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HAMMOND, Alfred William. Music seller and publisher at 9 New Bond st. and then at 214 Regent st. London 1850–62; projector, proprietor and many years editor of Musical Standard, No. 1, Aug. 2, 1862; composer of As o’er the past my mem’ry strays, a hymn 1857; When all thy mercies O my God, a hymn 1857. d. Belvedere near Erith, Kent 18 Dec. 1875.

HAMMOND, George (younger son of William Hammond). b. 1763; matric. from Merton coll. Ox. 16 March 1780 aged 17, B.A. 1784, M.A. 1788, D.C.L. 1810; sec. to David Hartley in Paris when conducting peace negotiations with France and America 1783; chargé d’ affaires at Vienna 1788–90, at Madrid 1791; minister plenipo. to U.S. America 1791–5; under sec. foreign office, London 1795–1806, 1807–9; a comr. for British claims on France, Sep. 1814 to July 1828 when pensioned; 1310connected with the Anti-Jacobin 1797 and the Quarterly Rev. 1809. d. 22 Portland place, London 22 April 1853 aged 90.

HAMMOND, James Lempriere. b. 1828; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1852, M.A. 1855, fellow, tutor and bursar; executor of Dr. Wm. Whewell 1866 when he superintended the additions to Trin. coll., completed under Whewell’s will at cost of £100,000 in 1868; assistant Endowed schools commissioner; assistant Charity commissioner for England and Wales; sec. to D. of Devonshire, chancellor of Cambridge; on the governing bodies of Christ’s hospital and Westminster school; author of Carmen Latinum. Cantab. 1849. d. Clyde villa, Hammersmith, Middlesex 23 July 1880 in 52 year. Times 28, 30, 31 July 1880.

HAMMOND, John (youngest son of Lempriere Hammond of Jersey). b. 1801; solicitor general of Jersey 1848–58; bailiff of Jersey and pres. of The States 16 Feb. 1858 to death. d. Royal court house, Jersey 14 Feb. 1880.

HAMOND, Sir Graham Eden, 2 Baronet (only son of Sir Andrew Snape Hamond 1738–1828, captain R.N., 1 baronet). b. Newman st. London 30 Dec. 1779; entered R.N. 1785, captain 30 Nov. 1798; present at battle of Copenhagen 1801; knight commander of Tower and Sword 1825; commander in chief on South American station 1834–8; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 13 Sep. 1831, G.C.B. 5 July 1855; admiral 22 Jany. 1847, admiral of the fleet 10 Nov. 1862. d. Norton lodge, Freshwater, Isle of Wight 20 Dec. 1862.

HAMOND, Horace Edward. Cornet 1 life guards 18 Feb. 1828, lieut. 1831, sold out 12 Sep. 1834; aide-de-camp to king of Hanover some time; precis writer to earl of Malmesbury sec. of state foreign affairs 28 Feb. 1852; consul at Cherbourg 1 April 1852 to death; K.H. d. 8 Feb. 1876.

HAMPDEN, John (brother of Right Rev. R. D. Hampden). b. 27 Oct. 1798; ed. at Univ. coll. Ox.; collector of pictures, coins and medals; collected materials for life of John Hampden the patriot. d. 4 Clarence ter. Warwick st. Leamington 13 Nov. 1860. Numismatic Chronicle, xxi, Proceedings 11–12 (1861).

HAMPDEN, John (1 son of Rev. John Hampden, R. of Hinton Martel, Dorset 1829–47). Matric. from St. Mary hall, Ox. 14 Feb. 1839 aged 19; author of The rampart of steel or a fancys (sic) for a permanent coast militia and an army of reserve, Canterbury 1852; John Hampden’s Monthly. The truth seeker’s oracle and 1311scriptural science review, Nos. 1–3 May-July 1876; Description of J. Hampden’s improvements in artillery 1876; The new manual of Biblical Cosmography 1877; The earth in its creation and the portion adapted to man’s occupation 1880; published John Hampden’s Circular map of the world 1875; John Hampden’s Chronometrical Dial-plate 1876; edited Cosmos. A Geographical Review 1883. d. from bronchitis at 3 Park st. Croydon 22 Jany. 1891. Daily Graphic 27 Jany. 1891 p. 6 col. 2.

Note.—He inserted an advertisement in Scientific Opinion 12 Jany. 1870 offering £500 to anyone proving that the earth is round. This challenge was accepted by Alfred Russel Wallace; Hampden and Wallace each deposited £500 in the hands of John Henry Walsh who decided in favour of Wallace as having “proved the curvature to and fro of the Bedford Level canal between Witney bridge and Welsh’s dam (6 miles) to the extent of 5 feet more or less.” Walsh paid the £1000 to Wallace 1 April 1870 although Hampden instructed him not to do so, Hampden brought an action against Walsh to recover his £500, which was tried in the Queen’s Bench division 17 Jany. 1876 when the judges held that Hampden having demanded his deposit money back before it had been paid over by Walsh, was entitled to judgment. Law Reports i, Q.B. division (1876) 189–98; Experimental proofs that the surface of standing water is not convex but horizontal with an examination of the question, Is the earth a globe or a plane? between J. Hampden and A. R. Wallace. By Parallax [Samuel Birley Rowbotham] 1870.

HAMPDEN, Right Rev. Renn Dickson (eld. son of Renn Hampden, colonel of militia). b. Barbadoes 29 March 1793; ed. at Oriel coll. Ox., double first class 1813, B.A. 1814, M.A. 1816, B.D. and D.D. 1833, fellow 1814–7, tutor 1832, Bampton lecturer 1832; C. of Newton near Bath 1816; principal of St. Mary hall, Ox., April 1833–48; professor of moral philosophy 1834–36; canon of Ch. Ch. Ox. and regius professor of divinity 17 Feb. 1836 to 1848; R. of Ewelme, Oxfs. 1836–48; bp. of Hereford 28 Dec. 1847 to death, his election opposed by 13 bishops and the dean of Hereford, consecrated at Lambeth palace 26 March 1848; author of The Scholastic philosophy considered in its relation to Christian theology 1833 and of essays, lectures, sermons and charges. d. 107 Eaton place, London 23 April 1868. Memorials by his daughter (1871), portrait; Mozley’s Reminiscences, i, 350–86 (1882); I.L.N. xii, 22 (1848), portrait.

HAMPSON, John. b. 1790; master of Bury st. academy, Manchester 1810–60; author of The Monitory and Epistolary Exercise book for schools 1841. d. Ardwick, Manchester, Oct. 1878 in 88 year.

HAMPTON, John Somerset Pakington, 1 Baron (younger son of Wm. Russell of Powick court, Worcs., who d. 9 Dec. 1812). b. Powick 1312court 20 Feb. 1799; ed. at Eton and Oriel coll. Ox., D.C.L. 7 June 1853; assumed name of Pakington 1830; chairman of Worcs. quarter sessions 1834–54; M.P. for Droitwich 1837–74; sec. of state for the colonies 27 Feb. to Dec. 1852; P.C. 27 Feb. 1852; first lord of the admiralty Feb. 1858 to June 1859 and June 1866 to March 1867; sec. of state for war 8 March 1867 to Dec. 1868; first civil service commissioner Nov. 1875; baronet 13 July 1846; G.C.B. 15 June 1859; created Baron Hampton of Hampton Lovett and of Westwood, co. Worcester 6 March 1874. d. 9 Eaton sq. London 9 April 1880. bur. in family mausoleum Hampton Lovett church, Worcs. 15 April. The drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages, second series 1859, portrait; The statesmen of England (1862), portrait; I.L.N. xx, 321 (1852), xxi, 237 (1852), portrait.

HAMPTON, Richard. b. Nancekuke down, Illogan, Cornwall 4 April 1782; a worker at a stamping mill; first preached at Redruth 1811; itinerated in Devon and Cornwall as a Wesleyan, known as the Cornish pilgrim preacher 1813–58. d. Porth Towan, Illogan 2 April 1858. Foolish Dick, an autobiography of Richard Hampton 1873, portrait.

HAMPTON, William Philip. b. 21 Sep. 1810; ensign 30 Bengal N.I. 4 Nov. 1828, commandant 2 Bengal N.I. 1 Jany. 1864 to 1 March 1870; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. d. 65 Haverstock hill, London 23 Jany. 1881.

HANBURY, Benjamin. b. Wolverhampton 13 May 1778; in Bank of England 1803–59; deacon of Congregational ch. Union st. London 1819–57; treasurer of Congregational Union 1831 to death; author of An historical research concerning the Congregational church in England 1820; Historical memorials relating to the Independents 3 vols. 1839–44; edited Hooker’s Ecclesiastical Polity 3 vols. 1830. d. 16 Gloucester villas, Brixton, Surrey 12 Jany. 1864. Evangelical Mag. 1864 p. 166.

HANBURY, Daniel (1 son of Daniel Bell Hanbury of firm of Allen and Hanbury, chemists, Plough court, Lombard st. London). b. London 11 Sep. 1825; partner in firm of Allen and Hanbury to 1870; student at Pharmaceutical soc. 1844, member 1857, examiner 1860–72; F.L.S. 1855, treasurer to death; F. Chem. soc. 21 Jany. 1858, and F.R. Micros. soc. 1867; F.R.S. 6 June 1867, member of council 1872–5; studied the materia medica of the Chinese; visited Greece and the Holy Land 1860; the cucurbitaceous genus Hanburya named after 1313him 1870; author with professor Friedrich A. Flückiger of Pharmacographia 1874. d. Clapham common, Surrey 24 March 1875. Science papers, ed. by J. Ince 1876, memoir pp. 3–40, portrait; Proc. of Royal soc. xxiv, 2–3 (1876); Nature, xi, 428 (1875).

HANBURY, Daniel Bell (1 son of Capel Hanbury). b. 8 Feb. 1794; with Allen and Hanbury 1808, partner, retired 1868; an originator of Pharmaceutical soc. 1841, treasurer 1852–67; assisted to make index for Pharmacographia 1874. d. Hollywood, Clapham common 12 Feb. 1882. Pharmaceutical Journal, xii, 698 (1881–82).

HANBURY, Sir John (2 son of Wm. Hanbury of Kelmarsh, Northamptonshire). b. Kelmarsh 1782; ed. at Eton; ensign 58 foot 20 July 1799; served in Egypt 1801, in Peninsula 1808–9, 1813–4, in Portugal 1826–7; major grenadier guards 25 July 1821 to 22 July 1830; colonel 99 foot 6 Oct. 1851 to death; general 20 June 1854; K.C.H. and K.B. 1832; K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862. d. 15 Charles st. Berkeley sq. London 7 June 1863.

HANBURY, Robert (2 son of Osgood Hanbury of Holfield Grange, Essex 1765–1852). b. 2 July 1796; clerk with Truman, Buxton & Co. brewers 1815, partner 1820, managing partner of business in London and at Burton on Trent; sheriff of Herts. 1854; had large gardens and conservatories at Poles near Ware; built and endowed Thundridge ch. Herts. 184-and Christ Church, Ware 1858. d. Poles, Ware 20 Jany. 1884. Licensed Victuallers’ Gazette 16 Jany. 1875 pp. 64, 67, portrait; Licensed Victuallers’ Year Book 1876 pp. 83–5, portrait.

HANBURY, Robert Culling (1 son of the preceding). b. London 19 March 1823; partner in Truman, Hanbury and Co. brewers, London; M.P. for Middlesex 29 April 1857 to death. d. 10 Upper Grosvenor st. London 29 March 1867. bur. in churchyard of Thundridge, Herts. I.L.N. xxx, 479 (1857), portrait.

HANCE, Henry Fletcher. b. Old Brompton, London 4 Aug. 1827; entered Hong-kong C.S. 1 Sep. 1844; 4 assistant in superintendency of trade at Hong-kong 1 May 1854, 1 assistant 1857; vice consul at Whampoa near Canton 1861–78; consul Canton 1878, 1881, 1883; acting consul at Amoy, May 1886; spent his life in study of botany of China. d. Amoy 22 June 1886, his herbarium 22,000 species offered to British Museum.

HANCOCK, Albany (son of John Hancock, saddler, Newcastle-on-Tyne, d. 1812). b. Bridge 1314End, Newcastle 24 Dec. 1806; solicitor Newcastle 1830–2; a founder of the Tyneside Naturalists’ Field club 1846; F.L.S. 1862; wrote over 70 papers on birds, shells, mollusca, etc. 1836 etc., the first to examine carefully the internal structures of mollusca 1843, gold medallist of Royal soc. 1858; with J. Alder wrote A monograph of the British Nudibranchiate mollusca 7 parts 1845–55. d. 4 St. Mary’s ter. Newcastle 24 Oct. 1873. Trans. Northumberland Nat. Hist. Soc. v, 118, (1875), portrait; Monthly Chronicle of North country lore, Dec. 1890 pp. 568–70, portrait.

HANCOCK, Henry. Entered Bombay army 18 June 1819; adjutant general 1 May 1848 to 15 Sep. 1856; col. 19 Bombay N.I. 1856–69; L.G. 30 March 1869. d. Friedenfels, Upper Maize hill, St. Leonards on Sea, Sussex 30 Dec. 1872 aged 70.

HANCOCK, Henry (son of Samuel Hancock of London, merchant). b. Bread st. hill, London 6 Aug. 1809; M.R.C.S. 1834, F.R.C.S. 1843, prof. of human anat. 1865, president 1872, Hunterian orator 1873; house surgeon Westminster hospital, demonstrator of anatomy 1834–8; lecturer on anatomy and physiology Charing Cross hospital 1838, assist. surgeon 1839, surgeon to 1875, lecturer on surgery; surgeon Westminster ophthalmic hospital to 1875; the first to remove the os calsis and retain the foot; author of On the operation for strangulated hernia 1850; On the operative surgery of the foot and ankle-joint 1873. d. Standen house, Chute, Wilts. 1 Jany. 1880. Medical Times 10 Jany. 1880 p. 53; Lancet (1853) ii, 578, portrait.

HANCOCK, John (brother of Albany Hancock 1806–73). b. about 1808; saddler and ironmonger at Newcastle; formed finest collection of British birds in the Kingdom and presented it to Museum of Natural History Soc. Barras bridge, Newcastle 1881; author of A catalogue of the birds of Northumberland and Durham in Natural History Trans. 1874 and of other papers in same work and in Trans. of Tyneside Naturalists’ Field Club. d. 4 St. Mary’s terrace, Newcastle 11 Oct. 1890. Monthly chronicle of North country lore, Dec. 1890 pp. 566–9, 2 portraits; Graphic 25 Oct. 1890 p. 460, portrait.

HANCOCK, Sir Samuel (brother of Henry Hancock 1809–80). b. 3 June 1805; exon of the yeomen of the guard 1832–47; knighted at St. James’s palace 12 May 1841. d. 5 Paragon buildings, Cheltenham 7 Aug. 1886.

HANCOCK, Thomas (2 son of James Hancock, timber merchant). b. Marlborough, Wilts. 8 1315May 1786; invented the masticator by which india rubber was pressed into blocks or rolled into sheets 1820; india rubber manufacturer Goswell road, London 1821, works burnt down 11 April 1834, Manchester works burnt 1838; partner with Charles Macintosh maker of waterproof garments London and Manchester; patented vulcanised india rubber and vulcanite or ebonite 1843; took out 16 patents 1820–47. d. Woodberry vale, Stoke Newington 26 March 1865. Personal Narrative of India-rubber manufacture in England, By T. Hancock (1857), portrait.

HANCOCK, Walter (brother of the preceding). b. Marlborough 16 June 1799; engineer Stratford, Essex; invented steam engine in which the cylinder and piston were replaced by flexible steam bags, ran it on the road from Stratford to London Feb. 1831, built 10 similar machines up to 1840; associated with Thomas Hancock in manufacture of india rubber 1841; author of Narrative of twelve years experiments of steam carriages on common roads 1838. d. West Ham, Essex 14 May 1852.

HANCOCK, William Neilson (2 son of Wm. John Hancock of Lisburn, Antrim). b. Castle st. Lisburn 1820; ed. at Dungannon and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1843, LL.B. 1846, LLD. 1849; barrister King’s inns 1844; Q.C. 1859; professor of political economy at Trin. coll.; professor of political economy and jurisprudence Queen’s coll. Belfast; founded Statistical and social inquiry Soc. of Ireland 1847; sec. to Univ. of Dublin commission, Irish railway commission and other commissions; clerk of the Crown and Hanaper office, Dublin. d. at residence of Sir Wm. Thomson, Glasgow 10 July 1888. bur. Mount Jerome cemetery, Dublin 17 July.

HAND, George Sumner. b. 1807; entered navy 5 Feb. 1821, captain 6 Sep. 1852, retired admiral 15 June 1879; C.B. 20 May 1859; F.R.G.S.; served in Ava 1825, West Indies 1829–31, on coast of Africa 1844–9. d. I. 4 The Albany, Piccadilly, London 1 Dec. 1883.

HANDLEY, John. b. Stoke, Notts. 1807; a banker at Newark and Sleaford as Handley, Peacock & Co.; M.P. for Newark 1857–65; sheriff of Notts. 1869. d. North gate, Newark 8 Dec. 1880.

HANDYSIDE, Robert (son of William Handyside, writer to the signet). b. Edinburgh 1798; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; advocate at Scottish bar 1822; deputy of the lord advocate 1835; sheriff depute of co. Stirling 9 July 1840; 1316solicitor general for Scotland 17 Jany. 1853; a lord of session and justiciary with courtesy title of Lord Handyside 15 Nov. 1853 to death. d. Kennet, Edinburgh 18 April 1858. Journal of jurisprudence ii, 245 (1858).

HANHAM, Thomas Barnabas (youngest son of Rev. Sir James Hanham, 7 baronet, d. 2 April 1849, m. Eliza Dean dau. of William Patey, she d. Wimborne, Dorset 5 June 1877 aged 90). b. 11 June 1825; sub-lieut. R.N. 6 Aug. 1845, lieut. 1847, retired 1864, commander 30 April 1879; Provincial S.G.W. of Dorset. d. Manston house, Blandford, Dorset 27 Nov. 1883, cremated Manston 4 Dec. when a masonic ritual was used which had not been employed in England during the century. m. as his third wife 1 Dec. 1868 Edith Mary widow of major John Swinburne 18 regt., she d. 30 July 1876.

Note.—He erected in the private grounds of Manston house a crematorium, and having disinterred the remains of his third wife and his mother, had them cremated there on the 8 and 9 Oct. 1882. These were the first cremations in England in modern times. Times 12 Oct. 1882 p. 4, 5 Dec. 1883 p. 7, 6 Dec. p. 7; Trans. Cremation Soc. 1885 p. 48 with view of the Crematorium.

HANKEY, Sir Frederick (3 son of John Hankey). Ensign 90 foot Sep. 1800; major of 50 foot 1808, of 2 Ceylon regiment 1809, of 15 foot 1815 to 25 March 1816 when placed on h.p.; sec. to order of St. Michael and St. George 17 Nov. 1818 to 20 June 1833; col. in the army 27 Nov. 1825, retired Aug. 1826; sec. to government of Malta 1825 to 1838; G.C.M.G. 4 May 1833 for his services in Malta, d. 7 Montagu sq. London 13 March 1855 aged 81.

HANKEY, Henry Aitchison (son of John Peter Hankey). b. 6 Oct. 1805; ensign 10 foot 26 June 1823; lieut. col. 1 dragoon guards 19 Jany. 1844 to 12 Nov. 1852; col. of 3 hussars 12 Jany. 1866, of 1 dragoon guards 1 Jany. 1872 to death; general 7 Dec. 1871. d. Cliff house, Sandgate 24 June 1886.

HANKEY, William Alers. b. London 15 Aug. 1771; ed. at univ. of Edin.; head of the firm of Hankeys & Co. bankers, 7 Fenchurch st. London; assisted in proceedings of Religious tract society 1801–1808; one of founders and conductors of British and foreign Bible society 1804, treasurer 1801–32; A.I.C.E. 1820, treasurer 1820–45; gave evidence on slavery before house of commons 1833; author of Letters to Joseph Sturge relating to the Arcadia estate in Jamaica 1838. d. 5 Hyde park gardens, London 23 March 1859. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xx, 134 (1861).

1317HANKINSON, Most Rev. Michael Adrian. b. Warrington 29 Sep. 1817; ordained priest at St. Edmund’s Benedictine college, Douay 1841, sub-prior there to 1851, prior 1854–63; bishop of Port Louis, Mauritius 1863 to death, during which time an epidemic carried off one-sixth of the population in 3 years. d. Douay 21 Sep. 1870. Gillow’s English Catholics (1888) iii, 111–2.

HANKINSON, Ven. Robert Edwards. b. 1798; ed. at C.C. coll. Cam., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1824; R. of Halesworth, Suffolk 1850–63; archdeacon of Norwich 1857 to death; R. of North Creake, Norfolk 1863 to death; author of The Communion of believers, a course of lectures 1838; The call of Abraham, a Seatonian poem 1841. d. North Creake 27 March 1868 aged 70.

HANLON, Thomas, b. Manchester 1836; first appeared in public as a gymnast at the Colosseum, Liverpool; organised with his 5 brothers gymnastic performances that have made them famous in Europe and America; performed in U.S. of America 1858–62 and 1865–6, in California, South America and Europe 1862–4; performed in London and at the Exposition in Paris 1867; committed suicide at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 5 April 1868.

HANMER, John Hanmer, 1 Baron (1 child of Thomas Hanmer 1781–1818, lieut.-col. Flintshire militia). b. 22 Dec. 1809; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; succeeded his grandfather as 3 baronet 1828; sheriff of Flintshire 1832; M.P. Shrewsbury 1832–37; M.P. Hull 1841–47; M.P. Flint district 1847–72; cr. Baron Hanmer of Hanmer and of Flint 1 Oct. 1872; author of Poems on various subjects 1836; Fra Cipolla and other poems 1839; Sonnets 1840; A memoir of the family and parish of Hanmer 1877. d. Knotley hall, Kent 8 March 1881. St. Paul’s, x, 368–77 (1872); I.L.N. lxi, 340, 342 (1872), portrait.

HANMER, Henry (6 child of Sir Thomas Hanmer, d. 1828). b. 30 April 1789; cornet royal horse guards 6 Oct. 1808, major 1826 to 4 Dec. 1832; M.P. for Aylesbury 1832–36; sheriff of Bucks. 1854; K.H. 1837. d. Stockgrove near Leighton Buzzard 2 Feb. 1868.

HANN, James (son of a colliery smith). b. Washington, co. Durham 1799; engineer in a Tyne towing vessel; kept schools at Gateshead and at Friar’s Green near Newcastle; accountant in office of Isaac Dodds, Gateshead; calculator in Nautical almanac office; writing master King’s coll. sch. London and then mathematical master there to death; 1318A.I.C.E. 13 June 1843; author of Mathematics for practical men 1833; A short treatise on the steam engine 1847; Examples on the integral calculus 1850 and other works. d. King’s coll. hospital, London 17 Aug. 1856.

HANNA, Rev. Samuel, b. Kellswater near Ballymena, co. Antrim 1772; ed. at Glasgow univ., M.A. 1789, D.D. 1818; presbyterian minister, Drumbo, co. Down 1795 and at Rosemary st. Belfast 1799 to death; professor of divinity and ch. history at Assembly’s coll. Belfast 1817; moderator of synod of Ulster 1809; first moderator of the general presbyterian assembly 1840; author of single sermons and pamphlets, d. at residence of his son in law Rev. Dr. Denham, James st. Londonderry 23 April 1852. bur. Belfast 30 April, portrait in hall of Assembly’s coll. Belfast. Belfast News Letter 26 April 1852 p. 2.

HANNA, Rev. William (son of preceding). b. Belfast 26 Nov. 1808; ed. at Glasgow univ., LLD. 1852, and at Edin. univ., D.D. 1864; presbyterian minister East Kilbride near Glasgow 1835 and at Skirling, Peebleshire 1837–43; minister of Free ch. Skirling 1843–50; colleague of Rev. Thos. Guthrie in St. John’s Free ch. Edin. 1850–66; ed. of North British Review; author of Memoirs of the life and writings of Thomas Chalmers, D.D. 4 vols. 1849–52; The Posthumous works of Thomas Chalmers 9 vols. 1847; Last days of our Lord’s passion 1862 which circulated 50,000 copies, and many other works. d. 77 Coleshill st. Eaton sq. London 24 May 1882. Guardian, May 1882 p. 760; Scott’s Fasti, vol. i, pt. i, p. 229.

HANNAH, Rev. John (3 son of a small coal dealer). b. Lincoln 3 Nov. 1792; appointed Wesleyan Methodist minister 1814; went to America as representative to the Conferences 1824 and 1856; theological tutor at theological training institutions at Hoxton and Stoke Newington 1834–42; sec. of Conference 1840–2, 1854–8, president 1842 and 1851; theological tutor at Didsbury, Yorkshire 1843 to death; author of Memoirs of Rev. D. Stowe 1828; Documents relating to British and Canadian conferences 1860 and other works. d. Didsbury 29 Dec 1867. Introductory Lectures on Theology, By J. Hannah (1875) with Memoir by W. B. Pope pp. 1–69; J. Evans’s Lancashire authors (1876) 118–23; I.L.N. i, 200 (1842), portrait.

HANNAH, Ven. John (1 son of the preceding). b. Lincoln 16 July 1818; ed. at Brasen. coll. Ox. 1837; Lincoln scholar of Corpus Christi 1837–40, B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843, D.C.L. 1853; fellow of Lincoln 1840–4; Bampton lecturer 13191863; rector of Edinburgh academy 1847–52; warden of Trinity coll. Glenalmond, Perth 1854–70; V. of Brighton 1870 to Dec. 1887 which he divided into 11 ecclesiastical districts; prebendary of Chichester 1874–76; archdeacon of Lewes 1876 to death; editor of Poems and psalms by H. King, bishop of Chichester 1843; Poems by Sir H. Wotton and Sir W. Raleigh 1845, 2 ed. 1875; author of Discourse on the fall and its result 1857 and other books. d. Brighton vicarage 1 June 1888. Times 2 June 1888 p. 13, col. 6.

HANNAN, John. b. St. Giles’s, London 29 Sep. 1817; a pugilist known as the Drury lane Irishman; beat Dan Dismore 6 June 1837, £25 a side; beaten by Tom Maley 30 Aug. 1838, £25 a side; beat John Walker 1 Nov. 1838, £25 a side, beat him again 2 April 1839 in 3 hours and 48 minutes, £50 a side; beaten by Byng Stocks 11 June 1839, £25 a side; beat Dick Forsey 14 April 1840, £25 a side; fought John Broome known as Young Ducrow £500 a side at New park farm near Bicester 26 Jany. 1841 when Broome won after 47 rounds in 79 minutes, the amount fought for was the largest since Ward and Cannon fought 1825. d. 7 King st. Soho, London 18 Oct. 1857. Henning’s Recollections of the prize ring (1888) 101–111.

HANNAY, Rev. Alexander. b. Kirkcudbright 27 Feb. 1822; ed. at Glasgow univ.; D.D. of Yale univ. 1881; congregational minister Prince’s st. ch. Dundee 1846 to 1862; minister City road ch. London 1862–6, at West Croydon 1866–70; sec. Colonial missionary soc.; sec. Congregational union of England and Wales 10 May 1870 to death; author of The claims of the temperance movement on the churches 1868; How is England to be saved? An appeal to young men 1877. d. Lincluden, Sunnyside road, Hornsey Rise 12 Nov. 1890. I.L.N. 29 Nov. 1890 p. 678, portrait.

HANNAY, James (1 son of David Hannay 1794–1864, banker, author of Ned Allen). b. Dumfries 17 Feb. 1827; midshipman R.N. 1840–45; reporter on Morning Chronicle 1846; contributed to Pasquin a comic paper 1847; contested Dumfries burghs May 1857; editor of Edinburgh Evening Courant 1860–64; consul at Barcelona 13 July 1868 to death; author of King Dobbs, Sketches in Ultramarine 1849; Blackwood v. Carlyle: a vindication, by a Carlylian 1850; Singleton Fontenoy, R.N. 3 vols. 1850; Satires and satirists: six lectures 1854; Sand and shells 1854 which contains notices of his naval career; Eustace Conyers 3 vols. 1855; 1320Three hundred years of a Norman house, the barons of Gournay 1867; Studies on Thackeray 1869. d. Putchet, Barcelona 9 Jany. 1873. Temple Bar, xxxviii, 89–94 (1873), xlix, 234–47 (1877); The Critic xvii, 629 (1858), portrait.

Note.—He is described under the name of Eglinton Conyers in The Club and the Drawing Room by Cecil Hay 2 vols. 1870.

HANNAY, Robert (son of James Hannay of Kirkcudbright). b. Lock-Bank, Castle-Douglas 1789; ed. at gram. sch. Annan and at Ball. coll. Ox., B.A. 1812; member of Speculative soc.; advocate in Scotland 1814; visited libraries of the Vatican and Stockholm; gave evidence on British museum before house of commons 1836; author of Address to Lord Hope on collecting and reporting decisions 1821; Defence of the usury laws 1823; History of the representation of England, drawn from records 1831. d. Kew, Surrey 2 Feb. 1868. Journal of Jurisprudence, xii, 218 (1869); Rep. on British Museum (1836) 418–26.

HANNINGTON, Right Rev. James (3 son of Charles Smith Hannington, warehouseman). b. Hurstpierpoint near Brighton 3 Sep. 1847; ed. at St. Mary hall, Ox., B.A. 1873, M.A. 1875, D.C.L. 1884; C. of Martinhoe and Trentishoe, Devon 1874–75; C. of St. George’s, Hurstpierpoint 1875–82, 1883; missionary in Central Africa 1882–3; bishop of Eastern equatorial Africa, consecrated at Lambeth 24 June 1884; author of Peril and adventure in Central Africa 1886; headed an expedition to the Lake Victoria Nyanza 23 July 1885, murdered by order of Mwanga king of U-Ganda 29 Oct. 1885. E. C. Dawson’s James Hannington (1887), portrait.

HANOVER, Ernest Augustus, King of (5 son of George III.) b. Kew 6 June 1771; ed. at Univ. of Gottingen 1786–90; K.G. 2 June 1786, installed 28 May 1801; commanded first brigade of Hanoverian cavalry 1794, lost his left eye in battle of Tournay 10 May 1794; created Earl of Armagh and Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale 24 April 1799; badly wounded in his apartments St. James’s palace, London 31 May 1810 by his Italian valet Sellis who then cut his own throat; col. of 15 hussars 28 March 1801, of royal horse guards 22 Jany. 1827 to Nov. 1830; field marshal 26 Nov. 1813; served in campaigns of 1813–14; G.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815; G.C.H 12 Aug. 1815; K.P. 20 Aug. 1821; king of Hanover 20 June 1837, immediately revoked the constitution, granted a new constitution 1840. d. Herrenhausen palace, Hanover 18 Nov. 1851. C. A. Wilkinson’s Court of King 1321Ernest 2 vols. (1886), portrait; Jesse’s Memoirs of life of George III. (1867) iii, 541–6; Sir N. H. Nicolas’s Orders of knighthood, iv, (1842), portrait; I.L.N. ii, 410 (1843), portrait; Annual Register (1833) 90–96.

HANOVER, George Frederick Alexander Charles Ernest Augustus, King of (only son of preceding). b. Berlin 27 May 1819; G.C.H. 1830; at cricket match at Windsor struck himself in eye while swinging round a long purse and blinded himself 1833; K.G. 15 Aug. 1835; lost sight of his other eye by Dr. Karl Gräfe of Berlin cutting through the optic nerve while operating June 1840; succeeded his father as Duke of Cumberland and King of Hanover 18 Nov. 1851, revoked constitution 1855; took part with Austria in Seven Weeks war 1866, Hanover incorporated with Prussia by royal decree 20 Sep. 1866; general in British army 27 May 1876; visited England 16 May to 17 June 1876. d. Rue de Presbourg, Paris 12 June 1878. bur. St. George’s chapel, Windsor 25 June. Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, viii, 657–70 (1878); Almanac de Gotha (1853), portrait; Contemporary Review, xxxix, 646–64 (1881); Times 13–26 June 1878; I.L.N. 25 June 1853 p. 508, portrait.

HANSELL, Rev. Edward Halifax (4 son of Peter Hansell, V. of Worstead, Norfolk, d. 1841). b. St. Mary-in-the-Marsh, Norwich 6 Nov. 1814; ed. at Ball. coll. Ox. 1832; a demy of Magd. coll. 1832–47, fellow 1847–53; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1838, B.D. 1847; tutor of Merton coll. 1845–9; V.P. of Magd. college 1852, fellow, tutor and mathematical lecturer and prælector of theology there 1852–6; R. of East Ilsley, Berks. 1865 to death; author of Notes on the first essay in Essays and Reviews 1850; The sorrows of the Cross 1880, 2 ed. 1881; ed. of Codex A. B. D. Z. et Sinaiticus. Nov. Test. Græce. 3 vols. 1864. d. East Ilsley 8 May 1884.

HANSLER, Sir John Jacob (1 son of John Jacob Hansler, Landaman of canton Zurich). b. St. Martin’s in the Fields, London 1788; knighted at St. James’s palace 19 July 1837 being the first knight created by Victoria; F.R.S. Jany. 1838; F.S.A.; D.L. for Essex. d. 3 H. The Albany, Piccadilly, London 28 April 1867. Dodd’s Peerage (1841) 167.

HANSOM, Joseph Aloysius (son of Henry Hansom of York, builder, who d. 16 Feb. 1854 aged 75). b. York 26 Oct. 1803; architect with Edward Welch at Halifax 1828, they became bankrupt 25 April 1834; managed the bank, coal mines and estates of Dempster Hemming of Caldecote hall, Warws.; registered 1322a patent safety cab 23 Dec. 1834, sold his rights in it for £10,000 but money never paid, the principal of safety consisted in the suspended or cranked axle, the back seat for the driver was not in the original patent; founded The Builder newspaper, No. 1 published 31 Dec. 1842; architect at Preston 1847–54, at Edinburgh, at Clifton, at Ramsgate, in London 1862–79; built the spire of St. Walburge’s church, Preston 306 feet high, the loftiest in England since the Reformation; designed church at Arundel for Duke of Norfolk. d. 399 Fulham road, London 29 June 1882. Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 115–20 (1888); I.L.N. lxxxi, 56 (1882), portrait.

HANSON, Alfred (eld. son of Joshua Flesher Hanson of Backwell, Somerset). b. 29 June 1816; barrister M.T. 27 Jany. 1843; junior counsel to comrs. of customs, &c. 1853–65; revising barrister for London 1861–64; comptroller of legacy and succession duties at Somerset House, July 1865 to death; author of The Succession duty act, with decisions and notes 1865; The acts relating to probate legacy and succession duties, By A. H. 1870, 3 ed. 1876; The Revenue acts of 1880 and 1881 and Death duties 1883. d. 1 Upper Westbourne terrace, London 6 Jany. 1886.

HANSON, Sir Richard Davies. b. London 6 Dec. 1805; solicitor 3 Philpot lane, London 1828; editor of the Globe and a writer for the Morning Chronicle 1828; asst. comr. in enquiry on crown lands Canada 1838; crown prosecutor Wellington, N.Z. 1840–6; advocate general South Australia 1851; attorney general 1856–57; attorney general and leader of government 1857–60; chief justice of supreme court Nov. 1861 to death; knighted at Windsor Castle 9 July 1869; acting governor of S. Australia 1872–3; first chancellor of Adelaide univ. 1874; author of The Jesus of history 1869; Letters to and from Rome, By V. S. C. 1873; The apostle Paul and the preaching of Christianity 1875. d. Australia 4 March 1876. I.L.N. lv, 117 (1869), portrait.

HANSON, Louisa. Widow of James Hanson, captain R.N. who was lost in the Brazen sloop of war off Newhaven, April 1800 when all on board were lost except one man. d. Marl house, Bexley, Kent 2 July 1884 aged 103. 47 Rep. Registrar General (1886) p. lxxxi.

HANSON, Samuel (son of an orange merchant). b. 47 Botolph lane, Eastcheap, London, Sep. 1804; the leading dealer in the green and dried fruit trade from about 1833, retired 1871, the firm commenced business in 1747; 1323a founder of Commercial Union Association 1862. d. Zurich, Switzerland 11 Feb. 1882. bur. Zurich. City Press 18 Feb. 1882 p. 4.

HANWELL, Joseph. b. about 1790; 2 lieut. R.A. 23 May 1806, captain 5 June 1835 to 10 April 1845 when he retired on full pay; L.G. 24 Aug. 1866. d. Belleville, Ontario, Canada 5 July 1873.

HARCOURT, Charles, stage name of Charles Parker Hillier. b. June 1838; made his first public appearance at St. James’ theatre, London 30 March 1863 as Robert Audley in Lady Audley’s Secret; lessee of Marylebone theatre 1871–2; played at most of the London theatres, one of best exponents of character of Mercutio; sec. of National dramatic academy Jany. 1880 to death; played Bashford in The World at Drury lane from 31 July 1880; while rehearsing at Haymarket theatre fell into the scene dock 18 Oct. 1880. d. Charing Cross hospital 27 Oct. 1880. Graphic 6 Nov. 1880 pp. 437, 438, portrait; Illust. sp. and dr. news 6 Nov. 1880 p. 173, portrait; W. H. Rideing’s Dramatic Notes (1881) p. 37.

HARCOURT, Egerton Venables Vernon (youngest son of Most Rev. Edward Vernon Harcourt 1757–1814, archbishop of York). b. Rose castle, Cumberland 7 June 1803; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., student 1821–34; B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; barrister I.T. 25 June 1830; principal registrar of province of York 1842 to death; registrar of diocese of York 1842 to death; gave sum of £9,000 to archbishop of York to form a fund for augmentation of poor livings in Yorkshire, distributed Feb. 1891. d. Whitwell hall, Yorkshire 19 Oct. 1883. Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. v, 663 (1883).

HARCOURT, Francis Vernon (10 child of Most Rev. E. V. Harcourt). b. Rose castle, Cumberland 7 Jany. 1801; ensign 1 foot guards 7 Sep. 1820, captain 1834 to 7 Aug. 1840 when placed on h.p.; col. in the army 9 Nov. 1846; M.P. for Isle of Wight 1852–57; sheriff of Sussex 1867; author of Hints to young officers on military law and courts martial 1833. d. Buxted park near Uckfield, Sussex 23 April 1880.

HARCOURT, Frederick Edward Vernon (5 son of Most Rev. E. V. Harcourt). b. May 1790; entered navy 13 Feb. 1803, captain 7 June 1814, retired admiral 20 May 1862; author of The Protestant missionary’s catechism 1853; wrote Tracts for British Soc. for promoting principles of Reformation 1843 etc. d. 47 Cadogan place, London 30 April 1883.

1324HARCOURT, George Simon (1 son of John Simon Harcourt, M.P. Westbury). b. 5 Feb. 1807; ed. at Eton; matric. at Ch. Ch. Ox. 1825; sheriff of Bucks. 1834; M.P. for Bucks. 1837–41. d. 35 St. George’s sq. Belgravia, London 24 Oct. 1871.

HARCOURT, George Granville Venables (1 son of Most Rev. E. V. Harcourt). b. Sudbury 6 Aug. 1785; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox., student 1803–14; B.A. 1808, M.A. 1810; barrister L.I. 13 May 1817; M.P. for Lichfield 1806–30; M.P. for Oxfordshire 1831 to death; chancellor and commissary of diocese of York 1818 to death. d. Strawberry hill, Twickenham 19 Dec. 1861. bur. in family vault at Stanton Harcourt 27 Dec. Law Times xxxvii, 122, 154 (1861).

Note.—By royal license dated 15 January 1831 the Archbishop of York and his issue took name of Harcourt, but in April 1840 G. G. Harcourt sent a letter to the Times stating that his name was G. H. Vernon.

HARCOURT, Granville (6 son of Most Rev. E. V. Harcourt). b. Rose castle, Cumberland 26 July 1792; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., student 1812–14; B.A. 1814, M.A. 1816; barrister L.I. 13 May 1817; M.P. for Aldborough, Yorkshire 1815–20; contested Retford 1830; M.P. for Retford 1831–47; chancellor of province of York to death. d. Grove hall, Retford 8 Dec. 1879.

HARCOURT, Rev. Leveson Venables Vernon (2 son of Most Rev. E. V. Harcourt). b. Sudbury 1788; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., student 1806–13; B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813; R. of Beckenham, Kent 1835–51; chancellor of York cath. 30 May 1827 to death; author of The Doctrine of the deluge 2 vols. 1838; A remonstrance to the bishop of Exeter on his letter to Archbishop of Canterbury 1850; Lectures on the four gospels 3 vols. 1851; On connexion of chemistry with agriculture 1855. d. 29 Portland place, London 26 July 1860.

HARCOURT, Octavius Henry Cyril Vernon (8 son of Most Rev. E. V. Harcourt). b. Rose castle, Cumberland 25 Dec. 1793; entered R.N. Aug. 1806; served in Egypt 1807, on coast of Spain 1809, in West Indies 1824–7; captain 7 Aug. 1827; surveyed coast of Central America and California 1834–6; V.A. on h.p. 4 June 1861; sheriff of Yorkshire 1848; built and endowed Healey ch. Yorkshire 1849. d. Swinton park, Yorkshire 14 Aug. 1863. Leeds Mercury 17 Aug. 1863 p. 3.

HARCOURT, Rev. William Venables Vernon (4 son of Most Rev. E. V. Harcourt). b. Sudbury, June 1789; served in R.N. on West India station 5 years; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., 1325student 1807–15; B.A. 1811, M.A. 1814; V. of Bishopsthorpe, Yorks. 1814–24; R. of Etton, Yorks. 1816; R. of Nunburnholme, Yorks. 1816–8; preb. of North Newbald, York 6 Aug. 1821 to death; R. of Whildrake 1824–33; R. of Bolton Percy 1837–65; president Yorkshire Philos. soc. 1822; F.G.S. 1823; F.R.S. 1824; founder and general sec. of British Assoc. 1831, president 1839; founder of Yorkshire sch. for the blind and Castle Howard reformatory; studied the action of heat on inorganic bodies; author of Symmetrical psalmody or portions of psalms translated into metrical stanzas 1855; What is truth? A poetical dialogue 1869; Sermons 1873. d. Nuneham near Oxford 1 April 1871. Quarterly Journal of geol. soc. xxviii, 40 (1872).

HARDEN, John William (youngest son of John Harden of Brathay hall, Westmoreland, d. 1847). b. 11 Dec. 1809; ed. at gr. sch. Manchester and Univ. of Edin.; barrister I.T. 20 Nov. 1835; comr. of bankruptcy in Cheshire and North Wales; a revising barrister on northern circuit 1841; judge of county courts, circuit No. 7 (Lancashire) 1847 to death; author of Scripture proofs on leading doctrines of the Gospel, By J. W. H. 1873; Questions on the leading doctrines of the Gospel 1873. d. Bournemouth 16 April 1875.

HARDIMAN, James. b. Westport, co. Mayo Feb. 1782; admitted solicitor 1814; sub-commissioner of the Irish records 1830; member of R. Irish Academy and of Iberno-Celtic soc.; librarian to Queen’s college, Galway 1849 to death; published The history of the town and county of Galway 1820; Irish minstrelsy, or bardic remains of Ireland 2 vols. 1831; edited R. O’Flaherty’s West Connaught 1846. d. Galway 13 Nov. 1855.

HARDING, Anne Raikes. b. 1780; author of Correction: a novel 3 vols. 1818; Decision: a tale 3 vols. 1819; The Refugees: an Irish tale 3 vols. 1822; Realities 4 vols. 1825; Dissipation: a novel 4 vols. 1827; Experience: a tale for all ages 4 vols. 1828; An epitome of universal history 1848; Sketches of the Highlands 18—and other works all published anonymously; contributed to reviews and periodicals. (m. Thomas Harding of Bristol, merchant). d. at residence of her son in law Rev. William Kynaston Groves, Boulogne 27 April 1858. G.M. June 1858 p. 684.

HARDING, Francis. b. 28 April 1799; entered navy 24 Jany. 1812, captain 23 Nov. 1841, retired V.A. 24 May 1867; served in Griper discovery ship 1824 in attempt to reach Repulse Bay. d. Cheltenham 2 Jany. 1875.

1326HARDING, Francis Pym. Ensign 22 foot 16 March 1838, lieut.-col. 25 Sep. 1857 to 5 Dec. 1871 when placed on h.p.; commandant of Balaklava, Jany. 1855 to July 1856; M.G. 6 March 1868; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857. d. the Grove, Lymington, Hants. 25 Feb. 1875.

HARDING, Sir George Judd. Second lieut. R.E. 1 Oct. 1802; served in Sicily, Spain and with the Prussian army 1812–18; colonel commandant R.E. 10 May 1859 to death; L.G. 23 Nov. 1858; C.B. 19 July 1838, K.C.B. 18 May 1860; governor of Guernsey 22 Nov. 1855 to 1 April 1859. d. Belmont lodge, Guernsey 5 July 1860 aged 72.

HARDING, George Perfect (son of Silvester Harding 1745–1809, artist and publisher). Miniature painter, exhibited 20 pictures at R.A. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1802–40; made water colour copies of ancient historical portraits; a founder of the Granger soc. 1840, which collapsed in 1843; F.S.A. 1839–47; fell into pecuniary difficulties and sold his collections of drawings; published Eighteen portraits of deans of Westminster 1822–3; Ancient paintings and brasses in the Abbey, Westminster 1825; Description of an account of the Princes of Wales 1828. d. Hercules buildings, Lambeth 23 Dec. 1853. G.M. May 1854 pp. 548–49.

HARDING, James Duffield. b. Deptford 1798; exhibited 39 landscapes at R.A., 8 at B.I. and 17 at Suffolk st. 1811–58; Assoc. of Soc. of painters in water-colours 1820, member 1821; a successful teacher; made lithographic drawings for his Sketches at home and abroad 1836, published 1839; Louis Philippe sent him a service of Sevres china; invented papers of various tints and textures 1830 which were known as Harding’s papers; invented lithotint 1841; author of Lessons on art 1849, 8 ed. 1867; The principles and practice of art 1845, another ed. 1876, and 8 other books; furnished the illustrations to 20 works. d. 15 Lonsdale terrace, Barnes, Surrey 4 Dec. 1863. Art Journal 1850 p. 181, portrait, 1856 p. 270, 1864 p. 89; Encyclop. Brit. 9 ed. xi, 473, xiv, 701; I.L.N. xliii, 656, 657 (1863), portrait.

HARDING, Right Rev. John (3 son of Wm. Harding, chief clerk transport office). b. Queen sq. Bloomsbury, London 7 Jany. 1805; ed. at Westminster and Worcester coll. Ox., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829, D.D. 1851; R. of St. Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe and St. Anne’s, Blackfriars, London 1836–51; sec. of Pastoral aid soc.; bishop of Bombay 31 July 1851, consecrated at Lambeth 10 Aug., resigned 1327April 1868; author of Texts and thoughts for christian ministers 1874 and charges and single sermons. d. St. Helens lodge, Ore near Hastings 18 June 1874. I.L.N. lxiv, 619 (1874).

HARDING, Sir John Dorney (eld. son of Rev. John Harding, R. of Coyty and Coychurch, Glamorganshire). b. Rockfield, Monmouthshire 1809; ed. at Charterhouse and at Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833, D.C.L. 1837; student L.I. 1829, student I.T. 1833, barrister I.T. 20 Nov. 1835; advocate in Doctors’ Commons 2 Nov. 1837; advocate general 5 March 1852–62 when he retired; knighted at St. James’s palace 24 March 1852; bencher of his inn 1852, reader 1867; Q.C. Jany. 1858; author of An essay on the influence of Welsh tradition upon European literature, By Sir J. D. H. 1840. d. Sandywell asylum, Dowdeswell near Cheltenham 23 Nov. 1868. Mozley’s Reminiscences, ii, 136–41 (1882).

HARDING, Rev. Thomas (4 son of William Harding of St. Margaret’s, Westminster). b. 1806; ed. at Worcester coll. Ox., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; chaplain Bethlehem hospital 1831–3; V. of Bexley, Kent 9 Oct. 1833 to death; editor of H. Bullinger’s Five decades of Godlie sermons, Parker Soc. 4 vols. 1849–52; author of Justification by faith through the propitiation of Christ a safeguard for the times. Three sermons 1868, and 17 single sermons. d. Bexley 12 Nov. 1874.

HARDING, William (3 son of Robert Harding of Upcott, Devon, d. 1804). b. 16 Aug. 1792; ensign 5 foot 11 July 1811, lieut. 1813 to 25 March 1817 when placed on h.p.; served in Peninsula 1812 to end of the war; major on h.p. 14 Nov. 1826; F.G.S.; author of History of Tiverton 2 vols. 1845–7. d. Barnstaple 15 Jany. 1886.

HARDING, Wyndham (brother of Sir J. D. Harding 1809–68). b. 9 Aug. 1818; ed. at Rugby; worked on Manchester and Leeds railway 1836–38; sec. to Glasgow, Greenock and Paisley railway 1839, acting general manager to 1844; general superintendent of Bristol and Gloucester railway 1844–45; sec. to London and South Western railway Sep. 1848 to Oct. 1852; A.I.C.E. March 1846, member of council; F.R.S.; freighted at his own expense the first Australian emigrant ship which sailed from Southampton under superintendence of Mrs. Chisholm 184-; author of Railways. The gauge question 1845, 4 ed. 1846; Alphabet of Colour 1853. d. near Cheltenham 15 April 1885. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xv, 97–100 (1856).

1328HARDINGE, Henry Hardinge, 1 Viscount (3 son of Rev. Henry Hardinge 1754–1820, R. of Stanhope, Durham). b. Wrotham, Kent 30 March 1785; ensign Queen’s Rangers, Upper Canada 1798; deputy quartermaster general in Portuguese army during Peninsular war 1809–14; lieut. col. 40 foot 12 April 1814; captain 1 foot guards 1814–27 when placed on h.p.; served campaign of 1815 with Prussian army as brigadier general; severely wounded at Ligny 16 June 1815, left hand amputated; M.P. for Durham 1820–30, for St. Germans 1830–31, for Newport, Cornwall 1831–32, for Launceston 1832–44; clerk of the ordnance 1823–27 and Jany. to May 1828; sec. of war 1828–30 and 1841–44; P.C. 30 May 1828; second to Duke of Wellington in his duel with the Earl of Winchelsea 21 March 1829; sec. of Ireland 30 July to 26 Nov. 1830 and 17 Dec. 1834 to 22 April 1835; col. of 97 foot 4 March 1833, of 57 foot 31 May 1843 to death; governor general of India 6 May 1844 to 12 Jany. 1848; present at battles of Moodkee, Ferozeshah and Sobraon; K.C.B. 5 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 1 July 1844; created Viscount Hardinge of Lahore and King’s Newton, co. Derby 2 May 1846; granted pension of £5000 per annum by H.E.I. Co. 1846; master general of the Ordnance 5 March 1852; commander in chief 23 Sep. 1852 to 15 July 1856; general 20 June 1854, field marshal 2 Oct. 1855. d. South park near Tunbridge Wells 24 Sep. 1856, 2 portraits of him by Sir Francis Grant in National portrait gallery. Portraits of eminent conservatives and statesmen 1 series (1836), portrait; T. Collins’s Portraits and memoirs of eminent naval and military personages (1847) No. 1, portrait; W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery, iii, 130 (1847), portrait; J. J. Briggs’s History of Melbourne in the county of Derby, 2 ed. (1852) 148–57, portrait.

HARDINGE, Rev. Sir Charles, 2 Baronet (son of Rev. Henry Hardinge of Hampton, Middlesex). b. 22 March 1780; ed. at Univ. coll. Ox., B.A. 1801, M.A. 1804; R. of Crowhurst, Sussex 1804 to death; V. of Tunbridge, Kent 1809 to death; succeeded his uncle 5 Nov. 1826; author of Plain discourses 1821; A practical exposition of the election of grace 1847; Baptismal regeneration 1850. d. Boundes Park, Tunbridge Wells 3 Feb. 1864.

HARDINGE, Richard. b. 14 April 1790; 2 lieut. R.A. 23 May 1806, col. 1854 to 26 Oct. 1858; M.G. 26 Oct. 1858; K.H. 1825. d. 32 Hyde park sq. London 20 July 1864.

HARDMAN, Edward Townley. b. Drogheda 6 April 1845; ed. at R. coll. of science, Dublin; 1329on staff of geological survey, Ireland 1870 and 1885; F.R.G.S. Ireland; F. Chem. soc.; went to Kimberley district, West Australia and reported on the mineral resources and the gold fields 1883–5, a range of mountains in West Australia named after him; wrote many papers in Journal Geol. Soc. of Ireland and Proc. of Irish Acad. from 1871 onward. d. Wicklow 30 April 1887. Geological Mag. (1887) p. 334.

HARDMAN, Frederick (son of Joseph Hardman, merchant). b. London 1814; lieut. in British legion in Spain 1834; Times foreign correspondent in Spain, Turkey, Russia, Italy and France 1850 to death; a regular contributor to Blackwood’s Mag. from 1840; author of The student of Salamanca 1847, anon.; The Spanish campaign in Morocco 1860. d. Paris 6 Nov. 1874. Times 13 Nov. 1874 p. 6, 28 Nov. p. 10; Graphic, x, 512 (1874), portrait.

HARDMAN, John (son of John Hardman of Birmingham, metal button maker). b. Birmingham 7 Aug. 1811; partner with his father; founded ecclesiastical metal works at Birmingham 1838, added stained-glass works 1845, in which business he enjoyed a practical monopoly; founded in St. Chad’s R.C. cathedral, Birmingham a choir for performance of the Gregorian chant which he superintended personally 18 years and endowed with sum of £1000. d. Pemberton villa, Clifton 29 May 1867. bur. in crypt of St. Chad’s cathedral.

HARDMAN, Juliana (sister of the preceding). b. 26 April 1813; ed. at Benedictine convent of Caverswall, Staffs.; made her religious profession 19 Aug. 1841 assuming the name of Mary; superioress of convent of Our Lady of Mercy at Handsworth near Birmingham (founded by her father) 6 Sep. 1841 to 1876 during which time 59 sisters were professed there; founded a convent of her institute at Nottingham 1844; built church of St. Mary’s, Brougham st. Birmingham 1847. d. at the convent, Handsworth 24 March 1884.

HARDMAN, Sir William (only son of William Bridge Hardman of Chamber hall, Bury, Lancs.) b. Bury 13 Aug. 1828; ed. Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1851, M.A. 1854; barrister I.T. 30 April 1852; recorder of Kingston-on-Thames, June 1875 to death; inspector of Woking convict prison; chairman Surrey sessions second court 1871–2, first court 1877 to death; contested East Surrey 1868; a founder of the Primrose league 1882, chairman of the grand council; knighted at Osborne 29 Dec. 1885; alderman of Surrey county council; editor of 1330Morning Post 1872 to death. d. St. Leonards on Sea 12 Sep. 1890. bur. Kingston cemetery 16 Sep. I.L.N. 20 Sep. 1890 p. 374, portrait; Pictorial World 25 Sep. 1890 p. 396, portrait; Sell’s World’s Press 1891 p. 85, portrait.

HARDWICK, Ven. Charles. b. Slingsby near Malton, Yorkshire 22 Sep. 1821; ed. at St. Cath. hall, Cam., B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847, B.D. 1859; Skrine fellow of his college 1845; Whitehall preacher 1851; prof. of divinity Queen’s coll. Birmingham, March-Sep. 1853; divinity lecturer at King’s coll. Cam. 1855 to death; Christian advocate in univ. of Cam. 1855 to death; mem. of council of senate 1856 to death; archdeacon of Ely 1859; author of A history of the Articles of religion, By C. H. 1851, 3 ed. 1876; History of Christian church, Middle Age 1853, 3 ed. 1872; Twenty sermons 1853; Christ and other masters, an inquiry into the contrast between Christianity and religious systems of ancient world 4 parts 1855–9; edited works for Percy Soc. and for the University press; killed by falling over a precipice near the Port de Venasque in the Pyrenees 18 Aug. 1859. bur. Luchon cemetery 21 Aug. Christ and other masters, 2 ed. 1863, with memoir; G.M. vii, 419–21 (1859).

HARDWICK, Charles (son of an innkeeper, d. 1835). b. Preston 10 Sep. 1817; apprentice to a printer 1831; portrait painter Preston; member Pleasant Retreat lodge, Preston 1841, sec. 1845, chairman; grand master Manchester Unity of Odd-Fellows 1857–8; founder and V.P. of Manchester literary club; author of History of the borough of Preston 1857; The history of Friendly societies 1859, 2 ed. 1869; Traditions, superstitions and folk-lore 1872; On some battlefields in Lancashire 1882; editor of Country Words, a North of England Mag. 1866–7. d. Manchester 8 July 1889. Quarterly Mag. of Odd-Fellows, i, 321–6 (1858), portrait; Academy 20 July 1889 p. 39.

HARDWICK, John (1 son of Thomas Hardwick 1752–1829, architect). b. 3 Dec. 1791; ed. at Ball. coll. Ox., fellow 1808–22; B.C.L. 1815, D.C.L. 1830; barrister L.I. 28 June 1816; stipendiary magistrate at Lambeth 1821, at High st. Marylebone 1840–1, at Great Marlborough st. 1841, retired March 1856; F.R.S. 5 April 1838. d. 101 Lansdowne place, Brighton 31 May 1875. Law Times 12 June 1875 p. 127; I.L.N. 9 Oct. 1847 p. 236, portrait.

HARDWICK, Philip (brother of the preceding). b. 9 Rathbone place, London 15 June 1792; ed. at Royal academy sch.; exhibited 23 drawings at R.A. 1807–44; architect London 13311819 some of his chief works were the St. Katharine’s dock house 1827–8, the Goldsmiths’ Co. hall 1829–35, Babraham house, Cambs. 1832, Euston station and hotel London 1834–9, Lincoln’s inn hall and library 1842–5; F.S.A. 1824, member of council 1842; M.I.C.E. 13 April 1824; F.R.S. 8 Dec. 1831; M.I.B.A. 1834, V.P. 1839 and 1841; F.G.S. 1837; A.R.A. 1840, R.A. 1841; published Drawings of the hall and library, Lincoln’s inn, with text 1842. d. at his son’s residence, Westcombe lodge, Wimbledon common, Surrey 28 Dec. 1870. Sandby’s History of royal academy, ii, 202 (1862).

HARDWICKE, Charles Philip Yorke, 4 Earl of (eld. child of Admiral Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke, K.C.B. 1768–1831). b. Sydney lodge, Southampton 2 April 1799; ed. at Harrow; midshipman R.N. 15 May 1815, captain 6 June 1825, admiral on h.p. 3 Dec. 1863; M.P. for Reigate 1831–32, for Cambs. 1832 to 18 Nov. 1834 when he succeeded his uncle as 4 Earl; lord lieut. of Cambs. 31 Dec. 1834 to death; LLD. Cam. 1835, D.C.L. Ox. 1853; P.C. 27 Feb. 1852; postmaster general 1 March to 28 Dec. 1852; lord keeper of the privy seal 26 Feb. 1858 to 18 June 1859. d. Sydney lodge, Southampton 17 Sep. 1873. J. Grant’s Portraits of public characters, i, 30–38 (1841); Waagen’s Galleries of art (1857) 518–23; I.L.N. ii, 57 (1843), portrait.

HARDWICKE, Robert. b. Dyke near Bourn, Lincs., Sep. 1823; printer with Bateman near Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, at 26 Duke st. Piccadilly to 1856; publisher at 192 Piccadilly 1856 to death; one of founders of Quekett microscopical club 1865; F.L.S.; published Hardwicke’s Science Gossip 1865 to death, and other periodicals. d. 192 Piccadilly, London 8 March 1875. Publishers’ Circular (1875) p. 202.

HARDWICKE, William. b. Bourne, Lincs. about 1817; ed. at Univ. coll. London and Paris; L.S.A. 1838, M.R.C.S. 1839; M.D. Univ. of Jena 1857; surgeon to St. Pancras royal general dispensary; deputy coroner for central Middlesex, May 1863, coroner 19 Nov. 1874 to death; medical officer of health for Paddington; author of Life and health assurance for the working classes 1864; On the advantages of baths and wash-houses 1874. d. Richmond villa, St. Mary’s terrace, Paddington 15 April 1881. bur. Hendon ch. yard 20 April.

HARDY, Benjamin (3 son of Samuel Hardy of Islington, London). b. 1808; barrister G.I. 23 Nov. 1836; Q.C. 13 Dec. 1866; bencher of Lincoln’s Inn 1867. d. 8 Upper Avenue road, St. John’s Wood, London 30 July 1876.

1332HARDY, Miss Elizabeth. b. Ireland 1794; author of Michael Cassidy, or the cottage gardener. Thames Ditton, 1845; Owen Glendower, or the Prince in Wales: an historical romance 2 vols. 1849; The confessor: a jesuit tale of the times 1854, all anonymous; imprisoned for a small debt 1852 and d. Queen’s bench prison, London 9 May 1854 aged 60. G.M. June 1854 p. 670.

HARDY, John (eld. son of John Hardy of Horton, parish of Bradford, Yorkshire, who d. 3 June 1806). b. 1773 or 1774; barrister M.T. 7 June 1799, admitted ad eundem at I.T. 1803, bencher 1840, reader 1850; chief steward of honour of Pontefract 1806–33; recorder of Leeds 1806–33; M.P. for Bradford 1832–37 and 1841–47; gave sum of £6000 for erection of churches at Bradford 1848. d. Dunstall hall, Staffs. 29 Sep. 1855.

HARDY, Sir John, 1 Baronet (eld. son of the preceding). b. 23 Feb. 1809; ed. at Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; M.P. for Midhurst 1859, for Dartmouth 1860, for South Warwickshire 1868–74; created baronet 23 Feb. 1876. d. 22 South st. Park lane, London 9 July 1888.

HARDY, Rev. John Frederic. b. 1826; ed. Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1848, M.A. 1851, B.D. 1858; Fishmonger fellow of Sidney Sussex coll. 1855 to death; private tutor at Cam.; proctor 1854 and 1875; author of Ascent of the Finster Aar Horn, in Peaks, Passes and Glaciers, Alpine Club 1860 pp. 198–215; Ascent of Ætna, ib. 1860 pp. 280–89; The Col du Sonadon from the top of the Col to Chermontane. ib. 1862 i, 252–8; A visit to the Jökul’s Glacier. ib. 1862 ii, 429–41. d. Sidney Sussex coll. 27 March 1888.

HARDY, John Richard (3 son of Rev. Robert Hardy, V. of Walberton, Sussex). b. 1807; ed. at Peterhouse, Cam., B.A. 1829; emigrated to New South Wales 1833; edited the Australian newspaper at Sydney; police magistrate of Yass, of Paramatta 1850; chief commissioner of the gold district, Bathurst 1851. (m. 1835 dau. of Sir Alfred Stephen, chief justice N.S.W.); probably dead. I.L.N. xxi, 9, 125 (1852).

HARDY, Peter (brother of Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy 1804–78). b. 17 Dec. 1813; actuary Mutual Assurance office 1837 and London Assurance office 1850; F.R.S. 1839; a founder of the Institute of actuaries 1848; had a large library; author of The doctrine of simple and compound interest, annuities and reversions 1839; A new and general notation for life contingencies 1840. d. Guilford st. London 23 April 1863. Proc. of Royal soc. xiii, p. v (1864).

1333HARDY, Rev. Robert Spence. b. Preston 1 July 1803; a printer at York 1819; Wesleyan missionary in Ceylon 1825–30, 1835–47, 1862–5; minister at Leeds 1865 to death; hon. mem. of R.A.S. 2 Feb. 1856; author of On the connexion of the British government with the idolatry of Ceylon 1834; Notices of the Holy Land 1835; Eastern monachism, an account of the laws of the order of the Mendicants 1850; A manual of Budhism 1853. d. Headingley near Leeds 16 April 1868. Minutes of Conference (1868) 25–7.

HARDY, Robert William Hale. Entered navy 1806; at capture of island of Java 1811, at siege of New Orleans 1815; lieut. 20 Feb. 1815 after which he did not go afloat; commander 21 Oct. 1861; F.R.A.S. 1849; author of Travels in the interior of Mexico 1829; Incidental remarks on properties of light 1856; Deity as creator, sustainer and user. Prepared in fulfilment of the purpose of R. W. H. Hardy 1874. d. Kilkenny house, Bath 30 July 1871 aged 77. Monthly Notices R.A.S. xxxii, 122 (1872).

HARDY, Samuel Little. b. 1815; L. and L.M.R.C.S. Ireland 1839 and fellow 1844; M.D. Glasgow 1840; licentiate K.Q.C.P. and L.M. 1852, fellow 1868; M.R.I.A. 1858; physician Pitt st. Instit. for diseases of children, Dublin; physician accoucheur Steevens’ hospital; president Obstetrical soc. 1867; one of the first to recommend chloroform as a local anæsthetic; had a large obstetrical practice; author with A. H. Mac Clintock of Practical observations on midwifery 1848; contributed to Dublin medical journals 1845 &c. d. 9 Merrion sq. north, Dublin 29 Oct. 1868. Medical Times 7 Nov. 1868 p. 544.

HARDY, Sir Thomas Duffus (3 son of Thomas Bartholomew Price Hardy, major R.A.) b. Port Royal, Jamaica 22 May 1804; junior clerk in Public record office, Tower of London 1 Jany. 1819; assistant keeper of public records 1840, deputy keeper 15 July 1861 to death; knighted at Windsor Castle 9 July 1869; did much to render the records accessible to the public; instrumental in appointment of Historical MSS. commission 1869; edited Description of the Close Rolls in the Tower 1833 and six other works for the old Record commission; A descriptive catalogue of MSS. relating to the history of Great Britain and Ireland 3 vols. 1862–71 and other works for the Rolls series; author of A catalogue of the Lords Chancellors, Keepers of the Great seal, &c. 1843; Life of Henry Lord Langdale 1852. d. 126 Portsdown road, Maida vale, London 15 June 1878. Times 17 June 1878 p. 12 col. 6.

1334HARDY, Sir William (brother of the preceding). b. Jamaica 6 July 1807; clerk in Record office, Tower of London 1823; keeper of records of duchy of Lancaster 1830–68; assistant keeper in Record office, Fetter lane, London 1868 and deputy keeper 4 July 1878, resigned 27 Jany. 1886; reorganised the record office and commenced the commission for the destruction of valueless documents; F.S.A. 4 May 1837; placed on Historical MSS. commission 1878; knighted at Osborne 31 Dec. 1883; compiled Charters of duchy of Lancaster 1845; translated A collection of the chronicles by J. de Waurin 1858. d. Milton cottage, 71 St. Germain’s road, Forest hill, London 17 March 1887. Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xi, 369 (1887).

HARE, Sir John (2 son of John Hare of Firfield near Bristol, floor cloth manufacturer). b. 1784; partner in his father’s business to 1840 when he retired; owner of the Cambria which saved the passengers and crew of Kent East Indiaman in the bay of Biscay 1 March 1825; knighted at St. James’s palace 1 July 1840 on presenting address on queen’s marriage; resided Brislington, Somerset. d. Hardelot castle près Tamar, Pas-de-Calais, France 2 Feb. 1865.

HARE, John Middleton (son of Rev. Edward Hare, wesleyan minister, d. 1818). Ed. at Woodhouse grove sch. near Leeds 1813; apprentice to James Nichols, printer, London, where he also served as a reader and editor; edited Gem Annual in succession to Tom Hood; sub-edited The Sphynx weekly paper for J. S. Buckingham 4 vols. 1827–8; assist. commissioner on popular education 1858; director of British Equitable life assurance co.; author of An analysis and exposure of the government scheme of education 1847; Familiar colloquies between a father and his children 1862. Dead?

HARE, Ven. Julius Charles (3 son of Francis Hare-Naylor 1753–1815). b. Valdagno near Vicenza 13 Sep. 1795; ed. at Bologna 1797–9 and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1816, M.A. 1819; fell. of his coll. 1818, classical lecturer 1822; R. of Hurstmonceaux, Sussex 18 June 1832 to death; archdeacon of Lewes 10 April 1840 to death; preb. of Chichester, Jany. 1851 to death; chaplain to the Queen 13 June 1853 to death; translated with Connop Thirlwall Niebuhr’s History of Rome 2 vols. 1828–32; author of The mission of the Comforter, and other sermons 2 vols. 1846, 3 ed. 1876 and other books; author with his brother A. W. Hare of Guesses at Truth, By Two Brothers, 1st series 1827, 2nd series 1848, new ed. 1871. d. Hurstmonceaux rectory 23 Jany. 1855. A. J. C. Hare’s Memorials of a quiet life (1884) 2 1335vols.; Sussex archæological collection, iv, 125–208; Quarterly Review, xcvii, 1–28 (1855); M. A. Lower’s Worthies of Sussex (1865) 255–6; Guardian 8 March 1882 pp. 349–50.

HARE, Maria (dau. of Rev. Oswald Leycester, rector of Stoke-upon-Terne, Salop). b. Toft near Knutsford 22 Nov. 1798; good classical scholar; intimate acquaintance of Reginald Heber, bp. of Calcutta. (m. 2 June 1829 Rev. Augustus William Hare, rector of Alton Barnes d. Rome 18 Feb. 1834); author of A true and sad story 1862; wrote a portion of and collected materials for Memorials of a Quiet Life; lived in Hurstmonceaux parish near her brother in law the Rev. Julius Charles Hare from 1834 for many years. d. Holmhurst 13 Nov. 1870. A. J. C. Hare’s Memorials of a quiet life (1884) 2 vols., 2 portraits; C. Kegan Paul’s Biographical Sketches (1883) 71–92.

HARE, Rev. Robert Henry (5 son of Rev. Edward Hare, d. 1818). b. Mount Pleasant, Liverpool 3 March 1816; ed. at Woodhouse grove sch. 1824; apprentice to Christopher and Dove, leather factors, Darlington; Wesleyan Methodist minister at Hornsea 1838–40 and at 14 other places in north of England 1840–72. d. Chapel house, the Square, Dunstable 11 Oct. 1873. J. M. Hare’s Ministry of R. H. Hare (1874), portrait.

HARENC, Charles Joseph (2 son of Benjamin Harenc of Foots Cray, Kent). Matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 8 Dec. 1829 aged 18, B.A. 1833; barrister I.T. 9 June 1837; played his first cricket match at Lord’s 2 Aug. 1826; one of the best bowlers in England 1830–34; played as late as 1849. d. Costin st. Bedford 14 Dec. 1877. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores, i, 547 (1862).

HAREWOOD, Henry Lascelles, 3 Earl of. b. 11 June 1797; ensign 1 foot guards 1814, sold out 1831; lieut. Yorkshire hussar yeomanry 1820, major 1839–43; col. of West Yorkshire hussars; M.P. for Northallerton, Yorkshire 1826–31; styled Viscount Lascelles 1839–41; succeeded as 3 Earl 24 Nov. 1841; lord lieut. of West Riding, Yorkshire 21 Jany. 1846 to death. d. Harewood house near Leeds 22 Feb. 1857 having fractured his skull while following the Bramham Moor foxhounds 24 Jany. Taylor’s Biographia Leodiensis (1865) 463–6.

HARFORD, John Scandrett (1 son of John Scandrett Harford of Blaise castle, Gloucs., banker, d. 1815). b. Bristol 8 Oct. 1785; ed. at Christ’s coll. Cam.; D.C.L. of Ox. univ. 1822; the hero of Hannah More’s Cœlebs in 1336search of a wife 1809; made a collection of pictures at Blaise castle 1815–7; gave the site of the castle of Lampeter for St. David’s coll. 1822 of which he became visitor 1827; F.R.S. 29 May 1823; sheriff of Cardigan 1824; M.P. Cardigan 9 July 1841 to 18 April 1842; author of The life of T. Burgess, bishop of Salisbury 1840; Life of Michael Angelo Buonarotti 2 vols. 1857, 2 ed. 1858 and 8 other books. d. Blaise castle 16 April 1866. Christian Observer, July 1866 pp. 489–98; Waagen’s Treasures of art, iii, 187–95 (1854).

HARFORD, Summers. b. 1795; M.P. for Lewes 30 June 1841, unseated 21 March 1842; contested Brighton 5 May 1842; sheriff of Monmouth 1841. d. Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire 2 June 1873.

HARGOOD, William. b. 22 June 1801; entered navy 19 June 1813, captain 10 Jany. 1837, admiral on h.p. 15 Jany. 1869. d. North lodge, Worthing 8 July 1888.

HARGRAVE, John Fletcher (son of Mr. Hargrave of Greenwich, ironmonger, d. 1851). b. Greenwich 28 Dec. 1815; ed. at King’s coll. London and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840; barrister L.I. 25 Jany. 1841; landed at Sydney, N.S.W. Feb. 1857, a district court judge 1 year, solicitor general Feb. to Oct. 1859, Nov. 1859 to April 1860, Aug. to Oct. 1863 and Feb. to June 1865; M.P. for East Camden 1859, for Wollongong 1859; attorney general 2 April 1860 to 31 July 1863; mem. of legislative council Oct. 1859; a puisne judge of supreme court 1865; primary judge in equity; first judge of divorce court 1873–84; edited vol. i. of 21st ed. of Blackstone’s Commentaries 1843; many of his law lectures at Sydney Univ. were printed; author of Treatise on the Thellusson act, 39 & 40 Geo. iii, c. 98, with practical observations upon trusts for accumulation 1842. d. Rushcutters’ Bay N.S.W. 23 Feb. 1885.

HARGRAVE, William, b. Cork 1795; L.R.C.S. Ireland 1819, fellow 1825, president; M.B. Dublin univ. 1823; surgeon in sch. of college of surgeons, president; surgeon city of Dublin hospital; member of general medical council 10 May 1861, resigned 16 Feb. 1874; contributed to Dublin Medical Press and Dublin Quarterly Journal; author of A system of operative surgery, Dublin 1831. d. 56 Upper Mount st., Merrion sq. east, Dublin 24 Nov. 1874. Medical Times 5 Dec. 1874 p. 649.

HARGREAVE, Charles James. b. Wortley near Leeds, Dec. 1820; ed. at Univ. coll. 1337London; L.L.B. London; professor of jurisprudence Univ. coll. 1843–9; barrister I.T. 7 June 1844, bencher 1851, master of the library 1865 and reader 1866; a commissioner of Incumbered estates court, Ireland 1849–58; judge of Landed estate court 1858 to death; Q.C. 1852; F.R.S. 18 April 1844, gold medallist; LLD. of Dublin univ. 1852; author of An essay on the resolution of algebraic equations, Dublin 1866; wrote many mathematical papers in Philos. Trans. and other scientific periodicals. d. Bray near Dublin 23 April 1866. Law Mag. and Law Rev., Aug. 1866 pp. 220–35.

HARGREAVES, Henry. b. Manchester, Oct. 1807; with Butterworth and Brooks, calico printers, Manchester, and then a traveller for the firm to 1841; backed Alice Hawthorne for the Chester cup 1841, and commenced a racing career which lasted to 1870; won £40,000 on Ellington in Derby of 1856; purchased John Massey Stanley’s stud 1856. d. 6 Cleveland sq. Bayswater, London 3 July 1887. Baily’s Mag., Aug. 1887 pp. 60–62; Sporting Review, xxxix, 298–9 (1858).

HARGROVE, William (youngest son of Ely Hargrove of Knaresborough 1741–1818). b. Knaresborough 16 Oct. 1788; bought the York Herald 1813, edited it 13 July 1813 to 1848; member of common council York 1818, sheriff 1831; first sec. and treasurer Mechanics’ Institute, York 1827; collected Roman and mediæval remains excavated in and near York, gave them to Yorkshire Philos. Soc. about 1852; author of History and description of the ancient city of York 2 vols., York 1818; The York poetical miscellany 1835; author with J. Hargrove of A new guide to the city of York 1842. d. St. Mary’s, Bootham, York 24 Aug. 1862. Effective, Advertiser 1 May 1886 pp. 25–31, portrait.

HARINGTON, Rev. Edward Charles (only son of Rev. Edward Harington of the Isle of Man, d. 1811). b. Clifton 1804; ed. at Worcester coll. Ox., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1833; V. of St. David’s, Exeter 1832–47; preb. of Ex. cath. 1845, chancellor 15 July 1847 to July 1880, canon residentiary 1856 to July 1880, spent £15,000 on repairing the cath.; a founder of Exeter diocesan training college 1840 where he taught for many years; always attended turning of first sod of every new railway in England; author of Brief notes on the church of Scotland 1843; The reconsecration and reconciliation of churches 1850 and 12 other books. d. The Close, Exeter 14 July 1881.

HARINGTON, Sir Henry Byng (eld. son of Henry Hawes Harington of Madras). b. 1808; 1338entered Bengal army 1824, transferred to Bengal civil service 1828; additional member of council, member of supreme council 13 June 1862; lieut. governor of North Western provinces of India 1863 to 1865; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1866. d. 70 Oxford terrace, London 7 Oct. 1871.

HARINGTON, Rev. Richard (2 son of Sir John Edward Harington, 8 bart., of Ridlington, co. Rutland 1760–1831). b. 26 April 1800; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox, B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824, B.D. and D.D. 1842; fellow of Brasenose coll. 1821–33, principal 1842 to death; R. of Olde, Northamptonshire 1833–42. d. High st. Oxford 13 Dec. 1853. bur. in Brasn. coll. chapel 20 Dec. G.M. xli, 206–207 (1854); Correspondence between Dean of Manchester and the principal of Brasenose 1846.

HARKER, Daniel Richard. Toast master, city of London; retired a few years before his death; d. Osborn villas, Westgreen road, Tottenham, Nov. 1874 aged 70.

HARKNESS, Robert. b. Ormskirk, Lancs. 28 July 1816; ed. at Edin. univ. 1833–4; professor of geology Queen’s coll. Cork 1853 to death; F.G.S.; F.R.S. Edin. 1854; F.R.S. 5 June 1856; did much to elucidate geology of Scotland; a writer of upwards of 60 scientific papers; author with H. A. Nicholson of On the Coniston group 1868. d. Imperial hotel, Dublin 4 Oct. 1878. Quarterly journal of geol. soc. xxxv, 41–4 (1879); Geol. Mag. (1878) 528, 574–76, portrait; Proc. of royal soc. of Edin. x, 31–3 (1880); I.L.N. lxxiii, 400 (1878), portrait.

HARLAND, Aurelius (son of Dr. Harland, d. 1866). Ed. at Edin. univ., M.D. 1844; at Hong Kong 1844 to death; surgeon of Seaman’s hospital; acquired Chinese and studied Chinese medicine and physiology; sent papers to R. Asiatic soc. d. Hong Kong 12 Sep. 1858, public monument in the Happy Valley. H. Hance’s Memoir of A. Harland (1858); S. Smiles’ Men of Invention (1884) 288–92.

HARLAND, Rev. Edward (2 son of Christopher Harland of Ashbourne, Derbyshire). Matric. from Wadham coll. Ox. 16 June 1827 aged 17; B.A. 1831, M.A. 1836; C. of Sandon, Staffs. 1836–51; V. of Colwich, Staffs. 1851 to death; preb. of Lichfield cath. 1873 to death; author of Index Sermonum 1858; A church psalter and hymnal 1865, Supplement 1863. d. Rushton hall, Stafford 8 June 1890.

HARLAND, Edward James (brother of Aurelius Harland). b. Scarborough, May 1831; pupil of R. Stephenson, Newcastle upon Tyne 13391846–51; journeyman with J. and G. Thomson, Glasgow 1851; manager for Thomas Toward ship builder near Newcastle 1853; manager for R. Hickson & Co. Belfast 1854, purchased the business 1857, took in Mr. Woolff as a partner 1862; made improvements in length, flatness of bottom and squareness of bilge in build of ships, which became known as Belfast bottoms; built for the government the Lynx and Algerine gun vessels and the Hecla store and torpedo ship 3360 tons; built ships for all the great ocean lines. d. 1866. S. Smiles’ Men of Invention (1884) 288–323.

HARLAND, John (1 son of John Harland, clock maker). b. Hull 27 May 1806; compositor 1821–8; letter press printer; taught himself shorthand and made improvements in the system; chief of reporting staff of Manchester Guardian 1830–60; F.S.A.; an early member of the Rosicrucians; edited 14 volumes for Chetham soc.; author of Historical account of Salley alley, Yorkshire 1853; Ballads and songs of Lancashire 1865, 2 ed. 1875; Lancashire Lyrics 1866; and with T. T. Wilkinson of Lancashire folk lore 1867. d. Brideoak st. Cheetham hill road, Manchester 23 April 1868. bur. Rusholme road cemetery. Sketches of Hull authors, By R. W. Corlass (1879) 35–9; J. Harland and T. T. Wilkinson’s Lancashire legends (1873) memoir pp. xv-xxxv, with portrait.

HARLAND, Rev. William. b. Newton near Pickering, Yorkshire 1801; Primitive Methodist minister Hull 1828; sec. to committee of privileges, London 1857; edited Primitive Methodist Mag. and was editor superintendent of all works issued by the connexion; author of The Primitive Methodist revival hymn book 1861; The Christian Cabinet illustrated almanack (1860) p. 37; probably dead.

HARLE, William Lockey (son of Mr. Harle of Stockton). b. York 1811; solicitor at Newcastle upon Tyne 1833 to death, in London 1848 to death; deputy recorder of Newcastle, member of the town council 1841–53 and 1858 to death, sheriff 1864, alderman 1868 to death; author of A Career in the Commons 1850, in which he set forth a complete programme of policy for liberals; An argument on the inutility of the distinction between barrister and attorney 1851. d. 30 Victoria sq. Newcastle 18 Jany. 1878. Monthly chronicle of north country lore, Feb. 1888 p. 49, portrait; Sketch of that distinguished author, editor, lawyer and municipal patriot, Mr. W. L. H., edited by himself (1854).

HARLECH, John Ralph Ormsby-gore, 1 Baron (eld. child of Wm. Ormsby-Gore, M.P. of 1340Porkington, co. Salop 1779–1860). b. 3 June 1816; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1865; student of L.I. 1837; M.P. for Carnarvonshire 1837–41, for North Shropshire 1859–75; created Baron Harlech of Harlech, co. Merioneth 14 Jany. 1876. d. Boreham house near Chelmsford 15 June 1876. Graphic, xiii, 134, 138 (1876), portrait.

HARLEY, Edward (eld. son of Edward Harley of Bristol, iron merchant). b. Bristol 19 June 1808; ed. at Shrewsbury; solicitor at Bristol 1831 to death; deputy registrar of Bristol Court of Conscience (a borough court of record since time of Wm. iii.) 1 Jany. 1837, registrar Dec. 1843 to 1847 when the court was abolished by County Courts’ Act 1846; joint registrar of Bristol county court 1847 to death; joint district registrar of the High Court 1875 to death. d. Condover Grange near Shrewsbury 25 Oct. 1888.

HARLEY, George. b. 1791; drawing master; exhibited 2 landscapes at R.A. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1817–65; drew in lithography some landscape drawings as ‘Lessons in Landscape’ for Rowney and Forster’s series 1820–22; author of A guide to landscape drawing in pencil and chalk 1848, 3 ed. 1849. d. 32 Kelly st., St. Pancras, London 10 Jany. 1871.

HARLEY, John Pritt (son of John Harley, draper). bapt. St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London 5 March 1786; apprentice to a linen draper 1801; acted in Kent and Sussex 1807–13; first appeared in London at English opera house as Marcelli in The Devil’s Bridge 15 July 1815; played the chief parts at Drury Lane 1815–35, 1838, 1841–8, at St. James’ theatre 1835, at Covent Garden 1838, 1840, at Princesses theatre 1850 to death; especially good in Shakespearean clowns; master and treasurer Drury Lane theatrical fund 1833 to death; made a collection of 300 walking sticks and canes. d. 14 Upper Gower st. London 22 Aug. 1858. Illust. sp. and dr. news 13 Sep. 1879 pp. 629–30; Metropolitan Mag. xvii, 126–32 (1836); Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography, i, 69–77 (1825), portrait; Planche’s Extravaganzas ii, 63 (1879), portrait.

HARLOWE, Sarah. b. London 1765; singer and actor at Sadler’s Wells 1789; first appeared at Covent Garden in The Fugitive 4 Nov. 1790; played at the Haymarket 1792, at Drury Lane 1793, 1816, at English opera house 1794, at Royalty theatre 1797, retired 1826; a low comedy actress with a complete knowledge of the stage; her best parts were Lucy in The Rivals and the Widow Warren in 1341The Road to Ruin. d. 5 Albert place, Gravesend, Kent 2 Jany. 1852. Oxberry’s Dramatic Biog. iii, 235–41 (1825), portrait; Mrs. C. B. Wilson’s Our Actresses, i, 91–3 (1844).

HARMAN, Edward Robert King- (1 son of Hon. Lawrence King-Harman of Rockingham, Roscommon, d. 10 Oct. 1875). b. 3 April 1838; ed. at Eton 1847–50; ensign 60 rifles 1855, lieut. 1856 to 59 or 60; contested Longford co. 16 May 1870, contested Dublin city 18 Aug. 1870; M.P. Sligo co. 12 Jany. 1877 to 24 March 1880, contested Sligo co., April 1880; M.P. co. Dublin 1883–5, contested co. Dublin, Dec. 1885; M.P. Isle of Thanet division of Kent 1885 to death; col. Roscommon militia 14 Aug. 1878 to death; lord lieut. of Roscommon 1878 to death; P.C. Ireland 1885; parliamentary under sec. for Ireland 8 April 1887 to death. d. Rockingham 10 June 1888. Times 11 June 1888 p. 9, 15 June p. 5; Graphic, xxvii, 296 (1883), portrait.

HARMAR, David James. Standard bearer of the Corps of Gentlemen at arms 31 Jany. 1848 to 30 Sep. 1872. d. 7 the Paragon, Bath 12 Oct. 1874 aged 59.

HARMER, James (son of a Spitalfields’ weaver, d. 1787). b. London 1777; attorney in London 1798–1833 when he relinquished his practice worth £4000 a year; common councilman city of London 1826, alderman of ward of Farringdon without 1833–40; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1834; chief proprietor of the Weekly Dispatch which in 1835 circulated 32,000 weekly and he made £15,000 a year; a founder of R. Free hospital, Greville st. 1828; resided at Ingress Park near Greenhithe which he built chiefly of the stone removed from old London Bridge; author of Murder of Mr. Steele: documents to show innocence of J. Holloway 1807; Account of case of G. Mathews who was convicted and pardoned 1819; The case of Edward Harris who was executed, facts to prove his innocence 1825. d. at Adam Steele’s house, Cricklewood, Middlesex 11 June 1853. G.M. xl, 201 (1853); I.L.N. xxii, 507 (1853); Grant’s Newspaper press, iii, 41–42 (1872).

Note.—In 1840 he was the senior alderman below the chair, but was not elected Lord Mayor in consequence of his connexion with the Weekly Dispatch which then advocated advanced religious and political views.

HARNESS, Sir Henry Drury (son of John Harness, M.D., comr. of transport board). b. 29 April 1804; 2 lieut. R.A. 24 May 1827; instructor in fortification at Woolwich 1834–40 and professor of fortification 1844–5; instructor in surveying at Chatham 1840–44; 1342inspector of Welsh roads 1845; sec. to railway commission 1846; deputy master of the mint 1850–52 when he entirely reformed the working arrangements; commissioner of public works in Ireland 1852–4; commanded engineers in India 1857–9, at Cawnpore, siege of Lucknow and at operations in Rohilkund and Oude; director R. engineer establishment, Chatham 1860; managed cattle plague department of privy council 1866; C.B. 26 July 1858, K.C.B. 24 May 1873; col. commandant R.E. 15 June 1877 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; author of papers in Papers of Corps of Engineers 1844. d. Barton End, Headington, Oxford 10 Feb. 1883, portrait in mess of R.E. at Chatham. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxiii, 378 (1883); Monthly Notices of R.A.S. xliv, 133–5 (1884); T. B. Collinson’s Memoir of Sir H. D. Harness (1883), portrait.

HARNESS, Rev. William (elder bro. of Sir H. D. Harness). b. near Wickham, Hants. 14 March 1790; ed. at Harrow where in 1802 he made an acquaintance with Byron which he kept up; at Christ’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1812, M.A. 1816, Boyle lecturer 1822; C. of Hampstead 1823–6; incumb. Regent sq. chapel, London 1826–44; clerical registrar of privy council 1841; minister of Brompton chapel 1844–7; P.C. of All Saints, Knightsbridge 1849 to death, he raised the money for building this ch.; editor of The Works of Shakespeare 8 vols. 1825 to which he prefixed a life; author of The life of Mary Russell Mitford 1870; killed by falling down stairs at the deanery, Battle, Sussex 11 Nov. 1869. L’ Estrange’s Life of Rev. W. Harness (1871); Reg. and Mag. of Biography, Dec. 1869 pp. 308–9.

HARNETT, A. W. (second son of Maurice Harnett of Milltown, co. Dublin). b. about 1817; ed. by his father and at Trin. coll. Dublin; barrister L.I.; edited a paper in the south of Ireland some years; edited The Universal News from date of first number Dec. 1860, the organ of more educated English Roman Catholics. d. St. John’s Wood, London 6 June 1864. Law Times, xxxix, 452 (1864).

HARPER, Rev. James (younger son of Rev. Alexander Harper). b. Lanark 23 June 1795; ed. at Edin. univ.; D.D. of Jefferson coll. U.S. America 1843, D.D. of Glasgow univ. 1877; united secession minister at North Leith 1819 to death; chairman of the synod 1840; professor of pastoral theology, secession ch. 1843–8; promoted the union of the secession and relief bodies 1848; professor of systematic theology 1848; moderator of united presbyterian 1343synod 1860; president of theological hall of united presbyterian ch. 1876; editor of Edinburgh Theological Mag. 1826 and United Presbyterian Mag. 1850. d. Leith Mount 13 April 1879. Andrew Thomson’s Life of J. Harper (1880), portrait; John Smith’s Our Scottish clergy, 3rd series (1851) 338–45.

HARPER, Thomas. b. Worcester 3 May 1787; trumpeter and horn player in the East India Co. volunteer band 1799, inspector of musical instruments to the Co. to his death; principal trumpet Drury Lane and Lyceum opera house 1806; played at Birmingham festival 1820; trumpet at the Ancient Concerts, the Italian opera and Philharmonic concerts; his imitation of the voice part in ‘Let the bright Seraphin’ was a great achievement of art; author of A selection of favourite airs adapted for the Royal Kent bugle 1830; seized with illness at Exeter hall and d. at the house of his friend Joseph Surman, 9 Exeter hall, Strand, London 20 Jany. 1853. Musical World 29 Jany. 1853 p. 83; W. W. Cazalet’s Royal academy of music (1854) 294; Dramatic and musical review, iii, 200 (1844).

HARPER, William. b. Manchester 1806; yarn merchant Pall Mall, Manchester; wrote the weekly trade article for the Manchester Courier; author of The Genius and other poems 1840; Cain and Abel, a dramatic poem, and minor pieces Manchester 1844; Memoir of Benjamin Braidley 1848. d. Lever st. Lower Broughton, Manchester 30 Jany. 1857. John Evans’s Lancashire authors (1876) 113–8; R. W. Procter’s Literary reminiscences (1860) 121–5; The Manchester Quarterly, July 1889 pp. 248–53.

HARPUR, Charles. b. Windsor, New South Wales 1811; gold commissioner Araluen 1858–66; unsuccessful as an agriculturalist; author of The Bushrangers, a play in 5 acts, Sydney 1853; The Tower of the Dream, Sydney 1865. d. Eurobodalla, N.S.W. 10 June 1868. G. B. Barton’s Poets of New South Wales (Sydney) (1866) 38–48.

HARRADEN, Richard Bankes (son of Richard Harraden 1756–1838, engraver). b. 1778; member of Soc. of British Artists 1824–49; exhibited 2 landscapes at B.I. and 21 at Suffolk St. 1823–30; made drawings for Costumes of the various orders in the university, Cambridge 1803, Cantabrigia Depicta. Cambridge 1809, History of university of Cambridge 1814, Illustrations of the university of Cambridge 1830, Views of all the colleges 1830. d. 18 Regent st. Cambridge 17 Nov. 1862. R. Willis’ Architectural Hist. of Cambridge (1886) i, pp. cxv-xviii.

1344HARRAL, Thomas. Edited Suffolk Chronicle and Bury Gazette; author of A monody on death of John Palmer with observations on London stage 1798; Ann Boleyn and Caroline of Brunswick compared 1820; Henry the eighth and George the fourth 1820; The apotheosis of Pitt, a masque. Bury 1822; Picturesque views of the Severn 1824. d. Dorset st. Portman sq. London 31 Jany. 1853 at advanced age.

HARRILD, Robert. b. Bermondsey, London 1 Jany. 1780; printer; manufacturer of printers’ materials and a printers’ engineer 1809; invented the composition balls and rollers for inking type 1810, soon universally adopted as the means of rapid printing; preserved the printing press on which Benjamin Franklin had worked in London, it is now in patent office, Washington. d. Round hill villa, Sydenham, Kent 28 July 1853. Bigmore and Wyman’s Bibl. of printing, i, 206, 232, 234, 306.

HARRINGTON, Charles Stanhope, 4 Earl of (eld. son of 3 Earl of Harrington 1753–1829). b. 8 April 1780; styled Lord Petersham 1780–1829; ensign Coldstream guards 2 Dec. 1795; major Queen’s Rangers 12 Feb. 1803; lieut. col. 3 West India regiment 25 June 1807 to 13 Aug. 1812 when placed on h.p.; col. in the army 4 June 1814; a lord of the bedchamber 1812–29; succeeded as 4 Earl 5 Sep. 1829. d. Brighton 3 March 1851. G.M. xxxv, 547 (1851); I.L.N. xviii, 200 (1851).

Note.—As Lord Petersham he was a distinguished leader of fashion, and originated a vestment which long retained his name the Petersham great coat. He also wore hats of a peculiar shape. When young cut out his own clothes, made his own blacking. Lord Petersham’s mixture was a favourite snuff. H. Melton’s Hints on Hats (1865) p. 39; J. Timb’s English Eccentrics, i, 56–7 (1866); J. Ashton’s Social England, ii, 308–9 (1890), 2 portraits.

HARRINGTON, Maria Stanhope, Countess of (dau. of Samuel T. Foote, theatrical manager, Plymouth and Exeter). b. Plymouth 24 July 1797; appeared as Juliet at Plymouth theatre July 1810, at Covent Garden as Amanthis in The Child of Nature 26 May 1814 at which house she acted every season till 1825; first appeared at Drury Lane as Letitia Hardy in The Belle’s Stratagem 9 March 1826; performed throughout the United Kingdom and in Paris; had 2 children by Colonel Berkeley 1815 etc.; obtained £3000 damages from “Pea-Green” Hayne for breach of promise 22 Dec. 1824; retired from the stage at Birmingham 11 March 1831. (m. 7 April 1831 the preceding). d. 2 Richmond terrace, Whitehall, London 27 Dec. 1867. Mrs. C. B. Wilson’s Our Actresses, i, 208–41 (1844), portrait; Oxberry’s Dramatic Biog. i, 33–46 (1825), portrait; Theatrical Inquisitor, vi, 3–6 (1815), portrait.

1345HARRINGTON, Leicester Fitzgerald Charles Stanhope, 5 Earl of (brother of 4 Earl of Harrington 1780–1851). b. Dublin barracks 2 Sep. 1784; cornet 1 life guards 25 Sep. 1799; major 47 foot 4 July 1816 to 26 June 1823 when placed on h.p.; served in Mahratta war 1817–18; col. in the army 10 Jany. 1837; C.B. 14 Oct. 1818; co-operated with Lord Byron and others in assisting the Greeks against the Turks 1823; knt. of Greek order of the Redeemer 30 April 1838. d. Harrington house, Kensington palace gardens, London 7 Sep. 1862. T. Moore’s Life of Byron (1847) 585, 601 etc.; Waagen’s Galleries of art (1857) 234–39.

HARRIOT, David. Entered Bengal army 1803; colonel 6 Bengal light cavalry 1849 to death; C.B. 3 April 1846. d. Cheltenham 6 Sep. 1851 aged 68.

HARRIS, George Francis Robert Harris, 3 Baron (eld. child of 2 Baron Harris 1782–1845). b. Belmont, Faversham, Kent 14 Aug. 1810; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1832, D.C.L. 1863; lieut. governor of Trinidad 5 May 1846, governor and commander in chief there 3 Nov. 1846; governor of Madras, Feb. 1854 to Jany. 1859; lord in waiting to the Queen 1860–63; chamberlain to Princess of Wales, March 1863; K.C.S.I. 25 June 1861, G.C.S.I. 24 May 1866. d. Belmont 23 Nov. 1872.

HARRIS, Augustus, stage name of Augustus Glossop (son of Joseph Glossop who built the Coburg theatre, London 1817 and d. Jany. 1835, by Madame Feron, vocalist who d. 7 May 1853). b. Portici, Naples 12 June 1825; light comedian at Bower saloon, Stangate, London; played at Princess’s theatre 1843, managed the Princess’s 24 Sep. 1859 to 16 Oct. 1862; stage manager of Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden 1846 to death; stage director of royal opera, St. Petersburgh, held same post at Madrid, Paris, Berlin and Barcelona; lessee of Covent Garden during pantomime seasons of 1869–73. (m. 17 Feb. 1846 Maria Ann Bone, columbine at Princess’s theatre); wrote The Avalanche, a drama 1854; The little treasure, a comedy 1855 and 11 other pieces; with E. Falconer The Rose of Castile, an opera 1857; Satanella, an opera 1858. d. 2 Bedford place, Holborn, London 19 April 1873. The Mask (1868) 97, portrait; Entertainment Gazette 15 Jany. 1887 p. 8; Era 27 April 1873 p. 4.

HARRIS, Charles. b. 19 Oct. 1817; ensign 27 Bengal N.I. 24 Sep. 1835, major 1860–62; lieut. col. Bengal staff corps 1866–77; L.G. 18 May 1881. d. 55 Sutherland gardens, Harrow road, London 1 March 1889.

1346HARRIS, Right Rev. Charles Amyand (3 son of 2 Earl of Malmesbury 1778–1841). b. Christchurch, Hants. 4 Aug. 1813; ed. at Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1835, M.A. 1837; fellow of All Souls’ coll. 1835–37; student at I.T. 1834; ordained deacon 1836; R. of Wilton, Wilts. 1840–48; preb. of Salisbury 1841–63; domestic chaplain to bishop of Salisbury 1841–68; P.C. of Rownhams, Southampton 1856–63; archdeacon of Wilts. 1863–68; V. of Bremhill-with-Highway, Wilts. 1863–68; bishop of Gibraltar 1868 to Oct. 1873, consecrated in Canterbury cath. 1 May 1868; author of One rule and one mind, a sermon 1841. d. Torquay 16 March 1874. bur. Bremhill 19 March.

HARRIS, Christopher Arthur Mohun (1 son of Isaac Donnithorne who assumed name of Harris, d. 1848). b. Barton Cliffe cottage, Hants. 14 Jany. 1801; ed. at Eton and at Geneva univ. 1816; foreign correspondent for The Press at Brussels 1854–6; a personal friend of Lord Beaconsfield 35 years; assumed name of Mohun, July 1878; kept hounds at Hayne to 1834; hereditary deputy ranger of Dartmoor; author of Letters on the great political questions of the day, By Ismaël 1852. d. Cross house, Bishops’ Teignton, South Devon 30 Oct. 1887. Boase’s Collect. Cornub. (1890) 319, 1710; Baily’s Mag. xlviii, 343–5 (1888).

HARRIS, Rev. David. b. Fearn 1771; licensed by presbytery of Dundee 1 Dec. 1802; presbyterian minister Fearn 8 Sep. 1803 to death; author of Account of the parish of Fearn 18—. d. Riverside villa, Blairgowrie 18 Oct. 1867 in 96 year. H. Scott’s Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ (1871) iii, pt. ii, p. 832.

HARRIS, Edmund Robert. Solicitor at Preston 1827 to death; left £285,000 to town of Preston for purposes of public utility, of this £105,000 was expended on the Harris free public library and museum and £100,000 on the Harris orphanage Oct. 1883. d. Whinfield, Lancs. 27 May 1877 aged 73.

HARRIS, Sir Edward Alfred John (2 son of 2 Earl of Malmesbury 1778–1841). b. Spring Gardens, London 20 May 1808; midshipman R.N. 1823, captain 23 Nov. 1841; M.P. for Christchurch 1844–52; consul general in Chili 1853–8; min. plenipo. at Berne 31 March 1858, envoy extraord. 16 Dec. 1859; envoy extraord. at Amsterdam 22 Aug. 1867 to 19 Nov. 1877 when retired on pension of £1300; R.A. 12 April 1862, admiral on h.p. 5 Aug. 1875; C.B. 15 June 1863, K.C.B. 13 July 1872. d. Sondling park near Hythe, Kent 17 July 1888.

1347HARRIS, Francis (son of John Harris of Winchester place, Southwark, hat maker). b. Winchester place 1 Dec. 1829; ed. at King’s coll. London and Caius coll. Cam., B.A. 1852, M.B. 1854, M.D. 1859; M.R.C.P. 1857; demonstrator of morbid anatomy St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1858–61, assistant phys. 1861–74; author of On the nature of the substance found in the amyloid degeneration of various organs of the human body 1859. d. 24 Cavendish sq. London 3 Sep. 1885. bur. churchyard of Brenchley, Kent. Gee’s Memoir of F. Harris; St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Reports (1885) xxxiii-viii.

HARRIS, Furlong Elizabeth Shipton. b. 1822; author of From Oxford to Rome, and how it fared with some who lately made the journey. By A Companion Traveller 1847, 3 ed. 1847; Rest in the church. By the author of From Oxford to Rome 1848; Via Dolorosa, the Catholic devotion of the stations. By the author, etc. 1848. d. St. Martin’s st. Wallingford 20 June 1852.

HARRIS, Rev. George (son of Abraham Harris, Unitarian minister at Swansea). b. Maidstone, Kent 15 May 1794; matric. at Glasgow univ. Nov. 1812; a founder of Scottish Unitarian Assoc. July 1813, sec. 1813–16; minister of Renshaw st. chapel, Liverpool 1817–22; planned a Unitarian Christian Assoc. 1818; minister of Cloth Hall chapel, Bolton 1822, of Moor lane chapel, Bolton 1823–25; minister at Glasgow 1825–41, at Edinburgh 1841–45, of Hanover sq. chapel, Newcastle 1845 to death; edited The Christian Pioneer, Glasgow 19 vols. 1826–45; author of Unitarianism, the only religion which can become universal, Liverpool 1818; Christianity and Church of Irelandism, Glasgow 1835, 15 ed. 1835; The great business of life 1847 and other books. d. Newcastle 24 Dec. 1859.

HARRIS, George (eld. son of George Harris of Rugby). b. Rugby 6 May 1809; ed. at Rugby and Trin. coll. Cam.; barrister M.T. 13 Jany. 1843; acting judge Birmingham county court 2 years; registrar of court of bankruptcy, Manchester 1862–8; the first suggester of the Historical MSS. commission 1857; V.P. Anthropological Instit.; president Manchester Anthropological soc.; F.S.A. 7 Feb. 1861; author of The life of lord chancellor Hardwicke 1847; Civilization considered as a science 1861; The true theory of representation in a state 1852; The theory of the arts 2 vols. 1869; A philosophical treatise on nature and constitution of man 2 vols. 1876. d. Iselipps manor, Northolt, Middlesex 15 Nov. 1890. Times 22 Nov. 1890 p. 8.

1348HARRIS, George Frederic (eld. son of Joseph Harris of Liverpool). b. 1813; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., 3rd in classical tripos and B.A. 1835; fellow of his coll.; assistant master at Harrow about 1840, lower master 1863 to Dec. 1868, a very popular master. d. Mountside, Harrow 7 May 1869 aged 57.

HARRIS, George Frederick. b. 1797; organist St. Lawrence, Jewry, city of London 1821 to death; chorus master Drury Lane theatre 1836; founder and conductor of London Professional chorus soc.; under name of Rudolph Nordmann published The airs from Balfe’s opera Satanella arranged for pianoforte duets 1859; Two hundred and fifty chants 1862 and 45 other pieces. d. 19 Torrington sq. London 25 Nov. 1867.

HARRIS, Rev. James. b. London 25 Aug. 1824; employed in a hosier’s shop; studied theology at Tronchiennes, Namur and Louvain in Belgium and at St. Beuno’s coll. North Wales 1850–6; ordained priest 22 Sep. 1861; minister at St. Beuno’s 1861, professor of ecclesiastical history 1862, of moral theology 1864–5; spiritual father and prefect of studies at St. Francis Xavier’s coll. Liverpool 1865, superior of the coll. 1879 to death. d. Kentish Town, London 4 Dec. 1883. Memoir of Father James Harris, By Thomas Harper (1884).

HARRIS, Rev. John (eld. son of a tailor and draper). b. Ugborough, Devon 8 March 1802; minister of Congregational ch. at Epsom 1825; prof. of theology in Cheshunt coll. 1837; D.D. Brown univ. U.S.A. 1838; one of editors of Biblical Review 1846; principal of and prof. of theology in New coll. St. John’s Wood, London 1850 to death, college opened 8 Oct. 1851; chairman of Congregational Union of England and Wales 1852; author of The great teacher: characteristics of our Lord’s ministry 1835; The Pre-Adamite earth 1846; The altar of the household 1853, 11 ed. 1859 and other books. d. New college, London 21 Dec. 1856. Congregational year book (1858) 207–9.

HARRIS, John. b. 1791; student royal academy; employed in British museum 1820; artist, lithographer and copyist; noted for his fac simile reproductions of wood engravings and block printing to supply deficiencies in imperfect books; completed missing leaves for volumes in libraries of Lord Spencer, Thomas Grenville, British Museum, the Duke of Sussex and others; made the illustrations for Dibdin’s Bibliotheca Spenceriana 1814 and Pettigrew’s Bibliotheca Sussexiana 1839. d. Croydon 28 Dec. 1873 aged 82. Cowtan’s British Museum (1872) 334–8.

1349HARRIS, John. b. 1807; prompter and stage director theatre royal, Belfast; manager and then lessee of Queen’s theatre, Dublin 1845–51; lessee of theatre royal, Dublin 26 Dec. 1851 to death; his second season began 16 Oct. 1852 and ended 15 July 1854, 516 nights the longest season in annals of Irish stage; produced 12 of Shakespeare’s plays May 1852 to Feb. 1855. (m. 184-Miss Julia Nicholl, well known actress); found drowned at Killiney Strand 13 March 1874. bur. from his residence 11 Waterloo road, Dublin, in Mount Jerome cemet. 19 March. History of theatre royal, Dublin (1870) 130–79; Irish Times 16 March 1874 p. 2, 17 March p. 2, 20 March p. 2.

HARRIS, John (1 son of John Harris, miner, d. 23 April 1848). b. Six Chimneys’ cottage, Bolennowe hill, Camborne, Cornwall 14 Oct. 1820; worked in Dolcoath mine 1832–57; scripture reader at Falmouth 1857 to death; local Wesleyan preacher; had grants from R. Literary fund 1872, 1875, and from R. Bounty fund 1877, 1881; author of Lays from the mine, the moor and the mountain 1853, 2 ed. 1856; Luda, a lay of the Druids 1868; Tales and other poems 1877; My autobiography 1882, with portrait, and other works; had prize of a gold watch for The Shakespeare tercentenary prize poem 1864. d. Killigrew ter. Falmouth 7 Jany. 1884. bur. Treslothan 10 Jany.