Frederic Boase
Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H
BAXTER, Crichton M. Poet, painter and chess problem composer; lived at Dundee. d. Feb. 1881. Chess problems by the late C. M. Baxter 1883, portrait.
BAXTER, Sir David (2 son of Wm. Baxter of Balgavies, Forfarshire, export merchant). b. Dundee 13 Feb. 1793; partner in linen manufacturing firm of Baxter brothers 1825 which became one of largest houses in the world; purchased estates of Kilmaron 1856 and Balgavies 1863; created baronet 1 Jany. 1863; founded 4 scholarships in the Univ. of Edin. and a chair of engineering which he endowed with sum of £6,000; gave with his sisters Eleanor and Mary Ann the Baxter park to Dundee opened 9 Sep. 1863. d. Kilmaron castle 13 Oct. 1872. Personalty sworn under £1,098,000 Dec. 1872. W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 400–407; J. Thomson’s History of Dundee (1874) 385–90.
BAXTER, Edward. Merchant at Manchester; took a prominent part in every movement in favour of popular rights; brought up the great Manchester address on the Reform bill to Lord Grey; offered the first seat in Parliament for new borough of Manchester but declined; retired from business about 1834. d. 27 July 1856 aged 77.
BAXTER, Edward (eld. son of Wm. Baxter of Balgavies, export merchant). b. 3 April 1791; partner with his father about 1813–26; export merchant at Dundee 1826 to death; vice consul for the U.S. at Dundee 9 Oct. 1818; dean of guild 1831; one of the merchant princes of Dundee. d. Kincaldrum, Forfarshire 26 July 1870. W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 368–74.
BAXTER, Evan Buchanan (son of James Baxter, director of the English school at St. Petersburg). b. St. Petersburg 1844; ed. at King’s college London; gained an open scholarship at Lincoln coll. Ox. 1862; became a positivist; entered medical department of King’s college London Oct. 1864; L.S.A. 1868, M.R.C.S. 1869; house phys. King’s college hospital 1868–69, and Sambrooke medical registrar 1870–71; B.A. London 1865, M.B. 1869, M.D. 1870; medical tutor at King’s college 1871–74, and professor of materia medica and therapeutics 1874–84; M.R.C.P. 1872, F.R.C.P. 1877; phys. to Royal free hospital 1881; translated for the New Sydenham Society, Rindfleisch’s Pathological histology 2 vols. 1872–73; edited Garrod’s Essentials of materia medica 4 ed. 1874. d. 28 Weymouth st. Portland place, London 14 Jany, 1885. Lancet 24 Jany. 1885 p. 181.
BAXTER, Francis Willoughby (younger son of Wm. Edward Baxter of Dundee, merchant). b. Dundee; partner in mercantile firm of Guthrie and Baxter; contributed to Tait’s Magazine and other periodicals; edited the Dundee Advertiser; author of Percy Lockhart or the hidden will 2 vols. 1872. d. Broughty Ferry, near Dundee June 1870 aged 64. W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 358–60.
BAXTER, George (2 son of John Baxter of Lewes 1781–1858). A wood engraver in London; invented oil colour picture printing 1836, employed 20 different blocks in some of the illustrations to the “Pictorial Album” 1836. d. The Retreat Sydenham 11 Jany. 1867 aged 62.
BAXTER, George R. Wythen. Author of Modern refinement 1834; Humour and pathos 1838; The book of the Bastiles 1841; edited Don Juan Junior, a poem by Byron’s Ghost 1839. d. Bryn, Montgomeryshire 17 Jany. 1854.
BAXTER, John. b. Rickhurst Surrey 21 Oct. 1781; printer and publisher at Lewes down to Jany. 1858; the first printer in England who used the inking roller; made paper from the common nettle; published Library of practical agriculture 1846, 4 ed. 2 vols. 1851; wrote first book laying down rules of cricket published as Lambert’s Cricketer’s Guide; established Sussex Agricultural Express 1837. d. Lewes 12 Nov. 1858. M. A. Lower’s Worthies of Sussex (1865) 283–84, portrait.
BAXTER, John Boyd (son of Wm. Baxter of Balgavies, merchant). b. 1796; pres. of general council of procurators for Scotland several times; dean of faculty of procurators and solicitors at Dundee 1825 to death. d. Craig Tay, Dundee 4 Aug. 1882.
BAXTER, Mary Ann. Gave with the preceding in 1881 sum of £130,000 for founding a college in Dundee which was opened 5 Oct. 1883. d. Ellangowan, Dundee 19 Dec. 1884. Personalty amounted to upwards of £283,000.
BAXTER, Robert Dudley (eld. son of Robert Baxter of Westminster, solicitor). b. Doncaster 3 Feb. 1827; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1849, M.A. 1852; admitted a solicitor 1852; partner in firm of Baxter, Rose and Norton, Westminster; A.I.C.E. 4 Dec. 1866; author of The national income 1868; The taxation of the United Kingdom 1869; English parties and conservatism 1870; The national debts of the various states of the world 1871. d. 13 Oak hill, Frognal, Hampstead 20 May 1875. Min. of Proc. of instit. of C.E. xlii, 259–61 (1875); I.L.N. lxvi, 547 (1875), portrait.
BAXTER, William. Curator of botanic garden at Oxford 1813–54; established a library for the use of Oxford gardeners; F.L.S. 1817; author of British phænogamous botany, or figures and descriptions of the genera of British flowering plants 6 vols. 1834–43. d. Oxford 1 Nov. 1871 in 84 year.
BAXTER, William Raleigh. L.R.C.S. 1840, LLD. Aberdeen 1843; senior surgeon Osmanli horse artillery 1854; volunteer surgeon major in French army at Constantinople; author of A treatise on certain abnormal sounds of the heart; A handbook of chemistry 1851; edited Medical Record. d. Emsworth, Hants 26 Oct. 1875 aged 63.
BAYES, Cordelia (dau. of Thomas Williams of Cambridge). b. Cambridge 1797; admitted into membership with Society of Friends 1825; a Minister 1837; laboured amongst the very poor in the lowest parts of London 1840–45; visited United States and Canada 1851–53. (m. 1820 James Kirbell Bayes he d. 1842). d. Stoke Newington, London 11 April 1865. Annual Monitor for 1866 pp. 8–34.
BAYLEE, Rev. Joseph. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; B.A. 1834, M.A. 1848, B.D. and D.D. 1852; P.C. of Holy Trinity, Birkenhead, Liverpool 1842–64; founder of St. Aidan’s theological college Birkenhead 1846, and principal 1846–69, present college building opened 1856; V. of Shepscombe, Gloucs. 1871 to death; author of The institutions of the Church of England are of divine origin, 3 ed. 1838; Unitarianism a rejection of the word of God 1852; The intermediate state of the blessed dead 1864; Introduction to the study of the Bible 2 ed. 3 vols. 1870; The Apocalypse with an exegetical commentary 1876. d. Shepscombe vicarage 7 July 1883 in 76 year.
BAYLEY, Charles John. Ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.; scholar 1839, B.A. 1839, M.A. 1844; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1844; colonial sec. of Mauritius 1849; governor of Bahama islands Feb. 1857 to 1864; C.B. 23 July 1862. d. 6 July 1873.
BAYLEY, Sir Edward Clive (son of Edward Clive Bayley of St. Petersburg). b. St. Petersburg 17 Oct. 1821; entered Bengal civil service 1841; barrister M.T. 12 June 1857; sec. to government of India, home department March 1862 to 1872; vice chancellor of Univ. of Calcutta 1869–74; member of council of Governor general of India 19 April 1873 to April 1878 when he retired upon the annuity fund; pres. of Bengal Asiatic Society 5 times, and of Royal Asiatic Society 3 years; K.C.S.I. 1 Jany. 1877. (m. 6 March 1850 Emily Anne Theophila, eld. dau. of Sir Theophilus Metcalfe, Baronet). d. Wilmington lodge, Keymer Sussex 30 April 1884. Annual report of Royal Asiatic Society 1884.
BAYLEY, Frederick William Naylor. b. Ireland; went to Barbadoes 1825, returned 1829; literary dramatic and musical critic on the Morning Post about 1831; started and edited the National Omnibus, a penny weekly paper; edited the Illustrated London News May 1842 to 1848; author of Four years residence in the West Indies 1830; Scenes and stories by a clergyman in debt 3 vols. 1835; Tales of the late revolutions 1831; issued a series of songs set to music under the title of The Nosegay 1832; wrote many popular songs including The Newfoundland dog; author of New tale of a tub 1841; Comic nursery rhymes 1842; The model of the earth 1851. d. from delirium tremens New Bull’s Head Inn, Digbeth, Birmingham 1 Dec. 1852 aged 40. Rev. J. Richardson’s Recollections of the last half century ii, 197–203 (1855).
BAYLEY, Henry Vincent (eld. son of Wm. Butterworth Bayley, who d. 29 May 1860 aged 78). b. 1815; ed. at Eton; entered Bengal civil service 1834; judge of high court of judicature at Calcutta 13 May 1862 to death. d. Calcutta 2 Feb. 1873.
BAYLEY, John. b. Upper Green, Mitcham, Surrey 17 May 1794; a tailor there; a practice bowler at Lord’s cricket ground London 1823–54; played in many great matches; a slow round-armed bowler; lived at Mitcham all his life. d. Upper Green, Mitcham 7 Nov. 1874.
BAYLEY, Sir John Edward George, 2 Baronet. b. London 23 Dec. 1793; barrister M.T. 6 May 1835; clerk of assize northern circuit 1836 to death; succeeded 10 Oct. 1841. d. Stanhope lodge, Kensington Gore, London 23 Dec. 1871.
BAYLEY, John Whitcomb (2 son of John Bayley of Hempstead, Gloucs., farmer). A junior clerk in Record office, Tower of London, chief clerk 1819; sub-commissioner on the public records to May 1834; edited Calendars of the proceedings in Chancery in the reign of Queen Elizabeth 3 vols. fol. 1827–32, for which he received £2,739; student of Inner Temple Aug. 1815; author of History and antiquities of the Tower of London 2 parts 1821–25; F.S.A. 1819, F.R.S. 1823. d. Paris 25 March 1869.
BAYLEY, Robert. Ed. at Highbury theological college; independent minister at Howard st. chapel Sheffield 1835–45, at Ratcliff Highway, London 1845–57 and at Hereford 1857 to death; started a monthly periodical called The people’s college journal 1846; author of A history of Louth; Nature considered as a revelation 1836; Lectures on the early history of the Christian church; A new concordance to the Hebrew Bible juxta editionem Hooghtianam. d. Hereford 14 Nov. 1859.
BAYLEY, William. b. 1810; vicar choral at St. Paul’s and organist of St. John’s Southwark; composed some beautiful cavatinas including Softly ring ye gay bluebells and Come sister come. d. London Nov. 1858.
BAYLEY, William Butterworth (6 son of Thomas Butterworth Bayley of Hope hall, Eccles 1744–1802). b. 1782; ed. at Eton, and the college Fort William, Calcutta; sec. in revenue and judicial department 1814; chief sec. to supreme government of India 1819–25; member of the council 1825 to 11 Nov. 1830; governor general of India 13 March to 4 July 1828; a director of East India company 23 July 1833, deputy chairman 1839, chairman 1840. d. St. Leonard’s on Sea 29 May 1860.
BAYLIS, Alexander John. b. 1812; undersheriff of London 1846 and 1869; solicitor to Comrs. of Sewers Dec. 1862 to death, d. at an hotel near Redhill railway station 16 May 1882.
BAYLIS, Charles Olives. b. Jany. 1815; M.R.C.S. Edin. 1837, F.S.A. 1839, M.R.C.S. England 1843; practised at Birkenhead; medical officer of health there 1866–73; medical officer for new combined district of West Kent 1873–83. d. 62 Windsor road, Southport, Lancs. 12 Dec. 1884.
BAYLIS, Edward. Clerk in Alliance insurance office; founded between 1838 and 1854 a series of life offices all of which have disappeared except the English and Scottish Law office; went to Cape of Good Hope about 1859; author of The arithmetic of annuities and life assurances or compound interest simplified 1844. d. Cape of Good Hope 12 Sep. 1861 aged about 70.
BAYLIS, Thomas Hutchinson (son of the preceding). Manager of the Trafalgar life insurance office 1850; founded Unity general life insurance office and the Unity bank about 1852, manager of them both to Oct. 1856; founded British foreign and colonial insurance association 1857 and the Consols life association 1858; invented the Positive life assurance, an ingenious form of life policy 1869. d. 17 Vere St. Cavendish sq. 17 Nov. 1876 aged 53.
BAYLY, Sir Henry (2 son of Zachary Bayly of Bideford). b. Bath 1790; ensign 51 foot 30 April 1807; captain 24 April 1817 to 15 Aug. 1826 when placed on h.p.; K.H. 1835; knighted by the Queen at St. James’s palace 18 July 1838. d. Burly, Lyme Regis, Dorset 31 Jany. 1867.
BAYLY, Thomas Davis (4 son of Charles Bayly of Frome Selwood, Somerset, solicitor). b. 1805; barrister G.I. 27 Jany. 1836; comr. in Court of bankruptcy Dorset and Somerset 1838–43; bencher of his inn 1 March 1875. d. 20 Aug. 1879.
BAYNES, Sir Edward Stuart. Deputy assistant commissary general 16 Dec. 1813; secretary general of Ionian islands April 1828–1838; Consul at St. Petersburgh 24 April 1838 to Sep. 1849; British agent and consul general in regency of Tunis 25 Oct. 1849 to death; C.M.G. 9 Feb. 1833, K.C.M.G. 26 June 1833. d. Tunis 23 July 1855 aged 64.
BAYNES, Edwin Donald. b. 1828; colonial sec. and treasurer of Montserrat 1850–54; colonial sec. of Antigua 1863; acting lieut. governor of Dominica 1871; colonial sec. of Leeward islands, and pres. of Antigua 1872; lieut. governor of Leeward islands 1876–84; C.M.G. 1877. d. St. John’s, Antigua 1 Nov. 1884 in 57 year.
BAYNES, Sir Robert Lambert (youngest son of Thomas Baynes, commander R.N. who d. 1818). b. 1796; entered navy 19 April 1810; captain 8 July 1828; commander in chief on Pacific station 8 July 1857 to 5 May 1860; admiral 5 May 1865; C.B. 13 Nov. 1827, K.C.B. 18 May 1860. (m. 8 July 1846 Frances 4 dau. of Thomas Denman 1 Baron Denman she was b. 17 Sep. 1812). d. Upper Norwood 7 Sep. 1869.
BAYNES, Simcoe. Midshipman R.N. 1810; ensign royal Corsican rangers 24 June 1812; lieut. col. royal Malta fencible regiment 23 July 1852 to 26 Oct. 1858; colonel 35 foot 27 March 1863 to death; general 14 Dec. 1873. d. Tarxien Malta 10 Sep. 1875 aged 77.
BAYNES, Sir William, 2 Baronet. b. 28 Nov. 1789; succeeded 16 March 1837. d. 25 Portland place London 1 Jany. 1866.
BAYNING, Rev. Henry William Powlett, 3 Baron. b. London 8 June 1797; ed. at Eton and St. John’s coll. Cam.; succeeded 2 Aug. 1823. d. Honingham hall near Norwich 5 Aug. 1866.
BAYS, Peter Payne. b. Cambridge; a sailing master in the merchant service; a schoolmaster at Cambridge; auditor of Cambridge Union; author of A narrative of the wreck of the Minerva whaler of Port Jackson 1831. d. New York 7 Feb. 1864 aged 80.
BAZLEY, Sir Thomas (eld. son of Thomas Bazley of Gilnow near Bolton, Lancs. 1773–1845). b. Gilnow 27 May 1797; ed. at Bolton gr. sch.; cotton spinner and merchant at Bolton 1818–26 when he removed to Manchester, retired from business 1862; member of the Anti-Corn Law Assoc. and of the Council of the League; director of Manchester Chamber of Commerce, vice pres., pres. 1845–59; one of Royal comrs. of Great Exhibition 1851; M.P. for Manchester 17 Nov. 1858 to 24 March 1880; created Baronet 7 Oct. 1869. d. Riversleigh Lytham, Lancs. 18 March 1885. I.L.N. xix, 487, 508, 523 (1851), portrait; Touchstone 19 April 1879, portrait.
BEACH, Sir Michael Hicks, 8 Baronet, b. Netheravon house, Wilts 25 Oct. 1809; succeeded 23 Oct. 1834; lieut. col. of North Gloucester militia 10 Feb. 1844 to death; M.P. for East Gloucs. 9 Jany. 1854 to death. d. Williamstrip park, Gloucs. 29 Nov. 1854.
BEACH, William. b. 24 July 1783; M.P. for Malmesbury 13 Oct. 1812 to Feb. 1817. d. Oakley hall near Basingstoke 22 Nov. 1856.
BEACONSFIELD, Benjamin Disraeli, 1 Earl of (eld. son of Isaac Disraeli of London 1766–1848). b. London 21 Dec. 1804; baptised in parish church of St. Andrew, Holborn 31 July 1817; articled to Wm. Stevens of 6 Frederick’s place Old Jewry, solicitor 10 Nov. 1821; student of Lincoln’s Inn 18 Nov. 1824 to 25 Nov. 1831; M.P. for Maidstone 1837–1841, for Shrewsbury 1841–1847 and for Bucks. 1847–1876; chancellor of the exchequer Feb. 1852 to Dec. 1852, Feb. 1858 to June 1859 and July 1866 to Feb. 1868; P.C. March 1852; introduced and carried Representation of the people act 1867; first lord of the Treasury 29 Feb. 1868 to 2 Dec. 1868 and 21 Feb. 1874 to 27 April 1880; lord rector of Glasgow University 1871–1875, installed 19 Nov. 1873; F.R.S. 10 Feb. 1876; lord privy seal 12 Aug. 1876 to Feb. 1878; created Earl of Beaconsfield and Viscount Hughenden of Hughenden Manor, Bucks. 21 Aug. 1876; first British plenipotentiary at Berlin congress 13 June to 13 July 1878; K.G. 22 July 1878; admitted to freedom of City of London 3 Aug. 1878; author of Vivian Grey 4 vols. 1827; The young duke 3 vols. 1831; Alroy 3 vols. 1833; Contarini Fleming 1833; The Revolutionary Epick, a poem 1834; Henrietta Temple 3 vols. 1836; Venetia 3 vols. 1837; Alarcos a tragedy 1839 which was produced on the stage at Astley’s; Coningsby or the new generation 3 vols. 1844; Sybil or the two nations 3 vols. 1845; Tancred or the new crusade 3 vols. 1847; Political biography of Lord George Bentinck 1851; Lothair 3 vols. 1870; Endymion 3 vols. 1880. d. 19 Curzon st. Mayfair London 19 April 1881. bur. Hughenden churchyard 26 April. Maclise Portrait gallery by W. Bates (1883) 164–72, portrait; Lord Beaconsfield, a biography by T. P. O’Connor, 6 ed. 1884; The public life of Lord Beaconsfield by F. Hitchman, 3 ed. 1884; An appreciative life of Lord Beaconsfield, edited by C. Brown, 2 vols. 1882, portrait.
Note.—He is the hero of ‘Vivian Grey’ the first edition of which novel has whole chapters not found in subsequent editions; he figures almost by name in Lady Bulwer Lytton’s novel “Behind the Scenes” 3 vols. 1854. His statue in Parliament sq. was unveiled 19 April 1883, Primrose day.
BEACONSFIELD, Mary Anne Disraeli, Viscountess (only dau. of John Viney Evans, Captain R.N. of Branceford park, Devon). b. 1795. (m. (1) 1811 Wyndham Lewis, M.P. for Maidstone who d. 14 March 1838, m. (2) 28 Aug. 1839 Benjamin Disraeli, 1 Earl of Beaconsfield). Created Viscountess Beaconsfield of Beaconsfield 30 Nov. 1868. d. Hughenden, Bucks 15 Dec. 1872. Heath’s Book of beauty 1841 p. 236, portrait.
BEADON, Sir Cecil (youngest son of Richard Beadon who d. 6 April 1858 aged 76). b. Wells 1816; ed. at Eton and Shrewsbury; under secretary to government of Bengal 1843 and secretary 1852; secretary to government of India home department 1854 and foreign department 1859; member of Governor general’s council 1860; lieutenant governor of Bengal 1862–1866; K.C.S.I. 24 May 1866. d. Latton, Wilts 18 July 1880. Fortnightly Review viii, 180–91 (1867).
BEADON, Rev. Frederick (3 son of Rev. Edward Beadon, R. of North Stoneham, Hants who d. 17 Dec. 1810). b. London 6 Dec. 1777; ed. at Charter house and Trin. coll. Ox., B.A. 1800, M.A. 1804; R. of Weston-super-Mare 1801–11; preb. of Wells cathedral 26 May 1809, canon residentiary 1812–1875 and chancellor 13 Aug. 1823 to death; V. of Titley near Hereford 1811–1876; R. of Sulham, Berks 1814–1823; R. of North Stoneham Jany. 1811 to death. d. North Stoneham rectory 10 June 1879 aged 101 years and 6 months. Norman’s Memoir privately printed 1879; Graphic xx, 108 (1879), portrait.
BEADON, William Frederick (eld. son of Richard Beadon who d. 6 April 1858). b. 1808; ed. at Eton and St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1833; barrister I.T. 1 May 1835; police magistrate at Wandsworth and Hammersmith 1847, and at Marlborough st. police court 1856 to death. d. Stratford place, Cavendish sq. 30 March 1862.
BEAGLEY, Thomas. b. Farringdon near Alton, Hants 5 Oct. 1789; a builder there to Nov. 1850; professional cricketer; a splendid bat and long-stop; played for his county many years. d. 27 Alfred road, Harrow road, London 21 Feb. 1858.
BEAL, Abraham. b. Chatham about 1803; a great advocate of total abstinence; acquired title of “the Prisoner’s friend”; emigrated to the United States 1848; general agent of New York prison association 1863 to death; more than 10000 prisoners were released or pardoned through his active agency. d. Brooklyn New York 25 Feb. 1872. American Annual Cyclopædia xii, 59–60 (1873).
BEAL, Rev. William. b. Devonport 4 May 1785; Wesleyan minister 1808 to death; at Liskeard, Cornwall 1857 to death; the first Sunday school teacher in Cornwall; author of The fathers of the Wesley family and references to their times 1833, 2 ed. 1862; Britain and the Gael 1855 2 ed. 1860. d. Liskeard 18 June 1872.
BEAL, Rev. William (eld. son of the preceding). b. Sheffield 9 Dec. 1815; ed. at King’s coll. London and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1841, LLD. Aberdeen 1845, F.S.A. 1850; head master of Tavistock gr. sch. 1837–47; V. of Brooke Norfolk 1847 to death; originated at Brooke the Parochial harvest home 1854; diocesan inspector of schools 1855 to death; edited the West of England magazine 1840–47; author of First book in chronology 1840; Church Unions 1848; Peoples Colleges 1851. d. Aigle, canton Vaud Switzerland 20 April 1870.
BEALE, Lionel John. b. Falmouth Oct. 1796; M.R.C.S. 1815; practised in London about 1831 to death; medical officer of health to parish of St. Martin-in-the-Fields 1856 to death; author of On spinal diseases 1830; The laws of health in relation to mind and body 1851; Health and longevity 1854; On personal and domestic hygiene 1855. d. 108 Long Acre London 23 June 1871. Medical Times and gazette ii, 24 (1871).
BEALE, Samuel (son of William Beale of Camphill, Birmingham). b. Birmingham 1803; an iron master; M.P. for Derby 28 March 1857 to 6 July 1865; chairman of Midland railway 1858–1864. d. Warfield grove, Bracknell Berkshire 11 Sep. 1874. Personalty sworn under £350,000 Oct. 1874.
BEALE, Thomas William. Clerk in office of Board of Revenue at Agra many years; author of Miftahu-t-Tawarikh or Key of history lithographed at Agra 1849; The Oriental biographical dictionary edited by the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1881. d. summer of 1875 very old. Sir H. M. Elliott’s History of India viii, 441–44 (1877).
BEALE, William. b. Landrake Cornwall 1 Jany. 1784; a chorister of Westminster Abbey; Midshipman R.N.; member of Royal Society of Musicians 1 Dec. 1811; gained by his madrigal Awake sweet muse prize cup given by Madrigal Society 12 Jany. 1813; one of gentlemen of Chapel Royal 30 Jany. 1816 to 13 Dec. 1820; organist at Trinity college Cambridge 1 Nov. 1820 to Dec. 1821; organist of Wandsworth parish church 1822, afterwards of St. John’s church Clapham Rise; published A first book of madrigals, glees, &c. for 3, 4, and 5 voices 1815; Collection of glees and madrigals 1820. d. Paradise Row, Stockwell, London 3 May 1854.
BEALE, William John (son of Wm. Beale of Camphill, Birmingham). Solicitor at Birmingham; legal adviser to Midland railway; chairman of orchestral committee of musical festivals 1870–76. d. Bryntirion near Dolgelly 21 May 1883 in 76 year.
BEALES, Edmond (son of Samuel Pickering Beales of Newnham, Cambridge, merchant). b. Newnham 3 July 1803; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., scholar, B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; barrister M.T. 25 June 1830; revising barrister for Middlesex 1862–66; president of National league for independence of Poland 1863; chairman of the Circassian committee; pres. of Reform league 1865 to 10 March 1869, league was dissolved 13 March 1869; contested Tower Hamlets Nov. 1868; judge of county courts for Beds. and Cambs. 17 Sep. 1870 to death. d. Osborne house Bolton gardens south, Brompton 26 June 1881. Annual Register (1866) 98–102.
BEAMAN, George. b. near London 1803; apprenticed to Mr. Holland of Knutsford, surgeon; L.S.A. and M.R.C.S. 1822, F.R.C.S. 1852; M.D. St. Andrews 1854; partner with Mr. Hewson, apothecary in James street, Covent Garden 1824; founded with Thomas Wakley, the new Equitable life assurance office; medical officer of London and South Western railway about 1840 to death; a leading general practitioner. d. 3 Caversham, road, Kentish Town 15 Jany. 1874. Medical times and gazette i, 142 (1874).
BEAMES, John. Barrister L.I. 25 May 1811, bencher 1832; comr. of lunatics 1821–23; comr. of bankrupts 1823–30; K.C. Nov. 1832; author of The elements of pleas in equity 1818; A brief view of the writ Ne exeat regno as an equitable process, 2 ed. 1824; A summary of the doctrine of the Court of Equity with respect to costs 1822, 2 ed. 1840; Sketch of the doctrine relative to commitments in bankruptcy 1827. d. 17 Oct. 1853 aged 72.
BEAMES, Rev. Thomas. Educ. at Lincoln coll. Oxf., B.A. 1837, M.A. 1838; C. of St. Bride’s Fleet st. London 1844–46; C. of St. James’s Westminster 1846 to death; author of Rookeries of London 1850, 2 ed. 1852; Plea for educational reform 1856. d. Godolphin road, Shepherds Bush 6 Aug. 1864.
BEAMISH, Francis Bernard (6 son of Wm. Beamish of Cork, porter brewer 1760–1828). b. Beaumont near Cork 5 April 1802; ed. at Rugby; M.P. for Cork 1837–1841, and 1853 to 1865; mayor of Cork 1843, sheriff of co. Cork 1852; chairman of Reform club London to death. d. Totnes, Devon 1 Feb. 1868.
BEAMISH, Rev. Henry Hamilton. Minister of Holy Trinity chapel, Conduit st. London 1832–62; V. of Old Cleeve, Somerset 1862–65; V. of Wimbish 1865–69; R. of Lillingstone Dayrell, Bucks 1869 to death; author of Romanism and Tractarianism refuted 1853; Lectures, Who is Antichrist 1854. d. Lillingstone Dayrell rectory 23 Feb. 1872.
BEAMISH, North Ludlow (brother of Francis Bernard Beamish). b. 31 Dec. 1797; ed. at Sandhurst; cornet 4 dragoon guards 7 Nov. 1816, captain 1823–26 when placed on h.p.; F.R.S. 15 Nov. 1827; K.H. 1837; lieut. colonel in Hanoverian service 1852; sheriff of city of Cork 1855; author of Peace campaigns of a cornet [anon.] 3 vols. 1829; History of the King’s German legion 2 vols. 1832–37; The discovery of America by the Northmen in the tenth century 1841; On the uses and application of cavalry in war 1855. d. Ann Mount near Glanmire, Cork 27 April 1872.
BEAMISH, Richard (brother of the preceding). b. 16 July 1798; ensign Coldstream Guards 1814–18 when placed on h.p.; assistant engineer on the Thames tunnel Aug. 1826 and resident engineer Dec. 1834 to Aug. 1836; engineer for Cork and other counties in Ireland 1828–34; resident engineer of Gloucester and forest of Dean railway to 1850; M.I.C.E. 27 Jany. 1829; F.R.S. 24 March 1836; author of Popular instruction on the calculation of probabilities translated from the French of A. Quetelet 1839; A treatise on elocution 1854; A memoir of the life of Sir Marc Isambard Brunel 1866; The Psychonomy of the hand, 2 ed. 1865. d. Bournemouth 20 Nov. 1873. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xl, 246–51 (1875).
BEAMONT, Rev. William John (only son of Wm. Beamont of Warrington, solicitor). b. Warrington 16 Jany. 1828; ed. at Warrington, Eton and Trin. coll. Cam.; chancellor’s medallist 1850, B.A. 1850, M.A. 1853; fellow of his college 1852 to death; C. of St. John’s the Evangelist, Drury lane, London 1855; P.C. of St. Michael’s Cambridge 1857 to death; chief founder of Cambridge School of art 1858 and the Church Defence Association 1859; originator of the Church Congress 1861; author of Catherine the Egyptian slave 1852; Concise grammar of the Arabic language 1861; author with Rev. W. M. Campion of The prayer-book interleaved 1868, 7 ed. 1880. d. Trinity college, Cambridge 6 Aug. 1868.
BEAN, William. Began riding with the Queen’s stag hounds 1792; a great steeplechase rider; rode 24 steeplechases and won 17 of them. d. Notting hill London about 31 March 1867 aged about 86. Scott and Sebright by the Druid (1885) 282–89; Illust. sporting news vi, 241 (1867), portrait.
BEARD, Rev. John Relly. b. Southsea, Portsmouth 4 Aug. 1800; ed. at Unitarian college, York; minister at Salford, Manchester 1825; kept a school at Salford 1826; D.D. Univ. of Giessen 1838; minister at Strangeways, Manchester 1848–64; started a scheme for educating young men for home missions, which originated Unitarian home missionary board or college, of which he was the first principal; minister at Sale near Ashton-on-Mersey 1865–73; the first editor of the Christian Teacher 1835; started the Unitarian Herald; author of Voices of the church in reply to Dr. Strauss 1845; Historical and Artistic illustrations of the Trinity 1846; Illustrations of the divine in Christianity 1849; Latin dictionary 1854; Christ the interpreter of scripture 1865; Christian evidence, an antidote to materialism 1868; Autobiography of Satan 1872. d. Ashton upon Mersey 21 Nov. 1876. J. Evans’s Lancashire authors (1850) 13–17.
BEARD, William (son of a farmer at Banwell, Somerset). b. Banwell 24 April 1772; a small farmer; dug out a cavern in Banwell hill and found many bones of the bear, buffalo, reindeer and wolf about 1826; let his land and spent all his time searching for bones; his collection of bones was bought by the Somersetshire Archæological and natural history society and is now in the museum at Taunton Castle. d. Banwell 9 Jany. 1868. J. Rutter’s Delineations of north western division of Somerset (1829) 147–60, portrait.
BEARDMORE, Nathaniel (2 son of Joshua Beardmore of Nottingham). b. Nottingham 19 March 1816; partner with James Meadows Rendel C.E. in London and Plymouth to 1848; took out a patent for piers and breakwaters 1848; one of the first hydraulic engineers; engineer to Public works loan comrs. and River Thames Conservancy board; M.I.C.E. 3 May 1842; F.R.A.S. 8 Jany. 1858; F.M.S. pres. 1861 and 1862; F.R.G.S. 1852; author of Manual of hydrology 1852, new ed. 1867, which became the text book of the profession for hydraulic engineering. d. Broxbourne, Herts. 24 Aug. 1872; Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxvi, 256–64 (1873).
BEARDMORE, William. b. Greenwich 6 May 1824; partner with Wm. Rigby in the Parkhead rolling mill and forge near Glasgow 1861–71, and partner with his brother 1871 to death, these works became largest of their kind in Scotland and achieved an European reputation; A.I.C.E. 6 March 1860; inventor and patentee. d. Brighton 11 Oct. 1877. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. li, 268–70 (1878).
BEASLEY, Joseph Noble. b. 30 March 1832; lieut. col. Royal Irish Fusiliers 21 June 1880 to death. d. Ismaila, Egypt 20 Sep. 1882.
BEATRICE, Mademoiselle, stage name of Marie Beatrice Binda (dau. of Chevalier Binda, British consul at Florence). b. Lucca, Italy 5 Aug. 1839; acted at Theatres de l’Odéon and Vaudeville, Paris; made her début in London under name of Lucchesini at Haymarket theatre 3 Oct. 1864; played at Lyceum theatre 1865 and in the provinces 1866–68; organised a company 1870 with which she travelled to her death; played in London summers of 1872, 74, 75 and 78; produced and acted chief parts in Our Friends, The Sphinx, Frou-Frou and other translations from the French. d. 102 Earl’s Court road, London 22 Dec. 1878. bur. Père Lachaise cemetery Paris 2 Jany. 1879. The Stage i, 61, 63 (1874), portrait; Pascoe’s Dramatic list (1880) 388–90.