Frederic Boase
Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H
HEARN, Patrick. Owner of 100 cabs, 20 omnibuses and 1000 barrows; known as the Wheel King of London. d. 20 Feb. 1889 aged 47.
HEARN, William Edward (son of Rev. W. E. Hearn, vicar of Killague). b. Belturbet, co. Cavan 22 April 1826; ed. at Enniskillen and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1845, B.A. 1847, LL.B., LLD. and M.A. 1863; professor of Greek, Queen’s coll. Galway 1849–54; first prof. of modern history, Melbourne univ. 1854–73, dean of the faculty of law 1873, chancellor May to Oct. 1886; called to the Irish bar 1853 and to bar of Victoria 1860; Q.C. 1886; member of legislative council for Central province 1878, introduced bills for the codification of the laws; author of The Cassell prize essay on the condition of Ireland 1851; The government of England, its structure and its development 1867, 2 ed. 1887; The Aryan household, its structure and its developement 1879; The theory of legal duties and rights 1885. d. Melbourne 23 April 1888. Men of the Time. Victoria 1878 p. 86; Australasian 28 April 1888.
HEARNE, Rev. Daniel. b. Ireland; ed. at Maynooth; priest of St. Patrick’s chapel, Manchester 1832, removed by Dr. Brown bishop of Liverpool 1846, his removal led to a series of brawls in the church 1846; brought an action for libel against Rev. Hugh Stowell 1840; stabbed in his arm and wrist while walking in the Corso, Rome, Aug. 1848; took charge of the mission at Bootle near Liverpool from 25 March 1849 to 5 Oct. 1851; went to U.S. America 1851; fell from the scaffolding of a church and was killed U.S. America about 1852. Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 232–8 (1888); Adolphus and Ellis Reports, xii, 719–33 (1842).
HEARSEY, Sir John Bennett. b. 1793; entered Bengal army 14 Sep. 1808, commanded Presidency division 11 Aug. 1856 to 12 April 1861; L.G. 15 June 1862; col. 21 hussars 30 Sep. 1862 to death; C.B. 9 June 1849, K.C.B. 4 July 1857 for his services during Sepoy mutiny. d. Boulogne, France 23 Oct. 1865.
HEATH, Caroline (dau. of Francis Heath). b. July 1835; ed. at Miss Richardson’s school, Blackheath; made her début at Princess’s theatre, London 18 Sep. 1852 as Stella in Boucicault’s The Prima Donna; played Ophelia at same house Jany. 1858, Cordelia 17 April 1858; played Juliet at Sadler’s Wells 16 Sep. 1859 and Fiordelisa in Tom Taylor’s The Fool’s Revenge, Oct. 1859; played The Queen of Spain in Ruy Blas at Princess’s 27 Oct. 1860; acted in the provinces; played Jane Shore in W. G. Wills’ drama Jane Shore at Princess’s, Oct. 1876 to March 1877, in the provinces March to Dec. 1877 and at Princess’s again; played Clotilde in Fernande at Court theatre 20 Sep. 1879; private reader to the Queen. (m. 31 July 1866 William Henry Barrett known as Wilson Barrett, actor). d. Worthing 26 July 1887. Pascoe’s Dramatic List, 2 ed. (1880) 170–3; I.L.N. xxxv, 571, 584 (1859), portrait, lxix, 524 (1876); Illust. Sport. and Dr. News, vi, 59, 68–9, 84 (1876), portrait; Theatre, iii, 189 (1879), portrait, ii, 11 (1883); The Players, i, 1 (1860), portrait.
HEATH, Christopher (son of John Heath, dentist). b. London 26 March 1802; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. 1813–7; a dentist in London to 1835; angel or minister of the Irvingite or catholic apostolic ch. 14 Newman st. London 1835, removed to a new ch. in Gordon sq. 1853 where he was the angel to his death; latterly he was in receipt of £1000 a year; visited the branch churches on the continent. d. 28 Gordon sq. London 1 Nov. 1876. Miller’s Irvingism, i, 152, 268, 318 (1878).
HEATH, Rev. Dunbar Isidore. b. 1816; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., fellow 1840–7; 5 wrangler 1838, B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; V. of Brading, Isle of Wight, Dec. 1846 to 6 June 1862 when deprived of his benefice by judicial committee of privy council for expressions derogatory to the 39 articles used in his sermons 1859; edited Journal of Anthropology 1870; author of A brief account of the Scottish and Italian missions to the Anglo-Saxons 1845; The future human Kingdom of Christ, or man’s heaven to be this earth 2 vols. 1852–3; Sermons on important subjects 1860 and other books. d. Esher, Surrey 27 May 1888 aged 72. A defence of my professional character, By D. I. Heath [1862].
HEATH, George (1 son of a farmer). b. Gratton in Horton parish, Staffs. 9 March 1844; farm labourer, an apprentice to a carpenter to 1864; became consumptive 1864; known as the Moorland poet; author of Preludes 1865, Second ed. called Simple poems 1866; Heart strains 1866; The poems of George Heath (1870), portrait; The poems of G. Heath (1880), portrait. d. Gratton 5 May 1869. Good Words 1871 pp. 170–77, portrait.
HEATH, George Craufurd. Ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1807, M.A. 1810, fellow of King’s coll. 1807 to death; F.R.S. d. 18 July 1860.
HEATH, George Thomas, b. 1778; barrister I.T. 13 Nov. 1807; serjeant at law 22 Nov. 1830, received patent of precedence 1834; deputy judge of county court of Middlesex. d. 34 Montagu place, Russell sq. London 21 Jany. 1852.
HEATH, John Benjamin (son of John Heath of Genoa, merchant). b. Genoa 6 June 1790; ed. at Harrow 1798–1806; fag to Lord Byron; consul general for Kingdom of Sardinia 10 May 1817–61, for Kingdom of Italy 1861 to death; a merchant and foreign banker in London to death; a director of Bank of England 1823–72, deputy governor 1843–4, governor 1846–7; master of Grocers company 1829; F.S.A. 12 Jany. 1832; F.R.S. 2 Feb. 1843; baron Heath in the Kingdom of Italy 26 May 1867; author of Some account of the Company of Grocers 1829, 2 ed. 1854. d. 66 Russell sq. London 16 Jany. 1879, personalty sworn under £250,000, 8 March 1879. Proc. of Royal Soc. xxix, 6 (1879); Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. viii, 101 (1881).
HEATH, Rev. Richard Ford (only son of Richard Ford Heath of Uxbridge, Middlesex). b. 1833; matric. at Univ. of London 1850, B.A. 1853; matric. at Univ. of Oxford 17 Feb. 1873, B.A. 1876, M.A. 1879; C. of St. Philip and St. James, Oxford 1875–8; head master of Bideford gr. sch. 1879–80; V. of Bishopswood, Staffs. 1880 to death; author of Albrecht Dürer and Titian 2 vols. 1879 in Illustrated biographies of Great Artists. d. Bideford 11 March 1888 aged 55.
HEATH, Thomas, b. Sutton in Ashfield, Notts. 10 Dec. 1808; played with the Nottingham eleven 1828–45; could throw a ball 107 yards; a good cover point and middle wicket; lacemaker, emigrated to France where he remained 1839–44; resided at Nottingham 1844 to death. d. while on a visit to Sutton 16 Oct. 1872. bur. Nottingham. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores, ii, 66 (1862), v, p. xiv (1876).
HEATHCOAT, John (son of Francis Heathcoat of Long Whatton, Leics., farmer). b. Duffield near Derby 7 Aug. 1783; a setter up of hosiery and warp frames at Nottingham, at Hathern 1803, at Loughborough 1805; inventor of lace making machinery by patenting a bobbin net machine 1809 which he called Old Loughborough; partner with Charles Lacy 1809–16, partner with John Boden at Tiverton 1816–21; retired from business 1843; M.P. for Tiverton 12 Dec. 1832 to 23 April 1859; built British schools at Tiverton, opened 1843. d. Bollam house, Tiverton 18 Jany. 1861. W. Felkin’s History of Hosiery (1867) 180–270, portrait; Bevan’s British manufacturing industries, Hosiery, By W. Felkin (1877) 56–73; Mozley’s Reminiscences, i, 239–42 (1885).
HEATHCOTE, Arthur (son of Sir Gilbert Heathcote 1773–1851). b. 22 June 1829; had private races in Durdans park; a perpetual steward of Epsom races to which he contributed an annual plate; master Surrey stag hounds to death. d. Durdans, Epsom 18 March 1869. Sporting Rev. Feb. 1863 p. 165, portrait; Sporting Gazette 20 March 1869 p. 199.
HEATHCOTE, Edmund (3 son of Rev. Samuel Heathcote of Red house, Hursley, d. 27 Nov. 1846 aged 73). b. 1814; entered navy June 1827, captain 15 Dec. 1852; commander in chief at Queenstown 20 May 1871 to 1 Jany. 1874; V.A. 1 Jany. 1874, retired 30 Jany. 1879; retired admiral 15 June 1879. d. Fritham lodge, New Forest 29 Oct. 1881.
HEATHCOTE, Sir Gilbert, 4 Baronet (eld. son of Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 3 baronet). b. Oct. 1773; succeeded 4 Dec. 1785; M.P. for Lincolnshire 1796–1807, for Rutland 1812–1841; won the Derby with Amato 1838. d. Durdans, Epsom 27 March 1851. W. Day’s Reminiscences 2 ed. (1886) 155; I.L.N. xviii, 273 (1851); Thoughts of a Lincolnshire freeholder. With a dialogue between Sir G. Heathcote and a Lincolnshire freeholder, 3 ed. 1796.
HEATHCOTE, Sir Henry (4 son of Sir William Heathcote, 3 bart., of Hursley park, Hants., M.P. 1746–1819). b. 20 Jany. 1777; entered navy 3 July 1790, captain 5 Feb. 1798; knighted 20 July 1819 at request of Sir Gore Ouseley and Mirza Abdul Hassan the Persian ambassador whom he conveyed to Persia 1808; R.A. 27 May 1825, V.A. 10 Jany. 1837, admiral on h.p. 9 Nov. 1846; awarded a service pension 1 July 1851; published Treatise on stay-sails, and the superiority of stay-sails invented by Sir H. Heathcote 1824. d. Ingouville near Havre 16 Aug. 1851.
HEATHCOTE, Sir William, 5 Baronet (only son of Rev. Wm. Heathcote 1772–1802, preb. of Winchester). b. Worting, Hants. 17 May 1801; ed. at Winchester and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1821, B.C.L. 1824, D.C.L. 1830; fellow of All Souls coll. 1822–5, hon. fellow 1858; succeeded 22 Feb. 1825; M.P. for Hants. 1826–32, for North Hants. 1837–49 and for Oxford Univ. 1854–68; chairman of Hants. quarter sessions; P.C. 9 Aug. 1870. d. Hursley park near Winchester 18 Aug. 1881.
HEATHCOTE, Rev. William Beadon (3 son of Rev. Gilbert Heathcote of Winchester). bapt. at St. Thomas, Winchester 14 Jany. 1813; ed. at Winchester and New coll. Ox., fellow 1832–53; B.C.L. 1839, M.A. 1859; tutor and dean of canon law 1839, subwarden 1840, bursar 1845, dean of civil law 1846; warden of Radley; precentor of Salisbury cath. 1854 to death; preb. of Salisbury cath. 1856 to death; V. of Sturminster Marshall 1858–62; R. of Compton Bassett 1862 to death; author of The psalter with the Gregorian tones, By W. B. H. 1845; Harmonized Gregorian tones for the Psalter 1849. d. London 21 Aug. 1862.
HEATHER, John Fry. Mathematical master at royal military academy, Woolwich many years; lecturer at Royal Artillery Institute; author of A treatise of mathematical instruments 1849, 7 ed. 1864, new ed. 3 vols. 1871; The elements of mathematical drawing 1872 and other works. d. Stroud-green road, Finsbury park, London 13 Nov. 1886.
HEATHERINGTON, Alexander. Opened in 1867 at Halifax, Nova Scotia, the International Mining agency; associated with the Canadian mines bureau 30 Moorgate st. London; started the Mining Gazette, No. 1 Halifax 10 Jany. 1868 and was the editor; F.G.S.; author of The gold yield of Nova Scotia 1860–9, continued as The mining industries of Nova Scotia 1870–4; A practical guide for persons interested in gold fields of Nova Scotia 1868. d. Toronto, Canada 8 March 1878. Geological Mag. v, 336 (1878).
HEATHORN, Catherine (dau. of Robert Heathorn, brewer, Maidstone). bapt. All Saints’ ch. Maidstone 17 April 1783. d. at res. of her grand niece Mrs. A. E. Rowcroft 2 Craven place, Maidstone 2 Feb. 1888 aged nearly 105 years. I.L.N. 27 Oct. 1883 p. 416, portrait.
HEATON, Clement (son of Rev. James Heaton, wesleyan minister, d. 1862). b. Bradford, Wilts. 1824; glass painter and designer, Warwick 1850; founded firm of Heaton and Butler, glass painters and church decorators, London 1857; his chief works were decorating Trinity coll. chapel, Cambridge, Eaton hall, the town halls at Rochdale and Manchester, and churches at Banbury, Ascot, West Newton and Sandringham. d. Feb. 1882.
HEATON, John Deakin (son of John Heaton, bookseller and printer, Leeds). b. 7 Briggate, Leeds 23 Nov. 1817; ed. at Leeds gram. sch. 1830–4; studied at Leeds sch. of medicine 1835, at Caius coll. Cam. 1839, at Univ. coll. Lond. 1840 and in Paris 1842; M.B. Univ. of Lond. 1841, M.D. 1843, F.R.C.P. Lond. 1848; senior physician Leeds general infirmary 1843; lecturer on practice of medicine Leeds sch. of medicine 1844; physician Leeds infirmary 1850 to death; established Yorkshire college of Science 1874; member of Leeds Philosophical and literary soc. 1843, member of council 1845, president; mem. of Leeds sch. board 29 Nov. 1870. d. 2 East Parade, Leeds 28 March 1880. Reid’s Memoir of J. D. Heaton (1883), portrait.
HEATON, Mary Margaret (eld. dau. of James Keymer, silk printer). b. 15 May 1836. (m. 1863 Charles William Heaton, professor of chemistry); contributed to The Academy 1869 to death; author of Masterpieces of Flemish art 1869; History of life of Albrecht Dürer 1870, 2 ed. 1881; A concise history of painting 1873; Leonardo da Vinci and his works 1874; Happy springtime. With rhymes for mothers and children 1874. d. St. Leonards-on-Sea 1 June 1883. Academy 9 June 1883 p. 408.
HEAVISIDES, Henry, b. Darlington 29 Nov. 1791; journeyman printer at Stockton from 1814, presented with a public testimonial March 1847; contributed to periodicals; author of Pleasures of home and other poems 1837, 3 ed. 1849; The minstrelsy of Britain, poetry and poets from Elizabeth to the present time. Stockton 1860; Courtship and marriage, their lights and shades 1864; The annals of Stockton-on-Tees, with biographical notices 1865. d. before 1879. Annals of Stockton (1865) 176–80, portrait.
HEAVYSEGE, Charles, b. Liverpool 2 May 1816; went to Canada and took up his residence at Montreal 1853, worked in a machine shop; a reporter to the Daily Witness, Montreal 1860; author of The revolt of Tartarus 1852; Saul, a drama [by C. H.] 1857, 2 ed. 1859, contains 10,000 lines of verse; Count Filippi or the unequal marriage, a drama 1860; Jephthah’s daughter 1865; Ode for tercentenary of Shakespeare’s birth 1864; The Advocate, a novel 1865. d. Montreal 1876. The Atlantic Monthly, Oct. 1865 pp. 412–18, 250–54; The Canadian Monthly, x, 127–34; Morgan’s Bibl. Canad. 1867 p. 181.
HEBB, Christopher Henry. b. 1771; M.R.C.S.; surgeon and apothecary at Worcester; medical attendant to prince Lucien Bonaparte and his household at Thorngrove near Worcester; one of the originators of Provincial medical and surgical association 1832; the first mayor of Worcester after the municipal reform act 1833, chairman of the charity trustees there to 1846; founded almshouses at Worcester for decayed aldermen and councillors and their widows 1853; translated Corvisart’s Diseases of the heart; published An account of all the public charities in the city of Worcester that are under the management of the Worcester charity trustees 1842, 3 ed. 1860. d. Britannia sq. Worcester 26 Oct. 1861 aged 90.
HEBDITCH, Rev. Samuel (son of a manufacturer). b. Lopen, Somerset 22 March 1821; ed. at Highbury coll. 1843–8; congregational minister at Ashburton 1848–53, Woolwich 1853–5, Bristol 1855–72 and Clapton park, Hackney 1872–85; minister Collins’ st. congregational ch. Melbourne, Victoria 1880–81; organised the Young Christians’ Band, London 1881; minister Brougham palace ch. North Adelaide, South Australia 1885 to death; chairman Congregational union, S.A. 1887–8; a very successful preacher; author of Genuine revival, An address 1872. d. Adelaide 5 May 1888. Congregational Year Book (1889) 181–6.
HEBERT, Rev. Charles. Scholar of C.C.C. Cam. 1827; scholar of Trin. coll. 1828; 35 wrangler and first class in classics 1830; B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834, B.D. 1872, D.D. 1874; V. of Lechlade 1844–51; R. of Burslem 1851–58; V. and then R. of Lowestoft 1862–70; V. of Ambleside 1875–78; author of Neology not true and truth not new 1861; On clerical subscription 1862; Faith and doubt 1872; The Lord’s supper, uninspired teaching 2 vols. 1879; The New Testament scriptures, a translation of the six primary epistles 1882. d. 1 Marine ter. Silloth, Cumb. 23 June 1890 in 83 year.
HECHT, Edouard (son of Heinrich Hecht, musician, Frankfort). b. Dürkheim-on-the-Haardt, Rhenish Bavaria 28 Nov. 1832; came to England, Nov. 1854, settled at Manchester as a music master; conductor of Manchester Liedertafel 1859–78, of St. Cecilia choral soc. 1860 and of Stretford choral soc. 1879; chorus master for Sir Charles Hallé at his concerts 1870 and then sub-conductor; lecturer on harmony and composition, Owen’s coll. 1875; conductor of Bradford and Halifax musical soc.; wrote The charge of the light brigade, a chorus; Impromptu for the pianoforte 1872; Eric the Dane, a cantata 1882 and 23 other pieces of music. d. Ravenswood, Spath road, Palatine road, Didsbury, Manchester 6 March 1887. Grove’s Dict. of Music, iv, 670; Manchester Evening News 7 March 1887.
HECKFORD, Nathaniel (son of Capt. N. Heckford). b. Calcutta 24 April 1842; student London hospital 1859; M.R.C.S. 1863; L.R.C.P. Edin. 1865, L.S.A. 1867; consulting surgeon Broad st. buildings, City of London 1863; established and endowed East London hospital for children and Dispensary for women, Ratcliff Cross 28 Jany. 1868, where he was the active surgeon to his death; a good diagnoser and a brilliant operator; revived the operation of paracentesis capitis; sec. Beaumont medical soc.; author of very numerous medical papers. d. Ramsgate 14 Dec. 1871. bur. Woking. Medical Times 6 Jany. 1872 p. 25; The story of the East London hospital for children. By Mrs. N. Heckford 1887.
HEDLEY, Oswald Dodd (son of Wm. Hedley of Wylam-on-Tyne). Author of a work entitled Who invented the Locomotive engine 1858, in which he claimed that his father William Hedley who had the direction of the Wylam colleries and d. 184-, invented the locomotive and took out a patent 13 March 1813. d. Beckenham, Kent 1 April 1882.
HEDLEY, Thomas (brother of the preceding). b. 1805 or 1808; barrister G.I. 29 Jany. 1831, went Northern circuit; a coal owner at 75 Quay side, Newcastle. d. 66 Jesmond road, Newcastle-on-Tyne 5 Aug. 1877.
Note.—He left a legacy of £200,000 for purpose of founding and endowing the see of a bishop of the Reformed Anglican church for the county of Northumberland.
HEELIS, Stephen. b. 1811; solicitor at Manchester 1826 to death; promoted Manchester law association formed Dec. 1838, pres. of it 18—and 1867; alderman of Salford 1853–57, mayor 1855–57; declined knighthood 1857. d. Above Beck, Grasmere 26 Aug. 1871 aged 60. Law Times, li, 339, 356 (1871).
HEENAN, John Camel (son of Timothy Heenan, an Irishman). b. West Troy, New York 2 May 1835; a machinist at Benicia, California 1852–4; a miner 1854–7; went to New York 1857; fought John Morrissey for 5000 dollars a side and the championship of America at Long Point, Canada 20 Oct 1858 when Morrissey won in 11 rounds lasting 21 minutes; proclaimed champion of America as Morrissey declined to fight again; landed at Liverpool 16 Jany. 1860; fought Tom Sayers for £200 a side and the champion belt near Farnborough railway station on the borders of Hants and Surrey 17 April 1860, after fighting 37 rounds in 2 hours the referee left the ring, the battle was declared drawn and both men were presented with silver belts at the Alhambra, London 30 May 1860; sailed for New York 4 July 1860; returned to England 3 April 1862; fought Tom King for £1000 a side and the championship at Wadhurst, Kent 10 Dec. 1863 when King won in 24 rounds lasting 35 minutes; always known as the “Benicia Boy,” stood 6 feet 2½ inches, and weighed 260 pounds. (m. near New York 3 April 1859 Adah Isaacs Menken the actress, he obtained a divorce in Indiana 1862), he d. Green River Station, Wyoming Territory 28 Oct. 1873. Modern Boxing by Pendragon [Henry Sampson] (1878) 57–78; W. E. Harding’s Champions of the American prize ring (1888) 12–14, portrait; H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica (1881) iii, frontispiece, and pp. 415–43, portrait; Illust. sporting news i, 29, 41, 193 (1862), 3 portrait.
Note.—He is one of the characters in Edward Jenkins’s novel Lisa Lena 2 vols. 1880. A poem entitled “The Combat of Sayerius and Heenanus, a lay of ancient London” appeared in Punch, April 28, 1860; the poem is a paraphrase of Lord Macaulay’s lay “Horatius” in the “Lays of Ancient Rome”; the author of it was said to be William Makepeace Thackeray.
HEGINBOTHAM, Henry. Mayor of Stockport, Cheshire twice; author of Stockport, ancient and modern 1877. d. Stockport 26 April 1891.
HEINKE, John William (son of a Pole, a coppersmith). b. London 1816; established himself as a submarine engineer at 79 Great Portland st. London 1845; invented an improved diving dress and air pump, obtained medal at Great Exhibition of 1851; removed the vessels sunk in Sebastopol harbour 1856; reported on the possible raising of the Lutine frigate from off Terschelling 1858; recovered the watches stolen from Walker’s shop, 63 Cornhill, and thrown over Blackfriar’s bridge Feb. 1865; A.I.C.E. 2 Dec. 1856. d. 9 Regent’s park villas, Regent’s park, London 12 April 1870. Min. of Proc. of I.C.E. xxxi, 247–8 (1871).
HELLER, Robert, stage name of William Henry Palmer (son of Henry Palmer, musician, Canterbury). b. Canterbury 1830; ed. at R. Academy of music, London 1845–6, King’s scholar; appeared as a conjurer at Rochester; landed in America 15 Sept. 1852, made his début as a conjurer at Museum, Albany N.Y.; appeared in Chinese assembly room, Broadway, New York; a teacher of Music in Washington D.C. under his own name of Palmer; opened the French theatre No. 585 Broadway, New York, which he called Heller’s Salle Diabolique 11 April 1864; gave performances in Polygraphic hall, King William st. London 27 Jany. to Feb. 1868; his half sister assisted him in his second-sight séances from 1868; visited Australia, Java, India and California; opened the Globe theatre, New York as Heller’s Wonder theatre 15 Nov. 1876; opened Fifth-avenue hall, New York 10 Dec. 1877, and Concert hall, Philadelphia 25 Nov. 1878 being his last appearance; improved on Houdin and became a most finished clairvoyant entertainer; composer of Sophie galop, New York 1863 and other pieces of music; left nearly £80,000. d. Continental hotel, Philadelphia 28 Nov. 1878. T. A. Brown’s American stage (1870) 168, portrait; W. I. Bishop’s Second-sight explained, as exhibited by R. Houdin and R. Heller (1880).
HELMORE, Rev. Holloway. Chief of the Makololo Mission which started about middle of 1859 from coast of Africa for a journey of 1000 miles to the tribes on north of the Zambesi, this journey was accomplished 1859. d. Linyanti 21 April 1860. Waddington’s Congregational history v, 229–64 (1880).
HELMORE, Rev. Thomas (son of Thomas Helmore). b. Kidderminster 7 May 1811; ed. at Magd. hall Ox., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1845; C. of St. Michael, Lichfield; priest vicar in Lichfield cath. 1840–2; vice-principal of St. Mark’s coll. Chelsea 1842–6 and precentor 1846, retired 1877 when National Soc. gave him a pension; master of the choristers chapel royal St. James’ 1846 to death; priest in ordinary to the Queen 1847 to death; R. of Beverstone, Gloucs. 1872, resigned 1872; precentor at Bedford chapel, Bloomsbury; hon. precentor of Motett choir, and of London Gregorian choral association; author and writer of The psalter noted 1849; A manual of plain song 1850; Carols for Christmas tide set to ancient melodies 1853; A treatise on choir and chorus singing 1855; St. Mark’s chant book 1863; A catechism of music 1878 and other pieces of music. d. 72 St. George’s sq. Pimlico, London 6 July 1890. Pictorial World 17 July 1890 p. 76, portrait.
HELPS, Sir Arthur (1 son of Thomas Helps of Balham, Surrey). b. Streatham, Surrey 10 July 1813; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1835, M.A. 1839; D.C.L. of Oxford 8 June 1864; private sec. to Spring Rice (Lord Monteagle) chancellor of exchequer; private sec. to lord Morpeth chief sec. for Ireland 1839; comr. of French, Danish and Spanish claims; clerk of privy council 9 June 1860 to death; employed by Queen to revise Prince Albert’s Speeches 1862, and with the preparation of Leaves of our Life in the Highlands 1868, and Mountain, Loch and Glen 1869; C.B. 30 June 1871, K.C.B. 18 July 1872; author of Thoughts in the cloister and the crowds 1835 anon.; Catherine Douglas a drama 1843 anon.; Friends in council 2 vols. 1847, 2nd series 2 vols. 1857, both anon.; The conquerors of the New World 1848; Spanish conquest in America 4 vols. 1855–61; Realmah a novel 1868. d. 13 Lower Berkeley st. London 7 March 1875. bur. Streatham cemet. 12 March. His widow Bissel dau. of Capt. Edward Fuller granted civil list pension of £200, 4 May 1875. Graphic 8 May 1875 pp. 436, 450, portrait.
HEMANS, Charles Isidore (youngest son of Felicia Dorothea Hemans, poetess 1793–1835). b. 1817; settled in Rome and made Roman history and archæology his chief study; originated the Roman Advertiser, first English paper in Rome 1846; hon. sec. and librarian of English archæological soc. in Rome; author of Catholic Italy 1860; The story of monuments in Rome 2 parts 1864–5; A history of christianity and sacred art 3 vols. 1866–72. d. at Baths of Lucca 26 Oct. 1876. Times 3 Nov. 1876 p. 9.
HEMANS, George Willoughby (brother of the preceding). b. St. Asaph, Wales 27 Aug. 1814; ed. at military coll. Sarèze, France; pupil to Sir John Macneill, C.E., London; chief engineer of Midland G.W. railway, Ireland 1845–51; constructed a greater number of railways in Ireland than any other engineer 1845–53; railway and sewerage engineer in London 1854 to death; engineer in chief for province of Canterbury, N.Z. 1870 and then engineer in chief for N.Z. to his death; F.R.G.S., F.G.S.; A.I.C.E. 1837, M.I.C.E. 18 May 1845, member of council 1856, V.P. 1872–5; author with R. Hassard of On the future water supply of London 1866; seized with paralysis Sep. 1872 and never spoke again. d. 11 Roland gardens, South Kensington, London 29 Dec. 1885. I.L.N. xix, 208 (1851); Min. of Proc. of C.E. lxxxv, 394–99 (1886).
HEMING, Dempster (youngest son of George Heming of Weddington near Nuneaton, Warws.) b. about 1778; ed. at Univ. of St. Andrews; barrister M.T. 27 May 1808; practised with great success at Madras; registrar of supreme court at Calcutta; contested North Warwickshire 26 Dec. 1832; sheriff of Warws. 1840; F.R.A.S. d. 7 Hubert terrace, Dover 24 Dec. 1874. bur. in family burial place in Warws.
Note.—He was the oldest barrister in the law list, his exact age was unknown to his relatives.
HEMPEL, Carl or Charles Frederic (eld. son of the succeeding). b. Truro, Sep. 1811; teacher of music at Truro, organist of St. Mary’s ch. there 1844–57; introduced into Cornwall choral performances on a large scale; matric. from Magd. hall, Ox. 11 Feb. 1855, B.M. 15 Feb.; his oratorio The Seventh Seal performed at Oxford 19 March 1862, D.M. 20 March; organist and choirmaster St. John’s episcopal ch. Perth 1857 to death; conductor of Perth choral union, and of the Euterpean soc.; printed portions of The Seventh Seal 1864 etc., and many pieces of light music. d. Perth 25 April 1867. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. 227–8, 1226; Boase’s Collect. Cornub. p. 349; The Choir, v, 360 (1867).
HEMPEL, Charles William. b. Chelsea 28 Aug. 1777; played organ in King’s German chapel, St. James’ 1785; studied at Leipsic and Dresden 1793–4; organist of St. Mary’s ch. Truro, May 1804 to 1844; removed to Exeter 1844; composer and writer of Psalms from the New Version 1805; Sacred melodies 1812; A morning and evening service 1820; An introduction to the pianoforte 1822; he also was author of The Commercial tourist or gentleman traveller, a poem 1822, 3 ed. 1832; a banker’s clerk in London 1854–5. d. in the workhouse, Prince’s road, Lambeth, London 14 March 1855. Dictionary of Musicians, i, 359–60 (1827).
HEMPHILL, Andrew T. Ensign 29 foot 7 April 1825, lieut.-colonel 8 Dec. 1846 to 8 March 1848; lieut.-colonel 26 foot 8 March 1848 to 31 July 1860 when placed on h.p.; commander first infantry brigade at Dublin 1 July 1861 to death; M.G. 10 Nov. 1861. d. 11 Burlington road, Dublin 31 March 1863.
HEMPHILL, Barbara (youngest dau. of Rev. Patrick Hare, rector of Golden, Tipperary). (m. John Hemphill of Rathkeany, Tipperary, who d. 26 Sep. 1833); author of Lionel Deerhurst, or fashionable life under the Regency 3 vols. 1846; The priest’s niece 3 vols. 1855; Freida the Jongler 3 vols. 1857. d. Dublin 5 May 1858.
HEMSLEY, John. Chairman of Implement committee of R. Agric. soc. of England 1876 to death, member of council 22 May 1874 to death; a frequent judge of steam cultivation, implements, etc. at the annual meetings, steward of implements 1886; author of Report on the trial of agricultural implements at Taunton 1875. d. Shelton, Newark, Dec. 1888. Agricultural Gazette 1888.
HEMY, Henry Frederick. b. Newcastle 12 Nov. 1818; resided Newcastle to 1885; removed to West Hartlepool 1885; pianist to the Earl of Ravensworth; musical instructor at Ushaw coll. Durham; engaged upon A history of the organ, when he died; composer of upwards of 100 pieces of music including Drawing room melodies 1851; Melodies of the Tyne and Wear 1857; Thirteen sacred songs 1869; God save the Prince of Wales, song 1876; set to music a number of Longfellow’s poems; author of The royal modern tutor for the pianoforte 1854, copyright of which was sold for £500, 1867 and for £3000, 1879. d. suddenly at 10 Regent st. Hartlepool 10 June 1888. bur. Moor Edge cemet. Newcastle. Northern Daily Mail 11 June 1888 p. 3, 14 June p. 3.
HENCHY, David O’Connor. b. Rutland sq. west, Dublin 1810; M.P. for co. Kildare 1852–59. d. 1 Dec. 1876.
HENDERSON, Alexander. b. Aberdeenshire 1780; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 12 Sep. 1803; L.C.P. 22 Dec. 1808; resided at 6 Curzon st. London; published A sketch of the revolutions of medical science by P. J. G. Cabanis, translated from the French 1806; An examination of the imposture of Ann Moore the fasting woman of Tutbury 1813; The history of ancient and modern wines 1824. d. Caskieben, Aberdeenshire 16 Sep. 1863. Munk’s Roll of Physicians, iii, 69 (1878).
HENDERSON, Alexander. b. 1828 or 1829; in service of Post office; sec. to Edward Askew Sothern the comedian; lessee and manager Prince of Wales’ theatre, Liverpool 1861? to 8 Feb. 1868; lessee of Criterion theatre, London 1876–9; lessee of Folly theatre 1876–9; lessee of Globe theatre 1878–81; opened the Comedy theatre with La Mascotte comic opera 15 Oct. 1881, lessee to 1885; lessee of Avenue theatre 1885 to decease. (m. (1) Miss Moon of Liverpool; m. (2) Lydia Thompson, actress). d. Prince of Wales’ hotel, Cannes 1 Feb. 1886 aged 57. bur. 2 Feb. The Era 6 Feb. 1886 p. 8, 19 Jany. 1889 p. 16; A. Brereton’s Dramatic Notes (1887) 15–17.