Frederic Boase
Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H
HERRING, Paul, stage name of William Smith. b. 20 Sep. 1800; clown at Richardson’s show playing 12 times a day and also taking part in the outside parade; acted Bob Logic in the original cast of Tom and Jerry at the royal amphitheatre 17 Sep. 1821; in H. Brading’s dramatic co. at Albert saloon, Shepherd fields, London where he was the hero in The imp of the devil’s gorge 1841; clown at Victoria theatre under Daniel Webster Osbaldiston; played clown last time at St. James’ theatre 1859; pantaloon from 1859, played in The White Cat at Drury Lane 1877. d. 32 North st. Hercules buildings, Lambeth, London 18 Sep. 1878. bur. Tooting cemetery 25 Sep. The Era 22 and 29 Sep. 1878; Illust. S. and D. News, ii, 268 (1874); Tinsley’s Mag., July 1883 pp. 72–6.
HERRING, Richard. b. 1829; paper agent and wholesale stationer Finsbury pavement, London; made a study of telegraphy; author of Paper and paper making, ancient and modern 1855, 3 ed. 1863; A letter on the collection of rags for paper making 1860; A few personal recollections of the Rev. George Croly 1861; Mr. Herring and the telegraphs 1874, 4 ed. 1875 and other books. d. 27 St. Mary’s road, Islington 5 Oct. 1886. The Bookseller 8 Oct. 1886 p. 949.
HERSCHEL, Sir John Frederick William, 1 Baronet (only child of Sir Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel, astronomer 1738–1822). b. Slough, Bucks. 7 March 1792; ed. at Hitcham, Eton and St. John’s coll. Cam., senior wrangler, Smith’s prizeman and fellow of his coll. 1813; B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816; F.R.S. 27 May 1813, member of council, one of secretaries 1824–7, royal medallist 1833, 1836 and 1840; a founder of R. Astronomical soc. 1820, wrote the inaugural address, first foreign secretary 1824–7, medallist 1826, 1836, president 1827; discovered 525 new nebulae; discovered double stars; made researches and discoveries in light, heat and photography, one of the greatest men since Sir Isaac Newton; K.H. 12 Oct. 1831; baronet 17 July 1838; lord rector of Marischal college, Aberdeen, March 1842; master of the mint 13 Dec. 1850, resigned Feb. 1855; president of British association at Cambridge meeting 1845; one of the 8 foreign members of Institute of France 23 July 1855; wrote upwards of 150 scientific papers; author of Results of astronomical observations made 1834–8 at Cape of Good Hope being the completion of a survey of the heavens 1847; A manual of scientific enquiry, for the use of the navy 1849, 5 ed. 1886; Outlines of astronomy 1849, 10 ed. 1869; Familiar lectures on scientific subjects 1866; The Iliad of Homer translated into accentuated hexameters 1866. d. Collingwood, Hawkhurst, Kent 11 May 1871. bur. Westminster abbey 19 May. Dunkin’s Obituary notices of astronomers (1879) 47–85; Martineau’s Biog. sketches (1876) 449–67; Monthly notices R. Astronom. soc. xxxii, 122–42 (1872); Illust. News of World, ix (1862), portrait; Year book of facts (1846), portrait.
HERSCHELL, Helen S. (dau. of William Mowbray of Edinburgh). A Latin, Greek, Hebrew and German scholar; a friend of Rev. Edward Irving 1834–8. (m. 1831 the succeeding); wrote The Bystander, a series of papers in The Christian Ladies’ magazine; author of The child’s help to self-examination and prayer 1835; The voice from the fire 1839. d. Bonn, Germany 31 Dec. 1853. bur. Kensal green 12 Jany. 1854. Far above rubies. Memoir of Helen S. Herschell (1854).
HERSCHELL, Rev. Ridley Haim (son of a Jew). b. Strzelno, Prussian Poland 7 April 1807; ed. at Berlin univ. 1822; baptized in England by bishop of London 1830; missionary among the Jews; in charge of Lady Olivia Sparrow’s schools and mission work at Leigh, Essex and Brampton, Hunts. 1835–8; opened an unsectarian chapel in London 1838, removed to Trinity chapel, John st. Edgware road 1846; a founder of British soc. for propagating gospel among Jews; one of first to establish school excursions; a founder of Evangelical Alliance 1845; author of A brief sketch of the state and expectations of the Jews 3 ed. 1834; Plain reasons why I a Jew have become a catholic and not a Roman catholic 1842; A visit to my fatherland. Notes of a journey to Syria and Palestine 1844; edited The voice of Israel conducted by Jews who believe that Jesus is the Messiah, vols. 1–2, 1845–7, and other books. d. Brighton 14 April 1864.
HERSEE, William. b. Coldwaltham, Sussex 1786; a ploughman; bookseller with Cooper at Bunhill row, London 1813; accountant in Inland revenue office, London 1809–26; edited the Warwick Advertiser 1831 to March 1852; published Poems, rural and domestic. Chichester 1810; The battle of Vittoria, a poem 1813; The spirit of the orders issued by the board of excise for the guidance of officers 1829 and other books. d. Warwick 6 Aug. 1854.
HERSHON, Paul Isaac. b. Galicia 1817; early converted to Christianity; a missionary for promoting christianity among the Jews in England; director of the house of industry for Jews at Jerusalem, and then of the model farm at Jaffa, retired 1859; author of Extracts from the Talmud 1860; The Pentateuch according to the Talmud. Genesis 1878; A Talmudic miscellany 1880; Treasures of the Talmud 1882; translated the New Testament into Judæo-Polish for the use of the Continental Jews. d. 9 Park avenue, Wood Green, Middlesex 14 Oct. 1888. Times 15 Oct. 1888 p. 10.
HERTFORD, Maria Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of (dau. of the Marchese Fagniani an Italian). b. 1771; known as Mie Mie; lived with George Selwyn as his adopted dau. at Matson hall, Gloucester 1779–91 when he died leaving her £30,000; a public singer. (m. 18 May 1798 Francis, Earl of Yarmouth who in 1822 became 3 Marquis of Hertford 1777–1842); travelled on the continent as the acknowledged mistress of Marshal Andoche Junot, duc d’Abrantes 1802–4; the 4th Duke of Queensberry (’Old Q’) bequeathed to her by will in 1810 a sum of £100,000. d. 3 Rue Taitbout, Paris, March 1856 aged 85. P. Fitzgerald’s Kings and Queens of an hour, ii, 355–70 (1883); The Croker Papers, By L. J. Jennings, i, 235–6 (1884).
HERTFORD, Richard Seymour-Conway, 4 Marquis of (elder son of 3 Marquis of Hertford 1777–1842). b. 22 Feb. 1800; styled viscount Beauchamp 1800–22, earl of Yarmouth 1822–42; attaché of embassy at Paris 1817; cornet 2 dragoons 24 Feb. 1820, captain 25 March to 17 April 1823 when placed on h.p.; M.P. co. Antrim 1821–26; captain of Cape corps of cavalry 1823; attaché of embassy at Constantinople 1829; succeeded his father 1 March 1842; K.G. 19 Jany. 1846; commander of Legion of Honour for encouragement given to the arts 14 Nov. 1855; known by the nickname of Bagatelle. d. 6 Rue Lafitte, Paris 25 Aug. 1870. bur. Père Lachaise cemetery, personalty sworn under £500,000, 8 July 1871. Irish Reports. Common Law series, vi, 196–220, 343–410 (1873); Some professional recollections [By C. R. Williams] (1883) 75–92; Waagen’s Treasures of art, ii, 154–61 (1854); Waagen’s Galleries of art (1857) 79–92; Lippincott’s Mag. xiii, 191–6 (1874).
HERTFORD, Francis Hugh George Seymour, 5 Marquis of (son of Sir George Francis Seymour, G.C.B. 1787–1870). b. 11 Feb. 1812; ensign 3 foot guards 12 July 1827, captain 28 Nov. 1845 to 10 Dec. 1847; groom of the robes to the Queen 1837–70; state steward to lord lieut. of Ireland 1843–46; equerry to Prince Albert 1846–58, to the Queen 1858–70; deputy ranger of Windsor great park 1850–70; succeeded his cousin 25 Aug. 1870; lord chamberlain of the household 21 Feb. 1874 to 7 May 1879; P.C. 2 March 1874; general 10 Feb. 1876; G.C.B. 24 Jany. 1879. d. Ragley hall near Alcester, Warws. 25 Jany. 1884. Graphic, xxix, 100 (1884), portrait; I.L.N. lxxxiv, 97 (1884), portrait.
HERTSLET, Lewis. b. Nov. 1787; sub-librarian in foreign office, London 5 Feb. 1801, librarian and keeper of the papers 6 Jany. 1810 to 20 Nov. 1857 when he retired on pension; superintendent of queen’s messengers and comptroller of their accounts for three secretaries of state offices 30 June 1824 to 30 June 1854 when office abolished; author of A complete collection of the treaties between Great Britain and foreign powers and of the laws concerning the same 11 vols. 1827–66. d. 16 Great college st. Westminster, London 15 March 1870.
HERTZEN or GERTSEN, Aleksandr Ivanovich (son of Mr. Yakovlef, d. 1846). b. Moscow 1812; ed. at Moscow univ.; imprisoned in 1835, in Siberia 1835–7; editor of Vladimir gazette 1837; in office of minister of interior, Moscow 1840; in France, Switzerland and Italy 1846; came to England 1848, established a printing office in Paternoster row, edited the Free Russian Press; The Polar Star; Kolokol [The Bell], ed. by Iskander, 196 numbers 1857–63, it was afterwards published at Geneva; lost his influence by taking the side of the Polish insurgents; author of Imprimerie Russe á Londres 1855; La France ou l’Angleterre. Par Iscander 1858; Le monde Russe et la Révolution 2 parts 1860–62 and many other works in French, Russian and Polish. d. Paris 21 Jany. 1870. Temple Bar, April 1870 pp. 44–58, by W. R. S. Ralston; A. Hertzen’s My exile to Siberia 2 vols. (1855).
HERVEY, Alfred (youngest son of 1 marquis of Bristol 1769–1859). b. St. James’ sq. London 25 June 1816; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1837, LLD. 1864; barrister I.T. 27 Jany. 1843; M.P. for Brighton 1842–57, for Bury St. Edmunds 1859–65; a lord of the treasury Dec. 1852 to Feb. 1855; keeper of privy seal to Prince of Wales 4 Feb. 1853 to 1855; receiver general of inland revenue 1871 to death. d. Lowndes st. London 15 April 1875. I.L.N. lxvi, 402 (1875).
HERVEY, Andrew. Entered Bengal army 1805; col. 52 Bengal N.I. 8 March 1849 to death; L.G. 23 July 1861; C.B. 9 June 1849. d. England 14 June 1862.
HERVEY, Augustus Henry Charles (2 son of 2 marquis of Bristol 1800–64). b. Ickworth park, Bury St. Edmunds 2 Aug. 1837; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1859; attaché at St. Petersburg 31 July 1862, at Dresden 19 Feb. 1863, resigned 24 Jany. 1865; M.P. West Suffolk 8 Dec. 1864 to death. d. at res. of his brother 6 St. James’ sq. London 28 May 1875.
HERVEY, Thomas Kibble (son of James Hervey of Manchester, drysalter). b. Paisley 4 Feb. 1799; ed. at Manchester free gr. sch.; articled to Sharp, Eccles & Co. solicitors, Manchester; studied for the bar; at Trin. coll. Cam. 1818–20; edited the Friendship’s Offering 1826–7; migrated to Paris 1827 but soon returned to London; edited The Amaranth 1839; a leading contributor to the Athenæum from 1828, editor 23 May 1846, resigned Dec. 1853; contributed to the Art Journal 1855–9. (m. 17 Oct. 1843 Eleanor Louisa dau. of George Conway Montagu, she is an author and poetess); author of Australia with other poems 1824; The poetical sketch book 1829; The book of Christmas 1837; The English Helicon 1841. d. Kentish town, London 27 Feb. 1859. bur. Highgate cemet. The poems of T. K. Hervey, Ed. by Mrs. Hervey with a memoir (1866), portrait; Manchester sch. register, iii, 284 (1874).
HERZ, James. b. 1807; founder of the Cheque Bank opened Pall Mall east, London 23 July 1873, the payment of all cheques drawn being guaranteed by the Bank. d. Coburg hotel 14 Charles st. Grosvenor sq. London 23 Feb. 1880. Times 1 April 1873 p. 10, 25 Sep. p. 5, 26 Sep. p. 4; Banker’s Mag. xxxiii, 651, 930 (1873).
HESKETH, Sir Thomas George Fermor, 5 Baronet. b. Rufford hall near Ormskirk, Lancs. 11 Jany. 1825; succeeded 10 Feb. 1843; sheriff of Lancs. 1848; lieut. col. commandant 2 royal Lancashire militia 1 March 1852 to 25 Sep. 1872; M.P. for Preston 4 April 1862 to death; assumed name of Fermor by royal license 8 Nov. 1867. d. Rufford hall 20 Aug. 1872. I.L.N. lxi, 215, 571 (1872).
HESKETH-FLEETWOOD, Sir Peter, 1 Baronet (3 son of Robert Hesketh of Rossall, Lancs. 1764–1824). b. Wennington hall near Lancaster 9 May 1801; ed. at Trin. coll. Ox., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826; sheriff of Lancashire 1830; assumed by r.l. additional name of Fleetwood, March 1831; M.P. for Preston 10 Dec. 1832 to July 1847; cr. a Baronet 20 July 1838; projected and commenced building town of Fleetwood, Lancashire on his estate at Rossall at mouth of river Wyre 1836; published a translation of Victor Hugo’s Last days of a condemned, to which he prefixed Observations on capital punishment 1840. d. 127 Piccadilly, London 12 April 1866. G.M. i, 908 (1866); I.L.N. xlviii, 426 (1866); Herald and genealogist, iv, 371 (1866–7).
HESLEDEN, William Smith. b. 1773; Assoc. British Archæol. Assoc. 1845; wrote An account of ancient earth works at Barton and on the site of the battle of Brunanburgh in the time of Athelstan; published A sketch of the properties of Sutton patent gravitated sails for windmills 1807. d. Barton-upon-Humber 24 Dec. 1854. Journ. B. Archæol. Assoc. xi, 162 (1855).
HESLOP, Rev. George Henry (1 son of Rev. Alfred Heslop of Keswick, Cumb.) b. 1822; ed. at Queen’s coll. Ox., scholar 1842–8, fellow 1848–51; B.A. 1846, M.A. 1846; head master of St. Bees gram. sch. 1854–79; hon. canon of Carlisle 1875; R. of Church Oakley, Hants. 1879 to death; one of the most exact and correct scholars of his time; in the Catena Classicorum series, Rivingtons, London, he edited Demosthenes’ Orationes publicae 1868 and Demosthenes’ De Falsa legatione. d. Oakley rectory, Basingstoke 30 Jany. 1887.
HESLOP, Thomas Pretious (son of Mr. Heslop a Scotchman and major R.A.) b. West Indies 1823; apprenticed to Thomas Underhill, M.D. of Tipton, Staffs.; studied at Universities of Dublin and Edin., M.D. Edin. 1848; M.R.C.P. 1859, F.R.C.P. 1872; practised at Birmingham 1848 to death, house physician general hospital 1848 to Jany. 1852; professor of physiology at Queen’s college 1853–58 and senior phys. 1870–82; the chief consultant phys. in Midland counties many years; founded the Free hospital for children opened in Steel house lane, Birmingham 1861, the Women’s hospital 1871 and the Skin and Lock hospital 1880; founded the Midland Medical Society 1848; a trustee of Mason college 1873, president of the council 1884 to death, gave 11,000 volumes to the library; author of The realities of medical attendance on the sick children of the poor. Birmingham 1869; The abuse of alcohol in the treatment of acute diseases 1872. d. the Devil’s Elbow, 3 miles south of Braemar 17 June 1885. bur. at Dublin 20 June. Birmingham Weekly Post 20 June 1885 p. 4 col. 7.
HESSEY, Rev. Francis (2 son of James Augustus Hessey of St. Bride’s, London). b. 10 April 1816; ed. at Merchant Taylors and St. John’s coll. Ox., scholar and fellow 1834–61; S.C.L. 1837, B.C.L. 1839, D.C.L. 1844; C. of Kentish town, London 1839–40; principal of Huddersfield coll. sch. 1840–43; head master of Kensington sch. 1843–53; V. of St. Barnabas, Kensington 1853 to Oct. 1881; author of Hints to district visitors, By F. H. 1858; Confirmation questions 1859, 7 ed. 1866, Second series 1862; Catechetical lessons on book of Common prayer 1868; A few parochial sermons preached at St. Barnabas, Kensington 1882. d. Midhurst, Sussex 10 Aug. 1882.
HETHERINGTON, Rev. William Maxwell. b. in parish of Troqueer near Dumfries 4 June 1803; a gardener; ed. at Edin. Univ. 1822; presbyterian minister of Torphichen, Linlithgow 1836–43; a free ch. minister to students at St. Andrews 1843–8; minister at St. Paul’s, Edin. 1848; edited the Free Church Magazine 1844–8; professor of systematic theology in Glasgow Free Church coll. 1857; LLD. and D.D. of an American university; author of Twelve dramatic sketches founded on the pastoral poetry of Scotland 1829; The minister’s family 1838, 12 ed. 1880; History of the Church of Scotland 1842, 7 ed. 2 vols. 1852; History of Westminster assembly of divines 1843, 4 ed. 1878; The anti-christian system or popery as predicted in Scripture 1851. d. 23 May 1865. bur. Grange cemet. Edin. Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881); The apologetics of the Christian faith By W. H. Hetherington 1867, with a Memoir pp. xiii-xv; Scott’s Fasti vol. i, pt. i, p. 204.
HEWETSON, Charles. Entered Madras army 1811; col. 49 Madras N.I. 21 July 1861 to 1869; L.G. 25 June 1870. d. Madras 4 Feb. 1873.
HEWETT, Sir Prescott Gardiner, 1 Baronet (son of Wm. Nathan Wrighte Hewett of Bilham hall near Doncaster). b. 3 July 1812; ed. at St. George’s hospital and in Paris; M.R.C.S. 1836, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843, professor of human anatomy and surgery, member of council 1867, vice pres. 1875, pres. 1876; surgeon extraord. to the Queen 14 Oct. 1867, sergeant surgeon extraord. 19 Feb. 1877; surgeon in ord. to Prince of Wales 10 March 1874; pres. of Clinical Soc. 1873; F.R.S. 4 June 1874; retired from practice Nov. 1883; created baronet 6 Aug. 1883. d. Chestnut lodge, Horsham, Sussex 19 June 1891. bur. Brompton cemetery, London 25 June.
HEWETT, Sir William Nathan Wrighte (2 son of Dr. William Wrighte Hewett). b. Brighton 12 Aug. 1834; entered the navy March 1847; shewed great presence of mind and courage in a battery before Sebastopol and at Inkerman 1854, lieut. 20 Oct.; V.C. 24 Feb. 1857; commodore and commander in chief on west coast of Africa during Ashantee war 1873–76, and present at capture of Coomassie; K.C.B. 31 March 1874, Ashantee medal with clasp; commander in chief in East Indies 1882–5; occupied Suez and seized the Canal 1882; defended Suakim 6 Feb. 1884, governor for the Khedive 10 Feb.; went on a mission to king John of Abyssinia, April 1884; commander of Channel squadron 18 March 1886 to 17 April 1888; known as the fighting admiral; K.C.S.I. 17 Nov. 1882. d. Haslar hospital, Portsmouth 13 May 1888. Times 15 May 1888 p. 8, 16 May pp. 11, 16, 18 May p. 5; I.L.N. xxxix 41 (1861), portrait, lxxxiv 172 (1884), portrait.
HEWITSON, William Chapman. b. Newcastle-upon-Tyne 9 Jany. 1806; ed. at York; land surveyor, sometime under George Stephenson on London and Birmingham railway, came into a fortune and gave up business; resided at Bristol, at Hampstead and from 1848 at Oatlands park, Surrey; made a study of birds’ eggs and collected specimens in Norway 1833; made a collection of diurnal lepidoptera, paid travellers to search for them in all parts of the world and gave £350 for a single specimen 1848, etc.; member of Entomological soc. 1846, the Zoological 1859 and the Linnean 1862; author of British Oology being illustrations of the eggs of British birds with figures of each species Newcastle 3 vols. 1833–42; Coloured illustrations of the eggs of British birds 2 vols. 1846, 3 ed. 2 vols. 1856; Illustrations of diurnal lepidoptera 2 vols. 1863–78; Description of 100 new species of hesperediæ 1867. d. Oatlands park 28 May 1878. bur. Walton-on-Thames. Left his lepidoptera, stuffed birds, pictures and water colours to Br. Museum, now in Cromwell road; his books and £30,000 to Nat. Hist. Soc. Newcastle, and money to the Müller institute Bristol. Academy 8 June 1878 p. 512; Nature xviii, 196–7 (1878).
HEWITT, Daniel Chandler. b. Scotland 1789; author of New analysis of music, a theory of melody, harmony and modulation 1828; The true science of music 1860 and 1864. d. London 1869.
HEWITT, John. b. Lichfield 1807; organist St. Mary’s ch. Lichfield; in war office, London; resided at Woolwich; wrote articles in magazines under name of Sylvanus Swanquill; author of The tower of London, its history 1841; Ancient armour and weapons in Europe 3 vols. 1855–60; Official catalogue of the Tower armories 1859; Old Woolwich 1860; Handbook for the city of Lichfield 1874, 2 ed. 1884 and other works. d. Lichfield 10 Jany. 1878. bur. in cathedral close 15 Jany. Reliquary xviii, 228–30 (1877–8).
HEWITT, William Henry. b. 1791; entered Bengal army 1806; col. 27 Bengal N.I. 1850 to death; L.G. 30 Dec. 1859. d. Westfield house, Bath 16 April 1863 aged 72.
HEWLETT, Thomas (2 son of Thomas Hewlett of Oxford). b. Oxford 16 March 1845; of Magd. hall Ox., B. Mus. 22 June 1865; organist Duke of Buccleuch’s chapel, Dalkeith; teacher and organist in Edin.; accompanyist Edin. Sacred harmonic soc.; organist Newington park ch. Edin.; wrote Are other eyes, Madrigal 1864; The good old days, A Christmas song 1865; Introduction, offertoire and fuge for the organ 1867; Second offertoire for the organ 1872 and Third 1872. d. 2 Hope park crescent, Edinburgh 1 April 1874.
HEWLETT, Thomas Gillham. b. 1832; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1853; assist. surgeon Bombay army 20 Jany. 1854, surgeon 20 Jany. 1865; served during Indian mutiny 1857–8; deputy assay master Bombay mint; health officer Bombay when he organized the public health department; sanitary commissioner for Bombay presidency; deputy surgeon general Bombay 1 Nov. 1879; C.I.E. 1 Jany. 1878; author of Reports on leprosy in the Bombay presidency 1879; Report on enteric fever 1883. d. of heart disease at Finchley road station, Metropolitan railway 8 Oct. 1889. Times 29 Oct. 1889 p. 9, 31 Oct. p. 10.
HEWSON, Rev. William (son of William Hewson, banker’s clerk). b. 12 April 1806. bapt. St. Margaret’s, Westminster 29 Dec.; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. and St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833; C. of Bishop Burton, Yorks. 1830–3; C. of Spofforth 1834–5; head master of Sherburn gram. sch. Yorks. 1835–8 and of St. Peter’s sch. York 1838–47; P.C. of Goatland 1848 to death; author of The key of David or the mystery of the 7 sealed books of Jewish prophecy 1855; The oblation and temple of Ezekiel’s prophetic visions 5 parts 1858; Thy kingdom come 1859; Christianity in relation to Judaism and Heathenism 1860; The Hebrew and Greek scriptures compared with Oriental history, dialling, science and mythology 7 parts 1870. d. 1 St. Hilda ter. Whitby 23 April 1870. bur. York cemet. Smales’ Whitby authors (1867) 104, 171–6, 217; Whitby Times 29 April 1870 p. 4.
HEY, William (son of William Hey 1772–1844 surgeon). b. Leeds 23 Dec. 1796; M.R.C.S., F.R.C.S.; succeeded his father at Leeds 1844; surgeon Leeds infirmary 1830–51, consulting surgeon 1864; a founder of Leeds school of medicine, and lecturer on surgery there 1831–57; president surgical section British Med. Assoc. at Leeds, July 1869; V.P. Leeds Philos. and Lit. Soc. 1835 and 1839. d. Gledhow Wood, Leeds 10 May 1875. British Medical Journal, i, 763 (1875).
HEY, Ven. William (son of Rev. Samuel Hey, vicar of Ockbrook, Derbyshire). b. Ockbrook 1811; ed. at Sherborne and at St. John’s coll. Cam., fellow 1836, B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; head master St. Peter’s sch. York 1844–64; V. of St. Helen, Stonegate 1854–77; preb. of Weighton, York cath. 1854–81 and succentor canonicorum 1871–81; canon residentiary of York cath. 1864; precentor and preb. of Duffield 1881; archdeacon of Cleveland 1874 to death; examining chaplain to Archbp. of York 1874; V. of St. Olave with St. Giles’, York 1877 to death; select preacher Cam. 1879. d. The Residence, Minster yard, York 22 Nov. 1882. Church portrait journal, Jany. 1880 pp. 5–8, portrait.
HEYGATE, James. b. West Haddow, Northampton; M.R.C.S. 1823, M.D. Edin. 1836; in practice at Hanslope, Bucks., at Derby 1837 to death; senior physician Derbyshire general infirmary; F.R.S.; V.P. British medical assoc.; author of Tic doloureux, An essay 1836 and of papers in medical journals. d. Little Eaton, Derby 4 Aug. 1872. Medical Times 31 Aug. 1872 p. 243.
HEYSHAM, Thomas Coulthard (eld. son of Dr. John Heysham). b. 1792; mayor of Carlisle 1839; J.P. for Cumberland; made extensive collections in entomology, ornithology and botany; his name given to some species of coleoptera. d. Fisher st. Carlisle 6 April 1857. Carlisle Journal 10 April 1857 p. 8, 17 April p. 8.
HEYTESBURY, William A’Court, 1 Baron (eld. son of Sir William Pierce Ashe A’Court, 1 Baronet 1747–1817). b. Salisbury 11 July 1779; ed. at Eton; sec. of legation at Naples 31 July 1801; sec. to special mission at Vienna 20 April 1807; first commissioner of affairs, Malta 1812; envoy extraord. to Barbary states 5 Jany. 1813, to Naples 5 July 1814 and to Spain 5 April 1822; ambassador to Portugal 22 Sep. 1824 and to Russia 5 April 1828, pensioned 18 Aug. 1832; succeeded as 2 baronet 22 July 1817; P.C. 30 Dec. 1817; G.C.B. 20 Sep. 1819; cr. baron Heytesbury of Heytesbury, Wilts. 23 Jany. 1828; nominated governor general of India 28 Jany. 1835 but the ministry resigned and he never took office; lord lieut. of Ireland 26 July 1844 to 11 July 1846; governor of the Isle of Wight to 1857. d. Heytesbury 31 May 1860. F. O. List (1860) 145; I.L.N. v, 60 (1844), portrait; Eton portrait gallery (1876) 346–8; Waagen’s Galleries of art (1857) 386–90.
HEYTESBURY, William Henry Ashe A’Court-Holmes, 2 Baron (son of the preceding). b. London 1809; ed. at Eton and St. John’s coll. Camb., M.A. 1831. m. 2 Oct. 1833 Elizabeth Woosley, eld. dau. of Sir Leonard Worsley Holmes, bart., and assumed name of Holmes on 14 Oct.; M.P. for Isle of Wight 1837–47; succeeded as 2 Baron 31 May 1860. d. Heytesbury 21 April 1891.
HEYWOOD, Sir Benjamin, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Nathaniel Heywood of Manchester, banker, d. 1815). b. St. Ann’s sq. Manchester 12 Dec. 1793; ed. at univ. of Glasgow 1809–11; banker at Manchester 1814, sole proprietor 1828, retired 1860; chief founder of Manchester mechanics’ institution 1824, president 1824–44; M.P. for Lancashire 1831–1832; baronet 28 July 1838; F.R.S. 1843; gave £1000 toward Manchester public park 1844; vice pres. of British association at Manchester 1842 and 1861; author of Address delivered at Manchester mechanics’ institution 1843. d. Claremont near Manchester 11 Aug. 1865. bur. St. John’s Islam’s o’ the Height; personalty sworn under £400,000, 14 Oct. 1865. Grindon’s Manchester banks (1877) 79–86; T. Heywood’s Memoir of Sir B. Heywood (1888), portrait.
HEYWOOD, John. b. 1804; hand loom weaver to 1837; a ruler to his brother Abel Heywood 1839–46; a stationer Deansgate st. Manchester from 1846, the largest copy book maker in the world, bookseller and newsagent, employed 120 hands; member of Manchester city council 1860–61; chairman of Chorlton guardians. d. Manchester 7 Oct. 1864. The Bookseller 26 Feb. 1861, p. 105.
HEYWOOD, John (son of the preceding). b. 1832; errand boy in a solicitor’s office; succeeded to his father’s book, news and stationery establishment, Manchester 1864; made a central depot for the small local booksellers, and a book saloon for the exhibition of educational appliances; had 30,000 customers’ names in his books, and employed 30 carts to distribute books and newspapers; his Excelsior printing and bookbinding works, Hulme hall road, Manchester, opened 4 July 1870; employed 750 workmen; printed a series of books called J. Heywood’s Pocket guides 1869 etc., and many other works. d. The Grange, Derbyshire lane, Stretford, Manchester 10 May 1888. Bookseller, June 1888 pp. 573–4.
HEYWOOD, John Joseph (son of R. Heywood of Glencrutchery near Douglas). b. 1789; first deemster or chief justice of Isle of Man 1821 to death. d. Bomahague, Douglas 26 May 1855 aged 66. bur. Kirk Onchar ch. yard. Hardwicke’s Annual Biog. (1856) 355.
HEYWOOD, Thomas (brother of Sir B. Heywood). b. Manchester 3 Sep. 1797; ed. at Manchester gram. sch. 1811; partner in Heywood, Bros. & Co. bankers, St. Ann’s sq. Manchester, retired 1828; collected a remarkable library of local books at Swinton, they were sold Manchester 22–3 April 1835; boroughreeve of Salford 1826; sheriff of Herefordshire 1840; F.S.A.; member of council of Chetham soc. for which he edited The Norris Papers 1846 and 5 other works; author of The earls of Derby and the verse writers of the 16th and 17th centuries. Manchester 1826; The most pleasant song of Lady Bessy 1829. d. Hope End near Ledbury 20 Nov. 1866; his general library sold Manchester, Nov. 1868. Manchester sch. reg. iii, 74–6 (1874).
HEYWORTH, Lawrence (4 son of Peter Heyworth, woollen manufacturer, d. 1799). b. Greensnook, Bacup 1786; ed. at Hipperholme gram. sch. near Halifax 1799–1802; woollen manufacturer with his brothers at Bacup 1802; established business connections with Portuguese and Spanish 1805 and with South America 1808; in S. America 1809–16; established agencies in Liverpool and Hamburg; firm became Heyworth, Brothers & Co., retired 1836; purchased Yew Tree estate near Liverpool 1819; chairman Liverpool Free trade association; M.P. Derby 1848–57; author of On the corn laws and other legislative restrictions, 7 ed. 1843; On economic fiscal legislation 1845; The expansion of the suffrage and accession of blessings God has in store for all classes through the wise exercise of the franchise 1861. d. Yew Tree, West Derby, Liverpool 19 April 1872. I.L.N. 22 June 1850 pp. 443–4, portrait; Newbigging’s Forest of Rossendale (1868) 181–88.
HIBBERD, James Shirley (son of a master mariner). b. St. Dunstan, Stepney, London 1825; apprentice to a bookseller at Stepney; editor of Floral World 1858, which he managed to 1875; editor Gardener’s Magazine 1861 to death; a practical writer on agriculture, experimented on fruit trees and vegetables, especially on potatoes; temperance advocate and a vegetarian; a popular lecturer, lectured at Wylde’s Great Globe; F.R.H.S.; author of Brambles and Bayleaves. Essays 1855, 3 ed. 1873; Profitable gardening 1863; Familiar garden flowers 5 vols. 1879–87; Water-cresses without sewage 1878 and 25 other books. d. 1 Priory road, The Green, Kew 16 Nov. 1890. Gardener’s Mag. 22 Nov. 1890, portrait; I.L.N. 29 Nov. 1890 p. 678, portrait.
HIBBERD, Samuel. b. 1839; jockey; won the Cambridgeshire on Malacca 1856, Cesarewitch on Lecturer 1866, the Chester Cup on One Act in 1856 and on Dalby in 1865 and 1866. d. Newmarket 21 Feb. 1888. Times 29 Feb. 1888 p. 9.
HIBBERT, John (son of John Hibbert of Braywick lodge, Maidenhead, d. 1855). b. 29 Jany. 1811; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Cam., scholar, fellow; B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; barrister I.T. 29 April 1836; chairman of Cookham board of guardians; built a ch. for the poor of the Maidenhead and Cookham union; founded and endowed a ward in Royal Windsor infirmary. d. Braywick lodge, Maidenhead 28 March 1888.
HIBBS, Rev. Richard. b. 1812; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., scholar; B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844; C. of Bishop Hatfield 1841–3; C. of Corton near Lowestoft 1843–8; teacher and preacher at Lowestoft 1848–52; C. of St. Paul’s, Covent Garden 1852; assist. minister St. John’s chapel, Edin. 1852–4, a controversy with the incumbent led him to establish the New Church of England chapel, St. Vincent st. Edin. 1854; C. of Market Lavington 1874–6; chaplain at Lisbon; chaplain at Rotterdam and Utrecht 1876–8; author of The substance of a series of discourses on baptism 1848; Scottish episcopal Romanism, or popery without a pope 1856; Truth vindicated or some account of the New Church of England chapel 1858, 4 ed. 1859; Prussia and the poor, or the systematized relief of the poor at Elberfeld in contrast with that of England 1876, 4 ed. 1883. d. 13 St. Lawrence road, North Kensington, London 26 March 1886. Academy 10 April 1886 pp. 255–6.