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HAWES, Rev. Thomas Henry (1 son of William Hawes of St. John’s, Westminster). Matric. from Magd. hall, Ox. 9 July 1824 aged 18; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1834, D.D. 1839; scholar New coll. 1829–57, chaplain 1830–56; V. of Nether Stowey, Somerset 1849–57; R. of Burgh Castle, Norfolk 1857 to death; composer and editor of Two penitential anthems. Oxford 1849; A morning and communion service. Bristol 1855; Congregational psalmody. Wells 1855. d. Burgh Castle rectory 2 Feb. 1888.
HAWES, Maria Billington (2 dau. of William Hawes, musical composer 1785–1846). b. Craven st. Strand, London 1816, Mrs. Billington was her godmother; first appeared at her father’s annual concert 1832; sang at musical festival in Westminster abbey as second contralto 1838; her singing in the works of Pergolesi, Handel, Haydn, Spohr & Mendelssohn moved whole audiences to tears; principal contralto in first performance of Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang 23 Sep. 1840 and in the Elijah 26 Aug. 1846; O rest in the Lord was written expressly for her by Mendelssohn; composer of There be none of beauty’s daughters, song 1856; O Lord, thy mercies we proclaim, hymn 1872 and 25 other compositions. (m. 1847 J. D. Merest), she d. a widow at St. John’s park, Ryde, Isle of Wight 24 April 1886. Musical Standard 26 June 1886 pp. 406–7.
HAWES, William (son of Benjamin Hawes 1770–1860). b. 23 May 1805; received testimonial 1841 for his efforts to amend laws relating to soap; member of Soc. of Arts 1849, chairman of council 5 times; treasurer of Royal Humane Society 1868 to death, this society was partly founded by Dr. William Hawes his grandfather in 1774; engaged in schemes for management of hospitals, workhouses and baths and wash-houses; aided in amending bankruptcy laws, presented by merchants of city of London with a service of plate 1847; comr. of Exhibition of 1862, read before Soc. of Arts a series of papers on the Exhibition 1861–3. d. 17 Montague place, Russell sq. London 1 May 1885 aged 80. Times 8 May 1885 p. 11; Journal of Soc. of Arts 8 May 1885 p. 720.
HAWKE, Edward William Harvey Hawke, 4 Baron. b. Womersley park, Pontefract 15 July 1799; ed. at Eton; succeeded 29 Nov. 1834; master of the Badsworth hounds 14 Sep. 1826 to 1866. d. Womersley park 8 Jany. 1869. Baily’s Mag. ix, 163–66 (1864), portrait.
HAWKER, Edward (son of James Hawker, captain R.N. d. 1787). b. 1782; entered navy 1793; captain 6 June 1804; admiral on h.p. 17 Sep. 1853, pensioned 18 March 1858; a writer in The Times on naval matters under signature of A Flag Officer; author of A letter to Wellington 1840. d. Brighton 8 June 1860 aged 78.
HAWKER, Henry Samuel (4 son of general Sir Samuel Hawker). b. 1816 or 1817; lieut. R.N. 6 March 1838, captain 9 July 1861, retired 12 Oct. 1868, retired admiral 15 July 1887. d. Buckingham palace road, London 11 May 1889 in 73 year.
HAWKER, Peter (son of colonel Peter Ryves Hawker of Longparish, Hants., d. 6 Feb. 1790). b. London 24 Dec. 1786; ed. at Eton; cornet 1 royal dragoons 1801; captain 14 light dragoons 14 Aug. 1804 to 18 March 1813 when he sold out owing to wound received at Talavera; lieut.-col. of North Hampshire militia 14 Nov. 1821 to death; published Journal of a regimental officer during the recent campaign in Portugal and Spain 1810; Instructions to young sportsmen in all that relates to guns and shooting 1814, 11 ed. 1857; made inventions and improvements in fire arms 1851 etc.; invented hand moulds to facilitate playing on keyed instruments, patented by him 1 Nov. 1820. d. 2 Dorset place, Dorset sq. London 7 Aug. 1853. G.M. xl, 313 (1853); I.L.N. xix, 534, 536 (1851), portrait, xxiii, 138 (1853).
HAWKER, Rev. Robert Stephen (1 son of Jacob Stephen Hawker, surgeon, Plymouth, then vicar of Stratton, d. 1845). b. Stoke Damarel, Devon 3 Dec. 1804; ed. at Liskeard gram. sch.; articled to W. Jacobson, attorney, Plymouth; at Cheltenham gram. sch. and Pemb. coll. Ox. 1823, migrated to Magd. hall, B.A. 1828, M.A. 1836; won Newdigate prize for poem on Pompeii 27 June 1827; V. of Morwenstow 31 Dec. 1834 to death; instituted ruridecanal synods 1844; V. of Wellcombe 1850 to death; instituted weekly offertories and harvest thanksgivings; author of Tendrils. By Reuben. Cheltenham 1821; Ecclesia. Oxford 1840; Echoes from Old Cornwall 1846; The quest of the Sangraal. Exeter 1864 his best work; Footprints of former men in far Cornwall 1870; on the originality of his ballad And shall Trelawny die? there has been much discussion; delineated in Mortimer Collins’ novel Sweet and Twenty 1875 as Canon Tremaine; in his last hours received into R.C. ch. d. 9 Lockyer st. Plymouth 15 Aug. 1875, his widow Pauline Mary granted civil list pension of £80, 13 Oct. 1880. Lee’s Memorials of Rev. R. S. Hawker (1876), portrait; Baring-Gould’s The vicar of Morwenstow (1876), portrait, 3 ed. 1876; Poetical Works. Ed. J. G. Godwin (1879), portrait; Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i, 220–2, iii, 1222–3; Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 183–90 (1887).
HAWKER, Sir Thomas. b. 1777; cornet 11 dragoons 12 May 1795; served in the Mediterranean and Spain 1805–15; lieut. col. 20 dragoons 2 Sep. 1808 to 1818; colonel of 6 dragoon guards 5 June 1839 to death; general 20 June 1854; K.C.H. 1837, knighted by William iv. at St. James’s palace 1 March 1837. d. Fern villa, Lansdowne place, Clifton 13 June 1858.
HAWKES, Mervyn Lanark (4 son of Sidney Milnes Hawkes). b. 1861; an originator of League for abolition of House of Lords; a lecturer at Radical clubs; contested Eye 1885, Sheffield central division 1885, Hartlepool 1886; in Australia 1888–90; author of A Primrose Dame, the story of an election. Bristol 1886. d. of consumption at his father’s house, Bruges, Belgium 17 Oct. 1890.
HAWKES, Robert. b. 1790; cornet Bengal army 30 July 1806, served during Mahratta war 1817–18; lieut. col. 9 Bengal light cavalry 1845 to 28 Nov. 1854; commanded at Lucknow 26 Jany. 1852 to 15 Nov. 1853; general 25 June 1870. d. 52 York terrace, Regent’s park, London 18 Dec. 1876.
HAWKINS, Alfred. b. England; shipping master of port of Quebec some years; author of Hawkins’s Picture of Quebec with historical recollections. Quebec 1834; The plan of the naval and military operations before Quebec, and death of Wolfe 1842; The Quebec directory and guide. Quebec 1844. d. Quebec 30 June 1854.
HAWKINS, Cæsar Henry (3 son of Rev. Edward Hawkins, R. of Kelston, Somerset, d. 1805). b. Bisley, Gloucs. 19 Sep. 1798; ed. at Christ’s hospital and St. George’s hospital; M.R.C.S. 1821, F.R.C.S. 1843; taught anatomy in Hunterian school, Windmill st.; surgeon to St. George’s hosp. 1829–61, consulting surgeon 1861; examiner at royal college of surgeons 1849–66, Hunterian orator 1849, pres. 1852, 1861; surgeon extraord. to the Queen 11 Nov. 1857, serjeant surgeon in ord. 25 Nov. 1862 to death; member of general medical council 4 July 1865 to 4 July 1870; F.R.S. 5 June 1856; popularised operations of ovariotomy and colotomy; author of The Hunterian oration, presidential addresses and pathological and surgical writings 2 vols. privately printed 1874. d. 26 Grosvenor st. London 20 July 1884. Medical Times, ii, 119 (1884); I.L.N. lxxxv, 133 (1884), portrait.
HAWKINS, Edward (1 son of Edward Hawkins, banker, Macclesfield, d. 1816). b. Macclesfield 5 May 1780; ed. Macclesfield gram. sch.; partner in Swansea bank and a manager of Neath Abbey copper works to 1807; F.L.S. 1806; made collection of books and prints relating to Chester; F.R.S. 1821, V.P., withdrew 1856; F.S.A. 1826, member of council 1828, chairman of executive committee 1853–9, V.P.; fellow Numismatic Soc. 1836, president; deputy keeper of antiquities British museum May 1825, keeper 1826 to Dec. 1860; formed collections of British medals and of 8000 English political caricatures, purchased by Br. Museum 1860 and 1868; author of Description of the Anglo-Gallic coins in British Museum 1826; The silver coins of England 1841, 3 ed. 1887; Descriptive account of British Medals 1852, Br. Museum refused to publish this as it contained political opinions, but revised and ed. by A. W. Franks and H. A. Grueber as Medallic illustrations of history of Great Britain and Ireland was published in 2 vols. 1885. d. 6 Lower Berkeley st. London 22 May 1867. Proc. of Soc. of Antiquaries, iv, 103–106 (1868); Numismatic Chronicle Proceedings, vii, 11–12 (1867).
HAWKINS, Rev. Edward (brother of Cæsar Henry Hawkins 1798–1884). b. Bath 27 Feb. 1789; ed. at Elmore, Gloucs. 1796–1800, at Merchant Taylor’s school 1801 to 1807; Andrew exhibitioner at St. John’s coll. Ox. 1807; double 1st class 1811; tutor of his college 1812; B.A. 1811, M.A. 1814, B.D. and D.D. 1828; fellow of Oriel coll. Easter 1813 to 2 Feb. 1828, tutor 1819, select preacher 1820–1, 1824–5, 1830–1 and 1842–3; V. of St. Mary the Virgin, Oxford 1823–28; Whitehall preacher 1827–28; provost of Oriel coll. 2 Feb. 1828 to death, but resigned his active duties 3 Oct. 1874; canon of Rochester 2 Feb. 1828 to death; R. of Purleigh, Essex 2 Feb. 1828 to death; V. of Lamberhurst, Kent 1831–4; declined the vice-chancellorship 1840 and 1870; Bampton lecturer 1840; Ireland professor of exegesis of holy scripture 2 Nov. 1847 to 19 Oct. 1861; lived at Rochester 1875 to death; author of A dissertation upon unauthoritative tradition as an introduction to Christian doctrines 1819, reprinted 1889; A manual for Christians after confirmation 1826, 6 ed. 1839; Discourses upon the historical scriptures of the Old Testament 1833; An inquiry into the uses of the means of attaining Christian truth, eight sermons 1840, and about 30 other publications. d. the Precincts, Rochester 18 Nov. 1882. bur. in the cathedral cemetery 24 Nov. J. W. Burgon’s Lives of twelve good men (1888) i, 376–475, portrait; Quarterly Rev. clvi, 305–52 (1883); T. Mozley’s Reminiscences, vol. i (1882).
Note.—There is a fine portrait of him by Sir Francis Grant in Oriel common room.—He was a great conservative and his opposition to any change in the tutorial system at Oriel occasioned the resignation of Newman, Richard Hurrell Froude, and Robert Wilberforce.
HAWKINS, Rev. Ernest (6 son of Henry Hawkins of Lawrence End, parish of Kimpton, Herts., major H.E.I.C.) b. Lawrence End 25 Jany. 1801; ed. at Ball. coll. Ox., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827, B.D. 1839; fellow of Ex. coll. Ox. 26 Dec. 1831 to 29 July 1852; assistant sec. S.P.G. 1838, sec. 1843–64, the society greatly expanded under his management; preb. of St. Paul’s 1844–64; minister of Curzon chapel, Mayfair, London 1850 to death; vice prin. of Bishop’s coll. Cape Town, Feb. 1859; canon of Westminster 7 Nov. 1864 to death, installed 5 Dec. 1864; author of Documents relating to the erection of bishoprics in the colonies 1844, 4 ed. 1855; Manual of prayer for working men and their families 1855, 4 ed. 1856; The book of Psalms with explanatory notes 1857, 3 ed. 1865 and 14 other books. d. Dean’s yard, Westminster 5 Oct. 1868. bur. Westminster abbey cloisters 12 Oct. Boase’s Exeter coll. (1879) 130; Chester’s Westminster abbey (1876) 518; I.L.N. 10 Oct. 1868 p. 363.
HAWKINS, Francis (brother of Rev. Edward Hawkins 1789–1882). b. Bisley, Gloucs. 30 July 1794; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ sch. 1805–12; probationary fellow of St. John’s coll. Ox. 1812, Newdigate prizeman 1813; B.A. 1816, B.C.L. 1819, M.B. 1820, M.D. 1823; inceptor candidate of R.C.P. 1821, candidate 1823, fellow 30 Sep. 1824; phys. Middlesex hosp. 18 Dec. 1824 to 1858; prof. of theory and practice of medicine in King’s coll. London 1831–6; phys. to royal household of William iv. 24 July 1830 to 1837; Gulstonian lecturer at coll. of phys. 1826, censor 1827, Croonian lecturer 1827–29, Lumleian lecturer 1832, 1834, 1840, 1841, Harveian orator 1848, an elect 14 Nov. 1850, consiliarius 1859–61, 1863–65 and 1869, registrar 30 Sep. 1829 to 1858; registrar of general council of Medical education and registration 25 Nov. 1858, retired 22 Dec. 1876; phys. to H.M.’s household in ordinary 13 Dec. 1861 to death; author of Rheumatism and some diseases of the heart 1826; edited The Medical Register 1859. d. 16 Ashley place, Victoria st. London 13 Dec. 1877. Munk’s College of physicians, iii, 286 (1878); Medical Times, ii, 686 (1877).
HAWKINS, Francis Spencer. b. 1799; entered Bengal army 1817, M.G. 28 Nov. 1854; col. 2 Bengal N.I. 18 Feb. 1856 to death; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842. d. 32 Sussex gardens, Hyde park, London 3 June 1860 aged 61.
HAWKINS, George (son of George Hawkins, landscape painter). b. 1809; architectural draughtsman; exhibited 7 drawings at R.A. 1830–48; lithographer, worked for Day and Son, London; his chief work was a series of the Monastic ruins of Yorkshire, sketches by W. Richardson, description by E. Churton 2 vols. York 1844–56. d. 116 Camden road villas, Camden Town, London 6 Nov. 1852. Art Journal (1852) 375; G.M. xxxviii, 655 (1852).
HAWKINS, John (son of Henry Hawkins, major H.E.I. Co.) b. Huntingdon 28 June 1791; ed. at Hitchin and Rugby; articled to Joseph Eade of Hitchin, Herts. solicitor; practised at Hitchin 1812 to death; steward of 28 manors at one time; a founder of the Hitchin Friendly Institution, May 1827; a trustee of nearly every charity in Hitchin. d. The Grange, Hitchin 22 March 1877. Law Journal, xii, 232–4 (1877).
HAWKINS, John Croft. b. 6 April 1798; entered navy 1811; entered marine service of H.E.I. Co. 1812; surveyed the Euphrates 1838; captain 21 Jany. 1839; commodore of Persian gulf squadron 1845–47; acting superintendent and commander in chief of Indian navy Aug. 1848 to 27 Jany. 1849; thrown out of his curricle and killed on the spot near his house in Colaba, Bombay 25 Aug. 1851.
HAWKINS, John Heywood (1 son of John Hawkins of Bignor park near Petworth, Sussex. d. Trewithen, Cornwall 4 July 1841). b. 1803; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; sheriff of Sussex 1826; M.P. for St. Michael, Cornwall 1830–31, for Tavistock, Devon 1831–32, and for Newport, Isle of Wight 12 Dec. 1832 to 23 June 1841; F.R.S. d. Bignor park 27 June 1877 in 75 year.
HAWKINS, John Isaac (son of Isaac Hawkins of Taunton). b. Taunton 14 March 1772; ed. at Jersey coll. Pennsylvania; lived at village of Bordentown, New Jersey many years; started The journal of human nature and human progress; returned to England; patented a machine for taking likenesses in profile from size of life downwards; invented the claviole or finger keyed viol which imitated all the instruments of a band, patented in his father’s name 1800; invented portable grand or cottage piano, patented in America and England 1800; consulting engineer in London 1816–49; invented Pentagraph for giving any number of copies of a letter, generally used until superseded by Wedgwood’s carbonic manifold writer and copying presses; invented the ever-pointed pencil, the iridium-pointed gold pen 1823, and a method of condensing coffee; M.I.C.E. 27 April 1824; claimed to have made the first survey for a tunnel under the Thames 1808; went to U.S. of America 1849. d. Elizabeth Town, New Jersey 28 June 1855. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxv, 512–14 (1866); Encyclop. Brit. xix, 75 (1885).
HAWKINS, Major Rhode (3 son of Edward Hawkins 1780–1867). b. Nutfield, Surrey 4 Feb. 1820; travelling architect in expedition sent by Sir Charles Fellowes to Caria and Lycia 1844, The Harpy Tomb at Br. Museum was reconstructed from his drawings and measurements; architect to Committee of council on Education. d. Redlands near Dorking 19 Oct. 1884.
HAWKINS, Susanna (dau. of a blacksmith). b. near Ecclefechan, Annandale 1787; a herder of cattle, and dairymaid at Gillenbie; domestic servant; published fugitive poems in little volumes with paper covers, and hawked them herself in Scotland and England; author of The Poetical works of Susanna Hawkins. Dumfries 1829; Poems and songs, vol. ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii, viii, ix, 1832, 1835, 1838, 1841, 1850, 1851, 1856 and 1861. d. Burnswark hill, Hoddam, Dumfriesshire 29 March 1868. Irving’s Dict. of Scotsmen (1881) 206; Dumfries Courier 7 April 1868 p. 3.
HAWKINS, Thomas (son of John Hawkins). b. Glastonbury 25 July 1810; F.G.S. 1831; a collector of fossils; his collection of Devon, Somerset and Dorset fossils, purchased by government for £3000 in 183-, is now in Natural History Museum, South Kensington; presented collections of saurian fossils to geological museums of Cambridge 1856 and Oxford 1874; author of Memoirs of Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri 1834; The book of the great sea-dragons 1840; Prometheus 1850, reprinted 1887; My life and works 1 vol. only 1887. d. Ventnor, Isle of Wight 29 Oct. 1889. Times 31 Oct. 1889 p. 10.
HAWKINS, Walter. b. London 1787; ed. at Hackney; Russian merchant and ship and insurance broker Finsbury circus, retired 1848; caused a medal to be struck in 1848 which he presented to young persons to encourage them in industry, courtesy and integrity; made a collection of 5000 medals and coins, which he left to the Royal United Service Instit. with £500; author of papers in Archæologia and Numismatic Chronicle; F.S.A. 1842; member Numismatic soc. 1836. d. 5 Leonard place, Kensington 27 Jany. 1862. Numismatic Chronicle Proceedings, ii, 18–19 (1862); Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xix, 155–6 (1863).
HAWKINS, William (brother of John Hawkins 1791–1877). b. 1789; ed. at Rugby; solicitor at Hertford 1821, at Hitchin 18—to death; delivered a lecture on Emigration, published by the Emigration comrs. 1833; circulated a series of letters under title of Thoughts on agriculture. d. Hitchin 6 May 1875.
HAWKSHAW, Ann (dau. of Rev. James Jackson of Green Hamerton, Yorks.) b. 1812. (m. 1835 Sir John Hawkshaw, C.E., F.R.S., he was b. Leeds 1811, living 1891); author of Dionysius the Areopagite, poems 1842; Poems for my children 1847; Sonnets on Anglo-Saxon history 1854; under name of Aunt Effie Aunt Effie’s Rhymes for little children 1852; Aunt Effie’s Gift to the nursery 1854, 2 ed. 1876. d. Belgrave mansions, Pimlico, London 29 April 1885. J. Evans’ Lancashire authors (1876) 51.
HAWLEY, Frederick (son of Benjamin Buck Hawley, capt. 51 foot, d. 15 July 1838). b. Portsea 10 Jany. 1827; sec. Great Eastern steamship co. 1852; solicitor at 102 Chancery lane, London 1852; actor under name of Frederick Haywell 1855–85, first appeared Marylebone theatre as Florizel 5 March 1855; acted at Sadler’s Wells 5 seasons, at Prince’s theatre, Manchester many years; manager of T.R. Manchester; librarian Shakespeare memorial library, Stratford-on-Avon 17 May 1886 to death; made MS. catalogue of all editions of Shakespeare’s plays in every language 1889; wrote 2 dramas Found, Theatre royal, Manchester 2 March 1874 and Agnes of Bavaria, Gaiety theatre, London 31 Oct. 1883; author of The royal family of England, remarks on the royal succession 1851. d. Stratford 13 March 1889. bur. Highgate cemet. 18 Mch. Stratford-on-Avon Herald 15 March and 26 April 1889.
HAWLEY, Sir Joseph Henry, 3 Baronet (eld. son of Sir Henry Hawley, 2 baronet 1776–1831). b. Harley st. London 27 Oct. 1813; cornet 9 lancers 31 Aug. 1832, sold out 11 April 1834; visited Greece, the Mediterranean and Italy 1834 etc.; sheriff of Kent 1844; kept a racing stud 1844 to 19 July 1873 when he sold it for 23,575 guineas; won the Oaks with Miame 1847, the One thousand guineas with Aphrodite 1851, the Derby with Teddington 1851, Beadsman 1858, Musjid 1859, and Blue Gown 1868, the Two thousand guineas with Fitz Roland 1858, and the St. Leger with Pero Gomez 1869; won £100,000 on Beadsman 1858; collected a fine library at Leybourne grange near Maidstone. d. 34 Eaton Place, London 20 April 1875. Rice’s History of the British turf (1879) ii, 232–41; Baily’s Mag. iii, 1–5 (1861), portrait; Sporting Review, xl, 111–14 (1858), lx, 15–18 (1868); Famous Racing Men, By Thormanby (1882) 95–100; Illust. sp. and dr. news, iii, 93, 95, 112 (1875), portrait.
HAWTHORN, Robert (eld. son of Robert Hawthorn, engineer of Walbottle colliery near Newcastle 50 years). b. Dewley Burn near Walbottle 13 June 1796; machine maker at Forth Banks, Newcastle 1817 to death; invented a new slide rule for engineers 1832 which was generally adopted; applied fixed eccentrics in a locomotive engine 1835 which invention was much used; M.I.C.E. 13 Feb. 1839; description of the first class express engine made by R. and W. Hawthorn, Newcastle, see Tredgold’s Principles and practice of machinery of locomotive engines 1850, Ninth Paper pp. 1–16 with 4 plates. d. 26 June 1867. bur. ch. yard of Newburn near Walbottle 2 July. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxvii, 590–92 (1868).
HAWTREY, Rev. Edward Craven (only son of Rev. Edward Hawtrey, V. of Burnham near Eton, d. 1803). b. Burnham 7 May 1789; ed. at Eton 1799–1807; scholar of King’s coll. Cam. 1807, fellow 1810; assistant master at Eton 1814–34, head master 1834–53, provost 12 Jany. 1853 to death, raised number of boys from 444 in 1835 to 777 in 1846, suppressed the Eton Montem 1847; R. of Ewhurst, Sussex 1835–53; R. of Eton 1853–4; V. of Mapledurham, Oxon. 1854 to death; a great linguist, known as the English Mezzofanti; printed privately Il Trifoglio ovvero Scherzi Metrici d’ un Inglese 1839 and other poems. d. the Lodge, Eton college 27 Jany. 1862 the last person buried in Eton college chapel, monument erected in chapel 1878. Lyte’s History of Eton College (1875) 404–73, portrait; I.L.N. xl, 202, 204 (1862), portrait.
HAWTREY, Rev. Stephen Thomas. b. 1808; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; M.A. Oxford 1846; head math. master Eton coll. 1836–71; P.C. of Holy Trin. Windsor 1844–51; founded St. Mark’s sch. Windsor 1851, warden 1871 to death; author of St. Mark’s school by the seaside in 1861, 1861; Reminiscences of a French Eton 1867; Introduction to the elements of Euclid 1874, 4 ed. 1884 and other books. d. Church house, Windsor 29 Oct. 1886 in 79 year.
HAY, Sir Adam, 7 Baronet. b. 14 Dec. 1795; M.P. for Lanark burghs 1820–30; succeeded 1 Nov. 1838. d. Cannes, France 18 Jany. 1867.
HAY, Sir Andrew Leith (eld. son of general Alexander Leith Hay 1758–1838). b. Aberdeen 17 Feb. 1785; ensign 72 foot 8 Jany. 1806, served through Peninsular war 1808–14, served in the West Indies 1816–30; captain 2 foot 1817 to 30 Sep. 1819 when placed on h.p.; M.P. for the Elgin burghs 1832–38 and 1841–47; contested Elgin burghs 1847 and city of Aberdeen 1852; clerk of the Ordnance 19 June 1834 to 22 Dec. 1834 and 18 April 1835 to 21 March 1838; K.H. 1834; governor of Bermuda 6 Feb. 1838 to 1 Nov. 1839 but never went to Bermuda; published A narrative of the Peninsular war 2 vols. 1831; The castellated architecture of Aberdeenshire 1849. d. Leith hall, Aberdeenshire 13 Oct. 1862.
HAY, Charles Crawford. b. 1809; ensign 19 foot 27 June 1824, lieut.-col. 30 Aug. 1842 to 14 April 1854 when placed on h.p.; commandant and inspector general of school of musketry at Hythe 13 April 1860 to 16 Oct. 1867; colonel of 58 foot 25 Nov. 1864, of 93 foot 29 Aug. 1868 to death; L.G. 20 Jany. 1867. d. Freshwater, Isle of Wight 27 Sep. 1873.
HAY, Charles Murray. b. 1802; ensign Coldstream guards 1 Nov. 1821, major 25 April 1848 to 20 June 1854; col. 91 foot 9 March 1861 to death; L.G. 24 Aug. 1861. d. Lower Belgrave st. London 3 July 1864.
HAY, David Ramsay. b. Edinburgh, March 1798; a house decorator in Edin. about 1818 to death; decorated Abbotsford for Sir Walter Scott 1824, and hall of Soc. of Arts, London about 1846; F.R.S. Edin.; a founder of the Æsthetic Society, Edin. 1851; author of The laws of harmonious colouring adapted to house painting 1828, 6 ed. 1847; The natural principles and analogy of the harmony of form 1842; The geometric beauty of the human figure defined 1851 and 12 other books. d. Jordan Bank, Edinburgh 10 Sep. 1866.
HAY, Sir Edward Hay Drummond (eld. son of Edward Wm. Auriol Drummond Hay 1785–1845, consul general for Morocco). b. 4 March 1815; entered colonial office 1834; governor of Virgin islands 1839–50; lieut. governor of St. Kitts 1850–54; governor of St. Helena 1854–63; knighted by patent 22 Aug. 1859; retired on a pension of £500, 1865. d. Lymington, Hants. 24 Jany. 1884.
HAY, George (eld. son of 8 Marquis of Tweeddale 1787–1876). b. Yester house, co. Haddington 26 April 1822; ed. at Trin. hall, Cam., M.A. 1845; M.P. for Totnes 5 Nov. 1855 to death; styled Earl of Gifford 1822–62. d. Dufferin lodge, Highgate, London 22 Dec. 1862.
HAY, James. Cornet 16 lancers 10 June 1795, lieut. col. 18 Feb. 1813 to Feb. 1819 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. 4 light dragoons 25 Dec. 1821 to 21 Nov. 1822 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. 2 dragoon guards 22 July 1830 to 27 Oct. 1837 when placed on h.p.; colonel 79 highlanders 8 Feb. 1849 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 4 June 1815. d. at his seat near Kilburn, co. Longford 25 Feb. 1854.
HAY, James (2 son of 7 Marquis of Tweeddale 1753–1804). Ensign 52 foot 23 Jany. 1806; captain grenadier guards 26 March 1818 to 26 Nov. 1830 when placed on h.p.; colonel 86 foot 8 May 1854 to death; general 1 June 1862; chairman of Aberdeen railway company. d. Spa, Belgium 17 Aug. 1862.
HAY, John (brother of the preceding). b. 1 April 1793; entered navy 4 Dec. 1804; lost his left arm at cutting out of some vessels in Hyères Bay 1807; captain 8 May 1816; C.B. 17 Feb. 1837; chairman of board of naval construction 1846; a lord of the admiralty 13 July 1846 to 30 Jany. 1850; captain superintendent of Devonport dockyard 9 Feb. 1850 to death; R.A. 25 Aug. 1851; M.P. for co. Haddington 1826–31; M.P. for Windsor 1847–50. d. St. Michael’s terrace, Stoke, Plymouth 26 or 27 Aug. 1851. bur. Yeaster, co. Haddington.
HAY, John Baker Porter. b. 1800; entered navy 28 Dec. 1811, captain 7 March 1842, retired R.A. 12 April 1862, retired admiral 30 July 1875. d. 14 Gloucester place, Brighton 14 Jany. 1886.
HAY, Mary Cecil (dau. of Thomas William Hay, watchmaker, Shrewsbury). b. Market sq. Shrewsbury 1840; resided at Chiswick, Middlesex and then at East Preston, Worthing; frequently visited Cornwall and introduced many Cornish incidents into her novels; author of Hidden perils 3 vols. 1873; Old Myddleton’s Money 3 vols. 1874; Nora’s love test 3 vols. 1876, 2 ed. 1878; For her dear sake 3 vols. 1880; A wicked girl and other tales 3 vols. 1886 and 10 other works of fiction. d. The Bay Trees, East Preston near Worthing 24 July 1886. bur. Highgate cemet. 29 July.
HAY, Robert (4 son of Robert Hay of Whittingham, co. Haddington). b. 6 Jany. 1799; a leading member of an archæological expedition in Egypt 1826–32, 49 large vols. of drawings made during this expedition by or for him were acquired by the British Museum, Dec. 1876; published Illustrations of Cairo 1840. d. Amisfield, East Lothian 4 Nov. 1863. Additional MS. 31054 in British Museum library, being part of his diary in Egypt; Catalogue of Egyptian antiquities belonging to R. Hay 1869.
HAY, Sir Robert, 8 Baronet. b. 8 May 1825; succeeded his father 18 Jany. 1867; one of the neatest players of golf; with Willie Dunn played Tom Morris and Allan Robertson at North Berwick 1852; won medals at St. Andrews 1848, 1851, 1852, 1872, with 101, 110, 99 and 94; one of the best players in foursome matches. d. Lyons, France 30 May 1885. Hutchinson’s Golf (Badmington Lib. 1890) 64, 362, 413, 415, 416, portrait; Foster’s Baronetage (1883) 700.
HAY, Robert William. b. 1786; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1807, M.A. 1809; private sec. to Viscount Melville first lord of the admiralty 1812–25; under sec. of state for Colonies 1825–1835; F.R.S. d. Malta 9 May 1861.
HAY, William (eld. son of Robert Hay of Lawfield and Spott, d. 1844). b. 1794; ensign 52 foot 30 Jany. 1810; captain 5 dragoon guards 1 July 1824 to 12 Nov. 1829 when he sold out; inspecting superintendent of Metropolitan police 1839 and second commissioner 1850 to death; C.B. 25 Oct. 1851. d. 67 Cadogan place, Chelsea 29 Aug. 1855.
HAYDAY, James. b. London 1796; appren. to Charles Marchant a vellum-binder, London; bookbinder at 31 Little Queen st. Lincoln’s Inn Fields 1833–61; bound books so as to open freely; introduced Turkey morocco instead of the straight grained; his name attached to a book raised its value 25 per cent.; adjudicated bankrupt 10 June 1861. d. St. Leonards-on-Sea 19 March 1872. Bookseller, April 1872 p. 284.
HAYDEN, George Thomas. Author of An essay on the wear and tear of human life and the remedy. Dublin 1846; A dialogue on religious equality, or the road to the revival of christianity. Dublin 1852. d. 82 Harcourt st. Dublin 30 July 1857.
HAYDN, Joseph Timothy (son of Thomas Haydn). b. Ireland 1786 or 1787; ed. abroad; originated at Dublin the Evening Mail 1823 and the Statesman and Patriot 1828, edited them some years; connected with the Limerick Times 1837–9; contributed to London newspapers and periodicals; engaged in record department of admiralty to death; edited S. Lewis’s Topographical Dictionary 8 vols. 1842–7; his name given to the Haydn series of works of reference 1841 etc.; author of The Dictionary of Dates 1841, 19 ed. 1889; The book of dignities 1851, 2 ed. 1890; granted civil list pension of £25, 27 Dec. 1855. d. Crawley st. Oakley sq. London 17 Jany. 1856. Westminster Review, Jany. 1830 p. 91.
HAYDOCK, Thomas (2 son of George Haydock of The Tagg, Cottam, Lancs.) b. 21 Feb. 1772; ed. at Douay coll. 1785–95; opened a school at 42 Allport st. Manchester 1797; publisher of R.C. books in Manchester 1799–1816; published an edition of the Douay Bible and Testament in numbers July 1811 to Sep. 1814, this is generally known as Haydock’s Bible and was republished at Edinburgh and London 1845–8; publisher at Lower Ormond quay, Dublin many years, kept a school in Dublin; publisher at Liverpool about 1840, then at Preston. d. Preston 25 Aug. 1859. Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 226–30 (1888).
HAYDON, Frank Scott (eld. son of Benjamin Robert Haydon, historical painter 1786–1846). b. London 12 Dec. 1822; junior clerk in Record office, London, Nov. 1845, senior clerk June 1860, assistant keeper May 1885 to death; author of Calendar of the patent rolls of the reign of Edward I, printed in the Appendices to the Annual reports of the deputy keeper of the public records 1881–88; edited Eulogium historiarum sive temporis Chronicon ab orbe condito ad mccclxvi. Rolls Series 1868; shot himself through the brain at Southey lodge, Kingston road, Wimbledon 29 Oct. 1887. Times 1 Nov. 1887 p. 11.