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HOWARD, OF GLOSSOP, Edward George Fitzalan Howard, 1 Baron (2 son of 16 1551Duke of Norfolk 1791–1856). b. 21 St. James’s sq. London 20 Jany. 1818; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; M.P. Horsham, Sep. 1848 to 1 July 1852; M.P. Arundel, July 1852 to Dec. 1868 when the borough was disfranchised; P.C. 8 July 1846; vice chamberlain 8 July 1846 to Feb. 1852; had charge of the Norfolk estates as trustee of his nephew 1861–8 and acted as deputy earl marshal of England 4 Feb. 1861 to Dec. 1868; cr. baron Howard of Glossop 9 Dec. 1869; chairman of Catholic poor school committee 1869–77. d. 19 Rutland gate, London 1 Dec. 1883. bur. in R.C. church of St. Charles of Borromeo at Hadfield near Glossop 11 Dec. Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 422–6 (1887).

HOWARD, Charles Wentworth George (5 son of 6 Earl of Carlisle 1773–1848). b. Chiswick, Middlesex 27 March 1814; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1836; M.P. for East Cumberland, July 1840 to death. d. Holker house, Lancs. 11 April 1879.

HOWARD, Edward Henry (3 son of Very Rev. H. E. J. Howard 1795–1868). b. 7 June 1832; ed. at Eton 1844; entered navy 21 June 1845; served in the Baltic 1855; captain 16 Feb. 1864; naval attaché at maritime courts of Europe, Sep. 1874 to Dec. 1876; A.D.C. to the queen 1878–9; V.P. Ordnance committee 1881–4; V.A. 26 Nov. 1885, retired 29 Nov. 1889. d. 16 Granville park, Lewisham, Kent 18 Jany. 1890. Pictorial World, xvi, 147, 165 (1890), portrait.

HOWARD, Frank (son of Henry Howard 1769–1847, R.A., professor of painting to R.A.) b. Poland st. London 1805; ed. at Ely; pupil and assistant to Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A.; consulting designer and modellist to Storr and Mortimer of London, silversmiths; exhibited 43 paintings at R.A., 26 at B.I. and 9 at Suffolk st. 1824–46; obtained prize for “Una coming to seek the assistance of Gloriana,” Westminster hall competition 1843; removed to Liverpool about 1847; published The spirit of the plays of Shakspeare, a series of outline plates 5 vols. 1827–33; author of The sketcher’s manual 1837, 7 ed. 1860; The science of drawing 1839–40. d. Liverpool 29 June 1866.

HOWARD, Greville Theophilus (2 son of 17 Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire 1804–76). b. 22 Dec. 1836; matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 30 May 1855; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1863; commissioner in lunacy 17 June 1873 to 1877. d. Castle Rising near Lynn, Norfolk 28 July 1880.

1552HOWARD, Henry. b. 25 July 1802; ed. at Harrow; M.P. Steyning 1824–6; M.P. Shoreham 1826–32; sheriff of Cumberland 1834. d. Thornbury castle, Gloucester 7 Jany. 1875.

HOWARD, Very Rev. Henry Edward John (youngest child of 5 Earl of Carlisle 1748–1825). b. Castle Howard, Yorkshire 14 Dec. 1795; ed. Eton 1805–11 and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1822, B.D. 1834, D.D. 1838; V. of Stainton, Yorks. 5 July 1820; succentor of York cath. with stall of Holme annexed 27 Nov. 1822; R. of Slingsby 1823–33; V. of Sutton in the Forest 1824–33; dean of Lichfield with R. of Tattenhill, Staffs, annexed 27 Nov. 1833 to death; R. of Donington, Salop 11 Feb. 1834 to death; author of Translations from Claudian 1823; The books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy according to the lxx, translated with notes 3 vols. 1855–7 and 5 other books. d. Donington rectory 8 Oct. 1868. Guardian 14 Oct. 1868 p. 1148; Burke’s Portrait gallery, ii, 99 (1833), portrait.

HOWARD, Henry Thomas (2 son of 16 earl of Suffolk 1776–1851). b. 16 Jany. 1808; M.P. Cricklade, Wilts. 1841–7. d. Beauchamp near Gloucester 29 Jany. 1851.

HOWARD, James (2 son of John Howard 1790–1878). b. Bedford 16 Oct. 1821; head of firm of James and Frederick Howard, makers of agricultural instruments at Britannia works, Bedford 1851; member of R. Agric. Soc., on council; member of Farmers’ club; an originator and first president of Farmers’ Alliance 1879; a promoter and director of Agricultural hall, London 1861; M.P. Bedford 1868–74; M.P. Bedfordshire 1880–5; mayor of Bedford 1863 and 1864; sheriff of Bedfordshire 1878; champion of Tenant’s rights 1873; farmed Clapham farm estate, Bedford 1862; took out upwards of 60 patents for agricultural machinery; author of Steam cultivation, its history 1862; Agricultural implement manufacture, its rise and progress 1879 and 20 other works. d. Midland hotel, St. Pancras, London 25 Jany. 1889. bur. Clapham, Beds. 30 Jany. Agricultural Gazette 28 Jany., 4 Feb. 1889; London Figaro 2 Feb. 1889 p. 10, portrait; Farmers’ Mag. xviii, 1–7 (1860), portrait.

HOWARD, James Kenneth (4 son of 16 earl of Suffolk 1776–1851). b. 5 March 1814; précis writer to viscount Palmerston 1835–40 and private sec. to him 6 Jany. 1840 to 2 Sep. 1841; M.P. Malmesbury 1841–52; commissioner of woods and forests March 1855 to death. d. Hajelby near Newbury 7 Jany. 1882.

1553HOWARD, John (son of John Moore Howard, farmer). b. Bedford 1790; builder and land speculator; erected the Britannia foundry for manufacture of agricultural implements about 1838; invented an improved plough 1839; made over his business to his sons 1851; mayor of Bedford 1858–61, 1863–4 and 1871. d. Caldwell priory 23 Dec. 1878. Times 24 Dec. 1878 p. 7, col 6.

HOWARD, John. b. Burnley Wood, Lancs. 24 June 1824; champion long distance jumper using dumb bells, jumped 28 feet 6 inches Chester race course 1854; jumped 29 feet 7 inches at Lancaster and leaped over a billiard table lengthwise for a wager 1854; the greatest pedestrian of his time, beat Bob Coates 120 yards, Hyde park, Sheffield 1839; beat John Flockton of Leeds 120 yards at Garrick Corner; beat John Walker the Delemere forest stag 120 yards for £25 at Bellevue, Manchester, when 25,000 paid for admission; beat Robert Low of Heywood 100 yards for £25 at Bellevue, time 9–3/4 seconds up hill; beat the Demon, J. Whitehead alias Clark of Oldham 110 yards for £50 at Bellevue. d. suddenly, Dublin hotel, Bradford 14 Oct. 1875. Bell’s Life 16 Oct. 1875 p. 8; Illust. Sporting News (1862) 68, 76–7, 116, 3 portraits.

HOWARD, John Eliot (son of Luke Howard, F.R.S. 1772–1864). b. Plaistow, Essex 11 Dec. 1807; manufacturing chemist with his father at Stratford; studied history of febrifuge alkaloids; purchased a collection of specimens of Peruvian bark at Madrid 1858; mem. Pharmaceutical soc. 1853; F.L.S. 1857; F.R.S. 4 June 1874; V.P. Victoria institute; received thanks of government for his aid in cinchona cultivation in India 1876; author of Eight lectures on the scriptural truths most opposed to Puseyism, 1845, 2 ed. 1847; Illustrations of the Nueva Quinologia of Pavon 1859–62; The Quinology of the East India plantations 3 parts 1869–76; The Epistle to the Hebrews. A translation 1872 and 9 other books. d. Lord’s Mead, Tottenham, Middlesex 22 Nov. 1883. Graphic 29 Dec. 1883 pp. 634, 637, portrait; Trans. Essex Field club, iv, 8–11, portrait.

HOWARD, John Morgan (eld. son of John J. Howard of Swansea). b. Nov. 1837; barrister M.T. 30 April 1858, bencher 16 Nov. 1877; Q.C. 6 July 1874; an editor of the New Reports 1862 to 1865; contested Lambeth 1868, 1874 and 1880; M.P. for Camberwell, Dulwich division 1885–7; recorder of Guildford 15 March 1875 to death; judge of circuit No. 59 (Cornwall), Nov. 1887 to 1554death. d. Chelston Dene, Torquay 10 April 1891. I.L.N. 18 April 1891 p. 499, portrait; Graphic x, 223, 224 (1874), portrait.

HOWARD, Luke (son of Robert Howard, introducer of the Argand lamp, d. Jany. 1812). b. London 28 Nov. 1772; apprentice to a chemist at Stockport 1786; chemist in London 1793, partner with William Allen 1796–1803; chemist at Stratford 1805; made observations on the clouds 1802 and first used the terms cirrus, cumulus and stratus and nimbus or rain cloud; kept a meteorological register from 1806; F.R.S. 1821; corresponded with Goethe 1822 who sent him a poem entitled Howard’s Ehrengedächtniss; author of A few notes on a letter to the Archbishops and on a charge relative to Joseph Lancaster’s plan for education. By Eccletus 1806; The climate of London 2 vols. 1818–20, 2 ed. 3 vols. 1833; Essay on the modification of clouds 1830, 3 ed. 1865; Cowper’s English version of the Odyssey with a commentary. By Outis 1843; Barometrographia, twenty years’ variation of the barometer 1847 and 10 other books. d. at res. of his son R. Howard, Bruce grove, Tottenham 21 March 1864. Proc. Royal Soc. xiv, 10–12 (1865); J. Bell and T. Redwood’s Pharmacy (1880) 331.

HOWARD, Philip Henry (eld. son of Henry Howard of Corby castle near Carlisle 1757–1842). b. Edinburgh 22 April 1801; ed. at Oscott coll. and Stonyhurst; M.P. for Carlisle 1830–47 and 1848–52 being the second Roman Catholic returned to parliament; F.S.A. 8 Dec. 1842; sheriff of Cumberland 1860; wrote miscellaneous poems and other articles in Edinburgh Catholic Mag. and other periodicals. d. Ventnor, Isle of Wight 1 Jany. 1883. Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 441–2 (1888).

HOWARD, Sir Ralph, 1 Baronet (elder son of Hugh Howard, comr. of stamp office, d. 3 Nov. 1840 aged 80). b. 1801; M.P. co. Wicklow 1829–47 and 1848–52; contested Evesham 1847; colonel of Wicklow militia 1 Oct. 1834 to 11 Dec. 1871; created baronet 26 July 1838. d. 15 Aug. 1873.

HOWARTH, Rev. Henry (son of Wm. Howarth, of Manchester, bath-keeper). b. Manchester 12 Jany. 1801; ed. at Manchester sch. and St. John’s coll. Cam., fellow 1823–33; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, B.D. 1833; Hulsean lecturer 1835–36; R. of Meppershall, Beds. 1833–45; R. of St. George’s, Hanover sq. London 1845 to death; chaplain in ord. to the Queen 14 May 1855 to death; author of The 1555truth and obligation of revealed religion. Discourses 1836; Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ of God. Discourses 1837; The liturgy as it is. Sermons 1843 and 11 other books. d. Tunbridge Wells 25 Aug. 1876. I.L.N. xxiv, 400 (1854), portrait.

HOWDEN, John Hobart Caradoc 2 Baron (only child of 1st Baron Howden 1762–1839). b. Dublin 16 Oct. 1799; ensign Grenadier Guards 13 July 1815; A.D.C. to Duke of Wellington in Paris, to Viscount Beresford in Portugal, and to Sir Thomas Maitland in the Mediterranean; major on half pay 9 June 1825; L.G. 26 Dec. 1859; sold out 29 Oct. 1861; M.P. for Dundalk 1830–31; succeeded his father as 2 Baron July 1839; attaché at Berlin 1824, at Paris 1825; wounded in battle of Navarino; military commissioner with French army at siege of Antwerp 1832, and with Spanish Army in Portugal 1834; envoy extraord. and minister plenipo. to Brazil 25 Jany. 1847 to 1850; minister plenipo. to Spain 14 May 1850 to March 1858; K.C.B. 23 Feb. 1852, G.C.B. 5 March 1858; K.H. 1830; equerry to Duchess of Kent 1841 to 1861. d. Caradoc near Bayonne 9 Oct. 1873. Foreign office list July 1873 p. 117.

HOWDEN, James Adam. b. 1803; entered Madras army 1819, M.G. 28 Nov. 1854; colonel 52 Madras N.I. 28 June 1855 to death. d. Devonshire place, Portland place, London 22 March 1869.

HOWE, Richard William Penn Curzon-Howe 1 Earl (only son of the hon. Penn Assheton Curzon 1757–97). b. Gopsall house, Leics. 11 Dec. 1796; capt. Leics. regt. of yeomanry 21 May 1818, lieut.-col. 1831–60; succeeded his grandfather as 2 viscount and baron Curzon 21 March 1820; took name of Howe 7 July 1821; cr. Earl Howe 15 July 1821; G.C.H. 1830; lord chamberlain to queen Adelaide 1830–31, when he was dismissed by earl Grey the prime minister, again lord chamberlain 1834–49; P.C. 31 Jany. 1831; succeeded his mother as 2 baron Howe 3 Dec. 1835; vice lieut. co. Leicester 27 Oct. 1863. d. Curzon house, South Audley st., London 12 May 1870. Portraits of eminent conservatives (1836) 1 Series, portrait 23.

HOWE, George Augustus Frederick Louis Curzon Howe, 2 Earl (1 son of the preceding). b. Brook st. London 16 Jany. 1821; styled viscount Curzon 1821–70; ed. at Eton; matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 30 May 1838; cornet Leics. regt. of yeomanry 1838, lieut.-col. 15 Nov. 1860, lieut.-col. commandant 15 1556March 1870 to death; M.P. South Leics. 1857–70; master of the Atherstone hounds some years; succeeded as 2 earl Howe 12 May 1870. d. Gopsall hall, Leics. 4 Feb. 1876, personalty sworn under £250,000, 13 May 1876. I.L.N. lxviii, 167, 479 (1876); Baily’s Mag. xii, 217–8 (1867), portrait.

HOWE, Joseph (son of John Howe 1752–1835, King’s printer at Halifax, Nova Scotia). b. in a cottage on banks of North-west Arm, Halifax 13 Dec. 1804; a printer 1817–27; editor and proprietor of a paper called the Nova Scotian 1828; M.P. for co. of Halifax, Nov. 1836; member of the executive council 1840; speaker of house of assembly 1840; provincial sec. 4 years; sec. of state for lower provinces in Dominion of Canada 1870–3; governor of Nova Scotia, May 1873; author of Speech on the importance to Great Britain of her North American colonies 1851; Confederation considered in relation to the interests of the empire 1866; The organization of the empire 1866 and 4 other books. d. Halifax 1 June 1873. W. Annand’s Speeches and letters of Joseph Howe 2 vols. (1858).

HOWE, William. b. West Auckland, co. Durham 3 March 1814; a mechanic with R. Stephenson & Co., Newcastle; perfected Williams’ valve gear known as the link motion, in the form in which it has been universally applied to locomotives, Aug. 1842; invented the three-cylinder locomotive engine 1846; engineer at Stephenson’s Clay Cross collieries and iron works Nov. 1846 to death; designed the self-acting fence now universally used at top of colliery winding shafts; M.I.M.E. 1860. d. Clay Cross, Chesterfield 16 Jany. 1879. N. P. Burgh’s Link motion (1870) pp. i-xvi; D. K. Clark’s Railway machinery (1855) 26; Engineer, xlvii, 67 (1879).

HOWELL, Arthur (eld. son of James Howell 1811–79, contra-bassist). b. London 1836; contra-bassist and bass singer; stage manager Carl Rosa opera co.; went on an Australian tour with his wife 1879; (m. 1874 Rose Hersee, soprano opera and concert singer). d. 32 Lawford road, Kentish Town, London 16 April 1885.

HOWELL, Francis (brother of the preceding). b. London 1834; wrote 2 oratorios The Captivity 1860, The Land of Promise 1870 and many songs and ballads. d. 1882.

HOWELL, James, b. Plymouth 1811; student R. Acad. of music, June 1825 to Dec. 1830; learnt double-bass under signor Anfossi; professor of double-bass at R. Acad. of music 1830; M.R.A.M.; double-bass player at the Ancient 1557and Philharmonic concerts and R. Italian opera; the successor of Domenico Dragonetti as the best double-bass player 1846. d. London 5 Aug. 1879. Cazalet’s R. Acad. of Music (1854) 296–7; Grove’s Dict. of Music, i, 754 (1879).

HOWELL, John. b. Old Lauriston, Edinburgh 1788; bookbinder in Thistle st. Edin., invented the ‘plough’ for cutting edges of books; polyartist, curiosity dealer and china and picture repairer at 22 Frederick st., then at 110 Rose st. Edin.; broke one of his legs while using a flying machine in Edin.; introduced manufacture of Pompeian plates for dentists; author of An essay on the war-galleys of the ancients. Edin. 1826; The life and adventures of Alexander Selkirk. Edin. 1829; edited The life of Alexander Alexander. Edin. 1830; wrote several of Wilson’s Tales of the Borders. d. 110 Rose st. Edinburgh 4 April 1863. Notes and Queries, 3rd ser. ii 491, iii 19, 78, 379, 4th ser. ii 393, 500.

HOWELL, John (son of Mr. Howell, army packer, Mark Lane). b. London 1807; apprentice to his father; chief clerk to Ellis and Everington, haberdashers, hosiers and silk mercers, 3 St. Paul’s ch. yard, London 1835, admitted a partner 1841, firm became Ellis, Howell & Co. 1857 and in 1871 John Howell & Co. limited, with J. Howell as chairman to his death; gave evidence before three parliamentary committees on laws of limited liability 1851 etc.; author of Partnership-law legislation and limited liability reviewed 1869. d. Rutland house, Kingston on Thames 3 Nov. 1888. Warehouseman and Drapers’ Trade Journal (1888) 345–6, portrait, and 1049–50.

HOWELL, Matthew. b. 14 Feb. 1796; appeared as the child in Pizarro with George Frederick Cooke at Liverpool; made first appearance in London at Sadler’s Wells 1810; played at the Coburg; came out at Drury Lane as harlequin in pantomime of The Flying Chest, Dec. 1823 and was for more than 20 years the recognised harlequin there; last appeared as harlequin at the Marylebone in 1847; played pantaloon some years. d. 1 Dec. 1873.

HOWELL, Sir Thomas (son of Thomas Howell of Clapham common, Surrey). b. London 1802; ed. at Charterhouse 1815–16; in business in London to 1855; director of contracts at War Office 1855–74; knighted at Windsor castle 27 June 1876; author of A day of business in the port of London 1850; A few stray thoughts upon Shakspeare 1867. d. 2 Uplands, St. Leonards-on-Sea 23 April 1883.

1558HOWELL, Thomas Jones (son of Thomas Bayly Howell 1768–1815, editor of the State Trials). b. 24 Dec. 1793; edited a Complete collection of State Trials vols. 22–33, 1815–26; barrister L.I. 17 May 1822; judge advocate and judge of vice-admiralty court at Gibraltar 1822; sec. to comrs. of colonial inquiry 1830; comr. for West India Islands relief 1832; inspector of factories 1833. d. 6 Eaton place west, London 4 June 1858.

HOWELLS, Rev. John. b. 21 Sep. 1777; C. of Tipton, Staffs. 1803–37; P.C. of Holy Trinity, Coventry 1837 to death; author of A selection of psalms, hymns, anthems and choruses for public and private use. Tipton 1831. d. Coventry 31 Dec. 1856. monu. in Holy Trinity ch. which says d. 1 Jany. 1857. I.L.N. xxxiv, 260 (1859), view of monu.

HOWES, Edward (2 son of Rev. George Howes, R. of Spixworth, Norfolk). b. Spixworth 7 July 1813; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. and Trin. coll. Cam., fellow 1836–42; B.A. 1835, M.A. 1838; barrister L.I. 7 June 1839; chairman of Norfolk quarter sessions 1848; M.P. East Norfolk 1859–68; M.P. South Norfolk 1868 to death; a church estates comr. 4 Aug. 1866; author of King Richard II, Act 3 Sc. 2 with Greek version in Prolusiones Academicæ. Cantab. 1834 pp. 25–29. d. Morningthorpe, Norfolk 26 March 1871.

HOWES, Joseph. Landlord of the Blue Boar and Wellington castle inns, Leicester; on his retirement lived at Evington lodge near Leicester. d. at residence of Mr. Read, Morledge st. Leicester 13 Dec. 1853 in 102 year. Willis’ Current Notes (1856) 27.

HOWIE, Very Rev. James. Dean of Cloyne 17 Jany. 1851 to death; R. of Farriley 23 Oct. 1851. d. Barnabrow house, Cloyne 6 Dec. 1884.

HOWITT, George. b. Old Lenton, Notts. 14 March 1843; fast left-hand, round-arm bowler; went to London 1860; played for Middlesex and then for Notts.; bowled W. G. Grace for a brace of ducks at Neath in 1868; a member of the ground staff at Lord’s 1870; went a voyage to Australia for his health 1880. d. Nottingham 19 Dec. 1881. W. G. Grace’s Cricket (1891) 329.

HOWITT, Herbert Charlton (younger son of William Howitt). b. Esher, Feb. 1838; visited Australia with his father 1852–4; went to Canterbury, New Zealand, Nov. 1860; employed in an expedition to discover gold 1862 and then in cutting a horse track over the mountains between Christchurch and the 1559western coast 1 Jany. 1863 to death; drowned in crossing the Brunner Lake 27 June 1863, his body was not found. W. Howitt’s History of discovery in Australia, ii, 443–58 (1865); M. Howitt, an autobiography, i, 277, ii, 133–6 (1889).

HOWITT, Mary (dau. of Samuel Botham). b. Coleford, Gloucs. 12 March 1799; wrote verse at an early age; (m. 16 April 1821 William Howitt 1792–1879); wrote many books with her husband 1827–64; civil list pension of £100, 21 April 1879; joined R.C. ch., received by the Pope 10 Jany. 1888; edited The drawing room scrap book 1832–54, and Pictorial calendar of the seasons 1854; translated Frederika Bremer’s Novels 18 vols. 1842–63, works she then made known to English readers; author of Sketches of natural history 1834; Little coin, much care 1842; The Heir of West Waylen 1847; A popular history of the United States 2 vols. 1859; M. Howitt’s Illustrated library for the young 1861, two series; The cost of Caergwyn 3 vols. 1864; Tales for all seasons 1881; her name is attached to upwards of 110 volumes. d. 38 Via Gregoriana, Rome 30 Jany. 1888. M. Howitt’s Life of Mary Howitt (1889), two portraits; Alaric Watts’ Life, ii, 1–15 (1884); Graphic 18 Feb. 1888 p. 168, portrait.

HOWITT, Richard (son of Thomas Howitt of Heanor, Derbyshire, farmer). b. Heanor 1799; chemist and druggist at Parliament st. Nottingham 1823–39; farming in Australia 1839–44; farmer near Southwell 1846 to death; author of Antediluvian Sketches and other poems 1830; The Gipsy King and other poems 1840; Impressions of Australia Felix, notes of a voyage round the world, Australian poems, &c. 1845; Wasps’ Honey, or poetic gold and gems of poetic thought 1868. d. at his farm Edingley, Notts. 5 Feb. 1869. bur. in Friends’ cemetery, Mansfield. The Reliquary, x 209–16, xi 17–22, 103–8, 141–4 (1869–71); S. T. Hall’s Biographical Sketches (1873) 308–11.

HOWITT, William (brother of the preceding). b. Heanor, Derbyshire 18 Dec. 1792; ed. at Ackworth sch. 1802–6; chemist and druggist Nottingham 1823–36; alderman of Nottingham 1833; resided at Esher 1836–9, at Heidelberg 1840–3, at Clapton 1843–8, St. John’s Wood, London 1848–52, in Australia 1852–4, at Highgate 1854–66, at Esher again 1866–70, at Rome 1870 to death; a spiritualist, friend of D. D. Home, and contributor to Spiritual Mag.; civil list pension of £140, 19 June 1865; (m. 1821 Mary Botham 1799–1888); celebrated his golden wedding 16 1560April 1871; part proprietor of People’s Journal 1847, edited Howitt’s Journal 1847–8; translated Peter Schlemihl’s Wundersame Geschichte 1843 and other works; in conjunction with his wife he wrote The literature and romances of Northern Europe 1852; Stories of English and foreign life 1853; Ruined abbeys and castles of Great Britain 1862–4; his own chief works were The book of the seasons 1831 which after being refused by 4 publishing houses ran to 7 editions; The rural life of England 2 vols. 1838; Visits to remarkable places 1840, second series 1842; Rural and domestic life of Germany 1842; Land, labour and gold, or two years in Victoria 2 vols. 1855; Popular history of England 5 vols. 1856–62, seven editions; The northern heights of London 1869. d. 55 Via Sistina, Rome 3 March 1879. R. H. Horne’s New spirit of the age, i 177–98 (1844), portrait; S. C. Hall’s Retrospect of a long life, ii, 126–31 (1883); The Naturalist, iv 366–73 (1839), portrait; I.L.N. 29 March 1879 pp. 297, 298, portrait.

HOWLETT, Rev. John Henry (son of John Howlett). b. 10 June 1781; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ sch. 1796–1800 when he became Parkin’s exhibitioner to Pemb. coll. Cam.; 14 wrangler and B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807; fellow of his coll. 1806–7; V. of Hollington, Sussex 25 Nov. 1812 to 1834; morning reader at chapel royal, Whitehall 1809 to death; R. of Foston, Leics. 30 April 1834 to death; founder and sec. of Kensington gram. sch. 1831; author of Metrical chronology 1824, 6 ed. 1865; Instruction in reading the liturgy of the United church of England and Ireland 1826, 3 ed. 1866. d. 9 Young st. Kensington, London 10 Oct. 1867.

HOWLETT, Samuel Burt (only son of Samuel Howlett of Gracechurch st. London). b. 10 July 1794; cadet and officer in corps of royal military surveyors and draughtsmen 1808 to 1817 when corps was reduced; assistant surveyor and draughtsman to board of ordnance 1824, chief military surveyor 1830, draughtsman in charge of plans, &c. in inspector general of fortifications office 1838–56; made improvements in mountain barometer and in the stadiometer used in school of musketry; invented an anemometer; author of A treatise on perspective 1828; Tables for determining altitude with the mountain barometer 1844; Description of a barometer that requires no correction either for zero or for temperature 1844. d. 46 Palace grove, New Bromley, Kent 24 Jany. 1874.

Note.—The words “In” and “Out” which are now seen on the doors of every public office were suggested 1561by him; they were first used at the Bank of England in consequence of a written communication made by him to the authorities.

HOWLEY, Sir John (1 son of John Howley of Rich Hill, co. Limerick). b. Rich Hill 1789; ed. at Oscott coll. and Trin. coll. Dublin; called to the Irish bar 1815; chairman of quarter sessions for co. Tipperary 1835–65; K.C. 13 July 1835, third serjeant Sept. 1843, second serjeant July 1848; queen’s first serjeant in Ireland June 1851 to death; bencher of King’s Inns 1843; knighted by lord lieut. at Dublin Castle 14 Aug. 1865. d. 32 Upper Fitzwilliam st. Dublin 13 Feb. 1866.

HOWLISON, Robert (2 son of a miller at Channelkirk, Berwickshire). Said to have been b. Channelkirk on Handsel Monday (Jany.) 1769, but no proof of this; ploughman, and then a shepherd. d. West Linton, Peebleshire 30 Oct. 1871 said to be 103. W. J. Thoms’ Longevity of Man (1879) 186–92.

HOWORTH, Rev. William (2 son of Rev. Wm. Howorth). b. 1806; ed. at Caius coll. Cam., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; R. of Whitton with Thurleston, Suffolk 3 Nov. 1835 to death; hon. canon of Norwich cath. 1863 to death; author of Sermons doctrinal and practical 1839; The Redeemer, a poem 1840; Life and the issue of it 1869. d. Whitton rectory 13 Dec. 1875.

HOWS, John William Stanhope. b. London 1797; appeared as Shylock, Park theatre, New York 16 Feb. 1834; professor of elocution, Columbia, Carolina 1843–57; dramatic critic New York Albion 7 years; author of The practical elocutionist 1849, 6 ed. 1856; The Shakspearian reader 1850, 3 ed. 1870; Golden leaves from the British and American dramatic poets 1865; Golden leaves from the American poets 1866; The ladies’ book of reading and recitations 1870. d. New York city 27 July 1871. Appleton’s American Biog. iii, 288 (1887).

HOWSON, Frank. b. London 1817; in a lancer regt. fought in Carlist war in Spain 1836; an artist in Australia 1842; the father of opera in the colonies; manager and stage director for Anna Bishop when appearing in operas in Australia 1854–6; with his sons and daus. produced plays and operas at San Francisco 1866. d. Omaha, Nebraska 16 Sep. 1869.

HOWSON, John (2 son of the preceding). b. Hobart Town, Tasmania 17 Nov. 1844; first appeared on the stage at Royal Victoria theatre, Sydney; left Australia with his family 1562for San Francisco 1866, played there 1866–9; first appeared in New York at Wood’s Museum, Nov. 1869; played in the U.S. of A. 1869–77; first appeared in England at Brighton 3 Sep. 1877 as Commodore Patatras in La Créole, played same part at Folly theatre, London 15 Sep.; acted the Marquis in Les Cloches de Corneville at same house 23 Feb. 1878 and at the Globe July 1879. d. 16 Dec. 1888. C. E. Pascoe’s Dramatic List (1880) 189–90.

HOWSON, Rev. John. b. Giggleswick, Yorkshire 1787; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1811, M.A. 1813; second master Giggleswick gr. school 1814 to death; F.L.S. 1822; author of The gain of Godliness 1840. d. Giggleswick 23 Jany. 1859.

HOWSON, Very Rev. John Saul (son of the preceding). b. Giggleswick 5 May 1816; ed. at Giggleswick gr. sch. and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840, D.D. 1862; senior classical master Liverpool collegiate institute 1845 and principal 1849–65; exam. chaplain to bishop of Ely 1866–73; V. of St. Peter’s, Wisbech 1866–7; dean of Chester 12 June 1867 to death, continued the repairing of the cath. and reopened it 25 Jany. 1872; instrumental in building and endowing the King’s sch., the Queen’s sch. and the museum, Chester; a contributor to the Quarterly Review, The Speaker’s Commentary, etc.; author of Sunday evenings. Short sermons 1849; Sermons to schoolboys 1858–66, 2 series; The character of St. Paul 1862, 4 ed. 1884; The companions of St. Paul 1871 and about 35 other works; with the Rev. J. Conybeare, The life and epistles of St. Paul 2 vols. 1852, many editions. d. Bournemouth 15 Dec. 1885. bur. the cloister garden, Chester 19 Dec. I.L.N. lxxxvii 667 (1885), portrait; Guardian, Dec. 1885 pp. 1892, 1951; Times, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 23, 31 Dec. 1885.

HOWTH, Thomas St. Lawrence, 3 Earl of. b. 16 Aug. 1803; succeeded his father 4 April 1822; vice admiral of province of Leinster; K.P. 22 July 1835; lord lieut. of co. Dublin 1851 to death; trained his horses with W. Day at Danebury, won the Chester cup with Peep o’ Day Boy in 1848; a flat race rider 1830–50. d. Cannes 4 Feb. 1874. W. Day’s Reminiscences (1886) 236–8; Sporting Times 12 Sep. 1885 pp. 2–3.

HOYLE, William. b. valley of Rossendale, Lancs. 1831; a cotton spinner with his father at Brooksbottom near Bury, Lancs. 1851–9; cotton spinner at Tollington near Bury 1859 to death; a temperance reformer, a Good 1563Templar and a vegetarian; contested Dewsbury 1880; wrote an annual letter to The Times on the “national drink bill of successive years”; built a residence at Claremont near, Bury; author of Hoyle’s Hymns and songs for temperance societies and bands of hope 1869; Our national resources and how they are wasted 1871, four editions; Crime in England and Wales in the nineteenth century 1876 and of 13 other books. d. Southport, Lancs. 26 Feb. 1886. Manchester Guardian 1 March 1886 p. 8.

HOYLES, Sir Hugh William (son of Newman Wright Hoyles, colonial treasurer of Newfoundland). b. St. John’s, Newfoundland, Jany. 1814; called to bar in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland 1837; member of assembly there 1848; acting solicitor general of Newfoundland 1854, attorney general and leader of the government 1861; chief justice of Newfoundland 4 March 1865 to 1880; knighted by patent 13 Feb. 1869. d. 18 Morris st. Halifax, Nova Scotia 1 Feb. 1888.

HUARD, Louis. b. in South of France 1813; studied at Antwerp; came to London 1854 and was connected with Illust. London news till his death; exhibited 2 figure paintings at British institution 1857; illustrated Souvenirs de la fête donnée aux artistes exposants 1849; Sir S. W. Baker’s Cast up by the sea 1869; A. and E. Keary’s The heroes of Asgard 1871 and other books. d. 37 Onslow sq. London 19 Sep. 1874. I.L.N. 10 Oct. 1874 p. 345, portrait.

HUBBACK, Catherine Anne (dau. of admiral Sir Francis Wm. Austen, G.C.B. 1774–1865). (m. 25 Aug. 1842 John Hubback 1811–85); author of The younger sister 3 vols. 1850; The wife’s sister 3 vols. 1851; Life and its lessons 3 vols. 1851; Malvern or the three marriages 3 vols. 1855; May and December, a tale 3 vols. 1855; The old vicarage 3 vols. 1856; Agnes Milbourne 2 vols. 1856; The Rival suitors 3 vols. 1857; The stage and the company 3 vols. 1858; The mistake of a life 3 vols. 1863.

HUBBACK, John (2 son of Joseph Hubback of Berwick-on-Tweed). b. Berwick-on-Tweed 1811; barrister I.T. 12 June 1835; author of A treatise on the evidence of succession to real and personal property and peerages 1844. d. Brislington, Somerset 24 Feb. 1885.

HUBBARD, John Gellibrand, 1 Baron Addington (1 son of John Hubbard, Russian merchant d. 1847). b. 21 March 1805; ed. at Bordeaux 1816–20 in his father’s business 1821; Russia merchant 4 St. Helen’s place, 1564London; director of Bank of England 1838–41; chairman public works loan commission 1853 to death; M.P. Buckingham 1859–68; defeated lord Palmerston’s government in making a motion for an enquiry into the income tax 1861; M.P. city of London 1874–87; P.C. 6 Aug. 1874; F.R.G.S.; gave much attention to the income tax, the coinage, ecclesiastical affairs and education; built and endowed St. Alban’s ch. Holborn, consecrated 26 Feb. 1863; cr. baron Addington of Addington, Bucks. 22 July 1887; author of Vindication of a fixed duty on corn 1842; The currency and the country 1843; The church and church rates 1861, 2 ed. 1861; A census of religion. Denominational worship. The national church. Essays 1882; Gladstone on the income tax 1885 and 10 other pamphlets. d. Addington manor, Winslow, Bucks. 28 Aug. 1889. I.L.N. lxiv, 551, 552 (1874), portrait; Touchstone 5 April 1879 pp. 1–2, portrait.

HUBBARD, Thomas. b. 1789; framework knitter; obtained possession of some property in Nottinghamshire and under the impression that he was the heir at law retained the ownership 6 years, a will was then found giving the property to a person named Holland; Hubbard under the belief that the will was forged refused to give up the deeds of the estate, and in July 1856 was imprisoned for contempt of court; he remained in the debtors’ prison, Nottingham till his death 23 Jany. 1864. G.M. April 1864 p. 534.

HUBBARDE, James Dibden. b. 1803; proprietor of Wakefield Journal to 1850; connected with and editor of Hampshire Advertiser 1850 to death; president of Ornithological association; author of Pencil notes of five days’ tour from Wakefield to Matlock. By J. D. H. 1839. d. Wick cottage, Avenue road, Southampton 28 Jany. 1870. Newspaper Press 1 March 1870 p. 82; Hampshire Advertiser 29 Jany. 1870 pp. 4, 5.

HUCKIN, Rev. Henry Robert (son of John Huckin, fishmonger, Islington). b. 11 Oct. 1841; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ sch. 1850–60, Andrew’s exhib. to St. John’s coll. Ox. 1860; B.A. 1864, M.A. 1867, D.D. 1874; assist. master at Haileybury 1865–8; a master at M.T. sch. 1869–74; head master Repton gram. sch. March 1874 to death; Townsend lecturer St. Magnus-the-Martyr, city of London 1871–3; ed. of Milton. Comus, Lycidas. With notes 1871; author of The analogy of religion. Dialogues founded upon Butler’s Analogy of religion 1873. d. Repton 30 July 1882.

1565HUDDART, Fanny (niece of Mary Amelia Warner the actress, d. 1854). A contralto singer, played the chief contralto parts in all the Italian operas and also in English operas, was the original Azucena when the English version of Il Trovatore was produced at Drury Lane May 1855; sang the contralto parts in Handel’s and Mendelssohn’s oratorios at Sacred harmonic society’s concerts; played the leading roles in Shakespearean dramas and modern comedies; (m. John Russell of Covent Garden theatre). d. 28 June 1880. Era 4 July 1880 p. 6.

HUDDLESTON, Sir John Walter (1 son of Thomas Huddleston, captain in merchant service). b. Dublin 8 Sep. 1815; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin; barrister G.I. 7 May 1839; was with Cockburn in Rugeley poisoning case 1856; Q.C. June 1857; bencher of his inn 4 Nov. 1857; contested Worcester 1852, Shrewsbury 1857 and Kidderminster 1859 and 1861; M.P. Canterbury 1865–8; contested Norwich 1870, M.P. 1874–5; counsel to the admiralty and judge advocate of the Fleet Nov. 1865 to 22 Feb. 1875; serjeant at law and justice of court of common pleas 22 Feb. 1875, transferred to court of exchequer 12 May 1875; knighted at Windsor castle 13 May 1875; created the last baron of the exchequer; judge of queen’s bench division of high court of justice 26 Feb. 1881; tried the libel action Belt v. Lawes lasting 43 days 1881–2; entertained by the French bar in Paris 1868. d. 43 Ennismore gardens, South Kensington 5 Dec. 1890, cremated at Woking 12 Dec. Pump Court, i, frontispiece and p. 135 (1884), portrait; Vanity Fair xxxv, 325 (1886); I.L.N. lxvi, 229 (1875), portrait; Graphic 13 Dec. 1890 p. 667, portrait.

HUDSON, Alfred. b. 15 Nov. 1808; ed. Dublin univ., M.B. 1834, M.D. 1861; M.R.C.S. England 1834; F.K.Q.C.P. Ireland 1857, censor 1858–9; M.R.I.A.; physician Adelaide hospital, Dublin; a physician in ordinary to queen in Ireland 21 Jany. 1878; member of general council of medical education and registration of U.K. for Ireland 14 May 1877 to death; a contributor to Dublin medical journal and Dublin quarterly journal; author of Lectures on the study of fever 1867, new ed. 1872; edited W. Stokes’ A treatise on diseases of the chest 1882. d. Loweville near Dublin 19 Nov. 1880. Times 23 Nov. 1880 p. 6; Medical Times ii, 660 (1880).

HUDSON, Rev. Charles. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1851, M.A. 1854; chaplain in the Crimea 1854–6; C. of St. Mary’s, Bridgnorth 1856–7; V. of Shillington, Lincs. 15661859 to death; the best Alpine amateur climber of his time, organized the party of 7 who ascended Mont Blanc without guides 14–15 Aug. 1855; author of An Ascent of Mont Blanc and two ascents of Monte Rosa 1856; Narrative of the accident on the Col de Miage in July 1861 in Peaks and Passes, i, 208–24 (1862); killed by a fall while descending the Matterhorn 14 July 1865. bur. Zermatt. E. Whymper’s Ascent of the Matterhorn (1880) 273–95; Times 20, 21, 22 July and 12 Aug. 1865.

HUDSON, Corrie. b. 1822; clerk in legacy and succession duty department of inland revenue office 1845–72, a principal clerk 1872 to death; author of A practical guide to the payment of legacy and succession duties 1867, 7 ed. 1888. A practical guide to making and proving wills and obtaining letters of administration 1876, 2 ed. 1878. d. 67 Bessborough st. Pimlico, London 6 Nov. 1880.

HUDSON, Very Rev. Edward Gustavus. Educated Dublin univ., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813; dean of Armagh 1841 to death, patent dated 1 Sep. 1841, instituted 5 March 1842. d. Glenville, co. Cork 14 Aug. 1851.

HUDSON, George (son of a farmer and constable, d. 1806). b. Howsham near York, March 1800; apprentice to Bell and Nicholson, drapers, York 1815, a partner, firm became Nicholson and Hudson; originator and manager York banking co. 1833; chairman of York and West riding railway 1837, Newcastle and Darlington 1842, Midland 1843, Eastern counties 1846 and many other lines; known as the railway king; resided at Albert gate, Knightsbridge, London 1846–52 which he bought with sum of £15000 presented to him 1846; lord mayor of York 1837 and 1846; M.P. Sunderland 1845–59; many of his transactions in railway shares were of a questionable nature; the great fall in railway shares in 1847 ruined him; resided much abroad from 1852; committed to York castle by sheriff of Yorkshire for contempt of court of exchequer in not paying £23,989 5s., released 7 Oct. 1865; friends raised £4800 and invested it in an annuity for him 1868; entertained at a banquet in Sunderland 1869. d. 37 Churton st. Belgrave road, London 14 Dec. 1871. bur. Scrayingham, Yorks. 21 Dec. Evans’ Facts, failures and frauds (1859) 6–73; Lennox’s Celebrities I have known 2 Ser. i, 184–92 (1877); Fraser’s Mag. Aug. 1847 pp. 215–22; Richardson’s The mysteries of Hudson’s railway frauds (1850); Williams’ Midland railway 1567(1877) 99–124, 132; I.L.N. 6 Sep. 1845 p. 157, portrait; Graphic 27 Aug. 1881 pp. 223, 229, portrait; Times 16, 22 Dec. 1871.

HUDSON, James. Assistant sec. to royal society 1829–38; secretary Royal agricultural society from its foundation 27 June 1838 to death. d. Norton terrace, Longsight near Manchester 28 June 1859 aged 55.

HUDSON, James. b. Aungier st. Dublin, March 1811; student R. Dublin soc. 1821; articled to a portrait painter Dublin; an actor in the provinces; appeared at Hawkins st. theatre, Dublin 1834; came out at Drury Lane as Gratiano in Merchant of Venice 1841; played King Alfourite in Planché’s Fortunio 17 April 1843; acted Rory O’More in The Irish Post at the Haymarket, expressly written for him by Planché 28 Feb. 1846; considered the successor of Tyrone Power (drowned in President 1841); made his American debut Walnut st. theatre, Philadelphia as Pandeen O’Rafferty in Born to good luck 15 Oct. 1849; played in New York 1850; appeared in a drawing room entertainment with Anna Thillon; retired from the stage 1858. d. 6 March 1878. bur. Highgate cemet. 9 March. Tallis’ Drawing room Scrap book (1851) 21–2; Theatrical Times ii, 233 (1847), portrait; Planché’s Extravaganzas ii, 179, (1879), portrait; Ireland’s New York Stage ii, 549–50; Era Almanack (1879) 39; Era 10 March 1878 p. 11.

HUDSON, Sir James (son of Harrington Hudson of Bessingby hall, Bridlington, Yorkshire). b. 1810; ed. at Rugby, Westminster, Paris and Rome; assistant private sec. to Wm. IV. 1830–37; resident gentleman usher to queen Adelaide 21 Nov. 1831; known as “Hurry Hudson” from the speed with which he travelled to Italy to summon Peel home 1834; sec. of legation at Washington 1838, at the Hague 1843, at Rio de Janeiro 1845; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to Emperor of Brazil 14 May 1850, to Grand Duke of Tuscany 29 Aug. 1851, but did not proceed there; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to King of Sardinia 19 Jany. 1852 to 20 Oct. 1863 when he retired on a pension of £1300; C.B. 1 March 1851, K.C.B. 2 May 1855, G.C.B. 11 Aug. 1863. d. Strasburg 20 Sep. 1885 in 76 year. F. Ross’s Celebrities of Yorkshire Wolds (1878); Elliot’s Sir J. Hudson and Earl Russell 1886; Times 24 Sep. 1885 p. 7, cols. 3–5.

HUDSON, John Corrie (son of Thomas Hudson of the Stamp office). b. 1796; ed. St. 1568Paul’s sch. 1804 etc.; an advanced liberal; chief clerk in legacy duty office, Somerset house?; friend of Horne Tooke, Godwin, Shelley, Hazlitt, Charles Lamb, T. Hood, and Hamilton Reynolds; author of A letter on the cruelty of employing children in sweeping chimneys in The Pamphleteer xxii, 407–30 (1823). d. April 1879. Athenæum i, 506 (1879).

HUDSON, ROBERT. b. 1801; F.G.S., F.L.S., F.Z.S., vice president; F.R.S. 10 April 1834; writer on Fossil shells, Mag. Nat. Hist. ix, 103–5 (1836); resided Clapham common. d. Bournemouth 9 Feb. 1883.

HUDSON, William Eliot (son of a professional man). An enthusiast about Irish antiquities and well known in Irish literary circles; took an active part in the publication of The Citizen, a monthly journal, Dublin 1840–1. d. south of Ireland July or Aug. 1853.

HUDSPETH, John. b. Manchester 21 Nov. 1806; apprentice in a mercantile house; an actor at Manchester and in Scotland and Ireland; first appeared in London at Pavilion theatre 1839; played at Strand theatre when William Copeland rechristened it Punch’s playhouse 1851; at Queen’s theatre, Tottenham court road 3 years; a favourite in David Dump in The Irish Rebellion. d. 2 Oct. 1866. Theatrical Times, iii, 357, 366 (1818), portrait; Era 7 Oct. 1866 p. 11.

HUE, Clement (son of John Hue, merchant, St. Heliers, Jersey). b. St. Heliers 1779; ed. at Abingdon and Pemb. coll. Ox.; B.A. 1801, M.A. 1803, M.B. 1804, M.D. 1807; fellow of his coll.; candidate of college of physicians 30 Sep. 1807, fellow 30 Sep. 1808, censor 1812, registrar 1815 to 4 Feb. 1824, Harveian orator 1829, elect 13 April 1835, consiliarius 1836; physician to Foundling hospital 1815–37, governor and vice pres. many years; physician to St. Bartholomew’s hospital 23 May 1823 to 1861; registrar of national vaccine establishment 1824 to death. d. 9 Bedford sq. London 23 June 1861. Munk’s College of physicians, iii, 66 (1878).

HÜFFER, Francis or Franz (son of a banker). b. Münster 22 May 1845; ed. at Münster, Leipzig and Berlin; Ph.D. Göttingen, July 1869; came to London 1869; assistant editor of The Academy about 1871; editor of the New Quarterly Mag. about 1876; musical critic to The Times, April 1879 to death; naturalised 18 Jany. 1882; edited The Musical Review 1883, The Musical World 1886; author of Richard Wagner and the music of the future 15691874; The Troubadours: a history of Provençal life and literature in the middle ages 1878; Half a century of music in England 1889 and other books; edited a series of biographies of The Great Musicians 1881–4; wrote the libretti for A. C. Mackenzie’s two operas produced at Drury Lane, Colomba 1883 and The Troubadour 1885. d. 90 Brook green, Hammersmith 19 Jany. 1889. Grove’s Dict. of music, iv, 680, 819 (1888); Times 21, 25 Jany. 1889.

HUELIN, Rev. Elias. b. 1786; French protestant clergyman; owner of house property in London; assistant chaplain at Brompton cemetery; resided 15 Paulton sq. Chelsea; murdered and robbed by Walter Miller at 25 Wellington square, Chelsea 9 May 1870 and buried there. Walter Miller who had also murdered the housekeeper Ann Boss at 15 Paulton sq. was executed at the Old Bailey 1 Aug. 1870. Annual Register (1870) pp. 47, 95.

HUGGENS, John. b. 29 April 1776; founded Huggens’s college, 40 almshouses and a chapel at Northfleet, Kent which he himself superintended. d. Crown quay, Sittingbourne, Kent 11 Aug. 1865. bur. Northfleet churchyard.

HUGGINS, Hastings Charles. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1858; practised in Island of Nevis, Q.C. Nevis, solicitor general Nevis, speaker of House of Assembly; attorney general British Honduras 1861; stipendiary mag. British Guiana to death; author of The laws of Nevis from 1681 to 1861 inclusive, with appendices and index 1862. d. Georgetown, Demerara 27 March 1883.

HUGGINS, Horatio James (eld. son of Horatio Nelson Huggins of the island of St. Vincent). b. 1811; barrister L.I. 1838; acting attorney general St. Vincent 1857 and 1858; Queen’s advocate at Sierra Leone 9 May 1863 to 1880, chief justice there 1876 to 1880; manufacturer of bottle washing machines at Pentonville and Hornsey 1881, bankrupt 18 Feb. 1882. d. Staplehay, Hornsey 20 Jany. 1886. bur. Bedford cemetery.

HUGGINS, Samuel. b. Deal, Kent 1811; lived at Liverpool most of his life; an architect from 1846; member of Liverpool Architectural Soc. 1849, president 1856–8, read a paper On so-called restorations of our cathedral and abbey churches 1871 which led to formation of Soc. for protection of ancient buildings 1877; published Chart of the history of architecture 1863; compiled Catalogue of the Liverpool free public library 1872. d. Christleton near Chester 10 Jany. 1885. Biograph, i, 406 (1879).

1570HUGGINS, William (brother of the preceding). b. Liverpool 1820; member of Liverpool Academy; painter at Chester 1861 to death; his horses, cattle and poultry pictures were his best work; exhibited 31 pictures at R.A., 8 at B.I. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1842–75; exhibited many pictures at Liverpool, Manchester, Dublin, Edinburgh and Glasgow. d. Christleton near Chester 25 Feb. 1884. Biograph, Feb. 1882 pp. 217–23; Liverpool Mercury 28 Feb. 1884 p. 6.

Note.—His sister Sarah Huggins, a painter of flowers and fruit and then of architectural views in Chester and Liverpool, d. Liverpool, May 1869. The Builder 8 May 1869 p. 369.

HUGHES, Christopher (youngest son of Henry Hughes of Northampton, solicitor). b. Northampton 1815; articled to Hughes and Britten of Northampton, solicitors; admitted Trinity term 1837; clerk of the peace for borough of Northampton 1858 to death; translated The odes, epodes, Carmen seculare, and the first satire of Horace 1867. d. 60 Waterloo, Northampton 20 Oct. 1877. Law Times, lxiv, 53 (1877).

HUGHES, Rev. David. b. Cefn-uchaf, Llanddeiniolen, Carnarvonshire 1813; B.A., M.A.; member of Bethel independent church, Arfon, began preaching 1832; studied at Hackney coll. and Glasgow univ.; ordained 14 Sep. 1841, pastor of two small congregations in Flintshire; pastor at St. Asaph 1845, at Manchester 1846, at Bangor 1846 and at Tredegar, Monmouthshire 1 Nov. 1855 to death; author of Geiriadur Ysgrythyrol o Duwinyddol, i.e. A scriptural and theological dictionary 2 vols. 1852–55, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1876–9; contributed to the Gwyddoniadur or Welsh Cyclopædia; edited and enlarged An English and Welsh dictionary. By T. Edwards of Caerfallwch 1864. d. Tredegar 3 June 1872.

HUGHES, Edward. b. Ireland 1819; second master of lower school, Greenwich hospital 4 Nov. 1841 and head master of royal naval school there 1844 to death; A.I.C.E. 1848; F.R.A.S.; F.R.G.S.; author of A manual of explanatory arithmetic 1849, 2 ed. 1855; Outlines of physical geography 1849, 5 ed. 1855; Geography for elementary schools 1851, new ed. 1873; Select English poetry 1851, 5 ed. 1856 and other school books. d. Greenwich hospital 30 July 1859.

Note.—His widow Sarah, youngest dau. of James Oliphant Bell, M.D., granted civil list pension of £100, 18 June 1863, she d. 9 Jany. 1884 aged 68.

HUGHES, Edwin (son of a steel toy manufacturer). b. Birmingham 2 Oct. 1813; member of Batty & Sons’ circus; the best polander performer in England, the first to introduce 1571turning round on his head without holding; had a company of his own at Donnybrook fair two years; at Cheltenham established Hughes’ Great mammoth equestrian circus; appeared before the Queen at Drury Lane under A. Bunn’s management 22 April 1847; retired after nine seasons with a handsome fortune 1847; the first to drive thirty-two horses in hand; the first to introduce camels and elephants in harness. d. Welby house, Lower Norwood, Surrey 7 Dec. 1867. bur. Smithdown cemet. Liverpool 12 Dec. Era 22 Dec. 1867 p. 6; Frost’s Circus life (1876) 97, 216.

HUGHES, Edwin (eld. son of Edwin Hughes of The Farm, Smithdown road, Wavertree near Liverpool). b. Dublin 1 Feb. 1837; articled to Avison and Pritt of Liverpool, solicitors; admitted Jany. 1858; went to America, joined Federal army in which he became major; served under Garibaldi in Italy; a solicitor in Liverpool 1869 to death; captain 1 Lancashire artillery volunteers 21 Jany. 1874 to death; member of council of Financial reform association. d. 13 Elm vale, Fairfield, Liverpool 12 May 1879. bur. Smithdown cemetery, Liverpool. Law Times, lxvii, 105 (1879).

HUGHES, Fanny. b. 1843; educated for a singer; an actress in comedies and burlesques at Strand theatre when under Mrs. Swanborough’s management 1862–72; played Orozembo in L. S. Buckingham’s burlesque Pizarro, or the Leotard of Peru 24 April 1862; played Anne Boleyn in Wm. Brough’s extravaganza The field of the cloth of gold, produced 11 April 1868; (m. Edward Swanborough of the Strand theatre). d. 5 Neville st. Onslow gardens, London 12 Jany. 1888.

HUGHES, George Edward (1 son of John Hughes of Uffington, Berks.) b. Uffington 18 Sep. 1821; ed. at Rugby and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1845, M.A. 1849, D.C.L. 1850; stroke of Ox. univ. crew of 7 oars which beat Camb. crew of 8 oars 1843; a student of Lincoln’s inn 1848; member of college of doctors of law 12 Nov. 1850, practised in the ecclesiastical courts; member of Pen and Pencil club at Pau; violoncello player. d. Hoylake, Cheshire 2 May 1872. Memoirs of a brother. By Thomas Hughes (1873), portrait.

HUGHES, George Martin. b. Maidstone 1827; a solicitor; investigated Romano-British topography of the south of England; author of A history of Windsor forest, Sunninghill and the Great park 1890. d. Kingswick, Sunninghill, Berkshire 9 Sep. 1891.

1572HUGHES, Henry George (eld. son of James Hughes of Dublin, solicitor). b. Capel st. Dublin 22 Aug. 1810; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; called to Irish bar, Nov. 1834; Q.C. 2 Nov. 1844; bencher of King’s Inns 1850; solicitor general for Ireland 26 Sep. 1850 to Feb. 1852 and Feb. 1858 to July 1859; baron of court of exchequer July 1859 to death; contested Cavan 1855; M.P. for co. Longford 1856–7; author of Practice of the Court of chancery, Ireland. Dublin 1837. d. Bray, Wicklow 22 July 1872. Irish law times, vi, 404 (1872).

HUGHES, Hugh (son of Thomas Hughes). b. Pwllygwichiad. bapt. Llandudno 20 Feb. 1790; apprentice to an engraver in Liverpool; studied oil painting in London; exhibited 4 landscapes at B.I. and 6 at Suffolk st. 1827–51; spent 3 years at Meddiant working at his Beauties of Cambria 60 views published Carmarthen 1823, drew 58 of the views and engraved all of them; a printer at Carnarvon where he published Y Papur Newydd Cymraeg; expelled from Welsh Calvinistic ch. London for signing petition in favor of catholic emancipation 1828; joined the Independents, then the Plymouth brethren; had a controversy with Rev. Evan Evans and published pamphlets under name of Cristion 1832; author of Hynafion Cymreig, a work on Welsh antiquities. Carmarthen 1823 and other books in Welsh language. d. Great Malvern 11 March 1863. Red Dragon, May 1887 xi 457–66, 576 (1887).

HUGHES, Rev. Hugh (son of Mr. Hughes, deacon of independent church at Cororion). b. Cilgeraint, Llandegai, Carnarvonshire 1805; pastor of independent churches at Rhos-y-lan, Tabor, and Llanystymdwy, at Jackson st. Manchester, at Capelhelyg, Chwilog and Abererch in Carnarvonshire; set up a printing-press at Abererch and edited Yr Arweinydd a penny monthly many years; pastor of the new church at Bethel, Aberdare 1859 to death; competed frequently and successfully at Eisteddfods; most voluminous Welsh writer of his day; author of Rhesymeg. Wrexham 1856; d. Aberdare 8 Dec. 1864. J. T. Jones’s Geiriadur Bywgraffydol, i, 567–70.

HUGHES, Rev. Hugh. Educ. at St. Peter’s coll. Cam., B.D. 1842, D.D. 1847; R. of St John, Clerkenwell, London 13 Dec. 1839 to death; author of Female characters of holy writ, in a course of sermons. 3 series 1845, 6, 7; The remarkable scenes of the bible 1860, new ed. 1879. d. 18 Chadwell st. Myddleton sq. London 1870.

HUGHES, Rev. James. b. Carlow, March 1810; R.C. priest June 1833; professor of 1573natural philosophy St. Patrick’s coll. Carlow 1835–6; in charge of Carlow classical academy; C. of Maryborough; C. of Kilcock 1837; dean of coll. of St. Patrick’s 1841–55; administrator of Carlow parish 1855–8; priest in charge of Naas, Dec. 1858 to death; author of A practical exposition of the ceremonies to be observed at solemn mass. Dublin 1843; The ceremonies of low mass, 4 ed. 1858; The ceremonies of high mass; Pontifical ceremonies. d. Naas, May 1876. M. Comerford’s Collections of Kildare and Leighlin (1883) 229.

HUGHES, James Stannus. L.R.C.S. Ireland 1838, F.R.C.S. 1844, examiner in surgery, joint professor of surgery, sec. of council; M.D. Queen’s univ. 1864; surgeon Jervis st. hospital, Dublin; surgeon in ordinary to Dublin castle; edited Sir H. Marsh’s Clinical lectures 1869; author of On diseases of the prostate gland 1863, 2 ed. 1870, and of contributions to Dublin medical press and Dublin hospital gazette. d. 1 Merrion sq. west, Dublin 1 June 1884. Medical Times 7 June 1884 p. 771.

HUGHES, John (only child of Rev. Thomas Hughes, canon of St. Paul’s, d. 6 Jany. 1833 aged 77). b. 2 Jany. 1790; ed. at Westminster and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1812, M.A. 1815; author of the macaronic Oriel grace-cup song ‘Exultet mater Oriel’; author of Pompeii 1820, an ode; An Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone with etchings by the author 1822; Lays of past days 1850; edited The Boscobel Tracts 1830, 2 ed. 1857; published a song called The small coal man attacking Lord Durham, long attributed to Theodore Hook and R. H. Barham; wrote for the magazines under pseud. of Buller of Brasenose; celebrated in John Wilson’s Christopher in the tent in the Noctes Ambrosianæ. d. 7 Boltons, West Brompton, London 13 Dec. 1857. G.M. iv, 225 (1858); Miss Mitford’s Recollections (1859) 462–4.

HUGHES, Rev. John (son of Hugh Hughes of Adwy’r Clawdd near Wrexham, carpenter). b. Adwy’r Clawdd 11 Feb. 1796; a carpenter to 1815; began preaching in Calvinistic methodist church at Adwy’r 1813; kept a school at Wrexham to 1835; authorised as a regular preacher to visit all parts of Wales, Feb. 1821; ordained at Bala 17 June 1829; a flour merchant 1835–8; co-pastor of Welsh Calvinistic churches of Liverpool 1838 to death; author of History of Welsh Calvinistic Methodism 3 vols. Wrexham 1851–6 and other books in the Welsh language. d. Abergele 8 Aug. 1860. Sermons of Rev. John Hughes, with memoir and portrait (1862).

1574HUGHES, Ven. John (son of John Hughes of Llwyn Glas near Aberystwyth). b. 1787; C. at Llandrillo yn Rhôs near Conway 1811–17; P.C. of Aberystwyth 16 May 1827 to death; V. of Llanbadern-Fawr 14 June 1834 to death; preb. of Nantgunllo in Brecon coll. ch. to death; archdeacon of Cardigan 1859 to death; most popular preacher of Church of England in Wales; author of The domestic ruler’s monitor 1821; Ruth and her kindred 1839; Esther and her people. Sermons 1842 and other books. d. 1 Nov. 1860. J. Hughes’s Sermons with biography by his son. Liverpool (1864).

HUGHES, Most Rev. John (son of Patrick Hughes, farmer, d. 1837). b. Annalogham, co. Tyrone 24 June 1797; a gardener and day labourer in U.S. of America 1817–9; ed. at Mount St. Mary’s coll. Emmitsburg, Maryland 1819–26; ordained R.C. priest 1825; minister at St. Augustine’s 1825 and then at St. Joseph’s churches, Philadelphia, built ch. of St. John there which he served 1832; coadjutor to bishop John Dubois of New York Jany. 1838 and succeeded him as bishop 1842; founded St. John’s coll. at Fordham 1841; archbishop of New York 3 Oct. 1850 to death; one of the founders of the American coll. at Rome 1858; author of Controversy between Rev. Messrs. Hughes and Breckenridge on the subject “Is the protestant religion the religion of Christ?” Philadelphia 3 ed. 1833; The church and the world. A lecture 1850, and other theological works. d. New York city 3 Jany. 1864; remains removed from old cath. of St. Patrick to crypt beneath high altar in new cath. 30 Jany. 1883. Hassard’s Life of Most Rev. J. Hughes (1866), portrait; Clarke’s Lives of bishops of catholic church in U.S. ii, 73–125 (1872); Appleton’s American Biog. iii, 303–5 (1887), portrait; Complete works of J. Hughes. Ed. by L. Kehoe 2 vols. 1866.

HUGHES, John (youngest son of Thomas Hughes, civil engineer). b. Linlithgow near Edin. 1823; ed. at Marischal coll. Aberdeen; parliamentary reporter for Evening Sun, London 1842, for Times 1844, for Morning Chronicle, for Daily News, and for Times again to 1860; theatrical art critic for the Era; purchased the West Surrey Times, Godalming 1860 and removed it to Guildford where he edited it to his death. d. 18 High st. Guildford 2 Nov. 1868. The Newspaper Press 1 Dec. 1868 p. 18.

HUGHES, John (youngest son of William Hughes of Pen y Clawdd, Denbighshire). b. 1805; ed. at univ. of Edin.; barrister I.T. 3 May 1839; sec. to commission for settlement of claims of Portuguese government on British legion 1575under Sir De L. Evans 1844–9; twice went to Sweden for Overend, Gurney & Co. and then to Copenhagen to claim money advanced before Danish-German war; a Welsh scholar and a writer on Cambrian archæology. d. 34 Abingdon villas, Kensington 11 July 1883. Law Times 28 July 1883 p. 249.

HUGHES, John, known as Ceiriog (youngest child of Richard Hughes). b. Penbryn, Llanarmon-Dyffryn Ceiriog, Denbighshire 25 Sep. 1832; clerk in an office in London road, Manchester 1849–65; stationmaster on the Cambrian railway at Llanidloes 1865, at Towyn 1870, at Trefeglwys 1871, at Caersws 1871 to death; won many prizes for poetry at Eisteddfods; the best lyric poet of Wales; author of Oriau’r Hwyr (Evening Hours) Ruthyn 1860, 2 ed. 1861 of which 25,000 copies were sold and of 7 other vols. of poetry 1862–88; wrote 50 songs for Brinley Richards’s Songs of Wales 1873, among them is ‘God bless the Prince of Wales.’ d. Caersws, Montgomeryshire 23 April 1887. Memoir of J. C. Hughes. By Llyfrbryf i.e. Isaac Foulkes. Liverpool.

HUGHES, John Charles. b. Hatton garden, London 23 Dec. 1789; appeared at Cheltenham 1806; manager Woolwich theatre; acted at Richmond; at Drury Lane 1818; good in old men and country clowns. Theatrical Inquisitor, Oct. 1818 pp. 251–3, portrait.

HUGHES, Right Rev. Joshua (son of Caleb Hughes of Newport, Pembrokeshire). b. Nevern, Pembrokeshire 7 Oct. 1807; ed. at Ystradmeirig gr. sch. and St. David’s coll. Lampeter; C. of Aberystwith 1830; C. of St. David’s, Carmarthen; V. of Abergwilly to 1846; V. of Llandingat 1846–70; D.D. Lambeth; bishop of St. Asaph 25 March 1870 to death, consecrated 8 May 1870; author of several charges, sermons and pamphlets, one of the latter on The University of Brecknock. By Veritas, was much discussed. d. Crieff, Perthshire 21 Jany. 1889. I.L.N. lvi, 449 (1870), portrait, and 2 Feb. 1889 pp. 135, 158, portrait.

HUGHES, Julio Henry (son of Henry Hughes, proprietor of Exeter theatre, and grandson of Mr. Hughes manager of Sadler’s Wells). b. in residence attached to Devonport theatre 1810; under scene painter at Vauxhall gardens; held a share in the Exeter, Devonport and Guernsey theatres; first appeared in London at Pavilion theatre under management of Mr. Gladstones; leading actor at the Surrey 1840–6; played at Princess’s 1847, at Sadler’s Wells. d. 11 Oct. 1872. Theatrical Times, ii, 129, 138, portrait.

1576HUGHES, Mary (dau. of Mr. Robson). m. 1817 Thomas Hughes of Dundee; went to U.S. of America 1817; kept a school for young ladies at Philadelphia 1818–39; with her husband commenced farming at Doylestown, Bucks county 1839; contributed to the Church Tract Soc. London 1824; author of The alchemist, a tale 1818; The orphan girl 1819; The rebellious school girl 1821; The life of W. Penn 1822, another ed. Philadelphia 1828; Pleasing and instructive stories 1830; Sickroom dialogues, 4 ed. 1836; The twin brothers 1839; Village dialogues 1839. See Hale’s Woman’s Record (1855) 845.

Note.—She also wrote Aunt Mary’s tales, Ornaments discovered, Metamorphosis, Emma Mortimer, The two schools, Julia Ormond, Buds and Blossoms, The ivy wreath.

HUGHES, Philip. Conducted musical choirs in Manchester and the neighbourhood; gave much time to musical services of R.C. ch.; composer of music to many hymns such as The hymn to St. Albans; The green boughs meet; O turn to Jesus’ Mother turn; Jesus, dulcis memoria, and others. d. West Gorton, Manchester 10 Feb. 1880. Gillow’s English catholics, iii, 469 (1887).

HUGHES, Robert Ball (brother of Julio Henry Hughes 1810–72). b. London 19 Jany. 1806; pupil of E. H. Bailey the sculptor 7 years; gained gold medal at R.A. 1823 for a bas-relief, ‘Pandora brought by Mercury to Epimetheus,’ exhibited 4 sculptures at R.A. 1822–8; went to U.S. of America 1829 where his chief works were statue of Alexander Hamilton for Merchants’ Exchange, New York, destroyed by fire 1835; bronze statue of Nathaniel Bowditch now at Mount Auburn; and monument to bishop Hobart in Trin. ch. New York; sent a statue of Oliver Twist to Great exhibition in London 1851; lectured on art and made sketches on wood with a hot iron. d. Boston 5 March 1868.

HUGHES, Samuel (5 son of Richard Hughes, barrister). b. 1801; barrister I.T. 28 Jany. 1831; author with T. Coventry of An analytical digested index to the common law reports 1827; furnished an index and notes to Sir B. Shower’s Reports of cases in court of king’s bench 1836. d. Skipper’s hill, Mayfield, Sussex 29 Nov. 1887.

HUGHES, Thomas (brother of Robert Ball Hughes 1806–68). b. 3 Dec. 1808; studied with E. H. Bailey, sculptor; first appeared at Queen’s theatre, London 1825; at the St. James’s theatre under Edward Hooper’s management when he appeared in a series of 1577original parts 1839; broke his leg and was unable to resume his profession. d. London 7 Sep. 1857. The Era 13 Sep. 1857 p. 11.

HUGHES, Thomas. Connected with the turf 40 years; an early patron of Fred Archer the jockey; won the Chester cup with Our Mary Ann 1870; the Shobden cup twice with Oxonian which he sold for £3000; retired from the turf 1886. d. Aldford near Eaton hall about 25 Feb. 1890.

HUGHES, Thomas. b. Chester 1827; apprentice to a printer; connected with the press at Plymouth; partner in firm of Minshull and Hughes, booksellers, Eastgate row, Chester, retired 1880; sheriff of Chester 1873; F.S.A. 7 June 1866; had great knowledge of antiquities of Chester and its neighbourhood; edited D. King’s The vale royal of England 1852; George Batenham’s Ancient Chester 1880; author of The stranger’s handbook to Chester 1856, 2 ed. 1857. d. The Grove, Chester 30 May 1890. The Bookseller 6 June 1890 p. 584.

HUGHES, Thomas Elliott. b. 6 Jany. 1830; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery 8 June 1849; commander of a mountain train battery on N.W. frontier of India, present at storming of Laloo and capture of Umbeylah; lieut.-colonel R.A. 16 Jany. 1875, colonel 24 Jany. 1880 to death; M.G. 11 Feb. 1885; A.A.G., R.A. at head quarters 1878–82; director general of ordnance in India 1884–5. d. Simla 24 May 1886.

HUGHES, Thomas Fiott (1 son of Rev. Thomas Smart Hughes, V. of Edgware, d. 1847). Student attaché at Constantinople 16 May 1845; instrumental in raising the Bashi-Bazouks during the Crimean war 1854; consul at Erzeroom 29 May 1856; oriental sec. at Constantinople 6 Feb. 1859; commissioner for the dedicated monasteries in the United Principalities; retired from public service on a pension of £700, 12 Nov. 1875; great linguist and eastern scholar; translated Arabian Nights into Persian but not printed. d. Cheltenham 18 June 1887 aged 62.

HUGHES, Sir Walter Watson (3 son of Thomas Hughes of Pittenweem, Fife). b. 1803; master in mercantile marine; settled in South Australia, engaged in mining and pastoral pursuits 1841; shared in expenses of exploring expeditions and was a promoter of several new industries; ‘father’ of the Univ. of Adelaide; knighted at Windsor castle 16 Dec. 1880; purchased Fan Court, Lyne near Chertsey, Surrey 1883. d. Fan Court 1 Jany. 1887.

1578HUGHES, William (4 son of Rev. Sir Robert Hughes, bart., d. 1814). b. Maker vicarage, Cornwall 2 March 1803; barrister G.I. 11 June 1833; auditor of poor law union district of Cornwall and Devon; author of Practical instructions for drawing wills 1833; The practical angler. By Piscator 1842; The three students of Gray’s inn, A novel 1846; The practice of conveyancing 2 vols. 1856–7 and other books. d. 2 Millbay grove, Plymouth 20 Aug. 1861. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i, 258.

HUGHES, William. b. 1817; assistant in library of Br. Museum, cataloguing the geographical collection 1841, resigned Dec. 1843; F.R.G.S.; editor of Maunder’s Treasury of geography 1856; author of Atlas of constructive geography 1841; A class book of modern geography 1859, 3 ed. 1885; A class book of physical geography 1861, 4 ed. 1886; A treatise on the construction of maps, 3 ed. 1864, and about 30 other school books. d. 198 Adelaide road, Hampstead, London 21 May 1876. Cowtan’s British Museum (1872) 321–2.

HUGHES, William Bulkeley. b. 26 July 1797; ed. at Harrow; barrister L.I. 21 May 1824; M.P. for Carnarvon district of boroughs 1837–59 and 1865 to death; sheriff of Anglesea 1861. d. Plas Coch near Llanfair, Isle of Anglesea 9 March 1882. Law Times, lxxii, 376 (1882).

HUGHES, William Edward (2 son of Michael Hughes of Sherdley hall, Lancs. d. 1825). b. 16 July 1823; ed. at Eton 1838–42; member of Turf club; a player at whist, picquet and billiards; won a race with Sophistry; known as Gentleman Hughes and as Little Hughes. d. Brussels 17 Dec. 1885. Sporting Rev. Aug. 1858 p. 118–19.

HUGHES, William Hughes (son of John Hewitt). b. 1792; barrister L.I. 26 June 1827; contested Oxford 1832 and 1837; M.P. for Oxford 18 March 1833 to 18 July 1837; sheriff of Hants.; assumed name of Hughes 25 May 1825; alderman of London 1832; contributed preface and notes to J. L. De Lolme’s The constitution of England 1834. d. Ilkley Wells house, Yorkshire 10 Oct. 1874.

HUGHES, William Little (son of Wm. Hughes of Dublin). b. Dublin 1822; clerk in foreign press department of ministry of the interior, Paris about 1857, chief clerk to death; a collector of works on Shakespeare in all languages; translated and published Les temps difficiles. Par C. Dickens 1857; Devereux. Par Sir E. B. Lytton 1859; Histoire d’ une chandelle. Par M. Faraday 1865; Œuvres choisies d’ Edgar 1579Poe 1885; Les aventures de Huck Finn. Par M. Twain 1886 and other works. d. Paris 5 Jany. 1887.

HUGO, Rev. Thomas (eld. son of Charles Hugo, M.D. of Taunton). b. Taunton 1820; ed. at Worc. coll. Ox., B.A. 1842; C. of Walton-le-Dale, Lancs. 1842–44; V. of Halliwell, Lancs. 1850–52; V. of St. Botolph’s, Bishopsgate 1852–58; P.C. of All Saints, Bishopsgate 1858–68; R. of West Hackney 1868 to death; F.S.A. 24 Feb. 1853; founder of London and Middlesex archæol. soc. 1855; made collection of works of the Brothers Bewick of Newcastle, and had many of their wood-blocks; contributed to Hymns ancient and modern 1860; author of The charters of Cleeve abbey 1856; Varus, a tragedy 1864; The Bewick collector. A catalogue of the works of T. and J. Bewick 1866; The Bewick collector. A supplement 1868; Bewick’s Woodcuts 1870 and 15 other books. d. West Hackney rectory 31 Dec. 1876. bur. Highgate cemet. 6 Jany. 1877. Guardian 3 Jany. 1877 p. 12.

HUISH, Mark. b. 1808; sec. and general manager Glasgow and Greenock railway 1839 or 40, of grand junction railway 1841–45, of Liverpool and Manchester and Bolton railway 1845–46, and of London and north western railway 1846 to Nov. 1858; A.I.C.E. 6 April 1852. d. Combe Wood, Bonchurch 18 Jany. 1867. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxvii, 600–602 (1868); I.L.N. xxxiii, 517–8 (1858), portrait; Railway Management. Two letters to G. C. Glyn by J. Whitehead and M. Huish 1848.

HULBERT, Charles (son of Thomas Hulbert of Hulbert Green near Cheadle, Cheshire). b. Manchester 18 Feb. 1778; manager of print works at Middleton 1800; cotton manufacturer at Swinton near Manchester, then at Coleham near Shrewsbury 1803–13; bookseller and printer, Shrewsbury 1813–27 and at Hadnal near Shrewsbury 1827 to death; printed Salopian Mag. 1815–7; his house and library burnt 7 Jany. 1839; author of The select museum of the world 4 vols. 1822–5; The history of Salop 1837; Cheshire Antiquities 1838; Memoirs of seventy years of an eventful life 1848–52, with portrait, and many other books. d. Hadnal near Shrewsbury 7 Oct. 1857. Obituary of C. Hulbert. By C. A. Hulbert, 2 ed. (1860); Shrewsbury Chronicle 6 Nov. 1857.

HULBERT, Rev. Charles Augustus (eld. son of the preceding). b. Coleham near Shrewsbury 31 Dec. 1804 or 1805; ed. at Shrewsbury and Sid. Sus. coll. Cam., B.A. 1834, M.A. 15801837; C. of St. Mary’s, Islington 1834–9; P.C. of Slaithwaite, Yorkshire 1839–67; V. of Almondbury near Huddersfield 26 Feb. 1867 to death; hon. canon of Ripon, Oct. 1866 to death; author of Poetical recreations 1828; Theotokos, or the song of the Virgin 1842; Annals of the church in Slaithwaite 1864; Annals of the church and parish of Almondbury 1882, Supplementary Annals 1885, and other books; (Mary his wife dau. of James Lacy of Islington d. 2 May 1884 aged 75). d. 5 March 1888. C. A. Hulbert’s Annals of Almondbury (1883) 96, 592, portrait; Supplementary Annals (1885) 62–8, portrait of his wife.

HULINE, James. b. about 1816; played clown in pantomime of The Maid and the Magpie, at Princess’s theatre, London, Dec. 1854; in pantomime of Harlequin and the House that Jack built, at Drury Lane Dec. 1861; in pantomime of Ladybird or Harlequin Lord Dundreary, at Astley’s Dec. 1862; father of the well known brothers Huline clowns. d. 31 Jany. 1890. Illust. sp. and dram. news 19 Dec. 1874 p. 268, portrait.

HULL, Rev. Edward. b. 1789; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1814; minister of St. Mary’s attached to Blind sch. Liverpool 1819–57; author of The institution and abuses of ecclesiastical property 1831; The tractarian and the prayer book 1853. d. Waterloo road, Liverpool 6 Jany. 1867.

HULL, Robert. b. 1795; M.R.C.S. 1816, Ext. L.R.C.P.; M.D. Lambeth; physician Norfolk and Norwich eye infirmary; author of Cursory notes on the morbid eye 1840; Essay on determination of blood to the head 1842; A few suggestions on consumption 1849. d. St. Michael-at-Plea, Norwich 13 April 1856.

HULL, William (son of a small farmer). b. Graffham, Hunts. 6 May 1820; ed. at Moravian settlements, Ockbrook near Derby, Wellhouse, Yorkshire, and Grace Hill near Ballymena, Ireland 1834–40; travelled in France, Germany and Holland 1841–4; an artist at Manchester 1844–70; exhibited at Manchester academy of fine arts, Royal Manchester Instit. and the Black and white exhibitions held 1877–80; illustrated R. Langton’s Charles Dickens and Rochester 1880; settled at Rydal, Westmoreland 1870 and became known as The painter of Rydal. d. Rydal 15 March 1880. bur. Grasmere ch. yard. Portfolio, Jany. 1886 pp. 15, 21; Papers of Manchester Literary Club (1880) 308–10; Catalogue of water colour drawing, etc. by W. Hull, exhibited at Manchester Lit. Club 1886.

1581HULL, William Winstanley (son of John Hull, M.D., botanist 1761–1843). b. Blackburn 15 March 1794; ed. at Manchester and Macclesfield gr. schs. and Brasenose coll. Ox., fellow 1816–20; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1817; barrister L.I. 16 June 1820; practised at chancery bar to 1846; with his brother Rev. John Hull drew up a petition praying for revision of the liturgy, presented to House of Lords 26 May 1840; author of Occasional papers on church matters 1848; A collection of prayers for household use, with some hymns and other poems 1852; A letter concerning the revision of the book of common prayer 1860. d. The Knowle, Hazlewood, Derbyshire 28 Aug. 1873. Manchester School Register, iii, 37, 289.

HULLAH, John Pyke. b. Worcester 27 June 1812; studied music under Wm. Horsley and at royal academy of music 1832; his opera The Village Coquette produced at St. James’s theatre, London 5 Dec. 1836 ran for 60 nights; organist of Croydon church 1837; his operas The Barbers of Bassora and The Outpost produced at Covent Garden 1837 and 1838 were unsuccessful; formed classes at Exeter Hall for teaching music to large numbers of persons on Wilhelm’s method 1841, his classes removed to St. Martin’s hall, Oct. 1849, formally opened 11 Feb. 1850, burnt down 26 Aug. 1860; organist to the Charterhouse 1858 to death; composed music for Kingsley’s songs The Sands of Dee and The Three Fishers; conducted concerts of R.A. of music 1870–3; bankrupt Oct. 1860; musical inspector of training schools for United Kingdom, March 1872; LLD. Edin. 1876; granted civil list pension of £150, 13 Oct. 1880; edited Part music 2 vols. 1842–5, another ed. 1868; The song book 1866; author of Wilhelm’s Method of teaching singing 1841, 3 ed. 1854; A grammar of musical harmony 1852; A grammar of counterpoint 1864 and about 100 pieces of music. d. 17 Grosvenor mansions, Victoria st. London 21 Feb. 1884. bur. Kensal green 26 Feb. Life of John Hullah (1886); Dublin Univ. Mag. March 1880 pp. 323–33, portrait; I.L.N. i, 69, 76 (1842) portrait, x 405 (1847), xvi 117 (1850); Graphic xxix, 229 (1884), portrait.

HULLETT, Rev. John. b. 1815; ed. at St. Cath. hall, Cam., B.A. 1838; P.C. of Allestree, Derby 1849 to death; author of Sermons preached for the most part in the church of Allestree 1858, Second series 1859; The true light and other poems 1861. d. Toft near Knutsford 25 April 1865.

HULME, Frederick William (son of an artist). b. Swinton, Yorkshire 1816; landscape painter; teacher of drawing and painting in London; 1582exhibited 36 pictures at R.A., 5 at B.I. and 5 at Suffolk st. 1845–80; published A graduated series of drawing copies on landscape subjects for use of schools 4 parts 1850. d. 8 St. Alban’s road, Kensington, London 14 Nov. 1884. I.L.N. lxxxv, 556 (1884), portrait; Athenæum 22 Nov. 1884 p. 666.

HULME, John Walter. Barrister M.T. 23 Jany. 1829; chief justice of Hong Kong 9 Feb. 1844 to Jany. or Feb. 1860. d. Brighton 1 March 1861 in 57 year.

HULTON, Rev. Campbell Basset Arthur Grey (4 son of Henry Hulton of Preston 1765–1831, treasurer of co. of Lancaster). b. Ballalhick, Isle of Man 3 May 1813; ed. at Manchester sch. and Brasenose coll. Ox., scholar 1831–4; B.A. 1835, M.A. 1838; Ellerton theological prizeman 1837; C. of St. Mary’s, Manchester 1839–44; Chetham’s librarian at Manchester 1839–45; R. of St. Paul’s, Manchester 1844–60; R. of Emberton, Bucks. 1860 to death; author of A catechetical help to bishop Butler’s Analogy 1854, another ed. 1859. d. Emberton rectory 30 April 1878. Manchester sch. register, iii, 176 (1874).

HULTON, William Adam (brother of the preceding). b. Preston 18 Oct. 1802; ed. at Manchester gr. sch.; barrister I.T. 29 June 1827; treasurer of county Lancaster 1831–49; assessor of Lancaster Sheriff’s Court to 1847; judge of county courts, circuit No. 5 (Bolton, &c.), 13 March 1847; judge of circuit No. 6 (Liverpool), 31 Dec. 1859; judge of circuit No. 4 (Preston, &c.) 1863 to April 1886; edited and printed with his own hands A Pedigree of the Hulton family about 1847; member of council of Chetham Soc. 1848, edited for the Soc. The Coucher book, or chartulary of Whalley Abbey 4 vols. 1847–50, Documents relating to the Priory of Penwortham 1853; author of A treatise on the law of convictions with the statutes and forms applicable to summary convictions by justices of the peace 1835. d. Hurst Grange near Preston 3 March 1887. Law Times 19 March 1887 p. 367.

HUMBER, William. b. 1821; pupil of G. Watson 1835–39; one of Thomas Brassey’s staff 1847–52; practised as civil engineer 1852 to death; A.I.C.E. 6 May 1856; author of A complete treatise on cast and wrought iron bridge construction 2 vols. 1857, 3 ed. 1870; A record of the progress of modern engineering 1863–66, 4 vols. 1870; A handy book for the calculation of strains in girders 1868, 4 ed. 1885; A comprehensive treatise on the water supply of cities and towns 1876. d. 1 Portland villas, Brixton hill, Surrey 14 April 1881.

1583HUMBERSTON, Philip Stapleton (only son of Philip Humberston of Chester). b. 1812; ed. at Westminster; M.P. for Chester 1859–65; sheriff of Cheshire 1878; hon. col. of 2 volunteer battalion of Cheshire regiment 20 May 1876 to death; member of council of Royal Agricultural Soc., proposed the use of a special form of Farming agreements 1855. d. Glan-y-Wern near Denbigh 16 Jany. 1891.

HUMBERT, Albert Jenkins. b. 1822; partner with Charles Frederick Reeks, architect, designed Carlisle parade and Robertson terrace, Hastings, and rebuilt the church at Bodiam; had premium for designs for new government offices 1856; rebuilt Whippingham ch. Isle of Wight 1860; designed mausoleum of duchess of Kent 1861 and that of Prince Consort 1862, both at Frogmore near Windsor; designed and superintended rebuilding of Sandringham house for prince of Wales 1869–71; F.R.I.B.A. d. Castle Mona, Douglas, Isle of Man 24 Dec. 1877.

HUMBLE, Rev. Henry. Ed. at Univ. coll. Durham, B.A. 1837, M.A. 1842; C. of Newburn, Northumberland 1842–53; canon and precentor of St. Ninian’s cath. Perth 1853 to death; author of A letter to the bishop of St. Andrews on his recent charge 1859; The recent episcopal decisions. A review of the transactions at the episcopal synod 1858; Remarks on a debate in convocation in reference to the Scottish liturgy 1862; The rights of laymen in the church of Christ 1870; The administration of canon law, a review of proceedings in the case of Humble and others v. the bishop of St. Andrews 1873. d. San Remo, Italy 7 Feb. 1876.

HUMBLE, Rev. Michael Maughan. b. 1811; ed. at Em. coll. Cam., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1860; C. of Felton, Northumberland 1835–9; R. of Sutton cum Duckmanton, Derbyshire 2 July 1839 to death; author of Methodistic Catholicism 1852; The church of England and the fathers 1854; Credenda 1875; Family Prayers 1879. d. Sutton rectory 3 Feb. 1889.

HUMBLE, William. b. 1797; M.D.; F.G.S.; author of A practical treatise on sea bathing. Worthing 1838; Dictionary of geology and mineralogy 1840, 3 ed. 1860. d. Cliff lodge, Ramsgate 23 April 1878.

HUMBY, Anne (dau. of Mr. Ayre of London, law stationer). b. London 1800; first appeared on the stage at Hull as Rosina; appeared at Bath 4 Nov. 1818 as Rosetta in Love in a village; played at Dublin 1821–5; first appeared in London at Haymarket theatre 18 April 1825 as Cowslip in The Agreeable Surprise; played at Haymarket 1825–30, then at 1584Drury Lane; unrivalled as an actress of chambermaids, &c.; the original exponent of Polly Briggs in Douglas Jerrold’s Rent Day 25 Jany. 1832, of Sophy Hawes in Jerrold’s Housekeeper at the Haymarket 17 July 1833, of Chicken in Jerrold’s Time Works Wonders at the Haymarket 26 April 1845, and of Lady Clutterbuck in Boucicault’s Used up at the Haymarket 6 Feb. 1844, and was seen in the same character at Windsor castle 4 Jany. 1849; made her last appearance on the stage, at Lyceum theatre as a Damsel in Barbadoes in Drop the Curtain 28 Nov. 1849; (m. (1) about 1817 William Henry Humby actor in the Hull circuit, subsequently a dentist London 1831 to 1847, d. Guernsey 15 June 1850 aged 58; m. (2) 3 April 1854 at Episcopal chapel, St. Peter’s, Hammersmith, Joseph Hammon of Bridge road, Hammersmith, builder then aged 43); she lived at 198 Piccadilly, London 1848–51, at 3 Castlenau cottages, Barnes 1854–60 or 61 and must be dead, but her name cannot be found in register of deaths at Somerset house between 1866 and 1887. The Oddfellow, i, 81 (1839).

HUME, Rev. Abraham (son of Thomas F. Hume). b. Hillsborough, co. Down 9 Feb. 1814; ed. at Royal Belfast coll., Glasgow univ., LL.B. and LLD. 1851, and Trin. coll. Dublin; B.A. Dublin 1843, LLD. Cam. 1856, D.C.L. Ox. 1857; C. of St. Augustines, Everton 1844–47; prof. of English literature in collegiate institution, Liverpool 1844–7; V. of Vauxhall, Liverpool 1847 to death; surveyed Chili and Peru for South American Missionary Soc. 1867; chief founder of Hist. Soc. of Lancs. and Cheshire 1848, pres. 1869–75; sec. of church congress at Liverpool 1869; sec. of British association at Liverpool 1870; vice chairman of Liverpool school board 1870–6; sec. of Liverpool bishopric committee 1873–80; hon. canon of Chester 1874–80, of Liverpool 1880 to death; F.S.A. 14 March 1844; author of The learned societies and printing clubs of the United Kingdom 1847, new ed. 1853; Ancient Meols, or some account of the antiquities found on the sea-coast of Cheshire 2 parts 1863–66 with portrait of author; Remarks on the Irish dialect of the English language 1878, and more than 100 other books. d. All Soul’s vicarage, 6 Rupert lane, Liverpool 21 Nov. 1884. J. C. Morley’s Memoir of Rev. A. Hume, Liverpool 1887; Crockford’s Clerical Directory (1876) 474.

HUME, Alexander (son of Walter Hume, a retail trader). b. Kelso 1 Feb. 1809; a strolling player in England 1822 or 1823; employed 1585by London agents of Berwick & Co. brewers, Edinburgh 1827–40; London agent for Messrs. Lane, brewers, Cork 1841–7; author of Scottish songs 1835; English songs and ballads 1838; Songs and poems, chiefly Scottish 1845. d. Northampton, May 1851. Rogers’s Modern Scottish Minstrel, ii, 182–94 (1856).

HUME, Alexander. b. Edinburgh 17 Feb. 1811; tenor singer in St. Paul’s episcopal ch. Edin.; chorus master in theatre royal, Edin.; arranged musical manual for the Glassites; cabinet maker at Glasgow about 1855; very successful in setting tunes to Scottish lyrics and songs of his own; edited The lyric gems of Scotland, Glasgow 1856, to which he made 50 contributions. d. Glasgow 4 Feb. 1859.

HUME, Alexander Hamilton (son of Andrew Hamilton Hume 1762–1849, Australian settler). b. Paramatta, New South Wales 18 June 1797; with his brother John Kennedy Hume (shot by bush rangers Jany. 1840) discovered Bong Bong and Berrima, Aug. 1814; accompanied surveyor Meehan in the discovery of Goulburn plains 1817, rewarded with grant of 300 acres near Appin; made the first overland journey from Sydney to Port Philip 2 Oct. to 16 Dec. 1824, discovered the Hume now called Murray river 16 Nov. 1824, rewarded with grant of 1200 acres of land valued at half a crown an acre 1825; accompanied Charles Sturt in his Macquarie and Darling river expedition 1828–9; F.R.G.S. 1860; author of A brief statement of an overland expedition from Lake George to Port Philip 1855, 3 ed. 1874. d. Fort George, Yass, N.S.W. 19 April 1873, monumental pillar at Albury on the Murray. Heaton’s Australian Dictionary (1879) 98; Bonwick’s Port Philip Settlement (1883) 80–93, portrait.

HUME, Sir Gustavus (2 son of Rev. Robert Hume of Dublin, d. 1849). b. 25 Feb. 1826; ensign 38 foot 30 May 1843, captain 21 Sep. 1852 to 22 June 1858 when placed on h.p.; served in Crimean war 1854–5 and in Indian mutiny 1857–8; assistant inspector of volunteers 1860–65; lieut.-col. in the army 17 March 1863; member of corps of gentlemen-at-arms, Dec. 1872, adjutant 1 Jany. 1876, lieut. 20 Nov. 1878 to death; a knight of Legion of Honour; knighted at Windsor Castle 1 Dec. 1880. d. 21 Royal York crescent, Clifton 16 June 1891.

HUME, John Robert. b. Renfrewshire 1781 or 1782; received medical education at Glasgow 1795, 98 and 99, and at Edinburgh 1796–97; entered medical department of army, 1586inspector general 3 Dec. 1818 to 25 April 1821 when placed on h.p.; M.D. St. Andrews 12 Jany. 1816; L.R.C.P. London 22 Dec. 1819, F.R.C.P. 9 July 1836; settled in London; private physician to duke of Wellington many years; D.C.L. Ox. 13 June 1834; one of metropolitan comrs. in lunacy 1 Sep. 1836 to death; C.B. 16 Aug. 1850. d. 9 Curzon st. London 1 March 1857. Munk’s Coll. of physicians, iii, 212 (1878).

HUME, Joseph (son of James Hume of Montrose, shipmaster). b. Montrose 22 Jany. 1777; apprenticed to a surgeon of Montrose 1790; M.R.C.S. Edin. 1796; M.R.C.S. Lond. 2 Feb. 1797; assistant surgeon in marine service of East India Co.; Persian interpreter in army during Mahratta war 1802–1807; commissary general 1807, resigned and returned to England with £40,000, 1808; M.P. Weymouth, Jany. 1812; M.P. Aberdeen district of burghs 1818–30; M.P. Middlesex 1830–37; M.P. Kilkenny 1837–41; contested Leeds 1841; M.P. Montrose district of burghs 1842 to death; leader of the radical party 30 years, he spoke longer and oftener than any other private member, many of his speeches were printed; lord rector of Univ. of Aberdeen 1824 and 1828; F.R.S.; F.R.A.S. d. Burnley hall, Norfolk 20 Feb. 1855. bur. Kensal Green cemetery. Joseph Hume a memorial [a poem]. By J. B. Hume (1855); H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches, 4 ed. (1876) 64–70; Reminiscences of 50 years. By Mark Boyd (1871) 281–92; J. Grant’s Memoir of Sir G. Sinclair (1870) 66–79; St. Stephens. By Mask (1839) 198–210; Saunders’s Portraits of reformers (1840), 55 portrait; Fagan’s Reform club (1887) 29–31, portrait.

HUMFREY, Lebbeus Charles (eld. son of Rev. Lebbeus Charles Humfrey, R. of Laughton, Leics. d. 1833). b. about 1798; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; barrister L.I. 17 June 1823, bencher 1845; went Midland circuit of which he became leader; counsel to Times newspaper; Q.C. Feb. 1845; marble bust of him by E. H. Bailey exhibited at the R.A. 1852. d. 11 Great Queen st. Westminster 11 May 1852. bur. beneath chapel of Lincoln’s inn. G.M. xxxviii, 95–6 (1852).

HUMPHERY, John (eld. son of John Humphery of Shadwell, London). b. 30 May 1794; a wharfinger and merchant at Hay’s wharf, Tooley st. Southwark; M.P. for Southwark 1832–52; governor of Irish Society 1843 to death; alderman of Aldgate ward 1835 to death; sheriff of London 1832–3, lord mayor 15871842–3. d. Battersea Rise, north side of Clapham common 28 Sep. 1863. I.L.N. ii, 279 (1843), portrait.

HUMPHREY, Thomas. b. Mitcham, Surrey 16 Jany. 1839; one of the best batsmen of his day, especially good at cutting, made 1000 runs during a season several times; played for Surrey many years; a first-class fieldsman especially at long-leg and long-on; had a benefit at Kennington Oval 26–28 July 1876. d. the Asylum, Brookwood, Surrey 3 Sep. 1878. bur. Woking cemet. 9 Sep. Illust. sp. and dram. news, v, 401, 402, 430 (1876), portrait; Bell’s Life in London 7 Sep. 1878 pp. 3, 4, and 14 Sep. p. 4; W. G. Grace’s Cricket (1891) 329–30.

HUMPHREYS, Henry Noel (son of James Humphreys of Birmingham). b. Birmingham 4 Jany. 1810; resided in Italy about 1828–40; illustrated Westwood’s British butterflies 1841; Loudon’s British Wild Flowers 1856 and other books; author of The Coins of England 1846; The coin-collector’s manual 2 vols. 1847; The origin and progress of the art of writing 1853; A history of the art of printing 1867 and 20 other books. d. 7 Westbourne sq. London 10 June 1879. Academy 21 June 1879 p. 550.

HUMPHREYS, Sir John (son of John Humphreys of Upper Clapton, Middlesex). b. Upper Clapton 1814; a solicitor and parliamentary agent in London 1842–59; coroner for East Middlesex 1859 to death; knighted at Osborne 18 Aug. 1881. d. 20 Devonshire st. Portland place, London 20 Nov. 1886.

HUMPHREYS, William. b. Dublin 1794; learnt engraving from George Murray at Philadelphia; engraved small plates for annuals, &c.; returned to England 1822; engraved steel plate head of Queen Victoria on postage stamps, also head of Washington for U.S. stamps; engraved Murillo’s Spanish peasant boy 1833, C. R Leslie’s Sancho and the Duchess 1838, and other large plates. d. at Alfred Novello’s residence, Villa Novella, Genoa 21 Jany. 1865. W. S. Baker’s American Engravers (1875) 84–86.

HUMPHRY, Joseph. b. 1795 or 1796; barrister L.I. 6 July 1821; Q.C. 1846 to 28 Nov. 1850; master in chancery 28 Nov. 1850 to 8 Aug. 1860 when he retired. d. Brighton 18 Nov. 1861.

Note.—He was the last master in chancery appointed, the office was abolished in 1852 by 15 & 16 Vict. cap. 80 having been in existence since 1272.

1588HUMPHRY, Rev. William Gilson (eld. son of Wm. Wood Humphry, barrister). b. Sudbury, Suffolk 30 Jany. 1815; ed. at Shrewsbury, captain of the school; entered Trin. coll. Cam. 1833, Pitt scholar 1835, fellow 1839, senior classic and 27th wrangler 1837, B.A. 1837; proctor of Univ. of Cam. 1845–6, Hulsean lecturer 1849–51, Boyle lecturer 1857–9; exam. chaplain to bishop Blomfield of London 1847–55; V. of Northolt, Middlesex 1852–5; preb. of St. Paul’s 1852 to death; V. of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London 1855 to death; one of revisers of New Testament 1870; a treasurer of S.P.C.K. 30 years; author of A commentary on the Acts of the Apostles 1847, 2 ed. 1854; An historical treatise on the book of common prayer 1853, 6 ed. 1885; A commentary on the revised version of the New Testament for English readers 1882, 2 ed. 1888 and 20 other books. d. 6 St. Martin’s place, Trafalgar sq. London 10 Jany. 1886.

HUMPIDGE, Thomas Samuel. b. Gloucester 23 July 1853; ed. at Royal school of mines 1874, Jodrell scholar 1875; B. Sc. London 1875; Ph.D. Heidelberg 1878; science master Fellenberg instit. Hofwyl near Berne 1878; prof. of natural science Univ. coll. Aberystwyth, Sep. 1879 to death; made discoveries in the atomic weight of beryllium, towards the cost of which the Royal Soc. made grants, all his apparatus burnt in the college July 1885; sent papers to Philos. Trans. and Proceedings; translated H. Kolbe’s A short text-book of inorganic chemistry 1884. d. The college, Aberystwyth 30 Nov. 1887. Journal Chemical soc. (1888) 513–18.

HUNGATE, William Anning. b. 7 Sep. 1786; entered navy 10 July 1803, lieut. on h.p. 2 March 1815 to death; claimed to be descended from and to be entitled to estates of the Hungate family of Yorkshire, brought actions of ejectment to obtain possession of estates 1831 and 1832 but failed; assumed title of baronet and was presented to Wm. iv. as Sir W. A. Hungate, by Earl of Denbigh 27 April 1831. d. 18 Feb. 1852.

HUNLOKE, Sir Henry John Joseph, 6 Baronet. b. 29 Sep. 1812; succeeded 19 June 1816; formed a menagerie of rare animals at Wingeworth hall, Derbyshire, which was sold by auction after his death. d. Grafton st. London 8 Feb. 1856.

HUNNUM, Robert (son of Fenwick Hunnum, purveyor to the Lambton kennel). b. Durham 1795; second horseman to Mr. Ralph John Lambton of Merton house, Durham 1809 and known by name of ‘Mr. Ralph’s Great Coat’; 1589second whip 1818; first whipper-in 1829 till the Lambton hounds were sold to Lord Suffield; a man of great courage and endurance; huntsman to Sir Matthew White Ridley in Northumberland 1843, whose hounds were sold by auction in London 30 June 1845 for £773, after which the hunt was kept up by subscription. The Book of Sports, ii, 42–6 (1843), portrait; New Sporting Mag. v, 4–5 (1833), portrait.

HUNT, Andrew. b. Erdington near Birmingham 1790; pupil of Samuel Lines the engraver; landscape painter and teacher of drawing at Liverpool; member of Liverpool Academy and exhibitor there. d. 31 Oxford st. 22 July 1861.

HUNT, Edward (son of Thomas Hunt). b. Hammersmith, Middlesex 29 Sep. 1829; ed. at Univ. coll. London, B.A. London 1850; assistant to Crace Calvert, royal institution laboratory, Manchester 1851; discovered process for distilling resin without decomposition 1857; took out patent for treatment of resin in making soap 1858; partner with Samuel Barlow and H. D. Pochin as Samuel Barlow & Co. in bleaching and dyeing works Stakehill near Middleton, Lancs. 1861 to death; F.C.S. Dec. 1851. d. Whalley range, Manchester 12 Aug. 1883. Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 476–7 (1887).

HUNT, Ellen St. John. b. Norwich 27 Nov. 1837; a contributor to The Bible class mag. and to The Sunday school teachers’ mag. under pseudonym of Ion; author of Thoughts of sunshine in sorrow. By E.S.J.H. 1862, Second series 1866. d. Norwich 11 March 1864. Memoir pp. v-xlvii in Thoughts of sunshine (1866).

HUNT, Frederick Knight. b. Buckinghamshire, April 1814; employed in printing office of Morning Herald 1830; clerk to a barrister in the Temple 1830; sec. to London Anti-Corn-law league 1836; studied medicine at Middlesex hospital, M.R.C.S. 13 Nov. 1840; projected the Medical Times which he edited 28 Sep. 1839; surgeon of a union in Norfolk; sub-editor of Illustrated London News; sub-editor of Pictorial Times; edited Hunt’s London Journal 1844; assistant editor Daily News Jany. 1846, and editor 1851 to death; author of The book of art 1846; The Rhine, its scenery and associations 1845; The fourth estate, contributions towards a history of newspapers 2 vols. 1850. d. Forest hill, Sydenham 18 Nov. 1854. John Francis, publisher of the Athenæum. By J. C. Francis, i, 224, 226, 410–13 (1888); Diprose’s St. Clements, i, 245 (1868).

1590HUNT, Rev. George (son of Nehemiah Augustus Hunt of Plymouth). b. 1789; ed. at Trin. coll. Ox., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813; V. of Egg Buckland near Plymouth 26 May 1818 to death; F.R.S.; edited Specimens of lithography as applied to eastern literature 1819; translated The book of Job 1825; Himyaric inscriptions of Hisn Ghoráb 1848. d. Egg Buckland 20 Feb. 1861.

HUNT, George Ward (eld. son of Rev. George Hunt of Buckhurst, Berks.) b. Buckhurst 30 July 1825; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1848, M.A. 1851, D.C.L. 1870; barrister I.T. 21 Nov. 1851, bencher 23 May 1873; contested Northampton 1852 and 1857; M.P. for North Northamptonshire 16 Dec. 1857 to death; chairman of quarter sessions for Northamptonshire, April 1866; financial sec. to treasury, July 1866 to Feb. 1868; chancellor of the exchequer 29 Feb. to Dec. 1868; P.C. 29 Feb. 1868; first lord of the admiralty 21 Feb. 1874 to death. d. Homburg 29 July 1877. bur. Homburg 30 July. C. Brown’s Life of Beaconsfield, ii, 93, 162 (1882), portrait; Graphic 4 Aug. 1877 pp. 99, 113, portrait.

HUNT, Henry. Educ. at St. Bartholomew’s hospital and Paris; M.R.C.P. 1840, F.R.C.P. 1859; fellow of Royal Med. Chir. Soc.; practised at 68 Brook st. Hanover sq. London from 1840; phys. to Dispensary for Children; author of On the nature and treatment of tic-douloureux, sciatica and other neuralgic disorders 1844; On the severer forms of heartburn and indigestion 1854. d. 25 May 1877 aged 75.

HUNT, Sir Henry Arthur (son of James Hunt of Westminster). b. 1810; consulting surveyor to H.M. commissioners of works and buildings 1856–86; receiver-general for dean and chapter of Westminster to 1886; partner in firm of Hunt, Stephenson and Jones, surveyors, 45 Parliament st. Westminster; A.I.C.E. 4 March 1851; C.B. 5 Aug. 1871; knighted at Osborne 21 July 1876. d. The Lees, Folkestone 13 Jany. 1889.

HUNT, Holdsworth (youngest son of Wm. Chollwill Hunt, M.D. of Dartmouth). b. Dartmouth 1806; ed. at Crediton and in Paris; barrister I.T. 12 June 1833, bencher 1865 to death, reader 1879, treasurer 1880; member of council of legal education; member of French Institute 1851. d. 20 Park crescent, Portland place, London 26 April 1883.

HUNT, James (son of Thomas Hunt 1802–51). b. Swanage, Dorset 1833; Ph.D. of Giessen 1855 and M.D. 1867; succeeded his father as a specialist in curing stammering, had a house at Hastings where he received many patients; member of Ethnological soc. of London 1854, 1591hon. sec. 1859–62, hon. fellow 1862; founded Anthropological soc. of London 1863, president 1863–8, director 1867; edited Anthropological Rev. 1863; agitated for making Anthropology a department at British Assoc. meetings which was done in 1883; F.S.A.; F.R.S.L. 1854; author of A manual of the philosophy of voice and speech 1859; Stammering and stuttering, their nature and treatment 1861, 7 ed. 1870 and 7 other books. d. Ore Court near Hastings 29 Aug. 1869. Reg. and mag. of biog., ii, 198–200 (1869).

HUNT, James Henry Leigh (son of Rev. Isaac Hunt, d. 1809 aged 57). b. Southgate, Middlesex 19 Oct. 1784; ed. at Christ hospital 1792–99; started with his brother John, The Examiner a weekly paper 1808, editor 1808–21; edited a quarterly mag. called The Reflector which ran to 4 numbers 1810; tried for a libel in The Examiner on the prince regent, and imprisoned in Surrey gaol 3 Feb. 1813 to 3 Feb. 1815; great friend of Byron, Shelley, Keats, C. Lamb, T. Moore, J. Forster and T. Carlyle; edited The Indicator, Oct. 1820 to 1822, 77 numbers; was in Italy 1822–5; edited The Liberal 1822–3, 2 vols.; The Literary Examiner, 27 numbers; The Companion 1828, 28 numbers; The Chat of the Week 1830, 13 numbers; The Tatler a daily sheet entirely written by himself 4 Oct. 1830 to 13 Feb. 1832, 59 numbers; Leigh Hunt’s London Journal 1834 to 26 Dec. 1835, and The Monthly Repository July 1837 to March 1838; produced A Legend of Florence at Covent Garden 7 Feb. 1840; civil list pension of £200, 4 Oct. 1847; published Leigh Hunt’s Journal 1850 to March 1851; author of Lord Byron and some of his contemporaries 1828; The Town 2 vols. 1848; The autobiography of L. Hunt 1850, 3 vols. new ed. 1860; Table talk 1851 and very numerous other books. d. at res. of Charles W. Reynell, Chatfield house, (now 84) High st. Putney, Surrey 28 Aug. 1859. bur. Kensal Green cemet. Sep., monument by Joseph Durham, A.R.A. placed on the spot 19 Oct. 1869. The Correspondence of Leigh Hunt 2 vols. (1862); Leigh Hunt’s Lord Byron, 2 ed. (1828) 55–408, portrait; W. Howitt’s Homes and haunts of British poets, ii, 347–67 (1847); T. H. Ward’s English poets, 2 ed. (1883) iv, 340–7; J. A. Langford’s Prison books (1861) 316–33, portrait; Maclise Portrait Gallery (1883) 242–56, portrait; L. Hutton’s Literary landmarks of London, 4 ed. (1888) 144–9; F. E. Baines’ Hampstead (1890) 358, portrait.