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HORN, Marion (dau. of Mr. Horton, manufacturer of silver plate ware). b. Birmingham 1811; sang small parts in English operas and served as a substitute for Emma Romer; studied under Marco Bordogni in Paris; had a mezzo soprano voice; appeared as Cinderella at Old Park theatre, New York 16 Sep. 1836 and then as Rosina, Amina, and Susanna; sang in operas throughout United States; (m. 1839 Charles Edward Horn 1786–1849, the writer of Cherry Ripe 1825, and I know a bank 1830); taught in New York many of best known American singers. d. Morrisania co. Winchester, New York, Jany. 1887. Ireland’s New York Stage, ii, 176 (1867).
HORN, Robert (youngest son of William Horn, farmer). b. Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire 24 May 1810; ed. at Glasgow univ.; passed at Scotch bar 1834; hon. memb. Speculative Soc. Edin.; a commissioner of the board of manufacturers 1866; vice dean of Faculty of Advocates 1874 and dean 1876; helped in preparing Catalogue of Faculty of Advocate’s Library 1873. d. 7 Randolph crescent, Edinburgh 2 Jany. 1878. Journ. of Jurisprudence, xxii, 93–7 (1878).
HORNBLOWER, Jane Elizabeth (dau. of William Roscoe 1753–1831 historian). b. Liverpool 1797; (m. Francis Hornblower); author of Poems 1820; Poems 1821; Poems 1843. d. Liverpool 2 Aug. 1853.
HORNBY, Edmund (eld. son of Rev. Geoffry Hornby, R. of Winwick, Lancs. d. 1812). b. 16 June 1773; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1794, M.A. 1797; barrister I.T. 22 June 1798; chairman of Lancaster court of quarter sessions many years; M.P. for Preston 1812–26; sheriff of Westmoreland 1828. d. Dalton hall near Burton, Westmoreland 18 Nov. 1857.
HORNBY, Edmund George (son of the preceding). b. 6 Nov. 1799; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1820; M.P. for Warrington 1832–5; constable of Lancaster castle. d. Dalton hall 26 or 27 Feb. 1865.
HORNBY, Louisa (sister of Edmund Hornby 1773–1857). b. Winwick 5 April 1788; author of Bible Stories; Universal Reform; The Full Loom and other books. d. Winwick 6 Jany. 1873.
HORNBY, Sir Phipps (brother of the preceding). b. Winwick 27 April 1785; ed. at Sunbury; entered navy 19 May 1797, captain 16 Feb. 1810; as commander of the Volage took part in action off Lissa 1811, gold medal; superintendent of royal naval hospital and victualling yard at Plymouth 1832 to 6 Jany. 1838; superintendent of Woolwich dockyard 6 Jany. 1838 to 16 Dec. 1841; controller general of the coastguard 16 Dec. 1841 to Nov. 1846; commander in chief in the Pacific 1847–50; a lord of the admiralty 28 Feb. to 30 Dec. 1852; admiral 25 June 1858; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 6 April 1852, G.C.B. 28 June 1861. d. Little Green near Petersfield 19 March 1867.
HORNBY, Robert Vernon Atherton. b. Atherton 6 Nov. 1805; author of Statistical account of Winwick 1837; Vale: a poem 1854. d. Wansfell, Windermere 25 Aug. 1857.
HORNBY, William Henry (3 son of John Hornby of Blackburn). b. Blackburn 2 July 1805; founded the Brookhouse cotton mills, Blackburn 1828; first mayor of Blackburn 1851; M.P. Blackburn 1857–69 when he was unseated. d. Pool hall, Nantwich, Cheshire 5 Sep. 1884. Puseley’s Commercial Companion (1858) 114–5.
HORNCASTLE, James Henry. b. London 26 May 1801; appeared as first witch in Macbeth at Drury Lane 1820; first appeared at Chestnut street theatre, Philadelphia 28 Jany. 1839; at National theatre, New York with Louisa Pyne’s troupe 1854 and at Broadway theatre 1855; attached to Princess’ theatre, London; musician, actor, author and composer; an annuitant on General theatrical fund. d. West Malvern 6 May 1869. Ireland’s New York stage, ii, 231, 629 (1867).
HORNE, James. b. 1790; experimented on steam locomotives on roads; F.R.S. 6 Feb. 1834; A.I.C.E. 20 Feb. 1835, auditor 1840; applied warming and ventilating apparatus to halls of the City companies. d. London 26 Oct. 1856. Min. of Proc. Instit. of C.E. xvii, 102 (1858).
HORNE, Lenox (younger brother of the succeeding). Baritone singer at Surrey theatre under name of Mr. Lennox 1849–51; lecturer at the Polytechnic Institution London; wrote Two heads are better than one, A farce, produced at Lyceum theatre Dec. 1854; The baronet abroad; The tale of a comet. d. Clapham road, Kennington 20 Nov. 1874.
HORNE, Richard Henry or Hengist. b. London 31 Dec. 1802; ed. at Sandhurst; midshipman in Mexican navy, served in war against Spain 1829; edited the Monthly Repository July 1836 to June 1837; sub.-comr. to report on employment of children in mines 1843; went with Wm. Howitt to Australia 1852; commander of the gold escort between Ballarat and Melbourne 1852; comr. of crown lands for the gold fields 1853–4; territorial magistrate 1855 &c.; took name of Hengist instead of Henry 1864; returned to England 1869; granted civil list pension of £50, 19 June 1874, and another of £50, 28 April 1880; author of Cosmo de Medici 1837, a tragedy; The death of Marlowe 1837, a tragedy; The history of Napoleon 2 vols. 1841, new ed. 1879; Orion, an epic poem 1843, 10 ed. 1874, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd eds. were issued at a farthing; A new spirit of the age 2 vols. 1844; The poor artist 1850, 2 ed. 1871; Sithron the Star-stricken 1883, and 15 other books. d. Margate 13 March 1884. R. H. Horne’s Australian facts and prospects (1859) 1–44; H. B. Forman’s Our living poets (1871) 427–46; Athenæum 22 March 1884 pp. 374–5; I.L.N. lxxxiv, 301 (1884), portrait.
HORNE, Rev. Thomas Hartwell (son of William Horne of London, barrister’s clerk). b. Chancery lane, London 20 Oct. 1780; ed. at Christ’s hospital 1789–95; barrister’s clerk 1796–1806; sec. to Joseph Butterworth, M.P. 1806–9; sub-librarian to Surrey institution 1809–23; C. of Ch. Ch. Newgate st. London 1819–25; senior assist. librarian British museum 1824–60; assist. minister at Welbeck chapel, London 1825–33; F.S.A. 1828; F.R.S.L.; B.D. Cambridge 1829, D.D. Univ. of Pennsylvania; preb. of St. Paul’s 1831 to death; R. of St. Edmund the King with St. Nicholas Acons, Lombard st. 25 Nov. 1833 to death; author of An introduction to the critical study and knowledge of the Holy Scriptures 3 vols. 1818, 11 ed. 1860; Outlines for the classification of a library submitted to the trustees of the British museum 1825; A compendious introduction to the study of the Bible 1827, 10 ed. 1862; Manual of parochial psalmody 1829, 41 ed. 1861 and about 50 other books. d. 47 Bloomsbury sq. London 27 Jany. 1862. G. M. Turpin’s The Rev. T. H. Horne (1862), portrait; Reminiscences of T. H. Horne, by his daughter S. A. Cheyne (1862); Cowtan’s Memories of British Museum (1872) 105–9.
HORNE, Sir William (2 son of Rev. Thomas Horne, schoolmaster at Chiswick). b. 1774; barrister L.I. 23 June 1798, bencher 6 Nov. 1818; comr. of bankrupts 1806–18; K.C. Nov. 1818; attorney general to queen Adelaide 24 July 1830; solicitor general 26 Nov. 1830 to 23 Nov. 1832, attorney general 26 Nov. 1832 to Feb. 1834; appointed a baron of the Exchequer but declined the office 1834; master in chancery 23 July 1839, resigned 1853; M.P. for Helston 1812–18, for Bletchingley 1831, for Newton, Isle of Wight 1831–2, for Marylebone 12 Dec. 1832 to 29 Dec. 1834; knighted by Wm. IV. at St. James’s palace 24 Nov. 1830. d. 49 Upper Harley st. London 13 July 1860. Mrs. Hardcastle’s Life of Lord Campbell (1881) ii, 18–41; Lord Brougham’s Life and times, iii, 341–54, 426–9.
HORNEGOLD or HORNIGOLD, William 1797–1867, artist. See Hornygold, W. ante col. 1523.
HORNER, Leonard (youngest son of John Horner of Edinburgh, linen merchant). b. Edinburgh 17 Jany. 1785; ed. at high sch. and univ. of Edin.; partner in a branch of his father’s business in London 1804–17; F.G.S. 1808, sec. 1810, pres. 1846 and 1860; F.R.S. 1813, vice pres. 1857; warden of London Univ. 1827–31; inspector under the Factories act 1833–60; published Works of Francis Horner 1843; Memoirs of Francis Horner 1848, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1853; a translation of Villari’s History of Savonarola 1863. d. 60 Montague sq. London 5 March 1864. Quarterly Journal of Geol. soc. xxi, 30–40 (1865); Proc. of Royal soc. xiv, 5–10 (1865); Macmillan’s Mag. x, 319–26 (1864).
HORRABIN, Rev. Richard. b. Garstang near Preston; ed. at Old Hall Green coll.; chaplain Virginia st. chapel, Ratcliffe highway, London 1815–39, and 1841–54; chaplain St. Mary, Moor fields 1839–41; gave evidence before house of commons on education of lower orders 1816; published The New Testament, ed. by Marlow J. F. Sidney and revised by the Rev. R. Horrabin 1818. d. Houndsditch, London 13 Dec. 1859. Gillow’s English Catholics iii, 403–4 (1887).
HORSBURGH, John. b. Prestonpans near Edinburgh 1791; apprenticed to Robert Scott the engraver 1805; engraved several plates after J. M. W. Turner for Scott’s Poetical and Prose Works and other publications; engraved several single plates including Prince Charlie reading a despatch and 2 portraits of Sir Walter Scott; undertook gratuitously duties of pastor in Scottish Baptist church. d. 16 Buccleuch place, Edinburgh 24 Sep. 1869. Pastoral addresses of J. Horsburgh with memoir 1869.
HORSEY, George (4 son of Charles Horsey of St. John st., London). b. 29 Sep. 1819; barrister G.I. 22 May 1850; equity draughtsman and conveyancer; author of A practical analysis of the Trustees Act 1850; The probate and administration act 1858; The court of Probate acts 3 ed. 1859; Law of property and trustees relief act 1860. d. Colne villa, New Southgate, Middlesex 16 Sep. 1889.
HORSFALL, Thomas Berry. b. Liverpool 1805; a merchant in Liverpool, mayor of Liverpool 1847–48; M.P. Derby 8 July 1852, unseated 9 March 1853; M.P. Liverpool 9 July 1853 to Nov. 1868; president Liverpool chamber of commerce on its foundation 1849. d. Torquay 22 Dec. 1878.
HORSFIELD, Thomas. b. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 12 May 1773; ed. Univ. of Pennsylvania, M.D. 1798; studied natural history in Java 1799–1819; in service of Dutch government in Java and Sumatra to 1811 and of H.E.I.Co. 1811–20; keeper of museum, India House, London 1820 to death; F.L.S. 1820; F.R.S. 1828; author of Zoological Researches in Java 1824; Descriptive catalogue of Lepidoptera in the H.E.I.C. museum, 2 parts 1828–9 and other books. d. Chalcott villas, Camden town, London 24 July 1859. Proc. of Royal Society x, 19–21 (1860); Proc. Linnean Soc. (1859–60) 25–6.
HORSFORD, Sir Alfred Hastings (son of general George Horsford, d. 1840). b. Bath 3 April 1818; 2 lieut. rifle brigade 12 July 1833, lieut.-col. 9 March 1855 to 1 Jany. 1868, col. commandant 2 battalion 21 Nov. 1880 to death; served in Kaffir wars 1847–8 and 1852–3, Crimean war 1854–5 and Indian mutiny 1857–8; D.A.G. at horse guards 1860–6; brigadier general at Aldershot 1866–9; military sec. at Horse Guards 1874–80; col. 79 foot 17 March 1876, col. 14 foot 1 Jany. 1879 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 3 April 1883; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 8 May 1860, G.C.B. 29 May 1875. d. Munlochy near Inverness 13 Sep. 1885. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 19 Sep.
HORSFORD, Sir Robert Marsh (eld. son of Paul Horsford, chief justice of Antigua, d. 1850). b. Boswell court, Lincoln’s inn, London 1798; ed. at Winchester; matric. from Ex. coll. Ox. 7 Dec. 1816; barrister M.T. 17 May 1822; settled in island of Antigua, solicitor general there 1825–46, attorney general 1846 to Nov. 1847, chief justice 19 Nov. 1847, retired Aug. 1856; knighted at Buckingham palace 25 Jany. 1841; C.B. 15 Nov. 1852. d. 11 Delamere terrace, Westbourne park, London 23 May 1875.
HORSLEY, Charles Edward (son of the succeeding). b. 24 Queen’s buildings, Knightsbridge, London 16 Dec. 1822; pupil of Moscheles, Hauptmann, Spohr and Mendelssohn; teacher of music in London 1846; organist of St. John’s, Notting hill 19 Sep. 1853 to June 1857; went to Melbourne 1868, then to New York 1872, choir master St. John’s chapel 1872 to death; composed for Liverpool Philharmonic Soc. two oratorios David 1849 and Joseph 1852; wrote the cantata Comus 1854; produced oratorio Gideon at Glasgow musical festival 1860; wrote an ode Euterpe for opening of Melbourne town hall 1870, and about 35 other pieces; author of A text book of harmony 1876. d. New York city 28 Feb. 1876.
HORSLEY, William H. b. London 15 Nov. 1774; articled to Theodore Smith, pianist 1790–4; organist of Ely chapel, Holborn 1794–8; member of Royal Soc. of Musicians 15 June 1797; founded with J. W. Callcott the Concentores Sodales a club for encouragement of glee and canon writing, June 1798 which existed till 1847; assistant organist Asylum for female orphans about 1798, organist 1802–54; Mus. Bac. Oxford 18 June 1800; organist at Belgrave chapel, Halkin st. 1812–37 and at the Charterhouse 1838; had few equals as a composer of glees; published Five collections of glees 1801–27; An introduction to the study of practical harmony and modulation 1847; The musical treasury 1853 and about 60 pieces of music; his best known glees were By Celia’s Arbour 1807 and Mine be a cot. d. 1 High row, Kensington, London 12 June 1858. G.M. lxxxiii, 82, 565 (1813); Grove’s Dictionary of music, i, 753–4 (1879).
HORSMAN, Charlotte (dau. of Mr. Gardiner). b. Dublin 1827; (m. 1847 Charles Horsman, actor b. Welchpool, Montgomeryshire 21 Oct. 1825); a prominent actress at Lyceum, Strand, Sadler’s Wells and Holborn theatres; a member of the Pygmalion and Galatea co.; her last appearance was at Bradford as Meg Merrilies 14 May 1877. d. 2 William st. Bradford 4 June 1878. bur. Undercliffe cemet. 7 June. The Era 9 June 1878 p. 12.
HORSMAN, Edward (son of William Horsman d. 22 March 1845 aged 86). b. 8 Feb. 1807; ed. at Rugby and Trin. coll. Cam.; admitted advocate at Scottish bar 1832; M.P. Cockermouth Feb. 1836 to 1 July 1852; M.P. Stroud 29 June 1853 to Nov. 1868; M.P. Liskeard 11 May 1869 to death; fought a duel at Wormwood Scrubbs with James Bradshaw, M.P. 1840; comr. of Church Inquiry in Scotland; a lord of the Treasury June to Sep. 1841; chief sec. of state for Ireland March 1855, resigned May 1857; P.C. 10 March 1855; on 13 March 1866 Bright described Horsman as retiring “into his political cave of Adullam,” hence his party became known as “the cave”; author of Five speeches on ecclesiastical affairs 1849. d. Biarritz 30 Nov. 1876. H. D. Traill’s The new Lucian (1884) 183–401; I.L.N. xxx, 478 (1857), portrait; Graphic xiv, 592, 595 (1876), portrait.
HORT, Sir Josiah William, 2 Baronet (1 son of Sir John Hort d. 1807). b. 6 July 1791; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1812; succeeded 23 Oct. 1807; M.P. co. Kildare 1831–2. d. Ebury st. Eaton square, London 24 Aug. 1876.
HORT, Sir John Josiah, 3 Baronet (1 son of the preceding). b. Dublin 14 Jany. 1824; ensign 61 foot 20 Nov. 1840; captain 4 foot 27 May 1847, lieut.-col. 1 Feb. 1856 to 10 Nov. 1856 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. 36 foot 15 May 1857 to 28 Dec. 1866; lieut.-col. 44 foot 28 Dec. 1866 to 10 Nov. 1869 when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. brigade depot 1 April 1873; L.G. 10 Aug. 1878; C.B. 24 May 1873; knight of Malta. d. 35 Merrion sq. east, Dublin 5 Jany. 1882. The case of maltreatment by Capt. Hort, fourth King’s own regiment, of lieut. A. V. D. Harris. Plymouth 1851.
HORT, Sir William Fitzmaurice Josiah, 4 Baronet (brother of the preceding). b. Boulogne-sur-mer 28 Jany. 1827; ed. at R.M.A. Woolwich; called to bar in Ireland 1852; paid resident magistrate at Kilkenny 1858, at Tuam co. Galway 1858–83. d. St. Canice’s cottage, Kilkenny 18 Sep. 1887.
HORWITZ, Bernard. b. Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg 1807; learnt chess from Mendheim at Berlin; one of the 7 great Berlin players known as the Pleiades; spent sometime at Hamburg; lived in England about 1845 to death; took part in nearly all the tournaments held in England before 1862; author of Chess studies and end-games systematically arranged 1884; author with J. Kling of Chess Studies 1851 three editions, and of a periodical called The Chess Player 4 vols. 1851–3. d. 27 Parkhurst road, Bowes Park, London 29 Aug. 1885. I.L.N. viii, 100 (1846), portrait; Chess Monthly, vii, 8; Fortnightly Review, Dec. 1886 p. 754.
HORWOOD, Alfred John (younger son of Thomas Horwood of the Middle Temple, London, conveyancer). b. Camberwell, Surrey 1821; barrister M.T. 22 Nov. 1844; inspector under royal commission on historical manuscripts 1869 to death; edited Year books of the reign of Edward the First. Rolls Series 1858; A catalogue of the manuscripts belonging to Gray’s inn 1869; A common place book of John Milton 1876. d. 1 New Court, Temple, London 7 July 1881. Law Times, lxxi, 255 (1881).
HOSACK, John (3 son of John R. Hosack of Glenaher, Dumfriesshire). b. Glenaher 1809; barrister M.T. 29 Jany. 1841, bencher 22 April 1875; magistrate at Clerkenwell police court 5 June 1877 to death; author of A treatise on the conflict of laws of England and Scotland 1847; The rights of British and neutral commerce as affected by recent royal declarations and orders in council 1854; Mary Queen of Scots and her accusers, London 1869, 2 ed. 2 vols. Edin. 1870–4 and other books. d. 172 Finborough road, West Brompton, London 3 Nov. 1887. bur. Lytham, Lancs. 8 Nov.
HOSKEN, James (son of James Hosken, gunner in navy, d. Penryn 20 June 1848 aged 92). b. Plymouth 6 Dec. 1798; midshipman R.N. 1810, lieut. 1828; captain of the Great Western specially built for ocean steam navigation 1837, she left Bristol 8 April 1838 and reached New York 23 April, made 64 voyages in Great Western; captain of the Great Britain 1844, made 3 or 4 trips to New York in her, she was stranded in Dundrum bay 22 Sep. 1846; harbour master, postmaster and chief magistrate at Labuan 1848–9; commanded the Belle-Isle hospital ship in the Baltic 1854–5; captain R.N. 15 June 1857, retired 8 Jany. 1868, retired V.A. 2 Aug. 1879. d. 32 Highfield road, Ilfracombe 2 Jany. 1885. Autobiographical Sketch. Edited by his widow. Privately printed 1889.
HOSKING, William (eld. son of John Hosking, woollen manufacturer). b. Buckfastleigh, Devon 26 Nov. 1800; apprenticed to a builder and surveyor in New South Wales; articled to W. Jenkins of Red Lion square, London, architect 1820–23; exhibited 1 drawing at R.A. and 9 at Suffolk st. 1825–9; F.S.A. 11 Feb. 1830; F.I.B.A. 16 Jany. 1835, member of council 1842–3; engineer of Birmingham, Bristol and Thames Junction railway 1834; superintended formation of Abney Park cemetery, Stoke Newington, London 30 acres 1839–40; professor of Art of construction in King’s coll. London 1840, and of Principles and practice of architecture 1841 to death; an official referee under Metropolitan building act 3 Sep. 1844 to 1855; published Preliminary essay on bridges 1841, 2 ed. 1842; Theory, practice and architecture of bridges 1842; Some observations upon the recent addition of a reading room to the British museum 1858, he claimed to have suggested the Circular reading room for which Panizzi has the credit. d. 23 Woburn sq. London 2 Aug. 1861. G. Pycroft’s Art in Devonshire (1883) 70; The Builder 17 Aug. 1861 p. 560.
HOSKINS, Samuel Elliott (son of Samuel Hoskins of Guernsey). b. Guernsey Feb. 1799; ed. at Guy’s and St. Thomas’s hospitals 1818–20; L.S.A. 1821; M.R.C.S. 1822; L.R.C.P. 1834, F.R.C.P. 1859; physician in Guernsey 1827–59; F.R.S. 25 May 1843; author of A Stethoscopic Chart. Guernsey 1830; Home resorts for invalids in the climate of Guernsey 1852; Louis le Grand or Fontainebleau and Versailles, a comedy in three acts 1852; Charles the Second in the Channel Islands 2 vols. 1854; and other books. d. York place, Candie road, Guernsey 12 Oct. 1888. Lancet 20 Oct. 1888 p. 797, 27 Oct. p. 845.
HOSKINS, William (3 son of Abraham Hoskins of Newton park, Derbyshire). b. Norton, Derbyshire 1816; ed. at Camb. univ.; an actor in the provinces 1834; member of Phelps’s company at Sadler’s Wells 1844; then at Olympic; went to Australia 1856, played at Queen’s theatre, Melbourne; manager Ballarat theatre 1858, of Theatre royal, Melbourne 1863, and of Haymarket, Melbourne; rebuilt Theatre Royal, Christ Church, New Zealand; teacher of elocution, Melbourne 1884 to death; (m. (1) 1850 Julia Harland, actress d. New Zealand; m. (2) Florence Colville, actress, she d. about 1881; m. (3) Miss Bowman). d. Melbourne 28 Sep. 1886. Tallis’ Drawingroom Table book, Parts 8 and 12, two portraits; Theatrical Times ii, 297 (1847), portrait; Era 13 Oct. 1886 p. 9.
HOSKYNS, Chandos Wren (2 son of Sir Hungerford Hoskyns, 7 baronet 1776–1862). b. Hereford 15 Feb. 1812; ed. at Shrewsbury and Balliol coll. Ox., B.A. 1834; barrister I.T. 4 May 1838; assumed additional surname of Wren by royal license 15 April 1837; a co.-editor of Journal of R. Agricultural Soc.; M.P. for Hereford 1869–74; contributed Anomalies of Agriculture and many other papers to Agricultural Gazette 1844, &c.; author of Talpa, or the chronicles of a clay farm 1852, 4 ed. 1857; Occasional Essays 1866; Systems of land tenure in various countries 1870. d. 41 Eccleston sq. London 28 Nov. 1876. Journal of the Royal Agricultural Soc. 1877 p. xli; Agricultural Gazette 4 Dec. 1876 p. 544.
HOTHAM, Beaumont Hotham, 3 Baron (elder son of Beaumont Hotham 1768–99, captain Coldstream guards). b. Lullingstone castle, Dartford, Kent 9 Aug. 1794; ed. at Westminster; ensign Coldstream guards 27 June 1810, lieut. 25 Dec. 1813 to 14 Oct. 1819 when placed on h.p.; succeeded his grandfather 4 March 1814; served in the Peninsula 1812–14; general 12 Jany. 1865; M.P. Leominster 1820–41; M.P. East Yorkshire 1841–68. d. Sand Hutton near York 13 Dec. 1870. bur. in family vault at South Dalton 20 Dec., personalty sworn under £500,000, 21 Jany. 1871.
HOTHAM, Sir Charles (1 son of Hon. and Rev. Frederick Hotham 1774–1854, R. of Dennington, Suffolk). b. Dennington 14 Jany. 1806; entered navy 6 Nov. 1818, captain 28 June 1833; served in South America 1845–6; K.C.B. 9 March 1846; commander in chief West coast of Africa 1846–9; min. plenipo. to Argentine Confederation 17 April 1852; lieut. governor of colony of Victoria 6 Dec. 1853, governor in chief there 1 Feb. 1855 to death. d. Toorak, Melbourne 31 Dec. 1855.
HOTHAM, William (eld. child of lieut.-col. George Hotham 1770–1823). b. 30 July 1794; entered navy June 1803, commanded a flotilla in the river Po 1813–14; captain 4 April 1825; K.H. 25 Jany. 1836; retired on half pay 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 30 Nov. 1863. d. Clifton, York 22 Feb. 1873.
HOTTEN, John Camden, originally named John William Hotten (son of Wm. Hotten of Clerkenwell, London, carpenter). b. 45 St. John’s sq. Clerkenwell 12 Sep. 1832; placed with John Petheram, bookseller 71 Chancery lane 1846; in the United States 1848–56; a bookseller and publisher at 151B Piccadilly, London 1856 to death, and at 74–5 Piccadilly 1863 to death; published Dictionary of modern slang, cant and vulgar words 1859; A. C. Swinburne’s Poems and ballads 1866 which Moxon had withdrawn from circulation; the first to introduce into England the works of J. R. Lowell, Artemus Ward, O. W. Holmes, C. G. Leland and Bret Harte 1864 &c. d. 4 Maitland park villas, Haverstock hill, Hampstead 14 June 1873. bur. Highgate cemet. 21 June. Bookseller 31 Aug. 1873 pp. 491–3; Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. 255, 1237.
HOUGH, Rev. George. b. London 1797; ordained 1824; studied Hebrew under Dr. Wolff 1836; C. of Earl’s Heaton, Dewsbury 1827–8; V. of South Crosland near Huddersfield 1829 to death; originator and sec. of the Almondbury clerical soc. 1828–78; gave considerable sums to church works and charities; author of Annual new year addresses to the parishioners of Almondbury 1840–79; A brief exposition of the book of Revelation. Huddersfield 1878. d. South Crosland 6 June 1879. Hulbert’s Annals of Almondbury (1882) 76, 306–12, 506–7.
HOUGH, William. Entered Bengal army 1805; captain 48 Bengal N.I. to 1 Oct. 1840 when invalided; lieut. col. July 1864; author of Case book of European and native courts martial. Calcutta 1821; On the E.I.Co.’s mutiny acts 1838; Chronological exposition of opinions of writers on military law 1839; A narrative of the army of the Indies in the expedition to Afghanistan 1841; Political and military events in British India 2 vols. 1853. d. Tenterden st. Hanover sq. London 3 Jany. 1865 aged 75.
HOUGHTON, Richard Monckton Milnes, 1 Baron (only son of Robert Pemberton Milnes, M.P. 1784–1858). b. London 19 June 1809; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1831, hon. fellow of his coll. April 1876; M.P. Pontefract 1837–63; D.C.L. Ox. 1854; cr. Baron Houghton of Great Houghton, Yorks. 20 Aug. 1863; F.R.S. 10 Dec. 1868; president Social Science congress, Aug. 1873; hon. LLD. Edin. 23 April 1878; a trustee of British museum 1881; author of Memorials of a tour in Greece 1834; Memorials of many scenes 1840; Poems legendary and historical 1844; Palm leaves 1844; Monographs, personal and social 1873. d. Vichy, France 11 Aug. 1885. Reid’s Life and letters of lord Houghton 2 vols. 1890, 2 portraits; Poetical works of lord Houghton 2 vols. 1876, portrait.
HOUGHTON, Arthur Boyd (4 son of Capt. M. Houghton of H.E.I.C. service). b. 1836; illustrator of the Graphic and Fun; exhibited 10 pictures at R.A., 4 at B.I., and 3 at Suffolk st. 1861–72; associate of Soc. of painters in water colours 1871; illustrated Dalziel’s Arabian Nights 1864–5; Adventures of Don Quixote 1866 and many other works; author of The gods on peace and war, as applicable to the eastern struggle 1877. d. 162 King Henry’s road, South Hampstead, London 23 Nov. 1875. Redgrave’s Dictionary of artists (1878) 225; Art Journal 1876 p. 47.
HOUGHTON, Rev. Henry Hall (3 son of Jeremiah Houghton). b. Dublin 10 Dec. 1823; ed. at Sherborne and at Pemb. coll. Ox., scholar 1841–5, B.A. 1845, M.A. 1848; clerk of Magdalen coll. 1847–68; C. of St. Peter’s, Cheltenham 1849–52; with his uncle rev. John Hall, canon of Bristol, founded at Oxford the Canon Hall and Hall-Houghton prizes for knowledge of Greek Testament, Septuagint and Syriac versions 1868–71 at cost of £11,000; on death of his uncle took name of Hall 1871; gave Church Missionary soc. £4,500 for instruction of native young men in the scriptures; gave hospital for sick Jews at Jerusalem £3,000. d. Melmerby hall, Cumberland 4 Sep. 1889. Record 20 Sept. 1889 p. 922.
HOUGHTON, Rev. William (son of Thomas Houghton, governor of Preston house of correction). b. Preston 17 May 1812; C. of St. Sennen and St. Levan, Cornwall 1848–65; V. of Manaccan, Cornwall 1865 to death; author of Calvinism scripturally examined 1836; Rationalism in the church of England 1863 and 4 other books. d. Manaccan Vicarage 25 Dec. 1870. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i, 256.
HOULDSWORTH, John. b. Whitehall, Glasgow 12 April 1807; one of the founders of the Coltness and Dalmellington iron works in Lanarkshire and Ayrshire about 1835; senior partner of various establishments for machine making, iron founding, cotton spinning and weaving; the last provost of burgh of Anderston before it was incorporated with Glasgow; A.I.C.E. 1844. d. Bath st. Glasgow 18 Oct. 1859. Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E., xix, 189 (1860).
HOULDSWORTH, Thomas (2 son of Henry Houldsworth of Gonalston, Notts.) b. 13 Sep. 1771; a merchant and cotton spinner at Manchester and Pontefract; M.P. Pontefract 1818–30; M.P. Newton, Lancs. 1830–2; M.P. North Notts. 1832–52. d. Portland place, Manchester 1 Sep. 1852.
HOULSTON, Thomas (son of Edward Houlston of Wellington, Salop, printer). b. 1804; traveller for his father 1821–35; bookseller at 154 Strand, London 1835–44; partner with John Stoneman at 65 Paternoster row 1844 to 5 April 1856 when the latter died aged 64; partner with Henry Wright at 65 Paternoster row 1857 to death. d. Ryde, Isle of Wight 28 Aug. 1869. Bookseller, Nov. 1869 p. 938; Reg. and Mag. of Biog. Oct. 1869 p. 204.
HOULTON, Sir George (youngest son of Joseph Houlton of Farley castle near Bath, d. 1806). b. Carmarthen 1791; ensign 43 foot 20 Nov. 1806, captain 2 Nov. 1815 to 25 March 1817 when placed on h.p.; received war medal and 10 clasps for service in Peninsular war 1808–14; ensign of yeomen of the guard 25 Sep. 1835 to death; knighted 1835 or 1838, but name never in London Gazette. d. Farley castle 16 Sep. 1862.
HOULTON, Joseph. b. 1789; M.R.C.S. 1811, M.D. Erlangen 1840; surgeon East Norfolk militia; practised at Saffron Walden 1817, at Lisson grove, London 1823; professor of botany to Medical botanical society; with J. Davies edited The London medical and surgical journal 1828; translated F. Magendie’s Formulary for preparation of new remedies 1828. d. 12 Blomfield st. Westbourne terrace, London 14 Jany. 1861.
HOUSMAN, Francis (son of William Housman of St. John’s Wood, London). b. London 3 Jany. 1829; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s sch. 1838 &c.; barrister L.I. 7 June 1852; recorder of Rangoon 1871 to death; author of A selection of precedents in conveyancing 1861. d. Calcutta 19 July 1873.
HOUSTON, John Adam. b. Gwydir castle near Llanwrst, Wales 25 Dec. 1812; ed. at Edin. sch. of design; studied in Paris and Germany; a portrait painter in London some years; exhibited 45 pictures at R.A., 21 at B.I. and 3 at Suffolk st. 1840–8; resided in Edin. from 1841 to 1858 when he began contributing to the Scottish academy; returned to London 1858; exhibited Gallantry, London 1859; Lights and shadows of the wayside 1861; Prospero and Miranda, Edin. 1865. d. 10 Upper Phillimore place, Kensington 2 Dec. 1884. Art Journal (1869) 69–71, 127.
HOUSTON, Rev. Thomas. b. Donegore 1803; teacher in a sch. at Leyhmore near Ballymena 1818; ed. at Academical instit. Belfast 1819; reformed presbyterian minister Knockbraken 8 April 1828 to death; took part in the Arian separation from the synod of Ulster; professor of theology in Reformed presbyterian Theological hall, Belfast 1855 to death; went to U.S. America 1856 where he took a D.D. degree; edited The Covenanter 1830; author of A practical treatise on christian baptism, Paisley 1853; The dominion and glory of the Redeemer. Discourses 1880 and 7 other books. d. Royal hospital, Belfast 27 March 1882. bur. Knockbraken 30 March. Belfast News-Letter 28 March 1882 p. 5.
HOUSTOUN, Sir Robert (5 son of colonel Andrew Houstoun). b. Jordan hill, co. Renfrew 1780; entered Bengal army 1794 and served 25 years; col. 9 regiment light cavalry 1 May 1824 to 1858; col. 4 European light cavalry 1858 to death; governor of Addiscombe coll. 10 years; general 20 June 1854; K.C.B. 10 March 1837. d. Torquay 5 April 1862.