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HARRIS, John Dove. b. Leicester 1809; mayor of Leicester 1850 and 1856; M.P. for Leicester 1857–59 and 1865–74. d. Ratcliff hall, Ratcliff on Wreake, Leics. 20 Nov. 1878. I.L.N. xxxiii, 92, 94 (1858), portrait.

HARRIS, Joseph. Entered Bengal army 1803; col. 3 Bengal N.I. 1846–58; col. 4 European infantry 1859 to death; L.G. 29 Aug. 1859. d. Carlton road, Maida vale, London 22 July 1861 aged 81.

HARRIS, Joseph John. b. London 1799; organist of St. Olave’s ch. Southwark 1823–28; organist at Blackburn 1828–31; singing master and assistant organist at Manchester collegiate ch. 1831, organist of Manchester cathedral 1848 to death; director of the Gentlemen’s glee club, Manchester; published A selection of psalm and hymn tunes, Southwark 1827; The cathedral daily service, Manchester 1844; The musical expression, a guide for parents 1845. d. 242 Brunswick st. Oxford st. Manchester 10 Feb. 1869.

HARRIS, Josiah (son of William Harris). b. Mevagissey, Cornwall 6 May 1821; edited The Bath Herald 1848–52; The Western Luminary, Exeter 1854–5; The Wolverhampton 1350Journal 1855–6; The Oxford University Herald 1856; author of The pulpit of Cornwall, By Ishmael, 3 numbers 1859; A tear and a floweret, Biography of J. W. Etheridge 1871. d. Portmellon, Mevagissey 5 March 1888.

HARRIS, Matthew (son of Peter Harris, builder, Athlone). b. Roscommon 1826; a working bricklayer and slater; road contractor, architect, builder, contractor; a Fenian 1865–80; member of Land and National leagues, his speech about shooting landlords like partridges had a wide notoriety; M.P. East Galway, Dec. 1885 to death; by the special commission he was condemned as guilty of criminal conspiracy 1889. d. near Ballinasloe 14 April 1890. Pall Mall Gazette 15 April 1890 p. 6, portrait.

HARRIS, Richard. b. Leicester, Oct. 1777; in R. Phillips’ printing office Leicester to 1793; served in the army 1797–1802; founded a manufactory of knitted shawls and fancy hosiery at Leicester 1802, had various partners and lastly his 2 sons; mayor of Leicester 1844–45; M.P. for Leicester 2 Sep. 1848 to 1 July 1852. d. Leicester 2 Feb. 1854. T. Lomas’ Memoir of R. Harris (1855).

HARRIS, Rev. Robert. b. Feb. 1764; ed. at Sid. Suss. coll. Cam., fellow, 10 wrangler 1786; B.A. 1786, M.A. 1789, B.D. 1797; incumb. of St. George’s church, Preston, Sep. 1797 to death. d. Preston 6 Jany. 1862.

HARRIS, Robert (son of James Harris of Wittersham hall, Kent). b. 9 July 1809; entered navy 26 Jany. 1822; served in Excellent gunnery ship Portsmouth 1833–6; served in China 1840–1; captain 17 Oct. 1849; in the Illustrious training ship 1854–7 where he had charge of Sir J. Graham’s novices; organised and introduced into the navy, naval cadets and boys’ training ship system 1857–62; granted good service pension 2 April 1863. d. Southsea, Portsmouth 16 Jany. 1865.

HARRIS, Thomas. b. 15 June 1810; called to Irish bar 1834; Q.C. 6 July 1858. d. 1 Nov. 1877.

HARRIS, Sir Thomas Noel (son of Rev. Hamlyn Harris, R. of Whitewell, Rutland). b. 1785; ensign 87 foot 5 Feb. 1801; captain 18 light dragoons 27 Aug. 1807, sold out 1808; served in all Blucher’s actions 1813–14; brought to England first news of surrender of Paris, April 1814; lost his right arm at Waterloo; captain 1 dragoon guards 8 Sep. 1815 to 25 March 1816 when placed on h.p.; deputy adjutant general in Canada 22 July 1830 to 135114 Sep. 1832; chief magistrate at Gibraltar 1835; one of grooms of H.M.’s privy chamber to death; K.H. 1830; knighted at St. James’s palace 28 April 1841. d. Updown, Eastry, Kent 23 March 1860.

HARRIS, William. b. 1797; F.G.S. 1839; collected the organic remains found in the Kent chalk pits, especially the sponges and fishes; mapped the area of the cretaceous strata about Charing on the Ordnance map; traced the fossiliferous ironstone near Charing. d. Charing, Kent 13 May 1877 aged 80. Geol. Mag., Aug. 1877 pp. 381–82.

HARRIS, William Augustus (1 son of William Harris). b. Bovey Tracey 1846; ed. at Blundell’s sch. Tiverton and Ball. coll. Ox., scholar 1863–8, B.A. 1867; barrister L.I. 1 May 1871; called to American bar 1870; F.R.A.S. 11 Feb. 1870, member of Eclipse expedition to Sicily 1870; author of Harris’ Mining Laws 1877. d. 49 Blessington road, Lee, Lewisham 28 Feb. 1880. Monthly Notices of R. Astronom. Soc., Feb. 1881 pp. 187–8.

HARRIS, William Charles (son of John Harris of Clapham, Surrey). b. 1809; ensign 68 foot 12 June 1830, captain 19 Jany. 1838 to 5 Oct. 1838 when he sold out; chief constable of Hampshire 1843–56; assist. comr. of Metropolitan police 3 March 1856, retired Nov. 1881 on pension of £533 6s. 8d.; C.B. 12 July 1881; author of A manual of drill for county and district constables 1862. d. Eastdon house, Starcross, Devon 8 March 1887.

HARRIS, Sir William Snow (only son of Thomas Harris, solicitor). b. Plymouth 1 April 1791; ed. at Edin. univ.; surgeon in the militia; practised in Plymouth to 1824; invented method of arranging lightning conductors in ships 1820 which was employed in Russian navy, (Czar gave him a ring and vase), not used in English navy until 1843; knighted at St. James’s palace 28 April 1847, and had a grant of £5000 in 1854; a founder of the Blue Friars and known as Brother Bacon clerk 17 May 1829; F.R.S. 2 June 1831, communicated papers on laws of electricity 1826, 1834, 1836 and 1839, Copley medal 1835, Bakerian lecturer 1839; civil list pension of £300 for services in cultivation of science 23 July 1841; scientific referee of government in electrical matters 1860; author of On utility of fixing lightning conductors on ships 1830; On the nature of thunder storms 1843; Rudimentary treatises on Electricity 1848, Magnetism 1852 and Galvanism 1856. d. 6 Windsor villas, Plymouth 22 Jany. 1867. 1352Treatise on Frictional Electricity (1867), memoir by C. Tomlinson; Wright’s The Blue Friars (1889) 73–74, portrait; Encyclop. Brit, xi, 493–4 (1880); Proc. Royal Soc. xvi, 18–22 (1868).

HARRISON, Arthur Aylett (3 son of Rev. Thomas Harrison, P.C. of Womenswould, Kent). b. 1831; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1853, M.B. 1858; phys. to Church Missionary station, Abbeokuta, West Africa; author of Theory of heat 1864. d. on board the ‘Macgregor Laird’ off Accra, Gold Coast, Africa 12 June 1864 aged 33.

HARRISON, Benjamin (4 son of Benjamin Harrison 1734–97, treasurer of Guy’s hospital). b. West Ham, Essex 29 July 1771; treasurer of Guy’s hospital 1797 to death; with Sir Astley Cooper separated Guy’s from St. Thomas’s 1825; deputy governor of Hudson’s Bay and South Sea companies; chairman of Exchequer loan board; F.R.S.; F.S.A. d. West side, Clapham common 18 May 1856. W. J. Cripps’s Pedigree of family of Harrison, privately printed 1881.

HARRISON, Ven. Benjamin (eld. son of the preceding). b. 26 Sep. 1808; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., student 1828–48; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833; Kennicott Hebrew scholar 1831, Pusey and Ellerton Hebrew scholar 1832; select preacher at Ox. 1835–7; domestic chaplain to abp. of Canterbury 1843–8; canon of Canterbury and archdeacon of Maidstone 6 Dec. 1845 to death; F.S.A. 7 Dec. 1854; one of the revisers of Old Testament 1870–84, published 19 May 1885; author of Nos. 16, 17, 24 and 49 of Tracts for the Times 1841; An Historical inquiry into the true interpretation of the rubrics 1845; Prophetic outlines of the Christian church and the Antichristian power 1849 and 30 addresses, charges, lectures and single sermons. d. 7 Bedford sq. London 25 March 1887. Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xi, 371 (1887).

HARRISON, Sir Edmund Stephen (son of Henry Holland Harrison). b. 1810; clerk in privy council office 1826, chief clerk 1860–76; deputy clerk of the council 1860 to death; C.B. 2 April 1875; knighted at Windsor Castle 21 April 1880. d. 114 Harley st. London 21 Sep. 1882.

HARRISON, Sir George, b. Stonehaven, Kincardineshire 1812; clothier Edin. in partnership with Samuel Halkett 1839 then with his sons; sec. to Chamber of commerce 1856–63, chairman 1866–9; a founder of the Philosophical Institution; chairman Scottish trade 1353protection soc. 1878–82; town councillor 1875, treasurer of the city 1879–82, lord provost Nov. 1882 to Nov. 1885; LLD. of Edin. univ. 1884; knighted at Osborne 11 Aug. 1884; M.P. southern div. of Edin. Nov. 1885. d. 7 Whitehouse ter. Edinburgh 23 Dec. 1885. bur. Warriston cemet. 26 Dec. W. Hole’s Quasi Cursores (1884) ix, xiv-xvii, portrait; The Scotsman 24 Dec. 1885 pp. 4, 5, 28 Dec. p. 5.

HARRISON, George Harrison Rogers. b. 1806; Blue Mantle pursuivant 15 Nov. 1831 to 6 July 1849; Windsor herald 6 July 1849 to death; F.S.A.; author of A genealogical account of the Maitland family 1869. d. Windsor house 288 Kennington park road, London 2 March 1880.

HARRISON, George Henry De Strabolgie Neville Plantagenet- (only child of Marley Harrison of Waston, Yorkshire 1772–1822). b. 14 July 1817; general of brigade in Mexican army in Yucatan war 1843; brigadier general in Peruvian army 1844 and in Monte Video 1845; marshal general of the army of ‘God and Liberty’ of Corrientes in the Argentine republic 1845; general of cavalry in Danish army during Schleswig-Holstein war 1848; lieut. general of the German Confederation 1848; appointed marshal in Turkish army by the Sultan 1853; petitioned parliament for summons to parliament by his title of Duke of Lancaster as heir of the whole blood of Henry vi. 1858; travelled through nearly all the countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and America; not allowed access to British Museum library after 1850 because he claimed to be Duke of Lancaster; bankrupt 25 Oct. 1861, liabilities £6484, confined in Queen’s prison, Southwark; worked from 1865 to death in the Public Record office on the rolls of the queen’s bench and common pleas, making collections for family history, Rich. i. to Jas. i., left 30 folio volumes of MSS.; author of The history of Yorkshire, Wapentake of Gilling West 1879 price 15 guineas, of which he sold but 20 copies, it contains his pedigree and portrait; Petition of General Plantagenet-Harrison to house of lords touching the duchy of Lancaster 1858. d. about 18 July 1890.

HARRISON, John. A life guardsman; one of the Cato st. conspirators 1820, was appointed to fire the King st. cavalry barracks; transported to Botany Bay 1820; became chief baker at Bathurst, N.S.W. Australia. d. before 1863. R. Therry’s Reminiscences (2 ed. 1863) 96–98.

1354HARRISON, John. b. 1808; M.R.C.S. 1832, F.R.C.S. 1843; house surgeon Lock hospital; house surgeon St. George’s hospital, lecturer on surgical anatomy; author of The pathology of stricture of the urethra 1852, 2 ed. 1858; The pathology of venereal diseases 1860. d. 2 Albany courtyard, Piccadilly, London 3 Jany. 1870.

HARRISON, Rev. John. b. 1815; C. of Burslem 1854–58; C. of Rotherham 1858–60; C. of Sheffield 1860–63; C. of Pitsmoor, Sheffield 1863–67; V. of Fenwick near Doncaster 1867 to death; D.D. Edin. 1870; author of An answer to Dr. Pusey’s challenge respecting the doctrine of the real presence 2 vols. 1871; The eastward position unscriptural and not primitive and catholic 1876 and 5 other books. d. Askern near Doncaster 26 Feb. 1883 aged 68.

HARRISON, John Gregson. L.S.A. 1828, M.R.C.S. Eng. 1829, M.D. Giessen 1842, F.R.C.P. Edin. 1845; medical officer to L. & N.W. railway many years, presented with a service of plate value 300 guineas March 1854; medical inspector of factories; surgeon 6 royal Lancashire militia 1 Sep. 1856 to death. d. Cheltenham 1 Dec. 1862 aged 56. I.L.N. 1 April 1854 p. 289, picture of service of plate.

HARRISON, Joseph. Head gardener to Lord Wharncliffe at Worley hall near Sheffield to 1837; started The Floricultural Cabinet and Florists’ Magazine 1833, monthly mag., edited it 1833–55; a florist at Downham, Norfolk 1837, at Kingston, Surrey; edited The gardener’s and forester’s record 1833; The garden almanac 1842 etc.; The gardeners’ and naturalists’ almanac 1852; with J. Paxton The Horticultural register 1831. d. about 1858.

HARRISON, Mary (dau. of Wm. Rossiter of Stockport, Lancs., hat maker). b. Liverpool 1788; taught painting in Liverpool and Chester about 1818–29; lived in London 1829 to death; an original member of New Society of Painters in water-colours 1831; exhibited 20 flower pictures at R.A., 9 at B.I. and 20 at Suffolk st. 1833–63. (m. 1814 William Harrison, he was ruined and d. 1861). she d. Chesnut lodge, Hampstead 25 Nov. 1875. E. C. Clayton’s English female artists, i, 411–15 (1876).

HARRISON, Rev. Matthew (son of John Harrison of Appleby). Matric. from Queen’s coll. Ox. 10 Oct. 1810 aged 18, fellow 1815–33; B.A. 1814, M.A. 1818; R. of Church Oakley, Hants. 1832 to death; author of The rise, progress and present structure of the English language 1848, 2 ed. Philadelphia 1856. d. Church Oakley 1 Jany. 1862.

1355HARRISON, Robert. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1814, M.A. and M.B. 1824, M.D. 1837; L. and F.R.C.S. Ireland 1816; M. and F.R.C.S. Eng. 1815; professor of anatomy and physiology Trin. coll. 1844 to death; surgeon to Dr. Steevens’ hospital and medical college, Dublin; author of The Dublin Dissector 2 vols. Dublin 1827; The surgical anatomy of the arteries of the body 2 vols. Dublin 1824, 4 ed. 1839. d. 1 Hume st. Dublin 23 April 1858. Lancet, i, 135–9 (1827–8); Medical Directory 1859 p. 973.

HARRISON, Robert Alexander. b. Montreal 1833; called to Upper Canadian bar 1855, the first person called with honours; chief clerk of crown law department for Upper Canada 1854–59; Q.C. 1867; member of House of Commons 1867–72; chief justice of province of Ontario 8 Oct. 1875 to death; author of A digest of all the cases in the Queen’s Bench and Practice court for Upper Canada 1823–51, Toronto 1852; The statutes of practical utility 1857; The common law procedure act 1856, 1858; The municipal manual for Upper Canada 1859, 4 ed. 1879; The common law procedure act, Canada 1870. d. Nov. 1878. Morgan’s Bibl. Canad. (1867) 176–7.

HARRISON, Samuel (youngest son of Rev. William Harrison, wesleyan minister). b. Banwell, Somerset 1826; ed. Woodhouse grove 1834; apprentice to a printer, Sheffield; shorthand reporter to Sheffield Times to 1854; introduced type-high stereotype columns in newspapers; proprietor with Henry Pawson of Sheffield Times 1854–7, sole proprietor 1857, editor 1854–69; acquired the Sheffield Iris, the Sheffield Mercury and the Sheffield Argus, all of which were incorporated in the Times; author of The Last Judgment, a poem in twelve books 1857, new ed. 1862; A complete history of the great flood at Sheffield 1864. d. Oakvilla, Broombank, Sheffield 21 Feb. 1871. Sheffield Times 25 Feb. 1871 p. 8, 4 March p. 8.

HARRISON, Samuel Bealey (eld. son of John Harrison of Foxley Grove, Berkshire). b. Manchester 4 March 1802; special pleader; barrister M.T. 15 June 1832; settled at Bronte, co. Halton, Canada as a miller and farmer 1837; called to bar of Upper Canada, Michs. term 1839, Q.C. 4 Jany. 1845, bencher of the Law society; judge of county court of county of York; represented Kingston in 1st parliament of United Canada 1841–43 and Kent in 2nd parliament 1843–45; mem. of executive council of Canada 1841–43; mem. of board of works 1841–44. d. Toronto 23 July 1867.

1356HARRISON, Thomas. Educated for an architect; associated with Wm. Ruff in supplying racing intelligence to London and provincial papers; on staff of Bell’s Life in London to 1860; on staff of The Field 1860 to death. d. 8 Lodge road, St. John’s Wood, London 16 July 1882. The Field 22 July 1882 p. 134.

HARRISON, Thomas Elliott (son of William Harrison, ship builder, Sunderland). b. North End, Fulham, Middlesex 4 April 1808; pupil of William Chapman, C.E. to 1829; surveyed part of the line for London and Birmingham railway 1830 and Stanhope and Tyne railway 1832, and built the Victoria bridge over the Wear 170 feet high with arches of 160 feet span 1837–8; engineer with Robert Stephenson of high level bridge at Newcastle 1849; engineer in chief of York, Newcastle and Berwick line 1849 to death; designed and carried out the Jarrow docks at South Shields 1855–9, designed the Hartlepool docks; built York railway station 1877; M.I.C.E. 1834, pres. 1874. d. Newcastle 20 March 1888. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xciv, 301–13 (1888), portrait.

HARRISON, Thomas Richard (son of James Harrison, printer). b. 3 May 1798; head of firm of Harrison & Sons, printers, St. Martin’s lane, Charing Cross, London; partner with J. W. Parker; printer to the Foreign office and printer of London Gazette. d. 53 Russell sq. London 29 April 1869.

HARRISON, William. b. Maryport, Cumberland, Oct. 1812; commander of merchant ships to 1842; connected with Cunard line of packets 1842–55 and crossed the Atlantic 180 times; app. commander of the Great Eastern Jany. 1856, conducted her from Deptford to Portland roads Sep. 1859; drowned off Southampton dock gates 21 Jany. 1860. I.L.N. 6 Nov. 1858, portrait, 4 Feb. 1860, portrait; Drawing Room portrait gallery (3 Ser. 1860), portrait.

HARRISON, William (only son of a coal merchant). b. Marylebone, London 15 June 1813; ed. at Royal Academy of Music 1836–7; first appeared in London at Covent Garden 2 May 1839 as Henrique in Rooke’s opera of Henrique or the Love Pilgrim; sang at Drury Lane 1843, the original Thaddeus in Balfe’s Bohemian girl 27 Nov. 1843; played at Princess’s 1849, at Haymarket 1851; toured through U.S. with Louisa Pyne 1854–57, they opened Lyceum theatre 21 Sep. 1857 and were lessees of Covent Garden 1858 to 19 March 1864, produced 10 new operas; sole manager of Her Majesty’s theatre 8 Nov. 1864 to 16 March 13571865; made his last appearance as Fritz in Grand Duchess at Liverpool, May 1868; had a tenor voice of remarkable purity and sweetness; translated Masse’s operetta Les noces de Jeannette and produced it at Covent Garden as The marriage of Georgette in 1860. (m. 4 March 1839 Ellen dau. of Wm. Clifford, actor d. 156 Cambridge st. Pimlico, London 5 Jany. 1889), he d. Gaisford st. Kentish town, London 9 Nov. 1868. Grove’s Dict. of music, i, 693 (1879); Era 15 Nov. 1868 p. 10; Illust. news of the world, viii (1861), portrait; Reg. and Mag. of Biog. i, 51–3 (1869).

Note.—He was the first to endeavour to establish English opera and in his undertakings lost £20,000. He produced more English operas than any of his successors have been able or willing to do.

HARRISON, Rev. William (son of James Harrison of London). b. 1797; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; V. of St. Oswald, Chester 1827 to death; master of King’s sch. Chester; minor canon of Chester cath. 1839–73; author of Sermons 1859. d. St. Oswald 11 Feb. 1880 aged 83.

HARRISON, Rev. William (1 son of William Harrison, doctor, Bermondsey, Surrey). b. 1811; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., scholar 1829–32, B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; R. of Birch, Essex 1848 to death; hon. canon of St. Albans 1877 to death; chaplain to Duchess of Cambridge 1879 to death; author of Sermons on the commandments 1841; The tongue of time or language of a church clock 1842, 3 ed. 1844; Consecrated thoughts 1843 and 15 other books. d. Birch rectory 1 July 1882.

HARRISON, William (son of Isaac Harrison, hat manufacturer). b. Salford, Lancs. 11 Dec. 1802; lived at the Cape of Good Hope; settled in the Isle of Man 1845; member of House of Keys, March 1856 to 1867; chief founder of Manx Soc. 1858, edited for it The Bibliotheca Monensis 1861 and 11 other volumes; contributed to Manchester Guardian. d. Rock Mount near Peel 22 Nov. 1884.

HARRISON, William Frederick (eld. son of Mary Harrison 1788–1875). b. Amiens, France March 1815; in New 3 per cent. office, Bank of England; painter, exhibited marine subjects. d. Goodwick, Pembrokeshire 3 Dec. 1880.

HARRISON, William George. b. 1827; proper sizar of St. John’s coll. Cam., 18 wrangler and B.A. 1850; known as Devil Harrison at Cambridge and by the bar; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1853, bencher 23 Nov. 1877; Q.C. 14 Feb. 1877; had a good many 1358pupils; a commercial lawyer; author with G. A. Cape of The Joint stock companies’ act 1856. d. South lodge, Edgware 5 March 1883. bur. Highgate cemet. 10 March.

HARRISON, William Henry. Edited The Humourist 1831; author of The Wreath of Beauty with other poems 1816; Montfort, a poem 1818; Tales of a Physician 1829, 2 series 1831; Christmas Tales 1840; The Fossil bride and other verses 1868. d. 19 Beaufort st. Chelsea 5 March 1878 aged 83.

HARRISON, William Waters (1 son of Rev. William Harrison of Chester). b. 1827; ed. at Brasenose coll. Ox., scholar 1845–8; B.A. 1848, M.A. 1851; esquire bedel of law 7 Nov. 1848; esquire bedel of law and divinity May 1857 to death, the last of the old triumvirate of esquire bedels, the office abolished by the Statute De Bedellis 22 May 1856. d. Sarah Acland home, Oxford 2 March 1891. G. V. Cox’s Recollections of Oxford, 2 ed. (1870) 253, 419–24.

HARROD, Henry. b. Aylsham, Norfolk 30 Sep. 1817; attorney at Norwich 1838–62, at Marlborough 1862–64; sec. Norfolk and Norwich Archæol. soc. 12 years; a professional antiquary in London 1864 to death; F.S.A. 16 March 1854; author of Gleanings among the castles and convents of Norfolk. Norwich 1857; Calendar of court rolls of borough of Colchester 1865, and other works on Colchester and King’s Lynn. d. 2 Rectory grove, Clapham, Surrey 24 Jany. 1871. Proc. of Soc. of Antiq., 2nd series, v, 141–43 (1871).

HARROWBY, Dudley Ryder, 2 Earl of. b. Army pay office, Whitehall, London 23 May 1798; known as lord Sandon 1809–47; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1832, D.C.L. 1848; M.P. Tiverton 1819–31, M.P. Liverpool 1831–47; sec. to the India board, Dec. 1830 to May 1831; ecclesiastical commissioner 1847–55; succeeded as 2 earl 26 Dec. 1847; chancellor of duchy of Lancaster 31 March to 7 Dec. 1855; P.C. 31 March 1855; lord keeper of privy seal 7 Dec. 1855 to Dec. 1857; K.G. 28 June 1859. d. Sandon house, Stone, Staffs. 19 Nov. 1882. Graphic xxvi, 605 (1882), portrait; I.L.N. lxxxi, 560 (1882), portrait; Portraits of eminent conservatives (2 ser. 1846), portrait.

HART, Alban J. H. b. 1798; ed. at Stonyhurst 1817; master Sedgley park sch.; teacher in a university in U.S. America; resided in St. Mary’s coll. Oscott to which he presented his library; author of The mind and its creations. New York 1853; My own language, or elements of English grammar. Baltimore 1860; 1359The hermit of the Alps, a poem in four Cantos, and other poems; Catholic psychology, or the philosophy of the human mind 1867. d. Worcester 13 April 1879 aged 81. Gillow’s English catholics, iii, 152 (1887).

HART, Sir Andrew Searle (youngest son of Rev. George Vaughan Hart of Glenalla, Donegal). b. Limerick 14 March 1811; ed. at Trinity coll. Dublin, B.A. 1833, M.A. 1839, LL.B. and LLD. 1840; fellow of his coll. 1835, senior fellow 1858, vice provost 1876; member of general synod of Irish ch.; prof. of Real and personal property, King’s inns, Dublin 4 June 1879; contributed to Camb. and Dublin Math. Journal, Proc. of Irish Acad. and Quart. journal of mathematics; knighted at Dublin castle by lord Carnarvon 25 Jany. 1886; author of An elementary treatise on mechanics 1844, 2 ed. 1847; An elementary treatise on hydrostatics and hydrodynamics 1846, 2 ed. 1850. d. at house of his brother in law G. V. Hart, Kilderry, co. Donegal 13 April 1890.

HART, Charles. b. 19 May 1797; ed. at R. Acad. of music; organist of Essex st. chapel, Strand, London, of St. Dunstan’s, Stepney 1829–33, of Trinity ch. Mile End, and of St. George’s, Beckenham; composer of Anthems 1830; The Jubilate and Te Deum 1832 which gained the Gresham gold medal Dec. 1831; Omnipotence, a sacred oratorio, which he conducted on first performance at Hanover sq. rooms 2 April 1839; Sacred harmony, tunes from the most celebrated composers 1841. d. 148 Bond st. London 29 March 1859. Grove’s Dict. of music, i, 692 (1879).

HART, Rev. George Augustus Frederick. Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; V. of Arundel, Sussex 1844 to death; chaplain in ord. to the Queen 14 Dec. 1848 to death. d. Arundel 7 April 1873.

HART, Sir Henry (son of Richard Hart of Uckfield, Sussex). b. Wilmington, Sussex 1781; entered navy March 1796, captain 1 Aug. 1811; sent on a mission to the Imaum of Muscat 1804; K.C.H. 25 Jany. 1836; knighted at St. James’s palace 23 Feb. 1836; comr. of Greenwich hospital 14 Oct. 1845; retired R.A. 1 Oct. 1846. d. Royal hospital, Greenwich 23 Dec. 1856.

HART, Henry George (3 son of lieut. col. William Hart, d. Cape of Good Hope 1848). b. 7 Sep. 1808; ensign 49 foot 1 April 1829, major 15 Dec. 1848 to 3 Feb. 1854 when placed on h.p.; aided by his wife brought out the Quarterly Army list, Feb. 1839, was then 1360allowed access to official records, and in 1840 published The New Annual Army list, the Quarterly and Annual lists have since regularly appeared; poor law inspector Ireland 1845–6; major depot battalion 21 April 1854 to 1 Dec. 1856 and in 1856 suppressed a mutiny of North Tipperary militia; major on half pay 1 Dec. 1856 to death; L.G. 4 Dec. 1877. d. Biarritz, France 24 March 1878.

HART, Henry Wyatt (eld. son of Rev. Cornelius Hart, V. of Old St. Pancras, London). b. 1850; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1873; barrister I.T. 25 April 1877; author of Bankruptcy law and practice 1880, 3 ed. 1887; with Ernest Eiloart Interrogatories. Rules relating to the law of discovery and inspection 1879. d. Aden, on his way home from Queensland 20 June 1886.

HART, John. b. 1809; engaged in whaling and had a whaling establishment at Encounter bay, N.S.W. Australia; had flour mills at Port Adelaide, S. Australia 1846, Hart’s flour commanding the highest price in the market; M.L.C. South Australia 1857, treasurer 21 Aug. to 1 Sep. 1857, 30 Sep. 1857 to 12 June 1858 and 15 July 1864 to 22 March 1865, chief secretary 4–15 July 1863, 23 Oct. 1865 to 27 March 1866 and 24 Sep. to 12 Oct. 1868, treasurer and premier 30 May 1870 to 10 Nov. 1871; C.M.G. 15 Jany. 1870; while presiding at meeting of Mercantile marine insurance co. in Adelaide he essayed to speak and fell dead 28 Jany. 1873. Heaton’s Australian Dictionary (1879) 87, 153–5.

HART, Solomon Alexander (son of Samuel Hart, gold and silver worker, mezzotint engraver and teacher of Hebrew). b. Plymouth, April 1806; student R. Acad. London, Aug. 1823; exhibited 121 pictures at R.A., 25 at B.I. and 34 at Suffolk st. 1826–80; A.R.A. 1835, R.A. 1840, professor of painting 1854–63, librarian of the institution 1865 to death; curator of painted hall, Greenwich; elected member of Athenæum 1845; some of his pictures were The elevation of the Law 1830 in Vernon gallery; Lady Jane Grey at the place of her execution 1839 in Plymouth guildhall; Milton visiting Galileo in prison 1847. d. 36 Fitzroy sq. London 11 June 1881. A. Brodie’s Reminiscences of S. A. Hart (1882), portrait; I.L.N. lxxviii, 621 (1881), portrait; G. Pycroft’s Art in Devonshire (1883) 55–58.

HART, Rev. William Henry (only son of Wm. Hart of Dorking, surgeon). b. Dorking 6 Jany. 1831; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ sch. 1839–49; Andrew’s exh. to St. John’s coll. Ox. 1849; Blount sch. of Trinity coll. 1850; demy of 1361Magdalen coll. 1850–61; B.A. 1853, M.A. 1856; assist. C. of Hawkhurst, Kent 1855 to 1860; resident chaplain to Soc. of Gray’s Inn, Oct. 1860 to death. d. 5 Oct. 1861. bur. Brighton parochial cemetery. J. R. Bloxam’s Register of Magd. coll., vii, 384–9 (1881).

HARTING, James Vincent (1 son of James Harting of Hampstead, solicitor). b. 1812; ed. at Downside coll. near Bath, and at London Univ. 1828–30; solicitor 24 Lincoln’s inn fields 1836 to death; chiefly engaged in connection with Roman Catholic business, solicitor to Cardinal Newman, defended him in the Achilli case 31 Jany. 1852; gave evidence before parliamentary commission on convents 1871; F.S.A. 2 June 1864; author of The holy hour 1851. d. 2 Upper Montague st. Russell sq. London 30 Aug. 1883. The Tablet lxii, 382 (1883); Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 157–60 (1887).

HARTLAND, Frederick Augustus. b. 25 Dec. 1783; one of the best pantomimists, associated with Grimaldi at Sadler’s Wells theatre 1802; struck on the head by a plank from a scaffold in Mount st. Westminster road, London 16 Aug. 1852, died on his way to St. Thomas’ hospital, bur. St. Mary Newington ch. yard. Era 22 Aug. 1852 p. 12.

HARTLEY, Humphrey Robert. b. 24 Aug. 1794; ensign 57 foot 8 Oct. 1812, lieut. col. 12 April 1831 to 4 Sep. 1835 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 20 June 1854; introduced the first savings’ bank in the British army at Madras 6 Nov. 1832, and libraries for noncommissioned officers. d. 27 Upper Berkeley st. Portman sq. London 7 Aug. 1854.

HARTLEY, James. Large shipowner at Dublin; director of some of principal steam companies in the United Kingdom; found dead in his cabin on board the ‘Nubia’ between Ceylon and Suez 11 April 1857.

HARTLEY, James (son of John Hartley of Harborne, Staffs., d. 1830). b. Dumbarton 1810; partner in Chance, Hartley & Co. glass makers, Smethwick; first to use sulphate of soda in crown glass; used a thimble instead of an iron bar in blowing glass; the first in England to make German sheet-glass; removed to Sunderland and erected glasshouses 1833; invented Hartley’s patent rolled plate 1847 used in Great Exhibition building 1851, made from it a fortune; mayor of Sunderland 1851–3; M.P. Sunderland 1865–8; A.I.C.E. 5 May 1868. d. Ashbrooke hall, Sunderland 24 May 1886. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxv, 409–12 (1887).

1362HARTLEY, Jesse (son of a bridge master in N.R. Yorkshire). b. near Pontefract 1780; apprentice to a mason; surveyor of the Liverpool docks 1824 to death, constructed or altered every dock there 1824–60; completed the Grosvenor bridge over the river Dee at Chester, which had the largest single span stone arch (200 feet) in existence at the time 1832. d. Bootle Marsh near Liverpool 24 Aug. 1860. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxiii, 219–22 (1872).

Note.—His son John Bernard Hartley who was b. 3 Sep. 1814 and d. 14 Dec. 1869, was joint surveyor of Liverpool docks with his father from July 1847.

HARTLEY, Leonard Lawrie (only child of Archibald Campbell, surgeon, d. Bedale, Yorkshire 1837 by Mary dau. of Leonard Hartley). b. 1816; assumed the name of Hartley by r.l. on 15 July 1841 after death of his uncle George Hartley of Middleton Tyas, Yorks.; collected a library of 60,000 volumes chiefly on topography, books sold for £9636 14s. 6d. June 1885. d. 138 Marina, St. Leonards on Sea 27 Dec. 1883, his heir at law advertised for 7 Feb. 1884. Times 7 Feb. 1884 p. 1.

HARTMAN, Sir Julius. b. 6 May 1774; captain artillery King’s German Legion 9 Nov. 1803, major 12 April 1806 to 24 Feb. 1816 when placed on h.p.; re-entered Hanoverian service 1816, L.G. 1836; hon. K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815; cr. a baron of Kingdom of Hanover by George V. King of Hanover 1855 or 1856, only baron he created. d. Hanover 7 June 1856. Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, x, 688–91 (1879).

HARTNOLL, John Hooper. b. 1799 or 1800; mathematical master Greenwich hospital sch., retired on a pension; started The Kentish Mercury 1832, proprietor and editor to his decease; proprietor and editor of Post Magazine and Insurance Monitor 1839 and Post Magazine Almanac and Insurance Directory 1854; author of The annual balance sheets of all the insurance companies, with a letter on the Joint Stock Companies’ registration act 1853, 2 ed. 1853. d. Bexley house, Greenwich 6 June 1870. Newspaper Press, iv, 174 (1870); Kentish Mercury 11 June 1870 p. 4.

HARTOG, Numa Edward (1 son of Alphonse Hartog, professor of French). b. London 20 May 1846; ed. at Univ. coll. sch. and Univ. coll. London; B.A. and B.Sc. London 1864; foundation scholar of Trin. coll. Cam. 1866, senior wrangler 1869 the first Jew who won that distinction; admitted B.A. without taking usual oath 29 Jany. 1869; second Smith prizeman 1869, religious tests prevented him becoming 1363fellow of his college; gave evidence before house of lords on religious tests 3 March 1871. d. of small pox Belsize sq. Hampstead, London 19 June 1871. Times 21, 22, 23 June 1871; Jewish Chronicle 23 June 1871.

HARTRIDGE, William. Chairman of Bombay and Baroda railway co.; a common councilman for Broad St. ward, London to 1880; master of the Salter’s Co. d. Addelam, Upper Deal, Kent 25 Jany. 1885 aged 76.

HARTSHORNE, Rev. Charles Henry (only son of John Hartshorne of Liverpool, ironmaster). b. Broseley, Shropshire 17 March 1802; ed. at Shrewsbury and St. John’s coll. Cam., pensioner 4 Jany. 1821; B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; C. of Benthall, Salop 1825–8; C. of Little Wenlock, Salop 1828–36; C. of Cogenhoe, Northamptonshire 1838–50, and R. of Holdenby 2 Nov. 1850 to death; a founder of British Archæol. Assoc. and Institute 1844 and a contributor to the journal; F.S.A.; author of Ancient metrical Tales 1829; Salopia Antiqua 1841; Historical Memoirs of Northampton 1848 and 20 other books. d. Holdenby rectory 11 March 1865. Journal of B.A. Assoc. xxii, 322–5 (1866).

HARTT, Charles Frederic (son of James William Hartt). b. Fredericton, New-Brunswick 23 Aug. 1840; ed. at Acacia coll. to 1860; went to St. John’s 1860; geologist in the Thayer expedition to Brazil 1865, again in Brazil 1867, 1870, 1871, 1874, 1878; founded geological museum at Rio Janiero; student of Indian languages and folk lore; professor of natural history Vassar college 1868; professor of geology Cornell univ. 1868 to death; author of Thayer expedition. Scientific results of a journal to Brazil. Boston 1870; Amazonian tortoise myths. Rio 1875. d. of yellow fever, Rio Janiero 19 March 1878. Nature 13 June 1878 pp. 174–5; Popular Science Monthly. New York, June 1878 pp. 231–5, portrait.

HARTY, William. b. 1781; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1801, M.B. 1804, M.D. 1830; F.K.Q.C. of P. 1824–27, censor 1826; physician to Dublin prisons 40 years; physician to King’s hospital or Blue coat sch. Dublin 40 years; author of Dysentery and its combinations 1805; An historic sketch of the contagious fever epidemic in Ireland 1817–19. Dublin 1820; Failure of the Reformation in Ireland. By a Protestant Layman. Dublin 1837. d. Ballickmoyle, Queen’s county 30 March 1854.

1364HARVEY, Alexander. b. 1811; L.R.C.S. Edin. 1832, M.D. Edin. 1835; professor of materia medica Aberdeen univ.; consulting physician Aberdeen royal infirmary; author of On the foetus in utero 1849, 2 ed. 1886; On a remarkable effect of cross breeding 1851; Trees and their nature, or the bud and its attributes 1856; Man’s place unique in nature. By a University Professor 1865; with A. D. Davidson Syllabus of materia medica. Aberdeen 1873, 8 ed. 1887. d. 16 Hanover ter. Ladbroke sq. London 25 April 1889.

HARVEY, Bissell. Cornet 26 light dragoons 9 Nov. 1797; captain 1 foot 20 June 1811 to 25 Oct. 1821 when placed on h.p.; fort major Edinburgh castle 1822–40; inspecting field officer of Leeds recruiting district 24 Jany. 1840, of Glasgow recruiting district Dec. 1846 to Nov. 1847; lieut. col. 9 foot 5 Nov. 1847, retired same day; K.H. 1837. d. Whitby 6 Feb. 1854.

HARVEY, Daniel Whittle (1 son of Matthew Barnard Harvey of Witham, Essex). b. Witham 1786; attorney at Feering house, Essex, at Witham and at Colchester 1807–1819; struck his own name off the rolls 1819; contested Colchester 1812 and 1818, M.P. Colchester 1818 to 1820; M.P. Colchester 14 July 1820, election declared void; M.P. Colchester 1826–34; M.P. Southwark 1835–40; registrar of metropolitan public carriages Feb. 1839; commissioner of city of London police Jany. 1840 to death; established the Sunday Times 20 Oct. 1822; proprietor of the True Sun 1833–7; established Weekly True Sun 1833, ran to 1839; commenced the Statesman or Weekly True Sun 5 Jany. 1840, ran to 27 Dec. 1840. d. 26 Old Jewry, city of London 24 Feb. 1863. bur. at Hackney unitarian chapel. Newspaper Press 1 Sep. 1869 pp. 192–3, by Cyrus Redding; I.L.N. 7 March 1863 pp. 253, 254, portrait; G.M. May 1863 pp. 662–3; Times 25 Feb. 1863 p. 5.

Note.—He was admitted a student of the Inner Temple 7 Nov. 1810, but the Benchers refused to call him to the bar in 1819 on account of more than one verdict having gone against him in actions affecting his character; at his request in 1821 they examined into the particulars of the charges brought against him, and came to a resolution that they saw no reason to alter their determination. In 1834 he procured a committee of the House of Commons to be appointed, at the head of which was Daniel O’Connell to examine the evidence and that committee reported in his favour, but the Benchers of the Inner Temple nevertheless refused to call him to the bar.—No call of the House of Commons has been enforced since Harvey’s motion on the pension list 19 April 1836.—He was tried at the Guildhall, London 30 Oct. 1823 for a libel on George iv. in the Sunday Times 9 Feb. 1823, sentenced to pay a fine of £200 and to be imprisoned in the Marshalsea 3 months. Reports of State Trials, n.s. ii, 1–68 (1889).

1365HARVEY, Rev. Edmund George (1 son of Rev. Wm. Woodis Harvey 1798–1864). b. Penzance 20 Feb. 1828; ed. Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1850; R. of Truro 1860–5; V. of Mullion near Helston, Cornwall 1865 to death; author of Our cruise in the Undine through France, Prussia, etc. By the Captain 1854; Mullyon, its history, scenery and antiquities 1875 and other works, beside several small publications on music. d. Mullion 21 June 1884. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. 211–12, 1219.

HARVEY, Sir Edward (youngest son of John Harvey, captain R.N., killed on board the Brunswick 1 June 1794). b. 3 March 1783; first class volunteer on board ‘Brunswick’ 1793; captain 18 April 1811; at bombardment of St. Jean d’ Acre 1840; superintendent at Malta 1848–53; commander in chief at the Nore 1857–60; admiral 9 June 1860; awarded good service pension 21 May 1862; K.C.B. 28 June 1861, G.C.B. 28 March 1865. d. Walmer, Kent 4 May 1865.

HARVEY, Enoch (eld. son of Thomas Harvey of Liverpool, solicitor). b. Mount Pleasant, Liverpool 1826; solicitor at Liverpool 1849 to death; member of Incorporated Law Soc. of Liverpool 1855 to death, pres. 1881–2; killed at Mersey road station of Cheshire lines, Liverpool 1 Oct. 1890 in 65 year.

HARVEY, Sir George (son of a watchmaker). b. St. Ninians, Stirlingshire, Feb. 1806; ed. in Trustees’ academy, Edin. 1826–8; A.R.S.A. 1826, R.S.A. 1829, president 1864; F.R.S. Edin. 1867; knighted at Windsor castle 26 March 1867; exhibited 24 pictures at R.A. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1832–73; exhibited in Edinburgh institution and Scottish academy from 1826; among his pictures were Covenanters preaching 1829; Shakespeare before Sir Thomas Lucy 1837; and First reading of the Bible in the crypt of St. Paul’s 1840; author of Notes of the early history of the Royal Scottish Academy 1870. d. 21 Regent ter. Edinburgh 22 Jany. 1876. A. L. Simpson’s Harvey’s Celebrated paintings (1870); I.L.N. lxviii, 157 (1876), portrait; Graphic, xiii, 161 (1876), portrait.

HARVEY, Sir George Frederick (son of lieut.-gen. Sir John Harvey, K.C.B.) b. 1809; entered Indian C.S. 1827; commissioner and political agent at Agra and Delhi during mutiny 1857–8; retired on annuity 1863; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1867. d. 122 Sloane st. London 4 Nov. 1884.

HARVEY, Henry (son of Sir Thomas Harvey, K.C.B., vice admiral, d. 1841). b. 28 April 13661812; entered R.N. 15 Dec. 1822 as first class volunteer; signal midshipman to Sir E. Codrington at battle of Navarino 20 Oct. 1827; captain 10 Dec. 1852, retired 24 April 1866; admiral 15 June 1879. d. Walmer 27 May 1887. Times 1 June 1887 p. 10.

HARVEY, Sir John. b. 1778; ensign 80 foot 18 Sep. 1794; A.D.C. and military sec. to major general Dowdeswell in India 1803–6; D.A.G. in Upper Canada 1812–14; governor of New Brunswick 1837, of Newfoundland 20 July 1841, of Nova Scotia 26 June 1846 to death; col. of 59 foot 3 Dec. 1844 to death; L.G. 9 Nov. 1846; knighted at King’s lodge, Windsor 15 Dec. 1824; K.C.H. 19 March 1837; K.C.B. 19 July 1838. d. Halifax, Nova Scotia 22 March 1852.

HARVEY, J. B. b. 1792; lessee of theatres at Guernsey, Jersey, Exeter, Devonport, Salisbury, Chelmsford and Weymouth. d. 96 St. Mary st. Weymouth 7 Sep. 1862 aged 70.

HARVEY, Margaret (dau. of John Harvey of Sunderland, surgeon). b. 1768; resided at Newcastle; assisted in a ladies’ school at Bishop Wearmouth, Durham 1818; author of Monody on the princess Charlotte 1812; The lays of the minstrel’s daughter. Newcastle 1814; Raymond de Percy: a romantic melodrame. Bishop Wearmouth 1822, this was performed at Sunderland, April 1822. d. Bishop Wearmouth 18 June 1858.

HARVEY, Rev. Richard. b. 1798; ed. at Eton and St. Cath. coll. Cam., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; R. of Hornsey 22 May 1829 to 1880, where he built three district churches; chaplain to Archbp. of York 1862–74; prebendary of Brownswood in St. Paul’s cath. 1843–58; canon residentiary Gloucester cath. 1858 to death; chaplain in ordinary to the queen 18 June 1847 to death; author of Hymns for young persons [by R. H.] 1834, 2 ed. 1837; Two sermons on keeping the Lord’s Day 1850. d. College green, Gloucester 27 June 1889. bur. same time as his wife at Gloucester cath. 2 July.

HARVEY, Sir Robert Bateson, 1 Baronet (son of Robert Harvey of Langley park, Slough). b. Langley park 17 Nov. 1825; ed. at Eton, matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 31 May 1844; a keen deerstalker; kept steeplechasers; M.P. Bucks. 1863–68 and 1874–85; cr. baronet 28 Nov. 1868; master of Norfolk harriers 1869. d. Langley park, Slough 23 March 1887. Baily’s Mag. xxvi, 311–12 (1875), portrait.

HARVEY, Sir Robert John (eld. son of John Harvey of Thorpe near Norwich 1755–1842). 1367b. Thorpe 21 Feb. 1785; studied at Marburg, Leipsic, Hesse Cassel and Valenciennes; ensign 53 foot 8 Oct. 1803; studied at military college, High Wycombe 1807–9; served in Peninsular war, rode from Paris to Lisbon with despatches 1400 miles in 14 days; lieut.-col. on half pay 25 Oct. 1815; knighted by Prince Regent at Carlton house 6 Feb. 1817; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831; colonel of 2 West India regt. 15 June 1848 to death; general 17 July 1859; F.R.S., F.S.A. d. Mousehold heath near Norwich 18 June 1860. Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xvii, 186–8 (1861).

HARVEY, Sir Robert John Harvey, 1 Baronet (eld. son of the preceding). b. 16 April 1817; sheriff of Norfolk 1863; M.P. for Thetford 12 July 1865 to 11 Nov. 1868 when it was disfranchised by Reform act of 1867; created baronet 8 Dec. 1868; shot himself with a pistol at Crown point hall, Norwich 19 July 1870.

HARVEY, Thomas. b. Barnsley, Yorkshire 1812; ed. at Ackworth sch. 1822–5; chemist Leeds about 1837–67; in the West Indies enquiring into condition of negroes 1836–7; in Finland aiding the unarmed inhabitants 1856; visited Jamaica about the Gordon riots 1866; visited the Mennonites in Russia and aided them to emigrate to Canada 1867; went to Canada to see the Friends 1884; author with J. Sturge of The West Indies in 1837, 1838; with W. Brewin of Jamaica in 1866, a narrative of a tour 1867 and 12 pamphlets. d. Headingley near Leeds 25 Dec. 1884. bur. Adel near Leeds 29 Dec. Times 30 Dec. 1884 p. 4; J. N. Nodal’s Bibliography of Ackworth sch. (1889) 12–13.

HARVEY, Thomas Hingston (3 son of Rev. William Woodis Harvey 1798–1864). b. Penzance 26 Feb. 1831; solicitor at Truro 1855–63; practised at Constantinople 1863 to death; solicitor to the Pacha of Egypt; accompanied admiral Hobart to Syra in Crete to advise him on international law 1872; author of The tourist’s guide through Cornwall. Truro 1861; Harkylogy. Mr. T. Smitheram’s account of Archæological Association 1862. d. Pera, Constantinople 23 April 1872. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. 213, 1220.

HARVEY, Rev. William (4 son of admiral Sir Thomas Harvey, K.C.B. 1775–1841). Matric. from Brasenose coll. Ox. 10 March 1842 aged 18; B.A. 1845, M.A. 1848; compiled The active list of flag officers and captains of the Royal navy, with progress of officers from entrance into the service 1861, 5 ed. 1865, ed. by W. Arthur 1868. d. Walmer, Kent 18 March 1865.

1368HARVEY, William (son of the keeper of the baths at Westgate). b. Newcastle-upon-Tyne 13 July 1796; apprentice to Thomas Bewick 1810; studied drawing under B. R. Haydon and anatomy under Sir C. Bell 1817; wood engraver 1822–24, designer for copper plate and wood engravers 1824 to death; engraved on wood in imitation of copper plate, Haydon’s Assassination of Dentatus, the most ambitious block which had been cut in England 1821; his masterpieces are his illustrations to Northcote’s Fables 1828–33 and to Lane’s Thousand and one nights 1838–40; he also illustrated 30 other works 1829–68. d. Prospect lodge, Richmond, Surrey 13 Jany. 1866. Chatto’s Treatise on wood engraving (1861) 527–34; I.L.N. xlviii, 97 (1866), portrait.

HARVEY, William. b. 1813 or 1814; a founder of Sussex Archæological Soc. 1846; had a cabinet of coins, chiefly of those found in Sussex; F.S.A. 3 March 1853. d. Lewes 22 April 1869. Numismatic Chronicle, vol. x (1870), Proceedings p. 13.

HARVEY, William. Surgeon in London; hon. superintendent Islington reformatory; wrote many articles under pseudonym of Aleph in The City Press; author of The old city and its highways and byways, By Aleph 1865. d. 48 Lonsdale sq. Islington, London 18 March 1873 aged 77.

HARVEY, William. b. 1807 or 1808; ed. at Guy’s hospital; L.S.A. 1830; M.R.C.S. 1830, F.R.C.S. 1853; surgeon to Royal dispensary for diseases of the ear 1846 to death; F. Med. Chir. Soc. 1841; one of 3 chief aurists in London for many years; prescribed a diet for William Banting which reduced his weight from 202 lbs. to 156 lbs. 1862–3, and originated Banting; aural surgeon Great Northern hospital 186-to death; author of The ear in health and disease, with remarks on treatment of deafness 1854, 4 ed. 1865; On rheumatism, gout and neuralgic headache 1857, 4 ed. 1865; On corpulence in relation to disease 1872; On deafness and noises in the ear, 7 ed. 1876. d. 3 George st. Hanover sq. London 5 Dec. 1876. Medical Times 23 Dec. 1876 p. 717; Proc. Med. Chir. Soc. viii, 198–9 (1880).

HARVEY, William Henry (son of Joseph Massey Harvey of Limerick, merchant, a quaker). b. Summerville near Limerick 5 Feb. 1811; ed. at Ballitore school, Kildare 1824–7; M.D. Dublin univ. 1844; treasurer and registrar general at Cape of Good Hope 1836–42; became the chief authority on algæ; keeper of the Herbarium to univ. of Dublin 30 March 1844; professor of botany to Royal Dublin 1369society; bapt. St. Mark’s ch. Dublin 25 Feb. 1846; professor of botany in univ. of Dublin 1856; lecturer at Irish museum of industry about 1856; F.R.S. 3 June 1864; author of Genera of South African plants, Capetown 1838, 2 ed. 1868; A manual of British Algæ 1841; Phycologia Britannica, a history of British seaweeds 4 vols. 1846–51; The seaside book 1849, 4 ed. 1857; Phycologia Australica 5 vols. 1858–63 and other books. d. Torquay 15 May 1866. Memoir of W. H. Harvey (1869), portrait.

HARVEY, Rev. William Wigan (2 son of George Daniel Harvey, commissioner of bankruptcy). b. Great Stanmore, Middlesex 1810; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Cam.; B.A. 1832, M.A. 1836, B.D. 1855; fellow of King’s 1831, divinity lecturer 1836–44 and 1862–3, Tyrwhitt Hebrew scholar 1833; R. of Buckland, Herts. 1844–72; R. of Ewelme near Oxford, Dec. 1871 to death; author of Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ Vindex Catholicus 1841; The history and theology of the three creeds 1854; Sancti Irenæi quæ supersunt Opera 1857 and many sermons, pamphlets and reviews. d. Ewelme 7 May 1883. Hansard’s Debates, ccix, 291–2, 772, 1153, 1673, 1720, 1946 (1872); Annual Register (1872) 34–6.

HARVEY, Rev. William Woodis. b. Alverton Vean, Penzance 15 June 1798; Wesleyan missionary in Hayti to 1824; servitor at Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1835; V. of Truro 1839–60; prebendary of Exeter 1859–64; author of Sketches of Hayti 1827 and of many single sermons. d. Torquay 6 Oct. 1864. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. 213–15, 1220; Boase’s Collect. Cornub. (1890) 332.

HARWOOD, Charles (son of Rev. Thomas Harwood of Shepperton, Middlesex). Barrister I.T. 20 June 1828; recorder of Shrewsbury, Dec. 1839 to death; judge of county courts, circuit 50 (Kent), March 1847 to death. d. The Leas, Folkestone 25 Sep. 1866.

HARWOOD, Isabella Neil (dau. of the succeeding). b. 1838 or 1839; author of Abbot’s Cleve, a novel 1864; Carleton Grange 1866; Raymond’s Heroine 1867; Kathleen 1869; The Heir expectant 1870; author under pseudonym of Ross Neil of the plays Lady Jane Grey. Inez or the bride of Portugal 1871 (produced at Gaiety theatre, London under title of Loyal Love 13 Aug. 1887); The Cid, The King and the Angel, Duke for a day 1874; Elfinella (produced at Princess’s theatre 1876). Lord and Lady Russell 1876, Arabella Stuart, The heir of Lynne, Tasso 1879; Andrea the painter, Claudia’s 1370choice, Orestes, Pandora 1883. d. South Bank, Baldslow road, Hastings 29 May 1888. Saturday Review 2 June 1888 p. 644.

HARWOOD, Philip, b. Bristol 1809; articled to a solicitor; studied at Univ. of Edin.; pastor of Unitarian chapel, Bridport 1835; assistant minister at South place chapel, London 1841; sub-editor of The Examiner, of The Spectator, of the Morning Chronicle about 1849–54, of the Saturday Review from date of first number 3 Nov. 1855 and editor Aug. 1868 to Dec. 1883; author of Materialism in religion: or religious forms and theological formulas 1840; History of the Irish rebellion of 1798, 1844, 2 ed. 1848 and many lectures and sermons. d. South Bank, Baldslow road, Hastings 10 Dec. 1887. Saturday Review 17 Dec. 1887 p. 188.

HASELDEN, Adolphus Frederick. b. 1817; Assoc. Pharmaceutical Soc. of Gt. Britain, member of council 1859, V.P. 1869, P. 1871–3, contributed many papers to the Journal; author of A translation of the Pharmacopoeia Collegii regalis medicorum Londinensis 1837; Notes on the British Pharmacopoeia, showing additions 1864. d. Shaftesbury cottage, Croydon 4 Feb. 1880. The Pharmaceutical Journal 7 Feb. 1880 pp. 624, 631.

HASELL, Elizabeth Julia (2 dau. of Edward Williams Hasell of Dalemain near Penrith, Cumberland 1796–1872). b. 17 Jany. 1830; taught herself Latin, Greek, Spanish and Portuguese; contributed to Blackwood’s Mag. and Quarterly Review from about 1858; author of The Rock, and other short lectures on passages of Holy Scripture 1867; Calderon and Tasso in Foreign Classics for English readers 2 vols. 1879 and 1882; Short family prayers 1879, 2 ed. 1884; Bible Partings 1883; Via Crucis or meditations for Passion and Easter Tide 1884. d. Dalemain 14 Nov. 1887.

HASLAM, Samuel Holker. F.L.S. 1836; made a collection of plants and insects, which he gave to Natural Hist. Soc. of Kendal 1854. d. Woodhouse, Milnthorpe, Westmoreland 13 April 1856. Proc. Linnean Soc. 1856 p. xlii.

HASLEM, John. b. Carrington near Manchester 1808; flower painter and figure painter; painted for Duke of Sussex a head of Lord Byron for presentation to King of Greece; exhibited 37 enamels at R.A. and 14 at Suffolk st. 1836–65; painted a set of enamels in imitation of Petitot, which were shown at South Kensington 1862 and 1865 as the work of Petitot; author of The old Derby china factory 1876. d. Derby 30 April 1884 aged 76.

1371HASSALL, Richard. M.R.C.S. 1844; M.D. St. Andrew’s 1852; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1875; examining physician R. hospital for consumption Ventnor; in practice at 4 Suffolk place, Pall Mall, London; author of Cholera, its nature and treatment 1854; Poisoning by chloride of zinc. d. 60 St. George’s sq. London 13 Dec. 1875. I.L.N. lxviii, 167 (1876).

HASSALL, Walter Willis. Clerk to Mr. Foster, solicitor, Wells; reporter for Dorset county chronicle, Dorchester; resident reporter Southern Times, Weymouth; editor and proprietor with Mr. Atkins of Weymouth Guardian to death; while walking along railway at Weymouth knocked down by train and killed 23 Dec. 1868. Newspaper Press, iii, 59 (1869).

HASSARD, Michael Dobbyn (younger son of Richard Hassard, captain of Waterford militia). b. Waterford, Oct. 1817; ed. at Waterford school and Trin. coll. Dublin, gold medallist 1838, B.A. 1852; M.P. for city of Waterford 1857–65; acted each session as chairman of committees; paid referee of House of Commons 1866 to death; sheriff of Waterford 1853. d. Glenville, co. Waterford 7 April 1869. Reg. and mag. of biog., i, 393 (1869).

HASTED, Rev. Henry (son of an apothecary). b. Bury St. Edmunds 17 Sep. 1771; ed. at Bury gr. sch. and Ch. coll. Cam., 6 wr. and B.A. 1793; fell. of his coll.; preacher of St. Mary’s, Bury 1802–42; R. of Braiseworth, Suffolk 1812 to death; R. of Horninger, Suffolk 1814 to death; F.L.S. 1810; F.R.S. 1812; author of A course of lectures for Lent. Bury 1838; Sermons for Lent and Easter 1852. d. Bury St. Edmunds 26 Nov. 1852.

HASTIE, Alexander (son of Robert Hastie of Glasgow, merchant). b. 1805; a merchant at Glasgow; lord provost 1846–48; M.P. for Glasgow 1847–57. d. 1864.

HASTIE, Archibald (son of W. Hastie). b. 1791; coach builder and East India agent in London; a director of the East India docks and chief manager of them; M.P. for Paisley 17 March 1836 to death; the owner of Burns’ punch bowl, kept the anniversaries of the poet’s birthday as high festivals. d. Edinburgh 9 Nov. 1857. Times 11 Nov. 1857 p. 12.

HASTINGS, Henry Weysford Charles Plantagenet Mure Rawdon Hastings, 4 Marquis of. b. Cavendish sq. London 22 July 1842; succeeded his bro. as 4 marquis 17 Jany. 1851; ed. at Eton; succeeded his mother in barony of Grey de Ruthyn 18 Nov. 1858; matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 1860; commenced 1372horse racing 1862; purchased horses at unheard of prices and backed them for large amounts; trained his horses with John Day at Danebury; lost a fabulous sum on Kangaroo which he purchased in 1865 for £12,000 highest price ever paid for a racehorse; lost heavily on Lady Elizabeth in the Derby 1868; struck out the Earl from racing for the St. Leger 1868; lived most extravagantly and gambled; master of the Quorn hounds 1866; won the Cambridgeshire with Ackworth 1864, the 1000 guineas with Repulse 1866; lost £103,000 when Hermit won the Derby 1867. d. Grosvenor sq. London 10 Nov. 1868. Reg. and mag. of biog., i, 44–6 (1869); Rice’s Hist. of British Turf, i, 354–91 (1879); Baily’s Mag. xi, 279–81 (1866), portrait; Sporting Review, lx 396–400 (1868), lxi 31–38 (1869).

HASTINGS, Jacob Astley, 22 Baron (eld. son of Sir Jacob Henry Astley, 5 baronet 1756–1817). b. 13 Nov. 1797; M.P. for West Norfolk, Dec. 1832 to July 1837; contested West Norfolk 29 July 1837; summoned to parliament as Baron Hastings (the abeyance having been terminated in his favour) by writ dated 18 May 1841. d. of paralysis at 45 York terrace, Regent’s park, London 27 Dec. 1859.

HASTINGS, Jacob Henry Delaval Astley, 23 Baron (elder son of the preceding). b. 21 May 1822; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; cornet 2 life guards 17 March 1843, lieut. 28 Jany. 1848 to 23 May 1851 when he sold out; hon. col. Norfolk artillery militia 23 Jany. 1860 to death; master of the Eastern Norfolk hounds 1862 to death. d. Melton Constable, Norfolk 8 March 1871. Baily’s Mag. xix, 287 (1871), portrait.

HASTINGS, Sir Charles (6 son of Rev. James Hastings, who d. 1856). b. Ludlow, Salop 11 Jany. 1794; ed. at Univ. of Edin. 1815, M.D. 1818; practised at Worcester 1818 to death; physician to Worcester infirmary to 16 Jany. 1862 when presented with piece of plate value 600 guineas; founded the Provincial (afterwards the British) medical and surgical association 19 July 1832, president 1856; knighted at St. James’s palace 3 July 1850; published A treatise on inflammation of the lungs 1820; Illustrations of the natural history of Worcestershire 1834; founded Midland medical and surgical reporter 1828; member of general medical council 13 Nov. 1858 to 13 Nov. 1863. d. Barnard’s Green near Malvern, Worcs. 30 July 1866. Barker’s Photographs of medical men (1865) 17–22, portrait; Lancet, ii, 185–8 (1851), portrait, ii, 139 (1866).

1373HASTINGS, Sir Charles Abney-, 2 Baronet. b. 1 Oct. 1792; succeeded 30 Sep. 1823; assumed additional name of Abney; sheriff of Derbyshire 1825; M.P. for Leicester 1826–31. d. 6 Cavendish sq. London 30 July 1858.

HASTINGS, Francis Decimus (brother of Sir Charles Hastings 1794–1866). b. 1795; entered navy 19 Aug. 1807, served in Syrian and Peninsula wars; B.A. of Trin. coll. Cam. 1828; captain 4 Nov. 1840; V.A. on half pay 2 Dec. 1865. d. Barbourne house, Worcester 21 May 1869. Reg. and mag. of biog. ii, 42 (1869).

HASTINGS, George Fowler (2 son of 11 Earl of Huntingdon 1779–1828). b. 28 Nov. 1814; entered navy 3 Sep. 1824; in Chinese war 1841; captain 31 Jany. 1845; commanded the Curaçoa during Russian war; superintendent of Haslar hospital and Clarence victualling yard 1858–63; R.A. 27 April 1863, V.A. 10 Sep. 1869; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857; commander in chief in the Pacific 21 Nov. 1866 to 1 Nov. 1869; commander in chief at the Nore 11 Feb. 1873 to 14 Feb. 1876. d. 41 Stanhope gardens, London 21 March 1876.

HASTINGS, Rev. Henry James (brother of Sir Charles Hastings 1794–1866). Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; C. of Martley, Worcs. 1820–31 and 1851–56; R. of Areley Kings near Stourport 1831–56; R. of Martley 1856 to death; author of Parochial sermons from Advent to Trinity Sunday 1845; The Indian mutinies a fresh motive for church missions 1857; A plea for the prayer book as it is, with remarks on its history 1858 and other books. d. Martley rectory 12 May 1875.

HASTINGS, Hugh J. b. co. Fermanagh, Ireland 20 Aug. 1820; settled at Albany, New York 1831; reporter for the Atlas at Albany 1840; established the Weekly Switch at Albany 1843 and the Knickerbocker 1844; collector of port of Albany 1849–50; editor of Commercial Advertiser at New York 1868, proprietor 1875. d. from effect of a carriage accident, Monmouth Beach, New Jersey 12 Sep. 1883.

HASTINGS, James. A tailor at Cheltenham; followed Lord Fitzhardinge’s fox hounds 25 years on foot; on one occasion walked 72 miles in connexion with a hunt. d. 1851. bur. Charlton ch. yard. Cecil’s Records of the chase (1877) 190–2.

HASTINGS, Rev. James (son of James Hastings of Westminster). Matric. from Wadham coll. Ox. 28 March 1776 aged 20; R. of Martley, Worcs. 1796 to death. d. the Tything, Worcester 10 July 1856 aged 100.

1374HASTINGS, Joanna (eld. child of the preceding). b. Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire 14 March 1782. d. Imperial villa, Great Malvern 12 March 1886 within 2 days of being 104.

HASTINGS, John. b. 1805; M.D. Edin. 1840; L.R.C.P. Lond. 1847; author of Pulmonary consumption treated with naphtha 1843, 2 ed. 1845; Treatise on the diseases of the larynx and the trachea 1850; An inquiry into the value of the excreta of reptiles in phthisis 1862. d. 14 Albemarle st. Piccadilly, London 20 Dec. 1874.

HASTINGS, Rev. John David. b. 1800; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826; R. of Trowbridge, Wilts. 1841 to death; preb. of Salisbury cath. March 1860 to death; author of The absolution of the church of Rome, not the absolution of the church of England 1851; edited Posthumous sermons. By Rev. George Crabbe 1850. d. 13 April 1869. Reg. and mag. of biog. i, 476 (1869).

HASTINGS, Sir Thomas (brother of Joanna Hastings 1782–1886). b. Whichford rectory, Warws. 3 July 1790; entered navy Sep. 1803; first lieut. of the Undaunted which took Napoleon to Elba, April 1814; captain 22 July 1830; in command of gunnery establishment on board H.M.S. Excellent 1832–45; superintendent of royal naval college at Portsmouth 1839–45; knighted at St. James’s palace 5 June 1839 for his improvements in naval gunnery; principal storekeeper of the ordnance 25 July 1845 to May 1855 when office abolished; C.B. 22 Nov. 1850, K.C.B. 9 March 1859; retired admiral 2 April 1866. d. 7 Seymour st. Portman square, London 3 Jany. 1870. O’Byrne (1849) 475–6.

HATCH, Rev. Edwin (1 son of Samuel Hatch). b. Derby 4 Sep. 1835; ed. at King Edward’s sch. Birmingham and at Pemb. coll. Ox., B.A. 1857, M.A. 1867; professor of classics Trinity coll. Toronto 1859–62; rector of high sch. Quebec 1862–7; vice prin. of St. Mary’s hall, Ox. 1867–85, master of the schools 1868–9, 1873 and 1875; Bampton lecturer 1880, Grinfield lecturer on Septuagint 1882–84; D.D. of Edin. univ. 1883; R. of Purleigh, Essex 1883 to death; reader in ecclesiastical history, Ox. 1886 to death; author of The organisation of the early Christian churches 1880; The growth of church institutions 1887; Essays in Biblical Greek 1889; The influence of Greek ideas upon the Christian church 1890; edited the Official Gazette, Oxford from 1870. d. 6 Canterbury road, Oxford 10 Nov. 1889. Memorials of E. Hatch (1890), portrait; I.L.N. 23 Nov. 1889 pp. 647, 648, portrait.

1375HATCH, George Cliffe. b. 11 Jany. 1820; ensign 57 Bengal N.I. 22 Aug. 1839, captain 19 April 1851; lieut. col. Bengal staff corps. 12 Dec. 1864; general 17 Aug. 1890. d. Cheltenham 11 Feb. 1891.

HATCH, Henry. Sole proprietor and lessee of Victoria theatre, Oxford 1868–72, of theatre royal, Oxford 1872 to death. d. 2 Cambridge villas, St. Mark’s road, Notting hill, London 9 Oct. 1885 aged 69.

HATCH, Rev. Walter Mooney (4 son of Samuel Hatch of Derby). Matric. from New coll. Ox. 18 Oct. 1862 aged 19, fellow 1867–77; B.A. 1866, M.A. 1869; head warden St. Paul’s coll. Stony Stratford 1870–5; warden of Knutsford coll. 1875, junior dean 1876; R. of Birchanger, Essex 1877 to death; editor of Characteristics of A. A. Cooper 3 Earl of Shaftesbury 1870; author of Early Counsels, sermons 1875; The moral philosophy of Aristotle 1879. d. Birchanger 2 Dec. 1877 aged 34.

HATCHARD, Right Rev. Thomas Goodwin (son of Thomas Hatchard, publisher, d. 13 Nov. 1858). b. 11 Sloane st. Chelsea 18 Sep. 1817; ed. at King’s coll. Lon. and Brasenose coll. Ox.; B.A. 1841, M.A. 1845, D.D. 1869; C. of Windlesham, Surrey 1842–44; R. of Havant, Hants. 1846–56; R. of St. Nicholas, Guildford 1856–69; bishop of Mauritius 1869 to death, consecrated in Westminster abbey 24 Feb. 1869; author of The German tree. A moral for the young 1851; The floweret gathered, a memoir of his daughter 1858. d. of fever at Mauritius 28 Feb. 1870. I.L.N. lvi, 411 (1870); Times 31 March 1870 p. 9.

HATCHELL, John (2 son of Henry Hatchell of Wexford). b. Wexford 1783; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1804; called to Irish bar 1809; K.C. 7 Feb. 1835; bencher of King’s Inns, Dublin 1846; solicitor general for Ireland 24 Dec. 1847, attorney general 23 Sep. 1850 to Feb. 1852; P.C. Ireland 1850; M.P. for Windsor 1850–52; comr. of insolvent debtors’ court, Dublin, June 1854. d. Fortfield house near Dublin 14 Aug. 1870. I.L.N. xvi, 148 (1850), portrait, lvii, 226 (1870).

HATFIELD, Weston James (son of Weston Hatfield, proprietor of Independent Press, Cambridge). b. 1830; newspaper correspondent in Paris 1848; a founder of Permanent Building soc. Cambridge 1853; connected with the press in the Colonies from 1853; editor and proprietor of the Cambridge Independent Press and printer at Cambridge 1863 to death. d. 2 Poplar villas, Station road, Cambridge 14 Nov. 1871. Newspaper Press 1 Dec. 1871 p. 19.

1376HATHERLEY, William Page Wood, 1 Baron (2 son of Sir Matthew Wood of Falcon sq., city of London, hop merchant 1768–1843). b. Falcon sq. 29 Nov. 1801; ed. at Woodbridge, Bow and at Winchester 1812–1818; went to Trin. coll. Cam., Oct. 1820, scholar 1822, fellow 1824–30; 24 wrangler 1824; B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827, LLD. 1864; barrister L.I. 27 Nov. 1827; engaged in parliamentary practice 1828–41; lived in Dean’s yard, Westminster 1830–44; Q.C. Feb. 1845; M.P. for city of Oxford 1847–53; vice chancellor of county palatine of Lancaster 7 May 1849 to March 1851; solicitor general 28 March 1851 to Feb. 1852 and 28 Dec. 1852 to 10 Jany. 1853; knighted at Buckingham palace 14 April 1851; vice chancellor 10 Jany. 1853, lord justice of appeal 6 March 1868; P.C. 28 March 1868; lord chancellor 9 Dec. 1868 to 15 Oct. 1872 when he resigned; created Baron Hatherley of Down Hatherley, Gloucs. 8 Dec. 1868; F.R.S. 22 Dec. 1834, member of council, vice pres.; translated Lord Bacon’s Novum Organon 1826. d. 31 Great George st. Westminster 10 July 1881. bur. in churchyard of Great Bealings, Suffolk 15 July. A memoir of Baron Hatherley 2 vols. 1883, 2 portraits; The Crown of the road by Rev. C. Bullock (1884) 191–224, portrait; A generation of Judges (1886) 139–46.

HATHERTON, Edward John Littleton, 1 Baron (only son of Moreton Walhouse of Hatherton, Staffs.) b. London 18 March 1791; ed. at Rugby and Brasenose coll. Ox., created D.C.L. 18 June 1817; assumed surname of Littleton on death of his grand uncle Sir Edward Littleton 4 Bart. 18 May 1812; chairman of Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal co. 1812 to death; M.P. for Staffordshire 1812–32; M.P. for South Staffordshire 1832–5; president of Boundary commission 1831; liberal candidate for speakership of house of commons but defeated by 210 votes 29 Jany. 1833; chief sec. for Ireland 17 May 1833 to 17 Dec. 1834; his negotiations with O’Connell led to the break up of the Grey ministry Nov. 1834; cr. Baron Hatherton of Hatherton, Staffordshire 11 May 1835; lord lieut. of Staffs. 8 June 1854, resigned Sep. 1862; F.R.S.; author of Memoir and correspondence relating to political occurences in June and July 1834 (1872). d. Teddesley park, Penkridge, Staffs. 4 May 1863. G.M. xv, 101 (1863); I.L.N. x, 53 (1847), portrait; Colburn’s New Monthly Mag. June 1863 pp. 176–82.

HATHERTON, Edward Richard Littleton, 2 Baron. b. Teddesley park 31 Dec. 1815; ed. at Eton; M.P. Walsall 1847–52; M.P. 1377South Staffordshire 1853–7; col. 2nd Stafford militia 5 Jany. 1852 to death; vice lieut. of Staffs. 1855; succeeded as 2 baron 1863; C.B. 24 May 1881. d. 22 Rutland gate, London 3 April 1888.

HATHORN, George. b. 17 Nov. 1803; entered navy 9 Aug. 1817; captain 4 Nov. 1840; admiral on half pay 14 July 1871. d. 14 Pencester road, Dover 29 Jany. 1876.

HATTERSLEY, Robert. A working engineer at Manchester; took out patents for type setting machines 1857, 62, 67, 72 and 75, machines shown at Great Exhibition 1862; his machines very much used especially in Liverpool; by his machine one man can produce in an hour 100 to 160 lines of minion news-work and justify the same. d. Manchester 13 Feb. 1889 aged 59.

HATTON, Frank (2 son of Joseph Hatton, journalist and author). b. Horfield near Bristol 31 Aug. 1861; ed. at Marcq coll. near Lille 1874–6 and at King’s coll. sch. 1876; mineral explorer and metallurgical chemist to British North Borneo co. 1881, employed in Borneo 1881 to death; contributed articles to various periodicals; when returning from pursuing an elephant was killed by accidental explosion of his own rifle on Segamah river 1 March 1883. North Borneo, exploration and adventures on the Equator by F. Hatton, with Biographical sketch by J. Hatton (1886), portrait; Graphic, xxvii, 469 (1883), portrait.

HATTON, John Liptrot. b. Concert st. Liverpool 12 Oct. 1809; played Blueskin in Jack Sheppard at Little Liver theatre, Liverpool; organist St. Nicholas, Chapel st. Liverpool; settled in London 1832; chorus master Drury Lane, London 1842–3, his operetta Queen of the Thames produced 25 Feb. 1843; his opera Pascal Bruno produced at Vienna 1843; sang at Hereford festival 1846; visited America 1848, 1850, playing and singing; conductor of Glee and Madrigal union, London 1850; conductor and composer at Princess’ theatre for Charles Kean 1853–9 where he wrote music for 9 plays; accompanyist and conductor Ballad concerts, St. James’ hall 1866–75; composer of the opera Rose or Love’s Ransom, Covent Garden 1864; Robin Hood cantata 1856; Hezekiah sacred drama, Crystal palace 1877; The village blacksmith, and other part songs; Come back Annie 1862, Friar of orders grey, Good bye sweetheart 1855, Leather Bottél, Simon the cellarer 1847, Under the Greenwood tree 1856, songs; besides anthems, 1378dance music, &c.; his name is attached to upward of 150 pieces of music; some of his pieces published with pseudonym of P. B. Czapek 1845 etc. d. Margate 20 Sep. 1886. Illust. S. and D. News, xxvi, 61 (1886), portrait; Brown’s Biog. Dict. of Music (1886) 308; Grove’s Dict. of Musicians, i, 697 (1887).

HATTON, Villiers Francis. b. Dromana, co. Waterford 20 Aug. 1787; entered navy 1799; lost an arm in an action with a Danish sloop off the Coast of Norway 19 June 1808; captain 7 Feb. 1812, V.A. on half pay 27 Sep. 1855; M.P. for co. Wexford 1841–47; had pension of £300 a year for his wounds. d. 8 Feb. 1859. G.M. March 1859 p. 333.

HAUGHTON, Rev. George Dunbar (2 son of Rev. John Haughton, R. of Middleton, Lancs. d. 1828). b. Middleton 6 May 1807; ed. at Manchester sch. and Worcester coll. Ox., B.A. 1829; C. of Lockerley, Hants. 1876–82; editor of Bath Express from beginning; author of On sex in the world to come 1841; The martyr-boy of Pistoja, a ballad 1861. d. about 1888. Manchester school reg. iii, 165 (1874).

HAUGHTON, James (son of Samuel Pearson Haughton). b. Carlow 5 May 1795; corn and flour merchant, Dublin 1817–50; a reformer; associated with O’Connell in the Repeal movement, with Wilberforce in the Anti-slavery meetings 1838, and with Father Mathew in advocating temperance; a unitarian 1834; author of A plea for teetotalism and the Maine liquor law 1855. d. 35 Eccles st. Dublin 20 Feb. 1873. Memoir of J. Haughton by his son (1877), portrait.

HAUGHTON, John Colpoys (son of Richard H. Haughton). b. Dublin 25 Nov. 1817; ed. at Shrewsbury; entered R.N. 30 March 1830, midshipman 1832–7; ensign 31 Bengal N.I. 9 Dec. 1837; in Afghan war 1839–42, adjutant of 4 Goorka regt. in Shah Soojah’s service when he defended Char-ee-kar 5–11 Nov. 1841, with his right hand amputated and some of the muscle of his neck severed he had to ride to Cabul 14–16 Nov.; with the Ramghur battalion in 6 actions 1846–7; superintendent of penal settlement in Andaman islands 1859; commissioner of Cooch Behar and manager of the maharajah’s estates 1865–73; retired 1873; C.S.I. 24 May 1866; L.G. 1 April 1882; author of Char-ee-kar and service there with the 4 Goorkha regiment 1867, 2 ed. 1879. d. Ramsgate 17 Sep. 1887. Sir V. Eyre’s Kabul insurrection (1879) p. 135 et seq.; Times 21 Sep. 1887 p. 10 col. 6.

1379HAUSSMANN, Josephine Constantine. b. Breslau 22 March 1791; served in Prussian army 1813–21; an artist in England. d. 23 New Ormond st. Queen sq. London 28 May 1881.

HAVELL, William (son of a drawing master at Reading). b. Reading 9 Feb. 1782; painter in oils and water colours; exhibited 103 pictures at R.A., 42 at B.I. and 32 at Suffolk st. 1804–57; a foundation member of Soc. of painters in water-colours 1804, seceded 1813, rejoined in 1825; went with Lord Amherst’s embassy to China as a draughtsman 1816; in India practising his profession 1817–25; lost his savings by failure of an Indian bank and became a pensioner on Turner fund of Royal Academy; his best known painting is ‘Windsor’ in South Kensington museum; published with Robert Havell A series of views of Noblemen’s seats 1823. d. 3 High row, Kensington 16 Dec. 1857. Redgrave’s Dict. of Artists (1878) 201; Monkhouse’s Earlier English Water-colour painters (1890) 65, 91, 95, 119, 131.

HAVELOCK, Charles Frederick (4 son of Wm. Havelock, ship builder, Sunderland). b. Ingress park, Greenhithe, Kent 16 Oct. 1803; cornet 16 lancers 13 Dec. 1821, engaged in every battle in India from Bhurtpore 18 Jany. 1826 to Goojerat 21 Feb. 1849; major 53 foot 24 May 1846 to 27 July 1849 when placed on h.p.; brigadier general of the Irregular Osmanli cavalry 1854 to 1856. d. Titchfield, Hampshire 14 May 1868.

HAVELOCK, Sir Henry (brother of the preceding). b. Ford hall, Bishop Wearmouth 5 April 1795; ed. at Charterhouse; student at Middle Temple 1813–14; 2 lieut. 95 regt. 30 July 1815; D.A.A.G. in Burmese war 1824–6; in first Afghan war and present at capture of Cabul, July 1839; aided Sir R. Sale at time of the Cabul rising and took part in siege of Jallálabád 1841; C.B. 4 Oct. 1842, K.C.B. 26 Sep. 1857; Persian interpreter to Sir Hugh Gough in Gwalior campaign 1843–4; in first Sikh war and present at Mudki, Ferozeshah and Sobraon 1845; D.A.G. of queen’s troops, Bombay 1847; A.G. of queen’s troops in India 1854; commanded a division in the Persian war 1856–7; commanded a column in the Indian mutiny and fought battle of Futtehpore 12 July 1857, defeated Nana Sahib 16 July and recaptured Cawnpore 17 July, relieved Lucknow 25–26 Sep.; M.G. 29 Sep. 1857; gazetted baronet 26 Nov. 1857; author of Memoirs of the campaigns of Sir A. Campbell’s army in Ava. Serampore 1828; Narrative of the war in Afghanistan 1838–39, 2 vols. 1840. d. of diarrhœa, the Dilkoosha 1380near Lucknow 24 Nov. 1857. bur. in the square of the Alumbagh, statue by Wm. Behnes in Trafalgar sq. London 1861. Marsham’s Memoirs of Sir H. Havelock (1860), portrait; R. M. Martin’s Indian empire, ii, 276 (1858–61), portrait; Nolan’s British empire in India, ii, 751 (1858–60), portrait; Landels’ Baptist Worthies (1884) 339–72, portrait.

HAVERFIELD, Robert Ross. b. Bideford, Devon, Feb. 1819; went to Australia 1838; crossed the Mallee from lake Tyrell to lake Hindmarsh, Victoria; with A. M. Lloyd started the Bendigo Advertiser 1851, editor 1870 to death; explored the Darling country, N.S.W. and crossed from Menindie to Booligal on the Lachlan; crossed the Barrier ranges to the northern stations of S. Australia; sec. to Victorian royal commission to inquire about deaths of Burke and Wills 1861; arbitrator in assessment of runs in Oven’s district 1860; started the Riverene Herald at Deniliquin 1863; sub-editor of Age in Melbourne. d. Sandhurst, Victoria 21 April 1889. Times 5 June 1889 p. 10.

HAVERGAL, Frances Ridley (youngest child of Rev. W. H. Havergal 1793–1870). b. Astley rectory, Worcs. 14 Dec. 1836; studied in Louisenschule at Düsseldorf 1852; wrote verses from the age of seven; engaged in religious and philanthropic work; author of The ministry of song 1871, 5 ed. 1874; The four happy days 1874, 15th thousand 1883; Life chords 1880; Poetical works 2 vols. 1884 and about 40 other books; wrote many popular hymns. d. Caswell bay road, Swansea 3 June 1879. Memorials of F. R. Havergal by Her Sister (1880), portrait; Letters of F. R. Havergal (1885); J. E. Prescott’s Hymns (2 ed. 1886) 214–27; C. Bullock’s Crown of the Road (1884) 135–90, portrait.

HAVERGAL, Rev. Francis Tebbs (5 child of Rev. W. H. Havergal). b. 27 Aug. 1829; bible clerk New coll. Ox.; B.A. 1852, M.A. 1857; vicar choral Hereford cath. 1853–74; V. of Pipe with Lyde, Herefordshire 1861–74 and V. of Upton Bishop 1874 to death; preb. of Hereford 1877 to death; author of Fasti Herefordenses 1869; Memorials of Sir F. A. G. Ouseley 1889 and other works. d. Upton Bishop 27 July 1890. Guardian 6 Aug. 1890 p. 1233.

HAVERGAL, Rev. Henry East (2 child of Rev. W. H. Havergal). b. Coaley, Gloucs. 22 July 1820; chorister New coll. Ox. 1828–34, bible clerk 1839; B.A. 1843, M.A. 1846; chaplain Ch. Ch. 1843 and at New coll. 1844–7; V. of Cople, Beds. 1847 to death; built an 1381F organ, that being the note to which the voice extends; singer, double bass and trumpet performer; he published Selections from the hymns of George Wither 1846; Tunes, chants and responses 1865; Forty-two chants 1870, besides other works. d. Cople vicarage 12 Jany. 1875. Record 18, 20 Jany. 1875; Choir 23 Jany. 1875 p. 50.

HAVERGAL, Maria Vernon Graham (3 child of Rev. W. H. Havergal). b. Coaley, Gloucs. 15 Nov. 1821; engaged in philanthropic and religious works; author of Pleasant fruits from the cottage and the class 1871; Memorials of Frances R. Havergal 1880; Outlines of the gentle life, Sketch of E. P. Shaw by her sister 1887; she also edited many of Frances R. Havergal’s works 1879–87. d. 3 Paragon villas, Weston-super-mare 22 June 1887. bur. Astley near Bewdley 28 June. Autobiography of M. V. G. Havergal, Ed. by J. M. Crane (1887), portrait.

HAVERGAL, Rev. William Henry (only son of Wm. Havergal of Chipping Wycombe, Bucks. 1765–1854). b. Chipping Wycombe 18 Jany. 1793; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s school and St. Edmund’s hall, Ox., B.A. 1816, M.A. 1819; C. of Coaley, Gloucs. 1820–22; C. of Astley near Bewdley 1822–29; R. of Astley 1829–42; R. of St. Nicholas, Worcester 1845–60; hon. canon Worcester cath. 1845; V. of Shareshill, Staffs. 1860–70; endeavoured to restore metrical psalmody to its original purity; he composed An evening service in E flat, and one hundred antiphonal chants 1836; Old church psalmody 1847; his sacred song Summertime is coming, and his psalm tune Evan, are well known; author of Sermons 2 vols. 1853; A history of the Old Hundredth psalm tune, New York 1854 and other works. d. Pyrmont villa, Binswood ter. Leamington 19 April 1870. bur. Astley ch. yard 23 April. Records of Rev. W. H. Havergal (1882), 2 portraits; Bullock’s The Crown of the road (1884) 243–302, 2 portraits; Lymington’s The pastor remembered (1870) 43–54.

HAVERS, Mary Alice. Exhibited 18 pictures at R.A. and 3 at Suffolk st. 1873–80, exhibited also at Manchester; many of her pictures were engraved and published. (m. Frederick Morgan). d. 11 Marlborough road, St. John’s Wood, London 26 Aug. 1890. I.L.N. 6 Sep. 1890 p. 295, portrait.

HAVERTY, Joseph Patrick. b. Galway 1794; member R. Hibernian academy; exhibited 17 portraits at R.A. and 8 at Suffolk st. 1835–58; among his pictures were the Limerick Piper, 1382in Irish National gallery; Father Mathew receiving a repentent pledge-breaker 1844; his set of 3, Baptism, Confession and Confirmation were lent to Irish exhibition in London 1888; his portrait of D. O’Connell belongs to Reform club, London. d. Dublin 1864. Webb’s Irish biography (1878) 584.

HAVERTY, Martin. b. Mayo 1 Dec. 1809; ed. at Irish coll. Paris; on staff of Freeman’s Journal, Dublin 1837–50; sub-librarian King’s Inns, Dublin 1852–77; author of Wanderings in Spain 2 vols. 1844; The history of Ireland 1860, 2 ed. 1885. d. 5 Wells park, Fairview, Dublin 18 Jany. 1887. Irish Law Times, xxi, 49 110 (1887).

HAVILAND, John (only son of John Haviland of Gundenham, Somerset, surgeon 1754–1817). b. Bridgewater 2 Feb. 1785; ed. at Winchester and St. John’s coll. Cam., 12 wr. 1807, B.A. 1807, M.A. 1810, M.L. 1812, M.D. 1817; fell. of his coll.; prof. of anatomy in Univ. of Cam. 1814–17, regius prof. of physic 7 March 1817 to death; physician to Addenbrooke’s hospital, Cam. 1817–39 when he retired from practice; inceptor candidate of R.C.P. 1814, candidate 1817, fellow 30 Sep. 1818, delivered Harveian oration 1837. d. 21 Trumpington st. Cambridge 8 Jany. 1851. bur. at Fen Ditton near Cambridge. Munk’s College of physicians, iii, 183 (1878).

HAVILAND, John (son of James Haviland of Taunton). b. Gundenham, Somerset 15 Dec. 1792; pupil of James Elmes, architect; went to Russia to enter imperial corps of engineers 1815; went to United States 1816; M.R.I.B.A.; with Hugh Bridgport managed an architectural drawing sch. in Philadelphia; he planned the hall of justice, New York; the U.S. naval hospital, Norfolk, Va.; deaf and dumb asylum, Philadelphia; state insane asylum, Harrisburg; eastern penitentiary, Philadelphia, and the state penitentiaries of New Jersey, Missouri and Rhode island; author with H. Bridgport of Builders’ Assistant for carpenters. Baltimore 3 vols. 1818. d. Philadelphia 28 March 1852. G.M. xxxvii, 629 (1852); Appleton’s American Biography, iii, 118 (1887).

Note.—He introduced the plan of building the cells of prisons in lines radiating from a common centre, on the system advocated by Jeremy Bentham in his Panopticon.

HAVILAND-BURKE, Edmund (only son of Thomas W. A. Haviland-Burke 1795–1852, barrister). b. 27 Jany. 1836; ed. at Eton; barrister L.I. 30 April 1860; equity draftsman and conveyancer; contested Christchurch, 1383Hants. 1865; M.P. Christchurch 1868–74. d. co. Dublin 17 June 1886. Law Times, lxxxi, 158 (1886).

HAVILLAND, John Von Sonnentag de (son of John Haviland 1792–1852). b. U.S. America 1827; ed. at St. Petersburg; general in several foreign services; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1870; Rouge Croix pursuivant, Herald’s coll. 16 Aug. 1866, York herald 20 March 1872 to death; changed spelling of his name to Havilland and resumed the prefix of de 1869; F.S.A. 1872; knight of justice of St. John of Jerusalem. d. Paignton, Devon 18 Sep. 1886. bur. Langford Budville, Somerset. Proc. Soc. of Antiquaries, xi, 376 (1885–7); Law Times 9 Oct. 1886 p. 391.

HAVILLAND, Thomas Fiott de (1 son of Sir Peter de Havilland, d. 1821). b. Havilland hall, Guernsey 10 April 1775; ensign Madras engineers 3 May 1793; built the Jeybourg barracks, Guernsey 1812; civil engineer and architect for Madras presidency 1814; constructed the Mount road and the sea wall of Madras 1822; built the cathedral and St. Andrew’s presbyterian ch. Madras; acting chief engineer 9 Feb. 1821; lieut.-col. 1 May 1824; retired 20 April 1825; author of Report on Indian limestone 1822. d. Beauvoir, Guernsey 23 Feb. 1866. G.M. April 1866 p. 603; H. M. Vibart’s Madras Engineers, ii, 1–35 (1883).

HAWARDEN, Cornwallis Maude, 3 Viscount. b. 28 March 1780; succeeded his brother 26 Feb. 1807; created D.C.L. at Ox. 5 July 1810; a representative peer of Ireland 31 Oct. 1836 to death; a lord in waiting to the Queen 1841–46 and Feb. to Dec. 1852. d. Dundrum near Cashel 12 Oct. 1856.

HAWES, Sir Benjamin (1 son of Benjamin Hawes of Russell sq. London, soapboiler 1770–1860). b. London 19 March 1797; soap manufacturer in partnership with his father and uncle; M.P. Lambeth 1832–47; M.P. Kinsale 1848–52; under sec. of state for the colonies 6 July 1846 to 31 Oct. 1851; deputy secretary at war 31 Oct. 1851 to 1857 when office abolished; permanent under sec. of state for war department 1857 to death; K.C.B. 5 Feb. 1856; made the arrangement for the partnership between Sir W. F. Cooke and Sir C. Wheatstone the electricians 1837. d. 9 Queen sq. Westminster 15 May 1862. Francis’ Orators of the age (1847) 345–50; G.M. xiii, 101–3 (1862); May’s Law of parliament (1883) 217.

HAWES, Rev. Thomas Henry (1 son of William Hawes of St. John’s, Westminster). Matric. 1384from Magd. hall, Ox. 9 July 1824 aged 18; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1834, D.D. 1839; scholar New coll. 1829–57, chaplain 1830–56; V. of Nether Stowey, Somerset 1849–57; R. of Burgh Castle, Norfolk 1857 to death; composer and editor of Two penitential anthems. Oxford 1849; A morning and communion service. Bristol 1855; Congregational psalmody. Wells 1855. d. Burgh Castle rectory 2 Feb. 1888.

HAWES, Maria Billington (2 dau. of William Hawes, musical composer 1785–1846). b. Craven st. Strand, London 1816, Mrs. Billington was her godmother; first appeared at her father’s annual concert 1832; sang at musical festival in Westminster abbey as second contralto 1838; her singing in the works of Pergolesi, Handel, Haydn, Spohr & Mendelssohn moved whole audiences to tears; principal contralto in first performance of Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang 23 Sep. 1840 and in the Elijah 26 Aug. 1846; O rest in the Lord was written expressly for her by Mendelssohn; composer of There be none of beauty’s daughters, song 1856; O Lord, thy mercies we proclaim, hymn 1872 and 25 other compositions. (m. 1847 J. D. Merest), she d. a widow at St. John’s park, Ryde, Isle of Wight 24 April 1886. Musical Standard 26 June 1886 pp. 406–7.

HAWES, William (son of Benjamin Hawes 1770–1860). b. 23 May 1805; received testimonial 1841 for his efforts to amend laws relating to soap; member of Soc. of Arts 1849, chairman of council 5 times; treasurer of Royal Humane Society 1868 to death, this society was partly founded by Dr. William Hawes his grandfather in 1774; engaged in schemes for management of hospitals, workhouses and baths and wash-houses; aided in amending bankruptcy laws, presented by merchants of city of London with a service of plate 1847; comr. of Exhibition of 1862, read before Soc. of Arts a series of papers on the Exhibition 1861–3. d. 17 Montague place, Russell sq. London 1 May 1885 aged 80. Times 8 May 1885 p. 11; Journal of Soc. of Arts 8 May 1885 p. 720.

HAWKE, Edward William Harvey Hawke, 4 Baron. b. Womersley park, Pontefract 15 July 1799; ed. at Eton; succeeded 29 Nov. 1834; master of the Badsworth hounds 14 Sep. 1826 to 1866. d. Womersley park 8 Jany. 1869. Baily’s Mag. ix, 163–66 (1864), portrait.

HAWKER, Edward (son of James Hawker, captain R.N. d. 1787). b. 1782; entered navy 1793; captain 6 June 1804; admiral on h.p. 138517 Sep. 1853, pensioned 18 March 1858; a writer in The Times on naval matters under signature of A Flag Officer; author of A letter to Wellington 1840. d. Brighton 8 June 1860 aged 78.

HAWKER, Henry Samuel (4 son of general Sir Samuel Hawker). b. 1816 or 1817; lieut. R.N. 6 March 1838, captain 9 July 1861, retired 12 Oct. 1868, retired admiral 15 July 1887. d. Buckingham palace road, London 11 May 1889 in 73 year.

HAWKER, Peter (son of colonel Peter Ryves Hawker of Longparish, Hants., d. 6 Feb. 1790). b. London 24 Dec. 1786; ed. at Eton; cornet 1 royal dragoons 1801; captain 14 light dragoons 14 Aug. 1804 to 18 March 1813 when he sold out owing to wound received at Talavera; lieut.-col. of North Hampshire militia 14 Nov. 1821 to death; published Journal of a regimental officer during the recent campaign in Portugal and Spain 1810; Instructions to young sportsmen in all that relates to guns and shooting 1814, 11 ed. 1857; made inventions and improvements in fire arms 1851 etc.; invented hand moulds to facilitate playing on keyed instruments, patented by him 1 Nov. 1820. d. 2 Dorset place, Dorset sq. London 7 Aug. 1853. G.M. xl, 313 (1853); I.L.N. xix, 534, 536 (1851), portrait, xxiii, 138 (1853).

HAWKER, Rev. Robert Stephen (1 son of Jacob Stephen Hawker, surgeon, Plymouth, then vicar of Stratton, d. 1845). b. Stoke Damarel, Devon 3 Dec. 1804; ed. at Liskeard gram. sch.; articled to W. Jacobson, attorney, Plymouth; at Cheltenham gram. sch. and Pemb. coll. Ox. 1823, migrated to Magd. hall, B.A. 1828, M.A. 1836; won Newdigate prize for poem on Pompeii 27 June 1827; V. of Morwenstow 31 Dec. 1834 to death; instituted ruridecanal synods 1844; V. of Wellcombe 1850 to death; instituted weekly offertories and harvest thanksgivings; author of Tendrils. By Reuben. Cheltenham 1821; Ecclesia. Oxford 1840; Echoes from Old Cornwall 1846; The quest of the Sangraal. Exeter 1864 his best work; Footprints of former men in far Cornwall 1870; on the originality of his ballad And shall Trelawny die? there has been much discussion; delineated in Mortimer Collins’ novel Sweet and Twenty 1875 as Canon Tremaine; in his last hours received into R.C. ch. d. 9 Lockyer st. Plymouth 15 Aug. 1875, his widow Pauline Mary granted civil list pension of £80, 13 Oct. 1880. Lee’s Memorials of Rev. R. S. Hawker (1876), portrait; Baring-Gould’s The vicar of Morwenstow (1876), portrait, 3 ed. 1876; Poetical Works. Ed. J. G. Godwin (1879), 1386portrait; Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i, 220–2, iii, 1222–3; Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 183–90 (1887).

HAWKER, Sir Thomas. b. 1777; cornet 11 dragoons 12 May 1795; served in the Mediterranean and Spain 1805–15; lieut. col. 20 dragoons 2 Sep. 1808 to 1818; colonel of 6 dragoon guards 5 June 1839 to death; general 20 June 1854; K.C.H. 1837, knighted by William iv. at St. James’s palace 1 March 1837. d. Fern villa, Lansdowne place, Clifton 13 June 1858.

HAWKES, Mervyn Lanark (4 son of Sidney Milnes Hawkes). b. 1861; an originator of League for abolition of House of Lords; a lecturer at Radical clubs; contested Eye 1885, Sheffield central division 1885, Hartlepool 1886; in Australia 1888–90; author of A Primrose Dame, the story of an election. Bristol 1886. d. of consumption at his father’s house, Bruges, Belgium 17 Oct. 1890.

HAWKES, Robert. b. 1790; cornet Bengal army 30 July 1806, served during Mahratta war 1817–18; lieut. col. 9 Bengal light cavalry 1845 to 28 Nov. 1854; commanded at Lucknow 26 Jany. 1852 to 15 Nov. 1853; general 25 June 1870. d. 52 York terrace, Regent’s park, London 18 Dec. 1876.

HAWKINS, Alfred. b. England; shipping master of port of Quebec some years; author of Hawkins’s Picture of Quebec with historical recollections. Quebec 1834; The plan of the naval and military operations before Quebec, and death of Wolfe 1842; The Quebec directory and guide. Quebec 1844. d. Quebec 30 June 1854.

HAWKINS, Cæsar Henry (3 son of Rev. Edward Hawkins, R. of Kelston, Somerset, d. 1805). b. Bisley, Gloucs. 19 Sep. 1798; ed. at Christ’s hospital and St. George’s hospital; M.R.C.S. 1821, F.R.C.S. 1843; taught anatomy in Hunterian school, Windmill st.; surgeon to St. George’s hosp. 1829–61, consulting surgeon 1861; examiner at royal college of surgeons 1849–66, Hunterian orator 1849, pres. 1852, 1861; surgeon extraord. to the Queen 11 Nov. 1857, serjeant surgeon in ord. 25 Nov. 1862 to death; member of general medical council 4 July 1865 to 4 July 1870; F.R.S. 5 June 1856; popularised operations of ovariotomy and colotomy; author of The Hunterian oration, presidential addresses and pathological and surgical writings 2 vols. privately printed 1874. d. 26 Grosvenor st. London 20 July 1884. Medical Times, ii, 119 (1884); I.L.N. lxxxv, 133 (1884), portrait.

1387HAWKINS, Edward (1 son of Edward Hawkins, banker, Macclesfield, d. 1816). b. Macclesfield 5 May 1780; ed. Macclesfield gram. sch.; partner in Swansea bank and a manager of Neath Abbey copper works to 1807; F.L.S. 1806; made collection of books and prints relating to Chester; F.R.S. 1821, V.P., withdrew 1856; F.S.A. 1826, member of council 1828, chairman of executive committee 1853–9, V.P.; fellow Numismatic Soc. 1836, president; deputy keeper of antiquities British museum May 1825, keeper 1826 to Dec. 1860; formed collections of British medals and of 8000 English political caricatures, purchased by Br. Museum 1860 and 1868; author of Description of the Anglo-Gallic coins in British Museum 1826; The silver coins of England 1841, 3 ed. 1887; Descriptive account of British Medals 1852, Br. Museum refused to publish this as it contained political opinions, but revised and ed. by A. W. Franks and H. A. Grueber as Medallic illustrations of history of Great Britain and Ireland was published in 2 vols. 1885. d. 6 Lower Berkeley st. London 22 May 1867. Proc. of Soc. of Antiquaries, iv, 103–106 (1868); Numismatic Chronicle Proceedings, vii, 11–12 (1867).

HAWKINS, Rev. Edward (brother of Cæsar Henry Hawkins 1798–1884). b. Bath 27 Feb. 1789; ed. at Elmore, Gloucs. 1796–1800, at Merchant Taylor’s school 1801 to 1807; Andrew exhibitioner at St. John’s coll. Ox. 1807; double 1st class 1811; tutor of his college 1812; B.A. 1811, M.A. 1814, B.D. and D.D. 1828; fellow of Oriel coll. Easter 1813 to 2 Feb. 1828, tutor 1819, select preacher 1820–1, 1824–5, 1830–1 and 1842–3; V. of St. Mary the Virgin, Oxford 1823–28; Whitehall preacher 1827–28; provost of Oriel coll. 2 Feb. 1828 to death, but resigned his active duties 3 Oct. 1874; canon of Rochester 2 Feb. 1828 to death; R. of Purleigh, Essex 2 Feb. 1828 to death; V. of Lamberhurst, Kent 1831–4; declined the vice-chancellorship 1840 and 1870; Bampton lecturer 1840; Ireland professor of exegesis of holy scripture 2 Nov. 1847 to 19 Oct. 1861; lived at Rochester 1875 to death; author of A dissertation upon unauthoritative tradition as an introduction to Christian doctrines 1819, reprinted 1889; A manual for Christians after confirmation 1826, 6 ed. 1839; Discourses upon the historical scriptures of the Old Testament 1833; An inquiry into the uses of the means of attaining Christian truth, eight sermons 1840, and about 30 other publications. d. the Precincts, Rochester 18 Nov. 1882. bur. in the cathedral cemetery 24 Nov. J. W. Burgon’s Lives of twelve good men (1888) i, 376–475, portrait; Quarterly Rev. clvi, 305–52 (1883); T. Mozley’s Reminiscences, vol. i (1882).

1388Note.—There is a fine portrait of him by Sir Francis Grant in Oriel common room.—He was a great conservative and his opposition to any change in the tutorial system at Oriel occasioned the resignation of Newman, Richard Hurrell Froude, and Robert Wilberforce.

HAWKINS, Rev. Ernest (6 son of Henry Hawkins of Lawrence End, parish of Kimpton, Herts., major H.E.I.C.) b. Lawrence End 25 Jany. 1801; ed. at Ball. coll. Ox., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827, B.D. 1839; fellow of Ex. coll. Ox. 26 Dec. 1831 to 29 July 1852; assistant sec. S.P.G. 1838, sec. 1843–64, the society greatly expanded under his management; preb. of St. Paul’s 1844–64; minister of Curzon chapel, Mayfair, London 1850 to death; vice prin. of Bishop’s coll. Cape Town, Feb. 1859; canon of Westminster 7 Nov. 1864 to death, installed 5 Dec. 1864; author of Documents relating to the erection of bishoprics in the colonies 1844, 4 ed. 1855; Manual of prayer for working men and their families 1855, 4 ed. 1856; The book of Psalms with explanatory notes 1857, 3 ed. 1865 and 14 other books. d. Dean’s yard, Westminster 5 Oct. 1868. bur. Westminster abbey cloisters 12 Oct. Boase’s Exeter coll. (1879) 130; Chester’s Westminster abbey (1876) 518; I.L.N. 10 Oct. 1868 p. 363.

HAWKINS, Francis (brother of Rev. Edward Hawkins 1789–1882). b. Bisley, Gloucs. 30 July 1794; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ sch. 1805–12; probationary fellow of St. John’s coll. Ox. 1812, Newdigate prizeman 1813; B.A. 1816, B.C.L. 1819, M.B. 1820, M.D. 1823; inceptor candidate of R.C.P. 1821, candidate 1823, fellow 30 Sep. 1824; phys. Middlesex hosp. 18 Dec. 1824 to 1858; prof. of theory and practice of medicine in King’s coll. London 1831–6; phys. to royal household of William iv. 24 July 1830 to 1837; Gulstonian lecturer at coll. of phys. 1826, censor 1827, Croonian lecturer 1827–29, Lumleian lecturer 1832, 1834, 1840, 1841, Harveian orator 1848, an elect 14 Nov. 1850, consiliarius 1859–61, 1863–65 and 1869, registrar 30 Sep. 1829 to 1858; registrar of general council of Medical education and registration 25 Nov. 1858, retired 22 Dec. 1876; phys. to H.M.’s household in ordinary 13 Dec. 1861 to death; author of Rheumatism and some diseases of the heart 1826; edited The Medical Register 1859. d. 16 Ashley place, Victoria st. London 13 Dec. 1877. Munk’s College of physicians, iii, 286 (1878); Medical Times, ii, 686 (1877).

HAWKINS, Francis Spencer. b. 1799; entered Bengal army 1817, M.G. 28 Nov. 1854; col. 2 Bengal N.I. 18 Feb. 1856 to death; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842. d. 32 Sussex gardens, Hyde park, London 3 June 1860 aged 61.

1389HAWKINS, George (son of George Hawkins, landscape painter). b. 1809; architectural draughtsman; exhibited 7 drawings at R.A. 1830–48; lithographer, worked for Day and Son, London; his chief work was a series of the Monastic ruins of Yorkshire, sketches by W. Richardson, description by E. Churton 2 vols. York 1844–56. d. 116 Camden road villas, Camden Town, London 6 Nov. 1852. Art Journal (1852) 375; G.M. xxxviii, 655 (1852).

HAWKINS, John (son of Henry Hawkins, major H.E.I. Co.) b. Huntingdon 28 June 1791; ed. at Hitchin and Rugby; articled to Joseph Eade of Hitchin, Herts. solicitor; practised at Hitchin 1812 to death; steward of 28 manors at one time; a founder of the Hitchin Friendly Institution, May 1827; a trustee of nearly every charity in Hitchin. d. The Grange, Hitchin 22 March 1877. Law Journal, xii, 232–4 (1877).

HAWKINS, John Croft. b. 6 April 1798; entered navy 1811; entered marine service of H.E.I. Co. 1812; surveyed the Euphrates 1838; captain 21 Jany. 1839; commodore of Persian gulf squadron 1845–47; acting superintendent and commander in chief of Indian navy Aug. 1848 to 27 Jany. 1849; thrown out of his curricle and killed on the spot near his house in Colaba, Bombay 25 Aug. 1851.

HAWKINS, John Heywood (1 son of John Hawkins of Bignor park near Petworth, Sussex. d. Trewithen, Cornwall 4 July 1841). b. 1803; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; sheriff of Sussex 1826; M.P. for St. Michael, Cornwall 1830–31, for Tavistock, Devon 1831–32, and for Newport, Isle of Wight 12 Dec. 1832 to 23 June 1841; F.R.S. d. Bignor park 27 June 1877 in 75 year.

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