Berks. 20 Feb. 1864 in 88 year.

BARRETT, Rev. John Casebow. Ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox.; B.A. 1833, M.A. 1837; P.C. of St. Mary’s district parish, Birmingham 1837 to death; author of God’s claims upon youth’s obedience 1838; Minister’s trials 1846; Papal aggression 1850; Psalms and hymns for the church service 1853. d. St. Mary’s vicarage, Birmingham 26 Feb. 1881 aged 70.

BARRETT, Lucas (eld. son of George Barrett, of London, ironfounder). b. London 14 Nov. 1837; ed. at Royston, Univ. college school, Ebersdorf in Germany and Trin. coll. Cam.; curator of Woodwardian museum Cam. 1855; delivered many lectures for Professor Sedgwick 178at Cam. 1856–58; director of geological survey of Jamaica March 1859 to death; comr. for Jamaica at International Exhibition 1862; F.G.S. 1855 when only 18; F.L.S. 5 April 1860; author of 11 papers on natural history and geology; drowned while diving at the Caps outside Port Royal harbour, Jamaica 19 Dec. 1862. Proc. of Linnæan Society (1863) 31–34; I.L.N. xlii, 188 (1863), portrait.

BARRETT, Michael. A stevedore; lived in Glasgow; member of Fenian brotherhood; fired a barrel of gunpowder close to the wall of the Clerkenwell House of Detention, London 13 Dec. 1867 which killed 4 persons and injured about 40; arrested at Glasgow 14 Jany. 1868; tried at Central Criminal Court 20–25 April 1868 for murder of Sarah Ann Hodgkinson at Clerkenwell, when found guilty and sentenced to death; hanged at Newgate by Calcraft 26 May 1868 aged 27, being last person publicly executed in England. Central Criminal Court, Minutes of evidence by Barnett and Buckler lxvii, 486–542 (1868).

BARRETT, Richard. A brewer in Ireland; journalist in Dublin; established the Pilot daily evening newspaper 1827 which became principal organ of Daniel O’Connell; it was suppressed by Government, but Barrett continued it by changing the title to The Morning Register, the Pilot having been suppressed; sentenced to six months imprisonment 1833 for publishing a letter of O’Connell’s; prosecuted frequently and imprisoned 3 times. d. Dublin 19 Oct. 1854.

BARRETT-LENNARD, Sir Thomas, 1 Baronet (natural son of Thomas Barrett-Lennard, 17 Baron Dacre who d. 12 Jany. 1786). b. 6 Jany. 1761; assumed by r.l. surname of Barrett-Lennard instead of Thomas 13 March 1786; created baronet 30 June 1801. d. 40 Bryanston sq. London 25 June 1857.

BARRINGTON, William Keppel Barrington, 6 Viscount. b. London 1 Oct. 1793; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1814; succeeded his father 5 March 1829; M.P. for Berkshire 1837–57. d. Beckett house, Faringdon Berks 9 Feb. 1867. Burke’s Portrait gallery ii, 61 (1833).

BARRINGTON, Lady Caroline (3 dau. of Charles Grey, 2 Earl Grey 1764–1845). b. 30 Aug. 1799. (m. 15 Jany. 1827 Hon. George Barrington, captain R.N. he was b. 20 Nov. 1794 and d. 2 June 1835); governess to children of Queen Victoria Jany. 1851 to death. d. 28 April 1875.

179BARRINGTON, Sir Matthew, 2 Baronet. b. Limerick 21 May 1788; crown solicitor for province of Munster 1832 to death; succeeded 10 Jany. 1846. d. Dublin 1 April 1861.

BARRINGTON, Sir William Hartigan, 3 Baronet. b. Dublin 6 Oct. 1815; sheriff of Limerick 1846; succeeded 1 April 1861. d. Glenstal, Limerick 14 July 1872.

BARRITT, James Littler. Formerly senior partner of firm of Barritt & Co. wholesale bible warehouse 173 Fleet st. d. St. Margaret’s Rochester 18 Aug. 1863 aged 62.

BARRON, Arthur. ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; fellow of his college; barrister I.T. 24 Nov. 1826; author with Alfred Austin of Reports of cases of controverted elections in the 14th Parliament of the United Kingdom 1844. d. 13 June 1856 aged 55.

BARRON, Right Rev. Edward. b. Ireland 1801; studied at college of the Propaganda, Rome, D.D.; pastor of St. Mary’s church, Philadelphia; pres. of theological seminary of St. Charles Borromeo; vicar general of diocese of Philadelphia; missionary to Liberia, Africa; embarked from Baltimore 21 Dec. 1841; bishop of Constantine and vicar apostolic of the two Guineas 1843–45; missionary priest at Philadelphia, St. Louis and in Florida. d. Savannah 12 Sep. 1854. R. H. Clarke’s Lives of deceased bishops ii, 595–60 (1872).

BARRON, Edward Enfield b. Norwich; L.S.A. 1832; F.R.C.S. 1844; M.D. London 1850, M.R.C.P. 1851; assistant demonstrator at Grainger’s school Southwark, then the largest in London, Oct. 1834, and demonstrator May 1836 to date when school was transferred to St. Thomas’s hospital; Post-mortem demonstrator at St. Thomas’s; a medical and surgical tutor. d. St. John’s, Woking 25 Dec. 1878 aged 67.

BARRON, Sir Henry Winston, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Pierse Barron of Ballyneal co. Waterford 1752–1811). b. Ballyneal 15 Oct. 1795; ed. at Trinity coll. Dublin; M.P. for city of Waterford 1832–47, 1848–52, 1865–68 and 22 Nov. 1869 to 20 Jany. 1870, when his election was declared void; created baronet 23 Aug. 1841; sheriff of Waterford 1857; author of Notes on education in Holland and Germany. d. 2, Halkin st., Belgrave sq., London 19 April 1872. O’Malley and Hardcastle’s Reports of election petitions ii, 1–5 (1875).

180BARRON, William. Formerly of the Strand; master of Stationers company 1837 and 1841. d. Highgate 5 April 1851 aged 82.

BARROW, Rev. Andrew. b. Manchester 27 Jany. 1804; entered Society of Jesus at Rome 2 Nov. 1821; prefect of studies at Stonyhurst 1831; ordained priest 20 Dec. 1834; rector of Stonyhurst college 14 July 1842; chaplain at Broughton hall, Yorkshire 17 July 1845 to death; rector of the Yorkshire district 14 April 1860. d. Broughton hall 20 Oct. 1865.

BARROW, Sir George, 2 Baronet (eld. son of Sir John Barrow, 1 Baronet 1764–1848). b. London 22 Oct. 1806; ed. at the Charterhouse; clerk in the colonial office July 1825; chief clerk and sec. of order of St. Michael and St. George July 1870 to 29 Sep. 1872; C.M.G. 28 May 1874; author of Ceylon past and present 1857. d. 24 Addison road, Kensington 27 Feb. 1876. I.L.N. lxviii, 263, 407 (1876), portrait.

BARROW, John Henry. Edited the Mirror of Parliament; author of Characteristic sketches of animals principally from the Zoological gardens, Regent’s Park 1832; Emir Malek, prince of the assassins an historical novel of the thirteenth century [anon.] 3 vols. 1837. d. Newington, Surrey 30 March 1858.

BARROW, Lousada. Lieutenant col. Madras staff corps 18 Feb. 1863 to death; chief comr. of Oude 1869–74; M.G. 26 March 1870. d. Southlands, Ryde, Isle of Wight 1 Oct. 1877 aged 61.

BARROW, Richard (3 son of Rev. Richard Barrow, 64 years vicar choral of collegiate church of Southwell who d. 23 Feb. 1838 aged 90). b. 20 July 1787; a merchant trading with Spain and Portugal; took over the Staveley coal and iron works 1840 which he greatly extended; sold the collieries and works to a limited liability company for £600,000 in 1864; chairman of board of directors of this company 1864 to death; made greater part of iron work for Great Exhibition of 1862 and iron tubes for London Pneumatic despatch company 1862. d. London 10 Jany. 1865. I.L.N. xxxvi, 596, 610 (1860), portrait.

BARROW, William Hodgson (elder brother of the preceding). b. 1 Sep. 1784; ed. at collegiate school Southwell; practised as an attorney 1806–33; sheriff of Notts 1845; M.P. for South Notts 17 Feb. 1851 to 26 Jany. 1874. d. Southwell 29 Jany. 1876.

181BARRY, Sir Charles (4 son of Walter Edward Barry of Westminster, stationer who d. 1805). b. Bridge st. Westminster 23 May 1795; travelled in France, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, and Sicily 1817–20; architect in Ely place, Holborn Aug. 1820, removed to 27 Foley place, Cavendish sq. 1827 and to 32 Great George st. 1841; erected Traveller’s club 1829–31, Reform club 1837–39 and Bridgwater house 1847; awarded the prize for design of Houses of Parliament 29 Feb. 1836, first stone laid 27 April 1840 opened by the Queen 3 Feb. 1852; A.R.A. 1840, R.A. 1842; F.R.S. 7 June 1849; knighted at Windsor Castle 11 Feb. 1852. (m. 7 Dec. 1822 Sarah dau. of Samuel Rowsell, stationer, she d. 7 April 1882 in 83 year). d. Elm house, Clapham Common 12 May 1860. bur. nave of Westminster Abbey 22 May. Memoir by Alfred Barry, D.D., 2 ed. 1870, portrait; Sandby’s History of Royal Academy ii, 203–209 (1862).

BARRY, Edward Middleton (3 son of Sir Charles Barry). b. 27 Foley place, London 7 June 1830; ed. at King’s college school; pupil of Thomas Henry Wyatt; student at the R.A. 1848; assisted his father to 1860; reconstructed Covent Garden theatre in short space of 8 months, opened 15 May 1858; designed the Floral hall opened 7 March 1860; architect to Houses of Parliament 1860 to death; A.R.A. 29 Jany. 1861, R.A. July 1869; professor of architecture at the R.A. 16 May 1873 to death and treasurer March 1874 to death. d. at council table of Royal Academy 27 Jany. 1880. Lectures on architecture with memoir 1881, portrait; Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxiii, 322–26 (1881); I.L.N. xxxviii, 178 (1861), portrait.

BARRY, George. b. Cork 1825; a merchant; M.P. for co. Cork 29 July 1865 to death. d. St. Leonards on Sea 31 Jany. 1867.

BARRY, James. A woman; ed. Univ. of Edin.; M.D. 1812; entered army dressed like a man as a hospital assistant at Plymouth 5 July 1813; served at Malta many years and at Cape of Good Hope where she fought a duel with another officer; inspector general of hospitals 7 Dec. 1858 to 19 July 1859 when placed on h.p.; maintained assumption of manhood down to her death. d. 14 Margaret St., London 25 July 1865 aged 73. Medical times and gazette ii, 227, 293, 350 (1865).

BARRY, James (brother of Sir Charles Barry, R.A.) Head of firm of Barry and Hayward 182of Queenhithe wholesale stationers about 1830 to death. d. Eliot Bank, Forest Hill 3 Jany. 1885 in 93 year.

BARRY, James Hugh Smith. b. 1816; sheriff of Cheshire 1846; formed a fine collection of antique sculpture and more than 300 pictures at Marbury hall near Northwich. d. Dec, 1857. Waagen’s Galleries of art (1857) 406–13.

BARRY, James Redmond. b. 1789; one of foremost of southern Irish leaders in struggle for Catholic emancipation; inspector general of Irish fisheries; a comr. of Irish fisheries about 1830–75; claimed ancient title of Viscount Buttevant 1825. d. Glandore co. Cork 18 June 1879.

BARRY, Right Rev. John. b. Barony of Forth, co. Wexford about 1799; studied at Charleston; ordained in cathedral of St. Finbar 24 Sep. 1825; pastor of church of the Holy Trinity at Augusta, Georgia 1826–54; vicar general of diocese of Charleston and superior of the theological seminary 1844; vicar general of diocese of Savannah 1853; bishop of Savannah 1857 to death; consecrated in Baltimore cathedral 2 Aug. 1857; sailed from New York 2 July 1859. d. Convent of the Brothers’ Hospitalers of St. John of God at Paris 19 Nov. 1859. R. H. Clarke’s Lives of deceased bishops ii, 551–54 (1872).

BARRY, John O’Brien Milner. b. 1815; B.L. Univ. of Paris 1834; M.D. Edin. 1837; L.R.C.S. Edin. 1838; M.R.C.P. 1859, F.R.C.P. 1876; physician at Laugharne, at Totnes and at Tunbridge Wells 1852 to death; author of essays on ‘Cystine’ and ‘Leucocythemia’ in the Medical Archives 1858–60. d. Tunbridge Wells 15 Sep. 1881.

BARRY, John Thomas. b. 1789; entered house of Allen Hanbury and Barry of Plough court, Lombard st., chemists and druggists about 1804, one of the managers; introduced method of evaporation in vacuo for preparation of medicinal extracts; an original member of Pharmaceutical Society 15 April 1841. d. Hornsey March 1864.

BARRY, Martin (brother of the preceding). b. Fratton, Hants 28 March 1802; studied medicine in Univs. of Edin. Paris, Erlanger, Heidelberg and Berlin; M.R.C.S. Edin.; M.D. Edin. 1833; F.R.S. Edin.; F.R.C.P. Edin.; ascended Mont Blanc 16 Sep. 1834 being 16th ascent then made; F.R.S. 13 Feb. 1840; royal medallist 30 Nov. 1839; made 183important discovery of presence of Spermatozoa within the ovum 1843; house surgeon Royal maternity hospital Edinburgh 1844; lived abroad 1849–53; author of Ascent to the summit of Mont Blanc 1836; Researches in embryology 3 series 1839–40. d. Beccles, Suffolk 27 April 1855. Edinburgh Medical journal i, 81–91 (1856); Proc. of Royal Society viii, 577–82 (1855); Annual Monitor for 1856, pp. 13–18.

BARRY, Philip. b. 1789; 2nd lieut. R.E. 10 Feb. 1809; col. R.E. 17 Feb. 1854 to 13 Jan. 1855; M.G. 13 Jany. 1855. d. Guernsey 17 April 1869.

BARRY, Sir Redmond (3 son of major general Henry Green Barry of Ballyclough, co. Cork who d. 14 May 1838 aged 68). b. Air hill, co. Cork 1813; ed. at Hall place Kent and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1837, LLD. 1876; called to Irish bar 1838; went to Sydney 1839; comr. of court of requests at Melbourne 1842; solicitor general of Victoria 1850; judge of supreme court of Victoria 25 Aug. 1851; chancellor of univ. of Melbourne 7 May 1853; pres. of trustees of Melbourne public library 1856; knighted by patent 24 May 1860; represented colony of Victoria at great exhibitions in London 1862 and in Philadelphia 1876; LL.B. and M.A. univ. of Melbourne 1863; administered government of Victoria 3 Jany. 1875 to 10 Jany. 1875; K.C.M.G. 30 May 1877. d. Melbourne 23 Nov. 1880. Men of the time in Australia (1878) 10–11.

BARRY, Thomas. b. Ireland; performed with Samwell’s circus 1842; clown to the ring at Astley’s amphitheatre London 1843–48 and 1851–56; kept the Clown tavern 40 Bridge road, Lambeth 1848–50 and March 1856 to 1857. (m. Mrs. Campbell of City of London theatre). d. 26 March 1857 aged 47. bur. Norwood cemetery. Autobiography of Baron Nicholson (1860) 348–52; H. Valentine’s Behind the curtain (1848) 76–78; I.L.N. v, 193 (1844), portrait, xxiii, 460 (1853), portrait.

BARRY, William Whittaker (3 son of Rev. Henry Barry, R. of Draycott Cerne, Wilts who d. 10 Aug. 1850 aged 60). Gained first law studentship awarded by the Inns of Court Jany. 1853; barrister L.I. 30 April 1853; author of A treatise on the statutory jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery 1861; A walking tour round Ireland in 1865 by an Englishman 1867; A walking tour in Normandy [anon.] 1868. d. on the Krimmler Tavern pass in the Tyrol 1 Oct. 1875.

184BARRY, William Wigram (brother of Sir Redmond Barry). b. 28 May 1827; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 May 1846; col. 1 Oct. 1877 to death; brigadier general Bombay 23 July 1877 to 4 April 1879; M.G. 1 May 1880; granted service reward 1 Oct. 1882; C.B. 28 Feb. 1861. d. Hotel Royal, Naples 19 April 1883.

BARRYMORE, Mrs. (dau. of Mr. Adams). b. 1783; dancer at the old Royal Circus now Surrey Theatre, London 1803; the most graceful dancer in London for some years; her power of pantomimic expression as the dumb girl Finella contributed much to success of Auber’s opera Massaniello when first produced at Drury Lane 4 May 1829; made her début in America at the Park Theatre, New York 21 Aug. 1831; taught dancing at Boston to 1846. (m. William Barrymore of London, dramatist who d. Boston 16 Feb. 1845). d. London 6 Jany. 1863.

BARSTOW, James Pulteney (eld son of Nathaniel Barstow, of Wetherby, Yorkshire). Barrister G.I. 18 Nov. 1824; bencher 1 May 1854; treasurer 30 Jan. 1856. d. Sandgate, Folkestone 8 Sep. 1873.

BARTER, Charles. Worked in Royal botanic gardens, Kew 1849–51; foreman of Royal botanic society Regents Park 1851–57; botanist to Niger expedition under W. B. Baikie 1857 to death; author of The Dorp and the Veld or six months in Natal 1852. d. Rabba on the Niger 15 July 1859.

BARTER, Richard. b. Cooldaniel, co. Cork 1802; M.R.C.S. 1828; Physician of Dispensary Inniscana, Cork; opened St. Anne’s water cure establishment at Blarney; set up the first hot-air baths in Ireland, also the first hot-air baths without vapour—the so-called Turkish bath. d. Blarney 3 Oct. 1870. Recollections of the late Dr. Barter, Dublin 1875.

BARTER, Rev. Robert Speccott (youngest son of Rev. Charles Barter V. of Cornworthy near Totnes, Devon, 71 years who d. 26 April 1846 aged 97). b. Cornworthy 3 July 1790; ed. at Tiverton gr. sch. Winchester and New coll. Ox.; B.C.L. 1815; commoner tutor at Winchester to Dec. 1814; tutor of New college 1815–30 when he resigned; Bursar 1817, Poser 1817, Sub-warden 1820; Warden of Winchester 18 May 1822 to death. d. College st. Winchester 8 Feb. 1861. Rev. H. C. Adams’s History of Winchester college (1878) pp. 322–42.

BARTER, Rev. William Brudenell (elder brother of the preceding). b. Jany. 1788; ed. at Tiverton, Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., 185B.A. 1809, M.A. 1813; Fellow of Oriel coll. 1811; tutor in family of Lord Carnarvon; R. of Highclere, Hants 1825 to death; R. of Burghclere, Hants 1825 to death; published many letters and pamphlets on the topics of the day. d. Burghclere 16 Nov. 1858.

BARTH, Heinrich. b. Hamburg 16 Feb. 1821; ed. at Univ. of Berlin; a lecturer in the Univ.; went with James Richardson to Central Africa 1849, returned 1855; C.B. 17 Nov. 1858; foreign associate of Royal Geographical Society; pres. of Geographical society of Berlin; professor extraordinary at Univ. of Berlin; author of Travels in North and Central Africa 1857. d. Berlin 25 Nov. 1865. Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xxxvi, 134–36 (1866); Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie ii, 96–99 (1875).

BARTHELÉMY, Emanuel. Shot a gensdarme in Paris; condemned to the galleys for life, set free 1830; greatly distinguished himself in revolution of June 1848; fled to England 1848; shot Cournet a French political exile in a duel at Englefield Green near Egham 19 Oct. 1852; murdered George Moore and Charles Collard at 73 Warren st. Fitzroy square, London 8 Dec. 1854; tried at Central criminal court 4 Jany. 1855, found guilty and sentenced to death; executed at Newgate 22 Jany. 1855. A.R. (1852) 170, (1854) 206–212, (1855) 14–16; Central criminal court trials xli, 298–307 (1855).

BARTHOLOMEW, Anne Charlotte (dau. of Arnol Fayerman) b. Loddon, Norfolk 28 March 1800; member of Society of Female artists and of Society of Water colour painters; exhibited 29 pictures at the R.A. and 39 at Suffolk St. gallery 1841–62; author of Its only my aunt, a farce 1825, first acted at Marylebone theatre May 1849; Songs of Azrael 1840 and The ring or the farmer’s daughter, a drama 1845. (m. (1) 1827 Walter Turnbull, musical composer, he d. 1838. m. (2) 30 July 1840 Valentine Bartholomew). d. 23 Charlotte st. Rathbone place 18 Aug. 1862. E. C. Clayton’s English female artists i, 398–400 (1876).

BARTHOLOMEW, Ven. John (son of Rev. John Bartholomew, head master of Exeter Gr. Sch.) b. Exeter Oct. 1790; ed. at Exeter Gr. Sch., Winchester and C. C. Coll. Ox.; Scholar, B.A. 1813, M.A. 1820; P.C, of Withycombe Rawleigh, Devon 1817; P.C. of Sowton 1819; R. of Lympstone 1820; R. of Morchard Bishop, Devon 1831; Preb. of 186Exeter Cath. 9 May 1831; Canon Res. of Exeter Cath. Sep. 1840 to death; Archdeacon of Barnstaple 3 Aug. 1847 to death. d. Morchard Bishop Rectory 24 Sep. 1865.

BARTHOLOMEW, Valentine (son of Josiah Bartholomew of Clerkenwell, watchmaker 1766–1847). b. 18 Jany. 1799; flower painter; member of Water Colour Society 1835 to death; exhibited 20 pictures at the R.A. and 27 at Suffolk st. gallery 1826–56; flower painter in ordinary to Duchess of Kent and to Queen Victoria, (m. (1) 1827 Evelina Charlotte Adelaide only dau. of Joseph Nicholas Hullmandel, musician, she d. 1 Jany. 1839. m. (2) 30 July 1840 A. C. Turnbull). d. 23 Charlotte st. Rathbone place 21 March 1879.

BARTHOLOMEW, William. b. London 1793; chemist, violin player and flower painter; translated or adapted the words of most of Mendelssohn’s vocal works; received gold medal of merit from king of Prussia for the Antigone; wrote English words for Méhul’s Joseph, Spohr’s Jessonda, and Costa’s Eli, Naaman, and The Dream, (m. 1853 Ann Sheppard Mounsey, vocal composer). d. London 18 Aug. 1867.

BARTLETT, John Sherren. b. Dorset; surgeon R.N. 1812; a prisoner of war at Boston U.S. 1812–13; surgeon at Boston 1813; removed to New York; founded The Albion weekly paper 1822; edited it 1822–47; founded The Anglo-Saxon weekly paper at Boston 1847; published The European at Liverpool; British consul at Baltimore 1857. d. New Jersey 24 Aug. 1863 aged 73.

BARTLETT, Lavinia Strickland. b. Preston Andover 27 Nov. 1806; a baptist 26 Oct. 1828; a teacher of the New Park st. chapel Sunday schools London 1859 to death. d. 2 Aug. 1875. Mrs. Bartlett and her class by her son E. H. Bartlett 1877, portrait.

BARTLETT, Robert. b. Patcham near Brighton 1782; huntsman to the Brookside harriers, to Duke of Dorset’s hounds at Knowle in Kent, on the Duke’s death in 1815 they were sold to Charles Shard of Winkfield, Berks where Bartlett was huntsman several seasons; huntsman to Colonel Wyndham at Singleton, Sussex to 1825; whip to the Royal hounds 1825–53. d. near the royal kennels, Ascot Heath 12 Nov. 1856.

BARTLETT, Rev. Symeon Taylor. Ed. at Clare coll. Cam., LL.B. 1840, LLD. 1846; R. of Everley, Wilts 1857 to death; edited 187Cicero’s Letters to his friends, Xenophon’s Anabasis, Horace’s Satires, Cicero de Oratore and Cicero de Senectute. d. 1877.

BARTLETT, Thomas. b. 7 July 1818; worked under Thomas Brassey the railway contractor; constructed the Victor Emmanuel railway between France and Italy; executed works on Bilboa railway, Spain; invented an automatic tunnel boring machine, preceding in date that used in the Mont Cenis tunnel; A.I.C.E. 1845, M.I.C.E. 1852. d. Lisbon 23 July 1864.

BARTLETT, Rev. Thomas. b. 1789; ed. at St. Edmund’s hall Ox.; B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816; R. of Kingstone, Kent 1816–51; R. of Chevening, Kent 1851–54; V. of Luton, Beds. 1854–57; R. of Burton Latimer 1857 to death; author of Memoir of Bishop Butler 1839; An index to Butler’s Analogy 1842, and of many pamphlets, letters and sermons maintaining evangelical tenets. d. Burton Latimer 28 May 1872.

BARTLETT, William Henry. b. Kentish town, London 26 March 1809; articled to John Britton the architect 1822–29; made 6 journeys to the East 1834–54, and 4 journeys to America 1836–52; edited Sharpe’s London Magazine March 1849 to June 1852; author of Forty days in the desert on the track of the Israelites 1848 3 ed. 1849; The Nile boat, or glimpses of the land of Egypt 1849 2 ed. 1850; Gleanings pictorial and antiquarian on the overland route 1851. (m. 6 July 1831 Susanna Moon, she was granted a civil list pension of £75 4 Oct. 1858). d. on board French steamer Egyptus off Malta 13 Sep. 1854. bur. in the sea 14 Sep. Brief memoir by Wm. Beattie M.D. 1855, portrait; Notice by J. Britton in Art journal 1855, pp. 24–26, reprinted privately 1855.

BARTLEY, George (younger son of Mr. Bartley, box-keeper of the Bath theatre). b. Bath 1782; a strolling player; made his début in London at Drury Lane as Orlando in As you like it 18 Dec. 1802; joined Incledon in his entertainment at the Lyceum theatre called A voyage to India 24 April 1807; manager at Glasgow theatre 1809–11, also at Dundee and Perth; made his début in New York as Falstaff 18 Nov. 1818; played at Covent Garden and Lyceum; stage manager of former house about 1830–40; took his farewell of the stage at Princess’s theatre 18 Dec. 1852. d. 11 Woburn sq., London 22 July 1858. bur. in St Mary’s churchyard Oxford 30 July. Metropolitan Mag. xvii, 366–69 (1836); I.L.N. i, 405 (1842), portrait xxii, 141 (1853), portrait.

188BARTON, Charles James. 2 Lieut. Bombay artillery 12 Dec. 1845; lieut. col. 26 April 1866 to 1 Aug. 1872; M.G. 1 Aug. 1872. d. Norfolk, Virginia, U.S. 19 Nov. 1879 aged 52.

BARTON, Ezekiel. Entered Bengal army 1799; col. 71 N.I. 11 March 1841 to 8 Feb. 1843; col. 46 N.I. 8 Feb. 1843 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. Irthlingborough house near Higham Ferrers 4 June 1855 aged 73.

BARTON, Ralph. Entered navy 2 March 1812; captain 9 Nov. 1846; retired admiral 1 Aug. 1877. d. South hill cottage, Southport 14 Jany, 1881 aged 83.

BARTON, Richard Bolton (eld. son of John Barton of Dublin). b. 1819; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1844, LLD. 1868; barrister G.I. 30 Jany. 1850; went to India about 1855; chief magistrate, coroner and chief comr. of insolvency at Bombay. d. Stour lodge, Bradfield Essex 27 Dec. 1882.

BARTON, Sir Robert (5 son of Wm. Barton of Grove, co. Tipperary). b. Fethard, co. Tipperary 1770; volunteer in French national guard 1790; major 2 life guards 14 June 1805 to 28 April 1814; major 60 foot 28 April 1814 to 25 March 1816 when placed on h.p.; general 11 Nov. 1851; K.C.H. 1 March 1837. d. 2 Montague place, Montague sq. London 17 March 1853.

BARTON, Samuel. b. 23 April 1789; pupil of Abernethy at St. Bartholomew’s hospital; surgeon at Manchester 1811; surgeon to the Eye hospital 1815; made a splendid collection of pictures and engravings. d. Whalley Range near Manchester 18 April 1871. Personalty sworn under £100,000 May 1871.

BARTON, William Henry (eld son of Sir John Barton, treasurer to Queen Adelaide, he d. 25 Aug. 1834 aged 63). b. 1802; connected with the Mint 38 years; deputy master and comptroller 1851 to death. d. the Cottage, Bushey park, Teddington 25 Aug. 1868.

BARTON, William Whittle. b. Liverpool; pastor of Methodist new connexion at Rochdale, the chapel in Zachary Rochdale was opened 2 June 1822; town surveyor of Rochdale 1818–58. d. 1859.

BARWELL, Louisa Mary (dau. of Richard Mackenzie Bacon of Norwich, journalist 1775–1844). b. parish of St. Peter, Mancroft, Norwich 4 March 1800; assisted her father to edit Quarterly Musical Magazine 1818; contributed frequently to Quarterly journal of Education from about 1831; great friend of Lady Noel Byron; author of Little lessons for 189little learners 1833 (in monosyllables) and 14 subsequent editions; The value of time 1834 and 14 other books. (m. John Barwell of Norwich, wine merchant 1798–1876.) d. Norwich 2 Feb. 1885.

BASDEN, James Lewis. Ensign Scotch brigade 12 Jany. 1800; lieut. col. 89th foot 6 July 1838 to 16 June 1843 when he retired on full pay; C.B. 26 Dec. 1818. d. Newton villa, Westbourne grove, London 22 May 1856.

BASEVI, James Palladio (son of George Basevi of London, architect 1794–1845). b. 23 Feb. 1832; ed. at Rugby, Cheltenham and Addiscombe; 2 lieut. R.E. 12 Dec. 1851, captain 15 Feb. 1861; assistant in great trigonometrical survey of India 18 Jany. 1856, surveyor 1st grade 1 April 1866 to death. (m. Charlotte Louisa, she was granted a civil list pension of £100 29 April 1874). d. at east end of Changchenmo valley in the Himalayas 17 July 1871. Journal of Royal Geog. soc. xlii, 163–67 (1872); Monthly notices of Royal astron. soc. xxxii, 109–11 (1872).

BASHAM, William Richard. b. Diss, Norfolk 1804; clerk in a bank; studied at Westminster hospital; M.D. Edin. 1834; M.R.C.P. 1838, F.R.C.P. 1850, Censor 1864–66 and 1873 and Croonian lecturer 1864; phys. to Westminster hospital 1843, and lecturer on medicine 1849–71; author of On dropsy connected with disease of the kidneys 1858, 2 ed. 1862; Renal diseases 1870; Aids to the diagnosis of diseases of the kidneys 1872. d. 17 Chester st. Belgrave sq. 16 Oct. 1877.

BASIRE, James. b. 1796; engraver; engraved some pretty plates of Sussex country houses. d. London 17 May 1869.

BASS, Charles (first cousin to Wm. Evans Burton the comedian). b. London 5 March 1803; manager of Caledonian theatre Edinburgh about 1829; acted at the old Park theatre New York 1844–45; director of the American Dramatic fund; resided at Hamilton, Upper Canada; published Lectures on Canada 1863. d. Hamilton 5 May 1863. Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis (1867) 20–21.

BASS, Michael Thomas (eld. son of Michael Thomas Bass of Burton-on-Trent, brewer 1760–1827). b. Burton-on-Trent 6 July 1799; brewer at Burton; M.P. for Derby 1848–83; introduced and carried a bill by which house-holders might require street musicians to quit neighbourhood of their houses; built and 190endowed church of St. Paul at Burton; gave to town of Derby a large recreation ground, public swimming baths, a free library opened 28 June 1879 and an art gallery. d. Rangemoor Burton-on-Trent 29 April 1884. Fortunes made in business ii, 407–50 (1884); Graphic xxix, 457 (1884), portrait; I.L.N. lxxxiv, 440 (1884), portrait.

BASSANO, Alfred. b. 25 June 1826; ensign 32 foot 3 April 1846; commanded the troops in China 28 July 1877 to 3 June 1878; M.G. 12 Dec. 1877; C.B. 24 May 1873. d. 2 Inverness place, Bayswater 12 Sep. 1882.

BASSET, Frances Basset, Baroness. b. 30 April 1781; succeeded 5 Feb. 1835. d. Tehidy park, Redruth, Cornwall 22 Jany. 1855.

BASTARD, James Stokes. 2 Lieut. R.A. 15 Nov. 1800; col. 9 Nov. 1846 to 20 June 1854; L.G. 24 Jany. 1857. d. Charlton 10 June 1871 aged 87.

BATCHELDOR, Thomas (2 son of Robert Batcheldor of Cholesbury, Bucks, farmer). b. 23 July 1796; student of Gray’s Inn 14 Nov. 1827; practised as a conveyancer; registrar of Eton College 1827 to death; chapter clerk to dean and canons of Windsor 1843 to death; steward of the courts of Eton College; F.S.A. 21 June 1855. d. The Cloisters, Windsor Castle 24 July 1866.

BATE, William Thornton (son of Wm. Bate, governor of Ascension island). b. 1820; ed. at royal naval college Portsmouth 1833–35; midshipman R.N. 1835; mate of the Blenheim 74 guns 19 March 1841; captain of the Actæon surveying vessel 6 Feb. 1857 to death; F.R.A.S. 9 March 1849; killed at storming of Canton 29 Dec. 1857. Memoir by Rev. John Baillie, 3 ed. 1862, portrait.

BATEMAN, Charles Philip Butler (son of Nathaniel Bateman, Captain R.N.) b. Wormley Herts 1776; Captain R.N. 25 Sep. 1806; Admiral on h.p. 18 June 1857. d. Corston near Bath 23 Nov. 1857.

BATEMAN, Colthurst. b. 2 Oct. 1780; sheriff of co. Kerry 1832–40. d. Sherborne 2 Aug. 1859.

BATEMAN, Hezekiah Linthicum. b. Baltimore 6 Dec. 1812; an actor 1832; played in the leading juvenile business; manager of the St. Louis theatre 1855–59; first appeared in England at Adelphi theatre, London 12 June 1865 as David of Ruthin in Geraldine; lessee of Lyceum theatre, London 11 Sep. 1911871 to death; produced The Bells a version by Leopold Lewis of Erckmann-Chatrian’s Le Juif Polonais 25 Nov. 1871, and Hamlet 30 Oct. 1874 which ran till 29 June 1875, the longest run on record. (m. 10 Nov. 1839 Sidney Frances Cowell). d. Rutland lodge, South place, Knightsbridge, London 22 March 1875.

BATEMAN, James. b. Lancaster 9 Oct. 1805; entered Society of Jesus at Mont-Rouge, France 7 Sep. 1826; ordained priest 24 Sep. 1836; a Spiritual Coadjutor 2 Feb. 1845; rector of St. Aloysius’ college Lancs. 13 March 1858 to Nov. 1861; missioner at Blackpool 1865, at Bournemouth 1874 and at Newhall 1877 to death. d. Newhall 17 June 1879.

BATEMAN, John. b. 1792; Sheriff of Kerry 1820; M.P. for Tralee 7 Aug. 1837 to 12 March 1838. d. 1863.

BATEMAN, Joseph (son of William Bateman of Selby, sailor). b. Selby 4 March 1797; clerk in Board of Excise, London 1829–46; assistant solicitor to the Excise 4 July 1846 to 6 Jany. 1849 when department of stamps and taxes was amalgamated with the Excise; barrister L.I. 27 Jany. 1847; author of The general turnpike acts 1828, 4 ed. 1852; Precedents of private acts of Parliament 1829; A practical treatise on the law of auctions 1838, 6 ed. 1882; The laws of Excise 1843, 3 ed. 1865. d. Walthamstow, Essex 10 Nov. 1863.

BATEMAN, Sidney Frances (dau. of Joseph Cowell of New York, comedian 1792–1863). b. New York 29 March 1823; author of a drama called ‘Self’ produced at People’s Theatre St. Louis 6 April 1857; Geraldine or the master passion produced at Philadelphia 1859, afterwards at Adelphi theatre London 12 June 1865; lessee of Lyceum theatre 22 March 1875 to Aug. 1878, of Sadlers Wells theatre 1879 to death, rebuilt the interior and opened it 9 Oct. 1879. (m. 10 Nov. 1839 Hezekiah Linthicum Bateman). d. Taviton st. Gordon sq. London 13 Jany. 1881.

BATEMAN, Thomas (only child of Wm. Bateman of Middleton by Youlgreave, Derbyshire 1787–1835). b. Rowsley 8 Nov. 1821; made an extensive series of excavations in the tumuli of Yorkshire, Staffordshire and Derbyshire; fellow of Ethnological society; author of Vestiges of the antiquities of Derbyshire 1848; Ten years diggings in Celtic and Saxon grave-hills 1861; contributed largely to antiquarian periodicals. d. Lomberdale house near Bakewell 19228 Aug. 1861. Reliquary ii, 87–97 (1862), portrait; Journal Brit. Archæol. Assoc. xviii, 362–7 (1862).

BATEMAN, Thomas Hudson. Barrister M.T. 24 Nov. 1815; comr. of bankrupts for Halifax; judge of borough court, Lancaster. d. 1881.

BATEMAN, Thomas Osborne (4 son of Richard Bateman, sheriff of Derbyshire who d. 1821). b. Foston hall, Derbyshire 1 March 1809; ed. at Newark gr. sch., Harrow and St. John’s coll. Cam.; B.A. 1834; student at Lincoln’s Inn; restored ancient stained glass windows in Morley church 1847; bought Hartington hall Derbyshire from Duke of Devonshire 1857; built mansion of Breadsall Mount 1864; author of many pamphlets and letters. d. 14 Jany. 1874. Reliquary xv, 97–101 (1875).

BATES, Rev. John Ellison. Ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox.; student of Ch. Ch.; rowed No. 3 in Oxford boat against Cambridge 1829; B.A. 1831, M.A. 1833; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Litherland Jany. 1842; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Hougham in Dover 1844 to death. d. Priory Gate 17 Feb. 1856.

BATES, Joshua (only son of Colonel Joshua Bates of Weymouth near Boston U.S.) b. Weymouth 1788; merchant at Boston 1809–12; sent to London 1812 by W. R. Gray of Boston, largest shipowner in America; banker with John Baring in London 1826–28 when they became partners in bank of Baring brothers; naturalised by private act of parliament 5 and 6 Vict. c. 49.; gave sum of 50,000 dollars to Boston public library 1852, also nearly 27,000 books, library was opened 1854 and the large hall named after him, the Bates hall. d. New lodge, Windsor Forest 24 Sep. 1864. Personalty sworn under £600,000 Jany. 1865.

BATES, Thomas. b. 1810; ed. at Jesus coll. Cam., 8 Wrangler 1834; fellow of his college; barrister L.I. 3 May 1839. d. Heddon, Northumberland 30 Jany. 1882.

BATES, Rev. William (4 son of John Moore Bates of Heddon, Northumberland). Ed. at Ch. coll. Cam., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839, B.D. 1847, D.D. 1858; fellow, dean, lecturer and tutor of his college; R. of Burnham Westgate, Norfolk 1849 to death; author of College lectures on ecclesiastical history 1844, 2 ed. 1848; College lectures on Christian antiquities and the ritual of the English church 1845, 2 ed. 1852. d. Burnham rectory 22 Nov. 1877.

193BATES, William. B.A. London 1857; a teacher of languages; professor of classics in Sydenham medical college Birmingham; professor of classics in Queen’s college Birmingham to death; M.R.C.S. 1874; medical officer to Birmingham borough fever hospital 1875–84; author of George Cruikshank the artist 1878; The Maclise portrait gallery of illustrious literary characters with memoirs 1873, new ed. 1883. d. 19 The Crescent, Birmingham 24 Sep. 1884 aged about 60. Edgbastonia Oct. 1884, portrait.

BATESON, Sir Robert, 1 Baronet (only son of Thomas Bateson 1752–1811). b. 13 March 1780; sheriff of county Down 1809; created a baronet 18 Dec. 1818; M.P. for Londonderry 16 Aug. 1830 to May 1842. d. Belvoir park, Belfast 21 April 1863.

BATESON, Sir Robert Harvey, 2 Baronet. b. 1787; succeeded his uncle 1825. d. Castruse, co. Donegal 15 April 1870.

BATESON, Rev. William Henry (son of Richard Bateson of Liverpool, merchant). b. Liverpool 3 June 1812; ed. at Shrewsbury and St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839, B.D. 1846, D.D. 1857; fellow of his college Feb. 1837, senior bursar 1846 to 2 Feb. 1857, master 2 Feb. 1857 to death; V. of Madingley, Cambs. 1843–47; public orator 26 Oct. 1848 to 2 Feb. 1857; sec. of a commission to inquire into state of Univ. of Cam. 1850; vice chancellor 1858. d. St. John’s college lodge, Cambridge 27 March 1881. The Eagle, No. lxv, (1881); Cambridge Review ii, 258 (1881).

BATHER, Lucy Elizabeth (dau. of Right Rev. Charles James Blomfield 1786–1857 bishop of London). b. Fulham 31 March 1836; author of Footprints on the sands of time, Biographies for young people 1860 and a number of stories for children under pseudonym of Aunt Lucy. (m. 29 Aug. 1861 Arthur Henry Bather of Meole Brace, Shropshire). d. The hall Meole Brace 5 Sep. 1864.

BATHGATE, Rev. William (youngest son of Wm. Bathgate of Buckholmside, Galashiels, engineer). b. Buckholmside 28 Sep. 1820; studied at Glasgow Univ. and Theological academy 1840–44; expelled from the academy May 1844 for opinions supposed to be heretical; minister of Independent church at Stair 6 Dec. 1844, of Bridgeton church Glasgow 1846, of church at Ayr 1847, of church at Forres 1849, of Evangelical Union church Clerk’s lane, Kilmarnock Aug. 1847 to Nov. 1860 and of Winton place ch. Kilmarnock 19411 Nov. 1860 to death; author of The moral character of God 1849; Æternitas 1851; The Soul’s Arena 1852; Essays on a superior popular literature 1854; Christ and man 1865. d. Kilmarnock 28 Dec. 1879. Progressive religion, Sermons and selections from the manuscripts of Wm. Bathgate, D.D. 1884.

BATHURST, Henry George Bathurst, 4 Earl (eld. child of Henry Bathurst, 3 Earl Bathurst 1762–1834). b. Apsley house, Piccadilly 24 Feb. 1790; comr. of the India board 1812–18; M.P. for Weobley 15 Jany. 1812 to 29 Sep. 1812 and for Cirencester 12 Oct. 1812 to 27 July 1834, when he succeeded as 4 Earl. d. Cirencester 25 May 1866.

BATHURST, William Lennox Bathurst, 5 Earl. b. George st. Westminster 14 Feb. 1791; ed. at Eton and All Souls coll. Ox., B.A. 1812, M.A. 1817; fellow of All Souls college 1812; M.P. for Weobley 1812–16; barrister L.I. 6 Feb. 1821; joint sec. to Privy Council 1827–60; succeeded his brother as 5 Earl 25 May 1866. d. 38 Half Moon st. Piccadilly 24 Feb. 1878. I.L.N. lxxii, 245 (1878), portrait.

BATHURST, Rev. William Hiley. b. 28 Aug. 1796; author of Roman antiquities found at Lydney park, Gloucestershire 1879. d. Lydney park 25 Nov. 1877.

BATTERSBY, George (eld. son of Thomas Battersby of Newcastle, co. Meath 1767–1839). b. 8 Sep. 1802; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1824, LL.B. and LLD. 1832; called to Irish bar 1826; Q.C. 2 Nov. 1844, bencher of King’s Inns 1861; judge of Consistorial court of Dublin 1862–67, and of Provincial court of Dublin 1867–71; chancellor of archdiocese of Dublin 1871 to death, d. 20 Lower Leeson st. Dublin 9 June 1880.

BATTHYANY, Gustavus Theodore Anthony, Count. b. Hungary 8 Dec. 1803; naturalised in England by private act of parliament 1 and 2 Vict. cap. 48 (1838); won the Derby with Galopin 1875. d. in the grand stand at Newmarket 25 April 1883. bur. Highland road cemetery Portsmouth 2 May. Graphic xxvii, 477 (1883), portrait; I.L.N. lxxxii, 432 (1883), portrait; Baily’s Mag. xl, 371–72 (1883).

BATTINE, William. Lieut. col. Bengal artillery 1 Dec. 1834, colonel 6 July 1843 to death; M.G. 23 Nov. 1841; commander at Barrackpore 26 April 1850 to death; C.B. 20 July 1838. d. Lahore 21 July 1851 aged 63.

195BATTLEY, Richard (2 son of John Battley of Wakefield, architect). b. Wakefield about 1770; studied at St. Thomas’s and Guy’s hospitals; assist. surgeon in the Navy; apothecary in St. Paul’s churchyard, London; assisted in founding the London Infirmary for curing diseases of the Eye 1804; Pharmaceutical chemist in Fore st. Cripplegate about 1812; introduced many important improvements in pharmaceutical operations. d. Reigate 4 March 1856. G.M. xlv, 534 (1856).

BATTY, George. Proprietor of a menagerie, retired about 1859; lived in Jersey. d. Raune, France 5 June 1867 aged 64.

BATTY, William (only brother of the preceding). Proprietor of a large circus with which he travelled all over Great Britain and Ireland; converted Lambeth baths, London, into a circus which he opened Nov. 1841 as the Olympic Arena; opened the Surrey theatre Whitsuntide 1842; rebuilt Astley’s and opened it 17 April 1843, lessee 1843–55 and 1861–62. d. Neville lodge, Grove end road, St. John’s Wood 7 Feb. 1868 in 68 year. H. Valentine’s Behind the curtain (1848) 73–76; I.L.N. ii, 222 (1843).

BATTYE, James. b. Huddersfield 1803; composer of glees and anthems; published a set of Twelve glees 1854. d. Huddersfield 10 Oct. 1858.

BATTYE, Wigram (8 son of George Wyngard Battye of Bengal civil service). b. Kensington, London 13 May 1842; ensign 6 Bengal European regiment 1859; wing officer, adjutant and commandant of cavalry of the Corps of Guides successively 1863 to death; accompanied as a noncombatant the army led by Crown prince of Germany against the French 1870; killed at Futtehabad, Afghanistan when leading the Guides against the Kugiani Afghans 31 March 1879. S. H. Shadbolt’s Afghan campaigns (1882) 12–14, portrait.

BAUDERET, Francis Henry Abram. Master of Brooks’s club London 50 years. d. Brooks’s club 31 Jany. 1880 in 83 year.

BAUGH, Thomas Folliot. Entered navy 1784; captain 21 Oct. 1810, retired R.A. 1 Oct. 1846. d. 3 Higher Mount Radford terrace, Exeter 19 Aug. 1857 aged 84.

BAUMANN, Jean François, b. Belgium; lived in London for 25 years before his death; the best player on the bassoon. d. Albert st. Regent’s park, London 25 Aug. 1856 aged 52. I.L.N. iv, 29 (1844), portrait.

196BAUME, Pierre Henri Joseph. b. Marseilles 1797; private secretary to Ferdinand I, king of the two Sicilies 1815; went to London about 1825; naturalised 1832; a preacher of doctrine of reforming optimism; a theatrical manager; proprietor of some model experimental gardens near Holloway, and a promoter in Manchester of public houses without intoxicating drinks about 1850; bought a large estate at Colney Hatch valued at £40,000; organised Sunday lectures in Manchester; lived at Douglas Isle of Man 1857 to death. d. Duke st. Douglas 28 Oct. 1875. Left all his property in trust for philanthropic purposes in Isle of Man. G. J. Holyoakes History of co-operation i, 349–51 (1875), ii, 400–405 (1879).

BAUMGARDT, John Gregory. Ensign 91 foot 1 Aug. 1798; lieut. col. of 31 foot 12 Jany. 1826 and of 2 foot 24 Dec. 1829 to 1 Jany. 1847; inspecting field officer of Bristol recruiting district 1 Jany. 1847 to 11 Nov. 1851; M.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 6 June 1840. d. Rue de L’Oratoire, Champs Elysées, Paris 7 May 1855 aged 72.

BAXENDALE, Joseph (eld. son of Josiah Baxendale of Lancaster, surgeon who d. 1834). b. Lancaster Sep. 1785; partner in firm of Pickford & Co. carriers 1817 to death; chairman of South eastern railway to 1844; A.I.C.E. 8 Feb. 1839. d. Woodside, Whetstone, Middlesex 24 March 1872.

BAXTER, Charles. b. Little Britain, London March 1809; a painter chiefly of miniatures and portraits; exhibited 45 pictures at the R.A, 1834–72; member of Society of British Artists 1842, exhibited 127 pictures there 1842–79. d. Lewisham 10 Jany. 1879. Art Journal (1864) 145–7, (1879) 73; I.L.N. lxxiv, 72 (1879), portrait.

BAXTER, Crichton M. Poet, painter and chess problem composer; lived at Dundee. d. Feb. 1881. Chess problems by the late C. M. Baxter 1883, portrait.

BAXTER, Sir David (2 son of Wm. Baxter of Balgavies, Forfarshire, export merchant). b. Dundee 13 Feb. 1793; partner in linen manufacturing firm of Baxter brothers 1825 which became one of largest houses in the world; purchased estates of Kilmaron 1856 and Balgavies 1863; created baronet 1 Jany. 1863; founded 4 scholarships in the Univ. of Edin. and a chair of engineering which he endowed with sum of £6,000; gave with his sisters Eleanor and Mary Ann the Baxter park to Dundee opened 9 Sep. 1863. d. Kilmaron castle 13 Oct. 1872. Personalty 197sworn under £1,098,000 Dec. 1872. W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 400–407; J. Thomson’s History of Dundee (1874) 385–90.

BAXTER, Edward. Merchant at Manchester; took a prominent part in every movement in favour of popular rights; brought up the great Manchester address on the Reform bill to Lord Grey; offered the first seat in Parliament for new borough of Manchester but declined; retired from business about 1834. d. 27 July 1856 aged 77.

BAXTER, Edward (eld. son of Wm. Baxter of Balgavies, export merchant). b. 3 April 1791; partner with his father about 1813–26; export merchant at Dundee 1826 to death; vice consul for the U.S. at Dundee 9 Oct. 1818; dean of guild 1831; one of the merchant princes of Dundee. d. Kincaldrum, Forfarshire 26 July 1870. W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 368–74.

BAXTER, Evan Buchanan (son of James Baxter, director of the English school at St. Petersburg). b. St. Petersburg 1844; ed. at King’s college London; gained an open scholarship at Lincoln coll. Ox. 1862; became a positivist; entered medical department of King’s college London Oct. 1864; L.S.A. 1868, M.R.C.S. 1869; house phys. King’s college hospital 1868–69, and Sambrooke medical registrar 1870–71; B.A. London 1865, M.B. 1869, M.D. 1870; medical tutor at King’s college 1871–74, and professor of materia medica and therapeutics 1874–84; M.R.C.P. 1872, F.R.C.P. 1877; phys. to Royal free hospital 1881; translated for the New Sydenham Society, Rindfleisch’s Pathological histology 2 vols. 1872–73; edited Garrod’s Essentials of materia medica 4 ed. 1874. d. 28 Weymouth st. Portland place, London 14 Jany, 1885. Lancet 24 Jany. 1885 p. 181.

BAXTER, Francis Willoughby (younger son of Wm. Edward Baxter of Dundee, merchant). b. Dundee; partner in mercantile firm of Guthrie and Baxter; contributed to Tait’s Magazine and other periodicals; edited the Dundee Advertiser; author of Percy Lockhart or the hidden will 2 vols. 1872. d. Broughty Ferry, near Dundee June 1870 aged 64. W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 358–60.

BAXTER, George (2 son of John Baxter of Lewes 1781–1858). A wood engraver in London; invented oil colour picture printing 1836, employed 20 different blocks in some of the illustrations to the “Pictorial Album” 1836. d. The Retreat Sydenham 11 Jany. 1867 aged 62.

198BAXTER, George R. Wythen. Author of Modern refinement 1834; Humour and pathos 1838; The book of the Bastiles 1841; edited Don Juan Junior, a poem by Byron’s Ghost 1839. d. Bryn, Montgomeryshire 17 Jany. 1854.

BAXTER, John. b. Rickhurst Surrey 21 Oct. 1781; printer and publisher at Lewes down to Jany. 1858; the first printer in England who used the inking roller; made paper from the common nettle; published Library of practical agriculture 1846, 4 ed. 2 vols. 1851; wrote first book laying down rules of cricket published as Lambert’s Cricketer’s Guide; established Sussex Agricultural Express 1837. d. Lewes 12 Nov. 1858. M. A. Lower’s Worthies of Sussex (1865) 283–84, portrait.

BAXTER, John Boyd (son of Wm. Baxter of Balgavies, merchant). b. 1796; pres. of general council of procurators for Scotland several times; dean of faculty of procurators and solicitors at Dundee 1825 to death. d. Craig Tay, Dundee 4 Aug. 1882.

BAXTER, Mary Ann. Gave with the preceding in 1881 sum of £130,000 for founding a college in Dundee which was opened 5 Oct. 1883. d. Ellangowan, Dundee 19 Dec. 1884. Personalty amounted to upwards of £283,000.

BAXTER, Robert Dudley (eld. son of Robert Baxter of Westminster, solicitor). b. Doncaster 3 Feb. 1827; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1849, M.A. 1852; admitted a solicitor 1852; partner in firm of Baxter, Rose and Norton, Westminster; A.I.C.E. 4 Dec. 1866; author of The national income 1868; The taxation of the United Kingdom 1869; English parties and conservatism 1870; The national debts of the various states of the world 1871. d. 13 Oak hill, Frognal, Hampstead 20 May 1875. Min. of Proc. of instit. of C.E. xlii, 259–61 (1875); I.L.N. lxvi, 547 (1875), portrait.

BAXTER, William. Curator of botanic garden at Oxford 1813–54; established a library for the use of Oxford gardeners; F.L.S. 1817; author of British phænogamous botany, or figures and descriptions of the genera of British flowering plants 6 vols. 1834–43. d. Oxford 1 Nov. 1871 in 84 year.

BAXTER, William Raleigh. L.R.C.S. 1840, LLD. Aberdeen 1843; senior surgeon Osmanli horse artillery 1854; volunteer surgeon major in French army at Constantinople; author of A treatise on certain abnormal sounds of the heart; A handbook of chemistry 1851; edited Medical Record. d. Emsworth, Hants 26 Oct. 1875 aged 63.

199BAYES, Cordelia (dau. of Thomas Williams of Cambridge). b. Cambridge 1797; admitted into membership with Society of Friends 1825; a Minister 1837; laboured amongst the very poor in the lowest parts of London 1840–45; visited United States and Canada 1851–53. (m. 1820 James Kirbell Bayes he d. 1842). d. Stoke Newington, London 11 April 1865. Annual Monitor for 1866 pp. 8–34.

BAYLEE, Rev. Joseph. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; B.A. 1834, M.A. 1848, B.D. and D.D. 1852; P.C. of Holy Trinity, Birkenhead, Liverpool 1842–64; founder of St. Aidan’s theological college Birkenhead 1846, and principal 1846–69, present college building opened 1856; V. of Shepscombe, Gloucs. 1871 to death; author of The institutions of the Church of England are of divine origin, 3 ed. 1838; Unitarianism a rejection of the word of God 1852; The intermediate state of the blessed dead 1864; Introduction to the study of the Bible 2 ed. 3 vols. 1870; The Apocalypse with an exegetical commentary 1876. d. Shepscombe vicarage 7 July 1883 in 76 year.

BAYLEY, Charles John. Ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.; scholar 1839, B.A. 1839, M.A. 1844; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1844; colonial sec. of Mauritius 1849; governor of Bahama islands Feb. 1857 to 1864; C.B. 23 July 1862. d. 6 July 1873.

BAYLEY, Sir Edward Clive (son of Edward Clive Bayley of St. Petersburg). b. St. Petersburg 17 Oct. 1821; entered Bengal civil service 1841; barrister M.T. 12 June 1857; sec. to government of India, home department March 1862 to 1872; vice chancellor of Univ. of Calcutta 1869–74; member of council of Governor general of India 19 April 1873 to April 1878 when he retired upon the annuity fund; pres. of Bengal Asiatic Society 5 times, and of Royal Asiatic Society 3 years; K.C.S.I. 1 Jany. 1877. (m. 6 March 1850 Emily Anne Theophila, eld. dau. of Sir Theophilus Metcalfe, Baronet). d. Wilmington lodge, Keymer Sussex 30 April 1884. Annual report of Royal Asiatic Society 1884.

BAYLEY, Frederick William Naylor. b. Ireland; went to Barbadoes 1825, returned 1829; literary dramatic and musical critic on the Morning Post about 1831; started and edited the National Omnibus, a penny weekly paper; edited the Illustrated London News May 1842 to 1848; author of Four years residence in the West Indies 1830; Scenes and stories by a clergyman in debt 3 vols. 1835; Tales of the late revolutions 1831; issued a series of songs set to music under the title of The Nosegay 2001832; wrote many popular songs including The Newfoundland dog; author of New tale of a tub 1841; Comic nursery rhymes 1842; The model of the earth 1851. d. from delirium tremens New Bull’s Head Inn, Digbeth, Birmingham 1 Dec. 1852 aged 40. Rev. J. Richardson’s Recollections of the last half century ii, 197–203 (1855).

BAYLEY, Henry Vincent (eld. son of Wm. Butterworth Bayley, who d. 29 May 1860 aged 78). b. 1815; ed. at Eton; entered Bengal civil service 1834; judge of high court of judicature at Calcutta 13 May 1862 to death. d. Calcutta 2 Feb. 1873.

BAYLEY, John. b. Upper Green, Mitcham, Surrey 17 May 1794; a tailor there; a practice bowler at Lord’s cricket ground London 1823–54; played in many great matches; a slow round-armed bowler; lived at Mitcham all his life. d. Upper Green, Mitcham 7 Nov. 1874.

BAYLEY, Sir John Edward George, 2 Baronet. b. London 23 Dec. 1793; barrister M.T. 6 May 1835; clerk of assize northern circuit 1836 to death; succeeded 10 Oct. 1841. d. Stanhope lodge, Kensington Gore, London 23 Dec. 1871.

BAYLEY, John Whitcomb (2 son of John Bayley of Hempstead, Gloucs., farmer). A junior clerk in Record office, Tower of London, chief clerk 1819; sub-commissioner on the public records to May 1834; edited Calendars of the proceedings in Chancery in the reign of Queen Elizabeth 3 vols. fol. 1827–32, for which he received £2,739; student of Inner Temple Aug. 1815; author of History and antiquities of the Tower of London 2 parts 1821–25; F.S.A. 1819, F.R.S. 1823. d. Paris 25 March 1869.

BAYLEY, Robert. Ed. at Highbury theological college; independent minister at Howard st. chapel Sheffield 1835–45, at Ratcliff Highway, London 1845–57 and at Hereford 1857 to death; started a monthly periodical called The people’s college journal 1846; author of A history of Louth; Nature considered as a revelation 1836; Lectures on the early history of the Christian church; A new concordance to the Hebrew Bible juxta editionem Hooghtianam. d. Hereford 14 Nov. 1859.

BAYLEY, William. b. 1810; vicar choral at St. Paul’s and organist of St. John’s Southwark; composed some beautiful cavatinas including Softly ring ye gay bluebells and Come sister come. d. London Nov. 1858.

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