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HOLLINGWORTH, Ven. John Banks. b. 1779; ed. at Peterhouse, Cam., B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807, B.D. 1814; fellow of his coll. 1804; assistant preacher at Lincoln’s Inn 1806; R. of St. Margaret, Lothbury and St. Christopher le Stocks, London 1814 to death; Norrisian professor of Div. at Cam. 1824–38; archdeacon of Huntingdon 25 Feb. 1828 to death; author of Heads of lectures on divinity delivered in the university of Cambridge 1825, 3 ed. 1835, and charges and sermons. d. Rectory house, St. Margaret’s, Lothbury 9 Feb. 1856. G.M. xlv, 430–1 (1856).

1511HOLLINS, John (son of Thomas Hollins, a painter on glass). b. Birmingham 1 June 1798; exhibited 101 pictures at R.A., 35 at B.I. and 6 at Suffolk st. 1819–55; removed to London 1822; studied in Italy 1825–7; A.R.A. 1842; historical, figure, and landscape painter, introduced portraits into some of his historical pictures. d. 47 Berners st., London 7 March 1855. Redgrave’s Dict. of Artists (1878) 220; Literary Gazette 17 March 1855 p. 170.

HOLLINS, Peter (eld. son of William Hollins, architect and sculptor 1754–1843). b. Birmingham 1800; ed. as a sculptor and assisted his father; in Chantrey’s studio; exhibited 44 pieces of sculpture at R.A. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1822–71; resided Old Bond st. London 1828–43, then returned to Birmingham where he erected statues of Sir R. Peel and Sir Rowland Hill; V.P. of Soc. of Arts, Birmingham. d. 17 Great Hampton st. Birmingham 16 Aug. 1886, portrait in Birmingham Art gallery.

HOLLINWORTH, John Ibbetson. Entered navy June 1795; retired captain 3 April 1811; retired admiral 9 June 1860. d. Southsea 28 Dec. 1861 aged 79.

HOLLOND, Rev. Edmund (eld. son of William Hollond of H.E.I.C.) Ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; succeeded his uncle 1845; lord of manor of Middleton Austin; resided at Benhall lodge, Saxmundham, Suffolk; a great Evangelical; author of Israel’s pre-millenial future or the testimony of scripture as to Israel’s return and what awaits him in his own land 1875; patron of 8 livings. d. 33 Hyde park gardens, London 18 March 1884 in 83 year.

HOLLOND, Ellen Julia (dau. of Thomas Teed of Stanmore hall, Middlesex). b. Madras 1822. (m. 18 March 1840 Robert Hollond, M.P. for Hastings, d. 1877); her salon in Paris frequented by the leading liberals 1840–77; started the first crèche in London 1844; founded an English nurses’ home in Paris with a branch at Nice; sat for the head of Monica in Ary Scheffer’s picture of St. Augustine and his mother 1846; her portrait by Scheffer painted 1852 is in National gallery; author of Channing, sa vie and ses œuvres 1857; La vie de village en Angleterre 1862; Les Quakers, études sur les premiers Amis et leur société 1870. d. Stanmore hall 29 Nov. 1884. Journal des Débats 6 Dec. 1884.

HOLLOND, Robert (youngest son of William Hollond of Grosvenor place, London, and Bengal 1512civil service, d. 14 Feb. 1836). b. 5 Jany. 1808; ed. at C.C. coll. Cam., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; barrister L.I. 24 Nov. 1834; M.P. for Hastings 1837–52; in company with Charles Green and Monck Mason made at his own expense a voyage in the Nassau balloon from London to Weilburg, Nassau 7–8 Nov. 1836; John Hollins painted a picture of the 3 persons with the balloon in the back ground 1836. d. Paris 26 Dec. 1877, personalty sworn under £350,000, 16 Feb. 1878. Hatton Turnor’s Astra Castra (1865) 139–58; Monck Mason’s Aeronautica (1838) 1–98, portrait.

HOLLOWAY, James Lewis (son of Benjamin Holloway of Lee place, Charlbury, Oxon.) b. 2 July 1824; M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1847; assistant surgeon 17 March 1848; principal medical officer at Cape of Good Hope; surgeon general 12 March 1882 to death; C.B. 27 Nov. 1879. d. Netley 19 April 1883.

HOLLOWAY, Sir Thomas (brother of the preceding). b. 1810; 2 lieut. R.M. 17 March 1825; at siege of Sebastopol 1854–5; served in China 1857 when he was wounded; A.D.C. to the Queen 27 Feb. 1857 to 1 July 1863; colonel 2nd commandant R.M. 25 Feb. 1858, colonel commandant 21 Nov. 1859 to death; general 1 April 1870; C.B. 18 June 1858, K.C.B. 13 March 1867. d. Farlington near Portsmouth 21 July 1875.

HOLLOWAY, Thomas (son of Mr. Holloway, baker and publican). b. Devonport 22 Sep. 1800; ed. at Camborne and Penzance; removed to London 1828; merchant and foreign agent 1836; commenced advertising his pills and ointment 15 Oct. 1837, was spending £50,000 a year in advertising 1883; directions for use of his medicines were printed in almost all known languages; at 244 Strand, London 1838, removed to 533 New Oxford st. 1867; employed 100 people; made a large fortune; built and endowed at cost of £700,000 Holloway coll. for ladies at Mount Lee, Egham hill, Surrey, opened 30 June 1866; erected a sanatorium for mentally afflicted of lower middle class, opened 15 June 1885. d. Tittenhurst, Sunninghill, Berks. 26 Dec. 1883. I.L.N. 5 Jany. 1884 p. 24, portrait; Graphic 5 Jany. 1884 p. 5, portrait; Some memories as to the origin of Holloway coll. (1886).

HOLM, John Diederick. A well known phrenologist; executor of J. G. Spurzheim the German phrenologist (b. 1776, d. 1832). d. High st. Highgate 24 Oct. 1856 aged 84.

HOLMAN, Mrs. (dau. of Mr. Lattimer). b. England 1798; appeared at Charleston theatre 15131817. (m. (1) 22 Aug. 1817 Joseph George Holman, actor, who d. 24 Aug. 1817, the writer of numerous plays); appeared in New York singing The soldier tired of war’s alarms, and Bishop’s Echo song 8 July 1817; (m. (2) March 1819 Isaac Star Clawson); (m. (3) in 1824 Charles W. Sandford, lawyer and general of militia); appeared at her husband’s house, the Lafayette theatre, Oct. 1826; last played in Park theatre, New York as Maria in Of age to-morrow, June 1832. d. New York city 1 Sep. 1859. T. A. Brown’s American stage (1870) 181; Ireland’s New York stage, i, 290 336 (1866).

HOLMAN, James (son of Mr. Holman of Fore st. Exeter, chemist and druggist). b. Exeter 15 Oct. 1786; entered navy 7 Dec. 1798, lieut. 27 April 1807, served till Nov. 1810 when he was invalided and became totally blind; a naval knight of Windsor 29 Sep. 1812; travelled over greater part of Europe 1819–24 and round the world 1827–32; F.R.S.; author of A narrative of a journey through France, Italy, Savoy, &c. 1822, with portrait; Travels through Russia, Siberia, Poland, Austria, &c. 2 vols. 1825, with portrait, 4 ed. 2 vols. 1834. d. at his lodgings near the Minories, London 28 July 1857. Reynolds’ Miscellany, x, 9 (1853), portrait; Proc. of Linnæan Soc. (1858) 26–30; People’s Journal, iv, 213, portrait.

HOLMAN, John. Steeple chaser; won royal birthday steeple chase at Worcester on The Page 1843; bred a large number of successful steeple chasers. d. Cheltenham, Jany. 1888. Baily’s Mag., Feb. 1888 pp. 488–9.

HOLME, Bryan (son of Wm. Holme of Thurland castle, Lancs.) baptised at Tunstal, Lancs. 29 Dec. 1776; articled to John Baldwin of Lancaster, solicitor; admitted solicitor Jany. 1800; a managing clerk in office of Bleasdale and Alexander of Hatton court, London about 1803, a partner in the firm at Hatton court and New Inn 1806–16; partner with Alexander at New Inn 1816–21, with Frampton and Loftus 1821–36, with Loftus and Young 1836 to death; projected “The Law Institution,” Chancery Lane 2 June 1825, which became “The Incorporated Law Society” by a new charter granted 5 June 1845; a whole length portrait of him by H. W. Pickersgill, R.A. was placed in the Society’s hall about 1836. d. 13 Brunswick sq. London 15 July 1856. Legal Observer 23 Aug. 1856 pp. 281–5.

HOLME, Thomas Winn (son of Thomas Holme). b. Kendal 3 March 1828; ed. at Ackworth sch. 1841–3, and at Manchester art sch.; 1514managed a woollen mill near Kendal, and then powder mills at Sedgwick, near Leven’s Park; a painter; author of Poems and prose 1874. d. Kendal 20 May 1876. Nodal’s Bibliog. of Ackworth sch. (1889) 16.

HOLMES, Alfred (son of Thomas Holmes of Lincoln). b. London 9 Nov. 1837; learnt the violin from his father; with his brother Henry Holmes made a series of concert tours in Belgium 1855, Germany 1856, Austria 1857, Sweden 1857–9, Denmark 1860, Holland 1861; settled in Paris 1864, where he established a quartet party; produced at St. Petersburg his symphony Jeanne d’ Arc April 1868, which was performed in 1870 at Théâtre Italien, Paris, and at Crystal Palace, Sydenham 27 Feb. 1875; composed symphonies The Youth of Shakespeare, The siege of Paris 1870, Robin Hood, Charles XII, and Romeo and Juliet; an opera in 5 acts called Inez de Castro 1869; overtures The Cid and The Muses; Two nocturnes for the violin and piano, Leipzig 1857. d. Paris 4 March 1876. I.L.N. lxviii, 315 (1876), portrait.

HOLMES, Rev. Arthur. Ed. at Shrewsbury and St. John’s coll. Cam., Bell sch. 1856, Craven sch. 1856, B.A. 1859, M.A. 1862; fellow of his coll. 1860–62; C. of All Saint’s, Cam. 1860–61; lecturer of St. John’s coll. 1860–73 and of Clare coll. 1864–73; senior fellow and dean of Clare coll. 1873 to death; deputy public orator of Cam. 1867, Lady Margaret preacher 1868, select preacher 1868–69; Cambridge preacher at chapel royal 1869–71; general editor of the Catena Classicorum series 1867 etc.; published The Midias of Demosthenes with notes 1862; Demosthenes De Corona 1867; The Nemeian odes of Pindar 1867; cut his throat at Clare coll. Cambridge 17 April 1875. Cambridge Chronicle 24 April 1875 p. 6.

HOLMES, Edward. b. 1797; ed. at Enfield; apprenticed to R. B. Seeley, bookseller; studied music under Vincent Novello; taught the piano in schools; wrote musical criticisms for The Atlas from 1829 and later for The Spectator; wrote articles in Fraser’s Mag. and Musical Times; author of A ramble among the musicians of Germany 1828, 3 ed. 18 ; The life of Mozart 1845; Analytical and thematic index of Mozart’s pianoforte works 1852; A critical essay on the Requiem of Mozart 1854; Life of H. Purcell. d. 4 Sep. 1859.

HOLMES, James. b. 1777; apprenticed to an engraver; member of Soc. of Painters in Water-colours 1813–22; assisted to establish 1515Soc. of British Artists, member 1829–50; also a miniature painter; 2 of his portraits of Lord Byron were engraved; a personal friend of George iv. d. Shropshire 24 Feb. 1860. Redgrave’s Dict. of Artists (1878) 221.

HOLMES, James. b. Exeter 1789 or 1790; ed. at Exeter gr. sch.; apprenticed to Thomas Besley of Exeter, printer 16 Sep. 1806; printer at 4 Took’s court, Chancery lane, London, March 1825 to 1869; started the Court Journal with Henry Colburn 25 April 1829; bought The Athenæum for £200, 7 Jany. 1830, joint proprietor with C. W. Dilkie 20 Sep. 1831, printed it 1829–69. d. 4 July 1873. bur. Kensal green cemetery 11 July.

HOLMES, John (son of Nathaniel Holmes d. Derby 18 Dec. 1840). b. Deptford, Kent 17 July 1800; bookseller Derby; temporary assistant MSS. department Br. Museum 15 Jany. 1830, senior assistant April 1837, assistant keeper 6 May 1850 to death; adviser of 4 earl of Ashburnham in formation of his collection of MSS. which was sold 1883–4; author of A catalogue of manuscripts, maps, charts in the British Museum 1844. d. 4 Park ter. Highgate, London 1 April 1854, his library sold 15 June 1854. G.M. ii, 87–8 (1854).

HOLMES, John. b. Rossshire, Scotland, March 1789; emigrated to Nova Scotia 1803; sat in Nova Scotia assembly 1836–47, 1851–8, in legislative council 1858–67; senator in Dominion parliament 1867. d. 1870. Appleton’s American Biography iii, 242 (1887).

HOLMES, Rev. Joseph. b. 1789; ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam., 3 wrangler 1812, B.A. 1812, M.A. 1815, B.D. 1840, fellow and tutor of his coll. to 1819; head master Leeds gram. sch. 1830–53; C. of Trinity ch. Leeds 1830–45; author of The duty of a Christian state to support a national church establishment 1834. d. Leeds 14 June 1854. Taylor’s Biog. Leodiensis (1865) 454–5.

HOLMES, Rev. Peter (1 son of Walter Holmes of Bickleigh, Plymouth). b. Bickleigh 1815; ed. at Plymouth gram. sch. and at Magd. hall Ox., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1844, D.D. 1859; C. of Sheepstor, Devon 1840–3; head master Plymouth gram. sch. 1840–54; diocesan inspector of schools, deanery of Plympton 7 years; kept a private school at Plymouth; F.R.A.S. Dec. 1841; author of Observations on the standard of doctrine in the Church of England 1848; Bishop Bull’s Defensio fidei Nicænæ. A translation 2 vols. 1851–2; contributed to Anglo-Catholic library, Christian Remembrancer, 1516Kitto’s Biblical Cyclopædia, Clark’s Ante-Nicene Christian library. d. Wellington villa, Mannamead, Plymouth 11 Oct. 1878; left a valuable library. Academy ii, 428 (1878).

HOLMES, Robert (son of Mr. Holmes of Belfast). b. Dublin 1765; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1787; called to bar in Ireland 1795; imprisoned some months, being suspected of complicity with his brother-in-law, Robert Emmet’s rising 1803; had the largest practice in the Irish courts, made upwards of £100,000; refused offices of crown prosecutor, King’s counsel, and solicitor general; author of A demonstration of the necessity of the legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland 1799; The case of Ireland stated 1847. d. 37 Eaton place, Belgrave sq. London 30 Nov. 1859. Dublin Univ. Mag., Jany. 1848 pp. 122–33, portrait; O’Flanagan’s Irish Bar (1879) 273–87.

HOLMES, Rev. Samuel (son of John Holmes of Feversham, Kent). b. 1826; ed. at Magd. hall, Ox., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1845; P.C. of Sidcup 1844–50; R. of North Cray 1850–5; V. of Huddersfield 1855–66; canon residentiary of Ripon cath. 1863 to death; V. of St. Paul, Dorking 1866–81; author of sermons. d. 18 Park parade, Harrogate 9 Nov. 1890.

HOLMES, William (5 son of Thomas Holmes of co. Sligo, brewer). b. co. Sligo 1779; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1795; D.C.L. of Oxford univ. 5 July 1810; military sec. to Sir Thomas Hislop in West Indies; M.P. for Grampound 1808–12, for Tregony 1812–18, for Totnes 1819–20, for Bishop’s Castle 1820–30, for Haslemere 1830–2; contested Ipswich 1835; M.P. Berwick on Tweed 1837–41; contested Stafford 1841; whipper-in to the Tory party 30 years; treasurer of the ordnance 1820–30; was close to Spencer Perceval when he was assassinated 1812 and near to Wm. Huskisson when he was killed 1830. d. Grafton st. Bond st. London 26 Jany. 1851. Portraits of eminent conservatives 2nd series (1846), portrait.

HOLMES, Sir William Henry (3 son of Alexander Holmes of Athgarven, co. Kildare). b. 1817; private sec. to Sir Henry Light when governor of Guiana 1838–47; provost marshal of Guiana 1847, adjutant general of militia there; comr. from Guiana to Paris exhibition 1855; knighted at Buckingham palace 4 April 1856; author of Report of an expedition to explore a route to the gold fields of Caratal 1857; Free cotton, how and where to grow it 1862. d. 5 Osborne villas, Stoke, Devonport 9 Aug. 1868.

1517HOLMES, William Henry. b. Sudbury, Derbyshire 8 Jany. 1812; student at R.A. of music 1822, sub-professor of pianoforte 1826, afterwards professor; the teacher of W. S. Bennett, J. W. Davison, G. A. and W. Macfarren; appeared as a pianist at Philharmonic Soc. concert 24 March 1851; composer of The Elfin of the Lake, an opera 1850, of very numerous pieces left in MS. and of 130 printed pieces for the piano 1835–81. d. 23 April 1885. bur. Brompton cemet. 27 April. Cazalet’s Hist. of R. Acad. of music (1854) 295; Grove’s Dict. of music, i, 744 (1879).

HOLMES, Sir William Richard (son of William Henry Holmes of Kilrea, co. Londonderry). b. London 1821; entered consular service at Erzeroum, Oct. 1841; vice consul at Batoom, Asia Minor 17 March 1846; consul at Diarbekir 23 Nov. 1852; consul in Bosnia 12 Jany. 1860; British delegate to commission for pacification of Herzegovina 1861; knighted at Osborne 13 Aug. 1877; retired from the service 1 Sep. 1877 on a pension; author of Sketches on the shores of the Caspian 1845. d. Yewhurst, Belvedere, Kent 19 Jany. 1882.

HOLMS, John (son of James Holms of Saucel Bank, Paisley). b. Saucel Bank 21 Sep. 1830; partner in firm of W. Holms and Brothers, spinners, Glasgow; M.P. Hackney, London 1868–85; a lord of the treasury April 1880 to May 1882; parliamentary sec. of board of trade 1882–5; author of The British army in 1875, its administration and organization 1875; Our military difficulty. d. 16 Cornwall gardens, Queen’s gate, London 31 March 1891. I.L.N. lxvi, 199, 200 (1875), portrait, 11 April 1891 p. 467, portrait.

HOLROYD, Edward (3 son of Sir George Sowley Holroyd 1758–1831, justice of court of Queen’s Bench). b. 24 July 1794; ed. at Charterhouse and Trin. coll. Cam.; admitted at Gray’s inn 26 Nov. 1812; special pleader under the bar 7 years; barrister G.I. 26 April 1826; a comr. of bankrupts Nov. 1828; a comr. of bankruptcy court Oct. 1831 to 31 Dec. 1869 when granted sum of £2000 on abolition of office; author of Observations upon the case of A. Thornton tried for the murder of Mary Ashford 1819. d. Elland lodge, Wimbledon 29 Jany. 1881.

HOLT, Alfred Henry (son of Henry Josiah Holt, pugilist 1792–1844). Reported prize fights for The Era, Morning Advertiser, Bell’s Life in London and Sportsman. d. 20 Nov. 1865 aged 39. bur. Nunhead cemetery.

HOLT, David. b. Chorlton upon Medlock, Manchester 13 Nov. 1828; assistant sec. of 1518Lancashire and Yorkshire railway co. to death; author of Poems, rural and miscellaneous 1846; Lays of hero worship and other poems 1850; Janus, Lake sonnets and other poems 1853; Poems 1868. d. Altrincham, Cheshire 15 March 1880.

HOLT, Elise. b. London 11 July 1847; appeared as a comic singer, Surrey gardens, London 1863; pupil of Mdlle. Louise, danseuse 1863, and came out at the Victoria theatre as a dancer, and then as Cupid 26 Dec. 1864; played in burlesques at the Strand theatre 1865–8; appeared at Olympic theatre, Boston, U.S. America in burlesque of Lucretia Borgia 21 Dec. 1868 and at Waverly theatre, New York 18 Feb. 1869; visited California; (m. Henry Palmer). d. about 1873. T. A. Brown’s American stage (1870) 182, portrait.

HOLT, Thomas (son of a wool merchant, Leeds). b. Horbury, Yorkshire 1811; with his father at Leeds 1825–8, partner 1832; a wool buyer in London 1828–31; a wool buyer in Australia 1842–55; purchased large estates in Queensland and New South Wales; member for Stanley boroughs in legislative assembly, N.S.W. 1856 and for Newtown to 1866; colonial treasurer 6 June to 25 Aug. 1856; member of legislative council 1868; member of council on education 1873; author of Two speeches on the subject of education in New South Wales 1857. d. Halcot, Bexley, Kent 5 Sep. 1888. Heaton’s Australian Dict. of dates (1879) 95.

HOLT, Thomas Littleton. b. 1794 or 1795; known as Raggedy Holt; projected Weekly Chronicle; proprietor of Iron Times started during the railway mania 1845; edited Morning Chronicle; started many papers in London with G. A. A’Beckett; projected The Novel newspaper; started Ryland’s Iron trade circular at Birmingham; edited a weekly paper called Chat 1846; took an active part in popularising cheap literature and in the abolition of the paper duty; advertisement duty repealed partly owing to him 1853; edited The Sixpenny magazine 1863; John Horsleydown or the confessions of a thief 1860. d. The Burrows, Hendon 14 Sep. 1879. Reminiscences of an old Bohemian, ii, 35–46 (1882).

HOLYOAKE-GOODRICKE, Sir Francis Lyttelton, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Francis Holyoake of Tettenhall, Staffs. 1766–1835). b. Tettenhall 13 Nov. 1797; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1819; assumed name of Goodricke by r.l. 12 Dec. 1833; sheriff of Warwickshire 1834; M.P. for Stafford, Feb. to May 1835, for South Stafford, May 1835 1519to 1837; created baronet 31 March 1835; master of Quorn hounds in Leicestershire 1834–5; one of the very best riders after hounds of his time. d. Sherborne house, Malvern Wells 29 Dec. 1865. Burke’s Vicissitudes of families, ii, 398–9 (1869).

HOMAN, Sir William Jackson, 1 Baronet (2 son of Rev. Philip Homan). b. 1771; cr. baronet 1 Aug. 1801. d. Dromeroe, Cappoquin, co. Waterford 2 March 1852 aged 80. G.M. xxxvii, 406 (1852).

HOME, Cospatrick Alexander Ramey Home, 11 Earl of (eld. son of 10 Earl 1769–1841). b. Dalkeith house, N.B. 27 Oct. 1799; attaché to embassy at St. Petersburgh 1822–3; précis writer in foreign office 1824–7; under sec. of state for foreign affairs 9 June 1828 to 25 Nov. 1830; succeeded 12 Oct. 1841; a Scotch representative peer 1842–74; keeper of great seal of Scotland May 1853; cr. baron Douglas of Douglas co. Lanark in peerage of the U.K. 11 June 1875. d. near the Hirsel, Coldstream, Berwick 4 July 1881. bur. in church of St. Brides at Douglas 12 July. F.O. list 1882 p. 213.

HOME, Daniel Dunglas (son of William Home of the family of the earl of Home). b. near Edinburgh 20 March 1833; taken by his aunt to Greenville, Connecticut about 1842 where he became famous for his mysterious raps, guitar playing without hands, etc.; came to London April 1855 where he held private spiritual séances; held séances before emperor of the French, King of Prussia, and Queen of Holland 1857–8; expelled from Rome as a sorcerer Jany. 1864; gave a series of public readings in America 1864; founded in London with John Elliotson and S. C. Hall the Spiritual Athenæum, a society for the propagation of spiritualism 1866, lived as sec. at the Society’s rooms 22 Sloane st.; assumed name of Lyon-Home on being adopted as her son by a widow named Jane Lyon, who gave him £30,000 and assigned to him a mortgage security of £30,000, both sums were restored to her by the Court of Chancery 22 May 1868; gave public readings in the provinces 1869–70; author of Incidents in my life 1863, 2nd series 1872; Lights and Shadows of Spiritualism 1877. d. Auteuil, near Paris 21 June 1886. bur. at St. Germain-en-Laye. Annual register (1868) 187–206; The Mask (1868) 141–6, portrait; T. A. Trollope’s What I remember, i, 376–81; Nineteenth century, April 1890 pp. 577–81.

Note.—Robert Browning’s poem Mr. Sludge the medium is understood to be a study of Home.

1520HOME, David Milne (1 son of admiral Sir David Milne, d. 1845). b. 1804; ed. at Edin. univ., B.A. 1829, LLD. 1870; called to Scotch bar 1831; advocate depute 1841; succeeded to the family estate and took name of Home 1845; F.R.G.S.; tried to prevent appointment of Dr. Robert Wallace of the Old Greyfriars to the professorship of church history 1873, one of the last “heresy hunts” in the Church of Scotland; author of Our Social reforms needed in Scotland 1867; Scotch poor houses and English work houses 1873; The salmon Fisheries of Scotland 1882. d. Milne Graden, Coldstream 19 Sep. 1890. Times 23 Sep. 1890.

HOME, Francis (eld. son of James Home, professor of materia medica in Univ. of Edin.) b. Edin. 1800; ed. at high school and univ. of Edin.; advocate 1825; sheriff substitute of co. Kinross 1838 and of co. Linlithgow 1838 to death. d. Main’s house near Linlithgow 20 Jany. 1882.

HOME, Sir James Everard, 2 Baronet (elder son of Sir Everard Home, 1 bart., serjeant surgeon to George III.) b. 25 Oct. 1798; entered navy 10 April 1810; succeeded 31 Aug. 1832; captain 5 Dec. 1837; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842; captain of the “Calliope” 26 guns 28 Nov. 1850 to death; F.R.S. d. Sydney 2 Nov. 1853. bur. Camperdown cemetery, Sydney 4 Nov.

HOME, John. Entered Bengal army 1803; colonel 57 Bengal native infantry 1854 to death; M.G. 20 June 1854. d. Weston, Bath 12 April 1860.

HOME, John Home (son of John Home of Bassenleau, co. Berwick). b. 1797; ensign 1 foot guards 19 Jany. 1813, lieut. col. 15 April 1845 to 1 April 1849 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 22 Sep. 1858; colonel 56 foot 17 Oct. 1859 to death. d. Pall Mall, London 22 April 1860.

HOME, North Dalrymple. b. Long Ashton, Aug. 1856; ed. at Bristol gram. sch. at Montreux and Paris; engaged in London and Westminster bank 2 years; student R. Acad. of music; tenor singer in German Reed’s Co.; played in W. S. Gilbert’s Ages Ago, and in The Friar operetta by Comyns Carr 15 Dec. 1886. d. Clifton 3 July 1887. The Era, July 1887 p.

HOME, Richard. b. 1789; entered Bengal army 1804; colonel 43 Bengal N.I. 7 April 1851 to 1861; colonel 6 Bengal N.I. 1861 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. d. Brighton 19 April 1862 aged 73.

1521HOME, Robert (eld. son of James Home, captain 30 foot). b. Antigua 29 Dec. 1837; 1 lieut. R.E. 7 April 1856, major 25 Aug. 1873 to death; deputy assistant Q.M.G. at Aldershot 1865–70; commander of R.E. on the Ashantee expedition 1873; C.B. 31 March 1874; assistant Q.M.G. at head quarters 1 April 1876; sent to Turkey to report on defence of Constantinople 1876; British comr. for delimitation of boundaries of Bulgaria 1877; contributed to Quarterly Rev. and Macmillan’s Mag.; translated Baron Stoffel’s Military Reports 1872; author of The law of recruiting 1872 and A précis of modern tactics 1873 the best English book on the subject. d. 21 Regent’s park terrace, London 29 Jany. 1879; Anne Josephine his widow (dau. of J. Hunt) granted civil list pension of £300, 21 April 1879. Graphic xix, 372 (1879), portrait; I.L.N. lxxiv, 185 (1879), portrait.

HOMER, John James. b. Wandsworth 1809; educated for a solicitor; proprietor of Dolphin tavern, Mare st. Hackney; was the means of abolishing a brewers’ impost known as butt-money 1836; hon. treasurer of the London Licensed Victuallers’ Protection Soc. 1838 to death; governor of Incorporated Soc. of Licensed victuallers 1850; doubled the size of the Morning Advertiser 1850; common councilman for ward of Cornhill 1866; contested Hackney 18 Nov. 1868; wine and spirit merchant 2 Royal Exchange buildings, London 1852 to death; author of A summary of the laws relating to licensed victuallers 1839; Monarch fire and life insurance co., Scenes at the election for a director 1852. d. at res. of his son-in-law Dr. William Slimon 4 York place, Bow road, London 3 March 1888. Licensed Victuallers’ Almanack (1862) 95–9, portrait; Licensed Victuallers’ Year book (1875) 70–1, portrait.

HONE, Ven. Richard Brindley (2 son of Joseph Terry Hone of Faringdon, Berks.) b. 1805; ed. at Brasen. coll. Ox., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1831; R. of Halesowen, Worcs. 1836 to death; hon. canon of Worcester 10 Nov. 1845 to death, archdeacon 7 Nov. 1849 to death; author of Lives of eminent Christians 4 vols. 1834–43, 19 charges and 41 New Year’s addresses. d. Halesowen rectory 5 May 1881.

HONEY, George Alfred (mother Mrs. Down d. 27 Nov. 1881 aged 90). b. 25 May 1823; call-boy Adelphi theatre 1841; made debut in London at Princess’s theatre Nov. 1848 as Pan in Midas; member of Pyne and Harrison company at Covent Garden 1858 etc.; played in Macfarren’s opera Robin Hood at Her Majesty’s 1860; played Eccles in Caste at 1522Prince of Wales’s 1867, 1871 and 1879; Graves in Money at Holborn 1869 and at Prince of Wales’s 1872, 1875 and 1879; Our Mr. Jenkins in The Two Roses at Vaudeville 1870; visited U.S. of America 1878; seized with a fit of paralysis while performing at Prince of Wales’s 1879. d. 127 Camden road, London 28 May 1880. Pascoe’s Dramatic List (1880) 183–4; Illust. Sport, and Dram. News, x 468–9 (1879) portrait, xiii 281 (1880), portrait, xvii 125 (1882), view of tomb; The Era 30 May 1880 p. 6, 6 June p. 7; Mr. and Mrs. Bancroft On and off the stage 7th ed. (1889) 107, 156, 274, 281–3.

HONNER, Maria (dau. of Eugene Macarthy, actor, d. Dramatic coll. 1886 aged 78). b. Enniskillen Ireland 21 Dec. 1812; played with Kean and Macready in Ireland; chief star at Pavilion theatre, London 1831–2; at Coburg theatre 1833, at Sadler’s Wells 1838–43, at Surrey theatre 1845, at City of London theatre 1845; excellent in Shakespearean parts, in Julia, in the Hunchback, and other roles; (m. (1) 21 May 1836 Robert W. Honner 1809–52; m. (2) Frederick Morton, stage manager); she d. 4 Jany. 1870. Actors by gaslight 4 Aug. 1838 pp. 121–2, portrait; Theatrical Times 10 Oct. 1846 pp. 137–8, portrait.

HONNER, Robert William (youngest son of John Honner of Soho, London, solicitor, d. about 1817). b. 24 Percy st. Tottenham court road, London 18 Jany. 1809; apprenticed to Charles Leclercq, ballet master 1817–20; made his debut at Sans Pareil theatre in a ballet 1818; actor at Coburg 1825; stage manager at Surrey 1835–38, manager 1842–46; lessee of Sadler’s Wells 1838–41 and of City of London theatre 1846; stage manager of Standard theatre 1848 to death, d. Nichols sq. Hackney road, London 31 Dec. 1852. Theatrical Times 27 March 1847 pp. 89–90, portrait.

HONNER, Sir Robert William. Entered Bombay army 1820; lieut. 4 Bombay N.I. 1 May 1824, lieut. col. 15 Sep. 1855 to 1861; commander of Nussurabad 6 March 1858 to 24 Oct. 1862; commander of Scinde division 28 March 1863 to 26 May 1866, C.B. 21 Jany. 1858, K.C.B. 28 March 1865; M.G. 17 Sep. 1861. d. Lower Berkeley st., Portman sq., London 8 Nov. 1868.

HONY, Ven. William Edward (2 son of Rev. Wm. Hony, V. of Liskeard, Cornwall 1778–95). b. Liskeard 7 Feb. 1788; fellow of Ex. coll. Ox. 30 June 1808 to 3 July 1827, B.A. 1811, M.A. 1812, B.D. 1823; V. of South Newington, 1523Oxon. 24 Oct. 1818 to 1827; R. of Baverstock 4 June 1827 to death; preb. of Salisbury 29 July 1841; archdeacon of Salisbury 3 Aug. 1846 to death, and canon residentiary 1857 to death; F.G.S. 1831; author of Church Rates 1859. d. The Canonry, Salisbury 7 Jany. 1875. I.L.N. lxvi 403 (1875).

HORNYGOLD, William, b. 1797; an artist; lived in parish of St. Clement Danes, London; known for his drawings of theatrical characters for the toy theatre, to which he added sketches of the scenery incidental to the pieces performed; his portrait of C. Kemble as Hen. viii. is No. 55 in Skelt’s portraits: drew the illustrations for comic songs; fell down intoxicated outside the ‘Fountain,’ 4 Clare Market, London, taken to the Strand union workhouse, where he d. 12 Feb. 1867 aged 69. J. Diprose’s Some account of parish of St. Clement Danes i, 165–6 (1868).

HONYMAN, Sir George Essex, 4 Baronet (eld. son of Sir Ord Honyman, 3 Bart. 1794–1863). b. Strawberry hill, Middlesex 22 Jany. 1819; pupil of Martineau, Malton and Trollope, solicitors, London 1838–40; pupil of Sir Fitzroy Kelly and David O. Gibbons, the special pleader 1840, etc.; practised as a pleader 1842–9; barrister M.T. 8 June 1849, bencher Nov. 1866; best commercial lawyer of his day; Q.C. 23 July 1866; sergeant at law 23 Jany. 1873; judge of court of common pleas 23 Jany. 1873, resigned 21 Feb. 1875. d. Tunbridge Wells 16 Sep. 1875. Law mag. and law review i, 122–27 (1875); I.L.N. lxvii, 319, 333, 566, (1875), portrait.

HONYWOOD, Rev. Philip James (3 son of William Honywood of Siston, Kent). b. 1809; matric. from Trin. coll. Ox. 29 May 1827 aged 18, B.A. 1831; R. of Markshall, Essex 23 Dec. 1838 to 1866; R. of Bradwell next Coggeshall, Essex 27 March 1840 to 1845; R. of Colne-Wake, Essex 1866 to death; kept beagles at Markshall 1851–3 which were always followed on foot, sold his hounds 1853; injured himself hunting on foot three days a week d. Colne-Wake 19 Nov. 1874 aged 65. Baily’s Mag. xxix, 150–5 (1877).

HOOD, Sir Alexander, 2 Baronet (only son of Alexander Hood, capt. R.N., slain on board his ship the ‘Mars’ 1798). b. Wootton, Somerset 5 July 1793; ed. at Ex. coll. Ox., M.A. 1814; K.C.B. 22 May 1812 as proxy for his uncle Sir S. Hood; succeeded as 2 baronet 24 Dec. 1814; M.P. West Somerset 1847 to death. d. 43 Wimpole st. London 7 March 1851.

1524HOOD, Charles. b. 18 Sep. 1825; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign 3 foot 26 June 1844, captain 1851 to 8 Jany. 1856; led the ladder party in the attack on the Redan 8 Oct. 1855; major 58 foot 28 Jany. 1859, lieut. col. 23 Nov. 1860 to 23 May 1874 when placed on h.p.; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 July 1881. d. 8 Feb. 1883.

HOOD, Charles (son of William Hood, an ironmaster 18 Earl st. Blackfriars). b. 1805; ironmaster with his brother in London; made researches into chemistry of combustion of coal, silver medal of Soc. of Arts; F.R.S. 7 Dec. 1843; F.R.A.S.; F.S.S.; chairman of British home for incurables 1861–6; author of A practical treatise on warming buildings by hot water, to which are added Remarks on ventilation 1837, 5 ed. 1879. d. 10 Leinster gardens, Bayswater, London 10 Dec. 1889.

HOOD, Rev. Edwin Paxton (son of a sailor in the navy). b. at house of bishop Porteous 34 Half Moon st. Piccadilly, London 24 Oct. 1820; began to lecture on temperance and peace about 1840; Congregational minister at North Nibley, Gloucs. 1852–7, at Offord road, Islington 1857–62 and 1873, at Queen sq. church, Brighton 1862–73, at Cavendish st. Manchester 1877 to 1880, at Falcon sq. Aldersgate st. London 1882 to death; editor of the Eclectic and Congregational Review, of the Argonaut and The Preacher’s Lantern; author of Old England 1851; William Wordsworth, a biography 1856; The Peerage of Poverty 1 series 1859, 3 ed. 1859, 2 series 1861, 5 ed. 1870 and 50 other books. d. suddenly at Paris 12 June 1885. Congregational Year-Book (1886) 178–82.

HOOD, Francis Grosvenor (2 son of lieut. col. Francis Wheler Rood, killed in action 2 March 1814). b. 4 March 1809; ensign grenadier guards 30 April 1827, captain 31 Dec. 1841, major of 3 battalion 20 June 1854 to death; leading his battalion gallantly contributed to defeat of the enemy at battle of the Alma 20 Sep. 1854; killed in the trenches before Sebastopol 18 Oct. 1854. Kinglake’s Invasion of the Crimea 6 ed. iii 220–2, 239 et seq. iv 442.

HOOD, Peter. b. Gateshead 1808; ed. at St. George’s hospital; L.S.A. 1831, M.D. St. Andrews 1863; practised in London among the upper classes; discouraged the practice of blood letting; a keen sportsman, fly fisher and whist player; treasurer of Fisheries’ preservation soc.; president West Herts. medical assoc.; author of Practical observations on diseases fatal to children 1845; The successful treatment of scarlet fever 1857; A treatise on gout, rheumatism and the allied affections 1871, 3 ed. 1885. d. Watford, Herts. 18 Sep. 1890. Lancet 27 Sep. 1890 p. 699.

1525HOOD, Rev. Samuel. b. Devizes 27 Dec. 1782; received episcopal ordination at Stirling, May 1826; minister of congregation in Trinity house, Dundee 1826–37; restored episcopacy at Rothesay and was minister there 1838, helped to establish seven churches in his district; dean of diocese of Argyle and the Isles 1847 to death; D.D. by archbishop of Canterbury 1870. d. Rothesay 30 May 1872. Norrie’s Dundee celebrities (1873) 392.

HOOD, Samuel. b. Moyle, co. Donegal 1800; emigrated to Philadelphia 1826, a member of the bar there; author of Practical treatise on the laws relating to registers, registers’ courts, guardians and trustees in Pennsylvania 1847; A practical treatise on the law of decedents in Pennsylvania 1847; A brief account of the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick 1844. d. Philadelphia 1875.

HOOD, Thomas (only son of Thomas Hood the poet 1798–1845). b. Lake house, Wanstead, Essex 19 Jany. 1835; granted a civil list pension of £50, 4 Oct. 1847; commoner at Pemb. coll. Ox. 1853; edited the Liskeard Gazette 1858–59; clerk in the war office 11 July 1860 to May 1865; edited a periodical called Saturday Night 1862; edited Fun, May 1865 to death; Tom Hood’s Comic Annual first issued 1867; author of Captain Master’s children 3 vols. 1865; A golden heart 3 vols. 1868; Rules of rhyme, a guide to English versification 1869 and many other books. d. Gloucester cottage, Peckham Rye, Surrey 20 Nov. 1874. Poems by Thomas Hood the younger, with a memoir by his sister Frances Freeling Broderip 1877; Cartoon portraits (1873) 64–65, portrait; Illust. sporting news, iv, 357 (1865), portrait.

HOOD, Thomas H. Cockburn. b. 1820; in Australia and New Zealand to 1877; inherited Walton hall, Kelso from a relative; author of The Rutherfords of that ilk 188-; The house of Cockburn, with anecdotes of the times in which many of them played a part, Edin. 1888, and of many scientific papers. d. Edinburgh 16 Jany. 1889. The Bookseller 6 March 1889 p. 228.

HOOD, Sir William Charles (only son of Dr. William Chamberlayne Hood, d. Berners st. hotel, London 16 Dec. 1879 aged 89). b. South Lambeth 1824; ed. at Brighton and Trin. coll. Dublin; M.D. St. Andrews 1846; F.R.C.P. Edin. 1850; F.R.C.P. London 1863; treasurer of Bridewell and Bethlehem hospital July 1868 to death; lord chancellor’s visitor in lunacy to death; knighted at Windsor castle 7 July 1868. d. Bridewell royal hospital, London 4 Jany. 1870.

1526HOOF, William. b. 1788; a railway contractor. d. Madeley house, Kensington 11 Aug. 1855, leaving property exceeding half a million.

HOOK, Anna Delicia (dau. of John Johnson, physician, Birmingham). b. 1812; author of Some Meditations for every day in the year 1864; The Cross of Christ 1855 which was edited by her husband; (m. June 1829 Rev. Walter Farquhar Hook 1798–1875). d. 5 May 1871 aged 59 bur. churchyard of Mid Lavant near Chichester 11 May.

HOOK, Very Rev. Walter Farquhar (eld. child of Very Rev. James Hook 1771–1828, dean of Worcester). b. Conduit st. London 13 March 1798; ed. at Hertford, Tiverton, Winchester, and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824, B.D. and D.D. 1837, student of Ch. Ch. 1817; C. of Whippingham, Isle of Wight 1821–25; P.C. of Moseley near Birmingham 1826–31; chaplain in ord. to the sovereign 1827 to death; V. of Holy Trin. Coventry 1828 to 1837; preb. of Linc. cath. 1832 to 1859; select preacher univ. of Ox. 1833–34 and 1858–59; V. of Leeds 1837 to 1859; preached his famous sermon Hear the Church before the Queen 17 June 1838, 31 ed. 1841, circulated 100,000 copies; dean of Chichester 24 Feb. 1859 to death, installed 19 March 1859; F.R.S. 5 June 1862; author of A Church Dictionary 1842, 14 ed. 1887; An ecclesiastical biography 8 vols. 1845–52; Lives of the archbishops of Canterbury 12 vols. 1860–76 and about 70 other books. d. the deanery, Chichester 20 Oct. 1875, memorial church at Leeds consecrated 29 Jany. 1880. Life and letters of W. F. Hook By W. R. W. Stephens 2 vols. 1878; Illust. news of the world, iii, (1859), portrait; Dent’s Birmingham (1880) 427, portrait; Graphic xii, 447, 448 (1875), portrait.

HOOKER, Sir William Jackson (son of Joseph Hooker of Exeter). b. Norwich 6 July 1785; ed. at Norwich gram. sch.; travelled for scientific purposes 1806–14; F.L.S. 1806; F.R.S. 9 Jany. 1812; lived at Halesworth, Suffolk 1815–20; regius prof. of botany Glasgow 1820–41; K.H. 1836; knighted at St. James’ palace 20 April 1836; director of royal gardens, Kew 1841 to death, chief agent in building the palm house and the temperate house, and a founder of the museum of economic botany; LLD. of Glasgow; D.C.L. of Ox. 1845; author of Exotic flora, 3 vols. 1823–7; Icones plantarum 10 vols. 1827–54; The Botanical Mag. 38 vols. 1827–65; British flora 2 vols. 1830–1, many editions; Species filicum 5 vols. 1846–64 and 35 other 1527books and many papers. d. Kew 12 Aug. 1865. Proc. of R. Soc. xv, 25–30 (1867); Proc. Med. and Chir. Soc. v, 150, 162 (1867); Jerdan’s National Portrait gallery (1834) v, portrait; Taylor’s National Portrait gallery ii, 95, portrait.

HOOLE, Elijah (son of Holland Hoole, shoe maker). b. Manchester 3 Feb. 1798; ed. at Manchester gr. sch. 1809–13; Wesleyan methodist missionary in Madras 1820–8 during which time he published a number of translations in Tamil; a superintendent of schools in Ireland 1829–34; assistant sec. in London of Wesleyan Missionary Soc. 1834, one of the general secretaries 1836 to death; author of Personal narrative of a mission to the south of India from 1820–8, 1829, 2 ed. 1844; The year-book of missions 1847. d. 30 Russell sq. London 17 June 1872. T. F. Smith’s Manchester School Reg. iii, pt. 1, pp. 45, 290.

HOOPER, Edward. b. 1795; officer in navy; first appeared at Drury Lane as Colonel Briton, Sep. 1826; acting manager at Olympic 1832; lessee of St. James’s 1839; manager of Strand 1848; proprietor of Cambridge theatre to death. (m. Miss Brothers, she was b. 1800, first appeared at Drury Lane as Mrs. Haller 19 Feb. 1827 and was a well-known actress at St. James’s theatre). d. Cambridge 27 Jany. 1865 aged 70.

HOOPER, Edward. b. London 24 May 1829; ed. in London; member of firm of Bobbett and Hooper, wood engravers 1850 to death; an originator of the American water colour soc.; exhibited water colours at the Academy of design; engraved illustrations for Festivals of song, By F. Saunders 1866. d. Brooklyn, New York 13 Dec. 1870.

HOOPER, Frederic Edward Eden. b. 1842; clerk in the Admiralty, London; wrote many verses on Christmas and other cards; author of The Indian revolt. A poem, part i, 1858. d. 12 Feb. 1886.

HOOPER, George. b. Oxford 1824; a journalist in London 1848–86; helped to start The Leader weekly paper 1850; wrote for The Globe and The Spectator; edited Bombay Gazette at Bombay 1868–71; on staff of Daily Telegraph, London 1872–86; author of The Italian campaigns of general Bonaparte 1859; Waterloo, the downfall of the first Napoleon 1862, new ed. 1890; The campaign of Sedan 1887; Wellington, a memoir 1889. d. Southsea 15 May 1890. I.L.N. 31 May 1890 p. 680, portrait; Pictorial World 29 May 1890 p. 697, portrait.

1528HOOPER, John. b. Oxford 1802; went to U.S. of America 1839 and devoted himself to natural science; made collection of marine algæ which he left to Long island historical soc. d. Brooklyn, New York 26 April 1869. Appleton’s American Biog. iii, 252 (1887).

HOOPER, John Kinnersley (3 son of Richard Hooper of Queenhithe and Limpsfield, Surrey). b. 1791; wine merchant as Richard Hooper and Sons, 20 Queenhithe, London to death; alderman of Queenhithe ward 1840 to death, sheriff 1842–43, lord mayor 1847–48; received the French national guard at the mansion house 23 Oct. 1848; pres. of St. Bartholomew’s hospital. d. St. Leonards-on-Sea 17 April 1854. I.L.N. xi, 309 (1847), portrait.

HOOPER, William. b. 1819; a chemist; manufacturer of india-rubber goods 7 Pall Mall East, London and at Mitcham, Surrey 1857–78; inventor and manufacturer of india rubber insulated telegraph cables which he patented 19 March 1868; founder of Hooper’s Telegraph Co. in London 1870. d. Beechwood, Clapham common, Surrey 25 Sep. 1878. Journal Soc. of Arts 1 Nov. 1878 p. 964.

HOOPER, William Hulme. b. 1827; mate of the Plover, R.N. Nov. 1847 and lieut. 12 May 1849, in the expedition to search for Sir John Franklin, sailed from Plymouth 30 Jany. 1848, reached Port Providence 16 Oct. 1848, led a party along the coast as far as Cape Atcheen, learned the language of the natives, returned to England Oct. 1851; author of Ten months among the tents of the Tuski, with incidents of an Arctic boat expedition in search of Sir John Franklin 1853. d. Brompton, London 19 May 1854.

HOPE, Adrian (6 son of 4 Earl of Hopetown 1765–1823). b. Hopetown house, Linlithgowshire 3 March 1821; 2 lieut. 60 rifles 23 Nov. 1838, served in Kafir war 1851–3; major 1855; lieut. col. 93 Highlanders 25 Jany. 1856 to death; commanded brigade in Crimea 1854–5; C.B. 24 March 1858; killed in attack on fort at Rowas 14 April 1858. Martin’s Indian empire, ii, 493 (1876), portrait.

HOPE, Alexander James Beresford Beresford- (youngest son of Thomas Hope of Deepdene, Surrey 1770–1831). b. 25 Jany. 1820; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844, D.C.L. 1848, hon. LLD. 1864; LLD. Washington and Tennessee 1879, LLD. Dublin 1881; M.P. for Maidstone 1841–52 and 1857–65; contested Univ. of Cam. 1859 and Stoke-upon-Trent 1862; M.P. for Stoke 1865–8, M.P. for Univ. of Cam. 1868 to death; bought St. Augustine’s abbey, 1529Canterbury as a college for missionary clergy 1844; built All Saints’ church, Margaret st. London 1849; joint owner of Saturday Review with John Douglas Cook 1855; took additional surname of Beresford 30 May 1854; P.C. 20 April 1880; possessed a collection of pictures and objects of art at 1 Connaught place, London; author of Poems 1843; Essays 1844; The English cathedral of the nineteenth century 1861; A popular view of the American civil war 1861, 3 ed. 1861; Worship in the Church of England 1874, 2 ed. 1875; Strictly tied up 3 vols. 1880, a novel, anon. 3 ed. 1881; The Brandreths 3 vols. 1882, a novel, and 24 other books. d. Bedgebury park, Cranbrook, Kent 20 Oct. 1887. C. Brown’s Life of Beaconsfield (1882) i, 194, portrait; Waagen’s Galleries of art (1857) 189–92; I.L.N. 16 May 1857 pp. 477, 479, portrait.

HOPE, Anne (2 dau. of John Williamson Fulton of Calcutta, merchant). b. Calcutta 1809. (m. 10 March 1831 James Hope, physician 1801–41); joined Church of Rome, Nov. 1850; author of The acts of the early martyrs 1855; The lives of the early martyrs 1857; Life of St. Philip Neri 1859; Conversion of the Teutonic race 2 vols. 1872; Franciscan martyrs in England 1878; wrote many articles in Dublin Review 1872–9. d. St. Marychurch, Torquay 2 Feb. 1887. Gillow’s English Catholics iii, 375.

HOPE, Charles, Lord Granton (eld. son of John Hope of London, merchant 1739–85). b. 29 June 1763; admitted advocate 11 Dec. 1784; a depute advocate 1786; sheriff of Orkney 5 June 1792; lord advocate June 1801 to Nov. 1804; M.P. for Dumfries district 1802–3, for city of Edin. 1803–4; a lord of session and lord justice clerk 20 Nov. 1804, assumed title of lord Granton; lord pres. of court of session 12 Nov. 1811 to 1841; P.C. Scotland 17 Aug. 1822, lord justice general Dec. 1836 to 1841; lieut. general of royal archers of Scotland; author of Notes by the lord president on the subject of hearing counsel in the Inner House 1826. d. Moray place, Edinburgh 30 Oct. 1851. Omond’s Lord Advocates of Scotland ii, 205–23; Kay’s Original Portraits ii, 246–55 (1885), 3 portraits; Lockhart’s Peter’s Letters to his kinsfolk, ii, 102–8 (1819).

HOPE, Charles Webley. b. 21 April 1829; entered navy 1842; captain 15 May 1861; A.D.C. to the Queen 12 Feb. 1873 to 1 Aug. 1877; R.A. 1 Aug. 1877; superintendent of Devonport dockyard 1 Feb. 1879 to death; F.R.G.S.; author of The education and training of naval officers 1869. d. Devonport dockyard 13 Feb. 1880.

1530HOPE, Rev. Frederick William (2 son of John Thomas Hope of Netley, Salop 1761–1854). b. 37 Upper Seymour st. Portman sq. London 3 Jany. 1797; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823, hon. D.C.L. 1855; C. of Frodesley, Salop 1823; F.R.S. to 1851 when he withdrew; F.L.S. 5 March 1822; one of founders of Zoological Soc. 1826, of Entomological Soc. 1833, president 1835–37; resided at Naples and Nice 1840–62; executed in 1849 a deed of gift giving his collection of fishes, crustacea, birds, shells, books and 230,000 engravings to Univ. of Oxford, his fishes, etc. were removed to the New Museum and his engravings to Radcliffe library 1861; founded and endowed a professorship of zoology in the Univ. of Ox. 1861; author of Buprestidae 1835; The Coleopterist’s Manual 3 parts 1837–40 and of about 60 papers on entomological subjects. d. 37 Upper Seymour st. London 15 April 1862. Journal British Archæol. Assoc. xix, 157–62 (1863); Proc. Linnæan society (1862) 90–93; J. O. Westwood’s Thesaurus Entomologicus Oxon. (1874) pp. xvii-xxiv.

HOPE, George (2 son of Robert Hope, tenant farmer). b. Fenton, East Lothian 2 Jany. 1811; farmer at Fenton Barns to 1875; did much to improve the agriculture of East Lothian, his farm was well-known in America and on the continent; gained a prize of £30 offered by the Anti-Corn-law league for an essay on Agriculture and the corn laws 1842; contributed Hindrances to agriculture from a tenant farmer’s point of view to Recess Studies, Edited by Sir A. Grant, Edinburgh 1870; contested Haddingtonshire 1865 and East Aberdeenshire 1875. d. Broadlands, Berwickshire 1 Dec. 1876. Memoir of George Hope, By His Daughter (1881).

HOPE, George William (2 son of general the hon. Sir Alexander Hope 1769–1837). b. Blackheath 4 July 1808; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1830; barrister L.I. 28 Jany. 1831; M.P. for Weymouth 1837 to 1841 when unseated on petition; M.P. for Southampton 1842–6; M.P. for New Windsor 1859 to death; under sec. of state for the colonies 8 Sep. 1841 to 8 Jany. 1846. d. Luffness, Haddingtonshire 18 Oct. 1863. I.L.N. vi, 184 (1845), portrait.

HOPE, Sir Henry (eld. child of Charles Hope, captain R.N., d. 10 Sep. 1808). b. 1787; entered navy 2 April 1798, captain 24 May 1808, captain of the Endymion May 1813, captured the American frigate President 15 Jany. 1815; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 5 July 1855; A.D.C. to the sovereign 1831–46; admiral 20 Jany. 1858. d. Holly hill, Hants. 23 Sep. 1863.

1531HOPE, Henry Thomas (eldest bro. of Alexander J. B. Hope 1820–87). b. 1808; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1829; M.P. East Looe 1830–2; M.P. Gloucester 1833–41 and 1847–52; a great patron of architectural art; erected a residence 116 Piccadilly, now known as the Junior Athenæum club; sold Trenant park, Cornwall and purchased Castle Blaney, Ireland; possessed a collection of marble statues, vases and Italian and Dutch pictures. d. 116 Piccadilly, London 4 Dec. 1862, personalty sworn under £300,000, 17 Jany. 1863. Waagen’s Treasures of Art, ii, 112–24 (1854); I.L.N. xxxii, 352 (1858).

HOPE, Sir James (only son of Sir George Hope, K.C.B. 1767–1818). b. 3 March 1808; entered royal naval college 1 Aug. 1820; captain 28 June 1838; commander in chief East Indies 25 Jany. 1859 to 8 Feb. 1862, in North America and West Indies 7 Jany. 1864 to 10 Jany. 1867, and at Portsmouth 25 Feb. 1869 to 1 March 1872; admiral 21 Jany. 1870, retired March 1878, admiral of the fleet 15 June 1879; principal naval A.D.C. to the Queen 8 Feb. 1873; C.B. 3 April 1846, K.C.B. 9 Nov. 1860, G.C.B. 28 March 1865; grand cross of legion of honour 1861. d. Carriden house, Bowness, Linlithgowshire 9 June 1881, portrait by Sydney Hodges in painted hall at Greenwich. D. C. Boulger’s History of China, vol. iii, passim (1884).

HOPE, James. b. 28 May 1803; writer to the signet 1828; deputy keeper of the signet 1828 to death. d. Avenel, Edinburgh 14 Feb. 1882. Law Times, lxxii, 305 (1882).

HOPE, Sir James Archibald (son of lieut.-col. Erskine Hope). b. 1785; ensign 26 foot 12 Jany. 1800, captain 1805–14; captain 3 foot guards 25 July 1814, major 10 Jany. 1837 to 1 Nov. 1839, when placed on h.p.; M.G. on the staff in Lower Canada 1841–7; colonel 9 foot 18 Feb. 1848 to death; general 12 June 1859; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 28 June 1861. d. Balgowan house, Cheltenham 30 Dec. 1871.

HOPE, Sir John, 11 Baronet. b. Pinkie house, Midlothian 13 April 1781; succeeded 26 June 1801; M.P. for Midlothian 1845 to death. d. 104 Gloucester terrace, Hyde park, London 5 June 1853. bur. Inveresk churchyard 11 June.

HOPE, John (eld. son of Charles Hope of Granton 1763–1851). b. Edinburgh 26 May 1794; admitted advocate 23 Nov. 1816; solicitor general for Scotland Nov. 1822 to 1830; dean of faculty of advocates 17 Dec. 1830 to 1841; lord justice clerk 1841 to death; P.C. 17 1532April 1844; author of A letter to Francis Jeffery, Esq., editor of the Edinburgh Review, By an Anti-Reformist 1811 and two other letters. d. 20 Moray place, Edinburgh 15 June 1858, bur. at Ormiston near Tranent; portraits in national gallery of Scotland, in the Parliament house and in Scottish national portrait gallery. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 73–4, portrait.

HOPE, Sackett. Entered navy 2 Nov. 1814; present at bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre 1840; captain 4 Nov. 1840; V.A. on half pay 2 April 1866; granted pension for wounds 7 Nov. 1843. d. 9 Widcomb crescent, Bath 25 May 1868.

HOPE, William Williams (youngest child of John Williams Hope of Amsterdam, banker 1757–1813). b. 1802; reassumed name of Williams before that of Hope by r.l. 14 July 1826; purchased Rushton hall near Kettering for £140,000 in 1828, sold it for £165,000 Sep. 1854; sheriff of Northamptonshire 1832; lived latterly in Paris, built a large house at 131 Rue St. Dominique, Faubourg St. Germain, played a prominent part in Parisian society, noted for his eccentricity and his collection of diamonds; found dead in his bed at 131 Rue St. Dominique, Paris 21 Jany. 1855. Gronow’s Last Recollections (1866) 129–33; Boase’s Collect. Cornub. (1890) 1262–4.

HOPE-JOHNSTONE, John James (1 son of Sir William Hope-Johnstone, G.C.B. 1766–1831). b. 29 Nov. 1796; M.P. for co. Dumfries 1830–47, and 1857–65; keeper of Lockmaben; claimed dormant earldom of Annandale. d. Raehills, Dumfriesshire 11 July 1876.

HOPE-SCOTT, James Robert (3 son of general the hon. Sir Alexander Hope, G.C.B. 1769–1837). b. Great Marlow, Bucks. 15 July 1812; ed. at Eton 1825–28 and at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1832, B.C.L. 1838, D.C.L. 1842; fellow of Merton 13 April 1833; commenced a friendship with W. E. Gladstone 1837 and corresponded with him on “The State in its relation with the Church” 1838; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1838, reader 1862; a promoter of Glenalmond college, Perthshire 1841; chancellor of diocese of Salisbury 1840 to 10 Feb. 1845; Q.C. April 1849; paid fees of £20,000 by London and north western railway for 25 bills 1860; received into R.C. church at Farm st. London 6 April 1851; lived at Abbotsford 1853 to death; assumed additional name of Scott 1853; spent winters of 1863–70 at the Villa Madonna Hyères which he bought 1859; visited by Queen Victoria at Abbotsford 22 1533Aug. 1867; built church of Our Lady and St. Andrew at Galashiels at cost of £10,000, opened 2 Feb. 1858; purchased estate of Lochshiel for £24,000, 1855; author of The bishopric of the United Church of England and Ireland at Jerusalem 1841, 2 ed. 1842. d. 7 Hyde park place, London 29 April 1873. bur. in the vaults of St. Margaret’s convent, Bruntsfield, Edin. 7 May. Memoirs of J. R. Hope-Scott, By Robert Ornsby 2 vols. 1884.

HOPETOUN, John Alexander Hope, 6 Earl of (only son of 5 earl of Hopetoun 1803–43). b. Edinburgh 22 March 1831; ed. at Harrow; cornet and sub-lieut. 1 life guards 1851–2; succeeded 8 April 1843; lord lieut. of Linlithgowshire 30 Sep. 1863 to death. d. Florence 1 April 1873. Baily’s Mag. xvi, 159–61 (1869), portrait.

HOPKINS, Sir Francis, 2 Baronet (only son of Sir F. J. Hopkins, M.P.) b. Athboy, co. Meath 28 May 1813; succeeded 19 Sep. 1814; ed. at Eton, matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 27 June 1830; knight of the Burning Tower at the Eglinton tournament 28–30 Aug. 1839; sheriff of Westmeath 1855. d. Madeira 11 May 1860. J. H. Nixon’s Eglinton tournament p. 6 and plate xiv (1843).

HOPKINS, Rev. Gerard Manley (1 son of Manley Hopkins of Stratford, Essex). b. Essex 1845; ed. at Ball. coll. Ox., exhibitioner 1863–8, B.A. 1868; fellow of royal univ. of Ireland 1885 (which was created by letters patent 22 April 1880), professor of classical literature there 1885 to death; member of Society of Jesus about 1868. d. of typhoid fever at University college, Stephen’s Green, Dublin 8 June 1889. bur. Glasnevin cemet. 11 June. Freeman’s Journal 10 June 1889 p. 5.

HOPKINS, John Baker. b. London 10 April 1830; began his career as a journalist 1858; editor of Atlas paper; joint editor with Henry Hotze of The Index, English organ of Confederate States, No. i. 1 May 1862, at the end of the war the paper ceased; London correspondent to Paris Correspondence Havas 1864–8; on Standard paper Sep. 1865 to 1868; on Law Journal 1867; contributed to Morning Post and Vanity Fair under pseudonym of Esse quam videri; chief leader writer on London Figaro, July 1870; author of The Yogi’s daughter, a tragedy 1854; Elviré, a reminiscence of Paris 1855; Not at all nervous, a farce 1860; Making the worst of it, a novel 2 vols. 1874; Jack Oakum, a play 1877; The true history of Nihilism, a novel 1880. d. 14 Russell road, Holloway 20 Dec. 1888. Cartoon portraits (1873) 140–43, portrait.

1534HOPKINS, Right Rev. John Henry. b. Dublin 30 Jany. 1792; emigrated to U.S. of A. 1801, an iron manufacturer in Pennsylvania 1810–17 when he failed; admitted to Pittsburgh bar 1817, practised to 1823; R. of Trinity ch. Pittsburgh 1824–31; assistant minister Trinity ch. Boston 1831; professor of divinity in theol. seminary of Massachusetts 1831; first bishop of Vermont 31 Oct. 1832; R. of St. Paul’s, Burlington 1832–56; seventh presiding bishop of ch. in U.S. 1865, attended Lambeth conference 1867; D.C.L. Ox. 3 Dec. 1867; author of Christianity vindicated 1833; Essay on Gothic architecture 1836; Twelve canzonets, words and music 1839; The history of the confessional 1850, and 30 other books. d. Rock Point, Vermont 9 Jany. 1868. A sketch book of American episcopate. By K. G. Batterson (1878) 104–106; Appleton’s American Biog. iii, 254–6 (1887).

HOPKINS, John Larkin. b. Westminster 25 Nov. 1819; chorister boy in the abbey; organist of Rochester cathedral 1841–56; Mus. Bac. Cam. 1842, Mus. Doc. 1857; organist of Trin. coll. Cam. 1856 to death; composed Five glees and a madrigal 1842, and Cathedral Services in C flat and E flat 1857; author of A new vocal tutor 1855. d. Ventnor, Isle of Wight 25 April 1873.

HOPKINS, Sir John Paul (eld. son of Capt. John Hopkins, killed on board the “Bellerophon” in the battle of the Nile). Ensign 43 foot 1804; served in the Peninsula and in campaign of 1815; major 98 foot 25 June 1829, retired 18 Oct. 1831; K.H. 1836; governor of military knights of Windsor 1865 to death; knighted at Windsor castle 11 Dec. 1867. d. Windsor 9 March 1875.

HOPKINS, William (only son of William Hopkins of Kingston, Derbyshire, farmer). b. Kingston 2 Feb. 1793; farmed, without success near Bury St. Edmunds; entered at Peterhouse, Cam. 1822, 7 wrangler 1827, B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; a private tutor at Cam. from 1827 and known as the senior wrangler maker; esquire bedel of Univ. of Cam. 1827 to death; F.G.S. 18—, Wollaston medallist 1850, president 1851–3; pres. of British Assoc. at Hull 1853; F.R.S. 1 June 1837; author of Elements of trigonometry 1833; An abstract of a memoir on physical geology 1836. d. Parker’s Piece, Cambridge 13 Oct. 1866, portrait in hall of Peterhouse. Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxiii, pp. xxix-xxxii (1867); I.L.N. xxiii, 225 (1853), portrait.

HOPKINS, Rev. William Bonner. Ed. at Gonville and Caius coll. Cam., second wrangler, 1535second Smith’s prizeman and B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847, B.D. 1854; fellow and tutor of St. Cath. hall 1848–54; V. of St. Peter, Wisbech 1854–66; V. of Littleport near Ely 1866 to death; hon. canon of Ely 1865 to death, rural dean 1868; Dean Stanley said he was “the incarnation of sound common sense”; author of Apostolic missions. Five sermons preached before the university 1853; The words spoken by Christ upon the Cross. Seven sermons 1866; The position and duty of non-abstainers 1874, 2 ed. 1875. d. Littleport vicarage 24 March 1890.

HOPKINSON, Sir Charles (son of B. Hopkinson of Highbury park, Middlesex). b. Grantham 1784; ed. at Woolwich; lieut. R.A. 1799; served in Mahratta war 1803; commanded the artillery against the Poligars and at Hyderabad; lieut.-col. 1824; commanded Madras artillery; served in war in Ava 1825; retired through deafness 1829; C.B. 1826; knighted by Wm. iv. at St. James’s palace 26 April 1837; author of Hints to cadets and others proceeding to India 1850. d. 2a King st. St. James’s sq. London 17 Dec. 1864.

HOPKINSON, William (son of Rev. Samuel Edmund Hopkinson, R. of Morton-cum-Haconby). b. 1784; coroner for the Soke of Peterborough; solicitor at Bourn and Stamford; purchased Little Gidding manor, Hunts. 700 acres 1853 and restored the church to the Caroline style in which it had been left by Nicholas Ferrar in 1637. d. Stamford 1 Sep. 1865. Rivington’s Ecclesiastical Year-book (1866) 334.

HOPLEY, Edward William John. b. 1816; painter of domestic subjects and portraits; exhibited 15 pictures at R.A., 26 at B.I. and 7 at Suffolk st. 1844–69; his picture, The birth of a pyramid, shown 1859; invented a trigonometrical system of facial measurement for the use of artists. d. 14 South Bank, Regent’s Park, London 30 April 1869.

HOPPER, Ven. Augustus Macdonald (son of Walter Carles Hopper of Walworth, co. Durham). b. 11 Aug. 1816; ed. at Shrewsbury and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842, fellow of St. John’s 1841–5; R. of Starston, Norfolk 1845 to death; hon. canon of Norwich 1854–72; archdeacon of Norwich 1868 to death; author of Two Charges 1869 and 1870. d. Starston rectory 7 Jany. 1878.

HOPPER, Clarence (son of Thomas Hopper of Reading, surgeon d. 1856). b. Granthan, Wilts 17 May 1817; ed. at Reading gram. sch.; palæographer of British Archæol. Assoc. 1862; an expert in deciphering ancient 1536writings; employed in Record office; edited London Chronicle of Hen. VII. and Hen. VIII. 1859, and Sir F. Drake’s service against the Spaniards 1863, in vols. 4 and 5 of Camden Miscellany; author of A descriptive account of churchwardens’ presentments Stratford-on-Avon 1867; A catalogue of books illustrative of Shakespeare 1868. d. Brighton 10 June 1868. Journal of B.A. Assoc. xxv, 316 (1869).

HOPPER, Thomas (son of Mr. Hopper of Rochester, surveyor). b. Rochester 6 July 1776; architect and surveyor 40 Connaught ter. London; made alterations at Carlton House, London 1807; surveyor of Essex 40 years; built Arthur’s club, St. James’s st., Atlas fire office, Cheapside and St. Mary’s hospital, Paddington 1843; competed for erection of General Post Office 1820, for rebuilding of Royal Exchange 1839, and for Houses of parliament 1840; published A letter to viscount Duncannon on competitors for building houses of parliament 1837; Designs for the houses of parliament 1842. d. 1 Bayswater Hill, London 11 Aug. 1856.

HOPPUS, Rev. John (only son of Rev. John Hoppus, independent minister, Yardley, Hastings). b. London 1789; ed. at Rotherham and Univs. of Edin. and Glasgow, M.A. Glasgow 1823, LLD. 1839; minister of independent chapel, Carter lane, London 1823–5; professor of the philosophy of mind and logic in London Univ. 1829–66; F.R.S. 20 May 1841; author of An account of Lord Bacon’s Novum Organum Scientiarum 1827; Sketches on the Continent in 1835 2 vols. 1836; The crisis of popular education 1847 and 12 other books. d. 26 Camden st. Camden town, London 29 Jany. 1875. Congregational Year-book (1876) 341–3.

HORAN, Edward John. b. Quebec, Canada 1817; ed. in the Seminary of Quebec, priest 1842, a director of the Seminary; principal of the normal sch. Quebec; bishop of Kingston 1858, resigned; assistant of the pontifical throne; present at Vatican council 1870. d. Canada 16 Feb. 1875. Appleton’s American Biog. iii, 262 (1887).

HORAN, Mary Austin. b. Ireland 1820; entered the Convent of Mercy, Dublin; assisted in founding the Institution of Mercy, New York 1846; first mistress of novices in St. Catherine’s convent, New York and trainer of the early members; built St. Joseph’s Industrial institute for children. d. New York city 14 June 1874. Appleton’s American Biog. iii, 262 (1887).

1537HORDERN, Rev. Joseph (son of Rev. Joseph Hordern of Prestwich, Lancs.) b. 1794; ed. at Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1816, M.A. 1820; V. of Rostherne, Cheshire 1821–54; R. of Burton Agnes with Harpham, Yorks. 1854 to death; author of Plain directions for reading to the sick 1826, 4 ed. 1830; Sermons 1830; The armour of light, sermons 1851. d. Knutsford, Cheshire 12 Aug. 1876. F. Ross’ Celebrities of the Wolds (1878) 76.

HORMAN, George Helier (son of Philip Horman of St. Saviour’s, Jersey). b. 1817; practised as a solicitor in Jersey, one of the six advocates of the royal court there 1848; Her Majesty’s advocate general for Jersey 23 July 1866 to death; chairman of the Channel islands bank 1858–74. d. The Terrace, St. Heliers, Jersey 29 May 1879.

HORN, Henry (son of Frederick Jacob Horn of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire). b. 23 Sep. 1806; ed. at M.T. school and St. John’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; fellow of Magdalen coll. 1831–4; barrister M.T. 11 Jany. 1833; recorder of Hereford 1847 to death; edited Woodfall’s Practical treatise on law of landlord and tenant, 7 ed. 1856; with E. T. Hurlstone published Reports in court of exchequer upon writs of error to exchequer chamber 2 vols. 1840; while attending the corpse of his father in law J. S. Gowland shot himself in the head at Cagebrook near Hereford 29 Nov. 1857. Hereford Journal 2 Dec. 1857 p. 5.

HORN, Marion (dau. of Mr. Horton, manufacturer of silver plate ware). b. Birmingham 1811; sang small parts in English operas and served as a substitute for Emma Romer; studied under Marco Bordogni in Paris; had a mezzo soprano voice; appeared as Cinderella at Old Park theatre, New York 16 Sep. 1836 and then as Rosina, Amina, and Susanna; sang in operas throughout United States; (m. 1839 Charles Edward Horn 1786–1849, the writer of Cherry Ripe 1825, and I know a bank 1830); taught in New York many of best known American singers. d. Morrisania co. Winchester, New York, Jany. 1887. Ireland’s New York Stage, ii, 176 (1867).

HORN, Robert (youngest son of William Horn, farmer). b. Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire 24 May 1810; ed. at Glasgow univ.; passed at Scotch bar 1834; hon. memb. Speculative Soc. Edin.; a commissioner of the board of manufacturers 1866; vice dean of Faculty of Advocates 1874 and dean 1876; helped in preparing Catalogue of Faculty of Advocate’s Library 1873. d. 7 Randolph crescent, Edinburgh 2 Jany. 1878. Journ. of Jurisprudence, xxii, 93–7 (1878).

1538HORNBLOWER, Jane Elizabeth (dau. of William Roscoe 1753–1831 historian). b. Liverpool 1797; (m. Francis Hornblower); author of Poems 1820; Poems 1821; Poems 1843. d. Liverpool 2 Aug. 1853.

HORNBY, Edmund (eld. son of Rev. Geoffry Hornby, R. of Winwick, Lancs. d. 1812). b. 16 June 1773; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1794, M.A. 1797; barrister I.T. 22 June 1798; chairman of Lancaster court of quarter sessions many years; M.P. for Preston 1812–26; sheriff of Westmoreland 1828. d. Dalton hall near Burton, Westmoreland 18 Nov. 1857.

HORNBY, Edmund George (son of the preceding). b. 6 Nov. 1799; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1820; M.P. for Warrington 1832–5; constable of Lancaster castle. d. Dalton hall 26 or 27 Feb. 1865.

HORNBY, Louisa (sister of Edmund Hornby 1773–1857). b. Winwick 5 April 1788; author of Bible Stories; Universal Reform; The Full Loom and other books. d. Winwick 6 Jany. 1873.

HORNBY, Sir Phipps (brother of the preceding). b. Winwick 27 April 1785; ed. at Sunbury; entered navy 19 May 1797, captain 16 Feb. 1810; as commander of the Volage took part in action off Lissa 1811, gold medal; superintendent of royal naval hospital and victualling yard at Plymouth 1832 to 6 Jany. 1838; superintendent of Woolwich dockyard 6 Jany. 1838 to 16 Dec. 1841; controller general of the coastguard 16 Dec. 1841 to Nov. 1846; commander in chief in the Pacific 1847–50; a lord of the admiralty 28 Feb. to 30 Dec. 1852; admiral 25 June 1858; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 6 April 1852, G.C.B. 28 June 1861. d. Little Green near Petersfield 19 March 1867.

HORNBY, Robert Vernon Atherton. b. Atherton 6 Nov. 1805; author of Statistical account of Winwick 1837; Vale: a poem 1854. d. Wansfell, Windermere 25 Aug. 1857.

HORNBY, William Henry (3 son of John Hornby of Blackburn). b. Blackburn 2 July 1805; founded the Brookhouse cotton mills, Blackburn 1828; first mayor of Blackburn 1851; M.P. Blackburn 1857–69 when he was unseated. d. Pool hall, Nantwich, Cheshire 5 Sep. 1884. Puseley’s Commercial Companion (1858) 114–5.

HORNCASTLE, James Henry. b. London 26 May 1801; appeared as first witch in Macbeth at Drury Lane 1820; first appeared at Chestnut street theatre, Philadelphia 28 Jany. 1839; 1539at National theatre, New York with Louisa Pyne’s troupe 1854 and at Broadway theatre 1855; attached to Princess’ theatre, London; musician, actor, author and composer; an annuitant on General theatrical fund. d. West Malvern 6 May 1869. Ireland’s New York stage, ii, 231, 629 (1867).

HORNE, James. b. 1790; experimented on steam locomotives on roads; F.R.S. 6 Feb. 1834; A.I.C.E. 20 Feb. 1835, auditor 1840; applied warming and ventilating apparatus to halls of the City companies. d. London 26 Oct. 1856. Min. of Proc. Instit. of C.E. xvii, 102 (1858).

HORNE, Lenox (younger brother of the succeeding). Baritone singer at Surrey theatre under name of Mr. Lennox 1849–51; lecturer at the Polytechnic Institution London; wrote Two heads are better than one, A farce, produced at Lyceum theatre Dec. 1854; The baronet abroad; The tale of a comet. d. Clapham road, Kennington 20 Nov. 1874.

HORNE, Richard Henry or Hengist. b. London 31 Dec. 1802; ed. at Sandhurst; midshipman in Mexican navy, served in war against Spain 1829; edited the Monthly Repository July 1836 to June 1837; sub.-comr. to report on employment of children in mines 1843; went with Wm. Howitt to Australia 1852; commander of the gold escort between Ballarat and Melbourne 1852; comr. of crown lands for the gold fields 1853–4; territorial magistrate 1855 &c.; took name of Hengist instead of Henry 1864; returned to England 1869; granted civil list pension of £50, 19 June 1874, and another of £50, 28 April 1880; author of Cosmo de Medici 1837, a tragedy; The death of Marlowe 1837, a tragedy; The history of Napoleon 2 vols. 1841, new ed. 1879; Orion, an epic poem 1843, 10 ed. 1874, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd eds. were issued at a farthing; A new spirit of the age 2 vols. 1844; The poor artist 1850, 2 ed. 1871; Sithron the Star-stricken 1883, and 15 other books. d. Margate 13 March 1884. R. H. Horne’s Australian facts and prospects (1859) 1–44; H. B. Forman’s Our living poets (1871) 427–46; Athenæum 22 March 1884 pp. 374–5; I.L.N. lxxxiv, 301 (1884), portrait.

HORNE, Rev. Thomas Hartwell (son of William Horne of London, barrister’s clerk). b. Chancery lane, London 20 Oct. 1780; ed. at Christ’s hospital 1789–95; barrister’s clerk 1796–1806; sec. to Joseph Butterworth, M.P. 1806–9; sub-librarian to Surrey institution 1809–23; C. of Ch. Ch. Newgate st. London 15401819–25; senior assist. librarian British museum 1824–60; assist. minister at Welbeck chapel, London 1825–33; F.S.A. 1828; F.R.S.L.; B.D. Cambridge 1829, D.D. Univ. of Pennsylvania; preb. of St. Paul’s 1831 to death; R. of St. Edmund the King with St. Nicholas Acons, Lombard st. 25 Nov. 1833 to death; author of An introduction to the critical study and knowledge of the Holy Scriptures 3 vols. 1818, 11 ed. 1860; Outlines for the classification of a library submitted to the trustees of the British museum 1825; A compendious introduction to the study of the Bible 1827, 10 ed. 1862; Manual of parochial psalmody 1829, 41 ed. 1861 and about 50 other books. d. 47 Bloomsbury sq. London 27 Jany. 1862. G. M. Turpin’s The Rev. T. H. Horne (1862), portrait; Reminiscences of T. H. Horne, by his daughter S. A. Cheyne (1862); Cowtan’s Memories of British Museum (1872) 105–9.

HORNE, Sir William (2 son of Rev. Thomas Horne, schoolmaster at Chiswick). b. 1774; barrister L.I. 23 June 1798, bencher 6 Nov. 1818; comr. of bankrupts 1806–18; K.C. Nov. 1818; attorney general to queen Adelaide 24 July 1830; solicitor general 26 Nov. 1830 to 23 Nov. 1832, attorney general 26 Nov. 1832 to Feb. 1834; appointed a baron of the Exchequer but declined the office 1834; master in chancery 23 July 1839, resigned 1853; M.P. for Helston 1812–18, for Bletchingley 1831, for Newton, Isle of Wight 1831–2, for Marylebone 12 Dec. 1832 to 29 Dec. 1834; knighted by Wm. IV. at St. James’s palace 24 Nov. 1830. d. 49 Upper Harley st. London 13 July 1860. Mrs. Hardcastle’s Life of Lord Campbell (1881) ii, 18–41; Lord Brougham’s Life and times, iii, 341–54, 426–9.

HORNEGOLD or HORNIGOLD, William 1797–1867, artist. See Hornygold, W. ante col. 1523.

HORNER, Leonard (youngest son of John Horner of Edinburgh, linen merchant). b. Edinburgh 17 Jany. 1785; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edin.; partner in a branch of his father’s business in London 1804–17; F.G.S. 1808, sec. 1810, pres. 1846 and 1860; F.R.S. 1813, vice pres. 1857; warden of London Univ. 1827–31; inspector under the Factories act 1833–60; published Works of Francis Horner 1843; Memoirs of Francis Horner 1848, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1853; a translation of Villari’s History of Savonarola 1863. d. 60 Montague sq. London 5 March 1864. Quarterly Journal of Geol. soc. xxi, 30–40 (1865); Proc. of Royal soc. xiv, 5–10 (1865); Macmillan’s Mag. x, 319–26 (1864).

1541HORRABIN, Rev. Richard. b. Garstang near Preston; ed. at Old Hall Green coll.; chaplain Virginia st. chapel, Ratcliffe highway, London 1815–39, and 1841–54; chaplain St. Mary, Moor fields 1839–41; gave evidence before house of commons on education of lower orders 1816; published The New Testament, ed. by Marlow J. F. Sidney and revised by the Rev. R. Horrabin 1818. d. Houndsditch, London 13 Dec. 1859. Gillow’s English Catholics iii, 403–4 (1887).

HORSBURGH, John. b. Prestonpans near Edinburgh 1791; apprenticed to Robert Scott the engraver 1805; engraved several plates after J. M. W. Turner for Scott’s Poetical and Prose Works and other publications; engraved several single plates including Prince Charlie reading a despatch and 2 portraits of Sir Walter Scott; undertook gratuitously duties of pastor in Scottish Baptist church. d. 16 Buccleuch place, Edinburgh 24 Sep. 1869. Pastoral addresses of J. Horsburgh with memoir 1869.

HORSEY, George (4 son of Charles Horsey of St. John st., London). b. 29 Sep. 1819; barrister G.I. 22 May 1850; equity draughtsman and conveyancer; author of A practical analysis of the Trustees Act 1850; The probate and administration act 1858; The court of Probate acts 3 ed. 1859; Law of property and trustees relief act 1860. d. Colne villa, New Southgate, Middlesex 16 Sep. 1889.

HORSFALL, Thomas Berry. b. Liverpool 1805; a merchant in Liverpool, mayor of Liverpool 1847–48; M.P. Derby 8 July 1852, unseated 9 March 1853; M.P. Liverpool 9 July 1853 to Nov. 1868; president Liverpool chamber of commerce on its foundation 1849. d. Torquay 22 Dec. 1878.

HORSFIELD, Thomas. b. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 12 May 1773; ed. Univ. of Pennsylvania, M.D. 1798; studied natural history in Java 1799–1819; in service of Dutch government in Java and Sumatra to 1811 and of H.E.I.Co. 1811–20; keeper of museum, India House, London 1820 to death; F.L.S. 1820; F.R.S. 1828; author of Zoological Researches in Java 1824; Descriptive catalogue of Lepidoptera in the H.E.I.C. museum, 2 parts 1828–9 and other books. d. Chalcott villas, Camden town, London 24 July 1859. Proc. of Royal Society x, 19–21 (1860); Proc. Linnean Soc. (1859–60) 25–6.

HORSFORD, Sir Alfred Hastings (son of general George Horsford, d. 1840). b. Bath 3 April 1818; 2 lieut. rifle brigade 12 July 15421833, lieut.-col. 9 March 1855 to 1 Jany. 1868, col. commandant 2 battalion 21 Nov. 1880 to death; served in Kaffir wars 1847–8 and 1852–3, Crimean war 1854–5 and Indian mutiny 1857–8; D.A.G. at horse guards 1860–6; brigadier general at Aldershot 1866–9; military sec. at Horse Guards 1874–80; col. 79 foot 17 March 1876, col. 14 foot 1 Jany. 1879 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 3 April 1883; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 8 May 1860, G.C.B. 29 May 1875. d. Munlochy near Inverness 13 Sep. 1885. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 19 Sep.

HORSFORD, Sir Robert Marsh (eld. son of Paul Horsford, chief justice of Antigua, d. 1850). b. Boswell court, Lincoln’s inn, London 1798; ed. at Winchester; matric. from Ex. coll. Ox. 7 Dec. 1816; barrister M.T. 17 May 1822; settled in island of Antigua, solicitor general there 1825–46, attorney general 1846 to Nov. 1847, chief justice 19 Nov. 1847, retired Aug. 1856; knighted at Buckingham palace 25 Jany. 1841; C.B. 15 Nov. 1852. d. 11 Delamere terrace, Westbourne park, London 23 May 1875.

HORSLEY, Charles Edward (son of the succeeding). b. 24 Queen’s buildings, Knightsbridge, London 16 Dec. 1822; pupil of Moscheles, Hauptmann, Spohr and Mendelssohn; teacher of music in London 1846; organist of St. John’s, Notting hill 19 Sep. 1853 to June 1857; went to Melbourne 1868, then to New York 1872, choir master St. John’s chapel 1872 to death; composed for Liverpool Philharmonic Soc. two oratorios David 1849 and Joseph 1852; wrote the cantata Comus 1854; produced oratorio Gideon at Glasgow musical festival 1860; wrote an ode Euterpe for opening of Melbourne town hall 1870, and about 35 other pieces; author of A text book of harmony 1876. d. New York city 28 Feb. 1876.

HORSLEY, William H. b. London 15 Nov. 1774; articled to Theodore Smith, pianist 1790–4; organist of Ely chapel, Holborn 1794–8; member of Royal Soc. of Musicians 15 June 1797; founded with J. W. Callcott the Concentores Sodales a club for encouragement of glee and canon writing, June 1798 which existed till 1847; assistant organist Asylum for female orphans about 1798, organist 1802–54; Mus. Bac. Oxford 18 June 1800; organist at Belgrave chapel, Halkin st. 1812–37 and at the Charterhouse 1838; had few equals as a composer of glees; published Five collections of glees 1801–27; An introduction 1543to the study of practical harmony and modulation 1847; The musical treasury 1853 and about 60 pieces of music; his best known glees were By Celia’s Arbour 1807 and Mine be a cot. d. 1 High row, Kensington, London 12 June 1858. G.M. lxxxiii, 82, 565 (1813); Grove’s Dictionary of music, i, 753–4 (1879).

HORSMAN, Charlotte (dau. of Mr. Gardiner). b. Dublin 1827; (m. 1847 Charles Horsman, actor b. Welchpool, Montgomeryshire 21 Oct. 1825); a prominent actress at Lyceum, Strand, Sadler’s Wells and Holborn theatres; a member of the Pygmalion and Galatea co.; her last appearance was at Bradford as Meg Merrilies 14 May 1877. d. 2 William st. Bradford 4 June 1878. bur. Undercliffe cemet. 7 June. The Era 9 June 1878 p. 12.

HORSMAN, Edward (son of William Horsman d. 22 March 1845 aged 86). b. 8 Feb. 1807; ed. at Rugby and Trin. coll. Cam.; admitted advocate at Scottish bar 1832; M.P. Cockermouth Feb. 1836 to 1 July 1852; M.P. Stroud 29 June 1853 to Nov. 1868; M.P. Liskeard 11 May 1869 to death; fought a duel at Wormwood Scrubbs with James Bradshaw, M.P. 1840; comr. of Church Inquiry in Scotland; a lord of the Treasury June to Sep. 1841; chief sec. of state for Ireland March 1855, resigned May 1857; P.C. 10 March 1855; on 13 March 1866 Bright described Horsman as retiring “into his political cave of Adullam,” hence his party became known as “the cave”; author of Five speeches on ecclesiastical affairs 1849. d. Biarritz 30 Nov. 1876. H. D. Traill’s The new Lucian (1884) 183–401; I.L.N. xxx, 478 (1857), portrait; Graphic xiv, 592, 595 (1876), portrait.

HORT, Sir Josiah William, 2 Baronet (1 son of Sir John Hort d. 1807). b. 6 July 1791; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1812; succeeded 23 Oct. 1807; M.P. co. Kildare 1831–2. d. Ebury st. Eaton square, London 24 Aug. 1876.

HORT, Sir John Josiah, 3 Baronet (1 son of the preceding). b. Dublin 14 Jany. 1824; ensign 61 foot 20 Nov. 1840; captain 4 foot 27 May 1847, lieut.-col. 1 Feb. 1856 to 10 Nov. 1856 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. 36 foot 15 May 1857 to 28 Dec. 1866; lieut.-col. 44 foot 28 Dec. 1866 to 10 Nov. 1869 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. brigade depot 1 April 1873; L.G. 10 Aug. 1878; C.B. 24 May 1873; knight of Malta. d. 35 Merrion sq. east, Dublin 5 Jany. 1882. The case of maltreatment by Capt. Hort, fourth King’s own regiment, of lieut. A. V. D. Harris. Plymouth 1851.

1544HORT, Sir William Fitzmaurice Josiah, 4 Baronet (brother of the preceding). b. Boulogne-sur-mer 28 Jany. 1827; ed. at R.M.A. Woolwich; called to bar in Ireland 1852; paid resident magistrate at Kilkenny 1858, at Tuam co. Galway 1858–83. d. St. Canice’s cottage, Kilkenny 18 Sep. 1887.

HORWITZ, Bernard. b. Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg 1807; learnt chess from Mendheim at Berlin; one of the 7 great Berlin players known as the Pleiades; spent sometime at Hamburg; lived in England about 1845 to death; took part in nearly all the tournaments held in England before 1862; author of Chess studies and end-games systematically arranged 1884; author with J. Kling of Chess Studies 1851 three editions, and of a periodical called The Chess Player 4 vols. 1851–3. d. 27 Parkhurst road, Bowes Park, London 29 Aug. 1885. I.L.N. viii, 100 (1846), portrait; Chess Monthly, vii, 8; Fortnightly Review, Dec. 1886 p. 754.

HORWOOD, Alfred John (younger son of Thomas Horwood of the Middle Temple, London, conveyancer). b. Camberwell, Surrey 1821; barrister M.T. 22 Nov. 1844; inspector under royal commission on historical manuscripts 1869 to death; edited Year books of the reign of Edward the First. Rolls Series 1858; A catalogue of the manuscripts belonging to Gray’s inn 1869; A common place book of John Milton 1876. d. 1 New Court, Temple, London 7 July 1881. Law Times, lxxi, 255 (1881).

HOSACK, John (3 son of John R. Hosack of Glenaher, Dumfriesshire). b. Glenaher 1809; barrister M.T. 29 Jany. 1841, bencher 22 April 1875; magistrate at Clerkenwell police court 5 June 1877 to death; author of A treatise on the conflict of laws of England and Scotland 1847; The rights of British and neutral commerce as affected by recent royal declarations and orders in council 1854; Mary Queen of Scots and her accusers, London 1869, 2 ed. 2 vols. Edin. 1870–4 and other books. d. 172 Finborough road, West Brompton, London 3 Nov. 1887. bur. Lytham, Lancs. 8 Nov.

HOSKEN, James (son of James Hosken, gunner in navy, d. Penryn 20 June 1848 aged 92). b. Plymouth 6 Dec. 1798; midshipman R.N. 1810, lieut. 1828; captain of the Great Western specially built for ocean steam navigation 1837, she left Bristol 8 April 1838 and reached New York 23 April, made 64 voyages in Great Western; captain of the Great Britain 1844, made 3 or 4 trips to New York in her, she was stranded in Dundrum bay 22 Sep. 1846; harbour master, postmaster and chief 1545magistrate at Labuan 1848–9; commanded the Belle-Isle hospital ship in the Baltic 1854–5; captain R.N. 15 June 1857, retired 8 Jany. 1868, retired V.A. 2 Aug. 1879. d. 32 Highfield road, Ilfracombe 2 Jany. 1885. Autobiographical Sketch. Edited by his widow. Privately printed 1889.

HOSKING, William (eld. son of John Hosking, woollen manufacturer). b. Buckfastleigh, Devon 26 Nov. 1800; apprenticed to a builder and surveyor in New South Wales; articled to W. Jenkins of Red Lion square, London, architect 1820–23; exhibited 1 drawing at R.A. and 9 at Suffolk st. 1825–9; F.S.A. 11 Feb. 1830; F.I.B.A. 16 Jany. 1835, member of council 1842–3; engineer of Birmingham, Bristol and Thames Junction railway 1834; superintended formation of Abney Park cemetery, Stoke Newington, London 30 acres 1839–40; professor of Art of construction in King’s coll. London 1840, and of Principles and practice of architecture 1841 to death; an official referee under Metropolitan building act 3 Sep. 1844 to 1855; published Preliminary essay on bridges 1841, 2 ed. 1842; Theory, practice and architecture of bridges 1842; Some observations upon the recent addition of a reading room to the British museum 1858, he claimed to have suggested the Circular reading room for which Panizzi has the credit. d. 23 Woburn sq. London 2 Aug. 1861. G. Pycroft’s Art in Devonshire (1883) 70; The Builder 17 Aug. 1861 p. 560.

HOSKINS, Samuel Elliott (son of Samuel Hoskins of Guernsey). b. Guernsey Feb. 1799; ed. at Guy’s and St. Thomas’s hospitals 1818–20; L.S.A. 1821; M.R.C.S. 1822; L.R.C.P. 1834, F.R.C.P. 1859; physician in Guernsey 1827–59; F.R.S. 25 May 1843; author of A Stethoscopic Chart. Guernsey 1830; Home resorts for invalids in the climate of Guernsey 1852; Louis le Grand or Fontainebleau and Versailles, a comedy in three acts 1852; Charles the Second in the Channel Islands 2 vols. 1854; and other books. d. York place, Candie road, Guernsey 12 Oct. 1888. Lancet 20 Oct. 1888 p. 797, 27 Oct. p. 845.

HOSKINS, William (3 son of Abraham Hoskins of Newton park, Derbyshire). b. Norton, Derbyshire 1816; ed. at Camb. univ.; an actor in the provinces 1834; member of Phelps’s company at Sadler’s Wells 1844; then at Olympic; went to Australia 1856, played at Queen’s theatre, Melbourne; manager Ballarat theatre 1858, of Theatre royal, Melbourne 1863, and of Haymarket, Melbourne; rebuilt Theatre Royal, Christ Church, New Zealand; 1546teacher of elocution, Melbourne 1884 to death; (m. (1) 1850 Julia Harland, actress d. New Zealand; m. (2) Florence Colville, actress, she d. about 1881; m. (3) Miss Bowman). d. Melbourne 28 Sep. 1886. Tallis’ Drawingroom Table book, Parts 8 and 12, two portraits; Theatrical Times ii, 297 (1847), portrait; Era 13 Oct. 1886 p. 9.

HOSKYNS, Chandos Wren (2 son of Sir Hungerford Hoskyns, 7 baronet 1776–1862). b. Hereford 15 Feb. 1812; ed. at Shrewsbury and Balliol coll. Ox., B.A. 1834; barrister I.T. 4 May 1838; assumed additional surname of Wren by royal license 15 April 1837; a co.-editor of Journal of R. Agricultural Soc.; M.P. for Hereford 1869–74; contributed Anomalies of Agriculture and many other papers to Agricultural Gazette 1844, &c.; author of Talpa, or the chronicles of a clay farm 1852, 4 ed. 1857; Occasional Essays 1866; Systems of land tenure in various countries 1870. d. 41 Eccleston sq. London 28 Nov. 1876. Journal of the Royal Agricultural Soc. 1877 p. xli; Agricultural Gazette 4 Dec. 1876 p. 544.

HOTHAM, Beaumont Hotham, 3 Baron (elder son of Beaumont Hotham 1768–99, captain Coldstream guards). b. Lullingstone castle, Dartford, Kent 9 Aug. 1794; ed. at Westminster; ensign Coldstream guards 27 June 1810, lieut. 25 Dec. 1813 to 14 Oct. 1819 when placed on h.p.; succeeded his grandfather 4 March 1814; served in the Peninsula 1812–14; general 12 Jany. 1865; M.P. Leominster 1820–41; M.P. East Yorkshire 1841–68. d. Sand Hutton near York 13 Dec. 1870. bur. in family vault at South Dalton 20 Dec., personalty sworn under £500,000, 21 Jany. 1871.

HOTHAM, Sir Charles (1 son of Hon. and Rev. Frederick Hotham 1774–1854, R. of Dennington, Suffolk). b. Dennington 14 Jany. 1806; entered navy 6 Nov. 1818, captain 28 June 1833; served in South America 1845–6; K.C.B. 9 March 1846; commander in chief West coast of Africa 1846–9; min. plenipo. to Argentine Confederation 17 April 1852; lieut. governor of colony of Victoria 6 Dec. 1853, governor in chief there 1 Feb. 1855 to death. d. Toorak, Melbourne 31 Dec. 1855.

HOTHAM, William (eld. child of lieut.-col. George Hotham 1770–1823). b. 30 July 1794; entered navy June 1803, commanded a flotilla in the river Po 1813–14; captain 4 April 1825; K.H. 25 Jany. 1836; retired on half pay 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 30 Nov. 1863. d. Clifton, York 22 Feb. 1873.

1547HOTTEN, John Camden, originally named John William Hotten (son of Wm. Hotten of Clerkenwell, London, carpenter). b. 45 St. John’s sq. Clerkenwell 12 Sep. 1832; placed with John Petheram, bookseller 71 Chancery lane 1846; in the United States 1848–56; a bookseller and publisher at 151B Piccadilly, London 1856 to death, and at 74–5 Piccadilly 1863 to death; published Dictionary of modern slang, cant and vulgar words 1859; A. C. Swinburne’s Poems and ballads 1866 which Moxon had withdrawn from circulation; the first to introduce into England the works of J. R. Lowell, Artemus Ward, O. W. Holmes, C. G. Leland and Bret Harte 1864 &c. d. 4 Maitland park villas, Haverstock hill, Hampstead 14 June 1873. bur. Highgate cemet. 21 June. Bookseller 31 Aug. 1873 pp. 491–3; Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. 255, 1237.

HOUGH, Rev. George. b. London 1797; ordained 1824; studied Hebrew under Dr. Wolff 1836; C. of Earl’s Heaton, Dewsbury 1827–8; V. of South Crosland near Huddersfield 1829 to death; originator and sec. of the Almondbury clerical soc. 1828–78; gave considerable sums to church works and charities; author of Annual new year addresses to the parishioners of Almondbury 1840–79; A brief exposition of the book of Revelation. Huddersfield 1878. d. South Crosland 6 June 1879. Hulbert’s Annals of Almondbury (1882) 76, 306–12, 506–7.

HOUGH, William. Entered Bengal army 1805; captain 48 Bengal N.I. to 1 Oct. 1840 when invalided; lieut. col. July 1864; author of Case book of European and native courts martial. Calcutta 1821; On the E.I.Co.’s mutiny acts 1838; Chronological exposition of opinions of writers on military law 1839; A narrative of the army of the Indies in the expedition to Afghanistan 1841; Political and military events in British India 2 vols. 1853. d. Tenterden st. Hanover sq. London 3 Jany. 1865 aged 75.

HOUGHTON, Richard Monckton Milnes, 1 Baron (only son of Robert Pemberton Milnes, M.P. 1784–1858). b. London 19 June 1809; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1831, hon. fellow of his coll. April 1876; M.P. Pontefract 1837–63; D.C.L. Ox. 1854; cr. Baron Houghton of Great Houghton, Yorks. 20 Aug. 1863; F.R.S. 10 Dec. 1868; president Social Science congress, Aug. 1873; hon. LLD. Edin. 23 April 1878; a trustee of British museum 1881; author of Memorials of a tour in Greece 1834; Memorials of many scenes 1840; Poems legendary and historical 1844; Palm leaves 1844; Monographs, personal and social 15481873. d. Vichy, France 11 Aug. 1885. Reid’s Life and letters of lord Houghton 2 vols. 1890, 2 portraits; Poetical works of lord Houghton 2 vols. 1876, portrait.

HOUGHTON, Arthur Boyd (4 son of Capt. M. Houghton of H.E.I.C. service). b. 1836; illustrator of the Graphic and Fun; exhibited 10 pictures at R.A., 4 at B.I., and 3 at Suffolk st. 1861–72; associate of Soc. of painters in water colours 1871; illustrated Dalziel’s Arabian Nights 1864–5; Adventures of Don Quixote 1866 and many other works; author of The gods on peace and war, as applicable to the eastern struggle 1877. d. 162 King Henry’s road, South Hampstead, London 23 Nov. 1875. Redgrave’s Dictionary of artists (1878) 225; Art Journal 1876 p. 47.

HOUGHTON, Rev. Henry Hall (3 son of Jeremiah Houghton). b. Dublin 10 Dec. 1823; ed. at Sherborne and at Pemb. coll. Ox., scholar 1841–5, B.A. 1845, M.A. 1848; clerk of Magdalen coll. 1847–68; C. of St. Peter’s, Cheltenham 1849–52; with his uncle rev. John Hall, canon of Bristol, founded at Oxford the Canon Hall and Hall-Houghton prizes for knowledge of Greek Testament, Septuagint and Syriac versions 1868–71 at cost of £11,000; on death of his uncle took name of Hall 1871; gave Church Missionary soc. £4,500 for instruction of native young men in the scriptures; gave hospital for sick Jews at Jerusalem £3,000. d. Melmerby hall, Cumberland 4 Sep. 1889. Record 20 Sept. 1889 p. 922.

HOUGHTON, Rev. William (son of Thomas Houghton, governor of Preston house of correction). b. Preston 17 May 1812; C. of St. Sennen and St. Levan, Cornwall 1848–65; V. of Manaccan, Cornwall 1865 to death; author of Calvinism scripturally examined 1836; Rationalism in the church of England 1863 and 4 other books. d. Manaccan Vicarage 25 Dec. 1870. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i, 256.

HOULDSWORTH, John. b. Whitehall, Glasgow 12 April 1807; one of the founders of the Coltness and Dalmellington iron works in Lanarkshire and Ayrshire about 1835; senior partner of various establishments for machine making, iron founding, cotton spinning and weaving; the last provost of burgh of Anderston before it was incorporated with Glasgow; A.I.C.E. 1844. d. Bath st. Glasgow 18 Oct. 1859. Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E., xix, 189 (1860).

1549HOULDSWORTH, Thomas (2 son of Henry Houldsworth of Gonalston, Notts.) b. 13 Sep. 1771; a merchant and cotton spinner at Manchester and Pontefract; M.P. Pontefract 1818–30; M.P. Newton, Lancs. 1830–2; M.P. North Notts. 1832–52. d. Portland place, Manchester 1 Sep. 1852.

HOULSTON, Thomas (son of Edward Houlston of Wellington, Salop, printer). b. 1804; traveller for his father 1821–35; bookseller at 154 Strand, London 1835–44; partner with John Stoneman at 65 Paternoster row 1844 to 5 April 1856 when the latter died aged 64; partner with Henry Wright at 65 Paternoster row 1857 to death. d. Ryde, Isle of Wight 28 Aug. 1869. Bookseller, Nov. 1869 p. 938; Reg. and Mag. of Biog. Oct. 1869 p. 204.

HOULTON, Sir George (youngest son of Joseph Houlton of Farley castle near Bath, d. 1806). b. Carmarthen 1791; ensign 43 foot 20 Nov. 1806, captain 2 Nov. 1815 to 25 March 1817 when placed on h.p.; received war medal and 10 clasps for service in Peninsular war 1808–14; ensign of yeomen of the guard 25 Sep. 1835 to death; knighted 1835 or 1838, but name never in London Gazette. d. Farley castle 16 Sep. 1862.

HOULTON, Joseph. b. 1789; M.R.C.S. 1811, M.D. Erlangen 1840; surgeon East Norfolk militia; practised at Saffron Walden 1817, at Lisson grove, London 1823; professor of botany to Medical botanical society; with J. Davies edited The London medical and surgical journal 1828; translated F. Magendie’s Formulary for preparation of new remedies 1828. d. 12 Blomfield st. Westbourne terrace, London 14 Jany. 1861.

HOUSMAN, Francis (son of William Housman of St. John’s Wood, London). b. London 3 Jany. 1829; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s sch. 1838 &c.; barrister L.I. 7 June 1852; recorder of Rangoon 1871 to death; author of A selection of precedents in conveyancing 1861. d. Calcutta 19 July 1873.

HOUSTON, John Adam. b. Gwydir castle near Llanwrst, Wales 25 Dec. 1812; ed. at Edin. sch. of design; studied in Paris and Germany; a portrait painter in London some years; exhibited 45 pictures at R.A., 21 at B.I. and 3 at Suffolk st. 1840–8; resided in Edin. from 1841 to 1858 when he began contributing to the Scottish academy; returned to London 1858; exhibited Gallantry, London 1859; Lights and shadows of the wayside 1861; Prospero and Miranda, Edin. 1865. d. 10 Upper Phillimore place, Kensington 2 Dec. 1884. Art Journal (1869) 69–71, 127.

1550HOUSTON, Rev. Thomas. b. Donegore 1803; teacher in a sch. at Leyhmore near Ballymena 1818; ed. at Academical instit. Belfast 1819; reformed presbyterian minister Knockbraken 8 April 1828 to death; took part in the Arian separation from the synod of Ulster; professor of theology in Reformed presbyterian Theological hall, Belfast 1855 to death; went to U.S. America 1856 where he took a D.D. degree; edited The Covenanter 1830; author of A practical treatise on christian baptism, Paisley 1853; The dominion and glory of the Redeemer. Discourses 1880 and 7 other books. d. Royal hospital, Belfast 27 March 1882. bur. Knockbraken 30 March. Belfast News-Letter 28 March 1882 p. 5.

HOUSTOUN, Sir Robert (5 son of colonel Andrew Houstoun). b. Jordan hill, co. Renfrew 1780; entered Bengal army 1794 and served 25 years; col. 9 regiment light cavalry 1 May 1824 to 1858; col. 4 European light cavalry 1858 to death; governor of Addiscombe coll. 10 years; general 20 June 1854; K.C.B. 10 March 1837. d. Torquay 5 April 1862.

HOUSTOUN, Wallace (son of the preceding). b. 1811; entered navy 2 Dec. 1824; captain 23 July 1847; R.A. 5 May 1865, retired 1 April 1870; retired admiral 1 Aug. 1877. d. 42 Eaton sq. London 17 May 1891.

HOVELL, William Hilton. b. Yarmouth 26 April 1786; a marine trader on coasts of Australia and New Zealand 1813–19; farmer at Narellan 1819; accompanied Hamilton Hume in his overland journey from Sydney to Port Philip 1824–5; one of the first settlers at Western Port 1826; resided at Goulburn from 1829; author of Reply to “A brief statement in connection with an expedition from Lake George to Port Philip. By Hamilton Hume.” Sydney 1855. d. Sydney 1876. Heaton’s Australian Dict. of Dates (1879) 97.

HOWARD DE-WALDEN, Charles Augustus Ellis, 6 Baron (elder son of C. Rose Ellis, 1 Baron Seaford 1771–1845). b. London 5 June 1799; ed. at Eton 1811–14; succeeded his maternal great grandfather as 6 Baron 8 July 1803, claim admitted 1806; under sec. of state for foreign affairs 5 July 1824; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. at Stockholm 2 Oct. 1832, at Lisbon 22 Nov. 1833 and at Brussels 10 Dec. 1846 to death; G.C.B. 19 July 1838; K.T.S. 1841; succeeded as 2 Baron Seaford 1 July 1845. d. Lesve chateau, Namur, Belgium 29 Aug. 1868.