INDEX.

This Index contains references to the most important, curious and interesting facts, to be found in the pages of this work.

A

Aberdeen, granite from first used in public works 1136; lives of eminent men of 451; Marischal coll. lord rectors 971, 1448, Marischal coll., univ. of Aberdeen and King’s coll. fused 628, univ. chancellor 6, univ. lord rectors 76, 976, 1086, 1586, univ. principal 533.

Aberdeenshire, lords lieutenant 6, 1599.

Aberystwyth, university coll. burnt 1588.

Abipones, account of the 675.

Absolon, John, scene painter 1243.

Absorption, the pressure of 1596.

Abyssinia, king Theodore 522, Theodore’s general Bell 228, prince of, death of 9, travellers in 223, war in 522.

Achilli, Giacinto, case of 1361.

Achonry, bishop of 930.

Acids, graphitic discovered 409.

Aconite, tincture of 1067.

Acting, rapid study 1285.

Actors see also Circus proprietors, Clowns, Columbines, Conjurors, Dancers, Dramatists, Entertainers, Equestrian performers, Gymnasts, Harlequins, Jugglers, Lecturers, Lion tamers, Negro minstrels, Panoramas, Pantaloons, Pantomimists, Polander performers, Singers, Somersault throwers, Theatres, Theatrical managers, Tight-rope dancers, Trapeze performers, Ventriloquists and Wire walkers; Barnes 172, Barnett 174, Bateman 190, Bedford 225, Belford 225, Belmore 236, Bennett, G. J. 241, Bennett, J. 242, Bennett, W. 244, Betty 265, Beverley, E. 267, Beverley, H. 267, Bland 308, Bone 1345, Booth, J. B. 338, Booth, Sarah 339, Boothby 340, Braid 378, 1618Brooke 416, Brothers 1527, Browne 444, Buckstone 465, Bunn 473, Burton 495, Calvert, C. A. 519, Calvert, F. B. 520, Cartlitch 564, Celeste 579, Chatterley 579, Clark 630, Clarke 633, Colville 1546, Compton 689, Conway 696, Cony 697, Cooke, G. 701, Cooke, J. 702, Cooke, T. P. 703, Cooper 710, Coote 713, Cowell, J. L. 735, Cowell, S. H. 735, Cowle 737, Craven 752, Cushman 796, Dale 801, Daly 808, Davison 833, De Bar 844, De Walden 869, Dewar 869, Dickson 876, Dillon 879, Dinneford 880, Don 893, Donaldson 894, Donnelly 896, Dowton 910 bis., Drake 914, Drew 917, Drift 925, Dyott 849, Eburn 955, Edgar 958, Edwin, E. R. 967, Edwin, J. 968, Eldred 973, Elliston 988, Emery 991, Everard 1006, Farley 1021, Farquharson 1023, Farren, H. 1025, Farren, H. E. 1025, Farren, W. 1025, Farren, W. 1025, Fechter 1030, Fenton 1033, Field 1042, Fisher, C. 1052, Fisher, D. 1052, Fisher, W. D. 1054, Fitzwilliam, Edward 1065, Fitzwilliam, Ellen 1065, Fitzwilliam F. E. 1065, Foote 1344, Freer 1104, Furtado 633, 1113, Gardner 1122, Glover 1158, Glyn 805, 1161, Gomersal 1169, Goodall, A. and I. 1172, Gourlay 1192, Grattan, H. P. 1209, Grattan, Mrs. 1209, Green 1224, Grimaldi 1254, Guerint 1254, Hale, C. B. 1277, Hale, C. F. 1278, Hall 1285, Hamblin 1297, Hamilton 1306, Harland 1546, Harley 1340, Harlowe 1340, Hartland 1361, Harvey 1366, Hatton 1377, Hazlewood 1403, Heath 1410, Henderson 1424, Hengler 1424, Herbert 1440, Heron 1445, Hicks 1461, Hill, E. 1470, Hill, T. 1475, Hilton 1478, Hodson 1499, Holl 1506, Holland 1508, Holman 1512, Holt 1518, Honey 1521, Honner, M. 1522, Honner, R. W. 1231, 1522, Hooper 1527, Horncastle 1538, Horsman, Chas. d. 1886, 1543, Horsman, Charlotte 1543, Hoskins 1545, Howell 1557, Hows 1561, Howson, F. 1561, Howson, J. 1561, Huddart 1565, 1619Hudson 1567, Hudspeth 1568, Hughes, F. 1571, Hughes, J. C. 1575, Hughes, J. H. 1575, Hughes, T. 1576, Humby 1583, Huntley 1600, Hydes 1611, Jordan 1056, Kemble, C. 1523, Kemble, J. P. 869, Leclercq 1522, Macarthy 1522, Mackay 1192, Menken 1417, Nicholl 1349, Nisbett 340, Nye 597, O’Neill 215, Paul 1072, Phelps 1231, Power 1567, Ristori 1483, Russell 1565, Saville 1025, Sothern 1421, Thompson 1421, Vokes 944, Warner 1565, Wild 1428.

Actors, Singers and others. Stage names, Given names, etc. See also Names. Addison, Edward P. i.e. E. P. Haddy 22. Addison, Laura i.e. L. Wilmshurst 23. African Roscius i.e. Ira F. Aldridge 41. Agnesi, Louis F. L. i.e. L. F. L. Agniez 29. Arnold, Henry Thomas i.e. Henry Thomas Arden 82. Artois, The flying wonder i.e. John Lilley 92. Barrett, Wilson i.e. William Henry Barrett 1410. Beatrice, Mademoiselle i.e. Marie Beatrice Binda 209. Belmore, George i.e. George Belmore Garstin 236. Beverley, Edward i.e. E. Dickenson 267. Beverley, Henry i.e. H. Roxby 267. Braham, John i.e. John Abraham 378. Brizzi, Signor i.e. Francesco A. S. Bisteghi 404. Brooke, Edwin Harcourt i.e. Edwin J. M. Brook 415. Calcraft, John William i.e. John W. Cole 513. Caradori-Allan, Maria C. R. i.e. M. C. R. de Munck 541. Celeste, Madame i.e. Celeste Elliott 579. Chew, Mr. i.e. James Henry Chute 620. Christoff, George i.e. George Christopher 617. Clements, Frank i.e. Robert Menti 644. Clifton, Harry i.e. Henry Robert Clifton 649. Collins, Sam i.e. Samuel Thomas Collins Vagg 680. Compton, Henry i.e. Charles Mackenzie 689. Conquest, Benjamin Oliver i.e. Benjamin Oliver 695. Cowper, John Curtis i.e. John Curtis 739. Cox, Harry i.e. Oliver James Bussley 742. Crosmond, Rosa i.e. Helen Turner 770. Cure, The Perfect i.e. James Hurst Stead 312. Diavolo, Joel Il, also known as Joel Benedict 870. Diavolo, Joel Il i.e. John Delany 870. Dibdin, Charles i.e. Charles I. M. Pitt 871. Dog Star, The i.e. Barkham Cony 697. Drake, Samuel i.e. Samuel Bryant 914. Dunn, John i.e. John Bampton 938. Eagle, George Barnardo i.e. G. Barnard Eagle 950. Falconer, Edmund i.e. E. O’Rourke 1016. Fanque, Pablo i.e. William Darby 1020. Farquharson, Robert i.e. R. Farquharson Smith 1023. Favanti, Rita i.e. Margaret Edwards 1027. Fawsitt, Amy i.e. Mary Ann Fawsitt 1028. Federici, Frederick i.e. Frederick Baker 1030. Fitz, Little i.e. W. Fitzwilliam 1065. Flexmore, Richard i.e. R. Flexmore Geatter 1070. Forrester, Henry i.e. Henry Frost 1083. Frazer, John James i.e. J. J. Fricker 1103. Gentleman George i.e. George Barrett 177. Giovanelli, Edward i.e. Edward Edwards 1152. Grattan, Henry Plunkett i.e. H. Willoughby G. Plunkett 1209. Harcourt, Charles i.e. Charles Parker Hillier 1323. Harris, Augustus i.e. Augustus Glossop 1345. 1620Haywell, Frederick i.e. Frederick Hawley 1391. Heller, Robert i.e. William Henry Palmer 1418. Henrade, Mary i.e. Mary Young 1431. Henry, Chaplin i.e. Henry Charles Stroud 1432. Herring, Paul i.e. William Smith 1447. Hicks, Bravo i.e. Newton Tree Hicks 1461. Hill, William Jones i.e. William Hill Jones 1476. Lennox, Mr. i.e. Lenox Horne 1539. Leoni, Mr. i.e. Myer Lyon 378. Lester, Thomas i.e. T. Lester Donnelly 896. Lucchesini, Mddlle. i.e. Marie Beatrice Binda 209. Lunardini, Giuseppe i.e. James Goulston 1192. Mordaunt, Louisa i.e. Louisa C. Macnamara 340. Nye, Henry i.e. Henry Nye Chart 597. Old Malabar i.e. Patrick Feeney 1030. Plunkett, Henry i.e. H. Willoughby Grattan Plunkett 1209. Romer, Emma i.e. Emma Almond 54. Roscius, The Young i.e. W. H. Betty 1470. Simpson, Miss i.e. Mary Barnes 172. Singing mouse, The i.e. John Bull Binge 278. Voullaire, Andrew Leonard i.e. A. Voullaire Campbell 527.

Actuaries, Ansell 72.

Addington, John Gellibrand Hubbard, 1 Baron 1563.

Addiscombe college, Surrey, first principal 67.

Adelaide, Queen d. 1849, her lord chamberlain 1555.

Admiralty, funds for widows and orphans 1048, half pay and pensions 1048, lithography introduced into 765, navy list 1048, records 1048, salaries 1048.

Admiralty first lords, Briggs 398, Corry 724, De Grey 848, Ellenborough 975, Graham 1196, Haddington 1271, Hunt 1590, Pakington 1312, Wood 1281.

Adullam, the cave of 1543.

Adventure and Beagle’s surveying voyage 819, 1064.

Advertisements, duty on 1099, duty abolished 1518, Holloway spending £50,000 a year on 1512.

Æginetan and Phigaleian marbles discovered 664.

Aeronautism See also Balloons, carburetted hydrogen gas used 1222, guide rope invented 1223, height of ascent 1223, navigation improvements in 39, persons killed 1192, 1291.

Aeronauts, Burges 477, Burnaby 483, Cocking 1228, Green 1222, Hall 1291, Lunardini 1192.

Africa, Burchell’s explorations 475, Capetown, first bishop 1218, excavations at Utica 832, metropolitan of South Africa 1218.

Agricultural implement makers. Garrett 1125, Green 1224, Howard, Jas. 1552, Howard, John 1553.

Agriculturalists, Buckman 465, Corrie 722, Hannam 1010.

Agriculture, cultivation by steam, cultivators 476, 922, farming agreements 1583, farming machinery on roundabout system 1010, farms, scientific 465, feeding cattle experiments 491, khol-rabi introduced 762, manuring machines 1126, Pearson’s drain plough 1491, plough improved 1553, ploughing, self propelling engine 1284, steam threshing machine the first 1284, white carrot introduced 491.

Ainsworth, William Harrison d. 1882, author 33, Dunmow flitch of bacon 598, illustrations of his works 444.

Air beds 627.

Air pump ventilator for roofs 369.

Aire and Calder glass bottle co. 389.

1621Albert d. 1861, prince consort 38, memorial in Hyde park, Cockerell’s design for 664, history of 799 and sculptures on 1073, his treasurer and private sec. 1240, mausoleum built 1583.

Albert Edward, prince of Wales b. 1841, anthem for his recovery 1187, banquet to in Dublin 104, Dr. Gull attends him 1257, entertained at Packington hall 112, God bless the P. of Wales, song 1575, God save the P. of Wales, song 1421, governor to 452, his nurse 424, Sandringham rebuilt 1583, taught billiards 926, tutors 282, 1182.

Aldermen, alms houses for 1415.

Alexander I. d. 1825, czar of Russia, his physicians 760, 761.

Algæ, collectors of, Harvey 1368, Hooper 1528.

Algiers, Dey of, his passes to navigate the Mediterranean 1142.

Alloa, town and parish, memorials of 754.

Alma, battle of the 1524, first gun taken at the battle 227.

Alpaca wool used 1089.

Alpine climbers, Hinchliff 1479, Hodgkinson 1493, Hudson 1566.

Alps, the higher, photographs of 896.

Alton, Hants., British sch. 776, Crowley’s brewery 776.

America, United States of, acts relating to 569, American coll. at Rome 1574, blockade running 1487, Bruce’s type casting machine 450, canal boy who became president 1120, Caroline rebel steamer sent burning over Niagra 916, Corcoran’s legion 718, crossing the Atlantic thirty times 1431, crossing one hundred and eighty times 1356, death of president Lincoln 338, female professor of obstetrics 1093, Minié rifle, the first 1431, Odd-fellows, grand master 36, ordinations in 569, President frigate taken 1530, recruiting soldiers for England 750, stereotyping introduced 449, treaty of Washington 662, types, Bruce’s harmony of 450, Washington’s head engraved for postage stamp 1587, Washington, portraits of 1285.

America, U.S. of Baltimore, Cooke’s circus burnt 704.

America, U.S. of Cincinnati, Browne university 445.

America, U.S. of Illinois, African slavery not legal 1071, colony founded 1071.

America, U.S. of Memphis, first theatre at 1209.

America, U.S. of New Orleans, gas introduced 515.

America, U.S. of New York, archbishop of 1574, Bowery theatre burnt 1297, Brougham’s theatres 427, Burton’s theatres 495, Columbia coll. 996, merchants’ exchange burnt 1576, Methodist ch. the first pewed 1284, old Chinese buildings 68, Park theatre burnt 1297, seedsman at 1425.

America, U.S. of Philadelphia, Brown’s bank 435.

America, U.S. of Washington, Franklin’s printing press 1344.

Anderson bay, Victoria land named 65.

Anderson, John d. 1796, M.D., his university at Glasgow 778, 1000, 1009.

Anemometer, a new 1560.

Anglesey, lords lieutenant of 70 bis. 71.

Anglesey, W. H. Paget, marquis of d. 1854, loss of his leg 71.

Anglo Saxon, grammar 345, professor of 949.

Aniline dyes 1290.

Annuals, introduced into Germany and Russia 95.

Anthropology, a department at British Assoc. 1591.

Antrim, lord lieutenant 894.

Antiquary, A professional, Harrod 1358.

1622Apoplexy, mechanical cure for 1170.

Approach caused by vibration, discovered 1264.

Aquaria, tank for 964.

Arabic, collection of calligraphs 114, scholars Chenery 602 and Gendell 1120.

Arabs, murder of W. Gill by 1149.

Arch, a tied brick arch 629.

Architects, Bryce 455, Burn 483, Burton 494, Cockerell, C. R. 664, Cockerell, F. P. 664, Cresy 759, Deane 842, Devey 868, Dobson 886, Donaldson 894, Elmes 988, Fergusson 1037, Ferrey 1038, Fowke 1092, French 1106, Geary 1133, Godwin 1163, Goldie 1166, Good 1171, Gough 1190, Gregan 1232, Griffith 1246, Gwilt, J. S. 1267, Gwilt, Jos. 1267, Habbershon 1269, Hadfield 1272, Hakewill, E. C. 1276, Hakewill, J. H. 1276, Hansom 1321, Hardwick 1330, Haviland 1382, Henderson 1424, Hopper 1536, Hosking 1545, Huggins 1569, Humbert 1583, Reeks 1583.

Architecture, architectural decorator 746, Gothic, revival of 1272.

Arctic explorers, Austin 109, Back 119, Beechey 220, Belcher 224, Bellot 235, Bird 284, Brown 447, Collinson 682, Cresswell 758, Davis 831, Franklin 682, 1490, 1528, Hobson 1490, Hooper 1528, M’Clintock 1490, Parry 1053, Ross 831.

Arctic exploring vessels, Alert and Discovery 1047, Dorothea and Trent 1053, Investigator and Enterprise 65, Plover 1528, Terror 831.

Arctic regions, collections illustrative of 434.

Ardagh, bishops of 560, 695.

Argentine confederation founded 864.

Argyll and the Isles, bishops of 931, 1009.

Armagh, archbishops of, Beresford 251, 252, Cullen 780 and Dixon 883, cathedral restored 251–52.

Armenian dictionary 380.

Armour plates, manufacture of 525.

Arms and armour, collections of Baily 130, Breeks 388, Colnaghi 684, Meyrick 684.

Arms, school of 611.

Army, Blueviad a poem 1190, commander in chief 1328, Crawley, court martial on 756, diseases of soldiers 1131, Enfield rifle manufacture 1230, field marshals Gomm 1169, Grosvenor 1251 and Hardinge 1328, Freeburn’s fuzes 1103, guards’ chapel, Wellington barracks 1075, guns, Gardner’s machine 1123, gymnastics introduced 647, Hart’s army list 1359, helmets reduced in weight 1229, historical records of 537, Hythe sch. of musketry 1281, libraries for noncommissioned officers 1361, medals of the army 563, military critics 603, military education commission 654, military prison at Weedon abolished 411, mortar practice, treaty on 764, Netley hospital army medical sch. 846, ordnance survey 849, précis of modern tactics 1521, private soldiers becoming officers 636, 643, purchase system abolished 543, regiments, historical records of 563, regimental hospitals established 341, short service 543, sanitary reforms made 1438, savings bank, the first 1361, service of eighty four years 943, sketching and shading of plans 839, sword exercise, superintendent of 70, united service museum originated 1292.

Art, art union of London founded 1164, department of practical art S. Kensington 671.

Art collections, Bernal 255, Bohn 326, Bone 332, Hope 1529.

Art dealers, Agnew 29, Burland 29, Zannetti 29.

Asia minor, on horseback through 1306.

Askin, Charles d. 1847, nickel manufacturer 1001.

Assassinated persons, Bourke 350, Burke 481, Cavendish 575, Perceval 908.

1623Associations See also Institutions and Societies, Anglo Jewish founded 239, 1167, 1222, anti-state church founded 1191, booksellers protection founded 808, British founded 394, 1078, 1325, chancery reform, secretary 556, commercial union founded 1323, evangelical alliance founded 951, financial reform founded 715, for promoting welfare of blind, instituted 1144, for repeal of taxes on knowledge, president 1142, general benevolent founded 1433, Jewish for diffusion of religious knowledge 1222, legal education, president 58, London life association, president 1595, mercantile association founded 243, miners of Cornwall and Devon instituted 1592, national, for protection of industry and capital, dissolved 223, national for vindication of Scottish rights founded 1203, northern architectural, president 886, Palestine archæological founded 294, provincial medical founded 1400, provincial medical and surgical originators of 1415 founded 1372, royal for promoting fine arts in Scotland, purchases pictures 755, royal hist. and archæol. of Ireland established 1211, royal Scottish academy instituted 1469, Scottish unitarian founded 1347, vocal formed 238, west Suffolk archæological 1055, Worth clerical founded 1486, Yorkshire archæol. and topog. founded 156.

Astronomers, Aytoun 1204, Birmingham 288, Bishop 837, Breen 388, Brisbane 402, Broun 428, Burder 476, Burton 493, Carrington 558, Challis 582, Chary 597, Chevallier 607, Cooper 709, Dawes 837, Demainbray, S. C. T. 854, Demainbray, S. G. F. T. 854, Glaisher 476, Grant 1204, Hamilton 1307, Herschel 1447, Hodgson 1497, Holden 1504.

Astronomy, Antares and his companion 1204, astronomical instrument maker 1423, double stars 1448, meteoroscope 582, nebulae 1448, transit reducer 582, trophy telescope 1204, used to fix dates in ancient history 781.

Athens, ten days in 723.

Atlantic ocean, crossing it 180 times 1356, crossing it 30 times 1431.

Atmosphere, atmospheric recorder invented 891, atmospheric waves 288.

Atomic theory, the 438.

Attorney General’s devil 82.

Auriol, Jean Baptiste d. 29 Aug. 1881, clown 1070.

Aurist, Harvey 1368.

Auscultation, science of 734.

Australia, book, the first printed in 176, Claxton’s exhibition of pictures 639, emigration 612, gold discovered by Clarke 636, gold discovery, history of 996, gold fields 1234, governor general 1063, merino sheep introduced 1435, Murray river discovered 1585 and navigated 509, overland journey from Sydney to Port Philip 1585, pearl fisheries 1234, Sophia Jane the first steam vessel 172, wines 1018.

Australia, New South Wales, acts and ordinances of 517, Boyd town founded 365, Buckley the convict 465, duke of Edinburgh shot 99, floods 89, Hunt keeper of Bathurst assize court 1592, jew boy gang of bushrangers 840, oaten hay introduced 311, statue, the first erected 350.

Australia, Queensland, Cooper’s creek 708.

Australia South, foundation of 69, 1482.

Australia South, Adelaide, botanic garden 1098, first mayor 1053, Hart’s flour mills 1360, university founded 1577.

Australia, Victoria, Black Wednesday 878, Berry ministry did away with county court judges 278, colonel commandant of all the volunteers 67, Eureka stockade rioters 99, land, the first ploughed up 1435, Roman catholic priest the first 1135, separated from N.S.W. 1063, sugar beet introduced 670.

1624Australia, Victoria, Melbourne, archbishop 1191, city founded 1028, 1435, city of Melbourne screw steamer 670, Cole’s wharf 670, first newspaper 1028.

Australia, Western, Hardman mountains 1329.

Australian explorers, Babbage 116, Barrallier 176, Borradaile 341, Burke 481, Cadell 509, Calvert 521, Gregory 1234, Haverfield 1380, Hovell 1550, Hume 1550, 1585, Leichhardt 521, Meehan 1585, Permain 341, Sturt 1585.

Autographs, collection of 896.

Autotypography or nature printing 372.

Ayrshire, lord lieutenant 31.

Azimuth tables 831.

B

Backgammon player, Buckle 463.

Bagshot park, Surrey, lent to Sir James Clark 626.

Baker, a learned 871.

Baker, Valentine d. 1887, colonel, travelled in Persia 1149.

Bala college 966.

Balaklava, charge at 542.

Balham mystery or the Bravo poisoning case 384.

Ballet masters, Byrne 506, Leclercq 1522.

Balloons See also Aeronautism. Crestadoro’s metallic 758, Eclipse 484, Florence Nightingale 1291, Great Nassau 1222, 1268, 1512, Victoria 453.

Ballot, motion in favor of 1251.

Banffshire, lord lieutenant 1044 bis.

Bankers, Batten 552, Call 516, Cohen 668, Currie 792 bis., De Sterne 867, Digges 1059, Drummond 919, Garfit 1123, Gibson 1139, Gosling 1207, Grote 1251, Gurney 1260, 1261, 1262, Handley 1315, Hankey 1316, Heywood 1457, 1458, Hoare 1485, 1486, Hodgson 1494.

Banking, bank manager Gilbart 1144, bank notes, machine for printing 77, cheque bank founded 1451, clearing house 576, joint stock banks established 641.

Bank of England, architect of 664, doors first marked In and Out 1561, one pound notes 77, physician 827, printing of bank notes 77, printing machinery 739, solicitor 1108.

Bankruptcy, country district courts abolished 9, seventy commissioners 1074.

Banks, Sir Joseph d. 1820, naturalist, his collections 437.

Banting, William d. 1878, undertaker 155, his medical man 1368, banting system introduced 155, 173.

Banwell hill, Somerset, bone caves at 208.

Barbary, captives in 875.

Bark trade, the 1281.

Barnard Castle, Durham, Josephine and John Bowes, museum and park 358.

Barometers, aneroids used in mountain expeditions 1493, Fitzroy barometer 1064, mountain barometer, an improved 1560.

Baronetage, assuming an extinct 1136, baronetage declined 814, 1291, baronetage not taken up 588, committee for sustaining rights of 429, designation taken 152, 666, 1307, 1588, eldest sons claim and obtain knightage 727, 844, extinct 733, first engineer made a baronet 1170, premier baronet of England 120, sham baronet presented to William iv. 1588.

Barrister making £22,000 a year 1506.

1625Bashi Bazouks organised 210, 1577.

Bassoon player, Baumann 195.

Bateman, Thomas d. 1861, author 191, 1160.

Bath, Portland chapel 479, Prior park R.C. coll. 479, 1609, Sir L. C. L. Brenton’s chapel 390, W. Hunt mayor 1594.

Batho, Mr. proprietor of a circulating library 1607.

Baths, fumigating established 1225.

Batteries, iron cased floating 914.

Bayeux tapestry, account of 721.

Bayley, Jonathan, Swedenborgian minister 1611.

Beaufoy, Henry B. H. d. 1851, F.R.S. 212, his collection of tokens 482.

Bedford, Britannia foundry 1553.

Bedford level canal 1311.

Bedfordshire, lord lieutenant 218.

Bedouin Arab troops 870.

Beds, air 627.

Beer, method of testing gravities 886.

Beethoven, Ludwig von d. 1827, Israel in Egypt performed 1160, Pastoral symphony performed with illustrations 1160.

Beetroot, spirit distilled from 263.

Belcher, John b. 1841, architect, designed Goss memorial 1187.

Belfast hospitals founded 240.

Bell, John, proprietor of a circulating library 1607.

Bellingham, John executed 1812, assassin, his arrest 908.

Bells, chiming hammers 975, writers on 975.

Belt, Richard Claude, sculptor, Belt v. C. Lawes 1565.

Benedictine order, Acton Burnell coll. 439, St. Gregory’s coll. 439.

Bentham, Jeremy d. 1832 philosopher, his amanuensis 732.

Bentinck, Lord George F. C. d. 1848 politician, his betting factotum 1470.

Berkeley, Colonel, connection with Maria Foote 1344.

Berkeley, G. C. Grantley F. d. 1881, M.P. 254, his huntsman 561.

Berkshire, lord lieutenant 8 bis.

Berlin, Victoria Lyceum founded 81.

Bermuda, slaves emancipated 593.

Bernard’s opera co. 1489.

Berry, Charles, Duc de assassinated 1820, his English wife 431, his son 431, marriage annulled 258, See also Brown, Charlotte and Louise post. col. 1628.

Beryllium, atomic weight of 1588.

Berwick on Tweed, town major 1072.

Betting, Leviathan better 829, lists originated 829 and declared illegal 829.

Betting men, Davies 829, Head 1404, Hill 1470.

Bettws-y-coed, a sketching resort 740.

Bewick, Thomas d. 1828 and John Bewick d. 1795, collections of their works and wood blocks 1579.

Bey, title of given to, Ayrton, F. 114.

Bible, Fry’s collection of bibles 1111, Haydock’s bible 1396, list of English editions 728, monopoly of printing 531, pentateuch critically examined 673 and Colenso adversely criticised 674, speakers’ commentary, contributors to 628, 1005, trinitarian bible soc. 996, Wycliffe’s version 1084.

Bible, New Testament in Judæo-Polish 1449, revisers of 46, 950, 1588.

Bible, Old Testament, revisers of 45, 628, 825, 980, 1014, 1041, 1133, 1188, 1352, paragraph bible 825.

1626Bidwell, Austin, forger 1396.

Biggar, Joseph Gillis d. 1890 M.P., his trial 1057.

Bill discounters, Overend, Gurney & Co. 1261, 1262.

Billiard players, Dufton 926, Felix 1032, Hughes 1578.

Billiards, handicap billiards 926, writer on 460.

Bills of exchange, law of 505.

Bimetallism 578.

Birds, collections of 1012, 1262, 1530, eggs 396, 1454, voice organs of 1079.

Birkbeck, George d. 1841 M.D., Birkbeck schools 986.

Birkbeck, Morris d. 1825, founded New Albion in Illinois 1071.

Birkenhead, St. Aidan’s coll. founded 199.

Birmingham, Atlas steel works 377, Calthorpe park opened 518, commissioners of street acts 509, English watch co. 378, free art gallery 1007, free libraries 585, Hazelwood sch. 1474, 1476, Holden’s music hall 1505, Mason coll. 1453, musical festivals 725, queen’s coll. 743, queen’s hospital 743, royal school of medicine 740, 743, St. Andrew’s ch. 555, St. Stephen’s ch. 555, watches made by machinery 377.

Birth, change of style, affecting age 152.

Birnie, Sir Richard d. 1832, magistrate Bow st., captured Cato st. conspirators 1115.

Biscuits, steam machinery for making 1206.

Black bottle quarrel 542.

Blackburn, Cunliffe’s bank opened 421, the first mayor 1538.

Blacksmiths learned 491, 1601.

Blarney, St. Anne’s water cure establishment opened 184.

Bleaching, Barlow’s works 1589, Bridson’s works 397, stenter or elastic finishing machine invented 397.

Blessington, Charles John Gardiner d. 1829 earl of, acquaintance with comte D’Orsay 899, his wife 899.

Blind, money left for 1122, phonetic system of teaching to read 1108.

Blind persons, Barker 165, Fawcett 1027, Gilbert 1144, Hamilton 1303, Hearder 1409, Holman 1513.

Blow pipe, oxy-hydrogen, invented 1261, use in chemical analysis 610.

Blue ribband movement 711.

Board of Control presidents, Dalhousie 803, Ellenborough 975, Glenelg 1157, Halifax 1281, Herries 1446, Hobhouse 421, Wood 1281.

Board of Trade presidents, Cardwell 543, Clarendon 623, Dalhousie 803, Donoughmore 897, Gibson 1142, Glenelg 1157, Henley 1428, Herries 1446.

Boats, Denham’s rowlocks 856, outrigger invention of 638.

Bobbing net Trade 592, machines improved 124.

Bode, Baron de, his case 1472–3.

Bogardus, James d. 1874 inventor, field, cover and trap shooting 1089.

Bohn, Henry publisher 1243.

Bolton, Lancashire, Chadwick’s orphanage 581, Chadwick’s statue 581.

Bonaparte, Jerome Napoleon d. 1870 at Baltimore 330.

Bonaparte, Joseph d. 1844 king of Spain, his friend 1208.

Bonaparte, Louis Lucien d. 1891 linguist, his medical attendant 1415.

Bonaparte, Napoleon E. L. J. J. in 1879 killed 330, his tutor 1606. See also Napoleon.

Bone, Henry P. d. 1855 enamel painter 332, his successor 998.

Bone setters, Hutton, R. 1609, Hutton, R. H. 1609.

Bonnetts of embossed paper 851.

1627Bookbinders, Bedford 218, Clarke 218, Hayday 1395, Howell 1557, Lewis 218.

Book binding, embossed cloth for 851, plough for cutting edges 1557.

Books, bookseller with thirty thousand customers 1458, copyrights foreign 336, Crane’s coloured toy books 751, Grenville’s diary expurgated 1239, Mrs. Mary Ann Clarke’s Narrative suppressed 634, O. H. B. Hyman tore up his books when he had read them 1612, Orion a poem published at a farthing 1539, remainders sale of 326.

Booksellers, Arch 80, Baldock 140, Baldwin 141, Bell 229, Bickers, H. 270, Bickers, H. Junr. 270, Bohn 326, Brown 433, Burn 482, Burns 488, Bush 270, Carpenter, J. 556, Carpenter, W. H. 556, Cottle 727, Dalton 808, Darling 815, Delf 853, Diprose 881, Dolby 891, Drakard 914, Evans 1004, Farran 1245, Faulkner 1026, Fulcher 1111, Gilpin 1152, Gowans 1193, Griffin C. 1243, Griffin J. J. 1244, Griffith 1245, Hall 1287, Hodgson 1494, Hotten 1547, Houlston 1549, Hughes 1577, Hulbert 1579, Hunter 1598, Johnson 1598, Payne 1004, Stoneman 1549, Trubner 853, Wright 1549.

Boot makers, Hickson 1462, Hoby 1490.

Boring machine, automatic tunnel machine invented 187.

Borneo, Brooke’s government in 417.

Botanists, Arnott 89, Atkinson 419, Bohler 325, Borrer 341, Bowie 359, Bromfield 412, Brown, J. W. 435, Brown, R. 437, Buxton 504, Calvert 519, Champion 589, Daubeny 820, Dickie 874, Dickson 875, Dillwyn 880, Drummond 920, Falconer 1017, Fielding 1043, Forbes 1076, Francis 1098, Gardiner 1122, Gourlie 1192, Greville 1240, Hance 1313, Henfrey 1427, Hennedy 1429, Hooker 1526, Prescott 1043, Steudel 1043.

Botany, herbarium of Mauritius plants at Kew 113.

Bottles, bottle washing machines 1569, stoppered 389, with taps 389.

Bows and arrows, Clay’s 640.

Boxers, Amateur, Brand 380, Budd 466. See also Pugilists.

Boyd, Archibald d. 1883 dean of Exeter 365, his controversy on episcopacy 1189.

Brachiopoda 824.

Bradlaugh, Charles d. 1891 M.P. kept out of house of commons 1188.

Bradshaw, George d. 1853 publisher 375, Bradshaw’s Manchester Journal 1018, railway maps and guides 20, 375.

Bradshaw, James, M.P. 1543.

Braintree, Essex, church rate case 733.

Brass founder, Guest 1254.

Bravo, Charles D. Turner d. in 1876 suddenly 384, 1257.

Brazil, exploration of 475, first railway 377, regiment raised for 140, Thayer expedition 1363.

Bread, aerated 821, Dauglish’s patent 821, unfermented 815.

Brechin, bishop of 1075, seat of bishoprick removed to Dundee 1075.

Bremer, Frederika d. 1865 Swedish novelist, works introduced into England 1559.

Brewers, Allsopp 834, 1481, Barclay, A. K. 158, Barclay, C. 158, Bass 189, Buxton 503, Crowley 776, Findlater 834, Flower 1071, Guinness 1256, Hanbury 1313 bis., Hoare 1485, Hodgson 1495, Ind Coope 707, Meux 847, Truman 834, Whitbread 309.

Breweries, Barclay, Perkins & Co.’s men assault Haynau 1400, butt-money 1521.

1628Brett, Charles a police sergeant killed in 1867 at Manchester 53.

Bridges, Forth railway bridge commenced 347, lattice bridges 316, 845, Royal Albert at Saltash 453, taperchain suspension 1175, Tay railway bridge and its fall 316.

Bright, John d. 1889 M.P., the cave of Adullam 1543.

Brighton, Brighton and London coach 729, Burrows and his statue 492, chain pier 438, court of request 1113, Davies’ bequest 829, Dick Gregory 1234, master of ceremonies 972, Old Ship hotel 701, poor, gift to, on St. Thomas’ day 274, Preston park 829, royal literary and scientific institution 492, St. Mary’s ch. 981, St. Mary’s hall 982, St. Paul’s ch. 555, stipendiary magistrate the first 274, theatre 597.

Bristol, bull baiting at 540, court of conscience 1340, orphan house, Ashley down 749, Plymouth brethren 749, port freed from dues 400, reformatory 554, 555, sch. industrial 555, sch. ragged 554.

British museum, Christy ethnological collection 618, Cuming collection of shells 1218, Elgin marbles 1046, engravings, Cousins’ collection 734, gift refused Ayrton’s Arabic calligraphs 114, keeper of antiquities 1387, keeper of manuscripts 1084, keeper of prints and drawings 556, keepers of zoological department 610, 1216, librarian the principal 983, oriental cylinders and seals, collection of 781, Persian manuscripts 1076, persons forbidden to enter reading room 1295, 1353, reading room, claimant to suggestion of 1545, reading room superintendent 570, the ninety one cataloguing rules 965.

Bromsgrove sch. Worcestershire, master Collis 683, chapel 683, St. John the Baptist ch. 683, tercentenary 683.

Brothers, Richard d. 1824 fanatic, his friends 1049.

Brown, Charlotte Marie Augustine (dau. of duc de Berri) comtesse d’Issoudun d. 1886 aged 79, m. 1823 Prince de Faucigny Lucinge.

Brown, Louise Marie Charlotte (dau. of duc de Berri) comtesse de Vierzon d. Brittany 26 Dec. 1891, m. 1826 Baron de Charette.

Browning, Robert d. 1890 poet, his wife 447.

Brunel, Isambard K. d. 1859, C.E. 453, 1259.

Brunswick, Karl d. 1873, duke of 453, 1233.

Buckenham, Old, Norfolk, Cocks’ almshouses 665.

Buckland, Francis T. d. 1880 naturalist, Land and Water 1040.

Bude light invented 1261.

Builders, Cubitt T. 779, Cubitt W. 780, Grainger 1199, Grissell 1249, Peto 1249.

Bull baiting put down 540.

Bullion broker, Goldsmid 1168.

Bunya bunya tree discovered 274.

Bunyan, John d. 1688 baptist minister, Pilgrim’s Progress in Chinese 490.

Burford, Robert d. 1861 his panoramas 477, 571.

Burial clubs and infanticide 640.

Burns, Robert d. 1796 poet, centenary festival 115, facts about 1597, his punch bowl 1371, his son 489, memorial at Alloway 1305, monument Edin. 1305.

Button maker, Hardman 1329.

Byron, Anne I. d. 1860 Lady 507, gave prize for essay on juvenile delinquency 722.

Byron, George Gordon d. 1824 Lord, Allegra his dau. 621, Childe Harold, dedication of 427, Clara M. J. Clairmont 621, Don Juan 627, friends 151, 852, 1049, 1342, 1345, 1495, 1591, Guiccioli, countess 1255, his fag 1411, his servant 1016, Hours of idleness reviewed 1592, 1629Parisina, dedication of 828, portraits 1213, 1370, swam with S. B. Davies 828, wife 507 and separation from 1495.

C

Cables, iron chain cables invented 438, manufacturer of 730.

Cabs, Chapman’s patent 592, Hansom’s patent 592, 1322, Hearn a cab owner 1409, safety cabriolet and two wheel carriage Co. 592.

Cahusac, the misses, school mistresses Highgate 1146.

Calculating machine 116, calculating phenomenon 272.

Calico printers, Brooks 421, Cobden 659, Crum 778, Dalglish 803, Grafton 1195.

Cambridge, Anglo-Saxon professorship founded 345, annals of 708, apostles’ club 305, B.A. without taking the oath 1362, Brown’s billiard rooms 434, chancellor of the university 39, Christian advocate 1108, council of the senate 706, Cripp’s gift of statues 762, Disney professorship of archæology 882, Fitzwilliam museum first stone laid 32, grenadier company of volunteers 616, nonconformists first take degrees 399, observatory 582, peer’s son entering without residence or examination 996, plan for colonial coll. 776, Powis, Earl of stood for chancellorship 39, school of art founded 208, Sunday schools 586, university boat club 616, university library first stone laid 32, university commission 662.

Cambridge. Magdalen coll. song, Sicut lilium carmen hortativum 336, model rifle club 497.

Cambridge. Trinity coll. first jew a senior wrangler 1362, Halliwell accused of taking MSS, from 1295.

Cambridgeshire lord lieut. 1331.

Cambronne, Pierre Jaques Etienne d. 1842 general, taken prisoner at Waterloo 1282.

Camels and elephants in harness 1571.

Camp meetings, first in England 655.

Campbell, Thomas d. 1844 poet, his manuscripts 1167.

Canada. Bytown renamed Gloucester 277, Caroline steamer burnt 1500, governor general 1404, grants of land given to fifty seven rectories 265, metropolitan bishop 1111, paper mill the first 768, peat fuel manufactured 1491, rebellion suppressed 91, Victoria bridge 1491, wheat and flour, first load sent from Upper Canada to Montreal 768.

Canada. Montreal, first daily paper, Daily Advertiser 591.

Canada. Toronto, The Banner established 437, Mackenzie’s rebellion 1061, royal grenadier regiment 782, university built 782.

Canals, cases relating to 560.

Candle makers, Field 1041, Hale 1278.

Caning, boy caned three times a day for seven years 772.

Canning, George d. 1827 statesman, Brougham’s quarrel with 426.

Cannon, Dove’s rifled cannon 905, Gardner’s quick firing 1123.

Canterbury, arches court 890, cath. the six preachers 1084, cath. windows 632, musical doctor’s degree first since reformation 1131, prerogative court abolished 890, St. Augustine’s abbey 1528.

Canvas maker, Gaskell 1128.

Cape Coast castle defended 916.

Cape Town, bishop of, Grey 673, Sir G. Grey’s library 311.

1630Carbolic acid first manufactured 520.

Cardinal, Cullen 781.

Cardiff, castle rebuilt 478, Sophia gardens 499.

Cards, makers of 851.

Caricatures, collection of 1387.

Caricaturists, Bennett 240, Cruikshank, G. 777, Cruikshank, I. 777, Cruikshank, I. R. 778, Doyle 912.

Carisbrook castle, Isle of Wight, custodian of 859.

Carlile, Richard d. 1843 bookseller, disputation with 128, wife charged with selling a libel 1472.

Carlisle, aerated bread made at 821.

Carlyle, Thomas d. 1881 historian, his friends 996, 1058, 1591.

Carlow lord lieutenant 261.

Carmarthenshire lord lieutenant 948.

Caroline d. 1821 queen of Great Britain, attorney general to 426, solicitor general to 859.

Carpet manufacturers, Crossley 772, Henderson 1425.

Carriers of goods, law of 613.

Carron, Guy T. J. d. 1821 Abbé, established school at Somers Town, London 502.

Carthage, excavations at 832.

Cashel, Emly, Waterford and Lismore, bishop of 809.

Casks, cleansing of 834.

Catalani, Angelica d. 1849 singer, concerts 621.

Cats, a painter of 1497.

Cattle, breeders of 173, 257, 294, 307, 328, 337, 338, 1039–40, Fasque pure bred polled 1155, plague 1342.

Cawthorne, George d. 1833 of circulating library 1607.

Celtic scholar, Evans 1002.

Cemeteries, London cemetery co. founded 1133, London Necropolis projected 429, Woking, national mausoleum at 429, See also Cremation.

Census of 1851, assistant of registrar 1308.

Centenarians and reputed centenarians, Baden 121, Bailey 127, Baillie 128, Beadon 204, Brewer 392, Clark 628, Coxeter 744, Edwards 964, Fletcher 1069, Gardner 1123, Geeran 1133, Gibson 1140, Heathorn 1413, Hicks 1461, Howes 1558, Howlison 1561.

Ceremonies, master of to the Queen 796.

Cetywayo d. 1881 Zulu chief, his friends 673.

Chadwick suit 280.

Chalmers, Rev. Thomas d. 1847 D.D., appointed to Tron. ch. Glasgow 681, his friends 996.

Chamberlains, hereditary grand, Cholmondeley, G. H. C. 613, Cholmondeley, W. H. H. 613.

Chambers, Robert d. 1871 and William Chambers d. 1883 publishers 587, 588, editor of their works 1047.

Chancellors of the exchequer, Baring declined 162, Disraeli 203, Goulburn 1190, Halifax 1281, Herries 1441, Hunt 1590.

Chancellors, Lord, Brougham 426, Cairns 512, Campbell 525, Chelmsford 601, Cottenham 726, Cranworth 751, Hatherley 1376.

Chancery, the cat in chancery 1224.

Changes of Names, See Names.

Chapeau bras, the last wearer of the 254.

Channel islands criminal law commission 625.

Characters, illustrious, collector of memorials of 276.

Charity estate commissioner 954.

Charlotte Augusta d. 1817 princess, elegy on death of 360, portrait 1166.

Chartists, Elt 990, Epps 954, Frost 424, 1109, Gammage 1119, people’s petition 105, 932.

Chatterton, Frederick B. d. 1886, theatrical manager 599, 1016.

1631Chaucer, Geoffrey d. 1400 poet, his astrolabe 377.

Cheddar, Somerset, St. Michael’s home founded 1138.

Chelsea, botanical gardens 1088, five fields built over 779, hospital, history of 1607, Whiteland’s training coll. 853.

Chemistry, polarity of chemical elements 409, royal coll. of chemistry founded 807.

Chemists, Calvert 1589, Faraday 1020, Field 1041, Gregory 1234, Hadow 1273, Hanbury 1312, Howard J. E. 1553, Howard Luke 1554, Hunt 1589, Hunt 1592.

Cherry ripe, a song 1537.

Chess, early invention of 1076, games at 578, Indian problem 583, London chess club 578, The Pleiades at Berlin 1544.

Chess players, Alexander 42, Anderssen 67, Barnes 173, Baxter 196, Brand 380, Buckle 463, Horwitz 1544, Kling 1544.

Chessel Down, Anglo Saxon cemetery at 1477.

Chester, bridge at 1362.

Chestnuts sold in the streets 1130.

Chevalier, person assuming designation of 846.

Children, employment commission 1070, Faraday’s lectures to 1020, mental culture of 600, preacher to 329.

Chimneys, children chimney sweeps 1568, very high chimneys 458, sweeping machine invented 1155.

China, Bellot’s collection of coins 236, Chinese Gordon 1178, Chinese scholars 1029, 1338, Christian union to propagate gospel 1263, Ever victorious army 1178, execution of Brabazon 371, medical missionary soc. 676, missionaries to 825, Pilgrim’s Progress in Chinese 490, presbyterian ch. of England in 490, Taiping rebellion 1178.

China manufacturer, Minton 528.

Chloroform used as a local anæsthetic 1333.

Chocolate manufacturers, Fry 1110, Gatti 1130.

Cholera, acrostic by Charles Lambe on Asbury’s treatment of cholera 93, cholera in 1849 col. 131, cholera in 1832 in London 302, 324, first visitation of 651, what to do 582.

Chorlton-upon-Medlock, Manchester, All Saints’ ch. built 493 burnt 493.

Christmas cards, originated 671, verses for 1527.

Chromatrope invented 609.

Chronometer makers, Arnold 861, Barraud 861, Carter 562, Dent 861, Vulliamy 861.

Chronometric line run round the world 1064.

Chrysanthemum exhibition 802.

Chunee the elephant shot 770.

Churches, apparatus for heating 1055, church furnisher 1107.

Cigars made by women 715.

Cinque ports, lord warden 803.

Circassian committee, chairman of 206.

Circle, reflecting, Douglas’ 902.

Circles, automatic graduation of 703.

Circus proprietors, Cooke J. 702, Cooke T. Thomas 702, Cooke William 704, Fanque 1020, Hengler 1428, Howes and Cushing 762, Hughes 1570, Price and Powell 1428, Sanger 762.

Cirencester, Roman antiquities at 465.

Cistercian order re-established 854.

Cities and boroughs, plans of 839.

Civil list pensioners, A’Beckett 5, Ainsworth 33, Alder 40, Alison 47, Anderson 64, Anster J. 74, Anster E. 74, Atherstone 101, Atkinson 104, Austin 109, Backhouse 119, 1632Bailey 127, Ball 146, Barez 160, Barnard 171, Bartlett 187, Basevi 189, Batty 195, Beke 223, Bell 230, Belzoni 237, Bigsby 276, Bingham 278, Blakey 306, Bleek W. H. I. 311, Bleek J. C. 311, Bloomfield 316, Boole 335, Boyle 368, Britton 404, Broderip 407, Brown 437, Buckingham 461, Burnet 486, Burges 477, Carpenter 554, Carleton 547, Cattermole 572, Chisholm 612, Clifford 649, Colby 669, Cole 671, Coles 675, Collier 677, Cooke Sir W. F. 705, Cooke Anna L. 705, Cooley 706, Corbaux 717, Costello D. 725, Costello L. S. 725, Cross 770, Cruikshank 777, Curtis 793, Dalton 807, Daly 808, De Morgan A. 855, De Morgan S. E. 855, Dick 872, Donaldson 893, Doo 898, Edward 963, Falcieri 1016, Faraday 1020, Forbes 1078, Gavin 1131, Godkin 1163, Gordon 1177, Graves 1211, Haas 1268, Hall A. M. 1283, Hall S. C. 1289, Hamilton W. R. 1307, Hamilton W. S. 1308, Harris 1351, Hawker 1385, Haydn 1396, Haydon 1396, Head 1404, Helps 1419, Hickey 1460, Hincks 1480, Hind 1481, Hogan 1500, Hogg 1502, Home 1521, Horne 1539, Howitt M. 1559, Howitt W. 1559, Hughes 1570, Hullah 1581, Hunt J. H. L. 1591.

Civil service, first commissioner Packington 1312.

Clackmannan, lord lieutenant of 6.

Claimants, Allen Charles 49, Allen C. M. 50, Allen J. C. H. 52, Goode 1172, Tichbourne 662.

Clairvoyant, Heller 1418.

Clapham park, Surrey, houses built on 779.

Claremont, Surrey, residence of Orleans princes 856, 1106.

Claviole or finger keyed viol 1389.

Clevedon, Somerset, Christ Church built and endowed 372.

Clewer near Oxford, female penitentiary opened 84.

Clifton, bishops of, Burgess 479 and Hendren 1426, Hensman memorial ch. 1434.

Clocks, astronomical 703, double check clock escapement 382, electrical 130.

Clonfert, bishop of 865.

Cloth dresser, Hirst 1484.

Clothier, Harrison 1352.

Clouds, cirrus, cumulus, stratus and nimbus 1554, observations on 1554.

Clowns See also Actors col. 1617, Auriol 1070, Barnes 173, Barry 183, Boleno 328, Delevanti 853, Diavolo 870, Flexmore 1070, Grimaldi 1021, Huline 1580.

Clubs. Amateur athletic founded 586. Arthur’s built 1536. Athenæum designed 494, relievi on the exterior 1431. Athletic club of univ. of Edin. founded 121. Bailey club, Sheffield, commenced 127. Badminton originated 1601. Bannatyne founded 747. British and foreign institute founded 461. Brooks’s, the master of 195. Concentores Sodales founded and ceased 1542. Coventry house lessee 1097. Friday knights founded 1109. Garrick founded 943, manager 1297. Geographical founded 411. Grillion’s founded 11. Junior Athenæum in Piccadilly 1531. Literary dining founded 701. London chess, president 578. London clay 357. 1633Lowtonian, secretary of 635. Manchester literary founded 1330. Metropolitan red lions founded 1077. Pitt, president of 972. Political economy founded 578. Quekett microscopical, founder 1331, president 1090. Raleigh founded 410. Red house at Battersea 73. Reform, chairmen 207, 977, chef 1097, erected 181, founded 654, 977, member expelled 363, secretaries 717, 1280. Savage founded 1294. Star, memorials of 1083. Travellers’ erected 181. Tyneside Naturalists’ Field founded 39, 1314. Urban founded 1109. Victoria yacht founded 10.

Coach drivers, Cotton 729, Herring 1446.

Coach proprietors, Barber 156, Chaplin 591, Hadley 1272, Halcomb 1276.

Coaches, coachmakers 68, revival of coaching 70.

Coal, Bidder’s safety lamp for mines 272, coal exchange opened 927, coal factor 927, combustion of 1524, machine for weighing invented 888, quantity still remaining in England 1592, Small coal man, a political song 1573.

Coates, Robert d. 1848 known as Romeo Coates, his widow 367.

Coats, Chesterfield the 605, Petersham the 1344.

Cock fighting 112.

Cocking, Robert killed 1837, aeronaut 1223.

Coins, collectors of, Bergne 253, Borrell 341, Christmas 617, Coats 657, Cuff 780, Fox 1094, Guthrie 1264, Harvey 1368, Hawkins E. 1387, Hawkins W. 1390, Henfrey 1427.

Colenso, William John d. 1883 bishop of Natal, deposed by bishop Gray 1219.

Coleoptera, Brackenridge’s collection 372, Brightwell’s collection 400.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor d. 1834 poet, Cottle’s recollections of 728, literary cookery with reference to matters attributed to 377.

Colleges. Agricultural at Cirencester established 1288. College of arms, report on 233. College of doctors of law 1571. Crook hall removed to Ushaw 228. Didsbury near Manchester founded 358. Exeter diocesan founded 1337. London coll. of divinity at Kilburn 348. Manchester new coll. removed to London 361. Marlborough founded 357, 1235. St. Columba, Beresford’s gift to 251. St. John’s hall, Highbury, principal 348. Training at Highbury founded 1235.

Collier, a poetical 1005.

Collieries, Clay cross 1556, self acting fence for winding shafts 1556.

Colonies, Secretaries of state for colonies, Aberdeen 6, Cardwell 543, Glenelg 1157, Grey 1241, Herbert 1437, Hobart 1487, Pakington 1312, Stanley 863.

Colston, Edward d. 1721 merchant, life of 1125.

Columbine, Boleno 328.

Coming K., The authors of 221.

1634Commons, House of, best dressed man in 932, call of the house, the last 1364, clerk 1022, chiltern hundreds refused to a member 510, member expelled 934, person committed to custody of serjeant at arms 677, seat from which member hears thanks given him, remains his while member 1003, speakers 935, 1008, speakership, contests for 1191, 1376, thanks given to celebrated men 1003, 1039.

Compasses, Caithness gravitation compass 512, method of compensating errors invented 168.

Compensation refused by government to Douglas 904.

Concerts, of ancient music 290, promenade 770, 1308.

Confectioner, Gunter 1259.

Confessional unmasked, The 455.

Conjurors, Anderson 63, 1482, Blitz 314, Eagle 950, Heller 1418.

Conservatory at Surrey zoological gardens 7.

Control, board of, See Board of Control col. 1626.

Conveyancer, Hodgkin 1492.

Convicts, Buckley the convict 465, how convicts are made 555.

Cooke, Sir W. F. d. 1879, electrician 705, partner with Wheatstone 1383.

Cooks and cookery, Francatelli 1097, Kettner’s manual 805.

Cooper, Sir Astley Preston d. 1841, his anatomical preparations 1225, life 708.

Cooper, Thompson, F.S.A. author 708.

Copper, Cwmavon copper works, Glamorgan 1259, Kapunda mine, South Australia 944, smelting copper in Swansea district 1098.

Coppin, George b. 1819, actor & theatrical manager 416.

Copybooks, Darnell’s 817, largest maker of in the world 1458.

Coral, Jane d. 1858, painter 1601.

Cork, bishop of 851, great exhibition at 842, lord lieutenant 1038, St. Finbarre cath. 1233, water works 246.

Cork, Cloyne and Ross, bishops of 1060, 1233.

Corn, corn merchant 1378, drilling machines 1126, grinding corn, improvements in 353.

Corn. Anti-corn law league, A B C of the 98, founders of 98, 1272, final meeting 98, lecturers, members of and speakers 11, 361, 659, 1096, 1141, meeting in Covent Garden 397, secretary 1589.

Cornwall, assay master 1435, Cornish dolls 346, duchy, enquiry into revenues of 700, fauna 731, folk lore 731, glossary of words 731, Pendeen church built 36, Sunday sch. teacher the first 205, typhus fever 550.

Coromandel, the seven pagodas 557.

Corona Borealis, discovery of a new star in 288.

Coroners’ inquests 615.

Corsets, corset à la Vénus 477.

Costumes peculiar worn by F. Boott 340.

Cotehele house, Cornwall, account of 691.

Cottage allotment system 578.

Cotton, machinery exported 794, spinning machines, improvements in 325.

Cotton spinners, Armitage 83, Ashworth 97, 98, Bazley 202, Bright 399, Brook 414, Callender 517, Crompton 767, Cross 771, Fielden 1043 bis., Garnett 1124, Greg 1232, Hall 1287, Holms 1517, Hornby 1538, Horrocks 1444, Houldsworth 1549, Hoyle 1562, Hulbert 1579, Hutton 1608.

County Guy, a song 1196.

Coursers, Campbell 530, Etwall 1000.

Coursing, Ashdown hill meetings 752, Craven 752.

Courvoisier, F. Benjamin hanged 1840, his trial 1488.

1635Craggan castle, Clare, restoration of 98.

Crape manufacturer, Courtauld 733.

Creche, the first in London 1511.

Cree North American Indians, books for 1595.

Cremation, first in England 1316, crematorium at Manston house 1316, persons cremated Collins 679, Hanham E. M. 1316, Hanham E. D. 1316, Hanham T. B. 1316 and Henry 1432.

Creosote, properties of 720.

Cricket, All England matches 636, an eleven all of whose names began with B. 364, Beaudesert ground 71, catapulta 1032, glove, tubular india rubber 1032, I. Zingari 1249, Kennington oval 1249, large score 405, Lord’s proprietors 814, Marylebone club bowlers 1253 and sec. 1059, Prince’s ground 364, rules of, first book on 198, Surrey eleven 1249, wicket keepers’ feats 405.

Cricketers, Anstead 73, Baker 136, Bancalari 150, Barker T. 165, Barker T. R. 166, Bayley 200, Beagley 205, Beldham 225, Biddulph 273, Blackman 298, Bowyer 364, Box 364, Brand 380, Broadbridge 405, Brown 430, Budd 466, Caldecott 514, Chamberlayne 586, Clarke 636, Cotton 729, Dark 814, Davies 828, Ede 596, Felix 1032, Fitzgerald 1059, Grace G. F. and H. M. 1194, Grace W. G. 1558, Grimston E. H. 1248, Grimston F. S. 1248, Grimston R. 1249, Grundy 1253, Guy 1266, Halliwell 1295, Harenc 1335, Hayward D. 1403, Hayward T. 1403, Heath 1411, Hillyer 1478, Hoare 1485, Hodgson 1495, Hodson 1499, Howitt 1558, Humphrey 1587, Hunter 1597, Pilch 1266, Shaw 1597, Wenman 1266.

Criminals, Bravo 384, Buranelli 475, Burdock 1437, Chesham 603, Courvoisier 513, Cross 772, Dove 513, 905, Flowery Land pirates 513, Good 513, Greenacre 513, Manning 513, Muller 513, Palmer 150, 526, 662, 1437, Roupell 579, Rush 513, Tawell 513, Wilson 513.

Crinoids, collection of 277.

Crown cases reserved, Court of 662.

Cruikshank, George d. 1878, artist 777, his friend 1600.

Crusoe, Robinson, Crusoe’s island 445.

Crustacea, collections of 963, 1530.

Crystal palace, Sydenham, origin of 1023, erected 1094, Gibson’s statues 1141, Handel festivals 360, 725, managers 361, 1037, managing director 1111, organist 735, railway 112. See also Exhibition, col. 1641.

Cullen, Paul d. 1878, cardinal 780, his secretary 695.

Cuneiform inscriptions, decipherer of 1480.

Cure, The Perfect i.e. J. H. Stead 312.

Curfew bells at Hampswaite 165.

Customs, acts consolidated 848.

Cygnus, red star discovered in 288.

Cyrenaica, report on antiquities of 220.

Cystideans, collection of 277.

D

Dallas, Eneas S. d. 1879, author 805, 1161.

Dampier, Thomas d. 1812 bp. of Ely, his library 869.

Dancers, Barrymore 184, Blasis 310, Byrne 506, D’Albert 801, Duncombe 932, Flexmore 1070, Louise 1518, Mercandotti 147.

Dancing, clog dancing invented 1398, jig dancing 1398, quadrilles and waltzes introduced 1250.

Dandies, Ball-Hughes 147, Chesterfield 605, Dorsay 899, Gronow 1250, Petersham 1344.

Danson, George d. 1881, painter 612, large pictures by 770.

1636Dante Alighieri d. 1321 poet, lectures on Divina Comedia founded 168.

Danube, suspension bridge Pesth to Buda 630.

Darling, Grace d. 1843, her boat 816.

Darlington, nuns at, libel on 1130.

Darien, isthmus of, canal across 421.

Dartmoor, hereditary deputy ranger of 1346.

Dartmouth ch., Brockedon’s painting in 406.

Darwin, Charles Robert d. 1882 naturalist, pupil of Henslow 1434.

Davids, Louisa d. 1853, writer on Sunday schools 822.

Davy, Sir Humphry d. 1829 chemist, his amanuensis 1020.

Day, William, lithographer 1274.

Dead body stolen, Crawford 754.

Deafness, deaf and dumb heraldic artist 135, surgeon specialist 925–6.

Death, condemned to, Hoare 1486.

Deaths, premature announcement of, Brougham 426.

Deaths under peculiar circumstances, at railway stations 1228, 1455, 1460, by explosion of gunpowder half a mile away 1606, drinking prussic acid 372, 373, drowned in Liffey salmon leap 864, entering hotel in Paris 1141, fall down stairs 1342, fall down stairs at railway station 1430, fall from a balloon 1192, fall from a bicycle 112, fall from an elephant 942, fall from scaffold of a ch. 1409, fall on the Matterhorn 1273, 1566, fall over a precipice 1330, found dead in a water tank 1398, fractured skull in fox hunting 1335, grief at refusal of sculpture at Royal Academy 951, in a cab 1112, in an earthquake 1225, in an omnibus 1182, 1205, in a pulpit 213, in a railway accident 149, in same room as birth 1224, inhaling poisonous gas 985, jumping down area 24, jumping overboard 944, 1488, missed during passage from Newhaven to Dieppe 1134, murdered by Greek brigands 1439, on birthday 1238, on board a yacht 1142, police magistrate in a workhouse 1252, rupture of liver falling on stairs 1609, shot by bushrangers 1585, shot himself at a supper 1440, sitting in chairs 306, 1101, stabbed in street at Malta 1213, sting of wasp in carotid artery 754, taking cyanide of potassium 173, taking laudanum for a black draught 1609, taking morphia 1044, 1211, taking strychnine 711, walking through plate glass window 140, while ascending the Flégère 1050, while grouse shooting 1183, while salmon fishing 1444, while walking on sea shore 1155.

Debt, national, check department 1048.

Delafield, Edward, lessee of Covent Garden 1268.

Decimal coinage 470.

Defences, our national 675.

Denmark, Copenhagen, first tramway there 1208.

Denison, George Anthony b. 1805, archdeacon of Taunton, prosecuted 882.

Denominations, See Religious denominations.

Denbighshire, lord lieutenant 273.

Dentists, Cartwright 565, Groves 1252.

Dentistry, Pompeian plates 1557.

Derby, Bass’ gifts to 190.

Derby race, a visitor to for 64 years 1112.

Derby, Edward Smith d. 1851, earl of 863, his museum 949.

Derbyshire, lord lieutenant 869.

Dermatology 1096.

Derry, bishop of 1463.

Derwentwater estates 865.

Desicating Co. 834.

1637Detonating powder, Boyle’s 369.

Devil, Pedigree of the 1284.

Devonport, name given to Plymouth dock 22, wrestling at 536.

Devonshire, Bibliotheca Devoniensis 823, lace manufacture 1021, landslip in 697, lord lieutenant 1088.

Devonshire, Georgiana d. 1806 duchess of, portrait stolen 987.

Diamonds, a diamond collector 1532, a diamond merchant 434, diamond cement invented 835.

Diarists, Greville C. C. F. 1239, Greville H. 1240.

Dickens, Charles d. 1870, novelist 872, bibliography of his writings 699, C. Dickens and Rochester 1580, Chimes dramatised 4, friends 367, 1182, Hard Times in French 1578, illustrations of his works 443, Little Emly a drama 973, lives of 1085, Oliver Twist, statue of 1576, Pickwick a drama 547, Pickwick, examination papers on 518, Sam Weller a drama 1285, sec. in his American tour 1407, sketches by Boz 1129.

Dickson, John, surgeon to Lord Nelson 875.

Dictionaries, Murray’s New English 674.

Dilston castle, Northumberland, disputed ownership 865.

Diner out, Davies 828.

Dipsomania, its treatment 46.

Diseases, Addison’s disease, discovery of 23, Bright’s disease 400, consumption, cure of by vapour of tar 760, granular degeneration of kidneys 617, Hodgkin’s disease 1492, phthisis, treatment of 324.

Disappearance, Congreve 691.

Disinfecting fluids, Burnett’s 487, carbolic acid 520.

Disintegrator, the 557.

Disraeli, Benjamin d. 1881 earl of Beaconsfield 203, Clay travels with him in Holy Land 640, Eldred much like him in appearance 973, friend 1346, Henrietta Temple, dedication of 900, life of 1485, private secretaries 455, 951, servant 1016.

Disraeli, Isaac d. 1848 author, his controversy with Bolton Corney 721.

Dissenters, the first in the Cabinet, Baines 133.

Dissolving views invented 609.

Diving, air pump and dress 1417, apparatus, Bethell’s patent 263.

Doctor advertising, Culverwell 781.

Dogs, dog stealers’ act 291, dog trainer 499, performing dogs 697, sporting dogs 685.

Dominican community 1292–3.

Doncaster, mayor the first 705.

Donne, William Bodham d. 1882, examiner of plays 896, his friend 1058.

Donovan’s solution invented 897.

Doors, In and Out first marked on 1560.

Dorking, St. Barnabas at Ranmore built 779.

Double bass players, Dragonetti 1557, Howell 1556.

Douranee order 2.

Dover, castle, constable of 803, Shakespeare cliff 1491.

Dowb i.e. M. H. Dowbiggin “Take care of Dowb” 906.

Down and Connor, bishop of 899.

Drainage, arterial 578.

Dramas, at 50s. an act 1403, performed in a boat 1306.

Dramatic coll. at Woking, Cooke’s bequest to 73.

Dramatists, A’Beckett 4, Addison 22, Bernard 256, Brooks 420, Brough R. B. and W. 425, Byron 507, Carpenter 554, Coyne 744, Dance 810, De Walden 869, Du Terreaux 943, Dutnall 944, Ebsworth J. 955, Ebsworth M. E. 955, Farnie 1022, Fawcett 1027, Fitzball 1056, Glengall 1157, Godwin 1164, Green 1223, Greenwood 1231, Halliday 1294, Heraud 1437. See also Actors.

1638Drapery, fancy trade in originated 250.

Draughts, champion player in Scotland 60.

Drawing without instruments 823.

Dredgers, bucket steam dredger 1091, 1598, excavators 1091.

Druids, head of the 826.

Drunkenness, the bottle 8 plates 777, drunkard’s children 8 plates 777, drunkard’s children a drama 777, worship of Bacchus a picture 777, See also Temperance.

Drummond, Edward assassinated 25 Jany. 1843, sec. to Sir R. Peel 877.

Drummond light discovered 1261.

Dublin, archbishops of 27, 251, 781, battle axe guards at the Castle 1469, Berwick art club established 260, chancery court, registrar of affidavits in 622, convent of sisters of charity 29, dean of St. Patrick’s, disputed election 808, exchequer records indexed 1035, freedom of city conferred 702, great exhibition 245, 842, high sheriff sent to prison 1215, lord mayor 942, lord lieut. 1562, Lucan spa house 679, natural history soc. founded 69, Park st. sch. of medicine 796, Phœnix park murders 575, police, chief commissioner 443, Richmond sch. of medicine, foundation of 17, R. coll. of surgeons, presidents 17, 796, R. Irish academy 1036, St. Patrick’s cath. restored 1256, telegraph to Galway 212, theatre royal burnt 969.

Ducrow, Andrew d. 1842, equestrian performer 54, his Grecian statues 517, his rival 702.

Duelling, essay on 522, sin of 584.

Duels. Aston and Allen 100. Barthelémy and Cournet 185. Beaumont and Moore 213. Berkeley and Boldero 253, 328. Berkeley and Maginn 254. Black and Roebuck 293. Bland and a Purser 309. Bland and Randall 309. Boswell and Stuart 345. Braddyll and Bowlby 372. Braddyll and Williamson 372. Cardigan and Tuckett 542. Christie and Scott 615. Dillon and De Gramont-Caderousse 880. Donaldson and Mitchell 894. Falkland killed in a duel 1018. Fawcett and Munroe 782, 1257. Forbes and Thomson 1075. Hayes and Bric 1399. Horsman and Bradshaw 1543. Smith, Thomas B. C. challenges Fitzgerald 1061.

Duffy, Charles Gavan b. 1816, politician, established the Nation 499.

Dulwich, God’s Gift coll. dissolved 50.

Dundee, Baxter park 196, Baxter college 198, burgh records 824, Christian mission ch. 358, Dundee and London, steamers between 929, flax mills stopped 440, Henderson schools 1425, nine incorporated trades 583, postage stamps invented at 583, St. Paul’s cath. 1075.

Dunmow flitch of bacon 598.

Durham, Halmote court 833, Palatinate chancery court abolished 833, Ushaw coll. 1151.

Duval, Lewis d. 1844 conveyancer, his pupil 1283.

Dyeing, Crum’s process 778, improvements in 580.

Dynamometer, invention of a 57.

1639Dwarf, Calvert 520.

E

Ear, aural surgeon, so called 793, cephaloscope 794, R. Dispensary for diseases of ear 793, tympanum, instrument for puncture of 92.

Earl Marshal, deputy earl marshal 1551.

Earth, rotundity of the, bet as to its flatness 1311.

Easthope, Sir John d. 1865, bart. 953, purchased Morning Post 644.

East India Co., bugles, fifes and drums for 676, chairman the last 791, directors 533, 573, 729, 954, monopoly, abolition of 105, printers to 742, volunteer band 1343, See also India.

Ebonite invented 1315.

Eccentric characters, Acland 10, Ady 25, Cochrane 660, Cotton 729.

Ecclesiastical commission 315, 608.

Ecclesiastical metal workers 1329.

Edinburgh, art union originated 1469, bank of Scotland built 455, bible soc. originated 60, bishop of 727, botanical soc. founded 381, castle chapel restored 277, castle regalia discovered 1035, circus first established 704, city’s last appointment to a professorship 754, eye infirmary founded 226, Fettes coll. built 455, Free high ch. 89, Gaelic sch. soc. originated 60, John Knox memorial ch. 527, merchant co. 1143, new coll. 536, royal infirmary built 455, royal medical society president 23, St. Margaret’s convent founded 1150, soc. of arts founded 394, veterinary coll. founded 872.

Edinburgh university, Carlyle bursaries at 549, chancellor 426, Dunlip scholarships 937, English substituted for Latin in examinations in univ. 601, principal 394.

Edinburgh, Alfred, duke of b. 1844, shot by O’Farrell 99, Hokilika theatre named after him 1611.

Education, act of 1870 col. 423, aid soc. formed 423.

Eglinton tournament, accounts of 30, 912, knights at 102, 752, 970, 1533, lord Eglinton 971, page at 893, pictures of 1034.

Egremont, George, Third Earl d. 1837, Carew’s claim on his estate 544.

Egypt, explorers in Belzoni 237, Bonomi 334 and Hay 1394, obelisk in New York 1186, student of its antiquities 781.

Elections, agents for 1096, large sum spent in 255.

Electricians, Cooke 705, Cumming 784, Harris 1351, Hearder 1409, Henley 1429, Wheatstone 705.

Electricity, applied to machinery 578, applied to medical purposes 1409, apparatus for registering progress of ships 130, automatic method of transmitting signals 130, clocks invented 130, discoveries in 1020, earth batteries constructed 130, electro-chemical telegraph 131, electro-dynamics 784, electric telegraph co. 835, experiments in 835, experiments on the Serpentine 130, induction coil 1409, playing keyed instruments at a distance 131, stratification of discharge discovered 1130, used for organs 1131.

Electro biology 378.

Electro crystallization 772.

Electro platers and electro gilders 974.

Elephants, Chunee shot 770, hunting of 1377, in harness 1571.

Elgin marbles, account of 492, removed from Athens 1307.

Elginshire, lord lieutenant of 924.

Eliot, George i.e. Mary Ann Cross 771, her books 300.

Ellenborough, Edward Law d. 1871, first earl of 878.

Ellipses, machine for drawing 1020.

1640Elliptograph, an invention 952.

Ellis, Edward Shipley d. 1879, railway chairman 932, 983.

Elliotson, John d. 1868, mesmerist 979, a founder of Spiritual Athenæum 1519.

Elocution, professor of, Hows 1561.

Elphin, bishops of 443, 560.

Elphinstone, George W. Keith d. 1842 general, his entire army destroyed 456.

Embalming bodies 1298.

Embroideress, Dolby 890.

Emmett, Robert executed 1803 in Ireland, brother in law 1516, friend of 868, his rebellion 51.

Enamellers, Bone 332, Bott 346.

Enamelling of womens faces, the 770.

Encyclopædia Britannica 292, 742.

Encyclopædia Metropolitana published 794, 1243, 1244.

Engineers, Brunel 453, Davies 825, De Bergue 845, Downing 909, Doyne 913, Errington 995, Evans 1002, Exall 1009, Fairbairn 1014, Fairlie 1016, Falshaw 1018, Farey 1020, Field 1042, Fitz-Gibbon 1060, Forster F. 1084, Forster T. E. 1085, Fouracres 1091, Fowler 1092, Fox 1094, Fraser 1102, Fuller 1111, Fulton 1112, Gisborne 1154, Glynn 1161, Godwin 1164, Gooch 1171, Gordon 1182, Grant 1204, Grantham 1208, Gravatt 1210, Greaves 1221, Green 1224, Griffiths 1245, Griffiths 1247, Guppy 1259, Hall 1290, Harding 1327, Harrison 1356, Havilland 1383, Heinke 1417, Hemans 1419, Heppel 1436, Highton 1465, Hodges 1491, Howe 1556, Humber 1582, Hunter 1598, Husband 1602.

Engineering, dumpy the 1211, level staff 1211, nadir a 1211, slide rule 1392.

Engines see Steam engines.

England, Regent of, Albert 38.

English channel, designed iron tunnel across 583.

Engravers, Archer 81, Artlett 92, Bell 231, Brandard 381, Bentley 249, Garter 561, Cooke G. 706, Cooke W. B. 705, Cooke W. J. 706, Cousen 734, Cousins 734, Davenport 822, Doo 897, Dudley 923, Edwards 967, Fairholt 1015, Finden E. F. 1046, Finden W. 1046, Forrest 1082, Freeman 1104, Garner 1124, Golding 1166, Goodall 1171, Grainger 1200, Graves 1212, Hall 1285, Harvey 1368, Hawkins 1389, Hinchliff 1479, Holl 1507, Hooper 1527, Horsburgh 1541, Humphreys 1587, Lines 1124, Mitan 1046.

Engravings, publishers of 1497, Rembrandt’s portrait of Tholinx 1247, steel improvements in 706.

Engravings, collectors of, Burke 482, Cousins 734, Edwards 967, Griffiths 1247, Hope 1530.

Entertainers, Carpenter 554, Carter 561, Cowell 735, Cumming-Gordon 785, Distin quintet 882, Douglas troupe 903, Du Val 944, Fisher 1052, Fitzwilliam 1065, Hudson 1567, Parry 425, Reed 425, Ward, Artemus 443.

Entozoa 659.

Envelopes, first used in stationery office 645, folding machine for 1470.

Epigrams, analytically arranged 544.

Epsom races, a visitor to for sixty four years 1112, perpetual steward of 1412.

Equestrian performers, Cooke 702, Delevanti 853, Ducrow 328, See also Circus proprietors col. 1631.

Essex, Dunmow flitch of bacon 33, nonconformists in 822, silk throwing introduced 733.

Ethnological collection, Christy 618.

Eton montem suppressed 1392.

Europe, Alison’s History of 47.

Evangelical alliance founded 488.

1641Evans, W, C. d. 1855, music hall proprietor 1224.

Evaporation in vacuo invented 182.

Everest, Mount, on Himalayan range 1007.

Everett, James d. 1872, expelled Wesleyan minister 939, 1007.

Exchequer, baron of the, office declined 1540.

Exchequer, chancellors of, Bexley 268, Goulburn 1191, Herries 1446, Hunt 1590, Wood 1281.

Exchequer court, clerk of the errors 959.

Excise, stamps and taxes amalgamated with 191.

Executioner, Calcraft 513.

Executions, last public execution Barrett 178.

Exeter, Boyd’s bequests to the diocese of 365, commissioner of bankruptcy, the last 68.

Exeter Change a brochure 424.

Exhibition of 1851, The Great, Cole sir H. 671, construction of 779, erected 1094, glass used for 1361, official publications of 655, organisers of 39, original idea of the 36, promoters of 1111, specimens of imports 81, See also Crystal palace col. 1635.

Exhibition of 1862, The, Cole sir C. 671, designer of the building 1092, dome decorated 476, iron work for 180.

Exmouth, Edward d. 1833 viscount, expedition to Algiers 875.

Eye, London ophthalmic hospital founded 1025, ophthalmology, congress on 762, ophthalmology, modern 785. Oculists, Barnes 850, Bickerton 270, Cooper 713, Critchett 762, Delagarde 850 and Estlin 999.

F

Facial measurement, a system of 1535.

Fairs, Richardson’s theatre 564.

Faith healing 472.

Families, large, nineteen children 704, twenty 290, twenty two 41, twenty four 903, 918, thirty nine 225.

Farmers, Angas 69, Arkwright 83, Grey 1242, Hall 1284, Hobbs 1488, Hope 1530.

Fashion, leaders of, See Dandies col. 1635.

Fasting man, Moore 1421.

Fat man, Campbell 535.

Fenianism, Burke J. F. murdered 481, 545, Cavendish Lord F. murdered 545, Invincibles 481, Kilclooney wood, fight in 776, Knockadoon coast guard station, attack on 776.

Fenians, Barrett 178, Carey 545, Crowley 776, Duffy 925, Harris 1350, O’Donnel 545.

Ferns, collections of 1211.

Ferrar, Nicholas d. 1637, of Little Gidding 1535.

Field marshals, Albert 38, Anglesey 71, Blakeney 304, Burgoyne 480, Clyde 657, Combermere 689, Fitzgerald 1059.

Field names 54.

Fines and recoveries abolished 409.

Fire arms, improvements in 1385.

Fires, Braidwood 379, Cotton’s wharf 379, Covent Garden 1268, Cubitt’s factory 779, engines and apparatus for extinguishing 379, fire brick makers 736, fire damp indicator 72, fire proof constructions 1095, firemen, training of 379, Hadley’s flour mills 1268, London establishment transferred to Metropolitan board of works 447, London fire engine establishment 379, portable cistern for fire brigade 121, steam fire engine invented 379.

1642Fireworks, maker of 726, at Surrey gardens 770, at Vauxhall 726.

Fish, Fisheries and Fishing, Buckland 462, Couch 731, Ffennell’s act 1040, fish, collection of 1530, fish hatching apparatus 462, fisheries exhibition 462, fossil fish 871, 970, national fish culture association 1097, oyster culture 1097, Thames right defence association 1097.

Fishermen, Blakey 306, Breadalbane 388, Ffennell 1034, Fitzgibbon 1061.

Fives players, Clarke 636, Felix 1032.

Flaxman, John d. 1826, his sculptures completed 1479.

Flax spinner, Brown 440.

Fleetwood, Lancashire, town and port built 1067, 1452.

Floor cloth manufacturer 1334.

Floors, inlaid 1138.

Flora, collection of 871.

Florence, Lord Burghersh’s operas at 640.

Florin, design for the 946.

Florist, Baptist 155.

Flour mills, Catt’s mills 571, Hadley’s mills burnt 1268, on the disintegrator principle 557, steam mills 1284.

Flower, Sarah d. 1848, writer of poems and hymns 19.

Flying machine, Howell 1557.

Foley estate, Worcestershire, sold for £900,000 col. 923.

Folk lore, books on 857.

Foreign affairs, secretaries of state for, Aberdeen 6, Clarendon 623.

Forfarshire, lord lieutenant 803.

Forster, John d. 1876, author 1084, his friend 1591.

Fort Augusta, Gordon-Cumming’s exhibition at 785.

Foscolo, Ugo d. 1827, his Essays on Petrarch 798.

Fossils, bones 860, palæozoic in Cornwall 1165.

Fountains, optical chromatic 811.

France, Cobden’s commercial treaty 659, 737, domicile of Englishmen in 672, Franco-German war, Chesney’s report on 603, methodism 700, national guard in London 1528, prohibition of trade with 105, Sunday schools 700.

France, Paris, Ambulance Anglaise 720, Hope’s residence in 1532, hospital for indigent English 1117, Paris, first news of surrender 1350, salon, Mrs. Hollond’s 1511.

France. The Rhone, improved engines for steam boats

on 496.

France. Tours, death and funeral of sir J. F. Fitzgerald at 1059.

France. Vezere, remains in the caves of 618.

Frankincense tree 812.

Frankland, Edward b. 1825, professor of chemistry 941.

Franklin, Sir John d. 1847 arctic explorer, expeditions in search of 434, 1099, See also Arctic explorers 1622.

Free chant, a system of recitative 774.

Freemasons, freemasons’ hall, London 664, Hugenot lodge founded 1153, India, Western, grand master 485, Orange lodges 709, Scotland, grand masters 1082, 1298, Scottish lodge in India, grand master 485.

French, teachers of, De Beauvoisin 844, De Porquet 862, Fauvet 1027.

Frias, Duke of 143, civil governor of the province of Madrid, d. Spain May 1888.

Friction wheel, invention of a 382.

Frith, William Powell b 1819 painter, his Railway Station 1506.

Froude, Rev. Richard Hurrell d. 1836, resigned fellowship 1388.

1643Fruit dealer, Hanson 1322.

Fuel, Grant’s patent 1206.

Fungi, collection of 790.

Furniture, collection of 255.

Fust, Sir Herbert Jenner d. 1852, judge of court of arches 1185.

G

Gaelic, dictionary 86, lexicographer 86.

Galvanism used to explode gunpowder in blowing down Round Downcliff 779.

Galway, bishop of 443.

Gambler, Ball-Hughes 147.

Games and gaming, law on 383.

Gardeners, Dale Jas. 801, Dale Joseph 802, Forbes 1077, Fortune 1088, Gordon 1179, Harrison 1354.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe d. 1882 patriot, British volunteer officers with 944.

Garston near Liverpool, coal drops at 800.

Garter, knights of the, Aberdeen 7, Ailesbury 31, Albert 38, Anglesey 70, Camden 521, Canning 537, Cleveland 647, Derby 863, Derby 863, Devonshire 869, Exeter 1010, Fitzwilliam 1064, Fortescue 1088, Hanover, king of 1321, Hertford 1449.

Garter, a knight of, allowed to retain the Thistle 7.

Gas, coal gas manufacture 643, engineers 1002, gas light and coke co. 1002, lime purifiers 643, oxide of iron used for purification 1002, polytechnic gas fire 119, portable gas 1176, system of compressing 1176, water meter 643.

Gasses, absorption of by charcoal 1596, law of diffusion of discovered 1198, transpirability of 1198.

Gentlemen at arms, a dignity to be had by purchase 473, corps of gentlemen at arms 1585.

Geographers, Findlay 1047, Laurie 1047, Purdy 1047, Van Kenlen 1047.

Geologists, Ansted 73, Boase 322, Buckland 462, Clarke 636, Daintree 800, Davidson 824, De La Beche 849, Evans 1001, Gray 1219, Greenough 1229, Hawkins 1390, Henland 1428, Henwood 1435, Hunt 1592, Turner 1428.

Geology, geological museum 849, geological soc. Bigsby’s gold medal 275, geological survey 849, mineral veins, electrical phenomena in 1592.

George III. d. 1820, compared to a German hog butcher 1498, dau. Mary duchess of Gloucester 1158, his boot maker 1490, master of chapel royal to 114, pistol boy to 829.

George IV. d. 1830, Carlton house alterations at 1536, coronation at 948, coronation, cupbearer at 8, coronation, pugilists engaged to act as pages 224, Croly’s life of 766, his bonds not paid 1308, his friends 1515, his jockey Chifney 608, 609, libels on 1364, 1591, visit to Ireland 463.

Germany, Francis II. at Catau Cambresis 1207, Kissingen, fashion set of drinking its waters 1208.

Ghosts, micrometer 494, origin and nature of 459.

Giants, Bethune 264, Cross 762, Hales 1279.

Gilbert, William Schwenck b. 1836 dramatist, as an illustrator 1146.

Gillray, James d. 1815, his caricatures 777, 1005.

Gipsies, advocate 745, Borrow’s books about 342, friend 745, kings of 320 bis., school for at Yetholm 134.

Giraffes exhibited 770.

1644Girtin, Thomas d. 1802 panorama painter, drawings by 1283.

Gladstone, William Ewart b. 1809, action for libel against 963, election committee at Oxford 1271, election committees 1238, his friend Hope-Scott 1532.

Glasgow, Anderson’s univ. 778, 1000, 1009, Anderston incorporated with 1548, Chalmers and the Tron ch. 681, churches, scheme for building twenty 534, 681, Dollar institution 755, Dunlop st. theatre 43, Fir park 1009, John st. ch. built 66, manufactory of pure bread at 369, provident bank the first 1009, royal exchange 1009, sabbath sch. 681, statue of lord Clyde 657, temple of magic 63.

Glasgow University, Buchanan bursaries 459, Buchanan prizes instituted 459, Clark scholarships 626, lord rectors 426, 803, 863, 971, 973, 1027.

Glass, crown glass made with sulphate of soda 1361, cylindrical, machine for cutting 638, French glass 638, German sheet glass 1361, glass blower, a 392, Hartley’s rolled plate 1361, thimble used instead of iron bar in blowing 1361.

Glass, designers and painters on, Baillie 128, Clarke 632, Cottingham 727, Heaton 1414.

Glass manufacturers, Glazebrook 1156, Hardman 1329, Hartley 1361.

Gloucester, British ragged schools founded 361, eye institution founded 1611, Sunday sch. the first 24, tea total soc. founded 361.

Gloucester, William Frederick d. 1834, duke of 1158.

Gloucestershire lord lieutenant 1062.

Glovers, Allcroft 49, Dent 861.

Glue, method of drying 557.

God save the king, the anthem of 627.

Goddard, Arabella b. 1836, pianist 833.

Godwin, William d. 1836, his wife 621.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von d. 1832, poem by 1554.

Goffres sold in the streets 1130.

Gold, automatic weighing machine for 730, bullion robbery 1396, cause of high price of 701, chemically pure made 1042, dust robbery 1396, gold thread manufacture 377, gold medal specially struck 550.

Golfers and golfing, Glennie 1157, Hay 1395, score of 88 col. 1157.

Gorham, Rev. G. C. d. 1857, his case 121, 1185.

Gothic architecture, revival of 886, 953.

Governesses, An appeal on behalf of, a poem 3.

Grace, For these and all thy mercies 1487.

Grahamstown, bishop of 727.

Grant, Mrs. Anne d. 1838, of Laggan 1140.

Granton harbour constructed 457.

Graphitic acid discovered 409.

Gravesend town pier 630.

Gray, Sir John d. 1875, M.P. 1216, his trial 1061.

Greece, coins of discovered 341, committee for in London 427, Englishmen who fought in 1049, swimming across Hellespont 1611.

Greenock, Comet steamboat boiler exploded 432.

Greenwich hospital, Bellot’s monument 235, estates 1242, governors 13, 799, 1180, sixpenny revenue 1048.

Gretna green post boy 1198.

Griffith, Rev. William d. 1883, expelled Wesleyan ministry 939, 1245.

Groves, Anthony Norris d. 1853, missionary 1252, preacher in Dublin 691, tutor in his family 749.

Guano islands, monopoly of 1138.

Guernsey, bailiff of 546.

Gunpowder manufactories 610, 793.

1645Guns, breech loading 914, castings for 1051, cores 1051, discharged by percussion powder 875, Fraser gun 1102, gun of 100 tons 1051, gun to carry a 50lb ball 2 miles 422, Monstre 22 tons 641, percussion caps adapted to flint guns 1284, Woolwich gun 1102.

Gun cotton, Crum’s formula 778.

Gunpowder, monster charges 779.

Gunter, a ten foot 382.

Gymnastics, gymnasia 611, polymachinon 611.

Gymnastics, professors of, Chiosso 611, Clias 647, Hanlon 1317.

H

Hainault forest, Essex drained 1093.

Hair, electric brush to prevent greyness 1247.

Hales place near Canterbury, nunnery 1279.

Halifax, Crossley almshouses 773, Crossley orphan house and school 773, foundation of carpet manufacture 3, people’s park 773.

Halkett, Samuel d. 1871, librarian 1282, 1352.

Hallé, Sir Charles b. 1819 composer, his chorus master 1416.

Hamel, Joseph Von d. 1862 M.D., ascent of Mont Blanc 899.

Hamilton palace, mausoleum at 1298.

Hammersmith suspension bridge 630.

Hampden, John d. 1643 patriot, collections for life of 1310.

Hampden, Renn Dickson d. 1868, bp. of Hereford 1311, opposed in Bow ch. and in queen’s bench 1600.

Hampshire, Andover union, iniquitous practices 4, New forest, Girlingites in the 1153.

Hampton court, tennis court at 252.

Handel, George Frederic d. 1759 composer, festivals in London 725 and originator of 360.

Handloom enquiry commission 1070.

Handsworth, convent of Our Lady of Mercy at 1329.

Hanging, drawing and quartering, the last sentence of 1110.

Hanover incorporated with Prussia 1321.

Hanover, Ernest Augustus d. 1851, king of 1320.

Hanover, George, F. A. C. E. A. d. 1878, king of 1321, created one baron only 1362.

Hanwell asylum in Middlesex 694.

Handwriting, expert in, Chabot 579.

Harlequins, Byrne 506, Howell 1557, harlequin’s dress 506, Sam Spangle, history of a harlequin 745.

Harpists, Bochsa 322, 871, Chatterton 600, Chipp 611.

Harris, A. V. D. lieutenant, ill-treated by Hort 1543.

Harvest homes, originated at Brooke 205.

Haslam, Rev. William, his converts 857.

Hastings, Warren d. 1818 statesman, his Persian secretary 835.

Hats, cocked hat, last wearer of a 254, hints on hats 900, straw made in London 851, the Petersham 1344.

Hawking, Berners 257.

Hawks and owls, collection of 860.

Haydon, Benjamin R. d. 1846 painter, his assassination of Dentatus 1368, his widow 1396, his sons 1396.

Hayne, Joseph called Pea-Green Hayne, Maria Foote’s action for breach of promise 1344.

Hazard player, Cotton 729.

1646Head, turning round on without holding 1571.

Hear the church. A sermon 1526.

Heat, polarisation of 1078.

Hebrew scholars, Boys 370, Duncan 929, Harrison 1352, 1369.

Heligoland, lieut. governor of 1482.

Helminthology 659.

Hemans, Felicia Dorothea d. 1835, poet 1419.

Herbarium in univ. of Aberdeen 930.

Heralds’ college, portcullis pursuivant 676, report on 233, rouge croix pursuivant 733, Somerset herald 733.

Hereford, Ledbury hospital 1599.

Hertford, Richard S. C. d. 1870 marquis of, his factotum Croker 764.

Hertfordshire, flora of 673.

Hesse-Darmstadt, Alice d. 1878, grand duchess of 46.

Hesse-Homburg, Princess Elizabeth d. 1840 landgravine of, her physician 909.

Hewley, Lady Sarah, her charities 1272.

Hexham, bishops of 581, 1501.

High Cross, Herts., St. Giles’ ch. founded 1148.

High treason, persons accused of, Bamford 149, Binns 281.

Hindustani scholars, Dowton 910, Elliot 979, Forbes 1076, Goldsmid 1167.

Historical eminence, gold medals for 1293.

Historical MSS. commission founders 1347.

Hobart, Augustus C. d. 1886, admiral 1486, took Harvey to Crete to advise on international law 1367.

Hogarth, George d. 1870, musical critic 1501, dau. m. C. Dickens 873.

Hogarth, William d. 1764 painter, his house 1461, Sarah Malcolm 58, Sigismunda 58, sketches by 1283.

Hogg, James d. 1835, Ettrick shepherd, his widow 1502.

Holden should be Holder, Henry 1505.

Holland, Haarlem lake drained 1602.

Holloway college and sanatorium 1512.

Home department, sec. of state for, Estcourt 999, Goulburn 1191, Graham 1197, Grey 1241, Herbert 1438.

Homœopathic doctors, Epps 994, Hall 1290.

Homœopathists, persecution of 1426.

Hone, William d. 1842 publisher, Every day book 482, his pamphlets illustrated by Cruikshank 777.

Hooper, Robert, M.D., his pathological museum 28.

Hope, Rev. Frederick W. d. 1862, F.R.S. 1530, collection of early newspapers 482.

Hops, excise duty taken off 120, hop merchants Gibbons 1137 and Wood 1376.

Horse breaker, Greenwood 1229.

Horse breeders, Blenkiron 312, Garrett 1126.

Horse corn, dealer in 1476.

Horse tamer, Hengler 1428.

Horse trainers, See also Jockeys, Day J. 840, Day J. B. 841.

Horses, Anderson’s steppers 63, Anderson’s horses sold 63, bearing reins 1071, bits 625, bots 625, driving thirty two in hand 1571, feet of 625, gag bits 1071, horse shot and ear buried in master’s grave 829, race horse worked in a cab 1248, riding schools 1145, shoes, machine for making 476, trotting horses of America 1089, weight of a horse utilised on a moving platform 382.

Horses sold for large sums, Blink Bonny 312, Blair Athol 312, Gladiateur 312.

Horsman, Charles actor 1543, d. 5 Aug. 1886. cf. E. L. Blanchard’s Life ii 594, 708 (1891).

1647Hose frames, circular invented 83, See also Stocking frames.

Hot blast, invention of 134.

Houghton, Richard Monckton Milnes d. 1885, first baron 1547, befriends D. Gray poet 1214–5.

Houlton, Sir George d. 1862, knighted 1835 or 1836 but objecting to pay the fees for registration he was never registered. There was an erroneous impression in existence that members of H.M. household were exempt from paying fees.

Hounds, masters of, Arkwright 83, Barnett 173, Beaufort 212, Bedford 218, Bentinck 248, Berkeley 254, Bessborough 261, Chaplin 591, Cope 714, Drake 915, Ducie 922, Farquharson 1023, Fenwick-Bisset 1034, Fitzhardinge, Earl of 1062, Fitzhardinge, Baron 1062, Fitzwilliam 1066, Foljambe 1073, Forester 1081, Galway 1118, Grant 1204, Greaves 1221, Guilford 1255, Hall 1286, Harris 1346, Harvey 1366, Hastings, marquis of 1372, Hastings, baron 1372, Hawke 1384, Heathcote 1412, Hicks 1461, Hobson 1489, Hodgson 1498, Holyoake-Goodricke 1519, Honywood 1523, Hood 1525, Howe 1556, Huntingdon 1598, Lambton 1588, Ridley 1589, Suffield 1589.

House decorators, Garrett 1125, Hay 1393.

Huddersfield, Convalescent home founded 414.

Hudson bay co., secretary 1102.

Hull, adventures of James Acland at 10, convent of our Lord of Mercy 679, grammar school founded 1612.

Hulsean lecturer, the first, Benson 245.

Hume, Joseph d. 1855, M.P. 1586, his private secretary 679, speech wilfully misreported 677.

Humming birds, Gould’s collection of 1191.

Hungate family estates 1588.

Hunter, John d. 1793 surgeon, his coffin 462.

Hunting, D’ ye ken John Peel, a song 1212, on foot 1373, 1523.

Hunting parsons, Anderson 65, Honywood 1523.

Huntsmen, Ayris 114, Bartlett 186, Carter 561, Christian 615, Davis 829, Goodall 1172, Head 1405, Hills J. 1477, Hills T. 1478, Hunnum 1588.

Huskisson, William killed 1830 statesman, person present at his death 1516.

Hussars, The Eleventh, crack regiment 542.

Hydraulic engineer, Beardmore 209.

Hydropathy, practiser of 1257.

Hydrostatic beds invented 90.

Hygrometer, a self registering 1183.

Hymns, ancient and modern, originator of 136, ancient and modern, writers in 948, hymns as a substitute for Dr. Watts 684, invalids hymn book 981, Just as I am without one plea 981, Much in sorrow, oft in woe 685, My God and Father while I stray 981.

Hymn tunes, Burnham 628, Joyful 276, Kilmarnock 901, Pembroke 628, Queenborough 628.

Hymn writer, Havergal 1380–81.

Hypnotism 378, 1260.

I

Ice merchant, Gatti 1130.

Iceland, Iceland and its volcanoes, large picture of 770, Icelandic dictionary 643.

Ilford, pleistocene mammalia found at 376.

I know a bank, a duet 1537.

I’ll hang my harp on a willow tree, a song 1254.

1648Illuminated manuscripts, Bragge’s collection 378, copying of 725.

Impostors, Ady 25, Aitken 36, Fletcher 1069.

Imprisoned eight years for refusing to give up deeds 1564.

Income tax introduced 1124.

India, Arnold medals in the Punjab 88, commander in chief 73, cinchona cultivation 1553, Delhi princes shot 1500, Euphrates route 604, flora of 66, fossil mammalia 574, Ganges canal 574, governors general Amherst 56, Canning 537, Dalhousie 803, Elgin 973, Ellenborough 975 and Hardinge 1328, Great Indian peninsular railway 592, Hobson-Jobson a glossary of colloquial words 485, Hodson’s horse 1500, irrigation scheme 592, Indian church aid association founded 412, Kutcherry technicalities 553, land revenue of N.W. provinces 286, Mhow court martial 756, Nagpore annexed 803, Nilagiris, collection of their arms, dresses, etc. 388, order of star of 537, Oudh annexed 803, Pathan companies raised 1610, Pegu annexed 803, Punjaub annexed 803, railway system initiated 254–55, Sanscrit proverbs 557, sec. of state Cranborne, afterwards marquis of Salisbury, 954 and Wood 1281, Sikh regt. the first 1496, Syrian route to 604, Telegu proverbs 557, tea plant introduced 1088, vernacular characters passing through post office 1605.

India, Bangalore, Cubbon park and statue 778.

India, Bengal, middle class schools 728, stud department 873.

India, Bombay, conservator of forests 1139, Elphinstone coll. 989, gas introduced 792, reformatory school of industry founded 468.

India, Calcutta, bishop Cotton 728, cathedral 1079, Calcutta journal established 461, drainage and water works 629, mint 1079, 1610, schools for native females of higher class established 264.

India, Madras, army commander of 73, female school of industry 612.

India rubber, manufacturers 1528, masticator invented for 1315, vulcanised india rubber 1315, waterproof garments 1315.

Initialism, See also Names and Pseudonyms. A., H. A. S. i.e. Henry Adams Sergison Atwood 106. A., S. A. i.e. Alexander Stewart Allen 48. B., A. C. i.e. Arthur Coke Burnell 485. B., B. H. i.e. Bertha H. Buxton 503. B., A. E. i.e. Andrew Edmund Brae 377. B., C. i.e. Cordelia Georgiana Budd 466. B., E. i.e. Mrs. E. Babington 981. B., E. S. i.e. Edwyn Sherard Burnaby 483. B., F. C. i.e. Francis Capper Brooke 415. B., G. C. i.e. George Clement Boase 321. B., J. a friend of the Aborigines Protection Soc. i.e. John Burtt 495. B., W. i.e. William Borrows 343. B., W. i.e. William Brinton 402. B., W. C. i.e. William Corbett Burder 476. C. i.e. James Crossley 773. C., C. i.e. Charles Chorley 614. C., E. J. M. i.e. Edward James Mortimer Collins 680. C., F. i.e. Frances Collins 679. C., F. D. i.e. Frances Dorothy Cartwright 565. C., F. L. i.e. Frederick Leigh Colvile 687. C., F. P. i.e. F. Percy Cotton 679. C., J. i.e. James Clay 640. C., R. H. i.e. Robert Henry Clive 653. C., W. L. i.e. William Lucas Collins 682. 1649D. i.e. Charles Dyson 949. D., J. N. i.e. John Nelson Darby 813. D—. G—. i.e. George Daniel 811. E., J. C. i.e. John Caillard Erck 994. G., A. i.e. Alexander Gardner 1122. G., E. i.e. Edward Grubb 1252. G., J. i.e. Joseph Gurney 1262. G., R. P. i.e. Robert Pierce Gillies 1150. H., A. i.e. Abraham Hayward 1402. H., A. i.e. Algernon Herbert 1438. H., C. i.e. Chambers Hall 1283. H., C. i.e. Charles Hardwick 1330. H., C. i.e. Charles Heavysege 1414. H., E. i.e. Elizabeth Hadfield 1272. H., E. S. J. i.e. Ellen St. John Hunt 1589. H., F. i.e. Francis Hessey 1453. H., F. C. i.e. Frederick Charles Husenbeth 1602. H., F. T. i.e. Frederic Thomas Hall 1284. H., H. i.e. Herbert Haines 1275. H., J. D. i.e. James Dibden Hubbarde 1564. H., M. i.e. Matilda Heron 1445. H., R. i.e. Richard Harvey 1366. J., E. i.e. Miss E. Jolly 886. N., R. i.e. John Hunter 1596. O., J. i.e. Matthew James Higgins 1464.

Ink, an inerasable 369, printing 851.

Innocent person condemned, Barber 157.

Inquests, 4000 held by De Lasaux 852.

Inquiry agent, Field 1040.

Insane, Conolly’s system of treatment 694, moral control of 594, new system of treatment adopted in Scotland 446.

Insect life in metallic solutions, discovery of 772.

International exhibitions, original idea of 705.

Institutions. Actuaries founded 438, 1332, president 1048. Albert originated 436. Anglo Biblical founded 294. British architects, president 848. British philosophical and literary founded 697. Cholera orphan house commenced 436. Chronological of London founded 294. Civil engineers founded 97, 1042. Glandular founded 41. Home for convalescent women patients 590. Home for servants out of place started 436. Institution of Irish architects, president 843. Inventors’ institute, president 376. Iron and steel, foreign sec. 1076. Law projected 1513. Licensed victuallers’ sch. founded 441. London infirmary for disease of the skin closed 9. London university founded 741. Manchester mechanics founded 1457. National hospital for paralysed and epiplectic opened 590. National orphan home founded 436. National philanthropic, president 660. Naval architects founded 1208. North London eye infirmary founded 713. North of England instit. of mining engineers, president 1085. Philosophical, Edinburgh, founded 1352. 1650Plymouth eye dispensary originated 502. Polytechnic opened 118, 609. Royal General theatrical fund founded 781. Samaritan society founded 590. Solicitors’ benevolent founded 67.

Insurance, fire policies 836, life insurance for £300,000 col. 923, life policies, fifty six on earl of Aylesford’s life 112, life tables 961, Northampton tables 1048, positive life insurance, a form of life policy 201, union policy for tariff offices devised 348.

Insurance offices. Albert, great losers in 211. Alliance, British and foreign, actuary 1169. Amicable life actuary 1118. Atlas fire office built 1536. British foreign and colonial founded 201. Clergy mutual, founded 1040. Consols life started 201. English and Scottish law founded 201. Equity society tables 826. Equity and law life offices built 485. Hope founded 441. Law life projected 67. Liverpool fire and life founded 348, became Liverpool and London 348, became Liverpool, London and Globe 348. London life, actuary 1048. Mutual, actuary 1332. Mutual life founded 447. National provident, bonus investigation 72. New equitable life founded 206. Positive life founded 229. Unity general life commenced 201. Universal life founded 344. Westminster and general life founded 447.

Inventor’s claim on the government, Clare 623.

Inverness, St. Andrew’s cathedral founded 958.

Ipswich, Cobbold’s bank 658, Cobbold’s brewery 658, first mayor 379.

Ireland, alnager the great 845, amnesty association 502, Arian separation from synod of Ulster 1550, benefactors to 62, Bianconi’s cars 268–9, catholic univ. at Drumcondra 781, Celtic soc. 501, church, disestablishment of the 1216, coast guard introduced 891, congregation of the Oblates 703, constabulary, head of 390, Emmett the patriot 992, famine 667, famine, money raised in Calcutta for relief of 524, famine, relief commission 479, fasti ecclesiæ Hibernicæ 729, flora 69, Griffith’s valuation 1245, home rule party 502, hot air baths instituted 184, institute of Blessed Virgin Mary introduced into 145, institution of civil engineers 479, insurrection act in Limerick & Clare 296, Irish archæological soc. 501, Irish coll. at Rome 481, Irish confederation 74, Irish legion in France 506, Irish soc., governor 1586, land league mobbed King’s county hounds 1598, lord high treasurer 7, Murphy’s insurgents 506, national association founded 879, national gallery 814, orangeism 709, Parnell, Biggar and others, trial of 1057, peasantry, traits and stories of 547, poor law act 698, popular songs of 765, railway the first 814, railways, commission on 635, royal university created 1533, Sandymount convent, the superior of 29, South Wexford agricultural soc. founded 1460, survey of 669, synod of Ulster 304, tenant league originated 1231, three F’s, the 1231, Turkish baths established 184, united Irishmen 506.

1651Ireland, Belfast, Belfast bottoms 1339, horticultural exhibition 1302.

Ireland, Dublin, crown and hanaper office 1315, exhibition 814.

Ireland, chief secretaries, Bexley 268, Carlisle 548, Cavendish 575, Derby 1863, Ellesmere 976, Forster 1086, Goulburn 1191, Glenelg 1157, Hardinge 1328, Hobhouse 427, Horsman 1543, Stanley 863, Walhouse or Littleton 1376.

Ireland, lord chancellors, Blackburne 296, Brady 377, Brewster 394, Brooke 418 and Campbell 526.

Ireland, lords lieutenants, Anglesey 71, Carlisle 548, Clarendon 623, De Grey 848, Eglinton 971, Fortescue 1088, Haddington 1271, Heytesbury 1457.

Irish scholars, Connellan O. 693, Connellan T. 693, Doudney 901, Foley 1073, Hennessy 1430.

Iron manufactory, blowing machine 551, cold blast pig 75, Coltness’ brand of iron 1595, fan blast 351, Hodgkinson’s beams 1493, hopper and spout kilns invented 342, iron chain cables invented 438, wrought iron rails, patent for 287.

Iron masters, Beale 205, Bolckow 327, Crawshay 756, Fletcher 1069, Geach 1132, Guest 1255, Harley 1340, Hood 1524, Houldsworth 1548, 1595.

Irving, Rev. Edward d. 1834 presbyterian, his friend 1448.

Irving, John Henry Brodribb b. 1838 actor, first appearance 830.

Isle of Wight, governor 1008, history of 1477.

Italy, British Italian legion 483, Italian antiquities, Disney collection 882.

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Jaffa, model farm at 1449.

Jamaica, insurrection of the slaves 731.

Japanese scholar, Greey 1231.

Javelin men, fine paid for not providing them 80.

Jeannette and Jeannot, a song 1158.

Jerdan, William d. 1869 journalist, originated Literary gazette 669.

Jerrold, Douglas William d. 1857 dramatist, Housekeeper 1584, Rent day 1584, Time works wonders 1584.

Jersey, the six advocates of the royal court 1537.

Jerusalem, Anglican cathedral 1269, bishops of 159, 1162, hospital for sick jews 1548, house of industry at 1449.

Jesus Christ, likenesses of 1408.

Jews, Bevis Marks congregation 866, board of deputies 668, committee of seven elders 668, great synagogue, London 668, first called to the bar 1167, first created baronet 1168, jewish board of guardians 42, 668, jews’ coll. London 982, ministers in London 866, united synagogue London 668.

Jim Crow sung in England 938.

Jockeys, Bullock 471, Butler 499, Chaloner 585, Chapple 593, Charlton 596, Chifney S. 608, Chifney W. 609, Constable 696, Day J. 840, Day J. B. 841, Day S. 841, Ede 956, Flatman 1067, Fordham 1080, French 1107, rode six winners in one day 1107, Green 1223, Grimshaw 1248, Hibberd 1459.

Jon Duan, authors of 221.

Jordan, Mrs. Dorothy d. 1816 actress, her sons 1056, 1057 bis.

Judge removed from office, Boothby B. 339.

1652Jumping, Howard the jumper 1553, jumping 29 ft. 7 in. col. 1553, over a billiard table 1553.

Junot, Andoche d. 1813 duc d’Abrantes, his mistress 1449.

Juggler, Allock 54.

Jullien, Louis G. Antoine J. d. 1860 composer, concerts at Covent garden 882, concerts at Surrey gardens 770, opera at Drury Lane 1268.

Junius, authorship of his letters 732, 945, his hand writing 579.

K

Kaleidoscope invented 394.

Kashmiri scholar 989.

Kean, Charles John d. 1868 actor, his secretary 513.

Kean, Edmund d. 1833 actor, his stage director 1034.

Keats, John d. 1821 poet, his friend 1591.

Kelly, Colonel, the Fenian, rescue of 53.

Kent, fossils of 1351.

Kent, Edward Augustus d. 1820 duke of, conspiracy to shoot 465.

Kent, Victoria M. L. d. 1861 duchess of, comptrollers of her household 696, 732, mausoleum built 1583.

Kerry, bishop of 968, lord lieutenant 1439.

Kew, observatory given up 854, observatory given to Royal soc. 1130.

Kew gardens, Bentham collection of books at 247. Champion’s collection of plants 589, director of 1526.

Keyser, Polydore de, lord mayor of London 1465.

Keythorpe hall, Leicestershire, built 257.

Keyzor, Louis, murdered in 1869 at Whitton 1226.

Khol-rabi introduced 762.

Kildare and Leighlin, bishop of 1297.

Killala, bishops of 1031, 1060.

Kilmacduagh, bishop of 1106.

Kilmore, bishops of 444, 560, 815.

Kincardineshire, lords lieutenant 79, 1155.

King’s champion 948.

Kingsley, Charles d. 1875 V. of Eversley, music for his songs 1581.

Kinrossshire lord lieutenant 13.

Kirkcudbright lord lieutenant 1118.

Kiva, a ride to 484.

Knaresborough, history of 521.

Knights and knighthood, first knight created by Victoria 1321, knighthood declined by Brown 431, Carr 557, Cattermole 572, Fairbairn 1015, Fuller 1111, Hall 1291 and Heelis 1416, name still in knightage forty six years after death 1093, prefix Sir assumed 429, prefix Sir not used 588, refusal to pay the knightage fees 665.

Knights bachelor, A’Beckett 5, Agar 27, Alderson E. H. 40, Alderson J. 40, Allan 48, Amphlett 58, Anderson C. G. 60, Anderson G. W. 61, Anderson J. E. 62, Archibald 82, Armitage 83, Arney 87, Arrow 90, Arthur 91, Ashworth 97, Atherton 101, Atkinson H. E. 103, Atkinson J. 104, Austen 108, Awdry 111, Back 119, Bain 181, Baker 137, Bannerman 153, Bardsley 160, Barry C. 181, Barry R. 183, Bayly 201, Bell 231, Bellairs 232, Benedict 238, Bennett 244, Benson 245, Bent 246, Betham 262, Bethune 264, Biddlecombe 272, Bignold 275, Bishop 290, Bisset 291, Blaikie 301, Boag 321, Bodkin 324, Bogle 325, Bouch 346, Bovill 354, Bowring 362, Boxall 364, Brady A. 376, Brady F. 377, Brancker 380, Brand 380, 1653Brewster 394, Bridges 396, Briggs 398, Brown 441, Brownrigg 449, Bruce 451, Buller A. 469, Buller A. W. 469, Burrows 492, Burt 493, Burton 495, Butler 499, Byam 504, Byles 504, Campbell G. 529, Campbell Jas. 530, Carey 545, Carr 558, Carroll 559, Carswell 560, Carter 562, Causton 574, Chalk 581, Channell 590, Chapman 593, Chetham 606, Church 618, Claridge 624, Clark 630, Clarke 631, Clarke R. B. 635, Cleasby 643, Cockburn 662, Coey 666, Coffin 667, Colebrooke 672, Coleridge 675, Collings 678, Colvile 687, Comyn 690, Cooke 702, Cooke 705, Cooper 708, Cormack 720, Costa 724, Cotter 727, Cowen 736, Cox 743, Coxe 744, Creasy 757, Cresswell 758, Crichton 700, Crichton 761, Crompton 767, Crosley 769, Crowder 774, Crowe 775, Cubitt 779, Currie 792, Curteis 792, Daly 808, Darvill 818, Darwin 819, Davies 825, Davison 832, Davison 832, Davy 835, Deane 842, Deas 843, De Butts 846, De Gex 847, De La Beche 849, De La Saussaye 852, Denham 856, Denison 858, Desanges 866, Dickinson D. J. 874, Dickinson J. N. 874, Dickson 876, Dodson 889, Doherty 890, Dombrain 891, Donaldson 894, Donovan 897, Doratt 898, Douglas 901, Douglas J. A. 904, Douglas N. 904, Downie 909, Downman 909, Doyle 912, Doyle 913, Dry 922, Dundas 932, Dwarris 945, Eastlake 953, Edwards 964, Ellis 983, Erie 994, Everest 1007, Eyre 1011, Fairbairn 1014, Fellowes 1032, Fellows 1033, Ferguson 1035, Ferguson 1036, Fife 1044, Finlay 1049, Fisher J. H. 1053, Fisher J. W. 1053, Fleming 1068, Forbes 1078, Fowler 1093, Fox 1093, Francis 1099, Franks 1099, Freestun 1105, Fropier 1109, Gambier 1118, Gibbes 1137, Gibbs 1137, Giffard 1142, Glass 1156, Goodman 1174, Gordon J. 1181, Gordon J. W. 1181, Gosselin 1187, Gough 1189, Gowans 1193, Grant 1202, Grant 1204, Grant 1205, Grattan 1209, Gray 1216, Green 1224, Grey 1240, Gurney 1261, Gyll 1268, Haberfield 1269, Hackett W. 1270, Hackett W. B. 1270, Hagan 1273, Halkett 1281, Hall 1283, Hall 1286, Halliburton 1294, Hamilton 1302, Hamilton 1303, Hamilton 1306, Hamilton 1307, Hancock 1314, Hansler 1321, Hanson 1322, Harding 1327, Hardman 1329, Hardy 1333, Hardy 1334, Hare 1334, Harris 1350, Harris 1351, Harrison E. S. 1352, Harrison G. 1352, Hart A. S. 1359, Hart H. 1359, Harvey 1365, Harvey 1366, Hastings 1372, Hastings 1374, Hawker 1386, Hay 1393, Hayes 1397, Hayter 1401, Head 1404, Heathcote 1412, Henry 1433, Herbert 1439, Heron 1445, Herries 1446, Hicks 1461, Hilditch 1466, Hill 1469, Hill H. 1471, Hill J. 1471, Hill J. 1471, Hill 1473, Hill 1474, Hindmarsh 1482, Hodges 1492, Hodgkinson 1493, Hodgson 1497, Hoffmeister 1500, Holker 1505, Holmes 1516, Holmes 1517, Hood 1525, Hooker 1526, Hopkins 1534, Hopkinson 1535, Horne 1540, Horsford 1542, Houlton 1549, Howell 1557, Howley 1561, Hoyles 1563, Huddleston 1565, Hughes 1577, Hume 1585, Humphreys 1587, Hunt 1690, Huntley 1599.

Khondistan, human sacrifices in 532.

Knurr and spell player 1495.

Kossuth, Louis b. 1802, banquet to 69, entertained by Henry 1432, his friends 837, 1232.

L

Laboratories 941.

Lace, gassing of 1289, machine for making 83, made from mohair 287, manufacturers of 287, 1412, Old Loughborough machine 1412, patent for making 275.

1654Lacrosse player, Glover 1160.

Ladies’ faces, enamelling of 770.

Laing, Rev. John d. 1880, librarian 1282.

Lamb, Charles d. 1834 essayist, attacked by cholera 93, his friends 487, 1591.

Lambeth, degrees 557, 1494, palace librarian 1225.

Lamps, Argand introduced 1554, lamp of life, invention and explosion of 10.

Lampeter castle turned into St. David’s college 1336.

Lancaster duchy, chancellors of 6, 133, 623, 1241, 1358, duke of, claimant to the title 1353, records 1334.

Lanarkshire, lords lieutenant 226, 976, 1298 bis.

Land surveyor, Hodgson 1498.

Langalibalele, Caffre chief, treatment of 673.

Latin, hexameter verses, machine for composing 627.

Laurie, Sir Peter d. 1861, lord mayor 26, 27.

Lavalette, Antoine M. C., comte de d. 1830, his escape 897.

Law, common law procedure act 1272, inns of court commission 675, John Doe and Richard Roe 1398, king’s bench filazer 18, large incomes made at the bar 451, law courts commission 675, law courts, design for 478, law courts, opening of the new 848, papers copied at three pence a page 1596, qualification for offices abolition act 1272, refusal to call to the bar 1364.

Law, Incorporated Law Society, law institute projected 1513, incorporated law soc., charter of 1513, presidents 330, 494, 635, 918, 1080, 1089.

Law, William John d. 1869 barrister, on route of Hannibal over Alps 984.

Lawrence, Sir Thomas d. 1830 P.R.A., funeral of 318, his assistant 1004.

Leamington, county library 988, music hall 988.

Leather manufacturer, Hackett 1270.

Lecturers, Bellew 234, Dawson 837, Gilfillan 1148, Gordon-Cumming 785, Grossmith 1250.

Lee, James Prince d. 1869 bp. of Manchester, his confirmation opposed 1265.

Leechdoms 661.

Leeds, musical festivals 725, St. Saviour’s vicar of 1075.

Leicester, Mount St. Bernard abbey 476.

Leinster, Augustus Frederick d. 1874 third duke of, his son 1059.

Lemon, Mark d. 1870, dramatised the Chimes 4.

Leopold I. d. 1805 king of the Belgians, his equerry 796, master of his household 796.

Leopold, prince d. 1884, duke of Albany 38.

Lepidoptera, collections of 900, 1454, specimen costing £350 col. 1454.

Letter copying machines, pentagraph 1389, Wedgwood’s manifold writer 1389.

Letters refused, the writer liable for the postage 26.

Letters, vocal and whisper 1476.

Leucocythemia or white cell blood discovered 242.

Lever, Charles James d. 1872 novelist, illustrators of his works 444.

Lewes, George Henry d. 1878 philosopher, Mary Ann Cross 771, studentships founded in his name 771.

Lewin, Thomas d. 1843 of H.E.I.C.S. 1251.

Librarians, Atkinson 104, Bandinel 150, Bradshaw 375, Brayley E. Wedlake 387, Brayley E. William 387, Brimley 401, Brough 424, Caulfield 573, Cochrane 660, Coxe 743, Crestadoro 758, Dalton 808, Deutsch 867, Edwards 965, Halkett 1282, Hall 1290, Hennen 1430, Herbert 1440, 1442, Hertslet 1450, Hitchcock 1484, Holmes 1515, Horne 1540, Hulton 1582.

1655Libraries, Adamson 21, Ainsworth 34, Alvanley 55, Ashburnham 93, Aspland 99, Atkinson 103, Barker 162, Beaufoy 212, Bedford 218, Bennis 245, Bentham 247, Black 293, Bohn 326, Blood 315, Brooke 415, Bruce 451, Burnett 485, Chetham 773, circulating, first in London 1607, Clerical 815, Colburn 669, Corney 721, Corser 724, Craig 747, Crawford 753, Crossley 773, Currer 790, Dampier 869, Denny 861, Dyce 946, Eastlake 953, Faculty of advocates 1537, Fry 1111, Great seal patent office 104, Greswell 1238, Grey 311, Hardiman 1325, Hardy 1332, Hartley 1362, Hawley 1391, Heywood 1458, Hibbert 80, Holden 1504, Holmes 1515, Hope 1530, Hunter 1597, Huth 1606, Hutt 1607, Jewish, the 866, London institution 80, 779, London library 549, 660, London library co. 1092, Metropolitan library 815, Napoleon library 311, Perkins 80, Stowe collection 93.

Libraries, catalogues on Crestadoro’s plan 758, circulating 669, 1607, itinerating founded 438.

Library Association, Oxford meeting 744, president 375.

Liebig, Justus von, baron d. 1873 chemist, letters on chemistry 1122.

Life boats, Beeching’s 220, steam life boat service 498.

Light, magnetism of 1020.

Lighthouses, keeper of 816, polyzonal lens invented 394, refraction protractor invented 144.

Lightning conductors for ships 1351.

Likenesses, machine for taking 1389.

Lilley, John, a sergeant arrested by Col. Crawley and d. 1863 in confinement 756.

Limerick, bishops of 1243, 1463, lord lieutenant 940.

Lind, Jenny d. 1887 singer, Benedict travels with her in United States 238, her friend 1251.