Frederic Boase
Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H
Note.—His mother who had been a widow named Mary Hymans, m. B. R. Haydon 10 Oct. 1821, received a civil list pension of £50 July 4, 1846 and d. Heustridge villas, St. John’s Wood, London 25 July 1854 aged 61.
HAYDON, Frederick Wordsworth (2 son of B. R. Haydon 1786–1846). b. London 14 Sep. 1827; in the navy; inspector of factories 1859–67 when dismissed, he then published a letter addressed to W. E. Gladstone entitled Our officials at the home office 1869; author of Benjamin Robert Haydon. Correspondence and table-talk 2 vols. 1876. d. Bethlehem hospital, London 12 Nov. 1886.
HAYDON, Michael. Detective sergeant city of London; brought Austin Bidwell from Havanna in Bank of England forgery case; with Brett arrested the thieves in the South Eastern gold bullion robbery case 1855 and the thieves in the South Western gold dust robbery case 1851 and with Brett figures in Frith’s Railway station 1862; retired on a pension 1879. d. 64 Devonshire road, Hackney 15 April 1880. bur. Highgate cemetery 21 April. City Press 21 April 1880 p. 5.
HAYE, Thomas Davey (eld. son of George Haye, captain R.N. of Tavistock 1788–1852). b. St. Heliers, Jersey 22 July 1838; ed. at Rugby; barrister M.T. 17 Nov. 1863, practised as a conveyancer; translated 2 works by H. A. Taine English positivism 1870 and On Intelligence 1871; author of A fragment of an intended treatise on Suretyship 1870. d. 7 Roydon villas, Clifton 10 March 1876. bur. in R.C. cemetery, Bristol. Law Times, lx, 405 (1876); Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. 224, 1225.
HAYES, Catherine. b. 4 Patrick st. Limerick 29 Oct. 1825; resided with Antonio Sapio of Dublin as his pupil 1839–42; studied under Garcia in Paris, and Ronconi in Milan 1842–5; made first appearance on stage at Marseilles opera house in I Puritani 10 May 1845; prima donna at La Scala, Milan 1845–6; sang in Vienna 1846, chief Italian cities 1846–49; first appeared in London at Royal Italian opera in Linda di Chamouni 10 April 1849; sang in United States, California, Sandwich islands and India 1851–6; sang at Jullien’s concerts in Her Majesty’s theatre, London 1857; had a soprano voice ascending to D in alt.; a mare called after her Catherine Hayes won the Oaks 1853. (m. at St. George’s, Hanover sq. London 8 Oct. 1857 William Avery Bushnell of Connecticut, U.S., he d. at Biaritz 2 July 1858 aged 35). d. at house of Henry Lee, Roccles, Upper Sydenham, Kent 11 Aug. 1861. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 17 Aug. E. C. Clayton’s Queens of song, ii, 274–96 (1863); Tallis’s Drawing room table book (1851) 33–35, portrait; I.L.N. xix, 285 (1851), portrait; Dublin Univ. mag. xxxvi, 584–95 (1850), portrait.
HAYES, Edmund (eld. son of William Hayes of Millmount, co. Down, linen manufacturer). b. Millmount 1804; ed. at Belfast academical instit. and Trin. coll. Dublin; B.A. 1825, LL.B. and LLD. 1832; called to Irish bar 1827; Q.C. 9 Nov. 1852; law adviser to the crown 1852 and 1858; solicitor general 1858; judge of court of queen’s bench Jany. 1859 to Nov. 1866 when he resigned; published Crimes and punishment or a digest of the criminal statute law of Ireland 1842, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1843. d. Crinken house near Bray, Dublin 29 April 1867. Irish Law Times, i, 240 (1867).
HAYES, Sir Edmund Samuel, 3 Baronet. b. Dublin 2 July 1806; succeeded 16 Sep. 1827; M.P. for co. Donegal 17 May 1831 to death. d. 30 June 1860.
HAYES, Sir George (2 son of Sheedy Hayes, a West Indian proprietor). b. Judd place, Somers Town, London 19 June 1805; ed. at Highgate and St. Edmund’s R.C. college at Ware; articled to W. F. Patterson, solicitor, Leamington 1819–24; special pleader, went Midland circuit of which he became leader; barrister M.T. 29 Jany. 1830, sergeant at law Feb. or March 1856, received patent of precedence next after A. J. Stephens 22 Feb. 1861; recorder of Leicester, Dec. 1861 to Aug. 1868; justice of court of Queen’s bench 24 Aug. 1868 to death; knighted at Windsor Castle 9 Dec. 1868; author of an Elegy in which he humorously lamented the extinction of John Doe and Richard Roe from the pleadings in ejectment 1854; seized with paralysis 19 Nov. 1869. d. Westminster palace hotel, London 24 Nov. 1869. Law magazine and law review, xxix, 114–25 (1870); Reg. and mag. of biog. Dec. 1869, 304–305.
HAYES, John. b. about 1786; portrait and historical painter; exhibited 77 pictures at R.A., 9 at B.I. and 1 at Suffolk st. gallery 1814–57, chiefly portraits. d. 51a Berners st. Oxford st. London 14 June 1866.
HAYES, John Boon. M.D. King’s college, Aberdeen; M.R.C.S. 1848; lecturer on practical physiology and demonstrator of anatomy at University coll. London; assistant surgeon Bengal 4 Aug. 1855; author of Lectures on histology and microscopical manipulation. d. Calcutta 18 July 1856. Indian Annals of Medical Science. Calcutta, iv, 260 (1856).
HAYES, John Montagu (son of John Hayes, R.A., C.B., who d. 7 April 1838). b. 23 March 1816; entered navy 20 March 1829, captain 9 July 1855, retired V.A. 21 March 1878; C.B. 30 Nov. 1864. d. Charlton house, Southsea 3 April 1882.
HAYES, Michael Angelo (son of Edward Hayes of Waterford, painter). b. Waterford 1820; first exhibited in Dublin 1840; exhibited one picture at R.A. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1845–7; member of Royal Hibernian academy 1854, sec. March 1856 to 1857; associate member of New Soc. of Water-colours in London, a regular contributor to their exhibitions; marshal of city of Dublin; author of The royal Hibernian academy, a glance at its management and proceedings 1857; found dead in a water-tank at his house 4 Salem place, Dublin 31 Dec. 1877.
HAYES, Timothy. b. Dublin 22 Sep. 1841; a jig dancer; went to the U.S. America where he invented the plan of dancing in clogs 1860 which was a great success; went to Europe with the Christy’s Minstrels 186-, toured through U.S. dancing clog dances to tune of My Mary Ann, sometimes receiving 200 dollars a week, known as the father of clog dancers; danced Dick Sands (b. Birstall, Yorkshire 2 May 1840) for “the championship clog” and 1000 dollars and won 1863. d. Washington asylum, Worcester, U.S. 12 May 1877. Public Opinion 21 July 1877 p. 77.
HAYES, William. b. 1827; a pugilist; beat Mike Madden in 185 rounds and 6 hours at Edenbridge for £100 a side 17 July 1849; beat Jack Jones in 72 rounds and 3 hours at Mildenhall for £200 a side 15 Nov. 1853; fought John Walker £200 a side 36 rounds in 2½ hours at Appledore 18 Dec. 1855, darkness came on, fight adjourned, money eventually drawn; beaten by Bob Travers in 78 rounds and 3 hours and 45 minutes for £100 a side 13 May 1857; fought 15 battles won 7. d. London 28 Jany. 1859. bur. Highgate 4 Feb. Bell’s Life in London 30 Jany. 1859 p. 6.
HAYES, William. Certificated conveyancer in London 1813; barrister M.T. 27 Nov. 1818; leading real property lawyer many years; conveyancing counsel of Court of Chancery 1861 to death; author of An inquiry into the effect of limitations to heirs of the body in devises 1824; The concise conveyancer 1830, 4 ed. 1882; A short introduction to conveyancing 1834, 5 ed. 2 vols. 1840; author with Thomas Jarman of Concise forms of wills with practical notes 1835, 9 ed. 1883. d. The Priory, Norwood, Surrey 31 Jany. 1871. Law Times 11 Feb. 1871 p. 286.
HAYES, William. Solicitor at Cork; prominent figure at period of repeal and catholic emancipation movement; had a dispute during the election at Cork, Dec. 1826 with John Bric a R.C. barrister, they fought a duel at Donnybrook near Dublin 26 Dec. 1826 when Bric aged 36 was shot dead. d. Clarence terrace, Cork 1 Nov. 1886 aged 91. Freeman’s Journal 30 Dec. 1826 p. 1.
HAYES, Rev. William. Ed. at C.C. coll. Cam.; M.A. by Abp. of Canterbury 13 Dec. 1843; assistant master in King’s coll. sch. London 1837–79, hon. fellow of King’s coll. 1879; chaplain of St. Katherine’s hospital, Regent’s park, London 1844 to death; author of Questions adapted to the Rev. J. R. Major’s Latin grammar 1837. d. 31 St. Mark’s crescent, Regent’s park 31 March 1888.
HAYMAN, Rev. Samuel (eld. son of Matthew Hayman of South Abbey, Youghal, co. Cork). b. Youghal 27 July 1818; ed. Clonmel and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1839; C. of Glanworth 1841–47; C. of Youghal 1849–63; R. of Ardnageehy, Cork 1863–7; R. of Doneraile 1867–72; R. of Carrigaline, Cork 1872–5; R. of Douglas, Cork 1875 to death; canon of Cork 18—to death; author of The handbook for Youghal, with historical annals of the town 3 series. Youghal 1852; Illustrated guide to the Blackwater and Ardmore 1861; About Footsteps, in twelve chapters 1869; Criteria, or the divine examen. Dublin 1873 and many other books. d. Douglas rectory 15 Dec. 1876. Journal of Royal Hist. and archæol. assoc. of Ireland 4 series, viii, 165–70.
HAYNAU, Julius Jakob, Baron Von. b. Cassel in Hesse 14 Oct. 1786; entered Austrian army 1801; field marshal lieutenant 1844; his flogging of women at capture of Brescia, North Italy 30 March 1849 gained him name of the “Hyæna of Brescia”; commander in chief of Austrian army in Hungary 1849–50, committed many cruelties; dismissed the service July 1850; visited London, assaulted at Barclay and Perkins’ brewery 4 Sep. 1850 barely escaped alive, Austrian ambassador demanded reparation for the assault 22 Sep. but did not get any. d. Vienna 14 March 1853. Life of Haynau, By Baron Schönhals, Gratz 1852; I.L.N. xv, 373 (1849) portrait, xvii, 221 (1850) attack on; Times 5, 6, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19, 23, 25, 27 Sep. 1850.
HAYNES, Freeman Oliver (eld. son of Henry Haynes, captain R.N.) b. Clifton 1818; ed. at Paris and Caius coll. Cam., fellow, 15 wrangler 1840, B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843; barrister L.I. 6 May 1845; published Outlines of equity. Cambridge 1858, 5 ed. 1880 and other books. d. Donhead lodge, Wimbledon, Surrey 12 July 1880.
HAYNES, John Bishop. b. 1803; ed. at Guy’s hospital; L.S.A. 1825, M.R.C.S. 1826, F.R.C.S. 1852; demonstrator of anatomy at Guy’s; in practice at Whitchurch, Hants., settled at Evesham 1832, mayor of Evesham 1846; founder with Sir C. Hastings of Provincial medical association at Worcester 1832; author of How to supply the agricultural labourer with good beer at a low price. Evesham 1865. d. Battleton lodge, Evesham 17 Feb. 1873.
HAYNES, Joseph. b. Ireland 1788; an editor of Morning Herald; wrote two tragedies Conscience and Mary Stuart 1840. d. Norwood, Surrey 24 Jany. 1851 aged 63. I.L.N. 22 Feb. 1851 p. 166.
HAYNES, Matthew Priestman. b. Husband’s Bosworth, Leicestershire; ed. St. Mary’s coll. Oscott; teacher at St. Peter’s R.C. sch. Birmingham; political orator in reform movement; a journalist; editor of Mayo Telegraph 1831; started Penny Catholic Mag. London 7 Sep. 1839 which came to an end in 1840; author of An interesting account of the teetotal galas at Dyrham park 1840; The position of the Jews as affected by the return of Baron Leopold de Rothschild 1847. dead. Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 231–2 (1887).
HAYNES, Robert (eld. son of Richard Haynes of Barbadoes). b. Barbadoes 1769; in militia during threatened French invasion 1805; received thanks of council and assembly of Barbadoes for his military services on occasion of Negro insurrection 1816; had local rank of lieut.-general; speaker of Barbadoes House of assembly 182-. d. Reading 18 April 1851 in 82 year.
HAYTER, Sir George (son of Charles Hayter, miniature painter 1761–1835). b. St. James’ st. London 17 Dec. 1792; ed. at Royal academy; midshipman R.N. 1808; exhibited 48 pictures at R.A., 40 at B.I. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1809–59; painter of miniatures and portraits to Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold 1815; received 200 guineas from British institution for his picture The Prophet Ezra 1815; studied in Rome 1816–19, in Paris 1826–31; member of academies of Parma, Florence, Bologna and Venice 1826; portrait and historical painter to Victoria 1837, and principal painter in ordinary 12 June 1841; knighted at St. James’ palace 1 June 1842; some of his paintings were The duke of Wellington standing by his horse Copenhagen 1821; The trial of queen Caroline 1823; The trial of lord William Russell 1825; The queen on the throne in the house of lords 1838; The christening of the prince of Wales 1859; author of An essay on colours, in App. to Hortus Ericæus Woburnensis 1825. d. 238 Marylebone road, London 18 Jany. 1871. Redgrave’s Dict. of Artists (1878) p. 205; Art Journal, March 1871 p. 79; I.L.N. lviii, 91 (1871); Times 23 Jany. 1871 p. 9.
HAYTER, Sir William Goodenough, 1 Baronet (son of John Hayter of Winterbourne Stoke). b. Winterbourne Stoke 28 Jany. 1792; ed. at Winchester and Trin. coll. Ox., B.A. 1814; barrister L.I. 23 Nov. 1819, bencher 15 April 1839, treasurer 1853; Q.C. 21 Feb. 1839, retired from practice 1839; M.P. for Wells 24 July 1837 to July 1865; judge advocate general 30 Dec. 1847 to 30 May 1849; P.C. 11 Feb. 1848; financial sec. to treasury 22 May 1849 to July 1850; parliamentary and patronage sec. July 1850 to March 1852 and Dec. 1852 to March 1858; cr. baronet 19 April 1858; a service of plate presented to him at Willis’s rooms by lord Palmerston and 365 members of house of commons in remembrance of his services as Liberal “whip” 27 Feb. 1861; found drowned in a lake in grounds of South hill park, Easthampstead, Berkshire 26 Dec. 1878. I.L.N. xvii, 64 (1850), portrait.
HAYTHORNE, Sir Edmund (son of John Haythorne of Hill house, Gloucester). b. Bristol 28 May 1818; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign 98 foot 12 May 1837, lieut. col. 12 May 1854, lieut. col. 1 foot 6 June 1855 to 26 June 1866 when placed on h.p.; brigadier general Chusan field force 1843, in Punjaub campaign 1848–9; served in the Crimea 1855; A.G. of British forces in Bengal 1860–65; K.C.B. 24 May 1873; col. 55 foot 11 March 1878; col. 37 foot 3 Feb. 1879 to death; general 15 March 1879. d. Silchester house near Reading 18 Oct. 1888. I.L.N. 10 Nov. 1888 pp. 546, 547 portrait.
HAYWARD, Abraham (1 son of Joseph Hayward of Wilton near Salisbury, author of The science of horticulture, d. 1844). b. Kingsbury square, Wilton 22 Nov. 1801; ed. Tiverton gram. sch. 1811–17; admitted a solicitor 29 Oct. 1824; barrister I.T. 15 June 1832; founded Law Magazine 1828, editor 1828–44; contributed to Edinburgh Rev. 1844, Quarterly Rev. 1869, Fraser, etc.; Q.C. 22 Feb. 1845, but Inner Temple refused to elect him a bencher; a writer on the Morning Chronicle 1848, Saturday Rev. 1855, Times 1858; sec. poor law board Dec. 1854; a good and original talker and a social raconteur; drawn as Venom Tuft in Ten thousand a year 1841; author of The statutes founded on the common law reports 1832; Faust, a dramatic poem, translated 1833, 3 ed. 1855; The art of dining [By A. H.] 1852, 3 ed. 1883; Lord Chesterfield and George Selwyn 1854; Biographical and critical essays 5 vols. 1858–74; Short rules for modern whist [By A. H.] 1878; Sketches of eminent statesmen and writers 2 vols. 1880. d. 8 St. James st. 2 Feb. 1884. bur. Highgate cemet. 6 Feb. Selections from Correspondence of A. Hayward 2 vols. 1886; H. R. F. Bourne’s English newspapers ii, 153, 246, 248, 400 (1887); Vanity Fair 27 Nov. 1875 p. 301, portrait; Times 4 Feb. 1884 pp. 8, 9; I.L.N. lxxxiv, 157 (1884), portrait.
HAYWARD, Daniel. b. Mitcham, Surrey 25 Aug. 1808; gardener; played with Mitcham eleven from 1825; resided at Cambridge and was in the town eleven; a showy and effective batsman and a fast field; his first match at Lord’s was Marylebone v. Cambridge 2, 3 July 1832; with M.C.C. 1841; one of Surrey eleven 1846. d. Cambridge 29 May 1852. Lillywhite’s Cricket scores ii, 180 (1862); Denison’s Cricket (1846), 32.
HAYWARD, Henry. b. Broseley, Shropshire 1814; one of most remarkable violinists of the century; pupil of Spagnoletti, but an accurate reproducer of Paganini’s performances and known as the English Paganini; first appeared Hanover sq. rooms, London 19 June 1839; played several times at Windsor Castle; teacher and music seller at Wolverhampton 1839 to death; published Pizzicato rondo for the violin 1850; Hayward’s Violin solos with pianoforte accompaniment 7 numbers 1885 and other pieces. d. 12 Queen st. Wolverhampton 12 Nov. 1884. The Musical Directory (1886), p. xix.
HAYWARD, Thomas (2 son of Daniel Hayward 1808–52). b. Chatteris near March, Cambs. 21 March 1835; gardener; professional cricketer at Richmond, Yorkshire 1853, 1855 and 1856, at Newport, Pagnell 1854, at Bishop’s Auckland 1857 and 1858; his first match at Lord’s, United England eleven v. All England eleven 6, 7 June 1859; the best all-round cricketer in England; made 200 in one innings at Cambridge 12 May 1859; one of the English eleven in America and Canada 1859, and in Australia 1864; had 2 benefits 21 May and 1 June 1868; keeper of All England ale stores, Cambridge 1875. d. Clarendon st. Cambridge 21 July 1876. Lillywhite’s Cricket scores vi, 204 (1876), vii, p. xiii (1877); Illust. Sporting News (1862) 113, portrait. W. G. Grace’s Cricket (1891) 107, portrait, 321.
HAZLETON, Victor Isaac. Landlord of Duke’s Arms and lessee of Bower saloon or theatre, Stangate, 43 Lambeth Upper Marsh, London 1851–75. d. London 14 June 1890.
HAZLEWOOD, Colin Henry. b. 1823; low comedian on Lincoln, York and Western circuits; played at Surrey theatre 1851; at City of London theatre 10 years; wrote for the weekly penny publications; wrote a great number of dramas, farces and burlesques chiefly for the Britannia and Pavilion theatres for which he was paid at the rate of about 50s. an act; thirty of his pieces printed in Lacy’s Acting edition 1853–9. d. 44 Huntingdon st. Haggerston, London 31 May 1875. Era Almanack 1869 pp. 18, 45.
HEAD, Charles. In service of telegraph co. 1845; the largest bookmaker in the ring; made £12,000 when Lozenge won the Cambridgeshire 1867; made the largest book on St. Leger of 1870; lost £10,000 when Glenlivat won Chester cup 1871; proprietor of Philharmonic theatre, Islington 1880, name changed to New Grand theatre 1882, lessee to 1885. d. 97b Regent st. London 26 May 1889. Sporting Times 24 Oct. 1874 p. 84, portrait.
HEAD, Sir Edmund Walker, 8 Baronet (only son of Rev. Sir John Head, 7 baronet 1773–1838). b. Wiarton place near Maidstone 16 Feb. 1805; ed. at Winchester and Oriel coll. Ox.; B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830, D.C.L. 1862; fellow of Merton coll. 1830–37; assistant poor law comr. 1836, poor law comr. 1841–47; lieut. governor of New Brunswick 26 Oct. 1847 to Sep. 1854; governor general of Canada 19 Sep. 1854 to Oct. 1861; P.C. 27 Aug. 1857; K.C.B. 11 Dec. 1860; civil service comr. 29 April 1862; chairman of Hudson’s Bay co. 1862 to death; F.R.S. April 1863; author of A Handbook of Spanish and French schools of painting 1848; Shall and Will or two chapters on auxiliary verbs 1856, new ed. 1858; Ballads and other poems 1868 and other books. d. 29 Eaton sq. London 28 Jany. 1868. Proc. of Royal Soc. xvi, 71–8 (1868); Appleton’s Cyclop. of American Biog. iii, 151 (1887), portrait.
HEAD, Sir Francis Bond, 1 Baronet (4 son of James Roper Head of the Hermitage near Rochester, d. 1814). b. the Hermitage 1 Jany. 1793; 1 lieut. R.E. 13 March 1811; captain royal staff corps 1827 to 23 Dec. 1828 when placed on h.p., sold out 1838; lieut. governor of Canada, Nov. 1835 to Jany. 1838; K.C.H. 27 Nov. 1835; cr. baronet 14 July 1838; granted civil list pension of £100, 6 Oct. 1853; P.C. 20 Dec. 1867; author of Bubbles from the Brunnen of Nassau 1834, 7 ed. 1866; A faggot of French sticks 2 vols. 1851, 3 ed. 1855; Descriptive essays contributed to the Quarterly Review 2 vols. 1857 and many other books. d. Duppa’s hall, Croydon 20 July 1875. The speeches of Sir F. B. Head and a biographical sketch. Toronto (1836) 15–20; I.L.N. lxvii, 109, 119 (1875), portrait; Graphic, xi, 123 (1875), portrait.
HEAD, Sir George (brother of the preceding). b. the Hermitage near Rochester 1782; ed. at the Charterhouse; captain West Kent militia 1808; a commissariat clerk 1809; served in the Peninsula 1809–14; asst. commissary general 25 Dec. 1814, placed on half pay 1823; deputy knight marshal at coronation of William iv. 1831; knighted at St. James’s palace 12 Oct. 1831; deputy knight marshal to Queen Victoria; published Forest scenery and incidents in the wilds of North America 1829, 2 ed. 1838; A home tour through the manufacturing districts of England in the summer of 1835, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1840; A home tour through various parts of the United Kingdom 1832; Rome, a tour of many days 3 vols. 1849. d. Cockspur st. London 2 May 1855 aged 73. Sir G. Head’s Memoirs of an assistant commissary general (1832).
HEAD, Rev. Henry Erskine (brother of the preceding). b. 9 Jany. 1797; ed. at St. Mary hall, Ox., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; R. of Feniton, Devon 1838 to death; had controversies with the bishops of Exeter and London and printed many books on these matters 1838–41; author of Observations on early rising and early prayer 1828; Sermons on spiritual comfort and assurance 1832; Sermons on the first principles of the oracles of God 1840; Dialogues on the Apocalypse 1841. d. Feniton 16 May 1860.
HEAD, John (eld. son of Jeremiah Head of Ipswich). b. Ipswich 8 Feb. 1832; erected pumping engines and pumps to supply city of Warsaw with water from the Vistula 1853; manager of works of Evans, Lilpop and Ran of Warsaw, engineers; when on outbreak of war in 1854 all Englishmen were ordered to leave Russia, an exception was made in his favour; partner of Messrs. Ransome at Ipswich 1857 to death; author of A few notes on the portable steam engine 1877. d. Ipswich 19 May 1881. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxvii, 397–99 (1882).
HEAD, William. Huntsman to the Cheshire hounds to 1831 and the Donnington hounds from 1831; on retiring lived at Leicester and then at Kegworth, Leicestershire. d. Kegworth 19 Nov. 1865 in 85 year. Sporting Review, Dec. 1865 pp. 401–2.
HEADFORT, Thomas Taylour, 2 Marquis of (elder son of 1 Marquis of Headfort 1757–1829). b. 4 May 1787; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1811; lord lieut. of Cavan 1831 to death; col. of Meath militia 1831 to death; cr. Baron Kenlis of Kenlis, co. Meath in peerage of U.K. 10 Sep. 1831; P.C. Ireland 1835; lord in waiting to the Queen 1837–41; K.P. 15 April 1839. d. Headfort house, Kells, co. Meath 6 Dec. 1870.
HEADLAM, Edward (3 son of the succeeding). b. 1824; ed. at Durham gr. sch. and St. John’s coll. Cam., fellow, 12th wrangler 1847, B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850; barrister I.T. 30 April 1856; civil service comr. 1855; director of examinations 1876 to death. d. 24 Norfolk sq. Hyde park, London 26 Oct. 1882.
HEADLAM, Ven. John (son of Thomas Emerson Headlam of Gateshead). Matric. from Lincoln coll. Ox. 1 April 1786 aged 16, B.A. 1790, M.A. 1792; R. of Wycliffe, Yorkshire 1793 to death; archdeacon of Richmond 30 Dec. 1826 to death; chancellor of Ripon 1846 to death; author of Letters to the Rt. Hon. Robert Peel on prison labour 2 vols. 1823–4; Observations on church rates, tithes and church reform, Richmond 1838, and of charges and single sermons. d. Wycliffe, Yorkshire 4 May 1854 aged 85.
HEADLAM, Thomas Emerson (eld. son of preceding). b. Wycliffe rectory, Yorkshire 25 June 1813; ed. at Shrewsbury and Trin. coll. Cam., 16 wr. 1836, B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; barrister I.T. 3 May 1839, bencher 1851, reader 1866, treasurer 1867; M.P. for Newcastle-on-Tyne 1847–74; carried through parliament the Trustee act 1850; Q.C. 1851; chancellor of diocese of Ripon May 1854, of Durham 1854; judge advocate general June 1859 to July 1866; P.C. 18 June 1859; F.R.G.S.; edited The practice of the high court of chancery by E. R. Daniell, 2 ed. 1845, 3 ed. 1857; Pleadings and practice of the high court of chancery by E. R. Daniell, 2 ed. 1851; A supplement to Daniell’s Chancery practice 1851; author of The Trustees’ Act 1850, 3 ed. 1855. d. Calais 3 Dec. 1875. I.L.N. lxvii, 590, 629 (1875), portrait.
HEADLAND, Edward. b. Tonbridge 1803; ed. at St. George’s hospital; studied anatomy under Joshua Brookes; L.S.A. 1823, M.R.C.S. 1848; in practice at Featherstone buildings, Holborn, at Guilford st. and at 6 Upper Portland place; one of the first to claim payment for his services and not for physic; the leading general practitioner of his time; fellow and then president of Medical soc. of London where he took important part in the debates. d. 6 Upper Portland place, London 8 Dec. 1869. J. F. Clarke’s Autobiographical Recollections (1874), 393–8.
HEADLAND, Rev. Edward (younger son of Edward Headland of Portland place, London). b. 1831; ed. at Caius coll. Cam., 14 wrangler 1855 B.A. 1855, M.A. 1859, fellow of his coll.; C. of St. Mary’s, Bury St. Edmunds 1855–57; C. of St. Marylebone church, London 1857–61; R. of Bincombe with Broadwey, Dorset 1861; author of The happy sufferer. A narrative 1860; The epistles to the Thessalonians, Introduction by E. Headland 1863; The truth and office of the Christian ministry 1868. d. 6 Cavendish crescent, Bath 8 July 1876 aged 45.
HEADLAND, Thomas Hughes. Accompanied C. Dickens on his first American tour as secretary 1842; silversmith 13 Great Sutton st. Clerkenwell, London 1842–59; kept Sussex hotel at Eastbourne about 1869–72. d. Merton lodge, 17 Bolton road, Eastbourne 2 Jany. 1888 aged 82. Forster’s C. Dickens i, 278 (1872); Eastbourne Chronicle 7 Jany. 1888 pp. 4 5.
HEADLEY, Winn Charles Allanson, 3 Baron. b. 25 June 1810; succeeded his uncle 1840; a representative peer for Ireland 26 Sep. 1868 to death. d. Ennismore gardens, Kensington, London 30 July 1877.
HEALD, Henry George. b. 1822; well known to Sunday school teachers in all parts of the world; secretary of Church of England Sunday school institute 1855–72; lecturer at Sunday schools 1872 to death. d. 90 Albert road, Peckham Rye, Surrey 25 Nov. 1881 aged 59. bur. Brompton cemetery 30 Nov.
HEALD, James (2 son of James Heald, merchant). b. Portwood near Stockport 1 March 1796; ed. Rochdale; in his father’s business at Brinnington and Disley, Cheshire, became a partner and made a fortune; resided at Parr’s Wood near Didsbury, Manchester 1825 to death; M.P. Stockport 1847–52; treasurer Wesleyan missionary soc., the most prominent layman in the connection and a preacher; founded and chiefly maintained Stockport infirmary. d. Parr’s Wood 26 Oct. 1873. bur. Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire, personalty sworn under £350,000, 3 Jany. 1874. Manchester Examiner 29 Oct. 1873 p. 8.
HEALE, Rev. Edmund Markham (2 son of Markham Heale of Calne, Wilts.) b. 12 May 1825; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ sch. and Queen’s coll. Ox., Boden Sanskrit scholar 1844, B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850; professor of classics in royal military coll. Sandhurst, June 1851 to 1859; C. of Woolavington, Somerset 1859–60; R. of Yelling near Huntingdon 1860 to death; author of Manual of Geography 1853, 3 ed. 1863. d. Yelling rectory 7 Dec. 1874.
HEALE, James Newton. b. 1810; L.S.A. 1834; M.R.C.S. 1835, F.R.C.S. 1845, M.R.C.P. 1846; M.B. London 1850, M.D. 1850; phys. royal free hospital, London; phys. Hants. county hospital; author of Treatise on vital causes 1859; A treatise on the physiological anatomy of the lungs 1862. d. Hollington lodge near St. Leonards-on-Sea 16 April 1891.
HEALES, Richard (son of an ironmonger). b. London; apprentice to a coachmaker; went to Victoria, Australia 1842; a day labourer, became proprietor of his master’s business; councillor for Gipps ward, Melbourne 1849;. member of legislative assembly for East Bourke 1857 to death; chief sec. 26 Nov. 1860 to 14 Nov. 1861; president of board of lands and works and comr. of crown lands 27 June 1863 to death. d. Melbourne 19 June 1864.
HEAPHY, Charles (son of Thomas Heaphy water colour painter 1775–1835). b. 1818; draughtsman to New Zealand co. 1839, exploring in N.Z. 1839, road making 1843; draughtsman to N.Z. government Aug. 1848; commissioner Coromandel gold fields 1852; surveyor for government of N.Z. 1854, chief surveyor 1864; was in third Maori war, wounded 11 Feb. 1864, major in militia 11 Feb. 1864, V.C. 8 Feb. 1867; member N.Z. house of representatives 1867–70, comr. of government insurance and judge of native land courts 1878, retired June 1881; author of Narrative of a residence in various parts of New Zealand 1842. d. Brisbane 3 Aug. 1881 aged 63. O’Byrne’s Victoria Cross (1880) 174.
HEAPHY, Thomas (brother of the preceding). b. St. John’s Wood, London 2 April 1813; assumed additional Christian name of Frank, but dropped it before 1850; exhibited 51 pictures at R.A., 8 at B.I. and 36 at Suffolk st. 1831–74; member soc. of British Artists to 1867; among his best known paintings are Lord Burleigh showing his bride her new home 1865 and Lizzie Farren after Countess of Derby waiting at the prison bars with her father’s breakfast 1872; visited Rome several times to investigate origin of likeness of Christ; author of The likeness of Christ, an enquiry into the verisimilitude of the received likeness of our Blessed Lord 1880, 2 ed. 1886; A wonderful ghost story, Mr. Heaphy’s own narrative 1882. d. 46 Sussex st. Pimlico, London 7 Aug. 1873. Bryan’s Dict. of Painters, i, 636 (1886).
HEARD, Jacob or James. b. 1799; went to Russia where he introduced the Lancaster schools; wrote a large number of Russian school books and several very popular novels; author of A practical grammar of the Russian language. St. Petersburg 1827; Key to the themes contained in Beard’s Russian grammar. St. Petersburg 1827; Phraseology of the Russian language. St. Petersburg 1840; An edition of Oliver Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield in Russian 1846. d. 28 Sep. 1875.
HEARD, John Isaac. b. Kinsale, co. Cork 1787; ed. at Peterhouse coll. Cam., B.A. 1808; sheriff of Cork 1849; M.P. for Kinsale 1852 to 1859. d. Kinsale 1 Sep. 1862.
HEARDER, Jonathan Nash (eld. son of Jonathan Hearder). b. Plymouth 24 Dec. 1809; practical chemist and electrician at Plymouth; devised improvements with induction coil and application of electricity to medical purposes; constructed an electro-dynamic coil 1846; patented improvements in submarine telegraph cables 1858; a popular lecturer in West of England; electrician to South Devon hospital; D.Sc., Ph.D., F.C.S.; became blind in 1831 but continued his researches in electricity; author of Guide to the fishing of Plymouth and neighbourhood 18—. d. 13 Princess sq. Plymouth 16 July 1876. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. 225, 1225.