Frederic Boase
Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H
HURMAN, William. Studied at Univ. coll. London; pupil of Robert Liston; M.R.C.S. 1846; house surgeon Univ. coll. hospital; in practice at Windsor, Brighton and London; surgeon to 3rd Middlesex militia 11 Aug. 1865 to death; one of the best known men in the hunting, coaching and racing world; originator of the Badminton club, 100 Piccadilly, London 1876. d. 83 Grand parade, Brighton, Dec. 1883. Baily’s Mag. Jany. 1884 pp. 429–30.
HURST, Rev. Blythe. b. Winlaton, Durham 6 July 1801; a blacksmith at Winlaton; ordained by Bishop Maltby at Auckland castle, July 1842; C. of Alston, Cumberland 1844–6; V. of Collierley near Newcastle 1854 to death; taught himself French, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Syriac and Arabic; published Four sermons, Christianity no priestcraft 1840. d. Collierley 24 June 1882. Newcastle Weekly Chronicle 1 July 1882 p. 7 col. 5; I.L.N. lxxxi, 56 (1882), portrait.
HURST, Daniel, b. 1802 or 1803; publisher with Henry Blackett at 13 Great Marlborough st. London 1854 to death. d. Mitcham, Surrey 6 July 1870.
HURST, Samuel, b. Stalybridge, Lancashire 1832; champion wrestler of Lancashire; known as “The Stalybridge Infant”; 6 feet 2½ inches high and 15 stone in weight; matched with J. C. Heenan 1860 but engagement fell through; fought Tom Paddock for £200 a side near Aldermaston, Berkshire 5 Nov. 1860 when Hurst won in 5 rounds and obtained the champion belt; broke his leg by a fall 19 Nov. 1860; fought James Mace for £200 a side on one of the islands up the river Medway 18 June 1861 when Mace won in 8 rounds lasting 50 minutes and obtained the belt; kept the Wilton Arms tavern 4 Mayes st. Manchester about 1861–5, the Glass House tavern, Oldham road, Manchester about 1865–70. d. Mayfield cottage, Manchester 22 May 1882. Illust. sporting news (1862) 249, portrait; F. W. J. Henning’s Some recollections of the prize ring (1888) 140–9.
HURST, Rev. Thomas (son of Joseph Hurst). b. Lancashire about 1775; ordained a priest at Lisbon; priest in the English coll. at Lisbon when used for secular education 1807, professor 1813, procurator of the restored college 1834 to death; a minister in the British and Portuguese hospitals in Lisbon 1807–14; confessor to the Bridgettine nuns at Lisbon. d. Lisbon 31 March 1855. Gillow’s English Catholics iii, 490–1 (1887).
HUSBAND, William (eld. son of James Husband, surveyor for Lloyd’s Register at Falmouth d. 1857). b. Mylor near Falmouth 13 Oct. 1822; apprenticed to Harvey & Co. of Hayle, Cornwall, engineers 1839–43; mechanical engineer in charge of steam machinery on drainage works Haarlem lake, Holland 1845–9, planned and erected the half-weg engine, the lake when drained added 47,000 acres of rich soil to Holland; manager of business of firm of Harvey & Co. in London 1852–4, and at Hayle 1854–63, a partner 1863 to death; patented balance valve for water-work purposes, four-beat pump valve, Husband’s oscillating cylinder stamps, &c.; M.I.C.E. 1 May 1866; originated 8th Cornwall artillery volunteers 1860, captain 2 April 1860 to 6 May 1865. d. 26 Sion hill, Clifton 10 April 1887. bur. St. Erth, Cornwall 16 April. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. (1887) lxxxix 470–3.
HUSENBETH, Rev. Frederick Charles (son of Frederick Charles Husenbeth of Bristol, wine-merchant). b. Bristol 30 May 1796; ed. at Sedgly Park sch. Staffs. and St. Mary’s coll. Oscott; ordained R.C. priest 25 Feb. 1820; chaplain at Cossey hall, Norfolk 7 July 1820; missioner of St. Walstan’s chapel, Cossey 1841 to death; grand vicar of the Midland district 1827; created D.D. by Pius ix. 7 July 1850; provost of the chapter and vicar-general of diocese of Northampton 24 June 1852; wrote 1305 articles under initials of F.C.H. in Notes and Queries 4 Feb. 1854 to 2 Nov. 1872; published Breviarium Romanum suis locis interpositis officiis sanctorum Angliæ 4 vols. 1830; The Missal for the use of the laity 1837; Emblems of Saints by which they are distinguished in works of art 1850, 3 ed. 1882; The Holy Bible translated from the Latin Vulgate 2 vols. 1853 and 50 other books. d. the presbytery adjoining St. Walstan’s chapel at Cossey 31 Oct. 1872. Gillow’s English Catholics (1887) iii, 492–507.
HUSK, William Henry. b. London 4 Nov. 1814; clerk to Manning and Dalston and their successors, solicitors, London 1833–86; member of Sacred Harmonic Soc. Oct. 1834, hon. librarian 1853–82 when society was dissolved, wrote prefaces to word-books of Oratorios performed at Society’s concerts; author of Catalogue of library of Sacred Harmonic Society 1862, new ed. 1872; Account of the musical celebrations on St. Cecilia’s day in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries 1857; edited Songs of the Nativity [1866]; wrote many articles in Grove’s Dictionary of Music. d. 20 Westmoreland place, Pimlico, London 12 Aug. 1887.
HUSKISSON, Samuel (3 son of Wm. Huskisson of Oxley, Staffs). b. 1773; cornet 29 light dragoons 17 May 1799; served in Bengal 1799–1803; major 8 foot 4 July 1805; lieut.-col. 1 West India reg. 28 May 1807; lieut.-col. 9 garrison batallion 25 Sep. 1807 to May 1808; lieut.-col. 67 foot 16 June 1808 to 8 July 1824; general 11 Nov. 1851. d. 10 Mount st. Grosvenor sq. London 30 Dec. 1854.
HUSSEY, Rev. James Mc.Connell (5 son of William Hussey of Glasgow). b. 1819 or 1820; ed. at Exeter coll. Ox., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1857; C. of Atherstone, Warwickshire 1846–8; P.C. of St. James, Kennington, London 1848–54; afternoon preacher at the Foundling hospital 1854–61; V. of Ch. Ch. North Brixton 1855 to death; hon. canon of Rochester Jany. 1878 to death; rural dean of Kennington 1879–87 and 1889 to death; D.D. by archbp. of Canterbury Jany. 1881; author of Joy for the sorrowful or comfort in sickness 1855, 2 ed. 1856; Home. An essay 1878; Scandal and scandal-mongers 1879. d. Ch. Ch. vicarage, Cancel road, Vassal road, Brixton 19 May 1891. Daily Graphic 22 May 1891 p. 9, portrait.
HUSSEY, Rev. Robert (4 son of Rev. Wm. Hussey, R. of Sandhurst, Kent). b. 7 Oct. 1801; ed. at Westminster (King’s scholar 1816) and Ch. Ch. Ox., student 1821–46; double first class 1824, B.A. 1825, M.A. 1827, B.D. 1837; Greek reader 1832, censor and librarian 1835, catechist 1836, select preacher 1831 and 1846, proctor 1836, Whitehall preacher 1841–3; regius prof. of ecclesiastical history in univ. of Ox. 23 April 1842 to death; P.C. of Binsey near Oxford 1845 to death; author of An essay on the ancient weights and money 1836; An account of the Roman road from Alchester to Dorchester 1841; Sermons, mostly academical 1849; edited the histories of Socrates 1844, Evagrius 1844, Bæda 1846 and Sozomen 3 vols. 1860 and 15 other works. d. Beaumont st. Oxford 2 Dec. 1856. bur. Sandford on Thames. The Rise of the Papal power. Ed. by Jacob Ley (1863), Memoir pp. viii-xxvii.
HUTCHESON, Charles. b. Scotland 1792; taught music in Glasgow; published Christian Vespers, Glasgow 1832, containing Hymn tunes harmonised in 3 and 4 parts, and An essay on church music. d. Glasgow 1856.
HUTCHESON, Francis Deane. b. 1800; entered navy 13 Oct. 1813; captain 23 Nov. 1841; retired admiral 30 July 1875. d. 76 Shaftesbury road, West Hammersmith 21 Dec. 1875.
HUTCHESSON, Thomas. b. 1781; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 Dec. 1797; colonel 1 batt. R.A. 23 Nov. 1841 to 30 Aug. 1854; col. commandant 30 Aug. 1854 to death; L.G. 14 June 1856. d. Clarence lawn, Dover 28 Aug. 1857.
HUTCHINS, Edward John (eld. son of Edward Hutchins of Briton Ferry, co. Glamorgan). b. 1809; ed. at Charterhouse and St. John’s coll. Cam.; M.P. Penryn 23 Jany. 1840 to 23 June 1841; M.P. Lymington 30 April 1850 to 20 March 1857; contested Southampton 2 July 1841 and Poole 31 July 1847. d. Hastings 11 Feb. 1876. I.L.N. lxviii, 215 (1876).
HUTCHINSON, Charles Henry. Second lieut. Madras artillery 13 June 1834 and colonel 9 June 1868 to 5 Feb. 1870 when he retired on full pay; M.G. 5 Feb. 1870. d. 20 Westbourne park, London 27 Oct. 1873.
HUTCHINSON, Charles Waterloo, b. 18 June 1824; 2 lieut. Bengal engineers 9 June 1843; col. R.E. 1 April 1874, col. commandant 17 Dec. 1881 to death; general 28 Nov. 1885; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 16 Sep. 1886; author of Specimens of various vernacular characters passing through the post office in India, photozincographed. Calcutta 1877. d. 13 Kildare gardens, Bayswater, London 27 March 1890.
HUTCHINSON, George Rowan. Second lieut. R.E. 29 May 1832, captain 13 Dec. 1847 to death; superintendent of new harbour works at Holyhead, killed by explosion of powder there 25 Feb. 1851 though half a mile from where it took place. A.R. (1864) 14.
HUTCHINSON, John. b. Newcastle 1811; ed. at London univ.; assistant phys. to Hospital for consumption, Brompton; author of The spirometer and stethoscope and scale-balance, their use in discriminating diseases of the chest and their value in life-offices 1852. d. Fiji, Sandwich islands, July 1861.
HUTCHINSON, John Dyson. b. Halifax, Yorkshire 6 July 1822; ed. at Hipperholme gram. sch.; in business at Halifax, retired 1870; mayor of Halifax 1868 and 1871; M.P. Halifax 21 Feb. 1877, accepted the Chiltern hundreds Aug. 1882. d. 25 Redcliffe sq. South Kensington, London 25 Aug. 1882.
HUTCHINSON, William Evans, b. 1806; superintendent of Midland counties line to July 1840; a director of Midland railway 1837 and chairman 1864–70; presented with a testimonial at a complimentary dinner 20 Dec. 1870. d. Oadby hall, Leicester 6 Dec. 1882. F. S. Williams’ Midland railway (1888) 181–4, 195, 236, 243.
HUTCHISON, Rev. Æneas Barkly (eld. son of Robert Hutchison of London, merchant). b. London 1819; ed. at Queen’s coll. Cam., B.D. 1855, B.D. Oxford 1856; P.C. of St. James, Devonport 21 Aug. 1850 to death; author of Memorials of the abbey of Dundrennan, Galloway 1857; A monograph of the history of St. Mary, Callington 1861. d. Harrogate 25 Dec. 1866.
HUTCHISON, Rev. William [Antony] (son of George Hutchison, a cashier in Bank of England, who d. 1833). b. London 27 Sep. 1822; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam. 1843–5; received into R.C. church at Birmingham 21 Dec. 1845, confirmed by bishop Walsh, receiving name of Antony 29 Dec. 1845; ordained priest 15 Aug. 1847; a member of the Oratory, London, to the institution of which he largely contributed 1849 to death; established ragged schools and other charities; author of Loreto and Nazareth: two lectures containing the result of personal investigation of the two sanctuaries 1863. d. The Oratory, Brompton 12 July 1863. Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 511–4 (1887).
Note.—He left by his will dated 7 July 1860 all his property to the Brompton oratory, will disputed by his brother in law Dr. Alfred Smee but its validity affirmed in case of Knox v. Smee, Court of Probate 1864. Annual Register (1864) 232–41.
HUTCHISON, Rev. William Corston (2 son of Robert Hutchison of Fincham, Norfolk). Matric. from Worcester coll. Ox. 6 May 1841 aged 19; Curate of St. Mary’s, Devonport 1848–50; Curate of St. Endellion, Cornwall 1850–1; joined Church of Rome Aug. 1851; lived chiefly abroad rest of his life; tutor to Prince Imperial of France; a member of the third order of St. Francis; a chevalier of Holy Cross of Jerusalem; private chamberlain to Pius ix. and Leo xiii.; had a great share in production of Dr. Fan di Bruno’s Catholic Belief. d. Holly Place, Hampstead 9 Sep. 1883 aged 63. bur. Leytonstone cemet. Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 514–5 (1887).
HUTH, Frederick. b. Hanover 1777; settled at Corunna, landed in England 1809, naturalized by act 59 Geo. iii. cap. 90 (1819); founded house of F. Huth and Co. merchants, City of London 1816; one of most eminent merchants of City of London; had order of Charles iii. of Spain. d. 33 Upper Harley st. London 14 Jany. 1864, personalty sworn under £500,000, 5 March.
HUTH, Henry (3 son of the preceding). b. London 1815; ed. at Rusden’s sch. Leith hill, Surrey to 1833; travelled in Germany, France and the U.S. of A. 1836–9; joined a firm in Mexico 1840; in a firm at Hamburg 1844–9; merchant in London 1849 to death; purchased books at all the important sales, also daily at chief booksellers; with the single exception of Lord Spencer had finest private library then known; member of Philobiblon Society 1863, of Roxburgh club 1866; treasurer and pres. of royal hospital for incurables 1861; printed Ancient ballads and broadsides 1867; Inedited poetical miscellanies 1584–1700. 1870; Fugitive Tracts 1493–1700. 2 vols. 1875 and other books. d. 30 Prince’s gate, London 10 Dec. 1878. bur. Bolney ch. yard, Sussex. Times 14 Dec. 1878 p. 9; Athenæum 21 Dec. 1878 p. 803; Academy 21 Dec. 1878 p. 583; The Huth library. A catalogue of books, manuscripts, letters and engravings, collected by H. Huth 5 vols. (1880).
HUTHERSAL, Rev. Cort (son of John Huthersal of Ardwick green, Manchester, schoolmaster). Ed. at Manchester school and St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1821; C. of St. Mary’s, Manchester; C. of All Saints, Leamington to about 1837, lived at Leamington rest of his life; author of Synopsis of the various administrations for the government of England from the year 1756 to 1842. London 1842, anon. d. Leamington 14 Sep. 1859.
HUTHWAITE, Sir Edward (eld. son of William Huthwaite, draper, Nottingham). bapt. St. Peter’s, Nottingham 24 June 1793; ed. at military academy Woolwich; second lieut. Bengal artillery 12 Nov. 1810, lieut.-col. 3 July 1845, col. commandant 23 Jany. 1854 to death; L.G. 6 March 1868; C.B. 3 April 1846, K.C.B. 2 June 1869; served in India 1810 to his death, and was present at Sobraon, Chillianwalla and Goojrat. d. Sherwood, Nynee Tal, India 5 April 1873. I.L.N. lxii, 475 (1873).
HUTHWAITE, Henry. b. 1769; entered Bengal army 1795; colonel 15 Bengal N.I. 1837–52; colonel 42 Bengal N.I. 1852 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. Hoveringham, Notts. 5 Dec. 1853.
HUTT, Sir George (son of Richard Hutt of Appley Towers, Ryde, Isle of Wight). b. 1809; lieut. Bombay artillery 28 Sep. 1827, major 12 Sep. 1855 to 9 Nov. 1858 when he retired; served during Scinde and Afghan campaigns 1839–44, in Persia 1857, and Indian mutiny 1857–8; M.G. 18 Jany. 1859; sec. to comrs. of Chelsea hospital 6 March 1865 to 13 March 1885; C.B. 26 Feb. 1846, K.C.B. 21 June 1887; edited Papers illustrative of the history of the royal hospital at Chelsea 1872. d. Appley Towers, Ryde, Isle of Wight 27 Sep. 1889. Times 31 Oct. 1889 p. 10.
HUTT, Richard. b. 1803; assistant to George Cawthorne of the circulating library 24 Cockspur st., London May 1825, managed the business for the widow 1833–50, and was partner with her son 1850–74 when the latter retired. d. 24 Cockspur st. 8 Nov. 1876 aged 73. Bookseller Dec. 1876 p. 1143; Publisher’s Circular Dec. 1876 p. 920.
Note.—This was the first circulating library in London, it was commenced at 132 Strand in 1740 by Wright, who was succeeded by Batho. John Bell next became the proprietor of the business and was followed by G. Cawthorne who removed to Cockspur st. in 1807.
HUTT, Sir William (brother of Sir George Hutt, 1809–89). b. 2 Chester place, Lambeth, Surrey 6 Oct. 1801; ed. at St. Mary’s hall, Ox. Feb. to Aug. 1820 and at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1831; M.P. Hull 1832–41; M.P. Gateshead 1841–74; V.P. of board of trade and paymaster general 22 Feb. 1860 to Nov. 1865; P.C. 22 Feb. 1860; negotiated a treaty of commerce between Great Britain and Austria 27 Feb. 1865 etc.; member of mixed commission at Vienna to examine into Austrian Tariff 1 March 1865; K.C.B. 27 Nov. 1865. d. Appley Towers, Ryde, Isle of Wight 24 Nov. 1882.
HUTTON, Edward. b. 1797; L.R.C.S. Ireland 1819, F.R.C.S. 1824, president 1852, sec. June 1853 to June 1865; M.B. Dublin 1822, M.D. 1842; president of pathological society of Dublin; M.R.I.A.; contributed to Dublin medical journal and other periodicals. d. 5 Merrion square south, Dublin 24 Nov. 1865.
HUTTON, Frederick. b. 1801; entered navy 28 Jany. 1813; captain 3 July 1844; governor of Ascension 12 Nov. 1846; R.A. 1 April 1863. d. Tunbridge Wells 6 March 1866.
HUTTON, George. Entered Madras army 1811; colonel 22 Madras N.I. 1860 to death; M.G. 4 July 1856. d. Vizianagram, Madras 28 Aug. 1861.
HUTTON, Henry. Called to the bar in Ireland 1822, Q.C. 7 Feb. 1849; chairman of quarter sessions, co. Roscommon to death. d. 1859.
HUTTON, Rev. Henry (son of lieut. general Henry Hutton, d. 1827). b. Moate, Westmeath 1808; ed. at Wad. coll. Ox., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833; C. of Lidlington, Beds. 1832; P.C. of Woburn, Beds. 1834–49; chaplain to duke of Bedford 1839; R. of St. Paul’s, Covent Garden, London 1849 to death; author of Lectures, doctrinal, explanatory and practical on the English liturgy. Woburn 1848; An account of the charitable institutions in parish of Saint Paul, Covent Garden 1858. d. 7 Henrietta st. Covent Garden 23 June 1863. Sermons on the Lord’s Prayer. By H. Hutton (1863), Memoir pp. i-xlviii.
HUTTON, James Frederick (son of Wm. M. Hutton). b. London 1826; an African merchant and manufacturer of cotton goods at Manchester; Belgian consul at Manchester 11 Aug. 1887 to death; pres. of Manchester chamber of commerce; F.R.G.S.; M.P. for North division of Manchester 1885 to 1886. d. Cairo 1 March 1890.
HUTTON, Rev. Peter. b. Holbeck near Leeds 29 June 1811; ed. at Benedictine college, Ampleforth; studied at Univ. of Louvain 1836–9; ordained priest 24 Sep. 1839; pres. of St. Peter’s college, Prior Park near Bath, and professor of Latin and Greek there Sep. 1839 to July 1841; entered the Order of Charity at Loughborough, Leics. 5 July 1841; rector of the college of Order of Charity near village of Ratcliffe-on-the-Wreak near Leicester 23 Nov. 1844, vice pres. 2 July 1850, pres. 1 Nov. 1851 to death; translated all the Latin and Greek authors read in the schools at Ratcliffe. d. Ratcliffe college 2 Sep. 1880. J. Hirst’s Brief memoir of Father Hutton. Market Weighton, St. William’s press (1886); Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 517–21 (1887).
HUTTON, Robert Howard (son of Robert Hutton). b. Soulby, Westmoreland 26 July 1840; farmer Milnthorpe 1863–9; bone setter at 74 Gloucester place, Portman sq. London 1871–9, at 36 Queen Anne st. Cavendish sq. 1879 to death; had an extensive practice and made much money; a well known huntsman at Melton Mowbray. d. University coll. hospital, London from taking laudanum in error for a black draught 16 July 1887.
Note.—His uncle Richard Hutton was a bone setter at Wyndham place, Crawford st. London for many years and d. Gilling lodge, Watford 6 Jany. 1871 aged 70. Among his successful cures were the Hon. Spencer Ponsonby in 1865 and George Moore the philanthropist in 1869.
HUTTON, Rev. Wyndham Madden (son of Rev. John Hutton of Granby, Notts.) Matric. from St. Edmund hall, Ox. 7 July 1849 aged 18; at St. Bees 1854; V. of St. Paul, Tipton, Staffs. 1861–9; V. of Kirk-Christ-Lezayre, Isle of Man 1869–77; V. of Twyford with Hungarton and Thorpe-Satchville, Leics. 1877 to death; author of Poems. By A member of the university of Oxford. Oxford 1851; Gottfried’s pilgrimage: an allegory 1866, 3 ed. 1868; Bertha’s Dream and other tales. Frome Selwood 1868; The unconquered island. Ramsay 1873. d. Hungarton vicarage 18 Jany. 1882.
HUY, John. Acting manager of Court theatre, London under Marie Litton, Jany. 1871 to March 1875 and under John Hare, March 1875 to 19 July 1879; acting manager of St. James’s theatre, London under John Hare and W. H. Kendall 4 Oct. 1879 to 21 July 1888; ruptured his liver by falling on the stone stairs at his residence 3 Langham place, Regent st. London 29 Nov. 1891. d. 30 Nov. 1891 aged 57. The Era 5 Dec. 1891 p. 9 col. 4.
HUYSHE, Alfred (youngest son of Rev. John Huyshe of Exeter 1772–1851). b. 1811; ed. at Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery 13 Dec. 1827; col. R.A. 29 April 1861 to 31 Oct. 1867; inspector general of artillery in India 1867–73; general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 2 June 1877. d. 46 Onslow sq. London 25 Feb. 1880 in 69 year. Graphic xxii, 196 (1880), portrait.
HUYSHE, George (brother of the preceding). b. 1804; ensign 13 Bengal N.I. 22 March 1820; col. Bengal infantry 15 Nov. 1853; general 19 Feb. 1872; C.B. 27 Sep. 1843. d. Guernsey 6 Oct. 1881.
HUYSHE, George Lightfoot (2 son of the preceding). b. 1839; ensign rifle brigade 18 April 1856, capt. 19 Dec. 1862; served with 83 regt. in Indian mutiny 1857–9, in pursuit of Tantia Topee 1858–9, medal; on Sir G. Wolseley’s staff on Red river expedition 1870; D.A.A.G. on Sir Garnet Wolseley’s staff; author of The Red river expedition 1871; with H. Brackenbury of Fanti and Ashanti 1873. d. Prah-su, Ashantee 18 Jany. 1874. Graphic, ix, 218, 229 (1874), portrait.
HYDE, Edgar (youngest son of Rev. Henry Woodd Cock Hyde of Camberwell, Surrey). b. 27 May 1829; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. and C.C. coll. Ox., junior math. scholar 1847–57, fellow 1857–68; B.A. 1851, M.A. 1854; barrister I.T. 11 June 1862; practised at Calcutta 1862–71; edited Reports of cases in Court of judicature at Fort William, Calcutta 1864; author of The Indian succession act, with introduction and synopsis 1865. d. Folkestone 27 Jany. 1891.
HYDE, George Hooton (son of Rev. George Hooton Hyde, R. of Wareham, Dorset). b. 1798; 2 lieut. R.A. 7 July 1817, captain 18 Aug. 1843 to 14 Jany. 1852 when he retired on full pay; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. 13 Albert place, Victoria road, Kensington, London 8 March 1879.
HYDE, Henry (brother of Edgar Hyde 1829–91). b. St. Giles, Camberwell 1825; ed. Addiscombe to 1844; 2 lieut. Bengal engineers 7 June 1844; engaged in forming Cis-Sutlej states roads 1847; at siege of Mooltan and battle of Goojrat 1849; raised the Pathan companies of the sappers 1858; deputy consulting engineer railway department, N.W. provinces and Bengal 1859–60; inspector general of public works accounts, Bengal 1861; master of Calcutta mint Jany. 1862 to Jany. 1876, superintended paper currency department 1862–70; president Asiatic soc. Calcutta; inspector general of stores, India office, London 1876 to death; retired from royal engineers 17 Feb. 1878; hon. major general 17 Feb. 1878. d. Burntwood, Caterham, Surrey 23 Oct. 1887. Min. of Proc. of I.C.E. xci, 462–6 (1888).
HYDE, Rev. John. b. London 26 Feb. 1833; joined the Church of the Latter day saints 1849, preached Mormonism in France 1852, went to Salt Lake city 1853, lectured against Mormonism in the Sandwich islands and the United States of America and England 1855–6; bapt. by Dr. Jonathan Bayley in Argyle sq. ch. London and became a Swedenborgian 1858; minister at Brightlingsea 1859–61, at Derby 1861–6, and at Manchester 1866 to death; president of the New Jerusalem Church conference in London three times; author of Mormonism, its leaders and designs. New York 1857; Swedenborg, the man of the age 1859; The serpent that beguiled Eve 1862; The doctrine of substitution 1880, new ed. 1882; wrote under pseud. of A Bible Student Our eternal homes 1864, several editions; Bible Photographs, a contrast between righteousness and wickedness 1865 and other books. d. Milford, Derbyshire 18 Aug. 1875. Intellectual Repository, Oct. 1875 pp. 468–77; Publishers’ Circular 1 Sep. 1875 pp. 635–6; I.L.N. lxv, 229, 230 (1874), portrait.
HYDES, John P. Best known actor in New Zealand where he first appeared as Chizzler in the farce of But-However 23 April 1849; built Duke of Edinburgh theatre at Hokilika; held every position in the profession from checktaker to proprietor; great burlesque actor; appeared at Maguire’s opera house, San Francisco as Pauline in burlesque of Lady of Lyons 30 April 1859. d. Melbourne early in 1883.
HYETT, William Henry (eld. son of Rev. Henry Cay Adams of Shrewsbury, d. 1808). b. 2 Sep. 1795; ed. at Westminster, matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 21 Oct. 1813; swam across the Hellespont from Sestos to Abydos in 1 hour and 50 minutes; assumed name of Hyett upon succeeding to estates of Benjamin Hyett 1815; M.P. Stroud 13 Dec. 1832 to 30 Dec. 1834; made experiments on growth of trees by watering with chymical solutions; taught mechanical drawing in his schools at Painswick; founder of Gloucestershire eye institution 1866; made translations from Horace, Goethe, Victor Hugo and Filicaja which he privately printed; F.R.S. d. Painswick house, Gloucs. 10 March 1877. Times 13 March 1877 p. 10.
HYLAND, Most Rev. Thomas Raymond. b. Dublin 3 Nov. 1837; entered Dominican order at Tallaght, Feb. 1856; ordained priest in Rome 22 Dec. 1864; consecrated bishop of Euria, in partibus, in Rome 30 April 1882 and appointed coadjutor archbishop of Trinidad, West Indies. d. Trinidad 9 Oct. 1884.
HYLES, William (eld. son of Georges Hyles of Canute castle hotel, Southampton). b. 1843; proprietor of the York music hall, Southampton from its foundation 1873 to death. d. Royal York hotel, above Bar, Southampton 30 Aug. 1878.
HYLTON, William George Hylton Joliffe, 1 Baron (elder child of Rev. Wm. John Hylton of Merstham, Surrey d. 31 Jany. 1835). b. Little Argyle st. London 7 Dec. 1800; cornet 15 hussars 10 April 1817; captain 29 foot 22 April 1824 to 24 June 1824 when placed on h.p.; cr. baronet 20 Aug. 1821; M.P. Petersfield 1830–34, 1841–66; under sec. of state for home department March 1852 to Dec. 1852; parliamentary sec. to treasury March 1858 to June 1859; P.C. 18 June 1859; whip to conservative party in house of commons; created baron Hylton of Hylton, co. Durham and of Petersfield, Hants. 16 July 1866. d. Merstham house, Redhill, Surrey 1 June 1876. I.L.N. xxxii 312 (1858) portrait, li 609, 610 (1867) portrait, lxviii 575 (1876).
HYMAN, Rev. Orlando Haydon Bridgman (1 son of Simon Hyman of Devonport). b. 1814; ed. at Wadham coll. Ox., scholar 1830–5, senior fellow 1835 to death; B.A. 1834, M.A. 1840; a well known Greek scholar; had a remarkably tenacious memory, tore up his books when he had read them. d. Porchester place, Oxford sq., London 9 Dec. 1878. Times 18 Dec. 1878 p. 11; N. and Q. 5 Series xi, 201–2 (1879).
HYMERS, Rev. John (son of a farmer). b. Ormsby in Cleveland, Yorkshire 20 July 1803; a sizar at St. John’s coll. Cam. 1822; 2 wrangler 1826, B.A. 1826, B.D. 1836, D.D. 1841; fellow of his coll. 1827, assistant tutor 1829, tutor 1832, senior fellow 1838–52, pres. 1848–52; lady Margaret preacher in Univ. of Cam. 1841–52; R. of Brandesburton in Holderness, Yorkshire 1852 to death; F.R.S. 31 May 1838; author of The theory of Equations 1837, 3 ed. 1858; The Integral Calculus 1844; A treatise on spherical trigonometry 1841 and other books; left nearly all his property to found a gram. sch. at Hull, but bequest invalid under statute of mortmain, his brother Robert Hymers gave £50,000 for same purpose Jany. 1891. d. Brandesburton 7 April 1887. F. Ross’s Celebrities of the Yorkshire wolds (1878) p. 84.