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HARROD, Henry. b. Aylsham, Norfolk 30 Sep. 1817; attorney at Norwich 1838–62, at Marlborough 1862–64; sec. Norfolk and Norwich Archæol. soc. 12 years; a professional antiquary in London 1864 to death; F.S.A. 16 March 1854; author of Gleanings among the castles and convents of Norfolk. Norwich 1857; Calendar of court rolls of borough of Colchester 1865, and other works on Colchester and King’s Lynn. d. 2 Rectory grove, Clapham, Surrey 24 Jany. 1871. Proc. of Soc. of Antiq., 2nd series, v, 141–43 (1871).
HARROWBY, Dudley Ryder, 2 Earl of. b. Army pay office, Whitehall, London 23 May 1798; known as lord Sandon 1809–47; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1832, D.C.L. 1848; M.P. Tiverton 1819–31, M.P. Liverpool 1831–47; sec. to the India board, Dec. 1830 to May 1831; ecclesiastical commissioner 1847–55; succeeded as 2 earl 26 Dec. 1847; chancellor of duchy of Lancaster 31 March to 7 Dec. 1855; P.C. 31 March 1855; lord keeper of privy seal 7 Dec. 1855 to Dec. 1857; K.G. 28 June 1859. d. Sandon house, Stone, Staffs. 19 Nov. 1882. Graphic xxvi, 605 (1882), portrait; I.L.N. lxxxi, 560 (1882), portrait; Portraits of eminent conservatives (2 ser. 1846), portrait.
HART, Alban J. H. b. 1798; ed. at Stonyhurst 1817; master Sedgley park sch.; teacher in a university in U.S. America; resided in St. Mary’s coll. Oscott to which he presented his library; author of The mind and its creations. New York 1853; My own language, or elements of English grammar. Baltimore 1860; The hermit of the Alps, a poem in four Cantos, and other poems; Catholic psychology, or the philosophy of the human mind 1867. d. Worcester 13 April 1879 aged 81. Gillow’s English catholics, iii, 152 (1887).
HART, Sir Andrew Searle (youngest son of Rev. George Vaughan Hart of Glenalla, Donegal). b. Limerick 14 March 1811; ed. at Trinity coll. Dublin, B.A. 1833, M.A. 1839, LL.B. and LLD. 1840; fellow of his coll. 1835, senior fellow 1858, vice provost 1876; member of general synod of Irish ch.; prof. of Real and personal property, King’s inns, Dublin 4 June 1879; contributed to Camb. and Dublin Math. Journal, Proc. of Irish Acad. and Quart. journal of mathematics; knighted at Dublin castle by lord Carnarvon 25 Jany. 1886; author of An elementary treatise on mechanics 1844, 2 ed. 1847; An elementary treatise on hydrostatics and hydrodynamics 1846, 2 ed. 1850. d. at house of his brother in law G. V. Hart, Kilderry, co. Donegal 13 April 1890.
HART, Charles. b. 19 May 1797; ed. at R. Acad. of music; organist of Essex st. chapel, Strand, London, of St. Dunstan’s, Stepney 1829–33, of Trinity ch. Mile End, and of St. George’s, Beckenham; composer of Anthems 1830; The Jubilate and Te Deum 1832 which gained the Gresham gold medal Dec. 1831; Omnipotence, a sacred oratorio, which he conducted on first performance at Hanover sq. rooms 2 April 1839; Sacred harmony, tunes from the most celebrated composers 1841. d. 148 Bond st. London 29 March 1859. Grove’s Dict. of music, i, 692 (1879).
HART, Rev. George Augustus Frederick. Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; V. of Arundel, Sussex 1844 to death; chaplain in ord. to the Queen 14 Dec. 1848 to death. d. Arundel 7 April 1873.
HART, Sir Henry (son of Richard Hart of Uckfield, Sussex). b. Wilmington, Sussex 1781; entered navy March 1796, captain 1 Aug. 1811; sent on a mission to the Imaum of Muscat 1804; K.C.H. 25 Jany. 1836; knighted at St. James’s palace 23 Feb. 1836; comr. of Greenwich hospital 14 Oct. 1845; retired R.A. 1 Oct. 1846. d. Royal hospital, Greenwich 23 Dec. 1856.
HART, Henry George (3 son of lieut. col. William Hart, d. Cape of Good Hope 1848). b. 7 Sep. 1808; ensign 49 foot 1 April 1829, major 15 Dec. 1848 to 3 Feb. 1854 when placed on h.p.; aided by his wife brought out the Quarterly Army list, Feb. 1839, was then allowed access to official records, and in 1840 published The New Annual Army list, the Quarterly and Annual lists have since regularly appeared; poor law inspector Ireland 1845–6; major depot battalion 21 April 1854 to 1 Dec. 1856 and in 1856 suppressed a mutiny of North Tipperary militia; major on half pay 1 Dec. 1856 to death; L.G. 4 Dec. 1877. d. Biarritz, France 24 March 1878.
HART, Henry Wyatt (eld. son of Rev. Cornelius Hart, V. of Old St. Pancras, London). b. 1850; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1873; barrister I.T. 25 April 1877; author of Bankruptcy law and practice 1880, 3 ed. 1887; with Ernest Eiloart Interrogatories. Rules relating to the law of discovery and inspection 1879. d. Aden, on his way home from Queensland 20 June 1886.
HART, John. b. 1809; engaged in whaling and had a whaling establishment at Encounter bay, N.S.W. Australia; had flour mills at Port Adelaide, S. Australia 1846, Hart’s flour commanding the highest price in the market; M.L.C. South Australia 1857, treasurer 21 Aug. to 1 Sep. 1857, 30 Sep. 1857 to 12 June 1858 and 15 July 1864 to 22 March 1865, chief secretary 4–15 July 1863, 23 Oct. 1865 to 27 March 1866 and 24 Sep. to 12 Oct. 1868, treasurer and premier 30 May 1870 to 10 Nov. 1871; C.M.G. 15 Jany. 1870; while presiding at meeting of Mercantile marine insurance co. in Adelaide he essayed to speak and fell dead 28 Jany. 1873. Heaton’s Australian Dictionary (1879) 87, 153–5.
HART, Solomon Alexander (son of Samuel Hart, gold and silver worker, mezzotint engraver and teacher of Hebrew). b. Plymouth, April 1806; student R. Acad. London, Aug. 1823; exhibited 121 pictures at R.A., 25 at B.I. and 34 at Suffolk st. 1826–80; A.R.A. 1835, R.A. 1840, professor of painting 1854–63, librarian of the institution 1865 to death; curator of painted hall, Greenwich; elected member of Athenæum 1845; some of his pictures were The elevation of the Law 1830 in Vernon gallery; Lady Jane Grey at the place of her execution 1839 in Plymouth guildhall; Milton visiting Galileo in prison 1847. d. 36 Fitzroy sq. London 11 June 1881. A. Brodie’s Reminiscences of S. A. Hart (1882), portrait; I.L.N. lxxviii, 621 (1881), portrait; G. Pycroft’s Art in Devonshire (1883) 55–58.
HART, Rev. William Henry (only son of Wm. Hart of Dorking, surgeon). b. Dorking 6 Jany. 1831; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ sch. 1839–49; Andrew’s exh. to St. John’s coll. Ox. 1849; Blount sch. of Trinity coll. 1850; demy of Magdalen coll. 1850–61; B.A. 1853, M.A. 1856; assist. C. of Hawkhurst, Kent 1855 to 1860; resident chaplain to Soc. of Gray’s Inn, Oct. 1860 to death. d. 5 Oct. 1861. bur. Brighton parochial cemetery. J. R. Bloxam’s Register of Magd. coll., vii, 384–9 (1881).
HARTING, James Vincent (1 son of James Harting of Hampstead, solicitor). b. 1812; ed. at Downside coll. near Bath, and at London Univ. 1828–30; solicitor 24 Lincoln’s inn fields 1836 to death; chiefly engaged in connection with Roman Catholic business, solicitor to Cardinal Newman, defended him in the Achilli case 31 Jany. 1852; gave evidence before parliamentary commission on convents 1871; F.S.A. 2 June 1864; author of The holy hour 1851. d. 2 Upper Montague st. Russell sq. London 30 Aug. 1883. The Tablet lxii, 382 (1883); Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 157–60 (1887).
HARTLAND, Frederick Augustus. b. 25 Dec. 1783; one of the best pantomimists, associated with Grimaldi at Sadler’s Wells theatre 1802; struck on the head by a plank from a scaffold in Mount st. Westminster road, London 16 Aug. 1852, died on his way to St. Thomas’ hospital, bur. St. Mary Newington ch. yard. Era 22 Aug. 1852 p. 12.
HARTLEY, Humphrey Robert. b. 24 Aug. 1794; ensign 57 foot 8 Oct. 1812, lieut. col. 12 April 1831 to 4 Sep. 1835 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 20 June 1854; introduced the first savings’ bank in the British army at Madras 6 Nov. 1832, and libraries for noncommissioned officers. d. 27 Upper Berkeley st. Portman sq. London 7 Aug. 1854.
HARTLEY, James. Large shipowner at Dublin; director of some of principal steam companies in the United Kingdom; found dead in his cabin on board the ‘Nubia’ between Ceylon and Suez 11 April 1857.
HARTLEY, James (son of John Hartley of Harborne, Staffs., d. 1830). b. Dumbarton 1810; partner in Chance, Hartley & Co. glass makers, Smethwick; first to use sulphate of soda in crown glass; used a thimble instead of an iron bar in blowing glass; the first in England to make German sheet-glass; removed to Sunderland and erected glasshouses 1833; invented Hartley’s patent rolled plate 1847 used in Great Exhibition building 1851, made from it a fortune; mayor of Sunderland 1851–3; M.P. Sunderland 1865–8; A.I.C.E. 5 May 1868. d. Ashbrooke hall, Sunderland 24 May 1886. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxv, 409–12 (1887).
HARTLEY, Jesse (son of a bridge master in N.R. Yorkshire). b. near Pontefract 1780; apprentice to a mason; surveyor of the Liverpool docks 1824 to death, constructed or altered every dock there 1824–60; completed the Grosvenor bridge over the river Dee at Chester, which had the largest single span stone arch (200 feet) in existence at the time 1832. d. Bootle Marsh near Liverpool 24 Aug. 1860. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxiii, 219–22 (1872).
Note.—His son John Bernard Hartley who was b. 3 Sep. 1814 and d. 14 Dec. 1869, was joint surveyor of Liverpool docks with his father from July 1847.
HARTLEY, Leonard Lawrie (only child of Archibald Campbell, surgeon, d. Bedale, Yorkshire 1837 by Mary dau. of Leonard Hartley). b. 1816; assumed the name of Hartley by r.l. on 15 July 1841 after death of his uncle George Hartley of Middleton Tyas, Yorks.; collected a library of 60,000 volumes chiefly on topography, books sold for £9636 14s. 6d. June 1885. d. 138 Marina, St. Leonards on Sea 27 Dec. 1883, his heir at law advertised for 7 Feb. 1884. Times 7 Feb. 1884 p. 1.
HARTMAN, Sir Julius. b. 6 May 1774; captain artillery King’s German Legion 9 Nov. 1803, major 12 April 1806 to 24 Feb. 1816 when placed on h.p.; re-entered Hanoverian service 1816, L.G. 1836; hon. K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815; cr. a baron of Kingdom of Hanover by George V. King of Hanover 1855 or 1856, only baron he created. d. Hanover 7 June 1856. Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, x, 688–91 (1879).
HARTNOLL, John Hooper. b. 1799 or 1800; mathematical master Greenwich hospital sch., retired on a pension; started The Kentish Mercury 1832, proprietor and editor to his decease; proprietor and editor of Post Magazine and Insurance Monitor 1839 and Post Magazine Almanac and Insurance Directory 1854; author of The annual balance sheets of all the insurance companies, with a letter on the Joint Stock Companies’ registration act 1853, 2 ed. 1853. d. Bexley house, Greenwich 6 June 1870. Newspaper Press, iv, 174 (1870); Kentish Mercury 11 June 1870 p. 4.
HARTOG, Numa Edward (1 son of Alphonse Hartog, professor of French). b. London 20 May 1846; ed. at Univ. coll. sch. and Univ. coll. London; B.A. and B.Sc. London 1864; foundation scholar of Trin. coll. Cam. 1866, senior wrangler 1869 the first Jew who won that distinction; admitted B.A. without taking usual oath 29 Jany. 1869; second Smith prizeman 1869, religious tests prevented him becoming fellow of his college; gave evidence before house of lords on religious tests 3 March 1871. d. of small pox Belsize sq. Hampstead, London 19 June 1871. Times 21, 22, 23 June 1871; Jewish Chronicle 23 June 1871.
HARTRIDGE, William. Chairman of Bombay and Baroda railway co.; a common councilman for Broad St. ward, London to 1880; master of the Salter’s Co. d. Addelam, Upper Deal, Kent 25 Jany. 1885 aged 76.
HARTSHORNE, Rev. Charles Henry (only son of John Hartshorne of Liverpool, ironmaster). b. Broseley, Shropshire 17 March 1802; ed. at Shrewsbury and St. John’s coll. Cam., pensioner 4 Jany. 1821; B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; C. of Benthall, Salop 1825–8; C. of Little Wenlock, Salop 1828–36; C. of Cogenhoe, Northamptonshire 1838–50, and R. of Holdenby 2 Nov. 1850 to death; a founder of British Archæol. Assoc. and Institute 1844 and a contributor to the journal; F.S.A.; author of Ancient metrical Tales 1829; Salopia Antiqua 1841; Historical Memoirs of Northampton 1848 and 20 other books. d. Holdenby rectory 11 March 1865. Journal of B.A. Assoc. xxii, 322–5 (1866).
HARTT, Charles Frederic (son of James William Hartt). b. Fredericton, New-Brunswick 23 Aug. 1840; ed. at Acacia coll. to 1860; went to St. John’s 1860; geologist in the Thayer expedition to Brazil 1865, again in Brazil 1867, 1870, 1871, 1874, 1878; founded geological museum at Rio Janiero; student of Indian languages and folk lore; professor of natural history Vassar college 1868; professor of geology Cornell univ. 1868 to death; author of Thayer expedition. Scientific results of a journal to Brazil. Boston 1870; Amazonian tortoise myths. Rio 1875. d. of yellow fever, Rio Janiero 19 March 1878. Nature 13 June 1878 pp. 174–5; Popular Science Monthly. New York, June 1878 pp. 231–5, portrait.
HARTY, William. b. 1781; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1801, M.B. 1804, M.D. 1830; F.K.Q.C. of P. 1824–27, censor 1826; physician to Dublin prisons 40 years; physician to King’s hospital or Blue coat sch. Dublin 40 years; author of Dysentery and its combinations 1805; An historic sketch of the contagious fever epidemic in Ireland 1817–19. Dublin 1820; Failure of the Reformation in Ireland. By a Protestant Layman. Dublin 1837. d. Ballickmoyle, Queen’s county 30 March 1854.
HARVEY, Alexander. b. 1811; L.R.C.S. Edin. 1832, M.D. Edin. 1835; professor of materia medica Aberdeen univ.; consulting physician Aberdeen royal infirmary; author of On the foetus in utero 1849, 2 ed. 1886; On a remarkable effect of cross breeding 1851; Trees and their nature, or the bud and its attributes 1856; Man’s place unique in nature. By a University Professor 1865; with A. D. Davidson Syllabus of materia medica. Aberdeen 1873, 8 ed. 1887. d. 16 Hanover ter. Ladbroke sq. London 25 April 1889.
HARVEY, Bissell. Cornet 26 light dragoons 9 Nov. 1797; captain 1 foot 20 June 1811 to 25 Oct. 1821 when placed on h.p.; fort major Edinburgh castle 1822–40; inspecting field officer of Leeds recruiting district 24 Jany. 1840, of Glasgow recruiting district Dec. 1846 to Nov. 1847; lieut. col. 9 foot 5 Nov. 1847, retired same day; K.H. 1837. d. Whitby 6 Feb. 1854.
HARVEY, Daniel Whittle (1 son of Matthew Barnard Harvey of Witham, Essex). b. Witham 1786; attorney at Feering house, Essex, at Witham and at Colchester 1807–1819; struck his own name off the rolls 1819; contested Colchester 1812 and 1818, M.P. Colchester 1818 to 1820; M.P. Colchester 14 July 1820, election declared void; M.P. Colchester 1826–34; M.P. Southwark 1835–40; registrar of metropolitan public carriages Feb. 1839; commissioner of city of London police Jany. 1840 to death; established the Sunday Times 20 Oct. 1822; proprietor of the True Sun 1833–7; established Weekly True Sun 1833, ran to 1839; commenced the Statesman or Weekly True Sun 5 Jany. 1840, ran to 27 Dec. 1840. d. 26 Old Jewry, city of London 24 Feb. 1863. bur. at Hackney unitarian chapel. Newspaper Press 1 Sep. 1869 pp. 192–3, by Cyrus Redding; I.L.N. 7 March 1863 pp. 253, 254, portrait; G.M. May 1863 pp. 662–3; Times 25 Feb. 1863 p. 5.
Note.—He was admitted a student of the Inner Temple 7 Nov. 1810, but the Benchers refused to call him to the bar in 1819 on account of more than one verdict having gone against him in actions affecting his character; at his request in 1821 they examined into the particulars of the charges brought against him, and came to a resolution that they saw no reason to alter their determination. In 1834 he procured a committee of the House of Commons to be appointed, at the head of which was Daniel O’Connell to examine the evidence and that committee reported in his favour, but the Benchers of the Inner Temple nevertheless refused to call him to the bar.—No call of the House of Commons has been enforced since Harvey’s motion on the pension list 19 April 1836.—He was tried at the Guildhall, London 30 Oct. 1823 for a libel on George iv. in the Sunday Times 9 Feb. 1823, sentenced to pay a fine of £200 and to be imprisoned in the Marshalsea 3 months. Reports of State Trials, n.s. ii, 1–68 (1889).
HARVEY, Rev. Edmund George (1 son of Rev. Wm. Woodis Harvey 1798–1864). b. Penzance 20 Feb. 1828; ed. Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1850; R. of Truro 1860–5; V. of Mullion near Helston, Cornwall 1865 to death; author of Our cruise in the Undine through France, Prussia, etc. By the Captain 1854; Mullyon, its history, scenery and antiquities 1875 and other works, beside several small publications on music. d. Mullion 21 June 1884. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. 211–12, 1219.
HARVEY, Sir Edward (youngest son of John Harvey, captain R.N., killed on board the Brunswick 1 June 1794). b. 3 March 1783; first class volunteer on board ‘Brunswick’ 1793; captain 18 April 1811; at bombardment of St. Jean d’ Acre 1840; superintendent at Malta 1848–53; commander in chief at the Nore 1857–60; admiral 9 June 1860; awarded good service pension 21 May 1862; K.C.B. 28 June 1861, G.C.B. 28 March 1865. d. Walmer, Kent 4 May 1865.
HARVEY, Enoch (eld. son of Thomas Harvey of Liverpool, solicitor). b. Mount Pleasant, Liverpool 1826; solicitor at Liverpool 1849 to death; member of Incorporated Law Soc. of Liverpool 1855 to death, pres. 1881–2; killed at Mersey road station of Cheshire lines, Liverpool 1 Oct. 1890 in 65 year.
HARVEY, Sir George (son of a watchmaker). b. St. Ninians, Stirlingshire, Feb. 1806; ed. in Trustees’ academy, Edin. 1826–8; A.R.S.A. 1826, R.S.A. 1829, president 1864; F.R.S. Edin. 1867; knighted at Windsor castle 26 March 1867; exhibited 24 pictures at R.A. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1832–73; exhibited in Edinburgh institution and Scottish academy from 1826; among his pictures were Covenanters preaching 1829; Shakespeare before Sir Thomas Lucy 1837; and First reading of the Bible in the crypt of St. Paul’s 1840; author of Notes of the early history of the Royal Scottish Academy 1870. d. 21 Regent ter. Edinburgh 22 Jany. 1876. A. L. Simpson’s Harvey’s Celebrated paintings (1870); I.L.N. lxviii, 157 (1876), portrait; Graphic, xiii, 161 (1876), portrait.
HARVEY, Sir George Frederick (son of lieut.-gen. Sir John Harvey, K.C.B.) b. 1809; entered Indian C.S. 1827; commissioner and political agent at Agra and Delhi during mutiny 1857–8; retired on annuity 1863; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1867. d. 122 Sloane st. London 4 Nov. 1884.
HARVEY, Henry (son of Sir Thomas Harvey, K.C.B., vice admiral, d. 1841). b. 28 April 1812; entered R.N. 15 Dec. 1822 as first class volunteer; signal midshipman to Sir E. Codrington at battle of Navarino 20 Oct. 1827; captain 10 Dec. 1852, retired 24 April 1866; admiral 15 June 1879. d. Walmer 27 May 1887. Times 1 June 1887 p. 10.
HARVEY, Sir John. b. 1778; ensign 80 foot 18 Sep. 1794; A.D.C. and military sec. to major general Dowdeswell in India 1803–6; D.A.G. in Upper Canada 1812–14; governor of New Brunswick 1837, of Newfoundland 20 July 1841, of Nova Scotia 26 June 1846 to death; col. of 59 foot 3 Dec. 1844 to death; L.G. 9 Nov. 1846; knighted at King’s lodge, Windsor 15 Dec. 1824; K.C.H. 19 March 1837; K.C.B. 19 July 1838. d. Halifax, Nova Scotia 22 March 1852.
HARVEY, J. B. b. 1792; lessee of theatres at Guernsey, Jersey, Exeter, Devonport, Salisbury, Chelmsford and Weymouth. d. 96 St. Mary st. Weymouth 7 Sep. 1862 aged 70.
HARVEY, Margaret (dau. of John Harvey of Sunderland, surgeon). b. 1768; resided at Newcastle; assisted in a ladies’ school at Bishop Wearmouth, Durham 1818; author of Monody on the princess Charlotte 1812; The lays of the minstrel’s daughter. Newcastle 1814; Raymond de Percy: a romantic melodrame. Bishop Wearmouth 1822, this was performed at Sunderland, April 1822. d. Bishop Wearmouth 18 June 1858.
HARVEY, Rev. Richard. b. 1798; ed. at Eton and St. Cath. coll. Cam., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; R. of Hornsey 22 May 1829 to 1880, where he built three district churches; chaplain to Archbp. of York 1862–74; prebendary of Brownswood in St. Paul’s cath. 1843–58; canon residentiary Gloucester cath. 1858 to death; chaplain in ordinary to the queen 18 June 1847 to death; author of Hymns for young persons [by R. H.] 1834, 2 ed. 1837; Two sermons on keeping the Lord’s Day 1850. d. College green, Gloucester 27 June 1889. bur. same time as his wife at Gloucester cath. 2 July.
HARVEY, Sir Robert Bateson, 1 Baronet (son of Robert Harvey of Langley park, Slough). b. Langley park 17 Nov. 1825; ed. at Eton, matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 31 May 1844; a keen deerstalker; kept steeplechasers; M.P. Bucks. 1863–68 and 1874–85; cr. baronet 28 Nov. 1868; master of Norfolk harriers 1869. d. Langley park, Slough 23 March 1887. Baily’s Mag. xxvi, 311–12 (1875), portrait.
HARVEY, Sir Robert John (eld. son of John Harvey of Thorpe near Norwich 1755–1842). b. Thorpe 21 Feb. 1785; studied at Marburg, Leipsic, Hesse Cassel and Valenciennes; ensign 53 foot 8 Oct. 1803; studied at military college, High Wycombe 1807–9; served in Peninsular war, rode from Paris to Lisbon with despatches 1400 miles in 14 days; lieut.-col. on half pay 25 Oct. 1815; knighted by Prince Regent at Carlton house 6 Feb. 1817; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831; colonel of 2 West India regt. 15 June 1848 to death; general 17 July 1859; F.R.S., F.S.A. d. Mousehold heath near Norwich 18 June 1860. Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xvii, 186–8 (1861).
HARVEY, Sir Robert John Harvey, 1 Baronet (eld. son of the preceding). b. 16 April 1817; sheriff of Norfolk 1863; M.P. for Thetford 12 July 1865 to 11 Nov. 1868 when it was disfranchised by Reform act of 1867; created baronet 8 Dec. 1868; shot himself with a pistol at Crown point hall, Norwich 19 July 1870.
HARVEY, Thomas. b. Barnsley, Yorkshire 1812; ed. at Ackworth sch. 1822–5; chemist Leeds about 1837–67; in the West Indies enquiring into condition of negroes 1836–7; in Finland aiding the unarmed inhabitants 1856; visited Jamaica about the Gordon riots 1866; visited the Mennonites in Russia and aided them to emigrate to Canada 1867; went to Canada to see the Friends 1884; author with J. Sturge of The West Indies in 1837, 1838; with W. Brewin of Jamaica in 1866, a narrative of a tour 1867 and 12 pamphlets. d. Headingley near Leeds 25 Dec. 1884. bur. Adel near Leeds 29 Dec. Times 30 Dec. 1884 p. 4; J. N. Nodal’s Bibliography of Ackworth sch. (1889) 12–13.
HARVEY, Thomas Hingston (3 son of Rev. William Woodis Harvey 1798–1864). b. Penzance 26 Feb. 1831; solicitor at Truro 1855–63; practised at Constantinople 1863 to death; solicitor to the Pacha of Egypt; accompanied admiral Hobart to Syra in Crete to advise him on international law 1872; author of The tourist’s guide through Cornwall. Truro 1861; Harkylogy. Mr. T. Smitheram’s account of Archæological Association 1862. d. Pera, Constantinople 23 April 1872. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. 213, 1220.
HARVEY, Rev. William (4 son of admiral Sir Thomas Harvey, K.C.B. 1775–1841). Matric. from Brasenose coll. Ox. 10 March 1842 aged 18; B.A. 1845, M.A. 1848; compiled The active list of flag officers and captains of the Royal navy, with progress of officers from entrance into the service 1861, 5 ed. 1865, ed. by W. Arthur 1868. d. Walmer, Kent 18 March 1865.
HARVEY, William (son of the keeper of the baths at Westgate). b. Newcastle-upon-Tyne 13 July 1796; apprentice to Thomas Bewick 1810; studied drawing under B. R. Haydon and anatomy under Sir C. Bell 1817; wood engraver 1822–24, designer for copper plate and wood engravers 1824 to death; engraved on wood in imitation of copper plate, Haydon’s Assassination of Dentatus, the most ambitious block which had been cut in England 1821; his masterpieces are his illustrations to Northcote’s Fables 1828–33 and to Lane’s Thousand and one nights 1838–40; he also illustrated 30 other works 1829–68. d. Prospect lodge, Richmond, Surrey 13 Jany. 1866. Chatto’s Treatise on wood engraving (1861) 527–34; I.L.N. xlviii, 97 (1866), portrait.
HARVEY, William. b. 1813 or 1814; a founder of Sussex Archæological Soc. 1846; had a cabinet of coins, chiefly of those found in Sussex; F.S.A. 3 March 1853. d. Lewes 22 April 1869. Numismatic Chronicle, vol. x (1870), Proceedings p. 13.
HARVEY, William. Surgeon in London; hon. superintendent Islington reformatory; wrote many articles under pseudonym of Aleph in The City Press; author of The old city and its highways and byways, By Aleph 1865. d. 48 Lonsdale sq. Islington, London 18 March 1873 aged 77.
HARVEY, William. b. 1807 or 1808; ed. at Guy’s hospital; L.S.A. 1830; M.R.C.S. 1830, F.R.C.S. 1853; surgeon to Royal dispensary for diseases of the ear 1846 to death; F. Med. Chir. Soc. 1841; one of 3 chief aurists in London for many years; prescribed a diet for William Banting which reduced his weight from 202 lbs. to 156 lbs. 1862–3, and originated Banting; aural surgeon Great Northern hospital 186-to death; author of The ear in health and disease, with remarks on treatment of deafness 1854, 4 ed. 1865; On rheumatism, gout and neuralgic headache 1857, 4 ed. 1865; On corpulence in relation to disease 1872; On deafness and noises in the ear, 7 ed. 1876. d. 3 George st. Hanover sq. London 5 Dec. 1876. Medical Times 23 Dec. 1876 p. 717; Proc. Med. Chir. Soc. viii, 198–9 (1880).
HARVEY, William Henry (son of Joseph Massey Harvey of Limerick, merchant, a quaker). b. Summerville near Limerick 5 Feb. 1811; ed. at Ballitore school, Kildare 1824–7; M.D. Dublin univ. 1844; treasurer and registrar general at Cape of Good Hope 1836–42; became the chief authority on algæ; keeper of the Herbarium to univ. of Dublin 30 March 1844; professor of botany to Royal Dublin society; bapt. St. Mark’s ch. Dublin 25 Feb. 1846; professor of botany in univ. of Dublin 1856; lecturer at Irish museum of industry about 1856; F.R.S. 3 June 1864; author of Genera of South African plants, Capetown 1838, 2 ed. 1868; A manual of British Algæ 1841; Phycologia Britannica, a history of British seaweeds 4 vols. 1846–51; The seaside book 1849, 4 ed. 1857; Phycologia Australica 5 vols. 1858–63 and other books. d. Torquay 15 May 1866. Memoir of W. H. Harvey (1869), portrait.
HARVEY, Rev. William Wigan (2 son of George Daniel Harvey, commissioner of bankruptcy). b. Great Stanmore, Middlesex 1810; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Cam.; B.A. 1832, M.A. 1836, B.D. 1855; fellow of King’s 1831, divinity lecturer 1836–44 and 1862–3, Tyrwhitt Hebrew scholar 1833; R. of Buckland, Herts. 1844–72; R. of Ewelme near Oxford, Dec. 1871 to death; author of Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ Vindex Catholicus 1841; The history and theology of the three creeds 1854; Sancti Irenæi quæ supersunt Opera 1857 and many sermons, pamphlets and reviews. d. Ewelme 7 May 1883. Hansard’s Debates, ccix, 291–2, 772, 1153, 1673, 1720, 1946 (1872); Annual Register (1872) 34–6.
HARVEY, Rev. William Woodis. b. Alverton Vean, Penzance 15 June 1798; Wesleyan missionary in Hayti to 1824; servitor at Queen’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1835; V. of Truro 1839–60; prebendary of Exeter 1859–64; author of Sketches of Hayti 1827 and of many single sermons. d. Torquay 6 Oct. 1864. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. 213–15, 1220; Boase’s Collect. Cornub. (1890) 332.
HARWOOD, Charles (son of Rev. Thomas Harwood of Shepperton, Middlesex). Barrister I.T. 20 June 1828; recorder of Shrewsbury, Dec. 1839 to death; judge of county courts, circuit 50 (Kent), March 1847 to death. d. The Leas, Folkestone 25 Sep. 1866.
HARWOOD, Isabella Neil (dau. of the succeeding). b. 1838 or 1839; author of Abbot’s Cleve, a novel 1864; Carleton Grange 1866; Raymond’s Heroine 1867; Kathleen 1869; The Heir expectant 1870; author under pseudonym of Ross Neil of the plays Lady Jane Grey. Inez or the bride of Portugal 1871 (produced at Gaiety theatre, London under title of Loyal Love 13 Aug. 1887); The Cid, The King and the Angel, Duke for a day 1874; Elfinella (produced at Princess’s theatre 1876). Lord and Lady Russell 1876, Arabella Stuart, The heir of Lynne, Tasso 1879; Andrea the painter, Claudia’s choice, Orestes, Pandora 1883. d. South Bank, Baldslow road, Hastings 29 May 1888. Saturday Review 2 June 1888 p. 644.
HARWOOD, Philip, b. Bristol 1809; articled to a solicitor; studied at Univ. of Edin.; pastor of Unitarian chapel, Bridport 1835; assistant minister at South place chapel, London 1841; sub-editor of The Examiner, of The Spectator, of the Morning Chronicle about 1849–54, of the Saturday Review from date of first number 3 Nov. 1855 and editor Aug. 1868 to Dec. 1883; author of Materialism in religion: or religious forms and theological formulas 1840; History of the Irish rebellion of 1798, 1844, 2 ed. 1848 and many lectures and sermons. d. South Bank, Baldslow road, Hastings 10 Dec. 1887. Saturday Review 17 Dec. 1887 p. 188.
HASELDEN, Adolphus Frederick. b. 1817; Assoc. Pharmaceutical Soc. of Gt. Britain, member of council 1859, V.P. 1869, P. 1871–3, contributed many papers to the Journal; author of A translation of the Pharmacopoeia Collegii regalis medicorum Londinensis 1837; Notes on the British Pharmacopoeia, showing additions 1864. d. Shaftesbury cottage, Croydon 4 Feb. 1880. The Pharmaceutical Journal 7 Feb. 1880 pp. 624, 631.
HASELL, Elizabeth Julia (2 dau. of Edward Williams Hasell of Dalemain near Penrith, Cumberland 1796–1872). b. 17 Jany. 1830; taught herself Latin, Greek, Spanish and Portuguese; contributed to Blackwood’s Mag. and Quarterly Review from about 1858; author of The Rock, and other short lectures on passages of Holy Scripture 1867; Calderon and Tasso in Foreign Classics for English readers 2 vols. 1879 and 1882; Short family prayers 1879, 2 ed. 1884; Bible Partings 1883; Via Crucis or meditations for Passion and Easter Tide 1884. d. Dalemain 14 Nov. 1887.
HASLAM, Samuel Holker. F.L.S. 1836; made a collection of plants and insects, which he gave to Natural Hist. Soc. of Kendal 1854. d. Woodhouse, Milnthorpe, Westmoreland 13 April 1856. Proc. Linnean Soc. 1856 p. xlii.
HASLEM, John. b. Carrington near Manchester 1808; flower painter and figure painter; painted for Duke of Sussex a head of Lord Byron for presentation to King of Greece; exhibited 37 enamels at R.A. and 14 at Suffolk st. 1836–65; painted a set of enamels in imitation of Petitot, which were shown at South Kensington 1862 and 1865 as the work of Petitot; author of The old Derby china factory 1876. d. Derby 30 April 1884 aged 76.