Frederic Boase
Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H
HASSALL, Richard. M.R.C.S. 1844; M.D. St. Andrew’s 1852; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1875; examining physician R. hospital for consumption Ventnor; in practice at 4 Suffolk place, Pall Mall, London; author of Cholera, its nature and treatment 1854; Poisoning by chloride of zinc. d. 60 St. George’s sq. London 13 Dec. 1875. I.L.N. lxviii, 167 (1876).
HASSALL, Walter Willis. Clerk to Mr. Foster, solicitor, Wells; reporter for Dorset county chronicle, Dorchester; resident reporter Southern Times, Weymouth; editor and proprietor with Mr. Atkins of Weymouth Guardian to death; while walking along railway at Weymouth knocked down by train and killed 23 Dec. 1868. Newspaper Press, iii, 59 (1869).
HASSARD, Michael Dobbyn (younger son of Richard Hassard, captain of Waterford militia). b. Waterford, Oct. 1817; ed. at Waterford school and Trin. coll. Dublin, gold medallist 1838, B.A. 1852; M.P. for city of Waterford 1857–65; acted each session as chairman of committees; paid referee of House of Commons 1866 to death; sheriff of Waterford 1853. d. Glenville, co. Waterford 7 April 1869. Reg. and mag. of biog., i, 393 (1869).
HASTED, Rev. Henry (son of an apothecary). b. Bury St. Edmunds 17 Sep. 1771; ed. at Bury gr. sch. and Ch. coll. Cam., 6 wr. and B.A. 1793; fell. of his coll.; preacher of St. Mary’s, Bury 1802–42; R. of Braiseworth, Suffolk 1812 to death; R. of Horninger, Suffolk 1814 to death; F.L.S. 1810; F.R.S. 1812; author of A course of lectures for Lent. Bury 1838; Sermons for Lent and Easter 1852. d. Bury St. Edmunds 26 Nov. 1852.
HASTIE, Alexander (son of Robert Hastie of Glasgow, merchant). b. 1805; a merchant at Glasgow; lord provost 1846–48; M.P. for Glasgow 1847–57. d. 1864.
HASTIE, Archibald (son of W. Hastie). b. 1791; coach builder and East India agent in London; a director of the East India docks and chief manager of them; M.P. for Paisley 17 March 1836 to death; the owner of Burns’ punch bowl, kept the anniversaries of the poet’s birthday as high festivals. d. Edinburgh 9 Nov. 1857. Times 11 Nov. 1857 p. 12.
HASTINGS, Henry Weysford Charles Plantagenet Mure Rawdon Hastings, 4 Marquis of. b. Cavendish sq. London 22 July 1842; succeeded his bro. as 4 marquis 17 Jany. 1851; ed. at Eton; succeeded his mother in barony of Grey de Ruthyn 18 Nov. 1858; matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 1860; commenced horse racing 1862; purchased horses at unheard of prices and backed them for large amounts; trained his horses with John Day at Danebury; lost a fabulous sum on Kangaroo which he purchased in 1865 for £12,000 highest price ever paid for a racehorse; lost heavily on Lady Elizabeth in the Derby 1868; struck out the Earl from racing for the St. Leger 1868; lived most extravagantly and gambled; master of the Quorn hounds 1866; won the Cambridgeshire with Ackworth 1864, the 1000 guineas with Repulse 1866; lost £103,000 when Hermit won the Derby 1867. d. Grosvenor sq. London 10 Nov. 1868. Reg. and mag. of biog., i, 44–6 (1869); Rice’s Hist. of British Turf, i, 354–91 (1879); Baily’s Mag. xi, 279–81 (1866), portrait; Sporting Review, lx 396–400 (1868), lxi 31–38 (1869).
HASTINGS, Jacob Astley, 22 Baron (eld. son of Sir Jacob Henry Astley, 5 baronet 1756–1817). b. 13 Nov. 1797; M.P. for West Norfolk, Dec. 1832 to July 1837; contested West Norfolk 29 July 1837; summoned to parliament as Baron Hastings (the abeyance having been terminated in his favour) by writ dated 18 May 1841. d. of paralysis at 45 York terrace, Regent’s park, London 27 Dec. 1859.
HASTINGS, Jacob Henry Delaval Astley, 23 Baron (elder son of the preceding). b. 21 May 1822; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; cornet 2 life guards 17 March 1843, lieut. 28 Jany. 1848 to 23 May 1851 when he sold out; hon. col. Norfolk artillery militia 23 Jany. 1860 to death; master of the Eastern Norfolk hounds 1862 to death. d. Melton Constable, Norfolk 8 March 1871. Baily’s Mag. xix, 287 (1871), portrait.
HASTINGS, Sir Charles (6 son of Rev. James Hastings, who d. 1856). b. Ludlow, Salop 11 Jany. 1794; ed. at Univ. of Edin. 1815, M.D. 1818; practised at Worcester 1818 to death; physician to Worcester infirmary to 16 Jany. 1862 when presented with piece of plate value 600 guineas; founded the Provincial (afterwards the British) medical and surgical association 19 July 1832, president 1856; knighted at St. James’s palace 3 July 1850; published A treatise on inflammation of the lungs 1820; Illustrations of the natural history of Worcestershire 1834; founded Midland medical and surgical reporter 1828; member of general medical council 13 Nov. 1858 to 13 Nov. 1863. d. Barnard’s Green near Malvern, Worcs. 30 July 1866. Barker’s Photographs of medical men (1865) 17–22, portrait; Lancet, ii, 185–8 (1851), portrait, ii, 139 (1866).
HASTINGS, Sir Charles Abney-, 2 Baronet. b. 1 Oct. 1792; succeeded 30 Sep. 1823; assumed additional name of Abney; sheriff of Derbyshire 1825; M.P. for Leicester 1826–31. d. 6 Cavendish sq. London 30 July 1858.
HASTINGS, Francis Decimus (brother of Sir Charles Hastings 1794–1866). b. 1795; entered navy 19 Aug. 1807, served in Syrian and Peninsula wars; B.A. of Trin. coll. Cam. 1828; captain 4 Nov. 1840; V.A. on half pay 2 Dec. 1865. d. Barbourne house, Worcester 21 May 1869. Reg. and mag. of biog. ii, 42 (1869).
HASTINGS, George Fowler (2 son of 11 Earl of Huntingdon 1779–1828). b. 28 Nov. 1814; entered navy 3 Sep. 1824; in Chinese war 1841; captain 31 Jany. 1845; commanded the Curaçoa during Russian war; superintendent of Haslar hospital and Clarence victualling yard 1858–63; R.A. 27 April 1863, V.A. 10 Sep. 1869; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857; commander in chief in the Pacific 21 Nov. 1866 to 1 Nov. 1869; commander in chief at the Nore 11 Feb. 1873 to 14 Feb. 1876. d. 41 Stanhope gardens, London 21 March 1876.
HASTINGS, Rev. Henry James (brother of Sir Charles Hastings 1794–1866). Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; C. of Martley, Worcs. 1820–31 and 1851–56; R. of Areley Kings near Stourport 1831–56; R. of Martley 1856 to death; author of Parochial sermons from Advent to Trinity Sunday 1845; The Indian mutinies a fresh motive for church missions 1857; A plea for the prayer book as it is, with remarks on its history 1858 and other books. d. Martley rectory 12 May 1875.
HASTINGS, Hugh J. b. co. Fermanagh, Ireland 20 Aug. 1820; settled at Albany, New York 1831; reporter for the Atlas at Albany 1840; established the Weekly Switch at Albany 1843 and the Knickerbocker 1844; collector of port of Albany 1849–50; editor of Commercial Advertiser at New York 1868, proprietor 1875. d. from effect of a carriage accident, Monmouth Beach, New Jersey 12 Sep. 1883.
HASTINGS, James. A tailor at Cheltenham; followed Lord Fitzhardinge’s fox hounds 25 years on foot; on one occasion walked 72 miles in connexion with a hunt. d. 1851. bur. Charlton ch. yard. Cecil’s Records of the chase (1877) 190–2.
HASTINGS, Rev. James (son of James Hastings of Westminster). Matric. from Wadham coll. Ox. 28 March 1776 aged 20; R. of Martley, Worcs. 1796 to death. d. the Tything, Worcester 10 July 1856 aged 100.
HASTINGS, Joanna (eld. child of the preceding). b. Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire 14 March 1782. d. Imperial villa, Great Malvern 12 March 1886 within 2 days of being 104.
HASTINGS, John. b. 1805; M.D. Edin. 1840; L.R.C.P. Lond. 1847; author of Pulmonary consumption treated with naphtha 1843, 2 ed. 1845; Treatise on the diseases of the larynx and the trachea 1850; An inquiry into the value of the excreta of reptiles in phthisis 1862. d. 14 Albemarle st. Piccadilly, London 20 Dec. 1874.
HASTINGS, Rev. John David. b. 1800; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826; R. of Trowbridge, Wilts. 1841 to death; preb. of Salisbury cath. March 1860 to death; author of The absolution of the church of Rome, not the absolution of the church of England 1851; edited Posthumous sermons. By Rev. George Crabbe 1850. d. 13 April 1869. Reg. and mag. of biog. i, 476 (1869).
HASTINGS, Sir Thomas (brother of Joanna Hastings 1782–1886). b. Whichford rectory, Warws. 3 July 1790; entered navy Sep. 1803; first lieut. of the Undaunted which took Napoleon to Elba, April 1814; captain 22 July 1830; in command of gunnery establishment on board H.M.S. Excellent 1832–45; superintendent of royal naval college at Portsmouth 1839–45; knighted at St. James’s palace 5 June 1839 for his improvements in naval gunnery; principal storekeeper of the ordnance 25 July 1845 to May 1855 when office abolished; C.B. 22 Nov. 1850, K.C.B. 9 March 1859; retired admiral 2 April 1866. d. 7 Seymour st. Portman square, London 3 Jany. 1870. O’Byrne (1849) 475–6.
HATCH, Rev. Edwin (1 son of Samuel Hatch). b. Derby 4 Sep. 1835; ed. at King Edward’s sch. Birmingham and at Pemb. coll. Ox., B.A. 1857, M.A. 1867; professor of classics Trinity coll. Toronto 1859–62; rector of high sch. Quebec 1862–7; vice prin. of St. Mary’s hall, Ox. 1867–85, master of the schools 1868–9, 1873 and 1875; Bampton lecturer 1880, Grinfield lecturer on Septuagint 1882–84; D.D. of Edin. univ. 1883; R. of Purleigh, Essex 1883 to death; reader in ecclesiastical history, Ox. 1886 to death; author of The organisation of the early Christian churches 1880; The growth of church institutions 1887; Essays in Biblical Greek 1889; The influence of Greek ideas upon the Christian church 1890; edited the Official Gazette, Oxford from 1870. d. 6 Canterbury road, Oxford 10 Nov. 1889. Memorials of E. Hatch (1890), portrait; I.L.N. 23 Nov. 1889 pp. 647, 648, portrait.
HATCH, George Cliffe. b. 11 Jany. 1820; ensign 57 Bengal N.I. 22 Aug. 1839, captain 19 April 1851; lieut. col. Bengal staff corps. 12 Dec. 1864; general 17 Aug. 1890. d. Cheltenham 11 Feb. 1891.
HATCH, Henry. Sole proprietor and lessee of Victoria theatre, Oxford 1868–72, of theatre royal, Oxford 1872 to death. d. 2 Cambridge villas, St. Mark’s road, Notting hill, London 9 Oct. 1885 aged 69.
HATCH, Rev. Walter Mooney (4 son of Samuel Hatch of Derby). Matric. from New coll. Ox. 18 Oct. 1862 aged 19, fellow 1867–77; B.A. 1866, M.A. 1869; head warden St. Paul’s coll. Stony Stratford 1870–5; warden of Knutsford coll. 1875, junior dean 1876; R. of Birchanger, Essex 1877 to death; editor of Characteristics of A. A. Cooper 3 Earl of Shaftesbury 1870; author of Early Counsels, sermons 1875; The moral philosophy of Aristotle 1879. d. Birchanger 2 Dec. 1877 aged 34.
HATCHARD, Right Rev. Thomas Goodwin (son of Thomas Hatchard, publisher, d. 13 Nov. 1858). b. 11 Sloane st. Chelsea 18 Sep. 1817; ed. at King’s coll. Lon. and Brasenose coll. Ox.; B.A. 1841, M.A. 1845, D.D. 1869; C. of Windlesham, Surrey 1842–44; R. of Havant, Hants. 1846–56; R. of St. Nicholas, Guildford 1856–69; bishop of Mauritius 1869 to death, consecrated in Westminster abbey 24 Feb. 1869; author of The German tree. A moral for the young 1851; The floweret gathered, a memoir of his daughter 1858. d. of fever at Mauritius 28 Feb. 1870. I.L.N. lvi, 411 (1870); Times 31 March 1870 p. 9.
HATCHELL, John (2 son of Henry Hatchell of Wexford). b. Wexford 1783; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1804; called to Irish bar 1809; K.C. 7 Feb. 1835; bencher of King’s Inns, Dublin 1846; solicitor general for Ireland 24 Dec. 1847, attorney general 23 Sep. 1850 to Feb. 1852; P.C. Ireland 1850; M.P. for Windsor 1850–52; comr. of insolvent debtors’ court, Dublin, June 1854. d. Fortfield house near Dublin 14 Aug. 1870. I.L.N. xvi, 148 (1850), portrait, lvii, 226 (1870).
HATFIELD, Weston James (son of Weston Hatfield, proprietor of Independent Press, Cambridge). b. 1830; newspaper correspondent in Paris 1848; a founder of Permanent Building soc. Cambridge 1853; connected with the press in the Colonies from 1853; editor and proprietor of the Cambridge Independent Press and printer at Cambridge 1863 to death. d. 2 Poplar villas, Station road, Cambridge 14 Nov. 1871. Newspaper Press 1 Dec. 1871 p. 19.
HATHERLEY, William Page Wood, 1 Baron (2 son of Sir Matthew Wood of Falcon sq., city of London, hop merchant 1768–1843). b. Falcon sq. 29 Nov. 1801; ed. at Woodbridge, Bow and at Winchester 1812–1818; went to Trin. coll. Cam., Oct. 1820, scholar 1822, fellow 1824–30; 24 wrangler 1824; B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827, LLD. 1864; barrister L.I. 27 Nov. 1827; engaged in parliamentary practice 1828–41; lived in Dean’s yard, Westminster 1830–44; Q.C. Feb. 1845; M.P. for city of Oxford 1847–53; vice chancellor of county palatine of Lancaster 7 May 1849 to March 1851; solicitor general 28 March 1851 to Feb. 1852 and 28 Dec. 1852 to 10 Jany. 1853; knighted at Buckingham palace 14 April 1851; vice chancellor 10 Jany. 1853, lord justice of appeal 6 March 1868; P.C. 28 March 1868; lord chancellor 9 Dec. 1868 to 15 Oct. 1872 when he resigned; created Baron Hatherley of Down Hatherley, Gloucs. 8 Dec. 1868; F.R.S. 22 Dec. 1834, member of council, vice pres.; translated Lord Bacon’s Novum Organon 1826. d. 31 Great George st. Westminster 10 July 1881. bur. in churchyard of Great Bealings, Suffolk 15 July. A memoir of Baron Hatherley 2 vols. 1883, 2 portraits; The Crown of the road by Rev. C. Bullock (1884) 191–224, portrait; A generation of Judges (1886) 139–46.
HATHERTON, Edward John Littleton, 1 Baron (only son of Moreton Walhouse of Hatherton, Staffs.) b. London 18 March 1791; ed. at Rugby and Brasenose coll. Ox., created D.C.L. 18 June 1817; assumed surname of Littleton on death of his grand uncle Sir Edward Littleton 4 Bart. 18 May 1812; chairman of Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal co. 1812 to death; M.P. for Staffordshire 1812–32; M.P. for South Staffordshire 1832–5; president of Boundary commission 1831; liberal candidate for speakership of house of commons but defeated by 210 votes 29 Jany. 1833; chief sec. for Ireland 17 May 1833 to 17 Dec. 1834; his negotiations with O’Connell led to the break up of the Grey ministry Nov. 1834; cr. Baron Hatherton of Hatherton, Staffordshire 11 May 1835; lord lieut. of Staffs. 8 June 1854, resigned Sep. 1862; F.R.S.; author of Memoir and correspondence relating to political occurences in June and July 1834 (1872). d. Teddesley park, Penkridge, Staffs. 4 May 1863. G.M. xv, 101 (1863); I.L.N. x, 53 (1847), portrait; Colburn’s New Monthly Mag. June 1863 pp. 176–82.
HATHERTON, Edward Richard Littleton, 2 Baron. b. Teddesley park 31 Dec. 1815; ed. at Eton; M.P. Walsall 1847–52; M.P. South Staffordshire 1853–7; col. 2nd Stafford militia 5 Jany. 1852 to death; vice lieut. of Staffs. 1855; succeeded as 2 baron 1863; C.B. 24 May 1881. d. 22 Rutland gate, London 3 April 1888.
HATHORN, George. b. 17 Nov. 1803; entered navy 9 Aug. 1817; captain 4 Nov. 1840; admiral on half pay 14 July 1871. d. 14 Pencester road, Dover 29 Jany. 1876.
HATTERSLEY, Robert. A working engineer at Manchester; took out patents for type setting machines 1857, 62, 67, 72 and 75, machines shown at Great Exhibition 1862; his machines very much used especially in Liverpool; by his machine one man can produce in an hour 100 to 160 lines of minion news-work and justify the same. d. Manchester 13 Feb. 1889 aged 59.
HATTON, Frank (2 son of Joseph Hatton, journalist and author). b. Horfield near Bristol 31 Aug. 1861; ed. at Marcq coll. near Lille 1874–6 and at King’s coll. sch. 1876; mineral explorer and metallurgical chemist to British North Borneo co. 1881, employed in Borneo 1881 to death; contributed articles to various periodicals; when returning from pursuing an elephant was killed by accidental explosion of his own rifle on Segamah river 1 March 1883. North Borneo, exploration and adventures on the Equator by F. Hatton, with Biographical sketch by J. Hatton (1886), portrait; Graphic, xxvii, 469 (1883), portrait.
HATTON, John Liptrot. b. Concert st. Liverpool 12 Oct. 1809; played Blueskin in Jack Sheppard at Little Liver theatre, Liverpool; organist St. Nicholas, Chapel st. Liverpool; settled in London 1832; chorus master Drury Lane, London 1842–3, his operetta Queen of the Thames produced 25 Feb. 1843; his opera Pascal Bruno produced at Vienna 1843; sang at Hereford festival 1846; visited America 1848, 1850, playing and singing; conductor of Glee and Madrigal union, London 1850; conductor and composer at Princess’ theatre for Charles Kean 1853–9 where he wrote music for 9 plays; accompanyist and conductor Ballad concerts, St. James’ hall 1866–75; composer of the opera Rose or Love’s Ransom, Covent Garden 1864; Robin Hood cantata 1856; Hezekiah sacred drama, Crystal palace 1877; The village blacksmith, and other part songs; Come back Annie 1862, Friar of orders grey, Good bye sweetheart 1855, Leather Bottél, Simon the cellarer 1847, Under the Greenwood tree 1856, songs; besides anthems, dance music, &c.; his name is attached to upward of 150 pieces of music; some of his pieces published with pseudonym of P. B. Czapek 1845 etc. d. Margate 20 Sep. 1886. Illust. S. and D. News, xxvi, 61 (1886), portrait; Brown’s Biog. Dict. of Music (1886) 308; Grove’s Dict. of Musicians, i, 697 (1887).
HATTON, Villiers Francis. b. Dromana, co. Waterford 20 Aug. 1787; entered navy 1799; lost an arm in an action with a Danish sloop off the Coast of Norway 19 June 1808; captain 7 Feb. 1812, V.A. on half pay 27 Sep. 1855; M.P. for co. Wexford 1841–47; had pension of £300 a year for his wounds. d. 8 Feb. 1859. G.M. March 1859 p. 333.
HAUGHTON, Rev. George Dunbar (2 son of Rev. John Haughton, R. of Middleton, Lancs. d. 1828). b. Middleton 6 May 1807; ed. at Manchester sch. and Worcester coll. Ox., B.A. 1829; C. of Lockerley, Hants. 1876–82; editor of Bath Express from beginning; author of On sex in the world to come 1841; The martyr-boy of Pistoja, a ballad 1861. d. about 1888. Manchester school reg. iii, 165 (1874).
HAUGHTON, James (son of Samuel Pearson Haughton). b. Carlow 5 May 1795; corn and flour merchant, Dublin 1817–50; a reformer; associated with O’Connell in the Repeal movement, with Wilberforce in the Anti-slavery meetings 1838, and with Father Mathew in advocating temperance; a unitarian 1834; author of A plea for teetotalism and the Maine liquor law 1855. d. 35 Eccles st. Dublin 20 Feb. 1873. Memoir of J. Haughton by his son (1877), portrait.
HAUGHTON, John Colpoys (son of Richard H. Haughton). b. Dublin 25 Nov. 1817; ed. at Shrewsbury; entered R.N. 30 March 1830, midshipman 1832–7; ensign 31 Bengal N.I. 9 Dec. 1837; in Afghan war 1839–42, adjutant of 4 Goorka regt. in Shah Soojah’s service when he defended Char-ee-kar 5–11 Nov. 1841, with his right hand amputated and some of the muscle of his neck severed he had to ride to Cabul 14–16 Nov.; with the Ramghur battalion in 6 actions 1846–7; superintendent of penal settlement in Andaman islands 1859; commissioner of Cooch Behar and manager of the maharajah’s estates 1865–73; retired 1873; C.S.I. 24 May 1866; L.G. 1 April 1882; author of Char-ee-kar and service there with the 4 Goorkha regiment 1867, 2 ed. 1879. d. Ramsgate 17 Sep. 1887. Sir V. Eyre’s Kabul insurrection (1879) p. 135 et seq.; Times 21 Sep. 1887 p. 10 col. 6.
HAUSSMANN, Josephine Constantine. b. Breslau 22 March 1791; served in Prussian army 1813–21; an artist in England. d. 23 New Ormond st. Queen sq. London 28 May 1881.
HAVELL, William (son of a drawing master at Reading). b. Reading 9 Feb. 1782; painter in oils and water colours; exhibited 103 pictures at R.A., 42 at B.I. and 32 at Suffolk st. 1804–57; a foundation member of Soc. of painters in water-colours 1804, seceded 1813, rejoined in 1825; went with Lord Amherst’s embassy to China as a draughtsman 1816; in India practising his profession 1817–25; lost his savings by failure of an Indian bank and became a pensioner on Turner fund of Royal Academy; his best known painting is ‘Windsor’ in South Kensington museum; published with Robert Havell A series of views of Noblemen’s seats 1823. d. 3 High row, Kensington 16 Dec. 1857. Redgrave’s Dict. of Artists (1878) 201; Monkhouse’s Earlier English Water-colour painters (1890) 65, 91, 95, 119, 131.
HAVELOCK, Charles Frederick (4 son of Wm. Havelock, ship builder, Sunderland). b. Ingress park, Greenhithe, Kent 16 Oct. 1803; cornet 16 lancers 13 Dec. 1821, engaged in every battle in India from Bhurtpore 18 Jany. 1826 to Goojerat 21 Feb. 1849; major 53 foot 24 May 1846 to 27 July 1849 when placed on h.p.; brigadier general of the Irregular Osmanli cavalry 1854 to 1856. d. Titchfield, Hampshire 14 May 1868.
HAVELOCK, Sir Henry (brother of the preceding). b. Ford hall, Bishop Wearmouth 5 April 1795; ed. at Charterhouse; student at Middle Temple 1813–14; 2 lieut. 95 regt. 30 July 1815; D.A.A.G. in Burmese war 1824–6; in first Afghan war and present at capture of Cabul, July 1839; aided Sir R. Sale at time of the Cabul rising and took part in siege of Jallálabád 1841; C.B. 4 Oct. 1842, K.C.B. 26 Sep. 1857; Persian interpreter to Sir Hugh Gough in Gwalior campaign 1843–4; in first Sikh war and present at Mudki, Ferozeshah and Sobraon 1845; D.A.G. of queen’s troops, Bombay 1847; A.G. of queen’s troops in India 1854; commanded a division in the Persian war 1856–7; commanded a column in the Indian mutiny and fought battle of Futtehpore 12 July 1857, defeated Nana Sahib 16 July and recaptured Cawnpore 17 July, relieved Lucknow 25–26 Sep.; M.G. 29 Sep. 1857; gazetted baronet 26 Nov. 1857; author of Memoirs of the campaigns of Sir A. Campbell’s army in Ava. Serampore 1828; Narrative of the war in Afghanistan 1838–39, 2 vols. 1840. d. of diarrhœa, the Dilkoosha near Lucknow 24 Nov. 1857. bur. in the square of the Alumbagh, statue by Wm. Behnes in Trafalgar sq. London 1861. Marsham’s Memoirs of Sir H. Havelock (1860), portrait; R. M. Martin’s Indian empire, ii, 276 (1858–61), portrait; Nolan’s British empire in India, ii, 751 (1858–60), portrait; Landels’ Baptist Worthies (1884) 339–72, portrait.
HAVERFIELD, Robert Ross. b. Bideford, Devon, Feb. 1819; went to Australia 1838; crossed the Mallee from lake Tyrell to lake Hindmarsh, Victoria; with A. M. Lloyd started the Bendigo Advertiser 1851, editor 1870 to death; explored the Darling country, N.S.W. and crossed from Menindie to Booligal on the Lachlan; crossed the Barrier ranges to the northern stations of S. Australia; sec. to Victorian royal commission to inquire about deaths of Burke and Wills 1861; arbitrator in assessment of runs in Oven’s district 1860; started the Riverene Herald at Deniliquin 1863; sub-editor of Age in Melbourne. d. Sandhurst, Victoria 21 April 1889. Times 5 June 1889 p. 10.
HAVERGAL, Frances Ridley (youngest child of Rev. W. H. Havergal 1793–1870). b. Astley rectory, Worcs. 14 Dec. 1836; studied in Louisenschule at Düsseldorf 1852; wrote verses from the age of seven; engaged in religious and philanthropic work; author of The ministry of song 1871, 5 ed. 1874; The four happy days 1874, 15th thousand 1883; Life chords 1880; Poetical works 2 vols. 1884 and about 40 other books; wrote many popular hymns. d. Caswell bay road, Swansea 3 June 1879. Memorials of F. R. Havergal by Her Sister (1880), portrait; Letters of F. R. Havergal (1885); J. E. Prescott’s Hymns (2 ed. 1886) 214–27; C. Bullock’s Crown of the Road (1884) 135–90, portrait.
HAVERGAL, Rev. Francis Tebbs (5 child of Rev. W. H. Havergal). b. 27 Aug. 1829; bible clerk New coll. Ox.; B.A. 1852, M.A. 1857; vicar choral Hereford cath. 1853–74; V. of Pipe with Lyde, Herefordshire 1861–74 and V. of Upton Bishop 1874 to death; preb. of Hereford 1877 to death; author of Fasti Herefordenses 1869; Memorials of Sir F. A. G. Ouseley 1889 and other works. d. Upton Bishop 27 July 1890. Guardian 6 Aug. 1890 p. 1233.
HAVERGAL, Rev. Henry East (2 child of Rev. W. H. Havergal). b. Coaley, Gloucs. 22 July 1820; chorister New coll. Ox. 1828–34, bible clerk 1839; B.A. 1843, M.A. 1846; chaplain Ch. Ch. 1843 and at New coll. 1844–7; V. of Cople, Beds. 1847 to death; built an F organ, that being the note to which the voice extends; singer, double bass and trumpet performer; he published Selections from the hymns of George Wither 1846; Tunes, chants and responses 1865; Forty-two chants 1870, besides other works. d. Cople vicarage 12 Jany. 1875. Record 18, 20 Jany. 1875; Choir 23 Jany. 1875 p. 50.
HAVERGAL, Maria Vernon Graham (3 child of Rev. W. H. Havergal). b. Coaley, Gloucs. 15 Nov. 1821; engaged in philanthropic and religious works; author of Pleasant fruits from the cottage and the class 1871; Memorials of Frances R. Havergal 1880; Outlines of the gentle life, Sketch of E. P. Shaw by her sister 1887; she also edited many of Frances R. Havergal’s works 1879–87. d. 3 Paragon villas, Weston-super-mare 22 June 1887. bur. Astley near Bewdley 28 June. Autobiography of M. V. G. Havergal, Ed. by J. M. Crane (1887), portrait.
HAVERGAL, Rev. William Henry (only son of Wm. Havergal of Chipping Wycombe, Bucks. 1765–1854). b. Chipping Wycombe 18 Jany. 1793; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s school and St. Edmund’s hall, Ox., B.A. 1816, M.A. 1819; C. of Coaley, Gloucs. 1820–22; C. of Astley near Bewdley 1822–29; R. of Astley 1829–42; R. of St. Nicholas, Worcester 1845–60; hon. canon Worcester cath. 1845; V. of Shareshill, Staffs. 1860–70; endeavoured to restore metrical psalmody to its original purity; he composed An evening service in E flat, and one hundred antiphonal chants 1836; Old church psalmody 1847; his sacred song Summertime is coming, and his psalm tune Evan, are well known; author of Sermons 2 vols. 1853; A history of the Old Hundredth psalm tune, New York 1854 and other works. d. Pyrmont villa, Binswood ter. Leamington 19 April 1870. bur. Astley ch. yard 23 April. Records of Rev. W. H. Havergal (1882), 2 portraits; Bullock’s The Crown of the road (1884) 243–302, 2 portraits; Lymington’s The pastor remembered (1870) 43–54.
HAVERS, Mary Alice. Exhibited 18 pictures at R.A. and 3 at Suffolk st. 1873–80, exhibited also at Manchester; many of her pictures were engraved and published. (m. Frederick Morgan). d. 11 Marlborough road, St. John’s Wood, London 26 Aug. 1890. I.L.N. 6 Sep. 1890 p. 295, portrait.
HAVERTY, Joseph Patrick. b. Galway 1794; member R. Hibernian academy; exhibited 17 portraits at R.A. and 8 at Suffolk st. 1835–58; among his pictures were the Limerick Piper, in Irish National gallery; Father Mathew receiving a repentent pledge-breaker 1844; his set of 3, Baptism, Confession and Confirmation were lent to Irish exhibition in London 1888; his portrait of D. O’Connell belongs to Reform club, London. d. Dublin 1864. Webb’s Irish biography (1878) 584.
HAVERTY, Martin. b. Mayo 1 Dec. 1809; ed. at Irish coll. Paris; on staff of Freeman’s Journal, Dublin 1837–50; sub-librarian King’s Inns, Dublin 1852–77; author of Wanderings in Spain 2 vols. 1844; The history of Ireland 1860, 2 ed. 1885. d. 5 Wells park, Fairview, Dublin 18 Jany. 1887. Irish Law Times, xxi, 49 110 (1887).
HAVILAND, John (only son of John Haviland of Gundenham, Somerset, surgeon 1754–1817). b. Bridgewater 2 Feb. 1785; ed. at Winchester and St. John’s coll. Cam., 12 wr. 1807, B.A. 1807, M.A. 1810, M.L. 1812, M.D. 1817; fell. of his coll.; prof. of anatomy in Univ. of Cam. 1814–17, regius prof. of physic 7 March 1817 to death; physician to Addenbrooke’s hospital, Cam. 1817–39 when he retired from practice; inceptor candidate of R.C.P. 1814, candidate 1817, fellow 30 Sep. 1818, delivered Harveian oration 1837. d. 21 Trumpington st. Cambridge 8 Jany. 1851. bur. at Fen Ditton near Cambridge. Munk’s College of physicians, iii, 183 (1878).
HAVILAND, John (son of James Haviland of Taunton). b. Gundenham, Somerset 15 Dec. 1792; pupil of James Elmes, architect; went to Russia to enter imperial corps of engineers 1815; went to United States 1816; M.R.I.B.A.; with Hugh Bridgport managed an architectural drawing sch. in Philadelphia; he planned the hall of justice, New York; the U.S. naval hospital, Norfolk, Va.; deaf and dumb asylum, Philadelphia; state insane asylum, Harrisburg; eastern penitentiary, Philadelphia, and the state penitentiaries of New Jersey, Missouri and Rhode island; author with H. Bridgport of Builders’ Assistant for carpenters. Baltimore 3 vols. 1818. d. Philadelphia 28 March 1852. G.M. xxxvii, 629 (1852); Appleton’s American Biography, iii, 118 (1887).
Note.—He introduced the plan of building the cells of prisons in lines radiating from a common centre, on the system advocated by Jeremy Bentham in his Panopticon.
HAVILAND-BURKE, Edmund (only son of Thomas W. A. Haviland-Burke 1795–1852, barrister). b. 27 Jany. 1836; ed. at Eton; barrister L.I. 30 April 1860; equity draftsman and conveyancer; contested Christchurch, Hants. 1865; M.P. Christchurch 1868–74. d. co. Dublin 17 June 1886. Law Times, lxxxi, 158 (1886).
HAVILLAND, John Von Sonnentag de (son of John Haviland 1792–1852). b. U.S. America 1827; ed. at St. Petersburg; general in several foreign services; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1870; Rouge Croix pursuivant, Herald’s coll. 16 Aug. 1866, York herald 20 March 1872 to death; changed spelling of his name to Havilland and resumed the prefix of de 1869; F.S.A. 1872; knight of justice of St. John of Jerusalem. d. Paignton, Devon 18 Sep. 1886. bur. Langford Budville, Somerset. Proc. Soc. of Antiquaries, xi, 376 (1885–7); Law Times 9 Oct. 1886 p. 391.
HAVILLAND, Thomas Fiott de (1 son of Sir Peter de Havilland, d. 1821). b. Havilland hall, Guernsey 10 April 1775; ensign Madras engineers 3 May 1793; built the Jeybourg barracks, Guernsey 1812; civil engineer and architect for Madras presidency 1814; constructed the Mount road and the sea wall of Madras 1822; built the cathedral and St. Andrew’s presbyterian ch. Madras; acting chief engineer 9 Feb. 1821; lieut.-col. 1 May 1824; retired 20 April 1825; author of Report on Indian limestone 1822. d. Beauvoir, Guernsey 23 Feb. 1866. G.M. April 1866 p. 603; H. M. Vibart’s Madras Engineers, ii, 1–35 (1883).
HAWARDEN, Cornwallis Maude, 3 Viscount. b. 28 March 1780; succeeded his brother 26 Feb. 1807; created D.C.L. at Ox. 5 July 1810; a representative peer of Ireland 31 Oct. 1836 to death; a lord in waiting to the Queen 1841–46 and Feb. to Dec. 1852. d. Dundrum near Cashel 12 Oct. 1856.
HAWES, Sir Benjamin (1 son of Benjamin Hawes of Russell sq. London, soapboiler 1770–1860). b. London 19 March 1797; soap manufacturer in partnership with his father and uncle; M.P. Lambeth 1832–47; M.P. Kinsale 1848–52; under sec. of state for the colonies 6 July 1846 to 31 Oct. 1851; deputy secretary at war 31 Oct. 1851 to 1857 when office abolished; permanent under sec. of state for war department 1857 to death; K.C.B. 5 Feb. 1856; made the arrangement for the partnership between Sir W. F. Cooke and Sir C. Wheatstone the electricians 1837. d. 9 Queen sq. Westminster 15 May 1862. Francis’ Orators of the age (1847) 345–50; G.M. xiii, 101–3 (1862); May’s Law of parliament (1883) 217.