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BIRD, Rev. Charles Smith (5 child of William Bird of Liverpool, West Indian Merchant, who d. 1814). b. Union st. Liverpool 28 May 1795; articled to Stanistreet and Eden of Liverpool, solicitors Feb. 1812, released from articles 1814; entered Trin. coll. Cam. 1816, scholar 1818, 3 Wr. and 2 Smith’s prizeman 1820, Fell. of his coll. Sep. 1820; C. of Burghfield, Berks. 1823–44; took pupils 1823–44; F.L.S. 4 March 1828; C. of Sulhamstead 1840; V. of Gainsborough 1843–59; preb. of Lincoln 16 June 1843; chancellor of Lincoln June 1859 to death, instituted and installed 16 July 1859; edited a monthly periodical called The Reading church guardian 1839–40; author of For ever and other devotional poems 1833; Transubstantiation tried by Scripture and reason 1839; The baptismal privileges, the baptismal vow, and the means of grace considered in 6 Lent lectures 1841, 2 ed. 1843; The eve of the Crucifixion 1858. d. The Chancery, Lincoln 9 Nov. 1862. Sketches from the life of Rev. Charles S. Bird by Rev. Claude S. Bird (1864), portrait.

BIRD, Edward Joseph (son of Rev. Godfrey Bird, R. of Little Waltham, Essex). Entered navy 9 Sep. 1812; attempted to reach North Pole from Spitzbergen in the Hecla 1825, penetrated a little beyond 82° 45´ a latitude more northern than had ever been attained; 1 lieut. of the Erebus in Antarctic expedition 1839–43; captain of the Investigator 1848–49; admiral on h.p. 11 Dec. 1875. d. The Wilderness, Witham 3 Dec. 1881 in 83 year.

BIRD, Frederic. b. Colchester 23 Jany. 1818; ed. at Guy’s Hospital; surgeon in Craven st. Strand 1841; performed operation of ovariotomy for ovarian dropsy 26 June 1843, being one of the pioneers of that treatment; lectured on forensic medicine at Westminster 285Hospital, obstetric physician there 1861; phys. to the Maternity Charity; edited Provincial (now British) Medical Journal. d. 13 Grosvenor st. London 28 April 1874. Medical Circular i, 229 (1852); Medical times and gazette i, 519 (1874).

BIRD, George. Writer Madras civil service 1821; judge and criminal judge of Canara 1835–38 and 1839–42; civil and session judge Coimbatore 1844–47 and 1850–51; resigned the service 25 Feb. 1851. d. England 20 July 1880.

BIRD, Golding. b. Downham, Norfolk 9 Dec. 1814; studied at Guy’s hospital London 1832; lecturer on natural philosophy there 1836–43; L.S.A. 21 Jany. 1836, M.D. St. Andrews 24 April 1838 being only place where a degree could be obtained without residing, M.A. 18 April 1840; physician to Finsbury dispensary 1838–43; L.R.C.P. 1840, F.R.C.P. 1845; assistant phys. at Guy’s hospital and lecturer on materia medica 1843 to 4 Aug. 1853; F.L.S. 1836, F.R.S. 22 Jany. 1846; author of The elements of natural philosophy 1839, 6 ed. 1867; Urinary deposits their diagnosis pathology and therapeutical indications 1844, 5 ed. 1857. d. Camden park, Tunbridge Wells 27 Oct. 1854. Biographical sketch by J. H. Balfour 1855; Medical Circular iii, 129 (1853), portrait.

BIRD, James. Ed. at King’s college Aberdeen 1810, M.A. 1814; apprenticed to his maternal uncle Dr. Scott of Elgin 1812–15; studied at Guy’s and St. Thomas’s hospitals; M.R.C.S. Sep. 1816; assistant surgeon H.E.I. Co’s. Bombay service 2 Aug. 1818; residency surgeon at Sattara 1826–32; superintending surgeon of Belgaum division of the army 1840–43 and of Presidency division 1843–44; physician general to Bombay medical board 1844 to 1 Dec. 1847 when he retired. d. Fern acre lodge, Gerrards Cross, Bucks. 10 July 1864 aged 67.

BIRD, James. Solicitor in London; coroner for West Middlesex 9 July 1862 to death. d. Phœnix lodge, Brook Green, Hammersmith 7 Jany. 1868.

BIRD, James. b. Cardiff Feb. 1802; ed. at St. Bartholomew’s hospital; L.S.A. 1821, M.R.C.S. 1825; surgeon at Cardiff 1825–32; surgeon in London 1832 to 1856; joint sec. with Henry Ancell to the British medical association; author of Private devotions for girls 1874. d. 80 Seymour st. Portman sq. London 4 June 1874. Medical Circular i, 263 (1852).

286BIRD, Rev. John. b. Betchworth, Surrey 14 Sep. 1783; ed. at Stonyhurst college; ordained priest 10 Dec. 1808; professed of the 4 vows 2 Feb. 1819; rector of St. Aloysius’ college 26 June 1832 to 18 May 1839 and 15 Sep. 1841; missioner at Pontefract 1842–48; superior of St. George’s Residence, Worcester Nov. 1850 to death. d. 8 June 1853.

BIRD, Louis Saunders. Ensign Bengal Infantry 26 Nov. 1808; col. 23 Bengal N.I. 17 April 1856–1869; L.G. 22 Feb. 1870. d. Clevedon, Somerset 17 April 1874 aged 81.

BIRD, Robert Merttins. b. 1788; Bengal civil servant; assistant to registrar of Court of Sadr Diwàni Adàlat at Calcutta 9 Nov. 1808; comr. of revenue and circuit for the Gorakhpur division 1829; member of board of revenue at Allahabad 1832; revised settlement of land revenue of North western provinces 1833–41, the most complete settlement that had yet been made in India; retired to England 1842; active member of committee of the Church Missionary Society. d. Torquay 22 Aug. 1853. Dict. of nat. biog. v, 78 (1886).

BIRD, Robert Nicholas. Ensign 20 Foot 30 Aug. 1859; lieut. 2 Dec. 1862 to death; murdered by Japanese at Kamahura about 17 miles from Yokohama 21 Nov. 1864. R. Lindau’s Erzählungen und Novellen i, 15–54 (1871); F. O. Adams’s History of Japan i, 485–98 (1874), ii, 1–5 (1875).

BIRD, William Wilberforce (eld. son of Wm. Wilberforce Bird of the Spring, Kenilworth, M.P. for Coventry). b. 1784; ed. at Warwick and Geneva; writer in H.E.I. Co.’s civil service at Calcutta 11 July 1803; third ordinary member of council of India 21 March 1838; senior member of board of customs salt and opium and of the marine board 17 Sep. 1838; deputy governor of Bengal 4 times; pres. of the council 1840–44; governor general of India 15 June 1844 to 23 July 1844; very instrumental in abolition of suttee and suppression of slavery; retired to England 1844. d. 22 Sussex sq. Hyde Park, London 1 June 1857.

BIRDWOOD, Christopher. b. 1806; ensign 3 Bombay N.I. 3 May 1825; commissariat officer of Malwa field force 1839–41; colonel Bombay staff corps 9 Nov. 1868; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. Pucklechurch near Bristol 4 July 1882 in 76 year. Graphic xxvi, 221 (1882), portrait.

BIRKETT, Rev. George William. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., scholar, B.A. 1823, 287M.A. 1827; V. of St. Florence near Tenby 1829 to death; author of The trial of creation and other poems 1848. d. Tenby 26 Nov. 1877 aged 78.

BIRKIN, Richard (eld. son of Richard Birkin of Belper, calico weaver). b. Belper 6 July 1805; lace manufacturer at New Basford, Nottingham with Mr. Biddle 1826–47; juror on behalf of Nottingham for lace goods in International Exhibitions 1851 and 1862; mayor of Nottingham 1850, 55, 62 and 63; used mohair as a material for lace being the first to do so either in England or France. d. Aspley hall, Radford, Nottingham 10 Oct. 1870. J. B. Robinson’s Derbyshire gatherings (1866) 70–72, portrait; W. Felkin’s History of hosiery (1867) 368–71.

BIRKINSHAW, John Cass. b. Bedlington iron works Durham 1811; the first articled pupil of Robert Stephenson at Newcastle; engineer of London end of London and Birmingham railway 1835; engineer of Birmingham and Derby railway 1837–42; engineer of many railways projected but not made; engineer of Danish land company 1865; M.I.C.E. 2 March 1847; took out a patent 1820 for wrought or malleable iron rails instead of cast iron as used up to that time. d. March 1867 in 56 year. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxi, 202–207 (1871).

BIRKS, Rev. Thomas Rawson (younger son of Mr. Birks of Staveley, Derbyshire, farmer). b. Staveley 28 Sep. 1810; ed. at Chesterfield, Mill Hill and Trin. coll. Cam., scholar, fellow 1834–44, 2 wrangler and 2 Smith’s prizemen Jany. 1834; R. of Kelshall, Herts 1844 to 1864; hon. sec. to Evangelical Alliance 1850–71; P.C. of Holy Trinity Cam. 1865–77; hon. canon of Ely cathedral 1871 to death; professor of moral theology, casuistical divinity and moral philosophy at Cambridge 30 April 1872 to death; published an edition of Paley’s Horæ Paulinæ with notes and a supplementary treatise entitled Horæ Apostolicæ 1850; author of Horæ Evangelicæ 1852; The Bible and modern thought 1861; Commentary on the book of Isaiah 1871, 2 ed. 1878; First principles of moral science 1873; Modern Utilitarianism 1874; Supernatural revelation 1879 and many other books. d. 6 Salisbury villas, Cambridge 19 July 1883. Record 27 July 1883 p. 741.

BIRLEY, Hugh. b. Blackburn 21 Oct. 1817; ed. at Winchester; a partner in firm of Macintosh and Co. india-rubber manufacturers; 288chairman of National educational union; M. P. for Manchester 1868 to death. d. Moorland, Withington, Manchester 9 Sep. 1883.

BIRMINGHAM, John. b. 1816; lived at Millbrook near Tuam; discovered a remarkable new star in Corona Borealis 12 May 1866; author of Catalogue of red stars in Transactions of Royal Irish Academy xxvi, 249 (1879); Cunningham medallist of the Academy 1884; discovered 22 May 1881 a deep red star in Cygnus which proved strikingly variable and became known by his name; author of a small poetical work entitled Anglicania or England’s mission to the Celt 1863. d. Millbrook 7 Sep. 1884.

BIRMINGHAM, Very Rev. Patrick. Dean of the lay college and professor of humanity Carlow college 1851 to July 1854 when he went to Australia; vice pres. and professor of theology at Carlow college Sep. 1864 to July 1871 when he went again to Australia. d. Fitzroy sq. London 9 Sep. 1883.

BIRNIE, Alexander. b. Morayshire 1826; a baptist minister at Preston; walked to Falkirk 1860; a painter at the Carron works Falkirk; wrote articles in Falkirk Advertiser under signature of Cock of the Steeple; started the Falkirk Liberal a penny weekly paper 1861 which soon collapsed; having been without food or drink for a fortnight, he entered the workhouse Morpeth where he d. March 1862.

BIRRELL, David. b. 15 Sep. 1800; entered Bengal army 1817; commanded a brigade at battle of Sobraon 10 Feb. 1846; lieut. col. 51 N.I. 1851, of 52 N.I. 1852 and of 72 N.I. 1857 to 1858; M.G. 25 April 1858; general 23 July 1876. d. 28 Oct. 1878.

BIRT, William Radcliff. b. 15 July 1804; employed by Sir John Herschel in the reduction and arrangement of his barometric observations; investigated subject of atmospheric waves for the British Association; reduced and discussed electrical observations made at Kew 1848; F.R.A.S. 14 Jany. 1859; the first pres. of the Selenographical society 1877 or 1878 to death; author of Hurricane and Sailor’s guide 1850; Handbook of the law of storms 1854, new ed. 1878. d. Leytonstone, Essex 14 Dec. 1881. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xlii, 142–43 (1882).

BIRTWHISTLE, John. Ensign 32 Foot 14 April 1813; major 19 Jany. 1839 to 12 March 1841 when placed on h.p; M.G. 28 Aug. 1865. d. Cheltenham 6 Oct. 1867 aged 75.

289BISHOP, Anne (dau. of Daniel Riviére of London, artist). b. London 1814; student at Royal academy of music June 1824 to June 1828; a singer at Philharmonic concerts 1831; one of chief singers at Vauxhall gardens, the Oratorio concerts and country festivals; went abroad with R. N. C. Bochsa the harpist 1839; sang at 260 concerts in chief cities of Europe Sept. 1839 to May 1843; sang with great success at St. Petersburg 1840–41 and in Italy 1843–46; appeared in 20 operas at the San Carlo, Naples; went to America 1846 where she appeared at Park theatre New York 4 Aug. 1847 as Linda; went to Australia 1855; sang at the Crystal palace London 1858; gave her farewell concert at Surrey music hall 17 Aug. 1859; sang in Canada, Mexico and Havana 1859–65; went to California 1865; wrecked on her way from Honolulu to China Feb. 1866; arrived in India 1867; sang in Australia 1868; re-appeared at Steinway hall New York Jany. 1881. (m. (1) 1832 Sir Henry Rowley Bishop 1786–1855. m. (2) at New York 30 April 1858, Martin Schultz). d. New York 18 March 1884. Drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages, third series 1860, portrait; N. P. Willis’s Hurry-graphs, 2 ed. (1851) 200–203.

BISHOP, Rev. Daniel Godfrey. Head master of Buntingford gr. sch. Herts. 1841–74; V. of Tibshelf near Alfreton, Derbyshire 1874 to death; author of numerous articles upon biblical criticism, classical literature, and general biography in Penny Cyclopædia. d. Briston vicarage, Norfolk 14 April 1880 in 86 year.

BISHOP, Rev. Francis. b. Dorchester 27 July 1813; Unitarian minister at Cheltenham 1840, at Warrington 1841, at George’s meeting Exeter 1844–47, at Liverpool 1847–56, at Manchester 1856–58 and at Chesterfield 1858 to death; edited The Christian Investigator; author of The atonement, or God’s way of speaking and man’s way of speaking 1843. d. Chesterfield 5 Aug. 1869. The Inquirer (1869) 533.

BISHOP, George. b. Leicester 21 Aug. 1785; a maker of British wines in London, being the largest maker in England; erected an observatory at South Villa, Regent’s Park 1836 where 11 planets were discovered 1847–54, after his death the dome and the instruments were removed by his son George Bishop to his house at Twickenham; F.R.A.S. 1830, sec. 1833–39, treasurer 1840–57, pres. 1857–59; F.R.S. 9 June 1848; published in 1852 290Astronomical observations during the years 1839–51. d. South villa, Regent’s Park, London 14 June 1861. Monthly notices of Royal Astronomical Soc. xxii, 104–106 (1862).

BISHOP, Sir Henry Rowley (son of Mr. Bishop of London, Watchmaker). b. Great Portland st. London 18 Nov. 1786; pupil of Francesco Bianchi the composer; composer of ballet music at Italian opera house 1806; produced his opera of The Circassian bride at Drury Lane theatre 23 Feb. 1809, theatre was burnt down the next night; musical director and composer at Covent Garden theatre 1810–23, where he produced 50 musical dramas; director of music at King’s theatre, Haymarket 1816–17; received freedom of city of Dublin 2 Aug. 1820; composer at Drury Lane theatre 1825–28; musical director of Vauxhall gardens 1830–33; director of Her Majesty’s concerts of ancient music 1840–48; Reid professor of Music in Univ. of Edin. Nov. 1841 to Dec. 1843; knighted at St. James’s palace 1 June 1842, being the first musician who ever received that honour; professor of music in Univ. of Ox. Jany. 1848 to death; Mus. Bac. Ox. 1848, Mus. Doc. 1853; author of many songs and glees, best known being Bid me discourse, Should he upbraid, The winds whistle cold, My pretty Jane, Mynheer Van Dunck and of the trio and chorus The chough and crow. d. 13 Cambridge st. Edgware road, London 30 April 1855. I.L.N. xix, 669–70 (1851), portrait; Charles Mackay’s Forty years recollections ii, 165–217 (1877); Illust. news of the world iv, 381 (1859), portrait.

BISHOP, James. b. Trowbridge, Wiltshire 1793; a cloth worker 1813; partner with Atkins and Gillman, proprietors of a menagery which became a formidable opponent to George Wombwell’s menagery; attended all the great fairs in England; proprietor of various exhibitions; father of 20 children; the oldest showman in England. d. Plymouth 19 Feb. 1881.

BISHOP, John (4 son of Samuel Bishop of Pimperne, Dorset). b. 15 Sep. 1797; studied at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; M.R.C.S. 1824, F.R.C.S. 1843, member of council 1851, Hunterian orator 1859; member of Medical society of London 1839, councillor, trustee, orator and Lettsomian lecturer successively, and pres. 1852; F.R.S. 9 May 1844; very successful in treatment of impediments of speech; author of On articulate sounds and on the causes and cure of impediments 291of speech 1851; Researches into the pathology and treatment of deformities in the human body 1852; The Lettsomian lectures on Bones 1855; On the construction of hearing and speaking instruments 1856. d. Strangeways-Marshall, Dorset 29 Sep. 1873. Proc. of royal society xxi, 5–6 (1873); British medical journal ii, 450 (1873).

BISHOP, William. Agent at 170 New Bond st. London for Westley Richards the gunmaker 1820 to death; brought into public notice by Vincent Dowling, who rarely wrote a report of a prize fight without bringing him on the scene; got the Dog Stealers act passed which is known as Bishop’s act; well known in London as “the Bishop of Bond st.” d. 170 New Bond st. 16 March 1871 in 74 year. Illust. sporting news ii, 164 (1863), portrait.

BISSET, Rev. James (2 son of George Bisset of Udny, Aberdeenshire, schoolmaster who d. 1812). b. Udny 20 April 1795; ed. at Marischal coll. and Univ. of Aberdeen; kept a school at Udny 1812–25 which became celebrated; licensed by presbytery of Ellon 31 March 1819; minister of parish of Bourtie, Aberdeenshire June 1825 to death; ordained 19 April 1826; D.D. Aberdeen 23 Feb. 1850; moderator of general assembly 22 May 1862. d. Bourtie 8 Sep. 1872.

BISSET, Sir John. b. Perth 1777; commissary general 31 July 1811 to 1819 when placed on h.p.; served through Peninsular war; K.C.H. 1832; knighted at St. James’s Palace 6 Nov. 1832; K.C.B. 16 Aug. 1850; granted pension of £550; author of Memoranda regarding the duties of the Commissariat on field service abroad 1846. d. Perth 3 April 1854.

BISSHOPP, Cecil (son of Harry Bisshopp, colonel in the army). Cornet 14 Dragoons 10 Dec. 1799; major 11 Foot 6 Sep. 1834 to 17 May 1844 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 11 Nov. 1851; colonel 16 Foot 16 May 1857 to death; C.B. 26 Dec. 1818. d. Stoke, Plymouth 21 March 1858.

BISSHOPP, Sir Edward Cecil, 11 Baronet. b. 23 Feb. 1826; succeeded 15 Dec. 1865. d. 27 Jany. 1870.

BISSHOPP, Sir George Curzon, 10 Baronet. b. 10 April 1823; succeeded 23 Jany. 1849. d. Parham park near Hastings 15 Dec. 1865.

BISSON, Edward Leonard (son of Rev. Amias Bisson, R. of St. Laurens, Jersey). b. St. Laurens 1797; jurat or judge of the royal 292court Jersey 1832 to death; lieutenant bailiff 1839 to death. d. St. Heliers, Jersey 1 April 1884 in 88 year.

BLAAUW, William Henry (only son of Wm. Blaauw of Beechland, Newick, Sussex 1748–1808). b. Queen Anne st. London 25 May 1793; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; chief founder of Sussex Archæological Society 18 June 1846, sec. 1846–58, edited Society’s Collections 1846–56; elected F.S.A. 30 May 1850, admitted 27 Feb. 1851; member of council of Camden Society 1848–65, treasurer 1861–65; sheriff of Sussex 1859; author of The barons’ war, including the battles of Lewes and Evesham 1844, 2 ed. 1871. d. Beechland 26 April 1870. Sussex Archæological Collections xxii, 9–11 (1870), portrait.

BLACHFORD, Augustus George. Ensign 24 Foot 12 Nov. 1825; lieut. col. 30 March 1858 to 9 March 1860 when he retired on full pay with hon. rank of major general. d. Sheringham near Cromer 13 Nov. 1884 aged 78.

BLACHFORD, John. b. 1790; solicitor in City of London 1818 to death; head of firm of Blachford, Riches and Wood of 25 Abchurch lane to death; vestry clerk of parish of St. James Aldgate 40 years. d. 4 Jany. 1886.

BLACHLEY, Henry. 2 Lieutenant R.A. 10 Aug. 1804; lieut. col. 23 Nov. 1841 to 4 April 1843 when he retired on full pay; L.G. 27 Feb. 1866. d. Banwell, Somerset 13 Aug. 1868.

BLACK, Adam (son of Charles Black of Edinburgh, builder). b. Charles st. Edin. 20 Feb. 1784; ed. at high sch. Edin.; opened a bookseller’s shop at 57 North bridge, Edin. 1808; published Edinburgh Review 1827 to death, and Encyclopædia Britannica, 7 ed. 22 vols. 1830–42, 8 ed. 22 vols. 1853–61, wrote many articles in it; master of the Merchant Company Edin. 1831; a member of the town council 1832; lord provost 1843–48; pres. of Philosophical Institution 1845; bought works of Sir Walter Scott on behalf of an association of 60 persons for £27,000 March 1851; M.P. for Edinburgh 9 Feb. 1856 to 6 July 1865; retired from business 1865. d. 38 Drummond place, Edin. 24 Jany. 1874. A bronze memorial statue of him in East Prince’s st. gardens was unveiled 3 Nov. 1877. A fine portrait of him by Sir J. W. Gordon is in the council room Edinburgh. Life of A. 293Black by A. Nicolson 1885; Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 179–83, portrait; Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. viii, 467 (1865).

BLACK, Rev. Alexander (son of John Black of Aberdeen, gardener). b. Aberdeen 1789; ed. at Aberdeen gr. sch. and Marischal college, B.A. 1807, D.D. May 1824; licensed by presbytery of Aberdeen 9 Feb. 1814; minister of Tarves Nov. 1817 to 27 June 1832; ordained 1 April 1818; professor of divinity in Marischal college Aberdeen April 1832 to 1843 when he joined the Free church at the Disruption; sent to the East to make enquiries as to expediency of beginning a mission to the Jews 1839; professor of exegetical theology in New college Edinburgh about 1844–1856. d. Edinburgh 24 or 27 Jany. 1864 in 75 year.

BLACK, James. b. Scotland 1787; L.R.C.S. Edin. 1808; assistant surgeon R.N. 1809; practised at Bolton to 1839 and 1848–56, at Manchester 1839–48, and at Edin. 1856 to death; M.D. Glasgow 1820, L.R.C.S. Eng. 1823, F.R.C.P. 1860; an original member of British Association 1831; pres. of British medical association 1842; pres. of Provincial medical association 1853; pres. of Manchester Geological Society; F.G.S. 1838, F.G.S. of France 1848; F.R.S. Edin. 1857; author of An inquiry into the capillary circulation of the blood 1825; A comparative view of the more intimate nature of fever 1826; A manual of the bowels 1840; A medico-topographical, geological and statistical sketch of Bolton and its neighbourhood, a paper of 100 pages in the Transactions of Provincial medical and surgical association. d. 2 George sq. Edin. 30 April 1867 in 80 year. Proc. of Royal Society of Edin. vi, 188 (1869).

BLACK, John (only son of Ebenezer Black of Burnhouses near Dunse, Berwickshire, farm labourer). b. Burnhouses 1783; articled to a writer at Dunse 1796–1800; clerk in an accountant’s office Edinburgh; engaged on the Morning Chronicle daily paper in London 1810, principal editor 1819–44; fought a harmless duel with John Arthur Roebuck, M.P. 19 Nov. 1835; sold his library of 30,000 volumes 1844; translated Humboldt’s Political essay on the kingdom of New Spain 4 vols. 1811–12 and other books. d. Birling, Kent 15 June 1855. C. Mackay’s Forty years’ recollections i, 70–95, ii, 177–78; I.L.N. xxvii, 13–14 (1855), portrait.

BLACK, John. b. Glenrinnes, Upper Banff 1834; professor of humanity in University of Aberdeen 1868 to death. d. at his college residence Old Aberdeen 17 Nov. 1881.

294BLACK, Neil (son of Archibald Black of Cowal Argyleshire, sheep farmer). b. Cowal 1804; sailed for Adelaide April 1839; bought a station near Glenormiston, Victoria; bought the Sisters station; his annual sales of cattle attracted buyers from all parts of Australia; member of legislative council of Victoria for the Western province 1856 to death. d. Mount Noorat, Victoria 15 May 1880. Men of the time in Australia, Victorian series (1878) p. 16.

BLACK, Patrick (2 son of colonel Patrick Black of the Bengal cavalry who d. about 1819). b. Aberdeen 1813; ed. at Eton 1828–30 and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1834, M.D. 1836; F.R.C.P. 1845, censor 3 times, Croonian lecturer 1855: assistant phys. to St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1842, warden of the medical school 1851–56, physician and clinical lecturer 1860–78, lecturer on medicine 1861–78; author of Chloroform how shall we ensure, safety in its administration 1855; Essay on the Spleen 1876; revised the Latin part of the Nomenclature of diseases for Royal College of Phys. 1867. d. 11 Queen Anne st. Cavendish sq. London 12 Oct. 1879. St. Bartholomew’s hospital reports xv, pp. xxix-xl (1879).

BLACK, Thomas. b. Wemyss 1819; surgeon at Anstruther 1839 to death; his body was found floating in the harbour of Anstruther 29 Feb. 1864. Conolly’s Biog. dict. of eminent men of Fife (1866) 64.

BLACK, William. b. Anstruther 1770; entered navy 13 April 1793; captain 7 June 1814; retired R.A. 9 Oct. 1846. d. Ormsby, Norfolk 6 Nov. 1852 in 82 year. Conolly’s Biog. dict. of eminent men of Fife (1866) 62.

BLACK, Rev. William. b. Auchinairn parish of Cadder 1801; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow; licensed by presbytery of Hamilton Aug. 1824; minister of Shettleston April 1826; minister of Barony church Glasgow Sep. 1828 to death; D.D. Glasgow April 1834. d. Florence 15 Jany. 1851 in 50 year. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy, 2 series (1849) 17–26.

BLACK, William Henry (eld. son of John Black of Kintore, Aberdeenshire). b. 7 May 1808; a tutor among families residing at and near Tulse Hill, Surrey 1825; clerk in the Public Record Office, assistant keeper; founder and sec. of Chronological institute of London Dec. 1850, registrar 21 Dec. 1853; founded Palestine archæological association 13 Sep. 1853 and Anglo-biblical institute; F.S.A. 9 Dec. 1858; pastor of the Seventh Day Baptists (one of smallest sects in England) in Mill yard, Leman st. Whitechapel 1840 to death; prepared an edition of the 295British part of the Itinerary of Antoninus (never issued); contributed to Samuel Bentley’s Excerpta Historica 1831; catalogued the manuscripts of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, the Arundel MSS. in the library of the Heralds’ College, and Colfe’s library at Lewisham. d. 15 Mill yard, Whitechapel 12 April 1872. Rev. C. M. Davies’s Unorthodox London (1872) 227–37; J. E. Ritchie’s Religious life of London (1870) 159–66.

BLACKADDER, Robert Barnes. b. Scotland; came to London 1834, employed by Roake and Varty and other booksellers; edited and published Chronological Bible 1867 and Chronological New Testament 1867. d. Booksellers’ provident retreat Abbot’s Langley 26 June 1883 aged 71.

BLACKALL, John (6th son of Rev. Theophilus Blackall, Preb. of Exeter cath. who d. 4 Aug. 1781). b. St. Paul’s st. Exeter 24 Dec. 1771; ed. at Exeter gr. sch. and Balliol coll. Ox.; B.A. 1793, M.A. 1796, M.B. 1797, M.D. 1801; studied medicine at St. Bartholomew’s hosp. London; practised at Exeter 1797–1801 and 1807–52; physician to Devon and Exeter hosp. 1 June 1797–1801 when he resigned, and June 1807; practised at Totnes 1801–1807; physician to St. Thomas’s lunatic asylum Exeter 1812; candidate of R.C.P. 22 Dec. 1814; fellow 22 Dec. 1815; the chief physician in the West of England 1822–52; author of Observations on the nature and cure of dropsies 1813 4 ed. 1818 which at once placed him in the rank of the first physicians of his day and acquired for him an European reputation. d. Southernhay Exeter 10 Jany. 1860. Munk’s Roll of royal college of physicians iii, 138–41 (1878), abridged from British Medical Journal i, 75–76 (1860).

BLACKALL, Robert. Entered Bengal army 1805; colonel of 43 N.I. 18 July 1848, of 2 European Fusiliers 7 April 1851, and of 13 N.I. 19 Aug. 1859 to death; L.G. 18 Dec. 1860. d. 20 April 1863.

BLACKALL, Samuel Wensley (eld. son of Robert Blackall of Colamber manor, co. Longford who d. 1855). b. 1809; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; ensign 85 Foot 26 June 1827, lieut. 17 Feb. 1832 to 1 Feb. 1833 when he sold out; sheriff of co. Longford 1833, of co. Tyrone 1862; M.P. for co. Longford 13 Aug. 1847 to April 1851; lieutenant governor of Dominica 1 April 1851 to 1857; governor of Sierra Leone 1862; governor of West African Settlements 23 Feb. 1866; governor of Queensland 4 May 1868 to death. d. Brisbane 21 Jany. 1871.

296BLACKBOURN, John (son of James Blackbourn of Billingsgate, London, fish salesman). One of the singing boys of St. Paul’s cathedral 1800–1808, apprenticed to John Sale the master of the boys 1811; organist of Wandsworth parish church 1818–21 and of Clapham parish church 1821 to death; member of Royal Society of Musicians 1818, of the Madrigal Society 1819, of the Glee Club 1819, and secretary to 1825. d. Clapham 18 Dec. 1854 aged 62.

BLACKBURN, Rev. John. b. the Minories, London 1791; ed. at Stepney and Hoxton; a missionary in the Irish Evangelical society; pastor of Church of Christ at Finchingfield, Essex 25 Sep. 1815 to 1822; pastor of Claremont chapel Pentonville, London 1822 to death; editor of Congregational Magazine; originated and edited Congregational Calendar, afterwards merged in the Congregational year book; a projector and sec. of Congregational Union of England and Wales 1831; originator of the Christian Instruction society 1825; edited The Biblical educator. d. 17 Holford sq. Pentonville 16 June 1855. Congregational year book (1856) 208–10; J. Waddington’s Congregational history v, 198–202 (1870).

BLACKBURN, Peter (eld. son of John Blackburn of Killearn near Glasgow). b. Levenside, Dumbartonshire 1811; ed. at Eton; cornet 2 Life Guards 29 Jany. 1830, lieut. 4 May 1832 to 1836; M.P. for Stirlingshire 5 March 1855 to 6 July 1865; a lord of the Treasury 15 March 1859 to June 1859; chairman of Edinburgh and Glasgow railway Sep. 1846 to death. d. Killearn house, Killearn 20 May 1870.

BLACKBURNE, Francis (eld. son of Richard Blackburne of Great Footstown, co. Meath who d. 1798). b. Great Footstown 11 Nov. 1782; entered Trinity college Dublin July 1798, scholar 1801, B.A. 1803, LL.B. and LLD. 1852; called to bar in Ireland Jany. 1805; went the Home circuit; K.C. 1822; administered the Insurrection act in Limerick and Clare 1822–24; serjeant at law July 1826, king’s second serjeant at law 19 April 1830 to Jany. 1831; attorney general in Ireland 11 Jany. 1831 to April 1835 and 23 Sep. 1841 to Oct. 1842; P.C. Ireland 1831; master of the Rolls 1 Nov. 1842 to 23 Jany. 1846; chief justice of Queen’s Bench 23 Jany. 1846 to Feb. 1852; lord chancellor of Ireland Feb. 1852 to Dec. 1852 and 24 July 1866 to March 1867; vice chancellor of Univ. of Dub. Dec. 1851; one of Commissioners of National education 1852–53; lord justice of Appeal in Ireland Oct. 1856 to July 1866; offered the Lord Chancellorship by Earl of 297Derby 24 Feb. 1858 but declined; refused a Baronetcy May 1867. d. Rathfarnham Castle near Dublin 17 Sep. 1867. Life of the Right Hon. Francis Blackburne by his son Edward Blackburne 1874, portrait; O. J. Burke’s History of lord chancellors of Ireland (1879) 277–93; Dublin univ. mag. xxiv, 470–78 (1844), portrait; I.L.N. xii, 323 (1848), portrait.

BLACKBURNE, John George. b. London 4 June 1815; articled to Wm. Dunn of Oldham, surveyor 31 May 1828, partner with him 5 June 1835 to 27 June 1840 when he died; practised at Oldham 1835 to death; M.I.C.E. 1 May 1855; F.G.S. 1835; pres. of Manchester district society of surveyors and valuers 1866. d. Dryclough, Oldham 30 Sep. 1871. Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxiii, 206–209 (1872).

BLACKBURNE, John Ireland. b. 26 May 1783; M.P. for Newton, Lancashire 8 May 1807 to 10 June 1818 and for Warrington 7 Jany. 1835 to 23 July 1847. d. Hale hall near Warrington 27 Jany. 1874.

BLACKER, Rev. George (elder son of James Blacker of Dublin, police magistrate). b. 1791; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; scholar 1809, B.A. 1811, M.A. 1858; C. of St. Andrew’s, Dublin 1811–38; V. of Maynooth 1838 to death; Preb. of St. Patrick’s cathedral 28 Dec. 1840 to death; author of Castle of Maynooth 1853, 2 ed. 1860; Castle of Kilkea 1860; A record of the history of Maynooth church 1867, all privately printed. d. the Rectory, Maynooth 23 May 1871 in 80 year. Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette xiii, 131 (1871).

BLACKER, William. Ensign 60 Foot 3 July 1801; lieut. col. Armagh militia 5 Nov. 1812 to 6 May 1846; vice treasurer of Ireland 1817–1829. d. Carrick house, Armagh 25 Nov. 1855 aged 80.

BLACKETT, Sir Edward, 6 Baronet. b. London 23 Feb. 1805; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; succeeded 27 Oct. 1816; sheriff of Northumberland 1833; married 4 times. d. Matfen hall, Northumberland 23 Nov. 1885.

BLACKETT, Henry. Publisher in London with Daniel Hurst (who d. 6 July 1870 aged 67). d. The Green, Ealing 7 March 1871 in 45 year.

BLACKIE, John (son of John Blackie of Glasgow, publisher who d. 17 June 1874 aged 92). b. Glasgow 29 Sep. 1805; ed. at the high school; head of the publishing firm of Blackie and Son in Glasgow and London, with 298branches in every important town in Scotland; member of Glasgow town council 1857; lord provost 1863; originated the City Improvement scheme. d. Hillhead, Lillybank, Glasgow 11 Feb. 1873. Bookseller 1873 p. 205.

BLACKLEY, Rev. William. Ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; B.A. 1835, M.A. 1852; chaplain to Viscount Hill 1837 to death; V. of Stanton-upon-Hine-Heath, Salop 1855–72; author of Expository lectures on the first four chapters of St. Matthew’s Gospel 1842; Diplomatic correspondence of the Right Hon. Richard Hill 2 vols. 1845; Scriptural teaching 1847; The Gospel history between the death of Christ and the day of Pentecost 1855. d. Garforth house, Upper Sydenham 29 March 1885 aged 87.

BLACKLOCK, Ambrose. b. Dumfries 1816; Assistant surgeon Madras 8 Feb. 1840; professor of surgery and surgeon of the General hospital Madras 1851, and professor of medicine and physician 1858 to 28 April 1867; went to England on sick leave 29 Aug. 1865; returned to Madras 1868; deputy inspector general of Presidency, Circle and Northern, divisions 4 Aug. 1870 to death; author of A treatise on sheep 1838, 12 ed. 1853. d. of enteritis at Chittoor, Madras 11 Feb. 1873.

BLACKLOCK, William James. b. Cumwhitton near Carlisle about 1815; landscape painter; exhibited pictures at Royal Academy, British Institution and Society of British Artists 1836–55. d. Dumfries 12 March 1858 aged 42. Carlisle Journal 19 March 1858.

BLACKMAN, William. b. Arundel 27 Nov. 1862; ed. at Ardingley college, captain of the cricket eleven 1880, an assistant master 1880; in the Sussex county eleven 17 July 1881 to 1884; one of the best all-round cricketers in South of England. d. 4 Royal terrace, Fitzroy, Melbourne 2 June 1885. Cricket 28 Jany. 1886 p. 1, portrait.

BLACKMORE, Rev. Richard White. Educ. at Merton coll. Ox., B.A. 1813; chaplain to the Russia company 1819–47; R. of Donhead St. Mary near Salisbury 1847 to death; author of History of the church of Russia 1842; The doctrine of the Russian church 1845. d. Donhead St. Mary rectory 28 June 1882 in 91 year.

BLACKMORE, William. b. Salisbury; admitted solicitor 1849; practised at Liverpool 1856–69; presented his very valuable collection of stone implements and other objects of art of aboriginal inhabitants of 299America to city of Salisbury 1863 which formed nucleus of the Blackmore museum, Salisbury; member of Ethnological society of London 1866; member of council of Anthropological society 21 Jany. 1871 on its amalgamation with Ethnological society, and vice pres. 1872. d. Belgrave mansions, Grosvenor gardens, London 12 April 1878.

BLACKSTONE, William Seymour. b. 30 Oct. 1809; M.P. for Wallingford, Berkshire 11 Dec. 1832 to July 1852. d. 6 Jany. 1881.

BLACKWALL, John (son of Mr. Blackwall of Manchester, importer of Irish linen). b. St. Anne’s square, Manchester 20 Jany. 1790; partner with his father to 1833; lived at Llanrwst, North Wales 1842 to death; member of Manchester literary and philosophical society; F.L.S. April 1827; author of Researches in Zoology 1834, 2 ed. 1873; A history of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland, 2 parts 1861–64, published by the Ray Society; wrote 82 papers in natural history periodicals 1821–71. d. Hendre house, Llanrwst 11 May 1881. Entomologist xiv, 145–50, 190 (1881).

BLACKWELL, Thomas. Partner with E. Crosse as oilmen at 11 King st. Soho, London 1829, this was oldest house of the kind in London having been founded 1706; moved to Soho square 1840; began manufacture of jams 1841 and of table jellies 1850. d. Brookshill, Harrow Weald 16 Dec. 1879. Will proved 6 March 1880, Personalty sworn under £160,000. H. Mayhew’s Shops of London i, 174–88 (1865).

BLACKWELL, Thomas Evans (son of John Blackwell, civil engineer who d. 1840). b. Devizes 28 July 1819; engineer to Kennet & Avon canal co. 1840; engineer to Bristol docks 1852–57; vice pres. and general manager of grand trunk railway 1857–62; F.G.S., F.R.G.S.; A.I.C.E. 1843, M.I.C.E. 1849. d. 25 June 1863.

BLACKWOOD, Arthur Johnstone (2 son of Sir Henry Blackwood, admiral R.N., 1 Baronet 1770–1832). b. 25 April 1808; clerk in Colonial office April 1824 to May 1867; groom of the privy chamber 1836 to death. d. Oakham, Rutland 2 Jany. 1874.

BLACKWOOD, Francis Price (brother of the preceding). b. 25 May 1809; entered navy 6 Dec. 1821; captain 28 June 1838; commanded the Fly surveying vessel on East India station 17 Nov. 1841 to 1846; F.R.A.S. 300d. of cancer in the throat at Richmond 22 March 1854. Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xxiv, 80–81 (1854).

BLACKWOOD, George Frederick (2 son of Wm. Blackwood, major in Bengal army). b. Moradabad, Bengal 1838; ed. at Edinburgh academy and Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery 11 Dec. 1857; commanded the artillery in the Lushai expedition Nov. 1871; major 10 Feb. 1875; commanded E. battery B. brigade of Royal Horse Artillery in the Afghan campaign 1879 to death; killed at battle of Maiwand 27 July 1880, being one of the 11 officers and men who fought till they were all killed. Shadbolt’s Afghan campaign (1882) 20–22, portrait.

BLACKWOOD, Sir Henry, 3 Baronet. b. 7 May 1828; succeeded 7 Jany. 1851. d. Athens 26 May 1854.

BLACKWOOD, Sir Henry Martin, 2 Baronet (only son of Sir Henry Blackwood, 1 baronet 1770–1832). b. 11 June 1801; entered navy 22 July 1814; captain 28 April 1827; succeeded his father 14 Dec. 1832; commodore on East India station 29 June 1844; captain of the Fox 14 Oct. 1843 to 5 Aug. 1848. d. Portsmouth 7 Jany. 1851. I.L.N. xviii, 37 (1851).

BLACKWOOD, John (6 son of William Blackwood of Edinburgh, publisher 1776–1834). b. Edinburgh 7 Dec. 1818; ed. at high school and Univ. Edin.; superintended London branch of his brother Robert’s publishing business 1840–45; partner in the firm 1845; head of the firm 1852 to death; editor of Blackwood’s Mag. 1845 to death; published in it George Eliot’s Scenes of clerical life, published all her books except Romola. d. Strathtyrum, St. Andrews 29 Oct. 1879. The Critic xxi, 6, 38, 102, 128, 192 and 225 (1860); George Eliot’s Life by J. W. Cross 3 vols. 1885; I.L.N. lxxii, 461 (1879), portrait; Graphic xx, 525 (1879), portrait.

BLAGDEN, Isa Jane. Lived at Florence 1849 to death; great friend of Mrs. Theodosia Trollope and of Mrs. E. B. Browning both of whom she nursed in their last illnesses; author of Agnes Tremorne 2 vols. 1861; The cost of a secret 3 vols. 1863; The woman I loved and the woman who loved me 1865; The crown of a life 1869. d. Florence 26 Jany. 1873. Poems by the late Isa Blagden with a memoir 1873.

BLAGDEN, Richard (youngest son of Richard Bragg Blagden of Petworlh, Sussex, surgeon). M.R.C.S. 1811, F.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon in 301London 1814–54; surgeon to Duchess of Kent 1828 to death; surgeon accoucheur to Queen Victoria 1840 to death; F.R. Med. and Chir. Soc. 1839, served on the council 1847–48. d. Percy place, Bath 31 March 1861 aged 72.

BLAGDEN-HALE, Edward. b. 14 Aug. 1814; ensign 82 Foot 2 Aug. 1833, lieut. col. 7 Sep. 1855 to 10 Nov. 1856 and 6 Feb. 1857 to 1 June 1861 when placed on h.p.; brigadier general Bengal 16 Oct. 1858 to 14 Feb. 1859; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 24 March 1858. d. Alderley, Wotton under Edge 17 May 1881.

BLAGROVE, Henry Gamble (eld. son of Mr. Blaqrove of Nottingham, professor of music). b. Nottingham 20 Oct. 1811; appeared as a violinist at Drury Lane theatre in an entertainment called The Lilliputians 1817; played at concerts at Exhibition rooms in Spring Gardens 1817; studied at Royal Academy of Music 1823; solo violinist in royal private band 1830–37; pupil of Spohr at Cassel 1832–34; played at Vienna and elsewhere with great success; leader of a string quartet party which gave a series of concerts at the Hanover square rooms 1836; led the State band at the Coronation of Queen Victoria; principal violin in Jullien’s band, at both opera houses, at most of the provincial festivals, the Handel festivals at Crystal Palace, and leading musical societies in London; taught the violin at R.A. of music; published some valuable exercises for the violin, and a few solos. (m. 17 Aug. 1841 Etheldred dau. of Henry Combe, she d. 8 Jany. 1869). d. 224 Marylebone road, London 15 Dec. 1872. Rev. W. W. Cazalet’s History of royal academy of Music (1854) 285–87; I.L.N. lxi, 633 (1872), portrait.

BLAIKIE, Francis (son of Andrew Blaikie, tenant of Holydean, Scotland). Went to England about 1789; agent to Earl of Chesterfield, and then to Earl of Leicester; introduced the turnip drill and other improvements in agriculture; author of papers on science of agriculture; retired about 1832. d. St. Helens Sep. 1857.

BLAIKIE, Sir Thomas (4 son of John Blaikie, of Aberdeen). b. Aberdeen 1802; ed. at gr. sch. and Marischal coll.; merchant at Aberdeen; lord provost 5 times; knighted at St. James’s palace 20 Feb. 1856. d. Bonacord terrace, Aberdeen 25 Sep. 1861.

BLAINE, Delabere Roberton. b. Woodbridge, Suffolk; solicitor in Lincoln’s Inn 302Fields London; barrister M.T. 8 May 1846; revising barrister for Essex 1866–71; judge of Northumberland county court (circuit No. 1) April 1871; transferred to London (circuit No. 43) Nov. 1871; F.R.G.S. 1854; author of Laws of Artistic copyright and their defects 1853; Suggestions on the copyright bill 1861; d. Southwick place, Hyde park sq. London 13 Dec. 1871 aged 64.

BLAIR, Charles Edward. L.S.A. 1836, M.R.C.S. 1836; army surgeon in a Portugese regiment during war between Dom Miguel and Dom Pedro 1833–34; reported in the Lancet the first cases of cholera in London 1832; author of Lectures on the anatomy and physiology of the teeth; K.C., K.T.S. d. East hill, Colchester 28 Aug. 1855 aged 45.

BLAIR, James Kennedy (eld. son of James Blair of Weatfield, Belfast). b. Weatfield 9 Dec. 1807; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; barrister L.I. 27 Jany. 1835; judge of Court of record for hundred of Salford, Lancashire; joint judge of county courts for circuit No. 6 comprising Liverpool, Ormskirk and St. Helens 22 Oct. 1857 to 28 Feb. 1872 when he resigned. d. New Brighton, Cheshire 1 Oct. 1879.

BLAIR, Stephen. b. Bolton 1804; Merchant and bleacher at Bolton; M.P. for Bolton 12 Sep. 1848 to 1 July 1852. d. 5 July 1870.

BLAKE, Barnett. Edited Exeter and Plymouth Gazette 1843–52; secretary of Exeter Literary and Scientific Institution 5 years; editor and manager of Liverpool Standard; secretary of Yorkshire Union of Mechanics’ Institutes 1856 to death. d. of typhus fever at Beeston near Leeds 14 March 1866 aged 54.

BLAKE, Edward Samuel. Colonel in Bombay artillery 29 May 1861 to death; C.B. 21 March 1859. d. 18 Princes sq. Bayswater, London 26 June 1862 aged 51.

BLAKE, Sir Francis, 3 Baronet. b. Heston, Middlesex 1774; succeeded 22 May 1818; M.P. for Berwick 29 March 1827 to 29 Dec. 1834. d. 10 Sep. 1860.

BLAKE, Frederick Rodolph (son of Wm. Blake of Danesbury who d. 24 Nov. 1852). b. 15 Aug. 1808; ensign 85 Foot 30 June 1825; lieut. col. 33 Foot 3 Oct. 1848 to death; served at battle of the Alma and before Sebastopol; C.B. 5 July 1855. d. Rottingdean, Sussex 23 Aug. 1855.

303BLAKE, Rev. George Bannerman. b. Aberdeen; ed. at Marischal college Aberdeen; studied theology at New college Edinburgh; M.A. 1854; licensed by Presbytery of Edin. 1855; assistant pastor of St. George’s presbyterian church Sunderland July 1856, junior minister 9 July 1857 to death, ordained 9 July 1857; founded Ropery lane mission, Sunderland March 1859. d. Sunderland 29 Aug. 1863 aged 32. A memorial sketch of the late Rev. G. B. Blake with a selection from his sermons 1864, portrait.

BLAKE, George Charles. Entered navy 2 July 1799; inspecting commander in Coast Guard 1832–35; captain 28 June 1838; gentleman usher to Prince Albert 1841; retired captain 15 Oct. 1852; retired admiral 10 Sep. 1869. d. Bury near Gosport 14 Nov. 1872 aged 84.

BLAKE, Sir Henry Charles, 4 Baronet. b. 23 Nov. 1794; succeeded 21 April 1832. d. Ashfield lodge, Great Ickworth, Suffolk 22 Jany. 1880.

BLAKE, Martin Joseph (elder son of Walter Blake of Ballyglunin park, Athenry, co. Galway). b. 1790; M.P. for co. Galway 1833–57. d. Ballyglunin park March 1861.

BLAKE, Patrick John (2 son of Sir James Henry Blake, 3 baronet who d. 21 April, 1832). b. 1797; entered navy April 1813; captain 6 May 1841; commanded the Juno 26 guns in the Pacific 3 Sep. 1845 to 14 Feb. 1849; admiral on h.p. 20 Oct. 1872. d. Thurston, Bury St. Edmunds 29 Sep. 1884.

BLAKE, Sir Thomas Edward, 13 Baronet. b. Killagh, co. Galway 25 May 1805; succeeded Jany. 1847. d. 2 Jany. 1875.

BLAKE, William. Bought estate of Danesbury near Welwyn Herts. 1820; sheriff of Herts. 1836; formed a valuable collection of modern water colour paintings; F.R.S. 14 May 1807. d. Danesbury 24 Nov. 1852 aged 78.

BLAKE, William Hume (son of Rev. Dominick Edward Blake, R. of Kiltegan, co. Wicklow). b. Kiltegan 10 March 1809; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; emigrated to Canada and settled in township of Adelaide 1832; called to Canadian bar 1835; a bencher of Canadian law society Nov. 1845; solicitor general 1848; chancellor of Upper Canada 30 Sep. 1849 to 1862; judge of court of appeal; chancellor of Univ. of Toronto; professor of law in Univ. of Toronto. d. Toronto 15 Nov. 1870. Law Journal vi, 23–24 (1871).

304BLAKE, William John (eld. son of Wm. Blake of Danesbury, Herts, who d. 24 Nov. 1852). b. 12 May 1805; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox.; double first class 1826, B.A. 1827, M.A. 1829; barrister L.I. 10 June 1831; M.P. for Newport, Isle of Wight 26 July 1837 to 23 June 1841, defeated by one vote only 31 July 1847; F.R.S. 20 Jany. 1831. d. Danesbury 15 Sep. 1875.

BLAKE, William Williams. Cornet 20 Dragoons 26 April 1797; major 21 March 1805 to Dec. 1818 when placed on h.p.; C.B. 4 June 1815. d. Brighton 21 Feb. 1863 aged 83.

BLAKELY, Rev. Fletcher (youngest son of Joseph Bleakly of Ballyroney, co. Down, farmer). b. Ballyroney 13 May 1783; ed. at Glasgow college; Presbyterian minister of Moneyrea, co. Down 19 Sep. 1809; the first avowed humanitarian preacher in Ulster from which arose the proverb ‘Moneyrea, where there is one God and no devil’; joined with his whole congregation the remonstrant secession from the Synod of Ulster 1829; assisted Henry Montgomery leader of the New Light party in forming remonstrant synod; joint editor of the Bible Christian 1830–33; resigned ministry of Moneyrea 22 Sep. 1857; author of several tracts and sermons, d. Cradley, Worcestershire 25 Feb. 1862. bur. at Moneyrea. Inquirer 15 March 1862; Christian Unitarian (1862), p. 123.

BLAKELY, Very Rev. Theophilus. Educ. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1794; alternate morning preacher at Berkeley and Fitzroy chapels London; dean of Connor 4 May 1811 to 6 Dec. 1824; dean of Achonry 6 Dec. 1824 to 11 May 1839; dean of Down 11 May 1839 to death; one of the first advocates of the Irish National system of education. d. Clare st. Dublin 1 Dec. 1855 aged 85. G.M. xlv, 309 (1856).

BLAKENEY, Sir Edward (4 son of colonel Wm. Blakeney M.P. for Athenry in Irish parliament). b. Newcastle 1778; Cornet 8 Light dragoons 28 Feb. 1794; lieut. col. 7 Foot 20 June 1811 to 2 June 1825; served in the Peninsula 1811–14; commanded first brigade in army sent to Portugal 1825; colonel 7 Foot 20 Sep. 1832 to 21 Dec. 1854; commanded troops in Ireland 1838–55; general 20 June 1854; colonel 1 Foot 21 Dec. 1854 to death; lieutenant governor of Chelsea hospital 6 Feb. 1855, governor 25 Sep. 1856 to death; field marshal 9 Nov. 1862; colonel in chief of Rifle brigade 28 Aug. 1865 to death; K.T.S. 1812, K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, 305G.C.B. 7 May 1849; G.C.H. 7 May 1836; P.C. Ireland 7 May 1836. d. Chelsea hospital 2 Aug. 1868.

BLAKENEY, Rev. Richard Paul. b. Roscommon 2 June 1820; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1842, LL.B. and LLD. 1852, D.D. Edin. 1868; C. of St. Paul’s, Nottingham 1843–44; P.C. of Hyson Green, Notts. 1844–52; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Claughton, Cheshire Jany. 1852 to 1874; V. of Bridlington 1874 to death; rural dean of Bridlington 1876 to death; canon of York 1882 to death; author of Translation of the Moral theology of Alphonsus Liguori 1845, 2 ed. 1852; A manual of Romish controversy 1851; Protestant Catechism 1854; History and interpretation of the Book of common prayer 1865, 3 ed. 1878. d. Bridlington 31 Dec. 1884. Church portrait journal May 1880, portrait.

BLAKESLEY, Very Rev. Joseph Williams (son of Jeremiah George Blakesley of City of London, factor who d. 1817 or 1818). b. 38 Coleman st. city of London 6 March 1808; ed. at St. Paul’s school 1819–27 (captain 1826–27) and C. C. coll. Cam., migrated to Trinity college 1830, foundation scholar 1830, 21 wrangler and 3 classic 1831, B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834, B.D. 1850; fellow of Trinity 1831, assistant tutor 1834, tutor 1839–45; member of the celebrated Apostles club at Cambridge; select preacher 1840 and 1843; V. of Ware, Herts. 30 May 1845 to 1872; canon of Canterbury 27 June 1863 to 4 July 1872; dean of Lincoln 4 July 1872 to death; master of the Mercers Company 1864; an active member of the committee for revision of translation of New Testament; author of Thoughts on the recommendations of the Ecclesiastical commission 1837; Life of Aristotle 1839; Conciones Academicæ 1843; Herodotus with a commentary 2 vols. 1852–54; Four months in Algeria, with a visit to Carthage 1859; wrote under signature of “A Hertfordshire Incumbent” many letters on social questions to The Times which attracted general attention. d. The deanery, Lincoln 18 April 1885. Saturday Review lix, 533 (1885); Guardian 22 April 1885, p. 596.

BLAKEY, Robert (son of Robert Blakey of Morpeth, Northumberland, mechanic who d. Feb. 1796 aged 22). b. Manchester lane, Morpeth 18 May 1795; wrote for the Black Dwarf a London paper 1817–21 and for the Newcastle Mag., Durham Chronicle and Cobbett’s Register 1822–32; mayor of Morpeth 1836–37; purchased the Newcastle Liberator 1 Jany. 1838 which was amalgamated with the 306Champion a London weekly paper 1840; started the Politician a London weekly paper of which only 6 numbers were issued; professor of logic and metaphysics in Queen’s college Belfast Aug. 1849 to 1851; a great proficient in the art of angling; granted civil list pension of £100, 20 Jany. 1860; author of An essay towards an easy and useful system of logic 1834, 2 ed. 1848; Hints on angling by Hackle Palmer 1846; History of the philosophy of the mind 4 vols. 1848; The anglers complete guide to the rivers and lakes of England 1854; The history of political literature from the earliest times 2 vols. 1854, and of a number of minor works. d. 20 Blomfield road, Shepherds Bush, London 26 Oct. 1878. Memoirs of R. Blakey edited by Rev. H. Miller 1879.

BLAKISTON, Anne (elder dau. of John Rochfort of Clogrenane, co. Carlow). m. Sep. 1782 Sir Matthew Blakiston, 2 baronet, who was b. 1760 and d. 20 Sep. 1806, she d. Lymington, Hants, 27 Nov. 1862 in 102 year.

BLAKISTON, Sir Matthew, 3 Baronet. b. Athlone 13 May 1783; succeeded 20 Sep, 1806. d. Sandybrooke hall, Ashbourne, Derbyshire 23 Dec. 1862.

BLAKISTON, Sir Matthew, 4 Baronet. b. Bath 15 Jany. 1811; ed. at the Charterhouse and Trin. coll. Dub.; succeeded 23 Dec. 1862. d. Sandybrooke hall 3 Dec. 1883.

BLAKISTON, Peyton (youngest child of Sir Matthew Blakiston, 2 baronet 1760–1806). b. 6 Sep. 1801; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.; migrated to Em. coll., a Dixie fellow; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1827, M.L. 1837, M.D. 1841; C. of Bilton, co. Warwick; V. of Lymington, Hants. 1830–33; studied medicine at Cambridge and Paris; practised at Birmingham, phys. to general hospital 1841; F.R.S. 21 Jany. 1840; F.R.C.P. 1843; practised at St. Leonard’s on Sea 1848–71; author of On diseases of the Chest 1848; Clinical observations on diseases of the heart 1865; Clinical reminiscences 1878. d. 140 Harley st. London 17 Dec. 1878. Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. viii, 397–99 (1880); Proc. of Royal Soc. xxix, 1–2 (1879).

BLAMIRE, George. Barrister L.I. 25 June 1819; owner of large estates in Cumberland and Glamorganshire; occupied 3 rooms on first floor of 1 Adam st. Adelphi, London 1847 to death; slept in an arm chair last 16 years of his life; found dead in his chair at 1 Adam st. 17 Sep. 1863, having probably died 13 or 14 Sep. aged 75.

307BLAMIRE, Jane Christian (2 dau. of Wm. Blamire of The Oaks near Dalston, Cumberland, surgeon who d. 29 Jany. 1814). b. The Oaks 20 March 1788; housekeeper to her brother at Thackwood, Cumberland 1813 to 1831; a great philanthropist. d. Thackwood 20 Sep. 1857. H. Lonsdale’s Worthies of Cumberland iv, 117–39 (1873).

BLAMIRE, William (only brother of the preceding). b. The Oaks 13 April 1790; ed. at Carlisle and Westminster; entered Ch. Ch. Ox. Oct. 1808, B.A. 1811; a great stock breeder, went to all the fairs in Scotland and North England; sheriff of Cumberland 1828; M.P. for Cumberland 9 May 1831 to 3 Dec. 1832, for East Cumberland 17 Dec. 1832 to Aug. 1836; made a great speech in House of Commons on Tithe Commutation bill 25 March 1836; Tithe comr. for England and Wales 22 Aug. 1836 to 8 Aug. 1851 when the commission expired after having converted tithes into rent charges amounting to more than £4,000,000 per annum; Copyhold and Tithe comr. 22 June 1841; Inclosure comr. 21 Aug. 1845 to 1860. d. Thackwood near Carlisle 12 Jany. 1862. A biographical sketch of the late W. Blamire by H. Lonsdale, M.D. 1862.

BLANC, Jean Joseph Louis. b. Madrid 28 Oct. 1813; clerk in a lawyer’s office in Paris 1830; edited a journal called Le Bon Sens 1836–38; founded La revue du progrès 1838 in which he advocated socialistic ideas; published The organisation of labour 1841; Histoire des dix ans 1841 which helped to precipitate the revolution of 1848; a member of the Provisional government 1848; pres. of the Labour commission; declined the Dictatorship; a member of the National Assembly; proscribed by the Assembly; lived in exile in England 1849–70; correspondent to several French journals; published Letters on England, 2 series 2 vols. 1867; a member of French National Assembly Feb. 1871 to death. d. Cannes 6 Dec. 1882. Louis Blanc, sa vie, ses œuvres, par C. Robin 1851, portrait; Louis Blanc, par C. Edmond 1882, portrait; I.L.N. xii, 182 (1848), portrait, xiii, 189 (1848), portrait, lxxxi, 629 (1882), portrait.

Note.—When an attempt was made to assassinate him in Paris 15 Aug. 1839 his brother Charles Blanc had a vivid presentiment of the scene, an incident on which Dumas founded the play of the Corsican Brothers.

BLANCHARD, Edmund Forster (youngest son of Samuel Laman Blanchard of London, author 1804–45). contributed to many periodicals; connected with Lloyd’s Newspaper 308some time; author with Edward Wilberforce of Poems 1857; published The poetical works of Oliver Goldsmith with a notice of his life and genius 1867. d. 20 Air st. Piccadilly, London 25 July 1870 aged 38.

BLANCHARD, Sidney Laman (elder brother of the preceding). Author of The Ganges and the Seine 2 vols. 1862; Yesterday and to-day in India 1867; Riddles of love or the knave of hearts 3 vols. 1871. d. Brighton 9 Nov. 1883.

BLANCHARD, Thomas. Pantaloon at Covent Garden theatre 26 Dec. 1827; acquired considerable repute as a broadswordsman; obtained great fame at the old Coburg theatre London for the celebrated drunken combat with Thomas Bradley in The Maid of Genoa 1828; said to be original inventor of the “one two three and under” style of using the broadsword; last appeared as pantaloon at Victoria theatre 1845; built some cottages at back of Victoria theatre which still bear his name; d. London 20 Aug. 1859 aged 72.

BLAND, Venerable George (2 son of Michael Bland F.R.S. who d. 19 April 1851 aged 74). b. 1804; ed. at Caius coll. Cam., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; R. of Slinfold Sussex 1836–44; archdeacon of Lindisfarne 7 May 1844 to 1853; archdeacon of Northumberland 1853 to death; R. of St. Mary-le-Bow Durham 1856–59. d. The college, Durham 17 Feb. 1880.

BLAND, Humphrey. b. England 1812; an actor at Surrey theatre London 1834; went to America 1844; made his début at Park theatre New York 1 Sep. 1845 as Lewson in The Gamester; first appeared in Philadelphia 4 March 1850 at the Arch st. theatre as Joseph Surface in The school for scandal. d. New York 17 Jany. 1869.

BLAND, James (2 son of George Bland of London, actor by Maria Theresa Romanzini of London, vocalist 1769–1838). b. 5 March 1798; made his first appearance in London at English opera house 1 July 1822 in an operetta called Love among the roses; comedian at Drury Lane and Haymarket, at Olympic 1831, at Covent Garden 1839, at Lyceum and Adelphi, and at Strand theatre down to his death. d. at stage door of Strand theatre, Surrey st. London 17 July 1861.

BLAND, Loftus Henry (3 son of John Bland of Blandsfort, Queen’s county who d. 11 Nov. 1810). b. Blandsfort Aug. 1805; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; called to Irish bar 1829; M.P. for King’s county 26 July 1852 to 23 April 1859; Q.C. 28 Jany. 3091854; chairman of quarter sessions co. Cavan 1862. d. 33 Merrion sq. Dublin 21 Jany. 1872.

BLAND, Michael (only child of Thomas Bland of Norwich, merchant who d. 28 Aug. 1818 in 79 year). Partner in firm of Whitbread and Co. of London, brewers; F.R.S. 8 Feb. 1816, F.S.A., F.G.S. d. 65 Cambridge terrace, Hyde park, London 19 April 1851 aged 74.

BLAND, Rev. Miles (son of Thomas Bland). b. Sedbergh 11 Oct. 1786; ed. at Sedbergh sch. and St. John’s coll. Cam., 2 wrangler and Smith’s prizeman 1808, B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811, B.D. 1818, D.D. 1826, fellow of his college 5 April 1808, assistant tutor 1809, tutor to 1823; R. of Lilley, Herts. 16 May 1823 to death; preb. of Wells cathedral 18 April 1826 to death; F.R.S. 12 April 1821, F.R.A.S., F.S.A.; author of Algebraical problems 1812, 9 ed. 1849; Geometrical problems 1819, 3 ed. 1827; Annotations on the historical books of the New Testament 2 vols. 1828–29; Mechanical and philosophical problems 1830. d. 5 Royal crescent, Ramsgate 27 Dec. 1867.

BLAND, William (younger son of Robert Bland of London, physician who d. 29 June 1816 aged 76). b. London 5 Nov. 1789; surgeon’s mate on board a man-of-war; fought a duel with the purser of his ship in the Persian gulf when he shot his opponent dead; fought another duel with Lieut. Wm. Randall, tried at Calcutta and sentenced to 7 years transportation 1814, exiled to Sydney 1814, obtained a free pardon; surgeon at Sydney 1815 to death; fined £50 with 12 months in Paramatta gaol for libelling Governor Macquarie; a naval surgeon 7 July 1826; member for Sydney to first elective legislature of New South Wales 15 June 1843 to 1848; presented with a testimonial of £1000 by people of Sydney 14 Sep. 1858. d. 28 College st. Sydney 21 July 1868. Carlisle’s History of family of Bland (1826) 235–47; Illust. news of the world iv, 68 (1859), portrait; Heads of the people ii, 67 (1848), portrait.

BLANE, Archibald William. b. 29 March 1788; member of council Mauritius; discovered the wealth of the Peel river district Australia; deputy governor of Australian Agricultural company 1845 to death. d. Booral, Port Stephens 6 Nov. 1852.

BLANE, David Anderson. b. 1801; entered Bombay civil service 1819; member of council at Bombay 1 March 1849 to 1854 when he retired on annuity. d. 21 Prince’s gardens, South Kensington, London 17 June 1879.

310BLANE, Sir Hugh Seymour, 2 Baronet. b. 29 July 1795; ed. at the Charterhouse 1803–7; ensign 3 Foot guards 31 March 1814, captain 30 Aug. 1831 to 1835; succeeded 27 June 1834. d. The Pastures near Derby 14 April 1869.

BLANE, Robert. Cornet 2 Life Guards 1 Nov. 1831; assistant adjutant general and military sec. 1854–55; military attaché at St. Petersburgh 21 July 1866 to death; colonel 11 April 1860; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857. d. 11 Eaton terrace, Eaton sq. London 30 May 1871.

BLANSHARD, Thomas. Second lieut. R.E. 28 Sep. 1807, colonel 5 July 1851 to 16 Dec. 1854, M.G. 16 Dec. 1854; C.B. 19 July 1838. d. Grove house, Hampton, Middlesex 19 June 1859 aged 70.

BLANSHARD, William (eld. son of Richard Blanshard of Northallerton). b. 29 June 1802; served in East India company’s navy 1817–19; barrister I.T. 16 May 1828; recorder of Ripon 1830–35; revising barrister 1832–63; advocate in all the Courts of Archbishop of Canterbury, who created him M.A. 18 Feb. 1839; recorder of Doncaster June 1857 to July 1870; judge of Northumberland county court (circuit No. 1.) 10 Jany. 1863 to Oct. 1871; author of A treatise on the statutes of limitations 1826. d. Scarborough 28 Nov. 1872.

BLANTYRE, Lady Evelyn (2 dau. of 2 Duke of Sutherland 1786–1861). b. 2 Hamilton place, Piccadilly, London 8 Aug. 1825. (m. 4 Oct. 1843 Charles Stuart, 12 Baron Blantyre who was b. 21 Dec. 1818). d. Nice 24 Nov. 1869. Sir. H. Nicolas’s Court of Queen Victoria (1845) 13–18, portrait; Illust. News of the world ix, (1862), portrait.

BLASIS, Carlo (son of Francesco Antonio Blasis of Naples, ballet composer). b. Naples 4 Dec. 1803; a principal dancer at Marseilles, Bordeaux, Paris and Milan 1816–26; dancer and ballet composer at the King’s theatre London 1826; finishing master of the Imperial Academy of dancing at Milan 1 Dec. 1837; ballet composer at Royal Italian opera Covent Garden 1846; composed the Spanish dances which were performed at the public breakfasts given by the Duchess of St. Albans; wrote more than 50 ballets; wrote the chapters upon private dancing in The young lady’s book 1828–29; author of The code of Terpsichore 1830. d. Cernolio near lake of Como Jany. 1878. Notes upon dancing by C. Blasis (1847) 36–148, portrait.

311BLAXLAND, Gregory. b. Kent 1771; emigrated to Sydney 1806; crossed the Blue Mountains with W. C. Wentworth May 1813 after several unsuccessful attempts had been made to do so; introduced cultivation of oaten hay into colony of New South Wales. d. 3 Jany. 1853.

BLAYNEY, Cadwallader Davis Blayney, 12 Baron. b. Dover st. Piccadilly, London 19 Dec. 1802; M.P. for Monaghan 18 Aug. 1830 to 8 April 1834, when he succeeded; an Irish representative peer 12 June 1841 to death. d. 18 Jany. 1874.

BLECKLEY, Thomas Macdougall (son of Rev. John Bleckley). b. 13 Dec. 1828; assistant surgeon in the army 6 Jany. 1854; surgeon major 1 March 1873 to 24 Jany. 1880; C.B. 31 March 1874. d. Lorne house, Central hill, Upper Norwood 23 Nov. 1882.

BLEECK, Arthur Henry. b. about 1829; employed in the British Museum; held a post in connection with the land transport corps at Sinope during Crimean war; author with W. B. Barker of A practical grammar of the Turkish language 1854; author of A concise grammar of the Persian language 1857; Catalogue of the Napoleon library in the possession of Mr. Joshua Bates privately printed 1858; Avesta, the religious books of the Parsees, from Spiegel’s German translation of the original manuscripts 3 vols. 1864. d. 56 Bevington road, Kensington 27 Jany. 1877 aged 47.

BLEEK, Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel (son of Friedrich Bleek of Berlin, biblical critic 1793–1859). b. Berlin 8 March 1827; ed. at Bonn and Berlin; studied habits and language of the Kaffirs in Natal 1855–57; interpreter to Sir George Grey at Cape Town 1857; librarian of the valuable collection of rare books presented by Sir G. Grey to the colony at Cape Town 1 Feb. 1862 to death; granted civil list pension of £150, 18 June 1870. (m. Jemima Charlotte, she was granted a civil list pension of £100, 13 June 1877); author of The languages of Mozambique 1856; The library of Sir George Grey 2 vols. 1858–59; Comparative grammar of South African languages, 2 parts 1862–69; Reynard the Fox in South Africa, or Hottentot tales and fables 1864; Bushman folklore 1875. d. Cape Town 17 Aug. 1875. Cape Monthly Mag. xi, 167–69 (1875).

BLENKINS, William Bazett Goodwin. Captain 6 Bombay native infantry 26 April 1842 to death; C.B. 4 July 1843. d. Bombay 12 June 1852.

312BLENKIRON, William (son of Mr. Blenkiron of Marrick near Richmond, Yorkshire, farmer). b. Marrick 1807; a general agent at 78½ Wood st. Cheapside, London 1834–48; a breeder of race horses at Dalston 1848, at Middle park near Eltham 1852 to death; his breeding stud gradually became the largest in England; held his first sale of blood stock at Middle park June 1856, held two annual sales there 1867 to death; bred Hermit winner of the Derby 1867, and Gamos winner of the Oaks 1870; gave 5000 guineas for Blink Bonny, 5000 guineas for Blair Athol, and 5800 guineas for Gladiateur; founded the great two year old race at Newmarket, namely The Middle Park Plate 1866. d. Middle Park 25 Sep. 1871 in 64 year. Rice’s History of the British turf ii, 338–44 (1879); Gent. Mag. iii, 451–62 (1869); I.L.N. lix, 377 (1871), portrait; Illust. sporting and dramatic news i, 181 (1874), portrait; Sporting life 27 Sep. 1871, p. 2, cols. 1, 5, 4 Oct. p. 2, col. 6.

BLEWITT, Jonathan (son of Jonas Blewitt of London, organist who d. 1805). b. about 1781; organist in London, at Haverhill and at Brecon; organist of St. Andrew’s Dublin; composer and director of music at T. R. Dublin; grand organist to Freemasons of Ireland; wrote pantomime music for most of the London theatres 1826–52; director of music at Sadler’s Wells Theatre 1828–29, at Vauxhall gardens 1838 and at Tivoli gardens Margate; wrote a few light operas and upwards of 2000 pieces of vocal music, most of them comic songs, the best known are Barney Brallaghan’s Courtship and The merry little fat grey man 1845, which he used to sing inimitably; composed the tune of The Perfect Cure 1844 which was associated with a now forgotten song called The monkey and the nuts, 20 years afterwards it was utilised by James Hurst Stead who became known as The Perfect Cure, and cleared more than £2000 by linking the tune with other words. d. London 4 Sep. 1853 in 73 year.

BLEWITT, Octavian (son of John Edwards Blewitt of London, merchant 1784–1860). b. St. Helen’s place, Bishopsgate, London 3 Oct. 1810; ed. at Plymouth gr. sch.; travelled in Italy, Egypt, Greece, Turkey and other countries 1837–39; secretary of Royal literary fund in London 13 March 1839 to death; elected a member of the Athenæum club 1848 by a majority of 112 votes to 2; F.G.S. 1835; a knight of order of Leopold of Belgium 1872; edited the newspaper portion of the Gardener’s Chronicle 1840–69; author of A panorama of Torquay 1830; A sketch of the 313district comprised between the Dart and the Teign 1832; Treatise on the happiness arising from the exercise of the Christian faith 1832; Handbook for travellers in Central Italy 1843 (anon.) 2 ed. (with the author’s name) 1850; Handbook for travellers in Southern Italy 1853. d. 133 Elgin crescent, London 4 Nov. 1884. Biograph v, 170–85 (1881).

BLEWITT, Reginald James (2 son of Edward Blewitt of Llantarnam abbey, Monmouthshire who d. 8 March 1832 in 70 year). b. 26 May 1799; ed. at Rugby; solicitor at 8 New square Lincoln’s Inn London 1821–27; M.P. for borough of Monmouth 24 July 1837 to March 1852; established the Monmouthshire Merlin a liberal paper 1829, edited it 1829–32; manager of Monmouthshire bank which failed for a very large sum. d. The Priory, Putney 11 Sep. 1878. Law Times lxv, 405 (1878).

BLIGH, Sir John Duncan (2 son of John Bligh, 4 Earl of Darnley 1767–1831). b. London 11 Oct. 1798; ed. at Eton, and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1821, B.C.L. 1828, D.C.L. 1836; paid attaché in Paris 9 May 1828; sec. of legation at Florence 30 July 1829; sec. of embassy at The Hague 1 Nov. 1830; Min. plenipo. at The Hague 3 July 1832, at St. Petersburg 7 Sep. 1832, at Stockholm 28 Oct. 1835, and at Hanover 17 April 1838 to 14 June 1856 when he retired; C.B. 1 March 1851, K.C.B. 30 Sep. 1856. d. Sandgate, Kent 8 May 1872.

BLIGHT, William. Entered navy 9 May 1793; captain 22 July 1830; retired R.A. 27 Sep. 1855. d. Stonehouse, Plymouth 22 July 1862 aged 77.

BLISS, Henry (4 son of Jonathan Bliss of New Brunswick). b. New Brunswick; barrister I.T. 9 Feb. 1827, bencher 1850, reader 1863, treasurer 1864; Q.C. 1850; agent in England for Nova Scotia many years; author of On colonial intercourse 1830; Statistics of the trade, industry and resources of Canada 1833; State trials, specimen of a new edition by N. T. Moile, pseud. 1838; Cicero, a drama by N. T. Moile, 1847; Robespierre, a tragedy 1854. d. Folkestone 31 July 1873 aged 76.

BLISS, Rev. Philip (son of Rev. Philip Bliss 1742–1803 R. of Frampton Cotterell, Gloucs). b. Chipping Sodbury, Gloucs. 21 Dec. 1787; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ 1797–1806 and St. John’s coll. Ox., scholar 1806, law fellow 1809, B.C.L. 1815, D.C.L. 1820; assistant librarian Bodleian library 1810, under librarian July 1822 to Dec. 1828; prepared the first 314136 pages of the catalogue issued 1814; C. of Newington, Oxon. 1817 to Feb. 1830; registrar of the University 1824 to April 1853; chaplain at Studley Priory 1830–55; registrar of the University Court 1831; principal of St. Mary hall Ox. April 1848 to death; edited Bishop Earle’s Microcosmography 1811; Anthony à Wood’s Athenæ Oxonienses and Fasti 4 vols. 1813–20; Reliquiæ Hearnianæ the remains of Thomas Hearne 2 vols. 1857, 2 ed. 1869 and many other books. d. the Lodgings St. Mary Hall, Oxford 18 Nov. 1857. Dict. of Nat. Biog. v, 221–22 (1886).

BLITZ, Antonio. b. Deal, Kent 21 June 1810; made his first appearance on the stage as a ventriloquist and conjurer at Hamburg Sep. 1823; performed in all the cities of North Europe; first appeared in England at Dover Dec. 1825, and in London at Coburg theatre, Lent 1828; sailed for New York 1 Aug. 1834; in 1870 there were 13 conjurers travelling in America under assumed name of Blitz. d. Philadelphia 28 Jany. 1877. Fifty years in the magic circle by Signor Blitz (1871), portrait.

BLOCHMANN, Henry. b. Dresden 7 Jany. 1838; landed at Calcutta Sep. 1858; professor of mathematics at the Doveton college Calcutta 1862–65; M.A. Calcutta Univ. 1865; assistant professor of the Calcutta Madrassa 1865, principal 1875 to death; member of Asiatic Society of Bengal 6 April 1864, sec. 1868 to death; author of The Prosody of the Persians 1872; School geography of India 1873; English and Urdu school dictionary Romanized, 8 ed. 1877; The first geography, 17 ed. 1879. d. Calcutta 13 July 1878. Proc. of Asiatic Society of Bengal (1878) 164–67.

BLOCKLEY, John. b. 1801; Music publisher at 3 Argyll st. Regent st. London; composed many ballads, several of which were very popular namely the duet List tis music stealing and the songs Love not and The Englishman. d. 6 Park road, Haverstock hill, London 24 Dec. 1882.

BLOIS, Sir Charles, 7 Baronet. b. Sway, Hants. 1794; lieut. col. East Suffolk militia 1844 to 1853; succeeded 20 Aug. 1850. d. Cockfield hall, Suffolk 12 June 1855.

BLOMEFIELD, Rev. Sir Thomas Eardley Wilmot, 3 Baronet. b. Peamore near Exeter 3 Aug. 1820; succeeded 30 June 1858, V. of All Saint’s Pontefract 1859–72; master of Archbishop Holgate’s hospital near Hemsworth 1872 to death. d. Holgate lodge, Pontefract 21 Nov. 1878.

315BLOMEFIELD, Sir Thomas William, 2 Baronet. b. Arlington st. Piccadilly, London 24 March 1791; succeeded 24 Aug. 1822. d. Egremont lodge, Brighton 30 June 1858.

BLOMFIELD, Right Rev. Charles James (eld. son of Charles Blomfield of Bury St. Edmunds, school master who d. 28 Sep. 1831 in 69 year). b. Bury St. Edmunds 29 May 1786; ed. at Bury gr. sch. and Trin. coll. Cam.; scholar 1805, fellow Oct. 1809, Craven Univ. scholar 1806, 3 wrangler and Chancellor’s classical medallist 1808; B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811, B.D. 1818, D.D. 1820; R. of Dunton, Bucks. Dec. 1811; V. and R. of Great and Little Chesterford July 1817; R. of Tuddenham, Suffolk 1817; R. of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate May 1820; archdeacon of Colchester 15 Jany. 1822 to 4 June 1824; bishop of Chester 8 June 1824, consecrated in Whitehall chapel 20 June; bishop of London 15 Aug. 1828 to 30 Sep. 1856 when he resigned on a pension of £6000; P.C. 31 July 1828; admitted dean of chapels royal 12 Dec. 1828, enthroned in St. Paul’s cathedral 16 Jany. 1829; member of Ecclesiastical commission 1836 of which he was the moving spirit; published editions of Prometheus Vinctus 1810, Septem contra Thebas 1812, Persæ 1814, Choephoræ 1821; an edition of Callimachus 1815 and of Euripides 1821; wrote on classical subjects for Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews, and for the Museum Criticum a journal established by himself and James Henry Monk 1813. d. Fulham palace 5 Aug. 1857. A memoir of C. J. Blomfield edited by his son Alfred Blomfield, 2 ed. 1864; Rev. G. E. Biber’s Bishop Blomfield and his times 1857; H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches, 4 ed. (1876) 167–74; I.L.N. xxiv, 401 (1854), portrait.

BLOOD, Bindon. b. Cranacher, Ireland; lived at 22 Queen st. Edinburgh 1829–42; an original member of the Abbotsford Club 20 March 1833; a great collector of books which were piled in great heaps in his garrets, cellars and warerooms like unsorted goods; known as The Vampire and The Dragon. d. Ireland 1855. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 11–14, portrait; J. H. Burton’s The bookhunter, new ed. (1882) 55–58.

BLOOD, Clements. Lieutenant Bombay artillery 10 June 1821; major Bombay artillery 10 Nov. 1854; brigadier in command at Ahmednuggur 12 March 1855 to 18 Feb. 1858, and at Hyderabad 18 Feb. 1858 to 12 May 1859 when he retired with rank of M.G. d. Chiswick, Middlesex 10 April 1869 aged 63.

316BLOOD, Richard. Lieutenant 6 Bombay N.I. 20 April 1819, lieut. col. 1 European regiment 1 Nov. 1852 to 18 May 1858; M.G. 1 Dec. 1858. d. 6 Circus road, St. John’s Wood, London 8 July 1877 aged 74.

BLOOMFIELD, John Arthur Douglas Bloomfield, 2 Baron (eld. child of Benjamin Bloomfield, 1 Baron Bloomfield 1768–1846). b. 12 Nov. 1802; attaché at Vienna 16 Feb. 1818; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. at St. Petersburgh 3 April 1844, at Berlin 28 April 1851, at Vienna 22 Nov. 1860 to 28 Oct. 1871 when he retired on a pension; succeeded 15 Aug. 1846; C.B. 27 April 1848, K.C.B. 1 March 1851, G.C.B. 3 Sep. 1858, P.C. 17 Dec. 1860; created Baron Bloomfield of Ciamhaltha in the United Kingdom 7 Aug. 1871. (m. 4 Sep. 1845 Georgiana 16 and youngest child of 1 Baron Ravensworth, she was b. 13 April 1822). d. Ciamhaltha, Newport, Tipperary 17 Aug. 1879. Reminiscences of court and diplomatic life by Georgiana Baroness Bloomfield ii, 310 (1883), portrait.

BLOOMFIELD, Henry Keane. Ensign 59 Foot 30 Sep. 1813; lieut. col. 11 Foot 27 June 1845 to 1 April 1859 when placed on h.p.; colonel 64 Foot 20 Jany. 1867 to death; L.G. 13 Aug. 1868. d. 108 Jermyn st. Piccadilly, London 11 Feb. 1870 aged 72.

BLOOMFIELD, Sir John (son of Patrick Bloomfield of Sligo). b. 1793; ed. at Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 28 April 1810, colonel 28 Nov. 1854, colonel commandant 5 April 1866 to death; aide-de-camp to the Queen 20 June 1854 to 25 Sep. 1859; inspector general of artillery 1 May 1859 to 30 June 1864; general 26 Nov. 1876; K.C.B. 13 March 1867, G.C.B. 24 May 1873. d. 108 Jermyn st. London 1 Aug. 1880.

BLOOMFIELD, Rev. Samuel Thomas. Educ. at Sid. Sus. coll. Cam., B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811, D.D. 1829; V. of Bisbrooke, Rutland 1814 to death; hon. canon of Peterborough cath. 1854 to death; granted civil list pension of £200, 30 June 1846; author of Recensio synoptica annotationis sacræ, being a critical digest of the most important annotations on the New Testament 8 vols. 1826–28; Translation of Thucydides 3 vols. 1829; The Greek Testament with English notes 2 vols. 1832, 12 ed. 1870; A Greek and English lexicon to the New Testament 1840, 2 ed. 1845. d. Hone house, Wandsworth common near London 28 Sep. 1869 aged 85.

BLORE, Edward (eld. son of Thomas Blore of Derby, topographer 1764–1818). b. Derby 13 Sep. 1787; architect and artist; designed 317exterior of Abbotsford for Sir Walter Scott 1816; designed organ-screen and choir fittings of Peterborough cathedral; restored Glasgow cathedral and Merton college chapel; special architect to Wm. iv and Victoria; completed erection of Buckingham Palace for £100,000, 1837; architect at Westminster Abbey; declined honour of knighthood; F.S.A. 27 Nov. 1823; D.C.L. Oxford 1834; F.R.S. 10 June 1841; a founder of Royal Archæological Institute Dec. 1843; author of The monumental remains of noble and eminent persons comprising the sepulchral antiquities of Great Britain 1825. d. 4 Manchester sq. London 4 Sep. 1879. Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. viii, 347–52 (1881); I.L.N. lxxv, 280 (1879), portrait.

BLORE, Rev. Edward William (elder son of the preceding). b. London 24 Jany. 1828; ed. at Eton 1842–47, member of the cricket eleven; began residence at Trin. coll. Cam. Oct. 1847, scholar 1849, fellow Oct. 1853; in the Cambridge eleven 1848–51; 37 wrangler 1851, B.A. 1851; assistant tutor of his college 1857, tutor 1862, senior tutor 1868–75, senior dean 1860–66; prime mover in restoration of Trin. coll. chapel, only important building in England founded by Queen Mary. d. Trinity college, Cambridge 24 June 1885. The little journal i, 77–88 (1884).

BLORE, Robert. Manufacturer of small porcelain biscuit figures in Bridge gate, Derby 1830; very clever in making pastes and glazes; an assistant at Mason’s factory at Lane Delph; superintended a pot-works at Middlesbrough until his death. d. about 1866.

BLOUNT, Sir Edward, 8 Baronet. b. Mawley hall, Cleobury Mortimer, Salop 3 March 1795; succeeded 31 Oct. 1803; sheriff of Worcestershire 1835. d. Mawley hall 28 April 1881.

BLOXAM, Rev. Andrew (4 son of Rev. Richard Rouse Bloxam, assistant master of Rugby school 38 years who d. 28 March 1840). b. Rugby 22 Sep. 1801; ed. at Rugby 1808–20 and Worcester coll. Ox., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; fellow of his college; naturalist on board the Blonde frigate (which conveyed bodies of King and Queen of Sandwich Islands to their native land) 1824–26; P.C. of Twycross, Leics. 1839–71; R. of Harborough Magna 1871 to death; wrote on conchology, ornithology and plants; author of A guide to Bradgate park with natural history of Charnwood Forest 1829. d. Harborough Magna 2 Feb. 1878. Midland Naturalist, April 1878 pp. 88–90.

318Note.—A water-colour drawing by Turner in the National Gallery represents A. Bloxam and his five brothers attending the funeral of their uncle Sir T. Lawrence, R.A.

BLOXAM, Charles John. Admitted solicitor Trinity term 1821; practised in London to death, probably oldest solicitor in practice on the rolls; senior member of court of Clothworkers’ Company, served as master when the new hall was opened by Prince Albert 27 March 1860. d. 16 Bedford place, Russell sq. London 25 Feb. 1885 in 85 year.

BLOXAM, Rev. Richard Rowland (elder brother of Rev. A. Bloxam). b. Jany. 1798; ed. at Rugby and Worcester coll. Ox., B.A. 1819; master of Guilsborough gr. sch. 1821–24; chaplain of Pembroke dockyard 1845; domestic chaplain to Earl Ferrers 1848; R. of Harlaston, Tamworth 1850 to death; author of A voyage to the Sandwich Islands in H.M.S. Blonde. d. Leamington 23 Jany. 1877.

BLOXAM, Thomas. b. London 1836; ed. at city of London school and King’s college; chemist to Industrial museum of Scotland 1860 to date when office was abolished; lecturer on chemistry at St. George’s hospital London; lecturer in experimental and natural science at Cheltenham college 1862 to death; F.C.S. 1859, F.G.S. 1869. d. London July 1872. Cheltenham College Mag. iii, 258–59 (1872).

BLUNDELL, Frederick. Second lieutenant Madras artillery 1813, colonel 4 May 1858 to death; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. d. Cheltenham 5 July 1860 aged 62.

BLUNDELL, James. b. London 27 Dec. 1790; ed. at United Borough hospitals and Univ. of Edin., M.D. 24 June 1813; physician in London 1813 to death; L.R.C.P. 25 June 1818, F.R.C.P. 6 Aug. 1838; lecturer at Guy’s hospital 1819 to 1836; his class on Midwifery was largest in London; author of Researches, physiological and pathological 1825; Principles and practice of Obstetricy 1834; Observations on some of the more important diseases of women 1837; d. 80 Piccadilly, London 15 Jany. 1878. Personalty sworn under £350,000, 9 Feb. 1878. Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery vol. 1 (1840), portrait; W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery ii, 59 (1846), portrait; Medical Circular i, 283 (1852).

BLUNT, John Elijah. Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; barrister L.I. 24 June 1822; a comr. in lunacy 1833–42; master in chancery 26 Nov. 1849 to death; 319author of A history of the establishment and residence of the Jews in England with an enquiry into their civil disabilities 1830. d. 45 Dover st. Piccadilly, London 28 June 1856 aged 59.

BLUNT, Rev. John Henry. b. Chelsea 25 Aug. 1823; a manufacturing chemist in London; entered Univ. coll. Durham 1850, L. Th. 1852, hon. M.A. 1855, hon. D.D. June 1882; C. of Tynemouth, Northumberland 1853–54; C. of Breamore, Hants. 1867–68; V. of Kennington near Oxford 1868–73; R. of Beverstone, Gloucs. 20 Jany. 1873 to death; F.S.A. 7 June 1866; author of The Atonement 1855; Three essays on the Reformation 1860; Key to the Bible 1865; Annotated book of Common Prayer 1866, new ed. 1884; History of the Reformation 1868; Dictionary of theology 1870, 2 ed. 1872; The book of church law 1872; Dictionary of sects and heresies 1874; Annotated Bible 1878 and many other books. d. London 11 April 1884. Church Times 18 April 1884 p. 303.

BLUNT, Rev. John James (son of Rev. John Blunt V. of Lilleshall, Shropshire who d. 14 June 1843 aged 77). b. Newcastle-under-Lyme 1794; entered St. John’s coll. Cam. 1812, first Bell scholar 1813, 15 wrangler 1816, B.A. 1816, M.A. 1819, B.D. 1826, fellow of his college 1816; travelling bachelor 1818, travelled in Italy and Sicily; C. of Hodnet, Shropshire 1823; C. of Chetwynd, Shropshire; Hulsean lecturer at Cam. 1831–32; R. of Great Oakley, Essex 1834–39; Lady Margaret professor of divinity at Cambridge 9 May 1839; offered the bishopric of Salisbury 1854; author of Vestiges of ancient manners and customs discoverable in modern Italy and Sicily 1823; Sketch of the Reformation in England 1832, 29 ed. 1875; The acquirements and principal obligations and duties of the parish priest 1856, 6 ed. 1872; A history of the Christian church during the first three centuries 1856, 4 ed. 1869; On the right use of the early fathers, two series of lectures 1857, 2 ed. 1858. d. Cambridge 17 June 1855. Rev. J. J. Blunt’s Two introductory lectures on the study of the early Fathers, 2 ed. 1856 v-xii; Quarterly Review civ, 151–70 (1858); Guardian 10 May 1882 pp. 665–66; Cambridge Chronicle 23 June 1855.

BLUNT, Richard. Ensign 3 Foot 31 Jany. 1787; lieut. col. 23 Aug. 1799 to 1814; colonel 66 Foot 25 March 1835 to death; general 23 Nov. 1841. d. Barnfield house, Southampton 25 Dec. 1859 aged 90.

320BLYTH, Benjamin Hall (son of Robert Brittain Blyth of Edinburgh, iron merchant). b. Edinburgh 14 July 1819; civil engineer at Edin. 1850 to death; engineer in chief to Great North of Scotland railway 1852; acted as adviser and engineer at various times to most of the principal railway companies in Scotland; constructed many important lines; extensively employed as a parliamentary engineer; A.I.C.E. 1844, M.I.C.E. 1851. d. North Berwick near Edin. 21 or 22 Aug. 1866. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxvi, 556–60 (1867).

BLYTH, Edward, b. London 23 Dec. 1810; a druggist at Tooting 1832; contributed to Magazine of natural history from 1833; curator of museum of Asiatic Society of Bengal at Calcutta Sep. 1841 to 1862; contributed to the Indian Field, India sporting review and Calcutta Review; contributed to Land and Water and the Field under nom de plume of Zoophilus; one of the first zoologists of his time, and founder of the study of that science in India, d. 27 Dec. 1873. Memoir prefixed to Catalogue of mammals and birds of Burma by E. Blyth in Journal of Asiatic Society of Bengal extra number Aug. 1875, portrait.

BLYTHE, David (son of Charles Blythe of Yetholm, Roxburghshire, king of the gipsies who d. 1861). b. Wooler, Northumberland 1795; king of the gipsies at Yetholm 1861 to death. d. 17 Feb. 1883. bur. in Chirnside churchyard. David Blythe the gipsy king, a character sketch by Charles Stuart, M.D. 1883, portrait; All the year round vi, 69–72 (1861).

BLYTHE, John Dean (son of Peter Dean Blythe of Ashton-under-Lyne). b. Ashton-under-Lyne 12 April 1842; worked in a factory; reporter on a local paper; learned Latin, French and Spanish; edited a manuscript magazine circulated amongst members of a self-improvement society at Manchester; killed by accidental discharge of a revolver 5 Feb. 1869. A sketch of the life and a selection from the writings of J. D. Blythe 1870.

BOAG, John. b. Highgate in parish of Beith, Ayrshire 7 Jany. 1775; matric. at Univ. of Glasgow 1797; joined the body of independents or congregationalists who in 1812 formed themselves into Congregational Union of Scotland; held small charges in Isle of Man and Helensburgh; pastor in village of Blackburn, Linlithgowshire; author of A popular and complete English dictionary 2 vols. 1848; The imperial lexicon of the English language 2 vols. 1853, and of a number of pamphlets on questions of the day. d. Craigton house, Linlithgowshire 15 Sep. 1863.

321BOAG, Sir Robert (son of the preceding). b. 22 Aug. 1809; alderman of Belfast; knighted at Dublin Castle 30 Jany. 1877. (m. 1834 Violet only dau. of John Stevens of Glasgow). d. Glenorchy house, Newington, Edinburgh 7 Nov. 1877.

BOASE, Charles William (3 son of Henry Boase 1763–1827, managing partner in banking house of Ransom, Morland and Co. Pall Mall, London). b. 6 Knightsbridge, London 8 June 1804; ed. at Helston gr. sch.; entered Dundee New Bank 1821, manager 1828; cashier of Dundee Banking company 13 March 1838, manager 1840 to 20 Feb. 1864 when it was merged in Royal bank of Scotland, managed the branch to 21 Dec. 1867 when he retired on a pension; secretary and treasurer of Watt Institution Dundee 1824–36, founded the museum to which he largely contributed; received freedom of Dundee 1 Sep. 1831 for his exertions in aiding to procure it a liberal constitution; one of the trustees elected by the creditors when town of Dundee became bankrupt 1842; a member of the Catholic Apostolic or Irvingite church 1836, erected a little chapel in Bell st. Dundee which the congregation used until 30 Nov. 1867 when church in Constitution road was opened; ordained to the priesthood Oct. 1836 and to the Episcopate Aug. 1851; had charge of the Evangelistic work throughout Scotland Dec. 1867 to death; author of Tithes and Offerings 1865; A century of banking in Dundee 1867; The Elijah ministry 1868; Notes on doctrine and ecclesiastical facts 1868; Physical a part of theological science, 2 ed. 1874. d. Albury, Surrey 7 June 1872. W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 397–99; An account of the families of Boase or Bowes privately printed (1876) 13–14.

BOASE, George Clement (brother of the preceding). b. 127 Sloane St. Chelsea 25 Aug. 1810; ed. at Exeter gr. sch. and Queen’s coll. Cam. 1828–29; cashier of Dundee Banking company April 1840 to Feb. 1864; sub-manager of Dundee branch of Royal Bank of Scotland Feb. 1864 to 21 Dec. 1867 when he retired on a pension; a member of the Catholic Apostolic church 1836, ordained to the priesthood Oct. 1836, had charge of the church at Brighton 1868 to death; author of To husbands, fathers and brothers specially those of the labouring classes being a warning against prevailing delusions by a Brother [G. C. Boase] 1848; The restoration of Apostles 1867; Thoughts and memories in verse by G. C. B[oase] 1876. d. Fairlie house, Bridge of Allan near Stirling 23 July 1880. An account of the families of Boase 15–16.

322BOASE, Henry Samuel (brother of the preceding). b. 6 Knightsbridge, London 2 Sep. 1799; ed. at Tiverton gr. sch.; studied chemistry in Dublin 1815–17 and medicine in Univ. of Edin. 1817–21, M.D. 1821; sec. to Royal Geological Society of Cornwall at Penzance 1822 to 1829; collected from every part of Cornwall specimens of the rocks 1829–31 which were deposited in Geological Museum at Penzance; a partner in the Penzance Union Bank 1823 to April 1838 when bank was dissolved; lived in Burton crescent, London 1837–38; F.R.S. 4 May 1837; managing partner in firm of Turnbull Brothers of the Claverhouse Bleachfield, Dundee June 1838, this firm became Boase & Co.; took out a patent for ‘improvements in the process of drying organic substances’ 17 July 1855; author of A treatise on primary geology 1834; The philosophy of nature 1860; An essay on human nature 1865; The second Adam, the seed of the woman. Anon. 1876; A few words on evolution and creation 1883; wrote a minute geological account of each parish in The parochial history of Cornwall by D. Gilbert 4 vols. 1837. d. 5 Magdalen place, Dundee 5 May 1883. Dict. of Nat. Biog. v, 282–3 (1886); An account of the families of Boase 8–10.

BOATE, Edward Wellington (eld. son of George Boate of Waterford). Edited the Waterford Chronicle and Wexford Guardian; a reporter for the Times in the House of Commons; went to New York; worked on the Irish American, Evening Express, and other journals; joined the 42nd New York Volunteers 1863; taken prisoner at battle of Bristo station and sent to Belle Island; comr. and chairman of delegation of 95,000 men to negotiate with Abraham Lincoln for an exchange of prisoners; a reporter on the Sunday Mercury to Sep. 1871. d. King’s county hospital, Flatbush, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia 4 Oct. 1871 aged 49.

BOAZ, Thomas (eld. son of Richard Boaz of Scarborough, ship-carpenter). b. Scarborough 10 Aug. 1806; studied at Theological seminary Newport Pagnel 1829–33; ordained at Manchester 18 June 1834; Congregational minister of Union chapel Calcutta Dec. 1834 to Dec. 1858; LLD. King’s college Aberdeen 1849; sole editor and proprietor of Calcutta Christian Advocate, May 1839 to 1853; one of editors of Calcutta Christian Observer 1835–47. d. 6 Priory grove, West Brompton, London 13 Oct. 1861. The Mission pastor, memorials of Rev. T. Boaz by his widow (1862), portrait.

BOCHSA, Robert Nicolas Charles. b. Montmédi, France 9 Aug. 1789; harpist to Emperor 323Napoleon 1813; may fairly be said to have revolutionised harp playing; fled to London having been detected in extensive forgeries 1817; tried in his absence and condemned to 12 years imprisonment; joint manager with Sir G. Smart of the Lent Oratorios 1822, sole manager 1823; professor of the harp and general sec. at R.A. of Music 24 March 1824 to 1827; conductor at the King’s theatre 1826–32; ran away with Sir H. R. Bishop’s wife 1839; visited every country in Europe except France; went to United States 1847; appeared at Prince of Wales’s theatre Sydney 22 Dec. 1855; wrote an oratorio called Le déluge universel, 8 operas, a Method and many solo pieces, d. Sydney 7 Jany. 1856.

BODDAM, Edward Tudor. Entered Madras army 11 Dec. 1841; lieut. col. staff corps 11 Dec. 1867; M.G. 16 June 1876. d. 12 Feb. 1880 aged 55.

BODDINGTON, Henry John (2 son of Edward Williams of London, artist), b. London 1811; exhibited pictures at the R.A. 1837 to death; member of Society of British artists 1842, exhibited about 10 pictures every year at their gallery in Suffolk st. 1842 to death, his paintings are mostly taken from quiet English country life. (m. 1832 Clara Boddington whose name he adopted). d. Barnes, Surrey 11 April 1865.

BODE, Rev. John Ernest (son of Wm. Bode of the General Post Office, London). b. 1816; ed. at Eton, the Charterhouse and Ch. Ch. Ox., Hertford scholar (the first) 1835, B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840; student and tutor of his college 1841–47, censor 1844; R. of Westwell Oxon. 1847–60; select preacher 1848; surrogate 1850–60; Bampton lecturer 1855; contested chair of poetry in Univ. of Ox. 1857; R. of Castle Camps, Cambridge 1860 to death; author of Ballads from Herodotus 1853, 2 ed. 1854; Lecture on the English formularies 1855; Short occasional poems 1858; Hymns from the Gospel of the day 1860. d. Castle Camps rectory 6 Oct. 1874.

BODEN, George (youngest son of John Boden of Edmonton lodge, Derbyshire). b. 22 Jany. 1816; ed. at Rugby and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1845; barrister I.T. 30 April 1841, bencher 30 April 1862, treasurer 1876; recorder of Stamford Feb. 1855; recorder of Derby 7 May 1859 to death; Q.C. 6 Feb. 1862. d. 7 Queen’s gardens, Hyde park, London 16 Feb. 1880.

324BODEN, Samuel Standige. b. Hull 11 April 1826; clerk in South Eastern railway office at Nine Elms, London 1849; edited British Chess review 1854–55, contributing a large portion of its contents; conducted chess department of The Field 24 April 1858 to Jany. 1869; exhibited 5 landscapes at Suffolk st. gallery 1865–73. d. Tavistock st. Bedford sq. London 13 Jany. 1882. Westminster Papers ix, 89 (1876), portrait; Illust. news of the world viii, 164 (1861), portrait.

BODENHAM, Charles Thomas (only son of Charles Bodenham of Rotherwas park, near Hereford 1758–1826). b. 15 Feb. 1783; a member of the Roman Catholic board; chief supporter with Rev. Thomas Weld, afterwards Cardinal, of Dr. Milner in opposing the concessions which it was proposed to make in regard to the oath. (m. 25 Nov. 1810 Elizabeth Mary 5 dau. of Thomas Weld of Lulworth Castle, Dorset, she was b. 2 July 1789, and was author of Mrs. Herbert and the villagers or familiar conversations on the principal duties of Christianity 2 vols. 1853, 10 ed. 1878). d. 5 Dec. 1865.

BODINGTON, George. Ed. at Magdalen coll. sch. Oxford; studied at St. Bartholomew’s hospital; L.S.A. 1825; surgeon at Erdington near Birmingham to 1843; proprietor of Driffold house asylum, Sutton Coldfield, Warws. 1836–68; warden of Sutton Coldfield 1852–54; author of A letter on a case of Asiatic cholera addressed to Central board of health, London 1831; Essay on the treatment and cure of pulmonary consumption 1840, in which he anticipated by many years the modern views on the treatment of Phthisis. d. Sutton Coldfield 5 Feb. 1882 in 83 year. Medical times and gazette i, 241 (1882).

BODKIN, John James (eld. son of Thomas Bodkin of Kilcloony, co. Galway). b. 1801; M.P. for town of Galway 6 May 1831 to Dec. 1832, and for co. Galway 15 Jany. 1835 to 23 July 1847. d. Calais Jany. 1882.

BODKIN, Sir William Henry (only son of Peter Bodkin of Northampton sq. London, auctioneer). b. Islington, London 5 Aug. 1791; ed. at Islington academy; hon. sec. to Society for suppression of mendicity 1821; barrister G.I. 15 Nov. 1826, bencher 2 July 1857, treasurer 30 Jany. 1858; counsel to the Treasury; recorder of Dover 1834 to Jany. 1874; M.P. for Rochester 1841–47; carried a bill making relief of irremovable poor, chargeable on common fund of unions, which is foundation of present system; assistant judge of Middlesex sessions court 6 325June 1859 to Jany. 1874; chairman of Metropolitan assessment sessions; knighted at Osborne 3 Aug. 1867; member of Society of Arts 1823 on the council till 1874; author of Brief observations on the bill now pending in Parliament to amend the laws relative to the relief of the poor in England 1821. d. West hill, Highgate 26 March 1874. I.L.N. xxxv, 82 (1859), portrait, lxiv, 331 (1874), portrait.

BODMER, John George. b. Zurich 6 Dec. 1786; partner with Baron d’Eichtal in a cotton mill at St. Blasien, Black forest 1806–21; director general of iron works of Grand Duke of Baden to 1822; lived in England 1824–28 and 1833–48, established a factory for machines and machine tools at Manchester; made great improvements in cotton-spinning machines; invented what is now called the travelling crane about 1826; took out 13 patents in England for his inventions; lived at Vienna 1848–60 and at Zurich 1860 to death; M.I.C.E. 15 Feb. 1835. d. Zurich 29 May 1864. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxviii, 573–608 (1869).

BOGLE, Sir Archibald (son of J. A. Bogle). b. 1805; ed. at Harrow; entered Bengal army 1823; superintendent of Arracan 1827, and comr. 1837; comr. Tenasserim province 20 April 1849 to 1859; M.G. 2 Aug. 1862; knighted by patent 9 Dec. 1853. d. 90 Westbourne terrace, London 12 June 1870.