Frederic Boase
Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H
HENSOM, Gravener. b. Nottingham 1785; engaged in hosiery trade and in point and bobbin net manufacture; had a practical knowledge of all kinds of looms; wandered about the coasts of England, Scotland and France discovering and exposing the tricks of the smugglers; imprisoned in Coldbath-fields prison for his connection with Luddite riots; gave evidence before parliamentary committee; author of List of 100 inventions and alterations in the stocking and lace machines 1828; Civil, political and mechanical history of the frame-work knitting and lace trades 1831 which was never finished. d. Broad st. Nottingham 15 Nov. 1852. Felkin’s History of hosiery (1867) pp. xv-xvii; Wylie’s Nottingham (1853) 234–5.
HENTY, Edward (6 son of Thomas Henty, landowner and banker, West Tarring, Sussex, who went to Tasmania 1831). b. West Tarring, Sussex 10 March 1809; emigrated to Tasmania 1831; one of the three founders of the colony of Victoria, Australia; the first settler in Portland Bay, Victoria 19 Nov. 1834 where he had a whaling station; imported pure merino sheep 1835; ploughed the first land ever turned up in Victoria 1835; went inland and took up large sheep runs; member for Normanby in legislative assembly 1856–61; held Muntham station, Victoria. d. Offington, St. Kilda road, Melbourne 14 Aug. 1878. Times 28 Sep. 1878 p. 10; Men of the Time. Victorian Series (1878) 86–8; R. Henty’s Australiana (1886) 26 etc.
HENTY, William (brother of the preceding). b. England 1808; emigrated to Tasmania 1831; solicitor at Launceston, Tasmania; member of legislative assembly, Tasmania; colonial secretary, Tasmania 1857–62; returned and settled in England 1863; author of Our improvements in cottage husbandry. Launceston 1850. d. 12 Medina villas, Brighton 11 July 1881. Times 14 July 1881 p. 9.
HENWOOD, William Jory (eld. son of John Henwood of Perran-wharf near Truro). b. Perran-wharf 16 Jany. 1805; clerk to Fox & Co. at Perran 1822–7; first went underground 1825; assay master and supervisor of tin for duchy of Cornwall 1832–8; Telford medallist of Instit. of C.E. for paper On pumping engines 1837; made special study of metalliferous deposits; F.G.S. 1828, Murchison medallist 27 Feb. 1875; F.R.S. 27 Feb. 1840; in charge of Gongo-Soco mines, Brazil 1843–53; reported on the metals in Kumaon and Gurhwal for Indian government 1855; president R. Instit. of Cornwall 1869–71, delivered three valuable addresses; author of On the metalliferous deposits of Cornwall and Devon. Subterranean temperature, Water and Electric currents, being vol. v. of Trans. R. Geol. Soc. of Cornwall 1843, and Observations on metalliferous deposits and on Subterranean temperature vol. vi. 1871, and other books and numerous papers. d. 3 Clarence place, Penzance 5 Aug. 1875. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. 230–3, 1227; Times 10 Aug. 1875 p. 3 by W. P. Courtney.
HEPBURN, henry Poole (1 son of Francis K. Hepburn, major general). b. 24 Jany. 1822; ensign Scots Fusilier guards 19 Feb. 1841, lieut.-col. 21 March 1874 to 10 Oct. 1874 when placed on h.p.; served in Crimean campaign 1854–5, wounded at battle of Alma, medal with 2 clasps, Turkish medal and 5 class of Medjidie; L.G. 1 July 1881; C.B. 2 June 1869; maintained an orphanage for daughters of soldiers of the Scots guards. d. The Hooke, Chailey, Lewes 26 Oct. 1888. Times 29 Oct. 1888 p. 6.
HEPPEL, John Mortimer (eld. son of George Hastings Heppel of Taplow, Bucks., paper maker). b. Taplow 23 Dec. 1817; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s sch. and London univ.; established with Moser an engineering factory at Aix la Chapelle, partnership dissolved 1847; chief engineer on Madras railway, May 1857 to 1861; engineer to Peruvian railway 1865; A.I.C.E. 20 April 1835, M.I.C.E. 11 Feb. 1851; invented a water meter and other pieces of mechanism. d. 2 Storey’s gate, Westminster 21 March 1872. Min. of Proc. of C.E. xxxvi, 265–68 (1873).
HERAPATH, John (son of a maltster). b. Bristol 30 May 1790; a maltster with his cousin William Herapath at Bristol; conducted a mathematical school, taking candidates for the navy 1815; Royal Soc. refused to publish his paper “A mathematical enquiry into the causes of heat, gases, gravitation, &c.” 1820, which was then printed in Annals of Philosophy and a controversy with Royal Soc. ensued; mathematical tutor at Cranford, Middlesex 1820–32; removed to Kensington 1832; one of first advocates of atmospheric railway system 1839; part proprietor and manager Railway Magazine 1835, called The Railway magazine and Annals of Science 1836–39, then Herapath’s Railway Journal, became sole proprietor; printed numerous mathematical papers; author of Mathematical physics 2 vols. 1847. d. Catford bridge, Lewisham, Kent 24 Feb. 1868. G.M. April 1868 pp. 544–5; Herapath’s Railway Journal 29 Feb. 1868 p. 234.
HERAPATH, Spencer (2 son of the preceding). b. 1822; ed. in a college in Indiana, U.S. America; connected with Herapath’s Railway Journal; sec. to Admiral Laws manager Lancashire and Yorkshire railway; sec. of Sheffield, Barnsley and Wakefield railway to 1865; A.I.C.E. 5 March 1867; head of firm of Spencer Herapath & Co., stock brokers, London 1844; member of committee of Spanish bondholders; director of Buenos Ayres Great southern railway 11 Jany. 1868; F.G.S.; F.A.S.; F.S.S. d. 18 Upper Phillimore gardens, Kensington 13 March 1884. Min. of Proc. of C.E. lxxviii, 447–8 (1884).
HERAPATH, William (son of Mr. Herapath of Bristol, maltster). b. Bristol 26 May 1796; a maltster, Bristol; one of the founders of the Bristol Medical sch. 1828, professor of chemistry there 1828; president of Bristol Political Union 1831; one of the founders of Chemical Soc. of Lond. 23 Feb. 1841; F.C.S.; employed as analytical chemist in cases of Mary Ann Burdock of Bristol 1835 and of W. Palmer of Rugeley 1856; member of Bristol town council 1833 and senior magistrate. d. Manor house, Old Park st. Bristol 13 Feb. 1868. Gent. Mag. v, 404, 544 (1868); Herapath’s Railway Journal 22 Feb. 1868 p. 205.
HERAPATH, William Bird (1 son of the preceding). b. 1820; L.S.A. 1843, M.R.C.S. 1844; ed. at Univ. of London, M.B. 1844, M.D. 1851; surgeon Queen Elizabeth’s hospital, Bristol; president Bristol microscopical soc.; F.R.S.; made many chemical and toxicological discoveries; contributed numerous papers to scientific journals; discoverer and manufacturer of artificial tourmalines; author of A few words on the Bristol and Clifton Hotwells 1854; The handbook for visitors to the Bristol and Clifton Hotwells 1864. d. 32 Old Market st. Bristol 12 Oct. 1868. I.L.N. 24 Oct. 1868 p. 411; Times 15 Oct. 1868 p. 5.
HERAUD, John Abraham (son of Abraham Heraud, law stationer, d. 1846). b. St. Andrew’s, Holborn, London 5 July 1799; friend of Coleridge, Southey, Wordsworth and Carlyle; assistant editor of Fraser’s Mag. 1830–3; edited The Sunbeam 1838–9, the Monthly Mag. 1839–42 and the Christian monthly mag.; contributor and dramatic critic to the Athenæum 1843–68; dramatic critic Illust. London News 1849–79; a brother of the Charterhouse 21 July 1873 to death; wrote Videna, a tragedy, Marylebone theatre 1854, Wife and no Wife, and Medea; author of The legend of St. Loy 1820; The descent into hell 1830, 2 ed. 1835; The judgment of the flood 1834, new ed. 1857; The life and times of G. Savonarola 1843; The sibyl among the tombs 1886. d. Charterhouse, Charterhouse sq. London 20 April 1887. Athenæum 23, 30 April (1887); I.L.N. 30 April 1887 p. 485.
HERBERT OF LEA, Sidney Herbert, 1 Baron (younger son of 11 Earl of Pembroke 1759–1827). b. Richmond, Surrey 16 Sep. 1810; ed. at Harrow and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1831; M.P. for South Wilts., Dec. 1832 to Jany. 1861; sec. of board of control Jany. to April 1835; joint sec. of the admiralty 10 Sep. 1841 to 13 Feb. 1845; sec. of state for war 4 Feb. 1845 to 6 July 1846, 29 Dec. 1852 to 8 Feb. 1855 and 18 June 1859 to July 1861; sec. of state for the colonies Feb. 1855 to 15 May 1855; P.C. 3 Feb. 1845; first president National Volunteer assoc. 16 Nov. 1859; cr. Baron Herbert of Lea, Wilts. 15 Jany. 1861; made great sanitary reforms in the army; author of Proposal for the better application of cathedral institutions to their intended use 1849; The conduct of the war. A speech 1854; Military education. A speech 1856. d. Wilton house, Salisbury 2 Aug. 1861, his statue in front of war office, Pall Mall, London, unveiled 1 June 1867. The British Cabinet in 1853, 276–86; H. Martineau’s Biog. sketches (1876) 78–90; Fraser’s Mag. lxv, 198 (1861); I.L.N. iv, 136 (1844), portrait.
Note.—With Lord Lincoln afterwards the duke of Newcastle, he became interested in the Morning Chronicle, which was the organ of the Peelites from 21 Feb. 1848 under the editorship of John Douglas Cook.—In the autumn of 1854 the paper was sold to Serjeant William Glover.—Lord Herbert is said to have lost £116,000 in this undertaking.—Bourne’s English newspapers, ii, 152–8.
HERBERT, Alfred (son of Thomas Herbert, waterman). Apprentice to a boat-builder; painter of coast scenes with fishing boats and figures and views in the reaches of the Thames; exhibited 14 pictures at R.A., 3 at B.I. and 26 at Suffolk st. 1844–60; obliged to sell his pictures to dealers at low prices; 2 of his pictures are at South Kensington. d. Jany. 1861. Redgrave Dict. of Artists (1878) 209; Art Journal 1861 p. 56.
HERBERT, Algernon (youngest son of 1 Earl of Carnarvon 1741–1811). b. 12 July 1792; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., removed to Exeter coll., B.A. 1813, M.A. 1825; fellow of Merton coll. 1814–31, subwarden 1826, dean 1828; barrister I.T. 27 Nov. 1818; published Nimrod, a discourse upon certain passages of history and fable, By A. H. part i. 1826, reprinted, remodelled and republished in 2 vols. 1828, a 3 vol. 1828, vol. 4 part i. 1829, part ii. 1830; Britannia after the Romans, By the Hon. A. H. 2 vols. 1836–41; Cyclops Christianus, or an argument to disprove the antiquity of the Stonehenge and other Megalithic erections in England and Britanny 1849. d. Ickleton, Cambs. 11 June 1855. G.M. xliv, 649–50 (1855).
HERBERT, Charles. b. 1783; entered Madras army 1803; colonel 16 Madras N.I. 29 June 1842 to death; general 26 April 1866; C.B. 20 July 1838. d. Morland lodge, Croydon 17 Jany. 1867 aged 84.
HERBERT, Charles. b. 1805; ensign 66 foot 10 Dec. 1825; lieut. col. 75 foot 2 June 1857 to 7 Dec. 1858; lieut. col. 54 foot 7 Dec. 1858 to 27 July 1866 when he retired on full pay; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 1 Jany. 1858. d. Boyle cottage, Thames Ditton 19 Sep. 1879.
HERBERT, Sir Charles Lyon. M.D.; knighted at St. James’s palace 19 Aug. 1836; (m. 1812 Anne dau. of Humphrey Jeffreys of Bristol, she d. Florence 28 Nov. 1860), he d. Lower Berkeley st. Manchester sq. London 1855.
HERBERT, Cyril Wiseman (youngest son of John Rogers Herbert 1810–90). b. Gloucester road, Old Brompton, London 30 Sep. 1847; godson of Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman; ed. in France, at St. Mary’s coll. Oscott and King’s coll. London; studied in Italy 1868; exhibited 5 pictures at R.A, 1870–5; some of his paintings were Homeward after labour. Roman cattle driven home 1870; Returning to the fold. Welsh sheep driven home 1874, in Walker art gallery, Liverpool; curator of antique school in Royal Academy 1882. d. The Chimes, Kilburn 2 July 1882. Academy 8 July 1882 p. 38; Art Journal 1882 p. 256.
HERBERT, Dennis. Inspecting field officer of militia, Nova Scotia 28 Jany. 1808 to 17 March 1817 when placed on h.p.; general 20 June 1854. d. Exeter 19 Sep. 1861.
HERBERT, Edward Charles Hugh (younger son of 2 Earl of Carnarvon 1772–1833). b. 30 March 1802; M.P. for Callington, Cornwall 1831–32. d. 30 May 1852.
HERBERT, Edward Gilbert. Ed. at Univ. college, London; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1862; equity draftsman and conveyancer; lecturer on law at Univ. of London; brought out with other writers a volume of essays entitled Religious Republics 1869 in which he wrote The Congregational Character pp. 91–132; wrote on art in public journals. d. Nottingham 12 March 1871.
HERBERT, Edward Henry Charles (only son of E. C. H. Herbert 1802–52). b. 1 Sep. 1837; ed. at Ball. coll. Ox., scholar 1855–61, B.A. 1859, M.A. 1865; 3 sec. of legation at Athens 16 Nov. 1868 to death; while on an excursion to the plains of Marathon, taken prisoner by Greek brigands and murdered at Oropos Sykamenos 21 April 1870, bur. Burghclere ch. yard 15 May. Times 14 April 1870 p. 5, 7 May p. 12, 17 May p. 6; I.L.N. lvi, 491, 557 (1870); Parl. Papers 1870 and 1871.
HERBERT, Henry Arthur (elder son of Charles John Herbert of Muckross abbey, co. Kerry, d. 1836). b. Muckross 1815; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; M.P. for co. Kerry 9 Aug. 1847 to death; chief sec. to lord lieut. of Ireland, June 1857 to Feb. 1858; P.C. 25 June 1857; sheriff of Kerry 1836; lord lieut. of Kerry 1853 to death; hon. colonel of Kerry militia 9 Jany. 1854 to death. d. Adare manor, Limerick 26 Feb. 1866. I.L.N. xxv, 616 (1854), portrait.
HERBERT, Henry William (elder son of Hon. and Rev. William Herbert 1778–1847, dean of Manchester). b. 10 Poland st. Oxford st. London 3 April 1807; ed. at Eton and at Caius coll. Cam., B.A. 1830; classical master in Rev. R. T. Huddart’s sch. New York 1831–9; with A. D. Patterson established the American Monthly Mag. 1833; made much money but was improvident and quarrelled with his friends; lived at The Cedars on the Passaic 1846–58; author of Cromwell, a novel 2 vols. 1837; The Roman traitor 3 vols. 1846; The knights of England, France and Scotland 1852; Memoirs of Henry VIII of England and his six wives 1858; under the pseudonym of Frank Forester he wrote My Shooting Box 1846; Frank Forester and his friends 3 vols. 1849; The Deerstalker 1850; Horse and horsemanship of the United States and British provinces 2 vols. 1857 and other books; shot himself through the head at Stevens house, Broadway, New York 17 May 1858. Judd’s Life of F. Forester 2 vols. (1882), portrait; Picton’s Life of F. Forester (1881); Appleton’s American Biog. iii, 179–80 (1877), portrait.
HERBERT, John (son of Wm. Herbert 1771–1851, librarian Guildhall library, city of London). b. Walcot place, Lambeth 28 Feb. 1814; appeared as Romeo in the Catherine st. theatre 1831; a comic singer at Vauxhall, Cremorne and Rosherville 1833 etc.; played in dramatic companies at Brighton 1837–8, at York 1839–40, at Newcastle 1840, at Sadler’s Wells 1841, at the Victoria 1843, at City of London 1844–7; a low comedian of much ability, his best character was Paulo in Plot and Counterplot; acted at Royal theatre, Edinburgh 1851–2. d. Edinburgh 6 April 1852. Theatrical Times, ii, 217, 226 (1847), portrait; J. C. Dibdin’s Edinburgh Stage (1888) 434, 436.
HERBERT, John Maurice (son of John Lawrence Herbert of New hall, Montgomeryshire). b. 15 July 1808; ed. at cathedral school, Hereford and St. John coll. Cam., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833; fellow of his college 1830–40; barrister L.I. 8 May 1835; assistant tithe and copyhold comr.; comr. for enfranchising assessionable manors of duchy of Cornwall; judge of county courts, circuit No. 24 (South Wales) 12 March 1847 to death; F.G.S. d. Rocklands near Ross 3 Nov. 1882. I.L.N. lxxxi, 569 (1882), portrait; Red Dragon, iii, 1 (1883), portrait.
HERBERT, John Rogers (son of the controller of customs, Maldon, Essex). b. Maldon 23 Jany. 1810; student R. Acad. London 1826; exhibited 69 pictures at R.A., 26 at B.I. and 7 at Suffolk st. 1830–80; studied in Italy 1835; joined the Church of Rome 1840; A.R.A. 1841, R.A. 1846, retired 1886; a master of the School of design, Somerset house 1837; decorated the peers’ robing room, house of lords with 9 pictures, the best being, Moses bringing the tables of the law, executed in the water glass process and taking 14 years to complete; commenced painting religious subjects with, Introduction of Christianity into Britain 1842; some of his best known works are, Sir Thomas More and his daughter 1844; The acquittal of the seven bishops 1846; Our Saviour subject to his parents at Nazareth 1847; Laborare est orare 1862; The sower of good seed 1865; The bay of Salamis 1869; The adoration of the Magi 1874. d. The Chimes, Kilburn 17 March 1890. bur. Kensal green. Sandby’s Hist. of R. Academy, ii, 179–81 (1862); Sherer’s Gallery of British artists, i, 39–46; I.L.N. 29 March 1890 p. 390, portrait; Pictorial World 3 April 1890 pp. 423, 441, portrait; Times 20 March 1890 p. 10.
HERBERT, Sir Percy Egerton (2 son of 2 Earl of Powis 1785–1848). b. Powis castle, Montgomeryshire 15 April 1822; ed. at Eton and Sandhurst; ensign 43 foot 17 Jany. 1840; served in Kaffir war 1851–3, Russian war 1854–6 and wounded at the Alma, Indian mutiny 1857–8; A.D.C. to the Queen 29 June 1855 to 28 Jany. 1868; lieut.-col. 82 foot 19 Feb. 1858 to 16 Nov. 1860 when placed on h.p.; deputy quartermaster general 1 Nov. 1860 to 28 April 1865; L.G. 22 Sep. 1875; colonel 74 highlanders April 1876; M.P. Ludlow 1854–60; M.P. South Shropshire 1865 to death; treasurer of H.M.’s household 27 Feb. 1867 to Dec. 1868; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 2 June 1869; P.C. 19 March 1867. d. Styche, Market Drayton 7 Oct. 1876.
HERBERT, St. Leger Algernon (1 son of Frederick Charles Herbert 1819–68, commander in navy). b. Kingston, Canada 16 Aug. 1850; ed. at naval sch. New Cross, Kent and at Wadham coll. Ox., scholar 1869–74; in Canadian C.S. 1875–8; private sec. to Sir Garnet Wolseley in Cyprus 1878 and in South Africa 1879; at the storming of Sekokoeni’s Mountain and for his services C.M.G. 1880; a correspondent of The Times from 1878; sec. to Sir F. Roberts in Africa, Feb. 1881; sec. to Transvaal commission 1881; special correspondent for Morning Post in Egypt from Sep. 1883, shot through the leg at Tamai; on staff of Sir H. Stewart in Egypt 1884, killed at battle of Gubat near Metammeh in the Soudan 19 Jany. 1885; monument to memory of 7 journalists who died in Soudan, in crypt of St. Paul’s. Morning Post 29 Jany. 1885 p. 5; I.L.N. lxxxvi, 171 (1885), portrait.
HERBERT, Sir Thomas (2 son of Richard Townshend Herbert of Cahirnane, M.P. co. Kerry 1783–90). b. Cahirnane, Feb. 1793; entered navy 23 July 1803; captain 25 Nov. 1822; served in China during war operations in Canton river 1840–41; commodore on south east coast of America 11 Jany. 1847 to 21 June 1849; a junior lord of admiralty, Feb. to Dec. 1852; V.A. 8 Dec. 1857; sheriff of Kerry 1829; C.B. 29 June 1841, K.C.B. 14 Oct. 1841; M.P. for Dartmouth 1852–57. d. 74 Cadogan place, London 4 Aug. 1861.
HERBERT, Rev. Thomas Martin (son of Thomas Herbert of Nottingham). b. Nottingham 18 Oct. 1835; ed. at Mill Hill sch., Spring Hill coll., Lancashire coll. and at Univ. coll. London, B.A. London, M.A.; congregational minister at Nether chapel, Sheffield to 1867, at Cheadle 1868–76; professor of philosophy and church history, Lancashire coll. 1876 to death; author of The external relations of Congregationalism, printed in Religious Republics 1869; Difficulties in the way of religious education by the state 1874; The realistic assumptions of modern science 1879. d. Ottringham near Manchester 28 Nov. 1877. The Congregationalist, vii, 33–40 (1878); Congregational Year Book (1879) 320–21.
HERBERT, William. b. 1771; librarian Guildhall library, city of London 1828–45; author of Antiquities of the inns of court and chancery 1804; Select views of London and its environs 2 vols. 1804–5; The history of the twelve great livery companies of London 2 vols. 1836–7; with E. W. Brayley he wrote Syr Reginalde or the Black tower, a romance 1803; History of Lambeth palace 1806; with Robert Wilkinson Londina illustrata 2 vols. 1819–25. d. 40 Brunswick st. Haggerston, London 18 Nov. 1851.
HERBISON, David (son of an innkeeper, d. 1827). b. Ballymena, co. Antrim 14 Oct. 1800; a hand loom linen weaver 1814–27 and 1830 to death; resided in Canada 1827–30; known as The Bard of Dunclug; author of The fate of Mc. Quillan and O’Neill’s daughter, poems, Belfast 1841; Midnight musings 1848; Woodland wanderings 1858; The Snow wreath 1869, with Autobiography of the author; The children of the year 1876. d. Dunclug near Ballymena 26 May 1880, monu. at Ballymena. Collected works of D. Herbison, ed. by Rev. D. Mc. Meekin (1883), with memoir.
HERDMAN, Robert (4 son of Rev. William Herdman, minister of Rattray, Perthshire, d. 1838). b. Rattray 17 Sep. 1829; ed. at Madras coll. St. Andrews 1838, and at Univ. of St. Andrews; studied art in Trustees’ acad. Edin. 1847 and in Italy 1854–6 and 1868; A.R. Scottish Acad. 1858, Academician 1863; portrait, figure and landscape painter; exhibited at R. Scottish Acad. 1850 to death; exhibited 32 pictures at R.A. Lond. and 2 at B.I. 1861–80; some of his paintings were, After the battle, a scene in covenanting times 1870, in National gallery, Scotland; Charles Edward seeking shelter in the house of an adherent 1876; Landless and homeless 1887; author of Address to the students of the Board of manufacturers’ Art School 1888; found dead in his studio from heart disease, Edinburgh 10 Jany. 1888. Times 12 Jany. 1888 p. 6.
HERDMAN, William Gawin (son of a corn merchant). b. Liverpool 13 March 1805; art teacher Liverpool; member of Liverpool academy till 1857 when he was expelled for his opposition to pre-Raphaeliteism; established an Art school in Liverpool 1857; exhibited 5 pictures at R.A. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1834–61; the reformation of perspective occupied much of his time; the founder of shilling art-unions; F.S.A.; published Views of Fleetwood-on-Wyre 1838; Studies from the folio of W. G. H. 1838; Pictorial relics of ancient Liverpool 1843; A treatise on the curvilinear perspective of nature 1853; Thoughts on speculative cosmology and the principles of art 1870; found dead in his bed at 41 St. Domingo vale, Liverpool 29 March 1882. Bryan’s Dictionary of painters (1886) 645; Liverpool Mercury 1 April 1882 p. 5.
HERING, George Edwards (younger son of a German bookbinder). b. London 1805; studied in Munich art sch. 1829 and in Italy 1830 etc.; landscape painter; exhibited 88 pictures at R.A., 86 at B.I. and 10 at Suffolk st. 1836–80; among his paintings were The ruins of the palace of the Cæsars at Rome 1836; Amalfi 1841 and Capri 18—, both in the Royal collection; Bridge over a stream 1847, in South Kensington museum; published Sketches on the Danube, in Hungary and Transilvania 1838; The mountains and lakes in Switzerland, the Tyrol and Italy, twenty coloured lithographs 1847. d. 45 Grove end road, St. John’s Wood, London 18 Dec. 1879, his wife a well known painter, exhibited landscapes 1853–8. Art Journal, xxxii, 83; Clement and Hutton’s Artists (1879) 348.
HERIOT, Frederick Lewis Maitland. b. 6 Feb. 1818; barrister 1839, advocate depute; sheriff of Forfarshire 21 Feb. 1862 to death; edited The Scottish jurist, containing reports of cases decided in the courts of session. d. Paris 7 March 1881. Journal of Jurisprudence, xxv, 204 (1881).
HERMAN, George Frederic. Joined British auxiliary legion in Spain as a captain in the Rifle corps 11 July 1835 and was present during all the fighting 1835–8, lieut.-col. 1 Oct. 1836; went out to Syria as assistant adjutant general on staff of Sir Charles Smith 1840 and served through Syrian campaign, receiving Sultan’s gold medal; vice consul at Bengazi 31 March 1848; consul at Tripoli 1 Jany. 1852 and consul general there 26 March 1856 to 13 Jany. 1865, retired on a pension 18 July 1865. d. 2 Aug. 1873. Foreign Office List (1873) 111–12.
HERMON, Edward (son of Richard Hermon). b. London about 1821; member of firm of Horrocks, Miller and Co. cotton spinners, Preston; M.P. Preston 1868–81; gave money for prizes, for Essays on the prevention of explosions and accidents in coal mines 1874. d. Berkeley sq. London 6 May 1881, personalty sworn to be £588,000 on 25 June 1881, his pictures were sold for £37,116 4s. 6d. on 13 May 1882.
HERON, Denis Caulfield (eld. son of W. Heron). b. Dublin 1826; ed. at St. Gregory’s Downside and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1845, LL.B. and LLD. 1857; obtained a university scholarship 1845 but precluded from enjoying it on account of being a Roman Catholic; called to Irish bar 1848; professor of jurisprudence in Queen’s college, Galway 1849–59; Q.C. 4 July 1860; law adviser at Dublin Castle, April to July 1866; bencher of King’s Inns 1872; M.P. for Tipperary 1870–74; third serjeant at law Oct. 1880 to death; author of The constitutional history of the university of Dublin 1847; Should the tenant of land possess the property in the improvements made by him? 1852; An introduction to the history of jurisprudence 1860; The principles of jurisprudence 1873. d. while salmon fishing on the river Corrib at Galway 15 April 1881. bur. Glasnevin cemetery, Dublin 19 April. Case of D. C. Heron against the provost and senior fellows of Trinity college, Dublin (1846).
HERON, Sir Joseph (son of James Holt Heron, merchant). b. Manchester 1809; ed. at Moravian sch. at Fairfield; admitted attorney and solicitor 1830; town clerk of Manchester, Dec. 1838 to death, an able administrator, instrumental in obtaining the act for the Thirlmere water scheme for Manchester 1879; knighted at Windsor castle 9 July 1869. d. Cannes, France 23 Dec. 1889. Times 25 Dec. 1889 p. 4; Law Journal, xxv, 14 (1890).
HERON, Matilda. b. Labby vale, Londonderry, Ireland 1 Dec. 1830; studied in Philadelphia, U.S. America under Peter Richings; first appeared at Walnut st. theatre as Bianca in Fazio 17 Feb. 1851; played at St. Louis 1852, in San Francisco 1853, in New York 1854 and 1857 when she acted as Camille her most successful character. (m. 24 Dec. 1857 Robert Stoepel, musical director, from whom she separated 1862, sued for a divorce March 1869); appeared at Lyceum, London as Rosalie Lee in New Year’s Eve 1 April 1861 but met with little success; returned to U.S. America, made last appearance as Medea in April 1876; teacher of elocution New York 1876 to death; published Camille. Adapted from the French of A. Dumas [by M. H.] 1856; Medea, a tragedy by G. J. B. E. W. Legouvé, translated 1857. d. New York city 7 March 1877. Appleton’s American Biog. iii, 184 (1887), portrait; Soulé’s Annals of San Francisco (1855) 661, portrait.
HERON, Sir Robert, 2 Baronet (only son of Thomas Heron of Chilham castle, Kent). b. Newark 27 Nov. 1765; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; succeeded his uncle Sir R. Heron 18 Jany. 1805; came into large property on death of his uncle Rev. Robert Heron 19 Jany. 1813; M.P. Grimsby 1812–18; contested Lincolnshire 1818; M.P. Peterborough 1819–47; built the nave and tower of Stubton ch. Lincolnshire; author of Notes. Grantham 1850, reprinted 1851. d. Stubton hall near Newark 29 May 1854. G.M. July 1854 pp. 74–5.
HERRIES, Sir Charles John (eld. son of succeeding). b. 1815; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840; barrister I.T. 20 Nov. 1840; commissioner of excise 22 Nov. 1842; dep. chairman of board of inland revenue 1856, chairman 15 Aug. 1877, retired 1881 on a pension of £1353; C.B. 1871, K.C.B. 27 Oct. 1880; author of Memoir of Rt. Hon. J. C. Herries 2 vols. 1880. d. St. Julian’s, Sevenoaks 14 March 1883. Times 16 March 1870 p. 8.
HERRIES, John Charles (eld. son of Charles Herries of London, merchant, d. 1819). b. Nov. 1778; ed. at Cheam and at Univ. of Leipsic; clerk in the treasury 5 July 1798; private sec. to Nicholas Vansittart when secretary of the treasury 1801–1802, to Spencer Perceval when prime minister 1810–12; secretary and registrar to order of the Bath, Jany. 1809, resigned 1822; comptroller of army accounts 1811; commissary in chief 1 Oct. 1811 to 24 Oct. 1816 when office was abolished and he retired on pension of £1350; auditor of the civil list 29 Oct. 1816 to 1821; financial sec. to the treasury 7 Feb. 1823 to 4 Sep. 1827; chancellor of the exchequer 17 Aug. 1827 to 26 Jany. 1828; P.C. 17 Aug. 1827; master of the mint 12 Feb. 1828 to 14 Dec. 1830; president of board of trade 2 Feb. 1830 to 22 Nov. 1830; secretary at war 16 Dec. 1834 to 20 April 1835; president of board of control 28 Feb. to Dec. 1852; member of the India board 28 Feb. 1852; M.P. for Harwich 1823–41; contested Ipswich 3 July 1841; M.P. for Stamford 1847–53; translated Frederick Gentz’s work On the state of Europe before and after the French revolution 1803. d. St. Julian’s, Sevenoaks 24 April 1855. E. Herries’ Memoir of J. C. Herries 2 vols. 1880; Portraits of eminent conservatives and statesmen 2 series (1846); I.L.N. xiv, 269 (1849), portrait.
HERRIES, Sir William Lewis (brother of the preceding). b. Amiens, France 1785; cornet 19 dragoons 23 Jany. 1801; served in South America, at Walcheren, at siege of Flushing and in Peninsula; lost his leg before Bayonne 1814; permanent assistant quartermaster general 28 July 1814 to 31 July 1817 when placed on h.p.; chairman of board of comrs. for auditing public accounts; lieut.-col. on half pay 13 Aug. 1830 to 9 Nov. 1846; a comr. of Chelsea hospital; col. of 68 foot 17 April 1854 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854; K.C.H. 1826; knighted at Carlton house 29 May 1826; C.B. 19 July 1831. d. 14 Bolton st. Piccadilly, London 3 June 1857.
HERRING, John Frederick (son of Mr. Herring, fringe maker, Newgate st. London). b. Surrey 1795; coach painter at Doncaster 1814; driver of the Nelson coach from Wakefield to Lincoln 1814–6, then of the Doncaster and Halifax coach, and later on of the Highflyer coach between London and York; painted Filho da Puta the winner of the St. Leger 1815, and the winners for 32 years in succession; painted Mameluke the winner of the Derby 1827 and the winners for 18 years following; at Doncaster till 1830, at Six mile bottom, Newmarket 1830–33, settled at Camberwell 1833; exhibited 22 pictures at R.A., 44 at B.I. and 82 at Suffolk st. 1818–68; member of Soc. of British Artists 1841–52; animal painter to duchess of Kent; among his pictures were, A frugal meal, now in National gallery; A group of ducks, in the Glasgow gallery, and A black horse drinking from a trough, in National gallery, Dublin; many of his paintings were engraved, and published by Fores, Fuller and Graves; he published The Horse, 12 plates. d. Meopham park near Tunbridge Wells 23 Sep. 1865. Memoir of J. F. Herring. Sheffield (1848), portrait; Scott and Sebright, By the Druid (1862) 88–93; I.L.N. xlvii, 360, 361 (1865), portrait.