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FISHER, Sir James Hurtle (son of James Fisher of London, architect). b. 1790; attorney in partnership with Thomas Rhodes in Davies st. Cavendish sq. London 1811–32; resident comr. for crown lands in South Australia 1836; the first mayor of Adelaide 1840 and 4 times afterwards; member for West Adelaide 1853–55; speaker of the legislative council 1855–56; first pres. of the legislative council 1856–65 when he retired from office and parliament; knighted by patent 24 May 1860. d. Adelaide 28 Jany. 1875.

FISHER, Sir John William (son of Peter Fisher of Perth). b. London 30 Jany. 1787; M.R.C.S. 1809, F.R.C.S. 1836, member of council 1843; surgeon to Bow st. patrol 1821; surgeon-in-chief to Metropolitan police 1829–65; M.D. Erlangen 1841; knighted at Osborne 2 Sep. 1858. d. 33 Park lane, London 22 March 1876. Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. viii, 173–4 (1876); I.L.N. lxviii, 335, 527 (1876).

1054FISHER, Robert Alexander. Barrister M.T. 25 Jany. 1850; deputy judge of City of London court; secretary of the Judicature commission 25 Nov. 1872 to Sep. 1874 when last report was issued; judge of county courts (circuit 54) Somerset 1 Oct. 1874 to death; author of Digest of the reported decisions of the courts of common law, bankruptcy, probate, admiralty and divorce from 1756, 5 vols. 1870, new ed. by J. Mews 7 vols. 1884 and other books. d. Glanmorfa, Clifton 30 Sep. 1879.

FISHER, Walter David (3 son of David Fisher 1816–87). b. Norwich 1845; first appeared on stage at T.R. Glasgow 1852; played in the provinces; acted at Athenée theatre in Paris 1873; first appeared in London at Haymarket theatre as Moses in The school for scandal, July 1875; acted Potain in Cora at Globe theatre March 1877; played with Doyly Carte’s provincial company 1880; acted in Germany with the Gilbert and Sullivan répertoire company 1887; played Shadbolt in The Yeomen of the Guard at Court theatre, Liverpool 15 May 1889. d. 15 Seymour st. Liverpool 25 May 1889.

FISHER, William (2 son of John Fisher of Yarmouth, Norfolk). b. 18 Nov. 1780; midshipman R.N. 18 Aug. 1795; surveyed the Mozambique channel 1809–10; employed in suppression of slave trade on coast of Guinea 1816–17; commanded Asia in Mediterranean 1836–41; received Turkish gold medal; good service pension awarded him 1 July 1842; R.A. 2 Dec. 1847; suggested to Admiralty plan of watering ships generally adopted; author of The Petrel, or love on the ocean 1850; Ralph Rutherford, a nautical romance 1851. d. 38 Blandford sq. London 30 Sep. 1852.

FISHER, William Richard (2 son of John Goate Fisher of Great Yarmouth). b. 14 Aug. 1824; barrister L.I. 13 June 1851; author of The law of mortgage as applied to the redemption, foreclosure and sale in equity of incumbered property 1856, 4 ed. 1884; The forest of Essex, its history, laws, administration and ancient customs 1887. d. Guildford, Surrey 17 Nov. 1888.

FISHER, William Webster. b. Westmoreland 1798; studied medicine at Montpellier, M.D. 1825; of Trin. coll. Cam. 1827, of Downing coll., fellow to 1841; Downing professor of medicine 1841 to death; lectured 1841–68; M.B. Cam. 1834, M.D. 1841; univ. examiner of students in medicine and member of univ. board of medical studies; physician to Addenbrooke hospital; had large private practice at 1055Cam.; fellow of Cambridge Philos. Soc. and contributed to its Transactions. d. East lodge, Downing coll. 4 Oct. 1874 in 76 year. Brit. Med. Journ. 10 Oct. 1874, 481.

FISK, William (son of a farmer at Can hall, Essex). b. Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex 1796; educ. Colchester; in mercantile house in London 1815–25; commenced historical compositions 1834 in which he accurately reproduced portraits and costumes, among these were Lady Jane Grey in the Tower 1834, Leonardo da Vinci expiring in the arms of Francis i. 1838, Conspiracy of the Pazzi, attempt to assassinate Lorenzo de Medici 1839 for which in 1840 was awarded gold medal of Manchester Institution; painted 5 pictures connected with reign of Charles i. 1840–44; exhibited 25 paintings at R.A., 17 at B.I. and 45 at Suffolk st. 1818–48. d. Danbury, Essex 8 Nov. 1872.

FISK, William Henry (son of the preceding). b. 1827; pupil of his father and student of R. Acad.; anatomical draughtsman to royal coll. of Surgeons; teacher of drawing and painting at Univ. coll. sch. London; made a series of drawing of trees for the queen; lectured on art in London and the provinces; exhibited 11 landscapes at R.A., 7 at B.I. and 5 at Suffolk st. 1846–73. d. Hampstead 13 Nov. 1884.

FISKEN, Rev. William. b. Gelleyburn farm near Crieff, Perthshire; taught a school at Alyth; minister at Stamfordham near Newcastle 1847 to death; governor and sec. of endowed schools at Stamfordham; with his brother Thomas invented the steam plough; invented a potato-sowing machine, a safety steam boiler, a propeller, apparatus for heating churches and the steam tackle for the steam plough July 1855; author of The cheapest system of steam cultivation and steam cartage; On the comparative methods of steam tackle. d. Stamfordham manse 28 Dec. 1883 aged upwards of 70.

FITCH, William Stevenson. b. 1793; postmaster Ipswich 1838 to death; founder of West Suffolk archæological assoc.; made collections for a history of Suffolk, which were dispersed at his death, but 30 vols. of them are in Suffolk archæol. assoc. museum at Bury St. Edmunds; author of A catalogue of Suffolk manorial registers, Great Yarmouth 1843; Ipswich and its early mints, Ipswich 1848. d. Ipswich 17 July 1859. C. R. Smith’s Retrospections i, 245–8 (1883).

FITTON, Michael. b. Gawsworth, Cheshire 1766; entered navy June 1780; served in 1056Mediterranean 1782, in West Indies 1799–1802, 1803–4; lieut. 9 March 1804 his highest rank; captured or destroyed 40 of the enemy’s ships, received the thanks of the admiralty and a sword value £50 from the Patriotic Soc.; served in the Baltic 1811–15; lieut. of the ordinary at Plymouth 22 Feb. 1831 to 1834; admitted into Greenwich hospital 20 April 1835; one of the bravest and most active officers in the navy. d. Peckham 31 Dec. 1852.

FITTON, William Henry (son of Nicholas Fitton of Dublin). b. Dublin, Jany. 1780; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, senior scholar 1798, B.A. 1799; studied at Edin. Univ. 1808, in London 1809–12; M.D. Edin. 12 Sep. 1810, incorporated at Cam. 1815; candidate of royal coll. of phys. 1815, fellow 1816; practised at Northampton 1811–19 when he removed to London and devoted himself to scientific researches; F.R.S. 9 Nov. 1815; F.G.S. 18 , sec. 18 , pres. 1827, the first to deliver an annual address 15 Feb. 1828, established publication of proceedings 1827, Wollaston medallist 1852; wrote 21 papers on geological subjects 1811–57; author of A geological sketch of Hastings 1833; wrote many articles in Edinburgh Review 1817–41. d. Sussex gardens, London 13 May 1861. Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xviii, 30–34 (1862); Proc. of Royal Soc. of London xii, 4–6 (1861).

FITZADAM, John Thompson (eld. son of Adam Fitz Adam of Birmingham, barrister). b. 1833; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1859; recorder of Wigan, April 1880 to death; alderman of Wigan many years. d. 5 Phillimore gardens, Kensington, London 19 April 1886 in 53 year.

FITZBALL, Edward, originally called Edward Ball. b. Burwell, Cambs. 1792; attempted to establish a printing office at Norwich; dramatist in London many years; author of Edda; The Pilot 1825; The Innkeeper of Abbeville 1826; The Floating Beacon 1826; The Inchcape Bell 1828; The Flying Dutchman 1829 and many other successful dramas; wrote all the librettos of Balfe’s early operas, libretto of Wallace’s Maritana, and many librettos for other Composers; wrote My Pretty Jane 1828 and many other songs. d. near Chatham 27 Oct. 1873. E. Fitzball’s Thirty five years of a dramatic author’s life 2 vols. 1859, portrait; I.L.N. lxiii, 445 (1873), portrait.

FITZCLARENCE, Lord Adolphus (7 child and 3 son of William iv. 1765–1837 by Dorothea natural dau. of Francis Bland of Kerry, she was known on the stage as Mrs. Jordan 1762–1816). 1057b. 18 Feb. 1802; entered R.N. 26 May 1814; captain 24 Dec. 1824; commander of Royal George yacht 1830; captain of Victoria and Albert yacht 1 Jany. 1851 to 21 Oct. 1852 and commodore of her 21 Oct. 1852 to 17 Sep. 1853; aide de camp to Victoria 12 Feb. 1848 to death; groom of the robes to Will. iv. 24 July 1830; granted rank of younger son of a marquis 24 May 1831; G.C.H. 24 Feb. 1832; a lord of the bedchamber 5 Jany. 1833; R.A. 17 Sep. 1853. d. Newburgh park near Easingwold, Yorkshire 17 May 1856. Lennox’s Celebrities 2 series i, 208–12 (1877).

FITZCLARENCE, Rev. Lord Augustus (brother of the preceding), b. 1 March 1805; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.C.L. 1832, D.C.L. 1835; R. of Mapledurham, Oxon. 1829 to death; chaplain in ordinary to his father 1829–37, to Queen Victoria 1837 to death; granted rank of younger son of a marquis 24 May 1831. d. Mapledurham 14 June 1854.

FITZCLARENCE, Lord Frederick (brother of the preceding). b. 9 Dec. 1799; ensign Coldstream guards 12 May 1814, assisted at arrest of Cato st. conspirators 23 Feb. 1820; lieut. col. 7 foot 2 June 1825 to 24 Aug. 1832 when placed on h.p.; granted rank of younger son of a marquis 24 May 1831; G.C.H. 1831; military governor of Portsmouth 1840; col. 36 foot 23 July 1851 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; commander in chief at Bombay 1852 to death, assumed command 22 Nov. 1852; author of A manual of out-post duties 1851 and other works. d. Poorundhur near Poonah 30 Oct. 1854, body embalmed and bur. at Ford, Northumberland 10 Feb. 1855.

FITZGERALD, John David Fitzgerald, 1 Baron (son of David Fitzgerald of Dublin, merchant). b. Dublin 1816; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; called to bar in Ireland 1838; Q.C. 15 Feb. 1847; bencher of King’s Inns 1855; leader of the Munster circuit; M.P. for Ennis 1852–60; solicitor general for Ireland, Feb. 1855 to April 1856, attorney general April 1856 to March 1858 and 1859 to Feb. 1860; P.C. Ireland 1856; comr. of national education Ireland 1863 to death; justice of Queen’s Bench, Ireland, Feb. 1860 to May 1882; principal judge at great state trials of Messrs. Parnell, Biggar and others Jany. 1881; a lord of appeal in ordinary May 1882 to death; created Baron Fitzgerald of Kilmarnock, co. Dublin 23 June 1882; P.C. 29 June 1882; bencher of Gray’s Inn 21 Dec. 1883; author of Report on trial of A. M. Sullivan and R. 1058Pigott for seditious libels 1868. d. 22 Fitzwilliam place, Dublin 16 Oct. 1889. Law magazine and law review v, 267–69 (1858); Graphic 16 Nov. 1889 p. 597, portrait.

FITZGERALD and VESEY, Very Rev. Henry Vesey-Fitzgerald, 3 Baron. b. 1800; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1821, M.A. 1827; dean of Emly 6 July 1818 to 1825; dean of Kilmore 16 March 1825 to death; succeeded his brother as 3 Baron 11 May 1843. d. Danesfort, co. Cavan 30 March 1860.

FITZGERALD, Charles (son of Robert Fitzgerald of Kilkee, co. Clare). Entered navy 1809; governor of British settlements on the Gambia 1844 to 1847; governor of Western Australia Aug. 1848 to June 1855; captain 1 April 1856; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857. d. Geraldine house, Kilkee, co. Clare 29 Dec. 1887 in 96 year. I.L.N. xxx, 59, 60 (1857), portrait.

FITZGERALD, Edward (3 son of John Purcell who took name of Fitzgerald). b. Bredfield house near Woodbridge, Suffolk 31 March 1809; ed. at Bury St. Edmund’s gram. sch. and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1830; a friend of Spedding, Donne and Thackeray; resided at Farlingay hall near Woodbridge (where Carlyle visited him in 1855) 1853–60, at Woodbridge 1860–74, at Little Grange 1874 to his death; issued Euphranor, a dialogue on youth 1851, Polonius, a collection of Wise Saws 1852, Six dramas of Calderon 1853 the only book to which he put his name, it was withdrawn from circulation; translated the Agamemnon of Æschylus 1876 and the Œdipus Tyrannus and Œdipus Coloneus of Sophocles, the Quatrains of Omar Khayyám 1859, the Salámán and Absál of Jami 1856; author of a translation of Attar’s Mantik-ut-tair which he called the Bird Parliament MS.; Tennyson’s poem Tiresias 1884 contains a birthday ode to Fitzgerald. d. while on a visit to Merton rectory, Norfolk 14 June 1883. W. Aldis Wright’s Letters and remains of E. Fitzgerald 3 vols. 1889, portrait.

FITZGERALD, James. Entered Madras army 1820; commandant at Malabar 19 Feb. 1858 to 17 Jany. 1862; col. 42 Madras N.I. 12 Dec. 1862 to 1869; L.G. 25 June 1870. d. Kildare house, Lyndall’s park, Clifton 14 Nov. 1871.

FITZGERALD, Sir John Forster (4 son of Edward Fitzgerald of Carrigoran, co. Clare, who d. 1815). b. about 1785; ensign 29 Oct. 1793; major 60 foot 1809; commandant of Quebec 1059and afterwards of Montreal 1818–24; lieut. col. 20 foot 1824–30; commanded divisions in Madras and Bombay 1838–41; col. of 62 foot 1843, of 18 foot 1850 to death; general 20 June 1854, field marshal 29 May 1875; K.C.B. 1831, G.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862; M.P. for co. Clare 1852–57. d. Tours, France 24 March 1877. bur. with military honours in St. Symphorien cemetery, Tours 27 March. Times 29 March 1877 p. 9, col. 6.

FITZGERALD, Otho Augustus (3 son of 3 Duke of Leinster 1791–1874). b. Carton, Maynooth 10 Oct. 1827; M.P. for co. Kildare 1865–74; master of the horse to viceroy of Ireland 1855 and 1858–59; gentleman of the bedchamber 1859–62; treasurer of H.M.’s household 8 May 1866 to July 1866, comptroller 1868–74; P.C. 11 June 1866. d. Oakley court, Windsor 19 Nov. 1882.

FITZGERALD, Sir Peter George, 1 Baronet (5 son of Maurice Fitzgerald, P.C., M.P., knight of Kerry 1774–1849). b. 15 Sep. 1808; clerk to David Digges la Touche & Co. bankers, Dublin; vice treasurer of Ireland 1841, nineteenth knight of Kerry 1849; sheriff of Kerry 1849 and of Carlow 1875; improved his estates and built better homesteads for his tenants 1849; created a baronet 8 July 1880. d. Glanlearn, island of Valentia 6 Aug. 1880.

FITZGERALD, Robert Allan (2 son of Thomas Fitzgerald of Shalstone, Bucks., who d. 1860). b. 1 Oct. 1834; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1858, M.A. 1861; played in Harrow and Cambridge cricket elevens; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1860; sec. to Marylebone cricket club 1864–76; captain of amateur eleven who visited Canada and United States 1872; author of Jerks in from short-leg, By Quid 1866; Wickets in the West, or the twelve in America 1873. d. Charleywood, Herts. 28 Oct. 1881. Illust. sp. and dr. news i, 277 (1874), portrait.

FITZGERALD, Right Rev. William (son of Maurice Fitzgerald, M.D. of Lifford, Limerick). b. Lifford 3 Dec. 1814; ed. at Middleton, co. Cork and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1833, B.A. 1835, M.A. 1848, B.D. and D.D. 1853, fellow of his college, professor of moral philosophy there 1847–52 and of ecclesiastical history 1852–57; C. of Lackagh, Kildare 1838–46; C. of Clontarf, Dublin 1846–48; V. and preb. of Donoghmore, Dublin 16 Feb. 1848; V. of St. Anne’s, Dublin 1851–55; P.C. of Monkstown, Dublin 13 May 1855; preb. of Timothan, Dublin 1855; archdeacon 1060of Kildare 1855; bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross 7 Feb. 1857, consecrated at St. Patrick’s cath. Dublin 8 March, enthroned 14 March; translated to Killaloe 3 Feb. 1862; edited Bishop Butler’s Analogy with notes and a life of the author, Dublin 1849, reprinted 1860; chief contributor to The Cautions for the Times, a series of papers ed. by R. Whately 1853; author of Episcopacy, tradition and the sacraments considered in reference to the Oxford Tracts 1839 and 20 other works. d. Clarisford house, Killaloe 24 Nov. 1883. Brady’s Records i, 302, iii, 87–8; Dublin Univ. Mag. xlix, 416–26 (1857).

FITZGERALD, Sir William Robert Seymour Vesey- (eld. son of William Fitzgerald of Dublin). b. 1818; matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 21 Feb. 1833, of Oriel coll., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1844, Newdigate prizeman 1835, D.C.L. 1863; barrister L.I. 29 Jany. 1839; M.P. Horsham 1848 but unseated, M.P. Horsham 1852 to 1865 and 1874–5; under sec. of state foreign affairs 26 Feb. 1858 to June 1859; governor of Bombay 19 Nov. 1866 to March 1872; P.C. 28 Dec. 1866; K.C.S.I. 22 Oct. 1867, G.C.S.I. 8 Dec. 1868; chief commissioner of charities 30 Nov. 1875 to 1885; took names of Seymour Vesey. d. 29 Warwick sq. London 28 June 1885. I.L.N. l, 117 (1867), portrait.

FITZ-GIBBON, Abraham Coates (2 son of lieut. Philp Fitz-Gibbon, R.N., d. 1826). b. Mount Eagle, Kilworth, co. Cork 23 Jany. 1823; apprentice to Sir Charles Lanyon 1837–43; agent and manager for W. Dargan 1847–52; in U.S. America 1852–56, in Ceylon 1857–60, in New Zealand 1860–62, in Queensland 1863–68, in all these countries he surveyed and constructed railway lines; M.I.C.E. 9 Jany. 1866; adopted a 3 foot 6 in. gauge in Queensland; with his brother Maurice Fitz-Gibbon published in Journal of R. Hist. and Archæol. Assoc. of Ireland “Unpublished Geraldine Documents” which with additions were reprinted in four parts by Rev. Samuel Hayman, Dublin 1870–81. d. Moorside, Bushey Heath, Herts. 4 April 1887. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxix, 466–70 (1887).

FITZGIBBON, Edward (son of a land agent d. 1817). b. Limerick, Aug. 1803; came to London 1817; articled to a surgeon 1819–20; classical tutor in the provinces 1820–23; at Marseilles 1824–30 studying the language and literature; parliamentary reporter for Morning Chronicle 1830; wrote on angling for Bell’s Life under pseudonym of Ephemera; wrote for the 1061Observer and acted as a theatrical critic; from 1830 his writings gave great impulse to the art of fishing, were the means of improving fishing tackle and of increasing the rents of rivers; he once killed 52 salmon on the Shin river in 55 hours fishing; author of Handbook of Angling, By Ephemera 1847, 3 ed. 1853; The book of the Salmon 1850; author with W. Shipley of A true treatise on the art of fly fishing 1838, and with A. Young of Natural History of the Salmon 1854; ed. The Compleat Angler of Walton and Cotton 1853. d. 19 Nov. 1857. bur. Highgate cemetery 25 Nov. Baron Nicholson’s Autobiography (1860) 334–6; Bell’s Life in London 22 Nov. 1857 p. 8, 29 Nov. p. 5.

FITZGIBBON, Gerald (4 son of Mr. Fitzgerald of co. Limerick, tenant farmer). b. Glin, Limerick 1 Jany. 1793; employed in W. Jameson’s distillery, Dublin 1814; entered univ. of Dublin 1817, B.A. 1825, M.A. 1832, maintained himself by teaching 1817–30; called to Irish bar Jany. 1830; Q.C. 17 Aug. 1841; counsel for Dr. John Gray in state trial of Daniel O’Connell and his 7 fellow prisoners 15 Jany. to 12 Feb. 1844 during which on 30 Jany. he was challenged to a duel by the attorney general Thos. Bury Cusack Smith, when he brought the matter under notice of the Court and Mr. Smith apologised; the greatest commercial lawyer of his day; bencher of King’s Inns 1858; third serjeant at law 1859–60; receiver-master in Chancery 1860 to April 1878; author of Ireland in 1868 the battle field for English party strife 1868, 2 ed. 1868; Roman Catholic priests and National Schools 1871, 2 ed. 1872 and other works. d. Larkfield, Clondalkin 27 Sep. 1882. O. J. Burke’s Anecdotes of Connaught circuit (1885) 328–30; Irish Law Times xvi, 494 (1882).

FITZ GIBBON, James. b. 1780; enlisted in the army 1797; served in war against Napoleon and in American war 1812–15; captain of Glengarry light infantry fencibles 1813–16 when placed on h.p.; assistant adjutant general of militia Upper Canada; saved city of Toronto during Mackenzie rebellion 1837 for which he was awarded 5000 acres of land and received thanks of parliament, the grant of land was subsequently disallowed; chief clerk of lower house of Canadian parliament 1816–29, clerk of the upper house 1829–35; created a military knight of Windsor 1850; author of An appeal to the people of Upper Canada, Montreal 1847. d. Lower Ward, Windsor Castle 12 Dec. 1863.

FITZHARDINGE, William Fitzhardinge Berkeley, 1 Earl of (eld. son of 5 Earl of 1062Berkeley 1745–1810). b. 26 Dec. 1786; lieut. South Gloucestershire militia 6 July 1803, col. 22 Aug. 1810 to death; kept a pack of hounds in Gloucestershire 1808 to death, not excelled by any in England; M.P. for Gloucestershire 1810; his claim to Berkeley peerage disallowed by House of Lords 28 June 1811; created Baron Segrave of Berkeley Castle 10 Sep. 1831 and Earl Fitzhardinge 17 Aug. 1841; lord lieut. of Gloucestershire 3 Feb. 1836 to death. d. Berkeley Castle about midnight 10 Oct. 1857. Sporting Review xxxviii, 319–22, 389–95 (1857); Cecil’s Records of the Chase (1877) 181–5; My life and recollections by G. F. Berkeley (1865) i, 370–83 and vol. ii passim.

Note.—He is drawn as Fitzalleyne of Berkeley in Fitzalleyne of Berkeley, a romance of the present times by Bernard Blackmantle [Charles Molloy] 2 vols. 1825, who also makes him one of the characters in his book The English Spy 2 vols. 1826.

FITZHARDINGE, Maurice Frederick Fitzhardinge Berkeley, 1 Baron (brother of the preceding). b. 3 Jany. 1788; entered navy June 1802, captain 7 June 1814, admiral 15 Jany. 1862; M.P. for Gloucester 1831–33, 1835–37 and 1841–57; contested Gloucester 1833, 1837 and 1857; a comr. of admiralty 1833–34, 1837–39, 1846–52 and 1852–57; K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 28 June 1861; P.C. 13 Aug. 1855; master of the Berkeley hounds 1857 to death; claimed Barony of Berkeley 1857; created Baron Fitzhardinge of city and county of Bristol 5 Aug. 1861. d. Berkeley castle 17 Oct. 1867. Baily’s Mag. vi, 217–19 (1863), portrait; Sporting Review lviii, 417–20 (1867).

FITZMAURICE, John G. Second lieut. 95 foot 25 April 1811; captain rifle brigade 19 Dec. 1826 to 30 March 1832 when placed on h.p.; granted service reward 13 March 1855; M.G. 7 May 1861; lieut. of Yeomen of the Guard, Dec. 1861 to death; K.H. 1831. d. Drayton green, Ealing 24 Dec. 1865 aged 72.

FITZMAURICE, William Edward (younger son of John Fitzmaurice, Viscount Kirkwall 1778–1820). b. 22 March 1805; ed. at Oriel coll. Ox.; captain 9 lancers 26 Feb. 1828; captain 2 life guards 1831–40 when placed on h.p.; M.P. for Bucks. 1842–47; author of A cruise to Egypt, Palestine and Greece 1834. d. Brussels 18 June 1889.

FITZPATRICK, James Coleman. b. Ireland about 1818; Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin; called to Irish bar 1844; barrister L.I. 6 June 1857; chief justice of the Gold Coast 1857–61; judge of British Kaffraria 20 July 1861 to 10631872; judge of supreme court of Cape of Good Hope 1872–79 when he retired on pension; author of The Pope, his rights and duties 1860. d. Wynberg, British Kaffraria 6 Feb. 1880.

FITZROY, Charles (2 son of 4 Duke of Grafton 1760–1844). b. 28 Feb. 1791; ed. at Harrow and Great Marlow; ensign 1 foot guards 25 June 1807; major 55 foot 27 Jany. 1820 to 11 Jany. 1821 when placed on h.p.; sold out 1834; M.P. for Thetford 1818–32, for Bury 1832–47; vice chamberlain of the household 29 June 1835 to 2 May 1838; P.C. 1 July 1835. d. Elm lodge, Hampton 17 June 1865.

FITZROY, Sir Charles Augustus (only son of general Charles Fitzroy 1764–1829). b. 10 June 1796; attached to staff of Sir Hussey Vivian at Waterloo 1815; captain royal horse guards 27 April 1820 to 23 June 1825 when placed on h.p.; M.P. for Bury St. Edmunds, June 1831 to Dec. 1832; lieut. governor of Prince Edward Island 19 March 1837; governor of Leeward Islands 3 Aug. 1841; governor of New South Wales 3 Aug. 1846 to 17 Jany. 1855; his wife Lady Mary Fitzroy killed at Parramatta being thrown from her carriage 7 Dec. 1847; governor general of all the Australian colonies 1850; act for separation of Victoria passed 5 Aug. 1850; constitution act of N.S.W. passed 1853; presented with purse of 2000 guineas 28 Jany. 1856; knighted by Wm. iv. at St. James’s palace 1 June 1837; K.C.B. 12 June 1854. d. Half Moon st. Piccadilly, London 16 Feb. 1858. W. Gisborne’s New Zealand Rulers (1886), 36–42; Rev. J. Buller’s Forty years in New Zealand (1878) 377–82; Therry’s Reminiscences, 2 ed. (1863) 376–80; Heads of the people i, 65 (1847), portrait; I.L.N. xxix, 479 (1856), portrait.

FITZROY, Henry (younger son of 2 Baron Southampton 1761–1810). b. Great Stanhope st. London 2 May 1807; ed. at Magd. coll. Ox. and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. Cam. 1828; M.P. Great Grimsby 10 Aug. 1831 to 3 Dec. 1832; contested Lewes 1835, M.P. Lewes 21 April 1837 to death; a lord of the Admiralty 12 Feb. 1845 to 13 July 1846; lieut. col. of the Artillery company 1848 to death; under sec. of state for home department Dec. 1852 to Feb. 1855; P.C. 8 Feb. 1855; chairman of committees of House of Commons 16 April 1855 to 1859; chief comr. of board of works 1859 to death. d. Sussex sq. Kemp Town, Brighton 22 Dec. 1859.

FITZROY, Robert (brother of Sir C. A. Fitzroy, 1796–1858). b. Ampton hall, Suffolk 5 July 1805; entered navy 19 Oct. 1819; captain 3 1064Dec. 1834; commander of Beagle on surveys of Straits of Magellan etc. 1828–30, 1831–36, when he ran a chronometric line round the world; F.R.G.S. 1830, gold medallist 1837; an elder brother of Trinity house 1839; M.P. Durham 1841–43; acting conservator of river Mersey 21 Sep. 1842 to 1843; governor of New Zealand 3 April 1843, superseded Nov. 1845 as he did not agree with the colonists; retired from active service 1850; R.A. 1857, V.A. on half pay 12 Sep. 1863; F.R.S. 5 June 1851; superintendent of Meteorological department of board of trade 1854; invented Fitzroy barometer; instituted a system of storm warnings 1862 which developed into the daily forecasts of the weather 1872; author of Narrative of voyages of Adventurer and Beagle and the Beagle’s circumnavigation of the globe 3 vols. 1839; Weather Book, a manual of practical meteorology 1863, 2 ed. 1863 and other works; committed suicide by cutting his throat, at his residence Lyndhurst house, Norwood, Surrey 29 April 1865. Proc. of Royal Soc. xv, 21–23 (1867); Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. ix, 215–8 (1865); Good Words vii, 406–13 (1866).

FITZROY, Sir William (3 son of 3 Duke of Grafton 1735–1811). b. 1 June 1782; entered navy 21 April 1794; captain 3 March 1804; admiral 2 April 1853; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 4 July 1840. d. East Sheen near Richmond 13 May 1857.

FITZWALTER, Sir Brook William Bridges, 1 Baron (elder son of Sir Brook Wm. Bridges, 4 bart. 1767–1829). b. Goodneston park, Kent 2 June 1801; ed. at Winchester and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1827; succeeded his father 21 April 1829; M.P. for East Kent, Feb. to July 1852 and April 1857 to April 1868; created Baron Fitzwalter 17 April 1868. d. Goodneston park 6 Dec. 1875. I.L.N. xxx, 478 (1857), portrait, lxvii, 614, 629 (1875), portrait.

FITZWILLIAM, Charles William Wentworth, 5 Earl (only child of 4 Earl Fitzwilliam 1748–1833). b. Grosvenor sq. London 4 May 1786; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; M.P. for Yorkshire 20 May 1807 to 24 July 1830 as Viscount Milton; M.P. for Northamptonshire 23 May 1831 to March 1833; pres. of Yorkshire Philosophical Soc. 1830 to death; K.G. 4 Nov. 1851; took surname of Wentworth by r.l. 20 Aug. 1856; author of First, second and third addresses on the Corn laws 1839 and other books; edited with Sir Richard Bourke Correspondence of Edmund Burke 4 vols. 1844. d. Wentworth house, Rotherham 4 Oct. 1857. Waagen’s Treasures of art iii, 337–42 (1854).

1065FITZWILLIAM, Edward. b. near Holborn, London 8 Aug. 1788; actor at Southend, Hythe and Gosport 1806–8; first appeared in London as Hodge in Love in a village, at West London theatre 1812; acted at Olympic 1813 and at Royal Circus; his best parts were Leporello, Dumbiedykes in the Heart of Midlothian, Patch, Partridge in Tom Jones and Humphry Clinker; went to Drury Lane 10 Nov. 1821; became a comic vocalist at city entertainments; generally known as Little Fitz; retired on an annuity from Drury Lane theatrical fund 1845. d. Regent st. London 30 March 1852. Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography ii, 267–76 (1825), portrait; Cumberland’s Minor Theatre, vol. 2, portrait.

FITZWILLIAM, Edward Francis (son of the preceding). b. Deal, Kent 2 Aug. 1824; composed a Stabat Mater performed at Hanover square rooms, London 15 March 1845; musical director of Lyceum theatre Oct. 1847 to 1849; musical director of Haymarket theatre Easter 1853 to death; composed The Queen of the day, a comic opera, A summer night’s love, an operetta; author of O Incomprehensible Creator, a cantata 1850; Dramatic songs for 4 voices 1856 and other works; his music to the songs As I laye a thynkynge 1846, The maid with the milking pail 1846, and The jug of Punch 1845 was very popular. d. 9 Grove place, Brompton, London 19 Jany. 1857. Era 25 Jany. 1857 p. 9, col. 3.

FITZWILLIAM, Ellen (eld. dau. of Thomas Acton Chaplin, d. Nov. 1859). First appeared in London at Adelphi as Wilhelm in Die Hexen am Rhein 7 Oct. 1841; member of Haymarket company under J. B. Buckstone 22 years; went to Australia 1877. (m. 31 Dec. 1853 Edward Francis Fitzwilliam 1824–57). d. Auckland, New Zealand 19 Oct. 1880 aged 58. Theatrical Times 18 Nov. 1848 p. 439, portrait.

FITZWILLIAM, Fanny Elizabeth (dau. of Robert Copeland, manager of Dover circuit). b. Dover theatre 1801; was on the stage at 3 years of age; as Norah in the Poor Soldier played at Dover theatre 1815; first appeared in London at Haymarket as Lucy in The Review 1817; went to the Olympic and the Surrey; first seen at Drury Lane as Fanny in Maid or Wife 5 Dec. 1821; commenced engagement at Adelphi 10 Oct. 1825, the original Kate Plowden in The Pilot 31 Oct. 1825 and Bella in The Wreck Ashore 21 Oct. 1830; manager of Sadler’s Wells 1832; gave a monologue The Widow Wiggins at Adelphi during Lent 1835; in 1837 was at Haymarket under 1066B. Webster; went to America and made her debut at Park theatre, New York as Peggy in The Country Girl, Oct. 1839; played at Adelphi, London 1844 and afterwards at Haymarket; was good in Lady Teazle, country girls and Irish peasants. (m. 2 Dec. 1822 Edward Fitz William, actor 1788–1852). d. of cholera at Richmond lodge, Putney 11 Sep. 1854. Ireland’s Records of the New York stage i, 302–4 (1867); Tallis’s Drawing room table book (1851) 3–5, 2 portraits; Actors by daylight i, 145–6 (1838), portrait; Theatrical Times ii, 73 (1847), portrait; Actors by gaslight (1838) 25, portrait.

FITZWILLIAM, George Wentworth (3 son of 5 Earl Fitzwilliam 1786–1857). b. Grosvenor place, London 3 May 1817; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1838; M.P. for Richmond 1841, for Peterborough 1841–59; sheriff of Northampton 1866; master of the Fitzwilliam hounds. d. Milton hall, Peterborough 4 March 1874.

FITZWILLIAM, William John Wentworth (5 son of 6 Earl Fitzwilliam, b. 1815). b. 7 Aug. 1852; ed. at Eton and Magd. coll. Cam., B.A. 1874; M.P. for Peterborough 29 Oct. 1878 to death. d. Wentworth house near Rotherham 11 Sep. 1889. Pictorial World 3 Oct. 1889 p. 416, portrait.

FITZWILLIAM, William Wentworth (brother of the preceding). b. Grosvenor sq. London 27 July 1839; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.; M.P. for South West Yorkshire 1865–72. d. 17 Jany. 1877.

FLAHERTY, William Edward. Apprenticed to J. G. Barnard of London, printer; worked for Messrs. Bradbury and Evans 1834; went to Harrisons 1840; assisted Thomas Duffus Hardy in various works; compiled The annals of England 3 vols. 1855–7, anon.; edited The Gentleman’s Magazine, Jany. 1861 to Dec. 1865; revised several handbooks for John Murray. d. 33 Hassett road, Homerton 16 June 1878 aged 71. Bookseller, July 1878 p. 585.

FLANAGAN, Rev. Thomas. b. 1814; educ. Sedgley park sch. Staffordshire and at Oscott coll.; ordained at Oscott 1842, professor and prefect of studies there to 1851 and again July 1853 to 1854; V.P. of Sedgley park sch. 1851 and president Aug. 1851 to July 1853; canon of the chapter of Birmingham 1850; resident priest Blackmore park 1854–60; priest at St. Chad’s cath. Birmingham 1860 to death; author of A manual of British and Irish history 1847; A history of the church in 1067England to the re-establishment of the hierarchy in 1850, 2 vols. 1857 and other works. d. Kidderminster 21 July 1865. bur. in crypt of St. Chad’s cathedral. Gillow’s English Catholics ii, 291 (1885).

FLATMAN, Elnathan. b. Holton, Suffolk 1810; apprenticed to Wm. Cooper of Newmarket, trainer; won the Goodwood cup on Glencoe 1834, the One thousand guineas on Preserve 1835, the Derby on Orlando 1844, the St. Leger on Surplice 1848; won 104 races in 1848. d. Newmarket 20 Aug. 1860. Sporting Times 25 July 1885 p. 2; Sporting Review xxx, 10–13 (1853), portrait, xliv, 162, 225 (1860); Rice’s British turf i, 263–65 (1879); I.L.N. xxii, 416 (1853), portrait.

FLEETWOOD, Sir Peter Hesketh, 1 Baronet (son of Robert Hesketh of Rossall, Lancashire). b. Wennington hall near Lancaster 9 May 1801; ed. at Trin. coll. Ox., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826; sheriff of Lancashire 1830; M.P. Preston 1832–47; projected and commenced to build town and port of Fleetwood on river Wyre 1836; created baronet 20 July 1838; assumed name of Fleetwood by r.l. 5 March 1851; translator of Victor Hugo’s Last days of a condemned 1840. d. 127 Piccadilly, London 12 April 1866.

FLEMING, Alexander. b. Edinburgh 1824; M.D. Edin. 1844; F.R.C.P. Lond.; his essay on the physiological and medicinal properties of Aconitum Napellus 1845 led to the introduction of a tincture of aconite known as Fleming’s tincture; edited Monthly retrospect of medical science 2 vols. 1848–9; professor of materia medica Queen’s coll. Cork to 1858; hon. physician to Queen’s hospital, Birmingham 1858–73. d. Brixton, London 21 Aug. 1875.

FLEMING, Ann Cuthbert. b. Scotland; went to Canada 1815 or 1816; kept a school at Montreal several years; author of Home, a poem, Edinburgh 1815; A year in Canada and other poems, By A. C. Knight, Edinburgh 1816; Views of Canadian scenery and other books. (m. (1) Mr. Knight, m. (2) James Fleming). d. 1860.

FLEMING, Christopher. b. Boardstown, co. Westmeath 14 July 1808; educ. Dublin univ., B.A. 1821, M.D. 1838; L.C.S.I. 1824, member 1826, president 1859–60; surgeon House of Industry hospitals, Dublin 1851; M.R.I.A.; author of Clinical records of injuries and diseases of genito-urinary organs 1877; Remarks on application of chloroform to surgical purposes 1851. d. Donnybrook near Dublin 30 Dec. 1880.

1068FLEMING, Edward Cary. Ensign 31 foot 1803; lieut. col. of 2 Ceylon regiment 12 Aug. 1819, of 53 foot 24 Feb. 1820, of 24 foot 6 Nov. 1823 to 1 March 1833; C.B. 19 July 1838; col. 27 foot 19 Sep. 1853 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854. d. Gloucester sq. Hyde park, London 23 April 1860.

FLEMING, Henry. Assistant sec. poor law board 3 Feb. 1848 to 5 July 1859, permanent sec. 5 July 1859 to 19 Aug. 1871. d. 2 Charles St. Berkeley sq. London 28 Feb. 1876.

FLEMING, James (eld. son of Valentine Fleming of Tuam, co. Galway). Barrister M.T. 10 June 1836; Q.C. 9 Jany. 1858; chief comr. of West Indian incumbered estates court 17 Feb. 1865 to death; chancellor of county palatine of Durham 21 March 1871 to death; author of Rules and orders Chancery Court, Durham 1878. d. 12 Dorset sq. London 23 July 1887.

FLEMING, Rev. John (son of Alexander Fleming). b. Kirkroads farm near Bathgate in Linlithgowshire 10 Jany. 1785; ordained 22 Sep. 1808; minister of Flisk, Fifeshire 1810; the best zoologist in Scotland; D.D. of univ. of St. Andrews 1814; minister of Clackmannan 1832–34; professor of natural philosophy in Univ. and King’s coll. Aberdeen 1834; joined the Free ch. 1834; professor of natural science Free ch. coll. Edin. 1845; studied the old red sand stone and its fossils; author of The Philosophy of Zoology 2 vols. 1822; The temperature of the seasons 1851 and other books and articles in scientific journals. d. Llangwym, Monmouthshire 18 Nov. 1857. Fleming’s Lithology of Edinburgh, with memoir by Rev. John Duns 1859 pp. i-civ.

FLEMING, John Gibson. b. Glasgow 1809; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow, M.D. 1830; member of faculty of phys. and surgeons Glasgow 1833, pres. 1865–71; represented the faculty in general medical council 15 years; surgeon to Royal asylum for lunatics; F.R.S. Edin.; author of Medical statistics of life assurance, Glasgow 1862. d. 155 Bath st. Glasgow 2 Oct. 1879.

FLEMING, Sir Valentine (brother of James Fleming, who d. 23 July 1887). b. Ashby de la Zouch 1809; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub., B.A. 1832; barrister G.I. 21 Nov. 1838; comr. of Insolvent Court for Hobart Town 1841; solicitor general of Tasmania 1844 to Jany. 1848, attorney general Jany. 1848 to Aug. 1854; chief justice of supreme court of Tasmania Aug. 1854 to May 1870 when he resigned; knighted by patent 2 July 1856. d. Holbrook, Redhill 25 Oct. 1884 in 75 year.

1069FLETCHER, Rev. Alexander (son of Rev. Wm. Fletcher of Bridge of Teith, Downe, Perthshire, minister of the associate synod). b. Bridge of Teith 8 April 1787; ed. at univ. of Glasgow, M.A.; co-pastor with his father at Bridge of Teith 16 Sep. 1807; minister of Miles’s lane chapel, London, Nov. 1811, of Albion chapel, London Wall 7 Nov. 1816 to 1824; prosecuted in a breach of promise case by Eliza Dick, April 1824; separated from the Secession church 1824, minister of Finsbury chapel, London 1824–59; author of A guide to Family Devotion 1834 of which 50,000 copies were sold in England, The Sabbath School Preacher and Juvenile Miscellany 1848–50, 2 vols., and other works. d. 4 Portland place, Lower Clapton, London 30 Sep. 1860. Macfarlane’s Altar-Light, a tribute to the memory of the Rev. A. Fletcher 1860; Blair’s The prince of preachers, Rev. A. Fletcher 1860; The Christian cabinet illustrated almanack for 1860 p. 31, portrait; Trial of the Rev. Alexander Fletcher before the United Associate synod 1824.

FLETCHER, Eliza (dau. of Mr. Dawson of Oxton near Tadcaster, Yorkshire, land surveyor). b. Oxton 15 Jany. 1770; educ. Manor sch. York; wrote her autobiography. (m. 16 July 1791 Archibald Fletcher, advocate, who died at Auchindinny house near Edinburgh 20 Dec. 1828). d. Edinburgh 5 Feb. 1858. Autobiography of Mrs. Fletcher, edited by Lady Richardson 1875, 2 portraits.

FLETCHER, George (son of Joseph Fletcher). bapt. Clarborough, Nottinghamshire 15 Oct. 1764; enlisted in Welsh fusiliers 2 Nov. 1785, deserted 16 March 1792; enlisted 3 foot guards 14 March 1793 when he stated that his original enlistment took place in Oct. 1773; pensioned 18 April 1803 on 1s. 2½d. a day; worked in West India dock 1803–39; local Wesleyan preacher, gave out that his birth took place on 2 Feb. 1747 and had large congregations to see him. d. 41 Wade st. Poplar, London 2 Feb. 1855. Thom’s Human Longevity (1873) 64,164–70; I.L.N. 10 March 1855 p. 221, portrait.

FLETCHER, Isaac (2 son of John Wilson Fletcher of Tarnbank, Cumberland 1788–1857). b. Greysowthen, Cumberland 22 Feb. 1827; a coal owner and ironmaster; M.P. for Cockermouth, Nov. 1868 to death; chairman of Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith railway; F.R.A.S. 11 May 1849; F.R.S. 7 June 1855; shot himself at Morley’s hotel, Trafalgar sq. London 3 April 1879.

FLETCHER, John Venour. b. Chesterfield 14 Nov. 1801; entered navy 13 Feb. 1814; 1070captain 8 June 1841, went on half pay 24 Oct. 1841; admiral on half pay 20 Oct. 1872. d. Reading 5 Dec. 1877.

FLETCHER, Joseph. b. 1813; barrister M.T. 7 May 1841; sec. to Handloom inquiry commission 1841, to Children’s employment commission 1841–3; inspector of schools receiving grants under Privy Council 1844; one of hon. secretaries of statistical society of London 15 Feb. 1841; edited the Statistical Journal; author of Summary of the Moral Statistics of England and Wales 1850; Statistics of the Farm School system of the Continent and the education of pauper and criminal children 1851. d. Chirk, co. Denbigh 11 Aug. 1852. bur. Tottenham church, Middlesex 18 Aug.

FLETCHER, Rev. Joseph (son of Rev. Joseph Fletcher 1784–1843, independent minister at Stepney). b. Blackburn 7 Jany. 1816; in a Manchester counting house to 1833; at Coward coll. 1833; minister of Congregational ch. Hanley 1839–49, of Christchurch, Hampshire 1849–73; kept a school at Christchurch but the death by drowning of 7 of his pupils in May 1838 caused him to close the establishment; author of The works and memoirs of Rev. Joseph Fletcher, D.D. 1846; History of Independency 4 vols. 1847–49 and other works. d. Christchurch 2 June 1876.

FLETCHER, Ralph. b. Gloucester; studied at St. Bartholomews; surgeon to Gloucester county hospital; had one of finest consulting practices in the kingdom, extending to whole of South Wales and Bristol; the income from his practice, which was purely surgical, exceeded £4000 for many years; had a very fine collection of pictures; author of Sketches on the influence of the mind on the body 1833; Notes on cruelty to animals 1846. d. Barton st. Gloucester 8 Feb. 1851 aged 70 worth more than £80,000. Medical Directory 1852 pp. 646–7.

FLEXMORE, Richard, stage name of Richard Flexmore Geatter (son of Richard Flexmore Geatter, celebrated comic dancer). b. Kennington, London 15 Sep. 1824; appeared at Victoria theatre as a dancer 1832; clown at Grecian theatre, Christmas 1844, at Olympic theatre, Christmas 1845; played at Princess’s, Strand, Adelphi, Covent Garden and Drury Lane to 1860; noted for his imitations of the leading dancers of his day; acted with his wife in chief European cities in 1849, &c. (m. 28 July 1849 Franciska Christophosa dau. of Jean Baptiste Auriol famous French clown, she m. (2) her cousin Monsieur Auriol, and d. Paris 10713 Sep. 1862). d. 66 Hercules buildings, Lambeth, London 20 Aug. 1860. Illust. sp. and dr. news ii, 268 (1874), portrait, iv, 294 (1875), portrait; Era 26 Aug. 1860 p. 10, col. 1, and 2 Sep. p. 10, col. 2; A first appearance, By Mrs. Evans Bell (1872), i, 129–33, iii, 195–7.

FLIGHT, Walter (son of William P. Flight). b. Winchester 21 Jany. 1841; ed. at Queenwood coll. Hampshire, D. Sci. London 1867; assistant in mineralogical department British Museum 5 Sep. 1867, resigned 1884; experimented on the constituents of meteorites; F.R.S. 7 June 1883; author of numerous papers in scientific journals, majority of them on meteorites. d. 4 Wildwood terrace, North End, Hampstead 4 Nov. 1885. W. Flight’s Chapter on Meteorites 1887.

FLOOD, Frederick Solly- (only son of Richard Solly of Walthamstow, who d. 1803). b. 7 Aug. 1801; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; assumed by r.l. additional surname of Flood 14 Oct. 1818; barrister L.I. 6 May 1828; attorney general for city and garrison of Gibraltar 15 Feb. 1866 to 1877. d. Gibraltar 13 May 1888.

FLOWER, Edward Fordham (younger son of Richard Flower, who d. 15 Jany. 1862). b. Marden hall, Hertfordshire 31 Jany. 1805; spent his early life in Illinois; brewer Stratford on Avon 1832–62; mayor of Stratford 3 times, also in 1864 during Shakespeare tercentenary; contested Coventry 1865 and North Warwickshire 1868; removed to London 1873; endeavoured to prevent cruelty to horses in use of bearing reins and gag-bits; author of Bits and bearing reins 1875, 7 ed. 1886 and 3 other books. d. 35 Hyde park gardens, London 20 March 1883. E. F. Flower’s Bits and bearing reins (1886) 3–15, portrait; Victoria Mag., May 1878 pp. 67–8, portrait; I.L.N. 7 May 1864 p. 453, portrait.

FLOWER, John Wickham. b. London 11 Aug. 1807; studied geology and archæology; lived at Croydon about 1848 to death; F.G.S. 1863; author of Adam’s disobedience and its results, 2 ed. 1871; A Layman’s reason for discontinuing the use of the Athanasian creed 1872. d. Park hill, Croydon 11 April 1873.

FLOWER, Richard. b. Hertfordshire about 1780; went with Morris Birkbeck to the U.S. 1817 to found an English colony in Albion, Edwards co. Illinois; instrumental in securing defeat of attempt to legalize African slavery in Illinois 1823; author of History of the English settlement in Edwards county, Illinois 1072founded in 1817 and 1818 by Morris Birkbeck and Richard Flower, Chicago 1882. d. Grayville, White co. Illinois 15 Jany. 1862.

FLOWERS, Frederick (3 son of Field Flowers, rector of Partney, Lincs.) b. Boston, Lincs. 1810; educ. Louth gram. sch.; barrister L.I. 18 Nov. 1839; recorder of Stamford, March 1862 to July 1864; revising barrister northern division Nottinghamshire; police magistrate Bow st. London 6 July 1864 to death. d. Holmesdale, Tottenham lane, Hornsey, Middlesex 26 Jany. 1886. Graphic 8 Jany. 1881 p. 32, portrait; Saturday Review lxi, 145 (1886).

FLOWERS, George French (brother of the preceding). b. Boston 1811; studied music under Rink and Von Wartensee in Germany; of Lincoln coll. Oxf., Bac. Mus. 1839, Doc. Mus. 1865; organist British embassy chapel, Paris, St. Mark’s Myddleton sq., and St. John’s Paddington successively; founded Contrapuntists’ Soc. 1843; introduced and developed Vogler’s system of progressive cadences 1848; his most distinguished pupil in singing was Mrs. Howard Paul; joined ch. of Rome 1860; author of Essay on the construction of fugue 1846; Muscular Vocalisation, a poem, Barrow on Humber 1861; composer of organ fugues, pastoral chorus and choral fugue. d. of cholera in London 14 June 1872.

FLOYER, John (younger son of Rev. Wm. Floyer 1746–1819, V. of Stinsford, Dorset). b. 26 April 1811; ed. at Winchester and Balliol coll. Ox., B.A. 1831; sheriff of Dorset 1844; M.P. for Dorset 1846–57 and 1864–85; contested Dorset, April 1857; chairman of Dorset quarter sessions. d. 5 Old palace yard, Westminster 4 July 1887.

FLUDE, Thomas Peters (2 son of Jonathan Flude, town mayor of Berwick on Tweed). Second lieut. R.A. 17 July 1817, col. 15 May 1855, col. commandant 11 Dec. 1868 to 1 Oct. 1877; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. Tweed house, Folkestone 13 July 1885 in 87 year.

FOGGO, George. b. London 14 April 1793; instructed in painting by Jean Baptist Regnault in Paris; worked with his brother James Foggo 1819–59; one of founders and hon. sec. of Soc. for obtaining free access to Museums; lithographer; published a set of lithographs from Raphael’s cartoons 1828; Catalogue of the pictures in the National Gallery 1844 and the Adventures of Sir J. Brook, Rajah of Sarawak 1853; exhibited 7 pictures at R.A., 14 at B.I. and 36 at Suffolk st. 1816–64. d. London 26 Sep. 1869.

1073FOGGO, James. b. London 11 June 1789; instructed by Jean Baptist Regnault in Paris; returned to London 1815; supported himself by teaching and portrait painting; from 1819 painted pictures in conjunction with his brother George Foggo for 40 years; well known as painters of altar pieces; exhibited a large picture “The Christian inhabitants of Parga preparing to emigrate”; exhibited their works with Haydon and others at the Pantheon, London 1843 etc.; exhibited 5 pictures at R.A., 8 at B.I. and 22 at Suffolk st. 1816–58; with his brother undertook care of exhibition of pictures at Pantheon Oxford st. London 1852. d. London 14 Sep. 1860.

FOLEY, Thomas Henry Foley, 4 Baron (eld. son of 3 Baron Foley 1780–1833). b. Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 11 Dec. 1808; M.P. for Worcestershire 5 Aug. 1830 to 16 April 1833; captain of corps of gentlemen at arms 1833–34, 1835–41, 1846–52, 1852–58, 1859–66 and 1868 to death; P.C. 1833; lord lieut. of Worcestershire. d. Paris 20 Nov. 1869, personalty sworn under £250,000, 22 Jany. 1870.

FOLEY, Rev. Daniel. b. about 1815; employed in shop of Patrick Grey, Tralee; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1843, M.A. 1852, B.D. 1854, D.D. 1858; professor of Irish in univ. of Dublin 1849–61; prebendary of Kilbragh in Cashel cath. to death; R. of Templetuohy 1852 to death; lectured against disestablishment of Ch. of Ireland; author of An English-Irish Dictionary, Dublin 1855. d. Blackrock, Dublin 7 July 1874.

FOLEY, John Henry. b. Dublin 24 May 1818; student of the R.A. London 1835, A.R.A. 1849, R.A. 1858; his group of Iro and Bacchus exhibited 1840 purchased by the earl of Ellesmere; executed statues of Hampden and Selden for St. Stephen’s hall, Westminster; executed group of Asia and figure of Prince Consort for Albert Memorial, Hyde park, Caractacus and Egeria for Mansion house, and statues of Canning, Harding and Outram for Calcutta; exhibited 49 works at R.A. and 8 at B.I. 1839–75. d. Hampstead 27 Aug. 1874. bur. St. Paul’s cathedral 4 Sep., left his models to the Dublin Soc. and the bulk of his property to the Artists’ Benevolent fund. Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxxi, 226–29 (1875); Sandby’s History of Royal Academy ii, 315–17 (1862); I.L.N. xxx, 419 (1857), portrait, lxv, 236, 249, 254 (1874), portrait.

FOLJAMBE, George Savile. b. 4 June 1800; ed. at Eton and St John’s coll. Cam.; kept 1074fox hounds in Notts. 1822–45 when he sold them for upwards of £3500; sheriff of Notts. d. Osberton near Worksop 18 Dec. 1869. Sporting Review lxiii, 12–14, 371 (1870).

FOLLETT, Brent Spencer (4 son of Benjamin Follett of Topsham, Devon). b. 1810; barrister L.I. 7 June 1833, bencher 3 Nov. 1851 to death, treasurer 1872; Q.C. 11 July 1851; M.P. for Bridgwater 1852–57; contested Cirencester, April 1859; chief registrar of Land Registry Office, London 18 Aug. 1862 to death; member of council of legal education, London. d. 23 Jany. 1887.

FOLSOM, Abby H. b. England about 1792; went to the U.S. about 1837; became noted as an advocate of anti-slavery reform and for addresses at meetings of American anti-slavery society about 1842–5; author of A letter from a member of the Boston bar to an Avaricious Landlord, Boston 1851. (m. Mr. Folsom of Massachusetts). d. Rochester, New York 1867.

FONBLANQUE, Albany William (3 son of John de Grenier Fonblanque 1760–1838). b. London 1793; a journalist on Morning Chronicle, Times and Atlas; on the Examiner 1826, manager and editor 1830–47, sole proprietor to 1860; head of statistical department of Board of Trade 1847 to death; a brilliant talker, a finished scholar and a student of music and art; author of England under seven administrations 3 vols. 1837. d. London 14 Oct. 1872. Life, ed. by E. B. de Fonblanque 1874; Westminster Papers vii, 21–23 (1874); Graphic vi, 442, 445 (1872), portrait.

FONBLANQUE, John Samuel Martin De Grenier (brother of the preceding). b. Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London, March 1787; ed. at Charterhouse and Caius coll. Cam.; 2 lieut. 21 fusiliers 3 June 1810, 1 lieut. to 25 March 1817 when placed on h.p.; served in the American war, made prisoner at New Orleans; barrister L.I. 27 Nov. 1816; one of the 70 comrs. of bankruptcy 1817, comr. of Court of Bankruptcy 1830 to death; a founder of The Jurist, a quarterly journal of jurisprudence and legislation 1827; author with J. A. Paris of Medical Jurisprudence 3 vols. 1823. d. Brighton 3 Nov. 1865.

FOOTE, Henry Richard. Entered navy 6 May 1830; captain 20 Oct. 1853; harbour manager and secretary Newport dock company 1854; retired captain 31 March 1866; retired admiral 9 Jany. 1880. d. Ellesmere house, Newport, Monmouthshire 23 Nov. 1885 aged 68.

1075FORAN, Most Rev. Nicholas. b. Waterford; ed. at Maynooth; pres. of St. John’s college, Waterford short time; parish priest of Lismore; parish priest of Dungarvan to 1837; R.C. Bishop of Waterford and Lismore 23 May 1837 to death; consecrated 24 Aug. 1837. d. Dungarvan 18 May 1855 in 74 year.

FORBES, Walter Forbes, 18 Baron. b. Crailing house, Roxburghshire 29 May 1798; ensign Coldstream guards 1814; commanded a company at defence of Hougoumont 18 June 1815; retired 1825; succeeded 4 May 1843; a great benefactor to St. Ninian’s cathedral, Perth. d. Richmond, Surrey 1 May 1868, monument in Guards’ chapel, Wellington barracks, London.

FORBES, Right Rev. Alexander Penrose (2 son of John Hay Forbes, lord Medwyn 1776–1854). b. Edinburgh 6 June 1817; educ. Glasgow univ. 1833 and Haileybury coll.; assistant collector Rajahmundry, India 1837; head assistant to the Sudder and Foujdarry Adawlut 1839–40; matric. from Brasenose coll. Oxf. 1840, Boden Sanskrit scholar 1841; B.A. 1844, M.A. 1846, D.C.L. 18 May 1848; C. of Aston Rowant, Oxf. 1844; C. of St. Thomas’, Oxf. 1845; incumb. of Stonehaven, Kincardine 1846; V. of St. Saviour’s, Leeds 1847, one of the first Tractarian churches; elected bishop of Brechin 21 Sep. 1847 when the seat of the bishoprick was removed from Brechin to Dundee, and he also became V. of St. Paul’s, Dundee; censured by the college of bishops for his teaching on the real presence 15 March 1860; built St. Paul’s cathedral, Dundee 1855 and founded sisterhood of St. Mary and St. Modwenna; author of An explanation of the Thirty nine articles 2 vols. 1867–68 in which he was assisted by Dr. Pusey; The prisoners of Craigmacaire 1852; The pious life of Helen Inglis 1854; Kalendars of Scottish saints 1872 and 20 other works. d. Castle hill, Dundee 8 Oct. 1875. Mackey’s Bishop Forbes (1888), portrait; Memoir of Alexander, bishop of Brechin, By Miss Skene (1876).

FORBES, Sir Charles Fergusson. b. 1779; hospital assistant in army medical service, May 1798; served in Egypt, Gallicia and the Peninsula; retired with rank of deputy inspector general of hospitals 1864; M.D. Edinburgh 24 June 1808; L.R.C.P. 22 Dec. 1814, F.R.C.P. 10 July 1841; practised in London 1814 to death; physician Royal Westminster infirmary for diseases of the eye 1816, fell out with his colleague G. J. Guthrie 1827 when he resigned; fought a duel with Hale Thomson one of Guthrie’s party, on Clapham common 29 Dec. 1827; F.L.S. 1822; K.C.H. 10761837; knighted at St. James’s palace 13 March 1844. d. 23 Argyll st. London 22 March 1852. Munk’s Roll of College of Physicians (1878) iii, 129; Medical Circular i, 137 (1852).

FORBES, David. Entered Bombay army 1819; lieut. col. 9 Bombay N.I. 23 Nov. 1841 to 25 May 1852; commandant at Aden 9 Jany. 1851 to 25 May 1852; col. 3 European regiment 1854 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. d. Upper Brunswick place, Brighton 2 April 1863.

FORBES, David (son of Edward Forbes of Oakhill, Isle of Man, banker). b. Douglas 6 Sep. 1828; educ. Brentwood, Essex and Edin. univ.; superintendent of mining and metallurgical works at Espedal, Norway 1848–58; F.G.S. 1853 and one of secretaries 1871; F.R.S. 3 June 1856; partner with Evans and Askin, nickel smelters, Birmingham 1856; A.I.C.E. 1 Feb. 1853, mem. of council 1872–73; visited Bolivia, Peru, South Sea islands and Africa in search of mines and minerals 1857–66; foreign sec. of Iron and Steel Institute 1871–6; one of the first to apply the microscope to the study of rocks; wrote 58 papers on scientific subjects. d. 11 York place, Portman sq. London 5 Dec. 1876. Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxxiii, 41–8 (1877); Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xlix, 270–75 (1877); Journal of Iron and Steel Institute 1876 pp. 519–24.

FORBES, Duncan. b. Kinnaird, Perthshire 28 April 1798; village school master of Straloch 1815; educ. Carmichael sch., Perth gram. sch. and St. Andrew’s univ., M.A. 1823, LLD. 1847; employed in Calcutta academy Nov. 1823 to 1826; assistant to Dr. John Borthwick Gilchrist, teacher of Hindustani and to Dr. Sandford Arnet 1826–37; professor of oriental languages, King’s coll. London 1837–61; hon. fellow of King’s coll. 1861; catalogued Persian MSS. in British Museum 1849–55; author of The Hindustani Manual 1845; The history of chess from the time of the early invention of the game in India 1860; A grammar of the Bengali language 1861; A grammar of the Arabic language 1863 and other books. d. London 17 Aug. 1868. Annual Report R. Asiatic Soc., May 1869 pp. vii-viii.

FORBES, Edward (2 child of Edward Forbes of Douglas, Isle of Man, banker). b. Douglas 12 Feb. 1815; ed. at univ. of Edin. 1831–36; naturalist to H.M.’s surveying ship Beacon, in the Levant 1841–42; professor of botany at King’s college, London, Oct. 1842; F.G.S. 4 Dec. 1844, librarian and curator 1842–44, 1077pres. 1853; F.R.S. 13 Feb. 1845; palæontologist at Museum of practical geology 1 Nov. 1844 to 1854; founded Club of the Metropolitan Red Lions 1845; professor of natural history in Univ. of Edin. April 1854 to death; published with Sylvanus Hanley A History of British Mollusca 4 vols. 1848–53; author of many books and papers on natural history. d. Wardie near Edinburgh 18 Nov. 1854. J. H. Bennett’s Memoir of E. Forbes 1855; Memoir of E. Forbes by G. Wilson and A. Geikie 1861, portrait; Sir A. Grant’s Univ. of Edin. ii, 434 (1884); I.L.N. xxv, 564, 566 (1854), portrait.

FORBES, Francis Reginald (2 son of 6 Earl of Granard 1760–1837). b. Moira castle, Ireland 17 Sep. 1791; attached to embassy at St. Petersburg, July 1812; minister plenipotentiary at Dresden 26 Nov. 1832; raised to rank of envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary 2 May 1857, transferred to Rio de Janeiro 13 Dec. 1858; retired 2 Sep. 1859, pension granted him 1 Nov. 1859. d. Geneva 5 Nov. 1873.

FORBES, Rev. George Hay (brother of Right Rev. A. P. Forbes). b. 4 Aug. 1821; episcopal minister at Burntisland 1849 to death; founded and endowed the Pitsligo press at Burntisland, issued theological pamphlets, ancient liturgies and missals, and a periodical called The Panoply 1853–69, all of which he printed himself, the press was moved to Edinburgh, January 1884; author of The goodness of God, Prize essay 1849; Doctrinal errors of the English prayer book 1863. d. The Parsonage, Burntisland 7 Nov. 1875.

FORBES, Henry. b. 1804; pupil of Smart, Hummel, Moscheles and Herz; organist of St. Luke’s, Chelsea; his opera The Fairy Oak produced at Drury Lane 18 Oct. 1845; his cantata Ruth performed London 1847; conductor of Società Armonica 1827–50; composer of National Psalmody 1843. d. London 24 Nov. 1859.

FORBES, James. b. Bridgend, Perthshire, May 1793; head gardener to Duke of Bedford at Woburn abbey, Beds. 37 years; A.L.S. 17 Jany. 1832; published Hortus ericaceus Woburnensis 1825; Salicetum Woburnense 1829; Hortus Woburnensis 1833; Pinetum Woburnense 1839. d. The Abbey Gardens, Woburn 6 July 1861. Proc. of Linnæan Soc. (1861) 104.

FORBES, James David (youngest son of Sir Wm. Forbes, 7 Bart. 1773–1828). b. Edinburgh 20 April 1809; ed. at Univ. of Edin., LLD. 1860; F.R.S. Edin. 1828, sec. 1840–51; 1078F.R.S. 7 June 1832, Rumford medallist 1838 for discovery of polarisation of heat; a founder of British Association 1832; professor of natural philosophy in Univ. of Edin. 30 Jany. 1833, resigned April 1860; dean of Faculty of Arts 1837; granted civil list pension of £200, 14 Oct. 1845; surveyed Mer de Glace 1850; principal of St. Andrews 2 Dec. 1859 to Oct. 1868; author of Travels through the Alps of Savoy with observations on glaciers 1843 and of upwards of 149 articles in scientific transactions. d. Clifton hill house, Bristol 31 Dec. 1868. Life and letters of J. D. Forbes 1873; Proc. of Royal Soc. xix, 1–9 (1871); Sir A. Grant’s Univ. of Edin. ii, 354–7 (1884); Contemporary Review xxii, 484–508 (1873).

FORBES, Sir John (4 son of Alexander Forbes of the Enzie, Banffshire). b. Cuttelbrae, Ruthven, Banffshire 18 Oct. 1787; ed. at Marischal coll. Aberdeen 1803–6 and Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1817; assistant surgeon R.N. 1807–16 when placed on h.p.; phys. at Penzance 1817–22, at Chichester 1822–40, in London 1840–59; F.R.S. 5 Feb. 1829; founded British and Foreign medical review, Jany. 1836, edited it 1836 to Oct. 1847, 48 numbers; phys. extraord. to Prince Consort, Aug. 1840 to 1859; phys. in ord. to H.M.’s Household, Feb. 1841 to 1859; F.R.C.S. Lond. 1845; knighted at Buckingham palace 8 Aug. 1853; author of Original cases illustrating the use of the stethescope 1824; editor with A. Tweedie and J. Conolly of Cyclopædia of practical medicine 1833–35, 4 vols.; author of A physician’s holiday in Switzerland 1848; Sight seeing in Germany 1856. d. Whitchurch near Reading 13 Nov. 1861. E. A. Parke’s Memoir of Sir John Forbes; Proc. of Royal Soc. xii, 6–10 (1862).

FORBES, Rev. John. b. Dunkeld, Perthshire; educ. Perth academy and St. Andrew’s univ., D.D. 1837; LLD. of Glasgow univ. 1840; minister at Hope park chapel, Edinburgh 1826, at Outer-High church, Glasgow 18 Dec. 1828; left the Presbyterian ch. 24 May 1843; contributed to The evidences of Revealed Religion 1838; Free church minister of Free St. Paul’s Glasgow 1843; author of Differential and integral calculus; Three sermons on Lord’s Day 1831 and other books. d. Glasgow 25 Dec. 1874 aged 73. Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881) 253–60; John Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy (1848) 231–7.

FORBES, John Hay (2 son of Sir Wm. Forbes, 6 Bart., of Pitsligo 1739–1806). b. Edinburgh Sep. 1776; advocate 2 March 1799; sheriff depute of Perthshire 1807; judge of Court of 1079Session with title of Lord Medwyn, Jany. 1825 to Oct. 1852; a lord of justiciary 16 Nov. 1830 to May 1849; edited Thoughts concerning man’s condition in this life and hopes in world to come, By Alexander Forbes, Baron Pitsligo 1854. d. Edinburgh 25 July 1854. J. Kay’s Edinburgh Portraits ii, 99 (1842), portrait.

FORBES, Nathaniel. Entered Madras army 1782; col. 24 Madras N.I. 1820 or 1821 to death; L.G. 10 Jany. 1837. d. Sloane st. London 16 Aug. 1851.

FORBES, Thomas John. Second lieut. R.A. 6 March 1795; col. commandant 8 Dec. 1847 to death; general 16 Jany. 1859. d. Stoke-by-Nayland, Colchester 1 Feb. 1868 aged 87.

FORBES, William. b. 1806; M.P. for Stirlingshire 1835–38 and 1841 to death. d. Callander house near Stirling 10 Feb. 1855.

FORBES, William Alexander (2 son of John Staats Forbes). b. Cheltenham 24 June 1855; educ. Kensington sch. and Winchester coll.; studied at Edin. univ. 1873 and univ. coll. London 1875–76; matric. St. John’s coll. Cam. 1876, fellow; prosector to Zoological soc. of London, Dec. 1879 to death; lectured on comparative anatomy Charing Cross hospital medical sch.; wrote on the muscular structure and voice organs of birds; travelled in Pernambuco 1880 and in tropical Africa 1882 to investigate the fauna; author of The collected papers of A. H. Garrod 1881. d. Shonga on the Niger 14 Jany. 1883. bur. Wickham, Kent 1 April 1884. F. E. Beddard’s Collected Papers of W. A. Forbes (1885).

FORBES, William Nairn (6 son of John Forbes of Blackford, co. Aberdeen). b. Blackford 3 April 1796; ed. at King’s coll. old Aberdeen, univ. of Edin. and Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Bengal engineers 1816, col. 1 Aug. 1854 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854; superintendent of mint machinery at Calcutta 1823; master of Calcutta mint 3 Feb. 1836 to death; built cathedral at Calcutta 1839–47; M.I.C.E. 1828. d. on board the ‘Oriental’ off the island of Tibble Teer on his way to England 1 May 1855. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xx, 138–40 (1861).

FORBES-LESLIE, Jonathan (youngest son of John Forbes of Blackford). b. 1798; ensign 78 foot 19 Jany. 1814, lieut. col. 9 Nov. 1846 to 10 Dec. 1847 when he retired from the army; author of Eleven years in Ceylon 2 vols. 1840; Recent disturbances and military executions in 1080Ceylon 1850; assumed name of Leslie after Forbes 1861. d. Rothienorman, Aberdeenshire 23 Dec. 1877. Leslie’s Family of Leslie (1869) iii, 320.

FORD, Charles Erskine. b. 5 Jany. 1812; 2 lieut. R.E. 29 April 1829, col. 11 Oct. 1863, col. commandant 1 Oct. 1877 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 1 July 1881. d. Hampton court palace 27 July 1884.

FORD, Rev. David Everard (son of Rev. David Ford, congregational minister). b. Long Melford, Suffolk 13 Sep. 1797; congregational minister at Lymington, Hants. 1821–1841; visited stations of congregational union 1841–43; minister of Richmond chapel, Manchester 1843, resigned 1858; author of Decapolis, or the individual obligation of christians to save souls 1840, fifth American ed. 1848; Chorazin 1841; Damascus 1842; Laodicea 1844 and Alarm in Zion 1848; published music for psalms and hymns 1825–29 and Rudiments of music 1843. d. Bedford 23 Oct. 1875.

FORD, Richard (eld. son of Sir Richard Ford, chief police magistrate of London, who d. 3 May 1806 aged 47). b. Sloane st. London April 1796; ed. at Winchester and Trin. coll. Ox.; B.A. 1817, M.A. 1822; barrister L.I. 17 May 1822; resided in Spain 1830–34; settled at Heavitree near Exeter 1834; contributed to Quarterly Review 1836–57; author of A handbook for travellers in Spain and readers at home 2 vols. 1845, new ed. 2 vols. 1861; Gatherings from Spain 1846, new ed. 1861; had a fine collection of majolica ware. d. Heavitree 1 Sep. 1858. Times 4 Sep. 1858 p. 6, col. 5; Waagen’s Treasures of art ii, 223–6 (1854); Fraser’s Mag. Oct. 1858 pp. 422–4.

FORD, William (eld. son of Rev. Richard Wilbraham Ford, R. of Little Risington, Gloucs.) b. 4 May 1812; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Cam., fellow; B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; admitted solicitor 1836; partner in firm of Ranken and Co. London 1837; member of council of Incorporated Law Society 1860–76, vice pres. 1869–70, pres. 1870–71. d. Majori, South Italy 10 Jany. 1889.

FORDHAM, George (son of James Fordham). b. Cambridge 11 Sep. 1837; trained under R. Drewitt and E. Smith, and commenced his career at Brighton 1850; at the head of list of winning jockeys 1855–63, won 165 races 1862; won the Oaks 5 times, the Cambridgeshire 4 times, the Ascot cup 5 times, the 2000 guineas 3 times, the 1000 guineas 7 times; won the Derby on Sir Bevys 1879, won the 1081Grand prix de Paris 1867, 1868 and 1881, the French Derby 1861 and 1868, the French Oaks 1880; known as “the demon.” d. Slough 12 Oct. 1887. Baily’s Mag. iii, 183–8 (1861) xlviii, 277–9 (1888); Illust. sporting news ii, 301 (1863), portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news i, 16 (1874), portrait, 24 May 1884, portrait; Sporting Mirror ii, 37–40 (1881), portrait.

FORDYCE, Alexander Dingwall. b. Aberdeen 4 March 1800; entered navy 12 June 1813; commander on h.p. 3 Sep. 1841; retired captain 14 July 1857; M.P. for Aberdeen 1847–52; author of Outlines of naval routine 1837. d. Aberdeen 16 July 1864. Naval and military gazette 30 July 1864 p. 483.

FORDYCE, Charles Francis. b. 19 Dec. 1819; ensign 41 foot 17 Feb. 1838; major 47 foot 1852–55; A.Q.M.G. Canada 1855–57; military sec. to governor of Madras 1866–71, private sec. 1871–72; col. second battalion Gloucestershire regiment 7 Aug. 1884 to death; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857. d. Hayford, Torquay 23 Sep. 1887.

FORDYCE, George Dingwall (brother of Alexander Dingwall Fordyce). b. 1808; advocate 1832, advocate depute; sheriff of Sutherland and Caithness 14 Aug. 1857 to 1875. d. Forres st. Edinburgh 7 Sep. 1875.

FORDYCE, John. b. Ayton, Berwickshire; ensign 34 foot 18 Dec. 1828; lieut. col. 74 foot 10 July 1846 to death; killed in the action of Waterkloof, Caffraria 6 Nov. 1851. The Christian Soldier 1856; W. R. King’s Campaigning in Kaffirland (1853) p. 146, view of his death.

FORDYCE, Sir John (son of James Fordyce). b. 4 March 1806; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery 10 May 1822, col. commandant 5 April 1873 to death; L.G. 21 Jany. 1872; K.C.B. 24 May 1873. d. Colne house, Earl’s Colne, Essex 26 Feb. 1877.

FORDYCE, William Dingwall. b. Rubilaw cottage, Aberdeen 31 March 1836; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.A. 1859; advocate 1862; M.P. for Aberdeenshire 1866–68, for East Aberdeenshire 1868 to death. d. Brucklay Castle near Aberdeen 27 Nov. 1875.

FORESTER, John George Weld, 2 Baron (eld. child of 1 Baron Forester 1767–1828). b. Sackville st. Piccadilly, London 9 Aug. 1801; M.P. for Wenlock 1826–28; captain of corps of gentlemen-at-arms 1841–46; P.C. 14 Sep. 1841; master of the Belvoir fox hounds 1830–58. 1082d. Willey park, Broseley, Shropshire 10 Oct. 1874. Baily’s Mag. xii, 163–5 (1867), portrait.

FORESTER, George Cecil Weld Forester, 3 Baron (brother of the preceding). b. Sackville st. Piccadilly, London 10 May 1807; ed. at Westminster; cornet Royal horse guards 27 May 1824, lieut. col. 2 Sep. 1853 to 30 Sep. 1859; placed on retired list 1 Oct. 1877; general 1 Oct. 1877; M.P. for Wenlock 1828–74; controller of the household, March to Dec. 1852 and Feb. 1858 to July 1859. d. 3 Carlton gardens, London 14 Feb. 1886.

FORMBY, Rev. Henry (2 son of Henry Greenhalgh Formby of Bury, Lancs. 1789–1834). b. 1816; ed. at Clitheroe gr. sch. Charterhouse and Brasenose coll. Ox.; B.A. 1837, M.A. 1841; V. of Ruardean, Gloucs. 1844; received into R.C. church at St. Mary’s college, Oscott 24 Jany. 1846; ordained priest at Oscott 18 Sep. 1847; priest at St. Chads, Birmingham and Wednesbury successively; resided at Dominican priory of St. Peter, Hinckley, Leics. about 1865 to death; edited for some years The monthly magazine of the Holy Rosary, n.s. 1873, &c.; author of A visit to the East 1843 and 40 other books. d. Normanton hall, Leics. 12 March 1884. Gillow’s English Catholics ii, 309–13 (1885).

FORREST, Sir James, 1 Baronet (son of James Forrest of Edinburgh, writer to the signet 1744–1820). b. 16 Oct. 1780; advocate 1803; lord provost of Edinburgh 1838; created a baronet 7 Aug. 1838; a ruling elder of established church of Scotland to 1843 when he joined the free church; grand master of grand lodge of freemasons in Scotland. d. Plymouth 5 April 1860.

FORREST, Robert. b. Carluke, Lanarkshire 1790; a stonemason in Clydesdale quarries; cut colossal figure of first Viscount Melville in centre of St. Andrew sq. Edinburgh; sculptor of statues of John Knox in Glasgow necropolis, and of Mr. Ferguson of Raith at Haddington 1843; opened his public exhibition of statuary on the Calton hill, Edinburgh 1832. d. Edinburgh 29 Dec. 1852. W. Anderson’s Scottish Nation iii, 710 (1863); Georgian Era iv, 180 (1834).

FORREST, Thomas. b. Burnwynd, Wilkieston, Midlothian 1805; studied under W. H. Lizars in Edinburgh; line engraver; many of his plates were published by Royal Assoc. for promotion of fine arts in Scotland; gave a complete set of his works 160 in number to Royal Scottish Academy 1884. d. Edinburgh. 15 Oct. 1889.

1083FORRESTER, Alfred Henry (son of Robert Forrester of 5 North gate, royal exchange, London, public notary). b. London 10 Sep. 1804; apprentice to a notary in the city; connected with his brother Charles Robert Forrester (who d. 15 Jany. 1850 aged 47) in business about 1825–39; illustrated several of his brother’s books in which the pseudonym of Alfred Crowquill was conjointly used by writer and artist, but afterwards it was used by the artist alone; contributed sketches to vols. 2, 3 and 4 of Punch 1842–3; member of staff of Illustrated London News from 1843; wrote and illustrated A. Crowquill’s Guide to watering places 1839 and 25 other books; illustrated wholly or partly Ups and Downs 1823 and 32 other books. d. 3 Portland place north, Clapham road, London 26 May 1872. Everitt’s English caricaturists (1886) 194, 368–71, 410; Illustrated Review 15 June 1872 pp. 737–42, portrait; Bentley’s Miscellany (1846) xix, 87, 99, portrait.

FORRESTER, Henry, stage name of Henry Frost. b. Capel near Dorking 9 April 1827; became an actor 1855; first appeared in London at Marylebone theatre as Korac in Zembuca 18 Dec. 1858; acted at Sadler’s Wells 1861–64, at Princess’s, Victoria, Surrey, Royalty, Lyceum; played Iago at Lyceum 14 Feb. 1876; played Daniel Druce in the provinces more than 300 times. d. Capel house, South Lambeth, London 9 April 1882. Illust. sp. and dr. news v, 31–3 (1876).

FORRESTER, Joseph James, Baron de Forrester. b. Hull 27 May 1809; merchant and wine shipper at Oporto 1831 to death; surveyed river Douro with a view to improvement of its navigation, and published a map of it 1848, adopted by Portuguese government as a national work; author of A word or two on port wine 1844, anon., 8 editions, for which he received addresses of thanks from 102 parishes of the Upper Douro; Oliveira Prize essay on Portugal 1853, 2 ed. 1854; created Baron de Forrester for life by Queen of Portugal; F.S.A. 1 May 1856; drowned in the river Douro near a rapid called the Ponto do Cachuo 12 May 1861. Memorials of Star club of London vol. 1 (1855).

FORSAYETH, Thomas (son of Rev. John Forsayeth of Cork). b. Cork 1798; ed. at Cork and Trin. coll. Dublin; called to Irish bar, Jany. 1824; went Munster circuit; recorder of Cork 1844 to death; Q.C. 6 July 1858. d. Merville, Queenstown, co. Cork 13 Oct. 1877. J. R. O’Flanagan’s Irish bar (1879) 408.

FORSHALL, Rev. Josiah (eld. son of Samuel Forshall of Witney, Oxon.) b. Witney 29 March 10841795; ed. at Ex. coll. Ox., fell. of his coll. 30 June 1819 to 13 July 1826, assistant tutor 1820, tutor 1822–24; B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; assist. keeper of MSS. in British Museum 1824, keeper 1827 to July 1837, secretary Feb. 1828–51; F.R.S. 12 June 1828; chaplain of Foundling Hospital 1829–59; edited Catalogue of Arundel and Burney manuscripts in British Museum 1834 and other catalogues; published Gospel of St. John arranged 1859, and other books; published with Sir F. Madden The Holy Bible ... in the earliest English versions made by John Wycliffe 4 vols. 1850. d. 49 Woburn place, London 18 Dec. 1863. R. Cowtan’s Memories of the British Museum (1872) 364–76.

FORSTER, Rev. Charles. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; P.C. of Ash, Kent 1834–38; one of the six preachers in Canterbury cathedral 1835 to death; R. of Stisted near Braintree, Essex 1838 to death; author of Discourses on subjects of Scripture history 1823; The life of J. Jebb, bishop of Limerick 1836; The one primeval language 1851 and other books. d. Stisted rectory 20 Aug. 1871 aged 84. Braintree Advertiser 30 Aug. 1871 p. 2.

FORSTER, Frank. b. near Newcastle 1800; managed mines near Swansea, also in Lancs.; assistant of Robert Stephenson in his chief enterprises up to completion of Chester and Holyhead railway on which he was resident engineer of portion from near Conway to Holyhead; chief engineer to Metropolitan commission of sewers from its formation 1849 to 1852; M.I.C.E. 1845. d. Elm lodge, Kilburn, London 13 April 1852. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xii, 157 (1853).

FORSTER, Sir George, 2 Baronet. b. Baronstown Glebe, co. Louth 21 March 1796; called to bar in Ireland 1830; succeeded 4 Dec. 1843; M.P. for co. Monaghan 1852–65. d. Fitzwilliam sq. Dublin 4 April 1876.

FORSTER, Rev. Henry (youngest son of Thomas Forster of St. Michael’s, Oxford). Matric. from New coll. Ox. 17 Nov. 1827 aged 18; B.A. 1832, M.A. 1834; esquire bedel in divinity in Univ. of Ox., Feb. 1832 to death when the office expired. d. Oxford 25 April 1857.

FORSTER, John (eld. child of Robert Forster of Newcastle, cattle dealer, who d. 1836). b. Newcastle 2 April 1812; ed. at Newcastle gr. sch. and Univ. coll. London; student at I.T. 10 Nov. 1828, barrister 27 Jany. 1843; dramatic critic on the True Sun 1832; edited Foreign quarterly review 1842–3; edited Daily News 9 Feb. 1846 to Oct. 1846; edited Examiner 10851847 to Dec. 1855; sec. to Lunacy commission 28 Dec. 1855 to Feb. 1861, comr. in Lunacy, Feb. 1861 to 1872; painted by Maclise as Kitely in Ben Jonson’s Every man in his humour; bequeathed his collection of pictures, books, &c. to South Kensington Museum; author of Lives of the statesmen of the Commonwealth 5 vols. 1836–9; The life and adventures of Oliver Goldsmith 1848, new ed. 2 vols. 1854; Life of Charles Dickens 3 vols. 1872–4 and many other books. d. Palace gate, Kensington 1 Feb. 1876. Catalogue of the Forster library (1888) i-xxii; Handbook of Forster and Dyce collections (1877) 1–21; Monthly Chronicle of north country lore, Feb. 1888 pp. 49–54; Madden’s Life of Countess of Blessington (1855) ii, 396–405; T. Powell’s Pictures of living authors (1851) 193–200; E. Yates’s Recollections (1884) ii, 161–3; G.M., n.s. xvi, 313–19 (1876); Temple Bar xlvi, 491–505 (1876); I.L.N. vii, 329 (1845), portrait; Graphic xiii, 179, 182, 188 (1876), portrait.

FORSTER, John. b. 1817; M.P. for Berwick 1853–57. d. 91 Victoria st. London 7 Jany. 1878.

FORSTER, John Cooper (son of Mr. Forster of Lambeth, surgeon). b. Mount st. Lambeth 13 Nov. 1823; ed. at King’s coll. sch. and Guy’s hospital; M.R.C.S. 1844, F.R.C.S. 1849, pres. 1884–5; M.B. London 1847; demonstrator of anatomy at Guy’s 1850, assistant surgeon 1855, surgeon 1870–80; retired from practice 1885; the first to perform operation of gastrotomy in England 1858; author of The surgical diseases of children 1860, papers in Pathological and Clinical Society’s Transactions and reports of cases in Guy’s Hospital Reports. d. 29 Upper Grosvenor st. London 2 March 1886. Guy’s Hospital Reports vol. xiv, 40–57 (1887).

FORSTER, Thomas Bowes. Entered Madras army 1818; col. 9 Madras N.I. 13 April 1855 to 1869; L.G. 3 July 1867. d. Burder Titley, Herefordshire 21 March 1870.

FORSTER, Thomas Emerson. b. Garrigill Gate, Northumberland 1802; resident viewer at Walker colliery, Northumberland 1823; engineer at Newcastle 1846 to death; M.I.C.E. 16 Feb. 1836; pres. of north of England institute of mining engineers 1866–68. d. Ellison place, Newcastle 7 March 1875. Transactions of north of England institute of mining engineers, xxv, 5–10 (1876); Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xliii, 300–303 (1876).

FORSTER, Thomas Ignatius Maria (eld. son of Thomas Furley Forster of Bishopsgate, London, 1086Russia merchant 1761–1825). b. Bank of England, Threadneedle st. 9 Nov. 1789; studied at C.C. coll. Cam., M.B. 1818; left Cambridge for Edinburgh, Feb. 1816; discovered a comet 3 July 1819; joined Church of Rome about 1823; founded with Gompertz the Animals’ Friend Society 1833; F.L.S. 1811; F.R.A.S.; author of Observations on the brumal retreat of the swallow 1808, 5 ed. 1817; Researches about atmospheric phenomena 1813, 3 ed. 1823 and 44 other books. d. Brussels 2 Feb. 1860. Epistolarium Forsterianum 2 vols. Bruges 1845–50, privately printed; Recueil de ma vie, mes ouvrages, et mes pensées, opuscule philosophique, 3 ed. Brussels 1837.

FORSTER, William (son of Mr. Forster of Tottenham, land agent). b. Tottenham 23 March 1784; minister of Society of Friends 1805; resided at Bradpole, Dorset 1816, afterwards at Norwich; spent 5 years on a mission to United States 1820–25; investigated condition of people in Ireland, Nov. 1846 to April 1847; presented an anti-slavery address to president of United States 1 Oct. 1853; author of A Christian exhortation to sailors 1813; Recent intelligence from Van Diemen’s Land 1831; A Salutation of Christian love 1860. d. at house of Samuel Low near the Holston river, East Tennessee 27 Jany. 1854. Memoirs of life of W. Forster edited by B. Seebohm 2 vols. 1865; Brief memoir of W. Forster by R. Charlton 1867.

FORSTER, William Edward (only child of the preceding). b. Bradpole, Dorset 11 July 1818; ed. at the Friend’s sch. Tottenham 1832–5; woollen manufacturer at Bradford with Wm. Fison 1842 to death; left Society of Friends 1850; contested Leeds, April 1859; M.P. for Bradford, Feb. 1861 to 1885, for central division of Bradford, Nov. 1885 to death; under sec. of state for colonies 25 Nov. 1865 to July 1866; P.C. 9 Dec. 1868; vice pres. of committee of council on education 16 Dec. 1868 to Feb. 1874; lord rector of Aberdeen Univ., installed 24 Nov. 1876; presented with freedom of city of Aberdeen 27 Nov. 1876; admitted to freedom of Clothworkers’ Co. 5 June 1877; chief sec. of state for Ireland, April 1880 to May 1882. d. 80 Eccleston sq. London 5 April 1886. bur. at Burley-in-Wharfedale. Life of W. E. Forster, By T. W. Reid 1888, 2 portraits; Illustrated Review vi, 279–81; Alpine Journal, May 1886; I.L.N. xlviii, 313 (1866), portrait, lxxvii, 112 (1881), portrait.

FORSTER, William Frederick. Ensign 3 footguards 26 Aug. 1813; captain 97 foot 18 Aug. 1825 to 18 Feb. 1826 when placed 1087on h.p.; deputy adjutant general 27 Feb. 1855 to 1 July 1860; military sec. to Duke of Cambridge, commander in chief 1 July 1860 to 1 Nov. 1871; colonel 81 foot 12 Feb. 1863 to death; general 6 Jany. 1874; K.H. 1833. d. 7 Chesterfield st. Mayfair, London 8 June 1879 aged 80.

FORSYTH, James. b. 1838; entered Indian civil service; settlement officer and deputy comr. of Nimar; captain Bengal staff corps; author of The sporting rifle and its projectiles 1863; The highlands of Central India, notes on their forests and wild tribes, natural history and sports 1871. d. 38 Manchester st. Manchester sq. London 1 May 1871.

FORSYTH, Sir John. Inspector general medical department, Bengal army 12 Nov. 1857; hon. phys. to the Queen 6 Sep. 1861 to death; C.B. 29 Aug. 1862; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1881. d. 51 Selborne road, West Brighton 14 Jany. 1883 in 84 year.

FORSYTH, Sir Thomas Douglas (10 child of Thomas Forsyth of Liverpool, merchant). b. Birkenhead 7 Oct. 1827; ed. at Sherborne, Rugby and Haileybury; entered Bengal civil service 1848; deputy comr. Umballa 1857; officiating comr. in Punjab 1860; comr. of Lahore 1863, of Jullundur 1865, of Umballa 1871, of Oudh 1872; additional member of governor general’s council 1874; envoy on special mission to Burma 1875, retired 1878; C.B. 1860; K.C.S.I. 27 July 1874. d. Eastbourne 17 Dec. 1886.

FORSYTH, William (son of Morris Forsyth of Turriff, Aberdeenshire). b. Turriff 24 Oct. 1818; ed. at Univs. of Aberdeen and Edin.; assistant to a country doctor; sub-editor of the Inverness Courier 1842; sub editor of Aberdeen Herald 1843; joined staff of Aberdeen Journal 1848, editor 1849 to death; member of Aberdeen school board; author of The martyrdom of Kelavane 1861; Idylls and Lyrics 1872 and other books. d. Richmond hill, Aberdeen 21 June 1879. Memoir of W. Forsyth, By A. Walker (1882).

FORT, Richard. b. Oakenshaw, Lancs. 15 March 1822; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; sheriff of Lancs. 1854; contested Clitheroe 1853, M.P. for Clitheroe 1865–68. d. 24 Queen’s gate gardens, London 2 July 1868.

FORTESCUE, Hugh Fortescue, 2 Earl (eld. child of 1 Earl Fortescue 1753–1841). b. 13 Feb. 1783; styled Viscount Ebrington 1789–1841; ed. at Eton and Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1803, M.A. 1810; M.P. for Barnstaple 10881804–7, for St. Mawes 1807–9, for Buckingham 1812–17, for Devon 1818–20, 1830 and 1831–32, for Tavistock 1820–30, for North Devon 15 Dec. 1832 to 1 March 1839 when summoned to House of Peers in his father’s barony of Fortescue; col. of 1 Devon militia 20 May 1816 to death; F.R.S. 5 June 1817; lord lieut. of Ireland 1 March 1839 to 15 Sep. 1841; P.C. 1 March 1839; lord lieut. of Devon 1839 to death; lord steward of H.M.’s household 1846–50; parliamentary sec. of Poor law board 1847–51; K.G. 12 July 1856; author of Memorandum of two conversations between Napoleon and Viscount Ebrington 1814. d. at house of H. Ford, 25 Southernhay, Exeter 14 Sep. 1861. Saunders’s Portraits of Reformers (1840) 135, portrait; The Eton portrait gallery (1876) 349–52.

FORTESCUE, George Matthew (brother of the preceding). b. Hill st. London 21 May 1791; ed. at Eton and Univ. of Edin.; M.P. for Hindon, Wilts. 1827–32. d. Boconnoc near Lostwithiel, Cornwall 24 Jany. 1877.

FORTESCUE, John William (2 son of 2 Earl Fortescue 1783–1861). b. 14 July 1819; M.P. for Barnstaple 1847–52. d. Madeira 25 Sep. 1859.

FORTESCUE, Matthew (son of Joseph Fortescue of the Scots Greys). b. 18 May 1805; ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; special pleader; barrister M.T. 22 Nov. 1839; judge of county court’s circuit No. 58 (Devonshire) 8 Oct. 1857 to death. d. Oak park house, Dawlish 27 March 1883.

FORTUNE, Robert. b. Kelloe, Edrom, Berwickshire 16 Sep. 1813; superintendent of indoor-plant department in Royal Horticultural Society’s garden at Chiswick, sent to China by the Society as collector 1842; curator of Chelsea botanical garden 1846–8; introduced tea-plant into north-west provinces of India 1851; author of Three years’ wanderings in the northern provinces of China 1847; Two visits to the tea countries of China and the British plantations in the Himalayas 2 vols. 1853 and other books. d. 1 Gilston road, South Kensington, London 13 April 1880. Field and Semple’s Memoirs of botanic garden at Chelsea (1878) 205–8.

FOSS, Edward (eld. son of Edward Smith Foss of 36 Essex st. Strand, London, solicitor, who d. 13 May 1830 aged 74). b. Gough sq. Fleet st. London 16 Oct. 1787; articled to his father 1804, partner with him 1811–30; student of Inner Temple 1822; under sheriff of 1089London 1827–8; retired from practice 1840; F.S.A. 18 April 1822; one of founders of Incorporated Law Society 1827, pres. 1842–44; published The grandeur of the law 1843; The judges of England 9 vols. 1848–64; Tabulæ Curiales 1865; Biographia Juridica 1870. d. Frensham house, Addiscombe 27 July 1870. Foss’ Biographia Juridica (1870) pp. xii-xv.

FOSTER, Charles James. b. Bicester, Oxfordshire 24 Nov. 1820; went to United States 1847; edited Woodruff’s Trotting horses of America 1868, 2 ed. 1875, also Bogardus’s Field cover and trap shooting 1874; wrote for The Spirit of the times paper; established the New York Sportsman 1876; considered the best informed man in America on subject of racing. d. Astoria, New York 12 Sep. 1883.

FOSTER, Edward Ward (son of Edward Foster, land steward to Sir R. Burdett). b. in parish of All Saints, Derby 8 Nov. 1762; lieut. 20 regt. of foot; served in America, Holland and Egypt; retired 1805; miniature painter to the royal family with apartments in Round tower, Windsor; exhibited 22 landscapes at R.A. 1812–28; travelled in England as a portrait painter; invented machine for taking faces; author of An elementary grammar of French language 1837; A chronological analysis of the Old and New Testament 1850; Chart of Histories of Rome, France and Britain 1835; Chronological Chart of History of British Empire 1847; had grant of £60 a year from Bounty fund. d. Derby 12 March 1865. J. B. Robinson’s Derbyshire Gatherings (1866) 81–4, portrait.

FOSTER, James Lancelot. b. York; edited Yorkshire Gazette, manager and publisher of it 1852–82; sheriff of York 1870–71. d. 15 Ogleforth, York 3 Dec. 1883 in 74 year.

FOSTER, John (son of Jonas Foster, yeoman). b. Thornton, Yorkshire 20 Jany. 1798; established a worsted business at Low Fold near Queensbury 1819; removed to Cannon Mill, Great Horton 1832; built the Blackdike mill 1835; introduced power-looms into his works 1836; commenced using alpaca wool and mohair 1837; employed 3000 people and manufactured 15,000 packs of wool a year; retired 1869; purchased Hornby castle estate, Lancaster 1861. d. Prospect house, Queensbury 6 March 1879. Fortunes made in business ii, 1–107 (1881), portrait.

FOSTER, John Frederic (son of Rev. Dr. Frederick Wm. Foster, Moravian bishop). b. Wyke near Halifax, Yorkshire 1795; ed. at a Moravian coll. and Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 10901817, M.A. 1821; barrister M.T. 1 June 1821; stipendiary mag. of Manchester, Aug. 1825 to April 1838; chairman of quarter sessions of hundred of Salford 9 April 1838 to death; recorder of Manchester 18 April 1839, resigned May. d. Alderley, Cheshire 9 April 1858. G.M. iv, 559–60 (1858); Illust. news of the world ii, 117 (1858), portrait.

FOSTER, Peter Le Neve (only son of Peter Le Neve Foster of Lenwade, Norfolk). b. Lenwade 17 Aug. 1809; ed. at Norwich gr. sch. and Trin. hall, Cam., fellow 1830; 38 wrangler 1830; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833; barrister M.T. 29 Jany. 1836; practised as a conveyancer 1836–53; sec. to Society of Arts 1853 to death; a founder of Photographic Soc. of London 1853; pres. of Quekett Microscopical Club; sec. of mechanical science section of British Association 13 years; author of Photography 1876. d. East hill, Wandsworth, London 21 Feb. 1879. Journal of Soc. of Arts (1879) xxvii, 316; I.L.N. lxxiv, 224 (1879), portrait.

FOSTER, Thomas. Second lieut. R.E. 1 Sep. 1815, col. commandant 8 Feb. 1866 to death; general 8 June 1871. d. 5 Cleveland terrace, Hyde park, London 26 Aug. 1872 aged 76.

FOSTER, Thomas Campbell (son of John Foster, proprietor and editor of Leeds Patriot paper). b. Knaresbro’, Yorkshire 6 Oct. 1813; sub-editor of Liverpool Standard; reporter for The Times in Houses of Parliament; made enquiries into the Rebecca riots and other important questions for The Times; special pleader 1842; barrister M.T. 30 Jany. 1846, bencher Jany. 1878; contested Sheffield 13 July 1865; revising barrister for west riding of Yorkshire 1868–75; recorder of Warwick 23 Dec. 1874 to death; Q.C. 25 June 1875; author of Letters on the condition of the people of Ireland 1845; Treatise on the writ of Scire Facias 1851 and other books. d. 30 Orsett terrace, Hyde park, London 1 July 1882. Biograph vol. 1 (1882) pp. 293–326.

FOSTER, Sir William, 1 Baronet (younger son of Wm. Foster of Norwich 1762–1821). b. 16 June 1798; attorney at Norwich 1820 to death; alderman of Norwich to death, sheriff 1832, mayor 1844; created baronet 3 Aug. 1838. d. St. Giles’s st. Norwich 2 Dec. 1874.

FOTHERGILL, John Milner (son of Mr. Fothergill of Morland, Westmoreland, surgeon). b. Morland 11 April 1841; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1865; practised at Morland, then at Leeds; M.R.C.P. 1872; phys. in London 1872 to death; author of Digitalis, its modes of action and its uses 1871; The heart and its 1091diseases with their treatment 1872, 2 ed. 1879 and 20 other books. d. 3 Henrietta st. Cavendish sq. London 28 June 1888. Midland medical miscellany ii, 161–2 (1883), portrait.

FOULKES, Rev. Henry (2 son of John Foulkes of Henllan, Denbighshire 1736–1814). Matric. from Jesus coll. Ox. 10 July 1790 aged 17; B.A. 1794, M.A. 1797, B.D. 1804, D.D. 1817; fellow of Jesus coll. to 1817, principal 1817 to death; R. of Yelford, Oxon. 1815 to death; R. of Besselsleigh, Berks. and of Llandyssil, Cardigan 1817 to death. d. Jesus college 17 Sep. 1857.

FOULKES, William Decimus Inglett (youngest son of Rev. Peter Foulkes, V. of Shebbear, Devon). Ed. at Bedford gr. sch.; barrister M.T. 6 June 1871; a reporter on The Law Journal Reports 1875; edited The Law Journal newspaper 1879 to death; author of An elementary view of the proceedings in an action in the supreme court 1876, 3 ed. 1884; A Generation of Judges. By Their Reporter 1886; author with J. M. Lely of The Judicature acts ... with notes 1875, 4 ed. 1883 and other books. d. 25 Half Moon st. Piccadilly, London 17 Feb. 1890 in 42 year.

FOUNTAIN, Joseph. Theatrical artist at Leeds many years; the pioneer of the now extensive industry of designing and printing theatrical posters. d. 31 Brunswick terrace, Leeds 11 Oct. 1887 in 60 year.

FOURACRES, Charles. b. Devonshire; enlisted in 1st Madras fusiliers; sub-engineer Godavery Delta irrigation works; engaged on Sone irrigation works 1869, resigned 1879; invented an excavator for which government gave him 10,000 rupees; invented the hydraulic-brake shutter for the Sone weir and the vertical-action bucket steam dredger 1878; engineer of the Seebpur engineering factory Calcutta 1879, retired 1884 when he was awarded a bonus of 15,000 rupees; M.I.C.E. 2 Dec. 1879. d. Bristol 14 July 1884. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxviii, 418–24 (1884).

FOURDRINIER, Henry. b. Lombard st. London 11 Feb. 1766; succeeded his father as a paper maker and wholesale stationer; patented with his brother Sealy (who d. 1847) invention of paper making machine 1801, perfected their machine for making continuous paper 1807; became bankrupt 1810; £7000 voted by Parliament to Messrs. Fourdrinier as compensation for their loss by defective state of law of patents 8 May 1840. d. Mavesyn, Rydware, Staffs. 3 Sep. 1854. G.M. xliv, 102–103 (1855); I.L.N. xxv, 345, 354 (1854), portrait.

1092FOWKE, Francis. b. Belfast, July 1823; 2 lieut. R.E. 18 June 1842, captain 17 Feb. 1854 to death; inspector of Science and Art department, London 1857, architect and engineer to same department; sec. to English commission attached to Paris exhibition 1855–57; designed Museum of science and art, Edinburgh, opened 19 May 1866; planned buildings for International Exhibition 1862; Albert hall was chiefly designed by him; author of A description of the buildings at South Kensington for the reception of the Sheepshanks pictures 1858; Some account of the buildings designed for the International Exhibition of 1862, 1861. d. The Museum, South Kensington 4 Dec. 1865, bust by Woolner in the Museum. Papers on professional subjects, Corps. of R.E. xxv, 9; Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxx, 468–70 (1866); I.L.N. xl, 431, 433 (1862), portrait.

FOWKE, Sir Frederick Gustavus, 1 Baronet (3 son of Sir Thomas Fowke, knt., who d. 30 Nov. 1786). b. 24 Jany. 1782; created baronet 7 Feb. 1814. d. Leamington 17 May 1856.

FOWLER, Charles. b. Collumpton 17 May 1792; apprentice to a builder at Exeter; erected court of bankruptcy, Basinghall st. London; gained first premium in a design for London bridge 1822; rebuilt Covent Garden market 1829–30; built Hungerford market opened July 1833; restored Powderham castle, Devon; built churches at Charmouth, Buckley and Honiton and Devon county lunatic asylum at Exminster 1845. d. Great Marlow 26 Sep. 1867. Pycroft’s Art in Devon (1883) p. 45.

FOWLER, Frank. Lecturer in Willis’ rooms, London; engaged on a London daily paper; lecturer in Sydney 1855; started the Month, first respectable magazine in Sydney, July 1857 last issue Dec. 1858; contested Sydney for legislative assembly receiving 2000 votes; edited a London newspaper; founded The Library Co. London 1860, sec. of it to death; author of Southern lights and shadows 1859 and other books. d. Oakley cottage, Hammersmith 22 Aug. 1863 aged 30. Frank Fowler’s Last Gleanings (1864) pp. vii-xvii.

FOWLER, George. Formerly of Collumpton; author of Three years in Russia 2 vols. 1841; Lives of the sovereigns of Russia 1858; Turkey, a history of the Ottoman empire 1854; History of the war between Turkey and Russia 1855; Mary Markland the cottager’s daughter, 2 ed. 1861. d. Victoria terrace, Bayswater, London 20 April 1858.

FOWLER, John. b. Melksham, Wiltshire 11 July 1826; entered works of Gilke, Wilson 1093& Co. at Middlesbrough 1847; drained Hainault Forest, Essex by use of his patent drainage plough about 1851; invented with Jeremiah Head a steam plough which gained prize of £500 at Chester show of Royal Agricultural Society 1858; invented double engine tackle 1860; established with Kitson and Hewitson, manufacturing works at Hunslet, Leeds 1860. d. Ackworth, Yorkshire 4 Dec. 1864. Trans. of Soc. of Engineers for 1868 pp. 299–318; Practical Mag. (1875) 257–62, portrait.

FOWLER, Sir John Dickenson. Solicitor, High Bailiff of Burton upon Trent 1818; knighted by Prince Regent at Beaudesert 8 Nov. 1818 but never gazetted. d. Burton 5 Feb. 1839 aged 70 but name remained in Knightages to 1864.

FOWLER, Lydia. b. Nantucket, Massachusetts 1823; a graduate of Syracuse medical college; the first female professor of obstetrics in America; lived in London 1863 to death; author of Familiar lessons on phrenology and physiology 1847; Familiar lessons on astronomy 1848; The pet of the household and how to save it 1865; Heart melodies, poems 1870 and 14 other books. (m. Lorenzo Niles Fowler of London, phrenologist). d. 62 St. Augustine’s road, Camden sq. London 26 Jany. 1879.

FOWLER, Richard. b. London 28 Nov. 1765; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1793; L.C.P. London 1796; practised at Salisbury from 1796; phys. to Salisbury infirmary 1796–1841; F.R.S. 1 April 1802; purchased and endowed ground for Salisbury and South Wiltshire museum to which he gave a large part of his books and collections 1862; author of Some Observations on the mental state of the blind and deaf and dumb, Salisbury 1843, 2 ed. 1860; An attempt to detect the physiological process by which thinking is effected, Salisbury 1849, 2 ed. 1852. d. Milford near Salisbury 13 April 1863 having attained a greater age than had any other member of the Royal Coll. of Phys. from its foundation. Proc. of Royal Soc. xiii, pp. iii-v (1864); Munk’s Roll, 2 ed. vol. ii, p. 447.

FOX, Caroline (2 dau. of Robert Were Fox 1789–1877). b. Falmouth 24 May 1819; kept a journal from 1835 to 1871 which has rendered her celebrated; friend of John Sterling, John Stuart Mill and other eminent men. d. Penjerrick near Falmouth 12 Jany. 1871. Memories of old friends, extracts from journals of Caroline Fox 1835 to 1871, ed. by H. N. Pym 1881, portrait, 3 ed. 2 vols. 1882.

FOX, Sir Charles (youngest son of Francis Fox of Derby, physician). b. Derby 11 March 1810; assistant engineer on London and Birmingham 1094railway 1830–35; a civil and consulting engineer in London 1857 to death; introduced the switch into railway practice 1838; erected with John Henderson the building for Great Exhibition in Hyde Park 1850–1; erected Crystal Palace, Sydenham 1852–54; carried out the East Kent and other railways; erected bridges over Thames at Barnes, Richmond, and Staines and many other large bridges; M.I.C.E. 13 Jany. 1838; knighted at Windsor Castle 23 Oct. 1851. d. Blackheath, Kent 14 June 1874. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxix, 264–6 (1875); Graphic ix, 15, 17 (1874), portrait; Practical Mag. vi, 129–33, portrait.